Brave New Virtual World
2020-11-10 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Lucy Baxter from QUB Film Studies will be joined by Dr Paul Best, Queen’s University Social Work; Hanna Slattne, Dramaturg in Immersive Media; and Sarah Ticho, Founder/Director Hatsumi.
This workshop brings together trailblazers in virtual reality, creative technology, mental health and social care, and the creative arts to discuss how cutting-edge interventions can be used to treat everything from abuse trauma and PTSD to phobias and social anxiety. Tune in to find out more about this Brave New Virtual World.
This event will be recorded. Joining instructions for Zoom will be sent 24 hours in advance.

Brexit and the Economy in Northern Ireland
2020-11-10 12:30 - 14:00
This special event, organised by the Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s and Queen’s Policy Engagement, will explore the latest Brexit developments and what they mean for Northern Ireland, with a particular focus on the economy.

Chaired by John Campbell, Prof David Phinnemore and Prof Katy Hayward from Queen’s will be joined by Angela McGowan, Director of CBI Northern Ireland and Ann McGregor MBE, Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The panel will discuss what the future holds for the Northern Ireland economy in a post-Brexit world.
This event will be live streamed via Vimeo and recorded. Joining instructions will be sent 24 hours in advance
The Chief Executive’s Club at Queen’s is an executive business forum that facilitates and supports high-level networking in Northern Ireland. The Club was established in 1993 to connect, enhance and strengthen partnerships between the University and the Northern Ireland business sector.
Club membership comprises leaders from a wide range of businesses; private, public, charity and social enterprise organisations; entrepreneurs; and leaders in higher education.

Museum accessibility and challenges in the new normal
2020-11-11 10:00 - 11:00
As we begin to return to cultural venues, how do we ensure equal access for all? Queen’s researcher Xi Wang hosts this event which focuses on museum accessibility for blind and partially sighted (BPS) visitors.

The Royal National Institute of Blind People and researchers at Queen’s will discuss challenges faced by venues and ways in which social inclusion can be enhanced during these difficult times. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to engage via an online poll and Q&A session.
This event will be recorded. Joining instructions will be sent 24 hours in advance.

Creating a consumer-friendly sustainability label for food
2020-11-11 16:00 - 17:00
Interested in responsible food shopping? Researchers at Queen’s are looking into creating simple sustainability labels for food and drink. Join this talk hosted by Dr Tony Benson to hear about the processes and challenges faced by industry and researchers in helping you discover the real cost of your weekly shop. There will also be an opportunity to have your say via an interactive poll.

This online event will be recorded. Joining instructions will be sent 24 hours in advance.

Social Sciences Response to the Pandemic
2020-11-12 11:00 - 12:30
Hear from a range of social scientists including Dr David Cutting, Dr Neil Anderson, Dr Ioannis Tsioulakis, Dr Michelle Templeton, Dr Gemma Carney and Dr Tess Maginess, all of whom mobilised their research to address some of the challenges arising from the Covid pandemic.

Join us for this panel discussion and Q&A.
This event will be recorded. Joining instructions for Zoom will be sent 24 hours in advance.

Learning about Human Experiences with Machines
2020-11-13 10:00 - 11:00
More than half the people who take antidepressants for depression never get relief. You can find out the reason and how researchers are using computers to learn about the lived experiences of people in order to find a better solution and benefit the community struggling with depression, by visiting out YouTube channel from 7 November 2020: https://tinyurl.com/ycaa4jsl

Once you have watched, join Queen’s researcher Chandril Chandan Ghosh who will be available for a Q& A on how computers can help those with depression
Joining instructions for the Q&A will be sent 24 hours in advance.

