During the 2023/2024 academic year staff and PhD researchers from Law and Social Policy organised an internal brown bag seminar research series. The series included the following presentations on research, post-phd careers and supervision.
6 March
Prof Rory O’Connell Equality: The Windsor Framework and Northern Ireland
Discussant Dr Esther McGuinness
Dr Katie Nolan The function of data protection in society
Discussant Dr Adam Buick
20 March
Dr Sarah Craig The Trajectory of LGBTI+ Asylum Claims before the CJEU: Assessing the Potential, Discussant Juliana Poveda Clavijo
Dr Anna Pathé-Smith Turning a PhD into journal articles: ‘Deeper Truths’ and Birth Registration
Chair: Roua Al-Taweel
10 April
Dr Nisan Alici, QUB Postdoctoral Fellow, NINE DTP, Thinking about careers and the postdoctoral experience
Dr Nada Ahmed, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Research and policy career in the public sector
Chair: Roua Al-Taweel
24 April
Dr Conor Murray, The Influence of the Wider Social Context on the Construction of Young Prison Masculinities
Chair: Roua Al-Taweel
Discussant: Dr Marianne Doherty
8 May
Prof Aoife O’Donoghue (QUB) Feminist Approaches to Supervision
Discussant Eilish Rooney
Chair: Rory O’Connell
22 May
Selina Bonelli, Belfast School of Art, Land lines, shorelines, borders and bunkers: witnessing and intersections at abandoned conflict architecture
Aaron Weah, Transitional Justice Institute and School of Law, Invisible Memory and Materiality: A Cultural Interpretation of the Memoryscape
Discussants: Prof Brandon Hamber and Dr Kris Brown
5 June
Dr. Cecilia Gialdini, An Intersectional Approach to Linguistic Justice for Equal Language Policies
Discussant: Nicola Marinaro
19 June
Lucía Bazaga, The Colombian Truth Commission. Some considerations on the contribution of minority ethnic peoples to the clarification of the truth
Roua Al-Taweel, Reclaiming Rights: Justice for the Displaced and Stateless
Discussant: Dr Claire Wright
The series was delivered in a hybrid format and was organised by Roua Al-Taweel, Nicole Marinaro, Dr Conor Murray and Prof Rory O’Connell.