Dr Sharon Jones (Stranmillis University College) – The current deficit in skills in modern languages is economically detrimental (Foreman-Peck and Wang, 2013), not least to… Read More »Languages in Primary Schools in Northern Ireland
Prof Simon Lee (OU) – The concept of “parity of esteem” is central to diverse constitutional, political, legal and socio-economic narratives of Northern Ireland and… Read More »Parity of Esteem Re-visited & Re-imagined
Dr Anne Smith (Ulster) and Prof Colin Harvey (QUB) – This presentation focuses on an independent funded project (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust) that seeks to… Read More »The Northern Ireland Bill of Rights in the Context of Brexit
Prof Rory O’Connell (Ulster) and Prof Colin Harvey (QUB) – The BrexitLawNI project is a collaborative project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. … Read More »Brexit and Northern Ireland: The Constitutional, Conflict Transformation, Human Rights and Equality Consequences (BrexitLawNI)
Dr Leslie Budd (OU) – Managing the process of the United Kingdom (UK) exiting from the European Union (EU) for Northern Ireland (NI) is the… Read More »Making sense of Brexit’s challenges to Economic Citizenship
Prof Cahal McLaughlin (QUB) Three official reports in Northern Ireland have each recommended storytelling as one of the methods to address the legacy of the… Read More »The role of oral history in societies emerging from conflict
Dr Sharon Mallon (OU) The signing of the Good Friday agreement effectively brought an end to the widespread violence associated with the ‘Troubles’. However, communities… Read More »The role of paramilitary punishment attacks and intimidation in death by suicide in post agreement Northern Ireland
Ms Louise O’Boyle (Ulster) This presentation will discuss the findings from evidence-based research into the effectiveness of a partnership between Louise O’Boyle (Ulster University) and… Read More »Promoting community well-being through partnerships and co-production
Prof Keith Attenborough and Dr Shahram Taherzadeh (OU) Noise barriers are a common method of combating noise (mentioned under ‘environment’ in the KESS hot topics list)… Read More »Environmental methods of surface transport noise reduction
Dr Linda McElduff (Ulster) Coastal communities on the island of Ireland face a range of structural and locational challenges, including changing environmental parameters and the… Read More »Planning for Coastal Community Resilience