Media and Public Engagement

We are very interested in science communication, outreach and public engagement...

Media

Our work has featured in both international and Irish media, and we also write ourselves for various outlets. Some examples below:

All Ireland Pollinator Plan Blog "Honeybee competition" click here

Citizen Central podcast interview "Save bees and Farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture" click here

Newstalk Anton Savage Show interview "Creating our future" click here

RTÉ Mooney Goes Wild "How pollinators interact with plants" click here

RTÉ Countrywide interview "Keeping our bees" click here

Agrifood Matters podcast "The story of bees" click here

SUSPOLL project video click here

Silicon Republic article "What does a scientist look like?" click here

RTÉ Brainstorm podcast: Episode on insects click here

RTÉ's EcoEye: Episode on pollinators click here

Bioweb.ie: Blog on "Advice for an undergrad thesis" click here

RTÉ Brainstorm: "Meet the hard working class insects" click here

Silicon Republic: "Máire Geoghegan-Quinn talks politics, quotas and women in STEM" click here

TG4 Nuacht: "Na beacha i mbaol"

RTÉ Brainstorm: "The colour of it all" click here

Irish Independent: "What science might be doing for you" click here

Campus Buzz blog: "The Burren: Marrying farming and conservation" Blog by recent lab intern Marie Carco click here

Silicon Republic: "Practice what you preach: Equality and diversity at NUI Galway" click here

Soapbox Science Blog: "Bringing Science to the streets of Galway: Meet Dara Stanley" click here

Irish Times: "The challenging art of pollen forecasting" click here

Irish Times, "The altered flight of the Humble Bee" (coverage of Stanley et al. 2015 Nature and Stanley et al. 2016 J App Ecol)

Daily Mail, "Pesticides change bees choice of wildflowers and stop them learning how to extract nectar" click here

(coverage of Stanley et al 2016, Func Ecol)

Nature Research Highlights, "Pesticides alter bee foraging" click here

(coverage of Stanley et al 2016, Func Ecol)

BBC News “Pesticide exposure in bumblebees 'harms pollination'” click here

(coverage of Stanley et al 2015, Nature)

The Guardian "Pesticides stop bumblebees from pollinating apple trees, research shows" click here

(coverage of Stanley et al 2015, Nature)

New Scientist, “First direct evidence of impact of pesticide on bee pollination” click here

(coverage of Stanley et al 2015, Nature)

RTÉ, "Bees contribute €4M to the economy" click here

(coverage of Stanley et al 2013, J Ins Cons)

Public engagement activities

We've been involved in the production of the NUI Galway biodiversity trail click here and UCD trail click here
Active twitter users
We are involved are bringing female scientists to the streets through Soapbox Science! click here
We give talks to the general public (e.g. Irish Wildlife Trust, Kings College Think Tank, An Leabharlann Ceathrú Rua, All Ireland Pollinator Plan conference).
Dara is a founding member of Biodiversity in our Lives, a group dedicated to promoting ideas about biodiversity to the general public though a series of "biodiversity beermats". click here
We participate in the Irish Bumblebee Monitoring Scheme run by the National Biodiversity Data Centre click here