GRI Fellows
Director and Theme Leads
GRI Fellows
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Social and institutional change in postcommunism in areas of non-discrimination, minority protection, migration and civil society.
Law
Research Interests: Her research has focused on ex-prisoner involvement in community-based restorative justice efforts in Northern Ireland and the United States, examining the impact of ex-prisoner leadership on the micro-dynamics of restorative processes and the mechanisms involved in wider societal peacebuilding.
Sociology
Research Interests: Véronique’s research areas are transformations of religion in modern societies, and cross-national comparisons of responses to religious diversity. Véronique is also particularly interested in epistemological issues within the sociology of religion.
Geography
Research Interests: Cultural and political geography with particular interest in critical perspectives on security; processes of border making; geographies of embodiment; critical cultural analysis and feminist and queer theory.
Law
Research Interests: Judicial review; public authority liability and the relationship between UK law and European law.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Post-growth political economy, the planetary crisis, conflict and conflict transformation, social protest and green politics, post-capitalist and post-carbon politics and economics.
Education
Research Interests: Critical University Studies; Academic Development; Creative Arts Higher Education; African Studies.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: International security, Conceptual understandings of terrorism, insurgencies and threats to security, Violent non-state actors, Conflict processes, Leadership studies, Northern Ireland, Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Education
Research Interests: My research focuses on intergroup relations, intergroup conflict and social change in divided societies and is closely associated with social identity theory and contact theory.
Modern Languages
Research Interests: Exploring the shared ground between translation and philosophy, logic, theology, linguistics, literature, ethnography, history, science, and other areas.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Critical security studies; security technology politics; arms control and disarmament; new materialism; ANT; Post-humanism and International relations.
English
Research Interests: British and Irish Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in the literature and culture of the First World War; literary modernism; and war writing throughout the 20th century.
Sociology
Research Interests: Peace processes; religious peacebuilding; religion and conflict; history of sociology; social science; higher education; qualitative research and ethnography.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Sociological and postcolonial approaches to armed conflict; Society, identity and security; Public diplomacy and informational aspects of armed conflict.
Economics
Research Interests: Economic History; Business History; Institutional Economics; Economic Organisation; Economics of Brexit; Economics of Political Decentralisation and Regional Economics.
Law
Research Interests: International criminal law; feminist perspectives on International law; transitional justice and sexual and gender-based violence.
Anthropology
Research Interests: Symbols and group identity; commemoration and memory; the anthropology of Ireland; conflict transformation; political violence; anthropology and policy.
Law
Research Interests: My research interests have developed at the intersection of socio-legal studies, transitional justice and oral history.
English
Research Interests: English Renaissance drama and culture, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Shakespeare on film, Shakespeare and adaptation, Irish studies and global Shakespeares.
Sociology
Research Interests: Imprisonment; effects of imprisonment; prison-based parenting programmes; penal reform; penal policy; desistance; reintegration; conflict; criminological psychology and social media related crimes.
English
Research Interests: Creative non-fiction; fiction and young adult fiction. My research interests include writing about place, history and memoir.
Anthropology
Research Interests: Anthropology of Conflict and Peace-building Migration, Displacement, Diasporas Ethnicity, Nationalism, Anti-Nationalism Politics of Memory and Trauma, Political Violence and Justice.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Brexit; borders and the EU Referendum.
History
Research Interests: History of conflict and legacy of conflict in twentieth century Ireland, Gender roles in conflict, Policing and conflict.
Sociology
Research Interests: Youth offending; Youth justice and young people in conflict with the law; Offending Careers; Biographical Research; Domestic violence; Experiences of marginalised youth and Homelessness and housing careers.
Education
Research Interests: Comprehension and modelling of legacy software; Reverse engineering; Software development methodologies; Management of development projects; Change impact analysis; Legacy software; Education and pedagogies of software engineering and computer science; Use of epidemiological and societal data for better decision making.
Psychology
Research Interests: Children and young people, social identity, intergroup relations, peacebuilding, religion, nationality, polarization.
Sociology
Research Interests: Investigating social reactions to behaviour deemed to be criminal or harmful in different contexts.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Feminist Peace Research; Feminist Security Studies; Art, Aesthetics and Creative Methods; Feminism, Intersectionality and Conflict Mediation; The Politics of Gender and Feminist Activism in Conflict and Peacebuilding; Critical Approaches to EU Security & Border Politics.
Law
Research Interests: 'Dealing with the past' in Northern Ireland, 'disappearances' and transitional responses to 'disappearing,' the construction of victimhood, victim mobilisation, and themes of agency, voice, silence, and memory.
Law
Research Interests: Although retired from the School of Law, Emeritus Professor Dickson still engages in legal research and commentary.
Law
Research Interests: Attention economy; wellbeing economy; law of the commons; rights of nature; climate change law in the Anthropocene.
