The National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) was established as a University Institute at NUI Maynooth in January 2001. NIRSA was initially funded under Cycle 2 of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI2) as part of the National Development Plan, 2000-2006. The Institute recently received further funding under Cycle 4 of that fund.

NIRSA's remit is to undertake fundamental, applied and comparative research on spatial processes and their effects on social and economic development in Ireland

The Institute, centred in NUI Maynooth, is a collaborative project between scholars from a number of social science disciplines, located in four partner institutions:

• NUI Maynooth
• Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick
• Institute of Technology, Sligo
• Queen's University, Belfast

Ireland After NAMA

The Ireland After NAMA blog offers analysis of post-NAMA Ireland.

Recent posts: An estimate of vacant housing in Ireland.

Opportunites

Please click here to see available Jobs, PhD positions and other opportunities at NIRSA

Forthcoming Events:
                                                                           

• NIRSA/ISSP Seminar
  Proximity and duration in temporary organisations
  Tobias Goessling, Tilburg University, Netherlands
  Venue : NIRSA/NCG Conference Room, Third Floor
  John Hume Building
  17 February, 2010 @ 4pm
  
• NIRSA/Department of Sociology/ISSP
  The permanent carnival: is life a comedy, or comedy a way of life?
  Prof Arpad Szakolczai, University College Cork
  Venue : NIRSA/NCG Conference Room, Third Floor
  John Hume Building
  10 March, 2010 @ 4pm
  
• NIRSA/ISSP seminar
  Are we serious about regulation? The role of enforcement in spatial planning in Ireland
  Jong Kim, Tallaght Institute of Technology
  Venue : NIRSA/NCG Conference Room, Third Floor
  John Hume Building
  14 April, 2010 @ 4pm
  
• NIRSA/ISSP seminar
  Critical Reflections on Qualitative Research Praxis in Policy Commissioned Research on Crisis Pregnancy
  Catherine Conlon, WERRC, University College Dublin
  Venue : NIRSA/NCG Conference Room, Third Floor
  John Hume Building
  28 April, 2010 @ 4pm
  
  
  Publications
  
  The Atlas of the Island of Ireland
  Mapping Social and Economic Change
• Edited by: Justin Gleeson, Rob Kitchin, Brendan Bartley, John Driscoll, Ronan Foley, Stewart Fotheringham & Chris Lloyd
• People and Place: A Census Atlas of the Republic of Ireland
• Edited by Prof. Jim Walsh, Vice-President, NUI Maynooth