POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH IN ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CONTENTS POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH THEMES 4 WELCOME
6 RESEARCH CULTURE AT QUEEN’S SCHOOL OF QUEEN’S MANAGEMENT SCHOOL 8 THE SENATOR GEORGE J. MITCHELL INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL PEACE, ARTS, ENGLISH SECURITY AND JUSTICE AND LANGUAGES Accounting Economics 10 PHD INTEGRATED (4 YEARS) Arts Management Finance Broadcast Media Management 11 GRADUATE SCHOOL Drama English 12 SCHOOL OF ARTS, ENGLISH AND LANGUAGES Film SCHOOL OF Interpreting SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION 14 SCHOOL OF HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS AND SOCIAL WORK Languages and Literatures 16 SCHOOL OF LAW Music Education Translation Social Work 18 QUEEN’S MANAGEMENT SCHOOL Sociology and Social Policy SCHOOL OF 20 SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WORK HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS THE SENATOR GEORGE J. 22 POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNEY TO QUEEN’S MITCHELL INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL PEACE, SECURITY Anthropological Studies 24 MEET OUR CURRENT STUDENTS AND JUSTICE Cognition and Culture 26 FUNDING YOUR PHD STUDY AT QUEEN’S History Ideology and Beliefs International Studies Justice and Rights 28 WHAT OUR RECENT GRADUATES SAY Philosophy Legacy Issues Politics Security 29 PHD FAQS
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Human Rights Justice Law and Governance A range of emerging areas of legal study, including law and technology, and heritage, WORLD LEADING 9TH IN THE property and culture RESEARCH JOINT UK FOR 8TH IN THE UK UNIVERSITY FOR RESEARCH FACILITIES INTENSITY (Times Higher Education Queen’s is ranked 173 in the world Student Experience Survey (Research Excellence Framework 2018) (QS World University Rankings 2020) REF 2014) 3 supervisors who are world assessment process and our leaders in their respective success in securing major WELCOME fields. funding from both the Arts and Humanities Research Innovative research methods Council (AHRC) and the TO ARTS, underpin all of the projects Economic and Social Science undertaken by research Research Council (ESRC) in HUMANITIES AND students in the Faculty the UK. of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and these We firmly believe that SOCIAL SCIENCES skills greatly enhance Queen’s is unique in what the employability of our it offers prospective Postgraduate researchers graduates who are seeking postgraduate researchers AT QUEEN’S are a vital part of the careers in leadership roles or within the Arts, Humanities research environment of the within academia. and Social Sciences. Contact Faculty of Arts, Humanities us and take the first step in and Social Sciences at The quality of the PhD your research journey and Queen’s. Our distinctive experience is enhanced becoming a PhD student at offering across a wide range by a world-leading study Queen’s. of subjects and disciplines environment, which includes allows each student to the Graduate School, the Professor Jannette Elwood define a bespoke research tailored support of a strong Dean of Graduate Studies journey, to work within supervisory team, the vitality Arts, Humanities and Social disciplines or in cross- of the research portfolio. Sciences disciplinary contexts, and to It is evidenced by our high be mentored by academic ranking in the UK’s research Email: [email protected]
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Queen’s University Belfast has Postgraduate research students at We provide you with high quality, a distinguished heritage and Queen’s are offered the opportunity to transdisciplinary training and pursue their studies under the guidance development that will make you stand history. As part of the Russell of world-renowned academic staff. out in a fast-paced, changing global Group, Queen’s is proud to be Our students develop their research job market. We will help you become a leading research institution, projects in a highly stimulating and future leaders by letting you apply your offering postgraduate research active campus. Alongside PhD knowledge to real-world challenges, opportunities at the forefront of study, the University offers students giving you the confidence and skills to the chance to develop a holistic range gain an edge in your career. new thinking and technologies. of professional and leadership skills at We continue to build on our the Graduate School that will support Postgraduate Community reputation as a world-class future careers within academia, There is a strong community among international University that industry or the public sector. postgraduate research students at Queen’s. Throughout the academic supports outstanding students The Graduate School year, the Graduate School runs a and staff to conduct leading- The Graduate School is about series of social and networking events edge education and research, intellectual challenge beyond borders. to allow students to connect with focused on the needs of It is about developing new skills, diverse perspectives from across the society. The University has increased personal effectiveness. University. This is the place where It is about a culture of opportunity, physicists work alongside linguists a vibrant research culture, innovation and enterprise and a rich, to develop leadership skills, where having invested significantly diverse and inclusive social community. medics collaborate with creative artists in both discipline-specific and to communicate their research to a interdisciplinary research. We As a member of our postgraduate non-specialist audience, and where community, you will become one of engineers seek the perspectives offer a research environment the exceptional local, national and of philosophers to tackle global that embraces discovery and international students who join us each challenges. innovation. year. The Graduate School will assist you to be a Thinker, Innovator, Leader • Queen’s is ranked 173 in the world and Communicator who is Future- (QS World University Rankings Ready. 2020) • The most recent Research Training and Development Excellence Framework (2014) The Graduate School offers a tailored places Queen’s University eighth in development programme to help the UK for research intensity inspire and empower you to reach your • Over 75% of research activity full potential. It is embedded within a at Queen’s was judged to be continuous process of reflection and internationally-excellent or world- self-evaluation. leading • Inspire you through access to • 14 of the individual areas of thought leaders research assessed were ranked in • Develop your skills through an the top 20 in the UK, with six of individual training programme these in the top ten and two in the • Apply these skills and knowledge top five through real-world challenges 75%OF OUR RESEARCH IS WORLD-CLASS OR INTERNATIONALLY LEADING
