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Whitaker Institute Seminar Series 2013
As part of the Institute's on-going series of events, our Seminar Series for 2013 will commence on Wednesday 9th January, with seminars on alternate Wednesdays from 1-2pm. All seminars will be held in the SAC Room (CA110).
The seminar series will include a diverse range of invited speakers from across Ireland and the UK, and the series will be of broad multi-disciplinary interest. The impetus for the series is to encourage the formation of new collaborations for joint research initiatives between Institute members and our invited speakers.
Please visit our EVENTS PAGE for seminar details.
Visiting Speakers 2013
Professor Jonathan Winterton in lieu of Prof. Françoise Le Deist
Toulouse Business School, France
Date of visit: 9th January 2013
Organised by the Work, Society and Governance research cluster
Professor Ann Stewart
School of Law, University of Warwick, UK
Date of visit: 6th February 2013
Biography
Ann Stewart is an Associate Professor and Reader in Law at the University of Warwick, where she is the Director of the International Development Law and Human Rights Programme. Her research focuses primarily on issues of gender justice and postcolonialism, though she is also interested in issues relating to gender care and gender and multiculturalism in the UK. Much of her work centres on developing perspectives on gender and law and women's rights which take account of new global economic and social contexts. She held the position of Ford Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Law and Governance Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2009-2010. Between 1996 and 2000, she was the UK Director of the Indo-British gender and law project for the Indian Judiciary. This involved working with the National Judicial Academy in India to develop a curriculum for judicial training and then assisting with implementation. She has also been involved with projects relating to violence against women (with the Centre for Women and Development Delhi University and with the Tata Institute for Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai. Between 2006 and 2009 she was part of a DeLPHE funded link (with colleagues from York, Bristol and London Metropolitan) which contributed to the development of the first women’s studies Masters degree in India at TISS, Mumbai. She also maintains close links with the Southern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women’s Law at the University of Harare, Zimbabwe. In 1996 she was the lead consultant for gender on the EU Democratisation and Human Rights project in Malawi. Prof. Stewart’s recent publications include: Stewart, A. (2011) Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market, Cambridge University Press: Law in Context.
Organised by the Gender and Public Policy research cluster
Dr. Gonneke Stevens
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Date of visit: 20th February 2013
Biography
Gonneke Stevens is an assistant professor at the Utrecht Centre for Child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University. In her research, she attempts to unravel the alleged risks of immigration to child development, by focusing among others on personality characteristics, perceived discrimination, acculturation, parent-child relationships, ethnic density and receiving country comparisons. Ongoing research concerns among others an international comparative study on well-being in ethnic minority and majority youth (HBSC study), a study on internalizing problems and mental health care use in adolescent migrants, an experimental study on the extent to which ethnic discrimination evokes aggression, and a study on the early identification of ethnic minority families at risk of problem behaviours using at home observations.
Organised by the Population and Migration research cluster
Professor Robert Scapens
Manchester Business School, UK
Date of visit: 6th March 2013
Biography
Robert W. Scapens is an Emeritus Professor at the Manchester Business School and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, the Swedbank Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden and he is a visiting professor at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and the University of Birmingham, UK. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Vaasa and Lund University. Together with Michael Bromwich, he was co-founder of Management Accounting Research and he is now the Editor-in-Chief His recent research has focussed on performance measurement systems, management accounting change and the changing nature of management accounting. Although in more recent years he has mainly used case study research methods, over his career he has used both quantitative and qualitative research methods, and he has written extensively on research methodology and the methods of case research.
Organised by the Performance Management research cluster
Professor Roger MacGinty
Department of Politics, University of Manchester, UK
Date of visit: 20th March 2013
Biography
Roger Mac Ginty is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, and the Department of Politics, University of Manchester. He edits the journal Peacebuilding (with Oliver Richmond) and in 2013 will publish the Routledge Handbook on Peacebuilding. His latest book is International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid forms of Peace. His work is interested in the interface between top-down and bottom-up interactions in peacebuilding. He is currently working on developing ’everyday peace indicators’ for local communities in five sub-Saharan countries.
Organised by the Conflict, Rights and Security research cluster
Dr. Peter Dwyer
Ruskin College, Oxford, UK
Date of visit: 3rd April 2013
Biography
Peter Dwyer teaches political economy at Ruskin. He is an active trade union member and has been involved as a researcher and campaigner in a variety of social movement campaigns in both the UK and South Africa. He has worked with the Congress of South African Trade Unions together with other labour, social movement and non-governmental organisations in Southern Africa.
He has also presented at World Social Forums in Brazil, Mali and Kenya. His research interests include: labour and social movements in Africa, the political economy of development, the political and social implications of macro policy, South African civil society and collective responses to neo-liberalism in Africa.
Peter is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg.
