Sociology & Applied Social Studies Staff

Research
Patricia Lundy’s research interests are in the study of post-conflict transition, ‘dealing with the past’, contested memories and the legacy of human rights abuses. She has studied unofficial community-based ‘story telling’/ ‘truth recovery’ processes and official police-led historical enquiries. She is particularly interested in ‘truth’ recovery and ‘bottom-up’ participatory approaches. In collaboration with Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT), she co-authored a Northern Ireland wide survey on ‘Attitudes Towards a Truth Commission for NI’ (2006). Her most recent research is an in-depth study of the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) Police Service Northern Ireland (PSNI). The HET is an innovative police-led initiative which breaks new ground in transitional justice and offers lessons internationally. The project also involves interviews with victims and their assessment of the HET process. She was awarded a British Academy Large Grant (2007/8) and Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (2009/10) to undertake the research. Her work has been published in a wide range of journals including Sociology, Law and Society, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Law and Social Challenges and Contemporary Social Science
Recent Publications
Number of items: 24. Lundy, Patricia (2011) Paradoxes and Challenges of Transitional Justice at the 'Local' Level: Historical Enquiries in Northern Ireland. Contemporary Social Science, 6 (1). pp. 89-106. Lundy, Patricia (2010) Commissioning the Past in Northern Ireland. Review of International Affairs, LX (1138-1139). pp. 101-133. Lundy, Patricia (2009) Can the Past Be Policed? Lessons From the Historical Enquiries Team Northern Ireland. Law and Social Challenges, 11. pp. 109-171. Lundy, Patricia (2009) Exploring Home-Grown Transitional Justice and Its Dilemmas: A Case Study of the Historical Enquiries Team Northern Ireland. Iternational Journal of Transitional Justice, 3. pp. 321-340. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, M (2008) A Trojan Horse? Unionism, Trust and Truth-Telling in Northern Ireland. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2. pp. 42-62. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2008) A Truth Commission for Northern Ireland? Attitudes Towards a Truth Commission for Northern Ireland. In: A Sustainable Peace?; Research as a Contribution to Peace-Building in Northern Ireland. Community Relations Council, pp. 117-136. ISBN 13: 978-1-898276-37-1 Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2008) Community, Truth-Recovery and Conflict Transformation 'From Below'. In: A Sustainable Peace?; Research as a Contribution to Peace-Building in Northern Ireland. Community Relations Council, pp. 155-172. ISBN 13: 978-1-898276-37-1 Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2008) Telling stories, facing truths: memory, justice and post-conflict transition. In: Northern Ireland After the Troubles. (Eds: Coulter, Colin and Murray, Michael), Manchester University Press, pp. 29-48. ISBN 9780719074417 Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2008) The role of community in participatory transitional justice. In: Transitional Justice from Below: Grassroots Activism and the Struggle for Change. Hart Publishing, pp. 99-120. ISBN 9781841138213 Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, M (2008) Truth, Justice and Dealing with the Legacy of the Past in Northern Ireland. Ethnopolitics, 7 (1). pp. 177-193. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, M (2008) Whose Justice? Rethinking Transitional Justice from the Bottom Up. Journal of Law and Society, 35 (2). pp. 265-292. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2007) Attitudes towards a Truth Commission for Northern Ireland in Relation to Party Political Affiliation. Irish Political Studies, 22 (3). pp. 321-338. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2007) Habitus, Identity, and Post Conflict Transition, in a Catholic Working Class Community in Northern Ireland. In: Contemporary Ireland: A Sociological Map. (Eds: O'Suillivan, Sara), University College Dublin Press, pp. 370-389. ISBN 978-1-904558-87-3 Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2007) Inside Silence: The Ardoyne Commemoration Project, Community-Based Truth-Telling and Post Conflict Transition in Northern Ireland. In: Historicizing the Living Past in Latin American. Universidad Alberto Hurtado, pp. 1-21. ISBN http://www.historizarelpasadovivo.cl/en_contenido.html Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2006) Action research, community 'truth-telling' and post-conflict transition in the North of Ireland. Action Research, 4 (1). pp. 49-64. Lundy, Patricia and Mark, Mark (2006) Attitudes towards truth recovery processes in Northern Ireland (NILT Survey). Community Relations Council. 1 pp. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2006) Participation, Truth and Participatory Action Research, Community-based Truth-telling and Post-conflict Transition in Northern Ireland. Sociology, 40 (1). pp. 71-88. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2005) Community, 'Truth-telling' and Conflict Resolution:A critical evaluation of the role of community-based 'truth-telling' processes for post-conflict transition - A case study of the Ardoyne Commemoration Project.. Community Relations Council. 1 pp. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2005) Community-Based Approaches to Post-Conflict 'Truth' Telling: Strengths and Limitations. Shared Future: A research journal on peace, conflict and community relations in Northern Ireland, 1. pp. 35-52. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2004) "You understand again": testimony and post-conflict transition in the Northe of Ireland, The Ardoyne Commemoration Project 1998-2002. Words and Silences: Journal of the International Oral History Association, 2 (2). pp. 30-35. Lundy, Patricia and McGovern, Mark (2001) The Politics of Memory in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland. Peace Review, 13 (1). pp. 27-33. Lundy, Patricia (1999) Community participation in Jamaican conservation projects. Community Development Journal, 34 (2). pp. 122-132. Lundy, Patricia (1999) Debt and Adjustment: Social and Environmental Consequences in Jamaica. Ashgate. 1 pp ISBN 1 85972 114 1 Lundy, Patricia (1999) Fragmented Community Action or New Social Movement? A Study of Environmentalism in Jamaica. International Sociology, 14 (1). pp. 83-102. This list was generated on Mon Feb 13 10:49:30 2012 GMT.   this list is generated by the Ulster Institutional Repository database
Grants	Project Leader
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (Sept 2009/2010) £38, 890 – 12 months
Sole Applicant: The British Academy (2006-2007) £72,000 ‘A Critical Analysis of the Historical Enquiries Team (PSNI)’
Principal applicant in the following research grants Community Relations Council - (2005/06) £52,152 - Attitudes Towards Truth Recovery Processes in NI (NILT Survey)
Community Relations Council – (2003-2004) £36, 186 The Role & Benefits of Community Truth Telling Processes
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust – (2002-2003) £24,851 - Victims, Conflict Transition and ‘Truth-Telling’
Irish Academy – (1999) £10.000 NGOs Gender Policy and Practice in the Republic of Ireland.
Nuffield Foundation,(1996) £5,000 Environmental Movement in Jamaica
British Academy, (1995) £2,000 Environmental Movement in Jamaica
Lockheed Fund, (1990) £500 Research Travel Grant
RUA and Research Groups
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