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Launch of Traveller Community Mapping Coolock StoryMap
The Department of Geography welcomed Traveller researchers to the Rocque Lab at the culmination of four years of collaboration between Coolock Travellers and Maynooth Geographers
Date: Friday, 18 November 2022
Hybrid working can create a very unequal playing field post-pandemic: An interview with Dr. Tatiana Andreeva
What are the challenges that the hybrid work can bring, both for employees and for their managers?
Date: Thursday, 17 November 2022
How data can be used to help fight wildfires in real-time - RTE Brainstorm feature
CoPilot-AI project (https://copilotai.ie/) featured on RTE Brainstorm
Date: Thursday, 17 November 2022
PhD Studentship in ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence in Practice’
ADAPT at Maynooth University is offering a four-year funded PhD studentship in ‘Governing Artificial Intelligence in Practice’. The PhD will be registered in the Department of Sociology, working with Prof. Aphra Kerr, and co-supervised via the Department of Law and Criminology by Dr. Ciara Bracken-Roche.
Date: Thursday, 17 November 2022
Dr Bríd Ní Ghráinne presents at the Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference
Dr Ní Ghráinne’s presentation took place on 12 November 2022 and focused on her recently-published monograph, Internally Displaced Persons and International Refugee Law (Oxford University Press 2022).
Date: Thursday, 17 November 2022
PhD Candidate Aaron Harte-Hughes discusses his research on the Irish State Witness Security Programme
Aaron has been cited within several public sources, including the Irish Examiner article 'There’s no plastic surgery’: Reality of witness protection ‘a lot more basic than Hollywood’.
Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
David Mangan is Global Professor at KU Leuven, Faculty of Law
This position includes delivering a week-long course on a developing topic that is taught during KU Leuven Faculty of Law’s Global Week.
Date: Monday, 14 November 2022
Prof Aisling McMahon & Prof Emma Cave publish new article on “Should states restrict recipient choice amongst relevant and available COVID-19 vaccines?” in the Medical Law Review
This article considers the policy justifications for State controls on recipients’ choice amongst COVID-19 vaccine brands, at various points in the pandemic, focusing on European countries and drawing in particular on the UK context as an example.
Date: Friday, 11 November 2022
Dr Aedín Doris from the Department of Economics at Maynooth University interviewed about the government proposal to link Jobseeker’s Benefit to past earnings
Is it a good idea? Will it bring us in line with what other European countries are doing?
Date: Friday, 11 November 2022
CMHCR team wins prestigious international award for their work on family mental health
Awarded the Lionel Hersov Memorial Award 2022 by the (UK) Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH).
Date: Thursday, 10 November 2022