Annual Report – Academic Year 2010/2011
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Contents 4:
Director’s Introduction
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Role of ISKS and Activities in 2010-2011
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ISKS Staff and Services
13: European and National Funding Calls: Projected Timeline 2011-2012 17: ISKS and Limerick Regeneration 20: ISKS Seed Funding Awards 22: Irish Social Sciences Platform 28: Visiting Scholar in CALS/ISKS 30: ISKS Supported Lectures, Visiting Scholars, Knowledge Transfer Events, Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops 36: Publications by ISKS Members 42: ISKS Members
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Director’s Introduction The Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS) consolidated its core activities over the academic year 2010-2011, expanding its membership and helping achieve increased levels of funding applications and research grants for its members. This annual report details the institute’s activities over the academic year, highlighting some of its principal achievements. Perhaps the major development for ISKS over the past year was the role given it by the university to co-ordinate UL’s contribution to the urban renewal of Limerick through drawing on its research strengths in the humanities and social sciences. The institute was delighted to be able to recruit Dr Eileen Humphreys to work as an ISKS Post-Doctoral Fellow with responsibility for this dimension of its work. Eileen’s work and the role of ISKS in the renewal of the region are detailed later in the report. In terms of its core activity of supporting funding applications by UL academics in the humanities and social sciences, the year opened with the resignation of the institute’s Research and Development Officer, Tracy Aspel, who was replaced by Emma Leahy. Emma has quickly become expert in her new brief and continues the high quality of support offered by ISKS. Testimony to this work is contained in this report. Tracy was a major loss as she had helped establish the reputation of the institute as a source of comprehensive information on funding calls and as someone who offered extensive support to members who wished to apply for funding, from those who were relatively inexperienced to those who had extensive experience. I take this opportunity to express the institute’s appreciation for the immense contribution made by Tracy since its establishment. An addition to this year’s report is an outline of the new European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant, enabling two to four Principal Investigators (PIs) to pursue a cutting-edge research project of their choice. This year’s report contains a table of the most important research calls in the humanities and social sciences together with their closing dates. As a way of encouraging a higher level of funding applications by ISKS members, the institute instituted a seed funding scheme over the past year, offering a small grant to all those who took the trouble to apply for external research funding whether they were successful or not. Fifteen members benefited from the award and full details are given in the report.
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Professor Peadar Kirby, Director of ISKS The ISKS Knowledge Transfer Officer, Sandra Lorenz-O’Sullivan, organised events to highlight the importance that knowledge transfer is taking on in universities in Britain, through inviting Dr Anne Sofie Laegran, Knowledge Exchange Manager in the University of Edinburgh, to brief staff on the wide range of knowledge transfer activities being undertaken in her university. This generated substantial interest on campus drawing attention to the importance of communicating the outcomes of research to audiences outside academic circles, including stakeholders, policy makers and the public. Another important initiative related to emerging new areas of interest and concern was the visit of Professor Robert Dingwall, an independent policy consultant, affiliated with the School of Social Science, Nottingham Trent University in Britain. Organised by ISKS Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr Maria O’Dwyer, Professor Dingwall’s talks initiated a critical discussion about the extent to which the regimes being implemented to ensure ethical standards in humanities and social science research are drawn from those in the areas of biomedical research and may be inappropriate to ensure the upholding of ethical standards in other disciplinary areas. 5
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Mar a tharla i mblianta eile, chabhraigh an Institiúid le comhdháileacha agus seimineáir a d’eagraigh baill na hInstitiúide. Ina measc siúd bhí comhdháil tábhachtach ar pheirspictíochtaí Marxacha ar an ngéirchéim in Éirinn faoi láthair. D’éirigh go geal leis an gcomhdháil agus cheana féin tá na páipéir foilsithe i leabhar dárbh ainm Marxist Perspectives on Irish Society (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), curtha in eagar ag Michael O’Flynn, Odette Clark, Paul M. Hayes agus Martin J. Power d’Ollscoil Luimní. Fiontar eile a chuireadh go mór chun cinn le linn na bliana ná an Gender ARC, comh-fhiontar taighde i gcomhar le hOllscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh faoi stiúir an Dr Breda Gray, ball na hInstitiúide. Comh maith le cruinnithe in OL de chuid baill an fhiontair, eagraíodh seimineár poiblí san Ollscoil ar chomhionnanas thar na cianta. Finally, a highlight of the year for ISKS was the hosting of the third ISSP annual conference in early December 2010 with papers from colleagues in all the universities and Institutes of Technology which are partners in ISSP. Despite very severe weather, colleagues made heroic efforts to reach UL for what turned out to be a very stimulating and successful conference. Many thanks to my colleague, Niamh O’Sullivan, for all the work in organising the conference and coping with the additional demands of unpredictable weather. Before signing off, I am delighted to say that ISKS joined Facebook in 2011. This is a valuable new means of communicating information about funding calls and advertising our activities. Check us out on Facebook and become a friend of ISKS!
Professor Peadar Kirby, Director of ISKS 6
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Role of ISKS and Activities in 2010-2011 ISKS is UL’s only cross-faculty research institute. It has a core responsibility to support collaborative and interdisciplinary research activities and post-graduate education related to the humanities and social sciences across the university. The institute was established in 2006 in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. ISKS expanded in 2008, hiring administrative staff and a Research Scholar. It became a cross-faculty research institute at the beginning of 2010. ISKS welcomes new members from all faculties and disciplines, and at all stages of career progression. The institute has attracted 145 members from across the university: 130 members are academic faculty and 15 are post-graduate scholars. ISKS provides the following services to members, research centres, and faculties: • Administrative support for research and post-graduate education related to the humanities and social sciences • Circulation of information on forthcoming and open funding calls • Assistance with sourcing and establishing contact with target groups for the dissemination of research findings • Support in drafting the administrative elements of proposal forms through liaising with the Research Office and the Finance Office • Assistance with partner searches for networks and collaborative research projects • Support in organising knowledge transfer strategies, plans and activities for research projects • Assistance with publishing in public media In the academic year 2010-2011, ISKS supported 31 funding applications: twelve applications were to national funders, ten were to the European Union, three were to internal UL funding sources, and six were to international funders. Ten applications were successful. The total amount of funding awarded was €194,717.
