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    21-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
    Only a third of NI voters believe the Assembly will see out its current mandate
    Queen's University Belfast

    According to a new report from Queen’s University Belfast, voters in Northern Ireland are split into three camps as to whether the restored Assembly will last until the end of its current mandate in 2027.

    Newswise: Researchers reveal the best-selling ‘pop’ songs of 17th century England
    Released: 2-Feb-2024 6:05 AM EST
    Researchers reveal the best-selling ‘pop’ songs of 17th century England
    Queen's University Belfast

    Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Warwick have compiled the first ever collection of hit songs from seventeenth-century England, including over 100 ballads in total.

    8-Nov-2023 12:05 PM EST
    Three years of polling on the Protocol reveals the depth of the new division in Northern Ireland
    Queen's University Belfast

    The Windsor Framework has reduced the scale of opposition to Northern Ireland’s (NI) unique post-Brexit arrangements, but not its intensity.

    Released: 29-Aug-2023 10:10 AM EDT
    New toolkit provides more efficient analysis of health data to drive improvements in patient care
    Queen's University Belfast

    Researchers from Queen’s University have developed a new toolkit that harnesses the power of ‘Big Data’ for digital health with the aim of driving improvements in patient care and outcomes through data-driven innovation.

       
    2-Jun-2023 10:05 AM EDT
    Queen’s research finds greater societal awareness needed to protect our privacy and data from AI when we die
    Queen's University Belfast

    A research study from Queen’s University Belfast, Aston Law School and Newcastle University Law School, has suggested that greater societal awareness of ‘ghostbots’ and a ‘Do not bot me’ clause in wills and other contracts could prevent us from being digitally reincarnated without our permission when we die.

    23-Feb-2023 11:05 AM EST
    Protocol not top priority for Northern Ireland voters
    Queen's University Belfast

    Most voters in Northern Ireland do not rank the Protocol among their highest policy concerns when compared to other policy issues, a new report by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, has found.

    Released: 18-Jan-2023 5:05 AM EST
    Queen’s report finds that Education departments in UK Universities are less diverse than other disciplines
    Queen's University Belfast

    A research report by academics at Queen’s University Belfast in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, has found that Education departments in the UK higher education (HE) sector have more inequality than other discipline areas.

    Released: 9-Jan-2023 4:05 AM EST
    Queen’s researcher to examine the treatment of unmarried pregnant women in Northern Ireland
    Queen's University Belfast

    A researcher from Queen’s University Belfast will examine how unmarried women who fell pregnant from 1945 - 2015 were treated in Northern Ireland.

       
    Newswise: First digital archive of Brian Friel’s iconic plays launches at Queen’s
    Released: 12-Dec-2022 6:05 AM EST
    First digital archive of Brian Friel’s iconic plays launches at Queen’s
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s University Belfast has launched the Brian Friel digital archive, a first of its kind resource, providing access to drafts of the acclaimed Irish playwright’s works, including handwritten notes from some of his most iconic plays.

    Newswise: Research suggests deaf children more at risk of developing emotional wellbeing issues
    Released: 9-Nov-2022 4:30 PM EST
    Research suggests deaf children more at risk of developing emotional wellbeing issues
    Queen's University Belfast

    Research from Queen’s University Belfast suggests that deaf children are more at risk of developing mental health and emotional wellbeing issues compared to children who can hear.

    8-Nov-2022 4:05 AM EST
    Northern Ireland is poorest performing UK region for productivity
    Queen's University Belfast

    Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have found that Northern Ireland is the poorest performing UK region for productivity, with a productivity gap of 17% to the UK level.

    26-Oct-2022 6:05 AM EDT
    Voters in Northern Ireland keen to see UK-EU agreement over the Protocol but the challenge of ‘selling’ any such agreement is growing
    Queen's University Belfast

    Support among voters in Northern Ireland for the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland remains steady, a new opinion poll conducted by Lucid Talk on behalf of Queen’s University Belfast, has revealed.

