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 - 156
25th Nov 2013
A Truly Shared Future? Attitudes towards migrant communities and minority ethnic people in Northern Ireland
Dr Philip McDermott
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06th Nov 2013
The Impact of Parental Involvement in the School Experience of 10 and 11-Year Olds
Orlaith Minogue and Dirk Schubotz
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04th Jun 2013
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Public awareness and attitudes
Karola Dillenburger, Julie-Ann Jordan and Lyn McKerr
Autism Awareness and Attitudes:
Launch of 2012 Life and Times results
Karola Dillenburger, Julie-Ann Jordan and Lynne McKerr (School of Education, Queens University Belfast) will use 2012 NILT data to explore knowledge and public attitudes to the social, employment, educational and housing issues facing people with autism, as well as highlighting personal experiences.
This Seminar was presented at Queen's University Belfast on 4th June 2013.
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23rd May 2013
Shared Education: Views of Children and Young People
Katrina Lloyd
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update82.pdf435.22 KB
11th Jun 2012
Messed up? Sexual lifestyles of 16-year olds in Northern Ireland
Dirk Schubotz
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30th May 2012
Loneliness in Northern Ireland Adolescents (Launched at YLT 2011 preview seminar)
Siobhan Murphy and Mark Shevlin
2011 YLT Survey - Preview of Results Seminar
Every year, ARK offers policy makers, researchers and anyone concerned with young people's issues the opportunity to get an overview of the key results of the most recent YLT survey, before the full survey results are being released to the general public.
This Seminar was held at Queens University (Room OG074, Lanyon Building) on 15th May 2012, 12.30-14.15.
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16th May 2012
No more us and them for 16 year olds? (Launched at YLT 2011 preview seminar)
Paula Devine and Gillian Robinson
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Update79.pdf803.67 KB
22nd Nov 2011
Developing social care policy: the public voice
Ann Marie Gray, Lizanne Dowds and Paula Devine
ARK Seminars Series 2011/12
This Seminar was presented on the 20th November 2011 at NICVA Headquarters, Duncairn Gdns, Belfast
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18th Oct 2011
Dementia: public knowledge and attitudes
Maria McManus and Paula Devine
ARK Seminar Series 2011/12
In this presentation, Maria McManus (Dementia Services Development Centre) will explore how much we know about dementia, and our attitudes towards someone with dementia. The seminar will focus on results from the 2010 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey.
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