Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Transitional justice
- Human rights
- Criminology
- Sociology of the legal profession
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 |
Discover More
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- Human Rights Centre
- Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- 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.