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MU researchers awarded Research Ireland funding to address societal challenges
Seven MU researchers working on projects ranging from the challenges of mental and physical health, human rights and citizenship. education and media have received awards under Research Ireland's ‘New Foundations’ programme.
Date: Thursday, 08 May 2025
MU report outlines ways to improve women’s sport coverage
National governing bodies, sponsors and government all have a role to play alongside media in improving coverage of women’s sports in Ireland, a new report by Dr Anne O’Brien of the Department of Media Studies found.
Date: Monday, 06 January 2025
MU graduates nominated for An Post Irish Book Awards
Two MU graduates have been nominated for two An Post Irish Book Awards 2024- Oisin McKenna and Páraic Kerrigan
Date: Friday, 01 November 2024
MU scholar receives Fulbright Irish Award
Maynooth University scholar, Conall Ó Fátharta, was among the recipients of Fulbright Awards which were presented at a ceremony in Iveagh House last night.
Date: Friday, 14 June 2024
MU-led project finds anti-gender politics on the rise across Europe
A project researching so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe shows how politics attacking the idea of gender have taken root internationally.
Date: Thursday, 11 April 2024
Prof. Sinead McGilloway and Dr. Katriona O'Sullivan receive MU Research Achievement Awards 2021
Maynooth University congratulates all the nominees for their submissions and contributions to the University. Six Faculty winners were announced as part of Research Week 2021.
Date: Wednesday, 20 October 2021
The LA Times publish in print and online a commissioned op-ed from Associate Professor Gavan Titley.
On Sunday 20th of June The LA Times published in print and online a commissioned op-ed from Associate Professor Gavan Titley.
Date: Thursday, 24 June 2021
Award-winning Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran delivers the Dean’s Lecture
Award-winning Turkish writer and political thinker, Ece Temelkuran delivered the Dean’s Lecture as part of Research Week at Maynooth University.
Date: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
State-of-the Art Preservation Facility IFI Irish Film Archive @ Maynooth University Opens
Tá bród ar Institiúid Scannán na hÉireann (IFI) agus ar Ollscoil Mhá Nuad a fhógairt go bhfuil Cartlann Scannán na hÉireann, IFI @ Ollscoil Mhá Nuad oscailte.
Date: Friday, 09 March 2018
Female Trump supporters are viewed through misogynistic lens – even by feminists
The notion of female Trump supporters as being ‘internally sexist’ could be understood as a form of sexism in and of itself, according to Dr Sarah Arnold, Maynooth University Department of Media Studies.
Date: Thursday, 08 March 2018