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Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute Member and Dept of Psychology lecturer Dr Katriona O'Sullivan has been awarded the 2021 Early Career Faculty of Science and Engineering Research Achievement Award and overall recipient of the 2021 Maynooth University Early Career Research Achievement Award .
Date: Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute member Dr Nicola Mountford and Dr Gillian Moran, School of Business, published chapter entitled, 'Please don’t put a price on our lives”: Social media and the contestation of value in Ireland’s pricing of orphan drugs.' in the book 'Healthcare Activism: Markets, Morals, and the Collective Good' edited by Professor Susi Geiger published by Oxford University Press, U.K
Date: Friday, 01 October 2021
The Digital Wealth Project, a collaboration between Maynooth University and Microsoft Education Ireland, has been awarded a Rethink Ireland Education grant of €450,000.The project led by Dr Katriona O’Sullivan, Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute Maynooth University and Microsoft Education Ireland is a school outreach programme which aims to address digital poverty and increase the digital capacity of 135 schools across Ireland.
Date: Monday, 27 September 2021
Publication by Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute member Dr Ana María Sánchez Rodríguez in journal 'Disability and Society' entitled 'Disability-inclusive development: a postcolonial analysis in Lao PDR'
Date: Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Dr Katriona O’Sullivan, Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute member and Dept of Psychology Lecturer, appeared on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, 7th September 2021 to discuss the Leaving Certificate, CAO system and possible reforms
Date: Friday, 10 September 2021
Dr Emma Smith, Postdoctoral Researcher with the Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute and Department of Psychology publishes Editorial as Editor in Chief of Assistive Technology: The Official Journal of RESNA entitled, 'Assistive technology research: Evidence for a complex and growing field'.
Date: Friday, 10 September 2021
New Publication by Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute Member Dr A. Jamie Saris entitled 'The dialectics of heroin and methadone in Ireland' in the Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine.
Date: Thursday, 02 September 2021
Publication by Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute co-directors Professor Delia Ferri, Professor Mac MacLachlan, ALL member Dr Joanne McVeigh and Dr Hasheem Mannan in MDPI Open Access journal Disabilities entitled, 'Strengthening the Participation of Organisations of Persons with Disabilities in the Decision-Making of National Government and the United Nations: Further Analyses of the International Disability Alliance'
Date: Wednesday, 04 August 2021
New Publication in Assistive Technology: The Official Journal of RESNA, entitled, ‘Empirical research and available data on Assistive Technology for persons with disabilities in Malawi: a review’, by Assisting Living and Learning (ALL) Institute members Ikenna D. Ebuenyi, Emma M. Smith, Alister Munthali, Malcolm ‘Mac’ MacLachlan and Juba Kafumba and Monica Z. Jamali-Phiri.
Date: Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Dr Katriona O’Sullivan, Member of the ALL Institute and Dept. of Psychology Lecturer, has been invited by Minister Simon Harris TD, to have her project ‘STEM Skills Passport for Inclusion’ spotlighted at the ‘HER STEM Skills an Expert “Think-In” for Action’ hosted by the Women in Science and Technology (WITS).
Date: Wednesday, 30 June 2021