Recent publications include Dwyer P. and Zeilig, L. (2012) African Struggles Today: Social Movements since independence, Haymarket Books, Chicago.
Organised by the Work, Society and Governance research cluster
Professor Liam Delaney
University of Stirling, UK
Date of visit: 17th April 2013
Liam Delaney is SIRE Professor of Economics at the Scottish Institute for Research in Economics and Stirling University and Director of the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics PhD programme. Previously, he was Deputy Director and a senior researcher in the UCD Geary Institute, and a lecturer holding a tenured appointment with the UCD School of Public Health and Population Science and the UCD School of Economics. He lectured econometrics, health economics and behavioural economics in University College Dublin and supervised post-graduate students in economics and public health. In 2009, he received the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland's Barrington Medal. He was a 2010 Fulbright Fellow and Center for Health and Well-Being fellow at Princeton University. He is currently co-developing an MSc in Behavioural Science that will begin in Stirling in September 2013.
Organised by the Health and Aging research cluster
Professor Jill Rubrey
University of Manchester, UK
Date of visit: postponed
Professor Jill Rubery of the Manchester School of Management at UMIST is an internationally reputed scholar on gender and employment. From 1991 to 1996, and again from 1998 to 2007, she acted as co-ordinator of the European Commission's group of experts on gender and employment. Professor Rubery is a member of the ACAS Board of Arbitrators. She has been Head of the People, Management and Organizations Division at MBS since 2004 and in 2007 she was appointed Deputy Director for Human Resources. In 2006 she was elected a fellow of the British Academy and an emeritus fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge.
Professor Rubery has made seminal contributions in the areas of gender and hierarchies in the labour market, gender impacts of recession and gender, welfare state and life transitions.
Organised by the Gender and Public Policy research cluster
Professor Gerry Kearns
NUI Maynooth
Date of visit: 15th May 2013
Gerry Kearns is the author of Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder (Oxford University Press, 2009) which won the Murchison Award from the Royal Geographical Society as the most significant contribution to geographical scholarship in 2010. He is professor of Human Geography at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and has held positions previously as the Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech and as Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge.
Organised by the Conflict, Rights and Security research cluster
Dr. Samantha Dockray
University College Cork
Date of visit: 29th May 2013
Samantha Dockray is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork with a research programme that encompasses childhood obesity, positive psychology and how experiences in adolescence can influence adult wellbeing. Samantha uses a range of research strategies and methods, including psychobiological measures of hormones and cardiovascular activity. After completing a B. Science (Psychology & Physiology) and B. Biomedical Science (Honours) in Australia, Samantha received her PhD from The Pennsylvania State University, USA, for her research on the contribution of daily hassles and stress to childhood obesity. Following this, Samantha was a Research Fellow at University College London, UK, where she completed research on how personality, stress and happiness affect adult health. Samantha joined University College Cork in 2011.
Organised by the Health and Aging research cluster
Professor Peter Turnbull
Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
Date of visit: 5th June2013
Peter Turnbull is Professor of Human Resource Management & Labour Relations at Cardiff Business School. He previously held posts at the Universities of Leeds, Warwick and London School of Economics. Professor Turnbull held visiting professorships at Queen’s University (Belfast), Melbourne and La Trobe. In 2011 he was Visiting Academic Fellow at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Geneva where he worked with the Sectoral Activities Department. He has published four books, more than twenty book chapters, more than fifty academic papers, and numerous reports for international organisations such as the ILO, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF), the European Cockpit Associaiton (ECA) and the European Commission. He is currently researching the impact of low fares airlines in Europe, the liberalisation of the port services market, and ’flag of convenience’ (FOC) shipping. Professor Turnbull is an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and a member of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) arbitration panel.
Organised by the Work, Society and Governance research cluster
Dr. Frances Hodgson
University of Leeds
Date of visit: 12th June 2013
Frances Hodgson is Research Group leader in the area of Sustainable Transport Policy at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, UK. A sociologist by training, she has an MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering. She is a Senior Research Fellow with 20 years of experience in researching travel and transport and has specialist knowledge in the area of walking, equity, gender, social networks, social media and social research methods. The focus of recent research has been on the identification and impact of social resources used and integral to walking. Her ongoing research is exploring the potential for new forms of social organization and social exchange in travelling stimulated by Web2.0 and social media based applications ( SUNSET project). Recent research also focused on the interaction of mobile internet enabled devices and older people asking how they can be used in walking; and gender protests and social history. Her research has been conducted at both national and international level through UK research council and EU funding.
Organised by the Environment, Development and Sustainability research cluster
Professor Jane Falkingham
University of Southampton
Date of visit: 26th June 2013
Organised by the Population and Migration research cluster
Professor Allan Findlay
University of St. Andrews
Date of visit: tbc
Organised by the Population and Migration research cluster
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics
NUI Galway
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