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Citations
4929
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599
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Peter Shirlow is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their main field of study is Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Political Science and International Relations, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Health.

The primary research topics covered in their work include:

  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Irish and British Studies
  • Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Recent publications by Peter Shirlow demonstrate a focus on sociopolitical issues, intergroup relations, and youth experiences within conflicted societies. Notable papers include:

  • "Partition to Partnership to Brexit" (2022), published in The RUSI Journal
  • "Youth in Northern Ireland: Linking Violence Exposure, Emotional Insecurity, and the Political Macrosystem" (2020), published in Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  • "Trust, forgiveness, and peace: The influence of adolescent social identity in a setting of intergroup conflict" (2022), published in International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • "Population Change and Social Inclusion Study Derry/Londonderry 2005" (2020), from Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast)
  • "Relations Among Father's Presence, Family Conflict, and Adolescent Adjustment in Northern Ireland" (2020), published in Child Development

Peter Shirlow has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Colin Coulter, Niall Gilmartin, Katy Hayward, Laura K. Taylor, and Christine E. Merrilees.

Their publications have appeared primarily in venues such as Manchester University Press eBooks, Space and Polity, International Journal of Behavioral Development, Cultural Trends, and The RUSI Journal.

In addition to journal articles, Shirlow has contributed to scholarly books, including a publication by Winchester University Press titled "Northern Ireland a generation after Good Friday" (2021).

An award received by Peter Shirlow is the Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. This recognition reflects their standing within the social sciences community.

Best Publications

  • Belfast: Segregation, Violence and the City

    Peter Shirlow;Brendan Murtagh

  • Beyond the Wire: Former Prisoners and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland

    Peter Shirlow;Kieran McEvoy

  • Key Concepts in Political Geography

    C. Gallaher;M. Gillmartin;J. Danemann;Peter Shirlow

  • The geographies and politics of fear

    Peter Shirlow;Rachel Pain

  • Re-imagining DDR Ex-combatants, leadership and moral agency in conflict transformation

    Kieran McEvoy;Peter Shirlow

  • Who are "the people"? : unionism, protestantism and loyalism in Northern Ireland

    Peter Shirlow;Mark McGovern

  • ‘Who fears to speak’: Fear, mobility, and ethno‐sectarianism in the two ‘ardoynes’

    Peter Shirlow

  • Capacity-building, Representation and Intracommunity Conflict

    Peter Shirlow;Brendan Murtagh

  • Abandoning historical conflict?: Former political prisoners and reconciliation in Northern Ireland

    Peter Shirlow;Jonathan Tonge;James McAuley;Catherine McGlynn

  • The Battle of the Somme in Ulster memory and identity

    B. Graham;Peter Shirlow

  • Belfast: The ‘post-conflict’ city

    Peter Shirlow;Rachel Monaghan

  • Political violence and child adjustment in Northern Ireland: Testing pathways in a social-ecological model including single-and two-parent families.

    E. Mark Cummings;Alice C. Schermerhorn;Christine E. Merrilees;Marcie C. Goeke-Morey

  • Longitudinal Pathways Between Political Violence and Child Adjustment: The Role of Emotional Security about the Community in Northern Ireland

    E. Mark Cummings;Christine E. Merrilees;Alice C. Schermerhorn;Marcie C. Goeke-Morey

  • The Flag Dispute: Anatomy of a Protest

    Paul Nolan;Dominic Bryan;Clare Dwyer;Katy Hayward

  • Social identity and youth aggressive and delinquent behaviors in a context of political violence.

    Christine E. Merrilees;Ed Cairns;Laura K. Taylor;Marcie C. Goeke-Morey

  • The Geography of Conflict and Death in Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Victor Mesev;Peter Shirlow;Joni A. Downs

  • Fear and Ethnic Division

    Peter Shirlow

  • Ethno-sectarianism and the reproduction of fear in Belfast:

    Peter Shirlow

  • RESISTANCE, TRANSITION AND EXCLUSION: POLITICALLY MOTIVATED EX-PRISONERS AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND

    Kieran McEvoy;Peter Shirlow;Karen McElrath

  • Trajectories of Adolescent Aggression and Family Cohesion: The Potential to Perpetuate or Ameliorate Political Conflict.

    Laura K. Taylor;Christine E. Merrilees;Marcie C. Goeke-Morey;Pete Shirlow

  • Language, Discourse and Dialogue: Sinn Fein and the Irish Peace Process

    Peter Shirlow;Mark McGovern

  • The Celtic Tiger: the myth of social partnership in Ireland

    Peter Shirlow

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcie C. Goeke-Morey
Marcie C. Goeke-Morey Catholic University of America
E. Mark Cummings
E. Mark Cummings University of Notre Dame
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster
Kieran McEvoy
Kieran McEvoy Queen's University Belfast
Mike Raco
Mike Raco University College London
Nicholas A. Phelps
Nicholas A. Phelps University of Melbourne
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Rachel Pain
Rachel Pain Newcastle University

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