Belfast. His main research interests are bound up with the intersections and dynamics of emotion and power as an ongoing, theoretical and empirical, research agenda. His current research explores these issues primarily from a political sociology of emotions perspective, focusing on, what he calls, the 'emotional state', and on party politics more generally. He is currently the Chair of the European Sociology of Emotions Research Network (RN11), and a member of the Sociological Association of Ireland.
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