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6 7 THE SENATOR GEORGE J. MITCHELL INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL PEACE, SECURITY AND JUSTICE GLOBAL CHALLENGE: Questions about peace, security and • Security – How do we secure ‘just’ Counting our Losses: The Politics justice dominate the discourse of and ethical responses to a range of of Loss and Social Transformation BUILDING A governments, international agencies security risks? in the Context of Migration and and civil society. As it emerges from • Ideology and Beliefs – How do Displacement in Turkey conflict, Northern Ireland can help values and beliefs in different (British Council funded) PEACEFUL, to answer these questions and offer cultures shape approaches to valuable comparative insights, and it peacebuilding? Afghanistan Peace Dialogue Research is doing so through the work of the and Communication INCLUSIVE AND Mitchell Institute. Named after the Under the leadership of Professor (The Foreign and Commonwealth distinguished US diplomat who was a Hastings Donnan, the Institute Office) major influence to bringing peace to brings together researchers from SECURE WORLD Northern Ireland (later servicing as fields as diverse as Politics, Public The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Queen’s Chancellor), the Institute’s Health, Planning and Computer Network on Cybersecurity and Society role is to respond to the unprecedented Engineering. They have a cross- (LINCS) challenge of building a peaceful, secure national focus, including traditional and (Leverhulme Trust funded) and inclusive world. modern societies, and historical and contemporary cases. Funded research Lawyers in Conflict and Transition: A It brings together the University’s projects within the Mitchell Institute Comparative Study in Cambodia, Chile, unparalleled expertise, linking peace- include: Israel/ Palestine, South Africa and making with social transformation and Tunisia pointing out the need for governance Understanding the Role of Music and (Economic and Social Research Council reform of state institutions alongside Sound in Conflict Transformation: The funded) cultural and social processes for healing Mozambique Case Study in society. The Institute’s key research (Arts and Humanities Research Council Apologies, Abuses and The National themes include: Funded) Imagination: Dealing with the Past in Ireland • Legacy Issues – How do peace Negotiating Detention: Prisons as Sites (Economic and Social Research Council processes become a part of of Confrontation and Compromise in funded) everyday life? Protracted Conflicts • Justice and Rights – How to (British Academy funded) embed international human rights norms into local cultures?
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At the heart of our Graduate School lies a culture of opportunity, innovation and enterprise, fuelled The 4 year programme will constitute 1 year of taught modules, independent study to develop research skills and PhD study by a diverse and inclusive social community that has ambitions to shape a better world. proposal, followed by progression to a further 3 years of PhD research.
Students of the 4 year programme will benefit from: A STATE-OF-THE-ART HUB LEAD YOUR PHD INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE - An additional year to develop research skills and subject expertise through taught modules We are located in the beautifully At Queen’s University, you access At the Graduate School, we are - A more thorough understanding of the demands of PhD study restored and remodelled Victorian Lynn more than research excellence. Our committed to supporting innovation, - Enhanced support to develop a robust and feasible research proposal for PhD library, where distinguished heritage research students communicate entrepreneurship and enterprise. From - A stronger foundation from which to deliver a successful PhD thesis meets 21st-century vision. This fully across disciplinary boundaries and harnessing the collective expertise of accessible space has modern, hi-tech are challenged to translate design students to work on local and global meeting and group study rooms, a thinking into innovation. Working with challenges, to individual one-to- silent study area and social spaces. It stakeholders will hone your research one business mentoring support for 4 YEAR PHD STRUCTURE is a vibrant hub, inspiring intellectual skills and developing your leadership students who have ideas they want to exchange and collaboration. skills further will ensure that you are in commercialise or grow into a business, the right place to change the world. we deliver wide-ranging creative HELPING YOU MAKE VALUABLE support. Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 CONNECTIONS DEVELOPING YOUR ACADEMIC We have strong links and collaborations SKILLS GLOBALLY RECOGNISED with leaders in business, government Whether you are continuing or QUALIFICATIONS and the voluntary sector, both locally returning to academic life, postgraduate While you complete your research PG Diploma Taught PhD progress PhD progress PhD progress (e.g. and globally. This means you will benefit research can be daunting. The Graduate degree, you also have the opportunity Modules and (e.g. literature (e.g. fieldwork as writing chapters, from mentoring relationships and School has a range of supports to help to earn a Level 7 Certificate in Independent Study review, design applicable, thesis final draft, plan for networks, and from our international you hone your skills in critical reading Strategic Management and Leadership, Module consolidations, chapers written) submission) partnerships with other Graduate and writing, referencing, proofreading accredited by the Chartered ethics approval) Schools. and other academic areas. Management Institute. The Certificate will help you to develop practical skills 120 credits at 60%; Annual Progress Annual Progress as well as a theoretical understanding of sign off of improved Initial Review Review Review management and leadership. For further research proposal details and costs of the CMI programme and successful Differentiaton Viva visit: go.qub.ac.uk/managers
Annual Progress Review
Students will be required to pass 120 CATS of taught modules by the end of the first year with an average of 60% and a minimum of 60% in the Research Methods module in order to progress to the PhD phase of study.
