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Are you a journalist looking for an academic to provide expert commentary/analysis for a news story/documentary?
This experts directory is a searchable database of Queen’s academics who are interested in talking to the media about their areas of expertise.
If you cannot find the right expert, please contact Queen’s Communications Office and a member of the team will be able to help you.
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Main area: forensic science, especially the search for human remains in water or buried on land; secondary interest is the appearance of dinosaurs at a time of climate change, 224 million years ago.
Expertise: Geology, geophysics, forensic science, climate change in deep time, location & forensic recovery of human remains
Professor Brewer is an internationally recognised expert in peace studies and conflict transformation.
Expertise: peace studies, conflict transformation, peace processes; religious peace building; religion and conflict; history of sociology; social science; higher education; qualitative research; ethnography, peace processes
Chris Colvin combines economics and history to better understand the performance of firms, industries, economies and societies.
Expertise: economic history; financial history; business history; banking crises; health crises; patents and innovation; economic policymaking process; pedagogical reform
Professor Richard English is an internationally recognised historian, academic and author having conducted extensive research in Irish politics and history, political violence and terrorism.
Expertise: terrorism, political violence, Irish politics and history
Dr McLoughlin is an expert on the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process (including Irish-America/US government and EU dimensions), and the political history of Ireland.
Expertise: Northern Ireland conflict and peace process (including Irish-America/US government and EU dimensions), and the political history of Ireland.
Dr Fliers is a corporate finance and governance specialist, his multidisciplinary research focuses on financial decision making.
Expertise: Finance, Economics, Management, Economic History, Governance
The relationship between economics and history: in particular how incentives have shaped past as well as contemporary businesses in Ireland.
Expertise: Economic History, Business History, Topics in Contemporary Business Economics (e.g. Brexit, Regions and Devolution), Applied Institutional Economics, Economic Organisation of Violence, Communicating Economics (e.g. pedagogy and public understanding)
Professor McGarry is one of Ireland’s leading historians. His work has helped shape understanding of contentious history in our divided society.
Expertise: Modern Ireland, political violence, public history
Dr Ribianszky is a lecturer in pre-Civil War US History whose research centres on enslaved and free Black people, race relations, violence, gender, and sexuality.
Expertise: Race, Race Relations, Gender, Sexuality, Violence