Podcast appearances and mentions of louise ryan

Oliver was joined by former nurses Gráinne McPolin and Bernie Naughton and by sociology professor Louise Ryan to hear the story of the many Irish nurses who went over to work in Britain's National Health Service.

Louise Ryan from Screen Ireland discusses the newly launched National Talent Academy for Visual Effects.

Success can be temporary.  It can dry up if you're not prepared. There one day and *POOF* gone the next. That's exactly what happened to my guest in today's episode, Louise Ryan, a freelance footwear trend consultant.  She had a stable freelance income for a while but eventually, it dried up leaving her looking for answers.  She turned to my flagship program FAST and shares how she redesigned her freelance fashion career and essentially tripled her income.  Even with all the strategies at her fingertips though, there's still room for disappointment and rejection.  If you've ever felt like your success is drying up or you feel like throwing in the towel because of the rejection you get, you'll want to listen to this episode as Louise and I talk about the high highs and low lows of freelancing in fashion and how not giving up pays off.  Learn how having the right strategies in your arsenal can protect you from withering away from an unstable income and a dried-up network.About Louise:She is an exceptional creative thinker, designer, and trend forecaster who is passionate about the footwear industry. Her drive to stay up-to-date with the latest innovations and fully comprehend the entire process of footwear design and development is truly inspiring. By collaborating with global trend agencies, brands, and factories, she can provide valuable insights that will shape the future of this dynamic industry. future of this dynamic industry.Connect with Louise:Visit their website: www.larcreative.comEmail at: louise@larcreative.comFollow on Instagram LAR_CREATIVEConnect on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/louiseryanfashion/ Sick of being tied to a desk and want more freedom in your day, snag my free training: How to Freelance in Fashion (even if you're terrified you don't have all the answers) by clicking here.

Screen Ireland is launching its 2024 Slate of over 40 Film, TV Drama, Documentary and Animation Projects today! Louise Ryan, Screen Ireland Spokesperson told Newstalk Breakfast what can we expect.

Screen Ireland is launching its 2024 Slate of over 40 Film, TV Drama, Documentary and Animation Projects today! Louise Ryan, Screen Ireland Spokesperson told Newstalk Breakfast what can we expect.

Louise Ryan, Senior Professor of Sociology at London Metroplitan University, discusses the contribution of Irish nurses to 75 years of the NHS.

Secondary teachers are vowing to continue rolling strikes until they receive an acceptable pay offer. There've been mounting calls from parents for an end to the strikes, which have resulted in thousands of students missing important class time. But the teachers say the strikes must continue. Auckland secondary teacher, Louise Ryan, and Wellington-based secondary teacher, Adam Weir, spoke to Corin Dann.

Derek talks to Jennifer & Louise about their start in acupuncture, the emotional care for their clients, herbal treatments, cosmetic acupuncture, IVF + menstrual cycle care, using acupuncture on themselves, tuina massage and rollerblading! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wheatleydeQ

The Oscar nominations were announced at a special ceremony in Los Angeles this evening. There was a record 14 nominations for Irish films with 'The Banshees of Inisherin' receiving nine nominations. Kieran was joined on The Hard Shoulder by actor, comedian and star of The Banshees of Inisherin, Pat Shortt. He was joined alongside Louise Ryan from Screen Ireland to discuss…

A host of Screen Ireland-supported titles have been making waves in Cannes this week, as the Marché du Film at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival got underway. Louise Ryan from Screen Ireland joined Anton to talk through how things have been at the event so far. Listen and subscribe to The Anton Savage Show on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.   Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'. You will find all Anton Savage Show podcasts here.

Welcome to Eyes & Teeth a Legend of Laughter someone who had me and my family in stitches in Elf The Musical Tour Xmas 2021. Tam Ryan is a fantastic entertainer. We talk about his start in the business inspired by his parents showbusiness life. We were nearly deprived of his talent and lost him to journalism but the media's loss was Show businesses gain and he is making his mark on contracts he chooses carefully and that are right for him.With not only a superb singing vocal but his natural comedy talent shine on stage from the moment he steps into the spotlight until curtain down.Today we talk about his work on the Successful Elf Musical, his Pantomime work and stage work within a comedy double act and alongside the one and only David Hasselhoff.His collaboration with John Thomson sounds interesting and there's more to come so keep your ears pinned back for a future star of TV when we find out what Tam and friends have planned. Welcome to Eyes & Teeth Season 11, Edition 6 Tam Ryan

This week Asa Baav & Sarah Louise Ryan are joining us from the world first matchmaking service specialised in taking sexual compatibility into account… Join our Subsription on Apple Podcasts for ad free episodes + bonus content Check out our award winning mental health podcast HERE Find Bobby on Twitter or Instagram

Sarah Louise Ryan is a Relationship Expert and business owner from London. If you want to reach out to me, DM me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shittalkandbanter_podcast/ Check out other outlets at: https://linktr.ee/ShitTalkandBanter

This is the final episode focusing on home energy upgrades. Our host Louise Ryan is talking about financing an energy upgrade, which is a huge investment in your home and can take years to plan and save for.   We hear from homeowner Cormac Madden again who availed of the SEAI grants at all stages of his home upgrade. SEAI's Tom Halpin explains the different routes for homeowners looking to start, including the various grants and ‘green loans' available. 

