ARK E-Type
Newsletter
Issue No:
7 - Sep/2014
Introduction
Welcome to the September edition of the ARK Newsletter, and we hope that you had a good summer. We have lots of plans for the coming months, so hope you find something of interest in the information below.
ARK Ageing Programme Visiting Fellow
One exciting aspect to the work of the ARK Ageing Programme is our Visiting Fellow Scheme. This allows us to invite experts to either Queen's University Belfast or University of Ulster for a two-week visiting fellowship, with the aim of sharing their insights and experience. We are very pleased that our first fellow is Nancy Henkin who is founder and Executive Director of the Intergenerational Center, Temple University, Philadelphia. Nancy will be visiting during October 2014, and will be working with Linking Generations Northern Ireland, as well as other organisations. A full list of events planned for Nancy's visit are available on the ARK Ageing Programme website. These include a policy forum, practitioner workshop, academic seminar and an interactive tutorial with Social Work students.
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Online Research Bank (ORB)
Are you searching for research material on social policy issues in Northern Ireland? Do you want to find out about the lives of children and young people living here? Then the Online Research Bank is the place to be. The Online Research Bank is a collection of searchable databases containing bibliographies and summaries of research focused on the lives of adults and children in Northern Ireland. There are currently two databases:
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ARK Surveys: an update
ARK runs three annual attitudes surveys, which ask the public about issues that affect their lives: We will be running all of these surveys within the next few months. So if you, or your children, are asked to take part - please do! As in previous years, tables of results, datasets and questionnaires will be made publicly available on the ARK website by June 2015.
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Accounts of the Conflict Conference: Digitally Archiving Stories for Peacebuilding
The Accounts of the Conflict project has organised an international conference on 17-18 November 2014. The aim of this event - 'Digitally Archiving Stores for Peacebuilding' - is to explore and examine the role of digital archives of personal narratives, oral histories or testimonies in societies emerging from conflict. The conference aims to attract both academics and practitioners from around the world with an interest in how storytelling and archiving can contribute to peacebuilding and social change in a range of diverse contexts. The Conference is a showcase event of the Accounts of the Conflict project, which is building a digital archive for the long-term preservation and dissemination of stories related to the conflict in, and about, Northern Ireland.
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About ARK
ARK is a joint initiative between Queen's University and the University of Ulster, and began in 2000. Our mission is to make social science knowledge on Northern Ireland easily accessible to the widest possible audience. Most of our dissemination is via our website at www.ark.ac.uk, which is divided into four main areas:
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