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Aisling O’Boyle

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Reader, Director, Centre for Language Education Research @CLER_QUB Northern Ireland Interests:Language&Education bit.ly/2Lzh4tu

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LIFELANGS Living Observatory @lifelangs.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We'll gather evidence about how people use different languages and live in different cultural settings. With local communities and external partners, we'll collect data on how people of all ages learn and use languages—both 🗣️and🧏‍♀️— in places like homes, schools, workplaces, and social spaces.
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory @lifelangs.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
We're a Strand II Emerging Hubs of Excellence project (2025 – 2029) funded under the North South Research Programme. NSRP is a collaborative scheme under the Government’s Shared Island Fund, administered by the HEA for the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science.
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory @lifelangs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Missed our online launch yesterday? Catch up here and learn what our Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities is setting out to do over the next 4 years in this new NSRP-funded Emerging Hub of Excellence. And meet the team! CC available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Efv...
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Online Launch of LIFELANGS A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
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LIFELANGS Living Observatory @lifelangs.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Welcome to LIFELANGS - A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the island of Ireland. An ambitious new large-scale collaborative research project from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @tcddublin.bsky.social, led by @aislingoboyle.bsky.social & @lornacarson.bsky.social.
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Thrilled to be able to start work alongside @aislingoboyle.bsky.social on the new @lifelangs.bsky.social Living Observatory project, working with an amazing team from @tcddublin.bsky.social & @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Launching 4 Dec at 4pm GMT online, join us! #NSRP
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Join us for the launch of Our Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland #NSRP All welcome. Register below: Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025 🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (Irish Standard Time) 💻 Location: Online via Microsoft Teams lifelangs.com
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Join us for the launch of Our Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland #NSRP All welcome. Register below: Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025 🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (Irish Standard Time) 💻 Location: Online via Microsoft Teams lifelangs.com
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/ and help us spread the word!
Call for a new logo (logo contest) with a big question mark and exclamation mark in the centre, with the project's details. On a green background with colourful and fun fonts.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If you missed Hiram Morgan's talk on 'Anatomies of death: force famine in the Tudor conquest of Ireland', an recording is now available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAI...
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Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan
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The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project @placenamesni.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Achieving technological and economic growth sustainably is seen by many as key if we are to meet the needs of a growing global population. Professor Shadreck Chirikure explores whether the cosmologies of past advanced civilisations can help us address present challenges. bit.ly/43rMb40
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Lorna Carson @lornacarson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Really powerful South African documentary screened at #ISB2025, “Free to Learn - Soze ungayibambi”, on the use of isiXhosa as well as English from Grade 4 in Basic Education. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EoGg...
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Documentary Launch| FREE TO LEARN: SOZE UNGAYIBAMBI!| 26 September 2024
YouTube video by Centre for Multilingualism & Diversities Research
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New article just published from the ‘Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation’ project. Charlie lays out in brilliant (and often depressing) depth how the complex forces of psychiatry and religion shaped the responses to male homosexuality in the decades after WWII.
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 13/10/2025
How can networks help the uncertainty of being a first-gen academic? How did the pandemic impact our attitude towards community? These are just some of the questions discussed in Ep 3 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR with Leonie Smith, @claregs.bsky.social & @devinasarwatay.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/46cp3bjr
Leonie Smith sits down with Clare Stainthorp and Devina Sarwatay in a podcasting studio.
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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
LIFELANGS: a Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the Island of Ireland. Delighted to be working with amazing colleagues external partners &project friends🙏https://tinyurl.com/lifelangs
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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
@tcddublin.bsky.social‬ @aislingoboyle.bsky.social‬ ‪@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social‬ @lornacarson.bsky.social‬ ‪@driancollen.bsky.social‬ ‪@colinjflynn.bsky.social‬
Generated image of people gathering in countryside beside a lake, pond, and observatory
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
Still photograph of Judith Butler, wearing a black jacket and shirt, and looking into the camera. On the right of the image, white text is displayed saying: "10-Minute Talks / Gender as framework / with Judith Butler FBA
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Antifascism means building counter-power while we are defending our communities by creating spaces of refusal. The challenge is not just to “fight fascism”, but to confront the system that rewards it—and fears only our capacity to live ungovernable. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/05/o...
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One war, many battles: Surveillance, the far-right, and the new war economy - Freedom News
The same logic that obliterates Gaza also demonises migrants in Britain, criminalises dissent, and elevates white nationalist narratives ~ Blade Runner ~ Far-right mobilisation continues across the UK...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
'A day of connection for history postdocs and late-stage PhDs based in Northern Ireland. The programme of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.'
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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Read & Share: Report on the conference "Let's not talk about racism": Why it is hard to talk about and how this affects society in #NorthernIreland Free to down from doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Animated slides of text from the report.
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Disabled activists argue that, given our societal context and the gross devaluing of disabled lives, the Bill as currently constructed would pressure disabled and chronically ill people to choose death for fear of being a burden on their relatives or wider society. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/25/a...
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Assisted Dying Bill: The neoliberal politics of death - Freedom News
The Assisted Dying Bill cleared the House of Commons in the same week the government confirmed its commitment to slashing financial support for disabled and chronically-ill people ~ punkacademic ~ The...