This episode is the second of three episodes focusing on home energy upgrades. Our host Louise Ryan is talking about heat pumps, which can transform the comfort levels in your home while reducing running costs, energy usage and harmful greenhouse gas emissions.  Brian McIntyre, SEAI, breaks down exactly what a heat pump is and how they make a home much more energy efficient. Homeowner Cormac Madden installed a heat pump in his house in 2017 and he explains why it's transformational and he predicts it will be the appliance of choice in the future. 

Louise Ryan has been working in the Melbourne Publishing industry for 32 years, ten years at Readings and 22 in publishing houses Allen & Unwin and Penguin Random House. A recent recipient of the George Robertson Award for distinguished service in the publishing industry, she is now the manager of Readings flagship Carlton store. She serves on the Board of Melbourne Writers Festival, and is the co-author of Twins: A Practical and Emotional Guide to Parenting Twins. About The Garret Read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com. The interview was recorded by Zoom, and we can't wait to start recording in person again soon. You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Facebook, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, host Louise Ryan explains the importance of our home's BER (building energy rating) and how it effects your energy bills and carbon emissions. We hear from homeowner Cormac Madden, who spent several years upgrading his family home to an A3 rating and he's delighted with the results. Then architect Denise O'Connor talks through the latest trends in house design and says her clients are becoming more focused on comfort and climate action.

