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Read more: Attitudes to Climate Change: Insights from the European Social Survey Round 10
In this paper, European Social Survey (ESS) data is used to examine whether attitudes to climate change have shifted between 2016-2021, with a focus on Ireland. Understanding attitudes to climate change is important as the State of Climate Action Report (WRI, 2023) found that global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5ºC are “failing across the…
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Read more: Addressing Energy Poverty in Ireland
With the introduction of climate change policies and with depleting levels of fossil fuels, fuel prices are expected to rise, in both household energy and transport energy. As a result, an increasing number of households could face difficulties in their ability to afford their energy bills, to adequately warm their home and fulfil their travel…
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Read more: Income Distribution and Redistribution in Ireland – A Geographical Exploration
This research examines the factors that have influenced the distribution and redistribution of household incomes in Ireland at four geographical scales – state, region, county and electoral district (ED) – over recent decades. The international research on the geographical distribution of personal incomes has concluded that the transition to neoliberal economic strategies in many economically…
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Read more: Designing strategies to prevent homelessness among single adults in Dublin: What the data tells us
Preventing homelessness is a key policy objective in Ireland at both national level and in the Dublin region where most of the homeless population is concentrated. Prevention has also become increasingly central to homelessness policy internationally in recent years (Mackie, 2015). However, prevention strategies and associated investment are often not informed by an adequate empirical…
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Read more: Covid-19, global solidarity, and the case for equitable vaccine distribution through technology transfers
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health technologies to mitigate against the spread of the disease, but it has also demonstrated that the current biopharmaceutical business model, based on patented medicines and other technologies, leads to vast inequalities in healthcare particularly in low- and middle-income countries. We believe that the pharmaceutical industry has…
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Read more: Publicly-funded research in the era of Big Deals Publishers and Data Surveillance
The products of publicly-funded research are largely in the hands of commercial publishers. The oligopolistic publishers have increased subscription fees and/or article-processing charges (APCs) at rates much higher than inflation, which has implications for information access, global justice of knowledge production, as well as preservation of scholarly records.
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Read more: Tweetonomics: How do central banks communicate their policy decisions and why does it matter?
Over the past three decades, we have seen a radical transformation in the way central banks communicate to the public (Issing, 2005; Assenmacher et al., 2021). Previously characterized by silence and secrecy, central banks have nowadays embraced transparency, and communication has become a crucial aspect of the monetary policy toolkit (Bini Smaghi, 2007; Blinder et…
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Read more: A New Generation of Symbols: Building a Shared Identity
Imagine walking into a space and hearing ‘God Save the King’. Now, you walk into another and hear ‘Amhrán na bhFiann/The Soldiers’ Song.’ Immediately, you may have intuitions about the identities of the people in those spaces, what they believe, and who else is welcome there. National anthems are just one example of the many…
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Read more: Is EU policy making matters worse? Towards a Human Rights Based Approach to Irregular Migration by Sea
(Irregular) Migration continues to be the European Union’s (‘EU’) Achille’s heel as its policy measures ad infinitum fail to adopt a human rights based approach in external border management. In turn, the thousands of migrant lives that perish each year in the Mediterranean Sea have become a humanitarian concern that is growing in scale and…
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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
Government policy is to install 400,000 heat pumps and carry out 500,000 home energy upgrades by 2030 [1] with the National Retrofit Plan assuming that by 2025 up to 88% of B2 upgrades will involve the installation of a heat pump [2]. There are clear advantages for the retrofit of old energy inefficient homes, e.g.,…
