By Ciara Browne – Deputy News Editor This Article includes insights and personal responses from Dr. Mark O’Sullivan – Lead Investigator. A research team led by University College Cork’s (UCC) Dr. Mark O’Sullivan in the INFANT Research Centre (Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health) has been awarded funding by Enterprise Ireland to commercialise a medical…
By Ciara Browne, Deputy News Editor COVID-19 has changed and impacted employment within Ireland and has affected the Irish population as a whole, including graduates of third level education. The Higher Education Authority collects, analyses and disseminates student and graduate related data returned to the HEA from all HEA-funded institutions annually. The HEA leads the strategic…
By Ciara Browne, Deputy News Editor University College Cork has launched the Speak Out Anonymous Reporting Tool which is a new online tool that will allow students and staff at UCC to anonymously report incidents of bullying, cyber bullying, discrimination, harassment, coercive behavior or control, assault, stalking, sexual harassment and assault, and rape. The tool was…
Ciara Browne Deputy News Editor This article includes news on sexual assault allegations and the murder of Ashling Murphy. Please do not read if you feel you may be triggered. Gardaí are investigating an alleged sexual assault on teenage girls in Sligo with several scenes sealed off and extensive appeal for information issued from the…
By Ciara Browne, Deputy News Editor This article contains mentions of domestic violence and abuse. If you feel you may be triggered, please skip this article. A number of third-level institutions have committed to introducing a domestic violence leave policy for staff in 2022. This comes after NUIG announced in May 2021 that all staff members…
By Ciara Browne – Deputy News Editor A Cork woman, Dr. Ann Kelleher, a University College Cork graduate of UCC’s electrical engineering programme, has made history. Dr. Kelleher is the first ever Irish person to be promoted to the role of Executive Vice President at Technology Giant Intel. The native Macroom woman joined the world’s largest…
By Ciara Browne – Deputy News Editor The Equality Challenge Unit (ECU)’s Athena SWAN Award is a national charter that recognises the advancement of gender equality in higher education, encompassing representation, progression, and success for all. Recently, University College Cork celebrated its recent Athena SWAN Award which recognised the university’s commitment to promoting and excelling in…
By Ciara Browne – Deputy News Editor There have been several reports in recent weeks of people being injected with drugs without their knowledge in bars and nightclubs across Ireland and the UK. The attacks have primarily targeted young women, typically in their early twenties, and the most common areas are pubs and clubs that college…
By Ciara Browne Nadim Hussain, an asylum seeker currently living in Direct Provision in Cork, on the Kinsale Road, is currently on hunger strike as he awaits a decision on permission to remain in the country, stating if he goes back to India he will be killed. Nadim left his home in India in January…
By Ciara Browne – Deputy News Editor This article contains mentions of sexual violence and assault. If you feel you may be triggered, please skip this article. A number of studies have been conducted in Ireland over the past four years which explore the safety a young woman feels while out in public and on public…