Summary of the impact

Sustained research on citizenship issues by Professor David Archard and Dr Jeremy Watkins has:

• Provided the intellectual content for a Philosophy for Citizenship course which has been undertaken by hundreds of children in schools across Northern Ireland since its inception in January, 2012;
• Improved children's intellectual and interpersonal skills by promoting better quality reasoning, listening and oral communication;

and,

• Delivered a sustainable model of citizenship education that is particularly tailored to the needs of post-conflict societies and that has been embedded in a number of teacher training courses in Northern Ireland.