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This blog post discusses the economic, environmental, and social considerations relevant for policymakers and developers undertaking regional developments. Of particular interest here, is the location of major retail outlets. 
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This piece disseminates the main findings from a published report analysing the Irish innovation ecosystem. This report uses the insights from major stakeholders, across a wide range of industries/sectors, alongside rigourous conceptual analysis to highlight ways in which the Irish innovation ecosystem can evolve and become better equipped to handle the challenges of an ever-changing world. 
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This piece illustrates the main findings from my ongoing research about the relationships between local built environments and commuting behaviours. It emphasizes that research such as this can positively contribute to pressing policymaking missions concerned reducing the environmental damage attributable to human activity. 
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This short piece discusses the environmental impacts associated with the location of retail centres/parks and explores how academic research in this realm can positively contribute to policymaking missions to achieve sustainability in development. 
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This blog post describes the major findings from a recent research paper. In this paper, we use fine-grain spatial data and individual-level census data to analyse the interrelationships between socio-demographic characteristics, local built environments, and travel mode choices for commuters across the Republic of Ireland. This post describes the major findings of this work and situates the implications of these findings in the context of pressing policymaking issues in Ireland. 
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This short piece illustrates the findings of ongoing research investigating the environmental damage attributable to travel behaviours and the spatial distribution of economic activities. The discussion centres around the environmental, economic, and social problems attributable to peripherally-located retail centres, using the metropolitan area of Cork, Ireland, as a case study. 
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This radio interview was hosted by the national broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland. The discussion centres around a regional debate surrounding the location of a proposed major retail outlet. Using findings from my PhD research, I make the case that current plans do not align with policymaking missions to develop more sustainably in the Cork metropolitan area. You can find this interview here. The relevant segment begins at 1 hour and 13 minutes into the broadcast.
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This piece distils the major findings and key policymaking recommendations of recent research conducted with Dr. Kevin Credit of the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG) in Maynooth University. This research explores the cost-effectiveness associated travelling by different modes of transport when commuting in the Dublin Metropolitan Area. 
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I was invited onto a regional radio station Kildare Today to discuss recent research which explored the cost-effectiveness associated travelling by different modes of transport when commuting in the Dublin Metropolitan Area. The context of the discussion centred around this piece, published previously by RTE Brainstorm. You can listen to this discussion here. The research paper associated with these discussions explores the cost-effectiveness associated travelling by different modes of transport when commuting in the Dublin Metropolitan Area.