Orla McDonagh (Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities TU Dublin), Tracey Dalton TU Dublin lecturer, Leva Kilpyte, Ciara Thiel, Dagmara Siewert and Tuqa Jawad, TU Dublin Interior Design students, and Sarah Cullen from the Robert Emmet Community Development Project receiving awards for their collaborative work at the annual TU Dublin programme for Students Learning with Communities Awards 2023. Photo by Hu O’Reilly
On the 3 May 2023, on TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus, TU Dublin’s award-winning Programme for Students Learning With Communities celebrated the outstanding achievements of students and community partners who worked together on innovative real-life projects to address community goals and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which address areas such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.
This was the 15th year of these annual awards and the first in-person event since 2019. TU Dublin President, Professor David FitzPatrick, presented the awards to students and community partners at a ceremony in TU Dublin Grangegorman.
Examples of this year’s projects included:
- 2nd year Social Care students worked with the HSE Health & Wellbeing unit to develop a toolkit for them to use when reviewing resources for the self-management of chronic diseases, to ensure the resources are culturally diverse and inclusive (SDG 3 - good health and wellbeing; SDG 10 – reduced inequalities).
- 4th year Marketing students worked with charities to enhance their digital marketing, including the organization Mary’s Meals (SDG 2 – zero hunger).
- 1st year Medical Science students worked with local primary DEIS Schools to design fun scientific experiments for children as part of the 'Seeds of Science' initiative (SDG 3 - good health and wellbeing; SDG 4 – quality education).
If you missed out, you catch up with all of the action on Twitter by scrolling to 3 May on our Twitter feed: @SLWCTUDublin.
For the third year running, on 24th May 2022 the Programme for Students Learning with Communities celebrated its Annual Awards on Twitter. We were thrilled to be joined by so many of our valued community partners, staff and students without whom community engaged research and learning projects would not be possible.
This video provides details of the certificate and award winners on the day.
On 28 April the Programme for Students Learning With Communities once again celebrated its annual awards event online, as a Twitter Blitz. We were delighted to be joined on Twitter by so many staff, students, community partners, and industry mentors to celebrate the many community engaged research and learning projects carried out this year in the curriculum.
The Deputy President of TU Dublin officially opened the event, and the TU Dublin Students Union Vice President for Events + Engagement and incoming Students Union President added his congratulations, both by video. They highlighted the benefit of these projects to students and community partners and the extent of these collaborations. The formal part of the event where the awards and commendations were announced was followed by lots of tweeting, retweeting, and liking, with those receiving commendations, also tweeting selfies with their certs.
If you missed it you can see the award selections all together: 2021 Awards. Or you catch up with all of the action on Twitter by scrolling to 28 April on our Twitter feed: @SLWCTUDublin. See short video interviews with students, lecturers, and community partners, listen to snippets from the archive from the 2014 annual awards, see the reflections from students, community partners, and industry mentors, and generally be inspired!
If you’re interested in building community engaged research and learning into your teaching, please contact us at slwc@tudublin.ie.
On Wednesday 6 May the Programme for Students Learning With Communities moved the annual awards event online for the first time. We were delighted to be joined on twitter by so many staff, students and community partners to celebrate the community engaged research and learning projects carried out this year in the curriculum.
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The President tweeted his congratulations, highlighting the benefit of these projects to students and community partners, and the formal part of the event where the awards were announced was followed by lots of tweeting, retweeting and liking.
If you missed it you can catch up on twitter by searching for the @slwcTUDublin feed, and scrolling to 6 May. You can watch short video interviews with students, lecturers and community partners made earlier this year, see selfies tweeted by the award winners with their certificates, listen to snippets of student feedback recorded at last year’s annual awards in Grangegorman, and generally be inspired!
View the Award Winners list 2020.
If you’re interested in building community engaged research and learning into your work, please contact slwc@tudublin.ie.
Thanks so much to all our colleagues, community partners and participating students, and particularly the team in Public Affairs, for their support for this new and very lively celebration format.