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Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Closing Remarks Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Departm...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time Institutional Role Professor Paul McCutcheon, Vice President Academic & Registrar, University of Limerick RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate Speaker...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time Academic Freedom Dr Tom Collins, President Emeritus, National University of Ireland, Maynooth & Former President, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland Bahrain RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Panel Discussion: University Values Over Time Impact On Gender Professor Sally Wheeler, Head, School of Law, Queens University Belfast RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate Speakers: Dr Michael Doh...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact University Autonomy in Europe – Impact and Trends Mr Thomas Estermann, European University Association RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Socia...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Academic Freedom: A Provocation? Professor Paddy Prendergast, Provost Trinity College Dublin RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate Speakers: Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact From Practice Into Policy - Inscribing Educational Values Into The Horizon Programme Mr Declan Kirrane, Managing Director, Intelligence in Science RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin Keynote: Lord David Puttnam of Queensgate Speakers: Dr...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact The Universities Amendment Bill - A Brief Introduction Dr Michael Doherty, Secretary of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/Department of Law & Government Dublin City University RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin Keynote: Lord David Puttn...

Values in University Education - From Academic Freedom to Impact Welcome and Overview on Values in Education: A Roadmap to Responsbile Open Innovation Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Dublin RIASOC Chair: Professor Lizbeth Goodman (Event Chair), Chair of the RIA Social Sciences Committee/SMARTlab, University College Du...

RIA Library Lunchtime Lecture: ‘Ruaidhri Ó Flaithbheartaigh through his letters: a learned Gaelic chief and his Oxford friend in 1700’. Dr Richard Sharpe Wednesday, 12 June, 1-2 p.m., Academy House Dr Richard Sharpe, Professor of Diplomatic at Oxford and author of Roderick O’Flaherty’s letters 1696-1709 (RIA, 2013): www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this we...

Public Lecture - Making Science Work Sir Paul Nurse Friday, 14 June 2013, Academy House Sir Paul Nurse, President, The Royal Society, gives a lecture on Making Science Work. The photo of Sir Paul Nurse is courtesy of the BBC. www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the...

Robert Lloyd Praeger and the Darwinian Revolution Greta Jones, University of Ulster Ulster naturalists long sought to gain an insight into the nature of God through the study of nature. Greta Jones looks at how Darwin's theories affected Praeger and influenced his work. www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims...

Clare Island: Ice ages and Climate Change Peter Coxon Peter Coxon brilliantly outlines the effects of ice ages and climate change on Clare Island and describes how these have shaped its remarkably diverse landscape. Peter Coxon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography. a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is currently the Secretary-General...

Assembling the Home team: from A.G. More to R.I.I. Praeger Declan Doogue Declan Doogue unravels the influences and players in Irish natural history field studies from A.G. More to the present day. Declan Doogue is the Honorary Vice-President of the Dublin Natuiralists' Field Club and has served as its President for three separate periods. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Botanical Society...

Clare Island - The Record of a 600-Million Year Assembly Line John Graham Clare Island's dramatic and diverse landscape shows the evidence of 6000 million years of climate change. John Graham tells this fascinating story. John R. Graham is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Geology at Trinity College, Dublin. He was educated at the University of Manchester and the University of Exeter...

Clare Island Abbey and it's Paintings Conleth Manning Conleth Manning speaks about Clare Island Abbey and its magnificent wall paintings - a very rare, intriguing and charming example of an Irish medieval painted church interior. Conleth Manning studied Archaeology and Early Irish History at UCD, where he also did an MA in Archaeology. He is a senior archaeologist in the National Monuments Service...

Talks from the Heron-Allen Society Edward Heron-Allen Edward Heron-Allen gives a lively first-hand account of his time working on the Clare Island Survey in his journals. John Whittaker of the Heron-Allen Society discusses the journals and the memorabilia that Heron-Allen collected during his work on the Survey. John Whittaker, former head of micropalaeontology at the Natural History Museum, is a...

Competitiveness Craig Barrett Monday, 8 February 2010, Mansion House Listen to the audio from Craig Barrett's talk. www.ria.ie Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared the content of this website responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors’ own and n...

The Role of the University in a Changing World Drew Faust 30 June 2010, Trinity College Dublin In a speech to the Royal Irish Academy at Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 30 June, Harvard president Drew Faust surveyed "the role of the university in a changing world." While she celebrated the expansion of education globally, she warned of the rising pressures threatening to undercut that trend. S...

Learning From One Another - Us and European Policies Toward University-Industry Technology Transfer Professor David C. Mowery, Chair of New Enterprise Development, Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley Tuesday, 20 September 2011, Academy House On the 20 of September David C. Mowery delivered a public lecture jointly orgainised by the Royal Irish Academy and the ESRI entitle...

Academy Discourse - Biographies and the Biographer's Task Professor Hermione Lee, CBE Friday, 7 October 2011, 6pm, Academy House Hermione Lee's previous books include biographical studies Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather, the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, C...

Academy Discourse - Molecules That Changed the World Professor K. C. Nicolaou, University of California, San Diego Thursday, 3 November 2011, Academy House Professor K.C. Nicolaou is a Cypriot-American chemist known for the total synthesis of natural products. His research is focused on a specialized field of organic chemistry called total synthesis, which involves the creation of organic molecule...

Academy Discourse - The End of Ageing Professor Roseanne Kenny, Mercer's Institute for Successful Aging, St. James Hospital and Neurosciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin Monday, 12 December 2011, Academy House In this discourse Professor Roseanne Kenny explained what is happening in age prevention, and shows how we can lengthen our own life spans. Professor Kenny also looked at how and why p...

Academy Discourse - God and Sex - What the Bible Really Says Professor Michael Coogan, Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum and Lecturer on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School Thursday, 16 February 2012, Academy House Opposing sides on abortion, same-sex marriage, and other so-called “family values” often appeal to the Bible in support of their contradictory po...

Academy Discourse - Count Dracula and Bram Stoker Terry Eagleton Wednesday, 19 April 2012, Academy House Terry Eagleton was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and was formerly Thomas Warton Professor of English in the University of Oxford. He is presently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Universities of Lancaster and Notre Dame, and a Fe...