Research Newsletter - Issue 88: Good News
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Congratulations to Dr Áine Travers, School of Psychology, who has been awarded a Career Development Award from Wellcome. This is a very prestigious international award, with only five awardees in Ireland over the multiple years it has been running.
Dr Travers has been awarded funding for 5 years to work on her project titled Understanding and responding to intimate partner violence in the LGBTQ+ community: an implementation study.
Further information on the award can be found on the Wellcome website.
Congratulations to Dr Seán Jordan, School of Chemical Sciences, who have been awarded the SFI-IRC Pathway award to conduct a 4-year project titled “Protocells in the Archaean rock record – Implications for the origin of life and detection of biosignatures”. Using a novel microfluidic experimental setup combined with state-of-the-art analysis, Seán will investigate how the first cell membranes formed, and how they may have been preserved in the rock record for billions of years and been misinterpreted as remnants of once living microorganisms. This project has the capacity to represent a paradigm shift in our fundamental understanding of the origin and evolution of life on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the Solar System.
This is a highly prestigious award funded through the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme, a collaborative initiative between Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the Irish Research Council (IRC) to support early-career research across all disciplines and to encourage interdisciplinary approaches.
Congratulations also to Dr Goran Dominioni on the following honorable mention:
ELPAR Honorable Mention
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Goran Dominioni (School of Law and Government) whose co-authored article with Professor Dan Esty (Yale Law School) was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Environmental Law and Policy Annual Review (ELPAR), a joint publication of the Environmental Law Reporter and Vanderbilt University Law School (Nashville, Tennessee).
The title of the article is "Designing Effective Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes." The article was selected from a pool of hundreds of law journal articles on environmental topics published between August 2022 and July 2023.
The objective of ELPAR is to make the year’s best environmental law and policy ideas more accessible to policy-makers and practitioners.