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Fellows, Postdoctoral Researchers and Visiting Fellows

Our Research Community

The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics is home to a vibrant postdoctoral community who play a key role in our research culture. Our fellows and postdoctoral researchers, working on externally funded research projects or who are in receipt of competitively awarded fellowships, are driving new agendas and innovation in research across the school. Please take a look at their profiles and the work our fellows and postdocs are conducting.

Profiles of some of our research community:

Dr Michele Crepaz
Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow

Dr Michele Crepaz is an Illuminate Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast with a focus on comparative politics and public policy. His areas of specialisation are Interest Group Politics and Transparency Research. 

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.

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Dr Clara Fischer
Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow

Dr Clara Fischer works in the areas of social and political theory, feminist theory, and gender politics. She is a Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.

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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View all of our fellows and postdoc research community by clicking the link below

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Our fellows/postdocs
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2026)
Expressions of Interest (EOIs) invited from early-career researchers

The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast invites expressions of interest (EOIs) from early-career researchers proposing to undertake original, innovative, and high-quality research through the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2026). 

The scheme offers funding for outstanding early-career researchers who have not yet held a full-time permanent post in a UK university. Fellowships are funded for three years, including salary costs and research expenses of up to £6,000 p.a. 

Eligibility and application details available here


Visiting Fellowships
For internationally recognized scholars

The School runs a Visiting Research Fellowship initiative. Through this initiative, internationally recognized scholars are invited and funded to visit Queen’s for up to three months to collaborate with colleagues in the School on research matters of joint interest.


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AHSS Global Fellows 2025-26
The AHSS Global Fellowship scheme supports leading scholars from any country outside the UK and Ireland

The AHSS Global Fellowship scheme supports leading scholars from any country outside the UK and Ireland to spend a period of time conducting research in one of the Faculty’s five Schools.

For further information here

 


AHSS Global Fellow, Autumn 2025
Dr Tom Chodor

Tom Chodor is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on the global governance of the global political economy, specifically the role of private actors in contributing to and contesting global policy agendas, and the transformation and global institutions in an era of geopolitical competition.

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.”

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AHSS Global Fellow, Spring 2025
Dr Shine Choi

The Centre for Gender in Politics was delighted to welcome Dr Shine Choi as AHSS Global Fellow for the Spring 2025 semester. Shine Choi is a Senior Lecturer of Politics and International Relations in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her main areas of research are in critical theories and methods in International Relations, Security Studies and East Asia with a focus on feminist and non-western developments, in particular Africa-Asia and Third World diplomacy.

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.

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AHSS Global Fellow Spring 2025
Professor Erella Grassiani

Erella Grassiani is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam. Her work has focused on the critical study of the Israeli military and the Israeli security industry. Recently, she started a project on arboreal nationalism, studying the nationalist politics of trees.

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.’ 

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AHSS Global Fellow, Spring 2025
Professor Sean Farell

Sean Farrell is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University and a former president of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Farrell has published widely on religion and politics in nineteenth-century Ireland, including Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Modern Ulster, 1784-1886, and his latest book, Thomas Drew and the Making of Victorian Belfast (Syracuse University Press, 2024), which used the public career of a populist Church of Ireland minister to explore the complex development of mid-nineteenth century Belfast.

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.

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HAPP Visiting Research Fellow, Spring 2025
Professor Andrew Biro

Andrew Biro is a Professor at Acadia University, in Nova Scotia, Canada. At Acadia, he is appointed and teaches in the Department of Politics and also teaches in two interdisciplinary programs: the undergraduate program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, and the graduate program in Social and Political Thought. His academic work focuses on the intersections of critical theory, environmental politics, political economy, and media and cultural studies.

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.

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HAPP Visiting Research Fellow, Autumn Semester 2024
Professor Jon Fraenkel

Professor Fraenkel has published extensively on the politics of Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Tonga, Samoa and Papua New Guinea, and regularly contributed to media outlets. He also works on political settlements and electoral laws in deeply divided societies since the end of the Cold War.

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.

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Visiting Fellow Spring Semester 2023/24
Dr Arunima Datta

Dr Arunima Datta is a historian of British Empire and Asian (South and Southeast Asian) history from the Department of History, University of North Texas. Her work explores the everyday experiences of labor migrants within the context of the British Empire, through the themes of: labor, women's history, food and emotions. 

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. 

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Visting Fellow Autumn Semester 2022/23
Professor Thomas M. Wilson

Thomas M. Wilson, a Visiting Fellow in HAPP during the autumn semester of 2022/23, was a co-founder of QUB's Centre for International Borders Research (CIBR) in the 1990s and is currently Professor of Anthropology in Binghamton University of the State University of New York.

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.

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Visiting Fellow Spring Semester 2022/23
Professor Mary Frances Phillips

Mary Frances Phillips, a Visiting Fellow in February 2023, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. Her interdisciplinary research agenda focuses on race and gender in post-1945 social movements, and the carceral state. Her research areas include the Modern Black Freedom Struggle, Black Feminism, and Black Power Studies. 

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.

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Visiting Fellow Spring Semester 2022/23
Dr Onni Hirvonen

Dr Onni Hirvonen was a Visiting Fellow in the School during the spring of 2022. He is a Senior Researcher in social philosophy, based in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

 

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

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Illuminate
Queen's University Vice-Chancellor's Fellowships
Illuminate Fellowship scheme

Illuminate is Queen's Vice-Chancellor's Fellowship scheme, designed to nurture high-potential independent early-career researchers, developing the research leaders of the future.

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.

More information on Illuminate

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External Research Fellowship Opportunities
External Research Fellowship Opportunities
Other externally funded research fellowship opportunities
We welcome postdoctoral candidates who are interested in entering the research community of HAPP.  A variety of different postdoctoral fellowship opportunities across the Humanities and Social Sciences are available, depending on your career stage and the work you are proposing.

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.

 
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  • The Research Culture Action Plan

    The Research Culture Action Plan (RCAP) represents the commitment as a University community to continuously improving the environment in which research and innovation activities take place, both at Queen’s and in the wider sector. It identifies a series of tangible actions, both new and existing, which will be implemented over the coming years to promote a more supportive, inclusive, and collaborative research culture. RCAP is a constantly evolving document which is co-owned and co-delivered by the wider research community at Queen’s, and we seek ongoing feedback through our Research Culture Suggestion Box from all staff and students.

    Full details may be found by visiting the Research Culture website.

  • Fellowship Academy

    The Queen’s Fellowship Academy provides professional and career development support for Research Fellows recruited through the Illuminate Scheme, other internal Fellowship Schemes (MHLS Vice-Chancellor/Patrick G. Johnston Fellowships) and other staff holding specified externally funded Fellowships. Staff in these posts will automatically become members of the Fellowship Academy. The Academy supports members in their development and progression. Members of the Academy will be supported through individual guidance from their Schools, leading academics and Professional Services. Networking, mentorship and tailored development will be offered.

    Full details may be found by visiting the Fellowship Academy website.

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