Professor John Wolffe has an overall leadership role of the programme. As well as management and supervisory duties, he has a defined research role pertaining to the reconciliation and development of his earlier work with the demands of the project. He has overall responsibility for publications and development of communications and user involvement. John’s webpage.
Philomena Sutherland has responsibility for the research in Liverpool and Birmingham and the associated publications, and of setting up and managing the website and on-line bibliography. She has a further role in the organisation of symposiums, conference, seminars and advisory group meetings and conducting day to day liaison with interested academics, stakeholders and users. Philomena’s webpage.
Alec Corio is a full-time research student in religious history, writing a PhD on scholarly reactions to Roman Catholicism and national security in the fifty years after the First Vatican Council. His other research and teaching interests include historiography, popular religion and lay devotion, religious polemic, saints and miracle cults, and material and visual culture. He is responsible for researching and completing a PhD within the period of the project. For more information, see Alec’s webpage.
John Bell will produce a report based on research resulting from interviews and focus groups. John works with the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR), an independent research organisation with charitable status, based in Belfast, on a diverse range of research and evaluation projects. John has worked on a range of projects on topics such as the dynamics of ‘mixed’ communities and good practice in promoting equality and challenging discrimination in Northern Ireland, Italy and Cyprus. For more information, see John’s webpage.
Professor Stewart Brown. Professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of Edinburgh since 1987 and formerly Head of School of Divinity. Author of numerous books and other publications on modern UK religious history
Richard Farnell. Richard is Professor of Neighbourhood Regeneration at Coventry University and is a member of the management board of the Institute of Community Cohesion. Richard’s research has focused on neighbourhood regeneration and community development and on investigating relationships between public sector agencies and the community.
Dr. David Herbert. Formerly Lecturer in Religious Studies and Staff Tutor in Arts at the Open University. He has carried out recent ESCR research on Northern Ireland and on the media and international security. Now at the Agder University, Norway.
Dr. Neil Jarman. Director of the Institute for Conflict Research, and a leading researcher on the Northern Ireland situation. He has extensive contacts with public bodies and NGOs in Northern Ireland and beyond.
Fiyaz Mughal, OBE, FCMI. Fiyaz is founder and director of Faith Matters which undertakes community cohesion, conflict resolution, preventing violent extremism and interfaith work. The Organisation has been delivering these projects since 2005 and works extensively throughout the UK and internationally. He is also founder and director of Muslims Against Anti-Semitism.
Mark Pellew. A career diplomat, his postings included service in Rome and Washintgon. He was head of the North America department at the FCO from 1991-96, British Ambassador to the Holy See from 1998 to 2002 and Chief Executive to the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion from 2003-5.
The Advisory Group will meet twice a year during the period of the programme.