Past Conferences / Workshops
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2011
"The Sensory Suburb"
The Suburban Cultures Interdisciplinary Research Network Inaugural Symposium
Venue: NUI Maynooth
"Irish Regions in the Smart Economy"
One Day Conference
Venue: Renehan Hall, South Campus, NUI Maynooth
"Ireland Through a Social Sciences Lens"
ISSP/NIRSA anniversary conference
Venue: Iontas Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Time: 9:45am - 4:30pm
"Making the Built Environment Work"
IRCHSS-ISSP Summer School
Venue: Iontas Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Work, Rest and Play: Functional Territories Workshop (Invitation Only)
Joint ESPON, NIRSA, ICLRD Workshop
Venue: Ballymascanlon House, Dundalk, Co. Louth
"Developing Core Strategies: Adopting a Bottom-up Approach"
(invite only - planning practitioners)
Jointly hosted NIRSA-ICLRD-Border Regional Authority
Venue: Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, 10:30am-4pm
GREP joint PhD module: "Understanding the Crisis"
Hosted by NUI Maynooth and UCD
Venue: University College Dublin
GREP joint PhD module: "Understanding the Crisis"
Hosted by NUI Maynooth and UCD
Venue: NUI Maynooth
2010
ISSP Summer School
Participation, Praxis and Policy: Understanding and Contributing to Society and Economy
Venue: NUI Maynooth
2009
Irish Scottish Forum
Development Corridors and the Role of Spatial Planning in Border Territories
Hosted by NIRSA in Association with the International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD)
Venue: Renehan Hall, NUI Maynooth
16th Annual MOPAN Conference
Annual Conference on Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks (MOPAN)
Venue: NUI Maynooth
NIRSA GREP Workshop
Spatial Analysis Seminar
Prof. Morton O' Kelly, Ohio State University
Venue: 10.00am - 17.00pm, (both days), NIRSA Seminar Room, John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
PLANET Launch
New Ways of Mapping Social Inclusion in Dublin City
A joint initiative of Dublin City Partnerships and Dublin City Development Board
Venue: 10.00am - 1.00pm, Oak Room, Mansion House, Dublin
Workshop
Balanced Development
Venue: NUI Maynooth
NIRSA Diaspora Stratagies Conference
Exploring Diaspora Stratagies Workshop
Venue: John Hume Boardroom, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
2008
NIRSA Showcase Conference to celebrate 10 years of PRTLI
Research for the Region: Planning Environments, Building Knowledge Societies, and Sustaining Communities
Venue: 9.30am - 4.15pm, Renehan Hall, South Campus, NUI Maynooth
ICLRD Workshop
Sustainable Rural Communities : Spatial Stratagies, Rural Communities and Rural Restructuring - the case of Draperstown (Magerafelt District)
Venue : The Rural College & Derrynoid Centre, Draperstown
ICLRD Workshop
Sustainable Rural Communities : Spatial Stratagies, Rural Communities and Rural Restructuring - the case of Duhallow (North West Cork - East Kerry Border)
Venue : IRD Duhallow, James O' Keeffe Institute, Newmarket, Co. Cork
ICLRD Workshop
Sustainable Rural Communities : Spatial Stratagies, Rural Communities and Rural Restructuring - the case of Emyvale - Truagh - Aughnacloy (North Monaghan - South Tyrone Border)
Venue : The Blackwater Learning Centre, Truagh, Emyvale, Co. Monaghan
After the Celtic Tiger
Annual Irish Social Science Platform (ISSP) Conference
Venue : Dublin City University
Conference (with NCG, AIRO & CSO)
Travel to work Conference: Analysing the 2006 POWCAR data
Venue : 9.30 am - 14.00 pm, NUI Maynooth
Conference
The Future of the Irish Midlands: Threats and Opportunities
Venue : Heritage Hotel, Portlaoise Conference Details
ICLRD Workshop
Local Communities
Venue : NUI Maynooth
Launch
Irish Social Science Platform (ISSP)
Venue : NUI Maynooth
Workshop
Face to Face : Buzz and Knowledge Bases : Sociospatial Implications for Learning, Innovation and Innovation Policy
Venue : NUI Maynooth
Workshop
ESPON Phase 1 : Implications for Ireland and UK
John McCarthy (poster)
Venue : NUI Maynooth
2007
Workshop
Supporting Evidence-Based Spatial Planning
Venue : Dundalk
SPAN Workshop
Examining the Challenges of Participation and Multi-level Governance in Spatial Planning
Venue : NUI Maynooth
RSA/ICLRD Workshop
Supporting Evidence-Based Spatial Planning and Analysis in Ireland : Towards the Development of All-Island Spatial Databases
Venue : University of Ulster
ICLRD Workshop
Local Communities as Agents of Change: The Significance of
Participation in Governance & Planning
SPAN - Hosted by NIRSA in association with Southside Partnership & Meath CDB.
