Challenges and opportunities discussed at Northern Ireland dinner

2012 ◽  
Vol 171 (22) ◽  
pp. 547-548
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

“Was There Ever a Before?”

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-156
Author(s):  
James Waller
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Risk And Resilience ◽  
Peace Agreement ◽  
Potential Conflict ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Time Assessment

We know the cessation of conflict is not the solution to all the drivers of that conflict. In the case of Northern Ireland, it is far too much to expect that slightly more than 20 years of “peace”—faltering and hesitant throughout—somehow has counteracted completely the prior 30 years of destabilizing conflict (let alone the 800 years of deep identity divisions). In this current moment, while many elements of the peace agreement have held fast, the peace seems more fragile than ever. Part II of this book offers a real-time assessment of the degree to which contemporary Northern Ireland is letting its hard-earned peace slip through its fingers. Engaging these coupled realities of risk and resilience in the context of contemporary accelerators and triggers of potential conflict will help us understand the challenges and opportunities a society faces in moving from conflict to a stable, enduring, and sustainable peace.

‘Survival of the fittest’? Perceptions of wellbeing at The Bar of Northern Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-479
Author(s):  
Neil Graffin ◽  
Emma Jones
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
The Self ◽  
Job Resources ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
June July ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Survival Of The Fittest ◽  
Job Demands And Resources

This article, based on a qualitative study conducted in June–July 2019, assesses how barristers at the Bar of Northern Ireland perceive wellbeing and mental ill-health within their profession. It will argue that the Bar can be a competitive and potentially hostile workplace environment, leading to detrimental impacts on wellbeing. It will also contend that being a barrister in Northern Ireland provides its own unique challenges for practitioners due to the self-employed independent nature of the role, where practitioners do not work in chambers or stables like their counterparts in England & Wales and Scotland. At the same time, barristers spoke positively about the flexibility of their roles and beneficial forms of collegiality, as well as an evolving culture which places greater emphasis on wellbeing. This article will argue, using the ‘job demands and resources’ model, that efforts should be made to decrease job demands and increase the job resources of barristers of the Bar of Northern Ireland to improve levels of wellbeing. This model could also be applied to the Bar in other jurisdictions to assess the impact of both shared and unique challenges and opportunities.

scholarly journals Perinatal mental healthcare in Northern Ireland: challenges and opportunities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
D. Mongan ◽  
J. Lynch ◽  
J. Anderson ◽  
L. Robinson ◽  
C. Mulholland
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Maternal Mental Health ◽  
Perinatal Period ◽  
Perinatal Mental Health ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
Mother And Baby Unit ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Abstract Perinatal mental health is a vital component of public mental health. The perinatal period represents the time in a woman’s life when she is at the highest risk of developing new-onset psychiatric disorders or relapse of an existing mental illness. Optimisation of maternal mental health in the perinatal period is associated with both short- and long-term benefits not only for the mother, but also for her infant and family. However, perinatal mental health service provision remains variable across the world. At present in Northern Ireland, 80% of women do not have access to specialist community perinatal mental health services, and without access to a mother and baby unit, mothers who require a psychiatric admission in the postnatal period are separated from their baby. However, following successful campaigns, funding for development of specialist perinatal mental health community teams has recently been approved. In this article, we discuss the importance of perinatal mental health from a public health perspective and explore challenges and opportunities in the ongoing journey of specialist service development in Northern Ireland.

scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities for Management of Crop and Tree Diseases in Northern Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juluri R Rao ◽  
John Moore ◽  
Trevor Martin ◽  
David Nelson ◽  
Colin Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Tree Diseases ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals Troubling Pasts: Teaching Public History in Northern Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olwen Purdue
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public History ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Forward Looking

Abstract This article explores the challenges and opportunities presented for the teaching and practice of public history in a post-conflict society that remains deeply divided over its past. It examines some of the negative ways in which history is used in the public arena, but also the potential of public history initiatives for building a more cohesive and forward-looking society. It examines how students can use the rich cultural landscape of Northern Ireland and engage with a wide range of experienced practitioners to learn more about the ways in which history divides; how we can negotiate these divisions over interpretations; how different communities understand, represent, and engage with their past; and why this matters.

Continuous hydrogenolysis of acetal-stabilized lignin in flow

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Lan ◽  
Yuan Peng Du ◽  
Songlan Sun ◽  
Jean Behaghel de Bueren ◽  
Florent Héroguel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

We performed a steady state high-yielding depolymerization of soluble acetal-stabilized lignin in flow, which offered a window into challenges and opportunities that will be faced when continuously processing this feedstock.

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