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Professor Fiona Magowan

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Professor Fiona Magowan

Professor Fiona Magowan

School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Fiona Magowan’s research covers three interconnected areas: music, sound and movement; art, emotion and the senses; and religion, identity and transformation. As PI of 'Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation' (2017-2022), she led a team of Âé¶¹ÒùÔº staff and 10 partner organisations researching across the Middle East, Brazil and Northern Ireland.

Her work focuses on the emotional potentialities of sound, storytelling and music for conflict transformation and peacebuilding in Australia, Brazil and Northern Ireland.

She has also explored empathy, recognition, resilience and reconciliation in music, dance, art and drama in conflict transformation in Mozambique.

Contact info

  • f.magowan@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3740

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in the fields of:

  • Music and storytelling in conflict transformation/peacebuilding
  • Arts and reconciliation
  • Sense and emotion
  • Dance, movement and empathy
  • Indigenous ritual, religion and performance
  • Christianity and missions
  • Gender and performance

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Sounding Conflict
  • Understanding the role of sound and music in conflic transformation: The Mozambique Case Study

Research students

PhD Title (In)Security and Storytelling in Sri Lanka: Negotiating Safe Spaces to Remember, Reenact and Reconcile Violence
   
PhD Title   Sensing Peace through the body: Tibetan dance and conflict transformation in diasporic communities
   
PhD Title Youth Agency in Cross Border Music and Peacebuilding on the Island of Ireland: The Cross-Border Youth Orchestra of Ireland and the Peace Proms
   
PhD Title Cultural Intimacy and the country music scene in West Ulster
   
PhD Title Youth Conflict-Related Trauma through Generations. An Ethnography on the Relationship between Health and Society in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
   
PhD Title
The Art of Caring: New Opportunities for Creative Practitioners in the Ageing Economy

 


Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title Joy and Struggle: A musical ethnography of the Kaapse Klopse carnival in Cape Town, South Africa
   
PhD Title  Contemporary Native American Horse Culture in the Colombia Plateau Area
   
PhD Title Christianity, Conflict and Community: Expressions of faith, identity and personhood in Northern Irish Evangelicalism

 

 


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