Blogs

Bashar Nuseibeh MRIA: Software engineer

Professor Nuseibeh calls for a radical re-thinking of the discipline of software engineering, suggesting a perspective of ‘software without boundaries’, such that the essence of…

Nicholas Canny MRIA: Historian

Professor Canny’s most recent book reveals that Irish people have proved ourselves less capable than the populations of most other European countries of reaching an…

Christine Casey MRIA: Architectural historian

Professor Casey argues for the role of creative craft skill as a primary agent in architectural production, and for a reframing of craftsmanship as a…

Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail MRIA: Irish-language scholar

Professor Ní Úrdail’s research on textual transmission in the Irish language is informed particularly by the work undertaken in the eighteenth and nineteenth century by…

Derek Jackson MRIA: Coastal geomorphologist

Professor Jackson’s work as a geomorphologist, examining changes in physical landscapes over time and the processes that drive them, has taken him from Ireland’s coastal…

Ruth Barton MRIA: Film scholar

Professor Barton believes that we need a stronger critical culture and that in creating such a culture it is the role of academicians to bridge…

Michael Cronin MRIA: Linguist

Professor Cronin suggests that in the case of the Irish language, the need for outdoors thinking is crucial. More broadly, instead of the relentless digitisation…

Frédéric Dias MRIA: Applied mathematician

Professor Dias’s research is aimed at better understanding the power of ocean waves.