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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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Dementia: Politics and science must work hand in hand to remove the fear
Following the release this week of a Cambridge University study on public health, Dr Gemma Carney looks at the findings in terms of the dementia debate and argues that the science of ageing is politics by other means.
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People in their nineties reveal the secrets to ageing well
Who better to ask about the secret of ageing well than those who have reached 90! Professor Emeritus Irene Maeve Rea, Professor Ken Mills and Jennifer Rea reveal the findings of the BELFAST nonagenarians’ study and what the participants feel have been the main factors in their longevity.
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Wins in New York primary favour both parties’ frontrunners (even if the final outcomes remain uncertain)
Following success for both of the frontrunners at the New York primary, Dr Christopher Raymond looks forward to the final stretch in the candidacy race and examines if it’s a foregone conclusion for Clinton and Trump or whether the challengers can close the gap.
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Referendum on UK Membership of the EU – who can vote?
With the date of the UK referendum on EU membership set for 23 June, Dr Elodie Fabre looks at voting eligibility in the referendum and asks who is in and who is out when it comes to having a vote?
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Why a Brexit could be bad news for disabled people
In the run-up to the forthcoming EU referendum on UK membership, Dr Bronagh Byrne looks at the positive impact EU legislation has had on disabled people and asks why there hasn’t been more discussion about what a Brexit could mean for disabled people in the UK.
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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.”
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Why We Need to Stop Being Squeamish about Bowel Cancer Screening
With the return of Bowel Cancer Awareness month, Dr Helen Coleman looks at the rise in diagnoses of bowel cancer and asks why are we so reluctant to be screened despite the programmes available?