Comms Office

Karen Winter: It is well known that across the UK and elsewhere children in care have poor educational outcomes in comparison with the child population as… Read More »Addressing the educational underachievement of children in care

Gavin Davidson: The Mental Capacity (Health, Welfare and Finance) Bill for Northern Ireland is currently being drafted. The proposed law is a potentially progressive approach to… Read More »Supported and Substitute Decision Making under Mental Capacity Legislation: a review of the international evidence

Lynn Johnston: Our planet’s changing age demographic has sparked economic debates relating to intergenerational equity and exchanges. This seminar focusses on the social aspects of intergenerational… Read More »The life-course, age and intergenerational relations

Madeleine Leonard: The purpose of this presentation is to present young people’s attitudes to peace-walls in Belfast and whether they feel peace-walls should be temporary or… Read More »Young people’s attitudes to peace walls in Belfast

Mike Tomlinson: Measures of poverty typically combine low income with indicators of deprivation – items and activities that people lack because they cannot afford them.… Read More »Defining the breadline. Is there a Northern Ireland consensus?

Sally Shortall discusses why evidence-based policy implicitly assumes a linear relationship between research evidence and policy formation. The reality is much more complex. There are… Read More »What counts as ‘evidence’? The complexities of providing evidence to inform public policy