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26 Jun 2024
Congratulations to Dr Laura Linehan on winning Postgraduate Researcher of the Year award
Congratulations to Dr Laura Linehan who was a joint winner of the UCC College of Medicine and Health Postgraduate Researcher of the Year 2024 Award. This award recognises outstanding contribution by a postgraduate research student in their research field.
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24 Jun 2024
Members of the PLACES team present at Gender Work and Organization Conference
Ruadh Kelly-Harrington and Marita Hennessy PhD presented a series of studies from the PLACES project at the recent Gender Work and Organization Conference (GWO2024). The hybrid session was the second of three concurrent sessions on grief and loss in organisations.
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19 Jun 2024
Perinatal loss in the Czech Republic explored in seminar co-hosted by the PLRG and ISS21
The Pregnancy Loss Research Group and Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) co-hosted a seminar on ‘Perinatal loss: Challenging the norms in the Czech context’ on 17 June. Dr Iva Šmídová, an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, delivered the seminar while on an Erasmus exchange with academics at ISS21.
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14 Jun 2024
Workplace experiences of pregnancy loss research spotlighted on INTO Teacher Talk podcast
Marita Hennessy PhD recently joined David Geary, Director of Communications, and Maeve McCafferty, Equality Officer, with the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) on the ‘Teacher Talk with the INTO’ podcast to discuss issues surrounding the INTO’s campaign to secure paid reproductive health leave for its members.
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