“This result underpins Law's status as world-leading across their research activity.
They are the pride of Ulster University with the highest percentage in the institution of 4* research achieved both in overall score and in research output quality. This research underpins their overall research profile assessed at 82% world-leading and internationally excellent.
It also shapes their outstanding research environment with 100% assessed as 4*/3* positioning them joint 1st in the UK within this category.”
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People Involved
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Our Team
Name Role Ashe, F Professor Professor of Politics Brown, K Dr Lecturer Collins, C Professor Professor of Transitional Justice Fitzpatrick, C Dr Lecturer in Law Hamber, B Professor The John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace Hansen, T Dr Senior Lecturer in Law McKeever, G Professor Professor of Law and Social Justice McNamee, E Professor Professor of Law Moyo, K Dr Lecturer O'Connell, R Professor Research Director - Law O'Rawe, M Dr Senior Lecturer O'Rourke, C Dr Senior Lecturer in Human Rights/International Law Rolston, B Professor Emeritus Professor of Sociology Simpson, M Dr Senior Lecturer Smith, A Dr Senior Lecturer Wills, S Professor Professor of Law
“In this REF exercise, 46% of our research has been rated as world-leading, across outputs, impact and environment.
We have produced imaginative outputs (including the award-winning film It Stays With You); we have worked to embed dignity in the social security system in Scotland and to address gender issues in Northern Ireland; and we have supported a dynamic cohort of PhD researchers.
We take pride in this collective effort and we are committed to continuing our pursuit of high quality, innovative and ethically grounded research that is responsive to the needs of our societies.”
Impact Case Studies and Environment Statement
Social Security in Scotland Research Outputs
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- Accountability for British War Crimes in Iraq? Examining the Nexus between International and National Justice Responses
- Advocating Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland: Local and Global Tensions
- Applying an International Human Rights Framework to State Budget Allocations: Rights and Resources
- Assessing the Compliance of the United Kingdom’s Social Security System with its Obligations under the European Social Charter
- Comparing Courts and Tribunals Through the Lens of Legal Participation
- Conditionality, discretion and TH Marshall’s ‘right to welfare’
- Developing constitutional principles through firefighting: social security parity in Northern Ireland
- Does Every Cloud Have a Silver Lining?: Brexit, Repeal of the Human Rights Act and the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights
- Gender, Nationalism and Conflict Transformation : New themes and old problems in Northern Ireland politics
- Gender, violence and reparations in Northern Ireland: a story yet to be told
- Intimate Partner Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: Insights and Lessons from Northern Ireland
- It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
- Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights
- Lessons from Transitional Justice? Toward a New Framing of a Victim-Centered Approach in the Case of Historical Institutional Abuse
- Picturing Peace: Murals and Memory in Colombia
- Postcolonial Transitional Justice: Zimbabwe and Beyond
- Redress for past harms? Official apologies in Northern Ireland
- Researching counterterrorism: a critical perspective from the field in the light of allegations and findings of covert activities by undercover police officers
- The ‘war on terror’ and extremism: assessing the relevance of the Women, Peace and Security agenda
- The End of Amnesty or Regional Overreach? Interpreting the Erosion of South America's Amnesty Laws
- The Relationship of Political Settlement Analysis to Peacebuilding from a Feminist Perspective
- The Rhetoric of War: Words, Conflict and Categorization Post-9/11
- The Time and Space of Transitional Justice
- There Is a Crack in Everything: Problematising Masculinities, Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
- Through the Looking Glass: Transitional Justice Futures through the Lens of Nationalism, Feminism and Transformative Change
- Transforming Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Principles and Practice
- Transitional Justice 'From Within': Police, Forensic and Legal Actors Searching for Chile's Disappeared
- Truth, Evidence, Truth: The Deployment of Testimony, Archives and Technical Data in Domestic Human Rights Trial