Dr Amanda Hall
PhD Alum
Amanda completed her PhD in International Relations at the University of St Andrews in 2020. She also holds an MA in Politics from Queen’s University Belfast and a BA in American Studies from Yale University. Her research has been published in Irish Political Studies and the #Agreement20 Open Library of Humanities project, as well as through several online platforms. She is currently working on her first academic monograph, ‘Beyond the Agreement: The Strained Peace of Inter-referendum Northern Ireland (1998-2016)’.
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Her research investigates the quality of peace in Northern Ireland after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, with a particular focus on the ‘inter-referendum’ years of 1998-2016 – from 1998 to the Brexit vote. This work examines the relationship between the ‘opportunity for a new beginning’ imagined in peace negotiations and the division, animosity, and threat of violence that have characterised much of the period since. This is investigated across three levels of society: government responses, the role of the third sector, and the development of a culture war based on individual and collective identity.