🎊If you are in the neighbourhood today or tomorrow, you are warmly invited to help us celebrate the start of the new Lifelangs Living Observatory North South research project!

✅ Wed 7 Jan - 3pm, Belfast, QUB Canada Room. ISL & BSL 🧏‍♂️

✅Thurs 8 Jan - 4pm, Dublin, Alex Hotel. ISL 🧏‍♀️

✨ LIFELANGS Project Launches – January 2026 ✨

We’re delighted to share details of our in-person launches of the LIFELANGS Living Observatory of Shared Languages & Identities, taking place in Belfast and Dublin in the new year.

These events will mark the beginning of an exciting four-year journey.

🚀 We are recruiting! Join the LIFELANGS Research Team!

3 new opportunities within our LIFELANGS Living Observatory of Shared Languages & Identities:

📚 1 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow position at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
📚 2 Fully-Funded PhD Studentships at @tcdeconomics.bsky.social

Missed our online launch yesterday? Catch up here and learn what our Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities is setting out to do over the next 4 years in this new NSRP-funded Emerging Hub of Excellence. And meet the team! CC available.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Efv...

Welcome to LIFELANGS - A Living Observatory of Shared Languages and Identities on the island of Ireland. An ambitious new large-scale collaborative research project from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @tcddublin.bsky.social, led by @aislingoboyle.bsky.social & @lornacarson.bsky.social.

Register for our Online Launch!

🗓️ Date: Thursday, 4 December 2025
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM (Irish Standard Time)
💻 Location: Online via Microsoft Teams
🧏‍♀️ ISL and BSL interpretation provided

🔗Registration link: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/71e94c...

We're a Strand II Emerging Hubs of Excellence project (2025 – 2029) funded under the North South Research Programme. NSRP is a collaborative scheme under the Government’s Shared Island Fund, administered by the HEA for the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research Innovation and Science.

We'll gather evidence about how people use different languages and live in different cultural settings. With local communities and external partners, we'll collect data on how people of all ages learn and use languages—both 🗣️and🧏‍♀️— in places like homes, schools, workplaces, and social spaces.