Fellow 2025-2026 Jim Donaghey
Dr. Jim Donaghey is establishing a strong reputation in the academic community and beyond for high quality research. Jim currently works as a Research Fellow at Ulster University's Centre for Communication, Media and Cultural Studies, and was recently a Visiting Researcher at the University of Franche-Comté in France (laboratoire C3S – Culture, Sport, Santé, Société).
Dr. Donaghey has a wealth of experience in carrying out research into the intersections of culture and politics in diverse global contexts (including Indonesia, Kosovo, Poland, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, and the UK, with ongoing collaboration with colleagues and research partners in those places and others), with an emphasis on participatory and creative methodologies. Jim is recognised as an expert in punk and radical politics and has used this as a springboard to explore issues of post-conflict legacies, contested spaces, sporting counter-culture, transnational movement organising, cultural production and industry, imaginaries of time, and cultural repression. His work has been translated and published in Indonesian, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese and Polish. Jim's teaching portfolio extends across numerous humanities disciplines including Politics, Sociology, Human/Political Geography, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Media Studies and History (at Loughborough University, Ulster University, Queen's University Belfast, Regent's Park College (Oxford University)). Dr. Donaghey's scholarly networks are extensive and international in scope, and he has been honoured by invitations as guest speaker and keynote speaker at conferences and symposia worldwide (including at Universitas Indonesia (Jakarta), National University of Singapore, San Diego State University, Lund University, Universiteti i Prishtinës, University of Łódź, SOAS (University of London), University of Porto, Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon), and University of Helsinki). Jim is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Anarchist Studies and Punk & Post-Punk, and is web editor of AnarchistStudies.Blog.
