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Name Area of Research Expertise Email Telephone
Dr Veronique Altglas

Sociology of religion: religious individualism & bricolage; religion & social class; globalisation of religion; religion in Northern Ireland; new religious movements; responses to religious diversity; cult controversies. Sociology of Anti-Semitism & ethnic relations. Epistemology; Research ethics.

v.altglas@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 3581 
Dr Emma Calvert Education, employment and social inequality.  e.calvert@qub.ac.uk +44 (0)28 9097 3958
Dr Andrew Dunn

Unemployment and social security, the definition and measurement of poverty, and links between national poverty rates and crime rates. 

a.dunn@qub.ac.uk  
Professor Gladys Ganiel  Religion, conflict and peacebuilding; sociology of religion on the island of Ireland. g.ganiel@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 3658 
Dr Nicole Gleghorne Early numeracy development, quantitative methods and effectiveness of educational interventions.  n.gleghorne@qub.ac.uk  
Professor Katy Hayward Borders, sociology of Ireland; Brexit; political sociology. k.hayward@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 3189
Dr Jonathan Heaney

Sociology of emotion, political sociology, political sociology of emotion, power, nationalism, social theory, sociology of Ireland, relational sociology, process ontology.

j.heaney@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 3482 
Dr Cathal McManus Conflict and conflict transformation; othering; political extremism and sectarianism; peace processes; nationalism and identity politics.  c.p.mcmanus@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 5914
Dr Cate McNamee Race and ethnicity; family, marriage; large-scale longitudinal panel survey analysis c.mcnamee@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 3342 
Dr John Moriarty  Workplaces, Mental health and wellbeing. j.moriarty@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 3236
Professor John Nagle Divided societies; social movements; sectarianism; sexuality. john.nagle@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 5922  
Professor Lisa Smyth Norms, Emotions, Social Conflict and Change, Agency, Care, Family, Abortion, Motherhood.  l.smyth@qub.ac.uk +44(0)2890973251
Dr Rin Ushiyama

Cultural sociology; memory studies; right-wing social movements; historical denial; East Asia; East Asian religions; diasporas; social theory; sociology of intellectuals.

r.ushiyama@qub.ac.uk  
Dr Ulrike M Vieten Sociology of Gender and Ethnic Minorities; Citizenship, Migration and Gender in Europe; Transnationalism and Europeanisation; Normalisation of the Global Far-Right. u.vieten@qub.ac.uk  +44 (0)28 9097 2528

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Dr Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill The Changing Role of Religion in Societies Emerging from Covid-19 caoimhe.nidhonaill@qub.ac.uk  

 

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