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Des O'Rawe is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen's University Belfast, where he also directs the Centre for Documentary Research and serves as a research fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. His research focuses on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to film, with a particular emphasis on documentary film's intersections with radical psychiatry, post-conflict societies, and visual arts.
He has secured significant grants from the British Academy, Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme Trust, and AHRC. Notable publications include Documentary Film and Radical Psychiatry (2024), Regarding the Real: Cinema, Documentary, and the Visual Arts (2016), and co-editing Post-Conflict Performance, Film and Visual Arts: Cities of Memory (2016). His work addresses themes such as mental health representation, conflict resolution through arts, and the ethical dimensions of documentary filmmaking.
- Awards: Leverhulme Research Fellowship, AHSS Faculty Research Initiatives Fund Award
- Grants: AHRC (2017-22), Wellcome Trust (2015-16)
- Supervised 10 PhD projects and co-supervised 5
Key projects include studies on documentary film and visual arts, reconciliation in post-conflict Belfast and Sarajevo, and trauma representation in mental health contexts. His research bridges film studies with broader cultural, political, and ethical inquiries.
