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Professor Kieran McEvoy

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Professor Kieran McEvoy

School of Law

My work focuses on the relationship between law, transitional justice and conflict transformation including; apologies, truth recovery, politically motivated prisoners, ex-combatants, victims, amnesties, human rights, restorative justice and the role lawyers in conflict.

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  • k.mcevoy@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3291
  • @kieranmcevoy2

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Transitional justice
  • Human rights
  • Criminology
  • Sociology of the legal profession

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Fellow of the British Academy, Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
  • Winner of the QUB 2016 Post-graduate Supervisor of the Year Award in QUB's Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (student nominated)
  • Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book of the Year award, the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article of the Year Award (x3 times)
  • Previously named by Arena magazine in 2008 as one of the UK’s top 10 influential ‘young intellectuals’ for work on the Northern Ireland peace process
  • Director of a number of ongoing research and impact related projects on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland https://www.dealingwiththepastni.com/ and the role of apologies in addressing past harms https://apologies-abuses-past.org.uk/

Research students

PhD area Laying the rails for peace: Framework agreements
Name Melissa Lane
   
PhD area A contested city: East Jerusalem and a just co-existence from below
Name Sonia Najjar
   
PhD area A new hybrid court in Kosovo: What justice for victims of international crimes? Views from below
Name Carine Placzek
   
PhD area New social movement theory and the reparations movement in Northern Ireland
Name Paul Gallagher
   
PhD area The use of humour in conflict affected societies as a tool for conflict resolution
Name Kevin McSorley
   
PhD area Transitional justice, oral history and reconciliation in Germany and Northern Ireland
Name Julia Volkmar

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Reparations for conflict-related sexual violence: Taking a medico-legal approach
Name Dr Sunneva Gilmore
Years of study PhD awarded 2021
   
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
Name Dr Ganimete Aslani-Price
Years of study PhD awarded 2020
   
PhD area The treatment of Kurds and the Kurdish language by the Turkish state
Name Dr Hamit Deniz
Years of study PhD awarded 2019
   
PhD area The Palestinian Prisoners' Movement 1994-2016
Name Dr Alyssa Bernstein
Years of study PhD awarded 2018
   

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  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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  • The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice

 

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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