Breda Lally

Breda Lally holds a BA and MA from University of Galway. She initially worked as a research assistant at University of Galway for a period of three years before undertaking research for Teagasc under a Walsh Fellowship Scheme. She has been working as alecturer at University Galway since 1999. She was based in St. Angelas College, Sligo from 1999 to 2015 whereshe taught Economics on the undergraduate BA (Environment and SocietyYouth and Family Studies) programme offered by NUI Galway and was programme director for a number of years. She is currently lecturing in University of Galway, where she contributes to undegraduate andpostgraduate teaching in Economics. She is also currently programme director for the Higher Diploma in Business Studies programme.Her research interests include environmental and agri-environmental economics.Selected Public - No restrictionations: Lally, B. and T. van Rensburg (2014). Reducing nitrogen applications on Irish dairy farms: effectiveness and efficiency of different strategies. International Journal of Agricultural Management, Vol. 4, No. 1 [Journal Article]Lally, B., Riordan, B and T. van Rensburg (2009). Controlling Agricultural Emissions of Nitrates: Regulations versus Taxes. Journal of Farm Management, Vol. 13, No. 8. [Journal Article] Fountas, S. and B. Lally (1999). The Relationship Between Inflation and Wage Growth in the Irish Economy. Applied Economics Letters , 6, 317-321.[Journal Article]

Bredas research interests include environmental and agri-environmental economics. She has worked on an EU funded agricultural research project with other European institutions and has undertaken research for Teagasc and the Department of Agriculture and Food. Her current research interests include analyzing different types of environmental projects such as noise mitigation measures and battery storage for wind energy.

Teaching Interests I currentlyteach a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules. These includethree first year modules (Principles of Microeconomics, Skills for Economics I, Skills for Economics II), two final year modules (Public - No restriction Economics and Natural Resource and Environmental Economics) andone module at postgraduate level(Principles of Economics for Business).I also supervise masters dissertations.In the past I have taught the following modules: Natural and Social Environment (Undergraduate) Introductory Microeconomics (Undergraduate)IntroductoryMacroeconomics(Undergraduate)Statistical Methods for Economics (Undergraduate)EcologicalSustainable Economics (Undergraduate)Introduction to Environment and Society (Undergraduate)Cost Benefit Analysis (Undergraduate)Natural Resource Governance (Postgraduate) Cost Benefit Analysis and Evaluation (Postgraduate)Introduction to Research in Public - No restriction and Social PolicyResearch Paper IResearch Paper II