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Dr Cheryl Lawther

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Dr Cheryl Lawther

School of Law

My work focuses on the field of transitional justice. I am particularly interested in the areas of truth recovery, dealing with the past, victims, ex-combatants, reparations, emotions and dark tourism. I have conducted comparative research on these themes in a range of international sites. I am also interested in a wide range of topics relating to the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process.

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  • c.lawther@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 1365
  • @LawtherC

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in: 

  • Transitional justice
  • Truth recovery
  • Dealing with the past
  • Victims, Ex-combatants
  • Reparations
  • Emotions
  • Dark tourism
  • Northern Ireland conflict and peace process

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Public outreach & key achievements

Dr Cheryl Lawther is currently leading and working on a number of UKRI funded research projects:

  • AHRC Early Career Research Grant for a project on 'Voice, Agency and Blame: Victimhood and the Imagined Community in Northern Ireland'
  • Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project 'Reparations, Responsibilities and Victimhood in Transitional Societies'
  • Leading on a Department for Education–Global Challenges Research Fund pilot project on representations of victimhood at dark tourist sites, with a specific focus on Cambodia

Research students

 

PhD area     
Cultural trauma and transgenerational transmission in Northern Ireland
Name  Judith Fullerton 
   
PhD area  
Transitional justice and state accountability for atrocity crimes: Judicialising guarantees of non-recurrence
Name  Nikhil Narayan 
   
PhD area Transitional divisions of peace: Urban -vs- rural differences of peace and reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland
Name Seanin Little
   

Alumni: Where are they now

   
PhD area Seeking asylum in the EU: In search of solidarity and current protection challenges 
Name Dr Sarah Craig
Year of study PhD Awarded 2022
   
PhD area Between cultural violence and symbolic reparations: The risk and utility of Irish republican reparative memorials
Name Dr Padraig Quinn
Year of study PhD Awarded 2022
   
PhD area
Doing desistance in divided neighbourhoods: The role of conflict-affected neighbourhoods in the desistance process during reintegration
Name Dr Shane Bell
Year of study PhD awarded 2019
Current Position:  Teaching assistant, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast
   
PhD area
A sociological study of the relationship between Christian religious peacebuilding and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa 
Name Dr Duncan Scott
Year of study PhD awarded 2017
Current Position:  Government researcher, Canada

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  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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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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