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Annual Report – Academic Year 2010/2011 ISKS ran a Seed Funding scheme, with a total fund of €5000, to encourage the submission of funding applications to certain EU, national and Foundation funders. Fifteen applications, both individual and collaborative, qualified under the scheme and were awarded €333 each. The institute acts as the interface point between the university and the Limerick Regeneration Agencies. To strengthen its capacity to do so, ISKS has appointed Dr Eileen Humphreys as Post-Doctoral Fellow with a focus on Limerick Regeneration. Dr Humphreys, whose role is profiled in greater detail later in this report, has extensive experience of research on communities in Limerick’s regeneration areas. ISKS is acting as host institution to the Knowledge Interfaces project, which is being managed by Professor Angela Chambers and is funded through the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP). The institute also acts as the university’s representative to the Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS) consortium. ISKS also tries to create a space in the university for critical debate on Irish society, the economy and the global environment. In March, the institute organised a well-attended conversation on the implications for Irish society of the general election, entitled ‘Ireland has voted: What are the prospects for reform?’. ISKS also provided support and, in some cases, small scale funding to research activities and conferences within the university. Among these were the ‘Generating Knowledge for Social Change’ conversation, the Eighth Ralahine Utopian Studies Workshop, and the Share and Exchange: Knowledge Transfer event. Find ISKS on Facebook for the Institute’s Latest News and Activities
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Front from left: Emma Leahy, Dr Anthony Cawley, Sandra LorenzO’Sullivan. Back from left: Niamh O’Sullivan, Dr Eileen Humphreys
ISKS Staff and Services Contact details Emma Leahy ISKS Research and Development Officer Office: C1079 Tel: 00353(61)234608 Email: emma.leahy@ul.ie or funding.isks@ul.ie Níamh O’Sullivan ISKS/ISSP Administrator Office: C1079 Tel: 00353(61)234607 Email: niamh.osullivan@ul.ie Sandra Lorenz-O’Sullivan ISSP Knowledge Transfer Officer Office: C1079 Tel: 00353(61)202340 Email: sandra.lorenz-osullivan@ul.ie Dr Anthony Cawley ISKS Research Scholar Office: C1070 Tel: 00353(61)234623 Email: anthony.cawley@ul.ie Dr Eileen Humphreys ISKS Post-Doctoral Researcher Office: C1078 Tel: 00353(61)233661 Email: eileen.humphreys@ul.ie 9
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Emma Leahy, ISKS Research and Development Officer
Emma Leahy, ISKS Research and Development Officer: “The main function of my role in ISKS is to make the institute’s members aware of research funding opportunities and to support them in preparing applications. I send regular emails with details of funding calls to the Assistant Deans of Research and to the institute’s members. I also target specific people if I think a particular call would be suited to them. “I’m available to meet one-to-one with the institute’s members to consider opportunities that would match their research interests and funding needs. I will discuss the level of research they are pursing and the type of funding that would be appropriate – Mobility, Network, Project, or Fellowship. I will then offer advice on how to progress their funding activities, not only through current opportunities but also looking strategically to the future in the next twelve to twenty-four months. “I welcome contact from people who are considering becoming members of ISKS, and those who are interested in seeing the services we have available, or want to discuss funding opportunities. If they decide to become an ISKS member I will help them with the application process.
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“Much of my role focuses on assisting researchers with the technical side of their funding applications and ensuring they meet the eligibility criteria of the call that interests them. Sometimes the application form can be daunting. I try to support researchers in working through any difficulties that arise in the preparation of their application. If I cannot help I will try to find someone who can and put the researcher in contact with that person. I will help to set out the budget and will co-ordinate with different departments in UL, including the Research and Finance offices, in terms of getting forms signed-off or clarifying technical issues. “If an application is successful I will assist in putting together any Recruitment Packs that are required for the project and will liaise with Human Resources. At different stages of the project’s lifespan I will support researchers in preparing reports back to the funder. “I also encourage people who have had an unsuccessful application to take on board the evaluators’ feedback as a means of improving a proposal for submission elsewhere. It can be useful to speak to someone in UL who has been successful with a similar strand of funding in the past. I can help to make that connection.”
Testimonials: Dr Ciara Breathnach, Department of History: ISKS support in applying to the IRCHSS Strand 5 Targeted Co-Fund Initiative call: “Funding calls and deadlines invariably coincide with extremely busy times of the academic year. In the case of IRCHSS RDI 5 close synchronisation is an imperative to ensure that all the terms and conditions of the cofund partnership are correctly interpreted and met. I simply could not have conducted this application without the assistance of our competent ISKS officers, in particular, Emma Leahy and her predecessor Tracy Aspel.”
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Dr Barry Couglan, Department of Education and Professional Studies: ISKS support in applying to the IRCHSS Strand 8 Knowledge Exchange Activities call: “I have worked with ISKS over the last academic year, initially with a view to submitting a funding application to the IRCHSS. ISKS provided invaluable support in developing the proposal, with a particular emphasis on the financial and budgetary elements. My funding application was successful, and I have continued to work with colleagues in ISKS on various elements of the study. Their range of expertise has greatly assisted my project, and I look forward to our ongoing collaboration in the future.”
www.ul.ie/isks/funding.html The funding section of the ISKS website is updated each week. Open calls are organised by funding category: Mobility, Fellowship, Network, Large Project, Tenders, Conference, and Small Project. For each call the website offers a summary of the application guidelines and highlights the submission date. The Research and Development Officer can provide additional information and advice on any of the calls listed on the website: contact funding.isks@ul.ie or extension 4608.
