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<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Dr. Andrew McClelland is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, an interdisciplinary research institute based in the University of Liverpool. His diverse research interests have embraced cross-border cooperation on the island of Ireland, the use of digital public participatory mapping methods in post-conflict space, and the contested destruction of architectural heritage in Belfast. To date, Andrew’s career has spanned the third, higher education and private sectors in the UK and Ireland, working closely with policymakers and practitioners from central and local government, as well as multiple communities of interest and place, on a broad range of policy-related issues pertinent to addressing contemporary societal challenges, particularly on the island of Ireland.&nbsp;

Andrew completed his PhD at Ulster University in 2014. Both prior to, and following, his doctoral research, he worked on several Special EU Programmes Body INTERREG-funded strategic cross-border spatial planning projects on the island of Ireland, as a Research Assistant at Ulster University in 2010, and subsequently as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Maynooth University in 2014. Andrew returned to Maynooth University in 2016 as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow to deliver the two-year EU-funded REINVENT Project, which focused upon the management of cultural heritage in the cross-border context of North West Ireland. In took up his present position at the University of Liverpool in September 2018.

<strong>Research Interests:</strong> Cross-border collaboration, participatory mapping, architectural heritage, and contested spaces.

<strong>Contact:</strong> Andrew.Mcclelland@liverpool.ac.uk

<strong>Institutional Profile:</strong> https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/heseltine-institute/about/team/andrew-mclelland/</td>
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