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Masters in Agricultural Innovation Support Research Projects 2023-2025

  • Caoimhe Duggan – Developing a model to evaluate the success of Signpost Demonstration Events and how they impact farmer behaviour towards climate action.
  • Aoife Grennan – Co-creating diversity and inclusion training resources for delivery to staff and learners on Teagasc further education and training courses.
  • Owen Maleady – Determination of the effectivness of monitor farms as a knowledge transfer method on tillage farms.
  • Clodagh MorganUnderstanding the role of training in supporting the development of organic farms.
  • Mark O’Grady – Farmer awareness, attitude to and use of available technology in the management of Riparian Buffer Zones as a mitigation action for improving water quality.

Masters in Agricultural Innovation Support Research Projects 2022-2024

  • Clodagh Bolger – A multi-actor, local approach to increasing lime usage on Irish farms
  • Donal Brennan – Improving Advisory Services for Better Soil Health on Grassland Farms: Test and develop the Grass Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure (VESS) method as a visual KT tool to promote good soil management.
  • Emily Gowing – Farmer lead identification of barriers and solutions to the adoption of clover on dairy farms
  • Oliver Gill – The monetary effects of adjusting farm management techniques and stocking rates to maximise climate and biodiversity ecosystem services in the Comeragh Mountain uplands.
  • Bryan Twomey – Succession and Inheritance Project Teams
  • Marc McKeon – Identifying, supporting, and attracting a diversity of learners to Teagasc further education and training courses
  • Ciaran Kinahan – Farm safety interventions to help advisers promote safety with livestock.
  • Claire Dolan – Part time farmer’s engagement with advisory services and how it can be improved.

Masters in Agricultural Innovation Support Research Projects 2021-2023

  • Laura Daly – A study of farmer’s attitudes towards growing catch crops in a catchment with high stream water concentrations of nitrate N, whilst developing KT methodology to further adoption.
  • Niamh Dunphy – Engaging Farmers in Conversations about Climate Change
  • John Mahon – To evaluate the Teagasc Podcast as a digital advisory tool and to make recommendations for future development.
  • Roisin McManus – Achieving improvements in water quality through targeted organic manure storage advice
  • Diarmuid Mulkerrins – Farmer preferences for actions needed to adhere to changes in the Nitrates Action Programme
  • Michael O’Loughlin – Establishing the Adoption of new dairy technologies by small-scale dairy farmers in Kenya
  • Aoife Seymour – Dairy Farmer Decision Making Process Regarding Core and Non-Core Tasks.