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Indicative Timetable of Funding Calls, Academic Year 2011-12 FUNDER (Click on name to visit website)
TYPE OF FUNDING
TYPICAL AMOUNTS
INDICATIVE OPENING DATE
CLOSING DATE
European Research Council
*NEW* Synergy Grant Group of 2 to 4 excellent PIs
Up to €15 million for up to 6 years
October 2011
January 2012
See below for a breakdown of this new call European Research Council
Advanced Grants for advanced researcher (<10 years post PhD)
Up to €2.5 million for up to 5 years
October 2011
Spring 2012
European Research Council
Starter Grants for early-stage researcher (between 2-12 years post PhD)
Up to €1.5 million for up to 5 years
July 2012
November 2012
IRCHSS
Post-Graduate Funding
Fees plus stipend for up to 3 years
December 2011
February 2012
IRCHSS
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Around €32,000 p.a. plus contribution towards PRSI*
September 2012
December 2012
Erasmus
Joint Masters and Joint Degree Programmes & Mobility Grants
January 2012
March 2012
European Science Foundation
Workshop Funding
Up to €15,000
March 2012
May 2012
European Science Foundation
Conference Funding
Up to €40,000
May/June 2012
September 2012
*Based on 2010 figures
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Indicative Timetable of Funding Calls, Academic Year 2011-12 FUNDER (Click on name to visit website)
TYPE OF FUNDING
TYPICAL AMOUNTS
INDICATIVE OPENING DATE
CLOSING DATE
European Commission
Individual Mobility Awards for Researchers (Marie Curie)
Contribution towards salary as well as travel and associated costs
March 2012
August/ September 2012
European Commission
Funding for PhD Networks (Marie Curie)
Fixed amount per PhD student and postdoc per year
Early 2012
Autumn 2012
Royal Irish Academy
Mobility
€750 - €2500 for 1-6 weeks travel
July 2012
October 2012
Fulbright Commission
Foreign Language Teaching
€20,000 for up to 10 months
Summer 2012
November 2012
Fulbright Commission
Irish Language Scholar Award
Between $50,000 and $70,000 for 9 months lecturing in US
Summer 2012
November 2012
Royal Caledonian Foundation
Research visit to Scotland
Up to £6,000 for up to 6 months
August 2012
November 2012
European Commission
Project Funding
Upwards of €2 million for a group of researchers
July/ August 2012
January/ February 2013
COST
Network
Up to €100,000 p.a. for up to four years
Rolling call
March 2012 /September 2012 submission dates
*Based on 2010 figures
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Breakdown of a NEW Funding Call European Research Council Announces New Synergy Grant The ERC has announced a NEW Synergy Grant to enable a group of two to four Principal Investigators (PIs) to pursue a large-scale frontier research project of their choice. Objective of the Scheme ERC Synergy Grants are intended to enable a small group of PIs and their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources in new ways to jointly address research problems. The PIs need to show how working together in their specific configuration would achieve more than could be done by working separately. The aim is to promote substantial advances in the frontiers of knowledge, and to encourage new productive lines of enquiry and new methods and techniques. Size of the ERC Synergy Grants Up to €15 million per grant. Each grant is for up to 6 years. Eligibility Groups applying for the ERC Synergy Grant must be made up of a minimum of two and a maximum of four PIs, with one designated ‘lead PI’. It is expected that in most cases ERC Synergy groups will be physically located in the same place to ensure face-to-face contact for significant periods of ‘core time’ over the course of the project. However, any group which can demonstrate the synergies, complementarities and added-value will be considered. Supported Fields Grants are offered on a bottom-up principle, i.e., investigator-driven research, meaning applications may be made in any field of research. Trans-disciplinary proposals are encouraged. Peer Review Evaluation Excellence is the only selection criterion. The evaluation is done in two steps, by means of a structure of dedicated panels. In the second evaluation stage candidates may be invited for an interview to Brussels. Budget 2012 €150 million (10 to 12 projects are expected to be funded). Calls and Deadlines The first Synergy Grant call will be published on 25 October 2011. The deadline is on 25 January 2012, 17:00 Brussels local time. Further information Online at http://erc.europa.eu/, or contact Emma Leahy at extension 4608 or funding.isks@ul.ie. 15
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Sandra LorenzO’Sullivan, ISKS Knowledge Transfer Officer
Sandra Lorenz-O’Sullivan, ISKS Knowledge Transfer Officer: ISKS offers a Knowledge Transfer service to members who want to raise awareness of their research among non-academic audiences: e.g., the public, community groups, the voluntary sector, and policy-makers, among others. The Knowledge Transfer Officer, Sandra Lorenz-O’Sullivan, will help members to identify audiences that potentially could benefit from their work and will support researchers in trying to reach them, e.g., through organising workshops and events, or in supplying information to public media. Sandra is available to meet members on a one-to-one basis to discuss aspects of their research that would be suitable for knowledge transfer to non-academic audiences. Sandra can also advise on completing the knowledge transfer sections of funding applications.
