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Dr. Bracken-Roche, Assistant Professor of Criminology, has won an Irish Research Council New Foundations Award for her project entitled 'Big Data Governance: The adoption of surveillance technologies by policing and security agencies'.
Surveillance studies is nascent in Ireland, and limited research has been done on how domestic policing, safety, and security agencies adopt and deploy surveillance technologies. In Ireland, the Civil Defence Force have at least 20 drones, and the Gardaí have been exploring the possibility of purchasing drones since 2015. This project represents a new phase of data collection, network building, and research dissemination on the adoption and use of mobile surveillance technologies, specifically drones and big data practices, by policing agencies.
Date: Thursday, 14 May 2020
Irish Research Council New Foundations Award for Dr Neil Maddox
Dr Neil Maddox of the Department of Law has been awarded a New Foundations Award by the Irish Research Council. The project is titled: Regulating Fertility Preservation Treatment for Children with Cancer: Medical, Legal and Ethical Challenges and will be carried out in collaboration with the Irish Cancer Society.
Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020
Virtual Open Day 2020
Course presentations for the academic year 2020 - 2021 for our Bachelor of Social Science (BSocSc) and Bachelor of Social Science - Community & Youth Work (BSocSc - CYW)
Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Maynooth University Green Campus Green Shoots Newsletter Issue 1
Maynooth University Green Campus editorial team led by Dr Joe Larragy, Department of Applied Social Studies, publishes Green Shoots - Issue 1, Spring Newsletter.
Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Dr Lynsey Black has been awarded a New Foundations Award from the Irish Research Council
Her project, 'Living Borders: Cattle Smuggling on the Ireland/Northern Ireland Border', introduces a novel perspective and historical element to consider the lived experience of borders - the everyday criminality of those who happen to live at national boundaries.
Date: Tuesday, 12 May 2020
New Foundations funding awarded to Dr. Eilish Dillon
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Eilish Dillon, from Maynooth University Department of International Development, has been awarded New Foundations Funding from the Irish Research Council to explore how International Development is communicated to the public. The research, which was designed in collaboration with Dóchas, the Irish Association of Non-Governmental Development Organisations, will look at the appropriateness of the images used and the messages being communicated by International development NGOs.
Date: Monday, 11 May 2020
IRC New Foundations Success for Dr Etain Quigley of the Department of Law
The New Foundations project is called - Juvenile Sexual Offending: An EU Prevalence and Criminal Justice Response Study and will be done it in collaboration with the ACJRD (Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development). The project will be recording prevalence rates and criminal justice responses to juvenile sexual offending across the EU. It will bring together key stakeholders and scholars in the area with a view to facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Date: Monday, 11 May 2020
Milieu 2020
Milieu 2020 - the journal that even the coronavirus could not defeat
Date: Friday, 08 May 2020
Dr Rory Hearne Research Award
Dr Rory Hearne, Department of Applied Social Studies, Research Award.
Date: Friday, 08 May 2020
Maynooth University Law Department was delighted when five members of staff were awarded Irish Research Council New Foundations awards, the highest number of awards for any Law School in the country.
Prof Michael Doherty, Head of Department, was 'especially pleased that this amazing achievement coincides with our 10th birthday. We are the youngest Law Department in Ireland, and started our Criminology programme in 2016. To achieve this funding success, in addition to Professor Ferri's European Research Council Consolidator award in late-2019, clearly marks out Maynooth Law as a leading centre for legal and criminological research in Europe '.
Date: Friday, 08 May 2020