Louise Harris: Hello and welcome to the Government Digital Service Podcast. My name is Louise Harris and I head up the Creative and Channels Team at GDS. In this episode, we're talking about our wonderful technologists. The Site Reliability Engineers, Technical Architects and Developers who work in multidisciplinary teams to engineer solutions to our complex architectural needs, evolve our infrastructure and tooling to keep us resilient and online, and develop digital products and services used by millions of people across the UK, and that are emulated by governments around the world.    Technologists are a mainstay of how we help government transform and tackle complexity for users. Think about GOV.UK: it's actually 50 front and back end applications that are independently hosted and maintained that enable us to host over a million pages, deal with millions of visits a day and fend off regular Denial-of-Service attacks. But thanks to our technologists, all our end users see is a single site they can access day and night to get the information they need from government.    Tackling that kind of complexity is not always easy, but it's definitely worthwhile. And it's what GDS is here to do. Today I'm delighted to be joined by Himal Mandalia and Louise Ryan to talk about the important role GDS technologists play. Louise, Himal, why don't you introduce yourselves to our listeners and tell us a bit about your roles.   Louise Ryan:  Hello, I'm Louise Ryan, I'm the Lead Technical Architect and Head of Technology in Government as a Platform. I joined GDS just under 4 years ago and I joined us from the private sector where I worked in a digital agency as a Technical Architect.   Himal Mandalia:  And I'm Himal, I'm Head of Technology for GOV.UK, and I joined about 5 months ago, and I've been working in digital circles for about 6 years as a contractor in several roles, including Developer, Technical Architect and a Technology Advisor.   Louise Harris:  So, Louise, it sounds like we've been lucky enough to have you at GDS for a couple of years now, and Himal, we've recently lured you over from another part of government. What is it that appeals to you both about working at GDS?   Louise Ryan:  Oh wow. Such, such a big question. There's so much to like about GDS and working in digital in government in general, really. I always like refer people to the GOV.UK Design Principles and the Service Standard. So if you take a look at that, it's all about doing things the right way, about doing things for everybody, having a multidisciplinary team focussing on what the actual problems are, not solutionising. Building services, not just websites, so we continuously improve things. All sorts of that stuff, but also the tech we use is really cool as well. So it's, it's pretty modern stuff: lots of Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery and lots of automated testing. Yeah, I mean, I could go on for a long, long time, but this is a, you know I think it's a brilliant place to work and I love it.   Louise Harris:  And Louise, just, just for our listeners who are maybe less familiar with Government as a Platform, or what we call GaaP, can you just run us through a bit what it's all about?   Louise Ryan:  So Government as a Platform [GaaP], is a suite of digital services designed to meet common needs which can be quickly integrated into-into other service teams services. This helps reduce duplication, variation and it-it enables other digital teams to build their digital solutions much quicker, much faster, much more efficiently.   In terms of what the various services do, Notify is, is an extremely busy service. It's used by, I think around 4,700 other services. That's around 1000 organisations across the public sector using it. So it's scaling at around 120 new services joining every month. So that is, that's pretty big. So in, in, in terms of the last year, they've seen a-a 25 fold increase in volume of messages. And so that was a massive scaling challenge for the team that they, they just really smashed out the park. They're mostly hosted on the PaaS, which is really cool, and it's kind of asynchronous architecture so there's a lot of queues helping us process messages. You know it enables us to scale and enables us to retry when things break. So it's,it's good architecture.    [GOV.UK] Pay take payments, take card payments for your digital services. It also, you can also use Apple Pay and Google Pay to pay for stuff. I think one of the main selling points of Pay is how much we care and test about the, the journey, the paying experience for people who use assistive technologies. So we really put a lot of effort into making sure it works really well for everybody. That's built mostly on Fargate, and, and uses some you know, it's got to be PCI [Payment Card Industry] compliant, so it's a, it's a complex, necessarily complex architecture. It scales really well and it's been used by, I think, over 550 large services now, and it's processed over a billion pounds.   [GOV.UK] Platform as a Service: you host your, you can use Platform as a Service to host your web apps in the cloud without relying on, without worrying about the infrastructure underneath. So you can build your app in Python, Ruby or Rust or pop it in a container and then push it up to PaaS. And there you go, you've got a running app in the cloud. Also provides a bunch of backend services you can use. So backend services means databases like PostgreSQL, things like ElasticSearch or queue services like simple queue service from AWS. That's, that's the scale of this is, is, is very impressive. It's being used by just over 121 organisations and between the two regions in London and Ireland that it's hosted in, it's hosts, it's running around 2,800 apps at the moment. And they're processing an amazing amount of incoming requests: so we've got an average of around 300 requests per second coming through those pipes. So that's quite cool.   And then we've got the Design System and the Prototype Kit Team. The Design System look after GOV.UK frontend, which is that set of styles, patterns and components that other teams use to build their frontend. What's really important about those patterns and components is that they've been researched extensively and tested extensively across a vast array of digital devices and operating systems and with real people and with assistive devices. So we can be sure that they're, you know they're, they're working. So obviously we do that once so service teams around the country don't have to keep doing that work. It really is an open source project as well, the Design System. It actively seeks contributions from the design and frontend communities a-across, across government. And that's, that's really cool. And it's yeah, it's used quite. It's, GitHub tells me it's, it's in use by over 2,600 other repositories.   Louise Harris:  That must be so cool to be involved in work that's being forked off, and used in so many other contexts. Is it safe to say that there's some stuff that you can get done at GDS that maybe you can't get done elsewhere?   Louise Ryan:  Yeah, I think it is. We are at the centre of government, being part Cabinet Office. If we're not going to do it in the centre, then it's not just gonna magically happen elsewhere in government. Those tools exist so other service teams can-can really benefit from having things done once really well in the centre so they don't have to keep reinventing that wheel. They can-they can just get started really quickly and benefit from all that work that we've done really well just once.    Louise Harris:   And it's not, it's not just teams kind of in and around the UK government that are getting to benefit from that approach either right? Some of our code has also been forked by international governments to do their own thing too. What do you think are some of the sort of GDS led technology success stories out there?    Louise Ryan:  Oh, wow. Yeah. So there's lots of examples of this happening. So take, for example, Notify. That's been forked and used by the Canadian government and the Australian government to create their own notification platforms. And, you know, t-t-that doesn't just-just happen and then stop. We continue to collaborate with those teams working on this platforms so we can all learn from each other. And it's not just about the tech either - that's really important thing. So obviously Notify have developed a whole bunch of operational practices and services around the service itself. So we share, we share those as well and you know, help people figure out what works, what doesn't.   