The Hairy Lemon, Your Colleague’s Grandmother, and Making Information Accessible By guest blogger Stephanie Stewart-Hill   Say you are a researcher working in Dublin and your colleague's grandmother comes to visit. She takes you and your coworker out to lunch at a popular, yet quirky, pub called the Hairy Lemon. You order food and a [...]

Dress yourself- and your mind- for the job By guest blogger Stephanie Stewart-Hill   In the movie Picture Perfect starring Jennifer Aniston and Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Aniston plays a character named Kate who misses a job promotion that she feels she rightfully deserves. She has been working for the company for a while, yet her [...]

I was not able to attend the NCSE (National Council for Special Education) Annual Conference this year (November, 2015). Anne Lawlor from 22q Ireland was able to attend, and has since been in contact with one of the speakers, Gina Grant. Gina has been very generous and has sent us the text of the talk.  [...]

St Micheal’s House in my opinion is a happy school for children with Down syndrome or any other kind of syndrome. The children are praised for what they do in their day-to-day work. They don’t have excellent written on their spellings; they don’t have A, B C’s on their report cards. They are praised for [...]

In this series of blogs I want to chat about a few useful writing tools for the literature review that I have come across - both from my time as a student and also from my job as an academic researcher.   In this first blog, I want to start with a tool that helps [...]