A blog from the Northern Ireland Assembly Research and Information Service

Governance Blog Archive

Here you will find an archive of Governance Blog articles published before 1 May 2022, divided into their relevant categories.

Brexit

Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit goods trade

May 25, 2021

This blog article complements the Assembly Research and Information Paper Internal Market Act 2020 and the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland. It explains Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements. including how…

Dispute resolution under the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol

March 23, 2021

The Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol is part of the Withdrawal Agreement, and was designed to deal with the effect of the UK’s exit from the EU on the island of…

Democracy and Government

The representation of women in public life: where does Northern Ireland stand (now)?

March 8, 2017

Please note that more up-to-date statistics on gender representation can be found in the RaISe research paper Who Runs Northern Ireland? A Summary of Statistics Relating to Gender and…

The Northern Ireland Assembly and the School Curriculum

October 17, 2016

The Assembly Education Service engaged with more than 80,000 young people during the last mandate. The aim of this work is to inform young people about the work of…

Election 2016: An analysis of results and transfers

October 12, 2016

Yesterday, we published a post which examined the 2016 Assembly election results in terms of candidates and voter turnout. This post, the second in the Election 2016 series, will…

Justice

Seen but not heard: children ‘sexting’

September 7, 2016

Rapid technological changes have caused the norms and methods of children’s sexual behaviour to evolve. Much screen-based media use now involves accessing interactive social networking sites such as Facebook…

Planning

Statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Ten reasons to be cautious about using R to support decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic

May 19, 2020

The risk is that a complicated number is released without context into a world that doesn’t know how to think about it. The ‘R number’ that most of…

Where are we on the COVID-19 curve? (Update at 16 April 2020)

April 17, 2020

This is a follow-up to the recent blog article, ‘Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?. The previous article used three day averages for COVID-19 deaths to compare…

Where are we on the COVID-19 curve?

April 10, 2020

Most of us by now understand the need to ‘flatten the curve’ in order to reduce the number of overall cases of COVID-19 and to keep the peak…