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Articles by Shane Conway

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About Shane Conway

Dr Shane Conway is Project Manager and Adjunct Lecturer in the Discipline of Geography’s Rural Studies Centre at the University of Galway, Ireland. Shane’s research interests are in agricultural and rural social sciences, with a particular focus on older farmers, AKIS, the Multi-actor Approach, stakeholder engagement; intergenerational farm transfer and the human side of farming. Dr Conway has published widely on these topics in high impact peer reviewed academic journals, such as the Journal of Rural Studies and Sociologia Ruralis, and is Co-Director of the International FARMTRANSFERS Project. He has also acted as Vice Chairperson of the International Farm Transition Network (IFTN) Board of Directors based in the U.S.A. since June 2021. Shane was previously Lead Researcher on the Irish National Rural Network (NRN) project at the University of Galway, where he was responsible for managing and coordinating the network’s work on EIP-AGRI, LEADER and Generational in Agriculture on behalf of Ireland’s Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine (DAFM) and Department of Rural and Community Development (DRCD). Most recently, he received funding from the University of Galway Illuminate Programme to develop and manage a new social organisation for the older generation of the farming community based on his previous research entitled ‘Farmer’s Yards’. Established to fit the older farmer’s interests, requirements, and values, this initiative is working to promote social inclusion, and in turn wellbeing, in the farming community by providing older farmers with a platform to come together as a local peer group in a familiar and friendly Livestock Mart (Auction) setting. Shane is also a farmer, with a particular interest in breeding pedigree Charollais Sheep on his family farm in the west of Ireland.

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Bottom-Up AKIS – An Inclusive Stakeholder Engagement Strategy

November 23, 2023 Shane Conway

Soil-specific human capital is not easily transferable, communicated or learnable. Future multi-actor EIP-AGRI projects will be unsuccessful if they do not learn from the farming community’s invaluable store of locally specific tacit and lay knowledge. Dr Shane Conway reports on the PREMIERE Horizon Europe Project. […]

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