Director: Frank Lyons
The Arts & Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) at the University of Ulster was created in 2009 with membership drawn from former research groupings in the Humanities Research Institute, the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages and the Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies. The AHRI provides an institutional focus for research activity and collaboration across four research clusters in English, History, European Languages and Studies and Creative Arts and Technologies embracing a range of subject areas within the Faculty of Arts, including Drama, Dance, Music, Creative Technologies, German, Spanish, French, English and History. The AHRI promotes a broad research culture and environment within which research activity in individual disciplines flourishes.
The scope of this activity involves research seminars and original readings and performances by eminent visiting speakers, Institute staff and postgraduate students. In addition, the Institute encourages engagement by staff and postgraduates with the wider research community through participation in international conferences, collaboration with institutions in Ireland, the UK and overseas, and engagement in editorial work with prestigious journals and publishers.
The AHRI encourages research within the various disciplines that are represented in its ranks while also promoting at all times research collaboration and exchange where appropriate. The AHRI’s strength lies in providing what might otherwise be small disciplines with a greater internal context for their work, expanding beyond their traditional limits while at the same time preserving their integrity as subject units. The AHRI seeks to make as much as possible of the research being done in the Institute relevant to an audience both within and beyond the confines of Higher Education.
Creative Arts and Technologies Research
The cluster is formed from researchers working in the subject-areas of Music, Drama, Dance and Creative Technologies. As such it maps rather neatly on to the composition of the new REF sub-panel, but much more important for our work together is that we are all based in the £3M state-of-the-art facilities in the Foyle Arts Building on the Magee campus. The University of Ulster is one of only a handful of UK HEIs (and the only one on the island of Ireland) to bring together Music, Dance, Drama and Creative Technologies (with relevant staff from Design too) in a dedicated multi- and interdisciplinary space, incorporating not only traditional facilities such as musical, theatrical and dance rehearsal venues but also an up-to-date range of music and video recording and editing hard- and software. More Information
English
The English department at UU is based on the Coleraine Campus and forms part of the School of English, History and Politics in the Faculty of Arts. The English Research Cluster comprises 16 members drawn from this department and is coordinated by Dr. Anne Jamison. The cluster has increasingly established itself as a vibrant and diverse research centre for the study of English literature and culture and is host to an active and thriving body of postgraduate students. Individual scholars within the cluster are engaged in an extensive range of research fields which maintain and enhance the broader scholarly practice of English Studies across the globe, from Renaissance and Victorian literature and culture, through to Modern, Contemporary, and Creative Writing, as well as Literary History and Theory.
A sizeable number of the researchers working in these areas also distinctively contribute to a key sub-group focus on the study and intellectual endorsement of Irish Literature, which includes convening an MA programme in Irish Literature in English. More Information
European Languages and Studies
Building on a range of ‘practices and activities which foster a thriving research culture, and a significant volume of interdisciplinary research’ (RAE 2008), the newly established European Languages and Studies research cluster has created a dynamic environment that remains focused on the nurturing and enhancement of ambitious individual projects while promoting dialogue between French, German and Spanish studies as well as European studies and Linguistics. Current research projects of members of the cluster cover a range of areas, periods and methodologies from early-modern French religious minorities to francophone postcolonial literature; from modern German church history to German-Irish relations; from cultural translation and early colonial texts in Spanish to Latin American road movies; and from linguistic interfaces to bilingualism. Since 2008 members of the cluster have published more than ten monographs or edited volumes, and organised or co-organised a number of conferences. More Information
History
The History Research Cluster supports research in History. It provides financial support for visits to archives and libraries, for conferences, and in some cases for replacement teaching whilst research projects are brought to fruition. It encourages the development of a group research culture through hosting a staff and visiting research seminar. It involves postgraduate students in the full range of its seminar and outreach activities. Individual and group research grant applications are promoted and vetted by the Cluster to ensure appropriate internal peer review. Finally, each member engages in an annual review of their research career with the Cluster Head. More Information
Ulster Poetry Project
This website is dedicated to the study of Ulster Poetry and Irish Book History at the University of Ulster. This site provides information on our research and resources for those interested in Irish Book history. As part of this project we have created a digital library of the John Hewitt Special Collection...
Ulster Poetry Project site
These are the staff members for the AHRI. You will find contact details of researchers and a brief record of their achievements and publications.
Dr Willa Murphy
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Office B003 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4545 |
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Mr Brian Bridges
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MQ206 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5407 |
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Dr Paul Devlin
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MQ205 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5116 |
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Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MQ310 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5105 |
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Professor Frank Lyons
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Director of AHRI
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Office MQ225 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5138 |
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Dr Thomas Maguire
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MQ209 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5135 |
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Dr Adam Melvin
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7167 5566 |
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Dr Cormac Newark
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AHRI: Cluster Co-ordinator Creative Arts and Technologies Research
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Office MQ209 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5139 |
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Dr Giuliano Campo
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+44 (0)28 7167 5253 |
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Mr Terry Quigley
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MH100 |
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Dr Frank Sewell
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ICSRI: Researcher
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Office B034 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4310 |
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Professor Jan Jedrzejewski
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B031 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4553 |
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Dr James Ward
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B036A |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4958 |
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Dr Kathleen McCracken
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7012 3031 |
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Dr William Lazenbatt
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office 82D19 |
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+44 (0)28 9536 7439 |
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Professor Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7012 4543 |
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Dr Andrew Keanie
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B012 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4556 |
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Dr Tim Hancock
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B035A |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4551 |
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Dr Kevin De Ornellas
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B037 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4860 |
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Dr Katherine Byrne
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B038 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4544 |
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Professor Richard Bradford
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B039 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4250 |
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Dr Frank Ferguson
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B004 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 3577 |
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Dr Allan Blackstock
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7012 3386 |
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Prof Elizabeth Crooke
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MA010 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5431 |
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Dr Gabriel Guarino
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7012 3269 |
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Emerita Professor Greta Jones
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AHRI: Co-director of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland
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Office 14G09 |
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+44 (0)28 9536 6300 |
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Dr Dianne Kirby
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office 14G02 |
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+44 (0)28 9536 6313 |
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Dr James Loughlin
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MA101 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5346 |
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Dr Robert McNamara
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office C008 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 4007 |
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Dr Leonie Murray
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MA107 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5223 |
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Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7167 5257 |
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Dr Emmet O'Connor
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office MA106 |
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+44 (0)28 7167 5211 |
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Dr Andrew Sneddon
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AHRI: Co-director of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland
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+44 (0)28 7012 3352 |
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Dr Billy Kelly
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7167 5458 |
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Dr Leanne McCormick
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AHRI: Co-director of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland
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+44 (0)28 7012 3576 |
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Dr Elizabeth White
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AHRI: Researcher
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+44 (0)28 7012 3551 |
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Dr Nerys Young
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AHRI: Researcher
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Office B017 |
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+44 (0)28 7012 3552 |
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Professor Ian Thatcher
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AHRI: Cluster Co-Ordinator, History
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+44 (0)28 7012 3375 |
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The AHRI hosts a vibrant community of postgraduate researchers engaged on projects in Creative Arts, English, History and Modern Languages and boasts an enviable team of supervisors who are internationally renowned in their fields of expertise. If you are interested in becoming part of this postgraduate community details of projects and how to apply are available here: www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/rgs/PhDtopics.php
Current Postgraduate Projects
This Knowledge Bank contains an archive of the AHRI's activities over the years according to the year in which the material was put up.
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Special Projects Manager for AHRI
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Mrs. Ros O'Hagan |
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Arts & Humanities Research Institute |