Results from the 2020 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey are now available. 1,292 adults aged 18 or over were asked their opinion on good relations, attitudes to minority ethnic groups, respect, coercive control, COVID-19, politics, BREXIT, the criminal justice system, and perceptions of paramilitary control.

On the survey website, you can find tables of results for every question, the questionnaires, technical notes and the dataset.

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Conflict Textiles is home to a large collection of international textiles, exhibitions and associated events, all of which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.

To mark Refugee Week and World Refugee Day in June 2021, ARK collaborated Conflict Textiles on a short film. This presents public attitudes data to refugees and asylum seekers in Northern Ireland from the 2020 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, illustrated this through a selection of textiles relating to refugee issues.

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An event on 10 June marked the release of data from the 2020 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey. During this webinar, Susan Lagdon (Ulster University) and Julie-Ann Jordan (Northern Health and Social Care Trust) outlined key results of new questions exploring public understanding of coercive control.

A video and slides of the webinar are now available, as is a Research Update to accompany the event.

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The CAIN website contains a wealth of information relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. One key event is the Brooke-Mayhew Talks.

From April 1991 until November 1992 a series of negotiations took place which sought to end the political stalemate in Northern Ireland. These Brooke-Mayhew Talks took their name from the two Northern Ireland Secretary of States, Peter Brooke and Sir Patrick Mayhew, who were closely involved in the preparation and operation of the discussions themselves. As well as the British and Irish governments, the talks involved the Ulster Unionist Party, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.

Ultimately the discussions ended without a breakthrough being made but their significance lies in the template they set for future negotiations later in the 1990s.

Further information on the Brooke-Mayhew Talks can be found on the CAIN website.

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This event on 15 June focused on policy and practice relating to social care in prisons on the island of Ireland. In the first presentation - Ageing in Prisons in Northern Ireland: A policy update of social care provision for older adults in prison in Northern Ireland - Sarah Lawrence discussed findings from her PhD research in Queen's University Belfast, which focused on ageing in prisons.

The second presentation - Making the invisible, visible: Social care considerations for female prisoners in Ireland through mental health law, policy, and practice insights - was given by mental health social workers, Ali Duggan and Aidan Cooney.

A video and slides from the event are now available on the ARK site.

Sarah Lawrence has also written a Policy Brief Ageing in Northern Ireland Prisons, which is also available on the ARK site.

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The Northern Ireland Men's Health Report Card was published on 17 June 2021. This infographically-driven report card provides a lay person's synopsis of contemporary key men's health statistics in the Northern Ireland.

Written by Paula Devine, this is the third publication from the Men's Health in Numbers project.

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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

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