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Dr Anna Bryson

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Dr Anna Bryson

School of Law

My research has developed at the intersection of socio-legal studies, transitional justice and oral history. In recent years I have worked on a number of local and international research projects relating to the role of lawyers as transitional actors, dealing with the past in Northern Ireland, the role of apologies in mitigating past harms, and the impact of Brexit on the peace process in Northern Ireland. I have a particular interest in the contribution of oral history to transitional justice approaches to dealing with a conflicted past.

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  • a.bryson@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3453

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in: 

  • Socio-legal studies
  • Transitional justice - Dealing with the past particularly in relation to archives, apologies, victims, oral history and ‘from below’ initiatives
  • Cause lawyers

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Public outreach & key achievements

Since 2014 I have been working together with colleagues from QUB and the Committee on the Administration of Justice, and a former senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office lawyer, to inform the Dealing with the Past elements of the Stormont House Agreement.

  • 2016 winner of the QUB Vice-Chancellor’s Research Impact Prize, https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2016/Queensresearchersrecognisedfortheirpositiveimpactonsociety.html 
  • Chair of the human rights NGO, the Committee on the Administration of Justice, https://caj.org.uk/
  • Regional networker and accredited trainer with the Oral History Society, https://www.ohs.org.uk/person/anna-bryson/
  • Details about recent research projects can be accessed at:
    • https://lawyersconflictandtransition.org/
    • https://apologies-abuses-past.org.uk/
    • https://brexitlawni.org/ 
    • https://www.dealingwiththepastni.com/ 

Research students

PhD area
Jordan’s compliance with the right of Syrian refugees to education under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 
Name Asma Amro
   
PhD area
Nursing the Troubles: An oral history of the emotional labour of acute nursing in Belfast during the Troubles
Name Megan Kelly
   
PhD area
An oral history of transgender people in Northern Ireland: Activism, transphobia and transition
Name Philip Rivers
   
PhD area
Dealing with the past in a digital age: Oral history in transition
Name Julia Volkmar
   
PhD area Transitional divisions of peace: Urban -vs- rural difference of peace and reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland
Name Seanin Little

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Ex-Prisoner leadership and legitimacy: Community-based restorative justice in Northern Ireland
Name Dr Allely Albert
Years of study PhD awarded 2021
   
PhD area
Governing transition in Kosovo: Post-conflict peace building United Nations style
Name
Dr Ganimete Asllani-Price
Years of study PhD awarded 2020
   

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  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • School of Law
  • Research Fellow at the Senator George Mitchell Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Change
  • Fellow at the Institute for Irish Studies

Get ahead: tips on how to prepare your application to study for a PhD at QUB Law

Read our guidance on the steps in our PhD applications process and how to present your research proposal.

Interested in a postdoctoral fellowship at QUB Law?

If you have already completed a PhD or are about to do so, and you are looking for a mentor for a postdoctoral fellowship in one of my areas of expertise, please get in touch via email. The School of Law has a strong track record in supporting able candidates who are working towards fellowship applications to funders such as the British Academy, EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie scheme, ESRC NINE and the Leverhulme Trust.

 


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