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🏘️ Hosford Community Homes and QCAP shared insights on community-led housing at the Private Sector Rented Conference. Showing how community-academic partnerships can support local housing and place-based solutions to homelessness in Northern Ireland..
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“The story of SLAPPs begins with environmental defenders.” @holt_charlie speaking at the Anti-SLAPP conference today on how SLAPPs are used to target environmental defenders. Alongside speakers @MatthewOToole2, Geraint Ellis, Alison Hough, and Fred Logue.
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In center of Belfast, a group of artists and activists have turned an abandoned space into a community garden. They come together planting, nurturing, harvesting and cooking food. They share knowledge, memories and recipes, as they root around in the past and plan for future.
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Current pressures on nature in Northern Ireland are unsustainable and urgent action is needed to protect and improve the environment for this and future generations – read our report on the drivers and pressures affecting biodiversity here 👉bit.ly/3Npq8lV
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Yesterday in Belfast, our violence against women & girls in public spaces network met to discuss our upcoming work
We also heard from Elaine Crory (@WRDA_team), Finola Dornan (@PoliceServiceNI) & Sarah McMahon (@RutgersSSW)
Read more about our plans
➡️ bit.ly/4dU9Axz
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Our next Special Issue proposal deadline is on the 18th of November 2024!
See guidance here: tandfonline.com/journals/cjo… and examples of previous successful Special Issues on topics, such as:
Just transition: tandfonline.com/toc/cjoe20/2…
Discourses: tandfonline.com/toc/cjoe20/2…
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Yesterday, PPR led a workshop on ‘Power Mapping for Social Change’, as part of @Change_Stories_!
Activists from Belfast, Bogotá and Belo Horizonte met to learn about power mapping, identifying supporters and opponents, and how this can be used to drive grassroots change ✊
ALT Blurred out post it notes on a board, with a grid in the middle.
ALT 6 people on a zoom call.
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Recently 3 planning decisions to allow major fossil fuel projects in NI have been quashed by courts. The judgements have been welcomed by campaigners, but what next for applications like these as we transition to renewables? Louise Cullen has been finding out.
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What is the future of fossil fuel projects in Northern Ireland after recent court decisions? bbc.in/4eap9C5
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Lessons for the public realm from Belfast
A vicious cycle requires catalytic investment & #innovation
@bamarquis @citiesforpeople @RWJF @lisc_HQ @neil_galway @planqub #loneliness #isolation #connection #publicspace #socialinfrastructure #Belfast
medium.com/reimagining-the-c…
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Happy to share our new #OpenAccess paper! 🌊
We show that #MarineIdentity is a complex concept that can deepen our understanding of human-ocean relationships, but we must pay attention to diverse ocean ontologies, language, and power dynamics.
@PlanQUB @MarSocSci
Brand new paper on #MarineIdentity! Huge thanks to my 29 co-authors and the other project participants who have worked for almost two years to deliver this piece of work. More here: news.exeter.ac.uk/research/m…
Funded by @ESRC.
doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10715
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Take a bow, everyone!
We have once again been named the number one university in #NorthernIreland, and have climbed 5 places to be ranked in the top 30 universities in the UK in @thetimes Good University Guide 2025.
These academic rankings are based on student satisfaction with #TeachingQuality, #StudentExperience, #EntryStandards, #ResearchQuality, #Sustainability and #GraduateProspects.
Thanks to all our @QUBStaff and @QUBStudents for making Queen’s such a special place.
Click here to find out more: ow.ly/j0Vz50Trvcp
#GoodUniGuide #GoodUniversityGuide2025 #GoodUniversityGuide #LoveQUB
ALT Image reads: #1 IN NORTHERN IRELAND, #26 IN THE UK. The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025
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Cities in the World, famous for their Urban Planning...
A thread...🧵
1. Venice 🇮🇹
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🚶♀️We’re excited to share the Dock Branch Park Regeneration: Evaluability Assessment Report! 🌳
This project in Birkenhead is turning a disused railway into vibrant green space.
Get in touch to explore health impacts of your UGBS projects!
👉tinyurl.com/k97bs7ph
ALT Front page of the dock branch park regeneration report.
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Our special 25th-anniversary online collection is still open access until the end of October! 📅
tandfonline.com/journals/cjo…
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This Tuesday community members, architects, academics and Take Back the City campaigners came together to discuss development of a new sustainable neighbourhood for an equitable, sustainable and climate-ready community in Belfast.
View the full plans at
takebackthecity.ie/
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Join us in London on Tuesday 17 September for the @PPR_Org & TCPA #TakeBackTheCity reception to celebrate an ambitious community-led, non-sectarian, zero-carbon housing project in West Belfast.
This free event is supported by @NorthcotBrick.
Register 👇 tcpa.org.uk/event/tcpa-x-ppr…
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Continuing with our week of reports focusing on our public transport network and how well it delivers, our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent Louise Cullen is looking at how the way we travel impacts our environment - and if there more we could be doing to help?
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Carbon Literacy has returned for first year students during their Welcome Weeks 🎉 @KeepNIBeautiful started a busy week of CLT sessions with students from @QUBNBE in the DKB this morning- we can’t wait to see how the students got on! #climateaction #carbonliteracy
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Published online Open Access:
Network governance and reflexivity in fisheries management: a case study of Northern Ireland
Benedict McAteer (@benmcateer) & Wesley Flannery (@WesleyFlannery)
doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.202…
#reflexivity #networkgovernance
