Joanne Hughes

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Joanne Hughes is Director of the Centre for Shared Education at Queen’s. She is also Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work. Her main research interests are in the role of education in divided societies, and inequalities in education. She has led more than 20 research projects on these themes and has been awarded research grants from the EU, ESRC, British Council, British Academy, Nuffield, UNICEF, Atlantic Philanthropies, and a range of other sources. Current research projects explore longitudinally the effect of inter-group contact between Protestant and Catholic pupils in Northern Ireland, and the development and effectiveness of shared education interventions locally and in international settings, including Israel and the Balkans. In 2016 she was appointed to a prestigious UNESCO Chair on Globalising a Shared Education Model for Improving Intergroup Relations in Divided Societies. In 2019, her work was recognised in a Queen’s Anniversary Prize, awarded to Queen’s University for Shared Education. She has advised Government Officials and Ministers nationally and internationally on the development of policies and interventions to promote good relations in schools. Her research in NI informed the Shared Education Act (2016) and an associated policy framework, and in North Macedonia, the establishment of a state-wide Interethnic Integration in Education Programme, and the development of resources that have been made available to every primary school in the region. In Israel, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo she is working with local NGOs and officials to develop shared education interventions. Relating to research impact, her work is one of 19 Signature Projects supported in Queen’s Social Charter (2017). Recent (2016-present) expert advisor roles include, British Academy, ‘Education in Conflict and Protracted Crises’; Academy of Social Sciences, ‘Making the Case for Education in the UK’- subsequently launched in the House of Lords (2017); Salzburg Global Session 605, ‘Climate Change, Conflict, Health and Education’; Research Review of mid-Sweden University - Chair of the Education Panel. From 2010-2014 she was editor of the prestigious British Educational Research Journal. She served on the Executive Council of the British Educational Research Association from 2012-2017. In 2019 she was appointed to the international Learner Research Network Advisory Board.

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Projects

1 Finished
4 Active

R1080SES: Network for Education in Divided Societies: Development Award AH/T005491/1

Gallagher, T., Duffy, G., Hughes, J., Purdue, O. & Turner, R.

03/07/2019 → …

Project: Research

R1975SES: Developing and researching shared education in Kosovo

Hughes, J., Blaylock, D. & Turner, R.

29/10/2018 → …

Project: Research

R2182EDU: Shared Education - Institute for Children and Young People

Hughes, J., Connolly, P. & Donnelly, C.

16/12/2014 → …

Project: Research

R1904EDU: Parental Participation in peace education: a comparative study

Hughes, J.

01/08/2007 → 17/12/2019

Project: Research

R1719SES: Education in divided societies: Developing and researching shared education in the Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia

Hughes, J., Blaylock, D. & Turner, R.

03/02/2017 → 31/10/2018

Project: Research

Research Output

‘By law, custom or local atmosphere’: Exploring institutional support in school-based contact programmes

Loader, R., Hughes, J. & Furey, A., 12 Mar 2020, In : British Educational Research Journal.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Education in conflict-affected areas: Final report

Gallagher, A., Robinson, G., Hughes, J. & Connolly, D., 10 Apr 2019, London: British Council. 31 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Open Access

PROTOCOL: Protocol for a systematic review: Inter‐school collaborations for improving educational and social outcomes for children and young people

Connolly, P., Hanratty, J., Hughes, J., Chapman, C. & Blaylock, D., 31 Jul 2019, In : Campbell Systematic Reviews. 15, 1-2, 12 p., e1011.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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Circling a conflicted policy landscape: Child poverty and education in Northern Ireland

Gallagher, A., Leitch, M. & Hughes, J., 2018, Resisting Educational Inequality Reframing Policy and Practice in Schools serving vulnerable communities. Gannon, S., Hattam, R. & Sawyer, W. (eds.). Abingdon: Routledge, p. 70-81 12 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)