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You might be very proud of how environmentally conscious you are with your reusable water bottle…But have you ever stopped to think about how clean it actually is?Associate Professor Amalia Scannell, Microbiologist from the UCD Centre of Food Safety, joins The Pat Kenny Show to tell us what may be inside along with your drink.

Peter Lynch - Lecturer in Computer Games in TUD 0868130745 @WeAreTUDublinAphra Kerr - Professor of Information & Communication Studies and a senior adviser at the UCD Centre for Digital Policy 0872891531 @AphraK @DigitalPolicyIE

This episode features Vikram Pakrashi in conversation with Lorraine Hanlon and David McKeown from UCD, who share their experience of working on EIRSAT-1, Ireland's first satellite. Burning Questions is a conversation podcast that shines a spotlight on expertise in the fields of the engineering, mechanics and computer science across the island of Ireland. Each episode is structured around an interview with a leader/leaders in their field who will share insights into projects and research that have a tangible impact on the world around us. Lorraine Hanlon is Professor of Astronomy at UCD and Director of UCD's Centre for Space Research. She did her undergraduate (BSc) and graduate (MSc and PhD) degrees in Experimental Physics and was a research fellow and an EU Human Capital and Mobility fellow at the European Space and Technology Research Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, ESA's establishment for space mission development. Lorraine is currently Chair of ESA's Astronomy Working Group and is a member of the ESA Space Science Advisory Committee. She also serves as science advisor to the Irish delegation to the ESA Science Programme Committee and is a member of the National Advisory Committee for the European Southern Observatory. She is a former trustee of the Royal Astronomical Society and Chair of the INTEGRAL Users' Group. Her main research interests are in high-energy astrophysics, gamma-ray bursts, multi-messenger astronomy, robotic telescopes, and space instrumentation. She is the Endorsing Professor for EIRSAT-1, Ireland's first satellite, a CubeSat developed by an interdisciplinary team of UCD students and staff under ESA's ‘Fly Your Satellite!' programme. David McKeown is Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin. His research focuses on the modelling and control of large flexible aerospace structures and the testing and verification of attitude determination and control systems (ADCS) for Nanosatellites. He was the Engineering Manager for the EIRSAT-1, Ireland's First Satellite which was recently launched. He is also the Principal Investigator on the European Space Agency funded DEAR project, building a robotic arm breadboard to test Lunar dust mitigation strategies. In collaboration with Lorraine, his team is building an ADCS testbed as part of the SFI funded NANO-SPACE project. He is a founding member of the UCD Centre for Space Research (C-Space) and the Lead academic for the Space Structure Dynamics and Control Theme. Vikram Pakrashi is Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Director of Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory (DSRL) in UCD. Vikram is a Chartered Engineer and has served both industry and academia working on numerical and experimental applications of dynamics and risk/probabilistic analysis on traditional (roads, bridges) and bourgeoning (wind/wave energy devices and platforms) sectors of built infrastructure. is recent research activities involve structural health monitoring, analysis of dynamic systems, vibration control, experimental methods in dynamics, damage detection algorithms and the use of new technologies for such applications. Vikram has supervised and mentored several doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and has received multiple awards for his research and leadership activities. He currently works with a dynamic and motivated team in DSRL close to industrial needs.

A survey on abuse encountered by TDs and Senators has found that 94% of respondents experienced some form of threat, harassment, abuse or violence during the course of their work. Elizabeth Farries is Director of the UCD Centre for Digital Policy and was a co-author of the survey outlines the findings.

