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SOCIAL AND POLICY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
1 AUGUST 2006 - 31 JULY 2007

SOCIAL AND POLICY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
1 August 2006 – 31 July 2007

SOCIAL AND POLICY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE
ANNUAL REPORT
(1 AUGUST 2006 - 31 JULY 2007)
CONTENTS
Page No
1. Foreword from the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) 3
2. Foreword from the Director of the Research Institute 4
3. Social Policy, Policy Studies and Social Work 5
3.1 Institute Members 7
3.2 Transitional Member 7
3.3 Early Career Researcher 7
3.4 Research Students Registering in 2006/07 8
3.5 Research Publications 9
3.6 Research Funding 15
3.7 Indicators of Esteem 17
4. Politics & International Relations Group 19
4.1 Institute Members 20
4.2 Transitional Members 20
4.3 Research Publications 21
4.4 Research Funding 22
4.5 Indicators of Esteem 22
5. Education Group 23
5.1 Institute Members 24
5.2 Transitional Members 24
5.3 Research Students Registering in 2006/07 24
5.4 Research Publications 25
5.5 Research Funding 28
5.6 Indicators of Esteem 30
6. Seminars 32
7. News 34

1. Foreword by the Pro Vice Chancellor
(Research and Innovation)
I am delighted to welcome readers to our annual
reports from University of Ulster Research Institutes.
We have had an excellent year marked by great
achievements in recruiting superb researchers to
academic and research posts, attracting external
income and completing work that has led to highly
prestigious papers, books and other outputs. There
has been a very strong flow of research findings as
new disclosures to our Office of Innovation. These are
being managed as promising new intellectual property
and that Office also ensures that the expertise of our
staff is accessed by external organisations through
consultancy contracts. Overall our Institutes provide
high quality research environments that are strongly supportive of research. Our
achievements point to improved research capacity and capability amongst the
University’s staff – the best possible training environments for our increasing
number of research students. We are very proud of every student who graduates
with a doctoral degree and delighted that our statistics for successful completion
rank very highly in UK national comparisons.
This past year was marked by final preparations for the forthcoming UK Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE). The work to be submitted for RAE has been underway
since 2001, so some of it is detailed in the current Annual Reports. The University
is proud of the quality of its RAE submission and looks forward confidently to the
announcement of outcomes at the end of 2008.
The enhanced research performance of recent years is in line with that planned
for in our Strategy and Action Plan for Research, Research Training and Innovation,
entitled SUPPORTIVe 1 . Developed through comprehensive, university-wide
consultation, SUPPORTIVe articulates our commitment to ensuring that research
at the University of Ulster fully supports our goals summarized as ‘excellence,
innovation and regional engagement’.
I commend this report to you as a demonstration that University of Ulster
research ranks proudly amongst UK institutions; documents, analyses and shapes
the modern Northern Ireland and attracts international recognition and awards.
Professor BM Hannigan
Pro Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation)
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http://research.ulster.ac.uk/office/supportive.pdf
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2. Foreword by the
Research Institute Director
Much of the activities recorded in this Annual Report
were undertaken with the forthcoming submission
date for the RAE very much in our consciousness.
Nevertheless, as the report records it was an
extremely productive year.
Professor Arthur Aughey continued his substantial
contribution to the politics of these islands with a
book entitled ‘The Politics of Englishness’ published
by Manchester University Press. Professor John
Offer’s book ‘An Intellectual History of British Social
Policy: Idealism versus Non-Idealism was published
by the Policy Press and has received very positive reviews. Cathy Gormley-
Heenan published her first book - ‘Political Leadership and the Northern Ireland
Peace Process published by Palgrave. Professor Vani Borooah was elected a
member of the Royal Irish Academy while Professor Paul Carmichael became
an Academician with the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.
Two further edited books appeared via Manchester University Press. ‘Pluralism
and Devolution in Education in Northern Ireland’ co-edited by Osborne (with
Hughes and Donnelly) and ‘Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern
Ireland’ edited by Carmichael, Knox and Osborne.
Awards were received from ESRC, Leverhulme and the Nuffield Foundation
as well as a variety of national and regional bodies. Major conferences were
organised throughout the year and included a major seminar on Multiculturalism
in Canada while this years Annual Lecture on the British Constitution produced
an erudite and entertaining discourse by the Professor Lord Norton of Louth. Dr
Susan Hodgett continued our substantial initiative on Canadian Studies with core
funding received for a second year. Additionally, one of our research students
received support from the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK for his
comparative Northern Ireland –Quebec study of social capital.
The SPRI has managed to develop a vibrant research culture in a relatively short
period of time where the Research Assessment Exercise has exerted a strong but
not overwhelming influence. We try to remember that research as an activity that
is about independent rigorous investigation, often given our orientation, towards
analysing issues of concern to public policy and practice. To many SPRI members
it is these applied concerns which motivate their research, especially within the
context of an established devolved administration in Northern Ireland, rather
than the somewhat artificial requirements of the RAE. Nevertheless, since UK
universities receive their core research income through the RAE process, it is a
process that must be effectively engaged with. It would seem that the next RAE
will be based more on a model driven by measures of more direct relevance to
science subjects. There must be a concern that the distinctive nature of social
science (the value of the research monograph, engagement with policy makers
and practitioners etc) could lose ground. The role of rigorous Social Science
research must remain a significant part of the total portfolio of research at the
University of Ulster and in Northern Ireland as a whole.
Bob Osborne
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3. SOCIAL POLICY & SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH
Social Policy, Policy Studies and Social Work
Some of the highlights for this year included the publication of John Offer’s book
An Intellectual History of British Social Policy: Idealism versus Non-Idealism (with a forward by Robert Pinker), The Policy
Press, Bristol (2006), and which has received positive reviews. Roger Austin’s book “Re-connecting Young People in
Northern Ireland’ published by Routledge has also received a warm welcome.
Two edited books published by Manchester University Press also appeared. The first Pluralism and Devolution in Education
in Northern Ireland was edited by Donnelly and McKeown (External) and Osborne while the other Devolution and
Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland was edited by Carmichael, Knox and Osborne. The latter volume drew on
research funded by the ESRC’s Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme. Knox and Carmichael received a
further ESRC award to evaluate the impact of their research on the Review of Public Administration. Carmichael and
Knox have a continued involvement with the processes of reforming public administration in Northern Ireland. During
2006-07 Osborne was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship which enabled collaborative work on equality policy in
Canada, Northern Ireland and Britain to be undertaken especially with Agocs (Western Ontario).
The group participated fully in the new initiative in Canadian Studies (see below) with Acheson, Hodgett and O’Connor,
being co-recipient of a Canadian Sustained Studies Award to investigate comparative aspects of multiculturalism in
Northern Ireland, Britain and Canada.
Two major conferences were organized in this period. The first was the final Northern Ireland seminar relating to
the ESRC’s Devolution and Constitutional Change Progamme where papers summarizing the work on devolution in
Northern Ireland were presented. The second conference was a collaborative seminar with the University of Staffordshire
(supported by the Department for Employment and Learning, the Higher Education Authority (Dublin) and The Times
Higher Education Supplement) and examined wider access policies in the four home UK countries and the Republic of
Ireland. For a listing of all speakers during the year see section 6.
