Dr John McDonagh - Head of Department

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B.A., M.A. (NUI), Ph.D. (Bristol)

Room:		122 Arts/Science Building
Tel:		353 91 492569 Ext 2569
Fax:		353 91 495505
E-mail:		john.mcdonaghnuigalway.ie
Office Hours:		Posted on office door.

John graduated with a BA(Hons) and MA(Hons) from NUI and was awarded a University Scholarship to pursue his PhD at Bristol University in the UK. At Bristol, John studied under Professor Paul Cloke and after completion of his PhD, obtained a permanent lectureship post at University College Northampton. During this time, he was appointed subject leader for an interdisciplinary module on Development while also delivering courses on rural geography and land resource development. He returned to take up a Lectureship post at NUI, Galway and was appointed Acting Head of Department in February 2009 and Head of Department in July 2009.

John’s main research focuses on Rural Geography and Rural Development. Areas of interest include:

		Agricultural Restructuring and Multifunctionality

		Sustainable Rural Environments

		Rural Transport

		Regional Development

		The Changing Geography of Peripheral Rural Regions

		Rural Governance and Rural Protest

		Environmental Capital and the Repositioning of Rural Resources

( Full list click here)

2012
	Farrell, M., Mahon, M, and McDonagh, J. (in press) The Rural as a Return Migration Destination. European Countryside, Vol. 4, Issue 1.

	Farrell, M. McDonagh, J. and Mahon, M. (2012 forthcoming) Farm Diversification or Rural Development Initiative: Case Study of the County Clare Wood Energy Project. In Carroll, M. and Ní Dhubhain, A. (eds.) Planting Forests in Ireland: Local Response to a National Imperative. Springer Publications.

	McDonagh, J., Farrell, M. and Mahon M. (2012) ’Perspectives and potential for forestry in Ireland’, in J. Burdack and M. Kriszan (eds.) ’Use or Protect - Environmental Capital and Regional Development in the Rural Areas of Europe: Research findings and experiences from the EU project DERREG’, ifl FORUM 17: Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde.

	McDonagh, J., Nienaber, B. and Woods, M. (eds.) (2012 forthcoming) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions. Ashgate.

	McDonagh, J., Farrell, M. and Mahon, M. (2012 forthcoming) ’Rural Challenges and Rural opportunities’. In Carroll, M. and Ní Dhubhain, A. (eds.) Planting Forests in Ireland: Local Response to a National Imperative. Springer Publications.

	McDonagh, J., Woods, M. and Nienaber, B. (2012 forthcoming) ’Globalization and the Rural – Inspiration, Challenge and Opportunity’, in McDonagh, J., Nienaber, B. and Woods, M. (eds) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions. Ashgate.

	Nienaber, B., Woods, M. and McDonagh, J. (2012 forthcoming) ’Globalization Processes and the Restructuring of Europe’s Rural Regions’, in McDonagh, J., Nienaber, B. and Woods, M. (eds.) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions. Ashgate.

2011
	Farrell, M. and McDonagh, J. (in press) The importance of evaluation and ’embracing error’ - The case of the ’The Options for Farm Families Programme’ in Ireland. Reg. No. 2011013, Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension.

	Jones, L., Woods, M., Farrell, M., Mahon, M. and McDonagh J. (2011) Developing European Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization – Case study Contextual Report 8, West Region of Ireland, available at http://www.derreg.eu/content/resource-centre/d52e-west-region-contextual-report.

	Kriszan, M., Burdack, J., Nadler, R. with McDonagh, J. and 9 others (2011) ’Environmental capital and sustainable rural development’, Deliverable D 3.5, Summary Report, Developing European Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization, December 2011, available at http://www.derreg.eu/content/resource-centre/wp3-work-package-summary-report.

	McAreavey, R. and McDonagh, J. (2011) Sustainable Rural Tourism: Lessons for Rural Development. Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 51, Issue 2, pp.175-194.

	Nienaber, B., Frys, W. with McDonagh, J. and 12 others (2011) ’International mobility and migration of rural population’, Deliverable D 2.4, Summary Report, Developing European Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization – available at http://www.derreg.eu/content/resource-centre/wp2-work-package-summary-report.

