Kit Rickard PhD Candidate, University College London (UCL) Q [email protected] kit-rickard.com Education PhD in Political Science, University College London (UCL), 2017-present. Dissertation title: “External States and Conflict Dynamics: Competition and Co- operation in Civil Wars”. Supervisors: Prof Kristin M. Bakke, Prof Nils Metternich. Viva expected in Summer 2021. MSc in Security Studies, University College London (UCL), 2014-2015. BA in European Studies, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), 2009-2013. Employment Research Research Assistant, Department of Conditions of Violence and Peace, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), September 2020-present: Research Assistant to Prof Kristin M. Bakke on the “Street-level Autocrats” re- search project, funded by the Research Council of Norway (FRIPRO). Research Assistant to Prof Kristin M. Bakke on the “Dynamics of De Facto State Patron-Client Relations” research project, funded by Research Council of Norway (RCN). Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, University College London (UCL), September 2018-present: Research Assistant to Prof Kristin M. Bakke on the “With Russia or Not? The Geopolitical Orientations of Russia’s Neighbouring State Populations” research project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, University College London (UCL), April 2021-present: Research Assistant to Dr Zeynep Bulutgil on the “The Rise of Political Secularism: An Historical Analysis of France” research project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 1 1/7 Teaching Teaching Assistant to Dr Alexandra Hartman on “Survey Analysis and Experiments” workshop, European University Institute (EUI), May 5-7 2021. Teaching Assistant (seminars) for International Relations and Political Economy sec- tions and Instructor (lectures and seminars) for Comparative Politics section of the “Introduction to European History, Law, Politics and Philosophy” undergraduate module, European and International Social and Political Studies (EISPS), University College London (UCL), September 2018-present. Teaching Assistant (seminars) for “Qualitative Research Methods” undergradu- ate module, Department of Political Science, University College London (UCL), September 2020-present. Teaching Assistant (seminars) for “Lies, Damned Lies, and Bullshit? Evidence and Inference for Citizens and Social Scientists” undergraduate module, Department of Political Science, University College London (UCL), September 2020-present. Publications “Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland”, with Kristin M. Bakke, accepted at Security Studies. “A Symposium–debating ‘surrogate warfare’ and the transformation of war” (2019) with Vladimir Rauta, Matthew Ayton, Alexandra Chinchilla, Andreas Krieg, and Jean-Marc Rickli, Defence Studies, 19(4), 410-430. Working papers “Ways Forward: A Research Agenda on Conflict Delegation”, with Alexandra Chin- chilla and Giuseppe Spatafora, part of a forum titled “Conflict Delegation in Interna- tional Relations”, article under review. “Vigilante Practices: Support for Informal Justice after War”, with Kristin M Bakke, article manuscript. “Geopolitics and Perceptions of Historical Victimization and Resistance”, with Kristin M. Bakke, Gerard Toal, and John O’Loughlin, article manuscript. “Perceptions of the past in Russia’s ‘near abroad’ ”, with Kristin M. Bakke, article manuscript. “Fear and Costly Signals in Patron-De Facto Relations”, with Kristin M. Bakke, article manuscript. “Predicting the Severity of Civil Wars”, with Nils W. Metternich, Altaf Ali, Gokhan Ciflikli, Gareth Lomax, and Sigrid Weber, article manuscript. 2 2/7 “Taking Time Seriously When Evaluating Predictions in Binary-Time-Series-Cross- Section-Data”, with Gokhan Ciflikli, Sigrid Weber, and Nils W. Metternich, article manuscript. “The Emergence of a Secular State: Enlightenment Literature and Republicanism in the Third French Republic”, with Zeynep Bulutgil, article manuscript. Media and Public Dissemination Interviewed for PRIO’s Peace in a Pod podcast to discuss my work on Northern Ireland and recent developments in the region, 13th May 2021. “Northern Ireland: how to understand the influence of paramilitary groups”, with Prof Kristin M. Bakke, The Conversation, 12th April 2021. “With Politicians who can’t be bothered to read peace agreements, it’s no wonder Brexit negotiations are such a mess”, with Prof Kristin M. Bakke, The Independent, 2nd February 2019. “Why changing the Good Friday Agreement because of Brexit is such a dangerous idea”, with Prof Kristin M. Bakke, The Conversation, 28th January 2019. Interviewed for “Police the public, or protect it? For a U.S. in crisis, Hard lessons from other countries”, Amanda Taub, The New York Times, 24th June 2020. Grants Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): 3-year studentship (2017-2020) at UCL amounting to £54,159. