AUTUMN 2018 13. Molecular into HIV Research 11. Nutrition and the Elderly discovery significant -averyDowth INSIDE 9. Professor Harry White – Festschrift 5. Archaeological 5. Archaeological Discovery at Dowth Contents Features Archaeological Professor Harry Nutrition and Molecular Research 5 Discovery at Dowth 9 White – Festschrift 11 the Elderly 13 into HIV Housing and student accommodation: the patterns and the lessons are the same Amongst the cranes stretching into the Belfield skyline are 5 on the Roebuck student residences site. Back in January UCD received permission for 2,118 bed spaces to be developed in two phases under the new fast-track planning process for housing developments of 100 or more units that can now be made directly to An Bord Pleanála rather than to the local authority. EILIS O’BRIEN According to international commercial real estate advisors, Cushman and Director of Communication and Marketing Wakefield, the purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is growing and has now come into its own as a serious investment option for profit-driven, international portfolio managers. In Dublin, they estimate the current PBSA market has 11,340 bed spaces with a further 6,160 under construction, including the first phase of the new UCD development with 1,000 spaces. Big investors and big operators are moving into the Irish market, as they have done in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The largest investors in Ireland are Hines, Harrison Street Real Estate, GSA and Summix. The biggest operators are Aparto, Uninest and Host. UCD has argued that building our own student accommodation is better on a number of fronts: it gives us a critical mass of students living on campus to create a more vibrant atmosphere and to sustain better food and retail services; it gives students a social centre when they arrive in Dublin; it guarantees a certain standard in terms of quality of accommodation; and it relieves the pressure on the private rental market. Housing our own students ourselves also makes sense societally too. Giving evidence to an Oireachtas committee recently, Professor Michelle Norris and Dr Aideen Hayden from UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice argued that 30% of homes need to be publicly owned in order to tackle the housing crisis and balance the housing system. In addition to the enormous gap in public housing construction, some two thirds of all council houses are now privately owned – as tenants availed of the tenant purchase schemes. Reversing these two factors is proving to be politically very hard work indeed. As student living moves more in the direction of purpose-built accommodation we should learn from the experience in the affordable housing sector and continue to invest in providing living space for future generations of students ourselves rather than leaving it to others. thanks... 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Please Recycle Julie Tonge, Miceal Whelan, Sandy Wilkinson Cover image: Dowth - Megalithic Discovery News Graduating Students Registrar and Deputy President Professor Mark Rogers with some of our graduating students. University celebrates honorary degree recipients During a week when the University welcomed 4,500 new students and conferred 3,800 Professor John undergraduate, masters and PhD degrees, seven outstanding leaders across the fields of O’Connor - Honorary engineering, sociology, financial services and creative arts have had their career Degree of Doctor of achievements recognised by the University. Science A graduate from UCD Moya Doherty - Mary Lawlor - Honorary Engineering with a BE in Honorary Degree of Degree of Doctor of Mechanical & Electrical Doctor of Literature Laws Engineering in 1956, Professor As a pioneering Mary Lawlor’s name is John O’Connor brought pain broadcaster and synonymous with the relief to hundreds of thousands with the development executive director, Moya organisation that she of his revolutionary ‘Oxford Knee’. Doherty has played a founded in 2001, Frontline seminal role in the Defenders – a group Dr Randall Collins - nurturing and dedicated to supporting Honorary Degree of development of creative talent in Ireland and people throughout the world who are at risk Doctor of Literature beyond. It was as commissioning producer because of their work in promoting and One of the world’s and originator of Riverdance for the 1994 safeguarding those rights enshrined in the foremost sociologists and Eurovision Song Contest that she created a Universal Declaration of Human Rights. the leading American moment of cultural exuberance