Social Work research continued around two key clusters: ‘Community Care’ and ‘Evidence Based Practice’ which is
emerging as an exciting new focus for emerging work in relation to the effectiveness of social interventions and the
systematic review of published research. This includes contributions from Duffy (management of randomised controlled
trials) and Taylor (searching of electronic databases and the application of research evidence in decision making). In
November 2006 the Social Work group in SPRI sponsored a day conference with the South & East Belfast Health & Social
Services Trust on the application of research in Social Work practice entitled: Enhancing Social Work: Innovative Approaches
to Evidence Based Practice. The conference was attended by about 80 participants engagement with the topic.
Canadian Studies Research Programme
Since the establishment of the Programme in January 2006 there has been significant activity between SPRI staff and
Canadian colleagues. The Government of Canada has supported this work from its Canadian Studies Development
Programme in 2006 and 2007. Four members of the research institute (Hodgett, Aughey, O’Connor and Acheson) also
won the Government of Canada’s largest research grant, the Sustained Studies Award in Contemporary Canadian Issues
for comparative research into Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion in Canada and the UK. This helped to establish
excellent working relationships with academics from Canadian universities particularly Queen’s University Kingston
(Policy Studies and Philosophy, Professors’ Kymlicka and Banting), the University of Ottawa (Centre on Governance,
Professors’ Andrews, Paquet and Rocher) and York University (Politics, Professor Leah Vosko).
A number of publications have been undertaken on Canadian topics. Hodgett et al.’s (2007) book Doing Development
Differently: Regional Development on the Atlantic Periphery was published by Cape Breton University Press. As well, she
co-edited (with Dr. Steve Royle, QUB), a special issue of the British Journal of Canadian Studies (2007) 19:2 on Culture
and Identity in Contemporary Canada including a contribution by the Chief Justice of Canada the Rt. Hon. Beverley
McLachlin PC. Institute members have, on several occasions during this year, made contributions to Canadian journals
and to the media across Canada.
The Canadian Studies Research Programme has organised a number of conferences including a major event on Diversity,
Multiculturalism and Immigration opened by the Canadian High Commissioner to the UK, H.E. Mr. Jim Wright, speakers
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included Will Kymlicka, Keith Banting and Francois Rocher. In February 2007 we co-organised a conference at the
British Library on Area Studies and the Globalised World with contributions from Professor Tony Giddens (LSE) and
John Ralston Saul. A further conference was held with Queen’s University Belfast on Challenges to Globalism. And, in
September 2007, a keynote speaker to the Public Administration Committee Conference was the senior policy advisor
to the Prime Minister of Canada 1993-2003, Mr. Edward Goldenberg.
A number of Canadian Studies research seminars have also been held. Visiting speakers have included Professor Ailsa
Henderson (Wilfrid Laurier University), Professor Mike Prince (University of Victoria) and Professor Ralph Matthews
(University of British Columbia). Finally, post graduate research has been a high priority of the Programme since its
inception and in this regard we have been successful. The Foundation for Canadian Studies has awarded us scholarships
to support Doctoral Research on Canada at University of Ulster and from this Jim McAteer was awarded the prestigious
British Library, Eccles Centre, Postgraduate Award for his research on Canada.
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3.1 INSTITUTE MEMBERS
Surname Forename Title Position
Acheson Nick Dr Lecturer in Social Policy
Birrell Derek Professor Professor of Social Administration and Policy
Borooah Vani Professor Professor of Applied Economics
Carmichael Paul Professor Head of School of Policy Studies
Heenan Deirdre Professor Professor of Social Policy
Hodgett Susan Dr Lecturer in Sociology
Hughes Joanne Professor (left the University July 2007)
Knox Colin Professor Professor of Comparative Public Policy
Lundy Patricia Dr Senior Lecturer in Sociology
Manktelow Roger Dr Lecturer in Social Work
Monaghan Rachel Dr Lecturer in Policy Studies
Offer John Professor Professor of Social Theory & Policy
Osborne Bob Professor Director - Social and Policy Research Institute
Osmani Siddiq Professor Professor of Developmental Economics
O’Connor Sile Professor Professor of Social Policy
Taylor Brian Dr Senior Lecturer in Social Work
Williamson Arthur Professor Professor of Non-Profit Research
3.2 TRANSITIONAL MEMBER
Surname Forename Title Position
Bailey Mark Dr Lecturer in Economics
3.3 EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER
Surname Forename Title Position
Duffy Michael Mr Lecturer
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3.4 RESEARCH STUDENTS REGISTERING 2006/07
Name
Title of Project
Grant Source
Country of Origin
b Brunton
Interface Areas
DEL
Northern Ireland
Name
Title of Project
Grant Source
Country of Origin
F Dunnion
Responses to racism in Northern Ireland: as exploration of ethnic minority views
VCRS
Northern Ireland
Name
Title of Project
Grant Source
Country of Origin
J McAteer
Sen’s capabilities as a normative approach to policy development in the social
economy in Canada and NI
CHC & Part-self
Northern Ireland
Name
Title of Project
Grant Source
Country of Origin
J Topping
Beyond the Patten Report: negotiating and progressing the policing agenda in
Northern Ireland through the development of an alternative transitional model
through incorporation of exiting social structures in the community
DEL
Northern Ireland
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3.5 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Acheson
JOURNAL ARTICLE
‘Civil Society in multi-level Public Policy: the case of Ireland’s two Jurisdictions’, Policy and Politics, (2007), 35
(1) 25-44, (with Williamson, A).
Birrell
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘The Disintegration of Local Authority Social Services Departments’, Local Government Studies, (2006), 32
(2), 139-151.
‘Integration of Health and Social Services: Lessons from N. Ireland’, Social Policy and Administration,
(2006), 40 (1), 47-66.
‘Northern Ireland Business in Parliament: The Impact of the Suspension of Devolution in 2002’, Parliamentary
Affairs, (2007), 60 (2), 297-312.
‘The Reform Agenda in the Northern Ireland Civil Service: The Influences of Parity, Integration, Devolution and
Direct Rule’, Public Policy And Administration, (2007), 22 (3), 275-288.
‘Policy Divergence Between Great Britain and Northern Ireland: The Case of Local Taxation’, Public Money
and Management, (2007), 27, (5).
Borooah
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘China and India: Income Inequality and Poverty North and South of the Himalayas’, Journal of Asian
Economics, (2006), 17, 797-817, (with Bjorn Gustafsson and Li Shi).
‘Equity Sensitive Indicators of Living Standards with an Application to Northern Ireland’, Scottish Journal of
Political Economy, (2006), 53, 616-635, (with Paddy Hillyard and Mike Tomlinson).
‘The Effectiveness of Jobs Reservation: Caste, Religion and Economics Status in India’, Development and
Change, (2007), 38 (3), 423-445, (with Amaresh Dubey and Sriya Iyer).
Carmichael
EDITED BOOK
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland, (2007), (with Knox, C. and Osborne, R.)
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
Introduction, in Carmichael P., Knox C., and Osborne R.D. (eds.) Devolution and Constitutional Change in
Northern Ireland, (2007), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1-15, (With Colin Knox).
The Review of Public Administration, in Carmichael P., Knox C., and Osborne R.D. (eds.) Devolution and
Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland, (2007), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 201-218,
(With Colin Knox).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Bureau Shuffling The Reveiw of Public Administration in Northern Ireland’, Public Administration, (2006),
84 (4), 941-965 (with Knox, C.)
