Research Newsletter - Issue 86: Events
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Date: 21st - 24th September 2023
Venue: IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham
EARTH RISING, is a free four-day festival aimed at addressing the climate crisis and inspiring collective action towards a sustainable and hopeful future. The festival promises an experience that seeks to provoke, inspire, and empower audiences to become agents of change.
The festival programme offers a diverse array of events, including over 50 artists and collaborators. This year, IMMA has partnered with the DCU Centre for Climate and Society to co-curate the Earth Rising talks stage, bringing together influential voices from diverse fields to explore creative solutions for environmental and societal change.
View the festival programme here.
Date: 29th September 2023
Venue: Royal Irish Academy, Dawson Street
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) and the Irish Community Archive Network (iCAN) are pleased to announce their collaborative conference "Supporting Community Archives into the Future."
This event will bring community archives from diverse backgrounds all around the island of Ireland together for a day of talks, workshops, and knowledge sharing. The event programme includes spotlights on Black and Irish, Clare Memories, and guidance from the Heritage Council, the Oral History Network of Ireland, and the DRI ‘LEGO for Reproducibility’ workshop.
See the full conference programme for more information.
The event is free and in-person in the Royal Irish Academy. Places are limited, so interested community archivers should register soon here: Eventbrite registration
Date: Tuesday, 3rd October 2023
12:15pm-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-5:00pm Workshop
Venue: DCUBS Top Floor Q303/Q304, DCU Glasnevin Campus
Join DCU Invent's upcoming event where they delve into the transformative impact of your research! This workshop will shed light on who might use your research and on the real-world problems your research addresses. By attending, you will gain valuable insight into how your academic endeavours make a meaningful impact on society. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with DCU peers, share your discoveries and explore the solutions your research provides. This highly interactive practical workshop uses leading edge innovation methodologies and tools to support market exploration of research ideas.
Open to all DCU researchers, PhDs, academic staff, and Heads of Schools and Research Centres. Let’s unlock the potential impact of your valuable research!
Key Benefits for Researchers
- Demonstrate the impact potential of your research
- Explore the real-world problems that your research solves
- Understand why potential customers would adopt your solution
- Learn to communicate ideas to your target audience
- Articulate the societal & economic impact of your research
- Achieve more success with research funding applications, including SFI and EI grants
- Develop skills that enhance your CV and expand your job prospects
For further information please contact maria.johnston@dcu.ie
DCU Invent Explore
Date: 11th October 2023
Venue: The Helix, DCU Glasnevin Campus
There have been many reflective conferences marking 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement, but the crucial contribution of community-based organisations to the peace process - both grassroots community groups in Northern. Ireland, and Irish American organisations – has been somewhat neglected. This conference will bring leading voices from grassroots, community-based organisations in Northern Ireland, together with leading figures in the Irish American community to reflect on both the process to achieve the Good Friday Agreement and to promote its implementation. It will discuss what has worked and what has not worked over the past 25 years, the steps that are needed to build inclusion, and how Irish America can continue to play a crucial role 25 years on.
There are a range of speakers, some of whom have rarely, and in some cases never, spoken at such a conference in the Republic of Ireland - such as David Campbell (Loyalist Communities Council), Jackie Redpath (senior Loyalist activist, Shankill Road), Linda Ervine (Irish language activist form a unionist background). The programme has a range of Irish American activists who were involved at a high level in Irish American activism in the run up to the Good Friday Agreement and also those involved in education and in community development in some of Northern Ireland's most disadvantaged communities, across the community.
All are welcome. Registration is free - but do let us know for catering purposes at vpr@dcu.ie
Dates: 12th October & 3rd November 2023
Venue: Online
Advances in Information and Communication Technology have provided teachers and learners with multimodal repertoires that consist of traditional linguistic features (lexical, morphological, syntactical, etc) and other meaning-making signs that dominate screen-mediated digital productions – visual cues, gestures, sounds, etc. As a result, there is increased interest in studying these multimodal phenomena. Translanguaging, a theory that takes an ecological view to consider human communication as an organic whole, embraces multimodality to highlight the integration of multimodal semiotic resources into a fluid, dynamic flow of meaning-making.
Putting a spotlight on Chinese language education, the webinars will explore and discuss the use of translanguaging in order to look at the interconnection of multimodal semiotics. With four keynote speakers from the UK, Ireland, Canada and New Zealand, the webinars will shed light on the digital future of Chinese language teaching and learning in the context of AI and ChatGPT.
- Professor Li Wei will provide an up-to-date overview of the theoretical development of translanguaging.
- Dr Danping Wang and Dr Caitriona Osborne will investigate the practices of situating research into Chinese language education in a translanguaging framework.
- Professor Wei Cai will take the perspective of integrating digital multimodal resources to propose principles for leveraging ChatGPT in learning and teaching Chinese.
Funded by the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Ireland, the webinars are organised by Dr Qi Zhang and supported by the Research Project Administration Team at Dublin City University.
Please register here.
Date: 31st October 2023 (12.30 - 4.00pm)
Venue: Library, GLA Campus
The DCU Open Research Taskforce invites you to a DCU Open Research Event: Open Research Landscapes.
The event will outline the national landscape in relation to open research and showcase UK and European developments in open access and research assessment.
It provides an exciting opportunity for DCU staff and researchers to hear about approaches and initiatives working towards a culture of open research.
We are delighted to be joined by the following expert speakers:
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Dr. Daniel Bangert (National Open Research Coordinator, National Open Research Forum)
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Kim Huijpen (Programme Manager, National Programme on Recognition and Rewards of Academics, Association of Universities in the Netherlands)
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Dr. Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost, Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, UCL)
We will also present the results of the DCU Open Research Taskforce's survey on Open Research during the event.
Please register here.
Date: 2nd & 3rd November 2023
Venue: Royal irish Academy, Dawson St
The preliminary programme for Ireland’s inaugural National Open Research Festival, taking place in the Royal Irish Academy 2nd & 3rd November 2023, has just been published. Visit the website to find out more about the exciting programme of talks and workshops, including a keynote talk about NASA’s Open Science programme by Programme Scientist Chelle Gentemann.
Date: 7th November 2023
Venue: Printworks Conference Centre, Dublin Castle
The annual Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) conference is finally back in person. The 2023 Geoscience event will be held in the Printworks Conference Centre, Dublin Castle on November 7th. The theme this year is Geoscience for a better future and will include recent developments from Geological Survey Ireland and GSI’s research and policy partners in areas of geothermal, water, minerals, and coastal change.
Registration details and the agenda will be released shortly, please watch the GSI events page for more information: Events (gsi.ie)
Date: 30th November 2023
Venue: Gibson Hotel, Dublin
The HRB National Conference on Research Ethics will be jointly hosted by Health Research Board and National Office for Research Ethics Committees in person on 30th November 2023 at the Gibson Hotel in Dublin. This conference is aimed at health professionals, researchers, representatives from the Irish health system and pharmaceutical industry as well as policy and decision makers in health. Members of the public are welcome to join.
You can register here.