The UCD Centre for Digital Policy, with the support of Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation Dara Calleary TD and Microsoft, today announced the release of a newly created AI video series to help build AI policy understanding and capabilities among policymakers, developers and others. Bringing expert academic, legal, industry, political and policy expertise and insights together, the five short videos provide a solid base for anyone interested in deepening their knowledge and understanding of this dynamic technology and social policy space. Contributors include Minister Dara Calleary, AI Ambassador Patricia Scanlon, and Drs. Elizabeth Farries and Susan Leavy from UCD; AI Advisory Council member Barry Scannell; and TrialView's Stephen Dowling. The video series builds on a collaboration between UCD and Microsoft, which saw the introduction of the Microsoft-UCD Digital Policy Programme at UCD in 2020 with the goal of building digital policy capability amongst the public and private sector in Ireland and across the wider EU. The announcement was made at the Digital Ireland Conference organised by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment today in Dublin Castle. The event sought to underline Ireland's position as a digital leader at the heart of European and global digital developments and demonstrate Government's commitment to drive greater clarity, coherence and cooperation in digital in Ireland. Welcoming the release of the AI video series, Minister Dara Calleary TD said: "Ireland can lead in responsible AI and innovative AI and be at the core of AI innovation in Europe. As we look ahead, skilling up in AI will give people the skills and confidence to deal with and manage AI. Skills are also crucial to understanding ethical AI and person-centred AI, which are two key principles of Ireland's national AI strategy." Dr Elizabeth Farries from the UCD Centre for Digital Policy said: "Communication and comprehension need to occur along every point of the AI supply and development chain. We need communication and understanding of ethics from researchers and developers to Governments embracing these technologies. That is why we recommend capacity building for policymakers and developers alike through education, including the programmes offered at UCD Centre for Digital Policy." James O'Connor, Microsoft Ireland Site Lead and Vice President of Microsoft Global Operations Service Center, said: "AI is a transformative technology that has huge potential to empower workers, businesses and communities across Ireland. As the use of AI tools and technologies accelerates, it is important that both the policy opportunities and challenges created by the technology are well understood. By providing insights from a wide-ranging set of experts across academia, policy and industry, the new AI video series produced in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Digital Policy can help to deepen understanding in these key areas and ensure responsible AI principles are put into practice." The AI Video Series, along with a similar series on Cyber Security produced last year, are available to view at www.digitalpolicy.ie.

Today's guest is the delightful First World War scholar Dr. Jennifer Wellington. Jennifer is Assistant Professor in Late 19th/20th Century Continental and Global History at University College, Dublin, where she is also a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies. She earned a BA in English and an LLB, both with Honors, at Australian National University, Canberra. At Canberra, she was awarded the Tillyard Prize, the "oldest and most prestigious prize available to bachelor degree students of the University." She later earned an MA, MPhil, and PhD at Yale University and was awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in a Field of European History. She was a postdoctoral researcher at King's College, London, before joining the faculty at UCD. In 2022-23, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College, London. Jennifer is the author of Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums and Memory in Britain, Canada and Australia (Cambridge). Her essays and articles have appeared in 1914-1918 Online: The International Encyclopedia of the First World War, The Journal of Contemporary History, and Century Ireland, among many others. Jennifer is on the Editorial Advisory Board at the British Journal of Military History and a Section Editor for 1914-1918 Online. Her current research examines the history of wartime trophy-taking. Join us for a really interesting chat with Jennifer Wellington. We'll talk about growing up in rural Australia (that narrows it down, right?), graduate studies at Yale, war museums and war art, the Priestly 11, Vegemite, and Moden Pizza in New Haven. Rec.: 02/01/2024

Education Minister Norma Foley is bringing a memo to Cabinet that encourages parents to avoid buying smartphones for their children in primary schools. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Dr Elizabeth Farries, Director at UCD Centre for Digital Policy.

Education Minister Norma Foley is bringing a memo to Cabinet that encourages parents to avoid buying smartphones for their children in primary schools. Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Dr Elizabeth Farries, Director at UCD Centre for Digital Policy.

To kick off Season 4, we welcome to The Pod Paul Huddie of University College, Dublin. Paul is a European Research Council Project Manager at University College, Dublin, for European Research Council initiatives, including the Age of Civil Wars project. He is also a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies. He previously served as Research Programmes Administrator at UCD and was a lecturer at the University of West London. Paul received his BA and MA degrees at University College Dublin and his PhD at Queen's University, Belfast.  Paul is the author of The Crimean War and Irish Society (Liverpool) and the forthcoming Military Charities in Victorian and Edwardian Britain & Ireland: A New Directory (Pen & Sword). He has published articles in British Journal for Military History, Mariner's Mirror, Women's History Review, and Irish Economic and Social History. Paul is at the forefront of military welfare history, and in 2023 he co-edited a special edition of War & Society on the subject with Amy Carney. He is working on an edited volume with Amy Rutenberg and Anndal Narayanan, titled Military Welfare History: The Third Field of Warfare History. Paul's work has been supported by the Dublin City Council, the Royal Historical Society, and the British Association for Victorian Studies. In 2013, he was awarded the Crimean War Research Society's President's Trophy. A former Irish Defense Forces Reservist, Paul is an Executive Member of the Irish Association of Professional Historians and the coordinator of the International Network for Crimean War Studies and the new Military Welfare History Network.  Join us for a rainy-day-in-Dublin chat with Paul Huddie - we'll talk attending a rugby school in Dublin, being a bookie runner as a kid, the field of military welfare history studies, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Dermott Kennedy, among other pertinent issues! Rec.: 07/26/2023

