I am also the Founding Co-Director of the Centre for Gender in Politics. My research is at the intersection of gender, security studies and queer theory. I research LGBTQ inclusion in Women, Peace and Security practices as well as queer analysis of security studies more broadly. 

I am the founding co-director of the Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s University. My research interests sit at the intersection of feminist international relations, critical peace and conflict studies, and border studies. I mobilise feminist and other critical perspectives in International Studies to examine the interrelated issues of war, peace, and security. 

Clara Fischer works in the areas of social and political theory, feminist theory, and gender politics. She is a Vice Chancellor Illuminate Fellow at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.

 

I am a cultural and political geographer with particular interest in critical perspectives on security, processes of border making, geographies of embodiment, critical cultural analysis and feminist and queer theory. 

Dr Brunger is Lecturer in Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the Faculty-wide QUB Gender Network (@Gender_Network) She is also a Fellow of Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. Dr Brunger's research focuses on Feminist perspectives on international law, Sexual & Gender-based Violence, and Transitional Justice.

Professor Debbie Lisle's research engages with a number of contemporary debates in International Relations, International Political Sociology and beyond, most notably around issues of difference, mobility, security, travel, visuality, governmentality, biopolitics, materiality, technology, practice and power.

Dr Francine Rossone de Paula's research focuses on Feminist Diplomacy, Postcolonial/Decolonial theory, Coloniality, rising powers, non-western perspectives in IR, critical/feminist geopolitics/FPA, and Brazil/Latin America. 

Dr Jankowitz's 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 with focuses including Grassroots Peacebuilding, Victimhood, and Reconciliation.

Theoretically, my research brings together and expands conversations on the social production of space (especially the work of Henri Lefebvre), affect, and feminist theory

For the past few years, Danielle has been working on a PhD project at UU researching barriers to PUL women’s political participation, and teaching politics and social policy.

Marsha’s research is concerned with the gendered and racialised politics of violence; militarisation; global south development; international aid and intervention; and conflict, peace and security. In addition, she has published on the challenges of decolonial, intersectional, and feminist qualitative approaches, methodologies and fieldwork. She is the author of several books, the latest of which is: The End of Peacekeeping:  Gender, Race and the Martial Politics of Intervention (Penn Press). She is currently Associate Editor for Security Dialogue and has helped to develop a range of courses on gender, peace and security at the GEST Programme, University of Iceland, Iceland; UNITAR, Switzerland; and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeper Training Centre, Ghana.  Marsha has also advised a number of national governments on women’s participation in the armed forces, combatting sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian settings, and developing anti-racist and diversity strategies in foreign policy ministries.

Aislinn Fanning is a PhD student at Queen's University Belfast School of Law. Her research uses queer feminist approaches to evaluate how anti-discrimination law addresses discrimination based on gender and sexuality in post-1998 Northern Ireland. It considers the role of addressing this kind of discrimination in transition from conflict.

Dr. Anupama Ranawana's primary line of research is anticolonial feminist thought, with a keen focus on the 1960s-1980s in Asia. She also has research interests in racial justice, gender and the environment, gender justice in international development and faith based gender justice movements. She is currently a Research Specialist for Christian Aid and am just completing a monograph on anticolonial feminist thought at the University of St Andrews.

Dr. Bamford is an historian of post-Kantian European philosophy, with research interests in ethics and the political, including with regard to issues of gender, race, and disability. Her current research focuses on four main thematic areas: science and values, aestheticism and the political, Nietzsche’s free spirit project and its contemporary significance, and disability justice, including with regard to environment and disability, and justice implications of the social model of disability.