Events
Marking 15 years of Shamrock Rovers Football Club
and 30 years of TU Dublin’s
BA in Media Production & Digital Arts
in Tallaght
TU Dublin School of Media Researchers, Dr Glenn Doyle, Anna Maria Mullally and Alan Fitzpatrick, in partnership with Shamrock Rovers Football Club and with the support of South Dublin County Council at the Tallaght Stadium, are holding a symposium on Saturday, December 7th in the 1899 Suite, in Tallaght Stadium, to celebrate the club’s history and community and to showcase the Shamrock Rovers in the Community Project, based in TU Dublin’s School of Media.
The symposium will feature speakers from club administration, players past and present and club historians. It will also include a photo exhibition by Dr. Glenn Doyle and introduce insights from the Shamrock Rovers in the Community Project, arising from interviews with match-day volunteers and supporters, as well as focusing on the Rovers-centred student video work of the BA in Media Production & Digital Arts undergraduates, based on the Tallaght campus.
In 2023, the researchers approached Mark Lynch (Director, SRFC) and John Martin (CEO, SRFC) at the club to bring this project to life and were met with a very positive response.
Set against the 125-year anniversary of the club’s foundation, 15 years of its location in Tallaght and also marking the 30th anniversary of the MP&DA programme based on the Tallaght campus, the project focuses on the impact the Football Club has had on its volunteers and match-going supporters, historically, and in the present time.
Overall, the research project will explore themes of community, participation and volunteer/fan culture through the testimonies of interview participants and capturing their photographic portraits. Drawing on theories of social identity and spectator and fan identities the aim here is to carry out a preliminary investigation into the nature and variety of Shamrock Rovers fan and volunteer identities. This research will open possibilities for further investigation and will also serve to generate a digital historical record of fan and volunteer voices and personal experiences.
If this is a project that you would be interested in being involved in, please feel free to get in touch with members of the research team by emailing a member of the research team:
Dr Glenn Doyle has photographed and audio recorded short interviews with club volunteers, visually and audibly spotlighting the essential role volunteers play in the matchday running of the football club. Contact: glenn.doyle@tudublin.ie
Anna Maria Mullally is carrying out research with Rovers’ fans using semi-structured audio interviews, in order to get a better understanding of fan motivations and associations with the club, through stories/histories, traditions, memories and emotions. Contact: anna-maria.mullally@tudublin.ie
Alan Fitzpatrick, together with his second year MP&DA students, has been gathering visual i.e. filmed data on the club. The data gathered will form part of the larger project in the form of a short documentary film. Contact: alan.fitzpatrick@tudublin.ie
Heather O’Connor, Shamrock Rovers volunteer and TU Dublin, School of Media Graduate (2024). Photograph by Dr. Glenn Doyle, TU Dublin, School of Media.
Ciaran Kane, Rovers supporter and Founder of the Shamrock Rovers Community Foundation. Photo by A.M.Mullally
Mary Robinson to launch collection of case studies on PR and sustainability by School of Media staff and graduates
Former President and UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson will formally launch Public Relations & the Sustainable Development Goals - Case Studies in Practice in TU Dublin Grangegorman, on Friday November 8 at 6pm.
The book, written by staff and graduates of the 25th cohort of the MA in Public Relations in the School of Media, celebrates the programme’s milestone in educating PR professionals and explores how strategic communication is essential in sustainability campaigns. With twelve Irish and international case studies chosen by the graduates, and additional chapters by the editors, Dr Kevin Hora MPRII, Dr Cliodhna Pierce and Isaac Antwi-Boasiako, the book demonstrates how PR can be a force for positive change, aligning communication with the United Nations’ SDGs.
The launch takes place in the East Quad on TU Dublin’s campus and brings together PR professionals, students, and sustainability advocates. The event is free but tickets must be booked on Eventbrite.
Join Us for a groundbreaking symposium on Sustainable Youth Theatre Practice
Are you passionate about the future of youth theatre and eager to embrace sustainable practices? Do not miss the opportunity to be part of a transformative moment in youth theatre and theatre practices. Join us for an inspiring and insightful symposium dedicated to creating a greener, more sustainable future in youth theatre.
