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Faculty Online News & Features 2007 / 2008 |
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1st December 2008:
Sparking the Imagination of Primary Pupils
Researchers and staff at the University of Ulster have been using interactive techniques like music, art and storytelling to help develop children's self esteem in the classroom.  |
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28th November 2008:
Mental Health Services: Innovation Without Change
The provision and delivery of mental health services in Northern Ireland has not improved with devolution, according to University of Ulster academic Professor Deirdre Heenan. |
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24th November 2008:
Grey Power a Force to be Reckoned With: Ulster Research
The ‘Celtic Tiger’ did little to improve the lot of pensioners relative to most other people living in the Republic of Ireland, while in Northern Ireland, social care services for senior citizens remain under-funded and hard to access, according to research published in a new book by University of Ulster researcher Dr Nick Acheson. |
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20th November 2008:
ICT Dissolving Boundaries
The use of ICT in schools is dissolving boundaries and having a dramatic impact on schoolchildren living on either side of the border, according to new research by the School of Education in the University of Ulster and its cross-border partner NUI Maynooth. |
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3rd November 2008:
Head of School of Law Appointed
Dr Thomas Murphy has been appointed as Head of the School of Law. |
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21st October 2008:
Penetrating Peace Accords
International legal scholars are hailing as ground-breaking a penetrating new study of peace accords worldwide by a law professor at the University of Ulster. |
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10th October 2008:
Girls are happier than boys at primary school
Twenty-six per cent of Primary 7 boys are completely happy coming to school, compared with 44 per cent of girls, according to a survey carried out by the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast. |
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3rd September 2008:
Lift the Ban on Workplace Banter - Report
Banter in the form of light hearted, two-way, friendly, humorous, communication, can be a good way of easing tensions in mixed workforces, according to a report by University of Ulster academics. |
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3rd September 2008:
Learning About the Past
How can we address the issues of the past to enable people to live with their religious, political and racial differences? |
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27th August 2008:
Prestigious Appointment for Ulster Law Lecturer
University of Ulster law lecturer, Dr Venkat Iyer, has been appointed to the Law Commission of Northern Ireland. |
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17th June 2008:
INCORE Hosts International Peace-Building Summer School
More than 50 delegates from 15 countries are visiting the Magee campus this week to learn how the peace process helped Northern Ireland move out of conflict. |
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14th June 2008:
Birthday Honours for Ulster Academics
Two leading academics from the University of Ulster have received awards in The Queen's Birthday Honours List, published today. |
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3rd June 2008:
Canada's Multicultural Lessons For Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland can learn from Canada on how to cope with increasing numbers of immigrants, a conference hosted by the University of Ulster has heard. |
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26th May 200:
Ulster Appoints Director of Graduate School of Professional Legal Education
The University of Ulster has appointed distinguished legal expert Mr Paul Mageean (pictured) to the post of Director of its new Graduate School of Professional Legal Education |
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15th May
ESRC Fellowship For Ulster Social Policy Researcher
Professor Deirdre Heenan of the School of Policy Studies has been awarded a fellowship under the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) researcher placement scheme. |
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12th May 2008:
Intimate Mixing: Catholic-Protestant Relationships in Northern Ireland
People in ‘mixed’ relationships in Northern Ireland tend to be more educated and have higher incomes than those in traditional relationships, according to new research. |
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24th April 2008
Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice Launched at Magee
The decision to offer the Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice at the Magee Campus of the University of Ulster has been warmly welcomed by the Law Society and the legal profession in the north west. |
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11th March 2008
High Demand For Magee Postgraduate Solicitor Training Course
The University of Ulster’s new postgraduate professional solicitor training programme has received full accreditation from the Law Society of Northern Ireland. |
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5th February 2008:
Asmal Backs NI Bill of Rights Call
In his Tip O'Neill Peace Lecture, South African MP and human rights activist Professor Kader Asmal last night backed calls for a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. |
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22nd January 2008:
Report Reveals Changing Attitudes to Healthcare in Northern Ireland
People in Northern Ireland are less satisfied with healthcare services than they were a decade ago according to new research released today. |
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27th November 2007:
Lone Parents: The Barriers To Employment
Lone parents want to work – but the system is loaded against them, according to new research from the University of Ulster. |
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21st November 2007:
Poverty Means Young Children Face Disadvantage in NI Schools
Children from some of the most disadvantaged schools in Northern Ireland face a diminished educational experience, according to University of Ulster research. |
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12th November 2007:
Ulster Graduate Sian Awarded Human Rights Prize
University of Ulster graduate Sian Fisher has beaten off stiff international competition to win the prestigious Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Dissertation prize for her work on child soldiers in Africa. |
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11th November 2007:
Buying Social Justice
Governments spend huge amounts of money buying goods and services - but how far should their spending power be used to promote human rights and social justice? |