The 4 year programme will initially be offered to students undertaking research in the following areas:
Accounting Anthropology Arts Management and Cultural Policy Economics Education English Film Finance THE History TRADITIONAL 3 International Studies Interpreting (non-practice based modules only) YEAR FULL-TIME Law PHD IS ALSO Management AVAILABLE Media and Broadcast Politics Translation
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Brian Friel Theatre and Centre for Theatre Research - Both ARTS, ENGLISH AND LANGUAGES the theatre and research centre aim to produce work of the highest international standard and lead the way in theatre The School of Arts, English and Languages brings together expertise in: Arts Management and Cultural research and theatre production. They have hosted Policy; Media and Broadcast; Drama; Film; Music; Sonic Arts; English Literature; Creative Writing; international conferences as well as touring productions from around the world with a view to establishing one of the Linguistics; Irish and Celtic; French; Spanish; Portuguese; Translation and Interpreting. The unit has a leading academic drama facilities. strong focus on interdisciplinary research and its impact on society at large. Centre for Documentary Research – The centre organises screenings, workshops and conferences in order to explore the potentialities in representing reality in non-fictional film RESEARCH THEMES form. We have close relationships with Belfast Film Festival and Respect Human Rights Film Festival. ARTS MANAGEMENT AND Literature, Crime and Conflict; and, including France and the Francophone CULTURAL POLICY Science, Medicine and Culture. The world, Spain, Portugal, Latin America You will focus on the social, School’s Centre for the Americas, including Brazil, Portuguese speaking Centre for Translation and Interpreting – Staff, doctoral historical and political processes its involvement in the Centre for Africa, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic. We researchers and visiting scholars are conducting innovative involved in making, managing, and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the conduct and supervise research about research in a wide range of topics in translation and developing policy for the arts and Institute of Irish Studies, and the the literatures, history, linguistics, visual interpreting. Research seminars with internationally culture. Your research may examine Seamus Heaney Centre mean that your and digital culture of the countries renowned guest speakers are held every Monday evening access, participation and audience project will be supported by dynamic where the languages we study are during term time and PhD students meet every week at the development in the arts, their impact research groups and experts in the spoken. Translation and Interpreting Forum to discuss and present and evaluation, the making and field. their ongoing research. displaying of art and heritage, issues MUSIC of equality and diversity, professional FILM Research students are based either Seamus Heaney Centre – Poetry is, quite simply, the activity development of cultural practitioners You may wish to conduct research in the Sonic Arts Research Centre for which Queen’s University is best known around the (education and training), social into historical or broader theoretical (SARC) with its world-renowned world. Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney was both a student inclusion/exclusion and the impact of issues in film and audiovisual cultures, sonic laboratory or in the nearby and lecturer here at Queen’s, and other famous poet-alumni new technologies on arts management. or undertake practice-led research. Music Building with its elegant, of the University include Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson and You have two pathways to choose wood-panelled performance spaces. Medbh McGuckian. Among poets and poetry critics in the MEDIA AND BROADCAST from: a Creative Practice route, Our areas of specialism in historical Centre are Fran Brearton, Leontia Flynn, Stephen Sexton, Research into broadcast media can take examining areas such as Screen musicology include: the eighteenth- Nick Laird, Edna Longley and Gail McConnell, along with a number of forms, often involving a Industries, Television and Animation, century, Ireland, performance studies, annual visiting international poetry fellows. Places are strong element of interdisciplinarity. Documentary Film and Experimental and source studies focusing on the currently available for students wishing to study poetry, You may be studying particular texts Aesthetic Practices; and a Critical Bunting and Moore collections in the prose, or scriptwriting at doctoral level. or genres or broadcasters, examining Practice route, looking at cinema McClay Library. Twentieth-century history or considering social and history and historiography, sound topics are available in: voice and sound Sonic Arts Research Centre – The Sonic Laboratory’s unique cultural implications and uses of and film, world and comparative film studies, popular music and song, and flexibility can provide for experiments in 3D sound diffusion television, radio or associated media. studies, documentary film, and Irish experimental music. The composition and for groundbreaking compositional and performance By researching broadcast media film and audiovisual culture. For over PhD embraces a spectrum of styles work within a purpose-built, variable acoustic space. This at Queen’s you place yourself in a 50 years Queen’s Film Theatre (QFT) from acoustic through to creative facility enables research teams to develop and implement developing area for the University, but has run regular events with filmmakers practice in all its diversity. Students cutting edge initiatives in the creation and delivery of music one that is grounded in work across as part of the diverse programming at benefit from a rich programme of visits and audio. “There is so much on offer here at a number of subjects and schools, the cinema, which is also part of the by international artists and from the Queen’s, as well as opportunities to providing flexibility and a range of Queen’s Drama and Film Centre. state-of-the-art technical resources viewpoints and approaches through of SARC. The programmes in Sonic travel! In my first year I was encouraged which to develop your work. INTERPRETING Arts range widely from practice to present at two conferences, inside Under the supervision of interpreting as research through to scientific PERFORMING ARTS IS DRAMA researchers with international investigation. Areas of current interest and outside the UK. In my second You will study at the renowned Brian professional experience, you will include: critical and cultural questions, RANKED IN THE TOP and third years, I benefitted from Friel Theatre and Centre for Theatre be exploring a broad spectrum of improvisation, auditory perception, Research. You will have the opportunity themes, including: the interpreter’s digital musical instrument design, and 100 IN THE WORLD scholarships to fund research trips to to undertake advanced, original role in the complex network of projects based in the local community. (QS World Rankings by Subject 2019) research in areas such as Irish theatre, requirements, expectations, and Germany and the USA. I am confident Shakespeare, post-conflict drama, perceptions; interpreter training; TRANSLATION that all these opportunities for training, movement and dance, practice-as- interpreting as a profession; business The recently established Centre for research, and applied theatre. interpreting; community interpreting; Translation and Interpreting offers conferences and study visits will give court interpreting; and sign language a vibrant environment for both me an added edge in the employment ENGLISH interpreting. disciplinary and interdisciplinary CONTACT English offers pathways in Literary scholarship. You will be joining a thriving market, both in the academic world Studies, Creative Writing, or Language LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES community of local and international and the creative industries.” and Linguistics. Award-winning writers As a PhD student you will be based students pursuing research in a range Dr Marilina Cesario and critics working across British, in one of the following areas: French, of diverse topics such as literary Director of Graduate Studies Irish and American Literature conduct Irish and Celtic, Spanish, or Lusophone translation, translation ethics, theatre School of Arts, English and Languages Yangyang Long (China) and supervise research in: Poetry; studies. Recognised as a centre of translation, translation and linguistics, PhD Translation Irish Literature; Shakespeare and excellence for research, staff have translation of sacred texts, translation Email: [email protected] Renaissance Studies; Literature and expertise spanning from the medieval in online contexts, translator training, Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3319 Place; Culture, Geography and Identity; to the contemporary period, and and media accessibility. www.qub.ac.uk/ael
