Current Funded Research Projects
TRANSFORMING CONFLICT THROUGH SOUND AND MUSIC
An £800,000 award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice is funding a unique project –
THE PEACEMAKERS WHO ARE TOO OFTEN FORGOTTEN
Dr Joanne Murphy will never forget the day she and her colleagues went to Brussels to make a presentation on conflict transformation. The date was November 21, 2015 – which turned out to be the day the city’s great security lockdown began.
BUILDING A PEACEFUL, SECURE AND INCLUSIVE WORLD
Professor Hastings Donnan has just received an email. It’s from a Kurdish television company. They’re coming to Belfast to make a programme and they want someone to give them a briefing.
| Research Project Title |
QUB staff | Funding body |
|---|---|---|
|
Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation |
Professor Fiona Magowan (PI) |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| Revolt in the ‘Square’: Spatial Modelling of Urban Stability in Modern Cities |
Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards (PI) |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| Understanding the Role of Music and Sound in Conflict Transformation: The Mozambique Case Study |
Professor Fiona Magowan (CO-I) |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
| Collaboration in Conflict: Cross-Community Engagement in Divided Societies - Rising Star Engagement Award | Dr Julie Norman (PI) | British Academy |
| Negotiating Detention: Prisons as Sites of Confrontation and Compromise in Protracted Conflicts | Dr Julie Norman (PI) | British Academy |
| Asylum Seekers and Refugees' Experiences of Life in Northern Ireland Report |
Dr Fiona Murphy and Dr Ulrike M. Vieten |
Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister |
| Counting our Losses: The politics of loss and social transformation in the context of migration and displacement in Turkey |
Dr Fiona Murphy and Dr Ulrike M. Vieten |
British Council |
| Afghanistan peace dialogue research and communication |
Professor Michael Semple (CO-I) |
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| The Right to Certify? Mobilising for the Self-Certification of Food | Dr Alexander Koensler (PI) | Economic and Social Research Counci |
| The Taliban’s War: The Other Side of the Afghan Conflict, 2001-2015 |
Professor Michael Semple (CO-I) |
Economic and Social Research Council |
| The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) | Leverhulme Trust | |
| How counter-insurgency warfare experiences impact upon the post-deployment reintegration of land-based British army personnel | Professor John D. Brewer (PI) | Forces in Mind Trust |
| Analyses of Food Supply Chains for Risks and Resilience to Food Fraud/Crime |
Professor Chris Elliott (PI) and Dr Alexander Koensler (CO-I) |
Economic and Social Research Council |
| Lawyers in Conflict and Transition: A Comparative Study in Cambodia, Chile, Israel/ Palestine, South Africa and Tunisia | Professor Kieran McEvoy (PI) | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Apologies, Abuses and The National Imagination: Dealing with the Past in Ireland | Professor Kieran McEvoy (PI) | Economic and Social Research Counci |
| Voice, Agency and Blame: Victimhood and the Imagined Community in Northern Ireland | Dr Cheryl Lawther (PI) | Arts and Humanities Research Counci |
| Truth, Accountability or Impunity? Transitional Justice and the Economic Crisis | Dr Iosif Kovras (PI) | Economic and Social Research Council funded – with City University, London |
| Amnesties, Prosecution and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland | Professor Kieran McEvoy (PI) | Arts and Humanities Research Council and Queen’s University Business Alliance |
| https://www.sofeir.fr/en/recherche/groupement-dinteret-scientifique-eire/ | Dr Eva Urban-Devereux | GIS Eire |