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.
| Anthropology | Photography ethics in post-conflict Belfast | sdodd02@qub.ac.uk | |
| Anthropology | A comparative study of the visual regimes around the interface barriers of Belfast and the Berlin Wall | kelliott13@qub.ac.uk | |
| Chiara Magliacane | 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 |
| Angela Mazzetti | Anthropology | The long-term impact of growing up with the Troubles. | amazzetti01@qub.ac.uk |
| Augusto Soares | Anthropology | Tracking online political sociality in Northern Ireland: social media engagement in a context of persistent antagonism and increasing diversity | asoares03@qub.ac.uk |
| Rena Maguire | Archaeology | The introduction of equestrianism to Late Iron Age Ireland | rmaguire19@qub.ac.uk |
| Anna Skoura | Architecture | The cultural heritage of everyday streets | anna.scoura@gmail.com |
| Molly Goyer Gorman | Drama | Communities in Play: the social value of youth drama groups in rural areas of Northern Ireland | mgoyer01@qub.ac.uk |
| David Jordan | Economics | The economics of devolution: evidence from Northern Ireland 1920-1972 | djordan02@qub.ac.uk |
| Aline Muff | Education | Citizenship education and identity in Northern Ireland and Israel | amuff01@qub.ac.uk |
| Jamie Anderson | English | Things in Northern Irish Poetry: From Mahon to Morrissey | janderson35@qub.ac.uk |
| Amy Burnside | English | Breaking the “rule of silence”: Speaking about trauma in contemporary Irish fiction. Supervisors: Dr Stefanie Lehner and Dr Eamonn Hughes | aburnside01@qub.ac.uk |
| Elizabeth Byrne | English/Creative Writing | 'Familiar Landscapes Disappear: how ecofeminist subversion of apocalyptic fiction creates new narratives of hope.' My novel is set in Ireland and Northern Ireland four decades from now, after environmental catastrophe has radically transformed the landscape. | ebyrne17@qub.ac.uk |
| Amy Finlay | English | Tracing Herstory: Irish lesbian writing in its historical paradigms. Supervisors: Dr Eamonn Hughes and Prof Moyra Haslett | afinlay09@qub.ac.uk |
| Elaine Gaston | English | Self-Seeded: The place of dialect in the poetry of June Jordan and Jackie Kay. | egaston01@qub.ac.uk |
| Rachel Hanna | English | An examination of cross-cultural empathy and identity construction in the telling and reading of refugees' life stories | rhanna21@qub.ac.uk |
| Chris Laverty | English | Seamus Heaney in America | claverty20@qub.ac.uk |
| Hilary McCollum | English | Creating a lesbian history through historical fiction: Challenges, ethics and freedoms | hmccollum03@qub.ac.uk |
| Tara McEvoy | English | The poetry of 1970s Northern Ireland and the politics of reception. Supervisors: Prof Fran Brearton and Dr Gail McConnell | tmcevoy04@qub.ac.uk |
| Patrick Macfarlane | English | 'Labour in the poetry of W.B. Yeats'. Supervisors: Dr Gail McConnell and Prof Fran Brearton | pmacfarlane02@qub.ac.uk |
| Scott McKendry | English | A creative component in poetry and a critical analysis of the poetry of Alan Gillis in the context of working-class poets in Northern Ireland. Supervisors: Prof Sinead Morrissey and Dr Michael Pierse | wmckendry01@qub.ac.uk |
| Richard Gallagher | Film Studies | Where are the unionists? An investigation into the representation of Northern Irish unionism and loyalism in fiction film. | rgallagher31@qub.ac.uk |
| Emma Kelly | Film Studies | The 'piercing breach of a border': Irish cinema as a mediator of modern trauma. Supervised by Professor Cahal McLaughlin and Dr Stefanie Lehner | ekelly54@qub.ac.uk |
| Lorraine Holloway-McCarney | Geography | Rural 'belonging' and family farm men across their life-course in Nortehrn Ireland: challenges for 'remaining-in and leaving' family farming | lhollowaymccarney01@qub.ac.uk |
| Melissa Baird | History | Irish-America and the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement 1966-1969 | mbaird09@qub.ac.uk |
| Robert Cotter | History | John Cennick - Moravian evangelist? | rcotter01@qub.ac.uk |
| Jack Crangle | History | Ethnic minority communities in twentieth-century Belfast. Supervisor: Prof Sean O'Connell | Jcrangle02@qub.ac.uk |
| Shannon Devlin | History | Sibling relationships in nineteenth-century Ulster | sdevlin27@qub.ac.uk |
