Impact
This case study details impacts arising from the work of Mairs Dyer and Baker. In research-led civic projects such as Women’s Vision from Across the Barricades (WVAB) and Traditions in Transition (TiT), Mairs Dyer and Baker worked collaboratively with marginalized social groups, leading to impacts in:
- Enabling cultural understanding amongst marginalized groups in Northern Ireland, encouraging them to think critically and reflexively about how they are perceived in the media.
- Informing debate between and across marginalized republican and loyalist communities in Northern Ireland about the role of the media and how they might find their own voice and engage in their own media activism.
- Cultivating the autonomous self-expression of working-class women and men in loyalist and republican North Belfast by providing them with key media literacy skills and technical production skills.
- Engendering the political empowerment of hitherto marginalized groups by convincing them that they have a right to occupy the public realm and engage in a public discourse aimed at addressing matters of social and political importance in their locale, as well as in the broader political public sphere.