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EDII Project Awards

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The aim of the EDII Project Awards is to catalyse and embed EDII across MIC through new collaborative activities. These Awards encourage collaboration and partnerships between professional service and academic staff along with students and community organisations.

Projects and Activities can encompass: Research Projects, Community Engaged Projects, Curriculum Design Activities, and Events that promote EDII.

Invitation to apply for these awards will be circulated annually in the Autumn semester and will be reviewed by the EDII Office with the EDII Champions.

Funding, ranging in value from €500 to €5,000 will be awarded in any given academic year. If successfully awarded, a Project Award requirement in terms of output and to demonstrate will be a 30 second video and a 300 word case study for the EDII website. The EDII Office should be acknowledge as a funder.

EDII themes that can be explored include: 

  • Projects that relate to the Athena SWAN Institution and Faculty of Arts actions. 
  • Projects/Activities that related to the nine grounds of discrimination in Ireland (Gender; marital status; family status; sexual orientation; religion; age; disability; race, and membership of the Traveller community).

Projects and Activities can encompass:

  • Research Projects
  • Community Engaged Projects
  • Curriculum design activities
  • Events that promote EDII

If you have any questions or queries, email EDII@mic.ul.ie

EDII Project Awards 2023/24

Overview
This cross campus collaborative colloquium will have three aspects, education on neurodiversity, supporting PGRs and students who are neurodivergent, and experience from those within the academy.
Submitted by:
  • Dr Deirdre Flynn, MIC
  • Katie Hallinan, MIC Student
  • Jean Reale, MIC
  • Caitlin Donnelly, MISU
Overview
This collaborative project will culminate in an event that will reflect on and respond to the 20-year anniversary of the citizenship referendum in 2004.
Submitted by:
  • Dr Deirdre Flynn, MIC
  • Unapologetic Magazine
  • Sandrine Ndahiro & Fiona Kearney, Editors
Overview
This project proposes to plan and deliver four workshops in relation to Trans inclusion. These workshops would be directed at both staff and students in MIC.
Submitted by:
  • Fiachra (Kate) Kennedy, MIC Student
  • Dr Bridhid Golden, MIC
Overview
In 2024, it is planned to host the festival over three days (Tuesday 5 - Thursday 7 March). The festival will close on the eve of International Women’s Day (Friday 8 March). MIC FemFest 2024 will, for the first time, be hosted across both College campuses (MIC Limerick and MIC Thurles). It is planned, as in the past, to open events to the public as well as to the College community.
Submitted by:
  • Dr Fiona McDonagh (FemFest Chair) on behalf of MIC FemFest; all MIC
Overview
This project aims to work with children with Williams Syndrome (WS) to create a community of practice for their own self-study. They will be facilitated to reflect on their learning profile (strengths and challenges).
Submitted by:
  • Dr Fionnuala Tynan, MIC
Overview
Parents and Children from across the 5 EDNIP schools will come to MIC for two events held on separate days. The first day will be involve an intergenerational, intercultural world café event with MIC B.Ed. students. The second visit to MIC will offer the parents and children an opportunity to familiarise themselves with the campus through a tour.
Submitted by:
  • Lisa Martin, MIC
  • Dr Ruth Bourke, MIC
  • Dr Sandra Ryan, MIC
  • Helen Lowe, MIC
  • Dr Brighid Golden, MIC
Overview
This project proposes a workshop event that introduces the musical style and social background of the Choro as well as some musical activities focusing on its traditional music practice named Roda de Choro, both for music and non-music students.
Submitted by:
  • Manoel Sampaio Schiavi, MIC Student
Overview
Through building relationships with migrant parents and valuing and honouring their culture, experiences and language we can collaborate with migrant parents from different ethnic backgrounds, cook and share a favourite traditional recipe from their heritage, while also informally sharing their stories, hopes and dreams for their children with MIC students, MIC academics and school staff.
Submitted by:
  • Dr Sandra Ryan, MIC
  • Tracey Fitzgerald, HSCL Coordinator, Our Lady of Lourdes NS, Rosbrien
Overview
Science for Fun is a HSCL initiative that brings parents and pupils together to explore the wonders of science in an exciting and enjoyable way. The programme provides an opportunity to introduce parents to basic scientific principles and concepts in a non-threatening environment.
Submitted by:
  • Dr Sandra Ryan, MIC
  • Dr Maeve Liston, MIC
  • Dr Eleanor Walsh, MIC
Overview
The event will engage with speakers and presenters who can provide innovative and creative approaches to working with diverse learners/students and their families.
Submitted by:
  • Santhi Corcoran

EDII Project Awards 2022/23

The first MIC EDII Project Awards were launched on 4 October 2022. The aim of the EDII Project Awards is to catalyse and embed EDII across MIC through new collaborative activities. These Awards encourage collaboration and partnerships between professional service and academic staff along with students and community organisations. 

