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Chris Curtin

Professor and Head of School

Vice President for Innovation and Performance

PhD (Sociology and Political Anthropology) Hull University
MA (Sociological and Political Studies) National University of Ireland Galway
BA (Sociological and Political Studies) National University of Ireland Galway

Office: 307 Aras Moyola
Telephone: 353 (0)91 492355
Email: chris.curtinnuigalway.ie

Member of the Governance and Sustainable Development Research Cluster and of the Children, Youth and Families Research Cluster (the Child and Family Research Centre)

Profile

Chris Curtin is Professor and Head of the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

He is author/editor of 9 books, over 80 articles/book chapters and more than 20 national and international reports, mainly on the theme on governance, rural development and natural resources management Chris has carried out research on rural development for the past 35 years with colleagues in Ireland, in Europe and in the United States. He is active as an independent expert for the European Union, the United States Department of Agriculture, and many third sector institutions.

In addition to his work at the National University of Ireland, Galway, he has taught at universities in the UK, in mainland Europe, the United States and Mexico. He has participated in the Third ,Forth and Fifth EU Research Programmes Framework. He has been active in the European Union’s Erasmus, Socrates and Tempus higher education programmes.

He designed and has responsibility for the Diploma in Community Development Practice, which has been used by many Irish and European Leader companies as a core element of their capacity building programmes. He has extensive experience in evaluating rural development programmes. Chris has supervised 22 PhD/M.litt students to completion and is currently supervising 7 PhD students

Teaching

Mexican Politics and Society; Co-operation and Conflict in the Management of Natural Resources; Theory and Practice of Community Development and Research Seminar. Also tutor in Years 1 and 2 of the BA in Sociological and Political Studies

Research Interests

Agrarian Politics; Community Development; Mexican Politics; Governance and Natural Resource Development and Social Networks and Family and Neighbourhood Resilience

Selected Publications

'Identity-building in Regional Initiatives for Rural Development: Comparing Ireland's Lake District and Norway's Mountain Region' (with Torill Meistad and Frances Hannon). In Jo Lee Vergunst, Arnar Árnason and Mark Shucksmith (eds.), Comparing Rural Development: Continuity and Change in the Countryside of Western Europe (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning) (Ashgate, 2009).

Tony Varley and Chris Curtin (2006) 'The Politics of Empowerment: Power, Populism and Partnership in Rural ireland', The Economic and Social Review 37(3): 423-446.

(2004) 'The politics of rural development programmes in Mexico'. Research paper, Centre de Estudios Rurales, El Colegio de Michaocan, pp.1-33.

Chris Curtin and Tony Varley (2002) 'Changing patterns of leadership and local power in rural Ireland'. In K. Halfacree et al. (eds.) Leadership and Local Power in European Rural Development (Aldershot: Ashgate), pp. 12-32.

Chris Curtin and Tony Varley (2002) 'Community empowerment via partnership? The "local community" in rural Ireland’s area-based development regime'. In G. Taylor (ed.) Issues in Irish Public Policy. Dublin, Irish Academic Press, pp.127-150.

Chris Curtin and Tony Varley (2002) 'Communitarian populism and the politics of rearguard resistance in rural Ireland'. Community Development Journal 37(1): 20-32.

Chris Curtin and Anthony Varley (1999) 'Defending rural interests against nationalists in 20th century Ireland: A tale of three movements'. In J. Davis (ed.) Rural Change in Ireland (Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies), pp.58-83.

Chris Curtin, Trutz Haase and Hilary Tovey (eds.) (1996) Poverty in Rural Ireland: A Political Economy Perspective (Dublin: Oak Tree Press in association with Combat Poverty Agency).  >> Read on Google Books.

Irish Urban Cultures. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies Press and The University Press of America, 1995 (Joint editor with H. Donnan and T. Wilson).

Chris Curtain and T. Wilson (eds.) (1989) Ireland from Below (Galway: Galway University Press).

Chris Curtin, Pauline Jackson and Barbary O'Connor (eds.) (1987) Gender in Irish Society (Galway: Galway University Press).

The Commoditization Debate: Labour Process, Strategy and Social Network (Wageningen: Wageningen Agricultural University Press, 1986). (with N. Long, J. van der Ploeg and L. Box).

Supervision of Research

PhD Theses

Mark Mellett: Ecosystem Based Ocean Governance

Bernadine Brady: Evaluating the ’Big Brothers Big Sisters’ Programme

Conor McMahon: The Social Networks of Children in Care

Catherine Carty: Residential Care Practices and Resilience In Youth People

Gerry McAlinden: The Politics of Local Development in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

Peter Cush (co-supervisor with Dr. Tony Varley): Co-operative Management of Shellfish Production on the Killary.

Ruth Pritchard (co-supervisor with Dr. Tony Varley): Power and New Forms of Rural Governance.

Aine Macken Walsh (completed 2008): Governance and Rural Development: The Case of the Baltic Rural Partnership Programme in Post-Socialist Lithunania

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