Congratulations to Dr Brian Leonard (PhD) on graduating with his PhD in NUI Galway on Tuesday 11^th June.  Brian's thesis is entitled: Irish farm succession and inheritance: an examination of farmers’ economic decision-making strategies as socially-constructed risk assessment.  Well done also to his supervisors in Geography, Dr Maura Farrell and Dr Marie Mahon, and the Dean of Arts, Professor Cathal O' Donoghue and Anne Kinsella (Teagasc).