The ARK team will be taking a break over the next two weeks, and returning on 4th January. In the meantime, we hope that you all have a very happy, safe and peaceful Christmas season.

The CAIN Associate Programme showcases how CAIN plays an important role in academic research and in the work of policy makers and practitioners. To date, three events have been held. Full details and videos of these events are available on the CAIN website.

The next webinar of Associate Programme will take place on 19 January 2022, at 2pm: Partition and the Birth of Northern Ireland Revisited: Reflections on the Marking of a Decade of Centenaries with Dr Eamon Phoenix. Please register using the link below.

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Welcome to the newest member of the ARK team - Dr Adrian Grant. Adrian is a Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University and has joined the CAIN team to lead the transformation project for this resource.

Adrian's current research focuses on the everyday experience of conflict and division in urban settings. Much of his work focuses on the conflict in, and about, Northern Ireland. He has worked extensively in research on the legacy of conflict, particularly on the role of oral history and urban policy in addressing division.

ARK is Northern Ireland's social policy hub. Established in 2000 by researchers at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University, its primary goal is to increase the accessibility and use of academic data and research. Most of our dissemination is via our website at www.ark.ac.uk, which is divided into five main areas:

• Surveys
• Projects
• Resources
• Publications
• Events