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.

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.

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.