UCD Attitudes to Forestry Survey 2020

15/05/2020

Our course has officially come to an end. Thanks to 800+ people who took our Forestry Survey for students' final project! 🤯 Last task today-selecting 4 prize draw voucher winners over mocktails w/ help of mini-me 🥂 Congratulations to winners Davina, Noel, Maurice and Kevin!

09/05/2020

After a month, our survey is now closed!

Thank you very much to everyone who participated in the survey, from all the students on the MSc Environmental Policy course in UCD.

There were 810 responses in total. You can see a further preliminary breakdown of the results in the attached image.

Dr Augustenborg will announce the lucky winner of the €25 Tesco voucher on the 15th May

02/05/2020

During the week, our very own Daniel Carr spoke about our research and survey with Aisling O'Brien on Agritime.

Listen back here or on the Radio Kerry website: https://www.radiokerry.ie/podcast/agritime/

Survey available at: ForestrySurvey.com

01/05/2020

Thank you Radio Kerry for featuring an article about our survey.
Only a week left until the survey closes on the 8th of May!
Take part at ForestrySurvey.com.
Once you submit your response, you may also enter our draw for a €25 Tesco voucher.

https://www.radiokerry.ie/forestry-survey-seeks-kerry-views/

People in Kerry are being urged to make their views on forestry known in a national survey. The study by University College Dublin will be used to help the new national policy on forestry. The survey was originally focused on Kerry and Wicklow but due to coronavirus restrictions the survey is now on...

22/04/2020

Happy !
We've had a fantastic response to our survey over the past 2 weeks since going live. Over 450 people have taken part so far!
If you or someone you know hasn't done so already, you can still take part at www.ForestrySurvey.com and also enter our draw for a €25 Tesco voucher.

15/04/2020

Thank you East Coast FM for covering our survey on the airwaves this morning.

Our supervisor, Dr Cara Augustenborg spoke to Declan Meehan about Irish policy and our research project.

Listen back on their website!
Survey available at: http://ForestrySurvey.com

https://www.eastcoast.fm/podcasts2/podcasts/the-morning-show/episode/dr-cara-augustenborg-environmental-policy-fellow-at-ucd-and-member-of-president-higgins-council-of-state-spoke-to-east-coast-fms-morning-show/

Students in University College Dublin are currently working on a project looking at regional attitudes to forestry in Ireland.

15/04/2020

Yesterday evening our supervisor Dr Cara Augustenborg discussed Irish forestry policy and our Attitudes to Irish Forestry Survey with Ivan Yates during her weekly slot on Newstalk FM.

If you missed it, you can listen back on this link to the Newstalk website or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

If you haven't already taken part, the survey is available at www.ForestrySurvey.com

https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/down-to-earth/down-to-earth-forestry-2?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web

The Hard Shoulder's resident environmental expert, Dr. Cara Augustenborg talks about the importan...

08/04/2020

Our survey is officially live! We invite you and your friends to participate here: https://tinyurl.com/ForestrySurvey We want to engage with as many Irish farmers and community members as possible (in particular, those from counties Kerry and Wicklow). Please take a moment to complete this brief survey and be entered in a drawing to win a EUR 25 gift voucher to Tesco! Also, we hope you will follow along with us as we work toward developing a vision of Irish forestry for 2050. Cheers!

Welcome to the Survey! Ireland is significantly behind in forest coverage (11%), compared to the rest of Europe (30%). We want to hear your thoughts! We are a group of students on the MSc Environmental Policy programme at University College Dublin. Our study aims to investigate attitudes to current....