Research Environment

Fellowships and awards

• Professor Joanne Hughes, holder of the UNESCO Chair at Queen’s
• Dr Katy Hayward, 2019 Island of Ireland Fellow, Eisenhower Fellowships
• Dr Joe Duffy, US-UK Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar Award 2018-19
• Dr Anne Campbell, NIDA Lifetime Drug and Alcohol Fellowship

Skills development - seven principles of the Concordat to support the Career Development of  Researchers, as evidenced by our recruitment strategies, staff retention, rewards and recognition  procedures, training and commitment to ongoing staff development, reflective review of staff progress;  and our Equality and Diversity strategy.

Early career researcher profiles and photos - links

Central University Support 

The Research and Enterprise Directorate supports our researchers in a number of ways, providing guidance on ethics and governance, funding projects, working with partners, and commercial developments.

Research is a key function of the University, so Queen’s provides a range of high quality learning and development opportunities to assist with your work and support your career development.

New researchers will be invited to attend a central induction event, which is an opportunity to meet with colleagues from across the University.

Find out more about support for researchers

There are also opportunities to get involved in editorial work for the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (one of the UK's oldest law journals), or with LawPod, a podcasting venture hosted by the School of Law, or the student-led Research Network.  

Funding is available to support students who want to present their work at conference or expert seminars. All PhD students have office space high performance computing facilities and when needed, use of state-of-the-art laboratory facilities.

“I’m doing my PhD in Politics and I’m looking at different ways that emancipation is contended with in Chechnya. The case of Chechnya interested me the most because there is a lot of opinions about what is happening there and why. I wanted to explore that a bit for myself and come to my own conclusions. Here at Queen’s, I feel like I really have the opportunity to take my research where I want to take it and to explore different areas that are interesting to me.”

Kathryn, PhD Politics

Find out more about researcher development 

Professor Debbie Lisle is the chief editor of the world-leading peer-reviewed journal International Political Sociology - one of the 7 main journals published by the International Studies Association. IPS responds to the need for more productive collaboration among sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists.

As part of our strategy to encourage the best bioscience undergraduate students to progress to a career in scientific research, we offer research project placements and a Summer Studentship Scheme which provides students with the opportunity to work in research laboratories.

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As a University, Queen’s was the first in the UK to receive an institutional Silver Athena Award, one of only nine others in the UK to do so.

Athena Swan

The School houses a number of shared technical resources including a flow cytometry platform (multicolour cell acquisition and sorting capabilities), a pre-clinical retinal imaging unit (confocal ophthalmoscopy, ERG), histology services (wax and frozen tissue processing staining) and equipment for assessing cell and tissue metabolism (Seahorse).

Research within the centre is further underpinned by Faculty core facilities providing support in genomics (next generation sequencing), advanced imaging (multiphoton, TIRF, electron microscopy), bioinformatics (high performance computing), proteomics (mass spectrometry), and a modern biological services unit (conventional and SPF).

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