Associate Professor wins UCD 2020 Research Impact Case Study Competition
University College Dublin: Associate Professor Catherine Cox has been named winner of the UCD 2020 Research Impact Case Study Competition. Her case study, entitled Out of sight, out of mind: changing public perceptions of the mental health crisis in Irish prisons, details the significant impact of her project exploring the history of prisoner health.
The five-year project is funded by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award and led by co-Principal Investigators Associate Professor Cox and Professor Hilary Marland from University of Warwick. The research identified long-standing neglect of people with mental illness in Irish prisons.
Dublin s Q102 By Hannah Murphy
It kicks off today and will run until Friday.
President Michael D. Higgins will give an opening address at lunchtime.
Judge and UCD Professor Orla Feely says there s a few key themes in this years projects; As you would expect, we are seeing a number of projects to do with various aspects of Covid-19, the pandemic and also the behavioural implication of the pandemic on particularly people of student-age. There has always been a lot of projects around sustainability and that is still a theme. There are projects across a whole range of science and social science, so it s great to see , she told us.
UCD launches new Space Centre today
Written by Robert McHugh, on 15th Dec 2020. Posted in General
UCD has today launched C-Space, the UCD Centre for Space Research, which will be a first-of-its-kind dedicated hub of excellence for interdisciplinary collaborative space-related research, innovation and education in Ireland.
By building on nationally leading projects such as EIRSAT-1, Ireland’s first satellite, C-Space aims to be a key national resource for space expertise and training.
The centre will focus on current key space research themes, in which UCD has established leadership, including Astrophysics, Earth Observation, Gamma-ray Detectors, Nanosatellites and Payloads, Space Materials and Space Structure Dynamics and Control.
UCD launches new centre for space research
Researchers working on EIRSAT-1. Image: UCD
The C-Space research centre at UCD will tap into technological and economic opportunities in the growing European space industry.
University College Dublin (UCD) has launched Ireland’s first dedicated hub for space-related research, innovation and education.
C-Space, the UCD Centre for Space Research, aims to boost Ireland’s space industry with interdisciplinary collaborative research, and provide skills and training for jobs of the future.
The centre will focus on astrophysics, Earth observation, gamma-ray detectors, nanosatellites and payloads, space materials and more.
‘Our purpose is to build academic and industrial partnerships that advance the use of space to address global scientific and societal challenges’