This webinar was presented by Professor Katie Featherstone (University of West London).  It is based on her ethnographic research on hospital care of people living with dementia, and will introduce us to the topic of the rules that dominate these institutions, the way these rules are constructed and enforced, and their consequences for patients.

The event was chaired by Ángel Leira Pernas, PhD student on the ARK Ageing programme. Professor Featherstone will present her work, which will be followed by a response from Mr. Pernas.

This is the first event in the Next Generation Thinking in Research on Ageing series, and it took place at 11am on Wednesday 11 May via Zoom.

In this webinar, Dr Éamon Phoenix reflected on how partition and the birth of Northern Ireland have been marked and commemorated. 

The event was organised as part of the CAIN Associate Programme.

This webinar provided a background to the origins, development and mission of the Conflict Textiles physical collection and online archive. The speakers were Roberta Bacic, Breege Doherty and Gillian Robinson.

The event was organised as part of the CAIN Associate Programme.

The Northern Ireland Longitudinal study (NILS) is a wide-ranging administrative database of people living in Northern Ireland. This interactive workshop provided an overview of the readily available data, the topic areas which can be rapidly explored and discuss feasibility of linkage with health data.

This event on 14 September 201 was a collaboration between ARK (https://www.ark.ac.uk) and the NILS Research Support Unit (https://www.nils-rsu.co.uk/).

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. 

This event focused on policy and practice relating to social care in prisons on the island of Ireland.  In the first presentation 'Ageing in Prisons in Northern Ireland: A policy update of social care provision for older adults in prison in Northern Ireland', Sarah Lawrence discussed findings from her PhD research in Queen's University Belfast, which focused on ageing in prisons.
The second presentation 'Making the invisible, visible: Social care considerations for female prisoners in Ireland through mental health law, policy, and practice insights' was given by mental health social workers, Ali Duggan and Aidan Cooney.

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.

This roundtable presentation was organised and chaired by Professor Robert Savage (Director of the Boston College Irish Studies Program) as part of the 2021 American Conference for Irish Studies. The speakers were Timothy McMahon (Marquette University), Dominic Bryan (Queen's University Belfast) and Rachael Young (Boston College).

The event is an activity of the CAIN Associate Programme.

This webinar on 22 April 2021 explored the links between the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet).   The event was the first activity of the CAIN Associate Programme.

This event on 12 March 2021 was held as part of National Intergenerational Week.  The main presentation was given by Professor Susan Pickard (University of Liverpool), with a response from Angel Leira Pernas (PhD student on the ARK Ageing programme).  The event was chaired by Dr. Gemma Carney (ARK).