We'll gather evidence about how people use different languages and live in different cultural settings. With local communities and external partners, we'll collect data on how people of all ages learn and use languages—both 🗣️and🧏♀️— in places like homes, schools, workplaces, and social spaces.
We're a Strand II Emerging Hubs of Excellence project (2025 – 2029) funded under the North South Research Programme. NSRP is a collaborative scheme under the Government’s Shared Island Fund, administered by the HEA for the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science.
Missed our online launch yesterday? Catch up here and learn what our Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities is setting out to do over the next 4 years in this new NSRP-funded Emerging Hub of Excellence. And meet the team! CC available.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Efv...
Welcome to LIFELANGS - A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the island of Ireland. An ambitious new large-scale collaborative research project from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @tcddublin.bsky.social, led by @aislingoboyle.bsky.social & @lornacarson.bsky.social.
Thrilled to be able to start work alongside @aislingoboyle.bsky.social on the new @lifelangs.bsky.social Living Observatory project, working with an amazing team from @tcddublin.bsky.social & @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Launching 4 Dec at 4pm GMT online, join us! #NSRP
Join us for the launch of Our Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland #NSRP All welcome. Register below:
Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (Irish Standard Time)
💻 Location: Online via Microsoft Teams lifelangs.com
Join us for the launch of Our Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland #NSRP All welcome. Register below:
Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (Irish Standard Time)
💻 Location: Online via Microsoft Teams lifelangs.com
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/
Call for a new logo (logo contest) with a big question mark and exclamation mark in the centre, with the project's details. On a green background with colourful and fun fonts.
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/ and help us spread the word!
If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...
Achieving technological and economic growth sustainably is seen by many as key if we are to meet the needs of a growing global population.
Professor Shadreck Chirikure explores whether the cosmologies of past advanced civilisations can help us address present challenges. https://bit.ly/43rMb40
Really powerful South African documentary screened at #ISB2025, “Free to Learn - Soze ungayibambi”, on the use of isiXhosa as well as English from Grade 4 in Basic Education. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGg...
New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.
Leonie Smith sits down with Clare Stainthorp and Devina Sarwatay in a podcasting studio.
How can networks help the uncertainty of being a first-gen academic? How did the pandemic impact our attitude towards community? These are just some of the questions discussed in Ep 3 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR with Leonie Smith, @claregs.bsky.social & @devinasarwatay.bsky.social.
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LIFELANGS: a Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland. Delighted to be working with amazing colleagues external partners &project friends🙏https://tinyurl.com/lifelangs
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@tcddublin.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @lornacarson.bsky.social @driancollen.bsky.social @colinjflynn.bsky.social
Still photograph of Judith Butler, wearing a black jacket and shirt, and looking into the camera. On the right of the image, white text is displayed saying: "10-Minute Talks / Gender as framework / with Judith Butler FBA
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
Antifascism means building counter-power while we are defending our communities by creating spaces of refusal. The challenge is not just to “fight fascism”, but to confront the system that rewards it—and fears only our capacity to live ungovernable.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/05/o...
'A day of connection for history postdocs and late-stage PhDs based in Northern Ireland. The programme of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.'
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Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland
Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Disabled activists argue that, given our societal context and the gross devaluing of disabled lives, the Bill as currently constructed would pressure disabled and chronically ill people to choose death for fear of being a burden on their relatives or wider society.
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/25/a...
This was a great event with lots of experience and knowledge sharing🙏👏 thank you for the invitation 🙏
Coming up from brilliant colleagues
@ucfl-eca.bsky.social online seminar: "An introduction to policy engagement and language research" 5th June at 16.00 (UK time) All welcome, register here: tinyurl.com/32mk9jvf
@oliviaglaze.bsky.social
@ashleyscottharris.bsky.social
@llewelynhopwood.bsky.social
