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- Dr Fionnuala Murphy is an Assistant Professor in the UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering, and is Programme Director of the Grad Dip/MSc in Environmental Sustainability Implementation.
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Fionnuala Murphy is known for Mrs. Brown's Boys: The Original Series (2002), The Vanishing Triangle (2023) and Game of Thrones (2011).
Fionnuala Murphy is known for Mrs. Brown's Boys: The Original Series (2002), The Vanishing Triangle (2023) and Game of Thrones (2011).
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Apr 20, 2023 · TV viewers may be intrigued to learn that the actress who plays Bernie, Fionnuala Murphy, is a sister of Aiden Gillen. Aiden, who is currently appearing in Kin as Frank Kinsella, grew up in...
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Jan 16, 2022 · Fionnuala Murphy, an actor and linguist, explains how she invented two brand new languages for the Apple TV Plus series.
- No Single Career Path
- The Impact of Family Life on A Research Career
- Support and Inspirational Role Models
- Publish Or Perish
- Gender Schemas and Unconscious Bias
- Changing The Distribution
- Push The Boundary Further
One of the clearest patterns to emerge was the range of ways in which these women had achieved success (see also Leyser, 2009). Some began their careers as mature students, had undertaken a range of demanding caring responsibilities (for parents, children or spouses), or had substantial career breaks for other reasons (illness or bereavement). Prof...
Not surprisingly, scientists who had had children or had cared for parents (a duty that tends to fall predominantly to women: Brody, 2004) felt that this had affected their careers more than those of their male counterparts. This is consistent with evidence showing that having more children reduces the number of hours worked by women, but increases...
Support can come in many different shapes and forms: practical, emotional, financial and infrastructural. It can also come from different sources; for example, partners or parents, peers or colleagues, departmental heads and funding bodies. Access to mentoring, the right to flexible working arrangements, appropriate share of computing or other labo...
A recent large-scale analysis based on over 8,000,000 papers across the social sciences, natural sciences and humanities revealed a number of subtle but persistent ways in which gender inequities remain. Even where raw publication counts were similar between genders, closer scrutiny revealed that men were often more likely to be found in the presti...
In Virginia Valian’s book, Why So Slow?, we find a balanced appraisal of research on gender inequalities (Valian, 1998). Valian explains the absence of women from leadership positions in terms of implicit hypotheses about the genders. These schemas, which are held by women and men (Steinpreis et al., 1999), lead to small differences in behaviours, ...
Implicit associations or schemas may help explain the conditions that contribute to the absence of women in top academic positions at all stages – hiring, retention and promotion. Because schemas are derived from statistical abstractions, if the status quo of a male predominance in a field is maintained, then the schema that regards men as more nat...
There are a number of risks associated with the disproportionately low numbers of women at the higher levels of academic psychology. An obvious one is the loss of valuable perspectives and views from women. Another is that women may feel out of place in a predominantly male environment. Women fail to reach their full potential in science for many r...
Meet the trustees. Tricia Cassidy, mothers2mothers. Tricia is Deputy Director Strategic Partnerships at mothers2mothers (m2m) where she has worked since January 2021. m2m is an African NGO that unlocks the potential of women to create healthy families and eliminate paediatric AIDS.
Fionnuala Murphy is Head of Global Advocacy at Frontline AIDS and has been in her current role since 2019.
