MAIS Projects
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 Morgan – Understanding 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.