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Conference Chairs: Ben Wooliscroft ben.wooliscroft@aut.ac.nz (Auckland, New Zealand), Anthony Samuel SamuelA3@cardiff.ac.uk (Cardiff, Wales), Francisco Conejo FRANCISCO.CONEJO@ucdenver.edu (Denver, USA), Alexandra Ganglmair-Wooliscroft a.ganglmair@massey.ac.nz (Auckland, New Zealand). We live in challenging times. Covid 19 has severely impacted on international travel, challenged supply chains and market systems. Those market systems have adapted, by and large, and so have we,… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Dr Tom McDermott, of SEMRU, has written an article for RTÉ Brainstorm. The piece looks at research on whether people would purchase homes with a flooding risk and the discount they would expect for doing so. Would you buy a house with a 10% chance of flooding every year? Analysis: research has… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Dr Shane Darcy, cluster leader of Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security, has written a new piece for RTÉ Brainstorm. The article looks at the relationship between business and human rights, a key topic in international organisations now. Whose business is human rights? Analysis: the relationship between business and human rights is now on… | Read on »

Dr Alison Herbert’s (Gender and Public Policy cluster) recently published Whitaker Institute Policy Brief has been featured in an article from Agriland.ie. The Policy Brief looked at research conducted by Dr Herbert on the role of rural place in the lives of mid-life women in rural Ireland and Sweden. To read the article from Agriland.ie… | Read on »

The EPA funded SHEER Wellbeing project, led by the Whitaker Institute and partnering with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the HSE, have launched their report Our Environment, Our Health, Our Wellbeing: Access to Blue/Green Spaces in Ireland. The study aimed to explore the key forces and patterns at work in relation to access to blue/green… | Read on »

An expert group, building on the findings of the National Remote Work Surveys and stakeholder consultations, has called on the Government to introduce a range of measures to support continued remote working. The Group made up of representatives from the NUI Galway’s Whitaker Institute, the Western Development Commission (WDC), and industry met with various companies,… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Dr Ann Torres, of the Performance Management cluster, spoke to RTÉ News and RTÉ Radio 1’s This Week (@0:00:42) about the biggest retail trends to emerge as a result of Covid-19.  

First and third year Bachelor of Arts in Modern Irish Culture Studies students, led by Whitaker Institute member Dr Nessa Cronin, have been writing open letters to residents in nursing homes across the county. The initiative, Comfort Words, is a partnership between the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, and Nursing Homes Ireland to help… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Dr Kieran Walsh, of the Population and Migration cluster, has co-edited a new book entitled Rural Gerontology: Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing. Whitaker Institute members Dr Nata Duvvury and Dr Áine Ni Leime, Gender and Public Policy cluster leaders, have also co-authored a chapter in the book entitled Rural women, ageing and retirement…. | Read on »

As part of their “Joining the Dots” programme to encourage deeper economic ties between regions of Ireland and regions of the UK, the British Embassy in Ireland commissioned Professor Jonathan Levie and Dr Majella Giblin of the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics at National University of Ireland Galway and members of the Whitaker… | Read on »