Recent News

EDI Project Fund Oct 2024

The Office of the Vice President for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (OVPEDI) in collaboration with the Access Centre and the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Campus Committee (EDICC) is pleased to launch the 2024/25 EDI Project Fund. The fund is available to staff and students with grants normally ranging from €1,000 – €5,000.

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Start Here Campaign Sept 2024

As part of the Sexual Violence and Harassment Prevention and Response programme of work, we are running the #Starthere campaign from the 16th of September until the 14th of October 2024. Did you know that Active*Consent and USI’s 2020 National Sexual Experiences Survey revealed that 79% of college students who disclose sexual misconduct (rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment) told a close friend. Read more

_{Front Row: Rebecca Connolly (Sx Violence Coordinator), Niamh Kavanagh (Sx Violence Manager), Margaret Forde, Niamh Gallagher
Back Row: Owen Ward, Aksana Chzheuskaya, Helen Maher, Donal Leech, Josephine Hynes, Declan Coogan & Laura Loftus}

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG Week Sept 2024)

The United Nations developed 17 sustainable development goals were developed to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all by 2030. To celebrate the university's progress and impact on the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the office of the Vice President for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion held a round-table coffee morning to discuss SDG5 Gender Equality and SDG10 Reduced Inequalities.

_{Front row: Dinali Wijeratne, Aoibhín Keighron, Sinead Beacom, Nyree Hill, Sarah Ann Buckley
Back row: Owen Ward, Helena Kenny, Pauline McNamara, Niamh Kavanagh, Laura Loftus, John Gill & Aoife Cooke}

Mincéirí Archives Launch August 2024

Mincéirí Archives is an archive of a growing collection of all types, complemented by historical documents and scholarly texts. This collection focuses on Irish Travellers from the 1960s when Ireland transformed socially, economically and culturally; its impacts on the nomadic indigenous community and the dawn of the Traveller rights movement in Ireland and Europe.  The collection contains items related to Traveller human rights, education, employment, housing, music, folklore and photographs of the community. In addition, it also includes material from current resources located within existing catalogues and collections including the Ritchie-Pickow and Joe Burke Collections.

The project began in November 2021 as part of the celebrations which followed on from the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the University in 1845. Led by Mr Owen Ward, EDI Programme Manager for Race Equality and Mr Kieran Hoare, Archivist, the research and digitisation of the Mincéirí Archives was one of six projects sponsored by the Office of the University President through a special fund to record and share our institutional history.

The archive was launched by President Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and Dr Mary Warde Moriarty on Wednesday, 28th August at 11.30am in the Archives & Special Collections Reading Room, Hardiman Library, University of Galway.  

L:R  Owen Ward (Race Equality Manager), Dr Catriona Cannon, Head of Heritage Collections, Dr Mary Warde Moriarty,  President Professor Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh and Ann Marie Stokes (Access office)