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Director and Theme Leads

The photograph is a headshot of Professor Richard English in front of a wall of books on shelves.
Prof Richard English

Politics and International Studies

Director

Research Interests: Politics and history of nationalism; political violence, and terrorism, with a particular focus on Ireland and Britain.

Prof Fiona Magowan

Anthropology

Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding Theme Lead

Research Interests: Music, sound and movement; art, emotion and the senses and religion, identity and transformation.

Prof Louise Mallinder

Law

Legacy Theme Lead

Research Interests: International human rights law; International criminal law and law and politics in political transitions.

Prof Kieran McEvoy

Law

Rights and Social Justice Theme Lead

Research Interests: Transitional justice; Conflict resolution and socio-legal studies.

Legacy

Dr Merav Amir

Geography

Research Interests: Cultural and political geography with particular interest in critical perspectives on security; processes of border making; geographies of embodiment; critical cultural analysis and feminist and queer theory.

Prof Gordon Anthony

Law

Research Interests: Judicial review; public authority liability and the relationship between UK law and European law.

Dr Dina Belluigi

Education

Research Interests: Critical University Studies; Academic Development; Creative Arts Higher Education; African Studies.

Prof Fran Brearton

English

Research Interests: British and Irish Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in the literature and culture of the First World War; literary modernism; and war writing throughout the 20th century.

Prof John D. Brewer

Sociology

Research Interests:  Peace processes; religious peacebuilding; religion and conflict; history of sociology; social science; higher education; qualitative research and ethnography.

Dr Graham Brownlow

Business and Management Studies

Research Interests: Economic History; Business History; Institutional Economics; Economic Organisation; Economics of Brexit; Economics of Political Decentralisation and Regional Economics.

Prof Dominic Bryan

Anthropology

Research Interests: Symbols and group identity; commemoration and memory; the anthropology of Ireland; conflict transformation; political violence; anthropology and policy.

Dr Anna Bryson

Law

Research Interests: Socio-legal research; transitional justice; oral history and conflict transformation.

Dr Garrett Carr

English

Research Interests: Creative non-fiction; fiction and young adult fiction. My research interests include writing about place, history and memoir.

Dr Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou

Anthropology

Research Interests:  Anthropology of Conflict and Peace-building Migration, Displacement, Diasporas Ethnicity, Nationalism, Anti-Nationalism Politics of Memory and Trauma, Political Violence and Justice.

Prof John Coakley

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Brexit; borders and the EU Referendum.

Prof Marie Coleman

History

Research Interests: Modern Irish history: Irish revolution; Irish gender history and independent Ireland.

Prof Brice Dickson

Law

Research Interests: Although retired from the School of Law, Emeritus Professor Dickson still engages in legal research and commentary.

Dr Michael Duffy

Social Work and Social Policy

Research Interests: Mental health linked to trauma and conflict and the development of evidence based psychological interventions, in particular cognitive therapy for conflict related PTSD.

Dr Joe Duffy

Social Work and Social Policy

Research Interests: The areas of service user and carer involvement, social inclusion, citizenship based social work, social justice and the interface between social work and political conflict.

Dr Clare Dwyer

Law

Research Interests:  Her main research interests lie in the areas of former prisoners and transitional justice, conflict transformation and young people, crime and justice.

Ms Lesley Emerson

Education

Research Interests: Research which seeks to make a difference in children and young people's lives, particularly in the contexts of school and community. My research interests fall into two themes: Political education and Children’s rights.

Prof Tony Gallagher

Education

Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and the civic and democratic role of higher education.

Mr David Grant

Drama

Research Interests: Applied Drama, Irish Theatre, Northern Ireland Theatre, Applied Puppetry, Post-Conflict Drama and Arts Evaluation.

Dr Jonathan G. Heaney

Sociology

Research Interests:  Sociology of Emotions; Political Sociology of Emotions and Social/Sociological Theory.

Prof Joanne Hughes

Education

Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and inequalities in education.

Dr Cheryl Lawther

Law

Research Interests: Transitional justice; truth recovery; dealing with the past; victims; ex-combatants; reparations; emotions and dark tourism.

