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Can ‘virtual reality’ encourage exercise in ‘real nature’?
A study on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as a method for encouraging people to exercise in nature.
Friday, 10 June 2022
Professor Delia Ferri, researchers of the DANCING Project and the Maynooth team of the ReCreating Europe Project participate in the Open Up Museums! Conference in Trento and Rovereto
Prof Delia Ferri and Katie Donnellan presented the findings from the “ReCreating Europe” project research conducted in Maynooth, focusing on barriers to accessing digital cultural content and the experience of vulnerable groups. The research was jointly conducted between 2020 and 2022 by Delia Ferri, Noelle Higgins, Katie Donnellan and Maria Laura Serra
Thursday, 09 June 2022
GENDERACTIONplus: A new Horizon Europe project to advance gender equality in the European Research Area
GENDERACTIONplus: A new Horizon Europe project to advance gender equality in the European Research Area
Wednesday, 08 June 2022
Ireland experts’ red-line on garda facial recognition tech
Dr. Ciara Bracken-Roche, Dr. Elizabeth Ferries, and Olga Cronin at the ICCL author a letter to the Irish Times gaining signatures from experts from 7 universities and 13 NGOs in Ireland. They believe the risks attached to facial recognition technologies are currently too significant to use for policing.
Wednesday, 08 June 2022
Scríobhaithe an Tuaiscirt 1650-1900
Seolfar 'Scríobhaithe an Tuaiscirt 1650-1900' – bunachar inchuardaithe ina bhfuil 220+ beathaisnéis, liostaí saothar, crostagairtí srl. bunaithe ar thráchtas PhD Fintan Keegan – Dé Céadaoin 15 Meitheamh 2022, 13:00.
Tuesday, 07 June 2022
Sociology Success in HEA ‘Shared Island’ research programme
Prof. Aphra Kerr and Prof. John O’Brennan, of the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University, have received €196,962 funding to work with Dr. Paul Kitchin of Ulster University on the YouGaMSI project: Fair Play? Assessing the exposure of young people to gambling marketing through sport on the island of Ireland.
Tuesday, 07 June 2022
New Publication: Healthcare in Latin America
Congratulations to Dr. David García León on his upcoming publication; "Healthcare in Latin America" with a co-authored chapter on Transness and Disability representation in Colombia.
Thursday, 02 June 2022
David Mangan addresses members of EU-wide study on remote work in Ireland
David set out how the Irish government’s proposal (the Right to Request Remote Work Bill) released on 25 January 2022 does not assist in navigating remote work. Instead, he contended, it provides for greater informal grievances at the workplace level.
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Visit our latest Blog on the DIVERSITY Project -Including Migrants through Organisational Development and Programme Planning in Adult Education
The Diversity Project-Including Migrants through Organisational Development and Programme Planning in Adult Education, emerged from the desire of European Adult Education providers to welcome refugees, and provide needs based appropriate adult education
Monday, 30 May 2022
Prof Mary Murphy addresses the Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality
Professor Mary Murphy, Head of the Department of Sociology and Centre for the Study of Politics at Maynooth University, addressed the Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality on 26th May 2022.
Friday, 27 May 2022