
Dr Áine Mahon
@ainemariemahon
Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education at University College Dublin, writing on Higher Education in Ireland and internationally. Dúil agam sa Ghaeilge.
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'How do Danish humanities PhD school leaders constitute their roles? Interactions of biography, place and time'. New paper published in Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education today, written with my wonderful coauthors Lynn McAlpine and Søren Bengtsen. emerald.com/insight/conten…






Comhghairdeas ó chroí le Darragh Ó Caoimh atá ainmnithe ar an ngearrliosta do Réalta Óg na Bliana ⭐🎉🙌 An tOireachtas #Gradaim24 #OnaS24




The last few days to get your proposals in for ‘Fear Studies in an Age of Fear’, an interdisciplinary one-day conference University of Warwick 31 January 2025. Fear/negative emotions and their social, cultural, and political meanings. Closes Friday! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…


Wrote a piece with Dr Áine Mahon for the The Irish Times on the importance of an Arts education and the importance of funding culture more generally. Especially important, I think, given the scant funding allocated to the Arts Council in the recent Budget. irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…




Wrote an essay on Intermezzo for Review 31 -- in case it wasn't yet clear, I think she'd deadly. I elaborate why, with ref to the history of the novel, here. Thanks so much to elsa court and Houman Barekat for edits and for publishing✨

In our UniversityWorldNews analysis of the Nobels & implications for higher ed Philip G. Altbach & I discuss the value of basic research, controversies of the 2024 prizes, including continued domination of Anglophone countries & considerations for human society universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

This is going to be a good one - join @PaTHES Society on Nov. 11 at 8.00 ET/13.00 GMT/21.00 HKT for a webinar with Chris Higgins BC Formative Education Boston College Lynch School titled “Skeleton Faculty: A Nietzschean Critique of Scholarly Formation”. Register here: ucd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regist…



Read the new article on donor discourses and rationales in aid to HE in LMICs from @RSchendelBC Lee Rensimer Tristan McCowan and I - we look at rationales, roles, and rhetoric around the concept and practice of aid to HE of the top 15 donors (2011-2020). doi.org/10.1016/j.ijed…