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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In his work Drew is interested in the social and institutional drivers of marginalisation of newcomer communities. Drew employs collaborative and participatory research methods with marginalised groups to ensure that participants of the project are left with tangible outputs for their engagement. This can include leading capacity building workshops, creating action plans for addressing problems in networks and co-creating policy dissemination so that marginalised voices are heard by important stakeholders.   

He was previously a Fellow on the ESRC project Exclusion amid Inclusion; he has also contributed significantly to the DfE funded "Civil Conflict in Post-Conflict Societies" conducting fieldwork in Burundi and Lebanon among others.

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View full profile Dr Drew Mikhael

Women’s Plague Writing in Early Modern England traces women's role in shaping discourse on pestilence through a survey and analysis of women’s plague writing in England from 1550 to 1700. It investigates how women’s understanding of the disease was gendered and, more broadly, how the textual construction of pestilence was gendered in early modern England.

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View full profile Dr Kathleen Miller

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.

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. 

View full profile Dr Hiroki Shin

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).

View full profile Dr Amanda Slevin

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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View full profile Dr Brendan Sturgeon

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. 

View full profile Dr Briony Widdis