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.
Sociology
Research Interests: Peace processes; religious peacebuilding; religion and conflict; history of sociology; social science; higher education; qualitative research and ethnography.
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.
English
Research Interests: Creative non-fiction; fiction and young adult fiction. My research interests include writing about place, history and memoir.
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.
Education
Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and the civic and democratic role of higher education.
Archaeology
Research Interests: Comparative colonialism; ethics; archaeological theory; global historical archaeology; early modern Atlantic World; Ireland and Chesapeake.
Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and inequalities in education.
Research Interests: Transitional justice; sexual and gender based violence and green criminology.
Research Interests: Transitional justice; truth recovery; dealing with the past; victims; ex-combatants; reparations; emotions and dark tourism.
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: onflict 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.
Business and Management Studies
Research Interests: Organisational change; leadership; complexity; policing and the interaction of organisational processes with wider political processes.
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.
Research Interests: Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film; cinema and the visual arts; political cinema and documentary film studies.
Research Interests: Migration, material culture and emotions.
Psychology
Research Interests: Impact of political conflict on children and families; prosocial behaviors across group lines; youth peacebuilding and civic engagement.
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.
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: Global crime fiction; contemporary US fiction; US crime fiction; contemporary fiction and violence; suspense, spy, thriller and espionage fiction.
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: 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: Indigenous studies; migration; sustainability and business anthropology.
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.
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: (Comparative) political thought; religion; intellectual history and International relations.
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: Contemporary Irish and Scottish writing as well as post-conflict literatures and cultures, with a focus on Northern Ireland.
Research Interests: Everyday life and space in contested cities and how the concept of 'shared space' plays out in the lives of children and young people and its impact on intergroup relations.
Research Interests: Critical public health geographies and he just finished an ethnographic DRILL funded project on spaces of empowerment for people with dementia.
Research Interests: Social psychology with a specific focus on intergroup relations, prejudice and prejudice-reduction.
Drama
Research Interests: Intersections of theatre; performance; cultural heritage; philosophy; peace-building and social justice in Northern Ireland and in European context.
Research Interests: Ethnic minorities; European citizenship and belonging and Migration, class and gender.
