People and Culture

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest career achievements are being awarded the Royal Academy Fellowship and being involved in the ICE invisible superheros exhibition.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Make your research independent and engage with industry and government to develop your research ideas and solutions.

What is your proudest career achievement?

I'm proud of receiving the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in 2015, the Queen’s Vice Chancellor’s Research Prize for Early Career Researcher in 2016, the Newton Prize 2017, and the Queen’s Vice Chancellor’s Research Prize for Innovation in 2018.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

A Queen's Fellowship will leverage your research career. Be ambitious to truly make a difference.

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest career achievement is training early-career researchers, particularly PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

One piece of advice I would give is to explore opportunities outside your immediate research area and comfort zone. While your fellowship is likely to be focused on your current expertise, the future growth of your research programme will be influenced by those around you at QUB and further afield. Some of the most exciting projects arise from unlikely collaborations!

What is your proudest career achievement?

Securing the Patrick Johnston Research Fellowship is my proudest career achievement to date.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

"Explore the existing strengths and expertise at Queen’s and identify and highlight how your skills can complement those."

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest career achievement was being awarded this Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship. I learned a lot while going through the selection and application stages. I actually had a lot of fun during the interview at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London!

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

My main piece of advice for someone considering applying for a Fellowship at Queen’s is to be themselves. Your personality and your vision should come through to anyone that comes in contact with your application. And don't be afraid to ask for help, we have great colleagues here at Queen's!

What is your proudest career achievement?

Designing the next generation of LED that will overpass the current state-of-the-art QLEDs in a few years. The research was published in Science Advances, see more information here.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Work hard, and do your homework on the best fellowships available that suit you. It is not only the best CV that always get the prestigious fellowships but the development of the concepts in a cutting-edge problems. By problems I meant those that help to improve our society and people lives.

What is your proudest career achievement?

I rather liked presenting my work to the Dept. of Adolescent and Child Health in Washington DC – steps from the White house on a snowy day. It felt like being on a movie set.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Do apply. Queen’s and Belfast is better than you can imagine.

What is your proudest career achievement?

My career highlights include the award of the Vice Chancellor’s Research Impact Prize (2016) and in 2017, the receipt of a €7.75M grant in support of BREATH (Border & Regions Airways Training Hub). BREATH is a highly ambitious, 5-year collaborative cross-discipline, cross-institutional and cross-border Research and Innovation project (INTERREG Va; Special European Union Programmes Body) which is focused on building research capacity in the area of COPD. BREATH has been showcased at the EU Parliament (2017) and was awarded Asthma/COPD Project of the Year at the NI Healthcare Awards (2018).

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

My advice to anyone considering applying for the Fellowship is to consider carefully each and every opportunity as it presents itself, even (and sometimes particularly) if it means going out of your comfort zone, as you’ll never fully realise the extent of your potential until faced with challenge.

What is your proudest career achievement?

It is a great source of pride for me to see a sexual and reproductive health intervention, which I co-led the development of (If I Were Jack), move through the development and evaluation stages from co-design, feasibility testing in Northern Ireland, UK-wide evaluation and now adaptation for use in Southern Africa. It’s wonderful to think that something I was involved in developing is making a real difference to people around the world.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Know your ‘unique selling point’ and make sure that you can demonstrate that your research plans are in line with key Queen’s strategies.

What is your proudest career achievement?

My career so far has been extremely rewarding. Particularly rewarding are the times when your latest paper is published, when you teach your first class or taking part in public engagement activities, but my proudest moment to date was being awarded a Cancer Research UK Population Research Fellowship.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

My advice for anyone considering applying for a Vice Chancellor’s fellowship at Queen’s is don’t forget to highlight your unique selling point as a researcher and just go for it! It is a wonderful opportunity!”

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest early career achievement is winning the British Society of Criminology Book Prize 2008 for my first monograph, The Shaming of Sexual Offenders (Hart, 2007). More recently, I was delighted to be invited to give oral and written testimony to the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017) on 'grooming and entrapment.'

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

"Make the most of this wonderful opportunity and make the effort to go outside of your intellectual 'comfort zone' by networking with scholars across the University in a range of disciplines. This can really enrich your research and its real world impact."

What is your proudest career achievement?

Representing Queen’s University Belfast at the UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

"You can use a Queen’s fellowship to build your research reputation and accelerate your academic research career. Queen’s has excellent national and international academic and industry linkages that you can take advantage of to support your research and ensure it is impactful."

What are your key research interests?

Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and Education

What is your proudest career achievement?

