Research Staff
The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice is a flagship for interdisciplinary research in areas of major societal challenge. It brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to tackle some of the greatest global issues of our age.
GRI Research Fellows
| Dr Zaheer Kazmi | Institute Senior Research Fellow |
(Comparative) political thought, religion, intellectual history, International Relations (IR). The global politics and intellectual history of radicalism and anarchism, secular and religious: the transcultural politics of dissent; Islam and liberalism; counter-terrorism; IR theory; globalisation. |
Phone: + 44 (0) 28 9097 3782 |
| Dr Eva Urban-Devereux | 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 |
Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
| 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 Ashleigh McFeeters |
Sociology; gender and peace; female ex-combatants and peace-building in Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka; the media and peace and conflict; peace journalism; gender and media; criminology; victimology. |
Phone: 028 9097 3742 |
| Dr Kevin Hearty | Dr Hearty's research interests centre on transitional justice, peacebuilding, political violence, victimology, human rights, and memory studies. He has published on victimhood, commemoration, 'dealing with the past' in Northern Ireland, the legacy of state human rights abuses and police reform in leading interdisciplinary journals. |
Phone: 028 9097 3295 |