Anne Buttimer

Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College Dublin since 2003, Anne Buttimer is Fellow of Royal Irish Academy, Royal Geographical Society (UK) and Academia Europaea . She served as Council Member of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) 1974-77, of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) 1996-99 and as President of the International Geographical Union (IGU) 2000-2004, first female and first Irish person to be elected to this role.
Graduate of University College Cork, she received her Ph.D. in geography at University of Washington (Seattle) in 1965 and since then has held research and teaching positions in Belgium, Canada, France, Scotland, Sweden, and USA. She has authored several books and articles on subjects ranging from social space and urban planning to the history of ideas and environmental policy. Some of her work has been published in translation to Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian.
Her academic interests include the history and philosophy of science, urban and social geography, migration and identity, environmental experience, nature and culture, environment and sustainable development, human dimensions of global change.
She has received many awards and honours, including a post-doctoral fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation 1965-1966; Fulbright-Hays Visiting Professor in Social Ecology to Sweden 1976; Association of American Geographers Honors Award 1986; Honours Award, Taiwan Geographical Society 1990; Ellen Churchill Semple Award, University of Kentucky 1991; Royal Geographical Society (UK) Murchison Award 1997; Royal Scottish Geographical Society Millenium Award 2000; Membre D'Honneur, Sociéte de Géographie 2001; Socio D'onore Societá Geografica, Italiana, 2006;Doctor, honoris causa , University of Joensuu, 1999; Doctor honoris causa , Tartu University 2004.

Anna R Davies

Anna Davies is Associate Professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin. She obtained her PhD from Cambridge University in1999 and lectured at Kings College London before her current appointment at TCD. Anna conducts research in the arena of environmental governance particularly focusing on the ways in which different spheres and tiers of governing actors attempt to mediate environmental management within the areas of waste management, biodiversity and climate change. She has published widely in this field including 2 books and more than 35 peer reviewed journal articles. Anna was awarded fellowships from the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs and IRCHSS in 2000 and 2005 and is on the editorial board of Local Environment: the international journal for justice and sustainability, as well as Geography Compass. In addition Anna is on the management board of the Rediscovery Centre in Ballymun. She currently teaches on undergraduate and masters programmes within TCD, supervises 9 PhD students and is Principal Investigator of two major research projects, one funded by the EPA, 'CONSENSUS' which examines sustainable consumption, and the second funded by IRCHSS which focuses on sustainable economies. Further details can be found at :http://www.tcd.ie/naturalscience/research/themes/governance.php

Robert J Devoy

Born in a seaside town and growing up on a small island then, not surprisingly, I have long been drawn to things of the coast and sea: a youth misspent in beachcombing. Graduating in the 1970s from the universities of Durham and Cambridge (UK), my long- term interests in physical geography and the earth environment reflects this attraction to coasts.
My early research centred on London and the coasts of southern England, with PhD work on the analysis of sea-level changes and land subsidence in the Thames estuary. Aspects of these studies also included the environmental reconstruction of ancient coasts and the vegetational history of the region. Moving to Cork in 1977 this coastal-based research has continued in Ireland and also more widely, in the eastern USA, in Atlantic Europe from Scandinavia and the Baltic to Mediterranean Spain, Australia, Tahiti and New Zealand. This work has led to the publication of research papers and books on many aspects of sea-level changes, ancient shorelines and coastal processes, on the development of landbridges and their use in plant and animal migration, marine science and of coastal management. More recently, people's concerns for the repercussions of climate change and sea-level rise have resulted in work on the prediction, through numerical modelling, of the impacts of changes in storminess patterns on European Atlantic coasts. Coastal erosion, wave, sediment and water dynamics on the south coasts of Ireland, together with work on tsunamis in New Zealand are topics of current research.
In 1993 this coastal research led to the founding of the Coastal Resources Centre in UCC, now the Coastal and Marine Resources Centre (CMRC), of which I was Director till 2001. Activities in the CMRC have involved many different types of marine-related work at both research and commercial levels. The Centre, as linked to Geography and other university departments, has provided technical training for students and long-term jobs for graduates interested in the coastal and marine environments.
These interests in coasts have spilled over into many different aspects of other studies of Earth environments. This has included work on glaciations and Ice Age events in Ireland, the development of lakes, rivers and boglands and most recently on deep-sea environments. These interests are reflected in my courses in physical geography and in other degree programmes in the Earth and environmental sciences. In recent years the growth of public interest in marine matters has led to the development of courses in oceanography.
Physical geography is as much about people as it is about the analysis of environmental functioning. An aim of studying the Earth environment is to provide better knowledge of how it operates, enabling people to find improved ways of living and working in the environment. Communicating the results of environmental research has been an important part, therefore, of my contribution to helping promote this aim. This has led to regular newspaper, TV and film coverage of coastal management, sea-level and related climate change topics. Community based work also includes the development of university courses in Environmental Studies and in the diploma in Environmental Science and Social Policy. More recently this work has expanded to include people's interests in relationships between beliefs, God and the environment, through talks on Faith and Science. 

