Talk by Helen Sonner Moore visiting Fellow 2019 William Petty is well known for conducting the Down Survey and for his contributions to the development of statistics, demographics, and economics. However, his methods in the Down Survey can also be seen to have anticipated many of the methodologies used today in... | Read on »
The exhibition is the result of the 4 week intensive Future Landscapes workshop created in conjunction with the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe and Galway 2020. The aim of the workshop was to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the use of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, within the... | Read on »
The Sophia Network Meeting will take place in Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on the 1st and 2nd of June, and as a bonus, the NUIG invites delegates to a P4C Symposium on the 31st of May. The SOPHIA Network Meeting this year is being co-hosted by Philosophy, NUI Galway Philosophical Dialogue Project – NUI Galway, Little Rainbow... | Read on »
The Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change on Thursday, 6th June will host its fourth annual PhD Forum in the Hardiman Research Building at NUI Galway. The Forum is a one-day event for PhD students, which aims to provide students with a day to interact and network with each other, to... | Read on »
Dr Charlotte McIvor (Drama and Theatre Studies), Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela, Dr Siobhán O’Higgins & Kate Dawson (School of Psychology) Abstract This talk theorises the signature approach of the Active Consent programme team comprised of researchers from Psychology, Health Promotion, and Drama and Theatre Studies in relationship to the current policy and educational... | Read on »
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Bridget English Bio: Dr. Bridget English is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD in English from Maynooth University in Ireland, where she also lectured. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture, with particular research interests... | Read on »
We are delighted to host the Third Galway Conference of Irish Studies on the theme of home(s) in Irish Studies and extend a warm welcome to the Moore Institute community! Dr. Sindy Joyce will give our first plenary lecture, 'Mincéirí Cena: Travellers and Mobile Spaces, Home as a Place, Space and Mobility', on Friday... | Read on »
Organised by the Knowledge Discovery Unit (KDU) at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, the Moore Institute and the Lero Software Research Centre, NUI Galway. Running from the 10th – 14th of June at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway, Ireland, the KDU Visual Analytics Summer School will provide students, researchers, academics and... | Read on »
Talk by Moore Visiting Fellow Caroline Magennis ‘This talk will offer an overview of the depiction of Northern Irish skin in recent short story collections, particularly Bernie McGill’s Sleepwalkers (2013) and Roisin O’Donnell’s Wild Quiet (2016). Drawing on work by Laura Marks, Abbie Garrington, Virginia Woolf, Sara Ahmed and others, this paper seeks to... | Read on »
A participatory workshop for all engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning. This workshop is open to all in Irish higher education, particularly those engaged in institutional policy development with respect to digital and open teaching and learning. Workshop participants will have... | Read on »
