Broderick McDonald

Broderick McDonald is an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a DPhil Candidate in the Department of Politics & International Relations at the University of Oxford where he researches conflict, extremism, and political violence. Broderick previously served as a Policy Advisor to the Government of Canada and a researcher with the Non-Partisan Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention. Outside of this, he is a Postgraduate Researcher at the Rothermere American Institute and a Rising Leaders Fellow with the Aspen Institute. Broderick was Assistant Editor of the Perspectives on Terrorism Academic Journal from 2020-2022 and the Executive Editor of the Cambridge Journal of International Law from 2017-2018. Prior to this, Broderick was a Fellow with the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET) at Kings College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and an Associate Member of Chatham House in London.

Research

Broderick's research interests include:

• Conflict Dynamics

• Political Violence

• Extremism

• Terrorism

Teaching

Teaching experience

• Tutor for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) Undergraduate Students (University of Oxford)

• Tutor for Comparative Government 201 and Politics in the Middle East 211 (New College Oxford, Harris Manchester College Oxford, St Catherine's College Oxford)

 Teaching Interests

• Politics in the Middle East

• Technology & Politics

• Public Policy