Dr Mark Simpson (Ulster) The protection of human dignity and poverty reduction are core functions of social security. Changes to working age benefits since 2010… Read More »Protecting dignity, fighting poverty and promoting social inclusion in devolved social security
Dr Damian Gallagher (Ulster), Dr Ann Pegoraro (Laurentian University, Canada), Prof Audrey Gilmore (Ulster) and Mr Ryan Bell (Ulster) The principal aim of this presentation… Read More »Government Policy & the Business of Sport in Northern Ireland
Dr Taiwo Oriola (Ulster) Revenge pornography encapsulates the act of online distribution or publication of sexually explicit private images or films of an ex-girlfriend, boyfriend,… Read More »Criminalising Revenge Porn in Northern Ireland: Laws and Lessons from England and Wales and other Common Law Jurisdictions
Dr John Topping (QUB) Governed primarily under the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (PACE), the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) use… Read More »Police Stop & Search Powers: Understanding Nature & Extent of Adversarial Contact Between PSNI and the Public
Prof Gráinne McKeever, Dr Lucy Royal-Dawson, Dr John McCord and Dr Eleanor Kirk (Ulster)This presentation presents findings based on qualitative and quantitative research with personal… Read More »Litigants in person in the civil and family courts in Northern Ireland
Prof Stephen McClean (Ulster) While funding for higher education has been reduced there remains an impetus on universities to provide a high quality and engaging… Read More »Interactive Technologies to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Dr Sally Cook, Dr Paul McKenzie and Dr Stephen Roulston (Ulster) This presentation highlights the communal divisions in one town in Northern Ireland, Coleraine, through… Read More »Using GPS tracking devices to explore the geographies of young people
Dr Claire McDowell (Ulster), Prof Julian Leslie (Ulster) and Dr Catherine Storey (QUB) Despite a nationwide understanding that reading well is essential to tackling the… Read More »Better Reading for Better Outcomes- Working Collaboratively to Narrow the Attainment Gap
Prof Shailey Minocha (OU), Dr Steve Tilling (UCL Institute of Education) and Dr Ana-Despina Tudor (OU) Fieldwork has a long tradition in geography, and in… Read More »Role of Virtual Reality in Geography and Science Fieldwork Education
Dr Cheryl Lawther, Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Lauren Dempster (QUB) This presentation presents the preliminary findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded… Read More »Voice, Agency and Blame: Victimhood and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland