# Fiona Magowan

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# Fiona Magowan

Professor

- Professor, [School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/school-of-history-anthropology-philosophy-and-politics/)
- [Anthropology and Ethnomusicology](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/anthropology-and-ethnomusicology/)
- [The Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/organisations/the-institute-for-global-peace-security-and-justice/)

[https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0391-6826](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0391-6826 "Orcid")

- Phone+44 (0)28 9097 3740
- Email[f.magowan@qub.ac.uk](#)

- Room 02.005 - 13 University Square

  United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Fiona Magowan is open to PhD applications in the fields of:\
- Music and storytelling in conflict transformation/peacebuilding\
- Arts and reconciliation\
- Sense and emotion\
- Dance, movement and empathy\
- Indigenous ritual, religion and performance\
- Christianity and missions\
- Gender and performance

1994 …Research output 2001: 7Research output 2002: 1Research output 2003: 2Projects 2005: 1Research output 2005: 9Research output 2006: 1Research output 2007: 3Research output 2008: 2Research output 2009: 3Projects 2010: 1Research output 2010: 2Research output 2011: 1Research output 2013: 5Research output 2014: 1Research output 2015: 1Projects 2016: 2Research output 2016: 4Research output 2018: 3Research output 2019: 2Research output 2022: 4Research output 2023: 1Research output 2025: 12025

Research activity per year

## Personal profile

### Particulars

Fiona Magowan was educated at the universities of Nottingham in Music and Oxford in Social Anthropology and awarded a D.Phil at Oxford. She held lectureships in Anthropology at Manchester University (1993-96) and Adelaide University, South Australia (1996-2003) before coming to Queen's University in 2003. She has been Vice-President of the Australian Anthropological Society 2000-2002, Chair of the Anthropological Association of Ireland (2006-08), a member of the Royal Irish Academy's National Committee for Social Sciences (2009-2011) and Chair of the Music and Gender Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music. She is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2017 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academcy since 2023.

### Research Statement

Her research has addressed three interconnected areas: music, sound and movement; art, emotion and the senses; and religion, identity and transformation. She has conducted fieldwork among Yolngu of the Northern Territory of Aboriginal Australia since 1990; with Stolen Generation artists in South Australia; and recently with Australian musicians working with refugees. As a Fellow and Research Lead of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, she is examining comparative aspects of arts and conflict transformation, specifically through music, identity and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and around the globe. She has published eight books including, *Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation* (Bloomsbury 2023 co-edited); Christianity, *Conflict, and Renewal in Australia and the Pacific* (Brill 2016, co-edited with Carolyn Schwarz); *Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion* (Rochester 2013, co-edited with L. Wrazen), *The Anthropology of Sex* (Berg co-authored with H. Donnan); *Transgressive Sex: Control and Subversion in Erotic Encounters* (Berghahn co-edited with H. Donnan) and *Melodies of Mourning: Music and Emotion in Northern Australia* (Oxford, James Currey 2007).

She has been PI or CI on several RCUK grants including, 'Sensing Risk: Walker-driver and Walker-Driver Interactions in the City' (PI, ESRC 2006-2008); 'Creativity in a World of Movement' (CI, HERA 2010-2012);  'The Domestic Moral Economy in the Asia Pacific' (CI, ESRC 2011-2015) and Sounding Conflict: From Resistance to Reconciliation (PI PaCCS 2017-2022). For this latter project she led a team of 6 Queen's staff working across three continents on the impacts of sound and its transformations. She has also been CI on the GCRF funded project 'The Role of Music in Conflict Transformation' (2017) with Prof. Rebelo (PI) and PI on the GCRF workshop, 'Dance, Art and Drama in Conflict Transformation' (2017-2018).

### Achievements

### **Queen's University Staff Excellence Awards**

In 2025 Professor Magowan was shortlisted in the Student Choice category of the Queen's Staff Excellence Awards for her work with MA and PhD students. You can view the nomination here: 

<https://qubstudentcloud.sharepoint.com/sites/int-peopleandculture/_layouts/15/stream.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2Fint%2Dpeopleandculture%2FSiteAssets%2FSitePages%2FSEA%2FF%20Magowan%20%2D%20Student%20Choice%20Shortlist%2Emp4&referrer=StreamWebApp%2EWeb&referrerScenario=AddressBarCopied%2Eview%2Ea2c260f0%2D86de%2D4e3a%2Da2a5%2D7845544b1502>

### 

### **Postgraduate Supervisory Excellence Awards**

Professor Magowan has also received Queen's Postgraduate Supervisory Excellence Awards twice in 2015 and 2017 and she was the first recipient of this award in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

### **Queen's Teaching Award**

Professor Magowan was also the first recipient of a Queen's University Teaching Award in the School of History and Anthropology (2007). For further information on the award see links below.

