December 2017

Dr Philip O’Sullivan (OU): This seminar will focus on environmental economics and policy. It will present the case that, despite the recent global economic downturn… Read More »Carbon, economic growth and unsustainability: the inevitable transition to a low carbon economy beyond GDP

Professor Greg Lloyd and Gavan Rafferty (Ulster): With the emerging Local Government (Reform) Bill, Community Planning offers an innovative way to consider how public services… Read More »Creating A Constructive Interface Between Community Planning and Land Use (Spatial) Planning

Dr Muiris MacCarthaigh (QUB): As governments across the globe grapple with the effects of the global financial and economic crises, the issue of public service… Read More »Where to next with the RPA?: Lessons from international developments in public service reform

Grainne McKeever (Ulster): The process of welfare reform highlights the pressures on government agencies to deal with an increased number of claims, which has inevitably… Read More »Access to Justice Through Better Decision-Making

Dr Aideen Hunter, Dr Jessica Bates, Dr Alan McCully and Dr Una O’Connor (Ulster): This presentation will offer insight into the potential for co-operation between… Read More »Rural Primary School Partnerships, Sustainability and Social Cohesion

Professor John Wolffe (OU): This presentation will examine the assumption that although the Northern Ireland community divide has been ‘sectarian’, it has not been ‘religious’.… Read More »Beyond the ‘dreary steeples’? Reassessing the role of religion in Northern Ireland community divisions

Dr Ian Shuttleworth and Professor Frank Gaffikin (QUB): It is often assumed that residential segregation in Northern Ireland always increases through time. However, early analyses… Read More »New and Shifting Populations in Belfast: Analysis and Impact

Professor Mike Tomlinson (QUB):  For all the discussion around the needs of victims and survivors, there are few established facts on the impact of the… Read More »Legacies of Conflict: the evidence