2021

The Sun is Open - Dr Gail McConnell and Professor Richard English


LINAS Doctoral Training Programme Virtual Information Session


Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit - Professor Cathal McCall and Professor Richard English

Senior Research Fellow, Dr Zaheer Kazmi, discusses the key points from his new article in British International Studies Association (BISA) journal, Review of International Studies (RIS).

Senior Research Fellow, Dr Zaheer Kazmi, publishes research article in Review of International Studies

What Do We Know and What Should We Do about the Irish Border? - Professor Katy Hayward and Professor Richard English.


On the twentieth anniversary of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and amid the crisis there in 2021, expert analysis is vital.

Afghanistan 2021 - Professor Michael Semple and Professor Richard English.

Professor Michael Semple talks to The Hindu for their In Focus Podcast on “Have the Taliban Changed?

Professor Semple comments on the the Taliban's ban on girls from secondary education in Afghanistan.

Professor Semple comments on the choices of the Taliban cabinet.

'Michael Semple on the Unravelling of Afghanistan’


The fourth annual LINCS Conference took place on 16th and 17th June 2021.


Pandemic Tech: The Interplay of Covid-19 and Technology in Shaping the Pandemic Experience
The book launch and the lecture was held on 12 May 2021 for the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development.

This lecture uses data from research on male and female ex-combatants in Northern Ireland, Republican and Loyalist, to address the moral claims to legitimacy they make to render their decision to engage in violence as rational and inevitable.
Dr Dina Zoe Belluigi of Queen’s University and Dr Fateh Shaban of the Academic Centre for Development and Peace Studies, in Turkey discuss the work of the Council for At Risk Academics (Cara).
Congratulations to our brilliant QUB_LINCS team who were semi-finalists in the Atlantic Council 4th Annual Virtual Cyber 9/12 UK Strategy Challenge on 16 and 17 February 2021.

Thirty funded doctoral scholarships announced by Queen’s University Belfast are set to provide a unique opportunity to explore the challenges of Artificial intelligence (AI) for every area of science and society.

Call for papers - Virtual Conference 29th-30th July 2021