The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast, is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as "Queen's College, Belfast", and opened four years later.
The Queen's University of Ireland was established formally by royal charter on 3 September 1850, as the degree-awarding university of the Queen's Colleges of Belfast, Cork, and Galway that were established in 1845 "to afford a university education to members of all religious denominations" in Ireland.
Monica Mary McWilliams is a Northern Irish academic, peace activist, human rights defender and former politician.
Marianne Elliott is an Irish historian who was appointed OBE in the 2000 Birthday Honours.
Michael Farrell is an Irish civil rights activist, writer and former leader of People's Democracy, from its inception through to the 1969 Burntollet Bridge incident and into the 1970s.
Jonathan Eric Bardon, was an Irish historian and author.
Queen's Students' Union (QSU) is the official representative body for students at Queen's University Belfast. Membership of the union is automatic and currently totals 24,560, making it one of the largest unions on the island of Ireland and in the United Kingdom. The Students' Union derives its existence and authority from the University's Statutes, and so is not entirely independent of it. Therefore, it must have amendments to its constitution approved by the University Senate. It aims to represent students' interests both with the university and the wider community, to create a sense of student spirit and provide services that aid its student members during their time at Queen's. The Students' Union can trace its origins to the nineteenth century, and has been based on University Road, directly opposite the University's main 'Lanyon Building', since it opened in 1967.
Norma Margaret Dawson CBE is Professor of Law at Queen's University Belfast.
Edna Longley, is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.
Professor Christopher George Maccabe CB is a former Political Director of the Northern Ireland Office, and a former British Joint Secretary of the British Irish Intergovernmental Conference. Since 2006 he has been involved in conflict resolution and political development in various parts of the world, including Sri Lanka, Kosovo, the Middle East, Tanzania, Iraq, Lebanon, Cameroon and Colombia. He is a member of a team appointed by the Minister of Justice in Northern Ireland to oversee the August 2010 agreement between the Minister and dissident republican prisoners in Maghaberry Prison. He was a member of the International Verification Commission in the Basque Country that monitored the permanent ceasefire declared by ETA at the beginning of 2011. The Commission’s work came to an end in April 2017 when it oversaw ETA’s final act of decommissioning its weapons and explosive. He is Chair of Enterprise Media Ireland CIC, a Director of the Forum for Cities in Transition (Belfast) Ltd, a Director of the Center for Democracy and Peace Building, and a member of the New Ireland Commission. He was educated at Brackenber House School, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Queen's University Belfast and the University of London. He is the son of Max and Gladys Maccabe MBE, a renowned Irish artist. He is married to Jenny and has three children and nine grandchildren.
Liam Kennedy is an Irish historian, emeritus professor of history at Queen's University, Belfast.
James Charles McElnay OBE FCCP FRPharmS is the current Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, Enterprise and Postgraduate Affairs and the Acting President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast. He was elected as acting Vice-Chancellor at a meeting of the standing committee of the university following the death of President and Vice-Chancellor Prof. Patrick Johnston. McElnay previously served as acting president and Vice-Chancellor in 2013 before the appointment of Prof. Johnston.
Elizabeth Marian Meehan was a distinguished academic and the first female professor of politics on the island of Ireland.
Eileen M. A. Harkin-Jones is the Bombardier Aerospace-Royal Academy of Engineering professor of composites engineering at the Ulster University.
Noemi Lois is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Queen's University Belfast and an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
Piers Hellawell is a British composer and professor of composition, currently residing in Northern Ireland.
Máire O'Neill is an Irish Professor of Information Security and inventor based at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies Queen's University Belfast. She was named the 2007 British Female Inventors & Innovators Network Female Inventor of the Year. She was the youngest person to be made a professor of engineering at Queen's University Belfast and youngest person to be inducted into the Irish Academy of Engineering.
Karen Rafferty is the Head of the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast. She works with virtual and augmented reality for health care and automation.
Jean Crawford Cochrane was an Irish educator and activist for women's education.
Vicky Conway was an Irish academic and activist for police reform. She was an associate professor at Dublin City University. She was a member of the board of the Policing Authority and the Commission on the Future of Policing.
