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<a href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/Newsletters/ARK-Newsletter-2-2024.html">View it in your browser</a>!</div><br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" align="center" id="templateContainer" style="border: 1px solid #DDDDDD;background-color: #FDFDFD;"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateHeader" style="background-color: #FFFFFF;border-bottom: 0;"> <tr>  <td class="headerContent" > <a href="http://www.ark.ac.uk"><img src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/ARK_2018.png" alt="INCORE e-Newsletter" border="0" align="left" style="padding-left:15px; padding-top:15px;" ></a> </td>  </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateBody"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="bodyContent" style="background-color: #FDFDFD;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top"><div> <div> <div> <h2 style="font-size:20px; color:#006;"><strong>ARK E-Type Newsletter </strong><br /> <span style="font-size:12px;;color:#696969;">Issue No: 2 - Feb/2024</span></h2></div> <div> <ul><ul> <li><a href="#659" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">ARK Ageing PhD opportunities  </a></li> <li><a href="#654" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">Social Care in the Four Nations of the UK  </a></li> <li><a href="#658" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">International Love Data Week  </a></li> <li><a href="#656" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">International Day of Social Justice  </a></li> <li><a href="#657" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">ARK and social media  </a></li> <li><a href="#655" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">About ARK  </a></li> </ul></ul> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; "> <strong><span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); "> <h2>Introduction</h2> </span></strong>Welcome to the February edition of the ARK newsletter. In this edition, find out about our passion for data, and how to find us on social media. Please remember to follow us!<br /> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 100%; text-align: right; "> <span style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); "> <br /></span> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <a name="659" style="color: #006;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;"></a><h2>ARK Ageing PhD opportunities</h2> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> Two PhD opportunities are now available with the ARK Ageing Programme, based at Queen's University Belfast. The closing date for both studentships is 11 March 2024. The projects are:<ul><li><a href="https://www.britishgerontology.org/DB/jobs-2/queens-university-belfast-studentship-taking-medicines-at-home-exploring-me" target=blank">Taking Medicines at Home: Exploring medication use as a socially embedded phenomenon</a></li><li><a href="https://www.britishgerontology.org/DB/jobs-2/queens-university-belfast-studentship-developing-a-human-rights-approach-to" target=blank">Developing a human rights approach to medication management in residential care for older people</a></li></ul <br /><br /><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/projects/ARK_Ageing_Programme">Find out more</a> <div style="text-align: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; "> <a href="#top" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">top</a> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; height: auto; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><img align="right" alt="Back to top" height="8" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/top-arrow.gif" /></span> </div> </div> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <a name="654" style="color: #006;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;"></a><h2>Social Care in the Four Nations of the UK</h2> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> We were delighted to welcome Professor Catherine Needham (University of Birmingham) to Belfast on 31st January. Professor Needham was invited by ARK to provide a lecture on <i>Social Care in the Four Nations of the UK</i>.<br><Br>In her lecture, Professor Needham discussed how crises in social care are portrayed differently across the four nations of the UK. She also highlighted the difficulties of focusing on an outcome based approach in social care along with the nation with the most active policies in social care.<br><br>A recording of the lecture, as well as the Powerpoint slides are available on the <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/publications/seminars" target=blank>ARK website</a>. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/publications/seminars">Find out more</a> <div style="text-align: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; "> <a href="#top" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">top</a> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; height: auto; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><img align="right" alt="Back to top" height="8" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/top-arrow.gif" /></span> </div> </div> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <a name="658" style="color: #006;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;"></a><h2>International Love Data Week</h2> <img align="left" alt="International Love Data Week" border="1" hspace="5" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/data3.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" title="International Love Data Week"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> International Love Data Week falls on 12-16 February 2024. The aim of the week is to celebrate data, and to raise awareness about the importance of data science and management.<Br><Br> ARK are passionate about data and its accessibility to inform policy and debate. On our website, you can find the datasets and tables of results from our three public attitudes surveys - <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/" target=blank>Northern Ireland Life & Times</a>, <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ylt/" target=blank>Young Life & Times, and <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/klt/" target=blank>Kids' Life & Times</a> - and much more. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/surveys/overview">Find out more</a> <div style="text-align: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; "> <a href="#top" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">top</a> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; height: auto; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><img align="right" alt="Back to top" height="8" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/top-arrow.gif" /></span> </div> </div> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <a name="656" style="color: #006;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;"></a><h2>International Day of Social Justice</h2> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> 20 February is World Justice Day. Data from recent ARK surveys show that: <ul><li>38% of respondents to the <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/2022" target=blank>2022 Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) survey</a> said that they had experienced financial hardship in the previous 12 months.