Environmental Sciences Research Institute

  1. Background
  2. Publications
  3. Research Grants
  4. Teaching Interests

Dr Sara McDowell

Lecturer in Human Geography

Contact Me
Room G265
School of Environmental Sciences
University of Ulster
Cromore Road
Coleraine
BT52 1SA
Telephone: +44 (0) 2870123399
Fax: +44 (0) 2870124911
Email: sp.mcdowell@ulster.ac.uk

Education

2006 PhD University of Ulster
2003 MA Queens University Belfast
2002 BA Queens University Belfast

Employment

2007 (Jan-June) Research Associate, INCORE University of Ulster
2007-present Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster

Publications

Number of items: 14.

Braniff, Maire, McDowell, Sara and Byrne, Jonny (2012) Violence, Space and Memory in the New Northern Ireland. 4 pp

McDowell, Sara (2012) Symbolic Warfare in the ethnocratic state: Conceptualising memorialisation and territoriality in Sri Lanka. Terrorism and Political Violence, 24 (1). pp. 22-37.

McDowell, Sara and Shirlow, Peter (2011) Geographies of conflict and post-conflict Northern Ireland. Geography Compass, 5. pp. 700-709.

McDowell, Sara and Switzer, Catherine (2011) Violence and the Vernacular: Conflict, Commemoration and Rebuilding in the Urban Context. Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 18 (2). pp. 82-104.

McDowell, Sara and Switzer, Catherine (2009) Redrawing cognitive maps of conflict: lost spaces and forgetting in the centre of Belfast. Memory Studies, 2 (3). pp. 337-353.

McDowell, Sara (2009) Memory. In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. (Eds: Kitchin, R and Thrift, N), Elsevier, pp. 59-63. ISBN 978-0-08-044911-1

McDowell, Sara (2009) Negotiating places of pain in post-conflict Northern Ireland: debating the future of the Maze prison/Long Kesh. In: Places of pain and shame: dealing with difficult heritage. (Eds: Logan, William and Reeves, Keir), Routledge, pp. 215-230. ISBN 978-0-415-45450-6

McDowell, Sara (2008) Selling conflict heritage through tourism in peacetime Northern Ireland: transforming conflict or exacerbating difference?. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 14 (5). pp. 405-421.

McDowell, Sara (2008) Commemorating dead 'men': gendering the past and present in post-conflict Northern Ireland. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 15 (4). pp. 335-354.

McDowell, Sara (2008) Heritage, memory and identity. In: The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity. (Eds: Graham, Brian and Howard, Peter), Ashgate, pp. 37-54. ISBN 978-0-7546-4922-9

Gilmartin, Mary and McDowell, Sara, eds. (2008) Bibliography of Irish Geography. 0 pp. Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 978-1-904890-53-9

McDowell, Sara (2007) Armalite, the ballot box and memorialisation: Sinn Féin and the state in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 96 (3993). pp. 725-738.

Graham, Brian and McDowell, Sara (2007) Meaning in the Maze: the heritage of Long Kesh. Cultural Geographies, 14 (3). pp. 343-368.

McDowell, Sara (2007) Renegotiating the past in peacetime Northern Ireland: consolidating a republican place for a republican past. In: Public Places, Public Pasts. (Eds: Ashworth, Gregory, Groote, Peter and Haartsen, Tialda), Royal Dutch Geographical Society, pp. 49-60. ISBN 0169-4839

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Research Grants

2007 Royal Irish Academy Exploring the Nuances of Gender in the Post-apartheid Commemoration of South Africa’s Past

2009 Economic and Social Research Council Commemoration as Conflict: Continuing the War by Other Means

Teaching Interests

  • Political Geographies
  • Contemporary Geographies of Ireland
  • Human Geographical Systems