Latest Universitylimerick Podcast Episodes
Episode 49: Sustainable high-performance batteries enabling the fight against climate change
University of Limerick - January 31, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr Tadhg Kennedy, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Bernal Institute – winner of the Early Career Researcher – Consolidator Award 2023. Since 2016 Tadhg has established a well-funded group, securing more than €5 million in funding. ...
Episode 48: Improving musculoskeletal and general health in chronic conditions and injured populations
University of Limerick - January 31, 2024 00:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingUp to 45% of us will get knee osteoarthritis in our lifetime, yet it is often not prioritised, people with joint disease are being under-served in terms of delivery of evidence-based rehabilitation in the form of exercise and education, particularly for hip and knee osteoarthritis. Evid...
Episode 47: Developing collaborative innovative healthcare models and improving outcomes for older adults
University of Limerick - December 07, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Ageing Research Centre members are winners of the UL Presidents Research Excellence and Impact Outstanding Research Collaboration Award for 2023. The Ageing Research Centre (ARC) comprises an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers across the University of Limerick, external...
Episode 46: Music and Movement for Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults
University of Limerick - September 22, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingArts-based health programmes that combine arts with science can enhance the physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing of older people. This podcast discusses the benefits of music and dance for older adults and in particular their experience of the Music and Movement for Health stu...
Episode 45: Creating bespoke breast prostheses for women post-mastectomy
University of Limerick - August 14, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis project creating bespoke breast prostheses for women post-mastectomy, using state of the art digital manufacturing aims to roll out this year and to be available nationally in all symptomatic breast clinics. Research Team Dr Lorraine Walsh, Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Mater Pr...
Episode 44: The Mathematical and Statistical Modelling Collaboration Guiding Ireland’s Covid-19 Response
University of Limerick - February 15, 2023 00:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMarch 2020 changed the lives of everyone around the around. We were all worried about the spread of COVID-19, fascinated with R number and hoping lockdowns would not last long. Working in the background was the UL team from MASCI (Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Ind...
Episode 40: Covid-19 heroes, how the pandemic affected key frontline workers
University of Limerick - December 14, 2022 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe term heroes have been widely used to describe those working in the frontline during the global Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Elaine Kinsella, President’s Research Excellence and Impact Award winner at University of Limerick and Dr Rachel Sumner, Cardiff Metropolitan University discuss their...
Episode 43: Advanced materials to purify the worlds air and water
University of Limerick - December 14, 2022 00:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingResearchers at University of Limerick are designing advanced materials which can purify the air and our water. Meet Dr Soumya Mukherjee, President’s Research Excellence and Impact award winner who has established his own research group, “NanoSorb,. With funding from Science Foundation ...
Episode 42: Music therapy to support women’s perinatal wellbeing during pregnancy: Using music to nurture?
University of Limerick - December 14, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingUniversity Maternity Hospital Limerick is the first in Ireland to offer music therapy within its maternity care services. Meet the team behind this innovative approach to supporting wellbeing during pregnancy, Dr Mas Mahady, Consultant Psychiatrist, Dr Tríona McCaffrey, lecturer in Musi...
Episode 41: Tackling the global energy storage challenge, one ion at a time
University of Limerick - December 14, 2022 00:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGlobal energy crisis has never been more critical in the race to deploy more electric vehicles, better utilise wind, solar and alternative energy solutions, many challenges emerge. Among them is the need for faster, smaller, and environmentally friendly battery technology. Meet Dr Hugh ...
Episode 39: “Nothing about us, Without us” President’s Research Excellence and Impact Award 2022 Winners
University of Limerick - February 10, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHow do social and cultural changes occur, and how can policy be influenced to encourage these changes, particularly in terms of aiding people who are marginalized and stigmatized in our society? The award-winning research team from the University of Limerick's Centre for Social Issues R...
Back pain: Treating the human - not the scan
University of Limerick - June 08, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe personal, societal and economic costs of low back pain are enormous, and the likelihood of being disabled by back pain has worsened in recent decades. Prof Helena Lenihan, Chair of the UL Research Impact Committee is joined by Dr Kieran O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, S...
Tackling multi-drug resistant infections through research collaboration
University of Limerick - December 10, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA 10 year partnership between UL and HSE has benefited patients dealing with multidrug-resistant infections, patients with cystic fibrosis and those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Research Collaboration, President’s Research Excellence a...
Zero Hours and Low Hours Work in Ireland
University of Limerick - November 27, 2020 10:09 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingZero hours work is work with no guaranteed hours. Researchers at the Kemmy Business School, have been examining the prevalence and impact of zero hours work and low hours work amongst Irish employees. Dr Lorraine Ryan, lecturer in Employment Relations & Human Resource Management in the D...
Technology in Education: Why content is key
University of Limerick - May 07, 2020 10:27 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr Ann Marcus-Quinn, a lecturer in Technical Communication and Instructional Design at the University of Limerick asks whether the move from book to tablet is the right one for the education system. She discusses how digital teaching and learning resources can be used, developed and shar...
