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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
Mark Leiser raises questions about the EU's Digital Services Act
Dr Mark Leiser is a regulatory theorist, specialising in Digital, Legal, and Platform Regulation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Department of Transnational Legal Studies, Amsterdam Law & Technology Institute).
Date: Monday, 22 April 2024
Design Innovation students excel in Trulife sponsored competition
Design Innovations PD215 Second year students have been undertaking a live design project collaboration with industry partner, Trulife, as part of their module on Usability, Ergonomics, & Aesthetics in Semester 2. Trulife is an Irish-owned company involved in the development, manufacture, and marketing of niche healthcare products.
Date: Monday, 22 April 2024
Official Release of Dublin 8 Health + Environment Dashboard
We are thrilled to announce the official release of the Dublin 8 Health + Environment Dashboard, a groundbreaking project funded by the Irish Research Council
Date: Friday, 19 April 2024
MU hosts discussion on ‘Hospital at Home’ model for Ireland
MU's Innovation Value Institute (IVI) welcomed Professor Dan Lasserson, the UK’s expert in ‘Hospital at Home’ models and acute ambulatory care, who spoke on the topic of delivering acute medical care for patients at home and opportunities for such an approach in support of Ireland’s HSE services that benefit end users
Date: Friday, 19 April 2024
Law Society Gazette in Ireland publishes article by Prof Aisling McMahon on PatentsInHumans Project examining the potential impact of patents on access to health
The article outlines how such issues (amongst others) will be examined as part of the European Research Council funded PatentsInHumans project.
Date: Friday, 19 April 2024