SSRC Research

Our members' research interests are broad and the common thread is that all our members take a multi-disciplinary approach to their research. Details of their research interests along with contact details can be found below.

The SSRC may provide financial support for research projects but support usually takes the form of workspace and facilities in the St. Declan's building. At present we are hosting doctoral researchers Daniel Savery and Jonathan G. Heaney (Government of Ireland Scholar) in the Centre as well as postdoctoral researcher Dr. Oliver Feeney. We have also recently welcomed Mr Timothy Collins whose interests include the history and bibliography of Irish science, particularly natural history. Mr Collins is also the Director of the Centre for Landscape Studies.  For more information on these researchers, please see 'Research (St. Declan's) link' at the side. 

ENGLISH                                                                                                                                                     

Prof. Tadhg Foley (Email: Tadhg.Foleynuigalway.ie )  Culture and society in nineteenth-century Ireland.

Dr. Lionel Pilkington (Email: Lionel.Pilkingtonnuigalway.ie) Irish theatre. Colonialism/postcolonialism; cultural politics; and religious denomination and culture.

ECONOMICS                                                                                                                                               

Professor Michael Cuddy (Email: Michael.Cuddynuigalway.ie )  The economics of regional and rural development; institutional framework in support of a market economy; and institutional structures and policies in support of regional and rural development in transition economies.

Dr Steve Fountas (Email: Steven.Fountasnuigalway.ie )  International macroeconomics; European monetary integration; applied macro-economics; monetary economics and banking.

Dr. Aidan Kane (Email: Aidan.Kanenuigalway.ie )  Public finance and public choice, especially the political economy of Irish fiscal policy, and the economics of technological change; in particular, the economics of information technology.

Prof. Michael Keane (Email: Michael.Keanenuigalway.ie )  Regional and local economics, tourism economics, rural development.

Dr. Brendan Kennelly (Email: Brendan.Kennellynuigalway.ie )  Welfare economics and public policy; values and economic outcomes; public choice; economics of arts and culture; political economy of welfare states.

Ms Áine Ni Léime (Email: Aine.Nileimenuigalway.ie) Health economics, feminist economics, rational choice theory, history of economic thought.

Dr Terrence McDonough (Email: Terrence.Mcdonoughnuigalway.ie)  Major research interests include popular economic theories of long-wave growth and stagnation; colonialism in 19th century Ireland; economic policy; and popular economic education.

Dr Eamon O'Shea (Email: Eamon.oSheanuigalway.ie )  Economics of ageing; health economics and equality.

FRENCH                                                                                                                                                     

Dr Philip Dine (Email: Philip.Dinenuigalway.ie):  Representations of the French colonial empire, including particularly decolonisation, in fields ranging from children’s literature to professional sport; and leisure and popular culture in France.

GEOGRAPHY                                                                                                                                              

Prof. Micheál S. Ó Cinnéide (Email: micheál.ocinneidenuigalway.ie ) Rural development, local development, regional development, forestry and rural development, education, training and local development, rural tourism, strategic development planning.

Dr. Mary E. Cawley (E-mail: Mary.Cawleynuigalway.ie ) Rural population, society and economy. Recent research projects relate to population change, farm diversification and the promotion of rural enterprises.

Dr. Séamus Grimes (Email: Seamus.Grimesnuigalway.ie )  Philosophy of economic development; information technology and regional development; Australia.

Dr John McDonagh (Email: John.D.Mcdonaghnuigalway.ie)

Dr John Morrissey (Email: John.Morrisseynuigalway.ie) The emergence and contestation of Ireland's cultural geographies; nationalism and identity in contemporary Europe; historical geographies of colonialism; and war and geographical imagination.

Prof. Ulf Strohmayer (Ulf.Strohmayernuigalway.ie) Social theory; modernity and modernisation processes; communication and communities; and film and representation.

HUSTON SCHOOL OF FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA                                                                                               

Dr. Rod Stoneman (Email: rod.stonemannuigalway.ie)  The Politics of the Image.

HISTORY                                                                                                                                                     

Prof. Nicholas Canny (Email: Nicholas.Cannynuigalway.ie )  17th century Irish and British history; Colonial American history; Early Modern history.

Dr Niall Ó Ciosáin (Email: Niall.OCiosainnuigalway.ie)  Social history of Ireland and Europe, 17th-19th c.

Prof. Gearoid Ó Tuathaigh (Email: gearoid.otuathaighnuigalway.ie)  Nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish and British history; twentieth-century and contemporary European history; modern imperialism; the history of ideas.

LAW                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Mr Dennis Driscoll (Dennis.Driscollnuigalway.ie) International law, international organisations, international relations, human rights, media coverage of international affairs, European Union law, comparative freedom of speech, comparative civil liberties.

Prof. Ray Murphy (Email: Ray.Murphynuigalway.ie )  International peacekeeping; Irish involvement in peacekeeping operations; arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution .

