The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) undertakes methodological research and training in the social sciences, and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. These courses are suitable for postgraduate students and researchers. ARK will be helping the NCRM put on a number of courses in Northern Ireland during the coming academic year. These include:

'Making & Measuring Impact', 14 September 2016. The course will take place in Seminar Room 1 in the Postgraduate Centre, Queen's University, Belfast.

'Latent Class Analysis', 15/16 September 2016. The course will take place in the Training Room at the McClay Library, Queen's University, Belfast. There will be 6 free places for N.I.-located postgrads, allocated on a 'first come, first served' basis. To request one of these places, register instead Here

'CADQAS Software Planning Seminar', 25 January 2017. The course is provisionally booked for Room 1.35, 6 College Park East, Queen's University, Belfast. Registration will open in the autumn, so please check the NCRM website then.

Full descriptions and booking instructions of each course are available through the web links above. Please note registration for each of these course is done by NCRM through the web links and not by ARK.

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Data from our Life and Times surveys for 2015 is now available online.

Young Life and Times survey 2015 includes modules on: Identity; Young carers; Sport; and Internationalisation.

Kids Life and Times 2015 survey includes modules on:Shared Education; Sport; KIDSCREEN; and School_calm.

Life and Times 2015 survey includes modules on: Good Relations; Attitudes to Minority Ethnic Groups; and Social Care.
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Two recent publications are:

Kids Life and Times comic 2015 provides information on key findings from the 2015 survey.

A Question of Sport ARK Research Update shows almost one third of P7 children, but less than one in ten 16-year olds meet target of 60 minutes of physical activity per day.

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Public Attitudes to Data Sharing in Northern Ireland

BA-00-008, Ulster University, Belfast Campus, York Street, Belfast
Wednesday 7 September 2016 at 11.45am, followed by a light lunch.

In this joint ARK and Administrative Data Research Centre NI seminar the findings of the NILT 2015 survey on Public Attitudes to Data Sharing in Northern Ireland will be presented.
Registration details will follow in due course.

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ARK staff facilitated an event with 13 year olds (Year 9) on 9th June on the topic: Is Northern Ireland a good place to grow old? SUPI stands for "RCUK Schools Universities Partnership Initiative" and the aim is to engage academic researchers and school pupils in some kind of dialogue about research. In this case, we had students from 3 post-primary schools from North Down.