Engineering Physical Activity in Breast Cancer
University of Limerick - October 18, 2019 14:54 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr Michelle Norris shares how her project, ‘BREASTech’, is working to better understand how software and technology can impact the physical activity levels of breast cancer patients and survivors. She also discusses how her training as an ALECS Marie Curie COFUND fellow is helping her t...
Importance and challenges of getting the right wheelchair
University of Limerick - October 03, 2019 15:04 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDermot Hayes, disability community activist from Ennis in conversation with Dr Rosie Gowran, School of Allied Health, UL and Leigh Gath, disability rights campaigner on the importance and challenges of getting the right wheelchair nationally and globally and the difficulties that wheelch...
Personalised medicine and the pharmacy of the future
University of Limerick - July 19, 2019 15:12 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOisín Kavanagh is a pharmacist and PhD researcher with the Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC), the SFI Pharmaceutical Research Centre, at the University of Limerick. He discusses how advances in the distribution and production of medicines might shape the pharmacy of ...
Research Soapbox
University of Limerick - July 18, 2019 11:41 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Research Soapbox event highlighted how research can make a real difference. The lunchtime showcase event took place in the Fab Lab in Limerick’s city centre and involved researchers from PhD to Professor with voices from the University of Limerick Thesis in 3 Competition as well as t...
Using psychology and the power of collective identities to combat adversity
University of Limerick - July 08, 2019 20:08 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPsychology has traditionally focused on biological, genetic or personality factors to explain why some people cope better or worse than others in adverse situations. However such a focus can lead to a therapeutic dead end as it is very difficult to change a person’s temperament or geneti...
Creating a Positive Energy City Centre in Limerick
University of Limerick - July 03, 2019 20:57 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 1900, only 14% percent of the world’s population lived in a city. Today, for the first time in history, more than half the planet’s population reside in urban areas. These urban centres are now racing to become the smart cities of the future. Limerick has received a major boost in the...
Music Festivals, Inclusion and Public Spaces
University of Limerick - April 26, 2019 10:06 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEthnomusicologist, Irish traditional musician and lecturer at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Dr Aileen Dillane talks about her research project FestiVersities: European Music Festivals, Public Spaces, and Cultural Diversities. This research is suppor...
Cracking the code for personalised medicine
University of Limerick - March 04, 2019 17:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPersonalised medicine is the next great global challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. The vision of the pharmacy of the future is one which employs disruptive technologies to enable on-demand manufacture of drugs designed to individual needs. Central to this vision is the concept of ...
Why involve the public and patients in research?
University of Limerick - February 19, 2019 18:14 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnne MacFarlane, Professor of Primary Healthcare Research at the Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick and member of UL’s Health Research Institute talks about her research in the area of Public and Patient Involvement in Research, specifically participatory health resear...
A Europe-wide approach to combatting tax fraud and evasion
University of Limerick - February 04, 2019 17:48 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTax fraud and tax evasion affects us all. Within the European Union, huge sums of revenue for public investment are being lost due to tax evasion and avoidance with estimates in the region of 1 trillion euros. Prof Sheila Killian of the Kemmy Business School talks about her research as p...
Research Week - Open Science in The Netherlands
University of Limerick - December 20, 2018 21:20 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLecture as part of Inaugural UL’s Research Week by Prof Karel Luyben, former Rector Magnificus of TU Delft and an expert on Open Science. During his lecture Prof Luyben poses questions such as; What concrete conditions should be met first, for your organisation to embrace Open Science? W...
Next generation battery technology for electric vehicles
University of Limerick - December 15, 2018 18:43 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe advent of the electric car heralds a new era of environmentally friendly transport. However, battery cost could put a brake on the rollout of electric vehicles (EVs) for a mass market. Prof Kevin M Ryan, Chair in Chemical Nanotechnology, at the Bernal Institute, University of Limeric...
Sepsis, a worldwide problem crying out for a solution
University of Limerick - September 12, 2018 20:07 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDr Jakki Cooney, co-founder of UL spinout Cala Medical, based in the Nexus Innovation Centre in UL discusses her research. Cala Medical have designed and patented a unique device containing a specific immobilized enzyme which treats the excessive inflammatory response in the blood of se...
Maths for the Digital Factory
University of Limerick - July 16, 2018 16:24 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDigital transformation impacts many areas of our lives and has given rise to a booming digital economy. This new commodity of data is continually growing and changing. The challenge however, is how this digital transformation can be harnessed to do what we already do, but much better. M...
The good fight – breaking down barriers to create better policy and practice
University of Limerick - June 26, 2018 21:12 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingResearchers at the University of Limerick are developing skills in interdisciplinary working and using this to inform policy and practice. The model involves multiple stakeholder engagement where ideas are expressed early and often, and are open to critique and contribution from other vo...
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