CV

CURRICULUM VITAE

Membership

2017, Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA)

Qualifications:

1992, PhD, University of London, London School of Economics
1987,  BA (Hons.), First Class, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oriel College, Oxford University

Appointments:

2001- Paddy Moriarty Professor of Government and International Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland
1999-2001, Senior Lecturer in European Politics, University of Nottingham, UK
1995-1999, Lecturer in Politics, University of Limerick, Ireland
1991-1995, Lecturer in Politics, University of Loughborough, UK

Other positions:

2016/2017, Visiting Professor, University of Rome I (La Sapienza) (July-August)
2016, Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lille (Feb)
2011, Academic Visitor, Centre d’études européennes, Sciences-Po, Paris (November)
2010, Academic Visitor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University (May-June)
2008, Academic Visitor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University (April-May)
2002, Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lille (Jan–March)

Professional appointment:

2013, Member of the pre-proposal Evaluation Panel for the Agence nationale de la recherche, Paris, under the “Major Societal Challenges” component of the Work Programme.
2008, Member of the Comité d’évaluation “Gouverner et administrer”, Agence nationale de la recherche, Paris. (Member of the expert committee of the French National Research Agency – evaluation of large-scale research funding proposals in the area of government and administration)

Editorships:

2016- Co-founder and co-editor with Gianluca Passarelli of Presidential Politics book series published by Palgrave Macmillan
2013- Reviews Editor, Government and Opposition, published by Cambridge University Press (6-year term)
2001- Co-founder and Editor of French Politics, journal published by Palgrave Macmillan, previously co-editor with Andrew Appleton
2009-2011, European Political Science, co-editor of ECPR book series published by Routledge with Thomas Poguntke then Ingrid van Biezen
1999-2009, Founder and editor of French Politics, Culture and Society book series published by Palgrave Macmillan

Membership of Editorial and Advisory Boards

2013- International Scientific Board, Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica/Italian Review of Political Science
2011- Editorial Board, Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership
2011- Editorial Board, ECPR Press
2010- International Advisory Board, Australian Journal of Public Administration

Research grants:

2013, €2,230, Ulysses scheme, Irish Research Council and Campus France
2009-10, €107,308, Senior Research Fellowship, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2008, €20,462, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2003, €5,796, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
1998, IE£8,820, Royal Irish Academy, Social Science Research Council
1995, UK£2,040, Nuffield Foundation, Small Grants in the Social Sciences (1995).
1994, UK£1,200, Economic and Social Research Council, Academic Study-Visit

Completed PhD supervisions (with date of graduation):

2018, Clare O’Grady Walshe (DCU)
2017, Pablo Gonzalez (DCU)
2013, Lydia Beuman (DCU)
2013, Cristina Bucur (DCU)
2009, Michael Seifu (DCU)
2008, David Doyle (DCU)
2008, Gary Healy (DCU)
2006, Peter Fitzgerald (DCU)
2004, John Hogan (DCU)
2004, Ken McKenzie (DCU)
2003, Siobhán Daly (Nottingham
2002, Shane Martin (DCU)

External examiner appointments:

2013-2017 Oxford University, Department of Politics and International Relations, MPhil in Politics
2012-2016 London School of Economics, Department of Government, MRes/PhD in Political Science
2006-2010, Queen’s University Belfast, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, BA European Studies, BA Politics, BA International Studies
2000-2004, London School of Economics, Department of Government, MA in Comparative Politics
2000-2003, University of Leeds, School of Politics and International Studies, Politics undergraduate and postgraduate programmes

External examiner PhD:

August 2014, University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, PhD on presidents in C. and E. Europe
Nov 2008, University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, DPhil on the origins of semi-presidentialism in Central and Eastern Europe
March 2008, Birkbeck College, University of London, PhD on gender representation in France
July 2006, University of Northumbria, UK, PhD on political occitanism
July 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, PhD on prime ministers
June 2003, Hull University, UK, PhD on utility privatisation in Europe

Invited talks

I have been invited to talk at many different places. They include:

2014, La Sapienza, University of Rome
2014, Charles University, Prague
2011, Sciences-Po, Paris
2010, Economic Policy Research Foundation Of Turkey, Ankara
2010, Keynote address, ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin
2009, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford University
2009, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisbon
2008, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
2008, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux
2007, Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius
2007, University of Edinburgh
2007, Taiwan Thinktank, Taipei, Taiwan
2004, University of Leiden
2001, Université de Lausanne
2000, United Nations Institute for Social Development, Geneva
1998, Maison française, Oxford University
1997, European University Institute, Florence

