'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 6: Thematic Research Project Grants 2005-2006

International Assessment Board

• Chair: Professor Stephen Wilks
  Department of Politics
  University of Exeter
• Professor Peter Elias
  Institute for Employment Research
  University of Warwick
• Professor Peter Gray
  School of History
  Queen's University of Belfast
• Professor Silvia Mergenthal
  Fachbereich Literatur Wissenschaft
  Universität Konstanz
• Professor Jo Shaw
  School of Law
  University of Edinburgh
• Dr Steven Yearley
  Department of Sociology
  University of York

Thematic Research Project Grants 2005

Theme 1
Research infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences
This priority will seek to respond to the challenges of creating a research infrastructure in the third-level system in Ireland, which will underwrite national capacity for top class research in the humanities and social sciences. Project Grants awarded within this rubric will support the creation and development of datasets, digitalisation of archives, surveys and methodologies.

Theme 2
Identity, culture and society in Europe
This priority will support research both in the histories, languages, literatures and cultures of historic and contemporary Europe and in European society. It is intended that such research will enhance understanding and knowledge of both diversity and shared cultural, social and historical heritages among the peoples of Europe. Particular emphasis might be placed on research with a cross-cultural or comparative focus, either within Ireland or Europe more generally.

Thematic Research Project Grants were awarded to the following applicants for 2005-2006:

Dr Ann Buckley, NUIM
Department of Music,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
The Liturgical Veneration of Irish Saints in Medieval Europe. Music, texts and hagiography in comparative, historical perspective
Theme 2

Professor Richard Comerford, NUIM
Department of History,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Associational culture in Ireland, c. 1750 - c. 1940: a database
Theme 1

Professor Gabriel Cooney, UCD
School of Archaeology,
University College, Dublin.
laxe -The Irish Stone Axe Database
Theme 1

Dr Philip Dine, NUIG
Department of French,
National University of Ireland, Galway.
Sport and Identity in France: Practices, Locations and Representations
Theme 2

Dr. Alice Feldman, UCD
Dr. Mary Gilmartin, UCD
School of Sociology,
University College, Dublin.
Developing Evidence-Based Policy-Making and Practice in Irish Immigration Policy
Theme 1

Dr. Susana Ferreira, UCD
School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy,
University College, Dublin.
The European Social Survey, Third Round
Theme 1

Dr. Colin Graham, NUIM
Department of English,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
A Database of Irish Literary Criticism, 1880 to the present day
Theme 1

Professor Colm Harmon, UCD
UCD Geary Institute,
University College, Dublin.
SHARE (Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) -Ireland
Theme 1

Professor Jacqueline Hill, NUIM
Department of History,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Online Bibliography of Overseas Publications on Irish History, including the Irish Diaspora
Theme 1

Professor Dermot Keogh, UCC
Department of History,
University College, Cork.
Ireland and European Integration in a comparative international context, 1945-2005
Theme 1

Dr. John Mc Cafferty, UCD
Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilisation,
University College, Dublin.
Mendicant Orders in Late Medieval and Early Modern Ireland: Material Heritage in its Historical Context
Theme 1

Professor Michael Marsh, TCD
Department of Political Science,
Trinity College Dublin.
Irish Election Study 2006/7
Theme 1

Mr. Ryan Morgan, UCC
Department of Law,
University College, Cork.
Research Ethics Governance Structures Regulating Social Research in Irish Universities
Theme 1

Funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2000-2006.