Together with academics from Ireland, the UK and the US, Brid Quinn addressed  a one-day symposium on the subject of Transforming Local Government and Local Democracy in Ireland. The symposium on October 24th 2012 was co-sponsored by the Supporting Social Inclusion and Regeneration in Limerick (SSIRL) initiative, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS), University of Limerick and the Life Course Institute at NUI Galway in partnership with Limerick City of Learning.