News
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TIDI Events
- TIDI and the DSAI
- Trinitys Engagement with Rwanda: Visit by Dr. Patrick Prendergast, Provost of TCD
- TCD UCD Development Research Seminar Series 2013
In Trinity
- Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe
- Friday 22nd March: The World is Bumpy: Power, Uneven Development and the Impact of New ICTs on South African Manufacturing
Research Funding Opportunities
- Journal of Business and Finance
- Friday March 29th: Annual Health & Scientific Conference
- Call for Papers: International Science, Technology And Engineering Conference Istec 2013 Songdo-Dong/ Korea
- Hubert H. Humphrey Endowed Visiting Professorship
- Thursday 9th and Friday 10th May: The Irish Economic Association Annual Conference
- International Distance Education Conference: Call for papers
Outside Trinity
- Healthy Futures Newsletter
- The Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre: Workshops on Global Development Issues and the Work of Irish Aid
- Comhlamh’s What Next?
- Thursday 21st March: New Global Policy, Same Local Reality? - Making the Post-2015 Framework Accountable to the World’s Poor
- Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th May: Comhlamh’s Coming Home Weekend
- Monday 10th - Friday 14th June 2013: Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches
- Thursday 18th April to Thursday 27th June: The World’s Your Oyster, Development Education Course
- Monday 15th to Friday 19th July 2013: Monitoring and Evaluation: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches
- ECO-UNESCO Courses
- Kimmage Capacity Development Services
TIDI EVENTS
TIDI and the DSAI
TIDI and the Development Studies Association of Ireland (DSAI) have agreed to engage on a collaborative partnership, reflecting the synergy existing between these two entities. In a very concrete expression of this partnership, TIDI and DSAI are cooperating on the employment of a suitably qualified Coordinator to support the enhancement and growth of both organisations. Whilst the Coordinator is a joint position providing support to both TIDI and DSAI, the post-holder will be based in Trinity College under the existing TIDI structure.
TIDI’s vision is that TCD will be internationally renowned for excellence in development research and education and for the provision of practical solutions to real-world challenges. TIDI will continue to deliver on its vibrant outreach programme and to raise awareness among the wider community of development issues and of TCD’s role in addressing these. TIDI looks forward to this partnership with the DSAI, and to a productive and collaborative future.
TIDI would like to take this opportunity to thank Irish Aid, and the Trinity Foundation at Trinity College for their generous support.
Trinitys Engagement with Rwanda: Visit by Dr. Patrick Prendergast, Provost of TCD
Trinity Provost, Dr Patrick Prendergast visited Rwanda in September 2012 forging links with universities in Africa in education and research as part of the Trinity International Development Initiative. Click here to read this article.
To view a short video clip of this visit please see here.
TCD UCD Development Research Seminar Series 2013
Please note unless other wise stated these seminars are open to the public, and do not require registration.
Contact: Email: tidi@tcd.ie, Website: www.tcd.ie/tidi, or http://www.ucd.ie/hdi/.
To view the full seminar series poster please click here.
Friday February 8th: Social Movements and Political Change: An Analysis of the Arab Uprisings
Speaker: Dr. Vincent Durac, UCD SPIRe
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: G317, Belfield Campus, UCD
Friday 15th February: Making the Post-2015 Framework More Accountable to the World's Poor
Speaker: Dr Lorna Gold, Head of Policy & Advocacy, Trócaire
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: G317, Newnan Building, Belfield Campus, UCD
Friday 8th March: Women, Violence and Social Change
Speaker: Dr. Melanie Hoewer, UCD SPIRe and IBIS
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: G317, Newman Building, Belfield Campus, UCD
Friday 22nd March: The Role of Branding in NGO
Speaker: Karen Hand, Ms. Karen Hand , PhD Candidate, School of Psychology , Centre of Global Health.
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Seminar Room, The Luce Hall, School of Natural Sciences, TCD
Friday 5th April: A Perspective on the Human Resource Issues Facing the Overseas Development Sector
Speaker: Frank Flood, Deputy Director, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Seminar Room B, Museum Building, TCD
In Trinity
Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe
As part of the Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series on Europe jointly organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), development economist Jean-Philippe Platteau will give a public lecture on Thursday 24th January at Trinity College Dublin titled ‘Do We Need Growth to Emancipate Vulnerable People?’