And it's not just Notify. So PaaS. PaaS works with, that's Platform as a Service, they work with their equivalents in-in Australia and, and the US government to share best practice. And then you've got the wonderful Design System that's been forked by a lot of countries. And not just other countries, but other authorities within-within the UK. So, for example, my own council, Wiltshire Council, they forked the Design System and used it to build their own website. But in terms of other countries. I think it's used in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and the Netherlands. So, yeah, massive, massive success stories of-of re-use of our, of our hard work.   Louise Harris:  Wow, so lots to be proud of. And Himal, I guess same question to you - what is it that drew you to GDS?   Himal Mandalia: I think GDS is sort of interestingly positioned right at the centre and, and being sort of highly visible, like it can be an exemplar of what good, sort of long live teams, services looks like. So all of the things that are articulated in the Service Standard, in the Technology Code of Practice, you know, we-we work to those ourselves since we-since we developed them. But I think what we've quite clearly put out very recently in the GDS strategy for the next 3 years, the core 5 missions, particularly the ones around GDS being the place, essentially the shop that builds and runs the common components and platforms that the rest of government build services on top of. I think that is now clearer, clearer than it's ever been. And you know there's something that, for me anyway, when I was thinking about a bit of a career change last year, drew me and I thought: this is a really interesting time to come in and join. There's a-there's a real sort of transformation of energy in the air again.    Louise Harris:  So it's great for our teams to know that their work is having an impact not just here in the UK and for our users, but also around the world as well. And Himal, like you say to be part of that, what did you call it, transformation buzz? I think that kind of flies in the face of the idea that jobs in the civil service are sort of slow or old school right?   Do-do you think there are other misconceptions about what a technology job in government might be like, versus what it's actually like at GDS day to day?   Himal Mandalia:  I think what's interesting here is, you know we're about a decade into a transformation journey that's bringing in the sort of technology practices around Continuous Delivery, being Agile, having autonomous self organising teams and a lot of the-the technology driven processes that surround that in the ways of working. And I think it's easy for us to lose sight of the uneven distribution and maturity of this across government. So I think it's, I think it's interesting because government can't be seen as a, as a monolithic thing. I think if you're outside and you're thinking of you know, if you're, if you're a Developer or a Reliability Engineer or a Technical Architect and you think, you know you want to work in government, you want to work in the public sector - and that could be local authorities as well of course - it is, it is a very unevenly distributed landscape of maturity. I mean, I would say we're pretty much at the, at the higher end of the maturity curve at GDS here, of course, because what we've been doing for the last decade. And I think what's exciting for me as someone that's worn many hats and played different roles in this sort of journey is: it's, it-it can be, it can be rewarding to work somewhere where a lot of the basic capabilities, the fundamental enablers are already in place and you can deliver value and work with teams. If you consider GDS, then you would find something that's much more a-akin to a sort of modern sort of conventional tech company.   Louise Harris:  I think that digital maturity curve point is such a good one. Because yeah, with almost 10 years under our belt GDS has definitely been through a lot that foundational and capability building stuff that some other organisations might still be grappling with, and I think that gives us a kind of view on what their pain points are so we can shape products and platforms that are gonna meet their needs at different parts of the curve.   And I think that actually leads us quite nicely to the next thing that I wanted to chat to you both about.    So our regular listeners will know that earlier in the year, we launched our new strategy and centred it around 5 key missions. If you missed it, check out our May episode of the Podcast where you can hear our Chief Exec, Tom Read, talk more about that.    But in essence I suppose, over the next few years, our focus boils down to this: helping to create services that just work for the user. So no matter how complex the underlying systems are or how much these people know about government, we're going to make services that just work.    So mission 4 in our strategy that's looking at how we can make sort of effortless for departments and agencies to digitise their services by looking at centrally-developed common components.    Louise, maybe you can tell us a bit about what's happening in that area?   Louise Ryan:  I mean to sum it up, you know, we've got a bunch of really cool services that are already providing value. So as a piece of work, that's ongoing to just make sure they keep delivering value and can scale with the increasing usage that they experience.   We're also you know, obviously building on top of that and looking what else we can do to meet user needs. One exciting part of that is the work we're doing in the collecting information from users team. So that team is well, I think it sums ups, sums up its work. It's...you know, we want every single form that's published on GOV.UK to be accessible. That's huge. A lot of the forms on GOV.UK at the moment are published in PDF or, or other document formats. They present challenges, especially to-to users who, who need to use assistive technologies such as screen readers or magnifiers. And actually completing PDF online is-is no easy task either. It's pretty difficult. Whereas completing an online form is a much better user experience and hopefully much more accessible. So it's, that is a, that is a massive problem space, and a really interesting one. And we're just entering an Alpha-Alpha phase with that team. So it's, yeah, so it's very exciting challenge we presented with ourselves in, in GaaP.   Louise Harris:  And I don't think we can really kind of understate the scale of that challenge, because I think everybody around GDS we treat PDF's a little bit like our, a 4 letter word. But the team blogged recently and I think equated that if, without doing this work, if we were just relying on the existing kind of form building systems that were out there, it would take government about 70 years just to convert the PDF's that already live on GOV.UK, which are obviously growing, if not every day, then certainly most weeks. So super important work. Was there anything that came out of the discovery that-that surprised you folks?   Louise Ryan:  I think-I think you've, you've hit the nail on the head. It's the scale of the challenge. And it certainly surprised me. But when you, when you think about it, it's, it's not that surprising, actually, because there's teams right around government that don't have the digital capability to do anything else. This is, you know PDF's and other, other document formats are the tool they have, so that's the tool they, they have to use. So, again, GaaP is uniquely placed in the centre of government to do something about that. And that's, that's hopefully what we'll be able to do in the coming years.   Louise Harris:  So it sounds like through Government as a Platform right now, we are already kind of solving common problems at scale. But, but what about - and sorry to make you solutionise on the fly here Louise, because I know that everything we do is evidence based and user led - where do you see the next, beyond the collecting information from users work, do you see any themes emerging about where that next common problem is that GDS might want to solve?   