Personal Statement
Dr Hazley grew up in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, in Northern Ireland. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Glasgow, before moving to the University of Manchester where he completed an MA in Cultural History and a PhD in Modern History. Following the completion of his doctoral thesis he worked as a Research Associate on the Leverhulme project ‘Housing, Everyday Life and Wellbeing over the Long Term: Glasgow 1950-1975’, before securing the Inaugural Busteed Fellowship Award in Irish Studies in 2017 at the University of Liverpool. Between 2019-2024 he was Derby Fellow in Transforming Conflict in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, and AHRC Research Fellow on ‘Conflict, Memory and Migration: Northern Irish Migrants and the Troubles in Great Britain’. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he is currently Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British & Irish History within the Institute of Irish Studies and Director of Irish Studies Special Collections.

Research Overview
A social and cultural historian and oral history specialist, Dr Hazley's current research focuses on the human history of war and migration in the twentieth century. He has published widely on the Irish Diaspora in Modern Britain and the social and cultural history of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, and has in the past worked on the history of public housing in post-war Britain. He is the author of two books, including Life History and the Irish Migrant Experience in Post-war England: myth, memory and emotional adaption (MUP, 2020), and is currently researching a new monograph addressing the legacies of the Troubles in England, provisionally entitled Civil War & the Self: the Troubles in Post-Imperial England.