Category: Community and Society
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Community-University Research Engagement: How Can We Do It Better?
Following a recent workshop, Dr Julie Norman asks how can university researchers and community partners better collaborate to deliver high-impact research, especially in communities affected by conflict or social divisions?
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What can we learn from the democratic upsets of 2016?
With Trump in office and opening positions being articulated ahead of Brexit negotiations, the important question of how we got here remains the subject of debate and analysis. Dr John Moriarty reflects on these major democratic decisions and what they have taught us, or reminded us, about ourselves and our society.
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Fresh Eyes: How Stakeholder Involvement Helps Get More From Your Data
Dr John Moriarty looks at how stakeholder engagement is now an important facet of any programme of social research as it can help researchers get more from their data.
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Commemorating and remembering World War One
In this, the decade of centenaries, Professor Keith Lilley takes a look at the complexities of the commemoration of war and highlights that the various commemorations in 2016 have led to popular discussion and political debate around remembering.
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NI Festival of Social Science 2016
The Northern Ireland Festival of Social Science will take place from 5-11 November as part of the UK-wide ESRC Festival of Social Science.
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The enigmas of Roger Casement
On the centenary of his execution, Dr Marie Coleman looks at the life and career of Roger Casement and the role he played in the 1916 Easter Rising.
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ESRC Festival of Social Science – Funding opportunity call
The 2016 ESRC Festival of Social Science will take place from 5th – 12th November 2016 and the Northern Ireland programme is now welcoming applications for event funding.
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How to mark the Easter Rising in Northern Ireland
Professor John Brewer looks at the pervading memory culture in Northern Ireland and questions how we might remember key historic events such as the Easter Rising in ways that heal rather than divide.
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A Terrible Beauty is Born – Yeats and “Easter 1916”
In the most famous piece of writing about the Rising, Easter 1916, WB Yeats famously revised his earlier critical opinions of Ireland. But, asks Professor Fran Brearton, was he also responding to Rudyard Kipling’s pro-unionist poem, Ulster 1912?
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Remembering Pearse in Music: Arnold Bax’s In Memoriam
Dr Aidan Thomson looks at the life of Sir Arnold Pax and examines how a meeting with Padraig Pearse led to Pax becoming known as a “Celtic Composer.”