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Acclaimed Irish theatre director Garry Hynes will lead the line-up at next month’s Irish Women Writers’ Network (IWWN) Collaborations & Networks symposium. The keynote interview with Hynes is one of many events taking place during the IWWN Virtual Symposium, to be held on 3 and 4 September. Conducted virtually due to COVID-19, this international event will explore the various ways in which Irish women writers engaged in and developed diverse creative collaborations between 1880 and 1940 in order to produce a wide range of works. The creative innovations and collaborative processes across genres and media that Irish women were involved in during the period will be of central importance to the symposium, including the various personal and professional networks and strategies women used to establish themselves as writers both at home and in transnational contexts.
The report arising from the research project ‘Human Trafficking and Exploitation Project on the Island of Ireland (HTEPII)’ is the culmination of a unique mixed-methods cooperative project involving senior academics at MIC with senior personnel from the sponsoring organisations of An Garda Sióchána, the Police Service of Northern Ireland, the Irish Department of Justice & Equality, and the Department of Justice Northern Ireland.
Mary Immaculate College offers a great environment for both staff and students across its campuses. This web page presents policies relating to Research.
The Mary Immaculate Research Ethics Committee (MIREC) has responsibility for all aspects of research ethics insofar as they relate to research projects carried out by MIC staff and MIC postgraduate researchers where the projects involve human participants.
The Research & Graduate School is situated in the John Henry Newman Campus. Learn how the Research and Graduate School assists, facilitates and underwrites high quality staff and postgraduate research in Mary Immaculate College in line with the College Strategic Plan.
Learn about the Research & Graduate School at MIC, which is based on the John Henry Newman Campus, adjacent to the MIC Limerick Campus, building a community of professional practice in a dedicated research space and providing office accommodation for postgraduate research students and visiting scholars.
Mary Immaculate College (MIC) embraces and supports academic research at the highest level in its core fields of Education and Humanities. We assist staff and students to conduct original research, to engage in scholarship and creative innovation, and to publish the results of their work in writing and through academic conference presentations worldwide.
Discover how MIC encourages, assists and provides practical support to faculty members and postgraduate research students to help them conceptualise and conduct original research, scholarship and inventive project work. Their research is both of intrinsic academic value in itself, and also of service to their academic fields, disciplines and communities of professional practice, as well as society at large.
Undertaking a Master's or Doctorate by research offers applicants a chance to do extensive and independent research on a particular topic, eventually completing a dissertation or thesis (a long piece of writing) of a high standard. You will work with a supervisor who will mentor you throughout the process. With a Doctorate (PhD), as well as producing a large single piece of publishable research, you will do an oral examination (called a 'Viva Voce'). Structured PhD programmes combine taught modules and other assessment modes along with the key aspects of a Doctorate.
Explore cultivating new research in the areas of Education and the Liberal Arts, and supporting staff and student initiatives, which are key strategic goals at MIC. Various projects are ongoing at MIC at any one time.
The Research & Graduate School at MIC is committed to supporting postgraduate researchers to develop the skills they need to progress with their research and to plan for the next stage in their careers, whether in academia or elsewhere.
Learn about research skills tutorials (online). Epigeum Information Literacy skills (suitable for postgraduates) is an online tutorial designed to help with research skills. This tutorial will help you: Select a research topic and develop research questions; Identify and search a wide variety of resources (catalogues, databases, web resources etc.).
Explore the Research and Graduate School supports, which include: a Research Office that oversees, coordinates and supports institutional research; a Graduate School that provides full academic administration services for all research students; various finance schemes for research seed funding, networking, upskilling and conference work (staff and students); and further supports.