Alan Whysall

Honorary Senior Research Associate
Email: awhysall@gmail.com or a.whysall@ucl.ac.uk

Alan Whysall is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Constitution Unit. He was previously a senior civil servant in the Northern Ireland Office, where he worked for many years on the Northern Ireland peace process. 

Between 2019 and 2021, he was a member of the Unit's Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland. More recently, Alan has led the Unit’s project on Northern Ireland’s Political Future.

Publications

• Northern Ireland: Challenges for the next Westminster Government (June 2024)
• The Agreement at 25: A Time for Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland? (April 2023)
• Northern Ireland's Political Future: Challenges After the Assembly Elections: A Discussion Paper (May 2022)
• A Northern Ireland Border Poll (March 2019) 
• 'Northern Ireland Politics: Do we have a fresh start?' (Lecture given at Ulster University, 15 Februrary 2016)

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