Conference
Place, Environment and Politics in the Republic of Ireland
Venue: NUI Maynooth
Seminar
From Suburban to SuperRural
Jointly hosted by NIRSA & Dept Sociology
View poster (pdf)
Venue: Hume Building, NUIM
Workshop
Supporting Evidence-Based Spatial Planning and Analysis in Ireland: Towards the Development of All-Island Spatial Databases
Jointly hosted by NIRSA, ICLRD and RSA
View presentations (pdf)
ICRLD workshop
Informing Spatial Planning: Preparing for 2007-2013
ESPON - Hosted by NIRSA
View presentations
Venue: Hume Building, NUIM
2006
ICLRD Workshop
New Opportunities for Active Citizenship through Multi-Level Governance & Strategic Territorial Planning
SPAN - Hosted by NIRSA in association with Southside Partnership & Meath CDB.
Workshop
Implementing a Framework for Collaborative Action: Spatial Stratagies on the Island of Ireland
Venue: Newry
Workshop
Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) Project Workshop
Jointly hosted by NIRSA and Intel
Attendance by invite only, view agenda
Venue: Boardroom, Third Floor, Hume Building, North Campus, NUIM
Conference - NIRSA & Sociology
State/space and the politicial economies of contempory capitalism
Presentations by Prof Neil Brenner, Prof. Bob Jessop, Prof. Martin Jones, Dr. Gordan MacLeod
View poster (pdf) for more details, and register above.
Venue: Theatre 2, Callan Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
CHANGE OF VENUE to BOARD ROOM, HUME BUILDING, NUIM
Workshop - NIRSA & Sociology
Reworking Silicon Valley: Politics, Power, and the Informational Labor Process in the U.S. and Ireland
Chris Benner (Penn State), Seán Ó Riain (NUIM)
Venue: NIRSA Conference Room, John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth
Cross Border Regional Research Observatory
Joining Up Development: Rural Planning and Community
Development ICBAN Community Training Programme
View website
Venue: Fermanagh
Cross Border Regional Research Observatory
Joining Up Development: Rural Planning and Community
Development ICBAN Community Training Programme
View website
Venue: Fermanagh
Cross Border Regional Research Observatory
Joining Up Development: Rural Planning and Community
Development ICBAN Community Training Programme
View website
Venue: Cavan
Launch: Cross Border Regional Research Observatory
A Co-Ordinated Databank to inform and Sustain aCross Border Spatial Planning
View website
Venue: Armagh Market Place Theatre, Armagh
ICLRD Workshop
Spatial Planning, Rural Development and Community Planning in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
View programme (.pdf)
View ICLRD website
Venue: Armagh Market Place Theatre, Armagh
2005
Conference (Department of Sociology and NIRSA)
Great Transformations: Karl Polanyi and the Critique of Market Society
See Programme for speakers.
There is no charge for attendance, but registration is required
Venue: Lecture Theatre JH2, Hume Building, North Campus
Conference
Managing Space: Making Places - Strategic Planning for Cohesion and Diversity
(An International Conference hosted by NIRSA/ICLRD in collaboration with the Southside Partnership, Dublin)
The conference will address both international and local spatial planning experts and project partners.
Venue: Croke Park, Dublin
Conference
Managing Space: Making Places - Strategic Planning for Cohesion and Diversity
(An International Conference hosted by NIRSA/ICLRD in collaboration with the Southside Partnership, Dublin)
The conference will address both international and local spatial planning experts and project partners.
Venue: Croke Park, Dublin
Conference
Mapping Poverty: National, Regional and County Patterns
(Organised by NIRSA and Combat Poverty Agency)
View conference presentations.
