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EVENTS

Contents

• Public Lecture - Evaluation for the Public Good
• Psi Chi Poster Event
• School Research Seminar Series 2011-2012

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Public Lecture: Evaluation for the Public Good

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The PhD in Child and Youth Research, NUI Galway and TCD are delighted to host a Public Lecture on: Evaluation for the Public Good

Professor Jennifer Greene
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Date: Wednesday, 10th October 2012
• Time: Lecture 6.00pm – refreshments will be served at 5.30pm
• Venue: MY243, Aras Moyola, NUI Galway

All Welcome

Jennifer C. Greene is a professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on the intersection of social science methodology and social policy and aspires to be both methodologically innovative and socially responsible. Professor Greene’s methodological research has concentrated on advancing qualitative and mixed methods approaches to social inquiry, as well as democratic commitments in evaluation practice. Professor Greene has had a distinguished career since gaining her PhD in Educational Psychology at Stanford University in 1976. She has taught across educational psychology, policy analysis and evaluation methodologies at the Universities of Rhode Island, Cornell and Illinois. She has an impressive list of publications and is a frequent keynote speaker. Professor Greene has held leadership positions in the American Evaluation Association and the American Educational Research Association.

Supported at NUI Galway by the School of Psychology and the School of Political Science and Sociology

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Psi Chi Poster Event

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Psi Chi are currently organising a number of events, which will take place over the coming months, with the aim of benefiting undergraduate Psychology students. The first event is a poster evening to help undergraduate students gain a greater understanding of the research that takes place in our School.

Poster evening

• taking place 7:00-9:00pm Thursday 8th March, Aras Moyola
• wine and nibbles will be provided (non-alcoholic drinks will also be provided)
• students will have the opportunity to discuss research with staff members and postgraduate students with a view to final year project or postgrad research

For more information about Psi Chi, visit http://www.psichi.org/

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Conference on Well-being in Ireland, 8th June 2012

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Above: Attendees at the NUI, Galway Wellbeing Conference, 2012

Scientists, community organizations and policy-makers come together to discuss the latest advances in well-being research and policy. Helen Johnson, author of the Well-being in Ireland Report (NESC, 2009) and Alex Zautra, Arizona State University, delivered keynote papers on well-being. In advance of the workshop, conference participants also reflected on the broad issue of well-being in Ireland and generated a list of barriers to well-being in Ireland. Interactive Management, a software supported collaborative design process, was used to structure interrelationships between barriers (see figure 1). In response to critical drivers of negative influence in the system (i.e., the barriers to the left of figure 1), including Lack of trust/dissatisfaction with the system, government, and decision-makers in general, and A national sense of gloom due to emphasis on austerity, conference participants agreed that high-impact, feasible options that could help to overcome these barriers include (a) Focus on what can be done despite the economic environment, (b) Encourage people to get involved in/take control of well-being initiatives, and (c) Building on community spirit through organising support groups and local initiative.

    

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