Lauren Dempster
Lauren Dempster
Qualifications
BA (1st Class Hons) Archaeology, QUB 2007
MA Archaeology, Universiteit Leiden 2009
Postgraduate
Email: ldempster01@qub.ac.uk
Address
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK
Current Research: Environmental Change (EC)
The geography of Ireland’s ‘disappeared’
Since the 1970s, more than 60 individuals have gone missing in suspicious circumstances in Ireland and are presumed (or known) to have been murdered and secretly buried. While some of these disappearances are linked to the activities of paramilitary groups and some to gangland activity, other cases do not have such associations, and are instead the result of an individual perpetrator’s actions. To date, the remains of only some of Ireland’s ‘disappeared’ have been found and a significant number remain missing. Using archive-based research and interviews, details of Ireland’s ‘disappeared’ will be collected and compiled in a database, and this information will then be analysed using GIS. By comparing the cases of those individuals who have been found with those who have not and in particular by comparing the disappearances spatially and temporally, it should be possible to identify any commonalities or patterns which may exist.
Supervisors
Dr Alastair RuffellÂ
Prof Kieran McEvoy (School of Law)
Additional Information:
Current research funded by Department of Education and Learning (DEL)
