Launch of Book: The Socio-Economic Contribution of Forestry in Ireland.
Dr Richard Moloney (Centre for Policy Studies, UCC), Deirdre O?Connor (UCD), Mary Wallace, Junior Minister at the Department of Agriculture, A/ine Ni/ Dhuhháin (UCD), Marie-Christine Fle/chard (UCD)

Welcome

The Centre for Policy Studies is an Academic unit created in 2002 by University College Cork to undertake teaching and research. It has a team of 5 academic staff (including a Director), a full-time administrator and several researchers and teaching assistants.  The Centre undertakes significant commissioned research, directed at improving policy in the commercial and public spheres.

 

The Centre teaches economics courses to around 1,500 undergraduate and to 50 postgraduate students in UCC each year. The majority of these students are in the Colleges of Arts & Social Sciences and Commerce & Law. The Centre  also provides teaching in the Colleges of Science and Medicine & Health Sciences.  The Centre teaches on a variety of undergraduate and graduate degree programmes: the B.Comm, B.Comm (European), B.Sc. (Finance), BA, B.Soc.Sc. MBS, MBA, MA, MDPH, and M.Econ.Sc.  Staff in the Centre also supervise Masters and Ph.D. research students.  The Centre promotes excellence in its teaching and in the quality of the learning experience of its students.

 

The Centre has an active policy-driven research program in the fields of industrial policy, tourism, social policy and health economics. It has research collaborations both within UCC (with the Departments of Geography and Applied Social Studies and with the Oral Health Services Research Centre) and externally (National Tourism Research Centre, University of Limerick and  Research Unit, University of Cardiff).