Research Week 2025
Carlow College Research Hub is hosting Research Week 2024 from 26th – 29th February.
Research Week celebrates and acknowledges the active research efforts of staff and students, as well as being a platform for information sharing within the College and wider community.
Schedule of Events
Monday, Feb 26, 1.30pm – 2.30pm
Research Week Launch Feb 26, 1.30-1.40, Cobden Hall
Research Week will be launched by Dr Eoghan Smith, Research Hub.
Keynote talk, 1.40-2.30, Cobden Hall,
Professor Tyler Miller (Associate Professor of Psychology, South Dakota State University: ‘Deciding what to believe: How credibility and consistency shape our confidence’.
Chair: Dr Seán Boyle, Research Hub.
Tyler Miller is an Associate Professor of Psychology at South Dakota State University. He also serves as the Associate Academic Director for the School of Psychology, Sociology and Rural Studies. Miller has been recognized for outstanding teaching with the Edward Patrick Hogan Award for Teaching Excellence and is a research fellow in the Psychonomic Society. Miller has also led multiple international education abroad programs and successful interdisciplinary initiatives, including program evaluation efforts funded by the National Science Foundation and for campus and community events in the Van D. and Barbara B. Fishback Honors College at SDSU. His psychology research has received Association for Psychological Science and National Endowment for the Arts funding. Miller earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in psychology with an emphasis in behavioural neuroscience. He earned a Psychology Ph.D. with a cognitive psychology focus from Texas A&M University.
Tuesday, Feb 27, 1pm – 2pm
Postgraduate Study Stand: Outside Dining Hall
Research Insights: Moriarty Hall
- 1.00-1.20: Dr Simon Workman, ‘The end of the world is always a local event’: Dystopian futures in Contemporary Irish Fiction.
- 1.20-1.40: Steph Hanlon, Risk Society and the Politics of Fear – The Construction of Migration in Ireland.
- 1.40-2.00: Dr Mel Farrell, ‘From bullets to ballots: the 1923 general election in the Irish Free State’
Wednesday, Feb 28, 1pm – 2pm
Research Insights: Iris Murdoch Hall
- 1.00-1.20: Jenny Fahy, ‘Creative psychotherapy intervention for a child based on a fictitious vignette’
- 1.20-1.40: Dr John McHugh, ‘Long-arm Supervision in Social Care placements’.
- 1.40-2.00: Dr Ida Milne, ‘Measles: how a once almost eradicated disease has again become a global health threat.’
Thursday, Feb 29, 1-2
Postgraduate Study Stand: Outside Dining Hall
Research Insights: Therry Hall
- 1.00-1.20: Dr Liz Dawson, ‘Boundaries and status in the earliest Brigidine writings’
- 1.20-1.40: Judy Bolger, ‘The Official Discourse and Social Construction of Motherhood and the Irish Workhouse System of the Late Nineteenth-Century’
- 1.40-2.00: Dr Noel Kavanagh, ‘Zoontology as a precursor to understanding our AI obligations’
Hourly Schedule
Tuesday, 27th February
- 1.00pm - 1.20pm
- Dr Simon Workman, 'The end of the world is always a local event’: Dystopian futures in Contemporary Irish Fiction
- Room: Moriarty Hall
- 1.20pm - 1.40pm
- Steph Hanlon, Risk Society and the Politics of Fear - The Construction of Migration in Ireland.
- Room: Moriarty Hall
- 1.40pm - 2.00pm
- Dr Mel Farrell, ‘From bullets to ballots: the 1923 general election in the Irish Free State’
- Room: Moriarty Hall
- 1.00pm - 2.00pm
- Postgraduate Study Opportunities Stand
- Outside Dining Hall
Wednesday, 28th February
- 1.00pm - 1.20pm
- Jenny Fahy, ‘Creative psychotherapy intervention for a child based on a fictitious vignette’
- Room: Murdoch Hall
- 1.20pm - 1.40pm
- Dr John McHugh, 'Long-arm Supervision in Social Care placements'.
- Room: Murdoch Hall
- 1.40pm - 2.00pm
- Dr Ida Milne, ‘Measles: how a once almost eradicated disease has again become a global health threat.’
- Room: Murdoch Hall
Thursday, 29th February
- 1.00pm - 1.20pm
- Dr Liz Dawson, ‘Boundaries and status in the earliest Brigidine writings’
- Room: Therry Hall
- 1.20pm - 1.40pm
- Judy Bolger, 'The Official Discourse and Social Construction of Motherhood and the Irish Workhouse System of the Late Nineteenth-Century'
- Room: Therry Hall
- 1.40pm - 2.00pm
- Dr Noel Kavanagh, ‘Zoontology as a precursor to understanding our AI obligations’
- Room: Therry Hall
- 1.00pm - 2.00pm
- Postgraduate Study Opportunities Stand
- Outside Dining Hall
