Charlemont Grant Awards Ceremony 2016

25 February 2016

Mary E. Daly, President of the Academy presented the 26 2016 Charlemont scholars with their certificates and congratulated them on their success.

Professor Daly noted the importance of the award and the diversity of disciplines awarded. The Charlemont Grants have a very special place in the intellectual life of the Royal Irish Academy, because they are awarded to researchers in the early stages of their careers. Charlemont grantees are drawn from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, the Charlemont grants do not distinguish between discipline or geography, the most important criteria in the awarding of a Charlemont grant is excellence because outstanding research transcends both disciplinary and geographical boundaries.

Peter Kennedy, International Affairs Secretary of the Academy highlighted the importance of travel and the cross pollination of ideas for research. The Charlemont Scholars are Ireland’s scientific and cultural emissaries of the twenty-first century. Through their experiences, sharing what they know and bringing back new ideas, we look forward to their enriching academic life in Ireland. Kennedy announced the scholars, their institutions and the destinations they will be travelling to. The diversity of locations included London, Lisbon, New York, Tokyo and Taiwan.

Dr. Diarmuid Torney from Dublin City University, 2015 Charlemont Scholar, recounted how this grant has been beneficial for his research and career. This has included publication of his book 'European Climate Leadership in Question: Policies toward China and India', by MIT Press in September 2015 and regular features in the Irish Times.

Named in honour of the Academy’s first President, and notable Grand Tourist, James Caulfeild, the 1st Earl of Charlemont (1728–99), this scheme is the successor to the acclaimed Mobility Grants, which was established by the Academy in 2007. Building on the success of that scheme, the Charlemont Grants are unique in offering funding for short international research trips, to support primary research in any area.

Since its inception the scheme has funded 155 projects, across the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It has funded visits to over fifty countries, with a total fund disbursed to date of over €250,000. The Royal Irish Academy Charlemont grants are awarded to scholars of the sciences and humanities and social sciences each year. For further information please see here.

Guests at the ceremony included members of the Irish higher education system, funding agencies, past Charlemont scholars and friends and family of the current scholars.

If you would like to receive future information about the 2017 call for grants please email grants@ria.ie

*Humanities:*
Dr Ailise Bulfin	TCD	Literature and propaganda: An investigation of the impact of invasion scare fiction on pre-World War I British society	English studies, history
Dr Alexander Dukalskis	UCD	Transition(s) in Burma/Myanmar: Emerging from authoritarianism and armed conflict	Political science
Dr Bronagh McShane	NUIG	Irish women religious in exile during the early modern period: a case study of the Irish Dominican convent of Bom Sucesso, Lisbon	History
Dr Caroline Rawdon	UCD	An investigation of the effectiveness of emotion recognition training to reduce symptoms of social anxiety in adolescence	Psychology, cognitive bias modification, social anxiety
Dr David Heffernan	Independent	The ‘Composition for Cess’ controversy and the position of the Old English in Elizabethan Ireland, c. 1575-1584	History
Dr Denis Casey	MU	An edition and translation of Annála Gearra as Proibhinse Ard Macha (British Library, additional MS 30512)	Medieval Irish history
Dr Grainne McEvoy	TCD	Justice and order: American Catholic social thought and immigration in the 20th Century	American history
	TCD	Debating Chinese child slavery: child protection in 1930s Shanghai	History
Dr Jennifer Yeager	WIT	Memory and the Magdalenes: An examination of the role of professionals in shaping public memory	Social sciences, psychology
Dr Julie Bates	TCD	Louise Bourgeois’s fabric works: the passage of time on a personal scale	Phenomenology of time, material culture, visual art, literature.
Dr Lindsay Reid	NUIG	Go, Little Ring: Graven posies and subjective objects in early Modern England	English literature (early modern)
Dr Marek Martyniszyn	QUB	From opposition into the Vanguard: an investigation into recent changes in the Japanese approach to extraterritoriality in competition law enforcement	Competition law
Dr Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío	UCD	The Axis Brotherhood: The role of propaganda in Spanish policy during World War II	Modern European history
Dr Siobhan Howard	Mary Immaculate College	Psychophysiological stress reactions in military veterans: Examining the moderating role of stressor context and Type D personality	Psychology
Dr Triona O’Hanlon	QUB	Reception of Thomas Moore in Paris	Musicology, bibliography, literature

*Sciences:*
Dr Emily Porter	NUIG	Standardised calibration and validation techniques for the dielectric measurements of biological tissues	Biomedical engineering
Dr Erin Jo Tiedeken	AIT	Applying novel disinfection technologies to control harmful pollinator pathogens and parasites	Parasitology: emerging infectious bee diseases
Dr Evelyn Keaveney	QUB	Production rate, carbon source and burial in sediments of a hyper-eutrophic lake – Rostherne Mere	Biogeochemistry: carbon cycling, limnology, climate, isotope, radiocarbon
Dr Francesc Font	UL	Phase change at the nanoscale: Exploring the limits of continuum theory	Nanoscience, applied mathematics
Dr Jim Johnson	UCD	Response of soil solution acidity in European forests to reductions in air pollution	Environmental science, forest ecology
Dr Justin King	UCD	Investigation of model order reduction techniques on state-of-the-art polyharmonic distortion models	Radio frequency and microwave engineering
Dr Kevin Burke	UL	Robust multi-parameter regression models for clustered survival data	Survival analysis (statistics)
Dr Linh Truong-Hong	UCD	Rapid laser scanning based road network assessment	Civil engineering
Dr Luke Prendergast	UCD	Auto-calibrating dynamic soil-pile interaction model for offshore wind turbine analysis	Structural-geotechnical engineering
Dr Mingjia Yan	UCD	Life cycle assessment of dairy processing	Environmental science
Dr Shane Hegarty	UCC	Smad-interacting protein-1 regulation of nigrostriatal pathway development.	Neuroscience

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