ARK Research Updates
Below is a listing of all the ARK Research Updates, many of which accompany seminars. Where possible, these events have been videoed, and can be viewed here.
However, if you require hard copy versions of these documents, please contact us by phone (+44 (0) 2871 675441) or send email us.
All work that refers to an ARK Research Update should acknowledge it using the appropriate bibliographic citation. For example:
Hayward, Katy and Hanson, Jonny, 2025, Attitudes to climate change in Northern Ireland, ARK Research Update 161, Belfast: ARK < http://www.ark.ac.uk/publications/updates/update161.pdf >
There are over 160 ARK Research Updates available in PDF form for download. You can the search facility below with keywords, a year or month or a name to help find the ARK Research Updates you are interested in.
Total number of items - 174
31st Aug 2021
Young People’s Understanding of Coercive Control
Susan Lagdon, Julie-Ann Jordan, Lucia Klencakova, Ciaran Shannon, Mark Tully and Cherie Armour
This online webinar on 31 August 2021 marked the public release of results from the 2020/1 Young Life and Times (YLT) survey. YLT is an annual survey which records the attitudes of young people aged 16 living in Northern Ireland to key issues affecting their lives.
In this event, Dr Dirk Schubotz (YLT Director) highlighted key findings from the most recent survey, which included questions on mental health, coercive control, good relations, community safety, shared education, and politics. A panel of experts - Susan Lagdon (Ulster University), Alex Tennant (NICCY) and Rosellen Roche (University of Ohio) - discussed these findings.
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10th Jun 2021
Public Understanding of Coercive Control
Susan Lagdon, Julie-Ann Jordan, Ciaran Shannon, Mark Tully and Cherie Armour
This event marked the public release of the findings from the 2020 Northern Ireland (NILT) survey. The survey recorded the views of 1,292 respondents across Northern Ireland to key social policy issues.
Coercive control is a form of domestic abuse also known as emotional or psychological abuse; indirect abuse; or emotional torture. In order to address the need for evidence-based knowledge to improve public awareness and victim response to coercive control, a module of questions was included in the 2020 NILT survey.
In the webinar, Dr Susan Lagdon (Ulster University) and Dr Julie-Ann Jordan (Northern Health and Social Care Trust) highlighted the key findings of these questions, and discuss public understanding of coercive control within intimate relationships. An expert panel then gave their comments, followed by a general discussion.
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10th Jun 2021
Political Attitudes in Northern Ireland in a Period of Transition
Katy Hayward and Ben Rosher
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25th Mar 2021
Good relations: an urban issue?
Paula Devine and Martina McKnight
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25th Mar 2021
Location matters? Young people and good relations
Martina McKnight and Paula Devine
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16th Mar 2021
Changing identities in Northern Ireland
Paula Devine
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27th Jan 2021
Black Lives Matter? Attitudes to minorities and migrants in Northern Ireland
Lucy Michael and Raquel McKee
This event on 17 January 2021 explored public attitudes to minorities and migrants in Northern Ireland, using data from the Northern Ireland Life and Times survey and Young Life and Times survey. The presenter was Lucy Michael, followed by a response by Raquel McKee (African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland).
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09th Dec 2020
Public attitudes to breastfeeding in Northern Ireland
Marlene Sinclair, Julie McCullough, Rachel Black and Paul Slater
Northern Ireland has the lowest rate of breastfeeding in the United Kingdom. In this seminar on 9 December 2020, findings from the 2019 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey and the 2019 Young Life and Times survey gave an insight into public attitudes to breastfeeding. The speakers were Marlene Sinclair, Julie McCullough, Rachel Black and Paul Slater.
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10th Nov 2020
Examining the 3 P’s: Personal Safety, Paramilitaries and Policing
Colm Walsh
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24th Sep 2020
Caged and Forgotten - older people's letters to the editor about COVID-19
Gemma M Carney, Stephanie Maguire, Bronagh Byrne and Ann Marie Gray
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