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How the media needs to change its coverage of domestic violence
How the media shapes the national understanding of domestic violence really matters, but unfortunately, it often give audiences and readers distorted representations, writes Dr Anne O’Brien, Department of Media Studies
Monday, 16 September 2019
How food waste can be given a new lease of life
Items such as potato pulp that were once by-products of agricultural processes have now been elevated to co-product status, writes Laoise Ní Chléirigh, of the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education
Monday, 09 September 2019
Fears and hopes: How thinking about the future can help us cope with illness
Identifying ways to increase optimism and resilience may offer a means of helping people cope better with illness, writes Dr Rebecca Maguire, Department of Psychology and the ALL Institute
Wednesday, 04 September 2019
Flood severity across Europe: How a changing climate impacts on regions
Dr Conor Murphy has collaborated with a multinational research team in the largest-scale study of its kind confirming how climate change impacts on flooding
Friday, 30 August 2019
'Where exactly does the human begin and the machine end?'
Science fiction has long been brooding over the nature of humanity’s relationship with technology, writes Dr Thomas Connolly, Department of English
Monday, 26 August 2019
How Albert Einstein became a household name 100 years ago
1919's total eclipse of the sun provided the first evidence in favour of Einstein's theory of general relativity writes Prof Peter Coles, Department of Theoretical Physics
Monday, 19 August 2019
How cinema brought the world to rural Ireland in the 1950s
Research and oral histories show how cinemas in Co Mayo and elsewhere provided a window onto the wider world in the 1950s writes Dr Sarah Culhane, Department of Media Studies
Monday, 12 August 2019
How to use LinkedIn more effectively
Building up professional networks is a long-term endeavour that does not necessarily deliver immediate returns, writes Dr Bastian Rake, School of Business
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Hidden weather hazards: how extreme weather events can affect millions of people
Research by Dr Conor Murphy, Dr Tom Matthews and Professor Rob Wilby finds that powerful cyclones followed by deadly heatwaves are an emerging weather threat
Wednesday, 24 July 2019
¡Viva Irlanda! Remembering the history of the Irish in Argentina
Irish people have had a huge impact on Argentina's culture and society, but awareness of this heritage has been virtually forgotten writes Maria Lujan Medina of our School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Wednesday, 10 July 2019