DR. DAVID MICHAEL ABRAHAMSON abrahamsondavidmichael ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DBRHMSON COMPUTER SCIENCE TEXT AND IMAGE COMPRESSION; OCR; COMPILER DESIGN & OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGN; SGML; DSSSL; PHOTOCOMPOSITION. RESEARCH GROUP: (CDRG) COMPILER DESIGN RESEARCH GROUP COMPUTER SCIENCE CDRG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. GIULIANA ADAMO adamogiuliana ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GADAMO ITALIAN 13TH-20TH CENTURY ITALIAN POETRY, THEATRE AND LITERATURE; HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE SINCE THE ORIGINS; HISTORY OF WESTERN AND ITALIAN NOVELS; ITALIAN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (GREAT FOCUS ON MAFIA AND FASCISM); TEXTUAL AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION (2008/2009, 2012-2013: FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR AT HARVARD.) DEPT OF ITALIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. MARTIN HOWARD ADAMS adamsmartinhoward FELLOW EMERITUS MADAMS MUSIC 1) ENGLISH MUSIC IN THE 17TH CENTURY, ESPECIALLY THAT OF HENRY PURCELL AND THEATRE MUSIC. 2) THE MUSIC OF EDWARD ELGAR. 3) CONCEPTS OF INFLUENCE IN MUSIC. 4) COPYRIGHT LAW IN MUSIC. SCHOOL OF MUSIC NO.5 COLLEGE. 01-8961000 FRENCH MEMBER OF SOCIETY FOR MUSICOLOGY IN IRELAND COPYRIGHT LAW AND PRACTICE IN MUSIC ELGAR - COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS HENRY PURCELL - COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVELOPMENT MUSIC AND THEATRE IN 17TH-CENTURY ENGLAND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY OPERA 'IMPRESSIONS THAT . . . COULD NOT BE HUMMED': FULL TITLE: '"IMPRESSIONS THAT . . . COULD NOT BE HUMMED": ELGAR'S "THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS" AS MNEMONIC, MYSTICAL DRAMA AND UNCOMMON GENRE'. AN HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY OF ELGAR'S SETTING (1900) OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN'S POEM "THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS." IT WILL RESULT IN AN ARTICLE OF ROUND 12,000 WORDS, PLUS ANALYTICAL DIAGRAMS. ALTHOUGH IT IS DEEPLY DEPENDENT ON THE WORK OF EARLIER WRITERS, ESPECIALLY IN HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY, ITS METHODS AND CONCLUSIONS DEAL WITH AREAS THAT TEND TO BE EITHER NEGLECTED OR OVER-SIMPLIFIED WITHIN PUBLISHED WORK ON ELGAR. THAT ESPECIALLY APPLIES TO ASPECTS OF THIS COMPOSER'S COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES AND HOW HE DEPLOYS THEM FOR SPECIFIC EXPRESSIVE AND SEMANTIC PURPOSES. IT SEEKS TO IDENTIFY, WITHIN THE MUSIC, SOME OF THE REASONS WHY ASTUTE CRITICS, SUCH AS ROBERT J. BUCKLEY (WHOSE WORDS ARE QUOTED IN THE TITLE ABOVE), FOUND THIS WORK SO ORIGINAL WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF ENGLISH MUSIC OF THAT TIME. IT EXPLORES HOW AND WHY ELGAR'S SUPPORTERS WROTE OF THIS WORK IN A WAY THAT MAKES PLAIN TO COGNOSCENTI THAT THERE WAS A DEBT TO WAGNER, WHILE FENDING OFF THE REDUCTIVE COMPARISONS MADE BY THOSE INCLINED TO SEE ELGAR'S ACHIEVEMENT PRIMARILY IN THE CONTEXT OF WAGNERIAN MUSICO-DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES. IT ALSO IDENTIFIES THOSE ASPECTS OF ELGAR'S COMPOSITIONAL PRACTICE THAT GIVE THIS WORK ITS UNUSUAL COMBINATION (COMMENTED ON BY THE SAME CRITICS) OF PRECISION AND ELUSIVENESS. THOSE TECHNIQUES ARE INDEBTED TO WAGNER, BUT ALSO TO OTHER 19TH-CENTURY COMPOSERS; AND ELGAR DEPLOYS THEM IN A DISTINCTIVE WAY THAT TENDS TO SUGGEST MEANING RATHER THAN EXPLICITLY TO STATE IT. IN THAT WAY, AND IN THE PRECISELY TARGETED SETTING OF WORDS BY THE POEM'S VARIOUS CHARACTERS, HE TAPS INTO THE POEM'S MYSTICAL ASPECTS -- A CHARACTERISTIC NOTED BY A NUMBER OF CRITICS IN ENGLAND AND GERMANY. THE ARTICLE ALSO SUGGESTS THAT THE COMPOSER'S RELUCTANCE TO CALL THIS WORK AN ORATORIO WAS WELL-FOUNDED. (HE ACCEDED ONLY BECAUSE HIS PUBLISHER HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO PUT IT IN THEIR CATALOGUE OF WORKS.) RATHER, "GERONTIUS" IS BEST UNDERSTOOD AS A SPECIMEN OF WHAT HERMANN DANUSER HAS CALLED WELTANSCHAUUNGSMUSIK. DISTINCTIVE STYLES AND TECHNIQUES, AND THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THEM AND MEANING, IDENTIFIED BY DANUSER IN WORKS SUCH AS WAGNER'S "PARSIFAL", SCHOENBERG'S "GURRELIEDER" AND MAHLER'S "DAS LIED VON DER ERDE" (ALL WRITTEN BETWEEN 1882 AND 1911) ARE FAR CLOSER TO ELGAR'S PRACTICE IN "THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS" THAN THEY ARE TO ANY ENGLISH ORATORIO OR DRAMATIC CANTATA, WHICH HAVE OFTEN BEEN CITED AS ITS OSTENSIBLE PRECEDENTS. THE ORIGINS OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC OPERA STUDY LEAVE HAS BEEN GRANTED FOR 2011-12 FOR THIS PROJECT. IT SEEKS TO ESTABLISH WHY ENGLAND WAS THE LAST MAJOR CULTURE IN WESTERN EUROPE TO ACCEPT THE CONCEPT OF ALL-SUNG OPERA, AND WHY ENGLISH STAGE MUSIC OF THE 17TH CENTURY WAS THE WAY IT WAS. OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, SEVERAL CONFERENCE PAPERS HAVE BEEN GIVEN ON CONTRIBUTORY COMPONENTS. THE RESEARCH EXPLORES LITERATURE, RELIGION, POLITICS, AND THE GENERAL INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE 16TH CENTURY TO AROUND 1700. THE RESULTING BOOK WILL EXPLAIN WHY THE STAGE WORKS FOR WHICH THIS PERIOD IS BEST KNOWN - THOSE WITH MUSIC BY HENRY PURCELL (E.G. "KING ARTHUR" AND "THE FAIRY QUEEN"), ARE SO DIFFERENT FROM CONTINENTAL STAGE WORKS, AND WHY THE GENRE ON WHICH PURCELL AND DRYDEN WORKED, AND WHICH THE LATTER CALLED "DRAMATICK OPERA", DECLINED RAPIDLY IN THE 18TH CENTURY. THE RESULTING BOOK WILL SITUATE THESE WORKS IN A MUCH BROADER CONTEXT THAN ANY PUBLICLY PRESENTED RESEARCH THUS FAR. IT WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF DRAMATIC OPERA ARE CALCULATED - FAR MORE THAN MERELY A RESPONSE TO RESTORATION THEATRICAL TASTE, OR AN ABBERRANT DEAD-END ON THE ROAD TOWARDS ALL-SUNG OPERA. RATHER, DRAMATIC OPERA IS A NATURAL AND LOGICAL CONSEQUENCE OF A HIGHLY DISTINCTIVE VIEW OF MUSIC, OF A SOMEWHAT FEARFUL VIEW OF MUSIC'S POWER, AND OF DEEPLY THOUGHT VIEWS ON HOW MUSIC COULD AND SHOULD BE USED IN A PUBLIC CONTEXT. STUDY LEAVE FUNDED BY THE SCHOOL OF DRAMA, FILM AND MUSIC. AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MR. DAVID ROBERT ADAMS adamsdavidrobert RETIRED STAFF MEMBER RADAMS RETIRED STAFF MEMBER THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 AN CHOMHAIRLE LEABHARLANNA, LIBRARY COUNCIL OF IRELAND COLICO, COMMITTEE ON LIBRARY CO-OPERATION IN IRELAND, VICE-CHAIR COMMITTEE OF HEADS OF IRISH UNIVERSITIES, LIBRARIANS COMMITTEE CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITY AND NATIONAL LIBRARIES CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LIBRARIES CONUL, CONSORTIUM OF NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES, SECRETARY CONVENOR, SCOTTISH ONLINE INFORMATION USERS GROUP DIRECTOR, IRIS LTD INAUGURAL CHAIRMAN, EAST ANGLIA ONLINE USER GROUP INAUGURAL CONVENOR, HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY LEGAL DEPOSIT LIBRARIANS COMMITTEE LIBRARY CONSULTANT, TEMPUS JOINT EUROPEAN PROJECT, SARATOV STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, RUSSIA LIBRARY REVIEW, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER EAST ANGLIA REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITY EDUCATION COMMITTEE, LIBRARY COMMITTEE MEMBER, JANET USER GROUP FOR LIBRARIES COMMITTEE UK LEGAL DEPOSIT ADVISORY PANEL DIGITAL HUMANITIES DR. MARK AHEARNE ahearnemark ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AHEARNM MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING MY PRIMARY AREA OF RESEARCH IS IN CORNEAL TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATION. CORNEAL BLINDNESS AFFECT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORLDWIDE AND THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF HEALTHY DONOR CORNEAS THAT ARE SUITABLE FOR TRANSPLANTATION. THIS HAS LED TO ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES BEING INVESTIGATED. TISSUE ENGINEERING APPROACHES THAT COMBINE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCAFFOLDS AND STEM CELLS ARE CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY MY GROUP. SEVERAL PARAMETERS THAT AFFECT THE PHENOTYPIC BEHAVIOUR OF CORNEAL CELLS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED IN ADDITION TO DIFFERENT METHODS OF FABRICATING BIOMIMETIC SCAFFOLDS WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF DEVELOPING FUNCTIONAL CORNEAL TISSUE ALTERNATIVE THAT IS SUITABLE FOR TRANSPLANTATION. DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN VISION AND OPHTHALMOLOGY (ARVO) COST ACTION - BM1302 (MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER AND WORKING GROUP VICE-CHAIR) ENGINEERS IRELAND EUROPEAN VISION AND EYE RESEARCH (EVER) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EYE RESEARCH (ISER) INVITED SESSION CHAIR FOR THE ANNUAL BIOENGINEERING IN IRELAND CONFERENCES FROM 2012 TO 2017 JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR 27 DIFFERENT ACADEMIC JOURNALS INCLUDING ACTA BIOMATERIALIA, ARTIFICIAL ORGANS, BIOFABRICATION, BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS, CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LETTERS, COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING, CYTOTHERAPY, EUROPEAN CELLS AND MATERIALS, GELS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY, INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE, JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIAL APPLICATIONS, JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH: PART B, JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE, JOURNAL OF MATERIAL SCIENCES: MATERIALS IN MEDICINE, JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS, JOURNAL OF STRAIN ANALYSIS, JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS, JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, MATERIALS AND DESIGN, MICRON, MOLECULAR VISION, PLOS ONE, REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, STEM CELLS TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE, TISSUE ENGINEERING A AND C. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER AND ELECTED VICE-CHAIR OF "SCAFFOLD DEVELOPMENT" WORKING GROUP IN COST ACTION BM1302 ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND (RAMI) SESSION CHAIR AT EUROPEAN VISION AND EYE RESEARCH MEETING (NICE, FRANCE) SESSION ORGANIZER AND CHAIR FOR INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF EYE RESEARCH BIANNUAL MEETING 2018 SYMPOSIUM ORGANISER AND SESSION CHAIR AT TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY EUROPEAN CHAPTER (TERMIS-EU) MEETING (DAVOS, SWITZERLAND) TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY (TERMIS) BIOMATERIALS CARTILAGE EYE HYDROGELS NANOFIBERS OPHTHALMOLOGY STEM CELLS MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY REGENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY NANO-TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE OTHER ENGINEERING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. DEIRDRE AHERN aherndeirdre ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DAHERN LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE CORPORATE LAW (WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON DIRECTORS' DUTIES) AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. I HAVE SUPERVISED POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH ON COMPANY CHARGES, BOARD DIVERSITY, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES AND CORPORATE RESCUE. I HAVE BUILT AN ACADEMIC REPUTATION IN THE FIELD OF CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE, AND MORE PARTICULARLY, AS A SPECIALIST ON THE LAW RELATING TO THE DUTIES OF DIRECTORS. THIS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED BY MEANS OF A SUSTAINED TRACK OF PROGRAMMATIC RESEARCH ON THE LEGAL DUTIES OF DIRECTORS WHICH HAS RESULTED IN A SERIES OF SPECIALIST HIGH QUALITY RESEARCH OUTPUTS IN EXCELLENT ACADEMIC JOURNALS. MY BOOK, DIRECTORS' DUTIES: LAW AND PRACTICE (THOMSON ROUND HALL, 2009) MADE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION BY FILLING A SUBSTANTIAL GAP IN SCHOLARSHIP AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW IN THIS AREA. COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN ON LISTED COMPANIES' ENGAGEMENT WITH DIVERSITY WAS SPONSORED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JOBS, ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION WAS INNOVATIVE IN HOW IT EXAMINED IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT BY COMPANIES IN THEIR ANNUAL REPORTS CONCERNING ENGAGEMENT WITH DIVERSITY. THE FINDINGS OF THE MULTI-JURISDICTIONAL STUDY WERE PUBLISHED IN A WORKING PAPER OF THE EUROPEAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE. CURRENT RESEARCH WORK IS FOCUSED ON THE CHALLENGES OF MEASURING COMPANIES' COMMITMENT TO CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AS WELL AS ONGOING PROJECTS CONCERNING THE STATE'S ROLE IN RELATION TO ENSURING GENDER BALANCE IN COMPANY LEADERSHIP AND A POST-FINANCIAL CRISIS REVIEW OF DIRECTORS' DUTIES. LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH CO-EDITOR OF THE IRISH BUSINESS LAW REVIEW DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH CORPORATE LAW FORUM HTTP://WWW.ICLF.IE/ MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE MEMBER OF THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION'S WORKING GROUP ON VULNERABLE ADULTS AND THE LAW MEMBER OF THE LAW SOCIETY BUSINESS LAW COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE QUALITY COMMITTEEE, TCD MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND'S FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE TRINITY CONSORTIUM ON AGEING PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF LAW TEACHERS SECRETARY OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF LAW TEACHERS BOARDS OF DIRECTORS BUSINESS/CORPORATE LAW COMPARATIVE COMPANY LAW CORPORATE GOVERNANCE GENDER QUOTAS ON BOARDS ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS AN EXAMINATION OF THE SHAREHOLDERS' RIGHT DIRECTIVE THIS PROJECT INVOLVED EXAMINING THE LEGAL AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR IRELAND OF IMPLEMENTING THE SHAREHOLDERS' RIGHTS DIRECTIVE INCLUDING ISSUES SUCH AS PROXY VOTING AND THE RIGHT OF SHAREHOLDERS TO ASK QUESTIONS. THE LEGAL DUTIES OF NOMINEE DIRECTORS THIS PROJECT FOCUSED ON EXAMINING HOW THE CONFLICT OF DUTIES OF NOMINEE DIRECTORS, BASED ON THE EXPECTATION THAT A NOMINEE DIRECTOR WOULD FURTHER THEIR APPOINTER'S INTERESTS RATHER THAN THOSE OF THE COMPANY, CAN BE LEGALLY RESOLVED. CSRXCHANGE: CONSTRUCTING REGULATORY, REPORTING AND ACCREDITATION TOOLS FOR CORPOATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY THE NON-FINANCIAL REPORTING DIRECTIVE 2014/95/EU BREAKS NEW REGULATORY GROUND IN REQUIRING MEMBER STATES TO LEGISLATE BY 6 DECEMBER 2016 IN RELATION TO MANDATORY SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING FOR LARGE COMPANIES USING A 'COMPLY OR EXPLAIN' MODEL. PREVIOUSLY CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ("CSR") HAD BEEN VIEWED AS ESSENTIALLY VOLUNTARY BY THE EU FOR A LONG TIME AND GLOBALLY REGULATION HAS PROVED LARGELY ELUSIVE. NONETHELESS MANY COMPANIES HAVE EMBRACED CSR AND HAVE SOUGHT VOLUNTARY CERTIFICATION TO SHOW THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH SUSTAINABILITY. TRANSPARENT SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING PROVIDES MATERIAL WHICH ENABLES STAKEHOLDERS TO ENGAGE WITH COMPANIES IN RELATION TO THE ADOPTION OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS PRACTICES IN AREAS SUCH AS CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND HUMAN RIGHTS. AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND, THIS PROJECT CONSIDERS ENGAGEMENT WITH CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) IN IRELAND AND REPORTING AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES AND PITFALLS. RELEVANT THEMES TO BE EXPLORED WILL INCLUDE SUSTAINABILITY AND DIVERSITY AS SOUND BUSINESS PRACTICE, THE ROLE OF VOLUNTARY ACCREDITATION SCHEMES AND APPROPRIATE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING FRAMEWORKS. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO FOCUS ON LIKELY REGULATORY OUTCOMES OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DIRECTIVE IN RELATION TO CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DISCLOSURES WILL ALSO BE EXAMINED FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF BOTH REGULATOR AND AFFECTED COMPANIES. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR KHURSHID AHMAD ahmadkhurshid CHAIR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (1973) KAHMAD COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR COMPUTING AND LANGUAGE STUDIES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: TERMINOLOGY AND ONTOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; EXPERT SYSTEMS. NEURAL NETWORKS: MULTI-NET NEURAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS, SIMULATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND OF DEGENERATIVE SYSTEMS. BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE: AFFECT AND SENTIMENT ANALYSIS. METAPHORS IN FINANCE. INTERACTION OF SENTIMENT AND NAMED ENTITIES WITH PRICES AND VOLUMES OF FINANCIAL AND COMMODITY INSTRUMENTS. KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: DISCOVERY AND INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ESPECIALLY BEST PRACTICE. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 URDU ENGLISH CONSULTANT, ADVANCED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING LTD CONSULTANT, THE FORMER UK NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY DIRECTOR, TREOCHT LTD, A TRINITY SPIN-OFF COMPANY EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PHD THESES AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF HELSINKI, MANCHESTER, NOTTINGHAM-TRENT, SHEFFIELD AND AT COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL FELLOW, BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY MEMBER & CHAIR, PRIORITIZATION PANEL FOR BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COMPUTING OF THE EPSRC(FEBRUARY & JULY 2004) MEMBER, NOMINATED BY THE THEN DHSS, SURREY FAMILY PRACTITIONERS' COMMITTEE MEMBER, UK ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL 'S (EPSRC) COLLEGE OF COMPUTING TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, INKE LTD, GUILDFORD UNDP/UN-FAO, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (TOKTEN) CONSULTANT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/CYBERNETICS BAYESIAN INFERENCE BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE BIOINFORMATICS & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY TECHNIQUES BUSINESS CYCLES/CRISES COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT/PROCESSES COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL MODELS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING CONTENT BASED VIDEO ANALYSIS CRIMINAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ECONOMETRICS/FORECASTING EXPERT SYSTEMS IMAGING AND COMPUTER VISION INFANT PSYCHOLOGY INNOVATION AND GROWTH INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE BASES KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE DISORDER MULTIMEDIA NATURAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING NEURAL COMPUTING NEURAL DEVELOPMENT NEURAL NETWORKS NEURODEGENERATION NEUROINFORMATICS NUCLEAR PHYSICS PATTERN RECOGNITION RELATIVITY STATISTICAL AND SIMULATION METHODOLOGIES SYSTEMS CONTROL, MODELLING, NEURAL NETWORKS THEORETICAL PHYSICS NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION MULTILEX II ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING TOOLS FOR DICTIONARIES IN MULTILEX FORMAT (€51,000) EU- ESPRIT/CTT 551 SAFE-DIS "SAFE DESIGN OF NETWORKS BY THE USE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS" (£115,000) EPSRC PROJECT NO. GR/H95235 EPSRC/DTI SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS ADV. TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME ELSIE: EXPERT LICENSING SYSTEM AND INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT (£100,000) NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY PROJ. NO. 406 W-RAISA WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT (W-RAISA) (£42,000) NATIONAL RIVERS AUTHORITY £42,000 PLAIM EXPERT SYSTEM FOR PLATFORM LIFETIME ASSESSMENT THROUGH ANALYSIS, INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE, (£15,000) EC ENERGY DIRECTORATE PROJECT NO. TH.03.285/88 TESSA TOLERANCE IN MECHANICAL DESIGN: EXPERT SYSTEM FOR SPECIFICATION AND ANALYSIS (£60,000) PRIME INC., (USA) WIESC WATER INDUSTRY EXPERT SYSTEMS CLUB: .EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR OPERATIONAL CONTROL AND PROCEDURAL PLANNING (£300,000) ALVEY (DTI/SERC) PROJECT NO. IKBS 060 & IKBS 012 WIFE WASSP INTELLIGENT FRONT-ENDS FOR SIMULATION PROGRAMS (£18,000) HYDRAULICS RESEARCH LTD, WALLINGFORD, OXON TEACHING CO.SCHEME PROJECT WORKBENCH KNOWLEDGE MINING USING AI AND NEURAL NETWORKS SYSTEM. (WITH IML LTD) (£160,000) EPSRC: TEACHING COMPANY SCHEME LEXICIM A MULTI-LANGUAGE LEXICON OF CIM TERMS FOR USE IN CIM ENVIRONMENTS (€17,000) ESPRIT-NEUES BUNDESLANDER SPECIAL ACTION EU-COMETT TECHWARE ADVANCED IT IN URBAN DRAINAGE (£12,000) EU-COMETT TECHWARE ITLS INTELLIGENT TEACHING AND LEARNING SYSTEMS FOR BUSINESS STUDENTS (£15,000) UK COMPUTER BOARD (SOJOURN) (£10,000) UK ENG. INDUSTRIES TRAINING BOARD & BRITISH AEROSPACE SURREY JOURNEYMEN'S PROGRAMME IN AI FINGRID FINANCIAL GRIID (£60,000) (ESRC RES-149-25-0028) UK ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL E-SOCIAL SCIENCE GIDA GENERIC INFORMATION-BASED DECISION ASSISTANT (€329,290)(IST 2000-31123) EU FIFTH FRAMEWORK INFORMATION SOCIETIES AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME SOCIS SCENE OF CRIME INFORMATION SYSTEM (£174,000) (EPSRC GR/M/89041) UK ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL REACTIVE MODE SALT STANDARDS BASED ACCESS TO LEXICA & TERMINOLOGY (€88,000) (IST 1999-10951) EUROPEAN UNION FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ON IT LANGUAGE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING ACE ANALYST'S CONTROL ENVIRONMENT FOR INFORMATION EXTRACTION AND PREDICTION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS (€200,000) (EU- ESPRIT 22271) EUROPEAN UNION FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ON IT SOFTWARE SYSTEMS TRANSTERM TRANSLATION & TERMINOLOGY: CREATION, REUSE, NORMALISATION & INTEGRATION OF TERMINOLOGIES IN NLP SYSTEMS (€90,000) EU- LRE 62-055 TWB I & II TRANSLATORS' WORKBENCH: TERMINOLOGY AND TRANSLATION TOOLS FOR THE TRANSLATOR (€979,000) EU- ESPRIT 2315 & P6005 MULTILEX MULTIFUNCTIONAL LEXICA SPECIFICATION OF EUROPEAN STANDARDS (€190,000) EU- ESPRIT 5304 REVEAL RECOVERING EVIDENCE FROM VIDEO BY FUSING VIDEO EVIDENCE THESAURUS & VIDEO META-DATA (£126,556)(EPSRC GR/S98450/01) UK ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL THINK CRIME PREVENTION AND DETECTION LIRICS LINGUISTIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR INTEROPERABLE RESOURCES AND SYSTEMS (£58,000)(EU-IST ECONTENT 22236) EUROPEAN UNION INFORMATION SOCIETY PROGRAMME ON E-CONTENT INTERVAL INTERLINGUISTIC TERMINOLOGY VALIDATION (€50,000) (EU- LE/ESPRIT 4002) EUROPEAN UNION FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ON IT LANGUAGE ENGINEERING POINTER PROPOSALS FOR AN OPERATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TERMINOLOGY IN EUROPE (€42,000) (EU- LRE 63090 10093) EUROPEAN UNION FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ON IT LANGUAGE RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING FAIREACHÁIN: A PROJECT FOR BUILDING A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING, EVALUATING AND PREDICTING BEHAVIOUR OF MARKETS AND OF COMMUNITIES THE DYNAMICS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS RELY CRITICALLY ON THE SENTIMENT OF THE STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED. CURRENTLY, THE FOCUS IS ON QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS OF MARKET DYNAMICS - PRICES, VOLUMES OF SHARES OR CURRENCY SOLD/BOUGHT. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE FAIREACHÁIN PROJECT IS TO INCORPORATE QUALITATIVE INDICATORS OF THE DYNAMICS - THE SENTIMENTS ARTICULATED IN NEWS/BLOGS AND IN CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SURVEYS - IN DECISION MAKING PROCESSES OF THE STAKEHOLDERS. THE PROPOSED FAIREACHÁIN PROJECT BRINGS TOGETHER THE METHODOLOGY OF AHMAD AND KEARNEY (A&K) FOR STUDYING VOLATILITY OF MARKETS CAUSED BY CHANGING SENTIMENTS.. SINCE 1997, BOTH RESEARCHERS HAVE PUBLISHED EXTENSIVELY IN THE FIELDS OF MARKET VOLATILITY AND SENTIMENT AND HAVE RECEIVED 4 EU/UK GRANTS FOR THEIR RESEARCH IN SENTIMENT ANALYSIS. THE A&K METHODOLOGY WILL BE USED TO EMPOWER TREOCHT LTD.'S FINANCIAL TRADING SYSTEM FOR INCORPORATING MARKET SENTIMENT IN THE REPORTS AND BUY/SELL SIGNALS GENERATED BY TREOCHT'S SYSTEM. THE SENTIMENT-ENHANCED SYSTEM WILL GENERATE REVENUE BY USING THE CLICK-AD MODEL AND BY DIRECT SALES TO INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE CLIENTS. MARKET RESEARCH SHOWS A SIGNIFICANT EXPORT POTENTIAL FOR THE TREOCHT'S SENTIMENT-ENHANCED TRADING SYSTEM ESPECIALLY IN THE USA. THE EXPORT-LED REVENUE GENERATION WILL HELP TREOCHT TO EMPLOY UP-TO 20 HIGH-TECH PROFESSIONALS IN IRELAND. THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT PROF K. AHMAD (SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS) AND PROF C. KEARNEY (SCHOOL OF BUSINESS). THE SPIN-OFF COMPANY, TRECOHT LTD., HAS BEEN AWARDED A HIGH POTENTIAL START-UP STATUS BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND. ENTERPRISE IRELAND & TREOCHT LTD INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME SLÁNDÁIL: SECURITY SYSTEM FOR LANGUAGE AND IMAGE ANALYSIS PROJECT SLÁNDÁIL WILL DEMONSTRATE A COST-EFFECTIVE AND ETHICALLY-CORRECT WAY IN WHICH SOCIAL MEDIA INFORMATION CAN BE USED BY AN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. THE SOCIAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE CONSISTS OF A RANGE OF DIGITIZED DOCUMENTS IN A VARIETY OF FORMATS, UPDATED BY A DIVERSE AND GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS. DURING AN EMERGENCY, AUTHORITIES USE WEBSITES AND THE POPULATION, EMPOWERED BY SOCIAL MEDIA SYSTEMS, CAN BROADCAST FOR HELP OR TO INFORM OTHERS OF THEIR WELL-BEING. THE BURDEN OF SEARCH AND INTERPRETATION IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA SPACE, HOWEVER, IS LARGELY ON THE END-USERS THAT IS THE AUTHORITIES AND THE CITIZENS. INFORMATION OBTAINED DURING EMERGENCIES MAY CONTAIN PERSONAL DETAILS AND THE DETAILS MAY OR NOT BE CORRECT - THERE ARE NO PROTOCOLS FOR DEALING WITH THE ETHICAL AND FACTUAL PROVENANCE OF SUCH DATA. SOCIAL MEDIA USERS DEPLOY DIFFERENT MODALITIES OF COMMUNICATIONS, INCLUDING LANGUAGE, VISUAL ICONS, AND ASSOCIATED META DATA. HUMAN BEINGS INTEGRATE THE INFORMATION IN DIFFERENT MODALITY SEAMLESSLY TO INFER MEANING AND TO MAKE DECISIONS. THERE ARE NO SYSTEMS THAT (A) COULD AGGREGATE THE INFORMATION IN DIFFERENT MODALITIES, AND (B) DEAL WITH MULTI-LINGUAL COMMUNICATIONS DURING AN EMERGENCY. PROJECT SLÁNDÁIL IS COLLABORATION OF EMERGENCY OPERATIVES, ACADEMICS, ETHICS- AND SECURITY-ORIENTED NGO AND FOUR SMES. THEIR COMMON PURPOSE IS TO MAKE MAXIMUM ETHICAL USE OF THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. THE PROJECT WILL UNDERTAKE RESEARCH IN TEXT AND IMAGE ANALYSIS, IN ETHICAL AND FACTUAL PROVENANCE OF DATA, TOGETHER WITH SME'S SPECIALISING IN SELLING SYSTEMS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING AND FOR EMERGENCY MONITORING. THERE ARE EXPERTS IN HUMAN MULTI-LINGUAL HUMAN COMMUNICATION WORKING IN THE TEAM. THIS IS AN IRISH-LED, ITALIAN, GERMAN AND BRITISH COLLABORATION WHICH WILL DELIVER NEXT GENERATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. TCD IS THE CO-ORDINATOR OF THE PROJECT EU FP7 PROGRAMME FP7 SECURITY RESEARCH GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE COMPETENCE CENTRE - GRC3 (2012-2013) WHILE REGULATORS CONTINUE TO DRIVE THE DEPLOYMENT OF NEW REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS IN GOVERNANCE, RISK AND COMPLIANCE, INDUSTRY SPENDING ON GRC CONTINUES TO CLIMB AS THE CONSTANT GAME OF CATCH UP DRIVES COMPLEX AND COSTLY PROJECTS. THE APPROACH TO REGULATIONS AND THEIR DEPLOYMENT TIMING VARIES GREATLY ACROSS DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHIES/JURISDICTIONS WHICH FURTHER COMPLICATES LIFE FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANIES, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS AND OUTSOURING COMPANIES. GRC3 UNDERSTANDS THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF THE FORCES INFLUENCING INDUSTRY ACTIONS AND WILL BE FLEXIBLE IN ALL RESPECTS IN ORDER TO ENSURE COMPLETE ALIGNMENT WITH CHANGES TO THE RESEARCH AGENDA. IN ORDER TO SYSTEMATICALLY AND PROFITABLY CONDUCT BUSINESS WITHIN AND ACROSS ORGANISATIONS, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT AGENTS (PEOPLE, MACHINES, ALGORITHMS) ARE ABLE TO EXCHANGE DATA AND THAT THE DATA HAS MEANING FOR ALL THE AGENTS INVOLVED IN THE EXCHANGE. THERE ARE SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR SUCH A MEANINGFUL EXCHANGE FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SYSTEMS THAT CAN HELP WITH THE INTEGRATION OF BUSINESS PROCESSES, AND SOME ARE APPEARING IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY. HOWEVER, THE STANDARDS ARE DESIGNED FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES AND SUPPORT DIFFERENT PROCESSES. GENERATION OF A HIGH-LEVEL ONTOLOGY WOULD PROVIDE MEANS TO ENHANCE THE INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN STANDARDS AND SUPPORT STREAMLINED PROCESSES ACROSS THE FINANCIAL SERVICES SECTOR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND FINANCIAL SERVICES - COMPETENCE CENTRE RESEARCH PROGRAMME REASONING IN RISKY ENVIRONMENTS: FUZZY LOGIC AND MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING THE TREATMENT OF RISK GENERICALLY IS A COMPLEX AND DIFFICULT ISSUE. THE AIMS OF OUR PROJECT ARE (A) THE IDENTIFICATION OF RISK FROM NUMERICAL AND TEXTUAL EVIDENCE; AND (B) THE COMPUTATION OF THE LIKELIHOOD OF A GIVEN RISK EVENT USING AGGREGATION OPERATORS, INCLUDING CHOQUET INTEGRALS. THE PROJECT FUNDING HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE FOR DR ANDREA ZEMANKOVA TO WORK UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROF KHURSHID AHMAD AXA RESEARCH FUND AXA SOCIO ECONOMIC RISKS STREAM INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEUROSCIENCE DR. ACHIM AHRENS ahrensachim VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW AAHRENS ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. JUSTINE AKA akajustine TEACHING FELLOW AKAJ ANATOMY DEPT OF ANATOMY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152 - 160 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH GERMAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ANATOMISTS (AAA) ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION EUROPE (AMEE) DUTCH HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS (BIG) REGISTER - PHYSIOTHERAPIST AND THE ROYAL DUTCH SOCIETY FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY (KNGF) ORTHOPEDIC AND TRAUMA SURGERY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH- GERMANY (ORGINAL NAME: VEREINIGUNG SUEDDEUTSCHER OTHOPAEDEN UND UNFALLCHIRURGEN) THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY (AS) MEDICAL EDUCATION DR. HODA AKBARI akbarihoda RESEARCH FELLOW HAKBARI CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CENTRE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING HERITAGE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PERSIAN ENGLISH ENERGY EFFICIENCY SOLAR ENERGY ENERGY STORAGE PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. EBRAHIM AL-AWADHI alawadhiebrahim ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALAWADIE DENTAL SCIENCE PUBLIC & CHILD DENTAL HEALTH DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ORTHODONTIC SOCIETY IRELAND BIOCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY ANCHORAGE REINFORCEMENT IN ORTHODONTICS ANIMAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE ADVANTAGE OF USING DIFFERENT ANCHORAGE REINFORCEMENT APPLIANCES IN ORTHODONTICS. THE INFLUENCE OF SUCH APPLIANCES ON THE ROOTS OF THE TEETH WILL ALSO BE ASSESSED.1. DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF ANCHORAGE GAINED WITH A)TRANSPALATAL ARCH (TPA) B) NANCE C) MINI SCREWS DUBLIN DENTAL HOSPITAL ORTHODONTICS MR. MD SANIUL ALAM alammdsaniul RESEARCH ASSISTANT ALAMMD CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. CARLO ALDROVANDI aldrovandicarlo ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALDROVAC IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS MY RESEARCH AGENDA ESTABLISHES MY ACADEMIC POSITION AT THE INTERFACE OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE VARIOUS RELIGIOUS DYNAMICS AT PLAY IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS. MY RESEARCH PLANS FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING TWO MAIN GOALS: 1) TO PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE THEOLOGICAL DRIVES AT THE BASIS OF THE JEWISH COLONIZATION OF THE WEST BANK THROUGH SETTLEMENT BUILDING, WHILST INVESTIGATING THE BEST MODALITIES WHEREBY THE JEWISH SETTLERS AND THEIR RELIGIOUS ASPIRATIONS CONNECTED TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL CAN BE EFFECTIVELY ADDRESSED AND INTEGRATED IN DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATIONS TOWARDS A TWO-STATE SOLUTION. I HAVE PLANNED A SCHOLARLY VISIT TO ISRAEL IN SUMMER 2014, TO CARRY OUT INTERVIEWS WITH KEY RELIGIOUS FIGURES AND POLITICAL ACTIVISTS OF THE RELIGIOUS ZIONIST CAMP. STRENGTHENING MY EXPERTISE ON FAITH-RELATED CONFLICT IN PALESTINE WOULD ALSO PUT ME IN A BETTER POSITION TO VIABLY COMPETE IN THE HORIZON 2020 2014-2015 CALLS AND THEREBY RAISE VISIBILITY AND IMPACT IN EUROPE OF POLIS' RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. I AM ALREADY NETWORKING WITH KEY CONTACT PEOPLE IN TOP-RANK UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES WITH THE OVERALL AIM OF BECOMING A PARTNER IN A WIDER COLLABORATIVE H2020 PROJECT ADDRESSING THE 'CONFLICT PREVENTION AND PEACE BUILDING' RESEARCH THEME. 2) I AM NOW IN THE PROCESS OF DRAFTING A BOOK PROPOSAL FOR MY SECOND MONOGRAPH PROVISIONALLY ENTITLED 'LIMINAL SPACES AND STATES OF EXCEPTION', WHICH I INTEND TO SUBMIT TO YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS AT THE END OF APRIL. I WISH TO INVESTIGATE THE POLITICAL-PHILOSOPHICAL INSIGHTS OF WALTER BENJAMIN, CARL SCHMITT AND GIORGIO AGAMBEN THROUGH THE HEURISTIC FRAMEWORK OF LIMINALITY (A PERIOD OF 'MARGIN' OR 'INTER-STRUCTURAL SITUATION') AS THEORIZED BY ANTHROPOLOGISTS ARNOLD VAN GENNEP AND VICTOR TURNER. THIS PROJECT WOULD CONTRIBUTE A NEW ANALYTICAL CATEGORY TO THE ALREADY EXISTING DEBATE WITHIN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, POST-COLONIAL STUDIES AND CRITICAL THEORY, ONE AIMED AT QUESTIONING THE LINK BETWEEN THE LOGICS OF SOVEREIGN POWER IN STATES OF EXCEPTION AND THE CONDITIONS OF 'BARE LIFE' IN LIMINAL 'ZONES OF INDISTINCTION' - SPACES OF 'INCLUSIVE EXCLUSION' TODAY INHABITED BY POLITICAL DETAINEES, DISPLACED POPULATIONS, ASYLUM SEEKERS, SWEATSHOP WORKERS AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIMS. IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS POLITICAL SCIENCE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES *THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN EMERGENCIES - EUROPEAN UNION CAPABILITY PROJECT (2014-2017) I AM INVOLVED AS THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR TRINITY COLLEGE'S TASKS ON ETHICAL ISSUES (WORK PACKAGE 2) IN THE EU FUNDED PROJECT 'THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN EMERGENCIES - CAPABILITY PROJECT'. THIS IRISH-LED, ITALIAN, GERMAN AND BRITISH RESEARCH PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE COST-EFFECTIVE AND ETHICALLY CORRECT WAYS IN WHICH SOCIAL MEDIA INFORMATION CAN BE USED TO ENHANCE THE PERFORMANCE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. AS ONE OF THE TWO PROJECT CO-ORDINATORS OF THE 'SOCIETY AND ETHICS' SUBJECT-AREA, I WILL UNDERTAKE AND OVERSEE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON KEY ETHICAL ASPECTS CONCERNING THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA DURING NATURAL DISASTER EMERGENCIES. I WILL ALSO ASSUME THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE SOCIETAL IMPACT SUB-COMMITTEE (P.42-43 OF THE DESCRIPTION OF WORK). EU DR. BARRY ALDWELL aldwellbarry RESEARCH FELLOW ALDWELBA MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF ENGINEERS IRELAND (MIEI) PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING (INCL. MATERIALS, ADVANCED & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES) MATERIALS SCIENCE OTHER ENGINEERING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. SAJAD ALIMOHAMMADI alimohammadisajad RESEARCH FELLOW SALIMOHA MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. EMMA ALLOTT allottemma RESEARCH FELLOW EALLOTT HISTOPATHOLOGY DEPT. OF HISTOPATHOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 PROFESSOR SHANE PATRICIA ANN ALLWRIGHT allwrightshanepatriciaann FELLOW EMERITUS SLLWRGHT PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE POPULATION HEALTH, EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH WITH PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF SMOKING (ACTIVE AND PASSIVE), ALCOHOL AND ILLICIT DRUGS, IN RESPIRATORY DISEASE INCLUDING ASTHMA, AND IN HEALTH INEQUALITIES. PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 FRENCH FELLOW OF THE FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH (UK) HONORARY FELLOW OF THE FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF GOVERNING BODY OF DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE OFFICE OF TOBACCO CONTROL ROYAL ACADEMY OF IRELAND (EPIDEMIOLOGY SECTION) SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (UK) ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE ALCOHOL / DRUG SERVICES EVALUATION ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE ALCOHOL-ABUSE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND GENERAL PRACTICE CONFINEMENT EPIDEMIOLOGY EVALUATION OF TOBACCO CONTROL POLICY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH EFFECTS OF SECOND HAND SMOKE HEALTH OUTCOMES POPULATION BASED INTERVENTION TRIALS PRISON PRISONER HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH RESPIRATORY DISEASES SMOKERS SMOKING SMOKING BEHAVIOR SUICIDE SURVEYS & SURVEY RESEARCH VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS ALL IRELAND BAR STUDY THE AIM OF STUDY IS TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT ON BAR STAFF OF THE IRISH SMOKEFREE WORKPLACE LAW BY COMPARING RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS, LUNG FUNCTION AND SECONDHAND SMOKE EXPOSURE OF BAR STAFF BEFORE AND AFTER THE BAN. OTC/ ICS/ IHF/ NCI (US) A TELEPHONE SURVEY OF PARENTAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS REGARDING UNDERAGE DRINKING HSE EVALUATION OF AN ALCOHOL INTERVENTION PROGRAMME IN A SPORTING SETTING HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. LILIAN SUZANNE ALWEISS alweissliliansuzanne ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALWEISSL PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY DEPT ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY ETHICS KANT WITTGENSTEIN IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. SARAH ELIZABETH ALYN-STACEY alynstaceysarahelizabeth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SALYNSTA FRENCH CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES MY PRINCIPAL AREAS OF RESEARCH: . MARC-CLAUDE DE BUTTET (1529/31-1586); . THE COURT OF SAVOY; . MARGUERITE DE FRANCE; . DUKE EMMANUEL-PHILIBERT; . RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND POLITICAL CONFLICT IN SAVOY IN RELATION TO THE EUROPEAN REFORMATION; . THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE COURT; . FRENCH RENAISSANCE POLITICAL POETRY; . THE SAVOYARD ARCHIVES (TURIN; GENEVA; CHAMBÉRY; ANNECY; PARIS); . LATIN, GREEK AND ITALIAN INFLUENCES ON FRENCH RENAISSANCE POETRY; . FRANCO-IRISH CULTURAL LINKS. MY RESEARCH COMBINES THE HISTORICAL, POLITICAL AND LITERARY AND RELIES HEAVILY ON ACCESS TO RARE PRIMARY SOURCES IN A VARIETY OF LANGUAGES (FRENCH, LATIN, ITALIAN) AND IN VARIOUS EUROPEAN ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES (SWITZERLAND, ITALY, FRANCE, BRITAIN). THROUGH MY RESEARCH I HAVE PROMOTED KEY WORKS TO PERMIT A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FRENCH (AND EUROPEAN) RENAISSANCE. MY RESEARCH IS ORGANISED AROUND RESEARCH QUESTIONS RELATING TO SOURCES, IDENTITY, SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT, PATRONAGE, CONFLICT, VIRTUE, THE FASHIONING OF OPINION, AND POETICS. IF THE PRIMARY AREA OF MY RESEARCH EXPERTISE IS FRENCH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE, OF PARTICULAR ORIGINALITY AND SIGNIFICANCE IS MY WORK ON SAVOY, A KEY SUBJECT BECAUSE OF THE DUCHY'S CENTRAL PLACE IN THE POLITICS, RELIGIOUS TENSIONS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE. IN THIS RESPECT, A MAJOR FOCUS OF MY RESEARCH IS THE SAVOYARD POET MARC-CLAUDE DE BUTTET (1529/30-1586), THE COURT OF SAVOY, THE HABSBURG-VALOIS-SAVOY DYNAMIC, AND RELIGIOUS, MORAL AND POLITICAL CONFLICT IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD IN THE DUCHY. IN THE LIGHT OF THE RICH SOURCE OF ARCHIVE MATERIAL I AM CONTINUING TO UNCOVER, AND THE UNIQUE HOLDING OF WALDENSIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN TRINITY'S OLD LIBRARY, MY WORK ON THESE AREAS IS SET TO CONTINUE IN THE LONG TERM. THE ORIGINALITY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MY RESEARCH IS ALSO ATTESTED BY A FURTHER RESEARCH PROJECT SCHEDULED FOR 2017-18 AND FUNDED BY THE TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB. THIS INTERNATIONALLY COLLABORATIVE PROJECT, 'POLITICAL IDENTITY AND THE POETICAL MUSE IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE', IS CONSTRUCTED AROUND AN INNOVATIVE SET OF QUESTIONS RELATING TO BIBLIOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, MORALITY, POWER, POLITICS, AND READERSHIP. MY INTERNATIONAL STANDING IN THE FIELD AND PROMOTION OF DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN IT ARE ATTESTED ALSO BY MY COLLABORATION WITH SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF EMINENT SCHOLARS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH. THE FRUITS OF THESE COLLABORATIONS HAVE LED TO A NUMBER OF EDITED REFEREED VOLUMES WHICH HAVE CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF EARLY MODERN FRENCH CULTURE: POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL CONFLICT IN THE DUCHY OF SAVOY 1400-1700, MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN FRENCH STUDIES, NO.13 (OXFORD, PETER LANG, 2014; CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE MARINA BENEDETTI, CORNEL ZWIERLEIN, TOBY OSBORNE); COURT, TEXT AND HUMOUR IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR PAULINE SMITH (OXFORD, PETER LANG, 2009; CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE MARGARET MCGOWAN, ROBERT KNECHT, JENNIFER BRITNELL, FRANK DOBBINS, MALCOLM QUAINTON, MICHAEL HEATH, ANNETTE TOMARKEN, HUGO TUCKER, TREVOR PEACH, ALAN HINDLEY, CATHERINE REUBEN) ; CULTURE AND CONFLICT IN 17TH-CENTURY FRANCE AND IRELAND (DUBLIN, FOUR COURTS, 2004; CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE MICHAEL MORIARTY, ANDREW CALDER, HENRY PHILLIPS, DAVID CULPIN). BECAUSE OF MY RARE EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD AND IN THE METHODOLOGIES REQUIRED, I AM RECOGNISED INTERNATIONALLY AS ONE OF THE LEADING RESEARCHERS IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE (AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES MORE GENERALLY). I ACTIVELY DISSEMINATE MY RESEARCH THROUGH MANY HIGH-PROFILE INTERNATIONAL AVENUES (EDITIONS, MONOGRAPHS, COLLABORATIVE VOLUMES, CONFERENCE PAPERS, RESEARCH NETWORKS, SEMINARS, TEACHING) AND IN BOTH FRENCH AND ENGLISH SO IT REACHES BEYOND ITS PRIMARY (FRENCH) READERSHIP. DEPT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN FRENCH 1.MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF FRENCH STUDIES. 2.MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES. 3.ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF RENAISSANCE STUDIES (OXFORD,WILEY BLACKWELL)1996-2006. 4. AWARDED MEMBERSHIP OF THE ACADEMIE DE SAVOIE IN 2005. COMMISSIONS OF TRUST . 2016-2020: MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. . 2015-PRESENT: MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE SILK ROAD FILM FESTIVAL. . 1994-2014: MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES, THE LEADING SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN THE RENAISSANCE IN THE BRITISH ISLES. . 2012-2014: FOUNDER AND CO-ORDINATOR OF THE RENAISSANCE STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE. . 1996-2008: FOUNDER AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE IRISH BRANCH OF THE SOCIETY FOR RENAISSANCE STUDIES. . 2000-2006: MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES, THE PREMIER PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR SCHOLARS IN THE FIELD IN THE BRITISH ISLES. . 1996-PRESENT: REVIEWER OF VARIOUS BOOK PROPOSALS, ARTICLES FOR LEARNED JOURNALS, GRANT APPLICATIONS EDITORIAL BOARDS . CHIEF EDITOR OF THE REFEREED PUBLICATIONS SERIES OF THE TRINITY CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES, 'COURT CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE' (PREVIOUSLY WITH BREPOLS, NOW WITH PETER LANG). . 2013-PRESENT: MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF H-FRANCE, THE INTERDISCIPLINARY DIGITAL JOURNAL RECOGNISED AS THE LARGEST SCHOLARLY ORGANISATION FOR FRANCOPHONE HISTORY AND CULTURE. . 1997-2007: ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF REFEREED JOURNAL RENAISSANCE STUDIES (OXFORD, BLACKWELL). CINEMA/VIDEO FRENCH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, RENAISSANCE LITERARY CRITICISM PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE RENAISSANCE HISTORY LANGUAGES & LITERATURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 'POLITICAL IDENTITY AND THE POETICAL MUSE IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE' 'POLITICAL IDENTITY AND THE POETICAL MUSE IN THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE', IS CONSTRUCTED AROUND A SET OF QUESTIONS RELATING TO BIBLIOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE, MORALITY, POWER, POLITICS, AND READERSHIP. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. CAROLINE CAMPBELL campbellcaroline EXECUTIVE OFFICER (PART-TIME) CANDERS HISPANIC STUDIES DEPT OF HISPANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IAHI -INTERNATIONAL ALTERNATIVE HEALTH INSTITUTE REFLEXOLOGIST IRELAND PROFESSOR ROGER ANWYL anwylroger FELLOW EMERITUS RANWYL PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MY RESEARCH AREA IS NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE MODELS. OUR GROUP STUDIES THE EFFECTS OF NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC AGENTS ON NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. WE STUDY LONG-TERM POTENTIATION EFFECTS AND SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION FOR VARIOUS RECEPTOR SITES, INCLUDING GLUTAMATE METABOTROPIC RECEPTORS. OUR GROUP ALSO EXAMINES THE EFFECTS OF PHARMACOLOGICAL THERAPEUTIC AGENTS AND NEUROTOXINS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY AND NEURONAL REPAIR. PHYSIOLOGY DEPT. PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ACADEMIC COLLABORATION WITH PROF SELKOE, DEPT NEUROLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ON THE CELLULAR ACTION OF BETA-AMYLOID AND ALZHEIMERS DISEASE ACADEMIC COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR T. BLISS ON KINASES INVOLVEMENT IN LTP INDUSTRIAL AND ACADEMIC COLLABORATION WITH ELAN CORPORATION, SAN FRANCISCO, USA, ON THE PREVENTION OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE BY THE USE OF ANTIBODIES TO INTEGRINS. (RS)-ALPHA-METHYL-4-CARBOXYPHENYLGLYCINE (RS)-ALPHA-METHYL-4-CARBOXYPHENYLGLYCINE MCPG 2 DISTINCT FORMS 5-HT (5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE, SEROTONIN) 5-HT1A RECEPTOR 7-NITRO INDAZOLE ACTIVATION AGONISTS ANTAGONIST ANXIOLYTIC DRUG AREA CA1 BRAIN BUSPIRONE DENTATE GYRUS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL EXCITATORY SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION FREELY BEHAVING GEPIRONE GLUTAMATE METABOTROPIC RECEPTORS HIPPOCAMPUS IN VIVO IN-VITRO INDUCTION LONG-TERM POTENTIATION METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS PAIRED-PULSE FACILITATION PHARMACOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION PHENYLGLYCINE DERIVATIVES PYRAMIDAL NEURONS RAT RAT HIPPOCAMPUS REGION RELEASE PROBABILITY SELECTIVE ANTAGONIST SLICES SPINAL-CORD SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION TRANSMISSION URETHANE NO DATA EURO 276,000 EUROPEAN UNION NO DATA €1,000,000 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND NO DATA £400,000 WELLCOME TRUST AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. BALAZS APOR aporbalazs ASSISTANT PROF IN EUROPEAN STUDIES APORB RUSSIAN CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES I'M GENERALLY INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE 19-20TH CENTURIES AND THE HISTORY OF COMMUNISM IN PARTICULAR. MY RESEARCH PRIORITIES EMBRACE THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL POLITICS, THE FORMULATION AND TRANSMISSION OF MYTHS AND IDEOLOGIES, STRATEGIES OF POLITICAL LEGITIMATION, AND THE POPULAR RECEPTION OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS. MY RESEARCH ACTIVITY INVOLVES INQUIRIES INTO SPECIFIC ISSUES OF THE SOVIETISATION PROCESS IN EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. MY PARTICULAR FOCUS IS ON THE SYMBOLIC ASPECTS OF COMMUNIST REGIMES; THE TECHNIQUES OF CONSTRUCTING AND TRANSMITTING SOCIALIST MYTHS AND THE MASS-CREATING OF HEROES; THE CULTIC VENERATION OF POLITICAL LEADERS; THE AMALGAMATION OF NATIONAL TRADITIONS AND COMMUNIST IDEAS, AS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL TO ATTAIN LEGITIMACY; AND THE ROLE OF LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS (PAINTING AND POSTERS) IN THE PROMOTION OF OFFICIALLY PROFESSED VALUES. I HAVE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN THE FUNCTIONING OF RITUALS IN SOVIET-TYPE SOCIETIES, AND THE WAY SOVIETISATION LED TO THE EXTENSIVE RITUALISATION OF POLITICAL LANGUAGE. ASIDE FROM CONCENTRATING ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF MYTH CONSTRUCTION AND THE CREATION OF RITUALS, I HAVE ALSO STUDIED HOW PARTICULAR RITUAL PRACTICES AND IDEOLOGICAL TENETS WERE PERCEIVED BY THE SOCIETY. DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN HUNGARIAN PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES PRESIDENT, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES SERIES EDITOR OF ANTHEM PRESS' RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES (UK) EASTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY IN THE 20TH CENTURY SOCIAL HISTORY OF SOVIET-TYPE REGIMES HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY COMMUNIST LEADER CULTS IN 20TH CENTURY EUROPE THE MAIN AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO PREPARE THE GROUNDS FOR THE SUBMISSION OF A GRANT PROPOSAL ON THE TOPIC OF COMMUNIST LEADER CULTS IN MODERN EUROPE (EAST AND WEST) TO AN IRISH AND/OR EUROPEAN FUND. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROCESS WILL BE DEVOTED TO THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL (INITIALLY, EUROPE-WIDE) RESEARCH NETWORK, STARTING WITH THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AND THE HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY. ACTIVITIES, OTHER THAN TRAVELLING AND MEETING POTENTIAL RESEARCH PARTNERS, WILL INCLUDE THE IDENTIFICATION OF PRIORITY RESEARCH THEMES IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE PROPOSED PARTNER INSTITUTIONS, AND THE PURCHASE OF COMPUTER AND DIGITAL EQUIPMENT. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL 'NEW FOUNDATIONS' SCHEME 2014 METHODS OF CULT-BUILDING IN COMMUNIST HUNGARY THE OVERALL ATTEMPT OF THE PROJECT WAS TO ANALYSE THE EMERGENCE, THE DEVELOPMENT AND THE DECAY OF A SATELLITE LEADER'S CULT IN THE PERIPHERIES OF THE STALINIST EMPIRE - NAMELY THE SOVIET BLOC - IN THE POST-WAR ERA (1945-1956). THE PROJECT WAS THE FIRST ENDEAVOUR TO SYSTEMATICALLY STUDY THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE CULT OF A MINI-STALIN, IN THIS CASE, THE SECRETARY OF THE HUNGARIAN WORKERS' PARTY, MÁTYÁS RÁKOSI. SUCH A SCRUTINY OF THE METHODS OF CULT-BUILDING IN HUNGARY WOULD LIKELY ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DYNAMICS OF THE POST-WAR SOVIETISATION PROJECT IN THE REGION AND THE SIMILARITIES/DIFFERENCES IN THE PROCESS OF ADOPTING THE 'SOVIET PATTERN', INCLUDING THE LEADER CULT PHENOMENON, IN EASTERN EUROPE. THE PROJECT FOCUSED ON THREE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF CULT-CONSTRUCTION IN HUNGARY AND WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAIN PARTS ACCORDINGLY. (1) THE MAJOR STRATEGIES OF THE PARTY CENTRE TO IMPLEMENT THE SOVIET SYSTEM OF MYTHS AND RITUALS - THE REQUISITES OF A NEW POLITICAL RELIGION - IN THE COUNTRY. (2) THE PARTY'S STRATEGIES TO MONITOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULT, AND THE POPULAR RECEPTION OF THE WORSHIP OF RULERS. (3) THE METHODS OF DISMANTLING THE CULT IN THE PERIOD OF THE 'NEW COURSE' AFTER JUNE 1953, AND AFTER THE 20TH CONGRESS OF THE CPSU IN FEBRUARY 1956. EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE PHD PROGRAMME ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN THE PRESS IN HUNGARY IN THE 1930S THE AIM OF THE PROJECT WAS TO PREPARE AN ARTICLE ON POLITICAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN HUNGARY IN THE 1930S. THE FOCUS WAS ON THE 1935 ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN THE HUNGARIAN PRESS. THE ARTICLE ANALYSED 8 MAJOR POLITICAL NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED AT THE TIME FOCUSING ON DIFFERENT WAYS OF SELF-REPRESENTATION AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE POLITICAL OTHER. INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL HISTORY (BUDAPEST) FELLOWSHIP FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS THE "INVISIBLE SHINING": THE CULT OF MATYAS RAKOSI IN STALINIST HUNGARY, 1945-1956 THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO COMMISSION THE TRANSLATION OF MY BOOK MANUSCRIPT. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND 2014/15 MEMORIES AND IDENTITIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO ORGANISE THE CONFERENCE, 'MEMORIES AND IDENTITIES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE'. THE CONFERENCE WILL BE ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC STUDIES, IN COOPERATION WITH THE CENTER FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES AT TCD, AND THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES. THE PROJECT ENJOYS THE SUPPORT OF THE SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURAL STUDIES, AND IT WILL ALSO BE ADVERTISED AS THE 2015 ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF IARCEES. THE CONFERENCE GROWS OUT OF A SERIES OF LECTURES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES IN THE PAST FEW YEARS. THE NOTIONS 'MEMORY' AND 'IDENTITY' HAVE ENJOYED SIGNIFICANT SCHOLARLY ATTENTION IN THE PAST FEW DECADES. THE 'MEMORY BOOM' IN THE HUMANITIES HAS RESULTED IN SEVERAL COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, AND IN THE PUBLICATION OF NUMEROUS ARTICLES AND BOOKS ON THE SUBJECT. MEMORIES OF TRAUMATIC EVENTS-THE HOLOCAUST AND STALINIST TERROR-AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIVIDUAL AS WELL AS COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES HAVE BEEN IN THE LIMELIGHT OF RESEARCH, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNIST REGIMES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE. THE AIM OF THE CONFERENCE IS TO ATTRACT AND/OR INVITE RENOWNED SCHOLARS WORKING IN THE FIELD, AND TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE NEW GENERATION OF RESEARCHERS TO PRESENT THEIR FINDINGS. DUE TO THE INTERDISCIPLINARY CHARACTER OF MEMORY (AND IDENTITY) STUDIES, IT IS ENVISAGED THAT THE CONFERENCE WILL ATTRACT SCHOLARS IN POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY, AND CULTURAL STUDIES. A SELECTION OF THE BEST PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED EITHER AS AN EDITED VOLUME OR AS A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF IARCEES, THE IRISH SLAVONIC STUDIES. TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVES SCHEME COURAGE: CULTURAL OPPOSITION - UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF DISSENT IN THE FORMER SOCIALIST COUNTRIES COURAGE IS A THREE-YEAR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED BY HORIZON 2020, THE EU FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION. THE PROJECT WILL CREATE THE FIRST DIGITAL DATABASE OF BOTH ONLINE AND OFFLINE, AS WELL AS PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS IN EUROPE WHICH TESTIFY TO THE SURVIVAL OF VARIOUS FORMS OF CULTURAL OPPOSITION IN THE FORMER SOCIALIST COUNTRIES. THESE COLLECTIONS COVER A PERIOD FROM THE RISE OF COMMUNIST REGIMES IN THE REGION TO THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN. COURAGE WILL FURTHER A MORE NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THESE COLLECTIONS WORK, WHAT FUNCTIONS THEY HAVE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE SOCIETIES, AND HOW THEY PRESENT THEIR HOLDINGS TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCES. THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUANCED INTERPRETATIONS OF DISSENT, AND WILL ADVANCE THE PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS AS PART OF COMMON EUROPEAN HERITAGE. THE ROLE OF TCD IS TO EXPLORE COLLECTIONS OF CULTURAL OPPOSITION IN THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC OF UKRAINE, AND TO ADDRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF UKRAINIAN DIASPORA COLLECTIONS IN THE PRESERVATION OF THE LEGACY OF DISSENT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON2020 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MS. RUTH ARCHBOLD archboldruth SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR ARCHBOLR SCHOOL OFFICE - ENGLISH SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE ENGLISH DR. SARAH ARDUIN arduinsarah ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ARDUINSA LAW MY RESEARCH IS INTERDISCIPLINARY; IT SITS AT THE INTERSECTION OF REGULATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION. IT SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND HOW GAPS HAVE EMERGED BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AS EXPRESSED BY LAW AND THE LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE WITH THE LEGAL NORMS IN THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF SCHOOLS. IN ADDITION, MY RESEARCH STRIVES TO UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE UN CONVENTION OF THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES (UN CRPD) AND THE MECHANISMS THEREIN CONTAINED AIMED AT SECURING COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY. IN THIS SENSE, IT LOOKS AT THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK OF THIS INTERNATIONAL TREATY IN THE CONTEXT OF EXPERIMENTALIST GOVERNANCE. LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 47 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. GIZEM ARIKAN arikangizem ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ARIKANG POLITICAL SCIENCE MY MAIN FIELDS OF STUDY ARE COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY. I STUDY THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS THAT UNDERLIE THE EFFECT OF RELIGIOSITY ON VARIOUS POLITICAL ATTITUDES USING BOTH CROSS-NATIONAL SURVEY DATA AND EXPERIMENTS CARRIED OUT IN MULTIPLE POLITICAL SETTINGS. DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY (GOVERNING COUNCIL MEMBER, 2015-2018) COMPARATIVE STUDIES LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS MASS POLITICAL-ATTITUDES POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY PUBLIC OPINION SOCIAL IDENTITY SURVEY DATA TOLERANCE WELFARE POLITICAL SCIENCE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ROBERT MATTHEW ARMSTRONG armstrongrobertmatthew ASSOCIATE PROF & HEAD OF DISCIPLINE ARMSTRRM HISTORY CENTRE FOR EARLY MODERN HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) MY RESEARCH HAS TAKEN IN A WIDE RANGE OF QUESTIONS IN EARLY MODERN IRISH AND BRITISH HISTORY. CONNECTING THEM HAS BEEN A PERSISTING CONCERN TO WORK AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN IDEAS AND ACTIONS, AND AN INTEREST IN PEOPLE AND TRADITIONS WITH COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIPS TO SUCH GRAND HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AS THE REFORMATION, THE RISE OF THE MODERN STATE OR EVOLVING NATIONAL IDENTITIES. MUCH OF MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN PUBLISHED AS COMMISSIONED ESSAYS IN PEER-REVIEWED COLLECTIONS WITH SUCH LEADING ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS AS OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE AND MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESSES, REACHING A WIDE AUDIENCE AMONG SCHOLARS OF THE EARLY MODERN CENTURIES. OVER THE LAST DECADE I HAVE DEVELOPED A LEADERSHIP ROLE WITHIN MY DISCIPLINE, AS JOINT-PI ON A HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT, AND AT THE HELM OF IRELAND'S MOST INFLUENTIAL PEER-REVIEWED HISTORY JOURNAL. I HAVE SUPERVISED TWELVE PHD STUDENTS IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY, ACTED AS AS MENTOR FOR AN ELEVATE FELLOWSHIP, AND BEEN INVITED TO SPEAK INTERNATIONALLY AT SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES, INCLUDING IN PRINCETON, OXFORD AND LONDON. MY FIRST MONOGRAPH, PROTESTANT WAR (MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005) CENTRED ON THE EXPERIENCES OF THE PROTESTANT COMMUNITIES AND THE CIVIL CONFLICTS ENGULFING IRELAND AND BRITAIN IN THE 1640S. I HAVE PUBLISHED A NUMBER OF RELATED ESSAYS AND ARTICLES, RANGING FROM PEACE NEGOTIATIONS TO WARTIME ADMINISTRATION. MORE RECENTLY, MY PRINCIPAL FOCUS HAS SHIFTED TOWARDS THE HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS AND COMMUNITIES. I ACTED AS JOINT PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THE 'INSULAR CHRISTIANITY PROJECT', AWARDED €293, 818 BY THE IRCHSS/IRC, WHICH ESTABLISHED AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SCHOLARS, FOR CROSS-NATIONAL AND CROSS-DENOMINATIONAL STUDY OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE AND IDENTITY. THE PROJECT GENERATED A MAJOR EDITION OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TEXTS AND TWO VOLUMES OF STUDIES ON 'CELTIC CHRISTIANITITES' AND ON CATHOLICISM/PRESBYTERIANISM, FOR EACH OF WHICH I ACTED AS A CONTRIBUTOR AND AS CO-EDITOR. A FOURTH VOLUME, ON THE ENGLISH BIBLE, IS UNDER CONTRACT FOR PUBLICATION IN THE PRESTIGIOUS ST ANDREWS STUDIES IN REFORMATION HISTORY SERIES (AUTUMN 2017). MY ONGOING STUDY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN TRADITION IN IRELAND HAS RESULTED IN PUBLICATION OF TEN ARTICLES AND ESSAYS INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, POLITICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES OF A COMMUNITY WHICH HAS CONSTITUTED A MAJOR COMPONENT IN IRISH SOCIETY SINCE THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. I HAVE RECENTLY WRITTEN CHAPTERS FOR TWO LANDMARK PROJECTS: A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE JACOBITE WARS FOR THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF IRISH HISTORY, AND AN ACCOUNT OF RELIGIOUS CHANGE 1641-91 FOR THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF IRELAND. THE LAST FEW YEARS ALSO SAW ME TAKE ON THE EXCITING AND INFLUENTIAL ROLE OF ARTICLES EDITOR FOR IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES (I.H.S.), THE PREMIER PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF IRELAND. AS ARTICLES EDITOR 2011-16, I CONTRIBUTED TO SHAPING THE CONTOURS OF CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP ACROSS THE FULL CHRONOLOGICAL RANGE OF IRISH HISTORY AND ITS DIVERSE BRANCHES. MY FUTURE PLANS FOCUS ON THE PRODUCTION OF A SECOND MONOGRAPH GROWING OUT OF MY WORK ON PRESBYTERIANISM IN IRELAND. I AIM TO PRODUCE THE FIRST MODERN STUDY OF THIS RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY, FROM THE EMERGENCE OF PRESBYTERIAN TENDENCIES IN ULSTER IN THE 1620S THROUGH TO THE CONSOLIDATION OF PRESBYTERIANISM, IN INSTITUTIONAL TERMS, AS A BODY OF SHARED IDEAS AND AS A COMMUNITY, IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I HAVE HAD PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS WITH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS ABOUT PUBLICATION. I MAINTAIN A RESEARCH INTEREST IN THE 1640S WARS, AND AM COMPLETING TWO PAPERS, ON THREE-KINGDOM ROYALISM, AND ON PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. I HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF BRINGING MY RESEARCH TO WIDER PUBLICS, INCLUDING WITH TWO TELEVISION SERIES, AS WELL AS THROUGH RADIO AND PUBLIC LECTURES. I HAVE A PARTICULAR CONNECTION TO THE PRESBYTERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, AN IMPORTANT BRIDGE ORGANIZATION BETWEEN THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF HISTORY AND A WIDER PUBLIC. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADVISORY BOARD, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES PUBLICATIONS LTD COMMITTEE MEMBER, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOINT EDITOR (ARTICLES), IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS BRITISH HISTORY EARLY MODERN IRELAND, COLONIAL COMMUNITIES INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IRISH POLITICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY, 1660-1800 RELIGIOUS HISTORY THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE INSULAR CHRISTIANITY 1530-1750 THIS INNOVATIVE THREE-YEAR PROJECT WILL SUPPORT THE EDITING OF IMPORTANT TEXTS IN IRISH RELIGIOUS HISTORY; I WILL BE ONE OF THE EDITORS OF A NEW EDITION OF THE FOUNDATION TEXT OF IRISH PRESBYTERIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY, PATRICK ADAIR'S TRUE NARRATIVE. A MORE DISTINCTIVE ASPECT INVOLVES BRINGING TOGETHER SCHOLARS FROM A RANGE OF DISCIPLINES, AND WITH EXPERTISE IN THE HISTORY ONE OR MORE OF THE INSULAR NATIONS, TO COLLABORATE THROUGH MUTUAL CRITICISM OF PRE-CIRCULATED PAPERS, AND MEETINGS IN A SERIES OF SYMPOSIA. A VOLUME OF STUDIES WILL BE PRODUCED ON EACH OF OUR THREE THEMES: CATHOLICISM AND PRESBYTERIANISM COMPARED; CELTIC CHRISTIANITY; THE IMPACT OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE. IRCHSS THE EMERGENCE OF IRISH PRESBYTERIANISM I INTEND TO WORK TOWARDS A FULL-LENGTH STUDY OF THE EMERGENCE OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN IRELAND, EMBRACING ITS SUBJECT IN CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AS WELL AS ECCLESIASTICAL OR THEOLOGICAL TERMS. TCD ARTS AND HUMANITIES BENEFACTIONS FUND IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. PETER ARNDS arndspeter ASSOC PROF / HEAD OF DEPARTMENT ARNDSP ITALIAN CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES DR. PETER ARNDS IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED EXPERT IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND POST-1945 GERMAN LITERATURE, PARTICULARLY THE WORKS OF NOBEL LAUREATE GÜNTER GRASS AND QUESTIONS OF REPRESENTATION OF THE THIRD REICH IN LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND TRANSLATION. HIS 2015 MONOGRAPH, "LYCANTHROPY IN GERMAN LITERATURE" (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN) IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT AT THE INTERSTICES OF LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY AND INCLUDES LITERARY TEXTS FROM ICELANDIC SAGA THROUGH THE PICARESQUE GENRE, ROMANTICISM, AND REALISM, TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. ARNDS RECENTLY CO-AUTHORED A JEAN MONNET NETWORK GRANT APPLICATION ON THE TOPIC OF MYTH AND MIGRATION, DIASPORA AND NATIONALISM. WORKING TOGETHER WITH PROFESSOR JENNIFER RUTHERFORD, THE DIRECTOR OF THE J.M. COETZEE CENTRE FOR CREATIVE PRACTICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, THIS FUNDING IS BEING SOUGHT FOR THE CREATION OF A NEW INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK BETWEEN TRINITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE, UNIVERSIDAD DE COMPLUTENSE, MADRID AND THE CENTRE FOR MYTH STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX. ARNDS IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON HIS FOURTH ACADEMIC MONOGRAPH, "THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF A PREDATOR: WOLVES, LITERATURE, AND THE METAPHORICS OF MIGRATION," AN ANALYSIS OF THE USES OF MYTHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES IN REPRESENTATIONS OF GENOCIDE AND COMING TO TERMS WITH TRAUMA. ITALIAN DEPARTMENT ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ADVISORY BOARD, METACRITIC JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND THEORY AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION ASSESSOR FOR THE LEVERHULME TRUST EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL "STUDIES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE" ELECTED TO THE PEN CENTRE FOR GERMAN WRITERS ABROAD, PART OF PEN INTERNATIONAL MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND PRESIDENT, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER, UNIVERSIDAD DE COMPLUTENSE, MADRID 18TH CENTURY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURAL THEORY EXILE LITERATURE GERMAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY LITERARY THEORY LITERATURE AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT LITERATURE OF GENOCIDE, HOLOCAUST LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY MAGICAL REALISM MODERN GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN LITERATURE MODERN ITALIAN WRITERS MYTHOLOGY POST WAR GERMAN LITERATURE PSYCHOLOGY AND LITERATURE TRANSLATION WEIMER CLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM WRITERS AND POLITICS CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES MIGRATION, DIASPORA AND NATIONALISM THIS IS AN ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT FOR WHICH I ASSEMBLED A TEAM OF TRINITY RESEARCHERS IN FEB. 2017 AND CO-AUTHORED A JEAN MONNET NETWORK GRANT APPLICATION WITH PROFESSOR JENNIFER RUTHERFORD, THE DIRECTOR OF THE J.M. COETZEE CENTRE FOR CREATIVE PRACTICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE. IF AWARDED, THIS € 300,000 GRANT WILL PROVIDE FUNDING FOR A NEW INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK BETWEEN TCD, THE UNIV. OF ADELAIDE, AND THE UNIV. OF ESSEX AND CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. INMACULADA ARNEDILLO-SANCHEZ arnedillosanchezinmaculada ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ARNEDII COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION MY RESEARCH EXPLORES THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND EVALUATE INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING EXPERIENCES AND ENVIRONMENTS. CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON CONTEXTUAL, COLLABORATIVE, AND CREATIVE MOBILE LEARNING, AND THE PERFORMANCE OF STUDIES IN HUMAN COGNITION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION TO DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICES THAT SUPPORT INNOVATION IN LEARNING. MY LATEST PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT COLLECTIVE COLLABORATIVE CREATIVITY THROUGH THE CREATION OF DIGITAL NARRATIVES WITH MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES. COMPUTER SCIENCE CRITE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN TURKISH ENGLISH ADVISER/ INVITED PARTICIPANT - SITHENGI CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL, CHILDREN & BROADCASTING FOUNDATION FOR AFRICA ADVISER/ INVITED PARTICIPANT - SPEAK AFRICA, UNICEF COMMITTEE MEMBER - INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MOBILE LEARNING (IAMLEARN) ELEARNING TRACK CHAIR - IADIS ESOCIETY CONFERENCE EXTERNAL EXAMINER - NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND (NCI) EXTERNAL EXAMINER, MASSEY UNIVERSITY, NEW ZEALAND EXTERNAL EXAMINER, UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA, SPAIN INVITED PARTICIPANT - INTERNATIONAL THINK TANK 5TH WORLD SUMMIT ON MEDIA FOR CHILDREN 2007 INVITED SPEAKER - 5TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CROSSMEDIA AND COLLABORATION 2008 INVITED SPEAKER - COMPUTER EDUCATION SOCIETY OF IRELAND CONFERENCE INVITED SPEAKER - ETWINNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP, LÉARGAS KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT TECHNOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA: AN INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR MUSEUMS, UNIVERSITIES AND ENTERPRISES, UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID, SPAIN MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE AND BLENDED LEARNING (IJMBL) PROGRAMME CHAIR - IADIS INTERNATIONAL MOBILE LEARNING CONFERENCE PROGRAMME CHAIR - IADIS MOBILE LEARNING 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME CHAIR - IADIS MOBILE LEARNING 2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME CHAIR - IADIS MOBILE LEARNING 2010 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME CHAIR - IADIS MOBILE LEARNING 2011 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME CHAIR - IADIS MOBILE LEARNING 2012 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME CHAIR - IADIS MOBILE LEARNING 2013 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME CHAIR - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP BEYOND MOBILE LEARNING PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - CAL 07 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - CHI 2006 WORKSHOP ON INVESTIGATING NEW USER EXPERIENCE CHALLENGES IN ITV: MOBILITY & SOCIABILITY PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - CNRS TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL ON MOBILE LEARNING PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - COGNITION AND EXPLORATORY LEARNING (CELDA 2006) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING EC-TEL 2008 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING EC-TEL 2009 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING EC-TEL 2010 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING EC-TEL 2011 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING EC-TEL 2012 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING EC-TEL 2013 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - IEEE 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS, MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (WMUTE 2012) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - IEEE 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS, MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (WMUTE 2010) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL GAMES AND INTELLIGENT TOYS BASED EDUCATION (DIGITEL 2008) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL GAMES AND INTELLIGENT TOYS BASED EDUCATION (DIGITEL 2010) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL GAMES AND INTELLIGENT TOYS BASED EDUCATION (DIGITEL 2012) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON E-LEARNING AND DISTANT EDUCATION (ELDE 2011) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MOBILE LEARNING FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - IRMA2007 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - LEARNING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: UNDERSTANDING THE USER-EXPERIENCE IN PERVASIVE LEARNING SYSTEMS PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - MLEARN 2008 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - MLEARN 2012 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - MLEARN 2013 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON E-LEARNING AND GAMES (EDUTAINMENT 2011) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT AND TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING (CONTEL): THEORY, METHODOLOGY AND DESIGN (EC-TEL 2011) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ICCE 2009 THEME-BASED SUB-CONFERENCE CLASSROOM, UBIQUITOUS, AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES ENHANCED LEARNING (CUMTEL) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE SYMPOSIUM ON PERVASIVE COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS REVIEWER - COMPUTERS & EDUCATION (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL) REVIEWER FOR IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL) REVIEWER INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES IJHCS REVIEWER- ALT-J RESEARCH IN LEARNING TECHNOLOGY (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL) SEMINAR - FROM MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES TO MOBILE LEARNING: TECHNOLOGIES &#8800; LEARNING, UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA, SPAIN STEERING COMMITTEE - MOBILE LEARNING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG), KALEIDOSCOPE NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE SUMMER SCHOOL ON EDUCATION AND MOBILITY, UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA, SPAIN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY & LEARNING DISABILITY COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING (CSCL) HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING MOBILE LEARNING MULTIMEDIA & CREATIVITY EFELCREN (EDUCATIONAL FLEXIBLE AND CREATIVE ENVIRONMENTS) EFELCREN AIMS TO CREATE A COMMUNITY OF TEACHERS IN ORDER TO FACILITATE TEAMS WORKING TOGETHER. ACTION RESEARCH METHODOLOGY WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP AN E-LEARNING MODEL WHICH USES ONLINE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE ACQUISITION OF ICT, INFORMATION LITERACY AND THINKING SKILLS WITHIN THE EVERYDAY CONTEXT IN THE CLASSROOM. EFELCREN ALSO AIMS TO IMPLEMENT HIGH QUALITY E-LEARNING MATERIALS COMBINED WITH INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS, INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA CONTENT, ACTIVITIES AND APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT. THE PROJECT WILL IDENTIFY MODELS OF GOOD PRACTICE, CATEGORIZE, AND DOCUMENT THEM AS CASE STUDIES THROUGH AN ONLINE DATABASE. THIS WILL ALLOW TEACHERS TO EASILY APPLY AND ADAPT THESE CASES TO THEIR OWN NEEDS IMPLYING THAT DIFFERENT SUBJECT AREA TEACHERS ACROSS EUROPE WILL BE ABLE TO RETRIEVE HIGH QUALITY RESOURCES READY TO USE. EU SOCRATES - COMENIUS WEB@CLASSROOM: INTEGRATING ICT INTO THE CURRICULUM: INVESTIGATING TEACHING AND LEARNING OUTCOMES IN THE PERMANENTLY CONNECTED CLASSROOM WEB@CLASSROOM IS AN ACTION-RESEARCH PROJECT WHICH AIMS TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS FROM SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. ITS MAIN OBJECTIVES ARE TO PROMOTE PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN PERMANENTLY INTERNET-CONNECTED CLASSROOMS AND TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF EDUCATIONAL ICT ON TEACHING AND LEARNING OUTCOMES. THE WORK PLAN INCLUDES TEACHER TRAINING ACTIVITIES, DEVELOPMENT OF MATERIALS, DATA COLLECTION, WORK WITH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS, DATA ANALYSIS, EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATION. I WAS INVOLVED IN MOST OF THE ASPECTS OF THIS PROJECT BUT MY MAIN CONTRIBUTION WAS IN RELATION TO THE OVERALL EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT. TO THIS END, I DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED AN ARTEFACT THAT ENABLES THE DATA COLLECTION, COLLATION, AND ANALYSIS. THE SYSTEM ALSO PROVIDES REALTIME DATA ANALYSIS AND ENABLES ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN THE EVALUATION TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS ANALYSIS. THIS PROJECT WAS RECOGNISED BY THE EU'S SCHOOLNET AS EXAMPLE OF BEST PRACTICE. EU SOCRATES - MINERVA CARA INITIATIVE BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY WHICH EXPLORES THE POTENTIALS OF ICT AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL TOOL TO ENHANCE INTEGRATION PROCESSES OF NEW COMERS TO IRISH SOCIETY. THE PROJECT IS PARTICULARLY TARGET AT UNACCOMPANIED MINORS SEEKING ASYLUM IN IRELAND SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND LAW REFORM EVALUATION OF THE KILKENNY INFORMATION AGE SCHOOL INITIATIVE IN 1997 KILKENNY WERE RUNNERS UP IN THE INFORMATION AGE TOWNS COMPETITION WHICH WAS SPONSORED BY TELECOM EIREANN (NOW EIRCOM). THE PRIZE FUND OF £1,000,000 WAS AWARDED TO KILKENNY. AS A RESULT KILKENNY INFORMATION AGE LTD. WAS ESTABLISHED IN ORDER TO POSITION KILKENNY AT THE FOREFRONT OF ICT DEVELOPMENTS AND TO CREATE AN AWARENESS AND COMPETENCY WHEREBY PEOPLE OF ALL AGES AND FROM ALL SOCIAL GROUPINGS CAN BENEFIT FROM THE GOALS OF THE INFORMATION AGE SOCIETY. IN FEBRUARY 1999, THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE THROUGH NCTE AND KILKENNY INFORMATION AGE LTD. FORMED A PARTNERSHIP TO ENCOURAGE THE USE AND EVALUATION OF ICT IN EDUCATION. THERE ARE EIGHT PROJECTS IN TOTAL: 10 PRIMARY, 6 SECONDARY AND 3 SPECIAL SCHOOLS IN THE KILKENNY CITY AREA ARE PARTICIPATING IN AT LEAST ONE OF THESE PROJECTS. THIS PROJECT INVOLVED THE EVALUATION OF THE KILKENNY INFORMATION AGE SCHOOL INITIATIVE. WITHIN THIS CONTEXT, I DEVELOPED AN ICT MEDIATED FORMATIVE APPROACH TO ENABLE ALL THE PARTICIPANTS (EVALUATORS AND EVALUTEES) TO COLLECTIVELY CONSTRUCT KNOWLEDGE IN REGARDS TO THE PROJECT ITSELF, AS WELL AS THE EVALUATION PROCESS IN WHICH THEY WERE IMMERSED. I ALSO CO-AUTHORED THE FINAL REPORT. NCTE AND KILKENNY INFORMATION AGE LTD. EDUTXT: AN EXPLORATION OF THE USE OF MOBILE PHONES IN FORMAL EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS EDU TXT PROPOSES TO USE MOBILE TELEPHONES, IN PARTICULAR SMS, IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER COMMUNICATION TOOLS SUCH AS EMAIL AND WIKI TECHNOLOGY, TO INCREASE INTERACTION DURING THE TEACHING/LEARNING PROCESS WHILE IN CLASS AS WELL AS OUTSIDE CLASS. IN PARTICULAR THIS PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON THREE MAIN INTERACTIONS FOR LEARNING: STUDENT-LECTURER; STUDENT-STUDENT; STUDENT-CONTENT. THIS PROJECT IS GROUNDED ON A CONSTRUCTIVIST PARADIGM AND ADVOCATES FOR A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST APPROACH IN WHICH COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND TOOLS ARE RECOGNISED AS PARAMOUNT IN THE LEARNING PROCESS. FURTHERMORE, IT INCORPORATES COLLABORATIVE STRATEGIES TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER ORDER SKILLS IN THE ATTEMPT TO ENGAGE LEARNERS IN KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION. THE PROJECT WILL DELIVER A SOFTWARE SYSTEM THAT WILL ENHANCE ACCESS TO LECTURERS, PEERS AND CONTENT VIA SMS TEXT MESSAGE BASED COMMUNICATION SUPPORTED BY A DEDICATED MESSAGE PROCESSING SERVER. THIS SERVER WILL SUPPORT VARIOUS TYPES OF INTERACTIONS AS OUTLINED ABOVE. ALL INTERACTION WILL BE STORED AND WILL BE ACCESSIBLE AT A LATER STAGE. QUESTIONS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN ASKED AND ANSWERED DURING A LECTURE ARE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS AT A LATER STAGE FOR REVIEW. THIS DATA WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION THAT WILL BE USED TO DIRECT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLATFORM. CENTRE FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGY (CLT) MOTILL: MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN LIFELONG LEARNING: BEST PRACTICES THE WIDESPREAD DIFFUSION OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN ALL COUNTRIES OF THE EU GIVES AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP POLICIES ADDRESSED TOWARDS PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION, CONSIDERING THAT THE USE OF MOBILE DEVICES TRANSCENDS AGE, SOCIAL STATUS, ECONOMIC LEVEL, GENDER AND ETHNIC ORIGINS. DESPITE THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY HAS HIGHLIGHTED THAT MOBILE LEARNING COULD BE A SUITABLE METHODOLOGY TO SUPPORT LLL, NATIONAL POLICIES HAVE NOT YET TAKEN ANY SIGNIFICANT STEPS TO INTEGRATE LLL AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES, THIS PROJECT WILL SUPPORT THIS GOAL. THE MAIN OUTPUTS OF THE PROJECT WILL CONCERN ACTIVITIES RELATED TO COLLECTING, ORGANIZING AND ANALYZING NEW PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES THAT EXPLOIT MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES FOR LLL. IN PARTICULAR, THE PROJECT ENVISAGES THE FOLLOWING OUTPUTS: . A WEB PORTAL AIMED AT SUPPORTING KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION AND SHARING OF COMMON EXPERIENCES; . AN ONLINE SCIENTIFIC ANNOTATED REVIEW DATABASE THAT WILL BRING TOGETHER PROJECTS, KEY EXPERIENCES AND SCHOLARLY STUDIES ON LLL EXPERIENCES BASED ON MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES; . AN ONLINE COLLECTION OF BEST PRACTICES ON NATIONAL M-LEARNING PROJECTS EXAMINED FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW, TO DETERMINE THEIR IMPACTS ON PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES; . PROJECT REPORTS, REGARDING METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS, NATIONAL POLICIES, AND TECHNICAL RESULTS ABOUT THE USE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN LLL INITIATIVES. THE RESULTS OF THE PROJECT WILL BE: . AN UP-TO-DATE SURVEY ON THE USE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN LEARNING AND TRAINING PROJECTS IN THE PARTNERS' COUNTRIES; . A METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO ANALYZE BEST PRACTICES IN THIS CONTEXT. THIS FRAMEWORK WILL IDENTIFY THE KEY FACTORS AND THE MAIN INDICATORS, AND WILL ESTABLISH THE PRINCIPAL CRITERIA FOR CONSTRUCTING THE EVALUATION GRID; . AN OPEN SPACE FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS, INVOLVING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS, RESEARCH CENTRES, EDUCATORS, AND TRAINERS, ON THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION SOCIETY TECHNOLOGIES ON THE FUTURE OF LLL. THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE RESEARCHERS AND NATIONAL/LOCAL AGENCIES IN THE DEFINITION OF STRATEGIC PLANS, INCREASING THEIR AWARENESS ABOUT THE POSSIBLE IMPACTS OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES ON LLL, AND PROVIDE EDUCATORS WITH THE TECHNOLOGICAL / METHODOLOGICAL SCAFFOLDING NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THESE POLICIES. AT LONG-TERM THE MOTILL PROJECT SHOULD IMPROVE THE RATE OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN TRAINING PROGRAMS. EC LIFELONG LEARNING SHARE.TEC: SHARING DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE TEACHING EDUCATION COMMUNITY TEACHER EDUCATION (TE) IS A STRATEGIC FIELD FOR EUROPE'S KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND IS UNDERGOING RAPID EVOLUTION. SHARE.TEC SUPPORTS THIS PROCESS BY CREATING A DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT THAT FOSTERS ACCESS, RETRIEVAL AND REUSE OF RESOURCES FOR TE ACROSS EUROPE. THE UNDERLYING VISION IS THAT DIGITAL RESOURCES ARE VEHICLES OF EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION WHICH CAN HELP BUILD BRIDGES AMONG THE DIFFERENT CULTURES OF THE MEMBER STATES. THE SHARE.TEC SYSTEM WILL BE AN EXTENDIBLE FEDERATED AGGREGATION OF RESOURCES, PROVIDING ACCESS BOTH TO THE PARTNERS' OWN CONTENT AND TO OTHER TE REPOSITORIES. THIS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY A METADATA MIGRATION PROCESS FEATURING SEMANTIC, LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL INTEROPERABILITY. THE INTENDED USERS OF THE SYSTEM WILL BE TEACHER EDUCATORS, TEACHERS ENGAGED IN SELF-GUIDED LEARNING, AND DEVELOPERS AND PUBLISHERS OF DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR TE. SHARE.TEC WILL BE ADAPTIVE TO THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF THESE USERS AND TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THEIR PROFESSIONAL PROFILES THROUGH AN ONTOLOGY-BASED APPROACH DESIGNED TO CAPTURE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES. SHARE.TEC WILL COVER BOTH PROFESSIONALLY-DEVELOPED, COMMERCIALLY-DISTRIBUTED CONTENT AND OPEN RESOURCES CREATED BY USERS, PROPOSING AN INNOVATIVE MODEL FOR MANAGING THEIR COEXISTENCE IN A SUSTAINABLE FASHION. EFFICIENT BROKERAGE WILL BE OFFERED BETWEEN FEDERATED TE RESOURCES AND USER DEMAND, WHICH IS STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY A VARIETY OF PERSONAL, CURRICULAR, CULTURAL AND NATIONAL FACTORS. TO IMPROVE THE MATCHING MECHANISM, SHARE.TEC WILL INTEGRATE A FOLKSONOMY BASED APPROACH AND PERSONALISATION FUNCTIONS SUCH AS USER HISTORY. SINCE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ARE TYPICALLY ROOTED IN LOCAL CULTURES, THE PROJECT WILL HAVE A STRONG FOCUS ON CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS SO THAT USERS CAN BENEFIT FROM CONTENTS DEVELOPED IN EXTERNAL CONTEXTS. USER INVOLVEMENT WILL BE AN ESSENTIAL FEATURE OF SHARE.TEC AND ACCORDINGLY THE PROJECT WILL ESTABLISH A NETWORK OF USER COMMUNITIES THAT WILL CONTINUE BEYOND PROJECT COMPLETION, THUS STRENGTHENING SUSTAINABILITY. EC ECONTENTPLUS TRUST-E: TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN A UBIQUITOUS SECURE IN EVERYDAY LIFE YOUNG AND OLD ARE COMMUNICATING AND COLLABORATING USING TECHNOLOGY IN AN INCREASINGLY DIVERSE NUMBER OF WAYS. RESEARCH TO DATE HAS INVESTIGATED THE USE OF SOME OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ANYTIME/ANYWHERE LIFELONG-LEARNING WHILE BUILDING UPON DEVELOPMENTS IN LEARNING THEORY. MUCH OF THESE IMPLEMENTATIONS HAVE FOCUSSED ON PROVIDING THESE FACILITIES THROUGH CENTRALISED SERVERS ACCESSED BY AUTHENTICATED CLIENTS FROM A SMALL SET OF FIXED LOCATIONS. WE BELIEVE UBIQUITOUS LEARNING REQUIRES UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A UBIQUITOUS LEARNING PLATFORM ACCESSIBLE BY ALL MODERN AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES. THE PEDAGOGICAL UNDERPINNING OF THE ENVIRONMENT WILL BE BASED UPON A COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTIONIST PARADIGM. THIS PLATFORM WILL BE FLEXIBLE AND SCALABLE PROVIDING A MODULAR FRAMEWORK FOR A VARIETY OF LEARNING SCENARIOS. SPECIFICALLY IT WILL ALLOW FOR COMMUNICATION, COLLABORATION, ACCESS TO CONTENT AND THE INTERACTIVE CREATION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM A VARIETY OF FIXED AND MOBILE COMPUTATIONAL DEVICES. APPROPRIATE INTERFACES AND INTERACTION MODELS WILL BE DEVELOPED. CENTRAL TO THE FEASIBILITY OF SUCH AN ENVIRONMENT IS A COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE THAT IS ADAPTABLE. MORE PROBLEMATICALLY THE ENVIRONMENT MUST FACILITATE MEANINGFUL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN USERS WHO MAY NOT HAVE ANY PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF EACH OTHER - I.E. THE SYSTEM MUST SUPPORT A RICH INTERPRETATION OF THE IDEA OF TRUST IN AN AD-HOC MOBILE UBIQUITOUS ENVIRONMENT. HEA FUND FOR DIGITAL RESEARCH TRINITY TEL (TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING) OUTREACH PROGRAMME I WAS THE CO-FOUNDER AND CO-COORDINATOR FOR THIS PROJECT. WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THIS INITIATIVE, WE DESIGNED AND IMPLEMENTED A SUCCESSFUL MODEL FOR A TEL OUTREACH PROGRAMME AND DEVELOPED SUBSTANTIAL EXPERTISE AND KNOW-HOW IN THE AREA. THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE ACQUIRED DURING THIS PROJECT LEAD TO THE SUCCESSFUL FUNDING AND CREATION OF THE BRIDGE TO COLLEGE (B2C) PROGRAMME WHICH IS FOUNDED IN THE SAME PRINCIPLES. THE TEL OUTREACH PROGRAMME IS AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT, WHICH GIVES SENIOR CYCLE STUDENTS (4TH-5TH YEAR STUDENTS) IN LOCAL DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK ON CREATIVE PROJECTS USING STATE OF THE ART DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. THE TWO PRIMARY AIMS OF THE PROJECT ARE: 1. TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS AND INCREASE THE NUMBERS OF STUDENTS FROM DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES WHO GO ON TO THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION. 2. TO INCREASE YOUNG PEOPLES' ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT IN TECHNICAL PROJECTS. THE PROJECT GIVES ITS PARTICIPANTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME DESIGNERS, CREATORS AND CONFIDENT USERS, NOT JUST PASSIVE CONSUMERS, OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. FOR EXAMPLE INSTEAD OF JUST PLAYING COMPUTER GAMES THE STUDENTS OF THE CLUBHOUSE ACTUALLY BUILD THEIR OWN GAMES. SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT, DELOITTE, O2 IRELAND, DEPT. COMPUTER SCIENCE, TAP & SUAS LOGIC, PROGRAMMING, AND ROBOTICS FOR NON-TECHNICAL STUDENTS THIS PROJECT IS AIMED AT THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A HOLISTIC TEACHING AND LEARNING MODULE FOR BASIC PROGRAMMING AND ROBOTICS PRINCIPLES AIMED AT NON TECHNICAL STUDENTS. THE COURSE ADOPTS A CONSTRUCTIVIST, PROBLEM BASED, LEARNING APPROACH AND IT ADOPTS A MODIFIED VERSION OF KOLB'S EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING CYCLE WHICH ENCOURAGES THE LEARNER TO GO THROUGH A CYCLE OF FORMULATING A DESIGN, IMPLEMENTING THAT DESIGN, GETTING THAT DESIGN EXECUTED IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD THROUGH THE MEANS OF A ROBOT, AND THEN REFLECTING UPON THE EXECUTION OF THAT IMPLEMENTATION. THE MODULE INCORPORATES VIDEO CLIPS TO ILLUSTRATE BOTH THE PROBLEM SOLVING PROCESS AND SAMPLE SOLUTIONS. THE CLIPS ARE ANNOTATED BOTH WITH TEXT AND GRAPHICAL INDICATORS OF TRANSITIONS WITHIN THE KOLB CYCLE. THE WEB SITE CONTAINS A SET OF PROGRESSIVELY MORE SOPHISTICATED PROBLEMS AND ATTEMPTING TO SOLVE THESE, SHOULD LEAD LEARNERS TO GAIN UNDERSTANDING OF CONCEPTS CONCERNING PROGRAMMING, LOGIC AND ROBOTICS. THE ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY USED IS THE LEGO MINDSTORMS PROGRAMMABLE BRICK WHICH WAS DESIGNED AT THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND LEARNING GROUP AT THE MIT MEDIA LAB. THE BRICK CAN CONTROL A NUMBER OF MOTORS AND SENSORS CAN BE ATTACHED WHICH RESPOND TO TOUCH AND LIGHT. MINDSTROMS ALLOWS DEVICES TO BE BUILT WHICH CAN INTERACT WITH THEIR ENVIRONMENT. THIS PROVIDES A TECHNOLOGICAL BASE TO BE USED IN THE LEARNING APPROACH FOLLOWED BY THIS COURSE. NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN (NDP) LEARNING INNOVATION PROJECT EDUWORKS: CROSSING BORDERS IN THE COMPREHENSIVE INVESTIGATION OF LABOUR MARKET MATCHING PROCESSES: AN EU-WIDE, TRANS-DISCIPLINARY, MULTILEVEL AND SCIENCE-PRACTICE-BRIDGING TRAINING NETWORK THE OBJECTIVE OF EDUWORKS IS TO TRAIN TALENTED EARLY-STAGE RESEARCHERS IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS OF THE LABOUR SUPPLY AND DEMAND MATCHING PROCESSES AT AGGREGATED AND DISAGGREGATED LEVELS. EDUWORKS BRINGS TOGETHER RESEARCHERS FROM SEVERAL ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES. NAMELY: LABOUR ECONOMICS, SOCIOLOGY OF OCCUPATIONS, HRM, LIFELONG LEARNING. INCREASING SEGMENTS OF THE DEMAND SIDE AND THE SUPPLY SIDE OF THE LABOUR MARKET ARE DIGITIZED, RANGING FROM JOB SITES AND CV'S AT FACEBOOK AND LINKEDIN TO EXTENSIVE DATABASES WITH JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND RELATED SKILLS DEMANDS. THESE DEVELOPMENTS HAVE LED TO KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES IN THESE MATCHING PROCESSES. SPECIFICALLY, EDUWORKS WILL FOCUS ON MATCHING PROCESSES AT THREE LEVELS AND ON ONE OVERARCHING TOPIC: - INDIVIDUAL LEVEL FIT BETWEEN JOB DEMANDS - PERSONS' ABILITIES - MESO-LEVEL EMPLOYERS' DEMANDS FOR OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS VERSUS OCCUPATIONAL DYNAMICS - EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL LEVEL LABOUR SUPPLY AND DEMAND MATCHES AND MISMATCHES - KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR SUPPLY AND DEMAND MATCHES EC FP7 MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORK NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR PRINT MEDIA AND PACKAGING - COMBINING PRINT WITH DIGITAL THE GOAL OF THIS ACTION IS TO PROMOTE DISCUSSION ON THE BENEFITS THAT MAY BE ACHIEVED FROM NOVEL COMBINATIONS OF PRINT AND DIGITAL. IT WILL ALSO BE USED TO ENHANCE INNOVATIONS THAT WILL MAKE USE OF THE BENEFITS OF BOTH PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA AS WELL AS INNOVATIONS WHERE PRINT AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA ARE COMBINED. SEVERAL EXAMPLES EXIST WHERE SUCCESSFUL COMBINATIONS HAVE BEEN ACHIEVED E.G. THROUGH THE USE OF IMAGE RECOGNITION, AUGMENTED REALITY OR PRINTED ELECTRONICS TO BRING INTERACTIVITY INTO FIBER BASED PRODUCTS. TO GIVE THE FOREST INDUSTRY A COMPETITIVE EDGE THIS ACTION WILL FOCUS ON NEW INNOVATIONS BY COMBINING KNOWLEDGE OF THE END USERS WITH MOST RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL ACHIEVEMENTS. NEW MODELS OF ONGOING CHANGE IN SOCIAL INTERACTION AND IN THE CULTURAL PRODUCTS OF PAPER AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA WILL BE ELABORATED AND PROPOSED. THE RESULTS WILL PROMOTE CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL DISCUSSION ON THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA CULTURE. THE ACTION WILL EXPLORE NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FIBER BASED PRODUCTS AND THE VALUE CHAINS OF PRINT MEDIA AND PACKAGING THROUGH NOVEL, INNOVATIVE USES. IT WILL ALSO SERVE AS A CHANNEL FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA, THUS CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS. EC RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS SAMANTHA ARNOLD arnoldsamantha RESEARCH STUDENT ARNOLDSA LAW LAW 01-8961000 DR. EDWARD JAMES ARNOLD arnoldedwardjames ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EJARNOLD FRENCH DEPT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH CONTEMPORARY FRANCE FRENCH INTELLECTUAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY FRENCH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE HISTORY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY MODERN HISTORY TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY VICHY FRANCE, DE GAULLE AND IRISH NEUTRALITY COMPARATIVE POLITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (IN FRENCH). PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF CORPUS OF SPEECHES BY TONY BLAIR. DESCRIPTION OF INITIAL PROCESSING OF TEXTS : CORRECTION OF SPELLING, STANDARDISATION OF WRITTEN FORMS, MARK-UP OF TEXTS. THIS CORPUS REVEALS THE WORDS THAT WERE MOST FREQUENTLY USED BY BLAIR WHEN HE WAS PRIME MINISTER. IT ALSO SHOWS THE SINGLE OR MULTIPLE SPECIFIC MEANINGS THAT TONY BLAIR GAVE TO THESE WORDS ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MS. SAMANTHA ARNOLD arnoldsamantha VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT SAARNOLD SOCIOLOGY 9 THE GREEN HAZELHATCH PARK CELBRIDGE CO KILDARE 01-8961000 MS. JANE ASHE ashejane SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER ASHEJ SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MS. RALPH ASTLEY astleyralph STUDENT-2-STUDENT CO-ORDINATOR ASTLEYR COUNSELLING STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICE TRINITY COLLEGE 3RD FLOOR, 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. IAIN ATACK atackiain ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ATACKI IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS PEACEBUILDING AND CONFLICT PREVENTION: PEACEBUILDING EMERGED AS A POPULAR CONCEPT THROUGH AN AGENDA FOR PEACE IN THE EARLY 1990S IN THE OPTIMISM OF THE IMMEDIATE POST COLD WAR PERIOD., WHEN IT APPEARED THAT CERTAIN PROTRACTED ARMED CONFLICTS, IN CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTHERN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, WERE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING RESOLVED. PEACEBUILDING REFERS TO THOSE ACTIONS THAT WILL CONSOLIDATE AND STRENGTHEN THOSE STRUCTURES NECESSARY FOR PEACE IN POST-CONFLICT SITUATIONS, AND ALSO TO PREVENT THE RECURRENCE OF ARMED CONFLICT. ALTHOUGH PEACEBUILDING AND CONFLICT PREVENTION, AS RELATED ACTIVITIES , HAVE ACHIEVED RELATIVE SUCCESS IN SOME CONTEXTS (MOZAMBIQUE, CAMBODIA, EAST TIMOR), THEY MUST CONFRONT SERIOUS THEORETICAL (OR CONCEPTUAL) AND PRACTICAL (OR POLITICAL) CHALLENGES IF THEY ARE TO BE VIABLE FORMS OF "INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT". CHANGES TO U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, FOR EXAMPLE, THREATEN THE MULTILATERAL (ESPECIALLY UN) FRAMEWORK WITHIN WHICH SUCH INTERVENTIONS OCCUR. AND AT A DEEPER LEVEL, PEACEBUILDING HAS ALSO BEEN ACCUSED OF BEING A MECHANISM BY WHICH WESTERN VALUES AND INSTITUTIONS ARE TRANSMITTED FROM THE SO-CALLED DEVELOPED WORLD TO THE SO-CALLED DEVELOPING OR EMERGING COUNTRIES, OR FROM THE CORE TO THE PERIPHERY. MY RESEARCH INVOLVES EXAMINING THE THEORETICAL AND NORMATIVE ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND PEACEBUILDING, AS WELL AS RECENT ATTEMPTS TO IMPLEMENT IT, IN ORDER TO TEST THE EFFICACY OF "INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT MANAGEMENT" AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO MILITARY RESPONSES TO SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONFLICT. IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIRPERSON, ACTION FROM IRELAND (AFRI). MEMBER OF THE BRITISH INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION. MEMBER OF THE DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE U.K. AND IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PEACE STUDIES ASSOCIATION. MEMBER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE SOLIDARITY (THIRD WORLD) COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR GREGORY JULIAN ATKINS atkinsgregoryjulian FELLOW EMERITUS GATKINS MICROBIOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS 1.ANALYSIS OF THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF ALPHAVIRUS PATHOGENICITY: WE HAVE SUGGESTED MECHANISMS OF TERATOGENESIS AND NEUROVIRULENCE OF SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL AND OUR CURRENT WORK IS AIMED AT DETERMINATION OF THE MOLECULAR CONTROL OF PATHOGENESIS. IN THIS WORK WE UTILISE INFECTIOUS CLONES OF SFV. BY USING CHIMERIC VIRUS CONSTRUCTION AND SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS, WE HAVE SHOWN THAT SEVERAL MUTATIONS AND SEQUENCES CAN INFLUENCE VIRAL PATHOGENESIS. CURRENT WORK INVOLVES ANALYSIS OF THE MECHANISMS OF VIRUS-INDUCED DEATH IN NEURAL CELLS AND THE INVOLVEMENT OF VIRUS PROTEINS IN THIS PROCESS. 2. ANALYSIS OF THE MECHANISM OF VIRUS-INDUCED DEMYELINATION AND ITS RELEVANCE TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: PRESENT WORK IS AIMED AT ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF CYTOKINES, VIRUS PERSISTENCE AND APOPTOSIS IN THE PROCESS OF DEMYELINATION. THIS WORK HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO INCLUDE HUMAN RUBELLA VIRUS (A TOGAVIRUS LIKE SFV), AND WE HAVE SHOWN THAT RUBELLA VIRUS HAS SIMILAR TROPISM IN NEURAL CELL CULTURE TO SFV. 3. USE OF SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS AS A VECTOR IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF VIRAL VACCINES ,AS A TUMOUR THERAPY AGENT AND AS A CNS VECTOR: VIRUS VACCINES IN CURRENT USE HAVE MANY DISADVANTAGES AND IN RARE CASES CAN CAUSE DISEASE. WE ARE USING A VECTOR SYSTEM, DEVELOPED BY WORKERS AT THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE IN STOCKHOLM WITH OUR HELP, TO CONSTRUCT NEW VIRUS VACCINES. THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH THE KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY PATHOLOGY AT UCD, AND PART OF OUR WORK IS CONCERNED WITH IMPROVEMENT OF THE BIOSAFETY OF THE SYSTEM. THIS WORK HAS RECENTLY BEEN EXTENDED TO THE USE OF SFV AS A CYTOTOXIC CANCER THERAPY AGENT, AND TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SFV AS A VECTOR FOR THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. NEW VIRUS VECTORS ARE CURRENTLY BEING CONSTRUCTED AND PATENTED. MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GENE THERAPY (FOUNDER MEMBER) COMMITTEE, SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, IRISH BRANCH CONSULTANT FOR ALEXANDER HARRIS, UK SOLICITORS FOR VACCINE-DAMAGED CHILDREN (ALSO ADVISOR TO BARRISTERS INVOLVED IN MMR LITIGATION). CONSULTANT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (INDUSTRIAL USE OF VIRAL VECTORS) EU EVALUATION PANEL, BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR GENE THERAPY EVALUATION PANEL, ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC SCIENCE PROGRAMME FIRST AND SECOND STAGE EVALUATION PANELS, EU 5TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME GMO ADVISORY COMMITTEE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COMMITTEES: MECHANISMS OF DISEASE AND NORTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR NEUROVIROLOGY (FOUNDER MEMBER). INTERVIEW PANEL, HRB RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS MEMBER, WHO WORKING GROUP ON BIOSAFETY OF NUCLEIC ACID VACCINES RESEARCH COMMITTEE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF IRELAND SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY A7-STRAIN ALLELE LOSS ALPHAVIRUS ALPHAVIRUS ENCEPHALITIS ALPHAVIRUSES AMINO-ACID CHANGE ANTI-GALACTOCEREBROSIDE ANTIBODIES ANTIBODY APOPTOSIS APOPTOTIC CELLS B-CLL BARR VIRUS-DNA BCL-2 BHK CELLS BIOSAFETY BIRNAVIRUS BORDETELLA-PERTUSSIS BRAIN BURSAL DISEASE VIRUS CANINE-DISTEMPER VIRUS CARCINOGENESIS CARCINOMA CATTLE CELL-CULTURES CELLS CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM CEREBELLUM CERVICAL-CANCER CHALLENGE CULTURES CUTANEOUS LESIONS DEFINITIVE DIAGNOSIS DELETION DEMYELINATION DENGUE DNA DNA VACCINES ENVELOPE PROTEIN EPIDERMODYSPLASIA-VERRUCIFORMIS EPITHELIAL-CELLS EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS EXPERIMENTAL ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS EXPRESSION GALACTOCEREBROSIDE GENE-EXPRESSION GENE-MUTATIONS GENOME GRANULE CELLS HETEROZYGOSITY HUMAN ESOPHAGEAL CANCER HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS HUMORAL IMMUNE-RESPONSES IL-12 IL-4 IMMUNE-RESPONSES IMMUNIZATION IMMUNOGOLD-SILVER STAINING IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL DETECTION IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION INFECTION INSITU HYBRIDIZATION INTERFERON-GAMMA KI-67 LESIONS LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY LOUPING ILL VIRUS LOW PH MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES MDM2 MEMBRANE METASTASIS MICE MICROWAVE IN SITU MOLECULAR ANALYSIS MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS MURINE MODEL MYELIN BASIC-PROTEIN NEONATAL MICE NEURONAL DEPLETION NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE ORAL HAIRY LEUKOPLAKIA P21 P53 P53 CODON 72 POLYMORPHISM PAPILLOMAVIRUS PLASMID DNA PROLIFERATION INDEX PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY PROTEOLYTIC CLEAVAGE RECOMBINANT VACCINES RENAL-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS RETINOBLASTOMA GENE RISK FACTOR SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS SINDBIS VIRUS SKIN SKIN CANCER SPORADIC BREAST-CANCER TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS TISSUE-SECTIONS VECTOR CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL AND IMPROVED SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS VECTORS FOR RNA-BASED TRANSIENT GENE THERAPY € 156321 SCIENCE FOUDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME TREATMENT OF GLIOMA USING AN RNA GENE THERAPY VECTOR € 160000 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ANNUAL OVERHEADS INVESTMENT PRGRAMME DEVELOPMENT OF A REPLICATION COMPETENT RNA VECTOR FOR THE TREATMENT OF ADVANCED SOLID TUMOURS € 243473 ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW PROTOTYPE MEASLES-MUMPS-RUBELLA VACCINE BASED ON RECOMBINANT RNA € 766846 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME GRANT THERAPY FOR MS € 25125 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF IRELAND GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. ANNA CHRISTINA AYTON aytonannachristina ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WATSONAC SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER ST COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR IVANA CATHERINE BACIK bacikivanacatherine ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ICBACIK LAW ADDICTION RESEARCH CENTRE CRIMINAL LAW, CRIMINOLOGY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, FEMINIST THEORY AND LAW SCHOOL OF LAW NO. 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH EDITOR, IRISH CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL MEMBER, KING'S INNS, DUBLIN, 1994 - PRESENT MEMBER, MIDDLE TEMPLE, LONDON, 1992 - PRESENT MEMBER, BRITISH SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, 2003 - PRESENT MEMBER, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, 2004 - PRESENT MEMBER, IRISH WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 2003 - PRESENT CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CRIMINAL LAW CRIMINOLOGY, EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW, FEMINIST THEORY LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE VARIETIES OF DEMOCRACY AN INTERNATIONAL MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT AIMED AT CONSTRUCTING A GLOBAL INDEX OF DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG/SWEDISH GOVERNMENT VARIETIES OF DEMOCRACY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. ANNE-MARIE BAIRD bairdannemarie VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BAIRDA CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ANTICANCER THERAPIES ASBESTOS BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS BIOLOGICAL MARKERS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TRAINING CANCER/CARCINOGENESIS DISEASE MODEL DRUG DISCOVERY DRUG RESISTANCE GENE EXPRESSION GENE REGULATION GENOMES, GENOMICS HISTOLOGY, CYTOCHEMISTRY, HISTOCHEMISTRY IMMUNE SYSTEM IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS INHIBITORS LUNG CANCER MEDICINE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PATHOLOGY SCREENING OF DRUGS/AGENTS STEM CELL TISSUE CULTURE CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. ROBERT JAMES BAKER bakerrobertjames ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BAKERRJ CHEMISTRY MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY OF P-, D- AND F-BLOCK METALS. CURRENTLY WORK IN MY GROUP IS CENTRED ON FOUR DIFFERENT THEMES. 1. LOW OXIDATION STATE ACTINIDE CHEMISTRY. WE ARE EXAMINING THE COORDINATION AND ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY OF U(III), U(IV) AND TH(IV)USING A MULTI-TECHNIQUE APPROACH IN ORDER TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE. ROUTINELY WE USE X-RAY DIFFRACTION, MULTINUCLEAR NMR, UV-VIS/NIR, INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPIES, TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY AND SQUID, AS WELL AS COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. USING THESE METHODOLOGIES WE ARE TARGETING A COMPEHENSIVE UDERSTANDING OF SIMPLE U(IV) COMPOUNDS. THE SYNTHESIS OF COMPOUNDS FEATURING AN-AN OR AN-TM (AN = TH OR U) MULTIPLE BONDS IS BEING UNDERTAKEN IN ORDER TO PROBE THE EFFECTS OF THE F-ORBITALS IN FORMING BONDS. 2. HIGH OXIDATION STATE URANIUM CHEMISTRY. WE ARE EXAMINING THE CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF THE URANYL ION TOWARDS HARD MONOMERS TO PROBE NEW REACTIVITY PATTERNS FOR THE URANYL ION. ADDITIONALLY WE ARE LOOKING AT REDUCTION TO THE U(V)URANLY IONS. 3. NEW HETEROBIMETALLIC TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES ARE BEING PREPARED WITH THE AIM OF PREPARING NEW HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSTS FOR A VARIETY OF PROCESSES SUCH AS FISCHER-TROPSCH PRODUCTION OF ALKANES, AND METHANE ACTIVATION. 4. A NEW PROCESS IS BEING DEVELOPED IN ORDER TO REMOVE TOXIC METALS (E.G. CR, CD, HG, U, PU) FROM CONTAMINATED SOIL, AND PRECIOUS METALS FROM E-WASTE. FROM THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF FLUORINATED EXTRACTANTS WE HAVE CHARACTERISED C-F...F-C INTERACTIONS IN THE SOLID STATE AND BY COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW OF INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY IRELAND MEMBER OF THE ACS MEMBER OF THE RSC CATALYSIS CATALYSIS/KINETICS HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS INORGANIC CHEMISTRY LANTHANIDES NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY NUCLEAR/RADIOACTIVE WASTES ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY, MAIN GROUP POLYMER CHEMISTRY POLYMER TECHNOLOGY, BIOPOLYMERS CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE OTHER ENERGY UNUSUAL OXIDATION STATE URANIUM CHEMISTRY WE ARE EXPLORING THE CHEMISTRY OF HIGH OXIDATION STATE URANIUM CHEMISTRY. THE ELUCIDATION OF NEW REACTIVITY PATHYWAYS THAT SHED LIGHT ON THE 5F-ORBITAL INTERACTION WILL BE EXPLORED. FURTHERMORE, REDUCTION TO THE URANYL(V) ION WILL BE EXPLORED. IRCSET EMBARK TOMEX - TOXIC METAL EXTRACTION THE CONTAMINATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY TOXIC METALS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM THAT CAN REQUIRE EXPENSIVE CLEAN-UP PROCEDURES. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP AN EX-SITU SOIL RE-MEDIATION FOR A NUMBER OF TOXIC METALS USING SUPERCRITICAL CO2 AS A SOLVENT. THESE CAN BE BROADLY CLASSED AS ACTINIDE ELEMENTS AND HEAVY METAL WASTE FROM INDUSTRY AND MINING APPLICATIONS. THE LACHESIS FUND PATHFINDER AWARD NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. NORA BALFE balfenora VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BALFEN PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE HUMAN SYSTEMS MY CURRENT RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON IDENTIFYING INNOVATIVE NEW WAYS OF MANAGING RISK THROUGH HUMAN FACTORS METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN SAFETY CRITICAL INDUSTRIES. WITHIN THIS BROAD TOPIC I HAVE A NUMBER OF SUB-PROJECTS, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING AND MANAGING CONCRETE ORGANISATIONAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO HUMAN PERFORMANCE, APPLIED USE OF BAYESIAN BELIEF NETWORKS FOR MODELLING, PREDICTING AND MANAGING HUMAN PERFORMANCE, AND DEVELOPING USER-CENTRED APPROACHES TO RISK REGISTERS DESIGN AND USE. I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN A VARIETY OF INDUSTRIAL DOMAINS, INCLUDING AVIATION, RAIL, OIL AND GAS, AND MANUFACTURING AND CONTINUE TO DEVELOP MY NETWORKS IN THESE AREAS. I ALSO CONTINUE TO HAVE A STRONG RESEARCH INTEREST IN HUMAN CENTRED AUTOMATION DESIGN AND THE APPROPRIATE MATCHING OF AUTOMATION LEVEL AND CHARACTERISTICS TO THE SOCIOTECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS SOCIETY, EUROPE CHAPTER REGISTERED EUROPEAN ERGONOMIST REGISTERED MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS AUTOMATION AND INDUSTRIAL WORKERS ERGONOMICS HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION HUMAN FACTORS SOCIAL ASPECTS OF AUTOMATION COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL TRANSPORT PLANNING & LOGISTICS PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES INNOVATION THROUGH HUMAN FACTORS IN RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT INNHF - INNOVATION THROUGH HUMAN FACTORS IN RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT ARE: TO OFFER A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF RISK ASSESSMENT AND MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED WITH HUMAN FACTORS, IN TIGHT CONTACT WITH COMPANIES AND UNIVERSITIES WITHIN THIS CONSORTIUM; TO STRENGTHEN AND STRUCTURE INITIAL TRAINING OF RESEARCHERS IN SYSTEM ENGINEERING AT EUROPEAN LEVEL; TO ATTRACT STUDENTS TO SCIENTIFIC CAREERS; TO PROVIDE TRAINED RESEARCHERS WITH THE NECESSARY SKILLS TO WORK IN INDUSTRY; AND, TO IMPROVE CAREER PERSPECTIVES BY BROAD SKILLS DEVELOPMENT. MARIE CURIE ITN MS. JACQUELINE BALLENTINE-ARMSTRONG ballentinearmstrongjacqueline ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER JBALLENT PHYSICS CRANN C/O SFI LAB OLD CHEMISTRY EXTENSION COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. KATHY BANAHAN banahankathy RESEARCH ASSISTANT BANAHANK BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. PRAKASHINI BANKA bankaprakashini TEACHING FELLOW BANKAPR SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY PRAKASHINI'S PHD WAS ON THE CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDHOOD DEPRESSION, OBESITY AND POOR SCHOOL PERFORMANCE AMONG URBAN DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE HEALTH PROMOTION, HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, SERVICE AND INTERVENTION EVALUATION, CHILD MENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL HEALTH, AND STATISTICAL MODELING. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHILD HEALTH HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH STATISTICAL ANALYSIS DR. JOANNE BANKS banksjoanne ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BANKSJO SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY ESRI WHITAKER SQUARE SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. FRANK EDWARD BANNISTER bannisterfrankedward ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FBNNISTR COMPUTER SCIENCE E-GOVERNMENT E-DEMOCRACY ICT EVALUATION PROJECT MANAGEMENT SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH CHAIR OF THE TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL PROTECTION FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS AND ADVISORS FELLOW OF THE IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY MEMBER OF ENGINEERS IRELAND MEMBER OF INDEPENDENT REVIEW GROUP ON STAFFING IN DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL 2010-2011. MEMBER OF THE UNPAN EXPERT COMMITTEE ON BENCHMARKING E-DEMOCRACY E-GOVERNMENT ICT AND PRIVACY ICT AND TRUST INFORMATION SYSTEMS EVALUATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MARCIN BARAN baranmarcin RESEARCH FELLOW MBARAN BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY, TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, PEARSE ST. COLLEGE 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR JUERGEN BARKHOFF barkhoffjuergen PROFESSOR OF GERMAN 1776 JBRKHOFF GERMAN MY CURRENT RESERACH SPANS FOUR DIFFERENT AREAS: - ANTHROPOLGY AND LITERATURE AROUND 1800, LITERATURE AND THE BODY, THE INTERFACE BETWEEN MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENCE WITH LITERATURE IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT, WEIMAR CLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM; - CONCEPTS OF NATURE AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE MAN-NATURE RELATIONSHIP IN FICTION, THE AESTHETICS OF NATURE AND ITS INTERFACE WITH ENVIRONMENTALISM, ECOCRITICAL GERMAN WRITING; - QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY IN THE GERMAN SPEAKING WORLD AND IN EUROPE - CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE OF GERMAN SPEAKING SWITZERLAND GERMANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN BOARD MEMBER OF THE IRISH HUMANITIES ALLIANCE AND CHAIR OF ITS HORIZON2020 WORKING GROUP CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF THE CENTRE FOR LITERARY TRANSLATION, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CHAIRMAN OF THE COIMBRA GROUP TASK FORCE ON CULTURE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD AT THE FACULTY OF ARTS, AARHUS UNIVERSITY MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE JAHRBUCH LITERATUR UND MEDIZIN MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN STUDIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE SCIENCE GALLERY DUBLIN MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFTLICHES JAHRBUCH DER GÖRRES-GESELLSCHAFT MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE ENGLISH GOETHE SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE COIMBRA GROUP OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES MEMBER OF THE GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING BODY OF ST. KILIAN'S DEUTSCHE SCHULE DUBLIN MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN MEMBER OF THE STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD OF THE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON VICE-CHAIR OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE COIMBRA GROUP OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES AREA STUDIES (ARTS/HUMANITIES) CONTEMPORARY SWISS LITERATURE EXILE LITERATURE GERMAN LANGUAGE/LITERATURE HISTORY OF MEDICINE HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, FICTION LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, MODERN LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, ROMANTIC LITERARY CRITICISM LITERARY HISTORY LITERATURE AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT WEIMER CLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. ROBERT CHARLES BARKLIE barklierobertcharles FELLOW EMERITUS RBARKLIE PHYSICS APPLICATIONS OF THE TECHNIQUES OF ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE, FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE AND ELECTRICALLY DETECTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE TO THE CHARACTERISATION OF ATOMIC DEFECTS, IONS , RADICALS ETC WITH UNPAIRED ELECTRON SPIN IN A WIDE VARIETY OF MATERIALS. CURRENT RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON 1) THE CHARACTERISATION OF ATOMIC DEFECTS IN HIGH K DIELECTRICS ON SILICON AND 2) THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS OF MAGNETITE AND OTHER MAGNETIC MATERIALS USING PRIMARILY THE TECHNIQUE OF FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE. DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDINGS COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AMORPHOUS HYDROGENATED CARBON AMORPHOUS MATERIALS AMORPHOUS SIO2 AMORPHOUS-SILICON CARBON NANOTUBES DEFECT DEFECTS ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE ELECTRONIC MATERIALS EPR ERBIUM ESR FILM GROWTH FULLERENES AND DERIVATIVES GE INTERFACES ION-IMPLANTATION MAGNETIC MATERIALS NANOTUBES RADIATION SEMICONDUCTORS SI SILICON SIO2 SOLID/SOLID INTERFACES OXIDE THIN FILMS TWO PROJECTS ARE BEING UNDERTAKEN - THE FIRST IS THE CHARACTERISATION OF DEFECTS IN HIGH K DIELECTRICS AND AT THEIR INTERFACE WITH SILICON AND THE SECOND IS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF FERROMAGNETIC OXIDES. THE FURTHER SCALING DOWN IN THE SIZE OF THE TYPE OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS USED IN MICROPROCESSORS WILL SHORTLY REQUIRE THE REPLACEMENT OF SIO2 AS THE GATE DIELECTRIC IN SILICON MOSFETS ;IT WILL NEED TO BE REPLACED WITH A MATERIAL WITH A HIGHER DIELECTRIC CONSTANT SUCH AS HFO2 OR ZRO2.SINCE ATOMIC DEFECTS IN SUCH MATERIALS OR AT THEIR INTERFACE WITH SILICON CAN DEGRADE THE DEVICE PERFORMANCE IT IS IMPORTANT TO CHARACTERISE SUCH DEFECTS WITH A VIEW TO REDUCING THEIR POPULATION AND THIS IS THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT. THE SECOND PROJECT IS TO CHARACTERISE THE MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF FERROMAGNETIC (OR FERRIMAGNETIC) THIN FILMS SUCH AS MAGNETITE OR DOPED ZNO.SUCH MATERIALS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED BECAUSE OF THEIR POSSIBLE USE IN THE FIELD OF SPINTRONICS AND THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CHARACTERISE THESE MATERIALS USING PRIMARILY THE TECHNIQUE OF FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE. HEA PRTLI NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. MARTIN BARR barrmartin ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BARRMA CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND THOROCIC ONCOLOGY RESEARCH LAB INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ANTICANCER THERAPIES APOPTOSIS AND CANCER CANCER BIOLOGY CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUGS- MODE OF ACTION CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS CANCER STEMNESS CANCER-CELLS LUNG CANCER NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CANCER GENES & SOCIETY MS. SARAH BARRETT barrettsarah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BARRETS7 RADIATION THERAPY MY MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST LIES IN LUNG CANCER RADIATION THERAPY (RT). THIS STEMS FROM MY CLINICAL EXPERIENCE AND I HAVE EVOLVED THIS INTEREST INTO A UNIQUE RESEARCH STRAND WITHIN MY DISCIPLINE AND HAVE DEVELOPED MY PHD RESEARCH TOPIC IN THE AREA OF PERSONALIZED LUNG RADIOTHERAPY. PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IS AN EMERGING TOPIC IN RT, BUT ITS IMPORTANCE HAS BEEN RECOGNISED WITHIN THE CANCER COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, FURTHERMORE, THIS RESEARCH FEEDS DIRECTLY INTO TRINITY'S CANCER RESEARCH THEME. MY PHD WILL FOCUS ON NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER TO IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS; BOTH IMAGING AND BIOCHEMICAL, WITHIN A TUMOUR, WHICH CAN HELP PREDICT A PATIENT'S RESPONSE TO RT. IN TURN THIS COULD FACILITATE PERSONALIZED RT PRESCRIPTIONS, SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S DISEASE FEATURES. THE CLINICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THIS PERSONALIZATION COULD LEAD TO AN IMPROVEMENT IN PATIENT OUTCOMES FOLLOWING RT TREATMENT. THE RESEARCH HAS 2 MAIN STRANDS; FIRSTLY IMAGING BIOMARKERS WILL BE EXPLORED. A RECENT STUDY SUGGESTS THAT IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO PREDICT TREATMENT RESPONSE BASED ON A PROLIFERATION SATURATION INDEX (PSI) GENERATED FROM TUMOUR VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS OF TWO LONGITUDINAL DICOM CT DATASETS ROUTINELY ACQUIRED FOR DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT PLANNING PURPOSES. MY PHD AIMS TO ASSESS THE PSI CONCEPT ON CLINICAL IMAGING DATASETS AND EVALUATE THE RELIABILITY OF THIS APPROACH. TUMOUR RESPONSE TO RT WILL BE MATHEMATICAL MODELLED, INCORPORATING PSI AND RT DOSE FRACTIONATION SCHEDULES INTO THE ALGORITHM TO ASSESS OPTIMAL THERAPEUTIC GAIN FOR THE PATIENT. IN PREPARATION FOR THIS RESEARCH, I HAVE APPLIED FOR A TRAVEL AWARD TO ATTEND A WEEKLONG INTENSIVE MATH WORKSHOP RUN BY AN INTEGRATED MATHEMATICAL ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENT BASED IN THE MOFFITT CANCER CENTRE, FLORIDA. ADDITIONALLY, A RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATION IS CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW WITH VARIAN MEDIAL SYSTEMS WITH THE AIM OF ACQUIRING HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SYSTEMS TO FACILITATE THIS WORK. THE SECOND STRAND OF MY PHD WILL BE EVALUATING THE ROLE OF NOTCH 3 IN NSCLC PATIENTS BY CARRYING OUT IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY STAINING ON LUNG TUMOUR TISSUE SAMPLES. NOTCH 3 HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE UP REGULATED IN MANY CELL-SIGNALLING PATHWAYS IN THE CANCER CELL AND AS SUCH, IS A POTENTIAL TARGET FOR NEW THERAPIES. CONCURRENTLY TO PROGRESSING MY PHD PROPOSAL, I HAVE BEEN PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR ON A COLLABORATIVE, MULTI DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT WITH ST JAMES' RADIATION ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENT ON A RELATED TOPIC. THE RESEARCH ADDRESSED A CLINICAL QUESTION IN THE AREA OF LUNG RADIOTHERAPY ON TREATMENT VERIFICATION. THIS HAS FOSTERED GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AND LINKS WITH A CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT, WHICH IS KEY TO DEVELOPING A PROGRESSIVE AND PERTINENT RESEARCH PROGRAM IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. MY FOCUS ON LUNG CANCER RESEARCH HAS ESTABLISHED ME WITHIN THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY. I WAS RECENTLY INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN A EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP AND PUBLISH CONSENSUS RADIATION THERAPIST GUIDELINES FOR THORAX RT. FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THIS PROGRESSION IS SEEN BY THE FACT THAT I WAS INVITED TO WRITE AN EDITORIAL ARTICLE FOR AN UPCOMING SPECIAL EDITION OF JOURNAL OF MEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION SCIENCES ON THE TOPIC OF LUNG IMAGE GUIDED TREATMENT VERIFICATION. IN ADDITION TO FOCUSING ON MY OWN PERSONAL RESEARCH, I HAVE BEEN OPEN TO COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES ON INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS AS THIS BREEDS A PRODUCTIVE AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT. ONE SUCH EXAMPLE IS MY ONGOING PARTICIPATION IN A PHARMACOLOGICAL BASED COCHRANE REVIEW. I AM THE SOLE RT MEMBER AND AS SUCH, UNIQUELY PLACED TO CULTIVATE LINKS AND COLLABORATE ON FUTURE PROJECTS. MY OVERARCHING RESEARCH AIM FOR THE FUTURE IS TO EVOLVE MY OWN PHD WORK TO A LEVEL THAT WILL BECOME A STANDALONE PERSONALIZED RT RESEARCH STRAND WITHIN THE DISCIPLINE OF RADIATION THERAPY. I FEEL MY AMBITION AND PASSION FOR THE TOPIC WILL ENSURE THAT THIS OBJECTIVE WILL BE MET. RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ACCREDITED MEMBER OF CORU COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHERS AND RADIATION THERAPISTS. NATIONAL RT EDUCATION REPRESENTATIVE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH RTT MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY (ESTRO) CANCER DR. ALAN BARRETT barrettalan ADJUNCT PROFESSOR BARRETAL ECONOMICS ESRI BURLINGTON ROAD DUBLIN 4 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. SEAN DECLAN CONRAD BARRETT barrettseandeclanconrad FELLOW EMERITUS SBARRETT ECONOMICS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 3005 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF THE ALFRED BEIT FOUNDATION BRENNAN COMMISSION ON FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEMS IN THE HEALTH SERVICE CULLETON REVIEW GROUP ON INDUSTRIAL POLICY DIRECTOR OF IRISH TOURIST BOARD EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT. MEMBER OF ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF ANNUAL KENMARE ECONOMIC POLICY CONFERENCE SINCE ITS FOUNDATION MEMBER OF THE ELECTRONICS COMMUNICATIONS APPEALS PANEL NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL(GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND NOMINEE) REVIEW GROUP ON HARBOUR LEGISLATION AND PILOTAGE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. EDMOND STEPHEN BARRETT barrettedmondstephen ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EBARRETT COMPUTER SCIENCE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE, MODEL DRIVEN SOFTWARE, ADAPTABLE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, COMPONENT BASED DEVELOPMENT, SOFTWARE COORDINATION, GRID COMPUTING APPLICATIONS, E-MAIL. RESEARCH GROUP: (DSG) DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS GROUP. COMPUTER SCIENCE DSG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN A UBIQUITOUS SECURE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT THE TRUSTE PROJECT IS INVESTIGATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTABLE COMPONENT PLATFORM FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AD-HOC DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS USING HETEROGENOUS DEVICES. HEA MLE-COLLABORATION TOSSAD OPEN SOURCE - SEE HTTP://WWW.TOSSAD.ORG EU INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. EMER BARRETT barrettemer REGIONAL PLACEMENT FACILITATOR BARRETE PHYSIOTHERAPY THERE IS OVERWHELMING SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE THAT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PROMOTES HEALTH AND PREVENTS A WIDE RANGE OF CHRONIC DISEASES. MY PRIMARY RESEARCH FOCUS IS ON THE USE OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND SURVEILLANCE DATA TO ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR. HAVING COME FROM A BACKGROUND OF EXTENSIVE CLINICAL PRACTICE I AM ALSO VERY INTERESTED IN HOW THIS DATA CAN BE USED TO PLAN, DESIGN AND EVALUATE SUCCESSFUL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTERVENTIONS PARTICULARLY IN THE PRIMARY CARE SECTOR. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN MEDICAL EDUCATION PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO INTERPROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND PEER LEARNING MODELS IN PRACTICE EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS IN EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBER, FINANCE AND AUDIT COMMITTEE, IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS COMMITTEE MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL QUALIFICATION WORKING GROUP, IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS HON TREASURER CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS IN EDUCATION IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EDUCATION MR. STEVE BARRON barronsteve VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT BARRONST SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. SARAH BARRY barrysarah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BARRYS6 PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING, PRACTICAL LEARNING, PUBLIC ORGANISATION, HEALTH SYSTEM CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION, CONSTRUCTIONIST AND PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH METHODS HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ROOM 0.21 3-4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. MICHAEL GERARD BARRY barrymichaelgerard ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BARRYM PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PHARMACECONOMICS ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 PROFESSOR FRANK BARRY barryfrank CHAIR-INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS & DEVELOPMT BARRYFG BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES INTERNATIONAL TRADE, ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MACROECONOMICS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; THE IRISH ECONOMY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONSULTANT TO NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL (DUBLIN) ON IRISH UNEMPLOYMENT CONSULTANT TO NORTHERN IRELAND ECONOMIC COUNCIL ON REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF EMU CONSULTANT TO URUGUAYAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON TRADE POLICY AND INDUSTRIALISATION STRATEGY CONSULTANT TO WORLD BANK AND UK DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON EUROPEAN UNION REGIONAL AID AND IRISH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT TO WORLD BANK ON GOVERNANCE AND POLICY CONSISTENCY: LESSONS FOR EAST ASIA FROM BEST-PRACTICE COUNTRIES CONSULTANT TO WORLD BANK ON REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR KAZAKHSTAN CONSULTANT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE MISSION TO LAOS, (EURO-TAL ASEAN SUPPORT PROJECT), VIENTIANE, LAO PDR ECONOMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN IRELAND (IMPLICATIONS FOR NORTHERN IRELAND OF ADOPTING THE IRISH RATE OF CORPORATION TAX) EDITOR, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW ENTERPRISE IRELAND (IMPLICATIONS OF OUTWARD DIRECT INVESTMENT) EVALUATOR FOR THE EU COMMISSION ON THE PHARE ACE FUNDING PROGRAMME FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, BRUSSELS GUEST EDITOR, JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, SPECIAL ISSUE ON "EMU AND COHESION", DECEMBER GUEST EDITOR, WORLD ECONOMY, SPECIAL ISSUE ON "ENLARGEMENT AND THE EU PERIPHERY" IRISH COORDINATOR OF EU-FUNDED RTD PROJECT ON LABOUR MARKET EFFECTS OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN EUROPE JOINT COORDINATOR OF ECONOMICS WORKSHOP FOR PERMANENT SECRETARIES OF THE ZAMBIAN CIVIL SERVICE, ON CONTRACT WITH THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, DUBLIN. LEAD CONSULTANT TO THE NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS COUNCIL, TASKED WITH ESTABLISHING THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES FOR IRELAND OF THE MAY 2004 ENLARGEMENT OF THE EU LEAD CONSULTANT, FIAS/WORLD BANK PROJECT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MNC LINKAGES IN THE PHILIPPINES MAIN CONTRACTOR [WITH TEAMS FROM ESRI (DUBLIN), CZECH REPUBLIC, ROMANIA AND SLOVENIA] ON REPORT TO THE EU COMMISSION ON TRANSITION AND COHESION MAIN CONTRACTOR [WITH TEAMS FROM ESRI (DUBLIN), PORTUGAL AND SPAIN] ON REPORT TO THE EU COMMISSION ON THE IMPACT OF THE SINGLE EUROPEAN MARKET ON THE EU PERIPHERY MEMBER OF RESEARCH AND ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR TRÓCAIRE (INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NGO) MEMBER OF THE COMPETITIVENESS ADVISORY GROUP AND OCCASIONAL MEMBER OF THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT ADVISORY GROUP REPORTING TO THE ENTERPRISE STRATEGY GROUP (DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT) MEMBER, AD HOC GROUP ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TAOISEACH TO ADVISE ON PROMOTION OF THE LISBON AGENDA DURING IRELAND'S EU PRESIDENCY TEAM LEADER ON EU-FUNDED TMR PROGRAMME ON FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION: NEW THEORIES AND EVIDENCE TEAM PARTICIPANT ON FORFÁS-FUNDED PROJECT: A REVIEW OF THE ECONOMIC APPRAISAL SYSTEM FOR PROJECTS SEEKING SUPPORT FROM THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY MACROECONOMICS THE IRISH ECONOMY ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY PRESIDENT'S RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP UCD EUROPEAN UNION TMR AWARD A PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT ON "FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT AND THE MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION", WITH F. BARRY AS UCD TEAM LEADER. THIS IS AN EU-FUNDED PROGRAMME FOR THE TRAINING AND MOBILITY OF RESEARCHERS, BASED ON A NETWORK COMPRISING UCD, THE CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH (LONDON), LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA (BARCELONA), ATHENS INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC POLICY STUDIES AND BOCCONI UNIVERSITY (CENTRO STUDI LUCA D'AGLIANO). DETAILS OF THE PROJECT ARE AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.CEPR.ORG/RESEARCH/NETWORKS/FDIMC/DEFAULT.HTM [UCD ALLOCATION: EURO 234,645, TO FUND THE EMPLOYMENT OF 1 TO 2 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS PER YEAR AT UCD OVER THE PERIOD 1998-2002] EUROPEAN UNION EUROPEAN UNION RTD AWARD A PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT ON "LABOUR-MARKET EFFECTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT", WITH F. BARRY AS UCD TEAM LEADER. THIS IS AN EU-FUNDED RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT BASED ON A NETWORK COMPRISING UCD, THE CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH (LONDON), RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS (STOCKHOLM), STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON GLOBALISATION AND LABOUR MARKETS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, BOCCONI UNIVERSITY (CENTRO STUDI LUCA D'AGLIANO) AND UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III (MADRID). [UCD ALLOCATION: EURO 139,588, TO FUND THE EMPLOYMENT OF SEVERAL PRE- AND POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS AT UCD OVER THE PERIOD 2000-2002] EUROPEAN UNION MARIE CURIE TRAINING SITE STATUS AWARDED TO UCD INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS GROUP ON FOOT OF A PROPOSAL SUBMITTED BY PROJECT COORDINATOR FRANK BARRY. THE PURPOSE OF A MARIE CURIE TRAINING SITE IS TO ALLOW YOUNG EUROPEAN DOCTORAL STUDENTS ACCESS TO RESEARCH GROUPS WITH A STRONG INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION IN THEIR FIELD. [UCD ALLOCATION: EURO 158,432, TO FUND 72 PERSON-MONTHS OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING AT UCD OVER THE PERIOD 2000-2004] EUROPEAN UNION TURNING GLOBALIZATION TO NATIONAL ADVANTAGE: ECONOMIC POLICY LESSONS FROM IRELAND'S EXPERIENCE IRCHSS POLICY COHERENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD FOR IRISH AID INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR JOSEPH BARRY barryjoseph CHAIR OF POPULATION HEALTH MEDICINE JOEBARRY PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR TERENCE BERNARD BARRY barryterencebernard FELLOW EMERITUS TBARRY HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE (MHRC) CASTLES, THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND, ESPECIALLY VIKING AND NORMAN SETTLEMENT; MOATED SITES AND VILLAGES. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3148 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 LATIN ENGLISH FRENCH 1987 ELECTED A FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON. 1989 ELECTED A FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. 1991 ELECTED A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. CHAIR OF THE DIRECTORATE OF THE DISCOVERY PROGRAMME, 2010-2015. GUEST PROFESSOR IN THE INSTITUTE OF MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ÅRHUS, MARCH-APRIL 1994. ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND GAELIC LORDSHIPS IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT MEDIEVAL BRITAIN MEDIEVAL IRELAND URBAN AND ECONOMIC HISTORY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES ORIGINS OF MOTTE CASTLES IN EUROPE EXCAVATIONS OF CASTLES IN EUROPE TCD, UNIVERSITY OF GENT, UNIVERSITY OF LYON DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND DR. DENIS BARRY barrydenis ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEBARRY ANATOMY MY MAIN RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE LINEAGES, FUNCTIONS AND RESTORATIVE POTENTIAL OF NEURAL PRECURSOR CELLS. RADIAL GLIAL CELLS ARE ELONGATED NEURAL PROGENITOR CELLS PRESENT IN THE CNS DURING DEVELOPMENT THAT REPRESENT A MAJOR PROGENITOR POOL DURING DEVELOPMENT AND CAN GIVE RISE TO NEUROGENIC NICHES OF THE ADULT. I HAVE SHOWN THAT RADIAL GLIAL CELLS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR CORRECT WHITE MATTER FORMATION IN THE SPINAL CORD FORMING GLIAL SCAFFOLDS THAT GUIDE GROWING AXONS TO THEIR SYNAPTIC DESTINATIONS. A PRIMARY RESEARCH GOAL IS GAINING INSIGHTS INTO THE POTENTIALS OF RADIAL GLIAL CELLS, AND THEIR AXON SCAFFOLDING PROPERTIES, IN RESTORING CONNECTIVITY IN THE SPINAL CORD USING AN IN VITRO INJURY MODEL. THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING, USING NEW METHODS SUCH AS 3DISCO, OF THESE SCAFFOLDS SHOULD ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE AXON-GLIAL INTERACTIONS OCCURRING WITHIN THEM. WE AIM TO RIGOROUSLY CHARACTERISE THESE SCAFFOLDS AND THE BIOMARKERS THEY EXPRESS TO SHED LIGHT ON THEIR POTENTIALS IN RESTORING TRACT FORMATION IN INJURY SCENARIOS. AS SUCH, BIOMARKERS SUCH AS PROTEOGLYCANS ARE ALSO SHOWING MUCH POTENTIAL IN IDENTIFYING SUBSETS OF NEURAL CELLS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MEDIATING TRACT FORMATION AND FOR DETERMINING THE FATES OF MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS. GLYCANS REGULATE THE ACTIVITY OF MEMBRANE RECEPTORS AND MEDIATE CELL-CELL OR CELL-MATRIX INTERACTIONS. LEWISX (LEX) IS A GLYCAN MOTIF ASSOCIATED WITH GLYCOPROTEINS AND GLYCOLIPIDS THAT IS PRESENT ON NEURAL STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS AND ACTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH WNT AND NOTCH SIGNALLING. WE HAVE SHOWN THAT LEX IS PRESENT ON DISCRETE SUBPOPULATIONS OF NEUROEPITHELIAL AND RADIAL GLIAL CELLS IN THE DEVELOPING BRAIN AND SPINAL CORD. HOWEVER, WHILE GLYCOCONJUGATES ARE EXPECTED TO PLAY SIGNIFICANT ROLES IN STEM CELL THERAPIES, THE BASIC FUNCTIONAL RELEVANCE OF LEX GLYCOSYLATED NEUROEPITHELIAL CELLS AND RADIAL GLIAL CELLS IS UNKNOWN IN THE DEVELOPING CNS.MY INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF BRAIN CELLS IS FORMING THE BASIS FOR RESEARCH LINKING DIETARY INFLUENCES, SUCH AS THE KETONE DIET (KD), TO NEURAL STEM CELL FUNCTIONS DURING PREGNANCY. THE KD (LOW CARBOHYDRATES/ HIGH FAT) HAVE BECOME POPULAR RECENTLY DUE TO THEIR EFFECTIVENESS FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND IN TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS SUCH AS EPILEPSY. ALTHOUGH THE DIET IS A PROMISING ALTERNATIVE TO MEDICATION FOR THOSE SUFFERING FROM EPILEPSY, THERE IS LIMITED INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THE DIET AFFECTS NORMAL BRAIN FUNCTIONING. FURTHERMORE, THERE IS VERY LITTLE RESEARCH ON HOW KD DURING PREGNANCY MAY AFFECT THE DEVELOPING BRAIN. THIS RESEARCH QUESTION BECOMES INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT AS WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE MAY BE ON THE DIET FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME. ANATOMY BASED RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE INVESTIGATION OF THE USE OF DIFFUSION WEIGHTED-MR IMAGING (DW-MRI) FOR WHITE MATTER TRACTS IN VIVO. CONCERNS REMAIN ABOUT THE ROBUSTNESS AND ANATOMICAL RELEVANCE OF THIS DW-MRI IN PROBING MORE CONVOLUTED TRACTS AS IN THE LIMBIC SYSTEM. COMPLEX WHITE MATTER ARCHITECTURE (CROSSING FIBRES) AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS (SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO (SNR) AND B-VALUES BECOME A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE IN TRACT GENERATION AFFECTING THE ACCURACY OF THE TRACT FORMATIONS. IN COLLABORATION WITH INVESTIGATORS AT TCD, I AM COMPARING THE VALIDITY OF THE RENDERED LIMBIC WHITE MATTER TRACTS USING ADVANCED TRACTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES TO "GOLD STANDARD" ANATOMICAL CADAVERIC DISSECTION MEASUREMENTS. THE GOAL IS TO REVEAL LIMBIC CONNECTIVITY IN HIGHER DETAIL THAN HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY DESCRIBED.MOREOVER, I AM CURRENTLY SUPERVISING MD RESEARCH AIMING TO PROVIDE GREATER INSIGHTS INTO THE SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE FACIAL NERVE AND RETROMANDIBULAR VEIN IN HUMAN CADAVERIC PAROTID GLANDS. THIS RESEARCH IS ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT IN THE CONTEXT OF PAROTID SURGERY. I ALSO CONDUCT EDUCATION RESEARCH BASED ON THE ROLES OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN ANATOMY EDUCATION AND THE INSIGHTS OF RADIOLOGISTS AND SURGEONS ON THE MOST EFFICIENT MODES OF ANATOMY TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY, FLOOR 1 TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACTED AS CHAIR FOR A PHD VIVA VOCE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DELIVER ANATOMY CONTENT AND RELEVANCE TO TRANSITION YEAR STUDENTS TO STIMULATE INTEREST IN THE HEALTH SCIENCES, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SCIENCE GALLERY, TCD ROYAL MICROSCOPY SOCIETY SERVED ON INTERVIEW PANEL FOR DEMONSTRATOR APPOINTMENT, DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY SERVED ON INTERVIEW PANEL FOR PHD APPOINTMENT, DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY SERVED ON INTERVIEW PANEL FOR TEACHING ASSISTANT APPOINTMENT SERVED ON JUDGING PANEL FOR SECOND MEDICINE PHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH POSTER COMPETITION NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY REGENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY VIROLOGY CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR J R BARTLETT bartlettjr FELLOW EMERITUS JBRTLETT RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY 102 SORENTO ROAD DALKEY CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 DR. RUTH BARTON bartonruth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN FILM STUDIES BARTONR DRAMA IRISH CINEMA, BRITISH CINEMA, IRISH-AMERICAN CINEMA, STARDOM. SCHOOL OF DRAMA, FILM & MUSIC SAMUEL BECKETT CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN CINEMA/VIDEO FILM STUDIES THEATRE/FILM CRITICISM CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS SCREENING THE IRISH IN BRITIAN THIS PROJECTS COMPLEMENTS THE 'SCREENING IRISH-AMERICA' NETWORK. OUTCOMES TO DATE INCLUDE AN INTERNATIONAL ONE-DAY SEMINAR ENTITLED 'SCREENING THE IRISH IN BRITAIN' HELD AT TCD IN SEPTEMBER 2009. TCD LONG ROOM HUB SCREENING IRISH-AMERICA THIS IS A HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE REPRESENTATION OF THE IRISH IN AMERICA ON FILM, TELEVISION THE INTERNET AND OTHER MEDIA. MAKING IRELAND DR. SHAREE BASDEO basdeosharee RESEARCH FELLOW SBASDEO CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSP DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR BISWAJIT BASU basubiswajit PROFESSOR BASUB CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. NONLINEAR WAVES, HYDRODYNAMICS, MATHEMATICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, NONLINEAR ANALYSIS, RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES, SMART GRID, WIND ENERGY, OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES, WAVE ENERGY, STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING, PASSIVE, ACTIVE AND SEMI-ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL, RANDOM VIBRATIONS, WIND & EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, TIME-FREQUENCY AND WAVELET ANALYSIS, NON-STATIONARY PROCESSES, TARFFIC FLOW THEORY AND CONTROL DEPT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ENERGY REPORTS ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL ENGINERING, ASCE ASSOCIATE EDITOR, SMARTCITIES EDITOR, IEEE TRANS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY MEMBER ASCE MEMBER ASME MEMBER IEEE MEMBER IEI MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATERIALS AND STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF MULTI-BODY DYNAMICS, INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, UK MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, STRUCTURAL CONTROL AND HEALTH MONITORING, WILEY NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND SYSTEMS RANDOM VIBRATIONS AND STOCHASTIC MECHANICS SOIL/STRUCTURE INTERACTION STOCHASTIC PROCESSES STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS HEALTH MONITORING TIME FREQUENCY AND WAVELET ANALYSIS TRAFFIC ENGINEERING VIBRATION CONTROL WIND ENERGY AND WIND TURBINES SEMI-ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL OF WIND TURBINE BLADES THIS PROJECT INVESTIAGTES THE BEHAVIOUR OF SMART DMAPERS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF VARIOUS SEMI-ACTIVE CONTROL ALGORITHMS FOR CONTROLLING VIBRATIONS IN WIND TURBINE BLADES IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY EMBARK INITIATIVE NON-STATIONARY RESPONSE OF SPATIALLY EXTENDED STRUCTURES (NOTES) NOTES WILL DEVELOP NEW WAYS IN WHICH WAVELET-BASED NON-STATIONARY ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES WILL BE APPLIED TO INCORPORATE THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN VIBRATION ANALYSIS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF GEOTECHNICAL/STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS IN INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRIES. THE AIM OF NOTES IS TO DEVELOP A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TCD AND PLAXIS B.V. THAT WILL GENERATE A POOL OF HIGHLY-SKILLED, EXPERIENCED RESEARCHERS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED TO CREATE BETTER TOOLS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF SOIL-STRUCTURE SYSTEMS. NOTES FOCUSES 2 AREAS: (I) TRAFFIC/TRANSPORTATION INDUCED VIBRATIONS IN SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION.; (II) EARTHQUAKE INDUCED VIBRATIONS IN SPATIALLY EXTENDED STRUCTURES (E.G., TUNNELS, PIPELINES, BRIDGES) EU-FP7 INDUSTRY ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIP-MARIE CURIE SELF HEALING WIND TURBINE BLADES THIS PROJECT LOOKS AT THE USE OF CYANOACRYLATE FOR DEVELOPING SELF HEALING WIND TURBINE BLADES HENKEL LOCTITE JOINTLY WITH IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS SUPPORTED BY WHOLE LIFE OPTIMIZATION (UMBRELLA) THIS PROJECT AIMS AT THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NEW 'PROCESSES AND BUSINESS MODELS' FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF PERFORMANCE BASED ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS INTEGRATING NEW SERVICES. EU FP7 . DYNAMIC INSTABILITIES AND VIBRATION CONTROL OF WIND TURBINE BLADES THE PROJECT INVESTIGATES THE DYNAMICS STABILITY OF LARGE MULTI-MEGA WATT WIND TURBINES. IT ALSO EXPLORES POSSIBLE VIBRATION CONTROL STRATEGIES TO SUPRESS THE INSTABILTIES. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY VIBRATION MONITORING AND CONTROL OF FLOATING OFFSHORE PLATFORMS AND FLOATING WIND TURBINES THE MAIN AIM IS TO START COLLABORATION BETWEEN RICE UNIVERSITY AND TRINITY COLLEGE IN THE AREA OF VIBRATION MONITORING AND CONTROL OF DEEPWATER OFFSHORE FLOATING PLATFORMS AND FLOATING WIND TURBINES. MARINE INSTITUTE NETWORKING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INITIATIVE SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION, CONDITION & HEALTH MONITORING FOR A NEW GENERATION OF WIND TURBINES (SYSWIND) THE SYSWIND PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON TRULY MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AND NEWLY EMERGING SCIENTIFIC AREAS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEXT GENERATION WIND TURBINES. THERE ARE SIX RESEARCH THEMES: NEW STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (SHM), WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSN), MULTI-BODY SYSTEMS (INCLUDING AERODYNAMICS AND GEOTECHNICS), SEMI-ACTIVE VIBRATION CONTROL, COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND POWER SYSTEM MODELLING. EU FP7 MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINNING NETWORK . OPTIMIZED TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES AND STRATEGIES FOR MINIMIZING DELAY AND EMISSIONS THIS PROJECT FOCUSSES ON A WAY OF SIMULATING DRIVING CYCLES WITH THE PURPOSE OF EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES ON DELAYS. FURTHER, MODELS FOR EVALUATING TAIL END EMISSIONS BASED ON DRIVING CYCLES WILL ALSO BE DEVELOPED. HEA PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH IN THRID LEVEL INSTITUTIONS (PRTLI 4) . DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE FOUNDATION SYSTEMS THIS PROJECT FORMULATES THE TRANSFER FUNCTIONS FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF OFFSHORE FOUNDATION OF WIND TURBINES INCLUDING DYNAMIC SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION. THE JOINT WIND AND WAVE LOADING IS CONSIDERED ALONGWITH WITH A WIND TURBINE WITH BLADE-TOWER-FOUNDATION COUPLING. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENEGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY INDICATOR-BASED INTERACTIVE DECISION SUPPORT AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE PLATFORM FOR SMARTCITIES EU FP7 SIMULATION ENHANCED INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR MODEL-BASED INTELLIGENT CONTROL(S) EU FP7 INDUSTRIAL DOCTORATE ON OFFSHORE WIND AND WAVE ENERGY (ICONN) EU H2020 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ENDA BATES batesenda DEPUTY COURSE DIRECTOR & ASSISTANT PROF EBATES ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE QUITE DIVERSE, ENCOMPASSING TOPICS SUCH AS SPATIAL MUSIC & SPATIAL AUDIO, ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION, MUSICOLOGY, COGNITION & PSYCHOACOUSTICS, AUDIO SYNTHESIS AND AUDIO PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES. DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF IRISH COMPOSERS IRISH MUSIC RIGHTS ORGANIZATION (IMRO) IRISH, SOUND, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION (ISSTA) CHAMBER MUSIC CHORAL MUSIC COMPOSITION AND ALGORITHMIC COMPOSITION, SPECTRAL MUSIC COMPUTER MUSIC ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC INTERACTIVE AUDIO AND SOUND DESIGN MICROTONAL MUSIC MUSIC COGNITION AND PERCEPTION MUSIC COMPOSITION MUSIC PRODUCTION MUSIC TECHNOLOGY NEW MUSIC SPATIAL AUDIO SPATIAL MUSIC COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS TRINITY 360 TRINITY 360 IS AN ONGOING PROJECT OF 360 VIDEO MUSIC PRODUCTIONS FUNDED AS PART OF THE TRINITY CREATIVE INITIATIVE. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DR. JULIE BATES batesjulie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BATESJU ENGLISH DR BATES'S PHD CHARTED SAMUEL BECKETT'S MATERIAL IMAGINATION AND EVOLVING CREATIVE PRAXIS THROUGH A GROUP OF OBJECTS THAT RECUR IN OVER HALF A CENTURY OF HIS WRITING. THIS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS AS BECKETT'S ART OF SALVAGE (FORTHCOMING 2017). HER CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT, POCKETS OF TIME, EXPLORES HOW TIME-WORN MATERIALS FUNCTION AS SITES OF KNOWLEDGE FOR THE OTHERWISE IMPERCEPTIBLE CHANGES TO THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SELF IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND ART. THIS PROJECT FOCUSES ON THE WORKS OF THE BELARUSIAN, TURKISH, AND CANADIAN WRITERS SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH, ORHAN PAMUK, AND LEANNE SHAPTON, AND THE FRENCH-AMERICAN, JAPANESE AND BRITISH ARTISTS LOUISE BOURGEOIS, ISHIUCHI MIYAKO, AND CORNELIA PARKER. IN 2016, DR BATES WAS AWARDED A ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY GRANT TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN THE FORMER STUDIO AND ARCHIVE OF LOUISE BOURGEOIS IN CHELSEA, NEW YORK. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY WRITING 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY ART CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS DRAMATIC/THEATRE ARTS IRISH MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART IRISH THEATRE IRISH THEATRE, FILM AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCE IRISH THEATRE, MARINA CARR. IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS. WOMEN IN PERFORMANCE. FEMINISM MATERIAL CULTURE MATERIAL IMAGINATION MEMORY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE PHENOMENOLOGY THEATRE HISTORY THEATRE, BECKETT, IRISH, FEMINISM TIME IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND ART CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES RESIDENCY IN LOUISE BOURGEOIS'S ARCHIVE, NEW YORK, U.S. IN FEBRUARY-MARCH 2016, I ARRANGED A WEEK-LONG RESIDENCY IN THE ARCHIVE OF THE ARTIST LOUISE BOURGEOIS. THE ARCHIVE IS LOCATED NEXT DOOR TO HER FORMER CHELSEA STUDIO AND HOME. DURING MY RESIDENCY, I CONDUCTED INTERVIEWS WITH A NUMBER OF PIVOTAL FIGURES, INCLUDING HER LONGTERM ASSISTANT, AND THE CHIEF CURATOR EMERITUS AT MOMA WHO ORGANISED BOURGEOIS'S 1982 RETROSPECTIVE IN THE MUSEUM. I ALSO VIEWED ARTWORKS BY BOURGEOIS IN MOMA AND IN THE CHEIM AND READ GALLERY IN CHELSEA. ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY CHARLEMONT SCHOLAR AWARD AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. LISA BATTERSBY battersbylisa SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER BATTERL SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. NICOLAS ALEXANDRE BAUDIN baudinnicolasalexandre RESEARCH FELLOW BAUDINN MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG RESEARCH INTERESTS: FLUID DYNAMICS, HEAT TRANSFER, BOILING, TRANSIENT PHENOMENA, NATURAL/FORCED CONVECTION <BR> EXPERIMENTAL SKILLS: INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY, SHADOW IMAGING, PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY <BR> COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS: ANSYS (FLUENT, CFX), STARCCM+ DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH BOILING EXPERIMENTATION FLUID MECHANICS FLUIDS AND HEAT TRANSFER FORCED CONVECTION INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY NATURAL CONVECTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION TRANSIENT AND UNSTEADY HEAT TRANSFER OTHER ENERGY PHYSICS OTHER ENGINEERING LIGHT-WEIGHT VAPOUR CHAMBER HEAT SINKS FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT SUCH AS WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION UNITS ARE GENERATING MORE AND MORE LOCALISED HEAT POWER WHICH SHOULD BE DISSIPATED EFFECTIVELY TO ENSURE THE RELIABILITY OF THE DEVICE. IN A CONVENTIONAL SOLID HEAT SINK, A METAL BASE PLATE IS IN CONTACT WITH THE HEAT SOURCES, AND PLATE FINS DISSIPATE THE HEAT TO THE ENVIRONMENT BY CONDUCTION AND NATURAL CONVECTION. ONE OF THE GOALS OF THIS PROJECT IS TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT OF THE COOLING SOLUTION WITHOUT SACRIFICING PERFORMANCE. <BR> IN A VAPOUR CHAMBER HEAT SINK, THE BASE PLATE IS HOLLOW, FILLED WITH A FLUID AT SATURATION CONDITIONS, WHICH BOILS AT THE BOTTOM IN CONTACT WITH THE HEATER AND CONDENSES AT THE TOP IN CONTACT WITH THE FINS. THE THERMAL RESISTANCE CAN BE LOWERED DUE TO THE EFFICACY OF THE BOILING AND CONDENSATION HEAT TRANSFER, WHICH IN TURN ALLOWS TO REDUCE THE OVERALL WEIGHT OF THE STRUCTURE. <BR> THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO UNDERSTAND AND DESIGN AN OPTIMISED LIGHT-WEIGHT VAPOUR CHAMBER HEAT SINK BY MEANS OF (I) OPTIMISATION OF THE NATURAL CONVECTION BY CHANGING THE FIN STRUCTURE AND OTHER ACTIVE ENHANCEMENT METHODS, (II) UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING THE BOILING/CONDENSATION INSIDE THE VAPOUR CHAMBER, (III) AND THE USE OF UNCONVENTIONAL MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING METHODS. <BR> HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/MECHENG/RESEARCH/FLUIDS-HEAT-TRANSFER/PROJECTS/NICOLAS_BAUDIN.PHP ENTERPRISE IRELAND (INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP SCHEME, CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THROUGH THE EUROP DR. SUSANA BAYO BELENGUER bayobelenguersusana ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BAYOBELS HISPANIC STUDIES LITERATURE OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR; MANUEL VÁZQUEZ MONTALBÁN LITERARY & GENRE THEORY, ESPECIALLY AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND DETECTIVE FICTION; CONTEMPORARY WOMEN WRITERS; TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE; CONTEMPORARY SPANISH FICTION & CINEMA; SPANISH TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY; FRANCO ERA; SPANISH INTELLECTUAL HISTORY; EUROPE AND SPAIN DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GUEST SPEAKER, INSTITUTO CERVANTES (DUBLIN) GUEST SPEAKER, MAYNOONTH UNIVERSITY, 2013; GUEST LECTURER (POSTGRADUATE), UNIV. DE OVIEDO, 2013; TALK (BY INVITATION) ON JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ AND ZENOBIA CAMPRUBÍ AND READING FROM THE ZENOBIA CAMPRUBÍ DIARIES, INSTITUTO CERVANTES DUBLIN, 2009; GUEST SPEAKER, UNIV. DE BARCELONA, 2009; GUEST LECTURER, UNIV. DE BARCELONA, 2007; GUEST LECTURER, UNIV. DE SALAMANCA, 2005; GUEST LECTURER UNIV. DE SEVILLA, 2004, 2001; GUEST LECTURER, DIT (KEVIN ST DUBLIN), 2003; GUEST LECTURER UNIV. DE LEON, 2003; GUEST SPEAKER, FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, TCD, 2002, GUEST LECTURER, UNIV. DE GRANADA, 2000 MEMBER (BY INVITATION) OF EXPERT PANEL AT SYMPOSIUM "25 YEARS OF THE CARVALHO SERIES OF MANUEL VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN", MADRID 20TH CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CINEMA AUTOBIOGRAPHY DETECTIVE FICTION FRANCO ERA LITERARY AND GENRE THEORY LITERATURE OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR MANUEL VAZQUEZ MONTALBAN SPANISH INTELLECTUAL LIFE SPANISH LITERATURE SPANISH TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY SPANISH WOMEN WRITERS TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. PETER BEDE bedepeter RESEARCH FELLOW PBEDE CLINICAL MEDICINE ACADEMIC UNIT OF NEUROLOGY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 NEUROSCIENCE DR. JOERAN BEEL beeljoeran USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BEELJ COMPUTER SCIENCE ADAPT RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS, USER MODELLING, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, MACHINE LEARNING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, TEXT MINING, CITATION ANALYSIS, BIBLIOMETRICS, ALTMETRICS, SCIENTOMETRICS, PLAGIARISM DETECTION, BLOCKCHAIN, DIGITAL LIBRARIES, DIGITAL HUMANITIES, FINANCE (FINTECH), LEGAL, TOURISM, MEDICAL SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BIBLIOMETRICS BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING CROSS-LANGUAGE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES FINTECH INFORMATION EXTRACTION INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL MACHINE LEARNING NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING PERSONALISATION PERSONALISATION AND USER-CENTRIC ADAPTIVITY PERSONALISED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL PLAGIARISM DETECTION RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS SCIENTOMETRICS TEXT MINING TOURISM USER MODELING MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT AND TOURISM LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS DISCANT: DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF THE TEXT SURROUNDED BY HUGE AND EXPONENTIALLY GROWING VOLUME OF INFORMATION OF VARIOUS NATURE, EVERY DAY WE FACE CHALLENGES WITH KEEPING TRACK OF THE LATEST NEWS IN A DOMAIN OF INTEREST OR FINDING GOOD-QUALITY ANSWERS TO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS. THE PROBLEM OF INFORMATION OVERLOAD HAS BEEN ADDRESSED BY MODERN INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SEARCH ENGINES, HOWEVER, THEIR CAPABILITIES ARE STRONGLY LIMITED BY USING UNSTRUCTURED TEXTUAL FORMATS FOR EXCHANGING AND STORING INFORMATION. TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS OFTEN CONTAIN A LOT OF CONCRETE FACTS AND QUANTIFIABLE INFORMATION, BUT THE COMMUNICATION OF THESE FACTS AND INFORMATION THROUGH HUMAN LANGUAGES RENDERS THEM INACCESSIBLE TO MACHINES. THIS "SEMANTIC BOTTLENECK" PROBLEM SUBSTANTIALLY SLOWS DOWN COMMUNICATION AND KNOWLEDGE PROPAGATION IN THE WORLD. IN ORDER TO EQUIP MACHINES WITH THE ABILITY OF EFFECTIVE PROCESSING OF THE TEXT, DISCANT ("DOMAIN-INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF THE TEXT") AIMS AT CREATING A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS OF ARBITRARY DOMAINS, SUCH AS SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, LEGAL DOCUMENTS, CUSTOMER REVIEWS OR CLINICAL TRIAL REPORTS. WE WILL DEVELOP APPROACHES, METHODS AND TOOLS FOR TWO CLASSES OF SOLUTIONS: AN ENVIRONMENT FOR DISCOVERING ENTITY AND RELATION TYPES IN A GIVEN DOMAIN AND A SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATED SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF THE TEXT. THE PROJECT PROPOSES A NOVEL APPROACH BASED ON A COMBINATION OF UNSUPERVISED NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES. DISCANT WILL ADVANCE MACHINE UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEXT, CONTRIBUTING TO THE RELEASE OF IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE BURIED IN TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS, THE CREATION OF MACHINE-READABLE KNOWLEDGE REPOSITORIES AND MORE EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SEMANTIC SEARCH AND PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS. AS A CONSEQUENCE, DISCANT WILL EQUIP THE CONSUMERS OF TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS WITH BETTER TOOLS FOR OVERCOMING DATA DELUGE AND INFORMATION OVERLOAD, ENABLING THEM TO MAKE BETTER-QUALITY, DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS. EU / SFI MARIE SK&#322;ODOWSKA-CURIE COFUND ACTION MR. DLIB MR. DLIB HTTP://MR-DLIB.ORG IS A NON-PROFIT OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT TO PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS-AS-A-SERVICE FOR RESEARCH ARTICLES, CALL FOR PAPERS, AND ACADEMIC NEWS. MR. DLIB WAS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED AS A MACHINE-READABLE DIGITAL LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY AND IS NOWADAYS RUN BY RESEARCHERS, AMONG OTHERS, FROM THE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (IRELAND), AND THE UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ (GERMANY). MR. DLIB OFFERS THREE SERVICES: 1. RECOMMENDATIONS-AS-A-SERVICE (RAAS) FOR OPERATORS OF ACADEMIC PRODUCTS OPERATORS OF ACADEMIC PRODUCTS SUCH AS DIGITAL LIBRARIES OR REFERENCE MANAGEMENT TOOLS CAN EASILY INTEGRATE A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM IN THEIR OWN PRODUCTS WITH MR. DLIB. TO DO SO, OPERATORS NEED NO KNOWLEDGE ABOUT RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS. IN ADDITION, THE EFFORT OF INTEGRATING MR. DLIB'S RECOMMENDATIONS-AS-A-SERVICE RANGES FROM A FEW HOURS TO A FEW DAYS, COMPARED TO SEVERAL MONTHS OF WORK FOR IMPLEMENTING ONE'S OWN RECOMMENDER SYSTEM. OPERATORS HAVE THE CHOICE TO RECOMMEND ONLY THEIR OWN CONTENT (E.G. RESEARCH ARTICLES) TO THEIR USERS, OR CONTENT FROM MR. DLIB'S CONTENT PROVIDERS. 2. ACADEMIC OUTREACH FOR PROVIDERS OF ACADEMIC CONTENT MR. DLIB HELPS CONTENT PROVIDERS SUCH AS UNIVERSITIES, PUBLISHERS, CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS, AND OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES TO REACH OUT TO STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS AND WIN THEM AS NEW VISITORS, READERS, USERS, OR CUSTOMERS. FOR INSTANCE, PUBLISHERS MAY GAIN NEW READERS FOR THEIR PUBLICATIONS; UNIVERSITIES MAY ATTRACT NEW STUDENTS FOR THEIR COURSES; AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS MAY ATTRACT NEW SUBMISSIONS. MR. DLIB IS DOING SO BY RECOMMENDING THE PROVIDERS' CONTENT - E.G. CALL FOR PAPERS, COURSE DESCRIPTIONS, OR RESEARCH ARTICLES - TO THE USERS OF MR. DLIB'S RAAS PARTNERS. 3. A REAL-WORLD RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS MR. DLIB SHARES ITS DATA, I.E. WE ALLOW EXTERNAL RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS TO CONDUCT THEIR RESEARCH WITH MR. DLIB (AS LONG AS THE PRIVACY OF OUR PARTNERS AND USERS IS ENSURED). IN THE SHORT-TERM, WE PUBLISH DATASETS THAT CONTAIN THE DOCUMENTS INDEXED BY MR. DLIB AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE DELIVERED RECOMMENDATIONS. OUR LONG-TERM GOAL IS TO ESTABLISH A "LIVING LAB" THAT ALLOWS EXTERNAL RESEARCHERS TO EVALUATE THEIR RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM IN REAL-TIME WITH MR. DLIB AND ITS PARTNERS. MR. DLIB IS AN IDEAL ENVIRONMENT FOR RESEARCH ABOUT RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS AND DIGITAL LIBRARIES AS WELL AS RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF MACHINE LEARNING, CITATION ANALYSIS, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND SEVERAL RELATED DISCIPLINES. SO, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CONDUCTING RESEARCH THAT HAS A REAL IMPACT ON HOW OTHER RESEARCHERS WORK. DOCEAR DOCEAR HTTP://DOCEAR.ORG IS A UNIQUE SOLUTION TO ACADEMIC LITERATURE MANAGEMENT, I.E. IT HELPS YOU ORGANIZING, CREATING, AND DISCOVERING ACADEMIC LITERATURE. AMONG OTHERS, DOCEAR OFFERS: 1. A SINGLE-SECTION USER-INTERFACE THAT ALLOWS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ORGANIZATION OF YOUR LITERATURE. WITH DOCEAR, YOU CAN SORT DOCUMENTS INTO CATEGORIES; YOU CAN SORT ANNOTATIONS (COMMENTS, BOOKMARKS, AND HIGHLIGHTED TEXT FROM PDFS) INTO CATEGORIES; YOU CAN SORT ANNOTATIONS WITHIN PDFS; AND YOU CAN VIEW MULTIPLE ANNOTATIONS OF MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS, IN MULTIPLE CATEGORIES - AT ONCE. 2. A 'LITERATURE SUITE CONCEPT' THAT COMBINES SEVERAL TOOLS IN A SINGLE APPLICATION (PDF MANAGEMENT, REFERENCE MANAGEMENT, MIND MAPPING, ). THIS ALLOWS YOU TO DRAFT YOUR OWN PAPERS, ASSIGNMENTS, THESIS, ETC. DIRECTLY IN DOCEAR AND COPY ANNOTATIONS AND REFERENCES FROM YOUR COLLECTION DIRECTLY INTO YOUR DRAFT. 3. A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM THAT HELPS YOU TO DISCOVER NEW LITERATURE: DOCEAR RECOMMENDS PAPERS WHICH ARE FREE, IN FULL-TEXT, INSTANTLY TO DOWNLOAD, AND TAILORED TO YOUR INFORMATION NEEDS. CITEPLAG CITEPLAG HTTP://CITEPLAG.ORG/ IS A PROTOTYPE OF A HYBRID PLAGIARISM PREVENTION AND DETECTION SYSTEM COOPERATIVELY DEVELOPED BY THE INFORMATION SCIENCE GROUP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ AND PROF. JOERAN BEEL AT THE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. CITEPLAG IMPLEMENTS THE CITATION-BASED PLAGIARISM DETECTION (CBPD) APPROACH, WHICH WAS INITIALLY INTRODUCED IN THE DOCTORAL THESIS OF BELA GIPP. DETAILS ON THE ALGORITHMS IMPLEMENTED IN CITEPLAG CAN BE FOUND HERE. THE CURRENT PROTOTYPE WAS DEVELOPED IN COOPERATION WITH STUDENTS FROM THE HTW, BERLIN COMPARED TO EXISTING APPROACHES FOR PLAGIARISM DETECTION, THE CITEPLAG PROTOTYPE DOES NOT CONSIDER TEXTUAL SIMILARITY ALONE BUT USES CITATION PATTERNS WITHIN ACADEMIC DOCUMENTS AS A UNIQUE, LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT FINGERPRINT TO IDENTIFY SEMANTIC SIMILARITY. THIS FEATURE FOR THE FIRST TIME ENABLES AUTOMATED DETECTION OF STRONGLY DISGUISED PLAGIARISM FORMS, INCLUDING PARAPHRASES, TRANSLATED PLAGIARISM, AND EVEN IDEA PLAGIARISM. THE SUITABILITY OF THE CBPD APPROACH IN DETECTING DISGUISED PLAGIARISM WAS FIRST DEMONSTRATED ON THE PLAGIARIZED THESIS OF FORMER GERMAN DEFENSE MINISTER KARL- THEODOR ZU GUTTENBERG [PDF]. WHILE CONVENTIONAL DETECTION APPROACHES COULD NOT IDENTIFY A SINGLE INSTANCE OF TRANSLATED PLAGIARISM IN THE THESIS, THE CBPD APPROACH DETECTED 13 OF THE 16 TRANSLATED PLAGIARISMS. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE METHOD WAS FURTHER DEMONSTRATED WHEN APPLIED TO THE WORKS OF MULTIPLE AUTHORS AND VARIOUS PLAGIARISM STYLES IN THE VRONIPLAG COLLECTION. EVALUATIONS OF REAL-WORLD PLAGIARISM SHOWED THAT PLAGIARISTS COMMONLY DISGUISE ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT BY PARAPHRASING COPIED TEXT, BUT OFTEN DO NOT SUBSTITUTE OR REARRANGE THE CITATIONS COPIED FROM THE SOURCE DOCUMENT. MOST RECENTLY, THE PRACTICABILITY OF THE CBPD APPROACH WAS DEMONSTRATED BY ANALYZING 185,000 PUBLICATIONS IN THE COMPREHENSIVE BIOSCIENCE FULL-TEXT DATABASE PUBMED CENTRAL. THE CBPD ALGORITHMS ALLOWED THE IDENTIFICATION OF SEVERAL PLAGIARISM CASES THAT WERE NON-MACHINE-DETECTABLE USING TODAY'S PREVALENT METHODS. [PDF]. AS A RESULT, SEVERAL PUBLICATIONS WERE RETRACTED, INCLUDING A FRAUDULENT MEDICAL STUDY. WHILE THE CBPD APPROACH OFFERS UNIQUE BENEFITS, IT SHOULD BE SEEN AS A SUPPLEMENT NOT A REPLACEMENT TO EXISTING SOFTWARE-BASED PLAGIARISM DETECTION METHODS, SINCE TEXT-BASED AND CITATION-BASED PLAGIARISM DETECTION APPROACHES COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER. THE CITEPLAG PROTOTYPE REPRESENTS A VISUALIZATION OF CONCEPTS AND ALGORITHMS DEVELOPED BY THE INFORMATION SCIENCE GROUP AROUND THE IDEA OF CITATION-BASED PLAGIARISM DETECTION (CBPD). ORIGINSTAMP ORIGINSTAMP HTTPS://ORIGINSTAMP.ORG IS A NON-COMMERCIAL TRUSTED TIMESTAMPING SERVICE THAT CAN BE USED FREE OF CHARGE AND ANONYMOUSLY. TRUSTED TIMESTAMPING ENABLES YOU TO PROVE THAT YOU WERE THE ORIGINATOR OF AN INFORMATION (E.G. TEXT OR ANY OTHER MEDIA FILE) AT A CERTAIN TIME. TRUSTED TIMESTAMPING ISN'T NEW. EVEN BEFORE COMPUTERS EXISTED INFORMATION COULD BE HASHED AND THE HASH COULD BE PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER. HOWEVER, ORIGINSTAMP.ORG ALLOWS YOU TO ANONYMOUSLY TIMESTAMP INFORMATION IN A DECENTRALIZED AND TAMPERPROOF WAY WITHIN SECONDS. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW CLICKS AND IT'S COMPLETELY FREE. DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR CECILY MARION BEGLEY begleycecilymarion CHAIR OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CBEGLEY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY NORMAL CHILDBIRTH; MIDWIFERY-LED CARE; WOMAN-CENTRED CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY, VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION; RESEARCH METHODS; ASSERTIVENESS; SELF-ESTEEM; TEACHING AND LEARNING SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH APPOINTED MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF MIDWIVES' RESEARCH ADVISORY NETWORK FELLOW OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE MEMBER OF AN BORD ALTRANAIS' CONTINUING EDUCATION COMMITTEE. MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH STEERING COMMITTEE THAT UNDERTOOK THE STUDY OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN NURSING IN IRELAND MEMBER OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, HEALTH OF THE POPULATION AND PRIMARY CARE COMMITTEE OF THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD MEMBER OF REVIEW PANEL FOR CANCER-RELATED NURSING RESEARCH, IRISH CANCER SOCIETY MEMBER OF REVIEW PANEL FOR RESEARCH AWARDS, ST. LUKE'S INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH. CHAIR OF PANEL 2003 TO 2006 MEMBER OF THE BETA SIGMA CHAPTER OF SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL (NURSES' HONOR SOCIETY). MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF GUARDIANS AND DIRECTORS, COOMBE WOMEN AND INFANTS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEMBER OF THE CANCER CONSORTIUM NURSES' WORKING GROUP, FORMED BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN, IRELAND, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY, NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON MEMBER OF THE DEPT. OF HEALTH STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE RESEARCH STUDY INTO MANPOWER PLANNING MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF "NURSING REVIEW" JOURNAL MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF THE "ALL-IRELAND NURSING AND MIDWIFERY" JOURNAL MEMBER OF THE EXPERT GROUP IN MIDWIFERY AND PAEDIATRIC EDUCATION SET UP BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND CHILDREN MEMBER OF THE JOINT NORTH-SOUTH FORUM FOR PLANNING THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING SERVICES MEMBER OF THE MATERNITY SERVICES TASKFORCE FOR THE NORTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD MEMBER OF THE MATERNITY STRATEGY STEERING GROUP (REPRESENTING THE IRISH COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS, DEANS AND HEADS OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY) MEMBER OF THE MEATH FOUNDATION (TALLAGHT HOSPITAL) REVIEW PANEL FOR HEALTH RESEARCH MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH CANCER SOCIETY. MEMBER OF THE MIDWIFERY SUB-COMMITTEE OF AN BORD ALTRANAIS MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY IN IRELAND MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE SET UP BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND CHILDREN TO MONITOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NURSING EDUCATION FORUM'S REPORT MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION GROUP SET UP BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND CHILDREN TO MONITOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EXPERT GROUP IN MIDWIFERY AND PAEDIATRIC EDUCATION MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL MIDWIFERY ADVISORY FORUM SET UP BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN MEMBER OF THE NURSING EDUCATION FORUM. ELECTED CHAIRPERSON OF TWO SUB-COMMITTEES MEMBER OF THE PRESCRIBING PROJECT FOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES AND TO MEMBER OF THE EDUCATION SUB-COMMITTEE OF THAT GROUP MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE DEMENTIA SERVICES INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, ST. JAMES' HOSPITAL REVIEWER FOR COCHRANE PROTOCOLS AND REVIEWS SECTION EDITOR FOR BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH (2011 ONGOING) ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH (2009-2011) INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL PANEL MEMBER FOR EVIDENCE-BASED MIDWIFERY (2003 - 2012).... REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING, BRITISH JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY...... ASSERTIVENESS CHILD/MATERNAL HEALTH EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH--WOMEN FOETAL, MATERNAL AND NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY LACTATION LEARNING MIDWIFE LED CARE MIDWIFERY IN PRIMARY CARE HOME BIRTH MIDWIFERY-LED CARE MIDWIFERY. NURSE PRACTITIONER NURSING EDUCATION NURSING RESEARCH PERINATAL DISORDERS PERINATAL HEALTH PHYSIOLOGICAL CHILDBIRTH PHYSIOLOGICAL/DEVELOPMENT PROCESS PREGNANCY REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS RESEARCH METHODS SELF-ESTEEM STILLBIRTH SYSTEMS OF CHILDBIRTH ORGANISATION TEACHING/METHODS WOMEN'S HEALTH OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) A STUDY OF COMMUNITY NURSING PRACTICE IN GALWAY COMMUNITY CARE AREA WITH A-M BRADY, G. BYRNE, C. GRIFFITHS, P. HORAN AND C. MACGREGOR. NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT, WESTERN HEALTH BOARD: FUNDING €68,000 AN EXPLORATION OF THE ACCEPTABILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CONTACT TRACING IN THE CONTEXT OF AN OUTBREAK OF SYPHILIS (WITH CLAIRE COLEMAN, PHD STUDENT AND MARIA LOHAN). FUNDING: €92,192 OVER TWO YEARS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD WOMEN'S EXPECTATIONS AND PREFERENCE FOR THE EXPERIENCE OF PLANNED VAGINAL DELIVERY WITH PATRICIA LARKIN, PHD STUDENT, AND D. DEVANE. € 246, 920 FROM HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AN EXPLORATION OF THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON TREATMENT OF WOMEN WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTIONS (WITH S. O'DONNELL, PHD STUDENT, AND S. CONDELL) FUNDING: £84,000 OVER THREE YEARS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AN EXPLORATION OF THE MEANING OF EXPERTISE IN PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING (WITH K. CONNAIRE, DOCTORAL STUDENT). FUNDING: £84,000 OVER THREE YEARS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCE OF BREAKING BAD NEWS FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF DOCTORS, NURSES AND RECIPIENTS (WITH G. TOBIN, DOCTORAL STUDENT). FUNDING: £98,000 OVER THREE AND A HALF YEARS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD NURSES' KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF RADIATION IN OPERATING THEATRES (WITH E. FARRELL,DOCTORAL STUDENT, AND G. O'REILLY) FUNDING: £3,000 AN BORD ALTRANAIS/NORTHERN IRELAND BOARD A STUDY OF DEMENTIA IN PERSONS WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME (WITH M. MCCARRON, DOCTORAL STUDENT AND M. GILL). FUNDING: £84,000 OVER THREE YEARS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD A STUDY OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING IN IRELAND (WITH C. TRACEY, DOCTORAL STUDENT). FUNDING: £7,500 STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT OVER TWO YEARS. FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, TCD WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES OF CARRYING A BABY WITH A FETAL ABNORMALITY UP TO AND BEYOND THE BIRTH WITH JOAN LALOR, DOCTORAL STUDENT. FUNDING: EU 125,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE WORKLOAD IN THE WESTERN HEALTH BOARD PI C BEGLEY, WITH A-M BRADY, G. BYRNE, C. GRIFFITHS, P. HORAN AND C. MACGREGOR. MEASUREMENT OF PHN WORKLOAD IN THE WHB USING THE COMMUNITY CLIENT NEED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED IN THE GALWAY AREA. FUNDING: 49,994 NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT, WESTERN HEALTH BOARD. AN EVALUATION OF MIDWIFERY-LED UNITS IN THE NORTH-EASTERN HEALTH BOARD REGION. WITH DECLAN DEVANE, PHD STUDENT AND PROF MIKE CLARKE THIS STUDY IS NOW COMPLETE. THE PUBLISHED PAPER REPORTING THE STUDY IS AT: HTTP://WWW.BIOMEDCENTRAL.COM/CONTENT/PDF/1471-2393-11-85.PDF AND THE FINAL REPORT IS AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.HSE.IE/ENG/SERVICES/PUBLICATIONS/SERVICES/HOSPITALS/AN%20EVALUATION%20OF%20MIDWIFERY%20LED%20CARE%20IN%20HSE%20NORTH%20EAST%20AREA.HTML FUNDING: €404,551 FROM NORTH-EASTERN HEALTH BOARD AND ITS SUCCESSORS SEXUALITY IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING WITH AGNES HIGGINS (DOCTORAL STUDENT) AND PROF. PHIL BARKER. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (EU 125,000 ) COST-EFFECTIVENESS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN CARING FOR PERSONS WITH DOWN SYNDROME AND ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA DR. MARY MCCARRON AS PI. FUNDING: EU 100,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF EVIDENCE-BASED GUIDELINES FOR MATERNITY CARE IN THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, NORTH EASTERN AREA: AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT. RESEARCHERS: DEVANE D/BEGLEY CM WITH HIGGINS S, DUNPHY L (MSC STUDENT) €119,912 FROM HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, NORTH EASTERN AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF MIDWIFERY-LED SERVICES IN THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, NORTH EASTERN AREA. RESEARCHERS: BEGLEY CM/DEVANE D WITH NORMAND C, CLARKE M AND C. KENNY (MSC STUDENT) FUNDING: €18,083 HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, NORTH EASTERN CHILDHOOD NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT METHODS RESEARCHERS: DEVANE D/BEGLEY CM WITH CLARKE M, VAUGHAN D, FINAN A. FUNDING: €29,225 HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, NORTH EASTERN INTERVENTIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF PRETERM BIRTH. RESEARCHERS: DEVANE D/BEGLEY CM WITH CLARKE M, HIGGINS S AND V SMITH (MSC STUDENT) FUNDING: €29,225 HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, NORTH EASTERN IMPROVING THE ORGANISATION OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, AND OPTIMISING CHILDBIRTH, BY INCREASING VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION (VBAC) THROUGH ENHANCED WOMEN-CENTRED CARE (OPTIBIRTH) THIS STUDY ADDRESSES THE WIDESPREAD CONCERN OVER RISING CAESAREAN SECTION RATES THROUGHOUT EUROPE, PARTICULARLY ROUTINE CS FOLLOWING A PREVIOUS CS, DESPITE CALLS FOR INCREASED VAGINAL BIRTHS AFTER CAESAREAN (VBAC). VBAC IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER MATERNAL MORTALITY THAN REPEAT CS, LESS OVERALL MORBIDITY FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, AND IS THE PREFERRED OPTION FOR THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN. VBAC RATES IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER (29-36%) THAN THOSE IN THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN (45-55%). THE OPTIBIRTH PROJECT WILL USE A CLUSTER RANDOMISED TRIAL IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY, WITH 15 CLUSTERS OF 94 WOMEN IN EACH, TO INCREASE VBAC RATES FROM 33% TO 53% THROUGH A COMPLEX INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO INCREASE WOMEN-CENTRED CARE AND WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR CARE. THE MULTI-NATIONAL, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TEAM FOR THIS PROJECT DEVELOPED FROM THE ESF-FUNDED WORKSHOP: "PROMOTING NORMALITY IN CHILDBIRTH" HELD IN THE SCHOOL IN MARCH 2010, AND FROM THE COST ACTION, (IS0907: CHILDBIRTH CULTURES, CONCERNS, AND CONSEQUENCES: CREATING A DYNAMIC EU FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMAL MATERNITY CARE), WHICH STARTED IN JUNE 2010. THE TEAM IS COMPOSED OF 11 PARTNER INSTITUTIONS FROM 8 COUNTRIES, AND INCLUDES SERVICE USERS, MIDWIVES, OBSTETRICIANS, NEONATOLOGIST, EPIDEMIOLOGIST, SOCIOLOGIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, BIOETHICIST, HEALTH ECONOMIST AND A 'HIGH-TECH' SMALL INDUSTRY. LEAD INSTITUTION: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND LEAD INVESTIGATOR: PROF CECILY BEGLEY, AND TEAM: VALERIE SMITH, DEIRDRE DALY, JOAN LALOR, JANINE STOCKDALE, DAVID PRENDERGAST, INCLUDING THE COOMBE HOSPITAL: CHRIS FITZPATRICK, MICHAEL TURNER, JAN MILETIN, PATRICIA HUGHES, AND BEVERLEY BEECH, ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN MATERNITY SERVICES, UK CO-APPLICANT INSTITUTIONS AND LEAD INVESTIGATORS: PROF INGELA LUNDGREN, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN MARIANNE NIEUWENHUIJZE, ZUYD UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS PROF KATRI VEHVILÄINEN-JULKUNEN, UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, FINLAND PROF MARLENE SINCLAIR, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, UK HUGH WISEMAN, ENTANDO, UK PROF MIKE CLARKE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST, UK PROF MECHTHILD GROSS, MEDIZINISCHE HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER, GERMANY PROF DECLAN DEVANE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IRELAND, GALWAY, IRELAND PROF SANDRA MORANO, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA, ITALY PROF KOEN PUTMAN, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, BELGIUM EU COMMISSION FP7 FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (€3,000,000) HEALTH 2012 3.2-1 CALL THE FACTORS AFFECTING INITIATION AND DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING IN IRELAND. WITH LOUISE GALLAGHER (PHD STUDENT) STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE RATES OF EXCLUSIVE AND PARTIAL BREASTFEEDING AT 48HRS AFTER BIRTH, 3-4 MONTHS AND 6-7 MONTHS POSTNATAL AND ESTABLISH FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE A DECISION TO BREASTFEED. OBJECTIVES 1. TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE DATA ON RATES OF EXCLUSIVE AND PARTIAL BREASTFEEDING IN IRELAND. 2. TO ESTABLISH WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE THE DECISION TO BREASTFEED OR NOT AMONG WOMEN IN IRELAND. 3. TO MAKE PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THE RATES OF EXCLUSIVE AND PARTIAL BREASTFEEDING AND THE FACTORS AFFECTING THIS AMONG WOMEN IN IRELAND. 4. TO DESCRIBE WHAT WOMEN MEAN BY SUCCESSFUL, SUB-OPTIMAL OR UNSATISFACTORY BREASTFEEDING EXPERIENCES. 5. TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF SUB-OPTIMAL BREASTFEEDING EXPERIENCE ON FUTURE INFANT FEEDING CHOICES. 6. TO ASCERTAIN THESE WOMEN'S VIEWS ON THE FACTORS THAT WOULD ASSIST THEM TO BREASTFEED SUCCESSFULLY IN THE FUTURE. 7. TO DEVELOP THE BASIS FOR AN INTERVENTION, WHICH MAY IMPROVE RECURRENCE RATES AMONG THOSE WOMEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED A SUB-OPTIMAL OR UNSATISFACTORY BREASTFEEDING EXPERIENCE. HRB (€145,870) DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT NURSE AND MIDWIFE CLINICAL COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT. AGNES HIGGINS (PI), CECILY BEGLEY, FIONA TIMMINS, IAN MCGONAGLE, IAN NORMAN THIS STUDY, COMMISSIONED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL, IS NOW COMPLETE. IT DEVELOPED A TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT NURSE AND MIDWIFE CLINICAL COMPETENCY DETERMINATION AND CLINICAL COMPETENCY PLANNING, TO ASSIST SERVICE MANAGERS, NURSE AND MIDWIFE MANAGERS AND NURSES AND MIDWIVES IN CLINICAL COMPETENCY DETERMINATION AND COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING. THE TOOLKIT IS AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.NCNM.IE/FILES/COMPETENCY%20TOOLKIT18JAN.PDF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOOLKIT WAS INFORMED BY A LITERATURE REVIEW, EXAMINATION OF GREY LITERATURE AND PILOTING OF A TOOLKIT. IT BUILT UPON CURRENT COMPETENCY FRAMEWORKS FOR NURSES' AND MIDWIVES' AND DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL. THE FINAL PILOTED TOOLKIT INCLUDES INFORMATION ON: . COMPETENCY DETERMINATION FOR SERVICE NEED, . IDENTIFYING AND WRITING CLINICAL COMPETENCIES FOR PRACTICE, . COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT AND . COMPETENCE FRAMEWORKS IN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. THE FULL STUDY REPORT TITLED: THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT NURSE AND MIDWIFE CLINICAL COMPETENCY DETERMINATION AND COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IS AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.NCNM.IE/FILES/COMPETENCY%20REPORT.PDF 120,000, FROM NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY IN IRELAND PROMOTING NORMALITY IN CHILDBIRTH THIS WAS A EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION-FUNDED WORKSHOP, BRINGING TOGETHER RESEARCHERS FROM 14 COUNTRIES TO DISCUSS FUTURE RESEARCH PROJECTS. LEAD ORGANISER WITH M CLARKE AND J MURPHY-LAWLESS. THE WORKSHOP HAS LED TO SOME JOINT RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND OVER HALF THE PARTICIPANTS SUBSEQUENTLY JOINED THE COST ACTION (ABOVE), AND A NUMBER HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE SUCCESSFUL FP7 PROPOSAL "OPTIBIRTH" (ABOVE). 14,000 FROM EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MIDWIFERY-LED CARE. DECLAN DEVANE (PI), CECILY BEGLEY, MIKE CLARKE, CHARLES NORMAND, AND DENIS WALSH THIS STUDY IS NOW COMPLETE. THE FINAL REPORT IS AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.KCL.AC.UK/MEDICINE/RESEARCH/DIVISIONS/WH/NEWS/2011NEWS/SOCIOECONOMICMIDWIFERYREPORT.PDF € 16,888 FROM RCM CHILDBIRTH CULTURES, CONCERNS, AND CONSEQUENCES THIS IS A COST ACTION (NUMBER: IS0907), INVOLVING RESEARCHERS FROM 17 COUNTRIES, LED BY PROF SOO DOWNE OF UCLAN. I AM ONE OF TWO REPRESENTATIVES FROM IRELAND ON THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. THE MAIN OBJECTIVES ARE: MAIN/PRIMARY OBJECTIVES THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE ACTION IS TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WAYS OF IMPROVING MATERNITY CARE PROVISION AND OUTCOMES FOR MOTHERS, BABIES AND FAMILIES ACROSS EUROPE BY UNDERSTANDING WHAT WORKS, FOR WHO, IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES 2, AND BY IDENTIFYING AND LEARNING FROM THE BEST. ONCE THE ACTION IS COMPLETE, THE NETWORK WILL CONTINUE A PROGRAMME OF WORK IN THIS AREA IN THE LONG-TERM. C.2 SECONDARY OBJECTIVES 1. TO DESCRIBE AND ANALYSE PROVISION, CULTURES AND CLINICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIO-CULTURAL OUTCOMES OF FIRST TRIMESTER PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS (FTPD) IN EUROPE.. 2. TO DESCRIBE AND ANALYSE CULTURES AND CLINICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIO-CULTURAL OUTCOMES OF VARYING SYSTEMS OF ROUTINE INTRAPARTUM CARE IN EUROPE 3. TO DESCRIBE AND ANALYSE THE IMPACT OF VARYING SYSTEMS OF MATERNITY CARE ON THE CLINICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL WELLBEING OF MIGRANT WOMEN IN EUROPE, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO PREMATURITY AND LOW BIRTH WEIGHT 4. USING COMPLEX SYSTEMS THEORY, TO IDENTIFY THE KEY ELEMENTS OF SYSTEMS OF MATERNITY CARE THAT DELIVER THE BEST OUTCOMES WHILE ENSURING THE WELLBEING OF SERVICE USERS (INCLUDING MIGRANT WOMEN) AND OF MATERNITY CARE STAFF, 5. TO DESIGN, DEVELOP, AND TEST INNOVATIVE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER STRATEGIES TO ENABLE POLICY MAKERS, STRATEGISTS, MANAGERS, CLINICIANS, AND SERVICE USERS TO LEARN FROM THE BEST. THE SUCCESS OF THE ACTION WILL BE MEASURED BY: . THE NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS IN HIGH-IMPACT JOURNALS, . THE FORMATION OF EFFECTIVE COPS WITH CLINICAL, STRATEGIC, AND POLICY MAKING CONTRIBUTORS, AND WITH MATERNITY SERVICE USERS. . LEVELS OF USAGE OF THE ACTION WEBSITE AND DISSEMINATION VEHICLES BY CLINICAL, STRATEGIC, AND POLICY MAKING STAFF, AND MATERNITY SERVICE USERS. . THE NUMBER OF NEW FUNDED STUDIES GENERATED AS A RESULT OF THE COLLABORATIONS BUILT THROUGH THE ACTION . THE CONTINUATION OF THE EUROPEAN COALITION FOR CHILDBIRTH RESEARCH (ECCR) AFTER THE END OF THE ACTION . THE ABILITY TO ATTRACT AND DEVELOP THE CAPACITY OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS IN THIS FIELD. EXPECTED DELIVERABLES: AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE PROVIDING A PLATFORM FOR SCIENTISTS TO COLLABORATE AND FOR STRATEGISTS, POLICY MAKERS AND SERVICE USERS TO LEARN FROM AND COLLABORATE WITH ON-GOING RESEARCH. PUBLICATION OF A STATE OF THE ART REPORT AND ARTICLES, A FINAL BOOK, TRAINING PACKAGES, AND EXTERNALLY FUNDED BIDS. THE COPS AS CHANGE AGENTS IN THEIR COUNTRIES. A LEARNING FROM THE BEST TOOLKIT AND EUROPEAN MATERNITY SERVICES FRAMEWORK. A LONGITUDINAL DATABASE TO TRACK MATERNITY CARE OUTCOMES, LINKED WITH THE WORK OF THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT(S) FOR THE CURRENT EU FP7 CALL FOR 'BIRTH/MOTHER - CHILD COHORTS CO-ORDINATION' . ONGOING EECR ACTIVITY AFTER THE END OF THE ACTION. A MENTORING PROGRAMME FOR PRE AND POST DOCTORAL STUDENTS AND YOUNG SCIENTISTS. 400,000 FROM EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND (MAMMI) (URINARY INCONTINENCE STRAND). WITH DEIRDRE DALY, PHD STUDENT, AND M. CLARKE. AIM TO IDENTIFY THE EXISTENCE, EXTENT, PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS OF URINARY INCONTINENCE (UI), ONE MARKER OF MATERNAL MORBIDITY, IN 1600 PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN ANTENATALLY AND AT 3 AND 6 MONTHS POSTPARTUM. OBJECTIVE (I): TO IDENTIFY THE EXISTENCE, EXTENT AND PREVALENCE OF URINARY INCONTINENCE (UI) UP TO 6 MONTHS POSTPARTUM FOR WOMEN HAVING THEIR FIRST BABY. OBJECTIVE (II): TO IDENTIFY ASSOCIATED FACTORS FOR UI INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: AGE, BMI, INFANT BIRTH WEIGHT AND PERINEAL TRAUMA. OBJECTIVE (III): TO IDENTIFY THE HEALTH SERVICE-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF A SUB-SAMPLE OF WOMEN EXPERIENCING UI. OBJECTIVE (IV): TO IDENTIFY RISK FACTORS FOR UI THAT MAY BE AMENABLE TO INTERVENTION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (€ 222,646 ) CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP THE CONCEPT, PROVISION AND PROMOTION OF WOMAN-CENTRED CARE DURING PREGNANCY AND BIRTH IN IRELAND PI DECLAN DEVANE, PLUS TEAM AIM TO DESCRIBE THE CONCEPT, PROVISION AND PROMOTION OF WOMAN-CENTRED CARE DURING PREGNANCY AND BIRTH IN IRELAND. THIS MIXED-METHOD STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF 2 DISTINCT PHASES. PHASE I PHASE I WILL USE A DESCRIPTIVE QUALITATIVE STUDY TO DESCRIBE THE CONCEPT OF WOMAN-CENTRED CARE DURING PREGNANCY AND BIRTH AND WILL DO SO IN COLLABORATION WITH KEY MATERNITY CARE STAKEHOLDERS. FINDINGS WILL INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK DESCRIBING THE PRINCIPLES OF WOMEN-CENTRED CARE AND FACILITATE THE DOCUMENTATION OF INDICATORS FOR HOW THOSE PRINCIPLES ARE EXPECTED TO WORK, AND THUS BE PROMOTED, IN PRACTICE. PHASE II PHASE II WILL USE A DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY DESIGN TO PROVIDE THE FIRST NATIONAL PROFILE OF THE PROVISION AND PROMOTION OF WOMAN-CENTRED CARE DURING PREGNANCY AND BIRTH IN IRELAND BY MAPPING MATERNITY CARE SERVICES AGAINST THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK DEVELOPED IN PHASE I. ALL MATERNITY UNITS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (N=20) WILL BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED BY MEANS OF A SELF-ADMINISTERED, POSTAL QUESTIONNAIRE. € 25,000 FROM HRB/DOHC, € 25,000 FROM NUIG A STUDY OF TRANSITION EXPERIENCES, CAREER EXPECTATIONS AND INTENT TO STAY AMONG DEGREE GRADUATE NURSES WITH ANNE-MARIE BRADY (PHD STUDENT) AND PROF CHARLES NORMAND €225,823 FROM HRB FETAL CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY VERSUS INTERMITTENT AUSCULTATION DURING LABOUR WARD ADMISSION: A RANDOMISED TRIAL AND QUALITATIVE FOLLOW UP. THE ADCAR TRIAL. PI DECLAN DEVANE. TEAM MEMBERS: BEGLEY C, CLARKE M, STAUDT D, GEARY M, HIGGINS S, KEENAN A, KEATING A, GORMALLY S, CORCORAN D, SMITH V €283,041 FROM HRB THE EVALUATION OF CLINICAL NURSE AND MIDWIFE SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED NURSE AND MIDWIFE PRACTITIONERS IN IRELAND (SCAPE). PIS C BEGLEY AND K MURPHY (NUI GALWAY), PLUS A HIGGINS, F SHEERIN, I COYNE, J LALOR, N ELLIOTT, C NORMAND, C COMISKEY, D DEVANE, A COONEY, M DOWLING, D CASEY, F FARRELLY, M BRENNAN THIS PROJECT IS NOW COMPLETE. THE FINAL FULL REPORT IS AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.NCNM.IE/FILES/SCAPE%20FINAL%20REPORT%2027MAY11.PDF SUMMARY REPORT IS AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.NCNM.IE/ITEMS/1584/85/6826316036/SCAPE%20SUMMARY%2027MAY11.PDF € 350,000 FROM NCNM THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN RELATION TO PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD. PI C. BEGLEY WITH A.HIGGINS, J. ALEXANDER, F. SHEERIN, P. KEENAN, J. LALOR, D. LAWLER, R KAVANAGH, H. NICHOLL THIS STUDY IS NOW COMPLETE. THE THREE FINAL REPORTS ARE AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.NDA.IE/CNTMGMTNEW.NSF/0/419BBFC356BC438A80257705003FA51D?OPENDOCUMENT € 109,000 FROM THE NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY NATIONAL INFANT FEEDING SURVEY (PHASES 1 TO 3). PI C BEGLEY, WITH L GALLAGHER, M CARROLL, S MILLAR, M CLARKE THIS STUDY IS COMPLETE. THE FINAL REPORT IS AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.BREASTFEEDING.IE/UPLOADS/FILES/NATIONAL_INFANT_FEEDING_SURVEY_2008.PDF € 101,129 FROM HSE IRISH AND NEW ZEALAND MIDWIVES' EXPERTISE IN PRESERVING THE PERINEUM INTACT: THE 'MEPPI' STUDY. PI: PROF CECILY BEGLEY. MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND: PHASE 2 (MAMMI 2) THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EXTEND THE MAMMI STUDY TO PHASE 2. THE MAMMI STUDY IS DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY THE EXISTENCE, EXTENT AND PREVALENCE OF MATERNAL MORBIDITY (URINARY INCONTINENCE, FAECAL INCONTINENCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS) IN PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN ANTENATALLY AND UP TO 12 MONTHS POSTPARTUM. PHASE 1, BEING UNDERTAKEN BY PHD STUDENT D DALY, FOCUSES ON URINARY INCONTINENCE UP TO 6 MONTHS POSTPARTUM, INITIALLY AT A SINGLE SITE. PHASE 2 WILL EXTEND THE MAMMI STUDY TO A SECOND CLINICAL SITE AND ANALYSE THE COLLECTED DATA ON OTHER MORBIDITIES AND AT OTHER TIMES. THE OBJECTIVE OF PHASE 2 IS TO IDENTIFY MORBIDITIES AND RISK FACTORS THAT MAY BE AMENABLE TO INTERVENTION. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH A COHORT STUDY OF 2000 PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN RECRUITED IN EARLY PREGNANCY FROM TWO SITES. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED FROM SELF-COMPLETION SURVEYS ANTENATALLY AND AT 3, 6, 9 AND 12 MONTHS. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH A SAMPLE OF WOMEN AFFECTED BY MORBIDITIES WILL IDENTIFY HEALTH-SERVICE SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND BARRIERS ENCOUNTERED. THE STUDY OUTCOMES WILL PROVIDE A RELIABLE ESTIMATE OF MATERNAL MORBIDITIES IN THIS POPULATION, ENABLING THE IDENTIFICATION OF MODIFIABLE FACTORS AND HEALTH PROBLEMS, WHICH MAY BE AMENABLE TO INTERVENTIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (€334,797) MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND - SEXUAL HEALTH STRAND MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND: SEXUAL HEALTH STRAND. SUMMARY THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EXPLORE WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES OF SEXUAL HEALTH PROBLEMS WITHIN THE MAMMI STUDY. THE MAMMI STUDY IS DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY THE EXISTENCE, EXTENT AND PREVALENCE OF MATERNAL MORBIDITY (URINARY INCONTINENCE, FAECAL INCONTINENCE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS) IN PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN ANTENATALLY AND UP TO 12 MONTHS POSTPARTUM. PHASE 1, BEING UNDERTAKEN BY PHD STUDENT D DALY, FOCUSES ON URINARY INCONTINENCE UP TO 6 MONTHS POSTPARTUM, INITIALLY AT A SINGLE SITE. PHASE 2 EXTENDS THE MAMMI STUDY TO A SECOND CLINICAL SITE AND ANALYSES THE COLLECTED DATA ON OTHER MORBIDITIES AND AT OTHER TIMES. THIS SEXUAL HEALTH STRAND WILL EXPLORE MORBIDITIES OF A COHORT 2000 PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN RECRUITED IN EARLY PREGNANCY FROM TWO SITES. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED FROM SELF-COMPLETION SURVEYS ANTENATALLY AND AT 3, 6, 9 AND 12 MONTHS. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH A SAMPLE OF WOMEN AFFECTED BY SEXUAL HEALTH PROBLEMS WILL IDENTIFY HEALTH-SERVICE SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AND BARRIERS ENCOUNTERED. THE STUDY OUTCOMES WILL PROVIDE A RELIABLE ESTIMATE OF MATERNAL MORBIDITIES IN THIS POPULATION, ENABLING THE IDENTIFICATION OF MODIFIABLE FACTORS AND HEALTH PROBLEMS, WHICH MAY BE AMENABLE TO INTERVENTIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH THE SEXUAL HEALTH STRAND IS RUN BY PHD STUDENT DEIRDRE O'MALLEY. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD €251,421 AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE EPILEPSY SPECIALIST NURSE AND THE IMPACT ON PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE. PI PROF AGNES HIGGINS BRAINWAVE AND HRB €149,996 REDUCING CAESAREAN SECTION RATES IN IRELAND: A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND PILOT RANDOMISED TRIAL OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO REDUCE UNNECESSARY CAESAREAN SECTION (REDUCE) CONCERN HAS BEEN EXPRESSED GLOBALLY AT RISING CAESAREAN SECTION (CS) RATES WITH A LACK OF EVIDENCE OF ANY ASSOCIATED DECREASE IN MORBIDITY FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, INDICATING THAT MANY CSS ARE UNNECESSARY. MATERNAL MORTALITY AND SEVERE MORBIDITY ARE DOUBLED FOLLOWING CS COMPARED WITH VAGINAL BIRTH, AND NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS REQUIRING OXYGEN IS 2-7 TIMES MORE COMMON. CS COSTS €739 (ELECTIVE) OR €1180 (EMERGENCY) MORE THAN VAGINAL BIRTH. THIS RESEARCH TEAM HAVE JUST COMPLETED TESTING AN INTERVENTION IN IRELAND, GERMANY AND ITALY ("OPTIBIRTH") DESIGNED TO INCREASE VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION (VBAC), THUS REDUCING REPEAT CS IN WOMEN WHO HAD CS BEFORE. APPLYING SUCH KNOWLEDGE TO DEVELOP A SIMILAR INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF UNNECESSARY CSS IN EUROPE WOULD HAVE HEALTH BENEFITS FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES. AIM: TO DEVELOP AND PILOT AN INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO REDUCE OVERALL CS RATES FROM APPROXIMATELY 34% TO 27%, AND TO TEST THE FEASIBILITY OF A LARGER, PAN-EUROPEAN TRIAL. A PILOT CLUSTER RANDOMISED TRIAL (CRCT) WILL BE USED TO TEST AN INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO REDUCE OVERALL CS RATES IN ALL WOMEN. THIS INTERVENTION WILL BE ADAPTED FROM THE "OPTIBIRTH" INTERVENTION, USING INFORMATION FROM SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF TRIALS, AND EVIDENCE-BASED NATIONAL GUIDELINES, AIMED AT REDUCING CS RATES, AND 8 FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS (FGIS) WITH WOMEN, THEIR PARTNERS AND CLINICIANS. FOLLOWING ETHICAL APPROVAL, TWO MATERNITY UNITS IN DUBLIN WILL BE RANDOMLY ALLOCATED TO RECEIVE EITHER THE INTERVENTION OR USUAL PRACTICE, AND 300-400 CONSENTING WOMEN IN EACH UNIT WILL BE RECRUITED. PRIMARY OUTCOME IS CS RATE; OTHER OUTCOMES INCLUDE INTERVENTIONS, CHANGE IN WOMEN AND CLINICIANS' ATTITUDES TO CS/VAGINAL BIRTH, FEAR OF BIRTH IN WOMEN, AND MATERNAL/NEONATAL MORBIDITIES UP TO 6 MONTHS. MOTHER AND BABY DATA WILL BE COLLECTED USING SELF-COMPLETION SURVEYS IN PREGNANCY AND AT 3-&6-MONTHS' POSTNATAL, AND FROM HOSPITAL RECORDS. SURVEYS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY IN A LARGE COHORT STUDY IN IRELAND (MAMMI STUDY). COST DATA WILL BE COLLECTED TO TEST THE TOOL PROPOSED FOR USE IN THE PAN-EUROPEAN CLUSTER RANDOMISED TRIAL. ANALYSIS OF FGIS WILL USE CONSTANT COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS METHODS. QUANTITATIVE DATA WILL BE ANALYSED BY 'INTENTION-TO-TREAT' USING INFERENTIAL STATISTICS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD €558,669 MAMMI-SIM STUDY: MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND - SECOND BABY SURVEY, INTERVENTION FOR URINARY INCONTINENCE, MEASUREMENT OF COSTS AS MATERNAL MORTALITY DECREASES, MATERNAL MORBIDITY BECOMES EVEN MORE IMPORTANT AS AN INDICATOR OF QUALITY CARE. REPORTED POSTNATAL MORBIDITIES INCLUDE BACKACHE, TIREDNESS, URINARY (UI) AND FAECAL INCONTINENCE, DYSPAREUNIA, DEPRESSION AND INCREASED RISK OF READMISSION WITH WOUND INFECTION FOLLOWING CAESAREAN SECTION. THE MAMMI STUDY (MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND), PHASES 1+2, HAS RECRUITED 2,800 PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN FROM THREE MATERNITY HOSPITALS, AGED 18 YEARS+. PARTICIPANTS COMPLETE QUESTIONNAIRES ABOUT THEIR HEALTH BEFORE AND DURING PREGNANCY, AND AT 3, 6, 9 AND 12 MONTHS AFTERWARDS. THE EXTENSION INTO THIS THIRD PHASE, MAMMI-SIM INVOLVES: . SECOND BABY SURVEY . INTERVENTION FOR WOMEN WITH URINARY INCONTINENCE . MEASURING COSTS OF MORBIDITY TO WOMEN AND SERVICES. AIM TO BUILD AND ATTRACT CAPACITY INTO THE AREA OF MATERNAL HEALTH AND HEALTH-SERVICES RESEARCH AT POSTDOCTORAL LEVEL IN IRELAND. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY: . DEVELOPING A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SIX EXPERIENCED PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INVESTIGATORS IN DIFFERING FIELDS, AND CLINICIANS, CONSUMERS AND DECISION-MAKERS IN THE FIELD OF MATERNITY CARE. . FORMING A STRONG, INTERDISCIPLINARY MATERNAL HEALTH RESEARCH TEAM THAT WILL GUIDE, TEACH AND SUPPORT 3 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS (BIOSTATISTICS, MIDWIFERY, HEALTH ECONOMICS) TO DEVELOP SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR SUCCESSFUL INTERDISCIPLINARY AND TRANS-SECTORAL HEALTH-SERVICES RESEARCH. . FOLLOWING-UP THE MAMMI COHORT TO ASCERTAIN LEVELS OF MORBIDITY FOLLOWING SECOND BIRTH (N=1600) (IF-1, BIOSTATISTICS). . DEVELOPING, AND TESTING FOR FEASIBILITY/ACCEPTABILITY, AN INTERVENTION FOR WOMEN EXPERIENCING UI, AND PREPARING A FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR A TRIAL TO TEST THE INTERVENTION (IF-2, MIDWIFERY). . ASSESSING COSTS OF POSTNATAL MORBIDITY TO THE HEALTH-SERVICE AND WOMEN (IF-3, HEALTH ECONOMICS) . DISSEMINATING FINDINGS EFFECTIVELY, TO INFLUENCE POLICY AND PRACTICE IN IRELAND, AND SUBMITTING INTERDISCIPLINARY FUNDING PROPOSALS IN MATERNAL HEALTH AREA. RESULTS OF MAMMI-SIM WILL ASCERTAIN WHICH WOMEN IN FUTURE MIGHT NEED DIFFERENT CARE, OR MORE SUPPORT, INTERVENTION OR TREATMENT FOLLOWING BIRTH, AND COSTS OF SUCH CARE, FROM WHICH IMPROVEMENTS IN MATERNITY SERVICES CAN BE IMPLEMENTED. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD ICE AWARDS €869,272 MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND - CAESAREAN SECTION STRAND CAESAREAN SECTION IN NULLIPAROUS WOMEN: FACTORS INFLUENCING DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AND OUTCOMES FOR WOMEN. PI: DOCTORAL STUDENT SUNITA PANDA HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, CLINICAL RESEACH FELLOWSHIP €255,779 THE COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR SELF-DISCLOSURE STRATEGY FOR PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY (HOW-TO-TELL) EPILEPSY IRELAND/HRB €149,009 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MS. THELMA BEGLEY begleythelma ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TBEGLEY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY ALL ASPECTS OF CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLES NURSING AND NURSE EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK FOR IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND HEAD OF CHILDREN'S NURSING MEMBER AND SECRETARY OF CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLES RESEARCH GROUP MEMBER OF CHILDREN'S DISCIPLINE PERSONAL TUTOR FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS REVIEWER FOR BRITISH JOURNAL OF NURSING REVIEWER FOR CHILD CARE IN PRACTICE JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR GASTROINTESTINAL NURISNG ADOLESCENT TRANSITION CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLES NURSING NURSE EDUCATION ORTHOPAEDIC NURSING SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTH OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EDUCATION FHSHP - EVALUATION OF THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION HSE THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING A POST REGISTRATION CHILDREN'S STUDENT NURSE IN THE FIRST CLINICAL PLACEMENT AN INVESTIGATION OF TRANSITION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS FROM CHILDREN TO ADULT HEALTHCARE SERVICES START UP FUND (TRINITY COLLEGE) DEVELOPING AN INFORMATION RESOURCE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ON Q2211 DELETION A SMALL PROJECT ON CREATING AN INFORMATION LEAFLET ON Q2211 DELETION SYNDROME BY PARENTS FOR USE BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR HONOR NICHOLL) THE MARTHA MCMENAMIN SCHOLARSHIP 2010/11 AN EVALUATION OF THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS PROGRAMME FOR THE TALLAGHT WEST CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (CDI) LTD. DATA COLLECTION FOR THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS PROJECT. (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR - PROFESSOR CATHERINE COMISKEY). THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CHILDREN'S NURSING CONTENT OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMMES IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND NICHOLL,H. (PI), BEGLEY, T., HOLLYWOOD, E., MURPHY,M. AND KING, C. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO CLARIFY THE CHILDREN'S NURSING THEORETICAL AND CLINICAL COMPONENT IN UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMMES IN IRELAND. NONE LGBTIRELAND SURVEY - EXAMINING LGBTI MENTAL HEALTH AND ATTITIUDES TOWARDS LGBTI PEOPLE IN IRELAND TWO PART, MIXED METHODS STUDY GAY AND LESBIAN EQUALITY NETWORK (GLEN) AND BELONGTO RD- WIFI INFORMATION NEEDS FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH RARE DIEASES SOURCING INFORMATION ON RARE DISEASES WHERE AND WHY INFORMATION DO PARENTS REQUIRE. SAOIRSE FOUNDATION AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXTENT OF INCLUSION OF SPIRITUALITY AND SPIRITUAL CARE CONCEPTS IN CORE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING TEXTBOOKS IT IS CLEAR THAT NURSES HAVE AN INCREASED INTEREST IN AND MOTIVATION TOWARDS SUPPORTING PATIENTS SPIRITUAL NEEDS NEEDS (MCSHERRY AND JAMIESON 2011, TIMMINS 2010, MCBRIEN 2010). IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT THAT NURSES TAKE UP THIS ACTIVITY FOLLOWING SPECIFIC GUIDANCE AS TO WHAT IT ENTAILS AND HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE (PESUT AND SAWATZKY 2006). HOWEVER CURRENTLY NURSES LACK SPECIFIC SKILLS IN THIS AREA (LUNDMARK 2006, TIMMINS 2010, RCN 2010), AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEIR UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION PREPARES THEM FOR THIS ROLE IS UNCLEAR. THE LITERATURE ABOUNDS WITH DEFINITIONS OF SPIRITUALITY, SUGGESTED INTERVENTIONS AND TOOLS FOR ASSESSMENTS. HOWEVER WHILE THERE IS AGREEMENT THAT NURSES SHOULD HAVE GUIDANCE TO PROVIDE SPIRITUAL CARE IT IS UNCLEAR WHAT SPECIFIC CURRICULA CONTENT PREPARES THE NURSE FOR THIS IMPORTANT ROLE OR HOW CORE NURSING TEXTBOOKS CONTRIBUTE TO THIS AGENDA (PESUT 2008). GIVEN THE ABSENCE OF CLEAR DIRECTION ABOUT WHAT TO TEACH UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS, THE LACK OF CONCEPTUAL CLARITY AROUND DEFINITIONS AND SUGGESTIONS THAT NURSES PERFORM SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT, THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE EXTENT TO WHICH CURRENT CORE NURSING TEXTBOOKS SUPPORT AND ADVOCATE SPIRITUAL CARE DELIVERY BY NURSES AND NURSING STUDENTS.THE STUDY AIMED TO EXAMINE WHETHER OR NOT CORE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING TEXTBOOKS DEFINE AND INCLUDE SPIRITUALITY OR SPIRITUAL CARE CONTENT. IT ALSO EXAMINED THE EXTENT TO WHICH CORE NURSING TEXTBOOKS ADVOCATE SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT BY NURSES. PROJECT TEAM (DR. F. TIMMONS (PI),MARYANNE MURPHY, THELMA BEGLEY, FREDA NEILL & GREG SHEAF) UNFUNDED TRANSITION FROM CHILD TO ADULT CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS (TRYCIS): A STUDY OF POLICIES, PROCESS, AND PATIENTS, PARENTS, AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS' PERSPECTIVES. COYNE, I (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR). HRB DATA COLLECTION INFORMATION NEEDS AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION OF LGB YOUNG PEOPLE UNFUNDED MEDICATION MANAGEMENT IN CHILDREN'S NURSING: A REVIEW OF NIQA SCORES OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD IN ONE CHILDREN'S SERVICES CENTRE THE ADELAIDE SOCIETY BI LIVES: AN EXPLORATION OF THE LIVES OF BISEXUAL PEOPLE LIVING IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND NONE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR MARK BELL bellmark REGIUS PROFESSOR OF LAW BELLM1 LAW MARK'S RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN THE AREAS OF EQUALITY, WORK AND MIGRATION. HE HAS PUBLISHED EXTENSIVELY ON EU EQUALITY LAW, BUT ALSO ON ASPECTS OF EU EMPLOYMENT LAW (ESPECIALLY LAW AND PRECARIOUS WORK). HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE COMPARATIVE EQUALITY AND EMPLOYMENT LAW ISSUES. HE HAS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED RESEARCH RELATING TO MIGRATION LAW, SUCH AS THE POSITION OF IRREGULAR MIGRANTS IN THE LABOUR MARKET. MARK WELCOMES INQUIRIES FROM POTENTIAL RESEARCH STUDENTS IN THE AREAS OF EQUALITY LAW AND EMPLOYMENT LAW. HE HAS EXPERIENCE OF SUPERVISING DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN THESE FIELDS DEALING WITH DOMESTIC LAW, COMPARATIVE LAW, AND EU LAW. SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 DISCRIMINATION LAW ASSOCIATION EMPLOYMENT LAW ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND INDUSTRIAL LAW SOCIETY SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION FOR CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY LAW EQUALITY LAW EU EMPLOYMENT LAW EU EQUALITY LAW LABOUR MIGRATION PRECARIOUS WORK LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE THE EMPLOYMENT EQUALITY DIRECTIVE AND SUPPORTING PEOPLE WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN THE WORKPLACE THIS PROJECT PRODUCED A REPORT FOR THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, JOINTLY AUTHORED WITH PROFESSOR LISA WADDINGTON, MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY. IT EXAMINED THE ROLE THAT EU LAW, SPECIFICALLY DIRECTIVE 2000/78, PLAYS IN PROVIDING SUPPORT IN THE LABOUR MARKET FOR THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMOUNTING TO A PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITY. IT EXAMINED THE DEFINITION OF DISABILITY FOUND IN EU AND NATIONAL LAW, AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE CONCEPT OF REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION HAS BEEN APPLIED TO PERSONS WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITY. IT ALSO EXPLORED THE ROLE PLAYING BY STIGMA IN CREATING BARRIERS FOR THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND EVIDENCE OF MEASURES ADOPTED BY MEMBER STATES TO COMBAT THIS PHENOMENON: HTTP://WWW.EQUALITYLAW.EU/DOWNLOADS/3966-THE-EMPLOYMENT-EQUALITY-DIRECTIVE-AND-SUPPORTING-PEOPLE-WITH-PSYCHOSOCIAL-DISABILITIES-IN-THE-WORKPLACE-A-LEGAL-ANALYSIS-OF-THE-SITUATION-IN-THE-EU-MEMBER-STATES EUROPEAN COMMISSION VIA HUMAN EUROPEAN CONSULTANCY DG JUSTICE GRANT PROMOTING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION THROUGH WORKPLACE ADJUSTMENTS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE MARK PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN FINALISING A GUIDE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION ON PROMOTING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF WORKPLACE ADJUSTMENTS. THE GUIDE AIMS TO IDENTIFY THE STEPS THAT EMPLOYERS SHOULD TAKE, SUCH AS PUTTING IN PLACE A PROCEDURE FOR HANDLING REQUESTS FROM WORKERS FOR ACCOMMODATION. IT PROVIDES EXAMPLES OF ACCOMMODATIONS THAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED FOR WORKERS WITH PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES, THOSE AFFECTED BY HIV, THOSE WITH FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES OR WORKERS WHO NEED AN ACCOMMODATION DUE TO A PARTICULAR RELIGIOUS PRACTICE: HTTP://WWW.ILO.ORG/WCMSP5/GROUPS/PUBLIC/---ED_NORM/---DECLARATION/DOCUMENTS/PUBLICATION/WCMS_536630.PDF INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION DON'T KNOCK ON THE WRONG DOOR: CHARTER CLICK THE PROJECT INVOLVES A CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES, TOGETHER WITH GOVERNMENTAL AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES THAT PROVIDE ADVICE TO CITIZENS ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF RIGHTS. THE PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE PRACTICE OF NATIONAL COURTS, AND THE EU COURTS, IN APPLYING THE CHARTER OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS. THIS ONLY APPLIES IF THE FACTUAL SCENARIO FALLS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF EU LAW, WHICH IS A FREQUENT SOURCE OF CONFUSION AND UNCERTAINTY. THE PROJECT AIMS TO CREATE AN ONLINE RESOURCE THAT CAN ASSIST CITIZENS IN UNDERSTANDING WHETHER THE CHARTER APPLIES TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL SITUATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG JUSTICE ACTION GRANT EUROPEAN NETWORK OF LEGAL EXPERTS IN GENDER EQUALITY AND NON-DISCRIMINATION THE NETWORK CONDUCTS ANALYSIS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EU ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION WITHIN THE MEMBER STATES, THE EEA STATES, AND CERTAIN CANDIDATE COUNTRIES FOR EU MEMBERSHIP. DURING 2015, MARK IS THE ACTING COORDINATOR FOR DISABILITY ISSUES, WHICH ENTAILS ANALYSING THE DRAFT NATIONAL REPORTS AS WELL AS OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THE NETWORK. SEE FURTHER: HTTP://WWW.NON-DISCRIMINATION.NET EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG JUSTICE GRANT ANALYSIS OF COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF EQUALITY DATA COLLECTION PRACTICES IN THE EU MARK BELL IS A SENIOR EXPERT IN THE TEAM OF RESEARCHERS IN THIS PROJECT. IT IS GATHERING INFORMATION ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH DATA RELATING TO EQUALITY IS GATHERED ACROSS THE 28 EU MEMBER STATES. THIS MIGHT INCLUDE DATA ON COMPLAINTS OF DISCRIMINATION, INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCES OF DISCRIMINATION OR OUTCOMES FOR MINORITY GROUPS IN AREAS LIKE EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION VIA HUMAN EUROPEAN CONSULTANCY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MR. KOUROCH BELLIS belliskouroch ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BELLISK LAW LAW OF PERSONS, JURISPRUDENCE, LAW OF OBLIGATIONS, FAMILY LAW INTERESTS: HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW AND RELIGION LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 HENRI CAPITANT ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF FRENCH LEGAL CULTURE HOLDER OF THE LETTER FROM FRANCE OF THE REVUE JURIDIQUE THÉMIS DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL WORLD JURIST ASSOCIATION DR. AGUSTIN SANTIAGO BENETRIX benetrixagustinsantiago ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BENETRA ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MY AREA OF INTEREST IS INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS MACROECONOMICS, OPEN ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ANNEMARIE BENNETT bennettannemarie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DIETETICS ANBENNET CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. KATHLEEN BENNETT bennettkathleen ASSOC PROF IN PHARACOEPIDEMIOLOGY P/T BENNETTK PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING CANCER NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. GARETH BENNETT bennettgareth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BENNETTG MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG ACOUSTICS, VIBRATION, AEROACOUSTICS AND SOUND SOURCE IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES. DUCT ACOUSTICS AND THERMOACOUSTICS. CAVITY NOISE, BEAMFORMING, TURBINE AND FAN NOISE. RESEARCH ACTIVE IN THE AREAS OF DESIGN (OPEN-, UNIVERSAL- AND MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN) AS WELL AS CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION. MECHANICAL & MANUF ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH CHAIR. 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATION (& FLOW-INDUCED NOISE) 2ND - 6TH JULY 2012, HOSTED BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN WWW.FIV2012.COM CHAIR. 21ST CEAS-ASC SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP "DUCTED AND UN-DUCTED ROTOR NOISE" 13-15 SEPTEMBER, 2017. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND GRANT PROPOSAL EVALUATOR FOR ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESPRC) GRANT PROPOSAL EVALUATOR FOR ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR IMECHE JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND CONTROL ENGINEERING JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (INSTITUE OF PHYSICS) JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF SOUND AND VIBRATION MEMBER OF CONCEIVE DESIGN IMPLEMENT AND OPERATE ORGANISATION, (WWW.CDIO.ORG). MEMBER OF ENGINEERS IRELAND MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN MECHANICS SOCIETY (EUROMECH) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS AND VIBRATION MEMBER OF THE REVIEW COMMITTEE OF DÉPARTEMENT D'AÉROACOUSTIQUE (DAAC), ONERA - THE FRENCH AEROSPACE LAB, PARIS, FRANCE. REVIEWER FOR THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (ASME) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF 10TH CEAS-ASC WORKSHOP & 1ST SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP OF X3 - NOISE "JET NOISE PREDICTION METHODOLOGIES - RECENT DEVELOPMENTS" 28/29 SEPTEMBER. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, TCD. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF 18TH CEAS-ASC WORKSHOP & 4TH SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP OF X-NOISE EV "AIRCRAFT NOISE REDUCTION BY FLOW CONTROL AND ACTIVE/ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES" 26-28 SEPTEMBER, 2014. VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, LITHUANIA SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF 20TH CEAS-ASC WORKSHOP "ADVANCES IN MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND ANALYSIS FOR AIRCRAFT NOISE" 7-8 SEPTEMBER, 2016. SOUTHAMPTON UNIVERSITY, UK SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE 26TH INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE IMC26- ENERGY EFFICIENT AND LOW CARBON MANUFACTURING, SEPTEMBER 2-4, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND SENIOR MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS THE ONLY IRISH MEMBER OF THE AEROACOUSTICS SPECIALISTS COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN AEROSPACE SOCIETIES (CEAS-ASC) THE ONLY IRISH MEMBER OF THE AEROACOUSTICS SPECIALISTS EDUCATIONAL SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN AEROSPACE SOCIETIES (CEAS-ASC) ACOUSTICS AERODYNAMICS AEROELASTICITY AERONAUTICS APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS DESIGN ENGINEERING DUCT ACOUSTICS ENGINEERING EDUCATION FAN NOISE FLUID DYNAMICS FLUIDS AND VIBRATION GAS TURBINES HEAT TRANSFER INDUSTRIAL DESIGN MACHINE DESIGN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING NOISE POLLUTION, TECHNOLOGY SIGNAL PROCESSING TURBOMACHINERY VIBRATION AND ACCOUSTIC ENGINEERING FUSION-WALKER DESIGN MOORINGS MEDIQUIP IS A DISTRIBUTOR OF DISABILITY EQUIPMENT TO THE COMMUNITY, TO NURSING & RESIDENTIAL HOMES AND TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. WITH DR. CIARAN SIMMS (PI) AND DR. GARRET O'DONNELL (€52,000). THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO DESIGN, DEVELOP AND BRING TO MARKET A RANGE OF WALKERS / STANDING AIDS WHICH WILL ALLOW THE COMPANY TO GROW THEIR MARKET IN IRELAND AND UK AND POTENTIALLY ADDRESS THE WIDER EUROPEAN MARKET. INTERTRADE IRELAND (TRADE AND BUISNESS DEVELOPMENT BODY) FUSION PROGRAMME (ALL-ISLAND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER INITIATIVE) EI VOUCHER-SONITUS SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE PROVIDER TO SONITUS SYSTEMS LTD. (€5,000). THE AIM OF THIS WORK WAS TO ASSESS THE MICROPHONE AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM PROVIDED BY SONITUS SYSTEMS. THE MICROPHONE CHARACTERISTICS WERE COMPARED WITH A HIGH QUALITY COMMERCIAL MICROPHONE (GRAS BF40) THE SENSITIVITY AND FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF THE MICROPHONE WERE EXAMINED. THE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM WAS ALSO EXAMINED AND COMPARED WITH A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE SYSTEM (NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS). FINALLY THE OUTPUT FROM THE SYSTEM, I.E. THE A-WEIGHTED VALUE SUCH AS LABQ WAS CALCULATED AND COMPARED. THE TESTS CONDUCTED, THE PROCEDURE AND AIM OF THE SPECIFIC TESTS ARE OUTLINED IN THE ACCOMPANYING REPORT ALONG WITH RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHERS INITIATIVE (EI IV 2008 0036) EI VOUCHER-DYOPTYKA KNOWLEDGE PROVIDER TO DYOPTYKA LTD. (€5,000). VIBRO-ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT CREATING UNWANTED NOISE IN A CONSUMER APPLIANCE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHERS INITIATIVE (EI IV 2008 0751) EI VOUCHER-SQUIRREL ENGINEERING LTD. KNOWLEDGE PROVIDER TO SQUIRREL ENGINEERING LTD. (€5,000). SQUIRREL ENGINEERING LTD IS A NEW COMPANY SET UP TO LOOK AT HOW URBAN WASTE IS COLLECTED TODAY. HAVING IDENTIFIED AN OPPORTUNITY IN THE APARTMENT SECTOR, SQUIRREL HAS DESIGNED A NOVEL SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING, HANDLING AND TRANSPORTING WASTE. AT THE MOMENT THEY ARE A ONE PRODUCT COMPANY AND WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND THEIR PRODUCT RANGE. THE NEXT PRODUCT TO BE DESIGNED IS FOR USE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES. PROJECT DELIVERABLES: 1. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SYSTEMATIC DESIGN METHODOLOGY TO HELP STRUCTURE THE DESIGN PROCESS. 2. THE ANALYSIS OF A SPECIFIC COMPONENT TO ENSURE ITS DESIGN IS ADEQUATE TO WITHSTAND THE LOADS TO WHICH IT WILL BE SUBJECT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHERS INITIATIVE (EI IV 2010 3066) WENEMOR (PROJECT COORDINATOR AND P.I.: DR. GARETH J. BENNETT, TOTAL BUDGET €2,000,000). WIND TUNNEL TESTS FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE INSTALLATION EFFECTS OF NOISE EMISSIONS OF AN OPEN ROTOR ADVANCED REGIONAL AIRCRAFT. WENEMOR HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN RESPONSE TO THE REQUIREMENTS DESCRIBED IN THE CLEAN SKY-ITD-GRA CALL FOR PROPOSALS REFERENCED UNDER SP1-JTI-CLEAN SKY-2010-4 AND NAMED "AERO-ACOUSTIC NOISE EMISSIONS MEASURE FOR ADVANCED REGIONAL OPEN ROTOR A/C CONFIGURATION". WENEMOR WILL ADDRESS THE TOPIC BY CONDUCTING AEROACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS IN AN OPEN TEST SECTION OF A LARGE LOW SPEED WIND TUNNEL, ON A COMPLETE REDUCED SCALE MODULAR MODEL OF DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH INSTALLED OPEN ROTOR SYSTEMS, OPERATING IN BOTH "PUSHER" AND "TRACTOR" MODES. THE AIM OF THESE TESTS WILL BE THE CREATION OF AN AEROACOUSTIC DATABASE THAT WILL HAVE TWO MAIN APPLICATIONS: TO CHARACTERIZE THE EMITTED NOISE AND EVALUATE THE INSTALLATION EFFECTS OF THESE DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS AND TO ALLOW THE VALIDATION OF GRA ITD AEROACOUSTIC SIMULATION CODES. PARTNERS: TCD (COORDINATOR), UNIVPM (ITALY), EUROTECH (ITALY), TEKNOSUD (ITALY), PARAGON (GREECE), MICRODB (FRANCE), PININFARINA (ITALY) (PROJECT COORDINATOR AND P.I.: DR. GARETH J. BENNETT, TOTAL BUDGET €2,000,000) HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/100688_EN.HTML EU (278419) CLEANSKY JTI, 7TH FRAMEWORK (FP7), APPLICATION OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES TO THE DESIGN OF DOMESTIC APPLIANCES UNIVERSAL DESIGN HAS THE GOAL OF CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH IS ACCESSIBLE/USABLE BY TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. EVALUATION OF THE USABILITY BY OLDER PEOPLE OF A RANGE OF HOME APPLIANCES (HEATERS, IRON, TOASTER ETC) SHOWED THAT SIGNIFICANT BIOMECHANICAL DIFFICULTIES WERE EXPERIENCED WITH OPERATING CERTAIN PUSH BUTTONS AND DIALS. A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND MECHANICAL TESTING OF THE REQUIRED FORCE AND TORQUE FOR THESE CONTROLS SHOWED IMPROVEMENTS COULD BE MADE BY RELATIVELY MINOR DESIGN MODIFICATIONS. EVALUATION OF THESE MODIFICATIONS IN A SECOND SERIES OF PATIENT TESTS CONFIRMED THE MAJOR POTENTIAL FOR IMPROVEMENT IN EXISTING PRODUCTS. WITH DR. CIARAN SIMMS. TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING & GLEN DIMPLEX TAUGHT M.SC. DISSERTATION SILENCER SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER COMMUNITY EXPOSURE TO AIRCRAFT NOISE. THE LARGEST EVER EUROPEAN AIRCRAFT NOISE RESEARCH PROJECT, KNOWN AS SILENCE(R), WAS LAUNCHED ON APRIL 1ST 2001. A CONSORTIUM OF 54 COMPANIES COLLABORATED FOR SIX YEARS TO VALIDATE NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR REDUCING AIRCRAFT NOISE BY UP TO 6 DECIBELS AS OF 2008. THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RTD IS FUNDING 50% OF THE PROJECT WHOSE TOTAL BUDGET EXCEEDS 110 M EURO. UNSTEADY PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS IN THE COMBUSTION CAN OF AN AEROENGINE CAN BE USED TO IDENTIFY THE CONTRIBUTION OF COMBUSITON NOISE TO NEAR AND FARFIELD NOISE. TCD'S CONTRIBUTION TO SILENCER WAS MULTIFOLD. IN THE FIRST INSTANCE, AN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL TRANSDUCER NETWORK TO INSTRUMENT FULL SCALE GAS TURBINE ENGINES WAS SPECIFIED. THE DATA ACQUIRED FROM THESE AERO-ENGINES DURING FULL SCALE STATIC TESTS WERE PROCESSED WITH NOVEL SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS DEVELOPED AT TCD. THE ANALYSIS ALLOWED CORE NOISE SOURCE IDENTIFICATION AND A TECHNIQUE TO DETERMINE LINER EFFICIENCY TO BE DEVELOPED. (TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER FOR TCD: DR. GARETH J. BENNETT, TCD BUDGET €240,000 EU GROWTH 5TH FRAMEWORK TEENI (P.I.: DR. GARETH J. BENNETT, TCD BUDGET €400,000) TURBOSHAFT EXHAUST ENGINE NOISE IDENTIFICATION: BROADBAND NOISE SOURCE IDENTIFICATION IN HELICOPTER ENGINES. THE TEENI PROJECT IS AN FP7 LEVEL 1 (THEME 7 - TRANSPORT) 1ST CALL EU- FUNDED PROJECT. IT FOCUSES ON HELICOPTER ENGINE EXHAUST BROADBAND NOISE, AND TRIES TO IDENTIFY THE ORIGIN OF THIS NOISE FROM EXTERNAL MEASUREMENTS ONLY.UNLIKE TURBOJET ENGINES, TURBOSHAFT ENGINE GASES ARE EJECTED AT LOW SPEEDS, LEADING TO ALMOST NO JET NOISE. ALTHOUGH THE TURBINES GENERATE HIGH AMPLITUDE TONAL NOSE, THEIR HIGH RPM AND BLADE COUNT RESULT IN THE FREQUENCIES BEING ABOVE THE AUDIBLE THRESHOLD. HOWEVER, A PREVIOUS EUROPEAN PROJECT: FRIENDCOPTER HAS DEMONSTRATED THROUGH FLIGHT TESTS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEDIUM-FREQUENCY EXHAUST ENGINE NOISE FOR THE TAKE-OFF FLIGHT CERTIFICATION CONDITION. THE ORIGIN AND GENERATION MECHANISMS OF THIS EXHAUST BROADBAND NOISE "CORENOISE", HAVE NOT YET BEEN FULLY DEFINED: LOW FREQUENCY CONTENT IS GENERALLY RELATED TO COMBUSTION PHENOMENA IN THE LITERATURE, BUT THE SOURCES ABOVE 1KHZ ARE NOT UNDERSTOOD. UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGIN (LOCATION AND PHYSICAL MECHANISMS) OF THIS BROADBAND NOISE RANGE IS THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE TEENI PROJECT, WITH THE FINAL INDUSTRIAL GOAL BEING TO BETTER ATTENUATE THIS EXHAUST NOISE. HTTP://WWW.XNOISE.EU/INDEX.PHP?ID=384. HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/89869_EN.HTML EU (212367) STREP 7TH FRAMEWORK ALLEGRA (PROJECT COORDINATOR AND P.I.: DR. GARETH J. BENNETT, TOTAL BUDGET €2,000,000) ADVANCED LOW NOISE LANDING (MAIN AND NOSE) GEAR FOR REGIONAL AIRCRAFT. DURING LANDING APPROACH, WHEN ENGINES ARE OPERATING AT LOW THRUST, THE NOISE OF THE AIRFRAME CONTRIBUTES STRONGLY TO THE OVERALL NOISE SIGNATURE OF MODERN AIRCRAFT. AIRFRAME NOISE IS GENERATED BY AIRFLOW AROUND COMPONENTS OF THE AIRCRAFT. THE MAIN SOURCES OF AIRFRAME NOISE ARE THEREFORE THE HIGH DRAG ELEMENTS SUCH AS LANDING GEARS AND ALSO THE HIGH LIFT DEVICES ON THE WINGS. FOR LARGER AIRCRAFT, IT IS THE LANDING GEAR NOISE THAT DOMINATES. THIS PROJECT WILL THEREFORE FOCUS ON THE DESIGN AND TEST OF MAIN AND NOSE LANDING GEAR NOISE REDUCTION CONCEPTS. ALLEGRA HAS PUT TOGETHER A CONSORTIUM WHICH COMPRISES OF A WELL KNOWN AEROACOUSTIC WIND TUNNEL COMPANY AND SOME SME'S FROM AROUND EUROPE WITH SPECIFIC COMPETENCE ON LANDING GEAR DESIGN, MANUFACTURING AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS. IN ADDITION TWO OF THE EU'S MOST DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITIES WILL TAKE THE LEAD IN COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTICS, NOISE MEASUREMENTS AND DATA ANALYSIS. ALL PARTNERS HAVE PARTICIPATED AND DELIVERED IN EU PROJECTS, IN SOME CASES EXTENSIVELY INCLUDING COORDINATION. THE OUTPUTS OF ALLEGRA WILL RESULT IN PRAGMATIC, VALIDATED SOLUTIONS WHICH WILL REDUCE NOISE, EMISSIONS AND IMPROVE FUEL CONSUMPTION. THESE SOLUTIONS WILL BE DEVELOPED IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN EU AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER TO ENSURE FEASIBILITY AND TO REDUCE TIME TO IMPLEMENTATION. PARTNERS: TCD (COORDINATOR), KTH (SWEDEN), PININFARINA (ITALY), EUROTECH (ITALY), TEKNOSUD (ITALY), MAGNAGHI (ITALY), HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/109260_EN.HTML EU (308225) CLEANSKY JTI, 7TH FRAMEWORK (FP7) ARTIC PROJECT COORDINATOR AND P.I.: DR. GARETH J. BENNETT, TOTAL BUDGET €1,400,000. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE ACTIVITY UNDER THIS CFP IS THE TEST OF A FULL-SCALE MAIN LANDING GEAR FUSELAGE-MOUNTED ARCHITECTURE SIZED FOR A HIGH-WING REGIONAL AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATION IN A WIND TUNNEL FACILITY. THIS PROPOSAL CONSIDERS A COMPLETE ARCHITECTURE INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY FEATURES FROM AN AEROACOUSTIC POINT OF VIEW INCLUDING: GEAR STRUTS, WHEEL PACK, BAY CAVITY AND DOORS, FAIRINGS AND PORTION OF FUSELAGE. A LOW NOISE TECHNOLOGY SHALL BE INVESTIGATED FOLLOWING A SELECTION PROCESS TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN GRA ACTIVITIES. THE CONCEPT OF AN ACOUSTIC MIRROR SHALL BE DEVELOPED RESULTING IN A DESIGN WHICH WILL ENABLE ACCURATE FAR FIELD SOUND MEASUREMENTS VIA A SECTIONED MODEL WITH AN ACOUSTIC REFLECTOR ON THE HALF PLANE. THE CONSORTIUM WILL DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE A MODULAR FULL-SCALE MOCK-UP OF THE MLG INTEGRATING LOW-NOISE DEVICES AS INDICATED FROM THE GRA ITD MEMBER. THE MODEL SHALL BE MODULAR IN ORDER TO TEST BOTH THE BASELINE AND THE LOW-NOISE MLG ARCHITECTURE WITH ONE OR BOTH GEAR LEGS. ADVANCED AERO-ACOUSTIC MEASURES INCLUDING PARTIAL COHERENCE TECHNIQUES, ORTHOGONAL BEAM FORMING AND DECONVOLUTION BEAM FORMING WILL BE UTILIZED TO FULLY ASSESS THE NOISE EMISSION OF THE LANDING GEAR. THESE TECHNIQUES WILL QUANTIFY THE SOURCE DISTRIBUTION, MECHANISMS OF NOISE REDUCTION AND PROVIDE AN INNOVATIVE TOOL FOR USE IN AEROACOUSTIC PROBLEMS OF THIS NATURE. ARTIC HAS PUT TOGETHER A CONSORTIUM WHICH COMPRISES OF ONE OF EUROPE'S MOST DISTINGUISHED UNIVERSITIES, A RESEARCH INSTITUTE IN AERONAUTICS OF INTERNATIONAL RENOWN AND AN SME WITH SPECIFIC COMPETENCE IN AEROSPACE DESIGN, MANUFACTURING AND STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS. ALL PARTNERS HAVE PARTICIPATED AND DELIVERED IN EU PROJECTS, IN SOME CASES EXTENSIVELY INCLUDING COORDINATION. IN ADDITION, SUBCONTRACTING WILL BE GIVEN TO THE ONLY AEROACOUSTIC WIND TUNNEL COMPANY IN EUROPE CAPABLE TO PERFORM THESE TESTS. PARTNERS: TCD (COORDINATOR), NLR (THE NETHERLANDS), INASCO (GREECE), DNW-LLF (GERMAN DUTCH WINDTUNNEL, SUBCONTRACTOR) HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/191331_EN.HTML EU (620188) CLEANSKY JTI, 7TH FRAMEWORK (FP7) EI VOUCHER-QUARTET BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED KNOWLEDGE PROVIDER TO QUARTET BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED A MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN COMPANY IN THE PHARMACEUTICALS MEDICAL DEVICE SECTOR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHERS INITIATIVE (EI IV 2011 2016) X-NOISE EV. EU NETWORK IN AEROACOUSTICS DR. GARETH J. BENNETT P.I. AND NATIONAL FOCAL POINT NFP. X-NOISE IS A EUROPEAN NETWORK OF INDUSTRIAL, SMES, UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF AIRCRAFT NOISE RESEARCH. THE CURRENT X-NOISE EV PROJECT IS LED BY SNECMA, AND ITS PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS THE COORDINATION OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES RELATED TO AIRCRAFT NOISE. X-NOISE EV IS A COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTION FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION THROUGH THE SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME. THROUGH ITS NETWORK STRUCTURE AND COMPREHENSIVE WORKPLAN INVOLVING EXPERT GROUPS, SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS, STAKEHOLDER SEMINARS AND A COMMON INFORMATION SYSTEM, THIS CONSORTIUM ADDRESS THE AIRCRAFT NOISE CHALLENGES SET BY THE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR AERONAUTICS RESEARCH IN EUROPE (ACARE) 2020 VISION. WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF X-NOISE A NETWORK OF NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS (NFP) HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AIMED AT IMPROVING THE INTEGRATION OF THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY. HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/97238_EN.HTML EU FP7 (265943) COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTION AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR KENNETH RICHARD BENOIT benoitkennethrichard PROFESSOR - QUANTITATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCES KBENOIT POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES I AM INTERESTED IN STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, SURVEYS OF EXPERT JUDGMENTS, COMPUTERIZED CONTENT ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL FORECASTING OF ELECTION RESULTS, AND THE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL PARTY COMPETITION. MY OTHER RESEARCH IN INTERESTS INCLUDE THE EFFECTS OF CAMPAIGN FINANCES AND COMPARATIVE ELECTORAL SYSTEMS. POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH HUNGARIAN AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCATION MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND DYNAMIC MODELS OF GOVERNMENT EASTERN EUROPE ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ELECTORAL SYSTEMS EU POLITICS GLOBALISATION IRISH POLITICS, ELECTION STUDY, ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR PARTY AND GOVERNMENT FORMATION POLITICAL PARTIES STATISTICAL AND SIMULATION METHODOLOGIES GLOBALISATION AND PARTY COMPETITION TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES ON NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY COMPETITION. IIIS, TRINITY COLLEGE RESEARCH PROJECTS COMPARATIVE MODELS OF SPATIAL COMPETITION TO ESTIMATE POLITICAL PARTY POSITIONS ON NUMEROUS POLICY DIMENSIONS IN 47 COUNTRIES PLUS THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, USING PAPER AND WEB-BASED SURVEYS OF POLITICAL EXPERTS. IIIS, TRINITY COLLEGE RESEARCH PROJECTS THE APPLICATION OF COMPUTERIZED CONTENT ANALYSIS TOOLS TO EXTRACT COMMERICALLY VALUABLE INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY FROM TEXTS. THIS PROJECT DEVELOPS A METHOD KNOWN AS "WORDSCORES" TO EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM TEXTS USING WORDS AS DATA, EMPLOYING COMPUTERIZED IMPLEMENTATIONS OF STATISTICAL METHODS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT DOMESTIC STRUCTURES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION TO STUDY THE POLITICAL PROCESSES OF EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION-BUILDING. