Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana (co-principal investigator)

Maria is a lecturer in the School of HAPP and the co-director of Centre for Gender in Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests sit at the intersection of feminist international relations, critical peace and conflict studies, and border studies. She has published on the everyday, affect and aesthetics in conflict; on the politics of gender and feminist activism in contexts shaped by armed conflict, international intervention and peacebuilding, and on EU border politics and security.

Dr Heidi Riley  (co-principal investigator)

Heidi is a research fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin. Her research straddles multiple areas of peace and conflict scholarship, including insurgency and ideology, gender and masculinity, peace mediation, and conflict-related trauma. She has published on masculinity in armed groups with a specific focus on Nepal, UNSCR 1325 on Women Peace and Security, women in mediation, and NGO approaches to conflict-related trauma.