As the world continues to advance and technology becomes increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, it is important for third-level educational institutes to embrace, rather than hide from, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into their curricula. First and foremost, the integration of AI into education will provide students with valuable skills and knowledge that […]
It was Thursday morning on the final week of a COP due to finish the following afternoon. Minister Eamonn Ryan had just completed one of several updates of the negotiations to the civil society groups from Ireland. It was laudable that he had found the time to do this, having recently been appointed as the […]
It is often queried why so many people are necessary to attend the COP. The attendance of around 30,000 this year is made up not just of national negotiators from the 197 countries who signed up to the UN Framework Convention of Climate Change but also an army of vested interest groups, mainly from fossil […]
The Annual Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has largely entered the lexicon as the COP. Now in its 27th iteration, the rotation of locations based on continents has landed 30,000 delegates in the African resort of Sharm El Sheikh at the southern tip of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula. […]
Community Mapping and Spatial Justice As part of our M.A. in Spatial Justice, Maynooth geographers have worked with various civil society stakeholders and this has pushed the teaching and research of Maynooth geographers in novel directions, both in terms of topics and methodology. One of our most important contexts for learning has been in partnership […]
This is the final blog in the series ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #15), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022 in partnership with Maynooth Geography and Common Ground. Common Ground has been working since 1999 as a local arts organisation in the complex, constantly changing inner-city areas across Dublin 8 […]
Most (if not all) people in Ireland are noticing rising food prices, which come on top of (and are connected to) the sharp rise in energy bills. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is one immediate factor, because it looks like the conflict will reduce Russian and Ukrainian food and fertilizer exports. Then there are the ongoing […]
This is the fourteenth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #14), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. This is the second part of ‘A Conversation with artist Kate O’Shea’ (Figure 1), in which MA Spatial Justice, MA and PG Diploma Geography students at Maynooth University […]
This is the thirteenth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #13), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. As mentioned in the first blog of this series (SJD8 #1: ‘Sustainable Communities and the Publicly Engaged University’), Maynooth Geographers regularly engage with artists in a number of […]
This is the twelfth in a series of blogs on ‘Spatial Justice in Dublin 8’ (SJD8 #12), as a contribution to Maynooth University Social Justice Week 2022. Geography is interdisciplinary and open to the world. From activists in Inchicore, we learned of issues that are geographical and spatial, but that are much broader than the […]
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