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FIFTH FRAMEWORK WORLD DATABASE OF PARTIES, ELECTIONS, AND GOVERNMENTS THE OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE A MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURAL RESOURCE FOR EMPIRICAL, COMPARATIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH: A SINGLE, INTER-LINKED DATABASE OF PARTIES, LEGISLATURES, ELECTIONS, ELECTION MANIFESTOS, GOVERNMENTS, AND CABINET PORTFOLIOS, USEFUL FOR A VERY WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND POLICY ANALYSIS. CURRENTLY IN THIS CORE RESEARCH AREA, THERE IS A PROLIFERATION OF DIFFERENT, OFTEN INCONSISTENT, DATASETS, WITH DIFFERENT DOMAINS IN TERMS OF COUNTRY COVERAGE, TIME PERIOD, UNIT OF ANALYSIS, DIFFERENT SETS OF LABELS, DIFFERENT CONVENTIONS FOR DEFINING PARTIES AND GOVERNMENT, DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GRANULARITY, ETC. THE TYPICAL RESEARCHER MUST EXPEND ENORMOUS RESOURCES SIMPLY GATHERING, ASSEMBLING, AND CLEANING THE NECESSARY DATA, WITH THE COST DIRECTLY SCALING WITH THE SCOPE OF THE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS. DIFFERENCES IN RESULTS BETWEEN RESEARCHERS, FURTHERMORE, MAY SIMPLY BE ATTRIBUTABLE TO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DATASETS USED. MY PROPOSAL WOULD AIM TO ELIMINATE THIS COST AND INCONSISTENCY BY ASSEMBLING, IN A SINGLE DYNAMIC RESOURCE ACCESSIBLE ON THE INTERNET, A WORLD DATABASE OF POLITICAL PARTIES, ELECTIONS, AND GOVERNMENTS THAT WOULD INCLUDE ALL OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CROSS-NATIONAL, TIME-SERIES DATA ON THESE TOPICS. THE DATA SOURCE WOULD HAVE FOUR PRINCIPAL ADVANTAGES OVER EXISTING RESOURCES. FIRST, IT WOULD UNITE AND RECONCILE CURRENTLY SEPARATE SOURCES OF DATA IN A SINGLE DATABASE. SECOND, IT WOULD STANDARDIZE CODES FOR COUNTRIES, PARTIES, AND GOVERNMENTS IN AN OPEN FORMAT THAT WOULD BECOME AN INDUSTRY STANDARD FOR CROSS- NATIONAL DATA ANALYSIS. THIRD, UNLIKE ALL EXISTING CROSS-NATIONAL DATASETS WHICH ARE STATIC AND FLAT-FILE, IT WOULD BE STORED IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH A WEB INTERFACE, THAT WOULD ALLOW DYNAMIC AND FLEXIBLE CONSTRUCTION OF END-USER DATASETS ACCORDING TO EACH USER'S NEEDS, BLENDING RESULTS FROM DIFFERENT DATA SOURCES AND OUTPUTTING A DATA FILE WITH THE APPROPRIATE STRUCTURE FOR THE RESEARCH TASK AT HAND. FINALLY, BECAUSE OF ITS DYANAMIC AND OPEN STRUCTURE, ONCE CREATED IT WOULD BE UPDATEABLE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SMALL PROJECT GRANT CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR COLM BERGIN bergincolm CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN /CLINICAL PROFESSOR COBERGIN CLINICAL MEDICINE 21 LEESON PARK AVENUE RANELAGH DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. SHANE BERGIN berginshane ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BERGINSH PHYSICS CRANN DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. ADELE BERGIN berginadele ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BERGINAD ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR DAVID BERMAN bermandavid FELLOW EMERITUS DBERMAN PHILOSOPHY DEPT. OF PHILOSOPHY 5014 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 CONSULTANT EDITOR FOR THE FOLLOWING PHILOSOPHY VOLUMES IN THE EVERYMAN LIBRARY SERIES : V. POLITIS (ED.), KANT'S CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON (1993), R. DOWNIE (ED.), HUTCHESON'S PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS (1994); G. BIRD (ED.), JAMES'S SELECTED WRITINGS (1995); J. GASKIN (ED.), THE EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHERS (1995), W. LYONS, MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND (1995), M. WARNOCK (ED.), WOMAN PHILOSOPHERS (1996), M. BAGRAHMIAN, MODERN PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE (1998), J. P. WRIGHT ET AL (EDS), HUME'S TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE 2003. CONTRIBUTOR TO THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO MODERN IRISH CULTURE, W. J. MCCORMICK (ED.), (OXFORD, BLACKWELL) CONTRIBUTOR TO THE DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION, GEN. ED. JOHN H. HAYES (ABINGDON PRESS), 2 VOLS. CONTRIBUTOR TO THE OXFORD COMPANION OF IRISH LITERATURE (OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS) AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND DR. JENNY BERRILL berrilljenny ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JBERRIL BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES MY RESEARCH INTERESTS WERE INITIALLY IN THE AREA OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND MORE SPECIFICALLY THE ROLE OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES (MNCS) IN THE INTERNATIONAL DIVERSIFICATION OF PORTFOLIOS. HOWEVER, WHEN I CONSIDERED HOW BEST TO COMPILE MY SAMPLE OF MNC FIRMS FOR EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, I REALISED THAT THERE IS NO CLEAR DEFINITION OF EXACTLY WHAT AN MNC IS. AN IN-DEPTH REVIEW OF 393 PAPERS IN THE LITERATURE REVEALED THAT THERE WAS NO CONSISTENCY IN HOW PAPERS CLASSIFIED FIRMS AS MNCS FOR EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS. THIS LED ME TO DEVELOP A TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR FIRMS THAT INCLUDES A MATRIX OF MULTINATIONALITY TO CATEGORISE FIRMS. THE CRUX OF MY RESEARCH TO DATE IS BASED ON MY TAXONOMY OF MULTINATIONALITY. THIS WAS PUBLISHED IN A JOURNAL ARTICLE IN 2011 IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW AND HAS BEEN CITED 66 TIMES IN GOOGLE SCHOLAR. IT WAS ALSO IN THE TOP 10 LIST OF DOWNLOADED PAPERS ON SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK (SSRN) IN APRIL AND JUNE 2009, AND NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2010 AND IS CURRENTLY RANKED 16,453, BASED ON TOTAL DOWNLOADS OUT OF 485,260 TOTAL FULL TEXT PAPERS ON SSRN. MY CURRENT RESEARCH USES THE NEW CATEGORISATION OF MNCS TO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE (AND I WOULD ARGUE MORE ROBUST) PERSPECTIVES ON SEVERAL TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE. AS IT PROVIDES A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF HOW TO MEASURE FIRM LEVEL MULTINATIONALITY, IT CAN BE USED TO INVESTIGATE ALTERNATIVE AND WIDE RANGING ISSUES. THIS ENABLES ME TO EXPAND MY RESEARCH INTO MANY AREAS. CURRENT PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INCLUDE MEASURING FIRM LEVEL MULTINATIONALITY IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES (THE REGIONALISATION VERSUS GLOBALISATION DEBATE) AND COMPARING SAME BETWEEN EMERGING AND DEVELOPED MARKETS (CONTRIBUTING TO THE EMERGING MARKET MNC LITERATURE) AND INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MULTINATIONALITY AND SIZE (THE BORN GLOBAL LITERATURE). I HAVE ALSO EXPANDED MY RESEARCH IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE TO INVESTIGATE THE BENEFITS OF INDUSTRIAL VERSUS INTERNATIONAL PORTFOLIO DIVERSIFICATION AND THE BENEFITS OF INVESTING IN MNCS VERSUS DOMESTIC FIRMS ACROSS DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND TIME PERIODS. I EXPECT THAT FUTURE RESEARCH WILL INVOLVE USING MY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM TO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON MANY AREAS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCE - FOR EXAMPLE, I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON A PROJECT (WITH 2 CO-AUTHORS) ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MULTINATIONALITY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ANOTHER COMPARING EARNINGS MANAGEMENT BETWEEN DOMESTIC FIRMS AND MNCS. HOWEVER, MORE RECENT PROJECTS ARE BROADENING MY RESEARCH AREAS BEYOND FIRM LEVEL MULTINATIONALITY AND I AM CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING FIRM PERFORMANCE AND HOW BEST TO MEASURE IT. I BELIEVE MY RESEARCH MAKES A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE AREA OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. IT ORIGINALLY QUESTIONS A BASIC CONCEPT - WHAT IS AN MNC AND HOW DO WE MEASURE MNCS EMPIRICALLY? THIS IDEA OF QUESTIONING BASIC CONCEPTS AND IDEAS WITHIN A DISCIPLINE, I BELIEVE, IS CRUCIAL TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE. IT ALSO ALLOWS ME TO PROVIDE ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NUMEROUS TOPICS IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FINANCE AND OPENS UP THE POSSIBILITIES OF NUMEROUS AVENUES FOR FUTURE RESEARCH. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DOTT ROBERTO BERTONI bertoniroberto FELLOW EMERITUS RBERTONI ITALIAN CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE, GIUSEPPE BONAVIRI, ITALO CALVINO , QUADERNI DI CULTURA ITALIANA, POETRY FROM LIGURIA, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRITICAL WORK PUBLISHED EACH YEAR ON ITALIAN 20TH CENTURY NARRATIVE, TRANSLATIONS FROM AND INTRODUCTORY NOTES TO A NUMBER OF IRISH POETS. WESTERN RECEPTION AND INTERPRETATION OF BUDDHISM. ITALIAN PERSPECTIVES ON KOREA AND OTHER EAST ASIAN COUNTRIES. DEPT OF ITALIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH HUMANITIES LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION QUADERNI DI CULTURA ORGANISER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDY GROUPS AND EDITOR OF A SERIES OF COLLECTIVE PUBLICATIONS ON LITERARY AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MODERN (MOSTLY BUT NOT ONLY ITALIAN) CULTURE - ALREADY PUBLISHED NINE VOLUMES INCLUDING DANTEAN ECHOES, LIGURIAN POETRY, CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVE, LEOPARDI, BONAVIRI, CALVINO, BUDDHISM IN ITALY, GLIMPSES OF KOREA (ON ITALIAN REPRESENTATIONS OF KOREA), EURKOREA 2013 (CONFERENCE ACTA) ITALIAN DEPT, TCD ACADEMIC RESEARCH CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR VALENTIN BERTSCH bertschvalentin ADJUNCT PROFESSOR BERTSCHV ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS LINDA MARIE BIESTY biestylindamarie RESEARCH STUDENT BIESTYL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY H NURSING AND MIDWIFERY 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF LACTATION CONSULTANTS OF IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE BREASTFEEDING COMMITTEE, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL, DUBLIN MIDWIFE LED CARE MIDWIFERY IN PRIMARY CARE HOME BIRTH MIDWIFERY MIDWIFERY IN PRIMARY CARE DOMICILIARY CARE MIDWIFERY MIDWIFE LED CARE MIDWIFERY IN PRIMARY CARE MIDWIFERY-LED CARE MIDWIFERY. MIDWIFERY. MIDWIFERY EDUCATION. BREASTFEEDING. PEER SUPPORTERS PERCEPTIONS OF A BREASTFEEDING EDUCATION PROGRAMME THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASSESS THE PERCEPTIONS OF A GROUP OF PEER SUPPORTERS ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A BREASTFEEDING EDUCATION PROGRAMME DESIGNED BY THE RESEARCHERS. THE ROTUNDA AND THE WOMEN OF INNER CITY DUBLIN THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASSESS IF THE ROTUNDA IS MEETING THE MATERNITY AND GYNAECOLOGICAL NEEDS OF THE WOMEN IN NORTH INNER CITY DUBLIN. DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL AND THE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF IN-LABOUR TRANSFER TO HOSPITAL FOR PLANNED HOME BIRTH PHD STIPEND AWARDED BY THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF IN-LABOUR TRANSFER TO HOSPITAL DURING PLANNED HOME BIRTH THE AIM OF THIS PHD STUDY IS TO EXPLORE AND UNDERSTAND THE HOME AND HOSPITAL INTERFACE IN MATERNITY CARE IN IRELAND AS EXPERIENCED DURING AN IN-LABOUR TRANSFER TO HOSPITAL DURING PLANNED HOME BIRTH. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, IRELAND RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS (2012) STUDENT MIDWIVES ATTITUDES TOWARDS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION (OSCE) AS A STRATEGY FOR ASSESSING CLINICAL COMPETENCE. A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH STUDY EVALUATING THE USE OF THE OSCE FOR ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL COMPETENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE STUDENT; SURVEY DESIGN AND QUALITATIVE EXPLORATORY FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEWS ARE USED NONE PROFESSOR WILLIAM BINCHY binchywilliam ADJUNCT PROFESSOR/FELLOW EMERITUS WBINCHY LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTSLAW, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, FAMILY LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS, JURISPRUDENCE, MEDICAL LAW, PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND TORTS LAW SCHOOL NO 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMISSIONER WITH THE IRISH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.  REPRESENTED THE IRISH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AT THE U.N. AD HOC COMMITTEE ON THE DRAFT INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 2003 TO DATE. AFRICAN HUMAN RIGHTS FAMILY LAW HUMAN RIGHTS JURISPRUDENCE MEDICAL LAW PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MS. SUSAN BIOLETTI biolettisusan KEEPER (CONSERVATION) BIOLETTS LIBRARY ANALYSIS OF PIGMENTS; PIGMENTS IN MANUSCRIPTS; ANALYSIS OF MEDIEVAL IRISH MANUSCRIPTS; HERITAGE RISK ASSESSMENT; PAPYRI, CONSERVATION AND MATERIALS ANALYSIS; MUSEUM ENVIRONMENT; CONSERVATION OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS AND WORKS OF ART ON PAPER THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR WERNER BLAU blauwerner PROFESSOR WBLAU PHYSICS CENTRE FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS PROF. WERNER BLAU IS DIRECTOR OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS IRELAND POLYMER RESEARCH CENTRE IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, WHICH ENCOMPASSES RESEARCHERS FROM THE FIELDS OF PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, ENGINEERING, AND COMPUTER SIMULATION WITH A SUBSTANTIAL TRACK RECORD IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND COLLABORATION WITH IRISH INDUSTRY. HE IS ALSO RESEARCH DIRECTOR OF TCD'S HEA PRTLI PROJECT IN ADVANCED MATERIALS, BASED IN THE NEW SAMI NASR INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS. HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS CONCENTRATE ON MOLECULAR ENGINEERING OF ADVANCED MATERIALS, PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS OF RESPONSIVE MOLECULAR AND POLYMERIC MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS, OPTOELECTRONICS, AND BIO/MEDICAL APPLICATIONS AND BASIC MATERIALS, PROCESSES AND DEVICES FOR MOLECULAR NANOELECTRONICS AND BIO-NANOTECHNOLOGY. PUBLISHED OVER 340 PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS TO-DATE, EDITED THREE BOOKS AND IS COAUTHOR OF 13 PATENTS/ PATENT APPLICATIONS. SUPERVISED OVER 80 POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS AND NUMEROUS UNDERGRADUATE AND SUMMER STUDENT PROJECTS. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN FELLOW OF INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY MEMBER OF THE MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2ND-HARMONIC GENERATION 3-PHOTON 4-WAVE MIXING ABLATION ABSORPTION AMORPHOUS THIN FILMS APPLIED PHYSICS ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY BIOCHEMISTRY, NUCLEIC ACID BIOCHEMISTRY, PROTEINS BIOPOLYMERIC MATERIALS C-60 CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES CARBON NANOTUBES CHEMICAL SCIENCES CO2-LASER COMPOSITE MATERIALS CONDENSED MATTER CONDENSED MATTER, ELECTRONIC, MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES CONDENSED MATTER, SOFT MATTER AND POLYMER PHYSICS CONDUCTING POLYMER FILMS CONDUCTIVITY CONJUGATED POLYMERS COPOLYMERS CRATER DEPTH DEVICES DOPING DYES DYNAMICS EFFICIENCY ELECTRIC-ARC TECHNIQUE ELECTRO-OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY ELECTRO-OPTICS ELECTROCHEMICAL METHODS ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELECTROLUMINESCENT ELECTROPHOSPHORESENCE EMISSION ENERGY ENERGY MATERIALS SCIENCES EXCIMER-LASER EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS FIELD-EMISSION FILMS FLUORESCENCE FREE VOLUME FULLERENES FULLERENES AND DERIVATIVES FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS GRANULAR FILMS GRAPHITE GROWTH GUIDES HARD TISSUE HARD TISSUES HEMIPORPHYRAZINES HETEROJUNCTIONS HIGH-TC SUPERCONDUCTORS IN-SITU INCUBATION INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ION IRRADIATION LASER LASER IN VITRO STUDY LASER PARAMETERS LASER TECHNOLOGY LASER TISSUE INTERACTION LASER-PULSES LASERS AND MASERS LIGHT-EMITTING-DIODES LOSSES LUMINESCENCE AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY MATERIALS CHEMISTRY MATERIALS SCIENCES MATERIALS, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MATERIALS, PREPARATION/FABRICATION MATERIALS, STRUCTURE AND PHASE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, MATERIALS MEDIA METALLOPHTHALOCYANINES MIXERS MIXTURES MODEL MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS MOLECULAR PHYSICS MONOLAYERS NANO BIOTECHNOLOGY NANOCHEMISTRY NANOFIBERS NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTUBES NITRIDE NON-LINEAR OPTICAL METHODS NONLINEAR OPTICS NONLINEARITIES NONLINEARITY OPTICAL ABSORPTION AND EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OPTICAL MATERIALS OPTICAL-LIMITING DEVICES OPTICS OPTRONICS ORGANIC POLYMERS ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS PHOTOABLATION PHOTOCHEMISTRY PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOPHYSICS PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PHOTONICS PHOTORESPONSE PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS, CELLS AND MODULES MANUFACTURING PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY PHYSICS PLASTICS POLARIZABILITY POLY(ISOTHIANAPHTHENE) POLY(PHENYLENE VINYLENE) AND DERIVATIVES POLY(PHENYLENE VINYLENE) DERIVATIVES POLY(TERTIARYBUTYLISOTHIANAPHTHENE) POLYIMIDE POLYMER CHEMISTRY POLYMER SCIENCE POLYMER TECHNOLOGY, BIOPOLYMERS POLYMERIC MATERIALS POLYMERS POWER PROBE-BEAM AMPLIFICATION PURIFICATION RADIATION RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY RECOMBINATION RESONANCE REVERSE SATURABLE ABSORPTION RHODAMINE 6G SCATTERING SCIENCE/ENGINEERING STUDIES--DEVELOPING COUNT SILICON SINGLE-BEAM SIZE SOLAR SOLAR, PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION SOLID STATE PHYSICS SPECTROSCOPY SYSTEMS TARGETS TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TEMPERATURE TUBULES ULTRAFAST CHEMISTRY ULTRAVIOLET-LASER ABLATION VOLUME WAVE-GUIDES WAVELENGTHS CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. DAVID SHAUN BLOOMFIELD bloomfielddavidshaun ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BLOOMFIS PHYSICS SOLAR MAGNETIC CYCLE -- MAGNETIC FIELD EMERGENCE -- ACTIVE REGION MAGNETIC COMPLEXITY -- ACTIVE REGION EVOLUTION -- SOLAR FLARES -- CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS -- SPACE WEATHER SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHIEF OBSERVER FOR THE MAX MILLENNIUM SOLAR FLARE RESEARCH PROGRAM CO-CHAIR OF "SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING" TOPICAL WORKING GROUP OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY SPACE WEATHER WORKING TEAM ELECTED BOARD MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOLAR PHYSICS DIVISION OF THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ELECTED UNIVERSITY COUNCIL RESEARCH STAFF REPRESENTATIVE FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (FRAS) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY PROBA2 SCIENCE BOARD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY SPACE WEATHER WORKING TEAM MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (MINSTP) MEMBER OF THE MARIE CURIE FELLOWS ASSOCIATION ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY COMMITTEE ON ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES (NOW DISSOLVED) STEERING BOARD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY SPACE WEATHER WORKING TEAM (SWWT) TRINITY RESEARCH STAFF ASSOCIATION, COMMITTEE MEMBER ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING SOLAR ASTRONOMY SOLAR CYCLE SOLAR PHENOMENA SOLAR PHYSICS SOLAR STUDIES SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPACE WEATHER SUN PHYSICS STATISTICS OF SOLAR FLARE ACTIVITY FOR SPACE WEATHER PREDICTIONS PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 PEOPLE TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT FOR THE SPECTROMETER-TELESCOPE IMAGING X-RAYS (STIX) INSTRUMENT ON ESA'S SOLAR ORBITER CO-INVESTIGATOR -- WORK PACKAGE LEADER EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY PRODEX IMAGE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR THE SWAP AND LYRA INSTRUMENTS ONBOARD PROBA2 WORK PACKAGE LEADER EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY PRODEX FIELDS AND FLARES: UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEX MAGNETIC TOPOLOGIES OF SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS CO-INVESTIGATOR -- PHD CO-SUPERVISOR AXA RESEARCH FUND DOCTORAL GRANTS HELIOPHYSICS INTEGRATED OBSERVATORY (HELIO) CO-INVESTIGATOR EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 CAPACITIES FLARE LIKELIHOOD AND REGION ERUPTION FORECASTING (FLARECAST) SPACE WEATHER CAN HAVE DETRIMENTAL, AND IN SOME CASES CATASTROPHIC, EFFECTS UPON A MULTITUDE OF TECHNOLOGIES ON WHICH WE DEPEND AS PART OUR DAILY LIVES. ADVERSE SPACE WEATHER IS NOW KNOWN TO RESULT FROM SOLAR FLARES AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS RELEASED FROM THE TURBULENT AND HIGHLY COMPLEX MAGNETIC FIELDS OF ACTIVE REGIONS. UNDERSTANDING HOW ACTIVE REGION MAGNETIC FIELDS EVOLVE AND PRODUCE THESE EVENTS IS THEREFORE OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO DEVELOPING ACCURATE AND RELIABLE SPACE-WEATHER MONITORING AND FORECASTING CAPABILITIES. WE THEREFORE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AN ADVANCED FLARE PREDICTION SYSTEM (FLARE LIKELIHOOD AND REGION ERUPTION FORECASTING; FLARECAST) THAT IS BASED ON AUTOMATICALLY EXTRACTED PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ACTIVE REGIONS COUPLED WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART FLARE PREDICTION METHODS AND VALIDATED USING THE MOST APPROPRIATE FORECAST VERIFICATION MEASURES. ACTIVE REGION PROPERTIES, SUCH AS AREA, MAGNETIC FLUX, SHEAR, MAGNETIC COMPLEXITY, HELICITY AND PROXIES FOR MAGNETIC ENERGY, WILL BE EXTRACTED FROM SOLAR MAGNETOGRAM AND WHITE-LIGHT IMAGES IN NEAR-REALTIME USING ADVANCED IMAGE-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES. ONCE ACTIVE REGION PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN EXTRACTED, THEY WILL BE CORRELATED WITH SOLAR FLARE ACTIVITY AND USED TO OPTIMIZE PREDICTION ALGORITHMS BASED ON STATISTICAL, UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING AND SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS. THIS WILL ENABLE US TO VALIDATE OUR IMAGE PROCESSING AND FLARE PREDICTION ALGORITHMS BEFORE LAUNCHING A NEAR-REALTIME FLARE FORECASTING SERVICE, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD. FLARECAST WILL THEREFORE FORM THE BASIS OF THE FIRST QUANTITATIVE, PHYSICALLY MOTIVATED AND AUTONOMOUS ACTIVE REGION MONITORING AND FLARE FORECASTING SYSTEM, WHICH WILL BE OF USE TO SPACE-WEATHER RESEARCHERS AND FORECASTERS IN EUROPE AND AROUND THE GLOBE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020-PROTEC-1: SPACE WEATHER MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SUNSPOT GROUPS AND THEIR ROLE IN PRODUCING ADVERSE SPACE WEATHER ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING ENDEAVOURS IN MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY IS PREDICTING THE OCCURRENCE OF, AND DEVELOPING RESILIENCE TO, ADVERSE SPACE WEATHER - CONDITIONS IN THE NEAR-EARTH ENVIRONMENT THAT ARE HAZARDOUS TO TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN LIFE. SOLAR FLARES AND CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS ARE HIGHLY ENERGETIC EVENTS THAT ARE THE PRIMARY DRIVERS OF ADVERSE SPACE WEATHER, WHICH CAN DIRECTLY IMPACT DAY-TO-DAY TECHNOLOGIES BOTH IN SPACE (E.G., SATELLITE ANOMALIES AND ORBITAL DRAG, GPS SIGNAL DROP-OUTS, ASTRONAUT RADIATION DOSING) AND ON THE GROUND (E.G., DISRUPTION OF HIGH-FREQUENCY RADIO COMMUNICATION, OIL PIPELINE CHARGING, POWER GRID TRANSFORMER DAMAGE AND FAILURE). THE PRIMARY AIM OF SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING IS TO HAVE ADEQUATE WARNING BEFORE ANY NEAR-EARTH EFFECTS OCCUR, IN ORDER TO ALLOW MITIGATING ACTIVITIES TO TAKE PLACE (E.G., DELAYING SPACEWALKS AND LAUNCHES, SATELLITE POWERING DOWN, POWER GRID REROUTING). WHILE CMES TYPICALLY TAKE 1-3 DAYS AFTER THEIR ERUPTION TO IMPACT THE EARTH, THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF SOLAR FLARES BEGIN AT THE SAME TIME AS THEIR DETECTION OR WITHIN MINUTES. AS A RESULT, PRIOR WARNING OF AN IMPENDING SOLAR FLARE IS HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BY THE SPACE WEATHER COMMUNITY. THE ENERGY THAT POWERS FLARES IS KNOWN TO COME FROM MAGNETIC ENERGY STORED IN SUNSPOT GROUPS, BUT THE PRECISE CONDITIONS REQUIRED AND PROCESSES INVOLVED IN ENERGY RELEASE REMAIN UNCLEAR. THE LIKELIHOOD OF FLARING IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD, SUCH THAT LARGER, MORE COMPLEX SUNSPOT GROUPS PRODUCE LARGER (AND MORE FREQUENT) FLARES THAN SMALLER, SIMPLE SUNSPOT GROUPS. HOWEVER, WE LACK UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL PROCESSES AT WORK AND SO EXISTING PREDICTION TECHNIQUES ARE BASED ON STATISTICAL AND MACHINE LEARNING METHODS INSTEAD OF EXPLICIT MODELS. IN THIS PROJECT THE MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SUNSPOT GROUPS AND THEIR EVOLUTION WILL BE STUDIED TO GAIN GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SUNSPOT GROUPS PRODUCE FLARES AND TO ULTIMATELY BETTER FORECAST THEIR OCCURRENCE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ARUN LAWRENCE WARREN BOKDE bokdearunlawrencewarren ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BOKDEA SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE ENGAGE TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) ARUN BOKDE INVESTIGATES HOW LARGE-SCALE BRAIN NETWORKS FUNCTION AND HOW THEY ARE ASSOCIATED WITH BOTH NORMAL COGNITION, SUCH AS MEMORY AND ATTENTION, AND BREAKDOWNS THAT LEAD TO BRAIN DISORDERS. THERE ARE TWO POPULATIONS OF INTEREST, YOUNG PEOPLE AND OLDER PEOPLE. BOKDE USES FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TO MEASURE BRAIN ACTIVATION DURING VISUAL PERCEPTUAL TASKS, AS WELL AS WORKING MEMORY TASKS IN PERSONS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, PATIENTS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (AD), AND HEALTHY PARTICIPANTS. THESE STUDIES PROVIDE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW DISEASE AFFECTS NOT ONLY MEMORY NETWORKS, BUT ALSO PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES IN THE BRAIN. RECENT FINDINGS WERE THE BASIS OF A NEW APPROACH TO TESTING AD-RELATED DRUGS. IN ADDITION, BOKDE HAS INVESTIGATED THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF BRAIN NETWORKS USING DIFFUSION IMAGING IN COMBINATION WITH TRACTOGRAPHY IN THE LIMBIC SYSTEM, A NETWORK ASSOCIATED WITH MEMORY FUNCTION AND PROFOUNDLY AFFECTED IN PATIENTS WITH AD. BOKDE HAS ALSO LED AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT TO DEVELOP TRAINING RESOURCES FOR THE APPLICATION OF NEUROIMAGING TO THE DIAGNOSTIC PROCESS OF AD PATIENTS, AS WELL AS DEVELOPING RESOURCES FOR PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISEASE. BOKDE IS CO-PI (IRELAND) FOR THE THE IMAGEN STUDY, WHICH IS THE FIRST MULTICENTRE FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL GENETIC-NEUROIMAGING STUDY OF A COHORT OF 2000 +14 YEAR OLD ADOLESCENTS. COGNITIVE, BEHAVIOURAL, CLINICAL AND NEUROIMAGING DATA FROM THE ADOLESCENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND TEACHERS HAVE BEEN GATHERED AND THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED-UP FOR 9 YEARS - THE THIRD FOLLOW-UP INVESTIGATION IS ON-GOING. BOKDE IS INVESTIGATING HOW STRESS MODULATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRAIN NETWORKS, BOTH WITHIN THE THIN CORTICAL GREY MATTER LAYER AND THE WHITE MATTER REGIONS THAT CONTAIN THE 'CABLES' OF THE BRAIN NETWORKS. THE STUDIES HAVE BEEN UNTIL NOW CROSS-SECTIONAL IN NATURE AND WITH NEW LONGITUDINAL DATA BOKDE WILL START INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERACTION AMONG STRESS, BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS. HE HAS CLOSE, LONG-STANDING COLLABORATIONS WITH CLINICIANS AT ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL, TALLAGHT HOSPITAL, AND ST PATRICK'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL. THE COLLABORATIONS ENHANCE THE COMMUNICATION AND TRANSLATION OF RESEARCH INTO THE CLINICAL CONTEXT AS WELL AS FEEDBACK INTO RESEARCH ACTIVITIES. TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH GERMAN 2014 DISCOVER SCIENCE NIGHT. 2015 DISCOVER SCIENCE NIGHT. CO-LEAD OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP 'APPLICATION OF NEUROIMAGING IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE' CO-LEAD OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP 'INTRODUCTION TO THEORY AND APPLICATION OF NEUROIMAGING' CO-LEAD OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP 'NEUROIMAGING - THEORY AND PRACTICAL COURSE' CO-LEAD OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP 'NEUROIMAGING IN DEMENTIA' DEMENTIA AND NEURODEGENERATION NETWORK IRELAND (DNNI) MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONSENSUS PANEL GERMAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND ORGANIZATION OF HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING REVIEWER FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS AND GRANT APPLICATIONS. SOCIETY OF NEUROSCIENCE (USA) AGE RELATED DISEASES AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER HUMAN LEARNING AND MEMORY IMAGING TECHNIQUES IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING NEURODEGENERATION NEUROGENETICS NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PSYCHIATRY VISION EFFECTS OF BRAIN TRAINING IN OLDER HEALTHY SUBJECTS EXECUTIVE FUNCTION (EF) IS A NEUROCOGNITIVE UMBRELLA TERM FOR SKILLS SUCH AS PLANNING, WORKING MEMORY, IMPULSE CONTROL, INHIBITION, AND MENTAL FLEXIBILITY. NORMAL AGING IS CHARACTERISED BY DECLINES IN EF. THE PROPOSED INTEGRATED EXECUTIVE FUNCTION ADAPTIVE TRAINING TASK SPECIFICALLY TRAINS MULTIPLE COMPONENTS OF THE BRAIN'S EXECUTIVE FUNCTION SYSTEM SIMULTANEOUSLY. SFI, HEA NEURONAL COORDINATION GOVERMENT OF STATE OF HESSE, GERMANY THE APPLICATION OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TO THE STUDY OF MEMORY PROCESSES IN YOUNG AND OLDER HEALTHY ADULTS, AND OLDER ADULTS WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. IN GENERAL EMOTIONAL EVENTS ARE REMEMBERED BETTER THAN NON-EMOTIONAL ONES. MANY NEUROIMAGING STUDIES HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THE ENCODING OF EMOTIONALLY AROUSING STIMULI INTO DECLARATIVE MEMORY RELIES UPON THE ACTIVATION OF THE AMYGDALA AND THE HIPPOCAMPUS. OUTLINED IN THE SEMINAL WORK OF OSGOOD, SUCI AND TANNENBAUM A HALF CENTURY AGO (1957) WERE THE BASIC PARAMETERS OF EMOTION- HEDONIC VALENCE AND AROUSAL. THE AUTHORS CONDUCTED A FACTOR ANALYSIS OF THE VERBAL DESCRIPTIONS INDIVIDUALS ASCRIBE TO OBJECTS, REDUCING THEM TO THREE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS, NAMELY VALENCE, AROUSAL AND DOMINANCE, AND IT IS THE LATTER TWO OF THE THREE THAT HAVE SINCE BEEN CONSISTENTLY SHOWN TO DIFFERENTIATE EMOTIONAL VALUE. VALENCE REFERS TO THE PLEASANTNESS OR UNPLEASANTNESS OF A STIMULUS- THE APPETITIVE OR DEFENSIVE MOTIVATION; WHILE AROUSAL GENERALLY REFERS TO ITS EXCITABILITY OR THE STRENGTH OF THE MOTIVATING FACTOR- ITS POTENTIAL TO ILLICIT A BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE. IN THIS STUDY THE FOCUS WILL BE ON WHICH OF THE TWO FACTORS, VALENCE OR AROUSAL, CONTRIBUTES MORE GREATLY TO THE ENHANCEMENT OF MEMORY BY EMOTION, AND WHETHER THEY ARE SUPPORTED BY THE SAME OR DIFFERENT BRAIN AREAS. HRB, SFI NEW METHOD FOR ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIC COGNITIVE NETWORKS DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY METHODS FOR APPLICATION TO FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING DATA. STUDY OF AGEING EFFECTS ON VISUAL PERCEPTION AND THE INTERACTION AMONG THE NETWORKS UTILIZED FOR PERCEPTION. VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION (HANNOVER, GERMANY) CHOLINERGIC MODULATION OF THE CORTICAL RESPONSE TO NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVATION DURING PHARMACOLOGICAL MRI IN PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA OF THE ALZHEIMER TYPE: ATTENTION PARADIGM INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF GALATAMINE IN ALZHEIMER DISSEASE PATIENTS AFTER THREE MONTHS TREATMENT. DEVELOPMENT OF FUNCITONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING BASED MARKERS FOR MEASUREING EFFECTIVITY OF CHOLINERGIC TREATMENT. JANSSEN-CILAG GMBH (NEUSS, GERMANY) PI INITIATED PROJECT CHOLINERGIC MODULATION OF THE CORTICAL RESPONSE TO NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ACTIVATION DURING PHARMACOLOGICAL FMRI: VISUAL ATTENTION INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF RIVASTIGMINE IN MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRED SUBJECTS IN A DOUBLE-BLIND PLACEBO CONTROLLED PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDY. NOVARTIS GMBH (NUREMBERG, GERMANY) PI INITIATED PROJECT DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF MACHINE LEARNING METHODS FOR DISCRIMINATION OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PATIENTS AND HEALTHY SUBJECTS. HIRNLIGA (NUERMBRECHT, GERMANY) INVESTIGATOR INITIATED PROJECTS EXIST-SEED: SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR MEASUREMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF CULTURAL INFLUENCES THROUGH FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT STIMULI. INVESTIGATION OF DESIGN OPTIMIZATION FOR FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING STUDIES. GERMAN MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (BONN, GERMANY) AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUNDS (BRUSSELS, B AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MR. COILIN BOLAND bolandcoilin RESEARCH ASSISTANT BOLANDC TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE,152-160 PEARSE STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PROFESSOR FRANCIS MORGAN BOLAND bolandfrancismorgan ADJUNCT PROFESSOR FBOLAND ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING RESEARCH INTERESTS IN DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND TECHNOLOGY FOR AUDIO, ACOUSTICS. SYSTEMS THEORY FOR MODELLING AND DESIGN IN COMPLEX AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS. ELEC & ELECT ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PHD AND MSC DEGREES AT UK AND IRISH UNIVERSITIES. EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER AND DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY. FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND, FIEI, CHARTERED ENGINEER, C.ENG. MEMBER FORFAS, FORESIGHT COMMITTEE ON IT MEMBER NBST TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE DUBLIN ZOO MEMBER OF THE ELECTRICAL DIVISION BOARD OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND VISITING ACADEMIC RESEARCHER, HM HEALTH & SAFETY APPLIED PROBABILITY COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS CONTROL ENGINEERING FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS IMAGING AND COMPUTER VISION MODELLING, MODELLING TOOLS, 3D MODELLING MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE AND TECHNOLOGY SIGNAL PROCESSING SOUND ENGINEERING SPEECH PROCESSING/TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS CONTROL, MODELLING, NEURAL NETWORKS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SYSTEMS/CONTROL TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS VIBRATION AND ACCOUSTIC ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF SOLAR HEATING SYSTEMS EU ESA-088 PROJECT 271 ADVICE THE ADVICE PROJECT AIMED TO DEVELOP A METHODOLOGY AND AN ENVIRONMENT FOR AUTOMATIC DESIGN ERROR DIAGNOSIS USING AN ELECTRON BEAM EUROPEAN COMMISSION ESPRIT PROJECT BE - 5535-92 DUALETO DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FOR THE EXAMINATION OF FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES EUROPEAN COMMISSION BRITE-EURAM PROJECT BIS - 4067 IMAGEIN EUROPEAN COMMISSION EU IMPACT PROJECT 6534 3D-FASHION THE OBJECTIVE OF THE 3D-FASHION PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP A COMMON DATABASE THROUGH WHICH CLOTHING DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS CAN COOPERATE IN DESIGNING GARMENTS IN 3D AND IN PREPARING PATTERNS FOR CUTTING. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ESPRIT CONTRACT NO.P4:058 ADAPTIVE NOISE CANCELATION NATIONAL ENTERPRISE AGENCY VECTOR QUANTIZATION OF COLOUR IMAGERY COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE FORMULATIONS OF THE VECTOR QUANTIZATION PARADIGM FOR APPLICATION TO COLOUR IMAGERY. APPLE COMPUTERS (US) & EOLAS HEIC MACHINE VISION CENTRE DEPT. OF INDUSTRY EOLAS AMT PAT IMAGE ANALYSIS OF COLOUR AND TEXTURE FOR THE FOOD INDUSTRY MEAT QUALITY ASSESSMENT USING MACHINE VISION EOLAS STRATEGIC AWARD PROJECT R2008 EUROBRIDGE TO ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMEDIA AND MULTIPOINT APPLICATIONS BY PROVIDING APPLICATION DEVELOPERS WITH A SERVICE PLATFORM ENABLING THEIR APPLICATIONS TO RUN ON A VARIETY OF BROADBAND NETWORKS. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO ACCELERATE THE FORMATION OF A CONSENSUS IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY ON THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING MULTIMEDIA SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS WHICH OPERATE ON HETEROGENEOUS BROADBAND NETWORKS, THROUGH ITS PROTOTYPING AND DEMONSTRATION ACTIVITIES. THE PROJECT INVOLVES STUDIES ON A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS, SUCH AS USER REQUIREMENTS, CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WITH PROTOTYPING AND PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS WHICH ILLUSTRATE THE USEFULNESS OF THE PROJECT RESULTS TO INDUSTRY. A KEY CONCEPT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIFORM SERVICE APPLICATION INTERFACE ON BROADBAND NETWORKS BASED ON DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES EUROPEAN COMMISSION RACE B1011 ARTLINE THIS IS A TEN-IBC (TRANS EUROPEAN NETWORKS - INTEGRATED BROADBAND COMMUNICATIONS) PROJECT. THE BROAD AIM OF ARTLINE IS TO SPECIFY THE PROVISION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE VISUAL ARTS INFORMATION SERVICE TO A WIDE CROSS SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY. THE PROJECT IS TO ASSESS THE IDEAL END USER AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND PRODUCE A SYSTEM SPECIFICATION IN TERMS OF THE TERMINAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE AS WELL AS SCENARIOS FOR THE USE OF BROADBAND BEARER NETWORKS AND SERVICES WHICH WILL BE POSSIBLE TO IMPLEMENT IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION TEN-IBC PROJECT AC242 OCTALIS THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT ARE: - SPECIFY AND BUILD UP A PROTOTYPE OF AN ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL SUPPORT QUICK AND ACCURATE RESPONSE IN CONSUMABLE GOODS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; - DEVELOP AN ACCURATE RESPONSE (AR) MANUFACTURING MODEL; - PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF ADOPTING AR SOLUTIONS AMONG INDUSTRY; - DEVISE WAYS OF USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE MANUFACTURING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE BY PROVIDING AN ENHANCED AND PROACTIVE RESPON EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP4-ESPRIT PROJECT 22038 AITEAR THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT ARE: - SPECIFY AND BUILD UP A PROTOTYPE OF AN ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL SUPPORT QUICK AND ACCURATE RESPONSE IN CONSUMABLE GOODS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; - DEVELOP AN ACCURATE RESPONSE (AR) MANUFACTURING MODEL; - PROMOTE THE BENEFITS OF ADOPTING AR SOLUTIONS AMONG INDUSTRY; - DEVISE WAYS OF USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE MANUFACTURING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE BY PROVIDING AN ENHANCED AND PROACTIVE RESPON EUROPEAN COMMISSSION FP4 ESPRIT AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR ENHANCED ELEARNING, ASPEEL THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATED ADVANCED SOUND ENHANCEMENT WITH DSP SOLUTIONS FOR: (A) THE USE OF MICROPHONE ARRAYS FOR THE ACOUSTIC SCENE ANALYSIS REQUIRED TO LOCALIZE THE ACTIVE PARTICIPANT. (B) THE SYNTHESIS OF A SOUNDFIELD THAT PROVIDES ACCURATE SPATIAL CLUES AT THE LISTENERS' END. THESE TASKS ALSO CONSIDERED THE OPERATION OF ACTIVE ACOUSTIC ECHO CANCELLATION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD 2003 THRIVE - TRACKING HEADPHONES REALISE IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SET OF TECHNICAL SUBSYSTEMS FOR BUILDING AN IMMERSIVE AUDIO/VIDEO ENVIRONMENT, FOR USE WITH HEADPHONES, IN WHICH THE APPARENT SOUND SOURCE IS LOCALIZED WITHIN THE USER'S VIDEO DISPLAY. ASSESSMENT OF SUCH TECHNICAL SUBSYSTEMS FOR INTERACTIVE AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATIONS, IN PARTICULAR PC-BASED E-LEARNING AND GAMING SYSTEMS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND THRIVE THRIVE ADDRESSES THE FOLLOWING CHALLENGES: 1. 5.1/7.1 AUDIO ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR GAMES AS THEY FAVOUR FRONTAL DIRECTIONS. THE RESULTANT SOUND SCENE IS NOT UNIFORM IN TERMS OF 'SHARPNESS' OF SOUNDS. 2. BINAURAL SOUND IS EITHER UNAVAILABLE OR SEVERELY SIMPLIFIED OR REQUIRES EXTERNAL (HARDWARE) SOLUTIONS 3. LACK OF HEAD-TRACKING IN HEADPHONE LISTENING PRODUCES PHYSICALLY WRONG OUTPUT AND DETERIORATES THE EXPERIENCE (LACK OF REALISM). 4. HEADPHONES DISTORT LOCALIZATION CUES (VERY IMPORTANT FOR 'WITH-HEIGHT' AUDIO) 5. ONLY AROUND 30% OF AVAILABLE (KNOWN) CUES ARE UTILIZED TO CREATE A SENSATION OF SOUND SOURCE DEPTH (DISTANCE) WHICH RESULTS IN PURELY LOCALIZED OR 'IN-HEAD' SOUND. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERSCIALISATION FUND INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS UCC (NMRC), TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST COMBINED THEIR EXPERTISE IN THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS, IAM, ESTABLISHED WITH IFI HELP. THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE INSTITUTE - TECHNICAL AND NON-TECHNICAL - ARE IMPRESSIVE. COLLABORATION AND EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE THREE PARTIES IS NOW COMMONPLACE; THE INSTITUTE HAS PLAYED AN ACTIVE ROLE IN ATTRACTING MAJOR NEW INDUSTRIAL CONCERNS TO BOTH PARTS OF IRELAND. PERHAPS THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT OF THE INSTITUTE WAS IN BECOMING SELF-SUPPORTING. THE ORIGINAL WORK HAS MOVED FROM ACADEMIC RESEARCH TO INDUSTRIAL EXPLOITATION. INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR IRELAND SPATIAL AUDIO OVER VIRTUAL AND IRREGULAR ARRAYS IN APPLICATIONS WHERE AUDIO IS BY HEADPHONE PRESENTATIONS, THE RESULT IS A DISJOINTED AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION, SINCE ALL AUDIO APPEARS 'IN-HEAD' AND IS NOT LOCALISED AT THE DESIRED PLACE. FURTHERMORE, THE MOVEMENT OF THE SOUNDFIELD WITH HEAD MOTION PREVENTS ACCURATE AND STABLE PRESENTATIONS OF AUDIO SOURCES IN THE EXTERNAL DOMAIN. WHEN LOUDSPEAKER CONFIGURATIONS ARE USED THERE ARE MAJOR GEOMETRIC AND SPATIAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE LOCATION OF THE LOUDSPEAKERS. THAT IS, EVEN THE USE OF 5.1 SPATIAL AUDIO OFTEN REQUIRES THE LOCATION OF SPEAKERS AT POSITIONS THAT ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH DOMESTIC ACCOMMODATION. OUR RESEARCH HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN CREATING HEAD TRACKING BASED SOLUTIONS TO SPATIAL AURALISATION ON THE HORIZONTAL PLANE. THE NOVEL APPROXIMATION METHODS, THIS RESEARCH HAS INTRODUCED, HAVE FIRM THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS WHICH WILL FORM THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PROPOSED RESEARCH. THIS RESEARCH WILL INVESTIGATE THE CHALLENGES PRESENTED IN PROCESSING AUDIO TO DELIVER ACCURATE DISTANCE AND ELEVATION CUES TO HEADPHONE LISTENERS AND INDIVIDUAL SPATIAL AUDIO CUES VIA LOUDSPEAKERS TO MULTIPLE LISTENERS. IN PARTICULAR, WE WISH TO EXPLORE THE PRESENTATION OF SPATIAL AUDIO LOCALISATION CUES IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR JOHN BOLAND bolandjohn PROFESSOR JBOLAND CHEMISTRY CRANN ***SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ERC SUPPORT PROGRAMME (2013 - 2017): 300K. GRANT NO. 13/ERC/12834 THE SFI-ERC SUPPLEMENT TO ERC-SPONSORED PROJECT (COGNET) ***FP7-2012-IDEAS- ERC ADG - COGNET. (2013- 2018): €2.5M. WEBSITE: HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/FP7/HOME_EN.HTML ***CURRENT PI FUNDING:SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PI AWARD (2013 - 2018): €1.3M PI. GRANT NO: SFI/IA/1482 WEBSITE: WWW.SFI.IE ***MARTIN NAUGHTON- NOTRE DAME FUNDING (2012 - 2016): US$70K. WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.THENAUGHTONFOUNDATION.COM ***EU FP7 ICT - 2012 FET 9.6 MOLARNET (2012 - 2016) €595K (COLLABORATOR WITH 5 PARTNERS). TOTAL EU GRANT: €4M WEBSITE: HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/FP7/HOME_EN.HTML ***IRCSET POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (2012 - 2014) €91K (IRC-P/D EMP12) WEBSITE: WWW.IRCSET.IE ***SFI TIDA FEASIBILITY AWARD €50K(2011 - 2012) ***EU NMP FP7 AWARD MULTIDIMENSION SPM (MDSPM) €360K(2008 -2012) ***IRCSET P/G S/SHIP (2007- 2010, CLOSED): €72K GRANT NO: RS/2007/02. WEBSITE: WWW.IRCSET.IE ***PRIOR PI FUNDING: SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND €3.5M (2007 - 2012) ***PRIOR PI FUNDING: SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND €6.9M (2002 - 2006) ***PRIOR FUNDING FROM US NSF AND US ONR TOTALLING $2.4M (1994-2001) *"MOBILITY KEY TO SILICON ETCHING" CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS, 11, SEPT 10, 2001 *"SILICON SURFACE KEY TO ENERGETICS PUZZLE" CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS, 78 (47), NOVEMBER 20, 2000 *"SCIENTISTS TONE DOWN SILICON ROCKERS" SCIENCE NEWS 158, 287 (2000) *"STM TIPS SCIENTISTS ON ATOMIC DETAILS" C&E NEWS, FEB 16, 1998. *TOP-TEN MOST CITED PAPER IN CHEMISTRY (SCIENCE WATCH, 1994) *"MAGICAL EFFECTS OF HYDROGEN ATOMS ON A SURFACE OF SILICON", SCIENCE WATCH, JAN. 1994. *"DISSECTING SURFACES", BY B. SCHECHTER. RESEARCH, 3, 8 (1992). *"THE PRACTICAL BLIND SIDE OF BASIC RESEARCH" NEW YORK TIMES, MARCH 1992. *"HYDROGEN CAN PEEL ATOMS OFF LAYER BY LAYER", BY E. PENNISI. SCIENCE NEWS, 141, 38 (1992). *"SILICON SURFACE SECRETS REVEALED BY STM", BY D. ROBBINS. PHYSICS WORLD, 4, 24 (1991) CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON ADAPTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES & NANODEVICES CRANN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADVISORY BOARD COMMITTEE, 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SURFACE SCIENCE, TOKYO (2011) ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOLID FILMS AND SURFACES, BARILOCHE (2006) ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 25TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SURFACE SCIENCE, LIVERPOOL (2008) ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SURFACE SCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, OMIYA (2006) ADVISORY COMMITTEE, 5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SURFACE SCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY, WASEDA (2008) ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JOURNAL VACUUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (2006 - TO DATE) AVS SURFACE SCIENCE DIVISION NATIONAL PROGRAM CHAIR (2003) CHAIR ACS REGIONAL MEETING, RALEIGH, NY, USA (1998) CHAIR ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, SESAPS/MRS REGIONAL MEETING, CHAPEL HILL, NC, USA (1999) CHAIR, 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOLID FILMS AND SURFACES, DUBLIN (ICSFS-14) (2008) CHAIR, GORDON CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, NEW HAMPSHIRE,NY(1997) CHAIR, SURFACE SCIENCE SECTION, SOUTHEAST REGIONAL ACS MEETING (1997) CO-CHAIR, 3RD NANOMATERIALS AND NANOMANUFACTURING CONFERENCE, DUBLIN (2007) EXPERT CONSULTANT ON INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA ENGAGEMENT, VINNOVA, SWEDEN (2010) INTERNATIONAL REVIEW PANEL FOR STACIE MOLECULAR INSTITUTE, CNR CANADA (2004) MEMBER ADVISORY COMMITEE, 7TH ATOMICALLY CONTROLLED SURFACES, INTERFACES AND NANOSTRUCTURES, NARA (2003) MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D (2012-) MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD, NANO RESEARCH (2008) MEMBER NSF MATERIALS SCIENCE PANEL REVIEW (1995) MEMBER NSF NANOTECHNOLOGY PANEL REVIEW (1996) MEMBER ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOLID FILMS AND SURFACES, BEIJING (2010) MEMBER ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY PHYSICAL SCIENCES COMMITTEE (2004 - 2007) MEMBER SFI PHYSICAL SCIENCES STEERING COMMITTEE (2004 -2006) MEMBER SURFACE SCIENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY (1999 - 2002) MEMBER, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ATOMICALLY CONTROLLED SURFACES AND INTERFACES, WASEDA UNIVERSITY, JAPAN (1997) NATIONAL ACADEMIC LEAD, INSPIRE NANOTECHNOLOGY CONSORTIUM (2008 - 2011) ORGANISING COMMITTEE, FLATLANDS BEYOND GRAPHENE (2014) ORGANISING COMMITTEE, ISCP CHINA-IRELAND SYMPOSIUM (2014) ORGANISING COMMITTEE, SOI AND SI NANO DEVICES, CRANN, TCD (2014) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, 3RD CONFERENCE ON ATOMICALLY CONTROLLED SURFACES, RALEIGH, NY (1996) OVER 140 INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT UNIVERSITIES, RESEARCH CENTERS AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS. PRESIDENT, NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER OF THE MATERIALS SCIENCE SOCIETY PROGRAM COMMITTEE, 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES, WEIMAR (2009) PROGRAM COMMITTEE, 13TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON APPLICATIONS OF SURF & INTERFACE ANTALYA (2009). PROGRAM COMMITTEE, 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES, PRAGUE (2011) PROGRAM COMMITTEE, 26TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SURFACE SCIENCE, PARMA, ITALY (2009) PROGRAM COMMITTEE, ATOMICALLY CONTROLLED SURTFACES AND INTERFACES, TOKYO (1999) PROGRAM COMMITTEE, GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONIC MATERIALS (1999) PROGRAM COMMITTEE, N.C. FLAT PANEL DISPLAY WORKSHOP (1996) REFEREE FOR: SCIENCE, NATURE, PHYSICAL REVIEW, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, SURFACE SCIENCE,JOURNAL OF VACUUM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. URSULA MARY BOND bondursulamary ASSOCIATE PROF/HEAD OF DEPARTMENT UBOND MICROBIOLOGY URSULA BOND, EUKARYOTIC GENE EXPRESSION AND BIOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY, DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY. THE GENOMES OF LAGER YEASTS MY RESEARCH GROUP FOCUSES ON UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEX GENETIC MAKE-UP OF YEASTS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF LAGER BEER. SACCHAROMYCES PASTORINAUS IS A HYBRID SPECIES THAT EMERGED JUST 500-600 YEARS AGO AS A RESULT OF A FUSION BETWEEN OF TWO YEAST SPECIES, SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE AND SACCHAROMYCES EUBAYANUS. GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE YEASTS IN THE GLOBAL BEER INDUSTRY, WE ARE ADDRESSING QUESTIONS SUCH AS . WHAT IS THE GENETIC COMPOSITION OF THE GENOMES OF LAGER YEASTS? WE DISCOVERED THAT THE LAGER YEAST CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO BROAD GROUPS (I AND II) BASED ON GENE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AND THAT THE PARENT GENOMES HAVE RECOMBINED AT SPECIFIC CHROMOSOMAL LOCATIONS TO CREATE A UNIQUE SET OF HYBRID CHROMOSOMES. WE IDENTIFIED A COMMON SEQUENCE MOTIF AT THE RECOMBINATION EPICENTRES, INDICATIVE OF A COMMON MOLECULAR MECHANISM CONTROLLING THESE RECOMBINATION EVENTS. IN FACT, WE DISCOVERED THAT RECOMBINATION AT THESE SITES IS INDUCED IN RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS. THUS, STRESSES ENCOUNTERED DURING INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATIONS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THESE YEASTS. . HOW DID THIS SPECIES EVOLVE? BY ANALYSING THE GENOMES OF HUNDREDS OF YEAST SPECIES, WE SEARCH FOR THE ANCESTRAL ORIGINS OF THE SPECIES. WE DISCOVERED THAT THE GENOMES OF LAGERS YEASTS CONTAIN GENETIC INFORMATION RELATED TO MODERN DAY ALE AND STOUT YEASTS, LEADING US TO HYPOTHESIS THAT THE TWO LAGER YEAST TYPES AROSE BY SEQUENTIAL ROUNDS OF HYBRIDISATION FIRSTLY BETWEEN S. EUBAYANUS AND AN ALE YEASTS AND SUBSEQUENTLY WITH A STOUT YEASTS GIVING RISE TO GROUP I AND II LAGER YEASTS RESPECTIVELY. THIS SEMINAL DISCOVERY WAS RECENTLY HIGHLIGHTED IN SEVERAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE IRISH TIMES IN 2014 AND 2015. . UNIQUE GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF LAGER YEASTS. THROUGH MINING THE GENOMES OF LAGER YEASTS, WE IDENTIFIED SEVERAL GENES UNIQUE TO THE SPECIES. THESE INCLUDE HYBRID GENES EMERGING AS A RESULT OF THE RECOMBINATION BETWEEN PARENTAL CHROMOSOMES AS WELL AS GENES LOCATED AT THE TIPS OF CHROMOSOMES HAVE BEEN LOST IN MOST OTHER YEAST SPECIES BUT PREFERENTIALLY RETAINED IN LAGER YEASTS. SECONDLY, AS LAGER YEASTS ARE POLYPLOID, THEY CONTAIN MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE SAME GENE AS WELL AS GENE VARIANTS DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO PARENT GENOMES. THROUGH ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF THE GENE PRODUCTS (AND GENE DOSAGE) ON THE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE CELL, WE AIM TO DECIPHER THE COMPLEX ALGORITHM OF GENE EXPRESSION LEADING TO THE UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS OF BEER PRODUCED BY LAGER YEASTS. 2. IMPROVING YEAST STRAINS. WE ARE INTERESTED IN GENERATING INDUSTRIAL YEASTS WITH IMPROVED CHARACTERISTICS SUCH AS INCREASED ETHANOL TOLERANCE, IMPROVED FERMENTATION CAPACITY AND FOR PRODUCING NEW BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS USING ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION, SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND METABOLIC ENGINEERING APPROACHES. SPECIFICALLY, WE HAVE DEVELOPED (I) STRAINS OF LAGER YEASTS THAT CAN METABOLISE BOTH XYLOSE AND CELLULOSE, THE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF PLANT BIOMASS, IN A PROJECT AIMED AT USING ALTERNATIVE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOURCES FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION. (II) LAGER YEASTS THAT PRODUCE THEIR OWN NATURAL ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDES, BY EXPRESSING GENES ENCODING DEFENSIN-LIKE PEPTIDES FROM PLANT SOURCES. WE EXAMINE HOW THE CO-EXPRESSION OF MULTIPLE PEPTIDES ON ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOMES CAN PROVIDE NATURAL PROTECTION AGAINST BEER-SPOILING BACTERIA. 3. RNA PRODUCTION DURING THE CELL CYCLE IN YEASTS. WE CONTINUE TO STUDY FUNDAMENTAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS IN YEASTS, SPECIFICALLY RELATING TO THE BIOGENESIS RNA. WE HAVE CONTRIBUTED SEVERAL SEMINAL DISCOVERIES IN THIS FIELD, UNCOVERING IMPORTANT MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF HISTONE AND SMALL NUCLEAR RNA BIOGENESIS. SPECIFICALLY, WE ARE INTERESTED IN WHY SUCH DIVERSE MECHANISMS HAVE EMERGED IN YEASTS AND HUMAN CELLS TO CONTROL A BIOGENESIS OF HISTONE MESSENGER RNAS. DEPT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 EXTERNAL EXAMINER BSC DEGREE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEW PANEL OF DANISH RESEARCH COUNCIL: TECHNOLOGY AND PRODUCTION SCIENCES IN THE FIELD OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MICROBIOLOGISTS MEMBER OF THE RNA SOCIETY MEMBER SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY STEERING COMMITTEE ON FIRM AWARDS, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE CANCER BIOLOGY CELL CYCLE REGULATION IN YEASTS GENE EXPRESSION IN YEASTS GENETIC ENGINEERING GENETICS GENOME STRUCTURES IN BREWERY YEASTS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS MOLECULAR MARKERS AND RECOGNITION MRNA METABOLISM NUCLEI ACIDS, POLYNUCLEOTIDES, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS TUMOUR MARKERS GENETICS AND GENOMICS WASTE TO ENERGY BIOMASS BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOPROCESSING MICROBIOLOGY FOOD PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES FOOD PRODUCTS INCL. INGREDIENTS, ENZYMES, BY-PRODUCTS, FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS ETC. BIOMASS TO BIOFUEL: GENERATION OF CELLULOSE-BASED BIOMASS-DEGRADING STRAINS OF BREWERY YEASTS ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL RTDI: PRODUCTIVE SECTOR OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME OF THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN CHARACTERISATION OF THE ROLE OF MESSENGER RNA 3' END FORMATION AND TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION IN THE CELL CYCLE REGULATION OF HISTONE MRNAS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME SYNTHETIC IMMUNO-MODULATORY PPETIDES FOR CANCER THERAPY ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND/TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE PREVENTING BEER SPOILAGE WIT NEUTRACEUTIC POTENTIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD FOOD INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH MEASURE NATURAL PEPTIDES TO ENHANCE FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY FOOD SPOILAGE THROUGH MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION IS A MAJOR PROBLEM IN OUR MODERN FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN. CONTAMINATION OF FRESH FOOD PRODUCTS BY BACTERIA OR FUNGI CAN LIMIT SHELF-LIFE AND MORE ALARMINGLY, CAN BE A MAJOR HEALTH HAZARD FOR CONSUMERS. DEFENSINS ARE PEPTIDES POSSESSING ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST MICROORGANISMS SUCH AS BACTERIA, FUNGI AND VIRUSES. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY SHOWN THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DEFENSINS IN PREVENTING BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION DURING THE BREWING PROCESS. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO EXPAND ON THESE FINDINGS, IDENTIFYING NOVEL DEFENSIN-LIKE PEPTIDES THAT CAN PREVENT BACTERIAL AND FUNGAL CONTAMINATION DURING BREAD AND DOUGH-MAKING PROCESSES. TWO COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES WILL BE TAKEN. FIRST, SYNTHETIC DEFENSIN PEPTIDES, IDENTIFIED FROM ANIMAL AND PLANT SOURCES WILL BE TESTED FOR ANTIFUNGAL AND/OR ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST COMMON BACTERIA AND MOULDS THAT CONTAMINATE DOUGH FERMENTATIONS. THE PEPTIDES WILL BE SYNTHETICALLY MODIFIED TO OPTIMISE ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY. SECOND, YEAST SPECIES USED IN THE BAKING INDUSTRY WILL BE BIOENGINEERED TO PRODUCE DEFENSINS IN SITU. IN SITU PRODUCED DEFENSINS AND THEIR SYNTHETIC COUNTERPARTS WILL BE EVALUATED TO DETERMINE THEIR EFFECT ON THE SHELF-LIFE OF BAKED GOOD, CHILLED DOUGHS. EXTENDING OUR PREVIOUS WORK, WE WILL ALSO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF DEFENSINS ON EXTENDING THE SHELF-LIFE OF BOTTLED BEERS AND IN PREVENTING FUNGAL CONTAMINATIONS DURING MALTING. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND MARINE FIRM PREVENTING BEER SPOILAGE IN LAGER FERMENTATIONS: OPTIMISATION OF THE PRODUCTION OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL DEFENSIN PEPTIDES IN LAGER STRAINS OF YEAST, A NATURAL DEFENSE AGAINST BEER-SPOILING BACTERIA BEER SPOILAGE IS A MAJOR CONCERN TO EVERY MASTER BREWER IN THE WORLD. CONTAMINATION OF BREWS WITH BEER SPOILING BACTERIA CAN LEAD TO LOSS OF ENTIRE BATCHES OF BEER RESULTING IN SEVERE FINANCIAL LOSSES FOR THE BREWERY. PRODUCT WITHDRAWAL OR RECALL CAN HAVE MAJOR IMPLICATIONS FOR BRAND AND BUSINESS. IN A FIRM-FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT, WE HAVE TESTED WHETHER THE NATURALLY OCCURRING ANTIMICROBIAL AGENT &#946;-DEFENSIN, WHICH FORMS PART OF THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN HUMANS, COULD BE EFFECTIVE AS A BACTERIOCIDAL AGENT AGAINST BEER SPOILING BACTERIA (BSMS). HAVING DEMONSTRATED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF &#946;-DEFENSIN AGAINST BSMS, WE THEN ENGINEERED A LAGER YEAST STRAIN TO EXPRESS &#946;-DEFENSIN AND TO SECRETE THE PEPTIDE INTO THE BEER. THE SECRETED PEPTIDE WAS CAPABLE OF KILLING BSMS SEEDED DURING FERMENTATION BUT NOT IN BOTTLED BEER. THIS NOVEL APPROACH NOT ONLY PROVIDES A PROPHYLACTIC MECHANISM TO PREVENT BEER-SPOILAGE BUT ADDITIONALLY PROVIDES ADDED NEUTRACEUTIC VALUE TO THE PRODUCT AS THE SMALL QUANTITIES OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDE REMAINING IN THE LAGER CAN ENHANCE THE NATURAL LEVELS OF &#946;-DEFENSIN IN THE ORAL CAVITY. DEFENSINS ARE IMPORTANT IN MAINTAINING THE NATURAL BALANCE OF THE NORMAL FLORA OF THE ORAL CAVITY AND TO PROTECT AGAINST BACTERIAL INFECTIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS THE CARRY OUT A NUMBER OF EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE OPTIMUM CONDITIONS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF &#946;-DEFENSIN DURING AND AFTER FERMENTATIONS AND TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVE BACTERIAL LOAD THAT CAN BE ELIMINATED BY &#946;-DEFENSIN IN CONTAMINATED FERMENTATIONS. OUR ULTIMATE GOAL WILL BE TO PREPARE A PATENT APPLICATION TO PROTECT AND LICENSE THE YEAST STRAINS EXPRESSING &#946;-DEFENSIN AND OTHER SUBSEQUENT MODIFICATION. TO ACHIEVE THIS, WE WILL INSTIGATE A ROAD TO COMMERCIALISATION STRATEGY INVOLVING PREPARATION OF AN INVENTION DISCLOSURE FORM, MARKET ANALYSIS, IDENTIFICATION AND ENGAGEMENT WITH OF POTENTIAL INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS WITH THE AIM OF LICENSING THE TECHNOLOGY TO STAKEHOLDERS IN THE BREWERY INDUSTRY. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND MARINE FIRM PLUS BIOENGINEERING BESPOKE YEAST STRAINS TO CONVERT BIOMASS TO BIOFUEL. BIOMASS IS AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AS WE ENTER THE POST FOSSIL FUEL ERA. THE GOAL OF OUR RESEARCH IS TO BIO-ENGINEER BESPOKE YEAST STRAINS, WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF CONVERTING CELLULOSIC BIOMASS TO BIOETHANOL BY MELDING TOGETHER THE FERMENTATIVE CAPACITY OF YEASTS WITH THE CELLULOSIC DEGRADATION PROPERTIES OF THE FUNGUS TRICHODERMA REESI. SUCH YEAST STRAINS HAVE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL THROUGH LICENSING TO BIOETHANOL-PRODUCING COMPANIES, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIGENOUS IRISH BIOETHANOL INDUSTRY AND OF BENEFIT TO BREWERIES AND DISTILLERIES FOR THE EXTRACTION OF SUGARS FROM SPENT GRAINS, WHICH CURRENTLY ARE A WASTE PRODUCT IN BOTH INDUSTRIES. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TIDA AROMAGENESIS PROJECT AROMAGENESIS WILL BRING TOGETHER THE EXPERTISE OF RESEARCHERS IN BOTH ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY WITH THE STRATEGIC AIM OF GENERATING NEW YEAST STRAINS WITH NOVEL AND UNIQUE SENSORY FLAVOR CHARACTERISTICS. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE TRAINING AND EDUCATION OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS IN THE AREAS OF YEAST FERMENTATION PROCESSES, PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, BIOTECHNOLOGY, GENOMICS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY THROUGH A UNIQUE INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERSECTORAL PROJECT USING CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY AT THE LEADING EDGE OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE SCIENCE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION EUROPEAN TRAINING NETWORK CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. FLEUR HELEEN BOOT bootfleurheleen VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BOOTF PSYCHOLOGY GLOBAL HEALTH MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, GLOBAL HEALTHCARE, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH INEQUITIES, AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH DR. MARY BOURKE bourkemary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BOURKEM4 GEOGRAPHY THE BROAD REMIT OF MY RESEARCH IS TO QUANTIFY GEOMORPHIC PROCESS DYNAMICS ON EARTH AND MARS. I UNDERTAKE FIELD RESEARCH IN ANALOGUE ENVIRONMENTS ON EARTH TO BETTER UNDERSTAND LANDFORM PROCESSES ON MARS. I HAVE FIFTY-SIX PUBLICATIONS IN TOP RANKING SCIENCE JOURNALS INCLUDING SCIENCE (IF: 33.6), NATURE COMMUNICATIONS (IF: 11.47), GEOLOGY (IF: 4.96), GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS (IF: 4.456), ICARUS (3.217), JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH (IF: 3.174), GEOMORPHOLOGY (IF: 2.8), AEOLIAN RESEARCH (2.934) AND EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS (IF: 2.432). MY RESEARCH HAS CONTRIBUTED TO SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN THREE AREAS OF PLANETARY AEOLIAN GEOMORPHOLOGY. 1. DYNAMIC DUNES: A TEMPORAL ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE IMAGES OF A MARTIAN DUNEFIELD INDICATED THAT DUNES APPEARED TO SHRINK AND DISAPPEARED (BOURKE, ET AL, 2008). THIS WAS THE FIRST DOCUMENTED CHANGE TO ENTIRE AEOLIAN DUNE FORMS ON MARS. THE PUBLICATION STIMULATED RESEARCHERS TO PURSUE STUDIES INTO DUNE MIGRATION. IT IS NOW A COMMON SESSION THEME AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. 2. CRYO-AEOLIAN DYNAMICS: I WAS THE FIRST TO PROPOSE THAT DUNES ON MARS MAY CONTAIN DEPOSITS OF SNOW AND ICE. THESE DEPOSITS ARE IMPORTANT AS THEY COULD DOMINATE AEOLIAN DYNAMICS, PARTICULARLY IN POLAR LANDSCAPES. DETAILED WORK IN ANTARCTICA (BOURKE ET AL, 2009) COMBINED WITH MARS DATA ANALYSIS HAS SHOWN THAT THERE IS AN IMPORTANT AND DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN ICE AND AEOLIAN DEPOSITS.OUR MOST RECENT PAPER (CURRENTLY UNDER REVISION IN SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (NATURE))IS THE FIRST LAB-BASED DATA TO DEMONSTRATE THE EFFICACY OF CO2 AS A GEOMORPHIC PROCESS. 3. WIND FLOW AND TOPOGRAPHY: OUR WORK HAS SHOWN THE IMPORTANCE OF TOPOGRAPHY IN AFFECTING DUNE FORM. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED KEY PARAMETERS THAT CAN INFORM ON THE EFFECTS OF SEDIMENT SUPPLY, TOPOGRAPHY AND WIND DIRECTION (BOURKE, 2010). OUR WORK SHOWS THAT IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS (E.G. STEEP CANYON INCLINES), SEDIMENT TRANSPORT THRESHOLDS MAY BE EXCEEDED BY TOPOGRAPHICALLY ACCELERATED WINDS (BOURKE, ET AL 2004). MOST RECENTLY WE HAVE APPLIED A 3-D MODELLING APPROACH TO INDIVIDUAL DUNES ON MARS AND DEMONSTRATED THAT EFFECTIVE STEERING OF WINDS OCCUR (JACKSON ET AL., 2015). SINCE ARRIVING AT TCD I HAVE RE-FOCUSED MY RESEARCH IN NATURAL HAZARDS. I AM INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR THE AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF CHANGE FOLLOWING PETURBATIONS TO NATURAL SYSTEMS. IN ADDITION I WANT TO TEST THE EFFICACY OF NATURAL FLOOD MANAGEMENT APPROACHES IN THE IRISH LANDSCAPE. I AM DIRECTOR OF THE NATURAL HAZARDS GROUP AT TCD THAT INCLUDE PIS FROM PHYSICS, ENGINEERING AND NATURAL SCIENCE. I CURRENTLY SUPERVISE TWO PH.D STUDENTS IN THIS AREA (PALEOFLOODS AND COASTAL EROSION). I HAVE WON 3 RESEARCH CONTRACTS FROM THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TO DEVELOP AND ASSESS APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT OF HAZARDS. THIS SUMMER (2017) WILL SEE A SIGNIFICANT FOCUS ON ACQUIRING SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH FUNDING. APPLICATIONS FOR ARE CURRENTLY UNDERWAY IN RESPONSE TO CALLS FROM AXA, IRC ENTERPRISE, ENTERPRISE IRELAND AND THE EPA. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION ASSOCIATE EDITOR JOURNAL OF AEOLIAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL EARTH SURFACE DYNAMICS (ESURF) BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GEOMORPHOLOGY CHAIR (FOUNDER) OF THE PLANETARY GEOMORPHOLOGY WORKING GROUP OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGY EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD FOR JOURNAL OF EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR GEOMORPHOLOGY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH GEOMORPHOLOGY GROUP INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGISTS INVITATION TO CHAIR THE NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS RESEARCH PROPOSALS (GEOLOGY) INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE ON NASA RESEARCH PANEL TO REVIEW THE NEXT SCOUT MISSION TO MARS INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE ON THE NASA REVIEW PANEL: MARS DATA ANALYSIS INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA CASSINI DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM; AURORA (UK) INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA CASSINI DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM; AURORA (UK. INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP; NASA SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS; EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT AGENCY OF NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER, POLAND INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA MARS FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA PLANETARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS. INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA PLANETARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS; FRENCH RESEARCH AGENCY; NASA MARS FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH. INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA PLANETARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS; NASA MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER (PARTICIPATING SCIENTIST) INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA PLANETARY INSTRUMENT CONCEPTS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOLAR SYSTEM OBSERVATIONS (PICASSO); NASA SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT AGENCY OF NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTER, POLAND. INVITED AS EXPERT EXTERNAL REVIEWER BY THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: NASA SOLAR SYSTEM WORKINGS; NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC; NASA CASSINI DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM; AURORA (UK). INVITED TO SERVE ON EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION EUROPLANET 2020 RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM PANEL. INVITED TO SERVE ON NASA REVIEW PANEL: MARS DATA ANALYSIS INVITED TO SERVE ON NASA REVIEW PANEL: MATURATION OF INSTRUMENTS FOR SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION (MATISSE)(USA) INVITED TO SERVE ON NASA REVIEW PANEL: SOLAR SYSTEM WORKING PROGRAM(USA) IRISH GEOMORPHOLOGY GROUP MANAGING GUEST EDITOR FOR SPECIAL ISSUE ON GEOMORPHOLOGY OF IRELAND, IN JOURNAL OF EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS MANAGING GUEST EDITOR FOR SPECIAL ISSUE ON PLANETARY DUNEFIELDS, IN JOURNAL OF GEOMORPHOLOGY NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION, GEOMORPHOLOGY DIVISION NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGY PRESIDENT(FOUNDING) OF THE IRISH GEOMORPHOLOGY GROUP AEOLIAN DESERTS EARTH OBSERVATION EARTH SCIENCE FLUVIAL GEOCHRONOLOGY GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS GEOMORPHOLOGY LANDSLIDES MARS ROCK BREAKDOWN SEDIMENTOLOGY PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES CARBON DIOXIDE LEVITATION: A NEW GEOMORPHIC PROCESS NASA MARS FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH PROGRAM INVENTORY OF LANDSLIDES IN CO. MAYO AND KERRY, IRELAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND FISSURE-RELATED CHANNELS IN AUSTRALIA: AN ANALOG FOR MARTIAN GROUNDWATER-FED OUTFLOW CHANNELS NASA MARS FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH RECENT CHANGE IN MARTIAN POLAR DUNES EU MARIE CURIE PSEUDOKARST ON MARS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE HEBRUS VALLIS AND HAPHAESTUS FOSSAE SYSTEMS IN UTOPIA PLANITIA NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS ROCK BREAKDOWN ON EARTH AND MARS: A COMBINED FIELD AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH NASA PLANETARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS WIND REGIME, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT AND THE AGE OF DUNE FIELDS IN THE NORTH POLAR SAND SEAS ON MARS NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS THE GEOMORPHOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF THE NORTH POLAR SAND SEAS ON MARS. NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS VOLATILE-RICH AEOLIAN DEPOSITS: A FIELD-BASED ANALOGUE STUDY NASA MARS FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH ROCK BREAKDOWN ON EARTH AND MARS: FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS USING A COMBINED FIELD AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH. NASA PLANETARY GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS TRANSVERSE DUNE CHARACTERISTICS AND TOPOGRAPHICALLY GENERATED AIRFLOW ON MARS NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS THE MODIFICATION OF MARTIAN DEPOSITIONAL SURFACES NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS AEOLIAN-FLUVIAL INTERACTION IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SCHOLARLY STUDIES USING EARTH ANALOGS TO TEST THE PALEOFLOOD HYPOTHESIS ON MARS NASA MARS DATA ANALYSIS FIELD STUDIES IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HONDA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. NOLLAIG BOURKE bourkenollaig USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NBOURKE CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. MELANIE BOUROCHE bourochemelanie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BOUROCM COMPUTER SCIENCE FUTURE CITIES - AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE COORDINATION - SMART CITIES MIDDLEWARE - DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN MEMBER OF A NUMBER OF CONFERENCES' TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES INCLUDING THE 2016 AND 2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SMART CITIES CONFERENCE (ISC2), THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN VEHICULAR SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS VEHICULAR 2015, THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VEHICULAR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT FOR SMART CITIES (VTM), 2012 MEMBER OF THE ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE FOR AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO PROJECT PROPOSAL REVIEWER FOR THE ONTARIO RESEARCH FUND REVIEWER FOR MANY TOP-LEVEL CONFERENCES INCLUDING IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS SOCIETY CONFERENCE, INTELLIGENT VEHICLE SYMPOSIUM, CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN VEHICULAR SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS, IEEE VEHICULAR NETWORKING CONFERENCE, IEEE SYMPOSIUM ON RELIABLE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, IEEE INTERNATIONAL SMART CITIES CONFERENCE... REVIEWER FOR NUMEROUS HIGH PROFILE JOURNALS INCLUDING IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS (TAAS), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA (TMM), ELSEVIER JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (JPDC), SPRINGER WIRELESS NETWORKS (WINET), IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA (TMM) COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS TCD PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR - TACTICS: TACTICAL APPROACH TO COUNTER TERRORISTS IN CITIES &#61550; TOTAL VALUE: 3.5M. FUNDING: €201,636 <BR /> COLLABORATORS: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUUR-WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK (TNO - COORDINATOR), RAND EUROPE, KORPS LANDELIJKE POLITIEDIENSTEN (KLPD), PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OSLO, ITTI SP. Z O.O., INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND COUNTERTERRORISM ACADEMY, UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE VALENCIA (UPVLC), FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., KONINKLIJKE MARECHAUSSEE, MORPHO. FP7 ICT PROGRAM. CONTRIBUTOR - PERSONAL CITIES: SELF-ORGANISING ARCHITECTURES FOR AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF SMART CITIES FUNDING: €968,275 (2011-2016)<BR /> COLLABORATORS: INTEL LABS EUROPE, IBM RESEARCH SMARTER CITIES TECHNOLOGY CENTRE, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (USA). SFI PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORSHIP TCD PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR - MOBILE SOCIAL MIDDLEWARE FOR SMART CITIES &#61550;IRCSET ULYSSES AWARDS FOR TRAVEL IN 2011. <BR />FUNDING: €2,500 (2011).<BR /> COLLABORATOR: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE (INRIA) PARIS-ROCQUENCOURT. IRCSET ULYSSES AWARDS FOR TRAVEL CONTRIBUTOR - EMMON: EMBEDDED MONITORING FP7 ARTEMIS JOINT UNDERTAKING. &#61550; TOTAL VALUE: €2.57M. FUNDING: €396,652. <BR /> COLLABORATORS: CRITICAL SOFTWARE S.A. (CO-ORDINATOR), INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO, INTESYS, CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS E INVESTIGACIONES TECNICAS DE GIPUZKOA, CRITICAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, SESM S.C.A.R.L., AKTING INGENIARITZA S.L. FP7 ARTEMIS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. CONSTANTINE BOUSSALIS boussalisconstantine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BOUSSALC POLITICAL SCIENCE MUCH OF MY CURRENT WORK EXAMINES THE VARIOUS FACETS OF CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION, SPECIFICALLY ITS ORIGINS AND IMPACT ON PUBLIC OPINION AND POLICYMAKING. I ALSO FOCUS ON POLITICAL COMMUNICATION BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE FORMAL POLITICAL SYSTEMS. CURRENT RELATED WORK INCLUDES INVESTIGATIONS OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AMONG RELIGIOUS ELITES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES OF THE FAR-RIGHT IN GREECE, AND POPULIST LANGUAGE IN THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. LASTLY, I AM ALSO GENERALLY INTERESTED IN HOW POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS INFLUENCE PROSPERITY, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) ADVISORY BOARD. "PATHWAYS TO POWER: THE POLITICAL REPRESENTATION OF CITIZENS OF IMMIGRANT ORIGIN IN SEVEN EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES." AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CONSULTANT, FIJI INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE (IRELAND). ISCH COST ACTION IS1309 -- INNOVATIONS IN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: SOURCES, PATTERNS AND EFFECTS (INOGOV) METHODOLOGICAL REVIEWER FOR: HARVARD BUSINESS LAW REVIEW, CIVIL RIGHTS-CIVIL LIBERTIES LAW REVIEW,ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REVIEW, HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNAL, HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, JOURNAL OFLAW & GENDER, JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY, JOURNAL OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY, JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION,LATINO LAW REVIEW, HARVARD LAW & POLICY REVIEW, NEGOTIATION LAW REVIEW, UNBOUND: HARVARD JOURNALOF THE LEGAL LEFT, JOURNAL OF SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY JOURNAL POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND REVIEWED MANUSCRIPTS FOR:JOURNAL OF POLITICS; WORLD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY; JOURNAL OF ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION & PARTIES ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY FOREIGN AID GREECE INTERNATIONAL-TRADE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIAL CAPITAL TRUST POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR ANDREW BOWIE bowieandrew PROFESSOR AGBOWIE BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON INNATE IMMUNE SENSING AND SIGNALLING MECHANISMS, AND THEIR MODULATION BY VIRUSES. SPECIFICALLY WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW VIRUSES INTERACT WITH, AND SEEK TO SUBVERT INNATE IMMUNE SIGNALLING PATHWAYS, SUCH TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS (TLRS) AND RIG-I-LIKE RECEPTORS (RLRS). TLRS AND RLRS REPRESENT HOST IMMUNE DETECTION SYSTEMS, IN THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE INVOLVED IN RECOGNISING PATHOGENS AND ACTIVATING THE INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE. THROUGH BOTH BIOINFORMATICS AND FUNCTIONAL SCREENS WE HAVE IDENTIFIED MANY POXVIRAL PROTEINS WHICH CAN ANTAGONISE INNATE IMMUNE SIGNALLING, AND CURRENT ON-GOING INVESTIGATIONS ARE SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF THESE PROTEINS AND TO IDENTIFY AND CHARACTERISE HOST TARGET PROTEINS. FURTHER, PEPTIDES DERIVED FROM INHIBITORY VIRAL PROTEINS ARE BEING TESTED AS A ROUTE TO DEVELOPING NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS. WORK IN MY LABORATORY HAS SHED LIGHT ON HOW PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS (PRRS) RECOGNISE PATHOGENS, LEADING TO THE INDUCTION OF INTERFERONS AND CYTOKINES, WHICH CONTROL INFECTION LOCALLY AS WELL AS COORDINATING THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSE. WE ALSO INVESTIGATE HOW PRRS AND OTHER INNATE IMMUNE SENSORS DRIVE INFLAMMATION THROUGH THE RECOGNITION OF NUCLEIC ACID SUCH AS MISLOCALISED SELF-DNA. I HAVE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED NOVEL ROLES FOR A NUMBER OF INNATE IMMUNE PROTEINS IN REGULATING INFLAMMATION VIA CYTOKINE MODULATION, AND AM CURRENTLY EXPLORING THEIR MECHANISMS OF ACTION DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF IMMUNOLOGISTS ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY THE INTERNATIONAL CYTOKINE AND INTERFERON SOCIETY CELLULAR BIOLOGY CYTOKINES DNA SENSING DNA TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION EUKARYOTIC GENE REGULATION HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY INFECTIOUS DISEASES INNATE IMMUNITY INTERLEUKIN-1 SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING NF-KAPPAB PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS PROTEIN SEQUENCE, FUNCTION AND EXPRESSION REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS VIRAL EVASION VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS VIRUSES MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, AGRICULTURE, FOOD, FISHERIES, MARINE & NATURAL RESOURCES BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY VIROLOGY CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. GERARD BOYLE boylegerard ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BOYLEG CLINICAL MEDICINE OCULAR MICTROTREMOR, MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY IN MEDICINE FOR OLDER PEOPLE. CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. NOREEN BOYLE boylenoreen CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER (SPECIALIST) BOYLEN2 PHYSIOLOGY DEPT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. SERGEY BOZHKO bozhkosergey VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BOZHKOS PHYSICS PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MAEVE BRACKEN brackenmaeve ASSISTANT PROF/COURSE DIRECTOR (PART-TIM MBRACKEN PSYCHOLOGY EARLY INTERVENTION IN AUTISM AND ASD. STIMULUS EQUIVALENCE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS GRADUATE MEMBER OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE PSI DIVISION OF APPLIED BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS AUTISM BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION BEHAVIORAL/EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOUR CHILD CENTRED RESEARCHQUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE IN CHILDREN SPECIAL EDUCATION EFFECT OF REWARD AND LOSS ON P3 AMPLITUDE THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO SEE HOW A PERSON'S BRAIN PROCESSES CONSEQUENCES, SUCH AS MONETARY REWARD OR LOSS. IT WAS EXPECTED THAT THE DEGREE OF BRAIN ACTIVITY WOULD BE GREATEST WHEN INDIVIDUALS RECEIVE BOTH MONETARY GAIN FOR CORRECT RESPONSES AND MONETARY LOSS FOR INCORRECT RESPONSES. LESSER ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED WHEN ONLY MONETARY GAIN OR LOSS IS USED AND THE LEAST AMOUNT OF ACTIVITY WHEN RESPONSES HAVE NO MONETARY CONSEQUENCES. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO SEE WHICH COMBINATION OF CONSEQUENCES (GAIN AND LOSS, ONLY GAIN, ONLY LOSS) RESULTS IN GREATEST BRAIN ACTIVITY. START-UP LECTURERS FUND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. ADRIAN BRACKEN brackenadrian ASSOC PROF IN MEDICAL MOLECULAR GENETICS BRACKEA GENETICS THE GROUP IS LED BY ADRIAN BRACKEN AND WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2008 AT THE SMURFIT INSTITUTE OF GENETICS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. WE STUDY CHROMATIN REGULATORS AND THEIR MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF ACTION IN STEM CELLS AND CANCER. SMURFIT INSTITUTE OF GENETICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH CANCER GENETICS EPIGENETICS STEM CELL BIOLOGY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GENETICS AND GENOMICS REGENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF CELLULAR SENESCENCE CELLULAR SENESCENCE IS AN IRREVERSIBLE ARREST OF PROLIFERATION. IT IS ACTIVATED WHEN A CELL ENCOUNTERS STRESS SUCH AS DNA DAMAGE, TELOMERE SHORTENING, OR ONCOGENE ACTIVATION. LIKE APOPTOSIS, IT IMPEDES TUMOUR PROGRESSION AND ACTS AS A BARRIER THAT PRE-NEOPLASTIC CELLS MUST OVERCOME DURING THEIR EVOLUTION TOWARD THE FULL TUMOURIGENIC STATE. CENTRAL TO CELLULAR SENESCENCE ARE THE P53 AND PRB TUMOUR SUPPRESSOR PATHWAYS, WHICH ARE ACTIVATED UPON CELLULAR STRESS. WE ARE STUDYING THE ROLE OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS IN THE CONTROL OF THESE CELLULAR SENESCENCE PATHWAYS. OUR GOAL IS TO HARNESS THIS KNOWLEDGE FOR FUTURE CANCER THERAPIES. EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF EMBRYONIC STEM CELL DIFFERENIATION A MAJOR CHALLENGE IN MODERN BIOLOGY IS TO UNDERSTAND HOW "CELL FATE DECISIONS" ARE REGULATED IN STEM AND PROGENITOR CELLS. THESE DECISIONS GOVERN WHETHER A PARTICULAR STEM OR PROGENITOR CELL DIFFERENTIATES INTO ONE TYPE OF CELL OR ANOTHER. THIS QUESTION HAS MAJOR IMPLICATIONS FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AS WELL AS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOLECULAR EVENTS THAT LEAD TO CANCER. IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY CLEAR THAT, IN ADDITION TO GENETIC ALTERATIONS, CANCER DEVELOPMENT INVOLVES THE ALTERATION OF GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS AS A RESULT OF 'EPIGENETIC' CHANGES (FEINBERG ET AL., 2006). THERE ARE ALREADY SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF EPIGENETIC MODIFIERS THAT ARE DEREGULATED IN CANCER, E.G. BRD4 AND EZH2 (DAWSON AND KOUZARIDES, 2012). THE RECENT ADVENT OF "CANCER EPIGENETIC THERAPIES", SUCH AS THOSE USING BRD4 AND EZH2 INHIBITORS TO TREAT CERTAIN TYPES OF CANCER, HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT KNOWLEDGE IN THIS FIELD CAN LEAD TO TANGIBLE SUCCESSES IN CANCER TREATMENT. THE POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEINS, WHICH INCLUDE EZH2, ARE CENTRALLY INVOLVED IN CELL FATE DECISIONS. OUR CENTRAL HYPOTHESIS IS THAT THE DEREGULATION OF THE FUNCTION OF A SET OF POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEINS DURING CELL FATE DECISIONS IS CENTRAL TO TUMOUR INITIATION. WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIMENTALLY ADDRESSING THIS HYPOTHESIS, AS WELL AS INVESTIGATING NOVEL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEINS AND OTHER CHROMATIN REGULATORS AND DNA BINDING TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS INVOLVED IN CELL FATE DECISIONS. THE GOAL IS THAT THIS RESEARCH WILL LEAD TO BREAKTHROUGHS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF STEM CELL BIOLOGY AS WELL AS CANCER. CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. BARBARA M BRADBY bradbybarbaram RETIRED STAFF MEMBER BBRADBY RETIRED STAFF MEMBER INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 QUECHUA SPANISH; CASTILIAN FRENCH ADVISORY EDITOR OF POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF CAPITAL AND CLASS POPULAR MUSIC [EDITORIAL GROUP] POPULAR MUSIC [INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD] REFORM OF THE HEALTH SYSTEM IN CUBA PARTNER [TCD BUDGET: 68,200 ECUS] CEC INCO-DC PROGRAMME, DG RESEARCH REDUCING MATERNAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY IN BOLIVIA: APPROPRIATE CHILDBIRTH PRACTICES IN THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL SYSTEMS OF PERINATAL CARE PROJECT DIRECTOR. BUDGET: 247,000 ECUS STD PROGRAMME (LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES) CEC, DG XII GLOBAL MUSIC NETWORKS PARTNER PROJECT IN THE IIIS PROGRAMME, 'GLOBAL NETWORKS', TCD GLOBAL NETWORKS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR DANIEL GERARD MARY BRADLEY bradleydanielgerardmary PROFESSOR DBRADLEY GENETICS MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND I HAVE ACTIVE RESEARCH IN: DETECTION OF SIGNATURES OF SELECTION IN HUMAN, BOVINE, SALMON AND CHICKEN GENOMES; IRISH HUMAN POPULATION STRUCTURE; Y CHROMOSOME DIVERSITY AND IRISH MEDEIVAL GENEALOGIES; ANCIENT DNA; ORIGINS OF LIVESTOCK AS DISCERNED USING GENETIC DIVERSITY; GENETIC BASIS OF DISEASE RESISTANCE IN WEST AFRICAN CATTLE; HAPLOTYPE DECAY AND THE AGE OF CATTLE HYBRID ZONES; DETECTION OF RECOMBINATION IN MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES. DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 APPOINTED TO EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, ANIMAL GENETICS FIVE TIMES JUROR IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEST FOR YOUNG SCIENTISTS FORMER PRESIDENT OF IRISH SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS MEMBER OF A WELLCOME TRUST PANEL RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DISBURSEMENT OF RESEARCH FUNDS IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANIMAL GENETICS MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON GENETIC ANTHROPOLOGY MEMBER, PHG FUNDED PI'S AND RESEARCHERS, ALL RESEARCHERS FUNDED UNDER CYCLE 3 PRTLI - PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN GENOMICS SERVED AS AN EXPERT CONSULTANT ON GENETIC DISTANCE AND BIODIVERSITY TO THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ADMIXTURE ANCIENT DNA ANALYSIS AND ORIGINS OF IRISH MAMMALS ANIMAL DOMESTICATION ARCHAEOZOOLOGICAL GENETICS AND THE ORIGINS OF CATTLE PASTORALISM BOVINE EVOLUTION BREED RELATIONSHIPS CATTLE CATTLE BOS-TAURUS CONTROL REGION DETECTION OF RECOMBINATION IN MAMMALIAN MTDNA DNA-SEQUENCE DOMESTICATION EQUUS CABALLUS EUKARYOTIC GENOMES EUROPEAN CATTLE EUROPEAN POPULATIONS EVOLUTION FAMILY FARMED GENE GENETIC CONSERVATION GENETIC DIVERSITY GENETIC VARIATION HORSE HUMAN DNA INTROGRESSION LINKAGE ANALYSIS LINKAGE GROUP LOCALIZATION LOCI MAP MICROSATELLITE MITOCHONDRIAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA MTDNA MUTATION MYOTONIC-DYSTROPHY GENE ORIGIN ORIGINS PIGS POLYMORPHISMS POPULATION GENETIC SIGNATURES OF SELECTION IN CATTLE AND OTHER DOMESTICATES POPULATION GENETICS, SELECTION, STRUCTURE AND ORIGINS IN IRISH HUMAN POPULATIONS PREVALENCE RELEASE RYANODINE RECEPTOR GENE SARCOPLASMIC-RETICULUM SEQUENCE SHEEP Y CHROMOSOME DIVERISITY AND THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF IRISH SURNAMES GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. LOUISE BRADLEY bradleylouise ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BRADLEL PHYSICS CRANN MY CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS FOR NOVEL FUNCTIONALITY AND ENHANCED PERFORMANCE OF PHOTONIC DEVICES. A KEY DIRECTION OF MY RESEARCH IS INVESTIGATION OF NEAR-FIELD ENERGY TRANSFER IN SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS. OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE FOR ENERGY TRANSPORT AND CONTROL OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN QUANTUM EMITTERS ON THE NANOSCALE, THIS PROCESS HAS FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES FOR SENSING, OPTICAL COMPUTING, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES AND LIGHT HARVESTING APPLICATIONS. MY RESEARCH OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS CONCENTRATED PLASMONIC COUPLED SYSTEMS, INCLUDING ENHANCED NON-RADIATIVE ENERGY TRANSFER AND EMISSION. MY GROUP WAS THE FIRST TO REPORT EXPERIMENTAL PLASMONIC ENHANCEMENT OF ENERGY TRANSFER BETWEEN QUANTUM DOTS. SUBSEQUENTLY, I PUBLISHED A NUMBER OF PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT PARAMETERS IN CONTROLLING THE ENERGY TRANSFER SIGNATURES. MOST RECENTLY, MY GROUP HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT PLASMON-ENHANCED ENERGY TRANSFER CAN BE APPLIED IN HYBRID MATERIAL SYSTEMS WHICH ARE TECHNOLOGICALLY OF GREAT INTEREST, WE HAVE REPORTED ON PLASMON ENHANCED ENERGY TRANSFER BETWEEN INGAN QUANTUM WELLS AND QUANTUM DOTS WHICH CAN BE USED FOR IMPROVED LIGHT EMISSION AND LIGHT-HARVESTING DEVICES. MY GROUP IS ALSO CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING PLASMON COUPLED CHIRAL SYSTEMS, QD- 2D (MOS2) MATERIALS AND PLASMON-GRAPHENE STRUCTURES. LEADING GROUPS IN STATE OF THE ART COLLOIDAL QD AND PLASMONIC NANOCRYSTALS (GAPONIK (TU DRESDEN), ROGACH (CITY UNIVERSITY, HONG KONG AND GUN'KO (CHEMISTRY, TCD)), HAVE PROVIDED MATERIALS FOR MY RESEARCH OVER MANY YEARS. OTHER COLLABORATORS INCLUDE PROF. PARBROOK FROM THE TYNDALL INSTITUTE, CORK WHO IS AN EXPERT IN THE GROWTH OF GAN MATERIALS. TAILORED PLASMONIC STRUCTURES ARE FABRICATED USING FOCUSED-ION BEAM, E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY AND HELIUM-ION LITHOGRAPHY. INTERACTION WITH NANOSCALE METALLIC FEATURES CAN RESULT IN MODIFIED EMISSION PROPERTIES, IN TERMS OF INTENSITY, DIRECTIONALITY AND POLARIZATION. PLASMONIC STRUCTURES CAN FACILITATE IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND ENHANCED FUNCTIONALITY FOR MANY APPLICATIONS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES, LIGHT HARVESTING, SENSING, QUANTUM OPTICS AND ALL-OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING. WE HAVE DEVELOPED A WIDE RANGE OF CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF THESE NANOSCALE SYSTEMS. OVER MY CAREER I HAVE DEVELOPED A BROAD EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD OF PHOTONICS. MY EARLIER WORK CONCENTRATED ON SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITY PHYSICS AND DEVICES. DURING MY PHD I USED DYNAMIC NON-LINEAR TECHNIQUES, SUCH AS PUMP-PROBE AND FOUR-WAVE-MIXING, TO STUDY THE PHYSICS OF CAVITY POLARITONS IN SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES. FOLLOWING ON FROM THIS WORK, I INVESTIGATED HOW MICROCAVITIES COULD BE USED TO ENHANCE NON-LINEAR PROCESSES, IN PARTICULAR FOR MICROCAVITY-ENHANCED TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION BASED DETECTOR. MICROCAVITY STRUCTURES CAN ALSO BE USED TO ENHANCE AND DIRECT EMISSION. I PARTICIPATED IN THE EU FRAMEWORK PROJECT, AGETHA, WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OPTICAL DESIGN OF GAN-BASED MICROCAVITY LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES. I APPLIED MY KNOWLEDGE OF PUMP-PROBE SYSTEMS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT A CONTRA-PROPAGATION PUMP-PROBE TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDY OF THE POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE OF INTRA-BAND CARRIER DYNAMICS IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS AND THE INFLUENCE OF THESE DYNAMICS ON NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION. THIS PROJECT, IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. P.LANDAIS (DCU), WAS INTERESTED IN THE POTENTIAL OF NONLINEAR POLARIZATION FOR OPTICAL SWITCHING. THE COLLABORATION LED TO A FURTHER SUCCESSFUL PROJECT WHICH DEMONSTRATED THE LOWEST NOISE-FIGURE TO DATE FOR A BULK SOA USING NOVEL A MULTI-CONTACT STRUCTURE TO CONTROL THE CARRIER DISTRIBUTION ALONG THE LENGTH OF THE DEVICE. PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ACADEMIC EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR NEW DEGREE PROGRAMME, B.SC. IN ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS OF LIGHT-MATTER COUPLING IN NANOSTRCUTURES, ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 2004 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY CHAIR OF NANOPHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS COMMITTEE, PHOTONICS IRELAND EXPERT REVIEWER FOR NATIONAL FUNDING AGENCIES IN 10 COUNTRIES ACROSS 3 CONTINENTS INCLUDING THE ANR (FRANCE), DOE (US), NEW ZEALAND SCIENCE FOUNDATION, AND AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION EXTERNAL ACADEMIC ASSESSOR FOR DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY B.SC. IN PHYSICS TECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR 3 BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMMES IN THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY EXTERNAL EXPERT IN PHOTONICS AND PHYSICS ON 13 APPOINTMENT COMMITTEES INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS IRISH REPRESENTATIVE AT COST 268, WAVELENGTH SCALE PHOTONICS COMPONENTS FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS IRISH REPRESENTATIVE AT COST P11: PHYSICS OF LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS OPTOELECTRONICS AND PHOTIONIC DEVICES PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER, SPIE OPTO-IRELAND 2005 PHD EXAMINER IN OTHER THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS REVIEWER FOR MANY JOURNALS INCLUDING ACS NANO, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, NANOSCALE, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, ADVANCED MATERIALS, JOURNALS OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE, CIMTEC 2016 AND 2018 SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE, EMN LIGHT MATTER INTERACTIONS 2016 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER, PHOTONICS IRELAND, GALWAY CAVITY POLARITONS CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES FABRICATION LASER TECHNOLOGY NANOSTRUCTURES NANOTECHNOLOGY NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OPTICAL MATERIALS OPTICS PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PHOTON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY PHOTONIC NETWORKS PHOTONICS PHYSICS QUANTUM-WELL SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND MATERIALS SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTALS SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS SEMICONDUCTORS SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING (INCL. MATERIALS, ADVANCED & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES) PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE SURFACE PLASMON -SEMICONDUCTOR NANOCRYSTAL INTERACTIONS: TOWARD NANOSCALE LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES SFI PICA NOVEL ULTRA-VIOLET OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES BASED ON COPPER HALIDES LATTICE MATCHED TO SILICON SUBSTRATES SFI RFP REALIZATION OF 100 GHZ ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERSION USING POLARIZATION SWITCHING IN SOAS ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALL-OPTICAL POLARIZATION SWITCH FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND INNOVATIVE PHOTONIC DEVICES FOR OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING IN HIGH SPEED COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ENTERPRISE IRELAND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMME THE GROWTH OF A WIDE BAND GAP, DIRECT BAND GAP, OPTOELECTRONICS MATERIAL ON SILICON SUBSTRATES: CUCL ON SI IRCSET BASIC RESEARCH SCHEME CROSS-POLARIZATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS ENTERPRISE IRELAND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION PROGRAMME LIGHT-MATTER INTERACION AND MATTER-MATTER INTERACTION IN MICROCAVITY QUANTUM DOT SYSTEMS HEA PRLTI TWO PHOTON ABSORPTION AND EMISSION PROCESSES IN NOVEL STRUCTURES FOR COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS ENTERPRISE IRELAND ULYSSES TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION IN SEMICONDUCTOR MICORCAVITIES - APPLICATION TO OPTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ENTERPRISE IRELAND ULYSSES NOISE CONTROLLED SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PHASE NONLINEAR POLARIZATION ROTATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS IRCSET POSTGRADUATE AWARDS A STRATEGY FOR METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURED DISPLAY IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP HIGH EFFICIENCY WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY POSTGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP PLASMONIC ENHANCED NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES - FACILITY ACCESS COSTS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR AWARD SUPPLEMENT PLASMONIC ENHANCED NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR AWARD HYBRID QUANTUM-WELL AND QUANTUM DOT PHOTONIC DEVICES NATIONAL ACCESS PROGRAMME PLASMONIC REFLECTIVE DISPLAYS CRANN CRANN PATHFINDER AWARD PIXEL DEMONSTRATOR FOR ACTIVELY TUNED REFLECTIVE PLASMONIC DISPLAY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TIDA ALLOYED PLASMONIC STRUCTURES FOR LIGHT HARVESTING IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ANNE-MARIE BRADY bradyannemarie ASSOC PROFESSOR/DIRECTOR TCPHI ABRADY4 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION IN HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY; HUMAN FACTORS & PATIENT SAFETY; MANPOWER ISSUES; CHRONIC ILLNESS; INTEGRATION OF HEALTH SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGY & HEALTH; CANCER SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHAPTER ACADEMIC LEADER-INSTITUTE HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT (IHI) CHAPTER LEAD-INSTITUTE OF HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT (IHI) IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT IRISH CLINICAL NURSE MANAGERS ASSOCIATION ISCOME INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR SAFETY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION MEMBER OF NATIONAL CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS COMMITTEE (EDUCATION NOMINEE) MEMBER: IRISH CARE PATHWAYS INTEREST GROUP NURSING & MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND REVIEWER: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING REVIEWER: JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT REVIEWER:JOURNAL OF MIXED METHODS SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL(NURSES HONOR SOCIETY)GAMMA EPSILON CHAPTER HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION NURSING EDUCATION OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) THE TRANSTION EXPERIENCES AND INTENT TO STAY OF DEGREE GRADUTE NURSES ON ENTRY TO PRACTICE THE FIRST DEGREE GRADUATE NURSES WILL BE ENTERING THE WORKFORCE IN 2006 AND A CRITICAL CONCERN NATIONALLY WILL BE THE RETENTION OF THESE NEWLY REGISTERED NURSES AT A TIME OF UNPRECEDENTED CAREER CHOICES. THE TRANSITION BETWEEN THE ACADEMIC INSTITUTION AND THE WORKPLACE IS A TIME OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE FOR THE BEGINNING NURSE. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MIXED METHODS STUDY IS TO EXAMINE THE CAREER EXPECTATION, TRANSITION EXPERIENCES AND INTENT TO STAY IN THE NURSING PROFESSION AMONG DEGREE GRADUATE NURSES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD OUT OF HOURS CLINICAL-DECISION-MAKING THIS STUDY IN COLLABORATION WITH TALLAGHT HOSPITAL SEEKS TO EVALUATE OUT OF HOURS CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING AND SUPPORT MEATH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION NMBI COMMISSIONED STUDY TCD LEAD ON AN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL STUDY TO UNDERTAKE CONSULTATION AND ANALYSIS FOR GUIDANCE PROJECTS EMANATING FROM THE REVIEW OF THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE, UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM REVIEW & CODE OF CONDUCT. NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND THE ROLE AND WORKLOAD OF THE PHN IN GALWAY THE AIMS OF THIS MIXED METHODS TWO-PHASE PROJECT WERE TO CLARIFY THE ROLE OF THE IRISH PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE (PHN) AND TO DESIGN A WORKLOAD MEASUREMENT TOOL. NURSING & MIDWIFERY PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT UNIT, WESTERN HEALTH BOARD 68,000 EUROS THE WORKLOAD OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE A QUANTITATIVE STUDY MEASURING THE WORKLOAD OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE IN THE WESTERN AREA HEALTH REGION. THE COMMUNITY CLIENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM (CCNCS) DEVELOPED IN THE PREVIOUS STUDY (BEGLEY ET AL 2004), WHICH UTILISES A NUMBER OF ASSESSMENT CRITERIA TO REACH A NUMERICAL SCORE OF CLIENT NEED, WAS FURTHER REFINED AND IMPLEMENTED TO ASSESS BOTH DIRECT AND INDIRECT CARE NEEDS OF COMMUNITY CLIENTS. NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PLANNING DEVELOPMENT PROMOTING SELF MANAGEMENT IN CHRONIC ILLNESS EMPLOYING BEHAVIOUR CHANGE PRINCIPLES, TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGICAL BASED EDUCATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND HEALTH PROMOTING MATERIAL TO SUPPORT SELF MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES. IN THIS STUDY IT WAS PROPOSED THAT AN INITIAL REFLECTIVE PROCESS WILL ENABLE USER/CARER SUPPORT NEEDS TO BE IDENTIFIED. USING PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE, THE RESEARCH TEAM WILL THEN DEVELOP NEW RESOURCE MATERIAL, OR ENHANCE EXISTING MATERIAL, TO ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC SELF MANAGEMENT NEEDS OF THIS GROUP. TO COMPLETE THE ACTION RESEARCH CYCLE, PARTICIPANTS OF THE PATIENT/CARER GROUP WILL BE INVITED EVALUATE THE DEVELOPED MATERIAL. INTEL TRIL EVALUATION OF ASTHMA EDUCATION PROJECT (TARGETING DISADVANTAGED GROUPS) THE PROJECT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO EVALUATE AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO CARE- A PILOT ASTHMA EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR DISADVANTAGED GROUPS USING A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS. ASTHMA SOCIETY OF IRELAND AN EVALUATION OF THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE FRAMEWORK FOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES TCD LEAD ON AN INTER UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION WITH UCD, UL AND UCC.THIS STUDY WILL EVALUATE THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE FRAMEWORK WITH REFERENCE TO THE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE FRAMEWORK, THE REGISTRANTS' EXPERIENCES, STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES, INCLUDING THE REGULATOR'S REQUIREMENTS. THE PROPOSED EVALUATION DESIGN WILL ADDRESS TWO KEY REQUIREMENTS OF THE TENDER: (I) TO DEVELOP A MIXED METHODS EVALUATION STRATEGY TO EVALUATE THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE FRAMEWORK AND (II) DEVISE A STRATEGY FOR CONSULTATION WITH REGISTRANTS AND OTHER KEY STAKEHOLDERS. THE EVALUATIVE STRATEGY WILL ENABLE ONGOING FEEDBACK AND CONSULTATION WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND WILL BE CONDUCTED OVER A SIX-MONTH PERIOD. NMBI EFFECTIVE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH WORKERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION IRELAND INFORMANT TO A STUDY COMPRISED OF A CONSORTIUM COMPOSED OF EHMA, THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY LEUVEN (BELGIUM), THE INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE (PORTUGAL), KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (ENGLAND), AND THE ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE (THE NETHERLANDS) WAS SELECTED TO CONDUCT THE STUDY. THE STUDY WILL IDENTIFY AND ANALYZE EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR THE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (FOCUSING ON PHYSICIANS AND NURSES, INCLUDING EDUCATORS AND MANAGERS), AND SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL INTERVENTIONS AND HUMAN RESOURCE POLICIES AT NATIONAL LEVEL DG (SANCO) FATHER SUPPORT IN BREASTFEEDING THE AIM OF THIS MIXED METHODS STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE AND NATURE OF SUPPORT GIVEN BY NEW FATHERS TO MOTHERS WHO ARE BREASTFEEDING PRO-ACTIVE REGULATION THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO EVALUATE NEW MODEL OF REGULATION, I.E. PROACTIVE REGULATION- PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACCESS IN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT SCIENCE (TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES) TO DETERMINE IMPACT ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE QUALITY OUTCOMES. BUILDING CAPACTIY FOR RESEARCH & SERVICE IMPROVEMENT THIS COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE BETWEEN THE TRINITY CENTER FOR PRACTICE & HEALTH CARE INNOVATION AND HSE CENTRAL SEEKS TO DEVELOP RESEARCH SUPPORT, NETWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENABLE NURSING LEADERS TO LEAD CLINICALLY RELEVANT RESEARCH AT HSE CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES HSE CENTRAL/NMPDU THE COST OF SURVIVAL: PATIENT RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES AMONG COLORECTAL SURVIVORS THIS MIXED METHODS STUDY SEEKS TO EXAMINE QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG POST-TREATMENT COLO-RECTAL CANCER SURVIVORS TCD 1252 & HRB DOCTORAL EVALUATION OF GENIO DEMENTIA PROGRAMME THIS MULT-SITE STUDY SEEKS TO EVALUATE INTEGRATED CARE FOR PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA IN BOTH HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY CARE GENIO ROLE & FUNCTION OF MCAS IN IRELAND SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE TO INFORM THE FUTURE EDUCATION, ROLE AND FUNCTION OF MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANTS IN IRELAND HSE PROACT EVALUATION OF A DIGITAL INTEGRATED CARE ECOSYSTEM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMORBIDITY IN PERSONS OVER 65. HORIZON 2020 PHC 25 BUILDING CAPACTIY FOR RESEARCH & SERVICE IMPROVEMENT THIS COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE BETWEEN THE TRINITY CENTER FOR PRACTICE & HEALTH CARE INNOVATION AND ST JAMES HOSPITAL SEEKS TO DEVELOP RESEARCH SUPPORT, NETWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENABLE NURSING LEADERS TO LEAD CLINICALLY RELEVANT RESEARCH AT ST. JAMES HOSPITAL ST. JAMES NMPDU BUILDING CAPACTIY FOR RESEARCH & SERVICE IMPROVEMENT THIS COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE BETWEEN THE TRINITY CENTER FOR PRACTICE & HEALTH CARE INNOVATION AND TALLAGHT HOSPITAL SEEKS TO DEVELOP RESEARCH SUPPORT, NETWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENABLE NURSING LEADERS TO LEAD CLINICALLY RELEVANT RESEARCH AT TALLAGHT HOSPITAL TALLAGHT HOSPITAL/MEATH & ADELAIDE FOUNDATIONS BUILDING CAPACTIY FOR RESEARCH & SERVICE IMPROVEMENT THIS COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE BETWEEN THE TRINITY CENTER FOR PRACTICE & HEALTH CARE INNOVATION AND NAAS HOSPITAL SEEKS TO DEVELOP RESEARCH SUPPORT, NETWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENABLE NURSING LEADERS TO LEAD CLINICALLY RELEVANT RESEARCH AT NAAS HOSPITAL NAAS HOSPITAL/NMPDU LEADERSHIP ACADEMY STUDENT NURSES TCD LEAD ON COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, LISBON UNIVERSITY & UNIVERSITY OF SLOVENIA EU ERASMUS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS AGEING CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR CIARAN FRANCIS BRADY bradyciaranfrancis PROFESSOR CBRADY HISTORY SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IRISH HISTORY (ESP. POLITICAL AND INTELLECTUAL); COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA; IRISH HISTORIGRAPHY. CURRENT RESEARCH: A STUDY OF THE WORK OF JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3118 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 I HAVE CONTRIBUTED A NUMBER OF REVIEWS TO HISTORY IRELAND, THE IRISH LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE IRISH TIMES I HAVE GIVEN SEVERAL PAPERS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW LEAVING CERTIFICATE HISTORY SYLLABUS TO CONFERENCES HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE HISTORY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND. IN OCTOBER 2004 AS PART OF THE SHELBOURNE HOTEL'S 180TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS, I DEVISED A SERIES OF HISTORICAL READINGS WHICH I PERFORMED WITH THE ACTOR BARRY MCGOVERN PROGRAMME NOTES FOR THE TREATY OF MELLIFONT , A CONCERT FEATURING STEPHEN REA MICHAEL HOLOHAN, MICHEÁL Ó BRIAN, CIARAN BRADY, NATIONAL GALLERY, 27 NOVEMBER, 2003 AGEING CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. MAIREAD BRADY bradymairead ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BUSINESS STUDIES BRADYMA BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES ADAPT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES DR BRADY'S RESEARCH SPAN TWO DOMAINS - BUSINESS AND THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION WITH THE UNIFYING THEME OF TECHNOLOGY AND PARTICULARLY WEB 2.0 AND WEB 3.0 TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATION IN PRACTICE. WITHIN CONTEMPORARY MARKETING PRACTICE SHE TAKES A RESEARCH INTEREST IN THE ADOPTION AND USE OF INFORMATION AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. CURRENT STUDIES INCLUDE DATA AND METRICS ANALYSIS, SOCIAL NETWORKING AND THE CUSTOMER INTERFACCE AND MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES FOR DATA INPUT INTO DECISION MAKING. WITHIN EDUCATION SHE IS FOCUSED ON THE THIRD LEVEL SECTOR AND THE ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY WITHIN AN ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING PERSPECTIVE. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN MARKETING PRACTICE: THE ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY WITHIN THIRD LEVEL SECTOR - FROM GAMES TO SOCIAL MEDIA - STAFF CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES DATA CAPTURE AND MANAGEMENT: IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES: EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL NETWORKING - THE DATA PERSPECTIVE: EXPLORING THE USE OF DATA AND METRICS WITHIN SHE HAS TWO FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS ON ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING WITHIN LARGE STUDENT COHORTS WITH A ONLINE GAME BASED LEARNING FOCUS AND ONE ON TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS WITHIN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR PARTICULARLY ON ASSESSMENT ON/OF/FOR LEARNING. BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT TRACK REVIEWER MARKETING AND RETAILING CO CHAIR OF IRISH CONFERENCE ON GAME BASED LEARNING 2016 - ANN DEVITT (EDUCATION) AND NEIL PIERCE (LEARNOVATE) CONFERENCE PAPER REVIEWER FOR THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MARKETING, ACADEMY OF MARKETING (UK AND IRELAND) AND THE IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT. COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GAME BASED LEARNING (ECGBL) COMMITTEE MEMBER 2016, 2015 GRADUATE MEMBER OF THE MARKETING INSTITUTE OF IRELAND GUEST EDITOR FOR SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE SERVICE INDUSTRIES JOURNAL - EXPLORING INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION USING SOCIAL MEDIA - WITH PROF MARK DURKAN AND DR AODHEEN MCCARTAN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. GUEST EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL MARKETING JOURNAL ARTICLE REVEIWS FOR THE JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH NEWS JOURNAL REVIEWER: QUALITATIVE MARKET RESEARCH: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL JOURNAL REVIEWER: THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING MEMBER OF HAMBURG AVIATION CONFERENCE ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER OF IEEE MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF MARKETING (UK AND IRELAND) MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT MEMBER OF THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MARKETING (UK) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN GROUP OF ORGANISATIONAL STUDIES (EGOS) - SUB THEME CONVENOR: TECHNOLOGY, ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETY - ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006. MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN MARKETING ACADEMY MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AWARD PANEL. "THE SHETH FOUNDATION DOCTORAL THESIS AWARD COMPETITION." MEMBER OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN COUNCIL MEMEBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT NATIONAL TEACHING AND LEARNING FORUM WORKSHOP PROVISION ON: TECHNOLOGY ENABLED ASSESSMENT: EVIDENCE-BASED DISCUSSION (WITH DR ANN DEVITT AND DR RACHEL KIERSEY) PAPER REVEIWER FOR THE IEEE/INFORMS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICE OPERATIONS AND LOGISTICS, AND INFORMATICS (SOLI 2007). REVIEW FOR AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, ACADEMY OF MARKETING (UK AND IRELAND) FROM 2004 - CURRENT DAY REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF . PSYCHOLOGY AND MARKETING . JOURNAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT . JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MARKETING . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MARKETING, . MARKETING THEORY . EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING SESSION CHAIR AT THE IEEE CONFERENCE, PHILADELPHIA USA 2007: TRACK CHAIRS AT THE EUROPEAN GROUP FOR ORGANISATIONAL STUDIES (EGOS) BERGEN 2006;'THE ORGANISING SOCIETY', TRACK: TECHNOLOGY, ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIETY: RECURSIVE PERSPECTIVES. WITH COLLEAGUES FROM UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN, IMAGINATION LAB FOUNDATION AND THE NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT. ACADEMY OF MARKETING SCIENCE, WORLD MARKETING CONGRESS 2005. TRACK: ELECTRONIC MARKETING ACADEMY OF MARKETING CONFERENCE BOTH TRACK AND DOCTORAL PANEL: REVIEWER, PRESENTER AND PANEL MEMBER 2004 AND 2006. IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT 2001 - 2006. TRACK: MARKETING EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF MARKETING TRACK CHAIR TRINITY COLLEGE STAFF INDUCTION PANEL MEMBER 2017 TRINITY COLLEGE STAFF WORKSHOP - FORMATIVE FEEDBACK IS NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED: THE CHALLENGE OF GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SITUATION. TRINITY INNOVATION ACADEMY AND CAPSULE TRINITY EDUCATION WORKSHOP: DIVERSE FORMS OF ASSESSMENT - LONG ROOM HUB - TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN WORKSHOP ON ENGAGEMENT - UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM. FORMATIVE FEEDBACK AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT - THE CHALLENGES OF GIVING AND RECEIVING FEEDBACK - JUNE 2017 DATA CHALLENGES DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING DIGITAL GAME BASED LEARNING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN MARKETING, GAMIFICATION SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION WITH THE THIRD LEVEL SECTOR TECHNOLOGY USAGE IN DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT EDUCATION THE ASSIMILATION OF IT IN MARKETING: BEST PRACTICES RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND SMALL RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE SCHEME 03-04 THE ROLE OF ICT WITHIN MARKETING PRACTICE: OVERLOOKED AND UNDEREXPLOITED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ON THE PRACTICES AND PROCESS WITHIN MARKETING. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK OF BOTH THE CHALLENGES AND THE COMPETENCES NEEDED TO OVERCOME SAME. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND €2,000 'EXPLORING THE ROLE OF MARKETING METRICS AND FINANCIAL METRICS IN THE IRISH TOURISM INDUSTRY' . THIS RESEARCH EXPLORE MARKETING METRICS AS THE LENSE THROUGH WITH MUCH OF THE DATA WITHIN ORGANISATIONS IS REVIEWED AND USED. THE TOURISM SECTOR IS PARTICULARLY DATA DRIVEN AND COULD BE CONSIDERED PART OF THE AUDIT SOCIETY WITH SPEED, FREQUENCY AND RANGE OF DATA FLOODING COMPANIES WHO ARE THEN CHALLENGED TO USE THIS INFORAMTION. FAILTE IRELAND €42,000 GLOBAL SUPPLY NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGY DEPLOYMENT FOR DATA MANAGMENT GLOBAL SUPPLY NETWORKS NEED TO BE MANAGED TO MAXIMISE BOTH EFFICIENCY AND SERVICE PROVISION TO THE FINAL CONSUMER. MORE AND MORE TECHNOLOGY IS NOW SUPPORTING GLOBAL SUPPLY NETWORKS PARTICULARLY EDI AND FINANCE ORIENTATED SYSTEMS AND SENSOR OR RFID (RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICES) TECHNOLOGIES. THIS STUDY WILL BUILD ON RESEARCH ALREADY IN PROGRESS (SEE PUBLICATIONS BELOW) WHICH ENDEAVOURS TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF RFID AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES ALONG THE SUPPLY CHAIN. THE UNIQUE PRESPECTIVE IT THE FOCUS ON BOTH INFORMATION AND FINANCIAL FLOWS AND THE IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES OF CHANGING WHAT IS A VERY ANTIQUATED AND COMPLEX SYSTEM. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND €1,200 UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF SIMULATION GAMES FOR THIRD LEVEL LEARNING THIS STUDY RESEARCHES THE HIGHER ORDER LEARNING SKILLS AND ENGAGEMENT OF STUDENTS WITH A ONLINE MARKETING SIMULATION GAME INTENDED TO PROVIDE PRACTICE LEARNING SUPPORT TO STUDENTS TO ENHANCE THEIR ABILITY TO WRITE A MARKETING PLAN. PEARSON MANAGEMENT SERVICES €2000 EXPLORING THE ROLE OF MARKETING METRICS IN BUSINESS THIS RESEARCH EXPLORES HOW SENIOR MANAGERS IN THE IRISH TOURISM INDUSTRY USE MARKETING METRICS AND FINANCIAL METRICS TO GUIDE STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING. A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON COMPARING SENIOR MARKETING AND SENIOR FINANCE MANAGER'S PERSPECTIVES WITH A VIEW TO UNDERSTANDING THE BALANCE BETWEEN EACH AND TO EXPLORE HOW INTEGRATED EACH SET OF METRICS IS WITHIN BOTH MARKETING AND FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND €2,000 ENABLING TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED ASSESSMENT OF/FOR/AS LEARNING THIS PROJECT ASSUMES A VIEW OF ASSESSMENT THAT IS EMBEDDED AND INTEGRAL TO TEACHING AND LEARNING AND WHERE ASSESSMENTS ARE USED BY BOTH STAFF AND STUDENTS TO PROGRESS LEARNING TOWARDS LEARNING GOALS THAT ARE EXPLICIT AND SHARED. ASSESSMENT IS VIEWED FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES - AS A MEASUREMENT AND RECORD OF LEARNING, ULTIMATELY FOR ACCREDITATION (SUMMATIVE) AS WELL AS ASSESSMENT AS A TOOL FOR BOTH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO EVALUATE AND PROGRESS LEARNING (ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING). A FURTHER DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT AS LEARNING FOCUSES ON THE STUDENT AS AN ACTOR IN THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS, SETTING SUCCESS CRITERIA, PEER AND SELF-ASSESSING, AND USING THESE ACTIVITIES TO PROGRESS THEIR LEARNING. THE DIGITAL ROADMAP IDENTIFIES A CLEAR NEED TO PRIORITISE THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-IMPACT AND BEST PRACTICES WITHIN THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT 'THAT LEVERAGE THE POTENTIAL OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING AND SUBSTANTIALLY CONTRIBUTE TO EVIDENCING PEDAGOGICAL EXCELLENCE'. (DIGITAL ROADMAP, 2016, P49). TECHNOLOGY OFFERS GREAT POTENTIAL IN THE AREA OF ASSESSMENT, PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING, COLLABORATIVE LEARNING, SPEEDY OR INSTANT FEEDBACK, AMONG A RANGE OF POSSIBLE AFFORDANCES. HOWEVER, THE REALITY OF INCORPORATING TECHNOLOGY INTO INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND OF TRANSFORMING PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE TO EMBRACE THE POSSIBILITIES OF TECHNOLOGY CAN BE FRAUGHT WITH DIFFICULTY. THIS PROJECT WILL PRODUCE A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW, META-ANALYSIS AND GUIDE TO BEST PRACTICE ON TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED ASSESSMENT OF/FOR/AS LEARNING IN HE. THE LITERATURE REVIEW WILL INTEGRATE A QUANTITATIVE FOCUS THROUGH A META-ANALYSIS OF (QUASI-)EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES WITH A QUALITATIVE FOCUS ON CASE STUDY, ETHNOGRAPHIC AND OTHER RESEARCH APPROACHES TO ENSURE A BALANCED AND CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE MEASURED OUTCOMES OF ASSESSMENT PRACTICES BUT ALSO THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS AND STAFF INVOLVED. THE REVIEW WILL ENCOMPASS WELL ESTABLISHED AND EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES AND FOCUS ON RELIABILITY, VALIDITY, INCLUSION, MEDIA MODES, FEEDBACK TYPE AND TIMELINESS, LEARNING AND MOTIVATION INTERACTIONS, STAFF AND STUDENT USABILITY, ETC. A RANGE OF TECHNOLOGIES WILL BE EXPLORED WITH AN ADDITIONAL AND UNIQUE FOCUS ON INTERACTIVE MULTI-MODAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, DIGITAL GAME-BASED LEARNING AS WELL AS INTERACTIVE CLASS TECHNOLOGIES FOR FORMATIVE FEEDBACK THAT IS INTEGRATED AND CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH TEACHING. THE LITERATURE REVIEW WILL BE USED TO DERIVE BEST AND NEXT PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR STAFF THAT ALSO ADDRESS THE SUSTAINABILITY OF IMPLEMENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR. TO SUPPLEMENT THE LITERATURE REVIEW, DERIVING FROM THE REVIEW OF STUDIES IN THE IRISH CONTEXT, THE STUDY WILL CAPTURE EXPERIENCES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN IRELAND THROUGH VIDEOS OF PRACTICE AND INTERVIEWS WITH ACADEMICS ENGAGED IN THIS AREA. IRC (NATIONAL TEACHING AND LEARNING FORUM) €70,000 SOCIAL MEDIA DATA UTILISATIONS: MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES AND COPING STRATEGIES THE MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES FROM THE ABUNDANCE OF DATA FLOODING INTO ORGANISATION FROM SOCIAL MEDIA, IS BOTH CRITICAL AND CONTINUING TO GROW. POWERFUL SOCIAL MEDIA DATA MONITORING AND ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGIES ARE IN EXISTENCE IN MANY COMPANIES, BUT THE HUMAN SKILLS AND CAPACITY TO MANAGE AND UTILISE THE VOLUME, VARIETY, VELOCITY AND VERACITY OF THIS DATA, IS A CAUSE FOR CONCERN MANAGERIALLY AND A GAP IN THE EXTENT LITERATURE (BRINKER & MCLELLAN, 2014; DAVENPORT, 2013; DAVENPORT ET AL., 2013). SOCIAL MEDIA HAS FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGED THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COMPANIES AND THEIR CUSTOMERS (HOLT, 2016; KUMAR ET AL., 2016) BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN THIS AREA FOCUS ON ANSWERING WHAT QUESTIONS OF SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN COMPANIES (MAKLAN ET AL., 2015). THERE ARE A LARGE NUMBER OF STUDIES PROVIDING EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE BENEFITS RESULTING FROM SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN COMPANIES (E.G. SONNIER, ET AL., 2011; TIRUNILLAI & TELLIS, 2012) BUT THERE IS A LACK OF A FIRM CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE IN ADDRESSING THE ISSUES INVOLVED IN HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS USED IN COMPANIES, AND INVESTIGATES THE PROCESSES AND CHALLENGES OF UTILIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA DATA. &#65532; 2. METHODOLOGY (INVESTIGATIVE AND ANALYTIC METHODS, THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS) (MAX 400 WORDS) THE UNDERDEVELOPED STATE OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE DOMAIN OF SOCIAL MEDIA DATA UTILIZATION JUSTIFIES SIGNIFICANT CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT (MAKLAN, 2015; KUMAR, 2016). THE MAJORITY OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF SM USE IN MARKETING HAVE TAKEN THE END USERS' PERSPECTIVE AND ARE FOCUSED ON THE PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES OF SOCIAL MEDIA USERS (NGAI, MOON, ET AL., 2015; NGAI, TAO, ET AL., 2015; YADAV, ET AL. 2013; KHANG, ET AL. 2012; ROLLINS, 2012). WHILE THESE STUDIES ADD INVALUABLE INSIGHT TO THE GROWING BODY OF KNOWLEDGE, THEY NEED TO BE COMPLEMENTED BY 2 &#65532;INSIGHTS FROM A FIRM AND PARTICULARLY A MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE (HAEFLIGER ET AL., 2011; YADAV ET AL., 2013). TO DATE THE EMPIRICAL STUDIES WHICH FOCUS ON THE INTERNAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, HAVE A LIMITED FOCUS ON END USER DATA, USING USER GENERATED CONTENT AS THE UNIT OF ANALYSIS (NGAI, MOON, ET AL., 2015; NGAI, TAO, ET AL., 2015). STUDIES WHICH USE COMPANY DATA ARE MAINLY RESTRICTED TO PERFORMANCE RELATED FIGURES SUCH AS SALES VOLUMES (DHAR & CHANG, 2009; DUAN ET AL., 2008; MOE & TRUSOV, 2011; SONNIER ET AL., 2011), REVENUE (DUAN, ET AL., 2008), STOCK MARKET VALUE (HU ET AL., 2011), AND STOCK PERFORMANCE (TIRUNILLAI & TELLIS, 2012). FINALLY, THE MAJORITY OF THE STUDIES ARE POSITIVIST AND THE LIMITED NUMBER OF CASE STUDIES (E.G.GALLAUGHER & RANSBOTHAM, 2010; SCOTT & ORLIKOWSKI, 2012; WAGNER & MAJCHRZAK, 2007) USE A SINGLE SM PLATFORMS LIKE WIKIS OR TRIPADVISOR, WHICH ALTHOUGH VALUABLE, PROVIDE LIMITED INSIGHT. THIS RESEARCH WILL TAKE AN INDUCTIVE RESEARCH APPROACH, WHICH WILL BE IMPLEMENTED USING MULTIPLE CASE STUDIES (EISENHARDT ET AL., 2007; YIN, 2013). THIS RESEARCH WILL STUDY MULTIPLE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM AND WILL EXPLORE THE PROCESSES, CHALLENGES AND COPING STRATEGIES DURING SOCIAL MEDIA DATA UTILISATION. 5 IRISH COMPANIES IN THE UTILITY SECTOR HAVE AGREED TO PARTICIPATE. ALL ARE VERY ACTIVE PRESENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND HAVE AN ACTIVE CONSUMER TO CONSUMER SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE. THIS RESEARCH FOCUSES ON INVESTIGATING THE OVERALL SOCIAL MEDIA STREAM OF USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC) DATA ON BOTH GENERAL AND FIRM HOSTED SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, FOR EACH OF THE 5 CASES. AT THIS STAGE OF THE RESEARCH, SEMI-STRUCTURED FACE TO FACE INTERVIEWS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED WITH MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS IN THE 5 CASE COMPANIES. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUNDS 2016-2017 €3000 CREATING THE FEEDBACK LOOP: ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING AND STUDENT VOICE INTEGRATION IN JS BESS COURSE WITH 150+ STUDENTS THIS PROJECT TARGETS ONE OF THE GREATEST PROBLEMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION: HOW TO RESPOND IN A TIMELY AND OPTIMAL MANNER TO THE LEARNING NEEDS OF LARGE STUDENT COHORTS, TO ASSESS WHAT STUDENTS ARE LEARNING AND WHAT THEY ARE NOT. THIS PROJECT WILL RESEARCH, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT AN ASSESSMENT FOR LEARNING (AFL) APPROACH IN A JS MODULE WITH OVER 200 STUDENTS, TO ACT AS A TEMPLATE FOR USING AFL IN HIGHER EDUCATION. AN AFL APPROACH PUTS THE STUDENT AT THE CENTRE OF THEIR OWN LEARNING EXPERIENCE, ASSESSING THEIR CURRENT STATE OF KNOWLEDGE AND SETTING THE DIRECTION FOR LEARNING WITHIN THE MODULE. TRINITY TEACHNG INNOVATION GRANT €15,000 INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ALAN BRADY bradyalan ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRADYA8 LAW HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & THEORY ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, IRISH COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES MS. EAVAN BRADY bradyeavan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRADYE3 SOCIAL STUDIES EAVAN'S RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE LOCATED IN THE FIELD OF CHILD WELFARE WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE LONG-TERM WELL-BEING AND OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN IN CARE, CARE LEAVERS, AND CHILDREN EXPERIENCING DISADVANTAGE. EAVAN'S PHD RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS OF ADULT CARE LEAVERS AND AS SUCH SHE ALSO HAS A KEEN INTEREST IN THE LIFE COURSE EXPERIENCES MORE GENERALLY OF OLDER ADULT CARE LEAVERS (AGED 25+) AND THE APPLICATION OF LIFE COURSE METHODOLOGIES TO RESEARCH RELATED TO KEY SOCIAL WORK ISSUES. IN ADDITION, EAVAN IS INTERESTED IN RESEARCHING THE ROLE OF RESEARCH UTILISATION IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, DRAWING ON HER WORK WITH PRACTICE AND RESEARCH TOGETHER (PART) - A KNOWLEDGE MOBILISATION ORGANISATION. EAVAN'S LONG-TERM GOAL IS TO PURSUE RESEARCH RELATED TO THESE AREAS THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE EVIDENCE BASE INFORMING SOCIAL WORK POLICY AND PRACTICE. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CO-CHAIR: ONTARIO BOOKWORM CLUB STEERING COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTOR: PRACTICE LINKS QUARTERLY PUBLICATION, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK GROUP MANAGER: LINKEDIN EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN CARE NETWORK IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORK CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. AOIFE BRADY bradyaoife JUNIOR PROJECT MANAGER ADAPT CENTRE AMBRADY COMPUTER SCIENCE ADAPT CENTRE COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. VIVIENNE BRADY bradyvivienne ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRADYVI SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY WOMEN'S HEALTH AND MATERNITY CARE, ACTION RESEARCH, FEMINIST RESEARCH, REFLECTION AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AS A METHOD TO ADVANCE MIDWIFERY KNOWLEDGE, MODELS OF BIRTH, HEARING VOICE THROUGH METHODS OF ANALYSIS. SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ACTION RESEARCH GROUP IRELAND ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND ACTION RESEARCH ACTION RESEARCH IN SOCIAL / COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS EDUCATION EVALUATING MODELS OF MATERNITY CARE INSIDER ACTION RESEARCH MIDWIFERY REFLECTION REFLECTIVE PRACTICE VOICE WOMEN'S HEALTH EXPLORATION OF THE TRANSITION FROM STUDENT TO MIDWIFE N/A USING ACTION RESEARCH, TO ARTICULATE THE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY DEGREE PROGRAMMES, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE. N/A ANTENATAL EDUCATION: WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? FRIENDS OF THE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL DEVELOPING ANTENATAL EDUCATION IN PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD - A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH AIM: TO DEVELOP ANTENATAL EDUCATION IN PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD, BASED ON KNOWLEDGE CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH MOTHERS TO BE, MOTHERS AND ANTENATAL EDUCATORS. METHODOLOGY: THIS RESEARCH WAS GUIDED BY A PARTICIPATORY WORLDVIEW, USING A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (PAR) APPROACH INFLUENCED BY FEMINIST CONCERNS AND GROUNDED IN THE INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN AND ANTENATAL EDUCATORS. AN ACTION RESEARCH CYCLE OF CONSTRUCTING, PLANNING ACTION, TAKING ACTION AND EVALUATING ACTION WAS USED. INFORMATION WAS GATHERED THROUGH A VARIETY OF TECHNIQUES;GROUP MEETINGS(N=18) AND INDIVIDUAL (N=7)CONVERSATIONS WERE THE PRINCIPAL METHODS OF DATA GATHERING. CONVERSATIONS WERE ANALYSED USING THE LISTENING GUIDE, A VOICE-CENTRED RELATIONAL METHOD, WHICH INVOLVED MULTIPLE CONSECUTIVE READINGS OF EACH CONVERSATION. ETHICAL APPROVAL WAS GRANTED BY THE RELEVANT RESEARCH SETTINGS AND THE UNIVERSITY. FINDINGS: CYCLES OF ACTION RESEARCH ARE DESCRIBED THROUGHOUT THE FINDINGS CHAPTERS. WOMEN PORTRAY THEIR LEARNING NEEDS FOR PREGNANCY, BIRTH AND MOTHERHOOD. VARIOUS THEMES INCLUDING LONELINESS, COPING AFTER BIRTH, AND, THE RELEVANCE OF KNOWLEDGE THAT IS GROUNDED IN THE REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES OF OTHER MOTHERS ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PRACTICE ISSUES, AND ENABLING AND RESTRAINING FORCES FOR CHANGE ARE IDENTIFIED BY ANTENATAL EDUCATORS. A THEORETICAL MODEL OF ANTENATAL EDUCATION IS PROPOSED. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD DOCTORAL STUDENT STIPEND CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP SCHEME WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES OF VAGINAL EXAMINATION IN LABOUR: A META-STUDY N/A A REVIEW OF THE BABY FRIENDLY HEALTH INITIATIVE IN IRELAND HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. MICHAEL HAYES BRADY bradymichaelhayes ASST. PROF -DIR. BAI CS MBRADY COMPUTER SCIENCE MY MAIN WORK HAS BEEN IN LOGIC PROGRAMMING IMPLEMENTATIONS. OPEN PROLOG HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BY ME AND IS WIDELY USED. I AM INTERESTED IN LOGIC PROGRAMMING ENHANCEMENTS AND APPLICATIONS IN AI AND OTHER AREAS. IN ADDITION, AS AN EXPERIENCED 'LOW-LEVEL LANGUAGE' PROGRAMMER, I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN NOVEL HIGH-PERFORMANCE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF ALGORITHMS. COMPUTER SCIENCE AIG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER ACM MEMBER IEI ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPILERS COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING LOGIC PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMING, INFORMATION SYSTEMS VIDEO PROCESSING OPEN PROLOG A RELATIVELY COMPLETE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROLOG (A LOGIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE) ON THE MACINTOSH. SEE HTTP://WWW.CS.TCD.IE/OPEN-PROLOG/ DR. BEN BRAMBLE brambleben ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRAMBLEB PHILOSOPHY BRAMBLE WORKS MAINLY IN MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. HE HAS PUBLISHED ON A DIVERSE RANGE OF TOPICS, INCLUDING PLEASURE AND PAIN, WELL-BEING, MEANING IN LIFE, VALUE THEORY, WILLIAM JAMES, DESIRE AND MOTIVATION, ANIMAL ETHICS, AND MEDICAL ETHICS. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANIMAL ETHICS BIOETHICS ETHICS MORAL PHILOSOPHY MORAL THEORY PAIN PHILOSOPHY OF MIND PLEASURE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY WELL-BEING MS. JOAN F BRANGAN branganjoanf ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JBRANGAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TOPICS RELATED TO OLDER ADULTS INCLUDING FALLS PREVENTION, AGEING IN PLACE, ACTIVE AGEING, TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS, DRIVING AND TRANSPORTATION, QUALITY OF LIFE, MEMORY ENABLEMENT,DEMENTIA. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY DELIVERY IN ACUTE/COMMUNITY CARE SETTINGS. EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE, KNOWELDGE AND SKILLS AMONG IRISH OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS. CURRENTLY SUPERVISING MSC. RESEARCH ON RAISING DEMENTIA AWARENESS IN A COMMUNITY, 2014, SUPPORTED BY ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF IRELAND. SCH OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER, OLDER PERSON'S ADVISORY GROUP (OPAG), ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND. MEMBER WORLD FEDERATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS. MEMBER, CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS MEMBER, WORLD FEDERATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS MEMBER,ASSOCIATIION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI). COMMITTEE MEMBER, AOTI ADVISORY GROUP COMMITTEE ON OLDER PEOPLE OLDER ADULTS - DEMENTIA, HUMAN AND TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES RAISING DEMENTIA AWARENESS IN A COMMUNITY EVALUATION OF UNDERSTANDING AND ATTITUDES OF TRANSITION YEAR STUDENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES ABOUT DEMENTIA. CREATING EDUCATION AND AWARENESS ABOUT MAKING A COMMUNITY 'DEMENTIA FRIENDLY'. USE OF THE ASSESSMENT OF MOTOR AND PROCESS SKILLS AS A PREDICTOR OF SAFETY OF COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS. EVALUATION OF THE AMPS ASSESSMENT RESULTS OBTAINED IN A REHABILITATION UNIT OF AN ACUTE HOSPITAL AS AN ACCURATE PREDICTOR OF OVERALL SAFETY FOR COMMUNITY BASED OLDER ADULTS. IMPACT OF AN EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE COURSE ON OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS CONFIDENCE LEVELS AND GOALS A HSE SUPPORTED INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE 7 TRAINING COURSES TO 137 OT'S THROUGHOUT IRELAND DELIVERED BY MYSELF AND 2 COLLEAGUES, LED TO A RESEARCH PROJECT EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF THE PROGRAMMES ON THERAPISTS CONFIDENCE LEVELS AND THEIR GOALS TO INTEGRATE EBP WITHIN THEIR CLINICAL PRACTICE. AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MS. PATRICIA BRAZIL brazilpatricia AVERIL DEVERELL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PBRAZIL LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES FAMILY LAW, REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION LAW, CRIMINAL LAW LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH LEGAL EXPERT MEMBER OF ELENA [EUROPEAN LEGAL NETWORK ON ASYLUM] MEMBER OF CHILDWATCH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT NATIONAL CONTRIBUTOR TO UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REFUGEE LAW PROJECT VICE-CHAIRPERSON IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FAMILY LAW HUMAN RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL LAW REFUGEE AND IMMIGRATION LAW "REPORT ON SERVICES AND LEGISLATION PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME" TO PROVIDE A RESEARCH REPORT TO THE COMMISSION ON THE SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF CRIME ON THE SERVICES CURRENTLY PROVIDED IN IRELAND BY NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS AND OTHERS TO VICTIMS OF CRIME; IRISH/EUROPEAN LEGISLATION IN RELATION TO SUPPORT FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME; AND A LITERATURE REVIEW ON THE SYSTEMS FOR THE SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF CRIME PERTAINING IN EU AND NON EU COMMON LAW COUNTRIES. COMMISSION FOR THE SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF CRIME/DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND LAW REFORM INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ROB BRENNAN brennanrob SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW RBRENNA COMPUTER SCIENCE ADAPT DATA VALUE AND QUALITY, DATA CURATION, SEMANTIC MAPPING, DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATED THE TRINITY ACCESS PROGRAM (TAP) COURSE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ("WIKIPEDIA") AND HAVE PRESENTED THIS COURSE AT THE TAP SUMMER SCHOOL EACH YEAR SINCE. IRELAND. EDITORIAL BOARD (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND COMMUNICATIONS AREA), SCIENTIFIC WORLD JOURNAL (IMPACT FACTOR 1.219), HINDAWI PUBLISHING, CHINA. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND, BSC IN COMPUTING, BSC IN BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS, IRELAND REVIEW PANEL MEMBER, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY BENG IN DIGITAL MEDIA ENGINEERING DEGREE. REVIEW PANEL MEMBER, WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MSC IN COMPUTING (COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE) REVIEWER, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE (IMPACT FACTOR 3.661), USA REVIEWER, JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT, MDPI SENSORS (IMPACT FACTOR 1.953), SWITZERLAND REVIEWER, JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT, SPRINGER, GERMANY REVIEWER, THE SCIENTIFIC WORLD JOURNAL (IMPACT FACTOR 1.219), HINDAWI PUBLISHING CORPORATION, CHINA SCIENTIFIC EVALUATOR, ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMPETITIVE FEASIBILITY FUND FOR SMES COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING DATA CURATION DATA QUALITY DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS INTELLIGENT AGENTS INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH REMOTE SENSING COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS FAME, FEDERATED AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF END TO END COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES NEXT-GENERATION NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON TELCO SOLUTIONS. THE TCD FOCUS IS ON ADDING SEMANTICS AND RULES TO THE MODELLING OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AND FEDERATING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TO ENABLE DYNAMIC, END TO END MANAGEMENT ACROSS DOMAINS. ROB LEADS THE HOME AREA NETWORKS (HAN) SCENARIO (WORKING TEAM) WITHIN THE PROJECT. SFI SRC USER COMMUNITY FOR POWER CONSUMPTION DATA COLLECTION THIS PROJECT CREATED A SOCIAL SPACE ON THE WEB FOR USERS TO SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THE POWER CONSUMPTION OF DEVICES IN THEIR HOME. IT THEN USED SEMANTIC TECHNIQUES TO AUTOMATICALLY CATEGORISE AND RANK DATA ENTRIES FOR DYNAMIC PRESENTATION TO USERS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND FEASIBILITY STUDY AUTOMATED HARVESTING OF WEB INTELLIGENCE A CRITICAL SOURCE OF BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IS PRODUCT DATA-SHEETS PUBLISHED ON THE WEB IN HTML OR PDF FORMATS. THIS WORK EXPLORED NEW TECHNIQUES TO HARVEST THESE SPECIFICATIONS AND TO CONVERT THEM INTO A STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE MODEL THAT CAN, IF NECESSARY, BE RE-PUBLISHED ON THE WEB EITHER AS DIRECTED ADVERTISING OR FOR CONSUMPTION BY LINKED DATA MASHUP APPLICATIONS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHER NEMBES, NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS THE NEXT PHASE OF EMBEDDED SYSTEMS RESEARCH IS NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (NES) WHERE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS COMMUNICATE TO FORM NETWORKS OF DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LOCAL SCALE, E.G. RESPONSIVE BUILDINGS, TO MASSIVELY NETWORKED SYSTEMS, E.G. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING. THIS IS A UNIQUE PROJECT ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF NETWORKED EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (E.G. SENSORS) IN A HOLISTIC WAY ACROSS THE STACK FROM CHIP DESIGN, NETWORKING, MIDDLEWARE, AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT. THIS PROJECT IS BEING UNDERTAKEN WITH A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY TEAM IN CONJUNCTION WITH GROUPS IN CIT, UCC, UCD AND TCD'S DSG. IN THIS PROJECT, KDEG IS FURTHERING ITS RESEARCH IN SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY, SEMANTIC DRIVEN INFORMATION ROUTING AND DECLARATIVE MEANS FOR ADAPTING BEHAVIOUR OF INDIVIDUAL DEVICES AND THEIR CO-ORDINATION WITHIN A NETWORK. HEA PRTLI CNGL, THE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT CNGL IS A COLLABORATIVE ACADEMIA-INDUSTRY RESEARCH CENTRE DEDICATED TO DELIVERING DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS IN DIGITAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT, AND TO REVOLUTIONISING THE GLOBAL CONTENT VALUE CHAIN FOR ENTERPRISES, COMMUNITIES AND INDIVIDUALS. SFI CSET ALIGNED PROJECT PROPOSAL PREPARATION THIS PROJECT SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EU H2020 PROJECT CALLED ALIGNED CO-ORDINATED BY ROB BRENNAN AS PI. IT WAS ORIGINALLY TO BE CALLED SEDICE BUT CHANGED TO ALIGNED DURING THE PREPARATION PROCESS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND H2020 PROPOSAL PREPARATION SUPPORT FOR CO-ORDINATOR GANDALF: MONITORING AND SELF-TUNING OF RADIO RESOURCE MANAGMENT PARAMETERS IN A MULTI-SYSTEM NETWORK THIRD GENERATION MOBILE SYSTEMS ARE DRIVING A MULTI-SYSTEM NETWORK LANDSCAPE. NETWORK MANAGEMENT IS CRUCIAL TO GUARANTEE OPTIMUM COOPERATION BETWEEN NETWORK SUB-SYSTEMS. THE AIM OF THE GANDALF PROJECT IS TO USE LARGE SCALE NETWORK MONITORING, ADVANCED RRM RULES AND APPROPRIATE QUALITY OF SERVICE EVALUATION IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE AUTOMATION OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT TASKS IN A MULTI-SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT (GSM, GPRS, UMTS AND WLAN). THE GANDALF PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE FOLLOWING AREAS: OPTIMISATION OF THE USE OF THE AVAILABLE RADIO RESOURCES PROVISION OF SEAMLESS SERVICES MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF GLOBAL USER-PERCEIVED QOS FOR MULTI-SYSTEM NETWORKS INCLUDING WLAN ENHANCEMENT OF GLOBAL USER PERCEIVED QOS AUTOMATED NETWORK MANAGEMENT THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES TO COLLECT AND PROCESS NETWORK DATA ON A LARGE SCALE IN ORDER TO PRODUCE KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ALLOWING IDENTIFYING MALFUNCTIONS AND / OR TO DYNAMICALLY PROPOSE AND PERFORM HEALING ACTIONS. TO OPTIMISE QOS DELIVERY AND OVERALL SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE IN A MULTI-SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT, THE PROJECT WILL PROPOSE NEW RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ALGORITHMS TOGETHER WITH METHODS FOR SELF-TUNING. THE PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THROUGH NETWORK SIMULATIONS THE FEASIBILITY OF THE MULTI-SYSTEM SELF-TUNING CONCEPT. FINALLY, HARDWARE DEMONSTRATIONS WILL ALSO PROVE THE VIABILITY OF THE ARRM AND AUTO-TUNING CONCEPTS DEVELOPED IN THE PROJECT. CELTIC/ENTERPRISE IRELAND CELTIC/EURKEA MARINER, MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM FOR INTELLIGENT LOAD CONTROL USING A MARKET-BASED APPROACH WITH CO-OPERATIVE INTELLIGENT AGENTS TO CONTROL LOAD IN TELECOMS SIGNALLING NETWORKS. EC FP4 INTELLIGENT DATA QUALITY CENTRIC RECOMMENDER SYSTEM DATA QUALITY IMPACTS DATA'S FITNESS FOR USE FOR THE APPLICATION AT HAND. THERE ARE A WIDE RANGE OF QUALITY INDICATORS THAT CAN BE USED TO QUANTIFY QUALITY. HOWEVER, IT IS A CHALLENGE FOR CONSUMERS TO IDENTIFY THE MOST APPROPRIATE QUALITY INDICATORS FOR CHOOSING A DATASET FOR A SPECIFIC TASK. THIS PROBLEM STEMS FROM THE FACT THAT DIFFERENT DOMAINS REQUIRE DIFFERENT QUALITY INDICATORS TO DEMONSTRATE FITNESS FOR USE. WHILST A NUMBER OF QUALITY ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORKS EXIST, NONE OF THESE TACKLE THE FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE OF INDICATOR SELECTION. THE NOVELTY OF THIS PROJECT IS THAT IT PROVIDES AN INTELLIGENT RECOMMENDER SYSTEM THAT BUILDS ON TOP OF EXISTING QUALITY FRAMEWORKS IN ORDER TO ASSIST DATA CONSUMERS BY AUTOMATICALLY SUGGESTING QUALITY INDICATORS FOR THE TASK AT HAND. THESE QUALITY INDICATORS WILL THEN FACILITATE THE TASK DEPENDENT APPRAISAL OF DATASETS ON THE WEB OF DATA. THE GOAL IS TO SUPPORT DATA CONSUMERS AND ENHANCE THEIR PRODUCTIVITY BY FINDING FIT FOR USE DATA SOURCES FOR THEIR TASKS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND) VALUEDATA ICT16 CO-ORDINATOR SUPPORT THIS PROJECT FUNDS MY DEVELOPMENT OF THE VALUEDATE H2020 PROPOSAL FOR VALUE-DRIVEN DATA GOVERNANCE. IT INCLUDES WRITING SUPPORT, CONSORTIUM MEETINGS AND BUY-OUT OF MY REGULAR RESEARCH RESPONSIBILITIES SO THAT I CAN FOCUS ON PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT. ENTERPRSIE IRELAND H2020 COORDINATOR SUPPORT GRANT ADAPT CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CONTENT TECHNOLOGY FUNDED COLLABORATOR IN SFI RESEARCH CENTRE FOCUSED ON DIGITAL DATA MANAGEMENT, QUALITY AND INTEROPERABILITY (THEME E WITHIN THE RESEARCH CENTRE). SFI RESEARCH CENTRE ALIGNED, QUALITY-CENTRIC SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING THE RAPID GROWTH OF WEB DATA CREATES DEMAND FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING METHODS WHICH CAN BUILD AND MAINTAIN APPLICATIONS THAT EXTRACT, PROCESS AND PUBLISH WEB DATA. HOWEVER, CONVERTING BIG DATA SOURCES INTO HIGH-QUALITY, STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE FOR USE IN BUSINESS PROCESSES IS USUALLY CONSIDERED DATA ENGINEERING. ALIGNED WILL DEVELOP MODELS, METHODS AND TOOLS FOR ENGINEERING INFORMATION SYSTEMS BASED ON CO-EVOLVING SOFTWARE AND WEB DATA. TOOLS FOR MODEL-DRIVEN SOFTWARE EVOLUTION BASED ON LINKED DATA SOURCES, RUNTIME DATA QUALITY ANALYTICS, HUMAN DATA CURATION AND PROCESS INTEGRATION WILL AID MORE EFFICIENT GOVERNANCE, INCREASED AGILITY AND HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY. THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WEB DATA HAVE RECENTLY LED TO INTENSE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION, BUT MOST EFFORTS ARE SILOED IN THE SOFTWARE OR DATA SPACES. PAST INTEGRATION OF DATA AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING USED FORMAL ONTOLOGIES RATHER THAN LINKED DATA. ALIGNED WILL PROVIDE LIGHTWEIGHT METHODS FOR EUROPEAN DATA AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES TO EXPLOIT THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN WEB DATA. INFORMATION COMPANIES LIKE WOLTERS KLUWER NEED BETTER WAYS TO EXTRACT WEB DATA AND BUILD APPLICATIONS ON TOP OF IT. PUBLIC BODIES LIKE THE UK NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS) NEED EVOLVING SYSTEMS FOR DATA COLLECTION AND RE-USE. WEB DATA PUBLISHERS LIKE DBPEDIA NEED NEW METHODS TO IMPROVE DATA QUALITY. SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS, INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS, TRAINING PROGRAMS, OPEN SOURCE TOOLS AND ENGAGING THE OMG, W3C AND ISO STANDARDS BODIES WILL TRANSFER ALIGNED OUTPUTS.ALIGNED COMBINES WORLD CLASS RESEARCHERS IN MODEL DRIVEN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (OXFORD ARE TRANSFORMING NHS SYSTEMS), LINKED DATA QUALITY (LEIPZIG AND TRINITY COLLEGE HAVE PUBLISHED FOUNDATIONAL PAPERS) AND WEB SYSTEMS (LEIPZIG ARE CO-CREATORS OF DBPEDIA) WITH INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISES (WOLTERS KLUWER HAVE LINKED DATA IN PRODUCTION SYSTEMS, SEMANTIC WEB COMPANY LEAD THE WORLD IN ENTERPRISE LINKED DATA) AND PIONEERING EXPERT-CURATED DATA PUBLISHERS (OXFORD ANTHROPOLOGY AND POSNAN). EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020 DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. SABINA BRENNAN brennansabina RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRENNAS7 TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) ADAPT TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENTIAL DECLINE IN COGNITIVE AGEING AND DEMENTIA, THE EARLY DETECTION OF COGNITIVE DECLINE AND DEMENTIA, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERVENTIONS TO PREVENT DECLINE. COGNITIVE RESERVE TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AGEING AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA BRAIN AGEING COGNITION ENHANCEMENT COGNITIVE DECLINE COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE ELDERLY COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION COGNITIVE FUNCTION COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE COGNITIVE-PROCESSES DEMENTIA DEMENTIA, NEURODEGENERATIVE POSITIVE AGEING OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS OTHER HUMANITIES DESTRESS:COGNITIVE FUNCTION, CAREGIVER STRESS AND CORTISOL: MECHANISMS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION OF ADVERSE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES IN SPOUSE DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS. BACKGROUND: THE INCREASED INCIDENCE OF DEMENTIA WITH ADVANCING AGE TOGETHER WITH DEMOGRAPHIC AGEING GIVE RISE TO AN EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN THE NEED FOR DEMENTIA CARE. MUCH OF THIS CARE IS PROVIDED BY INFORMAL CAREGIVERS FREQUENTLY SPOUSES WHO ARE USUALLY AGED OVER 60. THERE IS CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE THAT DEMENTIA CAREGIVING LEADS TO A NUMBER OF NEGATIVE HEALTH OUTCOMES INCLUDING ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PHYSICAL ILLNESS, HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS AND EVEN PREMATURE DEATH. CARING FOR A PROGRESSIVELY DEMENTING SPOUSE IS A PROTOTYPIC CHRONIC STRESSOR. CHRONIC PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS HAS BEEN IMPLICATED IN AGE-RELATED COGNITIVE DECLINE. ELEVATED CORTISOL LEVELS INDICATE STRESS AND MAY BE A RISK FACTOR FOR COGNITIVE DECLINE. DESPITE AN EXTENSIVE LITERATURE ON THE EFFECTS OF AGE, CHRONIC STRESS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION RESEARCH EXAMINING COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN CAREGIVERS AND IN PARTICULAR CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA, IS SPARSE. AIMS: THE MAIN AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO CLARIFY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND THE STRESS ASSOCIATED WITH CARING FOR A SPOUSE WITH DEMENTIA. DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS MAY BE A POPULATION AT RISK FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND POSSIBLY DEMENTIA. IRELAND'S HEAVY RELIANCE ON INFORMAL CAREGIVING IN DEMENTIA WILL ONLY REMAIN FEASIBLE IF THE DETERMINANTS OF THE HEALTH OF CAREGIVERS ARE UNDERSTOOD AND OPTIMISED. THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF THIS STUDY IS TO INFORM POLICY, FUTURE RESEARCH AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TARGETED INTERVENTIONS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE CAREGIVER HEALTH AND MAKE CARE IN THE COMMUNITY A VIABLE OPTION, NOT ONLY FOR THE INDIVIDUAL WITH DEMENTIA, BUT ALSO FOR THEIR CAREGIVER. MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES GROUP AND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RELATE - BENEFIT OF RELATIONSHIP-BASED MEALTIME INTERVENTION IN SOCIAL ISOLATED OLDER ADULTS AIM: TO DETERMINE THE BENEFIT OF A RELATIONSHIP-BASED NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTION IN OLDER PEOPLE LIVING ALONE. METHODS: ONE HUNDRED OLDER PEOPLE LIVING ALONE WILL BE RECRUITED THROUGH LOCAL COMMUNITY SERVICES. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE RANDOMISED TO EITHER I) A RELATIONSHIP-BASED NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTION DELIVERED BY A TRAINED VOLUNTEER FOR APPROX 180 MINUTES ONCE A WEEK FOR EIGHT WEEKS. PARTICIPANTS WILL ALSO BE GIVEN DIETARY ADVICE AND WILL BE MADE AWARE OF LOCAL COMMUNITY BASED MEAL-PROVISION SERVICES WHERE THEY CAN AVAIL OF LOW-COST MEALS TO BE CONSUMED IN A SOCIAL SETTING. OR II) A CONTROL INTERVENTION WHERE PARTICIPANTS WILL BE GIVEN DIETARY ADVICE AND WILL BE MADE AWARE OF LOCAL COMMUNITY BASED MEAL-PROVISION SERVICES WHERE THEY CAN AVAIL OF LOW-COST MEALS TO BE CONSUMED IN A SOCIAL SETTING. ENDPOINTS: PARTICIPANTS IN THE INTERVENTION AND CONTROL GROUPS WILL BE ASSESSED AT BASELINE, IMMEDIATELY POST-INTERVENTION (8 WEEKS) AND AT 12-WEEK AND 26-WEEK FOLLOW-UP FOR CHANGES IN: QUALITY OF LIFE, COGNITIVE FUNCTION, SOCIAL CONNECTION, MOOD, BMI, WALKING SPEED EXPECTED OUTCOMES: SHORT-TERM AND SUSTAINED BENEFIT FOR THE RELATIONAL NUTRITIONAL INTERVENTION, NUTRITIONAL ADVICE AND INFORMATION ON LOCAL SOCIAL MEAL SERVICE PROVISION OVER NUTRITIONAL ADVICE AND INFORMATION ON LOCAL SOCIAL MEAL SERVICE PROVISION ALONE. HOME INSTEAD INC FRAILTY, COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND CAREGIVER STRESS ROLE: CO-SUPERVISOR PHD CANDIDATE: MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN AIMS: TO INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRAILTY AND CAREGIVER STRESS. TO DEVELOP MARKERS THAT PREDICT COGNITIVE DECLINE. OBJECTIVE: TO CHARACTERISE THE COGNITIVE, EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH STAUS IN A COHORT OF DEMENTIA CAREGIVERS AND TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FRAILTY, INFLAMMATORY MARKERS, STRESS, PUPILLOMETRY, RESTING EEG AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION AT BASELINE (TIME 1) AND AFTER 18 MONTHS FOLLOW-UP (TIME 2). IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL - ENTERPRISE SCHEME NEIL NEUROENHANCEMENT FOR INDEPENDENT LIVES VISION:TO DEVELOP, EVALUATE, AND DELIVER NEUROENHANCEMENT TO OLDER PEOPLE WORLD-WIDE THE PROBLEM:FAILING COGNITIVE FUNCTION PREVENTS MILLIONS OF OLDER ADULTS GLOBALLY FROM LIVING INDEPENDENTLY. THE GOAL: ENABLE INDEPENDENT LIVING AND IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE BY: CONDUCTING RESEARCH AIMED AT DEMENTIA PREVENTION AND COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT; TRANSFORMING THIS KNOWLEDGE INTO EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED INTERVENTIONS; USING THIS KNOWLEDGE TO EDUCATE AND EMPOWER OLDER ADULTS TO MAINTAIN THEIR COGNITIVE FUNCTION FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE NEIL (NEURO-ENHANCEMENT FOR INDEPENDENT LIVES) WAS ESTABLISHED, WITH PHILANTHROPIC FUNDING FROM ATLANTIC PHILANTHRPIES, TO CREATE A RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE TO ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS TO DELAY DEMENTIA. THE NIEL PROGRAMME FOR COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT AND DEMENTIA PREVENTION COMPRISES BOTH RESEARCH AND INTERVENTION INITIATIVES AND AIMS FOR A BROAD INTEGRATION BETWEEN BASIC SCIENCE MECHANISMS OF COGNITIVE DECLINE AND SCALABLE INTERVENTIONS TO DELAY DEMENTIA. THE NIEL PROGRAMME COORDINATES RESEARCH IN A WAY THAT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MORE TRADITIONAL FUNDING OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS OR TEAMS. NEIL BRINGS COHERENCE AND FOCUS TO DEMENTIA AND COGNITIVE AGEING RESEARCH BY ADOPTING AN APPROACH THAT IS INTERDISCIPLINARY (E.G. NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, MEDICINE, BIOENGINEERING, SOCIAL), COLLABORATIVE (RESEARCHERS, CLINICIANS AND INDUSTRY) AND INTERNATIONAL. IN THE ABSENCE OF INNOVATIVE AND AMBITIOUS COORDINATION AND SUPPORT PROGRAMMES LIKE NIEL PROGRESS CAN STALL AND RESEARCH CAN BECOME FRAGMENTED AND INEFFICIENT. THE RESEARCH CONDUCTED UNDER THE NEIL UMBRELLA STRADDLES TWO MAJOR RESEARCH PROGRAMMES IDENTIFIED IN TCD'S STRATEGIC PLAN: AGEING AND INDEPENDENT LIVING AND NEUROSCIENCE. NEIL BENEFITS HUGELY FROM WORKING WITHIN THE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE, A RECOGNISED CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN AGEING RESEARCH. ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES NEIL TCIN-GSK NEURODEGENERATION PROGRAM AS PART OF THE TCIN-GSK NEURODEGENERATION PROGRAM THIS RESEARCH PROJECT, STUDY 1.1 AIMED TO IDENTIFYI NOVEL COGNITIVE, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIOURAL ENDPOINTS IN HUMAN PARTICIPANTS THAT OFFER GREATER SENSITIVITY TO AGE-INDUCED COGNITIVE CHANGES THAN PREVIOUS ENDPOINTS. GLAXO-SMITH KLEIN, IDA IDENTIFYING EARLY INFLAMMATORY CHANGES IN MONOCYTE-DERIVED MACROPHAGES FROM A POPULATION WITH IQ-DISCREPANT EPISODIC MEMORY THIS STUDY WHICH BUILDS ON WORK CONDUCTED IN SABINA BRENNAN'S PHD EXAMINES BLOOD SAMPLES FOR CELLULAR MARKERS OF INFLAMMATION. IF SUCCESSFUL, IT COULD OFFER A MAJOR OPENING FOR EARLY SCREENING AND HENCE EARLY PREVENTION. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PROTECTIVE EFFECT OF COGNITIVE RESERVE AGAINST COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ROLE: PHD CO-SUPERVISOR CANDIDATE: CAOIMHE HANNIGAN AIM: INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF COGNITIVE AGEING AND THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES THAT MEDIATE AND MODERATE COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN LATER LIFE. OBJECTIVES:ELUCIDATE COGNITIVE RESERVE BY A) DEVELOPING A MODEL OF THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE IT; AND B) USING THIS MODEL TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT COGNITIVE RESERVE IS MEDIATED BY NORADRENERGIC FUNCTION. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EMBARK INITIATIVE NEUROCOGNITIVE AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL INDICES OF COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN AGEING THIS PROJECT EXPLORED INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN HEALTHY ELDERLY AND AIMED TO IDENTIFY NEUROCOGNITIVE AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL MARKERS THAT INDEX COGNITIVE DECLINE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EMBARK INITIATIVE ASAPS MISSION: TO INCREASE THE VISIBILITY AND THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF HEALTH RESEARCH. AIM: TO COMMUNICATE THE BENEFITS OF EUROPEAN HEALTH RESEARCH TO EUROPEANS. GOALS: PROMOTE HEALTH RESEARCH AND HEALTHY AGEING. PROBLEM: OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS THE EU HAS INVESTED MORE THAN 5 BILLION EURO IN HEALTH RESEARCH. UNFORTUNATELY, THE BENEFIT OF THIS SUPERB RESEARCH IS RARELY COMMUNICATED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. IN FACT, DESPITE THE FACT THAT 70% OF EUROPEANS ARE INTERESTED IN MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESEARCH LESS THAN 10% OF RESEARCHERS DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES ARE AIMED AT THE GENERAL PUBLIC. SOLUTION: IF YOU CONDUCT PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH THEN YOU KNOW THAT THIS HAS TO CHANGE. ASAPS CAN HELP INCREASE THE IMPACT OF YOUR RESEARCH AND YOU TURN YOUR DISSEMINATION OBLIGATION INTO AN OPPORTUNITY FUNDING: 1,000,000 PROJECT COORDINATOR: SABINA BRENNAN PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR: SABINA BRENNAN SEE PROJECT WEBSITE ASAPS-SHARINGAGE.EU EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 FREEDEM THE GOAL: IMPROVE COGNITIVE HEALTH BEHAVIOURS IN OLDER ADULTS. THE IDEA: DEVELOP AND EVALUATE A SERIES OF ONLINE FILMS THAT PROVIDE PRACTICAL INFORMATION, GROUNDED IN SCIENCE, ON MAINTAINING COGNITIVE HEALTH THE PROBLEM: THE STIGMA OF DEMENTIA PREVENTS OPEN DISCUSSION, AND THE FALSE BELIEF THAT NOTHING CAN BE DONE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FAMILIES. A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND ALL TOO FREQUENT MISINFORMATION MEAN THAT PEOPLE OFTEN MISCONSTRUE THE MEMORY LOSS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (AD) AS 'NORMAL' FOR OLDER PEOPLE AND DON'T BRING FAMILY MEMBERS IN FOR ASSESSMENT. IN ADDITION, PEOPLE MISTAKENLY ACCEPT THAT COGNITIVE DECLINE AS AN INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE OF NORMAL AGEING AND FAIL TO SEEK MEDICAL OPINION. BY PROVIDING COGNITIVE HEALTH ADVICE AND BY PROVIDING CLEAR SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION THAT SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORMAL AND ABNORMAL MEMORY FUNCTIONING (E.G. MEMORY LOSS OF AD IS DIFFERENT TO THE MEMORY LOSS THAT YOU WOULD FIND WITH AGEING) AND MAKE PEOPLE AWARE THAT MEMORY PROBLEMS CAN BE A CONSEQUENCE OF OTHER DISEASES OR DISORDERS (E.G. DIABETES) THAT REQUIRE MEDICAL ATTENTION. THE FILMS WILL ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE PROACTIVE AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR COGNITIVE HEALTH, MAKE IMPORTANT LIFESTYLE CHANGES THAT REDUCE RISK FACTORS, LEARN STRATEGIES THAT SUPPORT DECLINING ABILITIES, SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE IN ORDER TO FACILITATE EARLY INTERVENTION AND DIAGNOSIS AND ADVANCE DIRECTIVES. THE AUDIENCE: THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND ADULTS AGED 50+ SPECIFICALLY THE APPROACH: TCD WILL USE ITS SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD OF COGNITIVE AGEING AND DEMENTIA TO COLLATE AND COORDINATE BENEFICIAL INFORMATION FROM A WIDE RANGE OF COGNITIVE AGEING RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND TRANSLATE IT INTO USEABLE, INTERPRETABLE AND ENGAGING HEALTH AND WELL-BEING SHORT FILMS THAT CAN BE DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC ONLINE OR VIA WORKSHOPS FACILITATED BY A COGNITIVE COACH. THIS EDUCATIONAL CONTENT WILL ENABLE AND EMPOWER IRISH CITIZENS IN A WAY THAT WILL PROMOTE ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGEING AND RAISE AWARENESS THAT COGNITIVE DECLINE WITH AGE IS NOT INEVITABLE. THE SCIENTIFIC CONTENT WILL BE SHAPED BY USER-INPUT AND REFRAMED SO THAT ALL CONTENT IS BOTH ENGAGING (TO ENABLE EDUCATION AND SHARING) AND ACCURATE (DELIVERING IMPACT AND INSPIRING ACTION). THE FILMS WILL BE PRODUCED BY 360PRODUCTIONS AND WILL USE AN ATTENTION-GRABBING COMBINATION OF CLEVER CUTTING-EDGE GRAPHICS AND SHARP SCRIPTS, EACH FILM WILL DELIVER A KEY MESSAGE IN ONE ENTERTAINING BITE-SIZED CHUNK. THE COGNITIVE COACHING FILM MODULES ARE DESIGNED TO DELIVER THE PROJECTS KEY AIMS: TO MAKE THE SCIENCE OF BRAIN AGING KNOWN TO THE WIDER POPULATION; SO THEY RETAIN KEY KNOWLEDGE, AND DEVELOP THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WILL ALLOW THEM TO USE THEIR NEW KNOWLEDGE TO TAKE PRACTICAL STEPS TO IMPROVE THEIR LIFESTYLES AND THE LIFESTYLES OF THOSE THEY CARE FOR LEADING ULTIMATELY TO LESS STIGMA, LESS DISTRESS, AND EARLIER DIAGNOSIS, NOT JUST OF DEMENTIA, BUT ALSO OF OTHER CONDITIONS THAT IMPAIR COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND ULTIMATELY LEAD TO A HEALTHIER IRISH POPULATION. GENIO DEMENTIA FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES - LEARNING NETWORK NEIL MEMORY RESEARCH UNIT THE NEIL MEMORY RESEARCH UNIT USES A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT PROTOCOL TO COLLECT DETAILED DATA ON MEMORY AND RELATED COGNITIVE PROCESSES, AND A RANGE OF FACTORS THAT MAY IMPACT ON THESE PROCESSES AS WE AGE. THIS RICH DATABASE WILL ALLOW US TO CONDUCT EXTENSIVE RESEARCH, TO INVESTIGATE A RANGE OF HYPOTHESES RELATED TO COGNITIVE AGEING. WE ARE CURRENTLY RECRUITING RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS AGED 50+ TO PARTICIPATE IN ASSESSMENT SESSIONS AT THIS UNIT. FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/NEUROSCIENCE/NEIL/RESEARCH/MEMORY/ EARLY INTERVENTION COORDINATION NEIL IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF IRELAND IN THE APPOINTMENT OF AN EARLY INTERVENTION COORDINATOR. THE PURPOSE OF THIS COLLABORATION IS TO RESEARCH, DEVELOP AND DELIVER A SYSTEM OF INTERVENTIONS THAT ARE RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH EARLY-STAGE DEMENTIA. THIS WORK WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY DR. MICHELLE KELLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR SABINA BRENNAN AND THE REST OF THE NEIL TEAM, WORKING DIRECTLY WITH THE ALZHEIMER SOCIETY AND WITH PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FAMILIES. DEPT. OF ARTS HERITAGE AND THE GAELTACHT AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. MICHAEL BRENNAN brennanmichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRENNAMI SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 REGISTERED NURSE TUTOR AN BORD ALTRANAIS REGISTERED PSYCHIATRIC NURSE AN BORD ALTRANAIS ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY, DISCRIMINATION AND MARGINALIZATION EQUALITY ISSUES FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FORENSIC NURSING HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES INTER/MULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION MENTAL HEALTH NURSING SERVICE NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDERS SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH TRANSFORMATIVE THEORIES IN RESEARCH PATHWAYS TO MENTAL HEALTH CARE OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS WITHIN THE IRISH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM CJS THIS RESEARCH IDENTIFIES THE MANY BARRIERS THAT IRISH PRISONERS ENCOUNTERED WHEN ACCESSING AND MAINTAINING LINKS WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PRIOR TO INCARCERATION. THESE ARE: LACK OF RECOGNITION OF MENTAL ILLNESS BY PARTICIPANTS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, LIMITED REFERRAL OPTIONS, OVER-RELIANCE ON PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS TO MANAGE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, STIGMA, LACK OF OR BREAKDOWN OF SOCIAL SUPPORTS, AND LIMITED PROFESSIONAL SUPPORTS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. COMBINATIONS OF THESE BARRIERS WITH INDIVIDUAL CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SHOWN TO BE IMPORTANT PREDISPOSING FACTORS FOR FUTURE INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. THIS RESEARCH MAKES SEVERAL ASSERTIONS. FIRSTLY, THE CJS IS INCREASINGLY BECOMING A PATHWAY TO ACCESSING MENTAL HEALTH CARE. THIS CLAIM IS STRONGLY SUPPORTED BY PARTICIPANTS' LEVEL OF DISENGAGEMENT WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PRIOR TO INCARCERATION REVEALED BY THIS STUDY. SECONDLY, MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDERS ARE GRADUALLY BECOMING RE-INSTITUTIONALISED WITHIN THE IRISH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. THIS FINDING DEMONSTRATES THAT THE WHO'S PREDICTION WITHIN THE TRENCÍN STATEMENT THAT PRISONS 'WILL' BECOME TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ASYLUMS (WHO 2007, P. 5) HAS IN FACT HAPPENED. THIRDLY A NOTEWORTHY CONTENTION OF THIS RESEARCH INVOLVES THE PROCESS OF RE-INTEGRATION WITH THE COMMUNITY FOLLOWING A PERIOD OF INCARCERATION. THIS RESEARCH REVEALS THAT THE PROCESS OF RE-INTEGRATION IS COMPLICATED BY PARTICIPANTS' LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THEIR CONVICTION THAT THEY FEEL EXTREMELY STIGMATISED BY SOCIETY AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOLLOWING PREVIOUS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE CJS. A PRAGMATIC EXPLORATORY SEQUENTIAL MIXED METHODS DESIGN WAS UTILISED FOR THIS STUDY. IT WAS CONDUCTED IN TWO PHASES. THE FIRST USED A QUALITATIVE DESIGN. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A QUANTITATIVE PHASE WHICH USED AN ADAPTED VERSION OF THE PATHWAYS ENCOUNTER FORM. THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN TRINTIY COLLEGE PHD AN EVALUATION OF POWER (PROMOTING OUR OWN WELLNESS AND PROMOTING RECOVERY): A PEER PRISONER MENTORING PROGRAMME. DOYLE, L (PI), HIGGINS, A., KEOGH, B., BRENNAN, M. & MORRISSEY, J. SUICIDE OR SURVIVE EXPLORING PRACTICES, POLICIES AND PROCESSES AROUND RISK AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT WITHIN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING SERVICES (SMARTER NURSING STUDY) HIGGINS, A. DOYLE, L., NASH, M., BRENNAN, M. COSTELLO, P. & MORRISEY, J. HSE AND NPMDU YOUNG ADULTS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THIS PROJECT SET TO CONDUCT A BROAD LITERATURE SEARCH INITIALLY. THIS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN AS PART OF A LARGER SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE TO FOCUS ON CURRENT MENTAL HEALTH PROVISION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN CONTACT WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND OUT TO DESCRIBE INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE. IT CONCLUDES BY FORMULATES EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS. IRISH PRISON REFORM TRUST INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. DAMIEN JOHN BRENNAN brennandamienjohn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DBRENNAN SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SOCIOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ILLNESS; HEALTH PROMOTION, PARTICULARLY MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION; SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS; ECONOMICS OF SOCIAL POLICY; EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE; DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AND EQUALITY ISSUES; NURSING THEORY; RESEARCH THEORY AND UTILISATION SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AN BORD ALTRANAIS, REGISTERED NURSE TUTOR AN BORD ALTRANAIS, REGISTERED PSYCHIATRIC SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND, MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE. AETIOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS DEVELOPMENT STUDIES DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER GENDER ISSUES, GENDER STUDIES MENTAL HEALTH NURSING MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION PATTERNS OF HEALTH PSYCHIATRY SOCIAL THEORY SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH SOCIOLOGY OF ILLNESS AND HEALTH A VISUAL HISTORY OF THE "THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONFINEMENT IN IRELAND" THIS RESEARCH INVOLVES AN EXPLORATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF CONFINEMENT IN IRELAND PARTICULARLY THE ARCHITECTURE OF ASYLUM BUILDINGS, WORKHOUSES AND MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES. THIS RESEARCH INVOLVES FIELD VISITS TO THESE SITES OF CONFINEMENT, THE ARCHIVING OF MAPS, THE COLLECTION OF ARCHITECTURAL PLANS AND THE PHOTOGRAPHING OF THESE BUILDINGS. THE EMERGING SOCIOLOGICAL THEMES OF STRUCTURE, SYSTEM, POWER, CONTROL, SHAME, STIGMA, MYTH AND INSTITUTIONALISATION ARE BEING EXAMINED, IN PARTICULAR HOW THESE BUILDINGS CAN INTERACT AND AFFECT HUMAN BEHAVIOUR. THIS RESEARCH IS TIMELY AND URGENT AS MANY OF THESE BUILDINGS ARE CURRENTLY BEING SOLD AND CONVERTED TO APARTMENT TYPE PRIVATE ACCOMMODATION. A CONSIDERATION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION POLICIES AND PROGRAMS IN THE EASTERN HEALTH BOARD REGION, IN THE CONTEXT OF A DEVELOPED THEORY OF MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION THIS RESEARCH CONSIDERED WHETHER THE THEORY OF MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION IS REFLECTED IN THE MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES WITHIN THE EASTERN HEALTH BOARD (EHB) REGION IN THE PERIOD 1995-2000. RESEARCH METHODS UTILISED INCLUDED CONCEPT ANALYSIS, DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS, AND SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS. THIS RESEARCH ESTABLISHED THAT GAPS EXIST BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION THEORY AND THE MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION POLICIES AND PROGRAMS IN THE EHB REGION. STRATEGIES INCLUDING PROGRAMS OF EDUCATION WERE PROPOSED AND KEY RECOMMENDATIONS WERE MADE. A CRITICAL CONSIDERATION OF THE CHANGING SOCIAL PROCESSES OF CONSTRUCTION, CATEGORISATION AND TREATMENT OF "LUNACY", "MADNESS" AND "MENTAL ILLNESS" IN IRELAND BETWEEN 1750-2000 THIS IS MY PHD RESEARCH WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY TRINITY COLLEGE COMPLETED OCTOBER 2006, WHICH WAS SUPERVISED BY PROFESSOR ROBERT HOLTON. THIS RESEARCH IDENTIES AND EXPLORES THE SOCIAL TRAJECTORY AND PROCESSES THAT HAVE RESULTED IN INDIVIDUALS BEING TREATED FOR "MENTAL ILLNESS" IN IRELAND OVER THE PAST TWO-HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS. THIS RESEARCH PROVIDES A PLATFORM FOR FUTURE RESEARCH ADDRESSING CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL POLICY CONCERNING MENTAL HEALTH IN IRELAND FROM A SPECTRUM OF PARADIGMS INCLUDING THE SOCIAL, MEDICAL, HISTORICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC. "BEHIND THE WALLS" (TV DOCUMENTARY RTE 9.30-10.30 SEPTEMBER 5TH & 12TH) MY RESEARCH WAS DRAWN ON AND I CONTRIBUTED TO A 2 PART TV DOCUMENTARY "BEHIND THE WALLS" (PRODUCED BY MARY RAFTERY). THIS WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH OUTPUT WHICH HAD AN IMPORTANT IMPACT AT THE POLITICAL, PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC LEVEL. RTE AN IRISH STATE OF MIND (TV4 FEBRUARY 2014) MY RESEARCH WAS DRAWN ON AND CONTRIBUTED TO A 3 PART TV DOCUMENTARY "AN IRISH STATE OF MIND"(PRODUCED BY BRENDAN CULLETON). THIS RESEARCH OUTPUT EXPLOED THE HISTORY AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH IN IRELAND OVER THE PAST THREE CENTURIES . TV4 UNDERSTANDING FAMILY STRATEGIES THAT ENABLE LONG TERM AND SUSTAINABLE HOME ENVIRONMENTS FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (IDS-TILDA) IS THE FIRST AND MOST EXTENSIVE SUCH STUDY TO BE CONDUCTED IN IRELAND OR IN THE EU, AND IT IS RECOGNISED INTERNATIONALLY AS PIONEERING IN THIS FIELD. THIS STUDY PROVIDES THE DEFINITIVE AND MOST NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID. WITHIN THIS STUDY THE NOW COMPLETED "CARER'S SELF-COMPLETION QUESTIONNAIRE" HAS A SAMPLE OF 62 CARERS OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID LIVING WITHIN FAMILY SETTINGS. THE KEY METHODOLOGY EMPLOYED IN THIS STUDY ENTAILED QUALITATIVE FOCUS GROUPS AND INTERVIEWS WITH THESE FAMILIES. ALL FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS WERE TRANSCRIBED AND DATA INPUTTED INTO NVIVO WITH DATA ANALYSED AND MINED TO EXTRACT KEY THEMES AND CONCEPTS. OBJECTIVES: . DESCRIBE THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS WITHIN FAMILIES CARING FOR AN OLDER PERSON WITH AN ID 1. DESCRIBE STRATEGIES FOR LONG TERM CARE PLANNING WITHIN FAMILIES 2. DESCRIBE PATTERNS OF TRANSFER OF CARE (PARENT TO SIBLING, SIBLING TO SIBLING ETC) 3. DESCRIBE KEY FAMILY, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL FACTORS INFLUENCING STRATEGIES FOR LONG TERM FAMILY CARE . ILLUMINATE BARRIERS AND ENABLERS FOR FAMILIES WITH AN OLDER PERSON WITH ID 1. IDENTIFY PRESSURE POINTS FOR THESE FAMILIES 2. IDENTIFY STRATEGIES, SUPPORTS AND ENABLERS WHICH SUSTAIN OLDER PEOPLE WITH ID WITHIN THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SETTING INCLUDING THE ROLE OF CAREGIVING NETWORKS AND SUPPORTIVE NEIGHBOURS AND COMMUNITIES . IDENTIFY BEST PRACTICE FOR SUPPORTING FAMILIES WITH AN OLDER PERSON WITH ID 1. IDENTIFY GAPS BETWEEN FAMILY EXPERIENCES AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ID SOCIAL POLICY 2. ARTICULATE THE PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILIES WITH REGARD TO FUTURE POLICY 3. PROPOSE MODELS OF SUPPORT THAT FACILITATE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY IN SUSTAINING OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID WITHIN THE COMMUNITY NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY RESEARCH PROMOTION SCHEME YOUNG ADULTS IN THE IRISH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM-MENTAL HEALTH PROVISION THIS RESEARCH PROJECT EXAMINES CURRENT MENTAL HEALTH PROVISION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN CONTACT WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. IT IS FUNDED BY THE IRISH PRISON REFORM TRUST (IPRT). THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE CONDUCTING OF A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE TO FOCUS ON CURRENT MENTAL HEALTH PROVISION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN CONTACT WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND TO DESCRIBE INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE. IT ALSO INVOLVES INTERVIEWING/CONSULTING WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN THIS FIELD. THE OUTCOME OF THIS RESEARCH IS PUBLICATION OF A FINAL REPORT AND EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS. IRISH PRISON REFORM TRUST AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUNDINAL STUDY ON AGEING TILDA. WAVE II III. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD & DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH UNDERSTANDING THE CONTRIBUTORS TO BETTER INTEGRATION AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION BY PERSONS WITH SEVERE AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY A TIME TO MOVE ON FROM CONGREGATED SETTINGS: A STRATEGY FOR COMMUNITY INCLUSION (HSE, 2011) RECOMMENDS A MODEL OF COMMUNITY INCLUSION TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY CURRENTLY LIVING IN CONGREGATED SETTINGS TO MOVE TO DISPERSED HOUSING IN ORDINARY COMMUNITIES. HOWEVER, THERE IS INSUFFICIENT DATA ON HOW SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY INCLUSION AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION MAY BE ACHIEVED FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. AS A MEANS OF FILLING THIS GAP, THE RESEARCH TEAM, WORKING WITH INCLUSION IRELAND CONDUCTED IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH CARERS AND SERVICE MANAGERS OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH SEVERE AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY TO DISCERN BEST PRACTICES, DEVELOP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING, AND INFORM PUBLIC POLICY. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PILOT STUDY TO ENHANCE LONG TERM CARE PLANNING FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) IN IRELAND AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF A PILOT INTERVENTION TO ADDRESS FAMILIES' FUTURE CARE PLANNING TO SUPPORT OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID TO AGE IN A PLACE OF THEIR CHOOSING. THIS PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH WILL INVOLVE FAMILY MEMBERS AND CARE RECIPIENTS FROM THE OUTSET TO IDENTIFY CHALLENGES AND FACILITATORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FUTURE CARE PLANNING AT A FAMILY LEVEL WITH A VIEW TO DEVISING BEST PRACTICE GUIDANCE FOR THIS SPECIFIC TRANSITION PLANNING. THIS WILL ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LONG TERM CARE PLANNING MODEL/TOOL FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID. IN ADDITION, THIS PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROCESS ENGAGES IMPORTANT QUESTIONS RELATING TO DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES, SOCIAL INCLUSION AND CARE PROVISION IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH SOCIETY SO AS TO INFORM SOCIAL POLICY AT A NATIONAL LEVEL AND LINK PRACTICE AND POLICY AT A REGINAL AND LOCAL LEVEL. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL RESEARCH FOR POLICY AND SOCIETY AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR MICHAEL LOUIS BRENNAN brennanmichaellouis PROFESSOR IN BUSINESS STUDIES BRENNAML BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES BUILDING ON MY DEEP KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING IN THE AREAS OF OPERATIONS, TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, MY RESEARCH EXPERTISE LIES AT THE NEXUS OF OPERATIONS STRATEGY, TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND GLOBAL BUSINESS. BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERS - SENIOR MEMBER TO 2002. AMERICAN PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY CONTROL SOCIETY TO 2002 BOOK REVIEWER FOR SEVERAL PUBLISHERS INCLUDING OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, MCGRAW-HILL, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, PRENTICE HALL AND ROUTLEDGE AND REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS. CHAIR OF THE GLOBAL STEERING COMMITTEE ON THE NON-SCIENCE IMPACTS OF LARGE SCALE SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURES. CHAIR OF THE WORKSHOP ON THE NON-SCIENCE IMPACTS OF LARGE SCALE SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURES - THE CASE OF THE GLOBAL SKA PROJECT. DECISION SCIENCES INSTITUTE EUROPEAN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE FOR OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE MANAGEMENT SCIENCES TO 2002 INSTITUTE OF ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS - REGISTERED MEMBER MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY MARKETING. MEMBER OF IFPSM CHINA/GLOBAL STANDARD ADVISORY GROUP. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES IN IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE OF IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF SOCIAL SCIENCES MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE IRISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF WORLD ECONOMY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL OF ASIA STUDIES IRELAND ASSOCIATION. MEMBER OF UK MANUFACTURING PROFESSORS FORUM MEMBER OF UNCTAD WORLD INVESTMENT NETWORK. NATIONAL CO-ORDINATOR INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING STRATEGY SURVEY. PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SOCIETY PROPOSER/CHAIR OF COST ACTION IS0905, 26 NATION RESEARCH NETWORK ON "EMERGENCE OF SOUTHERN MULTINATIONALS AND THEIR IMPACT ON EUROPE". REVIEWER FOR DOZENS OF LEADING SCHOLARLY JOURNALS FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT GLOBALIZATION HONG KONG & MAINLAND CHINA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS JAPAN MANUFACTURING-INDUSTRIES OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. LUCY ALPINE alpinelucy PRACTICE EDUCATION CO-ORDINATOR BRENNALU PHYSIOTHERAPY PRACTICE EDUCATION RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: CLINICAL SUPERVISION MODELS, INNOVATIVE SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS THAT SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING AND FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TO BECOME PRACTICE EDUCATORS. OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE HIP FRACTURE OUTCOMES AND ELECTIVE ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY. SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPIST IN EDUCATION CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS IN EDUCATION COMMITEE MEMBER/ROTATIONAL CHAIRPERSON. FOUNDER OF THE PRACTICE EDUCATION CO-ORDINATORS NETWORK (PECNET) IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPIST PECNET REHABILITATION AND RESEARCH SOCIETY CLINICAL EDUCATION EDUCATION AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE SURVIVAL AND FOLLOW-UP CARE OF A HIP FRACTURE POPULAITON IN IRELAND THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE OUTCOMES AND FOLLOW-UP CARE OF 542 HIP FRACTURE PATIENTS IN ONE LARGE TEACHING HOPSITAL IN DUBLIN. OUTCOMES WERE ASSESSED IN TERMS OF MORTALITY, FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF LIFE. ALLIED HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL FOLLOW-UP CARE WAS ALSO INVESTIGASTED TO DETERMINE IF IT WAS IN LINE WITH INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES. NONE INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. MARIA BRENNER brennermaria ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BRENNERM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 CHILD CENTRED CARE CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX NEEDS CHILDREN'S NURSING FAMILY CENTRED CARE HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH SERVICES ACCESS TO RESPITE CARE THROUGH ACUTE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX HEALTHCARE NEEDS HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE EXPLORING THE CONSTITUENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE TRANSITION OF A CHILD WITH COMPLEX TECHNOLOGICAL HEALTHCARE NEEDS FROM HOSPITAL TO HOME (PI) UCD SEED FUNDING RCT TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF DRESSING PRODUCTS ON DONOR SITE HEALING OF CHILDREN WITH A THERMAL INJURY (PI) NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE BARRIERS TO, AND FACILITATORS OF, RESEARCH UTILISATION AMONG RGNS AND RSCNS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (PI) AN BORD ALTRANAIS EVALUATING CHILDREN'S SERVICES AT BLACKROCK CLINIC (CO-APPLICANT) BLACKROCK CLINIC HOSPITAL DISCHARGE PLANNING FOR CHILDREN (COLLABORATOR) LUCILLE PACKARD FOUNDATION FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS OF KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS IN IRELAND (COLLABORATOR) HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE CASE MANAGER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH COMPLEX CARE NEEDS IN IRELAND (PI) RESILIENCE CARE MODELS OF CHILD HEALTH APPRAISED (CO-APPLICANT) EU COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 EVALUATING LAURALYNN@HOME: PILOT HOSPICE AT HOME PROGRAMME (PI) LAURALYNN IRELAND'S CHILDREN'S HOSPICE RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR CHILDREN'S NURSING IN IRELAND (PI) NURSING AND MIDWIFERY QUALITY CARE METRICS PROJECT (CO-APPLICANT) HSE NATIONAL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY CLINICAL LEADERSHIP NEEDS ANALYSIS (COLLABORATOR) HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AND NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSES & MIDWIVES CLINICAL HANDOVER PRACTICES IN ACUTE CARE SERVICES IN IRELAND (CO-APPLICANT) DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH DR. PATRICK BRESNIHAN bresnihanpatrick ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PBRESNIH GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT OF GEOGHRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. NINA ELIZABETH BRESNIHAN bresnihanninaelizabeth ASSISTANT PROF M.SC. M. MEDIA SYST. BRESNINE COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION CURRENT: TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING, COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, GENDER AND COMPUTING. I AM A MEMBER OF THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN I.T. AND EDUCATION (CRITE). OUR RESEARCH AGENDA IS TO EXPLORE HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED TO ENHANCE TEACHING & LEARNING. IN 2015 I ESTABLISHED ALONG WITH DR RICHARD MILLWOOD, A SUB-GROUP WITHIN CRITE WHICH IS CONCERNED WITH RESEARCHING THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE. THIS GROUP, 'COMPUTATIONAL THINKING FOR LIFE' (CT4L), INCLUDES ACADEMICS, EDUCATORS, RESEARCHERS, AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AS WELL AS REPRESENTATIVES FROM CESI, CODERDOJO, GOOGLE AND MICROSOFT. COMPUTING EDUCATION IS EXPERIENCING A RESURGENCE OF INTEREST LEADING TO THE EMERGENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING AS A KEY 21ST CENTURY SKILL FORMING A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF THE STEM AGENDA. IN IRELAND, ICT EMPLOYMENT ACROSS A RANGE OF SECTORS IS PROJECTED TO GROW BY AN ESTIMATED 44,500 JOB OPENINGS BETWEEN 2013 AND 2018 AND INDUSTRY IS DEMANDING BETTER PREPARED GRADUATES TO DEVELOP SOLUTIONS USING TECHNOLOGY. AFTER MANY YEARS OF NO FORMAL PROVISION OF COMPUTING AS A SUBJECT IN IRISH SCHOOLS, RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT (NCCA) IS TO CONSIDER APPROACHES TO INTRODUCING THE TEACHING OF PROGRAMMING IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS AS WELL AS A PROPOSED INTRODUCTION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AS A LEAVING CERTIFICATE SUBJECT IN 2018 AIMS TO ALIGN IRELAND WITH GLOBAL TRENDS SUCH AS ENGLAND'S INTRODUCTION OF A NEW COMPULSORY COMPUTING CURRICULUM IN 2014 AND THE 'COMPUTER SCIENCE FOR ALL' INITIATIVE IN THE US WHICH PLANS TO INVEST 4BN IN THE K12 SECTOR. GLOBALLY, MAJOR INITIATIVES ARE BEING UNDERTAKEN IN THE NAME OF TEACHING COMPUTATIONAL THINKING; NATIONAL CURRICULA ARE BEING REDESIGNED WITH MAJOR IMPACTS ON STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND EDUCATION SYSTEMS. IN THE CONTEXT OF ALL THIS ACTIVITY, CT4L IS WORKING TOWARDS A MORE MEASURED, EVIDENCE¬-BASED RESPONSE TO THE DEMAND FOR MORE TEACHING OF COMPUTING AND A CLEARER DEFINITION OF THE NEEDS OF LEARNERS AT ALL STAGES OF THE LIFE COURSE, I.E. FROM EARLY LEARNING AND PRIMARY THROUGH SECONDARY AND THIRD LEVEL TO ADULT LEARNERS IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL SETTINGS. WE NEED TO KNOW THAT THE PROPOSED BENEFITS OF TEACHING COMPUTING, PARTICULARLY THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, DO ACCRUE AND PROPERLY INVEST IN ITS IMPLEMENTATION. OUR RESEARCH IS WORKING TO ESTABLISH LEARNERS' CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT, THE REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE REQUIRED CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN A VARIETY OF EDUCATION SETTINGS. IN CT4L WE ARE CONSOLIDATING OUR NETWORK OF INTERESTED PARTIES AND UNDERTAKING A NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS: CTWINS (CODING TWINS / COMPUTATIONAL THINKING WINS): A CROSS-BORDER INITIATIVE AIMING TO DEVELOP CONFIDENCE IN EDUCATORS' CAPACITY TO USE COMPUTATIONAL THINKING IN THE CLASSROOM THROUGH A PLAYFUL AND SUPPORTIVE INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING.(IN PARTNERSHIP WITH QUB. FUNDED BY GOOGLE'S CS4HS PROGRAM) CS TEACHER COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: TO ESTABLISH A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR TEACHERS ENGAGED IN THE TEACHING OF COMPUTER SCIENCE. (IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CESI). FUNDED BY GOOGLE GRASSROOTS.) OURKIDSCODE: AIMS TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT PARENTS/GUARDIANS WHO WISH TO ENGAGE THEIR CHILDREN'S INTEREST AND ACTIVITY IN CODING AND COMPUTATIONAL THINKING THROUGH THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF FAMILY CREATIVE-CODING WORKSHOPS. (IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL PARENTS COUNCIL AND THE SUPPORT OF CESI, TRINITY ACCESS 21, CODERDOJO, AND EU CODEWEEK.) 3RD LEVEL PROGRAMMING SURVEY -. ANNUAL SURVEY OF PRIOR PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE OF FRESHMAN UNDERGRADUATES ACROSS IRELAND WHO STUDY PROGRAMMING AS PART OF THEIR DEGREE IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE EXTENT OF THIS PRIOR EXPOSURE AS WELL AS ITS NATURE, ORIGINS, AND USEFULNESS AND HOW THIS IS CHANGING OVER TIME. CT4L ALSO HAS 4 PHD STUDENT PROJECTS UNDER ITS SUPERVISION. COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CESI) COMPUTING AT SCHOOL (CAS) EXTERNAL EXAMINER, BA COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA, DUBLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, BA CREATIVE DIGITAL MEDIA, INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TALLAGHT, DUBLIN COMPUTATIONAL THINKING COMPUTER EDUCATION/LITERACY COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION DIGITAL MEDIA E-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION LOCATION-AWARE TECHNOLOGIES & URBAN COMMUNITY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MULTIMEDIA TEACHER EDUCATION THRESHOLD CONCEPTS COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION CTWINS THE CTWINS PROJECT IS A CROSS-BORDER INITIATIVE TARGETING TEACHERS OF SUBJECTS OTHER THAN COMPUTING IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND WHO WANT TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM BUT LACK THE CONFIDENCE TO DO SO. IT AIMS TO DEVELOP CONFIDENCE IN EDUCATORS' CAPACITY TO USE COMPUTATIONAL THINKING THROUGH A PLAYFUL AND SUPPORTIVE INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. GOOGLE CS4HS CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. BRIAN BREWER brewerbrian ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BREWERB HISPANIC STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 "BACÍAS DE BARBERO, YELMOS Y BACIYELMOS: PERSPECTIVISMO ECONÓMICO EN DON QUIJOTE." IX CONGRESO DE LA ASOCIACIÓN INTERNACIONAL SIGLO DE ORO, UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS, POITIERS, FRANCE. "ECONOMICS AND EXEMPLARITY IN THE NOVELAS EJEMPLARES." 2013 MLA ANNUAL CONVENTION, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. "THE SINS OF THE FATHER ARE REDEEMED BY THE SON (AND DAUGHTER): DETERMINISM AND MORAL AUTONOMY IN CERVANTES' NOVELAS EJEMPLARES." ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF HISPANISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, OXFORD, ENGLAND, MARCH 25-27, 2013. "THE STERILITY OF ABUNDANCE: MARCELA AND GRISÓSTOMO IN THE GOLDEN AGE." GOLDEN AGE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, CORK, IRELAND. "USURY AND JEALOUSY IN EL CELOSO EXTREMEÑO." ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF HISPANISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, STIRLING, SCOTLAND. "WINE, MONEY AND MORISCOS: CONSUMABLE COINS AND STERILE SOCIAL POLICY IN THE RICOTE EPISODE OF DON QUIJOTE, PART II." 58TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, D.C. 'SANCHO PANZA, ARBITRISTA'. 2015 MLA ANNUAL CONVENTION, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, JANUARY 8-11, 2015. 'SANCHO PANZA: ARBITRISTA'.GOLDEN AGE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND, NOVEMBER 28-30, 2014. 'THE BEEHIVE AS SOCIO-ECONOMIC METAPHOR IN DON QUIXOTE'. SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURES AND CULTURAL STUDIES RESEARCH SEMINAR, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, OCTOBER 20, 2015. BARBER'S BASINS, ENCHANTED HELMETS, AND GOLD COINS: COMMON CURRENCY IN CERVANTES'S DON QUIJOTE. INVITED LECTURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, CORK, IRELAND. "DON QUIJOTE AND THE BANKERS: CERVANTES SATIRIZES A FINANCIAL SCHEME IN DON QUIJOTE, PART 1." NATIONAL CERVANTES SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO. "EL ABENCERRAJE AND LAZARILLO DE TORMES: SHARED SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES." ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF HISPANISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY. "QUIXOTIC ECONOMICS: EARLY MODERN MONETARY THEORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN CERVANTES." 59TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA, SAN DIEGO, CA, APRIL 4-6, 2013. "SILENCING FEMALE VOICES IN CERVANTES'S COMEDIAS EN PROSA." WOMEN THEN AND NOW IN SPANISH FILM, THEATRE AND TELEVISION, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND, JUNE 25-27, 2013. IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. AOIFE BRICK brickaoife VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BRICKA SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY ESRI WHITAKER SQUARE SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. SANDRINE MICHELLE BRISSET brissetsandrinemichelle ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRISSESM LAW LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE 20TH CENTURY POETRY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN ENGLISH CRITICAL THEORY, 20TH CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION FRENCH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE IRISH WRITING IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, BIOGRAPHY LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, COMPARATIVE LITER LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, FICTION LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, POETRY LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, TRANSLATION LITERATURE POETRY TRANSLATION FOR IRELAND LITERATURE EXCHANGE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND DR. RUTH BRITTO brittoruth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BRITTOR PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS HAMILTON MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE SCATTERING AMPLITUDES PLAY A KEY ROLE IN HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS. NOT ONLY DO THEY DESCRIBE THE ACTUAL SCATTERING TAKING PLACE IN COLLIDER EXPERIMENTS--OF CURRENT IMPORTANCE IN THE ERA OF THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC)--BUT THEY ALSO ILLUMINATE THE FORMAL ASPECTS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES, SUCH AS DIVERGENT BEHAVIOR OR INTEGRABILITY. AMPLITUDES ARE THUS USEFUL BOTH PRACTICALLY AND FORMALLY, BUT THEIR AVAILABILITY IS LIMITED BY THE DIFFICULTY OF COMPUTING THEM. AS THE NUMBER OF PARTICLES IN THE SCATTERING PROCESS INCREASES, OR THE PERTURBATIVE EXPANSION IS CARRIED OUT TO HIGHER ORDER, THE TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE OF FEYNMAN RULES FAILS TO BE FEASIBLY IMPLEMENTABLE. THIS DIFFICULTY HAS PROMPTED THE INNOVATION OF NEW TECHNIQUES. NOTABLE AMONG THESE ARE ON-SHELL TECHNIQUES, IN WHICH THE BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS ARE COMPLETE AMPLITUDES, RATHER THAN FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS. THE ON-SHELL FRAMEWORK HAS SURPASSED TRADITIONAL FEYNMAN DIAGRAM EXPANSIONS, BOTH IN DELIVERING NEW RESULTS AND IN EXPRESSING THEM IN FORMULAS THAT ARE NOT ONLY COMPACT, BUT ALSO DEEPLY ILLUMINATING. MY RESEARCH DEVELOPS THE ON-SHELL FRAMEWORK TO INCORPORATE ALL THEORIES AND CONFIGURATIONS OF PHYSICAL INTEREST, BUILDING UPON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PURE MATHEMATICS. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS PARTICLE PHYSICS, FIELDS THEORY QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS QUANTUM FIELD-THEORY PHYSICS LOOP AMPLITUDES IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORY THE TRADITIONAL FORMULATION OF RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM THEORY IS ILL-EQUIPPED TO HANDLE THE RANGE OF DIFFICULT COMPUTATIONS NEEDED TO DESCRIBE PARTICLE COLLISIONS AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER (LHC) WITHIN A SUITABLE TIME FRAME. YET, RECENT WORK SHOWS THAT PROBABILITY AMPLITUDES IN QUANTUM GAUGE FIELD THEORIES, SUCH AS THOSE DESCRIBING THE STANDARD MODEL AND ITS EXTENSIONS, TAKE SURPRISINGLY SIMPLE FORMS. THE SIMPLICITY INDICATES DEEP STRUCTURE IN GAUGE THEORY THAT HAS ALREADY LED TO DRAMATIC COMPUTATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS, BUT REMAINS TO BE FULLY UNDERSTOOD. FOR PRECISION CALCULATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS OF THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF GAUGE THEORY, A COMPREHENSIVE METHOD FOR COMPUTING MULTI-LOOP AMPLITUDES SYSTEMATICALLY AND EFFICIENTLY MUST BE FOUND. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO CONSTRUCT A NEW AND COMPLETE APPROACH TO COMPUTING AMPLITUDES FROM A DETAILED UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR SINGULARITIES, BASED ON PRIOR SUCCESSES OF SO-CALLED ON-SHELL METHODS COMBINED WITH THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MATHEMATICS OF FEYNMAN INTEGRALS. SCATTERING PROCESSES RELEVANT TO THE LHC AND TO FORMAL INVESTIGATIONS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY WILL BE COMPUTED WITHIN THE NEW FRAMEWORK. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL HORIZON2020 PROFESSOR BRIAN MICHAEL BRODERICK broderickbrianmichael PROFESSOR & HEAD OF DEPARTMENT BBRODRCK CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. . INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE ENGINEERED AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS . EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING, ESPECIALLY THE TESTING AND DESIGN OF EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT STEEL AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURES. . AIR QUALITY, ESPECIALLY METHODS OF ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ROAD TRAFFIC . URBAN RESILIENCE, ESPECIALLY THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILDINGS. CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND 1,3-BUTADIENE AIR QUALITY MONITORING AIR-POLLUTANTS AIR-QUALITY ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION BEHAVIOUR FACTORS BOLTED T-STUBS CAPACITY CIVIL ENGINEERING, PAVEMENTS AND STRUCTURES COMPOSITE BEAMS AND COLUMNS CONNECTIONS DESIGN METHODS & AIDS EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE ACCELEROGRAMS EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT STRUCTURES ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORTATION ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, INTERACTIONS EUROCODE 8 FATIGUE OF MATERIALS FUELS ALTERNATIVE FUELS IN TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS) INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT KERBSIDE POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS MODEL MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS RENEWABLE ENERGIES ROTATION DUCTILITY SEISMIC ENGINEERING SPECTRA STEEL STRUCTURES STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS STRUCTURAL DESIGN STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES TRANSIENT ANALYSIS TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT TRANSPORT PLANNING TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING (ENVIRONMENTAL IMP TRANSPORTATION MODEL ULTIMATE BEHAVIOR URBAN AIR QUALITY MODELLING VIBRATION AND ACCOUSTIC ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE STRUCTURED PHD PROGRAMME - A NATIONAL PHD PROGRAMME IN ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING HEA PRTLI4 ENVIRONMENT-TRANSPORT INTERFACE EPA ERTDI GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING EC FP7 ACTIVITY-LOCATION MODEL FOR PERSONAL EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION EPA STRIVE REGIONAL AIR QUALITY AND FORECAST MODELLING EPA STRIVE EMISSIONS INVENTORY FOR AIR QUALITY MODELLING EPA STRIVE BRACED: SEISMIC RESPONSE AND DESIGN OF CBFS EC SERIES DYNAMICS OF WIND TURBINE TOWERS IRCSET/SEI EMBARK VIBRATION CONTROL OF WIND TURBINE TOWERS ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND MODELLING DISPERSION OF AIR POLLUTANTS FROM MAJOR ROADS EPA ERTDI INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. SIMON NORMAN BROOKE brookesimonnorman ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SBROOKE SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY 607 SOUTH CIRCULAR ROAD KILMAINHAM DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 PROFESSOR TERENCE P BROWN brownterencep FELLOW EMERITUS TBROWN FELLOWS EMERITII DEPT. OF ENGLISH 4014 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 APPOINTED ADVISER TO GILL'S IRISH CLASSIC SERIES. APPOINTED BY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IRISH CHAIR OF ENCOUNTER. APPOINTED BY MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MEMBER CULTURAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE... RE-APPOINTED 1996-98 AND 2001-2004 APPOINTED DIRECTOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS. APPOINTED EDITORIAL BOARD KRINO. APPOINTED GENERAL EDITOR THE GILL AND MACMILLAN STUDIES IN IRISH LITERATURE. APPOINTED TO THE BOARD, INSTITUTE OF IRISH STUDIES, QUB. CHAIR, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENGLISH STUDIES ELECTED MEMBER ACADEMIA EUROPEIA ELECTED MEMBER ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY INAUGURAL VISITING PROFESSOR OF IRISH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA MEMBER CULTURES OF IRELAND. CHAIR 1993-PRESENT.( IN THIS CAPACITY INVOLVED CENTRALLY IN ORGANISING IRISH CROSS-BORDER LECTURES, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS). MEMBER INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE (I.A.S.A.I.L.) MEMBER OF THE DUBLIN JOYCE CENTENARY COMMITTEE. MEMBER ROONEY PRIZE COMMITTEE. PROFESSEUR INVITÉ , SORBONNE NOUVELLE, PARIS III, MARCH, APRIL, MAY 2003 SENIOR MASTER NON-REGENT (MEMBER OF SENATE, UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN) TRINITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE ON THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY'S SUB-COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE. DR. NICHOLAS BROWN brownnicholas USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NBROWN MUSIC ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION; PERFORMANCE WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; VOCAL SYNTHESIS; INSTALLATION & SOUND ART; PHILOSOPHY & AESTHETICS OF MUSIC; MUSIC IN MEDIEVAL THOUGHT; BIOMUSICOLOGY; GENERATIVE SYSTEMS IN AUDIOVISUAL ART; COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC HOUSE 5 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER, ORPHEUS INSTITUTE, GHENT, BELGIUM. MEMBER, RESEARCH CLUSTER, 'MUSIC, THOUGHT & TECHNOLOGY'. FELLOW, HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY, UK. WRITER-MEMBER, MECHANICAL COPYRIGHT PROTECTION SOCIETY, UK WRITER-MEMBER, PERFORMING RIGHTS SOCIETY, UK COMPOSITION AND ALGORITHMIC COMPOSITION, SPECTRAL MUSIC COMPUTER-AIDED MUSIC PEDAGOGY ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION INSTALLATION & SOUND ART MUSIC IN MEDIEVAL THOUGHT NOTATION AND PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES PHILOSOPHY & AESTHETICS OF MUSIC CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES PROFESSOR PAUL BROWNE brownepaul PROFESSOR/CONSULTANT HAEMATOLOGIST BROWNPV HAEMATOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF HAEMATOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER DR. BRENDAN BROWNE brownebrendan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRBROWNE IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS DR BRENDAN CIARÁN BROWNE'S RESEARCH INTERESTS FOCUS ON GROWING UP IN CONFLICT, YOUTH RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE IN PALESTINE, CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN CONFLICT ZONES, COMMEMORATION IN CONFLICT AND MOST RECENTLY, TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND THE THEME OF DISPLACEMENT. IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS 683 ANTRIM ROAD BELFAST BT15 4EG NORTHERN IRELAND 01-8961000 CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY FELLOW AT CENTRE FOR POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE NORTHERN IRELAND OPEN GOVERNMENT NETWORK PEACE AND COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK AT-RISK CHILDREN/YOUTH COMMEMORATION INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE, TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION RESEARCH METHODS TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE MS. SARAH BROWNE brownesarah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BROWNES6 BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST INCLUDE PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH IN MARKETING AND STRATEGY. CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUS IS ON STRATEGY-AS-PRACTICE PERSPECTIVES, LOOKING AT THE MICRO-LEVEL 'DOINGS' OF STRATEGY MAKING WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS. INTERESTED IN EXPLORING AND DEVELOPING THEORY ON STRATEGIC INFLUENCING WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION, PARTICULARLY RESEARCH EXPLORING MIDDLE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIZING PRACTICES, AND HOW THEY INFLUENCE STRATEGY ADAPTATION. ALSO INTERESTED IN RESEARCHING CONTEMPORARY MARKETING PRACTICE, AND THE ALIGNMENT/ MISALIGNMENT OF MARKETING AND BUSINESS STRATEGY WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. KATJA BRUISCH bruischkatja USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRUISCHK HISTORY MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF RURAL TRANSFORMATION IN MODERN RUSSIA. IN MY FIRST BOOK I ANALYSED THE RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE, POLITICS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE ROLE PLAYED BY EXPERTS IN DEALING WITH THE "AGRARIAN QUESTION" IN THE LATE TSARIST AND EARLY SOVIET PERIODS (ALS DAS DORF NOCH ZUKUNFT WAR: AGRARISMUS UND EXPERTISE BETWEEN ZARENREICH UND SOWJETUNION, BÖHLAU PUBLISHERS 2014). MY CURRENT PROJECT IS ON PEATLAND RECLAMATION IN RUSSIA SINCE THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, FOCUSSING ON THE IDEAS AROUND, THE SOCIAL PRACTICES AND THE ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE ATTEMPT TO TURN PEATLANDS INTO RESOURCE RESERVOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. I AIM TO IDENTIFY RUSSIA'S PLACE IN THE GLOBAL PROCESS OF WETLAND TRANSFORMATION DURING THE MODERN PERIOD AS WELL AS TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF PEATLANDS IN RUSSIA KEEPS BEING A PROBLEM UNTIL THE PRESENT. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR OSTEUROPAKUNDE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY DR. GIULIO BUCIUNI buciunigiulio ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BUCIUNIG BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES DR BUCIUNI'S CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE GROWTH STRATEGIES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES, THE EVOLUTION OF INNOVATIVE CLUSTERS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND THE DYNAMICS UNDERLYING INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT IN GLOBALISED INDUSTRIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ÁRAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIO ECONOMICS (SASE) THE FURNITURE VALUE CHAIN IN NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT DEVELOPED BY THE CENTER ON GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNANCE & COMPETITIVENESS (CGGC) AT DUKE UNIVERSITY THE HIGH POINT MARKET AUTHORITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR YVONNE BUCKLEY buckleyyvonne PROFESSOR OF ZOOLOGY (1871) BUCKLEYY ZOOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH I LEAD A TEAM OF POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS, PHD AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS SEEKING TO UNDERSTAND THE FUNDAMENTAL DRIVERS OF ANIMAL AND PLANT POPULATION PROCESSES IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD. I USE THESE DISCOVERIES TO PROVIDE PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS IN THE AREAS OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT AND HABITAT RESTORATION. I USE A WIDE RANGE OF TOOLS AND APPROACHES THAT COMBINE DATA COLLECTION IN THE LAB, FIELD OR FROM THE LITERATURE WITH CUTTING EDGE QUANTITATIVE MODELLING TECHNIQUES THAT ENABLE ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF RESPONSES OF POPULATIONS TO UNDERLYING DRIVERS AND MANIPULATIONS. I AM A GLOBAL LEADER IN COMPARATIVE PLANT POPULATION DYNAMICS AND INVASIVE PLANT MANAGEMENT AND EMERGING AS A LEADER IN PREDICTING RESPONSES OF POPULATIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE. DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATE EDITOR, AXIOS REVIEW ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ECOLOGY LETTERS ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY ASSOCIATE EDITOR, MOVEMENT ECOLOGY CORE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, COMPADRE & COMDARE PLANT AND ANIMAL MATRIX DATABASES MEMBER OF CORE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE FOR COMPADRE AND COMADRE PLANT AND ANIMAL MATRIX DATABASES MEMBER, BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BIODIVERSITY MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ECOLOGY AND MARINE BIOLOGY POPSTAR-SFI: PLANT POPULATION STRATEGY AND RESPONSE TO THE ENVIRONMENT PLANT POPULATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL AND WELLBEING AND A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF BIODIVERSITY. IN ORDER TO MANAGE ENVIRONMENTAL DISRUPTIONS, AND ADAPT TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, WE NEED TO DEVELOP GENERAL PREDICTIONS OF THE ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES OF PLANT POPULATIONS TO THE ENVIRONMENT. I WILL APPLY MY EXPERTISE ACROSS POPULATION BIOLOGY, INVASION BIOLOGY AND QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY TO PROVIDE A FUNDAMENTAL AND INTEGRATED UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TRAITS AND ENVIRONMENT JOINTLY DETERMINE LIFE HISTORY STRATEGY AND POPULATION PERFORMANCE, ACROSS AND WITHIN SPECIES. POPSTAR-SFI WILL PRODUCE A NEW SYNTHESIS OF SPATIALLY EXTENSIVE POPULATION ECOLOGY USING THE LARGEST NUMBER OF SPECIES AND, WITHIN A SINGLE SPECIES, AT THE MOST SPATIALLY EXTENSIVE SCALE EVER UNDERTAKEN. I WILL DEVELOP PREDICTIVE MODELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF DEMOGRAPHY, WHICH TOGETHER WITH MY EXPERTISE IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION THEORY CAN BE USED TO INFORM MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR FOOD SECURITY AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION WORLDWIDE. POPSTAR-SFI WILL ENABLE EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE EMPIRICAL PATTERNS OBSERVED ON THE AFFECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND TRAITS ON PLANT LIFE HISTORY STRATEGY AND POPULATION PERFORMANCE. THE THEORY, DATA SYNTHESIS AND TOOLS DEVELOPED IN POPSTAR-SFI WILL SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCE SPATIAL POPULATION ECOLOGY AND ENABLE SPATIALLY EXPLICIT PREDICTIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ON PLANT POPULATIONS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ERC DEVELOPMENT GEODEM: GEOGRAPHY OF DEMOGRAPHY: MODELLING PLANT POPULATION RESPONSES TO GLOBAL HABITAT PATTERNS MANKIND IS PROFOUNDLY ALTERING THE ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH PLANT AND ANIMAL POPULATIONS LIVE. AN ERA OF SUCH MASSIVE HABITAT REARRANGEMENTS REQUIRES ECOLOGISTS TO TAKE NEW APPROACHES TO INCREASE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SPECIES DISTRIBUTION AND LIKELIHOOD OF PERSISTENCE WORLDWIDE. IMPROVED ECOLOGICAL MODELS OF RANGE-WIDE PERSISTENCE AND RESPONSE TO THE SIMULTANEOUS THREATS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, HABITAT DESTRUCTION AND LANDSCAPE RECONFIGURATION ARE REQUIRED TO INFORM MANAGEMENT OF BIODIVERSITY AT LARGE SCALES. GEODEM BRINGS TOGETHER GLOBAL DATASETS OF PLANT DISTRIBUTION AND DEMOGRAPHY TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO HOW THE GEOGRAPHIC CONFIGURATION OF HABITATS AFFECTS GROWTH, SURVIVAL AND REPRODUCTION OF MORE THAN 500 PLANT SPECIES WORLDWIDE. THE PROJECT HAS TWO MAIN OBJECTIVES: 1. GEOGRAPHIC RANGE PATTERN ANALYSIS: USING SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS AND GLOBAL SPATIAL STATISTICS TOOLS TO QUANTIFY AND COMPARE SPATIAL PATTERNS OF SUITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ACROSS SPECIES' BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGES. 2. LANDSCAPE DEMOGRAPHY: TESTING HOW THE SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT OF SUITABLE HABITAT WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHIC SPACE CAN INFORM POPULATION RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENTS. THE FELLOW WILL BE SUPERVISED BY AND COLLABORATE WITH WORLD LEADERS IN SPATIAL ECOLOGY IN IRELAND AND OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO ACCOMPLISH HER GOALS. THE PRESTIGIOUS MARIE SK&#322;ODOWSKA-CURIE FELLOWSHIP WILL ENABLE HER TO DEVELOP EXPERTISE IN CURRENTLY DISPARATE AREAS OF SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELLING AND DEMOGRAPHY AND PLACE HER IN A UNIQUE POSITION TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE URGENT PROBLEM OF POPULATION PERSISTENCE AT LARGE SCALES DURING THIS ERA OF GLOBAL CHANGE. IT WILL ENABLE THE FELLOW TO BUILD AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROGRAM IN EUROPE AFTER GAINING RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN TOP UNIVERSITIES IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA. EUROPEAN UNION MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS POP-CHANGE PREDICTING AND MANAGING PLANT POPULATION RESPONSE IN HUMAN ALTERED ECOSYSTEMS HUMANS ARE RAPIDLY CHANGING THE ENVIRONMENTS THAT PLANT AND ANIMAL POPULATIONS EXIST IN. IN ORDER TO MAKE PREDICTIONS ABOUT WHICH POPULATIONS WILL PERSIST, WHICH WE ARE LIKELY TO LOSE AND WHERE TO BEST PLACE OUR MANAGEMENT EFFORTS FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES WE NEED A FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE ENVIRONMENT AFFECTS POPULATION GROWTH AND DECLINE IN HUMAN ALTERED ECOSYSTEMS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH SEEKS TO LEVERAGE EXISTING DATA-SETS ON PLANT POPULATION DYNAMICS AND SPATIAL LOCATIONS TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO HOW ABIOTIC CONDITIONS AFFECT THE GROWTH, SURVIVAL AND REPRODUCTION OF 162 SPECIES OF PLANTS WORLDWIDE. NEW DATA WILL BE COLLECTED TO EXTENSIVELY SAMPLE THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF A WIDESPREAD PLANT SPECIES TO DEVELOP NOVEL MODELS OF HABITAT SUITABILITY FOR POPULATION GROWTH AT THE GLOBAL SCALE. STATISTICAL MODELS WILL BE DEVELOPED FROM EXISTING DATA ON 86 PLANT SPECIES AT >40 SITES WORLDWIDE TO DETERMINE WHETHER PLANT POPULATION RESPONSES TO NUTRIENT ADDITION CAN BE PREDICTED USING KNOWN DEMOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES, THESE MODELS WILL BE TESTED USING NEW DATA FROM APPROX. 30 SITES WORLDWIDE. ULTIMATELY WE NEED TO USE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF ECOLOGY TOGETHER WITH THE EFFICACY AND COSTS OF MANAGEMENT TO DETERMINE COST EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS TO ACHIEVE ENVIRONMENTAL OR SOCIETAL GOALS. I WILL USE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA ON >20 PLANT SPECIES TOGETHER WITH NEW MANAGEMENT DATA TO DEVELOP COMPARATIVE MODELS OF COST EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR PROBLEMATIC INVASIVE PLANTS. I WILL USE THESE INTERLINKED OBJECTIVES TO DEVELOP PREDICTIVE MODELS OF PLANT POPULATION DYNAMICS UNDER ALTERED ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, PREDICTIONS OF POPULATION RESPONSE TO NUTRIENT ADDITION AND GENERAL GUIDELINES ON HOW BEST TO MANAGE DAMAGING PEST SPECIES. THE CIG WILL ENABLE THIS RESEARCH PROGRAMME TO BE UNDERTAKEN AT A GLOBAL SCALE AND PUT EUROPEAN RESEARCH AT THE FOREFRONT OF MITIGATING THE THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE CURIE ACTIONS AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS DESPITE FACING THE SIXTH GLOBAL MASS EXTINCTION OF SPECIES, MOST CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT IS UNEVALUATED AND INEFFICIENT. THE ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS (CEED) WILL PROVIDE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH LEADERSHIP IN TACKLING THE COMPLEX PROBLEMS OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD. WORKING THROUGH SIX AUSTRALIAN AND SIX INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, THE CENTRE WILL FORGE NEW APPROACHES AND TOOLS FROM ECOLOGY, MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS, ECONOMICS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. IT WILL LEAD THE WORLD IN DEVELOPING AND DELIVERING PREDICTIVE MODELS AND DECISION-MAKING APPROACHES TO IMPROVE OUTCOMES IN CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT, HABITAT RESTORATION, SPATIAL PLANNING AND THREAT ADAPTATION UNDER A CHANGING CLIMATE. AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET ENVIRONMENT DR. HELEN BUCKLEY buckleyhelen FELLOW EMERITUS HBUCKLEY SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE CHILD PROTECTION POLICY AND PRACTICE, PARTICULARLY INTER-DISCIPLINARY AND INTER-AGENCY COLLABORATION; CHILD PROTECTION PROCEDURES AND GUIDELINES; ASSESSMENT; IMPACT OF SOCIAL FACTORS ON CHILD WELFARE, EVALUATION OF CHILD PROTECTION PRACTICES, RESEARCH UTILISATION. SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE NATIONAL REVIEW PANEL ON SERIOUS INCIDENTS INCLUDING THE DEATHS OF CHILDREN IN CARE CHAIR OF THE WORKING GROUP OF THE COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL'S CARE PRODUCING UNIFIED CHILD PROTECTION GUIDELINES FOR THE THREE DUBLIN CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS COLLABORATOR WITH THE SCOTTISH CENTRE FOR CHILD CARE AND PROTECTION BASED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE CONTRACT TO PROVIDE CONSULTANCY TO THE OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN ON CHILD PROTECTION AND WELFARE POLICY MEMBER OF AN OVERSIGHT GROUP IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN RESPECT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CHILD PROTECTION GUIDANCE IN THE HEALTH SECTOR MEMBER OF CHILD PROTECTION CROSS BORDER SUB GROUP ON RESEARCH AND KNOWELDGE TRANSFER MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES APPOINTED BY THE HSE MEMBER OF THE FERNS INQUIRY PANEL, APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH TO INQUIRE INTO CLERICAL SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE DIOCESE OF FERNS MEMBER OF THE HIQA WORKING GROUP DEVELOPING NATIONAL STANDARDS IN CHILD PROTECTION MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE BASPCAN CONGRESS 2012 TO BE HELD IN QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILD PROTECTION POLICY AND PRACTICE CHILD WELFARE PROMOTION OF CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH WORKING TOGETHER - TRAINING TOGETHER: EVALUATION OF AN INTER-AGENCY CHILD PROTECTION TRAINING PROGRAMME EVALUATION OF A MULTI DISCIPLINARY PROGRAMME FOR TRAINING OF TEACHERS, YOUTH WORKERS, HEALTH BOARD STAFF AND GARDAI IN CHILD PROTECTION MID WESTERN HEALTH BOARD LISTEN TO ME! CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT TO EXPLORE IMPACT ON CHILDREN OF LIVING WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ESTABLISH THEIR NEEDS AND RECOMMEND STYLE AND NATURE OF MOST APPROPRIATE SERVICE DELIVERY TO MEET THEIR NEEDS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE EVALUATION OF CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES IN THE SOUTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD STUDY OF THE CHILD PROTECTION ACTIVITY OVER A SIX MONTH PERIOD USING CASE RECORDS AND INDIVIDUAL QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS TO ESTABLISH PRACTICES AND OUTCOMES SOUTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD BEYOND THE RHETORIC: A STUDY OF CHILD PROTECTION PRACTICE IN-DEPTH ETHNOGRAPHIC CASE STUDY OF CHILD PROTECTION PRACTICE IN AN AREA TEAM OVER A 12 MONTH PERIOD EASTERN HEALTH BOARD DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES THREE YEAR ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPING MATERIALS FOR ASSESSMENT OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES NORTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD, SOUTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD, SOUTH WESTERN AREA HEALTH BOARD NATIONAL CHILDCARE INFORMATION PROJECT (PHASE V) PHASE V OF THE NATIONAL CHILDCARE INFORMATION PROJECT SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH DEFINITIONS OF THE CORE BUSINESS PROCESSES INVOLVED IN CHILD PROTECTION AND WELFARE WORK, IN ORDER TO CONSISTENCY OF REPORTING IN THE CONTEXT OF INCREASING TECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL TO CREATE AN INFORMATION SYSTEM THAT COULD MEET THE NEEDS OF STAKEHOLDERS AT ALL LEVELS IN CHILD CARE SERVICES BY PROVIDING A READILY ACCESSIBLE BANK OF DATA. DATA FOR THE STUDY WAS GATHERED THROUGH ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS WITH OVER ONE HUNDRED PRACTITIONERS AND MANAGERS IN THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) AND A FINAL REPORT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE JOINT HSE/ DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN STEERING COMMITTEE IN 2004. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & CHILDREN CHILD CARE POLICY CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES IN IRELAND: AN EVALUATION BY SERVICE USERS THIS PROJECT EVALUATED CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SIXTY SEVEN SERVICE USERS INCLUDING THIRTEEN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES ARE DEFINED AS THOSE SERVICES WHICH PROVIDE AN INTEGRATED RESPONSE TO REPORTED CHILD PROTECTION CONCERNS, PRINCIPALLY THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE CHILD CARE SERVICES AND AN GARDA SÍOCHÁNA. SERVICE USERS IN THIS CONTEXT ARE DEFINED AS CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, PARENTS/CARERS AND EXTENDED FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH CHILD PROTECTION SERVICES THROUGH THEIR OWN INITIATIVE OR REFERRAL BY OTHERS ON THEIR BEHALF. IT EXAMINED THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF THE TYPE OF RESPONSE THEY RECEIVED FROM THE SERVICE, THE IMPACT OF BEING INVESTIGATED, OF HAVING A ASSESSMENT CARRIED OUT, BEING INVOLVED IN IDENTIFYING THEIR DIFFERENT NEEDS, OF GENUINE PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN CHILD PROTECTION CONFERENCING, CONTRIBUTING TO CHILD PROTECTION PLANNING, BEING GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE OPERATION OF THE PLAN, AND RECEIVING A LONGER TERM SERVICE. IT ALSO EXAMINED THE DEGREE TO WHICH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES CONSIDERED THAT THEIR IDENTIFIED NEEDS HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED. OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN AUDIT OF IRISH RESEARCH ON CHILD PROTECTION THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT TO UNDERTAKE AN AUDIT OF CHILD PROTECTION RESEARCH IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE PRINCIPAL OUTPUT FROM THIS WORK WILL BE AN ACCESSIBLE DATABASE THAT WILL BE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. THE CAAB ARE UNDERTAKING THIS AUDIT IN CONSULTATION WITH THE OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS, WHICH IS ALSO LIAISING WITH THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IN THEIR MAPPING EXERCISE OF RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN ON CHILD HEALTH. CHILDREN ACTS ADVISORY BOARD PUTTING RESEARCH EVIDENCE TO WORK THIS PROJECT SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH THE EXTENT OF RESEARCH UTILISATION IN THE IRISH CHILD WELFARE SECTOR. IT IDENTIFIED THE BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS THAT IMPACT ON RESEARCH USE AND MADE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESEARCH COMMISSIONERS, ORGANISATIONS PROVIDING SERVICES AND RESEARCH PROVIDERS CHILDREN ACTS ADVISORY BOARD AN EXAMINATION OF RECOMMENDATIONS FROM INQUIRIES INTO EVENTS IN FAMILIES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH STATE SERVICES, AND THEIR IMPACT ON POLICY AND PRACTICE THIS STUDY WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS WITH THE OVERALL AIMS OF EXAMINING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF A NUMBER OF SPECIFIC INQUIRY REPORTS IN RELATION TO CHILD PROTECTION FAILINGS IN IRELAND, ASCERTAINING THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE IMPLEMENTED IN THE CONTEXT OF CONCURRENT REFORMS, AND DEVELOPING A TEMPLATE TO GUIDE RECOMMENDATIONS IN FUTURE REPORTS. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS IRC RESEARCH INITIATIVES SURVEY OF NEWLY QUALIFIED PRIMARY TEACHERS TO ASCERTAIN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF AND FAMILIARITY WITH CHILD PROTECTION PROCEDURES THIS WAS A ONE OFF SURVEY OF 101 NEWLY QUALIFIED PRIMARY TEACHERS REPRESENTING SEPARATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS AROUND THE DUBLIN AREA. IT MEASURED THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF AND FAMILIARITY WITH THEIR SCHOOLS CHILD PROTECTION POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. RESULTS SHOWED THAT A MINORITY OF TEACHERS HAD BEEN INDUCTED, HAD READ THE PROCEDURES OR KNEW THE IDENTITY OF THE DESIGNATED LIAISON PERSON FOR CHILD PROTECTION IN THEIR SCHOOL. THE STUDY ALSO DEMONSTRATED A LOW RATE OF PRE-QUALIFYING TRAINING, AND LOWER LEVELS OF CONFIDENCE IN ABILITY TO IDENTIFY AND REPORT CHILD ABUSE IN THOSE WHO HAD LESS THAN THREE HOURS TRAINING. INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. ANN BUCKLEY buckleyann VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BUCKLEAI CNTR FOR MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE (MHRC) 213 KINGSBRY MAYNOOTH CO KILDARE 01-8961000 LATIN ROMANIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED BOOKS MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS OTHER HUMANITIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. CONOR TIMOTHY BUCKLEY buckleyconortimothy ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CBUCKLE MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG AMBER TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING THE OVERALL GOAL OF MY LABORATORY IS TO DEVELOP NOVEL BIOMATERIAL AND CELL BASED STRATEGIES TO REGENERATE OR REPAIR DAMAGED TISSUES AND RESTORE BIOMECHANICAL FUNCTION USING MINIMAL INVASIVE STRATEGIES (MIS). *INTERVERTEBRAL DISC, CARTILAGE, NERVE TISSUE ENGINEERING *CELLULAR MICROENCAPSULATION FOR THERAPEUTIC REGENERATION *CRYOPRESERVATION STRATEGIES *BIOMIMETICS & DECELLULARISATION OF NATIVE TISSUES AS SCAFFOLD MATRICES *SCAFFOLD FABRICATION TECHNOLOGY (INJECTABLE BIOMATERIALS, BIO PRINTING) *STRATEGIES FOR INNOVATIVE INTRAOPERATIVE CLINICAL INTERVENTION *BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS AND BIOPHYSICAL STIMULATION *3D PRINTING OF MEDICAL DEVICES MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH EDUCATING STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE (ESEM), CO- FOUNDING MEMBER AND TREASURER EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS (ESB) ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH SOCIETY (ORS) QUALITY AND QUALIFICATIONS IRELAND (QQI) PANEL EXPERT. QQI IS THE NATIONAL AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL FRAMEWORK OF QUALIFICATIONS (NFQ). TECHNO THREADS- VICTIMLESS LEATHER, TCD SCIENCE GALLERY, IRELAND. CONTRIBUTION: SETUP, INSTALLATION AND MANAGEMENT OF EXHIBITION PIECE WHICH DEMONSTRATED HOW TISSUE CULTURES COULD BE USED TO CREATE SEMI-LIVING CLOTHES TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY (TERMIS) TRANSFORMATIONS, TCD SCIENCE GALLERY, IRELAND, HEA CELEBRATION OF 10 YEARS OF PRTLI FUNDING. CONTRIBUTION: CO-ORGANISED THE EXPLORING BIOENGINEERING EXHIBIT DEMONSTRATING THE RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN BY TCBE SINCE ITS INCEPTION. VISCERAL- LIVING ART EXPERIMENT, TCD SCIENCE GALLERY, IRELAND. EXHIBITING DEMONSTRATING TEN YEARS OF SYMBIOTICA'S CHALLENGING WORK AT THE FRONTIER BETWEEN FINE ART AND BIOTECHNOLOGY REVOLVING AROUND THE NATURE OF THE LIVING AND NON-LIVING. CONTRIBUTION: CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR. BIOMATERIALS MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) MATERIALS SCIENCE OTHER ENGINEERING ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF DIFFERENT MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL POPULATIONS AWARDED €15,000 TO ACQUIRE EXPERTISE AND TRAINING IN THE ISOLATION, PURIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS) FROM DIFFERENT TISSUE SOURCES (BONE MARROW, INTRAMEDULLARY ADIPOSE TISSUE, INFRAPATELLAR FAT PAD AND SYNOVIUM MEMBRANE) USING MAGNETIC BEAD SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY AND FACS. INTERNATIONAL LABORATORY COLLABORATORS: PROF. DENNIS MCGONAGLE AND DR. ELENA JONES, LEEDS INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) SHORT TERM TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP (STTF) AWARD NATURAL ECM DERIVED INJECTABLE MICROPARTICLES FOR REGENERATION OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC (DISCREGEN) RECENT EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT DEGENERATION INITIATES WITHIN THE CENTRAL REGION OF THE DISC CALLED THE NUCLEUS PULPOSUS (NP). THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS GRANT IS TO DEVELOP AN INJECTABLE MICROPARTICLE ENCAPSULATED EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM) DERIVED FROM NP TISSUE FABRICATED USING ELECTROSPRAYING TECHNOLOGY. IT IS HYPOTHESISED THAT THESE MICROPARTICLES WILL PROVIDE KEY BIOCHEMICAL CUES TO STIMULATE REPAIR AND REGENERATION OF THE DISC BY THE PATIENT'S OWN CELLS. THIS TECHNOLOGY AND APPROACH FOR REGENERATION OR REPAIRING THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC IS HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE, AND COULD BE PERFORMED AT AN EARLIER STAGE OF TISSUE DEGENERATION TO ALLEVIATE BACK PAIN THUS REDUCING THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS REQUIRING SPINAL FUSION OR ARTIFICIAL IMPLANT REPLACEMENT SURGERY. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND INJECTABLE HYDROGEL COMPOSITES FOR STEM CELL REPAIR OF THE NUCLEUS PULPOSUS AUTOLOGOUS CELL IMPLANTATION THERAPIES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATED IVD SIMILAR TO THOSE CURRENTLY USED FOR CARTILAGE REPAIR IN THE KNEE. RECENT INVESTIGATIONS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT REIMPLANTATION OF EXTRACTED NUCLEUS PULPOSUS (NP) CELLS CAN RETARD DEGENERATIVE CHANGES, AND INJECTION OF AUTOLOGOUS. NP CELLS HAVE BEEN CLINICALLY TESTED IN HUMANS WITH HERNIATED DISCS. HOWEVER, IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE NUMBER OF NP CELLS THAT CAN BE ISOLATED FROM A DEGENERATED DISC IS INSUFFICIENT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT. AS AN ALTERNATIVE, MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS) POSSESS SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL AND PERHAPS PROVIDE A MORE READILY AVAILABLE AND CLINICALLY FEASIBLE SOURCE OF CELLS FOR IVD REPAIR THERAPIES. A KEY CHALLENGE WITH USING MSCS IS DEVELOPING SUITABLE BIOMATERIALS THAT CAN BE INJECTED INTO THE NP COMPARTMENT WHILST PROVIDING THE OPTIMAL BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT TO FACILITATE DIFFERENTIATION. THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL UTILISE STATE OF THE ART TISSUE ENGINEERING AND BIOMATERIAL STRATEGIES USING A COMBINATION OF MSCS, INJECTABLE GROWTH FACTOR RELEASING HYDROGEL BASED SYSTEMS. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY (HEA). PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS (PRTLI) CYCLE 5 INTRAOPERATIVE SINGLE STAGE PROCEDURE FOR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC REGENERATION (INSPIRE) 97% OF INDIVIDUALS OVER THE AGE OF 50 EXHIBIT DEGENERATION OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC (IVD). RECENT INVESTIGATIONS HAVE SHOWN THAT CELL-BASED STRATEGIES CAN RETARD DEGENERATIVE CHANGES. HOWEVER, THE CHALLENGE FOR CLINICAL TRANSLATION REMAINS IN IDENTIFYING SUITABLE CELL SOURCES AND BIOMATERIAL DELIVERY SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT SUCH CELLS WITHIN THE HARSH AND COMPLEX BIOCHEMICAL (LOW PH) AND BIOMECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE DISC. INTRAOPERATIVE SINGLE STAGE CELL THERAPIES ARE HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE, AVOIDING THE NEED FOR TWO HOSPITAL VISITS AND COSTLY IN VITRO CELL EXPANSION. IN ADDITION, DEVELOPING INJECTABLE BIOMATERIAL SYSTEMS IS PIVOTAL FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES. THE OVERALL AIM OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP AN AUTOLOGOUS SINGLE STAGE THERAPY FOR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC (IVD) REGENERATION. THIS CONSISTS OF TISSUE HARVESTING FROM NASAL SEPTUM, RAPID CELL ISOLATION, DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMIMETIC INJECTABLE CELLULAR MICROCAPSULES (AIM 1) COMBINED WITH PH BUFFERING BIOMATERIALS TO REGULATE THE ACIDIC MICROENVIRONMENT THAT EXISTS IN NATIVE DISC TISSUE (AIM 2) AND THEN EVALUATING THE PROPOSED STRATEGY IN BOTH EX-VIVO ORGAN CULTURE AND IN-VIVO MODELS (AIM 3). IF SUCCESSFUL, THE STRATEGIES OUTLINED WILL CREATE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN WHICH THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATORS APPROACH EARLY STAGE DISC DEGENERATION. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD OVER-THE-WIRE DRUG DELIVERY DEVICE A RECENTLY DEVELOPED AND PATENTED TECHNOLOGY (DELIVERING DRUGS TO DESIRED LOCATIONS WITHIN A MAMMAL, PCT/US11/26040) AT THE MAYO CLINIC MAY OFFER SIGNIFICANT CLINICAL AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY TO SUSTAINABLY DELIVER PHARMACOLOGIC AGENTS OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME. THIS IS AN OVER-THE-WIRE DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS THE PLACEMENT OF AN ANCHORED DEVICE ON THE POSTERIOR WALL OF THE VERTEBRAL BODY, NEAR THE DORSAL ROOT GANGLION AND DISC. THIS DEVICE COULD POTENTIALLY PROVIDE A DURABLE THERAPY AND PROLONG THE RESIDENCE FOR SHORT ACTING AGENTS (E.G. CLONIDINE, DEXMEDETOMIDINE, INFLIXIMAB, ETANERCEPT). THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ASSESS THE COMMERCIAL FEASIBILITY FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTIFY KEY TASKS FOR CONTINUED INVESTMENT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND EI COMMERCIALISATION FEASIBILITY GRANT MICROENCAPSULATION OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FOR MINIMAL INVASIVE REGENERATION OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A BIOMIMETIC HYDROGEL THAT CAN BE COMBINED WITH CELLS TO GENERATE MICROBEADS FORMED THROUGH ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC (EHD) SPRAYING FOR MINIMAL INVASIVE DELIVERY TO THE IVD. THE SECOND OBJECTIVE IS TO INVESTIGATE IF THE COMBINATION OF MICROENCAPSULATED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS) IN A BIOMIMETIC HYDROGEL WILL AUGMENT OR IMPROVE REGENERATION OF THE NUCLEUS PULPOSUS IN AN EX VIVO FULL ORGAN CULTURE MODEL OF THE IVD. THE THIRD AND FINAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO INVESTIGATE THE COMBINED EFFECTS OF BIOPHYSICAL STIMULI AND CHALLENGING BIOCHEMICAL NUTRIENT ENVIRONMENTS THAT NORMALLY EXIST IN VIVO ON THE REGENERATIVE POTENTIAL OF MICROENCAPSULATED MSCS. IF SUCCESSFUL, THE APPROACHES OUTLINED WILL CREATE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN THE MANNER IN WHICH THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATORS APPROACH BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF DISC DEGENERATION. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME (2014-2018) A BIOACTIVE COLLAGEN-BASED CONDUIT FOR PERIPHERAL NERVE REPAIR PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY REMAINS A MAJOR CLINICAL PROBLEM. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 5% OF MULTIPLE TRAUMA PATIENTS HAVE ROOT, PLEXUS OR PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES. THESE INJURIES ARE TYPICALLY CAUSED BY TRANSECTION OR BURNS OR AS A RESULT OF DEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS SUCH AS AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS, PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. IDEALLY, PROMPT SURGICAL INTERVENTION IS REQUIRED BUT IF THE INJURY SIZE IS >5MM OR DIRECT SUTURING IS NOT POSSIBLE, AUTOGRAFTS ARE UTILISED AND ARE CURRENTLY THE ACCEPTED CLINICAL 'GOLD-STANDARD' FOR TREATMENT. HOWEVER, AUTOGRAFTS ARE HAMPERED BY LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF DONOR TISSUE AND THE RELATIVELY POOR PROGNOSIS FOR FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AT BOTH THE DONOR AND RECIPIENT SITES. AS A RESULT, NEW APPROACHES ARE CURRENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED TO DEVELOP ARTIFICIAL NERVE GRAFTS WHICH MIMIC THE PROPERTIES OF AUTOLOGOUS GRAFTS. COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE NERVE GUIDANCE CONDUITS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AND PRESENT PROMISING ALTERNATIVES TO AUTOGRAFTS. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE WORLDWIDE MARKET FOR PERIPHERAL NERVE REPAIR CONDUITS IS OVER $100 MILLION. HOWEVER, CHALLENGES ARISING WITH THEIR USE HAVE CREATED A MAJOR GAP IN THE MARKET FOR A DRUG AND CELL FREE CONDUIT THAT CAN FACILITATE REPAIR OF LARGE DEFECTS. THIS IS THE FOCUS OF THE CURRENT PROJECT WHICH WILL BE CENTRED ON TWO APPROACHES WHICH WILL BE INVESTIGATED IN PARALLEL: (I) THE DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOACTIVE COLLAGEN-BASED CONDUIT CONTAINING INDUCTIVE MACROMOLECULES AND (II) THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DECELLULARIZED NERVE GRAFT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP TOWARDS A SINGLE STAGE PROCEDURE FOR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC REPAIR USING NASAL DERIVED CHONDROCYTES (NASDISC) AUTOLOGOUS DISC CELL TRANSPLANTATION (ADCT) HAS BEEN IN CLINICAL USE FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATED IVD IN A SIMILAR MANNER TO THOSE CURRENTLY USED FOR CARTILAGE REPAIR OF THE KNEE JOINT. ALTHOUGH THESE THERAPIES HAVE MADE IT TO THE CLINICAL SETTING THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS REGARDING ITS EFFECTIVENESS DUE TO ISSUES OF CELL LEAKAGE FOLLOWING CELL INJECTION INTO THE DISC, THE LIMITED TISSUE FORMING CAPACITY OF CULTURE EXPANDED NP CELLS DERIVED FROM DEGENERATED TISSUE AND QUESTIONS AS TO WHETHER THE NUMBER OF NUCLEUS PULPOSUS (NP) CELLS THAT CAN BE ISOLATED FROM A DEGENERATED DISC IS SUFFICIENT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT. THEREFORE, THERE IS A NEED TO IDENTIFY AN ALTERNATIVE CELL SOURCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL TRANSLATION OF NEXT GENERATION THERAPIES FOR IVD REGENERATION. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY AND THE SUBSEQUENT TISSUE FORMING CAPACITY OF FRESHLY ISOLATED NASAL SEPTAL DERIVED CHONDROCYTES ON POROUS MICROCARRIERS TO AUGMENT TISSUE REGENERATION AS PART OF A SINGLE STAGE PROCEDURE. RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING GRANT BY TCD RESEARCH COMMITTEE PATHFINDER INJECTABLE BIOMIMETIC HYDROGELS FOR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC REGENERATION (BIODISC) : SUPPORT FUNDING TO FACILITATE THE PREPARATORY WORK LEADING TO A PROPOSAL FOR THE COORDINATION OF A RESEARCH PROJECT (ERC-STG 2014) UNDER THE HORIZON 2020 PROGRAMME. ENTERPRISE IRELAND H2020 SUPPORT FUNDING (2014) NUCLEUS PULPOSUS REGENERATION OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC (NUGENDISC) PERSONAL AWARD TO DEVELOP INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS WITH WORLD-CLASS RENOWNED RESEARCHERS, TO, LEARN NEW TECHNIQUES, AND BUILD ON AND ESTABLISH NEW COLLABORATIONS AND NETWORKS. INTERNATIONAL LABORATORIES: PROF. JAMES IATRIDIS, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI IN NEW YORK CITY AND PROF. BENJAMIN GATTENBEIN, UNIVERSITY OF BERN, SWITZERLAND. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS AWARD NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MS. SINÉAD BUCKLEY buckleysinad CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER BUCKLESI SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY TRANSITION OF CARE, MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE, HEALTHY SCHOOLS, CHILDHOOD ILLNESSES, REFLECTIVE PRACTICE, NURSE EDUCATION SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH MARKETING GROUP; COMPETENCY SUB GROUP / CLINICAL PRACTICE MODULE LEADER (CHILDREN'S NURSING) AN EVALUATION OF CLIENT SATISFACTION WITH THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES-A MULTICENTRE SURVEY PROF.IMELDA COYNE, HEAD OF CHILDREN'S DISCIPLINE, TCD. DR. MANAS SARKAR, LOCUM CONSULTANT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST. PROFESSOR FIONA MCNICOLAS, CONSULTANT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST, LUCENA CLINIC. MS. MARY HEALY, SOCIAL WORKER, CORK. MS. SINÉAD BUCKLEY, LECTURER IN CHILDREN'S NURSING & MS CARLA BEATTIE, RESEARCH STUDENT NONE AGEING CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ANDREI BUDANOV budanovandrei USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BUDANOVA BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES FOR MANY YEARS, SINCE WE IDENTIFIED SESTRIN2 GENE, I HAVE BEEN FOCUSED ON CHARACTERISATION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF SESTRIN GENE FAMILY. BASED ON STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY WITH THE ANTIOXIDANT BACTERIAL PEROXIREDOXIN PROTEINS WE DETERMINED THAT SESTRINS PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE. WE ALSO IDENTIFIED THAT SESTRINS ARE ACTIVATED BY MANY STRESSORS AND PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE REGULATION OF CELL VIABILITY UNDER STRESS CONDITIONS. LATER WE FOUND THAT SESTRINS ARE SUPPRESSORS OF MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCINE COMPLEX 1 KINASE (MTORC1), THE CRITICAL REGULATOR OF METABOLISM, CELL GROWTH AND AUTOPHAGY. AS WE DEMONSTRATED, SESTRINS INHIBIT MTORC1 THROUGH TWO PARALLEL MECHANISMS: ACTIVATION OF AMP-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE (AMPK) AND INHIBITION OF THE GATOR2 PROTEIN COMPLEX. THESE TWO MECHANISMS OPERATE THROUGH TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF SMALL GTPASES NAMELY RHEB AND RAGS. PURSUING THE ROLE OF SESTRINS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, WE HAVE ALSO DETERMINED THAT SESTRINS ARE INVOLVED IN DIFFERENT PROCESSES INCLUDING AGEING, METABOLIC SYNDROME AND CANCER. CURRENTLY WE ARE STUDYING THE ROLE OF SESTRINS IN REGULATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL HOMEOSTASIS AND LOOKING FOR NEW MOLECULES THAT CAN MODULATE ACTIVITIES OF SESTRINS. INTERESTINGLY, ACTIVATION OF SESTRINS MIGHT HAVE DIFFERENT OUTCOMES UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, IN OUR EARLIER STUDIES WE DETERMINED THAT SESTRINS PROTECT CELL VIABILITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF OXIDATIVE STRESS, ENERGY DEFICIENCY AND HYPOXIA. NEVERTHELESS, UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS SESTRINS' ACTIVATION MIGHT BE DETRIMENTAL FOR CELLS. PROLONGED EXPOSURE OF LUNG CELLS TO TOBACCO SMOKE (CAUSING COPD AND CANCER) CAN INDUCE CELL DEATH MEDIATED BY ACTIVATION OF SESTRIN2 GENE. ALTHOUGH THE MECHANISMS OF THIS PROCESS ARE YET TO BE ESTABLISHED, IT CAN BE MEDIATED BY THE PROCESS OF SELF-DIGESTION OF CELLULAR CONTENT- AUTOPHAGY. AUTOPHAGY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTROL OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION VIA THE PROCESS OF DEGRADATION OF MITOCHONDRIA CALLED MITOPHAGY. CURRENTLY WE ARE STUDYING THE MECHANISMS OF REGULATION OF AUTOPHAGY/MITOPHAGY BY SESTRINS AND A POTENTIAL ROLE OF THESE PROCESSES IN REGULATION OF CELL DEATH IN RESPONSE TO TOBACCO SMOKE EXPOSURE AND OTHER STRESS FACTORS INCLUDING OXIDATIVE STRESS AND DNA DAMAGE. AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, WE HAVE ALSO SEARCHED FOR NEW SMALL MOLECULES WHICH CAN BIND THE LEUCINE BINDING DOMAIN OF SESTRIN PROTEINS AND CAN BE INVOLVED IN THE REGULATION OF SESTRINS' ACTIVITY. WE WILL ANALYSE WHETHER THESE MOLECULES AFFECT INTERACTION BETWEEN SESTRIN2 AND GATOR2 COMPLEX AND INHIBIT AUTOPHAGY/MITOPHAGY AND CELL DEATH IN RESPONSE TO SESTRIN ACTIVATION. WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN THE ROLE OF SESTRIN2 IN REGULATION OF CELLULAR PROCESSES IN RESPONSE TO INTERFERON. WE HAVE DETERMINED THAT TREATMENT OF DIFFERENT CELL TYPES WITH INTERFERONS ALPHA OR GAMMA STIMULATES SESTRIN2 EXPRESSION, HOWEVER THE ROLE OF SESTRIN2 IN INTERFERON RESPONSE IS COMPLETELY UNKNOWN. WE WILL ANALYSE THE MECHANISMS OF SESTRIN2 ACTIVATION BY INTERFERONS, AND POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF SESTRIN2 IN REGULATION OF MTORC1, AUTOPHAGY AND CELL DEATH BY INTERFERONS IN CANCER AND IMMUNE CELLS. THE OTHER IMPORTANT PROBLEM IS THE ROLE OF SESTRINS IN THE DNA-DAMAGE RESPONSE. WE HAVE FOUND THAT SESTRIN1 AND SESTRIN2 ARE ACTIVATED BY DIFFERENT TYPES OF DNA-DAMAGES, BUT THE ROLE OF SESTRINS IN THE DNA-DAMAGE RESPONSE IS STILL UNKNOWN. WE ARE STUDYING WHAT THE ROLE OF SESTRINS IS IN THE REGULATION OF METABOLISM, AUTOPHAGY AND CELL DEATH IN RESPONSE TO THE GENOTOXIC STRESS. SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOLOGY TBSI PEARSE STREET, DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 (HUMAN) 2 ISOFORMS AGEING APOPTOSIS CANCER GATOR METABOLISM MITOCHONDRIA MTOR SESTRINS STRESS RESPONSE MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) RESPIRATORY MEDICINE GENETICS AND GENOMICS PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY AGEING CANCER PROFESSOR ANDREW BURKE burkeandrew PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS STUDIES BURKEA18 BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. SARA BURKE burkesara RESEARCH FELLOW BURKES17 PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE HEALTH POLICY HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS IRISH HEALTH POLICY HEALTH SYSTEMS STRENGTHENING RESEARCH METHODS PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEMS COMPARATIVE HEALTH POLICY HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT ROOM 0.21, 3/4 FOSTER PLACE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) POLITICAL SCIENCE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. MARTIN J BURKE burkemartinj ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MBURKE ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING KEYWORDS: BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONICS, INSTRUMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS, NON-INVASIVE CLINICAL MEASUREMENTS, BIOELECTRIC AMPLIFIERS, TRANSDUCER INTERFACING, BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, ECG SIGNAL CHARACTERIZATION AND SYNTHESIS. DRY-ELECTRODE ECG RECORDING: WORK IN THIS ARE HAS CENTRED ON DEVELOPING A SYSTEM FOR MONITORING THE ECG USING UN-GELLED OR DRY ELECTRODES WHICH ARE MOUNTED IN AN ELASTICATED VEST. THE TARGET IS TO ATTAIN FULL CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY IN THE SIGNAL RECORDED. THIS INVOLVES THE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOW-POWER BIOELECTRIC AMPLIFIERS FOR THE PURPOSE. ECG SIGNAL SYNTHESIS: WORK ON THIS THEME IS FOCUSED ON USING SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES TO CHARACTERISE CLINICAL QUALITY ECG SIGNALS IN THE TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS. THIS WILL THEN BE USED TO ALLOW THE SYNTHESIS OF A FULLY PROGRAMMABLE ECG SIGNAL HAVING PRECISION VARIABLE FEATURES FOR THE PURPOSES OF TESTING, CALIBRATION, COMMISSIONING AND FAULT-FINDING OF ECG RECORDING EQUIPMENT. ELEC & ELECT ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) INTRODUCTION OF BIOENGINEERING STREAM IN BAI PROGRAMME: PREPARATION AND PRESENTATION OF PROPOSAL TO COLLEGE COMMITTEES AND EXTERNAL REVIEWER MIET, MEMBER OF INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY. TRINITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE IN EUROPRACTICE PROGRAMME APPLIED ELECTRONICS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS, BIOPOTENTIAL AMPLIFIERS ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, CIRCUIT DESIGN MEDICAL ELECTRONICS MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION NON-INVASIVE CLINICAL MEASUREMENTS SENSING DEVICES AND TRANSDUCERS TRANSDUCER INTERFACING MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC SPHYGMOMANOMETER A PROTOTYPE PRESSURE MONITOR HAS BEEN DEVELOPED WHICH WILL ACT AS AN ELECTRONIC REPLACEMENT FOR THE MERCURY AND ANEROID MANOMETERS CURRENTLY USED IN SPHYGMOMANOMETERS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF BLOOD PRESSURE. THE MANOMETER MEASURES PRESSURE IN THE RANGE 0-300 MMHG WITH AN ACCURACY OF +1MMHG AND IS TEMPERATURE COMPENSATED FOR OFFSET AND SPAN VARIATIONS FROM -10 TO +60 DEG C. NONE DRY-ELECTRODE ECG AMPLIFIER AND DETECTOR THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN INTERFACING PREAMPLIFIER FOR USE IN THE MEASUREMENT OF THE ECG USING DRY CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES. THE HIGHER INPUT IMPEDANCE IS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO PREVENT PHASE DISTORTION OF THE RECORDED SIGNAL AND TO OBTAIN A REASONABLY HIGH CMRR TO REJECT COMMON-MODE INFERENCE. OTHER SECOND ORDER AND PARASITIC EFFECTS ARE ALSO MORE DIFFICULT TO CONTROL. WORK IS IN PROGRESS TO DEVELOP AN EXTREMELY LOW POWER PREAMPLIFIER FOR USE WITH DRY CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES IN AMBULATORY ECG MONITORING USING A WEARABLE VEST. IT WILL DETECT SIGNALS HAVING AN AMPLITUDE IN THE RANGE 100µV - 10MV WITH A 3DB BANDWIDTH OF 0.05HZ - 2KHZ AND HAVING A CMRR OF GREATER THAN 80 DB. THE AMPLIFIER WILL PROVIDE A GAIN OF 40DB WITH A POWER CONSUMPTION OF LESS THAN 50µW WHEN OPERATING FROM A 3V SUPPLY. IT IS INTENDED THAT THE AMPLIFIER BE MINIATURISED TO BE MOUNTED IN THE WEARABLE VEST ALSO. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND ELECTROCARDIOGRAM(ECG) CHARACTERISATION AND SYNTHESIS THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE USE OF WAVELET ANALYSIS AND DYNAMIC TIME WARPING ANALYSIS IN ORDER TO CHARACTERISE THE TIMING RELATIONSHIPS OF THE CONSISTENT WAVES OF THE ECG SIGNAL. A SET OF EQUATIONS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED WHICH DESCRIBE THE VARIATIONS IN THE DURATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS WITH HEART RATE. WORK IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS TO TRY TO USE DYNAMIC TIME WARPING TO FIND SIMPLE MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS WHICH CAN BE USED TO SIMULATE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENT WAVES IN THE OVERALL ECG SIGNAL. A PROGRAMMABLE ECG SIGNAL GENERATOR IS ALSO UNDER DEVELOPMENT, WHICH ALLOWS SIGNALS TO BE PROVIDED AT VERY LOW VOLTAGE LEVELS WITH PRECISELY CONTROLLED AMPLITUDE AND TIMING CHARACTERISTICS. THIS IS INTENDED FOR USE IN THE CALIBRATION COMMISSIONING, ASSESSMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF ECG RECORDING EQUIPMENT TO INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN STANDARDS. IRCSET EMBARK INITIATIVE ECG DRY-ELECTRODE VEST THE DESIGN OF A BODY-FIT VEST IS UNDERWAY FOR THE PURPOSES OF RECORDING THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM IN MOBILE SUBJECTS WITH CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES WHICH DO NOT REQUIRE A COUPLING GEL. THE AIM IS TO INCORPORATE THE ELECTRODES INTO THE MATERIAL OF THE VEST WHICH IS BODY TIGHT SO THAT REASONABLE CONTACT CAN BE MAINTAINED. THIS HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF ALLOWING LONG-TERM CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF THE ECG WHICH IS NOT POSSIBLE WITH CONVENTIONAL ADHESIVE DISPOSABLE ELECTRODES. INITIAL RESULTS ARE PROMISING WHICH WOULD INDICATE THAT A SIGNAL QUALITY IS OBTAINABLE WITH THE DRY ELECTRODES, WHICH IS COMPARABLE WITH THAT PROVIDED BY CONVENTIONAL ELECTRODES. WITH SUITABLE POST PROCESSING A SIGNAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSTIC QUALITY SHOULD BE OBTAINABLE. WORK ON THE PROJECT INVOLVES: GAINING AN ACCURATE UNDERSTANDING OF THE IONIC TO ELECTRONIC CHARGE TRANSFER AT THE SKIN-ELECTRODE INTERFACE; ELECTRICAL MODELLING OF THE SKIN-ELECTRODE-AMPLIFIER INTERFACE; IDENTIFYING AND REDUCING SOURCES OF NOISE AND INTERFERENCE AND DETERMINING THE BEST LOCATIONS FOR PLACING THE ELECTRODES. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND ANALOGUE ECG FILTERING WORK IS IN PROGRESS ON THE DESIGN OF LOW-POWER ACTIVE ANALOGUE FILTERS FOR THE PURPOSES OF BAND-LIMITING THE RECORDED ECG SIGNAL FOR PRE-PROCESSING. THE DESIGN OF THE LOW-PASS FILTER IS STRAIGHTFORWARD AS A BESSEL-THOMPSON FILTER CAN BE USED TO OBTAIN PHASE LINEARITY AND AVOID SIGNAL DISTORTION. THE HIGH-PASS FILTER DESIGN IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT. CURRENT WORK IS CENTRED ON THE DESIGN OF A MINIMAL PHASE ACTIVE FILTER WHICH WILL PROVIDE AS HIGH A REJECTION AS POSSIBLE OF LOW FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE AND BASELINE DRIFT WHICH IS PREVALENT IN DRY ELECTRODE RECORDING. AT THE SAME TIME THE IN-BAND AMPLITUDE RESPONSE MUST BE FLAT AND THE GROUP DELAY AS CONSTANT AS POSSIBLE. THE IMPULSE RESPONSE REQUIREMENTS AS DEFINED FOR ECG RECORDING EQUIPMENT BY INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN STANDARDS MUST ALSO BE MET. IRCSET EMBARK INITIATIVE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. EILISH BURKE burkeeilish USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EBURKE7 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALTH; OSTEOPOROSIS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; END OF LIFE AND PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG PEOPLE WITH ID; ACCESSIBLE HEALTH ASSESSMENT FOR PEOPLE WITH ID; INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGIES IN RESEARCH; NURSE EDUCATION; CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REFLECTIVE PRACTICE. SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE MASTERS IN AGEING AND ID CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER IF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES MEMBER OF THE 'HEALTHY CAMPUS GROUP' MEMBER OF THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DISCIPLINE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION MEMBER OF THE IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE IRISH OSTEOPOROSIS SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE POSTGRADUATE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE SNM MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD TO THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE TO THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING SPECIAL INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP AGEING IASSID SPECIAL INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP HEALTH IASSID AGEING AGEING, HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY BONE DOWN SYNDROME, DEMENTIA AND AGEING OSTEOPOROSIS NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH BETTER BONES BETTER HEALTH: DEVELOPMENT OF A RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR THE PREDICTION OF OSTEOPENIA AND OSTEOPOROSIS AMONG PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. THE PREVALENCE OF OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOPENIA IN OLDER ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) IN IRELAND HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AT OVER 70% IRRESPECTIVE OF GENDER. THE COMMON IDENTIFIED RISKS OBSERVED AMONG THE GENERAL POPULATION ARE ALSO NOT CONSISTENTLY EVIDENT. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AN ONLINE TOOL FOR PREDICTING OSTEOPOROSIS/OSTEOPENIA IN PEOPLE WITH ID. THIS PROJECT WILL TAKE THE FIRST STEPS IN DEVELOPING AN OSTEOPOROSIS/OSTEOPENIA RISK EVALUATION TOOL FOR PEOPLE WITH ID THAT WILL THEN SUPPORT FUTURE RESEARCH ON IMPROVING BONE HEALTH CARE ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS FOR PEOPLE WITH ID. NO SUCH TOOL CURRENTLY EXISTS. FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES TCD DEANS RESEARCH AWARD END OF LIFE, GLANCING BACK THINKING FORWARD DEVELOPMENT OF A PALLIATIVE CARE SUPPORT HUB FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARER'S/SUPPORT WORKERS THE AIIHPC PALLIATIVE CARE RESEARCH NETWORK KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITY INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, PEOPLE IN IRELAND WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) ARE GROWING OLD IN CONSIDERABLE NUMBERS. THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (IDS-TILDA) IS DESIGNED TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES OF ADULTS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AS THEY AGE. IN ITS FIRST WAVE OF DATA COLLECTION, IDS-TILDA ACCUMULATED A SAMPLE OF 753 PERSONS AGED 40+ WITH AN ID. THE SAMPLE WAS DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DATABASE (NIDD) WHO RESPONDED (OR CARERS HAVE RESPONDED ON THEIR BEHALF) TO QUESTIONNAIRES ADDRESSING DEMOGRAPHICS, HEALTH, HEALTH UTILISATION, MEDICATION USAGE, ADL/IADLS, EMPLOYMENT/DAY PROGRAMMING, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS, LIFE SATISFACTION, HAPPINESS, AGEING PERCEPTIONS, PERSONAL CHOICES, SOURCES OF INCOME AND LIFE-LONG LEARNING. HRB AND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WAVE 2 INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING BUILDING ON THE FIRST TWO WAVES OF THE STUDY, THE IDS-TILDA STUDY CONTINUES TO BUILD A PICTURE OF THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF OLDER ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. IDENTIFYING THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL HEALTH DETERMINANTS THAT INFLUENCE PEOPLES LIVES AS THEY GROW OLDER IN IRELAND. HRB AND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH WAVE 3 GETTING THE MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER IDS-TILDA IS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY RESEARCHING AGEING IN IRELAND AMONG PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AGED 40 AND OVER. THE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN EUROPE, AND THE ONLY STUDY ABLE TO DIRECTLY COMPARE THE AGEING OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY WITH THE GENERAL AGEING POPULATION, THE STUDY IS ALSO UNIQUELY INCLUSIVE, FROM INCEPTION TO DISSEMINATION. TO REALIZE THIS ETHOS OF INCLUSION THE IDS-TILDA TEAM DEVISED A MULTIMEDIA PROJECT ENTITLED 'GETTING THE MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER; INNOVATION IN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION'©. THIS MULTIMEDIA APPROACH IN WHICH PEOPLE WITH ID ARE BOTH ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS AND COMPREHENDING RECIPIENTS OF RESEARCH OFFERS A DISSEMINATION MODE THAT ENHANCES UNDERSTANDING OF INFORMATION AND INCREASES ACCESS, ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INCLUSION OF PERSONS WITH ID AND A MEANS TO ADVANCE AN EMERGING INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR ONLINE ACCESSIBILITY. A DVD ENTITLED 'SCENES FROM OUR LIVES' IS JUST PART AND THE BEGINNING OF ACCESSIBLE DISSEMINATION EFFORTS AND PRESENTS THE FINDINGS OF IDS-TILDA IN A VISUAL FORMAT USING SHORT FILMED SEGMENTS USING ACTORS WITH ID THAT DEPICT SPECIFIC RESULTS. IN THE NEXT PHASE OF THE PROJECT THE ACTED SCENES WILL BE UPLOADED TO A USER FRIENDLY MULTIMEDIA WEBSITE WITH TEXT ONLY AND VISUAL AND AUDITORY ENHANCED ELEMENTS TO OVERCOME LITERACY BARRIERS, FURTHER ADVANCE UNDERSTANDING AND ENCOURAGE INTERACTION AMONG PEOPLE WITH ID AND THEIR FAMILY/CARERS. A FINDING OF IDS-TILDA WAS THAT PEOPLE WITH ID AS THEY AGED WERE LARGELY ABSENT FROM THE DIGITAL WORLD. THE MULTIMEDIA APPROACH WILL SEEK TO WELCOME PEOPLE WITH ID TO RANGE OF MEDIA AND IN THE FUTURE PROJECT SPECIFIC IPAD/ANDROID APPS AND OTHER TOUCHSCREEN TECHNOLOGY WILL BE ADDED TO FURTHER INCREASE ACCESSIBILITY. IRCHSS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITY SHAPING THE FUTURE OF THE REGISTERED NURSE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 'SCENES FROM OUR LIVES - WAVE 2' THIS PROJECT CONSISTED OF A MULTILEVEL APPROACH TO DISSEMINATION, WHICH INCLUDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DVD WHEREBY ACTORS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY ACTED OUT KEY MESSAGES FROM THE FINDINGS OF WAVE 2 IDS-TILDA, THE IDS-TILDA TEAM CREATED INFOGRAPHICS OF THE KEY THEMES EMERGING FROM THE DATA AND FINALLY, THE TEAM ENGAGED IN A ROADSHOW DISSEMINATING THE RESULTS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY TO A VARIETY OF SERVICES AND STAFF. HRB KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE ACTIVITY AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. SARAH BURNS burnssarah VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT BURNSSA SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY ESRI WHITAKER SQUARE SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. JOHN SIMON BUTLER butlerjohnsimon ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JOBUTLER PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING MY RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON INVESTIGATING HOW THE BRAIN PROCESSES SENSORY AND MULTISENSORY CUES IN CLINICAL AND NON-CLINICAL POPULATIONS. TO DO THIS I DESIGN NOVEL EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS AND ADAPT/BUILD EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT TO ACQUIRE BEHAVIOURAL AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL DATA. I DEVISE ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS TO ANALYZE AND INTERPRET THESE RICH AND COMPLEX DATASETS. I HAVE USED THIS DATA TO DEVELOP BIOLOGICALLY PLAUSIBLE AND COMPUTATIONAL ELEGANT MODELS THAT DESCRIBE THE INTEGRATION OF SENSORY SIGNALS. AS A SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW I WILL EXTEND THESE MODELS TO MAKE PREDICTIONS OF ABHORRENT SENSORY SIGNAL PROCESSING THAT HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN CLINICAL POPULATIONS. THESE MODELSARE TESTED AND HELP BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THEORETICAL HYPOTHESIS AND EXPERIMENTAL DATA WHICH IS VITAL TO FURTHER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL SENSORY PROCESSING. THIS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH MY RESEARCH PARTNERS WHO INVESTIGATE DYSTONIA (PROF MICHAEL HUTCHISON, ST. VINCENT'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL) AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE (PROF. TIM LYNCH, MATER HOSPITAL) DEPARTMENT F PHYSIOLOGY TBSI COLLEGE 01-8961000 NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY MATHEMATICS OTHER ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE DR. SHANE BUTLER butlershane FELLOW EMERITUS SBUTLER SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS TO DATE HAVE PRIMARILY BEEN IN RELATION TO SOCIAL POLICY ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ISSUES. AS ALREADY INDICATED, MY CONCERN HAS BEEN TO STUDY THE IRISH POLICY CONTEXT, ALBEIT FROM A COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE. ONE OF MY PERSISTENT AIMS HAS BEEN TO LOOK CRITICALLY AT THE RESEARCH I POLICY INTERFACE, PARTICULARLY TO IDENTIFY HOW AND WHY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FINDINGS ARE USE SELECTIVELY BY POLICY MAKERS IN THEIR MANAGEMENT OF ISSUES WHICH INVOLVE CONFLICTING VALUE POSITIONS AND ENTRENCHED COMMERCIAL INTERESTS. IN RELATION TO ILLICIT DRUGS, MY RESEARCH ON IRISH POLICY HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE DIFFICULTIES FOR NATIONAL POLICY MAKERS IN INTRODUCING EVIDENCE BASED STRATEGIES WHERE SUCH STRATEGIES APPEAR TO BE . IN CONFLICT WITH AMERICAN-DOMINATED INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS, AS WELL AS BEING IN CONFLICT WITH LOCAL CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON THE NECESSITY FOR A 'WAR ON DRUGS'. IN RELATION TO ALCOHOL, MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN LARGELY FOCUSED ON SIMILAR ISSUES, MAINLY RELATING TO STATE RELUCTANCE TO ACT UPON RESEARCH-BASED RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH SMACKS OF PATERNALISM (THE 'NANNY STATE') AND WHICH ALSO CREATES CONFLICT WITH A GLOBALISED DRINKS INDUSTRY. THIS RESEARCH IS LARGELY DESK-BASED (OR AT LEAST LIBRARY-BASED), WITH SOME USE OF QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS, AND MY MAIN SCARCE RESOURCE IS TIME. SOCIAL STUDIES 3063 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF ACCREDITATION PANEL OF THE NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATIONS BOARD. MEMBER OF INTERIM AND LATER FULLY CONSTITUTED NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUGS (APPOINTED BY MINISTER OF STATE WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE NATIONAL DRUGS STRATEGY) - RESIGNED FROM THIS BODY ON BEING APPOINTED COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER FOR COLLEGE MEMBER OF NATIONAL GROUP ON ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION (NOMINATED BY SENIOR LECTURER AS COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE ON THIS NATIONAL COMMITTEE). MEMBER OF NATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION. MEMBER OF SOUTH - EAST INNER CITY AREA IMPLEMENTATION TEAM OF RAPID (REJUVENATION OF AREAS THROUGH PLANNING, INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT) . MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF COOLMINE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUGS MEMBER OF THE WORKING GROUP ON A NATIONAL ALCOHOL POLICY (APPOINTED BY MINISTER FOR HEALTH) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MS. VICTORIA BUTLER butlervictoria ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUTLERV SECRETARY'S OFFICE SECRETARY'S OFFICE WEST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ANDREW BUTTERFIELD butterfieldandrew ASSISTANT PROFESSOR -COURSE DIR. BA ICT BUTRFELD COMPUTER SCIENCE <B>CURRENT ACTIVE INTERESTS AND AREA OF EXPERTISE</B> <P> EXPLORING UTP SEMANTICS FOR SHARED-VARIABLE CONCURRENCY AS A BASELINE FOR EXPLORING FORMAL ASPECTS OF CONCURRENT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES, IN COLLABORATION WITH JIM WOODCOCK. <P> DEVELOPMENTS OF FORMAL MODELLING TECHNIQUES FOR ON-BOARD SPACE SOFTWARE. THIS FOLLOWS ON FROM RECENT INVESTIGATIVE WORK AS A FORMAL METHODS EXPERT FOR ESA IN THE AREA OF KERNEL QUALIFICATION. <P> UNIFYING THEORIES OF CLOCKED PARALLEL SYSTEMS; PRIORITY AND PROBABILITY IN SAME; FORMAL SEMANTICS OF HANDEL-C; UTP THEOREM PROVER DEVELOPMENT. <P> A NEW EMERGING AREA OF INTEREST AND EXPERTISE IS THE APPLICATION OF FORMAL MODELLING TECHNIQUES TO DESCRIPTIONS OF COMPLEX SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF MEDICAL DEVICE <EM>SOFTWARE</EM> CERTIFICATION. ALSO OF INTEREST IS BEING INVOLVED IN ADVOCATING A MORE PRODUCT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO CRITICAL MEDICAL SOFTWARE CERTIFICATION, RATHER THAN THE PROCESS FOCUS THAT IS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED. THIS WORK WILL BE DONE IN COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES FROM LERO. <P> <B>PAST AREAS OF INTEREST:</B> EXPLORING THE FEASIBILITY OF FORMALLY PROVING THE CORRECTNESS OF A TIME-SPACE PARTITIONING KERNEL (TSPK) , AS PART OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S SAVOIR-IMA ACTIVITY. <P> <P> PROCESS ALGBRAS WITH UNBOUNDED DUAL NON-DETERMINISM; EXTERNAL EFFECTS OF FUNCTIONAL I/O; FUNCTION-BASED FORMAL METHODS. SILICON COMPILATION VIA FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES; <P> <I>FORMAL SEMANTICS OF HANDEL-C</I> <P> RECENT WORK HAS EXPLORED GIVING A FORMAL SEMANTICS TO HANDEL-C, BY FIRST CONSIDERING A CAREFULLY CHOSEN SUBSET, DESIGNED TO ENSURE ALL AWKWARD LANGUAGE FEATURES ARE CONSIDERED, TO ENSURE FULL INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY OF THE RESEARCH RESULTS. THIS WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR JIM WOODCOCK OF THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK. <P> <I>THEORIES OF CLOCKED PARALLEL SYSTEMS</I> <P> I DEVELOPED AN EXPERTISE IN THE RELATIVELY NEW UNIFYING THEORIES FRAMEWORK, WITH A VIEW TO USING THIS FRAMEWORK TO PRESENT MY THEORIES OF HARDWARE COMPILATION IN GENERAL, AND HANDEL-C SEMANTICS IN PARTICULAR. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THIS AREA IS AN EMERGING THEORY OF SYNCHRONOUS CIRCUS, AND A DENOTATIONAL SEMANTICS FOR HANDEL-C BASED ON "HARDWARE COMPILATION". ALSO IN COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR JIM WOODCOCK. <P> <I>EXTERNAL EFFECTS OF FUNCTIONAL I/O</I> <P> A PARTICULARLY STRONG MOVE HAS BEEN TOWARDS THE FORMAL MODELLING OF INPUT/OUTPUT AND REAL-WORLD INTERACTIONS IN PURE FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES WITH REFERENTIALLY TRANSPARENT I/O SYSTEMS BASED EITHER ON MONADS, OR UNIQUENESS TYPING. <P> <I>PROCESS ALGEBRAS WITH UNBOUNDED DUAL NON-DETERMINISM</I> <P> IN COLLABORATION WITH PROF JOSEPH MORRIS AT DCU, I AM ALSO WORKING ON A THEORY OF PROCESS ALGEBRAS WITH UNBOUNDED DEMONIC AND ANGELIC NON-DETERMINISM, DEVELOPED BY FORMALLY "LIFTING" A DETERMINISTIC THEORY TO THE NON-DETERMINSISTIC LEVEL. <P> <I>SILICON COMPILATION VIA FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES:</I> <P> MY PH.D. RESEARCH (1990) EXPLORED THE USE OF PURE FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES AS A TOOL FOR SUPPORTING SILICON COMPILATION. <P> <I>FUNCTIONAL-BASED FORMAL METHODS:</I> <P> MY MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST THEN SWITCHED TO FORMAL MODELLING TECHNIQUES WITH A PURE FUNCTIONAL FLAVOUR, AS EXEMPLIFIED BY WORK DONE AS PART OF THE "IRISH SCHOOL OF VDM". <P> <I>THE FACS PROJECT: </I> I SUPERVISED A GRADUATE STUDENT UNDER THE FACS PROJECT, LOOKING INTO MODIFYING THE PI-CALCULUS TO DESCRIBE THE KINDS OF OBJECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS DEVELOPED USING THE CORBA OBJECT TECHNOLOGY . <P> <I>RESEARCH-LED CONSULTANCY</I> IN THE PERIOD FROM JULY 1991, THROUGH TO 1997/98, I WAS INVOLVED, THROUGH COMPANY "K&M TECHNOLOGIES", IN RESEARCH-LED CONSULTANCY, LOOKING TO APPLY FORMAL TECHNIQUES IN INDUSTRY. MOST CLIENTS WERE INVOLVED IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS (MOTOROLA, ERICSSON). SOME OF THIS WORK WAS CARRIED OUT THROUGH EU-FUNDED RACE AND ACTS PROJECTS (SCORE, MOBILISE). COMPUTER SCIENCE FMG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH COMMITTEE MEMBER, FORMAL METHODS EUROPE (FME) EXTERNAL EXAMINER: M.SC. IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY, 2005-2011 FMICS2005 - TENTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS FOR INDUSTRIAL CRITICAL SYSTEMS FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE IRISH FORMAL METHODS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (IFMSIG) IFIP TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, WORKING GROUP 1.9/2.15 SOFTWARE VERIFICATION, INVITED AS OBSERVER MEMBER OF IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL STEM INTERNSHIP WORKING GROUP PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR, UTP'08, 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING, DUBLIN PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: 2ND IRISH WORKSHOP IN FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: 3RD IRISH WORKSHOP IN FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: 5TH IRISH WORKSHOP IN FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR, IFL 2005 17TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES, DUBLIN PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR, IFL 2006 18TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES, BUDAPEST PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: FMICS2004 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS FOR INDUSTRIAL CRITICAL SYSTEMS PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, ICFEM09 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ENGINEERING METHODS, RIO DE JANEIRO PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, ICFEM10, 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ENGINEERING METHODS, SHANGHAI PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, ICFEM13 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ENGINEERING METHODS, AUCKLAND, NZ PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, ICTAC'07 THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING, MACAU SAR PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, ICTAC10 7TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING, NATAL, BRAZIL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, ICTAC11 8TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTING, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, IFL 2009 21ST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES, SOUTH ORANGE NJ PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, SBMF 2009, BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS, GRAMADO PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, TFM2009, 2ND INT. FME CONFERENCE ON TEACHING FORMAL METHODS, EINDHOVEN PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, TFP08 THE NINTH SYMPOSIUM ON TRENDS IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING, NIJMEGEN PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, UTP10, 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING, SHANGHAI PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 1ST CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 1ST IRISH WORKSHOP IN FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 2ND CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 3RD CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 4TH CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 4TH IRISH WORKSHOP IN FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING (UTP2016) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: FM 2012 - 18TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: FM2015, 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: FM99 - WORLD CONGRESS ON FORMAL METHODS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS, TOULOUSE PROGRAM COMMITTEE: FMICS2003 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS FOR INDUSTRIAL CRITICAL SYSTEMS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ICFEM 2011 13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ENGINEERING METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: IFL 2004 16TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES, LUBECK PROGRAM COMMITTEE: IFL2012 - 24TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES PROGRAM COMMITTEE: NFMW97 NORTHERN FORMAL METHODS WORKSHOP, ILKELY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: NFMW98 NORTHERN FORMAL METHODS WORKSHOP, ILKELY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: REFINE11 - BCS-FACS REFINEMENT WORKSHOP 2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: SBMF 2012 15TH BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: SBMF2011 - BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TASE2016 - 10TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROGRAM COMMITTEE: TRENDS IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING PROGRAM COMMITTEE: UTP 2012 - 4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - FM2014, 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - FM2016, 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL METHODS PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR: FM2016-DS : DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER, FM 2011: 17TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS, LIMERICK. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: 5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING (UTP-2014) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS INTEGRATION (FMI 2013) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FORMAL METHODS INTEGRATION (FMI 2015) ALGEBRA AUTOMATA COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS, DISCRETE MATHEMATICS COMPUTER DESIGN MODELS COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMPUTER SOFTWARE COMPUTER THEORY CONCURRENCY THEORY DISCRETE MATHEMATICS FINITE MATHEMATICS FORMAL METHODS FORMAL SEMANTICS FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING HARDWARE COMPILATION LOGIC MATHEMATICAL LOGIC, SET THEORY, COMBINATORICS, SEMANTICS MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTING MEDICAL DEVICE SOFTWARE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS PROGRAM VERIFICATION REFINEMENT CALCULUS SET THEORY SOFTWARE CERTIFICATION SOFTWARE ENGINEERING UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS DESTIJL: DESIGN AND SPECIFICATION THROUGH INTERFACING AND JOINING LANGUAGES EXPLORING THE UNIFICATION OF DIVERSE FORMAL SPECIFICATION AND DESIGN LANGUAGES BY CHARACTERISING THE INTERFACES BETWEEN THE MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS USED TO GIVE THEIR MEANINGS. EU CONTRACT NO. CHRX-CT94-0591 EU HUMAN CAPITAL MOBILITY PROGRAMME FORMAL ASPECTS OF CORBA SYSTEMS (FACS) DEVELOPMENT OF FORMAL MODELS OF APPROPRIATE SUBSETS OF THE OMG CORBA STANDARD ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH REAL WORLD FORMAL MODELS FOR PURE FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING LOOKING AT GIVING A FORMAL SEMANTICS TO THE I/O BEHAVIOUR OF PURE FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON MODELLING THE RUN-TIME SYSTEMS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH FORMALISING THE INTERFACE BETWEEN SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE (FISH) VERIFYING THE CORRECTNESS OF SAFETY-CRITICAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS, PARTICULARLY THOSE THAT CONTROL MACHINERY AND VEHICLES, IS AN IMPORTANT BUT COMPLEX TASK. MANY DISPARATE ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEM NEED TO MODELLED, EACH WITH THEIR OWN PECULIARITIES AND INTERACTIONS. THIS IS WHY ONE OF THE GRAND CHALLENGES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, GC6, ON "DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS EVOLUTION" FOCUSSES ON TECHNIQUES TO MATHEMATICALLY VERIFY THE CORRECTNESS OF SUCH SYSTEMS. THE GOAL OF GC6 IS TO DEVELOP A REPOSITORY OF VERIFIED SOFTWARE COMPONENTS, CONSISTING OF FORMAL SPECIFICATIONS AND SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS ALONG WITH PROOFS OF CORRECTNESS SUPPORTED BY AUTOMATED PROOF TOOLS AND PROOF ASSISTANTS. GC6 IS A LONG-TERM RESEARCH PROGRAMME WITH A TIME HORIZON OF TEN TO FIFTEEN YEARS. AT PRESENT IT IS ENGAGED IN A SERIES OF RESEARCH ACTIVITIES BASED AROUND INDUSTRIALLY INSPIRED CASE-STUDIES: RECENT SUCH STUDIES HAVE INCLUDED, FOR EXAMPLE, THE VALIDATION OF THE MONDEX SMART-CARD'S SECURITY PROTOCOLS. A MORE RECENT CASE-STUDY THAT HAS BEEN ADOPTED IS THAT OF A VERIFIED FILE-STORE FOR USE IN MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATIONS, SUGGESTED BY NASA RESEARCHERS WHO NEED SUCH HIGH-DEPENDABILITY SYSTEMS FOR SPACE RESEARCH MISSIONS. THIS PROJECT BUILDS ON INITIAL WORK ON THE FORMAL MODELLING OF FLASH MEMORY SYSTEMS, TO USE THIS CASE-STUDY WITHIN GC6 TO DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION FOR REASONING ABOUT HARDWARE SYSTEMS AND THEIR INTERFACE TO SOFTWARE. THIS IS VIEWED AS BEING COMPLEMENTARY TO THE NOTION OF ``HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN'', THAT FOCUSSES ON TECHNIQUES FOR PARTITIONING A SYSTEM SPECIFICATION INTO HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS IN AN EFFICIENT MANNER. SFI RFP-08 UNIFYING SYNCHRONOUS SYSTEMS THIS PROPOSAL WILL EXPLORE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEORY OF HARDWARE COMPILERS WITHIN THE UTP FRAMEWORK THUS BRIDGING THE SYNCHRONOUS HARDWARE, STATE-BASED, AND MESSAGE-BASED SOFTWARE DOMAINS UNDER ONE THEORETICAL UMBRELLA. IT IS BASED ON THE OBSERVATION THAT A DENOTATIONAL SEMANTICS FOR SUCH LANGUAGES CORRESPONDS TO A DISCRETELY TIMED SYNCHRONOUS PROCESS ALGEBRA, AND THAT THERE IS A COMMON THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK INDEPENDENT OF THE FINE DETAIL AND COMPLEXITY NEEDED TO FOR PARTICULAR LANGUAGE FEATURES. IT IS ALSO INTENDED THAT THE THEORY WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY SOME METHODOLOGY TO ASSIST IN THE RESULTING DESIGN PROCESS. THIS PROPOSAL WILL EXPLORE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEORY TO ALLOW SYSTEM DESIGNERS TO DEVELOP EMBEDDED CONTROL SYSTEMS IN A MANNER THAT IS SAFE AND ROBUST. IT WILL ACHIEVE THIS BY MAKING IT FEASIBLE FOR DESIGNER TO PROVE THE CORRECTNESS OF VARIOUS SAFETY-CRITICAL ASPECTS OF THEIR SYSTEMS, BY ALLOWING THEM TO FOCUS AT EACH STAGE ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT. AS THESE SYSTEMS ARE USED TO CONTROL VEHICLES SUCH AS CARS AND AIRCRAFT, AS WELL AS OTHER MACHINERY, ASSURANCE REGARDING THEIR SAFE BEHAVIOUR IS VITAL AND VERY MUCH IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME (RFP) PAISEAN: FORMAL ASPECTS PAISEAN (PLAN-DRIVEN, AGILE, INNER-SOURCE ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS NETWORK) IS A PROJECT AS PART OF THE 2ND PHASE OF FUNDING (2011-16) OF THE LERO CSET, WITH ITS PI BASE DIN UL.IT LOOKS AT VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES IN AN INCREASINGLY AGILE AND GLOBALISED WORKING ENVIRONMENT. THIS ACTIVITY IN TCD, FOCUSSES ON FORMALISING THE LANGUAGE USED TO DESCRIBE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MODELS, IN ORDER TO SUPPORT RIGOROUS ANALYSIS, AND CERTIFIABLE TOOLS FOR WORKING IN THIS SPACE. SFI CENTRES METHODS AND TOOLS FOR ONBOARD SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WE DEVELOPED A REFERENCE SPECIFICATION FOR A PARTITIONING, SEPARATING OPERATING MICROKERNEL, SUITABLE FOR USE ONBOARD SPACECRAFT. WE THEN EVALUATED A SUITABLE FORMAL METHOD TO ALLOW US TO GIVE A FORMAL PROOF OF THE CORRECTNESS OF AN IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT KERNEL, IN CODE CONFORMING TO ACCEPTED SAFETY CRITICAL STANDARDS. WE THEN PERFORMED AN INITIAL FEASIBILITY STUDY, TO ESTABLISH BOTH THE PRACTICALITY AND COST OF SUCH AN APPROACH TO VERIFICATION. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY FMEIMAKQP - FORMAL METHODS EXPERT FOR IMA KERNEL QUALIFICATION PREPARATION RESEARCH INTO HOW FORMAL METHODS TECHNIQUES COULD BE DEPLOYED WHEN CERTIFYING THE CORRECTNESS OF A SEPERATION KERNEL INTENDED FOR MANAGING ON-BOARD SPACE SOFTWARE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. NIGEL HUGH BUTTIMORE buttimorenigelhugh FELLOW EMERITUS NBUTTMOR PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS HAMILTON MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE THEORETICAL PHYSICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, PARTICLES AND ANTIPARTICLES WITH SPIN, QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS, POLARISATION PHENOMENA, INTERACTIONS OF ANTIPROTONS AND LEPTONS, POLARIMETRY FOR HIGH ENERGY BEAMS OF PROTONS AND IONS, CROSSING SYMMETRY, UNITARITY, ASYMMETRY IN ELASTIC HADRONIC REACTIONS, HELICITY AMPLITUDES AND DEUTERON SCATTERING. BIOINFORMATICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCES, NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES, REPRESENTATION OF AMINO ACIDS IN BIT PATTERNS, AMINO ACID CLASSIFICATION, FILTERING PROTEIN DATABASES, ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONS IN BIOLOGICAL TEXT MANIPULATION, ALIGNMENT OF BIOMOLECULAR SEQUENCES, MARKOV PROCESSES AND CHAINS, POINT ACCEPTED MUTATION MATRICES. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY IRISH RESEARCH SCIENTISTS' ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY COMMITTEE ON IRELAND'S PROSPECTIVE MEMBERSHIP OF CERN AND OF INTER-GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS. ALIGNMENT ANALYZING POWER ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE BIOMATHEMATICS COMPUTATION COULOMB-NUCLEAR INTERFERENCE GENETICS HADRON-HADRON SCATTERING HELICITY-FLIP AMPLITUDE MATRICES NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE POLARIZATION POLARIZED PROTONS POMERON SCATTERING SEQUENCE DATABASES GENETICS AND GENOMICS OTHER ENERGY MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY PHYSICS MATHEMATICS COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS EDUCATION POLARIZED ANTIPROTON EXPERIMENTS (PAX) ANTIPROTON-PROTON SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS WITH POLARIZATION (PAX COLLABORATION). POLARIZED ANTIPROTONS, PRODUCED BY SPIN FILTERING WITH AN INTERNAL POLARIZED GAS TARGET, PROVIDE ACCESS TO A WEALTH OF SINGLE- AND DOUBLE-SPIN OBSERVABLES, THEREBY OPENING A NEW WINDOW TO PHYSICS UNIQUELY ACCESSIBLE AT THE HIGH ENERGY STORAGE RING (HESR) OF THE FACILITY OF ANTIPROTON AND ION RESEARCH (FAIR) AT GSI DARMSTADT. THIS INCLUDES A FIRST MEASUREMENT OF THE TRANSVERSITY DISTRIBUTION OF THE VALENCE QUARKS IN THE PROTON, A TEST OF THE PREDICTED OPPOSITE SIGN OF THE FUNCTION RELATED TO THE QUARK DISTRIBUTION INSIDE A TRANSVERSELY POLARIZED NUCLEON, AND A FIRST MEASUREMENT OF THE MODULI AND THE RELATIVE PHASE OF THE TIME-LIKE ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FORM FACTORS OF THE PROTON. IN POLARIZED AND UNPOLARIZED P PBAR ELASTIC SCATTERING, OPEN QUESTIONS LIKE THE CONTRIBUTION FROM THE ODD CHARGE-SYMMETRY LANDSHOFF-MECHANISM AT LARGE MOMENTUM TRANSFER AND SPIN-EFFECTS IN THE EXTRACTION OF THE FORWARD SCATTERING AMPLITUDE AT LOW MOMENTUM TRANSFER CAN BE ADDRESSED. REFERENCE: A METHOD TO POLARIZE STORED ANTIPROTONS TO A HIGH DEGREE, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 94, 014801 (2005). CANCER INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MARTINA BYRNE byrnemartina VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BYRNEM48 SOCIOLOGY CHANGING IRELAND: DEMOGRAPHICALLY, ECONOMICALLY, SOCIALLY AND POLITICALLY. DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CULTURAL DIVERSITY CULTURAL IDENTITY CULTURAL/SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY ETHNIC STUDIES ETHNOGRAPHY IMMIGRATION MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MR. GERARD BYRNE byrnegerard EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER GERBYRNE MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG HEAT TRANSFER. BIO FUEL TESTING. ENERGY. MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDINGS COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF MOTOR INDUSTRY APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY OTHER ENERGY OTHER ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DR. DECLAN GERARD BYRNE byrnedeclangerard CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER DGBYRNE CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY 78 ALDERBROOK GLEN ASHBOURNE CO MEATH 01-8961000 DR. ANNE-MARIE BYRNE byrneannemarie SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW BYRNEA13 CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCE ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER DR. GOBNAIT BYRNE byrnegobnait ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GOBYRNE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY HEALTH PROMOTION; CARDIOLOGY NURSING; CRITICAL CARE, COMMUNITY NURSING, PUBLIC HEALTH, HEALTH EDUCATION, MIGRATION SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR HEALTH PROMOTION IRELAND IRISH NURSES CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE SIGMA THETA TATU INTERNATIONAL NURSING ORGANISATION REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF NURSING & HEALTHCARE OF CHRONIC ILLNESS REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING ACUTE CARE NURSING CARDIAC REHABILITATION CARDIOLOGY NURSING CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY COMMUNITY NURSING CRITICAL CARE CULTURE AND HEALTH EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH COMMUNICATION HEALTH PROMOTION HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS MINORITIES AND DISADVANTAGED PATTERNS OF HEALTH PREVENTATIVE NURSING PRIMARY CARE PROVISION AND UTILISATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS PUBLIC HEALTH SMOKING BEHAVIOR SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES' WORKLOAD IN THE WESTERN HEALTH BOARD MEASUREMENT OF PHN WORKLOAD IN THE WHB USING THE COMMUNITY CLIENT NEED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED IN THE GALWAY AREA. WITH PROFESSOR C. BEGLEY, A-M BRADY, C. GRIFFITHS, P. HORAN, AND C. MACGREGOR. FUNDING 49,994 NURSING & MIDWIFERY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT WESTERN HEALTH BOARD MEASUREMENT A STUDY OF COMMUNITY NURSING IN THE GALWAY COMMUNITY CARE AREA AN EXPLORATION OF THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE AND DESIGNING A WORKLOAD MEASURMENT SYSTEM - WITH PROF BEGLEY, A-M BRADY, C. GRIFFITHS, P. HORAN & C. MACGREGOR. FUNDING €68,000 NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT WESTERN HEALTH BOARD TRIANGULATION USING QUALATIVE AND QUANTATIVE METHODOLOGIES A MIXED METHODS STUDY EXPLORING THE SELF-REPORTED HEALTH, LIFESTYLES AND USE OF HEALTH SERVICES BY POLISH MIGRANTS LIVING IN IRELAND. NURSING STUDENTS' LIFESTYLES SURVEY AND THEIR ROLE IN HEALTH PROMOTION OUT OF HOURS CLINICAL-DECISION-MAKING THIS STUDY IN COLABORATION WITH TALAGHT HOSPITAL AIMS TO EVALUATE OUT OF HOURS CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING AND SUPPORT. MEATH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. JULIE BYRNE byrnejulie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BYRNEJ18 SOCIAL STUDIES THE MANIFESTATION OF CAREER CONCEPTS ACROSS MULTIPLE OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS. CAREER PATHWAYS AND PROGRESSION. CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. MANAGEMENT IN HUMAN SERVICE ORGANISATIONS. ONLINE EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN FOUNDING BOARD MEMBER, INSTITUTE FOR MANAGERS OF COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN IRELAND (IMCV) STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP BETWEEN DUBLIN DOCKLANDS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND NCI STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, DEVELOPMENT OF POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME FOR SENIOR TRAINERS BETWEEN IRISH INSTITUTE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, PROFESSIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MANAGEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN IRELAND CAREER EDUCATION & PLANNING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT POSTGRADUATE TRAINING PROFESSION PROFESSIONAL TRAINING POLICY (EDUCATION AND REGULATION) TRAINING TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. ROSEMARY ANN BYRNE byrnerosemaryann ASSOC PROF IN INTERNATIONAL LAW RBYRNE LAW HUMAN RIGHTS, COMPARATIVE ASYLUM LAW, EU FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE, LEGAL GLOBALISATION LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST REFUGEE ASSISTANCE, EGYPT, EXTERNAL REVIEWER AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, EU FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AGENCY COUNCIL OF EUROPE: HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINING (MACEDONIA) DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL: EXTERNAL EXPERT: SAFE THIRD COUNTRY PROJECT DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR POST CONFLICT JUSTICE, 2009-2013 EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER, IRISH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES (IIIS) NGO MEMBERSHIP: BOARD MEMBER FOR THE IRISH REFUGEE COUNCIL, AS WELL AS ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS WORKING GROUP OF THE IRISH COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE REFUGEE POLICY PROTECTION GROUP: FOUNDING MEMBER RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTRE FOR POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE U.S. COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES, EXPERT PARTICIPANT IN ANTI-WAREHOUSING CAMPAIGN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR RUTH MARY JOSEPHINE BYRNE byrneruthmaryjosephine PROFESSOR OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE RMBYRNE PSYCHOLOGY COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF HUMAN THINKING; EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN HUMAN RATIONALITY AND IMAGINATION. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY & THE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE DR. JOAO PAULO CABRAL cabraljoaopaulo RESEARCH FELLOW CABRALJ COMPUTER SCIENCE MY MAIN RESEARCH TOPIC IS SPEECH PROCESSING FOR IMPROVING NATURAL INTERACTION WITH COMPUTER SYSTEMS. IT INCLUDES EXPRESSIVE TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS (TTS) AND RECOGNITION OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL SIGNALS. FOR EXAMPLE, ANALYSIS AND GENERATION OF SOCIAL SIGNALS AND PARALINGUISTIC FEATURES SUCH AS LAUGHTER AND TONE OF THE VOICE, WHICH PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE ON ENGAGEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS. I'M ALSO INTERESTED IN ANALYSIS OF EMOTION AND AFFECT IN SPEECH. I'VE EXPERTISE IN ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF GLOTTAL SOURCE PARAMETERS WHICH ARE STRONGLY CORRELATED WITH VOICE QUALITY, SUCH AS BREATHY OR TENSE VOICES. IN ADDITION, I ALSO HAVE INTEREST IN USING MODALITIES FOR IMPROVING THE PREDICTION OF HUMAN COGNITION STATES AND PHYSICAL CONTEXT IN REAL SCENARIOS USING MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS (FROM AUDIO, VIDEO AND BIOMETRIC SENSORS DATA). SOME EXAMPLES OF APPLICATIONS OF MY RESEARCH ARE SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS, MONITORING HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN SPEECH COMMUNICATION, TTS FOR AUDIOBOOKS AND EVALUATION OF PRONUNCIATION IN THE LANGUAGE LEARNING SCENARIO. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ISCA) REVIEW EDITOR FOR FRONTIERS ACADEMIC PUBLISHER AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) MACHINE LEARNING SPEECH RECOGNITION SPEECH SYNTHESIS VOICE QUALITY VOICE SOURCE VOICE TRANSFORMATION COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. LOUISE CAFFREY caffreylouise ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN SOCIAL POLICY CAFFRELO SOCIAL STUDIES LOUISE'S RESEARCH INTERESTS CENTRE ON SUBSTANTIVE AREAS OF SOCIAL POLICY AS WELL AS QUESTIONS OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. SUBSTANTIVELY, LOUISE'S RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE CHALLENGES OF ORGANISATIONAL 'COMPLEXITY', PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES TO ORGANISATIONAL SAFETY AND POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; THEORISING SERVICE-USER ENGAGEMENT IN PUBLICALLY FUNDED ORGANISATIONS; AND INVESTIGATING THE INTENDED AND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT APPROACHES. LOUISE'S PUBLISHED RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED ON EXPLORING THESE ISSUES IN RELATION TO BOTH CHILDREN'S SERVICES AND HEALTH SERVICES. LOUISE HAS ALSO PUBLISHED IN THE AREAS OF CHILD CONTACT, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, WELFARE TO WORK POLICY AND GENDER EQUITY INITIATIVES. METHODOLOGICALLY LOUISE SPECIALIZE IN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS THAT SEEK TO ADDRESS ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY, INCLUDING SYSTEMS APPROACHES AND REALIST EVALUATION. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 LOUISE IS A FELLOW OF THE UK HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY. FURTHER INFORMATION AT: HTTPS://WWW.HEACADEMY.AC.UK/INDIVIDUALS/FELLOWSHIP LOUISE IS AN ASSOCIATE ON THE K4U HORIZON 2020 STUDY, LED BY PROF. NANCY CARTWRIGHT AT DURHAM UNIVERSITY. K4U'S AIM IS TO CONSTRUCT A RADICALLY NEW PICTURE OF HOW TO USE SOCIAL SCIENCE TO BUILD BETTER POLICIES. FURTHER INFORMATION: HTTPS://WWW.DUR.AC.UK/K4U/ . UNICEF REFERENCE GROUP FOR REVIEW OF CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEMS IN FOUR COUNTRIES IN SOUTH ASIA. I AM PROVIDING GUIDANCE TO THE PROJECT ON THE USE OF A SYSTEMS APPROACH. PROFESSOR MARTIN CAFFREY caffreymartin FELLOW EMERITUS MCAFFRE BIOCHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MARIE CURIE. INTRA EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP. €133,440.77. POSTDOC FUNDING FOR DR. D. ARAGAO. COMMISSION DES COMMUNAUTES MARIE CURIE PIEF-GA-2009-235612. MEMBRANE PROTEINS. CRYSTALLOGENESIS AND X-RAY STRUCTURE PI, M. CAFFREY. DIRECT COSTS $187,500/YEAR.</BR> TOTAL COSTS $202,500/YEAR. INSTRUMENTATION SUPPLEMENT AWARDED 2008, €15,000 </BR> THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AND TO IMPLEMENT THE LIPIDIC MESOPHASE METHOD FOR MEMBRANE PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGENESIS. NIH NIH: GM075915. ROBOTIC DISPENSING OF CUBIC PHASE FOR CRYSTALLIZING MEMBRANE PROTEINS CO-PI WITH Y. ZHENG, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, OSU. NSF NSF: IIS 0308078. THE STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS PI, M. CAFFREY. . TOTAL AWARD, €2.45M.</BR> THE PURPOSE OF THIS AWARD WAS TO ENABLE THE PI TO ESTABLISH A RESEARCH PROGRAM IN THE AREA OF MEMBRANE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL BIOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, IRELAND. THE BULK OF THE FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT WAS DIRECTED TO EQUIPPING THE LAB AT UL WITH X-RAY AND OTHER BIOCHEMICAL/BIOPHYSICAL INSTRUMENTATION, AND TO SUPPORT A LIMITED NUMBER OF PERSONNEL. THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK DOES NOT HAVE A STRONG TRADITION IN FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH IN THE BIOSCIENCES. THE PI'S CHARGE IS TO CONTRIBUTE TO GETTING SUCH ACTIVITY UNDERWAY. HIS APPOINTMENT AT UL IS STRICTLY A RESEARCH POSITION AND DOES NOT REQUIRE TEACHING. SFI SFI: INVESTIGATORSHIP AWARD. STRUCTURE-FUNCTION STUDIES OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS INVOLVED IN QUORUM SENSING AND THE PATHOGENICITY OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA PI, M. CAFFREY. . DIRECT COSTS €2,521,216. SFI SFI: INVESTIGATORSHIP AWARD. MEMBRANE PROTEINS. CRYSTALLOGENESIS AND X-RAY STRUCTURE PI, M. CAFFREY. DIRECT COSTS $187,500/YEAR. TOTAL COSTS $202,500/YEAR. NIH NIH: GM075915. SFI. STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER. PI, K. DAWSON (UCD). TOTAL AWARD, € 7,241,740. </BR>COLLABORATOR, M. CAFFREY ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHERS, €250,000. </BR>BIONANOINTERACTIONS: INTERACTIONS OF ENGINEERED NANOPARTICLES WITH BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS - A RATIONAL BASIS FOR NANOTOXICOLOGY AND NANOMEDICINE. SFI SFI. EQUIPMENT SUPPLEMENT. PI, M. CAFFREY. </BR> €264,218, 1,500 PLATE-CAPACITY AUTOMATIC CRYSTALLIZATION PLATE IMAGER SFI 02/IN.1/B266/EC07 SFI. UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE AWARDS. PI, M. CAFFREY. </BR> € 6,300, 02/IN.1/B266UR7.2, BISHAL SINGH. </BR>€5,300, 02/IN.1/B266UR7.1, ZUZANNA KUROWSKA THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS</BR> 05/08 - 09/08, €5,600, 02/IN1/B266 UR08, RACHEL TIEDT. SYNTHESIS OF LIPIDS FOR USE IN IN MESO CRYSTALLOGENESIS. SFI 02/IN.1/B266UR7.2| 02/IN.1/B266UR7.1 | 02/IN1/B266 UR08 A WEB-BASED RELATIONAL DATABASE FOR THERMODYNAMIC DATA ON LIPID MESOMORPHASE TRANSITIONS AND MISCIBILITY. SUPPLEMENT TO SUPPORT WORKSHOP "DATABASES FOR BIOPHYSICISTS" AT BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY MEETING, BOSTON, MA. NSF; DBI 9981990; PI, M. CAFFREY; $21,597. NSF DBI 9981990 A WEB-BASED RELATIONAL DATABASE FOR THERMODYNAMIC DATA ON LIPID MESOMORPHASE TRANSITIONS AND MISCIBILITY. PI, M. CAFFREY; $444,441. NSF DBI 9981990 COOPERATIVE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SUB-PROGRAMME COLLABORATIVE LINKAGE GRANT, $9,500. A WEB-BASED DATABASE FOR THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURE DATA ON LIPIDS. <BR/> GRANT AWARDED BUT DECLINED. NATO SCIENCE PROGRAMME, #976602. MEMBRANE PROTEIN STRUCTURE. USE OF LIPIDIC MESOPHASES, $928,344. </BR> THE MAJOR GOALS OF THIS PROJECT WEAS TO DECIPHER THE MECHANISM OF MEMBRANE PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION AND TO IMPLEMENT IT IN THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS. NIH NIH, GM61070. MEMBRANE PROTEIN STRUCTURE. USE OF LIPIDIC MESOPHASES $928,344.</BR> THE MAJOR GOALS OF THIS PROJECT WEAS TO DECIPHER THE MECHANISM OF MEMBRANE PROTEIN CRYSTALLIZATION AND TO IMPLEMENT IT IN THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS. NIH NIH, GM61070 SHORT TERM PROPOSAL (1 QUARTER) PROPOSAL:TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANISM OF X-RADIATION DAMAGE TO LIPIDS AND MEMBRANES. PROPOSAL WRITTEN BY MC. ESRF, GRENOBLE, FRANCE. </BR>CO-PIS: O. DIAT, J-M PETIT. . 4 DAYS OF BEAMTIME APPROVED. LONG TERM (3 YEAR) PROPOSAL: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANISM OF X-RADIATION DAMAGE TO PROTEIN CRYSTALS. PROPOSAL WRITTEN BY MC. ESRF, GRENOBLE, FRANCE. </ BR> CO-PIS: S. MCSWEENEY, R. RAVELLI, E. GARMON. 3 WEEKS OF BEAMTIME APPROVED. LONG TERM (2 YEAR) PROPOSAL: TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANISM OF X-RADIATION DAMAGE TO PROTEIN CRYSTALS. PROPOSAL WRITTEN BY MC. ESRF, GRENOBLE, FRANCE. </BR> CO-PIS: S. MCSWEENEY, R. RAVELLI, E. GARMON. 2 WEEKS OF BEAMTIME APPROVED FOR USE AS SHORT-TERM PROPOSAL. BEAMTIME USED IN SUMMER 2000. A RELATIONAL DATABASE FOR THERMODYNAMIC AND STRUCTURE DATA ON LIPIDS. PI, M. CAFFREY;. $241,562. NSF; DBI 9503868; MEMBRANE FUSION. INTERMEDIATES AND TRANSBILAYER PEPTIDES. $1,031,267. NIH. R01 GM56969 MEMBRANE DISPOSITION OF CYTOCHROME C. SUMMER 99, $5,000. FACULTY SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM. PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE, BEAMTIME PROPOSAL 70 DAYS OF BEAMTIME APPROVED ON BEAM LINE X15A. . NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE BEAMTIME PROPOSAL, 2/95. 24 DAYS OF BEAMTIME APPROVED ON BEAM LINE X9B. AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE METHOD USING BIOCMPATIBLE ABSORBENT MATERIALS FOR WATER TREATEMNET. PI: CAFFREY, CO-PIS: J. RATHMAN, D. TOMASKO, H. WALKER. $80,000. OSU OFFICE OF RESEARCH SEED GRANT RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS (REU AWARD) $5,000, SUMMER INTERNSHIP SUPPORT FOR MS. PERRYMAN FROM SPELLMAN COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GA. NSF MEMBRANE DISPOSITION OF CYTOCHROME C - AN X-RAY STANDING WAVE STUDY. PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, , $50,000. PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW $20,500/ANNUM FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF BRAZIL TO SUPPORT DR. R. ITRI FROM UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAOLO, (M. CAFFREY, SPONSOR) GOVERNMENT OF BRAZIL STRUCTURE-FUNCTION STUDIES OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS INVOLVED IN QUORUM SENSING AND THE PATHOGENICITY OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA SFI: INVESTIGATORSHIP AWARD. PI, M. CAFFREY. DIRECT COSTS €2,521,216. </BR> THE MAJOR GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CRYSTALLIZE AND TO SOLVE THE X-RAY STRUCTURE OF A SELECT GROUP OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS INVOLVED IN QUORUM SENSING AND THE PATHOGENICITY OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA. THERE IS NO OVERLAP WITH THE CURRENT PROPOSAL. SFI SFI: INVESTIGATORSHIP AWARD. NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JOAN CAHILL cahilljoan RESEARCH FELLOW JOCAHILL PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE HUMAN SYSTEMS JOAN'S OVERALL RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: HUMAN FACTORS, COGNITIVE ERGONOMICS/HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION, ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, AVIATION PSYCHOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTHCARE AND PHENOMENOLOGY. SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: SOCIO-TECHNICAL SYSTEMS THEORY, HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION THEORY (E.G. DISTRIBUTED COGNITION, GROUP SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK), PATIENT SAFETY, SAFETY/RISK MANAGEMENT, ASSISTED LIVING, HEALTHCARE, TECHNOLOGY-BASED INTERVENTIONS AND SUPPORTS IN HEALTHCARE, TEAMWORK AND THE APPLICATION OF NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS IN WORKPLACE SETTINGS, CREW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (CRM), PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT, WELL-BEING, INCORPORATING PSYCHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS IN THE DESIGN OF NEW TECHNOLOGY, DESIGNING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT SOCIAL PROCESSES, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, CYBER-PSYCHOLOGY, AUTOMATION, PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY, WORK ANALYSIS AND HUMAN ERROR/RELIABILITY. DEPT. OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF ACM SIGCHI SAFETY IN HEALTH SYSTEMS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ACCIDENTS AERONAUTICS AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY AIR TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY AIR TRANSPORTATION APPLIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY AUTOMATION AVIATION TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS ORGANISATION AND PROCESSES CONTEMPORARY MENTAL HEALTHCARE DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS DESIGN ENGINEERING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY ERGONOMICS EVALUATING HEALTH CARE INTERVENTIONS FLIGHT CONTROL HEALTH CARE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS HUMAN FACTORS HUMAN FACTORS IN ENGINEERING HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION IMAGING AND COMPUTER VISION INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION THEORY INTELLIGENT AGENTS KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE MULTIMEDIA NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND BEHAVIOR PHENOMENOLOGY SAFETY SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MODELS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TRANSPORT PSYCHOLOGY AND SAFETY TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION ALICIA ALICIA ADDRESSES THE ACARE OBJECTIVE OF INCREASING TIME EFFICIENCY WITHIN THE FUTURE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM. THE AIM WILL BE TO DEVELOP A NEW AND SCALABLE COCKPIT APPLICATION WHICH CAN EXTEND OPERATIONS OF AIRCRAFT IN DEGRADED CONDITIONS - "ALL CONDITIONS OPERATIONS". A KEY OBJECTIVE WILL BE TO DELIVER AN EXTENSIBLE APPLICATION THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO MANY AIRCRAFT TYPES. THIS WILL NECESSARILY ENTAIL A NEW COCKPIT INFRASTRUCTURE CAPABLE OF DELIVERING ENHANCED SITUATION AWARENESS TO THE CREW WHILST SIMULTANEOUSLY REDUCING CREW WORKLOAD AND IMPROVING OVERALL AIRCRAFT SAFETY. SPECIFICALLY JOAN'S RESEARCH INVOLVES THE OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS/VALIDATION OF FUTURE COCKPIT CONCEPTS/TECHNOLOGIES. EU COMMISSION 7TH FRAMEWORK HILAS - HUMAN INTEGRATION INTO THE LIFECYCLE OF AVIATION SYSTEMS THE HILAS PROJECT RAN FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS (2005 TO 2009). THE HUMAN INTEGRATION INTO THE LIFECYCLE OF AVIATION SYSTEMS (HILAS) PROJECT IS PART OF THE SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR AERONAUTICS AND SPACE RESEARCH, SPONSORED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE HILAS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A MODEL OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR THE INTEGRATION OF HUMAN FACTORS ACROSS THE LIFE-CYCLE OF AVIATION SYSTEMS. THE PROJECT CONTAINS FOUR PARALLEL STRANDS OF WORK: THE INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN FACTORS KNOWLEDGE; THE FLIGHT OPERATIONS ENVIRONMENT AND PERFORMANCE; THE EVALUATION OF NEW FLIGHT DECK TECHNOLOGIES, AND THE MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS (HILAS ANNEX ONE, 2005). THE FLIGHT OPERATIONS STRAND COMPRISES SEVEN EUROPEAN AIRLINES, HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCHERS AND TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS. THE CRITICAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS STRAND IS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR MONITORING AND EVALUATING OVERALL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE TO SUPPORT IMPROVED INFORMATION SHARING, PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT, OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT. THE PROJECT INVOLVES A NUMBER OF PHASES OF RESEARCH INCLUDING IDENTIFYING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PROPOSED SYSTEM, BUILDING THE SYSTEM AND ITERATIVE TRAILING AND EVALUATION OF THE SYSTEM. JOAN'S RESEARCH IN THE HILAS PROJECT FOCUSED ON THE FLIGHT OPERATIONS STRAND. SPECIFICALLY HER RESEARCH INVOLVED IDENTIFYING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPROVED AIRLINE PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGY TOOLS, SUPPORTING A NUMBER OF OPERATIONAL AND ORGANISATIONAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDING OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT, SAFETY/RISK MANAGEMENT, ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION. AS PART OF THIS, JOAN WORKED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED FLIGHT CREW TOOLS, PROVIDING A RANGE OF TASK SUPPORT, PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK AND REPORTING FUNCTIONS, LINKED TO THE ABOVE PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGY TOOLS. EU COMMISSION 6TH FRAMEWORK WING WATCH THIS PROJECT IS SPONSORED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND - THE IRISH GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF IRISH ENTERPRISES IN WORLD MARKETS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE WW PROJECT IS TO ADVANCE A 'PROOF OF CONCEPT' DEMONSTRATION OF A COLLISION WARNING SYSTEM, FOR USE BY PILOTS OPERATING ON THE AIRPORT RAMP AND IN TAXIWAY AREAS. FOLLOWING PROOF OF CONCEPT, THE PROPOSED SYSTEM WILL BE FURTHER DEVELOPED FOR OTHER RAMP USERS (I.E. TOW TRUCK DRIVER, ATC AND GROUND MARSHALLER). THE PROJECT INVOLVES TWO INTEGRATED STRANDS OF RESEARCH. THE FIRST STRAND CONCERNS THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE USER REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PROPOSED TOOL AND MODELLING OF THE ASSOCIATED HCI DESIGN CONCEPT. THE SECOND STRAND RELATES TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE UNDERLYING VISION BASED COLLISION DETECTION AND AVOIDANCE TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ALLIED TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM. PRIMARILY, THIS INVOLVES RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF VISUAL MAPPING AND ROBOTICS. THE PROJECT COMMENCED IN 2007 AND IS DUE TO FINISH IN 2011. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE OF HCI RESEARCH IS (1) TO IDENTIFY THE USER REQUIREMENTS FOR A COCKPIT BASED VERSION OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM, AND (2) TO MODEL A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THE ASSOCIATED HCI DESIGN CONCEPT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPLYING PILOT MODELS FOR SAFER OPERATIONS THE A-PIMOD PROJECT ADDRESSES IMPROVED FLIGHT SAFETY BY PROPOSING A NEW APPROACH TO HUMAN CANTERED COCKPIT DESIGN, WHICH EXPANDS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HUMAN FACTOR IN THE JOINT HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEM, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT INCREASING LEVELS OF OPERATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND NEW OPERATIONAL CONCEPTS (SESAR). THE PROJECT WILL ADVANCE CONCEPTS FOR A FULLY ADAPTIVE AND HUMAN CANTERED AUTOMATION, THROUGH THE INTEGRATION OF PILOT BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE MODELS WITH AUTOMATION MODELS €" RESULTING IN THE GENERATION OF REAL TIME INFERENCES ABOUT THE PILOT STATE AND MENTAL PICTURE. WITH THIS CAPABILITY IT WILL BE ABLE TO SUPPORT, IN AN ADAPTIVE AND COOPERATIVE WAY, THE TOTAL SET OF FUNCTIONS (BOTH HUMAN AND AUTOMATION) NECESSARY TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A SAFE FLIGHT UNDER A PERFORMANCE DRIVEN ATM SYSTEM (SESAR). EU COMMISION FP7 PROACT THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY WHICH INTEGRATES THE FOUR KEY SUB-ECOSYSTEMS CENTRAL TO UNDERSTANDING PATIENT CENTRIC, INTEGRATED MULTIMORBIDITY MANAGEMENT - SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR SENIOR CITIZENS EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 NEW TECHNOLOGOIES SUPPORTING ASSITED LIVING THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO ADVANCE NEW ASSISTED LIVING (AL) TECHNOLOGY ENABLING INDEPENDENT LIVING AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ELDERS AGED BETWEEN 55 AND 90 YEARS. THIS RESEARCH IS AN INDUSTRY/ACADEMIA COLLABORATION AND WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SPECIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF A FUTURE AL PRODUCT FOR SENIORS. OVERALL, THIS RESEARCH IS UNDERSCORED BY SEVERAL KEY PRINCIPLES: 1. TECHNOLOGY USE/FUNCTION IS PREDICATED ON BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODELS OF WELL-BEING 2. INDEPENDENCE FOR SENIORS IS LINKED TO INTERDEPENDENCE (I.E. SUPPORT FROM OTHER ACTORS IN PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY) 3. TECHNOLOGY WILL BE DEVELOPED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF UNDERSTANDING, MODELLING AND TRANSFORMING THE SOCIAL, INFORMATION AND HEALTHCARE PROCESS RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SENIORS AND ASSOCIATED STAKEHOLDERS 4. THE RESEARCH WILL PAY SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO ISSUES OF USER ACCEPTABILITY AND ETHICS (RIGHTS BASED FRAMEWORK), EASE OF USE, AND ADAPTABILITY IN RELATION TO AGE AND CONDITION ONEVIEW HEALTHCARE AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR VINNY CAHILL cahillvinny PROFESSOR VJCAHILL COMPUTER SCIENCE VINNY CAHILL'S RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ADDRESS MANY ASPECTS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, IN PARTICULAR, MIDDLEWARE AND PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR UBIQUITOUS AND MOBILE COMPUTING WITH APPLICATION TO INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND PERSONAL HEALTHCARE/INDEPENDENT LIVING. IN THE PAST, HE WORKED EXTENSIVELY ON MIDDLEWARE AND PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR DISTRIBUTED OBJECT COMPUTING. <P> SOCIETY IS NOW AT THE POINT WHERE THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW CLASS OF LARGE-SCALE DECENTRALIZED AND PROACTIVE APPLICATIONS, I.E., APPLICATIONS THAT OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY OF DIRECT HUMAN CONTROL, CAN BE ENVISAGED. IT CAN BE FORESEEN THAT FUTURE MISSION-CRITICAL COMPUTER SYSTEMS WILL BE COMPRISED OF NETWORKED COMPONENTS THAT WILL ACT AUTONOMOUSLY IN RESPONDING TO A MYRIAD OF INPUTS TO AFFECT AND CONTROL THEIR SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT. THE CENTRAL OBJECTIVE OF HIS RESEARCH IS THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND EVALUATION OF SCALABLE MIDDLEWARE AND PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR SUCH <EM>SENTIENT COMPUTING</EM> APPLICATIONS THAT SPAN DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS RANGING FROM SENSOR NETWORKS TO AUGMENTED ARTEFACTS TO AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS TO CITY-WIDE SMART SPACE APPLICATIONS. <P> HIS GOAL IS TO MAKE THIS TECHNOLOGY VIABLE IN ADDRESSING A RANGE OF ISSUES THAT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO SOCIETY IN THE NEAR FUTURE WITH AN INITIAL FOCUS ON TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY BUT ALSO ON SUPPORTING INDEPENDENT-LIVING FOR AN INCREASINGLY AGEING POPULATION. <P> HIS CURRENT WORK IS SUPPORTED PRIMARILY BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND UNDER INVESTIGATOR AWARD 02/IN.1/I250 - MIDDLEWARE FOR SENTIENT COMPUTING. FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, MATHS & SCIENCE 1ST FLOOR, 27 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF IEEE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ONLINE FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING MAGAZINE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) COMPUTER SOCIETY PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR FOR THE 3RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON OBJECT-ORIENTED REAL-TIME DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR FOR THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS AND APPLICATIONS COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER ENGINEERING COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING COMPUTER SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS INTELLIGENT AGENTS INTELLIGENT VEHICLES INTERNET INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES LOCAL AREA NETWORKS MIDDLEWARE MOBILE APPLICATIONS MOBILE COMMUNICATION MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MOBILE COMPUTING MOBILE NETWORKS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY NETWORKING NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PERVASIVE COMPUTING REAL-TIME COMPUTING SOFTWARE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING WIRELESS SYSTEMS, RADIO TECHNOLOGY DIGITAL HUMANITIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. SUZANNE CAHILL cahillsuzanne ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CAHILLSU SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREA OF (I) SOCIAL POLICY AND DEMENTIA, (II) GPS, DIAGNOSIS, DISCLOSURE AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, (III) END OF LIFE AND DEMENTIA CARE STANDARDS (IV) QUALITY OF LIFE AND (V) FAMILY CAREGIVING. I HAVE PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS ON THESE TOPICS NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. THE LID PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH OF WHICH I AM DIRECTOR, IS A COHERENT PACKAGE OF POST-GRADUATE PSYCHO-SOCIAL RESEARCH IN DEMENTIA. THE PROGRAMME WHICH SUPPORTS 5 PHD STUDENTS IS UNDERPINNED BY THREE MAIN THEMES NAMELY (I)THE THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF GROUP LIVING FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA, (II)THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH DEMENTIA AND (III)TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF HEALTH SERVICE PROFESSIONALS. THE PROGRAMME AIMS TO TACKLE THE MARGINALIZATION OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND OVERCOME SOME WIDESPREAD MISCONCEPTIONS HELD IN SOCIETY ABOUT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND THE RELATED DEMENTIAS. ULTIMATELY THE PROGRAMME AIMS TO ENHANCE PRACTICE AND SERVICE PROVISION AND TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL THOSE DIAGNOSED WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FAMILY CAREGIVERS. INHERENT IN THE PHILOSOPHY UNDERPINNING THE PROGRAMME IS THE BELIEF THAT PSYCHO-SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS IN DEMENTIA CARE MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE AND CAN IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE IN PEOPLE DIAGNOSED AND REDUCE CAREGIVER BURDEN. THE PROGRAMME ALSO SEEKS TO IMPACT ON POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE DESIGN OF BEST PRACTICE MODELS SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY COLLEGE 01-8961000 SWEDISH FRENCH WORKING GROUP MEMBER ON RESTRAINT IN DESIGNATED CENTRES FOR OLDER PEOPLE (DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN) ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE DEMENTIA SERVICES INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAIR OF NATIONAL DEMENTIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBER OF WORKING GROUP (HSE) ON RESIDENTIAL SERVICES FOR THE PERSON WITH DEMENTIA CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRPERSON OF DONNYBROOK (DUBLIN) ALZHEIMER'S CAFE INTERDEM MEMBER MEMBER OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH'S WORKING GROUP ON NATIONAL DEMENTIA STRATEGY MEMBER OF ENGAGE - TRINITY AGEING CONSORTIUM MEMBER OF HIQA ADVISORY GROUP FOR THE REVISION OF THE NATIONAL QUALITY STANDARDS FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS FOR OLDER PEOPLE IN IRELAND MEMBER OF NEW MONITORING COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IRISH NATIONAL DEMENTIA STRATEGY MEMBER OF THE AGEING WELL NETWORK STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE DEMENTIA SERVICES INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, ST JAMES HOSPITAL STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER TRINITY CONSORTIUM IN AGEING THE GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA WORKING GROUP MEMBER (HIQA) ON THE NATIONAL QUALITY STANDARDS FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS FOR OLDER PEOPLE CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH IN DEMENTIA CARE THE PRIMARY AIM OF THIS PROGRAMME IS TO CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO OPTIMUM CARE FOR PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH DEMENTIA. KEY ACTIVITIES INCLUDE THE RECRUITMENT AND SUPERVISON OF YOUNG ACADEMICS TO DEVELOP RESEARCH COMPETENCIES IN AREAS PREVIOUSLY UNDER-INVESTIGATED IN IRELAND, THE DEVELOPMENT OF COLLABORATIVE ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN CARE ENVIRONMENTS SUCH AS NURSING HOMES, DAY CARE CENTRES AND HOSPITALS AND RESEARCH CENTRES AND THE TRAINING OF PHD STUDENTS IN THE AREA OF DEMENTIA CARE. A SEMINAR SERIES AND ANNUAL CONFERENCE WITH INVITED NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS IS ALSO AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF THIS PROGRAMME AS IS THE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS. SEVERAL OF THE WORKS PUBLISHED IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS HAVE NOW BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC IN THE FORMAT OF INFORMATION KITS AND BOOKLETS. THESE CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM OUR WEBSITE. THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES ARCHITECTURE AND DEMENTIA: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF NURSING HOMES AND THEIR SPATIAL ENVIRONMENT THIS WAS AN EXPLORATORY STUDY WHICH USED IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH DIRECTORS OF NURSING HOMES TO EXAMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH IRISH NURSING HOMES OFFERING DEMENTIA CARE COMPLIED WITH AN INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS ON BEST PRACTICE, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND DEMENTIA. THE STUDY ALSO INVOLVED CONDUCTING FOCUS GROUPS WITH FAMILY CAREGIVERS TO INVESTIGATE THEIR ATTITUDES TO THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND LAY OUT OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE NURSING HOMES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AND THE ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF IRELAND NO DATA SPECIAL PROJECT AWARD FOR RESEARCH INTO DECISIONS MADE BY AGED CARE ASSESSMENT TEAMS. THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA MALE FAMILY CAREGIVERS AND DEMENTIA THE STUDY INVESTIGATED THE EXPERIENCES OF 26 ELDERLY HUSBANDS CARING AT HOME FOR THEIR WIVES DIAGNOSED WITH DEMENTIA. IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WERE USED TO COLLECT QUALITATIVE DATA ABOUT MENS' CAREGIVING EXPERIENCES. FINDINGS CHALLENGED THE LITERATURE ABOUT THE ROLE GENDER PLAYS IN EVOKING CARE AND SERVICE RESPONSES. THESE ELDERLY MALE CAREGIVERS WERE VERY COMMITTED TO THEIR CARE ROLES, RELUCTANT TO LET GO AND MOST RECEIVED VERY LIMITED COMMUNITY SUPPORT. THE STUDY'S FINDINGS WERE PUBLISHED IN THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ENABLE: EUROPEAN RESEARCH ON TECHNOLOGY AND DEMENTIA ENABLE WAS A EUROPEAN FOLLOW UP STUDY ON TECHNOLOGY AND DEMENTIA CARRIED OUT IN FIVE COUNTRIES, NORWAY, IRELAND, THE UK, FINLAND AND LITHUANIA. IT WAS FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION UNDER THE PROGRAMME FOR QUALITY OF LIFE AND MANAGEMENT OF LIVING RESOURCES. THE OVERALL AIM OF ENABLE WAS TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER IT WAS POSSIBLE TO FACILITATE MORE INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR PEOPLE WITH MILD TO MODERATE DEMENTIA AND PROMOTE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE BY INSTALLING IN THEIR HOMES ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND SUBSEQUENTLY BY EVALUATING THESE INTERVENTIONS OVER A TWELVE MONTH PERIOD. EU AWARD PROGRAMME FOR QUALITY OF LIFE AND MANAGEMENT OF LIVING RESOURCES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN END OF LIFE CARE STANDARD FOR PEOPLE WITH END STAGE DEMENTIA ALTHOUGH A MYRIAD OF DISPARATE STANDARDS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR OLDER PEOPLE IN LONG STAY CARE (I) NURSING HOME, (II) RESIDENTIAL, (III) DEATH AND DYING, (IV) PALLIATIVE CARE, (V) END OF LIFE, AND (VI) BEREAVEMENT, NO SPECIFIC STANDARD HAS TO DATE BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE PROVISION OF END OF LIFE CARE TO PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE WITH END STAGE DEMENTIA LIVING IN RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS ACROSS IRELAND. THIS WAS DONE BY INVESTIGATING THE EXPERIENCES OF ELDERLY SPOUSES WHOSE RELATIVES HAVE RECENTLY DIED WITH DEMENTIA IN LONG STAY CARE AND USING THE DATA COLLECTED TO DEVELOP AN ALL IRELAND STANDARD FOR QUALITY CARE IN END STAGE DEMENTIA IN NURSING HOMES. THE PROJECT CULIMINATED IN A PUBLISHED REPORT AND A RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL. CARDI CREATING AN EVIDENCE BASE TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL DEMENTIA STRATEGY FOR IRELAND THIS RESEARCH REVIEW WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE GOVERNMENT, FUNDED BY THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AND UNDERTAKEN TO INFORM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN IN ITS DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL DEMENTIA STRATEGY. THE REVIEW WAS UNDERTAKEN IN COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR EAMON O'SHEA, FROM THE CENTRE FOR GERONTOLOGY NUI, GALWAY. IT INVOLVED IDENTIFYING, REVIEWING, INTERPRETING AND SYNTHESIZING ALL RELEVANT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH DATA PERTINENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRISH DEMENTIA STRATEGY. NEW DEMENTIA PREVALENCE RATES FOR IRELAND (CURRENT AND FUTURE) HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED AND NEW ESTIMATES PROVIDED FOR THE COST OF DEMENTIA CARE IN IRELAND. A REPORT TITLED "CREATING EXCELLENCE IN DEMENTIA" : A RESEARCH REVIEW FOR IRELAND'S NATIONAL DEMENTIA STRATEGY WAS PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2012 AND LAUNCHED BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AT TRINITY COLLEGE. THIS WAS LATER FOLLOWED UP BY THE PUBLICATION OF A GUIDE TO DEMENTIA FOR LAY PEOPLE TITLED - " FUTURE DEMENTIA CARE IN IRELAND: SHARING THE EVIDENCE TO MOBILISE ACTION, WHICH WAS LAUNCHED BY MINISTER KATHLEEN LYNCH IN TRINITY COLLEGE IN JUNE 2012. THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AN IRISH NATIONAL SURVEY OF DEMENTIA IN LONG STAY RESIDENTIAL CARE IN IRELAND WE HAVE LIMITED KNOWLEDGE OF THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA LIVING IN DEMENTIA SPECIFIC UNITS. SINCE 2009 ALL REGISTERED NURSING HOMES IN IRELAND MUST UNDERGO REGULAR INSPECTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A SET OF NATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CARE STANDARDS (HIQA,2009). SUPPLEMENTARY CRITERIA FOR USE IN DEMENTIA SPECIFIC RESIDENTIAL CARE UNITS HAVE ALSO BEEN DEVELOPED FOR USE DURING INSPECTIONS. THESE CRITERIA PAY PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT INCLUDING ITS DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURAL LAY OUT, THE TYPE OF MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES AND PSYCHO-SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS AVAILABLE, ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES AND STAFF TRAINING. TO DATE NO INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE IN IRELAND ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH THESE CRITERIA ARE IMPLEMENTED DURING INSPECTIONS OR HOW COMPLIANCE IS MONITORED. THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS SURVEY WAS TO COLLECT INFORMATION ON THE NUMBER AND LOCATION OF SPECIALIST CARE UNITS FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE NATIONAL SURVEY ALSO SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT PROVIDER TYPES, THE HSE OR PUBLIC PROVIDER, THE VOLUNTARY (NOT FOR PROFIT PROVIDERS) AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR. THE DEMENTIA SERVICES INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DEMENTIA AND HOME DESIGN FOR IRELAND LOOKING AT NEW BUILD AND RETROFITTING HOMES FROM A UNIVERSAL DESIGN APPROACH THIS STUDY WHICH AIMS TO PRODUCE A SET OF GUIDELINES FOR ARCHITECTS INVOLVED IN BUILDING OR RETROFITTING HOMES FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA HAS BEEN COMMISSIONED BY THE CENTRE FOR UNIVERSAL DESIGN AT THE NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY. WHILST A LOT OF ATTENTION HAS RECENTLY BEEN FOCUSED ON CUSTOMISING NURSING HOMES FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA LESS IS KNOWN ABOUT ADAPTING AND RETROFITTING DOMESTIC DWELLINGS FOR THOSE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA IN THE COMMUNITY TO HELP THEM COPE BETTER WITH THEIR DISABILITY. THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES THIS TASK. THE WORK IS BEING JOINTLY UNDERTAKEN BY STAFF FROM THE DSIDC'S LIVING WITH DEMENTIA PROGRAMME AT TRINITY COLLEGE AND TRINITYHAUS. THE PROJECT INVOLVES A LITERATURE REVIEW, IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR CAREGIVERS, A REVIEW OF CASE STUDIES AND A NUMBER OF WORKSHOPS. IT IS HOPED THAT THE GUIDELINES DEVELOPED WILL HELP PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA TO REMAIN LIVING AT HOME SAFELY AND SECURELY FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. CENTRE FOR UNIVERSAL DESIGN (NDA) EVALUATION OF GENIO DEMENTIA PROGRAMME THERE ARE TWO COMPONENTS TO THIS EVALUATION PROJECT. THE FIRST CONSISTS OF UPDATING IN ACCORDANCE WITH CENSUS 2011 DATA, DEMENTIA PREVALENCE RATES IN THE FOUR GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS WHERE THE GENIO PROJECTS ARE CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE. THE SECOND COMPONENT INVOLVES AN EVALUATION OF THE NEW RESPITE CARE SERVICES BEING INTRODUCED AT TWO OF THE GENIO SITES, IN STILLORGAN/BLACKROCK AND CLONMEL. THE KEY OBJECTIVE OF THE RESPITE EVALUATION IS TO EXAMINE OBSTACLES AND FACILITATORS TO THE USE OF RESPITE CARE SERVICES FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA IN THE COMMUNITY. OUTPUTS WILL INCLUDE A MAJOR RESEARCH REPORT AND A SEMINAR OR WORKSHOP. GENIO AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR TIM CALLAN callantim ADJUNCT PROFESSOR CALLANT ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR VERONICA ANN CAMPBELL campbellveronicaann BURSAR/DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVE VACMPBLL PROVOST'S OFFICE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) CANNABINOID NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; ß-AMYLOID; NEURODEGENERATION; REGULATION OF NEURONAL CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING OF BONE AND CARTILAGE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS PROVOSTS OFFICE HOUSE 1 COLLEGE 01-8961000 EDITOR, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY FELLOW, ROYAL ACADEMY MEDICINE IN IRELAND MEMBER, PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE SECRETARY, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SECTION (ROYAL ACADEMY MEDICINE IN IRELAND) APOPTOSIS BIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING NEUROCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROPHARMACOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY INVESTIGATION INTO THE ROLE OF LYSOSOMES IN NEURONAL CELL DEATH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE IS A DEVASTATING NEURODEGENERATIVE CONDITION WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH COGNITIVE DECLINE AND NEURONAL LOSS. A NEUROPATHOLOGICAL HALLMARK OF THIS DISEASE IS THE DEPOSITION OF ß-AMYLOID (Aß) PROTEIN AROUND NEURONS, AND Aß IS THOUGHT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DISEASE PROCESS BY INDUCING NEURONAL CELL DEATH. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED THAT Aß INCREASES INTRACELLULAR CA2+ CONCENTRATION IN CORTICAL NEURONS (MACMANUS ET AL., 2000), LEADING TO ACTIVATION OF CA2+-DEPENDENT PROTEASES AND SUBSEQUENT CELL DEATH (BOLAND ET AL., 2003). UNDERSTANDING HOW Aß INFLUENCES INTRACELLULAR CA2+ HOMEOSTASIS IS ONE OF OUR KEY RESEARCH QUESTIONS GIVEN THAT DYSREGULATION OF THIS ION PROVIDES THE BASIS FOR THE "CALCIUM HYPOTHESIS OF NEURODEGENERATION". LYSOSOMES ARE RELATIVELY UNDERSTUDIED ORGANELLES THAT SERVE AS RESERVOIRS FOR CA2+. OUR RECENT WORK HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT Aß IMPACTS ON THE LYSOSOMAL SYSTEM, CAUSING LYSOSOMES TO BECOME LEAKY AND RELEASE LYSOSOMAL PROTEASES WHICH THEN CONTRIBUTE TO THE CELL DEATH CASCADE (BOLAND ET AL., 2004). EVENTS WHICH CAUSE THE LYSOSOMAL MEMBRANE TO BECOME LEAKY ARE LIKELY TO PROMOTE THE RELEASE OF LYSOSOMAL CA2+, AS WELL AS PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES, AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE INCREASE IN INTRACELLULAR CA2+ CONCENTRATION WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH MANY FORMS OF CELL DEATH. WE ARE CURRENTLY ATTEMPTING TO EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF Aß ON LYSOSOMAL CA2+ HOMEOSTASIS SINCE THIS MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS THAT WE OBSERVE FOLLOWING EXPOSURE OF NEURONS TO Aß IN VITRO . ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT CANNABINOIDS AND NEURONAL FATE MARIJUANA IS THE MOST COMMONLY USED ILLEGAL DRUG OF ABUSE IN IRELAND, PARTICULARLY AMONGST THE 14-16 YEAR OLD AGE GROUP. ?9-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL (THC) IS THE PSYCHOACTIVE INGREDIENT OF MARIJUANA AND THIS PROJECT IS CONCERNED WITH FURTHERING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF THC ON THE BRAIN. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT EFFECT OF HYPOXIA ON TISSUE ENGINEERING OF BONE AND CARTILAGE THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT AIMS TO IDENTIFY THE OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR INDUCING DIFFERENTIATION OF ADULT MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS ALONG THE OSTEOGENIC AND CHONDROGENIC LINEAGES. THE STUDY WILL IDENTIFY THE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS INVOLVED IN THESE PROCESSES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD BASIC RESEARCH GRANT CANNABINOIDS AND MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EXAMINE THE ROLE OF CANNABINOID PATHWAYS IN THE CONTROL OF BONE AND CARTILAGE DEVELOPMENT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS DO CANNABINOIDS CONFER NEUROPROTECTION BY STABILIZING LYSOSOMES? HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. MATTHEW CAMPBELL campbellmatthew ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CAMPBEM2 GENETICS MY LABORATORY FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE VASCULATURE ASSOCIATED WITH NEURAL TISSUES. WE USE GENETIC AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BASED APPROACHES TO EXPLORE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NEURAL TISSUE AND THE SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION. ONE MAJOR TOPIC OF MY RESEARCH IS CENTERED ON THE TIGHT JUNCTIONS LOCATED BETWEEN MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS OF THE BLOOD BRAIN AND INNER BLOOD RETINA BARRIERS (BBB/IBRB) AND HOW THESE BARRIERS FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. WE AIM TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGIES TO ADDRESS AN UNMET CLINICAL NEED FOR A RANGE OF NEURAL CONDITIONS THAT CURRENTLY HAVE LIMITED FORMS OF THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION AND THESE INCLUDE ALZHEIMER DISEASE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME (GBM) AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI). IN ADDITION TO TRANSLATIONAL INTERESTS, OUR LAB IS ALSO HEAVILY FOCUSED ON ELUCIDATING THE UNDER-LYING MECHANISMS OF THE DISEASES WE ARE STUDYING AND THIS HAS LED TO NOVEL FINDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY OF AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (AMD). IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO RAPIDLY TRANSLATE TO NEW MEDICINES AND THIS IS A STRONG FOCUS OF THE LAB AT PRESENT. DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AGE-RELATED MACULOPATHY BLOOD-BRAIN-BARRIER CELL SIGNALLING, PROLIFERATION & DIFFERENTIATION CELLULAR BIOLOGY ENDOTHELIAL CELLS GENETICS INFLAMMATION MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS NEUROBIOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROSCIENCE SIRNA TECHNOLOGY TIGHT JUNCTIONS TRANSGENICS VISION NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR NICK CAMPBELL campbellnick ADJUNCT PROFESSSOR NICK COMPUTER SCIENCE MY BACKGROUND IS IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS, BUT MOST OF MY EXPERIENCE IS IN SPEECH TECHNOLOGY. I PREFER CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES AND HAVE PIONEERED ADVANCED (AND PARADIGM-SHIFTING) METHODS OF SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND NATURAL CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH COLLECTION IN A MULTIMODAL ENVIRONMENT. MY PRINCIPAL INTEREST IS IN SPEECH PROSODY, EXTENDING THIS RESEARCH TO SOCIAL INTERACTION TO SHOW HOW THE VOICE IS USED IN DISCOURSE TO EXPRESS PERSONAL RELATIONS AS WELL AS PROPOSITIONAL CONTENT. MOST OF MY PREVIOUS WORK HAS USED SPEECH MATERIALS COLLECTED IN JAPAN, AND I AM HAPPY NOW TO BE IN IRELAND WHERE I CAN CONFIRM THE UNIVERSALITY OF MY PREVIOUS FINDINGS - BOTH FOR IRISH AND FOR HIBERNO-ENGLISH. ULTIMATELY, I AM WORKING TO PRODUCE A FRIENDLIER SPEECH-BASED HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE FOR WEB-BASED INFORMATION, CUSTOMER-SERVICES, GAMES, AND ROBOTICS, WHILE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW HUMANS PERFORM SUCH OFTEN PERFECT COMMUNICATION. SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE ARABIC ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ASSOCIATE EDITOR - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SPEECH & AUDIO ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JOURNAL OF THE PHONETIC SOCIETY OF JAPAN DISC ADVISORY PANEL (MEMBER) GUEST EDITOR - IEEE TRANS SP SPECIAL ISSUE ON SPEECH SYNTHESIS ISCA SPEECH SYNTHESIS SIG - VICE CHAIRMAN, ILO SECRETARY/COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER COCOSDA SPEECH SYNTHESIS WORKING GROUP CONVENOR COCOSDA 51ST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IN 2013. (PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER) PC MEMBER - CICLING 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 ASSOCIATE EDITOR, LANGUAGE & SPEECH BOARD MEMBER - EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (ELRA) BOARD MEMBER: INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION BOARD MEMBER: JAPAN BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF THE KANSAI CO-ORGANISER - 3RD EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM ON MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION, MMSYM-2015, DUBLIN CO-ORGANISER - ENGAGEMENT IN SOCIAL INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS - SATELLITE W/S OF FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS (IVA 2015), AUGUST 26-28, DELFT CO-ORGANISER - ESIVA - SATELLITE OF INTERSPEECH 2015 CO-ORGANISER MA3HMI, SINGAPORE CO-ORGANISER/LOCAL HOST - MMSYM 2015 EXTERNAL EXPERT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, 'HUMAINE' NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE. 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MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, PHONETICA MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD: COGNITIVE PROCESSING MEMBER, SPOKEN LANGUAGE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE, IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY ORGANISER - LAUGHTER AND OTHER NON-VERBAL VOCALISATIONS IN SPEECH - LONG ROOM HUB - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE MEMBER - WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL ANALYSES ENABLING ARTIFICIAL AGENTS IN HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION. ORGCOM COGINFOCOM 2012 PC MEMBER (HLT-10) THE FOURTH BALTIC CONFERENCE ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES PC MEMBER - 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND INTELLIGENT TEXT PROCESSING PC MEMBER - BCS/CPHC DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATIONS COMPETITION 2012 PC MEMBER - BEYOND AI: ARTIFICIAL DREAMS BAI 2011, 2012 PC MEMBER - COGINFOCOM 2012, 2014 PC MEMBER - IWSDS 2012 - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS 2012 PC MEMBER - IWSDS 2012, 2014, 2015 PC MEMBER - LREC2012 - THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION PC MEMBER - LTC 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 PC MEMBER - PLM2012 - 43RD POZNA&#324; LINGUISTIC MEETING PC MEMBER - SIMPE 2010 - FIFTH WORKSHOP ON SPEECH IN MOBILE AND PERVASIVE ENVIRONMENTS PC MEMBER - SOCIALCOM 2012 - ASE/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL COMPUTING PC MEMBER - SP2012 - 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SPEECH PROSODY PC MEMBER - SPECOM 2015, 2016, 2017 PC MEMBER - SSPW2009 - SOCIAL SIGNAL PROCESSING WORKSHOP PC MEMBER - TAL 2012 - THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TONAL ASPECTS OF LANGUAGES PC MEMBER ACII 2013, 2015 PC MEMBER AICS 2017 PC MEMBER BAI 2012 PC MEMBER HSCR 2017 PC MEMBER ICCT 2017 PC MEMBER ICMR 2017 PC MEMBER IVA 2008, 2017 PC MEMBER MMC 2013, 2017 PC MEMBER MMSYM 2016 PC MEMBER ORIENTAL COCOSDA 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 PC MEMBER POITAL 2014 PC MEMBER SLSP 2014, 2016 PC MEMBER SP8 2016 - SPEECH PROSODY, BOSTON PC MEMBER SSW8 PC MEMBER WASA 2015 SCICOM MEMBER - 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUDITORY-VISUAL SPEECH PROCESSING (AVSP2013) STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER - DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH (TCD) VICE PRESIDENT - EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION SCIENCES COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING DISCOURSE & DIALOGUE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INTELLIGENT AGENTS MULTIMEDIA NUMERICAL ANALYSIS REMOTE SENSING SIGNAL PROCESSING SPEECH PROCESSING SPEECH PROCESSING/TECHNOLOGY SPEECH PROSODY SPEECH SYNTHESIS VIRTUAL REALITY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES OTHER HUMANITIES FASTNET FOCUS ON ACTIONS IN SOCIAL TALK; NETWORK-ENABLING TECHNOLOGY (LEAD PI 5 YEARS) SFI PI METALOGUE MULTIPERSPECTIVE MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE: DIALOGUE SYSTEM WITH METACOGNITIVE ABILITIES THE GOAL OF METALOGUE IS TO PRODUCE A MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE SYSTEM THAT IS ABLE TO IMPLEMENT AN INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOUR THAT SEEMS NATURAL TO USERS AND IS FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO EXPLOIT THE FULL POTENTIAL OF MULTIMODAL INTERACTION. IT WILL BE ACHIEVED BY UNDERSTANDING, CONTROLLING AND MANIPULATING SYSTEM'S OWN AND USERS' COGNITIVE PROCESSES. THE NEW DIALOGUE MANAGER WILL INCORPORATE A COGNITIVE MODEL BASED ON METACOGNITIVE SKILLS THAT WILL ENABLE PLANNING AND DEPLOYMENT OF APPROPRIATE DIALOGUE STRATEGIES. THE SYSTEM WILL BE ABLE TO MONITOR BOTH ITS OWN AND USERS' INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE, REASON ABOUT THE DIALOGUE PROGRESS, GUESS THE USERS' KNOWLEDGE AND INTENTIONS, AND THEREBY ADAPT AND REGULATE THE DIALOGUE BEHAVIOUR OVER TIME. THE METACOGNITIVE CAPABILITIES OF THE METALOGUE SYSTEM WILL BE BASED ON A STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH INCORPORATING MULTITASKING AND TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE AMONG SKILLS. THE MODELS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN ACT-R, PROVIDING A GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF METACOGNITIVE SKILLS. HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECTS/RCN/110655_EN.HTML EU FP7-ICT ISCA THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC COOPERATION AWARD (ISCA) PROGRAMME SUPPORTS NEW AND EXISTING RESEARCH-BASED COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN IRELAND'S HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (HEIS) AND PARTNER ORGANISATIONS IN JAPAN SFI ISCA ADAPT CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENT DIGITAL CONTENT SFI CENTRES &#65325;&#65327;&#65331;&#65313;&#65321;&#65315;&#65306;&#12288; &#33258;&#28982;&#12391;&#21452;&#26041;&#21521;&#30340;&#12394;&#23550;&#35441;&#20966;&#29702;&#12514;&#12487;&#12523; HTTP://KAKEN.NII.AC.JP/D/P/24500256.JA.HTML JOINT RESEARCH WITH NAIST, JAPAN AND TCD, IRELAND KAKEN (JAPAN) KISO KENKYU (C) SPEECH PROSODY (SP7) CONFERENCE GRANT SFI SUPPORT STOKES PROFESSORSHIP SFI STOKES AWARD - 5 YEAR SFI STOKES JOKER JOKE AND EMPATHY OF A ROBOT/ECA: TOWARDS SOCIAL AND AFFECTIVE RELATIONS WITH A ROBOT THIS PROJECT WILL BUILD AND DEVELOP JOKER, A GENERIC INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACE PROVIDING A MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE SYSTEM WITH SOCIAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS INCLUDING HUMOR, EMPATHY, COMPASSION, CHARM, AND OTHER INFORMAL SOCIALLY-ORIENTED BEHAVIOR. TALK DURING SOCIAL INTERACTIONS NATURALLY INVOLVES THE EXCHANGE OF PROPOSITIONAL CONTENT BUT ALSO AND PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANTLY THE EXPRESSION OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS, AS WELL AS DISPLAYS OF EMOTION, AFFECT, INTEREST, ETC. THIS PROJECT WILL FACILITATE ADVANCED DIALOGUES EMPLOYING COMPLEX SOCIAL BEHAVIORS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A COMPANION-MACHINE (ROBOT OR ECA) WITH THE SKILLS TO CREATE AND MAINTAIN A LONG TERM SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP THROUGH VERBAL AND NON VERBAL LANGUAGE INTERACTION. SUCH SOCIAL INTERACTION REQUIRES THAT THE ROBOT HAS THE ABILITY TO REPRESENT AND UNDERSTAND SOME COMPLEX HUMAN SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. IT IS NOT STRAIGHTFORWARD TO DESIGN A ROBOT WITH SUCH ABILITIES. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS REQUIRE SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND 'UNDERSTANDING' (FOR PLANNING AHEAD AND DEALING WITH NEW CIRCUMSTANCES) AND EMPLOY THEORY OF MIND FOR INFERRING THE COGNITIVE STATES OF ANOTHER PERSON. JOKER WILL EMPHASIZE THE FUSION OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL CHANNELS FOR EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR PERCEPTION, INTERACTION AND GENERATION CAPABILITIES. OUR PARADIGM INVOKES TWO TYPES OF DECISION: INTUITIVE (MAINLY BASED UPON NON-VERBAL MULTIMODAL CUES) AND COGNITIVE (BASED UPON FUSION OF SEMANTIC AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION WITH NON-VERBAL MULTIMODAL CUES.) THE INTUITIVE TYPE WILL BE USED DYNAMICALLY IN THE INTERACTION AT THE NON-VERBAL LEVEL (EMPATHIC BEHAVIOR: SYNCHRONY OF MIMICS SUCH AS SMILE, NODS) BUT ALSO AT VERBAL LEVELS FOR REFLEX SMALL- TALK (POLITENESS BEHAVIOR: VERBAL SYNCHRONY WITH HELLO, HOW ARE YOU, THANKS, ETC). COGNITIVE DECISIONS WILL BE USED FOR REASONING ON THE STRATEGY OF THE DIALOG AND DECIDING MORE COMPLEX SOCIAL BEHAVIORS (HUMOR, COMPASSION, WHITE LIES, ETC.) TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE USER PROFILE AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION. HTTP://WWW.CHISTERA.EU/PROJECTS/JOKER EU-FP7 CHISTERA CNGL-II THEME LEADER - DELIVERY & INTERACTION 10MEURO (APPROX) FOR 30 MONTHS SFI CSET AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. NORAH CAMPBELL campbellnorah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NCAMPBE BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES CRITICAL, HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGY CONSUMER RESEARCH ADVERTISING AND VISUAL CULTURE POSTHUMANISM NANOTECHNOLOGY CLIMATE CHANGE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH EDITORIAL BOARD - CONSUMPTION, MARKETS AND CULTURE (ROUTLEDGE) EDITORIAL POLICY BOARD - JOURNAL OF MACROMARKETING (SAGE) CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, SOCIETY EMBODIMENT FEMINISM HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION THEORY MATERIAL CULTURE POSTHUMANITIES ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES BACTERIA AND THE MARKET WE PRESENT A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING OF 332 IMAGES OF BACTERIA IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE PERIOD SINCE 1848. THE NON-RATIONAL MECHANISMS THAT ARE AT PLAY IN THESE IMAGES SUGGEST THAT THE DEPICTION OF BACTERIA IN ADVERTISING OPERATES ACCORDING TO A DIALECTIC OF ALIENATION AND BELONGING THAT IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR SOCIAL WORLD. THERE ARE FOUR RECURRING DISCURSIVE-AESTHETIC CATEGORIES THAT DRAW BACTERIA INTO VISUALITY: CUTENESS, OVERPOPULATION, THE LOWER CLASSES, AND SEX. WE PROPOSE THAT BACTERIA MAY BE VIEWED AS SYMPTOMS OF THE FEARS AND PLEASURES THAT ARE AWAKENED BY LIVING IN MASS MARKET SOCIETY AND IN THE MIDST OF A PLETHORA OF MICROSCOPIC OTHERS. WE THEN IDENTIFY AN ANTIBACTERIAL SINTHOME AT PLAY, WHICH MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO ASK WHY THESE SYMPTOMS APPEAR TO US IN THE WAY THAT THEY DO. THE ANTIBACTERIAL SINTHOME EXPRESSES AND GIVES FORM TO OUR AMBIVALENT POSITION AS INDIVIDUALS IN A MARKET SOCIETY, WHERE OUR LIVES ARE PREOCCUPIED WITH IDENTIFYING AND CONTROLLING ENEMIES AND INCORPORATING ALLIES. IN THIS WAY, THE ANTIBACTERIAL SINTHOME ENACTS AN AUTOIMMUNE LOGIC THAT ENCOURAGES US TO IGNORE THE MACRO AND LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF LIVING IN AN ANTIBACTERIAL SOCIETY. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. IGOR CANDIDO candidoigor ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CANDIDOI ITALIAN MY AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE: DANTE; PETRARCH; BOCCACCIO (AND THEIR INTEREST IN THE LATIN CLASSICS); ITALIAN RENAISSANCE HUMANISM; PHILOLOGY; COMPARATIVE LITERATURE; PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE; RALPH WALDO EMERSON AND THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE. DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH GERMAN LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. SHEILA CANNON cannonsheila ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CANNONSH BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES ADOPTING AN INSTITUTIONAL THEORY APPROACH, MY RESEARCH USES QUALITATIVE INTERPRETIVE METHODS TO PROCESSES OF ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY CHANGE IN SOCIAL MISSION ORGANISATIONS. I AM INTERESTED IN EXPLORING RESEARCH QUESTIONS AROUND HOW ORGANISATIONS ADAPT TO INSTITUTIONAL-LEVEL CHANGES, AND HOW THOSE CHANGES ARE EXPRESSED THROUGH ORGANISATIONAL IDENTITY. EMPIRICAL CONTEXTS THAT I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN ARE SOCIAL MISSION ORGANISATIONS, AND THE COMMERCIALISATION OF THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND VOLUNTARY ACTION (ARNOVA) EUROPEAN GROUP FOR ORGANIZATION STUDIES (EGOS) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THIRD SECTOR RESEARCH (ISTR) INNOVATION IN NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS AND SYSTEMS NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS PEACEBUILDING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL SCIENCES, ECONOMICS, LAW & BUSINESS ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. ANGELA CARBALLEDO carballedoangela CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER CARBALA PSYCHIATRY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. PADRAIG CARMODY carmodypadraig ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/HEAD OF DISCIPLINE CARMODYP GEOGRAPHY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN AFRICA. POVERTY ALLEVIATION. GOVERNANCE AND CIVIL SOCIETY. HIV/AIDS AND GLOBALIZATION DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, GEOFORUM EDITORIAL BOARD, POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY EDITORIAL BOARD: AFRICAN GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES HONORARY PRESIDENT, TCD GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY STEERING COMMITTEE, DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND TCD DIRECTOR, MASTERS IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE AFRICA AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL POLICY ANALYSIS ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEMS AREA & POPULATION STUDIES/SERVICES BUSINESS ECONOMICS, STUDIES COMPARITIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY CONFLICT/DISPUTE RESOLUTION CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS DEMOCRACY DEVELOPING/UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT STUDIES EAST (FAR EAST) ASIA EASTERN AFRICA ECOLOGY AND POPULATION ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC HISTORY, THEORY ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ECONOMIC STUDIES--DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMIC THEORY ECONOMICS ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC POLICY ECONOMICS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ECONOMICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ETHIOPIA FINANCE FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT GENDER AND WORK GENOCIDE GLOBALISATION GLOBALIZATION HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT HUNGER IMIGRATION POLICY, COLONIAL POLICY, POLITICAL CULTURE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, ORGANISATION THEORY INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, E-COMMERCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE INNOVATION INNOVATION AND GROWTH INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL PLANNING/POLICY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/DIPLOMACY INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL TOPICS INTERNATIONAL/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR MARKET/UNEMPLOYMENT LABOUR ECONOMICS MACROECONOMICS MACROECONOMICS, OPEN ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL MALAWI MICROECONOMICS MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NON-ALIGNED/THIRD WORLD NATIONS POLITICAL ECONOMICS/ECONOMY POLITICAL ECONOMY POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY POVERTY AND THE POOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS REGIONAL ECONOMICS SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ORGANIZATION SOCIAL STRATIFICATION/MOBILITY SOCIAL STRUCTURE SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES SOCIOECONOMICS SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT, POPULATION SOCIETY, DEVELOPMENT SOUTH AFRICA SOUTHEAST ASIA SOUTHERN AFRICA SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TANZANIA TARIFF POLICY TERRORISM TRADE TRANSPORT ECONOMICS URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS URBAN ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, REGIONAL PLANNING URBAN ECONOMICS WTO TRADE NEGOTIATIONS ZAMBIA ZIMBABWE (RHODESIA) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. GILBERT JAMES CARR carrgilbertjames FELLOW EMERITUS GCARR GERMAN MY MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN CULTURE C. 1890-1930, ESPECIALLY THE VIENNESE FIN DE SIÈCLE, FIRST WORLD WAR LITERATURE AND PROPAGANDA, SATIRE, LITERARY JOURNALISM, LITERATURE AND THOUGHT, THEATRE HISTORY AND RECEPTION STUDIES, TEXTUAL AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, TEXT PHILOLOGY (EDITING ARCHIVAL SOURCES). DEPT. OF GERMAN 5068 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND ASSOCIATION OF THIRD LEVEL GERMAN TEACHERS IN IRELAND CONFERENCE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'AUSTRIAN STUDIES' YEARBOOK EXTERN ASSESSOR FOR LECTURESHIPS AT UCD AND DIT. EXTERN EXAMINER AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF EDINBURGH, SUSSEX, HAMBURG AND AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK. GUEST LECTURER AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF GRONINGEN AND NIJMEGEN, NETHERLANDS, AS PART OF THE IRELAND/ NETHERLANDS CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMME. IRISH MENSA MEMBER OF ASSESSMENT PANELS FOR GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND SCHOLARSHIPS. PEER REVIEWER FOR AUSTRIAN STUDIES YEARBOOK AND FOR GERMANISTIK IN IRELAND PEER REVIEWER FOR THE FONDS ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN FORSCHUNG, AUSTRIA. PEER REVIEWER OF ACADEMIC MONOGRAPHS FOR YALE U. P. FIRST WORLD WAR LITERATURE AND PROPAGANDA GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN CULTURE C. 1890-1930 LITERARY JOURNALISM MANUSCRIPT EDITION SATIRE THEATRE HISTORY DEMOLIERUNG - GRÜNDUNG - URSPRUNG: ZU KARL KRAUS' FRÜHEN SCHRIFTEN UND ZUR FRÜHEN 'FACKEL'. DEMOLITION - FOUNDATION - ORIGIN. KARL KRAUS' EARLY WRITINGS AND THE EARLY 'FACKEL'): FIRST FULL-LENGTH STUDY OF KRAUS' EARLY CAREER AS A FOUNDATION FOR HIS LATER WORK, DRAWS ON ARCHIVAL SOURCES; EDITS UNPUBLISHED TEXTS; CORRECTS MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT HIS LITERARY RESPONSES TO MODERNISM AND THE INTERLINKED CULTURAL FIELDS IN VIENNA C. 1900. REASSESSES HIS NORM OF 'ORIGIN' THROUGH RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MEMORY STORE OF HIS RECEPTION OF THEATRE, WHEREBY ACTS OF REMEMBRANCE AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OVERLAY THE BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCE EXPERIENCE. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. MARGARET CARROLL carrollmargaret ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CARROLOL SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CURRICULUM EVALUATION; MIDWIFERY PRACTICE - POSTNATAL CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF LECTURERS IN IRELAND BOARD MEMBER, NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND CHAIRPERSON, MIDWIVES COMMITTEE, NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND CODE MONITORING COMMITTEE FOR THE MARKETING OF INFANT FORMULAE - NOMINEE OF THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS MEMBER OF THE EXPERT GROUP IN MIDWIFERY AND PAEDIATRIC NURSE EDUCATION SET UP BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN MEMBER OF THE MIDWIFERY SUB-COMMITTEE, AN BORD ALTRANAIS MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL MIDWIFERY ADVISORY FORUM MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE DEVELOPING A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY IN THE COMMUNITY (NAMIC) MEMBER OF THE WORKING GROUP ON MIDWIFERY EDUCATION MIDWIVES SECTION OF THE IRISH NURSES AND MIDWIVES ORGANISATION ROYAL COLLEGE OF MIDWIVES MIDWIFERY MIDWIFERY EDUCATION MIDWIVES EVALUATION OF THE DIPLOMA IN MIDWIFERY (DIRECT ENTRY) (WITH PROF CECILY BEGLEY) DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN THE CONCEPT, PROVISION AND PROMOTION OF WOMAN-CENTRED CARE DURING PREGNANCY AND BIRTH IN IRELAND. DEVANE D (PI), BEGLEY CM, CARROLL M, FAHEY T, JAMESON S, MCCANN C, MURPHY D, MURPHY-LAWLESS-J, NÍMHURCHÚ P, TREANOR P. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) €25,000 NATIONAL INFANT FEEDING SURVEY PI PROF. C. BEGLEY WITH L. GALLAGHER, PROF. M. CLARKE, S. MILLAR AND M. CARROLL €101,129 FROM HSE THE MAMMI STUDY (MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND) PI PROFESSOR CECILY BEGLEY, DEIRDRE DALY (PHD STUDENT) PROFESSOR MIKE CLARKE. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO IDENTIFY THE EXISTENCE, EXTENT, PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF MATERNAL MORBIDITY, IN 1600 PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN ANTENATALLY AND AT 3 AND 6 MONTHS POSTPARTUM. CURRENTLY I AM INVOLVED IN DATA COLLECTION ON THE PROJECT. €222,646 HRB RESEARCH CLINICAL TRAINING FELLOWSHIP FOR PART OF THE STUDY MIND MOTHERS PROFESSOR AGNES HIGGINS, MARGARET CARROLL, DEIRDRE MADDEN, ELAINE MCGOLDRICK AND AILISH GILL HSE NMPDU SUPPORT FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY INNOVATION INITIATIVES FUNDING 2015 SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW OF PUBLISHED LEGISLATION, CODES OF PRACTICE, STANDARDS, GUIDANCE AND JUDICIAL DECISIONS RELEVANT TO HOMEBIRTH HSE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. RACHAEL CARROLL carrollrachael RESEARCH FELLOW CARROLR5 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY GARCH MODELLING, VOLUME AND VOLATILITY, TAKEOVERS, MARKET SENTIMENT, BIOSTATISTICS SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PROFESSOR RICHARD GEOFFREY CARSON carsonrichardgeoffrey PROF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF AGEING RICARSON PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. LORNA ELIZABETH CARSON carsonlornaelizabeth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN APPLIED LINGUISTI CARSONLE C.L.C.S. CENTRE FOR ASIAN STUDIES MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON MULTILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE LEARNING. I MOSTLY EMPLOY QUALITATIVE METHODS IN MY WORK TO UNDERSTAND THE FEATURES AND CONTEXTS OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL MULTILINGUALISM, AND TO INVESTIGATE SUCCESSFUL INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGE LEARNING AND PROGRAMME PROVISION IN EUROPEAN AND EAST ASIAN CONTEXTS. GIVEN THE CENTRALITY OF LANGUAGE TO HUMAN IDENTITY, INTERACTION AND SOCIAL ACTIVITY, MULTILINGUALISM ENCOMPASSES A BROAD SPECTRUM OF CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL NORMS. THE KEY THEMES IN MY RESEARCH INCLUDE: . FORMAL LANGUAGE LEARNING PROVISION AND THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM (POLICY AND PEDAGOGY) . TOOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL LANGUAGE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION AND DELIVERY, INCLUDING THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE, THE EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO . ASSESSMENT AND CERTIFICATION IN SECOND/FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT . PROVISION OF AND PARTICIPATION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING THROUGHOUT THE LIFESPAN (HOME LANGUAGES, MINORITY, HERITAGE, SECOND/FOREIGN, ETC.). C.L.C.S ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE KOREAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ADVISORY BOARD, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS AILA & AILA-EUROPE ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE CENTRES CERCLES (CONFÉDÉRATION EUROPÉENNE DES CENTRES DE LANGUES DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR) COMMITTEE MEMBER, AILA RESEARCH NETWORK ON LEARNER AUTONOMY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING (RENLA) CONSEIL EUROPÉEN POUR LES LANGUES/EUROPEAN LANGUAGE COUNCIL EXTERNAL EXAMINER, FOREIGN LANGUAGE ELECTIVES, APPLIED LANGUAGES CENTRE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN GUEST EDITOR (WITH HEATH ROSE) OF LANGUAGE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. SPECIAL ISSUE ON EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION. INVITED VISITING PROFESSOR, TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, RUSSIAN FEDERATION INVITED VISITING SCHOLAR, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA (DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY) IRAAL REPRESENTATIVE, AILA-EUROPE NETWORK (ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUÉE/INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS) IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL), MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR MULTILINGUAL MATTERS, INNOVATION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM, THE JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND CURRICULUM, LANGUAGE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. BOOK ENDORSEMENT, ROUTLEDGE PRESIDENT, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) THE ACADEMY OF KOREAN STUDIES, REPUBLIC OF KOREA, FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ASIAN STUDIES ASSESSMENT AUTONOMY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE AND IMMIGRATION IN IRELAND MOTIVATION MULTILINGUALISM URBAN STUDIES MULTILINGUAL CITIES PROJECT DUBLIN: MULTILINGUAL CITY. THIS INVESTIGATION IS THE FIRST SURVEY OF THE VITALITY OF IMMIGRANT LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY CHILDREN IN IRELAND, REPORTING ON A SAMPLE OF NATIONAL SCHOOL PUPILS FROM TWO SCHOOLS IN DUBLIN. THE PROJECT IS A REPLICATION OF A WELL-KNOWN AND PIONEERING EUROPE-WIDE SURVEY: THE MULTILINGUAL CITIES PROJECT (EXTRA & YA&#287;MUR, 2004). THE ORIGINAL PROJECT, COORDINATED BY PROF. EXTRA (TILBURG UNIVERSITY) IN COLLABORATION WITH LINGUISTIC EXPERTS FROM UNIVERSITIES IN EACH COUNTRY, INVESTIGATED IMMIGRANT LANGUAGES AMONGST PRIMARY AGE CHILDREN IN SIX EUROPEAN CITIES (GÖTEBORG, HAMBURG, THE HAGUE, BRUSSELS, LYON AND MADRID). THE PROJECT HAS RECENTLY BEEN LAUNCHED IN VIENNA AND IN THE BALTIC STATES. THE SURVEY EMPLOYS A QUANTITATIVE METHODOLOGY. A COMPUTER-READABLE QUESTIONNAIRE IS ADMINISTERED TO PUPILS, ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT (I) LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, (II) LANGUAGE DOMINANCE, (III) LANGUAGE CHOICE AND (IV) LANGUAGE PREFERENCE, AT SCHOOL AND HOME. MOST STUDIES OF IMMIGRANT MINORITY LANGUAGES IN EUROPE HAVE FOCUSSED ON ONE PARTICULAR COUNTRY, OR ON ONE PARTICULAR LANGUAGE AT NATIONAL OR EUROPEAN LEVEL (E.G. ARABIC, TURKISH). FEW STUDIES HAVE TAKEN BOTH A CROSSNATIONAL AND CROSSLINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE STATUS AND USE OF IMMIGRANT MINORITY LANGUAGES. LANGUAGE PROFILES AND LANGUAGE VITALITY INDEXES WERE COMPILED FOR THE VARIOUS LANGUAGE COMMUNITIES. THE REPORT ON THE FINDINGS OF THE PILOT PHASE OF THE PROJECT WERE PUBLISHED IN 2010, IN CO-AUTHORSHIP WITH PROFESSOR GUUS EXTRA (TILBURG, NL). TCD START-UP FUND MINORITY LANGUAGE USE IN IRELAND: THE TIME FEATURE THIS INNOVATIVE EMPIRICAL PROJECT INVESTIGATED THE LANGUAGE PRACTICES OF MULTILINGUAL IMMIGRANTS IN IRELAND, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE TIME FEATURE AND HOW THE USE OF HOME LANGUAGES AND OTHER LANGUAGES INTERACT AND INTERSECT IN DAILY LIFE. THE PROJECT SET OUT TO INTRODUCE TIME AS A PARAMETER FOR RESEARCH IN SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND MULTILINGUAL STUDIES AND TO PROGRESS THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN DUBLIN. THE FINDINGS OF THE PROJECT ARE PUBLISHED IN SINGLETON, ARONIN AND CARSON (2013). MULTILINGUALISM IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA: PEOPLE, PLACE AND BELONGING THIS PROJECT EXAMINES MULTILINGUAL POLICY AND PRACTICES IN NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA, EMPLOYING A MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH DESIGN, INCLUDING ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, INVESTIGATION OF LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH. CONDUCTED DURING MY RESEARCH SABBATICAL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA IN 2012, THE PROJECT GATHERED PRIMARY DATA ON THE CONNECTIONS AND INTERACTION BETWEEN DIVERSE LANGUAGE VARIETIES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE CITY OF PRINCE GEORGE AND SURROUNDING AREA. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN STUDIES FACULTY RESEARCH PROGRAM JEAN MONNET NETWORK, EUROPEAN IDENTITY, CULTURE, EXCHANGES AND MULTILINGUALISM EUROPEAN IDENTITY FORMATION IS IDENTIFIED AS AN OVERARCHING THEME WITH THREE DIMENSIONS OF MORE FOCUSED RESEARCH (PATTERNS OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP AMONG STUDENTS STUDYING COURSES IN THE AREA OF EU STUDIES ELIMINATING THE CONSTRAINT OF KNOWLEDGE DEFICIT AND INFORMATION ABOUT EUROPEAN AFFAIRS), IDENTITIES IN URBAN CONTEXTS (THE EUROPEAN MULTILINGUAL CITY) AND THE ISSUE OF EMERGING NEW EUROPEAN YOUNG RESEARCHERS' IDENTITIES (EXCHANGES AND DOCTORAL STUDIES - AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES IN THE EU). A CORE TASK OF THE NETWORK IS TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND BECOME A REFERENCE POINT FOR RESEARCHERS IN THESE EU-RELATED THEMES. THE TARGET GROUP OF THE JM NETWORK ARE YOUNG RESEARCHERS (DOCTORATE STUDENTS, POTENTIAL DOCTORATE STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PHD DEGREE IN THE PAST 5 YEARS). THEIR PROFILE IS NOT LIMITED TO EU STUDIES DEPARTMENTS. THE NETWORK AIMS AT INVOLVING DOCTORATE STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS FROM DIFFERENT SCIENTIFIC AREAS THROUGH THE OPEN CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION AND THROUGH INVITING DOCTORATE STUDENTS FROM OTHER SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. THE NETWORK WILL RUN 3 SUMMER SCHOOLS AS WELL AS A RANGE OF EVENTS (SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND FINAL CONFERENCE). THE CO-TEACHING ACTIVITIES ARE DEVELOPED WITH THE VIEW OF ENHANCING ACADEMIC EXCHANGES AND COOPERATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION JEAN MONNET PROGRAMME LUCIDE | LANGUAGES IN URBAN CONTEXTS - INTEGRATION AND DIVERSITY FOR EUROPE THE LUCIDE NETWORK IS A CONSORTIUM OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY AND CITY PARTNERS WITH EXPERIENCE IN RESEARCHING MULTILINGUALISM IN URBAN SETTINGS, REPRESENTING 13 EUROPEAN CITIES AND TWO LEADING PARTNER INSTITUTIONS IN CANADA (OLBI) AND AUSTRALIA (UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE). I AM THE WORK PACKAGE LEADER FOR LUCIDE'S RESEARCH ACTIVITIES, COORDINATING A TEAM OF 60 RESEARCHERS ACROSS THE NETWORK IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA COLLECTION. THROUGH THE NETWORK'S WORKSHOPS, CITY REPORTS, SEMINARS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, LUCIDE AIMS TO SUGGEST SOME VIABLE AND CONVINCING POLICY DIRECTIONS FOR THE RANGE OF CITIES INVOLVED IN ITS NETWORK WHERE WHAT IS OFTEN DESCRIBED AS A NEGATIVE (THE 'PROBLEM' OF DIVERSITY) MAY BE VIEWED AS A SOLUTION FOR THE FUTURE, WITH AN IMPACT BEYOND THE PARTNERS AND CITIES INVOLVED. (FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME, KA2, 2011 - 2014.) WEBSITE: WWW.URBANLANGUAGES.EU EUROPEAN COMMISSION EU LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME (KA2) INVESTIGATING THE KOREAN MULTILINGUAL LANDSCAPE. EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE KOREAN SEMIOTIC LANDSCAPE. THE PROJECT IS LOCATED WITHIN THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD OF LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPING. IT PROBLEMATIZES WHAT IS OFTEN TAKEN FOR GRANTED, INDEED IGNORED, IN THE URBAN MULTILINGUAL LANDSCAPE. THE STUDY TAKES ENGLISH AND OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGE BORROWINGS AS A PRINCIPAL UNIT OF ANALYSIS, AND INVESTIGATES THEIR USAGE IN THE VISUAL PUBLIC SPACES OF FOUR KEY SPHERES: EDUCATION, PUBLIC/CIVIC SPHERE, ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY/PRIVATE SPHERE. SOME OF THE FINDINGS OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT ARE PUBLISHED IN: CARSON, L. (2014), AN EXPLORATION OF THE ROLES OF ENGLISH IN SOCIETAL AND INDIVIDUAL MULTILINGUALISM IN KOREA, IN R. BERTONI (ED.) AND CARSON, L. (FORTHCOMING BOOK CHAPTER), ENGLISH FEVER: PROBLEMATISING ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTING IN SOUTH KOREA. THE ACADEMY OF KOREAN STUDIES/&#54620;&#44397;&#54617;&#51473;&#50521;&#50672;&#44396;&#50896; E-LENGUA THE E-LENGUA PROJECT (2015-2018) IS FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S ERASMUS+ PROGRAMME, AND INVESTIGATES HOW TO OPTIMIZE THE USE OF ICTS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING. THE UNIVERSITIES IN THIS CONSORTIUM ARE THE UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA, THE UNIVERSITY OF POITIERS, THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, THE UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA, THE UNIVERSITY OF CAIRO, THE UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA AND TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. THE RESEARCH TEAM FROM TRINITY COLLEGE (LORNA CARSON, BREFFNI O'ROURKE AND ALISON MOORE) ARE INVESTIGATING HOW TO IMPROVE ONLINE ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, PARTICULARLY IN VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ERASMUS+ KA2 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. MIRIAM CASEY caseymiriam LECTURER (PART-TIME) CASEYMI CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. CHRISTINE LILIAN CASEY caseychristinelilian ASSOC PROF IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY CASEYCH HISTORY OF ART IRISH ART RESEARCH CENTRE MY RESEARCH IS CURRENTLY FOCUSED ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF DESIGN AND MAKING IN ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION, IN PARTICULAR THE INTERFACE OF CRAFTSMANSHIP IN ARCHITECTURE AND THE FUNCTIONS OF ORNAMENT. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION AND AM NOW JOINTLY DIRECTING AN INTERDICIPLINARY PROJECT ON STONE, CARVING AND THE BUILDING INDUSTRY IN VICTORIAN DUBLIN. I AM ALSO WORKING ON A MONOGRAPH ON THE ROLE OF DECORATION IN ARCHITECTURE, ITS BANISHMENT BY MODERNISTS, ITS RECLAMATION BY HISTORIANS, ITS IMPACT ON WRITERS AND TRAVELLERS AND ITS INEXTRICABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIGH QUALITY CRAFTSMANSHIP. I WELCOME RESEARCH STUDENTS WITH INTERESTS IN THESE AREAS AND MORE BROADLY IN THE SPHERE OF EARLY MODERN AND MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND, BRITAIN AND EUROPE. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN GERMAN ACADEMIC ADVISOR, HERITAGE DEPARTMENT, DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL ASSOCIATE, EDITORIAL PANEL, RIVISTA ARTISTI DEI LAGHI, COMO, ASSOCIAZIONE PER LA PROTEZIONE DEL PATRIMONIO ARTISTICO E CULTURALE DELLA VALLE INTELVI, LOMBARDY BOARD MEMBER, CASTLETOWN FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBER, IRISH ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE BOARD MEMBER, IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY COMMITTEE MEMBER, IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY EDITOR, BULLETIN OF THE IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY NETWORK, MEMBER HONORARY MEMBER, ROYAL INSTITUTE OF THE ARCHITECTS OF IRELAND SOCIETY IRISH LANDMARK TRUST, MEMBER LOUTH HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, MEMBER MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY MEMBER, EDITORIAL PANEL, IRISH ARCHITECTURAL AND DECORATIVE STUDIES MEMBER, IRISH ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE, STANDING COMMITTEE ON ARCHITECTURE, HERITAGE COUNCIL NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM & ASSESSMENT MEMBER OF JUNIOR CERTIFICATE REVIEW PANEL ARCHITECTURAL BOOKS DECORATIVE PLASTERWORK IRISH ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY MIGRANT CRAFTSMEN BUILDINGS OF DUBLIN RESEARCH PROJECT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCE RESEARCH ON THE ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY OF DUBLIN CITY FOR VOLUME II IN THE BUILDINGS OF IRELAND SERIES FAS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR LORRAINE CASSIDY cassidylorraine MEDICAL ASSOCIATE CASSIDL SURGERY ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSP. ADELAIDE ROAD DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY DR. BRIAN CAULFIELD caulfieldbrian ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CAULFIB CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CENTRE FOR TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR PEOPLE (TRIP) CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE IRISH TRANSPORT RESEARCH NETWORK IRISH MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF COST ACTION TU0804 'SURVEY HARMONISATION WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES IMPROVEMENT' (SHANTI) MEMBER OF THE CILT POLICY COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT, TOURISM AND SPORT WORKING GROUP ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS MEMBER OF THE EU-SMARTCITIES WORKING GROUP - MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE UNIVERSITIES' TRANSPORT STUDY GROUP (UTSG) MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN PARKING ASSOCIATION CONGRESS - 2013 MEMBER OF THE TRANSPORT STATISTICS LIAISON GROUP (DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT, TOURISM AND SPORT AND THE CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE) MEMBER OF THE TRB COMMITTEE ON BICYCLE TRANSPORTATION, ANF20 MEMBER OF THE TRB COMMITTEE ON EMERGING AND INNOVATIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT AND TECHNOLOGIES (AP020) COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS DISCRETE CHOICE MODELLING DRIVING SIMULATION ENERGY ECOMOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORTATION ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TRANSPORT IMPACTS OF NEW PUBLIC TRANSPORT INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS INTELLIGENT VEHICLES INTERMODAL TRANSPORT NEW MEANS OF TRANSPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ROAD SAFETY SIMULATION AND MODELLING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS STATED PREFERENCE ANALYSIS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT TRANSPORT DEMAND MANAGEMENT TRANSPORT ECONOMICS TRANSPORT ECONOMICS TRANSPORT MODELLING TRANSPORT POLICY PEACOX - PERSUASIVE ADVISOR FOR CO2-REDCING CROSS-MODAL TRIP PLANNING ECOLOGICAL ISSUES IN URBAN TRAFFIC BECOME MORE AND MORE PRESSING AS PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION IS ONE OF THE GREATEST CONTRIBUTORS OF CO2 EMISSIONS. MEANS TO HELP PEOPLE REDUCING THEIR ECOLOGICAL IMPACT ARE NEEDED URGENTLY. TO ANSWER THIS NEED ECOLOGICAL AWARE NAVIGATION PROVIDES URBAN TRAVELLERS WITH PERSONALIZED NAVIGATION TOOLS THAT ALLOW, HELP AND PERSUADE THEM TO TRAVEL AND DRIVE MORE ECO-FRIENDLY. TO CONVINCE USERS IN MAKING MORE SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL CHOICES ECOLOGICAL AWARE NAVIGATION WILL ENRICH NAVIGATION SYSTEMS WITH INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND FEATURES. THE SYSTEM WILL BE DEVELOPED IN TWO ITERATIONS FOLLOWING USER-CENTRED AND AGILE DESIGN APPROACHES, AND EXTENSIVE FIELD TRIALS IN VIENNA AND DUBLIN WILL ENSURE HIGH QUALITY AND IMPACT OF THE DEVELOPED SYSTEM. THE CONSORTIUM UNITES EXPERTISE FROM NAVIGATION SYSTEMS, TRANSPORTATION SCIENCES, ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION TO SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. PROJECT PARTNERS INCLUDE: CURE - CENTER FOR USABILITY RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING, FLUIDTIME DESIGN SOFTWARE SERVICE, TELEMATIX SOFTWARE, A.S., ETH ZURICH SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORT PLANNING AND SYSTEMS, NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, VERKEHRSVERBUND OST-REGION VORG MBH/ ITS, VIENNA REGION AND TOMTOM INTERNATIONAL BV. EU FP7 DRIVING DEVELOPMENT- THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TRANSPORT AND LAND USE IN A SUSTAINABLE CITY IN IRELAND, WE HAVE A DISPERSED PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT WHICH BECAME ESTABLISHED IN FAST GROWTH REGIONS SUCH AS DUBLIN. IN THE PAST, TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE WAS ONLY PUT IN PLACE ONCE DEVELOPMENTS HAD BEEN COMPLETED, LEADING TO HIGH CAR USE AND UNSUSTAINABLE TRAVEL PATTERNS. IN MORE RECENT TIMES, IN LINE WITH INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE, AN EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE TO PUT IN PLACE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IN ADVANCE OF DEVELOPMENT TO BRING ABOUT MORE SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL. THIS IS AN INNOVATIVE POLICY APPROACH FOR IRELAND THAT ALLOWS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT POLICY TO ENCOURAGE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. IN THIS PROJECT, IT IS PROPOSED TO STUDY 2 TRANSPORT CORRIDORS IN THE GREATER DUBLIN AREA, WHERE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN ADVANCE OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS. THE PROJECT WILL USE MOLAND, A DYNAMIC LAND USE MODEL, TO INVESTIGATE THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TRANSPORT, LAND USE AND MODAL CHOICE ALONG THESE CORRIDORS AND WILL USE THIS INFORMATION TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TRANSPORT CORRIDORS, SUCH AS THE METRO NORTH, MIGHT AFFECT LAND USE POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT. TCD-UCD INNOVATION ACADEMY NATIONAL CYCLE NETWORK - ROUTE FEASIBILITY AND DELIVERY STUDY IN 2009, THE FIRST NATIONAL CYCLING POLICY FRAMEWORK WAS ADOPTED. THIS SET CLEAR AND AMBITIOUS TARGETS FOR THE COUNTRY. ONE COMPONENT OF THIS FRAMEWORK IS AN INTERURBAN CYCLE NETWORK THAT WILL BE ATTRACTIVE TO COMMUTERS, TOURISTS AND LEISURE CYCLISTS. THE NRA IS CURRENTLY ENGAGED WITH SEVERAL STATE AGENCIES TO COORDINATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF OBJECTIVE 3 OUTLINED IN THE NATIONAL CYCLE POLICY FRAMEWORK, WHICH IS TO "PROVIDE DESIGNATED RURAL CYCLE NETWORKS ESPECIALLY FOR VISITORS AND RECREATIONAL CYCLING". THE NRA IS CURRENTLY CONCENTRATING ON ONE ELEMENT OF THIS OBJECTIVE, WHICH IS THE ROUTE SELECTION AND FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE CORRIDOR BETWEEN DUBLIN AND GALWAY. THIS CORRIDOR IS SPLIT INTO THREE DISTINCT SECTIONS. THE RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN THIS PROJECT WILL INCLUDE A ROUTE SELECTION ANALYSIS AND THE SECOND SECTION OF THE RESEARCH WILL INVOLVE PRODUCING DESIGN STANDARDS FOR INTERURBAN CYCLE LANES IN IRELAND. NRA ASSESSING THE BARRIERS TO SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN IRELAND THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO ASSESS THE CURRENT BARRIERS TO SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT IN IRELAND ACROSS A RANGE OF DIFFERENT CRITERIA, INCLUDING (I) ECONOMIC AND FISCAL; (II) BEHAVIOURAL AND ATTITUDES; (III) INSTITUTIONAL/REGULATORY AND (IV) DEMAND MANAGEMENT. IN PARTICULAR, IT WILL LOOK AT WAYS IN WHICH THE TRANSPORT NETWORK CAN BE USED MORE EFFICIENTLY IN ORDER TO COMPLEMENT THE PROVISION OF SUPPLY-SIDE INFRASTRUCTURE AND WAYS IN WHICH A MODAL SHIFT TO PUBLIC TRANSPORT, WALKING AND CYCLING AND THE USE OF MORE FUEL-EFFICIENT VEHICLES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY CAN BE INCENTIVISED. THIS PROJECT WILL FOCUS UPON FOUR AREAS, INCLUDING A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TRANSPORT NETWORKS IN IRISH AND EUROPEAN SETTLEMENTS; AN EXAMINATION OF THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE TRAVEL BEHAVIOUR AND BARRIERS TO BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE; TRANSPORT MARKET REGULATION AND DEMAND MANAGEMENT MEASURES TO INCENTIVISE MORE SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL OPTIONS. EPA AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT EXAMINING THE IMPROVED EFFICIENCY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION IN IRELAND LITTLE RESEARCH HAS BEEN CONDUCTED ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF SOME RECENTLY DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES FOR INCREASED GENERATION EFFICIENCY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION. RECENTLY DEVELOPED TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING THE GENERATION EFFICIENCY OF SOLAR AND WIND ENERGY AND ESTIMATE HOW THESE TECHNIQUES COULD IMPACT UPON THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY, WILL BE EXAMINED. AN APPROACH CALLED DATA-ENVELOPMENT-ANALYSIS (DEA) WILL BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE HOW A NUMBER OF MACRO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS COULD BE REALISED AS A RESULT OF INVESTING IN RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES. THE RESULTS OF THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE BASIS FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF IMPROVED EFFICIENCY OF RENEWABLE. TCD MEASURING THE POTENTIAL IMPLICATIONS OF INTRODUCING A CAP AND SHARE SCHEME IN IRELAND TO REDUCE GREEN HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS THIS PROJECT EXAMINES SOME OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF INTRODUCING A CAP AND SHARE SCHEME IN IRELAND. UNDER SUCH A SCHEME A CAP OR LIMIT IS PLACED ON NATIONAL CO2 EMISSIONS AND INDIVIDUALS ARE ALLOCATED AN ANNUAL CO2 ALLOWANCE. THE RESEARCH PRESENTED IN THIS PAPER FOCUSES ON TRAVEL-TO-WORK TRIPS SPECIFICALLY. CO2 EMISSIONS FOR THESE ANNUAL WORK TRIPS ARE CALCULATED AND A CAP IS DETERMINED BASED ON THESE RESULTS. CAP LEVELS ARE SET BASED ON AVERAGE EMISSIONS AND A 20% REDUCTION IN AVERAGE EMISSIONS AS PER IRELAND'S REDUCTION TARGETS. A NATIONAL AND DUBLIN ONLY CAP ARE EXAMINED AND THE RESULTS ARE PRESENTED AS A MEANS OF COMPARISON. BINARY LOGISTIC MODELS ARE USED TO DETERMINE THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO FALL ABOVE AND BELOW THE CAP. THE RESULTS DEMONSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE OF CAR OWNERSHIP, JOURNEY DISTANCE, MODE CHOICE AND HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION IN DETERMINING WHETHER A COMMUTER IS ABOVE OR BELOW THE CAP. SIF GREENING TRANSPORT THE MAIN VISION OF THE GREENING TRANSPORT PROJECT IS TO MERGE THE TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF THE EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORT, AND THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THEIR CALCULATION, WITH THE BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES NEEDED TO REALISE THESE REDUCTIONS IN EMISSIONS. PAST ATTEMPTS TO MEASURE THE "LOW HANGING FRUIT" IN TERMS OF EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS FROM TRANSPORT HAVE FAILED TO FULLY MERGE THESE TWO DISCIPLINES. THE PROJECT TEAM BELIEVE THAT IN ORDER FOR THE EPA TO HAVE A HOLISTIC PICTURE OF THE POTENTIAL EMISSION REDUCTIONS THAT ARE POSSIBLE IN IRELAND BY 2030 (AND BEYOND), IT IS VITAL NOT TO IGNORE THE BEHAVIOURAL CONSTRAINTS IN WHICH TRANSPORT ANALYSIS IS FRAMED. WHILE IT IS POSSIBLE TO PREDICT TARGETS FOR TAKE UP USING ASSUMPTIONS, TO IGNORE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IS TO NOT FULLY GRASP THE PROBLEM AT HAND. WITH THIS IN MIND THE WORK PACKAGES FOR THIS PROJECT HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO TACKLE THE TECHNICAL EMISSIONS AND TRANSPORTATION MODELLING, AS WELL AS THE APPLICATION OF BEHAVIOURAL CONSTRAINTS TO THESE MODELS TO PROVIDE THE EPA WITH DETAILS OF WHAT EMISSION REDUCTIONS ARE POSSIBLE BASED UPON THE CURRENT RESEARCH. EPA RAIN - RISK ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS IN RESPONSE TO EXTREME WEATHER IN RECENT YEARS, A VARIETY OF EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS, INCLUDING DROUGHTS, RAIN INDUCED LANDSLIDES, RIVER FLOODS, WINTER STORMS, WILDFIRE, AND HURRICANES, HAVE THREATENED AND DAMAGED MANY DIFFERENT REGIONS ACROSS EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE. THESE EVENTS CAN HAVE A DEVASTATING IMPACT ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS. THE RAIN VISION IS TO DEVELOP A SYSTEMATIC RISK MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK THAT EXPLICITLY CONSIDERS THE IMPACTS OF EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS ON CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPS A SERIES OF MITIGATION TOOLS TO ENHANCE THE SECURITY OF THE PAN-EUROPEAN INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK. THIS PROJECT WILL QUANTIFY THE COMPLEX INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WEATHER EVENTS AND LAND BASED INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS. THE OUTPUT OF RAIN WILL AID DECISION MAKING IN THE LONG TERM, SECURING NEW ROBUST INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION OF EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE AGAINST CHANGING CLIMATES AND INCREASINGLY MORE UNPREDICTABLE WEATHER PATTERNS. TRANSPORT, ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE WILL ALL BE CONSIDERED AND RISK MITIGATION STRATEGIES WILL BE DEVELOPED. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH DEVELOPING AN OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK THAT CONSIDERS THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL HAZARDS ON SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS AND THE COUPLED INTERDEPENDENCIES OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH ROBUST RISK AND UNCERTAINTY MODELLING. THE FRAMEWORK WILL CONSIDER CASCADING HAZARDS, CASCADING EFFECTS AND TIME DEPENDENT VULNERABILITY WITH THE ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE TO DEVELOP PRACTICAL SOFTWARE TOOLS AND GUIDELINES THAT PROVIDE SUPPORT TO EUROPEAN INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGERS IN THE EVENT OF AN EXTREME WEATHER EVENT OCCURRING AND TO MINIMISE THE IMPACT OF EXTREME EVENTS BY DEVELOPING MITIGATION AND RESPONSE STRATEGIES. RAIN WILL FACILITATE A CROSS-EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM, SUPPORTED BY THE NECESSARY TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES, WHERE RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS CAN SHARE DATA, RESULTS OF MODEL SIMULATIONS, AND OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES IN A SEAMLESS, EFFICIENT, AND EFFECTIVE WAY. TECHNICAL AND LOGISTIC SOLUTIONS WILL BE DEVELOPED TO MINIMISE THE IMPACT OF THESE EXTREME EVENTS, WHICH WILL INCLUDE NOVEL EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS, DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS AND ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO ENSURE RAPID REINSTATEMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK. THESE TOOLS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED WITHIN A NOVEL EUROPE-WIDE OPERATIONAL AND RESPONSE STRATEGY THAT WILL EMERGE FROM THIS RESEARCH. THE ABILITY OF THIS RESPONSE PLAN TO CUT ACROSS BORDERS WILL BE GUARANTEED BY THE PAN - EUROPEAN MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CONSORTIUM. THIS PROJECT IS BEING LED BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. THE PROJECT PARTNERS INCLUDE: EUROPEAN SEVER STORMS LABORATORY, ZILINSKA UNIVERZITA V ZILINE, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT, GAVIN AND DOHERTY GEOSOLUTIONS LTD., DRAGADOS SA, FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN, ROUGHAN & O' DONOVAN LTD., HELLENBERG INTERNATIONAL OY, ISTITUTO DI SOCIOLOGIA INTERNAZIONALE DI GORIZIA I.S.I.G, PSJ, ILMATIETEEN LAITOS, YOURIS.COM, UNION FENOSA DISTRIBUCION SA AND APLICACIONES EN INFORMATICA AVANZADA SL. HTTP://RAIN-PROJECT.EU/ EU FP7 BASE LINING ROAD WORKS SAFETY ON EUROPEAN ROADS (BROWSER) THE CENTRAL CONCEPT FOR THE BROWSER PROJECT IS THAT PROVISION OF ACCURATE, TIMELY AND CONSISTENT ROAD WORKER ACCIDENT DATA WILL ENABLE NATIONAL ROAD AUTHORITIES TO DRIVE DOWN ROAD WORKER RISKS AND MONITOR THE ASSOCIATED IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY ACHIEVED. THESE HYPOTHESES WILL PROVIDE EVIDENCE TO EITHER SUPPORT OR REFUTE THE NEED FOR A EUROPEAN ROAD WORKER CASUALTY (EUROWCAS) DATA SOURCE AND FOR CHANGE TOWARDS A POSITION OF CONSISTENCY FOR ROAD WORKS SIGNING ACROSS THE EU. THIS WILL DELIVER A STRUCTURE FOR DELIVERY OF CONSISTENT INFORMATION (AND A ROAD WORKER DATA COLLECTION TOOLKIT) FOR USE BY NATIONAL ROAD AUTHORITIES THAT CAN BE USED WITHIN THE TRANS-NATIONAL COMMUNITY TO IDENTIFY COMMON AND COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RISKS. THIS WILL ENABLE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF ROAD WORKER RISK ACROSS EUROPE, ALLOWING FOR CO-ORDINATED AND STRUCTURED ACTION TO BE TAKEN BY NATIONAL ROAD AUTHORITIES TO SOLVE COMMON PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH ROAD WORKER RISK. IT WILL ALSO ENSURE THAT ROAD USERS EXPERIENCE A COMMON APPROACH, REDUCING THEIR RISK DURING JOURNEYS WITHIN THE EU. CEDR TRANSNATIONAL ROAD RESEARCH PROGRAMME MEASURING THE ACCEPTANCE OF WIND FARMS IN IRELAND IT IS ENVISIONED THAT WIND ENERGY WILL PLAY A KEY ROLE IN REALISING OUR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT TARGETS OF 40 % RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY BY 2020. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE BETTER UNDERSTAND INDIVIDUALS PERCEPTIONS, CONCERNS AND RESERVATIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF WIND FARMS. LIKE THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANY NEW INFRASTRUCTURE SUCH AS; ROADS, NEW HOUSING/ INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS, OR WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITIES, IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE POSITIVE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PROJECT. THIS PROJECT WILL SEEK TO DETERMINE THE MOST APPROPRIATE METHODOLOGIES TO MEASURE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF WIND ENERGY PROJECTS UPDATING THE PREVIOUS STUDIES UNDERTAKEN IN 2003. IN PREVIOUS STUDIES MAINLY POSITIVE ATTITUDES WERE FOUND TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF WIND FARMS BOTH AMONG THE GENERAL IRISH POPULATION AND PARTICULARLY AMONG THOSE WHO LIVE IN A COMMUNITY WHERE A WIND FARM IS ALREADY SITUATED. THIS GAVE A VERY POSITIVE BACKGROUND AGAINST WHICH FUTURE DEVELOPMENT GREW. NOW HOWEVER IT IS IMPORTANT TO REASSESS THE LEVEL OF CURRENT SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE, FOLLOWING NINE YEARS IN WHICH WIND FARM DEVELOPMENTS IN IRELAND HAVE INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY AND WILL DO SO MORE RAPIDLY IN FUTURE IN ORDER TO FULFILL OUR NATIONAL 2020 TARGETS. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND CURRENT STATUS AND POTENTIAL ROLE OF ECO LABELS IN INFORMING ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY PURCHASES AND BEHAVIOURS ECO LABELS ARE A WIDELY USED METHOD OF COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION TO CONSUMERS IN THE HOPES THAT THEY WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO PICK THE MOST SUSTAINABLE OPTION AVAILABLE. ECO LABELS ARE USED IN A WIDE RANGE OF INDUSTRIES, AND ARE EVEN REQUIRED BY LEGISLATION IN SOME, HOWEVER, LITTLE RESEARCH EXISTS REGARDING THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN TERMS OF PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO USE A NUMBER METHODS TO EXAMINE THE ROLE OF ECO LABELS IN THE IRISH MARKET AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE DESIGNS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS. SPECIFICALLY THIS WILL COMPRISE OF AN ASSESSMENT OF CURRENT ECO LABELS AND AN ECONOMETRIC EXAMINATION OF THE ROLE THAT ECO LABELS CAN PLAY IN PURCHASES. THE MOST NOVEL ASPECT OF THIS RESEARCH WILL UTILIZE EMERGING EYETRACKER TECHNOLOGY TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW ECO LABELS COMPETE WITH OTHER TYPES OF PRODUCT INFORMATION FOR CONSUMERS' ATTENTION. THIS WILL ALSO EXAMINE THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXISTING METHODS OF COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION. EPA EPA RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2014-2020 AN EVALUATION INTO THE SAFETY OF CYCLING IN DUBLIN CITY AND MEASURES TO REDUCE RISK TO CYCLIST THE RESEARCH PROPOSES TO EVALUATE THE SAFETY OF CYCLING IN DUBLIN CITY, AND IS BASED UPON FINDINGS FROM RESEARCH PREVIOUSLY UNDERTAKEN USING RSA HISTORICAL CYCLIST COLLISION DATA FOR YEARS 2006 TO 2012. CYCLIST COLLISIONS HOT SPOT AREAS IN DUBLIN CITY WERE IDENTIFIED USING KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION, A SPATIAL STATISTICAL TOOL AVAILABLE IN ARCGIS 10.3 THAT ENABLED THE SPATIAL PATTERN OF COLLISION POINTS TO BE VISUALISED AS CLUSTERED HOT SPOTS AREAS. THE RESULTANT MAPS REVEALED CYCLIST COLLISIONS OCCURRED MORE FREQUENTLY AT CROSS ROADS AND T JUNCTIONS WHERE THERE WERE DISCONTINUATIONS IN THE ROAD NETWORK REQUIRING CYCLIST TO STOP OR REDUCE SPEED. AREAS WITH A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF COLLISIONS WERE LOCATED IN THE CENTRE OF THE CITY ALONG THE QUAYS OF THE RIVER LIFFEY, TEMPLE BAR AREA AND DAME STREET. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE GRAND CANAL TO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CITY, IN PARTICULAR, RATHMINES BRIDGE, RANELAGH BRIDGE AND ALSO HAROLD'S CROSS BRIDGE. ANOTHER KEY FINDING SHOWED THAT CIRCA 58% OF COLLISIONS OCCURRED ON ROADS WITH ON STREET CYCLE LANES AND THAT CIRCA 80% OF CYCLIST COLLISIONS WERE WITH A SMALL MOTORISED VEHICLE (I.E. CAR, TAXI OR VAN). FOCUS WAS THEREFORE FURTHER PLACED ON COLLISIONS BETWEEN SMALL MOTORISED VEHICLE AND PEDAL CYCLIST IN RELATION TO THE SAFETY OF ROADS WITH ON STREET CYCLE LANES AS PRELIMINARY RESULTS HAD IDENTIFIED THESE TO BE MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS FOR ALL CYCLE COLLISIONS DURING THE STUDY PERIOD. THE OVERALL AIM OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A NEW METHODOLOGY TO REDUCE NUMBERS OF CYCLIST COLLISIONS IN CITIES AND IMPROVE SAFETY FOR CYCLIST BY IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING AREAS WITH A HIGH INCIDENCE OF CYCLIST COLLISIONS FROM WHICH PREVENTATIVE MEASURES AS ADOPTED INTERNATIONALLY WILL BE RECOMMENDED IN ORDER TO REDUCE THE RISK OF COLLISIONS FOR CYCLISTS AND CONSEQUENTLY IMPROVE ROAD SAFETY FOR CYCLIST. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH DUBLIN CITY WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP THIS METHODOLOGY. SECONDARY TO THIS IS TO EXAMINE HOW AND WHY CYCLIST COLLISIONS ARE REPORTED AND EXAMINE ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF REPORTING IN A WAY THAT THEY CAN BE EASILY INTEGRATED INTO A GIS AND USED FOR SUBSEQUENT ANALYSIS. ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY BURSARY AWARDS INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JOHN CAULFIELD caulfieldjohn RESEARCH FELLOW CAULFIJO GEOLOGY SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES MUESEUM BUIDLING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MATTHEW CAUSEY causeymatthew ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CAUSEYM DRAMA BECKETT CENTRE MY RESEARCH EXPLORES THE FRONTIERS OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN DIGITAL CULTURE. THE STRATEGY OF THE RESEARCH IS TO ARTICULATE THE CULTURAL CONDITION OF DIGITAL SOCIETIES, THE SOCIAL IMPACT AND PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS OF TECHNOLOGISED INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS. I INNOVATE ON THE METHODS OF DIGITAL ART PRACTICE WHICH INCLUDES AN EXCHANGE WITH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ART AND I CONSIDER THE MANNERS IN WHICH THAT EXCHANGE FUNDAMENTALLY SHIFTS THE PRACTICES OF EACH FIELD. MY BOOK, 'THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN DIGITAL CULTURE', EDITED COLLECTIONS, BOOK CHAPTERS, JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS AND KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS ALL EXPLORE THAT MATRIX. I DESIGNED THE ARTS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LABORATORY ON THAT MODEL TO EMBRACE THE SYNERGIES OF THE SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS' PERFORMANCE AND TIME-BASED DISCIPLINES TO ENCOURAGE THE RE-IMAGINING OF THE ARTS IN PLAY WITH COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS. MY RESEARCH IS DEEPLY ENGAGED WITH THE SOCIAL ISSUES SURROUNDING DIGITAL CULTURE AND IN SOME CASES, EXAMINES THE LEGAL ISSUES SURROUNDING BEING IN THE SPACE OF TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS THE 'RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN' IN GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINES AND THE TROUBLING IMPOSSIBILITY OF BEING FORGOTTEN IN A DIGITAL SYSTEM. I QUESTION HOW VICTIMS OF TRAUMA WHOSE ABUSE HAS BEEN ELECTRONICALLY CIRCULATED CAN NEVER BE FORGOTTEN CREATING A CEASELESS CIRCULATION OF VICTIMISATION. I ATTEMPT TO TRANSFER THAT MODEL OF TRAUMATIC INTERNET IDENTITY TO A GROUNDING THEORY OF DIGITAL CULTURE AND REFLECT ON THE MANNERS IN WHICH PERFORMANCE PRACTICES ARE INFLUENCED. THE NUMBER OF CITATIONS OF MY WRITINGS, VARIOUS KEYNOTE INVITATIONS AND REQUESTS FOR PUBLICATION INDICATES THE INFLUENCE MY RESEARCH IS EXPERIENCING. ADDITIONALLY, I PURSUE PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH AS AN INTER-MEDIAL ARTIST AND DIGITAL FILMMAKER. I HAVE PURSUED MY PRACTICE-BASED TRAINING AND RESEARCH FOR MANY YEARS AS A PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PRODUCER, DIRECTOR AND WRITER IN NYC DURING 1970S AND 80S, AND AS FILM AND VIDEO MAKER IN LOS ANGELES IN THE 1980S AND 1990S. MY RECENT WORK INCLUDES TWO SHORT FILMS BASED ON SEVERAL OF SAMUEL BECKETT TELEVISION PLAYS, A COLLABORATIVE STAGE ADAPTATION OF BECKETT'S 'ILL SEEN ILL SAID' AND THE RELEASE OF TWO ALBUMS OF ORIGINAL MUSIC. SCHOOL OF DRAMA SAMUEL BECKETT CNTR COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THEATRE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF THEATRE IN HIGHER EDUCATION EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF CONTEMPORARY THEATRE REVIEW. EDITORS, DAVID BRADBY AND MARIA DELGADO. ROUTLEDGE. PREVIOUS. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF CROSSINGS: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY. EDITOR, MADS HAAHR. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. CURRENT. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PERFORMANCE ARTS AND DIGITAL MEDIA. EDITOR, MARIA CHATZICHRISTOPOULOU. CURRENT. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL. EDITORS, CHRISTOPHER BALME, BRIAN SINGLETON. PREVIOUS. INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THEATRE RESEARCH (IFTR/FIRT) IRISH SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (TAPRA) CINEMA/VIDEO CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY CRITICAL THEORY, 20TH CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION MEDIA ARTS THEATER-MAKING THEATRE/FILM CRITICISM ATRL - ARTS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LABORATORY THE ARTS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH LABORATORY (ATRL) IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY, POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE SCHOOL OF DRAMA, FILM AND MUSIC AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN DESIGNED TO EXPLORE THE EMERGENT FIELDS OF CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES. ATRL SENIOR SCHOLARS AND POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERS WILL INNOVATE UNIQUE PRACTICAL METHODS WHILE PURSUING CRITICAL, HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL RESEARCH IN ORDER TO ENGAGE FUTURE ART FORMS OF DIGITAL CULTURE THAT ARE NETWORKED, INTERACTIVE, MULTIMEDIA, HYBRID, VIRTUAL, IMMERSIVE AND UBIQUITOUS. ATRL DRAWS ON THE SYNERGIES OF THE SCHOOL OF DRAMA, FILM AND MUSIC'S PERFORMANCE AND TIME-BASED DISCIPLINES TO RE-IMAGINE FILM AND VIDEO, MUSIC AND SOUND PRODUCTION, AND THEATRE, DANCE, LIVE ART AND INSTALLATION IN A DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SCHOOLS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, ATRL BRINGS THE SCIENTIST, ENGINEER, ARTIST AND SCHOLAR INTO DIALOGUE TO OFFER THE WIDEST RANGE OF EXPERIMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES AND ACADEMIC RIGOUR IN THE PRACTICE AND STUDY OF DIGITAL CULTURE AND THE ARTS. HEA CAPITAL GRANT PHD IN DIGITAL ART AND HUMANITIES THE STRUCTURED PH.D. IN DIGITAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES (DAH) WILL CREATE THE RESEARCH PLATFORM, THE STRUCTURES, PARTNERSHIPS AND INNOVATION MODELS BY WHICH FOURTH-LEVEL RESEARCHERS CAN ENGAGE WITH A WIDE RANGE OF STAKEHOLDERS IN ORDER TO CONTRIBUTE TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND AND PROVIDE NEW PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRADUATES. DAH WILL FIRMLY ESTABLISH A NEW RESEARCH AGENDA BY TRAINING THE FIRST COHORT OF PHDS IN IRELAND IN THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES, METHODOLOGIES, AND THEORIES FOR DIGITALLY-MEDIATED ARTS AND HUMANITIES, AND BY ASKING NEW AND BOLD RESEARCH QUESTIONS WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN INCONCEIVABLE BEFORE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND PARADIGMS. THE STRUCTURED PHD IN DAH IS A FOUR-YEAR PROGRAMME THAT WILL PROVIDE WORLD-CLASS TRAINING IN INNOVATIVE MODELS OF ARTS PRACTICE AND THEORY, AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH, ARCHIVING, AND PEDAGOGY. THE PROGRAMME WILL PROMOTE ADVANCED PRACTICAL AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN THE APPLICATION OF NEW MEDIA AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES. DAH WILL BE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AND INTER-INSTITUTIONAL AND WILL PROVIDE COHERENT EXPOSURE TO TRANSFERABLE SKILLS IN DIGITAL CONTENT CREATION THAT WILL BE ENABLING, ACADEMICALLY RIGOROUS AND COMMERCIALLY VIABLE. HEA - PRTLI CYCLE 5 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MS. ELEONORA CENTO centoeleonora EXECUTIVE OFFICER CENTOE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH GERMAN IRISH HISTORY, ESPECIALLY MICHAEL COLLINS. DR. THOMAS CHADEFAUX chadefauxthomas ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CHADEFAT POLITICAL SCIENCE MY CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE CAUSES OF INTERSTATE CONFLICT AND ON THEIR PREDICTION. IN PARTICULAR, I RELY ON LARGE AMOUNTS OF FINE-GRAINED SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DATA (E.G., NEWSPAPERS, SATELLITE IMAGES, FINANCIAL MARKETS) TO REVEAL EARLY WARNING SIGNALS FOR WAR. I ALSO STUDY THE GEOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF CIVIL WARS. IN ADDITION, MY INTERESTS EXTEND BEYOND POLITICAL SCIENCE TO SOCIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION . EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, DATA SCIENCE BARGAINING BARGAINING POWER BARGAINING THEORY CIVIL WAR CONFLICT ECONOMETRICS/FORECASTING FORECASTING GAME THEORY INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT INTERSTATE WAR POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR ANNA CHAHOUD chahoudanna CHAIR OF LATIN (1870) CHAHOUDA CLASSICS MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON TWO MAIN AREAS - EARLY LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AND THE TRANSMISSION OF LATIN TEXTS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. I AM ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN LITERARY AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE IN THE PROCESS OF FORMATION OF GENRE-SPECIFIC POETIC DICTION IN ROMAN REPUBLICAN LITERATURE. MY PRIMARY INTEREST IS IN EARLY ROMAN SATIRE; MY COMMENTARY ON THE FRAGMENTS OF LUCILIUS (IN PROGRESS) INVESTIGATES THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HEXAMETRICAL POETRY AND THE COMIC REGISTER ON THE ONE HAND AND STYLIZED PROSE ON THE OTHER. I AM ALSO WORKING ON AN EDITION OF FRAGMENTS OF REPUBLICAN LATIN SATIRE, POLITICAL INVECTIVE AND POPULAR VERSE FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, WHICH EXPLORES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LITERARY GENRE AND COLLOQUIAL, SUB-LITERARY AND NON-LITERARY LATIN. MY CONCERN WITH THE SURVIVAL OF FRAGMENTARY TEXTS THROUGH THE GRAMMATICAL AND SCHOLARLY TRADITION OF CLASSICAL AND LATE ANTIQUITY HAS LED TO A WIDER STUDY OF ANCIENT LATIN LINGUISTICS IN ITS OWN RIGHT. DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW, CONSULTING EDITOR CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CLASSICS ADVISORY BOARD, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN COMMENTARIUS RINUCCINIANUS EDITORIAL BOARD EVALUATOR HH STEWART SCHOLARSHIP, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND EVALUATOR, IRELAND UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS EXTERNAL ASSESSOR, QUALITY REVIEW, CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK EXTERNAL EXAMINER, MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES RESEARCH THEME, TLRH, TRINITY COLLEGE MC MEMBER [IS1407 IE] TO COST ACTION IS1407 ANCIENT EUROPEAN LANGUAGES AND WRITING (AELAW) RÉSEAU POESIE AUGUSTÉENNE, ASSOCIATE MEMBER SCIENTIFIC EVALUATOR, ANVUR ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES VQR 2004-2010 SCIENTIFIC EVALUATOR, EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION TCD REPRESENTATIVE, CENTRAL COUNCIL OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND EARLY LATIN LITERATURE LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, CLASSICAL LATIN LATIN GRAMMATICAL TRADITION LATIN POETRY LINGUISTICS TRANSMISSION OF LATIN TEXTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE LATIN TEXTS IN IRELAND I HAVE INITIATED A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH EUROPEAN PARTNERS ON THE STUDY AND POSSIBLE DIGITIZATION OF SELECT MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE LATIN MANUSCRIPTS IN TRINITY COLLEGE, FOR WHICH I OBTAINED A SMALL BUT VERY VALUABLE GRANT FROM THE LRH; THE PROJECT IS INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON TCD RESOURCES AND AS A FIRST STEP TOWARDS ESTABLISHING A TRINITY-BASED CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LATIN TRANSMISSION AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE MPHIL IN CLASSICS PROGRAMME. LONG ROOM HUB (PRTLI4) LONG ROOM HUB NEW INITIATIVE LATIN IDENTITIES: POST-REFORMATION SOURCES IN EUROPE THE WORKSHOP WAS INTENDED AS A SCOPING EXERCISE, WITH A VIEW TO SETTING UP A EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR THE STUDY OF GRECO-ROMAN INFLUENCES IN EARLY MODERN LATIN TEXTS OF THE COUNTER-REFORMATION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON NON-CANONICAL GENRES (E.G. PRAISE POETRY, SATIRE) AND MINORITY AREAS OF RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL CULTURE (E.G. SCOTTISH PURITAN LATIN). SUCH TEXTS (A) PROVIDE A CORRECTIVE TO THE PICTURE OF THE ROLE OF CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN THE FORMATION OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE, (B) SUPPLY A PRIMARY-SOURCE CONTEXT FOR CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS DEBATES IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE; AND (C) AFFORD OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH ON LARGELY UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL. EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP AUGUSTUS BIMILLENNIUM AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN SERIES OF GROUPED UNDER THE TITLE 'THE AUGUSTAN SPACE' AIM TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF THE CULTURAL PROGRAMME OF THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS (D. AD 14) ON THE FORMATION OF EUROPEAN IDENTITIES. QUESTIONS ADDRESSED INCLUDE TRADITION AND TRANSFORMATION; NATIONALISM AND INCLUSIVENESS; MONUMENTALISATION OF HISTORY AND DESTABILISING POWER OF LITERATURE. EVENTS INCLUDE AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE; POETRY AND MUSIC RECITAL; EXHIBITION OF ARTWORK BASED ON DIGITISED ITEMS FROM COLLEGE COLLECTIONS (MANUSCRIPT, MAPS AND COINS). LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME 2013-14 LUCILIUS, SATIRES CRITICAL EDITION WITH COMMENTARY OF THE FRAGMENTS OF THE 2ND CENTURY BC SATIRIST C. LUCILIUS (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR RAJ S CHARI charirajs PROFESSOR CHARIR POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC POLICY-MAKING; SOCIAL POLICY-MAKING; DEREGULATION; PRIVATISATION; PARTY POLITICS IN SPAIN AND ITALY. POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH CANADIAN POLITICS COMPARITIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING EU POLITICS GLOBALISATION GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS POLITICAL PARTIES PRIVATISATION AND DEREGULATION IN WESTERN EUROPE PUBLIC POLICY SPANISH POLITICS INTERNATIONAL REGULATION OF NEWLY PRIVATISED FIRMS THIS PROJECT ANALYZED THE PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES IN SPAIN, IRELAND, AND FRANCE. RESULTS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS SOURCES INCLUDING LEADING JOURNAL SUCH AS WEST EUROPEAN POLITICS. IIIS PUBLIC POLICIES AND MULTI-LEVEL REGULATORY STRUCTURES IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY COMPRISED OF RESEARCHERS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS, THIS TEAM SEEKS TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF BOTH PRIVATE PARTIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE NETWORKS IN THE FORMULATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DIFFERENT REGULATORY INITIATIVES. WHILE RESEARCH WILL CONTINUE ON POLICIES STUDIED OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS IN THE IIIS - NAMELY AGRICULTURE, TRADE AND MERGER POLICY - OUR RESEARCH BETWEEN 2006-7 EXTENDS THIS ANALYSIS TO OTHER ISSUE AREAS. THIS INCLUDES ANALYSIS OF THE REGULATION OF FINANCIAL MARKETS, REGULATION OF ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES IN FOREIGN POLICY, AND REGULATION OF INTEREST GROUP LOBBYING ACTIVITY BY FOCUSING ON DEVELOPMENTS AT THE INTERNATIONAL, SUPRANATIONAL, AND DOMESTIC LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE. THE RESEARCH THEME WILL UNDERTAKE INNOVATIVE RESEARCH REGARDING INTEREST REPRESENTATION OF PRIVATE PARTIES WITHIN REGULATORY STRUCTURES, WHERE RULES ARE FORMULATED AND IMPLEMENTED WITH CLOSE COOPERATION OF ADMINISTRATIONS ON THE DIFFERENT REGULATORY LEVELS. IT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE LITERATURE ON POLICY COHERENCE BETWEEN REGULATORY DECISIONS IN DIFFERENT POLICY DOMAINS, AND IT WILL ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THE LITERATURE ON MODELLING THE IMPACT OF REGULATORY DECISIONS AT THE SUPRANATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS. THE POLICIES STUDIED ARE CHOSEN FOR TWO MAIN REASONS. FIRST, THEY REPRESENT REGULATION OF ACTIVITIES OF PRIVATE, ECONOMICALLY BASED ACTORS (REGULATION OF LOBBYING ACTIVITY, FINANCIAL REGULATION, MERGERS AND AGRICULTURE) AND GOVERNMENT (FINANCIAL REGULATION, REGULATION OF ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES, AGRICULTURE AND TRADE). THIS ALLOWS US TO BETTER COMPARE AND CONTRAST DEVELOPMENTS IN ISSUE AREAS CONTAINING A MIX BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ACTORS. SECONDLY, THE ISSUE AREAS REPRESENT POLICIES WHEREIN REGULATION ACROSS DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE OCCURS. FOR EXAMPLE, FINANCIAL REGULATION OCCURS AT ALL THREE LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE; REGULATION OF INTEREST GROUP ACTIVITY PRIMARILY OCCURS ACROSS THE SUPRANATIONAL AND DOMESTIC LEVEL; AGRICULTURE AND TRADE REGULATION (WITHIN THE EU) IS CONDUCTED AT THE SUPRANATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS; WHILE REGULATION OF ANTI-TERRORIST MEASURES, IF EXISTENT, TENDS TO OCCUR WITHIN THE NATIONAL LEVEL. AS A RESULT, HAVING DIFFERENT REGULATORY INITIATIVES EXTENDING ACROSS DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GOVERNANCE WILL ALLOW US TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE DYNAMICS INVOLVED IN INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION, IN GENERAL, AND INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL REGULATION IN PARTICULAR. HEA (THROUGH THE IIIS) REGULATING LOBBYING ACTIVITY IN THE EU, USA, CANADA AND GERMANY THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH, AS OUTLINED IN THE TENDER DOCUMENTATION, IS TO ESTABLISH A CLEAR PROFILE OF FORMAL SYSTEMS FOR REGULATING LOBBYISTS IN PUBLIC LIFE IN PLACE IN GERMANY, USA, CANADA AND IN EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS, THEREBY FACILITATING AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR RELEVANCE TO IRISH PUBLIC LIFE. THUS THE CRUCIAL QUESTION THAT NEEDS TO BE ANSWERED IS TO WHAT EXTENT ANALYSING THE REGULATION OF FORMAL SYSTEMS CAN HELP THE IRISH BODY POLITIC DECIDE WHETHER IT WANTS TO PUT IN PLACE A SIMILAR SYSTEM TO ONE THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS, A COMPLETELY NEW SYSTEM, OR NO SYSTEM AT ALL. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY PROVIDING COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS. 1 WHAT ARE THE REGULATIONS IN PLACE IN THE SPECIFIC STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION INSTITUTIONS? 2 HOW EFFECTIVE HAVE THESE REGULATIONS BEEN? 3 WHAT LESSONS CAN WE TAKE TO THE IRISH CASE? DEPT. OF THE ENVIRONMENT (GOVT OF IRELAND) LIFE AFTER PRIVATIZATION EXAMINING AND EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED TO FIRMS IN THE UK, FRANCE, SPAIN, GERMANY AND ITALY AFTER THEIR PRIVATIZATION. IRCHSS NEW IDEAS GRANTS INTERNATIONAL TRENDS IN REGULATING LOBBYING THUS PROJECT EXAMINES HOW DIFFERENT POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA, ASIA AND AUSTRALIA HAVE PURSUED LOBBYING RULES. IRCHSS STRAND 1 RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. PETER GEORGE CHERRY cherrypetergeorge ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PCHERRY HISTORY OF ART HISTORY OF ART DEPT 5082 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. DAVID CHEW chewdavid ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHEWD GEOLOGY APPLYING GEOCHRONOLOGY AND THERMOCHRONOLOGY TO A VARIETY OF GEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS. THESE INCLUDE THE TIMING OF OROGENESIS IN ANCIENT OROGENIC BELTS (THE CALEDONIDES AND ANDES), ISOTOPIC DATING OF SEDIMENTATION (PARTICULARLY NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIAL SEQUENCES) AND EXHUMATION STUDIES USING LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH EXTERNAL PH.D. EXAMINER, UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA. FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON GRANT REVIEWER FOR THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF), GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (DFG), THE ITALIAN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR ANTARCTIC RESEARCH AND THE SYNTHESES PANEL (EUROPEAN UNION-FUNDED INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES GRANT). JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, CHEMICAL GEOLOGY, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA SPECIAL PAPERS, GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN, GEOLOGY, GONDWANA RESEARCH, THE IRISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, JOURNAL OF METAMORPHIC GEOLOGY, JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY, PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH, SEDIMENTOLOGY, THE SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY, SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES AND TERRA NOVA. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEMBER OF THE GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE GEOSCIENCES COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER OF THE IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE IRISH QUATERNARY ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND PANEL MEMBER OF THE IRISH GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE PROGRAMME GEOCHEMISTRY GEOCHRONOLOGY LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY CONSTRAINING GLOBAL CARBONIFEROUS CLIMATIC FLUCTUATIONS USING HIGH RESOLUTION GEOCHRONOLOGY THIS PROJECT INVOLVES CONSTRAINING GLOBAL CARBONIFEROUS CLIMATIC EVENTS BY HIGH-RESOLUTION U-PB ID-TIMS ZIRCON DATING AND OF 40AR-39AR DATING OF SANIDINE IN CARBONIFEROUS VOLCANIC TUFFS. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DATE THE ONSET OF GONDWANAN GLACIATION BY DATING THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MISSISSIPPIAN CYCLIC DEPOSITS IN THE EQUATORIAL SEDIMENTARY RECORD OF LAURUSSIA, AND TO CONSTRAINING THE DURATION OF GONDWANAN GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES TO DETERMINE THE PERIODICITY OF THE MILANKOVITCH ORBITAL MODULATIONS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME DEVELOPING A MULTI-RADIOISOTOPE APPROACH TO DATING SEDIMENTATION THSI PROJECT INVOLVES DATING OF DISCRETE HORIZONS WITH A HIGH BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC RESOLUTION BY NEW ISOTOPIC METHODS (U-PB DATING OF DIAGENETIC XENOTIME, LU-HF DATING OF APATITE AND RE-OS DATING OF SHALES). THIS STUDY APPLIES THESE METHODS FOR DATING SEDIMENTS TO A FOSSIL-BEARING BASIN WHERE THE AGE IS PRECISELY KNOWN (THE NAMURIAN CLARE BASIN IN WESTERN IRELAND AND PENNINE BASIN IN ENGLAND). THE ISOTOPIC AGES OBTAINED WILL BE COMPARED WITH BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC AGES TO DETERMINE THE SUITABILITY OF EACH METHOD TO DATING OLDER, FOSSIL-FREE SEDIMENTARY UNITS (E.G. NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIAL DEPOSITS). SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR MICHAEL JOSEPH CLARKE clarkemichaeljoseph ADJUNCT PROFESSOR CLARKEM2 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY BREAST CANCER RANDOMISED TRIALS SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION AND BROKERAGE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 BREAST CANCER CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH INFORMATICS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH MIDWIFERY POPULATION BASED INTERVENTION TRIALS PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH ISSUES SPECIFICE TO ANY HEALTH PROFESSION THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY THERAPEUTIC RADIOGRAPHY NATIONAL INFANT FEEDING SURVEY (PHASES 1 TO 3) WITH CECILY BEGLEY (PI), LOUISE GALLAGHER, MARGARET CARROLL, SALLY MILLAR HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE (HSE) ADCAR TRIAL RANDOMISED TRIAL OF FETAL CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY VERSUS INTERMITTENT AUSCULTATION DURING LABOUR WARD ADMISSION HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD UK COCHRANE CENTRE [PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR] NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH (£7,000,000) TENALEA INITIAL DEPLOYMENT OF TENALEA IN UK AND IRELAND, TO UK COCHRANE CENTRE. [CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR] EUROPEAN COMMISSION (€400,000) COCHRANE METHODOLOGY REGISTER [PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR] NHS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (£30,000 PER YEAR) COCHRANE METHODOLOGY REGISTER TO UK COCHRANE CENTRE. [PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR] THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION (£20,000) DISINVESTMENT PROJECT TO UK COCHRANE CENTRE. [PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR] NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CLINICAL EXCELLENCE (£6000 PER YEAR) MIDU RANDOMISED TRIAL RANDOMISED TRIAL COMPARING MIDWIFERY-LED VERSUS CONSULTANT LED CARE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN NORTH-EASTERN HEALTH BOARD AND ITS SUCCESSORS LEUKAEMIA TRIALS AND OVERVIEWS PROGRAMME TO CTSU. [CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR] MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (£1,500,000) UK COCHRANE CENTRE [PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR] HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (£50,000 PER YEAR) CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR SIOBHAN CLARKE clarkesiobhan PROFESSOR SCLARKE COMPUTER SCIENCE MY RESEARCH FOCUS IS ON DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR MOBILE, CONTEXT-AWARE SYSTEMS. THE COMPLEXITIES ASSOCIATED WITH DEVELOPING SUCH SYSTEMS REQUIRE ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES. THE RESEARCH FOLLOWS ON FROM MY PREVIOUS WORK ON ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BY ATTEMPTING TO APPLY THOSE PRINCIPLES TO DESIGN AND PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR UBIQUITOUS APPLICATIONS. I AM INVOLVED IN A NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT INVESTIGATE ISSUES PARTICULAR TO ENGINEERING SOFTWARE FOR UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, AND ARE WORKING TOWARDS PROVIDING DESIGN MODELS AND PROGRAMMING FRAMEWORKS TO BETTER SUPPORT THE APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER IN BUILDING SYSTEMS IN THIS DOMAIN. COMPUTER SCIENCE DSG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF TRANSACTIONS ON ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EDITORIAL BOARD, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SERVICES COMPUTING MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) COMPUTER SOCIETY PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 5TH IEEE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES (ECOWS) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, SYSTEMS, LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS (OOPSLA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODEL DRIVEN ENGINEERING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS (MODELS) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODEL DRIVEN ENGINEERING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS (MODELS)2007, 2006 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE (AMI-07) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: IBM CAS SOFTWARE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM COMMITTEE: IEEE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON WEB SERVICES PROGRAM COMMITTEE: IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EMBEDDED COMPUTING (SEC 2008) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING (EUC'2006) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (AOSD) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE WIRELESS MIDDLEWARE, OPERATING SYSTEMS, AND APPLICATIONS, (MOBILWARE) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SERVICE ORIENTED COMPUTING (ICSOC) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TOOLS EUROPE - OBJECTS, MODELS, COMPONENTS, PATTERNS AUTOMOTIVE SOFTWARE COMPUTER APPLICATIONS COMPUTER DESIGN MODELS COMPUTER ENGINEERING COMPUTER MODELING COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMPUTER SOFTWARE CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM(S) (GIS) MOBILE APPLICATIONS MOBILE COMPUTING PERVASIVE COMPUTING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING LERO: THE IRISH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE LERO IS AN SFI CSET (CENTRE FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY). THE CENTRE IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN A NUMBER OF IRISH UNIVERSITIES AND COMPANIES AND IS CHARGED WITH "ADVANCING THE STATE OF THE ART IN STRATEGIC SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION DOMAINS". THE FIRST APPLICATION DOMAIN UNDER INVESTIGATION IS THE AUTOMOTIVE DOMAIN. HERE AT TRINITY COLLEGE, WE ARE FOCUSED ON INVESTIGATING THE ISSUES RELATING TO CHARACTERISING AND COMBINING COMPONENTS AND SERVICES IN AUTOMOTIVE SOFTWARE, WHILE CATERING FOR DYNAMIC ADAPTATION AND SELF-MANAGEMENT OF SUCH SOFTWARE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI CSET UILE: DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING FOR UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING UILE IS INVESTIGATING EXTENDING EXISTING PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS TO APPLY DOMAIN-SPECIFIC ASPECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES THAT WILL BETTER SUPPORT THE PROGRAMMER IN INTUITIVELY REASONING ABOUT UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING SYSTEMS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI RFP HERMES: A SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR MOBILE, CONTEXT-AWARE APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT HERMES IS INVESTIGATING THE VIABILITY OF PROVIDING A SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR APPLICATIONS DEVELOPERS THAT IS USEFUL IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MOBILE, CONTEXT-AWARE APPLICATIONS. AS AN INITIAL FOCUS, WE ARE WORKING WITH A "TRAILS" METAPHOR, THAT CAPTURES THE KINDS OF APPLICATIONS THAT SUPPORT A MOBILE USER'S SET OF DAILY ACTIVITIES THAT ARE LIKELY TO BE AT DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. THE FRAMEWORK HAS A DYNAMIC RECONFIGURATION ELEMENT THAT IS CONTEXT-AWARE. APPLICATIONS CONFORMING TO THE TRAILS METAPHOR EXHIBIT MOBILITY AND CONTEXT-AWARENESS CHALLENGES THAT ARE COMMON TO GENERAL MOBILE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS. INTEL CORPORATION INTEL US AOSD-EUROPE AOSD-EUROPE IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN A NUMBER OF EU UNIVERSITIES AND COMPANIES AND IS CHARGED WITH INTEGRATING RESEARCH INTO ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE. HERE AT TRINITY COLLEGE, WE HAVE TWO MAIN INTERESTS IN THIS NETWORK. FIRST, WE ARE INVESTIGATING ISSUES RELATING TO INTEGRATING EXISTING ASPECT-ORIENTED DESIGN APPROACHES. SECOND, WE ARE INVESTIGATING THE NATURE OF CROSSCUTTING CONCERNS AND THEIR INTERACTIONS IN MIDDLEWARE: IN PARTICULAR, WE ARE LOOKING MOBILITY AND CONTEXT-AWARENESS. EUROPEAN UNION FP6 NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE LERO, THE IRISH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE CSET 2 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI CSET CARMEN: CONTEXT-AWARE MULTIMEDIA SUPPORT IN AD HOC NETWORKS HEA/MLE HEA/MLE HEA/MLE SURF: SERVICE-CENTRIC NETWORKING FOR URBAN-SCALE FEEDBACK SYSTEMS CURRENT LEAD PROPOSER, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR €1.5M 100% OF TCD ALLOCATION - €890K SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI PI PROGRAMME SLICE-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING FOR TIMELY DYNAMIC SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPOSITION PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI RFP TRANSFORM: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND PATIENT SAFETY IN EUROPE TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING €6,960,000 EUROPEAN UNION FP7 ALIVE: INVESTIGATING COORDINATION, ORGANISATION AND MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACHES FOR DYNAMIC, FLEXIBLE, ROBUST SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ENGINEERING TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING €2,800,000 EUROPEAN UNION FP7 STATE OF THE ART IN APPLICATIONS AND PROGRAMMING MODELS FOR MOBILE SYSTEMS INTEL CORPORATION INTEL US DIVERSIFY: ECOLOGY-INSPIRED SOFTWARE DIVERSITY FOR DISTRIBUTED ADAPTATION IN COLLABORATIVE ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS. (TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING €2,300,000). - EUROPEAN UNION FP7 THE LERO GRADUATE SCHOOL IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (LGSSE) PROJECT STATUS EXPIRED PROPOSER'S ROLE COLLABORATOR GRANT NO./WEBSITE WWW.LERO.IE/LGSSE TOTAL VALUE €2M TCD COLLABORATORS PROF. VINNY CAHILL (PI), DR. ANDREW BUTTERFIELD TCD PORTION ALLOCATED TO PROPOSER €175K HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI CYCLE 4 ENABLE: CONNECTING COMMUNITIES TO SMART URBAN ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH THE INTERNET OF THINGS PROJECT STATUS AWARDED PROPOSER'S ROLE LEAD PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR TOTAL VALUE SFI: €7,762,450; INDUSTRY CASH: €3,494,767 TOTAL CASH: €11,257,217 PLUS COMPANY IN-KIND: €12,534,733 ALLOCATED TO PI €11,257,217 SFI 16/SP/3804 LERO. THE IRISH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE PROPOSER'S ROLE CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR CENTRE PI: M. HINCHEY, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK FUNDING SOURCE SFI CSET GRANT NO./WEBSITE 10/CE/I1855/ WWW.LERO.IE DURATION 5 YEARS (2011-2016) TOTAL VALUE €16.4M ALLOCATED TO PI 460K SFI CSET INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET CITIES PROFESSOR AIDAN CLARKE clarkeaidan FELLOW EMERITUS ACLARKE HISTORY . EARLY MODERN IRELAND, ESPECIALLY COLONIAL COMMUNITIES. . ANGLO-IRISH CONNECTIONS. . CURRENT RESEARCH: THE FALL OF THE COMMONWEALTH IN IRELAND, 1659-60. HISTORY COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MARY D CLARKE clarkemaryd LECTURER IN CONSCIOUS SEDATION MCLARKE4 DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY DENTAL SEDATION TEACHERS GROUP DENTAL AND ORAL RADIOLOGY DENTAL EDUCATION FORENSIC DENTISTRY MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY MYCOLOGY AND FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY ORAL DISEASES AND ORAL MEDICINE ORAL MICROBIOLOGY ORAL PATHOLOGY CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR BLANAID CLARKE clarkeblanaid MCCANN FITZGERALD CHAIR IN CORPORATE LAW CLARKEBL LAW BLANAID'S RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE COMPANY LAW, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, FINANCIAL SERVICES LAW, SECURITIES LAW AND TAKEOVER LAW. SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 BANKING LAW BUSINESS/CORPORATE LAW CAPITAL MARKETS LAW COMPANY LAW CONTRACTS CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION TAKEOVER REGULATION ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOSEPH MICHAEL CLARKE clarkejosephmichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CLARKEJ1 HISTORY MODERN EUROPEAN POLITICAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH POLITICAL AND RELGIOUS HISTORY, MEMORY STUDIES AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF COMMEMORATION IN MODERN EUROPE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES COMMITTEE MEMBER, SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH HISTORY MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, FRENCH HISTORY, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF FRENCH HISTORY REVOLUTION AND REMEMBRANCE: THE COMMEMORATION OF THE DEAD IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE, 1789 - 1799 THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF COMMEMORATION IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. IT EXAMINES WHAT REMEMBRANCE MEANT TO THE PEOPLE WHO STAGED AND ATTENDED CEREMONIES, RAISED MONUMENTS, LISTENED TO SPEECHES AND PURCHASED SOUVENIRS IN MEMORY OF THE REVOLUTION'S DEAD. IT EXPLORES THE POLITICAL PURPOSES THESE COMMEMORATIONS SERVED AND THE CONFLICTS THEY GAVE RISE TO WHILE ALSO EXAMINING THE CULTURAL TRADITIONS THEY DREW UPON. ABOVE ALL, IT ASKS WHAT PRIVATE ENDS DID THE REVOLUTION'S RITES OF MEMORY SERVE? WHAT CONSOLATION DID COMMEMORATION BRING TO THOSE THE DEAD LEFT BEHIND, AND WHAT CONFLICTS DID THIS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE DIMENSIONS OF REMEMBRANCE GIVE RISE TO? A MONOGRAPH, COMMEMORATING THE DEAD IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE: REVOLUTION AND REMEMBRANCE, 1789-1799, ARISING FROM THIS RESEARCH HAS RECENTLY BEEN PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WHILE AN ARTICLE DEALING WITH THE COMMEMORATION OF THE REVOLUTION'S WAR-DEAD WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL FRENCH HISTORY IN 2008. BRITISH ACADEMY EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP, EUI DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP REVOLUTION, REVIVAL AND REACTION: THE CULTURE AND POLITICS OF RELIGION IN FRANCE FROM REPUBLIC TO RESTORATION FOLLOWING THE SUPPRESSION OF NORMAL RELIGIOUS WORSHIP DURING THE TERROR, FRANCE UNDERWENT AN UNPRECEDENTED REVIVAL OF POPULAR RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY FROM 1795 ONWARDS. SOME OF THIS WAS GRUDGINGLY TOLERATED BY THE AUTHORITIES, MORE WAS NOT; MUCH OF IT WAS INITIATED BY A LAITY ANXIOUS TO REASSERT ITS CUSTOMARY CULTURE AFTER THE TERROR AND MORE OF IT PROVOKED A SHARED SENSE OF UNEASE WITHIN OTHERWISE ANTAGONISTIC POLITICAL AND CLERICAL ELITES. IN MANY SENSES, RESOLVING THE PROBLEMS THIS REVIVAL POSED PROVED TO BE THE PRINCIPAL POLITICAL PROBLEM CONFRONTING THESE ELITES THROUGHOUT THE LATE 1790S AND EARLY 1800S. IN MANY SENSES, RECONCILING REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND POPULAR RELIGIOUS CULTURE REMAINED THE PRINCIPAL POLIITCAL PROBLEM FACING FRANCE FOR OVER A CENTURY TO COME. THIS REVIVAL MARKS A DEFINING MOMENT IN MODERN FRENCH HISTORY, BUT AS YET, CRUCIAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE CULTURE OF RELIGIOUS REVIVAL, ITS SCALE, INTENSITY AND DURATION, HAVE NEVER BEEN ADEQUATELY ANSWERED, AND ITS POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS REMAIN JUST AS UNCLEAR. CONTEMPORARIES, LIKE THE JOURNALIST MALLET DU PAN, MAY HAVE HELD THAT 'QUICONQUE FRÉQUENTERA LA MESSE EST UN ENNEMI DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE', BUT WAS THIS INEVITABLY THE CASE? IF NOT, HOW DID REPUBLICANS RECONCILE THEIR RELIGIOUS DEVOTIONS WITH THEIR COMMITMENT TO REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS IN THE 1790S, OR COME TO TERMS WITH THE CONCORDAT IN 1802 OR ENDURE THE UNFORGIVING ATMOSPHERE OF THE 1820S? THIS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS IN THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF RELIGION IN FRANCE FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE RESTORATION. BASED ON EXTENSIVE ARCHIVAL RESEARCH THROUGHOUT FRANCE, IT CHARTS THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICE ACROSS AN ENTIRE GENERATION AND EXPLAINS THE POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CONFLICTS IT GAVE RISE, BOTH NATIONALLY AND LOCALLY. IRCHSS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE: GUERRILLA WAR AND COUNTER-INSURGENCY FROM IRAQ TO ANTIQUITY GUERRILLA WARFARE, LIKE THE GUERRILLA HIMSELF, COMES IN MANY GUISES. WHETHER DEFINED AS LA PETITE GUERRE, KLEINER KRIEG, THE NOW STANDARD GUERRILLA, THE MORE MODERN INSURGENCY OR THE EVEN MORE RECENT ASYMMETRIC WARFARE, THE PHENOMENON OF FAST-MOVING, IRREGULAR FORCES EMPLOYING HIT-AND-RUN TACTICS AGAINST A MORE ORTHODOX ARMY HAS BEEN A CONSTANT OF ARMED CONFLICT FROM ANTIQUITY. IT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY MILITARY THEORISTS FROM SUN TZU IN THE 6TH CENTURY BC ONWARDS, DEFINED BY REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGUES LIKE MAO, LENIN AND CHE GUEVARA AND DEPICTED BY ARTISTS, WRITERS AND FILMMAKERS AS DIVERSE AS FRANCISCO GOYA, ERNIE O'MALLEY AND KEN LOACH. MORE IMPORTANTLY, GUERRILLA WARFARE HAS BEEN PRACTISED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY ARRAY OF GROUPS IN HISTORICAL CONTEXTS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT DAY: JUDEAN MACCABEES, DUTCH GEUZEN, IRISH RAPPAREES, DANISH SNAPPHANES, SERBIAN GRENZERER, FRENCH CHOUANS, TYROLEAN SCHÜTZEN, SPANISH GUERRILLEROS, GREEK ARMATOLES, BOER KOMMANDOS, IRISH IRREGULARS, YUGOSLAV PARTISANS, ALGERIAN FELLAGHAS, MAU MAU, VIET CONG, MUJAHIDIN. THE LIST COULD GO ON, ALMOST INDEFINITELY IN FACT, AND THIS VERY VARIETY IS TESTIMONY TO THE GUERRILLA'S UBIQUITY IN THE HISTORY OF WAR. THIS ONE-DAY WORKSHOP WILL TRACE THE LIVED EXPERIENCE AND HISTORICAL REPRESENTATION OF GUERRILLA WARFARE FROM THE CONFLICTS OF THE PRESENT BACKWARDS INTO ANTIQUITY. BY ADOPTING THIS BROAD TIMEFRAME, THIS WORKSHOP WILL EXPLORE BOTH THE THEORY AND THE PRACTICE OF GUERRILLA WAR IN ORDER TO INTERROGATE THE EVOLUTION, AND THE ASSUMED IDEOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS, OF THIS AGE-OLD FORM OF CONFLICT. IT WILL ASK WHO THE GUERRILLA IS AND WHAT MOBILISES HIM (AND THE GUERRILLA IS GENERALLY BUT NOT ALWAYS A HIM) TO TAKE UP ARMS. IT WILL EXPLORE HOW GUERRILLAS RELATES TO THE COMMUNITIES FROM WHICH THEY EMERGE AND IT WILL EXPLORE THE OFTEN-UNCERTAIN BOUNDARIES BETWEEN THE GUERRILLA AND THE BANDIT, THE BRIGAND, THE FANATIC OR THE TERRORIST, THE TERMS THOSE IN AUTHORITY OFTEN AVAIL OF WHEN CONFRONTED BY 'WAR IN THE SHADOWS.' THE DISCUSSION WILL ALSO EXAMINE THE DIVERSE STRATEGIES THAT CONVENTIONAL ARMIES AND POLICE FORCES HAVE EVOLVED TO MEET THE VERY PARTICULAR PROBLEMS THAT FIGHTING A GUERRILLA WAR POSES. TCD LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME MAKING WAR, MAPPING EUROPE: MILITARIZED CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS, 1792-1920 "MAKING WAR, MAPPING EUROPE" IS A HERA-FUNDED INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT, ANALYSING MILITARIZED CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS ACROSS THE LONG 19TH CENTURY. IT EXAMINES ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FORMS OF MASS CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACTS IN EUROPE AND ITS BORDERLANDS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WARS TO THE FIRST WORLD WAR. THE PROJECT EXPLORES THE EXPERIENCES OF GERMAN, BRITISH AND FRENCH SOLDIERS STATIONED ON THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY AND IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS WELL AS RESEARCHING THE PERSISTENT IMPACT THESE ENCOUNTERS HAD ON THE SOCIETY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE HOME COUNTRY. THIS PROJECT ASKS HOW MILITARY CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS HELPED TO SHAPE COLLECTIVE PERCEPTIONS OF 'THE SELF', 'THE OTHER', OF EUROPE AND OF ITS BORDERS IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1792 AND 1920? THE PROJECT TEAM INVOLVES RESEARCHERS FROM GERMANY (FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN), IRELAND (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (UNIVERSITIES OF YORK AND SWANSEA). HUMANITIES IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA (HERA) DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR GEOFFREY CLAYTON claytongeoffrey FELLOW EMERITUS GCLAYTON GEOLOGY MY MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE: 1) PALYNOLOGY - THE USE OF PALYNOMORPHS IN PALAEOZOIC ROCKS TO DETERMINE THEIR AGE, DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING. 2) ORGANIC PETROLOGY - INTERPRETATION OF THERMAL HISTORIES OF ROCKS BASED ON STUDIES OF MICROSCOPIC PLANT DEBRIS AND OTHER ORGANIC PARTICLES. CURRENT AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE IRELAND, BOLIVIA, PORTUGAL, JORDAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND THE USA. GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STRATIGRAPHIC PALYNOLOGISTS COMMISSSION INTERNATIONALE DE MICROFLORE DU PALEOZOIQUE COUNCILLOR, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF PALYNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES PRESIDENT, COMMISSION INTERNATIONALE DE MICROFLORE DU PALEOZOIQUE SECRETARY-GENERAL, COMMISSION INTERNATIONALE DE MICROFLORE DU PALEOZOIQUE VICE-CHAIR, SUBCOMMISSION FOR CARBONIFEROUS STRATIGRAPHY BIOSTRATIGRAPHY EARTH SCIENCES GEOLOGY HYDROCARBONS, EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION PALAEOTEMPERATURE PALEOBIOLOGY PALEOGEOGRAPHY PALEONTOLOGY PALYNOLOGY PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY, DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS STRATIGRAPHY PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES CLIMATE RESEARCH INCLUDING MARINE CLIMATE CHANGE & OCEANOGRAPHY OTHER ENERGY PALYNOLOGICAL CORRELATION OF MISSISSIPPIAN (CARBONIFEROUS) STAGE BOUNDARIES IN WESTERN EUROPE AND THE USA THE RECENT DECISION TO REVISE THE STRATIGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION OF THE CARBONIFEROUS SYSTEM BY INTRODUCING THE NORTH AMERICAN DIVISIONS, 'MISSISSIPPIAN' AND 'PENNSYLVANIAN' WORLDWIDE HAS FOCUSSED ATTENTION ON THE LACK OF ADEQUATE CORRELATION OF THE CONSTITUENT NORTH AMERICAN STAGES WITH THOSE IN EUROPE. THE VARIOUS MISSISSIPPIAN STAGE BOUNDARIES CAN BE RECOGNISED IN NUMEROUS OUTCROP SECTIONS, PRINCIPALLY IN KENTUCKY, MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS, THAT INCLUDE GREY SHALES SUITABLE FOR PALYNOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION. THE PROJECT WILL BUILD ON HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PILOT PROJECTS BY ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE MISSISSIPPIAN MIOSPORE ZONATION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE USA AND CORRELATING THIS WITH THE EXISTING EUROPEAN ZONAL SCHEME. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME STRATIGRAPHIC PALYNOLOGY OF THE PALAEOZOIC OF SAUDI ARABIA INVESTIGATION OF THE SUB-SURFACE PALAEOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY OF SAUDI ARABIA USING PALYNOLOGY. SAMPLES FROM MANY HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION WELLS DRILLED THROUGHOUT SAUDI ARABIA ARE BEING STUDIED BY SPECIALISTS IN SEVERAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE DETAILED DISTRIBUTIONS OF ALL OF THE PALYNOMORPH GROUPS ENCOUNTERED. COMPREHENSIVE ZONAL SCHEMES ARE BEING ERECTED AND PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATIONS OF THE WELL SECTIONS ARE BEING ESTABLISHED. SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (SAUDI ARAMCO) SAUDI ARAMCO / CIMP JOINT STUDY NITROGEN ISOTOPES AS INDICATORS OF CLIMATE CHANGE 14N/15N RATIOS WILL BE DETERMINED FROM LATE DEVONIAN - EARLY CARBONIFEROUS MARINE ROCKS AND CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC PROFILES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED. THE STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVAL SELECTED SPANS GLACIATION AND DEGLACIATION AROUND THE PALAEO-SOUTH POLE AND IS REPRESENTED MOSTLY BY MARINE BLACK SHALES IN THE USA. A NOVEL ASPECT OF THE PROJECT WILL BE THE ANALYSIS OF SEPARATED ORGANIC CONSTITUENTS SUCH AS TASMANITES AND WOODY LAND PLANTS TISSUES, RATHER THAN THE CRUDE 'WHOLE-ROCK' APPROACH USED IN PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS. COMPARISON OF THE STABLE ISOTOPE RESULTS WITH THE KNOWN CLIMATIC CHANGES WILL ESTABLISH WHETHER THIS IS A VIABLE TECHNIQUE FOR THE STUDY OF SUCH OLD ROCKS. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. MICHELLE CLEARY clearymichelle TEACHING FELLOW CLEARYM3 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. LAURA CLEAVER cleaverlaura ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CLEAVERL HISTORY OF ART HISTORY OF ART DEPARTMENT ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS HISTORY BOOKS IN THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE SURVIVING MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE THE WRITING OF HISTORY IN AREAS CONTROLLED BY THE ANGLO-NORMAN EMPIRE IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES. IN THIS PERIOD, HISTORY (REFERRING TO THE RECENT PAST AND STRETCHING BACK TO BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY), SEEMS TO HAVE BECOME A MAJOR INTEREST FOR BOTH THE EDUCATED ELITE AND A GROWING SEMI-LITERATE POPULATION. NEW CHRONICLES AND ANNALS WERE PRODUCED, TOGETHER WITH ACCOUNTS OF THE HISTORIES OF PARTICULAR PEOPLES, NATIONS AND SUBJECTS. MUCH HISTORICAL WRITING IN THIS PERIOD DEALT WITH ISSUES OF CONQUEST AND IDENTITY, WHICH WAS OFTEN ALLIED TO GEOGRAPHY, ETHNICITY OR PARTICULAR INSTITUTIONS. IN ADDITION TO THE VERY WELL-KNOWN ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE IN ITS MANY VERSIONS, TWELFTH-CENTURY WRITERS INCLUDING GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH, GERALD OF WALES, WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, RALPH OF DISS, JOHN OF WORCESTER, HENRY OF HUNTINGDON, ORDERIC VITALIS, AND ROGER OF HOVEDEN ACHIEVED RECOGNITION FOR THEIR WORK ON HISTORICAL TOPICS. IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY THEIR WORK, TOGETHER WITH THAT OF EARLIER WRITERS, MOST NOTABLY BEDE, WAS TAKEN UP AND DEVELOPED BY WRITERS SUCH AS MATTHEW PARIS, AND MANY MONASTIC CHRONICLERS. AT THE SAME TIME SOME OF THIS MATERIAL BEGAN TO BE ILLUSTRATED, BOTH WITH FIGURATIVE IMAGERY AND WITH TECHNICAL DIAGRAMS. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE THE SURVIVING VOLUMES IN WHICH SUCH WORKS ARE CONTAINED. IT WILL ADDRESS THEIR SIZE AND LAYOUT, THE MATERIALS USED IN THEIR PRODUCTION, AND IN PARTICULAR THEIR DECORATION, TO CONSIDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH THEY WERE PRODUCED AND CIRCULATED, THE AUDIENCES FOR THE MATERIAL, AND ATTITUDES TO BOTH PARTICULAR IDEAS AND STORIES, AND TO HISTORICAL WRITING IN GENERAL. IN PARTICULAR IT WILL CONSIDER HOW IMAGES AND THE MANUSCRIPTS IN WHICH THEY APPEARED WERE USED TO EXPRESS PARTICULAR IDEAS ABOUT THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES ENCOMPASSED BY THE ANGLO-NORMAN EMPIRE AS ITS BOUNDARIES EXPANDED IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY, BEFORE SHRINKING IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. MARIE CURIE ACTIONS (FP7) CIG MIGRANT MANUSCRIPTS IN ADDITION TO THE MANUSCRIPTS PRESERVED IN THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY, OVER 100 WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS PASSED THROUGH SIR ALFRED CHESTER BEATTY'S COLLECTION DURING HIS LIFETIME. THESE VOLUMES INCLUDED SOME EXTREMELY SIGNIFICANT WORKS, RECOGNISED BY SCHOLARS FOR THEIR TEXT AND/OR DECORATION. THIS PROJECT WILL TRACE THE CURRENT LOCATION OF BOOKS THAT CHESTER BEATTY SOLD AND GAVE AWAY, AND WILL EXAMINE HIS PLACE WITHIN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY TRADE IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS. THE WORK WILL ALSO DEVELOP LINKS WITH THE INSTITUTIONS THAT NOW HOLD EX-CHESTER BEATTY MATERIAL; AND PROVIDE THE BASIS FOR A PROPOSED EXHIBITION, AND APPLICATIONS TO DEVELOP FURTHER RESEARCH ON THIS THEME. IRC NEW FOUNDATIONS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. ASHLEY CLEMENTS clementsashley ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CLEMENTA CLASSICS CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION MY RESEARCH EXPLORES THE INTERSECTIONS OF GREEK LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY DURING THE FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES BC. MY MOST RECENT PROJECT (2014: CUP) EXAMINES THE POPULAR RECEPTION AND POLITICAL USE OF EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY BY THE GREEK COMIC POET ARISTOPHANES IN HIS COMEDY THESMOPHORIAZUSAE ('WOMEN AT THE THESMOPHORIA') (411 BC). BUT FURTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS ALSO INCLUDE GREEK (POPULAR AND PHILOSOPHICAL) CONCEPTIONS OF THE SENSES AND OF PERCEPTION; GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND WISDOM LITERATURE; AND LITERARY APPROACHES TO PLATONIC DIALOGUE. MY NEXT PROJECT IS AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE DISCIPLINES OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND CLASSICS. DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANTHROPOLOGY AND CLASSICS GREEK COMEDY GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND WISDOM LITERATURE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CLASSICS THIS PROJECT OFFERS AN HISTORICAL EXPLORATION OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND CLASSICS FROM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT. IT EXPLORES HOW THE DISCIPLINE OF PHILOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF CLASSICAL TEXTS INFLUENCED THE COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO CULTURE PIONEERED BY THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS AND THEIR PRINCIPAL CONCERN WITH ORIGINS. IT ALSO ASSESSES THE GROWING IMPACT OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDIES IN CLASSICS, SURVEYING THE WORK OF THOSE FIGURES MOST INFLUENTIAL IN THE DISSEMINATION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY AND COMPARATIVISM IN HELLENIC STUDIES. IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. BRIAN CLIFF cliffbrian ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN IRISH STUDIES BCLIFF ENGLISH SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACIS (AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES) IASIL (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES) MLA (MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION) MSA (MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION) SYNGE AND EDWARDIAN IRELAND THIS IS A BOOK OF ESSAYS, EDITED BY NICHOLAS GRENE AND BRIAN CLIFF. THE PROJECT HAS RECEIVED VERY FAVORABLE REVIEWS FROM THE READERS AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, AND IS AWAITING THE DECISION OF THE DELEGATES. THE BRIEF PERIOD OF CREATIVE MATURITY OF J.M. SYNGE FROM HIS FIRST PLAYS IN 1902 TO HIS PREMATURE DEATH IN 1909 ALMOST EXACTLY COINCIDED WITH THE YEARS OF EDWARD VII'S REIGN. THAT HAS BEEN THE STARTING POINT FOR THIS VOLUME OF ESSAYS, WHICH USES THE WORK OF SYNGE AS ENTRY POINT FOR AN EXPLORATION OF THE CULTURAL LIFE OF EDWARDIAN IRELAND. WHILE THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD HAS LONG BEEN CONSIDERED A DISTINCTIVE PERIOD IN BRITAIN, NO COMPARABLE ATTENTION HAS EVER BEEN PAID TO THESE YEARS IN IRELAND. THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE IRISH LITERARY REVIVAL AND THE NATIONAL THEATRE MOVEMENT HAVE BEEN ALMOST ALWAYS VIEWED AS PART OF THE BROAD NATIONALIST RESURGENCE, WHAT YEATS CALLED THE 'LONG GESTATION', LEADING UP TO EASTER 1916. A FIRST AIM OF THIS BOOK IS TO CHANGE THAT PERSPECTIVE. EDWARDIAN IRELAND IS SHOWN TO BE A PERIOD OF RAPID MODERNIZATION, THE BACKWARD-LOOKING PREOCCUPATION WITH ORALITY AND FOLK CULTURE MET BY THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES OF MASS COMMUNICATION (MORASH), THE PRINT CULTURE IN WHICH SYNGE PARTICIPATED PART OF A WIDER NETWORK OF LATE IMPERIAL WORLD READERSHIP (ALLEN). THIS IS A TIME OF A NEW SELF-CONSCIOUS SOCIOLOGICAL AWARENESS IN IRELAND SHOWN IN WRITERS AS DIVERSE AS GEORGE MOORE, W.B. YEATS AND D.P. MORAN (BROWN) A PERIOD THAT CREATED ITS OWN SPECIAL SORT OF 'CELEBRITY CULTURE' (MCDIARMID). WHEREAS THE IRISH LITERARY AND THEATRICAL REVIVAL HAS OFTEN BEEN CONSIDERED IN ISOLATION, ESSAYS HERE ON THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT (GORDON BOWE), THE MUSICAL DEVELOPMENTS OF THE TIME (WHITE), AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN IRISH AND ENGLISH THEATRE (FRAZIER) PROVIDE A MUCH MORE COMPREHENSIVE SET OF CONTEXTS. WE ARE MADE AWARE ALSO OF VIEWS OF IRELAND OF THE TIME VERY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE OF THE REVIVALISTS IN THE COMIC SCENES OF OF SOMERVILLE AND ROSS AND PERCY FRENCH (STEVENS). SYNGE IS OF COURSE BEST KNOWN AS A DRAMATIST, AND SEVERAL OF THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME WILL BE CONCERNED WITH HIS THEATRICAL PRACTICE. BUT THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL CONCENTRATION IN THE BOOK ON HIS LESS DISCUSSED PROSE AND ON THE ETHNOGRAPHIC DIMENSIONS OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHS (CARVILLE). IT IS IN THESE PARTS OF HIS WORK THAT HIS ENGAGEMENT WITH THE IRELAND OF HIS TIME CAN BE MOST SIGNIFICANTLY SEEN. THOUGH OFTEN REGARDED AS AN APOLITICAL WRITER, AN IMAGE FOSTERED BY YEATS, HIS TRAVEL WRITINGS REFLECT A TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIAL PROBLEMS, HIS ROMANTIC RESISTANCE TO MODERNITY IN THE ARAN ISLANDS IN CONFLICT WITH MORE ACCURATE OBSERVATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS (FITZPATRICK). HIS 'LOCAL POLITICS', IN FACT, AVOIDING ATTENTION TO WELL-KNOWN POLITICAL PERSONALITIES, CAN BE CONSIDERED EXEMPLARY (MATHEWS). SYNGE WAS A HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE IN HIS OWN TIME AND BEYOND, PROVOKING DIFFERENT SORTS OF CRITICISM IN THE EDWARDIAN AND POST-EDWARDIAN PERIODS. BUT HE CONTINUED TO HAUNT THOSE WHO OPPOSED HIM, WHETHER A POLITICAL ANTAGONIST SUCH AS PADRAIG PEARSE (MARKEY), OR JAMES JOYCE, OFTEN VIEWED AS HIS AESTHETIC ANTITHESIS, WHO WAS FORCED TO COME TO IMAGINATIVE TERMS WITH SYNGE THROUGHOUT HIS OWN CREATIVE WORK (FOGARTY) THIS IS A BOOK THAT WILL CHANGE READERS' SENSE OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SYNGE, AND ILLUMINATE IN A QUITE NEW WAY THE ERA OF EDWARDIAN IRELAND IN WHICH HE LIVED. LONG ROOM HUB "COMMUNITY AND CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE" CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR DAVIS COAKLEY coakleydavis ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DCOAKLEY CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES' HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. ROBERT COEN coenrobert LECTURER IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY RCOEN CLINICAL MEDICINE MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR JOHN MICHAEL DAVID COEY coeyjohnmichaeldavid PROFESSOR EMERITUS JCOEY PHYSICS AMBER PROF COEY'S RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE MAGNETIC, ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS, SPIN ELECTRONICS, MAGNETOELECTROCHEMISTRY, AMORPHOUS MATERIALS, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF MINERALS AND PERMANENT MAGNET APPLICATIONS. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS SNIAMS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 FRENCH COORDINATOR OF EU RESEARCH CONTRACTS AND NETWORKS, INCLUDING 'CONCERTED EUROPEAN ACTION ON MAGNETS' AND 'OXIDE SPIN ELECTRONICS NETWORK'. MAGNETIC SOLUTIONS LTD (FOUNDER/DIRECTOR) ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY (MEMBER) ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY (VICE PRESIDENT) 2-PHASE MAGNETS 3D-4F INTERMETALLICS = LA A(2)FEMOO(6) ABLATION ABLATION DEPOSITION ABSORPTION AC SUSCEPTIBILITY AC-SUSCEPTIBILITY ACTIVATION VOLUME ACTUATORS ADDITIVES AG AL ALLOYS ALUMINUM ALUMINUM SUBSTITUTION ANISOTROPY ANISOTROPY-UNIAXIAL ANKERITE ANTIPHASE BOUNDARIES ATOMIC SCALE ATOMS BACTERIAL COLONIES BALL-MILLING BAND THEORY BAND-STRUCTURE BARIUM FERRITE BASALT BEARINGS BEHAVIOR BI2SR2CACU2O8 BIOMAGNETISM BIPOLARONIC SUPERCONDUCTIVITY BLOCH WALLS BLUE BODY FORCES CA-MN-O CARBON CARBONATE CD1-XMNXTE CDTE CE VALENCE CHARGE CHARGE-ORDERING TRANSITIONS CHEMICAL-VAPOR-DEPOSITION CHROMIUM CHROMIUM DIOXIDE COBALT COERCIVITY COLLOIDS COLOSSAL MAGNETORESISTANCE CONDUCTANCE QUANTIZATION CONTACT CONTACTS CONVECTION COPPER COULOMB GAP COUPLINGS CRO2 CRO2 FILMS CRYSTAL CRYSTAL FIELD CRYSTAL FIELDS CRYSTAL GROWTH CRYSTAL HELD CRYSTAL-FIELD CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE CRYSTALS CU CU-CO ALLOYS CUBIC ANISOTROPY CURIE TEMPERATURE DENSITY DEPENDENCE DEPOSITION DEPOSITS DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS DIFFRACTION DIPOLAR DOMAIN WALL DOMAIN WALL PINNING DOMAIN-WALL DOMAIN-WALL DISPLACEMENT DOMAIN-WALL SCATTERING DOUBLE PEROVSKITES DOUBLE-EXCHANGE DOUBLE-EXCHANGE FERROMAGNET DOUBLE-PEROVSKITE SR2FEMOO6 DY(FE11TI) DYNAMICS EARTH EARTH INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS EARTH IRON NITRIDES ELECTRODE ELECTRODEPOSITION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE ELECTRONS EMISSION ENERGY-PRODUCT ENHANCED MAGNETORESISTANCE ENHANCEMENT EPITAXIAL ND0.7SR0.3MNO3-DELTA EPITAXIAL-GROWTH ER EVAPORATION EXCHANGE COUPLING EXHIBITING GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE EXTERNAL-FIELD EXTRACTION FE FE-57 MOSSBAUER FE16N2 FE3O4 FE4N FERRIC GEL FERRIHYDRITE FERRITE THIN-FILMS FERROMAGNET FERROMAGNETIC FERROMAGNETIC PHASE FERROMAGNETISM FIELD FIELD GRADIENT FORCE FIELDS FILM LAYERED STRUCTURES FILMS FINE-PARTICLE SYSTEMS FLUCTUATIONS FORCE MICROSCOPY FORCES FRACTALS GA GAMMA-FE2O3 GAS-PRESSURE GD GD FILMS GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE GOETHITE GRAIN-BOUNDARIES GRANULAR METAL-FILMS GROWTH HALBACH CYLINDERS HALF-METALLIC FERROMAGNET HARD MAGNETIC MATERIALS HEISENBERG MODEL HEMATITE HEUSLER ALLOY HIGH COERCIVITY MATERIALS HIGH TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS HIGH-COERCIVITY HYDROGEN HYPERFINE FIELDS HYSTERESIS ILMENITE INHOMOGENEOUS FERROMAGNETS INTERMETALLIC ALLOYS INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS IRON IRON ALLOYS IRRADIATION ITINERANT ELECTRON MAGNETISM ITINERANT FERROMAGNETISM LA0.7SR0.3MNO3 LA1-XCAXMNO3 LA1-XSRXMNO3 LANTHANUM MANGANITES LAYERS LIGHT-EMITTING-DIODES LINEAR-THEORY LOCALIZATION LOW-FIELD MAGNETORESISTANCE LOW-TEMPERATURE MAGNETORESISTANCE MAGHEMITE MAGNET MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY MAGNETIC FIELD MAGNETIC FLUX SOURCES MAGNETIC FRACTION MAGNETIC MATERIALS MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES MAGNETIC PHASE-TRANSITION MAGNETIC PROCESSING MAGNETIC PROPERTIES MAGNETIC RECORDING MAGNETIC SEPARATION MAGNETIC VISCOSITY MAGNETIC WATER TREATMENT MAGNETIC-ANISOTROPY MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES MAGNETISATION REVERSAL MAGNETITE MAGNETIZATION MAGNETO-RESISTANCE MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE MAGNETOCRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY MAGNETORESISTANCE MAGNETOTRANSPORT MANGANATES MANGANITES MARTENSITIC PHASE TRANSITION MECHANICAL ALLOYING MECHANICAL MILLING MECHANICALLY ALLOYED MATERIALS MELT-SPUN MESFET METAL-INSULATOR-TRANSITION METALLIC MULTILAYERS METALS METAMAGNETIC TRANSITION METASTABLE SOLID SOLUTION MINERALOGY MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS MORPHOLOGY MOSSBAUER MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY MOSSBAUER-SPECTRA MOTORS MULTILAYERS NANOCOMPOSITE NANOCONTACTS NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS NANOCRYSTALS NANOSTRUCTURES NANOWIRE FORMATION ND ND-FE-B NI NITROGEN-CONTENT NON-LINEAR I-V CHARACTERISTICS NUCLEATION FIELDS NUMERICAL SIMULATION OPTICAL PROPERTIES ORIGIN OSCILLATIONS OXIDE THIN-FILMS OXIDES PARTICLES PERIOD PERMANENT PERMANENT MAGNET APPLICATIONS PERMANENT MAGNETIC ALLOCATIONS PERMANENT MAGNETS PERMANENT-MAGNETS PEROVSKITES PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC-ANISOTROPY PHASE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PLANAR ANTIFERROMAGNET PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS POWDERS PR PROXIMITY SENSOR PSEUDOGAP PULSED LASER DEPOSITION PULSED-LASER DEPOSITION QUANTIZED CONDUCTANCE QUANTUM CONDUCTANCE R=Y RADIOFREQUENCY RARE EARTH PERMANENT MAGNETS RARE-EARTH RARE-EARTH PERMANENT MAGNETS RAY-ABSORPTION-SPECTROSCOPY RECORDING MEDIA RELAXATIONS REMANENCE REMANENCE ENHANCEMENT RESIDUAL RESISTIVITY RICH SC SEMICONDUCTION SEMIMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS SI(001) SI(100)-2X1 SURFACE SILICATES SINGLE CRYSTALS SINGLE-DOMAIN SM-CO BASED PERMANENT MAGNETS SM2FE17 SM2FE17N3 SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS SOILS SPIN SPIN ELECTRONICS SPIN REORIENTATION TRANSITIONS SPIN-POLARIZED ELECTRONS STANNIDES STRUCTURAL PHASE-TRANSITION SUPERCONDUCTOR SUPERCONDUCTORS SUPERLATTICES SUPERPARAMAGNETISM SURFACE SUSCEPTIBILITY SWIFT HEAVY IONS SYSTEM SYSTEMS TB TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE MAGNETORESISTANCE THIN FILM THIN-FILMS TITANOMAGHEMITE TM TRACKS TRANSITION TRANSPORT TUFFITE VARIABLE MAGNETIC FIELDS VERWEY TRANSITION-TEMPERATURE WATER-TREATMENT X-RAY DIFFRACTION CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR MARY ANNE COFFEY coffeymaryanne ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MCOFFEY RADIATION THERAPY SCHOOL OF RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH BOARD MEMBER OF THE RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE OF IRELAND EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY RADIATION THERAPY COMMITTEE PAST CHAIRPERSON IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION THERAPY PRESIDENT 1998/9 IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION THERAPY QUALIFICATIONS RECOGNITION BOARD MEMBER OF BOARD OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY (ESTRO) MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION ALLIED HEALTH EDUCATION AUDIT BASIC SKILLS EDUCATION CANCER CLINICAL-TRIAL CLINICAL-TRIAL METHODOLOGY CLINICAL-TRIALS CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION, DENTAL/STANDARDS EDUCATION/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH EDUCATIONAL REFORM EDUCATIONAL RESTRUCTURING EDUCATIONAL STUDIES--DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ETHNIC GROUP ETHNIC MINORITIES EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION/TRAINING LEARNING MOTIVATION LIFELONG LEARNING QUALITY ASSURANCE QUALITY CONTROL QUALITY MANAGEMENT RISK MANAGEMENT THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY BEST PRACTICE IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY: TRAINING RTT TRAINERS AN INITIATIVE SUPPORTED BY ESTRO IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY (IAEA)CHAIRED BY MARY COFFEY. IT HAS BEEN INCREASINGLY RECOGNISED THAT ACROSS MUCH OF EUROPE INSUFFICIENT TIME AND FOCUS IS GIVEN TO THE PRACTICE OF RADIATION THERAPY AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE EDUCATION OF RADIATION THERAPISTS. THIS HAS AN IMPACT ON BOTH RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF STAFF IN THE CLINICAL DEPARTMENTS AND ON THE LEVEL OF ADDITIONAL TRAINING REQUIRED FOLLOWING QUALIFICATION. TO ATTEMPT SOLVING THIS ISSUE, ESTRO AND THE IAEA SUPPORTED THIS PROJECT WHICH WAS STRUCTURED TO PROVIDEPARTICIPANTS WITH THE SKILLS TO BE ABLE TO DESIGN, PREPARE AND PRESENT A SHORT COURSE ON A TOPIC THAT THEY IDENTIFIED AS AN IMPORTANT AREA FOR RADIATION THERAPISTS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. THE FIRST ELEMENT OF THE PROJECT WAS A SHORT COURSE DESIGNED TO COVER ALL ASPECTS OF COURSE PREPARATION AND PRESENTATION INCLUDING THE DEFINITION OF ACADEMIC CONTENT AND THE PRACTICAL ISSUES SUCH AS VENUES, COST, FACULTY ETC. THE PROJECT IS DIVIDED INTO FOUR PHASES: THE FIRST WEEK AN INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP DURING WHICH THE PARTICIPANTS DEFINED THE TOPIC AND BEGAN TO PREPARE THEIR INDIVIDUAL COURSE. THE SECOND PHASE, THE PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST SHORT COURSE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY MONITORED BY A MEMBER OF THE TEACHING FACULTY; THE THIRD A THREE DAY FEEDBACK SESSION FOR THE FULL GROUP AND THE FOURTH IS THE PRESENTATION OF TWO FURTHER SHORT COURSES. THE LONG TERM AIM IS INTEGRATION OF THE TOPIC INTO THE BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR RADIATION THERAPISTS AND A RAISING OF THE ACADEMIC CONTENT RELATING TO RADIATION THERAPY. THE FIRST PROJECT COMMENCED IN 2008 WITH THE SHORT COURSE HELD IN VIENNA FROM 31ST AUGUST - 4TH SEPTEMBER, 2008 ATTENDED BY 24 PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTING 8 COUNTRIES. IDEALLY, THREE PARTICIPANTS FROM EACH COUNTRY WERE INVITED REPRESENTING CLINICAL, ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY. IT WAS FELT THAT THIS WOULD GIVE WEIGHT TO THE COURSES DESIGNED AND PRESENTED AND ENSURE THAT ALL INTERESTED PARTIES WOULD SUPPORT THE INITIATIVE. THIS COURSE WAS A MIXTURE OF LECTURES, WORKSHOPS AND INTERACTIVE FEEDBACK SESSIONS. THE LECTURES FOCUSED ON THE BEST APPROACH TO PREPARATION OF ACADEMIC CONTENT AND ON THE FACTORS THAT MUST BE CONSIDERED FROM A PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE WHEN ORGANISING A LOCAL COURSE. THIS WAS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR BOTH PARTICIPANTS AND FACULTY AND WAS THEREFORE FLEXIBLE IN TERMS OF ENSURING THE MAXIMUM BENEFIT GAINED. PARTICIPANTS IDENTIFIED THE TOPICS MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND, TOGETHER WITH THE FACULTY, AGREEHOW THIS COULD BE BEST CONSTRUCTED WITHIN THE CONFINES OF A THREE DAY COURSE. IN SOME INSTANCES THE AIM MIGHT BE TO DEVELOP AND PRESENT A SINGLE COURSE TO THREE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PARTICIPANTS, FOR OTHERS THE THREE COURSES DEVELOPED WOULD BE PRESENTED AS A CONTINUUM TO THE SAME AUDIENCE. THE TOPICS COVERED A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS INCLUDING PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF PATIENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, SITE SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE SECOND PHASE IS THE DELIVERY OF THE FIRST SHORT COURSE MONITORED AND IF NECESSARY SUPPORTED BY INPUT FROM THE FACULTY AND THE DELIVERY OF A FURTHER TWO COURSES WITHIN A TWO YEAR PERIOD. DISCUSSIONS WITH THE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE COUNTRY SHOULD COMMENCE TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF CURRICULUM RELEVANCE AND DEVELOPMENT. SUPPORTED BY THE ESTRO AND THE IAEA REVISION OF THE EUROPEAN CORE CURRICULUM FOR RADIATION THERAPISTS INCLUDING SCOPE OF PRACTICE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES FOR RADIATION THERAPISTS VARY WIDELY BOTH INTERNATIONALLY AND ACROSS THE EUROPEAN MEMBER STATES. MANY PROGRAMMES HAVE VERY LIMITED RADIATION THERAPY CONTENT FOCUSING MAINLY ON DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING OR, IN SOME INSTANCES, GENERAL NURSING. THE TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RADIOTHERAPY ARE CONSTANTLY EVOLVING AND THE LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY TAKEN BY THE RADIATION THERAPISTS IS FREQUENTLY NOT SUPPORTED BY ACADEMIC KNOWLEDGE OR CLINICAL EDUCATION. THE ORIGINAL EUROPEAN CORE CURRICULUM PUBLISHED IN 1995 ATTEMPTED TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE BY RECOMMENDING THE INTRODUCTION OF A MINIMUM STANDARD ACROSS THE THEN MEMBER STATES. THIS MET WITH ONLY MINIMAL SUCCESS AND THE REVISION OF THE EUROPEAN CORE CURRICULUM IN 2004 GAVE MORE SPECIFIC GUIDELINES RELATING TO THE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE, RECOMMENDED ACADEMIC CONTENT AND DURATION AND QUALITY OF CLINICAL EDUCATION. WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND RAISED PUBLIC PROFILE OF THE HIGH LEVEL OF RISK ASSOCIATED WITH RADIOTHERAPY THERE IS A INCREASED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE NEED FOR APPROPRIATE EDUCATION PROGRAMMES FOR THE STAFF INVOLVED IN TREATMENT DELIVERY. THE SECOND REVIEW OF THE EUROPEAN CORE CURRICULUM HAS THEREFORE INCLUDED AN EXTENSIVE SURVEY OF SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND WILL AIM TO LINK THE ACADEMIC AND CLINICAL CONTENT TO THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY UNDERTAKEN BY RADIATION THERAPISTS ACROSS THE MEMBER STATES EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS AND UNCERTAINTIES IN RADIOTHERAPY THE PREPARATION OF AN IAEA HUMAN HEALTH PUBLICATION ON ACCURACY AND SAFETY IN RADIOTHERAPY. A WORKING GROUP MET INITIALLY TO DEFINE THE AREAS AND DRAFT A TABLE OF CONTENTS. SECTIONS FOR WRITING AND SECOND CHECKING WERE DEFINED AND A SECOND WORKSHOP WILL REVIEW THE DRAFT DOCUMENT AND ALLOCATE FURTHER REVIEW TASKS IN PREPARATION FOR PUBLICATION. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR RADIATION THERAPISTS A WORKING GROUP WAS ESTABLISHED IN MAY 2010 TO REVIEW THE PROFESSIONAL PROFILE, WORKING PRACTICES AND EDUCATION LEVEL OF RADIATION THERAPISTS INTERNATIONALLY. A PRELIMINARY DRAFT DOCUMENT WAS OUTLINED AND WILL BE CIRCULATED FOR DISCUSSION PRIOR TO TASK ALLOCATION AND REVIEW INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGEING CANCER PROFESSOR WILLIAM THOMAS COFFEY coffeywilliamthomas FELLOW EMERITUS WCOFFEY ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING ELEC & ELECT ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS, WILEY INTERSCIENCE, NEW YORK. EDITORS S.A.RICE (RECIPIENT OF THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR FROM PRESIDENT CLINTON) AND I. PRIGOGIN (NOBEL LAUREATE). IT IS A PARTICULAR HONOUR TO BE INVITED TO BE A MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THIS FAMOUS PUBLICATION, TWO MEMBERS OF THE 20 MEMBER BOARD ARE NOBEL LAUREATES, ONE IS A FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND SEVERAL HAVE RECEIVED THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PRIZES OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY 3 DIMENSIONS ABSORPTION-SPECTRA AC ANISOTROPY ANTI-GRAVITY AXIALLY SYMMETRIC POTENTIAL B CYCLIC THEOREM B((3)) B-(3) FIELDS BARRIER BARUT FIELD VECTOR BIREFRINGENCE BROWNIAN MOTION BROWNIAN-MOTION CHARGE CONJUGATION SYMMETRY CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS COMPLEX COMPLEX SUSCEPTIBILITY DEBYE DEBYE THEORY DERIVATION DIELECTRIC-RELAXATION DIPOLAR MOLECULES DOMAIN FERROMAGNETIC PARTICLE DOMAIN FERROMAGNETIC PARTICLES DYNAMICS EINSTEIN GROUP ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY FROM CURVED SPACETIME ELECTROMAGNETISM ELECTROWEAK THEORY ENERGY DIFFUSION METHOD ENERGY EX VACUO ENERGY FROM THE VACUUM EXTRACTING ENERGY FAR-INFRARED ABSORPTION FERRITIN FERROMAGNETIC PARTICLES FIELD FORMULA GAUGE THEORY GAUGE THEORY OF ELECTRODYNAMICS GUTS INCONSISTENCIES OF U(1) GAUGE FIELD THEORY INTERFEROMETRY INVERSION KERR EFFECT RELAXATION KRAMERS KRAMERS ESCAPE RATE KRAMERS ESCAPE RATE FOR NON-AXIALLY SYMMETRIC POTENTIALS KRAMERS PROBLEM LANGEVIN EQUATION LASER LEHNERT EQUATIONS LEHNERT VACUUM CHARGE CURRENTS LEP 1 DATA LIQUID-CRYSTALS LIQUIDS LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC-FIELD LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION MAGNETIC FLUIDS MAGNETIC PARTICLES MAGNETIZATION MAGNETOSTOCHASTIC RESONANCE MAXWELL EQUATIONS MAXWELL HEAVISIDE EQUATIONS MICHELSON INTERFEROMETRY MOLECULES MOTIONLESS ELECTROMAGNETIC GENERATOR NEEL RELAXATION NOISE-INDUCED RESONANCE PARTICLE PARTICLES PHASE PHOTON PHYSICAL VACUUM POLAR FLUIDS QUANTUM NOISE RELAXATION-TIME SACHS'S ELECTRODYNAMICS SIGNALS SINGLE SINGLE-DOMAIN PARTICLES STATIC MAGNETIC-FIELD STOCHASTIC RESONANCE STRESS ENERGY-MOMENTUM TENSOR SUPERPARAMAGNETIC RELAXATION-TIME SUPERPARAMAGNETISM SURFACE IMPEDANCE SUSCEPTIBILITY SYSTEMS THERMAL RELAXATION TIME UNIAXIAL ANISOTROPY WEAK LINKS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR DAVID COGHLAN coghlandavid PROFESSOR EMERITUS DCOGHLAN BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH INSIDER ACTION RESEARCH ACTION LEARNING BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ACTION LEARNING: THEORY AND RESEARCH ACTION RESEARCH ASSOCIATE EDITOR - INTERNATIONAL, ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT IRISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT, JOURNAL OF APPLIED BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT NETWORK ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONER RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT (BOOK SERIES INFORMATION AGE PUBLICATIONS), REVUE SCIENCES DE GESTION SYSTEMIC PRACTICE & ACTION RESEARCH AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. BRIAN ARTHUR COGHLAN coghlanbrianarthur RETIRED STAFF MEMBER COGHLAN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURES, PARALLEL SYSTEMS, METACOMPUTING, CLUSTERS, GRIDS (PARTICULARLY INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND SECURITY), CLOUDS, DATA-ORIENTED COMPUTING COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR, COLLABORATION BOARD, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.CROSSGRID.ORG/MAIN.HTML">EU CROSSGRID PROJECT</A> CHAIR, COLLABORATION BOARD, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.INTERACTIVE-GRID.EU/">EU INT.EU.GRID PROJECT</A> CHAIR, STEERING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEES, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.LRR.IN.TUM.DE/EVENTS/SCIEUROPE2001/">SCI EUROPE 2001 CONFERENCE</A>, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN DIRECTOR, <A HREF="HTTPS://WWW.GRID.IE/OPSCENTRE.HTML">GRID-IRELAND OPERATIONS CENTRE</A> (OPSCENTRE) DIRECTOR, <A HREF="HTTPS://WWW.ICHEC.IE/">IRISH CENTRE FOR HIGH END COMPUTING</A> (ICHEC) DIRECTOR, IONA LTD. DIRECTOR, TOLSYS LTD. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.COSMOGRID.IE/">COSMOGRID</A> PROJECT EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.E-INIS.IE/">E-INIS</A> PROJECT EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.WEBCOM-G.ORG/">WEBCOM-G</A> PROJECT FOUNDING DIRECTOR, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.GRID.IE/">GRID-IRELAND</A> IRISH NATIONAL ORGANISER, <A HREF="HTTP://PUBLIC.EU-EGEE.ORG/CONFERENCES/KICKOFF/">1ST EGEE CONFERENCE</A>, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK IRISH NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO EGI COUNCIL (GOVERNING BODY OF <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.EGI.EU/">EUROPEAN GRID INITIATIVE</A>) IRISH NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO EGI POLICY BOARD (ADVISORY BODY TO <A HREF="HTTP://WEB.EU-EGI.EU/">EGI DESIGN STUDY</A>) IRISH TRIOKA REPRESENTATIVE, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.E-IRG.ORG/">EU E-INFRASTRUCTURES REFLECTION GROUP</A> (E-IRG), DUTCH PRESIDENCY IRISH TRIOKA REPRESENTATIVE, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.E-IRG.ORG/">EU E-INFRASTRUCTURES REFLECTION GROUP</A> (E-IRG), ITALIAN PRESIDENCY LEADER, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.CS.TCD.IE/RESEARCH_GROUPS/CAG/">COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND GRID RESEARCH GROUP</A> MEMBER INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (M.I.E.E)<BR> CHARTERED ENGINEER (C.ENG) ORGANISER AND IRISH TRIOKA REPRESENTATIVE, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.E-IRG.ORG/">EU E-INFRASTRUCTURES REFLECTION GROUP</A> (E-IRG), IRISH PRESIDENCY ORGANISER, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.CS.TCD.IE/MICHAEL.MANZKE/SCI_SUMMER_SCHOOL_2000/SCI_SCHO.HTM">SCI SUMMER SCHOOL 2000</A>, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ORGANISER, <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.CS.TCD.IE/MICHAEL.MANZKE/SCI_SUMMER_SCHOOL_2001/SCI_SCHO.HTM">SCI SUMMER SCHOOL 2001</A>, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CLOUDS CLUSTERS COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE DATA-ORIENTED COMPUTING GRIDS METACOMPUTING PARALLEL SYSTEMS VIRTUAL ARCHITECTURES COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE DATAGRID (EDG) PROTOTYPING THE GRID IN EUROPE EU FRAMEWORK 5 CROSSGRID INTERACTIVE GRID OPERATION EU FRAMEWORK 5 EGEE ENABLING GRIDS FOR EUROPE: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EUROPEAN PRODUCTION GRID EU FRAMEWORK 6 COSMOGRID GRID-ENABLED COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS OF NATURAL PHENOMNA HEA PRTLI WEBCOM-G HIDING THE GRID WITH A NON-VON-NEUMANN (CONDENSED GRAPH) ARCHITECTURE SFI INVESTIGATORSHIP IRISH COMPUTATIONAL GRID ESTABLISHING GRID-IRELAND ENTERPRISE IRELAND STRATEGIC RESEARCH GRANT ST/2000/099 SCIEUROPE EXPLOITING SCI IN EUROPE EU FRAMEWORK 4 INT.EU.GRID ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERACTIVE EUROPEAN GRID; THE EXTENSION OF THE EUROPEAN PRODUCTION GRID (EGEE) TO INCORPORATE INTERACTIVE USAGE EU FRAMEWORK 6 FASST FAULT TOLERANT STABLE STORAGE TECHNOLOGY EU ESPRIT PROJECT P5212 ADVANCED MULTIPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES EXPLORATION OF ADVANCED MULTIPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES EOLAS STRATEGIC RESEARCH GRANT ST/89/304 GRAPHICS SUBSYSTEM FOR SOLID MODELLING DESIGN OF A GRAPHICS SUBSYSTEM FOR SOLID MODELLING, INCLUDING HIDDEN-LINE REMOVAL TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PROVOST'S DEVELOPMENT FUND EGEE-II ENABLING GRIDS FOR E-SCIENCE: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EUROPEAN PRODUCTION GRID EU FRAMEWORK 6 E-INIS ESTABLISHMENT OF COORDINATED IRISH NATIONAL EINFRASTRUCTURE HEA PRTLI4 EGI-INSPIRE THE CORE PROGRAMME OF THE EGI (EUROPEAN GRID INITIATIVE), MOVING TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE SERVICE-BASED EUROPEAN GRID INFRASTRUCTURE EU FRAMEWORK 7 SCI-BUS SCI-BUS WILL CREATE SCIENCE GATEWAY TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL PROVIDE SEAMLESS ACCESS TO MAJOR COMPUTING, DATA AND NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURES AND SERVICES IN EUROPE. EU FRAMEWORK 7 HELIOPHYSICS INTEGRATED OBSERVATORY - HELIO HELIO WILL DEPLOY A DISTRIBUTED NETWORK OF SERVICES THAT WILL ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF A BROAD COMMUNITY OF RESEARCHERS IN HELIOPHYSICS (THE FIELD THAT EXPLORES THE SUN-SOLAR SYSTEM CONNECTION, JOINTLY EXPLORING SOLAR, HELIOSPHERIC, MAGNETOSPHERIC AND IONOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS); IT WILL COORDINATE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES NEEDED BY THE COMMUNITY, AND WILL PROVIDE ACCESS TO SERVICES TO MINE AND ANALYZE THE DATA. THE P.I. IS DR.PETER GALLAGHER, PHYSICS DEPT, TCD, AND FUNDING IS SHARED WITH DR.BRIAN COGHLAN OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPT, TCD. EU FP7 MANTYCHORE NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE EU FRAMEWORK 7 STRATUSLAB CLOUD/GRID INTEGRATION AND VIRTUALISATION EU FRAMEWORK 7 EMI EUROPEAN MIDDLEWARE INITIATIVE: HARMONISED MIDDLEWARE FOR EGI, INTEGRATING GLITE, UNICORE AND ARC. EU FRAMEWORK 7 EGEE-III ENABLING GRIDS FOR E-SCIENCE: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EUROPEAN PRODUCTION GRID EU FRAMEWORK 7 ICEAGE ESTABLISHING A GRID EDUCATION, WITH THE USE OF EDUCATION IN THE GRID, BUT ALSO THE USE OF THE GRID IN EDUCATION EU FRAMEWORK 6 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. PAULA COLAVITA colavitapaula ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COLAVITP CHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES ELECTROCHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY SPECTROSCOPY SURFACE CHEMISTRY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. PHILIP COLEMAN colemanphilip ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PMCOLEMA ENGLISH MY PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREAS OF US AMERICAN POETRY AND SHORT FICTION. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE IDEA OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY US AMERICAN POETRY, AS REFLECTED IN MY BOOK _JOHN BERRYMAN'S PUBLIC VISION_ (2014), AND I HAVE PUBLISHED SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL ARTICLES AS WELL AS EDITED COLLECTIONS (OF ESSAYS AND POETRY) ON BERRYMAN, A MAJOR TWENTIETH-CENTURY POET. I HAVE ALSO PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS ON OTHER US AMERICAN POETS SUCH AS CARL RAKOSI, MURIEL RUKEYSER, AND DELMORE SCHWARTZ. I AM A MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR SHORT FICTION RESEARCH, AND I HAVE PUBLISHED ARTICLES ON THE SHORT FICTION OF WILLIAM AUSTIN, EDGAR ALLAN POE, SANDRA CISNEROS, ALICE MUNRO, DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, AND OTHERS. I AM CURRENTLY EDITING TWO COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS, ONE ON WALLACE AND ANOTHER ON GEORGE SAUNDERS. IN ADDITION TO THEIR CONSIDERATIONS OF PARTICULAR POETS AND WRITERS OF SHORT FICTION, MY RESEARCH TO DATE HAS ALSO CONSIDERED QUESTIONS TO DO WITH LITERARY INFLUENCE, TRANSATLANTIC LITERARY AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE, AND POETIC AFFINITIES BETWEEN US AMERICAN, IRISH AND OTHER POETRIES AND CULTURES. I ALSO HAVE A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT TO WRITE A BIOGRAPHY OF THE IRISH POET PEARSE HUTCHINSON, ABOUT WHOM I CO-EDITED THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS. I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SUPERVISED SEVERAL MPHIL AND PHD DISSERTATIONS IN ALL OF THESE FIELDS. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH HUNGARIAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, IRELAND LITERATURE EXCHANGE COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF LITERATURES IN ENGLISH, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR SHORT FICTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE SHORT STORY IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES IRISH FULBRIGHT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AMERICAN LITERATURE AMERICAN POETRY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN ENGLISH MODERNISM SHORT FICTION HUMANITIES CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PEARSE HUTCHINSON: A LITERARY LIFE THIS PROJECT WILL RESULT IN THE PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE IRISH POET PEARSE HUTCHINSON (1927-2012). TO DATE THE BULK OF THE RESEARCH HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON THE PEARSE HUTCHINSON ARCHIVE AT MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY, WHICH CONTAINS HUNDREDS OF UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT LETTERS, POEMS, AND OTHER DOCUMENTS BY THE POET, HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS AND A WIDE CAST OF OTHER FIGURES. ENGAGEMENT WITH MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL WILL CONSTITUTE A CENTRAL ASPECT OF THE PROJECT AS IT DEVELOPS. JOHN BERRYMAN: SELECTED LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE THIS VOLUME, UNDER CONTRACT TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, WILL INCLUDE A GENEROUS SELECTION OF THE US AMERICAN POET JOHN BERRYMAN'S LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE WITH A WIDE RANGE OF IMPORTANT TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETS, FROM W.B. YEATS AND T.S. ELIOT TO ROBERT LOWELL, ADRIENNE RICH, DELMORE SCHWARTZ AND JAMES MEREDITH. THE VOLUME WILL ALSO INCLUDE BERRYMAN'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH IMPORTANT BUT FORGOTTEN FIGURES SUCH AS ROBERT BHAIN CAMPBELL IN THE 1940S, AS WELL AS HIS EPISTOLARY EXCHANGES WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS BEN SHAHN AND THE PHILOSOPHER/HISTORIAN ERICH KAHLER. AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR DAVID COLEMAN colemandavid PROFESSOR OF ORAL & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY DCOLEMAN DENTAL SCIENCE AUTOMATED CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF MICROBIAL BIOFILMS IN WATER SYSTEMS LINKED TO MEDICAL DEVICES. AUTOMATED MICROBIAL BIOFILM MANAGEMENT IN LARGE WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES. MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION STRUCTURE OF HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED AND COMMUNITY ACQUIRED MRSA. MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF SCCMEC ELEMENTS IN PANDEMIC, EPIDEMIC AND SPORADIC MRSA AND MSSA. MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY, POPULATION STRUCTURE, ANTIFUNGAL DRUG RESISTANCE MECHANISMS IN CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS AND OTHER ORAL CANDIDA SPECIES. MANAGEMENT OF LEGIONELLA BACTERIA IN WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS APPLICATION OF ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVATED SOLUTIONS TO CONTROL MICROBIAL PROLIFERATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT, IN WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS AND IN MEDICAL DEVICES. MICROBIOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT DIVISION OF ORAL BIOSCIENCES DUBLIN DENTAL SCHOOL & HOSPITAL LINCOLN PLACE , COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AD HOC GRANT REVIEWER FOR: WELLCOME TRUST, AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT, EUROPEAN UNION, THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK), SWISS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AD HOC REFEREE FOR THE FOLLOWING PEER-REVIEW INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY; ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY; JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY; AIDS; JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION; APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; MEDICAL MYCOLOGY; ORAL DISEASES; JOURNAL OF DENTISTRY; JOURNAL OF INFECTION; MYCOSES CHAIRMAN OF THE INVESTIGATION TEAM ON LEGIONELLOSIS AT WATERFORD REGIONAL HOSPITAL EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER FOR THE JOURNAL MICROBIOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PH.D. THESES FOR: UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN; UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE; UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE (HPSC) PREVENTION OF INFECTION FROM WATER SYSTEMS IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES SUB-COMMITTEE OF THE HPSC SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE SUB-COMMITTEE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD DIGESTIVE SCIENCES COMMITTEE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INFECTION AND IMMUNITY COMMITTEE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS COMMITTEE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR DECONTAMINATION OF REUSABLE INVASIVE MEDICAL DEVICES MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMAN AND ANIMAL MYCOLOGY MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL DECONTAMINATION OF REUSABLE INVASIVE MEDICAL DEVICES ADVISORY GROUP-HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT DIVISION MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY MEMBER OF THE UK MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL COLLEGE OF EXPERTS NATIONAL DISEASE SUREVEILLANCE CENTRE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE LEGIONNAIRES' DISEASE SUB-COMMITTEE NATIONAL DISEASE SURVEILANCE CENTRE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE: A STRATEGY FOR THE CONTROL OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE IN IRELAND (SARI) A GENE A GENE FAMILY A GENE-EXPRESSION A OUTBREAK ABC TRANSPORTER ACQUIRED-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-SYNDROME ACRYLIC RESIN ACT1 ACTIVATION AIDS ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE ANTIBIOTICS APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY BACTERIAL BIOFILMS BACTERIAL PATHOGENICITY BACTERIAL-CONTAMINATION BACTERIOLOGY AND BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS BACTERIOPHAGE CONVERSION BIOFILM BIOFILM FORMATION BIOFILMS BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CANDIDA ALBICANS CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS SP NOV CANDIDA SPP CANDIDA-ALBICANS CANDIDA-ALBICANS STRAINS CANDIDA-DUBLINIENSIS CANDIDA-GLABRATA CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DEFINITIVE DIAGNOSIS DENTAL CHAIR WATERLINES DENTAL CHAIRS DENTAL CLINIC DENTAL DISINFECTANTS DENTAL HANDPIECES DENTAL PLAQUE MICROBIOLOGY DIAGNOSIS DIAGNOSTICS DIFFERENTIATION DIVERSITY DNA DNA TYPING DNA TYPING METHODS DRUG RESISTANCE DUBLIN DUBLIN HOSPITALS DUBLINIENSIS DUODENAL-ULCER ELECTROPHORETIC KARYOTYPE ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY ENZYME FRAGMENTATION PATTERNS ENZYME-MEDIATED INTEGRATION EPIDEMIOLOGY EPITHELIAL-CELLS EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS EPSTEIN-BARR-VIRUS ESCHERICHIA-COLI EUKARYOTIC GENE REGULATION EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS EXPRESSION FIELD GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS FLUCONAZOLE FUNGAL DISEASES FUNGAL-INFECTIONS FUNGI FUSARIUM FUSARIUM-SOLANI GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS GENE GENE CLONING GENETIC ENGINEERING GENETIC MANIPULATION GENETIC MAPPING, GENE SEQUENCE GENETIC RESISTANCE GENETIC/MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS GENETICS GENOME GENOMES, GENOMICS GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION GENTAMICIN-RESISTANT GERM TUBES GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA HAIRY LEUKOPLAKIA HEALTHY-INDIVIDUALS HIV INFECTION HIV OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS HIV-INFECTION HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS IDENTIFICATION IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION IN-VITRO INFECTED INDIVIDUALS INFECTION INFECTIONS INFECTIOUS DISEASES LEGIONELLA LYSIN MEDICAL DEVICES METHICILLIN RESISTANCE METHICILLIN-RESISTANCE METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS METHICILLIN-SUSCEPTIBLE S. AUREUS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR CLONING MOLECULAR GENETICS MOLECULAR GENETICS OF GRAM POSITIVE PATHOGENS MOLECULAR PROBES MRSA MYCOLOGY MYCOLOGY AND FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCING ORAL DISEASES ORAL DISEASES AND ORAL MEDICINE ORAL MICROBIOLOGY PATHOGENESIS PATHOGENS PLASMID DNA PREVALENCE PROCARYOTIC GENE REGULATION PROFILES PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC GENETICS AND GENOMICS QUANTITATIVE AND MOLECULAR GENETICS RAPID IDENTIFICATION REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION RIBOSOMAL-RNA STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION TRANSLATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY WATER WATER ACTIVITY WATER MICROBIOLOGY WATER QUALITY WATER-BORNE WATER-QUALITY YEAST YEAST CULTURES YEAST KILLER PHENOMENON YEAST TOXINS OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT WASTE, RESOURCE, MANAGEMENT & CHEMICALS BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY MYCOLOGY & FUNGAL OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MICROBIOLOGY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR JONATHAN NESBIT COLEMAN colemanjonathannesbit PROFESSSOR OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS COLEMAJ PHYSICS PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBERSHIP OF INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AC CONDUCTIVITY APPLIED PHYSICS ARC DISCHARGE BEHAVIOR BLACK BLENDS BRIGHTNESS CARBON CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES CARBON NANOTUBE CARBON NANOTUBES CARBON NANOTUBULE COLLOIDS COMPOSITE COMPOSITE MATERIALS COMPOSITES CONDUCTIVITY CONJUGATED POLYMER CONJUGATED POLYMERS DEVICES DIFFUSION-LIMITED AGGREGATION DISORDERED SOLIDS ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE ELECTRONIC-PROPERTIES EXCITATIONS FREQUENCY FULLERENES FULLERENES AND DERIVATIVES GRAPHITE INDIVIDUAL CARBON NANOTUBES INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING MULTIPHOTON ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTUBES OPTICAL ABSORPTION AND EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OPTICAL-PROPERTIES ORGANIC POLYMER PERCOLATION-THRESHOLD PHOTO INDUCED ABSORPTION PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS, CELLS AND MODULES MANUFACTURING PLASTICS POLY(PHENYLENE VINYLENE) AND DERIVATIVES POLYMER POLYMERS RESONANCE SEPARATION SINGLE SINGLE-WALL SPIN-RESONANCE TEXTILES TECHNOLOGY TOOL TRANSPORT HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER-NANOTUBE COMPOSITES: PLASTICS AS STRONG AS STEEL IN THIS WORK WE WILL STUDY THE GLOBAL PROPERTIES OF OPTIMISED POLYMER-NANOTUBE MATERIALS FOR MECHANICAL APPLICATIONS. WE WILL DEVELOP METHODS TO FABRICATE REINFORCED COMPOSITES USING ANY POLYMER. IN ADDITION WE WILL IDENTIFY THE OPTIMUM TYPE OF NANOTUBE FOR REINFORCEMENT. IN THE CASE WHERE LOCAL POLYMER CRYSTALLINATION IS NECESSARY WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE MAXIMISATION OF THE CRYSTALLINATION AND HENCE MAXIMISATION OF THE REINFORCEMENT. WHERE CRYSTALLISATION IS NOT POSSIBLE WE WILL DEVELOP CHEMICAL TREATMENTS TO PROMOTE DISPERSION AND INTERFACIAL STRESS TRANSFER. MATHEMATICAL MODELS WILL BE DEVELOPED TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISM OF REINFORCEMENT. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PEPTIDE COATED NANOTUBES: TOXICITY AND TARGETED CELL ABLATION HUMAN FRONTIERS SCIENCE PROGRAM NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. MARY PAULA COLGAN colganmarypaula ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR COLGANM SURGERY VIENS DEPARTMENT ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. MARCUS COLLIER colliermarcus ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COLLIEMA BOTANY MY PHD RESEARCH CONCENTRATED ON SEVERELY DAMAGED LANDSCAPES: RESILIENCE PLANNING, REWILDING AND COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES. THIS STUDY WAS PART OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION BETWEEN SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES (VIA THE EPA FUNDED BOGLAND PROJECT). MY MAIN AREAS OF EXPERTISE ARE IN TRANSDICIPLINARY RESEARCH, SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, LANDSCAPE AND RESTORATION ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE. I AM VERY INTERESTED IN NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS AND THEIR POTENTIAL FOR REWILDING URBAN AREAS AS WELL AS URBAN COMMUNITIES AND WELCOME ALL WHO SHARE A SIMILAR INTEREST! I AM THE LEADER OF CONNECTING NATURE, A €11.4M HORIZON 2020 PROJECT WHICH RUNS FROM 2017 TO 2022 (SEE WEBSITE). THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP INNOVATIONS BY SCALING OUT NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS IN 11 CITIES IN EUROPE AS WELL AS CITIES IN CHINA, BRAZIL, KOREA AND THE CAUCASUS. FROM 2011 TO 2016 I WAS THE LEADER OF THE TURAS FP7 PROJECT. THIS WAS A €6.8M PROJECT WITH 28 PARTNERS ACROSS EUROPE AND 2 IN TAIWAN. TURAS HAS DEVELOPED NOVEL STRATEGIES, AND SPUN OUT THREE NEW COMPANIES TO DATE, THAT ENABLE URBAN COMMUNITIES-OF-INTEREST TO TACKLE URGENT ISSUES SUCH AS CLIAMTE ADAPTATION IN URBAN AREAS TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE FUTURE USING NOVEL DESIGN, COLLABORATION AND INTEGRATED AND RESILIENT POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS. IN JUNE 2012 TURAS WAS AWARDED ONE OF FIVE SPECIAL AWARDS IN THE CHAMPIONS OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH FOR RANKING FIRST IN THE SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT GREEN CITIES SECTION OF THE FP7 CALL TOPIC (FOR SCORING 15/15). I LED A WORK PACKAGE LEADER ON ANOTHER FP7 PROJECT, OPERAS WHICH STUDIED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND MY FOCUS WAS ON SOCIOECONOMIC / SOCIOCULTURAL VALUES DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH BIODIVERSITY BIOGEOGRAPHY CITIZEN SCIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE COASTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION CONSERVATION CONSERVATION BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ECOLOGY, ECOSYSTEMS ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ECOSYSTEM(S) ECOSYSTEMS EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT HUMAN ECOLOGY HUMAN GEOGRAPHY INNOVATION LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY MARINE ECOSYSTEMS NATURAL CAPITAL NATURAL HISTORY NATURAL SCIENCES NATURE CONSERVATION POLICY AND PRACTICE NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS NEW NATURE NOVEL ECOSYSTEMS PEATLANDS RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION RESTORATION ECOLOGY REWILDING SOCIAL INNOVATION SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE URBANISM URBAN ECOLOGY URBAN GEOGRAPHY WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS WOODLANDS ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENT (INCL.) CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE BIODIVERSITY SOCIAL SCIENCES, ECONOMICS, LAW & BUSINESS ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT CULTURAL & ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY CONNECTING NATURE CONNECTING NATURE WILL POSITION EUROPE AS A GLOBAL LEADER IN THE INNOVATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS. IT BRINGS TOGETHER 29 PARTNER ORGANISATIONS FROM 16 EU COUNTRIES INCLUDING LOCAL AUTHORITIES, COMMUNITIES, INDUSTRY PARTNERS, NGOS AND ACADEMICS. THROUGH CONNECTING NATURE, 11 EUROPEAN CITIES WILL INVEST IN MULTI-MILLION-EURO LARGE SCALE IMPLEMENTATION TEST-BEDS OF NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS AND MEASURE THE IMPACT OF THIS APPROACH ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, SOCIAL COHESION AS WELL AS SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. EMANUEL COMAN comanemanuel ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COMANE POLITICAL SCIENCE PARLIAMENTS; PARTY POLITICS; ELECTORAL SYSTEMS; LOCAL ELECTIONS DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MR. QUENTIN COMERFORD comerfordquentin EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER QCMRFORD PHYSIOLOGY DEPT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR CATHERINE COMISKEY comiskeycatherine PROFESSOR CCOMISKE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY PROFESSOR COMISKEY HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EXECUTION OF EVALUATIONS OF TREATMENT AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES WITH A VIEW TO PROVIDING RESEARCH BASED EVIDENCE FOR POLICY AND SERVICE DELIVERY DECISIONS. SHE HAS AN INTEREST IN USING BIO-MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL MODELS TO IDENTIFY KEY FACTORS WHICH IMPROVE THE IMPLEMENTATION AND THE OUTCOMES FROM THESE TREATMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS. AREAS OF APPLICATION THAT COMISKEY HAS WORKED IN INCLUDE SUBSTANCE MISUSE, TREATMENT FOR HEROIN AND OPIATE USE, COCAINE USE, PREVALENCE ESTIMATION OF HIDDEN PHENOMENA, INFECTIOUS DISEASES INCLUDING HIV AND AIDS, HEPC, MEASLES, HIB MENINGITIS, HPV AND CERVICAL CANCER, IMMUNISATIONS, PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN FROM DISADVANTAGED AREAS, OBESITY AND RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALS. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH CHAIRPERSON OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL (NACDA) FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, CHARTERED MATHEMATICIAN INAUGURIAL CHAIRPERSON OF THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK OF IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND (CRNINI) INVITED EXTERNAL CONSULTANT AND EXPERT STATISTICAL REVIEWER FOR THE HEALTH TECHOLOGY ASSESSMENT (HTA) FUNDING PROGRAMME OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, UK MEMBER OF BOARD OF THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, (IRCSET). ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS CERVICAL CANCER CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH OUTCOMES INFECTIOUS DISEASES MATHEMATICAL MODELLING POPULATION STUDIES SUBSTANCE ABUSE SURVEYS & SURVEY RESEARCH MODELING HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN LIVING WITH SUBSTANCE USE AFTER A HEALTHY SCHOOL INTERVENTION THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL BE UNDERTAKEN AS PART OF A LARGER LONGITUTUDINAL PROJECT DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE PROCESS AND IMPACT OF A HEALTHY SCHOOLS PROGRAMME (HSP) INTERVENTION ON THE WELL BEING OF CHILDREN FROM DISADVANTAGED AREAS OF DUBLIN (COMISKEY, C.M. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR TCD & MCGILLOWAY, S. SENIOR HEALTH PSYCHOLOGIST, NUIM). THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO STATISTICALLY MODEL THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES OF A COHORT OF CHILDREN LIVING WITH SUBSTANCE USE AND TO PREDICT IF A HSP WILL IMPROVE THESE OUTCOMES OVER TIME. KEY FACTORS PREDICTING POSITIVE OUTCOMES WILL BE IDENTIFIED. THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO INFORM, AID AND ASSIST IN THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF IRISH HEALTH POLICY THAT IS AIMED AT IMPROVING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH FOR IRISH CHILDREN LIVING IN DISADVANTAGED AREAS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EMBARK MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF THE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS AND IMPACT OF IMMUNISATION ON THE SPREAD OF THE HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV) IN IRELAND. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO: DEVELOP AND REFINE EXISTING MATHEMATICAL MODELS FOR THE SPREAD OF HPV WITHIN IRELAND; ESTIMATE THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND TRANSMISSION DYNAMIC PARAMETERS OF THE MODEL FROM NEW AND EXISTING SOCIAL AND MEDICAL DATA. POSSIBLE PARAMETERS FOR THE MODEL MAY INCLUDE SURVIVAL RATES, AGE DEPENDENT PROBABILITIES OF DISEASE TRANSMISSION, AGE DEPENDENT MIXING PATTERNS, EXISTING PREVALENCE RATES, VACCINE EFFICACY RATES AND LEVELS OF IMMUNISATION ACHIEVED; PERFORM COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THE SPREAD OF THE DISEASE BASED ON THE MATHEMATICAL MODEL, THE CURRENT INITIAL CONDITIONS OF HPV AND THE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PROVIDE A RANGE OF SCENARIO ANALYSES BASED ON VARYING LEVELS OF IMMUNISATION AND EFFICACY PROVIDE PREDICTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF LEVELS OF IMMUNISATION REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ERADICATE THE DISEASE. SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY HEALTH OUTCOMES OF OPIATE USERS AND THEIR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE ON TREATMENT OUTCOMES FOR OPIATE USE DEMONSTRATES THAT TREATMENT WORKS (SIMPSON AND SELLS, 1990, GOSSOP ET AL, 2003, MCKEGANEY ET AL (2006) AND TEESON ET AL 2006). WITHIN IRELAND COX, COMISKEY AND KELLY (2007, 2007A, 2007B) HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT WHILE TREATMENT IMPROVES OUTCOMES FOR DRUG USE, CRIME, AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONING LITTLE CHANGE WAS OBSERVED AMONG THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES OF OPIATE USERS IN TREATMENT IN IRELAND. COMISKEY AND STAPLETON (2010, 2010A) IN THEIR WORK ON ADDITIONAL SERVICES ACCESSED BY OPIATE USERS IN TREATMENT HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THAT FURTHER RESEARCHER ENCOMPASSING A GREATER RANGE OF HEALTH MEASURES IS REQUIRED. FURTHERMORE COMISKEY ET AL (2009) FOUND THAT WHILE SUBSTANCES ARE USED BY THE INDIVIDUAL, THE EFFECTS OF SUBSTANCE USE ON THE FAMILY AND IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN ARE CONSIDERABLE. COX AND COMISKEY (2007) FOUND THAT MANY CURRENT OPIATE USERS ARE EITHER CARING FOR THEIR CHILD IN THE HOME OR HAVE CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE. CHILDREN LIVING WITH SUBSTANCE USING PARENTS ARE EXPOSED TO AN ASSORTMENT OF THREATS TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT (KEANE, 2007). STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT FAMILIES WITH A MEMBER WHO USED DRUGS, WHETHER ACTIVE OR STABLE, HAD CONSISTENTLY LOWER LEVELS OF WELL-BEING THAN FAMILIES THAT WERE DRUG FREE (MCKEOWN AND FITZGERALD, 2006). THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO PROVIDE BASELINE 12 AND 24 MONTH ASSESSMENT OF THE HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF 200 OPIATE USERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. PARTICIPANTS WERE INTERVIEWED AT TREATMENT INTAKE AND ONE YEAR AND TWO YEARS POST TREATMENT. FOR ETHICAL REASONS IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO IMPLEMENT A RANDOMISED CONTROL DESIGN HOWEVER A COMPARISON GROUP OF OPIATE USERS NOT IN TREATMENT WERE RECRUITED. BASELINE RESULTS ON PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES USING THE MAP, SF12, BDI, BAI AND KIDSCREEN 25 ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR OPIATE USERS IN IRELAND AND THEIR CHILDREN. TO DATE FUNDING FOR BASELINEONLY HAS BEEN OBTAINED. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY AND TRINITY COLLEGE START-UP FUND A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF THE DRUGS AND AIDS INFORMATION SYSTEM (DAIS) AN ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT OUTCOMES. HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE NATIONAL CONSULTATION WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ON A NEW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STRATEGY, 2012 - 2017 IN 2011, THE OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS (NOW DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS, DYCA) COMMISSIONED A TEAM FROM TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TO CONDUCT A NATIONWIDE CONSULTATION WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. THE CONSULTATION WAS UNDERPINNED BY ARTICLE 12 FROM THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (1989) WHICH MEANT RESPECT FOR CHILDREN'S VIEWS AND USING A CHILD CENTRED PERSPECTIVE IN OUR RESEARCH METHODS. THE PURPOSE OF THE CONSULTATION WAS TO ENSURE THAT THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD BE HEARD AND DOCUMENTED. THE AIM WAS TO PROVIDE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STRATEGY (2012-2017). THE NEW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STRATEGY WILL SET OUT THE KEY OBJECTIVES TO GUIDE CHILDREN'S POLICY FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. THE STRATEGY AIMS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF CHILDREN AND PROMOTE THE ENHANCEMENT AND PROTECTION OF THEIR RIGHTS. THIS WIDE RANGING CONSULTATION WILL TARGET EVERY PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENT IN IRELAND. OMCYA DEVELOPING RESEARCH SKILLS CAPACITY IN THE CLINICAL SETTING THE FORMAT OF THE INITIATIVE IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEEDS BASED/MENU BASED PARTNERSHIP RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME WITH ST JAMES HOSPITAL TO BE CARRIED OUT OVER 2 YEARS. IT COMPRISE OF FIVE MAIN ELEMENTS: .ESTABLISHMENT OF SMALL RESEARCH GROUPS WITH MEMBERS OF BOTH CNS/ANP CLINICAL STAFF AND ACADEMIC SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN STAFF WHICH BUILD UPON THE EXISTING EXPERTISE WITHIN THE HOSPITAL AND THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. .RESEARCH BY THE TEAM UTILISING THE SKILLS OF BOTH OF THE PARTNERS INVOLVED TO FACILITATE THE UNDERSTANDING, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF RESEARCH SKILLS TO PRODUCE DEMONSTRABLE OUTPUT FOR PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH, E.G. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, STUDY DESIGN, ACADEMIC WRITING AND PUBLICATION OF POLICY DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS. .MEASURABLE RESEARCH OUTPUTS FROM LEADING ON TO MAJOR OUTCOMES FOR THE PROGRAM AS A WHOLE FOR EXAMPLE PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC PAPERS WHICH ADVANCE EVIDENCED BASED NURSING PRACTICE. .IDENTIFICATION OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR INCLUSION IN MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS, SOURCE FUNDING FOR EXAMPLE, FROM EU AND IRISH PROJECTS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CLASS ROOM, BLENDED AND E LEARNING BASED PROGRAMME VIA TRINITY COLLEGE TO BUILD ON AND DEVELOP THE RESEARCH SKILLS OF CLINICALLY BASED NURSES. EVALUATING A HEALTHY SCHOOLS INTERVENTION THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO PROVIDE A LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS PROGRAM AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY IS TO EVALUATE THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOME OF THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS PROGRAM. THE STUDY WILL ASSESS CAUSE AND EFFECT WHEREBY CAUSAL INFERENCE WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH THE MEASUREMENT OF KEY VARIABLES AND COMPARISONS OF SAMPLES ON THE BASIS OF PRE- AND POST-OUTCOME MEASURES. HENCE, WE REALISE OUR OBJECTIVE BY MEASURING IMPROVEMENTS IN OUTCOMES. THERE ARE SEVERAL LEVELS AT WHICH THESE OUTCOMES CAN BE DEFINED AND MEASURED. IN OTHER WORDS, TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE OUTCOME POSITIVE FOR THE CHILD, THEIR FAMILY AND LOCAL COMMUNITY AS WELL AS FOR SOCIETY AT A MORE GLOBAL OR NATIONAL LEVEL. WE THEN EXAMINE THESE LEVELS WITHIN A HEALTH, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT. THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE SURVEY INSTRUMENTATION DESCRIBED MODEL, MEASURE AND ASSESS IMPROVEMENTS AT ALL OF THESE LEVELS. CDI WITH ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AND THE OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN ROSIE, THE RESEARCH OUTCOME STUDY IN IRELAND EVALUATING DRUG TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS. THE RESEARCH OUTCOME STUDY IN IRELAND (ROSIE) IS THE FIRST LARGE-SCALE, PROSPECTIVE, MULTI-SITE, DRUG TREATMENT OUTCOME STUDY IN IRELAND. USING A STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE, THE SUBSTANCE USE, HEALTH, CRIME AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF 404 OPIATE USERS WERE ASSESSED AT TREATMENT INTAKE (6-MONTHS, 1-YEAR & 3-YEARS LATER). (SEE WWW.NUIM.IE/ROSIE) NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUGS MEASURING THE DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING LONGITUDINAL OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN FROM BIRTH TO TWO YEARS FOLLOWING PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE INTERVENTION. THIS IS AN IRISH STUDY WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN IN TWO OUT OF THE FOUR HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) AREAS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THIS IS A QUANTITATIVE PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY DESIGN INVOLVING A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 150 CHILDREN FOLLOWED FROM BIRTH TO TWO YEARS. PARTICIPANTS WERE RECRUITED IN TWO HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AREAS AND FOLLOWED UP BY THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR USING REPEAT MEASUREMENTS WITHIN 3-6 WEEKS OF BIRTH, 4-7.5 MONTHS, 9-14 MONTHS & 23-24 MONTHS. NON-FUNDED PHD MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF THE IMPACT OF HOST AND ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS ON THE INCIDENCE OF TUBERCULOSIS (TB) WITHIN A NATIONAL COHORT. THE RESEARCH AIMS TO DEVELOP, SIMULATE, AND ANALYSE AN EMPIRICALLY ACCURATE MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR THE SPREAD OF TUBERCULOSIS. THE MODEL WILL ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF LATENT INFECTIOUS INDIVIDUALS IN THE POPULATION AND TO SIMULATE THE IMPACT A PRE-SCREENING PROGRAM WOULD HAVE IN REDUCING FOREIGN BORN INCIDENCES WITHIN IRELAND. THE MODEL WILL CONSIDER SEASONALITY AND IMMIGRATION, ALONG WITH HAVING A LATENT INFECTIOUS COMPARTMENT. A RANGE OF SCENARIOS WILL SIMULATED VIA A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND PARAMETERS OF THE MODEL WILL BE ESTIMATED USING ACTUAL POPULATION DATA. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP (CODE 1252) N/A AN EVALUATION OF THE ZOOM BOOM KIDS PROGRAMME INFORMED BY THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS EVALUATION THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO PROVIDE AN EVALUATION OF THE ZOOM BOOM KIDS PROGRAMME AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION. THE STUDY IS AN EXPANSION OF THE LEARNINGS FROM THE HEALTH SCHOOLS PROGRAMME EVALUATION WITH AN INNOVATIVE TECHNICAL ELEMENT UNIQUE TO THE ZOOM BOOM KIDS PRODUCT. THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY IS TO EVALUATE THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOME OF THE PROGRAMME USING THE EXACT SAME APPROACH AS WAS USED IN THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS PROGRAMME. AN INNOVATION VOUCHER FROM ENTERPRISE IRELAND AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF THE CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY FOR PARENTAL PARTICIPATION IN POLICY PROCESSES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES THE 'PARTICIPATORY CITIZEN' IS AT THE CORE OF POLICY PROCESSES IN NEOLIBERAL ECONOMIES REQUIRING CITIZENS TO BE RESPONSIBLE, INDIVIDUALISED AND ACTIVE IN THE PROCESS OF IMPROVING THEIR OWN LIVES. THE TAKE UP, BY CITIZENS, OF 'OPPORTUNITIES' MADE AVAILABLE BY GOVERNMENT IS IDENTIFIED AS A ROUTE TOWARDS BETTER LIVES AND ULTIMATELY GREATER EQUALITY ACROSS SOCIETY. THESE 'OPPORTUNITIES' INCLUDE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING IN POLICY PROCESSES AT NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS. SCHOOLS, AS APPARATUSES OF THE STATE, ARE SITES FOR THE CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD EDUCATION, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING MADE REALISABLE THROUGH VARIOUS POLICY INITIATIVES. PARENTS ARE IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF A RANGE OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE DECISIONS TAKEN IN THESE INITIATIVES. HOWEVER, PARENTS FROM LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES ARE OFTEN IDENTIFIED IN THE LITERATURE AS LACKING INTEREST IN PARTICIPATION IN THESE PRACTICES. THIS STUDY USES AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO THE EXPLORATION OF PARENTAL PARTICIPATION IN SCHOOL BASED DECISION MAKING IN WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES. AT A WIDER LEVEL, THE STUDY IS FRAMED BY AN 'EQUALITY OF CONDITION' APPROACH WHICH IS INFORMED BY CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON POWER (BUTLER, 1999), ITS ROLE IN THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE AND CONSEQUENTLY THE REPRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY IN SOCIETY. IT TAKES AS ITS POINT OF DEPARTURE THE VIEW THAT SOCIETY AND CULTURAL LIFE IS SHAPED IN PARTICULAR WAYS BY AND IN ORDER TO SUIT DOMINANT GROUPS ACROSS SOCIETY. A CONSEQUENCE OF THIS IMBALANCE OF POWER IS THE REPRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY WHERE ACCESS TO DOMINANT FORMS OF POWER IS LIMITED FOR GROUPS LOWER DOWN THE SOCIAL HIERARCHY, REFLECTING AND REINFORCING THEIR SOCIAL MOBILITY. THE RESEARCH DRAWS ON SKEGGS' (2004) THEORY OF SELF AND SELF-MAKING. SELVES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES ARE RESPONSIBLE, INDIVIDUALISED AND ACTIVATED INDIVIDUALS. SELF-MAKING OCCURS THROUGH VARIOUS PROCESSES THAT ARE PART OF EVERYDAY SOCIAL INTERACTION. THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A SELF EQUATES TO BEING SOCIALLY MOBILE. HOWEVER, THE PROCESSES THAT MAKE BECOMING A SELF POSSIBLE FOR MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE, ARE THE SAME PROCESSES THAT BLOCK ACCESS TO SELF-MAKING, OR IN OTHER WORDS SOCIAL MOBILITY, FOR OTHERS. EXPLORATION OF THE NATURE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN PARENTS IN WORKING CLASS COMMUNITIES AND THEIR CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS IS BEING UNDERTAKEN IN THIS STUDY TO EXPLORE IF AND HOW PARENTS HAVE ACCESS TO SELF-MAKING PROCESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF RELATIONS WITH THEIR CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS. THE ULTIMATE AIM IS TO LEARN OF THE CONDITIONS OF POSSIBILITY FOR PARENTAL PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING IN THEIR CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS IN THE CONTEXT OF POWER RELATIONS THAT UNDERSCORE THAT POTENTIAL. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY, TCD. STUDENTSHIP THE BREATHE PROJECT A STUDY OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF ASSISTED LIVING TECHNOLOGY BY INFORMAL CARE GIVERS AND PEOPLE LIVING WITH CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION ASSISTED LIVING PROGRAMME CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOHN BOSCO CONAMA conamajohnbosco PROJECT MANAGER COMAMAJ C.L.C.S. CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES DEAF CULTURAL STUDIES, EQUALITY STUDIES, MEDIA STUDIES, SOCIAL POLICY, DEAF EDUCATION, ALL RELATING TO THE DEAF COMMUNITIES IN IRELAND AND BEYOND CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES TRINITY COLLEGE 1ST FLOOR, 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ACTING CHAIRPERSON OF THE MODEL SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF PROJECT BOARD MEMBER OF THE SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING SERVICE (SLIS). SLIS IS THE INTERPRETING AGENCY THAT IS SUPPORTED WITH FUNDS BY THE STATUTORY AGENCY: CITIZENS INFORMATION BOARD (CIB) COMMITTEE MEMBER ON IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE ACADEMY - A REPRESENTATIVE BODY OF ISL TEACHERS AND RESEARCHERS UNDER THE AEGIS OF IRISH DEAF SOCIETY. RESPONSIBILITY IN THE ISL RECOGNITION. INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION HOSTED BY THE NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY IRISH DEAF SOCIETY MEMBER, BOARD DIRECTOR, SECRETARY, CHAIRPERSON MEMBER OF ADVISORY GROUP TO ASSOCIATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND DISABILITY (AHEAD) WITH A RESPONSIBILITY OF ORGANISING A CONFERENCE AND A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THE ISSUE OF DEAF APPLICANTS FOR PRIMARY TEACHING TRAINING MEMBER OF ISL ACADEMY MEMBER OF THE PARTNERSHIP GROUP ON DEAF EDUCATION (CIDP-IDS-DEAFHEAR-SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF-CDS) WORLD FEDERATION OF THE DEAF EDUCATION AND MINORITY LANGUAGE EQUALITY LAW GLOBALISATION HEALTH POLICY IDENTITY POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IRISH ECONOMY, PROBLEMS IRISH POLITICS, ELECTION STUDY, ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE PUBLIC POLICY SOCIAL WORK WITH MINORITIES POVERTY IN THE IRISH DEAF COMMUNITY THE RESEARCH AIMED TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF POVERTY WITHIN THE DEAF COMMUNITY. THE CONCEPT OF POVERTY WAS DETERMINED BY THE NATIONAL ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGY WHICH MAKES A DISTINCTION BETWEEN ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE POVERTY. A REPORT WAS PUBLISHED. THE CO-AUTHOR WAS CARMEL GREHAN. COMBAT POVERTY AGENCY SIGNING IN / SIGNING OUT AS A CO-ORDINATOR OF THIS PROJECT, THIS RESEARCH WAS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE FORMER RESEARCH ON POVERTY. THE PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHER WAS EMPLOYED IN THIS REGARD AND WE COSNULTED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. THE REPORT WAS LAUNCHED BY THE MINISTER OF LABOUR, MR. KILLEN IN APRIL 2006 COMBAT POVERTY AGENCY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCAIL & FAMILY AFFAIRS SIF II DEAF STUDIES IN IRELAND PROGRAMME WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BLANCHARDSTOWN, CDS HAS DEVELOPED AND INTRODUCED A BACHELOR IN DEAF STUDIES WITH SIGNIFICANT DIGITAL CONTENT. ORIGINAL AIMS TO ROLL OUT THE PROGRAMME IN COLLABORATION WITH THE TIPPERARY INSTITUTE, THE LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND NUI CORK HAVE HAD TO BE PUT ON HOLD DUE TO FUNDING CUTS. DESPITE THIS SETBACK, THE CORE AIMS OF INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY FOR DEAF, HARD OF HEARING AND MATURE STUDENTS; MAXIMISING THE APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO THE DELIVERY OF SIGNED LANGUAGE AND DEAF STUDIES COURSES; ANALYSING THE SUCCESS OF THESE VENTURES; AND INCREASING COLLABORATION ACROSS HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE FIELD OF DEAF STUDIES REMAIN. WORK AS THE PROJECT MANAGER HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY STRATEGIC INNOVATION FUNDS, CYCLE II (SIF II) SIGNALL II CDS IS WORK WITH INTERESOURCE (IRE.) TO DEVELOP A DIGITAL MULTI-MEDIA COURSE ON DEAF CULTURE AND DEAF HISTORY FOR EMPLOYERS ACROSS THE EUROPEAN UNION. THE PROJECT PROMOTER IS INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LTD. PROJECT PARTNERS ARE FROM FINLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND AND THE UK. WWW.SIGNALLPROJECT.COM. WORK AS A TEAM MEMBER. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI HIDDEN HISTORIES (IRISH COORDINATOR) THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX LEADS THIS, WITH PARTNERS IN IRELAND (CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES, TCD), AUSTRIA AND FINLAND. THE PROJECT FOCUSES ON THE CREATION OF DIGITAL ARCHIVES OF COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES IN RURAL, NOMADIC, AND DEAF COMMUNITIES. A KEY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INCREASE THE PARTICIPATION IN LIFELONG LEARNING OF MARGINALISED AND DISADVANTAGED GROUPS AND, AS A RESULT OF THIS PARTICIPATION TO INCREASE THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH CIVIC SOCIETY AND LEARNING. IT FOSTERS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON PARTICIPATION IN LOCAL COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, DEVELOPING ALTERNATIVE AND INNOVATIVE WAYS OF LEARNING, AND SHARING GOOD PRACTICE ON INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION, LEARNING BY MARGINALIZED CITIZENS AND THEIR LINGUISTIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INCLUSION. THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY THE EU (GRUNDTVIG PROGRAMME). DESIGNS: DEAF EMPLOYMENT FOR SIGN LANGUAGE USERS IN THE EU THE DESIGNS PROJECT AIMS TO BRING TOGETHER 7 PARTNERS FROM 4 EU COUNTRIES WHO ARE RENOWNED EXPERTS IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING AND DEAF COMMUNITY ADVOCACY. THE OVERALL AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO CREATE VET AND CPD TRAINING RESOURCES AND EXCHANGE BEST PRACTICES ACROSS EUROPE TO FACILITATE GREATER PARTICIPATION OF DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE USERS IN EMPLOYMENT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ERASMUS + CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. CILLIN CONDON condoncillin SENIOR PHYSIOTHERAPIST CONDONC PHYSIOTHERAPY PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY MUSCULOSKELETAL REHABILITATION IMPLEMENTATION OF EVIDENCE BASED PHYSIOTHERAPY MIXED METHODOLGY IN PHYSIOTHERAPY RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH HEALTH AND SAFETY OFFICER FOR DISCIPLINE OF PHYSIOTHERAPY MEMBER OF ISCP PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGY RESPIRATORY MEDICINE HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. MARY CONDREN condrenmary VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MCONDREN CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES 30A PARKHILL RISE KILNAMANAGH DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 DR. OWEN CONLAN conlanowen ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OWCONLAN COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE KDEG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 APPLIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COGNITIVE SCIENCE COMPUTER BASED TRAINING DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING DISTANCE LEARNING E-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION REPRESENTATIONS INFORMATION SCIENCE/SYSTEMS INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING INTERNET INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION LEARNING LIFELONG LEARNING NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITION VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ICLASS - INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED COGNITIVE-BASED OPEN LEARNING SYSTEM FOR SCHOOLS ICLASS IS THE PROJECT INITIATED TO DEVELOP AN INTELLIGENT COGNITIVE-BASED OPEN LEARNING SYSTEM AND ENVIRONMENT, ADAPTED TO INDIVIDUAL LEARNERS' NEEDS AND ENSURING THEIR TAKE-UP IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR AT A EUROPEAN LEVEL. <P> ICLASS PROJECT IS FUNDED UNDER THE FP6, THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION. IT IS IN THE TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING AND ACCESS TO CULTURAL HERITAGE ACTION LINE, AND IS ONE OF THE TWO INTEGRATED PROJECTS IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION. <P> ICLASS PROJECT WAS INITIATED IN JANUARY 1, 2004. UNITED UNDER A CONSORTIUM LEAD BY SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES, 22 PARTNERS FROM 11 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES ARE WORKING TO DEVELOP AN INTELLIGENT COGNITIVE-BASED OPEN LEARNING SYSTEM AND ENVIRONMENT, ADAPTED TO INDIVIDUAL LEARNERS' NEEDS AT A EUROPEAN LEVEL. THE EFFORTS WILL, BY ENVISIONING THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF THE FUTURE, INVOLVE THE FOLLOWING: (1) EXTENSIVE RESEARCH FOR THE DEFINITION AND DESIGN OF NEXT GENERATION PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, (2) THE CREATION AND TESTING OF PROTOTYPES, (3) AND THE MEASUREMENT OF THE IMPACT TO ENSURE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN PRE-UNIVERSITY EDUCATION. <P> MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AY <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.ICLASS.INFO">HTTP://WWW.ICLASS.INFO</A>. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (IST) FP6 ELEKTRA - ENHANCED LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR THIS PROJECT IS THE OBSERVATION THAT DIGITAL LEARNING GAMES SUFFER FROM VARIOUS DEFICITS THAT SEVERELY IMPAIR THEIR EFFECTIVENESS AS A LEARNING TOOL. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY DO NOT MAKE USE OF THE MOTIVATING POWER OF ELABORATE STORY TELLING. <P> ELEKTRA'S RESPONSE TO THIS PROBLEM IS TO LINK RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF PEDAGOGY WITH NEUROSCIENCE, COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. THIS WILL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN COGNITIVE THEORY AND GAMING PRACTICE AND HELP TO ASSESS THE COGNITIVE POTENTIAL OF LEARNING GAMES AND TO PUT THEIR DEVELOPMENT ON SOLID SCIENTIFIC GROUNDS. THE NEUROSCIENCE PART OF ELEKTRA WILL STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT TEACHING/LEARNING SCENARIOS BY EVENT-RELATED BRAIN IMAGING IN COMBINATION WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL LEARNING TESTS. ELEKTRA'S VISION IS TO MAKE LEARNING AS EXCITING FOR LEARNERS AS LEADING-EDGE COMPUTER GAMES ARE EXCITING FOR GAMERS. THIS VISION SHALL BE REALISED IN THE FORM OF AN IMMERSIVE 3D WORLD FOR LEARNING THAT USES STATE-OF-THE-ART GAME DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR VISUALISATION, INTERACTION AND STORYTELLING. <P> ELEKTRA'S 3D WORLD WILL VISUALISE LEARNING TOPICS AS HIGHLY INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES, CONCEIVED AS A 'GARDEN OF KNOWLEDGE' THROUGH WHICH THE LEARNER CAN PERAMBULATE FREELY OR BY FOLLOWING THE GUIDANCE OF A STORYLINE AND/OR A GAME CHARACTER. THIS TYPICAL CONCEPT FOR GAME-PLAY COMPRISES A USER-CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE, SUPPORTED BY MULTIMODAL CONCEPTS FOR LEARNING PATHS AND LEARNER MODELS. NARRATION ('THE ORIGINAL FORM OF TEACHING') WILL BE PART OF THE DIDACTIC DESIGN. THE GAME-PLAY WILL BE ENHANCED WITH INTERACTIVE DRAMATURGY AND DIRECTION IN ORDER TO DRIVE THE STORYTELLING AND DEEPEN THE IMMERSION OF THE LEARNER INTO THE LEARNING TOPIC. MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF THE LEARNER WILL BE INTEGRATED IN A WAY THAT ENABLES A SITUATED AND ACTIVITY-DRIVEN LEARNING EXPERIENCE. THE VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WILL REACT IN RELATION TO THE LEARNER'S BEHAVIOUR AND COGNITIVE STATE AND TO THE LEARNING PROGRESS REPRESENTED IN THE LEARNER MODEL. TARGET GROUPS FOR THESE NEXT GENERATION LEARNING GAMES ARE SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. <P> ELEKTRA IS SET UP AS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT. THE CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCH EXPERTISE IN THE FIELDS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE, PEDAGOGICAL THEORY AND NEUROSCIENCE WITH THE DESIGN TECHNIQUES OF COMPUTER GAMES AND E-LEARNING. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (IST) FP6 CULTURA OWEN ACTED AS THE COORDINATOR FOR THE €4M DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 CNGL II OWEN LEADS THE PERSONALISATION AND ADAPTIVITY THEME (ONE OF SIX THEMES) IN CNGL II. SFI ADAPT OWEN LEADS THE PERSONALISING THE USER EXPERIENCE THEME (ONE OF FIVE THEMES) IN ADAPT. SFI CENDARI EUROPEAN COMMISSION AMAS OWEN WAS THE PI ON THE SFI PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORSHIP. SFI IMREAL EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 WRIPL AND UNITE ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION SUPPORT ENTERPRISE IRELAND 80DAYS EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 ELEKTRA EUROPEAN COMMISSION FAME SFI DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. CATHERINE CONLON conloncatherine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CONLONCE SOCIAL STUDIES MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ENCOMPASS: WOMEN'S FERTILE BODIES; SOCIO-CULTURAL SURVEILLANCE OF WOMEN'S SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE BODIES AND INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS. MY CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT CONCERNS PARENTS ACCOUNTS OF TALKING WITH THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN (AGED 4-9) ABOUT SEXUALITY, THE BODY AND GROWING UP. THIS FOCUS ON 'SEXUAL SOCIALISATION' FROM PARENT'S PERSPECTIVES CONTINUES MY INTEREST IN SEXUAL SUBJECTIVITY, DISCOURSES OF HETEROSEXUALITY AND SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION AS PRACTICE. MY RESEARCH INQUIRIES ARE UNDERTAKEN UNDER CONDITIONS OF ON-GOING INTERROGATION OF ONTOLOGICAL, EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS RAISED BY POST-STRUCTURALIST AND 'POST-QUALITATIVE' THEORIES. THIS INVOLVES A SOCIAL RESEARCH INQUIRY PRAXIS INTERROGATING WHAT CONSTITUTES AS KNOWLEDGE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE/POLICY, WHAT CONSTITUTES AS DATA-FOR-KNOWLEDGE. I AM A MEMBER OF THE TCD CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE RESEARCH TEAM AND HAVE FORGED COLLABORATIONS WITH ARTS PRACTITIONERS INCLUDING DR EVANGELIA RIGAKI, TCD SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND FILM-MAKER ANNEMAREE BARRY TO EXPLORE PRODUCTIVE MODES OF TRANS DISCIPLINARY INQUIRY. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH WITH PARENTS COMMISSIONED BY THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) CRISIS PREGNANCY PROGRAMME, THIS PROJECT EXPLORES HOW PARENTS OF CHILDREN AGED 4-9 COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR CHILDREN REGARDING THE BODY, RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY. THE PROJECT EMPLOYS CONSTRUCTIVIST GROUNDED THEORY PRINCIPLES USING FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS IN A PROJECT INTENDED TO INFORM THE COMMISSIONING BODY IN DEVELOPING POLICIES AND INITIATIVES PROMOTING POSITIVE SEXUAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) CRISIS PREGNANCY PROGRAMME CHANGING GENERATIONS POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW ON CHANGING GENERATIONS RESEARCH PROJECT. ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES FUNDED INTER-INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT INVOLVING SOCIAL POLICY AND AGEING RESEARCH CENTRE, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY, TCD (PROF VIRPI TIMONEN (PI) AND DR CATHERINE CONLON) AND IRISH CENTRE FOR SOCIAL GERONTOLOGY, NUI GALWAY (PROF TOM SCHARF (PI) AND DR GEMMA CARNEY). THE PROJECT EXPLORED INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY IN IRELAND THROUGH CONSTRUCTIVIST GROUNDED THEORY METHODS USING 100 QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS WITH WOMEN AND MEN AGED 18-102. PROF KATHY CHARMAZ WHO PIONEERED THE METHOD WAS INTERNATIONAL ADVISER TO THE PROJECT. I LEAD AUTHORED THREE OF THE SIX PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS GENERATED BY THIS PROJECT TO DATE. ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR KEVIN CHRISTOPHER CONLON conlonkevinchristopher CHAIR OF SURGERY (2001) CONLONK SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL SURGEONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ENDOSCOPIC SURGEONS EUROPEAN HEPATOBILIARY ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN PANCREAS CLUB EUROPEAN SURGICAL ASSOCIATION IRISH SOCIETY OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY PANCREAS SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND SOCIETY OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. KEVIN CONNAIRE connairekevin ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CONNAIK SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MS. ELIZABETH MARY CONNOLLY connollyelizabethmary ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT CONNOLE1 SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES' HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER DR. DEIRDRE MARY CONNOLLY connollydeirdremary ASSOCIATE PROF & HEAD OF DEPARTMENT CONNOLDM OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOCUSES ON HOW CHRONIC DISEASES INTERFERE WITH PEOPLE'S ABILITIES TO PERFORM EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES, DR CONNOLLY'S RESEARCH PROGRAMME IS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING AND TESTING THE IMPACT OF PRIMARY CARE-BASED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH SINGLE CHRONIC CONDITIONS AND MULTIMORBIDITY. TO THIS END, SHE HAS DEVELOPED OPTIMAL, A SELF-MANAGEMENT, GROUP-BASED INTERVENTION AIMED AT INCREASING ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION FOR PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH-RELATED CHRONIC CONDITIONS. OPTIMAL, HAS BEEN TESTED IN DIFFERENT HEALTHCARE CONTEXTS USING DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES, INCLUDING RCT, AND HAS SHOWN SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION AND SYMPTOMS OF ILLNESS BURDEN INCLUDING QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEPRESSION. SHE IS NOW EVALUATING OPTIMAL FOR CANCER SURVIVORS USING AN RCT DESIGN. THIS RESEARCH IS CARRIED IN AN INTER-INSTITUTIONAL, CROSS-DISCIPLINARY CAPACITY WITH NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATORS. DR CONNOLLY HAS ALSO DESIGNED, DELIVERED AND EVALUATED FAME (FATIGUE AND ACTIVITY MANAGEMENT), A SIX-WEEK PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY/AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES WHO EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT FATIGUE. FAME HAS BEEN DELIVERED AND EVALUATED WITH PEOPLE WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES WITH POSITIVE OUTCOMES. DR. CONNOLLY'S RESEARCH ON SELF-MANAGEMENT FOR CHRONIC DISEASES AND MULTIMORBIDITY IS INTERNATIONALLY RELEVANT AND HIGHLY SUSTAINABLE GIVEN THE RISING AGEING DEMOGRAPHIC AND THE INCREASING INCIDENCE OF CHRONIC DISEASE AND MULTIMORBIDITY GLOBALLY. DEVELOPING EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR CHRONIC DISEASES AND MULTIMORBIDITY IS A PRIORITY FOR ALL HEALTH SERVICES. SHE HAS PRESENTED HER RESEARCH AT OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY-SPECIFIC, MULTIDISCIPLINARY, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, INCLUDING INVITED KEY NOTE ADDRESSES. SHE SUPERVISES PHD AND MSC STUDENTS. SCH OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AISHE: ALL IRELAND SOCIETY OF HIGHER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND. FACILITATE: ALL IRELAND NETWORK OF ENQUIRY AND PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRIMARY CARE ADVISORY GROUP ACTIVITY PREFERENCES AGE-RELATED IMPAIRMENT ARTS AND HEALTH CANCER SURVIVORSHIP CHRONIC ILLNESS SELF-MANAGEMENT CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION AND WORK FALLS HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH OUTCOMES HIGHER EDUCATION PARKINSON'S DISEASE PRIMARY CARE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EDUCATION THE OPTIMAL STUDY: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL AND PROCESS EVALUATION OF AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LED SELF MANAGEMENT SUPPORT PROGRAMME FOR PATIENTS WITH MULTIMORBIDITY IN PRIMARY CARE THE PREVALENCE AND INCIDENCE OF CHRONIC DISEASE AND MULTIMORBIDITY IS INCREASING GLOBALLY. INTERVENTIONS ARE NEEDED TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES IN MUTLIMORBIDITY AND REDUCE THE COST OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES. THIS STUDY WILL EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF OPTIMAL ON ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION, MOOD AND QUALITY OF LIFE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS PBL.DOC THIS PROJECT IS AN ENQUIRY/PROBLEM BASED LEARNING INITIATIVE, POSITIONED AT THE INTERSECTION OF TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH. IT HAS BEEN DESIGNED WITH THREE DISTINCT AIMS: 1. TO EXPLORE WRITING DISPOSITIONS AMONG STUDENTS AND STAFF; 2. TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND EXAMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS, OF FOUR DISCRETE ACADEMIC WRITING PROGRAMMES WITH FOUR SEPARATE COHORTS; 3. TO EXAMINE THE UNDERLYING IMPACT THAT LARGE/SMALL GROUP TEACHING AND ON-LINE/IN-CLASS ENVIRONMENTS HAVE ON LEARNER-CENTRED SUPPORT. NAIRTL EXAMINING ASSESSMENT OF FITNESS TO DRIVE AMONG ACUTE AND SUBACUTE STROKE PATIENTS THIS STUDY IS AIMED AT EXAMINING THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS USED IN DETERMINING A PERSON'S FITNESS TO DRIVE FOLLOWING A STROKE. IT USES A MIXED METHODOLOGY TO EXPLORE THE CLINICAL REASONING PROCESSES AND RELAIBILITY OF STANDARDISED ASSESSMENTS IN DECIDING WHETHER A PERSON IS SAFE TO RETURN TO DRIVING FOLLOWING A CVA. HRB RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP THE IMPACT OF FATIGUE ON WORKABILITY OF PEOPLE WITH CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS. FATIGUE IS A COMMON SYMPTOM IN CHRONIC DISEASES WITH A REPORTED PREVALENCE RATE OF UP TO 90% FOR PEOPLE WITH CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISORDERS. IT EFFECTS PARTICIPATION IN MANY DAILY ACTIVITIES HOWEVER, THE IMPACT OF THIS SYMPTOM ON ABILITY TO MAINTAIN EMPLOYMENT IS LIMITED. THEREFORE THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS: (I) TO MEASURE WORK DISABILITY IN RELATION TO LEVELS OF FATIGUE, (II) IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE FATIGUE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN THE WORKPLACE AND (III) EXPLORE PEOPLES' EXPERIENCES OF REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS PROVIDED BY THEIR EMPLOYERS TO MANAGEMENT OF FATIGUE. NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF A FALLS PREVENTION PROGRAMME THROUGH DANCE. THE DANCE THEATRE OF IRELAND HAVE DEVELOPED A 10-WEEK DANCE PROGRAMME FOR COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS TO INCREASE THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCE AND CONTRIBUTE TO PREVENTION OF FALLS. THIS STUDY WILL THEREFORE EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE PROGRAMME ON PARTICIPANTS' FALLS SELF-EFFICACY, BALANCE AND MOBILITY, LEVELS AND FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION, MOOD, AND QUALITY OF LIFE. IT WILL ALSO EXPLORE PARTICIPANTS' PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE DANCE PROGRAMME HSE/DUN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN COUNTY COUNCIL ARTS AND HEALTH PROJECT ARTS AND HEALTH PROJECT AGEING CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR STEPHEN CONNON connonstephen PROFESSOR IN SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY CONNONS CHEMISTRY THE DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CHIRAL ORGANOCATALYSTS (AND IMMOBILISED VERSIONS THEREOF) FOR ASYMMETRIC TRANSFORMATIONS. ASYMMETRIC BIFUNCTIONAL ORGANOCATALYSIS. SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CYCLIN-DEPENDANT KINASE (CDK) INHIBITORS. DESIGN OF NOVEL TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVES TO COMBAT BACTERIAL RESISTANCE. NOVEL SYNTHETIC METHODOLOGY, INCLUDING THE SCOPE EXPANSION OF SEVERAL IMPORTANT CARBON-CARBON BOND-FORMING REACTIONS SUCH AS THE ASYMMETRIC BAYLIS-HILLMAN REACTION AND KETONE TRIFLUOROMETHYLATION. THE DESIGN OF NOVEL FAST INITIATING OLEFIN METATHESIS CATALYSTS. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE INSTITE OF CHEMISTRY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE RSC IRELAND COMMITTEE CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY CATALYSIS CYCLIN KINASE COMPLEX ORGANIC-SYNTHESIS ORGANOMETALLICS TETRACYCLINE CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. HELEN CONRAD O'BRIAIN conradobriainhelen DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARIAN PART-TIME CONRADO ENGLISH EDITED WITH GERARD HYNES: TOLKIEN: THE FOREST AND THE CITY (PAPERS FROM THE 2012 TRINITY CONFERENCE OF THE SAME NAME: FOUR COURTS FORTH-COMING) WORKS IN REVISION: PLACE AND THE DISTORTION OF TIME IN LUCY' BOSTON'S 'GREENKNOWE' GRAMMAR AND GARDENS: GEORGICS IV, LINES 125-148 AND TRINITY INCUNABULA C.TT.9 'PSALM TEXT REMINISCENCES IN BEOWULF: IMPLICATIONS' WITH DR. LAURA CLEAVER: SING TO THE LORD A NEW SONG: LATIN PSALM MANUSCRIPTS IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN LIBRARY AND THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY (FOUR COURTS PRESS - FORTHCOMING) WORK IN PROGRESS: '"IPSI SIBI SUNT LEX" BEOWULF AND RIPHEUS, SERVIUS AND DANTE' (WITH JANE CARROLL) 'BENARY-ISBERT'S THE WICKED ENCHANTMENT': THE GOTHIC FOR CHILDREN' SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 LIFE MEMBER INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANGLO-SAXONISTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. MELISSA CONROY conroymelissa SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW MECONROY SURGERY MY RESEARCH WAS PREVIOUSLY FOCUSED ON THE IMMUNOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO CHRONIC HEPATITIS VIRUS INFECTION AND THIS WORK HAS GENERATED 3 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS. MORE RECENTLY, MY RESEARCH FOCUS HAS SHIFTED TO THE BURGEONING GLOBAL HEALTH BURDEN OF OBESITY WITH INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE IMMUNOLOGICAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING OBESITY-ASSOCIATED MORBIDITIES SUCH AS NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE (NAFLD) AND CANCER. CURRENTLY, I AM MAINLY RESEARCHING THE CHEMOKINE PATHWAYS GUIDING INFLAMMATORY T CELLS AND NK CELLS TO THE ADIPOSE TISSUE, LIVER AND TUMOUR IN OBESITY-ASSOCIATED CANCER AND WORKING TO IDENTIFY AND INVESTIGATE NOVEL IMMUNOTHERAPIES FOR OBESITY-ASSOCIATED DISEASE. ASIDE FROM MY MAIN RESEARCH FOCUS, I AM ALSO PERFORMING COLLABORATIVE IMMUNE STUDIES IN THE AREAS OF LIVER CIRRHOSIS AND RADICULOPATHY. DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MRS. GAY CONROY conroygay RETIRED STAFF MEMBER CONROYG RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MONART ENNISCORTHY CO WEXFORD 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. FIONNUALA CONWAY conwayfionnuala ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PART-TIME CONWAYFI ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL ENG. PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS INSTALLATION ART INTERACTIVE AUDIO AND SOUND DESIGN LOCATION-AWARE AUDIO FOR THE SMARTPHONE MEDIA ARTS MOBILE APPLICATIONS MULTIMEDIA MUSIC COMPOSITION PERFORMING ARTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MR. KEN COOGAN cooganken EXECUTIVE OFFICER COOGANK SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MRS. MARESE ANTOINETTE COONEY cooneymareseantoinette ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCOONEY PHYSIOTHERAPY PAIN ASSESSMENT, MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT BREAST CANCER SURVIVORSHIP ISSUES STANDARDS OF PRACTICE PROFESSIONAL ISSUES INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH (ICF)- VALIDATION AND UTILITY SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHAIRMAN OF PROFESSIONAL ISSUES WORKING GROUP OF THE EUROPEAN REGION OF W.C.P.T. DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF THE ROTUNDA CHARITY EUROPEAN REGION OF THE WORLD CONFEDERATION OF PHYSICAL THERAPISTS IRISH PAIN SOCIETY IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE EUROPEAN REGION OF WORLD CONFEDERATION OF PHYSICAL THERAPISTS' EDUCATION WORKING PARTY AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES WORKING PARTY IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS MEMBER OF THE CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS IN ONCOLOGY AND PALLIATIVE CARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS AT EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS. VICE CHAIRMAN OF EUROPEAN REGION OF WORLD CONFEDERATION OF PHYSICALTHERAPISTS CANCER PAIN IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS PAIN MANAGEMENT, PAIN MEASUREMENT, PAIN RECOVERY PRACTICE ISSUES, PATIENT EDUCATION REHABILITATION OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EDUCATION THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING (ICF) CORE SET FOR BREAST CANCER : A VALIDATION STUDY THE CORE SET IS A SUBSET OF 80 CATEGORIES OF ASPECTS OF HEALTH THAT ARE THOUGHT TO REPRESENT THE RANGE PERTINENT TO WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER.UNTIL NOW WOMEN HAVE NOT BEEN INVOLVED IN THE VALIDATION PROCESS. THE PROJECT AIMS AT VALIDATING THE CORE SET FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN WITH THE CONDITION . UNFUNDED CANCER INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. DAVID JOHN CORCORAN corcorandavidjohn CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER CORCORJD PAEDIATRICS MD THESIS SUPERVISION DR IRETI FAROMBI, CONSULTANT NEONATOLOGIST, OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL DROGHEDA. TITLE: THE ROLE OF N-TERMINAL PRO-B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE( NT PROBNP) IN ASSESSING MYOCARDIAL FUNCTION AND CIRCULATORY ADEQUACY IN PRETERM INFANTS SUBMISSION DATE 23 OCTOBER 2009 ACCEPTED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ( CO-SUPERVISOR WITH PROFESSOR TOM MATTHEWS) SUMMARY WE STUDIED ABOUT 50 PRETERM INFANTS IN THE FIRST 10 DAYS OF LIFE WITH SERIAL MEASUREMENTS OF SERUM AND URINARY SODIUM, NT PROBNP AND ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY. THE RESULTANT PAPER IN ARCHIVES OF DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD HAS BEEN WIDELY CITED. DR CECILIE HALLING RESEARCH FELLOW TITLE: NEURODEVELOPMENTAL FOLLOW UP PROJECT OF GROWTH DISCORDANT AND CONCORDANT TWINS. THE NOTES STUDY COMMENCED MAY 2010 AND WAS COMPLETED IN DECEMBER 2012. SUMMARY WE ARE STUDYING 1000 TWIN PAIRS AT AGE 2 TO 3 ¿ TO ASSESS THE EFFECT OF GROWTH DISCREPANCY ON NEURODEVELOPMENT. WE ARE SURVEYING THE ENTIRE POPULATION WITH THE AGES AND STAGES QUESTIONNAIRE ASQ3 AND DOING BAYLEYS ASSESSMENTS ON THE GROWTH DISCORDANT AND HIGH RISK PAIRS. THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST NEURODEVELOPMENTAL FOLLOW-UP STUDIES EVER DONE IN IRELAND. RESEARCH PROJECTS IN PROGRESS 1. PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF NORMAL PATTERN OF TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING (TDI) VELOCITIES AND MYOCARDIAL PERFORMANCE INDEX (MPI) AT VARIOUS GESTATIONAL AGES IN PRETERM BABIES. COLLABORATORS DR SHAHID SALEEMI, DR ORLA FRANKLIN 2. EFFECT OF CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE ON RIGHT HEART FUNCTION IN EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT (ELBW) INFANTS. COLLABORATORS DR SHAHID SALEEMI, DR COLIN MCMAHON. 3. NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOME FOR TWINS OF THE ESPRIT STUDY THE "NOTES" STUDY COLLABORATORS DR CECILIE HALLING, DR FERGAL MALONE, DR MARTIN WHITE, DR JOHN MURPHY, DR MOIRA STEWART ET AL. CONSULTANT NEONATOLOGIST C/O ROTUNDA HOSPITAL DUBLIN 1 01-8961000 "X ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND, FACULTY OF PAEDIATRICS "X BOARD MEMBER OF FACULTY OF PAEDIATRICS AND MEMBER OF THE NEONATAL CLINICAL ADVISORY GROUP "X EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH "X SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH "X ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND, FACULTY OF PAEDIATRICS "X SECRETARY AND BOARD MEMBER OF FACULTY OF PAEDIATRICS 2012-2014 AND MEMBER OF THE NEONATAL CLINICAL ADVISORY GROUP "X EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH "X SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCH PROFESSOR JOHN CORISH corishjohn FELLOW EMERITUS JCORISH CHEMISTRY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE WIDE AND EMBRACE BOTH FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTIFIC AND APPLIED TECHNOLOGICAL AREAS. THE MAJOR CONNECTING THEME HAS BEEN MATTER TRANSPORT THROUGH SOLID MATERIALS WITH APPLICATION TO SOLID STATE ELECTROCHEMISTRY, IONIC CRYSTALS, ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS AND ADVANCED BATTERY SYSTEMS, TRANSDERMAL TRANSPORT OF DRUGS AND OTHER MOLECULES AND THE LOW AND VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE CORROSION OF METALS, ALLOYS AND CERAMICS. BOTH EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS AND COMPUTATIONAL ATOMISTIC SIMULATION TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN APPLIED, WHERE POSSIBLE IN COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES, TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN THESE SYSTEMS. RESEARCH CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS INCLUDES ATOMISTIC SIMULATION STUDIES OF POLYMERIC MATERIALS WHERE THE INTENTION IS USE MD TO EXTEND STUDIES OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS TO DETERMINE THE MOLECULAR PROCESSES THAT CONTROL THE RELEASE OF THE ACTIVE CONSTITUENTS. ANOTHER PROJECT, IN RESPONSE TO THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGAINST DRUGS INITIATIVE OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT, WAS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE TOXICOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE IRISH STATE LABORATORY. THE OBJECTIVES WERE TO DEVELOP NEW AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES TO EXTRACT AND QUANTIFY A RANGE OF DRUGS OF ABUSE FROM BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES. ALSO IN THE GENERAL AREA OF ANALYSIS A JOINT PROJECT HAS BEEN RECENTLY COMPLETED WITH INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ENVIRONEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES (FRANCE) IS EVALUATING SOLID ADSORBENTS FOR SAMPLING APPLICATIONS FOR A RANGE OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOC) IN THE PPMV CONCENTRATION RANGE. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACTING SECRETARY, INORGANIC DIVISION [IUPAC] CHAIR, CHEMICAL AND ALLIED PRODUCTS INDUSTRIAL TRAINING COMMITTEE, FÁS (IRISH INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AUTHORITY) CHAIRMAN LOCAL COMMITTEE FOR ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY FOURTHINTERNATIONAL MATERIALS CHEMISTRY CONFERENCE, DUBLIN 1999. CHAIRMAN, MATERIALS CHEMISTRY SUB-COMMITTEE [IUPAC] CHIEF GAS EXAMINER (IRISH DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND ENERGY) EUROPEAN CHEMIST EXAMINER IN CHEMISTRY- THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF IRELAND FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN LEADER/MEMBER IRISH DELEGATION TO COUNCIL FOR SOME GENERAL ASSEMBLIES [IUPAC] MEMBER COMMITTEE OF HEADS OF IRISH UNIVERSITIES - EOLAS/ FORBAIRT LIAISON COMMITTEE MEMBER INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY COMMITTEE IBEC MEMBER IUPAC INTERDIVISIONAL COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE AND SYMBOLS MEMBER OF BOARD OF GOVERNORS, MICHAEL COLLINS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, CHAIRMAN 1997-PRESENT MEMBER OF BUREAU, AS DIVISION PRESIDENT [IUPAC] MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF IRELAND, TREASURER 1973-1978, AND ALSO MEMBER OF MEMBERSHIP AND POLLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEES. MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER OF EUROPEAN CHEMISTRY THEMATIC NETWORK AND SECRETARY OF WORKING PARTY ON THE 'IMAGE OF CHEMISTRY' MEMBER OF EUROPEAN NETWORK ON DERMAL EXPOSURE MEMBER OF FINANCE COMMITTEE [IUPAC COMMISSION ON HIGH TEMPERATURE AND SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY] MEMBER OF HETAC RESEARCH DEGREE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER OF INTERDIVISIONAL COMMITTEE ON TERMINOLOGY NOMENCLATURE AND SYMBOLS [IUPAC] MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR CONFERENCES IN HIGH TEMPERATURE MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AT SANTA FE 1984, ROME 1987, GAITHERSHURG 1989, ORLEANS 1991, VIENNA 1994, PENN. STATE 1997, JULICH 2000, TOKYO (2003) AND VIENNA(2006). MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES FOR CONFERENCES ON DEFECTS IN INSULATING CRYSTALS, RIGA 1981, SALT LAKE CITY 1974, PARMA 1985, NORDKIRCHEN 1992, WAKE FOREST 1996 , SOUTH AFRICA 2000, RIGA (2003) AND MILAN (2006). MEMBER OF IUPAC COMMISSION ON HIGH TEMPERATURE AND SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY; SECRETARY 1987-1991; CHAIR 1991-1995 MEMBER OF IUPAC EVALUATION COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER PAC EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY, SCIENCE COMMITTEE MEMBER TRADES COUNCIL IRISH BUSINESS AND EMPLOYERS CONFEDERATION ORGANISED (WITH PROF R.G.GILBERT) IUPAC CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE, BUDAPEST. PRESIDENT, INORGANIC DIVISION IUPAC PRESIDENT, INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF IRELAND RESPONSIBLE FOR IUPAC PROCESS FOR NAMING NEW ELEMENTS SECRETARY 'FOURTH EUROPHYSICAL TOPICAL CONFERENCE ON LATTICE DEFECTS IN IONIC CRYSTALS, DUBLIN, 1982. SERVED ON INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEES FOR LATER CONFERENCES IN THE SERIES AT MADRID 1986, GRÖNINGEN 1990, LYON 1994, KEELE 1998 AND RIGA 2002. SERVED ON CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION FOR APPOINTMENTS IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE TRUSTEE AND MEMBER OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL CLUB (THE OLDEST RUGBY CLUB IN THE WORLD CONTINUOUSLY PLAYING SINCE 1854): PRESIDENT 1995-1996 VICE-PRESIDENT ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY VICE-PRESIDENT, INORGANIC DIVISION IUPAC (CH)X ABSORPTION ACID ACID SOLUTIONS ADHESION AISI-304 STAINLESS-STEEL ALKOXY-SUBSTITUTED POLYTHIOPHENES ALKYL CHAIN BILAYERS ALKYL-CHAIN BILAYERS ALLOY ATOMIC-SCALE ATOMISTIC LATTICE SIMULATION ATOMISTIC SIMULATION ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS BARRIER BF4- DOPANT BIPHENYL BREAKTHROUGH VOLUME CALORIMETRY CHAIN CONFORMATIONS CHAIN DISTORTIONS CHARGE-TRANSFER CHROMATOGRAPHY MASS-SPECTROMETRY CINEOLE COMPLEXES CONDUCTING POLYMER CONDUCTING POLYMERS CONDUCTIVE POLYMER CHAIN CONFORMATION CONFORMATIONAL DEFECTS CR CRYSTAL LATTICE CRYSTAL STRUCTURAL-CHANGE CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE DERIVATIVES DIFFUSION DMSO DOPED LATTICE SIMULATION DRUG DELIVERY ELECTRICAL FIELD FILMS FORCE-FIELD GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY GASEOUS STATE HUMAN STRATUM-CORNEUM IMPEDANCE INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY INTERFACIAL FRICTION INVIVO IODINE IONTOPHORESIS LANGMUIRIAN PARAMETERS LATTICE STRUCTURES LIQUID LITHIUM LUBRICATION MAIN CHAIN DISTORTIONS MICROPOROUS CARBONS MIGRATION MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE MONOLAYERS MOTION NEUTRON-DIFFRACTION OLEIC ACID OLEIC-ACID PARA-TERPHENYL PERCUTANEOUS-ABSORPTION PERDEUTERATED BIPHENYL PERMEABILITY PHASE POLY(3-ALKYLTHIOPHENE) POLY(3-ALKYLTHIOPHENES) POLYACETYLENE POLYMERS POLYPHENYLS POLYTHIOPHENE PRESSURE EFFECTS SAMPLING METHODS SHEAR SIMULATION SPECTROSCOPY STRATUM-CORNEUM STRUCTURAL PHASE-TRANSITION SURFACE SURFACE COVERAGE TENAX GC ADSORPTION THERMAL-DESORPTION VOLATILE ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS DR. SINEAD CRISTIN CORR corrsineadcristin ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CORRSC MICROBIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MY RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE AT THE HOST-MICROBE INTERFACE WITHIN THE GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) TRACT, WITH AN OVERALL FOCUS ON MICROBIAL MODULATION OF GUT IMMUNITY. THIS WORK AIMS TO UNDERSTAND THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS WHICH GOVERN THE INTERPLAY THAT OCCURS BETWEEN PATHOGENIC BACTERIA, THE MICROBIOTA AND THE HOST ORGANISM, NAMELY THE EPITHELIAL BARRIER AND INNATE IMMUNITY. THE SUBSEQUENT MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH OR DEVELOPMENT OF DISEASE IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST. GASTROENTERITIS, INCLUDING BACTERIAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ARE A MAJOR CAUSE OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WORLDWIDE, WHILE INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES (IBDS) AFFECT OVER 2 MILLION PEOPLE IN EUROPE. MY WORK HOPES TO CHARACTERIZE THE HOST MECHANISMS WHICH MEDIATE GUT HEALTH IN RESPONSE TO INFECTIOUS AND RESIDENT MICROBES AND TO DETERMINE HOW MICROBES CAN ALTER THIS INTESTINAL HOMEOSTASIS GIVING RISE TO DISEASE. THIS WILL ENABLE STRATEGIC MANIPULATION OF INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL DEFENCES OR PROBIOTIC TREATMENT STRATEGIES WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF INTESTINAL INFECTIOUS AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES. KEY THEMES: .GUT BARRIER: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS GOVERNING GUT HOMEOSTASIS AND DISEASE. .MICROBIOTA: MICROBIOTA-HOST-EPITHELIUM INTERACTION ANTI-MICROBIAL AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY OF PROBIOTICS. .INFECTION & IMMUNITY: MICROBIAL DETERMINANTS OF INFECTION. INNATE IMMUNITY TO INFECTION. GUT BARRIER: THE EPITHELIAL CELLS LINING THE GI TRACT FORM A BARRIER BETWEEN THE BODY AND THE LUMINAL ENVIRONMENT WHICH NOT ONLY CONTAINS NUTRIENTS AND COMMENSAL MICROBIOTA, BUT ALSO POTENTIALLY HARMFUL MICROORGANISMS AND TOXINS. THIS EPITHELIAL BARRIER IS PIVOTAL TO INTESTINAL HEALTH OR DISEASE, WITH LOSS OF BARRIER INTEGRITY OR "LEAKY GUT" BEING IMPLICATED IN A RANGE OF DISEASES INCLUDING INFECTIOUS ENTEROCOLITIS AND IBD. EPITHELIAL CELLS EXPRESS PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTORS (PRRS) WHICH ORCHESTRATE MUCOSAL DEFENCES DURING INFECTION AND RESPOND TO GUT COMMENSALS TO MAINTAIN INTESTINAL WELLBEING. AS A RESULT, THE GI EPITHELIUM IS A CRUCIAL SITE OF IMMUNE REGULATION AND THE INTEGRITY OF THIS BARRIER DETERMINES HEALTH OR DEVELOPMENT OF DISEASE. MY WORK INVESTIGATES THE HOST IMMUNE MECHANISMS AND MICROBIAL FACTORS WHICH CONTROL THE FUNCTIONAL INTEGRITY OF THE GUT EPITHELIAL BARRIER. MICROBIOTA: THE GUT MICROBIOTA PRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT BARRIER THAT MUST BE OVERCOME FOR A PATHOGEN TO INITIATE AN INFECTION OR INFLAMMATORY ONSLAUGHT. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HOST AND ITS MICROBIOTA IS LARGELY A BENEFICIAL ONE, WITH MEMBERS OF THE MICROBIOTA BEING INSTRUMENTAL TO HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY AND WELLBEING. MICROBIAL PRESENCE AND ACTIVITY INFLUENCES THE FUNCTION OF INTESTINAL DEFENCES, AND HAS A KEY ROLE IN IMPROVING DIGESTIVE FUNCTION, IN THE REDUCTION OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION, AND IN HASTENING RECOVERY FROM INTESTINAL DISEASE. HOWEVER THIS RELATIONSHIP CAN BECOME DETRIMENTAL DUE TO DISTURBANCES INCLUDING ALTERATIONS IN DIET AND ANTIBIOTIC USE, AND THE RESULTING MICROBIAL DYSBIOSIS HAS BEEN LINKED TO INFECTION, IBD, DIABETES AND OBESITY. MY RESEARCH FOCUSSES ON THE HOST-MICROBIOTA DIALOGUE, INVESTIGATING THE SIGNALLING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE HOST AND ITS MICROBIOTA WHICH MEDIATE IMMUNE-INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES. IT HOPES TO DECIPHER TO WHAT EXTENT THE MICROBIOTA CAN MODULATE THE INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL BARRIER AND INFLAMMATION, AND HOW MEMBERS OF THE MICROBIOTA CAN BE USED TO DIRECTLY INHIBIT INFECTION BY BACTERIAL PATHOGENS. INFECTION&IMMUNITY: WORK TO DATE HAS FOCUSSED ON UNDERSTANDING THE INTESTINAL PHASE OF INFECTION WITH GUT PATHOGENS, SPECIFICALLY LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES AND SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM. WE ARE INTERESTED IN THE CHARACTERIZATION OF BACTERIAL VIRULENCE FACTORS INVOLVED IN INFECTION OF HOST CELLS, AND IN DECIPHERING THE HOST MECHANISMS TO COMBAT INFECTION. FURTHERMORE, THE STRATEGIES EVOLVED BY BACTERIA TO SUBVERT THESE HOST DEFENCE MECHANISMS AND IMMUNE RESPONSES ENABLING SPREAD WITHIN THE HOST IN A RESEARCH FOCUS. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADJUNCT FACULTY MEMBER APC MICROBIOME INSTITUTE AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION IRISH EPITHELIAL PHYSIOLOGY GROUP IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY IRISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY BACTERIAL INFECTION EPITHELIAL PERMEABILITY GUT BARRIER FUNCTION IBD INFECTION AND IMMUNITY INFLAMMATION INTESTINAL BARRIER FUNCTION INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL-CELLS INTESTINAL INFECTIONS INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION MICROBIOTA MIRNA MOLECULAR BASIS TO INFLAMMATION AND INNATE IMMUNITY MOUSE MODELS PROBIOTIC IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MICROBIOLOGY CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR OWEN CORRIGAN corriganowen FELLOW EMERITUS OCORRIGN PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICS AND PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH TO THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH TO THE HUMAN MEDICINES ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH MEDICINES BOARD CONSULTANT IN BIOPHARMACEUTICS AND MEMBER OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, ELAN CORPORATION LTD., ATHLONE, IRELAND. CONSULTANT IN BIOPHARMACEUTICS TO ELAN CORPORATION PLC. CONSULTANT IN TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY TO ELAN CORPORATION PLC. CONSULTANT TO ANTIGEN PHARMACEUTICALS LTD. CONSULTANT TO ELAN PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIES EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES(EUFEPS), AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS (AAPS), THE CONTROLLED RELEASE SOCIETY(CRS), ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND(RAMI), PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND(PSI), IRISH PHARMACEUTICAL UNION(IPU). EXAMINER IN FORENSIC PHARMACY FOR THE PHARMACEUTICAL . SOCIETY OF IRELAND UNDER THE PHARMACY ACTS IRELAND FOUNDER EDITOR OF MONTHLY "JOURNAL OF IRISH PHARMACEUTICAL UNION". (I.P.U. REVIEW). MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY. MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, ELAN CORPORATION PLC, ATHLONE, IRELAND. MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COMMITTEE, ELAN PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH CORPORATION, GEORGIA, U.S.A. MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF 'PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY EUROPE', ASTRA PUBLISHING CORP. ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS BIOPHARMACEUTICAL ASPECTS OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS COMPOSITE MATERIALS COMPUTER MODELLING OF PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS CRYSTAL ENGINEERING DRUG DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY, GENE DELIVERY DRUG RELEASE MECHANISMS DRUG TRANSPORT MECHANISMS DRUG UTILISATION AND EPIDEMIOLOGY FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF VACCINES MATRIX TABLETTS, SUSTAINED DRUG DELIVERY MECHANISMS OF DISSOLUTION MECHANISMS OF DRUG RELEASE FROM SOLID DOSAGE FORMS NANOTECHNOLOGY PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOCHEMICAL BARRIERS TO DRUG ABSORPTION POLYMER TECHNOLOGY, BIOPOLYMERS POLYMERS QUALITY, REGULATORY AND GMP AREAS OF PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY TRANSDERMAL PRODUCTS NOVEL MICROPARTICLES FOR DRUG DELIVERY 'SMART' POLYMERS FOR DRUG DELIVERY - CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETICS OF DRUGS IN ICU PATIENTS MODELLING MASS TRANSFER IN PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS USING HPC IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. DESMOND CORRIGAN corrigandesmond ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DCORRIGN SCHOOL OFFICE - PHARMACY & PHARMCEUT SCI SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER DR. SIOBHAN CORRIGAN corrigansiobhan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SCORRIG PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE HUMAN SYSTEMS I HAVE HAD CONTINUOUS AND SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT IN INDUSTRIAL BASED RESEARCH PROJECTS. THE CORE FOCUS OF MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN ON ADVANCING THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL UNDERSTANDING OF MANAGING THE COMPLETIES OF CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN ORDER TO SUPPORT INDUSTRY IN IMPROVING OVERALL RISK AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE. MY CORE FUNDING HAS BEEN A RESULT OF MY PARTICIPATION IN EU FUNDED PROJECTS RIGHT FROM THE BRITEEURAM PROGRAMME IN 1996 RIGHT UP UNTIL EUFP7 IN 2016. I AM PI ON AN ERASMUS+ PROJECT THAT IS DUE TO COMMENCE IN OCTOBER 2017 AND PI ON AN EU EIT RAW MATERIALS PROJECT THAT IS DUE TO COMMENCE IN JANUARY 2018. I AM PI ON AN EU COST ACION PROPOSAL THAT WAS SUBMITTED IN SEPTEMBER 2017 AND PI ON A PROPOSAL UNDER THE 2020 TRANSPORT PROGRAMME. I HAVE ALSO BEEN SUCCESSFUL WITH NATIONAL FUNDING AS I AM CURRENTLY A CO-APPLICANT IN A HRB FUNDED PROJECT AND PI ON TWO DIRECTLY FUNDED INDUSTRY PROJECTS. DUE TO THE INDUSTRIAL FOCUS OF MANY OF THE RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT I HAVE LED, THE RESEARCH DISSEMINATION HAS BEEN CHARACTERISED BY NUMEROUS REPORTS TO INDUSTRY, VARIOUS WORKING GROUPS ON POLICY AND PRACTICE AS WELL AS ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS (XXX) THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WE TAKE FOR GRANTED IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES ARE MOSTLY THE RESULT OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS THAT ARE CONTINGENT ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE, PROCESS, KNOWLEDGE, ORGANISATIONAL GOALS AND REGULATORY DEMANDS. AT THE CORE ARE PEOPLE, DESIGNING, OPERATING, MANAGING AND IMPROVING THE SYSTEM TO PRODUCE OUTPUTS AND AS CONSUMERS WE ARE RARELY CONSCIOUS OF THESE SYSTEMS UNTIL THEY LET US DOWN (E.G., A FLIGHT IS DELAYED, TREATMENT DELAYS IN HEALTHCARE, TRAIN DERAILS ETC). THE UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION OF MY RESEARCH IS TO PUT THE HUMAN AT THE CENTRE OF ITS ANALYSIS - SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES HAVE TO WORK FOR PEOPLE AND THEY CAN ONLY DO THIS IF THE ROLE OF HUMANS IS CENTRAL. MY RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPTS, TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES THAT CAN UNDERSTAND, DIAGNOSE AND PROVIDE AN IMPLEMENTATION ROAD MAP TO CHANGE THESE SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES. THESE DEVELOPMENTS ARE CONTINUALLY TESTED IN COLLABORATIVE BASED RESEARCH AND PRACTICE ACROSS A RANGE OF INDUSTRIES (E.G., AVIATION, RAIL, MARITIME) THAT PROVIDES AN ACADEMICALLY RIGOROUS BUT PRACTICAL FOCUS ON RISK AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT. THE UNDERLYING THEMES THAT UNDERPIN MY ACTION BASED RESEARCH PROGRAMME INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (I) RICH MODELLING OF NORMAL OPERATIONAL PRACTICE, THE UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION OF THIS MODELLING IS THAT IT MOVES BEYOND JUST A LINEAR TASK BASED APPROACH TO ONE THAT CAPTURES THE MORE TACIT/INFORMAL KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS THAT ARE NOT ALWAYS VISIBLE WITHIN OUR ORGANISATIONS; (II) SOCIO-TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF THE 'BLOCKERS' AND 'FACILITATORS', HIGHLIGHTING THE VULNERABILITIES AND RISKS IN THE SYSTEM; (III) ASSESSING AND MANAGING THE RISK IN THE OVERALL CHANGE PROCESS ITSELF; (IV) UNDERSTANDING THE BEHAVIOUR OF INDIVIDUALS AT ALL LEVELS WITHIN AN ORGANISATION, PARTICULAR FOCUS ON LEADERSHIP; AND (V) FRAMEWORK FOR LEARNING AND COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION. BUILDING ON THIS EXTENSIVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE, NETWORK OF INDUSTRIAL/RESEARCH COLLABORATORS AND CORE CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK MY RESEARCH PLAN IS TO APPLY THE LEARNING AND FURTHER TEST THE APPLICABILITY OF MY APPROACH WITHIN TWO SPECIFIC SECTORS: LEADERSHIP & IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN HEALTHCARE AND THE APPLICATION OF HUMAN FACTORS IN CONNECTED & AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES. AS A RESULT OF MY INVOLVEMENT IN VARIOUS WORKING GROUPS, I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN GETTING THESE ISSUES ON THE RESEARCH AGENDA. MY FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA WILL CONTINUE TO POSE THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: HOW CAN COMPLEX SYSTEMS WHICH CARRY CRITICAL RISKS BECOME MORE RESILIENT AND SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT THE NECESSARY CHANGE? MY FUTURE RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL BE DIRECTLY LINKED WITH THE MASTERS PROGRAMME WHERE THE RESEARCH OUTPUTS WILL BE TRANSFERRED INTO THE MASTERS PROGRAMME TO BRIDGE GAPS IN COMPETENCE OF OUR INDUSTRIES TO MANAGE RISK AND CHANGE. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE REGISTER OF COMPETENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL TESTING: LEVEL A PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING COMPETENCY LEVEL B PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING COMPETENCY CHAIRPERSON ON STRAND ON SKILLS, LEARNING & EDUCATION (NATIONAL AVIATION & AEROSPACE ASSOCIATION(NAAA) COLLABORATOR ON HRB RESEARCH LEADERS AWARD PROJECT 'COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP & SAFETY CULTURES' -SCHOOL OF NURSING, MIDWIFERY, HEALTH SYSTEMS, UCD EDITOR OF SPECIAL EDITION ENTITLED 'MANAGING SYSTEM CHANGE IN AVIATION: WHAT MAKES FOR SUCCESSFUL CHANGE' IN OF JOURNAL OF COGNITION, TECHNOLOGY & WORK. EUROPEAN COMMISSION NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE: MEMBER THE ON INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS WORKING GROUP MEMBER OF EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGISTS (EAAP) MEMBER OF LEADERSHIP IN NURSING NETWORK, SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY, TCD MEMBER OF SAFETY IN HEALTH SCIENCES WORKING GROUP COLLABORATING WITH UCD,DCU,NUIG,UL,UCC, RSCI, ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL GROUP MEMBER OF THE CAV WORKING GROUP (CONNECTED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES) MEMBER OF THE ERTRAC WORKING GROUP (EUROPEAN ROAD TRANSPORT RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL), WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING THE OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEXT STRATEGIC RESEARCH AGENDA MEMBER OF THE EU ERTRAC WORKING GROUP (EUROPEAN ROAD TRANSPORT RESEARCH ADVISORY COUNCIL), WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SETTING THE OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEXT STRATEGIC RESEARCH AGENDA. MEMBER OF THE HEANET (NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL & RESEARCH NETWORK) WORKING GROUP ON EXAMINING VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS (VLES) AND OTHER E-LEARNING AND TEACHING SOLUTIONS. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL AVIATION & AEROSPACE ASSOCIATION (NAAA) AND CHAIRPERSON ON THE STRAND ON SKILLS, LEARNING & EDUCATION PEER REVIEWER JOURNAL OF COGNITION, TECHNOLOGY & WORK PSYCHOLOGY MONITOR FOR OPEN EDUCATION, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (DCU) REVIEWER FOR FOR HUMAN MENTAL WORK-LOAD MODELS & APPLICATION CONFERENCE MANAGING CHANGE IN COMPLEX ORGANISATIONS ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR ORGANISATIONAL EVOLUTION/CHANGE ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING ORGANISATIONAL SAFETY CULTURE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS PSYCHOLOGY RISK FACTOR AWARENESS RISK MANAGEMENT SAFETY CULTURE HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) TRANSPORT PLANNING & LOGISTICS PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. ANNE-MARIE CORROON corroonannemarie DISABILITY PENSION CORROOA SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY PALLIATIVE CARE, DEATH & DYING, NURSING, RESPIRATORY NURSING, HEALTH PROMOTION, HEAD & NECK NURSING SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 CURRENT MEMBER OF HEAD AND NECK NURSES ASSOCIATION CURRENT MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE REGISTERED NURSE WITH AN BORD ALTRANAIS ACUTE CARE NURSING CARE OF RELATIVES WITHIN PALLIATIVE CARE CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING COMMUNITY HEALTH AND GENERAL PRACTICE EPIDEMIOLOGY HEAD AND NECK SURGERY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH MANAGEMENT HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES NURSE COMMUNICATION IN INTENSIVE CARE PALLIATION PALLIATIVE PALLIATIVE CARE PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING PATTERNS OF HEALTH PREVENTATIVE NURSING PRIMARY CARE PRIMARY-CARE PUBLIC HEALTH RELATIVES NURSES' EXPERIENCES OF CARING FOR RELATIVES OF TERMINALLY IL PATIENTS THE LITERATURE REVEALS THAT NURSES FIND CARING FOR RELATIVES OF TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS PROBLEMATIC. NO RESEARCH EXISTS DETAILING THIS PHENOMENON IN THE IRISH HEALTHCARE SETTING. THEREFORE THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO EXPLORE NURSES' LIVED EXPERIENCES OF CARING FOR RELATIVES OF TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS ON ONCOLOGY WARDS. A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY WAS EMPLOYED IN THIS STUDY. SEVEN NURSES WERE INTERVIEWED USING IN-DEPTH OPEN INTERVIEWS, TO EXPLORE THEIR EXPERIENCE OF THIS PHENOMENON. THE ANALYSIS OF THE TRANSCRIPTS WAS INFLUENCED BY GADAMERIAN PHILOSOPHY. THE CONCEPTS OF THE HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE AND THE FUSION OF HORIZONS WERE UTILISED TO ANALYSE THE DATA. THE EXPERIENCE OF CARING FOR RELATIVES OF TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS WAS FOUND TO BE MULTIFACETED, AND THOUGH A DIFFICULT EXPERIENCE IT WAS CLEARLY REWARDING. THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FAMILY WAS IDENTIFIED AS BEING CENTRAL TO THE DEGREE OF SUPPORT THAT THE RELATIVES OBTAINED FROM NURSES. KEY NURSING INTERVENTIONS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED INCLUDED ENABLING REALISATION, FACILITATING RELATIVES' INVOLVEMENT IN THE PATIENTS' CARE AND MAKING THE DEATH AS GOOD AS POSSIBLE. FACILITIES FOR RELATIVES WERE NOTED TO BE INADEQUATE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT ARE MADE. THE RESPONDENTS FELT UNPREPARED FOR THIS ROLE, THOUGH MOST REPORTED THAT THERE WAS A GOOD LEVEL OF INFORMAL SUPPORT AVAILABLE ON THE WARDS THROUGH DEBRIEFING. HOWEVER GREATER PREPARATION AND SUPPORT ARE WARRANTED AS THE EXPERIENCE CAN BE EMOTIONALLY DRAINING. STAFF MENTORSHIP AND CONTINUING EDUCATION MAY SERVE TO ADDRESS THIS NEED. THE FINDINGS MAY BE REGARDED AS CULTURALLY SPECIFIC, SO THE TRANSFERABILITY OF THE FINDINGS TO ANOTHER CULTURE IS QUESTIONABLE. FURTHER RESEARCH EXPLORING NURSES' AND RELATIVES' EXPERIENCES WOULD GREATLY ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PHENOMENON. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO INVESTIGATE RELATIVES' PREFERENCES WITH REGARD TO THE NURSES' PRESENCE WHEN THE PATIENT IS DYING. CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. MARGARITA CORRY corrymargarita ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CORRYM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY AREAS METHODOLOGICAL EXPERTISE INCLUDE: COMPLEX INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT PILOT AND FEASIBILITY STUDIES RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS SURVEY RESEARCH DESIGN AREAS OF TOPIC EXPERTISE/INTEREST INCLUDE: CAREGIVER RESEARCH, INCLUDING CAREGIVER BURDEN, QUALITY OF LIFE, PREPAREDNESS TO CARE. TELEPHONE INTERVENTIONS NEUROLOGICAL NURSING IN PARTICULAR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, EPILEPSY, MENINGITIS. NURSING PRACTICE: IN PARTICULAR CLINICAL SKILLS. INFECTION CONTROL; CARE OF OLDER PERSONS; STRESS AND STRESS MANAGEMENT. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AN BORD ALTRANAIS EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING INFECTION CONTROL NURSING OLDER PERSONS STRESS STRESS MANAGEMENT HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) A SURVEY ON NURSES EXPERIENCE OF STRESS IN A REFORMING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM PURPOSE OF THE STUDY IS TO SURVEY THE LEVEL OF STRESS, SOURCES OF PRESSURE AND OUTCOMES OF WORK STRESS AS EXPERIENCED BY GENERAL NURSES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, NURSES OVERALL ABILITY TO MANAGE STRESSFUL SITUATIONS WILL ALSO BE DETERMINED HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY (MARGARITA CORRY -PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR) AN EVALUATION OF THE BENEFITS OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AS PART OF THE CURRICULUM FOR POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA NURSING STUDENTS A QUALITATIVE STUDY EVALUATING THE BENEFITS OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN A NURSING PROGRAMME. THIS STUDY EXPLORED QUALIFIED NURSES' PERCEIVED BENEFITS OF COMPLETING A REFLECTIVE PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT AS PART OF A POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME OF STUDY. N/A A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF PATIENTS AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS OF OVERCROWDING IN ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY. A STUDY EVALUATING GROUP FACILITATION AS A METHOD OF SUPPORTING STUDENTS UNDERTAKING A LITERATURE REVIEW. AN EXPLORATORY RCT OF A MANUALISED NURSE-LED TELEPHONE SUPPORT INTERVENTION FOR PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT/CARERS OF PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. THIS IS AN INTERVENTION STUDY WITH 200 CARERS RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF TWO GROUPS: THE INTERVENTION OR CONTROL GROUP. USING A MANUAL DESIGNED TO ENABLE THE NURSE SPECIALIST TO PROVIDE PROACTIVE TELEPHONE SUPPORT, THE NURSE SPECIALIST(S) WILL EMPOWER CARERS BY ENABLING THEM TO LEARN PROBLEM MANAGEMENT SKILLS. CARER OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED IN TERMS OF IMPROVING SELF-EFFICACY IN PROBLEM SOLVING AND OBTAINING RESPITE, PREPAREDNESS TO CARE, QUALITY OF LIFE AND REDUCED CARER BURDEN. FOR PWMS OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED BY EXPLORING THEIR EXPERIENCE OF BEING CARED FOR BY A CARER WHO HAS RECEIVED TELEPHONE SUPPORT FROM THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NURSE SPECIALIST. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (FUNDING SPONSORS: PROFS. MIKE CLARKE AND ALISON WHILE) ACADEMIC SUPERVISORS: DR. JOAN LALOR, PROF. MIKE CLARKE, PROF. ALISON WHILE KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION SCHEME -MAXIMISING THE IMPACT OF THE HRB STRATEGY THE PURPOSE OF THIS FUNDING SCHEME IS TO ENABLE RESEARCHERS TO DEVELOP RESOURCES TO DISSEMINATE RESEARCH USING CREATIVE AND NOVEL METHODS. THE RESOURCES TO BE DEVELOPED IN THIS APPLICATION WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPLEX INTERVENTION USING A MULTI-STRANDED, MULTI-MODAL APPROACH. THIS WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE LATEST COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHICH WILL REACH THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE OF CLINICIANS, RESEARCHERS AND ACADEMICS. THERE WILL BE LINKS TO AUDIO VISUAL PRESENTATIONS AND USEFUL RESOURCES THAT THE RESEARCHER SOURCED IN DEVELOPING A COMPLEX INTERVENTION FOR NURSING. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AN EXPLORATORY RANDOMISED PILOT TRIAL EXAMINING THE POTENTIAL EFFECTIVENESS OF A MINDFULNESS BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY PROGRAMME FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES. AN EXPLORATORY RANDOMISED PILOT TRIAL EXAMINING THE POTENTIAL EFFECTIVENESS OF A MINDFULNESS BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY PROGRAMME FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES. TELEPHONE INTERVENTIONS, DELIVERED BY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS OF ADULTS WITH DIAGNOSED ILLNESSES HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP EVALUATION OF LEADING COMPASSION IN PRACTICE PROGRAMME HSE HSE NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR AIDEN PETER CORVIN corvinaidenpeter PROFESSOR CONSULTANT/HEAD OF DISCIPLINE ACORVIN PSYCHIATRY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS RESEARCH GROUP TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) I AM INTERESTED IN APPLYING GENOMICS METHODS TO IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING OF HERITABLE MAJOR MENTAL DISORDERS AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES. SPECIFICALLY, MY RESEARCH INVOLVES THE IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF GENES/MOLECULAR PATHWAYS CONTRIBUTING TO DISORDERS SUCH AS SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER. I HAVE HEADED THE PSYCHOSIS RESEARCH GROUP AT THE NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS LABORATORY SINCE 1999. THE GROUP'S RESEARCH ACTIVITIES SPAN FROM THE GENOME TO CLINICAL SYMPTOMS (INCLUDING GENOMICS, BIOSTATISTICS, BIOINFORMATICS, CLINICAL PHENOTYPING, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROIMAGING). WE COLLABORATE WITH LOCAL RESEARCHERS AT THE INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE, DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS AND TCIN. WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHIZOPHRENIA CONSORTIUM AND COLLABORATE WITH RESEARCHERS IN THE UK, ITALY, AUSTRALIA AND US. I AM ALSO INVOLVED IN PROJECTS RELATING TO THE GENETICS OF COGNITION AND SYNAESTHESIA. DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AETIOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES INCLUDING SCHIZOPHRENIA & ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE NEUROGENETICS PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS SCHIZOPHRENIA NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY GENETICS AND GENOMICS MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. LUCA COSCIEME cosciemeluca VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW COSCIEML ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MARY COSGROVE cosgrovemary PROFESSOR IN GERMAN COSGROMA GERMAN CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: REPRESENTATIONS OF NEOLIBERAL CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY GERMAN-LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND FILM PATHOLOGIES OF THE MODERN SUBJECT FROM THE FIN-DE-SIÉCLE TO THE PRESENT MEDICAL HUMANITIES MEMORY STUDIES TRAUMA THEORY HOLOCAUST HISTORIOGRAPHY, PSYCHOANALYSIS EUROPEAN MELANCHOLY TRADITIONS BOREDOM IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SINCE THE LATE 18TH CENTURY DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER AND TRUSTEE: MODERN HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (MHRA) ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN STUDIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (AGS) GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (NORTH AMERICA) (GSA) GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (GSAI) IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. CIARAN BERNARD COSGROVE cosgroveciaranbernard FELLOW EMERITUS CCOSGROV FELLOWS EMERITII DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES 5061 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONSULTANT FOR DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SYLLABUS REVIEW ON NEW POETRY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMME DELIVERED A TALK: 'MÉXICO EN LA OBRA DE ITALO CALVINO' AT LA CASA D'ITALIA A.C., GUADALAJARA, MEXICO DELIVERED PAPER ON AUGUSTO MONTERROSO, WINNER OF THE 1996 JUAN RULFO PRIZE AT THE FERIA DEL LIBRO, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO DELIVERED PAPER: 'EL LIBRO POR VENIR' AT THE CASA DE LA PALABRA Y LA IMAGEN, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO. DELIVERED SIX ILLUSTRATED TALKS ON CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA AT THE IRISH FILM CENTRE, DUBLIN DELIVERED TALK ON THE CUBAN ARTIST JOSÉ BEDIA AT THE DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN ESTABLISHED COLLEGE AGREEMENTS FOR UNIVERSITY COOPERATION WITH UNIVERSITIES OF CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA AND THE COLEGIO DE MÉXICO, MEXICO CITY (LATIN AMERICA'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS HUMANITIES' RESEARCH INSTITUTION) ESTABLISHED IN CONJUNCTION WITH MEXICAN EMBASSY COLLEGE'S AGREEMENT TO HOST AN ANNUAL VISIT OF A MEXICAN ACADEMIC. EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES UCC EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW OF DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH, UCG EXTERNAL EXAMINER AT UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK EXTERNAL EXAMINER AT UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL EXTERNAL EXAMINER AT UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING EXTERNAL EXAMINER PHD (SPANISH) QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD (SPANISH), LIVERPOOL, U.K. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD (SPANISH), UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN, SPAIN EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD (SPANISH), UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK GUEST LECTURE: 'VINCULACIONES ENTRE LA TRADICIÓN CUENTÍSTICA DE LATINOAMÉRICA E IRLANDA' AT THE THREE CAMPUSES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO: TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, COMITÁN AND SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS GUEST SPEAKER AT LATIN AMERICAN SHORT STORY CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA INTRODUCED ANTONIO GAMONEDA, PREMIO CERVANTES 2006 WINNER,AND READ PAPER ON HIS WORK, AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES PREMISES IN DUBLIN. INVITED SPEAKER AT NUI GRADUATES CONVOCATION PUBLIC MEETING HELD AT ROYAL COLLEGE SURGEONS OF IRELAND: 'FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY: INTELLECTUAL ENLIGHTENMENT OR TRAINING FOR JOBS' JURY MEMBER FOR THE JUAN RULFO LITERARY PRIZE, LATIN AMERICA'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS LITERARY PRIZE LECTURE ON THE WORK OF BRAZILIAN NOVELIST, NÉLIDA PIÑON, WINNER OF THE 1995 JUAN RULFO LITERARY PRIZE, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO. MY OWN CONTRIBUTION APPEARED IN WHOLE OR IN PART IN 'EL NACIONAL' (LXVII, TOMO III, NO.23883); SEC. CULTURA, P.35, MEXICO 12 AUGUST 1995; 'LA JORNADA', NO 3915; 'EL OCCIDENTAL' (LII, NO. 19180; 'EL PAÍS' (AÑO XX, NO.6661) EDICIÓN MÉXICO P.5, 1 AUGUST 1995) LECTURE: 'ASPECTS OF LITERARY TRANSLATION: THE SPECIAL CASE OF BORGES' AT THE DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED LANGUAGES, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY LECTURE: 'SUPPLEMENTING SCHILLER: THE NAIVE, THE 'SENTIMENTAL', THE 'LINGUISTICALLY UNHOUSED': THE CASES OF HOMER, MANN AND BORGES' AT THE HISPANISTS' RESEARCH SEMINAR, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, U.K. LECTURE: 'THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF LITERARY TRANSLATION' AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES, UCC. MEMBER OF EXTERNAL ADVISORY BOARD OF 'HIPERFEIRA', CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE. MEMBER OF POETRY IRELAND COUNCIL PUBLIC INTERVIEW WITH FILM DIRECTOR EDGARDO COZARINSKY AT THE IRISH FILM INSTITUE, DUBLIN PUBLIC INTERVIEW WITH FILM DIRECTOR MICHEL FRANCO AT 2013 DUBLIN FILM FESTIVAL ROUNDTABLE OF SPANISH-SPEAKING WRITERS ON RECEPTION OF JAMES JOYCE IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD HELD AT THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES, DUBLIN SERVED ON CAREERS AND APPOINTMENTS BOARD SERVED ON FACULTY OF ARTS (LETTERS) SUB-COMMITTEE ON LANGUAGE TWO LECTURES ('CONFERENCIAS MAGISTRALES') DELIVERED AT EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO, MEXICO CITY: 'EL PENSAMIENTO ORIENTAL EN RAYUELA' AND 'EL LENGUAJE PREPOTENTE EN LA OBRA DE JUAN RULFO'. LITERARY THEORY, MODERNIST AND POSTMODERNIST FICTION MODERN SPANISH AMERICAN NOVELS SPANISH INTELLECTUAL LIFE TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MR. MICHAEL COUGHLAN coughlanmichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCOUGHL SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY HIDDEN CURRICULUM IN NURSING EDUCATION; THE KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATIONAL NEEDS OF PATIENTS RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY FOR CANCER SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 HAEMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CHEMOTHERAPY NURSING EDUCATION PATIENT EDUCATION DR. TARA LEAH COUGHLAN coughlantaraleah CONSULTANT GERIATRICIAN / PHYSICIAN COUGHLT CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY 16 NEWTOWN LAWN NEWTOWN ENFIELD MEATH 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR PAUL COUGHLAN coughlanpaul PROFESSOR IN OPERATIONS MGMT COUGHLNP BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: . CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES . INTER-ORGANISATIONAL COLLABORATION . ACTION LEARNING . ACTION RESEARCH . SERVICE INNOVATION . COMMERCIALISATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHARTERED MEMBER: ENGINEERS IRELAND MEMBER: BOARD OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT (EIASM) MEMBER: EUROMA MEMBER: EUROMA BOARD MEMBER: ORGANISING COMMITEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE PRESIDENT: EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT (EIASM) NATIONAL ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMME TO ASSIST FIRMS, THROUGH THEIR MANAGERS AND WORKFORCE TO CHANGE, UPGRADE AND BECOME LEARNING ORGANISATIONS. EU CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION MANAGEMENT - TO EXPLORE HOW COMPANIES STIMULATE A PROCESS OF CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR PRODUCT INNOVATION CAPABILITIES BY FACILITATING A DIFFUSE AND CONTINUOUS FLOW OF KNOWLEDGE BOTH WITHIN THEIR ORGANISATIONS AND WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS. - TO EXPLAIN THIS PROCESS IN TERMS OF BARRIERS AND ENABLERS - TO IDENTIFY CONTINGENCIES - TO DEFINE EFFECTS ON PERFORMANCE AND CAPABILITIES - TO SUGGEST POSSIBLE CONTINGENT ACTIONS BY FIRMS. EU ESPRIT PROJECT 26056 CO-IMPROVE: COLLABORATIVE IMPROVEMENT FOR THE EXTENDED MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE - TO ENABLE AND ENHANCE THE CAPTURING, STORAGE, RETRIEVAL, TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE GENERATED AS PART OF ONGOING COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND ORDER FULFILMENT PERFORMANCE OF EMES, AS WELL AS - IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES SUPPORTING THE SITUATIONAL DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF COLLABORATIVE, EME-LEVEL IMPROVEMENT, USING THE BUSINESS MODEL AND SOFTWARE SYSTEM. EU COMPETITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH PROJECT MADE IN IRELAND II - BENCHMARKING IRISH SME PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF MANUFACTURING SMES REMAINS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR COMPANIES, FOR SUPPORT AGENCIES AND FOR THE IRISH ECONOMY AS A WHOLE. THE 2005-6 GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS REPORT RANKED IRELAND 26TH, HAVING MOVED UP 4 PLACES SINCE 2004. BUT IS THIS RANKING INDICATIVE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE COMPETITIVENESS OF IRISH SMES AND HOW HAS THIS STATE CHANGED SINCE 2001? THESE QUESTIONS ARE ADDRESSED IN THIS STUDY. OVER THE PERIOD 2003-2005, DATA WERE COLLECTED FROM A TOTAL OF 144 MANUFACTURING COMPANIES ASSISTED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND. THE STUDY COMPARES THESE DATA WITH THE DATA COLLECTED IN THE PERIOD 1997-2000 FROM THE 151 SIMILAR COMPANIES WHICH FORMED THE BASIS OF THE FIRST MADE IN IRELAND REPORT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND TRADEIT: TRADITIONAL FOOD: ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY THE TRADEIT PROJECT IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY, MULTI-SECTORIAL COLLABORATIVE PROJECT SUPPORTING A NETWORK OF TRADITIONAL FOOD SMES AND FOOD RESEARCHERS IN THE AREAS OF COLLABORATION, INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO INCREASE THE COMPETITIVENESS AND INTER-REGIONAL ADVANTAGE OF TRADITIONAL FOOD PRODUCING SMES. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH FOCUSED REGIONAL COORDINATION AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS FACILITATED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NINE REGIONAL TRADITIONAL FOOD KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER HUBS. EACH HUB WILL HOST A TRADEIT STAKEHOLDER SUB-NETWORK (DEFINED BY REGION, LANGUAGE AND/OR FOOD GROUP), THE MEMBERS OF WHICH WILL BENEFIT FROM A SUITE OF KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY OFFERINGS OVER THE COURSE OF THE PROJECT. FOOD RESEARCHERS FROM ACROSS EUROPE WILL BE PROVIDED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THE TRADEIT ENTREPRENEURIAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN WHICH AN ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLSET WILL BE DEVELOPED TO FACILITATE FUTURE R&D&I ENTERPRISE AND COMMERCIALISATION ACTIVITIES. THE REGIONAL FOCUS OF THE PROJECT WILL BE FURTHER DEVELOPED IN THE STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AGENDA WHICH WILL PROMOTE REGIONAL R&D&I FOR PAN-EUROPEAN BENEFIT. THE TRADEIT PROJECT ALIGNS WITH, AND CONTRIBUTES TO, THE GOALS AND OBJECTIVE OF A NUMBER OF EU INITIATIVES, STRATEGIES AND POLICIES INCLUDING EUROPE 2020 THE INNOVATION UNION FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE, HORIZON 2020, COHESION POLICY IN PARTICULAR SMART SPECIALISATION INNOVATING FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH: A BIO-ECONOMY FOR EUROPE AND FOOD LAW REGULATION EUROPEAN COMMUNITY SEVENTH FRAMEWORK TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF WATER SUPPLY IN IRELAND AND WALES: EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HYDROPOWER IN BREAK PRESSURE TANKS (HYDRO-BPT) THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PROCESS OF WATER SUPPLY IN IRELAND AND WALES BY EXPLOITING THE POTENTIAL FOR ENERGY RECOVERY THAT EXISTS AT BREAK PRESSURE TANKS (BPTS). WATER SUPPLY IS A CORE SERVICE ON WHICH CIVILISED SOCIETY DEPENDS AND IT INVOLVES CONSIDERABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND CO2 EMISSIONS (WATER TREATMENT, PUMPING AND MONITORING). TREATED WATER IS COMMONLY SUPPLIED FROM A CENTRAL STORAGE RESERVOIR BY GRAVITY THROUGHOUT A CATCHMENT AND THIS WATER MUST BE SUPPLIED WITHIN SATISFACTORY PRESSURE BANDS. WHEN THE PRESSURE IN WATER FLOW BECOMES TOO HIGH A BPT IS COMMONLY INSTALLED IN THE NETWORK, WHEREBY THE PRESSURE, KINETIC & POTENTIAL ENERGY WITHIN THE FLOW IS DISSIPATED TO THE ATMOSPHERE. THIS COMMON FEATURE OF WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECOVER THIS ENERGY WASTAGE BY USING MICRO-HYDROPOWER TECHNOLOGY TO TRANSFORM IT INTO ELECTRICITY WITHOUT INTERFERING IN THE WATER SUPPLY SERVICE. THE KEY OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT COMPRISE: 1. DETERMINING THE TECHNICAL/ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING HYDRO-BPTS TO WATER INFRASTRUCTURE: USING EXPERIMENTAL MODELS THE ENERGY RECOVERABLE FROM BPTS WILL BE ASSESSED/DEMONSTRATED 2. DETERMINING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY: ASSESSMENTS WILL BE MADE IN TERMS OF THE CO2 EMISSIONS SAVING, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS 3. A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE APPLICATION OF HYDRO-BPTS IN EXISTING IRISH/WELSH BPTS: INFORMATION ON THE EXISTING BPTS WILL BE GATHERED IN A GIS DATABASE WHICH WILL BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE THE UNTAPPED ENERGY POTENTIAL IN WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS IN IRELAND/WALES 4. AN EXPLORATION OF THE FORMS OF COLLABORATION AMONG THE KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BUSINESS MODEL: THIS SECTION OF THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR THE WIDESPREAD IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS TECHNOLOGY BY INDUSTRY INTERREG 4A 2007-2013 IRELAND-WALES PROGRAMME DISTRIBUTING OUR WATER RESOURCES: UTILISING INTEGRATED, SMART AND LOW-CARBON ENERGY (D&#373;R UISCE) THERE IS SIGNIFICANT SCOPE TO IMPROVE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF WATER RESOURCES IN IRELAND AND WALES. THE D&#373;R UISCE PROJECT AIMS TO QUANTIFY AND DEMONSTRATE THIS SCOPE USING INTEGRATED SMART AND LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGY. OUR DEMONSTRATION WILL BE OF AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, AS NO ONE TECHNOLOGY CAN SOLVE THE WATER-ENERGY CHALLENGE. IT WILL BE SMART IN ORDER TO OPTIMISE POTENTIAL SAVINGS, AND WILL BE LOW-CARBON BY DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING TECHNOLOGIES WITH A QUICK CARBON PAYBACK. THE PROJECT WILL DELIVER IMPROVED EFFICIENCY OF THE WATER-ENERGY NEXUS, BENEFITTING TWO KEY STAKEHOLDERS GROUPS: WATER COMPANIES (SUPPLIERS) AND WATER CONSUMERS (END-USERS). ERDF IRELAND-WALES CO-OPERATION PROGRAMME 2014-2020 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SEAN COURNANE cournanesean ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COURNAS CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MS. MARY ANNE COURTNEY courtneymaryanne TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER ADMINISTRATOR COURTNMA TR&I ADMINISTRATION TRINITY RESEARCH & INNOVATION O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH DR. MEL COUSINS cousinsmel VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW COUSINSM SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR NEVILLE COX coxneville PROFESSOR NCOX LAW LAW SCHOOL NO 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. RONALD COX coxronald VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW RCOX CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CIVIL ENGINEERING HERITAGE RESEARCH, INCLUDING BIOGRAPHY. A SPECIAL INTEREST IN 19THC AND EARLY 20THC CIVIL ENGINEERING HISTORY. CIVIL ENGINEERING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH MICE, FIEI, FIAE, AMASCE, CHARTERED ENGINEER NONE IN RECENT YEARS CIVIL ENGINEERING HERITAGE ENGINEERING BIOGRAPHY DR. CATHERINE ELIZABETH COXON coxoncatherineelizabeth ASSOCIATE PROF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CECOXON GEOLOGY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT I CARRY OUT RESEARCH WITHIN THE BROAD AREA OF ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCE, MAINLY ON GROUNDWATER QUALITY. MY SPECIFIC INTERESTS INCLUDE: · RURAL GROUNDWATER QUALITY PROBLEMS, PARTICULARLY NUTRIENTS AND SYNTHETIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS · GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AND PROTECTION SCHEMES · KARST HYDROGEOLOGY AND KARST GROUNDWATER PROTECTION · PHOSPHORUS LOSS TO SURFACE WATERS BY DIFFERENT HYDROLOGICAL PATHWAYS · GROUNDWATER - SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS AND INTEGRATED CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT DEPT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH MEMBER OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF GEOSCIENCES COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER OF IAH INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HYDROGEOLOGY OF KARST MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS (IAH) MEMBER OF IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF IRISH GROUNDWATER WORKING GROUP FOR THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MEMBER OF IRISH QUATERNARY ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF IRISH WORKING GROUP ON KARST MEMBER OF WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE PRESIDENT OF IAH IRISH GROUP SECRETARY OF IAH IRISH GROUP EARTH SCIENCE AND HYDROLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FRESH WATER POLLUTION HYDROGEOLOGY WATER POLLUTION WATER RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS A FIELD STUDY OF NITRATE LEACHING FROM TILLAGE LAND IN SOUTH EAST IRELAND THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED NITRATE LOSSES FROM IRISH TILLAGE LAND IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO COMPLY WITH THE EU NITRATES DIRECTIVE (1991/676/EC). TWO SITES WERE USED TO STUDY NITRATE LEACHING LOSSES USING CERAMIC SUCTION CUPS. AT THE FIRST SITE ON A CLAY LOAM SOIL, NITRATE LOSSES FROM SPRING BARLEY AND WINTER WHEAT WERE QUANTIFIED OVER TWO RECHARGE SEASONS. LOSSES FROM SPRING BARLEY WERE HIGHER THAN THOSE FROM WINTER WHEAT IN BOTH YEARS. AT THE SECOND SITE, LOSSES FROM SPRING BARLEY WERE STUDIED ON A SANDY LOAM SOIL OVER ONE RECHARGE SEASON AND THE USE OF WINTER COVER CROPS AND REDUCED CULTIVATION WERE EVALUATED AS POTENTIAL METHODS OF REDUCING LEACHING LOSSES. THE USE OF A COVER CROP WAS FOUND TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE NITRATE LEACHING LOSSES AT THIS SITE. THE RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT AS AN M.SC. RESEARCH PROJECT BY KIRSTY HOOKER; I WAS THE ACADEMIC SUPERVISOR AND THE RESEARCH WAS CO-SUPERVISED BY DR. KARL RICHARDS AND DR. RICHARD HACKETT (TEAGASC). TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME PILOT TESTING OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN THE SHANNON RIVER BASIN THE EU COMMON IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY (CIS) OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (2000/60/EC) PROVIDED FOR THE PREPARATION OF GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS BY WORKING GROUPS ON SEVERAL TECHNICAL ISSUES AND FOR THE INTEGRATED TESTING OF THESE GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS IN PILOT RIVER BASINS (PRBS). IRELAND DESIGNATED THE SHANNON RIVER BASIN AS ITS PRB, AND THIS FELLOWSHIP INVOLVED THE TESTING OF THE CIS GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS IN THIS RIVER BASIN AND EXCHANGE OF FINDINGS WITH EUROPEAN PARTNERS. THE OVERALL AIM OF THE PRBS AT EUROPEAN LEVEL WAS TO ENSURE THAT THE GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS PRODUCED BY THE CIS WORKING GROUPS WERE APPLICABLE TO AND WORKABLE WITHIN ALL RIVER BASIN DISTRICTS ACROSS EUROPE. THE FELLOWSHIP WAS UNDERTAKEN BY DR. GARRETT KILROY. EPA ERTDI PROGRAMME EVALUATION OF STRATEGIES TO MINIMISE NITRATE LEACHING LOSSES FROM TILLAGE LAND THIS PROJECT AIMED TO EVALUATE DIFFERENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO MINIMISE NITRATE LOSSES TO GROUNDWATER FROM SPRING BARLEY PRODUCTION SYSTEMS. THIS INVOLVED AN INVESTIGATION OF THE UNSATURATED ZONE (USING CERAMIC CUPS) BELOW REPLICATE SMALL PLOTS WITH DIFFERENT TREATMENTS (MUSTARD COVER CROP, NATURAL REGENERATION, AND NO VEGETATION COVER) AND AN INVESTIGATION OF BOTH UNSATURATED AND SATURATED ZONES BELOW THREE LARGER FIELD PLOTS. TRAVEL TIMES THROUGH THE UNSATURATED AND SATURATED ZONES WERE INVESTIGATED. THE WORK AIMED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE RESEARCH BASE FOR FORMULATING POLICY RELATING TO THE EU NITRATES DIRECTIVE (1991/676/EC) AND THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (2000/60/EC). THE RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT AS A PH.D. PROJECT BY ALINA PREMROV; I WAS THE MAIN ACADEMIC SUPERVISOR AND THE RESEARCH WAS CO-SUPERVISED BY DR. KARL RICHARDS AND DR. RICHARD HACKETT(TEAGASC). TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORTING CONDITIONS FOR GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS (GWDTES) ARE HABITATS WHERE THE WATER TABLE IS AT OR NEAR THE GROUND SURFACE AND THEY DIRECTLY DEPEND ON GROUNDWATER FOR A SIGNIFICANT PROPORTION OF THEIR WATER SUPPLY. THE EU WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE REQUIRES MEMBER STATES TO ENSURE THAT ALL GROUNDWATER BODIES MAINTAIN GOOD GROUNDWATER QUANTITY AND QUALITY, AND AS PART OF THE TASK OF CLASSIFYING THE STATUS OF GROUNDWATER BODIES, ASSESSMENTS OF GROUNDWATER-RELATED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO GWTDES MUST BE UNDERTAKEN. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WAS COMMISSIONED TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF APPROPRIATE STATUS TESTS RELEVANT TO GWDTES AND TO HIGHLIGHT KNOWLEDGE GAPS. THE PROJECT INVESTIGATED THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRIGGER AND THRESHOLD CHEMICAL VALUES BASED ON CONCEPTUAL HYDRO-ECOLOGICAL MODELS OF SELECTED GWDTES. THE RESEARCH WAS UNDERTAKEN BY A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, DR. SARAH KIMBERLEY, UNDER MY SUPERVISION AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE PROGRAMME EVALUATION OF STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS AS A TOOL TO DETERMINE NITRATE SOURCES IN IRISH GROUNDWATERS THIS PROJECT AIMED TO CRITICALLY EVALUATE STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF NITRATE (15N AND 18O) AS A TOOL TO DETERMINE NITRATE SOURCES IN IRISH GROUNDWATERS. THE RESEARCH INVOLVED THE COLLECTION OF LEACHATE SAMPLES FROM SOIL LYSIMETERS AND SATURATED ZONE INVESTIGATIONS IN THE BARROW VALLEY SAND / GRAVEL AND LIMESTONE AQUIFERS (COS KILDARE AND CARLOW) AND IN A KARST LIMESTONE AQUIFER IN NORTH CORK. NITRATE WAS EXTRACTED FROM WATER SAMPLES USING AN ANION EXCHANGE RESIN TECHNIQUE AND ISOTOPES WERE MEASURED USING CONTINUOUS-FLOW ISOTOPIC RATIO MASS SPECTROMETRY. SATURATED ZONE SAMPLING SITES WERE CLASSIFIED INTO DIFFERENT NITROGEN SOURCE GROUPINGS ACCORDING TO (I) CONVENTIONAL HYDROCHEMICAL EVIDENCE AND (II) SITE CHARACTERISTICS, AND THESE CLASSIFICATIONS WERE COMPARED WITH THE 15N AND 18O DATA. THE RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT AS A PH.D. PROJECT BY EDDY MINET UNDER MY SUPERVISION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANTS PESTICIDE LEACHING TO GROUNDWATER IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT FORMED PART OF A LARGER INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT ON ASSESSMENT OF THE VULNERABILITY OF GROUNDWATER TO PESTICIDE INPUTS FROM IRISH AGRICULTURE (LED BY DR. E. CUMMINS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN). THIS COMPONENT OF THE PROJECT INVOLVED FIELD INVESTIGATIONS OF PESTICIDE LEACHING TO GROUNDWATER UNDER A RANGE OF LAND USES, SOIL TYPES AND GEOLOGICAL / HYDROGEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS, ON SELECTED FARMS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN IRELAND. THE RESEARCH ALSO INVOLVED ANALYSIS OF EXISTING IRISH GROUNDWATER PESTICIDE MONITORING DATA. IT WAS CARRIED OUT AS A PH.D. PROJECT BY SARAH MCMANUS UNDER MY SUPERVISION, CO-SUPERVISED BY DR. KARL RICHARDS (TEAGASC JOHNSTOWN CASTLE RESEARCH CENTRE). DEPT. AGRICULTURE & FOOD RESEARCH STIMULUS FUND PROGRAMME EVALUATION AND INTERPRETATION OF GROUNDWATER MONITORING DATA AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR GROUNDWATER IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT INVOLVED THE ANALYSIS OF GROUNDWATER DATA COLLECTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY FOR THE EU WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE, WITH THE AIM OF PROVIDING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF IRISH GROUNDWATER QUALITY AND GROUNDWATER LEVELS. THE WORK ON GROUNDWATER QUALITY INCLUDED FOCUSED INVESTIGATIONS INTO PARTICULAR TOPICS INCLUDING(I) GROUNDWATER LEVELS IN THE SOUTH EASTERN RIVER BASIN DISTRICT, (II) NITRATE IN GROUNDWATER IN THE SOUTH EASTERN RIVER BASIN DISTRICT: INVESTIGATION OF SOURCES AND PATHWAYS,(III) PHOSPHORUS COMPONENTS IN IRISH GROUNDWATER,(IV)FLOW AND QUALITY RELATIONSHIPS IN KARST SPRINGS,(V) NATURAL BACKGROUND LEVELS OF CHEMICAL PARAMETERS IN IRISH AQUIFERS. THE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP WAS UNDERTAKEN BY KATIE TEDD. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE PROGRAMME TURLOUGH HYDROCHEMISTRY AND ALGAL DYNAMICS THIS RESEARCH FORMED PART OF A LARGE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT TITLED ASSESSING THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF TURLOUGHS. TURLOUGHS ARE ANNUALLY FLOODING KARSTIC DEPRESSIONS WHICH CONSTITUTE IMPORTANT GROUNDWATER-DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS, IDENTIFIED AS PRIORITY HABITATS UNDER THE EU HABITATS DIRECTIVE. THIS PART OF THE PROJECT WAS AN INVESTIGATION OF TURLOUGH HYDROCHEMISTRY, PARTICULARLY NUTRIENT STATUS, AND OF TURLOUGH ALGAE INCLUDING BOTH PHYTOPLANKTON AND ATTACHED BENTHIC ALGAE. THE WORK INVOLVED AN INITIAL BROAD OVERVIEW OF 22 SITES DURING THE FIRST FLOODING SEASON FOLLOWED BY A MORE DETAILED INVESTIGATION OF A SUBSET OF 4 TURLOUGHS WITH CONTRASTING NUTRIENT STATUS AND ALGAL POPULATIONS. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ALGAL COMMUNITIES AND THE NATURE OF THE TURLOUGHS (E.G. DEPTH, WATER RESIDENCE TIME, NUTRIENT STATUS AND SOURCES OF INOCULA) WAS INVESTIGATED. THE RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT AS A PH.D. PROJECT BY HELDER CUNHA PEREIRA, SUPERVISED BY DR. NORMAN ALLOTT (SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, T.C.D.) AND MYSELF. NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE APPLIED TESTING AND EVALUATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (WATER) THIS FELLOWSHIP PROVIDED APPLIED RESEARCH TO CONTRIBUTE TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'S ROLE IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EU WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE, CULMINATING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT PLANS (RBMPS) IN 2009. THE PROJECT INVOLVED THE DEVELOPMENT OF CASE STUDIES AND BEST PRACTICE, LINKING WITH NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS, TO DEMONSTRATE HOW GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER ISSUES CAN BE BEST INTEGRATED AND ADDRESSED IN THE RBMPS. THE RESEARCH WORK WAS PARTICULARLY FOCUSED ON THE INTEGRATION OF COMPLEX GROUNDWATER - SURFACE WATER INTERACTIONS (E.G. IN KARSTIC REGIONS) INTO THE RBMPS, AND ON THE MANAGEMENT OF GROUNDWATER-FED TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS. THE FELLOWSHIP WAS UNDERTAKEN BY DR. GARRETT KILROY. EPA ERTDI PROGRAMME PHOSPHORUS DYNAMICS IN SOME IRISH SOILS: THE INFLUENCE OF LABORATORY DRYING, SOIL CHARACTERISTICS AND SEASON THIS RESEARCH FORMED PART OF THE EU 'BUFFER' PROJECT WHICH AIMED TO DEVELOP NUTRIENT TRANSPORT MODELS FOR LAKE CATCHMENTS ACROSS EUROPE. THIS SUB-PROJECT INVESTIGATED THE EFFECT OF SOIL TYPE AND SOIL P STATUS ON THE RISK OF P LOSS FROM SOIL TO WATER IN THE CARRA-MASK CATCHMENT IN CO. MAYO. THE RESEARCH AIMED TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL TO USE READILY AVAILABLE SOIL TYPE AND AGRONOMIC SOIL P (MORGAN P) DATA TO PREDICT SOIL P DESORPTION, AS MEASURED BY WATER-EXTRACTABLE P (PW) AND BIOAVAILABLE P (PFEO), FOR A RANGE OF IRISH SOILS. THE EFFECTS OF THE STANDARD PRACTICE OF SAMPLE DRYING PRIOR TO DESORPTION ANALYSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ASSESSING SOIL P DESORPTION RISK IN CATCHMENT P LOSS MODELS, WERE EXPLORED. THE RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT AS A PH.D. PROJECT BY DAVID STYLES UNDER MY SUPERVISION. EU 5TH FRAMEWORK INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HYDROLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF DUNE SLACK ECOSYSTEMS DUNE SLACKS ARE FRESHWATER WETLANDS FOUND BETWEEN DRY, FIXED DUNE RIDGES IN SAND DUNE SYSTEMS. THE GROUNDWATER TABLE IS CLOSE TO THE SURFACE AND FLOODING TYPICALLY OCCURS IN WINTER. BECAUSE OF THEIR SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT AND PLANT COMMUNITIES, DUNE SLACKS INCREASE THE HABITAT AND SPECIES DIVERSITY OF SAND DUNE SYSTEMS WHERE THEY OCCUR. THEIR CONSERVATION VALUE HAS BEEN RECOGNISED UNDER THE EU HABITATS DIRECTIVE (COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 92/43/EEC), WHERE DUNE SLACKS ARE LISTED AS AN ANNEX I HABITAT. THE MOST RECENT MONITORING ROUND FOR ANNEX I HABITATS IN EUROPE IDENTIFIED POLLUTION AND ABSTRACTION OF GROUNDWATER AS MAJOR THREATS TO THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF DUNE SLACKS. THIS PROJECT SOUGHT TO ESTABLISH WHAT RESOURCES DUNE SLACKS PROVIDE FOR INVERTEBRATES IN SAND DUNE SYSTEMS AND WHETHER THEY SUPPORT SPECIFIC ASSEMBLAGES OF PLANTS AND INVERTEBRATES WHICH ARE INDICATIVE OF HABITAT QUALITY. THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT LAND USES ON THE SYSTEMS WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED. THE PROJECT WAS CARRIED OUT BY AOIFE DELANEY UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROFESSOR JANE STOUT AND MYSELF. TCD NITROGEN ATTENUATION ALONG DELIVERY PATHWAYS IN AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS THIS RESEARCH PROJECTS AIMS TO INVESTIGATE NITROGEN ATTENUATION PROCESSES ALONG GROUNDWATER PATHWAYS IN TWO IRISH AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS: AN ARABLE CATCHMENT IN CO. WEXFORD AND AN INTENSIVE GRASSLAND CATCHMENT IN CO. CORK. FACTORS INFLUENCING GROUNDWATER DENITRIFICATION ARE BEING INVESTIGATED. THE RESEARCH IS BEING CONDUCTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AGRICULTURAL CATCHMENTS PROGRAMME BASED AT TEAGASC, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE, WEXFORD, AS A DOCTORAL PROJECT BY EOIN MCALEER, SUPERVISED BY MYSELF AND CO-SUPERVISED BY DR. PER-ERIK MELLANDER AND DR. KARL RICHARDS (TEAGASC). TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP ECOMETRICS - ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORTING CONDITIONS FOR GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORTING CONDITION METRICS FOR A SUBSET OF GROUNDWATER TERRESTRIAL DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS (GWDTE), FOCUSING ON TURLOUGHS, FENS AND RAISED BOGS. THE METRICS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE CHARACTERISATION PROCESS. THE RESEARCH ACTIVITIES WILL FIRST IDENTIFY AND COLLATE EXISTING GEOSPATIAL DATA RELEVANT TO THE CREATION OF A DRAFT "POTENTIAL" GWDTE REGISTER. THIS WILL BE COMPLEMENTED BY ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL USE REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES TO FURTHER IDENTIFY GWDTES. THE MAIN BODY OF THE PROJECT WILL THEN FOCUS ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF APPROPRIATE ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORTING CONDITIONS FOR TURLOUGHS, FENS AND RAISED BOGS. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED FROM A COMBINATION OF EXISTING ECOHYDROLOGICAL DATA (WHERE AVAILABLE) AND SOME ADDITIONAL FIELD STUDY WHERE REQUIRED, PARTICULARLY FOR THE FENS. METRICS WILL THEN BE DEFINED FOR EACH OF THESE WETLAND TYPES THAT PROVIDE A ROBUST ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORTING CONDITIONS WHICH WILL THEN BE TESTED BACK ON A SUBSET OF THE RESPECTIVE WETLANDS WHICH HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY HAD ANY SIGNIFICANT ECOHYDROLOGICAL STUDIES CARRIED OUT ON THEM. THIS PROJECT IS LED BY DR. LAURENCE GILL, TCD DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. I HAVE A ROLE IN SEVERAL WORK PACKAGES AND WILL CO-SUPERVISE THE PHD PROJECT ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORTING CONDITIONS FOR FENS. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EPA RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2014-2020 COMBINING EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOCHEMICAL TRACING TECHNIQUES (CONNECT) FOR GROUNDWATER DETECTION AND EVALUATION IN IRELAND THE PURPOSE OF CONNECT WAS TO FURTHER DEVELOP EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOCHEMICAL TRACING TECHNIQUES THAT IDENTIFY (MAP), CHARACTERIZE AND EVALUATE THE OCCURRENCE AND IMPACT OF GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE TO LAKES AND COASTAL WATERS. THE OVERALL AIM WAS TO EXAMINE THE CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN GROUND AND SURFACE WATER BY COMBINING THE RESULTS FROM A NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIAL FOR GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE UNDERTAKEN VIA REMOTE SENSING AND GIS TECHNIQUES WITH AVAILABLE HYDROGEOLOGICAL, GEOLOGICAL, GEOCHEMICAL AND WATER QUALITY DATA THAT FURTHER CHARACTERIZE AND ASSESS THE POTENTIAL FOR AND IMPACTS OF GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE. THE RESEARCH WAS UNDERTAKEN BY DR JEAN WILSON (RESEARCH FELLOW) AND PROF CARLOS ROCHA (CO-PIS) WITH MYSELF. (MY INVOLVEMENT WAS PRIMARILY IN THE DESKTOP GIS ANALYSIS OF SURFACE-GROUNDWATER CONNECTIVITY). ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE PROGRAMME EMERGING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS ARISING IN RURAL ENVIRONMENTS: INVESTIGATIONS IN KARST AND FRACTURED BEDROCK AQUIFERS THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE THE OCCURRENCE OF SYNTHETIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS ARISING FROM RURAL ACTIVITIES IN IRISH KARST AND FRACTURED BEDROCK AQUIFERS. THE PRIMARY FOCUS IS ON VETERINARY DRUGS INCLUDING ANTHELMINTICS, ANTICOCCIDIALS AND PYRETHROIDS. THE PROJECT AIMS TO DETERMINE THE CONTROLLING FACTORS (BOTH SOURCE AND PATHWAY) ON THESE OCCURRENCES. THE RESEARCH IS BEING CARRIED OUT BY A DOCTORAL STUDENT, DAMIEN MOONEY, IN ASSOCIATION WITH DR MARTIN DANAHER (TEAGASC, ASHTOWN), DR KARL RICHARDS AND DR PER-ERIK MELLANDER (TEAGASC, JOHNSTOWN CASTLE), PROF. LAURENCE GILL (TCD) AND MYSELF. SFI ICRAG RESEARCH CENTRE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECOHYDROLOGY FRAMEWORK FOR SETTING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW STANDARDS FOR IRISH RIVERS THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO EVALUATE STATE-OF-THE-ART ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW METHODOLOGY TO IDENTIFY BEST PRACTICE, TRIAL ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES IN CATCHMENTS OF CONTRASTING HYDROGEOLOGY WITH LONG-TERM FLOW DATA, AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS TO EPA FOR ESTABLISHING A LANDSCAPE-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR SETTING EFLOW STANDARDS THAT WILL HELP TO MAINTAIN ECOLOGICAL STATUS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES PROVIDED BY IRISH RIVERS. THE RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT BY DR KATHERINE WEBSTER AND KATIE TEDD (RESEARCH FELLOWS) IN ASSOCIATION WITH PROF IAN DONOHUE (PI) AND MYSELF. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR PETER COXON coxonpeter PROFESSOR PCOXON GEOGRAPHY PRIMARILY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE CRITICAL ASPECTS OF QUATERNARY GEOMORPHOLOGY INCLUDING THE USE OF GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING (GLACIAL GEOLOGY), MASS-MOVEMENTS AND FAILURES IN QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS, RECONSTRUCTING FLOOD EVENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY, PALYNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES AND GEOMORPHOLOGY TO ANALYSE LANDSCAPE CHANGE AND TO SOLVE STRATIGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS IN QUATERNARY AND TERTIARY DEPOSITS. MUCH OF THIS WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED AND I HAVE AN ACTIVE RESEARCH PROFILE WITH PROJECTS UNDER WAY. I HAVE WIDE EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD OF GEOMORPHOLOGY, IN PARTICULAR GLACIAL AND PERIGLACIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY AND LANDFORMS AND SEDIMENTS USING FIELD MAPPING, SEDIMENTOLOGICAL AND REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES. GEOGRAPHY DEPT. MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE IRISH QUATERNARY ASSOCIATION (IQUA) MEMBER OF THE QUATERNARY RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (QRA) BIOSTRATIGRAPHY CLIMATE CHANGE EARTH SCIENCE EARTH SCIENCES FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH EARTH STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES EROSION FLOODING GEOMORPHOLOGY GLACIAL SEDIMENTOLOGY GLACIOLOGY IRISH DENUDATION CHRONOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY, PALEOECOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY OF FLOODING TOLERANCE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY/ GEOMORPHOLOGY VEGETATION HISTORY PLEISTOCENE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY IN IRELAND ELUCIDATING ORGANIC SEQUENCES OF LATE- AND MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE AGE USING PALAEOECOLOGY, DATING AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSES EU, TCD, FORBAIRT... FLOOD/BOG FLOW/LANDSLIDE MASS-MOVEMENT RECONSTRUCTION ANALYSING HIGH-MAGNITUDE/ LOW-FREQUENCY EVENTS SUCH AS FLOWS IN ORDER TO MITIGATE AND PLAN FOR FUTURE OCCURRENCES. HAS INCLUDED WORK IN IRELAND AND THE HIMALAYA (SEE PUBLICATIONS) NUMEROUS MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR IMELDA COYNE coyneimelda PROFESSOR/ DIRECTOR UG & L COYNEI SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT, SELF-MANAGEMENT, FAMILY CENTERED CARE, SHARED DECISION-MAKING TRANSITION TO ADULT SERVICES, CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE ' S RIGHTS, CHILD AND ADOLESCENTS MENTAL HEALTH; PARENTING PRACTICES; NURSES' CONTRIBUTION TO CARE. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ASSOCIATION FOR COMMON EUROPEAN NURSING DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOMES (ACENDIO) BISHOP'S BIOETHICS COMMITTEE CHILD HEALTH NURSE RESEARCHERS, UK EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER FOR NURSING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (NCYP) INVITATION FROM DR MAJA SODERBACK, (DEPARTMENT OF CARING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES, MALARDALEN UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN) TO PRESENT PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH AND CONDUCT SEMINARS WITH DOCTORAL STUDENTS ON CHILDREN AND DECISION-MAKING. INVITED TO PRESENT FINDINGS FROM PHD TO HEALTHCARE STAFF, MANAGERS, AND EDUCATIONALISTS AT THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL YORKHILL HOSPITAL TRUST. INVITED TO PRESENT FINDINGS FROM PHD TO STUDENTS AND EDUCATIONALISTS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF NURSING, LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN MEMBER OF JUDGING PANEL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS @ THIRD ANNUAL COCHRANE IN IRELAND CONFERENCE, SCHOOL OF NURSING, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (FEBRUARY 1) AS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE COMMITTEE, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, I HELPED ORGANIZE AND DELIVER A CONFERENCE ON THE 'ETHICS OF EATING'. IRISH COUNCIL FOR BIOETHICS CONFERENCE, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY (RIA), DUBLIN BOARD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE (EANS) CHAIR OF THE NURSING & MIDWIFERY CATEGORY FOR THE ADJUDICATION OF THE UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS PROGRAMME 2013. UA IS A PRESTIGIOUS AND INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AWARDS PROGRAMME, WHICH IS WHOLLY PAN-DISCIPLINE. IT AIMS TO CELEBRATE AND SUPPORT THE WORLD'S BRIGHTEST AND MOST INNOVATIVE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS BY RECOGNISING THEIR BEST COURSEWORK AND PROJECTS. THE PROGRAMME HAS BEEN UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF PRESIDENT OF IRELAND, MICHAEL D. HIGGINS, SINCE FEBRUARY 2012. HTTP://WWW.UNDERGRADUATEAWARDS.COM/ABOUT-US/JUDGES/2013-JUDGES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH FORUM (CRF) CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK FOR IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND (CRNINI) COCHRANE COMMUNITY CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S NURSES (IACN) EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER FOR JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING (JCN) EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S NURSING: MARK ALLEN PUBLISHERS EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE (EACH) EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PAEDIATRIC NURSES (EAPN) EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF ONCOLOGY (ESO) FELLOW EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE (FEANS) FOUNDING MEMBER OF AN ORGANISATION FOR CHILDREN'S NURSES CALLED THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S NURSING (IACN). THIS ASSOCIATION PROVIDES A FORUM FOR NETWORKING AND SHARING OF CLINICAL AND RESEARCH EXPERTISE. HEALTH CARE TRANSITION RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (HCTRC) USA HOST OF EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE WINTER SCIENTIFIC MEETING ON 26-27TH JANUARY IN COLLABORATION WITH PROF. INGALLILL RAHM HALLBERG (UNIVERSITY OF LUND), WE DELIVERED A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS WORKSHOP FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS ATTENDING THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE (EANS), MAASTRICHT, BELGIUM. THIRTY FIVE (N= 35) DOCTORAL STUDENTS FROM ALL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ATTENDED. 19TH-23RD JUNE INVITATION FROM PROFESSOR LINDA FRANCK, (INSTITUTE FOR CHILD HEALTH, LONDON) TO BE THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT RESEARCH DAY, INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH (PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS ON PROJECT 'HEARING CHILDREN'S VOICES' FUNDED BY THE OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN). INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION ON CHILDREN'S FEARS IN HOSPITAL. PEDIATRIC CARE SYMPOSIUM ON THE CONCEPT OF FEAR IN CHILDREN IN THE ACUTE SETTING- WHAT SUPPORTIVE MEASURES CAN NURSES PROVIDE ?. IN LUCERNER KANTONSSPITAL LUCZERN, SWITZERLAND. 12TH NOVEMBER INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION ON DELIVERING FAMILY CENTRED CARE: SOME PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HOSPITALIZED CHILDREN. BARCELONA, SPAIN. 13TH MAY INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION ON FAMILY CENTRED CARE: RHETORIC OR REALITY ? INTERDISCIPLINARY NATIONAL NEONATAL SYMPOSIUM ON FAMILY CENTRED CARE, HILLEROD, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (18-21ST SEPTEMBER 2009) INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION ON KEY PRINCIPLES OF FAMILY CENTRED CARE. FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY NURSING /MEDICAL PAEDIATRIC CONFERENCE. JULIANE MARIE CENTRE FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN AND REPRODUCTION, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK. 3RD OCTOBER INVITED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION ON PRACTICING FAMILY CENTRED CARE: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ACADEMIC PEDIATRIC NURSING CONGRESS AND CULTURE CENTRE ALLEGRO, BERNE, SWITZERLAND (3RD - 4TH JUNE) INVITED KEYNOTE. PROFESSIONAL-PARENT-CHILD INTERACTION IN HEALTHCARE DECISION MAKING. CHALLENGES IN PEDIATRIC CARE: INNOVATIONS THROUGH ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING IN PEDIATRIC CARE CONFERENCE, BASEL, SWITZERLAND (JAN 13TH) INVITED PRESENTATION. CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE: RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR EUROPE. SCIENTIFIC MEETING, EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE. AARHUS UNIVERSITY, DENMARK. CHAIR: PROF. SANNA SALANTERA (JANUARY 18TH 2013) INVITED PRESENTATION: HOW SHOULD CHILDREN'S AUTONOMY BE RECOGNISED IN THE RESEARCH CONTEXT ? CHILDREN AND CLINICAL TRIALS WORKSHOP, NUFFIELD COUNCIL OF BIOETHICS, ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, 41 PORTLAND PLACE LONDON W1B 1QH (09/12/2011) INVITED WORKSHOP ON CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHCARE DECISION-MAKING AND CHILD-PARENT-NURSE INTERACTION IN PAEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING TO STUDENTS ON THE MASTERS IN ADVANCED NURSING (CHILDREN). INVITE FROM: ANITA BERGER-TARCSAY RN, HEAD OF CAS IN PEDIATRIC NURSING INSTITUTE OF NURSING, ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND. OCTOBER 15TH IRISH COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS, DEANS AND HEADS OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT THE NATIONAL LAUNCH OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S NURSING (IACN). THE EDUCATION CENTRE, NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN (20TH APRIL) MEMBER OF ADVISORY GROUP FOR CANCARE4LIVING - IRISH NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION OF CANCER SURVIVORS AND SUPPORTERS AND PROFESSIONALS. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CLINICAL PROGRAMME FOR PAEDIATRICS AND NEONATES TRANSITION GROUP, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY (DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY REP) NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD IRELAND ORGANIZED AND DELIVERED A CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES ON 'CHILDREN MATTER: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES FOR CHILDREN'S NURSES'. FIRST INTERNATIONAL PAEDIATRIC CONFERENCE. ATHLONE, IRELAND. RESEARCH INVENTORY FOR CHILD HEALTH IN EUROPE (RICHE) REVIEWER FOR FUNDING PROPOSALS FOR THE ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (E.S.R.C), ENGLAND REVIEWER FOR RESEARCH TENDERS FOR ROYAL LIVERPOOL CHILDREN'S NHS TRUST ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING (RCN) SOCIETY OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND MEDICINE (SAHM) SOLE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ORGANIZING AND DELIVERING THE FIRST NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CONFERENCE TITLED 'RECENT RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN IN IRELAND: CHALLENGES AND IMPLICATIONS'. SCHOOL OF NURSING, DCU. STEERING GROUP FOR IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S NURSING (IACN) CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH CHILDHOOD CANCER CHILDREN'S CONSULTATION AND PARTICIPATION CHILDREN'S NURSING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS CHILDRENS BELIEFS CHRONIC ILLNESS SELF-MANAGEMENT FAMILY CENTRED CARE FAMILY-PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN NEONATAL CARE HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SERVICES DELIVERY NURSE COMMUNICATION IN INTENSIVE CARE PROMOTION OF CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH SHARED DECISION-MAKING TRANSITION PROCESS OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) PARENTAL ETHNOTHEORIES AMONG IMMIGRANT AND IRISH PARENTS OF INFANTS IN IRELAND. DR. ELIZABETH NIXON (PI) (SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY & SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TCD); PROFESSOR SHEILA GREENE, DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE & CHAIR OF CHILDHOOD RESEARCH (CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) PROFESSOR I COYNE, (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND HEAD OF CHILDREN'S NURSING & RESEARCH ASSOCIATE OF CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN); PROFESSOR K NUGENT, (PROFESSOR OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTES, DIRECTOR OF THE BRAZELTON INSTITUTE AT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN BOSTON, AND FACULTY MEMBER OF THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS, HARVARD, USA) IRCHSS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE DR I COYNE (PI) & DR. P GALLAGHER & MS E HAYES (DCU) & MS G REGAN (OUR LADY'S HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, CRUMLIN). AN INVESTIGATION OF CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES OF PARTICIPATION IN CONSULTATION AND DECISION MAKING WITHIN THE IRISH HEALTHCARE SETTING. OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS CLINICAL RESEARCH PROF. I COYNE (PI) FAMILY CENTRED CARE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN START-UP FUND FOR NEW LECTURERS 2008-10. TRANSITION FROM CAMHS TO ADULT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN AN IRISH SETTING (ITRACK): A STUDY OF SERVICE ORGANISATION, POLICIES, PROCESS AND USER AND CARER PERSPECTIVES. TEAM: PROF. F MCNICHOLAS (PI) AND DR B GAVIN (UCD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND LUCENA CLINIC RATHGAR); DR B DOOLEY (COLLEGE OF HUMAN SCIENCE, UCD); PROF. I COYNE, (TCD); DR T FORD (PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL, UK); DR M PAUL (WARWICK MEDICAL SCHOOL, UK); PROF. S SINGH (HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UK) COLLABORATORS: PROF. P MCGORRY (UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA); DR W CULLEN (GRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK); DR S BARRY (CLUAIN MHUIRE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES); J HASTINGS (BODYWHYS) HRB TRANSITION FROM CHILD TO ADULT CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS (TRYCIS): A STUDY OF POLICIES, PROCESS, AND PATIENTS, PARENTS, AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS' PERSPECTIVES. COYNE, I (PI); WHILE, A (KINGS COLLEGE LONDON), LAMBERT, V (DCU) HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INTERVENTIONS FOR PROMOTING PARTICIPATION IN SHARED DECISION-MAKING FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER. COYNE, I (FELLOWSHIP AWARD); O'MATHUNA, D (DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY); GIBSON, F (INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, LONDON); SHIELDS, L (CURTIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA) HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRELAND INVESTIGATION OF CHILDREN'S PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING IN HEALTHCARE: CHILDREN, PARENTS AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS' PERSPECTIVES. COYNE, I (PI) KIERNAN, G (DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY) & LAMBERT, V (DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY) HRB RESEARCH GENERAL PROJECT GRANT. EVALUATION OF THE ROLES OF CNS/CMS AND ANP/AMP IN IRELAND PROFESSOR CECILY BEGLEY (PI), PROFESSOR IMELDA COYNE, PROFESSOR AGNES HIGGINS, DR JOAN LALOR, DR FINTAN SHEERIN, DR NAOMI ELLIOTT, PROFESSOR CHARLES NORMAND AND PROFESSOR CATHERINE COMISKEY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A GROUP FROM NUIG INCLUDING PROFESSOR KATHY MURPHY (PI), DR DECLAN DEVANE, DR DYMPNA CASEY, MS ADELINE COONEY, MS FRANCES FARRELLY, DR MAURA DOWLING AND MS MIRIAM BRENNAN. JULY 2008-JULY 2010 THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY INVESTIGATION OF REGISTERED NURSE'S PRACTICE AND PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILY-CENTRED CARE. IMELDA COYNE, PI (DCU/TCD) & MR THOMAS COSTELLO & MS RITA O'SHEA (DIRECTOR OF NURSING, CHILDREN'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, TEMPLE STREET) & MS COLLEEN O'NEILL (DCU) & MS MARYANNE MURPHY (TCD). ALBERT COLLEGE FELLOWSHIP INVESTIGATION OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER: CHILDREN, PARENTS, AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS' PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN'S PARTICIPATION IN SHARED DECISION-MAKING COYNE I., AMORY, A., GIBSON, F., KIERNAN, G., BREATNACH, F CANCER RESEARCH SOCIETY AN EVALUATION OF CLIENT SATISFACTION WITH THE CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES-A MULTICENTRE SURVEY. DR. MANAS SARKAR, LOCUM CONSULTANT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST. PROFESSOR FIONA MCNICOLAS, CONSULTANT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST, LUCENA CLINIC. PROFESSOR IMELDA COYNE, HEAD OF CHILDREN'S DISCIPLINE, TCD AND MS CARLA BEATTIE, RESEARCH STUDENT NONE INVESTIGATION OF PARENTS' INFORMATIONAL NEEDS FOR THEIR CHILD'S TRANSITION TO ADULT HEALTHCARE SERVICES. (PINCH-CF) TO INVESTIGATE PARENTS' (OF CHILDREN WITH CF) INFORMATION NEEDS REGARDING THE TRANSITION OF THEIR CHILD FROM PAEDIATRIC TO ADULT HEALTHCARE SERVICES AND TO USE THESE IDENTIFIED NEEDS TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES WHICH WILL BE ACCESSIBLE ON THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS IRELAND WEBSITE. PROFESSOR I COYNE (PI) & MS LEONA CONNOLLY (RA) IN COLLABORATION WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS IRELAND. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME 2014 AN APPRAISAL OF INSTRUMENTS THAT MEASURE COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE AND AN EVALUATION OF THEIR SUITABILITY FOR USE WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES IN THE CONTEXT OF LONG-TERM CONDITIONS TEAM: DR JOANNA SMITH (PI), SENIOR LECTURER IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S NURSING, SCHOOL OF NURSING, MIDWIFERY AND SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD. DR ALISON BRETTLE, SENIOR LECTURER, SCHOOL OF NURSING, MIDWIFERY AND SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD. DR HILARY BEKKER, SENIOR LECTURER IN BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES, INSTITUTE OF HEALTH SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. PROF. I COYNE. MS GAYNOR FENTON, LECTURER IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S NURSING, SCHOOL OF NURSING, MIDWIFERY AND SOCIAL WORK, UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD. UNFUNDED INVESTIGATION OF NURSES' EXPERIENCES OF USING CHILD RESTRAINT IN THE CLINICAL SETTING. LISA KIRWAN & PROFESSOR I COYNE GRANT: AWARD: 2000.00 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HRB SUMMER STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP PROTEASOME INHIBITOR TREATMENT FOR MULTIPLE MYELOMA DR KATHLEEN SCOTT & PROF. I COYNE FUNDER: AWARD: €71,593.68 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (CTF/2012/11) COCHRANE TRAINING FELLOWSHIP DEVELOPING AN EHEALTH INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S (WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES) TRANSITION TO ADULT HEALTHCARE SERVICES. KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION SCHEME (KEDS) TARGETED CALL FOR PROJECT LINKED TO THE TRYCIS PROJECT: TRANSITION FROM CHILD TO ADULT CARE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS (TRYCIS): A STUDY OF POLICIES, PROCESS, AND PATIENTS, PARENTS, AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS' PERSPECTIVES. TEAM: PROF. I COYNE (PI); PROF. A WHILE, KINGS COLLEGE LONDON HRB KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION SCHEME (KEDS) INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE TRANSITION TO ADULT SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS. PROF IMELDA COYNE & JOANNE CALLINAN (RA) IN COLLABORATION WITH HELIUM HELIUM SCOPING REVIEW SYSTEMATIC REVIEW: INTERVENTIONS FOR PROMOTING PARTICIPATION IN SHARED DECISION-MAKING FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS. MALONE HELEN & PROF. I COYNE (SUPERVISOR). BIGGAR S, JAVADPOUR S, EDWORTHY Z, SHEAF G AWARD: CTF-2016-1856 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COCHRANE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS 2016 EARLY YEARS STRATEGY CHILDREN'S CONSULTATION RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN AGED 3-5 YEARS TO INFORM THE EARLY YEARS NATIONAL STRATEGY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS KATIE NUGENT PROJECT: A SUPPORT NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR SUPPORTING PARENTS OF CHILDREN FROM THE HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY SERVICE THE STUDY SEEKS TO ADDRESS THE WELL ACKNOWLEDGED EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT NEEDS OF PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN ARE RECEIVING/ HAVE RECEIVED CARE FROM THE ONCOLOGY TEAM IN OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, CRUMLIN. THE FOCUS OF THIS STUDY IS ON THE NEEDS OF ALL PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN ARE RECEIVING TREATMENT FROM THE SERVICE. LORD AND LADY NUGENT AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PREPARE A REPORT ON BOTH THE PROCESS AND OUTCOME OF THE CONSULTATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS (DCYA). THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ARE TO: 1. IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT MAKE THEIR LIVES EASY AND THE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HARD FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 2. IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT WORK WELL FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 3. IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE CONSIDER NEEDS TO CHANGE TO ENHANCE THEIR LIVES. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS HEALTH VISITS WITH CHILDREN OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN THE SWEDISH CHILD- AND SCHOOL HEALTH CARE DR MARIA HARDER, PROF I HOLMSTRÖM, SCHOOL OF HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL WELFARE, MÄLARDALENS UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN. DR MARIE GOLSÄTER, PROF. MATS GRANLUND, JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY, PROF I COYNE. MÄLARDALENS UNIVERSITY, PHD SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF NEOADJUVANT TREATMENTS FOR MALIGNANT AND METASTATIC MELANOMA COCHRANE REVIEW OF NEOADJUVANT TREATMENTS FOR MALIGNANT AND METASTATIC MELANOMA. AWARD CODE: CTF-2016-1864. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COCHRANE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS 2016 IDENTIFYING A CORE OUTCOME SET FOR CLINICAL TRIALS OF INTERVENTIONS TARGETING YOUNG ADULTS WITH TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS: PROTOCOL FOR A DELPHI STUDY BYRNE, M (PI), O'CONNELL A, EGAN A, DINEEN S, HYNES L (GALWAY UNIVERSITY) HOLT R (SOUTHAMPTON), WILLAING I (STENO DIABETES CENTRE), VALLIS M (CANADA), HENDRIECKX C (AUSTRALIA), COYNE I IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME 2016 CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. AGNELLA CRAIG craigagnella ASSISTANT PROF & HEAD OF DEPARTMENT CRAIGAG RADIATION THERAPY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS OF CANCER CARE AND THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN BOTH PATIENT CARE AND IN EDUCATION. IN 2005 I COMPLETED A MASTERS IN HEALTH INFORMATICS IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. THE FIRST YEAR OF THIS COURSE WAS A TAUGHT PROGRAMME AND I RECEIVED FIRST CLASS HONOURS. THE TITLE OF MY DISSERTATION WAS "THE POTENTIAL BENEFIT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN REDUCING ANXIETY LEVELS IN PATIENTS REFERRED FOR RADICAL RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT". IN 2010, I REGISTERED AS A PART-TIME PHD STUDENT IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION IN TRINITY COLLEGE. MY RESEARCH IS EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LITERACY LEVELS AND UNDERSTANDING OF CANCER INFORMATION. OTHER PROJECTS I HAVE WORKED ON INCLUDE: 1.MAPPING THE PATIENT JOURNEY IN RADIOTHERAPY 2.DEFINING THE RADIOTHERAPY MINIMUM DATA SET 3.RESTRUCTURING THE CLINICAL COMPONENT OF THE UNDERGRADUATE B SC IN RADIATION THERAPY. IN 2005 I CHAIRED A GROUP FOR THE ERHA PROJECT ON "DEFINING THE MINIMUM CANCER DATASET". IN NOV 2005 AND NOV 2003 I WAS A MEMBER OF FACULTY FOR THE EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER (EORTC) TEACHING COURSE 'ORGANISATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS', AND FROM 2003-2013, I WAS INVOLVED IN THE ROLL OUT OF A NATIONAL TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM IN ONCOLOGY. SCHOOL OF RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH BRAIN TUMOUR SUPPORT GROUP EORTC (EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER) ESTRO (EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY) IIR (IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHY) CANCER CANCER PATIENTS CLINICAL EDUCATION HEALTH INFORMATICS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION LITERACY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PATIENT EDUCATION THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY THERAPEUTIC RADIOGRAPHY 'THE POTENTIAL BENEFIT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN REDUCING ANXIETY LEVELS IN PATIENTS REFERRED FOR RADICAL RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT' THIS RESEARCH ASSESSES ANXIETY LEVELS IN CANCER PATIENTS AT 3 DIFFERENT STAGES USING THE HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE(HADS) MASTERS IN HEALTH INFORMATICS LITERACY LEVELS IN PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS: RELATIONSHIP OF HEALTH LITERACY LEVEL, UNDERSTANDING OF CANCER INFORMATION AND THE SHARED DECISION-MAKING PROCESS RESEARCH AIMS (1) EVALUATE THE IMPACT HL LEVEL HAS ON CANCER KNOWLEDGE (2) ASCERTAIN IF PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN A SHARED DECISION-MAKING PROCESS ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THEIR TREATMENT OPTIONS PHD(PART-TIME) CANCER PROFESSOR LAWRENCE CRANE cranelawrence FELLOW EMERITUS LCRANE PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS PURE & APPLIED MATHS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. EMMA CREAGH creaghemma ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ECREAGH BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MR. PATRICK CREAMER creamerpatrick HIGHER LIBRARY ASSISTANT PCREAMER LIBRARY THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. PETER CREAN creanpeter LECTURER IN CARDIOLOGY PCREAN CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY CREST DIRECTORATE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 A-I ACCUMULATION ACTIVATION ACUTE MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION ADHESION MOLECULES ADIPOSE-TISSUE AGGREGATION ANGINA-PECTORIS ANGIOPLASTY ARTERY DISEASE ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY C-REACTIVE PROTEIN CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS CARDIOVASCULAR-DISEASE CASS CELL-ADHESION MOLECULES CELLS COMPLEX COMPLICATIONS CONFORMERS CONSCIOUS DOG CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY CORONARY-ARTERY DISEASE DIASTOLIC FUNCTION DISEASE E-SELECTIN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY ENALAPRIL ENDOTHELIUM EXPRESSION FIBRINOGEN BINDING FLOW FREE-RADICAL GENERATION GLYCOPROTEIN IIB GLYCOPROTEIN IIIA GPIIB-IIIA HEART-FAILURE HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY ICAM-1 IN-VIVO INDUCTION INFARCTION INFECTION INHIBITION INTEGRIN ISCHEMIC-HEART-DISEASE LIPID-PEROXIDATION LIPIDS MARKERS MEN MICE MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION OXIDANT STRESS PERFUSION PLATELET ACTIVATION PROSTAGLANDIN PROSTANOIDS F2-ISOPROSTANES RECEPTORS RECOVERY RISK SEROPOSITIVITY SINGLE-VESSEL SIZE SOCIAL-CLASS STENOSIS SURGERY SURVIVAL THERAPY THROMBOLYSIS RESISTANCE THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY UNSTABLE ANGINA VCAM-1 VENTRICULAR ENLARGEMENT TRIAL CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. MARY CREANER creanermary ASSISTANT PROF/COURSE CO-ORDINATOR CREANERM PSYCHOLOGY CLINICAL SUPERVISION RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. RESEARCH SUPERVISION. TRAINING OF COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGISTS/PSYCHOTHERAPISTS. PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH. SUICIDE PREVENTION. PROGRAMME EVALUATION. PRACTITIONER RESEARCH. QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMIC CONSULTANT: DPSYCH PROGRAMME - METANOIA INSTITUTE/MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY EXTERNAL EXAMINER: MA IN INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY/GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK. EXTERNAL EXAMINER: MA PROF. STUDIES/GRAD.CERT. SUPERVISION - UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, UK. EXTERNAL EXAMINER: PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE/ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, LONDON METROPOLITIAN UNIVERSITY, UK GUEST EDITOR: COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY: LONDON, TAYLOR & FRANCIS: ROUTLEDGE - SPECIAL SECTION: CURRENT TRENDS IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING AWARDS COUNCIL (HETAC) REGISTER OF EXPERT PANELLISTS MEMBER INVITED CONSULTANCY: EXPERT REVIEWER CLINICAL SUPERVISION POLICY, PROGRESSION ROUTES, ANA LIFFEY DRUG PROJECT, DUBLIN. INVITED CONSULTANCY: HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING AWARDS COUNCIL, IRELAND (HETAC)- QQI COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT GROUP MEMBER INVITED GUEST LECTURER: SUPERVISION TRAINING WORKSHOP: 'WHAT IS GOOD SUPERVISION IN EDUCATIONAL AND CHILD PSYCHOLOGY?' DOCTORATE IN EDUCATIONAL AND CHILD PSYCHOLOGY MARY IMMACULATE COLLEGE, LIMERICK INVITED GUEST PRESENTER: AN INTRODUCTION TO COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH. THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY (IACP) RESEARCH CONFERENCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY (BACP). OCTOBER 12TH, 2013. THE RADISSON BLU, STILLORGAN, CO. DUBLIN. INVITED KEYNOTE: SUPERVISION AND DEVELOPING PRACTICE - WHAT IS GOOD SUPERVISION? NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE (NEPS) ANNUAL MEETING/CONFERENCE: RADISSON BLU, LIMERICK, DECEMBER 3RD., 2014 INVITED PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL SUPERVISION - KEY PRINCIPLES AND BEST PRACTICES IN TRAINEE SUPERVISION. PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, 42ND. ANNUAL CONFERENCE, ROCHESTOWN PARK HOTEL, CORK, IRELAND, NOV 8TH -11TH. 2012 INVITED PRESENTER: STRENGTHENING THE SUPERVISORY RELATIONSHIP: RESEARCH INFORMED PRACTICE. IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY (IACP) ANNUAL CONFERENCE, ROYAL MARINE HOTEL, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN, OCT 16TH -17TH, 2015. MEMBER OF APA DIV. 17 SECTION: SUPERVISION AND TRAINING MEMBER OF APA DIVISION 17: SOCIETY OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY MEMBER OF APA DIVISION 32: HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SECTION OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY, DIV 17, APA MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY SUB-COMMITTEE TO EVALUATE AND IMPLEMENT CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF SUPERVISION TRAINING COURSES IN IRELAND. MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (MIACP) MEMBER OF SUPERVISION SUB-COMMITTEE WITH IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY TO ESTABLISH CRITERIA FOR RECOGNITION OF SUPERVISION TRAINING COURSES. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY (IACP) RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY - TRAINING COURSE RECOGNITION COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH (SPR) MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE EXPLORATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION (SEPI) PEER REVIEWER: BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING (BJGC) - TAYLOR & FRANCIS: ROUTLEDGE PEER REVIEWER: COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY JOURNAL (CPQ) - TAYLOR & FRANCIS: ROUTLEDGE PEER REVIEWER: JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH - LINKING RESEARCH WITH PRACTICE (CPR) - BACP: TAYLOR & FRANCIS: ROUTLEDGE PEER REVIEWER: PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH (AD HOC) PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH, TAYLOR & FRANCIS: ROUTLEDGE PEER REVIEWER: SAGE PUBLICATIONS (BOOK PROPOSALS: COUNSELLING - PSYCHOTHERAPY - RESEARCH) PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION TRAINING: NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE (NEPS) PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND (DIVISION OF COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY)- SUPERVISION POLICY DEVELOPMENT TEAM (INVITED EXTERNAL MEMBER) PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND WORKING GROUP ON CONFIDENTIALITY AND RECORD KEEPING IN PRACTICE (INVITED EXTERNAL MEMBER) QUALITY PEER REVIEW GROUP MEMBER FOR THE QUALITY REVIEW OF EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK (NOV 30-DEC 4TH, 2009) REVIEWER: AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: SOCIETY OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY (APA DIVISION 17) SUPERVISION AND TRAINING SECTION. STUDENT POSTER SESSION. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, ORLANDO, FLORIDA AUGUST 2-5TH, 2012. CLINICAL SUPERVISION CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNSELING ETHICS HEALTH, CLINICAL AND COUNSELLING HIGHER EDUCATION HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY INNOVATION IN LEARNING MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY & METHODS SUPERVISION MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION OTHER HUMANITIES 'WHAT IS 'GOOD SUPERVISION?' DPSYCH RESEARCH DEGREE SUICIDE PREVENTION IN IRELAND CO-LEADER OF SUICIDE PREVENTION RESEARCH STREAM WITHIN THE DOCTORATE IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY. SUPERVISEE TRANSFER OF LEARNING IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION PHD RESEARCH PROJECT (PHD CANDIDATE: STEPHEN O'NEILL) WHAT ASPECTS OF EATING DISORDERS TREATMENT INVOLVING PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY DO CLIENTS FIND HELPFUL OR UNHELPFUL? A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH BACP : CO-RESEARCHER BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY (BACP) PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL WELL-BEING: EXPLORING THE RESOURCES AND PROTECTIVE PRACTICES OF THERAPISTS WORKING IN THE AREA OF TRAUMA - LAMARCHE-WARD, C. DCOUNSPSYCH EXPERIENCES OF ADULT CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN BEREAVED BY THE DEATH OF A PARENT BY SUICIDE IN ADULTHOOD PHD RESEARCH (PHD CANDIDATE: LUCY MADIGAN) POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY AIDING AND ASSISTING HEALTHCARE POLICY FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN: AN INVESTIGATION OF HOW THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY INFLUENCES THE HEALTH OF THE SCHOOL-AGE CHILD FROM A DISADVANTAGED AREA. PHD RESEARCH PROJECT (PHD CANDIDATE: ELEANOR HOLLYWOOD, SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TCD) EXPERIENCES OF PARENTING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MOTHERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED CHILDHOOD ABUSE. MCCABE-STRANGE, J. RESEARCH PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DRCC. DCOUNSPSYCH EFFECTIVE RESEARCH SUPERVISION POTTER, J., DELANEY, D; LALOR, J. & CREANER, M. CAPSL RESEARCH PROJECT, TCD NAIRTL PLANNED AND UNPLANNED THERAPY ENDINGS WITH CLIENTS AS EXPERIENCED BY THERAPISTS - GOULDING, J. DCOUNSPSYCH RESEARCH SUPERVISOR SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN TRAINING SUPERVISION - PETERSEN, G. DCOUNSPSYCH RESEARCH SUPERVISOR EXPERIENCES OF FATHERHOOD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MEN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED CHILDHOOD TRAUMA: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY - PARIS, M. RESEARCH PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL COUNSELLING SERVICE (NCS) DCOUNSPSYCH RESEARCH CO-SUPERVISOR PARENTS' EXPERIENCES OF RECEIVING A DIAGNOSIS FOR THEIR CHILD FROM A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST IN AN IRISH CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE - BUCKMASTER, A. DCLIN DISSERTATION - RESEARCH CO-SUPERVISOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROVISION FOR PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN THE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN IRELAND THIS STUDY IS AN EXPLORATION OF CURRENT EDUCATION/TRAINING PROVIDED TO MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS, DEVELOPMENTS AND SUSTAINABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES WILL BE PROVIDED. PROJECT TEAM: PI PROF. AGNES HIGGINS WITH DR. JANE ALEXANDER, DR. MARY CREANER, MR. GERRY MAGUIRE, DR.SHOBHA RANI, DR. EDDIE MCCANN, MS. ORLA O'NEILL, MR. MICK WATTS, DR. MALCOLM GARLAND. MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION [61,237] SUPPORTIVE SUPERVISION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS: A CASE STUDY OF ETHIOPIA'S HEALTH EXTENSION PROGRAMME PHD CANDIDATE: CAMILLE BOOSTROM PHD GLOBAL HEALTH EXPLORING THE RESOURCES AND PROTECTIVE PRACTICES OF THERAPISTS WORKING WITH CLIENTS WHO EXPERIENCE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. O'TOOLE, E. RESEARCH PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE WOMEN'S THERAPY CENTRE, DUBLIN DCOUNSPSYCH EXPLORING THERAPISTS' EXPERIENCES OF WORKING WITH ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. O'DONOVAN, K. RESEARCH PROJECT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL COUNSELLING SERVICE (NCS). DCOUNSPSYCH EXPERIENCES OF LOSS AMONG INDIVIDUALS WHOSE PARTNERS HAVE SUSTAINED ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURIES. PRENDERGAST, S. D.CLIN. DISSERTATION - RESEARCH SUPERVISOR CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MR JAMES CREEL creeljames RESEARCH STUDENT CREELJ PHYSICS PHYSICS 01-8961000 ENGLISH MS. KATIE CREMIN creminkatie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CREMINK OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE CHILDREN - ACTIVITY AND PARTICIPATION AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER SENSORY PROCESSING IN CHILDREN PLAY SCH OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS IRELAND CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY HEALTH INFORMATICS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PROMOTION OF CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH THE TRANSITION FROM PRIMARY TO POST PRIMARY SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS IN MAINSTREAM EDUCATION WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER IN IRELAND THIS STUDY PROPOSES TO EXPLORE THE TRANSITION FROM PRIMARY TO THE END OF THE 1ST YEAR IN POST PRIMARY EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS WITH ASD ATTENDING MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS IN IRELAND. THE STUDY AIMS TO FOCUS ON THE STUDENT'S EXPERIENCE. IT WILL ALSO APPEND THESE ACCOUNTS WITH VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES FROM OTHER KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN THE STUDENTS EDUCATION I.E. PARENTS, EDUCATORS AND RELEVANT HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, AND EXAMINE CONTEXTS AND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS WHICH INFLUENCE THE TRANSITION EXPERIENCE. OBJECTIVES ARE AS FOLLOWS: . TO DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE TRANSITION INTO POST PRIMARY EDUCATION UP TO THE END OF THE 1ST YEAR FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE STUDENT WITH ASD. O WHAT ARE THEIR CONCERNS AND PERCEPTIONS FOR POST PRIMARY SCHOOL? O WHAT ARE THE PERCEIVED BARRIERS AND ENABLERS TO THE TRANSITION? O WHAT ARE THE PERCEIVED BARRIERS AND ENABLERS TO PARTICIPATION IN 1ST YEAR? . TO INVESTIGATE THE FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE THE TRANSITION AND ITS OUTCOME FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF KEY STAKE HOLDERS IN THE STUDENTS' EDUCATION, I.E. PARENTS, EDUCATORS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. STRUCTURED PHD IN CHILD AND YOUTH RESEARCH, CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TCD NORMATIVE TEMPORAL BALANCE TESTS IN IRISH CHILDREN AGED 4 -15 BALANCE IS ESSENTIAL FOR LOCOMOTION AND FUNCTION. THE ABILITY TO SUSTAIN SINGLE LEG STANCE AND TANDEM STANCE IS OFTEN USED TO DETERMINE THE BALANCE ABILITIES OF CHILDREN ESPECIALLY FOLLOWING INJURY. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASSESS THE NORMATIVE RANGE OF BALANCE ABILITIES IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CHILDREN TO PROVIDE A REFERENCE SOURCE FOR CLINICIANS. A CROSS SECTIONAL BATTERY OF STANDARDISED BALANCE TESTS WERE CONDUCTED ON SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN IN 11 SCHOOLS ACROSS THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. 534 CHILDREN (4 -15YRS) WERE TESTED ON SIX BALANCE TEST AND THE STANDING BROAD JUMP. THE RESULTS ALLOW CLINICIANS TO REFERENCE IRQ FOR SIX COMMONLY USED BALANCE TEST ACROSS DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS (4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 AND 12+ YR). THE RESULTS CONFIRM THE IMPROVEMENT IN BALANCE PERFORMANCE AS CHILDREN AGE ESPECIALLY AFTER THE 7-8TH YEARS. GIRLS TEND TO PERFORM BETTER THAN BOYS FOR BALANCE TEST BUT PERFORM LESS AT THE SBJ. THIS STUDY PROVIDES APPROPRIATIVE NORMATIVE SCORES FOR DIFFERENT AGE GROUP. THIS REMOVES THE GUESSWORK FROM PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT WHERE FACTORS SUCH AS HEIGHT OR WEIGHT MAY BE USED TO PREDICT ABILITY. A PILOT RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF "THE ALERT PROGRAMME" FOR CHILDREN WITH REGULATION DIFFICULTIES ATTENDING A CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE THE OVERALL AIM IS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ALERT PROGRAMME WITH A GROUP OF CHILDREN BETWEEN 8-12 PRESENTING WITH DIFFICULTIES WITH SELF REGULATION AND ATTENTION, THROUGH A BATTERY OF STANDARDISED PRE AND POST GROUP MEASURES, GOAL ATTAINMENT SCALING, PARENTAL INTERVIEWS AND A COMPARISON CONTROL GROUP. LUCENA CLINIC AN EXPLORATION OF THE PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN WITH FINE MOTOR DIFFICULTIES AND THE IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTION THIS PRE - POST INTERVENTION STUDY EXAMINED THE IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTION ON THE FINE MOTOR AND VISUAL MOTOR SKILLS OF CHILDREN ATTENDING AN EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICE USING THE MILLER FUNCTION AND PARTICIPATION SCALES (M-FUN). IT ALSO EXPLORED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THESE SKILLS AND THE PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS AND PARENTS OF THE CHILDREN'S CLASSROOM AND HOME PARTICIPATION. EIGHTEEN CHILDREN BETWEEN THE AGES OF 2 YEARS 11 MONTHS AND 6 YEARS 11 MONTHS COMPLETED PRE INTERVENTION ASSESSMENTS, SIX WEEKLY SESSIONS OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTION AND HOME PROGRAM FOLLOWED BY A POST INTERVENTION ASSESSMENT. RESULTS INDICATED LIMITED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PERFORMANCE SKILLS AND PERCEIVED PARTICIPATION. A STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE WAS FOUND IN THE FINE MOTOR COMPONENT OF THE M-FUN FOLLOWING INTERVENTION. THE STUDY RECOMMENDS FURTHER RESEARCH INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EARLY INTERVENTION AT A SKILL LEVEL AND CHILDREN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE CONTEXTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. NDA CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. SAMUEL DAVID CROMIE cromiesamueldavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SDCROMIE PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE HUMAN SYSTEMS FOREIGN OBJECT RETENTION IN HEALTHCARE, AVIATION AND OTHER INDUSTRIES PSYCHO-SOCIAL OUTCOMES AND MECHANISMS OF SELF-HELP GROUPS JUST CULTURE AND CULPABILITY DECISION MAKING ORGANISATIONAL, PROFESSIONAL AND NATIONAL CULTURES AND THEIR RELATIONS TO HUMAN FACTORS THE MEANING AND USE OF INCIDENT INFORMATION EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING METHODOLOGIES AND PROCESSES ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS MODELS OF HUMAN COMPETENCE INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT THE USE OF VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY FOR TRAINING, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, RISK ASSESSMENT AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORS EUROPEAN AVIATION MAINTENANCE TRAINING COMMITTEE JOINT AVIATION AUTHORITY MAINTENANCE HUMAN FACTORS SUBCOMMITTEE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND SAFETY IN HEALTH SYSTEMS GROUP - IRELAND AEROSPACE PSYCHOLOGY AIR SAFETY AIR TRANSPORTATION AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ORGANISATIONS APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE EDUCATION BEHAVIORAL/EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY CLIMATE COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION CONTROL THEORY OF HUMAN ACCIDENT CAUSATION CULTURAL/SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY CULTURE AND HEALTH CULTURE, SYSTEMS AND DEVELOPMENT E-LEARNING EDUCATION AND WORK EDUCATION, ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY & BEHAVIOR EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATIONAL TESTING/MEASUREMENT EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY HUMAN LEARNING AND MEMORY INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING LEARNING MOTIVATION OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND BEHAVIOR PSYCHOLOGY ROAD/HIGHWAY SAFETY SAFETY CULTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS SAFETY, RELIABAILITY AND INNOVATION, ORGANISATIONAL CULTURES TRANSPORTATION VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WORK MOTIVATION STAMINA-BPM DEVELOPING HUMAN FACTORS TRAINING TAILORED TO THE BIO-PHARMA-MEDICA INDUSTRY. EC LEONARDO DA VINCI INCIDENT INVESTIGATION IN THE HEALTH SERVICES VARIOUS MANUVAR THROUGH THE USE OF VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY (VR / AR), THE MANUVAR PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT HIGH VALUE, HIGH KNOWLEDGE MANUAL WORK PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF EU INDUSTRIES. MANUVAR ( HTTP://WWW.MANUVAR.EU/ ) IS A EUROPEAN COMPRISES 18 PARTNER ORGANISATIONS ACROSS 8 COUNTRIES. EC FP7-NMP INNOVATION THROUGH HUMAN FACTORS IN RISK ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT (INNHF) THE INNHF MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO FORMALIZE AN APPROACH AND MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE THE CURRENT AND DEVELOPING ASSESSMENT METHODS RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED BY RECOGNIZED INDUSTRIAL STANDARDS AND METHODOLOGIES, WITH AN EASY TO USE BUT COMPLETE HUMAN FACTORS AND SYSTEM HEALTH MANAGEMENT APPROACH, THE FOLLOWING GOALS WILL BE ACHIEVED: 1) REVIEW OF THE APPLICABILITY OF MOST THE RECENT GENERATION OF STANDARDS THAT ARE NOT YET FULLY ACQUIRED BY DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES AND VERIFICATION OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN SAFETY ASSESSMENT. 2) DEVISING A METHOD TO ACCOUNT QUALITATIVELY AND QUANTITATIVELY FOR THE HUMAN FACTOR IN THE WIDER APPLIED RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES. VERIFYING HOW A PROPER ACCOUNT OF THE IMPACT OF HUMAN AND ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS (H&OF) IN THE OPERATIONAL PHASE MAY PROVIDE A SENSITIVE CHANGE IN THE RESULTS OF THE ASSESSMENTS. 3) REVIEWING THE METHODS TO ACCOUNT QUALITATIVELY AND QUANTITATIVELY FOR MAINTENANCE EFFECTIVENESS, ALSO TAKING INTO ACCOUNT HOFS, VERIFYING HOW A PROPER ACCOUNT OF THE MAINTENANCE STRATEGY MAY PROVIDE A SENSITIVE CHANGE IN THE RESULTS OF THE ASSESSMENTS. 4) TO TRANSLATE THE RESULTS OF THE ANALYSIS PERFORMED THROUGH THE NOVEL APPROACH IN A FACTUAL DESIGN IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE FOR NEW OR EXISTING PLANT OR MACHINERY ABLE TO PROVIDE LEVERAGE FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY, MINIMUM UNSCHEDULED SHUTDOWNS OF PRODUCTION, ECONOMIC MAINTENANCE, MINIMUM INCIDENT AND ACCIDENT). 5) THE FINAL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT WILL BE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAINING PROGRAM AIMED AT COVERING ALL THE TECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE NECESSARY TO SUCCESSFULLY CARRY OUT THE CASE STUDIES OBJECTIVES. THIS TRAINING PROGRAM WILL BE INITIALLY ROLLED OUT INTERNALLY TO PROVIDE NEW RESEARCHER WITH A SET OF INNOVATIVE SKILLS TO MAXIMIZE THE EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS FOR NEW RESEARCHERS IN LARGE AND/OR SM ENTERPRISES. FURTHER THE TRAINING MATERIALS AND CONTENT DEVELOPED WILL ALSO BE OFFERED TO THE WIDER COMMUNITY OF THE RELEVANT INDUSTRIAL DOMAINS FOR THE PURPOSE OF TESTING AND DISSEMINATION. EU FP7 MARIE CURIE DEVELOPING A MULTI-FACETED APPROACH TO REDUCING AND MITIGATING THE RISK OF FOREIGN OBJECT RETENTION OVER 1,000 IRISH FOR INCIDENTS BETWEEN 2011 AND 2015 REPRESENT UNNECESSARY SUFFERING PATIENTS, REPUTATIONAL COST/DAMAGE TO THE HEALTHCARE SERVICE, INSTITUTION AND CLINICIAN AND FINANCIAL COST IN CLAIMS AND REWORK. FOR IS AN INTRACTABLE HUMAN FACTORS PROBLEM BECAUSE REMOVING MATERIALS AFTER A TASK IS NOT INTEGRATED INTO THE NATURAL TASK SEQUENCE, THUS MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO A "LAPSE" ERROR. WHILE THE PROBLEM TRAVERSES TASKS AND INDUSTRIES THE CHALLENGES CAN BE SPECIFIC TO THE SECTOR, ORGANISATION, TEAM, TASK AND OBJECT. GENERIC RISK CONTROLS NEED TO BE TAILORED TO THE SPECIFIC CONTEXT. HEALTHCARE-SPECIFIC HUMAN FACTORS MAY BE THE HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE OF MEDICAL/SURGICAL TEAMS, INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION, THE CULTURE AROUND "SPEAKING UP" AND THE TRAINING HISTORY IN A "CONSERVATIVE PROFESSION". THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL BE TO INTEGRATE THE BEST OF EXISTING METHODS INTO A FOREIGN OBJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND AN IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP. THE FOREIGN OBJECT MANAGEMENT PROCESS IS A GENERIC PROCESS WHICH CAN BE CUSTOMISED FOR APPLICATION TO DIVERSE CONTEXTS. THE IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP IS A FRAMEWORK FOR INTRODUCING, CUSTOMISING AND EMBEDDING THE PROCESS IN A HOSPITAL, INCLUDING STAKEHOLDER IDENTIFICATION AND ENGAGEMENT, TRAINING, RESOURCING AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. TWO PILOT HOSPITALS HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO ANALYSE SURGICAL AND OBSTETRIC SERVICES. TWO GROUPS OF STAKEHOLDERS FROM THE PILOT HOSPITALS WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND ENGAGED WITH THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT - PROCESS STAKEHOLDERS (SURGEONS, OBSTETRICIANS, THEATRE NURSES, MIDWIVES) AND SYSTEM STAKEHOLDERS (HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATORS, EDUCATORS, DEVICE MANUFACTURERS, RISK MANAGERS, PATIENT REPRESENTATIVES, INDEMNIFIERS, REGULATORS). THE PROJECT BRINGS TOGETHER AN EXPERIENCED MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAM FROM HUMAN FACTORS, PSYCHOLOGY, RISK & CHANGE MANAGEMENT, SURGERY, OBSTETRICS /GYNAECOLOGY, NURSING/MIDWIFERY. HUMAN FACTORS AND RISK MANAGEMENT TOOLS - PROCESS MODELLING, BOWTIE, STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS - WILL BE APPLIED TO ANALYSE THE CHALLENGES AND DEVELOP THE MOST EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS. THE PROJECT TEAM INCLUDES STAKEHOLDERS IN KEY POSITIONS IN THE HEALTH SERVICES TO ENABLE EFFECTIVE EXECUTION, DISSEMINATION AND UPTAKE OF THE PROJECTS RESULTS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE IN QUALITY AND PATIENT SAFETY) GRABNOW AML DEVELOPING AN E-LEARNING SOLUTION FOR TRAINING AVIATION MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS EC LEONARDO DA VINCI WINGWATCH PARTICIPATORY INTERFACE DESIGN FOR GROUND COLLISION AVOIDANCE TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED BY TCD COMPUTER SCIENCE. GERRY LACEY WAS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMMERCIALISATION VIRTHUALIS APPLICATION OF VR SOLUTIONS TO TRAINING, RISK ASSESSMENT AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT EC FP6 NMP TAPOIA COLLABORATION WITH CLINICAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TO DEVELOP AN APPLICATION OF VOICE ANALYSIS TECHNOLOGY TO ENHANCE TEAM PERFORMANCE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: BRIAN VAUGHAN ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMMERCIALISATION THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MECHANISMS AND OUTCOMES OF SELF-HELP GROUPS IN ETHIOPIA A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE SELF HELP GROUP (SHG) APPROACH BRINGS ABOUT VARIOUS LEVELS OF CHANGE AND EMPOWERMENT WHILE ACCUMULATING FINANCIAL CAPITAL, AS WELL AS BEING COST-EFFECTIVE. TEARFUND'S UNDERLYING THEORY OF CHANGE ASSERTS THAT RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL ARE KEY TOWARDS ACHIEVING THIS. HOWEVER STUDIES CONDUCTED SO FAR HAVE TOUCHED ON THIS, YET NOT RESEARCHED THIS MECHANISM IN DEPTHS FROM A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. EMPHASIS HAS BEEN LARGELY ON TANGIBLE BENEFITS, THOUGH A PSYCHOLOGICAL LENS IS BELIEVED TO REVEAL INTANGIBLE MECHANISMS AND BENEFITS. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE SHGS WILL FURTHER IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION IF THE SELF HELP GROUP APPROACH. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO: . EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF SHGS ON THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL WELLBEING OF THEIR MEMBERS . ELUCIDATE THE FEATURES SHGS WHICH PROMOTE, AND THOSE THAT MAY HAMPER, ACHIEVING THIS IMPACT . ELABORATE AND ADJUST THE TEARFUND THEORY OF CHANGE FOR SHG THE STUDY COMPRISES MIXED METHODS STUDY OF TEN SHGS. THE SHGS WERE CHOSEN DELIBERATELY TO INCLUDE: . FIVE YOUNG ( LESS THAN 2 YEARS) AND FIVE OLDER ( MORE THAN 5 YEARS) SHGS . HIGH (5), MEDIUM (4) AND LOW (1) FUNCTIONING SHGS . SHGS FROM TWO REGIONS - OROMIYA AND WOLAITA FOUR DATA COLLECTION METHODS ARE BEING USED IN THE STUDY SURVEYS OF THE SHG MEMBERS, INCLUDING: O DEMOGRAPHIC DATA O SELF-EVALUATIONS OF CURRENT STATUS AND CHANGES SINCE JOINING THE SHG IN FINANCES, HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELLBEING O STANDARDISED SCALES OF KEY PSYCHO-SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS O TEAM EVALUATION ITEMS IN-DEPTH FOCUS GROUPS WITH THE SHGS FOCUSSED ON ELABORATING THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE SHGS WORK, HOW THEY INFLUENCE CHANGE IN THEIR MEMBERS' LIVES AND WHAT THE KEY MECHANISMS ARE PROFILING OF SHGS USING A STRUCTURED INTERVIEW WITH KEY INFORMANTS AND REFERENCE TO DATA GATHERED BY TEARFUND OR ITS PARTNERS: O DATE OF FORMATION, LOCATION, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS COMPOSITION, ETC. O LOCAL SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONTEXT O ANY SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE SHG - INTERNAL CONFLICTS, MEMBERS LEAVING, DROUGHT CHALLENGES SEMI-STRUCTURED OBSERVATIONS OF THE FOCUS GROUPS TO GATHER DATA ON NON-VERBAL BEHAVIOURS AND TEAM INTERACTIONS BUZA/TEAR, AND CO-FUNDED BY TEARFUND AND TEARFUND IRELAND NO DATA ENTERPRISE IRELAND IRISH CENTRE FOR MANUFACTURING RESEARCH CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. PATRICIA CRONIN croninpatricia ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PCRONIN SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY I HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF CHRONIC ILLNESS. CHRONIC ILLNESSES PRESENT MAJOR HEALTH AND LIFE-STYLE CHALLENGES FOR THE PERSON WHO IS DIAGNOSED WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION AND FOR THE HEALTHCARE SERVICE. MOREOVER, INCREASING LONGEVITY AND LIFESTYLE FACTORS POINT TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF A SIGNIFICANT RISE IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH ONE OR MORE CHRONIC ILLNESSES. ARISING FROM MY DOCTORAL WORK, RESEARCH THAT EXPLICATES THE EXPERIENCES OF THOSE LIVING WITH A PLETHORA OF CHRONIC ILLNESSES AND THE BURDEN PLACED ON THE INDIVIDUALS, THEIR CARERS, FAMILIES AND SOCIETY ENABLES TARGETED INTERVENTIONS TO BE DEVELOPED THAT NOT ONLY MAXIMISE THE INDIVIDUAL'S POTENTIAL FOR SELF-MANAGEMENT BUT ALSO FACILITATES AN IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR LIFE QUALITY. SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AN BORD ALTRANAIS EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL WORKING GROUP TO DEVELOP A REGULATORY NURSING STRATEGY TO COMPLEMENT THE NATIONAL CANCER SCREENING SERVICE: NATIONAL COLORECTAL SCREENING SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY REPRESENTATIVE ON FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ETHICS COMMITTEE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY REPRESENTATIVE ON SJH NURSING RESEARCH ACCESS COMMITTEE ACUTE CARE NURSING CHRONIC ILLNESS SELF-MANAGEMENT CHRONICALLY ILL HEALTH OUTCOMES INFORMAL CARERS NURSING EDUCATION OESOPHAGEAL, GASTRIC, INTESTINAL AND PANCREATIC DISEASES PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING QUALITATIVE METHODS QUALITATIVE RESEARCH QUALITY OF LIFE UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION THE EXPERIENCE AND NEEDS OF FORMER FAMILY CARERS BETWEEN WORLDS: THE EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS OF FORMER FAMILY CARERS THE PURPOSE OF THIS QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY WAS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS OF IRISH FORMER FAMILY CARERS IN THE POST-CARING/CARE TRANSITIONS PERIOD. FORMER FAMILY CARERS WERE DEFINED AS FAMILY MEMBERS WHO PROVIDED PHYSICAL AND/OR SOCIAL CARE TO A FAMILY MEMBER WITH AN ILLNESS OR DISABILITY IN THE HOME FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS PRIOR TO NURSING HOME/HOSPICE PLACEMENT OR DEATH. A TOTAL OF 40 FAMILY CARERS WERE RECRUITED FROM MEMBERS OF OR KNOWN TO VOLUNTARY CARE GROUPS/ASSOCIATIONS IN IRELAND. FOURTEEN PARTICIPANTS TOOK PART IN A FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION AND 26 PARTICIPATED IN ONE-TO-ONE, SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS, ALL OF WHICH WERE UNDERTAKEN IN 2010. FOR THE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS STUDY, POST-CARING WAS A TRANSITION THAT COMPRISED THREE, INTERRELATED, NON-LINEAR, ITERATIVE THEMES THAT WERE REPRESENTED AS 'LOSS OF THE CARING WORLD', 'LIVING IN LOSS' AND 'MOVING ON' AND SYMBOLISED AS BEING 'BETWEEN WORLDS'. TRANSITION WAS A COMPLEX INTERPLAY OF EMOTIONS OVERLAID WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONCERNS THAT HAD IMPLICATIONS FOR THEIR SENSE OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. THIS EXPLORATORY STUDY BEGINS TO ADDRESS THE DEARTH OF DATA ON POST-CARING/CARE EXPERIENCES, BUT FURTHER RESEARCH IS NEEDED TO INFORM SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS TO ENABLE FORMER FAMILY CARERS TO 'MOVE ON'. IRCHSS/CARE ALLIANCE IRELAND LIVING WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS ABSTRACT LIVING WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS: A HERMENEUTIC INQUIRY THE PURPOSE OF THIS HERMENEUTIC INQUIRY WAS TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING AND CONSTRUCT A MEANING OF LIVING WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS. RECENT INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE ACKNOWLEDGES THE IMPACT OF THIS PROGRESSIVE AND DEBILITATING DISEASE ON PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING AND EFFORTS HAVE BEEN DIRECTED AT ASSESSING HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE. HOWEVER, IN IRELAND NO COMPARABLE WORK COULD BE LOCATED AND IT WAS PROPOSED THAT THE PLIGHT OF THOSE WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC PANCREATITIS REMAINS UNKNOWN AND HIDDEN. PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS AFTER GADAMER WAS CHOSEN TO GUIDE AND DIRECT THE STUDY. A PURPOSEFUL SAMPLE WAS DRAWN FROM A POPULATION WHO HAD BEEN DIAGNOSED, AND WERE LIVING, WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS. FAMILY MEMBERS WHO WERE WILLING TO BE INCLUDED WERE IDENTIFIED BY THE PRIMARY PARTICIPANTS. FOURTEEN PRIMARY PARTICIPANTS AND FIVE FAMILY MEMBERS WERE RECRUITED TO THE STUDY. MULTIPLE, UNSTRUCTURED, FORMAL INTERVIEWS WERE THE PRIMARY MEANS OF COLLECTING DATA. THE MEANING OF LIVING WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS IS 'ENDURING DISRUPTION'. ENDURING, AS IT IS REPRESENTED HAS A TWO-FOLD MEANING AND SYMBOLISES THE PERPETUAL OR PERMANENT NATURE OF DISRUPTION THAT OCCURS AT PHYSIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVELS AND DETERMINED AS 'SUFFERING'. ENDURING, ALSO MEANS 'TO COPE WITH' AND/OR 'TO TOLERATE' AND ENCOMPASSES HOW THE PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR FAMILIES COPE WITH THE PERCEIVED RESTRICTIONS ARISING FROM THE CONDITION, THEIR CAPACITY TO TOLERATE THEM AND THE STRATEGIES DEVELOPED TO MANAGE THEM, WITHIN THE OVERALL TRANSITION FROM WELL PERSON TO A PERSON WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS. TRANSITION TO BEING A PERSON WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS IS A PROCESS OF ASSIMILATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF A LIFE PERMANENTLY ALTERED AND A REALISATION THAT A RETURN TO THEIR 'OLD' NORMAL IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE. TOGETHER, SUFFERING AND TRANSITION FORM THE WHOLE OF 'ENDURING DISRUPTION'. THIS IS THE FIRST STUDY IN IRELAND THAT HAS INCLUDED THOSE WHO LIVE WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS AND OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE TO THE PREVIOUS QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH IN CHRONIC PANCREATITIS. MSC/PHD SYSTEMIC ANTIBIOTICS FOR MALIGNANT WOUNDS: A COCHRANE REVIEW THE PURPOSE OF THIS COCHRANE REVIEW IS TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC ANTIBIOTICS IN THE TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT WOUNDS, INCLUDING THEIR SAFETY, AND THEIR IMPACT UPON QUALITY OF LIFE AND RELATED SYMPTOMS. NONE AN ANALYSIS OF PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS IDENTIFIED BY STUDENT NURSES AND MIDWIVES. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO UNDERTAKE AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS IDENTIFIED BY STUDENT NURSES AND MIDWIVES AS PART OF THEIR REFLECTIVE LEARNING WITH THE OVERALL PURPOSE OF GAINING INSIGHT INTO AREAS OF CLINICAL PRACTICE THAT ADDRESS OR CHALLENGE THEM. THE STUDY IS A QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENTS' CHOSEN TOPICS. ALL NURSING (GENERAL, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, MENTAL HEALTH, CHILDREN'S) AND MIDWIFERY STUDENTS IN THEIR FINAL YEAR (N=235) WERE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE. DATA WAS COLLECTED BY MEANS OF A SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRE. ANALYSIS INDICATED THAT THE STUDENT EXPERIENCES CAN BE CATEGORISED UNDER THREE MAIN THEMES; MANAGING UNEXPECTED EVENTS, SCOPE OF PRACTICE AND INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION. NONE NUTRITION/HYDRATION PROJECT. AS PART OF THE WORK OF THE CENTRE FOR PRACTICE & HEALTHCARE INNOVATION, A NUTRITION & HYDRATION GROUP IS UNDERTAKING A PROJECT FOCUSING ON OBSERVATION OF MEALTIME ASSISTANCE AT BREAKFAST ACROSS THREE PARTNER HOSPITALS. CANCER DR. HILARY CRONIN croninhilary VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW CRONINHI CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MY PRIMARY RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF FALLS AND FEAR OF FALLING IN OLDER ADULTS. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS (SPECIFICALLY ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION), COGNITION AND FALLS AND HOW THESE IMPACT ON AGEING ADULTS. LAST UPDATED 16 JULY 2012 BY TILDA - WEB ADMINISTRATION (EMAIL) CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE DR. PETER CROOKS crookspeter ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PCROOKS HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE (MHRC) MY PRIMARY RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN IRELAND IN THE PERIOD 1171-1541 AND, ARISING FROM THAT, IN THE WIDER 'ENGLISH WORLD' OR 'PLANTAGENET EMPIRE' OF WHICH IRELAND FORMED AN IMPORTANT PART. BEFORE RETURNING TO TRINITY IN 2013, I WAS A PAST AND PRESENT RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND A LECTURER IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA. I AM CURRENTLY COMPLETING A MONOGRAPH ENTITLED 'ENGLAND'S FIRST COLONY: POWER, CONFLICT AND COLONIALISM IN THE LORDSHIP OF IRELAND, 1361-1460'. I AM THE PRINCIPAL EDITOR OF 'CIRCLE: A CALENDAR OF IRISH CHANCERY LETTERS, C.1244-1509' (HTTPS://CHANCERY.TCD.IE/), A RECONSTRUCTION OF THE IRISH CHANCERY ROLLS DESTROYED IN THE 1922 CATACLYSM AT THE FOUR COURTS. A THREE-VOLUME PRINT EDITION OF CIRCLE WILL APPEAR WITH THE IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION. IN SEPTEMBER 2013, I CO-FOUNDED WITH PROFESSOR S. DUFFY THE BIENNIAL TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SYMPOSIUM (TMIS), WHOSE FIRST VOLUME WAS PUBLISHED IN 2016: 'THE GERALDINES AND MEDIEVAL IRELAND: THE MAKING OF A MYTH'. TMIS2 (CO-EDITED WITH S. DUFFY AND D. DITCHBURN) WILL APPEAR IN 2018: 'THE IRISH-SCOTTISH WORLD IN THE MIDDLE AGES'. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN 'EMPIRE', NOT LEAST AS A MEANS OF SUBVERTING OR COMPLICATING THE NARRATIVES OF CENTRALIZATION AND UNIFORMITY THAT HAVE DOMINATED MUCH RESEARCH ON THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES IN EUROPE. IN JULY 2014, TOGETHER WITH DAVID GREEN AND W. MARK ORMROD, I CO-CONVENED THE HARLAXTON MEDIEVAL SYMPOSIUM, WHICH TOOK AS ITS SUBJECT 'THE PLANTAGENET EMPIRE, 1259-1453' (THE PROCEEDINGS WERE PUBLISHED IN 2016). MY WORK ON ENGLAND'S LATE-MEDIEVAL 'EMPIRE' HAS SPARKED A RESEARCH INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF EMPIRES AND COLONIALISM MORE GENERALLY. I HAVE EDITED A MAJOR COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ENTITLED 'EMPIRES AND BUREAUCRACY IN WORLD HISTORY: FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'(WITH TIMOTHY H. PARSONS, WASHINGTON IN ST LOUIS)PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN 2016. IN 2014 I ESTABLISHED AT TRINITY (WITH COLLEAGUES DAVID DITCHBURN AND SEÁN DUFFY) THE JAMES LYDON LECTURES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE, A DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES TO BE PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. THE FIRST TWO INSTALMENTS IN THE SERIES ARE BY JOHN GILLINGHAM (LSE, EMERITUS) AND ROBERT BARTLETT (ST ANDREWS). DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY FRIENDS OF MEDIEVAL DUBLIN (HONORARY SECRETARY, 2008-2011) HARLAXTON MEDIEVAL SYMPOSIUM STEERING COMMITTEE INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH, LONDON IRISH COMMITTEE OF HISTORICAL SCIENCES, MEMBER IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY (HON. TREASURER) IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY (TREASURER) MARIE CURIE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, HISTORICAL STUDIES COMMITTEE THE TRINITY ASSOCIATION AND TRUST, HON. SECRETARY ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS ARISTOCRACY COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF EMPIRES CONFLICT AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION CULTURAL IDENTITY ETHNIC STUDIES LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND LATE MEDIEVAL IRELAND, 1166-1534 MEDIEVAL BRITAIN MEDIEVAL COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM MEDIEVAL IRELAND PARLIAMENT POLITICAL CULTURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY THE IRISH CHANCERY PROJECT (HTTPS://CHANCERY.TCD.IE/) THIS IRCHSS-FUNDED PROJECT SEEKS TO ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE 'MAKING OF IRELAND' BETWEEN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES AND THE DAWN OF THE MODERN ERA-ONE OF THE MOST FORMATIVE PERIODS IN IRELAND'S PAST-BY PUBLISHING ON THE WEB AND IN PRINT AN ENGLISH CALENDAR OF THE ROLLS OF THE MEDIEVAL IRISH CHANCERY, C. 1216-1509. THE CHANCERY WAS A KEY ORGAN OF ENGLISH GOVERNMENT IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND. ACCESS TO ITS RECORDS IS, HOWEVER, SEVERELY RESTRICTED. THE ORIGINAL CHANCERY ROLLS SUFFERED A SERIES OF CALAMITIES FROM THE 13TH CENTURY, CULMINATING IN 1922 WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST 123 ORIGINAL ROLLS. A LATIN CALENDAR PRODUCED BY THE IRISH RECORD COMMISSION (1828) DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION: IT WAS POORLY EDITED AND LACKS AN ADEQUATE CRITICAL APPARATUS. MOREOVER, IT OFFERS NO ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND THE TEXT IS PRINTED IN 'RECORD TYPE', REFLECTING ABBREVIATIONS IN THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. THIS PROJECT WILL REMEDY THESE DEFICIENCIES BY RECONSTRUCTING THE CHANCERY ROLLS FROM TRANSCRIPTS AND CALENDARS DATING FROM 14TH-19TH CENTURIES LOCATED IN IRELAND AND ENGLAND. THE OUTCOME WILL BE A WEB-BASED ENGLISH CALENDAR, TO BE FOLLOWED BY A MULTI-VOLUME PRINTED EDITION. THIS PROJECT WILL REVOLUTIONISE MEDIEVAL IRISH STUDIES BY PROVIDING BOTH SPECIALISTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH ACCESS TO AN UNPARALLELED SOURCE OF INFORMATION. MORE GENERALLY, THE PROJECT WILL GENERATE INTEREST FROM SCHOLARS WORKING ON ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY IN A EUROPE-WIDE CONTEXT AND ON THE 'ANGLICIZATION' OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN MIDDLE AGES. IT WILL ALSO STIMULATE EXCITING COMPARATIVE WORK ACROSS THE MEDIEVAL-MODERN DIVIDE ON THE ADAPTATION (OR 'CREOLISATION') OF METROPOLITAN GOVERNING PRACTICES AND VALUES IN A COLONIAL CONTEXT, AND ON THE PROCESSES OF STATE FORMATION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLD. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 'TYRANNOUS CONSTRUCTS' OR 'TOOLS OF THE TRADE'? THE USE AND ABUSE OF CONCEPTS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY THIS JOINT INITIATIVE BETWEEN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (DR JACKSON ARMSTRONG) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (DR ANDREA RUDDICK) HAS RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE BRITISH ACADEMY/LEVERHULME SMALL GRANT AWARD (2017); THE TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME (2015); AND THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (2015). THE PROJECT ADDRESSES ITSELF TO A SET OF META-HISTORICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE USE AND ABUSE OF CONCEPTS IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY. IT IS THROUGH CONCEPTS THAT HUMANS SEEK INTELLECTUALLY TO ARRANGE AND ORDER THE WORLD THEY EXPERIENCE. CONSEQUENTLY CONCEPTS ARE OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE TO HUMANISTIC RESEARCH, BOTH AS AN ASPECT OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND AS A SUBJECT OF HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. UNFORTUNATELY, MEDIEVALISTS - ESPECIALLY LATE-MEDIEVAL HISTORIANS IN THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD - HAVE BEEN SLOW TO REFLECT ON THESE MATTERS. INDEED, MEDIEVAL HISTORY GENERALLY IS NOTABLE FOR ITS SUSPICION OF CERTAIN 'MASTER NOUNS' THAT HAVE BEEN LABELLED 'TYRANNOUS CONSTRUCTS' BECAUSE OF THEIR DISTORTING EFFECT ON HISTORICAL INTERPRETATIONS. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS NOT SO MUCH TO SLAY THE TYRANT AS TO EXPOSE THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF CONCEPTUAL HISTORY FOR DISCUSSION, EXPLORING BOTH THE PERILS AND THE PAY-OFFS OF WORKING WITH CONCEPTS. THE PROJECT HAS ESTABLISHED A NETWORK THAT WILL CONVENE AT A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS HELD AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, THE UNIVERSITIES OF ABERDEEN AND OXFORD. TO FOCUS THE INTELLECTUAL AGENDA OF THE WORKING GROUP, THE PROJECT WILL CONCENTRATE ITS EFFORTS ON THE INSULAR WORLD IN THE PERIOD C.1100-C.1500. THE FIRST OF THESE MEETINGS, FUNDED BY THE LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME, MET IN DUBLIN IN MAY 2016. RIISS ABERDEEN; TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB; BRITISH ACADEMY LEVERHULME SMALL GRANT AWARD RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SYMPOSIUM SERIES THE TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SYMPOSIUM (TMIS) WAS ESTABLISHED BY PETER CROOKS AND SEÁN DUFFY IN 2013 TO MAKE CUTTING-EDGE HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP ACCESSIBLE TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN RESEARCHING, TEACHING OR LEARNING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF IRELAND IN THE MIDDLE AGES. THE SERIES IS PUBLISHED BY FOUR COURTS PRESS. THE FOCUS OF THE INITIATIVE IS A BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM AT WHICH LEADING HISTORIANS FROM IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES ARE INVITED TO EXAMINE ASPECTS OF A SPECIFIED THEME OR HISTORICAL PROBLEM. THE SYMPOSIUM SERVES TO PROMOTE A WIDER PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYMENT OF MEDIEVAL IRISH HISTORY. THE SYMPOSIUM SEEKS ALSO TO BECOME A MEANS OF SETTING THE AGENDA AND RESEARCH TRAJECTORY FOR IRISH MEDIEVALISM. TMIS1 TOOK PLACE IN SEPTEMBER 2013 ON THE OCCASION OF THE 500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF THE GREAT EARL OF KILDARE, EXAMINED THE TOPIC: 'THE GERALDINES AND MEDIEVAL IRELAND: THE MAKING OF A MYTH'. THE PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN 2015 UNDER THE EDITORSHIP OF PETER CROOKS AND SEÁN DUFFY. THE SYMPOSIUM WAS FUNDED BY THE ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND AND THE PUBLICATION RECEIVED A GENEROUS SUBVENTION FROM THE TRINITY ASSOCIATION AND TRUST. TMIS2 TAKES PLACE ON 18 AND 19 SEPTEMBER 2013. TO MARK THE 700TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BRUCE INVASION OF IRELAND, THE SYMPOSIUM TAKES AS ITS SUBJECT: 'THE IRISH-SCOTTISH WORLD IN THE MIDDLE AGES'. THIS IS A PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE WITH THE ULSTER-SCOTS AGENCY (HTTP://WWW.ULSTERSCOTSAGENCY.COM/) SUPPORTED BY THE ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND. ASSBF, TRINITY ASSOCIATION AND TRUST, ULSTER-SCOTS AGENCY THE JAMES LYDON LECTURES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE IT WAS IN THE MILLENNIUM BETWEEN THE FALL OF ROME AND THE REFORMATION-COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE 'MIDDLE AGES'-THAT EUROPE EMERGED AS SOMETHING MORE THAN AN IDEA, AND MANY OF THE INSTITUTIONS, CULTURAL FORCES AND POLITICAL IDEAS WE ASSOCIATE WITH THE 'MODERN' WORLD WERE BORN. WHAT IS THE CONTINUING RELEVANCE OF THIS ERA FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH AND EUROPEAN SOCIETY? AND HOW ARE WE TO UNDERSTAND MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE ON ITS OWN TERMS, RATHER THAN THROUGH THE DISTORTING PRISM OF PRESENTIST CONCERNS? THESE ARE AMONG THE MOST URGENT AND PROBLEMATIC QUESTIONS FACING MEDIEVAL SCHOLARSHIP TODAY. THE LYDON LECTURES PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR A DISTINGUISHED LECTURER TO REFLECT ON THESE ISSUES AND TO CONVEY SPECIALIST FINDINGS TO A MIXED AUDIENCE OF ACADEMIC SPECIALISTS, STUDENTS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. ORGANIZED BY THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE, THE SERIES IS NAMED FOR JAMES FRANCIS LYDON WHO DIED ON 25 JUNE 2013. THE INAUGURAL LYDON LECTURE WAS PROFESSOR JOHN GILLINGHAM (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS) WHO SPOKE ON THE SUBJECT: 'WAR, ENSLAVEMENT AND CHIVALRY IN IRISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORY' (21-23 OCTOBER 2014). PROFESSOR GILLINGHAM IS AN HISTORIAN OF EXTRAORDINARY RANGE, BEST KNOWN AS AUTHOR OF THE STANDARD TEXTBOOK ON THE ANGEVIN EMPIRE (1984; 2ND EDN 2001), AND THE BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD I ('THE LIONHEART') IN THE DISTINGUISHED YALE ENGLISH MONARCHS SERIES. PROFESSOR GILLINGHAM HAS WRITTEN A SERIES OF SEMINAL ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND, MANY OF WHICH APPEAR IN HIS COLLECTED ESSAYS: THE ENGLISH IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY: IMPERIALISM, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND POLITICAL VALUES (2000). THE SECOND SERIES OF LYDON LECTURES WILL TAKE PLACE IN AUTUMN 2016 WILL BE DELIVERED BY PROFESSOR ROBERT BARTLETT FBA (ST ANDREWS), WHO WILL SPEAK ON THE SUBJECT: 'DYNASTIES: FAMILY POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE'. PROFESSOR BARTLETT IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST DISTINGUISHED MEDIEVALISTS, AUTHOR OF THE MAKING OF EUROPE AND ENGLAND UNDER THE NORMAN AND ANGEVIN KINGS. TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME 'ENGLAND'S FIRST COLONY: POWER, CONFLICT AND COLONIALISM IN ENGLISH IRELAND, 1361-1460' THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A CASE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL COLONIALISM IN ACTION. IT EXPLORES POLITICAL SOCIETY AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN ENGLISH IRELAND (1361-1460). THE RESULTING MONOGRAPH WILL MAKE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DIACHRONIC STUDY OF COLONIALISMS. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT TAKES AS ITS SUBJECT 'IRELAND IN THE AGE OF INTERVENTION', SO-CALLED BECAUSE THE CENTURY BETWEEN 1361 AND 1460 WITNESSED INTENSIVE INVESTMENT-MILITARY AND FINANCIAL-BY THE ENGLISH CROWN IN IRELAND. THE 'INTERVENTIONIST' ERA OPENS WITH THE EXPEDITION TO IRELAND OF LIONEL OF ANTWERP IN 1361, AND PETERS OUT WITH THE 'DECLARATION OF PARLIAMENTARY INDEPENDENCE' IN 1460, WHICH HAS OFTEN BEEN INTERPRETED AS AN EXPRESSION OF 'SEPARATISM' ON THE PART OF THE COLONIAL COMMUNITY. THIS PROJECT USES ENGLISH IRELAND AS A CASE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL COLONIALISM IN ACTION-THAT IS COLONIALISM AS A PROCESS UNDERWAY AS DISTINCT FROM THE INITIAL PROCESS OF COLONIZATION, WHICH IN IRELAND (AS ELSEWHERE) HAS ATTRACTED GREATER SCHOLARLY ATTENTION, PERHAPS BECAUSE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF A COLONIAL ENCOUNTER ('FIRST CONTACT', SETTLEMENT, AND SO ON) SOCIAL CHANGE IS READILY APPARENT, AND IDENTITIES AND CULTURES HAVE YET TO INTER-BLEED AND BLUR. BUT IT IS PRECISELY THE HYBRID NATURE OF COLONIAL SOCIETY IN THIS LATER PERIOD THAT MAKES IT SO APPEALING AS A SUBJECT OF RESEARCH. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL MARIE CURIE MOBILITY FELLOWSHIP BEYOND 2022: IRELAND'S NATIONAL MEMORY (PI, PETER CROOKS; STEM CO-PI, SÉAMUS LAWLESS) ON 30 JUNE 1922 THE TREASURY ROOM CONTAINING IRELAND'S DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE DATING BACK TO THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY WAS DESTROYED IN A CATACLYSMIC EXPLOSION AND FIRE AT THE FOUR COURTS. ON THE CENTENARY OF THAT BLAZE IN 2022, THIS PROJECT WILL LAUNCH A VIRTUAL RECORD TREASURY THAT RECONSTRUCTS THE NATION'S ARCHIVES AND ITS COLLECTIVE MEMORIES. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF IRELAND, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OTHER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, BEYOND 2022 SEEKS TO ENSURE A LASTING AND INSPIRATIONAL LEGACY BEYOND THE CURRENT DECADE OF CENTENARIES. THE PROJECT HAS OBTAINED MAJOR FUNDING FOR A 24 MONTH PROJECT (2017-2019) FROM IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW HORIZONS SCHEME (€219,992.50). THE CENTREPIECE OF THE PROJECT IS NEW AN ONLINE RESOURCE - THE VIRTUAL RECORD TREASURY - WHICH WILL PROVIDE A DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE RECORD TREASURY OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE OF IRELAND AS IT EXISTED IN 1922, ON THE EVE OF THE FIRE. THIS WILL BECOME NOT ONLY AN ESSENTIAL PLATFORM FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH BUT ALSO A PUBLIC RESOURCE WITH GLOBAL REACH AND IMPACT AMONG THE IRISH AT HOME AND ABROAD. THE VIRTUAL RECORD TREASURY WILL PROVIDE: -DATA VISUALIZATIONS ENABLING RESEARCHERS TO EXPLORE THE TREASURY OF THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE AND ITS COLLECTIONS -A COMPLETE INVENTORY OF LOSS AND SURVIVAL FROM THE 1922 FIRE. -DIGITIZATIONS OF THE SURVIVING ORIGINALS, TRANSCRIPTS AND CALENDARS. -DETAILED GUIDES TO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THOSE COLLECTIONS FROM THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY TO THE VICTORIAN ERA. -A VITAL HUB LINKING REPLACEMENT MATERIAL HELD IN ARCHIVAL REPOSITORIES IN IRELAND AND ACROSS THE WORLD. HTTP://WWW.HISTORIES-HUMANITIES.TCD.IE/RESEARCH/BEYOND-2022/ SEED FUNDING (€6,000) WAS PROVIDED BY TRINITY'S SCHOOL OF HISTORIES AND HUMANITIES AND THE MAKING IRELAND RESEARCH THEME IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW HORIZONS DIGITAL HUMANITIES MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. GRAHAM CROSS crossgraham ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CROSSG PHYSICS CRANN DR CROSS'S RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: MULTISCALE MECHANICS - INCLUDING TRIBOLOGY AND PLASTIC DEFORMATION AT SURFACES, INTERFACES AND IN CON&#64257;NED VOLUMES, PRODUCTION OF SHAPE AND FUNCTION IN NANOSTRUCTURES, NANORHEOLOGY OF COMPLEX &#64258;UIDS AND SOFT CONDENSED MATTER SYSTEMS INCLUDING POLYMERS, MECHANICS OF TRANSFER, PLACEMENT, ORIENTATION, AND SORTING OF NANO-OBJECTS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL AND INTEGRATED NANOSCALE SCANNED PROBES AND MANIPULATORS. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. DENISE CROSSAN crossandenise VISITING ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CROSSAND BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES CENTRE FOR NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT DR CROSSAN'S CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE FOLLOWING AREAS: MAPPING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN AN IRISH CONTEXT; MEASUREMENT OF SOCIAL VALUE AND ETHICAL PRACTICE IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS AS PUBLIC SERVICE PROVIDERS; INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SERVICE LEARNING IN THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S GROUPE D'EXPERTS DE LA COMMISSION SUR L'ENTREPRENEURIAT SOCIAL (GECES) MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS AND VOLUNTARY ACTION, INTERNATIONAL (ARNOVA) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SMALL BUSINESS (ICSB); SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH GROUP MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THIRD SECTOR RESEARCH, ISTR MEMBER OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR STUDIES NETWORK (VSSN) INNOVATION LEADERSHIP NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS SOCIAL ENTERPRISE & SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY AND MARKETING ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. PAUL LEO CROTTY crottypaulleo LECTURER (PART-TIME) CROTTYPL HAEMATOLOGY 13 ASHDALE ROAD TERENURE DUBLIN 6W 01-8961000 CANCER DR. PATRICK CROTTY crottypatrick DENTAL ASSOCIATE CROTTYP DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL DEPT DENTAL SCIENCE 30 WESTLAND COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. QUENTIN G CROWLEY crowleyquenting ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CROWLEYQ GEOLOGY I AM INTERESTED IN GEOCHEMICALLY AND TEMPORALLY CHARACTERISING SIGNIFICANT PROCESSES AND EVENTS IN EARTH HISTORY. MY CURRENT RESEARCH ENCOMPASSES BOTH THE CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT AND THE GEOLOGICAL PAST. THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF MY CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS: (1) RADON AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT: RADON EXPOSURE IS THE SECOND HIGHEST CAUSE OF LUNG CANCER GLOBALLY, YET THERE ARE NO INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED PROTOCOLS FOR ITS DETECTION AND PREDICTION. IRELAND HAS SOME OF THE HIGHEST KNOWN INDOOR RADON LEVELS IN EUROPE AND THE EIGHTH HIGHEST AVERAGE INDOOR CONCENTRATION IN THE WORLD. MY RESEARCH HAS DEVELOPED NOVEL METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND FACTORS CONTROLLING SOURCES AND DISTRIBUTION OF RADON IN BOTH NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS. MY RESEARCH GROUP HAS CONDUCTED THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC SOIL RADON MAPPING RESEARCH FOR REPRESENTATIVE AREAS IN IRELAND AND HAS CONSTRUCTED A HIGH-RESOLUTION INDOOR RADON RISK MAP USING BOTH INDOOR RADON AND GEOGENIC INFORMATION. IN TERMS OF GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE CONTEMPORARY ENVIRONMENT, ELEMENTAL / ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF ROCK, SOIL, PLANTS AND BIOMINERALS (E.G. TEETH AND BONES) HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO INFORM US ABOUT NATURAL PROCESSES SUCH AS ROCK WEATHERING AND SOIL FORMATION, INTERACTION BETWEEN TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE RESERVOIRS, ANIMAL AND HUMAN MIGRATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES. THIS ASPECT OF MY RESEARCH IS MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TO DEVELOPMENT OF A SOIL RESEARCH STRAND AS PART OF TCD'S NATURE+ RESEARCH CENTRE AND IS FOCUSED ON METAL DEFICIENCIES AND TOXICITY IN AGRICULTURAL SOILS. (2) COLD-WATER CORALS AS ENVIRONMENTAL ARCHIVES OF THE DEEP OCEANS: BIOMINERALS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO ACT AS HIGH-RESOLUTION PROXIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. COLD-WATER CORALS (E.G. LOPHELIA PERTUSA) FORM A SIGNIFICANT BIOMASS IS THE NORTH ATLANTIC OFFSHORE IRELAND AND REPRESENT AN UNDER-EXPLORED POTENTIAL AS A HIGH-RESOLUTION PROXY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE SPANNING THE PRESENT DAY TO MIOCENE. MY RESEARCH ON LOPHELIA PERTUSA HAS LEAD TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF BIOMINERALISATION PROCESSES AT THE MICRO-SCALE DETERMINE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (E.G. STRUCTURAL STRENGTH) IN COLD WATER CORALS AND HOW GEOCHEMICAL INFORMATION (E.G. LI/MG) IN CORAL SKELETONS MAY BE USED TO GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE CHANGE. (3) EVOLUTION OF THE EARLY EARTH: I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON GEOCHEMISTRY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY OF ARCHEAN ROCKS FROM MAURITANIA (WEST AFRICAN CRATON), NE SCOTLAND (ATLANTIC CRATON) AND INDIA (SINGHBHUM CRATON) AS WELL AS NEOPROTEROZOIC ROCKS FROM RUSSIA. THIS RESEARCH HAS THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF GAINING A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PROCESSES OPERATING IN THE EARLY EARTH AND INCLUDE EVOLUTION OF DISTINCT TECTONIC PROCESSES, OXYGENATION OF THE EARLY EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE AND LINKS BETWEEN DEEP TIME GLACIATIONS AND ATMOSPHERIC EVOLUTION. (4) THE NATURE AND TIMING OF MINERALISATION IN RELATION TO MAGMATIC AND TECTONIC PROCESSES: I AM INTERESTED IN PROVIDING ABSOLUTE AGE CONSTRAINTS ON ECONOMICALLY SIGNIFICANT MINERALISATION EVENTS. CURRENT PROJECTS INCLUDE ARCHEAN AU MINERALISATION IN MAURITANIA, PALAEOPROTEROZOIC CU-MO PORPHYRY DEPOSITS IN NAMIBIA AND ORDOVICIAN AU-CU-ZN-PB MINERALISATION IN SE IRELAND. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN CHIEF EDITOR FOR THE JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES EUROPEAN UNION OF GEOSCIENCES GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION IRISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR EUROPEAN PLATE OBSERVING SYSTEMS (EPOS) MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA SUBJECT EDITOR FOR THE JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, LONDON THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AWARDS COMMITTEE CALEDONIDES EARTH SCIENCES FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY GEOCHEMISTRY GEOCHRONOLOGY GEOLOGY GRANITIC MAGMAS IGENOUS AND METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY IONIZATION MASS-SPECTROMETRY IRISH VARISCIDES IRISH WATERS ISLAND ARCS ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY ISOTOPES MIGRATION MINERAL RESOURCES MINERALIZATION OPHIOLITE OROGENY OXYGEN ISOTOPES OXYGEN-ISOTOPE ANALYSES OXYGEN-ISOTOPE RECORDS PETROLOGY PROVENANCE STRATIGRAPHY STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY TECTONICS VOLCANOLOGY ZIRCONS ASSESSMENT OF THE SKELETON OF THE COLD-WATER CORAL LOPHELIA PERTUSA AS A TOOL FOR PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION THIS STUDY AIMS TO ASSESS THE FIDELITY OF THE COLD-WATER CORAL LOPHELIA PERTUSA, THE MOST COMMON COLONIAL SPECIES IN MODERN WATERS, AS A HIGH-RESOLUTION ARCHIVE FOR THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT. NUMEROUS SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN STUDIED FROM FOUR LOCATIONS IN THE NE ATLANTIC AND MEDITERRANEAN SEA, INCLUDING CORES FROM A FOSSIL COLONY OF THE PORCUPINE SEABIGHT. THIS COLONY (LOCATED AT 370 METRES WATER DEPTH) IS THE FIRST TO BE DESCRIBED IN THE REGION AT DEPTHS LESS THAN 500 METRES. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI 5 THE GANDER ZONE IN IRELAND COMPARATIVE TERRANE STUDY BETWEEN NEWFOUNDLAND AND IRELAND INVESTIGATING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE OF A DISTINCT PERI-GONDWANAN BLOCK. U-PB AGE SPECTRA OF INHERITED AGES IN (META) SEDIMENTS, AS WELL AS U-PB AGES OF INHERITED ZIRCONS AND SM-ND ISOTOPE SIGNATURES (WHOLE ROCK) FROM MAGMATIC ROCKS WILL BE USED TO CHARACTERISE SELECTED SAMPLES FROM SE IRELAND AND NEWFOUNDLAND. IRELAND NEWFOUNDLAND PARTNERSHIP AND THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND UNDERSTANDING CRUSTAL EVOLUTION OF THE EARLY EARTH: THE SINGHBHUM CRATON, INDIA OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE EARTH'S EARLY EVOLUTION IN TERMS OF CRUSTAL GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT OF HABITABLE ATMOSPHERE-HYDROSPHERE, DEVELOPMENT OF BIOSPHERE AND GEODYNAMIC PROCESSES IS BUILT UPON STUDIES OF ARCHEAN-PROTEROZOIC ROCK SUCCESSIONS PRESERVED AS OLD CRATONIC NUCLEI AND THEIR COVER SEQUENCES. THE OLDEST AMONG THESE GEOLOGICAL TERRANES ARE EOARCHEAN (>3.6 BILLION YEARS BEFORE PRESENT [GA])-TO-PALEOARCHEAN (3.6-3.2 GA) TERRANES. ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE RESEARCH CONDUCTED ON SEVERAL OF THESE FRAGMENTS OF THE EARTH'S ANCIENT CRUST, ONE SUCH SEQUENCE, THE SINGHBHUM CRATON OF EASTERN INDIA, HAS RECEIVED RELATIVELY LITTLE ATTENTION. RADIOMETRIC AGE DATING OF KEY EXPOSURE OF VOLCANIC ROCKS AND ASSOCIATED SEDIMENTS WITHIN THE SINGHBHUM CRATON WILL PROVIDE NEW INFORMATION ON THE MECHANISMS AND TIME-SCALES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH'S EARLY CRUST. TRINITY COLLEGE AND SFI FEMS INDIA SCHEME AND SFI ISCA SR ISOTOPES AND THE IRISH BIOSPHERE THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO USE STRONTIUM ISOTOPES, EXPRESSED AS 87SR/86SR, AS A TRACER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES, INCLUDING 87SR/86SR VARIATION DURING WEATHERING AND UPTAKE INTO THE BIOSPHERE THROUGH PLANTS AND ANIMALS. THIS IS BEING REALISED BY CARRYING OUT SYSTEMATIC AND HIGH-RESOLUTION GEOCHEMICAL SAMPLING, USING A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT MEDIA, TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITY OF 87SR/87SR IN THE BIOSPHERE. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND, FULBRIGHT GSI SHORTCALL, GEOSCIENCE FULBRIGHT THE GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE HAIB PORPHYRY CU-MO DEPOSIT THE HAIB DEPOSIT WAS DISCOVERED IN THE LATE 1800'S OR EARLY 1900'S BY GERMAN EXPLORERS BUT REMAINED POORLY UNDERSTOOD UNTIL RELATIVELY RECENTLY. IT WAS ONLY RECOGNISED AS A PORPHYRY TYPE DEPOSIT IN THE 1970'S, AND HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY CLASSED AS A SHEAR ZONE-HOSTED DEPOSIT. KNOWLEDGE OF PORPHYRY SYSTEMS HAS GREATLY INCREASED IN THE RECENT PAST, AND THIS KNOWLEDGE IS NOW BEING APPLIED TO UNRAVEL THE COMPLEX HISTORY OF HAIB. GEOCHEMISTRY, PETROGRAPHY, U-PB ZIRCON AND APATITE AGE DATING, AS WELL AS FIELD RELATIONS ARE USED IN THIS STUDY TO DEFINE A NEW PARAGENESIS OF EVENTS THAT HAVE AFFECTED THE HAIB DEPOSIT SINCE ITS FORMATION. TECK OXYGENATION OF THE EARTH SYSTEM IN DEEP TIME THE EARTH SYSTEM HAS GONE THROUGH SEVERAL EXTREME CHANGES SINCE ITS FORMATION OVER 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE WAS ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC OXYGENATION. THIS IS CONVENTIONALLY THOUGHT TO HAVE OCCURRED ABOUT 2.3 BILLION YEARS AGO, BUT NEW EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THERE WAS AN EARLIER, TRANSIENT OXYGENATION EVENT 500-600 MILLION YEARS PRIOR TO THIS. THE PROPOSAL DEALS WITH ASSEMBLING KEY RESEARCHERS IN THIS FIELD TO PROGRESS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CAUSES, TIMING AND EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGENATION. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GOLD MINERALISATION IN THE TASIAT TERRANE, MAURITANIA THIS STUDY IS FOCUSSED ON THE AOUÉOUAT GREENSTONE BELT AND ASSOCIATED TASIAST GOLD DEPOSIT, BOTH OF WHICH FORM PART OF THE TASIAST-TIJIRIT TERRANE, MAURITANIA. THE TASIAST-TIJIRIT TERRANE IN TURN FORMS PART OF THE REGUIBAT SHIELD OF THE WEST AFRICAN CRATON. NEITHER THE TASIAST GOLD DEPOSIT, NOR THE AOUÉOUAT GREENSTONE BELT, HAVE BEEN STUDIED IN DETAIL IN THE PAST. THIS THESIS THEREFORE REPRESENTS THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE, MODERN GEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE REGION. ORIGINAL DETAILED PETROGRAPHY, GEOCHRONOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY ARE PRESENTED AND USED TO ELUCIDATE THE TIMING AND FORMATION OF THE AOUÉOUAT GREENSTONE BELT, SURROUNDING ROCKS, AND ALSO THE TASIAST GOLD DEPOSIT ITSELF. THESE NEW FINDINGS ARE DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO GLOBAL ARCHEAN GEOLOGY, IN PARTICULAR TO THAT OF CRUSTAL AND MANTLE EVOLUTION, THE ADVENT OF PLATE TECTONICS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERIC MODEL FOR ARCHEAN OROGENIC GOLD DEPOSITS WORLDWIDE. KINROSS RADON MONITORING AND HAZARD PREDICTION IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT UTILISES RECENTLY AVAILABLE HIGH-RESOLUTION AIRBORNE GAMMA-RAY SPECTROMETRY (RADIOMETRIC) AND SOIL GEOCHEMISTRY DATA FROM THE TELLUS PROJECTS OF IRELAND AND INDOOR RADON CONCENTRATIONS MEASURED BY THE EPA. THESE DATASETS WILL BE USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION (E.G. ROCK-TYPE, PRESENCE OF FRACTURE SYSTEMS, ETC) TO CONSTRUCT A HIGH-RESOLUTION RADON HAZARD MAP OF IRELAND. SELECTED TEST SITES WILL BE FURTHER STUDIED USING SOIL RADON MEASUREMENT IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND FACTORS AFFECTING PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT AND ACCUMULATION OF RADON IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. SUCH MAPPING OF RADON-PRONE AREAS WILL ULTIMATELY HELP TO INFORM WHEN PREVENTION AND REMEDIATION MEASURES ARE NECESSARY. A REDUCTION IN RADON EXPOSURE WILL RESULT IN A DECREASED LIKELIHOOD OF DEVELOPING LUNG CANCER AND A CORRESPONDING LOWERING OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH BURDEN. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME REFINEMENT OF HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGIC METHODOLOGIES URANIUM-LEAD (U-PB) GEOCHRONOLOGY IS THE MOST WIDELY USED RADIOMETRIC DATING TOOL IN GEOLOGIC TIME-SCALES FROM 800 THOUSAND YEARS TO >4 BILLION YEARS. THE USE OF U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY UNDERPINS A BROAD RANGE OF GEOLOGIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH TOPICS AND IS OF PIVOTAL IMPORTANCE IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TIMESCALES AND RATES OF PROCESSES OPERATING IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. THIS PROPOSED PROJECT WILL (1) INVESTIGATE THE CHEMICAL NATURE OF MINERAL CHRONOMETERS AT THE NANO-SCALE, (2) DEVELOP THE USE OF NEW MINERAL CHRONOMETERS, (3) REFINE METHODOLOGIES AND DATA REDUCTION PROTOCOLS SO AS TO IMPROVE ACCURACY AND PRECISION OF MICRO-BEAM GEOCHRONOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS. UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME NAUGHTON FELLOWSHIP IRISH ISOTOPE RESEARCH GROUP WORKSHOP NATURALLY OCCURRING ISOTOPES MAY BE USED IN MANY DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH. SUCH STUDIES OFTEN EMPLOY NOVEL STRATEGIES TO INVESTIGATE DIET, GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN, MOBILITY, PROVENANCE AND ANTIQUITY. A LARGE NUMBER OF IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY BASED RESEARCHERS ARE CURRENTLY APPLYING ISOTOPES TO TACKLE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS IN IRISH ARCHAEOLOGY. THE IRISH ISOTOPE RESEARCH GROUP (IIRG; HTTP://IIRG.WORDPRESS.COM/) WAS RECENTLY ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE A FORUM FOR RESEARCHERS IN THIS FIELD TO IDENTIFY RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGE KNOWLEDGE. THIS APPLICATION IS TO ENHANCE THE IIRG'S ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE THE POTENTIAL OF IRISH RESEARCH BY ORGANISING A CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP WITH INVITED SPEAKERS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS DEVELOPING A CROSS-BORDER RADON RESEARCH NETWORK IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT AIMS TO INCREASE CROSS-BORDER COLLABORATION AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE IN IRELAND IN ORDER TO INCREASE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING RADON DISTRIBUTION IN BOTH NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENTS. APART FROM THE SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES, THIS PROPOSAL WILL PROVIDE A FORUM ON BEST PRACTICES OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN RELATION TO LINKS BETWEEN GEOSCIENCES, RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION AND HUMAN HEALTH. THE PROPOSED NETWORK WILL INVOLVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN RESEARCHERS AT THE FOLLOWING: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD), UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD), NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY (NUIG), GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND (GSI), ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (OF IRELAND; EPA), HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE), GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND (GSNI), QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (QUB), NORTHERN IRELAND ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (NIEA), BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (BGS) AND PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND (PHE) CENTRE FOR RADIATION, CHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS. COLLEAGUES FROM MAINLAND EUROPE WILL ALSO BE INVOLVED IN DISCUSSIONS REGARDING EU FUNDING. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. VIVION CROWLEY crowleyvivion ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CROWLEYV CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND CENTRAL PATHOLOGY BUILDING ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MEMBER, DIABETES & METABOLIC HEALTH RESEARCH - EXTENDED GROUP, PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS IN TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL DIABETES RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (INCLUDES FUNDAMENTAL DIABETES RESEARCH, CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS & COMPLICATIONS AS WELL AS NUTRITIONAL HEALTH ASPECTS MEMBER, DIABETES & METABOLIC HEALTH RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP, TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH CONSORTIUM FOCUSED AROUND DIABETES, OBESITY & METABOLIC SYNDROME DIABETES & OBESITY INSULIN RESISTANCE MS. GERALDINE CROWTHER crowthergeraldine EXECUTIVE OFFICER (PART TIME) CROWTHEG PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 HEAD AND NECK SURGERY DR. NIALL CRUMLISH crumlishniall CLINICAL LECTURER CRUMLISN PSYCHIATRY DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS OF IRELAND DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR PSYCHIATRY REHABILITATION SCHIZOPHRENIA GENES & SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR LOUIS MICHAEL CULLEN cullenlouismichael FELLOW EMERITUS LCULLEN HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) . EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRISH ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY. . FRENCH TRADE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. . JAPANESE HISTORY OF THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD. . , . IEEVOLUTION OF JAPANESE BUREAUCRACY 1792-1858 TO COUNTER WESTERN THREAT( A THEME OUTLINED IN PASSING IN A HISTORY OF JAPAN: EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL WORLDS, 1582-1941 )BELOW).THIS IS INTENDED TO BE THE BASIS FOR A FURTHER BOOK IN JAPANESE HISTORY MODERN HISTORY 3114 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN JAPANESE PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH BOARD OF VISITORS, NATIONAL MUSUEM OF IRELAND CHAIRMAN , JAPANESE STUDIES COMMITTEE MEMBER OF IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION (NOW HONORARY MEMBER) ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY JAPAN ANALYSIS OF EVOLUTION OF JAPANESE BUREAUCRACY AND ITS ARCHIVL SOURCES, 1792-1858 IT IS A STUDY OF JAPANESE POLICY, ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES IN RESPONSE TO EMERGING &#22806;&#22311; OR FOREIGN PRESSURE&#12289;AND ANALYSIS OF THE ARCHIVAL SOURCES BOTH AS TO THEIR NATURE AND EXTENT. T WO STAGES OF THIS STUDY HAVE ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED, CONCERNING THE EXTENT TO WHICH JAPANESE OFFICIALS EMPLOYED STATISTICAL CONCEPTS IN THEIR ADMINISTRATIVE WORK. A FURTHER STAGE, THE RESANOFU OR RUSSIAN EMBASSY OF 1804 IS CURRENTY BEING STUDIED: THIS WAS A MAJOR EVENT IN THE DIP;OMATIC HISTORY OF JAPAN, AND HAS RELATIVELY RICH SOURCES. IT WILL BE FOLLOWED BY AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND ARHIVAL ISSUES RAISED IN THE HUGE TSUKO ICHIRAN, COMPILED IN THE 1850S , SS A RECORD OF JAPAN'S PAST FOREIGN G RELATIONS. TO BRIEF JAPANESE OFFICIALS WHO NOW KNEW THAT A FOREIGN CHALLENGE WAS IMMINENT. POPULATION SOURCES WERE THE SUBJECT OF A PAPER PUBLISHED IN JAPAN REVIEW IN 2006; A FURTHER PAPER IS AT THE MOMENT WITH REFEREES ON THE SUBJECT OF STATISTICS OF TRADE. THE SOURCES FOR STATISTICS HAVE THE SAME CHARACTERISTIC AS SURVIVING RECORDS OF DECISION MAKING AND NEGOTIATION. BOTH ADMINISTRATIVE DOCUMENTS AND STATISTICS OF POPULATION AND TRADE SURVIVE EXCLUSIVELY IN COPIES, OFTEN THEMSELVES INCOMPLETE OR SUMMARY, AND IN MANY CASES QUITE LITERALLY COPIES OF COPIES. POPULATION FIGURES WERE LITTLE USED BY THE SHOGUNAL AUTHORITIES CHANGE BEGAN IN EARNEST FROM 1858 WHEN TRADE FIGURES AFTER THE OPENING OF THE PORTS IN 1859 BEGAN TO BECOME SYSTEMATIC, AND WHEN ADMINISTRATIVE RECORDS BEGAN TO BE RETAINED IN THE ORIGINAL, RATHER THAN COPIED INTO MANUSRIPT BOOKS ON INDIVIDUAL TOPICS. THE FOREIGN MINISTRY LED THE WAY, AND OTHER MINISTRIES ADOPTED SIMILAR PROCEDURES IN THE DECADE FROM 1868. PART FUNDED BY HOSEI UNIVERISTY AND OSAKA SANGYO UNIV, FACILITATED BY REGULAR VISITING STATUS KYOTO CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. ELIZABETH CULLETON-QUINN culletonquinnelizabeth ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CULLITOE PHYSIOTHERAPY MY MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREAS OF 'BONE HEALTH', 'PAEDIATRICS', 'CANCER' AND 'WOMEN'S HEALTH'. DEPT OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS REPRESENTED ISCP AS A MEMBER OF THE OSTEOPOROSIS SUB-GROUP INVOLVED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THE HSE/DOH&C/NCAOP 2008 DOCUMENT ENTITLED "STRATEGY TO PREVENT FALLS AND FRACTURES IN IRELAND'S AGEING POPULATION". BONE HEALTH AND BREAST CANCER BONE HEALTH AND CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA BONE HEALTH AND HIP FRACTURES PROMOTION OF BONE HEALTH WOMEN'S HEALTH ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, BONE HEALTH, QUALITY OF LIFE AND PARTICIPATION IN SURVIVORS OF ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA A STUDY TO INVESTIGATE THE FOLLOW-UP CARE DELIVERED TO PATIENTS WHO HAVE HAD A DEXA SCAN POST FRACTURED HIP. CANCER DR. SARAH-JANE CULLINANE cullinanesarahjane ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SCULLINA BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SARAH-JANE'S RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE PRIMARILY IN THE AREA OF EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AT (E.G. WORK ENGAGEMENT, BURNOUT, WORKAHOLISM AND MINDFULNESS-BASED INTERVENTIONS), AND HER RESEARCH EXPLORES HOW JOBS ARE DESIGNED BY MANAGERS AND CRAFTED BY EMPLOYEES TO PROMOTE THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 AD HOC REVIEWER FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, JOURNAL OF ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR, IRISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDITORIAL BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR KEMMY BUSINESS SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF WORK AND ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL AND DEVELOPMENT, ORGANISER OF 5TH INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON POSITIVE OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY REVIEWER FOR FINT CONFERENCE 2016 SESSION CHAIR FOR EAOHP CONFERENCE PROFESSOR PATRICK CUNNINGHAM cunninghampatrick PROFESSOR OF ANIMAL GENETICS EPCNNGHM GENETICS GENETICS DEPT GENETICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. COLM CUNNINGHAM cunninghamcolm ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - NEUROSCIENCE CUNNINCO BIOCHEMISTRY ENGAGE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MY PRIMARY INTERESTS ARE IN INFLAMMATION IN THE BRAIN AND THE ROLES OF MICROGLIA AND ASTROCYTES IN THESE PROCESSES. IN PARTICULAR MY RESEARCH GROUP IS INTERESTED IN HOW INFLAMMATION CONTRIBUTES TO SYMPTOMS OF DELIRIUM AND TO THE PROGRESSION OF DEMENTIA. THE INTERACTION OF INFLAMMATORY EVENTS OUTSIDE THE BRAIN (IE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION) WITH EXISTING PATHOLOGY AND INFLAMMATION INSIDE THE BRAIN IS A MAJOR FOCUS OF OUR WORK AND THE GENERAL AREA IN WHICH OUR WORK IS BEST KNOWN (AND HIGHLY CITED). WE ARE ACTIVE IN VALIDATING OUR FINDINGS FROM ANIMAL MODELS IN HUMANS WITH DEMENTIA AND THOSE EXPERIENCING INFLAMMATORY TRAUMAS SUCH AS HIP FRACTURE AND REPLACEMENT SURGERY. WE USE BLOOD AND CSF COLLECTION IN PATIENTS WITH/WITHOUT COGNITIVELY IMPAIRMENTS TO EXAMINE SPECIFIC INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS AND THEIR POSSIBLE ROLE IN ACUTE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION. THAT SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION MAY AFFECT THE BRAIN DIFFERENTLY IN INDIVIDUALS WITH EXISTING ABNORMALITIES IS A CORE INTEREST AND WE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING WHETHER INFLAMMATION AND/OR FEVER RANGE BODY TEMPERATURE MAY IMPROVE FUNCTION IN ANIMAL MODELS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS. SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE STREET, DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH AS A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE I HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO DISCUSSIONS LEADING TO A CONSENSUS ADOPTED BY THE EUROPEAN DELIRIUM ASSOCIATION AND THE AMERICAN DELIRIUM SOCIETY (BMC MEDICINE 201412:141 DOI: 10.1186/S12916-014-0141-2) THAT WITH RESPECT TO "THE DSM-5 CRITERIA, LEVEL OF AROUSAL AND DELIRIUM DIAGNOSIS: INCLUSIVENESS IS SAFER". I WAS ALSO PART OF AN INTERNATIONAL PANEL OF EXPERTS GATHERED TO WRITE A DEFINITIVE REPORT ON THE "INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE RESEARCH AGENDA ON DELIRIUM" FOR PUBLICATION IN INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE. I AM AN EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF 2 JOURNALS: BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY. JOURNAL OF NEUROINFLAMMATION. EUROPEAN DELIRIUM ASSOCIATION PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE AGING/GERONTOLOGY ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) BRAIN DEMENTIA DEPRESSION EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH--GERIATRIC INFLAMMATION NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES/DISORDERS NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS PARKINSON'S DISEASE SENILE DEMENTIA STRESS OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY TOWARDS AND UNDERSTANDING OF INFECTION-INDUCED DELIRIUM DELIRIUM IS A TRANSIENT DISORDER OF ORIENTATION AND COGNITION THAT IS HIGHLY PREVALENT IN THE ELDERLY POPULATION ADMITTED TO OR RESIDENT IN HOSPITAL (10-30%). THE HIGHEST RISK FACTORS FOR EPISODES OF DELIRIUM ARE AGEING AND DEMENTIA AND THESE EPISODES ARE MOST COMMONLY TRIGGERED BY INFECTION, INJURY OR SURGERY. THUS, WHILE THE AETIOLOGY OF DELIRIUM IS UNKNOWN, IT IS CLEARLY MULTI-FACTORIAL AND MAY RESULT FROM THE INTERACTION OF PRIOR PATHOLOGY AND SUPERIMPOSED INFLAMMATORY INSULTS. WE HAVE SHOWN THAT PRION-DISEASED MICE SHOW COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS TYPICAL OF DEMENTIA AND SHOW NEURODEGENERATION AND ASSOCIATED CNS INFLAMMATION IN NEURAL PATHWAYS THAT UNDERLIE COGNITIVE PROCESSES. THESE MICE ALSO SHOW EXAGGERATED ACUTE SICKNESS BEHAVIOUR RESPONSES TO SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY CHALLENGES AND THESE ARE UNDERPINNED BY ACUTELY RAISED CYTOKINES IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS. WE HYPOTHESISE THAT PRIOR CNS INFLAMMATION, SUCH AS THAT INDUCED BY NEURODEGENERATION, IS ACUTELY EXACERBATED BY SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION AND PRECIPITATES EPISODES OF DELIRIUM. IN THE CURRENT PROPOSAL WE AIM TO ESTABLISH A MOUSE MODEL OF INFECTION-INDUCED DELIRIUM. WE WILL INVESTIGATE WHETHER SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY INSULTS HAVE MORE SEVERE COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES IN ANIMALS WITH PRIOR CNS INFLAMMATION THAN IN NORMAL ANIMALS. WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF DELIRIUM USING THE MODEL DEVELOPED DURING THIS WORK. THE WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP NEUROINFLAMMATORY AND COGNITIVE CONSEQUENCES OF LOSING CHOLINERGIC ANTI-INFLAMMATORY TONE IN THE FOREBRAIN SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION CAN TRIGGER ACUTE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION (INCLUDING DELIRIUM) AS WELL AS ACCELERATING LONG-TERM COGNITIVE DECLINE (INCLUDING DEMENTIA) AND THIS OCCURS WITH HIGH PREVALENCE IN THE AGING POPULATION. IT IS ACCEPTED THAT PRIOR NEURODEGENERATION INCREASES THE RISK OF THESE ADVERSE HEALTH OUTCOMES BUT THIS IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD AND WE NOW PROPOSE THAT LOSS OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY ACETYLCHOLINERGIC TONE PREDISPOSES TO EXAGGERATED BRAIN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES TO SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY INSULTS, RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE INFLAMMATORY MEDIATOR RELEASE AND CONTRIBUTING TO ACUTE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND LASTING BRAIN INJURY. IN THE CURRENT PROPOSAL WE WILL USE P75NTR-SAPORIN TO PRODUCE PARTIAL AND SELECTIVE DEGENERATION OF BASAL FOREBRAIN CHOLINERGIC NEURONS, AND WILL INDUCE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION WITH BACTERIAL ENDOTOXIN OR POLYMICROBIAL SEPSIS, IN ORDER TO STUDY THE INFLUENCE OF PRE-EXISTING HYPOCHOLINERGIA ON ACUTE ILLNESS-INDUCED BRAIN INFLAMMATION, CHANGES IN BRAIN ENERGY METABOLISM AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY (TIME-SYNCHRONIZED TO BEHAVIOUR) AND NEW BRAIN INJURY LEADING TO LONG-TERM COGNITIVE DECLINE. NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (USA) R01 RECONCILING CHOLINERGIC AND INFLAMMATORY HYPOTHESES OF DELIRIUM: ACUTE AND LASTING EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION ON CHRONIC NEURODEGENERATION 1) RECONCILING INFLAMMATORY AND CHOLINERGIC MECHANISMS OF DELIRIUM. I PROPOSE THAT PRIOR PATHOLOGY IN THE BASAL FOREBRAIN CHOLINERGIC NUCLEI (BFCN) PREDISPOSES INDIVIDUALS TO SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION-INDUCED ACUTE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS. I WILL PRODUCE SELECTIVE AND LIMITED LESIONS OF THE BFCN, WITH P75NTR-SAPORIN THAT DO NOT CAUSE SIGNIFICANT COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. I PREDICT THAT SUPERIMPOSED SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION WILL THEN INDUCE ACUTE CHOLINERGIC DYSFUNCTION SPECIFICALLY IN LESIONED ANIMALS. THIS WILL BE A VALUABLE MODEL SYSTEM WITH WHICH TO STUDY ASPECTS OF CHOLINERGIC HYPOFUNCTION-ASSOCIATED DELIRIUM AND I WILL STUDY INFLAMMATORY, BEHAVIOURAL AND NEUROCHEMICAL ASPECTS OF THIS SYSTEM. 2) MECHANISMS OF LONG-TERM DECLINE. USING BOTH THE "ME7+SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION" AND P75-SAPORIN MODELS OF DELIRIUM DURING DEMENTIA I WILL STUDY POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF ACUTE IMPAIRMENTS AND LONG-TERM DECLINE RESULTING FROM INFLAMMATORY CHALLENGES. IN SO DOING I WILL EXAMINE THE IDEA THAT THE ACUTE COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND THE SUBSEQUENT LONG-TERM COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ASSOCIATED WITH DELIRIUM ARE TWO DISTINCT PROCESSES: AN ACUTE NEUROCHEMICAL CHANGE AND AN ACUTE PATHOLOGICAL CHANGE THAT IS SUPERIMPOSED ON THE EXISTING PATHOLOGICAL STATE. 3) MICROGLIAL PRIMING. I PREDICT THAT PRIMED MICROGLIA HAVE A ROLE IN BOTH ACUTE AND LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF ACUTE INFLAMMATORY EPISODES. I PROPOSE THAT PRIMING OF THESE CNS MACROPHAGES CONSISTS OF HYPER-RESPONSIVENESS TO A VARIETY OF INFLAMMATORY STIMULI AND I WILL INVESTIGATE THIS WITH RESPECT TO RECEPTOR EXPRESSION, CYTOSOLIC LEVELS OF KEY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION OF THESE IN RESPONSE TO INFLAMMATORY STIMULATION. WELLCOME TRUST SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP THE IMPACT OF ACUTE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION UPON CSF AND BLOOD BIOMARKERS OF BRAIN INFLAMMATION AND INJURY IN DEMENTIA: A STUDY IN ACUTE HIP FRACTURE AND MEMORY CLINIC PATIENTS WE PROPOSE THAT ACUTE INFLAMMATORY INSULTS, SUCH AS TRAUMA AND SURGERY, CAUSE NEW BRAIN INJURY IN OLDER ADULTS. THE CURRENT PROJECT AIMS TO IDENTIFY THE INFLAMMATORY BIOMARKERS PREDICTIVE OF SUCH INJURY AND THE NEURONAL AND SYNAPTIC BIOMARKERS THAT ARE DEMONSTRATIVE OF SUCH BRAIN INJURY. WE AIM TO COLLECT CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND BLOOD FROM PATIENTS WHO EXPERIENCE HIP FRACTURES (AND WHO HAVE SPINAL ANAESTHESIA TO FACILITATE HIP-FRACTURE REPAIR SURGERY) IN ORDER TO SAMPLE THE CIRCULATING AND BRAIN LEVELS OF INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS AND OF MARKERS OF NEURONAL DAMAGE. WE WILL THEN ASSESS COGNITIVE DECLINE AND SAMPLE BLOOD AT 1, 3 AND 6 MONTHS TO ASSESS THE PROGRESSION OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THOSE WHO EXPERIENCED THIS INFLAMMATORY TRAUMA.. WE PREDICT THAT THE SEVERITY OF ACUTE BRAIN INFLAMMATION AND THE LEVELS OF SPECIFIC NEURONAL INJURY MARKERS WILL PREDICT THE RATE OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN THE PROCEEDING 6 MONTHS. ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH UK MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS FEVER & THE BRAIN IN AUTISM: TEMPERATURE VS. INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE HYPOTHESIS THAT FEVER CAN AMELIORATE SYMPTOMS OF AUTISM, AND EXPLORE POSSIBLE MECHANISMS IN MOUSE MODELS. WE WILL: 1) DISSOCIATE FEVER AND INFLAMMATION (I.E. INDUCE WHOLE BODY HYPERTHERMIA IN THE ABSENCE OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION AND, IN DIFFERENT ANIMALS, INDUCE SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION NOT INDUCING FEVER). COMPARE INFLAMMATION AND FEVER FOR DIFFERENTIAL PATTERNS OF BRAIN ACTIVATION USING IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE CFOS EXPRESSION IN (AMYGDALA, FRONTAL CORTEX, HIPPOCAMPUS, HYPOTHALAMUS, STRIATUM, NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS, LOCUS CERULEUS AND OTHERS). COMPARE INFLAMMATION AND FEVER FOR THEIR EFFECTS ON BRAIN METABOLISM (BRAIN OXYGEN, GLUCOSE AND LACTATE LEVELS MEASURED IN VIVO, IN REAL-TIME). 2) ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THESE DIFFERENT PARADIGMS ON BEHAVIORAL MEASURES (BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS), RELEVANT TO AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS IN 3 MODEL SYSTEMS WITH COMPLEMENTARY ADVANTAGES A.C58/J: NATURAL MUTANT SHOWING BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS RELEVANT TO ASD (#000669). B.B6.129-SHANK3TM2GFNG/J (# 017688; ALSO KNOWN AS SHANK3B-) C.TSC+/-: B6;129S4-TSC2TM1DJK/J (#004686) 3) WE WILL PURSUE PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE FOR: INVOLVEMENT OF SPECIFIC INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS (PGE2, IL-1&#946;; TNF) AND OF ALTERED AUTOPHAGY SIMONS FOUNDATION SIMONS FOUNDATION AUTISM RESEARCH INITIATIVE AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. CONAL CUNNINGHAM cunninghamconal CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER CUNNINCJ CLINICAL MEDICINE 115 TERENURE ROAD WEST TERENURE DUBLIN 6W 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. PHILIP MICHAEL CURRY curryphilipmichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PCURRY SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY MIGRATION AND CHILDREN; MIGRATION AND THE FAMILY; INTERGROUP RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH. SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY 3.07, 3-4 FOSTER PLACE TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MIGRATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOHN CURTIS curtisjohn ADJUNCT PROFESSOR CURTISJO ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ANNIE CURTIS curtisannie ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ACURTIS BIOCHEMISTRY BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS, IMMUNE SYSTEM, INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM, INFLAMMATION, MACROPHAGE BIOLOGY, METABOLISM, BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. ELIZABETH ANN CURTIS curtiselizabethann ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CURTISE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE WITHIN HEALTHCARE; NURSING MANAGEMENT ISSUES - WITH SPECIFIC EMPHASIS ON LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE; RESEARCH METHODS - SPECIFIC INTEREST IN POSTAL SURVEYS, MIXED METHODS STUDIES AND FOCUS GROUPS. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE: MY RESEARCH INTERESTS FALL WITHIN THREE MAIN AREAS. NURSING MANAGEMENT, CLINICAL NURSING, NURSING EDUCATION. NURSING MANAGEMENT: ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE AND JOB SATISFACTION, LEADERSHIP STYLES OF WARD SISTERS. CLINICAL NURSING: NEUROSURGICAL NURSING NURSING EDUCATION: CURRICULUM ISSUES E.G. COMUTER LITERACY AND ATTITUDES TO COMPUTERS AMONG NURSES UNDERTAKING A BACHELOR IN NURSING STUDIES DEGREE. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH MEMBER AND CO-LEADER OF MANAGEMENT AND HEALTH CARE POLICY RESEARCH GROUP MEMBER OF ACADEMIC FORUM MEMBER OF PHD COMMITTEE MEMBER OF PHD WORKING GROUP MEMBER OF SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY ETHICS COMMITTEE MEMBER OF SCHOOL RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF VALIDATION COMMITTEE (NEW MSC PROGRAMME)FOR A LONDON UNIVERSITY. MEMBER OF WORKING GROUP ON DECISION MAKING MEMBER OF WORKING GROUP ON LEVELS OF LEARNING MEMBER OF WORKING GROUP ON REFLECTIVE PRACTICE REGISTERED MEMBER OF AN BORD ALTRANAIS. JOB SATISFACTION, LEADERSHIP, CHANGE, NEUROSURGICAL NURSING JOB SATISFACTION AMONG PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES IN IRELAND THIS STUDY COMMENCED AT THE END OF LAST YEAR. DATA COLLECTION BY POSTAL SURVEY COMPLETED AND DATA ANALYSIS WILL BEGIN SHORTLY. THE EXPECTED DATE OF COMPLETION IS JANUARY 2011. SELF FUNDING NARRATIVES OF NURSING LEADERSHIP THIS STUDY IS BEING UNDERTAKEN BY THREE STAFF MEMBERS AS FOLLOWS: DR. JAN DE VRIES, DR. ELIZABETH CURTIS AND DR. FINTAN SHEERIN. PROGRESS SO FAR - WE HAVE SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION TO THE ETHICS COMMITTEE AND ARE AWAITING FINAL COMMUNICATION. ETHICAL APPROVAL WAS GRANTED AND THE PILOT STUDY HAS COMMENCED. DATA COLLECTION FOR THE MAIN STUDY WILL COMMENCE IN JANUARY 2015. NONE LEADERSHIP, WORK PERFORMANCE, JOB SATISFACTION AND RESEARCH UTILISATION IN NURSING THIS PROJECT, A COLLABORATION BETWEEN IRELAND AND ANOTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRY WILL COMMENCE IN NOVEMBER 2011. A COLLEAGUE FOR UCC WILL WORK WITH ME ON THE IRISH ARM OF THE STUDY. THIS STUDY HAS BEEN PUT ON HOLD DUE TO UNAVOIDABLE CIRCUMSTANCES. A DECISION WILL BE MADE IN THE COMING WEEKS REGARDING ITS CONTINUANCE. NONE AT PRESENT A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY TO EXPLORE PRONENESS TO ACCIDENTS AMONG TCD ALUMNI THIS PROPOSED PILOT STUDY AIMS TO IDENTIFY THE PREVALENCE OF ACCIDENTS IN A POPULATION OF UNIVERSITY GRADUATES, AND TO EXPLORE ACCIDENT-PRONENESS AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH BIOGRAPHICAL FACTORS. ETHICAL APPROVAL WAS GRANTED AND DATA COLLECTION IS IN PROGRESS. I AM ONE OF THREE INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATING IN THE STUDY. JOB SATISFACTION AMONG NURSES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND THE STUDY UTILISED A MIXED METHODS DESIGN TO EXPLORE BIOGRAPHICAL FACTORS, ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG NURSES. ACROSS CAMPUS MINI-MOVIE SERIES PROJECT THIS PROJECT WAS DEVELOPED BY THE PANEL OF CONTACT PEOPLE IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND LED BY DR. INMACULADA ARNEDILLO-SANCHEZ FROM THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS. ITS PURPOSE IS TO INCREASE AWARENESS REGARDING COLLEGE'S DIGNITY AND RESPECT POLICY. EQUALITY FUND, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN NURSING STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND ATITUDES TO COMPUTERS. THE STUDY SURVEYED OF A COHORT OF STUDENTS ON A BACHELOR IN NURSING COURSE IN 2002. A STUDY TO EXPLORE THE CONCEPT OF REFLECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN NURSING THE STUDY IS BEING UNDERTAKEN IN TWO UNIVERSITIES; TCD AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA. THE DUBLIN ARM INCLUDES COLLABORATIONS FROM ACADEMICS IN TCD LED BY MYSELF WHILE THE SWANSEA ARM IS LED BY PROFESOR GARY ROLFE. THE DESIGN WILL INVOLVE THREE PHASES: PHASE 1 (A) REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, (B) PRESENT OUTCOMES OF LITERATRUE REFIEW AT A CONFERENCE AND (C) PUBLICAITON OF A PAPER; PHASE 2 - A DELPHI STUDY, AND PHASE 3 - FOCUS GROUPS. PROGRESS TO DATE - PHASE 1 - A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THE OUTCOMES PRESENTED AT A CONFERENCE IN SEPTEMBER 2012. SINCE THE CONFERENCE PRESENTATION THE LITERATURE REVIEW HAS BEEN MODIFIED AND A PAPER IS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED FOR PUBLICATION. PHASE 2 OF THE STUDY - A DELPHI SURVEY IS CURRENTLY BEING PLANNED AND SHOULD COMMENCE EITHER LATE 2014 OR EARLY 2015. NONE AT PRESENT SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND A MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH STUDY TO EXPLORE THE FUTURE ROLE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) NURSING IN IRELAND USING SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS INCLUDED ID NURSES. HSE TENDER DR. MARTINE CUYPERS cuypersmartine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN GREEK CUYPERSM CLASSICS CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES MY PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTEREST IS GREEK NARRATIVE LITERATURE OF THE POST-CLASSICAL ERA (THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD AND EMPIRE), WHEN HELLENIC CULTURE 'WENT GLOBAL' AND GREEK WAS THE LINGUA FRANCA OF MUCH OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND THE NEAR EAST. MIGRATION AND INTERACTION WITH OTHER CULTURES (NEAR-EASTERN, EGYPTIAN, ROMAN) FORCED WRITERS OF GREEK TO REDEFINE THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE 'HOMELAND' AND ITS CULTURAL AND LITERARY TRADITION AND TO RE-INVENT 'GREEKNESS' ITSELF AS A CULTURAL RATHER THAN AN ETHNIC CONCEPT. DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMPARATIVE INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS GREEK EPIC AND POST-CLASSICAL POETRY HELLENISTIC HISTORY INTERTEXTUALITY NARRATOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL TEXTS IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE SECOND SOPHISTIC PROSE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. MICHELLE D'ARCY darcymichelle ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DARCYM1 POLITICAL SCIENCE MY RESEARCH TRIES TO UNDERSTAND THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH POLITICAL ORDER, DEMOCRACY AND WELFARE MAXIMIZING INSTITUTIONS EMERGE. IN PARTICULAR, I INVESTIGATES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEMOCRACY AND STATE-BUILDING IN TWO CONTEXTS: IN THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF WESTERN STATES, AND IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN COUNTRIES. I USE BOTH QUALITATIVE METHODS, TO BUILD THEORY, AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS, TO TEST THEORY, AND ADDRESS MY WORK TO DEBATES IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CREDIBLE ENFORCEMENT BEFORE CREDIBLE COMMITMENT:EXPLORING THE CONSEQUENCES OF INSTITUTIONAL SEQUENCING THIS PROJECTS EXPLORES THE CONSEQUENCES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENT PATHWAYS OF INSTITUTIONAL SEQUENCING, ASKING SPECIFICALLY IF DEMOCRATIZING BEFORE THE STATE HAS BECOME STRONG LEADS TO THE SAME OUTCOMES AS DEMOCRATIZING AFTER. THE PROJECT DRAWS ON BOTH HISTORICAL DATA ON HOW WESTERN STATES DEVELOPED, AND CONTRASTS THIS WITH CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. A RANGE OF METHODOLOGIES, FROM QUALITATIVE CASE STUDIES TO PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS ARE USED TO TEST THE THEORIES DEVELOPED. SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL DO LOCAL ELECTIONS FOSTER LOCAL DEMOCRACY? - PARTY STRATEGIES IN THE FIRST ELECTIONS AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL IN KENYA ON MARCH 4TH 2013 KENYANS VOTED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, TO ELECT GOVERNORS AT THE SUB-NATIONAL LEVEL. THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES THE MOBILIZATION STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND HOW DEVOLUTION IS LIKELY TO IMPACT ON KENYAN POLITICS. IN DOING SO, THE PROJECT AIMS TO EXAMINE THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH LOCAL DEMOCRACY BECOMES A VEHICLE FOR INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY AND WHEN IT DOES NOT. SWEDISH INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR LOCAL DEMOCRACY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. DEIRDRE D'ARCY darcydeirdre ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DDARCY PHARMACY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS CAN BE PRESENTED AS 2 MAIN THEMES: 1. APPLICATION OF COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING AND SIMULATION TECHNIQUES IN PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY, TO IMPROVE PROCESSES AND PRACTICE. I HAVE USED A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING AND SIMULATION APPROACHES AND PACKAGES IN 2 MAIN CONTEXTS: A) CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETICS: CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETICS (PK) INVOLVES MODELLING THE TIME COURSE OF A MEDICINE IN THE BODY, IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE MEDICINE'S JOURNEY THROUGH THE BODY. THIS THEN FACILITATES DESIGN OF OPTIMAL DOSING REGIMENS (DOSE AND INTERVAL) TO ACHIEVE THERAPEUTIC GOALS. MY CLINICAL PK WORK TO DATE HAS FOCUSSED ON OPTIMISING ANTIBIOTIC USE. I AM THE ACADEMIC PI FOR THE CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETICS RESEARCH GROUP, A COLLABORATION WITH TALLAGHT HOSPITAL. I HAVE WORKED WITH BOTH THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AND HAEMATOLOGY DEPARTMENTS, AND THE HOSPITAL PHARMACY DEPARTMENT. B) PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG DEVELOPMENT: MY MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG DEVELOPMENT HAS FOCUSSED ON DISSOLUTION MODELLING. DISSOLUTION TESTING INVOLVES DETERMINATION OF THE RATE AND EXTENT OF DRUG DISSOLUTION AND RELEASE FROM ANY DOSAGE FORM. IT IS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF EARLY STAGE DRUG FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT, AND ALSO QUALITY CONTROL (QC). OF GLOBAL RESEARCH INTEREST ARE I) THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISSOLUTION TESTING METHODOLOGIES WHICH BEST REFLECT THE IN VIVO ENVIRONMENT FOR DRUG RELEASE, TO SUPPORT EARLY STAGE FORMULATION DEVELOPMENT, AND II) UNDERSTANDING SOURCES OF VARIABILITY IN DISSOLUTION TESTING TO MINIMISE RISK OF FAILURE TO MEET SPECIFICATIONS IN QC TESTING OF MANUFACTURED BATCHES. I HAVE DEVELOPED SIGNIFICANT EXPERTISE IN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) MODELLING OF FLUID DYNAMICS WITHIN DIFFERENT DISSOLUTION TEST APPARATUSES, ASSISTING DETERMINATION OF SOURCES OF VARIABILITY FROM A QC PERSPECTIVE AND ALSO IN VIVO RELEVANT DISSOLUTION METHOD DEVELOPMENT. FURTHERMORE, I HAVE CO-DEVELOPED A DISSOLUTION SIMULATION PACKAGE WITH DR. TIM PERSOONS (DEPT. OF MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, TCD). WE HAVE ACCOMPANIED THIS SIMULATION PACKAGE WITH A NOVEL INVESTIGATIONAL TOOL FOR VISUALISATION OF DISSOLUTION, BASED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF SHADOWGRAPH IMAGING. 2. CLINICALLY RELEVANT DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY TO SPECIAL POPULATIONS. THE DUAL CONCEPTS OF ACCESS TO MEDICINES AND PERSONALISED MEDICINES ARE HIGHLY RELEVANT IN TODAY'S GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL ENVIRONMENT. BASED ON A COMBINATION OF MY CLINICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE, MY RESEARCH ADDRESSES BOTH OF THESE CONCEPTS. I AM INVOLVED IN TWO SEPARATE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF BATH, UK), EXPLORING THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISSOLUTION AND DRUG RELEASE TESTING METHODOLOGIES WHICH WILL SUPPORT DRUG DEVELOPMENT FOR TWO SPECIFIC POPULATIONS: CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS AND NEONATES/INFANTS. MY COLLABORATION WITH CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY FOCUSSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DISSOLUTION TESTING ENVIRONMENT FROM A NIPPLE SHIELD DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY WITH THE AIM OF DRUG DELIVERY TO NEONATES WHILE BREASTFEEDING. MY COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF BATH FOCUSSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DISSOLUTION TESTING FOR LIPID-BASED PARENTERAL FORMULATIONS, WITH THE DISSOLUTION MEDIUM REPRESENTING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF PLASMA IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS. OF TOPICAL SIGNIFICANCE IS MY COLLABORATION WITH THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PHARMACOECONOMICS AND THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, TCD, INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF PHARMACOKINETIC "BOOSTING" DRUGS IN REDUCING DOSING (COST) OF EXPENSIVE MEDICINES. FINALLY I HAVE AN ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH DR. SUZANNE MCCARTHY, IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK. WE ARE INVESTIGATING THE POTENTIAL FOR PROVISION OF BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT IN A COMMUNITY PHARMACY ENVIRONMENT. PRIMARILY THIS FOCUSSES ON SUPPORT FOR MEDICATION USE (IN EITHER BABY OR MOTHER) DURING BREASTFEEDING, BUT WITH A GENERAL HEALTH PROMOTION ANGLE ALSO. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY EAST END DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ADJUDICATOR AT HOSPITAL PHARMACY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (HPAI) ANNUAL MEETING -POSTER COMPETITION COMMITTEE FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH GROUP, UNITED KINGDOM CLINICAL PHARMACY ASSOCIATION EXTERNAL EXAMINER -PHD THESIS - UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA EXTERNAL EXAMINER- MSC THESIS - UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA GENERAL PHARMACEUTICAL COUNCIL (GPHC-UK) INSTITUTIONAL LEAD -PQPHARM (POSTGRADUATE QUALIFICATION IN PHARMACY) INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROJECT FUNDED UNDER THE THE EU TEMPUS PROGRAMME IRISH INSTITUTE OF PHARMACY (IIOP): MEMBER OF WORKING GROUP FOR IIOP SUBMISSION TO NATIONAL MATERNITY STRATEGY IRISH INSTITUTE OF PHARMACY: MEMBER OF PEER REVIEW PANEL FOR ASSESSMENT OF CPD PROGRAMMES MEMBER OF ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE FOR THE SEASONAL INFLUENZA VACCINATION PROGRAMME FOR PHARMACISTS MEMBER OF THE ACCREDITATION WORKING GROUP FOR THE FIVE-YEAR INTEGRATED PHARMACY PROGRAMME PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND REGULAR PEER-REVIEWER FOR RELEVANT SCIENTIFIC AND CLINICAL JOURNAL (13) UNITED KINGDOM CLINICAL PHARMACY ASSOCIATION ANTIBIOTICS CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETICS COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION DISSOLUTION DISSOLUTION MECHANISMS DISSOLUTION RATES DISSOLUTION TESTING DOSAGE FORMS DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS FORMULATIONS METHODS OF DRUG DELIVERY PHARMACODYNAMICS PHARMACOKINETICS PHARMACOTHERAPY PK/PD STERILE ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EFFECT OF HYDRODYNAMICS IN THE USP APPARATUS 4 ON DISSOLUTION/DRUG RELEASE RATES THE DISSOLUTION RATES OF MODEL COMPOUNDS OF LOW- TO INTERMEDIATE-SOLUBILITY WERE EXAMINED UNDER CONDITIONS OF NO FORCED CONVECTION (NATURAL CONVECTION) AND AT LOW FLOW RATES IN THE USP 4 DISSOLUTION APPARATUS (FLOW-THROUGH APPARATUS). THE HYDRODYNAMICS OF THE FLOW-THROUGH APPARATUS WERE SIMULATED USING THE CFD SOFTWARE, FLUENT. THE EFFECT OF LOW, TIME-DEPENDENT FLUID VELOCITIES ON DISSOLUTION WAS BEING EXAMINED, IN PARTICULAR WITH RELEVANCE TO THE ESTIMATED MAGNITUDE OF FLUID VELOCITIES IN THE GI TRACT. THE EFFECT OF NATURAL CONVECTION WAS FOUND TO HAVE A SIGNFIICANT IMPACT ON DISSOLUTION RATE UNDER LOW VELOCITY CONDITIONS. IRCSET POST-GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AN INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE AN APPROPRIATE TEICOPLANIN DOSAGE REGIMEN FOR THE TREATMENT OF GRAM-POSITIVE INFECTION IN PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. TEICOPLANIN IS A GLYCOPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC THAT HAS BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY AGAINST AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA INCLUDING MULTI-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCI. ALONG WITH VANCOMYCIN, IT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE TREATMENTS OF CHOICE FOR GRAM-POSITIVE SEPSIS, INCLUDING INFECTIONS CAUSED BY METICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS. TEICOPLANIN HAS A STRUCTURE AND SPECTRUM OF ACTIVITY SIMILAR TO THAT OF VANCOMYCIN BUT ITS PHARMACOKINETIC PROPERTIES ARE QUITE DISTINCT. FOR THESE REASONS, TEICOPLANIN IS OFTEN THE PREFERRED CHOICE OVER VANCOMYCIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF GRAM-POSITIVE INFECTION IN PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. DESPITE THIS, SPECIFIC DOSAGE GUIDELINES AND AN APPROPRIATE TARGET TROUGH LEVEL FOR THIS PATIENT GROUP HAVE NOT BEEN DETERMINED. HIGHER DOSES HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED FOR PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY, BUT INCREASING THE DOSE NOT ONLY INCREASES THE RISK OF ADVERSE EFFECTS BUT ALSO REDUCES THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS WHEN COMPARED TO VANCOMYCIN. THEREFORE, MOST PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY CONTINUE TO RECEIVE STANDARD DOSES OF TEICOPLANIN AND THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING IS NOT WIDELY PRACTISED. AS PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY ARE AT HIGH RISK FOR DEVELOPING SEVERE GRAM-POSITIVE INFECTIONS, UNDERDOSING OF TEICOPLANIN IS OF GREAT CONCERN. THE AIMS OF THIS PROJECT ARE TO DETERMINE CURRENT TEICOPLANIN PRESCRIBING PRACTICES, TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER CERTAIN CLINICAL OR PATIENT FACTORS CONTRIBUTE TO EFFICACY OR TOXICITY OF TEICOPLANIN OR TO TROUGH LEVELS ATTAINED, AND TO CONDUCT A PROSPECTIVE TRIAL TO DETERMINE PHARMACOKINETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF TEICOPLANIN IN PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. PHASE 1, A SURVEY OF TEICOPLANIN PRACTICE IN ALL IRISH/UK HAEMATOLOGY SERVICES, WAS COMPLETED IN JUNE 2013. FINDINGS REVEALED THAT THE MAJORITY OF HOSPITALS RELY ON THE MANUFACTURER'S STANDARD DOSAGE REGIMEN RATHER THAN THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING AS AN INDICATOR FOR THERAPEUTIC DOSING AND THAT LOCAL PRACTICES LACK A CLEAR EVIDENCE BASE. DATA GATHERING FOR PHASE 2, A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF TEICOPLANIN DOSAGE AND CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN TEICOPLANIN-TREATED PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY AT TALLAGHT HOSPITAL, WAS COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER 2013. RESULTS SUGGESTED A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEICOPLANIN CONCENTRATION AND TREATMENT OUTCOME. FINDINGS ALSO SUGGESTED A RISK OF UNDEREXPOSURE IF CONVENTIONAL DOSES OF TEICOPLANIN ARE USED IN PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. A MODEL WAS DEVELOPED FOR DOSAGE OPTIMISATION OF TEICOPLANIN IN PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. NEPHROTOXICITY ANALYSIS SUGGESTED THAT TEICOPLANIN IS WELL TOLERATED AT THE RENAL LEVEL. PHASE 3, A CLINICAL TRIAL TO DETERMINE THE PHARMACOKINETICS AND PHARMACODYNAMICS OF TEICOPLANIN IN PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY, WAS COMMENCED IN SUBJECTS IN MARCH 2014. MEATH FOUNDATION (IN COLLABORATION WITH TALLAGHT HOSPITAL HAEMATOLOGY AND PHARMACY DEPARTMENTS). PHD SIMULATION OF DISSOLUTION RATE PROFILES OF PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE CODE WHICH ALLOWS GENERATION OF A SIMULATED PROFILE OF PARTICLES DISSOLVING OVER TIME. IT INCLUDES SIMULATION OF DISSOLUTION UNDER A RANGE OF PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY-STANDARD TEST CONDITIONS. DISSOLUTION TESTING IS A ROUTINE TESTING PROCESS IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY. BOTH INSTRUMENTATION AND OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DISSOLUTION TEST ARE RIGIDLY DEFINED. IT IS A RECOGNISED PROBLEM THAT DISSOLUTION RESULTS CAN FALL OUT OF SPECIFICATION,SUGGESTING THAT A DRUG IS BEING RELEASED TOO SLOWLY OR TOO QUICKLY. THESE OUT OF SPECIFICATION RESULTS COULD BE DUE TO (UNINTENTIONAL) CHANGES IN MANY STAGES OF THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS, OR COULD BE AS A RESULT OF A CHANGE IN THE OPERATION OR SPECIFICATIONS OF THE DISSOLUTION TESTING APPARATUS ITSELF. EXISTING SOLUTIONS CONCERN EITHER RUNNING EXPERIMENTAL TESTS, OR USE OF CERTAIN DISSOLUTION THEORY AND MODELS, WHICH DO NOT ALWAYS TAKE THE DETAILED OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TEST PROCEDURE INTO ACCOUNT. THIS TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS INSIGHT INTO EFFECTS OF THE TESTING CONDITIONS ON THE DISSOLUTION RATE, WITHOUT HAVING TO RUN REAL-TIME DISSOLUTION TESTS TO CHECK EACH EFFECT. A CLINICAL PHARMACOKINETIC EVALUATION OF AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX (ABLC) HAS BEEN USED EXTENSIVELY TO TREAT PROVEN OR SUSPECTED SEVERE FUNGAL INFECTIONS. IN THIS PROJECT, THE EFFECT OF CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY - CONTINUOUS VENO-VENOUS HAEMODIAFILTRATION (CVVHDF) ON THE PHARAMCOKINETICS OF ABLC IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS WAS EXAMINED. SIXTEEN PATIENTS (21 PROFILES) WERE RECRUITED TO THE STUDY; 9 PROFILES UNDERGOING CVVHDF AND 12 PROFILES NOT UNDERGOING CVVHDF, DURING THEIR ABLC TREATMENT. NON COMPARTMENTAL ANALYSIS WAS PERFORMED TO CALCULATE THE FOLLOWING PK PARAMETERS OF AMB: CLEARANCE (CL), VOLUME OF DISTRIBUTION AT STEADY STATE (VSS) AND HALF LIFE (T1/2). IN THE CURRENT STUDY, WIDE VARIABILITY WAS OBSERVED IN BOTH INTRA- AND INTER-PATIENT PK OF AMB, AFTER THE ADMINISTRATION OF ABLC. MULTIEXPONENTIAL KINETICS OF AMB, AFTER THE ADMINISTRATION OF ABLC, WERE ALSO OBSERVED. THE MEDIAN VALUES OF CL, VSS AND T1/2 CALCULATED WITHIN A SAMPLING INTERVAL OF AMB WERE DETERMINED TO BE 27 L/H AND 44 L/H, 1500 L AND 2000 L, 34 HOURS AND 33 HOURS FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING CVVHDF AND NOT UNDERGOING CVVHDF RESPECTIVELY. NO STATISTICAL DIFFERENCE WAS FOUND BETWEEN PK PARAMETERS OF AMB IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING AND NOT UNDERGOING CVVHDF. ALSO, THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT CLEARED BY CVVHDF WAS LESS THAN 1% OF ABLC DOSE. STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS WERE OBSERVED BETWEEN VSS AND ALBUMIN AND C REACTIVE PROTEIN (CRP), WHERE A DECREASE IN ALBUMIN AND AN INCREASE IN CRP LEVELS WERE RELATED TO AN INCREASE IN VSS. IN ADDITION, A TREND EFFECT WAS DEMONSTRATED WHERE AN INCREASE IN THE DAILY DOSE OF NORADRENALINE ADMINISTERED WAS RELATED TO AN INCREASE IN PLASMA AMB CONCENTRATIONS. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ICU, TALLAGHT HOSPITAL (PART FUNDED BY CEPHALON IRELAND LTD). PHD CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR LUIZ DA SILVA dasilvaluiz PROFESSOR OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS DASILVAL ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. CONNECT CENTRE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE ENGLISH FRENCH BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH FUTEBOL: FEDERATED UNION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH FACILITIES FOR AN EU-BRAZIL OPEN LABORATORY THE EU-BR FUTEBOL PROJECT ENVISAGES THE CREATION OF A FEDERATED CONTROL FRAMEWORK TO INTEGRATE TESTBEDS FROM EUROPE AND BRAZIL FOR NETWORK RESEARCHERS FORM ACADEMIA/INDUSTRY WITH UNPRECEDENTED FEATURES. OUR MAJOR GOAL IS TO ALLOW THE ACCESS TO ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES IN EUROPE AND BRAZIL FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACROSS THE WIRELESS AND OPTICAL DOMAINS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS GOAL, WE WILL DEVELOP A CONVERGED CONTROL FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT OPTICAL/WIRELESS EXPERIMENTATION ON THE FEDERATED RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FROM ALL ASSOCIATED PARTNERS/INSTITUTIONS. THIS WAY, INDUSTRY-DRIVEN USE CASES CAN BE DEPLOYED TO PRODUCE ADVANCES IN RESEARCH AT THE OPTICAL/WIRELESS BOUNDARY. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 EWINE: ELASTIC WIRELESS NETWORKING EXPERIMENTATION THE ELASTIC WIRELESS NETWORKING EXPERIMENTATION (EWINE) IS A RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMISSION UNDER THE HORIZON2020 PROGRAMME (CALL: H2020-ICT-2015. TOPIC: ICT-12-2015). THE MAIN GOAL OF EWINE IS TO REALIZE ELASTIC NETWORKS THAT CAN SCALE TO A HIGH NUMBER OF USERS IN A SHORT TIMESPAN THROUGH THE USE OF AN AGILE INFRASTRUCTURE (INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE AND FLEXIBLE HARDWARE), ENABLING: (I) DYNAMIC ON-DEMAND END-TO-END WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY SERVICE PROVISIONING; (II) ELASTIC RESOURCE SHARING IN DENSE HETEROGENEOUS AND SMALL CELL NETWORKS (HETSNETS); (III) INTELLIGENT AND INFORMED CONFIGURATION OF THE PHYSICAL LAYER. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 WISHFUL: WIRELESS SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE PLATFORMS FOR FLEXIBLE AND UNIFIED RADIO AND NETWORK CONTROL WISHFUL FOCUSES ON SPEEDING UP THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING CYCLES OF WIRELESS SOLUTION DEVELOPMENTS. IT DEFINES SOFTWARE MODULES WITH UNIFIED INTERFACES THAT PERMIT WIRELESS DEVELOPERS TO QUICKLY IMPLEMENT AND VALIDATE ADVANCED WIRELESS NETWORK SOLUTIONS. THE SOFTWARE MODULES WILL ENABLE THE QUICK AND EFFICIENT TUNING OF RADIO AND/OR NETWORK PARAMETERS TO FIND THE BEST CONFIGURATION GIVEN THE WIRELESS DEVICE'S OPERATING ENVIRONMENT. THE SOFTWARE MODULES WILL ALSO BE REPROGRAMMABLE WITH OTHER, NEW MODULES, WHICH CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM APP-STORE LIKE REPOSITORIES. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 CONNECT: THE CENTRE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS TODAY'S WORLD FACES MANY CHALLENGES. NETWORKED SERVICES WILL FORM PART OF THE SOLUTION BUT, TO DO SO, THESE NETWORKS NEED TO EVOLVE. AT CONNECT, WE ARE DESIGNING NETWORKS THAT CAN RESPOND AUTOMATICALLY TO MEET THE DIFFERENT NEEDS OF THE SERVICES RUNNING ON THEM; HELPING TO SOLVE SOME OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CHALLENGES WHILE CREATING INCREDIBLE NEW POSSIBILITIES FOR BUSINESS. WE ALSO DESIGN WIRELESS-ENABLED THINGS CAPABLE OF FEEDING VAST AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION THROUGH NEW NETWORKS FOR NEXT-GENERATION APPLICATIONS. THESE THINGS CAN BE PLACED WHEREVER PEOPLE WANT THEM. RAW INFORMATION CAN BE PULLED FROM THESE AND INTELLIGENT FEEDBACK IS PUSHED BACK INTO THEM. OUR RESEARCH FACILITATES THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE THINGS CAPABLE OF IMPROVING THE WORLD. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH CENTRES THE SELF-ARCHITECTING WIRELESS NETWORK: TRANSIENT OWNERSHIP, INFORMATION SHARING, AND LEARNING WIRELESS NETWORKS OF THE FUTURE WILL BE CHARACTERISED BY HETEROGENEITY OF SPECTRUM USAGE REGIMES, OF RESOURCE OWNERSHIP MODELS, AND OF RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES. OUR VISION IS THAT IN THESE NETWORKS, RESOURCES WILL BE ORCHESTRATED TO CREATE BESPOKE VIRTUAL NETWORKS DESIGNED TO BEST MEET THE NEEDS OF SPECIFIC SERVICES, LIKE FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, OR NETFLIX. THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT DESIGNING AND BUILDING NETWORKS THAT CAN SELF-ARCHITECT TO MAKE EFFICIENT USE OF WIRELESS RESOURCES TO OVERCOME THE CHALLENGE OF EXPONENTIALLY RISING DEMAND FOR LIMITED RESOURCES. SHARING IS A MAJOR ENABLER OF SUCH SERVICE-DRIVEN NETWORKS; IT CAN COME IN THE GUISE OF JOINT VENTURES THAT HOLD THE OWNERSHIP OF MOBILE NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE, OR BILATERAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN OPERATORS, OR, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, MORE DYNAMIC AND FLEXIBLE SHARING MECHANISMS. THIS GOES BEYOND OPPORTUNISTIC ACCESS TO SPECTRUM, AND WILL ALSO ENCOPASS THE SHARING OF INFRASTRUCTURE, SENSORS, BACKHAUL, PROCESSING, STORAGE, ETC. ULTIMATELY, WE ENVISION THE DYNAMIC ESTABLISHMENT OF VIRTUAL NETWORKS FROM A POOL OF WIRELESS RESOURCES FROM LARGE AND SMALL OPERATORS, AS WELL AS CROWDSOURCED FROM END USERS. THESE VIRTUAL WIRELESS NETWORKS WILL BE SERVICE-AWARE AND BUILT ON A PROGRAMMABLE NETWORK SUBSTRATE, IN RESPONSE TO A SPECIFIC SERVICE NEED. IN THIS PROJECT, WE HAVE TACKLED SOME OF THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES BROUGHT ABOUT BY THIS NEW WIRELESS NETWORK PARADIGM. WE USE GAME THEORY TO MODEL A DYNAMIC MARKET BETWEEN OPERATORS WITH LONG-TERM LICENSES TO THE SPECTRUM AND THOSE WHO WISH TO EMPLOY SPECTRUM OPPORTUNISTICALLY ACCORDING TO DEMAND FLUCTUATIONS. WE DESIGN WAYS TO INCORPORATE DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS INTO FUTURE GENERATION MOBILE SYSTEMS. AND, MORE BROADLY, WE STUDY HOW PARTICIPANTS (USERS AND PROVIDERS) IN AN INCREASINGLY DISTRIBUTED WIRELESS NETWORK MAKE THEIR AUTONOMOUS RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DECISIONS, EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE IMPERFECT INFORMATION AS TO THE STATE OF THE NETWORK AS A WHOLE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR AWARD FORGE: FORGING ONLINE EDUCATION THROUGH FIRE THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF FORGE IS TO INTRODUCE THE FIRE EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES INTO THE ELEARNING COMMUNITY, IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE CONCEPT OF EXPERIMENTALLY DRIVEN RESEARCH IN EDUCATION BY USING EXPERIMENTS AS AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING AND TRAINING CHANNEL FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS BY RAISING THE ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY OF FIRE FACILITIES. THE GOAL IS TO CREATE AN OPEN FORGE COMMUNITY AND ECOSYSTEM WHERE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, COLLABORATIVE TOOLS AND PROPOSED EXPERIMENTS ARE OFFERED AND CONTRIBUTED FOR FREE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 7 SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ROZENN DAHYOT dahyotrozenn ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DAHYOTR STATISTICS ADAPT COMPUTER VISION; SIGNAL, IMAGE, VIDEO AND AUDIO PROCESSING; STATISTICS; APPLIED MATHEMATICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; MACHINE LEARNING; DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING (EURASIP) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PATTERN RECOGNITION INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES (IFCS) ROLE: IPRCS REPRESENTATIVE ON IFCS COUNCIL IRISH PATTERN RECOGNITION AND CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY (IPRCS) IRISH STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION (ISA) MEMBER OF THE STATISTICAL MODELLING SOCIETY APPLIED MATHEMATICS APPLIED SCIENCES COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING COMPUTER VISION COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS DATA ANALYSIS DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING ENGINEERING STATISTICS IMAGE PROCESSING IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING MATHEMATICS NUMERICAL ANALYSIS NUMERICAL MODELS PARALLEL ALGORITHMS PARALLEL PROGRAMMING PATTERN RECOGNITION PROBABILITY RANDOM FIELDS SIGNAL ANALYSIS SIGNAL PROCESSING SOUND ENGINEERING STATISTICS STOCHASTIC PROCESSES MATHEMATICS COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE DETECTING ILLICIT CONTENT IN VIDEO STREAMS THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND AND AIMS AT AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING ILLICIT CONTENT IN DIGITAL VIDEO STREAMS FOR AUTOMATIC FILTERING. ENTERPRISE IRELAND FEASIBILITY STUDY MUSCLE: MULTIMEDIA UNDERSTANDING THROUGH SEMANTICS, COMPUTATION AND LEARNING MUSCLE PROJECT IS A NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE FUNDED BY EU. THIS NETWORK WORKS ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING, SPEECH AND TEXT ANALYSIS, STATISTICS AND MACHINE LEARNING. EU HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/71375_EN.HTML FP6 GRAISEARCH: USE OF GRAPHICS RENDERING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR IMPROVED MOBILE SEARCH CAPABILITIES THE PRINCIPAL AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AND APPLY REVOLUTIONARY GRAPHICS RENDERING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) METHODS TO AN EXISTING SOCIAL MEDIA SEARCH ENGINE PLATFORM (KNOWN AS TAPASTREET) THEREBY CREATING GROUND BREAKING MOBILE SEARCH CAPABILITIES WITH SIGNIFICANT ONLINE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL. SPECIFICALLY THESE GOALS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY MEETING THE FOLLOWING SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES - (A) THE CREATION OF DYNAMIC GRAPHICS RENDERING ALGORITHMS (B) THE DEVELOPMENT OF POWERFUL LOCATION BASED AI MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND (C) INTEGRATION OF BOTH THESE TECHNOLOGIES INTO A LIVE GEO-LOCATED SOCIAL MEDIA SEARCH ENGINE. EU HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/192400_EN.HTML FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP CELL CENTER OF COMPETENCE INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP SUPPORTED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND IN COLLABORATION WITH IBM & SONY AS PART OF A CELL CENTER OF COMPETENCE (PIS: STEVEN COLLINS, MICHAEL MANZKE AND ROZENN DAHYOT). ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP DETECTION OF ILLICIT CONTENT IN VIDEO STREAMS THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP SOFTWARE TO EFFICIENTLY AND RELIABLY DETECT ILLICIT VIDEO MATERIAL ON PC PLATFORMS. THIS RESEARCH WILL BUILD ON THE ILLICIT IMAGE DETECTION FROM PIXALERT TO CREATE ALGORITHMS THAT EXPLOIT MOTION AND AUDIO INFORMATION WITHIN THE VIDEO STREAM TO DELIVER HIGH PRECISION VIDEO CLASSIFICATION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP EVES: EMBEDDED VISION EXEMPLAR SYSTEMS IMAGE PROCESSING AND IN PARTICULAR 3D IMAGE PROCESSING & GESTURE RECOGNITION ARE VERY PROCESSOR INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS NORMALLY CONFINED TO HIGH END PCS. THIS PROJECT AIMS AT PROVIDING PLATFORM FOR ACCELERATING MOBILE PHONE 3D AND GESTURE RECOGNITION IMAGE PROCESSING WITH APPLICATIONS IN HAND HELD AND WEARABLE AUGMENTED REALITY, CAMERA TRACKING AND ROBOTICS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP BONSEYES BONSEYES IS AN OPEN AND EXPANDABLE AI PLATFORM. IT WILL TRANSFORM AI DEVELOPMENT FROM A CLOUD CENTRIC MODEL, DOMINATED BY LARGE INTERNET COMPANIES, TO AN EDGE DEVICE CENTRIC MODEL THROUGH A MARKETPLACE AND AN OPEN AI PLATFORM. IN CONTRAST TO EXISTING SOLUTIONS THAT REQUIRE A HIGH LEVEL OF EXPERTISE, TIME, AND COST TO ADD AI TO EMBEDDED PRODUCTS, BONSEYES PROVIDES ACCESS TO ADVANCED TOOLS AND SERVICES THAT CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH A MARKETPLACE AND ECO-SYSTEM OF COLLABORATIVE LEADING ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR A MAJOR REDUCTION IN COST AND TIME TO ENABLE PRODUCTS WITH COGNITIVE AND AI CAPABILITIES AT AN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL LEVEL. BONSEYES WILL ENABLE EUROPE TO BECOME A LEADING GLOBAL PLAYER IN THE COMING "AI-AS-A-SERVICE" ECONOMY. EU HTTP://CORDIS.EUROPA.EU/PROJECT/RCN/206356_EN.HTML H2020-ICT-2016-1 3D SKIN JIGSAW THIS PROJECT AIMS AT DEVELOPPING SOTWARE FOR REGISTRATION OF MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES AND FOR PROVIDING FAST 3D RENDERING. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP FUNDED RESEARCH WITH SFI ADAPT CENTRE NDA 100% INDUSTRY FUNDED SFI ADAPT CENTRE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR BLANAID DALY dalyblanaid PROFESSOR IN SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY AND DALYBL DENTAL SCIENCE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND MARGINALISED GROUPS EXPERIENCE GREATER LEVELS OF ORAL DISEASE COMPARED TO THE GENERAL POPULATION. THEY ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE UNMET DENTAL NEEDS AND TO BE UNDERSERVED. WHILE THIS INEQUALITY IS ACKNOWLEDGED, THERE IS AN INFORMATION GAP IN UNDERSTANDING HOW THIS INEQUALITY MIGHT BE REDUCED. MY RESEARCH IS THEREFORE FOCUSED IN TWO AREAS WHICH AIM TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING AND HELP DELIVER INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE ORAL HEALTH INEQUALITY DISABILITY & ORAL HEALTH A) THEORETICAL DEFINITIONS AND MODELS OF DISABILITY INFORMING B) AND C) BELOW. B) DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURES TO DESCRIBE DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH C) QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CONTEXT OF DISABILITY ACCESS TO ORAL HEALTH & ORAL HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND VULNERABLE GROUP (A) ACCESS TO CARE FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS (B) CARE PATHWAYS: HAEMOPHILIA, HEAD & NECK CANCER, CLEFT LIP AND PALATE, (C) HEALTH PROMOTION AND RISK COMMUNICATION RESEARCH KEY PAPERS ASIMAKOPOLOU K, NEWTON J, DALY B, KUTZER Y, IDE M (2015) THE EFFECTS OF PROVIDING PERIODONTAL DISEASE RISK INFORMATION ON PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES - A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL. J CLIN PERIODONTOL. 2015 APR;42(4):350-5 MOORE S, SHIERS D, DALY B, MITCHELL AJ, GAUGHRAN F (2015). PROMOTING PHYSICAL HEALTH FOR PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA BY REDUCING DISPARITIES IN MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE. ACTA PSYCHIATR SCAND 2015: 1-13 DALY B, NEWTON JTN, BATCHELOR P (2010B) PATTERNS OF DENTAL SERVICE USE AMONGST HOMELESS PEOPLE USING A TARGETED SERVICE. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY 70:45-51 DALY B, NEWTON JT, BATCHELOR P, JONES KJ (2010C). NORMATIVE NEED AND ORAL HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN HOMELESS PEOPLE. COMMUNITY DENTISTRY AND ORAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 38:136-144 JIN E & DALY B (2010) THE ORAL HEALTH CONCERNS OF DEAF BLIND PEOPLE. SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY 30: 8-13 DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEUROSCIENCE DR. PETER DALY dalypeter ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN ONCOLOGY DALYPA CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND CLINICAL MEDICINE CLINICAL MEDICINE ST JAMES'S H JAMES STREET 01-8961000 INVITEE, BREAST CANCER CONSORTIUM (PROPOSED), INVESTIGATORS TO BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN BREAST CANCER WORKSHOP WITH A VIEW TO ESTABLISHING FORMAL CONSORTIUM AND INFORMAL INDIVIDUAL COLLABORATIONS.LAST UPDATED : 19 NOVEMBER 2004. EXTRACT FROM DMMC RESEARCH DATABASE DR. LOUISE DALY dalylouise ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NOLANL1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY DEMENTIA CARE, CARE OF THE OLDER PERSON, INFORMAL CARING, ETHICS, AGEING, OLDER ADULTS, NURSING SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AISHE ALL IRELAND GERONTOLOGICAL NURSES ASSOCIATION (AIGNA) GROUNDED THEORY INSTITUTE IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY (IGS) MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD FOR DEMENTIA JOURNAL MEMBER OF THE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND ETHICS COMMITTEE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY ALUMNI COMMITTEE STEERING GROUP MEMBER OF DEMENTIA SERVICES INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE STEERING GROUP MEMBER OF THE NAAS ALZHEIMER CAFE STEERING GROUP MEMBER OF THE SOUTH COUNTY DUBLIN ALZHEIMER'S CAFE ACUTE CARE NURSING AGED CARE NURSING AGING CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING DEMENTIA GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS INFORMAL CARERS NURSING EDUCATION OLDER PATIENTS OLDER PEOPLE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EDUCATION EXPLORING STIGMA IN DEMENTIA PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: DR MARY MCCARRON, PROJECT CONSULTANTS: PROF PHILIP MCCALLION AND DR JO MURPHY-LAWLESS. ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF IRELAND THE DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF AN EVALUATION TOOL THAT CAPTURES THE IMMEDIATE AND LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE THE EXPERIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PERSON WITH DEMENTIA GENIO: EVALUATION OF THE CAPACITY BUILDING POTENTIAL OF 'FAMILY FOCUSED' PROJECTS IN THE AREA OF DISABILITY GENIO EVALUATION OF THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE EVALUATION OF GENIO DEMENTIA PROGRAMME GENIO AGEING CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. DEIRDRE DALY dalydeirdre ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DALYDE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY DEIRDRE'S MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN MATERNAL HEALTH AND MORBIDITY POSTPARTUM AND URINARY INCONTINENCE. HER MAIN RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE THE MAMMI STUDY(HTTP://WWW.MAMMI.IE/), THE MAMMI SIM (SECOND BABY, INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT, MEASUREMENT OF COSTS) AND FIVE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDIES AND RELATED SUB-STUDIES. DEIRDRE STARTED THE MAMMI STUDY IN 2011 AFTER BEING AWARDED A HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP, CONDUCTED HER PHD ON THE URINARY INCONTINENCE STRAND AND HAS LED THE STUDY TEAM SINCE COMPLETING HER PHD IN 2015. DEIRDRE'S MAIN AREAS OF METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH EXPERTISE INCLUDE LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDIES, MIXED METHODS RESEARCH, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH, AND SHE HAS EXPERIENCE IN RANDOMISED TRIALS. SHE IS ONE OF IRELAND'S MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS ON THE EU COST IS1405 ACTION BIRTH (2014-2018), BUILDING INTRAPARTUM RESEARCH THROUGH HEALTH - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WHOLE SYSTEM APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING AND CONTEXTUALISING PHYSIOLOGICAL LABOUR AND BIRTH (BIRTH), AND CHAIR OF WORKING GROUP 4 (HTTP://WWW.COST.EU/COST_ACTIONS/ISCH/IS1405). SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH EUROPEAN MIDWIVES ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF EUROPEAN ALCOHOL AND HEALTH POLICY FORUM EUROPEAN MIDWIVES ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF EUROPEAN UNION HEALTH POLICY FORUM EXPERT MEMBER FOR THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON THE PEER ASSESSMENT MISSION FOR THE PROFESSION OF MIDWIVES, CROATIA EXPERT ON TAIEX WORKSHOP ON 'DIRECTIVE 2005/36/EC AND THE RCOGNITION OF PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS': MIDWIFERY IN CROATIA INTERNATIONAL OFFICER MIDWIVES SECTION, INO. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER OF COST ACTION IS1405 BUILDING INTRAPARTUM RESEARCH THROUGH HEALTH - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY WHOLE SYSTEM APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING AND CONTEXTUALISING PHYSIOLOGICAL LABOUR AND BIRTH (BIRTH) MEMBER OF MIDWIFERY FORUM ROTUNDA HOSPITAL MEMBER OF MIDWIFERY TURNOVER PROJECT STEERING GROUP (RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION OF MIDWIVES) MEMBER OF RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, THE PRACTISING MIDWIFE MEMBER OF THE EXPERT GROUP ON MIDWIFERY AND PAEDIATRIC NURSE EDUCATION (SET UP BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & CHILDREN) MEMBER OF THE MATERNAL MORTALITY IN IRELAND WORKING GROUP (JOINT INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS, RCPI/HSE) WORKING GROUP MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL MATERNAL MORBIDITY GROUP, NATIONAL PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE (NPEC) NURSING EDUCATION FORUM PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN MIDWIVES ASSOCIATION. THE EUROPEAN MIDWIVES ASSOCIATION REPRESENTS MIDWIFERY ASSOCIATIONS FROM EU AND EEA COUNTRIES. REVIEWER FOR BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH, NURSE EDUCATION TODAY, EVIDENCE BASED MIDWIFERY, ICM TRIENNIAL CONGRESSES AND NORMAL BIRTH CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (SPPC) WHICH PLANNED THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATIONS OF MIDWIVES' TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE (GLASGOW 1-5 JUNE 2008) BIRTH CAESAREAN SECTION CHILDBIRTH EPIDEMIOLOGY MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY MIDWIFERY MIDWIFERY EDUCATION NORMAL-PREGNANCY PREGNANCY STRESS URINARY INCONTINENCE URINARY URINARY INCONTINENCE VAGINAL BIRTH OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY MAMMI-SIM STUDY: MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND - SECOND BABY SURVEY, INTERVENTION FOR URINARY INCONTINENCE, MEASUREMENT OF COSTS THE OVERALL AIM OF THE MAMMI-SIM STUDY IS TO BUILD AND ATTRACT CAPACITY INTO THE AREA OF MATERNAL HEALTH AND HEALTH-SERVICES RESEARCH AT POSTDOCTORAL LEVEL IN IRELAND. IN THE FIRST PHASES OF THE MAMMI STUDY (MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND), 3,041 NULLIPAROUS WOMEN WERE RECRUITED FROM THREE MATERNITY HOSPITALS IN IRELAND. PARTICIPANTS COMPLETED/ARE COMPLETING SURVEYS ABOUT THEIR HEALTH AND HEALTH PROBLEMS, IF ANY, THEY EXPERIENCED BEFORE AND DURING PREGNANCY, AND AT 3, 6, 9 AND 12 MONTHS POSTPARTUM. THE MAMMI-SIM IS A FOLLOW-UP STUDY WITH THESE WOMEN THAT INVOLVES: (I) SECOND BABY SURVEY; (II) INTERVENTION FOR WOMEN WITH URINARY INCONTINENCE, AND (III) MEASURING COSTS OF MORBIDITY TO WOMEN AND SERVICES. IT WILL TELL US WHAT HEALTH PROBLEMS RESOLVE, PERSIST OR GET WORSE AFTER THE BIRTH OF THE SECOND BABY, WHAT HEALTH SERVICES WOMEN USE, WHAT CAN BE DONE TO RESOLVE SOME PROBLEMS SUCH AS URINARY INCONTINENCE, AND THE COSTS OF THESE SERVICES FOR WOMEN AND THE HEALTH SERVICE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD ICE AWARDS IMPROVING THE ORGANISATION OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, AND OPTIMISING CHILDBIRTH, BY INCREASING VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION (VBAC) THROUGH ENHANCED WOMEN-CENTRED CARE (OPTIBIRTH) THE STUDY ADDRESSES THE WIDESPREAD CONCERN OVER RISING CAESAREAN SECTION RATES THROUGHOUT EUROPE, PARTICULARLY ROUTINE CS FOLLOWING A PREVIOUS CS, DESPITE CALLS FOR INCREASED VAGINAL BIRTHS AFTER CAESAREAN (VBAC). VBAC IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER MATERNAL MORTALITY THAN REPEAT CS, LESS OVERALL MORBIDITY FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, AND IS THE PREFERRED OPTION FOR THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN. VBAC RATES IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER (29-36%) THAN THOSE IN THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN (45-55%). THE OPTIBIRTH PROJECT WILL USE A CLUSTER RANDOMISED TRIAL IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY, WITH 15 CLUSTERS OF 94 WOMEN IN EACH, TO INCREASE VBAC RATES FROM 33% TO 53% THROUGH A COMPLEX INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO INCREASE WOMEN-CENTRED CARE AND WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR CARE. ROLE: PROJECT MANAGER 09/2014 TO PRESENT EU COMMISSION FP7 FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THE MAMMI (MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND) STUDY URINARY INCONTINENCE (UI) STRAND THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO IDENTIFY THE EXISTENCE, EXTENT, PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF URINARY INCONTINENCE (UI), ONE MARKER OF MATERNAL MORBIDITY, IN 1600 PRIMIPAROUS WOMEN ANTENATALLY AND AT 3 AND 6 MONTHS POSTPARTUM. TO VIEW THE STUDY DOCUMENTS, PLEASE GO TO WWW.MAMMI.IE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE EXERCISES (PFME) AND THEIR OPINIONS OF PFME EDUCATION AT THE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL THIS STUDY AIMS TO ASCERTAIN WOMEN'S KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES IN RELATION TO PFME, THEIR OPINIONS OF PELVIC FLOOR MUSCLE EXERCISES (PFME) EDUCATION SERVICES AT THE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL AND THEIR OPINIONS OF THE FOUR SELF-HELP EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS ON PFME AND LEAKING URINE. THE STUDY IS BEING DONE BECAUSE EARLY FINDINGS FROM THE THE MAMMI (MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND) STUDY SHOW THAT 1 IN 3 FIRST-TIME MOTHERS LEAK URINE IN EARLY PREGNANCY. MANY OF THESE WOMEN THINK LEAKING URINE IS AN INEVITABLE PART OF PREGNANCY AND DO NOT SEEK HELP OR ADVICE. IN ORDER TO PROVIDE EDUCATION ON PFME TO A GREATER NUMBER OF WOMEN, FOUR SELF-HELP EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS ON PFME AND LEAKING URINE WERE DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED BY MYSELF AND THE PHYSIOTHERAPY STAFF IN THE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL. NONE MATERNITY CARE POSTNATAL LEAKING, EXERCISE AND ACTIVITY SHORTS EVALUATION (PLEASE) THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO COMPARE TWO TYPES OF 'SPORTS SHORTS' IN A RANDOMISED, DOUBLE-BLIND, CROSS-OVER TRIAL WITH WOMEN'S FEELING OF SECURITY, COMFORT AND CONFIDENCE WHILST EXERCISING VIGOROUSLY, AND SATISFACTION WITH PRODUCT, AS THE MAIN OUTCOMES. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHER DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF AN 'EXERCISE AND ACTIVITY AFTER CHILDBIRTH' SURVEY THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DESIGN AND VALIDATE A QUESTIONNAIRE THAT WOULD MEASURE THE LEVELS OF SECURITY, COMFORT AND CONFIDENCE FELT BY POSTNATAL WOMEN WHO LEAK URINE WHILST EXERCISING. EVB SPORTS SHORTS THE MAMMI STUDY (URINARY INCONTINENCE) STRAND - KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT SCHEME THE 2 PLANNED ACTIVITIES ARE 1.DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-HELP EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS ON URINARY INCONTINENCE (UI) AND PELVIC FLOOR EXERCISES, TO BE MADE FREELY AVAILABLE ON A WEBSITE. TARGET AUDIENCE: PREGNANT WOMEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE RECENTLY GIVEN BIRTH. 2. PHD STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMME TO PROFESSOR STEPHANIE BROWN AND TEAM, AUSTRALIA. AIM: SELF DEVELOPMENT THIS EXCHANGE PROGRAMME, FOCUSED ON DEEPENING MY SKILLS OF PRESENTING AND DEFENDING EMPIRICAL DATA AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES, WILL INCREASE MY PROFICIENCY AND INITIATE A NETWORK FOR FUTURE EXCHANGE WITH THE PHD STUDENTS IN PROFESSOR BROWN'S TEAM. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION SCHEME (KEDS) 2012 CAESAREAN SECTION IN NULLIPAROUS WOMEN: FACTORS INFLUENCING THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AND OUTCOMES FOR WOMEN - THE MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND (MAMMI) STUDY CAESAREAN SECTION STRAND. WITH SUNITA PANDA, PHD STUDENT AND CECILY BEGLEY TO IDENTIFY AND EXPLORE THE NON-CLINICAL AND CLINICAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE DECISION TO PERFORM A CAESAREAN SECTION (CS) IN NULLIPAROUS WOMEN, AND TO IDENTIFY POSTPARTUM MORBIDITIES EXPERIENCED BY WOMEN FOLLOWING BIRTH BY CS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP HPF 2016-1671 THE MAMMI STUDY - MENTAL HEALTH (ANXIETY) STRAND. WITH LOUISE RAFFERTY, MSC (RESEARCH) STUDENT, AGNES HIGGINS AND CECILY BEGLEY FRIENDS OF THE ROTUNDA MIDWIVES' AND NEONATAL NURSES' PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS TO RESEARCH STUDIES TO EXPLORE MIDWIVES' AND NEONATAL NURSES' PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS TO RESEARCH STUDIES. NONE THE MAMMI STUDY - NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY STRAND. WITH JAMILE MARCHI, PHD STUDENT, CECILY BEGLEY AND DR JOHN KEARNEY (DIT) TO IDENTIFY THE DIETARY AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF NULLIPAROUS WOMEN BEFORE AND DURING PREGNANCY AND ANALYSE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN DIET AND MATERNAL OUTCOMES SCIENCE WITHOUT BORDERS FUNDING TO HOST AN EXPERTS' WORKSHOP FUNDING TO ORGANISE AND HOST AN EXPERTS' WORKSHOP (WITH THE LONGER TERM PLAN OF FORMING AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONSORTIUM TO STUDY MATERNAL HEALTH AND MORBIDITIES POSTPARTUM) IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE FOR INTER-INSTITUTIONAL, INTER-SECTORAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION MINDING MOTHERS WITH MORBIDITIES CONFERENCE ORGANISING AND HOSTING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOCUSED ON MATERNAL HEALTH AND MORBIDITIES DURING PREGNANCY AND POSTPARTUM IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE FOR INTER-INSTITUTIONAL, INTER-SECTORAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION THE MAMMI FIVE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY PREPARATORY WORK TRANSFER OF THE MAMMI STUDY PERSONAL DATABASES TO MICROSOFT ACCESS®, AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIVE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP STUDY SURVEY HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE (HSE) KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (INCORPORATING HEALTH INTELLIGENCE) HEALTH AND WELLBEING DIRECTORATE DR. CATHERINE DARKER darkercatherine ADELAIDE ASSISTANT PROF IN HEALTH SERVIC DARKERC PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN RUSSELL CENTRE TALLAGHT CROSS, D24 DH74 01-8961000 BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY (GRADUATE MEMBER) EUROPEAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY (FULL MEMBER) EXPERT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH INEQUALITIES, IRISH CANCER SOCIETY HEALTHY IRELAND (COUNCIL MEMBER) IRISH PLATFORM FOR PATIENT'S ORGANISATIONS, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (BOARD MEMBER) NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL (SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBER OF TREATMENT, REHABILITATION AND CONSEQUENCES, PLUS RESEARCH ADVISORY GROUP, DOH) PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND (REGISTERED MEMBER) TASC GROUP ON HEALTH INEQUALITIES ADDICTION RESEARCH - ALCOHOL ADDICTION RESEARCH - COCAINE ADDICTION RESEARCH - OPIATES BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE INTERVENTIONS HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES POPULATION BASED INTERVENTION TRIALS PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC HEALTH OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SOCIAL JUSTICE AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. MERIKE DARMODY darmodymerike ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MDARMODY SOCIOLOGY DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. JOHN DAVENPORT davenportjohn ASSISTANT PROF/CLINICAL CO-ORDINATOR DAVENPJ PSYCHOLOGY EVIDENCED-BASED CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT. CLINICAL SUPERVISION COMPETENCIES AND BOUNDARIES. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. GAVIN DAVEY daveygavin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GDAVEY BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES . METABOLISM, SYSTEMS BIOLOGY & ENZYMOLOGY: FLUX CONTROL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF CELLULAR METABOLIC NETWORKS AND N- AND O-LINKED GLYCOSYLATION NETWORKS IN CANCER CELLS, IMMUNE CELLS AND NEURONS; NMR METABOLOMICS. . GLYCOSYLATION AND BIOPROCESSING: GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES; CHO CELLS & RECOMBINANT BIOTHERAPEUTICS; METABOLISM AND CHO CELL PERFORMANCE; CONTROLLING N- AND O-LINKED GLYCOSYLATION IN CHO CELLS; GLYCOSYLATION & FC- FC&#947;R INTERACTIONS. . MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION: MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION IN AGEING BRAIN; SUPERCOMPLEX STRUCTURES; ETC POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS; NEURODEGENERATION MODELS. . NEUROPROTECTION AND NEUROREGENERATION: NEURONAL CELL SURFACE GLYCOME; FC-FC&#947;R INTERACTIONS IN THE BRAIN; CONTROL OF MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS & PARKINSON'S DISEASE; STEM CELL REGENERATION; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; BIOMARKER DISCOVERY. . IN SILICO DRUG DESIGN: COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF CELL TRANSPORTERS & AND DRUG DESIGN. DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN EDITOR EBEC 2008 BBA BIOENERGETICS MEMBER OF UNIVERSITY COUNCIL, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD NIBRT THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY, THE IRISH SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY, THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY, NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND, THE IRISH NETWORK OF NEURAL STEM CELL INVESTIGATORS (INNSI) AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ANTICANCER THERAPIES APOPTOSIS, MOLECULAR CONTROL BIOCOMPUTING BIOMARKERS OF DISEASE BIOPROCESSES BIOREACTORS BRAIN CANCER CANCER CELL-LINE CATECHOLAMINE CELL REPROGRAMMING COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY DEPRESSION ENZYMOLOGY AND CATALYSIS GLYCOBIOLOGY GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS MATHEMATICAL MODELLING METABOLISM AND METABOLIC DISEASES MITOCHONDRIAL COMPLEX I MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION & FUSION MECHANISMS MITOCHONDRIAL MONOAMINE-OXIDASE MITOCHONDRIAL-MEMBRANE POTENTIAL MITOCHONDRION MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NEUROCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROIMMUNOLOGY NEUROINFORMATICS NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE NEUROTOXICITY OLIGOSACCHARIDE AND POLYSACCHARIDE BIOCHEMISTRY OXYGEN FREE-RADICALS PARKINSONS DISEASE STEM CELLS SYNAPSE SYNAPTOSOMES ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOPROCESSING MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE NERVE TERMINAL SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ANALYSIS OF THE NERVE TERMINAL IN COLLABORATION WITH KEITH TIPTON SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME MITOTOX - MITOCHONDRIA AND TOXICOLOGY IN VITRO TOXICOLOGY TESTING ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION FUND GRANT HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EQUIPMENT GRANT HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CHARACTERISATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS IN BRAIN ESTABLISHMENT OF MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEOMICS CENTRE IN THE SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOLOGY. EUROPEAN UNION MARIE CURIE GLYCOENGINEERING FC/FC&#947;R INTERACTIONS INVESTIGATION OF CELL SURFACE GLYCOSYLATION AND GLYCAN INTERACTIONS THAT INFLUENCE IMMUNE RESPONSES. SAUDI EDUCATION MINISTRY PHD PROGRAM ADVANCED BIOPHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIES EFFECT OF EXTRACTABLES & LEACHABLES ON CHO CELL METABOLISM DURING SINGLE USE BIOPROCESSING. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CENTRES - SPOKES TRAINING IN NEURODEGENERATION, THERAPEUTICS INTERVENTION AND NEUROREPAIR RESEARCH TRAINING OF 12 PHD STUDENTS EU MARIE CURIE EU ITN NETWORK JAPAN - IRELAND INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC COOPERATION AWARD SFI FUNDED STUDENT/ACADEMIC EXCHANGE PROGRAM WITH JAPANESE RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE UNDERSTANDING GLYCOSYLATION SYSTEMS IN THE BRAIN AN INVESTIGATION OF THE DOPAMINE CELL SURFACE GLYCOME AND REGULATION OF BIOENERGETICS IN THE CONTEXT OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE PARKINSON'S ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND DONATION MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION DYNAMICS IN CANCER CELLS AND NEURONS A PHD RESEARCH PROJECT FOCUSSING ON CONFOCAL IMAGING OF MITOCHONDRIAL DYNAMICS IN CANCER CELLS AND NEURONS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL PHD FELLOWSHIP WHAT IS THE ROLE FOR ACAD9 AS A NEUROTHERAPEUTIC? A PHD PROJECT INVESTIGATION THE ROLE OF ACAD9 ON NERVE TERMINAL MITOCHONDRIA FUNCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF NEURODEGENERATION. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL PHD PROGRAM GLYCAN PROFILING IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS AND BIOMARKER DEVELOPMENT FOR MTX AND ANTI-TNF NON-RESPONDERS 2 PHD RESEARCH PROJECTS INVESTIGATING THE METABOLOMICS, BIOENERGETICS AND GLYCOSYLATION STATUS IN PBMCS FROM RA PATIENTS. CROOM ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CHARITY DONATION AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR ANNA DAVIES daviesanna PROFESSOR DAVIESA GEOGRAPHY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH MY RESEARCH EXAMINES SOCIO-POLITICAL AND SPATIAL ASPECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING. COMPLETED PROJECTS HAVE INCLUDED WORK ON ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, VALUES AND VALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY, WASTE MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABILITY ENTERPRISE AND SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION. CURRENT PROJECTS ARE FOCUSING ON ISSUES RELATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE PARTICULARLY THE ROLE OF NETWORKS AND PARTNERSHIPS UNDER CONDITIONS OF CONFLICT. EMPIRICAL WORK ON THESE ISSUES HAS BEEN CONDUCTED IN A NUMBER OF LOCATIONS INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND, IRELAND AND THE UK. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSESSED RESEARCH GRANT PROPOSALS AND PARTICIPATED IN GRANT-AWARDING PANELS FOR THE FOLLOWING BODIES: IRCHSS SMALL PROJECT GRANTS (IRELAND) ASSESSOR OF RESEARCH GRANT PROPOSALS AND PARTICIPATED IN GRANT-AWARDING PANELS FOR: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK) BOARD OF DIRECTORS, THE REDISCOVERY CENTRE, BALLYMUN CHAIR PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH GROUP, RGS CHAIR, FUTURE EARTH IRELAND, RIA CHAIR, FUTURE EARTH ORGANISING COMMITTEE, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY CHAIR: FUTURE EARTH ORGANISING COMMITTEE, RIA DOMAIN EXPERT TO EU COST DOMAIN ISCH INDIVIDUALS, SOCIETIES, CULTURES AND HEALTH EDITORIAL BOARD - GEOGRAPHY COMPASS (BLACKWELL INTERNATIONAL ONLINE JOURNAL) EDITORIAL BOARD OF LOCAL ENVIRONMENT: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF JUSTICE AND SUSTAINABILITY EDITORIAL BOARD, CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF REGIONS, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY EVALUATOR, ERC CONSOLIDATOR AWARDS (2017), ADVANCED AWARDS (2015) EXPERT REVIEW PANEL - IRISH FULBRIGHT POST-GRADUATE AWARD SCHEME (IRELAND-USA) EXPERT REVIEWER: FORMAS: SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL: USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES EXPERT REVIEWER: SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY EXPERT VALIDATION PANEL: DIT PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MASTERS COURSES EXTERNAL SELECTION BOARD: LECTURESHIPS/HEAD OF DISCIPLINE DIT - FACULTY OF BUILT ENVIRONMENT GEOGRAPHY SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP FOR NATIONAL CITIZEN'S ASSEMBLY ON CLIMATE CHANGE MEMBER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY OF THE PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH GROUP OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY NATIONAL ECONOMIC & SOCIAL COUNCIL MEMBER (INDEPENDENT MEMBER APPOINTED BY TAOISEACH) NATIONAL EXPERT ADVISORY COUNCIL ON CLIMATE CHANGE OECD - SUBJECT EXPERT. LONG TERM SCENARIOS FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE OECD EXPERT WITNESS, WORKSHOP, OECD, PARIS - FUTURE OF FOOD PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH GROUP, RGS REVIEWER FOR ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A REVIEWER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES REVIEWER FOR IRISH GEOGRAPHY REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PLANNING REVIEWER FOR LOCAL ENVIRONMENT REVIEWER FOR THE GEOGRAPHY JOURNAL ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (RGS), UK ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES COMMITTEE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOSCIENCES COMMITTEE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES COMMITTEE SECRETARY, PLANNING ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS SOCIO ECONOMIC ISSUES WASTE MANAGEMENT, RECYCLING BIODIVERSITY WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT WASTE, RESOURCE, MANAGEMENT & CHEMICALS ENERGY EFFICIENCY AGRI-ECONOMY & POLICY FOOD SAFETY FOOD BUSINESS AND CONSUMER SERVICES PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES POLITICAL SCIENCE CULTURAL & ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY EVALUATING DOMESTIC WASTE COLLECTION CHARGES AND THEIR IMPACTS: A NATIONWIDE STUDY OF WEIGHT AND USE BASED MECHANISMS A REVIEW OF THE NATIONWIDE EXPERIENCE OF WEIGHT-BASED DOMESTIC WASTE COLLECTION CHARGES' AIMS TO ANALYSE AND EVALUATE THE USE OF WEIGHT AND USE BASED DOMESTIC WASTE COLLECTION CHARGES IN IRELAND. THE PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE VARIOUS SCHEMES IN TERMS OF DISPLAYING A REDUCTION IN DOMESTIC WASTE TO LANDFILL AND WASTE RECYCLED, AND WILL INCLUDE AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PREVALENCE OF ILLEGAL DUMPING OF DOMESTIC WASTE IN THE LIGHT OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THESE CHARGES. THIS INFORMATION WILL BE GATHERED THROUGH BOTH A DESK-BASED STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INTO THE IMPACT OF WEIGHT-BASED WASTE COLLECTION CHARGES AND EMPIRICAL FIELDWORK COMBINING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH. EPA ERTDI PROGRAMME ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR: VALUES, ACTIONS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT [€143,603]. THIS THREE YEAR PROJECT, WHICH BEGAN IN 2001, INVOLVES A NESTED METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK DEVELOPED TO ESTABLISH THE ATTITUDES OF HOUSEHOLDERS TOWARDS, AND ACTIONS IN RELATION TO, WASTE MANAGEMENT IN IRELAND. I AM THE CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR THIS GRANT WITH PROF. DAVID TAYLOR. I DESIGNED THE RESEARCH PROJECT APPLICATION AND STRUCTURE BASED ON PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH A SIMILAR PROJECT FOR MY POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. FOLLOWING A QUANTITATIVE SURVEY OF 1,500 HOUSEHOLDERS IN THREE CASE STUDY LOCATIONS (KERRY, GALWAY AND FINGAL) IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS WERE CONDUCTED TO EXPLORE THE REASONING BEHIND STATED ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS. A 'MODEL HOUSEHOLD' EXERCISE IS BEING CONDUCTED TO ESTABLISH THE MAIN BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING WASTE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES AMONGST HOUSEHOLDERS IN IRELAND. PRELIMINARY FINDINGS FROM THIS PROJECT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED BOTH WITHIN IRELAND AND AT OVERSEAS CONFERENCES. IN ADDITION WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN IRISH GEOGRAPHY (SEE PUBLICATIONS FOR DETAILS). FURTHER ARTICLES ARE CURRENTLY BEING PRODUCED FOR INTERNATIONALLY PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ERTDI SCHEME, CODE 2001-MS-SE2-M1 MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE NETWORKS IN IRELAND [€6,000]. I AM THE SOLE AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THIS PROJECT. THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES THE IMPACT OF MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND TRANS-NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORKS ON CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY AND PRACTICE IN IRELAND. TWO TRANS-NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORKS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE - ENERGIE CITÉS AND CITIES FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION - THAT ARE ACTIVE IN IRELAND ARE BEING EXAMINED AND COMPARED. THESE CASE STUDIES WILL PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO: GAUGE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF FORMS OF MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE IN ADDRESSING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS; ASSESS THE WAYS IN WHICH SUCH NETWORKS FOSTER POLICY LEARNING ACROSS DIFFERENT SPATIAL SCALES; AND EXAMINE THEIR IMPACT ON POLICIES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE AT LOCAL, NATIONAL AND SUPRA-NATIONAL SCALES. A SURVEY OF ALL ENERGY AGENCIES IN IRELAND (THE MAIN ACTOR IN LOCAL ACTIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND POTENTIAL MEMBERS OF CLIMATE CHANGE NETWORKS) HAS BEEN CONDUCTED AND IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH KEY ACTORS IN BOTH TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THREE ENERGY AGENCIES, GALWAY CITY, DUBLIN AND COUNTY CORK COMPLETED. THIS WORK COMPLEMENTS THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE WORK BEING UNDERTAKEN WITH EUROPEAN COLLEAGUES AND IS BEING PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS (SEE PUBLICATIONS LIST FOR DETAILS). AS A RESULT OF THIS WORK I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE MEATH ENERGY AGENCY SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, AS MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS SECTIONS OF THIS REPORT. IRCHSS SMALL PROJECTS GRANT 2002 AN OPPORTUNITY NOT TO BE WASTED: CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE GOVERNANCE OF WASTE IN IRELAND [€35,000]. I AM THE SOLE AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THIS RESEARCH PROJECT. I CURRENTLY HAVE A RESEARCH ASSISTANT WORKING ON THE PROJECT FOR SIX MONTHS OF THE AWARD PERIOD. THIS RESEARCH IS EXAMINING THE FORM AND FUNCTIONING OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN RELATION TO WASTE ISSUES AND EVALUATING THE FUTURE POTENTIAL OF CIVIL SOCIETY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE OF WASTE IN IRELAND. THIS IS SIGNIFICANT AS PUBLIC POLICY ARENAS ARE NO LONGER THE PRESERVE OF FORMAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES. INSTEAD POLICY MAKING IS A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF GOVERNANCE INVOLVING DIFFERENT TIERS OF GOVERNMENT AND DIFFERENT SPHERES OF PUBLIC, PRIVATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVITY. THE MANAGEMENT OF IRELAND'S WASTE IS A KEY AREA WHERE SUCH SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE CAN BE IDENTIFIED. WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY GOVERNMENTS, FROM THE EU TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANCIES AND INDUSTRY, BUT CIVIL SOCIETY, THROUGH COMMUNITY GROUPS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANISATIONS, HAS ALSO BEEN MOBILIZED AROUND WASTE ISSUES. SO FAR, HOWEVER, ANALYSES OF WASTE MANAGEMENT IN IRELAND HAVE FOCUSED ON ACTIONS OF THE STATE AND ON TECHNICAL ISSUES OF DISPOSAL. WHILE THERE IS AN EMERGING BODY OF LITERATURE ON INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD ATTITUDES AND ACTIONS IN RELATION TO WASTE A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CIVIL SOCIETY'S ROLE IN WASTE MANAGEMENT IS ABSENT. IT IS THIS GAP IN RESEARCH THAT THIS PROJECT WILL ADDRESS. ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY THIRD SECTOR RESEARCH PROGRAMME ANTI-INCINERATION MOVEMENTS IN IRELAND [€8,000]. I AM THE SOLE AND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THIS PROJECT. FOLLOWING THE WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT 1996, AND ITS SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENT IN 2001, INCINERATION OF MUNICIPAL WASTE AS A WASTE MANAGEMENT OPTION IN IRELAND HAS BEEN ENSHRINED IN WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANS THROUGHOUT THE REPUBLIC. THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT HAS SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF WASTE-TO-ENERGY THERMAL TREATMENT AS A MEANS OF COMPLYING WITH THE EU WASTE HIERARCHY AND AS AN IMPROVEMENT ON LANDFILL DISPOSAL OF MUNICIPAL WASTE. THE DECISION TO BUILD MUNICIPAL INCINERATORS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN IRELAND HAS THOUGH GENERATED HUGE CONTROVERSY AMONGST ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS AT NATIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS AND AMONGST LOCAL COMMUNITIES FACING THE LOCATION OF INCINERATORS IN THEIR NEIGHBOURHOODS. DEBATE ABOUT THE INCINERATION ISSUE IN IRELAND HAS BEEN DOMINATED BY EXPERT-DRIVEN TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS REGARDING EMISSIONS FROM THERMAL TREATMENT FACILITIES. WHILE IMPORTANT, SUCH ANALYSES ARE ALONE INSUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH THE FULL FORM AND FUNCTION OF SOCIAL OPPOSITION TO INCINERATION FACILITIES. TO PROVIDE GREATER DEPTH OF UNDERSTANDING THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE SOCIAL PROCESSES THAT HAVE BEEN MOBILISED AROUND THE ISSUE OF INCINERATION, IN PARTICULAR THE SCALE, FORM AND PRACTICE OF ANTI-INCINERATION PROTESTS. THE STUDY HAS TWO COMPONENTS: FIRST, A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE WASTE ISSUES (INCLUDING INCINERATION), SPECIFICALLY THROUGH THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL PRESS; SECOND, A SET OF IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH KEY PLAYERS IN THE INCINERATION DEBATE. PRELIMINARY FINDINGS OF THIS RESEARCH HAVE BEEN PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONFERENCE IN LONDON (2003) AND AT CORK UNIVERSITY (2004). TRINITY COLLEGE START-UP FUND GEOGRAPHIES OF WASTE: GOVERNANCE, SCALE AND NETWORKS [€38,000] PREVIOUSLY PERCEIVED AS A LOCAL, TECHNICAL ISSUE FOR GOVERNMENTS, WASTE MANAGEMENT IS NOW ALSO A GLOBAL, SOCIO-POLITICAL PROCESS INVOLVING COMPLEX PATTERNS OF MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE. THIS FELLOWSHIP WILL FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH MONOGRAPH TO EXAMINE THE NEGLECTED GEOGRAPHIES OF WASTE, IN PARTICULAR THE INTEGRAL PROCESSES OF TRANSLOCALISATION AND POLITICISATION INHERENT IN WASTE MANAGEMENT. THE TEXT WILL COMPARE WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN IRELAND, SWITZERLAND AND NEW ZEALAND. THE NEW ZEALAND COMPONENT OF THE RESEARCH WAS INITIATED IN DECEMBER 2003 AND THIS WORK WAS FUNDED THROUGH THE TRINITY COLLEGE MAINTENANCE GRANT, FURTHER RESEARCH WILL BE CONDUCTED IN NEW ZEALAND IN 2005. THE EPA FUNDED RESEARCH IN ADDITION TO THE WORK ON ANTI-INCINERATION CAMPAIGNS (TRINITY) AND CIVIL SOCIETY (ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY) DETAILED ABOVE WILL FORM THE BACKGROUND FOR THE IRISH CASE STUDY AND THE SWITZERLAND DATA WILL BUILD ON INFORMATION GATHERED DURING A FIELD STUDY TO SWITZERLAND, FUNDED BY THE SWISS EMBASSY IN MAY 2003. THE FELLOWSHIP RUNS FOR ONE ACADEMIC YEAR AND PROVIDES €38000 TO PROVIDE FOR A REPLACEMENT LECTURER TO COVER TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES. THIS IS A PRESTIGIOUS AND HIGHLY COMPETITIVE AWARD THAT TAKES APPLICATIONS FROM ACROSS THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES. NO OTHER GEOGRAPHER WAS AWARDED A FELLOWSHIP IN THIS ROUND AND WAS NO OTHER LECTURER IN TRINITY (A PROFESSOR IN ECONOMICS DID ACHIEVE A SIMILAR AWARD). IRCHSS FELLOWSHIP SCHEME STATUS - SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS AND TARGETS FOR THE URBAN THEMATIC STRATEGY [MY COMPONENT OF THE OVERALL GRANT = €25,000, TOTAL GRANT = €1,000,000] THE URBAN THEMATIC STRATEGY (UTS) IS ONE OF SEVEN THEMATIC STRATEGIES, WHICH TOGETHER COMPRISE THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S 6TH ENVIRONMENT ACTION PROGRAMME. THE UTS IS A NEW WAY OF DEVELOPING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY FOR COMPLEX PROBLEMS THAT REQUIRE A BROAD APPROACH, AND NEEDS TO RESPOND TO THE DIFFERING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL CONTEXTS, WHICH APPLY ACROSS THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU). THE EU HAS AGREED THAT THE THEME OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD UNDERPIN ALL EU ACTIONS AND THIS, THEREFORE, IS THE KEY ORGANISING PRINCIPLE FOR THE UTS. STATUS HAS AS ITS PRINCIPAL AIM THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE TARGETS FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES ACROSS EUROPE, TO BE SELF-ASSESSED AGAINST THE THEMES OF THE UTS THROUGH AN ON-LINE TOOL. THE TOOL WILL BE SUPPORTED BY A VALIDATION MECHANISM, TO ASSIST LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN FOCUSING ON RELEVANT POLICY AREAS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. THE PROTOTYPE TOOL AND MECHANISM WILL BUILD ON THE SYNERGIES BETWEEN THE ALREADY EXISTING INITIATIVES (E.G. EUROPEAN COMMON INDICATORS, URBAN AUDIT; AND LASALA ON-LINE) FOR ASSESSING PROGRESS TOWARDS URBAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. THIS PROPOSAL HAS SEVEN CORE PARTNERS INCLUDING MYSELF, THE OTHERS ARE: UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA AT NEWCASTLE (UK); ABO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY (FINLAND); INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (EUROPEAN BODY); TRINITY COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN (IRELAND); VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND, VTT BUILDING AND TRANSPORT (FINLAND); ECOLOGICA LTD (UK); AMBIENTE ITALIA S.R.L (ITALY). EU 6TH FRAMEWORK BID TO SPECIFIC TARGETED RESEARCH PROJECT BIODIVERSITY POLITICS: POLICY, PLANNING AND PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING WHILE EFFECTIVE BIODIVERSITY PLANNING INVOLVES A DETAILED UNDERSTANDING OF NATURAL PROCESSES AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING IT IS BECOMING INCREASINGLY APPARENT THAT SUCCESSFUL PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF BIODIVERSITY WILL ALSO REQUIRE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE POLITICS OF POLICY MAKING AND A SUPPORTIVE PUBLIC. IN ORDER TO INFORM MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN IRELAND KEY ACTORS AND PUBLICS (INCLUDING CHILDREN) WILL BE ENGAGED IN DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING THE PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF BIODIVERSITY. THIS QUALITATIVE DATA WILL PROVIDE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION ON FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF POWER, POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION IN BIODIVERSITY PLANNING AND DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE DATA WILL GENERATE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVED MECHANISMS TO PROMOTE POSITIVE BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT. EPA ERTDI - BIODIVERSITY BIOCHANGE - RESEARCH CLUSTER THE IRISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY HAS FUNDED, IN EXCESS OF €1.6 MILLION, A MAJOR INTEGRATED PROJECT ON IRISH BIODIVERSITY TITLED BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: AN INTEGRATED STUDY ENCOMPASSING A RANGE OF SCALES, TAXA AND HABITATS. THIS PROJECT, WHICH WILL RUN FOR 42 MONTHS, WILL INVOLVE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ACROSS NINE IRISH RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS WORKING IN CLOSE COLLABORATION. THE PARTNERS IN THE PROJECT ARE: BEC CONSULTANTS LTD, CENTRAL FISHERIES BOARD, GALWAY MAYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS GLASNEVIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY (NUIG), TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD), UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK (UCC), UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD), UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK. THE OVERALL PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR IS DR STEVE WALDREN (TCD, SWALDREN@TCD.IE). EPA ERTDI - BIODIVERSITY STATUS - NETWORK SUSTAINABILITY TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR URBAN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. PARTNERS FROM UK, ITALY, GERMANY, FINLAND AND IRELAND EU 6TH FRAMEWORK COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL RISK: WASTE, INCINERATION AND DIOXINS CONCERNS REMAIN IN SOCIETY ABOUT THE RISKS TO HUMAN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT ASSOCIATED WITH WASTE INCINERATION AND WITH THE TOXICITY OF THE BY-PRODUCTS THAT INCINERATION CREATES DESPITE THE REASSURANCES OF REGULATORS, POLITICIANS AND INDUSTRY. THIS PROJECT EXAMINES AND EVALUATES THE WAYS IN WHICH DEBATES ABOUT RISKS RELATED TO INCINERATION HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED IN IRELAND IN ORDER TO FACILITATE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW INCINERATION RISK COMMUNICATION IS PRODUCED AND RECEIVED. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ERTDI 2000-2006 GOVERNANCE AND PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING. EURO 138,752 (WITH PROFESSOR DAVID TAYLOR) COHMAR CONSENSUS:CONSUMPTION, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY THIS RESEARCH EXAMINES FOUR KEY AREAS OF HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION THAT INHIBIT OUR ABILITY TO ACHIEVE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: TRANSPORT, ENERGY, WATER AND FOOD. FOUR THEMES ARE DEVELOPED: HOW CONSUMPTION CAN BE MEASURED AND EVALUATED; HOW SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOURS AND INCENTIVES ARE BEING DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED; IDENTIFYING LINKS BETWEEN CONSUMPTION, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING; AND FINALLY HOW MATTERS OF HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION ARE BEING GOVERNED THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE AND PARTICIPATION EPA STRIVE CREATING A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY THE STERN REVIEW (2006), WHICH EXAMINED THE ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, BROUGHT UNPRECEDENTED ATTENTION TO THE ECONOMY-ENVIRONMENT INTERFACE AND REITERATED CALLS FOR MORE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. ALTHOUGH HIGHLY CONTESTED, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IS FREQUENTLY CONCEPTUALISED AS THAT WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL WELL-BEING FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS. WHILE MANY ASPECTS OF MODERN LIFE ARE NOW GLOBALISED THE ETHOS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SEEKS TO FOSTER MORE INTEGRATED AND INCLUSIVE PRACTICES THAT FACILITATE 'THINKING GLOBALLY, [AND] ACTING LOCALLY'. IT IS IN THIS CONTEXT THAT SOCIAL ECONOMY ENTERPRISES - DEFINED AS NON-PROFIT ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO COMBAT EXCLUSION THROUGH SOCIALLY USEFUL GOODS OR SERVICES SOLD - HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE UNITED NATIONS, THE EUROPEAN UNION AND MANY NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS AS A MECHANISM THROUGH WHICH ECONOMIC GROWTH CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUSION AND WELL-BEING. WITHIN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY ARENA ENVIRONMENTALLY-FOCUSED SOCIAL ECONOMY (ESE) ENTERPRISES, SUCH AS COMMUNITY-BASED RECYCLING ORGANISATIONS, GARDENING INITIATIVES AND FUEL POVERTY PROGRAMMES, EXPLICITLY ENGAGE WITH ALL THREE PILLARS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. WHILE SUCH INITIATIVES HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING A PERIOD OF EXPANSION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION NO SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS HAS BEEN UNDERTAKEN OF THEIR ACTIVITIES, THE CONDITIONS THAT SHAPE THOSE ACTIVITIES OR THE CONTRIBUTION THEY ARE MAKING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND. IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THIS ANALYTICAL DEFICIENCY THIS PROJECT WILL EXTEND THEORETICAL DEBATES ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY AND THE SOCIAL ECONOMY, PARTICULARLY DRAWING OUT ISSUES OF SCALE AND GOVERNANCE, THROUGH AN EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED EVALUATION OF ESE ENTERPRISES. METHODOLOGICALLY THE PROJECT COMPRISES A PHASED MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH PROGRAMME INCLUDING A NATIONWIDE SURVEY AND MAPPING EXERCISE, IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY ANALYSIS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUSTAINABILITY IMPACTS PROCEDURE. THE RESEARCH FINDINGS WILL EXPAND UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUSTAINABILITY-SOCIAL ECONOMY INTERFACE WITHIN THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT IN IRELAND AND WILL BE OF INTEREST TO DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AND POLICY MAKING COMMUNITIES. IRCHSS THEMATIC GRANT AWARD BRIDGE- COMMUNICATING ACROSS THE SCIENCE POLICY DIVIDE THIS RESEARCH WILL CO-CREATE A TOOLKIT FOR GOOD PRACTICE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN RESEARCHERS, POLICY MAKERS AND INTERMEDIARIES SUCH AS JOURNALISTS AND NGOS WORKING IN THE FIELDS OF BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER EPA STRIVE SHARECITY WITH PLANETARY URBANIZATION FAST APPROACHING THERE IS GROWING CLARITY REGARDING THE UNSUSTAINABILITY OF CITIES, NOT LEAST WITH RESPECT TO FOOD CONSUMPTION. SHARING, INCLUDING FOOD SHARING, IS INCREASINGLY BEING IDENTIFIED AS ONE TRANSFORMATIVE MECHANISM FOR SUSTAINABLE CITIES: REDUCING CONSUMPTION; CONSERVING RESOURCES, PREVENTING WASTE AND PROVIDING NEW FORMS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC RELATIONS. HOWEVER, SUCH CLAIMS CURRENTLY REST ON THIN CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS. SHARECITY WILL IDENTIFY AND EXAMINE DIVERSE PRACTICES OF CITY-BASED FOOD SHARING ECONOMIES, FIRST DETERMINING THEIR FORM, FUNCTION AND GOVERNANCE AND THEN IDENTIFYING THEIR IMPACT AND POTENTIAL TO REORIENT EATING PRACTICES. THE RESEARCH HAS FOUR OBJECTIVES: TO ADVANCE THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY FOOD SHARING ECONOMIES IN CITIES; TO GENERATE A SIGNIFICANT BODY OF COMPARATIVE AND NOVEL INTERNATIONAL EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FOOD SHARING ECONOMIES AND THEIR GOVERNANCE WITHIN GLOBAL CITIES; TO DESIGN AND TEST AN ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR ESTABLISHING THE IMPACT OF CITY-BASED FOOD SHARING ECONOMIES ON SOCIETAL RELATIONS, ECONOMIC VITALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT; AND TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A NOVEL VARIANT OF BACKCASTING TO EXPLORE HOW FOOD SHARING ECONOMIES WITHIN CITIES MIGHT EVOLVE IN THE FUTURE. PROVIDING CONCEPTUAL INSIGHTS THAT BRIDGE SHARING, SOCIAL PRACTICE AND URBAN TRANSITIONS THEORIES, SHARECITY WILL GENERATE A TYPOLOGY OF FOOD SHARING ECONOMIES; A DATABASE OF FOOD SHARING ACTIVITIES IN 100 GLOBAL CITIES; IN-DEPTH FOOD SHARING PROFILES OF 7 CITIES FROM THE CONTRASTING CONTEXTS OF USA, BRAZIL AND GERMANY, GREECE, PORTUGAL, IRELAND AND AUSTRALIA; A SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT TOOLKIT TO ENABLE EXAMINATION OF CITY-BASED FOOD SHARING INITIATIVES; AND SCENARIOS FOR FUTURE FOOD SHARING IN CITIES. CONDUCTING SUCH FRONTIER SCIENCE SHARECITY WILL OPEN NEW RESEARCH HORIZONS TO SUBSTANTIVELY IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW, WHY AND TO WHAT END PEOPLE SHARE FOOD WITHIN CITIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL ERC CONSOLIDATOR AWARD SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SIOBHAN DAVIS davissiobhan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN RESTORATIVE DENTI DAVISSI SCHOOL OFFICE - DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR GERALD DAWE dawegerald FELLOW EMERITUS GDAWE ENGLISH OSCAR WILDE CENTRE IRISH AND BRITISH POETRY, IRISH DRAMA, TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY IN TRANSLATION, CREATIVE WRITING MODERN ENGLISH ROOM 4021 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERALD DAWE IS A BOARD MEMBER OF THE SEAMUS HEANEY CENTRE FOR POETRY, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST IASIL,POETRY IRELAND, ENGLISH ASSOCIATION (UK) 19TH CENTURY IRISH CULTURAL HISTORY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN ENGLISH CREATIVE WRITING IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA LITERARY CRITICISM POETRY POETS TRANSLATION ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH 'WAR' POETRY,1914-1945 THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH POETRY OF WAR TO BE PUBLISHED. THE NATIONAL LOTTERY, THE ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND, THE MILITARY HERITAGE OF IRELAND TRUST HIGH POP & OTHER WRITINGS OF STEWART PARKER A CRITICAL EDITION OF PLAYWRIGHT AND POET, STEWART PARKER'S LITERARY AND ACADEMIC WRITINGS, INCLUDING HIS 'HIGH POP'COLUMN WHICH HE WROTE FOR THE IRISH TIMES IN THE EARLY 1970S. DRAMATIS PERSONAE:& OTHER WRITINGS BY STEWART PARKER FIRST COLLECTION OF PLAYWRIGHT STEWART PARKER'S NON-DARMATIC WRITINGS, INCLUDING HIS KEY LECTURE, DRAMATIS PERSONAE. CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO IRISH POETS A MAJOR EDITORIAL PROJECT CONTAINING THIRTY ESSAYS UNDER COMMISSION FOR THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION SERIES, EDITED B GERALD DAWE FOR PUBLICATION IN 2018. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. KENNETH MARK DAWSON-HOWE dawsonhowekennethmark ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KDAWSON COMPUTER SCIENCE I'M A MEMBER OF THE GRAPHICS, VISION AND VISUALIZATION (GV2) RESEARCH GROUP. THIS GROUP IS THE RESULT OF A MERGER BETWEEN COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS RESEARCH GROUP (ESTABLISHED IN 1983) AND THE GRAPHICS RESEARCH GROUP. THE COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS RESEARCH GROUP HAS PURSUED EXCELLENCE IN BOTH ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH. WE HAVE PROVIDED ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS WHICH REQUIRE SENSING AND PHYSICAL INTERACTION. THE AIM OF THE GROUP IS TO ADVANCE THE STATE OF THE ART IN THE FIELDS OF COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS. THIS HAS BEEN ACHIEVED THROUGH RESEARCH AND ITS VALIDATION IN PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS, MANY OF WHICH ASSUME AN INDUSTRIAL NATURE. WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING RESEARCH IN AREAS SUCH AS INDUSTRIAL INSPECTION, VISUAL SURVEILLANCE, BLACKJACK MONITORING, AND MOBILE ROBOTICS. SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONFERENCE CHAIR OF IMVIP 2015 AUGMENTED REALITY COMPUTER VISION COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS IMAGE ANALYSIS IMAGE PROCESSING SURVEILLANCE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. GESSICA LUISA DE ANGELIS deangelisgessicaluisa ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEANGELG C.L.C.S. MY RESEARCH ON MULTILINGUALISM INVESTIGATES THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROCESS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE PHENOMENA AND THE OVERALL COGNITIVE BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF MULTIPLE LANGUAGES. C.L.C.S. ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ADDED TO THE SCIENTIFIC BOARD OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL EVALUATION AND FORESIGHT AGENCY (ANEP) CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES AND MAIN POSITIONS HELD. EDITORIAL BOARD OF QUADERNI D'ITALIANISTICA. (2007-2010) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MULTILINGUALISM AND MAIN POSITIONS HELD: TREASURER (2014-2016) VICE-PRESIDENT (2009-11; 2011-2013) BOARD MEMBER (2005-2007; 2007-2009) MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE - THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND MULTILINGUALISM CONFERENCE (2009,2011,2013, 2014, 2016) PEER-REVIEWER FOR MAJOR INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS: JOHN BENJAMINS; MULTILINGUAL MATTERS; PH.D. EXTERNAL EXAMINER - UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA, SPAIN POSTGRADUATE CONFIRMATION (OPPOSITION) - UNIVERSITY OF LUND, SWEDEN REGULAR PEER-REVIEWER FOR MAJOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS (BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUALISM; AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LINGUISTICS AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; LANGUAGE AWARENESS; CULTURA Y EDUCACION; JOURNAL OF IMMERSION AND CONTENT-BASED LANGUAGE EDUCATION) REVIEWER FOR THE AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND (FWF) -AUSTRIA'S CENTRAL FUNDING ORGANIZATION FOR BASIC RESEARCH TREASURER, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MULTILINGUALISM VICE-PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MULTILINGUALISM BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE ITALIAN LANGUAGE/LITERATURE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION MIGRATION, MULTILINGUALISM, MULTICULTURALISM THIRD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION EDUCATION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES JEAN MONNET NETWORK, EUROPEAN IDENTITY, CULTURE, EXCHANGES AND MULTILINGUALISM EUROPEAN IDENTITY FORMATION IS IDENTIFIED AS AN OVERARCHING THEME WITH THREE DIMENSIONS OF MORE FOCUSED RESEARCH (PATTERNS OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY AND CITIZENSHIP AMONG STUDENTS STUDYING COURSES IN THE AREA OF EU STUDIES ELIMINATING THE CONSTRAINT OF KNOWLEDGE DEFICIT AND INFORMATION ABOUT EUROPEAN AFFAIRS), IDENTITIES IN URBAN CONTEXTS (THE EUROPEAN MULTILINGUAL CITY) AND THE ISSUE OF EMERGING NEW EUROPEAN YOUNG RESEARCHERS' IDENTITIES (EXCHANGES AND DOCTORAL STUDIES - AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY OF PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES IN THE EU). A CORE TASK OF THE NETWORK IS TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND BECOME A REFERENCE POINT FOR RESEARCHERS IN THESE EU-RELATED THEMES. THE TARGET GROUP OF THE JM NETWORK ARE YOUNG RESEARCHERS (DOCTORATE STUDENTS, POTENTIAL DOCTORATE STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS WHO HAVE OBTAINED A PHD DEGREE IN THE PAST 5 YEARS). THEIR PROFILE IS NOT LIMITED TO EU STUDIES DEPARTMENTS. THE NETWORK AIMS AT INVOLVING DOCTORATE STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS FROM DIFFERENT SCIENTIFIC AREAS THROUGH THE OPEN CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION AND THROUGH INVITING DOCTORATE STUDENTS FROM OTHER SCIENTIFIC FIELDS. THE NETWORK WILL RUN 3 SUMMER SCHOOLS AS WELL AS A RANGE OF EVENTS (SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND FINAL CONFERENCE). THE CO-TEACHING ACTIVITIES ARE DEVELOPED WITH THE VIEW OF ENHANCING ACADEMIC EXCHANGES AND COOPERATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION JEAN MONNET PROGRAMME BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN LINGUISTICS AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION: BELIEFS ABOUT BI-/MULTILINGUALISM AMONG GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND NURSES IN THE DUBLIN AREA &#8194; THE CORE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH RESEARCH FINDINGS ABOUT BI-/MULTILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS CAN BE SAID TO BE REFLECTED IN CURRENT PRACTICES IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION (GENERAL PRACTITIONERS AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES) IN THE DUBLIN AREA, AND WHETHER INDIVIDUALLY HELD BELIEFS ARE LIKELY TO INFLUENCE THE TYPE OF ADVICE FAMILIES RECEIVE. TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH MIGRATORY BACKGROUND IN THE MULTILINGUAL LADIN SCHOOL SYSTEM OF SOUTH TYROL, ITALY THIS 2-YEAR PROJECT EXAMINES PATTERNS OF MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN IMMIGRANT CHILDREN ATTENDING A TRILINGUAL (ITALIAN, GERMAN, LADIN) SCHOOL SYSTEM. ALL CHILDREN USE A HOME LANGUAGE THAT DIFFERS FROM THE THREE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF INSTRUCTION. LADIN SCHOOL BOARD, SOUTH TYROL, ITALY DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. MIGUEL DE ARCE dearcemiguel RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MDEARCE RETIRED STAFF MEMBER HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY IDEAS, DARWIN, DARWINISM, RECEPTION OF DARWINISM IN IRELAND, SCIENCE AND RELIGION DEBATE. SAMUEL HAUGHTON, JOHN TYNDALL, JOSEPH ALLEN GALBRAITH, TRINITY COLLEGE, NINETEENTH CENTURY SCIENCE, CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE. DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH NATIONAL PLAQUES FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE. THE JOHN TYNDALL CORRESPONDENCE DATABASE (UNIVERSITY OF YORK, CANADA). THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY GENETICS HISTORY OF SCIENCE, SCIENCE AND RELIGION INNOVATION IN LEARNING PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE SCIENCE HISTORY VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS DARWIN AND IRELAND THIS WORK REVIEWS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IRISH PEOPLE WHO READ DARWIN FROM 1859 TO 1872 AND THEIR REACTIONS TO HIS WORK, SOME POSSIBLE SOURCES OF INSPIRATION THAT MIGHT HAVE AFFECTED HIS SCIENTIFIC WRITING, AND HIS PERSONAL INFLUENCE ON SOME ORIGINALLY IRISH SCIENCE ENDEAVOURS. PERSONAL. OFFERS WELCOME. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. PADRAIG DE BHAL debhalpadraig RETIRED STAFF MEMBER PDEBHAL RETIRED STAFF MEMBER IRISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF IRISH. ISSUES IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION. HERITAGE MAINTENANCE. CULTURAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND ON AN ALL IRELAND BASIS. PAPERS OF A RECENT IRISH POLITITIAN. CHRISTIAN EDUCATION. ASPECTS OF EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY. DEPT OF EDUCATION 4048 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MARIE DE MONTFORT SUPPLE demontfortsupplemarie RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MDSUPPLE CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS AND HAS SERVED ON COMMITTEES OF THIS ORGANISATION AND OF THE PROFESSIONAL BODY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.... FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS INVOLVED INTERNATIONALLY AT COMMITTEE AND BOARD LEVEL OF IALP, SERVICE AS SECRETARY GENERAL AND AS PRESIDENT.... A FREQUENT ATTENDER OF ASHA'S ANNUAL CONVENTIONS AND CONGRESSES OF IALP. CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUD. COLLEGE 01-8961000 WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION FELLOWSHIP DR. PÁDRAIG DE PAOR depaorpdraig ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEPAORP IRISH NUALITRÍOCHT NA GAEILGE 20Ú / 21Ú AOIS SCHOOL OF IRISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MODERN IRISH LITERATURE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND DR. FABIO BOYLAN boylanfabio ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DESOUZAF PHARMACY MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST AND ON-GOING INVESTIGATIONS: I) CHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF SPECIES BELONGING TO THE FAMILY RUTACEAE; II) CHEMICAL EVALUATION OF DRUGS OF ABUSE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH BRAZILIAN SOCIETY OF PHARMACOGNOSY PHYTOCHEMICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS BIOCHEMISTRY, METABOLISM CHEMISTRY OF DRUG METABOLISM CHEMISTRY OF DRUG RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS DEVELOPMENT OF DRUGS FOR MALARIA, CANCER AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES DRUG DEVELOPMENT DRUG DISCOVERY HERBAL MEDICINE MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY MEDICINAL PLANTS MICROENCAPSULATION METHODOLOGIES MOLECULAR MARKERS AND RECOGNITION MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS PHARMACOGNOSY PHARMACOLOGICAL SCIENCES PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS OF NATIVE AND FOREIGN PLANTS PHYTOMEDICINES PLANT AND ALGAL CELL MONOCULTURES PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY PLANT BIOLOGY PLANT SYSTEMATICS PLANT TISSUE CULTURE SECONDARY PLANT METABOLISM TRADITIONAL AND INDIGENOUS HEALTH SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ORBIGNYA SPECIOSA (ARECACEA) AS A POTENCIAL SOURCE OF NOVEL THERAPEUTIC AGENTS: FROM TRADITIONAL MEDICINE INFORMATION TO THE PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF ITS CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CHECK THE VALIDITY OF THE ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL INFORMATION FOR ORBIGNYA SPECIOSA IN FOLK MEDICINE. THIS PLANT IS USED, AMONG OTHER PURPOSES, FOR THE TREATMENT OF LEUKAEMIA AND INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS. USING MODERN TECHNIQUES OF ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF NATURAL PRODUCTS AND UP-TO-DATE SPECTROSCOPY TECHNIQUES WE AIM TO ISOLATE THE CONSTITUENTS RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH ACTIVITIES. IT IS ALSO INTENDED TO TEST THE ACTIVITY FOR THE EXTRACTS AND ISOLATES USING IN VIVO (MICE) AND IN VITRO (CELL CULTURE) METHODOLOGIES, ALLIED TO TECHNIQUES IN MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY: DNA-FRAGMENTATION, ELECTROPHORESIS, ZYMOGRAPHY, WESTERN-BLOT, APOPTOSIS STUDIES (FLOW CYTOMETRY), MICROSCOPY (SEM) AMONG OTHERS. AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JAN DE VRIES devriesjan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEVRIEJ SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MAIN INTERESTS: - STRESS AND STRESS MANAGEMENT - TRAUMA AND TRAUMA TREATMENT - COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: NEUROSCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS GENERAL AREAS OF INTEREST: - GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY - SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS (NIP) PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND (PSI) APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION BEHAVIOURAL NEUROSCIENCE CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY COGNITIVE SCIENCE CONFLICT CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND RESOLUTION CREATIVE MUSIC EDUCATION CRISIS COUNSELING DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH COMMUNICATION HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING LEADERSHIP IN NURSING MENTAL HEALTH NURSING MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION NEUROPSYCHOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITION NURSING PERFORMANCE PRACTICE PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS REHABILITATION RESEARCH ISSUES SPECIFICE TO ANY HEALTH PROFESSION SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAUMA VIOLENCE PREVENTION NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION PRONENESS TO ACCIDENTS IN A GRADUATE POPULATION SHEERIN, F., CURTIS, E., DE VRIES, J.M.A. THIS STUDY ADDRESSES PRONENESS TO ACCIDENTS IN A GRADUATE POPULATION. ITS OBJECTIVE IS TO SEEK FOR ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN PERSONAL ACCIDENTS AND HEALTH (AS MEASURED WITH THE FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS INVENTORY) TRANSFERABLE SKILLS IN NURSING EDUCATION THIS PROJECT IS AN EVALUATION OF SKILLS TRANSFER BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND YEAR GROUP POSTER PROJECTS IN BSC NURSING STUDENTS. SEX EDUCATION SUPPORT IN SCHOOLS A STUDY OF SUPPORTS AND OUTSIDE FACILITATORS FOR SEX EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY (CPA) TEEN PARENT SUPPORT PROGRAMME: YOUNG FATHERS EVALUATION STUDY EVALUATION OF THE DESIGN AND RECEPTION OF A INFORMATION CAMPAIGN FOR TEENAGE FATHERS HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND FMRI THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE NEURAL RESPONSE TO COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (CD) USING FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (FMRI). THE OBJECTIVE IS TO IDENTIFY HOW COMMON EVERYDAY EVENTS THAT COULD GENERATE DISSONANCE ARE PROCESSED IN THE BRAIN. ON THE BASIS OF PRESENT NEUROLOGICAL EVIDENCE IT IS HYPOTHESISED THAT THE ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX (ACC) AND PARTS OF THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX ARE IMPLICATED. MOST OF THE RESEARCH IS BASED ON RELATIVELY CONTRIVED LAB TASKS. THIS STUDY ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH WHETHER THE HYPOTHESIS STILL HOLDS WHEN CD INDUCTION TAKES PLACE IN A MORE NATURALISTIC WAY PRESENTING PARTICIPANTS WITH DAY TO DAY SITUATIONS THAT GENERATE DISSONANCE. THE STUDY IS PART OF A WIDER EFFORT TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN RESEARCH ON SOCIAL COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE.BACKGROUND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (CD) (FESTINGER, 1957) IS THE RESULT OF SIMULTANEOUSLY HOLDING TWO OR MORE INCONSISTENT COGNITIONS, OR EXHIBITING BEHAVIOUR THAT IS INCONSISTENT WITH BELIEFS OR VALUES. THIS IS EXPERIENCED AS AN UNCOMFORTABLE TENSION MOTIVATING EFFORTS TO REDUCE DISSONANCE AND THEREFORE DISCOMFORT. THIS IS COMMONLY DONE BY CHANGING COGNITIONS OR BEHAVIOURS, BUT ALSO BY TRIVIALISING OR SEEKING DISTRACTION. EVIDENCE FROM NEUROLOGICAL STUDIES SUGGESTS THAT DISSONANCE DISCOMFORT IS DETECTED IN VARIOUS BRAIN STRUCTURES, NOTABLY THE ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX (ACC), WHILE EFFORTS TO RESOLVE IT TAKE PLACE IN THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX (AMODIO ET AL, 2004; HARMON-JONES ET AL., 2008). RESEARCH APPROACH AND DESIGN MAIN STUDY: THE STUDY HAS MADE USE OF A WITHIN-SUBJECT 2 X 2 DESIGN + BASELINE CONDITION. PARTICIPANTS HAVE ALL UNDERGONE THE SAME PROCEDURE. THEY HAVE BEEN PRESENTED WITH A SERIES OF QUESTIONS WHILE UNDERGOING AN FMRI SCAN. IN THE EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION, THE STIMULUS CONSISTS OF (1) A PRIMER WHICH PRESENTS A COMMON VALUE; FOLLOWED BY (2) A MEMORY PROMPT TO THINK OF PERSONAL VIOLATIONS OF THIS VALUE. DISSONANCE HAS BEEN FOUND TO OCCUR AS A RESULT. THREE CONTROL CONDITIONS HAVE PROVIDED NECESSARY CONTRASTS FOR FMRI ANALYSIS. THEY USE THE SAME FORMAT WITH CONTRASTING PRIMERS AND MEMORY PROMPTS. PILOT STUDY: TO SELECT THE ITEMS FOR INCLUSION IN THE FMRI STUDY, A PILOT STUDY HAS TAKEN PLACE IN WHICH THE MEMORY PROMPTS HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED. THOSE THAT WERE RECALLED MOST CONSISTENTLY HAVE FORMED THE POOL OF ITEMS USED IN THE EXPERIMENTAL CONDITION OF THE STUDY. OBJECTIVES FOR 2013/2014 WERE TO COMPLETE THE ANALYSIS OF THE FINDINGS, SUBMIT THE FIRST ARTICLE AND APPLY FOR FUNDING FOR A PHD STUDY ON COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND DEPRESSION. THESE OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. OBJECTIVES FOR 2014/2015: ETHICS APPLICATION AND START DATA COLLECTION FOR PHD STUDY; PUBLICATION OF FMRI STUDY; DESIGN OF FOLLOW-UP FMRI STUDY TRINITY COLLEGE NEW STAFF START UP FUND ERICA - STOPPING CHILD MALTREATMENT THROUGH PAN-EUROPEAN MULTIPROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME: EARLY CHILD PROTECTION WORK WITH FAMILIES AT RISK THIS PAN-EUROPEAN INITIATIVE WITH PARTNERS IN MOST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HAS ORIGINATED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE IN FINLAND. IT IS DESIGNED TO TEST A PROGRAMME TO REDUCE CHILD MALTREATMENT IN EUROPE. OBJECTIVES 2013/2014: FUNDING APPLICATION FOR 800.000 EURO WAS UNSUCCESFUL FP& EUROPEAN UNION ERICA LGBTIRELAND THIS MIXED METHOD STUDY SEEKS TO (A) SURVEY LGBTI PEOPLE IN IRELAND ON THEIR MENTAL HEALTH; (B) SURVEY PERSPECTIVES ON LGBT OF THE WIDER PUBLIC INCLUDING STEREOTYPING GLEN AND BELONGTO EVALUATION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY AND WRAP EDUCATION PROGRAMME THIS PROJECT WAS AN EVALUATION OF A MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION INITIATIVE. IT INVOLVED A TWO-DAY EDUCATION PROGRAMME WHICH SOUGHT TO EDUCATE INDIVIDUALS ABOUT RECOVERY AND WRAP (WELLNESS RECOVERY ACTION PLANNING)PRINCIPLES AND TEACH PARTICIPANTS STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY A FIVE-DAY EDUCATION INITIATIVE FOR A SMALLER COHORT OF PARTICIPANTS WHICH WAS AIMED AT PROVIDING ITS PARTICIPANTS WITH A GREATER DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE ON RECOVERY AND WRAP IN ADDITION TO THE FACILITATION SKILLS NECESSARY TO DELIVER THE TWO DAY WRAP RECOVERY PROGRAMMES WITHIN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES. PARTICIPANTS WHO HAD ATTENDED THE TWO-DAY PROGRAMMES WERE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR A PLACE ON THE FIVE-DAY PROGRAMME. THIS INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE EDUCATION PROGRAMME WAS COMMISSIONED, WITH THE AIM OF EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF THE EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON PARTICIPANTS' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND SKILLS IN MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY. A MIXED METHOD APPROACH INVOLVING A SURVEY, INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS WAS USED. IMHREC MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY EDUCATION EVALUATION OF FOUR FAMILY-FOCUS INITIATIVES FOUR FAMILY SUPPORT PORGRAMMES FOR FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY FUNDED BY GENIO WERE EVALUATED AS PART OF THIS PROJECT. THE EVALUATION MADE USE OF A MIXED METHOD APPROACH AND INCLUDED INTERVIEWS AND A SURVEY. GENIO FAMILY FOCUS SUPPORT EVALUATION OF FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION (FPSHP) THIS PROJECT IS AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION (FPSHP) IN BUILDING CAPACITY AMONGST HEALTH, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROFESSIONALS AND TO EXAMINE WHETHER THE PROGRAMME SHOULD BE EXTENDED TO OTHER HSE AREAS. A MIXED METHODS APPROACH IS EMLOYED INCLUDING A SURVEY AND INTERVIEWS. HSE SEXUAL HEALTH NARRATIVES OF NURSING LEADERSHIP NURSING LEADERSHIP IS A THEME OF CONSIDERABLE DEBATE IN HEALTH CARE AND HEALTH CARE EDUCATION. THE NEED FOR NURSING LEADERSHIP IS EXPRESSED FREQUENTLY AND WITH INCREASING URGENCY. SPURRED ONWARDS BY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HEALTH CARE SUCH AS THE MOVE TOWARDS MORE COMMUNITY BASED CARE IT IS INEVITABLE THAT THE LARGEST GROUP OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS IS CALLED UPON TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. BECAUSE NURSES ARE IN MORE FREQUENT CONTACT WITH PATIENTS THAN THEIR SUPERIORS IN MANAGEMENT THEY ARE IN A UNIQUE POSITION TO RESPOND QUICKLY AND EFFECTIVELY TO SITUATIONS THAT REQUIRE INSTANT INTERVENTION. THIS REQUIRES LEADERSHIP ON THE GROUND, RELEVANT EXPERTISE AND CONFIDENCE IN NURSES. WHETHER THEY ARE PREPARED WELL ENOUGH FOR THESE NEW LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IS A MATTER OF CONCERN (CURTIS ET AL. 2011A). AND WHILE THERE IS EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THAT LEADERSHIP QUALITIES CAN BE TAUGHT, MODELLED AND PRACTICED IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS (CUMMING ET AL 2008)ORGANISATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL OBSTACLES AND LIMITATIONS (CUMMINGS ET AL 2005) HAVE BEEN NOTED IN VARIOUS STUDIES (CURTIS ET AL. 2011B). PUBLICATIONS ON NURSING LEADERSHIP HAVE SHED CONSIDERABLE LIGHT ON PARADIGMATIC ISSUES, HEALTH CARE PRACTICES AND WORK CONDITIONS (CUMMINGS ET AL (2005), LEADERSHIP TRAITS AND BEHAVIOURS AND OTHER PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS, AND EVEN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS. NOT WELL REPRESENTED IN THESE PUBLICATIONS ARE THE ACTUAL LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES AS PERFORMED IN THE DAY TO DAY WORK OF NURSES. THIS HAS LED TO THE LESS THAN SATISFYING SITUATION THAT THE THEORY HAS BECOME DIVORCED FROM WHAT HAPPENS ON THE GROUND. WHILE THERE IS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR WHAT NURSES CONSIDER IMPORTANT LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS AND EVEN THAT TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP MAY BE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP (MCCORMACK 2012), MUCH OF THE ANALYSIS TAKES PLACE AT A THEORETICAL AND ABSTRACT LEVEL, WITH LIMITED IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE NURSES THEMSELVES. EVEN IN RECENT PRACTICE ORIENTED PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS (ENEH ET AL 2012; GOTTLIEB ET AL 2012) THERE IS LITTLE INDICATION OF WHAT KIND OF 'LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES' NURSES ACTUALLY ENGAGE IN OR WHAT THEY CONSIDER GOOD LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES. HAVING IDENTIFIED THIS GAP IN THE LITERATURE, THE AUTHORS ARE SETTING OUT TO IDENTIFY THE MISSING NARRATIVE ELEMENT IN THE DISCUSSION USING A SURVEY INSTRUMENT WHICH ESSENTIALLY SEEKS TO GET NURSES TO GIVE CONCRETE EXAMPLES OF GOOD LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES THEY HAD WITNESSED OR ENGAGED IN. OBJECTIVE FOR 2013/2014: ETHICAL APPLICATION AND APPROVAL. THIS WAS ACHIEVED. OBJECTIVES FOR 2014/2015: PILOT STUDY AND MAIN SURVEYS; DATA GATHERING AND DATA ANALYSIS TO TAKE PLACE NO FUNDING AT PRESENT HANDWASHING AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE BACKGROUND HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS (HCAIS) ARE AN IMPORTANT PROBLEM IN HOSPITALS. IT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT OPTIMISING HAND HYGIENE OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS (HCW) REDUCES THE OCCURRENCE OF HCAIS. UNFORTUNATELY, EFFORTS TO IMPROVE HAND HYGIENE BOTH IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY ARE NOT SATISFACTORY. A RECENT WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION'S REPORT ON HAND HYGIENE (WHO 2009) SUGGESTS THAT, AMONG OTHER APPROACHES, THE PROBLEM MAY BE ADDRESSED BY IMPROVING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF COGNITIVE MECHANISMS AROUND HAND HYGIENE IN HCWS. THIS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO TAKE UP THIS CHALLENGE. THE RESEARCHERS HYPOTHESISE THAT HAND HYGIENE VIOLATIONS ARE ACCOMPANIED BY COGNITIVE PROCESSES BEST EXPLAINED BY COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY (FESTINGER 1957, COOPER 2007). AIM THE PRIMARY AIMS OF THE STUDY ARE: A) TO ESTABLISH THE COGNITIVE MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN HAND HYGIENE, IN PARTICULAR JUSTIFICATIONS USED FOR VIOLATIONS; B) TO DEVELOP, DELIVER AND EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF AN EDUCATIONAL MODULE ON HAND HYGIENE VIOLATIONS WITH A VIEW TO ADVANCING HAND HYGIENE EDUCATION AND PROMOTION FOR HCWS AND ULTIMATELY PATIENT SAFETY. METHOD FOCUS GROUPS WILL BE CONDUCTED IN TWO HOSPITALS, ONE IN DUBLIN AND ONE IN CORK TO ELICIT PERSPECTIVES ON JUSTIFICATION OF HAND HYGIENE VIOLATIONS. FUNDING PROPOSALS HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESFUL SO FAR, HOWEVER A PILOT FOLLOWED BY A PUBLICATION ARE PLANNED FOR 2012/2013 EVALUATION OF A COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVE AT AN IRISH SERVICE FOR PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. THIS STUDY EVALUATED A COMMUNITY HOUSING INITIATIVE FOR PEOPLE WITH AND INTELECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND. WITH THE USE OF INTERVIEWS AND AN EVALUATION OF PERSONAL OUTCOME MEASURES(POMS),SATISFACTION OF PARTICIPANTS WITH THE LIVING ARRANGEMENTS AND QUALITY OF LIFE ARE ASSESSED. OBJECTIVES 2013/2014: COMPLETE STUDY; PRODUCE DRAFT REPORT; PRESENT AT CONFERENCES. ALL OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. OBJECTIVES 2014/2015: COMPLETE FINAL REPORT AND PUBLISH PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE. ANONYMOUS EVALUATION OF SUICIDE OR SURVIVE WELLNESS WORKSHOP THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE ONE-DAY SOS WELLNESS WORKSHOP AND TO IDENTIFY IF KEY OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP WERE ACHIEVED. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE EVALUATION WERE TO: (A)EXPLORE THE IMPACT ON PARTICIPANTS' KNOWLEDGE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SUICIDE AND MENTAL ILLNESS;(B)IDENTIFY IF THE PROGRAMME ENHANCED PARTICIPANTS ABILITY TO RECOGNISE AND MANAGE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES; (C) IDENTIFY THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE PROGRAMME AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. THE STUDY USED A MIXED METHOD APPROACH WHICH INCLUDED A SURVEY, INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS. IN 2013/2014 A NEW TENDER TO DO A PRE/POST/FOLLOW-UP STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF THE PROGRAMME WAS WON. THIS STUDY WAS COMPLETED IN AUGUST 2014 HSE, SOS NATIONAL OFFICE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION SUICIDE OR SURVIVE (SOS) EVALUATION II: LONGITUDINAL STUDY FOLLOWING FROM A RECENTLY COMPLETED EVALUATION OF THE SUICIDE OR SURVIVE WORKSHOPS, ANOTHER LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE WORKSHOPS IS TAKING PLACE. THE TEAM CONSISTS OF LOUISE DOYLE, AGNES HIGGINS, BRIAN KEOGH, PADRAIGH MCBENNET AND JAN DE VRIES. HSE THE PSYCHOBABBLING NURSE: PSYCHOLOGY IN NURSING EDUCATION THIS PROJECT FOCUSSES ON A VARIETY OF ASPECTS OF PSYCHOLOGY IN NURSING EDUCATION. THE MAIN FOCUS IS ON ESTABLISHING HOW PSYCHOLOGY IS BEST TAUGHT IN NURSING EDUCATION AND HOW NURSES RETAIN AND USE ASPECTS OF PSYCHOLOGY IN THEIR CLINICAL PRACTICE. A SURVEY IS BEING PREPARED FROZEN CONFLICT AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THIS RESEARCH PROJECT SEEKS TO ESTABLISH A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OBSTACLES TO SUCCESSFUL CONFLICT DIALOGUE, IN ORDER TO FACILITATE BETTER OUTCOMES, IN PARTICULAR WHERE POLITICAL CONFLICT HAS BECOME OR IS AT RISK OF BECOMING A 'FROZEN CONFLICT', SUCH AS IN NORTHERN IRELAND. IN FROZEN CONFLICT, THE PARTIES ENGAGED IN THE CONFLICT FIND IT DEEPLY UNCOMFORTABLE TO ADAPT THEIR PERSPECTIVES OR TO ADOPT NEW PERSPECTIVES. AS A RESULT OF THIS, DIALOGUE OFTEN RESULTS IN A STRENGTHENING OF ENTRENCHED POSITIONS, ARGUMENTS AND NARRATIVES. THIS MAKES IT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TO RESOLVE, MANAGE OR TRANSFORM THE CONFLICT. PEOPLE OFTEN REPORT THAT ENGAGING IN CONFLICT DIALOGUE MAKES THEM FEEL 'TORN INSIDE' OR 'ALL CONFUSED' AND FIND THIS MORE UNBEARABLE THAN TO BE STUCK IN AN ACCEPTED ANIMOSITY WITH ANOTHER PARTY. AS A RESULT, CONFLICT DIALOGUE IS A SLOW, COSTLY AND PAINFUL PROCESS WITH MANY SETBACKS AND DECISION MAKING ROOTED IN THE REDUCTION OF INNER TURMOIL RATHER THAN RATIONAL ARGUMENTS FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT. IN A WAY IT COULD BE SAID THAT OFTEN 'PEACE OF MIND IS ACHIEVED AT THE EXPENSE OF PEACE'. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CORE OF THIS PROCESS IS BEST UNDERSTOOD WITH THE USE OF 'COGNITIVE DISSONANCE THEORY' (FESTINGER 1957; COOPER 2007) WHICH SUGGESTS THAT OUR MINDS OPERATE IN SUCH A WAY THAT INCONSISTENCIES GENERATE A SENSE OF DISCOMFORT WE ARE HIGHLY MOTIVATED TO REDUCE. THIS MEANS THAT IF PEOPLE ACT IN WAYS THAT ARE INCONSISTENT WITH STRONGLY HELD BELIEFS THEY FEEL INTENSE DISSONANCE. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS ENGAGING IN DIALOGUE WITH PEOPLE BELIEVED TO BE THE ENEMY. TYPICALLY DISSONANCE GENERATED HERE COULD BE RESOLVED BY TERMINATING THE DIALOGUE. IF THE PERSON DECIDES TO REMAIN INVOLVED AN OFTEN COMPLEX PROCESS OF JUSTIFICATION IS NECESSARY TO REDUCE THE DISSONANCE THIS MAY GENERATE. UNDERSTANDING THIS PROCESS IS PIVOTAL TO DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN SUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL DIALOGUE. USING THIS MODEL AS A TEMPLATE THE RESEARCHERS ARE SEEKING TO CONDUCT INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS WITH PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND. THE OUTCOMES WILL PROVIDE US WITH NEW INSIGHTS REGARDING OBSTACLES TO DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATION. GRADUATE ENTRY NURSING (GEN) FACILITATION STUDY THE IRISH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, IN COMMON WITH MANY WESTERN NATIONS, CONTINUES TO DEMAND A SUPPLY OF NURSES THAT EXCEEDS THE NUMBERS OF QUALIFIED NURSES AVAILABLE TO MEET THEIR NEED (BLEICH ET AL. 2015). ONE AVENUE TO ADD TO THE NUMBER OF QUALIFIED NURSES IS TO MAKE NURSING EDUCATION ACCESSIBLE TO GRADUATES IN OTHER, PREFERABLY RELATED, FIELDS LOOKING TO EXPAND THEIR PROFESSIONAL HORIZONS BYAND INTERESTED IN ENTERING THE NURSING PROFESSION. THIS APPROACH TO BOOSTING THE AVAILABILITY OF QUALIFIED NURSES HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY USED ELSEWHERE. THE QUESTION IS WHETHER IT ISWOULD BE FEASIBLE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THIS SCOPING REVIEW, COMMISSIONED AND FUNDED BY THE HSE NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION, THROUGH THE OFFICE OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY SERVICES DEVELOPMENT, DETAILS THE FINDINGS OF THE A REVIEW INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF INTRODUCING A GRADUATE ENTRY PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROGRAMME LEADING TO NURSING REGISTRATION IN IRELAND. THE REPORT COMPRISES SIX CHAPTERS, WHICH PROVIDE BACKGROUND CONTEXT AND METHODS, FINDINGS UNDER THE OBJECTIVES SET AND RECOMMENDATIONS. THIS INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER FOCUSES ON BACKGROUND CONTEXT AND METHODOLOGY USED TO ACHIEVE FOUR KEY OBJECTIVES, WHICH CONSIST OF A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, EXPLORATION OF EXISTING PROGRAMMES, STEPS TO BE TAKEN TOWARDS PROFESSIONAL APPROVAL, AND INVESTIGATING INTEREST OF POTENTIAL STUDENTS. HSE EVALUATION OF FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION II THIS IS THE SECOND EVALUATION OF THE FPSHP. THIS TIME A LONGITUDINAL APPROACH IS MADE HSE FPSHP COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS THIS PROJECT AIMS TO RESEARCH COGNITIVE INCONSISTENCY AND DISSONANCE IN TWO WAYS: 1) A FUNDAMENTAL STRAND SEEKS TO IDENTIFY THE NEUROLOGICAL SUBSTRATE OF HOW WE PROCESS INCONSISTENCY AND DISSONANCE. FUNDING APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION HAS BEEN PURSUED. THE FIRST OUTPUT IS A PUBLICATION BASED ON FMRI RESEARCH 2) AN APPLIED STRAND SEEKS TO RESEARCH THE APPLICATIONS IN HEALTH CARE AND MENTAL HEALTH. A PHD STUDY IS CURRENTLY ON ITS WAY ON COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND DEPRESSION. FOUR RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN 2014/2015 HAVE FOCUSED ON APPLYING DISSONANCE THEORY TO HEALTH CARE. NO FUNDING AT PRESENT AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE DR. RICHARD DEANE deanerichard ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT DEANERI OBSTETRICS OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY TRINITY OFFICE EDUCATION CENTRE COOMBE HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 PROFESSOR PATRICK BERNARD DEASY deasypatrickbernard FELLOW EMERITUS PDEASY PHARMACY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JUDITH DELANEY delaneyjudith VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW JUDELANE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. PAUL DELANEY delaneypaul ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DELANEP ENGLISH 20TH-CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE, ESPECIALLY POST-INDEPENDENCE IRISH CULTURE AND SHORT FICTION. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW ELECTED TO MANAGEMENT BOARD, IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW MEMBER, ENSFR (EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR SHORT FICTION RESEARCH) MEMBER, IASIL (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES) THE EDINBURGH COMPANION TO THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH COMMISSIONED TO CO-EDIT A MAJOR CRITICAL VOLUME ON INTERNATIONAL SHORT FICTION FOR EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. THIS VOLUME, 'THE EDINBURGH COMPANION TO THE SHORT STORY IN ENGLISH', IS INNOVATIVE IN SCOPE AND SUBJECT MATTER, EXPLORING ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE IN A TRULY INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TWENTY-EIGHT SCHOLARS FROM ACROSS THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD. THE BOOK WILL BE 250,000 WORDS LONG, AND HAS BEEN PLANNED IN COLLABORATION WITH A FELLOW SHORT-STORY SPECIALIST, DR ADRIAN HUNTER (UNIVERSITY OF STERLING). THE COLLECTION IS DUE FOR PUBLICATION IN 2017. IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MS. AMANDA DELANEY delaneyamanda EXECUTIVE OFFICER DELANEA1 COUNSELLING STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICE 3RD FLOOR, TRINITY COLLEGE 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH PROFESSOR HILARY BIEHLER biehlerhilary PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC LAW HBIEHLER LAW EQUITY AND THE LAW OF TRUSTS, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, PARTICULARLY JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION, AND CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMISSIONER, THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MS. SERAPHIM DEMPSEY dempseyseraphim VISITING RESEARCH ASSIATANT DEMPSES2 ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ELEANOR DENNY dennyeleanor ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DENNYE ECONOMICS ENERGY ECONOMICS, ENERGY POLICY, EDUCATION ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING (IEEE) MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ENERGY ECONOMICS (IAEE) ELECTRICITY STORAGE EMISSION ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES ECONOMICS RENEWABLE ENERGIES CONSEED CONSUMER ENERGY EFFICIENCY DECISION MAKING WWW.CONSEEDPROJECT.EU/ EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 NEEPD NUDGING ENERGY EFFICIENCY PURCHASING DECISIONS WWW.NEEEPD.COM IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW HORIZONS ESIPP ENERGY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME HTTP://ESIPP.IE/ SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME ENERGY POLICY RESEARCH RESEARCH INTO IRISH ELECTRICITY MARKET ISSUES ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY THE ECONOMICS OF CO-FIRING PEAT WITH BIOMASS TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME AN ENTERPRISING WIND AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE JOB CREATION POTENTIAL OF THE WIND SECTOR IN IRELAND SIEMENS AND THE IRISH WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION ATTIC ATTITUDES TO TRANSPORT, INSULATION AND CAPITAL IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS AWARD ERC:GI GRID INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLES HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI 5 STRAND 3 SEES SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICAL ENERGY SYSTEMS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL SMALL PROJECT AWARDS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ADRIAN DERVAN dervanadrian RESEARCH FELLOW ADERVAN GENETICS TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE EXCITOTOXICITY GLIAL BIOLOGY MEDICAL ZOOLOGY NEUROBIOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROREGENERATION TO INVESTIGATE THE ABILITY OF THE REGENERATING SPINAL CORD TO ALTER THE EXTRACELLULAR ENVIRONMENT OF THE WOUND SITE FOLLOWING INJURY FOLLOWING INJURY THE ADULT MAMMALIAN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IS UNABLE TO OVERCOME THE INTRINSIC INHIBITORY NATURE OF THE LESION SITE TO PERMIT INJURED AXONS TO GROW BACK TO THEIR TARGETS. THE MAJOR CELL TYPES INVOLVED ARE RESIDENT ASTROCYTES THAT BECOME REACTIVE AND INVADING MENINGEAL FIBROBLASTS, BOTH OF WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO FIBROGLIAL SCAR FORMATION. IN FISH HOWEVER, SPONTANEOUS REGENERATION OCCURS FOLLOWING ACUTE INJURY SUGGESTING THAT REGROWING AXONS ARE CAPABLE OF NAVIGATING THE COMPLEX ENVIRONS OF THE INJURY SITE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ASSESS THE TROPHIC ROLE OF THE SCAR TISSUE THAT FORMS AFTER MENINGEAL CELLS INVADE THE LESION SITE FOLLOWING SPINAL CORD TRANSECTION IN A ZEBRAFISH MODEL OF SPINAL INJURY. USING IN VIVO MANIPULATIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH IN VITRO CULTURING OF CELLS WE AIM TO CHARACTERIZE THE INJURY SITE IN THE FIRST DAYS OF RECOVERY AND INVESTIGATE THE INTRINSIC MECHANISMS INVOLVED THAT PREPARE THE INJURY SITE FOR AXONAL REGROWTH. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR KUMLESH DEV devkumlesh PROFESSOR DEVK PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) RESEARCH IS BASED ON INVESTIGATING MECHANISMS THAT CONTROL RECEPTOR SURFACE EXPRESSION AND THEREBY RECEPTOR FUNCTION. WITH AN INTEREST IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE, WE ARE INVESTIGATING SURFACE EXPRESSION OF RECEPTORS THAT ARE DRUG TARGETS FOR THESE DISEASES, INCLUDING SPHINGOSINE 1-PHOSPHATE RECEPTORS (S1P-R), PARKIN-ASSOCIATED ENDOTHELIAL LIKE RECEPTOR (PAEL-R) AND THE INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR (IL2-R). OUR APPROACH IS TO ENGINEER, FORMULATE AND CHEMICALLY RE-DESIGN COMPETITIVE BLOCKING PEPTIDES AND DISCOVER SMALL MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUNDS, WHICH ALTER RECEPTOR SURFACE EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION IN VIVO. DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH AGENTS PERMITS CELL-SELECTIVE RECEPTOR MODULATION AND THE REGULATION OF ORPHAN RECEPTORS OR DIFFICULT-TO-TARGET RECEPTORS. WE ARE FUNDED IN KIND AND IN PART BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND, HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRELAND, ENTERPRISE IRELAND, THE WELLCOME TRUST, LUNDBECK, ACTELION, SERVIER AND NOVARTIS. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCES REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTOR IRELAND, VENTURE VALUATION AG, ZURICH, SWITZERLAND DRUG TARGETS GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NEUROSCIENCE PARKINSON'S DISEASE PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS RECEPTOR TRAFFICKING SPHINGOSINE 1-PHOSPHATE RECEPTORS NEUROSCIENCE DR. MEL T DEVINE devinemelt VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW DEVINEMT ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR KEVIN DEVINE devinekevin PROFESSOR OF MICROBIAL MOLECULAR GENETIC KDEVINE GENETICS DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF MICROBIOLOGY EDITOR OF BMC MICROBIOLOGY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. SEAN DEVITT devittsean FELLOW EMERITUS SDEVITT EDUCATION - LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (FIRST AND SECOND), WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON TEMPORALITY, PARTICULARLY IN NARRATIVE. LANGUAGES BEING FOCUSED ON: FRENCH AND ENGLISH. - READING AND WRITING PROCESSES, SPECIFICALLY IN A SECOND OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONTEXT, SPECIFICALLY THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL FOR READING AND WRITING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE THAT CREATES OPTIMAL CONDITIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE TO DEVELOP. - LEARNING A CONTENT SUBJECT (SPECIFICALLY SCIENCE) THROUGH A NEW LANGUAGE. - THE VALUE OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (E.G. ITALIAN) FOR ADULTS WITH LITERACY PROBLEMS. - THE ROLE OF A LANGUAGE LEARNING EXPERIENCE (E.G. RUSSIAN, JAPANESE) AS PART OF THE INITIAL PROGRAMME OF TRAINING OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS DEPT OF EDUCATION 3133 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN SPANISH; CASTILIAN FRENCH GERMAN IRISH MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOLS MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF INTEGRATE IRELAND LANGUAGE AND LEARNING MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS MEMBER OF TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT NO. 6 (BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING) OF THE EUROPEAN LANGUAGE COUNCIL SECRETARY OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) TRINITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE ON EUROPEAN LANGUAGE COUNCIL CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION E-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL TESTING/MEASUREMENT ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FOREIGN LANGUAGES EDUCATION FRENCH COURSE DESIGN, TEACHING MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT, PROGRAMME EVALUATION FRENCH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE ARTS EDUCATION LANGUAGES LINGUISTICS LITERACY SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS TEACHER EDUCATION TENSE AND MODALITY TIME DR. ANN DEVITT devittann ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEVITTAN EDUCATION LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION: SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL); LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION, FIRST LANGUAGE LITERACY. PEDAGOGICAL USES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE LEARNING; DIGITAL GAME-BASED LEARNING, IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES COMPUTATIONAL AND COGNITIVE MODELS OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, SENTIMENT ANALYSIS, CORPUS LINGUISTICS. DR DEVITT CONTRIBUTES AS PRESENTER AND REVIEWER AT PREMIER ACADEMIC CONFERENCES: AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (AERA); EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (ESAI); EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (ECER); ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL); EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (EACL); INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (IJCNLP). DR DEVITT HAS ALSO BEEN INVOLVED IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH EXTERNAL EXAMINER (PHD) QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST MEMBER OF AERA (AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION) MEMBER OF ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS MEMBER OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF IRAAL (IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS) NWO (NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH) HUMANITIES RESEARCH PROPOSAL REVIEWER REVIEWER FOR ACL (ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS) REVIEWER FOR AERA (ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION) REVIEWER FOR EMNLP (EMPIRICAL METHODS ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING) COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS FOREIGN LANGUAGES EDUCATION LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LITERACY NATURAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING TEACHER EDUCATION COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION THRESHOLD CONCEPTS IN LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION (TC4LTE) THRESHOLD CONCEPTS (TCS) HAVE EMERGED OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS AS A USEFUL METAPHOR AND TOOL FOR CURRICULUM DESIGN AND RESEARCH WITH WORK CONDUCTED IN HIGHER EDUCATION SETTINGS. TCS ARE DEFINED AS THOSE WITHOUT WHICH IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO ENGAGE IN THE PRACTICES AND DISCOURSE OF A DISCIPLINE, IN THIS CASE LANGUAGE TEACHING. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO IDENTIFY THRESHOLD CONCEPTS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE CONDITIONS THAT FACILITATE THE LEARNING OF THESE CONCEPTS. THE PROJECT INCORPORATES THE VOICE OF PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD ARTICULATING KEY MOMENTS OF LEARNING IN THEIR CAREERS AND THE VOICE OF THE STUDENT TEACHER ARTICULATING THEIR LEARNING OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES. THE PROJECT AIMS TO DRAW ON THE BROAD EXPERIENCE OF LANGUAGE TEACHERS NORTH AND SOUTH TO IDENTIFY THRESHOLD CONCEPTS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TO EXAMINE THE DEGREE AND MANNER OF INTEGRATION OF THRESHOLD CONCEPTS WITHIN ITE PROGRAMMES NORTH AND SOUTH. SCOTENS AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS OF TEXT IN FRENCH, GERMAN AND SPANISH SOURCING, TESTING AND BUILDING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR TEXT ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR FRENCH, SPANISH AND GERMAN. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHER INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. CAMILLA DEVITT devittcamilla ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEVITTCA SOCIOLOGY EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH CENTRE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH METOIKOS: CIRCULAR MIGRATION PATTERNS IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIGRANTS AND POLICY MAKERS THE METOIKOS PROJECT LOOKS AT CIRCULAR MIGRATION PATTERNS IN THREE EUROPEAN REGIONS: SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS (GREECE, ITALY AND ALBANIA); SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE AND THE MAGHREB (SPAIN, ITALY AND MOROCCO); AND CENTRAL EASTERN EUROPE (POLAND, HUNGARY, AND UKRAINE).MORE SPECIFICALLY, METOIKOS STUDIES THE LINKS BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF CIRCULAR MIGRATION AND PROCESSES OF INTEGRATION (IN THE COUNTRY OF DESTINATION) AND REINTEGRATION (IN THE SOURCE COUNTRY). IT IDENTIFIES THE MAIN CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES INVOLVED IN CIRCULAR MIGRATION FOR MIGRANTS (AND THEIR FAMILIES), SOURCE COUNTRIES AND DESTINATION COUNTRIES AND DEVELOPS NEW CONCEPTUAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CIRCULAR MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DG JLS EUROPEAN FUND FOR THE INTEGRATION OF THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS HEALTHDOX "THE PARADOX OF HEALTH STATE FUTURES" (HEALTHDOX) PROJECT INVOLVES A TEAM OF SCHOLARS FROM SEVEN EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES AND AIMS TO EXPLORE FUTURE TRAJECTORIES OF EUROPEAN HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICIES THROUGH AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF RECENT HEALTH REFORMS ON HEALTH INEQUALITIES, HEALTH EXPENDITURES, AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS BOTH THE HEALTH SYSTEM AND THE WELFARE STATE. NORFACE WELFARE FUTURE PROGRAMME ASSESSING AND ENHANCING INTEGRATION IN WORKPLACES' PROJECT (WORK-INT) WORK-INT AIMS TO ANALYSE THE WORKPLACE INTEGRATION OF NON-EUROPEAN CITIZENS IN A SELECTION OF EUROPEAN CITIES. THE TCD TEAM WILL BE LED BY DR. CAMILLA DEVITT. THE COORDINATOR IS FIERI, TURIN AND OTHER PARTNERS ARE COMPAS OXFORD UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITAT COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID, AND THE HWWI, HAMBURG. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LABOUR MIGRATION GOVERNANCE (LAB-MIG-GOV) LAB-MIG-GOV IS A THREE YEAR PROJECT COORDINATED BY FIERI, TURIN. IT IS IMPLEMENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE "EUROPE AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES" PROGRAMME PROMOTED BY COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO, RIKSBANKENS JUBILEUMSFOND AND VOLKSWAGENSTIFTUNG. LAB-MIG-GOV INVOLVES CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF WESTERN EUROPEAN LABOUR IMMIGRATION POLICIES. COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO, RIKSBANKENS JUBILEUMSFO "EUROPE AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES" PROGRAMME IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. VALERIA DI COSMO dicosmovaleria VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW VDICOSMO ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR DAVID JOCELYN DICKSON dicksondavidjocelyn FELLOW EMERITUS DDICKSON HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES GENERAL INTERESTS: SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF IRELAND 1650-1850; IRISH URBAN HISTORY, ESPECIALLY OF DUBLIN AND CORK; IRELAND AND AFRICA SINCE 1870; HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN IRELAND. CURRENT RESEARCH: MUNSTER AND THE 1798 REBELLION; FAMINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH 1799-1820; THE PROFESSIONAL DIASPORA FROM IRELAND 1790-1940. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3112 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GOVERNING BODY, DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 2004-7 GOVERNING BODY, MARINO INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, 2004- COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY 2015-16 IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION 2005- ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIAL OF IRELAND; IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY; AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND IRELAND AND AFRICA SINCE 1870 IRISH URBAN HISTORY, DUBLIN AND CORK SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF IRELAND 1650-1850 CULTURAL & ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND, EMPIRE AND EDUCATION THE PROJECT SEEKS TO INITIATE A PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH ON THE ROLE OF IRISH UNIVERSITIES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN SHAPING IMPERIAL, COLONIAL AND GLOBAL PROCESSES BETWEEN THE 1850S AND THE 1930S, AND WILL FOCUS ON THE LINKS BETWEEN IRISH AND COLONIAL UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES. ALTHOUGH IRELAND WAS NOT YET AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY IN THE 1850S, HAD ONLY A PATCHY SECONDARY SCHOOL SYSTEM AND FEW UNIVERSITY PLACES, IRISH HEIS CAME TO PLAY A DISTINCTIVE ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL SYSTEMS OF RULE, A ROLE THEY CONTINUED TO PLAY UNTIL THE SECOND QUARTER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF SUCH DEVELOPMENTS ON IRISH SOCIETY AT A CRUCIAL PERIOD OF IRELAND'S POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION FROM PART-COLONY TO POST-COLONY, ON THE ADVANCEMENT OF MODERN IMPERIALISM AND COLONIALISM, AND ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS. IRCHSS RESEARCH INNOVATION THE FIRST CITIES OF IRELAND 'THE FIRST CITIES OF IRELAND: URBANIZATION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY' IS A COMPARATIVE STUDY FOCUSSING ON THE SEVEN IRISH PORT CITIES BETWEEN THE 1670S AND THE 1820S, DRAWING TOGETHER RECENT STAND-ALONE WORK ON CORK, DUBLIN, LIMERICK AND BELFAST. NO GENERAL WORK ON IRISH URBANIZATION IN THIS PIVOTAL PERIOD OF GROWTH HAS HERETOFORE BEEN ATTEMPTED. THE RESULTING MONOGRAPH WILL PLACE THE APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST IRISH CITIES IN A FIRMLY ATLANTIC CONTEXT, EXPLORING BOTH ARCHITECTURAL ANALOGIES AND COMMERCIAL CONNECTIONS. IT WILL CONTRAST THE DYNAMIC GROWTH OF IRISH CITIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WITH THEIR RELATIVE STAGNATION (IN POPULATION TERMS) IN THE CENTURY AFTER 1825 AND WILL REFLECT ON THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LEGACIES OF THAT ERA. N/A N/A IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR JOHN MYLES DILLON dillonjohnmyles FELLOW EMERITUS DILLONJ CLASSICS MY CHIEF AREA OF INTEREST IS IN GREEK PHILOSOPHY, AND IN PARTICULAR PLATO AND THE PLATONIC TRADITION, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE OLD ACADEMY. MIDDLE PLATONISM AND NEOPLATONISM. I HAVE AN INTEREST ALSO IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE EARLY FATHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, SUCH AS ORIGEN AND THE CAPPADOCIAN FATHERS, AND IN ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY, IN PARTICULAR SUFISM. DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 5033 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 CHAIRMAN, DIVISION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY AND GENERAL STUDIES, U.C. BERKELEY DIRECTOR, DUBLIN CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION DIRECTOR, IRISH INSTITUTE OF HELLENIC STUDIES IN ATHENS ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR NEOPLATONIC STUDIES; AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, SOCIETY FOR ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY, INTERNATIONAL PLATO SOCIETY (PRESIDENT, 2004-7) DR. JESSE DILLON SAVAGE dillonsavagejesse USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DILLONSJ POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. JOHN LALZOLIANA DINGLIANA dinglianajohnlalzoliana ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DINGLIJL COMPUTER SCIENCE ADAPT COMPUTER GRAPHICS, ANIMATION, PERCEPTUALLY ADAPTIVE GRAPHICS, PHYSICALLY BASED ANIMATION, COLLISION HANDLING, VISUALISATION, NON-PHOTREALISTIC RENDERING, REAL-TIME RENDERING, VOLUME RENDERING, LEVEL OF DETAIL IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS, DIGITAL MEDIA. COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE ISG 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN HINDI CO-CHAIR VRIPHYS 2007: INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON VIRTUAL REALITY INTERACTIONS AND PHYSICAL SIMULATIONS CO-CHAIR: EUROGRAPHICS 2005 SHORT PRESENTATIONS EUROGRAPHICS IRISH CHAPTER CHAIR EUROGRAPHICS: EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS PROGRAMME CO-CHAIR - EUROGRAPHICS IRELAND WORKSHOP 3-D MODELLING ALGORITHMS ANIMATION COLLISION HANDLING COMPUTER GRAPHICS COMPUTER GRAPHICS, META COMPUTING COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING DIGITAL SYSTEMS, REPRESENTATION INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION MODELLING, MODELLING TOOLS, 3D MODELLING NON-PHOTOREALISTIC ANIMATION AND RENDERING (NPAR) PROGRAMMING, INFORMATION SYSTEMS REAL-TIME COMPUTING VIRTUAL REALITY VOLUME GRAPHICS MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS INTERACTIVE 3D AUTHORING AND NON-PHOTO-REALISTICALLY RENDERED INTERFACES INTERACTIVE 3D ENVIRONMENTS HAVE BECOME UBIQUITOUS IN RECENT YEARS HOWEVER FREE-FORM MODELLING AND AUTHORING DETAILED ENVIRONMENTS IS STILL A SKILL THAT IS RESERVED FOR TECHNICALLY-EXPERIENCED ANIMATORS AND 3D MODELLERS. USING NON-TRADITIONAL INTERFACES SUCH AS SKETCHING TABLETS, HAPTIC INTERFACES AND SIMPLE MOTION CAPTURE COUPLED WITH NON-PHOTOREALISTICALLY RENDERED VIEWS, WE SEEK TO MAKE 3D SCENE AUTHORING AND INTERACTION MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR A MORE GENERAL CLASS OF USERS, POSSIBLY INCLUDING FIRST TIME USERS, CHILDREN AND DISABLED USERS. IRCSET EMBARK POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP THE BOOK OF KELLS: INVESTIGATIONS OF STYLE AND DESIGN THROUGH NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING TECHNIQUES THE PROJECT WILL TACKLE SOME LONG STANDING PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STYLE AND DESIGN OF DECORATION WITHIN THE BOOK OF KELLS THROUGH THE USE OF DIGITAL MEDIA. EMPLOYING THE METHODS OF NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING, SPECIFIC STYLISTIC AND DESIGN FEATURES WILL BE CAPTURED AND ANALYSED, WITH THE AIM OF EXPLORING GEOMETRICAL PATTERNS AND COMPOSITIONS, COLOUR PALETTES AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES, AS WELL AS VISCERAL MOOD AND STYLE. THE AIM IS TO PLACE TRADITIONAL METHODS OF STYLE ANALYSIS EMPLOYED BY THE ART HISTORIAN ON A DEEPER, MORE OBJECTIVE AND SCIENTIFIC BASIS. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO LONG STANDING PROBLEMS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME GIVING THE BOOK ITSELF A NEW AND MORE DYNAMIC RELEVANCE IN 21ST CENTURY SOCIETY. THIS PROJECT WILL INVOLVE DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR THE INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION OF DIGITALLY SCANNED IMAGERY FROM THE BOOK OF KELLS. TECHNICAL CONTRIBUTIONS WILL INCLUDE THE SEGMENTATION OF THE IMAGERY INTO ITS STYLISTIC COMPONENTS, WHICH WILL ENABLE THE INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION OF THE IMAGES FOR SCHOLARLY ACADEMIC ANALYSIS IN PARTICULAR BY ART HISTORIANS. WE WILL DEVELOP TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING HIGH-FIDELITY INTERACTIVE RENDERINGS OF THE PAGES OF THE BOOK, COMPLETE WITH ACCURATE MODELLING OF MATERIAL AND SURFACE PROPERTIES OF THE VELLUM AND PIGMENTS UNDER VARYING SIMULATED LIGHTING CONDITIONS. ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF THE STYLES, COLOURS AND TECHNIQUES USED IN THE CREATION OF ITS PAGES WILL ALLOW US TO DEVELOP TOOLS FOR PRODUCING IMAGERY AND DIGITAL CONTENT THEMED ON THE BOOK. WE WILL ALSO DEVELOP TECHNIQUES FOR REMOTE AND ONLINE EXPLORATION OF THIS HISTORICAL AND ARTISTIC CONTENT IN ORDER TO FACILITATE APPLICATIONS THAT CAN REACH AND ENGAGE STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TCD INNOVATION BURSARIES 2010 PERCEPTUALLY OPTIMISED INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION THE GOAL IS TO DEVELOP TECHNIQUES FOR INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION OF COMPLEX LARGE SCALE DYNAMIC DATA SETS. THIS WILL INCORPORATE NOVEL INTERACTION AND INPUT INTERFACES AND PERCEPTUALLY OPTIMISED RENDERING STRATEGIES. IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP WITH INTEL PERCEPTUALLY OPTIMIZED RENDERING FOR DYNAMIC 3D VISUALIZATION THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF INTERACTIVE/REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION OF HIGHLY COMPLEX DYNAMIC 3D GEOMETRIC DATA, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HIGH-RESOLUTION VOLUMETRIC DATA, HIGHLY TESSELLATED SURFACE MESHES OR POINT-CLOUDS OBTAINED FROM 3D SCANNERS. IN PARTICULAR, WE ARE CONCERNED WITH THE ISSUE OF VISUALIZING DYNAMIC DATA WHILST IT UNDERGOES CHANGE. NAÏVE RENDERINGS OF COMPLEX VOLUMETRIC DATA OFTEN HAVE A TENDENCY TO INFLICT "INFORMATION OVERLOAD" ON THE USER DUE TO TOO MUCH VISUAL DATA BEING PRESENTED AT ONCE, WHICH IS EXACERBATED WHEN THE DATA IS DYNAMIC. OUR SOLUTION WILL DRAW ON PREVIOUS RESEARCH FROM PERCEPTION, VOLUME RENDERING AND NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING (NPR) LITERATURE AND COMBINE IT WITH PREVIOUSLY EXPLORED STRATEGIES IN INTERACTION DESIGN (E.G. CUTAWAY/EXPLODED VIEWS) TOWARDS A SYSTEM WHICH IS PERCEPTUALLY OPTIMIZED FOR INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION. ONE SPECIFIC IMPLEMENTATION GOAL IS TO FACILITATE THE VISUALISATION OF TIME-VARIANT VOLUMETRIC DATA SUCH AS 3D ULTRASOUND OR 4D MRI. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) RESEARCH FRONTIERS ARTIVVIS: REAL-TIME TIME-VARIANT VOLUME VISUALISATION THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION OF 3D SCIENTIFIC DATA, NAMELY VOLUMETRIC DATASETS, WHICH ARE UBIQUITOUS IN MANY APPLICATION DOMAINS SUCH AS MEDICINE, BIOLOGY, BIOMECHANICS, NEUROSCIENCE, FLUID DYNAMICS AND VETERINARY MEDICINE. SPECIFICALLY, WE DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF TIME-VARIANT AND MULTIVARIATE VOLUME DATA SETS WHICH HAVE BECOME MORE READILY AVAILABLE IN RECENT YEARS DUE TO IMPROVED SCANNING TECHNOLOGIES AND SIMULATION TECHNIQUES. SUCH DATA SETS ARE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH DUE TO THEIR COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AS WELL AS THE INFORMATION OVERLOAD THAT CAN ARISE FROM SUCH VISUALLY CHALLENGING DATA. WE WILL EMPLOY GRAPHICS HARDWARE AND PARALLEL COMPUTING STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE PERFORMANCE ISSUE, WHILST INFORMATION OVERLOAD WILL BE DEALT WITH USING TECHNIQUES FROM PERCEPTUALLY ADAPTIVE GRAPHICS, COMPUTATIONAL AESTHETICS AND NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING WHICH APPLY SMART TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE USABILITY AND UNDERSTANDABILITY OF DATA. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATORS PROGRAM INFOCARVE: FOCUS AND CONTEXT VISUALISATION FOR AUGMENTED REALITY LEVERAGING OUR PREVIOUS WORK IN INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALISATION, WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM FOR OPTIMISED 3D VISUALISATION OVERLAYS IN AUGMENTED REALITY (AR). THE SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE VISUALISATION FUNCTIONS SPECIFIC FOR AR THAT WILL BE REUSABLE IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT APPLICATION DOMAINS. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE IMPROVED VISUALISATION, WE EMPLOY ILLUSTRATIVE RENDERING TECHNIQUES (E.G. LINE DRAWINGS) THAT OCCUPY LESS SCREEN SPACE, MINIMALLY OBSCURING THE REAL SCENE. OUR PREVIOUS WORK HAS SHOWN THAT SUCH VISUALISATION CAN STILL CONVEY EXTREMELY USEFUL INFORMATION ABOUT THE SHAPE AND STRUCTURE OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS. IN ADDITION WE APPLY USER GUIDED TECHNIQUES TO HIGHLIGHT SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE DATA SET IMPORTANT TO THE USER, WHILST ABSTRACTING EXTRANEOUS INFORMATION EMPLOYING A FOCUS-AND CONTEXT PARADIGM COMMONLY USED IN VISUALISATION. SFI TIDA (TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT AWARD) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOHN GERARD DINSMORE dinsmorejohngerard USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DINSMORJ SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE, ILLNESS PERCEPTIONS, EHEALTH, MHEALTH, HEALTHCARE INNOVATION, HEALTHCARE ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH, HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY, HEALTH INFORMATICS AND DATA ASSISTED PSYCHOLOGICAL DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY. HEALTH CONDITIONS - STROKE, COPD, OBESITY, DIABETES, MENTAL HEALTH, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, AUTISM, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, DEMENTIA. SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMBIENT ASSISTIVE LIVING (AAL) NETWORK EUROPE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS (ASCAP) CONTRIBUTOR TO EU GREEN PAPER ON MOBILE HEALTH. DELEGATE - BELFAST CITY COUNCIL US CREATIVE INDUSTRIES TRADE MISSION TEAM - PART OF TEAM PROMOTING THE CREATIVE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES FROM N.IRELAND IN THE US AT EVENTS/MEETINGS IN NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO AND AUSTIN, TEXAS. EU ADVISORY TEAM - EU AAL CMU ON AAL JP CALL 7 AWARD CRITERIA FOR 2015. EU AHA ACTION GROUP B3 - INTEGRATED CARE NETWORK EU AHA ACTION GROUP C2 - DEVELOPMENT OF INTEROPERABLE AND INDEPENDENT LIVING SOLUTIONS NETWORK. EU CHRONIC DISEASE NETWORK OF THE HEALTH POLICY PLATFORM HEALTH 2.0 (ALSO OFFICIAL SPONSOR VIA THE CPHI) HEALTH XL DUBLIN MENTOR - MENTOR TO HEALTHCARE START UPS IN DUBLIN OVER 3 DAY EVENT. HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION IRELAND (SIGCHI IRELAND) INTERNATIONAL REVIEWER - RAIND (RESEARCH IN AUTISM, INTELLECTUAL AND NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES) GRANT PROGRAMME AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (MSU), UNITED STATES. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES IPPOSI (IRISH PLATFORM FOR PATIENTS, ORGANISATIONS, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY), JUDGING PANEL FOR THE 'BELFAST TELEGRAPH' APP FOR LIFE CONTEST. LEONARDO OF THE SCIENCE GALLERY, IRELAND PERFORMING RIGHTS SOCIETY (PRS) PERFORMING RIGHTS SOCIETY UK DELEGATE - UK MUSIC PROMOTION IN CANADA - PART OF DELEGATION TEAM PROMOTING UK AND NORTHERN IRELAND BASED MUSIC IN TORONTO CANADA. REVIEWER HEALTH INFOMATICS JOURNAL REVIEWER ON IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS JOURNAL REVIEWER ON SWEDISH GOVERNMENT 'KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION' RESEARCH FUNDING PROGRAMME. REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS IN 'E-HEALTH SOLUTIONS FOR PERSON-CENTRED CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE' CATEGORY. PLEASE SEE: HTTP://WWW.KKS.SE/SITEPAGES/STARTSIDA.ASPX THE EU AGORA (HEALTH POLICY) NETWORK WHO 'GATE' - GROUP TO DEVELOP A "TOP 50 GLOBAL ASSISTIVE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY CHECKLIST". WHO 2ND WORLD FORUM - LEAD ROUNDTABLE MEETING ON "CONNECTED THINGS" - KOBE, JAPAN. WORKING GROUP WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM - STRATEGY IN DIGITAL AGEING, SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND FINANCE. MEETINGS IN TOKYO, JAPAN AND LONDON UK BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOLOGY COPD DEMENTIA EHEALTH HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM HEALTHCARE INNOVATION INFORMAL CAREGIVING MHEALTH MOBILE APPLICATIONS REMOTE MONITORING STROKE CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE RESPIRATORY MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES STEPPING UP ROLE - PROJECT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER. ONLINE TRANSITION INFORMATION FOR CHILDREN (WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES) MOVING TO ADULT SERVICES (TICAS) PI: PROF. IMELDA COYNE. SUPPORTED DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE TRAINING WEBSITE: HTTP://WWW.STEPPINGUP.IE. PI: PROF. IMELDA COYNE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) IRELAND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION AWARD BREATHE (EU AAL CALL 5) - HTTP://WWW.BREATHE-PROJECT.EU EU AAL FUNDED PROGRAMME TO DEVELOP AN AAL REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT INFORMAL CAREGIVERS CARING FOR AGEING RELATIVES LIVING INDEPENDENTLY AT HOME. PLEASE SEE: HTTP://BREATHE-PROJECT.EU PI: PROF. CATHERINE COMISKEY - STUDY TITLE: PLATFORM (INCLUDING CAMERAS, SENSORS AND MOBILE APPLICATION) FOR SELF-ASSESSMENT AND EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS. PARTNERS: TCPHI, TUNDSTALL EMERGENCY RESPONSE, WRC, TSB, ISI, DESIGNABILITY UK, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, CYBERMOOR UK. AAL AAL CALL 5 THE SPECTRUM OF FAMILY CARING: A DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF CROSS-CUTTING AND CONDITION SPECIFIC DIMENSIONS OF CAREGIVING STUDY TITLE: 'THE NATURE OF THECONTRIBUTION OF FAMILY CARERS TO THE PROCESS OF CARING FOR FRAIL, ILL AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN IRELAND'. CO-PI WITH PROF. CATHERINE COMISKEY THE CARERS ASSOCIATION IRELAND DOCTRID ASSISTID - HTTP://WWW.ASSISTID.EU ASSISTID (ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY) WILL PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND AUTISM, THEIR CARERS AND FAMILIES. ASSISTID IS THE FIRST STRUCTURED RESEARCH PROGRAMME OF ITS KIND IN EUROPE AND THE MOST SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT INTO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH TO DATE. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES REFERS TO PRACTICAL TOOLS THAT CAN SUPPORT THE FUNCTIONAL NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH DISABILITY OR AGEING. THE ASSISTID PROGRAMME WHICH WILL FUND 40 POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS IS CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND THE CHARITY RESPECT, AND IS COORDINATED BY THE DOCTRID RESEARCH INSTITUTE. THE DOCTRID RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCLUDES THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY DISABILITY SUPPORT SERVICES, ALL OF THE UNIVERSITIES ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND, AND THE US UNIVERSITIES MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT ALL OF THE UNIVERSITIES ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND HAVE JOINED TOGETHER IN AN EU FUNDED RESEARCH CONSORTIUM. OUR TEAM SUPPORTS TCD ENGAGEMENT WITH THE DOCTRID CONSORTIUM IN THE PROGRAMME EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE-CURIE FP7 CO-FUND NEED AND IMPACT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES RESEARCH FELLOW COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN TCD AND MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY OVER 2 YEARS. PRESENT PROJECT IS TO REVIEWING THE NEED AND IMPACT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY USE AN ADOPTION WITHIN THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES IN IRELAND. PI PROF. MARY MCCARRON MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HEGARTY FELLOWSHIP PILO HEALTH DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE DIGITAL EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR PERSONS LIVING WITH COPD. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DISSEMINATION PI: PROF. MARIE REDMOND. INTERNAL FUNDING TO DEVELOP STRATEGY BROCHURE AND 1-DAY SEMINAR EVENT WITH ADMIN SUPPORT TO LOOK AT ADDITIONAL FUNDING TCD STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT A COLLABORATIVE MODEL OF MANAGEMENT THROUGH EXERCISE OF CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK IN MAJOR MENTAL ILLNESS PI: DR. NIALL CRUMLISH PSYCHIATRIST HSE DUBLIN SOUTH: FEASIBILITY OF A MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERVENTION TO REDUCE CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR DISORDER. FOCUS WAS ON METABOLIC SYNDROME AS MARKER OF CVS RISK BUT NOT ORIGINALLY ON SEDENTARY TIME N/A WAYFINDING TO PILOT A SMART WATCH NAVIGATION APPLICATION FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY/MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. TCD FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES DEAN'S INNOVATION AWARD AAL EU TRAVEL AWARD GRANT TO ASSIST WITH AAL PROJECT DISSEMINATION AT EVENTS INCLUDING THE AAL FORUM AAL CMU AAL BRAINWAVE RESEARCH INVOLVES DEVELOPING TRAINING MATERIALS AND MOBILE APPLICATION TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS WITH EPILEPSY IN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT. PI: PROF. NAOMI ELLIOT. HRB MRCG/HRB JOINT FUNDING SCHEME GRIDSTA LITERATURE REVIEW OF 5 RELEVANT SECONDARY SCHOOL HEALTHCARE EDUCATIONAL AREAS ACROSS THE REGIONS OF INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND MALAYSIA AREAS SELECTED:  - HIV/AIDS  - SUBSTANCE ABUSE  - DEPRESSION  - BODY IMAGE   - TEEN PREGNANCY   THE PROJECT ALSO DEVELOPED 5 WRITTEN STORYBOARD GUIDE NOTES FROM THE BACKGROUND LITERATURE REVIEW FOR GRIDSTA TO PASS TO THEIR DESIGNERS AND DEVELOPERS IN ORDER TO HELP INFORM THEM OF THE DIRECTION TO ANY ANIMATIONS EDUCATION CONTENT FOR THEIR ONLINE TRAINING PLATFORM. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHER AND COMMERICALISATION AWARDS PROACT (HTTP://PROACT2020.EU - DR. DINSMORE PROJECT COORDINATOR) WEBSITE: HTTP://PROACT2020.EU PROACT (INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS FOR PROACTIVE PATIENT CENTRED CARE) IS AN EU-FUNDED HORIZON 2020 PROJECT IN PHC-25-2015. PROACT TARGETS EUROPE'S 50 MILLION MULTIMORBID PATIENTS TO PROACTIVELY SELF-MANAGE AND OFFSET THE EU'S ANNUAL €700 BILLION COST OF CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT. PROACT AIMS TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE AN ECOSYSTEM TO INTEGRATE A WIDE VARIETY OF NEW AND EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE AND ADVANCE HOME-BASED INTEGRATED CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH MULTIMORBIDITY, INCLUDING ASSOCIATED CO-MORBIDITIES. THE ECOSYSTEM WILL CONNECT FOUR KEY CARE AND SUPPORT MODELS CENTRAL TO UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE, CONTINUED AND COORDINATED PATIENT CENTRIC CARE (INCLUDING SELF-MANAGEMENT). THESE MODELS ARE 1) HOMECARE (INCLUDING INFORMAL CARE); 2) HOSPITAL CARE; 3) COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL CARE AND 4) SOCIAL SUPPORT NETWORKS. TRIAL SITES IN IRELAND AND BELGIUM WILL USE LIVING LAB FACILITIES TO ENSURE CO-DESIGN OF PROACT TECHNOLOGIES, AND IMPLEMENT PROOF OF CONCEPT TRIALS INVOLVING NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES, PATIENTS AND THEIR FORMAL AND INFORMAL CARE NETWORKS. CLINICAL STATUS INFORMATION, THERAPIES AND ACTIVITY TOOLS WILL BE DEPLOYED FOR THE CONDITIONS OF: CHRONIC HEART FAILURE (CHF), DIABETES AND CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD). TOOLS TO SUPPORT MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DETECT EARLY ONSET DEMENTIA ARE INCLUDED. COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL WILL BE VALIDATED DURING THE PROJECT SUPPORTED BY A EUROPEAN FEASIBILITY STUDY IN ITALY TO ASSESS THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL DETERMINANTS FOR ADOPTION AND SCALABILITY OF THE ECOSYSTEM. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 PH25-2015 H2020 COORDINATOR AWARD PROACT FUNDING TO SUPPORT COORDINATION OF PHC25-2015 APPLICATION - ADVANCED ICT SYSTEMS AND SERVICES FOR INTEGRATED CARE. PARTNERS INCLUDED; IBM, PHILIPS, AAATE, EASPD, CASALA, TYNDALL INSTITUTE, AIAS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COORDINATION AWARD ISCA AWARD - HEALTH AWARD TO TRAVEL TO JAPAN TO ESTABLISH A FRAMEWORK FOR A HIGHER LEVEL OF ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL INTERACTION BETWEEN IRELAND AND JAPAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ISCA PILO FEASIBILITY AWARD TO DEVELOP A PROTOTYPE SELF-MANAGEMENT MOBILE APPLICATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH COPD AS WELL AS CONDUCT A MARKET FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS (PI: DR.CATHERINE MCCABE) OF COMMERICALISING THE APPLICATION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIAL FEASIBILITY AWARD H2020 COORDINATOR AWARD IDEATE FUNDING TO SUPPORT COORDINATION OF PHC20-2014 APPLICATION - ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT IN DEMENTIA. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COORDINATION AWARD AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. DAVID DITCHBURN ditchburndavid ASSOCIATE PROF IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY DITCHBUD HISTORY MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND, AND ESPECIALLY ITS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CONNECTIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY SCHOOL OF HISTORIES & HUMANITIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEDIEVAL BRITAIN MEDIEVAL EUROPE MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND SCOTLAND SCOTTISH HISTORY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR VICTOR DIXON dixonvictor FELLOW EMERITUS DIXONV FELLOWS EMERITII SPANISH DRAMATISTS OF THE 17TH CENTURY, ESPECIALLY LOPE DE VEGA, AND OF THE 20TH CENTURY, ESPECIALLY ANTONIO BUERO VALLEJO; THE TRANSLATION AND PERFORMANCE OF SPANISH PLAYS FELLOW EMERITUS 01-8961000 DR. NEIL DOCHERTY dochertyneil VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW DOCHERTN PSYCHIATRY MY CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREA OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND FIBROSIS IN RENAL DISEASE AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. SPECIFICALLY; 1)ANTI-FIBROTIC POTENTIAL OF MACROPHAGE PHENOTYPE MODULATION IN CHRONIC RENAL AND GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE. 2)STRICTURE FIBROBLAST PHENOTYPE AND ITS ROLE IN STRICTURE FORMATION IN CROHN'S DISEASE. 3) MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY BASED EXAMINATION OF THE MUCOSA-ADHERENT MICROBIOTA IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS. 4) THE GUT-BRAIN AXIS AND CENTRAL NEUROINFLAMMATION IN ULCERATIVE COLITIS DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR BMC GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATE EDITOR-IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND (FELLOW) EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION CHRONIC INFLAMATION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH RENAL FIBROSIS RENAL PHYSIOLOGY RESEARCH-LED TEACHING SELF- AND PEER- ASSESSMENT TOOLS IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS DR. PAUL MICHAEL DOCKREE dockreepaulmichael ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DOCKREEP PSYCHOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) OUR RESEARCH INVESTIGATES MECHANISMS OF ATTENTION, MEMORY, EXECUTIVE CONTROL AND AWARENESS USING NOVEL COGNITIVE PARADIGMS COMBINED WITH NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL METHODS. THIS WORK HAS A CLINICAL EMPHASIS TO UNDERSTAND CHANGES IN FUNCTIONING CAUSED BY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND FOCAL BRAIN LESIONS BUT ALSO A STRONG INTEREST IN DEVELOPING REHABILITATION TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE PATIENT RECOVERY FROM COGNITIVE DISABILITIES. FOR EXAMPLE, A RECENT PROJECT HAS THE OBJECTIVE OF ALLEVIATING ATTENTIONAL FILTERING PROBLEMS IN PATIENTS WITH BRAIN INJURY WHERE PAYING ATTENTION IN THE CONTEXT OF DISTRACTING NOISE FROM THE ENVIRONMENT CAN BE EXTREMELY CHALLENGING. WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN AGE-RELATED INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION. A RECENT PROJECT HAS EXPLORED VARIATION IN EPISODIC MEMORY IN THE ELDERLY AND IDENTIFIED DIFFERENT NEURAL SIGNATURES OF PRESERVED AND IMPAIRED EPISODIC MEMORY IN OLDER AGE. A NEW MULTI-CENTRE RESEARCH PROGRAM FUNDED UNDER THE EU MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORK 'INDIREA', AND COORDINATED BY PROF GLYN HUMPHREYS, AIMS TO EMPLOY NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION AND BIOFEEDBACK AS AN APPROACH TO ENHANCE DIFFERENT FACETS OF COGNITION IN ELDERLY PEOPLE WITH MEMORY DIFFICULTIES. FINALLY, WE ARE ALSO INVESTIGATING INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE EXPERIENCE OF BILINGUALISM AND HOW MANAGING TWO OR MORE LANGUAGES IN MIND CAN STRENGTHEN COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY AND IMPROVE NEURAL EFFICIENCY. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY ADHD AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CLINICAL NEUROLOGY COGNITIVE SCIENCE DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS HUMAN LEARNING AND MEMORY NEUROBIOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROPSYCHOLOGY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROREHABILITATION NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITION PHYSIOLOGY REHABILITATION REHABILITATION/THERAPY COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS IN TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: NOVEL BIOMARKERS FOR NEW TREATMENTS TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) REPRESENTS AN URGENT AND GROWING MENTAL HEALTH BURDEN FOR WHICH NEW TREATMENTS MUST BE DEVELOPED. STANDARDISED ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE PROBLEMS IN TBI PATIENTS PROVIDES THE CLINICIAN WITH AN ACCURATE PROFILE OF KEY DISABLING BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS OF MEMORY, ATTENTION, EMOTIONAL REGULATION AND INSIGHT THAT ARE PRESENT TO A GREATER OR LESSER EXTENT IN DIFFERENT TBI PATIENTS. BASIC BRAIN SCIENCE REVEALS THAT MICROSCOPIC HAEMHORRAGES INVISIBLE TO STANDARD MRI, DIFFUSE WHITE MATTER (AXONAL) DAMAGE AND WIDESPREAD NEUROTRANSMITTER DISRUPTION UNDERLIES TBI DEFICITS AND AS SUCH THERE IS POOR SPECIFICITY AND SENSITIVITY LINKING DISCRETE COGNITIVE PROBLEMS WITH ASSOCIATED FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY IN TBI PATIENTS. HOWEVER, WE URGENTLY REQUIRE BIOMARKERS FOR NEW TREATMENTS THAT TARGET THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COGNITIVE PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY TBI PATIENTS. A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL TECHNIQUE FOR IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION IS THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG). EEG PROVIDES A CONTINUOUS RECORDING OF THE BRAINS ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY AND DISCRETE NEURAL SIGNALS CAN BE EXTRACTED CALLED EVENT-RELATED-POTENTIALS (ERPS). WE PROPOSE THAT KEY EEG/ERP BIOMARKERS CAN DISSOCIATE SYMPTOM-CLUSTERS IN DIFFERENT TBI PATIENTS THAT REFLECT 1) INATTENTION AND RELATED MEMORY PROBLEMS, 2) IMPULSIVITY/DISINHIBITION AND 3) REDUCED INSIGHT/SELF-AWARENESS. BIOMARKERS FOR THESE THREE CLUSTERS WILL HELP ELUCIDATE THE NEURO-COGNITIVE PROCESSES UNDERLYING A RANGE OF DISTRESSING PROBLEMS FREQUENTLY EXPERIENCED BY TBI PATIENTS THAT HAVE THUS FAR BEEN LARGELY UNTREATABLE. WE WILL SELECT 100 POST-ACUTE OUTPATIENTS SUFFERING FROM TBI. PATIENTS' SYMPTOM RATING SCORES WILL BE DIVIDED INTO HIGH, MEDIUM AND LOW CATEGORIES; THEREFORE, THE RELATIVE PERVASIVENESS OF EACH SYMPTOM CLUSTERS CAN BE DETERMINED FOR EACH PATIENT. EEG/ERP BIOMARKER SIGNALS WILL BE COMPARED ACROSS EACH OF THE PATIENTS AND CONTROLS FOR KEY COGNITIVE PROBES (LABORATORY TASKS) THAT MEASURE COGNITIVE DEFICITS WHICH MAP TO EACH SYMPTOM CLUSTER. FINALLY, STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING WILL BE EMPLOYED TO TEST THE PREDICTIVE STRENGTH OF BIOMARKERS FOR SYMPTOM RATING SEVERITY. HRB AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. SARA MARION DOCKRELL dockrellsaramarion ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SDOCKRLL PHYSIOTHERAPY CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY; INVESTIGATION AND APPLICATION OF ERGONOMICS TO PROMOTE THE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS; BACK PAIN; MOVING AND HANDLING OF PATIENTS, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON OVERWEIGHT AND BARIATRIC PATIENTS. SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH ERGONOMICS SOCIETY (IES) IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPIST REPRESENTATIVE ON THE HEALTH PROMOTION SUBGROUP OF THE HSE CHILD HEALTH STEERING GROUP IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS (ISCP) MEMBER OF DEPT. OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE EXPERT WORKING GROUP ON WEIGHT OF CHILDREN'S SCHOOLBAGS CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY ERGONOMICS IN SCHOOLS LOW BACK PAIN MOVING AND HANDLING OF PATIENTS PHYSIOTHERAPY MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) INVESTIGATION OF PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS OF SCHOOLBAG CARRIAGE AMONG IRISH SCHOOL CHILDREN THE PRIMARY AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE THE LOADS THAT ARE CARRIED BY IRISH SCHOOLCHILDREN, AND TO ESTABLISH ANY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SCHOOLBAG WEIGHT, THE CHILD'S BODY WEIGHT, OTHER PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS. THE EFFECTS OF COMPUTER RELATED ERGONOMIC INTERVENTION ON SCHOOLCHILDREN'S POSTURE AND DISCOMFORT. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF AN ERGONOMIC INTERVENTION PROGRAMME ON THE COMPUTER-RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL HEALTH OF PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN.THE PROJECT IS QUASI- EXPERIMENTAL IN DESIGN, USING PRE-INTERVENTION AND POST-INTERVENTION MEASUREMENTS OF POSTURE, RANGE OF MOVEMENT AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISCOMFORT. POST PRIMARY TEACHERS EDUCATION IN COMPUTER ERGONOMICS THIS PROJECT IS A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY OF ALL POST PRIMARY TEACHERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. INFORMATION WILL BE SOUGHT ABOUT THE SOURCES, NATURE AND CONTENT OF THEIR TRAINING AND EDUCATION IN COMPUTER RELATED ERGONOMICS. NATIONAL CENTRE FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION ANALYSIS OF THE CAUSES AND COSTS OF MANUAL HANDLING INCIDENTS IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR THIS PROJECTS AIMS TO EXAMINE THE CAUSES AND COSTS OF MANUAL HANDLING INCIDENTS IN THE HEALTH CARE SECTOR BY SCRUTINISING A NUMBER OF CLAIMS FILES. HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ENERGY COST OF ACTIVITIES TRADITIONALLY CONSIDERED SEDENTARY THE SEDENTARY NATURE OF OFFICE WORK HAS BEEN HIGHLIGHTED AS A HEALTH RISK, AND STRATEGIES TO REDUCE SEDENTARY BEHAVIOUR AT WORK HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED. ONE SUCH STRATEGY IS THE USE OF SIT-STAND CHAIRS. THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE THE ENERGY COST OF UNDERTAKING COMMON TASKS WHILE SITTING AND STANDING AND TO TEST THE CLASSIFICATION (SEDENTARY OR LIGHT-INTENSITY PHYSICAL ACTIVITY) OF THE TASKS UNDER THE TWO CONDITIONS. THE ENERGY EXPENDED WILL BE MEASURED USING PORTABLE INDIRECT CALORIMETRY EQUIPMENT (COSMED K4 B2). N/A TASK FURNITURE IN EDUCATION THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY AIMS TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP INNOVATIVE SCHOOL FURNITURE FOR CLASSROOM TASKS, ACCOMODATION THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY AND RESPONDING TO NEW TEACHING METHODS EU FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IAPP PARENTAL AWARENESS OF SCHOOLBAG CARRIAGE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF IRISH AND UNITED STATES PARENTS GIVEN THE GLOBAL NATURE OF SCHOOLBAG CARRIAGE, THERE HAS BEEN EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON SCHOOLBAG WEIGHT AND USE WITH RESULTANT GUIDANCE ON MANY ASPECTS OF CARRYING A SCHOOLBAG. HOWEVER, THERE IS LIMITED EVIDENCE OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION OR PARENTS' AWARENESS OF SCHOOLBAG CARRIAGE. THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED PARENTAL AWARENESS OF FACTORS RELATED TO SCHOOLBAG CARRIAGE. A CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEY USING AN ANONYMOUS 30-ITEM QUESTIONNAIRE AND PURPOSIVE SAMPLING WAS USED. QUESTIONNAIRES WERE DISTRIBUTED TO PARENTS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH THE SCHOOLS. DR. PHILIP CHARLES DODD doddphilipcharles P/T CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER DODDP PSYCHIATRY MENTAL HEALTH, BEREAVEMENT, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY; PALLIATIVE CARE AND PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; A.D.H.D. AND CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. 8 DECOURCY SQUARE GLASNEVIN DUBLIN 9 01-8961000 FRENCH ASSISTANT EDITOR, JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (JARID) MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY MEMBER OF COUNCIL, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (REPRESENTING CENTRE FOR DISABILITY STUDIES, UCD) MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE MEMBER OF MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION (IRELAND) WORKING GROUP, SET UP TO DEVELOP A CODE OF PRACTICE FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT. MEMBER PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE, IASSID MEMBER, INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND DISABILITY, UNITED KINGDOM MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (IASSID). SPECIALIST REGISTER, PSYCHIATRY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL SPECIALIST REGISTER, PSYCHIATRY, IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL DEATH AND DYING, BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS HANDICAPPED REHABILITATION LEARNING DISABILITIES OLDER PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: NEEDS ASSESSMENT JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT BETWEEN UCD AND ST. MICHAEL'S HOUSE ST. MICHAEL'S HOUSE NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DATABASE NATIONAL COORDINATOR OF THE SECOND AUDIT OF THE NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DATABASE (HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD). DEPT. OF HEALTH & CHILDREN PILOT FOR A NATIONAL STUDY ON PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN IRELAND WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED. NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY VALIDATION OF COMPLICATED GRIEF INVENTORY FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (CGI-ID) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN DR. HAZEL DODGE dodgehazel ASSOCIATE PROF & HEAD OF DISCIPLINE HDODGE CLASSICS CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES ROMAN CONSTRUCTION IN THE EMPIRE WITH A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. ROMAN PROVINCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY. GREEK AND ROMAN CITIES AND URBANISATION. GREEK AND ROMAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE. MARBLE AND THE MARBLE TRADE. CITY OF ROME. MANUFACTURE AND PRODUCTION OF MATERIALS IN ANTIQUITY. ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY. ANCIENT SPECTACLE AND ENTERTAINMENT SCHOOL OF CLASSICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN RUSSIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN TURKISH FRENCH GERMAN GREEK, MODERN (1453-) ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF MARBLES AND OTHER STONES IN ANTIQUITY CONSULTANT FOR ANNESS PUBLISHING CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA DIRECTOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY/FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON OCCASIONAL CONSULTANT FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION ROMAN SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR LIBYAN STUDIES ANCIENT SPECTACLE ANCIENT/CLASSICAL HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY BYZANTINE HISTORY NUMISMATICS ROMAN ARCHITECTURE ROMAN MARBLE TRADE ROMAN PROVINCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY THE CITY OF ROME URBAN HISTORY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY ROMAN MARBLE PROJECT THE QUARRYING, TRANSPORT, DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF DECORATIVE STONES IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, EXAMINING THE TECHNOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY INVOLVED. A DATABASE OF USES IS BEING COMPILED AND DISTRIBUTION MAPS GENERATED USING GIS. TCD AND SELF ROMAN SPECTACLE AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPECTACLE IN THE ROMAN WORLD AND BUILDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THEM. NO FUNDING BUILDING MATERIALS AT LEPTIMINUS PART OF A LARGER PROGRAMME OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY (SURVEY AND EXCAVATION) EXAMINING THE DEVELOPMENT, FORM AND ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE OF A PORT SITE IN TUNISIA DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. JUSTIN FRANCIS DOHERTY dohertyjustinfrancis ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/HEAD OF DEPT JDOHERTY RUSSIAN MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE CHIEFLY FOCUSED ON TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE. WITHIN THIS BROAD FIELD OF INTEREST, MY WORK HAS CENTERED ON RUSSIAN MODERNISM, PARTICULARLY ON THE ACMEIST SCHOOL OF POETS; AND ON THE LITERARY CULTURE OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRATION. A FURTHER INTEREST IS IN LITERARY TRANSLATION, ESPECIALLY IN PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF TRANSLATION. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN CZECH LITERATURE AND CULTURE, THOUGH THIS INTEREST IS LESS ACTIVE IN RECENT YEARS. DEPT OF RUSSIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN CROATIAN CZECH FRENCH BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (FORMERLY IRISH SLAVISTS' ASSOCIATION) 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM CINEMA/VIDEO CZECH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE/LITERATURE SLAVIC LANGUAGE/LITERATURE TRANSLATION TRANSLATION STUDIES VISUAL ARTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. GAVIN DOHERTY dohertygavin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GDOHERTY COMPUTER SCIENCE DR. DOHERTY IS A RESEARCHER IN THE AREA OF HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION. HIS MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE DESIGN OF SYSTEMS WHICH MEET REAL-WORLD NEEDS AND WHICH ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THE CONTEXT OF USE. HE HAS CONDUCTED RESEARCH ON MOBILE COMPUTING SYSTEMS, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES THE DESIGN OF INFORMATION DISPLAYS. HE HAS ALSO HAD A LONG STANDING INTEREST IN MODELLING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS AND BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN EARLY STAGE CONTEXTUAL WORK AND DESIGN. HE HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGIES, AND HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN THE AREA OF TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH CARE, DEVELOPING SEVERAL NOVEL TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS AND EVALUATING THEM IN A CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE DSG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACM COUNCIL OF EUROPEAN CHAPTER LEADERS ASSOCIATE CHAIR, ACM CHI 2010 CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATE CHAIR, ACM CHI 2011 CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATE CHAIR, ACM CHI 2012 CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATE CHAIR, ACM CHI 2013 CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATE CHAIR, ACM CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI 2013) ASSOCIATE CHAIR, ACM MOBILEHCI 2010 ASSOCIATE CHAIR, ACM SYMPOSIUM ON ENGINEERING INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS (EICS 2015). ASSOCIATE CHAIR, INTERACT 2011 (FULL PAPERS) CHAIR CHI 2008 WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY IN MENTAL HEALTH CHAIR OF SIGCHI IRELAND CO-CHAIR DSV-IS 2006 ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT PANEL 2007 FULL MEMBER OF IFIP WG 2.7/13.4 LATE BREAKING RESULTS CHAIR, ACM EICS 2010. PC MEMBER ACM SYMPOSIUM ON ENGINEERING INTERACTIVE COMPUTING SYSTEMS 2009. PC MEMBER DSV-IS 2008 PC MEMBER ENGINEERING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS 2007 PC MEMBER HUMAN-CENTERED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 2008 PC MEMBER INTERACT 2007 (FULL PAPERS) PC MEMBER ONTOLOGIES IN INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS 2008 PC MEMBER, CASCON DUBLIN SYMPOSIUM 2006 PC MEMBER, FMIS 2006 PROGRAM COMMITTEE, ECCE 2011 PROPOSAL REVIEWER, DUTCH RESEARCH COUNCIL (NWO). PROPOSAL REVIEWER, EPSRC (UK) PROPOSAL REVIEWER, HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL (NZ) PROPOSAL REVIEWER, NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA. SENIOR MEMBER OF THE ACM TUTORIALS CHAIR, ACM EICS 2012 VIDEO CO-CHAIR PERVASIVE 2006 COMPUTER INTERFACE COMPUTER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION REPRESENTATIONS INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT MENTAL-HEALTH MOBILE COMPUTING PERVASIVE COMPUTING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE VISUAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO PRODUCE A METHODOLOGY THAT GUIDES DESIGNERS OF DECISION SUPPORT APPLICATIONS IN THE PROCESS OF CREATING VISUAL INFORMATION DISPLAYS. INTEL CORPORATION VIRTUALLY HEALTHY THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO USE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY (INCLUDING GAMES) TO SUPPORT PSYCHIATRIC THERAPY FOR ADOLESCENTS. CURRENT RESEARCH INCLUDES CONTENT CREATION BY THERAPISTS, AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS TO ENGAGE ADOLESCENTS IN THERAPY. HEA MOBILE DECISION SUPPORT FOR THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH CARE SERVICES ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED THERAPY TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED THERAPY IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (WWW.TCD.IE), PARENTS PLUS (WWW.PARENTSPLUS.IE/) AND THE NATIONAL DIGITAL RESEARCH CENTRE (WWW.NDRC.IE). THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR STEPPED-CARE INTERVENTIONS IN MENTAL HEALTHCARE SETTINGS. NDRC COMMERCIALISATION MANYCORE - VISUALIZATION TO SUPPORT MULITCORE PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION SFI CSET UBICOM MENTAL HEALTH DESIGN OF TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER. EU MARIE CURIE IOF WHAAM - WEB HEALTH APPLICATION FOR ADHD MONITORING TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT BEHAVIOUR MONITORING FOR CHILDREN WITH ADHD. EUROPEAN AGENCY LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME. UNDERSTANDING INTERACTIVITY: TOWARDS DEVELOPING A THEORY AND TOOLKIT FOR TEACHING, RESEARCHING AND PRODUCING 'INTERACTIVITY' IN DIGITAL MEDIA APPLICATIONS IRC GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTDOCTORAL AWARD TECHNOLOGY FOR WELLBEING IRC NEW FOUNDATIONS CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JAMES DOHERTY dohertyjames ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DOHERTJA IRISH SCOIL NA GAILGE ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERRING AND TECHNOLOGY DR. DEREK DOHERTY dohertyderek ASSOCIATE PROF & HEAD OF IMMUNOLOGY DOHERTDE IMMUNOLOGY OUR RESEARCH IS AIMED AT FINDING OUT HOW THE IMMUNE SYSTEM CAN PROTECT AGAINST OR CAUSE DISEASE IN HUMANS AND HOW IT CAN BE MANIPULATED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPIES. WE ARE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN "INNATE LYMPHOCYTES" (NATURAL KILLER CELLS, NATURAL KILLER T CELLS AND GAMMA/DELTA T CELLS), WHICH APPEAR TO BE "MASTER REGULATORS" OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND WHICH ARE DEFECTIVE IN MANY INFECTIOUS AND IMMUNE-MEDIATED DISEASES AND CANCERS. IN COLLABORATION WITH CLINICAL COLLEAGUES, WE ARE STUDYING INNATE LYMPHOCYTES IN PATIENTS WITH HEPATITIS B AND C, HIV, CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA, LUNG CANCER, POST-OPERATIVE INFECTION AND SEPSIS, COELIAC DISEASE AND ANTIBODY DEFICIENCIES. OUR RESULTS SHOW THAT VARIOUS INNATE LYMPHOCYTE POPULATIONS CAN BE MANIPULATED TO PROMOTE THE GENERATION OF DESIRABLE IMMUNE RESPONSES FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASE. DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LAB ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL JAMES'S STREET, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY; SECRETARY 2000-2004. ADIPOSE-TISSUE ADJUVANT THERAPY ADJUVANTS AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES B-CELLS CANCER CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNE RESPONSES DENDRITIC CELLS GAMMA DELTA TCR HEPATITIS B HEPATITIS-C HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA HIV HUMAN LIVER IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNODEFICIENCY INFECTIOUS DISEASES INNATE IMMUNITY LEUKOCYTE LIPIDS LYMPHOCYTES NATURAL-KILLER-CELLS CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MR. DUDLEY JAMES GEORGE DOLAN dolandudleyjamesgeorge RETIRED STAFF MEMBER DOLAN COMPUTER SCIENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS & DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES, DIGITAL LITERACY (EUROPEAN COMPUTER DRIVING LICENCE), ELEARNING. COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ANNE DOLAN dolananne ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ADOLAN HISTORY CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH SECRETARY, IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR JOHN FRANCIS DONEGAN doneganjohnfrancis PROFESSOR JDONEGAN PHYSICS AMBER CONNECT CENTRE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS CRANN PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING OF OPTICAL DEVICES FOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATION INCLUDING SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS AND COHERENT RECEIVERS; ACTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS WITH HIGH-ORDER SURFACE GRATINGS; PHOTONIC-INTEGRATION OF POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER AND OPTICAL HYBRID BASED ON FORWARD AND REVERSE BIAS STRUCTURES. HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING (HAMR); SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURES FOR NANOSCALE DIRECTION AND FOCUSSING OF LIGHT PLASMONIC STRUCTURES FOR APPLICATIONS IN HAMR. THERMO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GOLD IN HIGH POWER PLASMONICS. CONICAL REFRACTION OF LIGHT; PEROVSKITE AND ORGANIC MATERIALS FOR VISIBLE PHOTONICS; NEW DEVICES BASED ON 2D MATERIALS WITH EPSILON NEAR ZERO BEHAVIOUR DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ECOC 2019: CHAIRMAN OF THE TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS, ATTENDANCE > 5000. EDWARD HUTCHINSON SYNGE: FORGOTTEN IRISH GENIUS WHO INVENTED THE NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPE. BOOK WRITTEN ON HIS LIFE AND WORKS. EXTERNAL EXAMINER: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GALWAY: PHYSICS DEGREES UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGIES 2011-2017 PHD EXAMINATIONS INCLUDING: NANYANG UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY, BERLIN FELLOW, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS MEMBER, AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA SENIOR MEMBER, INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS INVITED TALKS: EXAMPLES KEYNOTE PRESENTATION- ADVANCED LASER TECHNOLOGIES, 2016 INVITED:SPIE ANNUAL PHOTONICS MEETING CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BELL LABS, NEW JERSEY JUNO INITIATIVE: LAUNCHED IN 2011 WITH INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS TO IMPROVE FEMALE PARTICIPATION IN PHYSICS. SCHOOL RECENTLY OBTAINED JUNO PRACTITIONER STATUS REFEREE FOR JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, PHYSICS REVIEW B (CONDENSED MATTER), JOURNAL OF LUMINESCENCE, ELECTRONICS LETTERS, OPTICAL MATERIALS, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D, SEMICONDUCTOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, OPTICS COMMUNICATIONS, NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, NATURE PHOTONICS, SCIENCE, OPTICS EXPRESS. REVIEWER: EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL, STARTED, CONSOLIDATOR, ADVANCED GRANTS. NORWEGIAN SCIENCE COUNCIL. FONDS NATIONAL, CANADA. ABSORPTION ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS BLUE CARRIER CARRIER TRANSPORT CDTE CDTE NANOCRYSTALS CONFINEMENT CRYSTALLINE SI DECAY DEFECTS DEGRADATION DEPENDENCE DIODE-LASER DIODE-LASERS DIODES DISPERSION DISTRIBUTED-BRAGG-REFLECTOR DOPED FLUOROZIRCONATE FIBER DOPED SILICON DOUBLE-HETEROSTRUCTURE EFFECTIVE-MASS PARAMETERS ELECTROLUMINESCENCE ELECTRON-PARAMAGNETIC-RESONANCE EMISSION ENHANCED DEFECT REACTIONS ER CENTERS ERBIUM EXCITONS FIBRE BRAGG GRATING FIBRE LASER FIBRE OPTICAL SENSORS FLUORESCENCE GAAS GAIN SPECTRA GAS SENSING GAS SENSOR GASES GLASSES GREEN LASER-DIODE GREEN LIGHT EMITTERS H2O HETEROSTRUCTURES II-VI LASER DIODE II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS LASER-DIODES LASERS LAYERS LIGHT EMISSION LIGHT-EMISSION LINE-SHAPES LINEWIDTH LINEWIDTHS LOCALIZATION LUMINESCENCE MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY MOLECULAR-BEAM-EPITAXY MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS N-TYPE OPTICAL ANNEALING OPTICAL FIBERS OPTICAL GAIN PHOTOLUMINESCENCE RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION RECOMBINATION-ENHANCED DEFECT REACTIONS RELAXATION RESONANCE RAMAN-SCATTERING ROOM-TEMPERATURE SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS SEMICONDUCTORS SINGLE-FREQUENCY SPECTRA SPECTROSCOPY SUPERLATTICES TEMPERATURE ZNSE ENERGY EFFICIENCY PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS STUDY OF II-VI SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS €29,000 SONY CORPORATION, JAPAN (JOINT JH) STUDY OF II-VI SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS €247,000 SONY COPORATION BLUE-GREEN SEMICONDUCTOR LASER €29,000 EU ESPRIT PROGRAMME MANY-BODY EFFECTS IN SEMICONDUCTORS €45,000 FORBAIRT BASIC RESEARCH (JOINT CP) TUNABLE LASERS FOR GAS SENSING APPLICATIONS €63,500 FORBAIRT STRATEGIC RESEARCH NEW OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS FOR COMMUNICATIONS €104,500 ENTERPRISE IRELAND STRATEGIC RESEARCH HIGH BRIGHTNESS SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS €63,500 ENTERPRISE IRELAND STRATEGIC RESEARCH EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISATION OF DIODE LASERS €63,500 ENTERPRISE IRELAND STRATEGIC RESEARCH TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION IN MICROCAVITIES €122,000 ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH (JOINT DCU) PHOTONIC DEVICE DEVLOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER €508,000 OPTRONICS IRELAND (INCLUDING PHASE 2 PROJECTS) PHOTONIC DEVICE DEVLOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER €290,000 OF WHICH €120,600 PAID IN 2002 OPTRONICS IRELAND ADVANCED MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT €192,000 (PART OF £2.9M GRANT) PRTLI MULTI-GAS SENSING WITH A CASCADED DIODE LASER €145,000 ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND (JOINT VW) OPTICAL-SPIN INTERACTIONS €195,000 EU TMR NETWORK (JOINT MC) SINGLE-FREQUENCY DIODE LASERS €25,000 EBLANAPHOTONICS QUANTUM DOTS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS €189,500 ENTERPRISE IRELAND RIF PROGRAMME (JOINT YG, DK) TWO-PHOTON SWITCHING IN SEMICONDUCTORS €330,500 ENTERPRISE IRELAND ATRP PROGRAMME (JOINT DCU) QUANTUM DOT MICROLASERS €1,1523,500 SFI INVESTIGATOR AWARD CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MR. BERNARD DONNE donnebernard SENIOR EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER BDONNE PHYSIOLOGY MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST ARE 1) FACTORS EFFECTING AND ENHANCING EXERCISE PERFORMANCE AND RECOVERY 2) ERGOGENIC AIDS AND EXERCISE PERFORMANCE 3) EXERCISE AND OSTEOPOROSIS 4) RELIABILITY AND REPRODUCIBILITY OF TEST PROTOCOLS 5) NUTRITION AND OSTEOPOROSIS DEPT. OF PHYSIOLOGY COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ENGLISH AFFILIATE MEMBER OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS SCIENCES MEMBER OF EXERCISE AND SPORTS SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND BIOMECHANICS OF HUMAN MOVEMENT BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS ERGONOMICS EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY IMAGING TECHNIQUES MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH METABOLISM AND METABOLIC DISEASES PHYSIOLOGY EFFECT OF OESTROGEN REPLACEMENT ON BMD IN FEMALES WITH ANEROXIA NERVOSA LONGITUDINAL 2 YEAR STUDY INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF OESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY AND SUPPLEMENTAL CALCIUM ON BONE MINERAL DENSITY, EATING ATTITUDES AND MOOD STATE IN FEMALES WITH CLINICALLY DIAGNOSED EATING DISORDERS, COMPARISON WITH CONTROLS. SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN LUMBAR SPINE (L1-L4) AND HIP (NECK OF FEMUR AND TOTAL HIP) BMD WERE RECORDED FOLLOWING THE INTERVENTION PHASE. IN ADDITION SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED EATING ATTITUDES (BY QUESTIONAIRRE) AND MOOD STATES WERE RECORDED. HORMONAL DATA AND BONE TURNOVER MARKERS ARE PRESENTLY BEING ASSAYED. NATIONAL OSTEOPOROSIS |SOCIETY NOT APPLICABLE INVESTIGATION OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE CAFFEINATED AND CARBOHYDRATE BEVERAGES ON EXERCISE PERFORMANCE IN MALE CYCLISTS TO DATE THIS PROJECT HAS INVOLVED TWO SEPERATE STUDIES ;ENDURANCE AND INTERMITTENT EXERCISE. IN THE ENDURANCE EXERCISE PROTOCOL COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE CARBOHYDRATE AND CARBOHYDRATE-CAFFEINATED SPORTS DRINKS CONSUMED 60 MIN PRIOR TO EXERCISE WERE COMPARED TO PLACEBO. NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS ON TIME TO EXHAUSTION, DEHYDRATION OR REHYDRATION, OR ASSESSED PHYSIOLOGICAL VARIABLES WERE DETECTED. IN THE INTERMITTENT EXERCISE PROTOCOL, DRINKS WERE CONSUMED 20 MIN BEFORE AND EVERY 10 MIN DURIND INTERMITTENT LOAD (60 AND 90% VO2 MAX) EXERCISE TO EXHAUSTION. COMPARED TO PLACEBO SIGNIFIFICANT INCREASES (26 AND 29%) IN TIME TO EXHAUSTION WERE REPORTED FOR BOTH CARBOHYDRATE AND CARBOHYDRATE-CAFFEINATED BEVERAGES, RESPECTIVELY. THE INCREASES IN EXERCISE TIME TO EXHAUSTION EQUATED TO > 20 MIN, HOWEVER, THE LACK OF SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS COMPARING CARBOHYDRATE AND CARBOHYDRATE-CAFFEINATED BEVERAGES POSES QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE PRESENCE OF CAFFEINE IN COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE SPORTS DRINKS. IRISH SPORTS COUNCIL NOT APPLICABLE EFFECTS OF CARBOHYDRATE AND CARBOHYDRATE / PROTEIN BEVERAGES ON RECOVERY CAPACITY FOLLOWING RESISTANCE TRAINING INVESTIGATION OF THE SHORT-TERM EFFECTS OF ISOCALORICALLY MATCHED CARBOHYDRATE AND CARBOHYDRATE / PROTEIN SUMMPLENTATION POST-RESISTANCE TRAINING EXERCISE ON SUBSEQUENT EXERCISE CAPACITY IN 10 MALE ACADEMY RUGBY PLAYERS. RANDOMLY ASSIGNED BEVERAGES WERE CONSUMED IN A SINGLE-BLINDED CROSSOVER DESIGN STUDY FOLLOWING A FIXED 120 MIN RESISTANCE TRAINING SESSION. TIME TO FAILURE USING A RESISTANCE EXERCISE MODEL WAS RE-ASSESSED AFTER THE 240 MIN SUPPLEMENTATION PHASE TO COMPARE RECOVERY CAPACITIES. CARBOHYDRATE /PROTEIN SUPPLEMENTATION INCREASED TOTAL WORK CAPACITY BY 16% COMPARED TO A CARBOHYDRATE EQUIVALENT BEVERAGE SUGGESTING A POSSIBLE AUGMENTATION OF GLYCOGEN RESTOCKING ATTRIBUTABLE TO PROTEIN SUPPLEMENTATION. IRISH RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION / ENERGIA NOT APPLICABLE DR. CLAIRE DONNELLAN donnellanclaire ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CDONNEL SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: EXAMINING THE CHALLENGES TO SUCCESSFUL AGEING IN BOTH HEALTHY AGEING AND IN AGE-RELATED ILLNESS AND DISEASE POPULATIONS; RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXECUTIVE FUNCTION AND GOAL PLANNING IN NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION; MEASUREMENT AND PSYCHOMETRICS OF HEALTH PREDICTORS AND OUTCOMES; HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF CAREGIVERS; COPING, QUALITY OF LIFE AND MOOD ASSESSMENT POST-STROKE. HER CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF ADJUSTMENT AND REHABILITATION PROCESSES POST-STROKE. SHE HAS A KEEN INTEREST IN DEVELOPING STROKE INTERVENTION WORK WITH A SPECIFIC PATIENT-FOCUSED COMPONENT. SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER TO THE DIVISION OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND EUROPEAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY EUROPEAN STROKE ORGANISATION EXECUTIVE MEMBER ON THE IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY AS THE PSYCHOLOGY REPRESENTATIVE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AGEING IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY IRISH NURSING BOARD REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST WITH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND REVIEWER FOR ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION REVIEWER FOR BIOMED CENTRAL - HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH REVIEWER FOR DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STROKE REVIEWER FOR THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING TRINITY CONSORTIUM ON AGEING WORLD FEDERATION FOR NEUROREHABILITATION - MEMBERSHIP AND SIG FOR NEUROPSYCHOLOGY WORLD STROKE ORGANISATION ADJUSTMENT PSYCHOLOGY AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENT DESIGN CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES MEDICAL-PRACTICE GUIDELINES NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING PSYCHOMETRICS REHABILITATION/THERAPY, PHYSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH MAPPING PATIENTS' EXPERIENCES AFTER STROKE ONTO A PATIENT-FOCUSED INTERVENTION FRAMEWORK THE MAIN AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EXAMINE THE DISCOURSE GIVEN BY PATIENTS AFTER STROKE INDICATING HOW THEY SAY THEY ADJUST TO THE ASSOCIATED CONSEQUENCES. IN PARTICULAR TO IDENTIFY AND QUANTIFY CATEGORIES OF ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOURS USED BY STROKE PATIENTS. TCD START-UP FUND STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY AIMS OF PROJECT ARE TO: I. TO STRENGTHEN AND DEVELOP THE SOCIETY'S ACTIVITIES II. TO HARNESS IN A MORE EFFICIENT AND SUPPORTIVE WAY THE ENERGIES AND EXPERTISE OF THE MEMBERS. III. TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN POLICY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE, AS EVIDENCED FROM THE OUTPUT OF OUR CONSULTATION WITH MEMBERS AND OLDER PEOPLE'S ORGANISATIONS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AS PART OF OUR STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT. ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AN EVALUATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INTEGRATED CARE PATHWAY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF NEUROGENIC DYSPHAGIA IN ACUTE AND PRIMARY STROKE CARE SETTINGS. DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED CARE PATHWAY (ICP) TO SUPPORT THE MANAGEMENT OF NEUROGENIC DYSPHAGIA POST STROKE COULD ENHANCE QUALITY OF CARE RECEIVED BY IMPROVING PATIENT OUTCOMES, PROMOTING PATIENT SAFETY, INCREASING PATIENT SATISFACTION, OPTIMISING THE USE OF RESOURCES AND INCREASING ADHERENCE TO EVIDENCE BASED STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES FOR DYSPHAGIA MANAGEMENT. AN ICP CAN OFFER AN EFFECTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY DECISION MAKING, THEREBY ACKNOWLEDGING KEY ASPECTS OF CARE AND VARIATIONS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF NEUROGENIC DYSPHAGIA POST STROKE. IN PROGRESS HEALTHY AGEING RESEARCH PROGRAMME (HARP) THE FIRST LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING IN IRELAND, A JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT BETWEEN TCD, RCSI, ESRI AND QUB. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD STROKE POPULATION PHD CANDIDATE TO THIS PROJECT IMPLEMENTING CLINICAL GUIDELINES IN STROKE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF PERCEIVED FACILITATORS AND BARRIERS THIS STUDY AIMS TO STUDY HOW CLINICAL GUIDELINES ARE ACTUALLY BEING IMPLEMENTED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE IN IRELAND, WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON STROKE. IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN STROKE CARE VIEW THESE NEW GUIDELINES. SPECIFICALLY, WHAT FACTORS DO THEY IDENTIFY AS THE MOST IMPORTANT IN ENABLING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLINICAL GUIDELINES? WHAT FACTORS DO THEY IDENTIFY AS HINDERING IMPLEMENTATION? THE STUDY HAS THREE MAIN COMPONENTS: 1. A LITERATURE REVIEW TO IDENTIFY ACTUAL AND PERCEIVED SUPPORTS AND HINDRANCES TO IMPLEMENTING CLINICAL GUIDELINES IN GENERAL AND FOR STROKE CARE 2. DISCUSSION WITH KEY INFORMANTS TO OBTAIN THEIR VIEWS ON THE FACTORS WHICH WILL INFLUENCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STROKE CARE GUIDELINES IN IRELAND 3. BASED ON THE FINDINGS FROM COMPONENTS 1. AND 2. ABOVE, TO CARRY OUT FOCUS GROUPS WITH HOSPITAL PROFESSIONALS IN DUBLIN, THE MIDLANDS AND THE SOUTHEAST TO GET THEIR VIEWS ON REQUIREMENTS TO PUT THE GUIDELINES FOR STROKE CARE INTO PRACTICE IN IRELAND. THE FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY WILL INFORM THE NEXT STEP - PLANNING AND DEVELOPING STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES TO ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT THESE IMPORTANT GUIDELINES TO IMPROVE STROKE CARE IN ALL ACUTE HOSPITALS. IRISH HEART FOUNDATION THE PARALLELS BETWEEN COGNITION AND MOOD POST STROKE: A REVIEW OF ASSESSMENT EVIDENCE OVER THE LAST DECADE, AUDITS OF STROKE CARE IN THE UK AND IRELAND HAVE IDENTIFIED THE IMPORTANCE OF FORMAL ASSESSMENT FOR COGNITION AND MOOD POST-STROKE. COGNITION AND MOOD ASSESSMENTS ARE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS FOR THE PLANNING AND INTERVENTION OF STROKE CARE DURING THE ACUTE PERIOD AND FOR LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP. ALTHOUGH THERE IS A BROAD SELECTION OF COGNITION AND MOOD ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS INCLUDING GENERIC AND STROKE-SPECIFIC MEASURES IN THE LITERATURE, THERE IS AN UNDER-UTILISATION OF THESE INSTRUMENTS BY CLINICIANS. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE INTERFACE BETWEEN COGNITIVE AND MOOD IMPAIRMENT POST STROKE I.E. CORRELATIONAL EVIDENCE AS IN COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT PREDICTOR OF DEPRESSION POST STROKE AND TO DEVISE A COLLECTIVE METHOD OF ASSESSMENT FOR THESE CORE FUNCTIONS. IN PROGRESS COGNITIVE FUNCTION AND ASSOCIATED CORRELATES IN STROKE PATIENTS AND AGE-MATCHED HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS IN THE ABSENCE OF RIGOROUS NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS CLINICALLY AFTER STROKE, THERE MAY BE UNDETECTED SUBTLE COGNITIVE DEFICITS AND IMPAIRMENTS THAT WILL AFFECT SUITABILITY FOR REHABILITATION INTERVENTION. THEREFORE, EXAMINING IMPAIRMENTS IN METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE AND SELF-REGULATION CAN IDENTIFY SOME OF THE ANTICIPATED LIMITATIONS PATIENTS WILL HAVE IN PERFORMING AND EXECUTING TASKS AS PART OF THEIR REHABILITATION THERAPY AND PROCESS OF ADJUSTMENT. THIS STUDY WILL ALSO IDENTIFY THE RISK ASSOCIATED FOR VASCULAR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT POST-ACUTE STROKE AND ASSOCIATED BIOMAKERS. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IRELAND - BAHRAIN USING A REABLEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR ORGANISED AGE-RELATED HEALTHCARE OVERALL RESEARCH PROTOCOL - USING A REABLEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR ORGANISED AGE-RELATED HEALTHCARE ONE OF THE ARMS OF THIS WORK INCLUDES AN INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT FOR USE IN THE OLDER POPULATION WITH NEUROLOGICAL AGE-RELATED CONDITIONS. RESOURCES AND LIFE STRATEGY MANAGEMENT (REALISM) PROTOCOL FOR CARE COORDINATION IN OLDER ADULTS WITH NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (STROKE AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE - (CVAPD)) THE MAIN STUDY AIM IS TO DETERMINE THE USEFULNESS OF A NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INTERVENTION THAT INCLUDES IMPROVING HEALTH LITERACY AND USING A GOAL SETTING AND ATTAINMENT FRAMEWORK (REALISM) BASED ON THE BALTES SOC MODEL FOR SUCCESSFUL AGEING. THE SPECIFIC STUDY OBJECTIVES ARE TO COMPARE STANDARD CARE TO USING THE REALISM INTERVENTION IN A CONTROL GROUP AND INTERVENTION GROUP IN TERMS OF IMPROVEMENTS IN FUNCTIONAL ABILITY, HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) AND MOOD; TO ESTABLISH IF THE USE OF REALISM IMPROVES TRANSFERABILITY OF CARE AND AIDS DISCHARGE PLANNING FROM ACUTE TO COMMUNITY SETTINGS; AND TO EVALUATE REALISM IN TERMS OF EASE OF USE BY ALL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN REHABILITATION CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE. OTHER OBJECTIVES WILL INCLUDE AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT SERVICES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION IN ACUTE AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF NEUROLOGICAL CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE; A REVIEW OF NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION PROVISION ASSESSED FROM DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE IN PATIENT RECORDS; TO ADDRESS HOW PREPARED ARE PATIENTS TO ENGAGE IN REHABILITATION INTERVENTIONS PRESCRIBED TO THEM BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS; AND TO ESTABLISH HOW INVOLVED ARE PATIENTS IN THE CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF THEIR REHABILITATION. A NATIONAL WORKING GROUP IS BEING CO-ORDINATED IN ORDER TO SCOPE OUT SOME OF THE WIDER AIMS OF THE OVERALL REABLEMENT APPROACH AND DEVELOPMENTS FOR AGE-RELATED HEALTHCARE. AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR SEAMAS DONNELLY donnellyseamas PROFESSOR CONSULTANT SDONNEL1 CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 MS. NORA-ANN DONNELLY donnellynoraann VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT DONNELNO SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. ALEXIS ANTHONY DONNELLY donnellyalexisanthony ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ADONNLLY COMPUTER SCIENCE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS AND ITS FORMAL ASPECTS. COMPUTER SCIENCE FMG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. CATHERINE DONNELLY donnellycatherine ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DONNELC2 LAW EUROPEAN UNION LAW; ADMINISTRATIVE LAW; CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; COMPARATIVE LAW; HUMAN RIGHTS; GOVERNANCE; PUBLIC PROCUREMENT LAW LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR, COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR EUROPEAN LAW COMMITTEE MEMBER, OXFORD AMNESTY LECTURES IRISH ASSOCIATION OF LAW TEACHERS IRISH CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN LAW IRISH SOCIETY FOR EUROPEAN LAW LECTURER, PUBLIC PROCUREMENT REGULATION IN THE EU AND IN ITS GLOBAL CONTEXT, MA AND POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA, KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON LEGAL ADVISOR, NORTHERN IRELAND BILL OF RIGHTS FORUM MEMBER, INCORPORATED COUNCIL OF LAW REPORTING FOR IRELAND MEMBER, BLACKSTONE CHAMBERS MEMBER, DORNBURG STUDY GROUP MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE IRISH JOURNAL FOR EUROPEAN LAW NATIONAL EXPERT, THE DEVELOPMENT OF PAN-EUROPEAN GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF GOOD ADMINISTRATION, PROJECT CONDUCTED BY DEUTSCHE UNIVERSITÄT FÜR VERWALTUNGSWISSENSCHAFTEN SPEYER, FUNDED BY DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS ADMINISTRATIVE LAW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW GOVERNANCE, HUMAN RIGHTS, EUROPEAN UNION LAW AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. GEMMA DONNELLY COX donnellycoxgemma ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BUSINESS STUDIES GDNNLLYC BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES CENTRE FOR NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT, SOCIAL INNOVATION, THE DEVELOPMENT OF HYBRID ORGANISATIONAL FORMS AS BOUNDARIES BETWEEN SOCIETAL SECTORS BLUR AND INSTITUTIONALISATION BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS AND VOLUNTARY ACTION ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION RESEARCH IN IRELAND (AVARI) BOARD MEMBER, ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND VOLUNTARY ACTION CHAIR, LOCAL COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THIRD SECTOR RESEARCH (ISTR) BIENNIAL CONFERENCE. CO-EDITOR, NOMOS BOOK SERIES ON EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY CO-FOUNDER, EUROPEAN THIRD SECTOR PHD NETWORK CONVENOR, EUROPEAN GROUP ON ORGANISATION STUDIES (EGOS) CIVIL SOCIETY SUBTHEME CONVENOR, EUROPEAN THIRD SECTOR PHD NETWORK EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, NONPROFIT POLICY FORUM EUROPEAN GROUP ON ORGANISATION STUDIES INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THIRD SECTOR RESEARCH OPPONENT FOR PHD DEFENCE, STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME COORDINATOR, EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN MANAGEMENT (EIASM) EDEN DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN NONPROFIT ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ORNA DONOGHUE donoghueorna PROJECT MANAGER ODONOGH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TILDA GROUND FLOOR CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING DR. GARY JAMES DONOHOE donohoegaryjames ADJUNCT PROFESSOR DONOGHUG PSYCHIATRY NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS RESEARCH GROUP MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE COGNITIVE GENOMICS, COGNITIVE ENDOPHENOTYPES, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS, TREATMENT ADHERENCE, AND COGNITIVE THERAPY AND REMEDIATION. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY NUI GALWAY UNIVERSITY ROAD GALWAY 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE. INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE, TCD. REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST,PSYCHOLOGISTS SOCIETY OF IRELAND. ADHERENCE COMPLIANCE DRUG ATTITUDES INSIGHT NEUROGENETICS NEUROLEPTICS NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS PSYCHOSIS SCALE SCHIZOPHRENIA COGNITIVE ENDOPHENOTYPES FOR PSYCHOSIS SCIENCE FOUNDATION, IRELAND NEUROPSYCHIATRIC GENETICS GROUP A HIGH DENSITY EEG STUDY OF DYSBINDIN AND DAOA SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. IAN DONOHUE donohueian ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DONOHUI ZOOLOGY I AM PRIMARILY A COMMUNITY ECOLOGIST AND LIKE TO USE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FACTORS THAT REGULATE THE STRUCTURE, STABILITY AND FUNCTIONING OF BIOLOGICAL NETWORKS. THE OVERARCHING AIM OF MY RESEARCH IS TO FURTHER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW KEY ELEMENTS OF GLOBAL CHANGE ALTER ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND STABILITY. AN IMPORTANT GOAL OF MY RESEARCH IS TO BRIDGE THE GAPS BETWEEN THEORETICAL, EMPIRICAL AND APPLIED ECOLOGY. MY FIELD RESEARCH FOCUSES MAINLY ON AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS (BOTH MARINE AND FRESHWATER), ALTHOUGH MORE RECENTLY MY APPROACH TO RESEARCH COMBINES EXPERIMENTAL AND OBSERVATIONAL WORK IN THE FIELD, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS USING MULTITROPHIC MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES AND IN SILICO EXPERIMENTS ON SIMULATED MODEL COMMUNITIES. DEPT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEMS ECOLOGY, ECOSYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, INTERACTIONS STABILITY DEVELOPMENT OF TARGETED ECOLOGICAL MODELLING TOOLS FOR LAKE MANAGEMENT (DOLMANT) THE DOLMANT PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP LAKE MANAGEMENT TOOLS THAT INTEGRATE THE BIOLOGICAL, HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF LAKES WITH LAKE AND LAKE CATCHMENT VARIABLES TO IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN THE ECOLOGICAL STATUS OF LAKES. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP LAKE MANAGEMENT TOOLS TO ASSIST IN CREATING PROGRAMMES OF MEASURES TO MEET EU LEGISLATION. IT IS FUNDED THROUGH THE EUROPEAN UNION'S EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME, INTERREG IVA. EU INTERREG THE IMPACT OF PARASITES ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING AND STABILITY PARASITES ARE UBIQUITOUS IN VIRTUALLY EVERY ECOSYSTEM WORLDWIDE. THEIR IMPACT UPON HOST FITNESS AT THE INDIVIDUAL AND, TO A LESSER EXTENT, POPULATION LEVEL IS NOW WELL ESTABLISHED. HOWEVER, THE BROADER SCALE IMPLICATIONS OF PARASITES AT THE COMMUNITY AND ECOSYSTEM LEVEL HAVE YET TO BE ELUCIDATED DUE TO THE COMPLEX NATURE OF PARASITE QUANTIFICATION AND IDENTIFICATION, THE COMPLEXITY OF NATURAL SYSTEMS, AND OFTEN LIMITED SCALE OF ANALYSIS. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT PARASITES ENHANCE ECOSYSTEM STABILITY AND CONTRIBUTE TO ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION, THOUGH THERE IS A DEARTH OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THESE HYPOTHESES. AS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES, THE ROLE OF PARASITES AND THEIR IMPACT ON HOST COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS MAY SHIFT. IN ORDER TO ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND IMPROVE ECOLOGICAL PREDICTIONS, A THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARASITES AND THEIR HOSTS AT THE ECOSYSTEM LEVEL IS URGENTLY REQUIRED. WE WILL UTILIZE BOTH FIELD AND LABORATORY-BASED APPROACHES TO UNDERSTAND AN AQUATIC HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP. THIS WILL INCLUDE THE ACANTHOCEPHALAN PARASITE POMPHORHYNCHUS LAEVIS, ITS DETRITIVORE INTERMEDIATE HOST GAMMARUS PULEX, AND ITS DEFINITIVE (FINAL) HOST, THE MINNOW, PHOXINUS PHOXINUS. INITIALLY, SMALL-SCALE LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTS OF P. LAEVIS ON G. PULEX IN TERMS OF HOST BEHAVIOUR, RESPIRATION, METABOLISM, NUTRIENT COMPOSITION, AND FEEDING. A LARGER MESOCOSM (CONTROLLED AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT) STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED TO QUANTIFY THE IMPACT OF P. LAEVIS PARASITISM ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION AND STABILITY UTILISING BOTH INTERMEDIATE AND DEFINITIVE HOSTS. FURTHER MESOCOSM STUDIES WILL TEST THE IMPACT OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ON THE HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP. FIELD STUDIES WILL BE CONDUCTED IN IRISH LAKES TO DETERMINE THE IMPACT OF PARASITE PREVALENCE ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION AND STABILITY IN VARIED ECOSYSTEMS. BY INTEGRATING STUDIES ON MULTIPLE SCALES AND FOCUSING ON ECOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT PARASITES AND HOSTS, THE PROJECT WILL MAKE IMPORTANT HEADWAY IN UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF PARASITES IN ECOSYSTEMS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL PHD STUDENTSHIP FACING MULTIPLE CHALLENGES AT RANGE MARGINS: INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT AND AN INTRODUCED COMPETITOR ON THE GLACIAL RELICT, MYSIS SALEMAAI ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE IS ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT THREAT TO GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY, AND ITS EFFECTS ARE EXPECTED TO ESCALATE. HOWEVER, MECHANISMS OF IMPACT OPERATING AT LOCAL SCALES REMAIN POORLY UNDERSTOOD, LIKELY BECAUSE OF THE CONFOUNDING AND INTERACTING EFFECTS OF OTHER STRESSORS. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF MULTIPLE STRESSORS USING THE RELICT MYSID CRUSTACEAN MYSIS SALEMAAI AT ITS BIOGEOGRAPHICAL FRONT AS A MODEL SYSTEM. WITH A CHANGING CLIMATE, ORGANISMS ARE PUSHED GRADUALLY TOWARD THE BOUNDARY OF THEIR ADAPTIVE CAPACITIES, INCREASING THEIR VULNERABILITY TO EXTINCTION. LOCAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE MAY DEPEND STRONGLY ON INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF OTHER PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND BIOTIC PRESSURES AND, IMPORTANTLY, ON THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL ATTRIBUTES OF SUCH INTERACTIONS, RATHER THAN ON TEMPERATURE ALONE. UNDERSTANDING THESE EFFECTS IS NECESSARY FOR PREDICTING FUTURE DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS, MITIGATING THREATS AND PRIORITISING CONSERVATION MEASURES TO PRESERVE GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY AND, BY EXTENSION, THE RANGE OF ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES SUSTAINING THE BIOSPHERE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PREDICTING ECOLOGICAL STATUS OF UNMONITORED LAKES BASED ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STATUS, HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL AND LANDUSE CHARACTERISTICS SURFACE WATERS IN IRELAND, AND INDEED ACROSS MUCH OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD, ARE AT RISK FROM THE EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES. INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC WASTE AND WASTEWATER CONTRIBUTE TO THE EUTROPHICATION, ACIDIFICATION AND PHYSICAL DEGRADATION OF RIVERS AND LAKES. CRITICAL TO THE MANAGEMENT OF SUCH RISKS TO SURFACE WATERS IS AN INCREASED UNDERSTANDING OF AND ABILITY TO PREDICT THE EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE ON ECOSYSTEMS AND AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SCALE. SUCH AN UNDERSTANDING IS ESSENTIAL FOR IMPROVED MANAGEMENT AND ALSO FOR ROBUST ASSESSMENT OF RISK. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PREDICT THE LIKELY ECOLOGICAL STATUS OF UNMONITORED LAKES BASED ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ECOLOGICAL STATUS, CATCHMENT LANDUSE, POPULATION DENSITIES AND HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS IN MONITORED AND UNMONITORED LAKES THROUGH EMPIRICAL MODELLING AND RISK-BASED PROBABILITIES OF CATCHMENT HYDROGEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND LANDUSE ATTRIBUTES. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS, THE PROJECT COMPRISES THREE INTERLINKED OBJECTIVES: 1. QUANTIFICATION OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HYDROGEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND LANDUSE ATTRIBUTES AND ECOLOGICAL STATUS 2. DEVELOPMENT OF RISK THRESHOLDS 3. PREDICTION OF STATUS IN UNMONITORED LAKES EPA IRELAND STRIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECOHYDROLOGY FRAMEWORK FOR SETTING ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW STANDARDS FOR IRISH RIVERS ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS (EFLOWS) ARE A COMPONENT OF HYDROMORPHOLOGY ASSESSED UNDER THE WFD AS SUPPORTING ELEMENTS OF RIVERINE ECOLOGICAL STATUS. THEY REPRESENT THE TIMING, QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF WATER FLOWS REQUIRED TO SUSTAIN THE FUNCTIONING AND INTEGRITY OF FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS AND THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THEY PROVIDE. ANALYSIS OF LONG-TERM FLOW RECORDS IS REQUIRED TO DEFINE FLOW REGIMES, WHICH ARE INFLUENCED BY RIVER TYPOLOGY AND SURFACE/SUB-SURFACE WATER PATHWAYS. THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO REVIEW STATE OF THE ART EFLOW METHODOLOGY TO IDENTIFY ALTERNATIVES MOST SUITED TO THE IRISH CONTEXT AND FOR DEVELOPING FLOW STANDARDS. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES FOR ESTIMATING EFLOWS WILL BE APPLIED TO HYDROMETRIC FLOW DATA FROM A NUMBER OF RIVERS IN CONTRASTING CATCHMENTS REPRESENTING DIFFERENT WATER PATHWAY CONFIGURATIONS. FEEDBACK FROM A STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP WILL BE USED TO IDENTIFY 1-2 OPTIMAL APPROACHES TO APPLY TO A BROADER ARRAY OF RIVER TYPES AND CATCHMENTS. THE AVAILABILITY OF ECOLOGICAL AND WATER CHEMISTRY DATA WILL BE ASSESSED, AND, WHERE POSSIBLE, RELATED TO FLOW REGIME TO DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS FOR SETTING FLOW STANDARDS. DATA GAPS AND NEEDS WILL BE IDENTIFIED. FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS WILL IDENTIFY AN INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE FRAMEWORK FOR SETTING EFLOW STANDARDS THAT MAINTAIN ECOLOGICAL STATUS AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICE PROVISION OF IRISH RIVERS. EPA STRIVE INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE CAUSES, IMPACTS AND MEASURES TO DEAL WITH ALGAL BLOOMS IN VARTRY RESERVOIR EPA STRIVE DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL FOR ASSESSING GENERAL ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURE ON LAKES USING LITTORAL INVERTEBRATES HUMAN TRANSFORMATION OF THE BIOSPHERE IS CAUSING AN EXTINCTION CRISIS OF UNPRECEDENTED MAGNITUDE, DRIVING AN URGENT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN DISTURBANCE ON FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ECOSYSTEMS. THE SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES COMPRISES ONE SUCH FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTY THAT HAS HUGELY IMPORTANT, YET UNDERSTUDIED, IMPLICATIONS FOR BOTH ECOLOGICAL THEORY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES. BIOTIC COMMUNITIES THAT ARE MORE VARIABLE HAVE GREATER RISK OF SPECIES EXTINCTIONS, ARE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO DISTURBANCE, AND PROVIDE LESS RELIABLE, AND THUS LESS ECONOMICALLY VALUABLE, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN DISTURBANCE ON THE VARIABILITY OF THE BIOTIC COMMUNITIES OF LAKES AND TO EXPLORE WHETHER MEASURES OF BIOTIC VARIABILITY IN SPACE AND/OR TIME MAY PROVIDE A MEANS TO ASSESS THE EXTENT OF HUMAN PRESSURES ON LAKE ECOSYSTEMS. EIGHT INDICES THAT HAVE POTENTIAL FOR DETECTING THE IMPACT OF AMPLIFIED WATER LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS IN LAKES WERE DEVELOPED AND FIELD TESTED. RESULTS OF THE PROJECT DEMONSTRATE CLEARLY THAT HUMAN DISTURBANCE CAN ALTER THE VARIABILITY OF BIOTIC COMMUNITIES OF LAKES IN A VARIETY OF WAYS AND ACROSS A RANGE OF SCALES. EPA IRELAND STRIVE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A NOVEL SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO MEASURING RESILIENCE IN ECOSYSTEMS AND ECONOMIES ECOSYSTEMS AND ECONOMIES CAN BOTH BE VIEWED AS NETWORKS THAT FUNCTION BY USING EXTERNAL SOURCES OF ENERGY AND MATTER, PERFORM WORK, CREATE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THEIR ELEMENTS (I.E. BIOTA AND HUMAN BEINGS), AND PRODUCE GOODS AND SERVICES AS OUTPUT. THIS SYSTEMIC VIEW ALLOWS THE IDENTIFICATION AND MEASURE OF EMERGENT PROPERTIES THAT ARE COMMON IN BOTH ECOSYSTEMS AND ECONOMIES, SUCH AS STABILITY AND RESILIENCE. RESILIENCE IS THE CAPACITY OF A SYSTEM TO RECOVER FROM DISTURBANCE WITHOUT COLLAPSING INTO A QUALITATIVELY DIFFERENT STATE. THIS IS A CRUCIAL PROPERTY IN THE PRESENT WORLD, WHERE INCREASING POPULATION, RESOURCE DEPLETION AND HUMAN IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT ARE THREATENING THE ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY OF OUR DEVELOPMENT MODEL. OUR FUTURE WELL-BEING DEPENDS ON THE RESILIENCE OF BOTH OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND THE BIOSPHERE. IN FACE OF RAPIDLY GROWING GLOBAL CHALLENGES, DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMON CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IS NEEDED IN ORDER TO COMPREHEND WHICH ACTIONS ARE NEEDED TO ADAPT OUR BEHAVIOURS, OUR PRODUCTION PROCESSES, THE METABOLISM OF OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND HOW WE MANAGE THE ENVIRONMENT. HOWEWVER, AT PRESENT, DIFFERENT INDICATORS DERIVE FROM SCIENCES THAT HAVE DEVELOPED INDEPENDENTLY AND DO NOT COMBINE EASILY. THIS IS AN OBSTACLE THAT NEEDS TO BE OVERCOME. TO DATE, ALL ATTEMPTS TO MEASURE RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY PROPOSED HAVE SO FAR BEEN FORMULATED AS AN AGGREGATION OF MULTIPLE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS. CONSEQUENTLY, SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ELEMENTS HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN CONSIDERED AS INTERCHANGEABLE; BAD OR LOW VALUES OF SOME INDICATORS ARE COMPENSATED BY VERY GOOD OR HIGH VALUES OF OTHER INDICATORS. HOWEVER, SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCE ARE NOT SUBSTITUTABLE ELEMENTS AND THIS APPROACH IS LIMITING OUR ABILITY TO DEVELOP A HIGHER-LEVEL SYNTHETIC OVERVIEW OF SUSTAINABILITY. BY DEVELOPING NOVEL TRANSDISCIPLINARY INDICATORS, THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AND TEST THE UTILITY AND APPLICABILITY OF A SYSTEMIC RESILIENCE MEASURE THAT WILL: (1) CONSIDER THE SOCIAL, ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS AS NON-SUBSTITUTABLE (2) BE HIGHLY COMMUNICABLE TO DECISION MAKERS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP INTEGRATING HYDROMORPHOLOGY INTO TYPOLOGY TO IMPROVE RISK ASSESSMENT OF IRISH LAKES A CRITICAL COMPONENT OF LARGE-SCALE LAKE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORKS IS A TYPOLOGY THAT MINIMISES WITHIN-GROUP VARIATION IN REFERENCE CONDITION AND RESPONSE TO PRESSURES. THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (WFD) REQUIRES INTEGRATION OF HYDROMORPHOLOGY INTO LAKE ASSESSMENT; HOWEVER LAKE TYPOLOGIES THAT INCLUDE KEY ELEMENTS OF HYDROLOGIC REGIME AND BASIN MORPHOLOGY REMAIN ELUSIVE. THE TYPOLOGY FOR IRISH LAKES INCLUDES BASIN DEPTH AND SURFACE AREA BUT DOESN'T FULLY CAPTURE THE RANGE OF HYDROMORPHOLOGY ELEMENTS NECESSARY FOR RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR INDIVIDUAL LAKES. THERE IS A CRITICAL NEED FOR TYPOLOGY EXPANSION BECAUSE HYDROMORPHOLOGY ELEMENTS ARE RELATED TO FUNDAMENTAL LAKE PROPERTIES SUCH AS THERMAL STRATIFICATION, WATER RESIDENCE TIME, INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LITTORAL AND PELAGIC ZONES, AND WATER BUDGETS. THESE PROPERTIES IN TURN DIRECTLY INFLUENCE NUTRIENT CYCLING, BIODIVERSITY, AND BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES AND CONSEQUENTLY THE SENSITIVITY TO PRESSURES AND RESILIENCE OF LAKE ECOSYSTEMS TO DISTURBANCE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A LAKE TYPOLOGY FOR IRISH LAKES THAT INCORPORATES THE MULTI-SCALAR HYDROMORPHOLOGY ELEMENTS DESCRIBED ABOVE. TO ALIGN IRELAND WITH OTHER EU EFFORTS, WE WILL ALSO TEST ALTERNATIVE TYPOLOGIES INCLUDING THE UK MODEL BASED ON LAKE ONTOGENY PROPOSED BY ROWAN (2010) AND OTHER EU SCHEMES SUCH AS DAHL ET AL. (2007). EPA IRELAND STRIVE FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY OF AN ENDEMIC FLOCK OF CARIDEAN SHRIMP FROM LAKE TANGANYIKA, EAST AFRICA LAKE TANGANYIKA IN EAST AFRICA IS THE SECOND OLDEST, SECOND LARGEST AND ONE OF THE MOST BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSE LAKES ON EARTH. FURTHER, OVER 15 MILLION PEOPLE RELY ON THE LAKE TO SUPPLY THE MAJORITY OF THEIR PROTEIN, WITH FAR GREATER NUMBERS RELYING ON THE LAKE ECOSYSTEM DURING TIMES OF DROUGHT. THE HUGELY IMPORTANT LAKE FISHERIES, IN ADDITION TO THE REMARKABLY BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSE LITTORAL FISH COMMUNITY, RELY ON THE MACROINVERTEBRATES OF THE LAKE, IN PARTICULAR ON THE SHRIMP COMMUNITY, AS THEIR PRIMARY SOURCE OF FOOD. REMARKABLY LITTLE IS KNOWN, HOWEVER, ABOUT THE SHRIMP COMMUNITY OF LAKE TANGANYIKA, WHICH COMPRISES 14 ENDEMIC SPECIES BELONGING TO 4 GENERA. THIS PROJECT COMPRISED THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPAL AIMS: . IDENTIFICATION OF THE HABITAT PREFERENCES AND LIFE HISTORY PATTERNS OF THE 14 SPECIES OF SHRIMP FOUND IN LAKE TANGANYIKA . ELUCIDATION OF PRIMARY FOOD SOURCES OF THE SHRIMP, THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF THE STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS &#948;13C AND &#948;15N FROM MUSCLE TISSUE, WHICH WILL INCORPORATE THE INVESTIGATION OF FEEDING PREFERENCES AT DIFFERING LIFE STAGES . EXAMINATION OF THE LINKAGES BETWEEN FEEDING AND HABITAT PREFERENCES AND GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS . QUANTIFICATION OF PREDATION RATES, PARTICULARLY BY FISH, ON THE SHRIMP COMMUNITY IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IRCSET) EFFECTS OF WATER LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS ON THE ECOLOGY OF LAKES GLOBAL FRESHWATER DEMAND IS INCREASING DRAMATICALLY, WITH WATER WITHDRAWAL RATES MORE THAN TRIPLING IN THE LAST FIVE DECADES. CONSEQUENTLY, ALTERATION OF WATER LEVEL REGIMES, PARTICULARLY IN THE FORM OF AMPLIFIED WATER LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS (WLF), IS RAPIDLY BECOMING ONE OF THE MAJOR DISTURBANCES OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS GLOBALLY. HOWEVER, EVEN THOUGH THE IMPACTS OF WLF ARE LIKELY TO BE STRONGEST IN LITTORAL ZONES, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THEIR EFFECTS ON THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING OF LITTORAL ASSEMBLAGES IN STANDING WATER SYSTEMS. THROUGH A COMBINATION OF MESOCOSM EXPERIMENTS AND FIELD SURVEYS, THIS PROJECT FOUND THAT WATER LEVEL FLUCTUATIONS REDUCE CONSIDERABLY THE PRODUCTIVITY AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF LAKE LITTORAL ZONES. GIVEN THAT THE PROBLEM IS LIKELY TO BE EXACERBATED BY PREDICTED INCREASES IN CLIMATIC VARIABILITY AND ENHANCED DEMAND FOR WATER AND HYDROPOWER, THESE FINDINGS HAVE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF GLOBAL AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IRCSET) IMPROVED WATER QUALITY DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION EPA IRELAND ERTDI THE MULTIDIMENSIONALITY OF ECOLOGICAL STABILITY AND THE FACTORS THAT REGULATE IT UNDERSTANDING THE FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE STABILITY OF BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES HAS BEEN A CORNERSTONE OF ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR DECADES WITH HUGELY IMPORTANT, YET UNDERSTUDIED, IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOLOGICAL THEORY, THE CONSERVATION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES. ECOLOGICAL STABILITY IS A COMPLEX AND MULTIFACETED CONCEPT, INCORPORATING COMPONENTS SUCH AS VARIABILITY, RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE, PERSISTENCE AND ROBUSTNESS. HOWEVER, MOST ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH HAS FOCUSSED ON ONE OR A FEW OF THOSE COMPONENTS ANALYSED IN ISOLATION. THEREFORE, EVEN THOUGH UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG COMPONENTS OF ECOLOGICAL STABILITY IS FUNDAMENTAL TO SUPPORT THE OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT OF BOTH BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING, WE KNOW REMARKABLY LITTLE ABOUT THE NATURE OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS, THE MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING THEM OR WHETHER THERE ARE ANY GENERAL FEATURES OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS THAT ARE COMMON ACROSS DIFFERENT TYPES OF ECOSYSTEMS. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ADDRESS THESE IMPORTANT AND PRESSING RESEARCH NEEDS BY INTEGRATING BOTH THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A SIGNIFICANT AND COMPREHENSIVE ADVANCE IN OUR UNDERSTANDING IN THIS IMPORTANT FIELD. IN DOING SO, THE PROJECT WILL GIVE US A RICHER UNDERSTANDING OF, AND THEREFORE IMPROVED ABILITY TO BOTH MANAGE AND PREDICT, THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN DISTURBANCES ON ECOSYSTEMS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSHIP DISTIL SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS (DISTINCT) IN SEPTEMBER 2015 THE MEMBER STATES OF THE UNITED NATIONS AGREED UPON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGS) THAT WILL DRIVE THE GLOBAL POLITICAL AGENDA TO 2030. THE 17 GOALS GO FROM "ERADICATE POVERTY" TO "GENDER EQUALITY" AND "CLIMATE ACTION". EACH GOAL SPLITS UP INTO SEVERAL TARGETS, AND PROGRESSES TOWARDS EACH TARGET WILL BE MONITORED BY A SET OF INDICATORS. AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL, IN TOTAL, 230 INDICATORS WILL BE USED TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT OF 169 TARGETS WITHIN 15 YEARS. IN THE EU, A LIST OF APPROXIMATELY 100 INDICATORS WILL BE IDENTIFIED TO MONITOR EU PROGRESS TOWARDS SDGS. AND AT COUNTRY LEVEL, SEPARATE INDICATORS ARE ALSO IN SOME CASES BEING IDENTIFIED. THIS LARGE AMOUNT OF DATA WILL BE DIFFICULT TO INTERPRET, WITH THE RISK THAT THE SDGS WILL PROVIDE DILUTED GUIDANCE AT BEST. THE AIM OF DISTINCT (DISTILL SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS) IS TO PERFORM STATISTICALLY ADVANCED ANALYSES THAT WILL EVALUATE THE GENERAL LEVEL OF SUSTAINABILITY OF THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON EUROPE. THE PROJECT HAS FOUR MAIN OBJECTIVES: 1. ENHANCE FEASIBILITY OF THE SDGS: SCREEN DATA AVAILABILITY AND ASSESS THE ACCURACY OF THE METHODOLOGIES USED TO CALCULATE THE DIFFERENT INDICATORS. 2. MAXIMIZE INFORMATION CONTENT OF THE SDGS: DETECT THE MINIMUM SET OF MEANINGFUL INDICATORS THAT DISTIL THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF INFORMATION. 3. PRODUCE OPTIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR POLICYMAKING: EVALUATE AND LIST COMBINATIONS OF POLICY OPTIONS THAT CAN ACHIEVE MULTIPLE GOALS SIMULTANEOUSLY. 4. GENERATE IMPACT AND AWARENESS: THROUGH AN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION PLAN FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE AND LINK EFFECTIVELY TO SOLID GLOBAL NETWORK OF TOP-LEVEL EXPERTS. DISTINCT WILL HAVE IMPORTANT POLICY AND MEASURING IMPACTS, HIGHLIGHTING THE LEADING ROLE OF THE EU IN THE UN AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. THE FELLOW WILL BE SUPERVISED BY AND COLLABORATE WITH THE PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKS PROGRAMME WHICH LEADS THE SDG WORK OF THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (EEA), AND WORLD LEADERS IN SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE. EU-H2020 MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE AND IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL CAROLINE THE IMPLICATIONS OF SHIFTING ELEMENTAL RATIOS FOR THE STABILITY OF ECOSYSTEMS HUMAN ACTIONS ARE ALTERING THE RELATIVE AVAILABILITY OF ELEMENTS IN ECOSYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE. WHILE IT IS KNOWN THAT CHANGES IN NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY CAN ALTER ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES, AND THAT THE RELATIVE AVAILABILITY OF DIFFERENT NUTRIENTS (I.E. STOICHIOMETRY) DETERMINES ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITY, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HOW DIFFERENTIAL SHIFTS IN RELATIVE NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY ALTERS THE STABILITY OF BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES. RECENT RESEARCH LED BY THE RESEARCH TEAM HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT VARIABILITY IN TRAITS WITHIN EVEN A SINGLE SPECIES CAN DETERMINE THE STRUCTURE AND STABILITY OF ENTIRE ECOSYSTEMS. THIS IS BECAUSE THE EFFECTS OF TRAIT-BASED SHIFTS IN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SPECIES CAN PROPAGATE THROUGHOUT ENTIRE ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS, ALTERING THE CAPACITY OF ECOSYSTEMS TO RESIST AND RECOVER FROM DISTURBANCES. THERE IS MOUNTING EVIDENCE THAT THE DEGREE OF ELEMENTAL HOMEOSTASIS, THE ABILITY OF ORGANISMS TO MAINTAIN CONSTANT ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION REGARDLESS OF EXTERNAL VARIATIONS, VARIES BOTH WITHIN AND AMONG SPECIES. THIS INDICATES THAT VARIATION IN THIS KEY BIOLOGICAL TRAIT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO MODERATE THE STABILITY OF WHOLE ECOSYSTEMS. DESPITE A RICH LITERATURE ON HOW CONSUMER NUTRIENT CONTENT CHANGES AS A FUNCTION OF FOOD STOICHIOMETRY, THE ROLE OF STOICHIOMETRY IN IMPORTANT ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA SUCH AS POPULATION STABILITY REMAINS VERY POORLY UNDERSTOOD. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EVALUATE HOW THE STABILITY OF CONSUMER SPECIES IS (1) AFFECTED BY THE STOICHIOMETRY OF THEIR FOOD AND (2) BY THE EXTENT OF INTERNAL STOICHIOMETRIC HOMEOSTASIS. THIS STUDY WILL ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW HUMAN-INDUCED SHIFTS IN NUTRIENT RATIOS IMPACT THE STABILITY OF ECOSYSTEMS, WITH IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CLODAGH DOOLEY dooleyclodagh RESEARCH FELLOW DOOLEYCL GEOLOGY ICRAG DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR CHARLES JAMES DORMAN dormancharlesjames PROFESSOR & HEAD OF SCHOOL CJDORMAN MICROBIOLOGY 1. GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS IN GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA OF MEDICAL IMPORTANCE, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE ROLES OF NUCLEOID-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS AND DNA TOPOLOGY IN CONTROLLING TRANSCRIPTION AND SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION. 2. 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MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, IBEC FOUNDATION (BIO-ENGINEERING INSTITUTE OF CATALONIA), BARCELONA UNIVERSITY, SPAIN MEMBER, SGM TREASURER'S COMMITTEE MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY (FORMERLY SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY) NOMINATION COMMITTEE, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MICROBIOLOGY MOSELIO SCHAECHTER DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD, WASHINGTON DC, USA ORGANIZER, 2ND EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGY CONGRESS: SYSTEMS MICROBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM: MADRID, SPAIN ORGANIZER, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM "COMPLEX GENETIC SWITCHES" AT THE 4TH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETIES, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND ORGANIZER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SEMINAR ON BIOTECHNOLOGY ORGANIZER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SEMINAR ON MICROBIAL RESPONSES TO STRESS ORGANIZER, SGM CONFERENCE "FIFTY YEARS OF THE DOUBLE HELIX": MANCHESTER, UK PHD EXAMINER UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, MANIPAL UNIVERSITY INDIA, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, THE JOHN INNES CENTRE, THE INSTITUTE FOR FOOD RESEARCH UK, IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON; VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM; WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE, CAMBRIDGE; INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE PRESIDENT, EUROCONFERENCE ON INTRACELLULAR SIGNALLING AND GLOBAL REGULATION, KILLINEY, IRELAND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY AT THE 5TH CONGRESS OF EUROPEAN MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETIES, LEIPZIG, GERMANY ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY (MEMBER) ROYAL SOCIETY ALUMNUS GROUP ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY (FELLOW) SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD INTERNATIONAL MEMBER, VETERINARY TRAINING AND RESEARCH INITIATIVE, BRISTOL UNIVERSITY (DEFRA, HM GOVERNMENT, UK) SELECTION COMMITTEE, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MICROBIOLOGY, GSK INTERNATIONAL MEMBER OF THE YEAR AWARD, WASHINGTON DC, USA SENIOR EDITOR, MICROBIOLOGY (PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, READING, UK) SGM COUNCIL LIAISON OFFICER, SGM IRISH BRANCH SGM JOURNALS BUSINESS SUB-COMMITTEE SGM POLICY WORKING PARTY SGM STRATEGY GROUP SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY STOCHASTIC MODELLING OF GENE REGULATION IN PROKARYOTES (STOMP GROUP) TRUSTEE AND COUNCIL MEMBER, SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, READING, UK TRUSTEE AND MEMBER OF COUNCIL (GOVERNING BODY) OF THE MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY, CHARLES DARWIN HOUSE, LONDON, UK VICE-PRESIDENT, EUROCONFERENCE SERIES ON BACTERIAL NEURAL NETWORKS, STRASBOURG, FRANCE VISITING PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, BANGALORE, INDIA BACTERIA BACTERIAL BACTERIAL GENE BACTERIUM BINDING-PROTEINS BINDING-SITE BINDING-SITES BIOCHEMICAL BIOCHEMICAL APPROACH BIOCHEMISTRY BIOLOGY CURVED DNA DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC-ACID GYRASE DNA DNA ARRAY DNA BENDING DNA BINDING DNA GYRASE DNA INVERSION DNA MICROARRAYS DNA RECOGNITION DOMAINS DNA SUPERCOILING DNA SUPERHELICITY DNA TOPOLOGY DNA-BINDING DNA-BINDING ACTIVITY DNA-BINDING DOMAIN DNA-BINDING DOMAINS DNA-BINDING PROTEIN DNA-BINDING PROTEINS DNA-BINDING SUBUNIT ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION ENVIRONMENTAL-REGULATION ESCHERICHIA-COLI K-12 FIMBRIAE FIMBRIAL PHASE VARIATION FIS PROTEIN GENE REARRANGEMENTS GENE REGULATION GENE-EXPRESSION GENES GENETIC GENETIC MANIPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE GENETIC-ANALYSIS GENETICS GENOME GENOME COMPACTION GENOME EVOLUTION GENOME EXPRESSION ANALYSIS GENOMES GENOMIC ORGANIZATION GENOMICS GLOBAL REGULATOR GROWTH-PHASE CONTROL GROWTH-PHASE REGULATION H-NS HISTONE-LIKE PROTEINS HNS INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR MESSENGER-RNA MICROARRAY MICROARRAY DATA MICROBIAL ACTIVITY MICROBIOLOGY MICROORGANISM MICROORGANISMS MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY MOLECULAR-CLONING MOLECULAR-GENETICS MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE SALMONELLA-TYPHIMURIUM SHIGELLA-FLEXNERI SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASES TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION TYPE-1 FIMBRIAE GENETICS AND GENOMICS MICROBIOLOGY BACTERIAL GENE REGULATION BY DNA SUPERCOILING. THE ROYAL SOCIETY ROYAL SOCIETY UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS, DNA SUPERCOILING AND THE REGULATION OF VIRULENCE IN SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM. A STUDY OF VIRULENCE GENE EXPRESSION IN THE PATHOGENIC BACTERIUM SALMONELLA MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT GRANTS REGULATION OF VIRULENCE GENE EXPRESSION BY HISTONE-LIKE PROTEINS IN BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA. AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT GRANTS ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI PHYTOPATHOGENICITY BY TWO-COMPONENT REGULATORS. AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT GRANTS THE REGULATION OF VIRULENCE GENE EXPRESSION BY DNA SUPERCOILING IN SHIGELLA FLEXNERI. WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANTS REGULATION OF PLASMID-LINKED MKA VIRULENCE GENE EXPRESSION BY DNA SUPERCOILING IN SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM. MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT GRANTS THERMAL RESPONSE OF DNA NEGATIVE SUPERCOILING IN A GENETICALLY REWIRED BACTERIUM: THE ROLE OF RPOS WELLCOME TRUST VACATION STUDENTSHIPS THERMAL RESPONSE OF DNA NEGATIVE SUPERCOILING IN A GENETICALLY REWIRED BACTERIUM: THE ROLE OF RPOS SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY HARRY SMITH STUDENTSHIPS ROLE OF NUCLEOID PROTEIN GENE HNS IN REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION AND GENOME ORGANIZATION. WELLCOME TRUST PRIZE STUDENTSHIP BACTERIAL DNA SUPERCOILING AND GENE REGULATION. THE ROYAL SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT AWARD MODULATION OF SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION BY TRANSCRIPTIONALLY-INDUCED CHANGES IN DNA SUPERCOILING IN THE TYPE 1 FIMBRIAL SYSTEM OF ESCHERICHIA COLI. FORBAIRT PROJECT GRANTS THE ROLE OF THE STPA PROTEIN OF ESCHERICHIA COLI IN TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION AND GENOME ORGANIZATION. WELLCOME TRUST PRIZE FELLOWSHIP REGULATORY MUTATIONS AND EXPRESSION OF THE SALMONELLA SPV VIRULENCE GENES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANTS MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE FIMB SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE OF E. COLI. WELLCOME TRUST VISITING RESEARCHER DOMAIN STRUCTURE OF A SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINASE REQUIRED FOR PHASE-VARIABLE CONTROL OF ADHESIN EXPRESSION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI. FORBAIRT PROJECT GRANTS MULTI-ANTIGEN MUCOSAL VACCINES EUROPEAN UNION BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME GRANT THE STPA-DEPENDENT REGULON OF ENTERIC BACTERIA. WELLCOME TRUST PRIZE STUDENTSHIP ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND DELETION FORMATION IN THE VIRULENCE PLASMID OF SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANTS ADAPTATION OF SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM TO INTRACELLULAR GROWTH. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY STUDENTSHIP CELL IMAGING AND PATHOGENESIS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EQUIPMENT GRANTS RECOMBINASE PROTEIN INTERACTIONS WITH THE FIM SWITCH IN ESCHERICHIA COLI. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROJECT GRANTS THE FIM SWITCH OF ESCHERICHIA COLI. WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANTS BACTERIAL PROTEOMICS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EQUIPMENT GRANTS STPA EXPRESSION AND THE RPOS SIGMA FACTOR IN ESCHERICHIA COLI. WELLCOME TRUST PRIZE FELLOWSHIP DNA GYRASE GENE REGULATION IN SALMONELLA ENTERICA. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANTS A THIRD MEMBER OF THE H-NS PROTEIN FAMILY IN SHIGELLA FLEXNERI. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROJECT GRANTS VIRULENCE GENE REGULATION IN SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AWARDS STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE VIRB VIRULENCE GENE REGULATORY PROTEIN FROM SHIGELLA FLEXNERI. WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANTS BIASING SWITCHING OUTCOMES IN THE ESCHERICHIA COLI FIM SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION SYSTEM THROUGH STRESS-INDUCED SUPERCOIL DESTABILIZATION (SIDD) AND NUCLEOID-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS (NAPS). SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS AWARDS HORIZONTAL DNA TRANSFER AND PATHOGEN EVOLUTION. WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANTS H-NS-LIKE PROTEINS AND GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS IN BACTERIA. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AWARDS REGULATION OF VIRULENCE FACTORS IN BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS. EUROPEAN UNION TRAINING AND MOBILITY OF RESEARCHERS REGULATION OF INVASION GENE EXPRESSION IN SHIGELLA FLEXNERI BY DNA TOPOLOGY. MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT GRANTS MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF THE STATIONARY PHASE REGULATION OF THE SPV VIRULENCE OPERON OF SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM. WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANTS DNA TOPOLOGY AND THE SHIGELLA FLEXNERI VIRULENCE GENE REGULATORY CASCADE. WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANTS THE INFLUENCE OF DNA TOPOLOGY ON A RANDOM GENETIC SWITCH IN ESCHERICHIA COLI. WELLCOME TRUST PROGRAMME GRANTS A NOVEL REGULATORY MECHANISM CONTROLLING PHASE VARIATION IN BACTERIA. FORBAIRT PROJECT GRANTS ANALYSIS OF SWITCHING BIAS IN THE FIM GENETIC SWITCH OF ESCHERICHIA COLI. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANTS BACTERIAL NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND STRESS RESISTANCE IN PATHOGENS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AWARDS STATIONARY-PHASE EXPRESSION OF FIS IN SALMONELLA ENTERICA. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS AWARDS DNA SUPERCOILING, GENE EXPRESSION AND BACTERIAL PATHOGENICITY. WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANTS CONTRIBUTION OF DNA TOPOLOGY TO THE CONTROL OF VIRULENCE GENE EXPRESSION IN SHIGELLA FLEXNERI. SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY STUDENTSHIP STRUCTURE-FUNCTION ANALYSIS OF THE VIRB REGULATORY PROTEIN OF SHIGELLA FLEXNERI. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROJECT GRANTS REGULATORY EVOLUTION IN A BACTERIAL PATHOGEN. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANTS ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION, GENE REGULATION AND VIRULENCE OF SALMONELLA SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND STOKES PROFESSOR AND PI AWARDS GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MR. MATTHEW JAMES DORMAN dormanmatthewjames VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT DORMANMJ GENETICS PROKARYOTIC GENE REGULATION LAB MICROBIOLOGY DEPT MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. VLADIMIR DOTSENKO dotsenkovladimir ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DOTSENKV PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS KEYWORDS REFLECTING MATHEMATICAL INTERESTS: OPERADS, GRÖBNER BASES, MONOMIAL ALGEBRAS, COMBINATORICS, HOMOTOPICAL ALGEBRA, REPRESENTATION THEORY, DEFORMATION THEORY. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ALGEBRA ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY GEOMETRIC QUANTISATION GROUP REPRESENTATIONS PURE MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS DR. ALISON DOUGALL dougallalison ASSISTANT PROFESSOR / CONSULTANT DOUGALA DENTAL SCIENCE RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY AND EDUCATION AND MEDICALLY COMPROMISED PATIENT FOCUSSING ON INHERTIED COAGULATION DISORDERS DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH DENTAL SEDATION TEACHERS GROUP - DUBLIN REPRESENTATIVE EDUCATION COMMITTEE OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION IRISH SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH MEMBER OF SAAD MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL ANAESTHETISTS MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF GERODONTOLOGY MEMBER OF THE DENTAL TEACHERS SEDATION GROUP MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) PRESIDENT ELECT IRISH SOCIETY OF DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY TEACHERS GROUP - DUBLIN REPRESENTATIVE VICE-CHAIR OF WORLD FEDERATION OF HAEMOPHILIA DENTAL DIVISION COAGULATION BIOCHEMISTRY AND DISORDERS EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS HAEMOTOLOGY HEALTH OUTCOMES HEPATITIS C INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION LIVER DISEASES AND TRANSPLANTATION NEURODEGENERATION ORAL DISEASES AND ORAL MEDICINE PUBLIC DENTAL HEALTH RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. AILEEN DOUGLAS douglasaileen ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ADOUGLAS ENGLISH AILEEN DOUGLAS HAS A NUMBER OF INTERRELATED RESEARCH INTERESTS. MOST RECENTLY HER CONCERN WITH ISSUES OF MATERIALITY, EMBODIMENT, AND REPRESENTATION HAS FOCUSED ON EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE. WORK IN HAND: SCRIPT, PRINT, AND WRITING, 1690-1840 (OUP 2017) ARGUES THAT BETWEEN THE LATE SEVENTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES MANUAL WRITING WAS A DYNAMIC TECHNOLOGY. IT EXAMINES SCRIPT IN RELATION TO BECOMING A WRITER; IN CONSTRUCTIONS OF THE AUTHOR; AND IN EMERGING IDEAS OF THE HUMAN. RESEARCH FOR THE BOOK INVOLVED CONSIDERATION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING MASTERS, AND OF PEDAGOGY IN THE IRISH CHARTER SCHOOLS AND IN THE MONITORIAL SYSTEM DEVISED BY ANDREW BELL IN INDIA. LITERARY FIGURES DISCUSSED INCLUDE SAMUEL JOHNSON, WILLIAM BLAKE, AND ISAAC D'ISRAELI. CONCEPTUALLY, THIS RESEARCH IS CONNECTED TO EARLIER WORK ON IT-NARRATORS, AND ON THE BODY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WRITING, ESPECIALLY IN THE FICTION OF THE SCOTTISH NOVELIST TOBIAS SMOLLETT. SHE HAS A GENERAL INTEREST IN DISCIPLINARY AND CANON FORMATION, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO IRISH WRITING, AND HAS PUBLISHED A RANGE OF ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS ON JONATHAN SWIFT AND MARIA EDGEWORTH. SHE CONTRIBUTED A CHAPTER ON 'THE NOVEL BEFORE 1800' TO THE 'CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE IRISH NOVEL' (2006) AND HER EXPLORATION OF IRISH FICTION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CONTINUES IN HER WORK FOR THE 'EARLY IRISH FICTION SERIES' (FOUR COURTS PRESS, ONGOING). IN THIS REGARD, SHE HAS BECOME VERY INTERESTED IN MAKING AVAILABLE AND POPULARIZING THE WORK OF ELIZABETH SHERIDAN, WHOSE NOVEL THE TRIUMPH OF PRUDENCE OVER PASSION SHE HAS CO-EDITED. AT THE MOMENT SHE IS WORKING ON AN EDITION OF SHERIDAN'S EMELINE (1782). HER DEVELOPING RESEARCH PROJECT BRINGS TOGETHER PRINT CULTURE AND A LONG-STANDING CONCERN WITH GENDER. IT IS ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN HOW WRITING FOR, OR ABOUT, CHILDREN ENABLED EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY-NINETEENTH CENTURY WOMEN TO BECOME PUBLISHED AUTHORS. A FORTHCOMING BOOK CHAPTER ON THE POET MARY BARBER FOR 'IRISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION (CAMBRIDGE, 2018) DEALS WITH THESE ISSUES, AS DOES A FORTHCOMING BOOK CHAPTER ON MARIA EDGEWORTH'S REPRESENTATION OF THE CHILD'S AWARENESS OF TIME (PALGRAVE, 2017). SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER, ULSTER-SCOTS AGENCY 2007-9 CO-ORGANIZER SWIFT350 ACADEMIC CONFERENCE, TCD 7-9 JUNE 2017 COMMITTEE MEMBER EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY 1998-2014 EDITORIAL BOARD UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS EDITION OF THE WORKS OF TOBIAS SMOLLET GENERAL EDITOR, 'EARLY IRISH FICTION, 1690-1820' (2008-PRESENT) 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE IRISH WRITING, ESPECIALLY EARLY IRISH FICTION MARIA EDGEWORTH PRINT CULTURE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE EARLY IRISH FICTION, 1680-1820 A SERIES OF CRITICAL EDITIONS OF EARLY IRISH PROSE FICTION. TO DATE, SEVEN VOLUMES HAVE APPEARED. IRCHSS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MR. WILLIAM JOSEPH DOWLING dowlingwilliamjoseph ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WDOWLING ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS AND CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS ELEC & ELECT ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ELECTED MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 2008-2016 MEMBER OF IFUT TCD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COUNCIL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS AND CIRCUITS SIGNAL PROCESSING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. ERIC DOWNER downereric ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EDOWNER PHYSIOLOGY MY RESEARCH BACKGROUND IS IN NEUROIMMUNOLOGY, AND I INTERESTED IN HOW NEUROIMMUNE INTERACTIONS ARE CONTROLLED UNDER NORMAL PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND DISEASE STATES. MY LABORATORY IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS), AND HAVE PUBLISHED DATA DEMONSTRATING THAT CELLS ASSOCIATED WITH MS PATHOLOGY DISPLAY EVIDENCE OF ALTERED INNATE IMMUNE SIGNALLING SIGNATURES THAT MAY BE LINKED DIRECTLY WITH DISEASE PATHOLOGY. SPECIFICALLY, MY RESEARCH EFFORTS HAVE FOCUSED ON TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR (TLR) SIGNALLING, AND MY INTEREST IN THIS AREA IS HARBOURED BY THE ESTABLISHED ROLE OF TLRS IN INNATE IMMUNITY, IN ADDITION TO EMERGING EVIDENCE THAT TLRS ARE IMPLICATED AS PIVOTAL PLAYERS IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF NEUROINFLAMMATORY DISORDERS INCLUDING MS. MY LONG-TERM GOAL IS TO CONSOLIDATE A RESEARCH GROUP THAT CONDUCTS PATIENT-ORIENTATED RESEARCH BY INVESTIGATING THE LINKS BETWEEN CELLULAR INNATE IMMUNE SIGNALLING SIGNATURES IN PERIPHERAL BLOOD CELLS AND THE IMPACT OF DISEASE ON CENTRAL READ-OUTS OF COGNITION, PAIN, DEPRESSION AND NEUROLOGIC DISABILITY. BY CONDUCTING SUCH INVESTIGATIONS MY RESEARCH TEAM AIMS TO (A) DELINEATE THE ROLE OF THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN DISEASE PROGRESSION AND SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND, (B) INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF NOVEL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES (CANNABINOID-BASED DRUGS AND EXERCISE) ON INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES AND DISEASE SYMPTOMS IN PATIENTS. TO ADDRESS THIS I HAVE BUILT CLINICAL COLLABORATIONS WITH NEUROLOGISTS TO ACCESS PATIENT COHORTS AND HAVE BEGUN TO PROFILE INNATE IMMUNE PROFILES WITH DISEASE PARAMETERS IN MS PATIENT COHORTS. MEDIA ARTICLES ON MY RESEARCH: IRISH EXAMINER HTTP://WWW.IRISHEXAMINER.COM/LIFESTYLE/FEATURES/IRISH-SCIENTISTS-LEADING-STREET-DRUG-RESEARCH-229863.HTML IRISH TIMES HTTP://WWW.IRISHTIMES.COM/NEWS/SCIENCE/MEDICAL-MARVEL-THE-USES-OF-CANNABIS-CONTINUE-TO-GROW-1.2169988 SUMMARY OF RESEARCH INTERESTS: NEUROIMMUNOLOGY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS INNATE IMMUNE SIGNALLING CANNABINOID PHARMACOLOGY NEUROPATHOLOGY NEUROPATHIC OROFACIAL PAIN NOVEL TEACHING INNOVATIONS FUNDING: IRC HRB PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY BRITISH NEUROPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE ERASMUS EXCHANGE COMMITTEE (HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE; TCD) CHAIR OF THE HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE BSC CURRICULUM COMMITTEE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN COUNCIL MEMBER: NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND COUNCIL MEMBER: ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND COUNCIL MEMBER (BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SECTION) DIRECTOR: BIOSCIENCES IMAGING CENTRE, BIOSCIENCES BUILDING, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK (UCC), CORK, IRELAND. EDITOR (GUEST): BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY ENGAGEMENT WITH PATIENT SOCIETIES' BY WRITING FOR THE MS IRELAND PATIENT EZINE EXTERNAL EXAMINER AT NUIG AND UCC. GRANT REVIEWER: NUI POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN THE SCIENCES, NUI TRAVELING STUDENTSHIPS IN THE SCIENCES, MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. GRANT REVIEWER: ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH UK. JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR APPROX 20 JOURNALS MEMBER OF THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEMBER OF THE TCD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE APPEALS COMMITTEE NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND COUNCIL MEMBER ORGANISING COMMITTEE: 3RD ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON CANNABINOID RESEARCH IN IRELAND, NUIM. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: 4TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON CANNABINOID RESEARCH IN IRELAND, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: 6TH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON CANNABINOID RESEARCH. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND BRAIN AWARENESS OUTREACH EVENT, TRINITY COLLEGE. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: PHYSIOLOGY FRIDAY OUTREACH EVENT, TRINITY COLLEGE. ORGANISING COMMITTEE: RAMI ANNUAL MEETING, TRINITY COLLEGE. PROGRAMME CO-ORDINATOR: STRUCTURED PRTLI PH.D PROGRAMME. TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN 2, IRELAND. REPRESENTED THE UNIVERSITY AS A SPEAKER AT THE IWISH CONFERENCE IN THE RDS (2017) ATTENDED BY 4,000 STUDENTS. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTED IN THE IRISH EXAMINER. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTED IN THE IRISH TIMES. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND COUNCIL MEMBER (BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SECTION) SECRETARY OF IRISH CANNABINOID RESEARCH COMMITTEE SECRETARY: IRISH CANNABINOID RESEARCH COMMITTEE WRITER FOR MS PATIENT WEBSITE (WWW.LIVINGLIKEYOU.COM). AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. CARMEL DOWNES downescarmel RESEARCH ASSISTANT CADOWNES SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MENTAL HEALTH; EVALUATION RESEARCH SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DEVELOPING AND TESTING A TOOL TO EVALUATE A SEXUAL CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME HSE AND CRISIS PREGNANCY PROGRAMME THE SENSE STUDY: AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE EPILSPSY SPECIALIST NURSE AND THE IMPACT ON PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE MRCG/ HRB LGBTIRELAND: NATIONAL STUDY OF THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF LGBTIRELAND PEOPLE IN IRELAND GLEN AND BELONGTO THE EOLAS PROJECT: EVALUATION OF A CO-PRODUCED AND CO-DELIVERED INFORMATION PROGRAMME ON RECOVERY AND MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES FOR USERS OF SERVICES AND FAMILY MEMBERS HSE THE SMARTER STUDY: EXPLORING PRACTICES, POLICIES AND PROCESSES AROUND RISK AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT WITHIN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING SERVICES HSE AND NPMDU DR. ORAN JOSEPH DOYLE doyleoranjoseph ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OJDOYLE LAW PROF DOYLE'S PRIMARY AREAS OF INTEREST ARE COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY, JURISPRUDENCE AND IRISH CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. AT PRESENT, HE IS COMPLETING A MONOGRAPH, 'THE CONSTITUTION OF IRELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ACCOUNT' FOR HART'S SERIES ON CONSTITUTIONS OF THE WORLD. IN HIS OTHER WORK, HE AIMS TO ACHIEVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PROBLEMS IN CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY BY LOCATING COMPARATIVE EXAMPLES IN A BROADLY LEGAL-POSITIVIST FRAMEWORK. IN PARTICULAR, HE EMPLOYS JURISPRUDENTIAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF AUTHORITY AND CONVENTION TO UNPICK CONSTITUTIONAL PHENOMENA. THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW HAS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION AN ARTICLE THAT ADVANCES A NEW THEORETICAL EXPLANATION FOR LAW'S CONNECTION TO TERRITORY. GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONALISM HAVE PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE ON THE USE OF FOREIGN LAW IN CONSTITUTIONAL CASES WHILE THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL HAS PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE ON CONVENTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. HE HAS CONTRIBUTED CHAPTERS ON DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE TO A FORTHCOMING VOLUME, THE FOUNDATIONS AND TRADITIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, PUBLISHED BY HART. THE NATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (CANADA) HAS RECENTLY PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE CONTRASTING HOW IRELAND AND CANADA HAVE USED CONVENTIONS TO MEDIATE CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. HE UPLOADS COMPLETED AND DRAFT PAPERS AT HTTPS://TCD.ACADEMIA.EDU/ORANDOYLE AND HTTP://SSRN.COM/AUTHOR=867538 LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH CONVENOR OF THE BRITISH-IRISH CHAPTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PUBLIC LAW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PUBLIC LAW IRISH JURISPRUDENCE SOCIETY LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL. MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES. VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE INSTITUTUUM JURISPRUDENTIAE OF THE ACADEMIA SINICA IN TAIPEI. COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW JURISPRUDENCE MEASURES ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS DR DOYLE PREPARED THE IRISH REPORT FOR A EUROPEAN UNION PROJECT ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE LAWS OF EACH MEMBER STATE COMPLIED WITH ARTICLE 9(3) OF THE AARHUS CONVENTION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. MARTHA DOYLE doylemartha VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW DOYLEM5 SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY MY SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTEREST LIES IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGEING, CONSTRUCTIONIST PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING, THE INTERPERSONAL AND AFFECTIVE COMPONENTS OF CARE WORK AND LIFE COURSE RESEARCH. SOCIALWORK & SOCIAL POLICY COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER IRISH SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE MEMBER SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH ETHICAL APPROVAL COMMITTEE EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION (ESPANET) INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENTIFIC CO-ORDINATOR OF THE IRISH RESEARCH NETWORK IN NEURODEGENERATION INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ISA)RESEARCH COMMITTEE 11 (SOCIOLOGY OF AGEING) IRISH SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE IDEAS AND PRACTICE OF AGEING POLICES: EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE NETWORK. CO-ORDINATED BY RUNE ERVIK & TORD SKOGEDAL LINDEN, ROKKAN CENTRE, BERGEN. MEMBER OF THE MILES (MIGRANT LABOUR IN ELDER CARE SECTORS) NETWORK, FUNDED BY NORFACE. NETWORK CO-ORDINATED BY DRS HOFF AND LEESON OF THE OXFORD INSTITUTE OF AGEING. MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH COMMITTEE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND ACTION RESEARCH AGE RELATED SOCIAL POLICY AGEING COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH CRITICAL GERONTOLOGY DEMENTIA DEMENTIA SERVICES DOMICILLIARY CARE INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CARE SYSTEMS LONG-TERM CARE WORKFORCE MIGRANT LONG-TERM CARE WORKERS OLDER PEOPLE OLDER PEOPLE'S INTEREST GROUPS PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH METHODS PERSONALISATION OF CARE POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM SOCIAL SERVICES PLANNING/POLICY THE LIFE-COURSE/LIFE SPAN PERSPECTIVES AGEING INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR LINDA DOYLE doylelinda PROFESSOR OF ENGINEERING & THE ARTS LEDOYLE COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. CONNECT CENTRE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 IEEE MEMBER ART & TECHNOLOGY COGNITIVE RADIO DYNAMIC SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT FEMINIST RESEARCH METHODOLGIES RECONFIGURABLE RADIO TELECOMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS EMERGING NETWORK ARCHITECTURES THE EMERGING NETWORK ARCHITECTURES IS ONE OF THE FIVE MAJOR RESEARCH STRANDS IN THE SFI CSET KNOWN AS THE CENTRE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS & VALUE-CHAIN RESEARCH. THERE ARE FIVE MAIN RESEARCH TASKS FOCUSING ON A VARIETY OF TOPICS INCLUDING DISTRIBUTED & DISAGGREGATED NETWORK ARCHITECTURES, COGNITIVE & RECONFIGURABLE WIRELESS NETWORKS, DYNAMIC AND SELF-ORGANISING OPTICAL NETWORKS AMONG OTHERS. SFI CSET ART OF DECISION THIS IS A JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT WITH THE CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMEN'S STUDIES. IT TAKES AN ORIGINAL APPROACH TO EXPLORING WOMEN IN POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING. IT FOCUSES ON USING NEW MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGIES IN ALTERNATIVE & CREATIVE WAYS TO HIGHLIGHT RELEVANT ISSUES AND TO CREATE DIALOGUE AROUND THOSE ISSUES. DJELR EWM CONNECTIVITY PROBES THIS IS A PROJECT THAT EXPLORES CONNECTIVITY THROUGH THE USE OF ART & TECHNOLOGY BASED INSTALLATIONS. HEA HEA MMRP CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. LOUISE DOYLE doylelouise ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DOYLEL1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE BROADLY IN THE AREA OF MENTAL HEALTH WITH A PRIMARY FOCUS AND AN ESTABLISHED REPUTATION IN SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM RESEARCH. I HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN SECURING RESEARCHING FUNDING FROM A RANGE OF FUNDING BODIES INCLUDING THE NATIONAL OFFICE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION, THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS. USING A RANGE OF QUANTITATIVE, QUALITATIVE AND PARTICULARLY MIXED METHODS DESIGNS, MY RESEARCH HAS HAD A MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON CLINICAL PRACTICE AND EDUCATION AND HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN HIGH-IMPACT NURSING AND INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNALS, IN BOOKS AND IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. MY MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST AND EXPERTISE IS ON POINTS OF INTERVENTION FOR SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE: . MY RESEARCH ON SELF-HARM AND HELP-SEEKING IN ADOLESCENTS WAS PREVIOUSLY UNEXPLORED IN IRELAND AND IDENTIFIED BARRIERS TO PROFESSIONAL HELP-SEEKING. FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY HAVE HAD IMPACT AND HAVE INFORMED THE RESPONSES OF PARENTS, TEACHERS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS TO YOUNG PEOPLE WHO SELF-HARM. . RECOGNISING THAT THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT IS THE FIRST AND OFTEN ONLY PORT OF CALL FOR THOSE WHO SELF-HARM THEREFORE REPRESENTING A POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERVENTION, MY RESEARCH ON HOW HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS WITHIN THE ED RESPOND TO THOSE WHO SELF-HARM IDENTIFIED THE NEED FOR FURTHER TRAINING IN THE AREA OF SELF-HARM/SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR. . THESE FINDINGS FED INTO A LARGER STUDY (SMARTER) ON THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK IN MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE. FROM THIS SMARTER STUDY RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF 'BEST PRACTICE PRINCIPLES FOR RISK ASSESSMENT AND SAFETY PLANNING FOR NURSES WORKING IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES'. IN ADDITION, FINDINGS ALSO INFORMED THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE 'SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT' WHICH WAS DEVELOPED TO ENSURE GREATER CONSISTENCY IN THE ASSESSMENT OF SUICIDE RISK NATIONALLY. I WAS THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT AND MODULE DEVELOPER FOR THIS WHICH IS CURRENTLY HOSTED ON HSELAND, AND USED BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS NATIONALLY. . RECOGNISING THAT MANY OF THOSE WHO PRESENT TO THE ED FOLLOWING SELF-HARM OR A SUICIDE ATTEMPT LEAVE BEFORE TREATMENT AND HAVE A HIGHER RATE OF COMPLETED SUICIDE, I AM ABOUT TO LEAD ON A NEW STUDY OF HOW PEOPLE WHO SELF-HARM OR ATTEMPT SUICIDE EXPERIENCE THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AS A FIRST POINT OF CONTACT. THIS STUDY WILL BE FUNDED BY THE 3TS CHARITY (TURN THE TIDE OF SUICIDE). . ON THE LGBTIRELAND STUDY, THE LARGEST STUDY IN IRELAND OF LGBTI MENTAL HEALTH, I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF FINDINGS RELATING TO SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE IN THIS COHORT. THESE FINDINGS REPORTED A VERY HIGH RATE OF SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE ATTEMPTS DRAWING NATIONAL ATTENTION TO THE NEED FOR EARLY INTERVENTION AND APPROPRIATE SENSITIVE RESPONSES TO YOUNG LGBTI PEOPLE. . THE PRISON SETTING IS A HIGH RISK AREA FOR SELF-HARM AND COMPLETED SUICIDE. I WAS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON A STUDY EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF AN INNOVATIVE PRISON-BASED MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION PEER MENTORING PROGRAMME DELIVERED BY SUICIDE OR SURVIVE (SOS). THE FINAL REPORT OF THIS EVALUATION IS ABOUT TO BE FORMALLY LAUNCHED BY THE NATIONAL OFFICE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION AND THE FINDINGS BEEN USED TO FURTHER DEVELOP AND EXTEND THE USE OF THIS PEER MENTORING PROGRAMME IN IRISH PRISONS. I HAVE A NUMBER OF OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS WITHIN THE AREA OF MENTAL HEALTH. I WAS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON A STUDY EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF A WELLNESS INTERVENTION IN THE GENERAL POPULATION AND ALSO IN THE PRISON SETTING. THIS INTEREST IN WELLNESS ALSO TRANSFERS TO THE EMENTHE EUROPEAN PROJECT WHERE I WAS THEME LEAD FOR THE WELLNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION THEME. I AM CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN TWO FURTHER STUDIES, ONE EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCE OF PEOPLE WITHDRAWING FROM PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION AND THE OTHER EXPLORING COLLABORATIVE CARE PLANNING IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH (MENTAL HEALTH PAPERS) BOOK PROPOSAL AND CHAPTER REVIEWER (SAGE PUBLICATIONS AND MCGRAW HILL PUBLICATIONS) EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING EXTERNAL EXAMINER BSC. (NURSING) DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER BSC. (PSYCHIATRIC NURSING) ATHLONE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GRANT REVIEWER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC - UK). INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SUICIDOLOGY MEMBER OF ENTER (EUROPEAN NETWORK TRAINING, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MENTAL HEALTH) MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF 3TS CHARITY(TURN THE TIDE OF SUICIDE) MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE 3TS CHARITY (TURN THE TIDE OF SUICIDE). MEMBER OF THE EXTERNAL PROGRAMMATIC REVIEW PANEL DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. MEMBER OF THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE (JBI) AFFILIATE CENTRE OF THE TRINITY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION (TCPHI) MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE - TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE THROUGH RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY OCCASIONAL JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR: BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING, CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT, IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH, HEALTH EDUCATION JOURNAL, NURSE PRESCRIBING. RESEARCH ADVISOR TO MENTAL HEALTH REFORM REVIEWER BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH REVIEWER FOR NURSING RESEARCH REVIEWER INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING REVIEWER JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING ADOLESCENT HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SELF-HARM SUICIDE AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES LGBTIRELAND: EXPLORATION OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OF LGBTI PEOPLE IN IRELAND AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS LGBTI PEOPLE. HIGGINS, A., BEGLEY, T., DE VRIES, J., DOYLE, L., MCCANN, E., SHEERIN, F., SHAREK, D. & SMYTH, S. GAY & LESBIAN EQUALITY NETWORK (GLEN) & BELONG TO AN EVALUATION OF POWER (PROMOTING OUR OWN WELLNESS AND PROMOTING RECOVERY): A PEER PRISONER MENTORING PROGRAMME. DOYLE, L (PI), HIGGINS, A., KEOGH, B., BRENNAN, M. & MORRISSEY, J. NATIONAL OFFICE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION/SUICIDE OR SURVIVE EXPLORING PRACTICES, POLICIES AND PROCESSES AROUND RISK AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT WITHIN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING SERVICES (SMARTER NURSING STUDY) HIGGINS, A. DOYLE, L., NASH, M., BRENNAN, M. COSTELLO, P. & MORRISEY, J. HSE AND NPMDU DEVELOPING MASTER'S LEVEL E-LEARNING MATERIAL IN MENTAL HEALTH KIKKU, N., CALLAGHAN, P., VAN DOMMELEN, R., DOYLE, L., ELLILA, H., HIGGINS, A., JORMFELT, H., KALEVO, C., KEOGH, B., LAKSY, M-L, VAN DE SANDE, R., SITVAST, J., SKARSATER, I., STICKELY, T. & VUOKILA-OIKKPNEN, P. EU LIFELONG PROGRAMME/ERASMUS MULTILATERAL NETWORKS 'A PRE/POST EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF A ONE DAY WELLNESS PROGRAMME BY SUICIDE OR SURVIVE, ON PARTICIPANTS' KNOWLEDGE OF AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND SELF-REPORTED MENTAL WELLBEING DOYLE, L (PI), HIGGINS, A., KEOGH, B., DE VRIES, J. & MCBENNETT, P. SUICIDE OR SURVIVE/NATIONAL OFFICE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. HIGGINS, A. (PI), DOYLE, L., KEOGH, B., COYNE, I., MCCANN, E. & WALSH, S. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PREPARE A REPORT ON BOTH THE PROCESS AND OUTCOME OF THE CONSULTATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS (DCYA). THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ARE TO: (1)DENTIFY THE THINGS THAT MAKE THEIR LIVES EASY AND THE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HARD FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE;(II)IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT WORK WELL FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND (III) IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE CONSIDER NEEDS TO CHANGE TO ENHANCE THEIR LIVES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. CARMEL DOYLE doylecarmel ASST PROF/HEAD INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY N DOYLEC5 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY . NURSE EDUCATION. . CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION. . REFLECTIVE PRACTICE. . INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. . PAEDIATRICS. . CHILDREN WITH SEVERE/PROFOUND COMPLEX AND SPECIAL NEEDS. RESEARCH COMPLETED TO DATE: . A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF REGISTERED SICK CHILDREN'S NURSES IN IRELAND. SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ALL IRELAND INSTITUTE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT FOR SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND ETHICS ADVISOR ON SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY RESEARCH ETHICS ADVISORY COMMITTEE HEAD OF DISCIPLINE (INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING) INCLUSION IRELAND INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IRIAH ASSOCIATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PAEDIATRIC NURSES IRISH DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION IRISH HAEMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DISCIPLINE PERSONAL COLLEGE TUTOR FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY REPRESENTATIVE ON FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ETHICS COMMITTEE ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILDREN'S NURSING CHILDREN'S NURSING. NEONATAL NURSING. FAMILY-CENTERED CARE. CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION/TRAINING LEARNING DISABLED EDUCATION LIFELONG LEARNING NURSING EDUCATION PLAY PROMOTION OF CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION AN EXPLORATION OF THE ROLE OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS IN THE PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY TCD START UP FUNDING 5,500 A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY OF THE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION OF REGISTERED SICK CHILDREN'S NURSES IN IRELAND. SELF FUNDED DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFORMATION LEAFLET ON 22Q11 DELETION SYNDROME FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PARENTS WITH CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH 22Q11 DELETION SYNDROME. MARTHA MCMENAMIN DEVELOPING, IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING AN INTERDISCPILINARY MODULE IN CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION 70,000 EURO THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY USED BY CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX NEEDS WHO ARE RECEIVING CARE AT HOME IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND HSE MOTHERS' EXPERIENCES OF 'GIVING MEDICINES' TO CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX NEEDS SELF FUNDING EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY PEOPLE WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY LIVING INDEPENDENTLY THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE ISSUES THAT IMPEDE INDIVDUALS WITH MD FROM INDEPENDENT LIVING. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL MEDICATION MANAGEMENT IN CHILDREN'S NURSING: A REVIEW OF NIQA SCORES OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD IN ONE CHILDREN'S SERVICES CENTRE. ADELAIDE SOCIETY CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. SARAH LOUISE DOYLE doylesarahlouise ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN IMMUNOLOGY DOYLES8 CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES' HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR SYLVIA MARY DRAPER drapersylviamary PROFESSOR SMDRAPER CHEMISTRY CENTRE FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS CRANN I AM A SYNTHETIC CHEMIST WITH PARTICULAR EXPERTISE IN FUNCTIONAL MOLECULAR MATERIALS AND THEIR OPT-ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS. MY EARLY RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS SIT AT THE FOREFRONT OF EMERGING FIELDS AND ARE TESTAMENT TO MY COLLABORATION WITH SOME LEADING RESEARCH FIGURES AT HOME AND ABROAD. THEY CONTRIBUTE TO A BODY OF WORK IN SUPRAMOLECULAR AND BIO-INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND INCLUDE THE CONCEPT OF METHIONINE-BAITING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PALLADIUM THERAPEUTICS (WITH THE CENTRE FOR CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY, CSCB), THE CO-CRYSTALLISATION OF TRH-DE INHIBITORS (WITH THE TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE), AND THE EXPLORATION OF NIR PHOTOSENSITISERS FOR APPLICATION IN PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY (WITH TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, TBSI). THE ABOVE SATELLITE OUTPUTS HOWEVER ARE HEAVILY UNDERPINNED BY A SUSTAINED INTEREST INTO CARBON-RICH AROMATIC MATERIALS. THE UNDERLYING ACHIEVEMENTS OF MY RESEARCH THEREFORE ARE IN THE CREATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SYNTHETIC ROUTES TO HIGHLY, SOUGHT AFTER MOLECULAR MATERIALS. THE ROUTES DEVELOPED HAVE OPENED-UP NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ACTIVITY AND FUNCTION OF TUNABLE LUMINESCENT MATERIALS E.G. AS PHOTOSENSITISERS IN OPTO-ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS AND DEVICES SUCH AS SOLAR CELLS AND LIGHT EMITTING DIODES. MY INTEREST IN CARBON-BASED COMPOUNDS AROSE FROM OUR EARLY INVESTIGATIONS INTO DELOCALIZED ALKYNES AS ELECTRONIC LINKERS IN METAL CLUSTERS. THE LATTER ARE PRECURSORS TO POLYAROMATIC AND HETEROAROMATIC COMPOUNDS AND LED ME TO DEVELOP A PATHWAY TO, AND HENCE A UNIQUE CLASS, OF ELECTRON-ACCEPTING PLANAR MOLECULES: THE NITROGEN-HETEROSUPERBENZENES. THIS PIONEERING WORK SPAWNED A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER HIGHLIGHTED AND PRESTIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS, AND IT STIMULATED NEW DIRECTIONS WITHIN THE FIELD OF MOLECULAR MATERIALS. IN PARTICULAR IT PROMPTED THE ADVENT OF ON-SURFACE ENABLED CC COUPLING AND SERVED TO IGNITE THE HETEROATOM- NANOGRAPHENE WORLD. MY RESEARCH GROUP HAS A CONSISTENT RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT, MARKED BY SOME MAJOR RESEARCH MILESTONES. THESE INCLUDE THE SYNCHROTRON MOLECULAR STRUCTURES OF FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE NITROGEN HETEROSUPERBENZENE FAMILY, THE USE OF LARGE-SURFACE LIGANDS IN PHOTORESPONSIVE, COORDINATION COMPOUNDS AND A HOST OF STRUCTURALLY VERSATILE SUPRAMOLECULAR AND POLYMERIC NETWORKS BASED ON A NOVEL SETS OF POLYPHENYL PYRIDINES, PHENATHROLINE, PYRIDAZINE AND FLUORANTHENES. RECENT SUCCESSES INCLUDE THE DELIVERY AND EVALUATION OF MOLECULAR UPCONVERSION MATERIALS THAT EXHIBIT THE HIGHEST RECORDED SINGLET OXYGEN AND UPCONVERSION QUANTUM YIELDS. THE IMPACT OF THIS WORK IS FAR-REACHING AND TRANSFORMATIVE IN DRIVING NEW INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES. ITS QUALITY HAS ENSURED THAT THE GROUP CONTINUES TO BE AT THE FOREFRONT OF CUTTING-EDGE DEVELOPMENTS AND TO ATTRACT THE SUPPORT OF MAJOR FUNDING AGENCIES. DEPT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE PI OF CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON ADAPTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES AND NANODEVICES C. CHEM. PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY ELECTED MEMBER OF THE RSC DALTON DIVISION COUNCIL (DDC) FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY FEMCAM - SOCIETY FOR FEMALE CHEMISTS IN IRELAND MEMBER OF IONTAS ALLIANCE, NATIONAL FORUM MEMBER OF RSC DALTON DIVISION COUNCIL WITS- WOMEN IN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE CATALYSTS CHEMISTRY CLUSTERS COMPLEXES COUPLING REACTIONS CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES FRAMEWORKS HYDROGEN BONDING LUMINESCENT MATERIALS MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE RAY CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE REACTIVITY RECEPTORS RECOGNITION REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SURFACE ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY SYSTEMS THERMAL-DECOMPOSITION TRANSITION-METAL TYROSINE ENERGY EFFICIENCY SOLAR ENERGY PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE SMART MOLECULES FOR SUPER MATERIALS €960K (COLLABORATOR: DR. G. WATSON) MARIE-CURIE TOK DEVELOPMENT GRANT FP6 - MKTD-014472 760 K€ WHEN CHEMISTRY STACKS-UP: A BOTTOM-UP APPROACH TO FUNCTIONAL MOLECULAR GRAPHENES COLLABORATORS: DR. ADELINE ILIE AND PROF. BENDING (UNIVERSITY OF BATH) €170,000 SFI RPF 09/RFP/MTR2366 RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME HEA PRTL4 CENTRE FOR SYNTHESIS AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY €96,000 GRADUATE FUNDING: NIAMH MCGOLDRICK CO P.I. OF LARGER BLOCK GRANT WWW.CSCB.IE WITH RCS, UCD, TCD 900 K€ COMPOUND INTEREST: MULTIPLE OUTPUTS FROM LIGHT-EMITTING MATERIALS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND P.I. 2011 NON-LINEAR OPTICS: AN EVALUATION OF NEW PUSH-PULL THIENYL AND FERROCENYL COMPLEXES USING EFISH AND HR TECHNIQUE COLLABORATOR: PROF ISABELLE LEDOUX RAK, ENS DE CACHAN €2,000 SFI STTF 08RFPCHE1465 NEW POLYAROMATIC THIOPHENES AS OPTO-ELECTRONIC SWITCHES COLLABORATOR: PROF. FRANCO SCANDOLA (UNIVERSITY OF FERRARE), DR. MARY PRYCE (DCU) €146,000 SFI 08/RFP/CHE1465 RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DAVID PHILIP DREW drewdavidphilip RETIRED STAFF MEMBER DDREW RETIRED STAFF MEMBER HYDROGEOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY OF KARST AREAS WITH PARTICULAR REPECT TO THE USE OF WATER TRACING TECHNIQUES DEPT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CO-CHAIR KARST COMMISSION, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGIST INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS BRITISH CAVE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION IRISH KARST COMMISSION REPRESENTATIVE GROUNDWATER IRELAND IRISH KARST KARSTIC GEOMORPHOGY, KARST HYDROGEOLOGY, POLLUTION SILAGE PROFESSOR PATRICK JOSEPH DRUDY drudypatrickjoseph FELLOW EMERITUS PDRUDY ECONOMICS CENTRE FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY , HOUSING POLICY, INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND INEQUALITY, EU COHESION POLICY. TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMICS FOR PEOPLE DEPT OF ECONOMICS 3021 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ANNA DRURY druryanna RESEARCH EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER ADRURY PHYSICS 1) SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISATION OF NANOWIRES AND NANOCABLES IN NANOPOROUS ALUMINA TEMPLATES. 2) SYNTHESIS OF POLYMERS USED IN CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES, LIGHT EMITTING DIODES AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES. 3) SAFETY ASPECTS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY, SAFE HANDLING OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND OTHER NANOPARTICLES 4) ULTRAFILTRATION MEMBRANES PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY APPLIED PHYSICS ASBESTOS CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES CERAMIC MATERIALS AND POWDERS CHEMICALS/MATERIALS COMPOSITE MATERIALS CONDUCTING POLYMER FILMS ELECTROCHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENT (HEALTH/SAFETY/MEDICAL) ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY HEALTH AND SAFETY EDUCATION HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS, ENVIRONMENT HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION INORGANIC CHEMISTRY MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS NANOCHEMISTRY NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTUBES ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOPHYSICS PLASTICS POLYMER TECHNOLOGY, BIOPOLYMERS POLYMERS SCIENCE EDUCATION SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGIES SPECTROSCOPY SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS SURFACE CHEMISTRY SYNTHESIS AND NEW MOLECULES TEACHER EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MS. AMANDA DRURY druryamanda RESEARCH ASSISTANT DRURYA1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR NURSES IN ONCOLOGY IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND A DESCRIPTIVE INVESTIGATION OF ONCOLOGY NURSES ATTITUDES TOWARD CARE OF TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS THE COST OF SURVIVAL: UNDERSTANDING COLORECTAL CANCER SURVIVORS' QUALITY OF LIFE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS THE COST OF SURVIVAL: UNDERSTANDING COLORECTAL CANCER SURVIVORS' QUALITY OF LIFE 1252 PHD SCHOLARSHIP, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CANCER DR. BRETT DUANE duanebrett ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN PUBLIC DENTAL HEA BRETTDU DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH DR. DONATA DUBBER dubberdonata RESEARCH FELLOW DUBBERDO CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. WATER QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: POLLUTION CONTROL, WATER QUALITY AND IMPACT ASSESSMENTS IN MARINE AND FRESH WATER ENVIRONMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS FOR DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS. WASTEWATER TREATMENT: TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES; MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION AND OPTIMISATION OF BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL SYSTEMS; SOIL ATTENUATION SYSTEMS; DECENTRALISED, SMALL SCALE WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT SYSTEMS; COSTS, ENERGY USE AND CARBON FOOTPRINT ASSOCIATED WITH WASTEWATER TREATMENT. WATER MINIMISATION, ECOSANITATION AND WATER REUSE: WATER SAVING TECHNOLOGIES; WATER DEMAND REDUCTIONS; WASTEWATER/GREYWATER RECYCLING; HEALTH RISK ASPECTS; REDUCTION IN ENERGY USE; ECONOMICAL FEASIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. AQUACULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY: ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE (E.G. RECIRCULATION SYSTEMS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF AQUACULTURE; ANTIBACTERIAL AND ANTIFOULING ACTIVITIES OF MARINE ALGAE; ECONOMIC AND MEDICAL USE OF ALGAL SECONDARY METABOLITES. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IWA (INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION) PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF A GIS BASED DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS FROM A WFD PROGRAMME OF MEASURES PERSPECTIVE A PREVIOUS EPA-STRIVE FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT INVESTIGATED AND PROPOSED ALTERNATIVE WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OPTIONS FOR RURAL HOUSING IN AREAS OF LOW SUBSOIL PERMEABILITY. IN THIS CONNECTION A WEB BASED GIS (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS) DECISION SUPPORT TOOL (DST) HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNERS AND MANAGERS TO EVALUATE THESE ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES ON THE BASIS OF BOTH COST-BENEFIT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES. THIS STUDY WILL NOW DEMONSTRATE HOW THE TOOL CAN BE USED IN ORDER TO INFORM THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (WFD) PROGRAMME OF MEASURES (POM). USING THE DST TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL LOCAL DATA A REMEDIATION STRATEGY/PROGRAMME OF MEASURES FOR DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS (DWWTSS) WILL BE ESTABLISHED FOR TWO CASE STUDY CATCHMENTS THAT ARE LOCATED IN AREAS OF LOW SUBSOIL PERMEABILITY WITH WATER QUALITY BEING AT RISK OF FAILING WFD OBJECTIVES. THE TOOL WILL NOT ONLY BE USED TO IDENTIFY POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT SOLUTIONS BUT WILL FURTHER HELP TO ASSESS VARIOUS STRATEGIES AND MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS FOR THEIR COST-EFFECTIVENESS IN ACHIEVING THE WFD OBJECTIVES. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE USING FAECAL STEROLS AND FLUORESCENT WHITENING COMPOUNDS TO DETECT HUMAN FAECAL CONTAMINATION FROM SEPTIC TANKS IN IRISH CATCHMENTS THE DOMESTIC WASTEWATER OF APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION IN IRELAND IS TREATED ON-SITE BY DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS (DWWTSS), MOST OF WHICH ARE SEPTIC TANKS. IF NOT SITUATED AND CONSTRUCTED CORRECTLY THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF SUCH ON-SITE EFFLUENT ARE THE POLLUTION OF EITHER GROUNDWATER AND/OR SURFACE WATER. WHILE AN INCREASED NUTRIENT LOAD CAN CAUSE EUTROPHICATION OF WATER SOURCES, THE CONTAMINATION BY HUMAN ENTERIC PATHOGENS IS OF SPECIAL CONCERN TO REGULATORY BODIES AS IT CAN PROMOTE THE OUTBREAK OF DISEASES. BACTERIOLOGICAL INDICATORS HAVE BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY TO INDICATE FAECAL CONTAMINATION BUT THE UBIQUITOUS NATURE OF THESE ORGANISMS MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY ACTUAL SOURCES OF POLLUTION, I.E. FROM DOMESTIC WASTEWATER, AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES (E.G. FARM ANIMALS AND GRAZING LIVESTOCK) OR THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT (E.G. BIRDS). SOME CHEMICAL FAECAL SOURCE TRACKING METHODS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO BE USEFUL TECHNIQUES WHEN USED IN COMBINATION WITH TRADITIONAL MICROBIOLOGICAL INDICATORS. FOR EXAMPLE FLUORESCENT WHITENING COMPOUNDS (FWC), WHICH ARE PRESENT IN LAUNDRY DETERGENTS, ARE REGARDED AS GOOD INDICATORS OF HUMAN CONTAMINATION. FURTHERMORE DISTINGUISHABLE FAECAL STEROL PROFILES, I.E. 'STEROL FINGERPRINTS" FOR HUMANS, HERBIVORES AND BIRDS HAVE BEEN FOUND TO BE SUFFICIENTLY DISTINCTIVE TO BE OF DIAGNOSTIC VALUE IN DETERMINING WHETHER FAECAL POLLUTION IS OF HUMAN OR ANIMAL ORIGIN. HENCE THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO ESTABLISH APPROPRIATE ANALYTICAL METHODS TO MEASURE THESE CHEMICAL INDICATORS IN THE IRISH ENVIRONMENT AND TO TEST THEIR SUITABILITY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FROM AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND FAILING DWWTSS. IN HELPING TO IDENTIFY THE CORRECT SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION, THE INTEGRATION OF THESE TECHNIQUES INTO THE NATIONAL INSPECTIONS OF DWWTSS IS EXPECTED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION, NECESSARY TO PLAN EFFECTIVE REMEDIATION MEASURES IN CATCHMENTS WHERE WATER QUALITY IS AT RISK OF FAILING THE EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE TARGETS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ASSESSMENT OF DISPOSAL OPTIONS FOR TREATED WASTEWATER FROM SINGLE HOUSES IN LOW PERMEABILITY SUBSOIL SETTINGS THE DOMESTIC WASTEWATER OF OVER ONE THIRD OF THE POPULATION IN IRELAND IS TREATED BY ON-SITE TREATMENT SYSTEMS. IN THESE SYSTEMS THE SOIL ATTENUATION THAT TAKES PLACE WHILE THE EFFLUENT PERCOLATES THROUGH THE SUBSOIL IS PLAYING AN IMPORTANT ROLE AND PROTECTS THE GROUNDWATER FROM POLLUTION. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT HOWEVER IS HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON THE THICKNESS AND PERMEABILITY OF THE SUBSOILS. IF THE EFFLUENT LOADING ON THE SUBSOIL IS TOO HIGH, THE PERMEABILITY OF THE SUBSOIL VERY HIGH OR THERE IS AN INSUFFICIENT DEPTH OF SUBSOIL THEN THE GROUNDWATER BENEATH A PERCOLATION AREA IS AT RISK OF POLLUTION. ALTERNATIVELY, IF THERE IS INSUFFICIENT PERMEABILITY IN THE SUBSOIL TO TAKE THE EFFLUENT LOAD - THE MAIN FOCUS OF THIS RESEARCH - SURFACE PONDING MAY OCCUR WITH ASSOCIATED HEALTH RISK AND THERE WILL BE A RISK OF EFFLUENT DISCHARGE AND RUNOFF OF POLLUTANTS TO SURFACE WATER. THE NUTRIENT LOAD IN THE EFFLUENT CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EUTROPHICATION IN SENSITIVE WATER BODIES, WHILST CONTAMINATION OF WATER SOURCES BY HUMAN ENTERIC PATHOGENS CAN PROMOTE THE OUTBREAK OF DISEASE. THE PROJECT AIMS TO NOT ONLY ASSESS THE POLLUTION RISK BY OLD SEPTIC TANK SOAKAWAY SYSTEMS BUT MOREOVER TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE EFFLUENT DISPOSAL OPTIONS IN LOW PERMEABILITY SUBSOIL SETTINGS ON THE BASIS OF BOTH COST-BENEFIT AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT/SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES. WITHIN THIS PROJECT THE PERFORMANCE OF EXISTING SEPTIC TANK SOAKAWAYS IN DIFFERENT SUBSOIL SETTINGS WITH HIGH, MODERATE AND LOW PERMEABILITY IS BEING MONITORED TO ESTABLISH THE DEGREE OF CONTAMINATION TO GROUNDWATER AND/OR SURFACE WATER. ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF ON-SITE EFFLUENT DISTRIBUTION, SUCH AS DRIP IRRIGATION AND LOW PRESSURE PIPE SYSTEMS, WILL THEN BE ASSESSED FOR THEIR SUITABILITY TO IMPROVE EFFLUENT PERCOLATION AND THE NATURAL ATTENUATION OF NUTRIENTS AND PATHOGENS. WILLOW EVAPOTRANSPIRATION SYSTEMS ARE SEEN AS ONE POTENTIAL EFFLUENT DISPOSAL OPTION IN AREAS OF VERY LOW SUBSOIL PERMEABILITY. TO INVESTIGATE THEIR PERFORMANCE UNDER DIFFERENT IRISH CLIMATIC CONDITIONS TWO SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED AND WILL BE MONITORED IN THE WEST OF IRELAND IN ORDER TO AUGMENT THE INFORMATION BEING GAINED DURING AN ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECT WITH TRIAL SYSTEMS IN CO. WEXFORD. USING GEOSPATIAL MODELLING DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR THE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL OF WASTEWATER EFFLUENT IN AREAS OF LOW SUBSOIL PERMEABILITY WILL BE EXPLORED. THIS WILL BE PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DECISION MAKING PROTOTYPE TOOLSET FOR LOCAL AUTHORITY PLANNERS AND MANAGERS TO EVALUATE ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES AND REDUCE THE RISK POSED BY CURRENT DOMESTIC SEPTIC TANK TREATMENT SOLUTIONS. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE THE EFFECT OF ANOXIA AND ANAEROBIA ON PROTOZOAN COMMUNITIES IN ACTIVATED SLUDGE BOTH THE DENSITY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE PROTOZOAN COMMUNITY AFFECT THE PROCESS PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY OF THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT IN TERMS OF FINAL EFFLUENT BOD, TURBIDITY AND PATHOGEN CONCENTRATION. PROTOZOA ARE SENSITIVE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE BROUGHT ABOUT BY CHANGES IN INFLUENT QUALITY OR OPERATING CONDITIONS, WHICH CAN LEAD TO AN ALTERATION IN THEIR COMMUNITY STRUCTURE THAT CAN SUBSEQUENTLY AFFECT PERFORMANCE. WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL (BNR), INVOLVING ANAEROBIC AND ANOXIC STAGES, THE IMPACT OF THESE NEW CONDITIONS ON THE ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROTOZOAN COMMUNITY REQUIRES FURTHER EXPLORATION. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE THE ABILITY OF PROTOZOAN SPECIES TO TOLERATE ANOXIA AND ANAEROBIA. FURTHERMORE OPTIMAL PROCESS CONDITIONS SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED THAT ENSURE MAXIMUM TREATMENT PERFORMANCE AND OPTIMAL PROTOZOAL STRUCTURE. PROJECT: AFTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RELIABLE ENUMERATION METHOD FOR PROTOZOAN CILIATES A SURVEY OF 11 FULL- SCALE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS (WWTPS) WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE TYPICAL CILIATES INHABITING DIFFERENT IRISH ACTIVATED SLUDGE PLANTS. BY MEASURING A WIDE RANGE OF DESIGN AND OPERATIONAL/MANAGEMENT FACTORS IT WAS EXAMINED WHETHER DIFFERENT PLANT DESIGNS, ESPECIALLY CONVENTIONAL AND BNR SYSTEMS, SUPPORT DIFFERENT PROTOZOAN COMMUNITIES. FOR THE LABORATORY BASED RESEARCH ON PROTOZOAN COMMUNITIES A NOVEL LABORATORY SCALE WWTP CONSISTING OF 4 BATCH REACTORS WAS CONSTRUCTED AND SUBSEQUENTLY VALIDATED IN TERMS OF PHYSICO-CHEMICAL VARIATION BETWEEN THE REACTORS AND THE PROTOZOAN COMMUNITY VARIABILITY. EMPLOYING DIFFERENT LENGTH AND FREQUENCIES OF ANOXIA AND ANAEROBIA THE LAB SCALE PLANT WAS USED TO ESTABLISH OPTIMAL PROCESS CONDITIONS WITH MINIMAL EFFECT ON THE PROTOZOAN COMMUNITY. A VARIETY OF SLUDGES FROM DIFFERENT PLANTS HAVE BEEN USED TO IDENTIFY SPECIES THAT ARE ABLE TO SURVIVE ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS AND THAT DOMINATE A COMMUNITY THAT IS FREQUENTLY EXPOSED TO ANAEROBIA WITHIN A TREATMENT CYCLE. USING ALL THE DATA COLLECTED FROM BOTH THE PLANT STUDY AND THE LAB BASED EXPERIMENTS ALLOWS AN ATTEMPT TO BE MADE TO MODEL THE RESPONSE OF PROTOZOA IN RELATION TO ANOXIA AND ANAEROBIA. THIS WILL PERMIT MORE EFFECTIVE PROCESS MANAGEMENT RESULTING IN OPTIMUM TREATMENT CAPABILITY. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. MARK DUBERRY duberrymark ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DUBERRYM PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOTHERAPY (LONG-TERM), GROUP THERAPY, COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, SUPERVISION, JUNGIAN-OBJECT RELATION APPROACHES TO THERAPY. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. RICHARD DUCKWORTH duckworthrichard ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DUCKWOR MUSIC SCHOOL OF MUSIC HOUSE 5 COLLEGE 01-8961000 AES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR GEORG STEFAN DUESBERG duesberggeorgstefan ADJUNCT PROFESSOR DUESBERG CHEMISTRY CRANN A KEY ELEMENT OF PROF DUESBERG'S RESEARCH IS TO MERGE TOP-DOWN STRUCTURING TECHNIQUES WITH THE SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTIONAL NANO-OBJECTS THEREIN. THE MANUFACTURE OF SUCH HYBRIDS IS A GENERAL VEHICLE TO MAKE NEW ADAPTIVE DEVICES BASED ON THE BOTTOM-UP GROWN NANO-MATERIALS USING THE BENEFITS OF SILICON STRUCTURING TECHNOLOGIES. THIS APPROACH EMPLOYS STATE-OF-THE-ART LITHOGRAPHIC STRUCTURING, SELF-ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUES, AND HIGHLY ADVANCED NANO-MATERIALS SYNTHESIS. THE LATER IS FOCUSED ON CVD GROWTH OF CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES TAKING BENEFIT OF THEIR EXTRAORDINARY STABILITY AND THEIR FASCINATING ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES TO ASSEMBLE ELECTRODES, SWITCHING, AND SENSOR DEVICES FOR ICT AND ENERGY AND BIO-MEDICAL APPLICATIONS. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCEITY (ECS) SELECTED PUBLICATIONS LOW TEMPERATURE GRAPHENE GROWTH S. KUMAR, N. MCEVOY, T. LUTZ, G. P. KEELEY, N. WHITESIDEA, W. BLAU AND G. S. DUESBERG, ECS TRANSACTIONS, 19 (5) 175-181 (2009) HERNANDEZ, Y., V. NICOLOSI, ET AL. (2008). "HIGH-YIELD PRODUCTION OF GRAPHENE BY LIQUID-PHASE EXFOLIATION OF GRAPHITE." NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 3(9): 563-568. SUB-20 NM SHORT CHANNEL CARBON NANOTUBE TRANSISTORS R.V. SEIDEL, A.P. GRAHAM, J. KRETZ, B. RAJASEKHARAN, G.S. DUESBERG, M. LIEBAU, E. UNGER, F. KREUPL, W. HOENLEIN, NANO LETTERS, 5, 147-150 (2005). RAMAN MODES OF INDEX-IDENTIFIED FREE-STANDING SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES J.C. MEYER, M. PAILLET, T. MICHEL, G.S. DUESBERG, S. ROTH, J.L. SAUVAJOL, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 95, 217401 (2005). POLARIZED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY ON ISOLATED SINGLE-WALL CARBON NANOTUBES G.S. DUESBERG, I. LOA, M. BURGHARD, K. SYASSEN, S. ROTH, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 85, 5436-5439 (2000). BIODEGRADATION BIOLOGICAL POLYMERS BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CARBON DIOXIDE REDUCTION CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES CATALYSIS CHROMATOGRAPHY COMPOSITE MATERIALS ELECTROCHEMISTRY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY ELECTRONIC DEVICES ELECTRONIC MATERIALS FULLERENES MAGNETIC MATERIALS MATERIALS SCIENCES MULTI-LAYER COMPOSITES NANOCHEMISTRY NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTUBES NEW MATERIALS, SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURES PACKAGING SCIENCES PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY POLYMER SCIENCE SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGIES SEMICONDUCTORS SMALL STRUCTURES SOLID STATE PHYSICS SOLID/LIQUID INTERFACES SURFACE CHEMISTRY VACUUM SCIENCE CSET: : INTEGRATED NANOSCALE DEVICES THE GRAND MISSION FOR THEME 2 IN CSET IS TO DEVELOP INNOVATIVE SCIENCE FOR THE DELIVERY OF NEW SUB 10 NM DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES INTO INDUSTRY. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL WE HAVE DEVELOPED A SERIES OF INTER-RELATED COLLABORATIVE STRANDS THAT REFLECT THE GRAND CHALLENGES OF ICT. THIS CENTRES ON HOW NANODEVICE STRUCTURES AND IN PARTICULAR SMALL ARRAYS OF AROUND TEN OF THESE MIGHT BE POSITIONED ON A SUBSTRATE AND CONTACTS MADE FOR THEIR INDIVIDUAL E-CHARACTERISATION. THE AIM HERE IS TO DEVELOP SELF-ORGANISED MULTI-LEVEL STRUCTURES (CONSISTING OF ACTIVE DEVICE LAYERS, INTERCONNECTS, GATES AND CIRCUITRY) THAT MIGHT FUNCTION AS LOGIC CIRCUITRY AND WHICH ADDRESS REQUIREMENT OF BOTTOM-UP TECHNOLOGIES IN TERMS OF DEVICE FEATURE SIZE, SCALABILITY AND DENSITY. SFI CSET NANO EI THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT WOULD BE TO DEMONSTRATE INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGIES AT THE 11NM NODE. IT WILL FOCUS ON THE METALLISATION CHALLENGES AND BE COMPOSED OF TWO MAIN THEMES; 1. THE FIRST THEME WILL LOOK AT SCALING OF THE EXISTING CU TECHNOLOGY WHICH WILL REQUIRE INNOVATIONS FOR SEED LAYERS, BARRIER LAYERS, CONFORMAL CU DEPOSITION AND CAPPING. THE TARGET DIMENSIONS WILL BE FOR 20 NM TRENCHES AND 15NM VIAS WITH 2:1 ASPECT RATIOS AT THE '11NM NODE', WITH INITIAL WORK STARTING AT THE 22NM NODE WITH 40NM TRENCHES AND 30NM VIAS. PARAMETERS TO BE CONSIDERED WILL INCLUDE RESISTIVITY, CONTACT RESISTANCES, ELECTROMIGRATION PERFORMANCE AND MECHANICAL STRESS. 2. THE SECOND THEME WILL LOOK AT ALTERNATIVE 1D TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS CNT SYNTHESIS FOR VIA AND TRENCH. IT WILL BE SHOWN THAT THESE NEW MATERIALS/METHODS OFFER VIABLE ALTERNATIVES TO MEETING THE DEMANDING CHALLENGES AT THIS LEVEL OF SCALING. DEMONSTRATOR ARRAYS WILL BE PRODUCED SO THAT THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MATERIALS CAN BE ASSESSED BY THE INDUSTRIAL PARTNER IN A 'REAL' ENVIRONMENT AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE METHODS IN THE TWO THEMES CAN BE COMPARED AGAINST STATE-OF-THE-ART STRUCTURES IN CU. THE PROJECT WILL CONSIDER SCALE-UP, ONGOING FROM DEMONSTRATOR SINGLE LAYERS THROUGH TO MULTIPLE LAYER CONNECTED STRUCTURES. ALTHOUGH PATTERNING WILL NOT BE A FOCUS TOPIC OF THIS WORK, SOME CONSIDERABLE PATTERNING AND INTEGRATION WORK WILL NEED TO BE PERFORMED SO THAT STRUCTURES WITH THE REQUIRED DIMENSIONS CAN BE MADE AVAILABLE. EI COMPETENCE CENTRE CRANN-HP COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT ON DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE, TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING FILMS AND DEVICES FROM NANO-MATERIALS THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH PROGRAMME BUILDS ON A SUCCESSFUL EXISTING THREE YEAR COLLABORATION WHERE THE PARTNERSHIP OF CRANN WITH HEWLETT-PACKARD (HP) HAS RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF FLEXIBLE, TRANSPARENT AND CONDUCTIVE THIN FILMS OF BOTH CARBON NANOTUBE MATS AND POLYMER / CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES WHICH NOW REPRESENT THE INTERNATIONAL THE STATE-OF-THE-ART1. SFI NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS PROFESSOR SEAN DUFFY duffysean PROFESSOR SDUFFY HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE (MHRC) SEÁN DUFFY HAS PUBLISHED WIDELY ON IRISH HISTORY GENERALLY, AND MEDIEVAL IRELAND IN PARTICULAR, ON ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS THROUGH THE AGES, ON THE HISTORY OF THE CELTIC COUNTRIES IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD, AND ON HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF DUBLIN SINCE THE VIKING AGE. A CORNERSTONE OF HIS RESEARCH HAS BEEN THE EXAMINATION OF IRELAND'S RELATIONS WITH SCOTLAND, WALES, AND THE KINGDOM OF MAN AND THE ISLES IN THE MIDDLE AGES, CONCENTRATING ON THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF IN 1014 (AT WHICH PERHAPS THE GREATEST OF IRELAND'S KINGS, BRIAN BORU, WAS SLAIN) AND THE BATTLE OF FAUGHART IN 1318 (IN WHICH EDWARD, BROTHER OF ROBERT THE BRUCE WAS KILLED, THE MAN SOMETIMES REGARDED AS THE LAST KING OF IRELAND). IN HIS WORK, HE HAS DEVELOPED A TRANSNATIONAL APPROACH, TRYING TO UNCOVER THE VARIOUS INTERCONNECTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE MEDIEVAL CELTIC PEOPLES, AND RE-EXAMINING THE GREAT WATERSHED MOMENTS IN THEIR AFFAIRS. HE HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY CONCERNED WITH THE RESPONSE OF THE IRISH, THE SCOTS AND THE WELSH TO DOMINATION BY ENGLAND FROM 1066 ONWARDS, AND ESPECIALLY THE EXTENT TO WHICH, AFTER THE ENGLISH INVASION OF IRELAND IN 1169, IRELAND'S EXPERIENCE MIRRORED THAT OF SCOTLAND AND WALES. HE IS CURRENTLY PREPARING A RESEARCH MONOGRAPH ON THIS LARGELY OVERLOOKED SUBJECT FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. ANOTHER RESEARCH APPROACH HAS BEEN TO CHALLENGE THE DRAMATIC FAULT-LINE THAT EXISTS IN THE HISTORY OF IRELAND WHEREBY THERE ARE TWO HISTORIES, ONE FROM THE AGE OF ST PATRICK UP TO THE ANGLO-NORMAN INVASION IN 1169, THE OTHER RUNNING FROM THEN TO THE MODERN AGE. HIS CONVICTION THAT THIS FRACTURE IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE AND UNDERMINING OF INSIGHT HAS LED HIM TO DEVELOP A SPECIALISM WHICH, INSTEAD OF BEGINNING OR ENDING AT 1169, USES IT AS A MIDWAY HINGE THAT INTERLOCKS TWO HISTORIOGRAPHIES TRADITIONALLY KEPT AJAR. FURTHERMORE, EVEN THE IRELAND THAT EMERGED AFTER 1169 HAS ITSELF SPAWNED TWO HISTORIOGRAPHIES SO THAT ONE IS TRADITIONALLY A HISTORIAN OF EITHER GAELIC IRELAND OR OF ENGLISH IRELAND: SEÁN DUFFY HAS SOUGHT TO BREAK DOWN THIS BARRIER, AND IS REGARDED AS A HISTORIAN, NOT OF GAELIC IRELAND OR OF ENGLISH IRELAND, BUT OFFERING A NEW INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF BOTH. HE IS CURRENTLY RESEARCHING AND WRITING THE FIRST MAJOR HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND TO APPEAR IN OVER HALF A CENTURY, TO BE PUBLISHED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. ANOTHER OF HIS INTERESTS LIES IN THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF DUBLIN FROM THE VIKINGS TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD; IN 1999 HE ESTABLISHED THE MEDIEVAL DUBLIN SYMPOSIUM, AN ANNUAL ONE-DAY CONFERENCE THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN EVER SINCE, THE PROCEEDINGS OF WHICH ARE PUBLISHED IN A LANDMARK FOUR COURTS PRESS SERIES. SIXTEEN VOLUMES HAVE APPEARED TO DATE, AMOUNTING TO 170 PAPERS ON THE SUBJECT OF MEDIEVAL DUBLIN IN THE 17 YEARS SINCE THE SERIES BEGAN, MORE THAN WERE WRITTEN IN THE 170 YEARS PRECEDING IT. HE IS CURRENTLY RESEARCHING AND WRITING A 40,000-WORD HISTORY OF THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE OF DUBLIN, BY FAR THIS COUNTRY'S MOST IMPORTANT BUILDING PRIOR TO INDEPENDENCE. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3146 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADVISOR ON AND READER OF MEDIEVAL ENTRIES IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF IRELAND, ED. BRIAN LALOR, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN, CONN. AND DUBLIN, GILL & MACMILLAN ADVISOR ON MEDIEVAL ENTRIES IN DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY, ED. JAMES MCGUIRE AND JAMES, RIA AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, DUBLIN AND CAMBRIDGE, 2009 ADVISORY EDITORIAL TEAM, DICTIONARY OF BRITISH AND IRISH HISTORY, ED. R.B. PEBERDY (WILEY-BLACKWELL, FORTHCOMING) ANONYMOUS PEER-REVIEW OF JOURNAL SUBMISSIONS: SPECULUM, ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, SCOTTISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES, THE INNES REVIEW, CAMBRIDGE [NOW CAMBRIAN] MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES, STUDIA CELTICA, ETC ANONYMOUS REVIEWER OF BOOK-PROPOSALS AND COMPLETED MANUSCRIPTS: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS, LONGMAN, FOUR COURTS PRESS, ETC COMMITTEE, IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY CONSULTING EDITOR, HISTORY IRELAND: IRELAND'S HISTORY MAGAZINE COUNCIL, MILITARY HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND EDITORIAL AND MANAGEMENT BOARD, IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES EDITORIAL BOARD, A NEW HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF MAN EDITORIAL BOARD, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, JAMES LYDON LECTURES IN MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND CULTURE SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD, FOUR COURTS PRESS, TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY EXTERNAL ASSESSOR, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES EXTERNAL ASSESSOR, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, TRAVELLING STUDENTSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES EXTERNAL EXAMINER, IRISH HISTORY AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY, STRANMILLIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST EXTERNAL EXAMINER, IRISH, BRITISH AND EUROPEAN HISTORY, ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST EXTERNAL EXAMINER, MEDIEVAL HISTORY AND ALL IRISH-LANGUAGE HISTORY PAPERS, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, NUI GALWAY EXTERNAL EXAMINER, UG & PG, MEDIEVAL HISTORY, SCHOOL OF DIVINITY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN EXTERNAL REVIEWER, MEDIEVAL HISTORY, THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, RESEARCH EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK (REF) KEYNOTE ('IRELAND'S HIGH-KINGSHIP IN THE ERA OF BRIAN BORU'), THE ERA OF KING BRIAN BORU, INAUGURAL O'BRIEN SUMMER SCHOOL, KILLALOE KEYNOTE ('KING ROBERT BRUCE, THE GALLOGLASS AND THE NORTH-WEST OF IRELAND'), THE SCOTTISH CONNECTION, SLIGO FIELD CLUB SUMMER CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ('POWER AND INFLUENCE IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND: THE LEGACY OF BRIAN BORU'), BORDERLINES XVIII: POWER AND INFLUENCE, 18TH ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK KEYNOTE, 'THE MEDIEVAL CITY WALLS OF DUBLIN: HISTORICAL CONTEXT TO THEIR CONSTRUCTION', DUBLIN CITY WALLS AND DEFENCES CONFERENCE: TOWARDS A NEW VISION FOR THE OLD CITY, IRISH WALLED TOWNS NETWORK AND DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL, DUBLIN CASTLE CONFERENCE CENTRE MEMBER, IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF IRELAND OPENING LECTURE ('THE ORIGINS OF BRIAN BORU'), BRIAN BORU PROGRAM, MILKAUKEE IRISH FEST, MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN PRESIDENT, DUBLIN UNIVERSITY HISTORY SOCIETY SELECTION COMMITTEE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES STEERING COMMITTEE, IRISH-SCOTTISH ACADEMIC INITIATIVE (UNIVERSITIES OF ABERDEEN, DUBLIN, EDINBURGH, STRATHCLYDE AND QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST) THE JOHN BANNERMAN LECTURE IN THE HISTORY OF GAELIC SCOTLAND ('IMPERIUM SCOTORUM: IRELAND AND SCOTLAND IN THE AGE OF BRIAN BORU'), UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH TREASURER, IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY TRUSTEE, MEMBER OF CAIRDE UÍ FHIAICH, CARDINAL TOMÁS Ó FIAICH MEMORIAL LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE (CÓFLA), ARMAGH 'DE COURCY, DE LACY AND DE BURGH: ULSTER AND ENGLAND, 1177-1326', THE IRISH IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, QUEEN MARY & WESTFIELD COLLEGE, LONDON 'DEFINING IRISHNESS AFTER THE ENGLISH INVASION', MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS: ETHNIC IDENTITY, CULTURAL HERITAGE AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE, UNIVERSITY OF KENT, CANTERBURY, AND WINDSOR CASTLE 'DID THE IRISH LIKE THE SCOTS?', IMAGINING ALBA: SCOTLAND IN MEDIEVAL IRISH SOURCES, AHRB RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR IRISH SCOTTISH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN 'EMERGING FROM THE MIST: IRELAND AND MAN IN THE ELEVENTH CENTURY', MANNIN REVISITED, SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN STUDIES CONFERENCE, PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN 'GALLEYS AND GALLOGLASS: NAVAL WARFARE IN IRELAND AND THE ISLES IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES', MARITIME WARFARE IN NORTHERN EUROPE: TECHNOLOGY, ORGANISATION, LOGISTICS AND ADMINISTRATION, 500 BC-1500 AD, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, COPENHAGEN 'HEBRIDEAN GALLOGLASS IN LATE MEDIEVAL IRELAND: THE SCANDINAVIAN LEGACY', FROM GALL TO GAEL AND GALLOGLASS, CONFERENCE OF THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR NORTHERN STUDIES, ISLAY 'IRELAND AND ITS NEIGHBOURS IN AD 1111: THE SYNOD OF RÁITH BRESSAIL IN CONTEXT', DEPARTMENT OF ANGLO-SAXON, NORSE AND CELTIC GRADUATE SEMINAR, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 'IRELAND'S HASTINGS: THE ANGLO-NORMAN CONQUEST OF DUBLIN', 20TH BATTLE CONFERENCE OF ANGLO-NORMAN STUDIES 'JOHN AND IRELAND', KING JOHN: NEW INTERPRETATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, NORWICH 'KING ROBERT BRUCE THE IRISHMAN', NATIONAL IDENTITY AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND: IRISH-SCOTTISH ACADEMIC INITIATIVE/LEVERHULME CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 'THE 1169 INVASION AS A TURNING-POINT IN IRISH-WELSH RELATIONS', BRITAIN AND IRELAND 900-1300. INSULAR RESPONSES TO MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN CHANGE, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL 'THE ANGLO-NORMAN ERA IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE', CELEBRATING COLUMBA: IRISH-SCOTTISH CONNECTIONS 597-1997, 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IRISH-SCOTTISH ACADEMIC INITIATIVE, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, GLASGOW 'THE CAREER OF MUIRCHERTACH UA BRIAIN IN CONTEXT', REFORM AND RENEWAL: IRELAND AND EUROPE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO MARK THE 900TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SYNOD OF CASHEL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK 'THE ENGLISH CHRONICLE IN THE EARLY FOURTEENTH CENTURY: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE SO-CALLED CONTINUATION OF THE ANNALS OF NICHOLAS TREVET', 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE MEDIEVAL CHRONICLE, UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS 'THE PREHISTORY OF THE GALLOGLASS', MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE NORTH IRISH SEA WORLD: CONTEXT AND RESPONSE, C.1100-C.1750, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 'THE VERNACULAR AMONG THE IRISH', THE VERNACULAR IN MEDIEVAL HISTORICAL WRITING, PROJECT 4: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST COLLOQUIUM, CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN, BERGEN 'THE WELSH CONQUEST OF IRELAND', THE OXFORD CELTIC SEMINAR, JESUS COLLEGE, THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 'TOWN AND CROWN: THE KINGS OF ENGLAND AND THEIR CITY OF DUBLIN', THIRTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND X, UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM 'TUDOR CONQUEST AND GAELIC COLLAPSE: IRELAND IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY', A GUERRA E O ENCONTRO DE CIVILIZAÇÓES, A PARTIR DO SÉCULO XVI, 24TH CONGRESS OF INTERNATIONAL MILITARY HISTORY, LISBON 'ULSTER, DUBLIN AND THE IRISH SEA REGION IN THE AGE OF JOCELIN', MEDIEVAL FURNESS: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS, BARROW IN FURNESS ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF DUBLIN IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES IN THE MIDDLE AGES MEDIEVAL IRELAND HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY THE GALLOGLASS PROJECT ARTS RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN IRISH-SCOTTISH STUDIES (AND MISC. SOURCES) HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI CYCLE I THE LYDON LECTURES 2016: ROBERT BARTLETT, DYNASTIES: FAMILY POLITICS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE (WITH P. CROOKS, D. DITCHBURN) ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND THE LYDON LECTURES 2014: JOHN GILLINGHAM, WAR, ENSLAVEMENT AND CHIVALRY (WITH P. CROOKS, D. DITCHBURN) TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME BATTLE OF CLONTARF MILLENNIUM FUNDING FOR CLONTARF 1014-2014: NATIONAL CONFERENCE MARKING THE MILLENNIUM OF THE BATTLE OF CLONTARF, 11-12 APRIL 2014 DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL MEDIEVAL SCOTTISH-IRISH MIGRATION PROJECT ARTS RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN IRISH-SCOTTISH STUDIES HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI CYCLE III MEDIEVAL DUBLIN SERIES PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDIEVAL DUBLIN SYMPOSIUM, ANNUAL ONE-DAY CONFERENCE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. TO DATE, 170 PAPERS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF DUBLIN FROM THE VIKING AGE TO THE DAWN OF THE MODERN ERA HAVE BEEN PRINTED IN THE 17 YEARS SINCE THE SERIES BEGAN, MORE THAN WERE WRITTEN IN THE 170 YEARS PRECEDING IT. DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL INAUGURAL TRINITY MEDIEVAL IRELAND SYMPOSIUM ON THE GERALDINES AND MEDIEVAL IRELAND AND PUBLISHED PROCEEDINGS (WITH P. CROOKS) ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND; SCHOOL OF HISTORIES & HUMANITIES; TRINITY ASSOCIATION & TR DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. DAVID DUFFY duffydavid ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DUFFYD6 SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. PAUL DUGGAN dugganpaul PROGRAMMING & INTEGRATION MANAGER PDUGGAN IT SERVICES IT SERVICES 200 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JONATHAN DUKES dukesjonathan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JDUKES COMPUTER SCIENCE MANAGEMENT OF LOW-POWER DEVICES FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS A NEW RESEARCH INTEREST -- I AM INVESTIGATING HOW COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS (PARTICULARLY WIRELESS COMMUNICATION) CAN SUPPORT THE MANAGEMENT OF MASSIVE COLLECTIONS OF LOW-POWER WIRELESS DEVICES. THESE DEVICES ARE OFTEN EXPECTED TO OPERATE FOR YEARS ON A COIN-CELL BATTERY, WITH A LIMITED POWER BUDGET FOR COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTATION. THE VISION OF AN "INTERNET OF THINGS" IS DRIVING US TOWARDS MASSIVE COLLECTIONS OF POWER-CONSTRAINED DEVICES AND THIS WILL DEMAND FACILITIES SUCH AS AUTONOMOUS, VERIFIABLE RECONFIGURATION, REPROGRAMMING AND DIAGNOSTICS. GRID COMPUTING WITH JOHN WALSH, I AM INVESTIGATING THE INTEGRATION OF NON-CPU COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES INTO COMPUTATIONAL GRID INFRASTRUCTURES. THESE RESOURCES, WHICH ARE TYPIFIED BY GPGPUS, ARE INCREASINGLY REQUIRED TO SUPPORT SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS IN AREAS SUCH AS PARTICLE PHYSICS AND PHARMACOLOGY. HISTORICALLY, GRID INFRASTRUCTURES HAVE FOCUSED ON THE ALLOCATION OF CPUS TO GRID USERS, WITH RESOURCES SUCH AS GPGPUS A DISTANT SECONDARY CONSIDERATION. THIS WORK AIMS TO ELEVATE THE IMPORTANCE OF NON-CPU RESOURCES, MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR USERS TO SPECIFY THE RESOURCES THEY REQUIRE, DISCOVER THOSE RESOURCES IN MASSIVE GRID INFRASTRUCTURES AND REQUEST THE ALLOCATION OF THE RESOURCES FOR THEIR PROGRAMS. DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS MY RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN THE AREA OF DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON LARGE-SCALE ON-DEMAND SYSTEMS, WHERE STORED MEDIA (E.G. VIDEO AND AUDIO) IS DELIVERED TO CONSUMERS USING COMMUNICATION NETWORKS. PAST WORK HAS ADDRESSED ISSUES RELATING TO THE STORAGE OF MEDIA AND ITS TRANSMISSION ACROSS NETWORKS. COMPUTER SCIENCE CAG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CLUSTERING COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS COMPUTER STORAGE & RETRIEVAL DATA PROTECTION, STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, CRYPTOGRAPHY DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS EMBEDDED COMPUTING GRID TECHNOLOGY HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS NETWORKING PARALLEL PROGRAMMING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. HAL DUNCAN duncanhal ASSISTANT PROF/CONSULTANT IN ENDODONTICS HDUNCAN DENTAL SCIENCE VITAL PULP TREATMENT INCLUDING MATERIAL SCIENCE AND MATERIAL INTERACTION WITH THE DENTAL PULP, PULP BIOLOGY AND REGENERATION. THE OUTCOME OF VITAL PULP TREATMENT AND ORTHOGRADE ENDODONTIC TREATMENT. THE EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC FACTORS (SMOKING AND DIABETES) ON THE PROGNOSIS OF ENDODONTICALLY TREATED TEETH. DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ARCHIVES OF ORAL BIOLOGY (REVIEWER) ASSOCIATE EDITOR INTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL BRITISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION BRITISH ENDODONTIC SOCIETY CERTIFIED MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDODONTOLOGY CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ORAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE (REVIEWER) ENDO PRACTICE TODAY JOURNAL (REVIEWER) EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL STEM CELLS (ESDCSC) EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDODONTOLOGY HONORARY SENIOR CLINICAL LECTURER, INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL SCIENCES, COLLEGE OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL (MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD) INTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL (REVIEWER) IRISH ENDODONTIC SOCIETY JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH (REVIEWER) JOURNAL OF DENTISTRY (REVIEWER) JOURNAL OF THE IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION (REVIEWER) PULP BIOLOGY AND REGENERATION GROUP ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF IRELAND; DENTAL FACULTY. EXAMINER MFD BIOLOGY BIOMATERIALS ENDODONTIC MATERIALS AND BIO-COMPATIBILITY PULP BIOLOGY AND REGENERATION PULPAL INFLAMMATION RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE SYSTEMIC FACTORS AND APICAL PERIODONTITIS VITAL PULP TREATMENT OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES BIO-INDUCTIVE ROLES FOR NOVEL MATERIALS IN THE DENTAL PULP IRISH ENDODONTIC SOCIETY . IMPLICATIONS FOR PATIENT THERAPY OF DENTAL RESIN RESTORATIVES: DOES SIMPLIFYING THE CURING PROTOCOL INCREASE PATIENT RISK? HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRELAND THE POTENTIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SMOKING AND THE PROGNOSIS OF ENDODONTICALLY TREATED TEETH BRITISH ENDODONTIC SOCIETY THE EFFECT OF RADIOGRAPHIC PRESCIPTION POLICY IN 2 POPULATIONS AND ITS EFFECTS ON OUTCOME AND PATIENT DOSIMETRY KODAK/ GLASGOW UNIVERSITY TRAVEL FUND DISSOLUTION ANALYSIS OF THE ABILITY OF TOPICAL EPIGENETIC MODIFIERS TO SOLUBLISE BIOACTIVE DENTINE MATRIX PROTEINS EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDODONTOLOGY THE REGULATORS OF PULP CELL PROLIFERATION, MIGRATION AND DEATH IN MINERALIZATION: PRIMARY AND TRANSFORMED CELLS IADR FELLOWSHIP GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. MARGARET DUNCAN duncanmargaret RESEARCH FELLOW MDUNCAN GEOLOGY CARBONIFEROUS MICRO-PALAEOICHTHYOLOGY OF IRELAND AND CHINA; LOWER-UPPER PALAEOZOIC PALAEOENVIRONMENT AND PALAEOECOLOGY USING MICROPALAEOICHTHOLOGY; CARBONIFEROUS BIOSTRATIGRAPHY GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR THE BULLETIN OF NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE; ESTONIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES; JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY; ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICAL POLONICA; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, PALAEOCLIMETOLOGY, PALAEOECOLOGY. PALAEONTOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY THE MICROPALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY CARBONIFEROUS MICRO-PALAEOICHTHYOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY USING MICRO-PALAEOICHTHYOLOGY PALAEOENVIRONMENTS USING MICRO-PALAEOICHTHYOLOGY DR. BARBARA DUNNE dunnebarbara ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DUNNEBA HISTOPATHOLOGY HISTOPATHOLOGY & MORBID ANATOMY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY BUILDING ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER DR. MARGARET DUNNE dunnemargaret SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW DUNNEM12 SURGERY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) MY RESEARCH INVOLVES IMPROVING THE UNDERSTANDING OF ROLES PLAYED BY INNATE IMMUNE CELLS IN HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE, AND TRANSLATION OF THIS INFORMATION FOR THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS. MY RESEARCH PROJECTS TO DATE HAVE FOCUSSED ON ELUCIDATING THE FUNCTION OF INNATE LYMPHOCYTES, IN PARTICULAR &#947;&#948; T CELLS AND DENDRITIC CELLS, IN HEALTH AND DISEASE, AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO HOST IMMUNITY. DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH MEMBER OF THE &#947;&#948; T CELL FORUM MEMBER OF THE IRISH AND EUROPEAN ASSOCIATIONS FOR CANCER RESEARCH (IACR, EACR) MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY ORAL PRESENTATION AT THE 25TH WORKING GROUP ON PROLAMIN ANALYSIS & TOXICITY (WGPAT), FELLBACH, GERMANY ORAL PRESENTATION AT THE 8TH NATIONAL BARRETT'S SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING POSTER PRESENTATION AT 4TH INTERNATIONAL &#947;&#948; T CELL CONFERENCE, KIEL, GERMANY POSTER PRESENTATION AT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, DUBLIN POSTER PRESENTATION AT THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL COELIAC DISEASE SYMPOSIUM, OSLO, NORWAY POSTER PRESENTATION AT THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL &#947;&#948; T CELL CONFERENCE, FREIBURG, GERMANY POSTER PRESENTATION AT THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL CANCER CONFERENCE, TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, DUBLIN POSTER PRESENTATION AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TERCENTENARY SYMPOSIUM, DUBLIN POSTER PRESENTATIONS AT IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY ANNUAL MEETINGS PRESENTED 2 POSTERS AT THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH ANNUAL MEETING, GALWAY PRESENTED A POSTER AT THE 2017 CELL SYMPOSIUM IN SAN DIEGO, USA. PRESENTED A POSTER AT THE CRUK'S OESOPHAGEAL SYMPOSIUM, CAMBRIDGE, UK. COELIAC DISEASE COLORECTAL CANCER HUMAN DENDRITIC CELLS HUMAN T-CELLS MUCOSAL-ASSOCIATED INVARIANT T CELLS OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA TCR GAMMA DELTA(+) T CELLS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER BASIC MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF INNATE LYMPHOCYTES IN COELIAC DISEASE PATHOGENESIS COELIAC DISEASE IS A CHRONIC SMALL INTESTINAL IMMUNE-MEDIATED ENTEROPATHY PRECIPITATED BY EXPOSURE TO DIETARY GLUTEN IN GENETICALLY PREDISPOSED INDIVIDUALS. THE ONLY CURRENT THERAPY IS A LIFELONG GLUTEN FREE DIET. WHILE MUCH WORK HAS FOCUSED ON THE GLIADIN-SPECIFIC ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSE IN COELIAC DISEASE, LITTLE IS UNDERSTOOD ABOUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM. HERE WE USED MULTI-COLOUR FLOW CYTOMETRY TO DETERMINE THE NUMBER AND FREQUENCY OF &#947;&#948; T CELLS (V&#948;1, V&#948;2 AND V&#948;3 SUBSETS), NATURAL KILLER CELLS, CD56(+) T CELLS, INVARIANT NKT CELLS, AND MUCOSAL ASSOCIATED INVARIANT T CELLS, IN BLOOD AND DUODENUM FROM ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH COELIAC DISEASE AND HEALTHY MATCHED CONTROLS. ALL CIRCULATING INNATE LYMPHOCYTE POPULATIONS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASED IN ADULT, BUT NOT PAEDIATRIC COELIAC DONORS, WHEN COMPARED WITH HEALTHY CONTROLS. WITHIN THE NORMAL SMALL INTESTINE, WE NOTED THAT V&#948;3 CELLS WERE THE MOST ABUNDANT &#947;&#948; T CELL TYPE IN THE ADULT EPITHELIUM AND LAMINA PROPRIA, AND IN THE PAEDIATRIC LAMINA PROPRIA. IN CONTRAST, PATIENTS WITH COELIAC DISEASE SHOWED SKEWING TOWARD A PREDOMINANT V&#948;1 PROFILE, OBSERVED FOR BOTH ADULT AND PAEDIATRIC COELIAC DISEASE COHORTS, PARTICULARLY WITHIN THE GUT EPITHELIUM. THIS WAS CONCURRENT WITH DECREASES IN ALL OTHER GUT LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS, SUGGESTING A SPECIFIC INVOLVEMENT OF V&#948;1 CELLS IN COELIAC DISEASE PATHOGENESIS. FURTHER ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT &#947;&#948; T CELLS ISOLATED FROM THE COELIAC GUT DISPLAY AN ACTIVATED, EFFECTOR MEMORY PHENOTYPE, AND RETAIN THE ABILITY TO RAPIDLY RESPOND TO IN VITRO STIMULATION. A PROFOUND LOSS OF CD56 EXPRESSION IN ALL LYMPHOCYTE POPULATIONS WAS NOTED IN THE COELIAC GUT. THESE FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE A SUSTAINED ABERRANT INNATE LYMPHOCYTE PROFILE IN COELIAC DISEASE PATIENTS OF ALL AGES, PERSISTING EVEN AFTER ELIMINATION OF GLUTEN FROM THE DIET. THIS MAY LEAD TO IMPAIRED IMMUNITY, AND COULD POTENTIALLY ACCOUNT FOR THE INCREASED INCIDENCE OF AUTOIMMUNE CO-MORBIDITY. CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF REGULATORY T CELLS IN COLORECTAL CANCER SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF INNATE LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS IN OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA - IS INFLAMMATION A NEGATIVE REGULATOR OF RESPONSE TO THERAPY? OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA IS AN AGGRESSIVE CANCER WITH POOR PROGNOSIS, AND INCIDENCE HAS INCREASED 5-FOLD IN THE LAST 30 YEARS. MULTI-MODAL NEOADJUVANT THERAPY, EITHER CHEMOTHERAPY ALONE (NEO-CT) OR COMBINATION CHEMORADIATION (NEO-CRT) IS INCREASINGLY ADOPTED AS THE STANDARD OF CARE, BUT STANDARD CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS ARE UNABLE TO PREDICT PATIENT RESPONSIVENESS TO THESE APPROACHES. APPROXIMATELY 70-80% OF PATIENTS ARE UNRESPONSIVE AND MAY BE HARMED BY THE DELAY TO SURGERY AND UNNECESSARY TREATMENT TOXICITY. OUR GROUP IS CURRENTLY LEADING AN INTERNATIONAL PHASE III CLINICAL TRIAL, COMPARING THE EFFICACY OF TWO NEOADJUVANT REGIMENS FOR TREATMENT OF OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA - THE MAGIC REGIMEN, (3 PRE- AND 3 POST-OPERATIVE 3 WEEK CYCLES OF CHEMOTHERAPY), AND THE CROSS PROTOCOL (5 WEEKLY CYCLES OF CHEMOTHERAPY AND 5 WEEKS OF RADIATION THERAPY). DURING THIS TRIAL, BLOOD AND TISSUE SAMPLES WILL BE AVAILABLE (BOTH PRE- AND POST-NEO-CRT TREATMENT) AND ETHICAL APPROVAL HAS BEEN GRANTED TO CONDUCT RESEARCH STUDIES. WE WILL USE THESE SAMPLES TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF INFLAMMATION IN OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA AND IN RESPONSE TO THERAPY. IT IS WIDELY REPORTED THAT INFLAMMATION DRIVES TUMOUR INITIATION AND PROGRESSION BY PROMOTING PROLIFERATION AND SURVIVAL OF MALIGNANT CELLS, ANGIOGENESIS AND METASTASIS, BY SUBVERTING ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSES AND BY ALTERING RESPONSES TO HORMONES AND CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS. HOWEVER, INFLAMMATION IS ALSO PRE-REQUISITE FOR THE GENERATION OF AN EFFECTIVE ANTI-TUMOUR ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSE. CLARIFICATION OF THE MODES OF ACTION OF INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS WILL ALLOW EXPLORATION OF HOW THE PREVAILING INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE MAY BE DIRECTED IN FAVOUR OF ADAPTIVE RESPONSES RATHER THAN TUMOUR DEVELOPMENT. WE AIM TO EVALUATE THE INFLAMMATORY CONTRIBUTIONS OF UNCONVENTIONAL INNATE LYMPHOCYTES, SPECIFICALLY &#947;&#948; T CELLS (V&#948;1, V&#948;2 AND V&#948;3 SUBSETS) AND MUCOSAL ASSOCIATED INVARIANT T (MAIT) CELLS. DESPITE CONSIDERABLE INTEREST IN THESE CELLS AS IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS, LITTLE INFORMATION EXISTS ON THEIR ROLE IN THE OESOPHAGUS, LET ALONE THEIR POTENTIAL AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF PROGNOSTIC SCREENING TOOLS TO PREDICT PATIENT RESPONSE TO NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT FOR OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA (OAC) IS AN AGGRESSIVE MALIGNANCY WITH POOR PROGNOSIS, AND INCIDENCE HAS INCREASED 5-FOLD IN THE LAST 30 YEARS. MULTI-MODAL NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY (NEO-CT) REGIMENS ARE INCREASINGLY ADOPTED WITH SURGERY AS THE STANDARD OF CARE. HOWEVER, 70-80% OF PATIENTS DO NOT RESPOND TO NEO-CT AND MAY SUFFER UNNECESSARY SIDE EFFECTS AND DELAY TO SURGERY. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO WAY TO PREDICT WHICH PATIENTS WILL RESPOND TO NEO-CT TREATMENT. WE AIM TO DEVELOP METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING OAC PATIENTS LIKELY TO BENEFIT FROM NEO-CT TREATMENT BY HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TUMOUR TISSUE AT THE TIME OF DIAGNOSIS. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY DEMONSTRATED A STRONG CORRELATION BETWEEN EXPRESSION OF THE MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX CLASS II MOLECULE HLA-DR AND PATIENT SURVIVAL. WE HYPOTHESISE THAT HLA-DR MAY ALSO BE USED TO PREDICT PATIENT RESPONSES TO NEO-CT TREATMENT. WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN CHARACTERISING CELLS EXPRESSING HLA-DR IN TUMOURS, IN ORDER TO GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF IMMUNE RESPONSES IN OAC. AS WELL AS ANALYSING SPECIFIC MARKERS, WE WILL ALSO EXPLORE THE USE OF PROGNOSTIC TUMOUR SCORING STRATEGIES TO PREDICT PATIENT RESPONSES TO NEO-CT TREATMENT. SUCH SCORING STRATEGIES GRADE THE LEVEL OF IMMUNE RESPONSE EVIDENT IN THE TUMOUR MICROENVIRONMENT AND HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE USEFUL IN PREDICTING PATIENT OUTCOMES IN COLORECTAL CANCER. TO DATE NO SUCH APPLICATION OF THIS TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN TESTED IN OAC. THIS WORK WILL AID PATIENT STRATIFICATION, AVOIDING UNNECESSARY TREATMENT AND ULTIMATELY IMPROVE CURRENT TREATMENT STRATEGIES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. PETER DUNNE dunnepeter ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DUNNEP13 CHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANO-TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MR. NEIL DUNNE dunneneil TEACHING FELLOW NEDUNNE BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE AUDITING PROFESSION SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION FELLOW OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS IRELAND TRINITY REPRESENTATIVE ON THE COUNCIL OF THE IRISH ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION MS. SIOBHAN DUNNE dunnesiobhan SUB LIBRARIAN DUNNES22 LIBRARY THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. AISLING DUNNE dunneaisling USSHER ASST. PROF IN NEUROINFLAMMATION AIDUNNE BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY COLLEGE CENTRE FOR IMMUNOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) THE RECOGNITION OF PATHOGEN-DERIVED MOLECULES BY THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS MEDIATED BY A NUMBER OF RECEPTORS, INCLUDING MEMBERS OF THE TLR (TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR), RLH [RIG (RETINOIC ACID-INDUCIBLE GENE)-LIKE HELICASE] AND THE NLR (NOD-LIKE RECEPTOR) FAMILIES. TLRS BIND EXOGENOUS PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERNS (PAMPS), CONSERVED STRUCTURES EXPRESSED BY PATHOGENS, SUCH AS LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE (LPS), FLAGELLIN, VIRAL AND BACTERIAL NUCLEIC ACIDS, BUT ALSO ENDOGENOUS DAMAGE-ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERNS (DAMPS), SUCH AS AMYLOID-BETA AND FATTY ACIDS. NLRS IN PARTICULAR ARE ALSO INVOLVED IN THE RECOGNITION OF HOST-DERIVED DAMPS WHICH ARE PRODUCED UNDER CONDITIONS OF CELLULAR STRESS OR INJURY. ACTIVATION OF THESE RECEPTORS LEADS TO THE ASSEMBLY OF HIGH-MOLECULAR-MASS COMPLEXES CALLED INFLAMMASOMES WHICH IN TURN LEADS TO THE GENERATION OF MATURE IL-1Â AND IL-18. THE DISCOVERY THAT NLRP3 CAN RECOGNIZE HOST DERIVED PARTICULATE MATTER SUCH AS URIC ACID, CHOLESTEROL CRYSTALS AND IAPP HAS LED TO THE INFLAMMASOME BEING IMPLICATED IN A NUMBER OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASES, INCLUDING GOUT, ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND TYPE 2 DIABETES. ON THE OTHER HAND, A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE REPORTED THAT RECOGNITION OF BOTH VIRAL AND BACTERIAL PRODUCTS BY NLRS IS REQUIRED FOR EFFECTIVE PATHOGEN CLEARANCE. SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE: IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL PAMPS AND DAMPS AND ELUCIDATION OF THEIR MECHANISM OF ACTION: OUR RESEARCH TO DATE HAS FOCUSED ON SPECIFIC SIGNALLING EVENTS INVOLVED IN TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR SIGNALLING AS WELL AS THE IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL TLR AND NLR AGONISTS FROM PATHOGENS SUCH AS BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS. WE HAVE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED NOVEL TLR 2 ACTIVATING LIGANDS FROM THE BACTERIUM AND HAVE ELUCIDATED THE MECHANISM BY WHICH A PERTUSSIS DERIVED TOXIN ACTIVATES THE NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME RESULTING IN THE GENERATION OF PROTECTIVE TH17 RESPONSES. OUR WORK ON ENDOGENOUS DAMPS TO DATE HAS FOCUSED ON OSTEOARTHRITIS AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS ASSOCIATED BASIC CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CRYSTALS. THESE CRYSTALS ARE KNOWN TO DRIVE PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE PRODUCTION AND THEY HAVE ALSO RECENTLY BEEN IDENTIFIED AS PUTATIVE INFLAMMASOME ACTIVATORS. WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPLORING THE SIGNALLING EVENTS TRIGGERED BY THESE CRYSTALS IN MACROPHAGES AND SYNOVIAL FIBROBLASTS IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY NEW TARGETS FOR THE TREATMENT OF BCP RELATED ARTHROPATHIES. IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL ENDOGENOUS IMMUNOMODULATORS: HEME OXYGENASE (HO)-1 CATALYSES THE RATE LIMITING STEP IN THE BREAKDOWN OF FREE HEME. IT HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR SOME TIME THAT HO-1 INHIBITS THE PATHOGENESIS OF SEVERAL IMMUNE-MEDIATED INFLAMMATORY DISEASES. THE MECHANISMS THAT MEDIATE THE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS OF THIS ENZYME ARE NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD HOWEVER IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THE ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION OF PRO-INFLAMMATORY FREE HEME AND THE PRODUCTION OF THE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY COMPOUNDS BILIVERDIN/BILIRUBIN AND CO MAY BE RESPONSIBLE. WE ARE CURRENTLY EXPLORING THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH THE HO SYSTEM EXERTS ITS ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS ON T CELLS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT THE HEME DEGRADATION PATHWAY MAY BE EXPLOITED AS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC AVENUE FOR DEBILITATING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES SUCH AS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS. CHARACTERISATION OF A NOVEL BRAIN ENRICHED TLR INTERACTING PROTEIN: WE HAVE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED A NOVEL COMPONENT OF THE TLR3 AND TLR4 SIGNALLING PATHWAY WHICH WE HAVE NAMED TRIL (TLR4 INTERACTOR WITH LEUCINE RICH REPEATS). THIS PROTEIN IS HIGHLY EXPRESSED IN THE BRAIN AND AS WELL AS CONTAINING THE EXTRACELLULAR LEUCINE RICH REPEATS FOUND IN TLRS, IT ALSO BEARS STRUCTURAL SIMILARITIES WITH MEMBERS OF THE NOGO AND LINGO RECEPTOR FAMILY, BOTH OF ARE KNOWN TO MODULATE NEURITE OUTGROWTH. WE ARE CURRENTLY CARRYING OUT A DETAILED CHARACTERISATION OF THIS HIGHLY NOVEL PROTEIN WHICH WE BELIEVE MAY REPRESENT A NEW TARGET FOR NEUROINFLAMMATORY DISEASE. BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY MEMBER OF THE IRISH AREA SECTION OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. KATIE DUNNE dunnekatie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KDUNNE5 LOYOLA INSTITUTE LOYOLA INSTITUTE ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. LEA DURAN duranlea RESEARCH FELLOW DURANL CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE GROUNDWATER FLOW MODELLING, DIFFUSE FLOW, RECHARGE, AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT WITHIN KARSTIC SYSTEMS. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL,STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT WASTE, RESOURCE, MANAGEMENT & CHEMICALS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, GEOTECHNICS; VISUALISATION OF FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT THROUGH KARST AQUIFERS CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE IS THE PRIMARY AQUIFER ROCK IN IRELAND, COINCIDING WITH THE MOST PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL LAND, AREAS OF MOST ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND MAJOR CENTRES OF POPULATION. MUCH OF THIS CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE IS KARSTIFIED AND AS SUCH, THE AQUIFER IS AT GREATER RISK OF CONTAMINATION AND FLOODING ISSUES DUE TO THE RAPID TRANSIT OF WATER THROUGH THEM, THE DIRECT NATURE OF THEIR RECHARGE VIA SWALLOW HOLES, THE LOWLAND NATURE OF MUCH IRISH KARST AND THE THIN LAYER OF SOIL COVER WHICH TYPICALLY OVERLAYS THEM. IT IS THUS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO INCREASE THE OFTEN POOR UNDERSTANDING OF THESE COMPLEX SYSTEMS. THE PRIMARY AIM OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A STATE OF THE ART MODELLING METHODOLOGY IN ORDER TO MAKE THE GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT THROUGH KARST AQUIFERS MORE UNDERSTANDABLE BY MEANS OF VISUAL 3D MODELS. THIS WILL BE APPLIED TO A NUMBER OF IRISH KARSTIC CATCHMENTS IN ORDER TO SHED LIGHT ON THEIR HYDROLOGIC OPERATION. A FEW MODELLING APPROACHES HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONDUCTED ON PREVIOUS PROJECTS: ONE IN THE SOUTH GALWAY LOWLAND BASED ON A STORM WATER PIPE NETWORK, AND ANOTHER ON THE BELL HARBOUR SYSTEM (SISKA APPROACH WITH TOOLS FOR 3D ANIMATIONS) AS WELL AS THE SHANBALLYMORE CATCHMENT IN NORTH CORK. OTHER MODELS WILL BE INVESTIGATED AS PART OF THIS RESEARCH, AMONG THEM MODFLOW-USG WHICH HAS BEEN DEVELOPED TO SUPPORT A WIDE VARIETY OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED GRID TYPES AND ALSO INCLUDES A NEW CONNECTED LINEAR NETWORK (CLN) PROCESS TO SIMULATE THE EFFECTS OF MULTI-NODE WELLS, KARST CONDUITS, AND TILE DRAINS. IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THE MODELLING, THE PROJECT IMPLIES THE COORDINATION AND COMPLEMENTATION OF THE ONGOING ICRAG PHD STUDIES IN THE GROUNDWATER SPOKE WHICH ARE FOCUSING ON KARST. THE SYNTHESIS OF THESE FINDINGS INTO USABLE MODELLING FRAMEWORK WILL HELP GROUNDWATER PRACTITIONERS AS WELL AS THE WIDER PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND HOW FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT OCCURS. HENCE, A STRONG FOCUS OF THIS WORK WILL BE ON THE VISUALISATION OF KARST SYSTEMS BY THE MODELS. THE RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE IRISH CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN APPLIED GEOSCIENCES (ICRAG). ICRAG IS FUNDED UNDER THE SFI RESEARCH CENTRES PROGRAMME AND IS CO-FUNDED UNDER THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND. PROJECT SUPERVISOR: PROF. LAURENCE GILL ICRAG SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. IVANA DUSPARIC dusparicivana USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DUSPARI COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AUTONOMIC COMPUTING INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS REINFORCEMENT LEARNING SELF-ORGANIZING ALGORITHMS LERO LAMP - LEARNING-BASED AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF POWER DISTRIBUTION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR MARK DYER dyermark MICHAEL MCNAMARA CHAIR MDYER CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CIVIL, STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHARTERED ENGINEER, ENGINEERING COUNCIL UK CHARTERED MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. PAUL EASTHAM easthampaul NAUGHTON ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PHYSICS EASTHAMP PHYSICS MY RESEARCH EXPLORES THE QUANTUM PHYSICS OF LIGHT AND MATTER, GENERALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES LIKE QUANTUM DOTS, WELLS, AND MICROCAVITIES. I HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN MANY-PARTICLE PHYSICS AND QUANTUM COHERENCE, AND THE EXOTIC COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOURS THAT CAN RESULT, LIKE BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION. MORE GENERALLY I AM INTERESTED IN THE POSSIBILITIES FOR GENERATING NEW PHYSICS BY CONTROLLING THE MOTION OF ELECTRONS AND PHOTONS IN NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS AND DEVICES, AND THE POSSIBILITIES FOR EXPLOITING THIS PHYSICS IN AREAS SUCH AS ENERGY HARVESTING, QUANTUM COMPUTING, AND PHOTONICS. RELATED AREAS OF RESEARCH INCLUDE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICS, TOPOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN OPTICS AND CONDENSED-MATTER, DECOHERENCE AND QUANTUM CONTROL IN SOLID-STATE QUBITS, AND PHOTONIC MATERIALS. MY WORK IS PRIMARILY THEORETICAL, BUT I WORK CLOSELY WITH EXPERIMENTALISTS TO ENSURE ITS RELEVANCE AND INCREASE ITS IMPACT. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS STRONG INTERACTIONS AND COLLECTIVE EFFECTS IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONICS DEVELOPMENT OF THEORETICAL TOOLS TO MODEL COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICS. SFI STARTING INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH GRANTS COHERENT MATTER IN SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES: NON-EQUILIBRIUM POLARITON CONDENSATES AIMS TO IMPLEMENT A NEW APPROACH TO CREATING POLARITON CONDENSATES IN HIGHLY NON-EQUILIBRIUM SEMICONDUCTORS, AND TO DEVELOP NEW TECHNIQUES FOR PRECISELY CONTROLLING ELECTRONS IN SEMICONDUCTORS. EPSRC UK STANDARD GRANTS SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. KATRIN EBERBACH eberbachkatrin TEACHING FELLOW EBERBACK GERMAN GERMANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JENNIFER EDMOND edmondjennifer RESEARCH FELLOW EDMONDJ FACULTY OFFICE : AHSS MY RESEARCH INTERESTS COVER THREE, INTERCONNECTED AREAS. AT THE BROADEST LEVEL, I AM INTEREST IN THE PRACTICE OF HUMANITIES RESEARCH, THE UNDERLYING PROCESSES THAT COMPRISE IT, HOW IT RESISTS AND INCORPORATES STRATEGIES FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES, SUCH AS COLLABORATIVE, INTERDISCIPLINARY AND APPLIED APPROACHES. MY PRIMARY FOCUS IS HOWEVER ON THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY ON HUMANITIES RESEARCH. THIS INTEREST HAS BOTH AN APPLIED DIMENSION (FOR EXAMPLE IN THE PROJECTS SUCH AS CENDARI AND ECLOUD TO WHICH I CONTRIBUTE) AND A MORE THEORETICAL DIMENSION, SUCH AS IN MY WORK AROUND SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATIONS. FINALLY, I AM INTERESTED IN WHAT TECHNOLOGY CAN ENABLE WITHIN THE STUDY OF CULTURAL TRAUMA AND CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND IN THE POTENTIAL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TRANSNATIONAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION PARADIGMS REGARDING EMOTIONALLY CHARGED ISSUES OF HISTORY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION. FACULTY OF ARTS HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH MEMBER OF THE DARIAH-IE STEERING GROUP MEMBER OF THE EUROPEANA RESEARCH COMMUNITIES ADVISORY GROUP CULTURAL IDENTITY INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION OTHER HUMANITIES NEDIMAH NEDIMAH IS AN ESF NETWORK LOOKING AT THE EMERGING DIGITAL METHODS IN ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH. I LEAD A WORKING GROUP ON THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL METHODS ON SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING. EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION RESEARCH NETWORKS CENDARI CENDARI IS A 4-YEAR, 6.5M PROJECT FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO INTEGRATE DIGITAL ARCHIVAL RESOURCES FOR MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY. IT BRINGS TOGETHER 14 PARTNER INSTITUTIONS FROM 8 COUNTRIES: I AM OVERALL PROJECT COORDINATOR. EUROPEAN COMMISSION DC-RESEARCH, INFRASTRUCTURES SOCIAL PERFORMANCE, CULTURAL TRAUMA AND THE REESTABLISHING OF SOLID SOVEREIGNTIES (SPECTRESS) THIS NETWORK, INVOLVING PARTNERS FROM 9 HIGH-PERFORMING INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, WILL SEEK TO INVESTIGATE ON A GLOBAL SCALE THE CULTURAL DIMENSIONS OF NATIONAL IDENTITIES THROUGH THE LENS OF 'CULTURAL TRAUMA,' A CATEGORY OF SPECIFIC AND WIDESPREAD DISRUPTIONS IN IDENTITY. I CONCEPTUALISED AND COORDINATE THE PROJECT, AND ALSO LEAD THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES STRAND. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE CURIE ACTION DISCOVER RESEARCH DISCOVER RESEARCH IS DUBLIN'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE MARIE CURIE RESEARCHER NIGHT, 2013. LED BY THE RESEARCHERS IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, IT WILL FEATURE MULTIPLE PROJECTS AND TEAMS THROUGH MULTIPLE EVENTS AND VENUES, BRINGING THE GENERAL PUBLIC INTO CONTACT WITH ADVANCED RESEARCH ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE CURIE ACTION EUROPEANA CLOUD EUROPEANA CLOUD SEEKS TO DEVELOP CLOUD SERVICES BASED ON THE EUROPEANA DIGITAL LIBRARY TO ENHANCE THE USABILITY AND RELEVANCE OF THE COLLECTIONS FOR PARTICULAR COMMUNITIES. TRINITY'S INVOLVEMENT IS PARTICULARLY FOCUSSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE BASED UPON THE EUROPEANA PLATFORM. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ICT PSP DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. ROBIN JAMES EDWARDS edwardsrobinjames ASSOCIATE PROF IN EARTH SCIENCES EDWARDSR GEOGRAPHY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT MY PRIMARY RESEARCH FOCUS IS THE NATURE OF THE CLIMATE-OCEAN RELATIONSHIP AT MULTI-DECADAL TO MILLENNIAL TIMESCALES. I SEEK TO EXAMINE THIS BY RECONSTRUCTING PAST ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES WITH A VIEW TO ELUCIDATING THE FORCING FACTORS, MECHANISMS AND PROCESSES INVOLVED. AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS ACTIVITY IS THE ONGOING DEVELOPMENT OF EXISTING AND NOVEL METHODOLOGIES TO IMPROVE THE ULTIMATE ACCURACY AND PRECISION OF MY RECONSTRUCTIONS. MY RECENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE AND SEA LEVEL, THE IMPACTS OF RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL (RSL) RISE ON COASTAL LANDSCAPES, AND PAST VARIABILITY IN NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN CIRCULATION. RESEARCH STRAND 1: SEA-LEVEL CHANGE - PREVIOUS IPCC REPORTS HAVE HIGHLIGHTED FUTURE SEA-LEVEL RISE AS ONE OF THE MAJOR CLIMATE-RELATED IMPACTS FACING THE WORLD OVER THE COMING CENTURIES. THE AR4 WILL SHOW THIS THREAT REMAINS DIFFICULT TO QUANTIFY DUE TO SIGNIFICANT GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE / ICE-SHEET / OCEAN LINKAGES. IMPORTANT QUESTIONS SURROUND ICE SHEET DYNAMICS, HOW SHORT-TERM VARIABILITY LINKS TO LONGER-TERM TRENDS, AND HOW 'GLOBALLY AVERAGED' SEA-LEVEL CHANGE IS EXPRESSED AT LOCAL SCALES. RESEARCH STRAND 2: QUANTITATIVE PALAEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION - THE CONCERNS SURROUNDING MODERN CLIMATE CHANGE ARE PARTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEMAND FOR IMPROVED INFORMATION ABOUT PAST CLIMATES AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS. MICROFOSSIL-BASED PROXIES SUCH AS POLLEN, DIATOMS AND FORAMINIFERA ARE ONE OF A NUMBER OF WELL-ESTABLISHED METHODS FOR OBTAINING THIS KIND OF INFORMATION. AN INTRINSIC PART OF THIS RESEARCH IS THE CONTINUAL REFINEMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROXIES AND THE VARIABLES OF INTEREST, AND THE SEARCH FOR NEW TECHNIQUES TO EXTRACT MORE DETAILED AND PRECISE QUANTITATIVE RECORDS OF CHANGE. RESEARCH STRAND 3: LAND-OCEAN INTERACTION, COASTAL EVOLUTION AND HUMAN RESPONSE - WHILST PROJECTIONS OF FUTURE SEA LEVEL RISE ARE USUALLY QUOTED IN TERMS OF 'GLOBAL AVERAGES', HUMAN POPULATIONS EXPERIENCE THE IMPACTS OF SEA-LEVEL CHANGE AT LOCAL SCALES. THESE CHANGES ARE MEDIATED VIA A RANGE OF PROCESSES OPERATING OVER DIFFERENT TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALES, INCLUDING GLACIO-HYDRO-ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT, GEOIDAL EUSTASY, DYNAMIC EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH TIDES AND CURRENTS, SEDIMENT MOVEMENT AND COASTAL MORPHODYNAMICS. SIMPLE X-Y PLOTS OF SEA LEVEL THROUGH TIME THEREFORE CONCEAL A MULTIPLICITY OF ASSOCIATED PROCESSES AND POSSIBLE OUTCOMES. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE INTEGRATED OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAM EARTH SCIENCE EARTH SCIENCES FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH EARTH STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES FORAMINIFERA GLACIOLOGY MARINE PALEOCLIMATOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY, PALEOECOLOGY QUARTERNARY SCIENCE SALT MARSH SALT-MARSH SALTMARSH SEA LEVEL EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE FOR A RECENT ACCELERATION IN THE RATE OF SEA LEVEL RISE USING COMBINED INSTRUMENTAL AND PROXY DATA SCIENTISTS AGREE THAT SEA LEVEL RISE IS POTENTIALLY ONE OF THE MOST DEVASTATING IMPACTS OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT TIDE GAUGE RECORDS ARE TOO SHORT TO SHOW WHETHER SEA LEVELS ARE RISING FASTER TODAY THAN IN THE PAST. THIS PROJECT WILL USE HIGH-RESOLUTION GEOLOGICAL INDICATORS TO RELOCATE FORMER SEA LEVELS. THESE GEOLOGICAL-BASED RECONSTRUCTIONS WILL BE VALIDATED AGAINST TIDE GAUGE DATA AND HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF COASTAL CHANGE. THEY WILL THEN BE EXTENDED TO RECONSTRUCT SEA LEVEL RISE OVER THE LAST 200-300 YEARS, AND EVALUATE THE EVIDENCE FOR ACCELERATIONS THAT MAY BE LINKED WITH HUMAN ACTIVITIES. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME (€ 110 000) DEPOSITS OF THERMOHALINE CURRENTS ON SLOPES WEST OF IRELAND - IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE OCEAN CURRENTS ARE IMPORTANT TO GLOBAL TEMPERATURE REGULATION, PROVIDING POLEWARD TRANSPORT OF HEAT. WHERE THE CURRENTS IMPINGE ON THE SEABED, THEY CAN TRANSPORT AND DEPOSIT SAND AND MUD. SUCH DEPOSITS CAN BE USED TO IDENTIFY PERIODS WHEN CURRENTS WERE ACTIVE IN THE PAST, AND TO CONSTRAIN VARIATIONS IN CURRENT STRENGTH AND DEPTH. THE PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE UNDERWATER SLOPES TO THE WEST OF IRELAND WHERE DEPOSITS SPANNING THE LAST GLACIATION ARE FOUND. AN EXTENSIVE ARRAY OF CORES ON THE WEST PORCUPINE BANK WILL BE USED TO RECONSTRUCT THE HISTORY OF CURRENT ACTIVITY AND TO RELATE THIS TO CLIMATE RECORDS ONSHORE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME (€ 168 590: TCD COMPONENT € 67 700) TESTING THE UTILITY OF A COMBINED GEOCHEMICAL AND MICROFOSSIL-BASED APPROACH TO SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTION IN WESTERN IRELAND RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL (RSL) DATA FROM WESTERN IRELAND CAN PROVIDE CRITICAL CONSTRAINTS ON GEOPHYSICAL MODELS SEEKING TO DESCRIBE THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN DYNAMIC ICE SHEET RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE, ISOSTATIC REBOUND AND 'GLOBAL' EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE. DESPITE THIS, THERE IS A VIRTUAL ABSENCE OF RELIABLE RSL DATA FROM LARGE STRETCHES OF THE IRISH COASTLINE AND TRADITIONAL RECONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGIES HAVE FAILED TO EXTRACT THE REQUIRED INFORMATION EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE THICK SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCES IN THE REGION. THIS PROJECT WILL APPLY A NEW METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO RSL RECONSTRUCTION IN IRELAND TO ADDRESS THIS IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE GAP. IT WILL ACHIEVE THIS BY ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH QUESTIONS: (1) ARE CARBON / NITROGEN RATIOS (C/N) AND CARBON ISOTOPES (Ä13C) DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS FOR DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN INTER-TIDAL AND TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS IN WESTERN IRELAND?; (2) CAN A COMPOSITE GEOCHEMICAL AND MICROFOSSIL-BASED APPROACH IMPROVE RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL RECONSTRUCTIONS IN TERMS OF BOTH DATA QUALITY (ACCURACY/PRECISION) AND AVAILABILITY (SPATIAL/TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION)?; (3) DOES A NEW GLACIAL REBOUND MODEL FOR IRELAND RELIABLY SIMULATE RSL CHANGE WITHIN THE SHANNON ESTUARY? IRCSET POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP (€ 72 000) A VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF IRELAND'S COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IRELAND'S COASTLINE HAS A LONG HISTORY OF OCCUPATION, FROM MESOLITHIC HUNTER-GATHERERS TO MODERN FISHING AND FARMING COMMUNITIES. SEVERAL PIONEERING STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT ESTUARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS HOLD AN IMMENSELY IMPORTANT RECORD OF PEOPLE'S INTERACTION WITH THE SEA. HOWEVER, COASTAL AND INTER-TIDAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IS INHERENTLY THREATENED DUE TO THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF THE ENVIRONMENTS IN WHICH IT IS FOUND. AT PRESENT, THIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCE IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. FURTHERMORE, THERE IS LITTLE BASELINE KNOWLEDGE OF THE VULNERABILITY OF IRELAND'S COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCE, OR HOW THIS MAY BE AFFECTED BY PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH COASTAL CHANGE AND FUTURE SEA-LEVEL RISE. THIS REPORT PROVIDES A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF VULNERABILITY BY IDENTIFYING KEY REGIONS THAT ARE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO COASTAL CHANGE, AND EXAMINING THE NATURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCE CONTAINED WITHIN THEM. A GLACIAL REBOUND MODEL IS USED TO SIMULATE LONG-TERM RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL (RSL) AND COASTAL CHANGES AROUND IRELAND OVER THE LAST 20 000 YEARS. FIFTEEN SIMULATED RSL CURVES FOR LOCATIONS AROUND IRELAND REVEAL THE CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF CHANGE, WITH NORTHERN AND NORTHEASTERN PARTS OF IRELAND EXPERIENCING LONG-TERM UPLIFT AND LARGE PORTIONS OF WESTERN, SOUTHERN AND SOUTHEASTERN IRELAND EXPERIENCING LONG-TERM SUBSIDENCE. THESE DIFFERENTIAL LAND-LEVEL MOVEMENTS WILL EITHER REDUCE OR ENHANCE THE RATE OF SEA-LEVEL RISE PREDICTED TO OCCUR AS A CONSEQUENCE OF HUMAN-INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE. ESTIMATES FOR THE AVERAGE RATE OF RSL RISE TO 2050 RANGE FROM 1.3 TO 6.5 MM/YR DEPENDING ON LOCATION AND SCENARIO USED, WITH THE LARGEST RATES BEING EXPERIENCE IN THE SOUTH WEST OF IRELAND. THESE RATES SUGGEST THAT THE PREDICTED LAND LOSS AND LENGTH OF THREATENED COASTLINE PRESENTED IN A RECENT DOE REPORT SHOULD BE REGARDED AS CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES. CHANGES IN COASTAL CONFIGURATION DURING THE LAST 20 000 YEARS ARE RECONSTRUCTED BY COMBINING THE SIMULATED RSL DATA WITH TOPOGRAPHIC AND BATHYMETRIC INFORMATION. THESE CHANGES ARE USED IN COMBINATION WITH THE RSL ESTIMATES TO HIGHLIGHT THREE REGIONS THAT ARE POTENTIALLY MOST AT RISK FROM FUTURE RSL RISE AND ANY INCREASE IN STORMINESS ASSOCIATED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE. THESE REGIONS ARE: THE INLETS OF SOUTHERN IRELAND; THE SHANNON ESTUARY; THE COASTLINE OF MAYO, CONNEMARA AND ASSOCIATED ISLANDS. THE NATURE OF THE THREATS TO COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGY IS SUMMARISED, AND THEN ILLUSTRATED WITH REFERENCE TO THE THREE CASE STUDY REGIONS MENTIONED ABOVE. THESE EXAMPLES HIGHLIGHT THE DESTRUCTION THAT IS ALREADY UNDERWAY, AND THE UNIQUELY FRAGILE NATURE OF COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE. THIS VULNERABILITY MAKES RAPID IDENTIFICATION AND INVESTIGATION OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. PROCESSES SUCH AS RSL RISE REDUCE THE TIME AVAILABLE FOR THIS AND THEREBY AMPLIFY THE THREAT. UNLIKE CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS OR ECOSYSTEMS THAT CAN MIGRATE NATURALLY OR VIA ENGINEERED INTERVENTION, OUR ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE CAN NEITHER BE 'MOVED' NOR 'RE-CREATED'. IT IS A FINITE RESOURCE WHICH, ONCE LOST, IS GONE FOREVER. IT IS HOPED THAT BY PRIORITISING AREAS THAT ARE MOST AT RISK, AND BY HIGHLIGHTING REGIONS WITH GREATEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL, THESE LOSSES CAN BE MINIMISED. THERE IS NOW A NEED FOR A SIGNIFICANT DESK-TOP STUDY TO DOCUMENT AND ASSES EXISTING COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES. IN ADDITION, IMPROVED BATHYMETRIC AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS IN KEY LOCATIONS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHIC CHANGE, AND HIGHLIGHT THOSE AREAS OF GREATEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OR VULNERABILITY. HERITAGE COUNCIL ARCHAEOLOGY GRANT SCHEME (€ 15 000) PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC RECORDS OF ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE: A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION THIS PROJECT WILL ANALYSE EXISTING BOX AND SHORT GRAVITY CORES TO EXAMINE THE NATURE OF THE PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC RECORD THEY CONTAIN WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THEIR POTENTIAL FOR ELUCIDATING MULTI-CENTENNIAL TO MILLENNIAL SCALE, CLIMATE-RELATED PROCESSES. THE CORING SITES ARE LOCATED WITHIN THE SENSITIVE NE ATLANTIC REGION WHICH HAS A PROVEN TRACK-RECORD FOR FURNISHING HIGH-QUALITY PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC RECORDS OF LATE QUATERNARY CLIMATE CHANGE. THIS PROJECT WILL TARGET THE LAST GLACIAL TO HOLOCENE SEQUENCES IN THIS REGION WITH THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES: 1. CATALOGUE AND CHARACTERISE THE RECENT (HOLOCENE) FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES OF THE SAMPLING SITES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO KEY OCEANOGRAPHIC VARIABLES (E.G. TEMPERATURE, SALINITY, WATER DEPTH ETC); 2. EXAMINE CHANGES IN THESE AND ASSOCIATED PARAMETERS THROUGH TIME BY REFERENCE TO DOWN-CORE VARIATION IN FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES (BENTHIC AND PLANKTONIC), AND THEIR STABLE ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES (Ä18O; Ä13C); 3. ESTABLISH CORE CHRONOLOGIES AND SEDIMENTATION RATES VIA A DATING PROGRAMME INCLUDING AMS RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS OF MICROFOSSILS COUPLED WITH STABLE ISOTOPE FORAMINIFERAL TUNING TO GREENLAND ICE CORE RECORD(S), AUGMENTED WHERE APPROPRIATE BY TEPHROCHRONOLOGY 4. ASSESS THE EVIDENCE FOR MILLENNIAL TO SUB-MILLENNIAL PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC CHANGES FROM COMBINED SEDIMENTOLOGICAL, MICROFOSSIL AND GEOCHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS, AND EXPLORE THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE CURRENT UNDERSTANDING OF CLIMATE-CRYOSPHERE-OCEAN LINKAGES IN THE N. ATLANTIC. GSI & MI (€ 29 625) INFOMAR STRAND 3 HOLOCENE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE AND GLACIO-ISOSTATIC ADJUSTMENT IN IRELAND GEOLOGICALLY-BASED SEA-LEVEL DATA WERE EXTRACTED FROM ALMOST SIXTY PUBLICATIONS AND COMPILED INTO A SEA LEVEL DATABASE FOR IRELAND (BROOKS & EDWARDS, 2006). THIS ONLINE DATABASE (HTTP://WWW.NATURALSCIENCE.TCD.IE/SL_DATABASE.PHP) COMPRISES OVER 200 ENTRIES WHICH ARE SCREENED AND ARRANGED USING A STRICT QUALITY TIER SYSTEM. THESE DATA CONFORM TO INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED PROTOCOLS FOR SEA LEVEL STUDIES AND PROVIDE THE MOST COMPLETE PICTURE OF POST-GLACIAL RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL (RSL) CHANGE AROUND THE IRISH COAST. THEY WERE USED TO DEVELOP A NEW GLACIAL REBOUND MODEL FOR IRELAND WHICH IS CAPABLE OF SIMULATING RSL CHANGES SINCE THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (BROOKS ET AL., 2008). THIS MODEL REPRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT ADVANCE FROM EARLIER STUDIES BY INCORPORATING A REVISED, TERRAIN-CORRECTED ICE SHEET MODEL FOR IRELAND. MODEL RESULTS WERE TESTED BY THE COLLECTION OF NEW SEA LEVEL DATA FROM EIGHT STUDY SITES IN WESTERN IRELAND. THIRTY-TWO AMS RADIOCARBON DATES WERE USED TO PROVIDE NEW CONSTRAINTS ON POST GLACIAL RSL CHANGES. THESE DATA SHOW REASONABLE AGREEMENT WITH SIMULATIONS BY THE NEW MODEL, SUGGESTING IT SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURES THE GENERAL PATTERNS OF CHANGE. SOME DISCREPANCIES AROUND THE TIME OF THE MID HOLOCENE ARE NOTED, AND MAY RELATE TO INADEQUATE TREATMENT OF HOLOCENE MELTWATER ADDITIONS BY CURRENT MODELS. THIS WILL REQUIRE FURTHER RESEARCH TO RESOLVE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT (€ 111 790) TESTING SIMULATIONS OF RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGE: A MARINE GEOPHYSICAL PERSPECTIVE RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL (RSL) HISTORIES PROVIDE UNIQUE INSIGHTS INTO THE TOPICAL ISSUES OF ICE SHEET RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND FUTURE SEA-LEVEL RISE. DATA FROM IRELAND ARE PARTICULARLY INSTRUCTIVE DUE TO THEIR LOCATION AT THE FORMER LIMIT OF A MAJOR ICE SHEET. DESPITE THEIR SIGNIFICANCE, IRISH RSL HISTORIES ARE CONTESTED AND THE DEBATE LARGELY CHARACTERISED BY POLARISED VIEWS THAT REFLECT METHODOLOGICAL AND DISCIPLINE-RELATED DIVISIONS. THIS PROJECT WILL CROSS THIS BOUNDARY BY INTEGRATING APPROACHES FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE METHODOLOGICAL DIVIDE TO TEST THE VALIDITY OF TWO COMPETING AND MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE VIEWS OF RSL CHANGE SINCE THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM). SFI (€138 216) RFP ICE SHEET - OCEAN INTERACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC: A PALAEOCEANOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE IT IS WIDELY ACCEPTED THAT SEA LEVEL WILL RISE IN THE FUTURE AS A RESULT OF GLOBAL WARMING AND THE ACCOMPANYING MELTING OF GLOBAL ICE AND THERMAL EXTENSION. HOWEVER, THE RESPONSES OF THE OCEANS (CHANGES IN OCEAN CIRCULATION, TEMPERATURE AND SEA LEVEL) DUE TO THESE CHANGES ARE STILL NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD. FOR THIS REASON, PREDICTIVE MODELS OF FUTURE CHANGES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SIGNIFICANT UNCERTAINTIES. ONE WAY TO IMPROVE THESE MODELS IS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW CONDITIONS HAVE VARIED IN THE PAST. ONE ASPECT TO BE CONSIDERED ARE MILLENNIAL-SCALE ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGES WHICH CAN BE TRIGGERED BY ICE SHEET COLLAPSES. THIS IS POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT SINCE THE GREENLAND AND ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS HAVE EXHIBITED SUCH DYNAMICS BEHAVIOUR IN THE LAST DECADE. THE EVOLUTION AND DEMISE OF THE BRITISH IRISH ICE SHEET IS A USEFUL ANALOGUE FOR THE BEHAVIOUR OF A MARINE-BASED ICE SHEET IN A WARMING WORLD. THE SEDIMENTS ACCUMULATING OFF THE WEST COAST OF IRELAND, ALONG THE PORCUPINE BANK AND IN THE ADJACENT ROCKALL TROUGH, HAVE PROVIDED IMPORTANT INSIGHTS INTO THIS EVOLUTION. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE TO PRODUCE HIGH RESOLUTION RECORDS OF OCEAN CIRCULATION AND ICE SHEET CHANGES FROM SELECTED DEEPWATER CORES RECOVERED FROM THE SLOPE DEPOSITS OF PORCUPINE BANK. A MULTI-PROXY APPROACH IS APPLIED WHERE DATA FROM PLANKTONIC/BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA (CENSUS AND STABLE ISOTOPES) AND MARINE SEDIMENTOLOGY (LASER GRANULOMETRY AND SORTABLE SILT) ARE COMBINED TO EXPLORE MILLENNIAL-SCALE CHANGES IN SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES, WATER MASS CHARACTERISTICS, OCEAN CIRCULATION/CURRENT VELOCITY, PHASES OF ICE RAFTING AND SEDIMENT FLUX. THE CORES WILL BE DATED BY THE MEANS OF FORAMINIFERA-BASED STABLE ISOTOPE EVENT STRATIGRAPHY, 14C MEASUREMENTS OF FORAMINIFERA AND TEPHROCHRONOLOGY. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MIKEL EGANA eganamikel ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEGANA PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MY RESEARCH FITS WITHIN THE DISCIPLINE OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY AND ALL MY STUDIES ARE CARRIED OUT ON HUMANS. CURRENTLY, MY MAIN RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT TRAINING INTERVENTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGICAL THERAPIES ON VASCULAR AND METABOLIC ADAPTATIONS AND EXERCISE TOLERANCE IN TYPE 2 DIABETES, OBESITY AND AGEING. IN ADDITION, I AM ALSO INTERESTED ON THE EFFECT OF COLD WATER IMMERSION RECOVERY INTERVENTIONS ON SUBSEQUENT EXERCISE PERFORMANCE AND ON THE POSTURAL EFFECT (BODY TILT) ON PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION, MUSCLE ACTIVATION AND MUSCLE ENDURANCE. DEPT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS MEDICINE EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS SCIENCE THE PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY AGE-RELATED IMPAIRMENT CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS CLINICAL TRIAL DIABETES-MELLITUS EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY EXERCISE TOLERANCE INSULIN MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM OBESITY POSTURE SPORTS MEDICINE THE EFFECT OF THE PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION AND ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION ON EXERCISE TOLERANCE IN SUBJECTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME (PI DR MIKEL EGAÑA) THE EFFECT OF AGE AND SEX ON THE TIME COURSE AND MECHANISMS OF ADAPTATION IN CARDIOVASCULAR AND METABOLIC HEALTH WITH EXERCISE TRAINING IN TYPE 2 DIABETES HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD (PI DR MIKEL EGAÑA) AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. CARSTEN EHRHARDT ehrhardtcarsten ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EHRHARDC PHARMACY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES I HAVE ESTABLISHED AN INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION IN THE FIELD OF PULMONARY BIOPHARMACEUTICS. THE SCIENTIFIC AIM OF MY WORK IS TO DESCRIBE THE BEHAVIOUR OF DRUGS FOLLOWING THEIR ADMINISTRATION TO THE LUNG AS INHALED AEROSOLS, I.E. LUNG DRUG DISPOSITION AND PULMONARY EPITHELIAL TRANSPORT. MOREOVER, I HAVE DEVELOPED A KEEN INTEREST IN THE MOLECULAR ORIGINS OF LUNG DISEASE. OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS, THE INCIDENCE OF LUNG-RELATED DISEASES AND THE MORBIDITY DUE TO THESE CONDITIONS IS INCREASING AT MORE THAN 5% PER YEAR. WITH 1 IN 7 PEOPLE IN IRELAND HAVING AN UNDIAGNOSED LUNG CONDITION AND IRELAND HAVING THE THIRD HIGHEST DEATH RATE FROM LUNG DISEASE IN EUROPE, CAUSING 1 IN 5 DEATHS, THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF MY WORK BECOMES CLEAR. IN MY LAB WE PRIMARILY EMPLOY PRE-CLINICAL MODELS. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED ORGANOTYPIC IN VITRO, EX VIVO AND EXPERIMENTAL IN VIVO MODELS, WHICH ALLOW A WIDE ARRAY OF DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES. INTER ALIA, WE HAVE BEEN CREDITED WITH PIONEERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY CULTURES OF HUMAN ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL CELLS. THE EXPERTISE OF MY LABORATORY INCLUDES TECHNIQUES FROM THE AREAS OF PHARMACEUTICS, PHARMACOKINETICS, PHARMACOLOGY, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY. THE UNIQUE COMBINATION OF CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS AND PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATION HAS LED TO NUMEROUS RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, AS WELL AS TO A CONTINUOUS STREAM OF VISITING RESEARCHERS TO MY LABORATORY. AT THE MOMENT, WE ARE INVOLVED IN A NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY, TRANSLATIONAL STUDIES INTO THE ROLE THAT DRUG TRANSPORTERS PLAY IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF LUNG DISEASES. IN THIS CONTEXT, WE ARE STUDYING, E.G. THE ROLE OF ERGOTHIONEINE AND ITS PHYSIOLOGICAL TRANSPORTER OCTN1 IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESSION OF TOBACCO-RELATED CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD). THIS STUDY BRINGS TOGETHER RESEARCHER FROM TCD, ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF KANAZAWA AND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN AND IS FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY A CLINICAL INVESTIGATOR AWARD FROM THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (FAMRI). MY LAB CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISHES IN IN HIGH RANKING PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS IN THE SUBJECT AREAS OF PHARMACEUTICS, PHARMACOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY. ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR ENDEAVOURS SO FAR WAS THE INVITATION TO PUBLISH A REVIEW ARTICLE IN NATURE CHEMISTRY (ZELIKIN ET AL. 2016). ANOTHER OF OUR PUBLICATIONS (PASZKO ET AL. 2011) ACHIEVED HIGHLY CITED PAPER STATUS ACCORDING TO ESSENTIAL SCIENCE INDICATORS, I.E. IT HAS RECEIVED ENOUGH CITATIONS TO PLACE IT IN THE TOP 1% OF ITS ACADEMIC FIELD BASED ON A HIGHLY CITED THRESHOLD FOR THE FIELD AND PUBLICATION YEAR. CHAPTERS FROM DRUG ABSORPTION STUDIES, A BOOK EDITED BY ME AND PUBLISHED BY SPRINGER IN 2008, WERE DOWNLOADED >65,000 TIMES, PLACING IT IN THE TOP 25% MOST DOWNLOADED EBOOKS IN THE RELEVANT EBOOK COLLECTION IN 2016. MY TOTAL RESEARCH GRANT INCOME AS PI AMOUNTS TO MORE THAN 2.5 MILLION EUROS, OF WHICH >440,000 EUROS WERE SECURED IN THE LAST THREE YEARS. IN ADDITION, I AM INVOLVED AS CO-PI IN A NUMBER OF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS, E.G. A TÜBITAK GRANT WITH DR AYCA Y&#305;LD&#305;Z PEKÖZ FROM ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY AND A LUNG FOUNDATION NETHERLANDS GRANT WITH DR IRENE HEIJINK FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN. TO MAINTAIN THE MOMENTUM, I HAVE RECENTLY SUBMITTED AN SFI CDA PROPOSAL IN COLLABORATION WITH DR ANDREJ BUDANOV (SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOLOGY) AND ANOTHER TÜBITAK GRANT WITH DR. PEKÖZ. I AM ALSO IN ADVANCED STAGES OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AN EI INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME SUBMISSION WITH MYLAN LTD. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH GERMAN ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, SCHOOL OF PHARMACY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, CA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS, AAPS AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY, APS CHAIR, DRUG DELIVERY: EMERGING THERAPIES NETWORKING GROUP, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AEROSOLS IN MEDICINE CHAIR, IMAGING, MODELING, AND PHYSIOLOGY OF AEROSOLS IN THE LUNG, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AEROSOLS IN MEDICINE DEUTSCHE PHARMAZEUTISCHE GESELLSCHAFT, DPHG GESELLSCHAFT FÜR WEHRMEDIZIN UND WEHRPHARMAZIE, VDSO INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AEROSOLS IN MEDICINE, ISAM JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF XENOBIOTICS, JSSX LOCAL CO-ORDINATOR, MARIE-CURIE EARLY STAGE TRAINING (EST) NETWORK "GALENOS EUROPHD IN ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY" MEMBER, AWARDS COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AEROSOLS IN MEDICINE MEMBER, BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY MEMBER, COUNCIL, WESTERN EPITHELIAL BIOLOGY SOCIETY (FORMERLY WEST COAST SALT AND WATER CLUB) MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY - LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF AEROSOL MEDICINE AND PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY MEMBER, MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, COST ACTION BM1201: DEVELOPMENTAL ORIGINS OF CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE MEMBER, MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, COST ACTION MP1404: SIMULATION AND PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADVANCED PATIENT-TAILORED INHALED MEDICINES (SIMINHALE) PROFESSOR INVITÉ, LABORATOIRE DE PHARMACIE GALÉNIQUE INDUSTRIELLE, FACULTÉ DE PHARMACIE, UNIVERSITÉ CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, LYON, FRANCE VICE-LEADER, WG5: TOXICITY, RISK ASSESSMENT AND REGULATION, COST ACTION MP1404: SIMULATION AND PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADVANCED PATIENT-TAILORED INHALED MEDICINES (SIMINHALE) AEROSOL ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL-CELLS ALVEOLAR EPITHELIUM ASTHMA, CYSTIC FIBROSIS, OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAYS, INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES, PULMONARY FIBROSIS BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BIOPHARMACEUTICAL ASPECTS OF DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS BRONCHIAL EPITHELIUM CELL AND TISSUE DEVELOPMENT DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION IN VITRO MODEL IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS IN-VITRO CULTURE INHALATION LIPOSOMES LUNG MEMBRANE TRANSPORT, STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOCHEMICAL BARRIERS TO DRUG ABSORPTION PHYSIOLOGY RESPIRATORY SYSTEM RESPIRATORY MEDICINE PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JAVIER ELIO eliojavier RESEARCH FELLOW ELIOJ GEOLOGY MY MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, SINCE IT PROVIDES ME WITH THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS AND HOW THESE AFFECT THE QUALITY OF HUMAN LIFE. AS A CONSEQUENCE, MY RESEARCH AIMS TO MAKE A GENUINE CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIETY AND AN IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN-NATURAL ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS. MY PRIOR EXPERIENCE IS IN SOIL POLLUTION, FRACTURED MEDIA CHARACTERIZATION AND GEOLOGICAL STORAGE OF CO2. FOR THE LAST YEARS I HAVE BEEN WORKING IN SURFACE MONITORING OF CO2 STORAGE SITES AS PART OF MY DOCTORAL THESIS. THE TOPIC OF MY POST-DOCTORAL PROJECT DEALS WITH RADON MONITORING AND HAZARD PREDICTION. IT IS FINANCED BY THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL UNDER THE ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME 2015, AND CO-FINANCED BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND. THIS NEW RESEARCH PROJECT WILL BUILD UPON PREVIOUS EFFORTS OF RADON MONITORING IN IRELAND TO CONSTRUCT A HIGH-RESOLUTION RADON HAZARD MAP. THIS MAP WILL HELP TO INFORM WHEN PREVENTION AND REMEDIATION MEASURES ARE NECESSARY, REDUCING THE RADON EXPOSURE OF THE POPULATION. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN EUROPEAN RADON ASSOCIATION (ERA) ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, GEOTECHNICS; CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE RADON MONITORING AND HAZARD PREDICTION IN IRELAND IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (IRC) AND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND (GSI) ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME FELLOWSHIP 2015 DR. NAOMI ELLIOTT elliottnaomi ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ELLIOTN SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CLINICAL JUDGMENT; PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT; ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE; GROUNDED THEORY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; EVALUATION RESEARCH SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 IUA HEADS,DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & CHILDREN'S NATIONAL STEERING GROUP,REVIEW OF PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT IN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK MEMBER OF THE GROUNDED THEORY INSTITUTE MEMBER OF THE RHO CHI CHAPTER OF SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL (NURSES' HONOR SOCIETY) REVIEWER, JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY REVIEWER, LEARNING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE REVIEWER, NURSE EDUCATION TODAY REVIEWER,THE GROUNDED THEORY REVIEW: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE CLINICAL DECISION MAKING GROUNDED THEORY RESEARCH PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT MUTUAL INTACTING- KEEPING THE PATIENT- PRACTITIONER RELATIONSHIP AND PATIENT TREATMENT INTACT PHD EVALUATION OF CLINICAL NURSE/ MIDWIFE SPECIALIST AND ADVANCED NURSE/MIDWIFE PRACTITIONER IN IRELAND NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY EVALUATION OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM STRATEGY: CRITICAL DEBATE ON GLOBAL HEALTHCARE IN DOCTORAL NURSE PRACTITIONER PROGRAMME. EVALUATION OF INNOVATIVE CURRICULUM STRATEGY IN A DOCTORAL NURSE PRACTITIONER PROGRAMME. EVALUATION RESEARCH IN COLLABORATION WITH NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, BOSTON, USA. UNFUNDED SENSE STUDY: AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE EPILEPSY SPECIALIST NURSE AND THE IMPACT ON PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE MRCG/ HRB THE COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR SELF-DISCLOSURE STRATEGIES FOR PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY (HOW-TO-TELL) EPILEPSY IRELAND/HRB MRCG/HRB SCOPING REVIEW OF THE FACTORS INFLUENCING ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS ABILITY TO ENACT THEIR LEADERSHIP ROLE. UNFUNDED IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. MARTIN THOMAS EMMS emmsmartinthomas ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MTEMMS COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP: (CLG) COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS GROUP. RESEARCH INTERESTS: 1. LINEAR LOGIC AND POLYMORPHIC CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR . PARSING AS PROOF THEORY 2. POLYMORPHIC TYPE INFERENCE FOR PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES . VERIFICATION AS PROOF THEORY 3. LANGUAGE ENGINEERING . LARGE SCALE KNOWLEDGES SOURCES FOR PARSING . ROBUST PART OF SPEECH TAGGING/PARSING . DISAMBIGUATION TECHNIQUES . CORPUS TOOLS AN ONGOING WEB-BASED PARSING AND TAGGING INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE CLG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 I AM A MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. JACOB ERICKSON ericksonjacob ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ERICKSOJ LOYOLA INSTITUTE ERICKSON'S PRIMARY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON HOW RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION WRESTLES WITH, GRIEVES, AND THINKS ABOUT RESILIENCE, ECOJUSTICE, JOY, AND BEAUTY IN THE ONGOING WAKE OF GLOBAL WARMING. HIS WRITING THINKS ABOUT HOW THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS SHAPE AND ARE SHAPED BY OUR PERCEPTION OF OUR ECOLOGICAL CONTEXTS FOR GOOD OR ILL, ESPECIALLY IN THE INTERSECTIONS OF ECOLOGY, RACE, ECONOMY, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY. AND HE'S DEEPLY INTERESTED IN ECOLOGICAL MYSTICISMS, SPIRITUALITIES, ETHICS, AND SACRAMENTAL PRACTICES AS THEY MULTIPLY AROUND THE PLANET. LOYOLA INSTITUTE ISE + LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION EUROPEAN FORUM FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT ANIMAL ETHICS CLIMATE CHANGE CRITICAL THEORY AND THEOLOGY ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY ELEPHANTS ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES LAND ART LUTHERANISM POLITICAL ECOLOGY POSTSTRUCTURALISM QUEER THEORY RELIGION AND SCIENCE RELIGION, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY SEXUALITY ENVIRONMENT (INCL.) CLIMATE CHANGE SOCIAL JUSTICE HUMANITIES PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. BRIAN RUSSELL ESPEY espeybrianrussell ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ESPEYB PHYSICS EMISSION AND ABSORPTION LINE SPECTROSCOPY OF SYMBIOTIC STARS AND ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. MODELLING OF SYMBIOTIC BINARIES AND AGN. DEVELOPMENT OF EMISSION LINE DIAGNOSTICS. INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE ANALYSIS OF LARGE ASTROPHYSICAL DATABASES. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH COMMITTEE MEMBER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCES COMMITTEE CHAIR, RIA SUBCOMMITTEE ON LIGHT POLLUTION FELLOW, ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, ASTRONOMICAL SCIENCE GROUP OF IRELAND (ASGI) ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS COSMOLOGY DATA MINING DATA MINING SYSTEMS DATABASE QUERY DATABASE SAMPLING LIGHT POLLUTION PLANETARY-NEBULAE QUASARS QUASARS, GENERAL SPECTRA SPECTRAL ANALYSIS SPECTROSCOPY SPECTRUM STARS STARS, VARIABLES, OTHER UNDERSTANDING THE ORIGINS OF THE COMMON ELEMENTS: MASS-LOSS FROM RED GIANT STARS THE MAJORITY OF ELEMENTS REQUIRED FOR LIFE AND PLANET FORMATION ARE RELEASED FROM THE INTERIOR OF HIGHLY EVOLVED STARS THROUGH DENSE STELLAR WINDS. AN UNDERSTANDING OF THIS MASS-LOSS PROCESS IS IMPORTANT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND PLANETARY FORMATION AND ALSO THE FUTURE FATE OF OUR SUN. DESPITE THIS, THE FORMATION PROCESS OF THESE WINDS REMAINS THE MAJOR OUTSTANDING PROBLEM IN STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS. WE PROPOSE A STUDY USING GRID-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF THESE WINDS. THESE MODELS WILL BE CONSTRAINED USING RESULTS FROM AN INNOVATIVE ANALYSIS OF OUR SPACE TELESCOPE DATA, RESULTING IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE WIND-DRIVING MECHANISM. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME STUDYING THE OUTER ATMOSPHERE AND WIND OF A RED GIANT STAR WITH DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY OUR KNOWLEDGE OF COOL GIANT STARS IS PRIMARILY DRAWN FROM ISOLATED STARS THAT, BECAUSE OF THEIR TEMPERATURE, EMIT IN THE WAVELENGTH REGIONS LONGWARDS OF THE OPTICAL. TRADITIONALLY, THE WINDS OF THESE STARS HAVE BEEN STUDIED IN THE INFRARED THROUGH RADIO REGIONS OF THE SPECTRUM AND MOST STUDIES HAVE OBTAINED DATA FROM COOL OUTFLOW MATERIAL ~5 OR MORE STELLAR RADII FROM THE STAR. IN THE ULTRAVIOLET (UV) REGION OF THE SPECTRUM AND, PARTICULARLY IN THE FAR-ULTRAVIOLET (FUV) REGION - WHERE A LARGE NUMBER OF USEFUL MOLECULAR LINES AND RESONANCE ABSORPTIONS CAN BE FOUND - THERE IS NEGLIGIBLE CONTINUUM EMISSION, THUS RESTRICTING THE DIAGNOSTICS AVAILABLE FOR THE COOL WIND MATERIAL. IN ADDITION, MOST SPECTROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS ARE BASED UPON WHOLE-DISK DATA SINCE THE STARS ARE FAR ENOUGH AWAY TO BE TELESCOPICALLY UNRESOLVED. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT GOALS OF GIANT STAR STUDIES IS TO TEST STELLAR ATMOSPHERIC MODELS AND, AT THE SAME TIME, DETERMINE HOW A STELLAR WIND IS INITIALLY GENERATED ON THE RED GIANT. RED GIANT WINDS ARE UBIQUITOUS, AND THE STARS PLENTIFUL, SO UNDERSTANDING HOW A WIND DEVELOPS AND TRANSPORTS CHEMICALLY ENRICHED MATERIAL BACK INTO THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IS A FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT RESEARCH AIM. ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANTS SCHEME MRS. JESSICA EUSTACE-COOK eustacecookjessica RESEARCH SUPPORT LIBRARIAN EUSTACJ LIBRARY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE INNOVATION IN LEARNING INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS TEACHER EDUCATION VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES OPEN ACCESS COLLEGE STUDENTS COMMUNICATION SCIENCES DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING EDUCATION AND MINORITY LANGUAGE EDUCATION/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING, AUTHORING TOOLS 19TH CENTURY IRELAND, CRIME, POLICE, CONDUCT OF TRIALS ANGLO-IRISH CONNECTIONS CINEMA AND IRELAND CINEMA, CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD, EUROPEAN, AFRICAN, ASIAN FAMINE IN IRELAND 1740-41 AND 1845-51, SOCIAL AND MEDICAL ASPECTS HIGHER EDUCATION HISTORY OF WOMEN THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH EDITORIAL BOARD, THE SERIALS LIBRARIAN, 67:4, EBI-EBI, DOI:10.1080/0361526X.2014. MEMBER OF THE LAI 19TH CENTURY IRELAND, CRIME, POLICE, CONDUCT OF TRIALS ANGLO-IRISH CONNECTIONS CINEMA AND IRELAND CINEMA, CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD, EUROPEAN, AFRICAN, ASIAN COLLEGE STUDENTS COMMUNICATION SCIENCES DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING EDUCATION AND MINORITY LANGUAGE EDUCATION/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING, AUTHORING TOOLS FAMINE IN IRELAND 1740-41 AND 1845-51, SOCIAL AND MEDICAL ASPECTS HIGHER EDUCATION HISTORY OF WOMEN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE INNOVATION IN LEARNING INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIAL MEDIA TEACHER EDUCATION VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS LIAM'S LODGE: A NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CARE CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH RARE, GENETIC AND LIFE LIMITING CONDITIONS AND A CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE RESPITE SERVICE FOR MUNSTER AND THE MID-WEST. LIAM'S LODGE: A NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CARE CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH RARE, GENETIC AND LIFE LIMITING CONDITIONS AND A CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE RESPITE SERVICE FOR MUNSTER AND THE MID-WEST. THE SAOIRSE FOUNDATION RARE DISEASES WEBSITE - DEVELOPING THE PARENT2PARENT CONTENT OF A RARE DISEASE WEBSITE IN IRELAND. RARE DISEASES WEBSITE - DEVELOPING THE PARENT2PARENT CONTENT OF A RARE DISEASE WEBSITE IN IRELAND. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY PEOPLE WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY LIVING INDEPENDENTLY. EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY PEOPLE WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY LIVING INDEPENDENTLY. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. RACHEL EVANS evansrachel ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RAEVANS CHEMISTRY CURRENT RESEARCH BROADLY COVERS THE DESIGN AND CHARACTERISATION OF LUMINESCENT INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS FOR APPLICATION IN SENSORS, PHOTOVOLTAICS AND OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES. INORGANIC-ORGANIC NANOCOMPOSITES EXHIBIT PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS THAT LIE AT THE INTERFACE OF THE ORGANIC AND INORGANIC REALMS, OFFERING SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL FOR THE PREPARATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL "SMART" MATERIALS. SELF-ASSEMBLY OF ORGANIC LUMOPHORES SUCH AS CONJUGATED POLYELECTROLYTES CAN LEAD TO A COMPLEX SUPRAMOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES, WHICH MAY BE USE TO TUNE OPTICAL AND CHARGE-TRANSPORT PROPERTIES. THE CHALLENGE UNDERTAKEN HERE IS TO DIRECT THE SELF-ORGANISATION OF THE EMISSIVE ORGANIC COMPONENT WITHIN AN INORGANIC MATRIX/SURFACE TO OBTAIN SIMULTANEOUS CONTROL OF MORPHOLOGY AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES, WHICH IS OFTEN A PREREQUISITE FOR MANY OF THE ABOVE APPLICATIONS. BY UNDERSTANDING SELF-ASSEMBLY-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS ON THE MOLECULAR LEVEL, WE AIM TO DESIGN HIGH PERFORMANCE TAILOR-MADE NANOSTRUCTURED DEVICES. CURRENT FOCUS: 1. EXTERNAL CONTROL OF SELF-ORGANISATION IN CONJUGATED POLYMER-INORGANIC-ORGANIC HYBRIDS: FROM SOLUTION TO MICROSTRUCTURE THIN FILMS, COATED NANOTUBES AND NANOPARTICLES. 2. COLORIMETRC LUMINESCENT SENSORS: POLYMER ARRAYS AND NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILMS FOR THE DETECTION OF EXPLOSIVES AND VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS. 3. STRUCTURAL HIERARCHY-ELECTRONIC PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS: EXCITON MIGRATION, ENERGY TRANSFER, MODELLING AND COLOUR TUNING IN SYSTEMS OF REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMPOSITE MATERIALS CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES CONDENSED MATTER, SOFT MATTER AND POLYMER PHYSICS LANTHANIDES MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY MATERIALS, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MULTISENSORY TECHNOLOGY, MULTI SENSING NANOCHEMISTRY NANOTECHNOLOGY NEUTRON SCATTERING OPTICAL MATERIALS ORGANIC COATINGS PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOPHYSICS PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS, CELLS AND MODULES MANUFACTURING PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY POLYMER TECHNOLOGY, BIOPOLYMERS POLYMERS SENSORY SCIENCE, SENSORS AND INSTRUMENTATION SOLAR, PHOTOCHEMICAL CONVERSION SPECTROSCOPY CHROMOXYSENSE: INTELLIGENT COLORIMETRIC LUMINESCENT OXYGEN SENSOR FORMULATIONS AS INTEGRITY INDICATORS FOR MODIFIED ATMOSPHERE PACKAGED FOODS ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY OF CONJUGATED POLYMER BUILDING BLOCKS INTO NANOSTRUCTURED HYBRID THIN FILM DEVICES IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP HIGH-EFFICIENCY CONJUGATED POLYMER-INORGANIC HYBRIDS AS LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS FOR PHOTOVOLTAICS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATORS PROJECT PROGRAMME HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC POLYMERS: NOVEL WAVEGUIDES AND DEVICE ARCHITECTURES FOR LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS WITH SUPERIOR COLLECTING EFFICIENCIES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SOLVENT- AND CHARGE-MEDIATED SELF-ASSEMBLY OF CONJUGATED POLYELECTROLYTE BLOCK COPOLYMERS FOR SENSING AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICE APPLICATIONS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ULYSSESS PROGRAMME NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DANIEL FAAS faasdaniel ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FAASD SOCIOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MY RESEARCH IS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF MIGRATION AND CONSISTS OF THREE INTERLINKED STRANDS: (1) IDENTITIES AND INTEGRATION, (2) COMPARATIVE CURRICULUM ANALYSES, AS WELL AS (3) RELIGION AND SCHOOLING IN IRELAND AND EUROPE. IT STRONGLY LINKS TO THE COLLEGE'S PRIORITY RESEARCH THEME ON "IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION", WHERE I CURRENTLY SIT ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE. MY WORK CREATES NEW KNOWLEDGE BY ASKING FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS: HOW DO SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS DIFFER IN THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY INCORPORATE MINORITIES WHO HOLD MULTI-LAYERED IDENTITIES? HOW DO NATIONAL SCHOOL CURRICULA ADDRESS MIGRATION-RELATED DIVERSITY AND EUROPEAN ISSUES? HOW IS RELIGION INTEGRATED IN SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION SYSTEM? I AM INTERNATIONALLY REPUTED FOR MY INNOVATIVE WORK IN THESE AREAS. FOR EXAMPLE MY WORK ON IDENTITIES HAS BROUGHT TOGETHER, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WITHIN-COUNTRY AND BETWEEN-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN IDENTITY FORMATION, REVEALING A RANGE OF FACTORS WHICH SHAPE CONTEMPORARY IDENTITIES. MY WORK IS POLICY-ORIENTED, ALLOWING ME TO BUILD BRIDGES BETWEEN ACADEMIC AND POLICY COMMUNITIES AT NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEVEL. I HAVE RECEIVED MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS AND HIGHLY COMPETITIVE FELLOWSHIPS INCLUDING A FULBRIGHT-SCHUMAN FELLOWSHIP, MARIE CURIE INTRA-EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP, AND OTHER EXTERNAL FUNDING AS PI AND CO-PI IN EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS. IN 2015 I WAS ELECTED TO FELLOWSHIP AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (FTCD). INVOLVEMENT AND COORDINATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS HAS ALLOWED ME TO BUILD AN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY NETWORK OF COLLABORATORS INCLUDING RESEARCHERS IN THE NETHERLANDS, BRITAIN, GREECE, CYPRUS, DENMARK AND THE UNITED STATES. I PLAY AN ACTIVE ROLE IN EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKS, AND PRESENT THE FINDINGS OF MY RESEARCH IN ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC SETTINGS, FREQUENTLY AS AN INVITED SPEAKER. THESE INCLUDE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS FOR POLICY-MAKERS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND MEDIA ENGAGEMENT. I RECEIVE INVITATIONS AS EXPERT IN THE FIELD INCLUDING VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS, CONSULTANCIES AND ADVISORY ROLES. I HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL AND SUSTAINED RESEARCH OUTPUT OF AROUND 60 PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING (EDITED) BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES. I PUBLISH IN THE TOP-RANKED PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNIC STUDIES SUCH AS "BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY", "ETHNICITIES", "BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL", "BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION". THE IMPACT OF MY WORK AND INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION IS NOT ONLY EVIDENCED VIA STRONG CITATION METRICS, BUT ALSO IN THE FORM OF AWARDS (EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST JOURNAL ARTICLE), VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS (UCL, BEIJING FOREIGN STUDIES UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO) AND PEER EVALUATIONS (ONLY SOCIAL SCIENTIST AT TRINITY TO REACH TWO ERC FINALS AS STARTER AND CONSOLIDATOR). I HAVE LIVED, RESEARCHED AND PUBLISHED ACROSS FIVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, SUPERVISED 12 PHD STUDENTS, 24 MASTERS STUDENTS AND 5 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS. SEVERAL OF THESE HAVE GONE ON TO SECURING PRESTIGIOUS GRANTS OR EMPLOYMENT POSTS AT TOP UNIVERSITIES. IN MY ROLE AS HEAD OF SOCIOLOGY (2012-16), I PROMOTED RESEARCH LEADERSHIP IN NUMEROUS WAYS. FIRSTLY, I ENCOURAGED STAFF TO ENGAGE IN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH THROUGH CREATING AND DEEPENING LINKS WITH THE ESRI, THE TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB PRIORITY THEME ON IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION, THE TCD-UCD STRATEGIC ALLIANCE AS WELL AS INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS SUCH AS IMISCOE. SECONDLY, I FOSTERED DIALOGUE BY PROMOTING RESEARCH DISCUSSIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT AND COLLEGE, FOR INSTANCE THROUGH DEDICATED SESSIONS FOCUSED ON EXCHANGING RESEARCH EXPERTISE AMONG COLLEAGUES. THIRDLY, I HAVE MENTORED STAFF, FOR EXAMPLE THROUGH THE HR MOMENTUM PROGRAMME IN COLLEGE, AND HAVE DISCUSSED THEIR RESEARCH PLANS AND PUBLICATION STRATEGIES ENABLING THEM TO EXPAND THEIR VISION AND OPERATING SUCCESSFULLY WITHIN TRINITY AND BEYOND. I CONSIDER THIS PART OF CULTIVATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF TRINITY SCHOLARS. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ADVISOR TO THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, DG EDUCATION AND CULTURE [EDUCATION AND TRAINING 2010 PROGRAMME] AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (AERA) AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ASA) BOARD MEMBER, EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (RESEARCH NETWORK 10: SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION) BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (BERA) BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (BSA) CHAIR AND DISCUSSANT AT MAJOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGY AND EDUCATION CONFERENCES CHAMPIONING OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY THROUGH RESEARCH COLLABORATION AND HIGH-LEVEL OUTREACH ACTIVITIES WITHIN AND BEYOND TRINITY COLLEGE CONSULTANT TO THE IRISH DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS AND NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT (NCCA) COUNCIL FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES (CES) DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH EXPERTISE TO THE WIDER COMMUNITY THROUGH REGULAR MEDIA WORK (PRINT AND RADIO) EDITOR OF EDUCATION INQUIRY JOURNAL (SPECIAL ISSUE: "ETHNIC DIVERSITY AND SCHOOLING IN NATIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEMS") EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (ESAI) EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (EERA) EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ESA), HONORARY MEMBER SINCE 2009 EXPERT EVALUATOR, EDUCATION, AUDIOVISUAL AND CULTURE EXECUTIVE AGENCY [EACEA, EUROPEAN COMMISSION] EXPERT EVALUATOR, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, FP7 AND HORIZON 2020 [COOPERATION] AS REMOTE EVALUATOR AND PANEL MEMBER EXPERT EVALUATOR, FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PORTUGAL [SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES] EXPERT EVALUATOR, RESEARCH PROMOTION FOUNDATION OF CYPRUS [SOCIO-ECONOMIC SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES] EXPERT EVALUATOR, SWISS NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION [HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES] EXPERT EVALUATOR, VOLKSWAGEN FOUNDATION [CHALLENGES FOR ACADEMIA AND SOCIETY] EXTERNAL EXAMINER OF PHD DISSERTATIONS INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ISA) JOURNAL ARTICLE REFEREE, BOOK REVIEWER, AND BOOK MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER MEMBER OF THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP "BELIEF SYSTEMS, ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION" (EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND) PANEL VICE-CHAIR AND RAPPORTEUR, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME HORIZON 2020 [SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 6] POLICY BRIEF AUTHOR FOR NETWORK MIGRATION IN EUROPE (FOR INFORMATION PLATFORM MIGRATION CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION ON "MUSLIMS IN GERMANY") SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (SAI) CASE-STUDY RESEARCH CITIZENSHIP COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL RELATIONS COMPARATIVE EDUCATION COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY EDUCATIONAL PLANNING/POLICY EU DEVELOPMENTS EUROPEAN MINORITY CULTURES AND IDENTITIES GLOBALISATION IDENTITY POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY MIGRATION MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION THE EUROPEANISATION OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION (EURINTED) HISTORICALLY, EDUCATION POLICY-MAKING HAS BEEN INTERTWINED WITH THE NATION-BUILDING PROJECT. HOWEVER, THE CENTRALITY OF THE NATION-STATE IN EDUCATION POLICY-MAKING HAS BEEN CONSTRAINED BY A WIDE RANGE OF NEW SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PHENOMENA THAT RELATE TO EUROPEAN INTEGRATION. THE EURINTED PROJECT, COORDINATATED BY PROFESSOR PANAYIOTIS ANGELIDES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA, EXPLORES THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION. IT WILL ALSO INDICATE THE WAYS IN WHICH EUROPEAN EDUCATION POLICIES ARE MEDIATED AND REFRAMED BY NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; THROUGH CASE STUDIES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN CYPRUS AND IRELAND. THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE TYPES OF INTERACTION BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL INTERCULTURAL POLICIES; THE WAYS IN WHICH EUROPEAN INTERCULTURAL POLICIES ARE MEDIATED BY NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; AND THE IMPACT OF THIS PROCESS FOR CYPRIOT AND IRISH EDUCATIONAL POLICY-MAKING FOR INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION. THIS PROJECT IS INFORMED BY AND RUNS ALONGSIDE 'THE INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION STRATEGY IN IRELAND: OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE?' STUDY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PROVIDE A NUMBER OF INSIGHTS INTO THE EUROPEANISATION MECHANISMS OF NATIONAL INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION. THE STUDY WILL THUS ALLOW NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN POLICY-MAKERS AS WELL AS EDUCATORS TO REFLECT ON THEIR INTERCULTURAL EDUCATIONAL APPROACHES. RESEARCH PROMOTION FOUNDATION OF CYPRUS AND THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND DIDAKTOR THE INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION STRATEGY IN IRELAND: OLD WINE IN A NEW BOTTLE? THIS PROJECT, DIRECTED BY DR. DANIEL FAAS, AIMS TO EVALUATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW IRISH INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION STRATEGY, LAUNCHED IN SEPTEMBER 2010. IRELAND HAS EXPERIENCED LARGE-SCALE IMMIGRATION SINCE 1996, PARTICULARLY SINCE THE 2004 EASTERN ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. WITH IMMIGRATION PRESENTLY SLOWING DOWN AS A RESULT OF THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, THE ISSUE OF HOW TO INTEGRATE THOSE ALREADY RESIDING IN IRELAND IS NOW A PERTINENT ISSUE. DRAWING ON INTERVIEWS WITH TWO MANAGEMENT STAFF IN TWO PRIMARY, TWO POST-PRIMARY AND TWO THIRD-LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN DUBLIN, THE STUDY ANALYZES HOW THESE DEFINE AND OPERATIONALIZE INTERCULTURALISM. THE AREA OF HOW SCHOOLS AND (YOUNG) UNIVERSITIES LIKE DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY TRANSPOSE INTERCULTURAL GUIDELINES INTO PRACTICE MERITS FURTHER RESEARCH. ALTHOUGH THE RECENT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE-COMMISSIONED REPORT 'ADAPTING TO DIVERSITY: IRISH SCHOOLS AND NEWCOMER STUDENTS' IDENTIFIED SOME OF THE ISSUES AT STAKE AND HAS INFORMED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION STRATEGY, LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE IMPACT THIS NEW INITIATIVE WILL HAVE ON SCHOOLS AND HOW SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND STAFF UNDERSTAND AND RESPOND TO MIGRATION-RELATED DIVERSITY. THIS STUDY ARISES OUT OF CONSULTATION MEETINGS ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS AND FORMS THE PILOT OF EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE WORK. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND GLOBAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY THIS NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY AND POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN ETHNICITY AND EDUCATION, DIRECTED BY DR. DANIEL FAAS, STUDIES THE RESPONSES TO CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY PRIMARILY IN EDUCATION BUT ALSO RELATED AREAS SUCH AS THE LABOUR MARKET. WITH INWARD MIGRATION TO IRELAND AND EUROPE SLOWING DOWN AS A RESULT OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC DOWNTURN, THE FOCUS HAS SHIFTED FROM MIGRATION STUDIES TO ISSUES OF INTEGRATION. THE MAIN INITIATIVE INCLUDES AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACTS OF THE NEW IRISH INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION STRATEGY IN PRIMARY, POST-PRIMARY AND TERTIARY EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR HOW SCHOOL MANAGEMENT STAFF, INCLUDING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS, UNDERSTAND AND RESPOND TO INTERCULTURALISM IN OUR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY. RELATED ACTIONS TO BE IMPLEMENTED INCLUDE THE PREPARATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE PROJECT ON BALANCING DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL COHESION. PART OF THE FUNDS WILL ALSO BE USED TO INVITE RENOWNED SPEAKERS TO TRINITY AND PRODUCE AND LAUNCH TWO BOOKS. THE PROJECT RELATES TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE TRINITY IMMIGRATION INITIATIVE BUT WITH A STRONGER FOCUS ON EDUCATION, THEREBY ALSO STRENGTHENING AND DEVELOPING A KEY SUBDISCIPLINE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY. SEVERAL OF MY PHD STUDENTS (WORKING ON RETURN MIGRATION; RACIALISED DISCOURSES IN SCHOOLS; AND DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE) ARE ATTACHED TO THIS RESEARCH PROGRAMME. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN START-UP FUND MULTICULTURAL EUROPE EUROPE IS UNDERGOING CONSIDERABLE DEMOGRAPHIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE AS IT MOVES TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. AT A TIME WHEN EUROPE HAS ENTERED ACCESSION TALKS WITH TURKEY, POLITICIANS AND POLICY-MAKERS ARE PRESENTED WITH THE CHALLENGE OF CONSTRUCTING AND PROMOTING AN INCLUSIVE MULTI-ETHNIC CONCEPT OF EUROPE. THE PROJECT IS A RESPONSE TO THESE CHALLENGES AND AIMS TO ADDRESS THIS RESEARCH GAP BY DEVELOPING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF (A) THE WAYS IN WHICH EU POLICY-MAKERS AND POLITICIANS COMBINE MULTICULTURAL AND EUROPEAN AGENDAS AND ADDRESS THE PRESENCE OF MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE; (B) THE WAYS IN WHICH NATIONAL EDUCATORS AND POLICY-MAKERS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WITH SIZEABLE MUSLIM POPULATIONS PERCEIVE EUROPEAN AND MULTICULTURAL AGENDAS; AND, (C) THE WAYS IN WHICH SCHOOL CURRICULA OF SUBJECTS LIKE GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND CITIZENSHIP ADDRESS NOTIONS OF MULTICULTURALISM AND EUROPE. THE CHOICE OF COUNTRIES TO BE STUDIED AND COMPARED INCLUDES GERMANY (OLD HOST COUNTRY WITH A MONOCULTURAL VISION), ENGLAND (OLD HOST COUNTRY WITH A MULTICULTURAL VISION) AND GREECE (NEW HOST COUNTRY WITH A MONOCULTURAL VISION), INDEED THREE COUNTRIES THAT HAVE PUT DIFFERENT EMPHASIS ON THEIR MULTICULTURAL AND EUROPEAN AGENDAS. THE PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS THE NEED TO TRANSFORM NATIONAL CURRICULA INTO MORE INCLUSIVE EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL LEARNING APPROACHES. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP6 MARIE CURIE ACTIONS CIVIC INTEGRATION IN NORTHWEST EUROPEAN MIGRATION SOCIETIES (CIVITURN) THE CIVITURN PROJECT ENGAGES WITH THE THESIS BY CHRISTIAN JOPPKE THAT WESTERN EUROPEAN MIGRATION POLICY IS CONVERGING TOWARDS A LIBERAL CONSENSUS OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION RIGHTS AND LABOUR MARKET PARTICIPATION. WHILE THESE TENDENCIES ARE UNDISPUTABLE, THE PROJECT ENDEAVOURS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT MIGRATION POLICIES - COMPARATIVELY STUDIED IN DENMARK, BRITAIN, GERMANY, IRELAND AND THE NETHERLANDS ACROSS A RANGE OF POLICY AREAS INCLUDING EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP ASPECTS - ARE NOT JUST 'LIBERAL' BUT REFLECTIVE OF A CIVIC OR REPUBLICAN TURN EMPHASISING ACTIVITY, AUTONOMY, AND 'GOOD' CITIZENSHIP. THIS TURN IS MANIFESTED IN DIFFERENT WAYS ACCORDING TO NATIONAL TRAJECTORIES AND PUBLIC PHILOSOPHIES OF INTEGRATION (WHICH ARE NOT THE SAME AS FIXED ARCHETYPE 'NATIONAL MODELS') IN PART TO DO WITH NATIONAL CONCEPTUALISATIONS OF CITIZENSHIP AS A RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS OF UNITY, DIVERSITY AND ISLAMIC RELIGION. MOREOVER, THESE CITIZEN INTEGRATION STRATEGIES ARE NOT ONLY NATIONALLY DIVERSE, BUT INDICATIVE OF NATIONAL IDENTITY CONCERNS/NATIONALISM. THE RESEARCH IS IN CONTINUATION OF AN EU-FUNDED PROJECT (A EUROPEAN APPROACH TO MULTICULTURAL CITIZENSHIP: LEGAL, POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES) WHICH FOCUSED ON THE EXPERIENCES OF MUSLIM AND OTHER MIGRANT MINORITIES IN EUROPE. THE PROJECT IS AT DISSEMINATION STAGE (PLEASE SEE ARTICLES CO-AUTHORED WITH MOURITSEN, MEER AND DE WITTE). AARHUS UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES GLOBALIZATION INITITATIVE IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION AND CIVIC COHESION IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE FIRST YEARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, NATIONAL CITIZENSHIP IDENTITIES ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC ARE BEING CHALLENGED BY DEVOLUTION AND REGIONALISATION ON THE ONE HAND, AND EVER-INCREASING PROCESSES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, GLOBALISATION AND MIGRATION ON THE OTHER. MINORITY ETHNIC COMMUNITIES, ESPECIALLY MUSLIMS, HAVE COME UNDER INTENSE SCRUTINY IN THE WAKE OF THE TERRORIST EVENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, SPAIN AND ENGLAND. POLITICIANS AND ACADEMICS HAVE BEEN INTENSIVELY DEBATING WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO ENHANCE CIVIC COHESION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES, AND SOME OF THE LATEST EFFORTS HAVE FOCUSED ON THE ROLE EDUCATION AND TRAINING SYSTEMS PLAY IN THE PROCESS OF MEDIATING THE TENSIONS BETWEEN NATIONAL MAJORITIES AND MIGRANT MINORITIES. THIS PROJECT INFORMS THE PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW TEACHING UNITS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND THE INSTITUTE OF EUROPEAN STUDIES, NOTABLY THROUGH DEVELOPING A TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVE IN EXISTING UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE MODULES ON 'IMMIGRATION, INCORPORATION AND CITIZENSHIP'. IT ALSO PROMOTES COMPARATIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WITH A VIEW OF STRENGTHENING THE TRANSATLANTIC RESEARCH AND POLICY COMMUNITY; FOSTERS STUDENT EXCHANGES AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEBATE ON HOW TO BALANCE CULTURAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY WITH CIVIC INTEGRATION APPROACHES. FULBRIGHT COMMISSION FULBRIGHT-SCHUMAN FELLOWSHIP MANAGING DIVERSITY IN IRISH PRIMARY SCHOOLS GROWING SECULARISATION OF THE POPULATION AND THE ARRIVAL OF NEW CULTURALLY AND RELIGIOUSLY DIVERSE MIGRANTS ARE POSING NEW CHALLENGES TO IRISH SCHOOLS, PARTICULARLY IN THE PRIMARY SECTOR THAT HAS REMAINED LARGELY DENOMINATIONAL. OVER THE LAST DECADES OTHER SCHOOL TYPES HAVE STARTED TO EMERGE AS A RESPONSE TO PARENTAL DEMAND. THIS STUDY, DIRECTED BY PROF DANIEL FAAS, FOCUSES ON ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY ACROSS A RANGE OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IRELAND. IT AIMS TO ANALYSE THE DIFFERENCES IN CATERING FOR DIVERSE STUDENT INTAKES, PARTICULARLY RELATING TO DIFFERENT ADMISSION POLICIES AND DIFFERENT PROVISIONS OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. THE CENTRAL RESEARCH QUESTION THEREFORE IS: HOW DO DIFFERENT TYPES OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IRELAND ACCOMMODATE AND MANAGE CULTURAL, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY? THE STUDY LOOKS AT THE GOVERNANCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN IRELAND, AND LOCATES THIS IN A EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. IT SYSTEMATICALLY RE-ANALYSES AN EXISTING DATASET OF A LARGER STUDY ON MIGRANT CHILDREN IN IRISH SCHOOLS: 'ADAPTING TO DIVERSITY: IRISH SCHOOLS AND NEWCOMER STUDENTS' (ESRI, 2009), TO EXPLORE THE EXTENT TO WHICH DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND ACCOMMODATION VARIES BETWEEN PRIMARY SCHOOLS. THE PROJECT ALSO BUILDS ON INSIGHTS FROM AN FP7-FUNDED STUDY, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN MULTICULTURAL COUNTRIES (REMC), COORDINATED BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND CURRICULUM ALIGNMENT BETWEEN IB AND NATIONAL SYSTEMS (CAP) THIS PROJECT, DIRECTED BY DR. DANIEL FAAS, ANALYSES THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME (IB DP) SCHOOL CURRICULUM ALIGNS WITH NATIONAL STANDARDS IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND IN REGARD TO CONTENT, COGNITIVE DEMAND, AND PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERPINNINGS. IT ALSO EXPLORES THE WAYS IN WHICH THE INTENDED NON&#8208;SCHOLASTIC ATTRIBUTES OF INTERNATIONAL MINDEDNESS, CIVIC&#8208;MINDEDNESS, CITIZENSHIP, ENGAGEMENT, AND MOTIVATION COMPARE AMONG IB DP, GERMAN AND SWISS CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS. THE STUDY COMPARES AND CONTRASTS MATHEMATICS, A MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE (SPANISH), GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AS WELL AS BIOLOGY IN BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG, BERLIN (GERMANY) AS WELL AS ZURICH AND GENEVA (SWITZERLAND). IT FOCUSES ON CURRICULA IN THE 16 TO 19 AGE RANGE WHICH ARE IMPORTANT FOR TRANSITION INTO UNIVERSITY. THE ANALYSIS CONSIDERS REGIONAL AND NATIONAL POLITICAL CONTEXTS, DIFFERENT SOCIO-ETHNIC COMPOSITIONS OF IB AND MAINSTREAM SCHOOLS IN THE TWO COUNTRIES AND LIKELY IMPACTS ON CURRICULUM DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT. IT LOOKS AT EXPECTATIONS OF STUDENT THINKING INCLUDING CATEGORIES SUCH AS PROBLEM-SOLVING AND MEMORIZING FORMULA IN MATHEMATICS OR SYNTHESISING AND UNDERSTANDING TOPICS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBJECTS. IT EXAMINES CULTURAL, LINGUISTIC AND RELIGIOUS HERITAGE, INTERACTION AND STUDENT INVOLVEMENT, THE IMPACT ON STUDENT AND LEARNER IDENTITIES. INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ORGANIZATION PROGRAMME IMPACT, SCHOOLS DIVISION RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN IRELAND: EXPLORING THE RESPONSES OF COMMUNITY NATIONAL SCHOOLS DIFFERENT APPROACHES ARE TAKEN IN IRISH SCHOOLS REGARDING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION, WITH LITTLE INFORMATION ON HOW STUDENTS AND TEACHERS FEEL ABOUT THE MODEL ADOPTED IN THE 11 NEW MULTI-DENOMINATIONAL COMMUNITY NATIONAL SCHOOLS. CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT ALL SUBJECTS TOGETHER INCLUDING A SPECIALLY-DESIGNED RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAMME, BUT THEN ARE STREAMED BY RELIGION FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME EACH YEAR TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL FAITH. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY, DIRECTED BY PROF DANIEL FAAS, IS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES OF PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN COMMUNITY NATIONAL SCHOOLS. THE MAIN RESEARCH QUESTIONS ARE: WHAT IS THE GAP IN EXISTING KNOWLEDGE? WHAT IMPACT DOES THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION APPROACH HAVE ON FRIENDSHIPS? WHAT APPROACHES ARE TAKEN IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES, AND DO THEY DIFFER ACROSS FAITH GROUPS IN SCHOOLS? THE STUDY HAS A MIXED-METHOD APPROACH, CONSISTING OF A QUESTIONNAIRE WITH PRINCIPALS IN 11 COMMUNITY NATIONAL SCHOOLS; 2 SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS WITH TEACHERS IN EACH SCHOOL TO HEAR THEIR PERCEPTIONS REGARDING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES REGARDING THE PROVISION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION; AND 2 PUPIL FOCUS-GROUP INTERVIEWS IN EACH SCHOOL TO HEAR SOME OF THE VOICES OF THE CHILDREN, AGED 10 (YEAR 5). THE PROJECT MAKES AN ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION TO ONGOING POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL DEBATES IN IRELAND AND EUROPE AROUND THE PROVISION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS AND THE WIDER ROLE OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONSHIPS. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN STRATEGIC FUNDING, VICE PROVOST'S OFFICE NEGOTIATING POLITICAL IDENTITIES GLOBALIZATION, EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, AND MIGRATION ARE CHALLENGING NATIONAL IDENTITIES AND CHANGING EDUCATION ACROSS EUROPE. THE NATION-STATE NO LONGER SERVES AS THE SOLE LOCUS OF CIVIC PARTICIPATION AND IDENTITY FORMATION, AND NO LONGER HAS THE INFLUENCE IT ONCE HAD OVER THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICIES. THIS STUDY EXAMINES HOW FOUR SCHOOLS IN BRITAIN AND GERMANY MEDIATE GOVERNMENT POLICIES, CREATING DISTINCT EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS THAT SHAPE YOUTH IDENTITY MEGOTIATION AND INTEGRATION PROCESSES. IT IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND TO BRING TOGETHER WITHIN-COUNTRY AND BETWEEN-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN IDENTITY FORMATION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE. BY DELVING INTO THE DISCOURSES OF ETHNIC MAJORITY AND TURKISH MINORITY YOUTH, THIS STUDY UNRAVELS A WIDE RANGE OF FACTORS SHAPING CONTEMPORARY IDENTITIES AND OFFERS NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE PARTICULAR ROLE SCHOOL POLICY APPROACHES PLAY IN THIS PROCESS. THE STUDY SITUATES THESE DISCUSSIONS WITHIN BROADER EUROPEAN AND TRANSATLANTIC THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL DEBATES ON IMMIGRANT INCORPORATION AND OFFERS A MUCH-NEEDED SYNTHESIS OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP. THE STUDY WILL BE AN INVALUABLE SOURCE OF EVIDENCE FOR POLICYMAKERS VAND PROFESSIONALS CONCERNED WITH BALANCING CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL COHESION IN SUCH A WAY AS TO PROMOTE MORE INCLUSIVE CITIZENSHIP AND EDUCATIONAL POLICIES IN MULTIETHNIC SCHOOLS. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ANDREW JOHN FAGAN faganandrewjohn ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FAGANAN SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE . DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALISED HIGH-FIELD MRI TECHNIQUES FOR NEUROSCIENCE APPLICATIONS IN RODENT MODELS OF DISEASE, (E.G. QUANTITATIVE MEASURES OF DIFFUSION AND PERFUSION PARAMETERS IN ISCHEMIC AND TUMOUROUS TISSUE). . RF COIL DEVELOPMENT AT HIGH FIELD STRENGTHS; . DEVELOPMENT OF X-NUCLEI IMAGING, IN PARTICULAR SODIUM MRI IN MODELS OF STROKE AND ONCOLOGY; . EXPERTISE IN CLINICAL WHOLE BODY DIFFUSION IMAGING, BREAST CANCER IMAGING, NEURO-IMAGING AND WHOLE BODY MR ANGIOGRAPHY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH BRITISH CHAPTER ISMRM INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP), UK INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE (IPEM), UK - FELLOW INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE (ISMRM), USA IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICISTS IN MEDICINE IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING ULTRASOUND ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) PHYSICS NO DATA IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NO DATA IRISH CANCER SOCIETY NO DATA ENTERPRISE IRELAND NO DATA SCOTTISH NEUROSCIENCES FOUNDATION NO DATA HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD NO DATA SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND NO DATA RESEARCH SUPPORT UNIT, DIT NO DATA HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY NO DATA SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND NO DATA HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD NO DATA ENTERPRISE IRELAND NO DATA ENTERPRISE IRELAND NO DATA ENTERPRISE IRELAND NO DATA UK INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE NO DATA DIT FIOSRAIGH SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME 2015 NO DATA IRISH CANCER SOCIETY AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MR. MAURICE FALLON fallonmaurice SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR MFALLON2 IT SERVICES IT SERVICES 200 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR PADRAIC GERARD FALLON fallonpadraicgerard PROFESSOR OF TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY PFALLON CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MY RESEARCH INVOLVES TWO OVERLAPPING TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY THEMES. I. THE USE OF MOUSE MODELS TO STUDY PATHOGEN MODULATION OF HUMAN INFLAMMATORY DISEASES. II. IMMUNE PHENOTYPING OF PATIENTS, IN PARTICULAR CHILDREN, WITH INFLAMMATORY DISEASES SUCH AS ATOPIC DERMATITIS AND PULMONARY FIBROSIS. RESEARCH AIMS TO ELUCIDATE NEW MECHANISM OF MODULATION OF IMMUNITY THAT CAN ALTER INFLAMMATION AND HAVE THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL. COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY INVOLVES THE PHENOTYPING OF NEW TRANSGENIC MICE. THE MAIN DISEASES ADDRESSED ARE ALLERGIC LUNG AND SKIN INFLAMMATION AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. A GROWING EMPHASIS IS APPLYING EXTENSIVE EXPERTISE IN ANIMAL MODELS OF HUMAN INFLAMMATORY DISEASES AND GENERAL PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF INFLAMMATION TO FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF NEW THERAPEUTIC MOLECULES/STRATEGIES WITH CLINICAL COLLABORATORS AND PHARMA. TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY GROUP L5.24, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE ST. DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ALLERGY ANIMAL-MODELS CYTOKINE RESPONSES DISEASE MODELS EXPERIMENTAL COLITIS INFECTION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MATERNAL-FETAL INTERFACE TRANSGENIC MICE CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR PAUL FANNIN fanninpaul FELLOW EMERITUS PFANNIN ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING WIDEBAND MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF MAGNETIC FLUIDS AND NANO-PARTICLE SYSTEMS. MAGNETIC AND DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS. MAGNETIC COMPOSITES.RELAXATION AND RESONANCE PROCESSES.SURFACE EFFECTS IN NANO-PARTICLES. STOCHASTIC RESONANCE, SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO , NON-LINEAR RESPONSE OF MAGNETIC FLUIDS. PROF. FANNIN COOPERATES WITH MANY RESEARCH GROUPS IN THE MAGNETIC FLUID AREA, INCLUDING GROUPS FROM AUSTRALIA, CHECZ- REPUBLIC, ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, LITHUANIA , MEXICO, NORWAY, POLAND, RUMANIA, SLOVAKIA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND THE UNITED STATES. HE IS ALSO ACTIVELY INVOLVED AS A MEMBER OF A EUROPEAN RESEARCH GROUP DEALING WITH "GRAVITATIONAL PHENOMENA IN MAGNETIC FLUIDS". THIS IS A EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY PROJECT AND HIS ROLE INCLUDES PRE AND AFTER FLIGHT CHARACTERISATION OF MAGNETIC FLUIDS WHICH ARE TO BE USED IN A PROGRAMME OF EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE. ELEC & ELECT ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS. CHARTERED ENGINEER AC SUSCEPTIBILITY AGGLOMERATE FORMATION ALIGNMENT ANISOTROPY BEHAVIOR BISTABLE SYSTEMS BROWNIAN MOTION CHANNEL SOUNDING MEASUREMENTS COMPLEX COMPLEX MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY COMPLEX SUSCEPTIBILITY DEBYE DECAY DIAMAGNETISM DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY DIELECTRIC-RELAXATION DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING DIGITAL TRANSMISSION DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DYNAMIC SUSCEPTIBILITY ELECTRIC-FIELDS ENERGY MIGRATION FACSIMILE FAR-INFRARED ABSORPTION FERRITES FERROFLUID FERROFLUIDS FERROMAGNETIC RESONANCE FERROMAGNETIC-RESONANCE FILMS FLUIDS FOURIER TECHNIQUES FREQUENCY FTIR SPECTROSCOPY GHZ INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY MAGNETIC FIELD - EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FLUIDS MAGNETIC PARTICLES MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY MOBILE RADIO MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY NETWORKS NOISE PARTICLE FERROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION PARTICLES PHASES POLAR FLUIDS RELAXATION SPIN-GLASSES STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SUPERPARAMAGNETIC PARTICLES SURFACE EFFECTS SUSCEPTIBILITY TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELEX TIME OPEN-AIRE THE OPENAIRE PROJECT SUPPORTS THE OPEN ACCESS PILOT CONDUCTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION IN THE SEVENTH RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (FP7). THE PROJECT WILL DELIVER AN ELECTRONIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPORTING MECHANISM FOR THE PRESENTATION AND MONITORING OF RESEARCH ARTICLES (AND TO SOME EXTENT RELATED SCIENTIFIC DATA) FUNDED IN SEVEN DISCIPLINES (ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, ICT, ELECTRONIC INFRASTRUCTURES, SCIENCE IN SOCIETY ETC.). THE PROJECT ALSO INVOLVES THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF A "EUROPEAN OPEN ACCESS HELPDESK SYSTEM" BASED ON A NETWORK OF NATIONAL "OPEN ACCESS LIASON OFFICES" COVERING THE EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES. TCD WILL PROVIDE OPENAIRE'S OPEN ACCESS LIAISON OFFICE FOR IRELAND. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. MARIO ALI FARES faresmarioali ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FARESM GENETICS MY LABORATORY IS INTERESTED IN FIVE MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH: 1) BIOMEDICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS: THIS RESEARCH BRANCH IS AIMED AT UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS IN THE ACTIVATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSE. THE PROJECT INCLUDES AN EXHAUSTIVE BIOINFORMATICS APPROACH COMBINED WITH IMMUNOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. DEREK DOHERTY FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY, INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH. WE ARE ALSO CONCENTRATING MOST OF OUR EFFORT IN TRYING TO IDENTIFY PROTEIN CLIENTS FOR HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS THAT CAN BE INVOLVED IN CANCER, ORGAN REJECTION, OR OTHER MALIGNANT PROCESSES. IN ADDITION, THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ROLE OF HSPS IN THE INTERACTION OF DIFFERENT BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OBJECTIVES OF THE LABORATORY. WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THIS ROLE IN SEVERAL OTHER PAPERS AND WE ARE FOCUSING IN TRYING TO DETERMINE THE MAIN MOLECULAR AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROTEINS INVOLVED IN HOST-PARASITE OR HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTIONS 2) INTRA-CELLULAR LIFE: THIS LINE OF RESEARCH IS FOCUSING ON DETERMINING AND IDENTIFYING THE MAIN GENETIC AND POPULATION GENETIC FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIABILITY OF INTRA-CELLULAR SYMBIOTIC BACTERIA OF INSECTS AND FACULTATIVE PATHOGENIC BACTERIA. THIS RESEARCH IS VERY MUCH RELATED TO THE ROLE OF HSPS IN BUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF THE ACCUMULATION OF MUTATIONS IN THESE HIGHLY UNSTABLE BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. 3) MOLECULAR CO-EVOLUTION: THIS THEORETICAL RESEARCH FIELD HAS BEEN FUELED DRAMATICALLY IN OUR LAB DURING THE LAST YEAR AND HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST DYNAMIC AREAS OF INVESTIGATION IN THE LABORATORY. THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS RESEARCH RELIES ON THE FACT THAT THE BIOLOGICAL MEANING OF SPECIFIC AMINO ACID RESIDUES WITHIN PROTEINS CAN BE ONLY UNDERSTOOD IF WE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FUNCTIONAL, STRUCTURAL AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SITES. THIS IS POSSIBLE BY JUMPING FROM A LINEAR ANALYSIS OF SELECTIVE CONSTRAINTS IN PROTEINS TO A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE DEPENDENCE BETWEEN AMINO ACID SITES. 4)VIRUS EVOLUTION: THIS AREA IS AIMED AT UNDERSTANDING THE MUTATIONAL DYNAMICS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RNA VIRUSES AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH THE IMMUNE RESPONSE OF THE HOST MEDIATED BY HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS. 5) PHYLOGENETICS: THIS IS A NEW RESEARCH LINE WHICH CONSISTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MATHEMATICAL MODELS AND COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMATIC PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS BY STUDYING UNDESIRED EFFECTS SUCH AS LONG-BRANCH ATTRACTION. DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS GENETICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ARABIC ENGLISH ASSOCIATE EDITOR IN: RESEARCH JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND OPEN JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS I'M MEMBER OF THE SOCIETE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY BIOCOMPUTING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY EVOLUTION EVOLUTION RATE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY GENETICS GENOMES, GENOMICS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY STRESS RESPONSE, NEUROANATOMY STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY SYMBIOSIS COMPUTATIONAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS (HSP): OPTIMISATION OF PROTEIN FUNCTION AND PUTATIVE DRUG TARGETS SFI PIYRA CORRELATING LBA, ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION AND EXPRESSION AT THE GENOME LEVEL SFI BASIC RESEARCH GRANT IN SILICO DESIGN OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS DERIVED SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES VACCINES HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS (HSPS), ALSO CALLED MOLECULAR CHAPERONES, PERFORM A SET OF HIGHLY EVOLUTIONARILY CONSERVED PROTEIN FAMILIES NAMED ON THE BASIS OF THEIR APPROXIMATE MOLECULAR WEIGHT (I.E., HSP90 FAMILY, HSP60, ETC.). THE IMPLICATION OF HSPS IN CANCER, AGING, PATHOGENESIS AND IMMUNITY HAD PLACED THEM ON THE FOCUS OF MANY HEALT-RESEARCH PROJECTS. SEVERAL FINDINGS HAVE LED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT T-CELL REACTIVITY TO SELF-HSPS IS PART OF A NORMAL IMMUNOREACTIVE RESPONSE THAT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CONTROL PROINFLAMATORY RESPONSES AND INLAMATORY RESPONSES. MOREOVER, HSP90, HSP70 AND GP96 HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO ELICIT PROTECTION AGAINST TUMOURS, BY INDUCING TUMOUR-SPECIFIC CYTOLYTIC T CELLS. THE CONSERVATION OF THESE RESPONSES ALONG EVOLUTION STRONGLY SUGGESTS THAT SUCH STRATEGIES COULD BE SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED FOR CLINICAL USE. FURTHER, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISMS IS DIRECTED TOWARDS PEPTIDES DERIVED FROM PATHOGENIC HSPS. THE NUMBER OF STUDIES FOCUSED ON THE DESCRIPTION OF THE IMMUNE ELICITING ACTIVITY OF PATHOGEN- OR CANCER-DERIVED HSPS IS VERY LIMITED AND MOST OF THESE STUDIES ARE BASED ON NO A PRIORI IDENTIFICATION OF PUTATIVE IMMUNEADJUVANT HSPS REGIONS. THE LACK OF EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH FOR HSPS-DERIVED IMMUNE PEPTIDES HAS HAMPERED THE DESIGN OF CHALLENGING PROJECTS TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF HSPS IN ELICITING TUMOUR-SPECIFIC IMMUNE RESPONSE. ON THE OTHER HAND, NO WORKS HAVE BEEN PERFORMED TO IDENTIFY PATHOGENIC IMMUNE-ELICITING HSPS-DERIVED PEPTIDES. THESE AND OTHER QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED BEFORE THINKING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL APPROACHED TO COMBAT SUCH MALIGNANT PROCESSES. IN THIS PROJECT WE WILL FOCUS IN TWO MAIN OBJECTIVES: 1) COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATION OF HSPS-DERIVED PUTATIVE IMMUNOADJUVANT PEPTIDES AND DESIGN OF HSPS CONSTRUCTS. 2) SYNTHESIS AND LABORATORY TESTING OF THESE PEPTIDES 3) COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN OF HSPS PEPTIDE-BASED SYNTHETIC VACCINES AGAINST DURING THE FIRST YEAR THE STUDENT WILL APPLY SEVERAL OF THE COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS WE HAVE DEVELOPED IN MY LABORATORY TO IDENTIFY IMPORTANT FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS IN HSPS AND THE COEVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SUCH DOMAINS. THE EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES AND THE USE OF SEVERAL OF THE BIOINFORMATIC TOOLS AVAILABLE IN THE DATABASES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF ANTIGENIC PEPTIDES WILL ALLOW THE DETECTION OF BIOCHEMICALLY PROXIMAL HSPS-DERIVED PEPTIDES. THE STUDENT WILL ALSO DESIGN PEPTIDES DERIVED FROM THE FIRST SET AND THAT WOULD IMPROVE THE IMMUNE ELICITING FUNCTION OF HSPS-DERIVED PEPTIDES. PARALLEL TO THIS, THE STUDENT WILL USE THE BIOINFORMATICS TOOLS TO BUILD CHIMERIC HSPS SHARING FUNCTIONALLY AND EVOLUTIONARILY INTERDEPENDENT DOMAINS. DURING THE SECOND YEAR, THE STUDENT WILL FOCUS ON THE EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF SUCH PEPTIDE AND CHIMERIC HSPS FOR THEIR ABILITY TO INDUCE MATURATION OF DENDRITIC CELLS. OUR LABORATORY HAS ALREADY OPTIMIZED THE ACTIVATION OF DENDRITIC CELLS DERIVED FROM HUMAN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE LABORATORY OF DEREK DOHERTY AT NUIM AND ALL THE CONSUMABLE COSTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR OUR OBJECTIVES. FINALLY, THE STUDENT WILL DESIGN PEPTIDE-DERIVED VACCINES BASED ON THE RESULTS OBTAINED AND USING DIFFERENT COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS. DURING THIS LAST YEAR THE STUDENT WILL ALSO FINISH THE WRITING OF HIS PHD THESIS. IN OUR LABORATORY WE HAVE ALL THE RESOURCES AND EXPERTISE TO CONDUCT SUCCESSFULLY SUCH PROJECT. THE FACTORS THAT MAKE THIS PROJECT OUTSTANDING ARE ITS MULTIDISCIPLINARY NATURE AND THE IMPLICATIONS THAT THE RESULTS HAVE ON THE CLINICAL AND BASIC SCIENCES. IRCSET GENOMIC AND PROTEOMIC COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF INTRACELLULAR PATHOGENS AND ENDOSYMBIONTS INTRACELLULAR LIVING BACTERIA ARE OF GREAT INTEREST FROM THE CLINICAL AS WELL AS THE BASIC SCIENCE POINTS OF VIEW. INTRA-CELLULAR BACTERIA CAN BE BENEFICIAL FOR THE HOST (SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIONSHIP), OR CAN INVOLVE A HARMFUL EFFECT ON THE HOST (PATHOGENIC ELATIONSHIP). MOST OF THE PATHOGENIC BACTERIA DEPEND ON AN INTRACELLULAR PHASE TO REPLICATE AND SPREAD. THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF THESE BACTERIA RELIES ON SPECIFIC POPULATION GENETICS FACTORS THAT HAVE AN ENORMOUS INFLUENCE ON THE MUTATIONAL DYNAMICS AT THE GENOME AND PROTEOME LEVELS. AMONG THESE FACTORS, THOSE INFLUENCING THE POPULATION SIZE ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE. THIS IS DUE TO THE NEGATIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE POPULATION SIZE AND THE PROBABILITY OF FIXING SLIGHTLY DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS ON THE GENOMNE. THIS EFFECT IS VERY DRAMATIC IN INTRACELLULAR LIVING ORGANISMS DUE TO THE STRONG BOTTLENECKS TO WHICH THEIR POPULATION SIZE IS SUBJECT DURING THE INFECTION OF NEW CELLS OR HOSTS. AS A RESULT OF HIGH MUTATION FIXATION RATES IN INTRACELLULAR BACTERIA THEIR GENOMES GO THROUGH A VERY COMPLEX DYNAMIC OF GENOME MUTATION AND SELECTION. THESE DYNAMICS LEAD TO THAT BOTH TYPES OF BACTERIA ARE SUBJECT TO VERY DIFFERENT GENOME AND PROTEOME STRATEGIES TO COUNTER-BALANCE THE EFFECT OF MUTATIONS FIXED BY GENETIC DRIFT (STOCHASTIC MUTATIONS). SOME OF THE COMMON EFFECTS ON BOTH TYPES OF BACTERIA ARE THE REDUCED GENOME SIZES AND THE HIGH LEVEL OF GENOME AND PROTEOME RE-ORGANISATION. WHAT MAKES A BACTERIA ADOPT A PATHOGENIC OR ENDOSYMBIOTIC LIFE-STYLE IS A COMPLETE MYSTERY. A PLETHORA OF BACTERIAL GENOMES HAVE BEEN SEQUENCED DURING THE LAST DECADE. THESE GENOMES OFFER A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO CONDUCT MICRO- (GENE LEVEL) AND MACRO-GENETIC (GENOME LEVEL) STUDIES TO DETERMINE THE MAIN FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ENDOSYMBIOTIC OR PATHOGENIC RELATIONSHIPS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE LACK OF APPROPRIATE SOFTWARE FOR COMPARATIVE GENOMIC ANALYSES MAKES THESE STUDIES ANYTHING BUT STRAIGHTFORWARD. IN THIS PROJECT THE AIM IS TO SOLVE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTRACELLULAR LIFE BY: - BUILDING NEW SOFTWARE AND COMPUTATIONAL PROTOCOLS FOR COMPARATIVE GENOMIC ANALYSES - CHARACTERISING THE MAIN CHANGE EVENTS AT THE GENOME AND PROTEOME LEVELS IN PATHOGENIC AND ENDOSYMBIOTIC BACTERIA - DEFINING GENES KEY FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTRA-CELLULAR LIFE IN BACTERIA DURING THE FIRST YEAR THE STUDENT IS GOING TO FOCUS ON BUILDING THE COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS AND THE DATABASE FOR INTRACELLULAR AND FREE-LIVING BACTERIAL GENOMES. DURING THE SECOND YEAR, THE STUDENT WILL FOCUS ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHANGE DYNAMICS AT THE GENE, GENOME AND PROTEOME LEVELS COMPARING EACH ONE OF THE INTRA-CELLULAR BACTERIA WITH FREE-LIVING ORGANISMS. DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE THIRD YEAR, THE STUDENT WILL DEFINE THE GENES THAT WERE KEY FOR DETERMINING THE FINAL FATE OF THE INTRACELLULAR LIFE-STYLE. DURING THE SECOND HALF OF THE THIRD YEAR, THE STUDENT WILL WRITE THE PHD THESIS AND SUBMIT IT. IN OUR LABORATORY WE HAVE ALL THE RESOURCES AND EXPERTISE TO CONDUCT SUCCESSFULLY SUCH PROJECT. WE ALSO HAVE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PRIVATE COMPREHENSIVE DATABASES THAT ENSURE HAVING THE MOST UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION IN GENOMES, PROTEOMES, AND EXPERIMENTS. THE FACTORS THAT MAKE THIS PROJECT OUTSTANDING ARE THE GENERATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR COMPARATIVE GENOME ANALYSES AND THE IMPLICATIONS THAT THE RESULTS HAVE ON THE CLINICAL AND BASIC SCIENCES. WE HOPE THE RESULTS WILL SHED LIGHT ON QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PATHOGENESIS AND ENDOSYMBIOSIS AND WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GENETIC AND CLINICAL STRATEGIES AGAINST DRUG-RESISTANT PATHOGENIC BACTERIA. IRCSET COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF INTER- AND INTRA-MOLECULAR COVARIATION IN KEY CELLULAR PROTEINS INTRA- AND INTER-MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS ARE IMPORTANT ASPECTS IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FLOW OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION THROUGH THE CELL. FOR EXAMPLE, THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS WITH THEIR LIGANDS, OR BETWEEN DENDRITIC-CELL (DC) RECEPTORS AND HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS (HSPS) ARE ESSENTIAL POINTS IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM DEFENCE. THE LAST DECADE HAS WITNESSED AN ENORMOUS INCREASE IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE ROLE OF PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION IN CELL VIABILITY. IN FACT, DOZENS OF STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT THE INTERACTION BETWEEN HSPS WITH ANTIGENIC PEPTIDES AS WELL AS WITH RECEPTORS FROM ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS (APC) ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO TAKE PLACE. FURTHERMORE, HSP90 ESTABLISHES VERY COMPLEX PROTEIN-INTERACTION NETWORKS TO REGULATE CELL GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION. THE SUCCESS OF INTER-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS DEPENDS ON THE STABILITY OF THE INTRA-MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS. STUDYING BOTH TYPES OF INTERACTIONS IS HENCE A MUST IN SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, SUCH THE IMMUNE DEFENCE, TO PREDICT THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THE DIFFERENT PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS. TO DATE, PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED USING TWO-HYBRID SYSTEMS OR HAVE BEEN PREDICTED BY VERY SIMPLISTIC COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS. THE UNDERLYING OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PREDICT PROTEINS AND PEPTIDE REGIONS THAT MAY BE KEY IN MAINTAINING THE STABILITY OF CELL DIFFERENTIATION PATHWAYS, AND IMMUNE RESPONSE INDUCTION USING A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT ARE: A) DEVELOPMENT OF A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO HIGHLIGHT INTERACTING PEPTIDE REGIONS IN PROTEINS AND TO PREDICT INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO PROTEINS B) COMPUTATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW METHOD TO DETECT PEPTIDE-PEPTIDE INTERACTIONS C) STUDY OF THE PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTION PATTERNS IN THREE MAIN SYSTEMS, INCLUDING: C.1) INTERACTION BETWEEN HSPS AND THE IMMUNE RESPONSE C.2) INTERACTION BETWEEN IMMUNE CELL RECEPTORS AND ANTIGENIC PEPTIDES C.3) DEFINITION OF KEY HSPS-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS FOR THE MATURATION OF STEROID HORMONE RECEPTORS IN ORDER TO DEFINE THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF INTRA-MOLECULAR INTERACTING REGIONS FOR THE PROTEIN FUNCTION, WE WILL CONDUCT NEURAL NETWORK AND SELECTIVE CONSTRAINTS ANALYSES. THE FIRST APPROACH APPLIES NEURAL NETWORKS TO THE ANALYSIS OF SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS AND PERMITS THE IDENTIFICATION OR PREDICTION OF THE FUNCTIONAL OR THE STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE OF SPECIFIC AMINO ACID SITES. THE SECOND APPROACH USES THE INFORMATION STORED IN THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF PROTEINS ISOLATED FROM DIFFERENT TAXONOMICALLY RELATED ORGANISMS AND HIGHLIGHTS PEPTIDE REGIONS THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE PROTEIN FUNCTION UNDER CERTAIN ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS (SUCH AS OXIDATIVE STRESS, OR VIRAL INFECTIONS). TO FIND SPECIFIC HSP CLIENT PROTEINS IN OTHER ORGANISMS FOR THE EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES WE WILL PERFORM HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM) BASED SEARCHES OF PROTEINS IN COMPLETE GENOMES. IT IS OUR OBJECTIVE TO SCREEN THE RECENTLY SEQUENCED GENOME OF THE CHICKEN GALLUS GALLUS IN ORDER TO FIND POSSIBLE CLIENT PROTEINS FOR HSP90, HSP70 OR GRP94 THAT MAY BE INVOLVED IN THE IMMUNE RESPONSE. WE ESTIMATE A TOTAL OF 12 POSSIBLE EUKARYOTIC GENOMES THAT CAN BE SCREENED FOR ORTHOLOGOUS SEQUENCES OF HSPS AND CLIENT PROTEINS. WITH THIS NUMBER OF SEQUENCES WE WILL HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION AS TO CONDUCT RELIABLE RESULTS ON PREDICTING PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS IN SPECIFIC CELLULAR PATHWAYS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND UREKA A NEW METHOD TO DETECT FUNCTIONALLY AND STRUCTURALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS IN PROTEINS. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS IN THE STUDY OF PROTEINS IS THE DETERMINATION OF THE EFFECT THAT MUTATIONS HAVE ON THEIR FUNCTION. IF THE PROTEIN IS INVOLVED IN A KEY PATHWAY FOR CELL VIABILITY, THE STUDY OF THESE MUTATIONS BECOME RATHER CRUCIAL FOR THE CLARIFICATION OF THE MAIN EFFECTS ON THAT PATHWAY. DOZENS OF STUDIES HAVE FOCUSED ON THE ANALYSES OF THE EFFECT OF MUTATIONS ON PROTEIN FUNCTION BY CONDUCTING EITHER SERIAL DELETION OF PEPTIDE REGIONS THAT HAVE SOME INDICATION OF FUNCTIONALITY, BY DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS, OR BY COMBINATION OF BOTH. EVEN THOUGH THESE EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES HAVE BEEN USEFUL FOR UNDERLYING FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS IN PROTEINS, THE APOSTERIORI EXAMINATION OF RANDOMLY INDUCED CHANGES IN PROTEINS IS SUBJECT TO SEVERAL DRAWBACKS. IN FACT, THESE PROCEDURES ARE USEFUL IN THE CASE OF APRIORI KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUNCTIONAL IMPORTANCE OF THE PEPTIDE REGION. MOREOVER, LINEAR EXAMINATION OF PROTEIN SEQUENCES IS POORLY REALISTIC SINCE PROTEIN FUNCTION IS DETERMINED BY THE PROTEIN FOLDING AND CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES RATHER THAN BY THE LINEAR COMBINATION OF ITS AMINO ACIDS. VERY FEW COMPUTATIONAL ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE DURING THE LAST YEARS TO DECIPHER THE MAIN CONSTRAINTS ON THE PROTEIN MUTABILITY. AMONG THEM, NEURAL NETWORK ANALYSES HAVE BECOME ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFULLY USED METHODS TO PREDICT THE FUNCTIONAL OR STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE OF SPECIFIC PROTEIN AMINO ACID SITES. THESE METHODS RELY ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT IMPORTANT PROTEIN REGIONS SHOULD BE VERY CONSERVED ALONG THEIR EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY AND ARE HENCE NOT ALLOWED TO FIX AMINO ACID MUTATIONS. COMPARISON THUS OF THE PROTEIN SEQUENCE ISOLATED FROM DIFFERENT ORGANISMS COULD UNDERLINE REGIONS THAT CAN BE IMPORTANT FOR THE PROTEIN TO KEEP ITS PROPER FUNCTION. THE SECOND ASSUMPTION MADE BY THESE METHODS IS THAT CONSERVED REGIONS THAT ARE PREDICTED TO BE EXPOSED IN THE PROTEIN SURFACE MAY HAVE A FUNCTIONAL IMPORTANCE BECAUSE OF ITS ACCESSIBILITY TO OTHER PROTEINS IN THE MEDIUM. ALTERNATIVELY, IF THE CONSERVED REGION IS PREDICTED AS BURIED IN THE PROTEIN, ITS ROLE IS MORE LIKELY TO BE STRUCTURAL. ONE OF THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF THESE METHODS IS THAT THEY DO NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE TIME SINCE THE DIVERGENCE BETWEEN THE ORGANISMS FROM WHICH THE PROTEIN HAS BEEN SEQUENCED. THESE METHODS ARE ALSO PRONE TO ERROR WHEN THE DIVERGENCE TIME BETWEEN THE ORGANISMS COMPARED IS TOO HIGH. THE UNDERLYING OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A SENSITIVE AND PRECISE MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO DETERMINE STRUCTURALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS IN PROTEINS. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE WE WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING GOALS: A) DEVELOPMENT AND COMPUTATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK TO DETECT FUNCTIONAL OR STRUCTURALLY IMPORTANT PROTEIN REGIONS B) TEST THE SENSITIVITY OF THE METHOD BY THE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY MAPPED PROTEINS C) USE THE SECONDARY STRUCTURE INFORMATION TO EVALUATE THE STRUCTURAL IMPORTANCE OF THE KEY REGIONS DETECTED BY THE METHOD D) APPLY THE METHOD TO IMPORTANT PROTEINS, SUCH AS THE HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN 90, TO RESOLVE SOME CONTROVERSIES REGARDING THE DETERMINATION OF FUNCTIONAL REGIONS FOR PROTEIN INTERACTION AND COFACTOR BINDING THE COMPUTATIONAL WORK WILL BE COMPLETED WITH THE STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE PROTEIN REGIONS DETECTED TO BE IMPORTANT AND BY DEFINING THEIR ROLE IN KEEPING THE FUNCTIONAL FITNESS OF THE PROTEIN IN SPECIFIC ORGANISMS OR GROUPS OF ORGANISMS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND UREKA A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO UNRAVEL BIOLOGICAL FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR CELL VIABILITY THE UNDERLYING OBJECTIVE OF THE STARS PROJECT IS TO DECIPHER THE MAIN COFACTORS AND INTRA-MOLECULAR REGIONS DETERMINING THE COORDINATED FUNCTION OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS (HSPS) 70 AND 90 KDA. THESE ATPASE PROTEINS ARE MOLECULAR CHAPERONES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FOLDING AND DEGRADATION OF PROTEINS, STABILISATION OF STEROID HORMONE RECEPTORS, CELL-CYCLE REGULATION AND INDUCTION OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. BOTH PROTEINS WORK IN A COORDINATED WAY AND NEED FROM THE HELP OF SEVERAL COFACTORS. THE PATTERN OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT COFACTORS AND HSPS HAS TO BE STILL ELUCIDATED. MOREOVER, COMPLEX INTRA-MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT DOMAINS WITHIN HSP90 HAVE BEEN PROPOSED, ALTHOUGH THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE INTERACTIONS FOR HSP90 ABILITY TO BIND PARTIALLY FOLDED PEPTIDES OR TO BIND AND HYDROLYSE ATP IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. IN ORDER TO SHED SOME LIGHT ON THESE ISSUES, WE ARE GOING TO CONDUCT A COMPUTATIONAL-EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH THAT WILL INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING STEPS: A) USE RECENTLY DEVELOPED SOFTWARE IN OUR LABORATORY TO DETERMINE REGIONS THAT CO-EVOLVE WITHIN AND BETWEEN THE ABOVE-MENTIONED PROTEINS. B) DETERMINE THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE REGIONS FOR THE FUNCTION OF THE PROTEINS AS ATPASES AND FOLDING MACHINES BY STUDYING THEIR COVARIATION WITH THEIR ESSENTIAL COFACTORS. C) DEFINE THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE REGIONS FROM THE EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE THROUGH NEURAL-NETWORK AND SELECTIVE CONSTRAINTS ANALYSES. D) CONDUCT DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS IN THE LABORATORY OF DR. GARY JONES TO TEST THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF EACH REGION FOR THE FUNCTION OF THE HSPS INDIVIDUALLY AS WELL AS IN COORDINATION WITH OTHER MOLECULES IN THE CELL. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND STARS NOVOLUNG MARIE CURIE MARIE CURIE ACTIONS IMPROVEMENT OF A NEW METHOD TO DETECT FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS IN PROTEINS: IDENTIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS IN HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS. IDENTIFYING FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS IN PROTEINS AND PROTEIN SURFACES INVOLVED IN PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS HAVE BEEN THE AIM OF MANY STUDIES. ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO UNCOVER SUCH FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS BY CONDUCTING ANALYSES OF THE SELECTIVE CONSTRAINTS I PROTEIN-CODING GENES. RESEARCHERS HAVE FOCUSED ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF THESE REGIONS BY THE MEASURING THE LEVEL OF EVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATION OF PROTEIN REGIONS WHEN COMPARING DIFFERENT ORGANISMS. THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF EXPERIMENTALLY RESEARCHERS HAVE FOLLOWED THIS STRATEGY. THERE ARE SEVERAL DRAWBACKS TO THE USE OF THIS STRATEGY. FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE THE BOUNDARIES ARE TO DEFINE A REGION CONSERVED IS RATHER AMBIGUOUS AND NO STATISTICAL WAY HAS BEEN ADOPTED TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS ON THE OTHER HAND HAVE ADOPTED AN INVERSE RATIONALE. THEY IDENTIFIED IMPORTANT FUNCTIONAL REGIONS BY TESTING THE PRESENCE OR FIXATION OF BENEFICIAL MUTATIONS (SELECTIVELY ADVANTAGEOUS) AT THOSE REGIONS. ALTHOUGH THIS APPROACH SEEMS REASONABLE, IT IS UNCLEAR WHETHER ACCELERATED RATES OF EVOLUTION (THAT WOULD INDICATE ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION) AT PARTICULAR PEPTIDE REGIONS ARE DUE TO THE ACCUMULATION OF ADVANTAGEOUS MUTATIONS OR ALTERNATIVELY TO THE RELAXED CONSTRAINTS AT THOSE REGIONS. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED A NEW METHOD TO IDENTIFY FUNCTIONAL (CONSERVED), RAPID EVOLVING NEUTRALLY EVOLVING REGIONS IN PROTEINS (SUMMER PROJECT FUNDED BY SFI). ALTHOUGH THE METHOD WAS COMPLETED, WE STILL NEED TO TEST THIS METHOD ON PROTEINS WHOSE FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS ARE KNOWN AND APPLY THE METHOD TO THE STUDY OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS. THE UNDERLYING OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A SENSITIVE AND PRECISE MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO DETERMINE STRUCTURALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS IN PROTEINS AND APPLY IT TO DRAW THE FUNCTIONAL MAP OF ALL THE PROTEINS WHOSE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE HAVE BEEN SOLVED. IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE THIS OBJECTIVE WE WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING GOALS: A) FINALISE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE METHOD BY INTRODUCING NEW FUNCTIONS TO ENABLE AUTOMATIC ANALYSES OF COMPLETE PROTEIN DATASETS B) TEST THE SENSITIVITY OF THE METHOD BY THE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY (EXPERIMENTALLY) MAPPED PROTEINS C) APPLY THIS METHOD TO THE CASE OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS TO UNCOVER NEW FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT DOMAINS. D) APPLY THE METHOD TO IMPORTANT PROTEINS, SUCH AS THE HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN 90, TO RESOLVE SOME CONTROVERSIES REGARDING THE DETERMINATION OF FUNCTIONAL REGIONS FOR PROTEIN INTERACTION AND COFACTOR BINDING E) DRAW THE FUNCTIONAL-DOMAIN MAP FOR THE COMPLETE SET OF CRYSTALLISED PROTEINS AVAILABLE IN THE DATABASE. WE HAVE ALREADY BUILT A DATABASE CONTAINING ALL THE FILES FOR PROTEIN CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND WE HAVE THE METHOD VERY ADVANCED. THE PROJECT IS THEN VERY SUITABLE TO BE PERFORMED WITHIN THE THREE MONTHS OF THE PROJECT TIME LINE. THIS PROJECT IS OF IMPORTANCE TO ALSO IDENTIFY FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS WITHIN HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS INVOLVED IN PROTEIN FOLDING AND IMMUNE ACTIVATION OF DENDRITIC CELLS. RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THIS PROJECT WILL BE LATER USED IN AN EXPERIMENTAL FRAMEWORK TO TEST THE VALIDITY OF THE REGIONS. THE RESULTS WILL ALSO ALLOW RESEARCHERS TO IDENTIFY A PRIORI FUNCTIONALLY IMPORTANT REGIONS AND THEN CONDUCT EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSES TO UNCOVER VARIABILITY IN THE SELECTIVE CONSTRAINTS AT THESE REGIONS WHEN COMPARING EVOLUTIONARILY RELATED ORGANISMS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND UREKA EVOLUTION OF HIV-1 SUBTYPE C IN KARONGA DISTRICT, MALAWI: LONG-TERM SURVIVAL AND EMERGENCE OF DRUG RESISTANCE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR HORMOZ FARHAT farhathormoz FELLOW EMERITUS HFARHAT FELLOWS EMERITII FELLOW EMERITUS 17 YORK ROAD RATHMINES DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 PROFESSOR GWYNETH JANE FARRAR farrargwynethjane RESEARCH PROFESSOR GJFARRAR GENETICS MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER, CORE TECHNOLOGY PI'S, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS. MEMBER, DMMC VASCULAR BIOLOGY PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR LEADING RESEARCH ON VASCULAR BIOLOGY RELATED PROJECTS BRITTLE BONE DISEASE INHERITED RETINAL DISEASES KNOCKOUT & TRANSGENIC ANIMAL MODELS SIMULATING HUMAN DISEASE NEURONAL SURVIVAL MECHANISMS NOVEL APPROACHES TO GENE THERAPY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. STEPHEN FARRELL farrellstephen RESEARCH FELLOW SFARREL6 COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. KANIZ FATEMA fatemakaniz RESEARCH FELLOW FATEMAK COMPUTER SCIENCE SCHOOL OF COMPUETER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DR. MARK FAULKNER faulknermark USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FAULKNEM ENGLISH MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON MEDIEVAL LITERATURE IN ITS MANUSCRIPT, HISTORICAL AND LINGUISTIC CONTEXTS, PARTICULARLY IN THE LONG TWELFTH CENTURY (C. 1042 - 1215). THE TWELFTH CENTURY WAS A PERIOD OF DRAMATIC POLITICAL, CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE, IN WHICH THE LATIN AND ENGLISH LITERATE CULTURES OF LATE ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND WERE SHIFTED INTO A NEW CONFIGURATION WITH LATIN AND FRENCH AS THE PRESTIGE LANGUAGES. MY WORK HAS FOCUSED ON THREE MAIN ELEMENTS: - PLACING THE PRODUCTION, RECEPTION AND USE OF SURVIVING TWELFTH-CENTURY TEXTS IN DETAILED REGIONAL, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS. - AUGMENTING THE NUMBER OF ENGLISH TEXTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY. - COMPREHENDING IN GREATER DETAIL THE LINGUISTIC HISTORY OF TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLISH, TO FACILITATE THE REDATING OF TEXTS AND TO UNDERSTAND THE SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS WHICH AFFECTED THOSE USING ENGLISH. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANGLO-NORMAN TEXT SOCIETY ASSOCIATION FOR MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES IN RESEARCH COLLECTIONS EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANGLO-SAXONISTS MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE TEACHERS OF OLD ENGLISH IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND EARLY MIDDLE ENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS MANUSCRIPT STUDIES MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE OLD ENGLISH RELIGIOUS HISTORY & CULTURE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY BIG DATA AND MEDIEVAL TEXTS NUMEROUS LARGE CORPORA OF MEDIEVAL TEXTS HAVE BEEN BUILT OVER THE LAST THIRTY YEARS, COLLECTIVELY COMPRISING OVER TEN MILLION WORDS. HOWEVER, THEY WERE BUILT FOR VARIED PURPOSES AND HAVE DIFFERENT USER INTERFACES AND SEARCH PROTOCOLS. THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES FOR HARNESSING THE ENORMOUS COLLECTIVE POTENTIAL OF THIS BIG DATA AS A TOOL FOR CULTURAL, HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC ANALYSES THROUGH THE ORGANISATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM, AND NETWORKING TOWARDS FUTURE INTERNATIONAL, COLLABORATIVE FUNDING BIDS TO DEVELOP NEW OVERARCHING INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME TRINITY CORPUS OF OLD ENGLISH FROM THE TWELFTH CENTURY (TOXIIC) THE TRANSITION FROM OLD TO MIDDLE ENGLISH IN THE COURSE OF THE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH CENTURIES HAS BEEN BEEN DESCRIBED AS 'THE MOST DRAMATIC CHANGE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE' (VAN GELDEREN), YET ALSO AS 'THE TEXTUAL "BLACK HOLE"' IN ITS HISTORY (CURZAN). THIS PERCEPTION HAS MEANT THAT SOME OF THE MOST BASIC QUESTIONS OF LITERARY HISTORY, SUCH AS WHERE AND WHEN PARTICULAR TEXTS WERE WRITTEN, HAVE BEEN REGARDED AS UNANSWERABLE. YET THIS TRANSITIONAL PERIOD APPEARS A BLACK HOLE ONLY BECAUSE A SIGNIFICANT CATEGORY OF EVIDENCE, LATE COPIES OF OLD ENGLISH TEXTS, HAS BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY IGNORED. THIS BODY OF MATERIAL COMPRISES 29 MANUSCRIPTS, COLLECTIVELY CONTAINING 471 TEXTS AND JUST OVER 1.25 MILLION WORDS OF ENGLISH. WHILE TEXTS OF APPROXIMATELY A FIFTH OF THESE WORKS ARE ALREADY AVAILABLE IN THE MAIN RESOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF EARLIER ENGLISH, THE DICTIONARY OF OLD ENGLISH CORPUS, THIS PROPORTION OBSCURES THE UNEVENNESS OF THE COVERAGE, WITH MANY MANUSCRIPTS ONLY SKETCHILY REPRESENTED OR NOT REPRESENTED AT ALL. THIS PROJECT WILL PRODUCE TRANSCRIPTIONS OF SELECTED TEXTS FROM THESE UNREPRESENTED MANUSCRIPTS AND AGGREGATE THEM INTO A DIGITAL CORPUS, AVAILABLE UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSE TO SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS ACROSS THE WORLD. FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. DARREN FAYNE faynedarren SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW FAYNED BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT. OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE DR. ROJA FAZAELI fazaeliroja ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ISLAMIC CIVILISATION FAZAELR NEAR & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES WOMEN'S RIGHTS, RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS, ISLAM AND GENDER IN PARTICULAR RELATING TO IRAN AND THE IRANIAN WOMEN'S MOVEMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. DEPARTMENT OF NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PERSIAN ARABIC ENGLISH FRENCH BOARD OF EDITORS, THE JOURNAL OF RELIGIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, BRILL BOARD MEMBER, ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PERSIANATE SOCIETIES (ASPS) BOARD MEMBER, IRISH REFUGEE COUNCIL SCHOLARS AT RISK REPRESENTATIVE TO TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CO-ORDINATOR, AMNESTY IRAN GROUP CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. PAUL FEARON fearonpaul CLINICAL PROFESSOR PFEARON PSYCHIATRY HIS MAIN INTERESTS ARE ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL FACTORS IN MENTAL HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR ELUCIDATING THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF HIGH RATES OF PSYCHOSIS IN PARTICULAR ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS IN THE UK. ST PATRICK'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION I AM INVOLVED IN ONGOING COLLABORATIONS WITH COLLEAGUES FROM THE INSITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY IN LONDON, TRINIDAD, NEW YORK, CAMBRIDGE, VERONA, THE NETHERLANDS, ETHIOPIA AND BRAZIL. MEMBER OF BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP, UK MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH NETWORK WORLD PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION AETIOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOSIS QUALITY OF CARE IN AN IRISH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE CONTEXT QUALITY OF CARE (QOC) MEASUREMENT IS AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN ASSESSING, DEVELOPING AND IMPROVING SERVICES. THIS IS USUALLY MEASURED USING FACTORS THAT CLINICIANS REGARD AS IMPORTANT INDICATORS OF OUTCOME, BUT UNTIL RECENTLY LESS ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID TO WHAT SERVICE USERS DEEM IMPORTANT. HOWEVER, SATISFACTION WITH SERVICES IS ASSOCIATED WITH TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS, AND THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT SERVICE USER-RATED DATA CAN BE MORE MEANINGFUL THAT CLINICIAN-RATED DATA. DESPITE THIS, THERE HAS BEEN RELATIVELY LITTLE WORK IN INCORPORATING THE USER'S VIEW INTO QUALITY OF CARE INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT. GIVEN THE IMPORTANCE THAT 'A VISION FOR CHANGE', THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE OF IRISH MENTAL HEALTH CARE, PLACES ON THE PATIENT'S EXPERIENCE, THIS IS A TIMELY OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THIS GAP. BY BUILDING ON PREVIOUS WORK IN SOUTH EAST LONDON, OUR STUDY HAS TWO AIMS: 1) TO DEVELOP A BRIEF AND USER-FRIENDLY INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE QOC FOR USE IN AN IRISH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE SETTING. 