While the first focuses on the examination of interest organisations' influence on public policy, the second explores the way in which contemporary governments have opened to public scrutiny through open data and other tools. Michele is also an affiliated scholar at the Good Lobby.

She has research interests in feminist-pragmatism, theories of emotion/affect, embodiment and shame, institutionalisation and containment, Irish feminisms, and gender and austerity. She has published widely in her interdisciplinary research area, including in journals such as Hypatia, Signs, and Feminist Review. 

Her current research is on gender, emotion, and public policy, with a focus on “women and the politics of crisis.” 

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The AHSS Global Fellowship will cover visits for a period of between 4 to 12 weeks*.  Applications are now open for a visit in the Spring Semester of the 2025-26 academic year. Applicants must have secured the agreement of sponsorship from the host School and will be expected to deliver a lecture/seminar/workshop during their stay.  Fellows will be granted a courtesy desk in the host School and access to library resources.  In addition, the scheme covers travel and accommodation costs for successful applicants of up to £4000.  

She is the author of the multiple award-winning book Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021). Her earlier work on the history of travelling ayahs in Britain has also won the Carol Gold Award and honorable mention for the Walter D Love Prize. Her latest book, Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. She serves as an associate editor of Britain and the World, and as the Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Previously she has also served as an associate editor of Gender & History. Her works have appeared in several scholarly journals, public history journals and magazines, and on BBC4.

A past president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, he has conducted ethnographic field research in Ireland, the UK, Hungary, Canada and the United States.  He is the author of Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers: Anthropological Insights (University of Toronto Press, 2023), editor of the encyclopaedia European Society and Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023), co-author, with another CIBR founder, Hastings Donnan, of The Anthropology of Ireland (Berg/Routledge, 2020 [2006]) and Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State (Berg/Routledge, 2020 [1999]), and co-editor of the Companion to Border Studies (Blackwell, 2012).

At Queen’s, he collaborates with HAPP politics and anthropology colleagues working on borders and identities.

She was selected as a 2021-2022 award recipient for a faculty fellowship with the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Notre Dame and the American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship in 2018-2019.

Her book, Sister Love: Ericka Huggins, Spiritual Wellness, and the Black Panther Party (New York University Press), is the first and only biography on Ericka Huggins and documents the previously untold story of her early life and career in the Black Panther Party. The heart of her book excavates Huggins’ day-to-day experience and acts of political dissent during confinement.

At Queen’s, Professor Philips collaborates with HAPP history colleagues working on gender, race, the legacy of slavery, and African-American social movements.

Dr Onni Hirvonen's main interests include Hegelian philosophy of recognition, critical social philosophy, and contemporary social ontology. Most recently he has worked and published on themes such as pandemics and democracy, social recognition of immigrants, arguments for workplace democracy, and a critical social ontology of private property.

At Queen’s, he collaborates with HAPP political theory and philosophy colleagues on theoretical openings for the democratization of our wider institutional world.

You can follow Dr Hirvonen’s work at: https://jyu.academia.edu/OnniHirvonen

Researchers appointed in this scheme benefit from protected research time, support and training via the "Fellowship Academy" and fast-tracking career progression to Senior Lecturer or Reader (T&Cs apply).

Applications to the scheme are welcome at any time and are reviewed 3 times a year.

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Qualifying externally funded fellowship award holders at Queen's are automatically inducted into the Fellowship Academy and will have the opportunity to benefit from the range of support provided. 

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships This is a scheme for Early Career and postdoctoral applicants. There are bi-annual calls from UKRI with fixed deadlines; Queen's runs a managed bid process with an internal deadline several months in advance of the relevant UKRI deadline.

BA Postdoctoral Fellowships This scheme is intended for applicants within three years of a successful PhD viva, with an annual call from the British Academy in late summer/autumn. Applicants should contact a potential supervisor and obtain agreement from Queen's in a reasonable time before submission.

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships This fellowship is for early career applicants within four years of the award of their doctorate. There is an annual call from the Leverhulme Trust each winter, but Queen's runs a managed bid process with an internal deadline in mid-October in advance of the Leverhulme deadline.

The Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership NINE DTP This Fellowship is open to applicants who have completed their PhD at a research organisation that is part of a DTP or CDT and who have less than twelve (12) months postdoctoral research experience. You should identify a potential mentor within the School and then develop an initial expression of interest. 

BA Newton International Fellowships This fellowship is for up to two years in any Humanities or Social Science-based research area. Applicants should be working overseas within 7 years of their PhD and wish to spend time in the UK. An annual call is made each spring.

Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships European and International fellowships are both offered in this scheme, and the available funding is for between 24 and 36 months. The next deadline is 10 September 2025. Applicants should contact a potential mentor in the School and obtain agreement from Queen's in a reasonable time before submission.

If you are interested in applying through HAPP at Queen's for any of these external fellowship schemes, please contact the School's Director of Research (at: HAPPresearch@qub.ac.uk). Please also contact relevant members of staff who might act as your mentor and/or collaborator.