Politics and International Studies
Director
Research Interests: Politics and history of nationalism; political violence, and terrorism, with a particular focus on Ireland and Britain.
Anthropology
Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding Theme Lead
Research Interests: Music, sound and movement; art, emotion and the senses and religion, identity and transformation.
Law
Legacy Theme Lead
Research Interests: International human rights law; International criminal law and law and politics in political transitions.
Rights and Social Justice Theme Lead
Research Interests: Transitional justice; Conflict resolution and socio-legal studies.
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.
Research Interests: Judicial review; public authority liability and the relationship between UK law and European law.
Education
Research Interests: Critical University Studies; Academic Development; Creative Arts Higher Education; African Studies.
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.
Sociology
Research Interests: Peace processes; religious peacebuilding; religion and conflict; history of sociology; social science; higher education; qualitative research and ethnography.
Business and Management Studies
Research Interests: Economic History; Business History; Institutional Economics; Economic Organisation; Economics of Brexit; Economics of Political Decentralisation and Regional Economics.
Research Interests: Symbols and group identity; commemoration and memory; the anthropology of Ireland; conflict transformation; political violence; anthropology and policy.
Research Interests: Socio-legal research; transitional justice; oral history and conflict transformation.
Research Interests: Creative non-fiction; fiction and young adult fiction. My research interests include writing about place, history and memoir.
Research Interests: Anthropology of Conflict and Peace-building Migration, Displacement, Diasporas Ethnicity, Nationalism, Anti-Nationalism Politics of Memory and Trauma, Political Violence and Justice.
Research Interests: Brexit; borders and the EU Referendum.
History
Research Interests: Modern Irish history: Irish revolution; Irish gender history and independent Ireland.
Research Interests: Although retired from the School of Law, Emeritus Professor Dickson still engages in legal research and commentary.
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.
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.
Research Interests: Her main research interests lie in the areas of former prisoners and transitional justice, conflict transformation and young people, crime and justice.
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.
Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and the civic and democratic role of higher education.
Drama
Research Interests: Applied Drama, Irish Theatre, Northern Ireland Theatre, Applied Puppetry, Post-Conflict Drama and Arts Evaluation.
Research Interests: Sociology of Emotions; Political Sociology of Emotions and Social/Sociological Theory.
Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and inequalities in education.
Research Interests: Transitional justice; truth recovery; dealing with the past; victims; ex-combatants; reparations; emotions and dark tourism.
Research Interests: Historical / cultural geography; Landscape history / archaeology; History of cartography / archaeology of cartography and Urban morphology / urban history / urban archaeology.
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse or child sexual exploitation; 'cyber' or on-line forms of offending; restorative justice; peer abuse and institutional abuse.
Film Studies
Research Interests: Prisons Memory Archive; participatory filmmaking (in Ireland, South Africa, Haiti and Brazil); filmic representation of trauma, memory and conflict.
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.
Research Interests: Conflict and Conflict transformation; Nationalism and identity politics; Political extremism; Othering and Populist Politics.
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.
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.
Research Interests: My current research focusses on the role of social movement activism in divided societies, particularly in Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland.
Research Interests: Post Brexit UK and the Ireland border; Power sharing and voting and electoral behavior.
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.
Research Interests: Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film; cinema and the visual arts; political cinema and documentary film studies.
Music
Research Interests: Sound art; Socially engaged arts; Context-focused Composition and performance and Multimodal food experience.
Research Interests: Migration, material culture and emotions.
Research Interests: Militias; political violence; terrorism; counterinsurgency and related areas.
Philosophy
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, including applied ethics, bioethics and normative moral theory; transitional justice; legal philosophy; analytical political philosophy and philosophy for children.
Research Interests: Social and institutional change in postcommunism in areas of non-discrimination, minority protection, migration and civil society.
Research Interests: Critical security studies; security technology politics; arms control and disarmament; new materialism; ANT; Post-humanism and International relations.
Research Interests: Investigating social reactions to behaviour deemed to be criminal or harmful in different contexts.
Research Interests: Attention economy; wellbeing economy; law of the commons; rights of nature; climate change law in the Anthropocene.
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.
Architecture
Research Interests: Cinema and architecture in the city (ww.cacity.org); Architecture and forced migration; Urban architecture and refugee studies; Home and displacement.
Research Interests: Cognitive anthropology of religion and ritual and cognitive anthropology of Atheism.
Research Interests: Contemporary debates in International relations, International political sociology and beyond.
Research Interests: Irish Government and politics; public administration; public policy; local Government and public sector reform.
Research Interests: Cross border co-operation; European Union and borders.
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.
Research Interests: Global crime fiction; contemporary US fiction; US crime fiction; contemporary fiction and violence; suspense, spy, thriller and espionage fiction.
Research Interests: European integration, EU treaty reform, EU enlargement, EU external relations, Brexit, Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
Research Interests: Agency, moral psychology and inter-group conflict as well as their relation to religion.
Research Interests: Exploring criminology; policing & society; police practice and police reform; police stop and search; paramilitarism; and restorative justice.
Research Interests: International criminal law; feminist perspectives on International law; transitional justice and sexual and gender-based violence.
Research Interests: Imprisonment; effects of imprisonment; prison-based parenting programmes; penal reform; penal policy; desistance; reintegration; conflict; criminological psychology and social media related crimes.
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.
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.
Research Interests: Human rights law; refugee law; and constitutional law and politics.
Research Interests: Refugees and migration; citizenship and non-citizenship; critical theories of mobility and migration; activism and protest and critical security studies.
Research Interests: Human rights law. Currently, his research deals with the foundational principles underpinning human rights practice.
Research Interests: Human rights theory and practice; Legal theory and feminist legal studies.
Research Interests: International human rights law, with a particular focus on how human rights law can be used in relation to violence against women.
Research Interests: Reparations; victims' rights; International Criminal Court and transitional justice.
Research Interests: International law, human rights and transitional justice, with a regional interest in the Middle East.
Research Interests: Globalisation of religion; new religious movements; religious exoticism; responses to cultural and religious diversity in Britain and France, and anti-Semitism.
Modern Languages
Research Interests: Exploring the shared ground between translation and philosophy, logic, theology, linguistics, literature, ethnography, history, science, and other areas.
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.
Research Interests: A Professor of political behavior, his research interests focus on electoral and deliberative democracy.
Research Interests: Decolonisation and South Asia; postcolonial studies in India / South Asia; cultural heritage and development; urban transformation in India and South Asia.
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.
Research Interests: Contemporary Irish and Scottish writing as well as post-conflict literatures and cultures, with a focus on Northern Ireland.
Research Interests: Religion and education; Pedagogy and religious education; Inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue in educational environments.
Research Interests: Onomastics; Dialectology; Language and identity in Ireland and Scotland; Language and conflict; Early modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature.
Research Interests: Critical public health geographies and he just finished an ethnographic DRILL funded project on spaces of empowerment for people with dementia.
Psychology
Research Interests: Social psychology with a specific focus on intergroup relations, prejudice and prejudice-reduction.
Research Interests: Ethnic minorities; European citizenship and belonging and Migration, class and gender.