Patrick Duffy

Patrick Duffy is Emeritus Professor attached to the Geography Department in NUI Maynooth. He continues to have teaching interests in the Historical geography of Irish landscapes, and Geographies of colonialism. His research interests focus on landscape history and rural and social demographic change.
Author of Exploring the history and heritage of Irish landscapes (Dublin, 2007); Landscapes of south Ulster: a parish atlas of the diocese of Clogher (Belfast, 1993); editor, To and from Ireland: planned migration schemes 1600-2000 (Dublin, 2004); co-editor, Gaelic Ireland c1250-1650: land, lordship and settlement (Dublin, 2004)

Forthcoming publications

• ‘Wiring the Countryside: Rural Electrification in Ireland’, in Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Mega-engineering Projects, editor Stanley D. Brunn, Springer/Kluwer, Fall, 2010.
• ‘Ordnance Survey Maps and Official Reports’, Oxford History of the Irish Book, Vol 4 (1800-90), Oxford University Press.

Published

• Duffy, P.J. (2010), ‘Poetry and Place: when literature and landscape rhyme’ Introduction: Tom French (ed), A Meath Anthology, Meath County Council, 2010, vii-xiii.
• Duffy, P.J. (2009), ‘Rural historical geographies’ in The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by R. Kitchin and N. Thrift, Elsevier, vol 5, 136-145
• Duffy, P.J. (2009), ‘Exhibiting landscape’ in Museum Ireland, vol 19, 42-49
  
  Conference papers and public presentations
• ‘“Important places and great events”: townlands of home’, The Townland Project: A Public Conversation on Local Landscapes and Home, Johnswell, Kilkenny, 28 August 2010
• ‘Re-assessing the nineteenth-century geographical archive as colonial legacy’, Keynote lecture, Conference of Irish Geographers, Maynooth, 2nd May 2010
  http://geography.nuim.ie/staff/duffypatrick

Paul Dunlop

Dr Dunlop is a Quaternary scientist who uses remote sensing and GIS to understand ice sheet processes and palaeo ice sheet extent and behaviour. He conducts research on the characteristics of subglacial bedforms (e.g. ribbed moraines, drumlins) with the aim of understanding the formative processes of generation and how these in turn influence ice dynamics and ice sheet stability. He has a number of key publications in this field which have established the morphological characteristics of ribbed moraine (Dunlop and Clark, 2006), which has helped the development of a new theory of their formation which argues they are the product of an instability mechanism that occurs when an ice sheet flows across deforming sediment (Dunlop et al., 2008). More recently, he has been conducting research on the extent and behaviour of the former Irish Ice Sheet in Ireland (McCabe and Dunlop, 2006) and has been using marine geophysical data to identify and reconstruct the extent and retreat pattern of the former Irish Ice Sheet offshore on the continental shelf north and northwest of Donegal (Benetti et al., 2010; Dunlop et al., in press; O'Cofaigh et al., in press). A full publication list can be accessed using this link: http://www.science.ulster.ac.uk/esri/Dunlop-P-Dr.html#page=background

 

Jamie Goodwin-White

Jamie Goodwin-White is an economic/population geographer at University College Dublin whose research interests focus on issues surrounding immigration and inequality. After completing a PhD at the University of Washington in 2005 she held a lectureship/Research Councils UK fellowship in Social Statistics at the University of Southampton (2005-07) and a lectureship in Geography and Migration Studies at the University of Sussex (2007-08). Her most recent work from the US looks at the labor market experiences of immigrants and their children, the structure of racial wage inequalities across cities, and the selectivity of regional internal migration patterns. She is currently analyzing differences between the US and the UK in urban spatial settlement patterns of immigrants and the long-term implications of these for persistent social and economic inequalities. She regularly presents her research at national and international conferences across the social sciences, and has published it in Economic Geography; Population, Place and Space; International Migration Review; and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Angela Hayes

