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INCORE staff and associates are based across Ulster University's 3 campuses (and beyond).
They comprise academics, practitioners and professionals with wide-ranging and long-term experience in conflict research, training and publication.
The centre staff are based at INCORE headquarters at the Derry~Londonderry campus.
Associated staff are involved in much of INCORE’s conflict research & peace-related activity and are based in their respective campuses, faculties and specialist units alongside a variety of research students and interns.
Our People

Professor Elise Feron
Professor & Director of Incore
Professor Fidelma Ashe
Professor of Politics
Roberta Bacic
Visiting Professor, Incore / CAIN

Dr Clionagh Boyle
Senior Lecturer in Education - Childhood Studies
Dr Maire Braniff
Senior Lecturer
Dr Jonny Byrne
Senior Lecturer
Professor Paul Connolly
Pro Vice Chancellor & Executive Dean of Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Professor Elizabeth Crooke
Professor of Museum and Heritage Studies
Professor Graham Dawson
Visiting Professor - INCORE
Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick
Senior Lecturer in Drama
Nigel Glenny
Lecturer / Site Director of Augsburg CGEE
Dr Adrian Grant
Lecturer in History

Sinead Grant
Clerical Assistant

Professor Ann-Marie Gray
Professor of Social Policy
Professor Brandon Hamber
The John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace
Dr Jennifer Hamilton
Head of School of Appled Social and Policy Sciences
Dr Sandra Johnston
Lecturer in Fine Art (Performance)
Dr Grainne Kelly
Lecturer
Professor Karen Kirby
Professor Of Psychology
Professor Kristian Lasslett
Professor
Dr Brendan Lynn
Research Associate
Mike McCool
ICT Officer
Professor Philip McDermott
Professor of Sociology
Dr Sara McDowell
Senior Lecturer
Dr Esther McGuinness
Head of School of Law

Dr Robert McNamara
Senior Lecturer in International History
Dr Martin Melaugh
Research Fellow
Dr Ian Miller
Senior Lecturer in History
Professor Duncan Morrow
Director of Community Engagement
Professor Karl O'Connor
Research Director â Social Work and Social Policy, School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences
Professor Gillian Robinson
Emeritus Professor and Research Associate ARK

Dr Luqman Saeed
Lecturer in Economics
Professor Kelsey Shanks
Professor of Education - UNESCO Chair

Dr Claire Wright
Lecturer in Politics & International Studies
Honorary Professors
- Professor Paul Arthur
Honorary Fellows
- Dr. Roua al-Taweed
- Dr. Henri Myrttinen
- Dr. Adriana Valdemarra
| Name | PhD Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| Eddie Baker | Mandate for violence? Exploring public opinion of paramilitary activity during the Troubles in Northern Ireland | baker-e2@ulster.ac.uk |
| Aileen Chattin Thomson | Justice for the “Political Victim”– A narrative victimological study of Myanmar activists’ conceptions of agency and (in)justice | thomson-ac@ulster.ac.uk |
| Md Shamin Hasan | Grotowski's Lineage in Bengal: Employing Paratheatre to Address the Pre-Radicalisation Phase of Religious Extremism | Hasan-MS2@ulster.ac.uk |
| Marina Iodice | Errant bodies. Performing the domestic outside via sonic and somatic evocation | Iodice-M@ulster.ac.uk |
| Róisín Keenan | The experiences of female political prisoners in Northern Ireland/the North of Ireland | Keenan-R17@ulster.ac.uk |
| Allan Leonard | 'Rungs on a Ladder': Policy Transfer and Conflict Transformation in the Case of Policing in Kosovo and Northern Ireland | leonard-a24@ulster.ac.uk |
| Adam McElhinney | Exploring LGBTQIA+ Pride Parades in Northern Ireland | McElhinney-S16@ulster.ac.uk |
| Hollie Miller | A Topography of Feathers: Mapping Maternal Geographies as Resistance to Violence | miller-h4@ulster.ac.uk |
| Juliana Poveda Clavijo | Reparative Justice for Forced Migrants in the New World Order? From Migratory regularisation to Military Intervention as responsibility-sharing and durable solution: the case of Venezuelans Forced to Migrate into Colombia, the US, and Spain (2014-2025) | poveda_clavijo-j@ulster.ac.uk |
| Dhanushka Wickramasinghe | An Exploration of Language Policies at the Local Governance in two Post Conflict Societies; Challenges and Opportunities for Northern Ireland and Sri Lanka | Wickramasinghe-PDDD@ulster.ac.uk |
| Latifa Yeasmin | Post-Memory, Citizenship, and Honour: Representations of Birangona Women in Bangladeshi Theatre | Yeasmin-l1@ulster.ac.uk |



