Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- Transitional justice
- Human rights
- Criminology
- Sociology of the legal profession
Public outreach & key achievements
- Fellow of the British Academy, Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
- Winner of the QUB 2016 Post-graduate Supervisor of the Year Award in QUB's Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (student nominated)
- Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book of the Year award, the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article of the Year Award (x3 times)
- Previously named by Arena magazine in 2008 as one of the UK’s top 10 influential ‘young intellectuals’ for work on the Northern Ireland peace process
- Director of a number of ongoing research and impact related projects on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland https://www.dealingwiththepastni.com/ and the role of apologies in addressing past harms https://apologies-abuses-past.org.uk/
Research students
| PhD area | Laying the rails for peace: Framework agreements |
|---|---|
| Name | Melissa Lane |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | The role of archives and archivists in Transitional Justice: A comparative study of Northern Ireland and post-reunification Germany |
|---|---|
| Name | Dr Julia Volkmar |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2024 |
| Current position | Policy Development Executive, Law Society of Ireland |
| Quote | Professor McEvoy has been an insightful, engaging, and encouraging supervisor, guiding me through my master's and PhD thesis. He is extremely skilled at giving concrete guidance and has been fantastic in directing my research in a way that allowed me to continuously enjoy it. He is an engaged supervisor and very generous with his feedback. |
| PhD area | Settler colonialism, civil society and the Judaisation of East Jerusalem |
| Name | Dr Sonia Najjar |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2022 |
| PhD area | Reparations for conflict-related sexual violence: Taking a medico-legal approach |
| Name | Dr Sunneva Gilmore |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2021 |
| PhD area | Ex-prisoner Leadership and Legitimacy: Community-based restorative justice in Northern Ireland |
| Name | Dr Allely Albert |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2021 |
| PhD area | Governing transition in Kosovo |
| Name | Dr Ganimete Aslani-Price |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2020 |
| PhD area | The treatment of Kurds and the Kurdish language by the Turkish state |
| Name | Dr Hamit Deniz |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2019 |
| PhD area | The Palestinian Prisoners' Movement 1994-2016 |
| Name | Dr Alyssa Bernstein |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2018 |
Discover More
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- Human Rights Centre
- Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice
Get ahead: tips on how to prepare your application to study for a PhD at QUB Law
Read our guidance on the steps in our PhD applications process and how to present your research proposal.
Interested in a postdoctoral fellowship at QUB Law?
If you have already completed a PhD or are about to do so, and you are looking for a mentor for a postdoctoral fellowship in one of my areas of expertise, please get in touch via email. The School of Law has a strong track record in supporting able candidates who are working towards fellowship applications to funders such as the British Academy, EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie scheme, ESRC NINE and the Leverhulme Trust.