Sir Alan Budd (1937-2023)

The College is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Sir Alan Budd, Provost of the College from 1999 to 2008 and an Honorary Fellow from 2008, until his…

Prof Alan Bowman MA Oxf, MA PhD Toronto, FBA

Accessibility, health, and welfare

…term, the Welfare reps organise a welfare brunch for the entire JCR with plenty of food for everyone! Study buddies Study buddies are second-years in each subject who support first…

Classics at Queen's: a brief profile

…of many books on Rome’s relationships with its neighbours, especially in the East.  He was succeeded by Alan Bowman (BA 1966), best known for work on the Vindolanda Tablets with…

The Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History

…University of Pennsylvania War, Race, and Anti-Imperialism in Merze Tate’s International Thought 2017-18 Elliott West, University of Arkansas Things Come Together: Science and the American West 2016-17 Alan Taylor, University…

Dr Linda Irving-Bell

…Professor Alan Cowey and then worked on Alan’s research team for a while, at the same time becoming a College Lecturer for St Hilda’s. When I saw an advertisement in…

A taste of Czech literature and translation: a visit from Jáchym Topol and Alex Zucker

…USA, commenting on issues arising from advising on general rates for translation but also speaking positively of the atmosphere in the growing and increasingly interconnected translation community. For any budding…

What QTE did for me: the view from a languages entrepreneur

…Creative Translation in Schools project, and shortly after, I joined the QTE committee and volunteered to write articles for its budding blog page. This unique experience of working for an…

The Visible Translator: telling Japanese ghost stories

…in the UK, where ghosts are associated with cold, dark nights and Halloween, in Japan, summer is the season for scary stories. During the Buddhist festival of Obon, which takes…

Prof Jane Mellor

Research My research group uses the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the nematode worm, Caenhorrhabitis elegans as model organisms in which to study how transcription, non-coding RNAs, higher order structures in chromatin,…

Translation Exchanges

Buddhist festival of Obon, which takes place in mid-August, it is believed that spirits from the afterlife return to roam the Earth. Traditionally, Japanese ghost stories are told around this…

Summer Creative Translation Digest

…to register here to receive classroom inspiration and activity ideas throughout the submissions period. Inside poetry translation with the 2022 Stephen Spender Prize winners: QTE blog interviews As inspiration for budding…

Anthea Bell Prize Submission Form 2024

Anthea Bell Prize Submission Form 2024 School name * School address * School address School address School address Postcode Postcode City City Country (please note that the competition is open…

Special Collections

…The Peet Library is a specialist collection of Egyptology material which is maintained and updated by The Queen’s College Library. It was donated by Sir Alan Gardiner (1879–1963) in memory…

Emma Slack appointed new Professor of Molecular Immunology

…of Molecular Immunology was endowed by the CIU Trust and the EPA Research Fund and is named in honour of the distinguished Dunn School immunologists Alan Williams and Neil Barclay….

Anthea Bell Prize 2023: Winners and Commendees

Alana Best (year 9), Wallace High, Lisburn Anonymous, Glenlola Collegiate School Spanish Tatiana Grabowska (year 9), Saint Paul’s High School, Bessbrook Leia Phenix (year 13), Rathmore Grammar School Thomas Durnien…