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UN International Day of Older Persons, 1st October: Time to Discuss a United Nations Convention on the Rights of Older Persons
Despite the growth and reform of international disability law and policy in recent decades, and the adoption of the UN Principles for Older Persons in 1991, older adults have continued to face ageism and ableism, as well as forms of intersectional discrimination in a digitalising society in the 2020s.
Date: Monday, 16 October 2023
Level 1 and 2 west side of Library now reopen
The West side of the Library is reopened for study and book retrieval.
Date: Monday, 16 October 2023
European Parliment endorsement and WHO Europe policy targeted by our SHAPES project
The SHAPES Project aims to facilitate long-term healthy and active ageing and the maintenance of a high-quality of life, in the community.
Date: Thursday, 12 October 2023
Derbhaile Boyle (BSc Product Design graduate 2022) listed in the Top 5 nationally for the James Dyson Product Design Award
Derbhaile Boyle (BSc Product Design graduate 2022) who designed SNAV, a waterproof earpiece alarm for sea swimmers, has been listed in the Top 5 nationally for the James Dyson Product Design Award.
Date: Wednesday, 11 October 2023
New Event: "The Touch of the Present: Educational Encounters, Aesthetics and the Politics of the Senses" by Prof Sharon Todd
Join us on 10th October for the launch of Sharon Todd's book, "The Touch of the Present." The book delves into the sensory aspects of education. Event starts at 5:15 pm at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy. Come for the insights, stay for the discussion.
Date: Thursday, 05 October 2023
IRC postdoctoral Fellowship - Enterprise Partnership Scheme
Congratulation to Meishan Zhang for receiving the Irish Research Council postdoctoral fellowship award under the Enterprise Partnership Scheme. Zhang will be based at Maynooth University, under the academic supervision of Dr King O'Riain of the Department of Sociology, and partnering with Crosscare.
Date: Tuesday, 03 October 2023
The DANCING Mid-Term Academic Conference: taking stock of the first three years and reflecting on the challenges of interdisciplinarity
With the aim of situating the on-going research within larger scholarly debates, the conference also served the purpose of gathering feedback, positive criticism and input on the remaining research tasks and activities of the DANCING research team.
Date: Tuesday, 03 October 2023
MU researchers awarded IRC enterprise partnership funding
The projects bring together researchers with an enterprise or employer to collaborate on a research project of mutual interest.
Date: Tuesday, 03 October 2023
WELCOME TO THE 2023/2024 MA GROUPS
Dept. of International Development staff are delighted to welcome the new postgrad group for orientation day.
Date: Monday, 02 October 2023
Review of book entitled "Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: when life becomes craft" by Pauline Garvey and Daniel Miller
"This is the best ethnographic monograph on the changing dimensions of Irish society that has been written by anthropologists in the last twenty years. It should serve as a model of engaged, responsive, respectful, and beneficent ethnography, not just for scholars of and in Ireland, but also for a global anthropology that seeks a better public role. Its explicit comparative framework, interlaced with remarkably empathetic appreciation of the project’s participants’ everyday and daily lives, reminds us that anthropologists can contribute often and well to the social sciences and the humanities." Thomas Wilson, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1-28. © Royal Anthropological Institute 2023.
Date: Monday, 25 September 2023