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This was a great event with lots of experience and knowledge sharing🙏👏 thank you for the invitation 🙏
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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Coming up from brilliant colleagues @ucfl-eca.bsky.social online seminar: "An introduction to policy engagement and language research" 5th June at 16.00 (UK time) All welcome, register here: tinyurl.com/32mk9jvf @oliviaglaze.bsky.social @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social @llewelynhopwood.bsky.social
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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Read about our writing retreat thanks to the Landmark Trust Future Schemes. A unique, productive, worthwhile experience. Would thoroughly recommend to any research group. Thank you tinyurl.com/47waat7t
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CLER was delighted to be one of this year’s recipients of Landmark Trust Futures scheme
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Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
@scotunipress.bsky.social continues to grow and evolve, and you can now publish an #OpenAccess textbook via Scottish Universities Press, allowing your students to download and read teaching texts for free. You can find out more via our press release: www.sup.ac.uk/news/scottis...
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Scottish Universities Press unveils new open access textbook programme for 2025 — Scottish Universities Press
We are proud to announce that Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is launching an open access textbook programme, commencing in May 2025. We are now open for textbook proposals from authors affiliated ...
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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Like race and class, gender reproduces power through expectation, repetition and fear. Often, conformity to a gender norm is simply the ‘least punished path’: patriarchy is not fixed, it is enforced. And like all forms of enforced domination, it can be resisted. freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/13/b...
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Beyond binaries: Gender, law and the reproduction of power - Freedom News
As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term “woman” in the E...
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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who came along to the Derry Show &Tell workshop last night! @nwmf.bsky.social @flandec.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social @paulsceeny.bsky.social It rained, but only on the outside! Great conversations on ways of making community learning seen, transportable, and valued!
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
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The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research
Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Places available in Dungannon @midulsterdc.bsky.social free workshop for those providing English classes in communities. Wed 2nd April 2025, 6-8pm. All welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/showtell-d...
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Show&Tell: DUNGANNON workshop for those providing community English classes
Join us for hands-on workshops to improve your community English teaching skills, incorporating plenary talks, networking, and resources.
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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
GREAT evening in Newry with practitioners who provide community English classes! Lots of sharing practices &challenges, and most importantly making connections 🤝 Next one Dungannon! 2nd April 6-8pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/showtell-d...
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Centre Language Education Research, Queen's University Belfast @cler-qub.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Some places still available for workshop this Wed 26 March at Newry. All welcome and free to attend. Come and network over a cup of tea! Share practices & learn some new ones. All welcome! eventbrite.com/cc/showtell-...
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Show&Tell: Community Providers of English Classes
“Show and Tell” is a project with Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre delivering 5 training workshops for groups in NI who provide non-formal English classes to migrants...
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Do you help out in your local community with English classes? Free training workshops around NI. 5 stops: Newry, Dungannon, Belfast, Derry, Lurgan! Come along to share practices&learn some new ones. All welcome! Register here: eventbrite.com/cc/showtell-...
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Show&Tell: Community Providers of English Classes
“Show and Tell” is a project with Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre delivering 5 training workshops for groups in NI who provide non-formal English classes to migrants...
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Do you help out in your local community with English classes? Free training workshops around NI. 5 stops: Newry, Dungannon, Belfast, Derry, Lurgan! Come along to share practices&learn some new ones. All welcome! Register here: eventbrite.com/cc/showtell-...
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Show&Tell: Community Providers of English Classes
“Show and Tell” is a project with Queen’s University Belfast and Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre delivering 5 training workshops for groups in NI who provide non-formal English classes to migrants...
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
headed off to Derry on field trip with great students this week! Experiencing the place, the stories, and meeting people! Spin around Guild Hall&Derry Girls Mural, then to @nwmf.bsky.social for talk on the great work that is happening there ❤️many thanks🙏
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Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Call open! 58th Annual Conference of the British Association for Applied Linguistics invites you to share your research! University of Glasgow 4-6th Sept 2025 Theme: Applied linguistics in the face of global challenges and local needs More info: baal2025.wordpress.com #language #linguistics
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BAAL 2025
British Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference 2025 at the University of Glasgow
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Yecid Ortega (he/his/el) @yecidortega.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Our ARTEM research collective is proudly launching our academic zine today, an interdisciplinary academic and creative outlet available as a way to push other forms of knowledge creation and trade. Feel free to share and reach out if you want to participate in future issues. tinyurl.com/ARTEMZINE
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Síobhra Aiken @siobhraaiken.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Still some places available for this lecture by Caitríona Beaumont on Friday 14th February at 3pm! @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social @qubhistory.bsky.social
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Naomi Petropoulos @n-petropoulos.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Really worthwhile oral history project starting in Belfast. Brilliant collaboration between PRONI and Queen's Univeristy Belfast's @publichistoryqub.bsky.social team with my lovely friend Sinead Burns conducting some interviews. Please share 😊
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If u are in Belfast on Thurs 6th Feb @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social join us for research seminar by Dr Jim Donaghey on Failed States//Creative Resistances- language and word-choice in co-creative research with punks in Belfast, Banda Aceh, and Kosovo. All welcome. 20 College Green, Room G005, 4pm
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Tony Gallagher @tgeducation.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The experience of devoled government in Northern Ireland has been decidely mixed, but there was some hope that restoration a year ago would see a different experience. A new report from @PivotalPPF is a little more sceptical www.pivotalppf.org/cmsfiles/Pub...
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Online event Thurs 23 Jan at 5pm for the Northern Ireland RIG of NALDIC-the subject association for EAL with @JuanaSimpson15 @flanagandeclan6 , Sophie Cocault, Conor Kennedy, @a_sultanturkan & Maria Stewart. Register free: tinyurl.com/bdzj4dn4
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Northern Ireland RIG Introductory webinar: Ready for Take-off - NALDIC
Book your spot here
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Prof Dina Zoe Belluigi @dzbelluigi.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Journey into the exhibit with me - for a quick peek at our showing! #HigherEd #Academia #Marginality
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