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SDG Champion
25 September 2023
13  MINS

In Conversation: Ibec CEO, Danny McCoy

Danny McCoy
True prosperity calls for a balance between public and private sector, argues Danny McCoy, University of Galway alum and CEO of Ibec (Irish Business & Employers Confederation). With a varied career as an executive, senior economist and lecturer, this University of Galway alum has developed a strong perspective on the makings of a sustainable economy. Here, Danny sits down with Cois Coiribe to share his views on education, sustainability, globalisation and more.
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15 December 2022
20  MINS

Celebrating Excellence in our Alumni Community: Alumni Awards 2022

The Alumni Awards recognise individual excellence and achievements among our graduates, celebrating those who have demonstrated impact in their fields on a local, national and international level. 
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15 December 2022
25  MINS

Dr Helen Maher, Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, University of Galway   

Bríd Seoige

Whose identity, experience and knowledge matters and how are we accountable for including diverse perspectives and characteristics? These are questions that Dr Helen Maher, Vice President for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), addresses on a daily basis at University of Galway. We sat down with Helen to reflect on our progress to date, the steps still to take and the vital difference that EDI makes to a university community.
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Creative Galway
12 December 2022
14  MINS

Imagining the Creative University

Professor Rebecca Braun

Waning confidence in progress narratives and declining imaginative capacity, among other factors, have led us to what national policy advisor and professor, Geoff Mulgan calls “a deficit of social imagination”. At the heart of this crisis, as articulated by Professor Rebecca Braun, is the need to imagine alternative ways of being on a collective scale, through the circulation of knowledge. If universities, as knowledge communities, are to play a major role in this quest, how might the creative university of the future operate?
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Sustainability
15 June 2022
13  MINS

‘Sustainability is a smart business strategy’

Joanne Sheahan

Joanne Sheahan, Senior Executive for Climate Action & Sustainability with Enterprise Ireland talks about sustainability and business in Ireland.
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AI & Human Creativity
16 December 2021
7  MINS

The Creative Spark – How Will Innovation be Affected by the Absence of a Watercooler?

Prof Esther Tippmann

Esther Tipmann reminds us of the critical role of human skills and competences; while technology platforms to support innovative work in an online or hybrid setting have improved, they are not yet able to replace the casual cognitive synergies and frictions that occur when being present in the same place.
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AI & Human Creativity
16 December 2021
25  MINS

Anonn ’an Oileáin Úir … 

Prof Breandán Mac Suibhne, Historian of Modern Ireland and Director of Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta

Tá bunachar ar líne á fhorbairt in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe le cuidiú le scoláirí agus lucht ginealachais taighde a dhéanamh ar imirce ó Éirinn go Méiriceá.

Irish migration to North America will be illuminated by an online database currently under development at University of Galway.
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28 April 2021

Cois Coiribe Podcast: Mary Harney – survivor and social justice activist

In this episode of our Cois Coiribe podcast, Law lecturer Dr Maeve O’Rourke sits down with NUI Galway alumna Mary Harney (MA 2013, LLM 2020). The tireless and beloved social justice activist shares wisdom she has gleaned from surviving institutional abuse as a child, a lifetime advocating for justice and her pursuit of education.
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28 April 2021

Cois Coiribe Podcast: Women in Sports and levelling the playing fields

This episode of our Cois Coiribe podcast delves into equality, diversity and inclusion when it comes to women in sport. Host Seán Crosson, lecturer and co-director of the MA in Sports Journalism and Communication at NUI Galway, teases out these burning issues with Clíona Foley, sports journalist and regular on Newstalk’s Off The Bench and Louise Toal, digital sports editor for Galway Pulse.

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