We welcome all PhD students working on Irish Studies-related topics in the university to become Postgraduate Research Associates of the Institute of Irish Studies. Please contact us at irish.studies@qub.ac.uk if you'd like to be added to the list.
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Law |
Ex-prisoners and community -based restorative justice: a comparative analysis of Northern Ireland and North America |
aalbert01@qub.ac.uk |
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Education |
The potential of transformative learning in study abroad programmes: factors and conditions that promote or constrain transformative learning |
aalblooshi01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Things in Northern Irish poetry: from Mahon to Morrissey |
janderson35@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Do lower preference transfers in STV elections assist moderate political parties in deeply divided societies? Evidence from local, Assembly and European elections in Northern Ireland since 1973 |
jarmstrong47@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Identifying diversity in Irish nationalism: a study of Irish identity in the Gaelic Athletic Association |
jarthur08@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Irish-America and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement 1966-1969 |
mbaird09@qub.ac.uk |
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Geography |
Co-designing a shared future: how can children be a part of reimagining Belfast’s interfaces? |
rblack17@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Young people and PEACE: the EU PEACE Programmes and young people's experiences of conflict transformation in Northern Ireland and the Border Region |
obrabazon01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics / IR |
Political attitudes of the Good Friday Agreement generation in Northern Ireland |
mbrennan36@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Building a dynasty: Ballymena to Baltimore: Alexander Brown and the internationalisation of the Irish Presbyterian network, 1760 – 1840; an economic, social and political analysis |
Sbrown583@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Breaking the ‘rule of silence’: speaking about trauma in contemporary Irish fiction. |
aburnside01@qub.ac.uk |
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English/ Creative Writing |
Familiar landscapes disappear: how ecofeminist subversion of apocalyptic fiction creates new narratives of hope. My novel is set in Ireland and N. Ireland four decades from now, after environmental catastrophe has radically transformed the landscape. |
ebyrne17@qub.ac.uk |
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Music |
John O'Keeffe and William Shield: a collaboration in eighteenth-century comic opera. |
cconway22@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
Justice and Security reform in post Good Friday Agreement Ireland, exploring the successes (or lack of) aspirations that were expressed within the GFA around 'normalising' justice and security arrangements North and South as part of the peace process consensus. |
ccunningham12@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
‘Let the girl go home’: gender and political imprisonment in Britain and Ireland, 1939-1945 |
sdeedigan01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
A critical-creative examination of the significance of gender and class in Northern Irish crime fiction | sdempsey05@qub.ac.uk | |
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Economics |
Three essays on disability and work among over 50s in Northern Ireland and England |
anne.devlin1@hotmail.co.uk |
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History |
Sibling relationships in nineteenth-century Ulster |
sdevlin27@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The roots of radicalism: Networks, organisation and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1919 |
edewhirst01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
Photography ethics in post-conflict Belfast |
sdodd02@qub.ac.uk |
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Economics |
A reversal of fortunes: a study of poverty in 19th-century Ireland |
adoran13@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The partition of Ireland in the transnational perspective of the Commonwealth |
segan02@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
A comparative study of the visual regimes around the interface barriers of Belfast and the Berlin Wall |
kelliott13@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Investigating the timing and causes of Nitrogen Cycle changes in Bronze Age Ireland |
sferrandin01@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Feeding Medieval Carrickfergus – A multi-proxy study of livestock husbandry in a frontier town |
jfindlater01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Irish innovations: proto-modernism in neglected Irish writing c.1880-1920 |
mflowers01@qub.ac.uk |
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Film Studies |
Where are the unionists? An investigation into the representation of Northern Irish unionism and loyalism in fiction film. |
rgallagher31@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Women of the Irish Citizen Army: an assessment of their role and recognition during and after the revolutionary period |
sgarland01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
'Commemorating the Troubles' - Remembrance in contested rural spaces |
mgault09@qub.ac.uk |
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Ethnomusicology |
Cultural intimacy and Irish country music | hgibson08@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
Queer Belfast: the social and cultural practices of gay men, c. 1967-2005 |
ngilmore03@qub.ac.uk |
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Architecture |
Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries |
chamill625@qub.ac.uk |
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Geography |
Rural 'belonging' and family farm men across their life-course in Northern Ireland: challenges for 'remaining-in and leaving' family farming |
lhollowaymccarney01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics / IR |
Queer Matters: the impact of Brexit on the Irish border |
phughes38@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Collaborative governance for waste crime enforcement as a catalyst for environmental peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: a nexus approach to environment, peace and security |
jhwang02@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Football and identity in deeply divided societies |
njagoe01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Women's employment, equal pay and anti-discrimination legislation from 1969 to 1993: A comparative study of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain. |
sjobling01@qub.ac.uk |
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Economics |
The economics of devolution: evidence from Northern Ireland 1920-1972 |
djordan02@qub.ac.uk |
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Irish |
The Irish dialect of South Leinster: evidence found in placenames and in 18th and 19th century written sources. |
ajowett01@qub.ac.uk |
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Film Studies |
The 'piercing breach of a border': Irish cinema as a mediator of modern trauma. |
ekelly54@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
European integration and British-Irish intergovernmentalism: inextricably intertwined? |
dlitter01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
Examining place-making and belonging through the movements of Muslim women in and around Belfast. |
alubit01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Commemoration and social memory in Northern Ireland: using heritage to remember the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme. |
