News Archive 2018



Registration is now open for the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Group Research Showcase on Friday 11 May in the Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast.

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Modern Languages is delighted to have been awarded a Bronze Athena SWAN award.

Professor Isabel Torres, Head of Spanish and Portuguese at Queen’s, has been awarded one of Spain’s highest accolades, in recognition of her outstanding scholarly contribution to Spanish literature.



Congratulations to Dr Matilde Meireles and Dr Diogo Alvim for being awarded first prize for research excellence by the Society for Artistic Research

The School is delighted to announce that the Modern Languages Core Disciplinary Research Group has won the Research Culture category in the Vice-Chancellor’s Research Prizes 2018.

You might not recognise his face, but Peter Dickson has one of the most recognisable voices in TV and radio. Affectionately known as ‘Voiceover Man’, Peter is the most prolific voiceover artist in the UK.

Dr Kurt Werner, SARC, and Ólafur Bogason, Genki Instruments, win Best Paper Award for their research at the DAFx 2018 Conference

We are delighted that former students of QUB Music, Robocobra Quartet, Kitt Philippa, Joe Campbell-McArdle & Myles McCormack (Lonesome George), and Conor Caldwell, continue to achieve success as they navigate through their chosen music pathways.