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Duffy
JOURNAL ARTICLE
‘Posttraumatic stress disorder in the context of terrorism and other civil conflict in Northern Ireland: Randomized
controlled tria’, British Medical Journal, (2007), 334, 147-50. (with Gillespie, K. & Clark, D.M).
Heenan
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘The Integration of Health and Social Care: The Lessons from Northern Ireland’, Social and Policy
Administration, (2006), 40 (1), 47-66, (with Birrell, D).
‘Art as therapy: an effective way of promoting positive mental health Disability & Society’, (2006), 21 (2),
179-191.
‘The Factors Influencing Access to Health and Social Care in the Farming Communities of Co Down, Northern
Ireland’, Aging & Society, (2006), 26, 373-391.
Hodgett
BOOK
Doing Development Differently: Regional Development on the Atlantic Periphery, (2007), (with
Johnson, D. and Royle, S.A.), University of Cape Breton Press, Sydney.
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Daring to Do Development Differently’ (2007) in Susan Hodgett, David Johnson and Stephen A. Royle (eds.)
Doing Development Differently: Regional Development on the Atlantic Periphery, University of
Cape Breton Press, Sydney, 9-18.
‘Regional Development and the Development of Theory’ (2007) in Susan Hodgett, David Johnson and Stephen
A. Royle (eds.) Doing Development Differently: Regional Development on the Atlantic Periphery,
University of Cape Breton Press, Sydney, 19-41, (with Johnson, D. and Royle, S.).
‘Troubles, Partnerships and Possibilities’, in Susan Hodgett, David Johnson and Stephen A. Royle (eds.) (2007)
Doing Development Differently: Regional Development on the Atlantic Periphery, University of
Cape Breton Press, Sydney, 112-131, (with Johnson, D).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Multilevel Governance: Policy and Interpretive Approaches in One European Region’, Politics and Policy,
(2006), 34 (4), 726-746.
Hughes
Professor Joanne Hughes has since left the University of Ulster in July 2007
Knox
EDITED BOOK
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland, (2007), (with Carmichael, P. and Osborne,
R.) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
‘Introduction’ in P. Carmichael, C. Knox and R. Osborne (eds.) Devolution and Constitutional Change
in Northern Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, 1 – 15 (with P. Carmichael and R.
Osborne).
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‘The Review of Public Administration’ in P. Carmichael, C. Knox and R. Osborne (eds.) Devolution and
Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007, pp 201-218
(with P. Carmichael).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Multilevel Governance: Policy and Interpretive Approaches in One European Region’, Politics and Policy,
(2006), 34 (4), 726-746.
‘Bureau Shuffling The Review of Public Administration in Northern Ireland’, Public Administration, (2006),
84, (4) 941-965 (with P. Carmichael).
‘Building public service-oriented government in China’, International Journal of Public Sector
Management (2007), 20, 5, 449-464 (with Zhang Qun).
REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
‘Council Cull’, Fortnight No 448, 4-5 (November 2006) (with Paul Carmichael).
‘A Response to the Minister – His Critics Reply’, Fortnight No 450, 10-11 (February 2007) (with Paul
Carmichael).
‘Rethinking the Review of Public Administration’, Fortnight No 452, 9 (May 2007) (with Paul Carmichael).
Lundy
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘You understand again’: Testimony and Post’Conflict Transition in Northern Ireland: The Ardoyne Commemoration
Project, 1998-2002’, in Perks, A. & Thompson, A. (second edition), (2006) The Oral History Reader, Routledge,
531-537 (with McGovern, M.).
‘Inside Silence: The Ardoyne Commemoration Project, Community-based Truth-telling and Post-Conflict Transition
in the North of Ireland’, (2006) in Perotin-Dumon, A. et al. (eds) History and Memory: Argentina, Chile,
Peru, Electronic Publication, Santiago, Chile (with McGovern, M.).
‘Habitus, Identity, and Post Conflict Transition’, in a Catholic Working Class Community in Northern Ireland’,
in S. O’Sullivan, (2007), Contemporary Ireland: A Sociological Map, UCD Press (with M. McGovern),
pp.370-387.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Attitudes Towards a Truth Commission in Northern Ireland in Relation to Party Political Affiliation’, Journal of
Irish Political Studies, (2007), 22, (3), 321-338, (with M.McGovern).
‘Participation, Truth and Partiality: Participatory Action Research, Community-based Truth-telling and Post-conflict
Transition in Northern Ireland’ Sociology, (2006), 40 (1), 71-88 (with McGovern, M.).
‘The Ethnics of Silence: Action Research, Community ‘Truth-telling’, and Post-conflict Transition in Northern
Ireland’, Journal of Action Research, (2006), 4 (1), 49-64 (with McGovern, M.).
REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
‘Attitudes Towards Truth Recovery Processes in Northern Ireland’, NILT Survey (2006) Published Report, CRC,
Belfast 72 pages, (with McGovern, M).
Manktelow
BOOK CHAPTER
‘Mental Health Social Work’ (2007) In Davies, M (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Social Work Third
Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 260-269.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
‘The needs of Victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, The Social Work Contribution’, (2007) Journal of
Social Work, 7 (1), 31-50.
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Monaghan
JOURNAL ARTICLE
‘Informal Justice in the City’, Space and Polity, (2006), 10 (2), 171-186, (with S. McLaughlin)
o’connor
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Convergence in European welfare state analysis: convergence of what’ (2007) in Clasen, J. and N.A. Siegel (eds)
Investigating Welfare State Change The ‘dependent variable problem’ in comparative analysis,
UK: Edward Elgar: 217-243.
‘Social Innovation and Institutional Change in Ireland in the late-20 th Century’ (2007) in Heiskala, R. and T.J.
Hämäläinen (eds) Structural Adjustment and Economic Performance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar:
208-303’
Offer
BOOKS
An Intellectual History of British Social Policy: Idealism versus Non-Idealism (with a forward by
Robert Pinker), The Policy Press, Bristol (2006), viii + 232, hardback and paperback.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
‘Bernard and Helen Bosanquet’ , in A Dictionary of Liberal Thought, (ed.) Brack, D. and Randall, E. (2007)
Politico’s/Methuen, London, 40-42.
‘Auberon Herbert’ in A Dictionary of Liberal Thought, (ed.) Brack, D. and Randall, E. (2007) Politico’s/
Methuen, London, 164-166.
‘Herbert Spencer’ in A Dictionary of Liberal Thought, (ed.) Brack, D. and Randall, E. (2007) Politico’s/Methuen,
London, 391-394.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘ “Internalist” ethics, communitarianism and T.H. Green: a reply to Dimova-Cookson’, British Journal of
Politcs and International Relations, (2007), 9 (3), 527-532.
‘Virtue’, Citizen Character’ and ‘Social Environment’: Social Theory and Agency in Social Policy since 1830,
Journal of Social Policy (2006), 35 (2), 283-302.
Osborne
EDITED BOOKS
Devolution and Pluralism in Education in Northern Ireland, (2006) Manchester, Manchester University
Press (Co-edited with Donnelly, C. and McKeown, P.)
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland, (2007), (with Carmichael, P. and Knox, C.)
Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
‘Participation and Access in Higher Education in Northern Ireland’, in I McNay (ed) (2006) Beyond Mass
Higher Education, Building on Experience, Open University Press, Maidenhead, 44-56.
‘Introduction: Pluralism, devolution and education in Northern Ireland’, in Donnelly et al (2006) Devolution
and Pluralism in Education in Northern Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1-12 (with
Donnelly, D. & McKeown, P.).