Social Work and Social Policy
Research Interests: The areas of service user and carer involvement, social inclusion, citizenship based social work, social justice and the interface between social work and political conflict.
Social Work and Social Policy
Research Interests: Mental health linked to trauma and conflict and the development of evidence based psychological interventions, in particular cognitive therapy for conflict related PTSD.
History
Research Interests: Ruth is a historian of medical and oral history. Her expertise lies in modern British and Irish history; the Troubles, medicine, Irish society and culture.
Education
Research Interests: My research interests lie in three main areas: child health and wellbeing; early child development and social cohesion; and programme evaluation with a particular interest in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs).
Education
Research Interests: Research which seeks to make a difference in children and young people's lives, particularly in the contexts of school and community. My research interests fall into two themes: Political education and Children’s rights.
Education
Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and the civic and democratic role of higher education.
Sociology
Research Interests: Religion, conflict and peacebuilding; religion on the island of Ireland, secularisation, religion and covid-19, evangelicalism, dealing with the past in Northern Ireland.
English / History
Research Interests: Alison is a literary critic and cultural historian, fascinated by how national narratives intersect with the intimate, everyday realities of people’s lives and the stories we tell about this.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: A Professor of political behavior, his research interests focus on electoral and deliberative democracy.
Drama
Research Interests: Applied Drama, Irish Theatre, Northern Ireland Theatre, Applied Puppetry, Post-Conflict Drama and Arts Evaluation.
Law
Research Interests: Dr Guida is a Lecturer (Research & Education) specialising in international trade law, international environmental law, and patent law.
Law
Research Interests: Human rights law; refugee law; and constitutional law and politics.
Sociology
Research Interests: Centring on Ireland, north and south: Cross-border conflict and cooperation; EU integration (inc. ‘Brexit’ and its impact on Ireland); peace and conflict processes; political sociology; political discourses, protest and violence.
Sociology
Research Interests: Sociology of Emotions; Political Sociology of Emotions and Social/Sociological Theory.
Law
Research Interests: Transitional justice, human rights, victimology, critical criminology, memory studies, political violence, policing, and narrative criminology.
Law
Research Interests: Finders law, ownership, property, obligations, modern slavery, forced labour.
Education
Research Interests: The role of education in divided societies and inequalities in education.
Sociology
Research Interests: My research interests cut across sociology, victimology, social psychology and peace studies, though coalesce around critical, feminist analyses of how societies respond to and recover from violent conflict.
Sociology
Research Interests: My research interests cut across sociology, victimology, social psychology and peace studies, though coalesce around critical, feminist analyses of how societies respond to and recover from violent conflict.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Refugees and migration; citizenship and non-citizenship; critical theories of mobility and migration; activism and protest and critical security studies.
Architecture
Research Interests: Cinema and architecture in the city (ww.cacity.org); Architecture and forced migration; Urban architecture and refugee studies; Home and displacement.
Geography and Global Development
Dean, Queen’s University Belfast-GIFT City Campus
Research Interests: Postcolonial, decolonial and colonial studies in India / South Asia; cultural heritage and sustainable development; urban transformatory policies in India.
English
Research Interests: Early modern studies, especially childhood and Renaissance performance cultures; early modern girls' writing; children and young people, the arts and peacebuilding; Shakespeare and riot.
Anthropology
Research Interests: Cognitive anthropology of religion and ritual and cognitive anthropology of Atheism.
Law
Research Interests: Transitional justice; truth recovery; dealing with the past; victims; ex-combatants; reparations; emotions and dark tourism.
English
Research Interests: My research focuses on post-conflict Northern Irish literature and the role of the arts – in particular theatre - in conflict transformation processes. My research fields include Irish Studies; post-conflict studies; postcolonial studies; postcolonial studies; and – to some extent – theatre & sound studies.
Psychology
Research Interests: My research lies at the intersection of social, political, and peace psychology. It broadly focuses on the psychological processes of intergroup conflicts and their resolution, group-based violence, national and ethnic identity, transitional justice, as well as civil resistance and social change.
Geography
Research Interests: Historical / cultural geography; Landscape history / archaeology; History of cartography / archaeology of cartography and Urban morphology / urban history / urban archaeology.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Critical Security Studies; International Political Sociology; Migration & Mobility; Tourism Geographies; New Materialism; Affect Theory; Visuality; Surveillance; Postcolonial & Feminist Theories; Failure Studies.
Modern Languages
Research Interests: My research interests are in Irish linguistics and phraseology. Currently, I am exploring how language intersects with social memory, particularly the impact of linguistic memory on identity formation.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Irish Government and politics; public administration; public policy; local Government and public sector reform.
Law
Research Interests: Human rights law and practice, judges and courts, constitutional law, consular law and practice.
Law
Research Interests: Child sexual abuse or child sexual exploitation; 'cyber' or on-line forms of offending; restorative justice; peer abuse and institutional abuse.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Cross border co-operation; European Union and borders.