Youth Theatre Ireland are delighted to be partnering with TU Dublin School of Media, and TU Dublin Conservatoire to deliver our Youth Theatre Practice Symposium at TU Dublin, East Quad, Grangegorman Campus, Dublin 7, on November 8th and 9th 2024.
TU Dublin is a fitting partner for this event, as it aims to become one of the world’s most sustainable universities, sharing with Youth Theatre Ireland a belief in sustainable practices and a commitment to transformation.
Bringing together some of the leading minds and changemakers working in Irish theatre, youth theatre, film, and youth work, we hope to provide an exciting symposium focusing on sustainable practices in youth theatre. With two days of presentations, workshops, performances, and social events to connect and network, you will have the opportunity to gather resources, develop strategies and build your own sustainable practices.
This symposium is aimed at those already engaged in youth theatre practice, artists, arts and community workers with an interest in youth theatre, theatre, education, youth work and community sectors.
Supported by the Youth Climate Justice Fund, from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
For more information and to Register click HERE
About our Transition Year Week
Thank you for your interest in the TY Work Experience programme at the TU Dublin School of Media. Our programme is aimed at students who are interested in finding out more about studying all aspects of the media, including photography, film, podcasting, radio, documentary, TV, journalism, PR and political communications, digital media, multimedia design and game design.
Placement with the TU Dublin School of Media will involve spending one week attending classes and workshops along with our current students during the academic year. In addition, all TY participants will work with one of our lecturers to make their own podcast based on their interests and experience. Specific classes from across our programmes will be available, including modules in Photography, Journalism, Film & Broadcasting, and Game Design on City Campus, East Quad Grangegorman (some classes may also be available on Media Arts & Digital Production on our Tallaght Campus and Creative Digital Media in Blanchardstown).
Information about all our programmes is available on our website: School of Media Undergraduate Programmes
Let us know which programme(s) interest you the most and we will do our best to schedule you to attend a class on those programmes. Please note we cannot guarantee that it will always be possible. Each week the classes vary, depending on what the lecturers have scheduled for the students. Some of the classes scheduled will be theory based, some may be observational, while others may be hands-on. Each week during the year will be different as it will depend on what modules are being taught at the time.
The TU Dublin School of Media is located in the East Quad building on the City Campus, Grangegorman.
Places available on each week are limited and are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
If you would like to apply for our TY Programme, please complete the application form HERE: https://forms.office.com/e/zasSrrBefj
We'll get in touch with you to confirm after we review your online application form.
To attend our Undergraduate Open Days, please Register Open Days & Events | TU Dublin
The School of Media and Conservatoire at TU Dublin are delighted to present
– Room EQ 002 East Quad TU Dublin Grangegorman 17th May 2024
The Creative industries are a key employment sector for Ireland, accounting for 8.9% of national employment, placing our creative industries employment quotient as the second highest in the EU (Creative Ireland 2024). However, issues of inequity in the creative industries have been evident, measurable and emergent in discourse in recent years.
While there has rightly been much attention on the wider issues of EDI, the issues of class, class inequality and access to the Creative industries in Ireland has been somewhat understudied.
This symposium will seek to critically examine the deep-rooted impact of class inequality across all sections of the Creative industries in Ireland and its impact on the art and media we make.
Registration is free, and a light lunch will be provided but please register in advance by completing the linked form
Programme:
9am registration
9.15 opening remarks
9.30-11.00
Session 1 Policy and Methods
Michael Pierce: Working-class writing in Ireland today: personal testimonies, research gaps, and mapping the road ahead
Sorca McDonnell: Researching class from within- reflections on a cooperative inquiry of working-class women exploring class and education in Ireland.
Connell Vaughan: The Middle-Class Rip-Off”? Subsiding Culture in Contemporary Ireland
11.00-11.30 coffee break
11.30-12.30 Keynote address Sen Lynn Ruane - The importance of working-class voices in art and media.
12.30 -1.30 Lunch
1.30 Spotlight on Undergraduate research:
Jake McLaughlin Runner-loving looters: An analysis of media representations of class in the 2023 Dublin riots.
1.40 - 3.15 Session 2: Representations of Class.
