Dr Arthur Aughey, 50, a senior lecturer in the School of Economics and Politics, has been awarded a Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship by the University of Ulster.

A native of Lisburn, Dr Aughey has built a distinguished career as an academic, becoming a respected researcher and author. The Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship award recognises Dr Aughey as having made an outstanding contribution to the study of Conservatism, the politics of Northern Ireland and constitutional change in the UK.

Educated at Friends' School, Lisburn, QUB and the University of Hull, Dr Aughey received his doctorate from the University of Ulster.  He joined the then Ulster Polytechnic in 1979 as a lecturer in Politics.

A member of the Political Studies Association and the editorial board of Irish Political Studies, he is an author and contributor to numerous publications in his field, most recently Nationalism, Devolution and the Challenge to the UK State (Pluto 2001) and Northern Ireland Politics: Beyond the Belfast Agreement (Routledge 2004). He is currently writing a book on Irish civilisation to be published by Routledge in 2006 and a study of Englishness to be published by Manchester University Press in 2007.

Dr Aughey has one daughter and lives in Jordanstown.

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