Dr. Clare Rice

Biography

Clare Rice is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, engaged in QUALREP Engagement Impact. Her research interests encompass power-sharing methods in deeply divided places, human rights, equality, legislative studies, gender studies, constitutional design, and elections in the UK. She focuses on the workings of Public Accounts Committees and financial scrutiny within legislatures. Clare is also recognized as an internationally renowned expert in the politics of Northern Ireland and has worked extensively on Brexit and the constitutional future of the UK, as well as British-Irish relations. Her teaching areas include UK and EU constitutional law, UK politics, conflict transformation, territorial politics, and gender politics within institutions. Clare completed her PhD at Queen's University Belfast, with a focus on consociationalism and equality in relation to the European Union. Additionally, she served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Antwerp and was awarded the Political Studies Association's Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for her thesis in the (In)equality and Social Justice category. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, she held positions at Newcastle University and the University of Liverpool.

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