• Northern Ireland’s Fuel and Energy Insecurity: The Bio-Energy Contribution

    Canada Room and Council Chamber Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Join us for this exciting event that brings together major stakeholders in the bio-energy sector in Northern Ireland, with particular attention on the use of natural gas and renewable natural gas as a fuel for transport and energy.

  • MSc Public Policy at Queen’s – Information Evening

    Riddel Hall 185 Stranmillis Road , Belfast, Co Antrim, United Kingdom

    An Information Evening on the MSc in Public Policy at Queen's University will take place on Thursday 25 February 2016 from 18:30 to 20:00.

  • Controversies about the Human Right to Health

    Canada Room and Council Chamber Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Organised by the Northern Ireland Ethics Forum and QPol, as part of the Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics 2016. Join Professor Jo Wolff as he looks at the relationship between the right to health and the right to health-care.

  • Imaginative Randomocracy

    Old Staff Common Room Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

    A political system in which ordinary (randomly selected) citizens make crucial political decisions using their imagination.

  • What about a Politics of Kindness?

    Lanyon Building 0G/074 Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, Antrim, United Kingdom

    Join historian, author and playwright, Philip Orr as he talks about the fascinating life and work of Francis Hutcheson, suggesting ways in which his distinctive philosophy has relevance today as we seek to form ‘a politics of kindness.’

  • Everything you Wanted to Know about Economics but were Afraid to Ask…

    Canada Room and Council Chamber Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Come along and join in this interactive seminar, led by Professor John Barry from Queen’s University Belfast, who will seek to lift the veil behind our understanding of the word "economics" and uncover the hidden truths behind our taken for granted views of economics.

  • An Opt-Out Organ Donor Register – What is it and should Northern Ireland have one?

    Old Staff Common Room Queen's University Belfast, University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Join in the debate and listen to the panel of speakers as they discuss the Opt-out approach to organ donation that has recently been taken up in Wales and give your views as to whether Northern Ireland should adopt the same approach.

  • Towards a People Powered Politics

    Great Hall Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

    Join Geoff Mulgan, CEO of NESTA, as he shares some ideas he has gathered from his travels around the world on how politics can be organised differently in in the future.

  • 2016 Annual Gibson Lecture at the Gibson Institute

    Lecture Theatre 1, Medical Biology Centre 97 Lisburn Road , Belfast, Antrim, United Kingdom

    The 2016 Annual Gibson Lecture at the Gibson Institute, Queen’s University, will be delivered by the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Phil Hogan.