12 13 In addition to offering supervision in all The School also has close links and SCHOOL OF these areas, there are also opportunities RESEARCH collaborations with the Senator George to undertake cross-disciplinary work CENTRES J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, where this is appropriate. Security and Justice. POLITICS Institute of Irish Studies – a pioneering The School place great emphasis on PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS Politics is an established and prolific Centre for Interdisciplinary Irish the quality of our PhD researcher’s area of study at Queen’s. You will Scholarship and Teaching. experience. The 2018 Postgraduate The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics has a strong international reputation experience our thriving research Research Experience Survey (PRES) culture through visits and talks, placed the School as above UK and for innovative research. With 75 members of academic staff with world leading research expertise we Institute of Cognition and Culture conferences and workshops, reading – one of the world’s first centres for Russell Group benchmarks in several welcome PhD applications across a wide range of areas. Those that join our community of 125 active groups and staff seminar series. The research in cognition and culture. key areas such as Supervision (90% PhD students will benefit from a vibrant research culture and extensive support and training in their research interests of the School and the compared to 86% global); overall chosen field. Each PhD student works closely with two expert supervisors; receives an office space and expertise of its staff include: Centre for Public History – a lively hub satisfaction (84% vs 80% global) • Comparative Politics computer; and can avail of many opportunities to develop their skills through training, developmental for people engaged in researching, and Professional development (83% • Contemporary British and Irish Politics teaching and practising public history. satisfaction vs 79% global). activities, student-led initiatives, research seminars and networks, teaching, and many other exciting • Politics of Northern Ireland activities alongside their research. • European Union Politics Pioneer Research Programme on Risk • Public Policy and Administration and Inequality: a cross-disciplinary • Political Theory research programme on diverse themes • Public Opinion of risk and inequality. RESEARCH THEMES • Gender Politics • Environmental Politics Our PhD researchers can develop and COGNITION AND CULTURE History at Queen’s has a number of conduct original research that achieves We offer a unique programme of collaborative research initiatives with excellence in our core disciplines, doctoral research that is based on other universities in Ireland, the UK and can also engage important topics the recognition of a need to cross and abroad, including Boston College, from an interdisciplinary perspective traditional disciplinary divisions in the Vanderbilt and George Washington “Thanks to Queen’s University’s support, I was able to attend key events and with supervision and methods from scientific study of cultural phenomena. University. other disciplines within the School and Our training in a wide range of research seminars abroad. For instance, I was able to participate in events carried out by beyond. As part of the AHRC Northern methods and theoretical approaches INTERNATIONAL STUDIES the Newcastle University, the Peace Research Institute in Norway and Swiss Peace Bridge Consortium, and the ESRC equips students for rigorous scientific International Studies at Queen’s builds NINE Doctoral Training Partnership, investigation, enabling them to on our extensive strengths in many in Switzerland. Furthermore, when I was conducting my fieldwork, the Queen’s there are opportunities for co- generate significant discoveries that are areas of International Relations. You will supervised doctoral work with staff at of relevance to many diverse fields of become part of an energetic research University supported me to visit the University of Dundee in Scotland and Los the partner institutions. academic scholarship on cognition and community through talks, conferences, Andes University in Colombia, where I had the opportunity to meet people culture. workshops, reading groups and staff ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES seminar series. As a PhD student in interested in my research topic and who actively collaborated with my research. All Examine human behaviour and HISTORY International Studies you will conduct this was very useful to acquire knowledge, but also to share my views and ideas with relationships under expert research As a History PhD student you will original research and be guided by supervision and join a vibrant become part of an internationally supervisors at the forefront of their scholars abroad. interdisciplinary postgraduate research leading centre of research. You will research areas. Our staff have expertise community that includes students from engage in groundbreaking research in a wide range of areas including: all over the world. Whatever your area in a historical subject of your choice. • Border Studies My experience at Queen’s University Belfast fulfilled all my expectations about of interest, there is the anthropological Queen’s is one of the premier research • Critical War Studies expertise to match. Our regional centres globally for areas such as • Critical Security Studies doing a PhD in the UK. Today I feel proud with the outcome of my studies at interests include Ireland, the British Irish History (from the twelfth to • Energy Politics Queen’s.” Isles, Europe, Africa, South Asia, South the twentieth centuries); Public • Global Governance East Asia, Japan, the Caribbean, Latin History; and many others. Our areas • International Political Economy Fabian Espejo America, Melanesia and Australia. We of particular research expertise also • Migration PhD Politics offer supervision in a wide range of include: • Terrorism Studies topics, including: • Irish history • Aspects of Social and Economic • Public history We also support interdisciplinary Change • Oral history research projects that combine these • Borders, Migration and • 20th-century British social, areas with other disciplines. CONTACT Transnationalism cultural, political and imperial HISTORY, POLITICS • Conflict Transformation and history PHILOSOPHY Human Rights • The history of the U.S. South Philosophy at Queen’s has a strong Dr Mike Bourne AND INTERNATIONAL • Emotions and The Senses • Gender history international reputation for innovative Director of Graduate Studies STUDIES AT QUEEN’S • Ethnomusicology • Religious history research across a wide range of School of History, Anthropology, • Gender, Kinship and Marriage • Ancient Rome specialist research areas. Our key Philosophy and Politics ARE RANKED IN • Human/Animal Relations and • Medieval England and Europe strengths include: Environmentalism • Early Modern Britain and Europe • Epistemology Email: [email protected] THE TOP 200 IN THE • Identity, Ethnicity and Nationalism • Twentieth-century Europe • Ethics (both normative theory and Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 5028 WORLD • Music, Popular Culture and Tourism • Modern China, India, and South- applied ethics) www.qub.ac.uk/happ • New Religions and Political East Asia • Metaphysics (QS World Rankings by Subject 2019) Movements • Sub-Saharan Africa • Philosophy of science • Performance, Art and Material • Philosophical theology Culture • Political philosophy
14 15 SCHOOL OF LAW AT QUEEN’S IS LAW RANKED IN THE TOP At Queen’s School of Law we have over 100 years’ experience of achievement in both education and 100 LAW SCHOOLS research. We are ranked as a leading centre for legal research in the UK, and we offer PhD supervision across the legal field, supporting a range of approaches, from the doctrinal to the sociolegal, WORLD-WIDE comparative and critical. Our academics are recognised experts at home and abroad, and our base in (QS World University Rankings 2019) Belfast gives us direct contact with the legal profession and judiciary, allowing excellent access in terms of the study of law and legal practice.
