ARK Research Updates
Below is a listing of all the ARK Research Updates dating from 1999, all of which are available in PDF format. Many of the Research Updates have been presented as seminars and where possible these seminars have been recorded onto video and can be viewed within your web browser here.
However, if you require hard copy versions of these documents, please contact us by phone (+44 (0) 2871 675441) or send email us.
All work that refers to an ARK Research Update should acknowledge it using the appropriate bibliographic citation. For example:
Robinson, Gillian and Devine, Paula, 2017, Bonfires, flags, identity and cultural traditions, ARK Research Update 119, Belfast: ARK <http://www.ark.ac.uk/publications/updates/update119.pdf >
There are over 100 ARK Research Updates available in PDF form for download. You can the search facility below with keywords, a year or month or a name to help find the ARK Research Updates you are interested in.
Total number of items - 157
08th Mar 2019
The Genie is out of the Bottle: Self-managed abortions in Northern Ireland using pills
Goretti Horgan
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update127.pdf221.55 KB
04th Dec 2018
Volunteering Matters: Young People’s Perspectives
Martina McKnight and Dirk Schubotz
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update125.pdf142.57 KB
22nd Nov 2018
A welcoming Northern Ireland? Understanding sentiment towards asylum seekers and refugees
Lucy Michael and Paula Devine
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22nd Nov 2018
A welcoming Northern Ireland? Understanding sentiment towards asylum seekers and refugees
Dr Lucy Michael (Ulster University)
ARK - Seminar Series 2017 - 2018
A welcoming Northern Ireland? Understanding sentiment towards asylum seekers and refugees
In this seminar on 22 November 2018, Lucy Michael (Ulster University) reviewed data from the 2017 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey and Young Life and Times Survey on attitudes to refugees, asylum seekers and ethnic minorities. In addition, considered the extent to which refugees both represent a unique focus for attention within the immigrant population and also offer a proxy for other kinds of views on immigration.
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15th Nov 2018
Attitudes to minority ethnic groups in Northern Ireland, 2005-2016
Paula Devine
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update122.pdf371.95 KB
15th Nov 2018
20 years of good relations policy and attitudes
Paula Devine and Gillian Robinson
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update123.pdf276.83 KB
13th Jun 2018
Public Attitudes to UK Armed Forces
Professor Chérie Armour and Dr Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley (Ulster University)
ARK - Seminar Series 2017 - 2018
Launch of the 2017 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
This events marks the launch of the findings of the 2017 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey. This seminar, by Professor Chérie Armour and Dr Bethany Waterhouse-Bradley (Ulster University), reports on the first ever survey of public attitudes to Armed Forces veterans conducted in Northern Ireland.
This seminar took place in the Skainos Centre, Newtownards Road, Belfast on the 13 June 2018.
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update121.pdf271.82 KB
23rd May 2018
Young Peoples Experiences of "Stop and Search" Powers in Northern Ireland
by Dr John Topping (Lecturer of Criminology, QUB)
ARK - Seminar Series 2017 - 2018
Launch of the 2017 Young Life and Times Survey
Dr John Topping from Queens University delivers a presentation based on the results of the 2017 Young Life and Times (YLT) Survey focusing on Young Peoples Experiences of "Stop and Search" Powers in Northern Ireland.
The venue for this event was: Room OG/007 Queen’s University 69/71 University Street Belfast BT7 1HL
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25th Jan 2018
In their own words: Young People’s Attitudes to Community Relations in Northern Ireland
by Grace Kelly
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update117.pdf394.52 KB
22nd Nov 2017
Bonfires, Flags, Identity and Cultural Traditions
Gillian Robinson and Paula Devine
ARK Seminar Series 2017- 2018
Bonfires, Flags, Identity and Cultural Traditions
This seminar took place in Baskin Room, Skainos Centre,
239 Newtownards Road, Belfast, BT4 1AF, on Wednesday 22 November from 12 noon.
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