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Environment and Culture

Group Information

Name:	Environement and Culture
Lead Associate :	New leadership to be decided. Formerly led by Dr. Catherine Kelly, Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire
Members:	view members list
Projects:	view projects list
Events:	view events list
Key Programme Initiatives:	ICARUS Staidéar teangeolaioch cuimsitheach ar úsáid na Gaeilge sa Ghealtacht
Future Programme Themes:	Mapping environmental change in Ireland (with Group: Geocomputation) - PRTLI

Membership

Associates

• Prof. Gerry Boyle
• Helene Bradley
• Dr. Steve Coleman
• Adjunct Prof. Patrick Commins
• Prof. Paddy Duffy
• Dr. Abdullahi El-Tom
• Dr. Paul Gibson
• Eoin Gill
• Dr. Mark McCarthy - Heritage Studies, GMIT
• Dr. Conchúr O'Giollagáin
• Dr. Jacinta Prunty
• Dr. Perry Share
• Dr. Eamonn Slater
• Dr. John Sweeney

External Associates

• Dr. Catherine Kelly - University of Greenwich
• Dr. Caitriona Ni Laoire - Geography, UCC

Postdocs

• Dr. Laura McElwain
• Dr. Yassin Osman

Students

• Ruth Casey
• James Hanrahan
• Deirdre McAlister
• Janice McNelis
• Marion Mullin
• Liam Murphy
• Sophie Price
• Joanna Sweeney

Past Visitors

• Prof. David J.A Douglas, University of Guelph, Canada

Past Students and Internships

• Pat Carty
• Gearóid Coakley
• Bridget Cullen
• Margaret Deegan
• Liam Lanagan
• Jerome Martin
• Yvonne McDermott
• Marguerite Osborne
• Marie Taylor

 

Projects

• Boyle, G. Teagasc Walsh Fellowship, 2002-2005
• Gibson, P. Geophysical investigation of the Cashen floodplain, Listowel, Co. Kerry. OPW/PRTL

• Gibson, P. Archaeological prospection of Tulsk ring mound and Cloonfree moated site, Co. Roscommon, Discovery Programme

• Gibson, P. Geophysical investigation of the archaeological features in Clonard, Co. Meath., Royal Irish Academy

• Gibson, P. Geophysical investigation of the archaeological features in Clonard, Co. Meath., Heritage Council

• Gibson, P. Geophysical investigation of the historic remains at Leamonaghan, Co. Offaly, Offaly County Council

• O'Giollagáin, C. Staidéar teangeolaioch cuimsitheach ar úsáid na Gaeilge sa Ghealtacht, An Roinn Gnóthai Pobail, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta

• Prunty, J. Wicklow Mountains National Park local history research, Jan – Aug. 2004

• Prunty, J. ‘Index to religious houses and mission stations in Ireland or founded directly from Ireland’, Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, April 2004 –June 2005

• Prunty, J. Archives project., Our Lady of Charity of Refuge (Irish Province), High Park, Drumcondra., June-July 2004

• Share, P. The pub as 'Third Place', Technological Sector Research: Strand 1: post-graduate R&D skills programme, 2003

• Sweeney, J. Indicators of Climate Change in Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency

• Sweeney, J. Impacts of Climate Change in Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency

• Sweeney, J. Climate Change in Ireland: Refining the Impacts, Environmental Protection Agency

• Sweeney, J. Climate Extremes Analysis, EPA

Events

Conferences

• August 18-22, 2003
  Work, Leisure and Development in Rural Europe Today
  European Society for Rural Sociology 20th Biennial Conference 2003
  Venue: Institute of Technology, Sligo
• Oct 18-20, 2002
  Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory,
  Department of Heritage Studies, GMIT (Castlebar) and NIRSA in association with the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages (University of Ulster)
  Venue: GMIT - Castlebar Campus, Co. Mayo
  

Seminars

• November 16th, 2004; November 17th 2004
  Prof. Brian Graham, Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, Ulster
  'A haven of intelligent eclecticism': methodologies in Historical Geography
  IRCHSS Masterclass
  Venue: Lecture Theatre 2, Hume Building; MIC
• February 6, 2004
  Countryside Conservation in the City
  Prof. David Douglas, University of Guelph, Canada
  NIRSA Visiting Associate
  Venue: Rocque Lab, Rhetoric House, NUI Maynooth

• December 16, 2003
  Landscape, memory and performance in Fascist Rome
  Prof. David Atkinson, University of Hull
  Venue: Crolly Room, Pugin Building, South Campus, NUI Maynooth

• December 11, 2003
  The poetics of space in Joyce's Ulysses
  Dr. Gerry Kearns, University of Cambridge
  Venue: Gilmartin Room, Pugin Building, South Campus, NUI Maynooth

• February 7, 2002
  Valuing the Benefits of Coastal Water Quality Improvements
  Professor Nick Hanley
  Venue: Top Loftus, South Campus, NUIM