2005 Research Bursaries

Dr Alice Feldman
University College Dublin
alice.Feldmanucd.ie
Ethnic Diversity and the Transformation of Irish Civil Society: An Analysis of the Emergence of ‘Intercultural Capital’
http://www.ucd.ie/mcri/resource/brochure.pdf

 

Dr Declan Redmond and Dr Paula Russell
University College Dublin
Declan.Redmonducd.ie
Participation, Citizen Capacity and the Regeneration of Social Housing
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a794981003~db=all~jumptype=rss

 

Dr Colin Thunhurst
University College Cork
c.thunhurstucc.ie
Reducing Health Inequalities through Health Promotion – A comparative analysis of community and official health promotion discourses in the Republic of Ireland

 

Professor John Morison
Queen’s University Belfast
j.morisonqub.ac.uk
Establishing a link between weak social capital, social exclusion and peacebuilding - Download here

 

2004 Research Grants

Dr. Anna Davies
Department of Geography, Trinity College, University of Dublin,
daviesa@tcd.ie
An opportunity not to be wasted: civil society and the governance of waste in Ireland - Download here

 

Dr Aileen Fyfe and Dr Elizabeth Neswald
Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National University of Ireland, Galway
aileen.fyfe@nuigalway.ie
"Science, sociability and the improvement of Ireland: the Galway Mechanics' Institute 1826-51"
Abstract available online at: http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Books/00070874.html

Neil Jarman
Institute for Conflict Research, Belfast
deputy@conflictresearch.org.uk
Responsible Citizens or Dangerous Vigilantes? Community-Based Policing Activity in Ireland

 

Brendan McDonnell
Community Evaluation NI (Ceni)
Email: Brendan@ceni.org
Mapping Community Infrastructure in Northern Ireland Development of a Methodology to Map Community Infrastructure and Inform Public Investment in Geographic Communities - download here

Summary article published in SCOPE magazine in April. 2007 - Download here

Dr Padraig MacNeela
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Dr Pamela Gallagher & Ms Cliona Carey~
Dublin City University
pamela.gallagher@dcu.ie
Benefits and barriers to involvement: Understanding and assessing the personal outcomes of volunteering - Download here

Professor Donal McKillop
Queens University Belfast
dg.mckillop@queens-belfast.ac.uk
Professor Colin Glass
University of Ulster
An Empirical Evaluation of Irish Credit Union Performance: Controlling for Operational and Socio-Economic Conditions
http://www.creditunionresearch.com/researchpapers/

Orla O’Donovan
Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. o.odonovan@ucc.ie
Kathy Glavanis-Grantham
Department of Sociology, University College Cork. k.Glavanis@ucc.ie
Patient Organisations in Ireland – Challenging Biomedical Discourses and Practices? - Download here
 

Dr Paula Russell, Dr Declan Redmond, Dr Mark Scott
Department of Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
paula.russell@ucd.ie, declan.redmond@ucd.ie, mark.scott@ucd.ie
Civil Society, Environmental Change and Contested Rurality
 

Dr. Colin Thunhurst
Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College Cork
c.thunhurst@ucc.ie
Operational Research for Community Health Development
 

Dr Arthur Williamson
University of Ulster
ap.williamson@ulster.ac.uk
The Third Sector and Older People in Ireland, North and South: Mapping and Analyzing the Roles, Functions and Capacity of Voluntary and Community Organizations for Older People - Download here
http://www.cardi.ie/news/greypowergrowingpoliticalforce

2002 Research Grants

Mr. Nicholas Acheson and Dr Arthur Williamson
Centre for Voluntary Action Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine
nick.acheson@dial.pipex.com
Voluntary and Community Organisations and the PEACE II Programme in Ireland: Local Partnerships and Social Exclusion. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a790795664~db=all~jumptype=rss