dmacbride01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
Youth conflict-related trauma through generations: an ethnography on the relationship between health and society in post-conflict Northern Ireland |
cmagliacane01@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
An ethnography of researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic |
lmarshall07@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Virginia Woolf and dance |
rmayne04@qub.ac.uk |
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Anthropology |
The long-term impact of growing up with the Troubles. |
amazzetti01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Gendered and classed: an intersectional approach to the drama and fiction of the Troubles |
cmcallister42@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The fullness of time: The cult of Collins in de Valera's Ireland |
cmccloskey31@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Creating a lesbian history through historical fiction: challenges, ethics and freedoms |
hmccollum03@qub.ac.uk |
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Urban Planning |
The right to Belfast: power, politics and public participation of retail-led regeneration in Belfast city centre |
tmcconaghie02@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
Parental alienation - an exploratory study of legal professionals’ views and experiences in Northern Ireland |
mmccormack12@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Clothing the poor in Ulster, c. 1850-1914 |
emckee10@qub.ac.uk |
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Irish |
The Irish language and the mark of the beast |
gmclaughlin14@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
Land ownership and nature conservation: reconceptualising property rights to further environmental governance in Northern Ireland |
bmcneill02@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
The place of the late medieval church in Ulster |
fmoffet01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Martyr or mother: Irish republicanism versus Irish motherhood in Northern Ireland prison protests, 1975-1981 |
mmohrenweiser01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
For men and Ulster: Post-Agreement loyalism, patriarchy and identity |
jmooney04@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Mapping the physical and religious influences behind cillíní distribution on the island of Ireland: counties Antrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Mayo, Limerick, and Meath as case studies |
cmundt01@qub.ac.uk |
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Education |
Education and transitional justice in Northern Ireland (the effects of the 'Troubles' on education, and how issues such as shared education can address divided societies will feature heavily) |
rmurtagh05@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
The British and the Irish Question: Historical perceptions and the current crisis |
fneilson01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Women in the dock: female criminality and Ulster society 1880s-1930s | rnewell05@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
A study of post-traumatic stress disorder in post-revolutionary Ireland. |
dodoherty03@qub.ac.uk |
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Irish |
Mid-Ulster placenames: an analysis of the names of townlands in selected parishes in the baronies of Loughinsholin, Co. Derry, and Dungannon Upper, Co. Tyrone |
bdevlin14@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
Ordinary women’s experiences of conflict and conflict transformation: comparing the cases of urban and rural communities in Northern Ireland |
yomori01@qub.ac.uk |
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Translation |
Content and language integrated learning for languages other than English: a pilot project in the Northern Ireland policy context |
soneill932@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Northern Irish poetry and the news |
jcostellooreilly01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics / Conflict Studies |
States and “Pro-Government” Militias (PGMs): Delegation, deniability, acquiescence or antagonism? Explaining variation in state-PGM relationships in Northern Ireland, the Philippines, and Colombia. |
dpankhurst01@qub.ac.uk |
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English / Creative Writing |
Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives |
aquinn76@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
An oral history of the transgender movement in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland: rights, recognition and the law |
privers02@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
Brexit at the border: applying the lens of biopolitics |
brosher01@qub.ac.uk |
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English/ Creative Writing |
Inner voice, ‘The sound that will never stop’ (sound and language intersections in my own creative practice and in the work of Irish author Eimear McBride) |
lsheary01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The internationalism of Muintir na Tire History Now (NVTV) |
bsheppard02@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
Remembering what they can never forget: exploring memorialisation of historical institutional abuse from the perspective of victim-survivors, the public and the state, with a particular focus upon the Magdalene laundries and mother and baby homes in Ireland |
pshilliday01@qub.ac.uk |
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Architecture |
The cultural heritage of everyday streets |
anna.scoura@gmail.com |
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Translation |
Media coverage of political violence: Othering during the Troubles in Northern Ireland |
hsmith09@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
The pauper children of Belfast’s poorhouse, 1800-1851 |
lsmyth62@qub.ac.uk | |
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Anthropology |
Tracking online political sociality in Northern Ireland: social media engagement in a context of persistent antagonism and increasing diversity |
asoares03@qub.ac.uk |
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Sociology |
An investigation into the experiences of parents and young people in Northern Ireland with regards to freedom of expression |
esymington03@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
International responses to the Northern Irish hunger strikes of 1980/81 |
rthomas08@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Sri Lankan experiences of migration to the West in literature (incl. Northern Ireland and Ireland) |
eveerasingam01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Brexit and Northern Ireland: what impact will 'Brexit' have on the political constitution of Northern Ireland? |
lwhitten02@qub.ac.uk |
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Law |
'One State, Two Systems: A legal framework for Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trade regime' |
dwilkinson13@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
Were the intelligence and military activities in the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Colombia ethical, and did those activities have an impact on the peace processes? |
ewilliams08@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Gardens and landscapes of nineteenth-century Ireland |
pwilson40@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
The photographer and the city: the work of A.R. Hogg in recording social conditions in early twentieth-century Belfast. |
lwray04@qub.ac.uk |
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Translation |
Translating Philadelphia, Here I Come! for Chinese performance - study mainly focuses on Brian Friel and translating his plays into Chinese |
syang13@qub.ac.uk |
To be added to this list, please email us with your details at irish.studies@qub.ac.uk