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Are you good at sharing what you know with your co-workers?
When employees are reluctant to share knowledge, this can be disheartening for fellow workers and damaging for organisations, writes Dr Tatiana Andreeva, School of Business
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
'The little Irish wonder': Ireland's greatest unknown athlete
A record-breaking Co Kildare runner Thomas Conneff was dubbed 'the speedy of Erin’, writes Dr Ciarán Reilly
Monday, 10 August 2020
Why have over a million Irish people downloaded the Covid-19 app?
Social and community bonds in Ireland remain strong and people see the app as an individual and collective response to the pandemic, writes Dr Aphra Kerr, Department of Sociology
Tuesday, 04 August 2020
Can you sue your robot?
Creating a legal personality and classification for robots raises a number of interesting issues, writes Dr David Cowan, Department of Law
Monday, 27 July 2020
From Booterstown to Burma: The Irish Buddhist tried for sedition in 1911
The tale of the Irishman who became a hugely popular Buddhist opponent of Christian missionaries is explored by Dr Laurence Cox, Department of Sociology
Monday, 20 July 2020
Uncovering the development processes of Eumycetoma
MU scientists have made important findings on a disfiguring fungal disease that affects people in tropical countries, writes Prof Kevin Kavanagh, Department of Biology
Wednesday, 15 July 2020
How patents will affect pandemic vaccines and treatments
Patents can have many unforeseen consequences for the provision of urgent medicines and tests needed to fight Covid-19, writes Dr Aisling McMahon, Department of Law
Tuesday, 07 July 2020
We're all Big Brother now
From dashcams to running apps, surveillance has been inadvertently privatised by the collective actions of individuals, writes Dr David Cowan, Department of Law
Monday, 29 June 2020
Unlocking the mysteries of the SARS-CoV-2 sugary-coated glycan shield
High performance computing has unveiled the atomic structure of the coronavirus’s spike protein, and crucially, its strengths and weaknesses, writes Dr Elisa Fadda, Department of Chemistry and Hamilton Institute
Thursday, 18 June 2020
The difference between feelings and beliefs around the pandemic
If we want to understand the populace, we need to concentrate on the feelings around the crisis and not the so-called beliefs, writes Prof Mary Corcoran, Department of Sociology
Wednesday, 10 June 2020