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Prof Joanne Hughes

Professor of Education

Room 71.01.006
69 University Street
School of Education
Queen's University Belfast

Tel: 028 9097 5934
Fax: 028 9097 5066
Email: joanne.hughes@qub.ac.uk 

Leadership Roles:
Coordinator of School of Education seminar series

Teaching:
MEd / EdD

Appointments:

  • Keynote speaker ASAI (2010)
  • Invited speaker: Institute of British Irish Studies, Dublin (2009)
  • Appointed to the editorial board of Policy Futures in Education (2009)
  • ESRC College of Reviewers (2010)
  • Editor of British Educational Research Journal (2010-present)
  • Steering Committee- 4th-level centre of Educational Research in Ireland (2010)
  • Visiting Professor, Millersville University, Pennsylvania (2009)
  • Community Relations Policy Review Committee, Department of Education, NI: Appointed by the Minister of Education
    (2009)

Joanne Hughes was appointed to a Chair in the School of Education, QUB in July 2007. Her main research interests and areas of expertise are community relations and community development policy, inter-group contact theory, and the role of education in divided societies. She has published widely on these themes, with much of her work reflecting an international comparative focus. Current research projects include: an examination of identity in mixed and segregated urban and rural communities in Northern Ireland; an examination of inter-school collaboration in Northern Ireland and an exploration of the role of parents in bi-lingual/bi-national schools in Israel/Palestine and integrated schools in Northern Ireland. Professor Hughes has extensive experience of undertaking mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) evaluations of community based initiatives in Northern Ireland. She has also advised Government (local and National), NGOs and local community groups and organisations on good relations policy and practice.

Research/Scholarship Interests:

  • Community relations policy, inter-group contact theory and the role of intergroup education in divided societies.
  • Cluster Director - Centre for Shared Education


Research/Scholarship Projects:

  • Two year extension to: ‘The Longitudinal Impact of Cross-Community Contact on Social Attitudes: A three year study of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland’ Atlantic Philanthropies (2011-2015) with Miles Hewstone (Oxford) £150,000
  • Sharing the learning: Consultation in relation to ECD/Education Programme, Enhancing Interethnic community dialogue and collaboration in Macedonia, UNICEF (2010-2012) with Catilin Donnelly; Karen Carlisle; Tony Gallagher; Lesley McEvoy; Claire McGlynn (all QUB), $120,000
  • The Longitudinal Impact of Cross-Community Contact on Social Attitudes: A three year study of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland, Atlantic Philanthropies (2010-2013), with Caitlin Donnelly (QUB), Tony Gallagher (QUB) and Miles Hewstone (Oxford). £320,000
  • The Policy of Parental Participation in Peace Education: A Comparative Study of Schools in Northern Ireland and Israel, British Academy (2008-2010) with Caitlin Donnelly (QUB), Andrea Campbell (UU) and Zvi Beckerman (Hebrew University) £6,200
  • Review of Inter-school Collaboration in NI, Atlantic Philanthropies (2008-2011) with Tony Gallagher (QUB) and Caitlin Donnelly (QUB). £265,000
  • Social Identity and Tolerance in Mixed and Segregated Areas of Northern Ireland, ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme (2004-2008) with Ed Cairns, Miles Hewstone (Oxford) and Richard Jenkins (Sheffield). £224,292.
  • Direct and Indirect Cross-Community Contact and Tolerance in Mixed and Segregated Areas of Belfast: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, OFM&DFM (2004-2008) with Miles Hewstone (Oxford)), (other members of the research team are Ed Cairns (UU) and Alberto Voci (Padua, Italy)). £214,730
  • The Relationship Between Cross-Community Contact and Attitudes to Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland, Nuffield Foundation (2004-2006)with Miles Hewstone (Oxford) and Cathy Gormley Heenan (UU). £6,703.
  • A Comparative Study of Integrated Schools in Northern Ireland and Israel, Nuffield Foundation (2002-2006) with Caitlin Donnelly. £3,441

 

 Conference presentations:

  • Sharing Education: Lessons from Northern Ireland, Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Conference, Skopje, Macedonia, January 2011
  • Promoting reconciliation through separate schools: Case studies from Northern Ireland, World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Istanbul, June 2010
  • ‘School collaboration in Northern Ireland’ Growing Up in a Divided Society, Child Forum Conference, QUB, Belfast, June 2010
  • ‘Separate Schools and Identity in Northern Ireland’ European Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Vienna, September
    2009
  • ‘Parent responses to integrated education’, Repertoires of Violence conference, York, July 2009

 

Publications:

