A team from Queen's Shared Education Programme will travel to Israel to participate in workshops and seminars on shared education. Working with Queen's, the Nazareth Academic Institute will examine ways for implementing research outcomes within its constituency, namely students in a college of higher education and the communities surrounding it, and will co-operate with Hand in Hand, Centre for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel (http://www.handinhandk12.org/), in order to explore shared options for school age children and their communities.

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Professor Joanne Hughes has been invited to take up a visiting position in the University of Bologna (Spring 2012) and to join a European consortium exploring issues relating to childhood. She has also been invited to give a seminar on School Collaboration at Liverpool Hope University in June 2012.

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The Foyle Contested Spaces programme was officially launched in February. The project is managed by the Sharing Education Programme.

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Led by Miles Hewstone (University of Oxford) and Joanne Hughes, a team of researchers and doctoral students from Oxford and Queen’s collaborate on researching inter-group contact in education.

The Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict is based in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, led by Professor Miles Hewstone. Their research focuses on the social-psychological study of intergroup conflict, with a particular focus on intergroup contact. Our research covers many parts of the world, and we use experimental, cross sectional and longitudinal data.

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