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Postgrad Associates

 

Jamie Anderson

English

Things in Northern Irish poetry: from Mahon to Morrissey

janderson35@qub.ac.uk

Alba Arenales

Sociology

 Riots as a tactic within the Provisional Republican Movement during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. 

aarenales01@qub.ac.uk

Jennifer Arthur

Politics

Identifying diversity in Irish nationalism: a study of Irish identity in the Gaelic Athletic Association

jarthur08@qub.ac.uk

Rachael Black

Geography

Co-designing a shared future: how can children be a part of reimagining Belfast’s interfaces?

rblack17@qub.ac.uk

Stuart Brown

History

Building a dynasty: Ballymena to Baltimore: Alexander Brown and the internationalisation of the Irish Presbyterian network, 1760 – 1840; an economic, social and political analysis

Sbrown583@qub.ac.uk

Conor Brockbank

History

A Growing Irish Transnational Carmel, 1926-1980

cbrockbank01@qub.ac.uk

Anthony Clyde

History

Old age, poverty and welfare in Ulster, 1850-1921

aclyde03@qub.ac.uk

Brandon Cochrane

Management

Quantifying the welfare cost of cultural displays in Northern Ireland

bcochrane01@qub.ac.uk

Darren Colbourne

History

When the War's Already Home: A Re-examination of the People's Democracy through Identification, Narrative, and Comparative Politics

dcolbourne01@qub.ac.uk

Kathryn Cribbin 

Politics

Evaluating the effectiveness of co-operation between the Irish and the Northern Irish police against cross-border paramilitary threats, 1956 to 2021

kcribbin01@qub.ac.uk

Lucy Cullen

English

Modernity and Identity in Contemporary Irish Fiction

lcullen17@qub.ac.uk

Stephen de Burca

English

Atlantic Breadth: Coastal life and marine imagination in Irish poetry since 1960  

Susie Deedigan

History

‘Let the girl go home’: gender and political imprisonment in Britain and Ireland, 1939-1945

sdeedigan01@qub.ac.uk

Emma Dewhirst

History

The roots of radicalism: Networks, organisation and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1919

edewhirst01@qub.ac.uk

Cian Dunne

Translation

‘A confluence, an exercise in translation’: Elective affinities and discontinuities in translinguistic readings of Russian and Irish poetry

cdunne19@qub.ac.uk

Cherie Edwards

Archaeology

Dynamics of Bronze Age upland settlement in Ireland and Northern Britain in a comparative perspective

cedwards19@qub.ac.uk

Conor Flannery

Law

Have public inquiries limited the number of 'provable truths' relating to the conflict in Northern Ireland and the legacy of historic institutional abuse?

cflannery03@qub.ac.uk

Daryll Galloghly

Politics

A Treatise on Political Violence in South Armagh in the 1920s and 1970s

dgalloghly02@qub.ac.uk

Pauline Gorman

History

Shaping the state from the fireside: The image of Irish women and the international political legitimacy of the Irish Free State 

pgorman07@qub.ac.uk

Chris Hamill

Architecture

Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

chamill625@qub.ac.uk

Dominic Harkin

English

Flann O'Brien and the Philosophy of Science

dharkin07@qub.ac.uk

Rebecca Hunter

English

'The Lost Cottage': Essays on nature’s unseen disappearance & 'A Sort of Silence': An exploration of shifting baseline syndrome within British and Irish nature writing

rhunter24@qub.ac.uk

Katherine Ingram

History

Cooperation and conflict in the UK women’s suffrage movement, 1900-1918 

kingram04@qub.ac.uk

Neale Jagoe

Politics

Football and identity in deeply divided societies

njagoe01@qub.ac.uk

Elisa Sofia Jimenez Borja

Anthropology

The natural and social relations of the garden: a multispecies ethnography of community gardens in Northern Ireland

ejimenezborja01@qub.ac.uk

Patrizia John

Politics

Others in consociational democracies: assessing representation of marginalized groups in post-conflict societies

pjohn02@qub.ac.uk

Annie Mary Jowett

Irish

The Irish dialect of South Leinster: evidence found in placenames and in 18th and 19th century written sources.