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HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND GOVERNANCE are also able to host interdisciplinary This is a longstanding area of strength Our track record on questions of law PhDs, working with experts from across within the School, with expert and governance is impressive and Queen’s. colleagues at all levels and a dedicated wide-ranging. We have expertise in Human Rights Centre, which PhD commercial, contract and business law, We are committed to making doctoral students can join. A Human Rights in EU law and governance, in questions students part of the life of the School conference is held annually, hosted of law and ethics, and law and risk. of Law and the wider university. by PhD students, who choose the Each doctoral student has their own conference theme and manage the EMERGING AREAS OF LEGAL workspace, including a shared office event. Our expertise spans both core STUDY from second year. We have a bespoke and emerging areas of human rights, We are particularly pleased to welcome training programme for new PhDs; including gender, health, refugees, applications in the following emerging more advanced students have training equality and non-discrimination, areas of legal studies: opportunities offered both by the intellectual property and rights, the EU School and by the University’s Graduate and human rights, conflict and human • The UK’s changing relationship School. Our PhDs can apply for paid rights, business and human rights, and with the European Union (Brexit) teaching experience from their second new technologies and human rights. • Business and human rights year; there are also opportunities to • Heritage, property and culture get involved in editorial work for the JUSTICE • Law and new technologies, from Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, one Justice is a further longstanding area the human right to science, to of the UK’s oldest law journals, and of strength within the School, which copyright in a digital environment LawPod, a new podcasting venture has close relations with the University’s hosted by the School of Law. Senator George J. Mitchell Institute AN ARRAY OF RESEARCH for Global Peace, Security and Justice. METHODS Our expertise ranges from transitional Our experts use a particularly wide justice to criminal justice, with range of legal research methods, additional strengths in areas such as allowing us to offer supervision to PhDs the legal profession, judicial review and that are doctrinal, sociolegal, critical, international criminal law. criminological or oral history based. We
LISTEN TO OUR WEEKLY LAWPOD WWW.LAWPOD.ORG “The expertise of the “I have enjoyed immensely “Queen’s is an ideas The podcast provides reflective law faculty is second to many aspects of the factory for budding legal commentary on current events, insights into the current research none and they are always PhD experience at academics like me. I count being conducted within the School engaging and receptive.” Queen’s and I certainly myself lucky to be in such CONTACT of Law, and a forum for staff and students to share ideas and learn from do not regret embarking an inspirational place.” each other. PhD Applications and Awards Co-ordinator Andrew Godden on this journey.” School of Law Recent graduate (Northern Ireland) Conor McCormick Recent graduate (Northern Ireland) Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3451 Ivanka Antova www.law.qub.ac.uk Recent PhD graduate (Bulgaria)
16 17 QUEEN’S RESEARCH CENTRES Centre for Economic History – an interdisciplinary research MANAGEMENT SCHOOL centre which investigates the past to help economists understand the present.
Research in the Queen’s Management School interprets patterns of economic, business and social life Centre for Irish Business and Economic Performance – an in a manner that fosters new theories and ideas; engages in empirical research grounded in current interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in all practices; and develops suggestions for public policy as well as for institutional and organisational Ireland business, economic and social performance. innovations. The core purpose is to deepen understanding of how markets, business organisations and Centre for Not-for-Profit and Public Sector Research – social institutions evolve over time. promoting research focusing on the themes of accountability in the charity and public sectors; financial institutions; and managing in the charity and public sectors.
Centre for Health Research at the Management School – an interdisciplinary research centre which aims to promote RESEARCH THEMES social, behavioural, and management science research into issues relating to health and other dimensions of human wellbeing. ACCOUNTING ECONOMICS MANAGEMENT The Accounting group’s research The Economics group’s research The Management group’s research strengths range from accounting strengths cover economic theory, strengths range from organisational change to accounting education, and applied economics and econometrics. studies and innovation management, from performance measurement The group has a particular interest in human resource management and “My research looks at cooperation “My research focuses on the to financial accounting, using both game theory and economic history. labour relations, marketing and supply quantitative and qualitative research chain management. between traditionally rivalrous trade entrepreneurial function in socially techniques. The group has a particular Particular strengths include: unions in light of contemporary structured economies. I use insights interest in public sector and not-for- • Economics of Networks and Particular strengths include: profit organisations. Institutions • Human Resource Management, competitive pressures such as firm from network science to explain the • Business, Economic and Financial Multinational Enterprises and relocation. The diversity of research economic prosperity and demise of Particular research strengths include: History Labour Relations • Accounting and performance • Empirical Economics and • Marketing, Consumer and interests and academic training individuals, firms and markets. The measurement in multinational Econometrics Industrial offered within Queen’s Management resources provided are fantastic, companies • Development Economics and • Strategy, Change and Digital • Accounting quality and corporate Economic Growth Technologies School gave me the freedom to study especially in the areas of game governance • Innovation, University an area that really interests me. My theory and economic history. The • Accruals accounting in public sector FINANCE Collaborations and SMEs organisations The Finance group’s research strengths • Supply chains, Sustainability and supervisors have been invaluable in programme is small, which allows • Ethics and accounting education cover finance and financial history, Analytics Management shaping the quality of my research and me frequent contact with my • Governance in charities financial markets and institutions, and • Organisations, Institutions and • Management/accounting change in not-for-profit financial institutions. The Ethics helping me build a solid foundation supervisors and other academics.” the public sector group has a particular interest in not- • Public Sector Change and for my future academic career.” Owen Sims • Performance measurement/ for-profit organisations and in financial Leadership PhD Economics management in charities history. Research students benefit Ruth Reaney • Performance measurement/ from attending courses and tailor- In its analysis of the most recent PhD Management management in public sector made reading groups to complete their Research Excellence Framework organisations background preparation in finance. (2014), the Chartered Association of “My research examines how company • Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Business Schools positioned Queen’s contracts and Public-Private Particular strengths within each of Management School at 9th place out financing has changed over time. I am Partnerships (PPP) these three areas are as follows: of 101 UK business and management also looking into the rise and decline of • Short-termism and corporate • Finance and Financial History schools for research intensity. governance • Financial Markets and Institutions the UK’s provincial stock markets. My • Use of the case study approach in • Not-for-profit Financial Institutions experience of studying for a PhD has accounting education CONTACT been very rewarding. The resources available are outstanding and the PGR Administrator research supervision from academic Queen’s Management School staff is incredibly helpful. I think that 8TH IN THE UK FOR Email: [email protected] Queen’s Management School provides a Tel: + 44 (0)28 9097 4200 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE www.qub.ac.uk/qms stimulating environment that promotes (Complete University Guide 2020) its students to strive for the very best.”
