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The economic rationale frequently cited for local government territorial reforms and municipal amalgamations is the economies of scale argument. It is argued that in the subnational public sector sphere larger councils may exhibit scale economies, and provide services at a lower per unit cost than smaller councils. As against the ‘small is beautiful’ argument that… | Read on »

Go Wild in Galway – Galway’s free festival of wildlife and nature, takes place on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of May 2018. Locations are across Galway city and include Silver Strand, NUI Galway, Merlin Woods.  This year we will celebrate what nature means to everyone including how we benefit in terms of our health… | Read on »

Special issue call for papers from Journal of Social Marketing Deadline for submission: 30 September 2019 Early expressions of interest and enquiries can be directed to the special issue Guest Editors: lukas.parker@rmit.edu.au and k.kubacki@griffith.edu.au See http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=7855  for the full call and submissions process

  The Cluster on Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security co-hosted a seminar with the Irish Centre for Human Rights on the prosecution of Ratko Mladić on Wednesday 14 March 2018. The well-attended seminar was given by Jonas Nilsson, former Senior Legal Officer advising the Trial Chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Hague. In this… | Read on »

  On Wednesday, April 4,  Dr Stephen Hynes and Professor Paul Holm presented  a recent scientific evidence review report produced by the Horizon 2020-funded SAPEA consortium, “Food from the Oceans at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. Stephen was nominated to SAPEA expert working group  that produced the report by the RIA. The report advises… | Read on »

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Call for Papers JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Special Issue on: Looking Inside Born Globals and International New Ventures: Strategic Orientations for International Growth Final Deadline for submissions: 31st July 2018   Guest Editors: Natasha Evers Marketing Discipline, J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway Email: natasha.evers@nuigalway.ie   Gabriela Gliga Marketing Discipline,… | Read on »

Every day, at every meal, people across Ireland are reliant on a global network of actors to produce, process and distribute the food that they consume. But the dominant system of industrialized food provisioning is unsustainable both from a socio-economic and an environmental perspective. The additional demands that will be made on the food system… | Read on »

HSE recommends that all healthcare workers (HCW) in Irish health services receive the seasonal influenza vaccination each year. The recommended national uptake target is 40%. Compared to adults working in nonhealthcare settings, HCWs are at significantly higher risk of influenza1. Achieving a high uptake of influenza vaccination among HCWs is recognised as a vital infection… | Read on »

Read the full Irish Times article here EPA report: Norton, D., Hynes, S. and Boyd, J. (2018). EPA Research Report No 239: Valuing Ireland’s Coastal, Marine and Estuarine Ecosystem Services, EPA Publications, Wexford. Read the full EPA report here