by Nick Money | Feb 20, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates
Nick and Paul at Swoboda are delighted to be joined this year by two students from the University of Galway in Ireland. Malachy Feeney and Mary Hachey are both third year undergraduates in Government, and will be working with Swoboda until the end of May, focused in...
by Nick Money | Feb 13, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Research
We are all aware that it has become critical for individuals and organisations to play a part in the global fight against climate change. The pressure will only increase on credit unions to take profound, strategic decisions in the coming years regarding their...
by Nick Money | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates
An exciting new research project to assess small value lending in Irish credit unions has launched this month. The project will be led by Lorraine Corcoran of Afanite and Dr Paul A. Jones of Swoboda Research Centre (Swoboda), with analytical input from Declan Mooney,...
by Nick Money | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, News & Updates, Research Publications
After publication in November of the Managing Loan Declines: A Best Practice Manual, based on research by Coventry University and Swoboda Research Centre and funded by Fair4All Finance, we held a very well-attended webinar in January where the authors of the manual...
by Nick Money | Dec 14, 2022 | Featured, News & Updates, Reflections Series
British Credit Unions: A Different Future Our Reflections series provides a platform for practitioners to share their experience, insights and ideas with the credit union movement and its stakeholders. In this new paper, Jonathan Moore, formerly CEO of Stockport...