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Wendy Fuller

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Name:	Wendy Fuller
Position:	Doctoral Fellow NIRSA
Department:	Sociology
Organisation:	NIRSA, NUI Maynooth
Location:	Postgraduate Lab, Iontas Building, NUI Maynooth
E-mail:	wendy.fuller@nuim.ie
Telephone:	++ 353 1 708 6731
Fax:	++ 353 1 708 6456
Research Interests:	Education, gender, globalization and capitalism, rural development, migration, identity, social/cultural capital, space and place, normative structures.
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Projects

Project Title:	The Meaning of Success: Young Women, High Achievement and the Development of Social/Cultural Capital in Rapidly Developed Areas. A Comparative Study of Contemporary Semi-Rural/Rural Vermont and Ireland.
Supervisor:	Dr. Deirdre Kirke and Dr. Rebecca King-O’ Riain
Project Abstract:	A comparative international study on young women’s high academic achievement in rural/semi-rural Leinster (Ireland) and Vermont (USA) this project analyses the way academic achievement is conceptualised as cultural and personal capital between the two geographic locations, delving into the effects globalization, capitalism and rapid economic development have had on rural young people and communities. This qualitative research project attends to the contentious links between place, identity, status reproduction, out-migration, familial and peer socializing processes and conceptualisations of the role of knowledge/skills within the wider economy. Ultimately this work hopes to provide data for informing future educational and community development policies and planning structures in the efforts of creating sustainable communities and infrastructures on both sides of the Atlantic. This project is funded by NIRSA and is under the auspices of the ISSP.

Publications

• Fuller, Wendy. 2010. "The New Country Estates" in Corcoran, M. and Share, P. (eds).
  Ireland of the Illusions: A sociological chronicle 2007-2008. Dublin:IPA.
  
  
• O'Callaghan, Cian, Mary P. Corcoran and Wendy Fuller (eds). 2010.
  "Special Edition on Sustaining Communities". GeoJournal: an
  International Journal of Geography. Springer
  
  
• O'Callaghan, Cian, Mary P. Corcoran and Wendy Fuller. "Sustaining
  Communities: Setting the Agenda", GeoJournal: an International Journal of Geography - Special Edition on Sustaining Communities, 2009, DOI *10.1007/s10708-009-9329-y.
  
  
• *Fuller, Wendy I (2009). "Book Review: Renehan, C. (2006) Different
  Planets: Gender Attitudes and Classroom Practice in Post-Primary
  Teaching, The Liffey Press: Dublin". Irish Journal of Sociology. Vol.
  17, No. 1. pp:127-129.
  
  
• Fuller, Wendy. 2008. “‘But at least I’m aware I’m ignoring it!’ Reflexive Catholicism in Ireland” in Corcoran, M. and Share, P. (eds). Belongings: Shaping Identity in Modern Ireland. Dublin: IPA.

 

Presentations

• Fuller, Wendy I (30 April 2010). "Rurality, self and school: potential impacts on mobility and the knowledge economy?",
  Researching Young Lives Conference, University of Limerick in Association with PEPAYS (Physical Education, Physical Activity and Youth Sport) and ISKS (Institute for the Study of Knowledge in Society),
  University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
  
  
• Fuller, Wendy I (07 November 2009). "'Planners' and the 'Unsure', early policy relevant findings from a cross-cultural qualitative study",
  Sociological Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference, Sociological Association of Ireland, National University of Ireland
  Maynooth, Maynooth
  
  
• Fuller, Wendy I (Jun. 26, 2009). "The Taste of 'Success': Ambitions of Rural High School Students", All Change for Young People? : International Youth Studies Conference, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth Ireland.
  
  
• Fuller, Wendy I (Nov. 8, 2008). "The Meaning of Success: Young Women, High Achievement and the Development of Social/Cultural Capital in Rapidly Developed Areas. A Comparative Study of Contemporary Semi-Rural/Rural Vermont and Ireland", Sociological Association of Ireland Postgraduate Conference, Sociological Association of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin.