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SUMMARY:Homeward Bound - Imagine Belfast Festival Evet
DESCRIPTION:Homeward Bound is a 30 minute play which tells the true story of Lesley and her husband Seth Goodburn. \nAt 49 years old\, Seth was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer following a short history of feeling unwell. He died just 33 days after diagnosis. This is a play\, written by playwright Brian Daniels\, to give people\, especially health and social care professionals\, the opportunity to reflect on the importance of compassionate person and family-centred care at the end of life and to help individuals to understand how little things mean a lot to the person who is dying and to their family. \nThe play draws its content from a series of letters written by Lesley before and after Seth’s untimely death. She articulates the journey from the first signs of his illness\, through diagnosis\, care and treatment and after his death at their local NHS Hospital. The play will be followed by a discussion with the actors and Lesley Goodburn. Organised by the NI Ethics Forum. \nNB. Please note that the time on this event has changed from the previously published programme.
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/homeward-bound-imagine-belfast-festival-evet/
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SUMMARY:More human than human: the ethics of new intelligent life
DESCRIPTION:With David Lawrence of Newcastle University. \nIn the future\, we may truly make our own match – creating\, or causing to be created\, beings that could be considered persons just like us. Whether through gene editing\, synthetic biology\, or even artificial intelligence\, we need to think seriously about how to treat these lifeforms. This talk will consider how future beings — intelligent androids\, synthezoids\, even alternate-substrate sentiences – might fit alongside the ‘baseline’ human and ask whether these alternate beings ought to be considered different to us\, and why this may or may not matter in terms of a notion of ‘human community’. The film Blade Runner\, concerned in large part with humanity and its key synthezoid antagonist Roy Batty\, offers a frame for this discussion. \nOrganised by the NI Ethics Forum.
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/human-human-ethics-new-intelligent-life/
LOCATION:Old Staff Common Room\, Queen's University Belfast\, University Road\, Belfast\, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Eight
DESCRIPTION:EIGHT\, by Ella Hickson\, is directed by Rachel Coffey and produced in association with Queen’s University Drama. \nWe invite you to meet a snapshot of our generation from the noughties to now – a student\, a cheater\, a teenager\, a parent\, a socialite\, a high flier\, a rebel and a homosexual. \nWhose story do you want to hear? Has the past informed the present? Have things really changed? \nYOU decide. EIGHT people\, ONE audience\, SIX chances. Welcome to #ChaosTheoryTheatre
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/eight/
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SUMMARY:KESS Seminar - Using Technology in Social Care
DESCRIPTION:1.30pm – RaISe – Welcome and Opening Remarks \n 1.45pm – Prof Shailey Minocha and Dr Ana-Despina Tudor (OU) – Role of digital health wearables in the well-being and quality of life of older people and carers\n  \nThe number of adults aged 65 and over has increased by 2% across Europe in the past 15 years\, and in Northern Ireland by 22% between 2003-2013. The proportion of the population in this age group is projected to increase by 63% to just under 0.5 million by 2033 – which will be a quarter of the population in Northern Ireland. Given Northern Ireland’s Active Ageing Strategy (2015-2021)\, there is an increasing focus on encouraging physical activity as we get older to preserve mobility and motor skills\, and to enjoy the benefits of living longer and to minimise health problems associated with ageing. Over the last two years\, we have been investigating the role of wearable activity tracking technologies in self-monitoring of activity by people aged over 55. Example technologies include activity trackers from Fitbit\, Garmin and Samsung\, and smart watches. Typically\, these devices record steps walked\, sleep patterns\, calories expended and heart rate. \nBased on empirical investigations\, this presentation describes the benefits of activity monitors for people aged over 55 for self-monitoring of physical activity\, for adopting healthy lifestyles\, and for increasing or maintaining physical activity as a way to avoid high blood pressure\, obesity\, diabetes\, and other medical conditions associated with weight or lower physical activity. It outlines the role of activity trackers in post-operative monitoring of mobility during rehabilitation\, in caring\, and for possible use of the data for diagnosis and medical interventions. It then discusses the challenges for adoption of these technologies\, given currently\, off-the-shelf devices are designed and calibrated for use by physically fit (typically young active people) with unrealistic fitness targets for the older generation.