Research
Anthropology at Queen’s is internationally renowned for its research strengths in areas including ethnomusicology, art and performance, the study of conflict and borders, religion, cognition, migration and diasporas, Irish studies, human-animal relations, and the cross-cultural study of emotions. Our research engages with a range of stakeholders and beneficiaries, including national and international governmental and non-governmental organisations, cross-border and community groups, arts, music and museum professionals as well as politicians and policy-makers.
Staff are successful in winning large grant awards and some of these recent research projects include sound, music, storytelling and digital media in conflict transformation, migration and forced displacement in Turkey, understanding atheism and secularization, religious belief and self-sacrifice.
View all our Funded Research Projects Research Lead for Anthropology Professor Fiona Magowan
Impact in Anthropology
Research Centres
Institute of Cognition and Culture
Anthropology at Queen’s is home to the Institute of Cognition and Culture (ICC), one of the world's first centres for research in cognitive anthropology, a burgeoning interdisciplinary field of scholars seeking to explain patterns of cultural stability and variation.
Institute of Irish Studies
Our anthropology cohort also heads up public debate on cultural issues in Northern Ireland with the former Director of the Institute of Irish Studies Professor Dominic Bryan, co-Chair of the Parliamentary Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition.
Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations
Interdisciplinary research collaborations across Queen’s University feature anthropologists in key roles. The Director of The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice is an anthropologist and the majority of anthropology staff are Fellows, providing significant work including practitioner-led and academic research projects.
#1
in the UK for research intensity
Research Excellence Framework (2014)#1
in the UK for teaching satisfaction (97.5%)
2018 Guardian League Tables#3
in the UK for Research Ranking
Times Good University Guide 2019