Contact Information
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Centre for Policy Studies
University College Cork
5 & 6 Bloomfield Terrace,
Western Road, Cork, Ireland - +353 (0)21 490 3566
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Centre for Policy Studies
Centre for Policy Studies
University College Cork
5 & 6 Bloomfield Terrace,
Western Road, Cork, Ireland
The Centre for Policy Studies 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, Applied Social Studies, Statistics and with the Oral Health Services Research Centre) and externally (Florida Atlantic University, Economic and Social Research Institute, National Tourism Research Centre, University of Limerick and Research Unit,University of Cardiff).
Recent highlights include the award of a €237,000 HRB Research Grant to the Centre for Policy Studies to investigate GMS Drug Prescribing in Ireland. Other highlights include an earlier HRB Research Grant award to Dr Noel Woods of €300,000 (2007) and the inclusion of Dr. Woods as a Principal Investigator with the HRB Health Service Research Institute which received a €5 million PhD Scholars Programme award (2007).