Meeghan Rogers PhD Finance
18 19 SCHOOL OF SOCIOLOGY IS SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION AND RANKED IN THE TOP 200 IN THE SOCIAL WORK WORLD (Academic Ranking of World The School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work comprises colleagues from a range of Universities 2018) disciplinary groups including Sociology, Social Policy, Criminology, Education and Social Work. In addition to promoting the strength of our core disciplines and social science more generally, we are committed to cross-disciplinary work on global challenges and to creativity and innovation in research agendas and methodologies.
RESEARCH THEMES SOCIAL WORK AND As part of a lively community of over social work interventions into the lives issues relating to curriculum, 200 full-time and part-time research of families and young people. This pedagogy, assessment, inclusion and CRIMINOLOGY students you will have the opportunity multi-disciplinary research draws on a identity, and includes, for example, IN THE TOP 20 to develop your research potential range of theoretical and methodological the effectiveness of literacy and in a vibrant research community that traditions with an overarching social numeracy programmes; peer tutoring IN THE UK prioritises the cross-fertilisation of ideas justice ethos. and cooperative learning; teacher and innovation in the advancement of education; the nature of identity (Times and Sunday Times Good knowledge. CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE and authorship in higher education; University Guide 2020) Research under this theme explores the teaching English to speakers of other Staff in the School of Social Sciences, antecedents of offending behaviours languages and applied linguistics; Education and Social Work publish across the life course with an emphasis digital literacy studies; children’s rights; world-class research which has local on the impact of traumatic life events and Applied Behaviour Analysis. As in and global impact. Our funders and structural inequalities. The research other strands, the research is informed and partners include the research also seeks to better understand the by diverse and innovative research councils, government departments, behaviours of criminal justice and other methodologies and methods such as the EU, Council of Europe and the systems for their role in controlling random control trials, interventions and large foundations. School research is or exacerbating this offending. The programme evaluations, participatory SOCIAL POLICY informing thinking and the development overarching social justice perspective action research, writing practices and IN THE TOP 20 of policies in many areas including the that characterises this work situates knowledge production, and systematic wellbeing of children, social cohesion these questions in the wider socio- reviews. IN THE UK and mental health. Key interdisciplinary political contexts in which they occur. (Times and Sunday Times research themes in the School include: Mechanisms for research delivery Good University Guide 2020) PEACE IN SOCIETIES include: HEALTH, WELLBEING AND Research under this theme seeks to INCLUSION understand the sources, manifestations • Centre For Behaviour Analysis Research under this theme focuses on and impact of ethno-religious, national • Centre For Shared Education the health and wellbeing of children, and social divisions in divided and • Centre For Children’s Rights young people and adults in schools, transitioning societies, and the nature • Disability Research Network the community and in institutions such and effectiveness of efforts to build • Drugs and Alcohol Research as prisons. Our research relates to peace. Our particular interests relate Network issues as diverse as substance abuse, to underpinning theories of conflict, • Centre for Evidence and Social socio-economic inequality, disability the role of religion in divided societies, Innovation (CESI) and inclusion, social emotions and the impact of growing up in a divided the formation of identity, as well as society, the role of education and And research institutes such as the undertaking evaluations of interventions schools in promoting more positive Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for programmes designed to improve intergroup relations in deeply divided Global Peace, Security and Justice. health and wellbeing outcomes, and socieities, shared education, and the inclusion of people marginalised by issues relating to identity, culture and inequality and injustice. inclusion. “The learning community
CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND EDUCATION: ADVANCING helps me to excel in CONTACT FAMILIES: POLICY AND PRACTICE UNDERSTANDING, IMPROVING my area and respects Research under this theme explores OUTCOMES the expertise of Dr Dirk Schubotz the development of children and Research under this theme focuses Director of Graduate Studies adolescents into young adulthood in on education in schools, further and doctoral students.” School of Social Sciences, Education and their full social and structural contexts. higher education, and on how to Social Work A particular focus of our work in this improve educational opportunities and Sinead Fitzsimmons area is improving social policies and outcomes. Our research encompasses PhD Education Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 5941 / 3323 / 5117 20 www.qub.ac.uk/ssesw 21 POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNEY TO QUEEN’S
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How to apply SPEAK TO YOUR Students wishing to apply to the School for PhD study are strongly SUPERVISOR encouraged to make contact with the School in advance of their If you are interested in a particular project, application. we suggest you contact the relevant academic before you apply, to introduce yourself and ask questions. If you have your own research idea, contact the relevant School to discuss it with us. If you are unsure of who to contact, email [email protected] for guidance. You might be asked to provide a short outline of your proposal to help us identify potential supervisors.
