While the first focuses on the examination of interest organisations' influence on public policy, the second explores the way in which contemporary governments have opened to public scrutiny through open data and other tools. Michele is also an affiliated scholar at the Good Lobby.

She has research interests in feminist-pragmatism, theories of emotion/affect, embodiment and shame, institutionalisation and containment, Irish feminisms, and gender and austerity. She has published widely in her interdisciplinary research area, including in journals such as Hypatia, Signs, and Feminist Review. 

Her current research is on gender, emotion, and public policy, with a focus on “women and the politics of crisis.” 

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He has published articles in Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Common Market Studies, Global Policy and Global Governance, and his latest book, with Shahar Hameiri, is The Locked-Up Country: Learning the Lessons from Australia’s Covid-19 Response (University of Queensland Press, 2023).

At Queen’s, he worked with HAPP politics colleagues on a project on the future of global governance in an era of crisis and geopolitical competition, analysing the ways in which leading states are undermining, shoring up and revising the rules-based multilateral order.

“I found HAPP, and the broader Queen’s community, to be a very welcoming and nurturing environment to undertake research on some of the most pressing challenges facing the international community.”

She is currently working on a book that tries to reinhabit the international and the global by turning to (north) Korea in international politics not as a case study but a creative-critical method that helps map moments of surrender in transregional security arrangements and non-western diplomatic practices of non-alignment as interlinked sites of shifting international order.

During her stay at QUB, she presented a working chapter on monumentality and how history and memory politics could break open through Buddhist and other non-western mediations on nothingness. Other activities included a workshop co-hosted by the Centre for Gender in Politics and the BISA Gendering IR working group aimed at students and first-time feminist authors to help prepare their publication projects for review.

Dr Choi will remain affiliated with the Centre as a member of its International Advisory Board which will be inaugurated this year.

She is the author of: Soldiering under Occupation Processes of Numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2013 Berghahn Books). She is the co-editor of Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision (2019 Routledge) and The Entanglements of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Violent World (2023 Routledge). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Conflict and Society: Advances in Research.

“At Queen’s I had the pleasure to meet and collaborate with wonderful colleagues, such as Dr. Stephen Millar, Dr. Evi Chatzipanagiotidou, Prof. Maruska Svasek and Dr. Ioannis Tsioulakis. From other departments, I met with Dr. Merav Amir and Dr. Tristan Sturm.

I gave a lecture on ‘The Tree as Weapon: (non) state securitization of trees in the Negev/Naqab’, presenting results from my latest research project. The lecture was followed by a lively discussion from which I took away many ideas.

‘My time at QUB was truly inspiring and it offered me both a chance to concentrate on my writing and to meet lovely and interesting colleagues.’ 

His current research project, tentatively entitled The Politics of Public Health in Victorian Belfast, examines how a diverse array of public health advocates and town leaders conceived of public health matters in an era marked by a series of crises: cholera and typhus fever epidemics; the Irish Famine; the Blackstaff Nuisance.

While in Belfast, Farrell collaborated with colleagues in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics, presented his research at the Institute of Irish Studies and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Network Ireland conference at the University of Ulster, and did archival research at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the Royal Victoria Hospital.

His most recent book (co-authored with Alice Cohen) is Organizing Nature: Turning Canada’s Ecosystems into Resources (2023), which explores how various ecosystem components have come to be understood as “resources” and how these in turn organize life in Canada. He is also the editor of Critical Ecologies: The Frankfurt School and Contemporary Environmental Crises (2011), and the author of Denaturalizing Ecological Politics: Alienation from Nature from Rousseau to the Frankfurt School and Beyond (2005), as well as several book chapters and articles in both scholarly and popular sources. He serves on the editorial boards of Capitalism, Nature, Socialism and Studies in Political Economy, as well as on the Research Advisory Committee for the Nova Scotia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

At Queen’s, Professor Biro collaborated with colleagues working on environmental political theory, climate change politics, and the politics of the Anthropocene.

Jon Fraenkel, HAPP Visiting Research Fellow during the autumn semester of 2024 is a Professor of Comparative Politics in the School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

While in Belfast, he convened the workshop ‘Consociational Democracy: The End of an Era?’ (with QUB’s Timofey Agarin) and presented a research paper, ‘Can the Lijphartian Consociational Democracy Thesis be Tested?’ to the departmental seminar.

With colleagues from QUB, he attended the annual Political Studies Association of Ireland conference in Dublin on 18-20th October.