Allen Higgins joins me as we share host and guest roles to talk about design practice systems and creating for and with the people we serve. Alan is a research associate and lecturer in the Center for Innovation Technology and Organization in the School of Business at University College Dublin. Listen to learn about: Design and design thinking process Design thinking mindset How to introduce design thinking to teams and organizations What is innovation? Design Justice and ethical design  Our Guest Allen Higgins is a researcher/lecturer in the Management Information Systems subject area in the UCD College of Business—University College Dublin, Ireland. He is a member of the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organization (CITO) and the UCD Centre for Business and Society.   Show Highlights [00:39] Script is flipped! Dawan talks about how he got into design thinking. [02:14] Launching Fluid Hive in 2008. [02:38] Allen's interest came while developing a course for university. [04:48] Allen and Dawan compare how they approach design thinking [06:46] The big question: What problem are we trying to solve? [08:30] Finding the problem is the real problem. [09:30] IDEO as people's first introduction to design thinking. [10:05] There is no single recipe for innovation. [10:40] Experienced designers are comfortable with ambiguity. [11:32] It's hard to change our view of the world. [12:09] Designers can see the world in multiple ways. [14:08] The difference between reaction and response. [15:55] The answer to the question should take you from the world you have to the world you want. [17:57] Failure is part of the process. Failure is actually learning. [20:56] A design thinking culture values continual learning. [22:06] Part of bringing design thinking to organizations is speaking the language of that organization. [23:53] Dawan and Allen talk about making design thinking part of organizational culture. [25:27] Inviting people into learning and using design thinking. [27:04] Allen talks about innovation, and the hospitality metaphor. [29:42] Allen offers an example of a case study where an organization was introducing large-scale change to its systems. [31:42] Designing with the people who will implement and support the solution in mind. [32:40] Dawan's preferred definition of innovation. [35:47] The world we have, and the world we want. [37:05] Best intentions, and the need for design justice. [37:47] The racism (and sexism) in AI image generators. [38:47] The systems we design often reinforce societal bias. [44:11] Doug Dietz's MRI story TED Talk. [45:50] Ethical design. [46:31] The concept of the “user” in design. [47:01] The difficulty with personas. [48:25] Indi Young's mental models for user behavior. [49:24] Focusing on why and how people decide instead of empathy. [50:32] “Nothing about us without us”: co-creating with the people you're designing for. [52:27] You are not your user. [54:01] Giving everyone access to the tools of design and design thinking. [56:26] Designing for accessibility. [1:02:19] Allen and Dawan end the conversation by talking about empathy vs. sympathy.   Links Allen on LinkedIn Allen on Google Scholar Allen on University College Dublin Allen on ResearchGate The Design Talk podcast Transforming healthcare for children and their families: Doug Dietz at TEDxSanJoseCA   Book Recommendations Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs, by Larry Keeley, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel, and Brian Quinn Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, by Indi Young   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like How to Learn Design Thinking + Design Thinking Pedagogy with Julie Schell — DT101 E15 Launching and Leading a University-wide Design Thinking Initiative with Danielle Lake — DT101 E31 Systemic Service Design + a Critical Lens on Design Practice with Josina Vink — DT101 E85