This Euro-Visions Public Lecture Series will bring together Irish and international scholars from across a wide range of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines. The lecture series will interrogate the current crisis of the EU from the vantage points of both the Social Sciences and the Humanities and will instigate an interdisciplinary dialogue about possible responses to this crisis. It will combine political, sociological, historical and cultural perspectives to reflect on a range of issues such as questions of identity and cultural memory within Europe, links between the past and the present, and social, political and financial models for the EU. Overall, the series will present fresh perspectives from experts across a broad spectrum of disciplines and positions towards the crucial debate about the future of Europe and Ireland’s position and role within the EU. Please find a printable version available for download here.
Date: Thursday, 24 January
Time: 19.30
Venue: Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Friday 22nd March: The World is Bumpy: Power, Uneven Development and the Impact of New ICTs on South African Manufacturing with speaker Padraig Carmody
Some now assert Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) marginalization in the global economy is being reversed by an information technology revolution. However, while many claims are made for new ICTs - and mobile phones in particular - very little research has been done on the precise ways in which firms use these technologies and their developmental impacts. Drawing on over fifty firm-level interviews, this paper examines evidence of the uses and impacts of new ICTs in the wood products industry in Durban, South Africa and its surrounding region. In contrast to assumptions in much of the literature, it finds that rather than primarily being used to connect to global markets, they are most commonly used as technologies of local labour control and inter-firm competition. Consequently the use of these technologies may deepen existing inequalities and uneven development, and in some instances disinformationalisation, rather than reduce or overcome them.
Time: 1pm
Venue: IIIS Seminar Room, 6th floor Arts Building, TCD
Contact: Website: http://www.tcd.ie/iiis/news/bulletin.php#mar22
Research Funding Opportunities
Journal of Business and Finance
Journal of Business and Finance is a fast track peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by eSci Journals Publishing and one of the largest open access journal publishers around the world. To date eSci Journals have been indexed by many important databases.
Online submission: http://escijournals.net/JBF/pages/view/Submit or send your manuscript to jbf@escijournals.net<mailto:jbf@escijournals.net>
Website: http://www.escijournals.net/JBF
Friday March 29th: Annual Health & Scientific Conference
The 4th Annual Health & Scientific Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2013, targets eastern African health priorities and opportunities in a changing world. Spread over three days, the Conference programme comprises four sub-themes (Maternal and Child Health, Non Communicable Diseases and Trauma, Health Systems Quailty of Health Care) and four symposia (HIV and AIDS, Integrated disease surveillance and disaster preparedness, Environment and health in Africa, and Tobacco control). The Environment and health in Africa Symposium is being jointly coordinated by members of the HEALTHY FUTURES and QWeCI (http://www.liv.ac.uk/qweci) research projects and brings together researchers at the cutting edge of efforts to understand the relationships between health and environment, and in particular links between climate and vector-borne diseases, in Africa.
Venue: Serena Hotel, Kigali, Rwanda
Call for Papers: International Science, Technology And Engineering Conference Istec 2013 Songdo-Dong/ Korea
International Science, Technology & Engineering Conference (ISTEC) aims to provide a multinational platform where the latest trends science and technology can be presented and discussed in a friendly environment with the aim to learn from each other. Prospective presenters are encouraged to submit proposals for papers, posters/demonstrations and video presentations that offer new research or theoretical contributions. Presentations should be in Turkish, English and Korean languages and should address both theoretical issues and new research findings.
ISTEC 2013 conference is supported by Sakarya University, SUNY Korea and TASET and will take place on July 18-20, 2013 at SUNY Korea Lecture Hall 156. All full paper presentations will be published in an online proceedings book of ISTEC 2013 and the selected papers will be published in The Online Journal of Science and Technology.
Date: 18-20 July 2013
Abstract Deadline : July 01, 2013
Full Article Deadline : July 30, 2013
Registration Fee Deadline : July 10, 2013
Website: http://www.iste-c.net
Hubert H. Humphrey Endowed Visiting Professorship
The Macalester College Geography and Environmental Studies Departments seek to appoint a distinguished scholar, public servant or professional with expertise in the realm of land change science and remote sensing to the Hubert H. Humphrey Visiting Professorship. The Humphrey Professorship was established in 1968 to strengthen international education at Macalester by bringing to the campus distinguished individuals with international expertise. The successful candidate will teach two courses (e.g., intro to remote sensing, a seminar on land change science, land use/land cover change in the Global South) aimed primarily at an upper level, undergraduate audience of geography, environmental studies and biology students. He/she will contribute substantially to the life of the Macalester community.