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) enhanced stipend (2017-2020) at UCL amounting to £4,500. Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at UCL: Funding to host an interdisciplinary PhD workshop (2019) at UCL amounting to £1,400. School of Public Policy (SPP) at UCL: Advanced Training Fund to attend Essex Summer School (2018) amounting to £1,318. Awards American Political Science Association (APSA): Honourable Mention Conflict Processes Best Paper Award (2019) for “Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland”, with Kristin M. Bakke. 3 3/7 Workshops Organised Co-organised PhD workshop on “The Dynamics of Conflict and Change”, UCL, Lon- don, February 2021. Co-organised PhD workshop on “Political Turbulences”, Institute for Advanced Stud- ies (IAS) and Global Governance Institute (GGI), UCL, London, February 2020. Co-organised PhD workshop on “Challenges to Global Governance: Conflict, Con- tagion, and Citizens’ Rights”, Global Governance Institute, UCL, London, February 2019. Organised public panel where UCL’s Conflict & Change Research Cluster discussed “War, Peace and Human Rights”, UCL’s “It’s All Academic Festival”, September 2018. Co-organised stakeholder conference on “Conflict and Governance: Working with In- formal Institutions During and After War”, Global Governance Institute, UCL, Lon- don, June 2018. Co-organised stakeholder conference on “Institutions in Conflicted and Fragile States”, Global Governance Institute, UCL, London, October 2017. Methods Training Machine Learning and Conflict Prediction, workshop over 2-weeks led by Prof Michael Colaresi, University of Essex (held online), December 2020. PAST Skills & Methodology Workshop: Modern Overseas and Defence, 2-day course, The National Archives, January 2020. Advanced Qualitative Methods in Conflict Studies: Case Research and Process An- alytics, 1-week course led by Prof Jeffrey T. Checkel, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway, August 2019. Survival Analysis (Time-to-Event Data), 1-day course led by Eirini Koutoumanou, Centre for Applied Statistics Courses (CASC), UCL, London, UK, October 2018. Introduction to Multilevel Models, 2-week course led by Prof Paul Lambert, Essex Summer School, Colchester, UK, July 2018. Introduction to Social Network Analysis, 2-week course led by Dr Filip Agneessens, Essex Summer School, Colchester, UK, July 2018. Spatial Econometrics, 2-week course led by Dr Scott Cook, Essex Summer School, Colchester, UK, August 2018. 4 4/7 Research Skills Languages: English (native) French (native) German (intermediate) Field research: Northern Ireland (2018) Ukraine (2019) Georgia (2019) Statistical programs: R and RStudio (advanced) Stata (intermediate) QGIS (intermediate) Python (beginner) MySQL (beginner) Service to the Discipline Member of Council and Secretary-Elect of the Conflict Research Society (CRS). Member of Award Committee for the American Political Science Association (APS) Conflict Processes Best Paper Award (2020). Communications, website management, and website development for Conflict & Change Research Cluster (UCL) and the Conflict Research Society (CRS). Reviewer for Journal of Peace Research; Civil Wars; Political Science Research and Methods; Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. Guest lecturer on ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland for study abroad program or- ganised by the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University (2019). Conferences, Workshops, and Invited Presentations Workshop: “Perceptions of the past in Russia’s ‘near abroad’ ”, Does anyone listen? Historical Memory and What Citizens Make of It, Centre for East European and Interna- tional Studies (ZOIS), Berlin, September 2021. Presenter: “Geopolitics and Perceptions of Historical Victimization”, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Annual Convention 2021, online, May 2021. Presenter: “Geopolitics and Perceptions of Historical Victimization”, Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) Annual Convention 2021, online, May 2021. Presenter: “Vigilante Practices: Retributive Justice after War”, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention 2021, online, April 2021. 5 5/7 Presenter: “Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland”, with Kristin M. Bakke, the Conflict, Security & Development Re- search Group (CSDRG), King’s College London (KCL), Online, November 2020. Workshop: “UN Mediation and the Rule of Law: Evidence from the Democratic Re-