    16-Oct-2022 7:05 AM EDT
    Independent Panel Report into Fans’ Experiences at the 2022 European Champions League Final
    Queen's University Belfast

    An independent panel report, based on the written testimonies of 485 women, men and children, and eyewitness accounts by international journalists, tells the story of those who survived extreme violence at the hands of the police and local gangs before and after the European Champions League Final in Paris, May 2022. Compiled by five leading authorities in their respective fields, including author of the ground-breaking report into the Hillsborough disaster, Professor Emeritus Phil Scraton from the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, the report, “Treated with Contempt": An Independent Panel Report into Fans' Experiences Before, During and After the 2022 Champions League Final in Paris, details survivors’ written evidence submitted in the days after the event.

    Released: 11-Oct-2022 5:05 AM EDT
    Academics to chart the historical evolution of the relationship between Conservatism and Unionism
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s University Belfast and the University of St Andrews have been awarded £492,630 for a project which will chart the historical evolution of the relationship between Conservatism and Unionism throughout the UK.

    Newswise: Queen’s announces Roddy Doyle, Kae Tempest and Conor Mitchell as Seamus Heaney Fellows for 2022-23
    Released: 6-Oct-2022 9:30 AM EDT
    Queen’s announces Roddy Doyle, Kae Tempest and Conor Mitchell as Seamus Heaney Fellows for 2022-23
    Queen's University Belfast

    The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast has announced the appointments of Roddy Doyle, Kae Tempest and Conor Mitchell as the Seamus Heaney Centre Fellows for 2022-23.

    Newswise: Researchers to explore why atheism is growing across the world
    Released: 21-Sep-2022 4:05 AM EDT
    Researchers to explore why atheism is growing across the world
    Queen's University Belfast

    An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by Queen’s University Belfast have launched a new project ‘Explaining Atheism’, to test popular and academic theories about why some people are atheists and why some are not.

    Newswise: Researchers Develop Plastic Film That Can Kill Viruses Using Room Lights
    8-Sep-2022 1:05 PM EDT
    Researchers Develop Plastic Film That Can Kill Viruses Using Room Lights
    Queen's University Belfast

    Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a ground-breaking plastic film that can kill viruses that land on its surface with room light.

    Newswise: Queen’s academics launch new international guidelines on reparations in post-conflict societies
    Released: 31-Aug-2022 5:05 AM EDT
    Queen’s academics launch new international guidelines on reparations in post-conflict societies
    Queen's University Belfast

    Researchers from the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Essex, in partnership with REDRESS, have launched new international guidelines, the ‘Belfast Guidelines on Reparations in Post-Conflict Societies’.

    Released: 6-Jul-2022 7:05 AM EDT
    A Less Invasive Treatment Approach for Bowel Cancer Could Save Over £1 Billion
    Queen's University Belfast

    New research suggests that providing a break in treatment to patients with advanced bowel cancer could not only benefit a patient’s quality of life but could also help save £1.2 billion for the National Health Service in England.

    14-Jun-2022 9:40 AM EDT
    Bringing Back Native Predators to Tackle Invasive Species Crisis
    Queen's University Belfast

    Restoring native predator populations could help to keep in check some of the most problematic invasive species around the world, suggests a new study led by Queen’s University Belfast and Cornell University.

    23-May-2022 5:05 AM EDT
    Pets or threats? Goldfish might be harmful to biodiversity
    Queen's University Belfast

    A new study has highlighted the potential threat of pet fish to biodiversity.

    27-Apr-2022 10:05 AM EDT
    Scientists Awaken Viral Response to Target Bowel Cancer
    Queen's University Belfast

    New research has identified the role of the immune response within bowel cancer tissue, which could lead to new lifesaving treatments for bowel cancer patients.

    28-Mar-2022 4:05 AM EDT
    Urgent action required for the UK and US to tackle the global cancer epidemic
    Queen's University Belfast

    A new study by leading researchers in the UK and the US has highlighted the critical need for more strategic collaboration between these two global powerhouses of cancer research to address one of the most common causes of premature death worldwide.

