Episode 57: Music for parental and infant wellbeing: From pregnancy to early parenthood
Associate Professor Triona Mc Caffrey, joint winner of the Presidents Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher – Starting Awar...
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20 of 57 episodesEpisode 56: Catalysing the Future: How Catalysis Drives the Green Transition
Associate Professor, Bar Mosevitzky Lis, President's Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher – Starting Award Winner 2025 In...
Episode 55: Transforming care for musculoskeletal pain: Impact through Partnership
Professor Karen Mc Creesh, President's Research Excellence and Impact, Early Career Researcher Consolidator Award Winner 2025 In this episod...
Episode 54: Mind the Gap: Bridging the Policy - Practice Divide Through Interdisciplinary Hate Crime Research
The European Centre for the Study of Hate is an interdisciplinary research hub committed to deepening our understanding of hate in all its m...
Episode 53: Physical Activity for Health Research Centre (PAfH), Outstanding Research Collaboration award winners 2024
Established in 2019 through funding received from the Health Research Institute in UL, the Physical Activity for Health Research Centre is,...
Episode 52: Music Therapy hitting the right note in improving health and wellbeing
Professor Hilary Moss, the winner of the Presidents Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher – Consolidator Award 2024 . Hilar...
Episode 51: Nothing as practical as a good theory: A Social Identity approach to applied psychology
Daragh Bradshaw, the winner of the Presidents Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher – Starting Award 2024. Daragh is Associ...
Episode 50: Crafting Tomorrow’s Materials One Molecule at a Time
Damien Thompson is Professor of Molecular Modelling in the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and Director of SSPC, The Research Ireland Ce...
Episode 49: Sustainable high-performance batteries enabling the fight against climate change
Dr Tadhg Kennedy, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Bernal Institute – winner...
Episode 48: Improving musculoskeletal and general health in chronic conditions and injured populations
Up to 45% of us will get knee osteoarthritis in our lifetime, yet it is often not prioritised, people with joint disease are being under-ser...
Episode 47: Developing collaborative innovative healthcare models and improving outcomes for older adults
The Ageing Research Centre members are winners of the UL Presidents Research Excellence and Impact Outstanding Research Collaboration Award...
Episode 46: Music and Movement for Health and Wellbeing of Older Adults
Arts-based health programmes that combine arts with science can enhance the physical and psychosocial health and wellbeing of older people....
Episode 45: Creating bespoke breast prostheses for women post-mastectomy
This project creating bespoke breast prostheses for women post-mastectomy, using state of the art digital manufacturing aims to roll out thi...
Episode 44: The Mathematical and Statistical Modelling Collaboration Guiding Ireland’s Covid-19 Response
March 2020 changed the lives of everyone around the around. We were all worried about the spread of COVID-19, fascinated with R number and h...
Episode 43: Advanced materials to purify the worlds air and water
Researchers at University of Limerick are designing advanced materials which can purify the air and our water. Meet Dr Soumya Mukherjee, Pre...
Episode 42: Music therapy to support women’s perinatal wellbeing during pregnancy: Using music to nurture?
University Maternity Hospital Limerick is the first in Ireland to offer music therapy within its maternity care services. Meet the team behi...
Episode 41: Tackling the global energy storage challenge, one ion at a time
Global energy crisis has never been more critical in the race to deploy more electric vehicles, better utilise wind, solar and alternative e...
Episode 40: Covid-19 heroes, how the pandemic affected key frontline workers
The term heroes have been widely used to describe those working in the frontline during the global Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Elaine Kinsella, Pr...
Episode 39: “Nothing about us, Without us” President’s Research Excellence and Impact Award 2022 Winners
How do social and cultural changes occur, and how can policy be influenced to encourage these changes, particularly in terms of aiding peopl...
Back pain: Treating the human - not the scan
The personal, societal and economic costs of low back pain are enormous, and the likelihood of being disabled by back pain has worsened in r...