From 2012–2020, Feargal was Professor of International Conflict Anlaysis in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, where he was also the Director of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC).
He has also held academic positions at Lancaster University, Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University.
Feargal has published widely in the area of political violence and conflict transformation in leading international journals and with prestigious academic publishing houses.
Breaking Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland Manchester University Press, 2020
Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace Yale University Press, 2021