This appointment as a visiting scholar-teacher will be for either the fall or spring semester of academic year 2013-2014. The Humphrey Professorship provides excellent remuneration, relocation expenses, occupancy of a comfortable home near campus, and support for academic travel and research. At the chair-holder’s option, the home and a campus office could be available for the entire academic year.
Review of applications will begin on March 1, and will continue until the position is filled. To apply, go to http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo and electronically submit a detailed cover letter, curriculum vitae, two brief course descriptions, and the names and contact information for three references. If necessary, hard copy applications may be mailed to Laura Kigin (Humphrey Search), Geography Dept, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN 55105 USA. For any questions about the position or submission of materials, contact the chair of the search committee, Dr. William Moseley, at moseley@macalester.edu or 651-696-6126.
Thursday 9th and Friday 10th May: The Irish Economic Association Annual Conference
The Twenty-seventh annual conference of the Irish Economic Association will be held on 9th and 10th May, 2013 at the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. The Association invites submissions of papers to be considered for the conference programme. Papers may be on any area in Economics, Finance and Econometrics.
The 2013 Conference will run over 2 days, starting at 9am on the morning of Thursday 9th, and finishing before 7pm on Friday 10th. Accommodation will be available at the Glenroyal hotel, but must be booked separately from the main conference registration. More details on this website later. For the full Call for Papers, and details regarding paper submission, see here.
Venue: Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth, Co Kildare
International Distance Education Conference: Call for papers
International Distance Education Conference (IDEC) aims to provide a multinational platform where the latest trends in distance education can be presented and discussed in a friendly environment with the aim to learn from each other. Prospective presenters are encouraged to submit proposals for papers, posters/demonstrations and video presentations that offer new research or theoretical contributions. Presentations should be in Turkish, English and Korean languages and should address both theoretical issues and new research findings. Furthermore if the presenter is unable to attend the oral presentation, video presentation is available. For further information on how to submit, please refer to the Paper Submission section on the website. For paper guidelines, please refer to the Paper Guidelines section.
Venue: Suwon/KOREA
Date: 15-17 July 2013
Contact: Website: www.id-ec.net
Outside Trinity
Healthy Futures Newsletter
The third Issue (February 3rd) of the Healthy Futures Newsletter is available to download here. For more information on Health Futures please see here
The Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre: Workshops on Global Development Issues and the Work of Irish Aid
The Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre is now taking bookings for our free primary, secondary and third-level workshops on global development issues and the work of Irish Aid, which include a guided exhibition tour of the Centre. The Centre also provides a free space for talks, seminars, films, and training courses with a development focus, as well as temporary exhibitions and associated launches.
Contact: Ruth Powell on T: 01 854 69 32: Website: Email: irishaidcentre@dfa.ie
Comhlamh’s What Next?
Multiple Dates: 1 - 3 March (residential, Tipperary), Saturday 13th April & 8th June (Dublin).
A 4-day course for returned volunteers who have lived and worked overseas and wish to continue engaging in the sector in Ireland.
Cost: €60 (covers all training materials, accommodation, meals and refreshments).
Contact: Website: http://bit.ly/Vl1cge: Email: susan@comhlamh. T: 01 4783490
Thursday 21st March: New Global Policy, Same Local Reality? - Making the Post-2015 Framework Accountable to the World’s Poor
In preparation for its 40th birthday, Trócaire, with its partners, consulted through in-depth interviews with 240 people living in extreme poverty in six countries to hear their views on what needs to be in a new framework. This year long global listening exercise offers a unique insight into what it means to be poor today and where the focus of the efforts of the international community needs to be in the coming years to work towards a more just and sustainable world. This conference will examine the initial findings of this listening exercise and explore its implications for a new development framework. This event will involve a combination of plenary sessions with high level speakers and parallel sessions with Trócaire partners on key questions relevant to the post-2015 framework.
Time: 9am - 4.30pm
Venue: Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin
Contact: Susan Cullen Email: scullen@trocaire.ie T: 01-5053218
Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th May: Comhlamh’s Coming Home Weekend
A chance for returnees to socialise, share their overseas experiences and explore what options are open to them.
Venue: All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Co. Dublin.