This is the first year of the initiative and 15 applications were received. All applications were independently evaluated by the EDII Office and EDII Champions and funding has been awarded based on these recommendations. We are delighted to share with you the details of the 11 successful projects below.

EDII Projects Awards
EDII Projects Awards
EDII Project Awards Showcase Event, May 2023 with recipients of the 22/23 funding.

The role of women in education has been an important and evolving topic globally, with Afghanistan being the only country where girls and women are denied the right to study. The conference aimed to shed light on the challenges faced by Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule and emphasize the importance of education for their empowerment.

Women in Afghanistan Conference, March 2023
Women in Afghanistan Conference, March 2023
Members of the conference organising committee with members of EDII Office

A dozen events including workshops, live performances, exhibitions and lectures were held at Mary Immaculate College on Tuesday 28 March as part of this year's Arts for All day.

Arts for All, March 2023
Arts for All, March 2023
Members of the Arts for All group

Supporting the needs of Gifted LGBTQ+ Learners in Ireland

The ambition within this partnership project with colleagues in CTYI is to build on their recent research findings which have explored the experiences of gifted learners across Ireland to address some of the gaps in provision, and to provide some of the much needed awareness raising and practical resources necessary to support these learners.

Coming Out Bright, May 2023
Coming Out Bright, May 2023
Prof Niamh Stack, MIC and Dr Orla Dunne from the Centre for Talented Youth in Ireland

Community sponsorship is a new way to welcome refugees to Ireland; it is a unique collaboration between Government, UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), NGOs and civil society. The MIC Community Sponsorship Group of 32 MIC staff has partnered with Doras and look forward to welcoming and supporting the integration and settlement of two refugee families into the Limerick community.

In the Diaspora is a weekly radio programme that the stories of Irish migrants. The programme follows the lives of people living in Ireland, who left their home country, either for work, study, business or asylum. The individuals share their personal experiences, focusing on their unique journey to the North; their cultural immersion; their cultural shocks; and indeed, their adaption in Ireland

In the Diaspora, May 2023
In the Diaspora, May 2023

This Intercultural World Café welcomed 13 parents and 20 children from across the EDNIP primary schools in Limerick City. parents and children acted as hosts to the students who are taking a Global Education module, as they rotated from table to table to engage in discussions. The focus of each of the tables was decided by the parents and children, examples included food, language, religion, customs and traditions. Ten different countries were represented at the event.

EDNIP World Café, March 2023
EDNIP World Café, March 2023

MIC FemFest 2023 was delighted to welcome renowned intersectional feminist, Sara Ahmed, to MIC for a public lecture entitled ‘Travelling with Feminist Killjoys’ on International Women’s Day this year. Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar of colour who worked as a feminist academic for over twenty years. Introduced by Dr Susan Liddy, Dr Ahmed’s lecture reflected on her experience of writing her latest book: The Feminist Killjoy Handbook (2023).

This project aims to explore and celebrate religious and belief diversity by fostering safe, constructive, respectful opportunities for dialogue about religious and belief difference, in MIC and in the local community.

Interfaith Project, May 2023
Interfaith Project, May 2023
Members of the Interfaith Project

This project ‘Cooking for Cohesion’ project provided a formative culturally and linguistically responsive learning and sharing experience for migrant parents, school staff in ‘Our Lady of Lourdes’ school, DEIS elective student teachers, TEAL Project teachers and academic staff, in a three staged process. This is an experiential approach towards cultural and linguistic diversity education through the shared enjoyment of food.

Migrant Parents Cooking, May 2023
Migrant Parents Cooking, May 2023
Dr Sandra Ryan, MIC and Tracy Fitzgerald, Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School Limerick

In this polit programme, students were recruited and trained to become Peer Mentors. The role of the Peer Mentor is simply to be there for the students should they have any questions. Over the course of the semester they received in person group trainings with the MIC Counselling Team and external providers like the HSE and an Occupational Therapist. It was a great success, they are a brilliant group and we look forward to helping them get this up and running next year.

Peer Mentoring, March 2023
Peer Mentoring, March 2023
Members of the Peer Mentoring group

This project delivered two Science for Fun sessions/classes with third and fourth class children and their parents in 3 DEIS primary schools that have high numbers of Traveller families. A collaboration between the LSRE Department and Enterprise & Community Development the project brought parents and pupils together to explore the wonders of science in an exciting and enjoyable way. Dr Maeve Liston MIC missing from the photograph below. 

Traveller Parent Engagement in Science for Fun
Traveller Parent Engagement in Science for Fun
Dr Sandra Ryan, Dr Eleanor Walsh, MIC and Tracy Savage, Le Chéile Primary School Limerick
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