Research
Research at NUI Galway
NUI Galway has internationally-acknowledged strengths of excellence in research and has been extremely successful in recent years in obtaining external funding, building up infrastructural supports and developing research clusters. Its international reputation as a research-intensive institution is growing rapidly and the University has attracted leading academics, researchers and post-graduate students from around the world.
NUI Galway has internationally-acknowledged strengths of excellence in research and has been extremely successful in recent years in obtaining external funding, building up infrastructural supports and developing research clusters. Its international reputation as a research-intensive institution is growing rapidly and the University has attracted leading academics, researchers and post-graduate students from around the world.
Civic Engagement Research
Research projects often address societal, civic, social justice, human rights and community issues reinforcing the University's commitment to community and civic engagement.
- Civic Engagement at NUI Galway
- Civic Engagement Initiatives Worldwide
CKI Research
The CKI project seeks to initiate debate and ascertain the role of universities in issues concerned with international development; and it aims to interrogate the role of the university as a multi-disciplinary/trans-disciplinary agent of social change in terms of addressing issues related to capacity building within local, national and international communities, whether developed or developing.
CKI's research on higher education and civic engagement involves the analysis of the evolution of the varying roles of the university, from the provision of scientifically produced, preserved and shared knowledge towards a 'glocalisation' of actionable knowledge.
The research goal is to develop a better understanding of internal and external exhortations of universities to engage in economic and social development through locally and regionally applied research into various communities. The aim is also to investigate current and historical models of university-community partnerships at an international level, and to provide a platform for the adoption/development of models for local implementation in the longer term.