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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Suella Braverman’s comments comparing Gaza protests with Northern Ireland are a grave misunderstanding of the facts
Suella Braverman’s decision to draw an analogy with Northern Ireland in her efforts to defend her position was a poor decision says Dr Peter McLoughlin
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Post-Brexit Clinic at Queen’s November 2023
The slides and recording of yesterday’s Post-Brexit Clinic are now available.
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Bridging the Atlantic 5th Annual Conference – Agenda and Speakers’ Biographies
This year’s Bridging the Atlantic conference will take place on Monday 13 November 2023.
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Cultural policy and arts engagement for the Working Class in Northern Ireland. Case Study: ‘The Gert and Friend’ project
Holly Foskett discusses how cultural policy can create more inclusion for engagement in the arts and culture in Northern Ireland
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An insight into curating contemporary exhibitions and audience engagement
Ruinan Peng reflects on how audiences can gain meaningful experiences through contemporary art exhibitions
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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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Policy Interventions Needed to Reduce Economic Inactivity in Northern Ireland
By Dr Ka Ka Katie Tsang, Research Fellow with the International Public Policy Observatory.
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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.