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ISKS and Limerick Regeneration Professor Peadar Kirby, Director of ISKS: “While many individual UL staff have been involved in aspects of urban renewal in Limerick, including in projects of the Limerick Regeneration Agency (LRA), senior officers of the university have been concerned for some time to ensure a more cohesive and co-ordinated contribution by the university to the major social and economic challenges being faced by the city and region. In 2010 ISKS was asked to take on the role of co-ordinating the university’s contribution. This was to build on work being undertaken by the university’s Strategic Initiative in Education (SIE) which was successful in securing funding from Atlantic Philanthropies with a particular brief to work with service providers in the areas of early childhood services and services for the elderly. “ISKS has therefore established a database of work already undertaken by UL researchers related to Limerick Regeneration, which is available on the institute’s website, and it plans to develop a further database of expertise in the university that could be drawn on as the university co-ordinates its response to the needs of the city and region. In early 2011 the ISKS Research Scholar, Dr Anthony Cawley, helped to draw up an initial scoping paper, responding to a request by LRA for advice on developing an evaluation template for its work. To further develop this work and to take responsibility within ISKS for this dimension of the institute’s work, ISKS was lucky to be able to recruit Dr Eileen Humphreys, a highly regarded social researcher with extensive experience of research on the social and economic needs of Limerick. Eileen joined the institute in early May and has been developing an extensive plan of work to respond to these needs, drawing on the expertise available across the university. This is further detailed by Eileen herself below. “As UL’s first cross-faculty institute, ISKS believes it is ideally placed to play this important role. It sees it as a significant opportunity to overcome perceptions that the university is somewhat divorced from the needs of the city and region but also to be challenged to show that a university can make a significant difference through helping key policy makers, service providers and decision makers to imagine a better future and to be exposed to advice and expertise that can help them find practical ways to achieve ambitious goals. For ISKS, this provides an additional raison d’etre and opportunity to show its relevance both within the university and far beyond its gates.” 17
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Eileen Humphreys, ISKS Post-Doctoral Fellow: “The main element of my role in ISKS is to respond to requests on behalf of UL for research and expertise from the Limerick Regeneration Agencies and other stakeholders in the regeneration programme. Stakeholders could include community and voluntary organisations as well as public agencies such as the HSE and the Department of Education and Skills. A second element is to co-ordinate the expert inputs that could be available across departments in UL to support regeneration. We’re setting up a database of expertise within UL; not necessarily of people who are involved in regeneration projects but who have specialised knowledge that potentially could be called on as a targeted input. “I’m also hoping to work on the monitoring and evaluation of the social regeneration programme. One of the immediate needs is to assist with a retrospective evaluation of what has been done to date. “Other areas I’m interested in are estate management and community leadership. The regeneration communities have been neglected for many years, and have patterns of inter-generational deprivation. While we have good models of community organisation in some parts of Limerick city, in other parts it is weak. Growing community leadership won’t happen overnight. It is a slow process. There is a need to pay more attention to the civil society aspect of regeneration and development – not just in regeneration areas but in the city in general.
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Eileen Humphreys, ISKS PostDoctoral Fellow “My PhD research examined social capital in local communities. I worked in two areas that are now part of the regeneration programme: St Mary’s Park and Moyross, as well as towns in the region. I started research in the Limerick city neighbourhoods in 2001 and 2002 and have been working fairly consistently there since then. I also undertook research on social capital in other parts of Limerick, including Castletroy and the redeveloped inner-city. Social capital remains an area of interest, but I have linked this to other thematic areas. I carried out a study of older people and health inequalities in four parishes in the city, which included Moyross as well as average and affluent areas on the Northside of the city. More recently I have been working on a comprehensive baseline study of the needs of children and families in regeneration areas and other parts of the city. This examines the variation between the needs and outcomes for children and families in the most disadvantaged parts of Limerick (the regeneration areas) and the mainstream population in the average areas of the city.”
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ISKS Seed Funding Awards In September 2010, ISKS announced a seed funding award scheme to encourage members to apply for funding to sources outside the university other than IRCHSS. The scheme was intended to stimulate research activity in the humanities and social sciences by offering members a modest reward for the effort of submitting an application, regardless of whether it turned out to be successful or not. A total fund of €5000 was allocated to the scheme. It was divided among 15 funding applications made through ISKS. Each application received an award of €333 (in the case of applications with multiple applicants, the award was given to the group to be divided as they saw fit).
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Name
Department
Funder
Dr Maura Adshead
Politics and Public Administration
EU Lifelong Learning Programme for Curriculum Development on Masters in International Public Administration with Ludwigsberg University
Dr Ciara Breathnach
History
Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities
Dr Eimear Enright
Physical Education and Sports Sciences
Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Research Scholarship Programme 2011-2012
Dr Ronni Greenwood
Psychology
COST
Robert Hutchison
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
NDLR – Call for NDLR LInCS Project Funding 2011
Lisa Kiely
Politics and Public Administration
Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland)
Ciara McCorley
Politics and Public Administration
Fulbright Student Programme 2010
Professor Tom Moylan
(Formerly) Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication
COST
Professor Orla Muldoon
Psychology
FP7 Cooperation SSH
Aisling O’Connor
Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication
AHGBI Annual Research Travel Award
Dr Tina O’Toole
Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication
Marie Curie - CIG
Dr Eimear Spain
Law
ESF – Exploratory Workshop
Dr Clifford Stevenson
Psychology
Leverhulme Foundation Visiting Fellowship
Dr Barrie Wharton
Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication
Marie Curie IOF International Outgoing Action
Dr Bernadette Whelan
History
ERC Advanced Grant
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Professor Rob Kitchin, NUI Maynooth, addressing the ISSP Conference at UL
Irish Social Sciences Platform The 2010-2011 academic year was a very active one for the ISKS researchers in the Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP). This major research project within ISKS brings together expertise from eight Irish institutional partners, including UL, and nineteen academic disciplines to create an all-island, interdisciplinary platform for social science research, funded under the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, Cycle 4. UL’s participation in the ISSP involves the development of two structured PhD programmes, in Social Science and Applied Language Studies, as well as funding for twelve PhDs and four research fellows. ISSP 2010: Third Annual Conference of the Irish Social Sciences Platform, 2-3 December 2010 In addition to the work of the postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, the project hosted a number of ISSP events in 2010-2011, the main one being the third annual ISSP conference on 2-3 December 2010. The title of ISSP 2010 was ‘The Social Sciences in an Age of Uncertainty: Knowledge, Innovation, Society and Space’. The conference included papers from all ISSP partner institutions and from across the range of disciplines in the social sciences, focusing on how knowledge generated in the various disciplines contributes to processes of change in today’s world. In particular, the papers focused on the three central themes of the ISSP: creating balanced development, sustaining communities, and building the knowledge society.