\n  \n 2.05pm – Dr Hannah R. Marston (OU)\, Dr Shannon Freeman (University of Northern British Columbia\, Canada)\, Dr Rebecca Genoe (University of Regina\, Canada)\, Dr Cory Kulcyzki (University of Regina\, Canada) and Dr Charles Musselwhite (Swansea University) – The Cohesiveness of Technology in Later Life: Findings from the Technology In Later Life (TILL) Project\n  \nStatistics show Northern Ireland (NI) ageing population (65+ years) has increased between 1974 (11.2%) to 2014 (15.5%). Estimated projections suggest this will reach 24.7% by 2039. Currently\, 35\,500 people are aged 85+ years\, 12\,200 (90-99 years) and it is estimated there are 280 centenarians (NISRA\, 2016). The use and deployment of technology can assist in social connectedness reducing isolation\, online shopping/bills\, information acquisition\, physical activity and maintaining intergenerational relationships. Between 2014/15\, 69% of adults (60-69 years) had access to the Internet\, unlike 40% of adults aged 70+ years; moreover\, 82% of adults 60+ years owned a mobile phone. Understanding how technology can play an integral role in the lives of older adults has demonstrated the positive perceptions and behaviour to independent living. Literature\, focusing on adults aged >70 years living in rural and urban areas\, relating to technology use\, behaviour and perception is limited. \nThis presentation concerns the international\, multi-centred Technology In Later Life (TILL) study derived from the paucity of literature and studies focusing on technology use and behaviour by adults aged >70 years\, employed a multi-methods approach. Its findings suggest participants were open to using and accessing different types of digital devices and technologies to enhance wellbeing and social connectedness which included sharing information with family members\, communicating with grand/children living long distance and communicating news via the community. Its recommendations propose reducing privacy issues; while providing practical approaches and insights to technology use by older adults. The presentation adds to the paucity of work in the area of technology use in later life and could inform NI policy makers\, health/NHS\, communities\, families and support networks\, helping them to understand the barriers and enablers to technology use in later life. It also highlights that further work is needed to explore perceptual and behavioural concepts across these groups\, to ensure ageing populations are confident in integrating technology into their lives.\n  \n 2.25pm – Dr Verina Waights (OU)\, Prof Panos Bamidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece) and Ms Rosa Almeida (Fundacion Intras\, Spain) – Technologies for care – the imperative for upskilling carers   \nAgeing populations\, coupled with increasing retirement ages and lower ratios of workers to retirees\, are negatively impacting health and social care. Currently\, 11.8% of Northern Ireland (NI) residents are carers\, but it is predicted that by 2025 the number of people aged over 65 will increase by 42%\, with the number of people aged over 80 doubling by 2027.  These projections place increasing demands on carers\, especially when considered within the ‘changing ethos of health care in NI’ towards a self-management model. Carers increasingly use the internet to find health information\, yet worldwide a significant number of people lack health literacy skills and/or digital skills. The EU-funded DISCOVER project involved over 650 carers\, care workers and stakeholders in co-designing and co-producing an online learning platform to enhance carers’ and care workers’ health literacy\, digital skills and caring skills. Engaging with DISCOVER also enabled carers to share concerns and supportive practices with other carers to help reduce social isolation. This presentation draws on research undertaken for this project and makes recommendations highlighting to policy makers\, health care professionals\, care agencies and technologists how the lives of carers\, care workers and care–recipients could be enhanced in terms of improving their quality of life and reducing their social isolation. \n 2.45pm – Discussion  \n  \n 3.15pm – RaISe – Closing Remarks \n  \n 3.20pm – Networking and Refreshments \nTea/coffee is provided following presentations and discussion. Free parking is available to all. Kindly allow time to pass through Assembly Security upon entry to Parliament Buildings; and ensure that you specify your special needs (for example\, wheelchair accessibility) when registering. The Assembly is committed to fulfilling its equality-related roles and responsibilities and will take reasonable efforts to meet requests relating to them. \n To view the programme\, please refer to: https://kess.org.uk/series-7/ \nIf you wish to reserve your place at a seminar\, please register at: https://kess.org.uk/register/ \n 
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/kess-seminar-using-technology-social-care/
LOCATION:Long Gallery\, Parliament Buildings\, Stormont\, Belfast\, BT4 3XX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:A Duty to be Beautiful
DESCRIPTION:With Heather Widdows\, John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics\, University of Birmingham. \nThe beauty ideal is changing\, it is becoming more important and\, in so doing\, it is being transforming into an ethical ideal. Yet the extent to which beauty defines our identities\, constructs the self\, structures daily practices\, creates meaning and against which individuals are valued (or not) is not well recognised. \nThis talk will explore beauty as an ethical ideal\, a shared value framework against which individuals judge themselves and others. This framework sets aspirational standards that we are required to work towards. Meeting\, or striving to meet\, such standards has the character of a (moral) duty\, where failure to confirm is a moral vice\, engendering shame and disgust\, whilst being beautiful is seen as a sign of virtue. Praise\, blame and reward are apportioned in accordance with the norms of beauty. Understanding the ethical nature of the ideal changes the power of what it means when we say “I let myself go!” or “I’ve been good and stuck to my diet”. It also makes sense of other features of beauty\, such as why we ‘choose’ to engage in painful or harmful practices\, like waxing and cosmetic surgery\, and why criticisms about appearance can be so damaging.
