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Whitaker Ideas Forum – Mapping the Determinants of Change – the PIER Project
November 27, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Speaker(s): Dr Sinead Duane
Affiliation: Applied Systems Thinking
Organised by: Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change, NUI Galway
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is recognised internationally as one of the greatest threats to humanity. The PIER project will explore the health and wellbeing impacts associated with AMR contamination of recreational waters. Within this presentation you will given a snapshot into how to explore the barriers and enablers to using recreational waters. This research will result in a ‘systems map’ which highlights leverage points whereby long, medium and short term change interventions can be developed.
This is one of a series of seminars in the Whitaker Ideas Forum. Sinead will be representing the Applied Systems Thinking cluster.
The Whitaker Ideas Forum is a weekly seminar, running Wednesday’s throughout the semester from 1:00pm-2:00pm in CA110. It provides the opportunity for members of the Institute to showcase their research. The result are presentations that highlight the diversity of the research being undertaken, while allowing for an opportunity to engage in discussions and, sometimes, collaboration with attendees. Below, you will find a list of this semester’s seminars, please click the title for more information on that seminar.
The Whitaker Ideas Forum is a weekly seminar, running Wednesday’s throughout the semester from 1:00pm-2:00pm in CA110. It provides the opportunity for members of the Institute to showcase their research. The result are presentations that highlight the diversity of the research being undertaken, while allowing for an opportunity to engage in discussions and, sometimes, collaboration with attendees. Below, you will find a list of this semester’s seminars, please click the title for more information on that seminar.
| Date | Presenter | Seminar Topic | Whitaker Research Cluster |
| 18 September | Stephen Hynes | Willingness to pay for marine ecosystem services: The Blue Planet II effect. | SEMRU |
| 25 September | Eimear Morrissey & Bláthín Casey | How to create impact with public and patient involvement: The D1 Now Study example | Health and Well-Being |
| 2 October | Emer Curtis | Management control systems as a battleground | Performance Management |
| 9 October | Conversations with Professor Alma McCarthy | ||
| 16 October | Sinead Mellett | RiskAquaSoil – Comprehensive management plan for risks in soil and in water to improve the resilience of the Atlantic rural areas to climate change | Innovation and Structural Change |
| 23 October | Conversations with Professor Kate Kenny | ||
| 30 October | Anastasia Griva | Data-driven Innovation in Shopper Marketing: A Business Analytics Approach for Visit Segmentation in the Retail Industry | Agile and Open Innovation (LERO) |
| 6 November | Conversations with Professor Esther Tippmann | ||
| 13 November | Mary Cawley | Diasporic links and on-going transnational relationships in migration and return | Population and Migration |
| 20 November | Conversations with Professor Jonathan Levie | ||
| 27 November | Sinead Duane | Mapping the Determinants of Change – the PIER Project | Applied Systems Thinking |