A longitudinal study of the factors influencing women’s participation in Ireland's IT sector by Lero's Prof Regina Connolly () & Eileen Trauth () in has been accepted to 's 'Honor Roll' of research with credible social impact. #WomenInSTEM
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Lecturer at University of New South Wales (UNSW) Business School, Sydney. Formerly with NUIGalway and Lero | SFI Research Centre for Software
Sydney, New South WalesJoined December 2012
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"Generations of men & women have worked the land. However, the legal ownership of land is male dominated.
The focus of my thesis is the issue of gender balance: Why is the decision to pass the farm onto the next generation often based on gender rather than interest & ability?"
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Hi 🙂
I am doing a PhD in UL on farm ownership and gender.
If you are completing/completed the green cert I would appreciate you taking the time to answer this anonymous survey.
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My brilliant cousin is a PhD candidate
with & . She discusses the evolution of land ownership and inheritance for women on
- A history of women's land rights in Ireland rte.ie/brainstorm/202 via
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Minister for Further & Higher Ed, Research, Innovation & Science, announced an investment of €193m in 5 Research Centres. Lero will receive €37m of funding over 6 years following robust international peer reviews. Read more⬇️ gov.ie/en/press-relea
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Yesterday, awarded eight researchers with Lero Director’s Prizes, including , 's Dr Jim Buckley and Dara O’Connor, and 's Dr Paul Clarke
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Lero's of @nuigalway was announced as 2020 recipient of the #LeroDirectorsPrize for Diversity and Inclusion.
Read an interview with Mairead here: lgbtstem.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/an-
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Since the beginning of her academic career, Professor Ita Richardson has worked to support women studying and
working in science and engineering disciplines.
Read more about Prof 's work in #WomeninSTEM in this month's #Lero15 profile ⬇️
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Rise of software poses challenges for all, says Professor Brian Fitzgerald of centre in today’s
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Matti Mäntymäki (University of Turku) presents at our next IS Seminar Series ”Why do blockchains split – and what keeps them together? An Actor-Network Theory perspective to social dynamics of blockchains” - February 28 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, CA110, @NUIGCairnes
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Looking forward to the Honorary Professor deliver his workshop on 'Data, Analytics and the Economics of Digital Transformation Workshop' at
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Great to see @UCDCSL's @ElayneRuane and @Abebab featured as role models for this years's @ucdscience celebrations of UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science #WomenInScienceDay @UCDCompSci @scienceirel @LeroNews
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. member Ronan Doyle, PhD student with the Agile and Open Innovation cluster, has written a new piece in Village which explores electoral fickleness in liquid modernity. Read more here: whitakerinstitute.ie/the-village-el
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Research by member, Dr Eoin Whelan has highlighted the benefits of apps such as Strava and RunKeeper for people in rural areas in a new article in . Read more: whitakerinstitute.ie/are-weight-los
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from presenting at IS seminar series @nuigalway
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Anastasia Griva introduces this weeks IS seminar series speaker Ilias Pappas from Norway
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. member Dr Eoin Whelan, of the Agile and Open Innovation cluster, has led a new study which examines how fitness apps can affect the wellbeing of users, both positively and negatively. Read more here: whitakerinstitute.ie/the-pros-and-c
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All PGT Offer Holders who have accepted their place on one of our Masters programmes have an opportunity to apply for one of our NEW merit scholarships - up to 50% off the tuition fee! nuigalway.ie/business-publi #scholarships #Masters @nuigalway @EduIreland @StudyInGalway
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Over 15 years, Lero researchers have produced more than 2,000 publications & over 81,000 citations. Bibliometric
analysis shows that Lero research is cited 96% more times than the norm among software research centres.
Read about #Lero15➡️ lero.ie/lero-15
#IrishSoftware
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The National #Scratch Competition is open for entries! Deadline for project submissions is February 2020. Run by & supported by , the competition promotes #Computing & #SoftwareDevelopment at primary and secondary school
levels. #BelieveInScience
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ICS opens entries to 2020 Scratch coding competition techcentral.ie/ics-opens-entr #icsscratch
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Great interview with 's about her career and #STEM role models. Mairead is also one of SFI's #SmartFutures Ambassadors #LGBTSTEM
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Mary Curtin, a Law and Accounting student, was awarded a Silver Medal award for highest QCA at a graduation ceremony held in on 26 Aug. Mary has won many prizes and competitions in and will be starting a PhD in this September. ulsites.ul.ie/law/silver-med
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Today , , the centre for software research, launches Ireland’s first #esports science research lab. Listen out to on this morning to hear discuss it.
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Check out the new article by our very own Professor Kieran Conboy @NUIGCairnes
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Have you checked out the agenda for #InnerSource Commons Spring Summit 2019? (held 9th to 11th April at @NUIGCairnes, @nuigalway). If not, here is a sneak peak. For more details go to paypal.github.io/InnerSourceCom
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Just a few weeks left until the #InnerSource Commons Spring Summit @nuigalway. twitter.com/NoelCarroll5/s
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Check out the exciting agenda for #InnerSource Commons Spring Summit 2019 held (9th to 11th April at @NUIGCairnes, @nuigalway) paypal.github.io/InnerSourceCom @Commons2019 @Lero_NUIGalway @leronews
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Our next IS seminar takes place on Friday, 29th March in CA110 at 11am with a talk from Prof. Bill Schmarzo entitled "Exploiting the Economics of Business Analytics” @NUIGCairnes
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Liliana & the President ...
I had no idea he was so into software engineering.
Great to have Lero research stars on hand to talk about the bits ‘n bytes & their impact on the world.
#InternationalWomansDay2019 #IWD2019 #Software
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Irish software research centre Lero selected for €15m EU cybersecurity project i.securitythinkingcap.com/Qzsgd6
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The €2.1 million Future Software Systems Architectures project, directed by Paul Clarke and Rory O'Connor, both of @DublinCityUni and , "holds the promise of major disruption & innovation as computing enters the serverless era."
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Embracing the disruption of Serverless Computing! @fineos @fourtheorem @leronews Read more: bit.ly/2SJ1a2a
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Public Lecture on Business Analytics
NUI Galway - click link for more info bit.ly/2ITqmUe
28 Mar, 6-8pm
Keynote 1: Exploiting the Economics of Business Analytics
Keynote 2: A Data-view of the Data Science Process
@NUIGBASoC @NUIGCairnes
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"Every €1 invested by the State and industry in Lero, one of Ireland’s national research centres, generates over five times the value to the economy". #BelieveinScience
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Well done to director Brian Fitzgerald who received a National Conference Ambassador Award #NCAA18 from & for his role as Conference Chair for the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
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What an great evening here @cccdub with #Transport and #Communications category National Conference Ambassadors Awards #NCAA18 @BrianStapo @MeetInIreland
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Well done to researchers @nuigalway and @DublinCityUni both shortlisted in the Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year category Industry Awards 2018.
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