Queen’s Policy Engagement is the ‘front door’ for public policy engagement at Queen’s University Belfast
Supporting academics and policymakers in sharing evidence-based research and ideas on the major social, cultural and economic challenges facing society regionally, nationally and beyond. Our over-arching vision is to share the University’s independent expertise with policymakers so they can make informed decisions about the most effective and sustainable ways to tackle these challenges, now and in the future.
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Queen’s Social Charter Podcast – Episode 5: Cancer Research and Mental Health
In episode five of the series, we focus on health, both physical and mental.
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Queen’s Social Charter Podcast – Episode 4: Knitstanbul and Social Enterprise
In episode four of the series we look at the potential of the social and solidarity economy as a way of empowering marginalised people and of achieving goals that go beyond the realm of the economic.
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Karlsruhe 5 May 2020 – spelling the “end of the EU” or indicating distrust in judicial dialogue?
Prof Dagmar Schiek shares some thoughts on the German Federal Constitutional Court’s recent ruling on the EU’s PSP Programme.
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Disabled people’s rights during the COVID-19 crisis
Dr Ivanka Antova looks at how disability rights in the UK have fared under the myriad of COVID-19 related legislation and guidelines and calls for disability rights protection and enforcement to be a priority during the pandemic.
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Cancer Care in the Era of COVID-19 – Online Panel Discussion
Queen’s University Belfast has been playing a leading role in the fight against COVID-19, particularly in the cancer domain.
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Home cooking means healthier eating – there’s an opportunity to change food habits for good
Lockdown may mark the start of a healthier relationship with food for many people says Dr Danielle McCarthy.
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Randomly Responding to Covid-19
Science is quite rightly seen as systematic and based on logic and reason. Counter-intuitively, a core tool used by scientists is the opposite: randomness, says Professor John Garry.
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COVID-19 and Older People: a Queen’s University podcast
Professor Stuart Elborn, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, hosts a discussion about the impact on older people and their families of the current coronavirus pandemic.
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The UK-EU Joint Consultative Working Group: What it is and what it could be
Dr Katy Hayward and Prof David Phinnemore reflect on today’s meeting of the Specialised Committee on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland as well as the Joint Consultative Working Group which, they state, could be Northern Ireland’s best hope of informing and shaping EU-level decisions post-Brexit.
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Coronavirus treatments: what drugs might work against COVID-19?
Dr Connor Bamford looks at some of the treatments being investigated in the fight against COVID-19.