‘Equality in Further and Higher Education in Northern Ireland’, in Donnelly et al (2006) Devolution and
Pluralism in Education in Northern Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 107-119.
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‘Making Education Policy Under Devolution: The Role of the Northern Ireland Assembly’, in Donnelly et al (2006)
Devolution and Pluralism in Education in Northern Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press,
127-138 (with McKeown, P.).
‘Conclusions’, in Donnelly et al (2006) Devolution and Pluralism in Education in Northern Ireland,
Manchester, Manchester University Press, 193-187 (with Donnelly, C. and McKeown, P.).
‘Introduction’, in P. Carmichael, C. Knox and RD Osborne (eds) (2007) Devolution an Constitutional Change
in Northern Ireland, Manchester, Mamchester University Press, 1-15 (with P Carmichael and C Knox).
‘Equality and Human Rights after the Agreement’, in Carmichael, P., Knox, C. and Osborne, RD., (eds.) (2007)
Devolution and Constitutional Change in Northern Ireland, Manchester, Manchester University Press,
152-166.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Cross-border Higher Education Collaboration in Europe: lessons for the ‘Two Irelands’, European Journal of
Education, (2006), 41 (1), 115-129.
Access to and Participation in Higher Education in Northern Ireland, Higher Education Quarterly, (2006),
60 (4), 333-348.
‘Evidence’ and equality in Northern Ireland, Evidence & Policy, (2007), 3 (1), 79-97.
REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Higher Education in Northern Ireland: A Report on Factors Associated with Participation and Migration, Report
to OFM/DFM (with A. Smith & A. Hayes), http://www.research.ofmdfmni.gov.uk/highereducation.pdf
OsMANI
AUTHORED BOOKS
“The Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction: The Case Study of Bangladesh” with W. Mahmud, B.
Sen, H. Dagdeviren and A. Seth. (2006), Research monograph. UNDP Regional Centre, Colombo.
“Macroeconomics of Poverty Reduction: The Case Study of Bhutan” with B. Bajracharya, S. Tenzing
and T. Wangyal. (2007), Research monograph. UNDP Regional Centre, Colombo.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
‘Delivering Basic Health Services in Bangladesh: A View from the Human Rights Perspective’, (2006), Growth
and Poverty: The Development Experience of Bangladesh, The University Press Limited, Bangladesh,
193-218.
‘Exploring the Employment Nexus: The Analytics of Pro-Poor Growth’, (2006), Fighting Poverty: The
Development Employment Link, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., London, 9-29.
‘Famine as a Social Phenomenon’, (2006), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, Edward Elgar
Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, 174-78.
‘Globalization and the Human Rights Approach to Development’, in B.A. Andreassen and S. Marks (eds.), (2006)
Development as a Human Right. Harvard School of Public Health: Boston, Mass.
‘Famines in India’, in K. Basu (ed), (2007) The Oxford Companion to Economics in India. Oxford University
Press: Delhi.
Taylor
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Risk management paradigms in health and social services for professional decision making on the long-term care
of older people’ British Journal of Social Work, (2006), 36 (8), 1411-1429.
‘Risks to home care workers: Professional perspectives’ Health, Risk & Society (2006), 8 (3), 239-56 (with
Donnelly M).
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‘Professional perspectives on decision making about the long-term care of older people’ British Journal of
Social Work (2006) 36 (5), 807-26 (with Donnelly M).
‘Factorial surveys: Using vignettes to study professional judgement’ British Journal of Social Work (2006)
36 (7), 1187-1207.
‘Human Rights and Decision-making in Child Protection through Explicit Argumentation’ Child Care in
Practice (2006) 12 (2), 81-95 (with Duffy, J. and McCall, S.)
‘Battle on the home care front: Perceptions of Home Care Workers of factors influencing staff retention’ Health
& Social Care in the Community, (2007), 15 (1), 67-76 (with Fleming, G.).
‘Grading gems: Appraising the quality of research for social work and social care’ British Journal of Social
Work, (2007), 37 (2), 335-354 (with Dempster, M. & Donnelly, M.).
‘Children at risk of domestic violence and their educational attainment: perspectives of education welfare officers,
social workers and teachers’ Child Care in Practice, (2007), 13 (3), 185-201 (with Byrne, D.)
REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
An Evaluation of the AgeInfo Database, London: Social Care Institute for Excellence (2006) (with Wylie E.,
Dempster M. & Donnelly M)
A Literature Review for the Development of a Supported Housing Initiative for Older People in Rural North
Antrim, Ballymoney, Northern Ireland: Causeway Health & Social Services Trust (2006) (Bigger, L.)
Inappropriate Referrals and Enquiries to Coleraine Child Care Reception and Intake Team, Ballymoney, Northern
Ireland: Causeway Health & Social Services Trust (2006) (with Bigger, L.)
‘SCIE Report 13: An Evaluation of the AgeInfo Database’, London: Social Care Institute for Excellence (2006) (with
Wylie E., Dempster M. & Donnelly)
‘Physical activity programmes for older persons with dementia (Protocal)’ Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews 2007 Issue 2 (2007) (with Forbes D.A., Forbes S.C., Markle-Reid M., Morgan D., & Woods J.)
Williamson
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘The Impact of local voluntary and community infrastructure on community involvement in rural regeneration
partnerships’ in Public Money and Management, (2006), 26 (4), 235-243 (with Osborne, Stephen P., Beattie,
R.)
‘The Adoption of Strategic Management by Third Sector Organizations: Findings from a Census of Organizations
in Northern Ireland’ in Zeitschrift fur öffentliche und gemeinwirtschaftliche Unternehmen,
(2006), Baden Baden: Beiheft 34, 8-22 (with Courtney, R. and Marnoch, G.)
‘Civil Society in multi-level Public Policy: The case of Ireland’s two Jurisdictions’, Policy and Politics, (2007), 35
(1), 25-44 (with Acheson, N.)
