Migrant Muslim women in Northern Ireland: Harnessing Care to Achieve Belonging and Emplacement. Book Seminar by Amanda Lubit PhD

The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and during the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of care, belonging and emplacement. Living in a hostile immigration environment, these women engage with creative forms of care that facilitation connections with one another, their neighbors and organisations. These forms of care will be explored through discussions of ethnic minority associations, religious spaces, and women-only groups. This presentation is based upon the newly published, open access book, Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland: An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking (Berghahn Books). 

War, Workforce, and Policy: The Case for Nurse Staffing Mandates. Research Seminar by Kateryna Ostrovska.

Russia’s full-scale invasion has severely strained Ukraine’s health system, disrupting infrastructure, shifting patient profiles, increasing case complexity, and altering service use, delivery, governance, financing, workforce dynamics, and education. These pressures signal systemic shifts requiring integrated, cross-sector responses rather than fragmented interventions. The aim of this analysis was to build evidence for decision-makers in Ukraine as they consider a nurse-to-patient staffing mandate, drawing primarily on U.S. experience with complementary international evidence to assess applicability under wartime and postwar conditions. The resulting insights on access, safety, costs, and workforce supply may be relevant in other contexts preparing to introduce staffing mandates.