The US Election and Foreign Policy: Implications for Northern Ireland, the UK, Ireland, and the EU
2020-12-02 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
A Panel Discussion hosted by Queen’s University Belfast and the UCL Centre on US Politics, with support from the US Department of State, as part of the series: DECISION 2020: Interpreting the US Elections.
Introduction: Dr Julie Norman (UCL)
Chair: Professor Richard English (Queen’s University Belfast)
Panel: Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau (US Consul General in Belfast), Rory Montgomery (Honorary Professor, Queen’s University Belfast), Jonathan Powell (Honorary Professor, Queen’s University Belfast)
How should we interpret the 2020 US Presidential Election and its legacies? What effect will it have on US influence and engagement in the wider world? What are the implications for Northern Ireland, for Ireland, for the UK, for Europe? This Panel Discussion is open to all, and is hosted at Queen’s University by the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice.
Panellists:
Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau took up her post as US Consul General in Belfast in 2018, having previously served as US Consul General in Pakistan and, before that, having worked for the State Department in Washington DC. Ms Kennedy Trudeau has also served as Counsellor for Public Affairs at the US Mission to NATO, Brussels, and at the US Mission to South Africa in Pretoria.
Rory Montgomery is an Honorary Professor in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. In his career as an Irish diplomat, he served as Political Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Representative to the European Union, and Ambassador to France. During 2016-2019 he worked in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with responsibility for European issues, including Brexit. Between 1993 and 2001 he worked on Northern Ireland, including his role as part of the team which negotiated the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Jonathan Powell is CEO of Inter Mediate, the charity which he founded in 2011 to work on conflict resolution around the world. His work has involved negotiations with ETA in the Basque Country, and negotiations in Colombia with the FARC. Between 1995 and 2007 Jonathan Powell was Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, and during 1997-2007 he was Chief British Negotiator on Northern Ireland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at QUB. His books include Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and Talking to Terrorists, How to End Armed Conflict.

Building Back Better: A Future for Geothermal Energy in Northern Ireland Conference
2020-12-11 09:00 - 13:30 | Zoom
This online conference is the first in a series considering the future for Geothermal Energy in Northern Ireland.
As we look toward our recovery from a global pandemic, we can take a fresh and renewed approach to build a fairer, greener and more resilient economy. Geothermal Energy can play a fundamental role in this as we build back better.
Hosted by the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action (SECA) at Queen’s University Belfast and the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland (GSNI).
To view the agenda for the conference, please click here.

Why the Holocaust matters in today’s deeply divided world
2021-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
In the memory of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides, join Lord Mayor, Alderman Frank McCoubrey and Professor James Waller, Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College, New Hampshire, for a virtual talk exploring why the Holocaust matters in today’s deeply divided world.
As we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, we are challenged to also recognise it as a historical event with contemporary lessons for today’s deeply divided world. Commemorating the Holocaust is to be reminded of the diligence necessary to promote and protect human rights, the deep commitment to nurture inclusive democratic institutions, and the willingness to see our neighbour in the face of ‘the other’, rather than as a threat. Commemoration of the past must be followed by responsibility to the present and our shared future.
Drawing on face-to-face interviews with over 225 perpetrators of genocide and mass atrocity, this event will explore the process by which ordinary people become capable of committing such extraordinary evil and will provide insights into the importance of challenging the hate that gives rise to division.
This free event will take place on Tuesday 26 January at 12 noon via Zoom, lasting approximately one and a half hours.
Please register through ND Events here.

Professor John Paul Lederach 'In Conversation' with Dr Gladys Ganiel
2021-02-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Online
The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University hosts Professor John Paul Lederach of the University of Notre Dame (USA) ‘In Conversation’ via Zoom with Dr Gladys Ganiel (QUB). Lederach, an internationally acclaimed expert in conflict transformation, will reflect on the most significant advances in conflict transformation over the course of his career; his own research and practice; religion and reconciliation; and the prospects for peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and further afield. Ganiel’s research specialises in religion, conflict and reconciliation.
This is an event related to the 4 Corners Festival organised in partnership with the Senator George J Mitchell Institute, QUB.

Teaching without God: The Retreat of Religion and the Rise of the Humanities in American Liberal Education
2021-02-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
The event is part of the Religion, Science and the Humanities Seminar Series 2021 and will feature keynote lecture from Professor James Turner, Cavanaugh Professor of Humanities Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, followed by a Q&A session.
For more information, and to view the event, please click HERE