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3.6 Research Funding
Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding Body Value
Acheson Work Rehabilitation for people DEL £5,624
returning to work after illness or
injury
Acheson Theorising Multiculturalism and Social Department of £13,843
(with Cohesion in Canada and the UK: Lessons for Foreign Affairs and
Hodgett, Policy Implementation and Civic Engagement International Trade
Aughey &
O’Connor)
Canada, and the
Foundation for
Canadian Studies UK
Borooah Access and Attrition in Higher Education’ DELNI £29,054
(with Bailey)
Carmichael Beyond Devolution, Widening & Deepening ESRC £49,564
(with Knox) the New Governance of Northern Ireland
Heenan Social Capital and older people in farming The British Academy £7,500
Communities
Hodgett Theorising Multiculturalism and Social Department of Foreign £13,843
(with Cohesion in Canada and the UK: Lessons Affairs and
Acheson, for Policy Implementation and Civic International Trade
Aughey & Engagement. Canada, and the
O’Connor)
Foundation for
Canadian Studies UK
Hodgett Foundation UK Doctoral Studentship The Foundation £750
(with 2006-07 for Canadian
Osborne) Research Support Grant – Studies in
Mr James McAteer
the UK
Hodgett Canadian Studies Development Program The Foundation for £3,050
(with 2006-07 Canadian Studies
Osborne)
in the UK
Knox Beyond Devolution, Widening & ESRC £49,564
(with
Deepening the New Governance of
Carmichael) Northern Ireland
Lundy A Critical Analysis of the Historical The British £72,000
Enquiries Team (PSNI)
Academy
O’Connor The Impact of poverty on young Joseph Rowntree £10,000
(with children’s school experience Foundation
Horgan &
Tennant)
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Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding Body Value
O’Connor Theorising Multiculturalism and Social Department of Foreign £13,843
(with Cohesion in Canada and the UK: Lessons Affairs and International
Hodgett, for Policy Implementation and Civic Trade Canada, and the
Acheson & Engagement. Foundation for
Aughey)
Canadian Studies UK
Offer Social Policy, The Guardians & The Poor The British £6,020
Law reports
Academy
(Hodgett Foundation UK Doctoral Studentship The Foundation £750
(with 2006-07 for Canadian Studies
O’Connor) Research Support Grant – Mr James McAteer in the UK
Osborne Canadian Studies Development Program The Foundation £3,050
(with 2006-07 for Canadian Studies
Hodgett)
in the UK
Osborne Implementing Equality Policies in The Leverhulme Trust £25,000
Northern Ireland and Canada: A review of Research Fellowship (£3,000)
Progress and Prospects. (EXTENTION)
Taylor Assessment process & tools with a Department Health, £20,664
(with particular focus on care management Social Services &
McCormack) procedures (SAT) Public Safety GPA
Taylor The use of research and professional R&D Office £80,766
(with knowledge in reports by social workers for HPSS HSCSR
McColgan) the higher courts under the children Studentship
(NI) Order 2995 and the Adoption (NI)
Order 1987
Williamson Voluntary Action and Community Relations Community Relations £4,950
(with in Northern Ireland Council
Acheson)
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3.7 INDICATORS OF ESTEEM
Carmichael
• Honorary Secretary of PSA until 2010.
• Vice Chair (Membership) for another year (to Jan 2009) of the Public Administration Committee for the
Joint Council.
• Fellow of the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University Berlin.
• Elected Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences
Borooah
• Elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Hodgett
• President Elect British Association for Canadian Studies, April 2007.
• Secretary, United Kingdom Council for Area Studies Association (UKCASA).
• Invited guest speaker University of Birmingham, Department of American and Canadian Studies Research
Seminar, Monday 20th November 2006, A Policy of Human Stories: Using Novels to inform Development Policy in
Atlantic Canada.
• Invited speaker St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University, 27th January 2006, Human Development
and Capability Association Education Network, Expanding Participatory Capabilities in Northern Ireland: Sen,
Education and the Pursuit of Eudemonia.
• Invited plenary speaker conference School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, University of York, Identity
Community and Justice, 24th May 2007, Susan Hodgett, Multiculturalism and Human Development: An Analysis
of the Canadian Experience.
• Conference Scientific Committee The British Library, Eccles Centre, Area Studies and the Globalised World,
27th Feb.2007 speakers Professor Lord Tony Giddens and John Ralston Saul.
• Conference Scientific Committee British Association for Canadian Studies, Italian Association for Canadian
Studies Università di Genova, Genova, Italia, 27-28th October 2006, Boundaries, Passages and Sanctuaries.
• Conference Scientific Committee British Association for Canadian Studies 32nd Annual Conference, St
Aidan's College, University of Durham,11–13th April, 2006, From Blueberries to Blackberries Traditions and
Technologies in Canada
Knox
• Invited by the Department of International Development to chair a seminar on Public Sector Reform in
South Asia held in Bangladesh.
Lundy
• Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF) & International Centre for Transitional Justice, New York (ICTJ),
“Gender & Transitional Justice”, Sana’a, Yemen, June 2007. Invited guest speaker international seminar &
closed roundtable discussion.
• Invited member of international panel and roundtable discussion (closed session) on transitional justice
organized by Colombian government (Medellin) in collaboration with the Transitional Justice Institute (New
York), August 2006. The follow up report, which is due in the next few months, is intended to influence
policy & practice in Colombia and neighbouring countries in Latin America.
• Invited member of international panel and roundtable discussion (closed session) organized by Greensboro
Truth Commission (USA) in collaboration with Transitional Justice Institute (New York), May 2006. The
follow-up report ‘Lessons in Truth-Seeking: International Experiences Informing United States Initiatives’ is
aimed at influencing policy and practice in the US.
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Manktelow
• Chair person of School of Sociology and Applied Social Studies Filter Research Ethics Committee.
O’Connor
• Elected Vice-President of Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC 19) of
International Sociological Association, 2006-9.
• Invited collaborator on research programme: Comparative Perspectives on Precarious Employment funded
by Social Science and Humanities Council of Canada.
• Journal editorial board member: Journal of European Social Policy 2000-2007.
Taylor
• Research & Development Office, Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland
– Chairman of Panel for Bursary Awards – ongoing throughout 2006-07.
• Epidemiology Recognised Research Group of the Research and Development Office, Department of Health,
Social Services and Public Safety (NI) - Associate Member 2004 to June 2006 when the RRG was closed.
• Recognised Research Network for Primary Care of the Research and Development Office, Department of
Health, Social Services and Public Safety (NI) – Founder Member from June 2007.
• Social Care Institute for Excellence Northern Ireland Reference Group – Member from its inception in 2005,
continues.
• Cochrane Collaboration for Evidence Based Health and Social Care (www.cochrane.org)
• International informal network for use of factorial survey methods to study decision making in health and
social sciences; focal point College of Nursing & Department of Sociology, Kent State University, Ohio
– member from inception in 2003 and continues.
• Clinical & Social Care Governance Support Team for NI, and Social Care Institute for Excellence, London:
Steering Group for Development & Piloting of Learning Materials on Governance for Social Work and Social Care
(summer 2005 – summer 2007) – Member.
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4. Politics & International Relations Research
During this year the Politics group in SPRI achieved some notable publications. Cathy Gormley-Heenan’s first book,
Political Leadership and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, was launched at No Alibi’s bookshop in Botanic Avenue, Belfast
in December 2006. The book was published by Palgrave-Macmillan as part of the St. Antony’s College - Oxford series and
was formally launched by our former colleague, Professor Moncia McWilliams, Chief Commissioner of the Northern
Ireland Human Rights Commission. (Photo attached)
Cathy has received numerous awards and commendations for her teaching, which is heavily influenced by her research
agenda. She has been awarded the new entrants prize in the Political Studies Association’s (PSA) Bernard Crick Awards
for Outstanding Teaching in 2006, was commended in the European Political Science Network’s Innovative Teaching
Awards in 2007, and has also been awarded the University of Ulster’s Distinguished Teaching Fellowship Award in 2007.
(Photo attached)
Arthur Aughey’s book The Politics of Englishness was published by Manchester University Press in April 2007. This book
forms part of a larger research agenda on the place of England within the new devolved United Kingdom and developed
some of the arguments outlined briefly in ‘The Challenges to English Identity’ in R. Hazell (ed) The English Question
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2006), 45-63. He was convenor and chair of plenary session on ‘Englishness
as Ideology’ at the International Conference on Political Ideologies, University of Liverpool, 4-6 July 2007. For the
period March-June 2007, he was in receipt of a British Academy small grant for research on the Campaign for an English
Parliament and this has been written up as an article for Nations and Nationalism.
Aughey has been involved concurrently in a large research project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation and coordinated by
the Constitution Unit at University College London, which is looking at the potential trajectories of British constitutional
politics over the next decade. He presented a paper on ‘The Future of Britishness’ at the project’s seminar series
‘Constitutional Futures’ at the Constitution Unit, University College London in August 2007. His contribution has been
worked into a full research paper which will appear in R Hazell (ed) Constitutional Futures 2 (Oxford University Press
2008).