### **[http://www.mediator.qub.ac.uk/ms/streams/awards2007/Fiona\_MBR\_Broadband\_Stream\_16\_9.wmv](http://www.mediator.qub.ac.uk/ms/streams/awards2007/Fiona_MBR_Broadband_Stream_16_9.wmv "blocked::http://www.mediator.qub.ac.uk/ms/streams/awards2007/Fiona_MBR_Broadband_Stream_16_9.wmv")**

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### **Relevant Websites**

Royal Irish Academy Committee for Social Sciences **<http://www.ria.ie/committees/socialscience/new.html>**

Anthropological Association of Ireland: **<http://www.anthropologyireland.org/index.htm>**

International Council of Traditional Music:

### **<http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/>**

### Teaching

**Undergraduate:**

*Expressive Cultures: Sound, Text and Image* (ESA1001 to 2018)

*Being Creative: Music, Media and the Arts* (ESA1001 from 2019)

*Performance, Power and Passion* (ESA2002 and ESA3002)

*The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display* (ESA3002)

*Anthropology of Sex and Gender* (ANT2020, ANT3003)

*Dissertation Writing* (ANT3030)

**Postgraduate:**

*Advanced Anthropological Methods* (MA Level, ANT 7009)

### Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global [Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)](https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

1. SDG 16
   Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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## Projects

- [2](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/projects/?status=FINISHED)
  Finished

- ### [R1685AEL: Understanding the role of music and sound in conflict transformation: the Rwandan case study](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/ahrc-ahp00816x1-rwandan-case-study/)

  [Rebelo, P.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/pedro-rebelo/) (PI) & [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (CoI)

  09/11/2016 → 28/02/2018

  Project: Research

  - Project
  - Sonic Art
  - Acoustics
  - art projects
  - Portugal
- ### [R1686HAP: Sounding Conflict: from resistance to reconcilliation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/ahrc-ahp0053811-resistance-to-reconciliation/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (PI), [Lehner, S.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/stefanie-lehner/) (CoI), Milton-Edwards, B. (CoI), Norman, J. (CoI) & [Rebelo, P.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/pedro-rebelo/) (CoI)

  18/10/2016 → 30/06/2022

  Project: Research

  - Project
  - Sonic Art
  - Acoustics
  - art projects
  - Portugal
- ### [R1173HIS: The Domestic Moral Economy: An ethnographic study of values in the Asia-Pacific Region](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/esrc-the-domestic-moral-economy/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (PI)

  01/08/2010 → 30/09/2015

  Project: Research
- ### [R1715SAN: Sensing Risk: Driver-Walker and Walker-Driver Interactions in the City](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/projects/esrc-rec-000-23-1459/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (PI)

  01/08/2005 → 30/06/2007

  Project: Research

## Research output

- [14](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Farticle)
  Article
- [11](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontobookanthology%2Fchapter)
  Chapter
- [5](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontobookanthology%2Fpeerreviewedchapter)
  Chapter (peer-reviewed)
- [5](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fbookanthology%2Fbook)
  Book
- 4
  More

  - [**4** Performance](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fnontextual%2Fperformance)
  - [**1** Other contribution to conference](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontoconference%2Fother)
  - [**1** Special issue](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Fresearchoutput%2Fresearchoutputtypes%2Fcontributiontojournal%2Fspecial)

- ### [Social and emotional wellbeing in an Australian choir of people with disabilities](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/social-and-emotional-wellbeing-in-an-australian-choir-of-people-w/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/), 04 Jun 2025, In: [Ethnomusicology Forum.](#) 34, 1, p. 72-90 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  - Possible Selves
  - Realization
  - Participatory Music Making

  [2](https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105007290498#tab=citedBy)
  Citations
  (Scopus)

  72
  Downloads
  (Pure)
- ### [Sounding conflict. From resistance to reconciliation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/sounding-conflict-from-resistance-to-reconciliation/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/), [Lehner, S.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/stefanie-lehner/), Phillips-Hutton, A., Norman, J. & [Rebelo, P.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/pedro-rebelo/), 23 Feb 2023, [Bloomsbury Academic](#). 240 p. (Sound Studies)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

  - Creative Practice
  - Creativity
  - Narrative Method
  - Genre
  - Engage-ment
- ### [Emotion Curves: Creativity and Methodological "Fit" or "Commensurability"](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/emotion-curves-creativity-and-methodological-fit-or-commensurabil/)

