Group photo of the MTU University Executive, October 2025.

We are delighted to announce the establishment of MTU’s new University Executive and new Faculties, major milestones in our transformation programme merging six campuses into one university. You can find out more about the new University Executive at www.mtu.ie/news/new-uni...

Volume 40 Issue 2 | Health Promotion International | Oxford Academic Publishes papers on major themes and innovations in the health promotion field. The journal publishes contributions from sectors beyond health, and seeks to promote theoretical, methodological, and ac...

Health Promotion International is delighted to launch it's special issue on the Digital Determinants of Health!
 
Find the full series here, with more articles to come in the following weeks academic.oup.com/heapro/issue...

Graphic that reads "Trans rights are human rights" on a pink and blue background, with the Human Rights Watch square logo in the bottom right corner.

Trans rights are human rights.

#TransDayOfVisibility

Trinity warns staff not to answer US government request for diversity and equality information A questionnaire seeks to establish whether funded research aligns with the Trump administration’s interests.

Trinity warns staff not to answer US government request for diversity and equality information jrnl.ie/6662142

It must be such a distressing time for so many international students in the US right now- many of whom have I’m sure made considerable sacrifices to study there and faced multiple challenges while there.

“… misogyny … always adapts to the contemporary context.”

The Design and Formalization of an Embodied Soundscape Sonification Framework This paper explores the design, evaluation, and formalisation of a framework for the creation of soundscape sonifications: data-to-sound mappings which make use of sounds recorded from real-world s...

Just published my Soundscape Sonification framework in the International Journal of Human-computer Interaction.

It provides an embodied basis for soundscape sonification design and composition.

I’ve got 50 free e-prints from T&F so drop me a line for a copy

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Look at this, the band is back together!!

I’ve been here for months, waiting for you!

UCC wishes to appoint a lecturer in #DigitalHumanities for an anticipated duration of 12 months to provide secondment cover for an existing staff member.

For details of the post, see ore.ucc.ie (Job ID 078871)

It is essential that the successful candidate is in post by September 2024.

The International Symposium on the Future of Digital Editing & Publishing took place at UCC last week.

Dr Gabriel Egan, De Montfort, gave a wonderful keynote, followed by a closing reception featuring a reading by Irish poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin.

Extended abstracts:
hdl.handle.net/10468/15969

Are these the 5 best literary video games of all time? Literary games appeal because they present the player with a radically new type of storytelling

Wondering which ‘literary games’ count among the greats? Wonder no more…

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

@uccresearch.bsky.social @eliterature.bsky.social @astridensslin.bsky.social

New position paper just published!

"The born-digital in future digital scholarly editing and publishing"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's open access (thanks to Irish Research Council)

@uccresearch.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr Day!

I feel like Matthew McConaughey’s character in Interstellar when he got trapped behind the bookcase but instead of a bookcase, it’s my inbox.

The degrees that could earn you €100,000 a year – and the qualifications that lead to worst-payi... The hackneyed joke about the earning potential of a philosophy graduate goes something like this.

I really dislike articles like these.

The degrees that could earn you €100,000 a year – and the qualifications that lead to worst-paying jobs

“€2.8m in funding … will train a cohort of early-stage researchers in text and cultural analytics…The project will emphasise the importance of computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations ..” 👏👏

These MTU women in design, Sarah Hayes & Denise Heffernan, doing great things at their design workshop with Cork City Council as part of our #SFI #NationalChallengeFund project, IDEATE, focusing on Inclusive Design for Digital Public Services #BetterPublicServices

Edited by @jamesosullivan.org & Margaret Kelleher!