	Roep, D. and Wellbrock, W. with McDonagh, J. and 10 others (2011) ’Capacity building, governance and knowledge systems’, Deliverable WP4 Summary Report, Developing European Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization, available at http://www.derreg.eu/content/resource-centre/wp4-work-package-summary-report.

	Woods, M. and McDonagh, J. (2011) Rural Europe and the World: Globalization and Rural Development. European Countryside, 3, 153-163.

	Woods, M. with McDonagh, J. and 20 others (2011) European Policy Brief - Developing European Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization – March 2011, available at http://www.derreg.eu/system/files/DERREG European Policy Brief.pdf.

	Woods, M. with McDonagh, J. and 7 others (2011) Developing European Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization – Project Bulletin, August 2011 available at http://www.derreg.eu/content/new-derreg-project-bulletin-august-2011.

	Woods, M. with McDonagh, J. and 21 others (2011) Developing European Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization – Summary Report, October 2011 available at http://www.derreg.eu/content/resource-centre/summary-report-derreg-project-october-2011.

2010
	Mahon, M., Farrell, M. and McDonagh, J. (2010) Power, Positionality and the View from within; Agricultural Advisers’ role in implementing participatory extension programmes in the Republic of Ireland. Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 50, Number 2, pp.104-120.

	McDonagh, J., Farrell, M., Mahon, M. and Ryan, M. (2010) ’New Opportunities and Cautionary Steps? Farmers, Forestry and Rural Development in Ireland, European Countryside, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 236-251.
2009
	Farrell, M., McDonagh, J. and Mahon, M. (2009) The Options for Farm Families Programme: Rhetoric and Reality of Change. Journal of International Agricultural Extension Education.

	Healy, N. and McDonagh, J., (2009) Commodification and conflict: What can the Irish approach to protected area management tell us? Society & Natural Resources – An International Journal, 22, pp.381-391.

	McAreavey, R., McDonagh, J. and Heneghan, M. (2009) ’ Conflict to consensus – contested notions of sustainable rural tourism on the island of Ireland’, Chapter 12, pp.219-236, in McDonagh, J., Varley, T. and Shortall, S. A Living Countryside – The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Ashgate Aldershot.

	McDonagh, J., Varley, T. and Shortall, S. (2009) ’ The politics of sustainability: getting the balance right in rural Ireland’, Chapter 21, pp.381-385, in McDonagh, J., Varley, T. and Shortall, S. A Living Countryside – The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Ashgate Aldershot.

	McDonagh, J. and Healy, N. (2009) Landscapes Lost or Gained? Reflections on recent change in Ireland’s physical landscape’, Chapter 17, pp.189-204, in Fenwick J. (ed.) Lost and Found II, Wordwell.

	McDonagh, J. (2009) Transport Geographies – Mobilities, Flows and Spaces, R. Knowles, J. Shaw and I. Doherty (eds.), Book Review, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol 27, No. 2 pp.379-380.

	McDonagh, J. (2009) Tracing Mobilities – Towards a Cosmopolitan Perspective, W. Canzler, V. Kaufmann and S. Kesselring, Book Review, Irish Geography.

	Varley, T., McDonagh, J. and Shortall, S. (2009) ’ The politics of rural sustainability’, Chapter 1, pp.1-24, in J. McDonagh, T. Varley and S. Shortall A Living Countryside – The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Ashgate Aldershot.

FRAMEWORK 7: Developing Europe’s Rural Regions in the Era of Globalization – An interpretative model for better anticipating and responding to challenges for regional development in an evolving international context (DERREG).

John, along with his colleagues Dr Marie Mahon and Dr Maura Farrell (both from the Geography Department at NUI, Galway) form the Irish Partner in this European Union Seventh Framework Programme. The project, with nine partners in total, is funded by the European Union Socio-economic Science and Humanities, and is one of three projects that were selected from 425 submissions. DERREG’s key aim is to produce an interpretative model that will enable researchers and regional development actors to better anticipate and respond to the key challenges posed by globalization for rural regions. For more details on this project click here.

