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.

Law

Research Interests: Her research has focused on ex-prisoner involvement in community-based restorative justice efforts in Northern Ireland and the United States, examining the impact of ex-prisoner leadership on the micro-dynamics of restorative processes and the mechanisms involved in wider societal peacebuilding.

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.

Law

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.

Education

Research Interests: My research focuses on intergroup relations, intergroup conflict and social change in divided societies and is closes associated with social identity theory and contact theory.

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.

Anthropology

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

Law

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.

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.

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Brexit; borders and the EU Referendum.

History

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

Law

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.

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.

History

Research Interests: Ruth is a historian of medical and oral history. Her expertise lies in modern British and Irish history; the Troubles, medicine, Irish society and culture.

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.

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.

Education

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

English / History

Research Interests: Alison is a literary critic and cultural historian, fascinated by how national narratives intersect with the intimate, everyday realities of people’s lives and the stories we tell about this.

Drama

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

Sociology

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

Law

Research Interests: Transitional Justice, Victimology, Criminology, Critical Criminology, Criminal Justice, Political Violence, Policing, Human Rights, Memory Studies and Narrative Criminology.

Archaeology

Research Interests: Professor Horning’s research centres on comparative colonialism and the relationship between archaeology and contemporary identity, with a particular focus upon European expansion into the early modern Atlantic world(s).

Education

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

Sociology

Research Interests: My research interests cut across sociology, victimology, social psychology and peace studies, though coalesce around critical, feminist analyses of how societies respond to and recover from violent conflict.

Sociology

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

Psychology

Research Interests: My research lies at the intersection of social, political, and peace psychology. It broadly focuses on the psychological processes of intergroup conflicts and their resolution, group-based violence, national and ethnic identity, transitional justice, as well as civil resistance and social change.

Geography

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

Law

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.

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.

Education

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

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: My research interests are primarily in the areas of strategic narratives, German, European and global security issues and European integration.

 

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.

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.

Sociology

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

Politics and International Studies

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.

Film Studies

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

Politics and International Studies

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

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: My research lies in the realms of international security and conflict studies. I focus on violent non-state actors operating in various conflicts. I pay special attention to organisational dynamics and leadership personalities and research the influence they have on conflict processes and dynamics.

Politics and International Studies

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

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Sociological and postcolonial approaches to armed conflict; Society, identity and security; Public diplomacy and informational aspects of armed conflict.

Education

Research Interests: Comprehension and modelling of legacy software; Reverse engineering; Software development methodologies; Management of development projects; Change impact analysis; Legacy software; Education and pedagogies of software engineering and computer science; Use of epidemiological and societal data for better decision making.

 

Sociology

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

Law

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

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: My research is at the intersection of gender, security studies and queer theory. I research LGBTQ inclusion in Women, Peace and Security practices as well as queer analysis of security studies more broadly. 

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.

Architecture

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

Anthropology

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

Politics and International Studies

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

Law

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

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.

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.

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.

Law

Research Interests: Dr Guida is a Lecturer (Research & Education) specialising in international trade law, international environmental law, and patent law.

Law

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

Law

Research Interests: Finders law, ownership, property, obligations, modern slavery, forced labour.

Law

Research Interests: Dr Jiménez is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of Law on a project entitled: Golani youth, human rights and the forgotten occupation.

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.

Law

Research Interests: Conall’s teaching and research interests lie broadly within the fields of constitutional and international law. His work has a particular focus on human rights and judicial studies, often analysing the intersection between the two. 

Law

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

Law

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

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.

Law

Research Interests: Marisa’s expertise lies at the intersection of business and human rights. Her research critically examines current and potential mechanisms of corporate accountability for human and environmental rights, and imagines alternatives for a just transition to a sustainable and equitable society.

Law

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

Law

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

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Suzanne's research interests include freedom of speech, academic freedom, feminist philosophy, recognition theory, critical republicanism, and media ethics. 

Sociology

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

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: Green political theory, politics and political economy of sustainability, post-growth political economy, the politics and political econonomy of the planetaryr crisis, climate breakdown and biodiversity loss, trades unions and the just transition.

Modern Languages

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

English

Research Interests: Global Shakespeares; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Shakespeare and Film; Shakespeare and Adaptation

Psychology

Research Interests: Jocelyn's research investigates the development of social cognition with a particular emphasis on how children and adults categorize others into social groups, and how these categories then guide further inferences and behavior.

Politics and International Studies

Research Interests: My research interests sit at the intersection of feminist international relations, critical peace and conflict studies, and border studies. In a broad sense, I mobilise feminist and other critical perspectives in International Studies to examine the interrelated issues of war, peace, and security.

Education

Research Interests: My research interests lie in three main areas: child health and wellbeing; early child development and social cohesion; and programme evaluation with a particular interest in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).

Sociology

Research Interests: Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland; Religion, Conflict and Reconciliation in Sub-Saharan Africa; The Emerging Church Movement; Catholicism on the island of Ireland; Evangelicalism; Secularisation and Religious ‘Nones’; Dealing with the past in Northern Ireland.

Politics and International Studies

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

Geography

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

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.

English

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

Modern Languages

Research Interests: Linguistics: formulaic language, multiword-fixed expressions in Irish; Memory Studies: ideas of collective and cultural memory in linguistic landscapes; Folkloristics: the narrative tradition and verbal arts.

English

Research Interests: Contemporary poetry; Modern Irish and British poetry; Poetics.

Modern Languages

Research Interests: Masculinity in French Caribbean writing, pied noir identity in Algerian culture, slavery in the nineteenth century novel, and transatlantic mobility in the contemporary African novel in French and English.

History

Research Interests: My main research interests are in the history and politics of Africa, the Portuguese-speaking world, nationalism, religion, Christian missions, war and conflict transformation.

Education

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

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.

Education

Research Interests: My overarching research interest is the investigation of social and educational innovation. Generally, my work uses design, implementation and evaluation research to study innovative programmes and supports which aim to improve population level social outcomes such as attainment and wellbeing

Musicology and Composition

Research Interests: My main area of research is the history of political music and song. I am currently PI on an AHRC Fellowship on the work of East German Liedermacher Gerhard Gundermann.

Geography

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

Law

Research Interests: His interest in intellectual property law stems from his interest in technology and development, of how a person can own the expression of an idea but not the idea itself, and how law is developing to address user-generated content in respect of creators' rights.

Psychology

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

Sociology

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

History

Research Interests: My research focuses on gender, race, power, popular culture, and crime in the twentieth-century United States.