Dr Kieran Connell, reader of contemporary British history from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Wolfson History Prize 2025.

Queen’s has been awarded a Community Innovation Practitioner (CIP) Award for 2025-26, as part of the Creative Communities programme, funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and led by Northumbria University.

Three academics from Queen’s University have been elected as new Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.

The Self Under Siege: Re-thinking Selfhood Across Disciplines, 7 May 2025, QUB

QUB’s Centre for Public History hosts second international workshop and conference at the University of Virginia, following the first event at Queen’s University Belfast in 2023.

As part of International Women's Day, Queen’s has honoured 15 women from across the University with a powerful art exhibition, featuring specially commissioned watercolour portraits by renowned Irish artist Laura Callaghan.

Congratulations to HAPP final year undergraduate students on their recent success in the annual Model NATO competition in London.

Congratulations to Dr Maurice J. Casey, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, recently shortlisted for An Post Irish Book Awards 2024.

Congratulations to Professor Christopher Marsh and colleagues on winning an American Historical Association (AHA) prize.

The three universities that make up the former Queen's Colleges in Ireland recently partnered with the Irish Institute of Boston College to explore US-Ireland relations and peacebuilding.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by Queen’s, has launched interim results of a landmark global project ‘Explaining Atheism’, which shows that the UK now has more atheists than theists and explains why atheism has grown across the globe.

Congratulations to two of our postdoctoral researchers on winning postdoc awards through the QUB Postdoctoral Development Centre. Dr Emma Soye - Research Award and Dr Maurice Casey - Citizenship and Outreach Award.

The winners of the Queen’s Teaching Awards 2024 have been announced, and we are delighted that Jeremy Watkins was a winner in the Sustained Excellence Category.

Congratulations to Professor Peter Gray on winning the 2024 ACIS James S. Donnelly Sr Prize.

Congratulations to Professor Christopher Marsh from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s and co-investigator, Dr Angela McShane from the University of Warwick.

A new postgraduate scholarship at Queen’s University will offer students from Mozambique the opportunity to further their education at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s (HAPP).

Researchers from Queen’s and the University of Warwick have compiled the first ever collection of hit songs from seventeenth-century England, including over 100 ballads in total.

Former HAPP History graduate, Joe Reilly, has been awarded the 2023 Trench Gascoigne Prize in the military career category from the Royal United Services Institute.

Academics from HAPP have completed a series of public events, symposia, partners visits, academic lectures and discussion panels in a recent USA East Coast tour.

Students from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics have come top in the annual UK-wide Model NATO

Veteran TV journalist Bill Neely, BA Modern History and English (1981) – who spent almost 25 years at ITN and had spells at NBC News and BBC Northern Ireland – is the 2021 Allstate NI Queen’s Graduate of the Year.

Dr Evi Chatzipanagiotidou and Dr Fiona Murphy, Senior Lecturers, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, British Academy funded research project.

A new five-episode podcast series exploring the history and stories of criminal and deviant Irish women in North America from 1838 – 1918 has been launched by Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University.