  • Tausch,N., Hewstone, M., Schmid,K., Hughes J., Cairns, E. (2011) Extended contact fffects as a function of closeness of relationship with ingroup contacts group processes and intergroup relations, 14(2), pp.239-254
  • Hughes, J., Campbell, A., Jenkins, R., (2011) Contact, trust and social capital: A case study from Northern Ireland Ethnic and Racial Studies 34 (6) (ifirst)
  • Tausch, N., Hewstone, M., J. Kenworthy., Psaltis, C., Schmid, K.,  Popan, J., Cairns, E., & Hughes, J. (2010)  ‘Secondary transfer’ effects of intergroup contact: Alternative accounts and underlying processes Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99(2):282-302.
  • Hughes, J., (2010) Are separate schools divisive? A case study from Northern Ireland  British
    Education Research Journal     First published on: 23 September 2010 (iFirst)
  • Schmid, K., Hewstone, M., Tausch, N., Hughes, J., Cairns, E. and Jenkins, R. (2010) Groups, neighbourhoods and communities: The case of Northern Ireland. In M. Wetherell and C. T. Mohanty (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Identities. London: Sage.
  • Campbell, A., Hughes, J., Hewstone, M., & Cairns, E., (2010) Social capital as a mechanism for building a sustainable society in Northern Ireland. Community Development Journal 45 (1) pp. 22–38 22
  • Christ, O., Hewstone, M., Tausch, N., Wagner, U., Voci A., Hughes, J., & E. Cairns (2010) Direct contact as a moderator of extended contact effects: Cross-sectional and longitudinal impact on out-group attitudes, behavioral intentions, and attitude certainty Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 36(12) pp. 1662-1679
  • Donnelly, C. & Hughes, J. (2009) Contact, culture and context: Evidence from mixed faith schools in Northern Ireland and Israel. In J. Quinn & R. Vernon (Eds) Reconciliation. Montreal, Canada: McGill University Press, pp.147-174
  • Hughes, J. (2009) ‘Peace, reconciliation and a shared future in education: a policy shift or more of the same'. Community Development Journal, 44(1): 22-37
  • Schmidt, K., Hewstone, M., Tausch, N., Cairns, E., & Hughes, J. (2009) Antecedents and consequences of social identity complexity: intergroup contact, distinctiveness threat, and outgroup attitudes Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35 (8), pp. 1085-1098
  • Schmid, K., Hewstone, M., Hughes, J., Jenkins, R. and Cairns, E. (2009) Residential segregation and intergroup contact: Consequences for intergroup relations, social capital and social identity. In M. Wetherell (ed.) Theorizing Identities and Social Action. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
  • Hewstone, M., Cairns, E., Kenworthy, J., Hughes, J., Tausch, N, Voci, A., von Hecker, U., Tam, T., & Pinder, C. (2008). Stepping stones to reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Intergroup contact, forgiveness and trust. In J.D. Fisher et al. (Ed.), The Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation pp.199-226. Oxford, U.K. & New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Hughes, J., Campbell, A., Hewstone, M., & Cairns, E. (2008) “What’s there to fear?” – A comparative study of responses to the out-group in mixed and segregated areas of Belfast. Peace and Change, 33 (4), pp.522-548
  • Schmid,K., Tausch, N., Hewstone, M.,  Hughes, J., & Cairns, E. (2008) The effects of living in segregated vs. mixed areas in Northern Ireland:  A simultaneous analysis of contact and threat effects in the context of micro-level neighbourhoods. International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2 (1), pp.56-71
  • Hughes, J., Campbell, A., Hewstone, M., & Cairns, E. (2007) Segregation in Northern Ireland – Implications for community relations policy. Policy Studies, 28(1), pp.35-53
  • Hughes, J. & Donnelly, C. (2007)‘Integrated schools in Northern Ireland and bi-Lingual/bi-national schools in Israel:
    Some Policy Issues’ in Z Bekermann and C McGlynn (eds.) Sustained Peace Education in Post-Conflict Societies, McMillan, pp.121-134.
  • Hewstone, M., Tausch, N., Hughes, J. & E. Cairns (2007) ‘Prejudice, intergroup contact and identity: Do neighbourhoods matter?’, in M. Wetherell, M. Lafleche & R. Berkeley (eds.) Identity, Ethnic Diversity and Community Cohesion (Sage), pp. 102-114.
  • Hughes, J.  (2007) ‘Mediating and moderating effects of Inter-group contact: Case studies from bilingual/bi-national schools in
    Israel’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (33)3 pp.419-439.
  • Hewstone, M., Tausch, N., Voci, A., Hughes, J., Kenworthy, J. and Cairns, E. (2007) Prior contact and killing of ethnic out-group neighbours. In V. Esses and R. Vernon (eds.) Why Neighbours Kill. Montreal: McGill University Press.