The ALL Institute is pleased to share that Dr. Emma Smith, Postdoctoral Researcher, has been awarded a highly prestigious Marie Sklowdowska Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (approximately EUR185 000 over 2 years) from the European Commission Horizon 2020 program. Dr. Smith will receive funding to work with Prof. Mac MacLachlan on a project called ARISE, which aims to develop a framework for resilient and inclusive systems to enable participation in society through the use of assistive technologies. In the course of her fellowship, Dr. Smith also will be working closely with the European Disability Forum.
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ToggleALL Institute member, Dr. Emma Smith, has been awarded the highly prestigious Marie Sklowdowska Curie Actions Individual Fellowship
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4th ALL Symposium with Guest Speaker Prof. Peter Blanck
4th ALL Symposium, ‘Building an Inclusive Society through Accessibility: International Perspectives, Challenges and Lessons’.
Date: Thursday, 21 November 2019
Maynooth University to lead €21 million European Commission funded SHAPES health research project – the largest ever Horizon 2020 health grant led by an Irish university
Maynooth is one of 36 partners across 14 European countries in the SHAPES consortium The SHAPES acronym stands for Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in supportive Systems and aims to foster a positive approach to ageing
Date: Monday, 11 November 2019
Launch of SHAPES project
SHAPES- Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in supportive Systems
Date: Monday, 11 November 2019
Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez, CAROLINE Fellow and ALL member at LSHTM, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Anna participated in the ICED International Conference on Disability Inclusive Development
Date: Wednesday, 06 November 2019
ALL Member, Ciarán Mac an Bhaird has New Article Published in 'Teaching Mathematics and its Applications'
Article is Entitled 'Mathematics instructors’ awareness of accessibility barriers for disabled students'
Date: Thursday, 31 October 2019
Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez, CAROLINE Fellow and ALL member, participated at the Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum (SVRI) 2019, Cape Town, South Africa
Ana María presented in the panel on “People with disabilities and gender-based violence programmes”
Date: Friday, 25 October 2019
4th ALL Symposium-Building an Inclusive Society through Accessibility: International Perspectives, Challenges and Lessons
Building an Inclusive Society through Accessibility: International Perspectives, Challenges and Lessons. Symposium to be held on 21/11/19
Date: Monday, 21 October 2019
Launch of College Connect Programme
College Connect is a new project supporting access, and widening participation of groups under-represented in higher education in the MEND cluster
Date: Wednesday, 16 October 2019
ALL Member, Katriona O'Sullivan has New Article Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society
Article entitled 'Students’ Experiences of the Teaching and Learning of Irish in Designated Disadvantaged Schools'
Date: Sunday, 13 October 2019
3rd ALL Symposium on Sustainable Assistive Technology Provision
11am on 17/10/19 in John Hume Boardroom. All welcome
Date: Friday, 04 October 2019