Prof Keith Lilley

Geography

Research Interests: Historical / cultural geography; Landscape history / archaeology; History of cartography / archaeology of cartography and Urban morphology / urban history / urban archaeology.

Prof Anne-Marie McAlinden

Law

Research Interests: Child sexual abuse or child sexual exploitation; 'cyber' or on-line forms of offending; restorative justice; peer abuse and institutional abuse.

Prof Cahal McLaughlin

Film Studies

Research Interests: Prisons Memory Archive; participatory filmmaking (in Ireland, South Africa, Haiti and Brazil); filmic representation of trauma, memory and conflict.

Dr Peter McLoughlin

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: The Northern Ireland problem and peace process; Ethnic conflict and peace-making; International contributions to peace-making (particularly US and EU roles) and the role of diaspora communities in ethnic conflict and peace-making.

Dr Cathal McManus

Education

Research Interests: Conflict and Conflict transformation; Nationalism and identity politics; Political extremism; Othering and Populist Politics.

Prof John Morison

Law

Research Interests: Constitutional law and theory; e-government and e-democracy; new technology including smart cities, big data, etc. and judges and the legal professions.

Dr Ciaran Mulholland

Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests:  Aetiology of psychotic illnesses and the "at risk mental state". I will also consider projects more broadly from across the field of mental health.

Prof John Nagle

Sociology

Research Interests: My current research focusses on the role of social movement activism in divided societies, particularly in Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland.

Prof Brendan O'Leary

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Post Brexit UK and the Ireland border; Power sharing and voting and electoral behavior.

Dr Francis O'Neill

Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care

Research Interests: I am an expert in the genetics of complex psychiatric disorders, and a key contributor to large multi-national collaborative networks.

Dr Des O'Rawe

Film Studies

Research Interests: Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film; cinema and the visual arts; political cinema and documentary film studies.

Prof Pedro Rebelo

Music

Research Interests: Sound art; Socially engaged arts; Context-focused Composition and performance and Multimodal food experience.

Prof Maruska Svasek

Anthropology

Research Interests: Migration, material culture and emotions.

Dr Andrew Thomson

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Militias; political violence; terrorism; counterinsurgency and related areas.

Dr Jeremy Watkins

Philosophy

Research Interests: Moral philosophy, including applied ethics, bioethics and normative moral theory; transitional justice; legal philosophy; analytical political philosophy and philosophy for children.

The Politics of Security and Institutional Peacebuilding

Dr Timofey Agarin

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Social and institutional change in postcommunism in areas of non-discrimination, minority protection, migration and civil society.

Dr Michael Bourne

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Critical security studies; security technology politics; arms control and disarmament; new materialism; ANT; Post-humanism and International relations.

Dr Teresa Degenhardt

Sociology

Research Interests: Investigating social reactions to behaviour deemed to be criminal or harmful in different contexts.

Dr Peter Doran

Law

Research Interests: Attention economy; wellbeing economy; law of the commons; rights of nature; climate change law in the Anthropocene.

Prof Katy Hayward

Sociology

Research Interests: Centring on Ireland, north and south: Cross-border conflict and cooperation; EU integration (inc. ‘Brexit’ and its impact on Ireland); peace and conflict processes; political sociology; political discourses, protest and violence.

Dr Gul Kacmaz Erk

Architecture

Research Interests: Cinema and architecture in the city (ww.cacity.org); Architecture and forced migration; Urban architecture and refugee studies; Home and displacement.

Dr Jonathan Lanman

Anthropology

Research Interests: Cognitive anthropology of religion and ritual and cognitive anthropology of Atheism.

Prof Debbie Lisle

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Contemporary debates in International relations, International political sociology and beyond.

Prof Muiris MacCarthaigh

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Irish Government and politics; public administration; public policy; local Government and public sector reform.

Prof Cathal McCall

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Cross border co-operation; European Union and borders.

Prof Lee McGowan

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: The Politics of Brexit; Populism in Europe and North America; Far Right Politics; Right-wing violence in Europe and Competition policy and single market governance.

Prof Andrew Pepper

English

Research Interests: Global crime fiction; contemporary US fiction; US crime fiction; contemporary fiction and violence; suspense, spy, thriller and espionage fiction.