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4.1 INSTITUTE MEMBERS
Surname Forename Title Position
Ashe Fidelma Dr Lecturer in Politics
Aughey Arthur Professor Professor in Politics & Lecturer in International Politics
Gormley- Cathy Dr Lecturer in Public Policy
Heenan
4.2 TRANSITIONAL MEMBERS
Surname Forename Title Position
Hainsworth Paul Dr Senior Lecturer
Roberts David Dr Lecturer in Politics
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4.3 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Ashe
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Gendering the Holy Cross School Dispute: Women and Nationalism in Northern Ireland’, Political
Studies, (2006), 54 (1), 147-164.
‘The McCartney Sisters’ Search for Justice: Gender and Political Protest in Northern Ireland’, Politics, (2006),
26 (3), 161-167.
‘The Virgin Mary Complex: Feminism and Northern Ireland Politics’, Critical Review of International
Social and Political Philosophy, (2006), 9 (4).
‘Gendering ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland: A comparative analysis of nationalist women’s political
protests’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, (2007), 30 (5), 766-786.
Aughey
BOOKS
The Politcs of Englishness, (2007), Manchester, Manchester University Press.
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Unionism: Three Anxieties’ in Cox, M., et al (eds.), (2006), A Farewell to arms From ‘long war’ to long
peace in Northern Ireland (2nd edition) Manchester, Manchester University Press.
‘Fantasy Echo’ (with Barnes, C.A.) in Wilson, J. and Stapleton, K. (eds.), (2006), Devolution and Identity,
London: Sage, 127-142.
‘The Challenges to English Identity’, in Hazell, R. (ed), (2006), The English Question, Manchester University
Press, 45-63.
‘A state of exception: the concept of the politicial in Northern Ireland’ (with commentary by Adrian Little) in
C. McGrath and E. O’Mally (eds.) Irish Political Studies Reader, London Routledge (2007) 90-104.
Gormley-Heenan
BOOK
Political Leadership and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, (2007), Basingstoke, Palgrave
Macmillan.
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4.4 RESEARCH FUNDING
Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding Body Value
Aughey Theorising Multiculturalism and Foundation for £13,843
(with Social cohesion in Canada Canadian Studies
Hodgett, and the UK. in the UK
O’Connor &
Acheson)
Aughey The Politics of a Parliament for England British Academy £750
Ashe,
Gormley- Project Formulation Travel Grant UK and India £1,500
Heenan
Education and
(with
Research
Robinson)
Initiative (UKIERI)
4.5 INDICATIORS OF ESTEEM
Gormley-Heenan
• Invited to speak at a conference on ‘Women, Justice and Reconciliation’ organized by the United Nations
University of Tokyo, Japan, March 2007.
• Awarded ‘Political Studies Association’s Bernard Crick Award for Outstanding Teaching (New Entrant
Category)’, April 2007
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5. EDUCATION RESEARCH
Considerable effort during this year was devoted to the Education submission to the RAE. Overall, thirteen scholars
were returned of whom ten academics, ten are in the research institute. Research income over the period 2001 to
2007 was £6,027,648; a total of 30.17 doctorates and 18.17 scholarships were awarded during that period. The UOA
in collaboration with the UNESCO Centre mounted a popular seminar series featuring distinguished guests such as
Marilyn-Cochrane Smith of Boston College, and Michael Woolcock of Harvard University.
Some highlights of the year were the publication of Roger Austin’s book on E-Schooling and the continuation of the
funding for his Dissolving Boundaries project; Lesley Abbott’s winning the Brian Simon Educational Research Fellowship
from the British Educational Research Association, Linda Clarke’s ESRC meeting of Minds Fellowship (on Communities
of Practice theory and Communal Constructivism), John Dallat’s consultancy on Teaching and Learning for the 21 st
Century in Maynooth, the publication of Gerry McAleavy’s major project on Bullying, Alan McCully’s consultancy on the
writing of history textbooks in the Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig, Una O’Connor’s evaluation of Local and Global
Citizenship for the CCEA, Rosalind Pritchard’s Leverhulme Fellowship (Gender and Inequality in British and German
Universities), Jackie Reilly’s work on Human Rights Education, and Alan Smith’s Visiting Professorship to the Institute of
Education in Hong Kong which he continues from year to year on a consultancy basis. Roger Austin ran a conference
on ICT and Bridge Building which was attended by Ministers of Education from both the north and south of Ireland; and
Rosalind Pritchard ran a conference for the British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE)
in her capacity as Chair of BAICE. This conference on Diversity and Inclusion was mounted jointly with colleagues at
Queen’s, and resulted in a guest-edited issue of the journal “Compare”.
In the future, the UNESCO Centre will coordinate NI participation in the European Values Study (2008) and the
International Civics and Citizenship Education Study (2009). Funding has already been secured for the establishment
of an international development unit (DFID, £299k) which will support the extension of current EU research into
education for reconciliation (in partnership with Save The Children and UNICEF).
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5.1 INSTITUTE MEMBERS
Surname Forename Title Position
Abbott Lesley Dr Lecturer
Austin Roger Dr Senior Lecturer
Clarke Linda Mrs Lecturer
Dallat John Dr Senior Lecturer
McAleavy Gerard Professor Professor of Further and Higher Education
McCully Alan Mr Lecturer in Education (History & Citizenship)
Pritchard Rosalind Professor Head of School of Education
Reilly Jackie Dr Lecturer in Education
Smith Alan Professor UNESCO Chair
5.2 TRANSITIONAL MEMBERS
Surname Forename Title Position
O’Connor Una Dr Lecturer
5.3 RESEARCH STUDENTS 2006/07
Name
G Nyirabikali
Title of Project Education as a conflict transformation tool in prone and post conflict situations -
an assessment of the Angolan case
Grant Source
Country of Origin
VCRS
Rwanda
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5.4 RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Abbott
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Northern Ireland Head Teachers’ Perceptions of Inclusion’, International Journal of Inclusive
Education, (2006), 10 (6), 627-643.
‘Put posters over the glass bit on the door and disappear: tutor perspectives on the use of VLEs to support
pre-service teachers’, Teaching in Higher Education, (in press), (Clarke, L.).
‘Northern Ireland Special Educational Needs Coordinators Creating Inclusive Environments: an epic struggle’,
European Journal of Special Needs Education , (2007), 22 (4), 391-407.
Austin
BOOKS
E-Schooling; Global Messages from a Small Island, with Anderson, J. (2007), Oxford, Taylor & Francis.
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Re-schooling and ICT; a case study of Northern Ireland’, with Anderson, J. in L Tan Wee Hin and R. Subramaniam
(eds.), (2006) Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges, Idea Group Reference,
London, 176-194.
‘Re-connecting Young People in Northern Ireland’, in Loader, B. (ed), (2007) Young Citizens in a Digital Age,
Routledge, 143-157.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
‘The Role of ICT in Bridge-building and Social Inclusion; theory, policy and practice issues’, European Journal
of Teacher Education, (2006) 29, (2) 145-161.
REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Quirk-Bolt, N. and Metcalfe, N. (2006) Dissolving Boundaries. Building Communities of Practice (with Ricard, M. &
Mallon, M.)
