With Professor Mark Lawler, Queen's University Belfast, and Professor William (Liam) Gallagher, University College Dublin.

Part 2 of our Belfast Region City Deal series. Wendy Austin discusses the work of iREACH with:

Professor Judy Bradley; Professor Stuart Elborn; Dr Michael Quinn (all Queen's University); and Dr Aiden Flynn, CEO of Exploristics Ltd, a Belfast based specialist in statistical and data analytics.

Further details are available here:

https://www.qub.ac.uk/about/review/

In Part 1 of a series on the Belfast Region City Deal, Broadcaster Wendy Austin hosts a panel of experts on the Global Innovation Institute.

With: Dr Godfrey Gaston, Executive Director of ECIT; Professor Mark Lawler, Professor of Digital Health, Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics; Peter Keeling is CEO of data analytics and precision medicine company Diaceutics PLC; and Dr Elizabeth Magowan, Director of Sustainable Agri-Food Sciences Division, at AFBI.

Further details are available here:

https://www.qub.ac.uk/about/review/

The Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s University Belfast hosted ‘Reflections on Female Leadership’, 10 may 2021, an in-conversation event with the three women who hold the top political and administrative roles in Northern Ireland.

The First Minister, Arlene Foster, the Deputy First Minister, Michelle O’Neill, and the interim Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Jenny Pyper, shared their leadership journeys and experiences. The event was chaired by Professor Karen McCloskey, Director of Queen's Gender Initiative and Professor of Physiology at the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences.

With an introduction and conclusion from President and Vice Chancellor of Queen's, Professor Ian Greer.

For this event, Jonathan Powell, a key negotiator of Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, and Queen's University's Prof Richard English, editor of the Cambridge History of Terrorism, discussed conflict resolution, potential independence referendums, the impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom, and more.

Delivered live from Queen's University's Great Hall, the event was streamed to an online audience on Wednesday 19 May 2021.

Audio podcast version of a keynote address delivered on Tuesday, 13 May 2021 by Professor Henrietta Moore,

Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL.

Followed by commentary from Professor Diarmuid O'Donovan,

Clinical Professor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast.

Welcome address: Professor Ian Greer, President and Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University

Q&A Chaired by: Ann Watt, Director, Pivotal Public Policy Forum

Concluding remarks: Professor Stuart Elborn, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Queen’s University.

Keynote address from Professor Ian McBride, Foster Professor of Irish History at Hertford College, Oxford, given on 31 March 2021, with Q&A chaired by Professor Richard English of Queen's University Belfast.

In association with the Imagine Festival, the Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s University Belfast presents a discussion of

sustainability issues in the world of finance and investment.

With Dr Theodor Cojoianu of Queen’s University Belfast

Martina Macpherson, Head of ESG Strategy Oddo BHF Asset Management

Professor Jill Atkins, Chair in Financial Management at Sheffield University Management School

Dr Ben Allen of the Institute for European Environmental Policy

Video version available on the Queen's University Belfast YouTube channel.

IWD 2021 Podcast series

As part of our 2021 International Women's Day Programme, the FMHLS Gender Equality Team invited female staff and students across the Faculty to participate in a podcast interview about their experiences of work and family life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Visit the IWD-Pod webpage for more information:

http://bit.ly/iwd-pod-webpage

IWD 2021 Podcast series

As part of our 2021 International Women's Day Programme, the FMHLS Gender Equality Team invited female staff and students across the Faculty to participate in a podcast interview about their experiences of work and family life during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Visit the IWD-Pod webpage for more information:

http://bit.ly/iwd-pod-webpage