Events & Media

Researchers and PhD students share their research topic through a Pecha Kucha style event at EPI•STEM PechaKucha

NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning through Research (NARST) and American Educational Research Association (AERA) held their annual conferences in Chicago, USA in April 2015. NARST AERA Conference 2015  

UL personnel from across the faculties are organising an event named Pint of Science in Limerick on Monday, May 18th in the Locke Bar and Tuesday, May 19th in the White House. - >> Click here to download the event programme - The Limerick evenings will cover Health, Environment and Technology with topics including; Computers dreaming of electric music; Brains Continue Reading

Head of Department of Civil Engineering & Materials Science Wednesday 13th May 12:30, Room A1-065   Title of Talk: FROM THE JOY OF SETS, AND THE MATHEMATICS OF LOVE … TO THE LOVE OF MATHEMATICS!!   Abstract: While Plato had the intuition that “Anyone who does not begin with love will never understand what philosophy is,” this talk starts from Continue Reading

The 2015 ESAI (The Educational Studies Association of Ireland) conference was held on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th of April in Carton House, Maynooth. This conference brought a wide range of research community from different parts of the country and focused on the advancement of educational research in Ireland. Click here for further details

On Wednesday January 28th Dr Olivia Fitzmaurice (), Dr. Eabhnat ni Fhloinn (DCU), Dr. Ciaran Mac an Bhaird (Maynooth University) and Mr. Ciaran O'Sullivan (ITT Dublin), authors of the Irish Mathematics Learning Support Network (IMLSN) report ‘on Student Evaluation of Mathematics Learning Support: Insights from a large scale multi-institutional survey’  published by EpiStem visited Leinster house for a meeting with the Junior Continue Reading

EPI•STEM Lecture Series A talk by Prof Hamsa Venkatakrishnan University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa February 2015 Click here for further details

The conferring of awards on the first graduands of the Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching took place at the University of Limerick on the 24th of January 2015. Minister for Education and Skills Jan O’Sullivan TD attended the ceremony which saw 288 teachers graduate from the two year part-time programme, devised as a targeted initiative for out-of-field teachers of Continue Reading

Sibel Erduran delivered two presentations at the Southern African Association for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education Conference held in Maputo, Mozambique in January 2015. The titles of the presentations were: (a) Promoting pre-service teachers’ learning of argumentation in Rwanda, and (b) Pre-Service science teachers’ visual representations of scientific practices.

Biology for Today: Biotechnology for life Symposium for second level biology students is being run again this year on the 23rd of January at the University of Limerick from 10.30- 12.30pm. The aim of the symposium is to enrich students’ experience of Biology and Agricultural Science topics. It will also provide them with additional insights into Biotechnology for life. It Continue Reading