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26/05/2021
The 2021 President’s Awards for Research and Impact were presented to recipients from across the university who have been involved in ground-breaking research in areas including school bullying, climate change, children’s play, natural language processing, trust in the workplace and Brexit.
The Awards for Research are presented for outstanding achievement and research excellence over an extended period, while the Awards for Impact are presented in recognition of research work, often a single project, that has had a significant impact on society.
This year’s recipients of the President’s awards for Research are as follows:
Early Career Researcher Category: Dr Lisa van der Werff, DCU Business School, for her work on ‘Building Positive Workplace Relationships: Trust Development in our Relationships with Coworkers, Organisations and Technology’. All three of Lisa’s nominators commented on her outstanding impact on the field of trust research, establishing h
May 8, 2021 7:00 am
Irish agriculture is “willing to embrace and accelerate” changes required for climate action – but “it cannot be asked to fall under a Dublin Bus…or a 4×4 in suburbia”, former agriculture minister Michael Creed told the Dáil.
In a Dáil debate on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill, deputy Creed – who served as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine from 2016 to 2020 – pointed to the efficiency and reputation that the Irish agri-food sector has developed, stating:
“In the context of this debate, it is inescapably the answer that those who should produce it are first and foremost those who do it efficiently from a climate change and sustainability point of view.
May 7, 2021 11:57 am
Sacrificing the national herd “at the alter of climate change” would have “no net gain” because Irish agriculture is among the most efficient producers of food, former agriculture minister Michael Creed told the Dáil.
In a Dáil debate on the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill, deputy Creed – who served as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine from 2016 to 2020 – also hit out at “unfair criticism” levelled at Irish farming.
The Cork TD lauded the obligation that the Climate Change Advisory Council must be cognisant of carbon leakage “notwithstanding that the weaponised wing of the environmental movement disagrees, and An Taisce came before the Oireachtas committee on agriculture and dissed the issue of carbon leakage”.
VistaMilk SFI Research Centre has launched a €1.4 million carbon sequestration project.
The project is in collaboration with Dairy Research Ireland, the group that allocates funding from the dairy levy collected from Irish dairy farmers.
Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and storing it in plant material or in the soil. Carbon stored in soils is often called soil organic carbon. It is vital for soil health, improving their workability, water holding capacity, and productivity.
The recent addition of both national and EU greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets poses considerable challenges for the Irish agricultural sector.