Anthropology at Queen’s is internationally renowned for its research strengths in areas including ethnomusicology, art and performance, the study of conflict and borders, religion, cognition, migration and diasporas, Irish studies, human-animal relations, and the cross-cultural study of emotions. Our research engages with a range of stakeholders and beneficiaries, including national and international governmental and non-governmental organisations, cross-border and community groups, arts, music and museum professionals as well as politicians and policy-makers.

Staff are successful in winning large grant awards and some of these recent research projects include sound, music, storytelling and digital media in conflict transformation, migration and forced displacement in Turkey, understanding atheism and secularization, religious belief and self-sacrifice.

 View all our Funded Research Projects            Research Lead for Anthropology Professor Fiona Magowan