Curriculum Vitae
Kasidech Somboonkittichai
PhD Researcher in Quantitative and Computational Social Science
School of Politics and International Relations, Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Conflict & Peace · Climate · Inclusivity · Ethnicity · Rebel Governance · Diffusion · Computational Social Science
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EDUCATION
- DPhil, 2025–
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Quantitative and Computational Social Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Thesis topic: spatial and network diffusion of inclusive peace negotiations in civil wars
- MA, 2022–2025
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International Relations, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Dissertation: The Power Puzzle: Cultural Autonomy, Economic Shocks and Ethnic Power-Sharing; Summa Cum Laude
- MA, 2021–2022
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Conflict, Governance and International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Dissertation: A ‘New’ Type of Peacebuilding Strategy: The Case Study of Thailand’s Military Junta (2014–2019)
- BA, 2016–2021
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Political Science (International Relations), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Minor: Arabic; First-Class Honours
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
- 2023
- Somboonkittichai, K. Consociational Democracy in Post-War Lebanon: Maintaining Negative Peace and Stability Amidst Sectarian Divisions. Asian Review, 36(2), 119–140.
WORKING PROJECTS *‘NS’ indicates near submission
- Article [NS]
- Somboonkittichai, K. Spreading Inclusivity: Network Channels and Inclusive Peace Negotiations in Civil Wars.
- Article [NS]
- Somboonkittichai, K., & D’Amico, E. Who Governs After Disaster? Political Exclusion and Ethnic Rebel Service Provision.
- Article
- Somboonkittichai, K. Looking Next Door: The Spatial Diffusion of Inclusion Provisions in Civil War Peace Agreements.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- 2025–
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University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe)
- Teaching Assistant [Assisted with R scripts/statistics assignments, held weekly office hours; advised students on their research projects, delivered lectures, etc.], POL40950: Introduction to Statistics
- Head Tutor [Led two seminar groups; graded seminar essays, presentations and final-exam essays; drafted the essay marking rubric; supported module administration], POL20020: Comparative Politics; INRL20040: International Relations: Introduction to Theories and Empirics
- Research Assistant [Managed firm-level data from the Orbis database for Dr Yoo Sun Jung]
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- 2027 -
- International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, (accepted)
- 2027 -
- Development Studies Association Ireland (DSAI) Annual Conference, (accepted)
- 2026 -
- Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) Annual Conference
- 2026 -
- Development Studies Association (DSA) Annual Conference
- 2026
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Violence, Instability, and Peace (VIP) Workshop, online, 7 October
Spreading Inclusivity: Network Channels and Inclusive Peace Negotiations in Civil Wars; discussant: Sloan Lansdale (University of Maryland)
- 2026
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Junior Scholars in Quantitative Conflict (JQCon) Workshop, online, 2 October
Spreading Inclusivity: Network Channels and Inclusive Peace Negotiations in Civil Wars; discussant: J Andrés Gannon (Vanderbilt University)
- 2026
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SPIRe PhD Workshop, University College Dublin, Ireland, 28 April
discussant: Samuel Brazys (University College Dublin)
- 2026
- UCD Centre for Peace and Conflict Research (CPCR) Talk, Invited Speaker, Spreading Inclusivity: Network Channels and Inclusive Peace Negotiations in Civil Wars, University College Dublin, Ireland, 14 April
GRANTS AND AWARDS
- 2025–2029
- UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship (University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations), Award: full fees and €25,000 annual stipend
- 2022–2024
- POSCO Asia Fellowship (POSCO TJ Park Foundation) & SNU Global Scholarship (Seoul National University), Award: full tuition and monthly living stipend
- 2021–2022
- International Development Full International Fees Scholarship (University of East Anglia), Award: £17,600
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- 2026–
- International Studies Association (ISA), Peace Studies Section
- 2026–
- Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI)
- 2026–
- Development Studies Association (DSA)
- 2025–
- UCD Centre for Peace and Conflict Research (CPCR), Affiliated Student
- 2025–
- UCD Centre for Democracy Research (CDR), Member, Democracy and Inequality cluster
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
- 2026
- UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, Workshop Co-facilitator, International Environmental Policy Negotiations simulation for visiting US high-school students, 13 July
- 2021–2022
- University of East Anglia, Course Representative, MA Conflict, Governance and International Development
- 2020
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Intern, People’s Empowerment Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
Outreach to sex workers on safety rights and referrals to inclusive health centres and anti-violence organisations; mobilised financial support for marginalised groups; translated documents on human rights violations into English
- 2019
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Intern, Royal Thai Embassy, Paris, France
Supported the Embassy and the Permanent Delegation of Thailand to UNESCO in preparing for the 43rd session of the World Heritage Committee; translated French press coverage into Thai; assisted with consular services
- 2018
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Intern, Tadamon Refugee Multicultural Council, Al Shorouk, Egypt
Taught English to refugees; organised workshops on refugees’ rights; assisted with applications to the UN for refugee status
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
- 2026
- Research Integrity Training, UCD Research Integrity Office
- 2025–2026
- PhD Methods Coursework, University College Dublin, Quantitative Methods I and II; Social Science Methodology; Quantitative Text Analysis
- 2025
- Introduction to Logistic Regression Models in R, European Social Survey workshop, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, 15 October
- 2023
- Data Analyst with R (36 hours), DataCamp
- 2023
- The Complete Guide to Stata (26 hours), Udemy
- 2018–2019
- Certificate of Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, Sciences Po, Paris, France
COMPUTER AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Software: R, Stata, Quarto, LaTeX, Git/GitHub, Python, ArcGIS Pro
- Statistical Methods: Stochastic actor-oriented models; spatial lag models; fixed-effects panel models; difference-in-differences; entropy balancing; item response theory; multiple imputation; OLS; logistic and count models; survival analysis (Weibull, Cox-PH), etc.
- Text-as-Data: Corpus construction and preprocessing (quanteda); structural and keyword-assisted topic models; sentence embeddings and semantic similarity
- Data Skills: Building dyadic, network and panel datasets from UCDP, PA-X, Peace Observatory, EPR, V-Dem and EM-DAT; reproducible workflows in Quarto and Git