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UCD Iseult Honohan Doctoral Scholarship 2025

Applications now open!!
Deadline: Friday 31st January 2025

Stefan Müller highly commended in Early Career Researcher of the Year Awards

Dr Stefan Müller was highly commended in the Early Career Researcher of the Year (IRC Legacy) Awards 2024, while Dr Krishna Vadlamannati was recognised as a “Research Ally”.

SPIRe & CSD will host Dr Vegard Iversen on 22nd Jan 2025. Click for details.

UCD 49th in the world and No 1 in Ireland for sustainability

UCD has been playing a direct role in the development of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, ... through the advocacy of Prof Patrick Paul Walsh.

Teaching Excellence & 10 year Long Service Awards

Dr James Cross has won the Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr James Cross & Dr Alexander Dukalskis have received the 10-year Long Service Award.

Dave Banks has been awarded the 2024 Basil Chubb Prize

A SPIRe PhD student, Dave Banks, has been awarded the 2024 Basil Chubb Prize, an annual award to recognise the best PhD politics thesis in Ireland.

In memoriam: Tom Garvin MRIA

"His lively irreverence as much as the astonishingly wide range of his knowledge stimulated many generations of students"
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam uasal.

SPIRe Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2024

SPIRe Newsletter Autumn/Winter 2024 has just been published.

Spring 2025 Seminar Series

All seminars are on Wednesdays from 12-1pm in the SPIRe boardroom, F301 Newman.