Fidelma Ashe is a Professor of politics and a member of the Transitional Justice Institute. She is author/editor of 5 books including 2 single authored monographs. She has written widely in the area of gender, ethno-nationalist conflict and peacebuilding.

Her research has been disseminated through a series of invited papers in international centres of excellence and keynotes at international conferences as far afield as the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her methodological innovations include blending social science and creative industry methods and activist expertise to make visible marginalised visions of peace. She acted as Primary Investigator on the project LGBTQ Visions of Peace in a Society Emerging from Conflict (AHRC 2015-2017). It produced new cultural artefacts, namely the creation of the first theatre play and photographic exhibition on the theme of LGBTQ+ visions of peace. She continues to work in this area with policymakers.

Her work on constitutional change has developed critical methodologies to promote the inclusion of women from multiple identity groups in discussions of constitutional futures. It focused on developing models of democratic inclusion, local-level participatory mechanisms and civic education and was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Dept for Foreign Affairs, Ireland. She has given oral testimony to the Irish Seanad on constitutional change and continues to raise issues of women’s equality in public discussions of Irish Unity. Her recent work on constitutional change can be found here: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/fidelma-ashe