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Ronan Foley, of the Department of Geography at Maynooth University was Invited Research Visitor at the Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab (PowerLab), School of Health & Society, University of Wollongong, Australia from June 10th to 30th, 2019.
While he was there he presented ata Power Talk:
*Foley, R. (2019) Modelling relationships between health and green-blue infrastructures: a multi-scale cross-sectional Irish study. Power Talk: Population Wellbeing and Environment Research Lab (PowerLab), School of Health & Society, University of Wollongong, June 19th, 2019, Wollongong, Australia.
He then travelled to Aotearoa/ New Zealand for the XVIII International Symposium in Medical Geography where he presented three papers:
*Foley, R. (2019) From remote to intimate sensing. Invited paper for discussion session on Post-Humanist Geographies of Health, XVIII International Symposium in Medical Geography, July 1st to 6th, Queenstown, New Zealand.
O’Rourke, D., Browne, J. and Foley, R. (2019) From policy to paralysis. An archaeology of hospital planning in Ireland. XVIII International Symposium in Medical Geography, July 1st to 6th, Queenstown, New Zealand.
McNamara, M., Murphy, A., Dowler, F. and Foley, R. (2019) Valuing Blue Space for Health & Wellbeing: Capturing place-based perspectives. XVIII International Symposium in Medical Geography, July 1st to 6th, Queenstown, New Zealand.
He was also a Member of the Scientific Committee, at the Symposium.
![Ronan Foley with colleagues from Wollongong University, Australia](https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/styles/asset_image_full/public/assets/images/Psychology%20PowerTalk-DrRonanFoley-500x281%20-%20Maynooth%20University_0.gif?itok=baryxCP0)
Ronan Foley with colleagues from Wollongong University, Australia