    Released: 1-Feb-2022 4:05 AM EST
    New research will focus on repurposing existing drugs to treat patients with COVID-19
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s University Belfast will lead a new £1.6m collaborative project to rapidly identify new treatments for COVID-19.

    12-Jan-2022 11:05 AM EST
    New blood cancer gene defect can be treated with existing drugs
    Queen's University Belfast

    A defective gene, normally found in blood cancers, could be treated with drugs already available for cancers with similar gene defects, scientists at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Birmingham have revealed.

    Newswise: Red squirrel conservation strategies likely to undermine species survival in future
    10-Jan-2022 5:05 AM EST
    Red squirrel conservation strategies likely to undermine species survival in future
    Queen's University Belfast

    New research has shown how current red squirrel conservation strategies in the UK and Ireland, that favour non-native conifer plantations, are likely to negatively impact red squirrels.

    7-Dec-2021 6:05 AM EST
    Almost two-thirds of species at deep-sea hydrothermal vents are at risk of extinction
    Queen's University Belfast

    New research from Queen’s University Belfast has led to 184 deep-sea species being added to the global Red List of Threatened Species. With almost two-thirds of the species assessed listed as threatened, it highlights the urgent need to protect them from extinction.

    30-Nov-2021 10:05 AM EST
    First long-acting option HIV prevention approved for use - Worlds AIDS Day
    Queen's University Belfast

    The first long-acting option to protect women from HIV, proven to reduce women’s HIV risk, has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO).

    9-Nov-2021 11:20 AM EST
    New drug delivery could significantly improve treatment outcomes for localised prostate cancer
    Queen's University Belfast

    Researchers have developed a new treatment to be used in combination with radiotherapy that could significantly improve treatment outcomes for men with locally advanced prostate cancer.

    3-Nov-2021 9:00 AM EDT
    Non-invasive ventilation for COVID-19 patients isn’t linked to heightened infection risk
    Queen's University Belfast

    New research has found that the use of non-invasive breathing support to treat moderate to severe COVID-19 infection, isn’t linked to a heightened infection risk, as currently thought.

    Released: 3-Nov-2021 8:05 PM EDT
    Researchers discover new tool to investigate more effective cancer treatment
    Queen's University Belfast

    Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have discovered a new tool, which will help to investigate more effective forms of cancer treatment.

       
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    Released: 13-Oct-2021 11:05 AM EDT
    Research shows how plastics threaten biodiversity of marine life
    Queen's University Belfast

    New research at Queen’s University highlights the impact that microplastics are having on hermit crabs, which play an important role in balancing the marine ecosystem.

    1-Sep-2021 8:45 AM EDT
    Smiling Can Build Relationships Even After Someone Has Been Untrustworthy, Researchers Find
    Queen's University Belfast

    A certain type of smile can help to restore trust in relationships after someone has been uncooperative or untrustworthy, according to new research by Queen’s University Belfast.

    29-Jun-2021 6:05 AM EDT
    Opinion Panel poll finds voters are evenly split over the Northern Ireland Protocol
    Queen's University Belfast

    The LucidTalk poll, conducted for a team of researchers at Queen’s University Belfast has revealed that Northern Ireland voters are evenly split over the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.

    Released: 28-Jun-2021 8:35 AM EDT
    Life Could Exist in the Clouds of Jupiter but Not Venus
    Queen's University Belfast

    Jupiter’s clouds have water conditions that would allow Earth-like life to exist, but this isn’t possible in Venus’ clouds, according to the groundbreaking finding of new research led by a Queen’s University Belfast scientist.

    Released: 10-May-2021 6:05 AM EDT
    Queen’s Management School awarded prestigious EQUIS accreditation
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s Management School at Queen's University Belfast has been awarded the prestigious and internationally recognised EQUIS accreditation for management and business schools.

    Released: 6-May-2021 10:25 AM EDT
    Queen’s historian releases new book on American evangelicals and the radical right
    Queen's University Belfast

    An historian from Queen’s University Belfast has launched a new book on one of the most controversial political movements in the American Christian Right.

