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Prof Grimes Discusses Apple’s Global Value Chains in Asia
Prof Séamus Grimes — a member of the Whitaker Institute’s Innovation and Structural Change and Social Sciences Research Centre research clusters — recently spoke with Yves Gassot, the CEO IDATE DigiWorld Institute, about the intricacies of Apple’s global value chains in Asia. “About seven years ago, I began to realise that if I was to say… | Read on »
Dr Aidan Kane Features on RTE’s Brainstorm
Dr Aidan Kane–of the Whitaker Institute’s Macroeconomics and Finance reseach cluster, as well as Creative, Liveable, and Sustainable Communities and Socio-economic Marine Research Unit research clusters–recently featured on RTE’s Brainstorm website, discussing fiscal and budgetary history, linking it to his groundbreaking research project Duanaire. According to Dr Kane, budgets may be about the future, but… | Read on »
Article highlights growing demand for students with diverse skills suited for the modern economy
Dr Srinivasan Raghavendran of the Macroeconomics and Finance research cluster published an article on 7 September in The Deccan Herald, titled ‘Look beyond the engineering field‘. In the financial sector, there is a growing demand for students with diverse skill set, such as economics, analytics, and computing. In it, Dr Raghavendran explores how the modern… | Read on »
Article on Political Reform in Costa Rica Highlights the Irish Experience
Dr Ruth Prichard—a member of the Whitaker Institute’s Social Sciences Research Centre cluster—co-authored an article in Costa Rica’s La Nacion newspaper on 16 August that explores political reform in the Central American country with an eye on Ireland’s experience. NUI Galway is working with the University of Costa Rica’s Centre for Research and Political Studies (CIEP),… | Read on »
Article Explores Wider Economic Impacts of Domestic Violence Against Women
The patriarchal mindset that dismisses violence against women as a “private matter” between intimate partners perpetrates an enduring damage to the economy and society. Growing scientific research, using domestic violence data from around the world, establishes that violence against women, which happens within the private sphere of the family, inflicts economic costs to households, businesses… | Read on »
Economics and Finance Careers Beckon to Science, Tech Students
Dr Srinivasan Raghavendran of the Macroeconomics and Finance Research Cluster recently published an article in India’s Hindustan Times (19 August edition), highlighting the ways that science, engineering, and technology students with a post-graduate degree in economics and finance can excel in a new environment where companies are investing in big data and analytics. Read more… | Read on »
Professor Alan Ahearne, Director of the Whitaker Institute interviewed on Morning Ireland – RTÉ Radio 1
Professor Alan Ahearne talks about the latest exchequer figures after official figures were released on Tuesday 4th July. Listen to interview here
Ireland’s small but significant “blue economy” is outperforming the general economy, an NUI Galway study says.
The ocean economy had a turnover of €5.7 billion in 2016 and indirect economic value amounted to €1.57 billion, the study by NUIG’s Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit found. The study, which was published at the annual Seafest in Galway, said the ocean economy provided employment for more than 30,000 people last year, and found established… | Read on »
Dr Stephen Hynes interviewed by RTE at SeaFest 2017
Dr Stephen Hynes encourages young people to think about the marine space at SeaFest 2017. To view full interview from Friday 30th June please click here
SEMRU has published its fourth report on Ireland’s Ocean Economy, as part of their ongoing process of collection and analysis of marine socio-economic data in Ireland
“This report shows Ireland’s ocean economy is experiencing sustained levels of economic growth both across established and emerging marine industries,” said Dr Amaya Vega of SEMRU, based at the Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change at NUI Galway. Read on in the Irish World Newspaper »