Cost: €50 (covers accommodation & all meals)
Contact: http://bit.ly/VV3xuN: Email: susan@comhlamh. T: 01 4783490
Monday 10th - Friday 14th June 2013: Justice Sector Reform: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches
This annual IHRN training programme aims at enhancing the skills of justice sector personnel, consultants, managers etc, in applying Human Rights Based Approaches to Justice Sector Reform. The programme is designed for people working in the justice sector (with state or non-state institutions) or undertaking Rule of law/Governance assignments (eg UN, EC Framework Contract Lot 7 - Governance and Home Affairs) as well as justice sector personnel wishing to adapt their expertise for international consultancy work.
- Knowledge and skills enhanced include:
- The legal principles, policies & practice underpinning human rights based approaches to justice sector reform
- The inter-linkages between justice sector roles (law enforcement, judiciary, corrections/rehabilitation, etc)
- The relationship between the justice sector and related terms; 'security sector', 'rule of law', 'good governance'
- Human Rights Based needs assessment, programme design, implementation, as well as monitoring & evaluation
- Programming tools & checklists (including benchmarks & indicators of human rights change)
- Case studies from national contexts as well as international field missions (including conflict and post-conflict)
- Teamwork, advocacy, strategic partnerships and consulting opportunities.
Further information and application details can be found at the following link: Justice Sector Reform
Venue: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Contact: Webiste: http://www.ihrnetwork.org/justice-sector-reform_202.htm
Thursday 18th April to Thursday 27th June: The World’s Your Oyster, Development Education Course
This highly engaging and interactive Global Awareness /Development Education course will examine issues such as: Poverty - Global Conflict - Climate Change - HIV Aids, International Trade and Volunteering. Guest facilitators include people from: Trocaire, Ruhama, Comhlamh, Concern and other major development Organisations. This course will be running for 10 consecutive Thursday evenings.
Contact: Email: eugene@vmminternational.org. Website: www.vmminternational.org
Phone: 01-6334421, Mobile: 0857330191
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Venue: Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin 1
Monday 15th to Friday 19th July 2013: Monitoring and Evaluation: Applying Human Rights Based Approaches
Objective:This programme aims to enhance the substantive knowledge and practical skills for applying Human Rights Based Approaches to monitoring and evaluation.
Participants:Reflecting the multi-disciplinary nature of human rights based development, the programme is aimed at individuals from a range of disciplines, with experience in monitoring or evaluating programmes/sectors/institutions in developing and industrialised countries: officials with public and regulatory bodies; donor personnel responsible for commissioning and managing evaluations; IGO and NGO project managers, professional evaluators, etc. The programme is aimed at participants with prior experience in M&E, with a limited number of places allocated to those at entry level.
Methods: The Programme applies a variety of pedagogical techniques; presentations, plenary discussions, group work, role-plays, case studies, etc. The Programme is highly participatory and emphasises cross-learning among participants, based upon advance reflection. Advance reading provides participants with a common grounding in the international legal framework, human rights based approaches, evaluation theory and practice.
Further information and application details can be found at the following link: Monitoring and Evaluation
Venue: National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Contact: Website: http://www.ihrnetwork.org/monitoring-evaluation_238.htm
ECO-UNESCO Courses
ECO-UNESCO is Ireland's Environmental Education and Youth Organisation affiliated to the World Federation of UNESCO Clubs, Centres and Associations (WFUCA). ECO-UNESCO provides a wide range of programmes and services, which include: Environmental Youth Programmes including Environmental Events and Activities, Environmental Workshops, ECO-UNESCO Clubs, ECO-Youth Choices Programme and Youth for Sustainable Development Programme. To view the schedule of upcoming courses please see their website below.
Venue: ECO-UNESCO, The Greenhouse, 17 St Andrew Street, Dublin 2
Contact: Website: http://www.ecounesco.ie
Kimmage Capacity Development Services
KODE
Kimmage Open & Distance Education offers distance education to development workers globally. Please see KODE website: www.kodeonline.com for course outlines, tutor profiles, application forms, feedback from recent participants. To view the schedule of upcoming courses please see here.
Venue: Development Studies Centre, Kimmage
Contact: Website www.kimmagedtalk.ie
Kimmage Open Training Courses
Kimmage Capacity Development Services (including the former DTALK programme) provides a professional capacity-development service to the Irish international development sector in the form of open scheduled training, tailor made training, organisational strengthening services and consultancy services. To view the schedule of upcoming courses please see their website below.
Venue: Development Studies Centre, Kimmage
Contact: Website www.kimmagedtalk.ie
