Academic and Research Expertise
Academics from Queen’s have many years’ experience of researching issues of concern to migrant and minority ethnic communities.

Dr Fiona Murphy
Anthropologist
Areas of Research Excellence
- Indigenous politics and movements
- Refugees and mobility studies
- Sustainability studies
- Trauma, memory, reconciliation
- Mobility and resilience
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Dr Ulrike M Vieten
Academic, feminist activist
Areas of Research Excellence
- Racialisation of Others in different historical and national contexts
- European Cosmopolitanism, gender and anti-Semitism
- Gender and far-right populism
- Gender and migration in Europe
- 'New Europeans’, ethno-national minorities and citizenship
- Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Northern Ireland
- Loss & Displacement with a focus on Turkey
Contact
- drvieten@gmail.com
- +44 (0)28 9097 2528
- @UVieten
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Dr Paula Devine
Researcher
Areas of Research Excellence
- Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
- Recording public attitudes to key social policy issues
- Public attitudes to minority ethnic groups
- Public attitudes to equality issues
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Dr Timofey Agarin
Academic, Researcher
Areas of Research Excellence
- Newcomers in Northern Ireland
- Society integration
- Access to education
- Political participation
- Representation
- Political exclusion
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Dr Ciara Close
Research Fellow
Areas of Research Excellence
- Mental Health
- Alcohol
- Migrants
- Maternity
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Dr Andy Biggart
Academic
Areas of Research Excellence
- Educational disadvantage, including among people of colour
- Sense of belonging of schoolchildren in different ethnic groups
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Dr Jocelyn Dautel
Academic
Areas of Research Excellence
- Social categorisation
- Religion
- Intergroup relations

Professor Graham Ellison
Criminologist
Areas of Research Excellence
- Prostitution/sex work regulation
- Migrantion and sex work
- Policing Northern Ireland
- Policing and international development
- Security sector reform in weak and failing states
- Youth crime and offending
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Professor Janice Carruthers
Academic, Professor of French Linguistics in the School of Arts, English and Languages; Arts and Humanities Priority Area Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages
Areas of Research Excellence
- French language
- Sociolinguistics
- Language policy
- Educational policy relating to language learning
- Policy relating to community languages
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Professor John Nagle
Academic
Areas of Research Excellence
- Political Sociology
- Conflict and peace
- Social movements
- Gender and sexuality
- Nationalsim
- Northern Ireland

Dr Aisling O'Boyle
Academic, Director of Centre for Language Education Research
Areas of Research Excellence
- Language learning and refugee-background families, adults, children and young people
- Community-based English Language provision
- Teaching English to migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers
- Language education and migration

Dr Drew Mikhael
Academic & Consultant
Areas of Research Excellence
- Ethnic and minority politics
- Refugees and migrants
- Participatory methods