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What a performance!
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The First Minister and Junior Minister visited a Crescendo performance in Good Shepherd Primary School on 29 May 2024.
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Minister Gordon Lyons visited a rehearsal of the Crescendo team on 14 May 2024.
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Date: 9/05/2024
Time: 9:00AM - 1:00PM
Location: BMRI, Stellenbosch, or Teams
Category: Conference / Symposium
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Date: 14/05/2024
Time: 11:00AM - 3:00PM
Location: Witwatersrand, or Teams
Category: Conference / Symposium
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A New PhD opportunity with QUB Innovation Zones and National Museums NI has been released. The project is an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship with National Museums NI.
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Recently the Common Health Assets (CHA) project team met in Belfast to consolidate learning so far, as they head into the third and final year of the project.
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Pupils from Belfast Model School for Girls and Belfast Boys’ Model School visited Queen’s during this year's annual Festival.
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Queens University and Ukraine Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University are working together to develop a new educational course for school leaders and teachers.
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Junyi Wang writes: I have just started my PhD at Queen’s University, conducting a pilot study of the Crescendo music and social learning programme in China.
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The Innovation Zones welcomed colleagues from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and the Tallaght community recently to explore North South collaborations focused on supporting children, young people and their families.
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The Common Health Assets (CHA) project team and the Innovation Zones team welcomed our CHA community led organisation (CLO) partners to a stakeholder workshop based at Queen’s.
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Members of the Ulster Orchestra played along with scores of school children at the Crescendo concert in the Ulster Hall on 13 June.
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The QUB Innovation Zones team welcomed the Ulster Orchestra’s staff to QUB SSESW to exchange thoughts on how Crescendo research is evidencing improvements in pupil's musical, social and emotional development.
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In March 2023, the Common Health Assets project team celebrated good news when their protocol paper was accepted for publication in BMJ Open.
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A new book has been published featuring research on the Crescendo primary school music education and social learning programme.
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Young people from Belfast’s Shankill have been telling the story of how they want their lives to be.
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It was an action packed agenda for the Common Health Assets research team when they met for their first in person meeting at the Yanus Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University, 9 and 10 May 2022
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The Crescendo just keeps building...
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Queen’s University Belfast and Colin Neighbourhood Partnership (CNP) are collaborating on a number of projects through Queen’s Innovation Zones, including Common Health Assets (CHA).
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Jill Mulholland has started an interdisciplinary PhD across the School of Nursing and Midwifery and School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work.
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Dozens of news outlets have recently reported on the Common Assets project, the UK’s largest study on the health benefits of community groups and organisations.
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Crescendo has received funding from two new funders. Both projects will see Crescendo increase its evidence base, social impact and scale.
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NIHR awards £1.5m in funding to project assessing the impact of community led organisations on health.
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Funding has been secured for a PhD looking at 'Social Prescribing'.
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Crescendo conference marks Children's Mental Health Week 2021
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The Innovation Zones team has been working alongside Greater Shankill Children and Young People Zone in their long-term commitment to provide bespoke wrap around support to the children and young people of the Shankill community.
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Innovation Zones and the wider Crescendo committee establish new links with University of Glasgow and top Scottish Orchestras.
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The Innovation Zones teams at QUB, led by Dr Liam O’Hare, have secured an ESRC Impact Acceleration grant to develop a branding and marketing strategy.