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Dr Maurice Casey
Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation

Maurice J Casey is a Research Fellow on this AHRC-funded project, working alongside Dr Tom Hulme, Dr Leanne McCormick and Dr Charlie Lynch. Maurice specialises in radical history, transnational history and queer history. He is interested in how each can transform our understanding of Ireland and its diaspora in the early 20th century.


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 Olivia Dee
Invisible Labour: an oral history of unmarried pregnancy in Northern Ireland, 1945-1990
Olivia Dee is an oral historian of gender, women and reproductive rights. She is now a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queens University Belfast.
 

She has produced research on oral history, mother and baby institutions, abortion, and the legal reform of reproductive rights in the UK. Her fellowship examines Northern Irish women’s experiences of unmarried pregnancy, including gestation, labour, motherhood, mother and baby homes, postnatal care, abortion, adoption, and miscarriage. This project will utilise oral history to analyse women’s experiences of unmarried pregnancy itself, as well as the long-lasting effects of the stigma and trauma that often followed. 

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Dr Clara Fischer landscape
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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Dr Richard Fitzpatrick
The Ulster Settlers Database, c.1609-c.1700

Richard Fitzpatrick is currently R. J. Hunter Research Fellow within HAPP’s Institute for Irish Studies. His research focuses on establishing and building a database on Ulster’s settler population during the seventeenth century. This project is run in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy and Maynooth University’s Arts and Humanities Institute (MUAHI).  


Dr Amjed Rasheed
Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow

Dr Amjed Rasheed works on Middle East Politics and IR, the rise of China and the future of the world system, and the Global South narrative of world Order. He is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Fellow at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. 

Previously, he worked as a visiting lecturer at Tübingen University at the Institute of Political Science and as a postdoctoral fellow at Durham University, School of Government and International Affairs. 

Dr. Rasheed is the co-author of Islam, IS and the Fragmented State (Routledge, 2021), and co-editor of Syrian Crisis, Syrian Refugees (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020). Dr. Rasheed has published in the leading journals, such as Middle East Policy and International Spectator. He has been writing for The Guardian, Open Democray, The Conversaiton, and Global Policy.

Research Interests
International Relations of the Middle East, Global South Narrative of World Order.
 
Media Contracts
Available to provide insights on violent extremism, Middle Eastern politics and security affairs, authoritarianism, Iraqi and Kurdish politics
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Hiroki Shin
Dr Hiroki Shin
Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow

Dr Hiroki Shin is a social and cultural historian of energy, transport and the environment, focusing on the nineteenth century to the present. He is a Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.

He is interested in the historical development of modern energy technology and the impact of energy-intensive societies on culture, everyday life and the natural environment in the Global South and North. 

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Amanda Slevin
Dr Amanda Slevin
Mapping Community Climate Action

Amanda Slevin is Policy Fellow with the ESRC-funded Place-based Climate Action Network (PCAN).  Amanda co-established and supports development of Belfast Climate Commission and its working groups; she co-founded and chairs the Commission's Community Climate Action Working Group.

Amanda also chairs the PCAN Citizen Engagement Working Group and the Climate Coalition Northern Ireland. Co-Director of QUB's Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action, Amanda initiated and co-convenes QUB's first Faculty AHSS interdisciplinary module on sustainability and climate breakdown ('What is to be done? Sustainability, climate change and just energy transitions in the Anthropocene', PAI 1010).

Amanda is Principal Investigator for 'Mapping Community Climate Action' (participatory action research on community climate action in the Belfast City Region, co-developed with Community Climate Action Working Group members), 'Pathways for Sustainability' (qualitative research with QUB staff and students on QUB teaching and learning on the Sustainable Development Goals, Co-Investigators are Prof. John Barry and Dr Colin McClure), and 'Creating our Vision for a Greener Future' (a staff-student collaboration focused on using arts-based methods to engage members of the public around climate breakdown, sustainability and just transition).

 

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Brendan Sturgeon
Dr Brendan Sturgeon
Communities in Transition (CIT)

CIT is funded by The Executive Office NI (TEO), in partnership with Co-operation Ireland (CI), and supports eight geographic areas where there has been a history of paramilitary activity and coercive control. Brendan Sturgeon leads an evaluation of CIT and its related projects, on behalf of TEO and CI. 

The rolling assessment has included the collection of data in line with each project’s bespoke Outcomes Based Accountability (OBA) framework and via Baseline and Exit Surveys (among other points of enquiry).

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Lisa Whitten
Dr Lisa Whitten
Governance for ‘a place between’: the Multilevel Dynamics of Implementing the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland

Lisa Claire Whitten is Research Fellow on this ESRC-funded project. The purpose of this research is to identify and explain the consequences of new governance arrangements established in Northern Ireland as a result of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union – ‘Brexit’.


Briony Widdes
Dr Briony Widdis
Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity

In this ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr Briony Widdis will survey collections from the Arctic, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania in museums, examine their significance to Northern Irish identities in the present, and undertake collaborative research bridging museums, academics and communities. 

The project is underpinned by partnership with the Centre for the Study of Historic Houses and Estates at the University of Maynooth, Irish Museums Association, National Museums NI and Northern Ireland Museums Council. 

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