Prof David Phinnemore

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: European integration, EU treaty reform, EU enlargement, EU external relations, Brexit, Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.

Dr Paulo Sousa

Anthropology

Research Interests: Agency, moral psychology and inter-group conflict as well as their relation to religion.

Dr John Topping

Sociology

Research Interests: Exploring criminology; policing & society; police practice and police reform; police stop and search; paramilitarism; and restorative justice.

Rights and Social Justice

Dr Yassin Brunger

Law

Research Interests: International criminal law; feminist perspectives on International law; transitional justice and sexual and gender-based violence.

Dr Michelle Butler

Sociology

Research Interests: Imprisonment; effects of imprisonment; prison-based parenting programmes; penal reform; penal policy; desistance; reintegration; conflict; criminological psychology and social media related crimes.

Dr Mary-Louise Corr

Sociology

Research Interests: Youth offending; Youth justice and young people in conflict with the law; Offending Careers; Biographical Research; Domestic violence; Experiences of marginalised youth and Homelessness and housing careers.

Dr Lauren Dempster

Law

Research Interests: 'Dealing with the past' in Northern Ireland, 'disappearances' and transitional responses to 'disappearing,' the construction of victimhood, victim mobilisation, and themes of agency, voice, silence, and memory.

Prof Colin Harvey

Law

Research Interests: Human rights law; refugee law; and constitutional law and politics.

Dr Heather Johnson

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Refugees and migration; citizenship and non-citizenship; critical theories of mobility and migration; activism and protest and critical security studies.

Prof Christopher McCrudden

Law

Research Interests: Human rights law. Currently, his research deals with the foundational principles underpinning human rights practice.

Dr Kathryn McNeilly

Law

Research Interests: Human rights theory and practice; Legal theory and feminist legal studies.

Dr Ronagh McQuigg

Law

Research Interests: International human rights law, with a particular focus on how human rights law can be used in relation to violence against women.

Dr Luke Moffett

Law

Research Interests: Reparations; victims' rights; International Criminal Court and transitional justice.

Dr Alice Panepinto

Law

Research Interests: International law, human rights and transitional justice, with a regional interest in the Middle East.

Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding

Dr Veronique Altglas

Sociology

Research Interests:  Globalisation of religion; new religious movements; religious exoticism; responses to cultural and religious diversity in Britain and France, and anti-Semitism.

Dr Piotr Blumczynski

Modern Languages

Research Interests: Exploring the shared ground between translation and philosophy, logic, theology, linguistics, literature, ethnography, history, science, and other areas.

Prof Gladys Ganiel

Sociology

Research Interests: Religion, conflict and reconciliation in Northern Ireland; religion, conflict and reconciliation in Sub-Saharan Africa; the emerging church movement and Catholicism on the island of Ireland.

Prof John Garry

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: A Professor of political behavior, his research interests focus on electoral and deliberative democracy.

Dr M. Satish Kumar

Geography

Research Interests: Decolonisation and South Asia; postcolonial studies in India / South Asia; cultural heritage and development; urban transformation in India and South Asia.

Dr Edel Lamb

English

Research Interests: Early modern studies, particularly Shakespeare and Renaissance performance cultures; Age, childhood and gender in early modern literature and culture and Early modern literature (especially drama) and civil unrest, including protest, riot.

Dr Stefanie Lehner

English

Research Interests: Contemporary Irish and Scottish writing as well as post-conflict literatures and cultures, with a focus on Northern Ireland.

Dr James Nelson

Education

Research Interests: Religion and education; Pedagogy and religious education; Inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue in educational environments.

Prof Michael O Mainnin

Modern Languages 

Research Interests: Onomastics; Dialectology; Language and identity in Ireland and Scotland; Language and conflict; Early modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature.

Dr Tristan Sturm

Geography

Research Interests: Critical public health geographies and he just finished an ethnographic DRILL funded project on spaces of empowerment for people with dementia.

Prof Rhiannon Turner

Psychology

Research Interests: Social psychology with a specific focus on intergroup relations, prejudice and prejudice-reduction.

Dr Ulrike M. Vieten

Sociology

Research Interests: Ethnic minorities; European citizenship and belonging and Migration, class and gender.

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