Michelle is a lecturer in the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. She holds a LLM from Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute, Her PhD was awarded in 2020 and focused on a feminist institutional analysis of bureaucratic decision-making, focusing on the use of discretion among elite bureaucrats. She is interested in informal rules, bureaucracy, discretion, and governance.

Read more from Michelle Rouse: 

Rouse M., O’Connor K. (2020) Lost in Transition – Governing Northern Ireland in Sullivan H., Dickinson H., Henderson H.(eds) The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant. Palgrave Macmillan
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-03008-7_19-2

Rouse M. (2018) Gendering the Institutional Legacies of the Northern Ireland Senior Civil Service. Administration 66(3) pp55-74
https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/admin-2018-0027

Rouse M. (2016) In Need of a Fresh Start? Gender Equality in Post-GFA Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 67(2) pp 233-240
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/nilq67&div=19&id=&page=