Dr Michael Livesey (he/him)

Department of Politics and International Relations

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

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michael.livesey@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Michael Livesey
Department of Politics and International Relations
Modular Teaching Village
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
S10 1AJ
Profile

I am an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sheffield. My research explores the histories of British counter-terrorism and peacebuilding practice in Northern Ireland. I am currently engaged in writing a monograph situating evolutions in UK security practice during the Troubles in relation to longer-term patterns of Anglo-Irish politics. I completed my PhD in Politics at the University of Sheffield in January 2024, having previously studied History at the University of Oxford and International Relations at the London School of Economics. Before beginning my PhD, I worked in the UK Parliament as a researcher in the Shadow Transport Team. I have published articles on the histories of British security in journals including the European Journal of International Security, the Review of International Studies, and Critical Studies on Terrorism. My work is informed by post-structuralist and genealogical traditions, and involves use of mixed methods for both quantitative and qualitative analysis of textual and spatial sources.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) History – University of Oxford, 2014.

MSc International Relations – London School of Economics and Political Science, 2016.

MA Social Research – University of Sheffield, 2020.

PhD Politics - University of Sheffield, 2023

Research interests

History

Security Studies

British Politics

Discourse Analysis

Archival Methods

Corpus Linguistics

Publications

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Research group

International Relations

Grants

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024-2025, Genealogising the Troubles: Tracing Roots of British Security and Peacebuilding in
Northern Ireland (grant number 187715-1).

ESRC White Rose Security and Justice Pathway PhD Scholarship 2019-2024.

Teaching activities

I have taught on modules in the University of Sheffield's Department of Politics and Department of Journalism. These include:

  • POL2000 The Left: Past, Present & Future;
  • POL242 The World’s Wicked Problems;
  • POL229 Political Analysis;
  • JNL61004 Communication in Peacebuilding;
  • POL6005 Contemporary Global Security;
  • POL118 British Politics.