Current Funded Research Projects
UNDERSTANDING 'NEGATIVE TRANSITIONING' IN BRITISH EX-SERVICE PERSONNEL
The report, Understanding ‘Negative Transitioning’ in British Ex-Service Personnel, was conducted by a research team from the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute at Queen’s University Belfast led by Professor John Brewer.
COMMUNITIES IN TRANSITION (CIT)
Communities in Transition (CIT) is funded by The Executive Office NI (TEO), in partnership with Co-operation Ireland (CI), and supports eight areas in Northern Ireland where there has been a history of paramilitary activity and coercive control.
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 |
|---|---|---|
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Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation - Musicians without Borders: Music Bridge - Musicians without Borders: Sounding Conflict |
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 |