Louise Ryan:  Yeah, so we are doing some research on this, so, but I don't want to pre-empt that, but I'm, I can, you know, there's, there's stuff we already know that, that service teams have to just keep doing over and over again. There's you know, there's thin--complex problems that don't seem complex until you really dig into them. So things like a postcode lookup. Service teams have to keep doing that, is-is there a way we can, we can provide a solution for that in the centre?   Louise Harris:  And that's all such important stuff right if we, if we want to deliver the transformation at the scale that we, we all want to see.   One of our other central focuses is going to be this idea of joining up services so they solve whole user problems even if that means spanning multiple departments. Himal, I guess - as the platform for government services - GOV.UK is going to be pretty fundamental to how we get that done right?   Himal Mandalia:  Yes, so it's interesting because people can get a little bit, a little bit confused about what we mean when we say GOV.UK. So if we think about it as sort of layers of the onion: the sort of widest layer you have, what is known as the GOV.UK proposition. So that, as a user, you know, you go somewhere, you see a website, you see something that's branded with the crown and the stylings around that: that's a GOV.UK site. But it could very easily be a transactional service you interact with for--to do ev-everything from paying your taxes to a prison visit to renew your driving licence. And those are all on the GOV.UK proposition. So they feel like a single website as you move across them. And we have mechanisms like the Service Standard. If you work to that, that means that you're going to end up with a pretty joined up journey.   But for me, the-the-the layer of GOV.UK that I work on and the technology I'm responsible for, that's the GOV.UK content. That's-that's the main page that you come to when you go to www.GOV.UK. That is a large platform with hundreds of thousands of pages of content that we-we hold and a set of tools that we run for thousands of users across government to create, to offer that content, to edit it, to manage it, including our internal content teams here. And we also run technology, which, of course, delivers all those pages so they-re, they're available globally.   Louise Harris:  And right now, a lot of that content is quite static right? Because we need to publish it and serve it quickly and then hold it in the cache and serve it up again over and over.   Himal Mandalia:  Yeah, exactly. GOV.UK delivers a lot of content right now, but it's usually...it's relatively static, it's relatively flat content, it's pages. And one of the things that we're exploring now is if you have an account, if we, based on consent, if we know some things about you - your approximate location or other attributes we have - we may be able to tailor that content. We may be able to personalise it, to put content in front of you that's relevant to what you're doing. Maybe even be proactive, send you personalised notifications with of course, a full consent model and opt in and easy opt out around that.    But in order to do that, in order to personalise the content or even have content chunked up so it can be contextual, so a different snippet is mixed in based on a tag or some piece of data that we're using to construct that, that, all of that will require a fundamental re-architecting of GOV.UK's applications. So the front end applications need to change dramatically in order to stitch together that content in real time. The way that content is stored, the way it's structured, the schemas that are used to determine how that content is broken down into small snippets, how it's tagged, the taxonomy - all of that needs a rethink and redesign. And the publishing tools themselves, the tools that are used by the service essentially that is used by the content creators, that experience they have in not only creating content, but the taxonomy they're applying to it, how they're tagging it - all of that needs a rethink and a redes-redesign as well.   So that sounds huge and it is. But it's not a sort of big bang, all at once programme of work. This is an incremental and iterative stream of work, like, like how we do everything, which is going to, which is going to be done bit by bit. The interesting challenges that we are talking about rebuilding the ship while there are people in it bit by bit. And this is very much that Ship of Theseus metaphor right? We're replacing the planks, and when we're done, it's going to be a very different looking ship. It's going to be a ship that does very different things. But we're not even completely clear exactly what it looks like, but if we really extend the metaphor, we do have a good idea of where we're going.   Louise Harris:  And that personalisation agenda that you talked about there Himal, it sounds to me like it's going to ma-make [laughs] the site work a lot harder. I mean, we're already processing thousands and thousands of kind of transactional services, but this sounds like a real shift. You talked about the GOV.UK Account functionality as well, which obviously we piloted last year and had, I think, about 50,000 people sign up for that as part of the Brexit Checker, Brexit Transition Checker. We've obviously been iterating that software ever since. Can you tell us a little bit about where we're at now with Accounts?   Himal Mandalia:  So what we've done to test the hypothesis with the Brexit Transition Checker and the-the prototype account functionality, which which has been amazing, which has been an amazing learning experience because we have had, as you, as you mentioned there, 50,000 people sign up, but because we're working off of an architecture and an infrastructure set up that doesn't support this yet, we have done those as, as a separate applications, which we've used, we've hosted in, in Platform as a Service, in PaaS actually, one of the products Louise mentioned and is responsible for which is, which is great, just to be able to use our own tools for things like this.    But in order to have that as part of GOV.UK's core architecture, to support more of that personalisation, that's what we do need to have that re-think, that re-design and that re-architecting of all of our frontend apps and our publishing tools and the content platform.   So I'm currently working on the future platform services and architecture strategy for GOV.UK. So all of the things I've just mentioned there are going to be sort of written up in plain language around what we're thinking of. And I-I view GOV.UK breaking out into a few really simple long term value propositions or services and platforms, and they are: presentation, or the frontend, what you experience as www.GOV.UK when you go there; the publishing service or tools that our thousands of users across government use; a content platform, that engine, that heart of content that does all the heavy lifting; and underneath all of that, the infrastructure platform that runs the applications, the databases, all of those things. And really looking to put an emphasis on the content platform, that engine of content and trying to move to a world where we can almost think of GOV.UK as a, as a sort of headless machine, that it does have a frontend, but really the most prominent part is the functionality that does all the lifting. Because in future there may be an app, there may be other ways, we may be syndicating content - these are all things we want to test. But having the flexibility and the ability to do that is, is vital because the way people, the way people interact with services online is quite different now to how it was a decade ago, and so we need to move on and have a much more Agile, much more flexible architecture that lets us meet users where they are rather than having a, just a website. You know we don't, we don't live in that era anymore.   Louise Harris:  So sounds then like we want to shift to a, a bit more of a channel agnostic approach then. Louise, you're a Technical Architect, what's your take on Himal's just said?    Louise Ryan:  Yeah, it's-it's a bit daunting actually [laughs]. Himal won't mind me saying that. You've got, it's a, it's a big job to re-architect such a big and important platform as GOV.UK. It's, it's really exciting. And it, you know, it's, yeah, you won't be on your own Himal. You know, the rest of-of GDS is-is very interested in this work as well, and there's crossovers right? Government as a Platform is very interested in, in what's happening with GOV.UK Accounts, because we might be able to use those features in our services. So for example, [GOV.UK] Pay: when someone's paying for something, if they're signed into their account, maybe they can save that, that payment method if they want to. Yeah, just solutionising on the fly, because obviously we'd need to research that to see if it was a, a thing people would be interested in. But, but obviously we you know, we're keeping a very close eye on what, what Himal's up to and, and wanna be part of it where we can.   