Clara Mallon and Salomé Paul: Emerging From The Silence: Working-class Women in Irish Theatre
Andrea Cleary: "Women Supporting Women": discussions of collective feminist music activism in Irish media.
Angela Mehegan: Class, Taste, and Identity in Mid-Twentieth Century Irish Domestic Interiors
Ciara Murphy – Class and Irishness: Performing and Problematising Stereotypes of Contemporary Irish Nationalism
3.15-3.30 break
3.30 - 4.30 Session 3 Structural barriers in the Creative and media industries – the impact of class.
Stephanie Costello: "The Garda are hated, so are the newspapers" - Understanding the socio-cultural context of low media trust and Dublin's working class.
Yvonne Kiely: “It’s the best person for the job”: Class, gender, race, and the practices of music organisations in Ireland
Caroline O’Sullivan and Mary Ann Bolger: Class and the Screen Industries: The Unspoken barriers to entry into the sector.
4.30 Screening of short film The Cleaner
4.45 Closing remarks and future plans.
For further information contact the symposium conveners Dr Caroline O’Sullivan (School of Media) caroline.osullivan@tudublin.ie and Dr Ciara Murphy ciara.murphy@tudublin.ie (Conservatoire)
Registration is open to attend the CAO Open Day Events taking place in our Grangegorman, Blanchardstown and Tallaght Campuses in April 2024.
Don't miss this opportunity to find out more about our courses and ask all the relevant questions to our lecturers!
SymPRandA 2024 - PR and the SDGs: Developing Trust and Buy-In
PR and the SDGs: Developing Trust and Buy-In Symposium organised by MAPR at TUDublin
The Public Relations master's degree at Technological University Dublin is proud to announce its second annual Symposium in Public Relations and Public Affairs (SymPRandA): "PR and the SDGs: Developing Trust and Buy-In". Scheduled for 18 April 2024, this event explores the vital intersection between Public Relations (PR) strategies and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In today's interconnected world, businesses, organisations, and governments are increasingly expected to align their operations with sustainable practices outlined by the United Nations' SDGs. Effective communication and public relations play a crucial role in fostering understanding, trust, and support for these initiatives. This symposium will delve into the strategies and tactics necessary to navigate this complex landscape successfully.
Led by industry experts and academic scholars, the symposium will feature insightful discussions and academic projects.
Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with leading professionals in the field, gain valuable insights and network with peers who share a common interest in promoting sustainability through effective communication strategies. We are delighted to have Dr. Lisa Koep, Chief ESG Officer at Tirlán (formerly Glanbia Ireland), as keynote speaker.
Dr Kevin Hora, Head of Discipline, Journalism and Communications in TU Dublin’s School of Media said: “For 25 years, the MA in Public Relations has fostered debate about vital issues in society and practice. SymPRandA 2024 continues that tradition with this timely and necessary exploration of the role of strategic communications as an essential component of sustainability.”
The event takes place at TU Dublin’s Grangegorman campus on the 18th of April, 2024. Registration is now open, and early booking is encouraged. For more information and to reserve a place, please contact Kevin.Hora@TUDublin.ie
Save the date for the School of Media Graduate Shows. These will take place in all 3 campuses:
- Blanchardstown: 22nd to 23rd May
- City: 30th May
- Tallaght: 18th to 25th of May
More details to follow soon!
SOLAS │ SOLACE
BA (Hons)
Media Production & Digital Arts
Degree Show 2024
Official Launch: 3pm, Saturday 18 May
Location: Rua Red
South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght
Runs daily (except Sunday) 10am – 6pm to Saturday 25 May.
The School of Media would like to invite you to the launch of the Creative Digital Media Graduate Show, INTERSECT 2024. Launching Thursday, May 23rd at 6:30pm at the TU Dublin Blanchardstown Campus.
See our latest batch of Graduates showcasing a range of multidisciplinary projects across the spectrum of Digital Media, from Documentaries, Audio Projects, Motion Graphics and Game Design to Branding, Interactive Web, Digital Marketing and App Design in their final year show.
Join us for a celebration of these students and their innovative and creative journey over the last four years.