| Steven Egan | History | The partition of Ireland in the transnational perspective of the Commonwealth | segan02@qub.ac.uk |
| Sean Garland | History | Women of the Irish Citizen Army: an assessment of their role and recognition during and after the Revolutionary Period | sgarland01@qub.ac.uk |
| Nadine Gilmore | History | Queer Belfast: the social and cultural practices of gay men, c. 1967-2005 | ngilmore03@qub.ac.uk |
| Bridget Harrison | History | Cultural perceptions of Irish Roman Catholic women religious, 1849-1907 | b.harrison02@qub.ac.uk |
| Matthew Houston | History | The churches, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War. Supervisor: Dr Andrew Holmes | mhouston13@qub.ac.uk |
| Deirdre Mac Bride | History |
Commemoration and social memory in Northern Ireland: Using heritage to remember the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme. Supervisors: Professor John Brewer and Dr Marie Coleman |
dmacbride01@qub.ac.uk |
| Conleth McCloskey | History | The fullness of time: The cult of Collins in de Valera's Ireland, Supervisor: Prof Fearghal McGarry | cmccloskey31@qub.ac.uk |
| Grace McGrath | History | Power, profit, plantocracy and the emancipation war: Lord Belmore in Jamaica. Supervisors: Prof Peter Gray and Prof Mary O'Dowd | gmcgrath08@qub.ac.uk |
| Eliza McKee | History | Clothing the poor in Ulster, c. 1850-1914. Supervisors: Dr Elaine Farrell and Dr Olwen Purdue | emckee10@qub.ac.uk |
| Rachael Thomas | History |
International responses to the Northern Irish hunger strikes of 1980/81, Supevisors: Professor Richard English and Professor Fearghal McGarry |
rthomas08@qub.ac.uk |
| Rachel Wallace | History | 'Gay is Good': Gay rights and social justice in Belfast and Boston post-1945. Supervisors: Prof Mary O'Dowd | rwallace13@qub.ac.uk |
| Lucy Wray | History |
The photographer and the city: the work of A.R. Hogg in recording social conditions in early twentieth-century Belfast. Supervisor: Dr Olwen Purdue |
lwray04@qub.ac.uk |
| Irish | A linguistic analysis of early Irish legal glosses and commentaries. Supervisors: Prof. Greg Toner and Prof. Mícheál Ó Mainnín | jbuckleycoogan01@qub.ac.uk | |
| Irish | Éamon de Valera's relationship with the Irish language. Supervisors: Dr Marcas Mac Coinnigh and Prof Fearghal McGarry | pmcgonagle01@qub.ac.uk | |
| Irish | A King without a court: King Arthur and Fionn Mac Cumhaill. Supervisors: Prof Greg Toner and Dr Sharon Arbuthnot | rtry01@qub.ac.uk | |
| Allely Albert | Law | Ex-Prisoners and Community Based Restorative Justice: A Comparative Analysis of Northern Ireland and North America | aalbert01@qub.ac.uk |
| Conor McCormick | Law | Constitutional Position of Law Officers in the UK (including the Attorney General for Northern Ireland) | cmccormick15@qub.ac.uk |
| Brona McNeill | Law | Land Ownership and Nature Conservation: Reconceptualising Property Rights to Further Environmental Governance in Northern Ireland | bmcneill02@qub.ac.uk |
| Clare Rice | Law | Intersectional discrimination in divided societies: the case of Northern Ireland and Belgium | crice25@qub.ac.uk |
| Philip Rivers | 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 |
| Paula Shilliday | 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 |
| Ciara Conway | Music | John O'Keeffe and William Shield: a collaboration in eighteenth-century comic opera. Supervisors: Dr Sarah McCleave and Dr Kurt Taroff | cconway22@qub.ac.uk |
| Sam Beckton | Politics |
The lost tribe: The evolution of southern unionism in the Republic of Ireland since 1921 |
sbeckton01@qub.ac.uk |
| Matthew Gault | Politics |
'Commemorating the Troubles' - Remembrance in contested rural spaces |
mgault09@qub.ac.uk |
| Ian McInnes | Politics | A political history of Bill Craig and the Vanguard Unionist Party |
imcinnes01@qub.ac.uk |
| Jamie Pow | Politics |
Citizen-based post-conflict democracy. |
jpow01@qub.ac.uk |
| Lisa Claire Whitten | Politics |
Brexit and Northern Ireland: What impact will 'Brexit' have on the political constitution of Northern Ireland? |
lwhitten02@qub.ac.uk |
| Linda Ballard | Theology | Aspects of Irish Non-Subscription 1830-1876 |
lballard01@qub.ac.uk |
To be added to this list, please email us with your details at irish.studies@qub.ac.uk
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