BA (Queen's University, Belfast), MSc (University of Ulster), PhD (Queen's University, Belfast)

Email: j.mcevoy@abdn.ac.uk

Joanne was the Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict in 2007-2008. She completed her PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast in 2006. Her doctoral thesis explored the design and operation of the Northern Ireland Executive 1999 to 2002.

Her research interests lie in power sharing, institutional design and conflict resolution. At Penn she is researching power sharing in Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia. The project focuses on the nature of coalition building in divided societies and the impact of institutional rules on cross-communal government.

Joanne is co-editing (with Brendan O’Leary) a volume on the Sawyer Seminar Series on Power Sharing in Deeply Divided Places.

Publications

• ‘The Northern Ireland Assembly Election 2007’, Irish Political Studies, Vol.22, No.3, 367-381, September 2007
• ‘The Institutional Design of Executive Formation in Northern Ireland’, Regional and Federal Studies, Vol. 16, No.4, 447-464, December 2006
• ‘Elite interviewing in a divided society: lessons from Northern Ireland’, Politics, Vol.26, No.3, 184-191, 2006