Dr. Mary Corcoran, Dr Jane Gray, Dr Michel Peillon
Department of Sociology,National University of Ireland, Maynooth
mary.Corcoran@may.ie, jane.gray@may.ie, michel.peillon@may.ie
Social capital in new suburbs: the role of voluntary and community activity http://architecturalassociation.ie/pdf/BM18_forWeb.pdf

Dr. Freda Donoghue and Mr. Andrew O’Regan
Centre for Nonprofit Management, School of Business Studies, Trinity College
freda.donoghue@tcd.ie
Third Sector Organisations, County Identity and the Generation of Social Capital in Ireland - Download here

 

Mr. Dermot Feenan LLB MA LLM Barrister-at-Law
School of Law, University of Ulster at Jordanstown
D. Feenan@ulster.ac.uk
Challenging Sexuality from the Margins: Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Activism in Civil Society

Dr. Alice Feldman
Sociology Department, University College Dublin
alice.feldman@ucd.ie
Project Researchers: Deo Ladislas Ndakengerwa, Ann Nolan
Towards a New Interculturalism in the Irish Third Sector: Research on the Development of New Minority Community Organisations - Download here

Professor Liam O’Dowd and Dr. Cathal McCall
Queen’s University, Belfast
L.ODowd@qub.ac.uk
From Peace I to Peace II: Promoting Voluntary Activity in the Irish Border Region
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofSociologySocialPolicySocialWork/Staff/AcademicStaff/LiamODowd/

Dr. Paula Russell
Department of Regional and Urban Planning, University College Dublin
Paula.Russell@ucd.ie
Residents’ Associations, Neighbourhood and Community development
http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/geogplanningenvpolicy/drpaulamarierussell/publications/

Professor Paul Teague
Queen’s University, Belfast
p.teague@qub.ac.uk
Two articles that resulted from the TSRP research programme:

• Deliberation, Enterprise & Social Partnership - Download here
• Social Partnership and Local Developement in Ireland: The Limits to Deliberation - Download here

2001 Research Grants

Professor Christine Bell
c.bell@ulst.ac.uk
School of Public Policy, Economics and Law, University of Ulster, Magee College
Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations and the Problems of Transition - Download here
(The main article written was published in the Human Rights Quarterly in May 2004 and is available in the Academy library.)

Dr. Sean Connor
Waterford Institute of Technology
sconnor@wit.ie
Roy Scheller
HOPE Community Resources, Alaska USA
rscheller@hopealaska.org
The Functional Implementation of Volunteerism in a Civil Society.
(The final report is available in the Academy Library.)

 

Dr. Gemma Donnelly-Cox
Centre for Nonprofit Management, Trinity College Dublin
gdnnllyc@tcd.ie
Informing Nonprofit Sector Practice from Research: A Pragmatically-Valid, Theory-Grounded Approach’. (The TAP Project) - Download here
 

Dr. Piaris MacEnri
Irish Centre for Migration Studies (ICMS), University College Cork
p.maceinri@ucc.ie
Governance the Third Sector and New Migrants: a comparative study - Download here

 

Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela, Gwen Jaffro, Cathal O Siochru
School of Nursing, Faculty of Science and Health, Dublin City University
Edel Tierney
COPE Foundation, Cork
padraig.macneela@dcu.ie
The antecedents, experience and consequences of volunteering: The role of the individual, organisation and society - Download here
(also available from the Academy library)
 

Professor John Morison
School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
J.morison@qub.ac.uk
Partnership Governance, Organic Democracy and the Creation of New Civic Space: A Comparative Examination of Irish and UK mechanisms for Civil Society Participation in Governance within a European Framework
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLaw/Staff/ProfessorJohnMorison/

Dr. Arthur Williamson
AP.Williamson@ulst.ac.uk
Centre for Voluntary Action Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine
Two Paths, One Purpose: A Comparative Study of the Voluntary Sector in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland - Download here
(also available from the Academy library)
 

Richard Boyle
rboyle@ipa.ie
Maintaining voluntary sector autonomy while promoting public accountability: Managing government funding of voluntary organisations (3 working papers) - Download here
 

Postgraduate Awards

Postgraduate awards were awarded to any student registered for a Ph.D. in any third-level institution in Ireland, including Northern Ireland. Subject to satisfactory progress, funding is provided for up to 3 years. Awards covered fees and support costs totalling €16,000 per annum in academic year 2003-2004.