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17th October 2007:
University of Ulster to Deliver Professional Solicitor Training at Magee Campus
The University of Ulster is to offer professional solicitor training at its Magee campus in Londonderry – the first time this has been available outside Belfast. |
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16th October 2007:
UU Lecturer Recognised for Research Excellence
A lecturer in the University of Ulster’s Transitional Justice Institute has won a national award for the excellence of his research in the field of international humanitarian law. |
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10th October 2007:
New Professors Appointed At Magee
Two new professors have been appointed at the University's Magee campus. |
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9th October 2007:
Research Highlights Use of ICT For Cross Border Learning
The use of computer software in primary schools, north and south of the Irish border, is helping children to learn more effectively, work better together and improve their social skills. |
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8th October 2007:
Healthwise Scheme Fails To Retain Patients – UU Research
New research carried out by the Sport and Exercise Research Institute at UU has found that almost 80 per cent of patients referred to an Eastern Health and Social Services Board (EHSSB) exercise referral scheme did not complete the course. |
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2nd October 2007:
Race and the Media
Journalists, politicians, policy makers, academics and community workers will rub shoulders with representatives from minority ethnic groups living and working in the north west at a media conference this week hosted by the University of Ulster’s INCORE conflict research initiative. |
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2nd October 2007:
Improving Maternity Services in the North West
A University of Ulster research report has drawn up a list of recommendations which it says could improve maternity care in the north-west of Northern Ireland. |
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20th September 2007:
UU Academic Appointed to UK Research Panel
Professor Alan Smith, UNESCO Chair at the University of Ulster has been appointed to a joint Economic and Social Research Council - Department for International Development commissioning panel for a £13m million scheme for research on poverty. |
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20th September 2007:
The UN: Recovering The Vision
PODCAST: The challenges facing the United Nations have never been greater, according to Professor Kevin Boyle, Director of the Human Rights Centre University of Essex, who this week gave the INCORE annual lecture. |
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11th September 2007:
Our Changing Public Adminstration Landscape
PODCAST: Professor Paul Carmichael highlights the issues discussed at the recent Public Administration Conference hosted by UU, including the evolution of the Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland |
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10th September 2007:
INCORE's Hamber Appointed Chair of Healing Through Remembering
Dr Brandon Hamber, Research Co-Ordinator at INCORE, the UU/United Nations research centre for the study of conflict, has become the new chair of Healing Through Remembering, a cross-community organisation that focuses on ways of dealing with the past conflict in Northern Ireland. |
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1st August 2007:
E-Schooling .... Made in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is leading the way in E-schooling, according to a new book out today, by education experts Dr Roger Austin and John Anderson. |
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29th June 2007:
UU Sociologist Addresses Human Rights Forum In Yemen
A UU sociologist has been telling delegates at a Human Rights conference in the Middle East, how people there can learn from the Northern Ireland experience. |
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28th June 2007:
Bullying Rife In NI Schools: UU Research
Nearly half of primary school children in Northern Ireland feel they have been bullied, a new report from UU revealed today. |
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22nd June 2007:
Minority Ethnic Communities and Safety
Personal safety, reporting hate crimes and road safety will be among the topics for discussion at an INCORE seminar on Minority Ethnic Communities and Safety seminar in the One World Centre, Londonderry next week. |
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11th June 2007:
International Peace Building At INCORE Summer School
More than 50 international experts, policy-makers, researchers and peace activists are attending the 8th INCORE International Summer School at the Magee campus of the University of Ulster in Derry. |
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8th June 2007:
UU Hosts Political Conference With A Difference
Burning bras and hairy legs' and 'Bizarre political conversion?' are just two of the intriguingly titled papers set to generate debate at a political conference at the University of Ulster's Jordanstown campus this weekend. |
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5th June 2007:
Moving Out Of Conflict: Senator Maurice Hayes
Picking at the sores of the past could frustrate the development of peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, according to Senator Maurice Hayes, who last night delivered the latest in the Tip O'Neill Peace Lecture series at the University's Magee campus. |
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29th May 2007:
Women Get Raw Deal in UK Universities - UU Research
Female academics are given a raw deal within higher education in both the United Kingdom and Germany, according to research by a University female acade |
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22nd May 2007:
Orangeism and Unionism – A New History
A new book by a University academic on the two institutions which dominated the political life of Northern Ireland for much of the last century – the Ulster Unionist Party and the Orange Order – shows that they did not always enjoy a cosy relationship. |
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15th May 2007:
Accolade for UU Canadian Studies
Dr. Susan Hodgett, Director of Canadian Studies, which is based at the University’s Social and Policy Research Institute, has been appointed President-Elect of the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS). The accolade is evidence of how Canadian Studies - launched in 2006 - has quickly taken root at the university |
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11th May 2007:
Research Backs Cognitive Therapy for Terror Stress Victims
Cognitive therapy is an effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder related to acts of terrorism and other civil conflict, according to UU research published toda |
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10th May 2007:
