Podcast

Prof Rory O’Connell (Ulster), Mr Eoin Rooney, Prof Colin Harvey (QUB) and Prof Aoife Nolan (Nottingham, ex QUB): This presentation discusses the findings of multidisciplinary… Read More »Budget analysis and Housing in Northern Ireland

Ms Lindsay Shaw (Ulster): There are social inequality issues relating to low/limited income households being less able to afford a better standard of housing. While… Read More »Changing the Minimum Standard for Housing

Prof Brigid Featherstone (OU) and Dr John Devaney (QUB):  In both England and Northern Ireland there appears to be a policy consensus that early authoritative… Read More »Making timely decisions for children: balancing differing needs in families

Dr Alice Diver (Ulster): This presentation looks at the right to genetic identity/relatedness, with reference to some recent controversial cases involving adoption, surrogacy, donor children… Read More »The child’s right to genetic ancestry as a key element of the best interests principle in adoption, donor and surrogacy contexts: reforming adoption law in Northern Ireland

Dr Peter Bolan, Dr Karise Hutchinson and Mr Matthew Kearney (Ulster): This presentation explains that golf and film tourism are both highly lucrative and Northern… Read More »Developing and harnessing golf tourism and film tourism as economic drivers

Dr Brendan Galbraith and Ms Kirsty McManus (Ulster): A key question is how do business models ensure that new high-tech innovations are responsible, benefit society and… Read More »Benefiting a regional economy with societal-driven innovation adoption in high-tech small firms

Ms Michelle Douglas, Prof Karen Fleming and Prof Ian Montgomery (Ulster): In almost all the official Northern Ireland documentation highlighting statistics and reviews for the… Read More »Hide and Seek: Where is design in the creative industries network of Northern Ireland and do we really understand its power in the growth of our economy?

Dr Mark McCann and Dr Dermot O’Reilly (QUB): Research on admissions to care homes for older people has paid more attention to individual and social… Read More »Area of residence and admissions to care homes for older people: data linkage study of factors associated with entry to care

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