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Pharma Careers @pharmacareers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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. 🧵

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Pharma Careers @pharmacareers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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.

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Pharma Careers @pharmacareers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Great to be working with you @aislingmurtagh.bsky.social! Excited for the insights into the career trajectories of #WomeninStem yielded by #BNIM. 😊 #PharmaCareers #CareersResearch #GenderandWork

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

PharmaCareers is based at SETU and funded by Taighde Éireann Research Ireland under COALESCE. 🔬 @setu-research.bsky.social @researchireland.ie #QualitativeResearch #GenderAndWork

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That matters because careers are rarely tidy sequences of individual choices. They unfold through organisations, opportunities, place, relationships and caring responsibilities. BNIM gives participants room to show us what mattered and where the story changed direction.

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Follow-up questions come later, built from the participant’s own words and asked in the sequence in which she told her story. The aim is to reach particular moments and experiences—not answers shaped by our topic guide.

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

BNIM (the Biographic-Narrative Interpretive Method) begins with a SQUIN: a Single Question aimed at Inducing Narrative. The participant tells her story in her own way and without interruption.

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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. 🎙️🧵

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you know someone who should be part of this conversation, tag them below ⬇️

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We're looking for women science graduates to share their career stories in the Irish pharmaceutical industry.

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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.

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The workshop was drawn to a close by excellent insights on writing feminist research and getting published, followed by a roundtable Q&A from Dr. Alexia Panayiotou, Professor Alison Pullen, Dr. Lynne Baxter, and Dr. Ana Lopes. 7/7

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Creative writing techniques were modelled, and their practical applications as researchers were explored. Our 'found objects' were used to frame our thoughts about who we are as researchers and what our research means to us. 6/7

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A detailed discussion on how to conduct research traced approaches to the research design, conduct, and analysis of data within the feminist management and organisational space. 5/7

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A unique approach to this collective reading was the opportunity to choose a (non-consecutive) passage and explain why it was of interest. 4/7

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We collectively engaged with a reading from bell hooks, raising questions about the role, mechanisms, and implications of theory and how we theorise. 3/7

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Expertly organised, led, and facilitated by Dr. Sara Zaeemdar, the workshop explored our research approaches and priorities in depth, drawing on Theatre of the Oppressed principles. 2/7

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Kate O'Keeffe/ Cáit Ní Chaoimh @k8okeeffe.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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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dec24conf.bsky.social @dec24conf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

🚨 Join us for the 2nd Digital Education Conference 2024 at SETU Waterford #DEC24 🚨 ⭕ Conference Theme “Accelerate Digital Education; Health and Sustainability” Registrations open here: setu.ie/events/dec24

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dec24conf.bsky.social @dec24conf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

⏰ #DEC24 takes place on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th December 2024! ⏰ Two days full of interactive workshops, fascinating paper presentations. ⏰ One week left to register ⏰ Further information here 👇 setu.ie/events/dec24 Conference schedule 👇

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dec24conf.bsky.social @dec24conf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Please nominate (one category only for each nominee)👇 tinyurl.com/ya5wrzhw Register for #DEC24 👇 setu.ie/events/dec24

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dec24conf.bsky.social @dec24conf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

📢Digital Excellence Awards Alert for #DEC24 conference participants📢 🟡 Best Digital Educator (Individual) 🟡 Best Impact on Digital Education (Group/ Individual) ⭕️ Submissions aligned to conference themes of Accessibility and Sustainability are particularly welcome

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