Transitional justice; memory studies; victimology; political violence; narratives; policing; human rights.

Critical approaches to transitional justice, the relationship between transitional justice and environmental harm, disappearances, forensic experts and other ‘mid-level’ transitional justice practitioners, knowledge production in transitional justice, victim mobilisation and efforts to address the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland.

I am currently doing a PhD that critically explores the utility of transitional justice in dealing with conflict-related environmental harm. My thesis looks at the limitations of transitional justice in dealing with conflict-related environmental harm and how open source information can be used to evidence such harm. Outside my PhD studies, I am a supervisor for QUB’s Open Source Clinic and have used open source information to evidence human rights violations in Gaza.

Tamara's research focuses on the Palestine question and gender equality, approaching and analysing these two areas from various angles, including human rights and international law, transformative justice and transitional justice, settler colonialism with a particular focus on forced displacement, and overseas development assistance.

International Criminal Law; Transitional Justice; Feminist Legal Studies; Postcolonial/Decolonial approaches; Gender.

My research area is truth recovery within transitional justice processes into non-recent institutional abuse inquiries. My doctoral research centres on the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry, the Mother and Baby Home Inquiry, and the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.

My primary research interest lies in the intersections of legal history and feminist legal studies, with an emphasis on the historical and contemporary implications of law in shaping gender dynamics and social structures. My doctoral research investigates women's political participation in Shanghai during 1840-1949.

My research is concentrated in the field of transitional justice. I have published widely in relation to truth recovery and dealing with the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland, the politicisation and construction of victimhood in transitional justice, the relationship between ex-combatants and the making and receiving of reparations and the use of former sites of atrocity. Other developing areas of interest include the ‘haunting’ impact of unresolved pasts and the politics of dead bodies.

Dr Eithne Dowds is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on the legal construction of the crime of rape, with a particular focus on formulations of sexual consent, in international and domestic criminal law. 

My broad research interests are in the area of sexual offending. Specifically, in the field of transitional justice, this includes state and organisational responses to non-recent or historical institutional abuses such as truth seeking processes and apologies as a form of redress. More recently, I have focused on how justice responses to non-recent institutional abuses can be transformed to acknowledge state, institutional and societal responsibility for abuses.

Beatrice Canossi holds a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Milano Bicocca (Italy) and an LLM in International Criminal Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway (Ireland). She has completed her legal traineeship in Italy specializing in Criminal Law and passed the Italian State Bar Exam in November 2019. Beatrice was a PhD researcher and Irish Research Council Scholar at the Irish Centre for Human Rights recently completing a 10 months research visit at the ‘Universidad del Rosario’ in Bogotá (Colombia). She is now a Research fellow at the School of Law in Queen's University Belfast.

My research explores corporate accountability, environmental law, and public health, focusing on how EU and international frameworks address transnational corporate harm. Using legal analysis and case studies, I examine corporate practices—such as pesticide use in Latin America—and their impact on vulnerable communities. This interdisciplinary approach contributes to global discussions on sustainability, governance, and corporate regulation.

Kieran McEvoy is the Senator George J. Mitchell Chair of Peace, Security and Justice and Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (Sept 23-Sept 26) working on how armed groups address past harms. He is author or co-author of four books and 70 journal articles or chapters.

Robin’s research focuses on property, particularly on foundational concepts of property like “ownership” and “possession”, and how these interact with civil and criminal rules protecting property. His work on these themes has been published in major journals and collections, whether as a sole author or having collaborated successfully with co-authors from leading universities (eg Melbourne, Cambridge, Oxford).

Professor Ní Aoláin is Professor of Law and Associate Director at Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute (Belfast). She also holds a joint appointment as Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School. Her book Law in Times of Crisis with Prof Oren Gross (CUP 2006) was awarded ASIL’s Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship (2007).

Drawing on over 25 years of experience in the reporting and analysis of UN negotiations on sustainable development, including consultancy roles with UN Secretariats, I combine research and policy interests in the fields of sustainable development, the commons, and the attention economy. 

Alice researches international law, human rights (and approaches transitional justice through those lenses), with a regional interest in the Middle East and Palestine in particular. She also explores land and property law issues linked to her core research themes. Her teaching reflects both her research interests and applied work. Between 2020-24 she led, as PI, two projects funded by AHRC on continued forcible transfer of Palestinian Bedouin communities.

Anna Bryson is a Professor in the School of Law and a Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. She was appointed Director of Research for QUB Law in 2023. Her most recent research has developed at the intersection of socio-legal studies, transitional justice and oral history. A strong commitment to social justice underpins the diverse interdisciplinary projects she has developed over the years.

Louise’s research interests relate to the intersections of law and peace. She has an internationally recognised expertise in amnesties. Her ongoing work on this topic includes the ‘Amnesties, Conflict and Peace Database’ and a monograph entitled ‘The Future of Amnesties: The Legality and Limits of the Anti-Amnesty Norm in International Law’. She is co-editing ‘The Encyclopedia on Law and Peace’ with L. Dempster and R. Killean. Louise also researches dealing with the past in Northern Ireland.

Professor Luke Moffett is an expert on reparations, human rights law, international humanitarian law and transitional justice. His research interests are in the role of reparations in addressing past violations, the role of law in adjudicating on armed conflict and the construction of victims' rights in domestic and international processes.

My research centers on transitional justice in Colombia, focusing on sexual and gender-based violence within armed groups, complex victimhood, politics of victimhood, bottom-up approaches to transitional justice, and women as perpetrators of violence. I am also deeply interested in international criminal law, WPS Agenda, human rights, international humanitarian law, victimology, and Latin American studies.

Transitional justice, political violence, peacebuilding, victims and dealing with the past in Ireland and Colombia.

Julia Viebach is interested in mass violence, memorialisation and transitional justice. She works on the role of archives in transitional justice processes questioning the assumed positive relationship between justice and documentation. Her second strand of research explores memory and justice initiatives in post-genocide Rwanda.

transitional justice, guarantees of non-recurrence, international human rights and humanitarian law, international criminal law. Particularly interested in post-conflict peace-building, reconciliation and justice efforts across the Global South and how these can inform international justice/transitional justice.