Building Peace Across Religious Divides in Nigeria with Professor Darren Kew, University of Massachusetts, Boston
2021-03-11 17:00 - 18:15 | Online
Darren Kew is Professor of Conflict Resolution at UMass Boston and author of Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, and Democracy in Nigeria.
Nigeria is one of the few nations of the world that is divided evenly between Muslims and Christians, and violent conflicts frequently erupt across that divide. Many groups are working to build greater peace between Muslims and Christians, including the Interfaith Mediation Centre (IMC), which has gained global attention for its work across Nigeria and elsewhere.
Professor Darren Kew of UMass Boston has spent much of the last 15 years working with IMC and many other Nigerian groups like it, and will present some of his findings on 1) the model that IMC has developed for bridging religious divides, which relies heavily not only on religious conviction, but also the social status associated with religious leaders, and 2) the impacts this work has had on divided communities in Nigeria. Implications for religious peacebuilding in other societies like Northern Ireland will be discussed as well.
The seminar will be facilitated by Dr Gladys Ganiel, Reader in Sociology and Mitchell Institute Fellow.
To register before 12noon on Wednesday 10 March 2021, please click book now. A meeting link will be sent via email before this event.

Partition and the Limits of Irish Commemoration: Reflections on 1921
2021-03-31 16:00 - 17:00 | Online
Professor Ian McBride, Foster Professor of Irish History at University of Oxford, will deliver this keynote lecture on 31 March following which Professor Richard English, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University Belfast will moderate a Question and Answer session.
Questions can be submitted during the live event.
To find out more, and to register for the event, please click HERE.

Event details:
16:00 Welcome and Introduction by Professor Richard English
16:05 Lecture by Professor Ian Moore
16:30 Q and A
16:55 Closing comments by Professor Richard English
Speaker Bio:
Ian McBride joined Hertford in 2016 as the Foster Professor of Irish History. The Foster chair is the only endowed chair of Irish History in Britain, and is attached to Hertford, the Oxford college with the strongest Irish associations. He has broad interests in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, especially its politics, culture and intellectual life. He currently holds a Leverhulme Major Research Award which will enable him to spend two years researching and writing a study of the impact of the penal laws on eighteenth-century Ireland.
Professor McBride grew up in County Armagh, and his interest in History flowed naturally from the political instability and intensity of Northern Ireland in the late twentieth century. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford and University College London, and was awarded a research fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1993-96). Between 2000 and 2016 he taught at King’s College London.
His books include The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology (1997) and Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century (1998), both short-listed for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize; and Eighteenth-Century Ireland: The Isle of Slaves (2009). His most recent publication is The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (2016), edited with Richard Bourke. Professor McBride is currently completing work on Irish Political Writings I, a volume for the new Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift.
Since 2004 Professor McBride has been convener of the Conference of Irish Historians in Britain which he now organises jointly with Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid. This conference was founded by Marianne by Marianne Elliott and Roy Foster and has held biennial meetings for 40 years. It provides the main forum for Irish historians working on this island to present their work. Further details can be found on the conference website (http://irishhistoriansinbritain.org/), which also contains twenty-two short pieces written to commemorate the centenary of 1916.
Professor McBride has presented his research to a wide range of audiences, from the Presbyterian Historical Society in Belfast to Coiste na n-Iarchimí, an ex-prisoners organization consisting of former members of the Provisional IRA, in South Armagh. As part of Derry’s year as city of culture (2013) he organized a conference on the history and legacy of the Siege of Derry in collaboration with the Apprentice Boys. He has been interviewed for a variety of BBC Northern Ireland programmes, and was presenter and consultant on a one-hour documentary entitled Forgotten Revolutionary: Francis Hutcheson, first broadcast on BBC2 on 25 July 2012; he was also a panelist on the In Our Time episode on A Modest Proposal.

Post-Brexit Clinic April 2021
2021-04-21 12:30 - 13:45 | Online
Following on from our long-running series of Brexit Clinics at Queen’s, this new series of public engagement events will look at latest developments in the UK’s post-Brexit relationship with the EU and at the implementation of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
Many of the immediate consequences of Brexit, such as new formalities and disruptions and delays to supplies, have received a lot of press since January. But looking beyond those headlines, is the Protocol working or indeed workable in practice, and what is on the horizon for post-Brexit Northern Ireland as the UK’s new relationship with the EU takes shape?
With Professor David Phinnemore, Dr Viviane Gravey, Professor Katy Hayward, Dr Billy Melo Araujo and Lisa Whitten.

Queen's Policy Engagement Post-Brexit Clinic April 2021
2021-04-21 12:30 - 13:45 | Online

The Good Friday Agreement and a United Ireland
2021-04-27 17:00 - 18:15 | Online
Rory Montgomery, Mitchell Institute Honorary Professor of Practice, will deliver his inaugural professorial lecture.

