Daniel Kirkpatrick

I’m Daniel — a writer, researcher, and PhD-holder (University of Kent, International Conflict Analysis) with a Routledge-published monograph on political expression in divided societies. I say that, but I feel like a PhD was more a wonderful experience and privilege than it is an accolade.

By way of background, I have worked in British politics, as an academic specialising in terrorism and conflict analysis, an analyst in the civil service and, most recently, a technology consultant. I have also cleaned hospital toilets, dish-washed in an ice-cream parlour, cared for plants at a garden centre, and even had a stint as a ‘shepherd’. Make of that what you will.