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.

Queen’s hosted the British Academy’s Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture on the topic, “The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the Union.”

QUB hosted the 2023 General Conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. With more than 200 participants, the conference reflects the vibrant and dynamic community within the field of political studies. 

An academic from Queen’s has been awarded the prestigious RSPB Medal on behalf of the Climate Coalition Northern Ireland for their successful campaigning to deliver historic climate legislation in Northern Ireland.

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.

Congratulations to HAPP colleague Dr Amanda Slevin, awarded the AHSS ‘Citizenship and Outreach’ award for ‘her work on multi-level climate action and sustainability within and beyond Queen’s University Belfast.’

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

The Centre for Creative Ethnography was successfully launched on 28th September 2023 in Belfast and online with a diverse line-up of speakers and activities.

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics hosts 53rd Annual Conference of the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES)

'Migration, Forced Displacement and the Politics of Loss in Ukraine and beyond' on 20-23 June 2023.

Queen’s hosted a conference in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that explored the challenges facing scholars, museum professionals and archivists as they seek to address difficult, contested or traumatic pasts.

Applications open for a fully funded three-year British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship award to outstanding early career researcher across any subject area in the humanities or social sciences.

Congratulations to two colleagues from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, recently elected to membership of the Royal Irish Academy.

An academic from Queen’s University has been elected to the Council of the Royal Historical Society.

Congratulations to the Queen's team winning their first round match.

The winners of the Queen's Teaching Awards 2022 have been announced and we are delighted that Ioannis Tsioulakis (HAPP) was the winner in the Student-Nominated category.  

Congratulations to Dr Paul Corthorn on securing Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.

Congratulations to Natasha Oviedo, a postgraduate student in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, who has been named the Allstate NI Queen's Student of the Year 2022.

Congratulations to Dr Jamie Hagen on the award of a British Academy Fellowship which she is currently undertaking.

Congratulations to all graduates and prize winners from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Emanuel Patrick Quashie from St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean will graduate today with a PhD from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University.

Congratulations to Dr Juneseo Hwang, winner of the PSA 2022-2023 Elizabeth Wiskemann Prize for best dissertation on Inequality & Social Justice.

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

Professor Alister Miskimmon, Head of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's reflects on the current conflict in Ukraine

The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics hosted the 2022 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) biennial conference in Belfast in July 2022.

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.

Open to outstanding early career researchers for a one-year Fellowship to be taken up during the academic year 2021/22.

Congratulations to Professor Diane Urquhart on winning the 2021 James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences.

Congratulations to Dr Joe Morrison and the class of PHL3001 in HAPP, winners of the AHSS Digital Learning 2021 Teamwork Award.

It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the passing of an esteemed colleague, Professor Rick Wilford, Emeritus Professor in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics.

The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics has been awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in recognition of good practice and advancement towards gender equality in higher education.

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

Congratulations to Dr Olivia Dee on being awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The Politics and International Relations department from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s this week (29 - 31 March) hosted the Political Studies Association (PSA) International Conference 2021.

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Lecturer in International Relations

A research report on historical Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalene Laundries between 1922 and 1990 has been published by the Northern Ireland Executive.

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.

The Institute of Irish Studies is pleased to announce the launch of the Irish Studies Working Papers Series. This is the first dedicated online working papers site for Irish Studies research globally.

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is excited to announce our first Online Winter School taking place in February 2021. 'Pandemics: Past, Present, Future'

Congratulations to Professor David Phinnemore on his election as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences along with Professor Katy Hayward.