[…]to announce its backing of the campaign this week and you can view these resources on the USI Instagram grid here. It has been USI policy for many years to campaign for the end of the unfair ban on gay men dontating blood and now the 12 month post sex ban on men who have sex with men. It is unfair discrimination and must change. With this in mind, USI and Students’ Unions across Ireland are delighted to continue this work by supporting the Blood For All campaign. Please show your support for this campaign by signing this petition which […]
The Union of Students in Ireland is calling on students to join this weekend’s National Demonstration for Palestine, which is being co-organised by the union, to show that students stand for peace and against apartheid in Gaza. USI has joined with the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other civil society organisations to organise the march from the Garden of Remembrance on Saturday, November 18 at 1pm. Organisers are hoping to bring record numbers to the streets, and USI wants students to show that we stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine and are calling for an end to the on-going […]
[…]to bring the conversations on the housing crisis from traditional media onto Facebook, Twitter and Instagram”. USI Vice President for Campaigns, Daniel Waugh said, “On Twitter, the campaign reached 294,790 people and made an overall impression of 1,357,345 with an average Engagement Rate of 1.8%. On Facebook, we reached 464,000 people and made an impression of 1,087,345. We also received €49,000 funding for a new staff member as a result of our digital campaigning. We got a total of 298 media mentions and overall readership of 26m. The power of using social media to your advantage is there and taking […]
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Why Research Matters is a postgraduate video competition run by the Union of Students in Ireland and sponsored by the Irish Research Council. The goal is to put the creative minds of the island’s postgraduate research community to work to produce a short video presentation about your research, and why it matters. While we all remain at home it can be difficult to maintain the same level of continuity with our work, so why not remind yourselves and the country about the value of what you do and how it may someday advance knowledge and change lives? This call opens […]
