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Intergenerational family farm transfer is a complex and highly topical issue that is increasingly seen as crucial to the survival, continuity and future prosperity of the agricultural sector, traditional family farm and broader sustainability of rural communities. While financial incentives to stimulate and entice the process are important, there are many more facets to the… | Read on »

The Director of SEMRU and Scientific Director of the Whitaker Institute, Dr. Stephen Hynes, is captured in this short video speaking about the Government’s Harnessing Our Ocean’s Wealth – An Integrated Marine Plan for Ireland and the work that SEMRU does on estimating Ireland’s ocean economy.  The 3rd Annual Ocean Wealth Conference attracted global leaders in the maritime… | Read on »

The second mHealth conference, entitled “mHealth: behavioural science and mobile technology”, took place on the 16th of June and brought together expertise from both academia and technology. Cross-country and cross-discipline expertise ensured the conference provided valuable insights for all attendees. Speakers included Avril Copeland from TickerFit; Eamonn Costello from PatientMPower; Dr Beth Darnell and Prof… | Read on »

Road user charging in the European Union has evolved from a mechanism of financing the construction and maintenance of motorways to an instrument for internalising road user costs in line with the polluter pays principle (PPP). The UK introduced a HGV (Heavy Goods Vehicles) Road User Levy Act 2013, which became effective from 1 April… | Read on »

On 25th May 2016, the Whitaker Institute hosted its first forum for NUI Galway PhD students, in the Hardiman Research Building. Targeted at PhD students at all stages of their PhD who may be associated with the Whitaker Institute, the event had 55 attendees including PhD students from the College of Business, Public Policy and Law,… | Read on »

Dr. Patrick Collins, School of Geography and Archaeology and co-leader of the Creative, Liveable and Sustainable Cluster, Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway chats with Angela Sice about his work on the geography of economic development with a particular focus on the role of Culture. Patrick speaks about a number of his most recent projects and… | Read on »

The UK will hold a referendum on EU membership on the 23rd of June. If the UK votes to leave the EU (Brexit), the resulting changed relationship between the UK and the EU could have potentially far-reaching consequences for Ireland’s ocean economy. If the UK votes to exit, the UK then has two years in which… | Read on »

Dr Niall O Dochartaigh, Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology and leader of the Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Research Cluster, Whitaker Institute at NUI Galway discusses the origins of his research interests with Angela Sice and describes the key questions on power, conflict and territory that drive his research agenda. He details his work… | Read on »

Billed in 2014 as the world’s longest planned coastal touring route, the Wild Atlantic Way (WAW) is a €10m investment that is aimed at growing Ireland’s €3.5bn tourism economy. The goal of the WAW is to create an “overarching tourism brand for the west coast” that will lead to €5bn in revenues and ten million… | Read on »

Special Issue in Association with the ISM-OPEN and ESMA Conferences: Broadening the Scope of Social Marketing Theory, Application and Practice Social marketing shoulders the responsibility of connecting individual behavioural change with social good, collective well being and societal value. With many interventions delivering narrow impact and insufficient reach, (Langford and Panter-Brick, 2013) success at producing… | Read on »