Celebrating 10 years of Fighting Words student storytelling: ‘Not for a minute have they ceased to amaze’
Glenn Patterson is founding patron of Fighting Words NI and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast
Queen's University
Northern Ireland needs to prepare to educate, or prepare to fail
The North must create more university places if it is to close the productivity gap with Republic and with Britain
Cork online grinds platform aims to help students get top marks in maths exams
Breakthrough Maths is heading towards a roll call of 3,000 students
Northern Ireland software company Kainos expects to deliver profit of €79m this year
Group said its business overall improved in the final quarter of the financial year, recording low-single-digit percentage growth
My grandfather died by suicide. I work in the same Irish university where he taught history
Like me, he was interested in the lives and experiences of ordinary people
Deprivation levels higher in Northern Ireland than rest of UK, study shows
Researchers compared census data on deprivation by employment, education and health across UK
Zhenhao Zou: PSNI chief makes appeal to students over serial rapist who studied at Queen’s University
Zou, who studied in Belfast for two years, was convicted in London this week of raping 10 women
‘Where I come from, people don’t do medicine. It’s not on your radar’: how a new generation of doctors is being trained
Lower tuition fees and living costs in Derry are attracting more medical students from diverse backgrounds across the island
Drinking red wine can protect older people against fragility and poor mental health, research finds
Study by Irish and US scientists attributes benefits to presence of flavonoids also found in apples, oranges, blueberries and tea
The company of wolves: should large predators be reintroduced to Ireland?
What we really need is a study, not on the feasibility of wolves or lynx here, but on people and how our values, attitudes and perceptions might evolve to accommodate them
Meet the Trinity students managing a €700,000 fund
Corporate sponsors contribute an annual cash infusion each year, and gains are typically reinvested
Putting seismic waves through their paces with machine learning
Research Lives: Dr Eoghan Totten, postdoctoral researcher, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Eimear McBride: ‘When my brother died, it was not only losing him but losing all the illusions that you were going to be safe’
Having abandoned the pursuit of a career in acting after her brother’s death, the author came to the realisation that she wanted to be a creator, not an interpreter
‘If we just focus on paramilitaries, we’re missing the bigger picture': Study on trauma in Northern Ireland shows need for concerted action
A groundbreaking study has detailed the individual, social and economic costs of adverse childhood experiences - but also has indications of hope
Six in 10 adults in North had a childhood trauma in ‘major public health challenge’
Four or more adverse childhood experiences – a threshold more likely to lead to poorer health and educational outcomes – reported by 17.6% of people surveyed
Queen’s University Belfast launches voluntary job cuts amid €15m deficit
Financial gap remains significant despite other measures taken, management says in email notifying staff
Michael Longley funeral: Poets and politicians gather for writer who ‘touched the soul and imagination of many’
Michael D Higgins joined Theo Dorgan, Frank Ormsby, Medbh McGuckian and others at ceremony
Student solicitors win place in Irish Times debate final
David Rattigan and Emer Nolan take team place, while Trinity’s Mary Woods makes individual final
Reimagining James Joyce as doctor of medical science
Novelist’s work is packed with references to medicine, sickness and health
Seven factors to consider when making your college application
Applying for college this year? Whether applying for a course at home or abroad, here’s all you need to know
Ken Reid obituary: Journalist who covered Northern Ireland from war to peace
Reid had an agreeable nature and could make friends with anybody
Dogs mirror human stress levels, Queen’s University study finds
Research reveals dogs may get stressed when owners are under pressure
Political art on the doorstep: ‘You’re going to find my work in surprising locations’
Collaborations between writer and historian Conor McCabe and artist Augustine O’Donoghue include a series of door mats with political messages and a new event called Counter-Culture Nights
Motivations of the Irish who served in the first World War were complicated
Many were from the vanished tribe of Catholic ‘loyalists’ who saw no contradiction between their faith, desire for Home Rule and loyalty to the British Empire
Police officers injured during protest against Hillary Clinton Belfast visit
PSNI investigating scenes of public disorder outside Queen’s University as US presidential candidate spoke at summit
Four arrested after protests during Hillary Clinton visit to Queen’s University
Protesters chanted ‘shame’ and carried Palestinian flags and a cut-out of the US politician with blood on her hands
Brexit survey: most voters in Northern Ireland back retaining trade deal but hardline unionists strongly opposed
Survey finds Windsor Framework rules, under which the North continues to follow some EU laws on goods, backed by majority in North as Assembly vote looms
Northern Ireland’s young people may change the world, but first they have to learn to vote
Under-25s divide equally between a united Ireland or staying in the United Kingdom
Skeleton service - Frank McNally on why horses’ heads (and the occasional saint) used to be buried under buildings
The foundation sacrifice
Belfast astronomer to take part in European Space Agency’s groundbreaking asteroid mission
Hera will seek to gather new data and insights about how to deflect asteroids which may be bound for Earth
Southern students enjoy the good life at college in Northern Ireland: ‘It’s the best thing I could have done’
Cheaper cost of living and being able to afford that move away from home prove an irresistible attraction
How Irish scientist John Tyndall supercharged the modern debate on consciousness in lecture 150 years ago
Tyndall contended there was no point in the history of the cosmos when ‘creative acts’ of a ‘deity’ were required
Will 200-year-old maps help inform decisions on crucial habitat restoration and future land use?
New digital archive of first ordnance survey maps of island of Ireland coincides with completion of first detailed national land cover map
Queen’s University announces more money to help Palestinian students take up scholarships
A scheme set up in 2020 funds tuition fees and accommodation, but not visa or travel costs
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