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Whitaker Institute member Dr John Cullinan, of the Population and Migration cluster, has been featured in a new article by the Irish Examiner. The piece looks at a project from Dr Cullinan and colleagues at other Universities which looks at the accessibility of home broadband for students across various institutions. Read the full piece here.

Whitaker Institute member Dr Su-Ming Khoo, Environment, Development and Sustainability cluster leader, has been interviewed by MethodSpace for her work as co-editor of three volumes of Researching in the Age of COVID. To watch the interview, click here. To read more about the books, click here.

Ecosystem restoration implies policies that focus on remediating environmental degradation. In this research, the welfare impacts of restoring Norwegian kelp forests to areas where they once were dominant but which now lie barren are estimated using the discrete choice modelling approach. The research also examined if direct contact with the marine environment through recreation influences… | Read on »

A diverse group of 80 experts, including from the Whitaker Institute, have called for sex work laws to be repealed.  Read more in the Irish Examiner.

Congratulations to Whitaker Institute members Professor Kieran Conboy and Mairead O’Connor on their Lero Director’s prize win. Professor Conboy was awarded the Professor Rory O’Connor Prize for Outstanding Service to Lero, while Mairead O’Connor was presented with Lero Director’s Prizes for Diversity and Inclusion. Read more in Silicon Republic and Tech Central.

On Tuesday 8 September, the Whitaker Institute was delighted to host a live webinar titled Organizations in COVID-19: Embodiment, ethics and lockdown. The webinar discussed the implications of COVID-19 for organizational ethics, with a focus on embodiment. Workers’ bodies are central to recent changes with health and safety now critical concerns for many working on the front line…. | Read on »

The Galway Advertiser has featured Whitaker Institute member Dr Noel Carroll, of the Agile and Open Innovation cluster (Lero), for his work as programme director of the MSc in Information Systems Management. The piece highlights the major project component of the course which will be to “extended to support organisations experiencing challenges”. Read more here.

On Wednesday 2 September, the Whitaker Institute was delighted to host an InterTradeIreland online event as part of the All-Island Innovation Programme. The event, which was titled Economic shocks and recovery: Comparing Covid 19 to 2008, was presented by the Whitaker Institute’s Director Professor Alan Ahearne, who was an economic adviser to the Irish Government during the 2008 financial… | Read on »

Globally, direct and indirect human impacts have led to the widespread degradation of marine ecosystems. The resulting loss of habitat and marine biodiversity has led to increased impetus for marine ecosystem restoration at a policy level. Restoration success is judged on ecological outcomes but with limited resources, the magnitude of the societal benefits achieved is… | Read on »

Whitaker Institute member Dr Su-Ming Khoo, Environment, Development and Sustainability cluster leader, has co-edited three rapid response books entitled Researching in the Age of COVID-19. Volume 1 showcases new methods and emerging approaches. Focusing on Response and Reassessment, it has three parts: the first looks at the turn to digital methods; the second reviews methods in hand… | Read on »