Great start to the HEI Rural Development Symposium 2026 this morning, with opening remarks from Minister of State Jerry Buttimer and an opening session from Prof Felicity Kelliher and Dr Leana Reinl of SETU Faculty of Business and Dr Noel Murray of MTU. 🧵

Excellent posters at the symposium also. The PharmaCareers Project is presenting 'Careers in Place', sharing some of our initial findings on women science graduates, rural location and retention in Ireland's pharma industry.

Recruitment is open! If you're interested in getting involved, please get in touch 😊

Team: @aisling-tuite.bsky.social @aislingmurtagh.bsky.social @billygoodwin1.bsky.social @k8okeeffe.bsky.social @roisinowens.bsky.social @kevin-white.bsky.social. Funded by @researchireland.ie under COALESCE (COALESCE/2025/5330), with thanks to @setu-research.bsky.social.

Getting women into science was the question a generation ago. What happens at year ten is the question now. @pharmacareers.bsky.social at SETU is interviewing women science graduates who stayed in pharma, moved sideways or left. Fieldwork open. #WomenInSTEM #PharmaCareers

Kevin White@kevin-white.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We’re recruiting participants for the PharmaCareers research project at SETU! 🔬 Funded by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland under COALESCE, we’re exploring women’s career journeys in Ireland’s pharma industry and what employers can learn from their experiences. Interested? Get in touch or share!

1/ Most careers research asks people to explain their decisions. BNIM begins somewhere else: tell me the story, then listen. On @pharmacareers.bsky.social , we’re using it to study the career life-courses of women science graduates in Ireland’s pharmaceutical industry. 🎙️🧵

Research like this can actually shift how organisations think about retention and career development. If we can show what's working and what's not, we can make real change.

Billy Goodwin@billygoodwin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really happy to be part of @pharmacareers.bsky.social When women leave STEM careers, we blame pipeline or choice. PharmaCareers asks something different: what actually happens across a working life? Get in touch to participate, or @ anyone who may be interested #WomenInSTEM #PharmaCareers

Delighted to attend a recent workshop at Newcastle University Business School on building research communities within the feminist management and organisational space. 1/7

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