'Changing Lives: Our Specialist Subject'

10 October 2014

A captivating exhibition of ground-breaking work by Queen's University academics is currently on display in Belfast City Hall.

Changing Lives: Our Specialist Subject tells the story of how Queen’s staff are putting Northern Ireland in the national and global spotlight. It outlines the impact that the University is having on the world around it. Exhibits relate to every School at Queen’s, covering poetry to pharmacy and astrophysics to architecture.

Included are details by Professor Phil Scraton of his research on the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 in which 96 men, women and children – Liverpool FC football supporters – lost their lives. It also features an array of objects, including one of the early portable defibrillators developed by Professor Frank Pantridge, along with original handwritten works by Belfast’s first Poet Laureate, Dr Sinead Morrissey.

Also on display are striking images of Queen’s researchers from photographers Christopher Heaney, Paul McErlane, Simon Kirwan, Martyn Boyd and Ivan Ewart.

The exhibition runs until Wednesday, 29 October in the Exhibition Space on the Ground Floor in Belfast City Hall.

Admission is free.

Further information is available from the Communications and External Affairs at Queen’s. Telephone 028 9097 3091 or email m.e.donaghy@qub.ac.uk

Media inquiries to Lisa McElroy, Senior Communications Officer. Tel: 028 9097 5384 or email lisa.mcelroy@qub.ac.uk

 

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