IDENTIFY YOUR FINALISE YOUR RESEARCH AREA RESEARCH PROPOSAL When you are considering your When you have spoken with an academic at research question or proposal, Queen’s and have developed your research identify a suitable research centre ideas, it is time to finalise your research or School at Queen’s that aligns proposal. If you would like to receive a guide with your project. Visit to writing a research proposal please email www.qub.ac.uk and explore our [email protected] web pages to meet our researchers and read their profiles. CHECK THE REQUIREMENTS Check that you meet, or expect to meet the academic and, if applicable, English language entry requirements for your programme.
Also bear in mind that if you are applying for funding, there might be an application deadline. See if your programme has a closing date for applications.
APPLY GET YOUR Apply using our DECISION online Postgraduate When we have made a decision, Applications Portal we will send you an email which go.qub.ac.uk/pgapply will advise you to log on to the and follow the Postgraduate Applications Portal step-by-step instructions. to view the decision.
22 23 MEET OUR Rhianne Morgan (Wales) CURRENT STUDENTS PhD History Belfast Baths: Exploring and interpreting the historic spaces of the Victorian industrial city.
“I love studying at Queen’s University because I get Nermin Al Sharman (Jordan) PhD Interpreting the opportunity to work with renowned academics in my field who bring history to life.” The Need for Training Programs for Medical Interpreters in Jordan: A Qualitative Study.
“What I like the most about Queen’s is the Stuart McClure (Northern Ireland) number of voluntary and training opportunities PhD Management available for students that help build successful careers, contribute to society, a sense of Gender Equality in the United Kingdom and Germany: Human Resource Management in light of conflicting institutional logics. achievement, socialise, make connections and most importantly develop new skills or even improve skills they already have.” “Queen’s is more than just a place of study. It has a diverse community of students and researchers that help give Queen’s its own unique atmosphere, which allows us to help and learn from each other.” Hamid Asman (Indonesia) PhD Education
The Integration of Technologies in Teaching English as a Foreign Language: A Case Study on the Teachers in Indonesia. Saad Almohammed Alrayes (Kuwait) PhD Law
“I found studying at Queen’s an excellent Modernising Stock Market Accessibility Policies and Regulations: What an Emerging Market Economy Can Learn From the ‘Best lifetime experience and opportunity. The Practice’ Models, US and UK? University offers perfect support and services for students, excellent learning, supportive academic environment and a vibrant social life. “I chose Queen’s University Belfast for its My supervisors are really helpful encouraging top quality PhD Law studies programme and and assisting me to accomplish each phase of my innovative opportunities to engage in dialogue dissertation through comprehensive discussions with world-leading scholars and local research which sharpen my vision as a PhD student.” communities. Postgraduates at Queen’s are addressing urgent and complex challenges, ranging from financial technologies to technological innovations, big data, artificial intelligence, digital finance, smart regulation, sharing economy, and other emerging topics.”
24 25 “After completing the MA in Irish History in 2015, I was offered a Northern FUNDING YOUR PHD STUDY AT QUEEN’S Bridge Scholarship to undertake a PhD in Modern History. The Northern Bridge programme supported me not only in completing my thesis but in helping me PhD funding is available through a range of sources, both within Queen’s develop into a rounded researcher with a range of skills. Through Northern University Belfast and externally. All students are encouraged to explore external Bridge’s investment I presented at prestigious conferences across Europe and funding options in addition to those offered by the University. North America, attended vital workshops and training sessions, and completed a 6 month placement as an oral history intern in the USA. I was able to publish valuable research in open-access journals, building my research profile and enhancing my Studentships are available through a range of schemes: CV. Exactly one week after my PhD graduation I was offered an academic job. For 1. Northern Bridge Consortium, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for studentships in those hoping to enter academia, a PhD is the first step in our scholarly career; Arts and Humanities Northern Bridge helped provide me with the tools required to achieve success.” 2. Northern Ireland’s Department for Economy (DfE) Studentships for all subject areas within the Faculty 3. Northern Ireland and North East (NINE), funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for Jack Crangle MA Irish History (2015), PhD Modern History (2019) studentships in Social Sciences 4. The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) for research between the social sciences and computer science and electronic engineering 5. International Scholarships are also available including Fulbright Award.
For further information visit go.qub.ac.uk/PHDStudentshipAwards
“I was thrilled to win a NINE DTP (Northern Ireland North East Doctoral Training Partnership) scholarship, which not only made financing my studies a lot easier but provided me with a host of valuable resources, training and networking opportunities. NINE also gave me the chance to enter and win the 2019 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Better Lives competition with an essay on how my research aims to improve people’s lives. It’s great to have the support and camaraderie of the NINE student cohort, both here at Queen’s and at the other participating universities. It was especially nice to welcome so many of the English scholars to Belfast for the first time at our annual NINE conference in autumn 2019.”
