Stephanie Burns

Stephanie Burns is the Research Fieldworker with the Irish Peace Centres, and holds a degree in Politics and a Master’s degree in Social Research Methods from Queen’s University Belfast. She is also currently studying for her PhD in how children and young people conceptualise the meaning of respect for diversity in a post-conflict society.

Prior to starting with the Irish Peace Centres, she worked for three years with The Partnership in Tucson, Arizona, USA, conducting research and evaluation for their youth substance abuse prevention and treatment programmes. In Northern Ireland, she has worked with a team of researchers from the National Children’s Bureau and with youth peer-researchers on a project funded by the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People that evaluated adolescent involvement in the development of anti-bullying policies in schools. Independently, she has evaluated the use of peer-research methodologies in research concerning children and young people. She has also worked as a needs assessor for elderly care with social services in Belfast, and has conducted research on the causes and effects of older people’s fear of crime in North Belfast.