Venue: Hume Building, NUI Maynooth
Workshop
Exploring the Economic and Social Implications of the National Spatial Strategy
(Organised jointly by Athlone IT and NUI Maynooth, under the auspices of the ICLRD)
The objective is to present and discuss Spatial Strategy from American, European, national, regional and local prespectives, with particular reference to social and economic aspects.
View programme for more information. (PDF)
Venue: Athlone Institute of Technology
Conference
Civic and Social Life in the Suburbs
See website for more details.
Venue: John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Workshop
Surviving and Remembering the Holocause
Brendan Bartley organized visit and chaired presentation by Zoltan Zinn-Collis
Venue: NUI Maynooth
Workshop
Geographical perspectives on outputs from census 2002
See Census 2002 website for more details.
Venue: John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
2004
Conference
Spaces of Citizenship
See Spaces of Citizenship website for more details.
Venue: Boardroom, John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth
Launch
National Centre for Geocomputation
Venue: John Hume Building, NUI Maynooth
Conference & Workshop
'Social Partnership: A New Kind of Governance?'
See conference website for more details.
Venue: NUI Maynooth
Conference
Emerging and New Research in Geographies of Health and Impairment (ENRGHI) Conference
See Conference of Irish Geographers conference website for more information
Venue: John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
Conference
Regional and Local Development Strategies: Addressing Key Issues and Capacity Building
Venue: Athlone, Co. Westmeath
Conference
Spatial Planning in Ireland: the European Context
With ESPON and the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government (click here for a pdf)
Venue: NUI Maynooth
Conference
Conference of Irish Geographers
See Conference of Irish Geographers conference website for more information
Venue: John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
One-day Symposium
'Turkey: A Bridge, or a Breach, to the European Union?'
Venue: John Hume Building, North Campus, NUI Maynooth
More information on 'Turkey: A Bridge, or a Breach, to the European Union?' is available. (PDF)
Conference
Is Ireland a democracy?
Venue: NUI Maynooth
Workshop
Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium
Venue: Glencree, Co. Wicklow
Conference
Broadband in Ireland
Follow-up event to Dr. Sarah Skerratt's seminar presentation in May.
Venue: Callan Building, NUI Maynooth
View Broadband in Ireland presentations.
Workshop
Small Area Statistics
(in conjunction with the Irish Statistics Association, Central Statistics Office and Small Area Health Research Unit, Trinity college Dublin)
Venue: Astra Hall, Student Centre, University College Dublin
For registration and information go to http://www.tcd.ie/Statistics/smallareastatistics
2003
Workshop
Neighbourhood Governance / Social Integration / EU
Venue: Larkin College, Dublin
Public Symposium
Geographies of Crime and Policing
(in conjunction with the Geographical Society of Ireland)
Venue: Dept. of Geography, MIC, Limerick
Conference
Negotiating the Unspeakable
Venue: NUI Maynooth
Conference
Work, Leisure and Development in Rural Europe Today
European Society for Rural Sociology 20th Biennial Conference 2003
Further information available on Conference website
Venue: Institute of Technology, Sligo
2002
Conference
Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory
Department of Heritage Studies, GMIT (Castlebar) and NIRSA in association with the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages (University of Ulster)
Venue: GMIT - Castlebar Campus, Co. Mayo
Further information is available on the Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory Conference website
Conference
IRELAND 2020: PEOPLE, PLACE AND SPACE
Irish Branch of the Regional Studies Association (RSA),
in association with NIRSA
Venue: Bunratty Castle, Co. Clare
Further information is available on the Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory Conference website
2001
The Official Launch of NIRSA
by Mr. Noel Dempsey T.D., Minister for the Environment and Local Government
Venue: Renehan Hall, Pugin Building, NUI Naynooth
The Official Launch was followed by a seminar with papers being presented by Professor Gerry Boyle (Director of NIRSA) and Professor Jim Walsh (Chairperson of the NIRSA Board).
The Launch programme continued with a discussion on research in third level institutions. The principal contributors to this discussion were Dr. Don Thornhill, Chairperson of the Higher Education Authority, Professor Brendan Whelan, Director of the Economic and Social Research Institute and Dr. Tom McCarthy, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at NUIM.
The programme concluded with a reception and poster session, presented by the Departments and Institutions associated with NIRSA.
The Inaugural Meeting of the NIRSA Board took place on the afternoon of November 1.
The
Press Release is available for download. (PDF)
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