Allen Higgins joins me as we share host and guest roles to talk about design practice systems and creating for and with the people we serve. Alan is a research associate and lecturer in the Center for Innovation Technology and Organization in the School of Business at University College Dublin. Listen to learn about: Design and design thinking process Design thinking mindset How to introduce design thinking to teams and organizations What is innovation? Design Justice and ethical design  Our Guest Allen Higgins is a researcher/lecturer in the Management Information Systems subject area in the UCD College of Business—University College Dublin, Ireland. He is a member of the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organization (CITO) and the UCD Centre for Business and Society.   Show Highlights [00:39] Script is flipped! Dawan talks about how he got into design thinking. [02:14] Launching Fluid Hive in 2008. [02:38] Allen's interest came while developing a course for university. [04:48] Allen and Dawan compare how they approach design thinking [06:46] The big question: What problem are we trying to solve? [08:30] Finding the problem is the real problem. [09:30] IDEO as people's first introduction to design thinking. [10:05] There is no single recipe for innovation. [10:40] Experienced designers are comfortable with ambiguity. [11:32] It's hard to change our view of the world. [12:09] Designers can see the world in multiple ways. [14:08] The difference between reaction and response. [15:55] The answer to the question should take you from the world you have to the world you want. [17:57] Failure is part of the process. Failure is actually learning. [20:56] A design thinking culture values continual learning. [22:06] Part of bringing design thinking to organizations is speaking the language of that organization. [23:53] Dawan and Allen talk about making design thinking part of organizational culture. [25:27] Inviting people into learning and using design thinking. [27:04] Allen talks about innovation, and the hospitality metaphor. [29:42] Allen offers an example of a case study where an organization was introducing large-scale change to its systems. [31:42] Designing with the people who will implement and support the solution in mind. [32:40] Dawan's preferred definition of innovation. [35:47] The world we have, and the world we want. [37:05] Best intentions, and the need for design justice. [37:47] The racism (and sexism) in AI image generators. [38:47] The systems we design often reinforce societal bias. [44:11] Doug Dietz's MRI story TED Talk. [45:50] Ethical design. [46:31] The concept of the “user” in design. [47:01] The difficulty with personas. [48:25] Indi Young's mental models for user behavior. [49:24] Focusing on why and how people decide instead of empathy. [50:32] “Nothing about us without us”: co-creating with the people you're designing for. [52:27] You are not your user. [54:01] Giving everyone access to the tools of design and design thinking. [56:26] Designing for accessibility. [1:02:19] Allen and Dawan end the conversation by talking about empathy vs. sympathy.   Links Allen on LinkedIn Allen on Google Scholar Allen on University College Dublin Allen on ResearchGate The Design Talk podcast Transforming healthcare for children and their families: Doug Dietz at TEDxSanJoseCA   Book Recommendations Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs, by Larry Keeley, Helen Walters, Ryan Pikkel, and Brian Quinn Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, by Indi Young   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like How to Learn Design Thinking + Design Thinking Pedagogy with Julie Schell — DT101 E15 Launching and Leading a University-wide Design Thinking Initiative with Danielle Lake — DT101 E31 Systemic Service Design + a Critical Lens on Design Practice with Josina Vink — DT101 E85

What ghostly traces do poets leave behind, and how do we curate their legacy? Dr Katie Mishler speaks to poet Vona Groake, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, about the life and writing of MoLI's resident ghost, poet and Jesuit Priest Gerard Manly Hopkins. In 1884, Hopkins became Professor of Classics at University College Dublin, and lived and worked in Newman House, now the home of MoLI, until his death of typhoid fever in 1889 at the age of 44. As an Englishman, Hopkins felt lonely and isolated in Dublin and at the University, where he worked extremely long and grueling hours. Out of this misery, however, he wrote some of his most celebrated poetry, the ‘terrible sonnets', so-called because of their expression of pain and isolation. His poetry also expresses queer desire that is at odds with his faith. By visiting MoLI's hidden corridors, including the Hopkins bedroom that Groake curated in the 1990s, the two discuss Hopkins' enduring contribution to poetry, his difficult life and death in Dublin, and whether or not he haunts the halls of MoLI.Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland's urban gothic writing.Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin's urban history and the development of Ireland's literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler's postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.Producer Ian DunphySound Ian DunphyMusic CAPE

Is Irish history particularly macabre, or do the Irish have a peculiar fascination with death? In this episode of The Dublin Gothic Podcast, recorded live in front of an audience in MoLI's Old Physics Theatre as part of First Fridays, Dr Katie Mishler speaks to Dr Gillian O'Brien about her book The Darkness Echoing: Exploring Ireland's Places of Famine, Death and Rebellion (2020). Dr O'Brien discusses her tour of Ireland's ‘dark' history sites, the ethics of dark tourism, and Ireland's relationship to the dead. Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland's urban gothic writing.Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin's urban history and the development of Ireland's literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler's postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.Producer Ian DunphySound Ian DunphyMusic CAPE

Della Kilroy travelled to Ballina in County Mayo where District Cathaoirleach Mark Duffy guided her through the streets of his native town. Orla Murphy, Architect and Co-Director of the UCD Centre for Irish Towns, gives her analysis.

Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland's urban gothic writing.In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler sits down with novelist and UCD Professor of Creative Writing Sarah Moss to discuss her novel The Fell, isolation, and writing history.Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin's urban history and the development of Ireland's literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler's postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.Producer – Ian DunphySound – Ian DunphyMusic – CAPE

On the back of COP26 and with a record number of Amber Alerts on the national electricity grid, energy consumption is at the forefront of minds for both business and home owners alike. Dr Paula Carroll, UCD Centre for Business Analytics and UCD Energy Institute, discusses both the challenges and many opportunities facing the energy sector as we aim for a more sustainable energy future. 

Dr. Niamh Brennan is an accomplished professor at University College Dublin and Founder/Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance. With 100+ publications and 6,000+ Google Scholar citations, her name carries weight in both academic and business circles in Europe and beyond. In recognition of her research, Dr. Brennan was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2020, Ireland's highest academic honor, the first business school academic to be so recognized. I was privileged to learn from her as one of her MBA students and found her ability to turn financial management class into a reverting class on ethics and communication skills to be a pleasant surprise! She shares part of her incredible journey in this conversation. You can learn more about Dr. Brennan's work at https://people.ucd.ie/niamh.brennan and follow her on Twitter @ProfNiamhBre, enjoy!

This week, Alix takes us on a tour of famine in Irish history, culminating in the infamous 19th century potato famine. TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2021/11/04/s3-e2-land-part-ii---the-irish-potato-famine/ CREDITS Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett. Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend. Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1. BIBLIOGRAPHY Brantlinger, P. (2004). ‘The Famine', Victorian Literature and Culture, 32(1), pp. 193-207. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25058660?seq=1 Carmody, P. (2009). ‘The story of starvation', Irish Times, 30 May. Available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-story-of-starvation-1.774061 Connolly, J. (1997). ‘An Irishman's Diary', Irish Times, 23 September. Available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-irishman-s-diary-1.108966 Coogan, T. P. (2013). The Famine Plot. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin. Coste, M. (2020). ‘New RTE documentary finds evidence of cannibalism in Ireland during Great Famine', Clé, 1 December. Available at: http://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/key-story/01-12-20-great-famine-cannibalism Dwyer, F. (2016). ‘A Famine Cover Up. Cannibalism in 1849…', Irish History Podcast, 22 February. Available at: https://irishhistorypodcast.ie/a-famine-cover-up-cannibalism-in-1849/ ElleHaceElle. (2017). ‘Irish Famine and Cannibalism', Breise! Breise! Extra! Extra!, 21 June. Available at: https://breisebreiseleighgoleire1969.wordpress.com/tag/did-the-irish-resort-to-cannibalism-during-the-famine/ Geography Department, University College Cork and Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. (n.d.). The Great Irish Famine Online. Available at: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=8de2b863f4454cbf93387dacb5cb8412 Great Britain. UK Parliament. (n.d.). The Great Famine. Available at: https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/legislativescrutiny/parliamentandireland/overview/the-great-famine/ ‘Irish Famine (1740–1741)' (2021). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341) McGreevy, R. (2020). ‘Role of ‘survivor cannibalism' during Great Famine detailed in new TV documentary', Irish Times, 30 November. Available at: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/role-of-survivor-cannibalism-during-great-famine-detailed-in-new-tv-documentary-1.4423323 Marx, K. (1999). ‘Chapter Twenty-Five: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation' in Capital, Vol. 1. N.p.: Marxists Internet Archive. Available at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm O'Brien, S. (2020). ‘Great Hunger documentary explores how Irish people turned to survivor cannibalism', Irish Central, 30 November. Available at: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/great-hunger-documentary-irish-people-cannibalism Ó Gráda, C. (2013). Eating people is wrong: Famine's darkest secret?. UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP13/02. Dublin: UCD School of Economics. Available at: https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/72202 O'Sullivan, M. (2018). ‘Possible Cannibalism in Connemara during the Great Famine', History at Galway, 3 February. Available at: https://historyatgalway.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/possible-cannibalism-in-connemara-during-the-great-famine/ Persaud, R. (2011). ‘It's Not Everyone's Idea Of A Wholesome Meal, But Over The Ages Human Flesh Has Been Eaten By Surprisingly Large Numbers Of People', Independent, 23 October. Available at: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/history-common-cannibal-it-s-not-everyone-s-idea-wholesome-meal-over-ages-human-flesh-has-been-eaten-surprisingly-large-numbers-people-raj-persaud-reports-2322199.html Stromberg, J. (2013). ‘Scientists Finally Pinpoint the Pathogen That Caused the Irish Potato Famine', Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May. Available at: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-finally-pinpoint-the-pathogen-that-caused-the-irish-potato-famine-71084770/ Swift, J. (2019). A Modest Proposal. Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg. Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm The Hunger: The Story Of The Irish Famine. (2020). RTÉ, 30 November. Available at: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/72202/1/742708829.pdf ‘Was cannibalism practiced during the Irish famine?' (2012). Irish Central, 15 May. Available at: https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/cannibalism-irish-famine-great-hunger-history

Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland's urban gothic writing.Vampires, ghosts, and the undead have an enduring cultural legacy. These uncanny figures inform, or perhaps infect, depictions of the body, maternity, and sexuality in contemporary Irish women's writing. This panel discussion, recorded live in MoLI's Old Physics Theatre, led by Dr Katie Mishler and featuring Sarah Davis-Goff, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Sophie White, uncovers how the gothic monstrosities of Bram Stoker and others continue to be a powerful metaphor for social anxieties, marginalisation, and historical erasure. Sarah Davis-Goff is co-founder of Tramp Press, which publishes the Recovered Voices series, re-publishing a lost Irish classic once a year, with a bent towards speculative fiction. In 2019 her own novel Last Ones Left Alive was published in the UK and Ireland by Tinder Press, and in the US by Flatiron. Last Ones Left Alive was nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Prize and the Not-The-Booker Prize, shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Kate O'Brien Award, and won the Chrysalis Award. She lives in Dublin. Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a poet and essayist. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat was awarded the James Tait Back Prize for Biography, and described as “powerful” (New York Times), and “captivatingly original” (The Guardian). Doireann is also author of six critically-acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity.  Sophie White is a writer and podcaster from Dublin. Her first book, a memoir-cookbook work, Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown (Gill 2016) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her second book and first novel, the bestselling, Filter This (Hachette, 2019) was also shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her third book, Unfiltered (Hachette, 2020) was described by Marian Keyes as ‘such fun – gas, clever stuff'. Her fourth book and second work of non-fiction is the bestselling essay collection, Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows published by Tramp Press in 2021.Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin's urban history and the development of Ireland's literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler's postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.Producers Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-ConnollySound Ian DunphyMusic CAPE

What do dancing curates, and headless mummies, and dog-eared sixteenth-century manuscripts about sexual deviancy have in common? In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler speaks with Dr Tina Morin, senior lecturer in English at University of Limerick, and Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh's Library in Dublin, about Charles Maturin's gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) and Marsh's Library's new exhibition, Ragged, livid & on fire: The Wanderings of Melmoth at 200. The panel discuss Maturin's visits to Marsh's Library, imagine what he may have read there and shed light on some bizarre finds within the walls of the library.Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin's urban history and the development of Ireland's literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler's postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.Producers Ian Dunphy, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly and Graciela Hartung MorcilloSound Ian DunphyMusic CAPE

Do you enjoy reading ghost stories alone at night? Have you ever binged an entire true crime series? Or do you unwind watching horror films like The Exorcist, or reading the supernatural novels of Stephen King? The Dublin Gothic Podcast is a series looking at the intersection between art, psychology, folklore, architecture, natural history and Ireland's urban gothic writing.In this episode, Dr Katie Mishler interviews horror aficionados and experts Dr Noreen Giffney and Brian J. Showers about the psychology of horror, the lasting impact of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's ghostly terrors, and why we find comfort in experiencing fear. Listen to Sheridan Le Fanu's The Familiar here.Dr Katie Mishler is an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022) in collaboration with the UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics and Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). Her current project, Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, researches the relationship between Dublin's urban history and the development of Ireland's literary gothic tradition. The research for this podcast is supported by Dr Mishler's postdoctoral project Mapping Gothic Dublin: 1820-1900, funded by an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Fellowship.Producers Ian Dunphy & Benedict Schlepper-ConnollySound Ian DunphyMusic CAPE

