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The 2015 Technology Transfer Society Conference will take place at DIT, Aungier Street, Dublin, Ireland from 28th – 30th October 2015 and will explore and examine the micro perspectives of technology transfer in different institutional, organizational and governance contexts through a variety of theoretical lens and using different methodological approaches. Submissions Those wishing to organize… | Read on »

Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh leader of the Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security research cluster spoke on the BBC World Service’s Witness programme aired on Friday 6 February about the role of intermediary Brendan Duddy in the Northern Ireland peace process. Dr Ó Dochartaigh worked with Brendan Duddy between 2006 and 2010 arranging the deposit and cataloguing of… | Read on »

Dr Nata Duvvury, joint leader of the Gender and Public Policy research cluster is leading a new international research project charged with calculating the social and economic costs of violence against women and girls. Her research project aims to demonstrate that the cost of violence is not just to the individual, but that it has… | Read on »

The Neil Smith Graduate Research Award was launched by the MA in Environment, Society and Development Programme Director, Dr John Morrissey, in conjunction with the Dean of Arts, Dr Edward Herring, and Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology from City University of New York (CUNY), Prof. David Harvey at the 45th Conference of Irish Geographers…. | Read on »

Using ICT for environmental regulation: Overlaps between privacy and environmental law was a panel session organised and moderated by Rónán Kennedy on behalf of National University of Ireland Galway at the 8th Computers, Privacy & Data Protection Conference held in Brussels on 21-23 January 2015. Environmental regulators are making increasing use of information and communications… | Read on »

The 18th Annual Irish Academy of Management (IAM) Conference will be hosted by NUI Galway from 3rd – 4th September 2015 and will be preceded by a Doctoral Colloquium on 2nd September 2015. The 2015 IAM conference theme is ‘Towards Socially Responsible Management?’ which will examine key issues and debates regarding the future of management in… | Read on »

Having a baby, moving house, the transition from education to work, or work to retirement.  These are all key life events that often coincide with changes in people’s transport and mobility practices. For example, people might switch from cycling to car-based commuting when their family gets bigger or when they move further away from their… | Read on »

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants sponsored this seminar for industry which was held on 18th November.  The challenges of moving beyond traditional budgets was delivered by Professor Nicolas Berland (Université Paris-Dauphine) and Dr. Emer Curtis (Whitaker Institute) and was chaired by Professor Breda Sweeney.

Professor Grimes has focused his research in recent years on foreign investment in both Ireland and China, and he has recently published a number of articles in international journals on foreign technology investment in China in the context of China’’s new indigenous innovation policy.  Read the ChinaDaily Africa article here.

The EVolving Open Software Systems (EVOSS) research group hosted an industry-focused event entitled ‘Cloud Computing: Towards Enlightenment’ on Friday Oct 31, 2014. Attended by 60 delegates, the event was supported by the Irish Software Research Centre (Lero), Whitaker Institute, and the Business Information Systems discipline. The highly successful event presented case studies of how cloud… | Read on »