Dr. Michael Potter has an extensive and unique background in researching conflict and the transition from conflict in his work for the U.K. Government, community-based organisations in Northern Ireland, the Northern Ireland Assembly and as a Visiting Scholar at Queen\u2019s University Belfast. Michael has a First Class Honours Degree in Politics, a Masters Degree in Comparative Ethnic Conflict and a PhD in Politics from Queen\u2019s University Belfast.<\/p>\n
Michael’s research specializations are equality and human rights provisions in post-conflict societies and inclusion in power-sharing political institutions.\u00a0 Areas of research interest include the politics of Northern Ireland and the Balkans, gender equality, minority ethnic identity and the transition from conflict.<\/p>\n
Michael visited the campus and gave several academic presentations at Boston University in 2022.<\/p>\n
Selected recent publications include:<\/p>\n
McKinney, C, McGuinness, T and Potter, M (2023), The Common Travel Area and the Special Status of Irish Citizens in UK Law, House of Commons Library Research Briefing, CBP-07661.<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2020) Definitions of the \u2018Particular Circumstances\u2019 of Northern Ireland, Research and Information Service Research Briefing 48\/20, Belfast: Northern Ireland Assembly.<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2020) Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity in the Ireland\/Northern Ireland Protocol: The Dedicated Mechanism, Research and Information Service Research Briefing 63\/20, Belfast: Northern Ireland Assembly.<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2019), Inclusion in Post-Conflict Legislatures: The Kosovo and Northern Ireland Assemblies, London: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2018) \u2018Negotiating Invisible Borders: Minority Identities and Northern Ireland\u2019 in Journal of Cross-Border Studies, Vol 13, pp.45-53.<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2018) \u2018Measuring Inclusion in Political Life: A Framework for Analysis\u2019 in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol 24 No 3, pp.324-335.<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2017) \u2018Europeanisation and Minority Policies in Post-Conflict Kosovo: Genuine Inclusion or Window-Dressing?\u2019 in S\u00fcdost Europa Vol 65 No 1, pp.35-55.<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2016), Female Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly1998-2016, Research and Information Service Research Briefing 30\/16, Belfast: Northern Ireland Assembly.<\/p>\n
Hamilton, J and Bloomer, F (2015) \u2018Traveller Education: Policy and Practice in Northern Ireland\u2019 in Rougier, N and Honohan, I (eds) Tolerance and Diversity in Ireland \u2013 North and South. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp.74-93<\/p>\n
Potter, M (2014) \u2018Loyalism, Women and Standpoint Theory\u2019 in Irish Political Studies, Vol 29 Issue 2, pp.258-274.<\/p>\n
Potter, M and Hamilton, J (2014) \u2018Picking on Vulnerable Migrants: Precarity and the Mushroom Industry in Northern Ireland\u2019 in Work, Employment and Society, Vol 28 No 3, pp.390-406.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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