  Donaghey, J. & [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/), 01 May 2022, In: [International Review of Qualitative Research.](#) 15, 1, p. 3-20

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  - Research
  - Emotion
  - Time
  - Methodology
  - Base

  134
  Downloads
  (Pure)
- ### [Inclusive Global Histories: Performing Collections at the Ulster Museum](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/inclusive-global-histories-performing-collections-at-the-ulster-m/)

  [Widdis, B.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/briony-widdis/), White Hamilton, T., [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) & Logan, K., 26 Jul 2022.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other contribution to conference › peer-review

  - Exhibition
  - Global History
  - Ulster Museum
  - Belfast
  - National Museum
- ### [Knowing‐through‐Performing](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/knowingthroughperforming/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/), Dec 2022, In: [American Anthropologist.](#) 124, 4, p. 880-884 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  304
  Downloads
  (Pure)

[View all 66 research outputs](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/publications/)

## Prizes

- ### [Advisory Board of the National Recording Project for Indigenous Performance in Australia](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/advisory-board-of-the-national-recording-project-for-indigenous-p/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Recipient), 2009

  Prize: Appointment
- ### [Elected Secretary of the Australian Anthropological Society](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/elected-secretary-of-the-australian-anthropological-society/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Recipient), 1999

  Prize: Election to learned society
- ### [Elected Vice-President of the Australian Anthropological Society](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/elected-vice-president-of-the-australian-anthropological-society/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Recipient), 2001

  Prize: Election to learned society
- ### [Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/fellow-of-the-academy-of-social-sciences-2/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Recipient), 2017

  Prize: Election to learned society
- ### [Fellow of the Higher Education Authority](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/prizes/fellow-of-the-higher-education-authority-3/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Recipient), 2007

  Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

[View all 20 prizes](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/prizes/)

## Activities

- [14](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fconferenceparticipation)
  Participation in conference
- [11](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fexamination%2Fexamination)
  PhD external examination
- [10](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fworkshopseminarcourseparticipation)
  Participation in workshop, seminar, course
- [7](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fcommittee)
  Membership of peer review panel or committee
- 29
  More

  - [**9** Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Finvited_or_keynote_talk_at_national_or_international_conference)
  - [**9** Invited talk](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Finvited_talk)
  - [**6** KTP & Consultancy in kind](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fconsultancy%2Fconsultancy)
  - [**6** Membership of national or international committees and working groups](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fmembership_of_national_or_international_committees_and_working_groups)
  - [**5** Membership of external research organisation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fcouncil)
  - [**4** Editorial activity](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Feditorialwork%2Feditorial)
  - [**3** Research and Teaching at External Organisation](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fvisitother%2Fresearch_and_teaching_at_external_organisation)
  - [**2** Participation in Festival/Exhibition](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fattendance%2Fparticipation_in_festival_exhibition)
  - [**2** Membership of board](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fmembership%2Fboard)
  - [**1** Hosting a delegation or group](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fotheractivity%2Fexternalacademicengagement_hostingacademicvisitor)
  - [**1** Other](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Fotheractivity%2Fother_activity)
  - [**1** Public lecture/debate/seminar](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/?type=%2Fdk%2Fatira%2Fpure%2Factivity%2Factivitytypes%2Ftalk%2Fpublic_lecture_debate_seminar)

- ### [World Summit on Music in Peacebuilding](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/world-summit-on-music-in-peacebuilding/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Organiser)

  09 Jun 2026 → 11 Jun 2026

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- ### [Bodies, Vulnerability and Empowerment conference](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/bodies-vulnerability-and-empowerment-conference/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Invited speaker)

  06 Mar 2026

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
- ### [Christian Ethics and Peacebuilding in the Age of AI and Autonomous Weapons Systems](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/christian-ethics-and-peacebuilding-in-the-age-of-ai-and-autonomou/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Organiser) & Omotoyinbo, F. (Organiser)

  06 Mar 2026

  Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
- ### [Min-On Music Research Institute (External organisation)](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/min-on-music-research-institute-external-organisation/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Member)

  15 Jan 2026

  Activity: Membership types › Membership of external research organisation
- ### [Social and Emotional Wellbeing in an Australian Choir of People with Disabilities, invited speaker: Adelaide South Australia](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/activities/social-and-emotional-wellbeing-in-an-australian-choir-of-people-w/)

  [Magowan, F.](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/) (Invited speaker)

  09 Jun 2025

  Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

[View all 118 activities](https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/fiona-magowan/activities/)