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Role of digital health wearables in the wellbeing and quality of life of older people and carers
Professor Shailey Minocha, Dr Ana-Despina Tudor, Dr Duncan Banks, Dr Caroline Holland and Ms Catherine McNulty (OU), Mr Rohit Ail (Samsung UK), Mrs Jane Palmer
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Mellow Parenting: Caring for vulnerable mothers
Mr Iain McGowan (QUB), Dr Lucy Thompson and Prof Phil Wilson (University of Aberdeen) – Pregnancy and childbirth are traditionally recognised as life events that
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Breastfeeding Promotion as an Economic Investment
Dr Mark McGovern (QUB), Dr Giampiero Marra (University College London), Dr Rosalba Radice (University of London) and Dr Slawa Rokicki (University College Dublin) – Not
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Voice, Agency and Blame: Victimhood and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Dr Cheryl Lawther, Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Lauren Dempster (QUB) – This presentation presents the preliminary findings of an Arts and Humanities Research Council
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The ‘Disappeared,’ the ICLVR, and ‘dealing with the past’ in Northern Ireland
Dr Lauren Dempster (QUB) – 2014’s Stormont House Agreement (SHA) states that the Independent Commission on Information Retrieval (ICIR) will build ‘on the precedent provided
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Apologies, Abuses and Dealing with the past
Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Anna Bryson (QUB) – Within the academic literature, the concept of apology is diversely theorised and almost always focused on
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Interactive Technologies to Enhance Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Prof Stephen McClean (Ulster) – While funding for higher education has been reduced there remains an impetus on universities to provide a high quality and
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Using GPS tracking devices to explore the geographies of young people
Dr Sally Cook, Dr Paul McKenzie and Dr Stephen Roulston (Ulster) – This presentation highlights the communal divisions in one town in Northern Ireland, Coleraine,
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Better Reading for Better Outcomes- Working Collaboratively to Narrow the Attainment Gap
Dr Claire McDowell (Ulster), Prof Julian Leslie (Ulster) and Dr Catherine Storey (QUB) – Despite a nationwide understanding that reading well is essential to tackling
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Role of Virtual Reality in Geography and Science Fieldwork Education
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
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Litigants in person in the civil and family courts in Northern Ireland
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
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Police Stop & Search Powers: Understanding Nature & Extent of Adversarial Contact Between PSNI and the Public
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)