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But the election of a female head at Ireland’s oldest and most prestigious university -- due to be picked from an all-female short list of three senior scholars on April 7 -- will be the most momentous female appointment so far. “We’ve seen a very significant transformation with the appointment of three female leaders in the past year, but we need to keep pushing for further improvements across the sector,” said Orla Feely, vice president for research at University College Dublin, who has backed the recently announced Science Foundation Ireland strategy that would seek to ensure that...

Trinity College Dublin (TCD) will appoint a woman as provost for the first time in its 429-year history. The university, which was established in 1592, has confirmed the shortlist of applicants to replace Professor Patrick Prendergast are all women. Meanwhile, the search is also on for a successor to Professor Philip Nolan, who steps down as president of Maynooth University in mid-August, at the end of a 10-year term. Prof Nolan has become a household name over the past year in his role as chair of the Nphet Irish Epidemiological Modelling Advisory Group, which is charged with predicting the ...