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On Wednesday, April 13th, The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change, NUI Galway held its first Research Day. The Research day covered topics such as environmental sustainability, gender equality, climate change, information management in the public sector and healthy societies. The first session of the day was a whirl wind tour of the activities… | Read on »

Short–term low–skilled labour migration increased sharply during the two decades prior to the international economic recession of 2008, to fill deficiencies in local labour supply in developed countries. Ireland was one of the newer states to recruit labour internationally on a large scale between the late 1990s and 2008. Brazilian workers who were recruited initially… | Read on »

Dr. Geraldine Robbins, Accountancy and Finance and co-leader of the Performance Management Cluster, Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway chats with Angela Sice about the role of accounting technologies, as elements of Management Control Systems, in supporting management in achieving organisational objectives in public and private sector organisations.

Cycling is increasingly recognised as a key mode in reducing the environmental impact of transport, promoting physical activity and developing the tourism sector. The provision of safe and attractive cycling routes is an important part of encouraging uptake of cycling. Greenways, as traffic-free trails, are fast becoming a feature of the landscape with an emphasis… | Read on »

Senator Sean Barrett, Independent Senator in Seanad Éireann and member of the Oireachtas Banking Inquiry, delivered a talk entitled ‘Learning the Hard Lessons from the Banking Inquiry’ on Wednesday, 9 March in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics. The Irish Banking Guarantee of 2008 and subsequent 2010-2013 Troika Bailout was a national trauma…. | Read on »

Newer technologies such as mobile devices and the internet are ubiquitous in modern society. Health related behaviour change driven by such technologies has grown exponentially in recent years with downloads for health and lifestyle related mobile applications or “apps” expected to exceed 25 billion in 2015 and 50 billion in 2017. This presents a unique… | Read on »

Dr. Christine Domegan, Marketing Discipline and Leader of the Social Innovation and Policy cluster, Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway chats with Angela Sice about Social Innovation and how it is used to address ‘Wicked Problems’ in society

The Irish government and the European Union engaged in an extensive series of investment programmes in transport infrastructure during the 1990s and 2000s using EU structural funds and Irish government exchequer funding. The provision of regional airports can provide regions and communities with fast access to national and international transport networks that are necessary for… | Read on »

Dr. Valerie Ledwith, Geography and co-leader of the Population and Migration Research Cluster, Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway chats with Angela Sice about her current research on the sub-field of the geographies of education, focusing particularly on migrant educational experiences here in Ireland.

Local councils in Ireland experienced the same boom and bust conditions that the national government and the general economy witnessed since 2007/8. Whereas the public finances of central government have been subject to much research and debate, the same level of scrutiny was not applied to subnational government and local public finances. Yet, local government… | Read on »