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Laura Costelloe, Elaine Riordan, and Niamh Kitching from UL at registration for the ISSP conference The conference was opened by Professor Rob Kitchin, NUI Maynooth, Principal Investigator of the ISSP project, and by Dr Huw Lewis, Dean of Graduate Studies, UL. Professor Lewis welcomed the participants and commented on the important contribution which the ISSP was making to social science research in Ireland, and in particular to the development of collaboration in graduate education. Two plenary lectures framed the conference, with the opening lecture, ‘Going Soft?: The Cultural Challenge for the Social Sciences’, given by Professor Máiréad Nic Craith, University of Ulster. After initially outlining how Irish society has changed from a largely mono-cultural, rural population to a multi-cultural, urban people and how such changes have implications for the way we define ourselves, our culture and our identity, Professor Nic Craith argued for a greater emphasis on the “soft side” of the social sciences in Ireland. As she noted in the abstract of her lecture: “Partnerships between political scientists, geographers, economists, sociologists and ethnolinguists can sharpen the focus on the neglected ‘soft side’ of societies – a dimension that is more commonly associated with the humanities. Such networks could explore social structures and the contestation of power from a multiplicity of human perspectives, including language. A new emphasis on the cultural dimension could foster real communication on difficult issues and shape a public, social consciousness that is more insightful of other peoples, traditions and values.”
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Professor Angela Chambers and Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, at the ISSP conference
Irish Social Sciences Platform The closing plenary, ‘Society, Space and the Public Realm’, was given by Professor Mary Corcoran, NUI Maynooth. She began by noting how a feature of late modern society is the privatisation of social life and the concomitant individualisation of formerly social practices resulting in a decline in public space. This has occurred against a backdrop where the commitment to the concept of the public and public goods in general has been severely tested by the deification of the deregulated market place. Professor Corcoran quoted Oldenberg (1989), and others, who have expressed concerns about the sustainability of third places in the modern era and argued that “third places” are being replaced by “non places” – places where individuals relate to each other purely in functional terms. Asking how we can guard against the tide of “gated individualization” (Judt, 2010), she argued “for an exploration of the ‘spaces of potential’ within the public realm of the city that can help to promote relationships of trust, respect and mutuality. By acknowledging and promoting such ‘spaces of potential’ we can help to reinvigorate notions of the public good while enhancing civil integration”.
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Niamh O’Sullivan, ISKS/ISSP Administrator, who helped to organise the ISSP conference at UL Several other papers also dealt with issues of particular relevance to contemporary Ireland including, to name but a few: ‘Knackers, Scobes, and Pure Posh Lads: A Critical Reflection on Discussing Community, Social Class Position and Identity with Two Groups of Young, White Irish Men’ by Cliona Barnes, UL; ‘The Discourse of Educational Multiculturalism in Ireland. Where Do Teachers and Educators Meet?’ by Joanna Baumgart, UL; ‘A New Haunted Landscape: Ghost Estates in Ireland’ by Rob Kitchin, Justin Gleeson and Cian O’Callaghan, NUIM; ‘Sharing the Pain or Shouldering the Burden? Media Framing of the Public Sector and the Private Sector in the Economic Crisis, 2008-2010” by Anthony Cawley, UL; and a colloquium entitled ‘A “Creative” and “Smart” Economy Strategy? Locating the Role of the Cultural and Media Industries and the Priorities for a New Innovation Policy Strategy in Ireland” by Paschal Preston, DCU, Anthony Cawley, UL, Patrick Collins, NUIG, and Aphra Kerr, NUIM. At the close of the conference Professor Angela Chambers, UL, organiser of ISSP 2010, thanked the participants, particularly those from outside UL who had made the great effort required to attend the conference in very difficult weather conditions. She also thanked ISKS administrator Niamh O’Sullivan and PhD researcher Elaine Riordan for their hard work and commitment in making the conference a success.
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Ireland Through a Social Sciences Lens, NUI Maynooth, 5 September 2011 Another important event in the ISSP calendar took place on 5 September 2011, when the national committee of the ISSP organised a one-day conference at NUI Maynooth to mark four years of the platform researching the social and economic landscape of Ireland, and to showcase the development of two national research infrastructures: the Irish Qualitative Archive and the All-Island Research Observatory. Research presentations were arranged under the platform’s three major themes: balanced development, knowledge economy, and sustaining communities. UL had a strong presence at the conference, including the Dean of AHSS, Professor Tom Lodge. On the main programme of presenters was Dr Breda Gray (Sociology), who outlined the emerging findings of the Gender, Technology and Mobile Work in the Knowledge Economy project. The research is being undertaken on a collaborative basis between the Department of Sociology, the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, and the Interaction Design Centre, UL. Dr Gray presented on behalf of the research team, which includes Dr Luigina Ciolfi, Dr Anthony D’Andrea, Fabiano Pinatti, and Lisa Wixted.
