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New criminal justice research partnership for Ireland launches in Maynooth
The participants were all members of the CORD Partnership from a range of different professional backgrounds. They included academic and independent researchers, criminal justice policymakers, agencies and oversight bodies, non-state justice services, civil society and advocacy groups, and research infrastructure.
Date: Monday, 22 January 2024
Adam O’Carroll and Brian McMahon win the Karen Kenny Memorial Moot Court Competition 2023.
Maynooth University students victorious in the annual intervarsity competition organised by Trinity FLAC Society.
Date: Friday, 19 January 2024
Brogan Gallagher successfully defends her PhD at Viva Voce Exam
Congratulations to our student Brogan Gallagher on successfully defending her PhD thesis on 17 January 2024.
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Job Vacancy: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Sociology
The Department of Sociology at Maynooth University is currently recruiting for an Assistant Lecturer in Sociology. The deadline to apply is 8 February 2024.
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Call for Papers: Fourth Doctoral Conference Centre for Public Education & Pedagogy
Fourth Doctoral Conference at Maynooth University
Date: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
In Memoriam: Professor Donal O’Neill
Staff and students of Maynooth University were shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely death last October of Donal O’Neill, Professor of Economics.
Date: Friday, 12 January 2024
Our latest Blog Post
Adult and Community Education with Turn to Teaching: how we do things…. Written by: Declan Markey, Co-Coordinator of Turn To Teaching Adult and community education is about the development of skills, human relationships and the engagement of people in understanding the wider social forces that impact both locally and globally (Lynn Tett in Radical Learning for Liberation 2007:73 ) I used to love a good (random) house…
Date: Friday, 12 January 2024
Nessa Ní Chasaide successfully defends her PhD at Viva Voce Exam
Congratulations to our student Nessa Ní Chasaide on successfully defending her PhD thesis on 10 January 2024.
Date: Friday, 12 January 2024
Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) 2024 Annual Conference CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Sociological Association of Ireland (SAI) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers opening for the 51st SAI Conference, scheduled to take place in Maynooth University, May 10th and 11th, 2024.
Date: Thursday, 11 January 2024
Professor Aisling McMahon awarded an IRC New Foundations Grant in conjunction with civil society partner Breakthrough Cancer Research to examine the Hospital Exemption Pathway and personalised cancer therapies
The project team will examine the scope of the hospital exemption scheme in Europe, its operation in the national Irish context, and the extent to which it could be used in Ireland to deliver access to advanced cancer therapies in cases of unmet need.
Date: Wednesday, 10 January 2024