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The Many Faces of Alzheimer’sThe Many Faces of Alzheimer's | 12 Don't ignore the signs - Breda ComiskeyIN THIS FINAL EPISODE, we rejoin BREDA COMISKEY, whom we met earlier in the series. Despite having Alzheimer’s, Breda is living life to the full.
Heartfelt thanks to PROFESSOR SEÁN KENNELLY and his inspirational team at the INSTITUTE OF MEMORY & COGNITION at TALLAGHT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL for opening their doors and talking to us about the incredible and innovative work they do, and to the patients who generously shared their stories, including RONAN SLATER and his wife, CATHERINE, and BREDA COMISKEY. They have shone a light on what remains a much feared and little understood disease and...
2026-01-0633 min
EAIE Podcast31. Tatjana Söding: Erasmus by Train: gaining steam?When it comes to student mobility, train travel doesn’t seem to be very popular. According to a 2020 survey by the Erasmus Student Network, three out of four Erasmus students are still flying to their exchange location. Transport accounts for almost one quarter of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions. In order to reduce this worrying amount, the European Commission is promoting initiatives to encourage the use of rail instead of more polluting modes of transport like air and road travel, and has declared 2021 to be the European Year of Rail. Could trains be the key to ‘green’...
2021-11-1024 min
EAIE Podcast28. Catherine Comiskey: Imagining sustainability, institutionalising changeA summer of scorching fires and devastating floods has made it all too apparent that immediate action must be taken against climate change. However we envision the transition to lower carbon emissions, it will take no less than a revolution of the global economy – including the higher education sector – to achieve this goal. Under the aegis of the European Universities Initiative, the CHARM-EU alliance has emerged as one example of how to institutionalise and coordinate our shared climate ambitions across countries and curricula. Catherine Comiskey, Academic Director of the CHARM-EU Master’s Degree in Sustainability, joins this episode...
2021-09-2222 min
CHARM-EU | European University AllianceMaster's in Global Challenges for SustainabilityIn the first episode of the CHARM-EU Master’s Podcast series Catherine Comiskey, Academic Advisor of the CHARM-EU Master’s, introduces the brand-new master’s course called “Global Challenges for Sustainability”. She explains the variety of innovative and unique features this programme will offer, such as the programmatic assessment, the e-portfolio and the three phases of the course. Subsequently, she goes on to discuss how the master’s will help the future employability of CHARM-EU students. Listen to our truly insightful podcast to learn more about what the ‘Global Challenges for Sustainability’ master’s course has to offer!
2021-03-1713 min
Hellblazerbiz: Conversations with the StarsMatt Hookings & Dom Lenoir are filmmakers joining me to talk about their new film Winter RidgeThe British independent film scene continues to excel as new crime-thriller Winter Ridge recently finished shooting and has already sold to 2 distribution markets at the Cannes Films Festival in May 2017. The film brings considerable star power in the form of Hannah Waddingham (Game of Thrones, Les Misérables), Alan Ford (Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and Olwen Catherine Kelly (The Autopsy of Jane Doe). The film stars up-and-coming actor Matt Hookings with Justin McDonald and Michael McKell as a team of detectives on the hunt for a serial killer who appears to be targeting the elderly. Other talent i...
2017-09-0640 min