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2020 interview with Ralph Swoboda
Over Christmas, we at the Swoboda Research Centre will be remembering our deceased colleague, Ralph Swoboda. We miss Ralph’s wit and wisdom, so we were pleased to come across a podcast from August 2020, containing an hour of reflections from Ralph during an...
Engaging the research community with credit unions
The Swoboda Research Centre's mission is to produce, facilitate and stimulate action-orientated research that supports the credit union movement, primarily in Ireland and Great Britain. Credit unions in Ireland are facing a demanding present and a very challenging...
Report on credit unions and harmful gambling seminar
On 24th November, the Swoboda Centre convened credit unions, advice agencies, gambling support charities, regulators and academics from Britain and Ireland to discuss the challenge to credit unions posed by evidence of potentially harmful gambling behaviour in the...
Money shame: Is being declined for credit the last taboo?
The Swoboda Centre is partnering with the Centre for Business in Society (CBiS) at Coventry University on a project to research best practice in managing loan declines positively for credit unions and community development finance institutions (CDFIs), funded by...
We are now the Swoboda Research Centre!
In memorial to the Centre’s co-founder, first chair and driving force, Ralph Swoboda, the Centre has been re-named the Swoboda Research Centre. You can read more about Ralph’s contribution to credit unions and the Centre here. Our Twitter handle is now...
New! Maximising member savings: success, opportunity or threat?
The first object of credit unions noted in Irish and British legislation is the “promotion of thrift among its members by the accumulation of their savings”. For it is through saving and the building of assets, rather than through borrowing, that members achieve...
In partnership with
The Centre works in collaboration with the Research Unit for Financial Inclusion at Liverpool John Moores University.