About this Event

Rory Montgomery is a former Irish diplomat who served as Permanent Representative to the EU, Ambassador to France and Second Secretary General at the Departments of the Taoiseach and Foreign Affairs and Trade.
He has been principal EU adviser to Enda Kenny and Simon Coveney and has worked extensively with Irish, Northern Irish, British and European politicians and officials.
Read Rory’s recent review of Margaret Thatcher, The Authorized Biography, Volume 3: Herself Alone, Dublin Review of Books.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A. Mitchell Institute Fellow, Professor Christopher McCrudden FBA, will introduce the lecture and moderate the Q&A.
Christopher McCrudden is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen’s University Belfast and William W Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
Ticket holders will be sent a Zoom meeting link via email before this event.
To register, please click here.

Beyond Coronavirus: How Does the World Recover?
2021-05-13 12:30 - 14:00 | Online
Professor Henrietta Moore, Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL, will deliver a keynote lecture entitled ‘Navigating our futures: Pathways to Global Prosperity in a post Covid world’.
Following the keynote address, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Professor of Global Health at Queen’s University Belfast will deliver as discussant.
Ann Watt, from Pivotal Public Policy Forum will facilitate a question and answer session, fielding questions from the live, online audience.
For more information and to register please click HERE

In Conversation with Jonathan Powell
2021-05-19 12:30 - 13:15 | Online
Jonathan Powell is CEO of Inter Mediate, the charity which he founded in 2011 to work on conflict resolution around the world. His work has involved negotiations with ETA in the Basque Country, and negotiations in Colombia with the FARC. Between 1995 and 2007 Jonathan Powell was Chief of Staff to Tony Blair, and during 1997-2007 he was Chief British Negotiator on Northern Ireland. He is an Honorary Professor at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at QUB. His books include Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and Talking to Terrorists, How to End Armed Conflict.
Professor Richard English is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Internationalisation and Engagement and is also Professor of Politics, and Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Between 2011 and 2016 he was Wardlaw Professor of Politics in the School of International Relations, and Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of eight books and co-editor/editor of a further six. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), an Honorary Fellow of Keble College Oxford, and an Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews.

Re-thinking reparative justice in the 'post-George Floyd' era
2021-09-27 16:00 - 17:30 | Online
Presented by Professor Olivette Otele, Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society.
The Centre for Public History at Queen’s and the BAME & International Staff Network are delighted to announce a lecture by Professor Olivette Otele, Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society:
‘Re-thinking reparative justice in the ‘post-George Floyd’ era’
This will be followed by a conversation with Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry, Director of the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, and will include an open Q&A session.
All welcome.
To register, please click here.

A local solution to a global problem: community wealth building and climate
2021-11-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Room PFC/0G/007, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University, Belfast, Antrim, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
This event will take place at Queen’s University Belfast and will involve panel talks, followed by a Q&A session to discuss community wealth building and climate action.
The panel will discuss opportunities for local government and communities to address the climate crisis, deliver effective climate action in ways that secure jobs, reduce inequalities and shift our economies beyond ‘business as usual’, such as community wealth building.
This event will be led by John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy and Co-director of the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate action at Queen’s. Panel members will include Mary McManus (Community Wealth Building Researcher), Sean McCabe (Nevin Economic Research Institute) and Sean Byers (Trademark Belfast)3

The story of Belfast’s Streets – Free Walking Tour
2021-11-06 10:00 - 11:30 | Belfast City Hall, Donegall Square, Belfast , Antrim, BT1 5GS, United Kingdom
This free walking tour (1.5 hours) will run from 10am on each Saturday and Sunday during November 2021. The tour will take you around Belfast, linking the city’s built environment, public art and urban landscape to its political traditions, social history and cultural heritage. Booking is essential.
On the guided walk, you will discover the amazing street art of the city, the stunning architecture and the blue plaques that tell the amazing history and the stunning stories of Belfast’s residents from the Plantation of Ulster to the Troubles.
You will also learn why Belfast has few connections with the Transatlantic slave trade, visit the places where people were publicly executed, find out why the first Catholic church built in Belfast in 1783 was funded by donations from the Presbyterian community and stand on the spot location that (probably) gave Belfast its name.
The tour will be led by guides who are trainee or qualified Blue or Green Badge tour guides. The tour is in association with Dr Tom Thorpe, an Independent Scholar/Public Historian/Tour Guide and Professor Keith D. Lilley from the Heritage Hub, Queen’s University Belfast.
Remember that booking is essential.
Please assemble outside Belfast City Hall (in front of Queen Victoria statue) from 9.45am. Tours will depart promptly at 10am and will finish at 11:30. The tour may take place in cold, inclement, and wet weather; please come prepared. Wear comfortable walking shoes and bring an umbrella/anorak just in case. Walks will seek to practice social distancing to help reduced COVID infection. The tours will take place on the flat and are wheelchair accessible.