PHILOSOPHY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Dr Thomas Duddy (Phone: ext. 2572) Philosophy of mind; philosophy of art and literature; environmental ethics; epistemology; philosophy of artificial intelligence.

Dr Richard Hull (Email: Richard.Hullnuigalway.ie)

Mr Joseph Mahon (Phone: ext.2574) Ethics; existentialism; political philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophical anthropology; Simone de Beauvoir.

Prof. Paschal O'Gorman (Phone: ext.2572) Philosophy of science; philosophy of economics; philosophy of religion; epistemology.

Dr Felix Ó Murchadha (Email: felix.omurchadhanuigalway.ie) Phenomenology, the philosophy of time, the philosophy of religion; Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur; and philosophical approaches to violence in the modern world.

Prof. Markus Woerner (Email: Markus.Woernernuigalway.ie) The philosophy of language, argument and rhetoric: hermeneutics; the philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas; and philosophy and the history of astronomy.

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY                                                                                                        

Prof. Chris Curtin (Email: Chris.Curtinnuigalway.ie )  Natural resource development, co-operation and disputes, legal anthropology and agrarian politics.

Dr Anne Byrne (Email: Anne.Byrnenuigalway.ie )  Equality strategies in rural development, and feminist pedagogies and methodology; researching the lives of never-married women in Ireland since the foundation of the State. Recent publications include work on maternity leave, rural women, poverty, and the development of women's studies in universities.

Dr Ricca Edmondson (Email: Ricca.Edmondsonnuigalway.ie)  Sociology of the environment, sociology of ageing, cultural sociology, sociology of knowledge; theory of argumentation and rhetoric; contextual analyses of collective behaviour; communitarianism.

Dr Mark Haugaard (Email: Mark.Haugaardnuigalway.ie)  Power, social order, knowledge, culture and modernity.

Mr Donal Igoe (Email: Donal.Igoenuigalway.ie)  Budgetary behaviour, social stratification.

Dr Kate Kenny (Email: kate.kennynuigalway.ie) Performance in Organization Studies, Female Bodies at Work, Psychoanalysis, Gender Theory and Asexuality, Identity in Organizations, Organizations, Power and the Developing World.

Dr Su-Ming Khoo (Email: S.khoonuigalway.ie) Research interests include the sociology of development; the sociology of culture, development and democracy in Malaysia; globalisation; consumer movement; alternative development; nationalism; think tanks; and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Dr Sinisa Malesevic (Email: Sinisa.Malesevicnuigalway.ie)  Research interests include ethnicity and nationalism; political sociology; social and political theory; theories of ideology; the sociology of culture and cultural policy; post-communism; and the sociology of war.

Dr Vesna Malesevic (Email: Vesna.malesevicnuigalway.ie): Current research interests are ’The Catholic Church and Civil Society in the Communist and Post-Communist Context’ and ’Sexual Behaviour and Knowledge of the Galway University Students’.

Dr. Peter Morriss (Email: Peter.Morrissnuigalway.ie )  Contemporary political philosophy, concentrating on analytic approaches and Western liberalism; is particularly interested in applying philosophical understanding to (selected) areas of currrent political controversy. Subsidiary interest: politics in South Korea.

Dr Henrike Rau (Email: Henrike.Raunuigalway.ie ) Research interests include time use research; temporal values and practices; consequences of cross-cultural exchange in organisations; acculturation and cross-cultural understanding in Irish society.

Dr. George Taylor (Email: George.Taylornuigalway.ie )  Contemporary state theory, macro-political bargaining, industrial relations and public policy, risk and public policy.

Dr. Anthony Varley (Email: Tony.Varleynuigalway.ie) Current research interests include rural and community development, agrarian politics, and the sociology of work.

CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS                                                                                                                    

Dr Joshua Castellino (joshua.castellinonuigalway.ie)  Human rights law; self-determination; minority rights law; international legal theory; discrimination; treaty based mechanisms; national liberation movements; United Nations; and territory.

Dr Kathleen Cavanaugh (kathleen.cavanaughnuigalway.ie)  The question of political violence in ethnically divided societies and the question of self-determination and autonomy regimes; the study of nationalism; ethnic conflict; political violence; and the application of international human rights and humanitarian law in ethnic conflicts.

CENTRE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION STUDIES                                                                                             

Dr Margaret Barry (Email: margaret.barrynuigalway.ie )   Health promotion in the workplace, primary care and nutrition.

Dr Saoirse NicGabhainn (Email: Saoirse.nicgabhainnnuigalway.ie) Young people, risk behaviour and schools health promotion.

Dr Barbara Griffin (Email: barbara.griffinnuigalway.ie) Foucault's concept of pastoral care in relation to social care and health promotion, power relationships between public health and population.

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