“A design consultant will be appointed shortly to start the ball rolling on NUI Galway’s major Nun’s Island masterplan. NUI Galway’s Education Building is located at Nuns Island, and it also owns the adjacent building …” (more)
[Galway Bay FM, 2 November]
“In a press release, reported yesterday by several newspapers including the Irish Independent, NUI Galway trumpeted what they have been doing recently to put right the position of women in the university and other actions for equality. Foremost were the results of the recent promotion round to Senior Lecturer in which 14 men were promoted and 19 women …” (more)
[Micheline’s Three Conditions, 1 November]
“Female students are more likely to experience sexual harassment as they progress through college, according to a survey. The Smart Consent Survey of approximately 400 students, conducted by PhD candidate Chiara Seery of NUI Galway, indicated that female students’ experiences of sexist hostility, sexual hostility, unwanted sexual attention, online sexual harassment, and sexual coercion increased each year as they passed from first year to third year …” (more)
[Noel Baker, Irish Examiner, 1 November]
“NUI Galway today published a progress report on its activities relating to equality and diversity/gender equality. The report includes data on its latest senior lecturer promotion scheme, through which 33 lecturers advanced …” (more)
[NUI Galway, 31 October]
“NUI Galway is above the national average when it comes to promoting women to senior posts, a new study reveals. In its progress report on Equality and Diversity published yesterday, the institution said 58% of the 33 academics promoted to senior lecturer grades are women (19), compared with 42% who are male (14) …” (more)
[Allison Bray, Independent, 31 October]
“NUI Galway and Connacht Rugby have announced an extension of their partnership until 2019. NUI Galway became Connacht’s Academy and University partner in 2013, and since then 19 Connacht players have graduated, or are about to graduate, from NUI Galway …” (more)
[Declan Rooney, Independent, 27 October]
“The European Investment Bank has agreed to lend €60 million to NUI Galway for campus development. It will help fund the construction of new student accommodation and a new building for the College of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 23 October]
“One of five female academics who initiated action against NUI Galway over lack of promotion has won her case in the Labour Court and has been promoted by the university …” (more)
[Lorna Siggins, Irish Times, 23 October]
“The women junior lecturers’ gender discrimination court cases at NUI Galway have attracted the attention of a UK publication in an article published last week as well as a rebuttal to that article in a letter by Micheline Sheehy Skeffington that was published this week …” (more)
[Micheline’s Three Conditions, 19 October]
“NUI Galway will be closed tomorrow due to the effects of Hurricane Ophelia, writes Cillian Sherlock. The university has rescheduled tomorrow’s graduation ceremonies due to the weather warnings. The ceremonies will now take place five days later on Saturday, October 21 …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 15 October]
“Four female academics embroiled in a gender discrimination dispute are reportedly under increasing pressure to accept a settlement from their university in a case that has sparked debate about the merits of linking the Athena SWAN equality charter to research funding. The long-running dispute at the National University of Ireland, Galway has come to a head …” (more)
[Ellie Bothwell, Times Higher Education, 12 October]
“A global declaration which strengthens the links between cities and their universities has been endorsed by NUI Galway and Galway city council. The Poitiers Declaration is an initiative of the Coimbra group of 40 international universities, of which NUI Galway is a founding member …” (more)
[Galway Bay FM, 9 October]
Abstract: Drawing on research conducted at National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores how senior managers at an Irish university are seeking to measure and facilitate academic performance in the context of national and global competitiveness and a higher education landscape that appears firmly inflected by neoliberal ideas of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. I draw upon Michel Foucault’s writings on governmentality and biopolitics, in particular, and I utilise findings from a range of in-depth interviews with central university managers, with a view to critically interrogating the envisioning of what is undoubtedly a new academic subjectivity in the Irish higher education sectora subjectivity that is being progressively planned for and regulated.
Morrissey, John (2013). Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university, Oxford Review of Education, 39(6), 797-810. doi: 10.1080/03054985.2013.860891.
“NUI Galway has been named ‘University of the Year 2018’ in the Sunday Times University Guide.It is the third time the institution has won the accolade, having won the inaugural title in 2002 and again in 2009 …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 6 October]
“The Irish language organisation Conradh na Gaeilge has presented its archive to NUI Galway. The material, which contains a range of items, will be catalogued, digitised and made available online …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 3 October]
“Micheline has successfully completed the first phase of her US tour, speaking and filming in New York, Boston and Connecticut as she retraces her grandmother Hanna Sheehy Skeffington’s epic tour in 1917. At various venues, she connected her talks about Hanna’s striving for justice to her own fight for gender equality at NUI Galway …” (more)
[Micheline’s Three Conditions, 1 October]
“A senior academic at the National University of Ireland Galway has secured a High Court injunction halting what he says is a flawed investigation into claims he tried to ‘sabotage’ a colleague’s career …” (more)
[Aodhan O’Faolain, Irish Times, 22 September]
“National University of Ireland Galway has reached a settlement with one of five female academics who have been pursuing gender discrimination cases over a promotions process in 2009. The development comes as mediation failed to resolve the college’s long-running dispute with four other women whose cases have been going through the courts …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 22 September]
“At the last meeting of the Governing Body, two weeks ago, to our great surprise NUI Galway revealed the details of their final offer made to the four women last month. These details were supposedly strictly secret, so we have never known what it was that the women turned down, but then NUI Galway circulated the offer to every member of the Governing Body! That means that over 40 people got to see it …” (more)
[Micheline’s Three Conditions, 20 September]
“A senior academic at the National University of Ireland Galway has brought a High Court challenge over what he says is a flawed investigation into claims he tried to ‘sabotage’ a colleague’s career …” (more)
[Connacht Tribune, 11 September]
