On this page, you will find all the work we have done that is specifically related to Brexit - whether the referendum vote, the Brexit negotiations process, the Withdrawal Agreement and Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, or the post-Brexit constitutional settlement in Northern Ireland, insofar as impacted by Brexit.
Colin Murray and Ben Warwick from the PI team will be in Belfast next Thursday, presenting the team’s work on citizenship in Northern Ireland post-Brexit.
The event will be held in the Moot Court (School of Law, QUB) and is free to attend. Please register at this link to secure a seat: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizenship-in-northern-ireland-after-brexit-tickets-84897357281
PI team member, Clare Rice, recently wrote for the DCU Brexit Institute blog.
‘Brexit has provided a fundamental underpinning to this election, with parties mobilising around the language of ‘Leave’ and ‘Remain’ as opposed to purely constitutional lines.’
The full article is available here.
The PI team have been busy in the lead up to the General Election and in the days since, offering insight and analysis across a range of platforms.
Professor O’Donoghue has appeared on BFM Radio Malaysia and Today FM (Ireland).
Clare Rice has been involved in BBC coverage, appearing on Inside Politics, Sunday Politics, Good Morning Ulster, Evening Extra, Newsline, Newsnight, and the BBC News Channel.
Follow us on Twitter (@performidentity) for all the latest updates and links to catch up on our analyses!
The Performing Identities research team have been conducting interviews in Northern Ireland, exploring the themes of identity and Brexit. So far, we have held workshops in Belfast and Derry-Londonderry, where we asked participants to join us in person for a conversation.
Now, we are issuing a final call for participants to take part in a short, anonymous interview via Skype with us, from anywhere in Northern Ireland.
To compensate you for your time, all participants will have the choice of receiving either a £20 National Book Token or a £20 Amazon voucher!
Please fill in this form to register your interest, and we will be in touch with you to arrange a suitable time to talk – https://forms.gle/Ms991SLDFBStQ5k76
If you have any queries, please email PerformingIdentitiesProject@gmail.com or contact us on Twitter (@performidentity).
We look forward to hearing from you!
The Performing Identities research team will be soon holding workshops that will build an understanding of what it means to be Northern Irish. At the workshops we will explore lots of different ideas on identity so we are looking for people from any background who are prepared to discuss this. The workshops will feed into research and creative materials and you will have a say in what the most useful materials are, and how you would like them to be designed.
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One strand of the ESRC funded research we are undertaking involves interview and focus group research within Northern Ireland. The research is designed to be participatory and allow participants a central role in the design of the questions, the way they are answered, and the outcomes of the project.
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Prof Aoife O’Donoghue was on the BBC Breakfast couch on the 31st August explaining why prorogation of Parliament will so limit the room for manoeuvre of those opposed to the UK Governments plans. She discussed the prospects of the various legal challenges to prorogation as well as the Parliamentary processes that might result.
Colin Murray and Sylvia de Mars travelled to sunny Lincoln to present ongoing work to academic colleagues. Their papers were titled:
Here is Sylvia inaction!
The research team support the inquiry of the EU Scrutiny Committee as they seek to understand how EU law will be monitored and assessed within the UK after Brexit.