At the end the Research Week, Professor Delia Ferri has been awarded Maynooth University Research Achievement Award 2020, which is awarded in consideration of specific achievements over the last 3-5 years. She has also received the 2020 Faculty of Social Science Research Achievement Award. Professor Ferri is a recipient of a European Research Council Consolidator grant for her research project entitled Protecting the Right to Culture of Persons with Disabilities and Enhancing Cultural Diversity through European Union Law: Exploring New Paths (DANCING). She is co-investigator in the project SHAPES, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme and led by the ALL Institute. She also holds a position of co-investigator in the project Rethinking Digital Copyright Law for a Culturally Diverse, Accessible, Creative Europe (ReCreating Europe), funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme and coordinated by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa. She has published several academic publications in multiple languages including a monograph, a textbook, four edited volumes and articles in internationally ranked peer reviewed law journals. Moreover, Delia has taken part into different policy-oriented studies on the rights of persons with disabilities, participatory processes and cultural diversity.
See more information on Professor Ferri's work here.
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THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN MART, DANCING AND INEST: CAPTURING POWERFUL SYNERGIES
The ERC DANCING project is delighted to announce that the collaboration with MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rovereto, Italy) and the iNEST project (in the North East of Italy - a new Ecosystem paradigm) was captured in an exciting video created by Feenish Productions Ltd.
Date: Thursday, 30 January 2025
MU study reveals how poor sleep impacts Parkinson's patients
Sleep problems are very common in people with Parkinson’s disease and are associated with poorer quality of life in patients, new MU research has found.
Date: Thursday, 30 January 2025
PhD researcher Léa Urzel Francil in the ERC DANCING project publishes in the International Journal of Cultural Policy
On 23 January 2025, Léa Urzel Francil, PhD researcher in the School of Law and Criminology and the ALL Institute published an article entitled, “Leveraging EU non-discrimination law to make the cultural and creative sectors more inclusive of professionals with disabilities: socio-legal perspectives”.
Date: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Welcome to Lauren Kane who recently joined the PatentsInHumans team as a Research Assistant
We are delighted to welcome Lauren Kane to PatentsInHumans project who joined the project team as a research assistant in December 2024!
Date: Friday, 17 January 2025
Advancing Perspectives on Wellbeing through Interdisciplinary Research - 4th Anniversary - Ideas in ALL Blog Symposium
Celebrating the Fourth Anniversary of the ‘Ideas in ALL Blog’ in the 2024 Winter Symposium
Date: Friday, 20 December 2024
Horizon Europe conference celebrates MU GoGreenNext initiatives
Horizon Europe (HE) Impact Conference showcased MU's GoGreenNext €6 million smart city project
Date: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
Driving Change: Leadership and Governance for Disability-Inclusive Health Systems
This flexible tool is a framework that can be adapted by each member state to suit their needs both regionally and nationally to help achieve disability-inclusive leadership and governance:.
Date: Monday, 09 December 2024
Prof McMahon hosts IRC funded workshop with Breakthrough Cancer Research on the hospital exemption pathway for the development of ATMPs for patients with ‘unmet need’
This project is run in collaboration with Dr Frances Drummond and Breakthrough Cancer Research and funded by the Irish Research Council New Foundations scheme.
Date: Monday, 02 December 2024
Over 5,000 students benefit from MU's STEM Passport
Maynooth University, in partnership with Microsoft Ireland, Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland and the Department of Education, has published the STEM Passport for Inclusion Impact Report which reveals that over 5,000 students from disadvantaged backgrounds have participated in the initiative to date.
Date: Wednesday, 27 November 2024
Prof. Delia Ferri and Dr. Charles O’Sullivan awarded from the EU’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme
The MU researchers’ work will be conducted as part of an international consortium led by Universitá di Firenze - PIN Arco (Florence, Italy).
Date: Tuesday, 05 November 2024