2) TO USE THIS INSTRUMENT TO ASSESS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QOC AND OUTCOME (CLINICAL & SOCIAL) BETWEEN TWO AND THREE YEARS AFTER FIRST PRESENTATION TO OUR SERVICE IN 75 PEOPLE WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER AND 75 WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA. IN ACHIEVING THESE AIMS, WE WILL CONDUCT OUR STUDY IN TWO STAGES: STAGE 1: WE WILL PERFORM A THOROUGH LITERATURE REVIEW OF HIGH QUALITY STUDIES RELATING TO INDICATORS OF OUTCOME FOR BOTH DISORDERS. WE WILL ALSO CONDUCT A SERIES OF FOCUS GROUPS OF PEOPLE WITH THESE TWO DISORDERS WHO ATTEND OUR SERVICES IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY WHAT COMPONENTS THEY CONSIDER MOST IMPORTANT IN GOOD QOC. THESE WILL BE COMBINED INTO A PRELIMINARY QOC INSTRUMENT WHICH WE WILL THEN REFINE AND THOROUGHLY FIELD TEST IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH ITS VALIDITY AND USER-FRIENDLINESS. STAGE 2: WE WILL IDENTIFY, TRACE AND RECRUIT 150 PEOPLE (75 BIPOLAR; 75 SCHIZOPHRENIA) WHO ATTENDED OUR SERVICES 2-3 YEARS PREVIOUSLY AND INTERVIEW THEM USING THE NEW INSTRUMENT. IN ADDITION WE WILL COLLECT DATA USING WELL-VALIDATED INSTRUMENTS ON SATISFACTION WITH SERVICES, ENGAGEMENT WITH SERVICES, QUALITY OF LIFE, GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONING, COURSE OF ILLNESS AND LEVEL OF DISABILITY. IN DOING THIS, WE WILL ADDRESS THREE HYPOTHESES: 1) THERE WILL BE FEW DIFFERENCES IN PATIENT-RATED ITEMS FOR QUALITY OF CARE BETWEEN BIPOLAR DISORDER AND SCHIZOPHRENIA; 2) OUTCOME WILL BE POSITIVELY CORRELATED WITH QUALITY OF CARE IN BOTH GROUPS; 3) PATIENT-RATED ITEMS FOR QUALITY OF CARE WILL BEST PREDICT SOCIAL AND FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME, WHEREAS CLINICALLY RATED ITEMS WILL BEST PREDICT SYMPTOMATIC AND CLINICAL COURSE OUTCOME IN BOTH GROUPS. WE WILL EMPLOY 2 FULL TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANTS FOR 3 YEARS AND 1 PART TIME USER RESEARCHER FOR 1.5 YEARS, WORKING UNDER THE CLOSE SUPERVISION OF THE APPLICANTS. SERVICE USER AND STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT WILL OCCUR DURING THE ENTIRE PERIOD OF THE STUDY. IN DOING THIS, WE HOPE TO PRODUCE AN INSTRUMENT WHICH CAN, AND WILL, BE USED TO MEASURE QOC IN IRISH MENTAL HEALTH CARE SETTINGS, AND WHICH INCORPORATES SERVICE USERS' PRIORITIES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD/MEDICAL RESEARCH CHARITIES GROUP & ST. PATRICK'S FOUNDATION AESOP-10: A STUDY OF THE CAUSES OF ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN THE LONG-TERM COURSE AND OUTCOME OF PSYCHOSIS' <P>THE MRC-FUNDED AESOP (AETIOLOGY AND ETHNICITY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND OTHER PSYCHOSES) STUDY IS A LARGE FIRST-PRESENTATION STUDY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AND OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS. OVER 2 YEARS, THIS 3 CENTRE STUDY IDENTIFIED ALL PEOPLE PRESENTING TO SERVICES WITH PSYCHOTIC SYMPTOMS IN WELL-DEFINED CATCHMENT AREAS IN SOUTH LONDON, NOTTINGHAM AND BRISTOL. THE OVERALL AIMS OF THE STUDY ARE THREEFOLD: FIRSTLY, TO ELUCIDATE THE OVERALL RATES OF PSYCHOTIC DISORDER IN THE 3 CENTRES; SECONDLY, TO CONFIRM AND EXTEND PREVIOUS FINDINGS OF RAISED RATES OF PSYCHOSIS IN CERTAIN MIGRANT GROUPS IN THE UK; AND FINALLY, TO EXPLORE IN DETAIL THE BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL RISK FACTORS IN THESE POPULATIONS AND THEIR POSSIBLE INTERACTIONS. <P> DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE DATA FROM THIS STUDY (INCORPORATING NEARLY 600 INDIVIDUALS WITH FIRST-PRESENTATION PSYCHOSIS AND MATCHED COMMUNITY CONTROLS) IS CONTINUING, AND TO DATE, OVER 25 PUBLICATIONS HAVE RESULTED FROM THIS STUDY. IN 2007, THE MRC GRANTED FUNDING TO FOLLOW UP THIS COHORT AT 10 YEAR FOLLOW UP, BETWEEN 2007 AND 2011. <P> <P>PROJECT GRANT £1,500,000. MRC QUALITY OF CARE AND 8-YEAR OUTCOMES OF PSYCHOSIS IN THE AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AND BLACK AFRICAN POPULATIONS IN LAMBETH AND SOUTHWARK. THIS STUDY, FUNDED BY A GRANT FROM GUY'S & ST. THOMAS' CHARITABLE FOUNDATION A) EXPLORED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QUALITY OF CARE, ETHNICITY AND CLINICAL AND SOCIAL OUTCOMES EIGHT YEARS AFTER FIRST CONTACT IN A COHORT OF 330 LOCAL PATIENTS WITH A PSYCHOTIC ILLNESS, AND B) WAS USED TO DEVELOP A BRIEF, CULTURALLY SENSITIVE AND USER-FRIENDLY MEASURE OF QUALITY OF CARE, WHICH CAN BE USED BY CLINICIANS AND WHICH FOCUSES ON KEY ASPECTS OF CARE THAT ARE IMPORTANT BOTH TO SERVICE USERS AND IN DETERMINING OUTCOME. GUY'S AND ST. THOMAS' CHARITABLE FOUNDATION REASONS FOR VERY LONG IN-PATIENT ADMISSIONS IN ACUTE ADULT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES THE PROBLEM OF "DELAYED DISCHARGES" HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A MAJOR ISSUE WITHIN THE NHS, ESPECIALLY FOR ACUTE AND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. SUPPORTED BY FUNDING FROM A SL&M R&D GRANT, WE ARE STUDYING THIS ISSUE SYSTEMATICALLY AND QUANTITATIVELY USING, FOR THE FIRST TIME, A CASE-CONTROL DESIGN. THE PROJECT COVERS ALL THE BOROUGHS SERVED BY THE SOUTH LONDON & MAUDSLEY NHS TRUST TO INCLUDE ACUTE (COMMUNITY) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. <P> A FULL DATASET IS BEING COMPILED ON A COMPLETE SAMPLE OF DELAYED DISCHARGE PATIENTS, OPERATIONALLY DEFINED, WITH A MATCHED CONTROL GROUP. WE ARE TESTING THE HYPOTHESES THAT THE MAIN DETERMINANTS OF DELAYED DISCHARGE WILL BE (A) DUAL AND MULTIPLE DIAGNOSIS (CO-MORBIDITY); AND (B) LACK OF PROVISION FOR RESIDENTIAL LONG-TERM REHABILITATION. ALTHOUGH THE STUDY WILL UNCOVER LOCAL FACTORS I ANTICIPATE THAT THE FINDINGS WILL BE GENERALISABLE TO MOST URBAN SETTINGS. NHS ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATION PRESCRIBING, SATISFACTION AND ADHERENCE AT FIRST PRESENTATION AND 10-YEAR FOLLOW UP IN DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS. £40,000. UK MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH NETWORK INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR URSULA FEARON fearonursula PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR RHEUMATOLOGY FEARONU SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANGIOGENESIS CELL SIGNALLING CELL-MIGRATION CELLULAR INVASION CYTOKINE SIGNALLING ENERGY-METABOLISM HYPOXIA IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION RHEUMATOLOGY AND RHEUMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. THOMAS MARTIN FEELEY feeleythomasmartin PART-TIME LECTURER FEELEYT SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 NEUROSCIENCE DR. MICHAEL FEELY feelymichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MFEELY SOCIAL STUDIES DISABILITY; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; SUPPORTING SELF-ADVOCACY; SEXUALITY; GENDER; SOCIAL THEORY; CRITICAL THEORY; FOUCAULT; DELEUZE. DEPT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SUPPORTING ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO BECOME CO-LECTURERS IN THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY: AN EXPERIMENTAL PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT THE PRINCIPLE OF STRIVING TO INCLUDE PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN MAINSTREAM EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IS NOW WHOLEHEARTEDLY EMBRACED BY THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, BY THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION, AND BY TRINITY COLLEGE. THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT ADOPTED THE SLOGAN 'NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US' DECADES AGO, INSISTING THAT PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES SHOULD HAVE A ROLE IN DEVELOPING AND SHAPING POLICY AND RESEARCH RELEVANT TO THEIR LIVES (CHARLTON, 1998). MIRRORING THIS, OVER RECENT YEARS, THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION HAS ALSO EMBRACED INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION, ESTABLISHING THESE AS ETHICAL IMPERATIVES IN ALL ASPECTS OF PRACTICE, INCLUDING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (CORU, 2010). FINALLY, TRINITY COLLEGE HAS, FOR SOME TIME, BEEN AT THE CUTTING EDGE OF INCLUDING PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN MAINSTREAM THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION. TRINITY'S PIONEERING CERTIFICATE IN CONTEMPORARY LIVING, IN PARTICULAR, HAS ALLOWED HUNDREDS OF ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES TO ATTEND, AND PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDENT LIFE OF, THE UNIVERSITY. MOREOVER THIS INNOVATIVE COURSE HAS ALSO SERVED AS A MODEL FOR THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT IRELAND (AND ABROAD) TO EMULATE, WHICH HAS - IN TURN - ALLOWED MANY MORE ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES EXPERIENCE STUDENT LIFE. IN KEEPING WITH THE INCLUSIVE ASPIRATIONS OF THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT, OF THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION AND OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND IN ATTEMPTING TO BREAK NEW GROUND IN INCLUSIVE TEACHING AND RESEARCH, OUR PROJECT'S AIMS AND OBJECTIVES ARE: 1. TO PROVIDE ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES WITH THE OPPORTUNITY, AND THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, TO BECOME CO-LECTURERS AND CO-RESEARCHERS AND TO EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC LIFE IN TRINITY. 2. TO PROVIDE UNDERGRADUATE SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN BEST PRACTICE FOR SUPPORTING ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES FROM ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. 3. TO RESEARCH THE EXPERIENCES OF ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AS THEY BECOME UNIVERSITY EDUCATORS, AS WELL AS THE EXPERIENCES OF THE STUDENTS THEY TEACH, AND TO PUBLISH THE FINDINGS OF THIS RESEARCH IN RELEVANT PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS. 4. TO PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE OF INNOVATIVE AND INCLUSIVE TEACHING THAT COULD SERVE AS A MODEL FOR OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN TRINITY THAT PREPARE STUDENTS TO WORK WITH ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND OTHER MARGINALISED GROUPS. CAPSL: TRINITY TEACHING INNOVATION GRANTS TRINITY TEACHING INNOVATION GRANTS GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. KEVIN CHEKOV FEENEY feeneykevinchekov SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW FEENEYK1 COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE KDEG 01-8961000 DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR CONLETH FRANCIS FEIGHERY feigheryconlethfrancis FELLOW EMERITUS CFIGHERY FELLOWS EMERITII MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND SINCE MY APPOINTMENT AS CONSULTANT IMMUNOLOGIST TO ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL AND THE FORMER FEDERATED DUBLIN VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS (NOW TALLAGHT OR AMNICH HOSPITAL), I DEVELOPED CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: . PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISORDERS . AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS, IN PARTICULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES . WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS . COELIAC DISEASE. SINCE 1982, A BUSY CLINICAL AND LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY SERVICE HAS EVOLVED. THE LABORATORY CURRENTLY PERFORMS INVESTIGATIONS ON SOME 80,000 SPECIMENS PER ANNUM. A BUSY OUTPATIENT AND DAYCARE FACILITY WAS ESTABLISHED. IN EXCESS OF 60 PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY STATES ATTEND THE CLINIC AND A HOME BASED THERAPY HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FOR PATIENTS WITH IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY STATES. RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED IN PARTICULAR ON AUTO-IMMUNE DISORDERS, WITH COELIAC DISEASE AS THE PRINCIPAL INTEREST. HOWEVER, RESEARCH INTO OTHER DISORDERS INCLUDING PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY STATES ALSO CONTINUES. DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOLOGY ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL JAMES'S STREET DUBLIN 8. 01-8961000 COPY, INFLAMMATORY LUNG DISEASE, PROPOSED WORKSHOP ON INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE LUNG.INCLUDES CLINICIANS PRESENTING ON THEIR SPECIFIC DISEASE TYPE TO FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTISTS.OBJECTIVES :TO BUILD LINKS BETWEEN FUNDAMENTAL AND CLINICAN SCIENTISTSTO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONTO CONNECT SENIOR POST-DOCS (EMERGING PI'S) WITH CLINICIAN COUNTERPART GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. MARY FELL fellmary CLINICAL CO-ORDINATOR MFELL PSYCHOLOGY ADULT MENTAL HEALTH/LIFE-SPAN PERSPECTIVES, EFFICACY OF THERAPIES/COGNITIVE THERAPY. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MARTIN FELLENZ fellenzmartin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN BUSINESS STUDIES MFELLENZ BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AND WORK ENGAGEMENT ORGANISATIONAL JUSTICE & FAIRNESS ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING AND CHANGE TEACHING AND LEARNING; MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT LARGE-SCALE ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT (US) AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) EDITORIAL BOARD, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SERVICE SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, ENGINEERING, AND TECHNOLOGY (IJSSMET) INFORMS COLLEGE OF ORGANIZATION SCIENCE INFORMS SERVICE SCIENCE SECTION IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR TEACHING SOCIETY INNOVATION LEADERSHIP LINKAGES BETWEEN PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND ORGANIZATIONAL JUST MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION SYSTEMS ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY AND VARIATIONS OF RATIONALITY AND CHO THE DUAL PROCESS MODEL OF INFORMATION PROCESSING AND ITS ROL THE ROLE OF FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE PERCEPTIONS IN NEGOTIATIONS THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE IN SERVICE ENCOUNTERS THE ROLE OF POWER (ESPECIALLY UNOBTRUSIVE POWER) IN PLANNED ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JEROME FENNELL fennelljerome CLINICAL LECTURER JFENNELL CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE, PARTICULARLY EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GRAM NEGATIVE RESISTANCE, BONE AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS, APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE PATIENT TREATMENT, SURVEILLANCE AND INFECTION CONTROL. AISLING KILTERAGH DRIVE FOXROCK DUBLIN 18 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGISTS MEMBER OF THE BRITISH INFECTION ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGY, UK FELLOW OF THE FACULTY OF PATHOLOGY, RCPI CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. DAVID FENNELLY fennellydavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FENNELD LAW INTERNATIONAL LAW; EUROPEAN UNION LAW; CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION; LEGAL PROFESSION; LAW REFORM LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH CO-EDITOR, DUBLIN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LAW MEMBER AND FORMER SECRETARY, IRISH FULBRIGHT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBER, EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION MEMBER, GOVERNMENT DATA FORUM MEMBER, IRISH CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN LAW NATIONAL EXPERT - FREE MOVEMENT, FRESSCO (EUROPEAN COMMISSION NETWORK OF EXPERTS ON FREE MOVEMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY COORDINATION) EQUALITY LAW EU LAW LEGAL EDUCATION LEGAL PROFESSION, THE LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. RAFAEL TIMOTHY FERNANDO fernandorafaeltimothy ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TFERNAND COMPUTER SCIENCE APPLICATIONS OF LOGIC TO NATURAL AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, AND RELATED COGNITIVE ISSUES. KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND REASONING WITH CONTEXTS. NON-MONOTONIC REASONING, PROBABILISTIC AND MODAL METHODS. DISCOURSE: ANAPHORA, UNDERSPECIFICATION, AMBIGUITY AND DISAMBIGUATION. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: FORMAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS. RESEARCH GROUP: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP (AIG), COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS GROUP (CLG) COMPUTER SCIENCE AIG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH LOGIC AND LANGUAGE AREA SPECIALIST, 16TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION, NANCY, FRANCE. MEMBER, MANAGING EDITORIAL BOARD, RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE AND COMPUTATION (KLUWER). MEMBER, PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, 15TH IRISH ARTIFCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE MEMBER, PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, FIFTH, FOURTH AND THIRD INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON MODELING AND USING CONTEXT (CONTEXT'05, 03, 01) MEMBER, PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, FORMAL GRAMMAR 2004 (NANCY) MEMBER, PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, TBILISI SYMPOSIUM ON LANGUAGE, LOGIC AND COMPUTATION. PROGRAM CO-CHAIR, 14TH IRISH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE, DUBLIN. REFEREE: LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC, JOURNAL OF SEMANTICS, JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION, CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (CSLI) LECTURE NOTES, COMPUTER AIDED VERIFICATION (CAV), LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS), MATEMATICA CONTEMPORANEA. WORKSHOP ORGANIZER, BARWISE AND SITUATION SEMANTICS (CO-LOCATED WITH CONTEXT'03), STANFORD, CALIFORNIA WORKSHOP ORGANIZER, TEMPORALITY AND DISCOURSE CONTEXT (CO-LOCATED WITH CONTEXT'01), DUNDEE, SCOTLAND. DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JUDE LAL FERNANDO fernandojudelal ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LAFERNAN IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS RELIGION, CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION/ ISSUES IN INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE/ BUDDHISM AND NATIONALISM IN BURMA, SRI LANKA AND THAILAND/ THE ROLE OF RELIGIONS IN CONFLICT AND PEACE IN CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN ETHICS OF ETHNO-NATIONALISMS AND GEO-POLITICS/ LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND ENGAGED BUDDHISM/ CONFLICT DYNAMICS AND PEACE PROCESSES: NORTHERN IRELAND, GUATEMALA AND SRI LANKA/ HUMAN RIGHTS AND REPRESENTATIONS OF MASS ATROCITIES/ IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SINHALA; SINHALESE TAMIL ENGLISH BOARD MEMBER AND ISE'S REPRESENTATIVE AT THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY AND INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES BOARD MEMBER OF EUROPEAN NETWORK OF BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN STUDIES CONVENING COMMITTEE, COMMISSION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACE BUILDING, INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL BOARD ( REPRESENTATIVE FOR ASIA): ALTERNATIVE SUD FOUNDING MEMBER AND MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN CHRISTIANITY ISE'S REPRESENTATIVE AT THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY AND INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION MEMBER: INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS MEMBER: IRISH NETWORK FOR STUDIES IN BUDDHISM TCD'S REPRESENTATIVE/MEMBER: GOVERNING BODY OF MARINO INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, IRELAND ASIAN RELIGIONS PUBLIC THEOLOGY IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY RELIGION, CONFLICT AND PEACE THEOLOGY AND ETHICS IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY THEOLOGY OF PEACE-BUILDING AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. ENRICA MARIA FERRARA ferraraenricamaria TEACHING FELLOW FERRARAE ITALIAN ITALIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES; ITALO CALVINO'S LITERATURE AND POETICS; PIERPAOLO PASOLINI'S LITERATURE AND FILM; ELIO VITTORINI; THE INTERSECTION OF THEATRICAL AND NARRATIVE DISCOURSES IN LITERATURE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO MODERN TIMES; IDENTITY AND GENDER IDENTITY; PERFORMATIVITY IN LITERATURE; REALISM IN LITERATURE AND FILM; PERFORMATIVE AND AGENTIAL REALISM IN LITERATURE AND FILM; POSTHUMANISM; TRANSLATION AND LITERARY TRANSLATION. DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN ROOM 4087 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH AITI (ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS) SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES FOR THE UK AND IRELAND CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES NEUROSCIENCE DR. MAURO FERREIRA ferreiramauro ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FERREIRM PHYSICS MY RESEARCH INTERESTS CAN BE CLASSIFIED IN THE BROAD AREA OF CONDENSED MATTER THEORY. MORE SPECIFICALLY, IN THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS SUCH AS SURFACES, THIN FILMS, MULTILAYERS AND NANOWIRES. MANY OF THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES DISPLAYED BY THESE SYSTEMS ARE NOT OBSERVED IN THE BULK, BUT ARE EXCLUSIVE OF THE REDUCED DIMENSIONALITY OF THEIR STRUCTURES. BESIDES THE OBVIOUS SCIENTIFIC INTEREST IN THESE MATERIALS, TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ARE THE ULTIMATE MOTIVATION FOR STUDYING THE SO-CALLED LOW-DIMENSIONAL PHYSICS. THERE HAS BEEN INTENSIVE INVESTMENT IN THE FIELD OF NANOTECHNOLOGY AND THIS TREND IS LIKELY TO CONTINUE FOR YEARS TO COME. IN ADDITION TO THE IMPRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT IN THE APPLIED ASPECT OF THE SCIENCE OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS, THIS PROLIFIC FIELD OF STUDY IS ALSO VERY FERTILE GROUND FOR FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE. A FEW OF MY RECENT RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS WORTH MENTIONING ARE: - DEMONSTRATION OF THE LONG-RANGED MAGNETIC INTERACTION IN DOPED CARBON NANSTRUCTURES; - UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICAL MECHANISM FOR THE MECHANICAL REINFORCEMENT IN CARBON-BASED COMPOSITE MATERIALS; - ENHANCEMENT OF THE MAGNETIC INTERACTION THROUGH SPIN PUMPING; - DEMONSTRATION THAT THE WIDELY ACCEPTED VIEW THAT MAGNETICALLY DOPED CARBON MATERIALS CAN BE COMPUTATIONALLY DESCRIBED BY PERIODIC SUPERCELLS IS INCORRECT; - EXPLANATION OF THE SUBLATTICE ASYMMETRY CONUNDRUM, WHICH MAKES IMPURITIES TO PREFER ONE OF THE SUBLATTICES OF GRAPHENE EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY EQUIVALENT; - DEMONSTRATION THAT SCATTERING MAY VANISH AND IMPURITIES BECOME TRANSPARENT IN DOPED GRAPHENE; - ESTABLISHED THE IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR CREATING HIGH-SENSITIVITY CHEMICAL AND STRAIN SENSORS; - PROOF THAT GRAPHENE NETWORKS PROVIDE THE MOST SENSITIVE STRAIN SENSOR EVER PRODUCED; - DEMONSTRATION THAT MEMRISTOR NETWORKS ARE THE IDEAL BUILDING BLOCKS FOR NEUROMORPHIC COMPUTING DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE ENGLISH MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS REFEREE OF SEVERAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS SUCH AS PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS; PHYSICAL REVIEW B; 2D MATERIALS; NANOLETTERS, ACS NANO, ETC TCD-DIRECTOR OF THE DUBLIN GRADUATE PHYSICS PROGRAMME COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER, ELECTRONIC, MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES MAGNETISM AND SPIN ELECTRONICS MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS NANOTUBES QUANTUM MECHANICS SOLID STATE PHYSICS THEORY THEORY & MODELLING THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF DOPED MOLECULAR WIRES: INTERACTION OF CARBON NANOTUBES WITH FOREIGN OBJECTS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME GRANT STRAIN-INDUCED ENHANCEMENT OF THE MAGNETIC RESPONSE IN LOW-DIMENSIONAL CARBON-BASED MATERIALS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION PROGRAMME (ENTERPRISE IRELAND) TRAVEL GRANT TO ASSIST INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND UREKA GRANT DESCRIPTION: RESEARCH FUNDING FOR SUMMER STUDENTS PERIOD: SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME GRANT MODELLING THE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF NANOTUBE-BASED THIN FILMS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND / HEWLETT PACKARD NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. DAVID FILIP filipdavid RESEARCH FELLOW FILIPD COMPUTER SCIENCE ADAPT SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CZECH ENGLISH GERMAN NSAI EXPERT ON ISO TC37 SC3, SC5 NSAI EXPERT ON ISO/IEC JTC1 SC38, WG9, WG10 OASIS XLIFF OMOS CONVENER CHAIR AND EDITOR >> TC SHORTLISTED IN OASIS OPEN STANDARDS CUP 2016 OASIS XLIFF TC OASIS XLIFF TC SECRETARY AND LEAD EDITOR >> XLIFF 2.1 IN 1ST PUBLIC REVIEW, XLIFF 2.0 PUBLISHED ON AUGUST 4, 2014 BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENT DATA INTEGRATION INTEROPERABILITY LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, TRANSLATION LITERARY TRANSLATION METADATA STANDARDS REQUIREMENTS GATHERING SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY STANDARDISATION STANDARDS TBX TRANSLATION & LOCALISATION TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT XLIFF XML VOCABULARY COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ERIC CHARLES FINCH finchericcharles FELLOW EMERITUS EFINCH PHYSICS DEPT OF PHYSICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN C.SCI., C.PHYS., F.INST.P. ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION RADIATION RADIATION BIOLOGY RADIATION PHYSICS DR. MARGRET FINE-DAVIS finedavismargret VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MFDAVIS SOCIOLOGY CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE DR FINE-DAVIS IS A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST WITH AN INTEREST IN SOCIAL ATTITUDES, GENDER ISSUES, SOCIAL POLICY AND WELL-BEING. HER PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE CHANGING GENDER-ROLE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR; ATTITUDES TO FAMILY FORMATION; AND SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES RELATED TO WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT, INCLUDING WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND CHILD CARE. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY SOCIAL ATTITUDE & POLICY RESEARCH GROUP 28 WESTLAND ROW, COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (DIV. 9 SPSSI - SOCIETY FOR THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF SOCIAL ISSUES AND DIV. 35 PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN) EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES (ENWS) (A NETWORK OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE) [CO-ORDINATOR, 1995- ;BOARD MEMBER,1993- ;IRISH NATIONAL CONTACT,1989-90] INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY( ISPP)(GOVERNING COUNCIL 1985-87) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY OF LIFE STUDIES (ISQOLS) IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, COMMON DEVELOPMENT EFFORT 13A [CO-ORDINATING GROUP FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY], SOCIAL INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, OECD, PARIS. IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, WORKING GROUP ON SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL INDICATORS, STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, LUXEMBOURG. IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, WORKING GROUP ON VALUES AND SOCIAL PROBLEM INDICATORS IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE, SPONSORED BY THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION. MEMBER OF NATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP, EC EUROPEAN NETWORK ON CHILDCARE MEMBER OF SUPERVISORY BOARD, EU GROTIUS PROJECT, THE LEGAL PROCESS AND VICTIMS OF RAPE, DUBLIN RAPE CRISIS CENTRE AND THE SCHOOL OF LAW, TRINITY COLLEGE MEMBER OF THE BOARD, COOMBE WOMEN AND INFANTS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEMBER OF THE BOARD, WELL WOMAN CENTRES MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH MEMBER OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD, COOMBE WOMEN AND INFANTS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEMBER OF THE GOVERNMENT WORKING PARTY ON CHILD CARE FACILITIES FOR WORKING PARENTS (INDEPENDENT MEMBER NOMINATED BY THE MINISTER FOR LABOUR). MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S STUDIES. MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH AND POLICY SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE BOARD, CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE BOARD, CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH/RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE, COOMBE WOMEN AND INFANTS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEMBER, ORGANISING COMMITTEE, AND CO-CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, THIRD INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS ON WOMEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. 6-10 JULY, 1987. PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND TRINITY RESEARCH STAFF ASSOCIATION (TRSA) FOUNDING MEMBER AND TREASURER (2005 -) DISCRIMINATION EMPLOYMENT GENDER ROLE ATTITUDES & BEHAVIOUR MENTAL HEALTH POLITICAL CULTURE PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN QUALITY OF LIFE SOCIAL ATTITUDES SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SURVEY RESEARCH WELL-BEING WOMEN'S STUDIES WORK-LIFE BALANCE PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK TRINITY HORIZON PROJECT II A RESEARCH AND TRAINING PROGRAMME TO FACILITATE THE ENTRY/RE-ENTRY TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN RECOVERING FROM DEPRESSION. THIS WAS A DEVELOPMENT UPON THE FIRST TRINITY HORIZON PROJECT (1996-97). REFINEMENT OF THE PROGRAMME TOOK PLACE, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MENTORING PROGRAMME WITH EMPLOYERS. RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT IN FURTHER AREAS INCLUDING EMPLOYERS' ATTITUDES TO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. COLLABORATION WITH IBEC, AWARE, ICTU AND FAS. THE FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT WAS £370,270. DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE & EMPLOYMENT/ EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND HORIZON TRINITY HORIZON PROJECT THE PROJECT INVOLVED THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF AN INNOVATIVE TRAINING PROGRAMME TO FACILITATE THE RE-ENTRY TO EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN RECOVERING FROM DEPRESSION. AN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN WAS EMPLOYED AND THE EXPERIMENTALS WERE FOUND TO BE TWICE AS LIKELY TO ENTER EMPLOYMENT OR THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION AS THE MATCHED CONTROLS. COLLABORATION WITH IBEC, AWARE, ICTU AND FAS. THE FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT WAS £237,438. DEPT. OF ENTERPRISE AND EMPLOYMENT/ EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND HORIZON A NATIONAL CHILD CARE SURVEY OF AN POST EMPLOYEES AN POST ATTITUDES TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND PEACE ISSUES: AN EXPLORATION OF THE EFFECTS OF GENDER JOINT OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS STRUCTURAL AND ATTITUDINAL BARRIERS TO WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN EMPLOYMENT. SECOND COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH OF WOMEN MANAGERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS CAREER ADVANCEMENT AND EQUALITY ISSUES AN POST A STUDY OF ISSUES RELEVANT TO THE PROMOTION OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY. IRISH CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS, CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FEDERATION, AND FÁS THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS OF CHILD CARE IN THE WORKPLACE. A LITERATURE REVIEW CONCERNING THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS OF CHILD CARE IN THE WORKPLACE. THE RESULTING PUBLICATION IS AVAILABLE. IRISH CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS A REVIEW OF EUROPEAN FOUNDATION STUDIES 1977-1984: IMPLICATIONS FOR WOMEN. EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS, DUBLIN QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE IN IRELAND, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO WOMEN'S LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION COMMITTEE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN IRELAND THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE IN IRELAND COMMITTEE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FORD FOUNDATION GRANT FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN IRELAND THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES OF THE IRISH DATA STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, LUXEMBOURG MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES OF NATIONWIDE DATA FROM 8 COUNTRIES PARTICIPATING IN EEC HARMONISED SURVEY OF SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL INDICATORS OF HEALTH AND HOUSING STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, LUXEMBOURG ATTITUDES TOWARD THE STATUS OF WOMEN, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO ATTITUDES WHICH MAY CONSTITUTE BARRIERS TO EQUAL EMPLOYMENT FOLLOWING A PILOT STUDY AND A PRE-TEST, THE MAIN STUDY CONSISTED OF A STRATIFIED, RANDOM SAMPLE OF 420 MALE AND FEMALE DUBLIN ADULTS, AGED 18-65. MEASURES OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE ROLE AND STATUS OF WOMEN IN IRELAND WERE DEVELOPED USING FACTOR ANALYSIS. THE DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS AND PERSONALITY AND OTHER SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF THESE ATTITUDES WERE EXAMINED. THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE ATTITUDES FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY POLICY WERE DISCUSSED. DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR, IRELAND EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN THE EUROPEAN CLASSROOM: A SIX COUNTRY STUDY (ALLTALL - ALL TEACHERS AND TRAINERS AS LIFELONG LEARNERS) SCIENTIFIC CO-ORDINATOR OF A SIX-COUNTRY PROJECT CARRIED OUT IN SPAIN, FRANCE, ITALY, THE UK, LATVIA AND IRELAND. PROJECT IDENTIFIED THROUGH COMPARATIVE RESEARCH THE NEW SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES NEEDED BY TEACHERS AND TRAINERS IN DEALING WITH A MULTI-CULTURAL, ETHNICALLY DIVERSE, AND GENDER BALANCED CLASSROOM. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE PHASES WERE CARRIED OUT, STUDYING THE RECIPROCAL ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS, STUDENTS, TRAINERS AND TRAINEES; RESULTS WERE ANALYSED CROSS-CULTURALLY. STAKEHOLDERS IN EACH COUNTRY CONTRIBUTED TO PROJECT DESIGN AND DISSEMINATION. RESULTS ARE DESIGNED TO FEED INTO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES OF TEACHERS AND TRAINERS. THE FINAL REPORT OF THIS PROJECT IS AVAILABLE IN FIVE LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH, ITALIAN AND LATVIAN. THE PROJECT HAS ALSO LED TO MORE RECENT PUBLICATIONS (I.E., FINE-DAVIS AND FAAS, 2014 AND FINE-DAVIS AND FAAS, 2016 IN PREPARATION). EU LEONARDO DA VINCI A STUDY OF ATTITUDE CHANGE CONCERNING THE ROLE AND STATUS OF WOMEN IN IRELAND: 1975-1986 THE RESULTS OF THIS RESEARCH WERE PUBLISHED IN A SERIES OF THREE REPORTS BY THE JOINT OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS THROUGH THE STATIONERY OFFICE IN 1988. JOINT OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS FATHERS AND MOTHERS - DILEMMAS OF THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 4 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES A CROSS-NATIONAL, COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WORKING PARENTS IN IRELAND, FRANCE, ITALY AND DENMARK AND THE ISSUES THEY FACE IN RECONCILING WORK AND FAMILY LIFE. ALL RESPONDENTS WERE EMPLOYED, WITH AT LEAST ONE CHILD UNDER SIX, AND LIVING IN A COUPLE WITH A PARTNER/SPOUSE WHO WAS ALSO EMPLOYED. THE SAMPLE WAS STRATIFIED BY COUNTRY, SEX, SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE SECTOR. THE RESULTS ARE REPORTED IN A BOOK: FINE-DAVIS, M., J. FAGNANI, D. GIOVANNINI, L. HOJGAARD AND H. CLARKE (2004)FATHERS AND MOTHERS: DILEMMAS OF THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE - A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN FOUR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (DORDRECHT, BOSTON AND LONDON). (ITALIAN TRANSLATION TO BE PUBLISHED BY IL MULINO, JANUARY, 2008). THE FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT WAS €250,000. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (DGV) & IRISH DEPT. OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND LAW REFORM WOMEN AND WORK IN IRELAND: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF NATIONWIDE DATA CONCERNING THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE OF IRISH WOMEN, WORKING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE HOME AND THEIR ATTITUDES TO SOCIAL ISSUES. THE TOTAL SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 1,862 INDIVIDUALS; THIS STUDY PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON THE DATA OF WOMEN WORKING IN THE HOME (N=672) AND EMPLOYED WOMEN (N=235). SOME OF THE DATA WERE COLLECTED AS PART OF A HARMONISED STUDY OF THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE IN EUROPE CARRIED OUT IN 8 EU COUNTRIES AND SOME OF THE DATA WAS UNIQUE TO IRELAND. ORIGINAL DATA COLLECTION SUPPORTED BY THE STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES. THIS PROJECT RESULTED IN A REPORT: WOMEN AND WORK IN IRELAND: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. COUNCIL FOR THE STATUS OF WOMEN, IRELAND WOMEN AND WORK IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: CROSS-NATIONAL MULTIVARIATE COMPARISONS COMPARATIVE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, INTERPRETATION AND WRITE UP OF HARMONISED DATA FROM NATIONWIDE REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES IN EIGHT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. TWO REPORTS WERE PREPARED: "WORKING LIFE AND WELL-BEING AMONG MEN AND WOMEN IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY" AND "WOMEN, WORK AND WELL-BEING IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY: NATIONWIDE RESULTS FOR 8 COUNTRIES." DATA COLLECTION HAD BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE STATISTICAL OFFICE OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, IN CONNECTION WITH ITS HARMONISED SURVEY OF SUBJECTIVE SOCIAL INDICATORS OF THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE. COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES DIRECTORATE- GENERAL EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND EDUCATION NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF MOTHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD CHILD CARE AND EMPLOYMENT NATIONWIDE REPRESENTATIVE SURVEY OF MOTHERS' ATTITUDES TO CHILD CARE AND EMPLOYMENT. SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 1,021 MOTHERS, OF WHOM 581 WERE EMPLOYED AND 440 WERE NON-EMPLOYED; ALL HAD AT LEAST ONE CHILD UNDER 15. RESULTS OF SURVEY WERE PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE REPORT TO THE MINISTER FOR LABOUR BY THE WORKING PARTY ON CHILD CARE FACITIES FOR WORKING PARENTS(1983). DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT WORKING PARTY ON CHILD CARE FACILITIES FOR WORKING PARENTS CHANGING GENDER ROLE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR: IMPLICATIONS FOR FAMILY FORMATION IN IRELAND THIS STUDY EXAMINED ATTITUDES TO FAMILY FORMATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGING GENDER ROLE ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR. IT CONSISTED OF AN INITIAL QUALITATIVE STUDY (N=48),FOLLOWED BY A NATIONWIDE SURVEY OF 1,404 MEN AND WOMEN IN THE CHILDBEARING AGE GROUP. THE RESULTS OF THE QUALITATIVE STUDY WERE PUBLISHED IN 2009 AND MAIN STUDY WAS PUBLISHED IN DECEMBER, 2011 BY THE FAMILY SUPPORT AGENCY AND THE SOCIAL ATTITUDE AND POLICY RESEARCH GROUP, TRINITY COLLEGE. A BOOK PRESENTING THE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE FINDINGS WAS PUBLISHED BY MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS (FINE-DAVIS, M. CHANGING GENDER ROLES AND ATTITUDES TO FAMILY FORMATION IN IRELAND. MANCHESTER: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2016). FINDINGS WERE ALSO PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR QUALITY OF LIFE STUDIES IN VENICE, 2012, AND IN A BOOK CHAPTER (FINE-DAVIS, 2014). FAMILY SUPPORT AGENCY RESEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAMME (€366,880) AN EVALUATION OF THE FÁS INITIATIVE FOR PARENTS IN RECEIPT OF THE ONE PARENT FAMILY PAYMENT THIS STUDY INVOLVED AN ATTITUDINAL SURVEY OF SINGLE PARENTS IN RECEIPT OF THE ONE PARENT FAMILY PAYMENT TO ASCERTAIN THE PERCEIVED BARRIERS TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT. THE RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT WITH A VIEW TO INFORMING FUTURE POLICY INITIATIVES FOR THIS GROUP SO AS TO FACILITATE THEIR SOCIAL INCLUSION IN THE LABOUR FORCE. FÁS SOCIAL INCLUSION UNIT PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ABORTION ON WOMEN CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY CHILDCARE POLICY IN IRELAND A REVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF CURRENT CHILDCARE POLICY IN IRELAND WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. COMMISSIONED AS PART OF ICTU'S CONTRIBUTION TO EUROPEAN YEAR OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IRISH CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE PROJECT A RESEARCH PROJECT TO EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF FLEXIBLE WORKING ON SOCIAL INCLUSION AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE OF WORKING PARENTS, OLDER PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. THE PROJECT INVOLVED A NATIONWIDE REPRESENTATIVE SURVEY OF ATTITUDES TO WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN THE IRISH POPULATION (N = 1,212); A SURVEY OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND MENTAL HEALTH (N = 133); THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF PILOT PROJECTS TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF FLEXIBLE WORKING ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION; AND A PILOT PROJECT CONCERNING MEN IN CHILDCARE. PARTNERS IN THE PROJECT INCLUDED TRINITY COLLEGE, IBEC, ICTU, FÁS, AGE ACTION IRELAND AND AWARE. FOUR FINAL REPORTS ARE AVAILABLE IN PDF AND HARD COPY: 1.WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION IN IRELAND: RESULTS OF A NATIONWIDE SURVEY; 2.MENTAL HEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT: PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION IN THE WORKFORCE; 3.THE EFFECTS OF FLEXIBLE WORKING ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION: EVALUATION OF A SERIES OF PILOT PROJECTS; 4.MEN IN CHILDCARE: PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN CHILDREN - EVALUATION OF A PILOT PROJECT. THE FUNDING FOR THIS PROJECT WAS €1.2M EU, EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND/IRISH DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT EQUAL LONELINESS AMONG WELL-EDUCATED, SINGLE, URBAN MIDDLE AGED MEN AND WOMEN IN KAZAKHSTAN THIS PROJECT,SUPPORTED BY THE HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM, CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS RESEARCH AND TRAINING INITIATIVE OF THE OPEN SOCIETIES FOUNDATIONS, IS DESIGNED TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG SCHOLARS. MY ROLE HAS BEEN TO MENTOR AN EARLY CAREER ACADEMIC FROM KAZAKHSTAN WHO HAS COMMON RESEARCH INTERESTS TO MY OWN. DR DINARA YESSIMOVA, NATIONAL EURASIAN UNIVERSITY, ASTANA, IS CARRYING OUT RESEARCH ON LONELINESS AMONG WELL-EDUCATED, SINGLE, URBAN MIDDLE AGED MEN AND WOMEN. OUR COLLABORATION HAS INVOLVED HER SPENDING HILARY TERM, 2013 AS A VISITING ACADEMIC IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND MY VISITING HER UNIVERSITY IN 2015. WE PRESENTED A JOINT PAPER AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF QUALITY OF LIFE STUDIES, BERLIN IN 2015 AND ARE COLLABORATING ON A RESEARCH PAPER WHICH PRESENTS COMPARATIVE DATA FROM KAZAKHSTAN AND IRELAND. OPEN SOCIETIES FOUNDATION, BUDAPEST CENTRAL ASIA AND CAUCASUS RESEARCH AND TRAINING INITIATIVE, HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. ANDREW ROBERT FINLAY finlayandrewrobert ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ARFINLAY SOCIOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES I AM CURRENTLY WORKING IN TWO AREAS. FIRSTLY, THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF PEACE AND PACIFICATION; IE THE USE OF WHAT IS TAKEN TO BE ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CULTURE, IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY IN 'LIBERAL' AND 'HUMANITARIAN' INTERVENTION. SECONDLY, ONGOING DEBATES ABOUT ETHNIC STATISTICS, ETHNIC CATEGORISATION AND ANTI-DISCRIMINATION INITIATIVES IN EUROPE. DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANTHROPOLOGY CITIZENSHIP CONFLICT ETHNIC STUDIES ETHNOGRAPHY GOVERNMENT STUDIES IDENTITY POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE NATIONALISM PEACE AGREEMENTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. DAVID FINLAY finlaydavid ASST PROF. CANCER BIOLOGY &THERAPEUTICS FINLAYD BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MANIPULATING IMMUNE RESPONSES HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PROVIDE THERAPY FOR A WIDE RANGE OF DISEASES FROM AUTOIMMUNITY TO CANCER. THE SERINE/THREONINE KINASE MTORC1 (MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1) IS A KEY REGULATOR OF IMMUNE CELL FUNCTION: INHIBITION OF MTORC1 IN T CELLS PROMOTES REGULATORY T CELL RESPONSES WHILE INHIBITION OF MTORC1 IN DENDRITIC CELLS (DC) PROMOTES A MORE PROINFLAMMATORY DC PHENOTYPE. THEREFORE, MTORC1 SIGNALLING HAS DIVERSE ROLES IN IMMUNE CELL SUBSETS AND IS POTENTIALLY A CRUCIAL THERAPEUTIC TARGET FOR MANIPULATING IMMUNE RESPONSES. WORK PERFORMED IN NON-IMMUNE CELL SYSTEMS HAS ESTABLISHED THAT MTORC1 IS A KEY REGULATOR OF VARIOUS ASPECTS OF CELLULAR METABOLISM: ENERGY METABOLISM, LIPID SYNTHESIS AND AUTOPHAGY. MY RECENT RESEARCH IN CD8 T CELLS LINKS MTORC1-REGULATED GLYCOLYSIS TO THE CONTROL OF FUNDAMENTAL EFFECTOR FUNCTIONS AND THUS PROMOTES THE IDEA THAT MTORC1 SIGNALING INTEGRATES THE CONTROL OF CELLULAR METABOLISM AND IMMUNE CELL FUNCTION. OUR RESEARCH IS FURTHER CHARACTERISING THE LINKS BETWEEN MTORC1 CONTROLLED METABOLISM AND T CELL AND DC FUNCTION. THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO ESTABLISH NOVEL STRATEGIES TO MANIPULATE THE FUNCTION OF (1) T CELLS - TO PROMOTE IMMUNE TOLERANCE FOR THE TREATMENT OF AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE AND (2) DC - TO DRIVE POTENT ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNE RESPONSES. ONGOING PROJECTS ARE INVESTIGATING: . DECIPHERING THE MTORC1 DEPENDENT MECHANISMS CONTROLLING DENDRITIC CELL METABOLISM AND FUNCTION . CHARACTERISING THE ROLE OF MTORC1/SREBP SIGNALING IN DIRECTING THE DIFFERENTIATION AND FUNCTION OF T LYMPHOCYTES. SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BIOCHEMISTRY, METABOLISM CELL SIGNALLING, PROLIFERATION & DIFFERENTIATION GLUCOSE METABOLISM IMMUNITY LEUKEMIA LIPID METABOLISM MOUSE MODEL PROTEIN KINASES REGULATION OF METABOLISM T CELLS TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. STEPHEN FINN finnstephen ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT FINNS HISTOPATHOLOGY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) I AM INTERESTED IN TRANSLATIONAL PATHOLOGY, TISSUE BIOMARKERS, MOLECULAR PATHOEPIDEMIOLOGY AND HIGH THROUGHPUT BIOMARKER ANALYSIS OF LARGE DATASETS. I HAVE SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST WHICH INCLUDE PROSTATE CANCER, LUNG CANCER AND MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS OF SOLID TUMORS DEPT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LAB ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CHAIRMAN MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY, FACULTY OF PATHOLOGY, RCPI FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS ARCHIVAL MATERIAL BETA-CATENIN CANCER MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS CANCER/CARCINOGENESIS CATENIN COMPLEX DIAGNOSTIC BIOIMAGING DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES DIGESTIVE TRACTS DISSECTION E-CADHERIN EPITHELIAL-CELLS FROZEN SECTION GASTRIC CARCINOMAS GENE H4 D10S170 HASHIMOTO THYROIDITIS HEAD AND NECK CANCER IMAGING TECHNIQUES LIPID METABOLISM LUNG CANCER NECK DISSECTION OBESITY ORAL CAVITY PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA PATHOLOGY PATTERNS PROSTATE CANCER RATIONALE RET PROTOONCOGENE RET/PTC-1 SQUAMOUS-CELL-CARCINOMA STAGING STAGING PROCEDURE TAQMAN RT-PCR TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) EXPECT TRIAL: EVASION OF IMMUNE EDITING BY CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELLS IS AN EXERCISE-MODIFIABLE MECHANISM UNDERLYING AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR IN OBESE MEN WITH PROSTATE CANCER 1. ABSTRACT 1.1 BACKGROUND OBESITY, KNOWN TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH A PRO-INFLAMMATORY, PRO-THROMBOTIC HUMORAL MILIEU, CONFERS A WORSE PROGNOSIS IN PROSTATE CANCER (PRCA). CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELLS (CTCS) ARE IDENTIFIED IN THE BLOOD IN ADVANCED CANCER. THEIR QUANTITATION PROVIDES PROGNOSTIC INFORMATION. "CLOAKING" OF CTCS BY ADHERENT PLATELETS IMPEDES NK-CELL CLEARANCE OF CTCS FROM THE CIRCULATION, ENHANCING METASTATIC SPREAD. NK-CELL FUNCTION IN BLOOD AND IN SOLID ORGANS IS QUANTITATIVELY AND QUALITATIVELY REDUCED IN OBESITY. PLATELET CLOAKING MAY BE ENHANCED IN OBESITY DUE TO THE PRO-INFLAMMATORY, PRO-THROMBOTIC STATE, AND MAY BE A MECHANISM FOR WORSE CANCER-SPECIFIC OUTCOMES IN THIS GROUP. OBESITY AND ITS BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS MAY BE INFLUENCED BY LIFESTYLE CHANGES SUCH AS EXERCISE. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REDUCES LEVELS OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS AND SO AN AEROBIC EXERCISE INTERVENTION MAY REPRESENT AN ACCESSIBLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE MEANS OF AMELIORATING THE PRO-INFLAMMATORY EFFECTS OF OBESITY. 1.2 OBJECTIVES TO DETERMINE WHETHER 1. PLATELET CLOAKING OF PRCA CTCS IS MORE PROMINENT IN MEN WITH OBESITY THAN WITHOUT 2. REGULAR EXERCISE CAN IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL) AND AMELIORATE PLATELET CLOAKING 3. THE DEGREE OF PLATELET CLOAKING VARIES WITH LEVELS OF SYSTEMIC AND PRIMARY TUMOUR INFLAMMATION AND COAGULABILITY 4. EXPRESSION OF AN OBESITY-ASSOCIATED LETHALITY GENE SIGNATURE LEADS TO VARIATION IN PLATELET CLOAKING 1.3 SETTING AND METHODS THIS INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTRE PROSPECTIVE STUDY WILL RECRUIT 200 MEN WITH METASTATIC PRCA, DIVIDING THEM INTO EXPOSED AND NON-EXPOSED GROUPS BASED ON BMI &#8805; 25. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE RECRUITED FROM CENTRES IN DUBLIN (IRELAND), ÖREBRO (SWEDEN) AND LONDON (UK), AND WILL BE RANDOMIZED TO INTERVENTION AND COMPARISON GROUPS. BLOOD SAMPLES WILL BE TAKEN AT RECRUITMENT (T0) AND AT THREE (T3) AND SIX MONTHS (T6). PROJECT 1: CTCS WILL BE ENUMERATED IN THE T0 SAMPLES. ADHERENT PLATELETS WILL BE QUANTIFIED AND COMPARED BETWEEN THE EXPOSED AND NON-EXPOSED GROUPS, AND CORRELATED WITH CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL PARAMETERS. PROJECT 2: THE INTERVENTION GROUP WILL UNDERTAKE A REGULAR SUPERVISED AEROBIC EXERCISE PROGRAMME, WHEREAS THE COMPARISON GROUP WILL NOT. T3 AND T6 BLOOD SAMPLES WILL BE ASSESSED FOR CTC NUMBERS AND PLATELET CLOAKING. CHANGES WILL BE COMPARED WITH THE T0 SAMPLE AND BETWEEN EXPOSED AND NON-EXPOSED AND INTERVENTION AND COMPARISON GROUPS. PARTICIPANTS WILL COMPLETE A DETAILED QUESTIONNAIRE TO ASSESS QUALITY OF LIFE AND OTHER PARAMETERS AT EACH VISIT. PROJECT 3: ALL BLOOD SAMPLES WILL BE ASSESSED FOR NK-CELL NUMBER AND ACTIVATION, MARKERS OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION, ADIPOKINES AND SERUM FACTORS RELATED TO PLATELET ACTIVATION. THE PROSTATE NEEDLE CORE BIOPSIES WILL BE EXAMINED MICROSCOPICALLY FOR ATROPHY AND INFLAMMATION, BY MORPHOLOGY AND IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO NK-CELLS. ALL VARIABLES WILL BE CORRELATED WITH PLATELET CLOAKING. PROJECT 4: NCBS WILL BE ASSESSED FOR EXPRESSION OF AN OBESITY-ASSOCIATED LETHALITY GENE SIGNATURE (WHOSE GENES ARE KNOWN TO PLAY A ROLE IN OBESITY OR PLATELET AGGREGATION AND COAGULATION), AND CORRELATED WITH PLATELET CLOAKING. 1.4 IMPACT THIS STUDY AIMS TO ELUCIDATE A POTENTIAL MECHANISM BY WHICH OBESITY CONFERS A WORSE PROGNOSIS IN PRCA, TWO INCREASINGLY PREVALENT DISEASES IN THE WESTERN WORLD. WE HOPE TO SHOW THAT A LOW-COST, ACCESSIBLE INTERVENTION CAN IMPROVE QOL AND POTENTIALLY AMELIORATE THE EFFECTS OF OBESITY THROUGH ALTERATIONS IN THE SYSTEMIC ADIPOKINE AND INFLAMMATORY MEDIATOR PROFILE. WORLD CANCER RESEARCH FUND DISCOVERY AND CLINICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF NOVEL PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS FOR ENZALUTAMIDE THERAPY SCIENTIFIC ABSTRACT: BUILDING ON FUNDING SECURED FROM BAYER AND ASTELLAS TO PERFORM A CLINICAL TRIAL (PHASE II STUDY OF RADIUM-223 IN COMBINATION WITH ENZALUTAMIDE IN PROGRESSIVE OSSEOUS-PREDOMINANT METASTATIC CRPC) THIS TRANSLATIONAL PROJECT WILL DISCOVER NEW MUTATIONS IN THE ANDROGEN RECEPTOR AND VALIDATE EXISTING CANDIDATES IN THE ANDROGEN RECEPTOR LIGAND BINDING DOMAIN (W741C AND F876L) FOR RESPONSE TO ENZALUTAMIDE (ENZ) USING SERIAL, LIQUID BIOPSIES, TISSUE BIOPSIES AND RAPID AUTOPSY TISSUES. CRITICALLY WE WILL DEVELOP THESE ASSAYS FOR ACCURATE STRATIFICATION OF PATIENTS AND FOR USE IN ROUTINE BLOOD SAMPLES COLLECTED FROM PATIENTS BEFORE AND DURING ENZALUTAMIDE THERAPY USING CELL FREE CIRCULATING DNA AND CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELLS ALLIED TO MASSIVELY PARALLEL NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY MOVEMBER TRANSFORMATIVE IPROSPECT IDENTIFYING NON-CODING RNA REPERTOIRES OF AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER ABSTRACT: ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN THE BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF WHY PROSTATE CANCER (PCA) ARISES AND HOW IT PROGRESSES, THESE ADVANCES, UNFORTUNATELY, HAVE NOT TRANSLATED INTO A CURE AND HAVE MOST OFTEN HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTING WITH LITTLE BENEFIT TO MEN WITH AGGRESSIVE PCA. CLINICALLY RELEVANT BIOMARKERS ARE LACKING AND SIMPLE PROGNOSTICATION IN PCA REMAINS ELUSIVE OUTSIDE OF THE NOW DECADES OLD PATHOLOGICAL GLEASON SCORING SYSTEM. OUR HYPOTHESIS, SUPPORTED BY MIRNA DATA FROM OUR LABORATORIES, IS THAT NON-CODING RNA SIGNATURES (INCLUDING KNOWN AND NOVEL MIRNAS) PLAY A KEY ROLE IN AGGRESSIVE PCA. IN ADDITION, CANCER STEMNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH POOR PROGNOSIS AND AGGRESSIVE PCA. THEREFORE, WE FURTHER HYPOTHESIZE THAT NON-CODING RNA EXPRESSION PROFILES, PARTICULARLY MIRNA, ARE LINKED TO STEMNESS IN CANCER AND A CLINICALLY AGGRESSIVE PHENOTYPE. IN THIS APPLICATION, WE AIM TO MODEL STEM CELL RICH PCA AND PROFILE BIOLOGICALLY AGGRESSIVE PCA (HIGH GLEASON GRADE) TO IDENTIFY, IN HYPOTHESIS NEUTRAL EXPERIMENTS, NON-CODING RNAS ASSOCIATED WITH AGGRESSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER. MIRNAS AND THEIR ISOMIRS WILL BE DEFINED IN OUR HOLOCLONE STEM CELL MODELS AND HIGH GLEASON SCORE TUMOURS, FROM THE BIOREPOSITORY OF THE PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (PCRC) IN IRELAND, AND COMPARED TO FOUNDER CELLS AND INDOLENT PROSTATE CANCER RESPECTIVELY. USING ADVANCED BIOINFORMATICS WE WILL LOOK FOR STEMNESS AND AGGRESSION SIGNATURES AND USE THESE IN A SMALLER FOCUSED PANEL TO ASSESS IN RELATION TO OUTCOME IN RICHLY AND METICULOUSLY ANNOTATED PROSTATE CANCER DATABASES FROM THE PHYSICIANS HEALTH STUDY AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOLLOW UP STUDY. THIS STUDY WILL ALSO UNIQUELY IDENTIFY NCRNA OTHER THAN MIRNA (PIRNA, SNORNA, TRANSCRIBED ULTRA-CONSERVED REGIONS) AND WE EXPECT THAT THESE WILL ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SIGNATURES DERIVED. THIS STUDY WILL FOR THE FIRST TIME PROVIDE AN IN DEPTH PROFILE OF ISOMIRS IN PROSTATE CANCER. WE WILL ALSO INTEGRATE EXISTING AND NEWLY UNDERTAKEN GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES TO EXAMINE NCRNA IN RELATION TO GENE EXPRESSION PATTERNS AND PATHWAYS WITH THE AIM OF DERIVING INTEGRATED NCRNA AND MRNA PROFILES IN CLINICALLY AGGRESSIVE PCA. VALIDATION WILL BE PERFORMED IN INDEPENDENT COHORTS AND IN DATABASES OF OUR COLLABORATORS IN THE UNITED STATES (HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH). THE LATTER RESOURCE ALLOWS US TO ASSESS OUTCOME IN RELATION TO PROSTATE CANCER SPECIFIC DEATH RATHER THAN PSA FAILURE AND IS ANNOTATED FOR PROTEIN PATHWAY, GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING AND CLINICAL DATA. AGGRESSIVE DISEASE IN THE HARVARD DATASETS IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE PRESENCE OF METASTASES OR DEATH FROM PCA. FINALLY, IN A PROOF OF CONCEPT STUDY, WE WILL EXAMINE THE UTILITY OF THE PROFILES DISCOVERED TO MONITOR DISEASE PROGRESSION IN CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELLS FROM PATIENTS WITH AGGRESSIVE METASTATIC PROSTATE CANCER. WITH THE EMERGENCE OF NCRNA-BASED THERAPEUTICS THERE IS CLEAR TRANSLATIONAL POTENTIAL. THE ULTIMATE AIM IS TO TRANSLATE TO THE CLINIC NON-CODING RNA PROFILES THAT CAN BE USED TO INFORM TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR PATIENTS WITH AGGRESSIVE PROSTATE CANCER. PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION CANCER DR. ORLA FINUCANE finucaneorla RESEARCH FELLOW FINUCAOR PHYSIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. CIARAN FINUCANE finucaneciaran ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CFINUCA CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. DESTA ZAHLAY FITIWI fitiwidestazahlay VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW FITIWID ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MICHAEL FITZGERALD fitzgeraldmichael ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MIFITZGE PSYCHIATRY DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 'SCHIZOPHRENIA-LIKE' PSYCHOSIS ADD AND THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS ADHD ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY ADULT SCHIZOPHRENIA ASPERGER'S SYNDROME ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER AUTISM AUTISM GENETICS AUTISM SPECTRUM AUTISTIC PSYCHOPATHY BORDERLINE PERSONALITY CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY CHILD PSYCHIATRY COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY CONSULTATION LIAISON PSYCHIATRY CONVERSATION SKILLS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA CREATIVITY CRIMINAL AUTISTIC PSYCHOPATHY FAMILIAL SCHIZOPHRENIA GENETICS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA GENIUS INFANTILE-AUTISM MATHEMATICIANS NEURODEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHIATRY PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA PERSONALITY OF SCIENTIST AND WRITERS PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOPATHY PSYCHOSIS, SCHIZOPHRENIA SCHIZOPHRENIA SCHIZOPHRENIA FAMILIES SCHIZOPHRENIA SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES SCIENTISTS SIMPLE SCHIZOPHRENIA WRITERS AND POLITICS NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY GENETICS AND GENOMICS MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR JOHN FITZGERALD fitzgeraldjohn ADJUNCT PROFESSOR JOFITZGE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITAIN DEMAND EARNINGS INEQUALITY EXPLANATIONS IMMIGRATION IRELAND LABOR-MARKET INSTITUTIONS MALE WAGE INEQUALITY OECD RETURNS TO EDUCATION TIME-SERIES TRENDS UNITED-STATES MS. AMY FITZGERALD fitzgeraldamy EXECUTIVE OFFICER FITZGEA2 HAEMATOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF HAEMATOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES, DURKAN BUILDING ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. BREIFFNI FITZGERALD fitzgeraldbreiffni USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FITZGEB7 CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. DR FITZGERALD IS AN EXPERT IN THE FIELD OF STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND CONTROL AND WIND ENERGY. HIS WORK FOCUSSES ON THE APPLICATION OF FUNDAMENTAL THEORIES IN STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS/CONTROL TO STRUCTURAL AND OFFSHORE ENGINEERING, SUCH AS SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION AND WIND TURBINE VIBRATION CONTROL. HIS RESEARCH HAS BEEN FUNDED BY IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL, SEAI, ENTERPRISE IRELAND AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL,STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SIMON PERRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH IRISH ENGINEERS IRELAND - STRUCTURES & CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE MEMBER ENGINEERS IRELAND, CHARTERED ENGINEER (CENG) INSTITUTE OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS - IRELAND BRANCH COMMITTEE MEMBER ACTIVE CONTROL CONTROL SYSTEMS INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS RENEWABLE ENERGY SMART CITIES SOIL MECHANICS & FOUNDATIONS STRUCTURAL DESIGN STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING WIND WIND ENERGY AND WIND TURBINES WIND, WIND ENERGY ENGINEERING CLIMATE RESEARCH INCLUDING MARINE CLIMATE CHANGE & OCEANOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, GEOTECHNICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY WIND ENERGY CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING CONTROL AND POWER TAKE-OFF OPTIMIZATION FOR WRAM (CAPTOW) EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020 OCEAN ERA-NET SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. SINEAD FITZGERALD fitzgeraldsinead DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL CO-ORDINATION SFITZGE2 PSYCHOLOGY EATING DISORDERS. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, DEPRESSION. CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 CLINICAL DIVISION PSI EXTERNAL VALIDATION COMMITTEE PSI GROUP OF TRAINERS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND ADULT DEVELOPMENT CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY CLINICAL SUPERVISION DEPRESSION DEVELOPMENTAL COMPETENCIES IN CLINICAL TRAINING DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY EATING DISORDERS LEADERSHIP PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RISK AND RESILIENCE SERVICE USER INVOLVEMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH TEAMWORKING DR. MARIA CLIONA FITZGIBBON fitzgibbonmariacliona CLINICAL LECTURER FITZGIMC PHYSIOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND RESPONSIBLE FOR CO-ORDINATING THE NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE NETWORK (NNN) INCORPORATING TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND, BEAUMONT, ST JAMES AND TALLAGHT HOSPITALS IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND TEACHING ACROSS INSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARIES AND BETWEEN DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES OF NEUROSCIENCE. THE NEW TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE (TCIN) FUNDED THROUGH THE PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN THIRD-LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND TEACHING INSTITUTE WHICH HAS OPENED RECENTLY. RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE OVERALL MANAGEMENT AND CO-ORDINATION OF THE NEUROSCIENCE NETWORK AND THE DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE. AS PART OF THE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH TEAM MY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE STRATEGIC DIRECTION SETTING AND CONTRIBUTING TO ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL RESEARCH STUDIES. THE OVER-ARCHING AIM OF MY RESEARCH IS THE CORRELATION OF BIOCHEMICAL AND HORMONAL CHANGES WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEPRESSION. - MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS IN NEUROENDOCRINE AND IN IMMUNE AND METABOLIC RESPONSE TO SERIOUS INJURY, IN PARTICULAR BRAIN TRAUMA. 157 BOOTERSTOWN AVENUE BLACKROCK CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR ACBI'91, THE TWO-DAY ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF ASSOCIATION OF BIOCHEMISTS. THIS INVOLVED THE ORGANISATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME, A 20-STAND TRADE EXHIBITION, AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR OVER 150 DELEGATES COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE EUROPEAN BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR SOCIETY (EBBS). ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF EBBS HELD AT TRINITY COLLEGE IN SEPTEMBER 2005. EXTENSIVE RECORD OF CLINICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND MANAGEMENT PRESENTING AT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS. FOUNDER MEMBER OF NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTS IN IRELAND MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTS(UK) MISS ANN MARY FITZGIBBON fitzgibbonannmary VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT AFTZGBBN COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING MUVES, VIDEOGAMES AND EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ANNE FITZPATRICK fitzpatrickanne ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FITZPAA NEAR & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES HERZOG CENTRE RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE FOCUSED ON THE STUDY OF HOW JUDAISM EMERGED AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE WORLDVIEW OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. I HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HOW SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM AND THE POLITICAL STRUCTURES WHICH WERE BASED IN THE TEMPLE EMERGED AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF HOW JEWISH ELITES DEALT WITH THE CHALLENGES OF IMPERIAL CONTROL AND THIS HAS BEEN THE FOCUS OF MY BOOK WHICH IS CURRENTLY IN PRESS. I AM ALSO INVOLVED IN A CONFERENCE CENTRING ON THE THEME OF CONDITIONS IN YEHUD AND OTHER REGIONS UNDER ACHAEMENID RULE. THIS IS BEING CO-ORGANISED WITH DR DIANA EDELMAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BIBLICAL STUDIES IN SHEFFIELD. THE CONFERENCE WILL INVOLVE EXPERTS FROM BOTH THE FIELDS OF BIBLICAL STUDIES/ EARLY JUDAISM AND CLASSICS. THE CONFERENCE WILL BE FUNDED BY THE CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES AND THE BRITISH ACADEMY. DEPARTMENT OF NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN SOCIETY BIBLICAL LITERATURE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH STUDIES ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN EMPIRES ANCIENT/CLASSICAL HISTORY BIBLE BIBLICAL STUDIES DEVELOPMENT OF LITERARY TRADITIONS ABOUT EZRA AND NEHEMIAH EARLY ISRAELITE HISTORY AND RELIGION HEBREW LANGUAGE ISRAEL AND JUDAH UNDER IMPERIAL RULE JEWISH HISTORY JUDAISM PERSIAN RULE OF YEHUD AND ITS ENVIRONS THE JEWS OF EGYPT FROM THE PERSIAN TO THE ROMAN PERIODS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY PERSIAN RULE IN JUDAH AND ITS ENVIRONS JUNE 24-25TH 2010: IN COLLABORATION WITH DR DIANA EDELMAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD A CONFERENCE ON PERSIA WILL BE HELD IN TCD. THIS WILL BRING TOGETHER CLASSICISTS AND HISTORIANS OF EARLY JUDAISM. IT WILL BE FUNDED BY MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES. THE PROCEEDINGS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE IN 2010. MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES (PRTLI FUNDED) AND THE BRITISH ACADEMY ASSESSING BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL SOURCES FOR PERSIAN RELIGION THIS PROJECT BROUGHT TOGETHER CLASSICISTS, BIBLICAL HISTORIANS AND ACHAEMENID HISTORIANS IN A WORKSHOP HELD IN SHEFFIELD WHICH WAS THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE TRINITY BASED WORKSHOP OF 2010. IT WAS CO-ORGANISED WITH PROF DIANA EDELMAN (OSLO). THE PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY HARRASOWITZ IN 2015 (IN PRINT) SHEFFIELD BIBLICAL STUDIES A PERSIAN GIFT TO POSTERITY:THE PARIDAIDA GARDEN AS A STATEMENT OF POWER AND PLEASURE THIS PROJECT IS BEING CO-ORGANISED WITH PROF DIANA EDELMAN (OSLO). PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN 2016. IT IS FUNDED BY THE IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION IRAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION TBA THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE THIS JOINT PROJECT WITH CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY IS AIMS TO BRING ASSYRIOLOGISTS TO TRINITY AS TEACHING FELLOWS TO REINTRODUCE ASSYRIOLOGY INTO THE CURRICULUM. BASIC AKKADIAN CLASSES ARE ALSO OFFERED TO UG AND PG RESEARCH STUDENTS. IN 2016/17 THE FIRST TEACHING FELLOW, MARY FRAZER TAUGHT UG AND PG STUDENTS AS WELL AS WORKING ON CBL COLLECTION AND TRINITY'S OLD LIBRARY CUNEIFORM COLLECTION. THE PROJECT FACILITATED UG STUDENT TEACHING IN THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY. TWO VISITING ASSYRIOLOGISTS OFFERED PAPERS WHICH WILL FORM TUTOR'S ALLOWANCE +CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY AIMED AT UG AND PG STUDENTS, IN 2018 WILL RESULT IN VOLUME OF PUBLISHED PAPERS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR DAVID PATRICK BRIAN FITZPATRICK fitzpatrickdavidpatrickbrian FELLOW EMERITUS DFTZPTRK HISTORY IRISH HISTORY SINCE 1795, ESPECIALLY NATIONALISM, REPUBLICANISM, LOYALISM, DEMOGRAPHY, AND EMIGRATION; IRISH IN AUSTRALIA, BRITAIN, AND ELSEWHERE; HISTORY OF LOYAL ORANGE INSTITUTION, 1795-1995; IMPACT OF GREAT WAR ON IRELAND IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; AMERICAN AND COSMOPOLITAN INFLUENCES IN POST-FAMINE IRELAND. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3118 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EMIGRATION AND THE IRISH OVERSEAS FIRST WORLD WAR AND ITS LEGACY HIDDEN BIOGRAPHICAL INFLUENCES ON THE WORK OF IRISH POETS HISTORY OF THE ORANGE ORDER AND OTHER IRISH FRATERNITIES IRISH ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL HISTORY SINCE 1790 MAKING IRELAND DR. ORLA FLANAGAN flanaganorla ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PART-TIME FLANAGO MUSIC MY RESEARCH IS LARGELY PRACTICE-LED THROUGH CHORAL CONDUCTING AND VOCAL TECHNIQUE, INTERPRETATION OF REPERTOIRE AND HISTORICAL STYLE, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CREATION OF NEW WORKS THROUGH COMMISSIONING AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES OF MUSIC BY CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS. AS THE CONDUCTOR OF ONE OF IRELAND'S LEADING CHORAL ENSEMBLES, MORNINGTON SINGERS, I CONSISTENTLY ENGAGE WITH INNOVATIVE ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING AND INTERPRETATIVE EXPERIMENTATION BASED ON HISTORICALLY INFORMED PERFORMANCE STYLES, AS WELL AS EVOLVING INTERNATIONAL TRENDS. I AM PARTICULARLY COMMITTED TO THE PERFORMANCE OF NEW MUSIC, WITH PROJECTS INCLUDING UNDER-SONG, A CD RECORDING OF UNACCOMPANIED CHORAL MUSIC BY IRELAND'S LEADING COMPOSERS (2017, PART-FUNDED BY DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL), AND TO THE NORTHEAST, A CD DEVOTED TO THE CHORAL WORKS OF AOSDÁNA MEMBER JOHN BUCKLEY (FORTHCOMING, 2018, PART-FUNDED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL OF IRELAND). IN 2014 THE MORNINGTON SINGERS HELD A COMPOSITION COMPETITION WHICH LED TO THE EMERGENCE OF MORE THAN THIRTY SPECIALLY-COMPOSED PIECES BY IRISH COMPOSERS, A SELECTION OF WHICH FORMED THE BASIS OF A PUBLIC WORKSHOP ON CHORAL INTERPRETATION. THE PRIZEWINNING PIECES HAVE SINCE BEEN PREMIERED AND RECORDED BY THE CHOIR, AND CONSTITUTE VALUABLE ADDITIONS TO THE IRISH CHORAL REPERTOIRE. I HAVE ALSO PERFORMED, RECORDED AND TOURED WITH PROFESSIONAL VOCAL ENSEMBLES SUCH AS THE NATIONAL CHAMBER CHOIR OF IRELAND, MILLTOWN CHAMBER CHOIR AND ENSEMBÉAL, WITH CREATIVE OUTPUTS INCLUDING A CD RECORDING OF CHRISTMAS MUSIC, MULTIPLE BROADCASTS ON NATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION, CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS WITH LEADING POETS AND COMPOSERS, AND A PERFORMANCE FOR PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN 2011. MUCH OF MY RESEARCH IN BOTH PRACTICE-LED AND MORE TRADITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP FOCUSES ON MUSIC AND THE EXPRESSION AND INTERPRETATION OF SACRED TEXT. THIS HAS LED TO MY STUDIES IN MUSIC, TEXT, AND CONTEXT IN THE COMPOSITIONS OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN (THE SUBJECT OF MY DOCTORAL THESIS, 2012) AND MORE RECENTLY TO A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE PEER-REVIEWED ONLINE JOURNAL, RELIGION, EDUCATION, AND THE ARTS, ENTITLED 'SACRED MUSIC: PERSPECTIVES ON PERFORMANCE (2016, CO-EDITED WITH DR RÓISÍN BLUNNIE, DCU), FEATURING ARTICLES AND COMPOSITIONS BY IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS AND PERFORMERS. I HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC LEARNING ESPOUSED BY THE HUNGARIAN COMPOSER AND EDUCATOR ZOLTÁN KODÁLY (1882-1967). MY TEACHING IN AREAS SUCH AS AURAL TRAINING, KEYBOARD SKILLS AND CHORAL CONDUCTING IS LARGELY INFORMED BY MY ONGOING RESEARCH IN THIS AREA. MY APPROACHES TO CHORAL INTERPRETATION, REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE ARE CONSTANTLY INFORMED BY MY ONGOING RESEARCH IN HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE STYLES, AND THIS HAS BEEN RECOGNISED WITH SPECIAL AWARDS FOR CONDUCTING AT CORK INTERNATIONAL CHORAL FESTIVAL (2006, 2011 AND 2014) AND AT MARIBOR INTERNATIONAL CHORAL COMPETITION (SLOVENIA, 2009), IN ADDITION TO THE MORNINGON SINGERS' PERFORMANCE AWARDS, INCLUDING 1ST PRIZE AND IRELAND'S CHOIR OF THE YEAR (CORK, 2014), 2ND PRIZE IN THE MIXED CHOIRS CATEGORY AT THE CONCORSO POLIFONICO GUIDO D'AREZZO (ITALY, 2017) AND 1ST PRIZE IN LYRIC FM'S CHOIRS FOR CHRISTMAS COMPETITION (2009). MY RESEARCH IN HISTORICAL PERFORMANCE PRACTICE RELATING TO MUSIC FROM THE RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE, CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC AND CONTEMPORARY ERAS HAS LED TO FREQUENT INVITATIONS TO GIVE WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS ON CHORAL INTERPRETATION. SCHOOL OF MUSIC HOUSE 5 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSISTANT SECRETARY, KODALY SOCIETY OF IRELAND INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR CHORAL MUSIC INTERNATIONAL KODÁLY SOCIETY KODALY INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL LIAISON OFFICER KODÁLY SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF ADVISORY PANEL, ASSOCIATION OF IRISH CHOIRS AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CENTRE'S ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH CHORAL MUSIC, CHOIRLAND REVIEWER, BRITISH JOURNAL OF MUSIC EDUCATION SOCIETY FOR MUSICOLOGY IN IRELAND CHORAL MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC CONDUCTING MUSICOLOGY/MUSIC THEORY NEW MUSIC PERFORMING ARTS VOCAL MUSIC HUMANITIES CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND DR. KARSTEN FLEISCHER fleischerkarsten RESEARCH FELLOW FLEISCK PHYSICS CRANN I'M CONDUCTING RESEARCH ON NOVEL OXIDE MATERIALS, WITH FOCUS ON THEIR OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES. IN PARTICULAR I'M WORKING ON SO CALLED TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDES (TCOS), WHICH ARE AN IMPORTANT MATERIAL CLASS IN DEVICES SUCH AS DISPLAYS, LEDS OR THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS. THE RESEARCH SPANS TOPICS SUCH AS LOW COST GROWTH TECHNIQUES (SPRAY PYROLOYSIS), HIGH QUALIY GROWTH TECHNIQUES (MBE) AND FULL MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION (XRD, XPS, RESISTIVITY, HALL MOBILITY, ELLIPSOMETRY, HAZE, TRANSMISSION) CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS FOCUS ON MODIFICATION OF COMMONLY USED INDUSTRIAL TCOS (ZNO:AL, SNO2:F) IN ORDER TO TUNE THEIR OPTICAL PROPERTIES, AND FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES ON P-TYPE TCOS, WHICH POTENTIALLY ALLOW FOR FULLY TRANSPARENT ELECTRONIC DEVICES. DEPT. OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN DEUTSCHE PHYSIKALISCHE GESELLSCHAFT (GERMAN RESEARCH SOCIETY) CONDENSED MATTER, ELECTRONIC, MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES LINEAR AND NONLINEAR OPTICS MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING MATERIALS, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MATERIALS, PREPARATION/FABRICATION OPTICAL MATERIALS PHOTOVOLTAIC PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS, CELLS AND MODULES MANUFACTURING RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES SOLAR, PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERSION SOLID STATE PHYSICS SURFACE SCIENCE SURFACES AND INTERFACES THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS SOLAR ENERGY PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. SANDRA FLEMING flemingsandra ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FLEMINS SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY AGEING AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, NURSING EDUCATION SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AGING AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING EDUCATION THE EXPERIENCES OF MATURE STUDENTS ON FULL-TIME UNDERGRADUATE COURSES. AN EVALUATION OF THE DRUG CALCULATION SKILLS OF REGISTERED NURSES SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND HSE A SURVEY OF THE VIEWS OF NURSE MANAGERS, NURSE PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STAFF AND REGISTERED NURSES IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND IN RESPONSE TO THE REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME NURSES MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE DR. GARRY FLEMING fleminggarry ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FLEMINGG DENTAL SCIENCE RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF DENTAL MATERIALS MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DENTAL RESEARCH (BSDR) MEMBER OF THE DENTAL MATERIALS PANEL OF THE UK MEMBER OF THE IADR (IRISH DIVISION) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DENTAL MATERIALS GROUP (DMG) AND BRITISH DMG BIOMATERIALS CARPROFEN CELL CYTO-TOXICITY CEMENT CERAMIC MATERIALS AND POWDERS CERAMICS COMPOSITE MATERIALS CORROSION DENTAL RESTORATIVE MATERIALS DENTISTRY METALLURGY POLYMERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED GLASS-IONOMER RESTORATIVES GLASS IONOMER CEMENTS (GICS) ARE RESTORATIVE DENTAL MATERIALS CONSISTING OF TWO SEPARATE COMPONENTS - A GLASS POWDER AND A POLYMERIC LIQUID ELEMENT. GICS ARE ROUTINELY EMPLOYED IN DENTAL APPLICATIONS AS CAVITY LININGS AND BASES, LUTING CEMENTS AND AS ANTERIOR FILLING MATERIALS ESPECIALLY IN PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY DUE TO THEIR MINIMALLY INVASIVE NATURE. MORE RECENTLY, THERE IS AN INCREASED INTEREST IN THE USE OF GLASS-IONOMER RESTORATIVES AS POSTERIOR FILLING MATERIALS DUE TO AESTHETIC DEMANDS OF PATIENTS AND THE POTENTIAL FEAR OF MERCURY TOXICITY FROM DENTAL AMALGAMS. UNFORTUNATELY, CONVENTIONAL GIC CEMENT FORMULATIONS ARE NOT ADVOCATED FOR LARGE MESSIO-OCCLUSAL-DISTAL (MOD) CAVITIES DUE TO THEIR REDUCED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES (COMPRESSIVE FRACTURE STRENGTH, FRACTURE TOUGNESS AND WEAR RESISTANCE) WHEN COMPARED WITH DENTAL AMALGAM. THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WILL BE TO VALIDATE THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CONVENTIONAL GI RESTORATIVES CAN BE IMPROVED TO PRODUCE INCREASED PERFORMANCE COMPARED WITH CONVENTIONAL GI RESTORATIVES WHEN PLACED IN THE POSTERIOR REGION OF THE MOUTH. THE EXPERIMENTAL GI RESTORATIVES WILL ALSO BE TRAILED FOR CLINICAL PERFORMANCE, NAMELY COMPRESSIVE FRACTURE STRENGTH, FRACTURE TOUGHNESS AND WEAR RESISTANCE. CONSEQUENTLY BY TARGETING AND ELIMINATING THE KEY FAILURE MECHANISMS OF POSTERIOR GI RESTORATIVE AND FILLING MATERIALS IT IS PROPOSED THAT AN EXPERIMENTAL, COMMERCIALLY VIABLE REINFORCED EXPERIMENTAL GI RESTORATIVE MAY IMPROVE CONVENTIONAL GI RESTORATIVE PERFORMANCE IN THE MOUTH. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTEERS PROGRAMME THE STRENGTHENING MECHANISM OF RESIN-BASED LUTING CEMENTS TO DENTAL CERAMICS THE DENTAL LITERATURE IS REPLETE WITH FRACTURE RESISTANCE STUDIES OF ALL-CERAMIC MATERIALS WITH THE 'CRUNCH-THE-CROWN' LOAD-TO-FAILURE TEST ROUTINELY USED DESPITE THE FAILURE MODE WHICH INVOLVES INDENTER CONTACT SURFACE DAMAGE FAILING TO REPLICATE CLINICALLY RELEVANT SUB-SURFACE RADIAL FRACTURE. ADDITIONALLY, LOAD-TO-FAILURE DATA PROVIDES NO INFORMATION ON STRESS PATTERNS WITHIN COMPLEX CROWN GEOMETRIES AND COMPARISONS BETWEEN STUDIES ARE IMPOSSIBLE OWING TO VARIABLE TESTING PROTOCOLS. TESTING GEOMETRIC PLANAR SPECIMENS ALLOWS FOR THE CALCULATION OF FAILURE STRESSES USING BENDING THEORY. BY EMPLOYING STANDARDISED PLANAR GEOMETRIES, SAMPLE PREPARATION AND LOADING PROTOCOLS, COMPARISONS BETWEEN MATERIALS AND INVESTIGATORS ARE POSSIBLE. HOWEVER, PLANAR DATA PROVIDES A CONSERVATIVE MEASURE OF FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR AND FAILS TO ACCOUNT FOR GEOMETRIC FACTORS WHICH MAY MODIFY THE STRESSING PATTERNS, OR DEFECT POPULATIONS WITHIN A COMPLEX BODY SUCH AS A LOADED RESTORATION. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA) METHODOLOGIES HAVE BEEN WIDELY USED IN DENTISTRY AS VIRTUAL CASE STUDIES EMPLOYING THE ADAPTIVE CAPABILITIES OF PARAMETRIC SIMULATIONS TO ASSESS SENSITIVITIES TO DISCRETE CHANGES IN VARIABLES DEFINING THE MODEL, INCLUDING MATERIAL, DIMENSIONAL AND/OR GEOMETRIC PARAMETERS. WHILE VIRTUAL CASE STUDIES ARE INSIGHTFUL, THE USEFULNESS OF FEA SIMULATIONS ARE GOVERNED BY THE LIMITATIONS OF SPECIFIC FEATURES OF THE MODEL INVESTIGATED. BY IMPLICATION FEATURES UNSPECIFIED IN THE SIMULATION CANNOT BE MANIFEST AS DETERMINANTS OF THE FACTORS INVESTIGATED. THE IDEALISATIONS EMPLOYED IN AN FEA SIMULATION MAY BE DETRIMENTAL BY INACCURATELY REPRESENTING MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR. MEASURED DENTAL-CERAMIC STRENGTH DEPENDS UPON THE STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION AND CONFIGURATION OF DEFECTS THEREBY REQUIRING A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH. WHILST FEA METHODS CAN INCORPORATE STATISTICAL ELEMENTS, EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENTS ARE ESSENTIAL TO DETERMINE HOW GEOMETRIC VARIABILITY INFLUENCES A STATISTICAL DEFECT POPULATION IN THE FABRICATED COMPLEX SHAPE. MAY ET AL. (2012) COMPARED AN FEA MODEL DERIVED WITH THE PROBABILISTIC DETERMINATION OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, WHICH INCLUDED PREDICTED FAILURE CRITERIA FROM EXPERIMENTAL DATA, TO INVESTIGATE REPRESENTATIVE 'CRUNCH-THE-CROWN' LOAD-TO-FAILURE TESTING. THE ASSUMED FAILURE CRITERIA WAS ESTABLISHED EXPERIMENTALLY BUT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH AN 'UNCERTAINTY' IN THE FEA RESULTS, THEREBY LIMITING THE AUTHORS CONFIDENCE IN THE APPROACH. SIMPLIFIED NON-PLANAR GEOMETRIES (CURVED-DISCS), WITH A SINGLE RADIUS-OF-CURVATURE, HAVE BEEN PROPOSED TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF GEOMETRIC FACTORS ON RADIAL FRACTURE. HOWEVER, IN THE ABSENCE OF ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS TO DESCRIBE THE STRESS DISTRIBUTION IN CURVED-DISCS TESTED IN BIAXIAL FLEXURE, WE AIMED TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF NON-PLANAR GEOMETRIES ON THE MAXIMUM-PRINCIPAL-STRESS. RADII-OF-CURVATURE ANALOGOUS TO ELEMENTS OF COMPLEX DENTAL GEOMETRIES WERE INVESTIGATED AND THE FEA SIMULATION WAS INTEGRATED WITH LOAD-TO-FAILURE TESTING AS A SURROGATE SOLUTION TO CALCULATE THE MAXIMUM-PRINCIPAL-STRESS AT FAILURE. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN USSHER FELLOWSHIP IMPLICATIONS FOR PATIENT THERAPY OF DENTAL RESIN RESTORATIVES: DOES SIMPLIFYING THE CURING PROTOCOL INCREASE PATIENT RISK? WHILE PATIENT DEMAND FOR AESTHETIC RESTORATIVE TREATMENT OF POSTERIOR TEETH COMBINED WITH THE ENHANCED PUBLIC AWARENESS OF MERCURY TOXICITY FROM SILVER/GREY DENTAL AMALGAM RESTORATIONS HAVE RESULTED IN THE INCREASED USE OF TOOTH-COLOURED RESIN-BASED COMPOSITE (RBC) MATERIALS OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES. RECENT SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO RESTRICT THE MANUFACTURE, USE AND DISPOSAL OF MERCURY-CONTAINING MATERIALS HAS UNCOVERED NEW CHALLENGES FOR DENTAL PRACTITIONERS AND PATIENTS ALIKE. DESPITE DEVELOPMENTS IN LIGHT CURING TECHNOLOGY AND RBC MATERIALS, THE CLINICAL PERFORMANCES OF RBCS HAS NOT IMPROVED OVER A DECADE. POOR POLYMERISATION PROTOCOLS MANIFEST AS RBC RESTORATIONS WITH INADEQUATE MECHANICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES HAVE RESULTED IN SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED RESTORATION FAILURE RATES AND SYSTEMIC HEALTH CONCERNS, RESPECTIVELY EVEN WHEN COMPARED WITH MERCURY-CONTAINING DENTAL AMALGAMS. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF A DENTAL MATERIALS' BIOCOMPATIBILITY STATUS USING ISO 7405 IS WANTING AT BEST AND PERILOUS TO PATIENT HEALTH AT WORST. OUR PATIENT-FOCUSED MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROPOSAL OFFERS AN EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY TO STRATEGICALLY TARGET AND CORRECT CONCERNS WITH RBC ELUENTS, UBIQUITOUS THROUGHOUT MODERN RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY. WE HAVE PRODUCED A PRIMARY HUMAN CELL-BASED ORAL-MUCOSAL-MODEL, DEFINED BY DISTINCT EPITHELIAL AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE LAYERS, METABOLICALLY VIABLE AND HISTOLOGICALLY RESEMBLING NATIVE HUMAN ORAL-MUCOSA. OUR PUBLISHED DATA HAS HIGHLIGHTED SIGNIFICANT CYTOTOXICITY OF NICKEL-CONTAINING BASE-METAL ALLOYS ROUTINELY USED IN DENTISTRY AND WE BELIEVE THAT CRITICALLY THE ACTIVATION OF THE INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE BY RBC ELUENTS CAN BE DEMONSTRATED BY INITIATION OF PROINFLAMMATORY RESPONSES IN METHACRYLATE AND NON-METHACRYLATE-SENSITISED PATIENTS. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PATIENT-ORIENTATED RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE A MEANINGFUL EVIDENCE-BASED QUESTIONNAIRE AND CLINICAL PROTOCOL FOR THE DUBLIN DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (DDUH) WHICH COULD BE INTRODUCED ACROSS DENTAL SCHOOLS, HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE INSTITUTIONS AND PRIMARY CARE DENTAL PRACTICES WITHIN IRELAND AND BEYOND. THIS WOULD RESULT IN A RESEARCH-DRIVEN MODIFICATION TO ROUTINE RESTORATIVE DENTAL TREATMENT PROVISION IN METHACRYLATE AND NON-METHACRYLATE-SENSITISED PATIENTS. THE PATIENT-ORIENTATED APPROACH INVOLVES AN APPROPRIATE RISK APPRAISAL OF THE ONSET OF INFLAMMATORY TISSUE RESPONSES BY COMBINING EXPERTISE IN MATERIALS SCIENCE AND CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY WILL BE UNDERTAKEN IN A CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT. THE MAIN OBJECTIVE IS TO OPTIMISE CLINICAL TREATMENT PROTOCOLS WHICH WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE CLINICAL RE-INTERVENTION WITH AN OBVIOUS COST SAVING TO THE PATIENT AND ULTIMATELY IMPROVE THE PATIENTS' DENTAL EXPERIENCE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PATIENT ORIENTATED RESEARCH DENTAL GLASS-IONOMER RESTORATIVES: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENHANCED NOVEL TAILORED AESTHETIC LIGAND-BASED GLASS-IONOMER RESTORATIVE. RECENT RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT SINGLE SURFACE AMALGAM RESTORATIONS PRODUCE A SURVIVAL PROBABILITY OF 58% AFTER TEN YEARS COMPARED WITH 43 AND 38%, RESPECTIVELY FOR RESIN-BASED COMPOSITES (RBCS) (PLACED IN CLASS III, IV AND V CAVITIES) AND GLASS-IONOMERS (GIS) (PLACED IN CLASS III AND V CAVITIES). DENTAL AMALGAM RELIES ON MECHANICAL INTERLOCKING FOR ADHESION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF SOUND TOOTH STRUCTURE IS NECESSARY WITH RE-INTERVENTION IN ONE IN THREE CASES BEING EXTRACTION OR CROWNING. IN ADDITION, PATIENT DEMAND FOR THE AESTHETIC TREATMENT COMBINED WITH THE FEAR OF MERCURY TOXICITY LIMIT THE APPEAL OF AMALGAM. RBCS ARE AESTHETIC BUT TIME CONSUMING, TECHNIQUE SENSITIVE AND REQUIRE A SERIES OF PRECONDITIONING TREATMENTS OF THE TOOTH STRUCTURE TO ENSURE ADHESION. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SIMPLIFIED BONDING SYSTEMS HAVE NOT BEEN AS SUCCESSFUL AS EXPECTED DESPITE THE ENORMOUS RESEARCH INTEREST, WITH RBC PERFORMANCE REDUCED YEAR ON YEAR SINCE 1996. THIS PROPOSED PROJECT AIMS TO DELIVER A COST EFFECTIVE AND PREDICTABLE NOVEL AESTHETIC POSTERIOR FILLING MATERIAL TO BE PLACED IN MINIMAL INTERVENTION CAVITIES WITH NO ASSOCIATED LOSS OF SOUND TOOTH STRUCTURE. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT IN PRINCIPLE RE-INTERVENTION OF LIKE WITH LIKE (GI WITH GI) COULD ALLOW A TOOTH TO SURVIVE INDEFINITELY AND ELIMINATE THE EXPENSE OF CROWING PROVIDING A MAJOR COST SAVING FOR THE PATIENT OR THE RELEVANT HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDER NAMELY THE HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE. IN SHORT, THE IMMEDIATE BENEFICIARIES ARE LIKELY TO BE GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONERS (GDPS) AND THEIR PATIENTS WHO COULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AN ENHANCED GI RESTORATIVE, THEREBY PROMOTING MINIMAL INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES WHICH WOULD RESULT IN THE PRESERVATION OF SOUND TOOTH STRUCTURE. THE PRESERVATION OF SOUND TOOTH STRUCTURE WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION AS THE EXTENSIVE LOSS OF NATURAL DENTITION WOULD RESULT IN EXTENDED PATIENT VISITS TO GDPS AN IN CASES OF EXTREME TOOTH LOSS WOULD RESULT IN THE PATIENT REQUIRING UNSIGHTLY DENTURES WHICH WOULD SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT UPON THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE. FROM A COMMERCIAL VIEWPOINT THE IDEAL POSTERIOR FILLING MATERIAL SHOULD BE AESTHETIC AND ADHESIVE, QUALITIES THAT ONLY GIS POSSESS AND THEREFORE AN ENHANCED GI RESTORATIVE WOULD BE AN ATTRACTIVE COMMERCIAL ALTERNATIVE TO DENTAL AMALGAM AND RBCS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APPROACHES AND MODERN CHARACTERIZATION METHODS FOR CLINICALLY APPLICABLE NOVEL DENTAL RESTORATIVE GLASS-IONOMER MATERIALS WILL RESULT IN A UNIQUE EXPERTISE OF SKILLED RESEARCHERS AND IS EXTREMELY VALUABLE FOR THE SUCCESS IN FUTURE RESEARCH OR ACADEMIC CAREERS. CONVENTIONAL TECHNICAL PREPARATION METHODS OFTEN SUFFER NOT JUST FROM HIGH COSTS BUT ALSO FROM A REDUCED ABILITY TO PRODUCE MULTIFUNCTIONAL ORGANIC/INORGANIC COMPOSITE STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS WITH HIERARCHICAL ORDER; FEATURES THAT ATTRIBUTE UNIQUE MECHANICAL AND PHYSIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES TO BIOMATERIALS INCLUDING DENTAL RESTORATIVE MATERIALS. THIS PROJECT OFFERS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE RESEARCH TEAM AT THE MATERIALS SCIENCE UNIT TO CEMENT ITS PLACE AS ONE OF THE LEADING DEVELOPERS OF DENTAL MATERIALS WORLDWIDE. IN SHORT THIS COLLABORATION BETWEEN A LECTURER IN INORGANIC AND SYNTHETIC MATERIALS CHEMISTRY WITH A SENIOR LECTURER IN DENTAL MATERIALS SCIENCE OFFERS THE FIRST STEP IN A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS THAT WOULD SEE CLOSER INTEGRATION BETWEEN TWO DISTINCT SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES NOT NOTED FOR COLLABORATIONS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME 2013 GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MR. PADRAIG FLEMING flemingpadraig ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PFLEMING DENTAL SCIENCE DENTISTRY DEPT DENTAL SCIENCE 30 WESTLAND COLLEGE 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. ALASTAIR FLEMING flemingalastair ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FLEMINAL MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER BIOLOGY CHROMATIN DNA GENE EXPRESSION GENE REGULATION GENETIC MANIPULATION GENETICS GENOME ORGANIZATION GENOMES, GENOMICS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE/FUNCTION NUCLEIC ACIDS RECOMBINANT DNA TRANSCRIPTION YEAST AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JEAN FLETCHER fletcherjean USSHER AST PROF TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY FLETCHJ BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY COLLEGE CENTRE FOR IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE FOCUSED ON IMMUNE REGULATION IN HUMAN DISEASE. IN A HEALTHY IMMUNE SYSTEM THERE IS A BALANCE BETWEEN THE PRO-INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES NECESSARY TO FIGHT INFECTION AND REGULATORY RESPONSES WHICH KEEP THESE IN CHECK AND MAINTAIN TOLERANCE. REGULATORY T (TREG) CELLS PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN MAINTAINING PERIPHERAL TOLERANCE, AND DEPLETION OF THESE CELLS IN MICE RESULTS IN AUTOIMMUNITY. IN RECENT YEARS THERE HAS BEEN MUCH INTEREST IN TH17 CELLS, WHICH ARE THOUGHT TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN AUTOIMMUNITY. THE REGULATION OF TH17 CELLS BY TREG CELLS AND IMMUNOMODULATORY THERAPIES IS A KEY AREA OF OUR RESEARCH INTEREST. WE ARE INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING HOW IMMUNE RESPONSES ARE DYSREGULATED IN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES SUCH AS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS) AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS (RA). DURING THE PAST FEW YEARS WE HAVE INVESTIGATED THE REGULATION OF TH17 CELLS BY NATURAL TREG CELLS IN MS. WE SHOWED THAT A PARTICULAR SUBSET OF TREG CELLS EXPRESSING THE CD39 MARKER COULD SUPPRESS TH17 CELLS, WHILE IN CONTRAST CD39- TREG CELLS ACTUALLY PRODUCED IL-17. THESE FINDINGS HIGHLIGHTED AN IMPORTANT THEME IN IMMUNOLOGY, NAMELY THAT CONSIDERABLE PLASTICITY EXISTS WITHIN THE T HELPER AND TREG CD4 T CELL SUBSETS. TH17 CELLS CAN CONVERT TO TH1/TH17 CELLS OR TH17 CELLS, AND TREG CELLS CAN SWITCH TO TH17 CELLS UNDER INFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS. FURTHERMORE, WE SHOWED THAT BOTH THE FREQUENCY AND FUNCTION OF CD39+ TREG CELLS WAS IMPAIRED IN MS. THIS RESEARCH IS PART OF A LONGSTANDING COLLABORATION WITH PROF. NIALL TUBRIDY AND HIS TEAM AT SVUH. WE ARE ALSO INVESTIGATING THE PLASTICITY OF TREG AND TH17 CELLS AND HOW THIS MIGHT CONTRIBUTE TO AUTOIMMUNE INFLAMMATION IN THE RA JOINT. THIS RESEARCH IS IN COLLABORATION WITH DR URSULA FEARON AND PROF. DOUG VEALE AT SVUH. THE ROLE OF CD39+ TREG CELLS IN COLORECTAL CANCER IS ALSO BEING INVESTIGATED IN COLLABORATION WITH DR LIZ RYAN, SVUH. WE ALSO HAVE A RESEARCH INTEREST IN INVESTIGATING THE IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS OF VARIOUS THERAPIES IN MS. THE ROLE OF ENDOGENOUS AND EXOGENOUS IFN-BETA IN MS IS ONE AREA OF INTEREST. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY SHOWN THAT IFN-BETA EXERTS VARIOUS IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS ON TH17-RELATED CYTOKINES AND SPECIFICALLY INDUCED IL-27 WHICH INHIBITS TH17 CELLS. FURTHERMORE, THE CLINICAL RESPONSE TO IFN-BETA TREATMENT CORRELATED WITH THE INDUCTION OF IL-27 BY IFN-BETA IN VITRO. IT IS WELL KNOWN THAT VITAMIN D HAS A NUMBER OF IMMUNOMODULATORY EFFECTS, AND IT IS USED THERAPEUTICALLY TO TREAT PSORIASIS. FURTHERMORE, LOW VITAMIN D LEVELS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH MS AND AN INCREASED RISK OF RELAPSE. AS PART OF A CLINICAL TRIAL TO ASSESS THE EFFECTS OF VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION IN MS, WE WILL BE ANALYZING THE EFFECTS OF VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON BOTH INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY. SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE & BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST PEARSE STREET, COLLEGE 01-8961000 AFRIKAANS ENGLISH BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY AUTOIMMUNITY IMMUNE FUNCTION IMMUNE REGULATION IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNE-RESPONSE IMMUNITY IMMUNOASSAYS IMMUNOLOGICAL MECHANISMS IMMUNOLOGICAL REGULATION IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY IMMUNOTHERAPY MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS REGULATORY T CELLS RHEUMATOLOGY AND RHEUMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS T CELLS TH17 CELLS TUMOUR BIOLOGY/ IMMUNOLOGY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) DYSREGULATION OF PATHOGENIC T CELLS IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS HRB POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP THE ROLE OF CD39+ REGULATORY T CELLS IN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE SFI STARTING INVESTIGATOR GRANT AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MR. DAVID FLETCHER fletcherdavid CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER (SPECIALIST) FLETCHED PHYSIOLOGY 1) PROTOCOL DESIGN; 2) RELIABILITY AND REPRODUCIBILITY OF TEST PROTOCOLS; 3) BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; 4) WIRELESS INSTRUMENTATION DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; 5) REAL TIME DATA ACQUISITION & REAL TIME FEEDBACK SYSTEMS; 6) SMART SENSORS; 7) MEDICAL DEVICES; 8) PATIENT REMOTE MONITORING; 9) FIELD TESTING; 10) MOTOR NEURON RECRUITMENT; 11)NON-INVASIVE CLINICAL MEASUREMENTS; 12) FORCE TRANSDUCER DESIGN AND INTEGRATION PHYSIOLOGY DEPT PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION AND APPLICATIONS, ELECTRONICS FIELD PERFORMANCE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIERS INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS MEDICAL-INSTRUMENTATION PHYSIOLOGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE DESIGN SOFTWARE RELIABILITY SOFTWARE TESTING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MODELS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS/CONTROL WIRELESS NETWORKS WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS NEUROSCIENCE DR. STEPHEN FLINT flintstephen FELLOW EMERITUS SFLINT DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL DEPT DENTAL SCIENCE 30 WESTLAND COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER PROFESSOR PETROS SERGHIOU FLORIDES floridespetrosserghiou FELLOW EMERITUS PFLORIDS PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS DEPT OF PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) A PATRON (AND PAST PRESIDENT) OF THE IRISH HELLENIC SOCIETY ACTED AS REFEREE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS: IL NUOVO CIMENTO, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, JOURNAL OF GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS AND OTHERS. CHAIRMAN OF THE LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF THE 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION, HELD IN DUBLIN AT THE RDS CONVENTION CENTRE FROM JULY 18TH - 23RD, 2004 CHAIRMAN OF THE PEER REVIEW GROUP FOR THE FIRST QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN GREECE. CHAIRMAN OF THE SELECTION COMMITTEE FOR THE MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, LONDON LIFE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY ON GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR ASTRONOMY AND SPACE RESEARCH OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS MEMBER OF THE REVIEWING BODY OF THE "MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS" RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AT THE SCHOOL OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS OF THE DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES APPROXIMATION METHODS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY BLACK-HOLE CONSERVATION LAWS CONTINUOUS MEDIA COSMOLOGY ELECTROMAGNETISM IN GENERAL RELATIVITY GENERAL RELATIVITY GRAVITATION HYDRODYNAMICS PROLATE GALAXIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. DEIRDRE FLYNN flynndeirdre DIRECTOR OF STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICE DFLYNN COUNSELLING STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICE 3RD FLOOR, TRINITY COLLEGE 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. JOHN BRIAN FOLEY foleyjohnbrian ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JFOLEY ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING ADAPTIVE SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR ACOUSTIC ECHO CONTROL AND CANCELLATION; DEVELOPMENTS TO AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE LMS ALGORITHM. LOW-POWER DIGITAL CMOS; GENERATION OF TRANSITION SEQUENCES FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF ACTIVITY FACTORS IN A DIGITAL SYSTEM; THE STUDY OF COMPLETE TRANSITION SEQUENCES; LOW-POWER LOGIC DESIGN. THRESHOLD CONCEPTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION; IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF THRESHOLD CONCEPTS AND FUNCTIONS; ENGINEERING PROBLEM SOLVING AS A THRESHOLD FUNCTION; THE ROLE OF METALEARNING. ELEC & ELECT ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH FRENCH IRISH ASEE DRHEA ENHANCEMENT OF LEARNING STRAND COMMITTEE DRHEA MANAGEMENT BOARD ENGINEERS IRELAND ACCREDITATION BOARD IEEE NAIRTL MANAGEMENT BOARD CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. GERALDINE FOLEY foleygeraldine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FOLEYG3 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY MY RESEARCH HAS, TO DATE, BEEN FOCUSED PRIMARILY IN THE ALS (AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS) / MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE (MND) FIELD. MY EARLY WORK/PUBLICATIONS INVESTIGATED AND REPORTED ON ALS PATIENTS' QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL) AND ON THEIR EXPERIENCES OF AND PREFERENCES FOR CARE. SINCE 2011, MY RESEARCH HAS DEVELOPED SIGNIFICANTLY AND HAS BECOME MORE WIDELY READ AND IMPACTFUL. I WAS SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING A HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS HRB (HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD) RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS 2011-2014 (€204,583.41) TO INVESTIGATE ALS PATIENTS' UNDERSTANDING AND USE OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES. MY HRB-FUNDED RESEARCH WAS THE FIRST TO IDENTIFY IN SUBSTANTIVE TERMS, KEY PSYCHO-SOCIAL PROCESSES THAT UNDERPIN HOW PEOPLE WITH ALS ENGAGE WITH HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES. MY CURRENT WORK IS FOCUSED ON HOW ALS PATIENTS AND THEIR FAMILY INTERRELATE IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES PERTAINING TO CARE. I AM AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED ACADEMIC IN MY FIELD (GOOGLE SCHOLAR: H-INDEX 8, I10INDEX 7, 233 CITATIONS). I AM AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF TRINITY COLLEGE'S INCLUSIVE SOCIETY RESEARCH GROUP. I AM FOCUSED ON USING QUALITATIVE METHODS TO EXPLORE PROCESSES AND INTERACTIONS IN HEALTHCARE (WITH A STRONG ORIENTATION TOWARDS PALLIATIVE AND NEURO-REHABILITATIVE CARE) AT BOTH THE MICRO AND MACRO LEVEL. MY EXPERTISE IS IN QUALITATIVE METHODS AND I HAVE ACQUIRED EXTENSIVE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH EXPERTISE AT INTERNATIONAL-BASED RESEARCH CENTRES (FOR EXAMPLE, THE HEALTH EXPERIENCES RESEARCH GROUP, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD AND THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, CANADA). I SPECIALISE IN THE GROUNDED THEORY METHOD AND I HAVE PUBLISHED ON THE APPLICATION OF THE GROUNDED THEORY METHOD. I COLLABORATE WITH QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGISTS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ON THE APPLICATION OF QUALITATIVE METHODS. I HAVE PRESENTED MY WORK AT MULTIPLE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FORUMS INCLUDING FOR EXAMPLE, INTERNATIONAL ALS/MND SYMPOSIA, THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (BSA) MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY CONFERENCE, AND THE WORLD RESEARCH CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE. I HAVE PUBLISHED MY WORK IN HIGHLY REPUTABLE ISI-RANKED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS INCLUDING FOR INSTANCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS AND FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION (ALS & FTD), AND QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH. I PEER REVIEW ON A REGULAR BASIS FOR ALS & FTD. I HAVE ALSO ACTED AS REVIEWER FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE, BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, BMC NEUROLOGY, AND OTHER IMPORTANT JOURNALS. MY CAPACITY TO ENGAGE WITH INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITIES IS ILLUSTRATED BY INVITATIONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION (E.G. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS). TO ILLUSTRATE MY CAPACITY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ACTIVITY, I HAVE COLLABORATED ON A HRB INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT (ICE) RESEARCH PROGRAMME. THE PURPOSE OF MY COLLABORATION WAS TO ASSIST IN DEVELOPING AN ALS CARE PATHWAY, DERIVED IN PART FROM THE ALS PATIENT EXPERIENCE. I HAVE ESTABLISHED COLLABORATIVE RELATIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL-BASED RESEARCHERS IN THE ALS AND PALLIATIVE CARE FIELDS. DEPT OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI) ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI) COUNCIL - TASKED WITH ADVISING ON THE EXECUTIVE AND STRATEGIC FUNCTIONS OF AOTI. ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI) VALIDATION COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBER IRISH MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE ASSOCIATION (IMNDA) COLLEGE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS SPECIALIST SECTION - NEUROLOGICAL PRACTICE, UK COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE REHABILITATION & THERAPY RESEARCH SOCIETY (RTRS) DEMENTIA AND NEURODEGENERATION IRELAND (DNDI) EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE (EAPC) EXPERT REVIEWER FOR CANCER RESEARCH UK (MARIE CURIE CANCER CARE) EXPERT REVIEWER FOR NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NMRC), MINISTRY OF HEALTH, SINGAPORE MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE ITALIAN FOUNDATION FOR ALS RESEARCH (ARISLA) ICE BUCKET CALL CHALLENGE FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS (2015) AND MEMBER OF THE EXPERT CONSENSUS GROUP FOR THE RESEARCH CALL. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE STEERING GROUP (HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, IRELAND) - STRATEGIC REVIEW OF NEUROLOGY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY SERVICES IN IRELAND (2006-2007) MEMBER OF THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY CLINICAL SPECIALIST COMPETENCIES WORKING GROUP. THERAPY PROJECT OFFICE, HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE REHABILITATION AND THERAPY RESEARCH SOCIETY, IRELAND (RTRS) REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS: AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS & FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION, QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH, PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE CARE, BMC PALLIATIVE CARE, DISABILITY & REHABILITATION, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE, BMC NEUROLOGY, BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH, BMJ OPEN, BMC WOMEN'S HEALTH, PATIENT PREFERENCE & ADHERANCE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE NURSING TREASURER, REHABILITATION AND THERAPY RESEARCH SOCIETY (RTRS) AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS / MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE BIOGRAPHICAL DISRUPTION CHRONIC ILLNESS END-OF-LIFE CARE GROUNDED THEORY LIFE COURSE PERSPECTIVE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES/DISORDERS NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS NEUROPALLIATIVE CARE NEUROREHABILITATION OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY - NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS PALLIATIVE CARE PATIENT EXPERIENCE PATIENT PREFERENCE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL) TERMINAL ILLNESS HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) UNDERSTANDING AND USE OF HEALTHCARE SERVICES BY PEOPLE WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS / MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS), OTHERWISE KNOWN AS MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE (MND) IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. CARE NEEDS ARE BOTH COMPLEX AND CHALLENGING AND SERVICES PROVIDED SHOULD BE USER-ORIENTATED TO MEET CARE NEEDS. HOWEVER, RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT THERE MAY BE A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN SERVICE USERS' AND PROVIDERS' UNDERSTANDING OF SERVICES WHICH CAN DIRECTLY INFLUENCE HOW SERVICE USERS MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT AND EXPERIENCE CARE. THERE IS A DEARTH OF EVIDENCE ON HOW THOSE WITH ALS UNDERSTAND THEIR SERVICES AND ENGAGE WITH CARE. EQUALLY, THERE IS A DEARTH OF RESEARCH ON HOW THOSE WITH ALS MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT CARE. HENCE, THE AIMS OF THIS STUDY ARE TO IDENTIFY HOW ALS SERVICE USERS UNDERSTAND, DECIDE ON, USE AND EXPERIENCE HEALTH CARE SERVICES. A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH WILL BE USED IN ORDER TO EXPLORE PARTICIPANTS' EXPERIENCES OF CARE. THEORETICAL SAMPLING OF ALS PATIENTS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN WHEREBY PARTICIPANTS ARE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF EMERGING THEMES WITHIN THE DATA. DATA COLLECTION WILL CONSIST OF QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS WITH ALS SERVICE USERS. DATA FROM INTERVIEWS WILL BE ANALYSED USING OPEN, AXIAL AND SELECTIVE CODING TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLANATION OF PARTICIPANTS' EXPERIENCES OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES. THE RESEARCH FINDINGS WILL BE ORGANISED INTO CORE CATEGORIES OR THEMES; ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CATEGORIES WILL ENABLE THE FORMULATION OF A SUBSTANTIVE THEORY ABOUT HOW ALS SERVICE USERS UNDERSTAND AND USE SERVICES. CONCLUSIONS WILL CONSIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT HOW BEST TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH ALS/MND IN THE CONTEXT OF SERVICE USER EXPERIENCE AND DECISION MAKING. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, IRELAND. GRANT AMOUNT: €204,583.41 RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS 2011. PI FOR HRB: GERALDINE FOLEY LIVING AND DYING WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS: A POPULATION-BASED ANALYSIS OF PALLIATIVE NEEDS, SERVICES AND OUTCOMES IN NON-MALIGNANT TERMINAL ILLNESS THE PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE PALLIATIVE NEEDS, SERVICES AND OUTCOMES FOR THOSE LIVING WITH MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE (MND) IN IRELAND. INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDS EARLY PALLIATIVE CARE INTERVENTION FROM TIME OF DIAGNOSIS OF MND. HOWEVER, IN IRELAND ACCESS TO PALLIATIVE CARE IS LIMITED AND THE CLINICAL INDICATIONS FOR SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE INTERVENTION ARE NOT CLEARLY DEFINED. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO IDENTIFY THE DEFICITS IN CURRENT PALLIATIVE MANAGEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH MND BY COMPARING EXISTING PRACTICE WITH BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES, AND TO DEVELOP A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK BASED ON A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TOWARDS THE PALLIATIVE MANAGEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH MND. PROSPECTIVE LONGITUDINAL CLINICAL, HEALTH SERVICE, QUALITY OF LIFE AND BURDEN OF ILLNESS DATA RELATING TO THE PATIENT JOURNEY OF 100 PATIENTS IN IRELAND WITH MND AND THEIR CAREGIVERS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR ANALYSIS. ACCESS TO AND UTILISATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES WILL BE ASSESSED AND COMPARISON BETWEEN CURRENT MANAGEMENT AND BEST PRACTICE WILL BE EVALUATED. A MULTIFACETED CARE FRAMEWORK WILL BE DEVELOPED AND PILOTED WITH HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL AND USERS. SERVICE PROVIDERS' PERSPECTIVE WILL BE CAPTURED AND THE PERCEIVED UTILITY OF THE SERVICE EVALUATED FROM A PATIENT AND CARER PERSPECTIVE. ON COMPLETION THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A ROAD MAP FOR PALLIATIVE SERVICES INTERVENTION FOR MND, AND WILL ASSIST IN THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF PALLIATIVE SERVICES IN IRELAND. LEAD-PI PROF. O HARDIMAN, CO-PIS: PROF. C NORMAND, PROF. I PERRY, PROF. A STAINES, PROF. V TIMONEN, DR. R MCQUILLAN HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, IRELAND HRB INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT AWARD PERCEPTIONS OF QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) FEW STUDIES HAVE EXPLORED THE 'MEANING' OF LIFE EXPERIENCES FOR PEOPLE WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS). THIS STUDY AIMED TO IDENTIFY THE MEANING OF QOL FOR PEOPLE WITH ALS, AND TO CONSIDER HOW THEIR EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH CARE AFFECTED PERCEIVED WELLBEING, USING QUALITATIVE METHODS. PEOPLE WITH ALS WERE PURPOSIVELY SAMPLED FROM THE IRISH ALS POPULATION-BASED REGISTER AND INTERVIEWED ON TWO OCCASIONS. INTERVIEWS WERE AUDIOTAPED AND TRANSCRIBED VERBATIM. DATA WERE ANALYSED USING INDUCTIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS. THEMES THAT EMERGED INCLUDED: IMPORTANCE OF FAITH, SEARCH FOR CONTROL, IMPORTANCE OF DIGNITY, DESIRE TO MAINTAIN IDENTITY, IMPORTANCE OF FAMILY, A SENSE OF LOSS, IMPORTANCE OF ALTRUISM AND SUPPORT, FIGHTING AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS, AND APPRECIATION OF LIFE. ALL PARTICIPANTS FELT THAT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR WELL-BEING. QOL WAS INDIVIDUAL AND MULTI-DIMENSIONAL, AND WAS SHAPED BY THE COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL STRATEGIES PARTICIPANTS USED TO COPE WITH ALS. THE FINDINGS OF THIS STUDY FURTHER OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW PEOPLE WITH ALS ADAPT TO TERMINAL ILLNESS. BEAUMONT HOSPITAL DUBLIN POST-GRADUATE FUNDING PROGRAMME. GRANT SUPPORT: €4,000 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MR. TIM FORAN forantim ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TFORAN SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE MEDICAL PHYSICS TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE MS. ELIZABETH FORDE fordeelizabeth ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EFORDE RADIATION THERAPY ADVANCED TREATMENT PLANNING; IMAGE GUIDED ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ELIZABETH IS A MEMBER OF THE FACULTY FOR THE ESTRO TEACHING COURSE: ADVANCED SKILLS IN MODERN RADIOTHERAPY ONCOLOGY RADIATION TECHNOLOGISTS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY THE DOSIMETRIC IMPACT OF AN "OFF-AXIS" CONTOUR VARIATION WHEN TREATING PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY WITH INTENSITY AND VOLUMETRIC MODULATED FIELDS DUE TO THE MODULATED NATURE OF THE FIELDS, A VOLUMETRIC APPROACH TO CONTOUR VARIATION IS ESSENTIAL WHEN TREATING WITH EITHER IMRT OR VMAT. THE TRADITIONAL CENTRAL AXIS MEASUREMENT IS NO LONGER SUFFICIENT AS AN INDICATOR FOR DOSIMETRIC VARIATION ON TARGET DOSE AND FAILS TO INFORM OF THE NEED FOR PLAN ADAPTATION. THIS RESEACH QUANTIFIES THE IMPACT A BODY CONTOUR VARIATION MAY HAVE ON THE DOSE TO THE TARGET FOR PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE OPTIMAL PLANNING TECHNIQUE FOR THE RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT OF COMPLEX PELVIC CANCERS: 3DCRT, IMRT AND RAPIDARC. THIS GRANT, FUNDED BY THE NSW CANCER INSTITUTE, ENABLED SITE VISITS TO CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE IN THE US AND EUROPE. THE EXPERIENCE GAINED DURING THIS PROJECT FACILITATED THE IMPEMENTATION OF VMAT AT NSCC. NSW CANCER INSTITUTE CANCER DR. TIMOTHY KIRBY FORDE fordetimothykirby CONNECT -DIRECTOR OF INNOVATION FORDETI COMPUTER SCIENCE CONNECT DUNLOP ORIEL HOUSE FENIAN ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AD HOC NETWORKS COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS DYNAMIC SPECTRUM ACCESS NETWORKS ELECTRONIC COMMERCE,PAYMENT, SIGNATURE INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN NETWORK MANAGEMENT NETWORK SIGNALLING PROTOCOL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY NETWORKS NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SIGNAL PROCESSING SPECTRUM TRADING TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING WIRELESS SYSTEMS, RADIO TECHNOLOGY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. MAEVE FOREMAN foremanmaeve ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MFOREMAN SOCIAL STUDIES NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS; HIV CARE AND PREVENTION; DISABILITY, SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTH. MEMBER OF ADVISORY GROUP ESTABLISHED BY GAY MEN'S HEALTH PROJECT ON RESEARCHING THE NEEDS OF HIV+ MSM, JUNE 2009. MEMBER OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR MAYOCK ET AL (2009) SUPPORTING LGBT LIVES: A STUDY OF THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL BEING OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE. DUBLIN:GAY AND LESBIAN EQUALITY NETWORK (GLEN) AND BELONGTO YOUTH PROJECT, FUNDED BY HSE'S NATIONAL OFFICE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: MEMBER OF READING GROUP FOR RESEARCH REPORT 'SEXUAL HEALTH CHALLENGES AND RELATED SERVICE PROVISION, IN LAYTE ET AL (2006) THE IRISH STUDY OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS (ISSHR), DUBLIN:DEPT. OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN/CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSESSOR FOR THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK BOARD MEMBER, DUBLIN AIDS ALLIANCE (CHAIR OF BOARD 2008 TO 2011) CARE & MANAGEMENT SUB COMMITTEE, NATIONAL AIDS STRATEGY COMMITTEE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS (IASW) IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS NATIONAL AIDS STRATEGY COMMITTEE (HIV COUNSELLORS GROUP REPRESENTATIVE) NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATION BOARD PANEL OF ASSESSORS HIV - JUST ANOTHER CHRONIC ILLNESS? PARTNERS: NEANS NIRATHAILLE, SENIOR SOCIAL WORKER AND SANDRA DELAMERE, SENIOR NURSE PRACTITIONER IN SEXUAL HEALTH, ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL. RESEARCH COMPRISED OF FOCUS GROUPS CONDUCTED WITH PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV, SOCIAL WORKERS AND NURSES ON CURRENT PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES IN HIV EVALUATING MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK IN AN IRISH HOSPITAL SOCIAL WORK DEPT., ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL BEAUMONT BEREAVEMENT CARE SERVICE AN EVALUATION OF BEAUMONT HOSPITAL BEREAVEMENT CARE SERVICE. BEAUMONT HOSPITAL HIV SERVICES IN IRELAND - SERVICE USERS' PERSPECTIVES NASC, DEPT. OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN EVALUATION OF A MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR PATIENTS AND STAFF IN A DUBLIN HOSPITAL PARTNERS: DR. NOIRIN SHEAHAN, PHD, PGDIP MINDFULNESS BASED APPROACHES, SENIOR LECTURER AND MINDFULNESS TRAINER; DR. CONNAIL MCCRORY, CONSULTANT, PAIN MEDICINE SERVICE; CENTRE FOR LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT; CARDIAC REHABILITATION UNIT, ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND 2011/12 IRISH SOCIAL WORKERS' EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH ASYLUM SEEKERS LIVING WITHIN THE DIRECT PROVISION SYSTEM CONDUCTED WITH DR. MUIREANN NI RAGHALLAIGH FROM UCD, IN CONNECTION WITH THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS, THIS STUDY SET OUT TO EXPLORE IRISH SOCIAL WORKERS' EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH ASYLUM SEEKERS LIVING WITHIN THE DIRECT PROVISION SYSTEM, WITH A VIEW TO INFORMING THE IRISH GOVERNMENT'S WORKING GROUP ON THE PROTECTION SYSTEM TRANSITIONING FROM DIRECT PROVISION TO LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY CONDUCTED WITH DR. MUIREANN NI RAGHALLAIGH, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL POLICY, SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL JUSTICE UCD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE IRISH REFUGEE COUNCIL, AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF CLÍODHNA BAIRÉAD, SIPHATHISIWE MOYO & GABRIEL WENYI MENDE, THIS RESEARCH SET OUT TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS, SUBSIDIARY PROTECTION OR 'LEAVE TO REMAIN' IN IRELAND, AND THE CHALLENGES THEY FACE IN TRANSITIONING FROM DIRECT PROVISION TO LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY. THE RESEARCH WILL BE USED TO INFORM A SUBMISSION TO THE IRISH GOVERNMENT'S INTERDEPARTMENTAL TASKFORCE ON TRANSITIONAL SUPPORTS FOR PERSONS GRANTED STATUS IN DIRECT PROVISION IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS - ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY STRAND CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR TIMOTHY JAMES FOSTER fostertimothyjames FELLOW EMERITUS TFOSTER MICROBIOLOGY DEPT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AD HOC CONSULTANCY TO ZENECA, INTERCELL, AMERICAN CYANAMID, UNILEVER, PANTHERIX AD HOC CONSULTANT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, IRELAND. LIVE-ATTENUATED CHOLERA VACCINE LICENSE CONSULTANT TO PANTHERIX, GLASGOW CONSULTANT TO SMITHKLINE BEECHAM, UK EDITORIAL BOARD OF "INFECTION AND IMMUNITY" EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY' EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'MICROBIAL DRUG RESISTANCE' EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'MICROBIOLOGY' EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY' EXTERNAL MEMBER OF PROMOTION/TENURE COMMITTEE, ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL LONDON EXTERNAL MEMBER OF PROMOTION/TENURE COMMITTEE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GALWAY INVITED SPEAKER AT 40 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES IN USA, UK, AND FAR EAST AND EUROPE SINCE 1985 MEMBER OF AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY MEMBER OF HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COMMITTEE, MICROBIOLOGY MECHANISMS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND HOST DEFENCE MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD OF INHIBITEX INC, ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA, USA MEMBER OF SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH FELLOW, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY REGULAR REVIEWER OF GRANT APPLICATIONS. THE WELLCOME TRUST, THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL UK, BBSRC UK REVIEWER FOR DFG CLUSTER OF EXCELLENCE, BONN, GERMANY SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER FOR ISSSI (INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF STAPHYLOCOCCI AND STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS) VII (1992), VIII (1996), IX (2000), X (2002), XI (2004), XII (2006), X1V (2010) WELLCOME TRUST ADVANCED TECHNIQUES LABORATORY COURSE IN BACTERIAL PATHOGENS, HINXTON, CAMBRIDGE. TUTOR IN LABORATORY. ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE MECHANISMS ANTIBIOTICS BIOFILMS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TRAINING BOVINE MASTITIS CLONING VECTORS CLUMPING FACTOR COLLAGEN ADHESIN ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS EPIDERMOLYTIC TOXIN FIBRINOGEN FIBRONECTIN FIBRONECTIN-BINDING PROTEINS FOREIGN-BODY INFECTION GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA HEMOLYSIN IMMUNE EVASION MECHANISMS INFECTIOUS DISEASES/AGENTS LEUKOCYTES MICROBIOLOGY MOLECULAR CLONING PROTEINS AND MACROMOLECULES RECOMBINANT DNA STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME TOXIN VACCINE VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY & ADJUVANTS VACCINOLOGY VIRULENCE FACTORS GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. NEIL HOWARD FRANKISH frankishneilhoward ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NFRNKISH PHARMACY CURRENT RESEARCH IS LARGELY CONCERNED WITH FINDING NOVEL DRUGS TO TREAT AUTO-IMMUNE INFLAMMATORY DISEASE SUCH AS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. MANY OF THE CLASSIC IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE DRUGS AVAILABLE HAVE A LESS THAN SATISFACTORY TOXICOLOGY PROFILE. MORE RECENT MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY ANTI-TNF THERAPY MAY BE SUBJECT TO AUTO-ANTIBODY FORMATION AND CONFER SUSCEPTIBILITY TO OPPORTUNE INFECTIONS. THE RESEARCH GROUP CONCENTRATES ON SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITORS, NOVEL INDANE DIMER DERIVATIVES, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON SEVERAL SYSTEMS, INCLUDING ISOLATED T-CELLS AND MAST CELLS IN CULTURE AND IN VIVO DISEASE MODELS. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN PORTUGUESE ENGLISH GERMAN BRITISH PHARAMACOLOGIGAL SOCIETY APPLIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS AUTOIMMUNE AND HYPERSENSITIVITY DISEASES AUTOIMMUNITY CARDIOVASCULAR AND MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY CHRONIC INFLAMATION COMMERCIALISATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COMPUTERISED CLINICAL SYSTEMS CYTOSKELTON, CELL DIVISION DIGESTIVE DISEASES & DISORDERS DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DRUG DISCOVERY, PROFILING, TARGETING GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES/DISORDERS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNE SYSTEM DISORDERS IMMUNOASSAYS IMMUNOPATHOLOGY IMMUNOSUPPRESSION INFLAMMATION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PHARMACEUTICALS PHARMACOLOGY PHARMACY TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY, TOLERANCE AND REJECTION NOVEL INDANES AS POTENTIAL THERAPIES FOR AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE NOVEL INDANE COMPOUNDS ARE BEING ASSESSED IN A VARIETY OF IN VITRO AND IN VIVO MODELS OF AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE. COMMERCIALLY FUNDED EFFECT OF EXTRACTS OF ISODON & BAUHINIA SPECIES ON INFLAMMATION EXTRACTS OF SEVERAL SPECIES OF ISODON AND BAUHINIA ARE BEING STUDIED ON A RANGE OF INNFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS AND IN VIVO INFLAMMATORY MODELS. STUDIES ON LFA-1 STIMULATED T-CELL MOTILITY A RANGE OF NOVEL COMPOUNDS ARE BEING STUDIED ON THEIR EFFECTS ON LFA-1 MEDIATED HUT-78 T-CELL MOTILITY. EFFECT OF NOVEL INDANES ON MAST CELL FUNCTION NOVEL INDANES WILL BE INVESTIGATED ON MAST CELL FUNCTION AND DEGRNAULATION USING HARVESTED PERITONEAL MAST CELLS, AND MAST CELL LINES SUCH AS RBL-3H3 AND LAD2. MEDIATORS STUDIED WILL INCLUDE HISTAMINE, CYTOKINES ETC. ASSESSMENT OF NOVEL INDANES AS POTENTIAL ANTI-ASTHMATIC DRUGS NOVEL INDANE COMPOUNDS HAVE BEEN STUDIED USING MOUSE AND RAT BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE MODELS OF ASTHMA, LOOKING AT CELL RECRUITMENT INTO THE LUNG, TOGETHER WITH CYTOKINE PROFILES, AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH EXISTING IMMUNOSUPPPRESSION DRUGS. IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MRS. JEAN FREEMAN freemanjean RETIRED STAFF MEMBER JFREEMAN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER DEPT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LAB ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JULIAN FRIEDLAND friedlandjulian ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FRIEDLAJ BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR THOMAS FRODL frodlthomas ADJUNCT PROFESSOR FRODLT PSYCHIATRY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MY RESEARCH FOCUS IS WITHIN 3 MAIN AREAS: A. TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH STARTING FROM EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES IN MICE OR RATS AND APPLYING NEW AND ESTABLISHED NEUROIMAGING TECHNIQUES OR BLOOD MARKERS (LIKE GENETIC OR FUNCTIONAL GENETIC BIOMARKERS) TO CLINICAL POPULATIONS IN ORDER TO GAIN INSIDE INTO THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF DISEASE, VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE. IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO EXPLORE THE EFFECTS OF STRESS AND OF PERIPHERAL STRESS BLOOD MARKERS ON BRAIN FUNCTION AND STRUCTURE AND TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF FUNCTIONAL GENETICS, E.G. EPIGENETICS ON BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION. IN THE PAST I CARRIED OUT MULTI/DISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN PATIENTS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION AND ADHD. CURRENTLY, WE ARE CARRYING AN HRB FUNDED PROJECT ON BIOMARKERS OF ADULT ADHD PATIENTS LONGITUDINALLY FOLLOWED FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD. RECENTLY, I RECEIVED MAJOR FUNDING FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH WITHIN THE AREA OF STRESS, NEUROPLASTICITY AND AGEING WITHIN THE EU-MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING PROGRAM - 4.3 MIO IN TOTAL AND ABOUT 730.000 EURO PERSONAL FUNDING. THIS NETWORK PROGRAM IS PRESTIGIOUS APART FOR THE SCIENCE ALSO IN TERMS OF CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER UNIVERSITIES LIKE TURKU (FINLAND), LUND (SWEDEN), NOTTINGHAM (UK), BRUSSELS (BELGIUM) AND MAGDEBURG (GERMANY). 2. CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTING BIOLOGICAL METHODS: IDENTIFYING FUNDAMENTAL BRAIN NETWORK ALTERATIONS IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS SUCH AS DEPRESSION, ADHD, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEMENTIA USING NEUROIMAGING AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL METHODS THAT FURTHER CAN BE APPLIED TO CLINICAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS IN ORDER TO EXAMINE BIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF THERAPY RESPONSE AND FINDING MARKERS FOR THERAPY RESPONSE AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. AN OPEN QUESTION IS FOR EXAMPLE TO EXPLORE THE ROLE THAT GENE X ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS PLAY IN THERAPY RESPONSE AND HOW THIS INFORMATION COULD BE USED FOR THERAPY GUIDANCE. CURRENTLY, MY RESEARCH GROUP IS CARRYING OUT TRIALS ON EXERCISE IN HEALTHY CONTROLS AND IN PATIENTS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSION. I HAVE A WRITTEN PROPOSAL FOR A CLINICAL PROGRAM USING NEUROIMAGING AND BLOOD INVESTIGATIONS AS PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES IN A SAMPLE OF PATIENTS RECEIVING EITHER PSYCHOTHERAPY OR OPTIMIZED PHARMACOTHERAPY. MOREOVER, I RUN SEVERAL CLINICAL TRIALS THAT INCLUDED THE USE OF NEUROIMAGING TECHNIQUES LIKE FMRI AND SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY IN MUNICH. 3. HEALTH SERVICE RESEARCH: STILL THERE IS STRONG NEED TO EXPLORE WHICH CLINICAL PROGRAMS WITHIN A SERVICE DELIVER ENDURING QUALITY FOR THE HEALTH OF A POPULATION AND THUS ALSO HAVE BENEFITS ON THE LONGER TERM FOR THE RESOURCES OF A SERVICE, E.G. BY SAVING MONEY THAT CAN BE USED THEN FOR NOVEL DEVELOPMENTS OF CLINICAL PROGRAMS. FOR EXAMPLE IT IS STILL A MATTER OF DEBATE WHETHER EARLY INTERVENTION OR HOME TREATMENT HAVE ENDURING BENEFITS OR WHETHER THEY JUST REDUCE THE NEED FOR INPATIENT THERAPIES. THUS I WILL BE VERY KEEN TO INVESTIGATE THE CLINICAL AND WIDER HEALTH OUTCOMES OF PROGRAMS SUCH AS EARLY INTERVENTION FOR PSYCHOSIS, CBT FOR PSYCHOSIS, SUICIDE PREVENTION, CRISIS INTERVENTION, HOME TREATMENT WITHIN NATURALISTIC AND CLINICAL TRIALS. A BROADER VIEW IS ALSO TO COMPARE THE EFFICACY OF THE MODERN DUBLIN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE COMPARED TO FOR EXAMPLE A MORE TRADITIONAL HEALTH SERVICE IN GERMANY. AT PRESENT I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN CARRYING OUT HEALTH SERVICE RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF LEARNING DISABILITY AND HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH MEASURES FOR QUALITY CONTROL AND RISK ASSESSMENT AS WELL AS PREVENTION OF RISKS FOR STAFF AND PATIENTS WITHIN A SERVICE. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY (CIP), MUNICH GERMAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY IRISH COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS MEDICAL COUNCIL, SPECIALIST REGISTER ADHD AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ANATOMY BIPOLAR DISORDER BRAIN THEORY,BRAIN MAPPING CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH DEPRESSION DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS DNA TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS EXERCISE AND CYSTIC FIBROSIS HEALTH INFORMATICS HUMAN GENETICS LEARNING DISABILITIES MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS NEUROBIOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROENDOCRINE IMMUNOLOGY NEUROGENETICS NEUROIMAGING NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NEUROPLASTICITY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS PSYCHIATRIC PHENOMENA PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDER PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS PSYCHIATRIC-INPATIENTS PSYCHIATRIC-SYMPTOMS PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOTHERAPY REHABILITATION RNA PROCESSING, STABILITY AND DEGRADATION SCHIZOPHRENIA NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY GENETICS AND GENOMICS MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) CLINICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OUTCOME OF ADULTS WITH CHILDHOOD DIAGNOSED ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS IN CHILDREN (5-10% PREVALENCE) AND PERSISTS IN 50-80% OF CASES INTO ADULTHOOD. IN ADULTS IT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPAIRS ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING, SUCH AS ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, OCCUPATIONAL, AND FAMILY FUNCTIONING AND RESULTS IN A HIGH RATE OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES AND DRUG ABUSE. RESEARCH IN ADULT ADHD IS AT THE START AND KNOWING MORE ABOUT THE CLINICAL, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL OUTCOME RELATED TO MAINTENANCE OF AND REMISSION FROM ADHD SYMPTOMATOLOGY IN ADULTS IS IMPORTANT. NEUROIMAGING AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES HAVE HELPED BETTER TO UNDERSTAND COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTIONS IN ADHD. OUR CAREFUL LITERATURE REVIEW HAS IDENTIFIED THAT HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING (HARDI)-TRACTOGRAPHY TO MEASURE BRAIN FIBRE BUNDLES, ARTERIAL SPIN LABELLING (ASL) AS WELL AS FUNCTIONAL MRI (FMRI) RESTING STATE, DECISION MAKING FMRI AND COMBINING THESE WITH NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTS OF ATTENTION AND WORKING MEMORY WOULD BE NOVEL AND THE MOST APPROPRIATE METHODS TO USE IN OUR STUDY. THE AIM OF THE PRESENT PROJECT IS TO EXAMINE THE CLINICAL, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL OUTCOME AS WELL AS MICROSTRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL IMAGING CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE OUTCOME VARIABLES. SPECIFIC AIMS ARE TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER CLINICAL VARIABLES DURING CHILDHOOD WILL PREDICT THE OUTCOME AND WHICH CHANGES IN RESTING STATE ASL, DECISION-MAKING FMRI AND HARDI-TRACTOGRAPHY WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH REMISSION OR MAINTENANCE OF ADHD. ALTOGETHER CLINICAL, NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND NEUROIMAGING DATA WILL SHOW A GOOD SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY TO DIAGNOSE ADHD. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH NEURAL AND STRESS CORRELATES OF RESILIENCE IN AN EXERCISE-COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL PROGRAMME TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF AN EXERCISE PROGRAM THAT LASTET FOR 16 WEEKS ON BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION. IDEA WAS TO IDENTIFY MARKERS FOR NEUROPLASTICITY AND TO IDENTIFY STRATEGIES LEADING TO RESILIENCE MEATH FOUNDATION RESEARCH GENETIC VARIATION IN THE MUSCARINIC CHOLINERGIC M2 RECEPTOR GENE AND CHOLINERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION IN BIPOLAR DISORDER TO STUDY THE IMPACT OF ACETYLCHOLINERGIC SUBSTANCES ON BRAIN FUNCTION IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL TARGETS TO TREAT DEMENTIA AND PREVENT FROM DEMENTIA HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH NEURAL CORRELATES OF THEORY OF MIND DEFINING THE FUNCTIONAL BASIS OF THEORY OF MIND PROCESSES IN HEALTHY CONTROLS AND PATIENTS WITH BORDERLINE DISORDERS IRCSET, IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL RESEARCH IN VIVO-INVESTIGATION OF THE SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER USING [I-123] ADAM SPECT IN PATIENTS WITH A FIRST DEPRESSIVE EPISODE, IN PATIENTS WITH REFRACTORY DEPRESSION AND HEALTHY CONTROLS INVESTIGATING THE SEROTONERGIC NEUROTRANSMISSION IN PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION FOEFOLE, LMU MUNICH YOUNG INVESTIGATOR RESEARCH BRAIN IMAGING RETURN TO HEALTH, REBIRTH EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL TRAINING NETWORK ON DEVELOPING MARKERS FOR NEUROPLASTICITY RELEVANT TO STRESS-RELATED PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS EU MARIE CURY FUNCTIONAL AS WELL AS STRUCTURAL BRAIN CONNECTIVITY AND EPIGENETIC CHANGES IN MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER ASSOCIATED WITH REMISSION AND PERSISTENCE OF SYMPTOMS OVER A 5 YEAR COURSE IN THIS PROJECT WE WILL INTIMATELY INVESTIGATE DYNAMIC STRUCTURAL, DIFFUSION AND FUNCTIONAL BRAIN CHANGES IN TANDEM WITH CHANGES IN EPIGENETICS OF THE GLUCOCORTICOID AND SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER SYSTEM DURING THE LONG-TERM COURSE OF THE DISEASE IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE DEVELOPMENT FROM DEPRESSION TO REMISSION AND TO IDENTIFY CAUSES FOR TREATMENT FAILURE. MOREOVER, WE WILL EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EPIGENETICS AND BRAIN IMAGING CHANGES. LONGITUDINAL CHANGES DURING THE DISEASE COURSE IN HIPPOCAMPAL SUBFIELD VOLUMES, DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING, TASK-RELATED FMRI AND EPIGENETICS TOGETHER HAVE NEVER BEEN A MATTER OF INVESTIGATION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH SFI STOKES PROFESSORSHIP AIM OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAM IS TO IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS FOR STRESS-RELATED PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS USING INTEGRATED RESEARCH APPROACHES WITH NEUROIMAGING, PROTEOMICS, TRASNCRIPTOMICS AND GENOMICS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) STOKES PROFESSORSHIP PROGRAMME COGNITIVE REMEDIATION THERAPY IN SCHIZOPHRENIA TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF COGNITIVE REMEDIATION IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA AND ITS IMPACT ON REORGANISATION OF BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION FUNDING AS CO-PI, PI WAS PROFESSOR DONOHOE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH RLPHARMFMR OFFCIAL COLLABORATOR, PI PROF. JOHN O'DOHERTY: IDENTIFYING NEUROCHEMICAL UNDERPINNINGS OF THE REWARD SYSTEM EUROPEAN UNION, ERC ERC THE ANATOMY OF RISK: A POPULATION BASED IMAGING STUDY OF ADOLESCENTS TO STUDY A HIGH RISK GROUP OF CHILDREN, WHO MIGHT DEVELOP SCHIZOPHRENIA CLINICALLY AND WITH USING NEUROIMAGING TECHNIQUES LIKE DTI, FMRI, AND STRUCTURAL MRI. THE AIM WAS TO OBTAIN NEUROBIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF RISK AND VULNERABILITY IN A PRE-PRODROMAL COHORT OF SUBJECTS FUNDING AS CO-PI, PI IS PROFESSOR CANNON, RCSI DUBLIN HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PATIENT-ORIENTED RESEARCH SEROTONERGIC LEVELS AS MEASURED WITH [I-123]ADAM SPECT INFLUENCE THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN BRAIN IN MAJOR DEPRESSION. INSTITUTION EXAMINING THE FUNCTIONAL CORRELATES OF DEPRESSION USING FMRI AND BETA CIT SPECT ELI LILLY FOUNDATION RESEARCH GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR SERGEY FROLOV frolovsergey PROFESSOR FROLOVS PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS MY RESEARCH AREA IS THEORETICAL HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS WITH EMPHASIS ON SUCH FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS AS THE RELATION BETWEEN STRING THEORY AND QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES, AND ISSUE OF STABILITY OF NONSUPERSYMMETRIC STRING THEORIES. LAST FEW YEARS I HAVE BEEN MAINLY INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM INTEGRABILITY OF STRING THEORY ON ADS5 × S5, FINDING BETHE ANSATZ FOR QUANTUM STRINGS, ANALYZING MULTI-SPIN SOLITONIC STRING SOLUTIONS AND USING THEM TO STUDY SOME PROBLEMS IN NONPERTURBATIVE GAUGE THEORY VIA THE ADS/CFT (OR STRING THEORY/GAUGE THEORY) CORRESPONDENCE. I ALSO HAVE INTERESTS IN MANY-BODY INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS, QUANTUM QROUPS AND DEFORMATION QUANTIZATION OF POISSON ALGEBRAS, SEE REFS. [22-31] IN THE LIST OF MY PUBLICATIONS.</P> INTEGRABILITY OF STRING THEORY ON (DEFORMED) ADS5 × S5<BR> MULTI-SPIN SOLITONIC STRING SOLUTIONS AND THE ADS/CFT CORRESPONDENCE<BR> BETHE ANSATZ FOR QUANTUM STRINGS<BR> TYPE IIB SUPERSTRINGS<BR> TACHYON CONDENSATION<BR> MATRIX STRING THEORY AND ORBIFOLD CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY<BR> MANY-BODY INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS AND DYNAMICAL R-MATRICES<BR> CHIRAL THEORIES AND ANOMALIES<BR> LATTICE GAUGE MODELS<BR> COMBINATORIAL QUANTIZATION OF THE CHERN-SIMONS MODEL<BR> QUANTUM GROUPS HAMILTONIAN LATTICE GAUGE MODELS<BR> BRST QUANTIZATION OF CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS<BR> CHIRAL THEORIES AND ANOMALIES<BR> LATTICE GAUGE MODELS<BR> COMBINATORIAL QUANTIZATION OF THE CHERN-SIMONS MODEL<BR> QUANTUM GROUPS HAMILTONIAN LATTICE GAUGE MODELS<BR> BRST QUANTIZATION OF CONSTRAINED SYSTEMS. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MR. DERMOT FROST frostdermot MANAGER DFROST RES & HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH COMMITTEE MEMBER IAHPC IEEE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ALGORITHMS AND COMPLEXITY COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG DESIGN DATA PROTECTION, STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, CRYPTOGRAPHY DIGITAL REPOSITORIES DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS GENETIC ALGORITHMS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MODELLING, MODELLING TOOLS, 3D MODELLING PARALLEL FILESYSTEMS DIGITAL REPOSITORY OF IRELAND A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY, MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT TO DEVELOP A TRUSTED DIGITAL REPOSITORY FOR IRELAND'S HUMANITIES, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA. HEA PRTLI DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. MICHAEL PHILIP FRY frymichaelphilip FELLOW EMERITUS MFRY PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS WITHIN THE STANDARD MODEL FERMIONIC DETERMINANTS ARE REQUIRED FOR THE CALCULATION OF EVERY PHYSICAL PROCESS. THEY ARE THE MEANS BY WHICH VIRTUAL FERMION LOOPS ARE INCORPORATED INTO A CALCULATION. WITHOUT THEM COLOR SCREENING, QUARK FRAGMENTATION INTO HADRONS AND UNITARITY WOULD BE LOST. FERMIONIC DETERMINANTS ARE THEREFORE FUNDAMENTAL. THEY ARE ALSO HARD TO CALCULATE, AND PHYSICISTS BY AND LARGE LOST INTEREST IN THEM DURING THE EARLY 1980S. WITH THE ADVENT OF LARGE MACHINES LATTICE QCD PHYSICISTS ARE NOW STARTING TO INCLUDE THE DETERMINANT IN THEIR CALCULATIONS. BUT ANALYTIC RESULTS REMAIN VERY SCARCE. AS WITH ANY PROBLEM IN PHYSICS ONE BEGINS WITH THE SIMPLEST CASES FIRST, NAMELY, QED DETERMINANTS IN 2, 3, AND 4 DIMENSIONS. TO BE USEFUL THESE DETERMINANTS NEED TO BE KNOWN FOR A GENERAL BACKGROUND GAUGE FIELD. BECUASE OF THIS THE BEST ONE CAN HOPE FOR ARE RESTRICTIVE UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS ON A DETERMINANT AND ITS ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR FOR SMALL FERMION MASS AND STRONG COUPLING. THIS IS THE SUBJECT OF THE PAPERS LISTED BELOW. IT IS EXPECTED THAT WHEN QCD MACHINES BECOME LARGE ENOUGH THESE RESULTS CAN BE USED TO TEST LATTICE DETERMINANT CALCULATIONS WHEN EXTRAPOLATED TO INFINITE VOLUME AND ZERO LATTICE SPACING. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. NA FU funa ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FUNA BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INNOVATION INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR RAYMOND G FULLER fullerraymondg FELLOW EMERITUS RFULLER PSYCHOLOGY TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; AEROSPACE PSYCHOLOGY; ERGONOMICS; DYSLEXIA. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 AIR SAFETY APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIORAL/EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY DEPRESSION DRIVERS HEALTH HEALTH BEHAVIOR HEALTH BEHAVIORS HEALTH BELIEFS INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY INTERRELATIONSHIPS KNOWLEDGE LIFE-STYLE MOTOR VEHICLES PATTERNS PHYSICAL EXERCISE POPULATION PROMOTION PSYCHOLOGY OF READING PUBLIC HEALTH RISK ROAD/HIGHWAY SAFETY SEAT BELTS SEAT-BELT USE SOCIAL SUPPORT STATE STUDENTS USER WOMEN WOUNDS AND INJURIES YOUNG-ADULTS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. NAOISE GAFFNEY gaffneynaoise ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GAFFNEN LAW LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MONICA RACHEL GALE galemonicarachel PROFESSOR MRGALE CLASSICS ROMAN POETRY OF THE LATE REPUBLICAN AND AUGUSTAN PERIODS (ESPECIALLY CATULLUS, LUCRETIUS, VIRGIL, PROPERTIUS); GREEK AND ROMAN DIDACTIC POETRY; GENRE AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN ROMAN POETRY; THE USES OF MYTH IN ANCIENT LITERATURE SCHOOL OF CLASSICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN FRENCH GERMAN EXTERNAL ADVISOR FOR AUDIT OF SCHOOL OF CLASSICS AND QUINQUENNIAL REVIEW OF PROGRAMMES, TRINITY ST DAVID, UNIVERSITY OF WALES MEMBER OF AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF CAMBRIDGE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF CENTRAL COUNCIL, CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION (ENGLAND AND WALES) MEMBER OF CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF COUNCIL, CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION (ENGLAND AND WALES) MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, CLASSICS IRELAND, 2003-6 MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, DICTYNNA: RÉVUE DE POÉTIQUE LATINE MEMBER OF VIRGIL SOCIETY GENRE AND INTERTEXTUALITY IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE GREEK AND ROMAN DIDACTIC POETRY LATIN POETRY LITERATURE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE A COMMENTARY ON THE COMPLETE POEMS OF CATULLUS TEXT AND SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY ON THE OEUVRE OF THE POET CATULLUS, FOR THE CAMBRIDGE 'GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS' SERIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR PETER THOMAS GALLAGHER gallagherpeterthomas PROFESSOR IN ASTROPHYSICS GALLAGPT PHYSICS SOLAR ASTROPHYSICS, SPACE EXPLORATION, IMAGE PROCESSING, SPECTROSCOPY. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER FOR FP7 SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL INVESTIGATIONS AND ARCHIVES (SOTERIA) CHAIR FOR THE 2ND SOLAR IMAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP (MARYLAND) COORDINATOR FOR THE MAX MILLENNIUM PROGRAM OF SOLAR FLARE RESEARCH FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (FRAS) INTERNATIONAL HELIOSPHERIC YEAR (IHY) CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRELAND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR EUROPEAN UNION'S COST 724 ON SPACE WEATHER MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE ESA SPACE WEATHER WORKING TEAM MEMBER OF THE ESA TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION SATELLITE TEAM, PROBA-II MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (MINSTP) MEMBER OF THE IRISH RESEARCH SCIENTISTS' ASSOCIATION PANEL REVIEWER FOR NASA'S LIVING WITH A STAR PROGRAM PANEL REVIEWER FOR NASA'S SUN-EARTH CONNECTION PROGRAM REFEREE FOR THE 'ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL', 'ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS', 'SOLAR PHYSICS', 'PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE', AND 'PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA'. REVIEWER FOR UK PARTICLE PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY RESEARCH COUNCIL (PPARC) ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY COMMITTEE ON ASTRONOMY AND SPACE RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC ORGANISER FOR ESA/NASA RHESSI/TRACE/SOHO CONFERENCE (CALIFORNIA) SCIENTIFIC ORGANISER FOR THE 1ST SOLAR IMAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP (BRUSSELS) SCIENTIFIC ORGANISER FOR THE NASA COORDINATED DATA ANALYSIS WORKSHOP SERIES (MARYLAND) SCIENTIFIC ORGANISER FOR THE NOAA SOLAR X-RAY IMAGER DATA ANALYSIS WORKSHOP (COLORADO) SPECIAL SESSION CHAIR AT THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY SOLAR PHYSICS MEETING (COLORADO) SPECIAL SESSION CONVENER FOR THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION FALL MEETING (SAN FRANCISCO) ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS ATMOSPHERES/PLANETS ATOMIC PHYSICS ATOMIC SPECTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IMAGING SCIENCES INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT IONOSPHERES MAGNETOSPHERIC PHENOMENA NEAR EARTH SPACE PARTICLES/FIELDS PATTERN RECOGNITION PHYSICS PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS PLANETARY STUDIES PLASMA PHYSICS REAL-TIME COMPUTING SIGNAL ANALYSIS SOLAR ASTRONOMY SOLAR PHENOMENA SOLAR PHYSICS SOLAR STUDIES SPACE SCIENCES SPECTROSCOPY FIELDS, FRACTALS, AND FLARES: UNDERSTANDING MAGNETIC COMPLEXITY IN SOLAR ACTIVE REGIONS USD 250K NASA LIVING WITH A STAR HELIOPHYSICS INTEGRATED OBSERVATORY - HELIO EUR 3.1M DISTRIBUTED AMONG 7 PARTNERS EC FP7 IMAGE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR THE SWAP AND LYRA INSTRUMENTS ONBOARD PROBA2 EUR 751K ESA PRODEX ADVANCED IMAGE PROCESSING FOR STEREO EUR 165K SFI RFP SOLAR ACTIVITY AND SPACE WEATHER: CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES EUR 140K AXA INSURANCE STATISTICS OF SOLAR FLARES FOR SPACE WEATHER PREDICTIONS EUR 170K EC MARIE CURIE PROGRAMME THE COMPLEX SUN EUR 165K EC MARIE CURIE PROGRAMME GENES & SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. NIAV OLIVIA GALLAGHER gallagherniavolivia VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW GALLAGNO HISTORY DEPT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SCOTTISH MEDIEVALISTS ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND FAMILY, CHURCH HISTORY GAELIC LORDSHIPS IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES IN THE MIDDLE AGES MEDIEVAL BRITAIN MEDIEVAL EUROPE MEDIEVAL HISTORY MEDIEVAL IRELAND PAPACY, HISTORY OF IDEAS IN CENTRAL MIDDLE AGES THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH ISLES, 1230-1400 THIS PROJECT AIMS TO EXPAND THE ORIGINAL RESEARCH OF MY DOCTORAL THESIS FOR PUBLICATION. IT WILL PROVIDE AN EXAMINATION OF THE FRANCISCANS IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND, THE LOCATION OF THEIR FRIARIES AND ASPECTS OF PATRONAGE, USING A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH. THIS RESEARCH WILL ENABLE COMPARISONS TO BE DRAWN BETWEEN IRISH FRIARS AND THEIR SCOTTISH, ENGLISH AND WELSH CONFRERES. IRCHSS POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROFESSOR MICHAEL GALLAGHER gallaghermichael PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS MGLLGHER POLITICAL SCIENCE HIS MAIN SPECIALISM IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT IS ELECTORAL SYSTEMS, WHICH COULD BE VERY BROADLY DEFINED AS THE SET OF RULES THAT STRUCTURE THE WAY IN WHICH VOTES AT ELECTIONS ARE CAST AND THEN CONVERT THESE VOTES INTO SEATS. HE MAINTAINS AN ELECTORAL SYSTEMS WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/POLITICAL_SCIENCE/STAFF/MICHAEL_GALLAGHER/ELSYSTEMS/INDEX.PHP HE IS ALSO INTERESTED IN THE ROLE OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY. FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS HE HAS WORKED ON POLITICAL PARTIES, ESPECIALLY THEIR INTERNAL ORGANISATION AND THE ROLE OF MEMBERS WITHIN THEM. HE HAS UNDERTAKEN RESEARCH ON MANY ASPECTS OF IRISH POLITICS, AND ON A NUMBER OF ASPECTS OF COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN POLITICS. POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CO-DIRECTOR OF TWO WORKSHOPS AT ANNUAL SESSIONS OF EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH CONSULTANCY RE KAZAKHSTAN ELECTORAL SYSTEM IN ALMATY (ALMA-ATA) ON BEHALF OF NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE ELECTION ANALYST ON RTE RADIO FOR GENERAL, EUROPEAN AND LOCAL ELECTIONS SINCE 1979; CONTRIBUTOR TO NEWSPAPERS, OTHER MEDIA AND POLITICALREFORM.IE ON POLITICAL ISSUES EXPERT WITNESS AT CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, MALAHIDE, MAY 2013 AND JUNE 2013 EXPERT WITNESS BEFORE OIREACHTAS JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 2008 AND NOVEMBER 2009 EXPERT WITNESS TO COMMITTEE ON ELECTORAL REFORM OF CANADIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 2016; DISPROPORTIONALITY FORMULA SUBSEQUENTLY HELD UP FOR DISPLAY BY MINISTER MARYAM MONSEF IN COMMONS CHAMBER. JOINT EDITOR, IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, ELECTORAL STUDIES, PARTY POLITICS, IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES MEMBER, COMPARATIVE ELECTORAL SYSTEMS GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, PAST COMMITTEE MEMBER MEMBER, ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION AND PARTIES GROUP (EPOP) MEMBER, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (UK) MEMBER, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND; PRESIDENT 1994-96; VICE-PRESIDENT 1992-94; SECRETARY 1988-92; COMMITTEE MEMBER 1986-87, 2003-05; PRESENTED PAPERS AT CONFERENCES IN 15 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES (AUSTRIA, DENMARK, FINLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, HUNGARY, IRELAND, ITALY, JAPAN, NETHERLANDS, SOUTH KOREA, SPAIN, UKRAINE, UK, USA) BACKGROUNDS, ATTITUDES AND ACTIVISM OF PARTY MEMBERS COMPARATIVE EUROPEAN POLITICS COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ELECTORAL SYSTEMS IRISH POLITICS POLITICAL PARTIES MAKING IRELAND DR. JOHN GALLAGHER gallagherjohn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JGALLAG9 CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AIR POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT AIR QUALITY MODELLING AIR QUALITY MONITORING AIR-FLOW AIR-POLLUTANTS AIR-QUALITY BUILDINGS, COMMERCIAL ENERGY USE BUILDINGS, RESIDENTIAL ENERGY USE BUILT ENVIRONMENT CIRCULAR ECONOMY ECO-DESIGN ECODESIGN ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY ENERGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS, HYDROPOWER ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, POLLUTION CONTROL ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HYDRO ENERGY HYDROELECTRICITY, HYDROPOWER LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT, ANALYSIS LIFECYCLE ANALYSIS NATURAL RESOURCES NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PASSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS RENEWABLE ENERGY RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES RESOURCES/AVAILABILITY, RENEWABLE ENERGY URBAN AIR QUALITY MODELLING URBAN FORESTRY URBAN PLANNING/POLICY AIR QUALITY ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY OTHER ENERGY DISTRIBUTING OUR WATER RESOURCES: UTILISING INTEGRATED, SMART AND LOW-CARBON ENERGY (DWR UISCE) WEBSITE: HTTPS://WWW.DWR-UISCE.EU/ TWITTER:@DWR_UISCE IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCY OF WATER DISTRIBUTION IN IRELAND AND WALES IS AT THE CORE OF THE PROJECT ETHOS. THIS WIL LBE ACHIEVED BY DEVELOPING NEW LOW CARBON, ENERGY-SAVING TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES. WE WILL TRIAL ENERGY RECOVERY TECHNOLOGIES (MICRO-HYDROPOWER, DRAIN WATER HEAT RECOVERY AND SMART NETWORK CONTROLS) AT SEVERAL DEMONSTRATION SITES IN BOTH COUNTRIES BEFORE BEING LAUNCHED ON THE MARKET. WE WILL BUILD A CAPACITY FOR INNOVATION IN THE WATER INDUSTRY THROUGH OUR CLUSTER OF ORGANISATIONS INTERESTED IN SUSTAINABILITY IN THE WATER-ENERGY NEXUS. EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND INTERREG IRELAND WALES CO-OPERATION 2014-2020 AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PASSIVE CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT HTTPS://YOUTU.BE/-VGNDOAOKCO HEA PRTLI HYDRO-BPT - TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF WATER SUPPLY IN IRELAND AND WALES: EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HYDROPOWER IN BREAK PRESSURE TANKS WWW.HYDRO-BPT.EU INTERREG IV IRELAND-WALES AER PROJECT ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND IMPROVING THE SMART CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE (ISCAPE) WEBSITE: HTTPS://WWW.ISCAPEPROJECT.EU/ TWITTER:ISCAPE_PROJECT THE ISCAPE PROJECT WORKS ON INTEGRATING AND ADVANCING THE CONTROL OF AIR QUALITY AND CARBON EMISSIONS IN EUROPEAN CITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND PASSIVE AIR POLLUTION REMEDIATION STRATEGIES, POLICY INTERVENTIONS AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE INITIATIVES. IT TACKLES THE PROBLEM OF REDUCING AIR POLLUTION IMPACTS, FOCUSING ON THE USE OF "PASSIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS" IN URBAN SPACES, ON POLICY INTERVENTION AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES OF CITIZENS LIFESTYLE. PROJECTIONS AND REAL-WORLD PHYSICAL INTERVENTIONS WILL BE APPLIED ON THE URBAN TISSUE IN THE SELECTED CITIES ASSESSED FOR FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS AND REPRESENTATIVE OF DIFFERENT CULTURAL & LIFESTYLES IN EUROPE. IMPROVING THE SMART CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 SOCIETAL CHALLENGES 5 REDUCING ENERGY DEPENDENCY IN ATLANTIC AREA WATER NETWORKS (REDAWN) SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL CURRENTLY EXISTS TO SAVE ENERGY, REDUCE COSTS AND MINIMISE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IN EUROPEAN WATER NETWORKS BY IMPROVING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF WATER SUPPLIERS AND USERS IN THE REGION. REDAWN WILL DEVELOP BOTH THE TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY TO REALISE THIS POTENTIAL, AND GENERATE UNDERSTANDING TO HELP OVERCOME ANY TECHNOLOGICAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIAL BARRIERS TO EXPLOITATION. THE PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP AN ADEQUATE INSTITUTIONAL, SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT TO FOSTER GREATER RESOURCE EFFICIENCY IN WATER NETWORKS INCLUDING IRRIGATION, PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY, WASTE AND STORM WATER, AND PROCESS INDUSTRY. IT WILL ADOPT NEXT-GEN MICRO-HYDROPOWER ENERGY RECOVERY TECHNOLOGY IN BUILT WATER NETWORKS IN THE ATLANTIC AREA, INCLUDING IN IRELAND, FRANCE, SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND THE UNITED KINGDOM. EUROPEAN RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUND INTERREG ATLANTIC AREA SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. LOUISE GALLAGHER gallagherlouise ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GALLAGLO SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY LOUISE'S RESEARCH AREA OF INTEREST LIES WITHIN MATERNITY CARE AND WOMEN'S HEALTH. SHE IS INTERESTED IN RESEARCH RELATING TO ALL ASPECTS OF MIDWIFERY, MIDWIFERY EDUCATION AND MATERNITY CARE BUT CURRENTLY FOCUSING ON BREASTFEEDING AND PEER SUPPORT. SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF LACTATION CONSULTANTS OF IRELAND ELECTED TO AN BORD ALTRANAIS IN 2008 BREAST-FED INFANTS BREAST-FEEDING BREAST-MILK CULTURAL DIVERSITY MIDWIFERY MIDWIFERY EDUCATION MIDWIVES POST PARTUM PEER SUPPORTERS PERCEPTIONS OF A BREASTFEEDING EDUCATION PROGRAMME THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO ASSESS THE PERCEPTIONS OF A GROUP OF PEER SUPPORTERS IN RELATION TO THE EDUCATION PROGRAMME. THIS RESEARCH INQUIRY WILL BE GUIDED BY THE PRINCIPLES OF ACTION RESEARCH (A.R.) AS DESCRIBED BY ROLFE (1998). THE ROTUNDA AND THE WOMEN OF NORTH INNER CITY DUBLIN: AIM OF STUDY: TO ASSESS IF THE ROTUNDA IS MEETING THE MATERNITY AND GYNAECOLOGY NEEDS OF WOMEN IN THE NORTH INNER CITY DUBLIN ROTUNDA HOSPITAL AND DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL THE NATIONAL INFANT FEEDING SURVEY THIS IS A NATIONAL SURVEY WHICH COMMENCED IN APRIL 2008. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO PROVIDE BASELINE DATA ON THE RATE OF EXCLUSIVE AND PARTIAL BREASTFEEDING AT 3-4 MONTHS AND 6-7 MONTHS FOLLOWING BIRTH. TO ASCERTAIN WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE A DECISION TO BREASTFEED OR NOT AND TO DETERMINE THE REASONS GIVEN BY WOMEN FOR STOPPING BREASTFEEDING AT ALL STAGES. HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE SUB-OPTIMAL BREASTFEEDING EXPERIENCE AND ITS EFFECTS ON WOMEN, FACTORS AFFECTING INITIATION AND DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING IN IRELAND THERE IS EXTENSIVE EVIDENCE FOR THE LONG AND SHORT-TERM BENEFITS OF BREASTFEEDING FOR BOTH THE MOTHER AND INFANT. COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES IN IRELAND HAS BEEN LIMITED. AIMS: THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO EXAMINE RATES OF EXCLUSIVE AND PARTIAL BREASTFEEDING AT 48 HOURS AFTER BIRTH, 3-4 MONTHS AND 6-7 MONTHS POSTNATAL AND TO IDENTIFY FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE A DECISION TO BREASTFEED. IT ALSO AIMED TO EXPLORE UNSATISFACTORY BREASTFEEDING EXPERIENCES AMONG THE SURVEY GROUP, AND THE POTENTIAL IMPACT THAT THESE MIGHT HAVE ON FUTURE INFANT FEEDING CHOICES FOR THOSE WOMEN WHO DISCONTINUED BREASTFEEDING IN THE EARLY POSTPARTUM PERIOD. METHODOLOGY: MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH, UNDERPINNED BY A PRAGMATIST PHILOSOPHY, WAS CHOSEN AS THE MOST APPROPRIATE METHOD TO ADDRESS THE RESEARCH QUESTION AS IT ENABLED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPLETE AND FULL UNDERSTANDING OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING INITIATION AND DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING. APPLICATION OF THE RESULTS IN A MANNER THAT COULD BRING ABOUT POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES FOR BREASTFEEDING IN IRELAND. FINDINGS: THE RESULTS SHOWED THAT THE INITIATION AND DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING IN THE STUDY COHORT REMAINED WELL BELOW OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, WITH JUST OVER HALF OF THE WOMEN INITIATING BREASTFEEDING (56%) AND LESS THAN ONE IN FIVE (19%) FULLY BREASTFEEDING AT 3-4 MONTHS OF AGE. EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING WAS REPORTED BY 13% (N=61) OF THE 461 MOTHERS WHO RESPONDED TO PHASE 3. THIS IS JUST 6% OF THE 1002 MOTHERS WHO RESPONDED TO PHASE 2 AND WHO HAD BREASTFED THEIR INFANTS AT BIRTH. THE COMPELLING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATERNAL SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS AND BREASTFEEDING INITIATION WAS ONCE AGAIN DEMONSTRATED BY THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY. WITHOUT EXCEPTION, HAVING A HIGHER SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS CLEARLY FAVOURS BREASTFEEDING AT BIRTH. IN PARTICULAR, MOTHERS' HEALTH-INSURANCE STATUS MEDIATES THE EFFECT OF SEVERAL OTHER VARIABLES AND HAS BEEN FOUND IN THIS STUDY TO BE AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THE DETERMINANT OF INITIATION OF BREASTFEEDING INITIATION. VIVID ACCOUNTS OF PERSONAL FAILURE AND GUILT WERE PORTRAYED BY WOMEN WHO HAD HAD A SUBOPTIMAL ENCOUNTER WITH BREASTFEEDING. WOMEN DEFINED THIS FAILURE AS NOT HAVING ACHIEVED THEIR BREASTFEEDING GOALS IN RELATION TO THE TARGETS THAT THEY HAD SET FOR THEMSELVES. FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY HAVE CONFIRMED THAT THE MESSAGES CURRENTLY CONVEYED AROUND THE SUPERIORITY OF BREASTFEEDING ALSO LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT GUILT FOR WOMEN WHEN THEY HAVE A SHORT AND UNSATISFACTORY BREASTFEEDING ENCOUNTER. WOMEN IN THE PRESENT STUDY VIEWED THE WIDELY ADOPTED HEALTH-PROMOTION MESSAGE OF 'BREAST IS BEST' AS A CONTRIBUTOR TO IDEALISTIC AND OFTEN UNREALISTIC NOTIONS OF THE EASE OF BREASTFEEDING. THE QUALITATIVE ASPECT OF THE PRESENT STUDY HIGHLIGHTS SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCIES IN THE CURRENT LEVEL AND QUALITY OF POSTNATAL SUPPORT FOR BREASTFEEDING. IT IS ALSO EVIDENT THAT BREASTFEEDING IS INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO BEING A 'GOOD MOTHER', AND THAT CESSATION COMPOUNDS A SENSE OF FAILURE IN BOTH MOTHERING ABILITIES AND THE SKILL OF BREASTFEEDING. FURTHERMORE, THE RESULTS SHOW THAT PAIN MAY HAVE SIGNIFICANT AND LONG-LASTING IMPLICATIONS FOR MOTHERS WHEN CONSIDERING FUTURE INFANT FEEDING CHOICES. CONCLUSION: THE FINDINGS DEMONSTRATE MULTIPLE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS PERTINENT TO INITIATION AND DURATION AND HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR BREASTFEEDING PROMOTION AND POLICY TOGETHER WITH DELIVERY OF EXISTING ANTENATAL AND POSTNATAL SERVICES. ACHIEVING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THIS STUDY, DESIGNED TO PROMOTE, SUPPORT AND CHANGE THE CULTURE OF BREASTFEEDING IN IRELAND WILL BEGIN TO BRING ABOUT THE SIGNIFICANT SHIFT REQUIRED, TO IMPROVE RATES OF BREASTFEEDING INITIATION AND DURATION. HRB HRB RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS THE FACTORS AFFECTING INITIATION AND DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING IN IRELAND. THE FINDINGS OF A RESEARCH STUDY ON THE FACTORS AFFECTING INITIATION AND DURATION OF BREASTFEEDING IN IRELAND STUDY WERE COMMUNICATED TO THE ORIGINAL PARTICIPANTS, MIDWIVES AND OTHER KEY STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING THE HSE, NATIONAL BREASTFEEDING CO-ORDINATOR AND BREASTFEEDING PEER SUPPORTERS IN A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS. THESE WORKSHOPS TOOK PLACE AT FOUR VENUES ROUND THE COUNTRY. THESE SEMINARS WERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE RESULTS AND BRING ABOUT A CHANGE IN HOW MOTHERS AND STAKEHOLDERS COMMUNICATE ABOUT BREASTFEEDING AND USED A VIDEO TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE STUDY. THE DISSEMINATION REVEALED THAT WOMEN AND PARTICIPANTS AGREED WITH THE STUDIES MAIN FINDINGS AND SUGGESTED THAT PRIORITY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO PROVIDING BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT TO FIRST TIME MOTHERS AT EVERY FEED IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS, TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF FEEDING CHALLENGES AT THIS TIME. PRIORITY WAS ALSO GIVEN BY PARTICIPANTS TO THE NEED TO CONTINUE SUCH SUPPORT IN THE INITIAL DAYS FOLLOWING BIRTH AND PROVIDE CONTINUED HELP FROM MIDWIVES FOLLOWING DISCHARGE FROM HOSPITAL. HRB KEDS FACTORS WHICH ENABLE IRISH WOMEN TO CONTINUE BREASTFEEDING FOR SIX MONTHS: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON WITH SWEDEN AND AUSTRALIA. BACKGROUND EVIDENCE FROM A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW HAS CONFIRMED THE BENEFITS OF BREAST MILK FOR INFANT HEALTH, FURTHER SUPPORTING OPTIMAL DURATION FOR EXCLUSIVE BREASTFEEDING CONTINUING TO SIX MONTHS (KRAMER & KAKUMA, 2012). ALTHOUGH MANY COUNTRIES HAVE PROMISING INITIATION RATES SUCH AS 98% FOR SWEDEN, 96% FOR AUSTRALIA AND 81% FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM (SAVE THE CHILDREN, 2012) PREVALENCE RATES ARE NOT AS ENCOURAGING. NATIONAL DATA FROM IRELAND SUGGESTS THAT LESS THAN 7% OF BREASTFEEDING WOMEN ARE BREASTFEEDING AT 6 MONTHS (BEGLEY ET AL, 2008), REFLECTING LOW INITIATION AND CONTINUATION RATES IN THIS CONTEXT. TO BE EFFECTIVE, BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT SHOULD IDEALLY BE TAILORED TO THE NEEDS OF THE SETTING AND POPULATION (RENFREW ET AL., 2012). FURTHER RESEARCH IS WARRANTED TO ADDRESS WHAT ENABLES WOMEN TO BREASTFEEDING FOR SIX MONTHS AND THIS PROPOSED STUDY WILL ADD TO OUR KNOWLEDGE BY EXPLORING IRISH, SWEDISH AND AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S PERCEPTIONS. THIS EXPLORATORY QUALITATIVE STUDY USED CRITICAL INCIDENT TECHNIQUES WHICH HAVE BEEN USED TO EVALUATE CONSUMER EXPECTATIONS AND PERCEPTIONS IN HEALTH CARE (KEMPPAINEN, 2000). WOMEN WHO BREASTFED A RECENT CHILD FOR A MINIMUM OF SIX MONTHS WERE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE. RECRUITMENT OCCURRED THROUGH ADVERTISEMENTS IN LOCAL NEWSPAPERS AND ON SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS. SAMPLING WAS PURPOSIVE INITIALLY IN ALL SITES, FOLLOWED BY SNOWBALL SAMPLING. THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN WOMEN PARTICIPATED IN DIGITALLY RECORDED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS (64 IN IRELAND, 130 IN SWEDEN AND 153 IN AUSTRALIA). THE CRITICAL INCIDENTS DEMONSTRATED THAT ACROSS THE THREE CONTEXTS THERE ARE VARYING RESULTS SURROUNDING ENABLERS RELATED TO CONTINUATION OF BREASTFEEDING. CURTIN UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA THE EFFECTS OF FRENOTOMY ON BREASTFEEDING VARIABLES IN NEWBORN INFANTS WITH ANKYLOGLOSSIA A BEFORE AND AFTER PROSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE COHORT STUDY IS BEING CARRIED OUT TO TO DETERMINE THE ASSOCIATED EFFECTS (IF ANY) THAT FRENOTOMY MAY HAVE ON BREASTFEEDING VARIABLES1 IN INFANTS WITH ANKYLOGLOSSIA, AND, TO DETERMINE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE BREASTFEEDING WOMEN'S DECISION-MAKING IN CHOOSING FRENOTOMY FOR THEIR INFANTS. BREASTFEEDING VARIABLES WILL BE DETERMINED AT BASELINE (I.E. PRIOR TO THE FRENOTOMY PROCEDURE) FOLLOWING A WOMAN'S DECISION FOR HER INFANT TO UNDERGO FRENOTOMY. ONE MONTH POST-FRENOTOMY, BREASTFEEDING VARIABLES IN WOMEN WHO RETURN THE BASELINE SURVEY WILL BE DETERMINED AND COMPARISONS MADE. A REVIEW OF THE BABY FRIENDLY HEALTH INITIATIVE IN IRELAND HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR LOUISE GALLAGHER gallagherlouise PROFESSOR CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY LGALLAGH PSYCHIATRY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AUTISM GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. MICHAEL GALLAGHER gallaghermichael SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW GALLAGMI HISTOPATHOLOGY 1. TOWARDS CLINICAL TARGETING OF CANCER STEM CELL TREATMENT-RESISTANCE. IT IS WIDELY BELIEVED THAT CLINICAL TARGETING OF TUMOUR-INITIATING, TREATMENT-RESISTANT 'CANCER STEM CELLS' (CSCS) CAN DRAMATICALLY REDUCE MORTALITY RATES ASSOCIATED WITH MALIGNANCY. BEFORE THIS CAN BE ACHIEVED, THE TREATMENT-RESISTANT PROPERTIES OF CSCS MUST BE UNDERSTOOD. IN MY EARLY CAREER I BECAME THE FIRST CANCER RESEARCHER TO DEMONSTRATE THAT CHEMOTHERAPY-RESISTANCE IS THE PROPERTY OF SPECIFIC TYPES OF CSC WITHIN THE TUMOUR AND NOT A UNIVERSAL CSC PROPERTY AS PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED (FFRENCH ET AL 2017, MACDONAGH ET AL 2017). HAVING DEMONSTRATED THIS IN TWO VERY DIFFERENT MALIGNANCIES (OVARY, [FFRENCH ET AL 2017], AND LUNG [MACDONAGH ET AL 2017]), IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT SIMILAR OBSERVATIONS WILL BE REPORTED IN OTHER MALIGNANCIES. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THESE STUDIES HIGHLIGHT THAT CSC THERAPY-RESISTANCE MUST BE TARGETED BY SPECIFIC, RATHER THAN GLOBAL, THERAPIES. THE IMPORTANCE OF THESE FINDINGS IS REFLECTED IN THE RECENT ACCEPTANCE OF THE STUDY BY THE PRESTIGIOUS NATURE JOURNAL 'CELL DEATH & DIFFERENTIATION', AND THE INCLUSION OF MY ARTICLE REVIEWING THIS (GASCH ET AL 2017) IN THE 'CSC SPECIAL SERIES' BY THE HIGHLY TOPICAL JOURNAL 'MOLECULAR CANCER'. IN THE SHORT TIME SINCE ITS PUBLICATION, THE ARTICLE HAS BEEN ACCESSED MORE THAN 650 TIMES AND INCLUDED IN THE POPULAR 'CSC NEWS' WEBSITE'S NEWSLETTER (3000 SUBSCRIBERS). AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS WORK, THIS REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS THAT THE TREATMENT-RESISTANT COMPONENT OF THE TUMOUR EXPANDS DURING RECURRENCE AND, AS SUCH, REQUIRES A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO TREATMENT. THIS RADICALLY CHANGES OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW CSC SHOULD BE TARGETED. IT IS REWARDING THAT MY WORK, AND TCD'S SUPPORT, WILL BE RECOGNISED AS THIS FIELD DEVELOPS IN FUTURE AND PATIENTS HOPEFULLY RECEIVE NEW, EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS. MY ON-GOING CAREER AIMS TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC TREATMENT-RESISTANCE CSCS IN MULTIPLE MALIGNANCIES, AND TO DEVELOP AN APPROACH THROUGH WHICH THESE CAN BE TARGETED IN THE CLINIC. 2. CONTROLLING DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENCY. WHILE AT TCD I HAVE MADE AN ADDITIONAL BREAKTHROUGH THROUGH MY CHARACTERISATION OF THE ROLE OF KEY INFLAMMATION REGULATOR 'MYD88' IN THE HIGHLY TOPICAL AREA OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENCY (SULAIMAN ET AL 2017). THIS PROJECT, WHICH ALLOWED COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR LUKE O'NEIL (SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY, TCD) AND ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF STEM & CANCER STEM CELL RESEARCH PROFESSOR PETER ANDREWS (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD), DEMONSTRATED THAT KEY 'DIFFERENTIATION GATEKEEPERS' SUCH AS MYD88 CONTROL THE INITIAL STEPS IN THE DIFFERENTIATION OF AT LEAST SOME TYPES OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENT CELLS. AS THESE PLURIPOTENT CELLS CAN DIFFERENTIATE TO BECOME ANY CELL TYPE WITHIN THE BODY, THE FINDINGS ARE OF IMMENSE POTENTIAL IMPORTANCE FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE. IN ADDITION, AS CSCS CAN NO LONGER PRODUCE TUMOURS WHEN DIFFERENTIATED, THIS FINDING CAN HOPEFULLY BE EXPLOITED AS A NOVEL CANCER THERAPY. WHILE THIS STUDY IS STILL IN PRESS AND AS YET NOT YET WIDELY REPORTED, ITS IMPORTANCE IS REFLECTED IN ITS ACCEPTANCE BY THE PRESTIGIOUS NATURE PUBLICATION 'CELL DEATH AND DIFFERENTIATION'. DEPT. OF HISTOPATHOLOGY & MORBID ANATOMY CENTRAL PATH LAB ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL 01-8961000 CANCER DR. SILVIA GALLAGHER gallaghersilvia OPEN EDUCATION PROJECT MANAGER AND COURS GALLAGS6 TRINITY ONLINE SERVICES LTD CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION ACADEMIC SERVICES DIVISION COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET RESEARCHERS PEER REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS: COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, BMC PSYCHIATRY, HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, JOURNAL OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH, THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN OPEN AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING, AND THE ASIAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION. CROSS CULTURAL ANALYSIS MASSIVE ONLINE OPEN COURSES (MOOCS) ONLINE COMMUNITIES ONLINE LEARNING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS & JOURNALISM SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK AGEING DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. VAHAGN GALSTYAN galstyanvahagn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VGALSTY ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ARMENIAN ENGLISH AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION, ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY MACROECONOMICS, OPEN ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. SHEILA GALVIN galvinsheila CLINICAL TEACHER IN ORAL MEDICINE GALVINSH DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. KATERINA GARCIA garciakaterina ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KGARCIA HISPANIC STUDIES JUDEO-SPANISH LINGUISTICS: MY MAIN AREA OF ACADEMIC EXPERTISE IS LINGUISTICS OF JUDEO-SPANISH, THE LINGUISTIC VARIETY SPOKEN WITHIN (MAINLY) THE SEPHARDIC DIASPORA OF THE BALKAN PENINSULA AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. JUDEO-SPANISH IS A FASCINATING AREA OF HISPANIC LINGUISTICS: IT PROVIDES LINGUISTS WITH INVALUABLE INSIGHT INTO THE MECHANICS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE AND THE EFFECTS OF INTENSE LANGUAGE CONTACT, WHILE REPRESENTING A NOTEWORTHY CASE STUDY FOR SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND THE PRAGMATICS OF LANGUAGE USE. TO DATE I HAVE FOCUSED MAINLY ON VARIOUS LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF JUDEO-SPANISH AND PUBLISHED ARTICLES ON THE SUBJECT IN INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS, AS WELL AS PRESENTING PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. THE JUDEO-SPANISH LANGUAGE IN ITS HISTORICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT: IN THE COURSE OF THE PAST TWO YEARS, I HAVE BEGUN TO EXPAND MY FIELD OF EXPERTISE, TO INCORPORATE THE BROADER HISTORICAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL REALITIES INHERENT TO JUDEO-SPANISH LANGUAGE USE, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE NOVEL EN TORNO DE LA TORRE BLANCA BY SEPHARDIC AUTHOR ENRIQUE SAPORTA Y BEJA. THIS TEXT, WRITTEN INTEGRALLY IN JUDEO-SPANISH AND PUBLISHED IN PARIS IN 1982, REFLECTS THE USAGES AND CUSTOMS OF VARIOUS SECTORS OF THE SEPHARDIC POPULATION OF SALONIKA (THESSALONIKI, GREECE), UNTIL 1917 THE CITY'S LARGEST ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS GROUP. I HAVE PRESENTED SEVERAL CONFERENCE PAPERS ON THE SUBJECT AND A BOOK CHAPTER, WHICH HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION AND DUE TO APPEAR IN 2018. TRANSMISSION AND INTERPRETATION OF SEPHARDIC SONG: THE TRANSMISSION AND INTERPRETATION OF SEPHARDIC SONGS IS INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO SEPHARDIC CULTURE, AND TO THIS DAY REPRESENTS A POWERFUL MARKER OF IDENTITY. I HAVE BEEN CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN THE AREAS OF TRADITIONAL SECULAR SEPHARDIC SONG AND ITS TEXTUAL AND MUSICAL GENRES. MY INTEREST WAS INITIALLY MOTIVATED BY MY LINGUISTIC RESEARCH, AND ULTIMATELY ALSO INFORMED BY MY OWN EXPERIENCE AS A MUSICIAN. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN REPRESENTATIONS OF "SEPHARAD" AS A CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONSTRUCT IN CONTEMPORARY MODES OF INTERPRETATION. TO DATE, I HAVE PRESENTED TWO PAPERS AT SPECIALISED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. I HAVE RECENTLY PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE ON THE SUBJECT AND A PAPER, DUE TO APPEAR AS PART OF A CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS VOLUME IN 2018. HISPANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN CATALAN; VALENCIAN CZECH ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH A MUSICAL VOYAGE. LEXICON DÚN LAOGHAIRE. RECITAL. ASSOCIATION OF HISPANISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IRELAND AND THE SPANISH REPUBLIC CONFERENCE. PERFORMANCE AS PART OF PUBLIC LECTURE BY DR SOLEDAD FOX MAURA JUDEO-SPANISH, JEWISH LANGUAGES EXHIBITION LAUNCH. DISCUSSION ROUND TABLE JUDEO-SPANISH, THE LANGUAGE OF THE SEPHARDIM IN THE BALKANS. THE JEWISH MUSEUM IN PRAGUE, PUBLIC LECTURE. LAUNCH OF CYPHERS 78: A CELEBRATION OF POETRY FROM THE HISPANIC WORLD. INSTITUTO CERVANTES, DUBLIN LINGUA + MUSICA: A CELEBRATION OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY. EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES 2013 SEPHARDIC SONG RECITAL. DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK WORKSHOP AND RECITAL OF SPANISH AND JUDEO-SPANISH TRADITIONAL SONG. WILLIAMS COLLEGE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MA (US) "VARIACIÓN DIATÓPICA Y FUNCTIONAL DEL JUDEOESPAÑOL". MASTER UNIVERSITARIO INTERNACIONAL DE LENGUA ESPAÑOLA Y LINGÜÍSTICA, UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO. POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR IN JUDEO-SPANISH LINGUISTICS. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. EDURNE GARCIA IRIARTE garciairiarteedurne ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IRIARTEE SOCIAL STUDIES NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY HER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-DETERMINATION AND EMPOWERMENT, THE CONCEPT OF INCLUSION OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND ITS OPERATIONALIZATION IN RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND EVALUATION, DISABILITY RIGHTS, INDIVIDUALISED FUNDING, DIRECT PAYMENTS, AND PERSONAL ASSISTANCE, AND THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN ETHNICITY, POVERTY AND DISABILITY. NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY 4TH FLOOR, 3 COLLEGE GREEN DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY STUDIES AUTISM DISABILITY EMPOWERMENT ETHICS ETHNIC MINORITIES EVALUATION HUMAN RIGHTS INCLUSION INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY PROMOTING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION THROUGH CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHER EDUCATION IN CHINA / INCLUTE THE AIM OF THE INCLUTE PROJECT IS TO PROMOTE INCLUSIVE EDUCATION THROUGH TEACHER TRAINING IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN CHINA. THE SPECIFIC PROJECT OBJECTIVES ARE: .TO EXPLORE INCLUSIVE PRACTICES IN CHINESE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS. .TO STRENGTHEN TEACHERS' COMPETENCE/SKILLS RELATED TO INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN CHINESE UNIVERSITIES. .TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP A CONTINUOUS TRAINING CURRICULUM ON INCLUSION FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. .TO CREATE AN INCLUSIVE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION NETWORK. FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE HTTP://WWW.INCLUTE.EU/. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ERASMUS PLUS DOING DISABILITY RESEARCH THE DOING DISABILITY RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH PROJECTS IN IRELAND TO EXAMINE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES. THE RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED WITH PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INCLUDED: THE ALL WE WANT TO SAY STUDY (2010) AND THE INCLUSIVE RESEARCH NETWORK (IRN). THE ALL WE WANT TO SAY STUDY, CONDUCTED WITH PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, AIMED TO UNDERSTAND HOW LIFE WAS LIKE IN IRELAND FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES WERE TRAINED ON HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH AND TOOK AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS FROM THE IDENTIFICATION OF TOPICS TO THE WRITE UP OF REPORTS AND DISSEMINATION OF FINDINGS. THE IRN IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, THEIR SUPPORTERS, AND UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS THAT CONDUCT RESEARCH ABOUT ISSUES IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN IRELAND. THE IRN HAS CONDUCTED THE FOLLOWING STUDIES: WHERE WE LIVE (2009), AND RELATIONSHIPS AND SUPPORTS (2010). THE RESEARCH PROJECTS CONDUCTED WITH FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INCLUDED A SURVEY OF FAMILIES THROUGH FOCUS GROUPS AND A QUESTIONNAIRE USING THE CONCERNS REPORT METHOD. FAMILIES, SIMILARLY TO PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, WERE INCLUDED IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS FROM THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS TO THE WRITE UP AND DISSEMINATION OF FINDINGS. EUROPEAN UNION - MARIE CURIE ACTIONS EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUALISED SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN IRELAND THE EVALUATION AIMS TO GATHER EVIDENCE TO INFORM THE TRANSITION FROM TRADITIONAL GROUP-BASED MODELS TO INDIVIDUALISED, COST-EFFECTIVE SUPPORTS AND SERVICES, AND TO ACCELERATE THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH SERVICES AND SUPPORTS. THE SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY INCLUDES PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES AND THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT SEE HTTP://WWW.GENIO.IE/RESEARCH GENIO FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES THE AIM OF THE PROJECT WAS TO LOOK AT FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AND PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN THE EU. THIS WAS THE FIRST DISABILITY PROJECT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND WAS INSPIRED BY THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. THE PROJECT CONSISTED OF DESK RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN THE 27 EU COUNTRIES AND FIELD RESEARCH CONDUCTED IN BULGARIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, GREECE, HUNGARY, LATVIA, ROMANIA, SWEDEN AND THE UK. FOUR THEMES WERE EXAMINED IN DEPTH: THE RIGHT TO COMMUNITY LIVING, LIFE IN INSTITUTIONS, THE RIGHT TO ACCESS TO JUSTICE, AND THE RIGHT TO LEGAL CAPACITY. THE PROJECT USED PARTICIPATORY AND EMANCIPATORY METHODOLOGIES. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT SEE HTTP://FRA.EUROPA.EU/FRAWEBSITE/RESEARCH/PROJECTS/PROJ_DISABILITY_EN.HTM THE EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS (FRA) FOLLOW UP: EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUALISED SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN IRELAND THE FOLLOW UP TO THE EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUALISED SUPPORTS (2011-2013) AIMS TO GATHER ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE TO INFORM THE TRANSITION FROM TRADITIONAL GROUP-BASED MODELS TO INDIVIDUALISED, COST-EFFECTIVE SUPPORTS AND SERVICES, AND TO ACCELERATE THE AVAILABILITY OF SUCH SERVICES AND SUPPORTS. THE SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY INCLUDES PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES AND THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT SEE HTTP://WWW.GENIO.IE/RESEARCH GENIO INCLUSIVE RESEARCH NETWORK THE INCLUSIVE RESERACH NETWORK (IRN) IS A GROUP OF CO-RESEACHERS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, SUPPORTERS, AND ACADEMIC RESERCHERS THAT CONDUCT RESEARCH ON RELEVANT AREAS TO THE LIVES OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. THE IRN IS SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (TCD), THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK. THE IRN HAS CONDUCTED TWO STUDIES, "WHERE WE LIVE", AND "RELATIONSHIPS AND SUPPORT". THE THIRD IRN STUDY IS UNDERWAY, "HOME AND INDEPENDENCE". FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOU THE IRN, PLEASE SEE HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/NIID/RESEARCH/IRN/. DISABILITY ACCESSIBLE RESEARCH ARCHIVE THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AN ONLINE ARCHIVE WHERE DISABILITY RESEARCH IS DISSEMINATED IN ACCESSIBLE FORMATS, CONTRIBUTING TO BUILDING ACCESSIBLE SPACES AT TCD. THIS ARCHIVE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ENABLE RESEARCHERS TO SHARE FINDINGS IN ACCESSIBLE FORMATS; TO POSITION TRINITY AT THE FOREFRONT OF RESEARCH DISSEMINATION INNOVATION; AND TO INCREASE ACCESS TO RESEARCH FINDINGS BY OTHER STAKEHOLDERS WHO CONSUME AND USE RESEARCH BUT DO NOT HAVE A RESEARCH BACKGROUND. EQUALITY FUND A LITERATURE REVIEW TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR PERSON-CENTRED PLANNING IN DISABILITY SERVICES THIS LITERATURE REVIEW ON PERSON CENTRED PLANNING (PCP) WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AND THE NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY (NDA) TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL FRAMEWORK ON PCP ACROSS SERVICES PROVIDED TO ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES IN IRELAND. A SET OF GUIDELINES WERE DEVELOPED BY THE NDA IN 2005 ON THE PRINCIPLES AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PCP. THIS LITERATURE REVIEW EXAMINED EVIDENCE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PCP IN THE INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE, FROM 2005 TO 2016, TO INFORM THE FRAMEWORK. HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AND NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. MAX GARCIA MELCHOR garciamelchormax USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GARCIAMM CHEMISTRY CENTRE FOR SUPERCOMPUTING IN IRELAND HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE HOMOGENEOUS CATALYSIS, HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS, ELECTROCATALYSIS, DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY, REACTION MECHANISMS, RENEWABLE ENERGIES, FUEL CELLS, ENERGY STORAGE, 2D-MATERIALS. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN CATALAN; VALENCIAN ENGLISH GERMAN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (AICHE) CHAIR OF TWO PHD VIVAS IN TRINITY DISCIPLINE REPRESENTATIVE AT THE POSTGRADUATE OPEN DAY DISCIPLINE REPRESENTATIVE AT THE TRINITY OPEN DAY ECOSTBIO ACTION (COST ACTION CM1305) EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR THE MARTÍ I FRANQUÈS COFUND FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME FROM THE UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI (SPAIN) FEMS REPRESENTATIVE AT A WORKSHOP ON ONLINE LEARNING ORGANISED BY THE COLLEGE INTERVIEWED OVER PHONE BY THE IRISH NEWSPAPER "THE INDEPENDENT" IN RELATION WITH MY RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN NATURE COMMUNICATIONS MEMBER OF AN INTERNAL REVIEW PANEL FOR A ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANT MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS (AICHE) MEMBER OF THE COST ACTION CM1305: EXPLICIT CONTROL OVER SPIN-STATES IN TECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY (ECOSTBIO) MEMBER OF THE ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY SPECIALIZED GROUP (GEQO) OF THE RSEQ MEMBER OF THE SPANISH ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY (RSEQ) ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY SPECIALISED GROUP (GEQO) OF THE RSEQ PREPARATION OF A PRESS RELEASE FOR THE IRISH MEDIA ABOUT ONE OF MY RESEARCH WORKS PUBLISHED IN THE PRESTIGIOUS JOURNAL NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. THIS WAS CARRIED OUT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FEMS PRESS OFFICER THOMAS DEANE. REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS: CHEMICAL SCIENCE, ACS CATALYSIS, CHEMCATCHEM, JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, CHEMPLUSCHEM, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY, AND JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A. SPANISH ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY (RSEQ) CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE BATTERIES, HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS ENERGY STORAGE NANO-TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CLAIR MARIE GARDINER gardinerclairmarie ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GARDINEC BIOCHEMISTRY X SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE ST. COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR SIOBHAN GARRIGAN garrigansiobhan LOYOLA PROFESSOR OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY GARRIGS LOYOLA INSTITUTE LOYOLA INSTITUTE ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. MARIE THERESE GARVEY garveymarietherese ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GARVEYMT DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL DEPT DENTAL SCIENCE 30 WESTLAND COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. DANIEL SCHAEFER GEARY gearydanielschaefer ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GEARYD HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CULTURAL HISTORY HISTORY OF LIBERALISM AND THE LEFT HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES INTELLECTUAL HISTORY RACE AND ETHNICITY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR PATRICK GEOGHEGAN geogheganpatrick PROFESSOR GEOGHANP HISTORY THE ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONSHIP, IRELAND IN THE 18TH CENTURY, THE UNITED STATES IN THE 19TH CENTURY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (FTCD) ANGLO-IRISH CONNECTIONS IRELAND AND THE UNITED STATES IRELAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ROBERT EMMET DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. JOAN GEOGHEGAN geogheganjoan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GEOGHEJO MICROBIOLOGY OUR RESEARCH FOCUSES ON STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS , AN IMPORTANT CAUSE OF INFECTION IN HUMANS. METHICILLIN-RESISTANT S. AUREUS (MRSA) CAUSES SIGNIFICANT MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY AND NEW THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES ARE URGENTLY NEEDED. OUR TEAM ARE USING MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO STUDY THE BACTERIAL FACTORS THAT ALLOW S. AUREUS TO SUCCESSFULLY COLONISE AND INFECT HUMANS. A MAJOR GOAL OF OUR RESEARCH ACTIVITY IS TO PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR THE DESIGN OF NEW AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF S. AUREUS INFECTION. OUR CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: . THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF S. AUREUS SKIN INFECTION IN ATOPIC DERMATITIS (ECZEMA). ATOPIC DERMATITIS, ALSO KNOWN AS ECZEMA, IS THE MOST COMMON SKIN DISEASE IN CHILDREN. S. AUREUS EXACERBATES THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS YET VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE BACTERIAL FACTORS THAT ALLOW THE BACTERIA TO COLONISE THE SKIN AND ESTABLISH INFECTION. BY STUDYING A COLLECTION OF S.AUREUS STRAINS ISOLATED FROM PATIENTS WITH SEVERE ATOPIC DERMATITIS, MY GROUP ARE MAKING NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT THE ADHESIVE INTERACTIONS THAT ALLOW S. AUREUS TO ATTACH TO CORNEOCYTES IN SKIN. . WHAT DETERMINES THE SUCCESS OF NEW CLONES OF MRSA? A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE FITNESS AND VIRULENCE POTENTIAL OF S. AUREUS IS NECESSARY TO EXPLAIN HOW NEW CLONES OF MRSA SUCCESSFULLY COLONISE AND INFECT PEOPLE IN THE HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY. OUR CURRENT RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON NEWLY EMERGING CLONES OF MRSA FROM RECENT OUTBREAKS OF INVASIVE INFECTION AND THE ROLE OF PLASMID ENCODED GENES IN THEIR SUCCESS. . BIOFILM FORMATION BY S. AUREUS AND ANTI-BIOFILM AGENTS. BY GROWING AS BIOFILM COMMUNITIES ON CATHETERS, HEART VALVES AND ARTIFICIAL JOINTS, BACTERIA AVOID BEING KILLED BY ANTIBIOTICS AND THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM. OUR TEAM ARE STUDYING THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF PROTEIN-MEDIATED BIOFILM FORMATION BY S. AUREUS . WE HAVE FOUND THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO PREVENT STAPHYLOCOCCI FROM BUILDING BIOFILMS BY TARGETING THE PROTEIN LINKAGES THAT HOLD THE BACTERIA TOGETHER AND THE INTERACTIONS THAT FACILITATE ADHERENCE TO SURFACES. OUR FINDINGS OFFER NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPOUNDS TO PREVENT BIOFILM FORMATION BY STAPHYLOCOCCI. . RESPONSE OF S. AUREUS TO WALL TEICHOIC ACID DEPLETION. WALL TEICHOIC ACID IS AN ANIONIC POLYOL PHOSPHATE POLYMER THAT IS COVALENTLY ATTACHED TO PEPTIDOGLYCAN AND PLAYS KEY ROLES IN GROWTH, DIVISION AND MORPHOGENESIS. WE ARE STUDYING THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR WHEN THE WALL TEICHOIC ACID BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY IS INTERRUPTED IN S. AUREUS . DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY COMMITTEE MEMBER, MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY IRISH DIVISION MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY BACTERIA BACTERIAL ADHESION BACTERIAL BIOFILMS BACTERIAL-ANTIGENS BACTERIOLOGY COMPLEMENT INFECTION METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS MICROBIOLOGY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS STAPHYLOCOCCI VACCINES GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MR. THOMAS DERMOT GERAGHTY geraghtythomasdermot ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TGERGHTY MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE NEW PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES FOR THE SOLUTION OF MATRIX BASED NUMERICAL PROBLEMS. THESE ARCHITECTURES ARE IMPLEMENTED ON STATE OF THE ART FPGAS AND AIM TO IMPROVE OVER THE PERFORMANCE OF CONVENTIONAL PCS IN SOLVING LARGE FINITE ELEMENT PROBLEMS. FURTHER RESEARCH WORK IS BEING CONDUCTED ON DEVELOPING DELAY TOLERANT SENSOR NETWORKS FOR APPLICATIONS IN LAKE WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND RECORDING OF ACOUSTIC NOISE. NOVEL STRAIN SENSORS ARE ALSO BEING DEVELOPED BASED ON SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) DEVICES - SO CALLED WIRELESS STRAIN GAUGES. ADDITIONALLY A NEW REAL TIME MONITORING SYSTEM TO MEASURE FORCES TRANSMITTED TO ROAD SURFACES BY HGVS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AND IS ABOUT TO BE PILOTED. DEVELOPMENT OF LOW COST AIR QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DEPLOYMENT IN A DENSE WIRELESS GRID IS ONGOING MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER ACM MEMBER OF INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS MIEI MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AIR QUALITY OTHER ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FINITE AN ITERATIVE MATRIX MATHEMATICS ACCELERATOR (FIAMMA) CURRENTLY THE PERFORMANCE OF INDIVIDUAL SCIENCE/ENGINEERING WORKSTATIONS IS LIMITED BY SILICON I.C. TECHNOLOGY AND CPU ARCHITECTURES. THIS MEANS THAT TO SOLVE COMPLEX NUMERICAL PROBLEMS IN AERONAUTICS, CIVIL AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PRODUCT DESIGNERS MUST USE MULTIPLE WORKSTATIONS OR A HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER. EITHER OPTION IS EXPENSIVE IN TERMS OF BOTH CAPITAL AND MAINTENANCE, RESTRICTING THE AMOUNT OF COMPUTER MODELING WHICH CAN BE PERFORMED BY AN INDIVIDUAL SCIENTIST OR ENGINEER. THIS PROPOSAL AIMS TO DELIVER 30-60 DOUBLE-PRECISION GFLOPS (GIGA FLOATING-POINT OPERATIONS PER SECOND) OF COMPUTING POWER TO THE DESKTOP USING FPGA TECHNOLOGY RATHER THAN CUSTOM SILICON (TO REDUCE DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT COSTS) FOR THE PRICE OF A HIGH-END GRAPHICS CARD, IN AN ERA WHEN A SINGLE PENTIUM 4 PROCESSOR CAN DELIVER 6 GFLOPS AT 3GHZ, AND REALISTICALLY COULD DELIVER TWICE THIS IN THE NEXT GENERATION. TO MAKE THIS COMPUTING POWER AVAILABLE TO ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS THE PROPOSED HARDWARE ACCELERATOR WILL BE COMPLEMENTED BY SOFTWARE LIBRARIES FOR C, C++ AND FORTRAN AS WELL AS FOR COMMERCIAL PACKAGES (E.G. FLUENT, ANSYS) REMOVING THE NEED TO REWRITE LEGACY SOFTWARE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND - TECHNOLOGY DEVLEOPMENT - €350,000 DEV-SENDT - DEVELOPING SENSOR NETWORKING WITH DELAY TOLERANCE DEV-SENDT IS GEARED TOWARDS THE "META-OBJECTIVE" OF DEVELOPING SENDT TO THE POINT WHERE IT WILL BE LICENSED AND WE AIM TO NEGOTIATE SUCH LICENSES. THE SPECIFIC, VERIFIABLE PROJECT OBJECTIVES TO ENABLE THIS ARE: 1. RUNNING SIGNIFICANT PILOTS: WATER QUALITY MONITORING ON TRINITY AND CARR'S LAKES IN CO. CAVAN, AND NOISE MONITORING IN AN URBAN AREA TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE TECHNOLOGY MEETS THE CHALLENGES POSED MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN COMPETING APPROACHES. A. ONE HIGHLY SPECIFIC AND TESTABLE SUBSIDIARY OBJECTIVE HERE IS TO RUN A LAKE WATER QUALITY MONITORING NETWORK FOR AN ENTIRE WINTER WITH ONLY SOLAR POWER AND WITHOUT EXHAUSTING BATTERIES. B. DEMONSTRATING THAT THE SENDT SOFTWARE AND TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM IS APPLICABLE IN DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING APPLICATIONS BY SHOWING THAT BOTH BOATS AND BUSSES (OR EQUIVALENT) CAN BE USED AS DATA-MULES WITHOUT UNNECESSARY SOFTWARE OR HARDWARE CHANGES. 2. DEMONSTRATING THAT SENDT IS READY-TO-LICENSE FOR EXISTING OR NEW PRODUCT LINES. A. INTEGRATION OF THE SENDT TECHNOLOGY WITH A COMMERCIAL-GRADE GIS AND DATABASE BACK-END - NECESSARY FOR PRACTICAL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT. B. DECREASING THE UNIT COST OF SENDT NODES VIA A COST-REDUCTION RE-DESIGN OF THE HARDWARE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CURRENT PRODUCTS, AND REFINING THE SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS TO BETTER FIT WITH OUR MORE MATURE UNDERSTANDING OF THE REAL-WORLD APPLICATION NEEDS. 3. RESEARCHING WHETHER A SIMPLE WEBCAM BASED APPROACH CAN BE USED TO AMELIORATE THE MAINTENANCE AND ROBUSTNESS PROBLEMS WITH CHEMICAL SENSORS IN LAKE WATER QUALITY APPLICATIONS. 4. PROMOTING THE USE OF, AND CONTINUING TO ADD TO THE STATE OF THE ART IN, DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKING. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND - €343,000 WIRELESS STRAIN GAUGES WIRELESS, PASSIVE STRAIN SENSORS CAN BE FABRICATED USING SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) TECHNOLOGY. THE PROJECT SEEKS TO PROVE THE CONCEPT THAT WIRELESS, PASSIVE STRAIN SENSORS BASED ON SAW DEVICES CAN EXCEED THE PERFORMANCE OF CONVENTIONAL STRAIN GAUGES AND LEAD TO A LOWER MEASUREMENT SYSTEM COST IN MANY APPLICATIONS.SOME APPLICATION AREAS ARE TOOL CONDITION MONITORING, REMOTE STRAIN SENSING AND CONTROL OF ROTATING MACHINERY. THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SAW DEVICES AS STRAIN SENSORS AND THE WIRELESS INTERROGATION SYSTEMS WILL BE ESTABLISHED BY THIS WORK. THE COMMERCIAL VIABILITY AS A REPLACEMENT FOR CONVENTIONAL STRAIN SENSORS WILL ALSO BE ESTABLISHED ALONG WITH SOME EXPLOITATION ROUTES. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OFCONCEPT - €86,000 A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING FISH STATISTICS THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A ROBUST AND LOW COST FISH MEASURING BOARD. THE BOARD WILL INCORPORATE STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY, WILL BE SIMPLE TO USE AND VERY ROBUST. IN ADDITION IT WILL BE MUCH CHEAPER THAN EMBS ON THE MARKET AT THE MOMENT (THE COSTINGS FOR THESE EMBS ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE 1). THE TARGET COST IS €1000. THE DETAILED DESIGN OF THE SYSTEM WILL BE DRIVEN BY USER REQUIREMENTS, WHICH WILL BE DETERMINED AT THE START OF THE WORK PROGRAMME. THE PROJECT WILL DESIGN A CUSTOM MAGNETIC MEASUREMENT SENSOR AND A HAND-HELP INTERROGATION DEVICE, WHICH WILL CONTAIN ALL THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE SYSTEM AND WILL COMMUNICATE WIRELESSLY WITH A PC OR OTHER BASE STATION. THE PROJECT WILL DELIVER THE DESIGN OF THE NEW FMB INCLUDING A NUMBER OF WORKING PROTOTYPES, DESIGN DRAWINGS, DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE (DFM) AND TEST (DFT) DOCUMENTATION AND SOFTWARE. BORD IASCAIGH MHARA - €112,000 NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME REAL TIME WEIGH IN MOTION OF HGVS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AND FIELD TEST A LOW-COST SYSTEM FOR STATIC AND DYNAMIC AXLE LOAD MEASUREMENT FOR REAL-TIME WEIGH-IN-MOTION FOR HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES (HGVS). THE SYSTEM WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH A COMMERCIAL 'OFF-THE-SHELF' (COTS) UNIT THAT PROVIDES GPS CAPABILITY AND IS INTERFACED TO A GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS). THE INTEGRATED SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE REAL-TIME DATA ON LOADS TRANSMITTED TO ROAD SURFACES. ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATON FUND - €146,000 DELAY TOLERANT SENSOR NETWORKING - SENDT DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKING COVERS CONSTRAINED NETWORKS WHERE UNAVOIDABLE COMMUNICATION DELAYS (HOURS/WEEKS) ARE SUCH THAT NORMAL "CHATTY" INTERNET PROTOCOLS (ESPECIALLY TCP) CANNOT BE USED. THE "CANONICAL" EXAMPLES OF DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKING ARE INTERPLANETARY AND SENSOR NETWORKS. THIS PROJECT BUILDS UPON ONGOING WORK IN INTERPLANETARY NETWORKING BY APPLYING THIS WORK TO BUILD, FROM COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF (COTS) PRODUCTS AND FREELY AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY, AN INNOVATIVE ARCHITECTURE WHICH ALLOWS NOVEL SENSOR NETWORK APPLICATIONS TO BE EASILY AND CHEAPLY DEPLOYED. THE PROJECT EMPHASISES THE EVIDENTIARY (SECURITY) REQUIREMENTS THAT MUST BE MET FOR SUCH DATA TO BE CREDIBLE. THE RESULT IS A PROOF-OF-CONCEPT, SECURE, DELAY-TOLERANT, SENSOR NETWORK. ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND - €142,000 A NUMERICAL ACCELERATOR FOR COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SOLVING PROBLEMS IN COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) IS NUMERICALLY INTENSIVE BUT AMENABLE TO 'DIVIDE AND CONQUER' PARALLEL ALGORITHMS. IN THIS PROJECT, THE MOST NUMERICALLY EXPENSIVE ELEMENTS OF THE SOLUTION ALGORITHMS WHICH TYPICALLY SOLVE A LARGE SET OF LINEAR EQUATIONS WILL BE IMPLEMENTED AT A HARDWARE RATHER THAN A SOFTWARE LEVEL. THIS WILL REDUCE THE RUN TIMES BY A FACTOR OF BETWEEN 100 AND 1000, WHEN COMPARED TO CURRENT TECHNIQUES. TO ACHIEVE THIS AN FPGA BASED NUMERICAL ACCELERATOR COMPRISING MULTIPLE PARALLEL COMPUTATIONAL UNITS (CU) WILL BE IMPLEMENTED TO ACCELERATE THE SOLUTION OF THESE PROBLEMS. THE ACCELERATOR WILL BE A CO-PROCESSOR TO A WORKSTATION AND WILL OPERATE TRANSPARENTLY TO THE USER. IT WILL FEATURE 'ON THE FLY' HARDWARE RE-CONFIGURABILITY WHEREIN THE HARDWARE MAY BE CUSTOMISED TO MEET THE SPECIFIC DEMANDS OF A PROBLEM. ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND - €145,000 SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE STRAIN GAUGES FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS THE OBJECTIVE IS TO DESIGN, MANUFACTURE AND EVALUATE STRAIN GAUGES WHICH EMPLOY THE SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECT HEA PRTLI SPECIALISED HARDWARE FOR SEARCH ENGINES TH OBJECTIVE IS TO INVESTIGATE NEW ARCHITECTURES FOR SEARCH ENGINES ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SAW SENSORS HEA PRTLI PILOTING REAL TIME WEIGH IN MOTION FOR HGVS THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INTEGRATE THE WEIGH IN MOTION SENSOR DEVELOPED IN AN EARLIER PROJECT WITH A FLEET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY CELTRAK. A NUMBER OF VEHICLES WILL BE FULLY INSTRUMENTED AND A PILOT STUDY WILL BE CONDUCTED OVER A LONG PERIOD TO DETERMINE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SYSTEM IN THE FIELD. THE PROJECT IS IN COLLABORATION WITH CELTRAK. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP PILOT STUDY ON FEA CO_PROCESSOR A FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS CO-PROCESSOR HAS ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CONDUCT A PILOT STUDY IN CO-OPERATION WITH INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS. LARGE SCALE INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS WILL BE PROCESSED USING THE NEW SYSTEM, IDEALLY WITH AEROSPACE AND AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS. THE PILOT STUDY WILL ASSIST IN PROVING TH EVIABILITY OF THE SYSTEM. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COM + USING THE CELL PROCESSOR TO SOLVE PROBLEMS IN TRANSPORTATION HEA PRTLI 2 LONG TERM AIR QUALITY MONITORING THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP AND DEPLOY A SMALL NETWORK OF INTELLIGENT AIR QUALITY MONITORS IN DUBLIN. THIS NETWORK WILL PROVIDE REALTIME INFOMATION VIA THE INTERNET AND WILL LEAD TO THE DEPLOYMENT OF A LARGE SCALE, LOW COST SYSTEM. HEA PRTLI 4 INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. BIDISHA GHOSH ghoshbidisha ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BGHOSH CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CENTRE FOR TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR PEOPLE (TRIP) THE CORE FOCUS OF MY RESEARCH IS MODELLING OF COMPLEX NATURAL AND NATURAL-LIKE SYSTEMS THROUGH THE USE OF ADVANCED ANALYTICAL METHODS THAT ALLOW NEW INSIGHTS INTO IMPORTANT CONTEMPORARY ISSUES. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN KEEN TO TACKLE CHALLENGING PROBLEMS AT THE FRONTIER OF A RESEARCH FIELD WHICH PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY, IMPROVE HUMAN HEALTH AND HAVE BENEFICIAL SOCIETAL IMPACTS. I HAVE USED A RANGE OF METHODS INCLUDING TIME-FREQUENCY TECHNIQUES, LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR TIME-SERIES MODELLING, MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS AND SUPERVISED AND UNSUPERVISED LEARNING TECHNIQUES, ETC TO EXPLORE, MODEL AND PREDICT SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR FOR TRAFFIC NETWORKS, TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, AIR POLLUTION, RAINFALL AND FLOODS, UNDERWATER DAMAGED STRUCTURES (IMAGE ANALYSIS), ETC. I WORKED EXTENSIVELY IN THE FIELD OF NETWORK-WIDE URBAN TRAFFIC FORECASTING AT ITS NASCENT STAGE AND MY PAPER ON 'MULTIVARIATE SHORT-TERM TRAFFIC FLOW FORECASTING USING TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS' (109 CITATIONS) IS CURRENTLY ONE OF THE MOST CITED PAPERS IN THE FIELD OF MULTIVARIATE TRAFFIC FORECASTING ALONG WITH MY OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN THE FIELD. I FOCUSED ON MODELLING THE COMPLEX PROBLEM OF REAL-TIME EFFECT OF RAINFALL ON URBAN TRAFFIC AND DEVELOPED A NOVEL NEURO-WAVELET ALGORITHM FOR THIS PURPOSE. I HAVE WORKED ON MEASUREMENTS AND MODELLING OF HEALTH IMPACTS OF CYCLING. I HAVE DEVELOPED MULTIPLE APPS AND MEASUREMENT KITS TO MEASURE THE IMPACTS OF URBAN CYCLING ON INDIVIDUAL HEALTH AND EVENTUALLY QUANTIFYING THE HEALTH IMPACTS (COVERED IN RTE ECOEYE). I HAVE WORKED ON A UNIQUE PROJECT DEVELOPING CRASH BARRIERS USING LOW-COST MATERIALS FOR NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY (CURRENTLY TII). I HAVE UTILISED MULTIBODY MODELLING, IMAGE ANALYSIS, MATERIAL TESTING, SCALED AND FULL-SCALE LAB AND REAL-LIFE VEHICLE TESTING FOR THIS PROJECT WHICH IS A GLOBAL FIRST IN TERMS OF ITS COMPREHENSIVENESS. I HAVE EXTENSIVELY WORKED ON THE CHALLENGING PROBLEMS OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DETECTION USING UNDERWATER STEREOSCOPIC IMAGERY, DEVELOPING NEW MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR IMAGE ANALYSIS. BEING A PHOTOGRAPHY ENTHUSIAST I HAVE MANAGED TO DEVELOP AN OPEN-SOURCE UNDERWATER LIGHTING AND TURBIDITY IMAGE REPOSITORY (ULTIR) (WWW.ULTIR.NET) WHICH CAN SUPPORT RESEARCHERS IN TESTING NEW UNDERWATER IMAGE BASED ALGORITHMS. I HAVE PUBLISHED A PROTOCOL FOR CAPTURING SUCH IMAGES AND I AM CURRENTLY WRITING A BOOK ON DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FOR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES USING IMAGE ANALYSES TECHNIQUES. WHILE I HAVE PUBLISHED IN MANY AREAS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, THE GENERAL THEME OF MY WORK FOLLOWS THE COLLEGE THEME OF SMART AND SUSTAINABLE PLANET. MY RESEARCH IS ESSENTIALLY INTERDISCIPLINARY AND CONSEQUENTLY I HAVE COLLABORATED INTERNALLY IN TCD, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN EXTENSIVELY COVERED AND DISCUSSED IN MEDIA (SOCIAL, DIGITAL, NEWSPAPER & TELEVISION) FOR ITS RELEVANCE TO SUSTAINABILITY, POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND WELL-BEING. DEPT OF CIVIL,STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BENGALI ENGLISH HINDI CHAIR OF THE IRISH TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH NETWORK (ITRN) COST ACTION TU0702: REAL-TIME MONITORING, SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL OF ROAD NETWORKS UNDER ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS COST ACTION TU0903: METHODS AND TOOLS FOR SUPPORTING THE USE, CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF TRAFFIC SIMULATION MODELS (MULTITUDE) INTERNATIONAL MEMBER OF THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD (WASHINGTON D.C.) COMMITTEE ON STATISTICAL METHODS, (ABJ80) IRISH TRANSPORT RESEARCH NETWORK MEMBER OF EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C MEMBER OF THE TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD (WASHINGTON D.C.) COMMITTEE ON STATISTICAL METHODS, (ABJ80) ORGANISING COMMITTEE AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE IRISH TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH NETWORK (ITRN) TRB COMMITTEE ON STATISTICAL METHODS, ABJ80 BAYESIAN INFERENCE ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORTATION INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SIMULATION AND MODELLING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS TIME FREQUENCY TECHNIQUES TRAFFIC ASSIGNMENT TRAFFIC ENGINEERING TRANSPORT MODELLING TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING (ENVIRONMENTAL IMP TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING DESIGN AIR QUALITY TRANSPORT PLANNING & LOGISTICS EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL CHARACTERISATION OF LOW-COST ROADSIDE BARRIER SOLUTIONS THE NRA IS SEEKING LOW-COST ROADSIDE BARRIER SOLUTIONS FOR NATIONAL SECONDARY ROADS SUITABLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION FOLLOWING ROAD REALIGNMENT PROJECTS. THE CURRENT PROJECT PROPOSES TO USE WELL-ESTABLISHED COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING TECHNIQUES TO EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL FOR PROPOSED NEW DESIGNS THAT ARE BASED ON FREELY AVAILABLE LOW-COST NATURAL BUILDING MATERIALS (E.G. STONE WALL, EARTH ETC.) AND WHICH MEET COST, AESTHETIC AND ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS. THE PROPOSED DESIGNS WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY BE EVALUATED FOR AESTHETICS AND LIFECYCLE COST AND A COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS ON THE PROPOSED DESIGNS WILL BE PERFORMED BY COMPARISON WITH EXISTING PRODUCTS. A SCALED PROTOTYPE OF THE FINAL PROPOSED DESIGN WILL BE PRODUCED AND PHYSICALLY CRASH TESTED TO PREDICT THE LIKELY PERFORMANCE OF THE PROPOSED NEW DESIGN IN A FULL-SCALE BARRIER TEST. IF THE SCALED PROTOTYPE PHYSICAL TEST INDICATES A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS, A FULL-SCALE BARRIER TEST WILL BE PERFORMED AT TRL IN THE UK. NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY (€298,000, CO-PI) NRA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME TESTING, MODELLING AND OPTIMAL DESIGN OF NOISE BARRIERS FOR IRELAND NOISE BARRIERS MUST SATISFY A NUMBER OF STANDARDS WITH REGARDS TO THEIR ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE IN A LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT ALONG WITH THEIR MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE AND GENERAL SAFETY REQUIREMENTS. HOWEVER THESE TEST METHODS ARE NOT DEVELOPED WITH A VIEW TO ON-SITE TESTING OR TO DETERMINE CONTINUED PERFORMANCE OF BARRIERS. THE PROPOSED PROJECT AIMS TO IMPROVE CURRENT ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES FOR DETERMINING THE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE OF ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE REDUCING DEVICES. THIS WILL INITIALLY INVOLVE AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT EUROPEAN STANDARD METHOD FOR DETERMINING VALUES FOR SOUND REFLECTION AND AIRBORNE SOUND INSULATION FOR A NOISE BARRIER USING AN IN-SITU TECHNIQUE. AN ALTERNATIVE, RELATIVELY CHEAP AND RAPID TECHNIQUE FOR MEASURING THE IN-SITU PERFORMANCE OF NOISE BARRIERS WILL THEN BE DEVELOPED. NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY (€142,000, CO-PI) NRA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME USE OF HYDROECOLOGICAL INDICATORS IN CHARACTERIZING THE HYDROLOGICAL FLOODING REGIME IN KARST AREAS OF IRELAND THE EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE IN IRELAND IS GROWING, PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF INCREASED FREQUENCY OF INTENSE RAINFALL PERIODS (EPA,2007). THE PROJECT INVOLVES MODELLING OF SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES IN RAINFALL PATTERN OVER THE LAST SIX DECADES IN KARST AREAS OF IRELAND. PROJECT INVOLVES ESTIMATION OF THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FLOODING EVENTS, UTILIZING A RAINFALL GENERATION MODEL, LINKED TO A RESPONSE MODEL FOR GROUNDWATER FLOODING AND THE TRENDS IN THE DETERMINED RISK AND ALSO EVALUATION THE EFFECT OF A CHANGING HYDROLOGICAL REGIME ON CORRESPONDING HYDROCHEMISTRY AND ECOLOGY THROUGH INNOVATIVE USE OF ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS FOR HYDROLOGICAL FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT. AXA (€120,000, CO-PI) ROTHAR: ROUTE PLANNING AND NETWORK MODELLING FOR CYCLISTS IN A ROAD NETWORK, CYCLISTS ARE THE GROUP EXPOSED TO THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF RISK. ROUTE CHOICE OF A CYCLIST IS OFTEN BASED ON LEVEL OF EXPERTISE, PERCEIVED OR ACTUAL ROAD RISKS, PERSONAL DECISIONS, WEATHER CONDITIONS AND A NUMBER OF OTHER FACTORS. CONSEQUENTLY, CYCLING TENDS TO BE THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL MODE WHERE OPTIMISED ROUTE CHOICE IS NOT BASED ON LEAST-PATH OR LEAST-TIME. THE PROJECT WILL INVOLVE COLLECTING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DATA USING SMART PHONES FROM SELECTIVELY CHOSEN VOLUNTEER CYCLISTS IN DUBLIN REPRESENTING A WIDE CROSS-SECTION OF THE ENTIRE GAMUT OF CYCLISTS. A REPOSITORY WILL BE ESTABLISHED FOR THE CYCLING ROUTES AND OTHER VARIABLES FOR ANONYMOUS BUT UNIQUELY IDENTIFIED CYCLISTS. INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND CLUSTERING FOR TARGETED SUB-GROUPS WITHIN CYCLISTS WILL BE EXPLORED FROM THIS DATA. THE RESEARCH WILL EVENTUALLY DEVELOP A CYCLING NETWORK MAP OF THE CITY WITH ALL POSSIBLE ROUTES MARKED AND INDEXED ACCORDING TO THEIR SAFETY, RELIABILITY, TRAVEL TIME, ENERGY REQUIREMENT AND OTHER ATTRIBUTES. THIS MAP WOULD PROVIDE AN INVALUABLE TOOL TO CYCLISTS IN TERMS OF JOURNEY SAFETY AND TIME EFFICIENCY. CLARITY HAS FUNDED €5000 FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A SMART-PHONE BASED APP. SHORT-TERM MODELLING OF TRAFFIC VARIABLE SHORT-TERM TRAFFIC FLOW FORECASTING (STFF), THE PROCESS OF PREDICTING FUTURE TRAFFIC CONDITIONS BASED ON HISTORICAL AND REAL-TIME OBSERVATIONS IS AN ESSENTIAL ASPECT OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS). THIS PROJECT AIMS AT DEVELOPING UNIVARIATE AND MULTIVARIATE STTF ALGORITHMS USING TIME-SERIES AND NEURAL NETWORK ALGORITHMS. VARMA MODEL, STRUCTURAL TIME-SERIES MODELS, ADAPTIVE MLF & RBF MODELS ARE USED TO DEVELOP NEW AND EFFICIENT PREDICTION ALGORITHMS USING SCATS AND MIDAS DATA. ALONG WITH THIS, VEHICULAR AIR-POLLUTION LEVELS ARE ALSO MODELLED AND PREDICTED. AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF DAMAGE USING IMAGE BASED TECHNIQUES IN UNDERWATER MARINE STRUCTURES THIS PROJECT PROPOSES TO AUTOMATE DAMAGE DETECTION IN UNDERWATER MARINE STRUCTURES USING IMAGE BASED TECHNIQUES. ACCESS TO UNDERWATER STRUCTURES IS USUALLY LIMITED AND AN AUTOMATED DETECTION CAN POTENTIALLY VERY SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THE CONDITION MONITORING, OPERATIONAL COMPLEXITY AND FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS RELATED TO DETERIORATION OF THE STRUCTURES. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP IMAGE BASED TECHNIQUES PARTICULARLY SUITED TO UNDERWATER CONDITIONS AND AUTOMATICALLY DETECT DAMAGE AND RELATED FEATURES OF INTEREST. ADVANCED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND TEXTURE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY EMPLOYED IN THIS PROJECT. ISOLATION OF DIVERSE SURFACE FEATURES LIKE MARINE GROWTH, DUSTY REGIONS AND PRESENCE OF MARINE LIFE WILL BE ESTABLISHED. ADDITIONALLY, THIS IMAGE BASED NON-DESTRUCTIVE (ND) APPROACH WILL EXPLORE THE APPROPRIATENESS AND LIMITATIONS OF RESURRECTING ARCHIVED IMAGE AND VIDEO DATA OF UNDERWATER INSPECTIONS. (€48000IRCSET+€24000CAPACITES SAS) ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. HUGH GIBBONS gibbonshugh ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HGIBBONS COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM VERIFICATION AND TRANSFORMATION; FORMAL METHODS; FUNCTIONAL AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PROGRAM SPECIFICATION; PROGRAM SEMANTICS; COMPUTABILITY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. RESEARCH GROUP: (FMG) FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS GROUP COMPUTER SCIENCE FMG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR LAURENCE WILLIAM GILL gilllaurencewilliam PROFESSOR GILLL CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. RESEARCH INTERESTS INVOLVE STUDYING THE FATE AND TRANSPORT OF BOTH AIR AND WATER-BORNE POLLUTANTS IN THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF PASSIVE TREATMENT PROCESSES. MUCH OF THE WORK INVOLVES EXTENSIVE FIELD STUDIES WHICH ARE THEN USED TO DEVELOP MATHEMATICAL MODELS TO GAIN FURTHER INSIGHT INTO THE PROCESSES. PARTICULAR AREAS OF RESEARCH INCLUDE: ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT, KARST HYDRO(GEO)LOGY, ECOHYDROLOGY OF WETLANDS, SOLAR PHOTOLYTIC AND PHOTOCATALYTIC PROCESSES FOR CONTINUOUS FLOW DISINFECTION AND ARSENIC REMOVAL, WATER AND SANITATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS CHEMICALS TRANSPORT CIVIL ENGINEERING COASTAL & OCEAN ENGINEERING EARTH SCIENCE AND HYDROLOGY ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ENERGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ENERGY FROM BIOMASS (SEE FORESTRY ALSO) ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORTATION ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FRESH WATER POLLUTION GEOTHERMAL ENGINEERING GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY AND CONTAMINATION HYDROGEOLOGY HYDROLOGY HYDROLOGY OF LIMESTONE TERRAINS OCEAN AND OCEAN ENERGY SYSTEMS PHOTOCHEMISTRY PROCESS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING PROCESS ENGINEERING RENEWABLE ENERGIES RIVER POLLUTION SANITARY ENGINEERING SEWAGE SLUDGE SOLAR SOLAR, COLLECTORS/CONCENTRATORS SOLAR, HEAT STORAGE SOLAR, PHOTOCHEMICAL CONVERSION SOLAR, THERMAL POWER SYSTEMS TIDAL AND WAVE ENERGY TIME FREQUENCY AND WAVELET ANALYSIS WASTE MANAGEMENT, RECYCLING WASTE WATER TREATMENT WATER ENGINEERING WATER MONITORING, QUALITY, TREATMENT WATER RESOURCES ENGINEERING WATER SUPPLY WATER TREATMENT WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS WASTEWATER TREATMENT EFFICIENCY OF SUBSOILS AND STRATIFIED SAND FILTERS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ERTDI TRACER STUDY INVESTIGATIONS INTO REACTOR MIXING CHARACTERISATION LIBYAN GOVERNMENT AN EXAMINATION OF THE PARAMETERS INVOLVED IN THE DESIGN OF A CONTINUOUS FLOW SOLAR DISINFECTION PROCESS RPS & EU THE HYDRODYNAMICS OF GRIT PARTICLES MOVING ROUND A BEND USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS TCD RELATIVE EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION WHILST COMMUTING TO WORK BETWEEN TRANSPORT MODES TRIP THE EFFECTIVE DISTRIBUTION OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER EFFLUENT INTO PERCOLATION AREAS VIA DISTRIBUTION BOXES AND TREATMENT BY REED BEDS COMPARED TO ATTENUATION OF POLLUTANTS IN SANDY SUBSOILS EPA DESIGN OF AN ARTIFICIAL REEF FOR THE PROTECTION OF GARRETTSTOWN BEACH CORK CO. COUNCIL THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FIXED PHOTOCATALYST FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF CONTINUOUS FLOW SOLAR DISINFECTION IRCSET THE USE OF RECYCLED GLASS AS A FILTER MEDIA FOR SINGLE HOUSE WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS EPA ASSESSING, MODELLING AND MANAGING WATER AND CONTAMINANT MOVEMENT ALONG PATHWAYS (UNDERGROUND AND OVER-GROUND) FROM THE LAND SURFACE TO AQUATIC RECEPTORS, INCLUDING THE ROLES OF CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT AND ATTENUATION EPA STRIVE PROGRAMME 2007-2013 WILLOW EVAPOTRANSPIRATION SYSTEMS FOR ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WEXFORD COUNTY COUNCIL ASPIRATION EFFICIENCY REDUCER (AER) ENTERPRISE IRELAND (PROOF OF CONCEPT) ASSESSMENT OF PROPRIETARY STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS HYDRO-INTERNATIONAL THE IMPACT OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT FOR SMALL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTS ON GROUNDWATER EPA STRIVE PROGRAMME 2007-2013 CONTINUOUS FLOW SOLAR DISINFECTION SYSTEM USING PHOTOCATALYTIC INSERTS AND SYNERGISTIC THERMAL PROCESS IRCSET POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP AWARD (2010-2013) ASSESSING THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF TURLOUGHS NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE A PERSONAL EXPOSURE, ACTIVITY/LOCATION, GIS MODEL FOR THE GREATER DUBLIN AREA (GDA) AND ITS SATELLITE TOWNS (STS) EPA STRIVE PROGRAMME 2007-2013 RELATIONSHIP BETWNEE INDOOR AND OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION IN THE INNER CITY PRTLI 4 ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPACTS & RESPONSES RISK ASSESSMENT FOR GROUNDWATER FLOODING IN IRELAND: USE OF HYDROECOLOGICAL INDICATORS AXA RESEARCH FUND DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD MODELLING KARST HYDROLOGICAL NETWORKS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME POSTDOCTORAL AWARD ASSESSMENT OF DISPOSAL OPTIONS FOR TREATED WASTEWATER FROM SINGLE HOMES IN LOW PERMEABILITY SUBSOIL ENVIONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE PROGRAMME 2007-2013 LINEAR WETLANDS TO TREAT ROAD RUNOFF HEA PRTLI CYCLE 5 THE IMPACT OF ON-SITE WASTEWATER EFFLUENT ON RIVERS AND WELLS ENVIONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE PROGRAMME DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOLIDS SEPARATION PROCESS INTERTRADE IRELAND FUSION USING FAECAL STEROLS AND FLUORESCENT WHITENING COMPOUNDS TO DETECT HUMAN FAECAL CONTAMINATION FROM SEPTIC TANKS IN IRISH CATCHMENTS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF SOIL BIOMASS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR GRANT ICRAG - IRISH CENTRE FOR APPLIED GEOSCIENCE SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND A FRAMEWORK FOR THE RESTORATION OF DEGRADED PEATLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ON-SITE WASTEWATER TREATMENT - CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT AND ATTENUATION SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND DEVELOPMENT GRANT STABLE ISOTOPE FRACTIONATIONS DURING REACTIVE TRANSPORT OF PHOSPHATE IN GROUNDWATER DISCHARGING TO A GROUNDWATER FED LAKE (LOUGH GUR, CO LIMERICK) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND RESEARCH SHORT CALL 2015 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR MICHAEL GILL gillmichael PROFESSOR CONSULTANT MGILL PSYCHIATRY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENC ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MEMBER, CYCLE 2 PI'S & RESEARCHERS, ALL CYCLE 2 RESEARCHERS & PI'S MEMBER, DMMC GENE BANK MANAGEMENT GROUP, A TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROVIDING STRATEGIC AND SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DMMC'S COMBINED BIORESOURCE COLLECTIONS. NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND SYSTEMS AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. CLAIRE GILLAN gillanclaire ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GILLANCL PSYCHOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY, MACHINE-LEARNING, GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR, MODEL-BASED LEARNING, REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, HABITS. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES A COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH TO IDENTIFYING TRANS-DIAGNOSTIC PREDICTORS OF ANTIDEPRESSANT RESPONSE MANY PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION DO NOT RESPOND TO THEIR FIRST DRUG TREATMENT; IT OFTEN TAKES SEVERAL ATTEMPTS BEFORE SOMETHING WORKS. THIS LACK OF PRECISION MEANS THAT PATIENTS SUFFER THROUGH MONTHS OF INEFFECTIVE TREATMENT BEFORE GETTING ANY RELIEF. I AIM TO IMPROVE MATTERS BY DEVELOPING A TOOL THAT CAN BE USED TO ESTIMATE A PERSON'S LIKELIHOOD OF BENEFITTING FROM A RANGE OF TREATMENTS, BASED ON A SET OF CLINICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC AND COGNITIVE DATA, WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO BE FEASIBLE TO COLLECT IN A CLINICAL SETTING. IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THIS ALGORITHM, USING A TECHNIQUE CALLED MACHINE LEARNING, WE NEED LOTS OF DATA. SPECIFICALLY, WE NEED TO COLLECT DATA FROM HUNDREDS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE STARTING OUT ON A NEW ANTIDEPRESSANT TREATMENT AND FOLLOW THEIR PROGRESS OVER SEVERAL WEEKS. TO ACHIEVE THIS, I WILL TAKE THIS STUDY OUT OF THE LABORATORY AND INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES VIA THE INTERNET. ONCE THE ALGORITHM HAS BEEN TRAINED USING DATA COLLECTED ONLINE, WE WILL TEST HOW WELL IT PERFORMS IN THREE LOCAL CLINICS. IF SUCCESSFUL, THIS PROJECT MIGHT ONE DAY REVOLUTIONISE HOW WE ASSIGN PERSONALISED TREATMENTS TO INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. MQ FELLOWS PROGRAMME A NEUROCOMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF PAVLOVIAN-INSTRUMENTAL INTERACTIONS IN AVOIDANCE WELLCOME TRUST SIR HENRY WELLCOME POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR ROBERT HENRY GILLIGAN gilliganroberthenry PROFESSOR RGILLIGN SOCIAL STUDIES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE RESEARCH INTERESTS REVOLVE AROUND CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE: - CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES / WITH CHALLENGED STATUS (PUBLIC CARE, MIGRATION, ETHNIC DIVERSITY, DISABILITY, REFUGEES ETC) - SOURCES OF RESILIENCE AND SUPPORT - EXPERIENCES OF KEY TRANSITIONS AND TURNING POINTS - CHILDREN AND YOUTH POLICY ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT' CURRENT PHD STUDENTS AND STUDY TITLES - EAVAN BRADY, 'A LIFE COURSE STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS OF ADULTS WHO SPENT TIME IN STATE CARE AS CHILDREN.' - DERINA JOHNSON, 'THE EXPERIENCES OF SEPARATED YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE THAI - BURMESE BORDER' - MELANIE LABOR, 'OCCUPYING THE VOID: YOUNG PEOPLE'S NARRATIVES AS A GATEWAY TO A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF YOUTH SUICIDES - A CASE STUDY IN A DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY IN IRELAND - MICHELLE SPIRTOS, 'THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG ADULTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY, HEMIPLEGIA'; - SINEAD WHITING 'THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF LATE ADOPTION FROM FOSTER CARE' AND - LOUISE YORKE, 'THE MIGRATION OF RURAL GIRLS TO URBAN AREAS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA (SNNPR)'. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ACADEMIC MEMBER OF THE PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY NETWORK FOR THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK) FUNDED FOURTH PHASE (THE TEENS AND EARLY ADULTHOOD) OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND CARE PATHWAYS AND OUTCOMES STUDY (WWW.QUB.AC.UK/CPO). BOARD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION OF RESIDENTIAL AND FAMILY CARE DIRECTOR OF STUDIES, EXPERT STUDY GROUP APPOINTED BY THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO REPORT ON 'YOUTH AT PHYSICAL AND MORAL RISK' [REPORT PUBLISHED] HAVE SERVED AS OCCASIONAL REVIEWER / ASSESSOR FOR BRITISH ACADEMY, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL - UK, EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS, HEALTH RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND, NATIONAL CHILDREN'S OFFICE - IRELAND, NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH AFRICA, NUFFIELD FOUNDATION, QUALITY PROTECTS - UK, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE - NORTHERN IRELAND HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES CENTRAL SERVICES AGENCY, UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN (K.U. LEUVEN) RESEARCH COUNCIL HAVE SERVED AS OCCASIONAL REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING PUBLISHERS, JOURNALS AND SERIES: ALLEN AND UNWIN - AUSTRALIA,'AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL WORK','BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK', 'CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT', 'CHILDHOOD', 'CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW', 'COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES', 'ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW' - IRELAND, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE PUBLICATION SERIES - IRELAND, 'FAMILIES IN SOCIETY', 'FAMILY RELATIONS', 'HEALTH EDUCATION JOURNAL', 'INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY WELFARE', 'INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE', 'IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES', 'IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY', 'JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT', 'RESEARCH IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE', MACMILLAN, OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS - NEW YORK, PALGRAVE, 'SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIETY', 'SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW', MEMBER OF ADULT ADVISORY GROUP OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK) FUNDED STUDY 'HERE TO STAY? IDENTITY, CITIZENSHIP AND BELONGING AMONG SETTLED EASTERN EUROPEAN MIGRANT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE UK' (2016 - ) HTTP://WWW.MIGRANTYOUTH.ORG/ MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD FOR 'SOCIAL WORK FORUM' (JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY DEPT. OF SOCIAL WORK, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC) MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE JOURNAL 'ADOPTION AND FOSTERING' (BRITISH AGENCIES FOR ADOPTION AND FOSTERING) MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE JOURNAL 'CHILDREN AND SOCIETY' (WILEY) MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF COOMBE WOMEN & INFANTS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, DUBLIN MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT' (ELSEVIER) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'CHILD AND FAMILY SOCIAL WORK' (WILEY) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'CHILD INDICATORS RESEARCH' (SPRINGER) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'CHILDREN AND SOCIETY' (WILEY) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK' (ROUTLEDGE) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF 'INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY WELFARE' (GARANT, ANTWERP) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF IRISH JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL STUDIES MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL TEAM OF E-'JOURNAL OF STUDENT WELLBEING' (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA) HTTP://WWW.OJS.UNISA.EDU.AU/JOURNALS/INDEX.PHP/JSW MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, LEUVEN CENTRE FOR IRISH STUDIES, K.U. LEUVEN, BELGIUM MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK ON TRANSITIONS TO ADULTHOOD FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LEAVING PUBLIC CARE MEMBER OF THE SEMINAR SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE INED - CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN EDUCATION, OF SCHOOL OF EDUCATION OF THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTO, PORTUGAL, FOR ITS INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR IN THE FIELD OF FOSTER CARE, ENTITLED «FOSTER CARE IN EUROPE: OUTCOMES AND EVIDENCE», SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2016 PRESIDENT OF CHILDWATCH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK, 2010-2013 VICE PRESIDENT OF CHILDWATCH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK HTTP://WWW.CHILDWATCH.UIO.NO/ AT-RISK CHILDREN/YOUTH CARERS CHILD WELFARE CHILD WELFARE, FAMILY SUPPORT,CHILDREN IN CARE CHILDREN IN STATE CARE CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES CHILDREN/YOUTH FAMILY SUPPORT FOSTER CARE IMMIGRATION INNER-CITY INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH IRISH CHILD WELFARE POLICY MIGRATION MINORITIES AND DISADVANTAGED NEEDS PERMANENCY PROGRAMMES TO COMBAT SOCIAL EXCLUSION AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE REFUGEE/IMMIGRANT SERVICES SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY SOCIAL WORK SUPPORT SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE CHILDREN IN LONG TERM FOSTER CARE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF A NATIONAL COHORT OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN LONG TERM FOSTER CARE (N=205). FIRST STAGE COMPLETED AND REPORT PUBLISHED; SECOND STAGE REPORT IN PREPARATION. RESEARCH TEAM COMPRISES FIONA DALY AND ROBBIE GILLIGAN (P.I.) NATIONAL CHILDREN'S OFFICE / OFFICE OF MINISTER FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS BOARDING - OUT (FOSTER CARE) FOR OLDER PEOPLE STUDY TO IDENTIFY AND REVIEW NATURE AND EXTENT OF PROVISION FOR LONG - TERM CARE BY NON-RELATIVE FAMILY PLACEMENT. REPORT PUBLISHED NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE AGED CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN EASTERN HEALTH BOARD REGION MEMBER OF RESEARCH TEAM EXAMINING ALL REFERRED CASES WITH CONCERNS ABOUT SEXUAL ABUSE (N=990)IN STUDY PERIOD. DATA GATHERED FROM SOCIAL WORKERS VIA QUESTIONNAIRE FOR EACH CASE. REPORT AND RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ENHANCING EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD PROTECTION CASE CONFERENCES ACTION-RESEARCH PROJECT TO DEVELOP NEW REGIONAL MODEL FOR CONDUCT OF CHILD PROTECTION CASE CONFERENCES HELD UNDER AUSPICES OF SOUTHERN HEALTH BOARD. PROCESS INVOLVED STRONG CONSULTATION AND ENGAGEMENT WITH RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL STAFF. NEW MODEL WHICH EMERGED WAS PILOTED AND FULLY ADOPTED AND IMPLEMENTED. CONDUCTED WITH RUTH CHAPMAN. SEE PUBLICATIONS SOUTHERN HEALTH BOARD YOUNG PEOPLE AS CARERS OF DEPENDANT PARENTS OR SIBLINGS POLICY AND LITERATURE REVIEW. LED BY ANNE-MARIE HALPENNY IRISH YOUTH FOUNDATION / BARNARDOS AND CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE CHILDREN IN FAMILIES LIVING IN EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION QUALITATIVE STUDY DRAWING ON PERSPECTIVES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, PARENTS AND PROFESSIONALS. RESEARCH TEAM COMPRISED ANN MARIE HALPENNY, ANNA FIONA KEOGH AND ROBBIE GILLIGAN HOMELESS AGENCY RESILIENCE AND CHILDREN IN STATE CARE ONGOING CONCEPTUAL STUDY THAT COMMENCED IN 1996. USING RELEVANT CASE MATERIAL, IT EXAMINES RESEARCH EVIDENCE ON RESILIENCE IN RELATION TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN PUBLIC CARE FOR POLICY, AND ITS VALUE FOR PRACTICE BY CARERS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND OTHERS . PRODUCT TO DATE INCLUDES A BOOK, MULTIPLE CHAPTERS, JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS. IMMIGRANT YOUTH RESEARCH PROJECT STUDY OF THE VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES OF 169 YOUNG PEOPLE AGED 15 - 18. RECRUITMENT TO STUDY REFLECTED BALANCE IN TERMS OF AGES, GENDER, CULTURAL BACKGROUND, LENGTH OF TIME IN COUNTRY, CURRENT LOCATION, ETC INTEGRATING IRELAND AND TRINITY IMMIGRATION INITIATIVE LEARNING TOGETHER PROSPECTIVE CASE STUDY APPROACH TO SCHOOL BASED RESEARCH ON RELATIONS BETWEEN IMMIGRANT AND 'LOCAL' CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN NORTH INNER CITY OF DUBLIN. THIS PROJECT IS PART OF THE CHILDREN, YOUTH AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS RESEARCH PROGRAMME TRINITY IMMIGRATION INITIATIVE YOUTH AND POVERTY - INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES THIS PROJECT EXPLORES DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE REALITIES OF POVERTY AS EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG PEOPLE IN A NUMBER OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY SETTINGS. IT HAS A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE EXPERIENCES OF MARGINALISED OR VULNERABLE GROUPS, AND ESPECIALLY HOW THESE YOUNG PEOPLE NEGOTIATE THEIR WAY THROUGH VARIOUS CHALLENGES IN THEIR LIVES. TWO PHD STUDIES FORM PART OF THE PROJECT: A STUDY OF THE EDUCATIONAL JOURNEYS OF RURAL TEENAGE GIRLS IN ETHIOPIA (LOUISE YORKE); AND A STUDY OF YOUNG UNACCOMPANIED MYANMAR 'REFUGEES' IN NORTH WEST THAILAND (DERINA JOHNSON). OVERALL, THE PROJECT SEEKS TO GENERATE INSIGHTS ABOUT THE CAPACITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES IN THE MAJORITY WORLD, AND THE NATURE OF RELEVANT FORMS OF SUPPORT. MISCELLANEOUS: IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL, OAK FOUNDATION, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG ADULTS LEAVING STATE CARE THIS PROJECT CURRENTLY HAS TWO COMPONENTS: A STUDY OF WORK EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG ADULTS WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN CARE (ARNAU AND GILLIGAN); AND A STUDY OF CARE LEAVERS IN AN IRISH COMMUNITY (MCMAHON AND GILLIGAN) YOUNG SOMALI ADULTS IN THE IRISH EDUCATION SYSTEM THIS EXPLORATORY STUDY IS CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH RYAN O'GIOBUIN GENDER DISPARITIES AND DISABILITY: IDENTIFYING BARRIERS FOR INCLUSION SPECIFIC TO GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES IN TOGO MIXED METHOD STUDY LED BY PROF CAROL NEWMAN (ECONOMICS) IN COLLABORATION WITH PROF TREVOR SPRATT (CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE), AND MYSELF IN CONJUNCTION WITH COLLEAGUES IN UNIVERSITY OF LOME WHO HAVE CONDUCTED THE CORE OF THE FIELDWORK PLAN INTERNATIONAL 'UNFOLDING LIVES - HOW DO YOUNG ADULTS ACROSS DIVERSE CONTEXTS NEGOTIATE PATHWAYS THROUGH EDUCATION, WORK AND MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS? ' 'UNFOLDING LIVES' IS A RESEARCH PROGRAMME MADE UP OF A SET OF STUDIES EXPLORING HOW YOUNG ADULTS NEGOTIATE THEIR WAY IN THE WORLDS OF WORK, EDUCATION AND MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIPS. THE PROGRAMME COMPRISES A SERIES OF SINGLE OR MULTI-COUNTRY STUDIES ACROSS EIGHT COUNTRIES (BELGIUM, CZECH REPUBLIC, ETHIOPIA, IRELAND, NEW ZEALAND, SPAIN (CATALONIA), SWEDEN AND THAILAND). CURRENTLY, RESEARCHERS ACTIVE IN THE PROGRAMME ARE DRAWN FROM A NUMBER OF DISCIPLINES: EDUCATION, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL PEDAGOGY AND SOCIAL WORK. IN ADDITION TO TRINITY BASED RESEARCHERS, THERE ARE ALSO COLLABORATING RESEARCHERS SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE PROGRAMME FROM CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE; HAWASSA UNIVERSITY, ETHIOPIA; MASSEY UNIVERSITY, NEW ZEALAND; UAB - AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA; UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG; AND VUB - FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS. STUDIES IN THE PROGRAMME LOOK AT THE EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG ADULTS IN A VARIETY OF CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES: MIGRANT YOUNG WOMEN MOVING FROM RURAL AREAS TO CITIES IN A LOW INCOME COUNTRY; THE WORK OR EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS OF YOUNG ADULTS WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN STATE CARE; UNDOCUMENTED YOUTH FLEEING POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY AND SECURITY THREATS AT HOME; YOUNG ADULTS ADJUSTING TO A MORE INDEPENDENT LIFE THAT INCLUDES DISABILITY; YOUNG PEOPLE ADOPTED LATE FROM LIFE IN CARE. THESE STUDIES SPAN VARYING COUNTRIES, SOCIAL CONTEXTS, SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES AND DRAW EVIDENCE FROM A DIVERSE RANGE OF 'LIVING SOCIAL LABORATORIES'. THE PROGRAMME IS INNOVATIVE FOR ITS FOCUS ON LESS STUDIED GROUPS AND FOR SEEKING NUANCED UNDERSTANDINGS OF THEIR SHARED AND DIVERGENT EXPERIENCES ACROSS MULTIPLE CONTEXTS. A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS OF THE PROGRAMME IS INVESTIGATING HOW YOUNG ADULTS REMAIN AGENTIC IN CHALLENGING CIRCUMSTANCES, WHAT INFLUENCES, SUPPORTS AND HINDERS THE EXERCISE OF THEIR AGENCY IN GIVEN CONTEXTS. THE RESULTS OF THE STUDIES PROMISE INSIGHTS THAT CAN ENHANCE THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING, PUBLIC POLICY AND FRONT-LINE PRACTICE RELATED TO YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS. CARE TO WORK PATHWAYS RESEARCH PROJECT THIS CROSS-NATIONAL PROJECT EXAMINES SUCCESSFUL WORK ENTRY AND ADAPTATION AMONG YOUNG ADULTS WHO HAVE GROWN UP IN CARE. INITIAL STUDIES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED IN IRELAND AND SPAIN (CATALONIA). REPLICATION STUDIES UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF THE PROJECT ARE IN PROGRESS IN BELGIUM, THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND SWEDEN. AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE MR. JOHN G GILLIS gillisjohng CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER 2 JGILLIS LIBRARY THE LIBRARY COLLEGE 01-8961000 INSTITUTE OF CONSERVATORS-RESTORERS IN IRELAND ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR DESMOND GILLMOR gillmordesmond FELLOW EMERITUS DGILLMOR GEOGRAPHY GENERAL ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY, WITH SPECIALISATION IN AGRICULTURE AND OTHER PRIMARY ACTIVITIES, RESOURCE USE, RURAL GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM. GEOGRAPHICAL EDUCATION. REGIONAL INTERESTS IN IRELAND, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA GEOGRAPHY COLLEGE 01-8961000 SOCIETY AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS: DUBLIN UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY: FOUNDER MEMBER AND SECRETARY, 1960; CHAIRMAN, 1960-61; PRESIDENT, 1967-68, 1977-78, 1983-84, 1994-95; HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP CONFERRED 1969. GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND: COMMITTEE MEMBER, 1966-69, 1984-86; PRESIDENT, 1972-76; VICE-PRESIDENT, 1976-78. ASSOCIATION OF GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS OF IRELAND: MEMBER OF COMMITTEE, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91 PRESIDENT, 1976-78; VICE-PRESIDENT, 1978-80; TRUSTEE, GWENDA HURST MEMORIAL FUND, 1989- HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP CONFERRED 1983. IRISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GEOGRAPHY: MEMBER, 1972-75, 1976-79, 1980-83, 2000-04. CHAIRMAN, 1996-99. IRISH NATIONAL DELEGATE TO 29TH INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL CONGRESS, SEOUL, 2000 NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY: MEMBER, 1972-74, 1984-87; CHAIRMAN, 1974-75, 1976-79, 1980-83. MEMBER OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY BOARD FOR SCIENCE, 1996-1999 MEMBER OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY BOARD FOR HUMANITIES, 1997-1999 EUROPEAN STANDING CONFERENCE OF GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS: MEMBER, 1990-92. AGRICULTURAL GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY IRELAND MALAWI RURAL GEOGRAPHY RURAL STUDIES SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY EUROPEAN UNION RESEARCH: IRISH CONTRACTOR FOR FOUR-COUNTRY CAMAR PROJECT (8001-CT91-0119) TITLED "THE CONTRIBUTION OF ALTERNATIVE FARMING SYSTEMS TO THE FUTURE COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE OF FARMS IN LAGGING REGIONS OF THE COMMUNITY", DIRECTORATE GENERAL IV AGRICULTURE, COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, RESEARCH GRANT OF 76,635 ECU AWARDED FOR PROJECT OVER PERIOD 1992-94. SUBCONTRACTOR FROM TEAGASC FOR IRISH PART OF FIVE-COUNTRY PROJECT (AIR3 - CT93 - 1545) TITLED "THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS ON LAGGING RURAL AND COASTAL REGIONS", DIRECTORATE GENERAL IV AGRICULTURE, COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, RESEARCH GRANT OF 61,500 ECU AWARDED FOR PROJECT OVER PERIOD 1994-97. MEMBER OF IRISH RESEARCH TEAM (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY AND TEAGASC) FOR SIX-COUNTRY PROJECT (FAIR3 CT96 1827) TITLED "REGIONAL IMAGES AND THE PROMOTION OF QUALITY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN THE LAGGING REGIONS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION", DIRECTORATE GENERAL IV AGRICULTURE, COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, PROJECT PERIOD 1997-1999. MEMBER OF IRISH RESEARCH TEAM (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY AND TEAGASC) FOR EU FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROJECT ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM (SPRITE), 2000-2004. