Series 1

Joanne Wilson: This seminar explores the Government’s current desire to measure the nation’s well-being. Well-being is a complex and nebulous concept and different people will use… Read More »Understandings of well-being: Implications for public policy

Janet Carter-Anand:  The development of elder abuse services has traditionally been defined from the perspective of policy makers and professionals. This presentation will outline the… Read More »Older people’s perceptions of elder abuse: Implications for policy and professional practice

Karen McElrath and Julie Harris: Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) is widely recognised as an intervention that is used to treat opioid (namely heroin) dependence. It is… Read More »Institutional stigma and the delivery of methadone maintenance: A comparison of clients’ experiences from North/South Ireland

Nicola Carr and Karen Winter: The benefits of an inter-disciplinary approach are evident when working with individuals and families with a range of complex needs, and… Read More »Improving court work skills in child care proceedings

Karen Winter: It is well known that across the UK and elsewhere children in care have poor educational outcomes in comparison with the child population as… Read More »Addressing the educational underachievement of children in care

Gavin Davidson: The Mental Capacity (Health, Welfare and Finance) Bill for Northern Ireland is currently being drafted. The proposed law is a potentially progressive approach to… Read More »Supported and Substitute Decision Making under Mental Capacity Legislation: a review of the international evidence

Lynn Johnston: Our planet’s changing age demographic has sparked economic debates relating to intergenerational equity and exchanges. This seminar focusses on the social aspects of intergenerational… Read More »The life-course, age and intergenerational relations

Madeleine Leonard: The purpose of this presentation is to present young people’s attitudes to peace-walls in Belfast and whether they feel peace-walls should be temporary or… Read More »Young people’s attitudes to peace walls in Belfast

Mike Tomlinson: Measures of poverty typically combine low income with indicators of deprivation – items and activities that people lack because they cannot afford them.… Read More »Defining the breadline. Is there a Northern Ireland consensus?

Sally Shortall discusses why evidence-based policy implicitly assumes a linear relationship between research evidence and policy formation. The reality is much more complex. There are… Read More »What counts as ‘evidence’? The complexities of providing evidence to inform public policy