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Dublin’s Housing Question: Geography hosts workshop for housing practitioners, activists, academics and postgraduate students, 12th March.
Dublin’s Housing Question is a pressing social and political topic requiring immediate and critical examination. As part of the Dublin Urban Laboratory and Public Geographies Series of our MA in Geography programme, this workshop invited housing professionals, activists, academics and postgraduate students to interrogate the housing crisis theoretically and practically and to identify and generate alternative pathways for future housing policy and practice.
Date: Monday, 16 March 2015
Policies to reduce health inequalities can take years to show impact, new Maynooth research shows
The impact of policy changes to reduce health inequalities in Ireland can take many years to take effect, according to new Maynooth University research.
Date: Monday, 02 March 2015
Health Inequalities in the news
On Wednesday 25 February Jan Rigby spoke at a workshop hosted by the ESRI on the outcomes from a Health Research Board funded project exploring the geography of health inequalities in Ireland.
Date: Thursday, 26 February 2015
Geography - Postgrad Afternoon 3-4pm 24th Feb
Come to the Rocque Lab at 3pm on Tuesday 24th March to hear about the Postgraduate offerings from the Department of Geography.
Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
Welcome to Peter Thorne, our new Professor of Physical Geography (Climate Science)
The Department of Geography is delighted to announce the arrival of Peter Thorne, who is our new Professor of Physical Geography (Climate Science). Peter is originally from the UK, but has most recently been based with the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Bergen, Norway. He is currently the Chair of the International Surface Temperature Initiative, and the Coordinator of a new Horizon 2020 programme GAIA-CLIM which is being launched in Italy in March.
Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Rory Hearne was interviewed on RTE's The Week in Politics on the anti-water charge movement and the Left.
Dr Rory Hearne was interviewed on RTE's The Week in Politics on the anti-water charge movement and the Left.
Date: Monday, 02 February 2015
Rory Hearne writes in the Irish Examiner
Rory Hearne writes in the Irish Examiner: Housing market should serve interests of all not just the few.
Date: Thursday, 08 January 2015
Rory Hearne was a guest on RTE's Sean O Rourke show on Tuesday 30th December 'The Political Review of the Year'.
Rory Hearne was a guest on RTE's Sean O Rourke show on Tuesday 30th December 'The Political Review of the Year'.
Date: Thursday, 08 January 2015
Geography - Rory Hearne writes in the Irish Examiner
Rory Hearne writes in the Irish Examiner on the possibility of a Left government and what it might look like.
Date: Friday, 05 December 2014
Rory Hearne has op-ed in today's Irish Times on the housing crisis and NAMA
Full article available on the Irish Time website.
Date: Friday, 28 November 2014