Ph.D. in Oceanography (03.1995-04.1999), University of Southampton (Pass)
Late Quaternary Palaeoclimatic and Palaeoecological changes in the Mediterranean Sea (supervisor: Prof. E.J. Rohling).
M.Sc. in Micropalaeontology (09.1993-09.1994), University of Southampton (Pass)
B.Sc. Hons in Physical Geology and Geomorphology (10.1990-06.1993), University of Liverpool (2:2)
Research Interests
My scientific career has been concerned with the study of planktonic foraminifera and their application to Late Quaternary palaeoclimatic fluctuations. This interest has focussed on the Mediterranean Sea, a marginal ocean basin with limited connection to the open ocean. The resultant high signal to noise ratio allows climatic fluctuations to be amplified making it ideal for investigating natural climatic variability. Planktonic foraminiferal analyses of high-resolution ocean sediments have allowed the identification of abrupt short-term climatic events within the Late Glacial and Holocene that could be related to similar episodes in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Another aspect of my research involves the use of planktonic foraminiferal species as biostratigraphic markers. In collaboration with my postgraduate student we are investigating the changes in coiling direction of Globorotalia truncatulinoides in the western Mediterranean. The principle aim is to assess its use as a biostratigraphic marker on a basin-wide scale during the Holocene.
My most recent interest involves the palaeoenvironmental conditions associated with the deposition of the Holocene sapropel (S1) within the eastern Mediterranean basin. The environmental conditions that led to this event are not yet fully understood. My aim is to constrain the oceanographic evolution of the Mediterranean Sea during the S1 event by studying size variation in planktonic foraminifera. This approach holds a substantial promise in providing new information on changes in water column stratification. The method is new and has never been applied to this particular problem. This approach aims to provide information on the growth of individual planktonic foraminiferal species during this extreme depositional event. This is the initial phase of a long term project in which size variation will be determined not only in the Holocene sapropel but in older sapropels.

 

Dr Susan Hegarty

Dr Susan Hegarty is currently a member of the Geography Department at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, where she lectures on aspects of Physical and Environmental Geography. Her current reserch focuses on palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the southeast of Ireland, while other research interests include Ireland's glacial landscapes, links between Ireland's physical landscape and its cultural landscape, water resources and Third Level Geography education. Further information can be found at: http://www.spd.dcu.ie/main/academic/geography/SusanHegarty.shtml

 

Frank Houghton

Dr Frank Houghton is a Health Geographer and Lecturer in the Department of Humanities in Limerick Institute of Technology. His research interests focus on inequalities in health and health service provision, the use of GIS in the health sector, and diffusion of both disease and health technology innovations. Frank also has a developing interest in the conceptualisation of geography and geography education.

 

 

 

Alun Jones

Alun Jones is Professor of Geography and Head of School having held senior positions at University College London and the University of Leicester, and visiting posts at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Bonn. Professor Jones is a political geographer and author of numerous books and international peer-reviewed papers on European Union governance, Europeanization and the Mediterranean, and rural transformations in France and Germany. He has held prestigious scholarships and fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust, Deutsche Akademische Austausdienst (DAAD), British Council and the Institut Francais, as well as research grants totalling in excess of €1.5 millions from the European Commission. In 2004-5 he was presented with the Edward Heath Award by the Royal Geographical Society and Institute of British Geographers for his contribution to research on EU governance. In 2006 he was made an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences in the United Kingdom in recognition of his scholarship on the European Union. Professor Jones is on the advisory board of UCD's Dublin European Institute (DEI). Professor Jones currently supervises 4 doctoral students in the field of EU governance, Irish rural representation in Brussels, migration and rural change, and recent innovations in Irish farming communities. These are supported by competitive grants from the IRCHSS and EPA. Professor Jones' recent research focuses on the discourses surrounding EU engagements with the Mediterranean in the context of theoretical debates on Europeanization. He has published this work in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2006, 2009), Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (2003; 2008), Political Geography (2009), and Geopolitics (2008; 2009). At UCD Professor Jones lectures on the Geographies of Europe, the Political Geography of European Integration, and European rural policy, as well as co-running a political geography fieldclass to Berlin for the MA Geography degree. He is an active teacher in the evening degree programme.

