Image 4.1: Volunteers creating food parcels in Belfast, with Belfast City Council, British Red Cross and SOS Bus 4.1 Introduction This chapter turns to consider the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on volunteering in Northern Ireland (NI). The progress of the pandemic and the measures introduced to control and mitigate its effects after March 2020 followed a broadly similar path to the rest of the UK. But the recent history of the jurisdiction and the role of the voluntary sector in that history have been markedly different to the rest of the UK
485 Policy & Politics • vol 44 • no 3 • 485–503 • © Policy Press 2016 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557314X14042296270069 research provocations Northern Ireland: where is the peace dividend? Colin Knox, cg.knox@ulster.ac.uk Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and University of Ulster, UK Northern Ireland has been described as a ‘post conflict’ society with a stable political environment following the peace process, and yet it is a hugely segregated society with significant social
79 Evidence & Policy • vol 3 • no 1 • 2007 • xx-xx © The Policy Press • 2007 • ISSN 1744 2648 Evidence & Policy • vol 2 • no 4 • 2006 • 441-61 Key words fair employment • equality • Northern Ireland 79 97 ‘Evidence’ and equality in Northern Ireland R.D. Osborne English Policy intervention to secure greater equality between Protestants and Catholics in the Northern Ireland labour market is now 30 years old. In its most recent formulation fair employment policy has involved affirmative action incorporating targets and timetables. This article examines how fair
Policy & Politics vol 31 no 4 49 © The Policy Press, 2004 • ISSN 0305 5736 Mainstreaming: Northern Ireland’s participative- democratic approach Tahnya Barnett Donaghy Key words: mainstreaming models • equality policies • Northern Ireland Final submission 11 February 2003 • Acceptance 27 February 2003 Policy & Politics vol 32 no 1 49–62 English At a time when both practitioners and academics are calling for a greater understanding and more research into gender mainstreaming, this article develops both a practical case study and explores some of the deeper
This book charts the changing relationships between government, voluntary and community organisations in Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement.
It considers the role these actors have played in rolling out and normalising neoliberal discourses and policies. With lessons about the impact of neoliberal policies on governance, relationships and the peace process, this study explores how a core part of civil society has been shaped by both local policy priorities and broader political and economic processes.
343 Policy & Politics vol 36 no 3 • 343–59 (2008) • 10.1332/030557308X307766 © The Policy Press, 2008 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: evidence-based policy • Review of Public Administration • Northern Ireland • public sector reforms Final submission December 2007 • Acceptance December 2007 Policy making in Northern Ireland: ignoring the evidence Colin Knox The public policy-making process in Northern Ireland during the period of direct rule from Westminster (1972–99) was dominated by senior civil servants working for busy British ministers preoccupied with
111 Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 22 • no 2 • 111–35 • © Policy Press 2014 • #JPSJ Print ISSN 1759 8273 • Online ISSN 1759 8281 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982714X14011942364092 research Access and performance inequalities: post-primary education in Northern Ireland Vani Borooah, vk.borooah@ulster.ac.uk Colin Knox, cg.knox@ulster.ac.uk University of Ulster, UK Northern Ireland’s schools system is undergoing a radical review. The first stage in this process is to reform the post-primary sector in response to the Education Minister’s call to
Inequality and the devolved administrations: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 245 TWELVE inequality and the devolved administrations: scotland, wales and Northern ireland Tania Burchardt and Holly Holder introduction A great deal has been written about devolution since 1997, mostly in relation to the institutional and constitutional complexities produced by multiple layers of government. Rather less attention has been paid to the social policy innovations that devolution may have generated, and still less to the actual consequences of those changes in
Brexit, the shift to the left in the Labour Party and a rightward shift among Republican parties in Northern Ireland have all contributed to a distortion of traditional ideological affiliations in the island of Ireland and across into Great Britain. Whereas, for much of the past few decades, militancy on the left has been associated with Republican politics in Northern Ireland, in the present, Sinn Fein’s entry into the establishment north and, increasingly, south of the border has mitigated their commitment explicitly to left wing policies and certainly to
107 Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004) SIX Governance and social policy in Northern Ireland (1999-2004): the devolution years and postscript Eithne McLaughlin Introduction The objective of this chapter is to identify the most significant developments in the governance arrangements for and the content of social policy in Northern Ireland during the period of devolution introduced by the Labour government in 1999. This period of devolution existed from 1999 to October 2002. Protracted and difficult political negotiations in 1997
