Weekly update

Now a vibrant hub for the postgraduate community at Queen’s University Belfast, the Graduate School welcomes thousands of students through its doors each year. The Lynn Library has seen significant changes throughout its history, but the building has remained at the heart of life at Queen’s for 150 years.

Major Publications by Professor McCrudden:

"The Dark Side of Nudging: The Ethics, Political Economy, and Law of Libertarian Paternalism" in Alexandra Kemmerer, Christoph Möllers, Maximilian Steinbeis, Gerhard Wagner (eds.), Choice Architecture in Democracies, Exploring the Legitimacy of Nudging (Oxford/Baden-Baden: Hart and Nomos, 2015) (with Jeff King)

“On Portraying Human Dignity,” in Kemmerer, A., Möllers, C. & Grimm, D. (eds.).Human Dignity in Context.  (Recht in Context, vol. 5, Nomos/Hart, 2017)

"What Does It Mean to Compare, and What Should It Mean?" in Samantha Besson, Lukas Heckendorn Urscheler, and Samuel Jubé (eds), Comparing Comparative Law, Publications of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Geneva/Zurich 2017, Schulthess Editions Romandes

“Why do national court judges refer to human rights treaties? A comparative international law analysis of CEDAW,” (2015) 109(3) American Journal of International Law, 534-550

Litigating Religions: An Essay on Human Rights, Courts and Beliefs (OUP, 2018)

“Human Rights Histories”, (2015) 35 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 179-212

“Transnational Culture Wars”, 13(2) International Journal of Constitutional Law 434 (2015)

“Human Dignity and Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights”, (2008) 19(4) European Journal of International Law 655-724

Brief Biography:

Christopher McCrudden, is Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queens University Belfast, William W. Cook Global Law Professor at Michigan Law,  and a practising barrister-at-law with Blackstone Chambers. Before returning to Queen's, he was Professor of Human Rights Law at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Lincoln College. Specializing in human rights, he concentrates on issues of equality and discrimination as well as the relationship between international and comparative human rights law. Professor McCrudden is the author, most recently, of Litigating Religions: An Essay on Human Rights, Courts and Beliefs (OUP, 2018) about the relationship between religion and human rights law. An earlier book, Buying Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2007), examined the relationship between public procurement and equality, for which he was awarded a certificate of merit by the American Society of International Law in 2008. He has co-authored (with Brendan O'Leary) Courts and Consociations (Oxford University Press, 2013), about the tensions between human rights and ethnic power-sharing arrangements that are common in peace agreements. He has also edited the multi-disciplinary volume, Understanding Human Dignity (Oxford University Press, 2013). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law. He also participates in the European Commission's Expert Network on the Application of the Gender Equality Directives, and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs Human Rights Advisory Panel. Professor McCrudden holds an LLB from Queen's University Belfast, an LLM from Yale Law School, and a DPhil and DCL from Oxford. In addition, Queen's awarded him an honorary LLD in 2006. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2008, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2018. He is chair of the Advisory Committee of the Institute for Advanced Studies (the Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin.

The contents are as follows:
Day 1 19/11/18 : Design your life
Day 2 26/11/18 : Start preparing to get the job you want
Day 3 03/12/18 : CV Builder (Academic and non-academic CVs)
Day 4 10/12/18 : Developing effective interview skills
Day 5 17/12/18 : Employer Speed Networking

Session Dates:
November (6, 20)
December (4, 17)
January (8, 22)
February (5, 19)

No need to book, just drop in!

Refreshments will be provided.

Storytellers will include past and present inspiring students, former MLAs, leaders of national movements and representatives of minority groups.

Guests Include:

Billie-Jo McDowell: BSW Social Work Student, Washington Ireland Program Class of 2018, Student Care Leaver Ambassador and QUBSU Councillor 

Faisal Kadiri: Engineer turned Entrepreneur, QUB Graduate and former QUBSU Vice President of Student Activities 

David Anderson: History student and QUBSU Disabled Students’ Officer, Deaf, Non-Oral and British Sign Language Signer 

Gift Sotonye-Frank: QUBSU Women’s Officer, QUB School of Law Women’s Officer with research focusing on ‘Gender Stereotyping of Adolescent Pregnant School Girls’ 

Olivia Potter-Hughes: President of NUS-USI, Politics Student at QUB, Graduate of Belfast Metropolitan College Graduate and former NUS-USI Further Education Officer 

Anna Lo: Former MLA for South Belfast, Honorary Doctor of The Open University, MBE for Services to Ethnic Minorities, Former Vice Chair of NI Council for Ethnic Minorities, Founding Commissioner for the Equality Commission, First Chair for South Belfast Partnership Board, Former Director of Chinese Welfare Association, Social Worker and Ulster University Graduate  

The visit will include:

• a brief tour of Almac, 
• an opportunity to chat with Almac employees during lunch
• participation in a project Management activity to allow you to practise skills relevant to this organisation
• a presentation on the recruitment process and the roles availableTime: Friday, 23 November 2018 9.15am – 2.30pm

Hospitality: Lunch is included as part of the visit.

The Graduate School will arrange a bus to transport 24 postgraduate students, for which there will be a £5.00 to book your place on the bus. Places will be allocated on a first come first basis so booking early is advisable. Bus will leave Graduate School at 9.15am – exact pick up point will be confirmed closer to the visit. We will be in contact in due course regarding payment details.

Patricia Flanagan Bio:
Patricia has over 25 years of experience working in the Enterprise and Education sectors in Northern Ireland. Since a visit to Stanford University in 2010 Patricia has worked exclusively in Design Thinking and Creative Problem Solving. She pioneered the use of design thinking in third level education in Northern Ireland, developing award winning enterprise education curriculum.

In 2014 Patricia founded Rejig, a specialist training and design thinking Consultancy Company. Patricia has designed and delivered a wide range of design thinking programmes and workshops to help clients build innovation capacity. Patricia has a particular interest in social innovation and her principal aim is to integrate creative thinking at all levels of education in Northern Ireland.

She works regularly with Work West, Queen’s University Belfast, Catalyst Inc and Connected delivering programmes to promote innovation and entrepreneurial mind-sets. Patricia has designed and delivered design-thinking programmes in primary schools, secondary schools, with undergraduates and with postgraduates. She has also trained teachers and lecturing staff encouraging them to integrate these processes into their own teaching.

Working with WorkWest Enterprise Agency Patricia has developed a programme called “Thinc schools”. The “Thinc schools” programme has been designed to introduce school pupils in primary and secondary level education to creative and design thinking. Students work in teams in a really interactive, hands on process to solve real problems in innovative ways. Using the thinc tool kit they develop empathy, build their curiosity, stretch their imaginations, design solutions, story tell and build prototypes of their solutions

The World Economic Forum identified four core competencies that students will require for the 21 century as Critical thinking/problem solving, creativity, communication and collaboration. Thinc Schools focuses on providing young people the opportunity to develop these competencies

Patricia has undergone extensive training in creative problem solving in USA and Europe. Patricia is a qualified facilitator for the FourSight Creative Thinking System (https://foursightonline.com/).

Black history Month: Last week, we launched our first ever Black History Month. If you want to get involved in any of the amazing events we have on over the next month, you can find more information here

Hungry for Change: Passionate about making a positive change in the world? Kick off your year at Queen’s by getting involved with volunteering opportunities and the major activist campaigns in Belfast and beyond! Come along, get involved and explore new and exciting opportunities for your time at Queen’s and have a free hot lunch while you’re at it! Register here