Research Staff
| Dr Gladys Ganiel | Queen's University Research Fellow | Sociology, Politics, Anthropology and Religious Studies; specialising on religion, conflict transformation and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe and South Africa; the emerging church movement; evangelicalism; and religious change on the island of Ireland |
Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 3658 |
| Dr Neil Jarman | Institute Research Fellow |
The role of the civil society in peacebuilding; vigilantism and the control of violence; public order policing and hate crimes |
Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 2522 E-mail: n.jarman@qub.ac.uk Office: 02.007, 19 University Square |
| Dr Zaheer Kazmi | Institute Senior Research Fellow |
(Comparative) political thought, intellectual history, International Relations (IR). The global politics and intellectual history of radicalism and anarchism: the transcultural politics of dissent; Islam and liberalism; counter-terrorism; IR theory; globalisation. |
Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 3782 |
| Dr Fiona Murphy | Queen's University Research Fellow | Anthropology, Sociology, Literary Studies and Marketing. She specialises in Indigenous politics and movements, refugees and mobility studies, and sustainability in Australia and Ireland | Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 2521 E-mail: F.Murphy@qub.ac.uk Office: 0G.003, 22 University Square |
| Dr Julie Norman | Queen's University Research Fellow | Political Science, International Relations, Middle East Studies, Sociology, History, and Geography. Her primary research concentrates on unarmed resistance and nonviolent responses to protracted conflict, with a focus on Israel-Palestine. | Phone: +44 (0) 28 9097 5976 Email:J.Norman@qub.ac.uk Office: 0G.002A, 22 University Square |
| Professor Rhiannon Turner | Seconded Senior Research Fellow |
Social psychology and intergroup relations; intergroup contact, including ‘indirect’ forms such as extended contact, imagined contact, and e-contact, as a means of reducing prejudice and promoting positive intergroup behaviour; nostalgia as a tool for promoting positive intergroup relations; harnessing diversity to promote cross-group friendships, performance and creativity |
Phone: +44 (0) 28 9097 3486 Email: r.turner@qub.ac.uk Office: 02.006, 19 University Square |
| Dr Eva Urban | Institute Senior Research Fellow |
Intersections of theatre, performance, cultural heritage, philosophy, peace-building and social justice in Northern Ireland and in European context. She studies the role of enlightenment humanism in intercultural drama in Celtic Europe since the eighteenth century, emphasising contemporary cosmopolitan performances and community engagements opposed to conflict and division. |
Phone: +44 (0) 28 9097 3644 Email: Office: 02.004, 18 University Square |
| Dr Ulrike M. Vieten | Queen's University Research Fellow | Racism and contemporary right wing populism, and the transformation of intersecting gendered, religious and classed identities in discourses of normalisation and difference in post-conflict societies | Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 2528 Email: U.Vieten@qub.ac.uk Office: 0G.003, 22 University Square |
Post Doctoral Research Staff
| Dr Stephen Herron | Dr Herron is one of just several military anthropologists in the UK/Ireland. Academic and research interests include violence, conflict management and resolution, military and defence, civil-military relations, trauma and memory, identity and social and community affairs. |
Phone: 028 9097 5343 |
| Dr Lauren Dempster |
Transitional Justice researcher interested in '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. She is currently Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded project: ‘Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the Past: A Socio-Legal Analysis.’ |
Phone: 028 9097 5155 |