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.
Latest news and views…
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Climate change, Ireland, and the Climate Emergency Measures Bill
Climate change is increasingly recognised as the most pressing global challenge humanity faces says Dr Amanda Slevin.
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Majority Voting is a Most Ancient, Primitive, Divisive and inaccurate measure of collective opinion
Binary voting is inadequate but in a multi-option vote, the individual can express an accurate viewpoint says Peter Emerson.
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The White Paper and the Irish Dimension: Is it enough to avoid a hard border?
In a specially extended read, Dr Katy Hayward and Professor David Phinnemore take a closer look at the UK government’s recent White Paper on The Future Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union.
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The UK White Paper and the Irish Dimension: The 1998 Agreement, North-South cooperation & avoiding a hard Border
The following set of slides assesses the extent to which the future UK-EU relationship proposed in the UK government’s recent White Paper would deliver on commitments relating to Northern Ireland and Ireland made by the UK and the EU in their Joint Report of December 2017.
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Why technology puts human rights at risk
How can we defend human rights in a technological landscape increasingly shaped by robotics and artificial intelligence asks Dr Birgit Schippers.
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Re-imagining the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement 2.0: Cultivating an emergent future we have not yet dared to imagine
It is time perhaps to wholeheartedly embrace the essential and symbiotic role of each of all three strands of the Belfast Agreement as the DNA of a positive peace says Dr Peter Doran.
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Trump’s Approval Remains Low, But Perhaps Just Large Enough for Him
Dr Christopher Raymond looks at some recent polling trends in the US and the President’s approval rating in light of the imminent midterm elections.
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Leaving the Union?
There is an opportunity to change direction and embark on a new constitutional conversation about the island of Ireland says Professor Colin Harvey.
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The Home Office “Statement of Intent” for EU citizens’ settled status in the UK – for what it is worth…
Professor Dagmar Schiek analyses the recent Home Office Statement of Intent on settled status for EU citizens post-Brexit.
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Mozambique’s own version of Boko Haram is tightening its deadly grip
Dr Eric Morier-Genoud looks at the growing threat of an Islamist insurgency in the north of Mozambique.