Himal Mandalia:  I-I 100% agree with that, Louise. I think the thing here is, I think the, I think what we're doing with our, with our Digital Identity programme, with the GOV.UK Accounts, it really is, it really is that golden thread. It is the thing that ties all of this together. It does, it does offer the cohesion between all of our products and services. So we blur the boundaries between them. And I think notifications, payments, the publishing, the content delivery, all of that, and then, and then you bring into that all of the services across government as well, they're all tied together through your account. So what you end up with ultimately is a completely seamless experience, a citizen shouldn't need to, shouldn't, you shouldn't, it shouldn't even occur to them that a separate group of people delivered this piece as opposed to another bit.   Louise Harris:  As you say some kind of huge, huge programmes of work coming up, sounds like we're probably going to need a few-few additional crew. If-if people are interested in getting involved in this, where-where can they go to find out more?   Himal Mandalia:  So if you search for GDS careers, you'll find our careers site. We have a, we have a campaign going to hire Developers right now, but more will be launching soon. I'm particularly keen on trying to see about bringing juniors in. We need, we need more, we need more juniors into to-to-to not only be working with our teams, but also to be engaging in things that we've done previously at GDS like firebreaks, where you get that little bit of free time to experiment and come up with things. And of course, there will be a range of more senior roles as well. They'll be, they'll be more roles going out across-across the board at all levels.   Louise Harris: So there's lots of really great new job opportunities coming up across GDS. For people who might be interested in that, what would you say the culture is like in our teams?   Himal Mandalia:  I think having, having just come through a crisis, or crises, where we were highly visible and doing a lot of work to surface essential guidance around Coronavirus, we've had to organise ourselves around mission focussed teams, which has meant a-a lot of the work that we planned and even written about, I-I think I've, since starting you know, I've dug into some of the blog posts that we put out in 2016 and 17, amazing planning around publishing tools and platform that we were not able to pick up or continue because, because of emergency work, urgent priorities around Coronavirus and some of the work around Brexit as well, those are all things we can return to now.    H aving gotten to know my technologists community over the last 5 months, I think there's a real appetite to return to some of those longer term value streams - so working on services, being in long live teams, and what I'd mentioned earlier around things like a publishing service and content platform. You know, really giving groups of people, not just Developers, but Designers and everyone involved in a multidisciplinary team, that agency and that long term ownership over a problem and o-o-over, over the improvement of something. So I think some of that excitement is coming back now. And so, yeah, it's, it's a great time to join. It's a very active community.   Louise Ryan:  I-I don't think I've shouted from the rooftops enough about how important long-lived autonomous teams are. They really are the, the reason that Government as a Platform has been suc--as successful as it has. There, there's people that are really committed to these services, really understand the problem spaces inside and out and just, yeah, deliver amazing results and outcomes as, as a result. And yeah, this is, this is not just from a technical perspective that you know, we-we-we couldn't build the tech we build without the help of our, our user-centred design colleagues and product and delivery.   We are...the selling points from me I mentioned earlier is-is how we work in teams, as a unit, how we figure out with things that we-we should be working on, making sure they are the things of most value and really understanding the problem space and then developing the tech to solve those problems. And that, that, that way we work is to me as a technologist, is, is very compelling and, and reason alone to join but...Also we use some really modern tech - so our programming languages in GaaP are, are Python, Java, Node and then we've got some, some other programming language such as Go in the mix, but we build stuff on, on really modern technologies. So a lot of stuff on Amazon Web Services. As I said, we use modern practices like Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, we do a lot of automated testing so we can deploy with confidence multiple times a day to make sure, yeah, we're getting our stuff out there quickly and getting people to actually use it as fast as possible.   And hopefully that's a, that's a compelling story about why GDS is a really good place to work. I didn't actually mention the culture in, in all of that. And I think that's what you actually asked me. But the-the agile culture here is-is to be open, to be transparent, to share what you're working on with others, and that can be through show and tells, through pairing, through having your code open in, out there on GitHub. I really, I really like the culture at GDS. It's a kind of, you know, when I was in the office, come up to my desk and ask me anything kind of thing. No question too silly. Yeah. I think it's a, it's a lovely place to work.   Himal Mandalia:  Yeah, I think the only, I think the only thing I'd add and Louise said it all there really was: you know, if you a technologist that's passionate about open source development and the technologies that were mentioned there and you, if particularly if you're old enough, you have friends like me who are old enough to remember when open source was very much the underdog, and you know, we were, we were all sort of part of a rebel alliance trying to-to do a good thing. It's amazing that this is now converged with trying to do good for the public as well. So. I could, I couldn't think of a better argument to sell it than, than that: you get to use cool tech, do open source stuff to do good for tech and do good for the public. I mean, what more do you want, really? And we pay pretty well as well.   Louise Harris:  That's pretty cool, and if people want to find out about our code, which obviously we publish openly where we can, where can they find that?   Louise Ryan:  All our code is published on GitHub. So you need to go to GitHub. And it's Alpha GOV.UK is our organisation. It's all in there. I can't remember how many repos that there are, but there's a lot [laughs].   Louise Harris:  Okay well if anybody's got a quiet Saturday afternoon, and they fancy digging into literally thousands of repos, head over to our GitHub to do that.    Yeah so there you have it, an inside look into how technologists at GDS are doing the hard work to make it simple for users. Some seriously impressive and exciting stuff, and if you want to stay up to date with what's going on, please do follow us on the GDS blogs and check out our GitHub. A reminder that if you're a Developer, Site Reliability Engineer or a Technical Architect who fancies a new challenge as part of a great team doing work that impacts literally millions of people, you need to search GDS careers because we're hiring now.    Louise, Himal, thank you so much for taking the time to come on and chat to me today. I don't know about anyone else, but you have been left with the impression of our technologists acting like a bevy of swans, calmly and gracefully gliding across the surface, totally belying all of the hard work and energy that's happening just underneath to make sure we're headed in the right direction. And thank you to you, our listeners. Remember, you can find all episodes of the Government Digital Service Podcast on Apple Music, Spotify and all major podcast platforms. And our transcripts are available on PodBean.    Goodbye.   Louise Ryan:  Thank you, bye.   Himal Mandalia:  Thanks everyone.

