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November 2019

Social enterprises in Northern Ireland: Promoting business for social good

8th November 2019 @ 10:00 am - 3:30 pm
Riddel Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road
Belfast, Co Antrim BT9 5EE United Kingdom
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How can businesses help society? We explore Northern Ireland's growing social enterprise sector.

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Climate Jobs and a Just Transition: Responding to our Climate Emergency

9th November 2019 @ 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast, University Road
Belfast, BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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As a society we have passed a ‘tipping point’ on addressing the climate and ecological crisis; politicians and decision-makers globally are ‘playing catch up’ with recent mobilisations demanding greater and faster action on our climate crisis. The most recent climate science stresses the scale and urgency of reducing greenhouse emissions. In order to meet the goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement to stay below two degrees warming, global emissions will have to peak less than a year from now and…

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Sex work and the law: The implementation of the Nordic Model in N. Ireland

9th November 2019 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Old Staff Common Room, Queen's University Belfast, University Road
Belfast, BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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Everything you wanted to know about sex work, but were afraid to ask!

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December 2019

GE2019: Post-election Analysis and Brexit Clinic

17th December 2019 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Bell Lecture Theatre, Lanyon Building
Belfast, Northern Ireland BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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Why not come along for some post-election dissection with a side of Brexit analysis thrown in.

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January 2020

Brexit, Citizens’ Assemblies and the future of Democracy in the UK

6th January 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast, University Road
Belfast, BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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Join us for our first event of 2020 with Dr Alan Renwick from the UCL Constitution Unit. Registration from 6pm; talk starts 6.30pm.

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Repowering Democracy? Community participation in the energy transition

9th January 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast, University Road
Belfast, BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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This interactive session explores energy democracy and community participation in the energy transition with a focus on citizen energy in Northern Ireland.

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February 2020

Queen’s Policy Engagement Post-Brexit Clinic – February 2020

4th February 2020 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast, University Road
Belfast, BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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Join us for what promises to be the first post-Brexit Clinic here at Queen's Policy Engagement.

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March 2020

A Women’s Constitution: Won for All?

4th March 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Edgar Graham Room, Main Site Tower, 02.002, School of Law, QUB, University Square
Belfast, Antrim BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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What would a woman-friendly constitution look like? Would a women-friendly constitution benefit other marginalised groups? How might it happen? Join us for this International Women's Day Event to explore these questions and others.

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Any new events will be held online due to the pandemic.

18th March 2020 @ 8:00 am - 30th September 2020 @ 5:00 pm
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A Women’s Constitution: Won for All?

18th March 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Edgar Graham Room, Main Site Tower, 02.002, School of Law, QUB, University Square
Belfast, Antrim BT7 1NN United Kingdom
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Japan and Brexit

Conversations on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland are flourishing in public and behind the scenes. So far, most of these conversations have focused on UK union, Irish unity and their implications for rights, equality, health, education and the economy. The impacts of constitutional change on women’s and other marginalised lives are rarely considered. This International Women’s Day event is an opportunity, open to all, to consider the following: what would a woman-friendly constitution look like? Would a women-friendly constitution…

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