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Research Win on the SFI/Irish Aid Sustainable Development Goal Challenge
Research Win on the SFI/Irish Aid Sustainable Development Goal Challenge
Date: Thursday, 28 September 2023
Welcome New Students
The Class of 2026 get stuck in! We wish new students on the BSoc Community & Youth Work programme @CYW_MU and all DAPPSS students the very best for the new academic year! #communitywork #youthwork #socialjustice #equality #professionaleducation
Date: Thursday, 28 September 2023
Professor Michael Doherty presents paper at the 46th Dublin Economics Workshop
Prof Doherty presented a paper on upcoming developments in terms of employment relations regulation, looking at issues of collective bargaining, employment status and bogus self-employment, and remote work.
Date: Thursday, 28 September 2023
Maynooth Centre for European Law welcomes Judge Dean Spielmann and the Honourable Ms Justice Niamh Hyland
The launch of the Maynooth Centre for European Law (MCEL) will take place on Wednesday October 4th at Renehan Hall, St Patricks College, South Campus, Maynooth University.
Date: Wednesday, 27 September 2023
IVI leads UN General Assembly Digital Health Symposium
Groundbreaking event in New York led by Ireland’s Maynooth University and co-sponsored by corporates Orion Healthcare, Zebra Technologies, VNS Health, Northwell Health and CHIME
Date: Tuesday, 26 September 2023
International Conference to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Biotechnology Directive organised by academics at Maynooth University and the University of Sheffield on 14th and 15th September 2023
This two-day conference featured topical papers and discussions which assessed the role, operation, and impact of the Biotechnology Directive 25 years after its adoption, including assessing its legal, ethical, and social implications for the patentability of biotechnological inventions.
Date: Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Review of book entitled "Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: when life becomes craft" by Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller
"This is the best ethnographic monograph on the changing dimensions of Irish society that has been written by anthropologists in the last twenty years. It should serve as a model of engaged, responsive, respectful, and beneficent ethnography, not just for scholars of and in Ireland, but also for a global anthropology that seeks a better public role. Its explicit comparative framework, interlaced with remarkably empathetic appreciation of the project’s participants’ everyday and daily lives, reminds us that anthropologists can contribute often and well to the social sciences and the humanities." Thomas Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1-28. © Royal Anthropological Institute 2023.
Date: Monday, 25 September 2023
Announcing Our Visiting Scholar: Marloes Vrolijk
Join us in welcoming Marloes Vrolijk, our new visiting scholar for the Fall semester. A PhD student from Antwerp University, Marloes brings expertise in citizenship education and a passion for teaching.
Date: Saturday, 23 September 2023
Our Latest Blog - Lifelong Learning and the Older Learner (and Teacher)
In memory of our dear colleague, the late Anne Roundtree. The current understanding of Lifelong Learning has become conflated with work related skills and employment opportunities. It’s part of a wider ‘education to service the economy’ discourse. This way of thinking fails to take into account adult students at all life stages who return to learning for any number of reasons that have nothing to do with employability or future skills.
Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
St Francis Hospice Coffee Morning – Wed 20th Sept
Coffee Morning – Wed 20th Sept, in aid of St Francis Hospice which also marked the retirement of our dear friend and colleague Michael Kenny.
Date: Friday, 22 September 2023