She is the author of the multiple award-winning book Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). Her earlier work on the history of travelling ayahs in Britain has also won the Carol Gold Award and honorable mention for the Walter D Love Prize. Her latest book, Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. She serves as an associate editor of Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Previously she has also served as an associate editor of Gender & History. Her works have appeared in several scholarly journals, public history journals and magazines, and on BBC4.

As part of her Visiting Fellowship hosted by QUB, Dr Datta worked on her next book project, which explores the transnational family lives of British administrators and planters based in India. In addition to the book project, Datta also worked on an essay about South Asian performers and vagrancy in Britain, which was recently published in the Journal of Immigrants & Minorities. Finally, capitalizing on the various connections she made at HAPP, she collaborated with Prof. Kieran Connell for her 2025 workshop on Inter-community dialogues in Britain. 

A past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, he has conducted ethnographic field research in Ireland, the UK, Hungary, Canada and the United States.  He is the author of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers: Anthropological Insights (University of Toronto Press, 2023), editor of the encyclopaedia European Society and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023), co-author, with another CIBR founder, Hastings Donnan, of The Anthropology of Ireland (Berg/Routledge, 2020 [2006]) and Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State (Berg/Routledge, 2020 [1999]), and co-editor of the Companion to Border Studies (Blackwell, 2012).

At Queen’s, he collaborates with HAPP politics and anthropology colleagues working on borders and identities.

She was selected as a 2021-2022 award recipient for a faculty fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Notre Dame and the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship in 2018-2019.

Her book, Sister Love: Ericka Huggins, Spiritual Wellness, and the Black Panther Party (New York University Press), is the first and only biography on Ericka Huggins and documents the previously untold story of her early life and career in the Black Panther Party. The heart of her book excavates Huggins’ day-to-day experience and acts of political dissent during confinement.

At Queen’s, Professor Philips collaborates with HAPP history colleagues working on gender, race, the legacy of slavery, and African-American social movements.

Dr Onni Hirvonen's main interests include Hegelian philosophy of recognition, critical social philosophy, and contemporary social ontology. Most recently he has worked and published on themes such as pandemics and democracy, social recognition of immigrants, arguments for workplace democracy, and a critical social ontology of private property.

At Queen’s, he collaborates with HAPP political theory and philosophy colleagues on theoretical openings for the democratization of our wider institutional world.

You can follow Dr Hirvonen’s work at: https://jyu.academia.edu/OnniHirvonen

Researchers appointed in this scheme benefit from protected research time, support and training via the "Fellowship Academy" and fast-tracking career progression to Senior Lecturer or Reader (T&Cs apply).

Applications to the scheme are welcome at any time and are reviewed 3 times a year.

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Qualifying externally funded fellowship award holders at Queen's are automatically inducted into the Fellowship Academy and will have the opportunity to benefit from the range of support provided. 

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships This is a scheme for Early Career and postdoctoral applicants. There are bi-annual calls from UKRI with fixed deadlines; Queen's runs a managed bid process with an internal deadline several months in advance of the relevant UKRI deadline.

BA Postdoctoral Fellowships This scheme is intended for applicants within three years of a successful PhD viva, with an annual call from the British Academy in late summer/autumn. Applicants should contact a potential supervisor and obtain agreement from Queen's in a reasonable time before submission.

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships This fellowship is for early career applicants within four years of the award of their doctorate. There is an annual call from the Leverhulme Trust each winter, but Queen's runs a managed bid process with an internal deadline in mid-October in advance of the Leverhulme deadline.

The Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership NINE DTP This Fellowship is open to applicants who have completed their PhD at a research organisation that is part of a DTP or CDT and who have less than twelve (12) months postdoctoral research experience. You should identify a potential mentor within the School and then develop an initial expression of interest. 

BA Newton International Fellowships This fellowship is for up to two years in any Humanities or Social Science-based research area. Applicants should be working overseas within 7 years of their PhD and wish to spend time in the UK. An annual call is made each spring.

Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships European and International fellowships are both offered in this scheme, and the available funding is for between 24 and 36 months. The next deadline is 10 September 2025. Applicants should contact a potential mentor in the School and obtain agreement from Queen's in a reasonable time before submission.

If you are interested in applying through HAPP at Queen's for any of these external fellowship schemes, please contact the School's Director of Research (at: HAPPresearch@qub.ac.uk). Please also contact relevant members of staff who might act as your mentor and/or collaborator.