    Released: 16-Apr-2021 2:05 AM EDT
    USA committed to Northern Ireland’s success, says Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s University Belfast’s Chancellor, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton has said that the new Biden administration in the USA is committed to the success of Northern Ireland economically and politically.

    Released: 23-Feb-2021 8:05 AM EST
    Queen’s research suggests largescale antibody testing could lower contagion of COVID-19
    Queen's University Belfast

    Research from Queen’s University Belfast suggests that largescale antibody testing could lower social activity and thus contagion of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).

       
    Released: 10-Feb-2021 7:05 AM EST
    ACE-CSE recognition for Queen’s University’s cyber security education
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s University Belfast has been named as one of the UK’s first Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Education (ACE-CSE).

    Released: 5-Feb-2021 12:05 AM EST
    New Queen’s scholarship opportunities will explore impact of AI on science and society
    Queen's University Belfast

    Thirty funded postdoctoral scholarships announced by Queen’s University Belfast are set to provide a unique opportunity to explore the challenges of Artificial intelligence (AI) for every area of science and society.

    Released: 26-Jan-2021 11:50 AM EST
    Queen’s research finds that ‘church is something other than a building’ during the Covid-19 pandemic
    Queen's University Belfast

    A research study from Queen’s University Belfast and the Irish Council of Churches/ The Irish Inter Church Meeting sheds light on how churches on the island of Ireland are navigating the Covid-19 pandemic including changes in pastoral care, moving religion online, social services and the wider community, and stress and ministry.

    Released: 18-Dec-2020 10:30 AM EST
    Queen’s announces multimillion-pound investment to boost screen industries in Northern Ireland
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s University Belfast has announced a £2.5 million investment for an interdisciplinary research facility, MediaLab, focusing on virtual production that will help drive R&D for the screen industries and upskill the local sector in Northern Ireland.

    Released: 9-Dec-2020 12:35 PM EST
    Survey finds pandemic had a major impact on children’s experiences and rights
    Queen's University Belfast

    A global survey of children’s views and experiences of life under COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has found that the pandemic had wide-ranging impacts on children’s experiences and rights.

    25-Nov-2020 7:25 AM EST
    Research finds new link between cell damage in astronauts and geriatric-type health problems observed during space missions
    Queen's University Belfast

    Damage caused to human cells during spaceflight appears to be the underlying cause of many health issues observed in astronauts, it has been discovered by researchers from the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) and School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. Working in partnership with an international team, their findings have been published today (25 November) in Cell.

       
    Released: 5-Nov-2020 10:10 AM EST
    Queen’s University academic appointed to the EU Commission Platform on Sustainable Finance
    Queen's University Belfast

    An academic from Queen’s University Belfast is one of two academics on the island of Ireland appointed to the Platform on Sustainable Finance at the European Commission.

    Released: 30-Oct-2020 12:35 PM EDT
    Queen’s University Belfast Academics elected to the Academy of Social Sciences
    Queen's University Belfast

    Two academics from Queen’s University Belfast have been elected to the Academy of Social Sciences.

    31-Aug-2020 2:05 PM EDT
    Universities launch database on amnesties granted during conflict and peace processes
    Queen's University Belfast

    Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Edinburgh have launched the first public, open access database which explores amnesties that were granted during ongoing conflicts, or as part of peace negotiations, or in post-conflict periods.

    Released: 28-Aug-2020 8:05 AM EDT
    UK-wide study shows children with gastrointestinal symptoms should be included in COVID-19 testing strategies
    Queen's University Belfast

    Over 1,000 children from Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales, known as ‘COVID Warriors’ have had their antibodies measured in the UK-wide trial called ‘Seroprevalence of SARS-Cov-2 infection in healthy children’.

    Released: 9-Jul-2020 8:05 AM EDT
    Queen’s part of £7 million consortium to improve outcomes for patients with early stage cancer
    Queen's University Belfast

    The Precision Medicine Centre of Excellence (PMC) at Queen’s is leading a ground-breaking collaboration with the world’s largest biotech company Roche, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) specialist, Sonrai Analytics.


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