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Aisling O’Boyle
@aislingoboyle.bsky.social
Reader, Director, Centre for Language Education Research @CLER_QUB Northern Ireland Interests:Language&Education http://bit.ly/2Lzh4tu
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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.
December 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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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.
December 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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...
Online Launch of LIFELANGS A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities
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December 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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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.
December 3, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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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
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.
December 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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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
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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/
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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/
November 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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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!
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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...
Irish Studies Seminar: Hiram Morgan
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
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November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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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. https://bit.ly/43rMb40
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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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...
Documentary Launch| FREE TO LEARN: SOZE UNGAYIBAMBI!| 26 September 2024
YouTube video by Centre for Multilingualism & Diversities Research
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June 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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.
“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990
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October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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.

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October 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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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
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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@tcddublin.bsky.social@aislingoboyle.bsky.social‬ ‪@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social‬ @lornacarson.bsky.social‬ ‪@driancollen.bsky.social‬ ‪@colinjflynn.bsky.social‬
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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“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...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
August 9, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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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...
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...
freedomnews.org.uk
August 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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'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.'
Event announcement! 📣

HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025 🤝

Join HL+ and friends for a day of social opportunities and academic and public history sessions that will bring the ECR community together in Belfast.

Thursday 25th September - 11:15am to 9pm.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
HL+ Network Northern Ireland 2025
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August 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Hello all! The schedule for this years BAAL conference is now available to view on the website. Please note, the timetable is subject to change.
Looking forward to seeing you all in September! baal2025.wordpress.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM