Joanne Hughes is Director of the Centre for Shared Education at Queen’s University Belfast. She has led more than 20 research projects on these themes and has been awarded research grants from the EU, ESRC, British Council, British Academy, Nuffield, UNICEF, Atlantic Philanthropies, and a range of other sources. Her current research projects explore longitudinally the effect of inter-group contact between Protestant and Catholic pupils in Northern Ireland, and the development and effectiveness of shared education interventions locally and in international settings.
Rebecca Loader is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Shared Education at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research interests include Education and Peacebuilding, Educational Inequalities and Minority Groups in Education. In September 2021 she won the Postdoctoral award for Citizenship and Outreach from QUB
For this week’s episode Nick Johnson (Chief Executive of ½¿É«µ¼º½) talks to Joanne and Rebecca about their research into cross community education in divided societies in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Israel.