Our fellows/postdocs
Dr Abou Jaoude’s research focuses on state-building and political legitimacy, with particular attention to Lebanese and Middle Eastern politics. His Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship looks at the role of elite agency in Lebanon, examining how control of narrative and rhetoric has helped provide unlikely avenues for stability in an otherwise deeply divided society.
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Dr Maurice J. Casey is a Research Fellow in HAPP. His AHRC Catalyst-funded research project examines the ISK: a small, committed anti-Nazi resistance group that funded much of its work through a series of vegetarian restaurants. Maurice’s work uses a history of intimacy approach to explore how affective human relationships - love, friendship and so on - shape political trajectories.
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Dr Livi Dee's project is funded by the Wellcome Trust. It is an oral history project of Northern Irish experiences of abortion both at home and in several diaspora locations across the UK.
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Dr Savannah Dodd holds an ESRC/NINE funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. She is a visual anthropologist whose areas of specialisation include representational ethics, narrative construction, and photography theory, practice, and materiality, especially as they relate to political and religious conflict.
Dr Ruth Duffy is a historian of modern Britain and Ireland whose research uses oral history to reveal hidden and sensitive histories, considering the intersections of memory, identity, and institutional experience. Her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship examines prison healthcare in Northern Ireland since 1921, investigating medical provision, gendered experiences of incarceration, and institutional responses to crisis.
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Dr Clara Fischer works in the areas of social and political theory, feminist theory, and gender politics. She is a Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Clodagh is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Enabling Fair Transformations Platform of the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water. Her research as part of the Inclusive Decision Making Spaces project focuses on citizen participation and inclusive decision-making in and with communities to address the challenges and opportunities connected to preventing and living with climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Dr Abdulhakim Nsobya is a postdoctoral researcher at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Belfast working on Governing Jihad in Africa project. His research focuses on religion, politics, and media in Africa, with particular attention to how religious ideas shape authority, governance, and social life in contexts of conflict and political transformation.
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Dr Emma Soye specialises in ethnographic research on migration and social cohesion. Her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship focuses on public transport as a site of social contact between diverse groups in Northern Ireland.
Lisa Claire Whitten is Research Fellow on this ESRC-funded project. The purpose of this research is to identify and explain the consequences of new governance arrangements established in Northern Ireland as a result of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union – ‘Brexit’.
In this ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr Briony Widdis will survey collections from the Arctic, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania in museums, examine their significance to Northern Irish identities in the present, and undertake collaborative research bridging museums, academics and communities.
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