Prof. Jean Allain (QUB) This seminar will consider legal issues surrounding human trafficking. Consideration will be given to the definition of trafficking, with an emphasis… Read More »Human Trafficking: Does Slavery Exist Today
Marina Monteith & Dr Una O’Connor Bones (UU) The seminar will cover research undertaken by the Children and Youth Programme, UNESCO Centre (IRISS UU), producing… Read More »Child Rights Indicators and Reporting on United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child
Laura Dunne (QUB) The Institute of Child Care Research conducts original research into child care needs and services using a mix of research methods with… Read More »Child Care Research, youth development, lifestyles and social behaviour; parenting and early years; children in the care of public authorities and mental health and disability
Professor Derek Birrell (UU) Much has been said about the extent to which Northern Ireland is over-governed with the solution generally seen in terms of… Read More »Is the idea that Northern Ireland is over-governed a myth?
Ian Shuttleworth (QUB) This seminar, based upon data from the NI Census of Population and the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study, will examine residential segregation and… Read More »NI Census of Population and the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study will examine residential segregation and population change
Jack Anderson (QUB) In September 2011, a partnership between the NI ombudsman, the Law Centre (NI) and the School of Law at Queen’s University led… Read More »Promoting Alternative Dispute Resolution in Northern Ireland
Dr Jonny Byrne, Dr Cathy Gormley Heenan & Gillian Robinson (UU) This seminar presents finding from new research examining the public’s attitudes and awareness of peace… Read More »Public Attitudes to and Awareness of Peace Walls: impacting on policy
Maria Lohan, Áine Aventin & Peter O’Halloran (QUB) This seminar will describe the development of an educational resource designed to increase young people’s intention to… Read More »How to reduce teenage pregnancy in Northern Ireland? A movie-based educational approach
Professor Colin Knox & Professor Vani Borooah (UU) Shared education refers to schools from different sectors working together in a sustained process ranging from… Read More »Delivering Shared Education
Goretti Horgan (UU) This seminar looks at the implications arising from the Welfare Reform Bill and assesses what can be done within the constraints of… Read More »Welfare Reform: Implications and Options