"Digital poets/artists/scholars Jason Nelson and Alinta Krauth are presenting a series of workshops for NUI staff, students, and graduates aimed at inspiring you to use interactive digital interfaces to turn your scholarly papers and/or creative writing into interactive outcomes, aimed at publication in interactive journals. Interactive visual interpretation can allow readers a greater insight into... | Read on »

This seminar will examine the connection between academic writing and innovation from a variety of perspectives, including the use of the Project Based Learning (PBL) and other innovative methodologies, the switch from assessing to improving student writing, the role of writing centres in academia, the ideology of writing spaces, and new ways to support librarians... | Read on »

Innovation is seen as a key ingredient for success in academia, but we often taken good academic writing for granted as a crucial skill in this process. We know from the work of Peter Elbow that writing is a creative and imaginative process, irrespective of the subject. Janet Giltrow has argued that ‘style is meaningful’... | Read on »

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 »