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Commuting, People and Place: Critical Reflections from Practice and Implications for Policy

This webinar considers the implications of changing work practices and the potential for growing home and remote working to alter commuting patterns, bring about a mobility shift, and revitalise small towns. More broadly it has implications for climate change, quality of life and broader regional development. The phenomenon of commuting has, for many of us, […]

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Commuting, People and Place: Emerging Perspectives from the InPLACE Project

This webinar offers initial reflections from the first phase of this research programme – focusing on three small towns across the island of Ireland and two in Maryland. One of the most significant transformations in the socio-economic geography of Ireland in recent decades has been evident in the changing geographies of population and of employment, […]

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Societal resilience as a strategic local capability – how do we build it?

Strengthening societal resilience to crises is central to numerous policy frameworks shaping global to local action. As experienced through COVID-19, recent flooding, and the ongoing cost-of-living shocks, all people and places can benefit from becoming more resilient and enabled to adapt and thrive whatever the challenge. Strengthening societal resilience to crises is central to numerous policy frameworks shaping […]

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