Second Annual Research Poster Conference

The Research Students’ Support Group comprising higher degree students registered at St Patrick’s College and staff members registered at other universities organised a poster conference in St Patrick’s College on Saturday March 11th 2006. This year, students from the St Patrick’s College Ed D programme and some research colleagues from DCU and Mater Dei were present. The conference began with a very convivial dinner on Friday night, March 10th at which Dr Pauric Travers presided. It continued in the college on Saturday morning from 10a.m. to 1.00 p.m. As with all successful events, once the discussion had begun people were reluctant to leave.

Posters outlining research in the Humanities and in Education were presented. There was a considerable breadth of research topics and the cross-disciplinary exchanges, which resulted from presentations of research at various stages of progress, was illuminating for all concerned. Similarities and differences in approaches and methodologies were noted and links were made across disciplines and across research domains.