Colm Trant is a DPhil student in International Relations researching the relationship between power-sharing and conflict resolution. His doctoral project investigates whether divided societies can be reconciled through institutional designs that guarantee groups’ access to power. The project follows a mixed-methods research design, nesting qualitative case-study analysis within preliminary statistical analysis.
Colm’s research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council through the Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership and by Corpus Christi College through the A E Haigh Scholarship.
Before studying at Oxford, Colm earned an MA in Conflict Resolution from King’s College London, where he won the Sir Lawrence Freedman Award for Best Master’s Student in a cohort of 700 master’s students. He received his BA in History and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 2020 with first-class honours and multiple awards.
Research
- Conflict resolution
- Power sharing
- Identities
- Violence
- Consociational theory
