Erin Early is a Lecturer in Social Policy at Ulster University. She previously held Research Fellow positions at University College London and Queen’s University Belfast. Erin’s research interests are centred around secondary data analysis and social inequalities, particularly in education, health and the family.

Nora Poloni-Gallagher joined the ARK team as a Research Associate. She will start her PhD at Queen's University in September 2022 researching algorithmic regulations in the public sphere. Nora is an early career lecturer at Ulster University at the School of Applied Social and Policy Studies. Her research interests include gender equality and social policy.

Alexandra Chapman is ARK Policy Director, and is a lecturer at Ulster University, School of Applied Social and Policy Studies. Her research interests are in the area of adult social care, childcare and family policy. 

Her PhD on adult social care was supported by the ARK Ageing Programme. Her work has been published in Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Journal of Integrated Care and Health and Social Care in the Community.

Sinéad currently works as part of the ARK team, and is based at Ulster University.  She works closely with:

• INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute), 
• CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet), 
• Conflict Textiles (An associate project of INCORE), 
• Dr Nigel Glenny (Site Director for Augsburg CGEE NI).

Sinéad studied at the Ulster University where she graduated with a BA Hons degree in Business Studies has been employed by the University since 2004 .

Adrian Grant is a Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University and is currently the CAIN Transformation Project Lead. His current research focuses on the everyday experience of conflict and division in urban settings. Much of his work focuses on the conflict in, and about, Northern Ireland. He has worked extensively in research on the legacy of conflict, particularly on the role of oral history and urban policy in addressing division.

Ann Marie Gray is Co-Director of ARK, and Professor of Social Policy in Ulster University. Her research interests are in the area of health and social care policy, policy making in Northern Ireland, gender and social policy and social attitudes.

Dr Martin Melaugh is Director of CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet; cain.ulst.ac.uk). CAIN is an associated project of INCORE and ARK. Martin previously worked in the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster.

Dr Lynn is Deputy Director of Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). A graduate of the University of Ulster, he has taught history at the same university and at Queen's University Belfast.

He worked on the Dictionary of Irish Biography and has written extensively on developments in nationalist politics in Northern Ireland since 1945

Goretti Horgan is a senior lecturer in Social Policy at Ulster University. Her research interests are child rights and women’s rights, especially child poverty, welfare reform and poverty among disabled people.