President's Research Awards 2012
President's Research Awards 2012
The President's Research Awards for 2012 have been awarded to Dr Dorothy Kenny, School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies and Professor Greg Hughes, School of Physical Sciences. The Awards are presented annually to DCU researchers who have excelled in their field. The invited speaker for the President's Research Awards Day was Elizabeth Pollitzer, an expert adviser on gender issues to the European Commission. The talk was a response to an invitation from Research and Innovation Support, the Graduate Studies Office, the Equality Office and the Faculty of Science and Health. The title of the talk was "HORIZON 2020 : what will ‘intergrating the gender dimension’ mean in Science and Engineering if it’s not all about role models and recruitment?"
Dr Kenny received the Award for the Humanities and Social Sciences for her outstanding contribution to the development of translation studies both nationally and internationally. Over the last two decades, Dorothy has contributed continuously and with significant impact to the discipline of Translation Studies. Her expertise covers an impressive range of topics, from specialised translation and terminology to translation pedagogy and machine translation. However, it is her ground-breaking work in corpus-based translation studies that represents to date her most important and lasting contribution to the field.
Professor Greg Hughes received the Award for Science and Engineering for his significant contributions to the development of experimental surface science as a key field of research within DCU, demonstrating academic excellence, strong enterprise engagement and knowledge transfer achievements in a range of surface science research areas, and notably for his recent work on diffusion layer studies and high energy x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, both for next generation microelectronic devices.