Chris Gilligan
Contact Details
Room: A816 (Hamilton Campus)
Tel: 01698 283100 ext 8510
or
Room: L135 (Paisley Campus)
Tel: 0141 848 3770
Email: chris.gilligan@uws.ac.uk
Staff Profile
Chris Gilligan is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of Scotland. He previously held lecturing posts at Aston University and the University of Ulster. He is Reviews Editor for the journal Ethnopolitics. He has eclectic interests but his main fields of research and teaching are in the broad area of nations, racism, racialisation and ethnicity. He has edited (or co-edited) three collections on the peace process in Northern Ireland. He has written critiques of conflict-related trauma policy and practice, written on policy on integration of ethnic minorities, and written on visual representations of children.
Teaching
- ‘Race’, nation and ethnicity
- Social Research Methods – year 2
- Sociology and global society
- Sociology of international migration
Selected recent publications
2009 Gilligan, Chris, '”Highly vulnerable?” Political violence and the social construction of traumatized children’, Journal of Peace Research, 2009, Vol 46, No 1, pp. 119-134
2008 Gilligan, Chris, (ed), ‘Northern Ireland Ten Years After the Agreement’, Ethnopolitics, Vol 7, No. 1, pp. 1-193
2008 McGarry, Aidan; Hainsworth, Paul; & Gilligan, Chris, ‘Political Parties and Minority Ethnic Communities in Northern Ireland: Election Manifestos 1994 – 2007’, Translocations: the Irish Race Migration and Social Transformations Review, Vol 3, No. 1, pp. 106-132
2007 Gilligan, Chris, ‘The Irish Question and the concept ‘identity’ in the 1980s’, Nations and Nationalism, 2007, Vol 13, No 4, pp. 559-617
2006 Gilligan, Chris, ‘Traumatised by peace? A critique of five assumptions in the theory and practice of conflict-related trauma policy in Northern Ireland’, Policy and Politics, 2006, Vol 34, No 2, pp. 325-245
For a more extensive lists of publications go to his personal blogsite:
http://chrisgilligan.blogspot.com
or his page on academia.edu
http://westscotland.academia.edu/ChrisGilligan/