Category: Science Committees

Watch: Selling Planet Earth: re-purposing geoscience for sustainable human wellbeing

If you missed the first lecture in our Sustainability Lecture series: Challenges and Opportunities for Science in Society you can watch it now.

Watch the Hamilton Lecture 2022

If you missed the 2022 annual Royal Irish Academy Hamilton Lecture given by Professor Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton you can watch it…

Dr Priyanka Ganguly wins Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize 2022

Dr Priyanka Ganguly, a recent PhD graduate of the Institute of Technology Sligo, has been awarded the 2022 Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize for the…

RIA White Paper, ‘Better together: Knowledge co-production for a sustainable society’

The RIA white paper, ‘Better together: Knowledge co-production for a sustainable society’, provides an overview of knowledge co-production for sustainability and environmental research in Ireland;…

Watch Ireland’s Grasslands and Carbon

In the sixth in this series of Climate Conversations held on 24 November 2021, Professor Matthew Saunders gave a talk on Ireland’s Grasslands and Carbon.

Vaccine Questions Ep8: Looking to the future with Professor Christine Loscher

In the final episode of this series, Professor of Immunology Christine Loscher discusses the vaccine rollout and answers questions on vaccines for teens, booster shots…

Vaccines: a life-saving choice

A new expert statement from the RIA’s Life and Medical Sciences Committee written by Kingston Mills MRIA, Bert Rima MRIA and Dick Ahlstrom.

Dr Conor Crawford awarded the Kathleen Lonsdale RIA Chemistry Prize 2021

UCD PhD student recognised for his transformative work developing vaccines against a major human pathogen

Vaccine Questions Ep7: Understanding human behaviour with Professor Pete Lunn

In episode 7 behavioural economist, Professor Pete Lunn shares expert insights on how our behaviour impacts the spread of COVID-19 and what drives this behaviour.

A financial analyst’s love of fashion leads to a new career as a software engineer

For our second computer science profile, we spoke to Olga Minguett, a National College of Ireland graduate working on voice recognition technology at Optum while…

Vaccine Questions Ep6: Vaccine solidarity with Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan

In episode six Dick chats to Dr Siobhán O’Sullivan, Chief Bioethic Officer at the Department of Health about the difficult decisions officials and individuals must…

Watch: Better Together: knowledge co-production for a sustainable society

Symposium exploring how the Irish research system can increase the impact of sustainability research through co-production of knowledge