Official briefings:

Feb 2007, Briefing for UK Ambassador designate to France, Sir Peter Westmacott
Oct 2004, Briefing to Law Reform Commission, Ireland, Designing Independent Agencies
Sept 2001, Briefing for UK Ambassador designate to France, Sir John Holmes

Academic advice:

2018, Member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Citizens’ Assembly for The Manner in which Referendums are Held and Fixed-Term Parliaments
2014, Expert presenter to the Convention on the Constitution for proposed reforms to the presidency. Presentation and discussion available here
2012, Member of the network of experts on the Constitution Building Processes (CBP) Programme at International IDEA, developing and delivering comparative knowledge tools for constitution builders (asked to write a commentary on the draft proposals for executive-legislative for the proposed constitution of Nepal – April 2012)
2009, Advice to Christina Murray of the University of Cape Town, serving on the Kenyan Committee of Experts that drafted a new constitution for Kenya
2007, Article on presidents in Europe by Dr Garret FitzGerald, former Taoiseach of Ireland, 6 October 2007, Irish Times
2007, Articles on presidents in Europe by Kaija Virta, reporter, 12 and 21 February 2007, Helsingen Sanomat

Refereeing

Referee for international journals, including American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, European Journal of Political Research, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Governance, Journal of European Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, West European Politics, Political Studies, Government and Opposition and Democratization.

Referee for publishers including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Sage, Palgrave, and Routledge.

Reviewer for funding applications for institutions such as the Agence nationale de la recherche (France), British Academy, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.

Conference organisation

I have co-organised conferences at the Academica Sinica, Taiwan; Maison Française, Oxford; Alliance Française, London; University of Limerick

Other esteem indicators

In its decision Nr. 683 of 27 June 2012 the Constitutional Court of Romania cited my article in West European Politics (2009) in its judgment that Romania was semi-presidential. This decision was very important politically, because the ruling determined whether or not the President of Romania had the constitutional right to represent the country at meetings of the European Council. Apart from a citation to the work of Maurice Duverger, my article was the only one cited in the decision. The full text of the decision is available at: http://www.ccr.ro/files/products/D0683_12.pdf.

In a 2010 survey by the Political Studies Association of the UK, my article ‘Models of executive politics: a framework for the study of executive power relations in parliamentary and semi-presidential regimes’ was nominated as one of the best articles published in Political Studies in the 1990s

My blog – www.semipresidentialism.com – was named as one of the 50 Best Blogs for Political Science Students by Online Degrees.net.

Judge for the 2012 Jean Blondel PhD Prize, awarded by the ECPR.

International CARTI Scholar (mentor) to Dr Malkhaz Nakashidze, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia (2012-2013). Open Society, Higher Education Supprt Programme, Central Asia and Caucasus Research and Training Initiative (CARTI).

DCU Awards:

2013, Nominated for President’s Award for Teaching Excellence
2011, Nominated for President’s Award for Teaching Excellence
2009, Recipient of President’s Award for Research Excellence
2007, Nominated for President’s Award for Teaching Excellence

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Dublin City University only:

2016- Director, PhD programme in Politics and International Relations
2012-2016 Subject leader for Politics, School of Law and Government
2012, Interim Head of School of Law and Government
2002-2007, Head of School of Law and Government
2001-2002, Head of Law and Government Group, Business School
2008-2009, Director of Research, School of Law and Government
2002-2007, Chair, School Research Committee
2002-2007, Member, Faculty Board, Humanities and Social Sciences
2002-2007, Member, Academic Council
2002-2007, Member, University Heads of Units Group
2001-2002, Member, Executive Group, Business School
2006, Member, Quality Review Group, National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology, DCU

TEACHING

Full modules only are recorded. Sundry lectures delivered on many other modules

Dublin City University (2001-)
Research Design (PhD)
Research Methods (undergrad and postgrad)
Political Leadership
French Politics
Introduction to US Politics
Comparative European Politics
Introduction to Politics
Irish Politics

University of Nottingham (1999-2001)
New Institutionalism (postgrad)
French Politics
Comparative European Politics
Introduction to Politics

University of Limerick (1995-1999)
Comparative European Politics
Introduction to Politics
Irish Politics
Introduction to US Politics
European Public Administration

University of Loughborough (1991-1995)
Political Leadership
French Politics
Comparative European Politics
Parties and Party Systems (postgrad)

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