Clarke
JOURNAL ARTICLE
‘A Single transferable Geography Teaching and Learning geography in a contested landscape’, International
Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (2006) 15 (1), 77-91.
‘Put posters over the glass bit on the door and disappear: tutor perspectives on the use of VLEs to support
pre-service teachers’, Teaching in Higher Education, (in press, (Clarke, L.).
McAleavy
JOURNAL ARTICLE
‘Teachers’ perceptions of health education practice in Northern Ireland: reported differences between policy
and non-policy holding schools. Health Promotion International, Oxford Journals’, Official Journal of the
International Union for Health Promotion and Education, (2006) 21, 113-120, (with Adamson,
G., Donegan, H. A. Shevlin, M).
‘Mathematical Composition in the School Curriculum - a case for the reintroduction of logarithm tables.
Mathematics Today’. The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2007) (IMA), 43 (1), 25-30,
(with Donegan, H.A).
‘School-based Health Education Provision for Young People in Northern Ireland. Childcare and Practice’, Child
Care in Practice (2007) 13 (3), 281-295, (with McCrystal, P.)
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McCully
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Northern Ireland: Cultural Conflict and Change’’ (with Linda Clarke) in Lidstone J. (ed.) (2006) Cultural
Issues of our Time, Melbourne, Cambridge Press, 157-167.
Controversial Issues, Citizenship and History’ in G. Mills (ed.) (2006) Teaching Sensitive and Controversial
Issues in History, Nottingham, HTEN, 34-43.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Practitioner perceptions of their role in facilitating the handling of controversial issues in contested societies: a
Northern Irish experience’, Educational Review (2006), 58 (1), 51-65.
‘What does it mean to be a community relations Professional in Northern Irish education Some research-based
answers’, Reflective Practice (2006) 7 (2), 215–231, (with R. Smith, B. Hartop, C. Kelly and U. O’Connor).
‘Teaching Controversial Issues, where controversial issues really matter’, Teaching History (2007), 127,
13-19, (with Barton, K.).
REPORTS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Recent Research on History Teaching in Northern Ireland: Informing Curriculum Change, Coleraine, UNESCO
Centre (2007).
Pritchard
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Schreckgespenst für die Deutschen Schools of Education im Vereinigten Königreich’ (An Aversive
Example for the Germans Schools of Education in the UK) (2006) in Globalisierung der Wirtschaft
- Internationalisierung der Lehrerbildung edited by A. Kruze, I. Mortag and D. Schulz, Leipzig: Univeristy
of Leipzig Press, 81-100.
‘Erziehungswissenschaften auf dem Weg zur Globalisierung: Hochschullehrer und Studenten im Vergleich
Großbritannien und Deutschland’, in Datenreport Erziehungswissenschaft edited by M. Kraul, H. Merkens and R.
Tippelt, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften and GWV Fachverlage. [Educational Sciences on the Way
to Globalisation: HE Teachers and Students in GB and FRG Compared] (2006).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Trends in the Restructuring of German Universities’ Comparative Education Review, (2006) 50 (1),
90-112.
‘British and German Students in a Shifting Scenario’ Higher Education Management and Policy,
(OECD), (2006) 18 (3), 111-133.
‘The Changing Self-Perceptions of Japanese University Students of English’ Journal of Studies in
International Education, (2006) 10 (2), 141-156, (with Maki, H.).
‘Trends in the Restructuring of German Universities’ Comparative Education Review, (USA), (2006) 50
(1), 90-112.
Reilly
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Human Rights Education as Part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland’ Journal of Social Science
Education, (2006), 1 (e-journal, http://www.jsse.org/) (with Niens, U., & Smith, A.).
‘The need for Human Rights Education in Northern Ireland: A pupil survey. Peace and Conflict’ Journal of
Peace Psychology, (2006) 12 (3), 251 – 268, (with Niens. U., & McLaughlin, R.)
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Smith
BOOK CHAPTERS
‘Conflict and Education for All’, In: Jones-Parry, R. (ed) Commonwealth Education Partnerships 2007, London,
Commonwealth Secretariat, Nexus Strategic Partnerships. The official publication for the 16th
Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers held in Cape Town. 3, 65-91.
‘The Role of Education: Conflict, Reconstruction and Reconciliation’, In: Leach, F. and Dunne, M. (eds.) (2007)
Education and Conflict, Oxford, Peter Lang.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Teacher Education in Northern Ireland: Policy Variations Since Devolution’, Scottish Educational Review,
(2006) 37, 46-58, (with Montgomery, A.)
‘Human Rights Education as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland’, Journal of Social Science
Education, (2006), 1, Available at: http://www.jsse.org/2006-1/index.html (with Niens, U., Reilly, J.)
‘Review: Devolution and Pluralism in Education in Northern Ireland’, British Journal of Educational
Studies, (2007) 55 (2), 221-224.
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5.5 RESEARCH FUNDING
Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding Body Value
Abbott The Development of Inclusive Schools: Department £62,135
a model of best practice
of Education
Abbott Brian Simon Educational Research British Educational £3,000
Fellowship - The Potential of Integrated Research Association
Schools to Provide a Model of Inclusion
Austin Current Practice in ICT within teaching Standing Conference £4,980
(with Graffin) education on Teacher Education,
North and South
(SCoTENS)
Austin Dissolving Boundaries through technology Department of £150,000
in Education
Education in
Northern Ireland –
DENI
Austin Current Practice in ICT within teaching Standing Conference £4,980
(with education on Teacher Education,
Graffin)
North and South
(SCoTENS)
Clarke The digital video as a tool for changing ICT Standing Conference £6,000
(with Austin learning in schools and teacher education on Teacher Education,
& Graffin)
North and South
(SCoTENS)
Clarke Lessons today for change tomorrow The Garfield Weston £15,000
Trust
Clarke Meeting of Minds Fellowship ESRC, TLRP £450
Clarke Building an on-line community of practice General Teaching £3,000
of Geography teachers
Council, NI
Clarke (with Forward thinking, Northern Ireland Welcome Engaging £1,558,76
McKelvey-
Science Society
Martin,
Awards
Hunter &
Humes)
McAleavy Evaluation of Princes Trust XL Programme Prince’s Trust £12,931
(with Livesey
& O’Hagan)
McCully Recent Research on History Teaching in The Nuffield £1,679
Northern Ireland: Informing Curriculum Foundation
Change
O’Connor Evaluation of citizenship education CCEA – £19,000
(with Smith) in Northern Ireland NI Curriculum Council
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Staff Name(s) Title of Award Funding Body Value
Pritchard Gender Inequality and British and German Leverhulme £29,383
Universities
Trust
Smith Evaluation of citizenship education in CCEA – £19,000
(with Northern Ireland NI Curriculum Council
O’Connor)
Smith Education for Pluralism, Human Right and Atlantic £1,358,114
Democracy
Philanthropies
Smith Values and Teacher Education Policy in ESRC, TLRP £126,000
(with Moran, Northern Ireland
McCully &
Clarke)
Smith International Development Programme at UK Department £299,613
the University of Ulster
for International
Development (DFID)
Smith International Civic and Citizenship Education CCEA – £6,000
(with Wilson) Study NI Curriculum Council
Smith Voices of the Future, Legacies of the Past: European Union, £169,000
(with Wilson) The perspectives of Children and Young Peace and
people and the role of Education in
Reconciliation Fund II
Reconciliation
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5.6 RESEARCH INDICATORS OF ESTEEM
Abbott
• Awarded the Brian Simon Award Educational Research Fellowship by the British Educational Research
Association (BERA) 2006/07
• Peer Reviewer for BERA 2006/07 for Annual Conferences: Special Interest Group - Inclusion
Austin
• Visiting Professor at the Centre for Technology in Learning and Teaching, Iowa State University, March/April
2007.
