Low-paid PhD students: ‘I work three part-time jobs to make ends meet’ irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Great article this morning on issues facing underpaid PhDs in Ireland - an issue that has seen little progress under the watch of your soon-to-be Taoiseach Simon Harris TD

irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

I'm writing for The Irish Times about being of a PhD researcher in Ireland. What's your experience of the pay and conditions? Have you considered a PhD but decided against it, or dropped out? Reply here, or DM me in confidence. RTs appreciated. drive.google.com/file/d/1zoFJWb…

Today we gathered across the country to continue the fight towards worker status for ALL PhDs

ALL PhDs deserve
- A living wage
- Sick leave
- Parental leave
- Labour protections

Join us! pwo.ie

Postgraduate researchers protest over pay: ‘People are skipping meals in order to do research here’ irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

After two years of campaigning and protesting, PGR rights are still systematically overlooked in Trinity. We are preparing to go on strike. #PGR_STRIKE

Meanwhile no PhD working at University College Dublin is paid above a minimum wage...

Irish Universities Assoc. PWO Ireland PWO UCD

Pleased to share that I will be co-organising the SCI-CHAT workshop with the theme 'Simulation of Conversational Intelligence in Chat' at EACL 2024.

More details at: bit.ly/scichat-eacl
#EACL #AI #ML #NLP

Very happy to announce that our workshop 'EmpathiCH : Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual' has been accepted @ CHI 2024 ACM CHI Conference!

For further information, please check out: empathich.com or contact Allie Lahnala or myself! ( 📸: Uğur Genç ) #CHI #EmpathiCH

Join us this Wednesday at 12 p.m. as we walk out in solidarity with our PhD community in response to Budget 2024.
PhD researchers teach, they grade papers, they act as invigilators during exams all on top of their research and STILL CANNOT AFFORD TO LIVE.
#pgrsdeservebetter

‘I was disappointed that the increase was below what was recommended by the review and that only the pay increase was talked about,’ says Kim Conteddu, a PhD candidate at data_science_ie. ‘Everything else was pushed under the carpet.’
chemistryworld.com/news/irish-phd…

We are disgusted to have been overlooked in #Budget2024 despite assurances from DFHERIS Comms that IRC/SFI stipends would go up.

We are struggling. We are the backbone of Irish research & higher edu. We are undervalued by the state & our universities.

We are fighting back - join us

Ireland's PGRs deserve better pay & support. Raise stipends to €25,000/year as recommended. Sign here to support living wage for PhD Researchers: my.uplift.ie/petitions/dema… via Uplift

Frankly, this is an insult to PhDs and what we have campaigned for.

The review began in March.

Once we were invited to the process, it became immediately clear that many parts of the terms of reference of the review were not meaningfully up for discussion.
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📷DEADLINE Extended to 26th April📷
CRUM Workshop @ UMAP '24 co-located with UMAP is still accepting submissions on context representation in interactive applications. To learn more, visit crum-workshop.github.io. Look forward to seeing you in Cyprus!
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Most Read - ‘This is disgustingly unacceptable’: Revenue tells PhD researcher on €18,500 he may face tax bill irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Hey guys! Have worked hard on organizing this workshop with Dipto Barman Jovan Jeromela @HASSAN_i_ZAAL and Awais Akbar.

Please consider submitting if you work with context representation in HCI, user modelling, or adaptive systems, or spreading the word to colleagues!

The Revenue Commission has said that PhD researchers may be required to pay taxes on their stipends
universitytimes.ie/2023/03/revenu…

Postgraduate researchers protest at Dáil over pay and conditions irishtimes.com/ireland/educat…

Interestingly, this commitment doesn't stop Science Foundation Ireland from funding PhD programs that don't offer parental leave