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Dr Mary Cawley

BA, MA (NUI) PhD (London)
Room:		117 Arts/Science Building
Phone:		00 353 91 492171 Ext 2171
Fax:		00 353 91 495505
e-mail:		mary.cawleynuigalway.ie
Office Hours:		Posted on office door

Biography

I have been a member of academic staff at NUI Galway since completing my PhD at University College London in 1978. During that time, I have held Senior Fulbright Fellowships at Pennsylvania State University and have spent shorter periods of time as a visiting scholar and guest lecturer at the Karelian Institute, University of Joensuu, Finland, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs, the University of Toulouse Le Mirail, France and Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada. Since the early 1990s, I have been a member and leader of four EU framework programme research projects relating to aspects of rural restructuring with national (Trinity College Dublin and Teagasc- the Agriculture and Food Development Authority) and international academic colleagues in six countries. Since the late 1990s, I have led research clusters and projects at NUI Galway, under the Higher Education Authority Programmes of Research in Third Level Institutions (HEA-PRTLI). I have held academic administrative positions as Vice-Dean of the former Faculty of Arts and acting Head of Geography and have a long record of university and external committee membership.

Teaching Involvement

TI 352 - Research Seminar in Geographies of Rural Social & Economic Change

TI 350 - Seminar Series lectures

TI 331 - Geography of Tourism and Recreation

TI 251 - Theory & Practice 1

TI 245 - Rural Geography, Concepts and European Perspectives

TI 152 - Geography in Practice

TI 150 - Principles of Human Geography

Research

My current research relates primarily to theory and practice with reference to two dimensions of the geography of rural social and economic change:

National and international migration to and from small towns and the countryside and the implications for population and social structures
Relationships between tourism and recreation and the sustainability of rural systems

Current and recent responsibilities

Co-leader of the Population, Migration and Settlement Research Network in the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, 2010-
Leader of the Social and Economic Impacts Priority Research Area in the Environmental Change Institute (now part of the Ryan Institute) and member of the Institute’s Steering Committee, 2000-2010
Principal Investigator for funding secured under PRTLI4 for the GIS Unit in the Ryan Institute, 2008-2012
Principal Investigator/Supervisor of PhD research project on ’Embeddedness and networking in rural tourism’, funded under PRTLI4 through the Irish Centre for Rural Transformation and Sustainability in the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, 2008-2013

Other research leadership roles since the early 1990s

Principal Investigator for two EU Framework projects (FP3, FP5) and team member for two projects (CAMAR, AIR)
Principal Investigator for four projects funded under the second, third and fourth HEA-PRTLI
Co-leader for two Ulysses projects with colleagues at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail
Principal Investigator for two research projects funded by the National Parks and Wildlife Service

Recent Publications

Conway, T. and Cawley, M. (2012) Organizational networking in an emerging ecotourism destination, Tourism Planning & Development 9(4), 397-409. DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2012.726256

Duram, L.A. and Cawley, M. (2012) Irish chefs and restaurants in the geography of ’local’ food value chains, The Open Geography Journal 6, 16-25. DOI: 10.2174/1874923201205010016

Cawley, M. (2010) Adding value locally through integrated rural tourism: lessons from Ireland. In Halseth,
G., Markey, S. and Bruce, D. (eds), The Next Rural Economies: Constructing Rural Place in a Global
Economy. Wallingford: CABI, pp. 89-101.

Cawley, M. (2009) Rural tourism. In Thrift, N. J. and Kitchin, R. (eds), The International Encyclopedia of
Human Geography. London: Sage, pp. 313-317. ( DOI )

Cawley, M. (2009) Local governance and sustainable rural development: Ireland’s experience in an EU
context, Revija za Geografijo 4(1), 53-62.

Cawley, M. (2009) Institutional networking and promoting sustainable rural tourism. In Frutos, L.M.,
Climent, E. and Ruiz, E. (eds) New Ruralities and Sustainable Use of Territory. Zaragoza: Prensas
Universitarias de Zaragoza, pp. 115-128.

Cawley, M. (2009) Review, Europe’s City Regions Competitiveness: growth regulation and peri-urban land
management, Edited by Nathalie Bertrand and Volker Kreibich, Assen, Van Gorcum, 2006, ISBN
9023241835, Journal of Rural Studies 25(10) 168. ( DOI )

Cawley, M. and Gillmor, D.A. (2008) Tourismo rural integrado: teoría y práctica, Annals of Tourism
Research en Espagnol 10(1), 73-97. ( DOI )

Cawley, M. and Gillmor, D.A. (2008) Integrated rural tourism: concepts and practice, Annals of Tourism Research 35(2),
316-337. ( DOI )

Cawley, M. and Gillmor, D.A. (2008) ’Culture economy’, ’integrated tourism’ and ’sustainable rural development’: evidence from western Ireland. In Robinson, G. (ed.), Sustainable Rural Systems. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 145-159.

Cawley, M. and Nguyen, G. (2008) Service delivery through partnerships in sparsely populated areas: evidence from France and Ireland, Irish Geography 41(1), 71-87. ( URL )

Cawley, M. (2007) Rural development in Ireland: a local governance perspective. In Hodgett, S., Johnson, D. and Royle, S. A. (eds), Doing Development Differently. Sydney, Nova Scotia: Cape Breton University Press, pp. 246-66.

Cawley, M., Gillmor, D. and Kelly, R. (2007) Integrated tourism as a contribution to sustainable rural development in western Ireland. In Bryant, C. R., Grillotti Di Giacomo, M. G. (eds), Quality Agriculture: historical heritage and environmental resources for the integrated development of territories. Genoa: Brigati, pp. 77-86.

Cawley, M., Gillmor, D.A., Kelly, R. (2007) Le tourisme dans les espaces de faible densité de population: perspectives pour les communautés d’accueil dans l’ouest de l’Irlande. In Casse, M-C, Fabienne Cavaillé, F. et al., Habiter et Vivre dans les Campagnes de Faible Densité. Clermont-Ferrand: Presse Universitaire, Blaise Pascal, p305-321.

Cawley, M., Marsat, J-B. and Gillmor, D.A. (2007) Promoting integrated tourism: the role of institutional networking in France and Ireland, Tourism Geographies 9(4), 405-420. ( URL )

Recent Research Grants

2008-12 PhD Fellowship in Rural Tourism, based in the Department of Geography and the Irish Centre for Rural Transformation and Sustainability. Funded through the HEA 4th Programme of Research in Third Level Institutions.

2007-12: 4th HEA Programme of Research in Third Level Institutions funding for GIS digital data and hardware, based in the Environmental Change Institute, NUI, Galway.

Recent Award

Invited Fellowship Japan Society for the Advancement of Science 2011

Professional Membership

Steering Committee Member: International Geographical Union Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems
Fellow: Royal Geography Society-Institute of British Geographers
Member: Association of American Geographers; European Society for Rural Sociology; Geographical Society of Ireland (former President and Honorary Secretary

Current PhD Students

Therese Conway

Sara Hannafin

Deborah Kanakis

Garret Maher

Discipline of Geography
National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland
Tel.: +353 (0)91 49 2643
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