Sarah is an international Matchmaker, Dating Coach & Consultant to the dating industry. She has globally helped singles find, build and deepen loving relationships since 2011. She is the founder of Love Lessons Coaching & Love Connections Global Matchmaking. She also helps other love entrepreneurs start up businesses in the dating industry so they can do the same. She has been featured in the likes of Vogue, Forbes, GQ, The BBC, CBS news and more.A free guide to help singles set themselves up for love success: Freebie HereYou can find Sarah's work here:MatchmakingDating CoachingInstagram Twitter For more info on the show and to contact Raphan please visit www.raphan.co.uk

This week's adventure is taken in the company of dating and relationship expert and coach, Sarah Louise Ryan, to talk about all things love, from what society has told us it means to the everyday struggles of maintaining it as well as how to nourish it and even love in the business space. KEY TAKEAWAYS We romanticise love and idealise love in a way that it’s out of reach or hard to attain, but it doesn’t have to be as long as we’re present in ourselves. We have unconscious thoughts about where we are and assuming where the other person is from the first moment you meet somebody, sometimes bringing decades of experience, disappointment, and expectations of what society has told us about people. People are onto the next always on the search for that one perfect person for them, we’re always exploring while always wanting more. If we can eradicate the idea that one true person exists, we might seek connection with the people we’re meeting and discarding. In the world we live in today we’re oversaturated with everything and that applies to the world of dating too, it’s the paradox of choice: When you look at how people can connect there are so many choices of how to meet people that we struggle to make a decision. So many people build businesses because they want to help others, especially dating agencies. They don’t come in with a business mindset so the consultancy side of what I do is helping people turn their passion into their business because managing people and expectations is a really tough job. BEST MOMENTS ‘TV shows like Love Island are putting out an unhealthy idea about how to attain love today’ ‘My perception of you is a reflection of me’ ‘The idea that ‘The One’ exists is really unhealthy because we’re compatible with so many different people, we change, grow, evolve and learn’ ‘People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime’ ‘People need to communicate better because by doing so you’ll sieve out all the people that will waste your time otherwise’ VALUABLE RESOURCES The Adventures Of Self Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The.Adventures.of.Self ABOUT THE GUEST Sarah Louise Ryan, International Matchmaker, Relationship Expert & Dating Industry Consultant. Sarah has globally helped singles find, build and deepen loving relationships since 2011. She is the founder of Love Lessons Coaching & Love Connections Global Matchmaking. She also helps other love entrepreneurs start up businesses in the dating industry so they can do the same. She has been featured in the likes of Vogue, Forbes, GQ, The BBC, CBS news and more. Website: www.loveconnectionsglobal.comIG: @lessonsinlove_ ABOUT THE HOST Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose. He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England. Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure. “The adventure you seek in life is yourself!” CONTACT METHOD Website: https://www.galliant.life/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-roark-a852169/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetaylorroark/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taylor.roark1/ Clubhouse: @thetaylorroarkInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.adventures.of.self/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe chats to Limerick psychotherapist and good friend of the show Judy Moloney, Gerry Clancy (President of Limerick Lawn Tennis Club), Jerome O Connell from the Limerick Leader and Dr. Louise Ryan from UL Sociology department about whether sports stars are being put under too much pressure with media requests See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Live 95's Megan Thornton chats to UL Ph.D. students Louise Ryan and Ellen Reid-Buckley about their research on the hit show Love Island See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode, Michaela Selway and Louise Ryan discuss the benefits of learning history through film and what it can teach us. These visual texts can be used to not only uncover information about the period it discusses but also the time in which it was created and the worldview of the director. While generally full of historical inaccuracies, teaching and learning about history through film can be extremely beneficial to the ways in which we understand the past and the present. More from Louise: https://twitter.com/LouiseARyan Music by Makeshift Locale Related Blogpost: https://www.tahuhukorero.com/post/hollywood-dreams-netflix-s-hollywood-reimagines-film-history-for-the-better

