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€100,000 in Irish Cancer Society funding for major research project to investigate how cancer survivors can live well following treatment
Dr Jane Walsh, Director of the mHealth Research Group and Co-Director of the Health and Wellbeing Cluster in the Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway, will play a lead role in a recently announced major Irish Cancer Society funded research project exploring ways in which cancer patients who have gone through treatment can feel better, both physically… | Read on »
Fishing for salmon farming consensus in Ireland
Wild capture fisheries landed 93.4m tonnes globally in 2014, a figure that has remained stable over 25 years. During the same time, global per capita demand for seafood has risen from 14 to 20 kg per person. To meet demand, aquaculture – which now provides more than half of all seafood destined for human consumption… | Read on »
A tribute to Dr T.K. Whitaker from Professor Alan Ahearne, Director of the Whitaker Institute
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Dr T.K. Whitaker, eponym of the Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway. Dr Whitaker devoted his professional life to formulating and influencing public policy to promote the economic and social advancement of all the Irish people. His plan for economic development transformed the… | Read on »
STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF DR T.K. WHITAKER
In a tribute to the late Dr T.K. Whitaker, former Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Dr Jim Browne, President of NUI Galway said: “On behalf of NUI Galway, I want to express great sadness at the passing of one of the Ireland’s most exemplary public servants. In a career defined by innovation and… | Read on »
Link between exercising and improved cancer survival rates
Dr Jane Walsh, founder and leader of the mobile Heath research group and joint leader of the Health and Well-Being research cluster at the Whitaker Institute, gave a talk at the Science Gallery in Dublin recently where she outlined the difference that even moderate exercise can make in saving lives in the battle against cancer. According… | Read on »
On the 100th birthday of Dr TK Whitaker, Professor Alan Ahearne writes about why Whitaker’s work is as relevant as ever to Ireland in today’s Irish Times
Although much in Ireland has changed over recent decades, the lessons learned from Dr TK Whitaker’s life’s work still reverberate today. His seminal 1958 study, “Economic Development”, which formed the basis of the first programme for economic expansion 1958-1963, set the course for the modernisation of Ireland’s economy. Read the Irish Times article here.
Spatial Impact of Commuting on Income: A Spatial Microsimulation Approach
During the Irish economic boom years or the so-called Celtic Tiger period, Ireland experienced an unprecedented rise in commuting distances within extended local labour market areas. These new commuting patterns, driven by a dispersed settlement structure and an uncontrolled property bubble that had developed over the previous five years, resulted in an increasingly uneven spatial… | Read on »
Call for Papers: 2017 McGill Conference on International Entrepreneurship
Focus on the valuation of marine ecosystem services benefits to society at this year’s Marine Economics and Policy Research Symposium
The 7th Annual Marine Economics and Policy Research Symposium was held on Thursday the 24th November in the Glenlo Abbey Hotel, Galway. Organised by the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU) of the Whitaker Institute, with the support of the Marine Institute, the day provided participants with an update on a wide range of policy topics… | Read on »
Sustainable transport in a rapidly recovering economy: the case of Ireland
Dr Amaya Vega, a member of the Environment, Development, and Sustainability research cluster, and Eoghan Clifford, Civil Engineering, NUI Galway are the guest editors of the September Special Issue of Research in Transportation Economics. The issue presents a selection of papers delivered at the Irish Transport Research Network annual conference, which was hosted by NUI Galway in… | Read on »