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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
Maynooth University congratulates 18 recipients of Irish Research Council New Foundations Awards
Maynooth University is delighted to congratulate the 18 recipients of the New Foundations Awards announced by the Irish Research Council.
Date: Thursday, 07 May 2020
The Social Science Research Network’s May 2020 worldwide law department rankings are out.
Maynooth University Department of Law was ranked at 67, the highest ranked in Ireland.
Date: Thursday, 07 May 2020
Ethnographic Film Festivals go Online!
A doctoral student from the MU’s Anthropology Department, Matjaz Pinter, has been helping the German International Film Festival (GIEFF) to make the transition from a film festival, traditionally held at the University town of Göttingen, to an online streaming event.
Date: Tuesday, 05 May 2020