 

2003 Postgraduate Awardees

Matt Bowden
Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin Irelandmbowden@tcd.ie
Policing and the Youth Question: Civil Society, the State and Urban Periphery in Ireland - Download here

Denise Crossan
Faculty of Business and Management, University of Ulster
Towards a Classification Framework for Social Enterprises (in Ireland)
Da.crossan@ulster.ac.uk
 

Martin Kay
Department of Sociology, University of Limerick martin.kay@ul.ie
Power and Accountability in Ireland’s Public Private Partnership Programme: a contest of Fear in the name of Public Interest

Léan McMahon
Department of Sociology, University College Dublin
lean.mcmahon@ucd.ie
Civic Engagement and Voluntary Activity in Ireland: Understanding the Complex Interrelationships Between Social Capital, Interpersonal Trust and Social Embeddedness”

Colette Reynolds
Centre for Health Promotion Studies, NUI Galway
Evaluation of the jobs programme: Depression prevention in Ireland
colette.reynolds@nuigalway.ie
 

Martha Van Der Bly
Trinity College Dublin Institute for International Integration Studies Department of Sociology mvdblij@tcd.ie
Beyond Babel. Building globality in Ireland as a paradoxical reality of processes of economic and cultural globalisation.

2002 Postgraduate Awardees

Gladys Ganiel
Department of Politics, University College Dublin Email: bangorgal@hotmail.com
Finding Their Place in the Kingdom: Evangelical Protestants and the Shaping of Northern Irish Civil Society after the Belfast Agreement (also available from the Academy library)
 

Peter Goth
Department of Management and Economics, Queen’s University, Belfast p.j.goth@qub.ac.uk
Comparative Governance Structures in Nascent, Transitional, and Mature Credit Unions in Ireland and Canada
(Completed Phd in 2005. A copy of the thesis is available in the Academy Library.)

Eileen Humphreys
Department of Economics, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
Eileen.Humphreys@ul.ie

• Social Capital – The Explanatory Factor In Effective Socio-Economic Regeneration Of Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods? - Download here
• Social capital in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: A diversion from needs or a real contribution to the debate on area-based regeneration? - Download here
  (Completed Phd in 2006. A copy of the thesis is available in the Academy Library.)

Aisling McCormack
Department of Sociology Trinity College Dublin
aimccorm@tcd.ie
From Resistance to Reconstruction and Remobilisation: A Study of the changing nature of CBO’s (Community Based Organisations) within the Third Sector in Transitional Societies.

2001 Postgraduate Awardees

Kendo Otaka
University of Ulster, kendo18@hotmail.com
Partnership: A New Mechanism of Local Governance? - Download here

Margaret Gillan
NUI Maynooth margaretgillan@eircom.net
Set to Broadcast - Community TV in Ireland

Niall Moran
NUI Maynooth
niall.g.moran@may.ie
Anti-Racism and Multiculturalism in Ireland: A Social Movement Perspective
http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/people/phd/moran.shtml
 

Adriana Neligan
Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
adriana_neligan@web.de
The output of Non-Profit Organisations: an application to repertoire choice in grant-aided theatre in England and Germany.
(Completed PhD in March 2004. A copy of the thesis is available in the Academy Library.)
 

Stephen O’Shea
Queen’s University Belfast s_oshea2000@yahoo.com.au
Mediation, Nationalism and Non-Violence in the Negotiation of Peace in Northern Ireland
(Completed PhD in July 2004. A copy of the thesis is available in the Academy Library.)

Sandrine Roginsky
Queen’s University Belfast s.roginsky@qub.ac.uk
The Third Sector and Social Change: Comparing women’s organisations in Northern Ireland and Ile-de-France - Download here