Colleagues, Professor Yvonne Galligan and Dr Deirdre McQuillan from the EUt+ alliance partner university – the Technological University of Dublin, visited Technical University of Sofia. During their visit they held a working seminar with colleagues from the Technical University of Sofia on gender related topics and analysis related to Horizon Europe project applications.
Professor Yvonne Galligan gave a lecture on Gender in Research and Innovation in the context of Horizon Europe programme. She addressed topical issues related to the improvement of European research and innovation system and outlined the importance of EU focus on gender dimension in projects aimed at improving research quality, as well as relevance to society of the knowledge, technologies and innovations produced.
Yvonne Galligan is Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Comparative Politics in Technological University Dublin. She publishes extensively on gender equality issues in public life and on equality and inclusion in higher education.
She has held leadership posts in professional associations, including as President of the Political Studies Association of Ireland and Vice-President of the International Political Science Association. She presently chairs the Royal Irish Academy’s Ethics, Politics, Law and Philosophy Committee.
Her peer recognition includes being elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, elected honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and recipient of an honorary doctorate of science in social science from the University of Edinburgh.
Dr. Deirdre McQuillan is the work package lead on Societies and Transition in the European University of Technology. Her work includes leading teams working in equality, diversity and inclusion in their own institutions towards establishing EUt+ as a university model of inclusiveness and a beacon of gender and race equity among European Universities. Prior to taking up the position as project team lead in EUt+, she was head of research in the Faculty of Business in TU Dublin. Her own research interests are in entrepreneurship and creative sector work and strategy contexts.
