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Environment, Development and Sustainability Cluster

Sustainable development is the key aspiration for the 21st century. The Environment, Development and Sustainability cluster (CEDS) promotes interdisciplinary research to address pressing challenges facing humanity today, especially the increasing complexity and uncertainty surrounding development and sustainability efforts. Its research remit incorporates issues of governance, policy, democracy, citizenship and political participation. The study of socio-economic and cultural levers for sustainable develop¬ment forms another focus of CEDS.

The Environment, Development and Sustainability cluster (CEDS) offers an environment conducive to research collaboration, critical reflection and interdisciplinary inquiry.

The conceptual orientations of CEDS centre on the meanings and measurement of social, economic, political, spatial and cultural dimensions of sustainability. Questions of (in)equality and (in)justice are central to the sustainability agenda and their social scientific investigation is central to CEDS research efforts. Political scientists, sociologists, economists, geographers and sociolinguists involved in this group are engaged in interdisciplinary and collabora¬tive research that connects theoretical and empirical concerns through problem- and evidence-based approaches.

CEDS members deploy a plethora of qualitative, quantitative and inter- and trans-disciplinary research methodologies, including interviews and focus groups, ethnographic fieldwork, survey research and secondary analysis of publicly available data sets. The visualisation of data through diagrams, illustrations and maps constitutes a main strength of CEDS.

Researchers within this group are currently contri¬buting to national and international research projects and networks and have extensive experience in research planning and management and fourth level supervision.

CEDS members are engaged in research and teaching in four key thematic areas:
Theme I - Sustainability, knowledge and everyday practices
Theme II - Sustainable rural systems
Theme III - Marine and coastal environments
Theme IV - Governance, development and contestation

Cluster Leaders: Drs. Marie Mahon and Henrike Rau

Cluster Members

Andreucci, Diego	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Breen, Ben	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Carroll, Bridin	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Cassidy, Anne	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Curtin, Christopher	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
Cush, Peter	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Doherty, Edel	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Doyle, Colin	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Edmondson, Ricca	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
Elliot, Zoe	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Fahy, Frances	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Farrell, Maura	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	School of Geography and Archaeology
Farrell, Niall	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Flynn, Brendan	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
Fox, Emmet	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Galvin, Stephen	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	School of Geography and Archaeology
Gillespie, Patrick	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Greene, Mary	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Heisserer, Barbara	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Hickey, Kieran	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Higgins, Sarah	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Hind, Edel	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Hynes, Michael	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Hynes, Stephen	Senior Research Fellow	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
James, Nicole	PhD student
Kelly, Dubheasa	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Kennedy, Rónán	Academic Staff	School of Law
Khoo, Su-Ming	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
Kilcline, Kevin	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
King, Anna	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Kollig, Sarah	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Lavelle, Mary	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Ledwith, Valerie	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Leyden, Kevin	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
Lynch, Kevin	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Maher, Garret	Associate member	Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
Mahon, Marie	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Martin, Emma	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
McDonagh, John	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
McGarry, Orla	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
McGrath, Brian	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
McKeown, Michelle	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
McLoughlin, Claire	PhD student
Morrissey, John	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Ní Dhúill, Eilís	PhD student	School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Norton, Daniel	PhD student	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Ó Cinnéide, Mícheál	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
O Sabhain, Padraig	Academic Staff
O'Malley, Sarah	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
O'Sullivan, Maureen	Academic Staff	School of Law
Pape, Jessica	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	School of Geography and Archaeology
Potito, Aaron	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Prichard, Ruth	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology
Rau, Henrike	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
Revez, Alexandra	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Rowland, Hugh	PhD student	School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Scallan, David	PhD student	School of Geography and Archaeology
Strohmayer, Ulf	Academic Staff	School of Geography and Archaeology
Van Rensburg, Thomas	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Varley, Anthony	Academic Staff	School of Political Science & Sociology
Vega, Amaya	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Walsh, Ann	Academic Staff	J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
Walsh, John	Academic Staff	School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Wang, Weimin	PhD student	School of Political Science & Sociology

Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
NUI Galway
This page was last updated Tuesday, April 09, 2013