Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Music and storytelling in conflict transformation/peacebuilding
- Arts and reconciliation
- Sense and emotion
- Dance, movement and empathy
- Indigenous ritual, religion and performance
- Christianity and missions
- Gender and performance
Public outreach & key achievements
- Sounding Conflict
- Understanding the role of sound and music in conflic transformation: The Mozambique Case Study
- “Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation” PaCCS Project in Belfast MOMRI Director as Expert Advisor
- 2017 MOMRI Annual Report Conference “Transforming Behavior Through Musicking”
Research students
| PhD Title | (In)Security and Storytelling in Sri Lanka: Negotiating Safe Spaces to Remember, Reenact and Reconcile Violence |
| PhD Title | Sensing Peace through the body: Tibetan dance and conflict transformation in diasporic communities |
| PhD Title | Youth Agency in Cross Border Music and Peacebuilding on the Island of Ireland: The Cross-Border Youth Orchestra of Ireland and the Peace Proms |
| PhD Title | Cultural Intimacy and the country music scene in West Ulster |
| PhD Title | Youth Conflict-Related Trauma through Generations. An Ethnography on the Relationship between Health and Society in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland |
| PhD Title |
The Art of Caring: New Opportunities for Creative Practitioners in the Ageing Economy |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD Title | Joy and Struggle: A musical ethnography of the Kaapse Klopse carnival in Cape Town, South Africa |
| PhD Title | Contemporary Native American Horse Culture in the Colombia Plateau Area |
| PhD Title | Christianity, Conflict and Community: Expressions of faith, identity and personhood in Northern Irish Evangelicalism |