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

16th Annual MOPAN Conference

The 16th Annual Conference on Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks (MOPAN) was hosted by NIRSA at NUI Maynooth from the 17th to the 20th of June 2009.

Please click here to access the Conference Photo Gallery.

Opportunites

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

Forthcoming Events:
                                                                           

• December 2nd 2009
  NIRSA Seminar
  "The Significance of Qualitative Data in the work of the Tallaght West Childhoold Development Initiative"
  Tara Murphy
  Venue : 4pm, NIRSA Conference Room, 3rd Floor, John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth
  
  
  
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  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