Experience

Liverpool Hope University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor of Modern Irish History and British-Irish Relations

  • Aug 2021 - Present

• Head of History, Politics and International Relations

  • May 2019 - May 2022

  Head of History, Politics and International RelationsAssociate Professor in Modern Historykellys@hope.ac.uk Management & Administrative Duties:1. Head of History, Politics and IR2. Senior Academic Committee member3. School Management Committee member4. Director of MA History programme5. Postgraduate Research Steering Committee memberTeaching Duties: 1. Level H (Year 3) module co-ordinator. Ideology and reaction: European Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust, 1919-1945.2. Level I (Year 2) core module series: Continental Europe and Britain and Ireland seminars and various Skills and Sources Workshops.3. Level C (Year 1) core module series: Modern Europe (including Margaret Thatcher's Britain, 1979-1990).4. MA History Module, A study in Varieties in Modern European Nationalism, 1789-1945.Research:My research specialisms focus on: Margaret Thatcher and ThatcherismBritish-Irish relationsmodern British and Irish historyEuropean NationalismInter-war European FascismNorthern Ireland The British Union of FascistsSt John Henry NewmanI am happy to hear from potential research students interested in working in such areas as Modern Ireland; Modern Britain; Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism; Northern Ireland and the Troubles; Anglo-Irish relations; Concepts and theories in European Nationalis; European Fascism; The British Union of Fascists (BUF); and St John Henry Newman (political and social thoughts). Show less

• ;ecturer/Senior Lecturer/Assoc. Prof.

  • Oct 2012 - Aug 2019