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Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit

Aonad Taighde ar Ghnéithe Socheacnamaíocha na Mara

News and Events

The 3rd Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop

On Friday the 11th of November 2011, SEMRU is holding its third annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Symposium. The symposium is an opportunity for researchers and policy makers in the area of marine socio-economics to get together to meet and discuss their on-going work. The symposium is divided up into 3 sessions. The topic of the morning session will be “Ocean Economy Analysis: National and Sectoral Perspectives”. The second session is dedicated to “Marine Ecosystem Service Valuation” and the evening session is a showcase for SEMRU PhD students’ ongoing work.

Speakers on the day will include Grant Allan from Strathclyde University in Scotland who will give a paper in relation to the economics of bio-fuels from seaweed, Dr. Marco Boeri and Dr. Alberto Longo of Queens University, Belfast who will present the results of a random regret model for water based recreationalists and a CVM model related to ecosystem services in the Dead Sea. Dr. Eric English of Stratus Consulting, Colorado will speak on valuing oil spill impacts in marine environments while Dr. Judith Kildow of the National Ocean Economics Program in the US will present a paper on the US Ocean and Coastal Economies. The full agenda for the day is available to download at:

http://www.nuigalway.ie/semru/documents/workshop_agenda_11_11_11.pdf.

Anyone interested in attending this free event should register by emailing Stephen Hynes at stephen.hynes@nuigalway.ie, including your name, institute and contact details. Registration must be complete before 5pm, Friday, the 4th of November.

Presentations from the “Networks as Knowledge – Biotechnology Networks in the Atlantic Area” Conference

National University of Ireland, Galway ‐ 25th August 2011

Session 1

Chairperson: Ilaria Nardello, National Coordinator Marine Biotechnology Ireland, Marine Institute, Ireland, IE

Marine Biotechnology Ireland
Ilaria Nardello, National Coordinator Marine Biotechnology Ireland, Marine Institute, Ireland, IE.

An Overview of the Irish Biotechnology Sector & its Position within the Atlantic Sector
Karyn Morrissey, SEMRU, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE & University of Liverpool, UK.

Strategies, Issues & Advantages in Sharing Infrastructures – The Experience of Biogenouest
Jocelyne Le Seyec, Coordinator of the Core Facility Network, Biogenouest, FR.

The Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA)
Denise Barrault ‐ Executive Director, Scottish Universities Life Sciences Alliance (SULSA), University of Edinburgh, UK.

Molecular Medicine Ireland – Supporting Biomedical Research through Network Development
Suzanne Bracken, Programme Officer for Translational Research, Molecular Medicine Ireland, IE.

Barriers to Knowledge Transfer in the Biotechnology R&D Sector ‐ IPRs, Confidentiality

Ruairi Friel, Commercialisation Executive, Technology Transfer Office, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE.

Session 2

Chairperson: Ilaria Nardello, National Coordinator Marine Biotechnology Ireland, Marine Institute

High ‐Tech Clusters Conception and Evolution in Ireland – What Lessons can we learn?
Paul Ryan and Natasha Evers, Centre for Innovation and Structural Change (CISC), National University of Ireland, Galway, IE.

An Irish TCF in Practice – National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science (NCBES) ‐ How this Integrated Technology Platform has Impacted the Development of R&D Clusters in Galway
Jacinta Thornton, Executive Manager, National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE.

The Algal Biosciences Research Network ‐ Current and Potential Future Contributions to Biotechnology R&D
Dagmar Stengel, Theme Leader ‐ Algal Biosciences, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, IE.

An SME Vision of a TCF for the Transformation of Seaweed
Franck Hennequart, Technical Director, Oilean Glas Teo, IE.

Franck Hennequart presents the final paper at the “Networks as Knowledge – Biotechnology Networks in the Atlantic Area” Conference held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, 25th August 2011

The logos developed for the "Strategic Sea Food Brand Marketing Project" by NUI Galway Masters in Marketing students can be viewed here. All of the student group brand plans have been put together into one report and this can be downloaded here.

ShareBiotech Event

"Networks as Knowledge - Biotechnology Networks in the Atlantic Area" is an all-day event organised by Marine Biotechnology Ireland and the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit in NUI Galway, with the support of the European INTERREG project ShareBiotech http://www.sharebiotech.net/ and in association with the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change in NUI Galway.