Louise paints a colourful picture (including a garlic devotee supply teacher and a hair raising experience at the Boar's Head pub) of her path to becoming vegan and an animal rights activist. From her innate connection to other animals as a child, to her entry into radical activism as a teenager.  We pass through tales of a laboratory raid that led to Louise's arrest, and how her letters to imprisoned animal rights activist and founder of the ALF, Ronnie Lee, were the start of a budding romance. Louise tells us of the inspiration behind the launch of Greyhound Action, whose campaigns have played an important part in the dismantling of the dog racing industry in the UK. We explore the value of single issue campaigns, the importance of a consistent anti-speciesist message, and closing the gap between animal rights, environmental and other social justice movements.  

Our first episode features Áine Martin, Green Team Leader at Hotel Doolin, Co. Clare and Dearbhla Stapleton, Programme Manager for Business and Industry at SEAI. Áine tells host Louise Ryan about Hotel Doolin’s journey towards becoming Ireland's first carbon neutral hotel. While Dearbhla explains how Irish businesses can become more energy efficient with SEAI’s support.

Our first episode features Áine Martin, Green Team Leader at Hotel Doolin, Co. Clare and Dearbhla Stapleton, Programme Manager for Business and Industry at SEAI. Áine tells host Louise Ryan about Hotel Doolin’s journey towards becoming Ireland's first carbon neutral hotel. While Dearbhla explains how Irish businesses can become more energy efficient with SEAI’s support.

On this episode of the ground-breaking Women of Fintech Podcast series, Nadia is joined by Dr. Louise Ryan, Service and Delivery Manager at Close Brothers.Discussing her journey to her current position, including her perception of the industry prior to joining, Dr. Louise shares her fascinating story of development and progression. From giving back to the next generation, to disclosing how to truly walk the talk, Dr. Louise's insightful episode is not to be missed!

At this moment, Gary and Louise Ryan should be packing hospital bags and preparing a buggy for the arrival of their third child, a happy occasion during such an uncertain and scary time. However, earlier this year, Gary and Louise found that tragically their Baby Grace had developed a rare condition and would not survive outside of the womb. On the 20th of June, Grace was born sleeping. To mark what would have been Grace's due date, the Ryan family hope to donate a ventilator to the Coombe Hospital to thank them for their endless support. Speaking to Dermot and Dave, Gary and Louise told Grace's story and how they will be getting on their bikes and out on the streets to raise money on behalf of their little girl. To donate to Run for Grace, visit their GoFundMe [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2020/10/01124930/GaryLouiseRyan_Pod.mp3"][/audio]

Joe chats to activist to end revenge porn and Limerick woman Megan Simms and UL Sociology PHD student Louise Ryan about the idea of "the chase" and whether things like rom coms and tv shows are promoting unhealthy behaviours when it comes to relationships. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Danny got his NOPAR. Its hot as shit out. Ryan found LOUISE!!!!

Library Lunchtime Lecture by Dr Margaret Ward, Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen's University, Belfast. The Second lecture in our series 'Sisters', celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life. Location: Academy House Date: Wednesday 27 March, 2019 Speaker: Dr Margaret Ward is Honorary Senior Lecturer in History at Queen's University, Belfast. Amongst her many publications are Unmanageable Revolutionaries: women and Irish Nationalism (1983), biographies of Maud Gonne and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and edited works (with Louise Ryan), Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens and Irish Women and Nationalism. Her latest book is Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: suffragette and Sinn Feiner, her memoirs and political writings, UCD Press, 2017. Her updated biography Fearless Woman: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Feminism and the Irish Revolution is forthcoming UCD Press, 2019. Disclaimer: The Royal Irish Academy has prepared this content responsibly and carefully, but disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials. The views expressed are the authors' own and not those of the Royal Irish Academy.

Episode Four features Associate Professor Jennifer Frost, a women's historian, Katie Cammell, and Louise Ryan from the University of Auckland discussing what it means to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD). This day was set with certain, quite progressive, ideals for its time, aiming for equality and peace for all women. Over time this has progressed to equality and peace for all, irrespective of gender, race, and social standing. Despite these founding ideals, many controversies have arisen over the commercialisation of feminism, and the "colonial mindset" that is still prevalent in today's society. Discussions also took place around whether IWD is worthwhile considering that many people only think about these ideals on one day a year rather than every day of the year. For more information on this topic, visit our website to read the corresponding blogpost: www.tahuhukorero.com Music by: Makeshift Locale

In today's episode of the podcast, Michaela was joined by Louise Ryan and Rebecca Tang, two students of History here at the University of Auckland. They discussed how they have learnt over the years to form good study habits, how to take notes, how they prepare themselves for university study after the long break, and how to stay focused for the semester so that you do not "crash". Don't forget to check out the relate blogpost at www.tahuhukorero.com If you have any questions, make sure to send us an email to tahuhukorero@gmail.com or contact us through our website. We would love for you to write for us! If you have a topic you are interested in or some research you have done, send us a message through our Write With Us webpage and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Music by Makeshift Locale.

Louise Ryan is one of ACEMS Chief Investigators, and like many of ACEMS' CIs she has had an amazing career of unlikely and unplanned opportunities. In this episode Jessie Roberts chats with Louise about her career and what advice she has for PhD students and early career researchers.In addition to her role in ACEMS, Louise is a Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University, and is President of the International Biometric Society (IBS). The Random Sample is a podcast by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical frontiers. In this show, we share stories about mathematics, statistics and the people involved. To learn more about ACEMS, visit https://acems.org.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.