Dr Conor J. Kelly
Academic subject(s):
- Core subject area: Irish, British, and European constitutional politics, comparative politics, public policy
- Research interests: the politics of Northern Ireland, including the shifting political positions of Northern Ireland’s parties concerning European integration and ongoing debates over Northern Ireland’s constitutional future.
Prior to Oxford, Dr Kelly worked at the UCL Constitution Unit between 2019 and 2024 as a Research Assistant and Project Manager. His first project at the Constitution Unit was with the Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. This was followed by a second project entitled ‘Perspectives on the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland’, and a third entitled ‘Reform of Stormont: Options for Discussion’. He remains an Honorary Research Associate at the Constitution Unit.
Between 2022 and 2024, he taught on UCL’s undergraduate ‘British Politics’ and ‘Politics of the European Union’ modules. In the 2023/2024 academic year, he also worked as a Guest Teacher at the LSE on their ‘British Government’ module. At the DPIR and Balliol, he teaches the undergraduate papers ‘Introduction to the Practice of Politics’, ‘British Politics and Government since 1900’, ‘Modern British Government and Politics’, and ‘Comparative Government’.
Dr Kelly has a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. He also has a BA from the University of Galway (National University of Ireland), an MA from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and an MRes from Birkbeck College, University of London.