Researchers across disciplines at Queen’s continue to make discoveries which advance our collective knowledge and understanding of our world. 

Working with partners across society, together we translate these new understandings into innovative, affirmative, and life changing initiatives. Whether in working at the cutting edge of cancer trials, using pharmacy to reinforce equality and provide opportunity for women in the global south, or leading research partnerships which deliver world leading food security solutions, protecting lives and livelihoods, our research in Medicine, Health and Life Sciences is recognised as world leading and committed to contributing to Healthy Living for All.

Breakthrough solar imaging technologies developed at Queen's have altered how we see the universe, and astrophysics researchers have helped explain how we see our place within it. In Engineering and Physical Sciences our teams lead the way in building a Transformative and Sustainable Economy by developing transport technologies for the 21^st Century; technologies that will make a critical contribution towards the global drive towards zero.

Harnessing the power of wireless communications to enhance business connectivity and protect vulnerable communities, and understanding the possibilities and challenges of AI and the Data Revolution to deliver cyber security solutions in a fully connected world, encompass some of our breakthrough thinking and innovations. Describing, dating and protecting our natural and built heritage through our internationally renowned carbon dating processes, or our architectural and geospatial interpretations of our conflicted times and our shared spaces bring wider understandings of our place, of Human Environment Relations, describing how humanity leaves its mark over time.

Our understandings of conflict and peace, deeply rooted in the experience of society in Northern Ireland are a key driver of our research priorities, both as we continue to support and cement peace in our own society but as we use our knowledge and experience to help other conflict affected societies across the world.  Through Arts, Humanities and Social Science research on the legacy of conflict, education and peacebuilding, the rights of children, or the role of women in politics, Queen’s is committed to playing its part, locally and globally, in supporting the development of Inclusive and Cohesive Communities.

The creative and cultural life of societies around the world forms a key part of our research portfolio.  The protection of language, the poetry and prose of our local writers, or the interpretation of theatre, music and film are the passion of research clusters at Queen’s. 

Whether this relates to the Irish language, the work of the Seamus Heaney Centre, or our interpretations of Shakespeare and cinema, we continue to make an impact, collaborating with partners in Northern Ireland and across the globe.