In 2020 EU President Ursula von der Leyen launched the New European Bauhaus, an initiative intending to address climate by and through design. In this episode architect Orla Murphy outlines the values and workings of this initiative and talks about its potential impacts on architecture, on Ireland and on our shared futures on the planet. The conversation also engages with matters of civic and public space and the use of it by people in towns and cities. About Orla Murphy. Orla Murphy B. Arch M. RIAI is a part-time Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture Planning and Environmental Policy (APEP), Co-Director of the UCD Centre for Irish Towns (CfIT), and owner of Custom Architecture. Orla has been External Examiner in CCAE and invited speaker at UL, CCAE, WIT and TUD. In 2018 Orla was Co-Commissioner and Co-Curator of FREE MARKET, Ireland's national representation at the architecture biennale, Venice. In 2020 Orla was appointed to the round-table group for the New European Bauhaus. Music is by Sinead Finegan and is played by the Delmaine String Quartet. The podcast was recorded on zoom in May 2021.

This week our conversation turns to accessible app development and the research that is involved in coming up with new concepts for inclusive technology. To find out more we will be joined by Susan McKeever, Senior Lecturer from Technological University Dublin. Susan will be telling us about a new navigational app for people with sight loss that is currently being designed by her research team at TU Dublin.We will also be joined by Allen Higgins, lecturer and researcher in the UCD Centre for Innovation, Technology and Organisation (CITO). Allen will be telling us how Universal Design principles are being applied in teaching & learning in the college.Support the show (https://www.ncbi.ie/supporting-us/donate-now/)

Dr. Sarah Fulham-McQuillan, Assistant Professor of Law, Deputy Director of UCD Centre for Constitutional studies, joined Sean on the show. Listen and subscribe to Moncrieff on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify.    Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Today's panel included Monaghan GP Dr Illona Duffy, Sinead O’Carroll Editor at the Journal.ie and retired Detective Chief Superintendent and Author John O'Brien. Professor Niamh Brennan Academic Director at the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance also joined the programme.

This episode of Season 5 of the BSP Podcast features Natalia Burakowska & Danielle Petherbridge. Dr. Petherbridge is Assistant Professor in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin; and Burakowska is a PhD student in Philosophy at University College Dublin. The presentation is taken from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online.   ABSTRACT: Dementia is a complex disease that is most often framed in terms of diminished cognitive capacity or neurodegeneration, together with assumptions about the loss of personhood, memory and communication skills. As a consequence, forms of dementia assessment and care are often based on a cognitive account of personhood and framed in terms of cognitive and linguistic capacities. One of the central arguments of this paper is that such accounts of personhood are one-sided and neglect the important embodied dimensions of persons both as subjects in the world and in their interactions with others. More significantly, drawing specifically on phenomenology, the research constructs an embodied-cognitive account of dementia that offers new insights not only into the lived experience of persons with dementia but also alternative forms of care. The paper begins by examining the appropriateness of an account of empathy in encounter with persons with dementia before investigating the importance of dynamic engagement that can give rise to embodied and relational capabilities and forms of communication. This has significant ramifications for forms of interaction and care, as well as existing policies, medical attitudes and diagnosis of dementia. Our aim in this paper is to: (a) offer an embodied-cognitive approach to dementia drawing on a phenomenology; (b) provide an account of the lived experience of persons with dementia that in turn informs policy and care; (c) explore alternative forms of expressivity and personhood informed by a phenomenological approach. This research offers an important phenomenological alternative to current research on dementia with implications for the understanding of dementia, as well as diagnosis and methods of care.   BIOS:    Dr. Petherbridge is Assistant Professor in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin and Deputy-Director of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life. Previously Dr. Petherbridge was an IRC Marie-Curie fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York. Her primary research interests include the relation between perception, attention and affect; theories of intersubjectivity in phenomenology and social philosophy as well as embodied-cognitive approaches to illness. She is PI of a research project on embodied-cognitive accounts of dementia being undertaken in partnership with the Alzheimer Society of Ireland.   Natalia Burakowska is a PhD student in Philosophy at University College Dublin. She works in the areas of phenomenology, philosophy of mind and applied philosophy. Her doctoral work is focused on a phenomenological approach to dementia that conceptualizes it as both a cognitive and bodily condition, taking account of the lived experience of dementia, vulnerability and forms of ethical responsiveness and care.   This recording is taken from the BSP Annual Conference 2020 Online: 'Engaged Phenomenology'. Organised with the University of Exeter and sponsored by Egenis and the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health. BSP2020AC was held online this year due to global concerns about the Coronavirus pandemic. For the conference our speakers recorded videos, our keynotes presented live over Zoom, and we also recorded some interviews online as well. Podcast episodes from BSP2020AC are soundtracks of those videos where we and the presenters feel the audio works as a standalone: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/bsp-annual-conference-2020/   You can check out our forthcoming events here: https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/events/   The British Society for Phenomenology is a not-for-profit organisation set up with the intention of promoting research and awareness in the field of Phenomenology and other cognate arms of philosophical thought. Currently, the society accomplishes these aims through its journal, events, and podcast. Why not find out more, join the society, and subscribe to our journal the JBSP? https://www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/  

