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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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
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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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
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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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
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!
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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
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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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
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
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
Professor Shadreck Chirikure explores whether the cosmologies of past advanced civilisations can help us address present challenges. https://bit.ly/43rMb40
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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
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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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...
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
www.cambridge.org
October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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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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
tinyurl.com/46cp3bjr
October 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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
tinyurl.com/46cp3bjr
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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
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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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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
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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...
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...
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August 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/08/05/o...
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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 🤝
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
www.history.ac.uk
August 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
'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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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
Looking forward to seeing you all in September! baal2025.wordpress.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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
Looking forward to seeing you all in September! baal2025.wordpress.com
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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...
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...
June 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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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...
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...
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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...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/25/a...
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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June 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/06/25/a...
This was a great event with lots of experience and knowledge sharing🙏👏 thank you for the invitation 🙏
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
@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
June 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This was a great event with lots of experience and knowledge sharing🙏👏 thank you for the invitation 🙏
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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
@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
May 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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
@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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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
tinyurl.com/47waat7t
CLER was delighted to be one of this year’s recipients of Landmark Trust Futures scheme
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May 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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
tinyurl.com/47waat7t
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@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...
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 ...
www.sup.ac.uk
May 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
@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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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...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/13/b...
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...
freedomnews.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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...
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/13/b...