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Aoife Lenihan, Lisa Wixted, Fabiano Pinatti, Florence LeBaron-Earle, Clive Earls, and Liz Brosnan Complementing the main programme was a poster display of ISSP-funded postgraduate research. UL had a strong presence here, also, with research on display from the following scholars: • • • • • • • • • •
Aoife Lenihan – Facebook: Investigating Language Policy in the New Media Charlotte Cooper – Fat Studies: Mapping the Field Ciara McCorley – Trade Unions and Transitions from Authoritarianism in Africa: Comparing Different Outcomes Clive Earls – A Study of Language Policy in Higher Education and its Impact on Educational Practice: The Experience of International Degree Programmes in Germany Fabiano Pinatti – Going Nomadic: Issues on TechnologicallyMediated Nomadicity in Academic Settings Florence Le Baron-Earle – Language Learner Writing in an Online Forum: Descriptive and Prescriptive Approaches Joanna Baumgart – Language Accommodation and the Integration of EAL Learners in Irish Secondary School Context Liz Brosnan – The Dynamics of Mental Health Service User Involvement: Lessons from an ‘Exemplar Site for Recovery’ Margaret Kennedy – To What Extent Do the Physical Education and Sporting Practices in Private Fee-Paying Schools Reproduce Elements of Elite Culture? Maja Niebrzegowska – Narrative Reconstruction of Social Discourse Toward Migration in Post-Accession Poland: Stories of Polish Return Migrants
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Li Xia, Visiting Scholar in CALS/ISKS
Visiting Scholar in CALS/ISKS from March to September 2011 Li Xia, Inner Mongolia University of Technology, China: “As a TEFL teacher in China, I am so fortunate to have been sponsored by the China Scholarship Council to pursue my studies in Ireland for six months. I am equally fortunate to have chosen the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS) of UL as my base. During my studies here, I have had the opportunity to participate in many academic activities and events from which I have benefited a lot. “In April and May, I observed some classes for EFL students and for ELT postgraduates and was impressed by the students’ active participation and interaction in class. I also attended several inspiring lectures given by some distinguished professors in linguistics, including Tony McEnery, Professor of English Language and Linguistics in Lancaster University, adjunct professor in Limerick, and Jim Cummins, Professor of Linguistics in Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. These lectures have broadened my interest in linguistic research, and in particular, they have given me some insights into corpus studies. “In addition, the research days organized by CALS and ISKS in May were, to me, innovative and impressive. They provided the opportunity for colleagues within or across disciplines not only to share their research experiences with one another, but also to meet and greet and to develop a sense of belonging. The friendly academic atmosphere at CALS and ISKS made a deep impression on me. 28
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“Then on June 1-4, I participated in the summer symposium co-organized by CALS and Langnet, Finland, whose theme was using discourse analysis in doctoral research. The lectures and discussions of the summer symposium enabled me to reflect on some new directions which my future research could take, which were further developed by the following week at the 4th International Language in the Media Conference held in UL. It was exciting to meet with scholars from all over the world, have the opportunity to be exposed to different ideas, and get to know what other people were doing in their research field. “At the end of June, I attended another international conference held in UL – the 2011 Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), which was also an unforgettable experience, with an exposure to different ideas on teaching and developing academic writing. “As a result of all these academic activities, I have become interested in corpus study and discourse analysis and I have obtained some new insights on research methods. In fact, there is much research potential for discourse analysis and the interaction between language and media, especially in the region where I work since it is a minority and bilingual province in China. I have applied for a research fund in Inner Mongolia, which is a direct result of what I have learned here. “My study as a visiting scholar at CALS/ISKS has been fruitful. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Professor Angela Chambers. Without her kind help and thoughtfulness, I would not have had access to these precious opportunities to learn. I would also like to thank a number of people whose generous help has facilitated my study and stay at UL. They are Dr Jean Conacher, Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes, Dr Máiréad Moriarty, Dr Fiona Farr, Dr David Atkinson and Dr Freda Mishan at CALS, Professor Peadar Kirby and Niamh O’Sullivan at ISKS, and Ellen O’Connor in the International Education Office.” 29
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Anne Marlborough, Dr Sylvia Meehan, Professor Klaus Michael Alenfelder, Dr Gemma Carney, Professor Tom Scharf, Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness, Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley, Dr Anne Egan, & Dr Patricia Conlan
ISKS Supported Lectures, Visiting Scholars, Knowledge Transfer Events, Conferences, Seminars, and Workshops Equality Through the Ages – Gender ARC (Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society) 20 June Dr Patricia Conlan, School of Law, and Dr Lucy-Ann Buckley, NUI Galway, were lead convenors of a Gender ARC seminar entitled Equality Through the Ages. The seminar was organised as part of the University of Limerick/ NUI Galway Strategic Alliance, and was chaired by Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness. The seminar stressed the continuing significance of gender equality issues for women, young and old, and also for men. The event began with issues affecting the girl child. Legal protection of young girls from cultural practices such as circumcision and the particular educational experiences of children of working class mothers were identified as key gender equality issues in early life. Experts on the impact of family life and work in Ireland highlighted gender equality issues for men, particularly the issue of fathers’ rights in the family law courts. Former Fulbright Scholar and UK barrister Yvette Budé led the programme on the third age, with discussions on how law and policy can have particular implications for women in later life. The seminar was open to the public and was funded by Gender ARC and the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, and organised in association with the Law School, NUI Galway.
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Professor Robert Dingwall, Dr Maria Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dwyer, and Professor Peadar Kirby Ethical Regulations and Social Research: Getting the Balance Right Professor Robert Dingwall 5 May The ISSP and ISKS invited Professor Robert Dingwall, an independent policy consultant, affiliated with the School of Social Science, Nottingham Trent University, UK, to speak on the rapid expansion of bodies regulating the ethics of social science and humanities research. Professor Dingwall suggested that many ethical approaches derive from the specific conditions of biomedical research. Therefore, he argued, a fundamental reappraisal is required to develop an approach appropriate to the social sciences and the humanities that better balances several ethical principles. During his visit, Professor Dingwall held discussions with members of research ethics committees in UL.
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Sara Burke, Professor Peadar Kirby, Professor Gary Murphy, and Dr Stephen Kinsella Generating Knowledge for Social Change: An ISKS Conversation Sara Burke, Professor Gary Murphy, and Dr Stephen Kinsella 15 March A key objective of ISKS is to foster in the university a space for critical debate on Irish society, the economy and the environment in the context of the current crisis. The 2011 general election ruptured the old political landscape, with significant implications for Ireland’s future direction. In March, as the new Government took office, ISKS brought together three of Ireland’s leading academic commentators to speak on the potential for significant reform to the country’s economic, political and health systems. The speakers were Dr Stephen Kinsella of UL on economic reform, Professor Gary Murphy of Dublin City University on political reform, and Sara Burke, who is undertaking a PhD at Trinity, on health system reform. A podcast of the Conversation, and of all previous ISKS Conversations, is available to download at www.ul.ie/isks/podcasts.
