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View‘Early response’ determined Ireland’s Covid research success

Reports highlight how fast-track funding and pivoting focus made meaningful impact on pandemic response

ViewSurvey investigates bullying in higher education

Universities minister backs effort to tackle unsafe workplaces and online harassment

ViewNetwork to tackle Ireland’s climate emergencies

Government convenes all-island research group to solve biodiversity loss and boost peatland restoration

ViewIreland’s chief scientific adviser to be separated from SFI

Role will be split from leadership of nation’s biggest science funder to preserve independence

ViewIreland news roundup: 2-15 November

This week: University College Dublin funding, a university for Ireland’s south-east and social science data

ViewIreland news roundup: 19 October to 1 November

This week: next head of Science Foundation Ireland, dairy research and student vaccinations

ViewIrish Research Council awards €5.3m to societal research

Funding from Coalesce programme will help to break down disciplinary barriers, says council

ViewSurvey identifies ethnic pay gap in Irish universities

Higher Education Authority survey also finds ethnic minorities more likely to have experienced discrimination

ViewAcademics’ mixed reactions to Irish budget

Government proposes spending boosts for students and ICT, but universities lament lack of fundamental increase

ViewCOP26: The key is coordination

Climate features prominently in Irish funding calls, but the country keeps failing to meet targets

ViewIreland news round-up: 5-18 October

This week: student enrolments, food waste on campus and Cork’s new clinical research facility

ViewAnalysis reveals Irish graduate earning disparities

University location and reputation affect take-home salaries of newly minted doctorates, study shows

ViewIreland news roundup: 21 September to 4 October

This week: impact funding, on-campus vaccination, and a digital cancer research centre in Limerick

ViewAcademy calls for independent chief scientific adviser

Role should be split from its alignment with director of Science Foundation Ireland, it says

ViewIrish universities call for €900m in 2022 Budget

Lecturers’ union asks for “urgent action” to tackle long-term funding crisis flagged by OECD

ViewLecturers worried about unsafe teaching spaces

Teachers’ Union of Ireland calls for Covid-19 risk assessment of classrooms for full campus return

ViewIreland news roundup: 7-20 September

This week: research-policy links, Galway's first Traveller education officer and a gender award for Limerick

ViewIrish campuses reopen despite high Covid-19 rate

Face masks to be worn in classes but vaccination not required, government confirms

ViewRecovery, with strings attached

Mission-based research funding likely to become common for Covid-19 battered institutions in Ireland

ViewIreland news roundup: 24 August to 6 September

This week: university rankings, a president for Shannon tech, and a funding bonanza for enterprise

ViewUK and Ireland fund joint research in digital humanities

AHRC and IRC announce research projects to explore societal issues such as “online hate”

ViewIreland news roundup: 13-26 July

This week: a sustainable development prize, a university launch in Shannon and campus consent training

ViewReport lauds ‘professionalising’ of post-PhD research

Irish universities commended for efforts, but campaign group highlights fraught conditions for international academics

ViewAcademics urged to participate in pilot Covid-19 tests

Ireland-wide project will deliver rapid testing and wastewater checks on campus

ViewIrish universities demand end to ‘serious underfunding’

Academics say proposed higher education reform must protect their autonomy

ViewCarlow to open campus in China

Overseas college will deliver courses in brewing, agriculture and software

ViewIreland news roundup: 29 June to 12 July

This week: a Covid-19 survey, multidisciplinary pandemic research and a Dublin arthritis study

ViewColleges prepare for campus return in September

Irish government expects most students to be vaccinated, meaning teaching activities can resume

ViewIreland’s government calls for research on four-day week

Funding available for projects that examine social, economic and environmental implications of move

ViewIreland news roundup: 15-28 June

This week: launch of geoscience facility, public consultation on innovation, IRC enacts sexual harassment policy