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Cydney Sheridan receives 2023 Prize for Best Dissertation
Congratulations to Cydney Sheridan who received the Research Centre for Criminology 2023 Prize for Best Dissertation in the MA in Comparative Criminology & Criminal Justice
Date: Thursday, 02 May 2024
Professor Julian Go of the University of Chicago delivered a keynote lecture about his newest book
Professor Go’s Policing Empires demonstrates that this is nothing new and looks at how and why police brought the war home, situating this in relation to imperial feedback loops, the ‘imperial boomerang’.
Date: Wednesday, 01 May 2024
Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu speaks at the Arbitration & Crime conference
Last Friday, Dr. Yağmur Hortoğlu gave a speech on The Federal Republic of Nigeria v P & ID Limited [2023] EWHC 2638 (Comm) and EWHC 3320 (Comm) at the Arbitration & Crime conference that took place in Sciences Po Paris.
Date: Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Postgraduate upskilling for teachers in Guidance Counselling
Postgraduate upskilling for teachers in Guidance Counselling
Date: Monday, 29 April 2024
Maynooth University welcomes His Excellency Vincent Guérend, the esteemed French Ambassador to Ireland
Ambassador Guérend delivered a captivating keynote address, delving into the intricate intersections of law and diplomacy, to a captivated audience comprising of students, esteemed faculty members, Lyon colleagues, and distinguished guests. The event not only celebrated the longstanding collaboration between Maynooth and UCLy but also marked the new BCL Law and Languages programme, a collaborative effort between the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures.
Date: Friday, 26 April 2024
MU partners on EU digital education project in Ukraine
MU's School of Business and its Centre for Teaching and Learning are taking part in a three-year EU-funded project to improve higher education in Ukraine through the integration of information technology.
Date: Friday, 26 April 2024
Prof Aisling McMahon & Dr Opeyemi Kolawole present PatentsInHumans papers at the SLSA conference at the University of Portsmouth
Prof Aisling McMahon and Dr Opeyemi Kolawole presented a co-authored paper at the health law panel of the SLSA conference entitled “Intellectual Property Rights, Control and Repair of Medical Devices: Autonomy, Sustainability and the Need (and Challenges) for a Right to Repair for Medical Devices?”
Date: Thursday, 25 April 2024
Histories of Global Education in Europe
This month, Dr. Eilish Dillon of the Department of International Development has published a chapter in the latest book published by the Global Education Network Europe (GENE), ‘Global Education National Histories in Europe: Volume 1’, edited by Annette Scheunpflug and Liam Wegimont. This book, which was published to coincide with GENE’s 50th Roundtable in April 2024, with volume 2 to follow, brings together short national histories of Global Education in a selection of European countries.
Date: Thursday, 25 April 2024
Maynooth Law Graduate, Dr Mariza Avgeri, wins European Law PhD Thesis Prize
The award recognised Mariza's thesis entitled "A transgender studies approach to gender identity and expression-based asylum claims based on a critical doctrinal and discourse analysis of CJEU and ECtHR Jurisprudence".
Date: Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Documentary on Ui Dhammaloka, an Irish born Buddhist Monk and Anti-colonialist
Newstalk have broadcast a dramatised documentary about the life of U Dhammaloka (Laurence Carroll), an Irish-born hobo, Buddhist monk and decolonial activist rediscovered by Maynooth sociologist Laurence Cox and others.
Date: Monday, 22 April 2024