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Featured news: 2018 UCD Alumni Award in Social Sciences - Dr Grainne Healy

2018 News:

• UCD College of Social Sciences and Law - Multiple Academic Vacancies 2018

• UCD Festival Day 2018 

• The Irish Young Philosopher Awards 2018

• International Women's Day 2018

• Widening Participation in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law: Open Day for QQI-FET applicants

• Continued strong interest in Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Annual BT Young Science & Technology Exhibition

2017 News:

• Ulysses medals for former US ambassador to UN, Samantha Power and Harvard scholar, Cass Sunstein
  
  
• UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Multiple Academic Vacancies, 2017

• New BSc Social Sciences degree launched by University College Dublin
  
  
• Colin Scott delivers lecture on diversity, private regulation and Brexit negotiations at Utrecht University
  
  
• UCD College of Social Sciences and Law Teaching Awards

• Professor Liam Delaney to take up AIB Chair in Behavioural Economics
  
  
• UCD Garret FitzGerald School and Lecture 2017
  
  
• UCD and Utrecht University Partnership
  
  
• UCD-Universiteit Utrecht Collaborative Research Workshop
  
  
• New PhD Scholarships
  
  
• New Double Masters in European Governance
  
  
• Launch of UCD College of Social Sciences and Law
  
  
• Partnership with Harris School of Public Policy
  
  
• Does policy matter for Poverty and Prosperity?

Grainne Healy honoured with the 2018 UCD Alumni Award in Social Sciences

The UCD Alumni Awards proudly celebrate and honour the outstanding achievements of our alumni. The College of Social Sciences is delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2018 UCD Alumni award in Social Sciences is Grainne Healy.

Dr Gráinne Healy is a celebrated leader in gender equality and social justice. Working in activism for the past 40 years, Gráinne was instrumental in helping to turn Ireland into a nation of equals in May 2015 as co-head of the Yes Equality Campaign, the campaign which led and won the marriage equality referendum.

She is founder and chairperson of Marriage Equality Ireland since 2004 and is a published author. Dr Healy’s global impact is also notable in the areas of violence against women, migrant rights and sex trafficking. She is Chairwoman of the European Women’s Lobby’s Observatory on Violence against Women and is a former Chairwoman of the National Women’s Council of Ireland.

UCD alumni are the backbone of this great institution. Their successes reinforce UCD’s position as Ireland’s leading global university; their loyal involvement with UCD shapes the future of the University.