Earlier this month, we released the latest data from our three public attitudes survey.

• The 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey explored public opinion to key social issues, including abortion, Brexit, and good relations.
• The 2016 Young Life and Times Survey asked 16 year olds about sport, culture, good relations, internationalisation, and more.
• The 2016 Kids' Life and Times Survey focused on the attitudes of 10-11 year olds to topics such as school, age of criminal responsibility, and sport

On each survey website, you will find tables of results, questionnaires, technical reports, and datasets.

To mark the anniversary of Brexit referendum, ARK has released two resources focusing on public attitudes to, and expectations of, Brexit, using data from the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey:

• Waking up in a different country - Brexit and Northern Ireland (Research Update 116) by Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Arthur Aughey and Paula Devine
• Cathy Gormley-Heenan recorded a video highlighting the key findings

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We are pleased to launch a new section of our website, which comprises short articles on a wide variety of topics relating to politics and social policy. These aim to present research evidence and commentary that links into current policy debates or newsworthy issues in an informed way.

The first Feature is If at first you don't succeed then try, try, try ... again - political negotiations in Northern Ireland 1969-2017, by Brendan Lynn (Deputy Director of CAIN).

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ARK produces a range of publications, including Research Updates and fact sheets, most of which are available online. Four Research Updates have been published recently:

• Raise the Age? Children's attitudes towards the minimum age of criminal responsibility, by Siobhan McAlister, Nicola Carr, Clare Dwyer and Katrina Lloyd, uses data from the 2016 Kids' Life and Times survey
• No Change: Northern Ireland Attitudes and Social Care Policy, (Research Update 114) by Ann Marie Gray and Paula Devine is based on data from the 2015 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
• Attitudes to abortion in Northern Ireland, (Research Update 115) by Ann Marie Gray focuses on data from the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
• Waking up in a different country: Brexit and Northern Ireland, (Research Update 116) by Cathy Gormley-Heenan, Arthur Aughey and Paula Devine, explores data from the 2016 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

For a full list of publications, as well as links, visit our Publications page

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Just over 920 documents, dating from the period 1975-80, have now been added to the Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN) website as part of an ongoing partnership involving Ulster University and the National Archives, Ireland (NAI). The newly released material charts, amongst other things, the fallout from 1974 Ulster Workers' Council Strike; the 1980 Republican Hunger Strike; as well as developments in Anglo-Irish relations culminating with the Haughey-Thatcher Summit in December 1980.

The items selected have been drawn from material which has been released under the 30 year rule, but until now has not been available online. They can be accessed at http://cain.ulster.ac.uk/nai/index.html

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The ARK Ageing Programme recently hosted Anna Tarrant (University of Lincoln) as a Visiting Fellow. Anna participated in two key events focusing on kinship care. Videos and slides from these events are now available online.

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After 17 years, Gillian Robinson has stepped down as Director of ARK, and we are very grateful for her leadership since ARK began in 2000. Gillian will still be actively involved in ARK, in her new role as Research Director.

Reflecting our joint university structure, Paula Devine (Queen's) and Ann Marie Gray (Ulster University) are the new Co-Directors of ARK. In addition, Goretti Horgan is our new Policy Director.