The latest seminar in the Accounts of the Conflict series was given by Verne Harris from the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa. A large audience attended to hear him speak on 'Remembering, Forgetting and South Africa'. The seminar is now available to watch online.

The project will hold an International Conference on 17-18 November 2014 in Belfast and preliminary details are available here

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ARK and Brook NI have developed a peer-led educational resource to address sexual risks among young people. The objective was to facilitate sexual capacity and confidence building among young people in Northern Ireland who are at the start of their sexual careers.

The project was based on data from the Young Life and Times Survey on sexual grooming, and on sexual experiences. An online resource has been developed, which highlights information, definitions, research facts and scenarios on sexual grooming, friendship, love, and exploitation. The project was co-funded by the ESRC's Knowledge Exchange programme.

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The ARK Ageing Programme is working with NICVA and the North Antrim Community Network to run a 'Research on the Road' workshop in Cushendall on 16 September. This event offers advice and expertise on how to conduct reliable research. It will provide a 'rough guide' to research methods and will also highlight the importance of research reports and other methods of dissemination. This event is specifically tailored for those organisations in the voluntary and community sector that work with, or provide support to, older people.

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The fieldwork for the 2013 Young Life and Times (YLT) Survey took place at the end of the year, and over 1300 16 year olds took part.

As with all ARK surveys, the results and data from the survey will be available within six months. Therefore, the YLT launch event will be held on 16 May 2014 in Queen's University Belfast, so please hold the date! Full details will be available on the YLT website soon.

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Two new publications focusing on attitudes to community relations from the 2012 Life and Times Survey are now available:

• Shared and safe? An update on Good Relations policy and public attitudes (Research Update 90)
• Summary report on attitudes to community relations (ARK Occasional Paper)

ARK produces a range of publications, including Research Updates and fact sheets. Most of these are available online. For a full list of publications, as well as links, visit our Publications page.

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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:

• Surveys
• Conflict, Politics and Elections
• Policy, Research and Resources
• Outreach, Dissemination and Training - including publications and events

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