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Against the backdrop of a leading obstetrician’s move to expel myths around the Covid-19 vaccine, including claims spread on social media that it affects women’s fertility, Whitaker Institute member Dr Jane Walsh, spoke to the Irish Examiner about findings from the recent vaccine hesitancy study, carried out by NUI Galway and the University of Huddersfield, which… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute members Dr Caitriona Clear and Dr John Cunningham participated in RTÉ’s Machnamh 100 ‘Recovering Imagined Futures’ seminar which aired on Thursday, 27 May. In this third instalment of President Michael D. Higgins’s series of reflections on Ireland’s history, the panel discussed Ireland of 100 years ago, using the lenses of social class, land, and gender.

Whitaker Institute member Dr Rachel Hilliard, leader of the Innovation and Structural Change cluster, and Laura Tighe, who carried out prize-winning research on team diversity while studying for her MSc in Human Resource Management at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, co-wrote an article in The Irish Times, covering all matters teamwork, including group bonding, organisational climate and… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Professor Pat Dolan, of the Population and Migration research cluster, spoke to The Irish Times about empathy education. Read the article here.

Whitaker Institute member Dr Easkey Britton, of the Applied Systems Thinking Cluster, spoke to RTÉ Radio 1’s Mooney Goes Wild about the importance of our human relationship with the sea, especially for our health and wellbeing. Listen back below.

Limited uptake of financial incentives, designed to confront global trends of an ageing farming population and low levels of land mobility (i.e. transfer of land from one farmer to another, or from one generation to the next), reveal resistance or at best ambivalence, amongst farmers towards altering existing farm management and ownership structures in later… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute members Dr Gerard Turley and Stephen McNena have written a new piece for RTÉ Brainstorm. The article looks at if a redesigned property tax could improve local public services. Could a redesigned property tax improve local public services? Opinion: a new model would provide for a local government funding model that is more… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute Director Professor Alan Ahearne has been featured in a recent article from Property Funds World. The piece looks at the development of Augustine Hill in Galway and Prof Ahearne’s economic assessment of the development. Click here to read the article.

An interdisciplinary European collaboration, the Seas Oceans and Public Health In Europe (SOPHIE) Project, which NUI Galway is part of, has outlined the initial steps that a wide range of organisations could take to work together to protect the largest connected ecosystem on Earth. The paper, co-authored by Whitaker Institute member Dr Easkey Britton and… | Read on »

A new study has found one in six students live in areas with poor broadband coverage, leading to calls for higher education providers to prioritise access to campus facilities for those with substandard internet access. The paper, published in the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, was authored by researchers from the Whitaker… | Read on »