Research Interests
I am open to PhD applications in the following areas:
- Socio-legal studies
- Transitional justice o Dealing with the past—particularly in relation to archives, apologies, victims, oral history and ‘from below’ initiatives
- Cause lawyers
Current Research Opportunities
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:
Research students
| PhD Title | Ex-prisoners and community-based restorative justice |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Jordan’s compliance with the right of Syrian refugees to education under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | Nursing the troubles: An oral history of the emotional labour of acute nursing in Belfast during the Troubles |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title | An oral history of transgender people in Northern Ireland: Activism, transphobia and transition |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title: | Governing transition in Kosovo |
| Current Position: | Conflict peacebuilding United Nations style |
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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