English
Research Interests: I publish poetry and criticism of modern Irish and British poetry and have made arts features for radio. I’m interested in poetry of ‘The Troubles’; legacies of the conflict; theological legacies in literature; queerness; gender; and family.
Law
Research Interests: Human rights law. Currently, his research deals with the foundational principles underpinning human rights practice.
Modern Languages
Research Interests: Masculinity in French Caribbean writing, pied noir identity in Algerian culture, slavery in the nineteenth century novel, and transatlantic mobility in the contemporary African novel in French and English.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: The Politics of Brexit; Populism in Europe and North America; Far Right Politics; Right-wing violence in Europe and Competition policy and single market governance.
Film Studies
Research Interests: Prisons Memory Archive; participatory filmmaking (in Ireland, South Africa, Haiti and Brazil); filmic representation of trauma, memory and conflict.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: The Northern Ireland problem and peace process; Ethnic conflict and peace-making; International contributions to peace-making (particularly US and EU roles) and the role of diaspora communities in ethnic conflict and peace-making.
Education
Research Interests: Conflict and Conflict transformation; Nationalism and identity politics; Political extremism; Othering and Populist Politics.
Law
Research Interests: Human rights theory and practice; Legal theory and feminist legal studies.
Law
Research Interests: International human rights law, with a particular focus on how human rights law can be used in relation to violence against women.
Law
Research Interests: International human rights law, corporate accountability for human rights, climate change and environmental justice.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: My research interests are primarily in the areas of strategic narratives, German, European and global security issues and European integration.
Law
Research Interests: Reparations; victims' rights; International Criminal Court and transitional justice.
History
Research Interests: History and politics of Africa, Portuguese-speaking world, nationalism, religion, war, conflict resolution, civil war and jihadi insurgencies.
Law
Research Interests: Constitutional law and theory; e-government and e-democracy; new technology including smart cities, big data, etc. and judges and the legal professions.
Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences
Research Interests: Aetiology of psychotic illnesses and the "at risk mental state". I will also consider projects more broadly from across the field of mental health.
Sociology
Research Interests: My current research focusses on the role of social movement activism in divided societies, particularly in Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland.
Education
Research Interests: Religion and Education; Pedagogy and religious education; Shared Education; Inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue in educational environmnents.
Modern Languages
Research Interests: Onomastics; Dialectology; Language and identity in Ireland and Scotland; Language and conflict; Early modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature.
Education
Research Interests: My overarching research interest is understanding how social innovation can increase outcome equality for children, young people, families and communities. I use a wide range of research methods to co-design, implement and evaluate social innovation including music and arts education programmes.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Post Brexit UK and the Ireland border; Power sharing and voting and electoral behavior.
Public Health, Health Services and Primary Care
Research Interests: I am an expert in the genetics of complex psychiatric disorders, and a key contributor to large multi-national collaborative networks.
Film Studies
Research Interests: Comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of film; cinema and the visual arts; political cinema and documentary film studies.
Law
Research Interests: International law, human rights, Middle East.
English
Research Interests: Global crime fiction; contemporary US fiction; US crime fiction; contemporary fiction and violence; suspense, spy, thriller and espionage fiction.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: European integration, EU treaty reform, EU enlargement, EU external relations, Brexit, Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
Music
Research Interests: Sound art; Socially engaged arts; Context-focused Composition and performance and Multimodal food experience.
Musicology and Composition
Research Interests: Role of music and song in social movements; history of folk song and protest song; songs crossing borders; political musical theatre.
Anthropology
Research Interests: Agency, moral psychology and inter-group conflict as well as their relation to religion.
Geography
Research Interests: Geopolitics; Israel/Palestine; Apocalypses; Conspiracy theories.
Law
Research Interests: His interest in intellectual property law stems from his interest in technology and development, of how a person can own the expression of an idea but not the idea itself, and how law is developing to address user-generated content in respect of creators' rights.
Anthropology
Research Interests: Migration, material culture and emotions.
Politics and International Studies
Research Interests: Militias; political violence; terrorism; counterinsurgency and related areas.
Psychology
Research Interests: Social psychology with a specific focus on intergroup relations, prejudice and prejudice-reduction.
Sociology
Research Interests: I'm a cultural and political sociologist interested in the competitive processes surrounding collective memory, commemoration of mass violence, and public representations of the past.
Sociology
Research Interests: Transnationalism; European Citizenship and (visible) minorities; Gender and the Far Right; Racism, Social Class; Migration.
Philosophy
Research Interests: Moral philosophy, including applied ethics, bioethics and normative moral theory; transitional justice; legal philosophy; analytical political philosophy and philosophy for children.
Philosophy
Research Interests: Suzanne's research interests include freedom of speech, academic freedom, feminist philosophy, recognition theory, critical republicanism, and media ethics.
History
Research Interests: My research focuses on gender, race, power, popular culture, and crime in the twentieth-century United States.