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Dr Jean Conteh, Breda Naughton, Dr Roland Tormey, Dr Fiona Farr, Professor Angela Chambers, and Joanna Baumgart Supporting You – Supporting Your ESL Students 11 March Dr Fiona Farr and Joanna Baumgart, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, organised a one-day conference on interculturalism in Irish education. The event was aimed at teachers, and educational managers. The plenary speakers were Dr Roland Tormey, UL, Dr Jean Conteh, University of Leeds, UK, and Stephen Bearpark, County Dublin VEC. The event was sponsored and supported by the ISSP and ISKS. Eighth Ralahine Utopian Studies Workshop 25 February The Eighth Ralahine Utopian Studies Workshop was on the theme of ‘Visions of Europe: Perspectives from Ireland and Abroad’. The workshop attracted national and international participants, including Professor Richard Saage, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, who spoke on the topic of ‘Socio-Political Utopianism and the Demands of the 21st Century’. The workshop was sponsored by the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, the Centre for European Studies, the Centre for Irish-German Studies, and ISKS.
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Dr Anne Sofie Laegran Embedding Knowledge Exchange as a Mainstream Activity in the Humanities and Social Sciences Dr Anne Sofie Laegran 7 February The ISSP and ISKS hosted Dr Anne Sofie Laegran, Knowledge Exchange Manager, University of Edinburgh, UK, for her presentation on how knowledge exchange in the humanities and social sciences can contribute to societal, economic and cultural life. She examined knowledge exchange as public and cultural engagement, and discussed the implications of knowledge exchange for policy, practice, business and commercialisation.
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Sandra LorenzO’Sullivan, ISKS Knowledge Transfer Officer Share and Engage: Knowledge Transfer Event 20 October Sandra Lorenz-O’Sullivan, Knowledge Transfer Officer, ISKS, organised a seminar with four speakers from UL addressing different aspects and potentials of knowledge transfer. Sandra Lorenz-O’Sullivan spoke on knowledge transfer as an emerging activity in Irish higher education institutions. Sheena Doyle, UL Press Officer, offered advice on opportunities for broadening awareness of academic research through public media. Jamie A. O’Brien, from the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management, detailed two case studies of knowledge exchange in the medical devices sector. Tom Felle, School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication, described student and community engagement with the Moyross Voice and Southill Voice newspaper publications.
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Publications by ISKS Members ISKS members have enjoyed considerable success over the last academic year in disseminating their research through publications and at national and international conferences.
Calendar Year 2010 Publications of ISKS members 1
Refereed journal articles and titled review articles
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Edited books
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Book chapters
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Reports
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Conference proceedings
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Conference papers/presentations
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Books Published by ISKS Members in the Academic Year 2010/2011 Dr Gerard Coffey (School of Law) Administrative Law, Second Edition Round Hall Published: 2010
Dr Gerard Coffey (School of Law) Criminal Law Round Hall Published: 2010
Dr Eoin Devereux (Department of Sociology), Dr Aileen Dillane (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance), and Dr Martin Power (Department of Sociology) (Editors) Morrissey: Fandom, Representations and Identities Intellect Books Published: 2011
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Books Published by ISKS Members in the Academic Year 2010/2011 Dr Eoin Devereux (Department of Sociology) (Editor) Media Studies: Key Issues and Debates (Cantonese translation) Weber Publications International Published: 2010
Laura Donnellan (School of Law) Sport and the Law: A Concise Guide Blackhall Publishing Published: 2010
Dr David Fleming (Department of History) Politics and Provincial People: Sligo and Limerick, 1691-1761 Manchester University Press Published: 2010
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Books Published by ISKS Members in the Academic Year 2010/2011 Dr TrĂona Hourigan, Dr Liam Murray, and Elaine Riordan (School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) (Editors) Quality Issues in ICT Integration: Third Level Disciplines and Learning Contexts Cambridge Scholars Publishing Published: 2011
Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes (School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) and Professor Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) (Editors) Language and the Market Palgrave Macmillan Published: 2010
Dr Carmen Kuhling (Department of Sociology), Dr Donncha Kavanagh (UCC), and Dr Kieran Keohane (UCC) Organisation in Play Peter Lang Published: 2011
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Books Published by ISKS Members in the Academic Year 2010/2011 Dr Carmen Kuhling (Department of Sociology), Olivia Cosgrove (Department of Sociology), Dr Laurence Cox (NUI Maynooth), and Dr Peter Mulholland (Independent Scholar) (Editors) Ireland’s New Religious Movements Cambridge Scholars Publishing Published: 2011
Dr Caroline Magennis (School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) and Dr Raymond Mullen (Queen’s University Belfast) (Editors) Irish Masculinities: Reflections on Literature and Culture Irish Academic Press Published: 2011
Dr Lee F. Monaghan (Department of Sociology), Dr Emma Rich (University of Bath, UK), and Dr Lucy Aphramor (Coventry University, UK) (Editors) Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives Palgrave Macmillan Published: 2010
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Books Published by ISKS Members in the Academic Year 2010/2011 Professor Geraldine Sheridan, Dr Michael Griffin, and Yvonne Diggins (School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) (Editors) Magazine of Magazines, 1751-1761 (ebook project) Published: 2011 The ebook can be accessed through: www.ul.ie/ecrg
Dr Bernadette Whelan (Department of History) American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the US Consular Service Manchester University Press Published: 2010
