Law PhD student wins Maynooth University’s Postgraduate Community Impact Award

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 17:00

Ms. Siobhán Buckley was awarded the Maynooth University Postgraduate Community Impact Award in 2019. Siobhán is currently a third year PhD student in Criminology in the Department of Law and was nominated for this Award by a fellow postgraduate student.

Siobhán is one of the PhD representatives in the Department, has organised social events for the PhDs, assisted in setting up a WhatsApp group for PhDs and organised a charity bake-off staff and PhD student event in December 2018 raising money for Crumlin Children’s Hospital.

The Postgraduate Awards were introduced in 2019 to recognise the important contribution of individual students and research supervisors to the postgraduate community of Maynooth University. Specifically, the Dean of Graduate Studies introduced the Community Impact Award in recognition of students whose activities have had a demonstrable and positive impact on the postgraduate student community at Maynooth University.