Juno Initiatives

     

    Female staff-student meetings

    We have held our first informal female staff-student meeting on 30 April 2019.  Items discussed were IOP Juno, Athena SWAN, gender issues in our department, gender issues in secondary school, career options for women, and perceptions in wider society.

    No meeting was held in the spring of 2020 because of Covid19, but we are planning to have a meeting in the spring of 2021.
     

    Courses and events attended by staff

    • 10 November 2020: Emma Whelan and Grainne Roche attended a training session on "Offering Support in the Aftermath of Rape and Sexual Assault" given by Dublin Rape Crisis Centre.
    • 10 December 2019: academic staff and post-graduate students attended the workshop "GST1: Professional Development & Employability and workshop on Unconscious Bias, Diversity & Inclusion" at Maynooth University, organised by MU Athena SWAN.
    • 19 April 2018: Peter van der Burgt attended "Gender issues in academia: lessons from the H2020 GENERA project" held at DIAS.  More information on the Genera project at https://genera-project.com/.
    • 14 November 2017: Peter van der Burgt attended a Juno Network Ireland Meeting at DCU organised by IOP Ireland.
       

    Seminars by women in physics

    Look at our seminar page for more information about our current seminars.

    Friday 12 March 2021
    Dr. Priscilla Mooney
    NORCE & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
    Title to be announced

    Friday 27 November 2020
    Dr. Jennifer Gaughran
    School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University
    "The Role of Microfluidics in Point-of-Care Diagnostics"

    Friday 21 February 2020
    Dr. Mar Mezcua
    Institute of Space Sciences (ICE,CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
    "Feeding and Feedback from Little Monsters: Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies"
    (Joint seminar with Theoretical Physics)

    Friday 14 February 2020
    Dr. Denise Gabuzda
    Department of Physics, University College Cork
    "Building up a Picture of the Global Magnetic Fields of Relativistic Jets from Active Galactic Nuclei"

    Friday 10 May 2019
    Julianne Kealy
    Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth University
    "Detection of infrasound in the Earth’s upper atmosphere by observing nightglow emissions"

    Friday 15 February 2019
    Dr. Natalie Kaifler
    Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
    "Lidar soundings of the middle atmosphere: Temperature, gravity waves and noctilucent clouds"

    Friday 23 November 2018
    Dr. Donna Rodgers-Lee
    University of Hertfordshire, UK
    "The ionising effect of low energy stellar cosmic rays in protoplanetary disks"

    Friday 11 May 2018
    Sharon Rourke
    Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth University
    "Gravity Waves and Ripples near the Mesopause above Davis Station, Antarctica during the Period 1999-2013"

    Friday 27 April 2018
    Dr. Orlagh Creevey
    Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
    "Using an old nearby star to constrain our understanding of the Milky Way"

    Friday 20 April 2018
    Eimante Kalinauskaite
    Department of Experimental Physics, Maynooth University
    "Electromagnetic and Quasi-optical Analysis of Cavity Coupled Bolometers for Millimeter Wave and Far-Infrared Receivers"

    Friday 2 February 2018
    Dr. Rachael Ainsworth
    Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK
    "Low Mass Young Stars at Metre Wavelengths"