I am a Professor Emerita in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), having gone there in 1991 as a Professor of Politics.  Together with colleagues in Law, Economics and Sociology, I founded the Institute of Governance as an interdisciplinery and cross-sectoral research centre.  The Institute was subsequently incorporated into the Law School.  I remain a member of the international advisory board of  the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive (ARK) - a partnership with Ulster University, the QUB arm of which was, in my day, in the Institute.   My research over forty years has covered anti-discrimination policies (US, UK, EU), EU citizenship, women and politics (especially in the context of devolution), and the EU backdrop to changing territorial politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom and to the transformaton of British Irish relations.  I continue to write on these topics from time to time, including a paper on policy learning in equality and human rights for a SPIF conference in January 2010.  I am a visiting professor at the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin where I am the publications director of the Institute for British Irish Studies   We have just secured a contract for a book on Everyday Life after the Conflict: The Impact of Devolution and North-South Cooperation.