The foundation of the Centre for Behaviour Analysis (CBA) and the distant learning Masters in Applied Behaviour Analysis (MScABA) and ABA-based PhD, that has lead to the appointment of a world leading team of Behaviour Analysts at QUB and the education of hundreds of behaviour analysts across the globe.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

"An application for the Fellowship would allow you to work with the Centre for Behaviour Analysis with the chance to research evidence-based interventions that enable people to reach their potential and thus, makes real differences in people’s lives."

What is your proudest career achievement?

Seeing students go on to flourish in diverse careers beyond academia, and seeing PhD students pursuing independent research on exciting topics.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Be ambitious. Have the courage to think creatively, and show us what makes your work original, exciting and innovative.

What is your proudest career achievement?

Two books and 27 PhD students, seven of which have gone on to publish books themselves.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Think outside the box, write creatively, but stay engaged.

What is your proudest career achievement?

I am probably most proud of a book I published in 2010: Music and Society in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2010). This was the result of many years of research, and it involved an exciting collaboration with the musicians of the Dufay Collective. The reviews were very positive and I’m pleased to report that the project even won a couple of prizes.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Please note that Belfast is a fantastic city surrounded by wonderful scenery in all directions (but bring an umbrella).

What is your proudest career achievement?

I think my proudest achievement has been establishing and developing our very successful Centre for Public History, which has provided a framework for exciting new international collaborative research and engagement at Queen’s. I was also very proud to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and appointed a Director of the Irish Museums Association.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Don’t hesitate! Queen’s is a great place to develop exciting and innovative research as there are such amazing opportunities for collaboration with academics, cultural institutions and heritage organisations locally, nationally and globally.

What is your proudest career achievement?

Working with colleagues from Hong Kong to put on a series of workshops investigating, from the perspective of different philosophical traditions, where responsibilities for supporting older people lie.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

My advice would be to be clear about both what you would bring to Queen’s that other applicants might not, and how your research connects to the existing strengths of the University.

What is your proudest career achievement?

I served as the political scientist advisor on the Expert Advisory Group of the Irish Citizens' Assembly (2016-2018).

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Be very ambitious.

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest career achievement to date is having been awarded a Marie Curie individual fellowship to work at Queen's and winning, together with my collaborators, the first prize in the 2019 Awards for Essays on Gravitation of the Gravity Research Foundation.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

One piece of advice that I can give is to speak with people at Queen's in your area of interest but also outside of it and grasp every and each training opportunity which is offered to you.

What is your proudest career achievement?

My key career achievements include the award of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship in 2019, and three prestigious research prizes: the IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize in 2015, the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2017, and the Best PhD award 2018 by the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

You need to emphasise "why you?".

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest career achievement was being awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which has made possible carrying out the project so far. Moreover, I am particularly proud of how much I have learned from the post-conflict context of Northern Ireland by engaging community members with the project.

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Although it is widely shared, a piece of advice that has been always useful to me is "Hope for the best and prepare for the worst", which condenses the relevance of being positive and meticulous without forgetting that there are forces beyond our control.

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest career achievement was leading my Cancer Research UK Population Research Fellowship - it has been a great stepping stone in advancing my research career. I am also proud of communicating my research findings to cancer patients and clinicians as they are the most important beneficiaries of my work. .

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Don't undersell yourself! Get in touch with people who have gone through the process - we are a friendly bunch :)

What is your proudest career achievement?

Securing a Vice-Chancellor's Fellowship and moving to Belfast to start my independent research programme. .

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Do not be afraid to step outside of your research comfort zone but make sure that you have the support and expertise that you require to do so.

What is your proudest career achievement?

Securing a position as an independent researcher and have the opportunity to train the next generation of scientists. .

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Expand your field of expertise, be curious, and think outside the box. Focus on your joy to do science if you feel overwhelmed and contaminate your team with this passion! Most importantly, use the complementary expertise available in a wide international network of collaborators. Team work is the key!

What is your proudest career achievement?

My proudest career achievement to date is co-chairing the international conference 'Women and Indian Shakespeares' at Queen's in 2019 with another QUB postdoc, Dr Rosa-Garcia Periago -- with scholarly talks, public screenings along with filmmakers' Q&A at the QFT, and a free concurrent public exhibition funded by the Being Human Festival on "Discovering Shakespeare's Indian Connections" at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast city centre. .

What one piece of advice would you give to those considering applying for the Fellowship at Queen’s?

Discuss your plans, research interests and dreams beforehand with the people that you will hope to be working with -- the junior and senior scholars at Queen's are friendly and accessible, even though they are at the top of their field! They can give invaluable advice on why choosing Queens could be a great fit for your research, the next natural step on an important career parth and the start of fruitful research relationships and adventures.