The event will present the results of a recent survey on the needs and barriers to biotech R&D in Ireland and discuss our position in the wider Atlantic area. Invited speakers from Ireland, France and the UK will describe their experiences in the creation, management and utilisation of shared skills and infrastructures in the life sciences sector. The objectives are to learn how these situations can contribute to innovation, and what models are available for a network of knowledge in marine biotechnology R&D.

Warmly invited to attend are managers of public and private technological platforms and research centres, development agents, policy makers and representatives of national SMEs operating in the marine biotech space.

Please click here to go to the event websitehttp://www.conference.ie/Conferences/index.asp?Conference="138

SEMRU Beaufort PhD student Ann T. Walsh was runner up in the best paper award at the doctoral colloquium of the Academy of Marketing Conference in Liverpool on 4 July 2011. Her paper was an examination of Marketing's Contribution to Achieving Sustainable Consumption of Food

ShareBiotech First Public Event - Facilities to Speed up

R&D and Innovation

The European INTERREG project ShareBiotech is hosting their 1st transnational event to be held at Biocant, Portugal, on April 12, 2011. All biotechnology and life science stakeholders from Europe and beyond are invited to attend.

The ShareBiotech Consortium gathers centres of excellence in life sciences and biotechnology from the Atlantic Area, namely Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal. The ShareBiotech initiative aims to create strong links between biotechnology stakeholders and leverage the development of the biotechnology sector within the Atlantic Area. Measures foreseen to stimulate biotechnology uptake will be to widen access to life science technological core facilities and connect people to speed up R&D and Innovation.

The event will unveil the current needs from researchers and companies as regards access to cutting-edge technologies (results of the 2010 survey), as well as the technology skills and tools accessible in the ShareBiotech regions to both private and public sector researchers.

Event Information & Registration Website (Link address is http://www1.biocant.pt/sharebiotech_event )

Full Program (Link address is http://www1.biocant.pt/sharebiotech_event/page3.html)

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-

Economic Workshop are available to download here

SEMRU awarded EPA funding for WFD Valuation Project

SEMRU have been awarded Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding for a 9 month project under the Science, Technology, Research & Innovation for the Environment (STRIVE) Programme 2007 – 2013. Ireland is somewhat behind in terms of measuring the economic value of achieving “good ecological status” under the WFD across catchments. This new project aims to fill this gap in the research by exploring the use of benefit transfer (BT) in placing a value of achieving this main objective (good ecological status) of the WFD across water bodies in Ireland. The policy tool of BT takes the results of stated and revealed preference primary valuation studies to form the bedrock of practical policy analysis. Primary valuation research, while being a ’first best’ strategy, is also very expensive and time consuming. Thus, secondary analysis of the valuation literature is a ’second best’ strategy that can yield very important information in a management context. The results of this project will inform policy makers responsible for implementing the Water Framework Directive in relation to the use of BT as an alternative for Ireland in estimating “good water quality” or “good ecological status”. Within the project we will determine the most suitable BT methodology in the Irish policy context. The project will also collect the estimates from the large number of water quality related valuation studies that have already been conducted right across the EU and apply them in a BT exercise to a number of water bodies in Ireland.

The project started February 1^st 2011.

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic

Workshop are available to download here

Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop 2010

Pictured is Dr.Ilaria Nardello, Coordinator of Marine Biotechnology Ireland, the national programme of Marine Biotechnology led by the Marine Institute, presenting her paper:" Marine Biotechnology, Ireland and the European BioEconomy: a complex pattern of opportunities" at SEMRU’s second annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop that was held on the 17th of November 2010.

Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop 2010

On Wednesday the 17th of November SEMRU is holding its second annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop. The workshop is an opportunity for researchers and policy makers in the area of marine socio-economics, working in Ireland, to get together to meet and discuss their on-going work. The J.E. Cairns School of Business and Economics, NUI Galway will host the event. The work shop is divided up into 3 sessions. The topic of the morning session will be “The Irish Ocean Economy: National and Sectoral Perspectives ”. The second session is dedicated to “Water Quality and the Environment” and the evening session is entitled “Fisheries Management in Ireland”. Speakers on the day will be discussing such diverse marine socio-economic topics as the role of fishers in the formation of scientific marine policy to the valuation of the Irish Ocean Economy.