Better Data For Cleaner Air: The ADRC NI Online Air Pollution Dashboard
2021-11-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
Globally, air pollution is one of the most severe environmental threats to public health. Knowing where air quality is poor can help people avoid the negative health impacts, which will have broader effects on society and the economy.
The ADRC NI Environmental Health Research Group at Queen’s has developed an online dashboard to support this impact. This webinar will provide a demonstration of this dashboard, along with an expert discussion.
This event will be led by researchers from The ADRC NI Environmental Health Research Group at Queen’s.
This event will be led by Dr Neil Rowland, ADRC NI Research Fellow and regional Clean Air Champion for Northern Ireland; and Professor Duncan McVicar, ADRC NI.

Expressing a youth perspective on climate damage using animation
2021-11-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Don Duncan, a filmmaker, journalist and lecturer at Queen’s University will lead a discussion on how young people feel alienated and disenfranchised when it comes to bringing about change in the climate agenda.
This event will include a live showcase/presentation of animations produced by young people in Northern Ireland on the subject of climate justice and human rights. This will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A. The event will occur live in the Sonic Lab (SARC), Queen’s University Belfast, and will be simultaneously broadcast online.
How do can we tell the story of climate change in a way that will effect change now? How can a youth perspective be of value in this? How can animation be a useful tool in this narrative enterprise? These are some of the particular issues that will be discussed in an event that generally ponders the stories that need to be told now about the climate emergency.

The climate crisis and ensuring a just transition beyond carbon
2021-11-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Room PFC/0G/007, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University, Belfast, Antrim, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom
This event will take place at Queen’s University Belfast and will involve panel talks and discussions, followed by a Q&A session on the crucial role of trade unions in climate action.
With growing awareness of the climate crisis, the focus is now shifting towards climate action and how to transition societies beyond their dependence on fossil fuels. For some this means that this transition is now inevitable. However, whether it will be “just” is not. This discussion will examine the crucial role of the trades’ union movement (where the idea of a ‘just transition’ originated) in contributing to the political process of managing this transition in a manner that is inclusive, democratic and where no community or section of society or the workforce is left behind.
This event will be led by John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy and Co-director of the Centre for Sustainability at Queen’s. Panel members will include Hilary Wainwright, University of Bradford, Susan Fitzgerald, Unite the Union’s Regional Industrial Officer for Northern Ireland, and Dr. Stiofán Ó Nualláin, co-director of Trademark Belfast, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions political education and anti-sectarian unit.

#CookingUpHappiness
2021-11-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
Whilst cooking can help achieve these goals, we want to shine the spotlight on the enjoyment of cooking, and the potential positives it can have for one’s wellbeing.
#CookingUpHappiness is a one-week online, collaborative social media campaign, gathering “happy recipes”, i.e. comfort food recipes, family recipes passed down, or simply recipes with happy memories, with the aim of building an online community recipe book filled with foods to make you happy. Social scientists will also be sharing their research on the area of cooking and wellbeing throughout the week. All of this can be found under the hashtag #CookingUpHappiness. At the end of the week (Fri 12th) we will pick one of the happy recipe submissions which will be cooked up live by a professional chef for everyone to cook along with online. After the week long event, everyone can access the freely available #CookingUpHappiness recipe book online.
This will be led by Dr Fiona Lavelle and Dr Niamh O’Kane from the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast

Influences on contemporary arts and cultural industries management
2021-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Join us to hear about new research and share arts management practice from around the world.

