Dr Tim Wilson

Dr Tim Wilson is the Director of The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews. Trained as an historian, his chief interest is in the widely differing effects political violence can have across different contexts. Over many years of teaching and researching at top universities (Oxford, St Andrews, Queen’s Belfast) Tim has worked widely both on terrorism committed by governments, and by their opponents. Tim is an alumnus of Queen's University having been an M.Litt student at Queen's in Comparative Ethic Conflict (2000-2001) and a one-year postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies (2008-9).