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ISKS Members Faculty Members Dr Maura Adshead (Politics and Public Administration) Professor Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan (Economics) Dr Claire Armstrong (Occupational Therapy) Dr Lucian Ashworth (Formerly of Politics and Public Administration) Dr David Atkinson (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Gabriela Avram (Interaction Design Centre) Professor Liam Bannon (Computer Science and Information Systems) Dr Cliona Barnes (Sociology) Professor Michael J. Breen (Faculty of Arts, Mary Immaculate College) Rebecca Breen (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Ciara Breathnach (History) Karen Buckley (Formerly of Politics and Public Administration) Dr Anthony Cawley (ISKS/Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Professor Angela Chambers (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Peter E. Childs (Chemical and Environmental Science) Dr Luigina Ciolfi (Computer Science and Information Systems) Yvonne Cleary (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Jean Conacher (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Emer Connolly (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Gerard Coffey (School of Law) Dr Patricia Conlan (Formerly of School of Law) Dr David Coughlan (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Odette Clarke (History) Dr Christine Cross (Personnel and Employment Relations) Dr Stiofan De Burca (Sociology) Dr Eoin Devereux (Sociology) Dr Seán Donlan (School of Law) Professor Jane Edwards (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) Dr Eimear Enright (Physical Education and Sport Sciences) Dr Fiona Farr (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Deirdre Finnerty (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Professor Paul Finucane (Medical School) Dr Joachim Fischer (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr David Fleming (History) Dr Antoinette Flynn (Accounting and Finance) Dr Marcus Free (Media and Communication Studies, Mary Immaculate College) Dr Stephen Gallagher (Psychology) Professor Thomas Garavan (Personnel and Employment Relations - KBS) Barbara Geraghty (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Breda Gray (Sociology) 42
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Faculty Members Dr Ronni Greenwood (Psychology) Dr Joe Griffin (Computer Science and Information Systems) Dr Michael J. Griffin (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Frank Haege (Politics and Public Administration) Dr Carmel Hannan (Sociology) Gabriella Hanrahan (Student Affairs) Professor Margaret Harper (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Brendan Halpin (Sociology) Sarah Hayes (Chemical and Environmental Science) Dr Gisela Holfter (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr TrĂona Hourigan (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Edel Hughes (Law) Dr Eileen Humphreys (ISKS) Robert Hutchison (Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences) Dr Eric Igou (Psychology) Dr Michael Kelly (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Stephen Kinsella (Economics - KBS) Professor Peadar Kirby (ISKS/Politics and Public Administration) Dr Carmen Kuhling (Sociology) Dr Catherine Lawless (History) Alison Ledger (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) Dr Yianna Liatsos (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Professor Tom Lodge (Politics and Public Administration) Dr John Logan (History) Dr Robert Lowe (Psychology) Florence Lynch (Politics and Public Administration) Dr Ann MacPhail (Physical Education and Sports Science) Dr Alistair Malcolm (History) Oscar Mascerenas (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) Mary Masterson (Education and Professional Studies) Dr Orla McCormack (Education and Professional Studies) Dr Sinead McDermott (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Professor Paul McCutcheon (Law) Dr Orla McDonnell (Sociology) Professor Anthony McElligott (History) Dr Caroline Magennis (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Elizabeth McKay (Formerly of Occupational Therapy) Dr Pauline Meskell (Nursing and Midwifery) Dr Freda Mishan (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Angus Mitchell (History) Yvonne Mitchell (Law) 43
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Faculty Members Dr Lee Monaghan (Sociology) Professor Tom Moylan (Formerly of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Mairead Moriarty (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Liam Murray (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Professor Orla Muldoon (Psychology) Dr Deirdre Ní Loinsigh (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin (Management and Marketing) Dr John O’Callaghan (History) Professor Pat O’Connor (Sociology) Dr Catherine O’Connor (History) Dr Aisling O’Connell (Psychology) Dr Ruan O’Donnell (History) Anne M. O’Dwyer (Law) David O’Dwyer (Law) Dr Maria O’Dwyer (Sociology) Michael O’hAodha (Library and Information Services) Dr Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Tomoko Oikawa (Euro/Asia Centre) Stephanie O’Riordan (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Deirdre O’Shea (Personnel and Employment Relations – KBS) Dr Íde O’Sullivan (Teaching and Learning) Professor Mary O’Sullivan (Physical Education and Sport Science) Dr Tina O’Toole (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Maurice Patterson (Management and Marketing - KBS) Professor Marie Parker-Jenkins (Education and Professional Studies) Dr Judith Pettigrew (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Helen Phelan (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) Dr Martin Power (Sociology) Dr Brid Quinn (Politics and Public Administration) Dr Cinta Ramblado (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Aine Regan (Chemical and Environmental Science) Dr Conor Reidy (History) Angelica Risquez (Teaching and Learning) Dr Ita Richardson (Computer Science and Information Systems) Dr Tim Ritchie (Psychology) Dr Frederic Royall (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Caitlinn Ryan (Politics and Public Administration) Jennifer Schweppe (Law) Professor Geraldine Sheridan (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) 44
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Faculty Members Dr Andrew Shorten (Politics and Public Administration) Dr Eimear Spain (Law) Dr Clifford Stevenson (Psychology) Wolodymyr Smishkewych (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) Julie Tiernan (Irish World Academy of Music and Dance) Dr Roland Tormey (Education and Professional Studies - KBS) Dominic Trepel (Economics) Dr Barrie Wharton (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Dr Bernadette Whelan (History) Post-Graduate Members Joanna Baumgart (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Liz Brosnan (Sociology) Charlotte Cooper (Sociology) Clive Earls (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Florence Le Baron-Earle (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Aoife Lenihan (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Margaret Kennedy (Physical Education and Sports Sciences) Lisa Kiely (Politics and Public Administration) Ciara McCorley (Politics and Public Administration) Maja Niebrzegowska (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Phil Noone (Sociology) Aisling Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor (Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication) Zi Parker (History) Fabiano Pinatti (Sociology) Lisa Wixted (Sociology)
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