Ulster University

Translating Values: Insights from Multilingual and Multiethnic Focus Groups in Northern Ireland 

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Dr Piotr Blumczyński (QUB) and Prof John Gillespie (Ulster) Culture revolves around values: they hold the cultural community together and underpin the mutual interests. A cultural group whose members hold opposite or otherwise incompatible values is hardly conceivable, which demonstrates that the concept of culture is predicated on shared values. However, values are often “invisible”… Continue Reading Translating Values: Insights from Multilingual and Multiethnic Focus Groups in Northern Ireland 

Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ID): Transitioning into Older Years

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Dr Lisa Hanna-Trainor and Dr Laurence Taggart (Ulster) – Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ID): Transitioning into Older Years  People with intellectual disabilities are living longer and many are living with ageing family carers: this presents challenges surrounding how services respond to the needs of both cohorts. This is a fundamental issue for policy makers, commissioners and… Continue Reading Adults with Intellectual Disabilities (ID): Transitioning into Older Years

The access to justice barriers for tribunal users

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Dr Orla Drummond (Ulster) – The access to justice barriers for tribunal users: a comparative case study on Special Educational Needs Tribunals The Access to Justice Review (2) identified the difficulties faced by tribunal users in securing access to justice, and poses questions about how tribunal users might be best supported. Recent research from Ulster… Continue Reading The access to justice barriers for tribunal users

The role of University Law Clinics in delivering access to justice

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Dr Grainne McKeever (Ulster) The Access to Justice Review (2) is intended to address the challenges faced in ensuring access to justice for citizens at a time of reduced public expenditure, and part of the remit of the Review is to identify additional or alternative forms of legal support for citizens. The Review’s Agenda identifies the… Continue Reading The role of University Law Clinics in delivering access to justice

Exploring Consumers’ Quality Perceptions of Local NI Food & Drink Produce

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Miss Rachel Malcolmson (Ulster) The Northern Ireland (NI) agri-food industry faces significant challenges in re-building consumer confidence in the quality and authenticity of food/drink products. However, increasing demand for authentic, high quality produce, paired with a renewed sense of food patriotism, presents new growth opportunities for local and artisan food/drink products to be promoted for… Continue Reading Exploring Consumers’ Quality Perceptions of Local NI Food & Drink Produce

NI Skills barometer: Developing skills for tomorrow’s economy

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Mr Mark Magill (Ulster) This presentation addresses the widespread consensus on the value of skills both to the individual as well as the wider economy. It highlights how qualitative evidence from employers identifies skills shortages in a number of key sectors and occupations across the Northern Ireland (NI) economy. However, it notes the gap in… Continue Reading NI Skills barometer: Developing skills for tomorrow’s economy

Understanding suicide and suicidal behaviour in Northern Ireland

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Understanding suicide and suicidal behaviour in Northern Ireland Prof Siobhan O’Neill (Ulster) This presentation delivers key findings from two studies of suicide in Northern Ireland about factors influencing suicide and suicidal behaviour. Included are the findings from data analysis of coronial files on 1,667 suicides and undetermined deaths from 2005-2011; which illustrate how theories relate… Continue Reading Understanding suicide and suicidal behaviour in Northern Ireland