• Keynote speaker, ‘The Knowledge Society’. Standing Conference on Teaching Education North and South,
Dublin 2007
Clarke
• Member of International Geographical Union’s British-Sub-Committee on Geographical Education
Dallat
• Consultant for Teaching and Learning for the 21 st Century, government-funded research project at the
University of Maynooth 2007.
McCully
• Adviser to textbook writers from Bosnia Herzegovina at Georg Eckert Institute, Braunschweig 2007.
Pritchard
• Chair of the British Association of International and Comparative Education for which she ran a conference
on Diversity and Inclusion at QUB jointly with a colleague from Queen’s; Chair of the editorial board of
Compare.
• Member of the International Executive of the European Association for Institution Research.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung of the Bavarian Staatsinstitut
für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung, Munich.
• Chair - British Association for International & Comparative Education.
Reilly
• Chair at Symposium at the International Transitions Conference, Glasgow
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Smith
• Member of Irish Social Science and Humanities Research Council (ISSHRC), Senior Fellowship Board (2006,
2007)
• Member, ESRC DFID Commissioning Panel for £13m programme on poverty reduction
• Member of UK Universities Committee for Education for Teachers (UCET), International Committee
• ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme, Director’s Forum
• Consultant to International Donor Group – Denmark (DANIDA), Finland (FINNIDA), Norway (NORAD),
the UK (DFID) and World Bank (IDA), Conflict Analysis of Education for All (EFA) in Nepal, 2006
• Keynote Speaker, Youth Engagement and Democracy, University of Sydney, Sept 2006
• Visiting Research Scholar, Hong Kong Institute of Education, 2006
• Country Director, European Values Study www.europeanvalues.nl
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6. SOCIAL & POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES 2006/07
Date Title Speakers
15/9/06 Identity in Crisis Re-examining Prof Stephen Howe -Bristol University
Unionism, Loyalism and Protestantism
Prof Steve Bruce - University of Aberdeen
in Northern Ireland
13/10/06 The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee: Dr Aileen O’Neill
A Day in the Life
Committee Specialist, NI Affairs Committee
8/11/06 Social Capital and Sustainable Communities Prof Ralph Matthews –
University of British Columbia
17/11/06 The Development of the Integrated Schooling Meav Ben-Nun –
Movement in Israel: background and challenges, NYU Steìnhardt School of Education
and a comparison with Northern Ireland
Integrated Schools
29/11/06 Enhancing Social Work: Innovative Approaches Keynote speakers, Brian Taylor –
to Evidence Based Practice
University of Ulster, Prof Geraldine Macdonald
– QUB
1/12/06 Apethetic landslides or the onward march of Prof Jon Tonge – University of Liverpool
Paisleyism Analysing DUP electrol success
since the Belfast Agreement
4/12/06 Diversity, Multiculturalism and Immigration: Prof Keith Banting, Prof Will Kymlicka,
Lessons from Canada
Prof John McGarry & Prof Naomi Alboim
– Queen’s University of Kingston, Ontario &
Prof François Rocher – University of Ottawa
12/01/07 Shared Future Dr Duncan Morrow – CRC, Carmel Gallagher,
University of Ulster/NICCEA, Prof Gerry
McAleavey – University of Ulster
6/02/07 The English Question Akash Paun, The Constitution Unit,
University College London
9/02/07 Gender Equality in British and German Prof Rosalind Pritchard – University of Ulster
Universities
12/02/07 International Development and Social Change Dr Rosalind Eyben, Former Principal Adviser
to Clare Short on International Development
21/02/07 Challenges to Globalism Keynote speaker, Philosoper John Ralston Saul
23/02/07 Life Long Learning: Lessons from Prison Dr Tracy Irwin – University of Ulster
13/03/07 Community and Voluntary action as Prof Carl Milofsky - Bucknell University, USA
“transorganization”. The success of permanent
failure, the primordial ooze and other matters:
Examples from Northern Ireland and small town
America
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Date Title Speakers
16/03/07 Special Education Needs and the Challenges of Prof Roy McConkey – University of Ulster
Multidisciplinary Work
23/03/07 Designing the curriculum for learning and Prof Imogen Taylor – University of Sussex
assessment in Year One
26/03/07 Annual Lecture – The Future of the British Prof The Lord Norton of Louth
Constitution
19/04/07 Teaching Controversial Issues Dr Diana Hess – University of Wisconsin
27/04/07 Teachers and Early Professional Learning Jim McNally – Stirling University
Experiences
27/04/07 Early Professional Learning of Teachers – Jim McNally – Stirling University
The value of Teacher-Researchers
02/05/07 Realising Right to Education in Areas of Conflict El Khidir Daloum, Country Director, Somalia/
Somaliland Programme, Save The Children.
Professor Alan Smith, Director of the
UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster. Sean
Farren, Former Minister of Finance and
Personnel and Minister of Further and Higher
Education, Training and Development in the NI
Executive. Lyndsay Bird, Education Adviser for
Save the Children
03/05/07 Education for Co-Existence, Reconciliation and Brenna O’Rourke
Development in Rwanda
UNESCO Centre
04/05/07 Social Policy & the Politics of Differences: Prof Mike Prince
A Canadian Perspective
University of Victoria
10/05/07 Long-term Residential Care for Older People Prof Juergen Holdenrieder
in European Member States: Convergence and University of Esslingen
Divergence
18/05/07 Young People and History: Exploring the Mr Alan McCully – University of Ulster
Interface between Formal and Informal Learning
01/06/07 Creating Change through Action Research in Professor Lynn Davies, International
Rural Post-Conflict Angola
Education and CIER Research and Consultancy
Manager, University of Birmingham.
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7. NEWS
• February 2007 - Professor Paul Carmichael, Head of the School of Policy Studies, was invited to become
an Academician within the Academy of Learned Societies for Social Science. Professor Carmichael has
been Honorary Secretary of the Political Studies Association since 2000, the Vice Chair (Membership) of
the Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council since 2005 and Visiting Scholar at
the Humboldt University in Berlin. Previously, he served on the QAA Benchmarking panel for Politics and
International Relations.
• April 2007 - A team from SPRI held a two day seminar with colleagues at the University of Ottawa on 2 and
3 April. The seminar was concerned with ‘the governance of the voluntary sector’ and involved Dr Susan
Hodgett, Dr Nick Acheson and Prof Bob Osborne of SPRI together with Prof Gillies Paquet, Prof Caroline
Andrews, Ruth Hubbard, Monica Gattinger and Luc Juillet from Ottawa. Papers were given by Pacquet and
Hubbard and Hodgett and Osborne. Discussion and responses to each of the papers ensured a lively debate.
Consideration is being given to further work. This visit was undertaken as part of the SPRI’s Canadian
Studies activities. A number of other research contacts were made during the visit and it is anticipated that
these will lead to further collaboration during 2007/08
• June 2007 - Dr Deirdre Heenan, member of the Social & Policy Research Institute, has been awarded a
distinguished 2006 National Teaching Fellowship. This prestigious award is an honour for Deirdre personally
and brings distinction to the University.
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