Queen's University's Social Charter commits us to the principles of equality and social justice. These principles are embodied in the following projects.
Queen's Communities and Place
Developing Social Innovation with Local Communities
Working in partnership to find lasting solutions that tackle disadvantage and improve outcomes for children, young people and communities. Find out about the work of QCAP here.
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Innovation Zones
Developing Social Innovation with Local Communities
Since 2016 Queen’s University Innovation Zones team have worked in partnership with two local community organisations to drive forward social innovation and improve outcomes for children, young people, families and the community as whole. Find out about the work of the Innovation Zones here.
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Queen's & Greater Shankill Partnership
Tackling Challenges Together
Working with the Greater Shankill Partnership, a community-led regeneration agency in the Greater Shankill area of Belfast. Find out about the work of the Queen's and Greater Shankill Partnership here.
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Widening Participation
Raising awareness, aspirations and attainment
Queen's University is committed to ensuring that those most able but least likely to participate in Higher Education should have an equal opportunity to do so. The Widening Participation team has developed a whole range of programmes designed to create those opportunities for everyone from primary school through to mature students, including those from a wide range of backgrounds.
Find out more hereAsylum Seeker Scholarships
Queen's University offers two full tuition fee scholarships, along with a monthly stipend, to students who are registered asylum-seekers in the UK and resident in Northern Ireland.
Follow the links below for full terms and conditions, and to apply for an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Asylum Seekers Scholarship
Undergraduate Scholarship
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Postgraduate Scholarship
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Queen's on Ethnic Minorities in NI
Research on issues affecting migrant and minority ethnic communities
Queen's on Ethnic Minorities in Northern Ireland brings together leading academics from Queen’s University who can provide an authoritative voice on scholarship and research activity from Queen’s University about the issues affecting migrants and minority ethnic communities in Northern Ireland, towards creating further connections and increasing the impact of such work. The site was produced in partnership with Queen's and the Migrant and Minority Ethnic Council NI (MME Council).
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Queen's on Gender
Research and expertise on gender issues
Queen's on Gender brings together leading academics from Queen’s University who can provide an authoritative voice on gender, the many policy areas affected by gender, and a look at the ongoing work by civil society related to gender.
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PRISM LGBT+ Staff Network
PRISM is the Queen’s University Belfast LGBT+ staff network.
PRISM, launched in 2018, provides a safe, inclusive, and welcoming space for LGBT+ staff in Queen's, as well as helping to promote LGBT+ equality across the campus, informing University policy and organising inclusive events.
Find out more here.
Disability Research Network
The Disability Research Network is a multi-disciplinary initiative.
It aims to enhance collaboration between disabled people, academics, policymakers, practitioners and community and voluntary sector organisations with an interest in co-produced disability research.
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Race Equality Charter
Addressing barriers for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and students.
The Charter provides Universities with the framework to identify and critically reflect on institutional and cultural barriers standing in the way of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and students.
Race Equality Charter pageTransforming Divided Societies into Welcoming Communities
The ‘Welcoming Communities’ project is based in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (HAPP), and steered by Dr Timofey Agarin (Lead) and Dr Drew Mikhael (Co-Investigator).
The project aims to produce tangible outcomes, including an actionable policy plan to enhance migrant, minority ethnic and newcomer participation in social and economic life in the region, and a series of capacity building trainings with migrants and policymakers that will help address social inequalities for the former and assist in outreach for the latter.
Welcoming Communities information
iRISE BAMEI Staff Network
Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and International staff network.
Providing a forum for networking and a means of peer support between BAME and International staff, and promoting the University as a welcoming place to work.
iRISE webpage