Social Pedagogy Event
24th May 2012 :: 5:00pm
Well-Being Conference Changing the System: Overcoming Barriers to Well-Being in Ireland
8th June 2012 :: 9:00am
Exploiting Industry and University Research and Development: Why it Matters?
12th June 2012 :: 9:00am
Social Movements and Political Change in Africa: Shaping Technologies for Change
14th June 2012 :: 9:00am
Conceptualising and Measuring Poverty: Methods for the 21st Century
18th June 2012 :: 9:00am
Major EU Funding Win of E1.1m for Creative Edge Project
The Institute for Business, Social Science and Public Policy at NUI Galway is to lead an international proje...
NUI Galway researchers in InterTradeIreland Research Briefing February 2012
Research conducted by Dr. Meghann Drury , Dr Kieran Conboy and Dr Tom Acton is featured in the latest ...
NUI Galway's Professor Seamus Grimes contributes to US Report on Confronting Chinese Innovation Mercantilism February 2012
Prof. Seamus Grimes , Professor of Geography and Principle Investigator at the Centre for Innovation and Str...
Welcome to ISSP
ISSP is an all-island platform of integrated social science research and graduate training focusing on the social, cultural and economic transformations shaping Ireland in the 21st century."
The Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) brings together academics from 19 disciplines in 8 institutions across the island into a common programme of research centered on knowledge, innovation, society and space. ISSP will focus its efforts on investigating three broad themes of national importance - creating balanced development, sustaining communities and building the knowledge economy.
A key objective for ISSP researchers is to take an active role in key social, economic and cultural policy debates in the effort to sustain the Tiger economy that presently seems to have lost its roar. To that end it will work closely with local communities, voluntary and semi-state agencies, and local and national government in tackling critical issues and building a prosperous future for the whole island...
For more information, please visit the About ISSP page.











