Category: Community and Society
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Heritage, Creativity and Belonging: A Participatory Approach to Policy Innovation
How can the historic environment contribute to a sense of local belonging? And can community creativity be part of the answer?
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Policy Paper – Domestic Abuse Survivors’ Experiences of Family Courts in Northern Ireland
By Dr Katrina McLaughlin, School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast; Rosalyn Millar, School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast; and Caoilfhionn Hardy, Southern Trust and Women’s Aid.
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The story of the first all-Ireland mapping survey 200 years ago
Article originally appeared on RTE Brainstorm.
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The Catholic Church has gotten better at saying sorry – but is anyone listening?
For many years, apologies from the Catholic Church have been received as hollow, even insincere says Professor Gladys Ganiel and Dr Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill.
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Celebrating the impact of social science research with the ESRC Festival of Social Science in NI
The 2023 ESRC Festival of Social Science in Northern Ireland is now open. Book your place now!
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More than ‘lovely girls’: revisiting Ireland’s Housewife of the Year competition
A dismissal of the competition from today’s vantage point ignores the otherwise unmarked lives of Irish women in those decades says Dr Shonagh Hill, Dr Trish McTighe and Dr Gemma Carney.
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Disability rates in Northern Ireland in a time of unprecedented budget cuts
Guest contributor Anne Devlin from the Economic and Social Research Institute looks at disability rates in Northern Ireland and why they are important in this time of unprecedented budget cuts.
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New Podcast – Racial Equity Champions Network
Part 1 of a Charter Podcast mini-series featuring members of Queen’s University Belfast’s Racial Equity Champions (REC) Network.
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Transformative mediation, intersectionality and gender Justice: outlining a productive research agenda?
Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana and Dr Heidi Riley from UCD look at some of the the key questions they are looking at through the Talk4Peace project.
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NI ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022
The ESRC Festival of Social Science in Northern Ireland is now open for registrations.