ajowett01@qub.ac.uk

Shannon Kelly

English

Censorship in the poetry of Northern Ireland, Romania, and Poland

skelly727@qub.ac.uk

Annalee Tull Lanier

Creative Arts

Dance across the lands and hear the connection: an interdisciplinary study of dance from Ireland, Scotland, and Appalachia

atulllanier01@qub.ac.uk

Michael Lawrence

History

Quare fellows abroad: Male homosexuality and the Irish diaspora, 1880-1960

mlawrence02@qub.ac.uk

Fiona Lowe

Management

Institutional change in cultural organisations across Northern Ireland in response to COVID-19

flowe01@qub.ac.uk

Amanda Lubit

Anthropology

Examining place-making and belonging through the movements of Muslim women in and around Belfast.

alubit01@qub.ac.uk

Lauren Mallon

Planning

Interstitial spaces (open tracts that lie within urban landscapes), with a specific focus on interfaces in Belfast.

lmallon16@qub.ac.uk

Cynthia Mathews

English

Language variation across the generations in spoken Irish English, using historical audio recordings and newly collected interviews

cmathews03@qub.ac.uk

Rhonda Mayne

English

Virginia Woolf and dance

rmayne04@qub.ac.uk

 

 

Richard McBride

Law

The role of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1852 to 1922, with particular emphasis on the judicial role of the office

rmcbride22@qub.ac.uk

Sarah McCollum

History

The impact of religion and philanthropy on the administration and experience of the Poor Law in rural Ulster, 1850 – 1914 shamilton15@qub.ac.uk

Brendan McKee

Politics

Nationalism and separatism in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales  bmckee18@qub.ac.uk 

Jason McKillen

Mitchell Institute

Emerging technology and security, with particular interest in contemporary security issues in Northern Ireland jmckillen04@qub.ac.uk

Ian McMillan

Education

Understanding the governor experience in grant-maintained integrated schools imcmillan01@qub.ac.uk

Marie McQuade

Creative Writing

Irish Girlhood in the contemporary short story by southern and northern Irish women authors

mmcquade05@qub.ac.uk

Louise Moffett

Archaeology

The place of the late medieval church in Ulster

fmoffet01@qub.ac.uk

Miren Mohrenweiser

Politics

Martyr or mother: Irish republicanism versus Irish motherhood in Northern Ireland prison protests, 1975-1981

mmohrenweiser01@qub.ac.uk

Emily Moore

Drama

How theatre in Northern Ireland presents and engages with many issues that are central to transitional justice aims and practices

emoore23@qub.ac.uk

Claire Mullaly

Film Studies

Film censorship in the two Irelands and its role in nation-building and statehood. (1932-1937)

cmullaly01@qub.ac.uk

Courtney Mundt

Archaeology

Mapping the physical and religious influences behind cillíní distribution on the island of Ireland: counties Antrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Mayo, Limerick, and Meath as case studies

cmundt01@qub.ac.uk

Frances Neilson

Politics

The British and the Irish question: Historical perceptions and the current crisis

fneilson01@qub.ac.uk

Emily Nelson

Sociology

Catholic disaffiliation on the island of Ireland

enelson08@qub.ac.uk

Rachel Newell

History

Women in the dock: female criminality and Ulster society 1880s-1930s  rnewell05@qub.ac.uk 

Róisín Nic Liam 

Irish

Rannpháirtíocht na nÓg in Athbheochan na Gaeilge i mBéal Feirste ó bhí Comhaontú Aoine an Chéasta ann (1998). (translated: Youth engagement with the Irish-language revival movement in Belfast since the Good Friday Agreement, 1998) rnicliam01@qub.ac.uk 

Ciara Nicholson

History

John Hume, the European Community, and the Northern Ireland crisis (c.1979-2004).

cnicholson07@qub.ac.uk

Christian Zik Nsonwu

Social Policy

When forced to choose: The relationship of political agnosticism to political polarisation cnsonwu01@qub.ac.uk