The agenda for the day is available to download at

www. nuigalway.ie/semru/beaufort_agenda2.

SEMRU become partner in an INTERREG IV Atlantic Area Project

SEMRU have just been confirmed as a partner on a major European project. Led by 2 French organisations, the project is implemented by a consortium of 10 partners from 4 Member States (France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) and 7 regions. SEMRU joins Athlone IT as the Irish partners on this exciting €2.7 million project. The ShareBiotech project, as it is called, contributes to the 1st priority of the INTERREG IVB Atlantic Area European programme by promoting transnational entrepreneurial and innovation networks. ShareBiotech’s main objective is to strengthen the biotechnology sector within the Atlantic Area. Other key objectives of ShareBiotech are:

- Facilitate sharing of knowledge and technology in biotechnology across the life sciences fields (health, marine sciences, agriculture and food), and across sectors (industry, academia);

- Contribute to an Atlantic network of Technological Core Facilities for transnational technological services;

- Foster technology absorption through technological showcases;

- Increase the profile and visibility of the biotechnology sector of the Atlantic Area, in order to raise the profile of our region in networking, cooperation and business.

The main team members of SEMRU involved in the project are

Ilaria Nardello (Project Leader), Stephen Hynes, Paul Ryan,

Karyn Morrissey and Natasha Evers.

SEMRU Seminar, Friday 24th September, 2010

The value of the Irish marine sector: A national and regional analysis.

Karyn Morrissey

SEMRU, NUI Galway

Time: 2pm

Venue: Lecture Hall 1, St. Anthony's Building

SEMRU Seminar, Monday 20th September, 2010

Economic Survey of the Irish Coastal and Off-shore Fleet 2006 to 2008

          Patrick Gillespie

         SEMRU, NUI Galway

          Time: 1pm

          Venue: RERC Teagasc, Athenry, Galway

SEMRU Seminar, Wednesday 15th September, 2010

A holistic versus an attribute based approach to environmental policy valuation.

Stephen Hynes

SEMRU, NUI Galway

          Time: 2pm

          Venue: Lecture Hall 1, St. Anthony's Building



SEMRU Seminar,  Wednesday 7th February, 2010

Outlying sensitivities in discrete choice data: consequences and remedies

Danny Campbell,

Gibson Institute for Land, Food and Environment
Queen’s University Belfast.

SEMRU Seminar,  Wednesday 27th January, 2010

Valuing Cold Water Corals: The Production Function Approach

- Naomi Foley, University of Tromso, Norway

Proceedings of the 1st Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic

Workshop are available to download here

Official Launch of Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit

SEMRU was officially launched as a Research Unit of NUI Galway at a reception held in the President’s Drawing Room, The Quadrangle Building, NUI Galway on the evening of Monday the 14th December. The University Registrar, Professor Jim Ward formally launched the unit while the Director of SEMRU Professor Michael Cuddy and the CEO of the Marine Institute Dr. Peter Heffernan also spoke at the event. Colleagues and friends of the Unit from a number of different university departments, the Marine Institute and other Irish research agencies helped in celebrating the launch.

Pictured above at the launch of the new Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU) at NUI Galway were (l-r) Professor Michael Cuddy, NUI Galway, Professor Jim Ward, Registrar, NUI Galway, Yvonne Shields, the Marine Institute, Dr. Stephen Hynes, NUI Galway and Dr. Michael O'Toole, the Marine Institute.

The CEO of the Marine Institute Dr. Peter Heffernan outlines the importance of Socio-Economic Marine Research to the sustainable development of Irish marine resources and how SEMRU will contribute to the achievement of targets set out under the Sea Change: Marine Knowledge, Research and Innovation Strategy for Ireland.

Professor Michael Cuddy outlines SEMRU’s research program .

Pictured above at the launch of the new Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU) at NUI Galway were (l-r) Professor Terry Smith, Vice-President for Research NUI Galway, Professor Jim Ward, Registrar, NUI Galway, Dr. Stephen Hynes, NUI Galway, Yvonne Shields, the Marine Institute, and Professor John McHale, NUI Galway.

Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop 2009

On Tuesday the 3rd November SEMRU is holding a Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop. The idea of the workshop is for researchers in the area of marine socio-economics working on the island of Ireland to get together to meet and discuss their on-going work. The Marine Institute in Oranmore, Co. Galway will host the event. There will be 9 presenters on the day from academic institutions across Ireland including University College Cork, NUI Galway, the University of Ulster and the Rural Economy Research Centre, Teagasc. Speakers on the day will be discussing such diverse marine socio-economic topics as the definition of standard statistical coastal regions for Ireland to the socio-economic impacts of jellyfish. The target participation at the workshop is for Irish researchers in academic institutions or government agencies, whose research interests are applicable to some area of marine socio –economics. Anyone interested in attending this event should register by emailing Felicity Donnelly at felicity.donnellymarine.ie, including your name, institute and contact details. Registration must be complete before 12pm, Tuesday, the 27th of October.

The Abstracts from the papers of the Workshop are available here

Workshop Presentations

Defining Standard Statistical Coastal Regions for Ireland

- Dr. Stephen Hynes, SEMRU, NUI Galway

Fishers: Scientists, Sociologists, Economists, Politicians and Marine Managers

- Edward Hind, Depart. of Political Science & Sociology, NUI Galway

Is Fishing Culture a ’Barrier’ to Contemporary Rural Development?

- Dr. Aine Macken Walsh, RERC Teagasc

The Economics of the Marine Sector in Ireland

- Dr. Karyn Morrissey, SEMRU, NUI Galway

Applying Indicators to Aspects of Coastal Management in Ireland

Cathal O'Mahony, Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork

The Socio-Economic Impacts of Jellyfish in Ireland

- Dr. Thomas Doyle, Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork

Valuation of Marine Ecosystem Goods and Services and Man’s Impact on European Seas

- Dr. Tom van Rensburg, Department of Economics, NUI Galway

Economic Recession – Good News for the Coast?

- Dr. John McKenna, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster

PhD Presentations

Analysis of regulatory constraints on the development of the marine economy: A financial portfolio theory approach

- Benjamin Breen, Beaufort Fellow

Balanced Local Development: Managing Shellfish Production in Killary

- Peter Cush, PRTLI 4 Doctoral Fellow

Economic Evaluation of Marine Renewable Energy

- Niall Farrell, Beaufort Fellow

Fishers’ knowledge of cod stocks in the Celtic Sea

- Emma Martin, Marine Institute Fellow

Sustainable Innovation & Competitiveness in the Irish Seafood Sector through Market Orientation

- Ann Walsh, Beaufort Fellow

SEMRU Seminar,  Thursday 8th October, 2009

The Common Fisheries Policy and the Future of Bio-economic Modelling

Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit
National University of Ireland, Galway

Tel: +353 (0)91 493105
Fax: +353 (0)91 524130
email: stephen.hynes

nuigalway.ie
web: http://www.nuigalway.ie/semru/
This page was last updated Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Aonad Taighde ar Ghnéithe Socheacnamaíocha na Mara

News and Events

The 3rd Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop

Presentations from the “Networks as Knowledge – Biotechnology Networks in the Atlantic Area” Conference

The logos developed for the "Strategic Sea Food Brand Marketing Project" by NUI Galway Masters in Marketing students can be viewed here. All of the student group brand plans have been put together into one report and this can be downloaded here.

ShareBiotech Event

ShareBiotech First Public Event - Facilities to Speed up R&D and Innovation

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-

Economic Workshop are available to download here

SEMRU awarded EPA funding for WFD Valuation Project

Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic

Workshop are available to download here

Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop 2010

Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop 2010

SEMRU become partner in an INTERREG IV Atlantic Area Project

SEMRU Seminar, Friday 24th September, 2010

SEMRU Seminar, Monday 20th September, 2010

SEMRU Seminar, Wednesday 15th September, 2010

SEMRU Seminar, Wednesday 7th February, 2010

SEMRU Seminar, Wednesday 27th January, 2010

Proceedings of the 1st Annual Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic

Workshop are available to download here

Official Launch of Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit

Beaufort Marine Socio-Economic Workshop 2009

SEMRU Seminar, Thursday 8th October, 2009

ShareBiotech First Public Event - Facilities to Speed up

R&D and Innovation