This paper will examine the contrasting connections that exist between people and landscape in the Bendimahi Delta and the Boora peatlands outside Kilcormac, Co. Offaly, where the development of a sculpture park has been instrumental in not just creating a successful tourist attraction (over 120,000 visitors in 2017) but in re-imagining and reinforcing community values... | Read on »

19th April  Pre-Conference 11am - 3pm in Room 1001, The Bridge, Hardiman Research Building 20th April from 8:30am - 6:30pm in G010 and G011, Hardiman Research Building. 21st April from 9:30am - 6:30pm in G010 and G011., Hardiman Research Building "Transient Topographies: Space and Interface in Digital Literature and Art" is the second Galway Digital Cultures... | Read on »

We are delighted to announce details of the Whitaker Institute Research Day 2018. Our Research Day is an opportunity for researchers from across multiple disciplines at NUI Galway to meet and discuss how the multi-perspective research of the Whitaker Institute, on a range of social and economic issues, can promote a more sustainable and inclusive... | Read on »

As part of the Galway Theatre Festival production of Two Truths, a project of my PhD Gaming Audiences into Theatre, this focus group will respond to dis-attributed statements made by Irish politicians and political parties by materialising their affective responses onto full-size maps of the body. These maps will become the materials for the theatre... | Read on »

Welfare Histories Reading Group The Welfare Histories Reading Group provides a forum for staff and postgraduate students to discuss ideas of poverty, development, and ‘improvement’ in a global historical context. Our interests are very diverse, and we would very much welcome the involvement of new members from any discipline. Our next meeting is on Friday 20... | Read on »

Joe Reilly joins NUIG in its newly created Research Impact Librarian. He'll be helping NUIG scholars understand how to make their work more visible around the world. Joe is a veteran librarian who's worked in the USA, Middle East, Switzerland and Asia. He is also from a Humanities background, having completed his PhD in Anthropology,... | Read on »