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Call for Nominations: experts needed to represent International Science Council on an international alliance around COVID-19 education
Thursday, 14 May 2020This project will look at the world-wide educational challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and how innovations and technologies can help educational institutions moving forward
RDA COVID-19 Guidelines and Recommendations: 3rd Release
Thursday, 14 May 2020The Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 Working Group published the third release of the COVID-19 Data Sharing Recommendations and Guidelines on 8 May 2020.
Funding for UK-Irish collaborative research projects announced
Wednesday, 13 May 2020The Royal Irish Academy is delighted that the British Academy have announced funding for 11 collaborative research projects arising from the joint ‘Knowledge Frontiers symposium’ held in Academy House on Friday 31...
2020 Academy Gold Medals: call for nominations
Wednesday, 13 May 2020The Academy is seeking the nomination of candidates for the 2020 Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities and the 2020 Academy Gold Medal in the Life Sciences.
IHTA Town Type Series: Anglo-Norman Towns
Wednesday, 13 May 2020In the third IHTA town type essay, Michael Potterton, Irish Historic Towns Atlas editor and Maynooth University lecturer, focuses on the buildling boom of Irish towns from the twelth to fourteenth centuries.
Favourite DIB lives: James Redpath, American journalist
Wednesday, 13 May 2020Selected and written by Dr Patrick Maume of the DIB, James Redpath was an American journalist and anti-slavery campaigner who became an outspoken advocate of the Land League in Ireland.
Favourite DIB lives: Thomas Phillips, military surveyor and map-maker
Monday, 11 May 2020Selected by Sarah Gearty, cartographic editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Thomas Phillips was a seventeenth-century military surveyor. His biography is part of our Favourite DIB lives #LockdownReading series.
Call for nominations: a systemic approach to the energy transition in Europe
Friday, 8 May 2020Experts are needed for a new project on the energy pathways in Europe
Call for Nominations: Group of Chief Scientific Advisors to the European Commission
Friday, 8 May 2020Outstanding candidates are now being sought by European Commission.