This is an opportunity to hear about new research from students and international researchers, to discover new and interesting ways of thinking about how arts and cultural events and programmes happen and how we can share arts management practice from around the world.
The event will include a pre-recorded 2021 Showcase of the exciting, new student research in Arts and Cultural Industries Management and Cultural Policy, followed by talks by international speakers and will highlight the work of Dr Raphaela Henze of Heilbronn University, Germany and Dr Federico Escribal of Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Argentina. Drawing on their new book Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America, they will offer valuable learning on how cultural managers in Latin America negotiate the political and economic challenges and the omnipresent legacy of colonialism in contemporary cultural work and organisations.
This event will be led by Dr Ali FitzGibbon, lecturer on the MA in Arts Management at Queen’s University Belfast and will be hosted on Zoom with closed captions. Support for sign language interpretation is also available.

A New Ireland: The State of the Constitutional Conversation
2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
Professor Harvey, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, will provide an assessment of the current state of the constitutional conversation on the island of Ireland, followed by questions and comments from the audience.

The event will be of interest to anyone thinking critically about post-Brexit constitutional futures across these islands. Participants will, in particular, be provided with an update and reflections on the debate about constitutional change on the island of Ireland.

Insights and intersections: NI Ethnic Minorities' and Migrants' Relations
2021-11-19 14:00 - 16:30 | Online
This interactive event will bring together individuals, community groups, civil society organisations, policymakers and researchers to discuss the ways migrant and minority ethnic members of NI society:

make proactive contributions to activism and philanthropy locally and globally about environmental concerns;
engage in good environmental practices for the purposes of wellbeing, enterprise and environmental justice;
share insights from those who are in/directly impacted by environmental issues, including migration from global climate change; access, participation and exploitation within agriculture, particularly in terms of how those relations are affected by Brexit, the hostile environment, and the purchase of land in a context where farms are often inherited.

Through this discussion, it is hoped that fertile ground will be laid for future co-curated research and cross-fertilisation of ways in which to promote inclusive practices within, and with, diverse communities. Speakers and audience members will be encouraged to identify important areas, research questions and partnerships to bridge the current academic research gap about the environment, which was identified in the project report, ‘Collation and Mapping of Research related to Migrant and Minority Ethnic Matters in Northern Ireland produced within Northern Ireland’s Universities’ (Lubit & Belluigi, 2021).
This event is hosted by the MME Council in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast.

The Art of Vision
2021-11-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Peter Froggatt Centre Foyer
An art exhibition celebrating the beauty of eyes and vision will be open to the public in the Foyer of the Peter Froggatt Centre, in Queen’s University Belfast.

The exhibition will include images captured during research studies conducted within QUB and by their collaborators. Images from the Belfast Ophthalmic Reading Centre and Lengyel Lab (CEM) and other collaborators will be framed and displayed. Images will include pictures of the eye and visual system and scientific images of micro-structures of the eye. Each image will be accompanied by a short description of the image and research study and there will be a number of stands where people can learn more about vision and eyes with interactive materials. Researchers from the studies will be at the event to discuss the studies and raise awareness of the importance of vision and vision research and how it impacts on the wider community.
Professor Tunde Peto (Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, QUB) will be leading the event and speakers from her team, the Lengyel Lab and others from ophthalmology will also be on hand.

TESOL Resources for Teachers - Online website launch
2021-11-29 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
This virtual event launches the TESOLGraphic website, an online repository of infographic summaries of secondary research in TESOL for English-as-a-Second-Language, English-as-a-Foreign-Language, English-as-an-Additional-Language, and English for Academic/Specific Purposes teachers.

The talk will introduce English teachers to what secondary research is and how secondary research can provide the latest and more robust evidence for innovative ELT methodologies.
The online repository will also share examples of infographic summaries of secondary research in TESOL and how teachers can make use of the infographics to inform their practice. The talk concludes by presenting plans for expanding the online repository by including new features e.g., a discussion forum for teachers to share experiences implementing pedagogical innovations based on synthesised findings, podcasts interviewing teachers and researchers regarding research-practice dialogues.

Dr. Chong is a Lecturer (Project Leader & Assistant Professor in TESOL) at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s and will lead the event.
Mr Mehdi Shaadhadi (Research Assistant) with 13 years teaching experience from Islamic Azad University will also be speaking at the event.