Jamie Nugent

History

“Making Ulster the Tourists’ Mecca”: Leisure, identity and modernity in the North of Ireland, c.1900-1970  jnugent13@qub.ac.uk 

Michael O'Connor

History

Manifestations of ownership and erasure of identity and ethnicity: Naming and renaming the enslaved on Irish & Anglo-Irish owned estates in the British Caribbean 1750-1834 moconnor36@qub.ac.uk

Declan O'Doherty

History

A study of post-traumatic stress disorder in post-revolutionary Ireland.

dodoherty03@qub.ac.uk

Grainne O'Malley

Management

From conflict to competitive advantage in sub-national contexts: Comparing business leaders as institutional entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland and the Geneva region of Switzerland.

gomalley02@qub.ac.uk

Sarah O'Neill

Translation

Content and language integrated learning for languages other than English: a pilot project in the Northern Ireland policy context

soneill932@qub.ac.uk

James Orchin

History

A moon among lesser stars: William Windham and the English right, 1780-1810

jorchin03@qub.ac.uk

James Costello O’Reilly

English

Northern Irish poetry and the news

jcostellooreilly01@qub.ac.uk

Dale Pankhurst

Politics / Conflict Studies

States and “Pro-Government” Militias (PGMs): Delegation, deniability, acquiescence or antagonism? Explaining variation in state-PGM relationships in Northern Ireland, the Philippines, and Colombia.

dpankhurst01@qub.ac.uk

Ciara Power

Anthropology

Dancing to the same beats?: Gender, activism and COVID-19 in electronic music scenes in Belfast and Dublin

cpower14@qub.ac.uk

Molly Quinn-Leitch

English

Post-partition Shakespeare: Northern Ireland’s bard in history, politics and culture (1921-present)

mquinnleitch01@qub.ac.uk

Alex Reid

English

Researching the use of horror in Troubles literature, film, and theatre

areid44@qub.ac.uk

Benjamin Rosher

Sociology

Brexit at the border: applying the lens of biopolitics

brosher01@qub.ac.uk

Brendan Sadlier

French

French cultural diplomacy on the island of Ireland: The history of the Alliance Française

bsadlier01@qub.ac.uk

Michael Sharry

Politics

How will citizenship develop on the island of Ireland in the wake of Brexit and the NI Protocol?

msharry01@qub.ac.uk

Tara Shields

History

St Patrick's Purgatory: its function and significance in late Medieval Irish society

tshields05@qub.ac.uk 

Holly Shipton

History

Landscape, economy, and agriculture in Medieval Ireland; management and decision making on the manors of Roger Bigod

hshipton01@qub.ac.uk

Hannah Smith

Translation

Media coverage of political violence: Othering during the Troubles in Northern Ireland

hsmith09@qub.ac.uk

Rachael Thomas

History

International responses to the Northern Irish hunger strikes of 1980/81

rthomas08@qub.ac.uk

Patrick Thompson

Politics

'Out of sight and out of mind?’: British perceptions of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement 1967 - 1972

pthompson27@qub.ac.uk

Constantin Torve

History

Valleys of fear: Mapping Irish secret societies between agrarian and industrial unrest, 1840-1880

ctorve01@qub.ac.uk

Sophia Traxler

History

Cumann na mBan's military pensions and service medals campaign: A fight for equality, 1924-1958

straxler01@qub.ac.uk

Dylan J. Wilkinson

Law

One state, two systems: A legal framework for Northern Ireland's post-Brexit trade regime

dwilkinson13@qub.ac.uk

Shurui Yang

Translation

Translating Philadelphia, Here I Come! for Chinese performance  - study mainly focuses on Brian Friel and translating his plays into Chinese

syang13@qub.ac.uk

LeAnne Zarroug

Sociology

Which strategies do Black women use to navigate and nurture relationships while studying within predominantly white environments?

 lzarroug01@qub.ac.uk 

Shuyun Zhang

Planning

High-rise buildings; vertical urbanisation; world heritage sites; landscape character; urbanisation; China; Ireland.

szhang29@qub.ac.uk

 

 

 

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