Dr Paula Devine

Dr Paula Devine is Co-Director of ARK (Northern Ireland’s Social Policy Hub), which is a joint initiative across Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University.

She is director of the annual Northern Ireland Life and Times survey, which has been recording public attitudes to key social issues since 1998. Since 2020, the survey has included questions on coercive control, and gender-based violence, exploring public understanding and opinion related to these issues.