17 Maynooth Univeristy Projects Awarded Research Council Funding.

Nationally, the IRC has issued a record number of awards today.

17 Maynooth University research projects have been awarded Irish Research Council funding.

Nationally, 2021 sees the highest combined number of awards made in the history of the IRC Government of Ireland programmes, totalling €28 million.

The Maynooth awardees include 14 postgraduate and three postdoctoral projects, in areas of study including Law, Sociology, Chemistry and Anthropology

Maynooth University Postgraduate Research Projects
Aaron Curtis, Biology - Uncovering host adaptation processes in Aspergillus fumigatus. (Postgraduate research project)

Andrew Clarke, English - Describe the Problem Properly: Hybridity and Ambiguity in the work of Teju Cole.

Ciara Finnegan, Law - A critical analysis of the use of weapons in Outer Space with a view to forming recommendations for regulation from the perspective of the principle of humanity in International Humanitarian Law.

Colm McKeever , Chemistry - Electrochemical investigations into latent fingerprint enhancement on metallic surfaces using electrodeposited films and electrochromic materials.

Duong Quoc Khanh, Sociology - The impact of globalization on the unemployment: an empirical study in Asia-Pacific countries.

Eamonn Milliken, History - German-Austrian Officer Veterans of the Great War in Military Service, 1918-45.

Emer Kavanagh, Early Irish - Signs and Wonders: Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval Ireland.

Harriet Finnegan, Business - HISTORI (Health IT: Stories & Theories of Organisation and Innovation).

Isaac Obour Mensah, Geography - Detecting Illegal Small-Scale Mines in Ghana Using Data Fusion Deep Learning Approach

Joana Amoanab, Biology - Defining the role of transforming growth factor alpha in liver regeneration using 3D culture models.

Keitumetse Mabole, Adult and Community Education - The impact of indigenous knowledge in enhancing lifelong learning amongst the marginalised communities: The case of the San communities in Botswana

Laure de Tymowski, Geography - Whose environment, whose city? A critical assessment of environmental justice in South Dublin.

Sze Ying Tan, Biology - Exploring the regulatory role of Pellino proteins in adaptive immunity.

Thomas McGrath, History - An examination of the Irish in South Africa from the Irish Revolution to the declaration of the South African Republic.

Maynooth University Postgraduate Research Projects
Fiadh Tubridy, Geography - Climate change and managed retreat in Ireland: coproducing pathways for just adaptation with vulnerable communities.

Edmund Chapman, English - The Language of Refuge: Transnational Writers, Antisemitism and Home.

Grace Zhou, Anthropology - Theorizing Settler Socialism: Economy, Identity, and Power in Post-Socialist Central Asia.