 

Professor Gerry Kearns

Gerry Kearns is Professor of Human Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has a B.A. and PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. He has taught and researched at the universities of Liverpool, Wisconsin-Madison, Cambridge, and Virginia Tech. He researches at the intersection of political geography, medical geography and historical geography. He is particularly interested in the public uses of geographical ideas as geopolitics, epidemiology, and national identity. He is the author of Geopolitics and Empire: the legacy of Halford Mackinder (2009) which won the Murchison Award from the Royal Geographical Society in 2010. http://geography.nuim.ie/staff/kearnsgerry

 

Dr Karen Keaveney

Karen Keaveney is a Lecturer in Spatial Planning in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering in Queen’s University Belfast. She is a graduate of the Department of Geography, NUI ,Galway where she studied for a BA in Human and Physical Geography. She then completed a Masters in Regional and Urban Planning in UCD and a PhD in Geography from NUI Maynooth. Karen represents the Geographical Society of Ireland on the RIA National Social Sciences Committee. Her research interests include housing, the spatial literacy needs of planners, inter-jurisdictional planning, and rural restructuring. She also has an interest in 'alternative perspectives' on planning, using media such as film and literature to understand individual and community perceptions of space and place.

 

Denis Linehan

Denis Linehan is a social and cultural geographer in University College Cork. He joined UCC in 1999, having previously worked at the Universities of Wales, Nottingham and Lancaster. His current research interests are shared between (i) investigations into place, landscape and modernity, (ii) the historical geographies of the state and social policy (iii) urban governance in the contemporary city. Denis is also a core member of the MPLAN team in UCC and serves on the Board of Geography Compass. He has recently completed a phase as External Examiner at the University of Cambridge. As well as ongoing work on social inclusion, poverty and urban change, Denis is currently engaged in a number of writing projects, one concerned with tracing a history of time-space and landscape politics in Ireland, another addressing an historical geography of spaces, bodies and modernity in interwar Britain and one more opening up new interests in post-colonial spaces in Kenya.

 

Peter Lydon

Peter Lydon attended the Comprehensive Schools, Ballymun before attending UCD where he completed a BA degree in Economics and Geography (1988) and an MA in geography (1990). He served briefly as a Director of the Ballymun Initiative for Third Level Education (BITE) before completing an H. Dip Ed. in TCD (1993). He currently teaches in Wesley College, Dublin. His main teaching subject are Geography and Legal Studies and has at various times taught adult literacy skills, Geopolitics, Government, Sociology, International Relations, History, and Economics in a variety of places. He has lectured on Failte Ireland’s Tour Guides Training Course and he has specialist experience teaching Gifted and Talented Children through the Irish Centre for Talented Youth at DCU. He is an online tutor for the Institute of Child Education and Psychology (ICEPE). He has several years experience delivering courses for teachers through his involvement with the Association of Geography Teachers of Ireland of which he is President. He was a school network manager for 3 years and has a particular interest in the use of ICT in teaching and learning. He is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and ICT Tutor for the NCTE and has delivered courses for teachers in Blackrock Education Centre. His pedagogical interests include Assessment for Learning, Multiple Intelligences, Creativity and Problem Solving and Decision-making.

 

Stephen G. McCarron

Stephen G. McCarron graduated from QUB (BSc. Geography), the Univ. of Leicester (MSc. GIS) and Univ. of Ulster (DPhil). He has been involved in Quaternary research and GIS teaching at the University of Ulster, the Geological Survey of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, and currently at NUI Maynooth in the Dept. of Geography and ICARUS (http://geography.nuim.ie). He is Secretary and former Chair of the Irish Quaternary Association (IQUA) and a member of the Royal Irish Academy National Geosciences and Geography Committees. His main research interests are in Irish glacial geology, particularly the nature of the last deglaciation (see Coxon and McCarron in The Geology of Ireland, 2nd ed., 2009). To that end he is actively expanding the palaeoenvironmental analysis facilities in NUIM with the addition of a sediment core scanning and analysis facility.
 

