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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.

Prof Fran Brearton

English

Research Interests: My research interests are primarily in 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 Brewer

Sociology

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

Dr 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.

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.

Prof Tony Gallagher

Education

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

Prof Audrey Horning

Archaeology

Research Interests: Comparative colonialism; ethics; archaeological theory; global historical archaeology; early modern Atlantic World; Ireland and Chesapeake.

Prof Joanne Hughes

Education

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

Dr Rachel Killean

Law

Research Interests: Transitional justice; sexual and gender based violence and green criminology.

Dr Cheryl Lawther

Law

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

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 McLoughlin

Film Studies

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

Dr Cathal McManus

Education

Research Interests: onflict 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 Joanne Murphy

Business and Management Studies

Research Interests: Organisational change; leadership; complexity; policing and the interaction of organisational processes with wider political processes.

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 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 Maruska Svasek

Anthropology

Research Interests: Migration, material culture and emotions.

Dr Laura Taylor

Psychology

Research Interests: Impact of political conflict on children and families; prosocial behaviors across group lines; youth peacebuilding and civic engagement.

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 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 Andrew Pepper

English

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

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.

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 Fiona Murphy

Anthropology

Research Interests: Indigenous studies; migration; sustainability and business anthropology.

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 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 Stefanie Lehner

English

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

Prof Madeleine Leonard

Sociology

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.

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 Eva Urban-Devereux

Drama

Research Interests: Intersections of theatre; performance; cultural heritage; philosophy; peace-building and social justice in Northern Ireland and in European context.

Dr Ulrike M. Vieten

Sociology

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

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