Professor Stansfield's research interests include Middle East Politics, minority politics in the Middle East and North Africa, conflict management and regulation in divided societies, autonomy and federalism, intervention and state-building.

My research fields are the following: History of the Palestine Question; Middle Eastern History; Nationalism; Multiculturalism and Ethnic Studies; Theories of Historiographies; Power and Knowledge and Cultural Studies.

Research interests include radicalisation, theories of ethnicity and nationalism, and the role of national identity in radical and/or violent political mobilisation.

Main research interests include, Sociolinguistics, Nation building, Nationalism, Democratisation, Diaspora and migration, Literature, Comparative literature, Novels, Narrative discourse, The question of identity and its construction in the literary discourse, Modernity and its consequences in the post- colonial condition and Gender studies.

Sean’s research interests lies at the intersection of cultural and political geography. Past research has been extended to look at the ways in which diasporic communities are involved in re-shaping formal political processes (such as voting), notions of citizenship, and ethical geographies of care and concern.

Mary-Alice C. Clancy’s research interests are in the areas of ethno-national conflict management, Northern Ireland, US and Irish foreign policy and British politics. Her current research examines the role of special envoys in conflict and post-conflict situations.

Research specialisms include, Victorian Britain, esp. the fin de siecle, literary and social theory, gender and feminist studies, interdisciplinary studies, migration studies and the global circulation of British literature and culture.

Yiannis is a Geopolitical Analyst and an ethno-musicologist who has worked for many years on newspapers and magazines in Greece and France. He has two Masters degees from Paris in Geopolitics and in Ethnomusicology and has recently completed his PhD in Geography/Geopolitics.

Sarah Keeler is a social anthropologist with an interest in the discipline’s relationship with peace and conflict studies, and ethnographic approaches to violent conflict. She has carried out fieldwork with refugees in the UK and more recently in northern Iraq.

My research interests centre on conflict, security and peace studies. I have done extensive work on the causes and consequences of war/s and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Broadly conceived my research interests include the causes of war, nationalism, state-formation, reconciliation, and post-conflict rebuilding.

Annemarie Peen Rodt started working as a Research Fellow with EXCEPS in October 2009. Her current research focuses on the role of regional security organisations in the regulation of violent ethno-political conflicts worldwide.

Broadly speaking I work on Islamic intellectual history. My particular interests which grew from my PhD at Cambridge on the philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. c. 1635) lie in post-Avicennan philosophical, theological and mystical traditions. My second main area of interest is Qur'anic exegesis and textual hermeneutics.

I am currently undertaking a research on the formation and organization of trans-border territories, focusing on the Kurdish region. The economic relationships between South East Turkey and the Kurdish Region in Iraq will be the first angle through which the research will be developed.

My principal research interests are party system theory and theories of democracy. These two topics are of course connected as they both concern the issue of democracy - the former dealing with how it functions, and the latter with how it should be defined - but in my research they are also related due to my third focus: the Middle East.