INDEX (Cyprus)

INDEX Research and Dialogue was established in 2005 as a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the production of quality research, interventions in the policy-making environment and the development of project work around cultural, social and political issues arising out of the accession of Cyprus to the EU as well as efforts to resolve the continuing division of the island.

Initiated by academics from a variety of different institutions on the island the organization encourages inter-disciplinary collaboration and an innovative approach to issues of public concern. Recent work undertaken has included the Study of the Information Environment of the Referendum in Cyprus & an Outline of International Referendum Standards’ (2004-2005); ‘ Euraction – Citizens Acting for Europe (EC Promotion of Active European Citizenship, 2006-2007); Policy and Practice – Human Trafficking in Cyprus (2007).


Dr Yiouli Taki is a Senior Researcher and Project Manager for Index as well as a Visiting Professor at Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus. She is currently engaged as a Senior Researcher on ‘Policy and Practice: Human Trafficking in Cyprus’ (2007 – on-going); she is the Project Co-ordinator on EU funded projects in active citizenship. She was the Senior Researcher on the ‘Study of the Information Environment of the Referendum in Cyprus & an Outline of International Referendum Standards’, the co-ordinator of a major information campaign on the Annan Plan in Cyprus and co-author of numerous publications in that context (2003-04).




University of Ulster (Northern Ireland)

Arthur Aughey is Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster and a former member of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council and the British Council (Northern Ireland Committee). He has published widely on Northern Ireland politics, British Conservatism and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. His recent publications include Nationalism Devolution and the Challenge to the United Kingdom State (Pluto Press 2001) and Northern Ireland Politics: After the Belfast Agreement (Routledge 2005). Recently he has examined the diverse elements of the contemporary English Question in R Hazell (ed) The English Question (MUP 2006) and his own book The Politics of Englishness was published by MUP in April 2007. He is also writing jointly with John Oakland a major text for international students on Irish Civilisation which will be published in 2008.