On the 9^th May the Centre hosted a research seminar entitled, ‘Practicing Peace-Reunification Education in Schools: Attempting to overcome national division in Korea.’  The speaker was Prof Soon-Won Kang, a Professor in Education from Hanshin University, South Korea. Pictured (from left), Dr Ulrike Niens, the speaker Prof Soon-Won Kang and Prof Claire McGlynn.

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On the 2^nd of May the centre hosted a research seminar entitled, ‘Promoting Shared Education in Macedonia – an exploration of the challenges.’  The speaker was Prof Violetta Petroska-Beska a professor of psychology at the Ss.Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia.  Pictured (from left), Prof Violetta Petroska-Beska , Prof Joanne Hughes and Dr Caitlin Donnelly

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The NI Commissioner for Children and Young People’s (NICCY) report ‘Shared Education – Views of Children and Young People’ was launched today at an event at the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

Click here to view the main report which presents findings from NICCY’s consultation of children and young people’s views and experiences of shared education to the Ministerial Advisory Group on Advancing Shared Education. Click here to view an additional report which provides a brief overview of the views of children and young people on shared education.

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The Ministerial Advisory Group launched its report 'Advancing Shared Education'. The report refers extensively to research and programme work supported within the Centre. The report can be downloaded from here

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Joanne Hughes talks about the impact of shared education at the QUB event 'Local Talent, Global Impact'.  For more information please click here.

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For the reports please click here.

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On the 17^th May, Joanne Hughes will deliver a keynote address on shared education at the  ETUCE’s International Conference in Cyprus. The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) represents 132 Teacher Unions and 11 million teachers in all countries of Europe, from all levels of the education sector. 

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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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The Centre for Shared Education was officially launched on Friday 15 March. Professor Tony Gallagher, PVC at Queens and Director of the Shared Education initiative, spoke at the event, and there were presentations from the Centre Director, Professor Joanne Hughes; the Assistant Director, Dr Caitlin Donnelly; and the Programme Manager, Mark Baker. The presentations gave a flavour of current work within the Centre and outlined the significance of the relationship between the 3 core strand activities of research, programme delivery and education, in respect of local, national and international impact.

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On March 2 Tony Gallagher gave an invited presentation to the TESP Colloquium, Loyola Marymount University, California, on shared education.

On March 11 Tony Gallagher gave an invited presentation to the Dublin meeting of the Board of Atlantic Philanthropies on progress to date in shared education.

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Pupils from nine schools across Derry/Londonderry; Lisneal College, St. Cecilia’s College, St. Mary’s College, St. Joseph’s College Balloughry Primary School, Ebrington Primary School, Lisnagelvin Primary School, Holy Child Primary School and St. John’s Primary School  performed  an adaptation of the critically acclaimed book “A Divided City” by Theresa Breslin in the City’s renowned Millennium Forum on Monday 4 March & Tuesday 5 March.

This event was part of ‘The Contested Spaces/Interface Programme’, that is funded by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and the Atlantic Philanthropies.

The programme supports schools to work together on a cross-sectoral basis to deliver key elements of the statutory curriculum to pupils on a regular, sustained basis.

For more information, please contact Alistair Stewart

For the press release details click here.

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In April, Centre for Shared Education PhD student Helen Hanna will be facilitating a workshop at the European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) annual conference in Erfurt, Germany. The theme of the conference is 'Reflecting Remembrance' and aims to bring together those involved in History and Citizenship Education to discuss areas relating to public commemoration, memory, and dealing with contested periods of history in the classroom. Helen was awarded a generous grant by the European Union's Comenius programme to participate in the conference and plans to share some reflections and gain input on her research among Citizenship Education stakeholders in Northern Ireland and Israel, and on the potential of an education rights approach to History and Citizenship Education in contested societies. For more information,  click here.

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Professor Soon-Won Kang from the Department of Christian Education, Hanshin University, South Korea has taken up a six month position as Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Education. Her interests lie in the role of education in divided societies and she will be exploring comparative dimensions of peace education in Korea and Northern Ireland.

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A group of Arab and Jewish student teachers from the David Yellin Academic College of Education, Israel will visit the Centre for Shared Education on Friday 15 March to learn more about shared education in Northern Ireland. This will be at 3pm on the Friday 15th March in the School of Education  69 University Street  3pm – 4.30pm, The Cathcart room 69US/0G/007

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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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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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