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/a-duty-to-be-beautiful/
LOCATION:Old Staff Common Room\, Queen's University Belfast\, University Road\, Belfast\, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:KESS Seminar - Parents/Mothers and Children
DESCRIPTION:1.30pm – RaISe – Welcome and Opening Remarks \n1.45pm – Dr Mark McGovern (QUB)\, Dr Giampiero Marra (University College London)\, Dr Rosalba Radice (University of London) and Dr Slawa Rokicki (University College Dublin) – Breastfeeding Promotion as an Economic Investment \nNot only are rates of breastfeeding low in Northern Ireland compared to the rest of the UK\, but there are substantial inequalities with mothers living in the least deprived wards twice as likely to breastfeed as those living in the most deprived wards. Previous evidence demonstrates that children who are breastfed are healthier and have better educational outcomes\, however it is important to assess whether these benefits persist into adulthood. This presentation demonstrates the impact of being breastfed as a child on adult economic and cognitive outcomes. Using data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS)\, a nationally representative sample of British infants born in one week in 1958\, it shows that cohort members who were breastfed for a month or more (compared to not being breastfed) score substantially higher on memory tests at age 50\, and their household income is 8 percentage points higher: therefore\, differential rates of breastfeeding by parental socioeconomic status perpetuates intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. The presentation discusses how increasing rates of breastfeeding in Northern Ireland provides a low-cost means of investing in the futures of mothers and children and improving inequalities\, and illustrates why breastfeeding promotion strategies are likely to have substantial economic benefits in the long-run. \n2.05pm – Mr Iain McGowan (QUB)\, Dr Lucy Thompson and Prof Phil Wilson (University of Aberdeen) – Mellow Parenting: Caring for vulnerable mothers \nPregnancy and childbirth are traditionally recognised as life events that are to be cherished and celebrated. However\, recent official reports of deaths by suicide\, including a recent report of the Confidential Enquiry on Maternal and Child Health have raised awareness of the potential dangers of mental health problems to mothers during pregnancy and in the first year after giving birth. The long-term impact of maternal ill-health has negative impacts on the emotional\, social\, educational and physical development of the child. A number of programmes are in existence to support mothers\, however these have been criticised for being too expensive\, too narrow in focus and not effective. Mellow Parenting\, as an intervention\, has been delivered in both the Southern & South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust. The Public Health Agency has funded these programmes. This presentation focuses on the role that the Mellow Parenting intervention has on the emotional and mental well-being of vulnerable mothers. To contextualise\, it draws on data from a recent systematic review\, highlighting the findings from local evaluations of the programme. The presentation aims to help inform social\, health\, mental health and other polices that are relevant to mental health in this group of people \n2.25pm – Discussion  \n2.55pm – RaISe – Closing Remarks  \n3.00pm – Networking and Refreshments \nTea/coffee is provided following presentations and discussion. Free parking is available to all. Kindly allow time to pass through Assembly Security upon entry to Parliament Buildings; and ensure that you specify your special needs (for example\, wheelchair accessibility) when registering. The Assembly is committed to fulfilling its equality-related roles and responsibilities and will take reasonable efforts to meet requests relating to them. \nTo view the programme\, please refer to: https://kess.org.uk/series-7 \nIf you wish to reserve your place at a seminar\, please register at: https://kess.org.uk/register
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/kess-seminar-parentsmothers-children/
LOCATION:Long Gallery\, Parliament Buildings\, Stormont\, Belfast\, BT4 3XX\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities with Mary Lou McDonald
DESCRIPTION:Mary Lou McDonald TD\, President of Sinn Féin\, will deliver an address entitled “Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities” at Queen’s University Belfast on Monday 26th March at 7.30pm. The event will take place in the Peter Froggatt Centre\, Room PFC 0G/007. \nThe address will be followed by a question and answer session moderated by Professor Richard English CBE\, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Internationalisation and Engagement at Queen’s University. \nTo reserve your free ticket for this special event\, please register here. \n\nAbout Mary Lou McDonald \nMary Lou McDonald became President of Sinn Féin in February this year and is TD for the Dublin Central constituency. She is also the party’s spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform. \nMs McDonald was MEP for Dublin from 2004 until 2009 and during her time in the European Parliament\, she was a prominent member of the Employment/Social Affairs and Civil Liberties Committees. \n\nRunning Order \n7.15pm     Guests arrive: tea and coffee served \n7.30pm    Welcome by Professor Richard English \n7.40pm    Address by Mary Lou McDonald TD \n8.00pm   Question and Answer Session \n8.25pm   Closing Remarks by Professor Richard English
URL:https://qpol.qub.ac.uk/event/brexit-challenges-opportunities-mary-lou-mcdonald/
LOCATION:Room PFC/0G/007\, Peter Froggatt Centre\, Queen's University\, Belfast\, Antrim\, BT7 1NN\, United Kingdom
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