Dr Matthew Whiting

• PhD in Comparative Politics, LSE
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, LSE
• MSc in Political Sociology, University College Dublin
• BA (Hons) in Sociology, Trinity College Dublin

Matthew Whiting is a Lecturer in comparative politics at POLSIS. His research uses mixed methods to examine the moderation and radicalisation of non-state armed group and state responses to internal threats. He has a particular interest in the Kurds in Turkey and Sinn Féin and the IRA in Northern Ireland.

He completed his PhD at the LSE in 2014. He previously worked as a Teaching Fellow at the LSE (where he won two teaching excellence awards), a Lecturer at the University of Kent, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University.

• Professional Development Module
• Rebels and Revolutionaries: The Politics of Non-State Armed Groups

Research interests

•  Non-state armed groups
• State responses to internal threats
• Democratisation
• Ethnic conflict
• Kurds in Turkey
• Northern Ireland 

 Current projects

Matthew is currently undertaking an analysis of why some non-state armed groups are more likely to become political parties than others, using qualitative comparative analysis.

He is also working on a project on the state of emergency in Turkey after the failed coup of 2016 and a project on polarization in Northern Ireland following the peace process.