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Whitaker Institute member Dr Tom Gillespie, of SEMRU, spoke to the Business Post about the unprecedented inflation in the price of used cars. Read the article here.

Whitaker Institute member Dr Gerry Molloy, co-leader of the Health and Wellbeing cluster, spoke with the Irish Independent about the messaging around Covid-19. Click here to read the piece.

Whitaker Institute member Dr Deirdre Curran, of the Work, Organizations and Society research cluster, spoke with the Irish Independent about the Government’s approval to draft new legislation aimed at better regulating tips within the hospitality industry, protecting workers’ rights to those tips and providing greater transparency for customers and staff. Read the piece here. Dr… | Read on »

A new study carried out by the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre has found that the majority of students in seven alternative education programmes for learners outside the mainstream system had significant success in progressing their education. The study, led by Whitaker Institute member Dr Cormac Forkan, found that across a three-year period, the… | Read on »

Working from home and electric vehicles could see emissions slashed by 73%, according to new research by NUI Galway and Western Development Commission. At an the recent Whitaker Institute webinar Economic and environmental impacts and opportunities of working from home experts including Professor Alma McCarthy (Work, Organizations and Society), Dr Tom McDermott (SEMRU), and Dr… | Read on »

On Thursday 11 November, the Whitaker Institute was delighted to host Would you trust a robot more than your doctor? Trust and technology terrorism in medicine by Dr Jane Walsh, co-leader of the Health and Well-Being Cluster. This talk explored recent technological innovations in healthcare and why sometimes they don’t work as expected. The psychological science… | Read on »

The Irish Examiner has published an article on a recent Whitaker Webinar Working from Home: Quantifying Economic and Environmental Impacts and Opportunities.  The article is available to read here. A recording of the event is available to watch back here.

On 10 November, the Whitaker Institute was delighted to host Working from Home: Quantifying Economic and Environmental Impacts and Opportunities. Government and public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic required employees to work from home where possible. Over a period of a year and half, working from home became the new norm for a considerable number… | Read on »

On 3 November the Whitaker Institute was delighted to host Research Informing Hospitality Reform. The hospitality sector was uniquely impact by the Covid-19 pandemic. While some establishments pivoted to food preparation and delivery, many were forced to shut down for over 16 months. Re-opening for in-door dining in July 2021 has led to extensive challenges of staff… | Read on »

The hospitality sector was uniquely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. While some establishments pivoted to food preparation and delivery, many were forced to shut down for over 16 months. Re-opening of in-door dining in July 2021 has led to extensive challenges of staff recruitment across the sector, along with claims by employers that this is… | Read on »