In the week when the UCD Centre for Space Research launched C-Space, with a mission to get Ireland’s first satellite into orbit, we chat with Tom Ray about ARIEL, a space telescope built to study the atmospheres of distant exo-planets. We also report on the demise of the phablet, Microsoft running on Apples M1 and why you should hold off on buying games.

Facebook and Twitter CEOs Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey yesterday appeared before a US Senate hearing, which sought to investigate disinformation in US politics. More on this hearing we heard from our Technology Correspondant Jess Kelly and Dr Eugenia Siapera, Professor and Head of the School of Information and Communication Studies and Director of the recently established UCD Centre for Digital Policy.   Listen and subscribe to The Pat Kenny Show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.    You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

This week Patrick and a high profile range of Historians, Military Experts and Biographers discuss the last German offensive on the Western Front in WW2 - The Battle of the Bulge.  Joining Patrick on the panel are: Dr David Murphy, NUI Maynooth,  Dr Mark Jones, UCD Centre for War Studies,  David Turns, Cranfield University and Mathieu Billa, the Director of the Bastogne War Museum.    

Gavin Cooney, reporter with THe42.ie and Prof Niamh Brennan, Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Corporate Governance discusses the tensions at the FAI.

Derry City's latest signing former UCD Centre forward spoke to our man Patrick Cooke at today's press conference 

Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford) gives an overview of past research on violence in civil war as part of 'Writing the History of Civil War', a UCD Centre for War Studies seminar.

Prof. Glenda Gilmore (Yale / UCD) talks about writing the history of the American Civil War as part of 'Writing the History of Civil War', a UCD Centre for War Studies seminar.

Dr. Anne Dolan (Trinity College Dublin) talks about writing the history of the Irish Civil War as part of 'Writing the History of Civil War', a UCD Centre for War Studies seminar.

Speaker Associate Professor Marc Caball (School of History, University College Dublin) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland & School of History, University College Title Patrick Browne (c. 1720 – 1790), an Irish botanist and physician in the West Indies Event UCD Centre for the History of […] The post Patrick Browne (c. 1720 – 1790) appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Jane Hand (Department of History, University of Warwick) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland & School of History, University College Dublin Title Health on the High Street: Consumerism, the NHS and Low-Fat Diets in Britain since the 1970s Event UCD Centre for the History […] The post Health on the High Street appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

See http://www.president.ie/en/diary/details/president-visits-the-ucd-centre-for-ethics-in-public-life President Higgins delivered the keynote address at UCD’s Centre for Public Ethics. In the speech, President Higgins welcomed the creation of the Centre for Public Ethics, and called for more analysis and critical reflection in classrooms, in the media and in public debate.

Speaker Dr David Durnin (UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin) Chair Associate Professor Catherine Cox (Director of the UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin) Title ‘It is our Duty’: Medical Provision and the Irish Experience of the First World War Event UCD Centre […] The post Medical Provision and the Irish Experience of the First World War appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Alice Mauger Chair Dr Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland) Title The Cost of Insanity: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 4 February 2016 Summary How did Irish medical practitioners and lay people […] The post The Cost of Insanity: Public, Voluntary and Private Asylum Care in Nineteenth-Century Ireland appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

Speaker Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne (University College Dublin) Chair Dr Catherine Cox (Director, UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland) Title ‘Dear Father my health is broken down’: Writing health in Irish charity letters, 1922-1940 Event UCD Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland Seminar Series, 18 September 2014 Summary This paper focuses […] The post Writing Health in Irish Charity Letters, 1922-1940 appeared first on CHOMI MEDIA.

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UCD Centre for War Studies seminar - The Irish Revolutionary Generation by Professor Roy Foster (University of Oxford).