shared across sociologist alive today, Dr Ireland, Europe and the wider world. Professor Gary Pisano - Randall Collins has Honorary Degree of published more than a John O’Loughlin Doctor of Literature hundred articles and books since finishing his Kennedy - Honorary Professor Gary Pisano undergraduate education. Degree of Doctor of has dedicated his career to Science education and research of Professor John J Graduating with a BA the world of business, and McConnell - Honorary in Economics from UCD more specifically the Degree of Doctor of Laws in 1953, John O’Loughlin question why the Professor John J Kennedy has had an biotechnology industry has failed to deliver on its McConnell is a leading illustrious career in both promise. His critique of the industry provided a financial economist, and is the private and public sectors. With his wife, roadmap for companies and management teams renowned for his stellar Mr O’Loughlin Kennedy established Concern who were looking for ways to improve their leadership in the world of Worldwide. industry’s performance. finance. Welcome to our new Students A group of newly arrived international students enjoy the festivities during Orientation week. 3 | Autumn 2018 News Áiríonn ár grianghraf: Stephanie Forde, UCD International; Ashling Harteveld, Bord na Gaeilge UCD; Matsidiso Bambo, Psycology; Naadiya Majam Law; Nondumiso Mthimkhulu Education; Clár Ní Bhuachalla, Bord na Gaeilge UCD; Serole Kgolane, Psychology; Mulalo Pearl Sehlako, Economics and Econometrics; Bonolo Mahumapelo, Sociology; Dipolelo Mampeule, Social Work; Kedibone Legodi, Accounting Sciences; Aisling Ní Sheirin, Bord na Gaeilge UCD tutor; and Eve Brosseau, UCD International. Foghlaimeoirí Gaeilge ó Ollscoil Johannesburg ag Tionól Gaeilge UCD Bhí lúcháir ar Bhord na Gaeilge UCD fáilte Ghlac na mic léinn páirt i ranganna Gaeilge a chur roimh mhic léinn ó Ollscoil agus d’fhreastail siad ar léachtaí ar ghnéithe Johannesburg, ag a scoil samhraidh éagsúla de stair agus de chultúr na hÉireann. Is tír idirnáisiúnta, Tionól Gaeilge UCD. Is ilchultúir í an Afraic Theas ina bhfuil an-chuid teangacha oifigiúla; agus mar sin ba í an Ghaeilge comhpháirtí de chuid UCD é Ollscoil an 8ú teanga ag cuid acu. Dúirt siad gur áit Johannesburg; tá an dá institiúid ina mbaill shuaimhneach a bhí i UCD, ach ní raibh an den ghreasán Universitas21.. teaspach a bhí againn i mí Iúil ar chomhchéim le Ba í seo an dara bliain ag Tionól Gaeilge UCD samhradh na hAfraice Theas, áfach, agus aimsir inár ghlac breis is 60 duine páirt i mí Iúil. Tá an fhuar an cur síos a rinne roinnt de na mic léinn ar scoil dírithe ar dhaoine fásta as Éirinn agus thar an aimsir! Táimid iontach sásta gur bhain na mic sáile. Bhí réimse clár samhraidh ar fáil do mhic léinn sult as an am a chaith siad anseo i UCD léinn na hAfraice Theas trína mballraíocht i agus tá súil againn go roinnfidh siad an t-eispéireas Universitas 21 ach roghnaigh siad staidéar a U21 a bhí acu le gach duine sa bhaile le go Orla O’Dea, UCD Head of Procurement pictured with Maya dhéanamh anseo. Spéis i dteangacha agus i mbeidh tuilleadh malartuithe cultúir iontacha dá Khalil, Supplier Relations and Risk Manager at the Procurement and Contracts department, American University of Beirut. gcultúir dhifriúla, a deir siad, ba chúis dóibh cur leithéid againn. isteach ar an dTionól. Roghnaigh Ollscoil Cuireann Bord na Gaeilge cúrsaí Gaeilge ar Johannesburg na mic léinn le taisteal mar gur fáil do gach mac léinn agus do gach ball foirne de UCD hosts bhaineadar amach an marc is airde ina ndámh chuid UCD le linn sheimeastar 1 agus 2 agus is faoi leith - agus níorbh amháin gurbh é a gcéad cúis áthais faoi leith dúinn go mbíonn an-thóir ar turas go hÉirinn é ach ba é a gcéad bhlaiseadh an ranganna céanna ag pobal ilchultúrtha na International den Eoraip freisin é! hOllscoile. Procurement Visitors Discussions in UCD Procurement and Contracts Disability Seminar Office hosted visitors from universities participating in the international UCD Centre for Disability Studies’ 2018 Erasmus programme, a scholarship and Discussions in Disability seminar explored mobility programme funded by the Assisted Decision-Making with a packed European Union, open to academic and audience in August. Associate Professor administrative staff. The visitors work in Christine Linehan, Director of the UCD purchasing/procurement offices at the Centre for Disability Studies and Professor American University of Beirut (Lebanon), Colin Scott, UCD Vice-President for Equality, University of Bologna (Italy), and Diversity and Inclusion opened proceedings Masaryk University (Czech Republic).