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The Masterclass Series returns

We are happy to announce the return of our GIRSI Masterclass Series for this academic year! The Masterclass schedule for 2025/2026 is now available and will continue to be updated as we organise more classes throughout the academic year.

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Join us at the Geary Seminar

Our next Geary Seminar will take place next Tuesday, 20th January at 1pm in the Geary Seminar room (B003/004). We will welcome Prof Clare Stone, Lancaster University, to present on ‘I am who I am: That makes interpretative research interesting and complex'.
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Inspiring Policy Innovation Webinar Series

Sign up to our Inspiring Policy Innovation Webinar Series which will present the latest research on policy making, implementation, and evaluation innovations internationally. These are short (50 minute) free events, open to all and will be held on the first Thursday of every month.
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Subjective Assessments of the Quality of Social Investment Interventions: Taking a Bottom-Up Approach to Childcare Services in European Countries

New working paper by Ausra Cizauskaite, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, broadens existing childcare and SI literature by suggesting a multidimensional approach for analysing individual and country-level indicators.
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Eurofound Foundation Forum 2025

On 19-20 of November, the Eurofound hosted its eighth Foundation Forum at IMMA Venues. It was the agency's high-level flagship event, held every 4 years for the past 20 years and coordinated with the Irish government.
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Missing the Boat: Port Infrastructure as a Critical Barrier to Offshore Wind Energy Development in Ireland

New paper on PublicPolicy.ie by Dr James G Carton and Bill Duggan, DCU & John Doody, UCD. Based on research conducted by academics in DCU under the NexSys research programme, this paper shows how limited port capacity is a key constraint for Ireland’s planned rollout of critical offshore renewable wind energy projects.
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Moving to Survey Self-Completion: Exploring Mode Preferences

New paper on PublicPolicy.ie by Olga Li and Micheál L. Collins, UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. Survey research is undergoing a profound transformation as traditional face-to-face interviewing becomes increasingly difficult to sustain. This paper analyses response patterns and mode preferences.
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Implementation-minded policy making

New paper on PublicPolicy.ie by Jane Lewis, Anne-Marie Baan, Emma Wills, Eleanor Ott, Amy Lloyd & Dan Bristow. Written by a team of researchers from the Centre for Evidence and Implementation and the Wales Centre for Public Policy, examines how bad implementation can result in policy failure.
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Find out more about publicpolicy.ie, the Institute’s online dissemination platform that shares policy-related research to support discussions concerning public policy in Ireland.
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