Awards and Prizes in 2018/2019
Professor Paul Moynagh member of the Royal Irish Academy
Department of Biology awarded the Athena Swan Bronze Award
Professor Moynagh
Department of Biology
Professor Peter Kennedy, President of the Royal Irish Academy and Professor Paul Moynagh, Department of Biology and Kathleen Lonsdale Research Institute for Human Health Professor Moynagh, who is Head of the Department of Biology and Director of the Kathleen Lonsdale Institute for Human Health Research, became one of 27 new members of the RIA, and one of 10 new members admitted from the Sciences in 2019. Professor Moynagh has published extensively in the area of immunology-related research. In 2009 he was awarded the NUI Centennial Prize for Academic Publishing in Medical and Health Sciences and he is the recipient of the 2014 Irish Area Section Biochemical Society (IASBS) Medal. He is a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Principal Investigator. His research focuses on delineating the roles of Pellino proteins in immunity. The Academy has been honouring Ireland’s leading contributors to the world of learning since its establishment in 1785.
Claire McGing, Athena SWAN Project Officer, Maynooth University, Professor Paul Moynagh, Department of Biology and Dr Karen English, Chair of the Biology self-assessment team The Department of Biology has achieved an Athena SWAN Bronze Award, which recognises work undertaken to advance gender equality for staff and students at departmental level. Biology is the first department at Maynooth University to apply for, and achieve, Athena SWAN accreditation, which is overseen by Advance HE. The 39 items in the Biology action plan include: > Establishing a voluntary mentoring programme for all academic and research staff, with a specific focus on women’s careers. > Embedding gender equality issues into the Department’s Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement processes. > Hosting an annual Phyllis Clinch Lecture to further enhance the visibility of women role models in the global discipline of Biology. > Amending the annual PhD progress review to include sections on work-life balance and career development. > The Department of Biology also will seek to align departmental, institutional and sectoral work on the advancement of gender equality in STEM. The Biology self-assessment team (SAT) includes representation from academic, research, administrative and technical staff, and postgraduate and undergraduate students.
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