Dr Assumpta Ryan (Ulster) This presentation will bring together the findings from a range of qualitative and mixed methods studies on family caregiving and entry… Read More »A time of transition: family caregiving, older people and long-term care
Professor Pauric McGowan (UU), Dr Richard Blundel (OU) and Dr Kristen Reid (OU) – Public policy statements on enterprise and entrepreneurship education have emphasised its… Read More »Delivering effective enterprise education – the role of learning design and technology
Professor Teresa Cremin (OU) This presentation is based on a comparative study funded by the European Union, which works across the four nations of the… Read More »Creative Little Scientists
Professor Nigel J Mason (OU) The United Kingdom, like most of Europe, is struggling to attract its younger generation into Science Engineering Technology and Mathematics… Read More »Realising potential: Widening participation in Science and Technology
Dr Anne Kouvonen, Dr Justyna Bell and Dr Michael Donnelly (QUB) This presentation will discuss our research in mental health and well-being of Polish migrants… Read More »‘We asked for workers, but human beings came’: Mental health and well-being of Polish migrants in Northern Ireland
Dr Ruth McAreavey (QUB) During the past two decades a predominant pattern of emigration has been reversed in Northern Ireland, as it became a destination… Read More »Poverty, ethnicity and international migrants to Northern Ireland: new opportunities or new vulnerabilities?
Dr Johanne Devlin Trew (Ulster) Between 2004 and 2008, immigration to Northern Ireland rose to unprecedented numbers and the issue of how the newcomers could… Read More »‘Lost generations’? Taking the longer view on Northern Ireland migration
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