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Read more: Skills Benchmarking Survey Findings
The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has released the findings of their research on Skills Benchmarking. The report is available here.
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Read more: Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: Third annual report
The Economic and Social Research Institute have released a new publication: “Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: Third annual report”. The report is available here.
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Read more: Job quality of minimum wage workers in Ireland
A new Economic and Social Research Institute report: “Job quality of minimum wage workers in Ireland” has been published. The study examines the quality of minimum wage jobs in Ireland across a range of different measures. The report is available here.
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Read more: Publicly-funded research in the era of Big Deals Publishers and Data Surveillance
POLICY BRIEF Publicly-funded research in the era of Big Deals Publishers and Data Surveillance Dr. Lai Ma, School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin ORCID 0000-0002-0997-3605 A pdf version of this policy brief is available here. Key Insights The products of publicly-funded research are largely in the hands of commercial publishers. The…
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Read more: A New Generation of Symbols: Building a Shared Identity
Policy Brief A New Generation of Symbols: Building a Shared Identity Authors: Dr. Bethany Corbett, Queens University Belfast & Dr. Laura Taylor, University College Dublin Email: B.Corbett@qub.ac.uk, laura.taylor@ucd.ie A pdf version of this policy brief is available to download here. Why is this Issue Important? Imagine walking into a space and hearing ‘God Save the…
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Read more: Is EU policy making matters worse? Towards a Human Rights Based Approach to Irregular Migration by Sea
Dr Aphrodite Papachristodoulou, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway. Email: aphrodite.papa92@gmail.com Key Words: Migration, External Border Management, Search and Rescue, Human Rights, EU. A pdf version of this paper is available here. Background (Irregular) Migration continues to be the European Union’s (‘EU’) Achille’s heel as its policy…
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Read more: Heat Pumps and Energy Retrofit – a Case Study with Policy Insights. Why a sample home with a C BER hasn’t upgraded to a Heat Pump
Dr. Shane Colclough DipEE, BSc(Eng), MIE, MBA, PhD, MIEI, C.Eng, EurIng School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin A pdf version of this paper is available to read here. 1. Introduction Government policy is to install 400,000 heat pumps and carry out 500,000 home energy upgrades by 2030 [1] with the National Retrofit…