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.
Postgrad Associates
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English |
Things in Northern Irish poetry: from Mahon to Morrissey |
janderson35@qub.ac.uk |
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Alba Arenales |
Sociology |
Riots as a tactic within the Provisional Republican Movement during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. |
aarenales01@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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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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Architecture |
Exploring the City Through Film Locations and Cinematic Representations: A Comparative Study of Belfast and Dublin | ebora01@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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History |
A Growing Irish Transnational Carmel, 1926-1980 |
cbrockbank01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Old age, poverty and welfare in Ulster, 1850-1921 |
aclyde03@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
When the War's Already Home: A Re-examination of the People's Democracy through Identification, Narrative, and Comparative Politics |
dcolbourne01@qub.ac.uk |
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| Kathryn Cribbin |
Politics |
Evaluating the effectiveness of co-operation between the Irish and the Northern Irish police against cross-border paramilitary threats, 1956 to 2021 |
kcribbin01@qub.ac.uk |
| Maggie Cronin |
Drama |
The lived experiences and challenges facing female theatre practitioners in theatre in Northern Ireland | |
| Lucy Cullen |
English |
Modernity and Identity in Contemporary Irish Fiction |
lcullen17@qub.ac.uk |
| Stephen de Burca |
English |
Atlantic Breadth: Coastal life and marine imagination in Irish poetry since 1960 | |
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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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Sharon Dempsey |
English / Creative writing |
After the Party and No Body, No Crime: The Female Body as Crime Scene. A critical-creative examination of representations of the female body in Northern Irish crime fiction | sdempsey05@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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Archaeology |
Dynamics of Bronze Age upland settlement in Ireland and Northern Britain in a comparative perspective |
cedwards19@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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Law |
Have public inquiries limited the number of 'provable truths' relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland and the legacy of historic institutional abuse? |
cflannery03@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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Politics |
A Treatise on Political Violence in South Armagh in the 1920s and 1970s |
dgalloghly02@qub.ac.uk |
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Architecture |
Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries |
chamill625@qub.ac.uk |
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Education |
An exploration of the evolution of young children’s identity in a post conflict society |
jpatterson43@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Flann O'Brien and the Philosophy of Science |
dharkin07@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Cooperation and conflict in the UK women’s suffrage movement, 1900-1918 |
kingram04@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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Politics |
Others in consociational democracies: assessing representation of marginalized groups in post-conflict societies |
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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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English |
Censorship in the poetry of Northern Ireland, Romania, and Poland |
skelly727@qub.ac.uk |
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Music |
Scribal practice of selected repertory in the Edward Bunting manuscript collection |
elavelle01@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
European integration and British-Irish intergovernmentalism: inextricably intertwined? |
dlitter01@qub.ac.uk |
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Management |
Institutional change in cultural organisations across Northern Ireland in response to COVID-19 |
flowe01@qub.ac.uk |
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Amanda Lubit |
Anthropology |
Examining place-making and belonging through the movements of Muslim women in and around Belfast. |
alubit01@qub.ac.uk |
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Planning |
Interstitial spaces (open tracts that lie within urban landscapes), with a specific focus on interfaces in Belfast. |
lmallon16@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 |
Language variation across the generations in spoken Irish English, using historical audio recordings and newly collected interviews |
cmathews03@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Virginia Woolf and dance |
rmayne04@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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Law |
The Role of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1852 to 1922, with particular emphasis on the judicial role of the office |
rmcbride22@qub.ac.uk | |
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Politics |
Critical Junctures, Transformative Events, and Irish American Support for Irish Republicanism in the post-9/11 Period | dmccarthy12@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
The impact of religion and philanthropy on the administration and experience of the Poor Law in rural Ulster, 1850 – 1914 | shamilton15@qub.ac.uk | |
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Politics |
Nationalism and Separatism in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales | bmckee18@qub.ac.uk | |
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Mitchell Institute |
Emerging technology and security, with particular interest in contemporary security issues in Northern Ireland | jmckillen04@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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Creative Writing |
Irish Girlhood in the contemporary short story by southern and northern Irish women authors |
mmcquade05@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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Drama |
How theatre in Northern Ireland presents and engages with many issues that are central to transitional justice aims and practices |
emoore23@qub.ac.uk |
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Film Studies |
Film censorship in the two Irelands and its role in nation-building and statehood. (1932-1937) |
cmullaly01@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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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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Irish |
Rannpháirtíocht na nÓg in Athbheochan na Gaeilge i mBéal Feirste ó bhí Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta ann (1998). (translated: Youth engagement with the Irish-language revival movement in Belfast since the Good Friday Agreement, 1998) | rnicliam01@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
John Hume, the European Community, and the Northern Ireland crisis (c.1979-2004). |
cnicholson07@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
“Making Ulster the Tourists’ Mecca”: Leisure, Identity and Modernity in the North of Ireland, c.1900-1970 | jnugent13@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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Management |
From conflict to competitive advantage in sub-national contexts: Comparing business leaders as institutional entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland and the Geneva region of Switzerland. |
gomalley02@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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History |
A Moon among lesser Stars: William Windham and the English Right, 1780-1810 |
jorchin03@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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Anthropology |
Dancing to the Same Beats?: Gender, Activism and COVID-19 in Electronic Music Scenes in Belfast and Dublin |
cpower14@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Post-Partition Shakespeare: Northern Ireland’s Bard in History, Politics and Culture (1921-Present) |
mquinnleitch01@qub.ac.uk |
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English |
Researching the use of horror in Troubles literature, film, and theater |
areid44@qub.ac.uk |
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Archaeology |
Society and the Dead: Geospatial and Statistical Analysis of Complex Cemeteries in Early Medieval Ireland |
crichardson09@qub.ac.uk |
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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 |
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Politics |
The role of interest groups in policymaking in Northern Ireland with particular attention to the European context |
nrobb03@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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Politics |
How will citizenship develop on the island of Ireland in the wake of Brexit and the NI Protocol? |
msharry01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
St Patrick's Purgatory: its function and significance in late Medieval Irish society |
tshields05@qub.ac.uk | |
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History |
Landscape, economy, and agriculture in Medieval Ireland; management and decision making on the manors of Roger Bigod |
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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 |
'Found on the Streets without Friends': Belfast Charitable Society and Child Welfare in Early Nineteenth-Century Belfast |
lsmyth62@qub.ac.uk | |
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Rachael Thomas |
History |
International responses to the Northern Irish hunger strikes of 1980/81 |
rthomas08@qub.ac.uk |
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Politics |
'Out of sight and out of mind?’: British perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement 1967 - 1972 |
pthompson27@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Valleys of Fear: Mapping Irish Secret Societies between Agrarian and Industrial Unrest, 1840-1880 |
ctorve01@qub.ac.uk |
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History |
Cumann na mBan's Military Pensions and Service Medals Campaign: A Fight for Equality, 1924-1958 |
straxler01@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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Music |
Music composition, with a special focus on contemporary understanding of Romantic aesthetics including reworkings of Irish folklore |
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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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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 |
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Planning |
High-rise buildings; vertical urbanisation; world heritage sites; landscape character; urbanisation; China; Ireland. |
szhang29@qub.ac.uk |
To be added to this list, please email us with your details at irish.studies@qub.ac.uk