Welcome to the Beyond Opposition research project.

Welcome to the Beyond Opposition research project. This project seeks to move ‘Beyond Opposition’ in the face of increasing social polarisation in Ireland, Great Britain and Canada. It considers how recent social and legal changes to sexual and gender rights impact different people within these countries. 

This website provides an overview of the project, its purpose and ethos. You can also see the project outputs including  project publications, conference papers, our newsletter and blogs.  You can also view our virtual exhibition Imperfect Utopias, which gives a real sense of the complexities explored through our research. 

This first phase of the project ran from 2020 to 2022. We collected 973 questionnaires and 161 interviews in Ireland, Great Britain and Canada. These led to findings that are reported in our research outputs. 

The second phase brought together people with a range of different views and perspectives on these issues to take part in discussion groups and artist-led workshops. In these research activities, participants imagined new ways of sharing space that do not aim to overcome difference. These activities informed our virtual exhibition, Imperfect Utopias.If you would like to keep track of project activities and new outputs, sign up to our newsletter here.