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Sea anglers are one of the main marine recreation user groups in Ireland. Within Ireland, an estimated 127,000 people go sea angling every year along Ireland’s 5,600 kilometres of coastline (Inland Fisheries Ireland, 2015). However, as an activity, sea angling is often over-looked in debates related to the sustainability of commercial fisheries, tourism and impacts… | Read on »

Engaging in multiple types of innovation with different time horizons and risk levels has been found to be important for organisational performance. However, organisations face particular challenges when they engage in more than one type of innovation such as radical, incremental, customer-oriented, and technological innovation. Typically, innovations with a greater likelihood of short-term success command… | Read on »

On 24th May 2017, the Whitaker Institute hosted its second forum for NUI Galway PhD students in the Hardiman Research Building.  Targeted at students at all stages of their PhD, the event was full, with 65 students attending. The event was opened by the Director of the Whitaker Institute, Professor Alan Ahearne.  The day was… | Read on »

On Wednesday last, the Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Michael Creed, met the researchers who were successful in winning research funding through the most recent round of the Marine Research Measure. The Whitaker’s Socio-Economic Marine Unit was awarded €523,000 for the research project Valuing and understanding the dynamics of Ireland’s Ocean Economy, a project that aims… | Read on »

Mary Cawley, emerita in the School of Geography and Archaeology and Whitaker Institute Adjunct-Professor of Migration and Societal Change, has been chosen as the 2017 recipient of the Geographical Society of Ireland Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr Caitriona Carlin, a member of the SIPPs research cluster and project leader on the NEAR Health project investigating the intrinsic value of the natural environment for health talks to Sylvia Thompson in an article that was published in Saturday’s Irish Times. Read the article here.

Dr Eoin Whelan, a member of the Agile and Open Innovation research cluster spoke to Newstalk about how multi-tasking can reduce productivity and concentration levels and how it increases stress levels. Combined with intensive use of technology and social media, he says we are putting our brains at further risk, and discusses neuro-adaptive technologies that are… | Read on »

Congratulations to the two PhD poster prizewinners at the recent Whitaker Institute Research Day, which took place on 6th April. Tom Gillespie (SEMRU) won the best PhD poster prize for his poster ‘Picture or Playground: Valuing Costal Amenities’, and Eoin Cullina (Agile and Open Innovation (LERO)), won the second prize for his PhD poster ‘Crowdsourcing… | Read on »

The Whitaker Institute hosted its second annual Research Day on 6th April.  More than 100 staff and PhD students registered for the event, which took place at the Alice Perry Engineering Building, NUI Galway.  The day was structured around the three themes of the Institute: Sustainable & Inclusive Societies; Business, Innovation & Economic Development; and… | Read on »

Dr Srinivas Raghavendra, a member of the Macroeconomics and Finance research cluster was invited to address an International Monetary Fund conference on Gender and Macroeconomics in Washington DC in March.   Dr. Raghavendra’s talk was based on his work on the macroeconomic loss due to violence against women.  His paper “Estimating the Macroeconomic Loss of Violence… | Read on »