Upcoming Events
Caring Conversations: Navigating Grief, Guilt and Self-Compassion (18th Feb – 12:00)
18th February 2025 – MS Teams – 12:00
Join us on February 18th for Caring Conversations, an online facilitated discussion with Jennifer Moran Stritch, Applied Social Sciences, and Niamh Murphy, Deputy Head of Student Counselling, designed for staff who are navigating the complexities of caregiving, grief, and emotional well-being.
This session will explore how to support children and young people in understanding loss, managing feelings of guilt that come with balancing multiple roles, and cultivating self-compassion while caring for others. Open to parents, carers, and those experiencing these challenges, this conversation marks the beginning of a series running throughout the academic year, providing a supportive space for reflection and connection. Don’t forget to pop the link in your calendar!
This event has been organised in association with the TUS Parents & Carers Staff Network. If you would like to join this network you can find the sign-up form under the TUS Staff Networks.
Past Events
Equitas – EDI in Practice in Higher Education Conference
23rd – 24th May 2024
The Equitas conference took place in the Millennium Theatre in TUS Moylish Campus on the 23rd and 24th of May 2024, attracting more than 140 attendees from over 30 Irish, British and European institutions. Four key themes were explored in keynote talks and parallel sessions during the conference:
- Intersectionality in practice
- Embedding EDI in Higher Education: Supporting Culture Change by Moving Beyond the Echo Chamber
- EDI in a Data-driven World
- Supporting Mental Health & Wellbeing in the Workforce from an EDI perspective
Roxanne Hobbs delivered an inspiring opening keynote talk on Thursday 23rd May entitled “Courageous Leadership”, which helped to set the tone for the courageous and vulnerable conversations which took places across the two days thereafter.
TUS Lecturer Dr Lisa O Rourke Scott delivered a plenary talk on “Why mental health matters.”
Professor Nicola Rollock delivered a highly engaging keynote address entitled “Toward an Intersectional Lens: Racial Justice in Higher Education” which generated healthy, robust discussion in the Q&A session afterwards.
“Certain Individual Women” is an award-winning project that responds to inherent gender inequality in Irish law and society. Fishamble Theatre presented a reading of the play with trained actors with director Jim Culleton and Julie Morrissey then participating in a fireside chat. Other highlights included a panel discussion with the authors of the soon-to-be-published EDI Landscape in Higher Education, a HEA-funded publication, and an Art exhibition titled “Intersecting Identities” led by students from Limerick School of Art and Design.