Exceptional Achievement Award For UU Academic
One of Northern Ireland's most influential community relations activists has been rewarded for his 37-year career at the heart of efforts to build a shared future. |
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3rd May 2007:
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland
Next week sees the launch of an edited book by Professors Carmichael, Knox and Osborne from the UU's School of Policy Studies, entitled Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland. |
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2nd May 2007:
Sex Inequality: Still A Fact of Life for Northern Ireland's Young Women
Despite over 30 years of anti-discrimination legislation, women in Northern Ireland are still waiting for equality according to new research from the University of Ulster. |
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1st May 2007:
Rights To Education in Areas of Conflict
The UNESCO Centre's International Development Unit and Save the Children are hosting a seminar on 'Realising the Rights to Education in Areas of Conflict' to mark the beginning of a new partnership. |
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24th April 2007:
Minority Ethnic Communities and the Media
Minority Ethnic Communities and the Media is the theme of a seminar which is being organised this week by INCORE’s Diversity in Action project at the University ’s Magee campus. |
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17th April 2007:
Inside The Changing Voluntary Sector
New partnership arrangements being forged between the public and voluntary sectors are placing increasing strains on the way in which voluntary organisations are run, according to University of Ulster experts from the Social and Policy Research Institute (SPRI). |
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4th April 2007:
From Peace to Reconciliation
Building peace and reconciliation were the central themes of Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern’s Tip O’Neill peace lecture delivered last night at the Magee campus |
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3rd April 2007:
Ahern to Deliver Peace Lecture
Dermot Ahern TD, the Republic of Ireland's Minister for Foreign Affairs, is to deliver the Tip O'Neill peace lecture at the University of Ulster’s Magee campus tonight. |
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2nd April 2007:
US Accolade For Law Professor
Professor Christine Bell, Associate Director of the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), has won the American Society for International Law’s Francis Deake Prize |
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28th March 2007:
US Honour for UU Human Rights Experts
A book by Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin of the University of Ulster’s Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), and Oren Gross, a Visiting Professor at the Institute, has won the most prestigious academic international law award in the USA – the American Society for International Law’s ‘Certificate of Merit’ for 2007. |
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23rd March 2007:
The Changing British Constitution
Professor the Lord Norton of Louth is to deliver the SPRI Annual Lecture on The Changing British Constitution. His lecture takes place on Monday 26th March in the Loughview Suite, Jordanstown at 6pm. |
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12th March 2007:
International Criminal Court’s Work in Africa Under Microscope
The University’s Transitional Justice Institute is co-organising a series of expert roundtables and public lectures in London this month on the work of the International Criminal Court in Africa. |
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12th March 2007:
Seminar Probes Voting Patterns In Northern Ireland
In the aftermath of the Assembly elections, voting behaviour will be the subject of an ARK public seminar taking place this week. |
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26th February 2007:
£3M Award to ARK Boosts NI Research Resources
ARK (the Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive), a collaboration between the University and QUB, has been awarded £3 million from The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). |
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26th February 2007:
Creating Sustainable Childcare the Social Enterprise Way
Experts will next week examine how affordable, accessible and quality driven childcare can be provided in rural areas on both sides of the border |
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19th February 2007:
UU Research To Explore Victims' Issues
A University of Ulster research team are beginning a project to explore issues around victims, survivors and commemoration in post-conflict Northern Ireland |
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13th February 2007:
UU Team In Mideast Peace-building Partnership
Community workers from North Belfast are to travel to Jerusalem this month as part of the University of Ulster’s ongoing initiative to highlight the role of community groups in peace building. |
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7th February 2007:
Cognitive Therapy Workshops
Two Consultant Clinical Psychologists who are pioneers of Cognitive Therapy treatment for anxiety disorders are to visit Northern Ireland for speaking engagements co-hosted by the University of Ulster. |
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7th February 2007:
Northern Ireland Heads Western Bigotry Index
Northern Ireland has the highest proportion of bigoted people in the the western world, according to research by Professor Vani Borooah |
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31st January 2007:
UU To Honour Peacemaker Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize winner, heads the list of twelve high achievers who will receive honorary degrees from the University this summer |
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31st January 2007:
UU Academic In Virtual Middle East Conference
Dr Roger Austin, a Senior Lecturer in the UU's School of Education, was the main speaker at a recent international on-line conference organised by an Israeli teacher training College in Tel Aviv. |
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30th January 2007:
Launch of Partnership For Human Rights Education
The Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster and the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission are pleased to announce details of a new partnership to support human rights education in Northern Ireland |
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30th January 2007:
Money Can't Buy Happiness - UU Research
Money cannot buy you happiness, according to new research from UU economist Professor Vani Borooah |
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17th January 2007:
New Troubles Archive Launched
A new catalogue of material on the Northern Ireland Troubles has been launched today by the University of Ulster in partnership with Queen’s University, Belfast. |
