Previous Years Awards - 2003

IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 6: Small Research Grant Scheme 2003 - 2

Small Research Grants Scheme Board Members

  • Chair - Professor Patrick O’Donovan,
    Department of French,
    University College Cork.
  • Dr. Richard Aldous,
    School of History,
    University College Dublin.
  • Dr. Lucian Ashworth,
    Centre for Peace and Development Studies,
    Department of Government & Society,
    University of Limerick.
  • Dr. Michael J. Breen,
    Media and Communication Studies,
    Mary Immaculate College,
    Limerick.
  • Dr. Patricia Conlan,
    School of Law,
    University of Limerick.
  • Professor Gabriel Cooney,
    Department of Archaeology,
    University College Dublin.
  • Dr. James Cunningham,
    Department of Management,
    National University of Ireland, Galway.
  • Dr. Anna Davis,
    Department of Geography,
    Trinity College Dublin.
  • Dr. Marian Fitzgibbon,
    Head of Humanities and Hospitality Studies,
    Athlone Institute of Technology.
  • Professor Liam Gallagher,
    Business School,
    Dublin City University.
  • Dr. Eilis Hennessy,
    Department of Psychology,
    University College Dublin.
  • Dr. Maeve Martin,
    Department of Education,
    National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
  • Dr. Ailbhe Ní Chasaide,
    Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
    Trinity College Dublin.

Research Grants were awarded to the following applicants for 2003-4:

Barrett, Gavin Michael - UCD
Ireland, Europe and the Challenge of Democracy – An Investigation and Comparative study of the Degree of Control Exercised by the Oireachtas Over the Irish Government in European Union Affairs

Bergh, Stefan - NUI Galway
Defining Ritual Space in the Irish Neolithic

Binchy, William - TCD
The Law of Torts in Common Law African States: A Comprehensive Analysis

Brady, Mairead - TCD
The Challenges of Information Technology Assimilation: A Comparative Study of International IT Assimilation within the Marketing Domain

Byrne, Marann - DCU
Motives, Expectations and Learning Approaches in Higher Education: A Study of First Year Accounting Students

Castellino, Joshua - NUIG
International Minority Rights Law in Asia

Chevalier, Arnaud - UCD
Birth order and educational achievement

Denny, Kevin - UCD
Irish Network for Economic Policy Evaluation

Dixon, Ros - NUIG
Chekhov on the Irish Stage

Doyle, John - DCU
The Changing nature of sovereignty and governance in contested states: legitimising the Good Friday Agreement and assisting peace building elsewhere?

Elgie, Robert - DCU
The parliamentary activity of the head of government 1923-2003

Erne, Roland - UCD
Organised Labour - an agent of EU democracy?
Conference on trade-union strategies concerning the EU integration process

Feldman, Alice - UCD
Diversity & Civil Society in the New Ireland: An Analysis of Activists’ Accounts of the Anti-Racism Movement

Fulton, Crystal - UCD
Networking for Leisure: Community and Information Seeking in Genealogy

Hegarty, Paul - UCC
Science in the College de Sociologie: Roger Caillois & Georges Bataille

Horner, Arnold - UCD
A remarkable institution, a remarkable achievement: the activities, reports and maps of the [Irish] Bogs Commissioners of 1809-1814 in their intellectual and historical context

Hughes, Brian - NUIG
Workaholism, social support and well-being among university staff

Kirby, Peadar - DCU
Globalisation, vulnerability and violence

Lalor, Kevin - DIT
An investigation into child sexual abuse and HIV transmission in South Africa

Maher, Eamon - ITT
The Life and Works of John McGahern (Book)

Marsh, Michael - TCD
European Election Study: Ireland

McMahon, Deirdre - UL
Oral History of Irish Catholic Missionaries in India

McMenamin, Iain - DCU
The Polish Variety of Democratic Capitalism

Monks, Kathy - DCU
Research Workshop: To Develop a Research Agenda on the Impact of Management Education on Individual and Organizational Development

Moylan, Tom - UL
“Utopianism in Irish Culture”

Ní Bhrádaigh, Emer - DCU
Entrepreneurship in the Gaeltacht – 1926 to date

Ó Dúshláine, Tadhg - NUI Maynooth
Filí agus Filíocht Innti / Outing the Innti Poets

Ó Riain, Seán - NUI Maynooth
Social Partnership as a Mode of Governance: A Research Workshop

Ohlmeyer, Jane - TCD
Ussher and the Republic of Letters. An international conference

Potter, Simon James - NUI Galway
Media and Empire

Prunty, Jacinta - NUI Maynooth
An Index to religious houses and mission stations in Ireland and founded from Ireland, c. 1780-c. 1970

Rascaroli, Laura - UCC
Making the Truth: Rhetoric and Modernity of Italian Neorealism

Roberts, Geoffrey - UCC
Irish Public Opinion and the Second World War

Ryan, Paul - WIT
Paul Valéry's drawings, graphic and schematic work in the unpublished manuscripts and the Cahiers

Shields, Linda - UL
A Conference to examine the role of nurses in the euthanasia programmes of the Third Reich: ethical, moral, philosophical and historical issues

Strohmayer, Ulf - NUIG
Planning for Uncertain Futures: The 1992 and 2012 Olympic Bids for the City of Paris, France

Timonen, Virpi - TCD
The State, the Market and Families: Study of the Impact of Direct Payment Systems on the Welfare Mix in Ireland, the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands

Williams, Kevin - Mater Dei Institute of Education
Religion and Education Policy in Ireland

Woodman, Peter Charles - UCC
A contribution to the understanding of the introduction of farming to Ireland and its impact on coastal lifeways


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