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Prof Brandon Hamber continued work on AHRC Project “Screening Violence: A Transnational Study of Post-Conflict Imaginaries” with partners in Newcastle and Bristol University, and with co-investigators and partners in Algeria, Argentina, Colombia, Northern Ireland and Indonesia. . Further data collection was undertaken during the period, including the screening of a Colombian film in Dungannon and a focus group following the film to engage the "social imagination of violence" on 14 June 2019.

In addition, the "Screening Violence" project partnered with the New Gate Fringe Festival in Derry/Londonderry, which included a screening of the film "Exodus" and focus group discussion after on 31 July 2019. A panel discussing the movement of Protestants from the City side of Derry was then undertaken and filmed in the evening including Gregory Campbell, Eamon McCann, Pauline Gardiner, Niall Gilmartin, and Adrian Grant.