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Maynooth University ranks 43rd in global Young University Rankings and #1 in Ireland
Tá Ollscoil Mhá Nuad tar éis bogadh suas i Rangú na n-Ollscoileanna Óga atá ag Times Higher Eduction (THE) do na hollscoileanna is rathúla ar domhan.
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
Dr Lynsey Black's article, 'The Pathologisation of Women Who Kill: Three Cases from Ireland', was published in the May issue of the Social History of Medicine.
The article draws on Lynsey's research on women, murder and punishment in Ireland, looking in particular at the discourses of pathology women were subject to. The article examines the cases of three women convicted of murder in Ireland post-1922 and explores how each woman was constructed as pathologised. Using archival materials, the article demonstrates that diagnoses were contingent on notions of gender, morality, dangerousness, and class.
Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2020
The Victorian Curator who railed against Racism and Imperialism
The Victorian curator who railed against racism and imperialism - article in www.independent.ie by Dr. Ciárán Walsh, Graduate of Dept of Anthropology
Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Congratulations to Eamonn McCauley on Successfully Defending his PhD Thesis
Team Teaching for Inclusion: A Critical Analysis of Disability Discourse in Irish Post-Primary Schools.
Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Professor Tobias Lock gave evidence at the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Ad Hoc Committee on a Bill of Rights on 18 June.
He spoke about ways of incorporating human rights at the devolved level in the United Kingdom, which is under consideration by the Committee. Professor Lock drew on his experience as a member of the Scottish First Minister’s Advisory Group on Human Rights Leadership and reported on the findings of that group. He also answered questions by Committee members concerning different types of human rights, constitutional limitations for the Northern Ireland Assembly as well as their judicial reviewability.
Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Dr Louise Kennefick authors an article with Howard League for Penal Reform, entitled: "Verdict as a site of social (in)justice: more groundwork for a multivalent approach"
This article claims that the bivalent verdict amounts to a persisting structural injustice in our contemporary criminal justice system, with no convincing modern justification, owing to the misrecognition of the offender collective through status subordination. It argues that reconstructing the verdict as a multivalent mechanism would recognise more substantively the innate worth of persons and their relevant moral and social context, (in addition to their proportionate responsibility for the criminal act they committed), thereby advancing justice at the site of verdict.
Date: Monday, 22 June 2020
PhD Candidate, Ethan Shattock, received award for Highly Commendable Paper at the University of Leicester Postgraduate Law Research Conference
On 16 June PhD candidate at the Department of Law, Ethan Shattock presented his research on the ‘technology and human rights’ panel at the University of Leicester Postgraduate Law Research Conference. His paper was entitled “Beyond Freedom of Expression: A Human Rights Perspective on Electoral Disinformation Under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)”. Ethan received the award for “Highly Commendable Paper”.
Date: Friday, 19 June 2020
UNODC Education for Justice and Maynooth University collaborate to host online roundtables on restorative justice pedagogy
From criminology, psychology and political studies degrees, to university courses for the social workers, lawyers and schoolteachers of the future, restorative justice and restorative practice increasingly appear on higher education curricula. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Education for Justice (E4J) initiative recognises the importance of restorative justice, and has developed a module to promote and strengthen its teaching in higher education institutions globally.
Date: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
MU Literary & Debating Society
MU Literary & Debating Society - Liferaft Debate March 2020
Date: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
AIRO have jointly developed a new COVID- 19 dashboard
AIRO have jointly developed a new COVID- 19 dashboard along with OSI and CSO Ireland.
Date: Sunday, 14 June 2020