SLSS Hub welcome members of the HEA for site visit.

Members of Stable Lives Safer Streets Research Hub (SLSS Hub) met with members of the North-South Research Programme team and members of UL Research Office on campus for a site visit. Dr Catherine Naughton (UL), Dr Colm Walsh (QUB), Melanie Stone (CES), Prof Seán Redmond (UL) and Majella McCloskey (CES) met with the HEA Representatives on campus at the University of Limerick.  The meeting provided a wonderful opportunity to showcase the work being undertaken by SLSS Hub.

The North-South Research Programme is a collaborative scheme being delivered by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) on behalf of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science (DFHERIS) and the Shared Island Unit at the Department of the Taoiseach. 

Projects from across all disciplines are funded through the programme to focus on delivering an all-island approach to research and innovation. The approach is nuanced by the objectives of the Good Friday Agreement, Sustainable Development Goals, the National Development Plan 2040, and the strategic development of research and higher education. Each funded project is underpinned by the aims of the Shared Island Unit and the NSRP and will serve to strengthen links between higher education institutions, research communities, and researchers across the island of Ireland.

Stable Lives Safer Streets is a north-south hub of scientific excellence to serve intergovernmental and statutory frameworks in the policy area of Youth Crime will enable policy makers, law enforcers and all involved in youth justice to contribute to the research process and will develop a sustainable cross-border approach for evidence building and its use in developing good policy and practice.