</li> <li>43% of respondents to the 2022 NILT survey agreed or strongly agreed that Northern Ireland is a place where people respect each other.</li> <li>33% of 16 year olds taking part in the <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ylt/2023" target=blank>2023 Young Life and Times survey</a> agreed or strong agreed that refugees and asylum seekers are not respected in Northern Ireland.</li></ul> <div style="text-align: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; "> <a href="#top" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">top</a> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; height: auto; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><img align="right" alt="Back to top" height="8" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/top-arrow.gif" /></span> </div> </div> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <a name="657" style="color: #006;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;"></a><h2>ARK and social media</h2> <img align="left" alt="ARK and social media" border="1" hspace="5" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/social media.jpg" vspace="5" width="200" title="ARK and social media"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> Did you know you can keep updated on ARK news across different platforms?<br>You can follow us on:<ul> <li><b>Twitter/X:</b> <a href="https://twitter.com/ARK_info" target=blank>https://twitter.com/ARK_info</a></li> <li><b>Facebook:</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AccessResearchKnowledge" target=blank>https://www.facebook.com/AccessResearchKnowledge</a></li> <li><b>LinkedIn:</b> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ark-ni/" target=blank>https://www.linkedin.com/company/ark-ni/</a></li> </ul> You can catch up on all our past events on our YouTube Channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ARKNIinfo" target=blank>https://www.youtube.com/user/ARKNIinfo</a> <div style="text-align: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; "> <a href="#top" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">top</a> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; height: auto; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><img align="right" alt="Back to top" height="8" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/top-arrow.gif" /></span> </div> </div> </div> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> <a name="655" style="color: #006;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;"></a><h2>About ARK</h2> <div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family: Verdana;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;"> ARK is Northern Ireland's social policy hub. Established in 2000 by researchers at Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University, its primary goal is to increase the accessibility and use of academic data and research. Most of our dissemination is via our website at <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk">www.ark.ac.uk</a>, which is divided into five main areas: <ul><li><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/surveys/overview">Surveys</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/projects/overview">Projects</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/resources/overview">Resources</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/publications/overview">Publications</a></li><li><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/events">Events</a></li></ul> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk">Find out more</a> <div style="text-align: right; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 150%; "> <a href="#top" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">top</a> </div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; display: inline; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; height: auto; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial;"><img align="right" alt="Back to top" height="8" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/top-arrow.gif" /></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" valign="top">  <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="600" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: #FDFDFD;border-top: 0;"> <tr> <td valign="top" class="footerContent"> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="60"> <h2>Contact us</h2> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td > <div align="center"> <strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://www.ark.ac.uk"> www.ark.ac.uk</a>           <strong>Email:</strong> <a href="mailto:info@ark.ac.uk">info@ark.ac.uk</a></br> <p ><strong>Follow us on social media</strong></p> <p align="center"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/ARK_info/323689020450" target="_blank"><img alt="Facebook" border="0" height="32" hspace="5" src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/FaceBook_32x32.png" width="32" /></a>   <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ARK_info" target="_blank"><img alt="Twitter" border="0" height="32" hspace="5" src="https://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/X1-1.png" width="32" /></a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ark-ni/" target="_blank"><img alt="Linkedin" border="0" height="32" hspace="5" src="https://www.ark.ac.uk/img/Newsletter/Linkedin.png" width="32" /></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"> <div class="footerContent" align="left"> <a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk"><img src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/qub.jpg" /></a> </div> </td> <td> <div class="footerContent" align="right"> <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk"><img src="http://www.ark.ac.uk/img/uulogo.jpg" /></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" valign="middle" id="utility" style="background-color: #FDFDFD;border-top: 1px solid #F5F5F5;"><div style="color: #707070;font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12px;line-height: 150%;text-align: center;">You may <a href="mailto:info@ark.ac.uk?subject=Unsubscribe ARK e-Newsletter" style="color: #a72323;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none;">unsubscribe</a> from this newsletter </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </center> <div> </body> </html>

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