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 |
Islam-West relations, (comparative) political thought, intellectual history, International Relations. Focusing on radicalism and dissent (violent and non-violent; secular and religious): Islam and liberalism; counter-extremism and counter-terrorism policies; anarchism and globalisation; the (cross-) cultural politics of anti-authoritarianism, including in literature and art. |
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 3791 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 Fabrizio Loce-Mandes | Fabrizio is appointed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Peasant Activism Project until 30 November 2017. | Phone: +39 3334717436 Email: f.loce-mandes@qub.ac.uk |
| Dr Lauren Dempster | Lauren has been appointed until the end of October 2017 and is a Research Fellow on the project: 'Voice, Agency and Blame: Victimhood and the Imagined Community in Northern Ireland'. |
Phone: 028 9097 5155 |
Visiting Staff
| Professor Emeriti | Visiting Research Professors | Visiting Research Fellows | Visiting Research Associates |
| Professor Emeritus James Anderson | Mr Michael Semple | Dr Milena Komarova | |
| Professor Emeritus Adrian Guelke | Professor Peter Shirlow | Dr Jim Nehring | |
| Professor Olivier Urbain | Dr Birgit Schippers | ||
| Professor Paula Rayman |