Dr Ruth McManus

Dr Ruth McManus is Senior Lecturer and Head of Geography at St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. She is the author of Dublin 1910-1940: shaping the city and suburbs (2002) and Crampton Built (2008), as well as articles on different aspects of urban geography, suburban history, population, heritage, tourism and geography education. She is particularly interested in the nature of the urban landscape and much of her work focuses on the physical and social development of everyday spaces. She is the current editor of Irish Geography, the journal of the Geographical Society of Ireland, produced by Taylor & Francis, and past editor of Geographical Viewpoint, journal of the AGTI.  Website: http://staff.spd.dcu.ie/mcmanusr/index.htm

 

David Meredith

Current Position: Senior Research Officer, Spatial Analysis Unit, Rural Economy Research Centre, Teagasc

Short Biography: David Meredith works in Teagasc' Rural Economy Research Centre where he is responsible for the rural development research programme. Reflecting the complex nature of contemporary rural development, David's research covers a diverse range of issues including Ireland's changing agricultural geography, rural population change and the impacts on demographic structures, the changing structure of the rural economy and farm household links to the broader economy.

In addition to these activities David is highly engaged with a number of international research networks including ESPON and RURAGRI. He has worked extensively on a number of EU funded research projects and as a consultant in the Western Balkans.

David sits on the Co-ordinating Committee of the National Rural Network and is currently secretary of the Geographical Society of Ireland and Irish Rural Studies Association.

John Morrissey

John Morrissey is Director of the MA in Environment, Society and Development at NUI Galway and Acting Head of Geography. John is a Political and Cultural Geographer, with particular research interests in geopolitics, imperialism and international security. His work also explores broader questions of representation, especially the geopolitical and cultural discursive power of abstracted geographical knowledges. He is the author of Negotiating Colonialism (RGS-IBG Historical Geography Research Series 2003) and co-author of Key Concepts in Historical Geography (Sage 2011). His work has also appeared in leading international journals such as Antipode, Geopolitics and Social and Cultural Geography. John was awarded an IRCHSS Fellowship for 2007/2008, which he spent as a Fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate School of City University of New York. At CUNY, John's research was focused on the evolving geopolitical grand strategy of recent American intervention in the Middle East, with a concern more broadly with the political economy and biopolitics of the so-called war on terror. John was nominated by the Fulbright Commission as Ireland's candidate for a Fulbright US Institute Scholar Award for 2010/2011, for the Institute on US Foreign Policy at the University of Florida.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/staff/morrissey.html

 

Clionadh Raleigh 

Dr. Clionadh Raleigh is a political geographer in the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College, University of Dublin. Her work focuses on the spatial patterns of conflict, African political dynamics and the social consequences of drought and famine patterns in African states. She directs the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) Project (see acleddata.com). Her current research is on distress migration and communal violence patterns in the Sahel belt. Dr. Raleigh writes extensively on civil wars, political instability, conflict dynamics, African politics, environmental politics/political ecology, social consequences of climate change and political geography.
Between 2004-2007, she was a researcher at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO). She is now an external senior researcher at PRIO through their Center for the Study of Civil War and a conflict consultant for the World Bank.

Stephen Royle

Stephen Royle MRIA is Professor of Island Geography in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen's University Belfast. He was educated at St John’s College Cambridge and Leicester University. His research interests encompass the geography of islands and urban historical geography, especially pertaining to Belfast and Ireland. His books include A Geography of Islands (2001), The Company's Island (2007), Company, Crown and Colony (2010), two Belfast fascicles of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas (the first with Professor Raymond Gillesppie, MRIA) and an edited book on Belfast with Professor Frederick Boal, Enduring City (2006). Royle is Secretary of the RIA’s Committee on Geographical Sciences; a member of the Council of British Geography; the committee of EUGEO, the European Society for Geography; Chair of the Royal Geographical Society’s Northern Ireland Regional Committee, treasurer of the International Small Island Studies Association, Deputy Editor of Island Studies Journal and on the board of Irish Historical Studies. He is past-president of the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies and the Geographical Society of Ireland. In addition to being a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, Royle is a Chartered Geographer (C.Geog) and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/gap/Staff/AcademicStaff/ProfStephenRoyle