Rosie Cowan MLaw (2018), PhD Law Candidate
26 27 WHAT OUR GRADUATES SAY PHD FAQS
“When I chose to pursue Irish Studies at Stephen won the ‘UK National Poetry 2017’ competition Queen’s, I felt the interdisciplinary focus of the for his poem ‘The Curfew’. This prestigious award has When should I apply? own funding is no guarantee of a PhD previously been won by former Queen’s academics Medbh We accept applications throughout the place. You will still need to fulfil entry program would best suit my interests in history, McGuckian and Sinead Morrissey, who won in 1979 and 2009 anthropology, politics, and art. I chose to study year. Please apply as soon as you have requirements and to find a supervisor respectively. identified a suitable research proposal. willing to supervise you. at the Institute because of its reputation as a leading research centre in the UK. What made “Queen’s has provided me with many exciting How long does a PhD take? When should I apply? the experience most valuable was the incredible opportunities and the chance to meet and talk to In the UK most PhD programmes PhD studentships begin in September/ support from the staff and Faculty at the Institute, many internationally renowned writers. I’ve also last for three years. Students are October. You should begin applying as who have helped me throughout my time at made many great friends here and enjoyed the expected to submit a thesis within 12 soon as possible. Queen’s.” entire university experience. A recent highlight months of the end of the programme (and preferably within the three year for me was when I attended a Seamus Heaney Can I contact potential supervisors period). for my PhD before submitting my Erin Hinson (Colorado, USA) commemorative conference, in which I got a MA and PhD Irish Studies, Vice President of Research application? Development, Abbey Research wider understanding of the worldwide significance Can I study part-time? Yes, you are encouraged to contact of Heaney’s works.” Yes, many students choose to study the PhD supervisors in the School. part-time, particularly when they Members of staff would normally Stephen Sexton are self-funded. It is likely that the discuss your proposal and provide PhD Poetry and Creative Writing majority of funded PhD positions will generic and informal guidance at this require full-time commitment. Most stage. international students are required to study full-time on their Tier 4 visa. Can I state in my application that I have identified supervisors that are experts What are the tuition fees? in my proposed area of study? UK/EU fees: £4,407 per year Yes, please state clearly the names of International fees: £16,950 per year any members of staff that you have discussed your proposal with. If you Fees are for 2020 entry. Please have not discussed your proposal with visit qub.ac.uk/tuitionfees for more any staff members, please identify on information. your proposal at least one staff member that is expert in your proposed area Is there any funding for PhDs? of study and maybe an appropriate Yes, there is funding available from supervisor. the University and from some external sources. Visit the website for more information go.qub.ac.uk/pgfunding
Can I fund myself? Yes, it is possible to fund your PhD, whether you are applying for grants to create your own package of funding, are using personal funds or WHERE ARE THEY NOW? a combination of both. Having your Soo Pong Chua, PhD Anthropology (1982) Senior Consultant, SIM University in Singapore
Carolyn Jess-Cooke, BA English (2000), MA Creative Writing (2001) and PhD (2004) Poet, novelist, lecturer in Creative Writing
Kasia Glowicka, PhD Music and Sonic Arts (2008) Composer and lecturer in computer music, Royal Conservatory of Brussels
Gordon Ingram, PhD Cognition and Culture (2008) Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Los Andes, Colombia
Catriona Arlow Connolly, PhD Education (2015) Senior Client Solutions Analyst, Allen & Overy, Belfast
28 29 ABOUT BELFAST AND NORTHERN IRELAND
BELFAST VOTED LOWEST STUDENT COST OF NUMBER 1 REGION LIVING IN THE UK IN THE WORLD TO VISIT IN 2018 Belfast itself is a fun city on the current ‘Must See’ destination lists. It is also the safest region (Which? University 2018) (LONELY PLANET, 2017) in the UK (British Crime Survey 2015/16). Awash with enthusiasm, culture and that famous Irish friendliness, students can also explore:
• Game of Thrones’ film location and activity tours. • Beautiful scenery and outdoor adventures such as the Giant’s Causeway or hiking in the Mourne Mountains. • Titanic Belfast is the World’s Best Visitor Attraction (World Travel Awards 2016). • Great entertainment and nights out; a buzzing arts and social scene from festivals, theatre and international events to historic pubs, stylish bars and brilliant shopping. • Northern Ireland: happiest place in the UK (Office of National Statistics 2016) alongside the lowest student rent in the UK (NatWest Student Living Index 2019). TITANIC BELFAST MUSEUM GAME OF THRONES MOURNE • The rest of the UK, Ireland and Europe with accessible airport and transport links to most WORLD’S BEST VISITOR FILM LOCATION AND MOUNTAINS ACTIVITY TOURS major cities. ATTRACTION (World Travel Awards 2016)
30 31 GETTING
Helsinki HERE Stockholm Moscow Belfast Dublin Copenhagen BY PLANE London Amsterdam Belfast is serviced by two airports, George Best Berlin Warsaw Belfast City Airport, and Belfast International. Brussels Luxembourg Most flights from Belfast to the rest of the UK Paris take no more than an hour, and if you book early Vienna in advance they are reasonably priced. Zurich
Bucharest BY BOAT Lisbon Madrid The two main Belfast routes are from Liverpool Rome and Cairnryan, both provided by Stena Line. An alternative route runs from Holyhead to Dublin, with excellent motorway connections Athens between there and Belfast.
BY BUS AND TRAIN Queen’s is a five minute walk from Botanic SCOTLAND Train Station on the Bangor, Larne, Newry and Derry~Londonderry lines. A connection Glasgow Edinburgh to Dublin is just one stop away, via Belfast Central Station. Coach and bus services NORTHERN Newcastle-Upon-Tyne IRELAND arrive at Great Victoria Street, which is also < National Airports National Ports Belfast 1 connected by rail. ho u r BY CAR Galway Dublin Manchester IRELAND Queen’s is located in south central Belfast and ENGLAND Ballycastle as such is close to both Northern Ireland’s main Cork WALES Portstewart Portrush motorways, connecting it easily with the rest Cardi London Coleraine Cushendun A2 of Ireland. A29 Ballymoney Cushendall Limavady Londonderry/Derry Carnlough Kilrea Dungiven A5 Larne Li ord A6 Ballymena Strabane Whitehead Ballyclare Magherafelt M2 Newtownstewart Antrim Carrickfergus Cookstown Bangor A505 A26 Donaghadee A5 Omagh A29 BELFAST Newtownards A32 Dungannon A26 Irvinestown Drumore Lisburn A4 A5 M1 Lurgan Hillsborough Aughnacloy A1 Belleek A32 Portadown Portaferry Enniskillen A3 Tandragee Ballynahinch Banbridge Armagh Downpatrick A4 A3 A4 A1 Keady A28 Newcastle Newry Warrenpoint A1 Kilkeel
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