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Research & Consultancy Activity
This page gives a flavour of the research and consultancy activities of HREC members.
The
School of Law obtained a '5' rating - the second highest rating possible -
in the recent UK-Wide Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), covering the
period 1996-2001. All of the Law School staff whose publications were
submitted for evaluation in that exercise, are also members of HREC. For
further information on the RAE, see www.rae.ac.uk. internationally
comparative aspects of equality law. peace
agreements and Human Rights. Equality
matters, specifically gender discrimination and the treatment of
lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered persons [see "enhancing
rights of LGB people in NI" ] There
is a strong international dimension to the work of the Centre. Members
have participated in British Council sponsored events in Belfast, Kuwait
and India. Staff maintain links with a number of academic institutions and
NGOs in Europe, North America, the Middle East and South Asia, and the
output of the Centre reflects this. An ESRC - funded seminar series, entitled "Justice
in Transition: Northern Ireland & Beyond" covering the
development of interim legal arrangements in the immediate post-conflict
stage will run throughout 2002-03 An
exhibition produced by Professor Christine Bell and law lecturer, Ursula
O'Hare, in
conjunction with the British Council, and funded by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office, was launched in June 2000 in New York at 'Women 2000'
-- the UN General Assembly Special Session, informally known as 'Beijing
plus five'. This session was
the review process for the government commitments to the Beijing platform
for action which agreed government action on all areas of women's rights. The
Law School is also involved in a Gender, Sexuality, Family Law and Human
Rights programme with Cornell Law School in the United States, the Queen's
University, Kingston Ontario, and Queen's University Belfast in a
programme aimed at systematically and comparatively examining issues concerning
gender, sexuality family law and human rights from the perspectives of two
societies that are at very different points in their evolution in regard
to both human rights and tolerance of a plurality of family forms. This
programme involves staff and student exchanges as well as PhD
opportunities for outstanding students and internship positions for
students in North American NGOs. If you have any comments on these webpages, please
send them to:
Research Projects have been conducted on a number of topics including, for example:
online@ulster.ac.uk
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