( Past Research Projects click here)

Strategy for Integrated Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas in CEE Countries.

This 5th Framework project was undertaken with the Economics Dept NUI,G and Universities in Germany, London, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary). This research involved assisting integration of the first ’wave’ of CEEC’s rural areas into the EU by (1) identifying optimum rural development measures and supporting institutional structures and drawing on policy recommendations for the CEEC that reflect their specific conditions; (2) identifying key factors shaping farm diversification in CEEC rural areas and drawing strategies to enhance the role of farm and income diversification for rural development purposes; (3) developing a simulation model for the CEEC that allows estimation of the impact of alternative policy scenarios on production, consumption, net trade, income and budget costs, and (4) enhancing co-operation between EU and CEEC researchers and transfer of know-how to the CEEC.

Environmental Transport Policies and Rural Development in Europe.
This research project was funded under the FAIR programme, and was undertaken with partners from Aberdeen University (co-ordinator), Germany, Greece, Sweden and Finland. The overall aim was to produce a research methodology to allow the identification and assessment of the conflicts and synergies which may exist between environmental transport policies and policies fro rural development. As part of the process, the research also produced policy recommendations that should be useful in dealing with policy conflicts leading to a greater degree of social, economic and environmental sustainability for rural societies in the EU.

John’s graduate students are closely aligned to his main research interests. To further enhance the agenda of the Rural Studies Research Group and to ensure a continued input by rural geographers to academic and policy debates, John welcomes graduate students interested in working in areas related to his research and teaching, i.e. Rural Development; Agricultural Restructuring and Multifunctionality; Sustainable Rural Environments; Rural Transport; Regional Development; The Changing Geography of Peripheral Rural Regions; Rural Governance and Rural Protest; Environmental Capital and the Repositioning of Rural Resources.

Current Graduate Students

David Scallan	PhD Candidate	Hunting: A Tool for Rural Development in Ireland (Dr. John Mc Donagh & Dr. Anna Stanley)
Sarah Higgins	PhD Candidate	Landscape planning – Irish and European perspectives’.
Margaret O Riordan	PhD Candidate	Updated shortly. (Dr John McDonagh & Dr Marie Mahon)


Recent Graduate Students

Maura Farrell	PhD	Embracing Multifunctional Agriculture in the Republic of Ireland: Towards a New Extension Ethic (2009)
Loka Ashwood	MLitt	Social Expression of the Rural: A Narrative of Rural Meaning (Dr. John McDonagh, Dr. Marie Mahon) 2008
Noel Healy	PhD	Interpretation, Governance and Conflict: A Critique of Protected Area Planning in Ireland (Dr. John McDonagh & Dr. Henrike Rau) (2009)
Carol Leonard	MLitt	Seen but not heard: Children and Collaborative Planning in the Urban-Rural Fringe. (Dr. John McDonagh & Dr. Marie Mahon) 2009
Martina Jordan	MLitt	Ireland’s agri-environmental policy - are farmers getting more than they bargained for? (Dr. John McDonagh) 2005

TI701 - Conceptualising Environment, Society and Development

TI706 - Field-based Learning

TI707 - MA Dissertation

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McDonagh, J.; Nienaber, B. and Woods, M. (eds) (forthcoming 2012) Globalization and Europe’s Rural Regions. Ashgate.

McDonagh, J., Varley, T. and Shortall, S. (2009) A Living Countryside – The Politics of Sustainable Development in Rural Ireland, Ashgate Aldershot.

McDonagh, J. (2002) (ed.) Economy, Society and Peripherality, Experiences from the West of Ireland. Arlen Academic, Dublin, pp.272.

McDonagh, J. (2001) Renegotiating Rural Development in Ireland. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp.235.

TI312 - The Geographies of Rural Development

TI354 - Research Seminar in Rural Development and Sustainable Environments

TI350-366 Research Seminar Series

TI219 - Environment & Landforms

TI224 - Residential Field Class

TI151 - Principles of Physical Geography

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