Opening night: Thursday, 30th May, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Opens daily: 31st May – 8th June, 10:00am – 5:00pm
We are delighted to welcome you to GradX, the Graduate Exhibition of the TU Dublin School of Art and Design, School of Media and the TU Dublin Conservatoire.
For the third year running, we are hosting our exhibition at the East Quad, a vibrant creative and cultural hub nestled in the heart of TU Dublin’s Grangegorman Campus. This location is not only home to our state-of-the-art new studios, workshops, and practice and performance spaces, but also provides a unique backdrop for our GradX exhibition.
The exhibition is the highlight of the academic year for students and staff and features an exciting, innovative range of work from over 200 degree students from our programmes in Fine Art, Product Design (in partnership with the School of Mechanical Engineering), Interior and Furniture Design, Visual Merchandising, Visual Communication Design, Creative Industries and Visual Culture, Film and Broadcasting, Game Design, Photography, and Journalism. This year, we are also joined by the TU Dublin Conservatoire, which will host several performances from graduates in music and screenings representing drama and opera.
The work presented in this exhibition, print publication and on our GradX website represents the culmination of many years of full-time study, and allows our students to showcase the results of their imaginations, hard work and significant creative skills.
Find out more here - TU Dublin Graduate Exhibition 2024 (gradx.ie)
TU Dublin GradX 2024 showcases Media graduates’
individual and collective identities
The School of Media joins with the Schools of Art and Design, Mechanical and Design Engineering and, participating for first time, the Conservatoire to present GradX 2024, the annual exhibition showcasing our city campus graduate work. The event opens in East Quad, Grangegorman, on Thursday, May 30 at 6pm and runs until June 8, and showcases work from Media students pursuing degrees in journalism, film and broadcasting, photography and game design.
BA (Hons) in Journalism picked up the prestigious Magazine of the Year award at the Student Media Awards (Smedias) for their magazine Currently. A current affairs magazine for Gen Z, Currently’s well-crafted journalism shows the future of Irish journalism is in good hands.
Nominated for a Smedia for 'Documentary of the Year' Diana Lazar’s radio documentary, The Real Cinderella, tells the story of Cinderella, born to a Filipino mother and Dutch father, who escaped their controlling influence to find her own happy ever after. Jake McLoughlin’s self-confessed Gen Z mind, meanwhile, never really got the whole Elvis thing. His radio documentary, The King's Not Dead, tracks down Ireland’s biggest Elvis fans to understand why the music continues to get us all shook up more than four decades after his death.
From the BA (Hons) in Film & Broadcasting, Amber McGrath's film, Magpie, raises the issue of social isolation and how those on either side of the generation gap have more in common than they know. Sadbh Downes’ Smedia-award winning GOLOUD Podcast of the year, On the Menu: Irish Edition, takes the listener on a gustatory journey into the Irish culinary scene. Conor Boers' All I Have To Say embraces the poetic documentary form as a space for people to say those things they never did, but never really left behind.
Ciara Richardson's photographic project How would you like it to happen to you? uses intricate montage strategies in a a playful archival investigation of male gender stereotypes. Jessica Flynn's Beyond the Walls investigates her family's deep connection to the city of
Derry. David Otruba's What Happened to the Canary in the Quarry represents the idea of anthropogenic climate change through a series of landscape photographs.
Head of the School of Media, Dr Caroline Ann O’Sullivan said: ‘This work, the culmination of four challenging years, showcases our graduates’ tremendous creative and technical talent, resilience and professionalism. We place an emphasis in the School on work that is creative, innovative, socially engaged and that places a critical lens over important matters in Irish society, the projects you see showcased exemplify that ethos. To the students exhibiting their work, your dedication, hard work, and creativity have brought you to this momentous occasion, and we couldn't be prouder of each and every one of you”.
The GradX identity, created by Visual Communication students Eilis Espina, Miriam Hurley, Sarah McEvilly and Ying Qi Tang, symbolises individual students using dispersed letterforms, which converge as words and phrases to represent their voices and showcase their individual and collective identities among over 200 students in fields ranging from fine art, product design, interior design, furniture design, visual merchandising, visual communication design, journalism, film and broadcasting, photography and game design.
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