Prof Stephen McClean (Ulster) – While funding for higher education has been reduced there remains an impetus on universities to provide a high quality and… Read More »Interactive Technologies to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Dr Stefanie Doebler (QUB): This presentation discusses new research findings from a project that analyses effects of providing unpaid care to a family member or… Read More »The Health and Mental Health of Informal Caregivers in Rural and Urban Northern Ireland
Dr Catherine O’Rourke (Ulster): This presentation outlines research findings that aim to constructively contribute to the vexed and halting debate in Northern Ireland about dealing… Read More »Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Putting Gender on the Agenda
Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Anna Bryson (QUB) – Within the academic literature, the concept of apology is diversely theorised and almost always focused on… Read More »Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the past
Dr Lauren Dempster (QUB) – 2014’s Stormont House Agreement (SHA) states that the Independent Commission on Information Retrieval (ICIR) will build ‘on the precedent provided… Read More »The ‘Disappeared,’ the ICLVR, and ‘dealing with the past’ in Northern Ireland
Dr Cheryl Lawther, Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Lauren Dempster (QUB) – This presentation presents the preliminary findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council… Read More »Voice, Agency and Blame: Victimhood and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Prof Monica McWilliams and Prof Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (Ulster): This presentation broadly addresses issues of gender equality in the context of the Northern Ireland transition.… Read More »Advancing Gender Equality in Northern Ireland: Addressing Domestic Violence and Human Rights Protections for Women
Prof Joan Ballantine, Prof Kathryn Haynes, Dr Melina Manochin and Mr Tony Wall (Ulster): The issue of gender equality at senior levels in the private… Read More »Gender Equality at the Executive Level of the Northern Ireland Public Sector
Dr Sharon Mallon (OU) and Dr Karen Galway (QUB): Bereavement is considered to be a common precursor of death by suicide. Studies suggest those bereaved… Read More »Towards an Understanding of the Role of Bereavement in the Pathway to Suicide
Dr Aideen Maguire, Dr Mark McCann, Dr John Moriarty and Dr Dermot O’Reilly (QUB): Mental ill health is a major contributor to the burden of… Read More »Using administrative data to understand mental health in Northern Ireland: results from two exemplar projects