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR JOHN FRANCIS GILMER gilmerjohnfrancis PROFESSOR IN PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY GILMERJF PHARMACY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND I) ENZYME INHIBITORS . ISOSORBIDE-BASED INHIBITORS OF BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE (BUCHE) AND ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE (ACHE): SYNTHESIS AND BIOCHEMISTRY; THE ROLE OF BUCHE IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE . RATIONAL DESIGN OF SELECTIVE COVALENT INHIBITORS OF COX-2 . RATIONAL DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND TESTING OF INHIBITORS FOR THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE-DEGRADING ECTOENZYME (TRH-DE) II) PRODRUGS AND METABOLIC HYDROLYSIS . DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ASPIRIN-BASED ANTIPLATELET AGENTS WITH REDUCED GASTRIC TOXICITY RELATIVE TO ASPIRIN . INTELLIGENT PRODRUG CARRIER SYSTEMS FOR TARGETING CORTICOSTEROIDS TO THE COLON . EXPLORING METABOLIC VECTORS FOR SITE SPECIFIC DRUG DELIVERY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY & PHARMACEUCTICAL SCIENCES WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 INVITEE, COLORECTAL & GI CANCER RESEARCH GROUP (PROPOSED), SPECULATIVE IDEA TO CLUSTER PI'S AROUND COLLABORATIVE STUDY ON UPPER GI AND COLON CANCERS.DELIBERATELY WIDE SELECTION OF SURGEONS, PATHOLOGISTS AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS BASED ON STATED INTEREST OR PUBLICATION IN FIELDS OF OESOPHAGEAL OR COLORECTAL CANCER.TO BE REVIEWED/FOCUSED BY DK/JR/PMACM.EXTRACTED FROM DMMC RESEARCH DATABASE - 8 NOV 2004. MEMBER OF EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS MEMBER, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH INTO GLOBAL DISEASE (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMPLEMENTARY INTERESTS IN GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE. INTERESTS INCLUDE INNATE IMMUNITY, IMMUNE REGULATION, REGIONAL IMMUNITY, IMMUNE EVASIOB, VACCINE & ADJUVANT DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS DRUG & TARGET DEVELOPMENT. MEMBER, CORE TECHNOLOGY PI'S, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS. MEMBER, DMMC CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL GROUPING OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH ON CANCER THEMES MEMBER, PHG FUNDED PI'S AND RESEARCHERS, ALL RESEARCHERS FUNDED UNDER CYCLE 3 PRTLI - PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN GENOMICS ASPIRIN BINDING BIOLOGICAL-MEMBRANES BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND TESTING OF SPECIFIC ENZYME INHIBITORS ENZYME SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITIES HOST-GUEST CHEMISTRY HYDROLYSIS IMPROVED DELIVERY ISOSORBIDE-BASED THERAPIES FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE MOLECULAR RECOGNITION PRO-DRUG DESIGN FOR TISSUE TARGETING PRODRUG RECEPTORS STEROIDS THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE-DEGRADING ECTOENZYME INHIBITORS IN THE TREATMENT OF CNS DISORDERS INVESTIGATION INTO HIGHLY POTENT INHIBITORS OF BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CONTAINS TWO CHOLINESTERASES; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE [EC 3.1.1.7; ACHE] AND BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE [EC 3.1.1.8; BUCHE]. THESE ARE PROBABLY THE MOST WIDELY STUDIED ENZYMES DUE TO THEIR EXTRAORDINARY SPEED AND THE IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACHE AND THE NEUROTRANSMITTER ACETYLCHOLINE (ACH). SURPRISINGLY, NO PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLE HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO BUCHE, NOR HAS IT A KNOWN ENDOGENOUS SUBSTRATE (DARVESH ET AL., 2003). IT IS DIFFICULT TO ACCEPT THAT THIS ENZYME HAS BEEN RETAINED WITHOUT FUNCTION IN THE EVOLVING ORGANISM: FOR THE PRESENT IT TAKES ITS NAME FROM BUTYRYLCHOLINE, A SYNTHETIC SUBSTANCE IT HYDROLYSES EXCEEDINGLY RAPIDLY. INTEREST IN BUCHE HAS RISEN SHARPLY DUE TO EMERGING EVIDENCE OF ITS INVOLVEMENT IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (GIACOBINI, 2003, 2004). WE HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT HUMAN BUCHE HYDROLYSES SOME ISOSORBIDE-2-ESTERS AT HIGHER RATES THAN BUTYRYLCHOLINE ITSELF (GILMER ET AL., 2002, 2005). WE HYPOTHESISED THAT THIS COULD BE USED IN THE DESIGN OF NOVEL INHIBITORS OF BUCHE. OUR DESIGN INVOLVED REPLACEMENT OF THE VULNERABLE ESTER WITH CARBAMATE FUNCTIONALITY, WHICH IS ESTERASE INHIBITORY. THE APPROACH PROVED HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL. MANY OF THE COMPOUNDS IN THE NEW CLASS EXHIBIT NANOMOLAR POTENCY. THE CURRENT LEAD COMPOUND HAS AN IC50 OF 150 PICOM AND MORE THAN 65,000-FOLD SELECTIVITY FOR BUCHE OVER ACHE. IT IS THE MOST POTENT AND BUCHE-SELECTIVE COMPOUND EVER REPORTED. IT IS ALSO COMPLETELY UNLIKE ANY OTHER BUCHE INHIBITOR OR SUBSTRATE TYPE. FURTHERMORE, IT IS UNCHARGED AT PHYSIOLOGICAL PH AND HIGHLY LIPOPHILIC, ATTRIBUTES GENERALLY REQUIRED FOR GOOD BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER PENETRABILITY. THESE COMPOUNDS HOLD SIGNIFICANT PROMISE IN PROBING THE BIOLOGICAL ROLE OF BUCHE AND POTENTIALLY IN ALZHEIMER'S THERAPY. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO FIND OUT HOW THE ESTERS AND CARBAMATES INTERACT WITH BOTH CHOLINESTERASES AND TO BEGIN EXPLORING THEIR THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL USING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY IN COMBINATION WITH CLINICALLY RELEVANT MODELS OF AD. THE OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM IS TO EXAMINE THE HYPOTHESIS THAT BUCHE IS A ROGUE PROTEIN IN AD. COLLABORATORS: SEAN REIDY, SHEILA RYDER SFI PROBING THE INTERACTION OF URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID WITH THE STEROID RECEPTOR URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID (UDCA) HAS BEEN FOUND TO ACT AS A BILE SECRETATOGUE, IMMUNOMODULATOR AND INHIBITOR OF CELLULAR APOPTOSIS. THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE THAT UDCA ACTIVATES THE GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR BINDING TO A DIFFERENT REGION OF THE LIGAND BINDING DOMAIN TO GR AGONISTS SUCH AS DEXAMETHASONE. ACTIVATION OF THE GR MIGHT THEN RESULT IN A DIFFERENTIAL REGULATION OF GENE EXPRESSION. IN ADDITION IT IS KNOWN THAT SOME OF UDCAS ACTIONS ARE DUE TO SUPPRESSION OF ACTIVATOR PROTEIN-1 (AP-1) AND NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA B (NF-&#954;B). HENCE UDCA COULD ACT AS A PROTOTYPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL AND MORE SELECTIVE MODIFIER OF THE GR CREATING A CLASS OF DRUGS WITH INFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY BUT REDUCED SIDE EFFECTS. THIS PROJECT IS A COLLABORATION WITH AIDEEN LONG AT THE IMI (ST JAMES'S) AND IT USES CONVENTIONAL MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY STRUCTURE-FUNCTION SURVEYS IN COMBINATION WITH HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING (CELLOMICS) AND IN SILICO MODELS OF THE GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR. COLLABORATORS: AIDEEN LONG, DERMOT KELLEHER. RECIPIENT: RUCHIKA SHARMA HRB , IRCSET DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ASPIRIN PRODRUGS REGULAR ASPIRIN USE IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED RISK OF MORTALITY IN ALL CARDIOVASCULAR RISK GROUPS. THIS EFFECT IS ATTRIBUTED TO ASPIRIN'S INHIBITION OF PLATELET COX-1. IN ADDITION, NUMEROUS OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES INDICATE THAT ASPIRIN USE REDUCES THE RISK OF COLORECTAL, OESOPHAGEAL, GASTRIC AND LUNG CANCERS. ASPIRIN'S CYTOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS HAVE BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO ITS UNIQUE ABILITY TO ACETYLATE COX-2, WHICH CAUSES ARACHIDONIC ACID TO BE SHUNTED AWAY FROM PGE2, A CANCER PROMOTER, TOWARDS HETE, A CANCER SUPPRESSOR. THERE ARE NOT YET RELIABLE DOSE-RELATED DATA FOR THE PROPHYLACTIC USE OF ASPIRIN IN CANCER; HOWEVER, IT SEEMS LIKELY TO BE HIGHER THAN THE OPTIMAL DOSE REQUIRED FOR ITS ESTABLISHED ROLE IN THE PREVENTION OF HEART ATTACK. OTHER FINDINGS SUGGEST A PROTECTIVE ROLE FOR ASPIRIN IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND OTHER FORMS OF DEMENTIA. THE MAIN SIDE EFFECT ASSOCIATED WITH ASPIRIN USE IS GASTRIC BLEEDING. ENDOSCOPICALLY CONTROLLED STUDIES DEMONSTRATE AN INCREASED RISK OF BLEEDING AT ALL DOSES (75MG = 2.3, 150 MG =3.2, 300 MG = 3.9): IN ONE RECENT STUDY 10% OF PATIENTS ON LOW DOSE ASPIRIN (10-300 MG/DAY) HAD ENDOSCOPIC ULCERS AFTER 12 WEEKS, WITH ONE CASE OCCURRING AT 10 MG/DAY. ELEVATED BLEEDING WAS OBSERVED IN SEVERAL STUDIES 5 TO 30 DAYS AFTER THE START OF THERAPY INDICATING THAT ADAPTATION DOES NOT OCCUR. SIGNIFICANTLY, THE RISK OF GI SIDE-EFFECTS HAS LIMITED ASPIRIN USE TO PATIENT GROUPS WITH A HIGH PROBABILITY OF A THROMBOTIC EVENT. A POTENTIALLY VALUABLE APPROACH TO THIS PROBLEM IS THE DESIGN OF ASPIRIN DERIVATIVES CAPABLE OF DELAYING ASPIRIN-RELEASE UNTIL AFTER ABSORPTION. THIS WOULD EFFECTIVELY ABOLISH THE LOCAL COMPONENT OF GASTRIC TOXICITY, ASSOCIATED WITH DIRECT CONTACT BETWEEN THE ASPIRIN CARBOXYLIC ACID AND THE GASTRIC MUCOSA. SECONDLY, PROSTAGLANDIN LEVELS IN THE GASTRIC MICROCIRCULATION SHOULD BE UNAFFECTED DURING THE FIRST PASS SINCE ASPIRIN ESTERS DO NOT HAVE INTRINSIC CYCLO-OXYGENASE INHIBITORY ACTIVITY. THIS PROJECT IS CONCERNED WITH A NOVEL DESIGN THAT WILL PERMIT FOR THE FIRST TIME THE DUAL RELEASE OF ASPIRIN AND NITRIC OXIDE FROM THE SAME DRUG MOLECULE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND POC, TECH DEV, INNOVATIONS AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. CATHERINE GILTRAP giltrapcatherine CURATOR OF COLLEGE ART COLLECTIONS GILTRAC SECRETARY'S OFFICE IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE FROM THE GOTHIC PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY; MUSEUM STUDIES / MUSEOLOGY; CULTURAL HERITAGE; UNIVERSITY HERITAGE, ACADEMIC MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS; COLLECTIONS EDUCATION & OUTREACH; HISTORY OF ART; HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE; MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN; NARRATIVE SPACE; OBJECT-BASED LEARNING; DIGITAL HUMANITIES; DIGITAL CULTURE. SECRETARY'S OFFICE WEST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN CATALAN; VALENCIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ICOM IRELAND BOARD MEMBER ICOM THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS, MEMBER ICOM UMAC INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBER (UMAC IS THE INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF ICOM FOR UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS) TASK FORCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS, EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE (UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF AAMG - ASSOCIATION OF ACADEMIC MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES) DR. NOREEN GLEESON gleesonnoreen ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GLEESONN OBSTETRICS MAJOR RESEARCH INTEREST INCLUDE THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CERVICAL, OVARIAN AND ENDOMETRIAL CANCER,COMPLEX AND RECONSTRUCTIVE PELVIC SURGERY, THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY CANCER, PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF THROMBOSIS IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER AND THE ROLE OF COAGULATION PROTEASES IN PATHOGENESIS OF OVARIAN CANCER. RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TRANSITION FROM ENDOMETRIOSIS TO CLEAR CELL CANCER OF THE OVARY. NOREEN IS A MEMBER OF GYNAECOLOGICAL DISEASE SPECIFIC SUBGROUP - ICORG SINCE 2005 AND CO-INVESTIGATOR EORTC/ICORG - GYNAECOLOGICAL CLINICAL TRIALS COORDINATOR AT ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL SINCE 2004, GYNECOLOGIC CANCER INTERGROUP (GCIC) SINCE 2013. 12 HUME STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ADVISOR/GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER EXPERT PANEL IRISH CANCER SOCIETY, INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICIANS & GYNAECOLOGISTS OF IRELAND AND OVACARE PATIENT SUPPORT GROUP EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER (EORTC) LEAD GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGIST NATIONAL GUIDELINES COMMITTEE, NATIONAL CANCER CONTROL PROGRAMME (NCCP) MEMBER OF BRITISH GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER SOCIETY MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDOSCOPIC SURGEONS MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER SOCIETY MEMBER OF IRISH INSTITUTE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS MEMBER OF ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND MEMBER OF ROYAL COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNAECOLOGISTS MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF PELVIC SURGEONS GYNAECOLOGY ONCOLOGY THROMBOSIS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES GENETICS AND GENOMICS THE ROLE OF TISSUE FACTOR IN THE TRANSITION FROM ENDOMETRIOSIS TO CLEAR CELL CANCER. : LEO PHARMA IIS/GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER FUND, SJH [CO-APPLICANT WITH DR LUCY NORRIS] THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY AS A PREDICTOR OF VENOUS THROMBOSIS IN GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGERY. GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER FUND, SJH [CO-APPLICANT WITH DR LUCY NORRIS] A RISK MODEL FOR PREDICTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS FOLLOWING SURGERY RESEARCH BOARD [CO-APPLICANT WITH DR LUCY NORRIS] ENDOGENOUS THROMBIN POTENTIAL (ETP) AND MICROPARTICLE TISSUE FACTOR(TF) ACTIVITY AS MARKERS OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS. LEO PHARMA IIS/GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY FUND SJH [CO-APPLICANT WITH DR LUCY NORRIS] . STUDY OF TISSUE FACTOR & TF INHIBITOR IN OVARIAN CANCER. LEO PHARMA IIS/GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER FUND, SJH [CO-APPLICANT WITH DR LUCY NORRIS] INTERROGATION OF THE ONCO-METABOLOME IN OVARIAN CANCER ROYAL CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL TRUST (CO-APPLICANT WITH DR. SHARON O'TOOLE] SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES TO CERVICAL PRE-CANCER AND CANCER SYSTEMCERV EUROPEAN UNION 7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME. FP7-HEALTH HEALTH-2012.2.1.2-1 [SYSTEMS MEDICINE: SME DRIVEN WHAT IS THE CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELL AND THE ROLE OF THE IMMUNE EDITING IN THE METASTATIC CASCADE? BODY: HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD. [P.I. PROFESSOR JOHN O'LEARY] CERVIVA 2: BUILDING CAPACITY AND ADVANCING RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE IN CERVICAL SCREENING AND OTHER HPV ASSOCIATED DISEASES IN IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD. COLLABORATIVE APPLIED RESEARCH GRANT [P.I. PROFESSOR JOHN O'LEARY] CURRENT CLINICAL TRIAL - ICORG/GCIG - ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL ICORG 10-12 OVARIAN CANCER - ANZOG 0701 SYMPTOM BENEFIT STUDY ICORG 11-29 OVARIAN CANCER - ICON 8 ICORG 09-06 ENDOMETRIAL CANCER - IMRT V 3D RADIOTHERAPY PHASE II TRIAL ICORG 13-07 ENDOMETRIAL CANCER RECURRENT - AE25108-05 CERVICAL CANCER - SHAPE TRIAL - P.I. FOR ICORG INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTRE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HYSTERECTOMY WITH AND WITHOUT PARAMETRECTOMY IN THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF EARLY CERVICAL CANCER ICORG CANCER GENES & SOCIETY MS. MADELINE GLEESON gleesonmadeline CLINICAL NURSE TUTOR GLEESOM2 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MS. CLAIRE GLEESON gleesonclaire REGIONAL PLACEMENT FACILITATOR CLGLEESO OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY DEPT OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH CHAIRPERSON OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI) MENTAL HEALTH ADVISORY GROUP & STUDY DAY ORGANISER MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI) MEMBER OF THE WORLD FEDERATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS (WFOT) INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. OLIVIERO GOBBO gobbooliviero RESEARCH FELLOW OGOBBO PHARMACY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. CHRISTER GOBL goblchrister ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN SPEECH SCIENCE CEGOBL C.L.C.S. C.L.C.S. ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EMOVOICE - THE ANALYSIS OF VOICE QUALITY IN EMOTIVE SPEECH THE PROJECT EXPLORES NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF VOICE QUALITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CAPTURING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPRESSIVE AND EMOTIONALLY COLOURED SPEECH. IT FUNDS A POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW FOR TWO YEARS (€98,600). IRCSET - IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNLOGY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IRISH PROSODY - PROSODY OF IRISH DIALECTS: THE USE OF INTONATION, RHYTHM, VOICE QUALITY FOR LINGUISTIC AND PARALINGUISTIC SIGNALLING THE ANALYSIS OF THE PROSODIC STRUCTURE OF IRISH INCLUDING THE FOUR MAIN DIALECTS. (€113,100) IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (IRCHSS) COST 258: THE NATURALNESS OF SYNTHETIC SPEECH COST ACTION CONCERNED WITH THE NATURALNESS OF SYNTHETIC SPEECH IN CONCRETE APPLICATIONS, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOUND QUALITY AND PROSODIC MODELLING. (€7,600) EU COST ACCOR II - ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC CORRELATIONS IN COARTICULATION ACCOR II WAS FUNDED TO CONTINUE THE WORK AND EXPLOIT THE DATABASES OF ACCOR I. (£15,000 TO TCD PARTNER) EU ESPRIT/BRA WORKING GROUP HUMAINE - HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION NETWORK ON EMOTION EU NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE WHOSE GOAL IS TO DEVELOP SYSTEMS THAT CAN REGISTER, MODEL AND/OR INFLUENCE HUMAN EMOTIONAL STATES AND PROCESSES (HTTP://EMOTION-RESEARCH.NET/). (€103,000 TO TCD PARTNER) EU SIXTH FRAMEWORK VOCON - VOICE CONTROL IN UNIT-SELECTION CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS PROJECT EXPLORING HOW THE VOICE CAN BE CONTROLLED IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS BASED ON NON-UNIFORM UNIT-SELECTION CONCATENATION. IN COLLABORATION WITH VISTING SENIOR RESEARCH FROM HITACHI (€42,000) HITACHI, JAPAN WISPR - WELSH AND IRISH SPEECH PROCESSING RESOURCES A WELSH-IRISH JOINT PROJECT WITH THE AIM TO DEVELOP ANNOTATED SPEECH CORPORA FOR IRISH AND WELSH AND THE PREREQUISITES FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS. (€281,674 TO TCD PARTNER) EU INTERREG IIIA SPACT (PHASE 1 AND 2) - APPLICATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION/SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY IN THE MIR SPACE STATION PROJECT WITH THE AIM TO EQUIP A WORKSTATION, USED FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS ON THE MIR SPACE STATION, WITH SPEECH INPUT/OUTPUT FACILITIES. THE TASK OF THE TCD GROUP WAS TO SELECT THE MOST APPROPRIATE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM AND ADAPT IT TO THE USER SITUATION, E.G., BY SELECTING/DESIGNING THE VOICE QUALITY PARAMETERS THAT WOULD BE USED IN MESSAGES TO SIGNAL CAUTION, WARNINGS ETC. IN SPITE OF THE WELL KNOW PROBLEMS WITH MIR, THE OUTPUT OF THIS PROJECT DID MAKE IT INTO ORBIT. (£51,000 TO TCD PARTNER) EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY VERIVOX - VOICE VARIABILITY IN SPEAKER VERIFICATION. FEASIBILITY STUDY TO EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPROVING SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEMS BY INCORPORATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW THE VOICE OF A SPEAKER VARIES DEPENDING ON STRESS, RATE OF SPEECH, LOUDNESS LEVEL, ETC. (£3,000 TO TCD PARTNER) EU LTR WORKING GROUP UNDER RTD PROGRAMME IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES CABÓG - A DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR IRISH TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION PROJECT INVOLVING THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SOFTWARE SYSTEM THAT WOULD ENABLE THE WRITING AND TESTING OF RULES FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH CONVERSION. (£23,000) ACCUTRON, LIMERICK AND THE IRISH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION SPEECH MAPS - SOUND-TO-GESTURE INVERSION IN SPEECH PROJECT EXPLORING HOW AN ARTICULATORY ROBOT CAN LEARN TO PRODUCE ARTICULATORY GESTURES FROM SOUNDS. A MAJOR COMPONENT INVOLVED THE RECOVERY OF THE SOURCES (ARTICULATORY AND ACOUSTIC) FROM THE SPEECH OUTPUT SIGNAL. (£54,500 TO TCD PARTNER) EU ESPRIT/BRA PROJECT VOX - THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS WORKING GROUP CONCERNED WITH THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF VOICE QUALITY AS IT VARIES ACROSS SPEAKERS AND WITHIN THE SPEECH OF THE INDIVIDUAL. THE AIM WAS TO MODEL THE ACOUSTIC, ARTICULATORY AND PERCEPTUAL CORRELATES OF SPEAKER TYPE (VOICE TYPE), SPEAKER STATE (EMOTION AND ATTITUDE) AND SPEAKER STYLE (CAREFUL VS. CASUAL SPEECH), AND TO TEST THESE MODELS USING SPEECH SYNTHESIS. (£15,000 TO TCD PARTNER) EU ESPRIT/BRA WORKING GROUP ACCOR I - ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC CORRELATIONS IN COARTICULATION A CROSS-LANGUAGE INVESTIGATION OF COARTICULATION, THE MAIN SOURCE OF SYSTEMATIC VARIABILITY IN SPEECH SEGMENTS. THE STUDY INCLUDED ACQUISITION OF AN ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC DATABASE IN 7 LANGUAGES. (£174,000 TO TCD PARTNER) EU ESPRIT/BRA PROJECT HIASYNT - ENGLISH TEXT-TO-SPEECH BASED ON OPTIMAL UNIT SELECTION THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY PREREQUISITES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPLETE ENGLISH TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM, BASED ON OPTIMAL UNIT SELECTION. WORKING WITHIN THE HITACHI SPEECH SYNTHESIS FRAMEWORK, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WILL BE FOCUSED ON CORPUS DESIGN, POST-LINGUISTIC PROCESSING AND PROSODY MODELLING (€164,000). HITACHI, LTD, JAPAN CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ROBBIE GOODHUE goodhuerobbie SENIOR EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER GOODHUER GEOLOGY MY RESEARCH IS IN SEVERAL AREAS WHICH I INTEGRATE: I AM INTERESTED IN THE BEHAVIOUR OF ORGANIC MATTER AND CLAY MINERALS IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS DURING THERMAL MATURATION. I RESEARCH THE ORGANIC COMPONENTS USING VITRINITE REFLECTANCE, COLOUR CHANGE IN MICROFOSSILS AND STABLE ISOTOPES OF NITROGEN (Ä15N) AND ALSO CARBON (Ä13C). IN COLLABORATION WITH A COLLEAGUE, I HAVE DEVELOPED A OPTICAL NEW METHOD OF QUANTIFYING THEMAL MATURATION, TERMED THE PALYNOMORPH DARKNESS INDEX. I USE CRYSTALLINITY (ILLITE AND CHLORITE) MEASURED BY POWDER X-RAY DIFFRACTION (PXRD) TO STUDY THE THERMAL MATURATION OF CLAY MINERALS. MY WORK WITH OUR ISOTOPE RATIO MASS SPECTROMETER (IRMS) HAS PROVIDED INVOLVEMENT IN MANY INTERESTING PROJECTS INCLUDING WASTE-WATER TREATMENT, GRAPHENE PRODUCTION, DIETARY HABITS OF BADGERS AND CARBONATE CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY OF PRE-CAMBRIAN LIMESTONES. IN SUMMER 2013 WITH A PHD STUDENT WE BUILT AN INTERFACE FOR THE IRMS THAT CAN MEASURE NANOGRAMS OF NITROGEN - WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE 2ND OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD AND THE MOST SENSITIVE. WE NOW INTEND TO EXPLORE TROPHIC STRUCTURES OF EXTINCT FOSSIL COMMUNITIES. SINCE 2005 I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN A RESEARCH PROJECT WHICH LOOKS AT THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE OLD LIBRARY BUILDING, TRINITY COLLEGE. ALONG WITH A COLLEGUE IN CONSERVATION AND A PHD STUDENT, WE ARE ASSESSING THE ACCUMULATION RATE, DISTRIBUTION, TYPE AND SIZE OF DUST IN ADDITION TO GASEOUS COMPOUNDS (VOC'S, NO2, SO2) AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE COLLECTION. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CROSS-DISCIPLINE PROJECT THAT WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT INPUT ON POLICY. I AM INVOLVED IN RESEARCH FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY INTO FAILURE OF BUILDING MATERIALS (AGGREGATE, CONCRETE, SLATES) AND IN ASPECTS OF BUILDING CONSERVATION AND REPAIR, INCLUDING EFFLORESCENCE IN BRICK, AND IDENTIFICATION OF MORTAR TYPES FROM CONSERVATION PROJECTS. I HAVE WORKED ON VARIOUS R&D AND QC PROJECTS WITH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES. THE RESEARCH USES PXRD TO ACQUIRE PHASE DATA WHICH IS THEN PROCESSED IN VARIOUS MEANS TO QUANTIFY POLYMORPHS. THIS IS PARTICULARLY CHALLENGING WHERE THE ACTIVE COMPONENT IN A DRUG HAS BEEN MIXED WITH EXCIPIENTS AND TABLETED. SINCE 2012 I HAVE BEEN HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW TCD GEOCHEMISTRY FACILITIES IN THE TCD ENTERPRISE CENTRE. THIS GROWING FACILITY HAS A LASER ABLATION FRONT-END FOR A HIGH SENSITIVITY INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETER; THE IRMS WITH NANO-EA; A FULLY QUANTITATIVE PXRD SYSTEM (DUE SEPT 2013); HF CLEAN LAB; PREPARATION LAB. WE ANTICIPATE THE ADDITION OF A ICP-OES, A NEW ED-XRF, A HAND-HELD ED-XRF AND A TOTAL SULPHUR EA OVER THE COMING MONTHS. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMISSION INTERNATIONALE DE MICROFLORE DU PALÉOZOÏQUE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION FUNDED COMMITTEE OF SENIOR OFFICIALS FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH (COST), ACTION D42: CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN CULTURAL ARTEFACTS AND INDOOR ENVIRONMENT (ENVIART). PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE FOR GEOLOGISTS OF IRELAND. ECOLOGY, ECOSYSTEMS FIELD MAPPING GEOCHEMISTRY MINERALOGY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PALEONTOLOGY, PALEOECOLOGY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. LEO FRANCIS GOODSTADT goodstadtleofrancis ADJUNCT PROFESSOR GOODSTAL BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES HONG KONG & MAINLAND CHINA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES; INTERNATIONAL TRADE RELATIONS; REGULATORY POLICIES, PARTICULARLY FINANCIAL MARKETS & TELECOMMUNICATIONS; MANAGAMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE; THE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM APT 4 THE MERRION 22 UPPER MERRION STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC HISTORY, THEORY ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC POLICY HONG KONG & MAINLAND CHINA: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR PAUL GORECKI goreckipaul ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GORECKIP ECONOMICS DEPT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JOHN PATRICK GORMLEY gormleyjohnpatrick ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JGORMLEY PHYSIOTHERAPY SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHARTERED SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS BIOMECHANICS OF HUMAN MOVEMENT CARDIAC REHABILITATION CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, PHARMACOLOGY EXERCISE AND CYSTIC FIBROSIS EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. MICHAEL GORMLEY gormleymichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GORMLEM PSYCHOLOGY DRIVING BEHAVIOUR: SPEEDING, YOUNG MALE DRIVERS, THEORETICAL MODELS OF SPEEDING BEHAVIOUR, ANTECEDENTS OF SPEEDING BEHAVIOUR INCLUDING ESTIMATION OF JOURNEY TIME. IMPLICIT COGNITION: USE IN BEHAVIOURS SUCH AS SMOKING, SEX OFFENDING AND PREJUDICE; SUBLIMINAL PERCEPTION. PSYCHOLOGY DEPT ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY. PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND'S REPRSENTATIVE ON THE RCPI FITNESS TO DRIVE POLICY GROUP. ANTECEDENTS OF SPEEDING BEHAVIOUR COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF ADDICTION DRIVER BEHAVIOUR DRIVER TYPOLOGIES IMPLICIT ASPECTS OF PREJUDICE IMPLICIT COGNITION IMPLICIT MEASURES OF SMOKING BEHAVIOUR OBJECTIVE & SUBJECTIVE MEASURES OF SPEEDING SEXUAL INTEREST IN SEX OFFENDERS: USE OF IMPLICIT MEASURES SUBLIMINAL PERCEPTION YOUNG MALE DRIVERS EVALUATING ROAD SAFETY INTERVENTIONS: THE ROLE OF PROXIMAL AND DISTAL FACTORS IN DIFFERENTIAL ASSIMILATION OF SAFETY ORIENTED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ATTITUDES IN ADOLESCENTS. €115,000 FROM THE RSA TO EVALUATE PRE-DRIVER EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTIONS. ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY HUSSAR €170,000 FROM UK DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT TO INVESTIGATE WAYS TO CHANGE ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPEEDING. DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT, UK SPEEDING BEHAVIOUR IN YOUNG IRISH MALES €60,000 FROM THE ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE ATTITUDES AND REPORTED BEHAVIOURS OF YOUNG MALE DRIVERS ATTENDING THE IRISH LEG OF THE WORLD RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP 2007. ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY, IRELAND SARTRE 3 IRELAND €20,000 FROM NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE THE RELEVANCE OF THE SARTRE 3 DATA FOR IRELAND. AGEING NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR IOURI GOUNKO gounkoiouri PROFESSOR OF INORGANIC CHEMISTY(1922) IGOUNKO CHEMISTRY DR. GUN'KO WORKS IN THE AREAS OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY, SCIENCE OF MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY. DR. GUN'KO SUPERVISES A RESEARCH TEAM CONSISTING AT PRESENT OF 8 POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND 4 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWS. DR. GUN'KO HAS 125 PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AND 10 PATENTS. HIS MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST AND ACTIVITIES ARE: - MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES AND MAGNETIC LIQUIDS FOR MRI DIAGNOSTICS, - NANOPARTICLE-DRUG CONJUGATES, - QUANTUM DOTS (CDTE) FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS (BIOLOGICAL IMAGING AND DRUG DELIVERY), - CHEMICAL FUNCTIONALISATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES, - POLYHEDRAL SILSESQUIOXANES AND METALLASILOXANES. DEPT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN COLLOIDS COMPOSITE MATERIALS DIAGNOSTIC BIOIMAGING DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION IMAGING TECHNIQUES INORGANIC CHEMISTRY NANO BIOTECHNOLOGY NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTUBES OPTICAL MATERIALS ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY PLASTICS POLYMERS MAGNETIC IRON OXIDE NANOWIRES SFI RFP CARBON NANOTUBE ORGANOMETALLICS SFI RFP TWO IN ONE" FLUORESCENT MAGNETIC NANOCOMPOSITES FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATION SFI BASIC RESEARCH GRANTS QUANTUM DOTS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS ENTERPRISE IRELAND RIF CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOHN R GRAHAM grahamjohnr FELLOW EMERITUS JRGRAHAM GEOLOGY CLASTIC SEDIMENTS. GEOLOGY OF IRELAND PARTICULARLY CARBONIFEROUS, DEVONIAN AND ORDOVICIAN. PROVENANCE STUDIES. VARISCAN FOLD BELT. DEPT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEDIMENTOLOGISTS IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC PALAEONTOLOGISTS AND MINERALOGISTS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. R GRAINGER graingerr PART-TIME LECTURER GRAINGER SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. LESLEY GRANT grantlesley RESEARCH FELLOW GRANTLM NEAR & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, ROOM 5042 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE FRENCH GERMAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT DEUTERONOMY EARLY ISRAELITE HISTORY AND RELIGION HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF TORAH ISRAELITE 'ETHNICITY' JUDGES THE OLD TESTAMENT, SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES WOMEN'S HISTORY PROFESSOR JOHNNIE GRATTON grattonjohnnie FELLOW EMERITUS GRATTONJ FRENCH DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN (PRIOR TO JOINING TCD): EXTERN, PHD (FRENCH) IN ROYAL HOLLOWAY UL (2), QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST, UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; EXTERNAL SUPERVISOR FOR PHD STUDENT (FRENCH) IN UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON (UK); EXTERNAL EXAMINER IN U/G FRENCH AT DIT DUBLIN (3 YEARS) AND UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, UK (3 YEARS). ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE ORGANISING COMMITTEE, ANNUAL LITERARY FESTIVAL, DUBLIN, ASSOCIATION DES ETUDES FRANÇAISES ET FRANCOPHONES D'IRLANDE COMMITTEE OF HEADS AND PROFESSORS OF FRENCH, IRELAND CONSEIL INTERNATIONAL D'ETUDES FRANCOPHONES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ASSOCIATION DES ETUDES FRANÇAISES ET FRANCOPHONES D'IRLANDE EXTERNAL EXAMINER, FRENCH U/G AND P/G PROGRAMMES, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, UK EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD (FRENCH), CAMBRIDGE, UK EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD (FRENCH), LONDON BIRKBECK, UK EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD IN FRENCH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UL) GENERAL EDITOR, THE IRISH JOURNAL OF FRENCH STUDIES PANEL CHAIRMAN/EXTERNAL REVIEWER, STRATEGIC DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW OF FRENCH STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (UK), 8-10 DECEMBER 2009 PUBLIC LECTURE, 'INTRODUCING SOPHIE CALLE', IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, DUBLIN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH STUDIES 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY WRITING AESTHETICS ART CRITICISM CONTEMPORARY FRANCE CRITICAL THEORY FRENCH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE LITERARY CRITICISM MIXED-MEDIA ART NARRATIVE THEORY PHOTOGRAPHY VISUAL ARTS SOPHIE CALLE PROJECT ARTIST A STUDY OF THE WORK OF THE FRENCH WRITER/PHOTOGRAPHER SOPHIE CALLE GUIDED BY THE NOTION OF PROJECT ART AND WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO HER PHOTO-TEXTUAL DOCUMENTATIONS OF HER VARIOUS PROJECTS. IRCHSS (2005-06) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR NICHOLAS FREDERICK GRAY graynicholasfrederick PROFESSOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES NFGRAY BOTANY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT PROFESSOR NICK GRAY HAS WORKED PRIMARILY IN THE AREA OF BIOLOGICAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT FOR THIRTY YEARS, WORKING MAINLY ON FULL-SCALE TREATMENT SYSTEMS BOTH HERE AND ABROAD. THE PRIME FOCUS OF HIS WORK IS THE DESIGN AND OPERATION OF REACTOR PROCESSES. KEY AREAS INCLUDE: OPTIMIZATION OF PERCOLATING FILTERS, BULKING AND FOAMING CONTROL IN ACTIVATED SLUDGE SYSTEMS, AEROBIC DIGESTION, TREATMENT OF PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATERS, THE USE OF THE MICRO-BIOTA IN OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT, AND THE DECONTAMINATION AND DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE SLUDGE. WORK ON RIVER POLLUTION CONTROL HAS ALWAYS RUN IN PARALLEL TO HIS WORK ON WASTEWATER TREATMENT. KEY AREAS INCLUDE: BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF RIVERS POLLUTION IMPACT ANALYSIS; SEWAGE FUNGUS CONTROL; SEDIMENT PROCESSES AND ACID MINE DRAINAGE. WITH A STRONG COMMITMENT TO BOTH RESEARCH AND TRAINING HE STARTED A RESEARCH GROUP IN 1982 WATER TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH. UNDER THIS UMBRELLA TRAINING WORKSHOPS WERE HELD BOTH IN IRELAND AND ITALY. IT ALSO FRONTED AN ACTIVE CONSULTANCY SERVICE THAT UNDERPINNED HIS RESEARCH THROUGHOUT THE 1980'S AND TO THE MID 1990'S. "I AM AFRAID I HAVE NOT DOGGEDLY FOLLOWED A SET PATH OF RESEARCH, RESTRICTING MYSELF TO A SINGLE CONCEPT OR SET OF INTER-RELATED HYPOTHESES. I HAVE BEEN UNASHAMEDLY SELF-INDULGENT FOLLOWING THE ROUTES THAT HAVE INTERESTED ME THE MOST. I HAVE WORKED IN MANY OTHER AREAS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING AGRICULTURE, COUNTRYSIDE MANAGEMENT, CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT, TRANSPORTATION, NEMATOPHAGOUS FUNGI ETC. SO ALTHOUGH I AM PRIMARILY AN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER, I AM ALSO AN ACTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST." HIS CURRENT INTERESTS FOCUS ON THE MICROBIAL REACTIONS IN ACTIVATED SLUDGE WITH AN INCREASING PROPORTION OF HIS TIME SPENT ON LOOKING AT WAYS IN WHICH SOCIETY WILL COPE WITH A POST CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENT. TRINITY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT COLLEGE 01-8961000 C. BIOL. (CHARTERED BIOLOGIST) COMMITTEE OF THE INSTITUTION OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE COURSES: B.SC. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, CAMBOURNE SCHOOL OF MINES, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER; M.SC. WATER AND WASTEWATER ENGINEERING, WATER POLLUTION TECHNOLOGY, WATER AND WASTEWATER TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CRANFIELD; M.SC.(ENG) WATER ENGINEERING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. F.I.BIOL. (FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY) F.L.S. (FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON) FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY (FRSB) M.C.I.W.E.M. (CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT) M.I.BIOL. (MEMBER OF THE INSITUTE OF BIOLOGY) M.I.W.E.S. (CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF WATER ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS) M.I.W.P.C. (CORPORTAE MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF WATER POLLUTION CONTROL) MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, NEW YORK. MEMBER OF THE SOVIET INSITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND COSMOCHEMISTRY. MEMBER OF THE SOVIET WORKING GROUP ON NATIONAL WATER PROTECTION BASED AT ROSTOV-ON-DON. REVIEWER: ANNALS OF APPLIED BIOLOGY: CHEMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINERING SCIENCE; FRESHWATER ECOLOGY; JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY; JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH (PART A); JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; OIKOS; PLANT AND SOIL; PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY; PROCESS BIOCHEMISTRY; SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT; SOIL BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY; WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; WATER RESEARCH ETC. ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR HYDROBIOLOGY. STANDING COMMITTEE OF ANALYSTS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, LONDON. ACID MINE DRAINAGE ACTIVATED SLUDGE CARBON FOOTPRINTING DRINKING WATER QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS, MONITORING, RISK ASSESSMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOAMS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION ASSESSMENT METALS MICROBIAL ECOLOGY MINE MANAGEMENT PERCOLATING (TRICKLING) FILTERS PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATER PHARMACEUTICAL WASTEWATERS PROCESS ENGINEERING REED-BED RIVER POLLUTION RIVER SUBSTRATE SANITARY ENGINEERING SANITARY ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS SEWAGE SLUDGE SEWAGE-TREATMENT PLANTS SLUDGE STABILISATION SMALL SEWAGE-TREATMENT WORKS SUBSTANCES TOXICANTS UNIT OPERATIONS ENGINEERING WASTE WATER TREATMENT WATER WATER ENGINEERING WATER MONITORING, QUALITY, TREATMENT WATER QUALITY WATER SUPPLY WATER TREATMENT WETLANDS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. STEVEN GRAY graysteven ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GRAYST MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND MY RESEARCH MAINLY INVOLVES USING EPIGENETIC TARGETING AGENTS TO EXAMINE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING THE REGULATION OF (I) RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASES (RTKS); (II) INFLAMMATION AND (III) CELLULAR METABOLISM IN THORACIC MALIGNANCY AND TO STUDY THEIR POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY IN THE TREATMENT OF LUNG CANCER AND MESOTHELIOMA. RESEARCH IN MY LABORATORY ALSO TRIES TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF EPIGENETICS AND EPIGENETIC MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING DRUG RESISTANCE IN LUNG CANCER AND MESOTHELIOMA. IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MY RESEARCH ALSO INVOLVES THE STUDY OF NON-CODING RNA REPERTOIRES (LNCRNAS AND CIRCRNAS) IN LUNG CANCER AND MESOTHELIOMA FOR THEIR POTENTIAL UTILITY AS CANDIDATE BIOMARKERS FOR THE EARLY PREDICTION OF THORACIC MALIGNANCY, AND TO STUDY THEIR ROLES IN LUNG CANCER BIOGENESIS AND RESISTANCE TO THERAPY. DEPT. CLINICAL MEDICINE (IMM) TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AD HOC JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING: ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA, AGING, ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING, BBA-REVIEWS ON CANCER, BBA - GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS, BMC MEDICAL GENETICS, BMC UROLOGY, BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, BRITISH JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY, CANCER, CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY, CANCERS (MDPI), CANCER RESEARCH, CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY, CELL BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS, CELLULAR & MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES, CNS & NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS-DRUG TARGETS (CNSND-DT), CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH, CLINICAL LUNG CANCER, CYTOKINE, DIABETOLOGIA, E-BIOMEDICINE, EPIGENETICS, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH, EXPERT OPINION ON THERAPEUTIC TARGETS, FUTURE ONCOLOGY - EPIGENOMICS, FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY, GENES & CANCER, HORMONE & METABOLIC RESEARCH, INFLAMMATION & ALLERGY - DRUG TARGETS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF IMMUNOGENETICS AD HOC REVIEWER FOR VARIOUS JOURNALS (2): IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, JOURNAL OF CELLULAR & MOLECULAR MEDICINE, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY, THE JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY, JOURNAL OF NUCLEIC ACIDS, JOURNAL OF THORACIC ONCOLOGY, LIFE SCIENCES, LUNG CANCER, MINI-REVIEWS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR CANCER RESEARCH, MOLECULAR AND CANCER THERAPEUTICS, NEUROGENETICS, NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH, NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASE AND TREATMENT, THE OPEN DIABETES JOURNAL, ONCOLOGY REPORTS, ONCOTARGET, PLOS ONE, PHARMACEUTICAL PATENT ANALYST, PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH, PHARMACOGENOMICS, PROGRESS IN LIPID RESEARCH, TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH, TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES, TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE BRITISH THORACIC ONCOLOGY GROUP DEPUTY EDITOR FOR THE EPIGENETIC REGULATORS SECTION OF THE TARGETED PROTEINS DATABASE AND EPIGENETIC REGULATORS SECTION OF THE CBD PROTEIN SYSTEMS JOURNAL (LAUNCHED 2008) EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER THE OPEN DIABETES JOURNAL (BENTHAM HTTP://WWW.BENTHAM.ORG/OPEN/TODIAJ/EBM.HTM) FROM 2008 EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER WORLD JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER "FRONTIERS IN EPIGENOMICS" (GUEST ASSOCIATE EDITOR & REVIEW EDITOR) HTTP://WWW.FRONTIERSIN.ORG/EPIGENOMICS EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER "FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS PHYSIOLOGY" (REVIEW EDITOR, SYSTEMS BIOLOGY) HTTP://WWW.FRONTIERSIN.ORG/SYSTEMS_PHYSIOLOGY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER "WORLD JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE" (2011-2019) ETOP (EUROPEAN THORACIC ONCOLOGY PROGRAM) - WWW.ETOP-EU.ORG FOUNDING EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER "CLINICAL EPIGENETICS" GRANT REVIEWER (2): INNOVATION FUND DENMARK (2015). ITALIAN TELETHON FOUNDATION (2008) MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY (UK) (2012) THE NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (NWO) - VENI PROGRAM (2013) NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE POLAND (OPUS) (2015) OENB ANNIVERSARY FUND (AUSTRIA) (2014, 2015) OTKA - HUNGARIAN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FUND (2014, 2015) PROSTATE CANCER UK (2014) WELLCOME TRUST (2009) SWISS CANCER LEAGUE (2010) GRANT REVIEWER FOR: AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NHMRC) (2010, 2012) AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND (2011) BULGARIAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION (2008) BRITISH LUNG FOUNDATION (2010) CANCER RESEARCH UK (2009) CZECH SCIENCE FOUNDATION (2012) CYPRUS RESEARCH PROMOTION FOUNDATION (2011) THE ELI AND EDYTHE BROAD FOUNDATION - BROAD MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (2012) ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND (2005, 2006, 2008) EUREKA EUROSTARS TECHNICAL EXPERTS (2015-2016) FONDATION CONTRE LE CANCER - BELGIUM (2016) FONDAZIONE PISA - ITALY (2016) FRANCE'S NATIONAL RESEARCH AGENCY -ANR [AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE] (2008, 2011) GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (2009) GERMAN-ISRAELI FOUNDATION (2011) HRB MEDICAL CHARITIES RESEARCH GROUP (2008) IASLC (2011, 2012, 2013 ON BEHALF OF PROFESSOR KENNETH J. O'BYRNE) IMIG (INTERNATIONAL MESOTHELIOMA INTEREST GROUP) INDEPENDENT REPORTER FOR GENOMEBIOLOGY (WWW.GENOMEBIOLOGY.COM) INVITED "AD HOC" CONTRIBUTOR TO TRENDS IN GENETICS SHORT IN BRIEF ARTICLES SECTION MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ACADEMY FOR THE "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY" HTTPS://WWW.SPANDIDOS-PUBLICATIONS.COM/PAGES/IJO/EDITORIAL PANEL MEMBER: THE INTERNATIONAL CANCER GENOME CONSORTIUM (WORKGROUP: RENAL CANCER) TOPCAP (TRANSDISCIPLINARY PROSTATE CANCER PARTNERSHIP) - HTTP://TOPCAPTEAM.ORG/ CANCER CANCER BIOPSIES CANCER CELL-LINE CANCER CELLS CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY CANCER CLASSIFICATION CANCER DEVELOPMENT CANCER INVASION CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE CANCER-CELLS CANCERS CARCINOMA CARCINOMA CELL-LINES CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL CARCINOMA-CELLS CARCINOMAS CELL CELLULAR BIOLOGY CHROMATIN CLONING OF CELLS CYTOGENETICS DNA MARKERS DNA METHYLATION EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR EPIGENETICS GENE EXPRESSION GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS GENE-EXPRESSION GENETICS GENOME GENOMES, GENOMICS GENOMICS GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR HISTOLOGY HISTOLOGY, CYTOCHEMISTRY, HISTOCHEMISTRY HISTONE HISTONE DEACETYLASE COMPLEX INSULIN INSULIN RESISTANCE INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I AND II LIFE SCIENCES METASTASIS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY TISSUE CULTURE TRANSCRIPTION CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR DAVID GRAYSON graysondavid VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW DGRAYSON CHEMISTRY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW METHODS FOR ORGANIC SYNTHESIS; SYNTHESIS OF COMPLEX NATURAL PRODUCTS, ESPECIALLY MEDIUM-RING AND MACROCYCLIC LACTONES; CYCLOADDITION CHEMISTRY OF VINYLIC SULFONES; CHEMISTRY OF SULFONYL-STABILISED ANIONS; CHIRAL AUXILIARIES AND REAGENTS DERIVED FROM MONOTERPENOIDS; HETEROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY, ESPECIALLY THE CHEMISTRY OF 4-DIMETHYLAMINOPYRIDINE N-OXIDE AND SOME HOMOCHIRAL DERIVATIVES. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN CCHEM FRSC CATALYSIS HETROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY MECHANISMS OF REACTIONS MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY SPECTROSCOPY SULFONE CHEMISTRY · SYNTHESIS OF MACROCYCLIC LACTONES (LAWRENCE COOK) CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR DAVID GREGG greggdavid PROFESSOR DGREGG COMPUTER SCIENCE SOFTWARE OPTIMIZATION MULTICORE COMPUTING COMPILER OPTIMIZATION DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES AUTOMATIC PROGRAM GENERATION ALGORITHM DESIGN LOW POWER COMPUTING COMPUTER SCIENCE CAG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN CC 2008 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE EI PROOF OF CONCEPT FUNDING PANEL EUROFORTH 2002 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE EUROFORTH 2003 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE FELLOW OF THE IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY IVME 2003 GENERAL CHAIR IVME 2004 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER OF ACM PPPJ 2006 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE SCOPES 2003 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE SCOPES 2004 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE VEE 2005 & 2006 STEERING COMMITTEE VEE 2008 GENERAL CHAIR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMPUTER SOFTWARE COMPUTER SYSTEMS PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - REMOTE SENSING SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. CARMEL GREHAN grehancarmel ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CGREHAN C.L.C.S. CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES TRINITY COLLEGE 1ST FLOOR, 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF THE IRISH SIGN LINK CHAIRPERSON OF IRISH DEAF SOCIETY COLLEGE TUTOR ISL ACADEMY SECRETARY/BOARD DIRECTOR OF IRISH DEAF SOCIETY DEAF EDUCATION DEAF STUDIES HISTORY OF EDUCATION HISTORY OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE WOMEN'S STUDIES POVERTY IN THE IRISH DEAF COMMUNITY THE RESEARCH AIMED TO DETERMINE BY THE NATIONAL ANT-POVERTY STRATEGY WHICH MAKES A DISTINCTION BETWEEN ABSOLUTE AND RELATIVE POVERTY. A REPORT WAS PUBLISHED. CO-AUTHOR WITH JOHN BOSCO CONAMA COMBAT POVERTY AGENCY AND IRISH DEAF SOCIETY D-SIGNS THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A SIGNED LANGUAGE CURRICULUM FOR SPECIAL PURPOSE (WITH A FOCUS ON LEARNERS IN EMPLOYMENT) FOR FIVE SIGNED LANGUAGES, IRISH, BRITISH, CZECH, CYPRIOT AND GREEK SIGNED LANGUAGES. THE CURRICULUM WILL BE LINKED TO COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCES (CEFR), AND DELIVERED WHOLLY ONLINE. THE LEAD PARTNER IS BRISTOL UNIVERSITY. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI PROFESSOR NICHOLAS GRENE grenenicholas FELLOW EMERITUS NGRENE ENGLISH OSCAR WILDE CENTRE DRAMA AND THEATRE, ESPECIALLY SHAKESPEARE, SYNGE, SHAW AND MODERN IRISH DRAMA; POETRY OF YEATS. MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE A BOOK ON INDIAN NOVELIST R.K. NARAYAN. ENGLISH DEPT. 4013 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 FRENCH MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY; VICE-CHAIR (IRELAND), INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FROM THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES VICE-CHAIR (IRELAND), INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES, 2001-9 TRUSTEE, IRELAND CHAIR OF POETRY, 2010- 17TH CENTURY DRAMA ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA SHAKESPEARE IRISH THEATRICAL DIASPORA AN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK COMMITTED TO THE STUDY OF THE PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION OF IRISH DRAMA INSIDE AND OUTSIDE IRELAND IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND THEMATIC RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR MICHAEL JAMES GRENFELL grenfellmichaeljames ADJUNCT PROFESSOR GRENFELM EDUCATION LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE PIERRE BOURDIEU ARTS EDUCATION COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE TEACHING APPLIED LINGUISTICS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ASSOCIATION OF LANGUAGE LEARNING INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTIFIC OFFICERS CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY CREATIVE MUSIC EDUCATION EARLY GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND EDUCATION AND MINORITY LANGUAGE ENGLISH AND EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES EPISTEMOLOGY EXISTENTIALISM PAINTING IN 19TH CENTURY EUROPE PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC AND LANGUAGE REALISM EUROPEAN LANGUAGE TEACHER PROFILE TO CREATE A PROFILE FOR THE LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE EU EDUCATION AND CULTURE EUROPEAN LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION SURVEY OF LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION ACROSS EUROPE EU EDUCATION AND CULTURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MR. THOMAS GREY greythomas RESEARCH FELLOW GREYT CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. PEOPLE-FRIENDLY DESIGN OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT HUMAN PERFORMANCE, HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND SOCIAL PARTICIPATION UNIVERSAL DESIGN OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT PARTICIPATORY ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN AND ASSOCIATED DESIGN AND CO-DESIGN PROCESSES SUSTAINABLE AND ENERGY EFFICIENT ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN THE USE OF ICT AND SMART TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT PEOPLE-FRIENDLY URBANISM DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENERGY EFFICIENCY OTHER ENERGY ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ALEXANDRA GRIESER grieseralexandra ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GRIESERA RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY MY MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH ARE: METHODS AND THEORIES IN THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION; THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF RELIGION (INCLUDING ITS COLONIAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS); EUROPEAN RELIGIOUS PLURALISM (INCLUDING SECULARIST WORLD VIEWS); THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE, AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN RELIGION AND OTHER SOCIETAL SUB-SYSTEMS SUCH AS POLITICS, ART, LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. HISTORICALLY, I AM CONCERNED WITH THE PROCESSES LEADING TO "MULTIPLE MODERNITIES" IN EUROPE, FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT PERIOD TO EARLY ROMANTICISM; "RELIGION AROUND 1800 UNTIL TODAY". A SPECIAL FOCUS OF MY WORK LIES IN RELIGION AND MEDIA, MATERIALITY, BODY AND THE SENSES AND - MORE SYSTEMATICALLY - IN THE NEWLY EMERGING APPROACH OF AN "AESTHETICS OF RELIGION." I HAVE DEVELOPED AND ESTABLISHED THIS APPROACH OVER THE LAST DECADE IN COLLABORATION WITH A EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORK. THE APPROACH IS CONCERNED WITH RELIGION AS A SENSORY PRACTICE (AISTHESIS) THAT CULTIVATES AND GOVERNS THE BODY AND THE SENSES AND CREATES RELIGIOUS WAYS OF "WORLD PERCEPTION" RATHER THAN BEING LIMITED TO BELIEFS AND CONVICTIONS. THE APPROACH HELPS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW RELIGIONS COME TO INFLUENCE WIDER CULTURES AND MEANING MAKING, OFTEN IN CONFLICTING WAYS. I AM A FOUNDING MEMBER OF A WORKING GROUP ON THE TOPIC (AKRELAEST, GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGOIN); AND A MEMBER OF A RESEARCH NETWORK (ASTOR.NET), FUNDED BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (DFG). MY LAST PROJECT DEALT WITH THE DE-DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE THROUGH THE POPULAR USE OF SCIENTIFIC IMAGERY; MY RECENT AND FUTURE WORK IS CONCERNED WITH A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO "NEW UNIVERSALISMS - GLOBAL AESTHETICS", AND WITH THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH KNOWLEDGE IS PRODUCED, CIRCULATED, AUTHORISED AND THREATENED IN BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR SPHERES. DEPT OF RELIGIONS & THEOLOGY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (DVRW) ADVISORY BOARD JOURNAL OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION BOARD MEMBER OF THE JOURNAL FOR RELIGION IN AUSTRIA CHAIR OF THE NEWLY SET UP PANEL "CULTURAL STUDIES" IN THE "UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS" INTERNATIONAL ESSAY COMPETITION. CO-FOUNDER AND SPEAKER OF AKAEST, WORKING GROUP "AESTHETICS OF RELIGION", DVRW DELEGATE OF THE ISASR AT THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF THE JOURNAL OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION AND OF THE JOURNAL RELIGION IN AUSTRIA EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (EASR) EXTERNAL EXAMINER: PHD CANDIDATE MAREN SZIEDE, UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND FOUNDING MEMBER & INTERNATIONALIZATION OFFICER OF THE WORKING GROUP "AESTHETICS OF RELIGION", GERMAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (DVRW) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGION (IAHR) INVITED REVIEWER FOR RESEARCH PROJECT UNIVERSITY BASEL: "DANCE AS MEDIUM OF TRADITIONALISING RELIGION IN AN INTER-CULTURAL FIELD: INVESTIGATING THE ALEVITIC SEMAH DANCE IN AN AESTHETICS-OF-RELIGION PERSPECTIVE; PROJECT APPLICATION 100015_165872 -SWISS NATIONAL FUND. IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (ISAR) MEMBER OF AESTOR.NET, RESEARCH NETWORK ON AESTHETICS OF RELIGION, DFG-FUNDED (GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION) ORGANISATION OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF ISASR ("PEOPLE, PLACES, PROJECTS: THE STUDY OF RELIGION IN IRELAND") REFEREE FOR JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN EUROPE, BRILL AESTHETICS OF RELIGION CULTURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION HISTORY OF SCIENCE, SCIENCE AND RELIGION RELIGION AND THEORY RELIGION, MODERNITY AND IDENTITY RELIGIOUS PLURALISM MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS & JOURNALISM PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES AESTHETICS OF KNOWLEDGE - FRAMING CONCEPTS FOR AN AESTHETICS OF RELIGION APPROACH THE NEWLY EMERGING APPROACH AESTHETICS OF RELIGION WAS AWARDED A NETWORK PROGRAMME TO DEVELOP TERMS, CONCEPTS AND METHODS; MY SUB-PROJECT IS DEDICATED TO THE BASIC CONCEPT OF AN AESTHETICS OF KNOWLEDGE, FOCUSING ON THE SENSORY FORMS BY WHICH HUMAN BEINGS PRODUCE, IMPART, RECEIVE AND AUTHORIZE KNOWLEDGE, AND HOW THEY DEAL WITH WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW. SEEING RELIGION AS A KNOWLEDGE CULTURE ENABLES US TO INVESTIGATE AREAS SUCH AS RITUAL KNOWLEDGE, PRACTICES OF HEALING, WHAT NEEDS TO BE KNOWN TO BE A MEMBER OF A RELIGION, BUT ALSO HOW HUMANS ORGANIZE WHAT CAN BE KNOWN, AND WHAT NOT, OR HOW THEY MAKE POLITICAL OR ONTOLOGICAL CLAIMS THAT CAN CLASH WITH OTHER KNOWLEDGE-PRODUCING SPHERES OF SOCIETY. THE AESTHETICS OF RELIGION AS AN APPROACH RESPONDS TO THE THRIVING FIELD OF MATERIAL CULTURE, THE RELEVANCE OF EMBODIMENT THEORY AND THE BRIDGE-BUILDING BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC (ESP COGNITIVE STUDIES) AND CULTURAL STUDIES' METHODOLOGIES. IT SYSTEMATIZES AND SYNTHESIZES APPROACHES TO UNDERSTANDING RELIGION AS A SENSORY PRACTICE THAT IS NOT CONFINED TO TEXT, DOCTRINES AND BELIEFS, BUT LITERALLY CREATES WAYS OF PERCEIVING THE WORLD RELIGIOUSLY. THIS APPROACH ALLOWS US TO EXPLAIN BETTER THE STRONG BINDING FORCES, THE EMOTIONAL ENGAGEMENT AND THE VARIETY OF IMPACTS RELIGION CAN HAVE ON A WIDER CULTURE. WITH THE DFG-FUNDED RESEARCH NETWORK AESTOR.NET THIS NEW FIELD WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN THE YEARS TO COME. THE VOLUME "AESTHETICS OF RELIGION: A CONNECTIVE CONCEPT", DE GRUYTER, 2017, IS PART OF THIS ENDEAVOUR, AND IT IS THE FIRST PUBLICATION ON THE TOPIC IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. THE GROUP IS WORKING ON A VOLUME ON "NARRATIVE AESTHETICS", AND ON A HANDBOOK ESTABLISHING THE APPROACH FURTHER (THE AESTHETICS OF KNOWLEDGE WILL MAKE A FUNDAMENTAL PART OF THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SECTION, TOGETHER WITH A CHAPTER ON AN "AESTHETIC SUBJECTIVITY"). THE NETWORK AIMS AT EXTENDING THE COLLABORATION BY APPLYING FOR A EUROPEAN RESEARCH GRANT FOR THE STUDY OF AN AESTHETICS OF THE RELIGIOUS AND THE SECULAR, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE "POST-SECULAR" SOCIETIES. HTTP://GEPRIS.DFG.DE/GEPRIS/PROJEKT/270644272 HTTPS://AESTOR.NET/ GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION RESEARCH NETWORK ASTOR.NET CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ANGELA GRIFFITH griffithangela ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PART-TIME GRIFFITA HISTORY OF ART MY RESEARCH EXAMINES THE HISTORY OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND FROM THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERNIST FINE ART PRINTMAKING IN THE 1800S TO CONTEMPORARY MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRINT PRACTICES. CURRENTLY, MY FOCUS IS ON IRISH ARTISTS AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN ILLUSTRATION AND LIMITED EDITION FINE ART PUBLISHING C.1830 TO 1930. HISTORY OF ART ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ART ARTISTS' BOOKS - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FINE ART PRINTMAKING 19TH CENTURY FINE ART PRINTMAKING 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATION IN IRELAND AND BRITAIN 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATION IN IRELAND AND BRITAIN 20TH CENTURY PRINT CULTURE PRINTMAKING CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY DRAWN TO THE PAGE: IRISH ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATION PROJECT 'DRAWN TO THE PAGE: IRISH ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATION 1830-1930 PROJECT' COMPRISES FOUR ELEMENTS. THREE PARTS, LED BY ANGELA GRIFFITH AND PHILIP MCEVANSONEYA,COMPRISED AN EXHIBITION HELD IN TCD LONG ROOM FROM OCTOBER 2012 - APRIL 2013, AND AN ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM HELD IN TCD NOVEMBER 2012 AND A DIGITAL EXHIBTION LAUNCHED IN 2013. IN NOVEMBER 2016, LED BY ANGELA GRIFFITH, 'DRAWN TO THE PAGE: IRISH ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATION DIGITAL COLLECTION' WAS LAUNCHED, COMPRISING A VISUALLY DYNAMIC, SEARCHABLE DATABASE OF SELECT ILLUSTRATIONS BY IRISH ARTISTS FROM TCD LIBRARY COLLECTIONS. TCD ASSOCIATION AND TRUST, DIGITAL HUMANITIES FORUM(TCD), TRIARC CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. COLIN GRIFFITHS griffithscolin ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CGRIFFI SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MY CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE CENTRED ON THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION. IN PARTICULAR I AM INTERESTED IN HOW PEOPLE WITH SEVERE AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES COMMUNICATE. OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST ARE: THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES; THE ROLE OF PERSON CENTRED PLANNING IN DISABILITY SERVICES; QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND ALSO PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING AND THE PROCESS OF REFLECTION IN NURSING. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MEMBER OF IASSID (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES) A COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE TO IMPLEMENT PERSON-CENTRED PRACTICE IN RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY THIS ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO EXAMINE WORKING PRACTICES IN A LARGE PROVIDER SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND REORIENT THEM TOWARDS A PERSON CENTRED FOCUS. THE PROJECT USES A COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY METHODOLOGY AND IS A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND THE SERVICE PROVIDER. THE ACTION RESEARCH WILL BE LOCATED IN SIX PILOT UNITS WITHIN THE SERVICE. EVALUATION OF SERVICE PROVISION WILL TAKE PLACE PRE AND POST THE JOINTLY AGREED INTERVENTIONS. STEWARTS CARE LTD. EVALUATION OF A COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVE AT PEAMOUNT SERVICES THE PROJECT AIMS TO EVALUATE THE OUTCOMES OF A SERVICE INITIATIVE, INSTIGATED 3 YEARS AGO, IN WHICH 9 PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES MOVED FROM A SERVICE-BASED CONGREGATED SETTING INTO A COMMUNITY-BASED HOME. A MIXED METHOD APPROACH WILL BE UTILISED TO DATA COLLECTION. INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD WITH ALL RESIDENTS WHO AGREE TO TAKE PART AND WITH ONE RELATIVE OF EACH PARTICIPANT. THE PERSONAL OUTCOME MEASURES OF EACH PARTICPANT WILL ALSO BE EVALUATED.QUALITATIVE DATA WILL BE THEMATICALLY ANALYSED. QUANTITATIVE DATA (SOME ASPECTS OF POMS) WILL BE ANALYSED WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF DEINSTITUTIONALISATION. PEAMOUNT SERVICES A SURVEY OF THE VIEWS OF NURSE MANAGERS, NURSE PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STAFF AND REGISTERED NURSES IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND IN RESPONSE TO THE REVIEW OF THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. THIS PROJECT USED FOCUS GROUPS TO SURVEY THE VIEWS OF 67 SELF SELECTED REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES IN IRELAND CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES. THE RESPONDENTS' VIEWS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY FORWARDED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AS A SUBMISSION TO TO THE REVIEW OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. NURSE MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND. SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES (RNID), ARE CORE PROVIDERS OF SERVICES TO PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND. CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS, RENEWED MOVEMENT INTO COMMUNITY SETTINGS AND NEWLY EMERGING HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IMPLY THAT THE ROLE OF THE RNID IS CHANGING. THESE CHANGES REPRESENT BOTH OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING AND IT IS AGAINST THIS BACKDROP THAT THE HSE HAS ESTABLISHED A PROJECT TO EXAMINE THE CURRENT AND FUTURE ROLE OF REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES. THIS PROJECT IS ENTITLED: 'SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND'. HSE EVALUATION OF THE CAPACITY BUILDING POTENTIAL OF 'FAMILY FOCUSED' PROJECTS IN THE AREA OF DISABILITY THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO EVALUATE FOUR GENIO AWARDED FAMILY INTIATIVES THAT SEEK TO ENHANCE THE EMPOWERMENT OF FAMILIES IN SUPPORTING THEIR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES TO ATTAIN FULL INCLUSION IN SOCIETY. THE GENIO TRUST TRINTY DISABILITY ACCESSIBLE RESEARCH ARCHIVE (DARAT). THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AN ONLINE ARCHIVE TO WHICH RESEARCH OUTPUTS INCLUDING DISABILITY RESEARCH OUTPUTS MAY BE UPLOADED IN ACCESSIBLE FORMATS. THIS ARCHIVE WILL ENABLE A WIDE CROSS SECTION OF THE PUBLIC TO TO MORE EASILY ACCESS RESEARCH FINDINGS. EQUALITY OFFICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. GIANLUCA GRILLI grilligianluca VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW GRILLIG ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. TAMASINE GRIMES grimestamasine ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TAGRIMES PHARMACY DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL PHARMACY SERVICE MODELS PATIENT AND MEDICATION SAFETY AT THE HOSPITAL/ COMMUNITY INTERFACE MEDICINES RECONCILIATION ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS PRESCRIBING QUALITY INTERPROFESSIONAL LEARNING HEALTH INFORMATICS SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INTEGRATED CARE ADVISORY GROUP MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL FEDERATION (FIP) MEMBER OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE PHARMACY LAW AND ETHICS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM CLINICAL PHARMACISTS' ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS COMMITTEE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. MEMBER, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND NOMINEE. NATIONAL CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS COMMITTEE, EDUCATION & TRAINING SUBGROUP NATIONAL COLLABORATOR, HRB CENTRE FOR PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING COMMITTEE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE PHARMACY PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE. PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. STEERING GROUP - PHARMACY EDUCATION AND ACCREDITATION REVIEWS (PEARS) PROJECT PHARMACY BENEVOLENT FUND, DIRECTOR REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL PHARMACY AND MEDICAL JOURNALS INCLUDING: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACY; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACY PRACTICE; PHARMACY; BMC PSYCHIATRY; IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE; IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. MEDICATION COMPLIANCE MEDICATION ERRORS MEDICATION SAFETY MEDICATION USE PATIENT COMPLIANCE PATIENT SAFETY PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY PHARMACOTHERAPY PHARMACY PRACTICE AMNCH INTEGRATED MEDICINES MANAGEMENT STUDY DESIGN,DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A COLLABORATIVE MEDICINES MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION AT TALLAGHT HOSPITAL THE MEATH FOUNDATION ANNUEAL RESEARCH GRANTS PACT - COLLABORATIVE PHARMACEUTICAL CARE AT TALLAGHT HOSPITAL PI: T GRIMES PHD STUDENT: G KIRWAN THE IMPACT OF COLLABORATIVE PHARMACEUTICAL CARE AT TALLAGHT HOSPITAL (PACT) IMPLEMENTATION ON DISCHARGE MEDICATION ERROR. A STEPPED-WEDGE, CLUSTER RANDOMISED CONTROLLED STUDY. TALLAGHT HOSPITAL INTERVENTIONS FOR IMPROVING MEDICATION RECONCILIATION ACROSS TRANSITIONS OF CARE PI: PROF. TOM FAHEY CO-AUTHOR AND PHD CO-SUPERVISOR: T GRIMES GRANT AWARDEE: P REDMOND HRB COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP MEDICATION RECONCILIATION: THE PRIMARY SECONDARY CARE INTERFACE PI: PROF. TOM FAHEY CO-SUPERVISOR: T GRIMES, R MC DONNELL PHD STUDENT: P REDMOND, HRB SPHERE PHD SCHOLAR 2012-2016 HRB SPHERE AGEING CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR JANE BARCLAY GRIMSON grimsonjanebarclay FELLOW EMERITUS JGRIMSON COMPUTER SCIENCE AS WILL BE EVIDENT FROM JANE GRIMSON'S PUBLICATIONS LIST, HER RESEARCH HAS COVERED A BROAD AND DIVERSE RANGE OF TOPICS. HOWEVER THERE HAS BEEN A STRONG UNDERLYING FOCUS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING IN GENERAL, AND IN PARTICULAR, ON SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED, DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS. MUCH OF THE RESEARCH HAS BEEN APPLIED IN A NOVEL AND INNOVATIVE FASHION TO THE HEALTH DOMAIN WITH THE RESULT THAT THE MAIN EMPHASIS OF HER WORK IN RECENT YEARS FALLS UNDER THE BROAD HEADING OF HEALTH INFORMATICS. HEALTH INFORMATICS IS A STRONGLY INTER-DISCIPLINARY SUBJECT AND MUCH OF THE RESEARCH HAS INVOLVED WORKING DIRECTLY WITH CLINICIANS AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS. A GUIDING PRINCIPLE OF MUCH OF THE WORK HAS BEEN ON PROTECTING INVESTMENT IN EXISTING LEGACY SYSTEMS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME INCORPORATING NOVEL SOLUTIONS AND APPROACHES. SYSTEM INTEGRATION ISSUES IN HEALTH THEREFORE FORM A CENTRAL THEME AS DOES THE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WORK IN ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORDS, BOTH OF WHICH LEVERAGE EARLIER RESEARCH IN DISTRIBUTED AND FEDERATED DATABASES. THE CORE OF HER RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY CAN BE SUMMED UP AS SEEKING TO DEVELOP WAYS TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE DATA, INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE IN COMPLEX, HETEROGENEOUS AND DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS. COMPUTER SCIENCE CHI O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN CEC AD-HOC COMMITTEE ON DISTRIBUTED DATABASES CHAIR, IRISH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION CHAIR, TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT PANEL ON MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES CONFERENCE CHAIR, 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATABASES IN PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, DUBLIN, JULY 1990 DIRECTOR, ERCIM IRELAND FELLOW, INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND FELLOW, IRISH ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FELLOW, IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY FELLOW, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND GENERAL CHAIR, 19TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VERY LARGE DATA BASES, DUBLIN, AUGUST 1993 MEMBER OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BOARD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION MEMBER OF VISITING PANEL, EU JRC, ISPRA, ITALY MEMBER, ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY MEMBER, HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER, INSTITUTION OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MEMBER, IRISH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION PRESIDENT, HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND PRESIDENT, INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND PRESIDENT, IRISH ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING PRESIDENT, IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS CO-EDITOR AND MEMBER OF THE LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE, 3RD IFIP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SECURITY, DUBLIN, AUGUST 1985 CARE CHALLENGES CLINICAL LABORATORIES CLINICAL LABORATORY FUNCTIONALITIES CLINICAL PROTOCOLS COMPUTER DATABASE DATABASE PROTOTYPING DATABASE SAMPLING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS EDUCATION ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORD SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE RECORDS EVALUATION FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCIES FUNCTIONAL INTERFACES GUIDELINE HEALTH INFORMATICS INFORMATICS INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT INTEGRITY CONSTRAINTS INTERNET AND GENETIC MEDICINE IT AWARENESS KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS LEGACY MIGRATION LEGACY SYSTEMS MACHINE LEARNING MEDICAL INFORMATICS MEDICINE OPEN ARCHITECTURE OPEN CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEM OPEN DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING OPENLABS QUALITY ASSESSMENT RECORD SERVER SERVER INTERFACES SUPPORT SYSTEM INTEGRATION SYSTEMS TELEMATICS TRAINING USER REQUIREMENTS DRIVEN LEARNING CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JOSE GROH grohjose ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GROHJ PHYSICS MY RESEARCH TACKLES THE KEY TOPICS IN PHYSICS RELATED TO SUPERNOVAE AND HIGH-MASS STARS. MY GROUP AIMS AT DETERMINING WHICH KIND OF STARS EXPLODE AND THE TYPES OF EXPLOSIONS THAT THEY LEAD TO. MY RESEARCH TOPIC HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS FUNDAMENTAL BY VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE, AND IS LISTED AMONG THE KEY QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED IN THE NEXT DECADE BY THE EUROPEAN AND USA NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ROADMAP SURVEYS. I WAS HIRED AS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ASTROPHYSICS AT TCD IN MARCH 2016, WHEN I STARTED MY RESEARCH GROUP "STELLAR EVOLUTION AND EXPLOSIVE DEATHS" (SEED). I AM AN INTERNATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED LEADER IN THE FIELD OF STELLAR EVOLUTION, RADIATIVE TRANSFER, AND SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS. MY RESEARCH IS OF HIGH IMPACT IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, AS I HAVE AUTHORED 51 SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES IN THE LEADING JOURNALS OF MY FIELD (H-INDEX = 22). IN ADDITION, I HAVE PRESENTED 15 INVITED KEYNOTE TALKS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, WHICH HIGHLIGHTS THAT MY RESEARCH IS OF HIGH INTERNATIONAL STANDARD. MOREOVER, I HAVE BEEN AWARDED MORE THAN EUR 1 000 000 IN AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS OVER MY CAREER. I HAVE ALSO BEEN ENGAGED IN CREATIVE WAYS TO BRING MY RESEARCH TO THE WIDER SOCIETY. LET ME DISCUSS MY RECENT RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS. DURING THE PAST YEARS, I HAVE LEADED THE THEORETICAL RESEARCH ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE PHYSICS OF THE EVOLUTION OF MASSIVE STARS AND THEIR ATMOSPHERES (GROH ET AL. 2013A,B,C; GROH ET AL. 2014). THIS METHODOLOGY IS PARTICULARLY CRUCIAL FOR STARS AT THE PRE-SUPERNOVA STAGE SINCE IT ALLOWS A REALISTIC COMPARISON BETWEEN THEORETICAL RESULTS AND OBSERVATIONS, AS I PIONEERED IN GROH ET AL. 2013A. IN THAT PAPER, I PRESENTED THE FIRST THEORETICAL EVIDENCE THAT STARS IN THE UNSTABLE LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLE (LBV) STAGE COULD BE SN PROGENITORS. COMBINED TO MY ALREADY LARGE EXPERTISE IN THEORETICAL RADIATIVE TRANSFER ANALYSIS OF STELLAR ATMOSPHERES AND WINDS (GROH ET AL. 2006, 2008, 2009AB, 2010AB, 2011AB, 2012AB), I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE GROUNDBREAKING RESULTS ON THE NATURE OF CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA PROGENITORS. THIS IS EVIDENCED BY A RECENT HIGHLIGHT OF MY RESEARCH WHERE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DETERMINE THE NATURE OF A CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVA OBSERVED JUST 6 HOURS AFTER EXPLOSION. THIS IS THE EARLIEST SUPERNOVA EVER OBSERVED, AND THE RESULTS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN PUBLISHED AS A HIGH-IMPACT PAPER IN NATURE PHYSICS. THIS HIGHLIGHTS THAT THE CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH THAT MY GROUP IS PRODUCING HAS HIGH INTERNATIONAL STANDARD. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE ENGLISH FRENCH 8 INVITED KEYNOTE TALKS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (2016-17). 16 IN TOTAL. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: MAJOR ROLE IN THE SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF 3 CONFERENCES IN 2016 (PRAGUE, ATHENS, NEW ZEALAND) AND 2 IN 2017 (DUBLIN AND ARMAGH). 10 CONFERENCES IN TOTAL. ELECTED MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION COMMITTEE G2 MASSIVE STARS: HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS HONOR THAT HIGHLIGHTS MY POSITION OF LEADERSHIP IN THE DISCIPLINE. INTERNAL EXAMINER FOR 2 TCD MASTER TRANSFER EXAMS MEMBER OF THE ASTROPHYSICAL SCIENCE GROUP IRELAND MEMBER OF THE BRAZILIAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE ESO OBSERVING PANEL COMMITTEE: WORLD-LEADING TELESCOPE, I EVALUATED 180 OBSERVING PROPOSALS PER YEAR. MEMBER OF THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE TIME ALLOCATION COMMITTEE: THIS IS THE LEADING ASTROPHYSICAL FACILITY, AND I EVALUATED 85 PROPOSALS OF OBSERVING TIME AND SELECTED THE BEST PROPOSALS FOR OBSERVING TIME. MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC CONSORTIUM OF UVMAG, A SATELLITE PROPOSED TO ESA FOR THE M5 CALL. MEMBER OF THE SWISS SOCIETY FOR ASTROPHYSICS NOMINATED IRISH MANAGING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE HORIZON 2020/COST ACTION CHETC. MY ROLE IS TO ENSURE THAT THE IRISH AND TCD INTERESTS WILL BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT IN THIS ACTION RELATED TO NUCLEOSYNTHESIS. REFEREE FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FUNDING AGENCIES: EVALUATE AND SELECT PROPOSALS FOR RESEARCH FUNDING FOR NWO (NETHERLANDS), FWO (BELGIUM), ISF (ISRAEL), AND CONYCIT (CHILE). OVER 4 MILLION EUROS OF BUDGET. REFEREE FOR LEADING SCIENTIFIC PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS: APJ, A&A, MNRAS, AND AJ. I PEER-REVIEWED 4 PAPERS IN 2016/17. DR. RAFFAELE GROTTI grottiraffaele VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW GROTTIR SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. BRENDAN FRANCIS GRUFFERTY gruffertybrendanfrancis LECTURER/CONSULTANT IN RESTORATIVE DENTI GRUFFERB DENTAL SCIENCE -CLINICAL RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY, DENTAL AND BIOMATERIALS. -DENTAL IMPLANT SURFACES: PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL MANIPULATION OF METALLIC IMPLANT SURFACES TO ENHANCE PROTEIN AND BONE CELL INTERACTION WITH THE AIM OF ENHANCING SPEED AND EXTENT OF BONE FORMATION AT THE BONE-IMPLANT INTERFACE. -BONE AND CELL BIOLOGY, AND BIOCHEMISTRY: AS IT RELATES TO HEALING FOLLOWING SURGICAL PLACEMENT OF ENDOSSEOUS IMPLANTS. DENTAL SCHOOL LINCOLN PLACE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH BIOENGINEERING AND RADIOLOGIC IMAGING BIOLOGY BIOMATERIALS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CARIES DENTISTRY ORAL HEALTH LOAD-DISPLACEMENT EVALUTAION OF FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITE FIXED PARTIAL DENTUIRE MATERIALS. SPECIMENS OF COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE, FIBER-REINFORCED RESIN COMPOSITE MATERIALS WERE FABRICATED (DIMENSIONS WERE THAT OF THE CONNECTOR FOR AN ANTERIOR ADHESIVE BRIDGE, REPLACING A CENTRAL INCISOR). SPECIMENS WERE BONDED TO BOVINE ENAMEL AND LOADED TO THE AVERAGE INTERINCISAL FORCE. AVERAGE STIFFNESS VALUES WERE CALCULATED, AND SEM IMAGES OF LOADED SPECIMENS WERE OBTAINED. RESULTS DEMONSTRATED THAT GLASS FIBER-REINFORCED SPECIMENS WERE STIFFER THAN POLYETHYLENE FIBRE-REINFORCED SPECIMENS. ALL SPECIMENS DEMONSTRATED MICROSCOPIC EVIDENCE OF FIBRE DELAMINATION AND MATRIX/FIBRE FRACTURE. BRITTLE GLASS-FIBRE SPECIMENS FRACTURED MORE READILY AND POLYETHYLENE-FIBRE SPECIMENS STRETCHED. RESULTS REVEALED THAT THESE MATERIALS ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR CLINICAL USE INTENDED BECAUSE OF WIDESPREAD EVIDENCE OF MICROSCOPIC FAILURE, WHICH WOULD PRESUMABLY LEAD TO EVENTUAL MACROSCOPIC OR CLINICAL FAILURE. DEPT OF RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO, NY M.S. (BIOMATERIALS) CLINICAL AND MICROSCOPIC EVALUATION OF PERIABUTMENT SOFT TISSUE SURROUNDING INTRAORAL PERCUTANEOUS COMMERCIALLY PURE TITANIUM IMPLANTS, A PILOT STUDY. SKIN GRAFTS ARE COMMONLY USED INTRAORALLY TO REPAIR DEFECTS CAUSED FOLLOWING ABLATIVE SURGERY FOR ORAL CANCER. DENTAL IMPLANTS ABUTMENTS THAT PENETRATE THESE SKIN GRAFTS DEMONSTRATED A CLINICAL PICTURE OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION AND HYPERPLASIA. EVEN WITH METICULOUS ORAL HYGIENE PRACTICES, THE CLINICAL APPEARANCE OF THESE TISSUES DO NOT RESOLVE COMPLETELY. SOFT TISSUE BIOPSIES WERE TAKEN AND HISTOMORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS WAS CARRIED OUT. SPECIMENS WERE ALSO PREPARED FOR X-RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS. HISTOMORPHOMETRICALLY THE PICTURE WAS ONE OF NON-SPECIFIC CHRONIC INFLAMMATION, WITH ENLARGEMENT OF RETE PEGS OF THE CUTANEOUS EPTIHELIUM. X-RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS DID NOT REVEAL ANY SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS OF FOREIGN MATTER (EG TITANIUM) IN THE SOFT TISSUE. RECCOMENDATIONS WERE THAT PERIABUTMENT SKIN SHOULD BE AS THIN AS POSSIBLE AND EXCELLENT ORAL HYGIENE SHOULD BE MAINTAINED. ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE, BUFFALO, NY RESIDENCY IN MAXILLOFACIAL PORSTHETICS DR. ANDREA GUARISO guarisoandrea ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GUARISOA ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MS. SARAH GUERIN guerinsarah EXECUTIVE OFFICER SGUERIN GEOLOGY DISCIPLINE OF GEOLOGY SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN DR. CLARE GUEST guestclare VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW CGUEST ITALIAN ITALIAN RENAISSANCE; RECEPTION OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE, ESPECIALLY GREEK; RHETORIC AND POETICS; ART AND ARCHITECTURAL TREATISES OF THE QUATTROCENTO AND CINQUECENTO; THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE ARTS IN THE RENAISSANCE, IN PARTICULAR THE ROLE OF MUSIC; RENAISSANCE PHILOLOGY AND ANTIQUARIANISM; EMBLEMATICS AND MNEMONICS; PHILOSOPHY IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE, IN PARTICULAR ARISTOTELIAN ETHICS AND METAPHYSICS AND THE PLATONIC TRADITION. DEPT. OF ITALIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. EMER GUINAN guinanemer ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GUINANE1 SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE DR EMER GUINAN IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INTERPROFESSIONAL LEARNING PROGRAMME FOR THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES. HER MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE ROLE OF EXERCISE AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN AMELIORATING TREATMENT SIDE EFFECTS AND OPTIMISING SURVIVORSHIP FOR PATIENTS WITH CANCER. HER WORK CONSIDERS BOTH THE THERAPEUTIC AND THE PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF EXERCISE PROGRAMMES. SHE HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE ROLE OF EXERCISE FOR PATIENTS WITH COMPLEX CANCER PRESENTATIONS INCLUDING PATIENTS WITH CANCER OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT AND THOSE WITH ADVANCED DISEASE. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES, ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS (ISCP) AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES BREAST CANCER CARDIAC REHABILITATION INFLAMMATION AND COAGULATION SYNDROMES OESOPHAGEAL CANCER PROSTATE CANCER PUBLIC HEALTH PREOPERATIVE INSPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING TO PREVENT POSTOPERATIVE PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING ESOPHAGEAL RESECTION (THE PREPARE STUDY) THIS MULTI-CENTRE INTERNATIONAL TRIAL IS EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF A PREOPERATIVE PROGRAMME OF INSPIRATORY MUSCLE TRAINING ON POST-OPERATIVE PULMONARY OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING OESOPHAGECTOMY REHABILITATIVE STRATEGIES FOLLOWING OESOPHAGEAL CANCER (RESTORE TRIAL) THIS PROJECT COMPRISES TWO STUDIES; 1)A LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF CURATIVE TREATMENT FOR OESOPAHGEAL CANCER ON PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE AND 2) AN INVESTIGATION OF THE FEASIBILITY AND EFFICACY OF A REHABILITATIVE PROGRAMME OF EXERCISE AND DIETARY INTERVENTION FOLLOWING OESOPHAGEAL CANCER TREATMENT COMPLETION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) CANCER PROFESSOR THORFINNUR GUNNLAUGSSON gunnlaugssonthorfinnur PROFESSOR GUNNLAUT CHEMISTRY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THEAREAS OF SUPRAMOLECULAR ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIO AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE RECOGNITION AND TARGETING OF BIOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT IONS AND MOLECULES. DEPT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER, CORE TECHNOLOGY PI'S, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS. MEMBER, DMMC CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL GROUPING OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH ON CANCER THEMES MEMBER, IMAGING FOCUS GROUP MEETING, 1-DAY MEETING ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING - 8TH JUNE 2004 RUN IN CONJUNCTION WITH TCINFROM SINGLE CELL & MOLECULAR THROUGH TO ORGAN & WHOLE BODYLAST REVISED : 22 MAY 2004 DEVELOPMENT OF RIBONUCLEASE AND RIBOZYME MIMICS USING LANTHANIDE ION COMPLEXES SYNTHESIS & TESTING OF NOVEL ANTICANCER DRUGS FOR LEUKAEMIA SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL CONTRAST AGENTS FOR MRI AND CT SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL FLUORESCENT AND LANTHANIDE LUMINESCIENT CHEMOSENSORS FOR CRITICAL CARE ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL OLIGONUCLEOSIDES AND MODIFIED NUCLEOTIDES CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MS. EGLE GUSCIUTE gusciuteegle TAP TUTOR EGUSCIUT ACADEMIC SECRETARIAT TRINITY ACCESS PROGRAMME GOLDSMITH HALL COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MADS HAAHR haahrmads ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HAAHRM COMPUTER SCIENCE MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, SELF-ORGANISING SYSTEMS, INTERACTIVE AND LOCATION-AWARE NARRATIVE, COMPUTER GAME STUDIES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR GAMES. COMPUTER SCIENCE DSG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DANISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION RESARCH AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (ECREA) MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) MEMBER OF THE IRISH COMPUTER COMPUTER SOCIETY (ICS) ART AND TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER APPLICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC COMMERCE,PAYMENT, SIGNATURE ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING, AUTHORING TOOLS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INTERNET INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES MIDDLEWARE MOBILE COMPUTING UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE SERVICES (CAMS) FROM OCTOBER 2001 TO DECEMBER 2003, I WAS TRINITY COLLEGE'S PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON THE CAMS PROJECT. A CORE IDEA IN CAMS WAS THAT FOR A SMART SPACE TO BE TRULY SMART, IT MUST BE ABLE TO REACT TO THE TASKS WHICH ITS OCCUPANTS ARE PURSUING RATHER THAN SIMPLY REACTING DIRECTLY TO THEIR ACTIONS. THIS INVOLVES INTEGRATING TASK- AND SPACE-LEVEL INFORMATION INTO AN APPLICATION MODEL TAKING INPUTS FROM A RANGE OF SENSORS. THE CAMS PROJECT EXPLORED THESE ISSUES FROM TWO SIDES: THE CREATION OF NOVEL SMART ARTEFACTS TO DIRECTLY SUPPORT PARTICULAR TASKS, AND WAYS OF RELATING THE PROGRESS OF TASKS TO THE LOW-LEVEL CUES OBTAINED FROM THESE DEVICES. CAMS WAS A JOINT PROJECT WITH NMRC AND FUNDED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND. OUR WORK ON CAMS (SUCH AS THE SMART COUCH AND THE SMART SWORD) WAS WIDELY COVERED BY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AND HAS APPEARED FOR EXAMPLE ON BBC WORLD NEWS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND P2P INFRASTRUCTURE SIMULATION EVALUATION AND IMPLEMENTATION ARCHITECTURE (PISEIA) THE PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) COMMUNICATIONS PARADIGM IS EMERGING AS THE INFRASTRUCTURAL BASIS FOR A NEW SUITE OF INTERNET APPLICATIONS. DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS DEPLOY DIFFERENT TOPOLOGIES, I.E., WAYS OF ARRANGING THE NODES TO FORM A P2P NETWORK. I AM PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR THE PISEIA PROJECT, WHICH EXPLORES PERFORMANCE, SECURITY, PRIVACY AND OTHER ISSUES RELATED TO TOPOLOGY IN P2P NETWORKS. MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.DSG.CS.TCD.IE/SITES/PISEIA.HTML IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IRCSET) BASIC RESEARCH GRANT SCHEME SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SENSOR-ENABLED TRAINING AND ENTERTAINMENT REQUISITES (SISTER) THE SISTER PROJECT BUILDS UPON THE IDEAS DEVELOPED AS PART OF THE CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE SERVICES (CAMS) PROJECT. THE SPECIFIC AIM OF SISTER IS TO DEVELOP HIGH-QUALITY PROTOTYPES OF SPECIALISED ARTEFACTS AND DEDICATED MIDDLEWARE AND APPLICATIONS IN ORDER TO EVALUATE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL WITHIN THE TWO WELL-DEFINED APPLICATION DOMAINS: ADVANCED SPORTS/LEISURE TRAINING EQUIPMENT AND HIGH-END TOYS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND - TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PHASE CROSSINGS: ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY CROSSINGS IS A PEER-REVIEWED MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACADEMIC JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN ELECTRONIC FORM ON THE INTERNET. THE JOURNAL AIMS TO EXPLORE THE AREAS WHERE TECHNOLOGY AND ART INTERSECT FROM A PHILOSOPHICAL/ACADEMIC ANGLE. CURRENTLY, OUR EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS CONSIST OF MAINLY OF ACADEMICS FROM ACROSS TRINITY COLLEGE. I AM CO-FOUNDER OF THE JOURNAL AND ACT AS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF. FIVE ISSUES HAVE BEEN PRODUCED SO FAR, FEATURING WORK BY ARTISTS, TECHNOLOGISTS AND ACADEMICS FROM MORE THAN TEN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. MORE INFORMATION AT THE JOURNAL'S WEB SITE AT HTTP://CROSSINGS.TCD.IE/ NOT FUNDED VIKING GHOST HUNT (VGH) A TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECT TO DEVELOP A NEW TYPE OF LOCATION-BASED MOBILE GAME, INITIALLY BASED ON THE DUBLIN VIKINGS. THE WORK USES AUGMENTED REALITY (VISUAL AND AUDIO) TO CREATE A HIGH DEGREE OF PLAYER IMMERSION. THE TECHNOLOGY (NOW VIKING-INDEPENDENT) IS BEING BROUGHT TO MARKET BY CAMPUS COMPANY HAUNTED PLANET STUDIOS LTD. NATIONAL DIGITAL RESEARCH CENTRE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JAMES HADLEY hadleyjames USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HADLEYJ SCHOOL OFFICE LANGUAGE LIT & CULT STUD CENTRE FOR ASIAN STUDIES JAMES' RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE EXTREMELY BROAD AND COVER EVERYTHING FROM THE HISTORY SURROUNDING EARLY-MODERN TRANSLATORS BETWEEN JAPANESE AND DUTCH TO DIGITAL HUMANITIES APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF LEXIS IN INDIRECT TRANSLATIONS (TRANSLATIONS OF TRANSLATIONS). HE IS CURRENTLY DEVOTING MOST OF HIS ENERGIES TO SYSTEMATISING THE STUDY OF THE "CONCATENATION EFFECT", A PHENOMENON SEEMINGLY INHERENT TO INDIRECT TRANSLATIONS. SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE CHINESE ENGLISH FRENCH ASIAN LANGUAGES/LITERATURE ASIAN RELIGIONS CHINESE LANGUAGE/LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS ENGLISH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE EUROPEAN HISTORY HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY JAPANESE HISTORY OF THE TOKUGAWA PERIOD JAPANESE LANGUAGE/LITERATURE LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, MODERN LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, NON-FICTION LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, RENAISSANCE LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, TRANSLATION LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, VICTORIAN LINGUISTIC ANALYSES OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LINGUISTICS LITERATURE AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT MEDIEVAL EUROPE NON-WESTERN HISTORY SOCIOLINGUISTICS TRANSLATION TRANSLATION STUDIES LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. MAJA HALILOVIC-PASTUOVIC halilovicpastuovicmaja RESEARCH FELLOW HALILOM IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS MAJA'S RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE POLITICS OF ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY; POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES (PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON BOSNIA), YOUTH RADICALISATION, SEGREGATED EDUCATION, POST-REFUGEE TRANSNATIONALISM. IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ESA EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SAI SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND TRINITY CENTRE FOR POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE THE CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY (ENIEDA)EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION ACTIVITIES, (RAN) RADICALISATION AWARENESS NETWORK, (ECPR) THE EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH ETHNIC-CONFLICT INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP RACISM/RACE RELATIONS REFUGEES RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY EDUCATION TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION GATED: SEGREGATED EDUCATION IN POST-CONFLICT BOSNIA AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE CONFLICTS IN EUROPE THE SPECIFIC AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE IF SEGREGATED EDUCATION IN POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES CAUSES THE RADICALISATION OF YOUTH AND INCREASES THE POSSIBILITIES OF FUTURE CONFLICTS. GATED PROJECT PRESENTS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION OF SEGREGATED EDUCATION IN BOSNIA WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE PHENOMENON OF 'TWO SCHOOLS UNDER ONE ROOF' (TSUOR) THAT CURRENTLY OPERATES IN THE COUNTRY. TSUOR DESCRIBES SCHOOLS IN BOSNIA THAT ARE ORGANISED AROUND THE ETHNIC SEGREGATION OF CHILDREN. CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS, NAMELY BOSNIAN MUSLIMS, CROATS AND SERBS, ATTEND CLASSES IN THE SAME BUILDING BUT ARE PHYSICALLY SEPARATED INTO DIFFERENT CLASSROOMS AND ARE TAUGHT DIFFERENT CURRICULA BY TEACHERS FROM THEIR OWN ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS GROUP. TSUOR IS NOT JUST A PRACTICE OF SEPARATE EDUCATION BUT A POLICY OF SEGREGATION WHICH WAS INTRODUCED TO BOSNIA TWO DECADES AGO VIA THE DAYTON PEACE AGREEMENT THAT ENDED THE CONFLICT IN BOSNIA. THE LONG TERM PEACE BUILDING AIM OF THE DAYTON AGREEMENT WAS TO KEEP WARRING SIDES APART BY GIVING ETHNIC GROUPS IN CONFLICT INSTITUTIONAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION AND RIGHTS TO SEPARATE IDENTITIES. 2015 MARKED TWENTY YEARS SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE DAYTON AGREEMENT AND OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS THE LEGACY OF THE RIGHT TO SEPARATE IDENTITIES HAS PENETRATED ALL AREAS OF BOSNIAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE, INCLUDING THE FIELD OF EDUCATION. CURRENTLY BOSNIA IS A DIVIDED SOCIETY AND SEGREGATED EDUCATION IN THIS DIVIDED SOCIETY IS AN URGENT ISSUE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (REA) IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. TOBY HALLAM hallamtoby VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW HALLAMT CRANN CRANN NAUGHTON INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. SARAH HAMILL hamillsarah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HAMILLSA LAW DR HAMILL'S PRIMARY AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST ARE PROPERTY LAW, PROPERTY THEORY, AND LEGAL HISTORY. SHE HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN CANADIAN AND IRISH LEGAL HISTORY, AS WELL AS HOW THE LAW UNDERSTANDS PUBLIC PROPERTY. LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 OSGOODE SOCIETY FOR CANADIAN LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS LEGAL HISTORY PROPERTY PROPERTY LAW PROPERTY RIGHTS PROPERTY THEORY LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. S HAMILTON hamiltons MEDICAL ASSOCIATE SHAMILT SURGERY SURGERY X-RAY DEPT MEATH HOSPIT DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. HELGA HERTA HAMMERSTEIN hammersteinhelgaherta FELLOW EMERITUS HHMMRSTN HISTORY CENTRAL AND WESTERN EUROPEAN REFORMATION STUDIES, (ESPECIALLY PAMPHLETS AND OTHER MODES OF POPULAR COMMUNICATION) EARLY MODERN HISTORY OF UNIVERSITIES DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3113 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FOUNDER MEMBER OF FASTI (AMSTERDAM/GHENT) SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COMMISSION FOR THE HISTORY OF UNIVERSITIES; RE-ELECTED UNTIL 2005 DR. CAOIMHE HANNIGAN hannigancaoimhe RESEARCH FELLOW CHANNIGA SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS FOR CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS AND DEMENTIA; DEMENTIA PREVENTION; AGE-RELATED COGNITIVE DECLINE; BRAIN HEALTH; SUCCESSFUL AGEING; LIFESTYLE INTERVENTIONS FOR BRAIN HEALTH AND DEMENTIA PREVENTION; INTERVENTIONS TO SUPPORT HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN OLDER ADULTS; LONELINESS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; DIGITAL HEALTH; BEHAVIOUR CHANGE; SCIENCE COMMUNICATION SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CERTIFICATION IN CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING, KNIGHT ADRC MEMORY AND AGEING PROJECT, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS MEMBER OF WORLD YOUNG LEADERS IN DEMENTIA NETWORK, ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF THE WORLD DEMENTIA COUNCIL COGNITIVE RESERVE: AN INVESTIGATION OF CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN GENERALLY HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS PHD PROJECT SUPERVISED BY PROF IAN ROBERTSON AND DR SABINA BRENNAN IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AGEING DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MS. BARBARA HANNIGAN hanniganbarbara ASST PROF & PLACEMENT CO-ORDINATOR HANNIGAB PSYCHOLOGY BROAD RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE; COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY AND THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS, INCLUDING MIXED METHODOLOGY RESEARCH ON TYPICALLY OCCURRING PRESENTING ISSUES TO COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGISTS, EVALUATING THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS, PROGRAMME EVALUATION ALONG WITH PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES OF BOTH THERAPISTS AND THEIR CLIENTS. SPECIFICALLY: THERAPIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED TOPICS ACROSS THEIR CAREER LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT FROM TRAINEE/NOVICE TO MASTER/SENIOR PRACTITIONERS. ISSUES RELATING TO SUICIDE PREVENTION AND POSTVENTION ALONG WITH RESEARCH INQUIRY INTO RELEVANT ISSUES OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVE PRACTICE BY PSYCHOLOGISTS. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, CLINICAL AND RESEARCH SUPERVISOR & PLACEMENT COORDINATOR, DOCTORATE IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, TCD. LECTURER POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA & M.SC. IN CLINICAL SUPERVISION (PSYCHOLOGY) SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, TCD ETHICS COMMITTEE MEMBER, SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, TCD. LECTURER AND ETHICS COMMITTEE MEMBER TO M.ED. IN EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE & COUNSELLING, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, TCD. PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, FULL MEMBER. PSI DIVISION OF COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, FULL MEMBER HEALTH, CLINICAL AND COUNSELLING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER PSYCHOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN AND PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONHOOD PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY PSYCHOSIS PSYCHOSIS, SCHIZOPHRENIA PSYCHOTHERAPY PUBLIC HEALTH SEXUAL ABUSE SEXUAL BEHAVIOR SUICIDE SUICIDE RATES TRAUMA PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES HUSSAR €170,000 FROM UK DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT TO INVESTIGATE WAYS TO CHANGE ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPEEDING. DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT, UK STEERING TO SAFETY PROJECT, COOPERATION AND WORKING TOGETHER (CAWT) €22,000.00 FOR RETRIEVAL PLEASE SEARCH: WWW.CAWT.COM CAWT< STEERING TO SAFETY PROJECT, SUPPORTED BY: EU INTERREG IIIA PROGRAMME FOR IRELAND/NORTHERN IRELAND A NATIONAL SURVEY OF TRAUMATISED IRISH CHILDREN RESEARCH ASSOCIATE. ROGERS, A. ET AL. A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN EATING DISORDERS: UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESS OF RECOVERY PH.D. STUDY CONDUCTED BY VIRGINIA KIELTY OBERLIN UNDER CO-SUPERVISION, WITH PROF. LADISLAV TIMULAK & PROF. BARBARA HANNIGAN BODYWHYS EURO 35,000.00 IRISH DEFENCE FORCES: ACADEMIC COURSE REVIEW AND REVISION ACADEMIC PROGRAMME REVIEW, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION TO HETAC B.A. LEVEL 7. ACADEMIC SUBJECTS REVIEWED AND REVISED: . ECONOMICS, . POLITICS & POLITICAL SCIENCE, . IRISH CULTURAL, HERITAGE & SOCIAL STUDIES . IRISH HISTORY. 2 ADDITIONAL COURSES DEVELOPED: CADET EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME AND THE GENERIC ACADEMIC COURSE IRISH DEFENCE FORCES EURO 43,000.00 B.A. IN LEADERSHIP & MILITARY STUDIES RENOWNED MASTER THERAPIST ACADEMICS: PERSONAL LIVES AND PROFESSIONAL MASTERY - A LIFE-STORY APPROACH PHD RESEARCH PROJECT EXPLORNG THE SYNERGY BETWEEN THE PERSONAL LIFE STORY AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER MASTERY AND SUCCESS OF SOME WORLD RENOWNED MASTER THERAPISTS. TCD ARTS AND SOCIAL BENEFACTIONS FUND EURO 2,000.00 CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JAMES HANRAHAN hanrahanjames ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HANRAHAJ FRENCH MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE LITERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICS AND CULTURE OF ENLIGHTENMENT FRANCE. MY DOCTORAL RESEARCH FOCUSSED ON VOLTAIRE AND HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SUPREME COURTS OF ANCIEN RÉGIME FRANCE. I CONTRIBUTE AS AN EXTERNAL EDITOR TO THE COMPLETE WORKS OF VOLTAIRE, PUBLISHED BY THE VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION, OXFORD. AS WELL AS HAVING WRITTEN CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS TO VOLTAIRE'S PAMPHLETS ON THE PAYS DE GEX, I AM PART OF A TEAM OF ACADEMICS ANNOTATING THE DEFINITIVE EDITIONS OF THE ESSAI SUR LES M URS. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN AND HAVE PUBLISHED ON THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC OPINION AND ITS IMPACT ON POLITICS AND SOCIETY, FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY UP TO THE PRESENT. MY CURRENT RESEARCH IS FOCUSSED ON A CRITICAL EDITION OF VOLTAIRE'S PRÉCIS DU SIÈCLE DE LOUIS XV AND, IN PARALLEL, ON THE CONCEPT OF ORIGINS IN ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT. DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 'MEMBRE ORDINAIRE' OF THE COMMITTEE OF ADEFFI (ASSOCIATION DES ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES ET FRANCOPHONES D'IRLANDE): HTTP://WWW.ADEFFI.IE SECRETARY OF ADEFFI (ASSOCIATION DES ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES ET FRANCOPHONES D'IRLANDE): HTTP://WWW.ADEFFI.IE VICE-PRESIDENT OF ADEFFI (ASSOCIATION DES ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES ET FRANCOPHONES D'IRLANDE): HTTP://WWW.ADEFFI.IE VOLTAIRE HISTORIAN: CONSTRUCTING CONTEMPORARY HISTORY IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: PROFESSOR NICHOLAS CRONK (VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD) THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO COME TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF VOLTAIRE'S OVERALL PHILOSOPHICAL PROJECT, BY FOCUSING ON A NEGLECTED ASPECT OF HIS WORK: HIS DETERMINATION TO WRITE "MODERN" HISTORY. MUCH OF HIS HISTORICAL WRITING, ESPECIALLY IN THE EARLIER YEARS, IS DEVOTED TO THE MODERN WORLD. VOLTAIRE FIRST EXPLORES THE DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MODERN WORLD (THE BENEFITS OF TRADE, THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, RELIGIOUS TOLERATION) IN A BOOK ABOUT ENGLAND (LETTRES PHILOSOPHIQUES), BEFORE STUDYING THE FLOURISHING CULTURE OF FRANCE DURING THE PREVIOUS CENTURY (LE SIÈCLE DE LOUIS XIV). HE THEN EXTENDS THIS EXPLORATION, FORWARDS INTO MODERN FRANCE (PRÉCIS DU SIÈCLE DE LOUIS XV), AND OUTWARDS INTO THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE WHOLE WORLD (ESSAI SUR LES MOEURS). MY ROLE IS AS CO-EDITOR (WITH JANET GODDEN, VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION) OF A CRITICAL EDITION OF THE PRÉCIS DU SIÈCLE DE LOUIS XV, WHICH WILL BE PART OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF VOLTAIRE. LEVERHULME TRUST RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. JOSEPH AUGUSTINE HARBISON harbisonjosephaugustine SENIOR LECTURER/CONSULTANT JHARBISO CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY ENGAGE TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF STROKE PHYSICIANS BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND FELLOWSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN STROKE ORGANISATION WORLD STROKE ORGANISATION AGE RELATED DISEASES AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA AGING/GERONTOLOGY ANATOMY ANTICONVULSANTS BRAIN CLINICAL SLEEP RESEARCH ELDERLY HEALTH GERONTOLOGY MEDICAL/DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING NERVOUS SYSTEM NEUROBIOLOGY NEUROCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROIMAGING NEUROLOGY NEUROSCIENCE PHARMACOLOGY PHARMACOTHERAPY RADIOLOGY, TOMOGRAPHY AND MEDICAL IMAGING SLEEP DISORDERS STROKE STROKE REHABILITATION TELEMEDICINE CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY EUROHYP-1 A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA FOR ACUTE ISCHAEMIC STROKE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP-7 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR ORLA HARDIMAN hardimanorla PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY/HEAD OF ACADEMIC HARDIMAO CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) EPIDEMIOLOGY, GENETICS AND DEEP PHENOTYPING OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL TRIALS ACADEMIC UNIT OF NUEROLOGY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH IRISH FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND FELLOW, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN MEMBER ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE NEUROLOGY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY GENETICS AND GENOMICS POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) DEEP PHENOTYPING & COMPLEX GENETICS OF ALS: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY POPULATION BASED APPROACH CHARACTERIZATION OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, GENETICS AND PHENOTYPE OF ALS/MND IN IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CSA LIVING AND DYING WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS: A POPULATION BASED ANALYSIS OF PALLIATIVE NEEDS, SERVICES AND OUTCOMES IN NON-MALIGNANT TERMINAL ILLNESS AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) IS A PROGRESSIVE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE. 70% OF THOSE WITH ALS DIE WITHIN 1000 DAYS OF THEIR FIRST SYMPTOM. UP TO 50% OF PATIENTS WITH ALS DEVELOP A DEGREE OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, AND 15 % DEVELOP A FULL-BLOWN FRONTO-TEMPORAL DEMENTIA. THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EFFECTIVE DISEASE MODIFYING THERAPIES FOR ALS, AND CLINICAL INTERVENTION IS FOCUSED ON ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS AND RELATIVES BY RELIEVING SYMPTOMS, PROVIDING EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL SUPPORT AS NEEDED, ND SUPPORTING THE FAMILY IN BEREAVEMENT. AS IS THE CASE FOR ALL NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, THE GENERATION OF MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS FOR ALS ARE MORE COMPLEX THAN FOR MONOPHASIC ILLNESSES. THIS COMPLEXITY RELATES TO THE MULTI-DIMENSIONALITY AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF REQUIRED SERVICE PROVISION. BY EXTENSION, OUTCOMES MEASUREMENTS MUST ALSO BE RECOGNIZED AS BEING MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND INTERDEPENDENT. NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR COMPLEXITY, THE DESIGN AND AVAILABILITY OF TOOLS TO DETERMINE AND MEASURE OUTCOME IN NEURODEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS LIKE ALS ARE OF CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE. SUCH TOOLS CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO THE INCEPTION OF INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK MODELS OF PALLIATIVE CARE THAT CAN BE PLANNED, IMPLEMENTED, EVALUATED AND REASSESSED. DESIGN OF SUCH A FRAMEWORK REQUIRES DETAILED CLINICAL INFORMATION, DRAWN FROM A POPULATION BASED SOURCE THAT CAN THEN BE VALIDATED IN AN INCIDENT BASED COHORT MONITORED PROSPECTIVELY. AS NEW DISEASE MODIFYING THERAPIES BECOME AVAILABLE, THERE IS ALSO AN EVOLVING NEED TO IDENTIFY KEY CLINICAL MILESTONES REPRESENTING STAGES OF ALS, TO MEASURE DIFFERENCES IN RESOURCE UTILIZATION, AND TO DEFINE METHODS BY WHICH QUALITY OF LIFE IS MEASURED ACROSS DISEASE STAGES. THESE DATA ARE IMPORTANT FOR PHARMACO-ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF NEW THERAPEUTICS, AND ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF THESE FACTORS IS ALSO ESSENTIAL TO THE GENERATION AND MONITORING OF EVIDENCE BASED CARE PATHWAY. THIS PROCESS IS FEASIBLE IN IRELAND, AS A NATIONAL REGISTER OF ALS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1995, AND DETAILS OF ALL INCIDENT CASES (>1400) OF ALS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND HAVE BEEN COLLECTED SINCE THEN. OVER 80% OF ALL CASES NOW ATTEND THE NATIONAL ALS CENTRE IN BEAUMONT HOSPITAL. RETROSPECTIVE DATA MINING OF THE REGISTER CAN PROVIDE IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT CHANGES IN INCIDENCE PREVALENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DISEASE, THE TIMING BENEFITS AND OUTCOME OF INTERVENTIONS INCLUDING NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION AND GASTROSTOMY INSERTION; THE BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF ATTENDING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINIC, AND THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ON PROGNOSIS AND OUTCOME. MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS FROM THE MORE EXTENSIVE CLINIC-BASED DATASETS CAN ENRICH THE REGISTER-BASED DATA TO CAPTURE INTERACTIONS WITH CLINICAL PROFESSIONALS AND THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, AND CAN INCORPORATE PHENOTYPIC DATA INCLUDING THE PRESENCE AND SEVERITY OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. THESE DATA CAN GENERATE AND VALIDATE PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS IN ALS, FROM WHICH A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED STAGING ALGORITHM CAN BE REPLICATED AND VALIDATED. PROSPECTIVE COHORT ANALYSIS CAN THEN BEST USED TO GENERATE AND VALIDATE A FRAMEWORK OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERVENTION, INCLUDING THE APPROPRIATE INTERVENTION OF GENERAL AND SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES THE COMPLETED PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A BEST PRACTICE FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE MANAGEMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE, INCLUDING AN EMBEDDED RATING SCALE THAT WILL TRIGGER SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE INTERVENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RECENT IRISH HEALTH POLICY. THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM COMPRISES 6 KEY RESEARCHERS FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS, EACH WITH AN ESTABLISHED TRACK RECORD IN THEIR FIELD OF EXPERTISE, WHICH INCLUDE CLINICAL CARE, POPULATION HEALTH , HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AND HEALTH ECONOMICS. THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL BE ORGANISED IN THREE SPECIFIC AND INTERLINKED WORK PACKAGES, SPANNING CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH INCLUDING HEALTH ECONOMICS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPACITY BUILDING AWARD LIVING AND DYING WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS: A POPULATION BASED ANALYSIS OF PALLIATIVE NEEDS, SERVICES AND OUTCOMES IN NON-MALIGNANT TERMINAL ILLNESS AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) IS A PROGRESSIVE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE. 70% OF THOSE WITH ALS DIE WITHIN 1000 DAYS OF THEIR FIRST SYMPTOM. UP TO 50% OF PATIENTS WITH ALS DEVELOP A DEGREE OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, AND 15 % DEVELOP A FULL-BLOWN FRONTO-TEMPORAL DEMENTIA. THERE ARE CURRENTLY NO EFFECTIVE DISEASE MODIFYING THERAPIES FOR ALS, AND CLINICAL INTERVENTION IS FOCUSED ON ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PATIENTS AND RELATIVES BY RELIEVING SYMPTOMS, PROVIDING EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL SUPPORT AS NEEDED, ND SUPPORTING THE FAMILY IN BEREAVEMENT. AS IS THE CASE FOR ALL NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES, THE GENERATION OF MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS FOR ALS ARE MORE COMPLEX THAN FOR MONOPHASIC ILLNESSES. THIS COMPLEXITY RELATES TO THE MULTI-DIMENSIONALITY AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF REQUIRED SERVICE PROVISION. BY EXTENSION, OUTCOMES MEASUREMENTS MUST ALSO BE RECOGNIZED AS BEING MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND INTERDEPENDENT. NOTWITHSTANDING THEIR COMPLEXITY, THE DESIGN AND AVAILABILITY OF TOOLS TO DETERMINE AND MEASURE OUTCOME IN NEURODEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS LIKE ALS ARE OF CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE. SUCH TOOLS CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO THE INCEPTION OF INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK MODELS OF PALLIATIVE CARE THAT CAN BE PLANNED, IMPLEMENTED, EVALUATED AND REASSESSED. DESIGN OF SUCH A FRAMEWORK REQUIRES DETAILED CLINICAL INFORMATION, DRAWN FROM A POPULATION BASED SOURCE THAT CAN THEN BE VALIDATED IN AN INCIDENT BASED COHORT MONITORED PROSPECTIVELY. AS NEW DISEASE MODIFYING THERAPIES BECOME AVAILABLE, THERE IS ALSO AN EVOLVING NEED TO IDENTIFY KEY CLINICAL MILESTONES REPRESENTING STAGES OF ALS, TO MEASURE DIFFERENCES IN RESOURCE UTILIZATION, AND TO DEFINE METHODS BY WHICH QUALITY OF LIFE IS MEASURED ACROSS DISEASE STAGES. THESE DATA ARE IMPORTANT FOR PHARMACO-ECONOMIC ANALYSES OF NEW THERAPEUTICS, AND ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF THESE FACTORS IS ALSO ESSENTIAL TO THE GENERATION AND MONITORING OF EVIDENCE BASED CARE PATHWAY. THIS PROCESS IS FEASIBLE IN IRELAND, AS A NATIONAL REGISTER OF ALS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1995, AND DETAILS OF ALL INCIDENT CASES (>1400) OF ALS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND HAVE BEEN COLLECTED SINCE THEN. OVER 80% OF ALL CASES NOW ATTEND THE NATIONAL ALS CENTRE IN BEAUMONT HOSPITAL. RETROSPECTIVE DATA MINING OF THE REGISTER CAN PROVIDE IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT CHANGES IN INCIDENCE PREVALENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DISEASE, THE TIMING BENEFITS AND OUTCOME OF INTERVENTIONS INCLUDING NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION AND GASTROSTOMY INSERTION; THE BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF ATTENDING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CLINIC, AND THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT ON PROGNOSIS AND OUTCOME. MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS FROM THE MORE EXTENSIVE CLINIC-BASED DATASETS CAN ENRICH THE REGISTER-BASED DATA TO CAPTURE INTERACTIONS WITH CLINICAL PROFESSIONALS AND THE PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT, AND CAN INCORPORATE PHENOTYPIC DATA INCLUDING THE PRESENCE AND SEVERITY OF COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. THESE DATA CAN GENERATE AND VALIDATE PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS IN ALS, FROM WHICH A PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED STAGING ALGORITHM CAN BE REPLICATED AND VALIDATED. PROSPECTIVE COHORT ANALYSIS CAN THEN BEST USED TO GENERATE AND VALIDATE A FRAMEWORK OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERVENTION, INCLUDING THE APPROPRIATE INTERVENTION OF GENERAL AND SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES THE COMPLETED PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A BEST PRACTICE FRAMEWORK FOR FUTURE MANAGEMENT OF NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE, INCLUDING AN EMBEDDED RATING SCALE THAT WILL TRIGGER SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE INTERVENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RECENT IRISH HEALTH POLICY. THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM COMPRISES 6 KEY RESEARCHERS FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS, EACH WITH AN ESTABLISHED TRACK RECORD IN THEIR FIELD OF EXPERTISE, WHICH INCLUDE CLINICAL CARE, POPULATION HEALTH , HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AND HEALTH ECONOMICS. THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL BE ORGANISED IN THREE SPECIFIC AND INTERLINKED WORK PACKAGES, SPANNING CLINICAL, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH INCLUDING HEALTH ECONOMICS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPACITY BUILDING AWARD AGEING GENES & SOCIETY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. PHILIP HARDY hardyphilip ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN RESTORATIVE DENTI HARDYP DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL EDUCATION/ RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH DR. ANDREW HARKIN harkinandrew ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN PHARMACOLOGY AHARKIN PHARMACY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MY RESEARCH FALLS WITHIN THE REMIT OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, A DISCIPLINE THAT LINKS BASIC NEUROSCIENCE TO THE PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC AND NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE. SELECTED EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS IN THESE AREAS ARE OUTLINED BELOW: 1. MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN): FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN BRAIN IMAGING RETURN TO HEALTH "REBIRTH" SEE HTTP://WWW.RBIRTH.EU/). THE R'BIRTH CONSORTIUM IS A MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORK THAT GATHERS EXPERTS ON MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF AGE-ASSOCIATED PATHOLOGIES INCLUDING NEURODEGENERATION AND DEPRESSION. THEY WORK TOGETHER TO IDENTIFY STRESS-REGULATED MOLECULES PROVOKING NEURONAL ATROPHY AND HINDERING NEUROGENESIS (BIRTH OF NEW NEURONS), AND MONITOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE PROCESSES IN HUMAN BRAIN THAT CONTRIBUTE TO COGNITIVE DECLINE AND INCREASED DEPRESSIVE AND ANXIETY DISORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH AGEING. THE WORK IS FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (FP7) UNDER THE SUB-PROGRAMME PEOPLE (MARIE CURIE ACTIONS). 16 EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS WILL BE TRAINED IN THE TOPICS OF THE PROGRAMME I.E. MOLECULAR IMAGING (MRI), PROTEOMICS, IMMUNOTECHNOLOGY, HIGH CONTENT SCREENING, MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROPHARMACOLOGY AND PATIENT STUDIES. THE TRAINING IS PROVIDED BY SEVEN UNIVERSITIES, TWO PRIVATE COMPANIES AND ONE NON-PROFIT RESEARCH ORGANISATION FROM 7 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. 2. EARLY DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MOOD DISORDERS TARGETING THE ACTIVATED INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYSTEM [ACRONYM: MOODINFLAME] OUR RESEARCH GROUP IS FUNDED UNDER EU FP7 AS PART OF A COLLABORATIVE, LARGE-SCALE RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED "EARLY DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MOOD DISORDERS TARGETING THE ACTIVATED INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYSTEM. [ACRONYM: MOODINFLAME]. A CONSORTIUM OF 14 EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES/RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND 4 SMES HAVE COME TOGETHER FOR THIS PROJECT WITH THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF DEVELOPING BIOMARKER TESTS FOR MOOD DISORDER PATIENTS BASED ON AN ACTIVATED INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYSTEM (IRS) AND INFLAMMATION-MEDIATED DISTURBANCES IN TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM. AS PART OF THIS PROGRAMME PATIENTS ARE TREATED WITH DRUGS TO COUNTERACT THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN ACTIVATED IRS/DISTURBED METABOLISM OF TRYPTOPHAN. THE PROJECT LEADS TO AN ENHANCED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATHOGENESIS OF INFLAMMATION-RELATED MOOD DISORDERS, AND OF THE MECHANISM OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND DRUGS TARGETING TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM IN TREATING DEPRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR. 3. NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE (NNOS): A NOVEL TARGET FOR ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTION. INHIBITION OF NMDA-R HAS SHOWN CONSIDERABLE PROMISE AS A DRUG TARGET TO PRODUCE NEW ANTIDEPRESSANTS THAT WORK FASTER, AND ARE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EXISTING ANTIDEPRESSANTS. WE HYPOTHESISE THAT TARGETING SIGNALLING EVENTS DOWN-STREAM OF NMDA-R MAY PROVIDE A MORE VIABLE APPROACH. NNOS IS A DOWN STREAM TARGET OF NMDA-R. WE HAVE PUBLISHED A NUMBER OF ORIGINAL PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THAT 1) NOS INHIBITORS HAVE ANTIDEPRESSANT PROPERTIES 2) SUCH PROPERTIES ARE DEPENDENT ON ENDOGENOUS SEROTONIN AND 3) NOS INHIBITORS CAN AUGMENT THE EFFECTS OF CONVENTIONAL ANTIDEPRESSANTS IN PRECLINICAL MODELS. CURRENTLY OUR RESEARCH IS ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF NNOS INHIBITORS AS NOVEL ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENTS. A FUTURE AIM IS TO DETERMINE IF UNCOUPLING THE NMDA-R FROM NNOS CAN ELICIT ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIONS. THIS WORK IS FUNDED BY THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY BRITISH PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY COLLEGIUM INTERNATIONALE NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGICUM NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH SOCIETY ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE DEPRESSION EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS IMAGING TECHNIQUES IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS NEUROBIOLOGY NEUROCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE PSYCHIATRY CAFFEINE PROMOTES HYPERTHERMIA AND SEROTONERGIC LOSS FOLLOWING CO-ADMINISTRATION OF THE SUBSTITUTED AMPHETAMINES, MDMA THE PROJECT DETERMINED THE EFFECT OF CAFFEINE CO-ADMINISTRATION ON THE CORE BODY TEMPERATURE RESPONSE AND LONG-TERM SEROTONIN (5-HT) LOSS INDUCED BY METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE (MDMA; "ECSTASY") AND ITS METABOLITE METHYLENEDIOXYAMPHETAMINE (MDA; "LOVE"). CAFFEINE PROMOTES HYPERTHERMIA, TACHYCARDIA AND LONG-TERM CENTRAL SEROTONIN LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH MDMA AND MDA. THIS IS A SERIOUS DRUG INTERACTION, WHICH COULD HAVE IMPORTANT ACUTE AND LONG-TERM HEALTH CONSEQUENCES FOR RECREATIONAL DRUG USERS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EMBARK CAFFEINE EXACERBATES THE ACUTE TOXICITY OF 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE (MDMA; "ECSTASY"): A ROLE FOR DOPAMINE ? CO-ADMINISTRATION OF CAFFEINE PROFOUNDLY ENHANCES THE ACUTE TOXICITY OF MDMA. THIS PROJECT WILL ELUCIDATE THE MECHANISM UNDERLYING A POTENTIALLY SERIOUS DRUG INTERACTION BETWEEN CAFFEINE AND MDMA AND CLARIFY RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONCURRENT CONSUMPTION OF CAFFEINE WITH OTHER DRUGS WHICH INCREASE DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT EARLY DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MOOD DISORDERS TARGETING THE ACTIVATED INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYSTEM. [ACRONYM: MOODINFLAME] 2008-2013. A COLLABORATIVE, LARGE-SCALE FOCUSED RESEARCH PROJECT ENTITLED "EARLY DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF MOOD DISORDERS TARGETING THE ACTIVATED INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYSTEM. [ACRONYM: MOODINFLAME]. A CONSORTIUM OF 14 EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES/RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND 4 SMES HAVE COME TOGETHER FOR THIS PROJECT WITH THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF DEVELOPING BIOMARKER TESTS FOR MOOD DISORDER PATIENTS BASED ON AN ACTIVATED INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYSTEM (IRS) AND INFLAMMATION-MEDIATED DISTURBANCES IN TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM. AS PART OF THIS PROGRAMME PATIENTS ARE TREATED WITH DRUGS TO COUNTERACT THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN ACTIVATED IRS/DISTURBED METABOLISM OF TRYPTOPHAN. THE PROJECT LEADS TO AN ENHANCED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATHOGENESIS OF INFLAMMATION-RELATED MOOD DISORDERS, AND OF THE MECHANISM OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS AND DRUGS TARGETING TRYPTOPHAN METABOLISM IN TREATING DEPRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR. EU 7TH FRAMEWORK FP7- HEALTH-2007-2.2.1-8: FROM MOOD DISORDERS TO EXPERIMENTAL MODELS NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE: A NOVEL TARGET FOR ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY INHIBITION OF N-METHYL-D-ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTORS (NMDA-R) HAS SHOWN CONSIDERABLE PROMISE AS A DRUG TARGET TO PRODUCE NEW ANTIDEPRESSANTS THAT WORK FASTER, AND ARE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN EXISTING ANTIDEPRESSANTS. HOWEVER, TARGETING NMDA-R DIRECTLY IS PROBLEMATIC DUE TO ADVERSE EFFECTS. WE HYPOTHESISE THAT TARGETING SIGNALLING EVENTS DOWN-STREAM OF NMDA-R MAY PROVIDE A MORE VIABLE APPROACH. NNOS IS A DOWN STREAM TARGET OF NMDA-R. WE HAVE PUBLISHED A NUMBER OF ORIGINAL PAPERS DEMONSTRATING THAT 1) NOS INHIBITORS HAVE ANTIDEPRESSANT PROPERTIES 2) SUCH PROPERTIES ARE DEPENDENT ON ENDOGENOUS SEROTONIN AND 3) NOS INHIBITORS CAN AUGMENT THE EFFECTS OF CONVENTIONAL ANTIDEPRESSANTS IN PRECLINICAL MODELS. CURRENTLY OUR RESEARCH IS ASSESSING THE EFFICACY OF NNOS INHIBITORS AS NOVEL ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENTS. A FUTURE AIM IS TO DETERMINE IF UNCOUPLING THE NMDA-R FROM NNOS CAN ELICIT ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIONS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT BRAIN IMAGING RETURN TO HEALTH MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORKS (ITN): FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN BRAIN IMAGING RETURN TO HEALTH "REBIRTH" (SEE HTTP://WWW.RBIRTH.EU/) THE R'BIRTH CONSORTIUM IS A MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORK THAT GATHERS EXPERTS ON MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF AGE-ASSOCIATED PATHOLOGIES INCLUDING NEURODEGENERATION AND DEPRESSION. THEY WORK TOGETHER TO IDENTIFY STRESS-REGULATED MOLECULES PROVOKING NEURONAL ATROPHY AND HINDERING NEUROGENESIS, AND MONITOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE PROCESSES IN HUMAN BRAIN. AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL, DIMINISHED BIRTH OF NEW NEURONS (NEUROGENESIS) CONTRIBUTES TO COGNITIVE DECLINE AND INCREASED DEPRESSIVE AND ANXIETY DISORDERS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH AGEING. THE WORK IS FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (FP7) UNDER THE SUB-PROGRAMME PEOPLE (MARIE CURIE ACTIONS). 16 EARLY STAGE RESEARCHERS WILL BE TRAINED IN THE TOPICS OF THE PROGRAMME I.E. MOLECULAR IMAGING (MRI), PROTEOMICS, IMMUNOTECHNOLOGY, HIGH CONTENT SCREENING, MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE, NEUROPHARMACOLOGY AND PATIENT STUDIES. THE TRAINING IS PROVIDED BY SEVEN UNIVERSITIES, TWO PRIVATE COMPANIES AND ONE NON-PROFIT RESEARCH ORGANISATION FROM 7 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORK AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MR. JASON HAROLD haroldjason VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT HAROLDJA ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. ISOLDE HARPUR harpurisolde ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN IMHARPUR LIBRARY THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR NEVILLE HARRIS harrisneville FELLOW EMERITUS HARRIS COMPUTER SCIENCE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEMS; MULTI-MEDIA SERVERS; DISTRIBUTED MULTI-MEDIA SYSTEMS. COMPUTER SCIENCE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JOHN HARRIS harrisjohn FELLOW EMERITUS HARRISJO C.L.C.S. PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON BILINGUALISM, CLASSROOM SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISTION AND CHILDREN'S ATTITUDES TO AND EXPERIENCES OF LANGUAGE LEARNING. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING, PARTICULARLY NATIONAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION AT THE SYSTEM LEVEL. LANGUAGE PROGRAMME EVALUATION, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO NEW INITIATIVES AND APPROACHES. CLASSROOM OBSERVATION AND THE STUDY OF TEACHING AND INTERACTION PROCESSES IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION. LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AND REVIVAL, MINORITY LANGUAGES, IMMERSION EDUCATION. IMMEDIATE PROCESSING OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION FAILURE IN DIALOGUE AND DISCOURSE. C.L.C.S. ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH MEMBER OF THE IRISH CURRICULUM COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT FROM CONSULTANT TO THE DES IRISH-MEDIUM MATERIALS PROJECT DEARTHÓIRÍ ÁISEANNA TEAGAISC NA GAEILGE NA ROINNE OIDEACHAIS AGUS EOLAÍOCHTA/ SÉIDEÁN SÍ. MEMBER OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SUBCOMMITTE ON LANGUAGE POLICY. CONSULTANT TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENTIN THE EARLY STAGES OF ITS WORK TO DEVELOP A NEW CURRICULUM FOR IRISH. MEMBER, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, AUTHORING GROUP FOR THE COUNTRY REPORT (IRELAND), COUNCIL OF EUROPE LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICY PROFILE FOR IRELAND. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS CORRESPONDENT FOR THE JOURNAL SOCIOLINGUISTICA, PRODUCING AN ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS ON SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN IRELAND COUNCIL OF EUROPE MEETING OF EXPERTS (IRISH DELEGATE). L'ENSEIGNEMENT BILINGUE POUR LES COMMUNAUTES LINGUISTIQUES MINORITAIRES' EDITOR, LANGUAGE CULTURE AND CURRICULUM (ROUTLEDGE) EU MEETING OF EXPERTS (IRISH DELEGATE). CONDUCTED AN EXAMINATION OF A LINGUISTIC TEST FOR FOREIGN PUPILS ENTERING FIRST YEAR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE NETHERLANDS. BRUSSELS, 4-5 DECEMBER,. HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN ITÉ. RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL PLANNING AND RESEARCH MANAGEMENT IN THE DEPARTMENT WHICH COMPRISED SIX ACADEMIC STAFF. THE RESEARCH WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT SPANNED LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING AT PRE-SCHOOL, PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY LEVELS AND DEALT WITH IRISH AND MODERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES. I HAVE SUPERVISED THE WORK OF A LARGE NUMBER OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS AND TEACHERS ON SECONDMENT TO ITÉ. IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS MEMBER OF JOINT ITÉ BOARD/SENIOR MANAGEMENT PLANNING COMMITTEES WHICH PRODUCED A SERIES OF FIVE-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR THE INSTITUTE MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF INSTITIÚID TEANGEOLAÍOCHTA ÉIREANN MEMBER OF THE DES CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE AND THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE MODERN LANGUAGES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS INITIATIVE MEMBER OF THE DES CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE MODERN LANGUAGES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS INITIATIVE MEMBER OF THE DES STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE MODERN LANGUAGES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS INITIATIVE MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEW JOURNAL 'EDUCATION, CITIZENSHIP AND SOCIAL JUSTICE' (EDS.; PETER CLOUGH, ALAN DYSON, TONY GALLAGHER ADN LAURIE JOHNSON). MEMBER OF THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS MEMBER OF THE EDUCATION BOARD OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE ITÉ BOARD MEMBER OF THE HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE TO ENQUIRE INTO THE POSITION OF IRISH IN THE JUNIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (FOUNDATION AND ORDINARY LEVELS) APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE MEMBER OF THE HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE TO ENQUIRE INTO THE POSITION OF IRISH IN THE JUNIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (FOUNDATION AND ORDINARY LEVELS) APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE MEMBER OF THE IRISH CURRICULUM COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT MEMBER OF THE ITÉ RESEARCH MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE (APPROVED NEW PROJECTS AND MONITORED THE PROGRESS OF WORK PROGRAMMES). MEMBER OF THE NCCA MODERN LANGUAGE STEERING COMMITTEE (PRIMARY), NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT MEMBER OF THE NCCA MODERN LANGUAGE STEERING COMMITTEE (PRIMARY), NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT REFEREE FOR MULTILINGUAL MATTERS SERIES OF BOOKS ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION . REGULAR REFEREE AND REVIEWER OF ARTICLES FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS SUCH AS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM, JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND CURRICULUM, TEANGA, THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS JOURNAL - TEANGA AND TEANGEOLAS. BILINGUALISM MINORITY LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND MAINTENANCE POLICY ORIENTED RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE EDUCATION PSYCHOLINGUISTICS SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR WILLIAM HARRISON harrisonwilliam FELLOW EMERITUS HARRISOW FELLOWS EMERITII PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES THAT INTEGRATE IMPORTANT SERVICE-ORIENTED, GRID, ASPECT-ORIENTED, AND UBIQUITOUS SOFTWARE CONCEPTS INTO HIGHLY MODULAR SOFTWARE. INTERACTION AND INTERFACE BETWEEN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND MIDDLEWARE-DEFINED MESSAGE DELIVERY. BROADER INTERESTS INCLUDE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND COMPILERS COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PARTICIPANT IN LERO, THE IRISH SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE NO DATA €1.6M SFI RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIP GRANT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. NAOMI HARTE hartenaomi ASSOC PROF. IN DIGITAL MEDIA SYSTEMS NHARTE ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING WHEREVER HUMANS COMMUNICATE USING THE MEDIUM OF SPEECH, WHETHER AMONGST THEMSELVES OR TO COMPUTERS, I USE MY ENGINEERING EXPERTISE TO MANIPULATE, ENHANCE OR FIX THE SPEECH. I WORK IN THE FIELD OF DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING, OR DSP. DSP IS AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY THAT UNDERPINS AND TRANSFORMS THE TECHNOLOGY THAT PEOPLE TAKE FOR GRANTED. MY RESEARCH GOES TO THE VERY CORE OF DAILY HUMAN INTERACTIONS. USING DSP TO ENHANCE CONVERSATIONS OPENS UP NEW WAYS TO INTERACT SEAMLESSLY WITH TECHNOLOGY: TALKING TO COMPUTERS INSTEAD OF TYPING; UNDERSTANDING HUMAN INTENT AND EMOTIONAL STATE AND NOT JUST THEIR WORDS; ENSURING SKYPE OR GOOGLE-HANGOUTS OVER THE INTERNET CAN SUPPORT NATURAL HUMAN INTERACTIONS; STREAMLINING AND SECURING ACCESS TO PERSONAL DATA THROUGH BIOMETRICS. THIS IS REFLECTED IN THE STRANDS OF MY RESEARCH PROGRAMME: . ASSESSING AUDIO AND AUDIO-VISUAL QUALITY IN INTERNET-BASED COMMUNICATIONS . SPEAKER VERIFICATION FOR BIOMETRICS, AND THE IMPACT OF VOCAL AGEING ON BIOMETRIC SYSTEMS . AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION . RECOGNISING EMOTION IN SPEECH . ENHANCING SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY FOR DIGITAL HEADING AIDS AND HEARING-IMPAIRED LISTENERS . FORENSIC ANALYSIS OF BIRDSONG DEPT. OF ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 IEEE (INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS) ISCA (INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION) EURASIP (EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING) . TCD REPRESENTATIVE TO MIDAS (MICROELECTRONICS DESIGN ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND) . IRISH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EU COST ACTION 2101 ENTITLED "BIOMETRICS FOR IDENTITY DOCUMENTS AND SMART CARDS" . IRISH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EU COST ACTION IC1006 INTEGRATING BIOMETRICS AND FORENSICS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE . ICT EVALUATOR FOR FP6 ICT CALL FP6-2004-SME-COOP IN CO-OPERATIVE RESEARCH (RESEARCH INVOLVING SMES, UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS). ACTED AS GROUP RAPPORTEUR. . EXPERT EVALUATOR FOR FP7 CALL FP7-REGIONS-2012-2013-1 IN TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN REGIONAL RESEARCH-DRIVEN CLUSTERS (FEB & MARCH 2012) AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH PROCESSING BIRDSONG ANALYSIS EMOTION IN SPEECH HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION INFORMATION/COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING SPEAKER RECOGNITION SPEECH SPEECH BIOMETRICS SPEECH PROCESSING/TECHNOLOGY SPEECH QUALITY SPEECH RECOGNITION ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING DYNAMIC VISUAL FEATURES AND IMPROVED AUDIO-VISUAL FUSION FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION HUMAN SPEECH IS BIMODAL IN NATURE. INCORPORATING VISUAL FEATURES IN AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS CAN IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN REAL ENVIRONMENTS. THIS WORK ADDRESSES CORE CHALLENGES IN AUDIO-VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION. IT WILL DEVELOP NEW DYNAMIC VISUAL FEATURES THAT BETTER CAPTURE THE CORRELATIONS IN KEY MOUTH MOVEMENTS USED BY HUMANS IN LIPREADING. THIS IS CRUCIAL IN IMPROVING HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL PERFORMANCE. IT WILL EXPLORE A NEW AUDIO-FUSION STRATEGY MOTIVATED BY THE DIFFERING VISIBILITY OF VISEMES ALLOWING THE INFLUENCE OF THE AUDIO AND VIDEO STREAM TO CHANGE OVER TIME. SFI RFP ROBUST SPEAKER VERIFICATION BIOMETRICS INVOLVES THE USE OF INTRINSIC PHYSICAL OR BEHAVIOURAL TRAITS OF HUMANS TO VERIFY THEIR IDENTITY. TRAITS USED IN BIOMETRICS TYPICALLY INCLUDE FACE, FINGERPRINTS, HAND GEOMETRY, HANDWRITING, IRIS, RETINAL, VEIN, AND VOICE. MANY ARE CONCERNED THAT THESE TECHNOLOGIES ARE POTENTIALLY INVASIVE AND OPEN TO FRAUD. SPEAKER VERIFICATION, USING VOICE OR VOICE AND VIDEO, HAS BEEN RECOGNISED AS AN IMPORTANT ALTERNATIVE IN THE WORLD OF BIOMETRICS. IT IS LESS INVASIVE AND REQUIRES LESS EXPENSIVE INSTALLATIONS THAT IRIS AND FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS. THE CHANGES THAT OCCUR IN THE HUMAN VOICE DUE TO AGEING HAVE BEEN WELL DOCUMENTED. THE IMPACT OF THESE CHANGES ON SPEAKER VERIFICATION IS LESS CLEAR. IN THIS WORK, WE EXAMINE THE EFFECT OF LONG-TERM VOCAL AGEING ON A SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEMS. IRCSET AUDIO-VISUAL FUSION FOR HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION. THIS PROJECT WILL THUS FOCUS ON KEY CHALLENGES IN AUDIO VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION: . GIVEN STATE OF THE ART AUDIO AND VISUAL FEATURES, DO EARLY OR LATE INTEGRATION STRATEGIES WORK BETTER? . HOW WELL DOES SUCH AN INTEGRATION SCHEME TRANSLATE TO LESS CONTROLLED SITUATIONS, WHERE THE SPEECH IS LESS CONSTRAINED, INTONATION OR PROSODY IS MORE NATURAL, OR THE SPEECH IS EMOTIONALLY INFLUENCED? . CAN THESE ALGORITHMS WORK ON A REAL HANDHELD DEVICE? IRCSET ADVANCED METRICS FOR AUDIO-VISUAL SIGNAL QUALITY IN INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS ENTERPRISE IRELAND/GOOGLE IPP SPEECH QUALITY FOR VOIP THIS PROJECT IS DEVELOPING NEW METRICS TO MEASURE SPEECH QUALITY FOR VOIP APPLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY GOOGLE CHROME WEBRTC GOOGLE INC INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. PATRICK JAMES HARTIGAN hartiganpatrickjames FELLOW EMERITUS PHATIGAN PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY DEPT. PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. NIAMH HARTY hartyniamh ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PART-TIME HARTYN CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE USE OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) IN CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CIVIL, STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF ENGINEERS IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR JOHN HASLETT haslettjohn FELLOW EMERITUS JHASLETT STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW OF TCD ROYAL STATISTICS SOCIETY ANOMALIES AUTOCORRELATION AUTOCOVARIANCE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION BEST LINEAR UNBIASED ESTIMATION BEST LINEAR UNBIASED PREDICTION BIAS CONDITIONAL RESIDUALS COOK'S DISTANCE CORRELATED ERRORS CROSS-VALIDATION DIAGNOSTICS DISPLAY EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS GENERAL COVARIANCE STRUCTURE GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES GEOSTATISTICS INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS LINKED VIEWS MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE NEAR-NEIGHBOR COMPARISON NON-STATIONARY MEAN NON-STATIONARY VARIANCE ONE MANY LINKS OUTLIERS OVERLAYS PAIRS POINT PROCESS REGRESSION REGRESSION DIAGNOSTICS RESIDUALS RESTORATION SPATIAL DATA SPATIAL STATISTICS STATIONARITY STATISTICAL-ANALYSIS SUBSETS SYSTEMS TIME SERIES VARIOGRAM DR. FADI HASSAN hassanfadi ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FHASSAN ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN ARABIC ENGLISH AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION IRISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION BANK LENDING DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION FIRMS INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL FLOWS PRODUCTIVITY REAL EXCHANGE RATE ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. JACQUELINE HAYDEN haydenjacqueline ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JAHAYDEN POLITICAL SCIENCE DEMOCRATIC THEORY, REGIME CHANGE, AUTHORITARIAN PERSISTENCE WITH A FOCUS ON FORMER COMMUNIST COUNTRIES IN EAST CENTRAL EUROPE. POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND. AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION; MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION JUDICIAL ACTIVISM THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACY VOICES FROM THE RUBICON: LESSONS FROM THE POLISH TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN PREPARATION - VOICES FROM THE RUBICON: LESSONS FROM THE POLISH TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY (ROUTLEDGE:) THIS NEW BOOK WILL EXAMINE THE INSTITUTIONAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHOICES MADE IN THE PROCESS OF THE POLISH TRANSITION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE KEY PLAYERS, POLITICIANS, ACADEMICS AND OTHER INFLUENTIAL ACTORS WHO INFLUENCED OR EXECUTED THESE CHOICES. PATH DEPENDENCY THEORY POSITS THAT INSTITUTIONAL CHOICES MADE AT CRITICAL JUNCTURES IN A NATION'S HISTORY INFLUENCE AND PREDICT THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR YEARS TO COME. TAKING THE PATH DEPENDENT ANALYTICAL APPROACH THIS BOOK WILL FOCUS ON THE NATURE AND MOTIVATION OF THE ACTORS INVOLVED IN MAKING THE INSTITUTIONAL CHOICES THAT DETERMINED THE PATH OF POLAND'S TRANSITION. THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND WHY CERTAIN CHOICES WERE MADE AND ASCERTAIN HOW KEY ACTORS EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF THOSE CHOICES IN THE LIGHT OF THE EXPERIENCE AND LEGACY OF TRANSITION. THE BOOK WILL REVIEW A RANGE OF INSTITUTIONAL CHOICES IN ORDER TO ASSESS THE LESSONS THAT MAY BE LEARNED FOR OTHER COUNTRIES EMBARKING ON THE ROAD TO DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION. THE CURRENT PROJECT WILL DRAW ON INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED WITH MORE THAN SIXTY FIVE KEY PLAYERS AT VARIOUS POINTS BETWEEN 1980 AND 2013. PROFESSOR CATHERINE HAYES hayescatherine ASSOC PROF/SPECIALIST IN PUBLIC HEALTH HAYESC9 PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE PROFESSOR HAYES'S RESEARCH INCREASINGLY ADDRESSES THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF TARGETED INTERVENTIONS ADDRESSING BEHAVIOURAL RISK FACTORS, IN PARTICULAR TOBACCO AND OBESITY-RELATED DETERMINANTS IN PREVENTION OF CHRONIC DISEASES USING IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE METHODOLOGIES. HER SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH IN TOBACCO HAS PRINCIPALLY BEEN AS PI OF POPULATION HEALTH TRIALS, ADDRESSING IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOMES OF SMOKING CESSATION INTERVENTIONS ON WOMEN'S HEALTH. SHE IS EXPERIENCED IN QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS. HER RESEARCH IS INFORMED INCREASINGLY BY THE SCIENCE OF DISSEMINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION, COLLABORATIONS WITH THE HEALTH SECTOR ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF RESEARCH OUTCOMES ON HEALTH SERVICES AND ON POLICY. PROFESSOR HAYES HAS A KEY ROLE IN DEVELOPING CAPACITY IN IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPING PHDS IN THIS FIELD. PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ABSTRACT REVIEWER (SEE BELOW) FELLOW OF FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND JOURNAL REVIEWS (RECENT) SEE BELOW MEMBER OF BOARD OF FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE MEMBER OF BOARD OF FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE MEMBER OF EUROPEAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION ABSTRACT MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMME MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND MEMBER OF THE UK AND IRELAND SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE (SOC. SOC. MED.) COMMITTEE, EXTERNAL RELATIONS LEAD OFFICER OF BOARD OF FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE (VICE-DEAN) OFFICER OF BOARD OF FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE (VICE-DEAN) POST GRADUATE MEDICAL AND DENTAL BOARD (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT) UK AND IRELAND SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE GLOBAL IMPLEMENTATION CONFERENCE TORONTO, 2017 FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE, RCPI UK AND IRELAND SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE. ELECTED COMMITTEE MEMBER 2016-2018 VICE-DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE DR. OLIVE HEALY healyolive ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ABA HEALYOL PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR ANNE-MARIE HEALY healyannemarie PROFESSOR HEALYAM PHARMACY AMBER CRANN MY RESEARCH PROGRAMME IS FOCUSED ON OBTAINING AN INCREASED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF ACTIVE AND EXCIPIENT MATERIALS USED IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT DOSAGE FORMS, AND ON USING THAT KNOWLEDGE TO IMPROVE PRODUCT DESIGN IN TERMS OF IN VITRO AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN VIVO PERFORMANCE. THIS RESEARCH OBJECTIVE IS ACHIEVED THROUGH COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WITH BOTH ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS, NATIONALLY AND ABROAD. MY RESEARCH FIELD IS ALIGNED WITH "THERAPEUTICS: SYNTHESIS, FORMULATION, PROCESSING AND DRUG DELIVERY" WHICH IS ONE OF 14 PRIORITY AREAS FOR RESEARCH IDENTIFIED UNDER THE NATIONAL RESEARCH PRIORITISATION EXERCISE (NRPE). MY CURRENT RESEARCH SPANS THREE PRINCIPAL STRANDS: (I) PHARMACEUTICAL MATERIAL SCIENCE (II) PARTICLE ENGINEERING FOR PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY, AND (III) ENABLING FORMULATIONS FOR POORLY SOLUBLE AND POORLY BIOAVAILABLE THERAPEUTIC AGENTS (I) PHARMACEUTICAL MATERIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH UNDER THIS THEME IS AIMED AT UNDERSTANDING HOW SOLID STATE AND MICROMERITIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DRUG AND EXCIPIENT MATERIALS ARE IMPACTED BY PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESSING, AND HOW FORMULATION AND/OR PROCESSING MAY BE OPTIMIZED SO AS TO CONTROL PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND DRUG PRODUCT PERFORMANCE FOR ORAL SOLID DOSAGE FORMS. MY EXPERTISE IN THIS AREA HAS LED TO ME TAKING ON THE ROLE OF CO-PI AND STRAND LEADER IN THE SYNTHESIS AND SOLID STATE PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE (SSPC), AN SFI-INDUSTRY CO-FUNDED RESEARCH CENTRE. (II) PARTICLE ENGINEERING FOR PULMONARY DRUG DELIVERY SOPHISTICATED PARTICLE ENGINEERING PROCESSES ENABLE IMPROVED DELIVERY OF POWDERS VIA ORAL INHALATION. IN MY GROUP, WE HAVE DEVELOPED AN INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED EXPERTISE IN FORMULATION AND PARTICLE ENGINEERING BY SPRAY DRYING FOR DRY POWDER INHALATION. THIS EXPERTISE LED TO ME BEING INVITED TO JOIN AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE TRANSLATIONAL NIH-FUNDED €8 MILLION PROJECT, LED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO, AIMED AT DEVELOPING A NOVEL MUCOLYTIC THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF LUNG DISEASE, INCLUDING CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND ASTHMA. THE PROJECT COMMENCED IN 2016. (III) ENABLING FORMULATIONS FOR POORLY SOLUBLE AND POORLY BIOAVAILABLE THERAPEUTIC AGENTS IT IS ESTIMATED THAT MORE THAN 60% OF NEW DRUG MOLECULES DISPLAY POOR AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY, DUE TO AN INCREASED SIZE AND LIPOPHILICITY. THERE IS A NEED FOR ENABLING FORMULATIONS FOR SUCH THERAPEUTIC AGENTS WHICH HAVE SUBOPTIMAL BIOAVAILABILITY. ALTERATIONS OF THE SOLID STATE FORM BY MEANS OF SALIFICATION, COCRYSTALLIZATION OR AMORPHISATION ARE OPTIONS WHICH WE HAVE EXPLORED, AS IS MICROENCAPSULATION FOR CONTROLLED RELEASE. MY GROUP'S EXPERTISE IN THIS AREA FORMS THE BASIS FOR A NUMBER OF PROJECTS IN THE SSPC AND IN AMBER (ADVANCED MATERIALS AND BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE), ANOTHER SFI-INDUSTRY FUNDED RESEARCH CENTRE, WHERE I AM A FUNDED INVESTIGATOR. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH CO-ORDINATOR OF THE EU-FUNDED ERASMUS LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME PROJECT: LINKING INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA IN PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURE (LIAT-PH) CO-PI, STRAND LEADER AND MEMBER OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE SOLID STATE PHARMACEUTICAL CLUSTER CO-PI, STRAND LEADER AND MEMBER OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE SYNTHESIS AND SOLID STATE PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE CONSULTANT TO A NUMBER OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ENTERPRISE IRELAND GRANT REVIEWER EXPERT CONSULTANT/WITNESS FOR IRISH BASED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY IN PATENT RELATED LITIGATION CASE EXPERT CONSULTANT/WITNESS FOR US BASED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY IN PATENT RELATED LITIGATION CASE EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PHD CANDIDATES IN: QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST SCHOOL OF PHARMACY (X4), UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM SCHOOL OF PHARMACY (X1), UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD SCHOOL OF PHARMACY (X1), THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND SCHOOL OF PHARMACY (X1), UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING (X2), THE ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR-PAKISTAN SCHOOL OF PHARMACY (X1) EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND TO THE PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION EXAMINATION EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO CARLOW INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND HEALTH: HIGHER CERTIFICATE IN SCIENCE - PHARMACY TECHNICIAN STUDIES EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES: MSC IN PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE & REGULATION; MSC IN PHARMACEUTICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE & BIOTECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SCHOOL OF FOOD SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH: HIGHER CERTIFICATE IN PHARMACY TECHNICIAN STUDIES EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO GRIFFITH COLLEGE DUBLIN: MSC IN PHARMACEUTICAL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO HIBERNIA COLLEGE: MSC IN PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD: MSC IN PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY GRANT REVIEWER FOR FUNDAÇÃO PARA A CIÊNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA, I.P. (FCT) - PORTUGUESE PUBLIC FUNDING AGENCY FOR R&D GRANT REVIEWER FOR THE AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND (FWF) GRANT REVIEWER FOR THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC), UK HONORARY TREASURER AND CHAIRPERSON (ELECTED) OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND HOSPITAL PROFESSIONAL AWARDS JUDGING PANEL MEMBER INVITED MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, SOLVOTRIN THERAPEUTICS LTD. INVITED SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, ALKERMES LTD. IRISH PHARMACY AWARDS JUDGING PANEL MEMBER JUDGE FOR THE NATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL COMPETITION: DEBATING SCIENCE ISSUES (DSI) MEMBER (ELECTED) OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF AAPS (AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS) MEMBER OF ASSESSMENT/INTERVIEW PANEL TO FILL LECTURING POST IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING IN UCD MEMBER OF INTERVIEW PANEL FOR CHIEF PHARMACIST POSITION, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MEMBER OF INTERVIEW PANEL FOR GENERAL MANAGER OF SYNTHESIS AND SOLID STATE PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE, UL MEMBER OF PHARMACISTS IN INDUSTRY, EDUCATION AND REGULATORY (PIER) MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS (UK) MEMBER OF THE ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND ESTABLISHED TO REVIEW NEW SCHOOL OF PHARMACY COURSES IN RCSI AND UCC MEMBER OF THE ACCREDITATION PANEL FOR THE PSI STATUTORY VISIT TO THE LEVEL 8 BPHARM DEGREE COURSE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS/BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF KENLIS PUBLICATIONS LTD., PUBLISHER OF THE IRISH PHARMACY JOURNAL MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE IRISH PLATFORM FOR PATIENT ORGANISATIONS, SCIENCE & INDUSTRY (IPPOSI) MEMBER OF THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SUB-FORUM OF THE NATIONAL PHARMACY FORUM MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF PHARMACEUTICAL TECHNOLOGY EUROPE MEMBER OF THE IMPLEMENTATION STEERING GROUP FOR THE FIVE-YEAR INTEGRATED PHARMACY PROGRAMME MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL PHARMACY FORUM MEMBER OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND'S STEERING GROUP FOR THE PHARMACY EDUCATION AND ACCREDITATION REVIEWS (PEARS) PROJECT MEMBER OF THE SCHOOLS COMMITTEE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE STRATEGY GROUP OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE VALIDATION PANEL FOR THE BSC (ORDINARY) VALIDATION OF MEDICINAL PRODUCTS AT DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SCHOOL OF CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES REGULAR REVIEWER FOR SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS (16) IN THE AREAS OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES AMORPHOUS MATERIALS COMPUTER MODELLING OF PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS MATERIALS SCIENCES MECHANISMS OF DISSOLUTION MECHANISMS OF DRUG RELEASE FROM SOLID DOSAGE FORMS SPRAY DRYING PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY MATERIALS SCIENCE CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. CLAIRE HEALY healyclaire SENIOR LECTURER CONSULTANT CLHEALY DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. LUCY MARY HEDERMAN hedermanlucymary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HEDERMAN COMPUTER SCIENCE MY MAIN INTEREST CURRENTLY IS IN INCORPORATING CLINICAL GUIDELINE KNOWLEDGE INTO ELECTRONIC HEALTH CARE RECORDS. I AM GENERALLY INTERESTED IN THE DESIGN OF ICT SYSTEMS TO LEVERAGE EXISTING ORGANIZATIONAL DATA AND DOCUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF KNOWLEDGE WORK. RELATED INTERESTS INCLUDE KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, PERFORMANCE SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AND ONLINE COMMUNITY SITE DESIGN. COMPUTER SCIENCE KDEG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER, ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY MEMBER, HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER, IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY CLINICAL DATABASE CLINICAL DECISION MAKING DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT LEARN: ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING IN IRISH AID ORGANISATIONS IRCHSS TRANSFORM TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND PATIENT SAFETY IN EUROPE. DEVELOP A RAPID LEARNING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM BY INTEGRATING PRIMARY CARE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEMS, RESEARCH SYSTEMS, AND CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS. EU FP7 PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH CENTRE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF VULNERABLE GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY: AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) THROUGH THE PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH CENTRE (HRC), WE WILL CONDUCT A PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH THAT EXAMINES THE QUALITY OF CARE ACROSS THE PRIMARY/SECONDARY CARE INTERFACE IN VULNERABLE PATIENT GROUPS UTILIZING NEWLY ESTABLISHED, INTERNATIONALLY FUNDED COHORT STUDIES, ALLIED TO RECORD-LINKAGE WITH PRESCRIBING AND IN-PATIENT HOSPITALISATION DATASETS (ELDERLY AND CHILDREN); EXPLORATION OF A NATIONALLY-ESTABLISHED PRESCRIBING REGISTER (METHADONE USERS) AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A COHORT OF PREGNANT WOMEN WHO ARE RECEIVING ANTENATAL CARE AT THE STATE'S LARGEST MATERNITY HOSPITAL. THIS INITIAL RESEARCH, DESIGNATED AS WORK PACKAGE (WP) #1, WILL ESTABLISH STANDARDS FOR THE QUALITY OF CARE PROVIDED FOR THESE VULNERABLE GROUPS, WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON EFFECTIVE MEDICINE MONITORING AND DEVELOPMENT OF ICT INTERVENTIONS THAT ENHANCE PATIENT CARE ACROSS THE PRIMARY/SECONDARY CARE INTERFACE AND FACILITATE SELF MANAGEMENT FOR PATIENTS AND DECISION SUPPORT FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WITH A FOCUS ON NURSE PRESCRIBERS AND GPS. THE SECOND PART OF THIS HRC PROGRAMME, WP #2, WILL FOCUS ON EVIDENCE-BASED DIAGNOSIS, ESTABLISHING A REGISTER OF CLINICAL PREDICTION RULES (CPRS) RELEVANT TO PRIMARY CARE AND UNDERTAKING SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF COMMON CLINICAL CONDITIONS IN RELATION TO THE DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF SYMPTOMS, SIGNS AND DIAGNOSTIC TESTS AVAILABLE TO GPS. THE REGISTER AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS WILL BE DISSEMINATED THROUGH THE COCHRANE PRIMARY HEALTH CARE FIELD. AS PART OF WP #2 WE WILL ALSO UNDERTAKE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION STUDIES OF CPRS IDENTIFIED AS KEY AREAS FOR PRIMARY CARE DIAGNOSIS. IN TANDEM WITH THIS RESEARCH, OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES EXAMINING DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ERROR IN PRIMARY CARE WILL BE UNDERTAKEN. LASTLY, BASED ON THE OBSERVATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CONCERNING QUALITY OF CARE AND MEDICINES MANAGEMENT, AS WELL AS THE CPRS REGISTER, WP #3 WILL BE BASED AROUND THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF ICT INTERVENTIONS IN THE FORM OF COMPUTER-BASED CLINICAL DECISIONS SUPPORT SYSTEMS (CDSSS), DECISION AIDS AND SELF MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES. EVALUATION WILL BE CONDUCTED BY MEANS OF RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS (RCTS) WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE INITIATION AND CONTINUATION OF BREASTFEEDING AND A SEPARATE RCT TO COMBAT OBESITY IN CHILDREN. THE OVERARCHING THEME OF THE PROPOSED HRC IS THE MANAGEMENT OF VULNERABLE GROUPS AT THE PRIMARY/SECONDARY CARE INTERFACE. INITIAL OBSERVATIONAL RESEARCH ON NATIONALLY FUNDED COHORTS IN WP #1 WILL ALLOW US TO QUANTIFY THE CHALLENGES AND DEVELOP ICT INTERVENTIONS, RELYING ON THE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND OF THE CO-APPLICANTS AND COLLABORATORS IN THE HRC. IN ADDITION, THROUGH THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN WP #2, A REGISTER OF CPRS AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF CPRS WILL BE DEVELOPED TO ENHANCE EVIDENCE-BASED DIAGNOSIS IN PRIMARY CARE. THE ULTIMATE AIM IS TO DEVELOP, TEST AND IMPLEMENT ICT INTERVENTIONS THAT IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT AND SELF MANAGEMENT OF ILLNESSES IN THE COMMUNITY. THROUGHOUT THE PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH OF THE HRC, CLOSE COLLABORATION WILL OCCUR WITH KEY HEALTH SERVICE COLLEAGUES, ENSURING TRANSLATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS INTO CARE FOR PATIENTS. SIMILARLY, THE DATASETS DEVELOPED AND USED AS PART OF THE PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH IN THE HRC, WILL BE USED AS A RESOURCE FOR RESEARCH-ACTIVE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN TRAINING PROGRAMMES, PARTICULARLY THE HRB PHD SCHOLAR'S PROGRAMME. HRB MEDILINK LINKING KNOWLEDGE TO PATIENT RECORDS HEA PRTLI AGEING CANCER INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ELIZABETH HEFFERNAN heffernanelizabeth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HEFFERL LAW LIZ HEFFERNAN'S RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE CENTRED IN THE LAW OF EVIDENCE WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CRIMINAL EVIDENCE. SHE HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE AREAS OF EXPERT EVIDENCE, DNA EVIDENCE AND DNA DATABASING. BOOK PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: EVIDENCE IN CRIMINAL TRIALS (BLOOMSBURY PROFESSIONAL, 2014), LEGAL PROFESSIONAL PRIVILEGE (BLOOMSBURY PROFESSIONAL, 2011), SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE: FINGERPRINTS AND DNA (FIRSTLAW, 2006) AND EVIDENCE: CASES AND MATERIALS (THOMSON ROUND HALL, 2005). INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES INCLUDE: "HEARSAY IN CRIMINAL TRIALS: THE STRASBOURG PERSPECTIVE" (2013) 49 IRISH JURIST 132; "THE FOURTH AMENDMENT'S EXCLUSIONARY RULE: BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN RULE AND EXCEPTION" (2011) 9(2) INTERNATIONAL COMMENTARY ON EVIDENCE; "DNA AND FINGERPRINT DATA RETENTION: S AND MARPER V UNITED KINGDOM" (2009) 34 EUROPEAN LAW REVIEW 491. SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. JOHN HEGARTY hegartyjohn FELLOW EMERITUS JHEGARTY FELLOWS EMERITII PROVOSTS OFFICE HOUSE 1 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE DEANS/VICE PRESIDENTS FOR RESEARCH UNDER CHIU CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF OPTRONICS IRELAND COORDINATOR OF EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM ON MICROCAVITIES MEMBER OF NATIONAL RESEARCH SUPPORT FUND BOARD MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN OPTICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY (HEA) MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER OF THE SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TECHNICAL ADVISORY PANEL ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY 2ND-ORDER NEURAL NETWORK ABSORPTION ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY ALGAAS ALLOGRAFT RECIPIENTS ANTI-D ANTI-D IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIGEN ARRAYS ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATIVE MEMORIES ASYMMETRIC FABRY-PEROT MODULATORS B VIRUS BETA-CHAIN BISTABILITY BLOOD MONONUCLEAR-CELLS BONE-MARROW CARBON DIOXIDE SENSORS CARRIER CARRIER TRANSPORT CARRIERS CAVITY INJECTION-LASER CAVITY POLARITON CAVITY POLARITONS CD3 CD4(-)8(-) CD8 ALPHA(+)BETA(-) CELL-MIGRATION CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS CHAOS CHIMERISM CHIP CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS CIRCUITS CIRRHOSIS CLEARANCE CLOCK EXTRACTION CLOCK RECOVERY CLOCKS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS CONFINEMENT CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY CONTINUOUS INFUSION CYSTIC FIBROSIS CYTOKINE CYTOKINE SECRETION CYTOKINES DECAY DELETION DELTA-DELTA-F508 DEPENDENCE DEVICE DFB LASER DIODES DFB LASERS DIODE DIODE-LASER DIODE-LASERS DIRECT-VIEW MICROSCOPY DISPERSION DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASER DIODES DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS DISTRIBUTED-BRAGG-REFLECTOR DOPED FLUOROZIRCONATE FIBER DYNAMICS EMISSION EPITAXIAL-GROWTH EPITAXY EXCITON TRANSFER EXCITONS EXPERIMENTAL AXIAL RESPONSE EXPRESSION EXTENDED TUNING RANGE FABRICATION FIBRE BRAGG GRATING FIBRE LASER FIBRE OPTICAL SENSORS FLUORESCENCE FREQUENCY FREQUENCY RESPONSE FREQUENCY-DIVISION GAAS GAIN GAIN SPECTRA GALLIUM ARSENIDE GALLIUM NITRIDE GAMMA DELTA TCR GAMMA-DELTA GAS GAS SENSING GAS SENSOR GAS SENSORS GREEN LASER-DIODE GREEN LASER-DIODES GREEN LIGHT EMITTERS HEPARIN HEPATIC VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE HETEROSTRUCTURES HIGH BRIGHTNESS HIGH CONTRAST HIGHER-ORDER NETWORKS HOT-ELECTRON TRANSFER HUMAN LIVER HYDROGEN SULFIDE SENSORS II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS IMMUNE-RESPONSES INDEX CHANGE INDUCTION INJECTION INSERTION LOSS INTERLEUKIN-10 INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTES LASER LASER DIODE LASER TECHNOLOGY LASER-DIODE LASER-DIODES LASERS LASERS AND MASERS LATERAL INHIBITION LIFETIME LIGHT BUDGET LIGHT EMISSION LIGHT-EMISSION LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES LINE-SHAPES LINEWIDTH LINEWIDTHS LITHOGRAPHY LIVER DISEASE LOCALIZATION LONGITUDINAL MODE CONTROL LOW INSERTION-LOSS LOW-VOLTAGE LUMINESCENCE LYMPHOCYTES MESFETS METHANE METHANE DETECTION MHC MICE MICROCAVITY MODEL MODULATION MODULATORS MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY MOLECULAR-BEAM-EPITAXY MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS MUTATION N-TYPE NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE NEURAL NETWORK NEURAL NETWORKS NOISE NONLINEARITIES OE-VLSI OPTICAL CLOCK EXTRACTION OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS OPTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS OPTICAL MODULATORS OPTICAL NEURAL NETWORKS OPTICAL SECTIONING STRENGTH OPTICAL-COMPONENTS OPTIMIZATION OPTOELECTRONICS P-TYPE ZNSE PERIPHERAL-BLOOD PHOTOLUMINESCENCE POPULATIONS PREVENTION QUANTUM-WELL DEVICES QUANTUM-WELLS RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION RATIO-GREATER-THAN-100-1 RECEPTOR-ALPHA/BETA(+) CELLS REFLECTION MODULATOR REFLECTION MODULATORS RELAXATION RESONANCE RAMAN-SCATTERING RISK-FACTORS ROOM-TEMPERATURE SELF-LINEARIZED SEED SELF-PULSATING DIODES SELF-PULSATION PHYSICS SELF-PULSATION SYNCHRONISATION SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DIODES SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGIES SEMICONDUCTOR-LASERS SEMICONDUCTORS SINGLE-FREQUENCY LASER DIODE SMART-PIXELS SPECTROSCOPY SPONTANEOUS EMISSION SUPERLATTICES SUSTAINED PULSATION SYNCHRONIZATION T-CELL DIFFERENTIATION TEMPERATURE TRANSISTOR TRIAL VENOCCLUSIVE DISEASE VOLTAGE WAVEGUIDE WAVELENGTH MODULATION SPECTROSCOPY WELL SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER ZNSE IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR MARTIN HEGNER hegnermartin PROFESSOR HEGNERM PHYSICS CRANN HEGNER'S SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS ARE FOCUSED ON INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN THE FIELDS OF SINGLE MOLECULE MANIPULATION, BIOPHYSICS, BIO-DIAGNOSTICS AND DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF BIOLOGICAL SENSING DEVICES. CRANN SCHOOL OF PHYSICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY USA APPLIED PHYSICS BIOMOLECULES BIOSENSOR BIOSENSORS DIAGNOSTICS IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS MOLECULAR MARKERS AND RECOGNITION MULTISENSORY TECHNOLOGY, MULTI SENSING NANO BIOTECHNOLOGY NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY NANOTECHNOLOGY NUCLEI ACIDS, POLYNUCLEOTIDES, PROTEIN SYNTHESIS OPTICS POSITIONING AND GUIDANCE SYSTEMS QUALITY, QUALITY CONTROL, TRACEABILITY SENSORY SCIENCE, SENSORS AND INSTRUMENTATION SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS SURFACE CHEMISTRY NANOREMEDIES HEA PRTLI5 NCRNA DIAGNOSTICS HOFFMANN-LA-ROCHE LTD. NANOMECHANICAL THROMBOSIS DIAGNOSTIC SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BDI2 LAB ON A CHIP FOR NANOMECHNICAL ASSAYS EI TIDA FAST MICROBIAL GROWTH DETECTION SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CSET H2020 COORDINATION EI H2020 NANOMECHANICAL SENSING SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND STOKES NCRNA DIAGNOSTICS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CATALYSATOR NANOMECHANICAL DETECTION OF NONCODING RNA FOR DIAGNOSIS IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS MICRORNAS ACT AT THE MOLECULAR SCALE AND INFLUENCE THE REGULATION OF CELLULAR PROCESSES. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED SPECIFIC EXPRESSION PATTERNS OF MIRNA RELEVANT TO CANCER, AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND ADVERSE DRUG EFFECTS. WE WILL INTEGRATE NOVEL LABEL-FREE TECHNOLOGIES ACROSS MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES TO CREATE SMART DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS THAT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THE IDENTIFICATION AND PROGNOSIS OF DISEASES. NANOMECHANICAL SENSING CAN SELECTIVELY ANALYSE THESE MOLECULES IN COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS AND OFFERS PREVIOUSLY UNEXPLORED NON-INVASIVE, RAPID AND MORE SENSITIVE DIAGNOSIS, MONITORING AND PROGNOSIS OF DISEASES THAN CURRENT BIOPSY-BASED SAMPLE COLLECTION INVOLVING SEQUENCING, AMPLIFICATION AND LABELLING OF BIOMARKERS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM NANOMECHANICS OF MOLECULAR MOTORS AND CANTILEVER ARRAY BIO-DIAGNOSTIC DEVICES NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY PROVIDES UNPRECEDENTED INSIGHTS INTO BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES (E.G. OBSERVING A SINGLE MOLECULAR-MOTOR AT WORK). IN ADDITION, ADVANCES IN NANOTECHNOLOGY ALLOW NEW DEVICES TO BE DESIGNED THAT WILL RESULT IN THE NEXT GENERATION OF FAST, SENSITIVE DIAGNOSTICS APPROACHES APPLICABLE TO BROAD RANGES OF HUMAN DISEASES. THESE IMPROVEMENTS NECESSITATE NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR ISOLATION AND DETECTION OF MINUTE PHYSIOLOGICAL QUANTITIES OF BIOMARKER MOLECULES AT PREVIOUSLY UNACHIEVABLE LEVELS OF SENSITIVITY, MULTI-PARAMETER ANALYSIS, SPEED AND RELIABILITY. THE PROPOSED PROJECTS HINGE ON EFFECTIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIONS. THE 'NANOBIO' GROUP AT CRANN FORMS A NUCLEUS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCHERS FROM THE AREAS OF PHYSICS, BIOPHYSICS, SURFACE CHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY. THE APPLICATION IS DIVIDED ON TWO MAJOR SECTIONS, THE FIRST DESCRIBING STATE-OF-THE-ART-SINGLE BIOMOLECULE MANIPULATIONS WITH OPTICAL TWEEZERS AND THE SECOND DESCRIBING THE UTILIZATION OF LABEL-FREE CANTILEVER ARRAY SENSORS DEVICES FOR BASIC SCIENCE AND APPLIED DIAGNOSTICS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND IVP AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. MARTIN CHARLES HENMAN henmanmartincharles ASSOCIATE PROF IN PHARMACY PRACTICE MHENMAN PHARMACY TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED PHARMACY PRACTICE; DRUG UTILISATION AND PHARMACOECONOMICS; PHARMACEUTICAL POLICY AND MEDICINES REGULATION; HEALTH POLICY; CARE OF THE ELDERLY; ROLE OF THE PHARMACIST IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; PHARMACOLOGY OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS; PHARMACOLOGY OF ANTI-INFECTIVE DRUGS; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH CHAIR, PHARMACEUTICAL CARE NETWORK EUROPE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL PHARMACY INTERNATIONAL PHARMACY FEDERATION MEMBER, THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND PHARMACEUTICAL CARE NETWORK EUROPE CANCER-CHEMOTHERAPY CANDIDA DRUG DISCOVERY, PROFILING, TARGETING EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH OUTCOMES INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES NEUROPHARMACOLOGY OLDER PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES PHARMACOECONOMICS PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY PRIMARY CARE PROVISION AND UTILISATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS RESEARCH ISSUES SPECIFICE TO ANY HEALTH PROFESSION AGEING CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR MATTHEW HENNESSY hennessymatthew PERSONAL RESEARCH CHAIR MCBHENNE SCHOOL OFFICE - COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATS THE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN GENERAL AND SEMANTIC THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING AND SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES IN PARTICULAR. I HAVE WORKED FOR MANY YEARS ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF CONCURRENT COMPUTATION, DEVELOPING SEMANTIC MODELS FOR CONCURRENT SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES, OFTEN CALLED PROCESS ALGEBRAS, AND ASSOCIATED VERIFICATION SYSTEMS. IN PARTICULAR I HAVE DEVELOPED SEMANTIC FRAMEWORKS WHICH COMBINE SEQUENTIAL, CONCURRENT AND DISTRIBUTED NOTIONS OF COMPUTATION. RECENT RESEARCH INTEREST FOCUSED ON MOBILE COMPUTATION. I HAVE DEVELOPED FOUNDATIONAL LANGUAGES TO DESCRIBE AND REASON ABOUT MOBILE AGENTS WHICH CAN MIGRATE AROUND WIDE-AREA DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, AND ASSOCIATED TYPE SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING THEIR BEHAVIOUR. CURRENTLY I AM INVESTIGATING APPROPRIATE NOTIONS OF BEHAVIOUR FOR SUCH AGENTS. COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMPUTER SCIENCE MIKADO: MOBILE CALCULI BASED ON DOMAINS TWO RESEARCH FELLOWS - PERSONNEL EU FRAMEWORK V - GLOBAL COMPUTING A DISTRIBUTED OBJECT CALCULUS AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION PERSONNEL: VISITING FELLOWSHIP - PROF. VASCONCELOS EPSRC THE SEMANTIC FOUNDATIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTATION PERSONNEL: TWO RESEARCH FELLOWS EPSRC CONFER II WORKING GROUP EU FRAMEWORK IV LINEAR TYPE SYSTEMS FOR DISTRIBUTED CONCURRENT SYSTEMS EPSRC INTEGRATION OF CONCURRENT, FUNCTIONAL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION PERSONNEL: TWO RESEARCH FELLOWS EPSRC SYMBOLIC VERIFICATION SYSTEMS ESPRIT KEEP-IN-TOUCH PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT OF ALGEBRAIC METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS PERSONNEL: TWO RESEARCH FELLOWS SERC NON-INTERLEAVING THEORIES FOR CONCURRENT SYSTEMS ALLIANCE BRITISH FRENCH JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAMME INTEGRATION OF BEHAVIOURAL AND ALGEBRAIC PROOF SYSTEMS FOR CONCURRENT SYSTEMS SERC CONCUR ESPRIT BASIC RESEARCH ACTIONS CEDISYS ESPRIT BASIC RESEARCH ACTIONS ALGEBRAIC PROOF SYSTEMS FOR COMMUNICATING PROCESSES SERC ALGEBRAIC MODELS OF CONCURRENT SYSTEMS SERC CONCUR II PERSONNEL: ONE RESEARCH FELLOW ESPRIT BASIC RESEARCH ACTIONS ABSTRACTION AND IMPLEMENTATION RELATIONS ARC BRITISH GERMAN JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAMME VERIFICATION TOOLS FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ROYAL SOCIETY EXPRESS COOPERATION NETWORK EU FRAMEWORK IV NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MARK EUGENE HENNESSY hennessymarkeugene ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MHNNESSY GEOGRAPHY 1. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND. 2. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF IRISH TOWNS AND CITIES. 3. THE HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF IRELAND. DEPT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 1. MEMBER AND FORMER SECRETARY, THE FRIENDS OF MEDIEVAL DUBLIN 2.CO-CHAIR OF THE DUBLIN HISTORIC SETTLEMENT GROUP 3.IRISH NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, PERMANENT EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE RURAL LANDSCAPE FELLOW, ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. MEMBER, PERMANENT CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF THE EUROPEAN RURAL LANDSCAPE ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEDIEVAL IRELAND URBAN AND ECONOMIC HISTORY URBAN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY DIGITAL HUMANITIES MAKING IRELAND DR. MARTINA JOAN HENNESSY hennessymartinajoan ASSOC PROF CONSULTANT MEDICALEDUCATION MHENNESS SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY : ANTI-RETROVIRAL PHARMACOLOGY, DRUG METABOLISM, PHARMACOKINETICS, DRUG SAFETY. PRESCRIBING. MEDICAL EDUCATION: ASSESSMENT, CLINICAL SKILLS, TRANSITION INTO PRACTICE, COMPETENCY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO HEALTH, CAPACITY BUILDING AT 3RD LEVEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ROOM 1.05 BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH BRITISH HIV ASSOCIATION BRITISH HYPERTENSION SOCIETY INITIALLY AS A STUDENT BRITISH PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY CHAIR,MEDICATION SAFETY COMMITTEE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND EUROLIFE NETWORK OF UNIVERSITIES FELLOW ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND FELLOW ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS LONDON HEA CLINICAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY GROUP INTERNSHIP OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE - REPRESENTING THE TRINITY NETWORK OF INTERNS (123) IRISH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL CONSORTIUM LONDON CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY GROUP MEMBER BOARD OF GOVERNANCE OF CLINICAL RESEARCH FACILITY ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL MEMBER EUROPEAN ACADEMIC ALLIANCE IN GLOBAL HEALTH MEMBER OF EUROLIFE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH COMMITTEE REPRESENTING UNIVERSITY MEMBER,EDUCATION SUB-COMMITTEE MEDICAL COUNCIL REPRESENTING UNIVERSITY MEMBER. PATIENT SAFETY COMMITTEE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER BASIC MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY DOCTORAL TRAINING FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA IRISH AID/ HEA PROGRAM FOR STRATEGIC CO-OPERATION BETWEEN IRISH AID AND HEA NOURISH :DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRISH-UGANDAN HIV/ NUTRITION RESEARCH CLUSTER IRISH AID / HEA IRISH AID / HEA PROGRAMME OF STRATEGIC CO-OPERATION ROUND 3 DEVELOPMENT OF AN E-REPOSITORY OF INTEGRATIVE CASE STUDIES TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CAPSL LEARNING INNOVATION GRANT CURRICULAR REFORM OF MEDICAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND NON PEER REVIEWED HEA FUNDING FOR CURRICULAR REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC CLINICIAN POSTS HEA ROLE OF THE NUCLEAR RECEPTORS (PXR AND CAR) AND THYMIDINE KINASE POLYMORPHISMS ON THE PHARMACODYNAMICS AND PHARMACOKINETICS OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY IN HIV DISEASE EUROPEAN CLINICAL AIDS SOCIETY MEDICINE 2 RESEARCH - LED TEACHING IN MEDICINE THEMATIC PRIORITY RESEARCH LED TEACHING MEDINE 2 NETWORK FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE ESTABLISHMENT OF A DUBLIN HIV COHORT DATABASE HRB DEVELOPMENT OF INTERACTIVE WEB BASED CONTINUAL ASSESSMENT FOR PHARMACOLOGY TRINITY COLLEGE CAPSL LEARNING INNOVATION GRANT EFFECT OF ß-ADRENOCEPTOR ANTAGONISM ON PLASMA MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE ACTIVITY AND OXIDATIVE STATE IN STABLE HEART FAILURE. BAGGOT STREET FUND PROPOSAL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MEDICATION SAFETY TEAM FOR ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN HSE PROPOSAL TO EXPAND AND CONSOLIDATE THE DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND IN COLLABORATION WITH TIDI IRISH AID AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. ELIZABETH ANN HERON heronelizabethann ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EAHERON PSYCHIATRY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES' HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY BAYESIAN INFERENCE BIOINFORMATICS BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS GENETICS MATHEMATICAL MODELLING STATISTICS GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. DAVID THOMAS HEVEY heveydavidthomas ASSOCIATE PROF RESEARCH METHODOLOGY HEVEYDT PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH INTERESTS: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE, HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS OF HEALTH BEHAVIOUR, STRESS, EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION AND HEALTH. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION (IACR).I SERVED AS TREASURER OF THE IACR AND EDITOR OF IACR NEWSLETTER. I WAS THE IACR DELEGATE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEVELOPING NATIONAL AUDIT TOOL FOR CARDIAC REHABILITATION. I WAS PART OF THE COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE FOR PUBLISHING THE FIRST IACR NATIONAL STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES FOR CARDIAC REHABILITATION (2000). I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN ORGANIZING THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME OF THE NATIONAL IACR ANNUAL GENERAL CONFERENCES. I CHAIRED THE REVIEW GROUP OF THE NATIONAL STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES FOR CARDIAC REHABILITATION. EUROPEAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY I WAS A COMMITTEE MEMBER OF PSI SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY (MARCH 1999 - MARCH 2004). I SERVED AS SECRETARY FOR 2003-2004. I WAS THE INAUGURAL CHAIR OF THE DIVISION OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY (DHP) AND AM STILL ON THE COMMITTEE. I A CURRENTLY SECRETARY OF THE PSI DIVISION OF TEACHERS, REPRESENTING TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. I AM CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN THE PSI ACCREDITATION QUALITY ASSURANCE GROUP, WHICH IS DEVELOPING GUIDELINES FOR THE ACCREDITATION OF POSTGRADUATE TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN PSYCHOLOGY. I AM ON THE PSI HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY ACCREDITATION REVIEW SUB-GROUP, WHICH IS DEVELOPING GUIDELINES SPECIFICALLY IN RELATION TO POSTGRADUATE TRAINING IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY. I AM ON THE PSI EXPERT VALIDATION COMMITTEE (EVC), WHICH REQUIRES EXAMINATION OF APPLICATIONS FOR ELIGIBILITY TO BE PLACED ON THE PSI REGISTER OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND TO DETERMINE ELIGIBILITY TO WORK IN THE HSE. I WAS ELECTED TO BEING A MEMBER OF EHPS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. IN ADDITION TO THE GENERAL DUTIES ON THE COMMITTEE, I WAS A MEMBER OF THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE, WHICH OVERSAW THE EMERGENCE OF THE FIRST PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL DEDICATED TO THE REVIEWS IN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY. FURTHERMORE I WAS THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OFFICER WITH A RESPONSIBILITY FOR A) ORGANISING PRE AND POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS B) AWARDING EHPS GRANTS PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY CARDIAC REHABILITATION COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT/PROCESSES CORONARY HEART-DISEASE PSYCHOBIOLOGY PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION AND SUPPORT PROGRAMME BOTH FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE AND ENDURING MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES AND ALSO THEIR CARERS AN RCT EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF A PEER AND CLINICIAN-LED INTERVENTION PSYCHOEDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES IN COMPARISON TO TREATMENT AS USUAL. GENIO TRUST, €173,428 THE INFLUENCE OF COGNITION AND EMOTION ON DECISION-MAKING A SERIES OF STUDIES EXAMINING DECISION-MAKING AMONG HEALTHY AND CLINICALLY DEPRESSED PARTICIPANTS. STUDIES INVOLVE STANDARD COMPUTER-BASED DECISION MAKING TASKS (E.G., IGT, BART, ULTIMATUM GAME), PSYCHOLOGICAL QUESTIONNAIRES, AND COUNTERFACTUAL SCENARIOS. IRCHSS; €97,200 RESEARCH STIMULATOR GRANT DEVELOPING AN AUDIT TOOL FOR CARDIAC REHABILITATION THE PROJECT AIMED TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL AUDIT TOOL FOR USE IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION SERVICES. FOCUS GROUPS WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND EXTENISIVE PILOTING TESTING WERE COMPLETED BEFORE LAUNCHING THE THE AUDIT SYSTEM. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARDIOVASCULAR STRATEGY /HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD: €118,000 AFFECTIVE AND COGNITIVE INFLUENCES ON DECISION MAKING IN MORBID OBESITY EXAMINATION OF DECISION-MAKING BY OBESE AND HEALTHY WEIGHT CONTROL PARTICIPANTS. DECISION-MAKING ASSESSED USING STANDARD COMPUTER TASKS (E.G., IGT, GDT, VARIANT IGT) AND PSYCHOLOGICAL QUESTIONNAIRES. IN ADDITION A FOOD DIARY STUDY COMPLETED BASED ON PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF OVEREATING. IRCHSS PHD STUDENTSHIP MECHANISMS UNDERLYING A PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION FOR CANCER-RELATED FATIGUE AN RCT EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTION FOR CANCER-RELATED FATIGUE. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY/IRCSET SOCIAL SHARING AMONG CARDIAC PATIENTS AN RCT EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF A SOCIAL SHARING INTERVENTION ON PSYCHOLOGICAL, BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING AMONG CARDIAC PATIENTS. CAUSAL ATTRIBUTIONS FOR EATING DISORDERS NETWORK ANALYSES OF THE STRUCTURE OF CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION NETWORKS AMONG PARTICIPANTS WITH EATING DISORDERS. AGEING MS. NIAMH HEYNEN heynenniamh OFFICE MANAGER LYNCHN1 TCD GLOBAL OFFICE OF VICE-PROVOST FOR GLOBAL RELATIONS EAST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH DR. FIONNUALA HICKEY hickeyfionnuala VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW HICKEYFB CLINICAL MEDICINE MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS, DYNAMICS AND RESPIRATION AND GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN CELL SIGNALLING AND FUNCTION. MY CURRENT PRIMARY AREA OF RESEARCH IS ANCA-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS, A SEVERE MULTI-SYSTEM AUTOIMMUNE CONDITION AFFECTING THE MICROVASCULATURE. IN ITS MOST SEVERE FORM IT MANIFESTS WITH RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS (RPGN) AND VASCULITIS OF THE RESPIRATORY TRACT. MY RESEARCH ADDRESSES THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1- WHAT ROLE DO MITOCHONDRIA PLAY IN ANCA-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS 2- IS CELLULAR METABOLISM ALTERED IN ANCA-ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODIES BIOCHEMISTRY, METABOLISM CELL SIGNALLING GLUCOSE METABOLISM INFLAMMATION MITOCHONDRIAL DNA MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION & FUSION MECHANISMS MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION MONOCYTES NEPHROLOGY SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MS. PAULA HICKS hickspaula CENTRE ADMINISTRATOR - CIHS PHICKS PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE HUMAN SYSTEMS THE PRINCIPAL AREA OF RESEARCH RELATES TO THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO ADDRESS THE PSYCHO SOCIAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC OR SERIOUS ILLNESS. A PARTICULAR FOCUS IS ON THE USE OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION PROVISION, SOCIAL INCLUSION AND ENTERTAINMENT. SHE HAS LED TWO KEY RESEARCH PROJECTS EXPLORING THIS USE OF TECHNOLOGY, AIT EILE (ANOTHER WORLD) WWW.AITEILE.IE AND SOLAS WWW.SOLAS.IE - BOTH OF WHICH HAVE RECEIVED AWARDS FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THIS AREA. SHE HAS ALSO DEVELOPED MODULES AND LECTURED TO VARIOUS PROGRAMMES IN THE AREA OF HEALTH INFORMATICS. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE HUMAN SYSTEMS ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH, COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH EUROPEAN PROFESSIONALS IN HOSPITAL NETWORK (EPIH-NET) HEALTH INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND HOPE (HOSPITAL ORGANISATION OF PEDAGOGUES IN EUROPE) - BOARD MEMBER HOSPITAL ORGANISATION OF PEDAGOGUES IN EUROPE (HOPE) - BOARD MEMBER IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY (ICS) TEENAGE CANCER GROUP (OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, CRUMLIN) CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY HEALTH INFORMATICS HEALTH OUTCOMES HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING MULTIMEDIA SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS PUPPET PORTAL PROJECT THE PUPPET PORTAL PROJECT IS AN ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY HOSPITAL BASED PROJECT WHICH CONNECTED CHILDREN, PARENTS, ARTISTS AND STAFF IN AN ONLINE COMMUNITY (AIT EILE, DEVELOPED BY THE CENTRE FOR HEALTH INFORMATICS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN) WHERE THEY WORKED COLLABORATIVELY TO DESIGN AND MAKE PUPPETS, DEVELOP STORIES AND PERFORM FOR EACH OTHER THROUGH THE WEBPORTAL. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT WAS TO TRANSFORM THE HOSPITAL EXPERIENCE FOR CHILDREN BY FACILITATING THEM TO ACCESS THEIR OWN CREATIVITY AND SELF EXPRESSION AND THE BENEFITS ARE VERY EVIDENT. HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, THE ARTS COUNCIL AWARENESS PROGRAMME ON THE USE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN HEALTH CARE A EUROPEAN FUNDED PROJECT WHICH TOOK THE FORM OF A MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION TO RAISE AWARENESS OF ICT IN HEALTHCARE. IT WAS PRESENTED IN 50 LOCATIONS AROUND IRELAND TO A PAN HEALTH AUDIENCE. EUROPEAN UNION EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND PHYSICAL PLACES AND SOCIAL SPACES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL THIS CONSULTATION PROCESS EXPLORED YOUNG CHILDREN'S (AGED 5-8 YEARS) PERSPECTIVES OF THE PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT TO ENSURE THAT THE PHYSCIAL PLACES AND SOCIAL SPACES OF THE PROPOSED NEW CHILDREN'S HOSPTIAL OF IRELAND WOULD BE RESPONSIVE TO THEIR NEEDS. NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC HOSPITAL PROJECT SOLAS - AN INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER EACH YEAR THOUSANDS OF SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN WORLDWIDE HAVE TO SPEND SEVERAL WEEKS OR EVEN MONTHS IN PROTECTIVE ISOLATION WITH NO PHYSICAL INTERACTION WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD AND LIMITED CONTACT WITH THEIR FAMILY. THEY ARE FACED WITH A MYRIAD OF CHALLENGES THAT THEIR HEALTHY PEERS MAY NEVER EXPERIENCE. CHALLENGES THAT IMPACT A CHILD'S ABILITY TO COPE SOCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY, AND OR PHYSICALLY ARE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS 'PSYCHOSOCIAL' CHALLENGES. THESE INCLUDE ISOLATION, CHANGE IN FAMILY DYNAMICS, DEPRESSION, WITHDRAWAL, LOSS OF PEER INTERACTION TO NAME BUT A FEW. THESE PROBLEMS CAN HINDER A CHILD'S TREATMENT AND RECOVERY. THE USE OF VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES IN ADDRESSING SOME OF THESE PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES HAS BEEN AT THE CORE OF SOME OF THE RESEARCH WORK CURRENTLY BEING CARRIED OUT AT THE CENTRE FOR HEALTH INFORMATICS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD) IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TCD AND THE NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY AND BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT CENTRE, OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN. THE SOLAS PROJECT FACILITATES COMMUNICATION (VIA EMAIL, SMS TEXTING, LIVE CHAT AND VIDEO CONFERENCING), ALONG WITH PROVIDING A VARIETY OF CREATIVE (EG. ART TOOL, MUSIC COMPOSITION) AND EDUCATIONAL TOOLS (EG. MULTIMEDIA LEARNING GAMES, AUDIO BOOKS) IN A CUSTOMIZED SECURE ENVIRONMENT. SOLAS IS CURRENTLY BEING PILOTED ON THE CHILDRENS CANCER UNIT OF OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, CRUMLIN, AND THERE ARE OVER 180 REGISTERED USERS TO DATE, AN INDEPENDENT EVALUATION WILL BE CARRIED OUT THROUGHOUT 2009. FROM THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT PHASE IT IS CLEAR THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR IMPROVED PSYCHO-SOCIAL SERVICES FOR THESE CHILDREN, LACK OF COMMUNICATION WITH PEERS AND FAMILIES AND HIGH LEVELS OF BOREDOM HAVE ECHOED THROUGHOUT THIS WORK. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS BEYOND THE INITIAL PROTOTYPE LEAVE SCOPE FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY (HEA) FUND FOR DIGITAL RESEARCH AIT EILE - ONLINE COMMUNITY FOR CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL ÁIT EILE IS AN ONLINE COMMUNITY FOR CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL WHICH FACILITATES YOUNG PATIENTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER VIA E MAIL, VIDEO CONFERENCING AND LIVE CHAT OVER A SECURE INTERNET CONNECTION. RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL, ESPECIALLY THOSE SUFFERING FROM A CHRONIC ILLNESS, CAN EXPERIENCE FEELINGS OF ISOLATION, CHANGE IN FAMILY DYNAMICS, DEPRESSION AND LOSS OF PEER INTERACTION. ÁIT EILE IS BASED IN HOSPITALS SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND OFFERS THE POTENTIAL FOR HOSPITAL-TO-HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL TO HOME, HOSPITAL TO SCHOOL AND EVEN HOME-TO-HOME CONNECTION ALLOWING PARENTS AND CHILDREN NEVER TO BE MORE THAN A CLICK AWAY. THROUGH THE WEB PORTAL THE SYSTEM PROVIDES ACCESS TO ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION, SUCH AS ARTS & CRAFTS, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND LINKS TO FAVORITE WEB SITES WITH APPROPRIATE CONTENT. THE SECURITY OF THE SYSTEM HAS BEEN A TOP PRIORITY AND APPROPRIATE SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE OVERALL SYSTEM DESIGN. CURRENTLY LINKING ELEVEN SITES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY; THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, IN TALLAGHT, OUR LADY'S HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN, CRUMLIN, CORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, TEMPLE STREET HOSPITAL, NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL, BEAUMONT HOSPITAL DUBLIN, SCOIL AN SPIORAID NAOIMH, CORK, MID WESTERN REGIONAL HOSPITAL, LIMERICK, SLIGO GENERAL HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, GALWAY AND OUR LADY OF LOURDES HOSPITAL, DROGHEDA. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN / HSE INFORMATION SOCIETY FUNDING / NDP CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR AGNES HIGGINS higginsagnes PROFESSOR IN MENTAL HEALTH AHIGGINS SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION MY RESEARCH IS IN THE AREA OF MENTAL HEALTH. IN THE PAST EIGHT YEARS AS PI OR CO-APPLICANT I HAVE ATTRACTED OVER €3.7 MILLION IN FUNDING. I HAVE LED MANY MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TEAMS TO SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF DIVERSE PROJECTS, FOCUSING MAINLY ON SERVICE USERS' AND FAMILY MEMBERS' EXPERIENCE OF MENTAL DISTRESS, FACTORS INFLUENCING THEIR RECOVERY AND THE IMPACT OF PEER INTERVENTIONS ON RECOVERY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION. THE PARTICIPANTS IN MY RESEARCH ARE DRAWN FROM DIVERSE MARGINALISED GROUPS, INCLUDING, MOTHERS WITH SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, PEOPLE DETAINED UNDER THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT, PEOPLE LIVING IN PRISON AND IN THE ASYLUM SYSTEM, AND THE LGBTI COMMUNITY. INTERNATIONALLY, I HAVE COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH TWO EUROPEAN RESEARCH GROUPS; BOTH ARE INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INCLUDE UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE EU. I AM CURRENTLY COLLABORATING WITH PARTNERS IN THE UK AND USA ON THE COMING OFF MEDICATION PROJECT AND HAVE LED THE SUBMISSION OF THE FIRST STAGE OF A GRANT PROPOSAL WITH THESE COLLABORATORS TO THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN MENTAL HEALTH IN THE USA. WHILE DEMONSTRATING LONG TERM TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT IS CHALLENGING, THERE IS STRONG EVIDENCE THAT MY RESEARCH IS HAVING A DEMONSTRABLE IMPACT ON POLICY AND PRACTICE. IN ADDITION TO BEING CITED IN NUMEROUS POLICY DOCUMENTS, THE PRINCIPLES I OUTLINED IN A 2007 REPORT 'A RECOVERY APPROACH WITHIN THE IRISH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT' ARE NOW PART OF THE NATIONAL AGENDA, AND THE AUDIT TOOLKIT I DEVELOPED IS RECOMMENDED FOR USE THROUGHOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. A RISK TYPOLOGY I DEVELOPED HAS BEEN USED IN THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED 'BEST PRACTICE GUIDANCE FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (HSE, 2017). THIS YEAR THE HSE INCLUDED A PEER AND CLINICIAN LED INTERVENTION, WHICH I DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED, INTO THEIR SERVICE PLANS AND HAVE INCLUDED ITS AVAILABILITY AS A PERFORMANCE INDICATOR TO MEASURE THE QUALITY OF CARE PROVIDED BY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. INTERNATIONALLY, THIS INTERVENTION IS THE ONLY IRISH INTERVENTION MENTIONED IN A RECENT REVIEW OF MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY PROGRAMS IN SELECTED INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES PUBLISHED BY PINCUS ET AL (2016) IN THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS. MY RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF SEXUALITY AND THE LGBTI COMMUNITY NOT ONLY INFORMED THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION POLICY ON 'BEING LGBT IN SCHOOL' BUT HAS INFORMED AND THE CARE PATHWAYS BEING DEVELOPED FOR TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IN IRELAND. MY RESEARCH FINDINGS ARE ALSO IMPACTING ON MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONER EDUCATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY THROUGH THE PUBLICATION OF 'BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES' AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ONLINE EDUCATION MATERIALS ON SEXUALITY AND RECOVERY. THE E-LEARNING MATERIALS DEVELOPED AS PART OF AN EU PROJECT HAS HAD OVER 16,500 WEBSITE VISITORS FROM 94 COUNTRIES, AND IS RECOGNISED IN THE WHO 2016 REPORT 'FROM INNOVATION TO IMPLEMENTATION - EHEALTH IN THE WHO EUROPE REGION' AS A POSITIVE EXAMPLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-LEARNING MATERIALS INTERNATIONALLY. WHILE I USE QUALITATIVE, QUANTITATIVE, MIXED METHODS, AND PARTICIPATORY METHODOLOGIES TO ANSWER MY RESEARCH QUESTIONS, MY INNOVATIVE AND INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGIES ARE NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED FOR PROVIDING A TEMPLATE FOR SERVICE-USERS' AND FAMILY MEMBERS' INVOLVEMENT AS CO-PRODUCERS OF KNOWLEDGE AND PARTNERS IN SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND PROVISION. BY VALUING THE VOICES OF SERVICE USERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS AS PARTNERS IN THE RESEARCH PROCESS, MY WORK ALSO ADVANCES OUR UNDERSTANDINGS OF COLLABORATIVE/EMPOWERING RESEARCH METHODS WITH PEOPLE TRADITIONALLY DEFINED AS 'VULNERABLE' OR 'POOR RESEARCH INFORMANTS'. IT ALSO RESULTED IN AN INVITATION TO JOIN THE TRINITY TEAM THAT ADVANCED AN APPLICATION FOR THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD/IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL PPI IGNITE CALL (CURRENTLY UNDER REVIEW), WHICH AIMS TO SUPPORT AND PROMOTE CAPACITY BUILDING FOR HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC AND PATIENT INVOLVEMENT (PPI) IN HEALTH RESEARCH ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHAIRPERSON OF BOARD OF MENTAL HEALTH REFORM DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN'S RESEARCH COMMITTEE, WHICH DEVELOPED THE NATIONAL RESEARCH STRATEGY FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY RESEARCH IN IRELAND. EDITORIAL BOARD FOR GROUNDED THEORY REVIEW (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL) EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF IRISH INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING HSE NATIONAL GROUP WITH RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEVELOPING A SERVICE MODEL FOR PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY ASTRANSGENDER INTERNATIONAL STEERING GROUP ON OPEN DIALOGUE MEMBER AND ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GROUNDED THEORY INSTITUTE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING SOCIETY NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION AWARDS ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIPLOMA IN NURSING (PSYCHIATRIC) IN LETTERKENNY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION AWARDS ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE FOR THE DIPLOMA IN NURSING (PSYCHIATRIC) IN WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL STEERING GROUP FOR IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING ON RECOVERY ORIENTED SERVICES IN IRISH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (HSE) NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND (TUTORS DIVISION) REVIEWER FOR: JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING/JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH/INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING/JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING/NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE/NURSE EDUCATION CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING GENDER AND MENTAL HEALTH GENDER ISSUES, GENDER STUDIES MENTAL HEALTH NURSING MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION NURSING EDUCATION PSYCHIATRY SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTH THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNICATION MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY USING AN ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH ST JOSEPH'S LEARNING DISABILITY SERVICE ST ITA'S HOSPITAL PORTRANE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NATIONAL AN EVALUATION OF THE WISE UP SEXUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME THE WISE UP PROJECT IS A SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN FROM DISADVANTAGED AREAS WHICH IS RUN BY THE CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY. THE EVALUATION OF THIS PROGRAMMES WAS CARRIED OUT IN ASSOCIATION WITH DR JO MURPHY-LAWLESS AND SINEAD PEMBROOKE 25,000 FROM THE CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY GAY/LESBIANS EXPERIENCE OF GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT FROM THE DEATH OF A PARTNER A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON GAY/LESBIANS EXPERIENCE OF GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT FOLLLOWING THE DEATH OF A PARTNER. A HIIGINS IN ASSOCIATION WITH M GLACKIN 5,000 FROM THE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION AN EXPLORATION OF HOW PSYCHIATRIC NURSES RESPOND TO ISSUES OF SEXUALITY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE THIS WAS MY PHD RESEARCH WITH THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRINITY COLLEGE. IT WAS SUPERVISED BY PROFESSORS PHIL BARKER (VISITING PROFESSOR) AND CECILY BEGLEY AND COMPLETED IN OCTOBER 2006 160,446 FROM THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD THE EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERING IN WOMEN WITH ENDURING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE (T TUOHY PHD STUDENT, A HIGGINS , J MURPHY LAWLESS) € 213,387 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD THE EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS OF OLDER LGBT PEOPLE (55 AND OVER) LIVING IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND A HIGGINS; M MCCARRON; E MCCANN; F SHEERIN, M GLACKEN GLEN (GAY/LESBIAN EQUALITY NETWORK €39,037 SEX EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS: A STUDY OF SUPPORTS AND OUTSIDE FACILITATORS FOR SEX EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EXPLORING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES USERS EXPERIENCES OF GOING HOME FROM HOSPITAL: A GROUNDED THEORY STUDY (B KEOGH PHD STUDENT, A HIGGINS, P CALLAGHAN) € 71, 821 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EVALUATION OF THE SHARE (SEXUAL HEALTH AND REHABILITAITON EDUCATION) PROGRAMME THE FOCUS OF THIS RESEACH IN ON DEVELOPING, IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING, IN COLLABORATION WITH MEMBERS OF THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM IN THE ROYAL HOSPITAL AN EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON SEXUAL HEALTH AND REHABILITATION EDUCATION. PI A HIGGINS WITH M NOLAN, K MASON, A RING, S SLAICUINAITE, B SHEERAN, P FLANAGAN 13,000 FROM THE ROYAL HOSPITAL DONNYBROOK EVALUATION OF PROGRAMME TO SUPPORT PALLIATIVE AND HOSPICE CARE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELANDMCCARRON, M: HIGGINS A; LARKIN, P; DRENNAN, J; MCCALLION, P; PAYNE S; HYNES, G; MAY, P. ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT NURSE AND MIDWIFE CLINICAL COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT: HIGGINS A; BEGLEY C, TIMMINS F; MCGONAGLE I; NORMAN I NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE CURRENT EDUCATION/TRAINING AVAILABLE FOR PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND PI A HIGGINS WITH JANE ALEXANDER, MARY CREANER, GERRY MAGUIRE, SHOBHA RANI, EDDIE MCCANN, ORLA O'NEILL, MICK WATTS AND MALCOLM GARLAND 61,237 FROM THE MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION THE EVALUATION OF CLINICAL NURSE AND MIDWIFE SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED NURSE AND MIDWIFE PRACTITIONERS IN IRELAND (SCAPE) PIS C BEGLEY AND K MURPHY (NUI GALWAY), PLUS A HIGGINS, F SHEERIN, I COYNE, J LALOR, N ELLIOTT, C NORMAND, C COMISKEY, D DEVANE, A COONEY, M DOWLING, D CASEY, F FARRELLY, M BRENNAN € 350,000 FROM NCNM THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN RELATION TO PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD PI C. BEGLEY WITH A.HIGGINS, J. ALEXANDER, F. SHEERIN, P. KEENAN, J. LALOR, D. LAWLER, R KAVANAGH, T TUOHY, H. NICHOLL € 109,000 FROM THE NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY EVALUATION OF THE TEEN FATHER PROJECT AN EVALUATION OF A COMMUNITY BASED INITIATIVE TO INCREASE SUPPORT FOR TEEN FATHERS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN PARENTING THEIR CHILD. A HIGGINS AND J LALOR JOINT PIS) WITH L ANDREWS, J DE VRIES, AND G MAGUIRE. FUNDING AGENCY: HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE-NORTH EAST, €5,000 €5,000 FROM THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE-NORTH EAST, EVALUATION OF THE PILOT HOLISTIC SEX EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG WOMEN A HIGGINS IN ASSOCIATION WITH J MURPHY LAWLESS 3000 FROM THE LETTERKENNY WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTRE AN EVALUATION OF THE MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY AND WRAP EDUCATION PROGRAMME PI AGNES HIGGINS, WITH P CALLAGHAN, J MORRISSEY, B KEOGH, M NASH, J DEVRIES, D RYAN, H GIJBELS 35, 246 FROM THE IRISH MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY CONSORTIUUM AN EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF THE EPILEPSY SPECIALIST NURSE AND THE IMPACT ON PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE. HIGGINS A (PI) N ELLIOTT, C BEGLEY, C DOHERTY, C NORMAND, M CLARKE EPILEPSY IRELAND/HRB DEVELOPING MASTER'S LEVEL E-LEARNING MATERIAL IN MENTAL HEALTH (EMENTHE) HIGGINS, A., DOYLE, L. KEOGH, B. ( ET AL INCLUDING EUROPEAN PARTNERS). EU LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME/ERASMUS MULTILATERAL NETWORKS LGBTIRELAND: EXPLORATION OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND LGBTI PEOPLE IN IRELAND AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS LGBTI PEOPLE HIGGINS A (PI); SHAREK D; DOYLE, L; MCCANN, E; SHEERIN, F; DEVRIES J; BEGLEY T GLEN AND BELONGTO THE COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR SELF-DISCLOSURE STRATEGIES FOR PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY(HOW2TELL) ELLIOTT N (PI), HIGGINS A, BEGLEY C, DOHERTY C, PENDER D, WHITE M EPILEPSY IRELAND/HRB STEPPING UP TO THERAPEUTIC RISK IN A MENTAL HEALTH CONTEXT: THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A RISK FRAMEWORK AND EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR CLINICAL STAFF HIGGINS A; DOYLE L (JOINT PIS); NASH M; BRENNAN M; COSTELLO P NMPDU ADVANCING RECOVERY IN IRELAND: IMPLEMENTING RECOVERY THROUGH ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE (IMROC) A QUALITATIVE EVALUATION WITHIN SEVEN PILOT SITES HIGGINS A (PI) REPPER J; WATTS M HSE AN EVALUATION OF THE CAPACITY BUILDING POTENTIAL OF 'FAMILY FOCUSED ' INITIATIVES IN AREA OF DISABILITY HIGGINS, A (PI) ; SHEERIN, F; DALY, L; GRIFFITHS C; MCBENNETT, P GENIO AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FPSHP (AND ITS SUPPORT ACTIVITIES) IN BUILDING CAPACITY AMONGST HEALTH, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROFESSIONALS WITH REGARD TO THE PROMOTION OF SEXUAL HEALTH HIGGINS, A (PI); MCCANN E; DOYLE, L; SHAREK, D; KEOGH, B; DEVRIES, J; SOUTH. HSE AN EXPLORATION ON THE IMPACT OF WELLNESS WORKSHOPS ON PARTICIPANTS KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES TO MENTAL HEALTH HIGGINS, A (PI); DOYLE, L; SHAREK, D; KEOGH, B; DEVRIES, J; MCBENNETT, P: SUICIDE OR SURVIVE AND NATIONAL OFFICE OF SUICIDE PREVENTION DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. HIGGINS A (PI), BEGLEY, C; ET AL DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF A TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL COUNCIL MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND: PHASE 2 (MAMMI 2). CECILY BEGLEY, VALERIE SMITH, AGNES HIGGINS, DECLAN DEVANE,MIKE CLARKE, AND MICHAEL TURNER " HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AN EVALUATION OF A PEER AND CLINICIAN LED PSYCHOEDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES PHASE 1 A HIGGINS (PI) D HEAVEY EOLAS. GENIO AND CELBRIDGE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES A PROSPECTIVE EVALUATION OF THE OPERATION AND EFFECTS OF THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2001 FROM THE VIEWPOINTS OF SERVICE USERS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS COLM MCDONALD, BRIAN HALLAHAN; KATHY MURPHY (UCG) AND AGNES HIGGINS TCD. MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION THE EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERING IN WOMEN WITH ENDURING MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE TUOHY, T; HIGGINS, A, MURPHY-LAWLESS, J HRB DEVELOPING AND TESTING A TOOL TO EVALUATE A SEXUAL CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME ACROSS TIME PHASE 11 HSE AND CRISIS PREGNANCY PROGRAMME LITERATURE REVIEW USING SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES TO EXPLORE PHYSICAL ILLNESS CO-MORBIDITY AND RELATED HEALTH CARE INTERVENTIONS AMONG PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS M NASH (PI); A HIGGINS; V SMITH; M MONAGHAN; P CALLAGHAN; J EUSTACE- COOKE, M ROMANOS HSE AN EVALUATION OF A PEER MENTAL HEALTH MENTORING PRISON PROGRAMME (POWER STUDY) DOYLE, L (PI), HIGGINS, A., KEOGH, B., BRENNAN, M. & MORRISSEY, J. SUICIDE OR SURVIVE COMING OFF PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATION: PEOPLES EXPERIENCES AND CHALLENGES HIGGINS A; WATTS M; KEOGH B; DOYLE L HSE AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PREPARE A REPORT ON BOTH THE PROCESS AND OUTCOME OF THE CONSULTATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS (DCYA). THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ARE TO: (1)DENTIFY THE THINGS THAT MAKE THEIR LIVES EASY AND THE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HARD FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE;(II)IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT WORK WELL FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND (III) IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE CONSIDER NEEDS TO CHANGE TO ENHANCE THEIR LIVES. RESEARCH TEAM HIGGINS A (PI); DOYLE L; KEOGH B; COYNE I; MCCANN E; WALSH S DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS AN EXPLORATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPACT OF PEER-LED MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY: A REVIEW OF ARAS FOLLAAIN AND GATEWAY. DUBLIN MENTAL HEALTH IRELAND PEER SUPPORT MODELS OF SERVICE DELIVERY FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES HAVE INCREASINGLY FEATURED IN POLICY AND PRACTICE BOTH IN IRELAND AND ABROAD. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT AIMED TO (I)EXAMINE THE ROLE OF TWO COMMUNITY PEER-LED SERVICES; (II) EXPLORE THE EFFECTIVENESS AND IMPACT OF THE PEER LED SERVICES ON RECOVERY OUTCOMES AND PROCESS AND (III) EXPLORE IF THE MODEL OF DELIVERY CONSTITUTE A MODEL OF PARTNERSHIP WORKING WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH CURRENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE PRIORITIES RESEARCH TEAM HIGGINS A, MURPHY R, LIDENAU A, CORRIGAN C, DOWNES C HSE SUPPORT NEEDS ANALYSIS OF THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN FROM OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY SERVICE A HYNES G; HIGGINS A; COYNE I THE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION MIND MOTHERS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEEDS AND PRACTICES OF MIDWIVES, PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE AND PRACTICE NURSES IN RELATION TO PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH HIGGINS A (PI) CARROLL M; MONAGHAN M, NMPDU EOLAS: AN EVALUATION OF A PEER AND CLINICIAN LED PSYCHOEDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES PHASE 11 . A HIGGINS (PI) D HEAVEY HSE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. KAREN HIGGINS higginskaren ADMIN SERVICES MANAGER CUSTOMER SERVICES KHIGGIN ESTATES & FACILITIES DEPARTMENT ESTATES & FACILITIES 194 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR RONALD JAMES HILL hillronaldjames FELLOW EMERITUS RHILL POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ANDREW HINES hinesandrew ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AHINES ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 IEEE, SPS (SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY) IRISH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EU COST ACTION IC1003 ENTITLED "EUROPEAN NETWORK ON QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE IN MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND SERVICES (QUALINET)" ISCA (INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION) ADVANCED METRICS FOR AUDIO-VISUAL SIGNAL QUALITY IN INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS TO DEVELOP A REAL-TIME, ROBUST, AND RELIABLE METRIC OF SPEECH QUALITY WHICH IS SENSITIVE TO TYPICAL WIDEBAND VOIP DEGRADATIONS. CO-FUNDED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND AND GOOGLE, INC. INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME SPEECH QUALITY FOR VOIP THIS PROJECT IS DEVELOPING NEW METRICS TO MEASURE SPEECH QUALITY FOR VOIP APPLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY GOOGLE CHROME WEBRTC GOOGLE, INC. INDUSTRIALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. RACHEL MARY HOARE hoarerachelmary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RMHOARE FRENCH DEPT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE MR. RICHARD HOBBS hobbsrichard RESEARCH FELLOW HOBBSR CHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF CHEMSITRY EXTENSION BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR TREVOR ROLAND HODKINSON hodkinsontrevorroland PROFESSOR HODKINST BOTANY TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH MY RESEARCH IS MAINLY FOCUSSED IN FIELDS KNOWN AS MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS, GENETIC RESOURCE CHARACTERISATION AND ENDOPHYTE BIOLOGY. I HAVE SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE OF THE GRASS FAMILY AND OF FOREST TREE GENETICS. I COLLABORATE WITH A NUMBER OF NATIONAL (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TEAGASC) AND INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, UK; UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE). DEPT OF BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH EDITORIAL BOARD FOR JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH, JAPAN EDITORIAL BOARD FOR PLANT ECOLOGY AND DIVERSITY EUROPEAN EXPERT EVALUATOR, FRAMEWORK V (ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE RTD PROGRAMMES) EUROPEAN EXPERT EVALUATOR, FRAMEWORK VI (INCO-DEV-2) EUROPEAN EXPERT EVALUATOR, FRAMEWORK VII (KNOWLEDGE BASED BIOECONOMY, RTD PROGRAMME) SYSTEMATICS ASSOCIATION, SOCIETY OF SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGISTS BIODIVERSITY CHLOROPLASTS CYTOGENETICS ECOLOGICAL EVOLUTION, DYNAMICS ENDOPHYTES FOREST GENETICS FOREST SCIENCES GENETIC MAPPING, GENE SEQUENCE GENETICS GENOMES, GENOMICS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS PLANT BIOLOGY PLANT SYSTEMATICS PLANT-FUNGAL INTERACTIONS TISSUE CULTURE GENETICS AND GENOMICS BIODIVERSITY BIOMASS FORESTRY AGRICULTURE AGRI-ENVIRONMENT - NUTRIENTS, BIODIVERSITY, GASEOUS EMISSIONS, OTHER PLANT HEALTH MYCOLOGY & FUNGAL PHYLOGENETICS OF PACLITAXEL BIOSYNTHESIS GENES IN TAXUS BACCATA, TAXUS HYBRIDS AND ALLIES TAXUS BACCATA (THE IRISH YEW) PRODUCES A NATURAL DITERPENOID COMMONLY KNOWN AS TAXOL THAT IS AN EFFECTIVE CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENT AGAINST A WIDE RANGE OF TUMORS ESPECIALLY OVARIAN, BREAST AND LUNG CANCERS. WITH RECENT ADVANCES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, THE ENTIRE TAXOL BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY HAS BEEN ELUCIDATED AND MANY OF ITS GENES HAVE BEEN CHARACTERISED. WE PLAN TO STUDY MOLECULAR VARIATION IN THESE GENES TO ESTABLISH DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPECIES INCLUDING HYBRIDS AND THEIR KNOW PARENTS SO THAT ASSOCIATIONS CAN BE DISCOVERED BETWEEN PACLITAXEL PRODUCTION AND DNA SEQUENCE POLYMORPHISM. THE PRIMARY AIM IS TO DISCOVER WHICH GENES ARE MOST IMPORTANT FOR PACLITAXEL PRODUCTION IN TAXUS BACCATA AND DISCOVER VARIATION IN THESE GENES. PHD STUDENT PATRICIA COUGHLAN. CO-SUPERVISOR JAMES CAROLAN. COLLABORATOR INGRID HOOK. TCD PART-TIME STUDY MONITORING AND UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF TEMPORAL CHANGES IN GENOME-WIDE ALLELE FREQUENCIES IN PERENNIAL RYEGRASS SWARDS THIS PROJECT INVOLVES MONITORING ALLELIC FREQUENCIES IN MONOVARIETAL PERENNIAL RYEGRASS (PRG) SWARDS OF BOTH MECHANICALLY DEFOLIATED AND ANIMAL GRAZED PLOTS. IT INVOLVES DEVELOPING A GENOTYPING-IN-THOUSANDS BY SEQUENCING (GT-SEQ) ASSAY FOR VARIETAL DISCRIMINATION, ALLELE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS AND POPULATION MAPPING USING EXISTING PRG POPULATIONS AVAILABLE FROM PREVIOUS TEAGASC RESEARCH. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO TRACK CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF PRG MIXTURES. WALSH FELLOW: NIAMH CURRAN CO-SUPERVISORS: SUSANNE BARTH, DAN MILBOURNE, STEPHEN BYRNE AND TREVOR HODKINSON TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP CHARACTERIZING ENDOPHYTES FROM ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR L.) LEAVES AND ROOTS FOR DISEASE BIOCONTROL ASH FORESTS AND PLANTATIONS HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES DURING THE LAST DECADE BY OUTBREAKS OF ASH DIEBACK DISEASE CAUSED BY THE ASCOMYCETE FUNGUS HYMENOSCYPHUS FRAXINEUS BARAL. WE ARE ISOLATING ENDOPHYTIC FUNGI FROM ASH LEAVES AND ROOTS AND IDENTIFYING THEM USING BARCODING OF NUCLEAR RIBOSOMAL DNA AND MICROSCOPICAL EXAMINATION. WE HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED A PROPAGATION METHOD FOR IN-VITRO TISSUE CULTURE OF ASH FROM EMBRYO AND SEED AND A CO-CULTIVATION SYSTEM FOR FUNGUS AND PLANT IN BOTH AGAR AND PERLITE. WE WILL USE THESE TISSUE CULTURE SYSTEMS FOR FUTURE TESTING OF OUR ENDOPHYTES ISOLATES AGAINST THE DIEBACK PATHOGEN WITH THE AIM OF FURTHER UNDERSTANDING POTENTIAL BIOCONTROL OF THE DISEASE. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AWARD STUDENTSHIP H2020 ETN CEREALPATH ESR8 ISOLATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF NOVEL FUNGAL ROOT ENDOPHYTES FROM WILD RELATIVES OF BARLEY AND WHEAT FOR PATHOGEN RESISTANCE. DNA SEQUENCING IS BEING USED FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ISOLATED STRAINS AND NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING AMPLICON SEQUENCING FOR NON-CULTURABLE ENDOPHYTE IDENTIFICATION. PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS ARE EXAMINING PLANT, ENDOPHYTE AND PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS. PHD STUDENT ANNA KAJA HOEYER. EUH2020 ETN E-SEED: A SUSTAINABLE CEREAL SEED ENDOPHYTE TREATMENT TO REDUCE AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL COSTS WE ARE ESTABLISHING A START-UP COMPANY CALLED E-SEED, ULTIMATELY BE FOCUSED ON MARKETING OUR TECHNOLOGY TO SEED SUPPLIERS, SUB-LICENSING STRAINS, AWARDING AN 'ECO STAMP' AND PROVIDING EXPERT ADVICE, WHILE CONTINUING THE DISCOVERY OF NEW BENEFICIAL ENDOPHYTES FOR NEW PRODUCTS. WE AIM TO FURTHER VALIDATE OUR ENDOPHYTE STRAINS IN FIELD-GROWN CROPS AND ALSO ISOLATE AND SCREEN FURTHER BENEFICIAL ENDOPHYTES FOR GENERAL USE ON A RANGE OF CEREAL CROPS AND FOR PARTICULAR CROP CULTIVARS. WE WILL DEVELOP THE SAME TECHNOLOGY PIPELINE AS SUCCESSFULLY DEMONSTRATED WITH BARLEY FOR WHEAT AND OAT CROPS. THIS PROJECT WILL INCREASE OUR PORTFOLIO OF ENDOPHYTE STRAINS FOR USE WITH THE MAJOR IRISH CEREAL CROPS AND FOR SUB-LICENSING TO OTHER COMPANIES AND COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS BOTH IN IRELAND AND ABROAD. THIS PROJECT WILL REALISE LARGE AND SIGNIFICANT COST REDUCTIONS FOR FARMERS. THE 'E-SEED' PROJECT AND START-UP COMPANY WILL PLACE IRELAND AT THE FOREFRONT OF AN EXCITING AND PROFITABLE FIELD OF AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY. STAFF DR BRIAN MURPHY (TCD) AND PROFESSOR FIONA DOOHAN (UCD) ENTERPRISE IRELAND GENES & SOCIETY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR HILARY M HOEY hoeyhilarym FELLOW EMERITUS HHOEY FELLOWS EMERITII NATIONAL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL NEW TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. DAVID HOEY hoeydavid ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DAHOEY MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG AMBER TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING ORTHOPAEDIC BIOMECHANICS AND MECHANOBIOLOGY MECHANOTRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS BIOMATERIALS PRIMARY CILIA CANCER MECHANOBIOLOGY MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGINEERS IRELAND (TREASURER OF THE BIOMEDICAL DIVISION) MARIE-CURIE FELLOW ASSOCIATION ORTHOPEDIC RESEARCH SOCIETY BIOMATERIALS BIOMECHANICS BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BONE ABNORMALITIES BONE ADAPTATION BONE CEMENT BONE MASS BONE METASTASIS BONE REGENERATION BONE REMODELLING AND REPAIR CELL BIOMECHANICS MECHANOBIOLOGY MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS PROMOTION OF BONE HEALTH THROGH EXERCISE STEM CELL BIOLOGY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY REGENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE OTHER ENGINEERING OSTEOPROGENITOR REGULATION IN LOADING-INDUCED BONE FORMATION: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO TREATING OSTEOPOROSIS EVERY 30 SECONDS A PERSON SUFFERS AN OSTEOPOROSIS-RELATED BONE FRACTURE, RESULTING IN SIGNIFICANT MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, AND HEALTH-CARE COSTS ESTIMATED AT 36BILLION EURO ANNUALLY. CURRENT THERAPEUTICS TARGET OSTEOCLASTS BUT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE SIDE EFFECTS. OSTEOPOROSIS ARISES WHEN STEM CELLS (MSCS) FAIL TO PRODUCE SUFFICIENT NUMBERS OF OSTEOBLASTS. A KEY REGULATOR OF MSC BEHAVIOUR IS LOADING, YET THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH MSCS PROLIFERATE, DIFFERENTIATE AND ARE RECRUITED TO SITES OF LOADING TO REPLACE EXHAUSTED OSTEOBLASTS REMAIN ELUSIVE. OSTEOCYTES ARE IDEALLY NUMBERED AND POSITIONED TO BE SENSORS AND REGULATORS OF BONE FORMATION. HOWEVER RESEARCH ON OSTEOCYTE-MSC SIGNALLING IS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT. THEREFORE THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF THE OSTEOCYTE AND ASSOCIATED SIGNALLING MECHANISMS IN REGULATING MSC CONTRIBUTIONS TO BONE FORMATION AND TO DEVELOP NOVEL 'BONE-ON-A-CHIP' MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORMS FOR THE VALIDATION OF NOVEL ANABOLIC THERAPEUTICS FOR OSTEOPOROSIS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP PRIMARY CILIUM MEDIATED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL MECHANOBIOLOGY IN BONE EVERY 30 SECONDS A PERSON SUFFERS AN OSTEOPOROSIS-RELATED BONE FRACTURE IN THE EU, RESULTING IN SIGNIFICANT MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, AND HEALTH-CARE COSTS ESTIMATED AT €36 BILLION ANNUALLY. CURRENT THERAPEUTICS TARGET BONE RESORBING OSTEOCLASTS, BUT THESE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERE SIDE EFFECTS. OSTEOPOROSIS ARISES WHEN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSC) FAIL TO PRODUCE SUFFICIENT NUMBERS OF BONE FORMING OSTEOBLASTS. A KEY REGULATOR OF MSC BEHAVIOUR IS PHYSICAL LOADING, YET THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH MSCS SENSE AND RESPOND TO CHANGES IN THEIR MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT ARE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN. PRIMARY CILIA ARE NEARLY UBIQUITOUS 'ANTENNAE-LIKE' CELLULAR ORGANELLES THAT HAVE VERY RECENTLY EMERGED AS EXTRACELLULAR MECHANO/CHEMO-SENSORS AND THUS, ARE STRONG CANDIDATES TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN REGULATING MSC RESPONSES IN BONE. HOWEVER, TO DATE, RESEARCH ON THE STEM CELL PRIMARY CILIUM IS ALMOST NON-EXISTENT. THEREFORE, THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH PROGRAM IS TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF THE UNDERSTUDIED PRIMARY CILIUM AND ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR COMPONENTS IN THE OSTEOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION AND RECRUITMENT OF HUMAN MSCS IN LOADING-INDUCED BONE ADAPTATION. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED THROUGH GROUND BREAKING IN VITRO AND IN VIVO TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED BY THE APPLICANT. THE KNOWLEDGE GENERATED IN THIS PROPOSAL WILL REPRESENT A PROFOUND ADVANCE IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF STEM CELL MECHANOBIOLOGY. IN PARTICULAR, THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE CILIUM AND ASSOCIATED MOLECULES AS CENTRAL TO STEM CELL BEHAVIOUR WILL LEAD TO THE DIRECT MANIPULATION OF MSCS VIA NOVEL CILIA-TARGETED THERAPEUTICS THAT MIMIC THE REGENERATIVE INFLUENCE OF LOADING AT A MOLECULAR LEVEL. THESE NOVEL THERAPEUTICS WOULD THEREFORE TARGET BONE FORMATION RATHER THAN RESORPTION, PROVIDING AN INNOVATIVE ALTERNATIVE PATH TO TREATMENT, RESULTING IN AN IMPROVED SUPPLY OF BONE FORMING CELLS, PREVENTING OSTEOPOROSIS. FURTHERMORE, THESE NOVEL THERAPEUTICS WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO BIOMATERIALS GENERATING NOVEL BIOACTIVE OSTEOINDUCTIVE SCAFFOLDS. THESE ADVANCES WILL NOT ONLY IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE PATIENT BUT WILL SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE FINANCIAL BURDEN OF BONE LOSS DISEASES IN THE EU. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL STARTING GRANT NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. DIANE HOGAN hogandiane DISABILITY PENSIONER DMHOGAN PSYCHOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, PARENTING AND PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS, RESEARCH METHODS WITH CHILDREN, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. 13 CASTLEBROOK DUNDRUM DUBLIN 16 01-8961000 ADDICTED MOTHERS AGGRESSION AMBULATORY CARE ANOXEMIA BELIEFS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD-REARING CONFLICT CONSERVATION DEPENDENCE DRUG ABUSE DRUG EFFECTS DRUG-USE ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL FOSTER-CARE HEROIN MALTREATMENT METHADONE-MAINTAINED WOMEN METHODOLOGY MIDAZOLAM OXYGEN PARENTING PEERS PIAGET PSYCHOPATHOLOGY RISK RUSSIA SEDATION, CONSCIOUS SES SOCIAL-INTERACTION SUBSTANCE-ABUSE THEORY TRANSACTIVE DISCUSSIONS USA VALUES VYGOTSKY YOUNG-CHILDREN PROFESSOR LINDA HOGAN hoganlinda PROFESSOR OF ECUMENICS LHOGAN2 IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ETHICS; THE ETHICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS; THE ETHICS OF GENDER; CHRISTIAN ETHICS; RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD PEER REVIEW COLLEGE, UK, MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS MORAL THEOLOGY BRITAIN AND IRELAND (SECRETARY OF BRITISH ASSOCIATION, 1998 - 2001) EDITORIAL BOARD, FEMINIST THEORY EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS (USA) EUROPEAN ETHICS NETWORK EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT(FOUNDING MEMBER AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER). THIS ASSOCIATION BRINGS THEOLOGIANS, POLITICIANS, POLICY MAKERS AND ACADEMICS FROM THE FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS TOGETHER.) EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CATHOLIC THEOLOGY EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF WOMEN FOR THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH (IRISH REPRESENTATIVE 1996 - 1999) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT (FOUNDING MEMBER AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER) IRISH COUNCIL FOR BIOETHICS, MEMBER, IRISH THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (COMMITTEE MEMBER 1993 - 1996) SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS, UK SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS, USA HEALTH POLICY FORMATION IN A CHRISTIAN CULTURE WITH RELIGIOUS MINORITIES HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY, TALLAGHT HOSPITAL & ISE TRUST INTERRELIGIOUS ETHICS AND THE CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALISATION HEADED JOINTLY WITH MAUREEN JUNKER-KENNY IIIS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN VISIONING 21ST CENTURY ECUMENISM: DIVERSITY, DIALOGUE & RECONCILIATION IRCHSS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. KARSTEN HOKAMP hokampkarsten RESEARCH FELLOW KAHOKAMP GENETICS GENETICS DEPARTMENT GENETICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR CELIA HOLLAND hollandcelia PROFESSOR CHOLLAND ZOOLOGY MY RESEARCH FOCUSES UPON THREE KEY AREAS: (I) THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT BUT NEGLECTED HELMINTH INFECTIONS IN HUMANS; (II) THE USE OF ANIMAL MODELS TO DISSECT SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HELMINTH INFECTION, WITH MOST RECENT RESEARCH ON SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ASCARIS IN THE MURINE LIVER USING MOLECULAR TOOLS; AND (III) A NEWLY EMERGING AREA - ECOLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY - WHERE I AM TESTING THE ROLE OF PARASITES IN HOST INVASION AND HOST CO-INFECTION, UTILIZING BADGERS INFECTED WITH HELMINTHES AND TB. I AM ALSO DEVELOPING A ONE HEALTH INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF THE ENIGMATIC PARASITE TOXOCARA, AN IMPORTANT ZOONOTIC PARASITE OF COMPANION AND FERAL ANIMALS. EACH AREA HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY RECENT PUBLICATIONS IN SPECIALIST AND HIGH IMPACT JOURNALS (INCLUDING THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES (IF 21.4), ADVANCES IN PARASITOLOGY (IF 6.2), PLOS NEGLECTED DISEASES (IF 3.9) AND PARASITOLOGY (IF 3)), INVITED REVIEWS (THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS (IF 17.4)) AN INVITED BOOK (ASCARIS THE NEGLECTED PARASITE; ELSEVIER) AND INVITED LECTURES (FOR EXAMPLE BRITISH SOCIETY OF PARASITOLOGY SYMPOSIUM ON ONE HEALTH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PARASITOLOGY PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM). RECENTLY I HAVE RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL, ULYSSES, INLAND FISHERIES IRELAND AND THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO SUPPORT THIS NEW RESEARCH AREA IN ECOLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY WHICH INCLUDES FOCUSING UPON A UNIQUE SYSTEM IN IRELAND - THE NATURAL EXPERIMENT OF AN UNCONTROLLED INVASION BY THE BANK VOLE AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH PARASITES AND NATIVE SPECIES. MY WORK THEREFORE HAS WORLD HEALTH, AS WELL AS BROADER ECOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS, ACHIEVED THROUGH A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF FIELD AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES IN HUMANS, LABORATORY MODELS AND MOST RECENTLY WILD HOSTS. DEPT.OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 EDITOR OF THE CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL PARASITOLOGY AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PARASITOLOGY ASSESSOR FOR PROPOSALS SUBMITTED TO THE LIFE SCIENCES PANEL OF THE ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH AWARDS BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PARASITOLOGY CO-RAPPORTEUR: INFORMAL CONSULTATION ON THE USE OF PRAZIQUANTEL DURING PREGNANCY/LACTATION AND ALBENDAZOLE/MEBENDAZOLE IN CHILDREN UNDER 24 MONTHS, WHO GENEVA EDITORIAL BOARD OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION B: BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF HELMINTHOLOGY EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR AN ACADEMIC REVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND PLANT SCIENCES, UCC FELLOW, ROYAL SOCIETY TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE FOUNDER MEMBER AND SECRETARY OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR PARASITOLOGY GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF PARASITOLOGISTS (EFP) ICOS (IRISH COUNCIL FOR OVERSEAS STUDENTS), EXECUTIVE MEMBER IRISH SOCIETY FOR PARASITOLOGY - COMMITTEE MEMBER IRISH SOCIETY FOR PARASITOLOGY - PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY LINNEAN SOCIETY MEMBER OF EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP TO GATES FOUNDATION PROJECT ASSESSING HEALTH AND EDUCATION EFFECTS OF INTERVENTIONS TO CONTROL SOIL-TRANSMITTED HELMINTHS AND SCHISTOSOMIASIS MEMBER OF PRAEGAR COMMITTEE, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY DIVERSITY COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY GOLD MEDALS ASSESSMENT PANEL MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES ASSESSMENT PANEL MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBERSHIP WORKING GROUP MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC BOARD OF EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC COUNSEL COMPANION ANIMAL PARASITES (ESCAAP) MEMBER OF THE WHO EXPERT ADVISORY PANEL ON PARASITIC DISEASES MEMBER OF WHO FOODBORNE DISEASE BURDEN EPIDEMIOLOGY EXPERT ELICITATION MEMBER OF WHO GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT GROUP(GDG) - DEWORMING ACANTHOCEPHALA AGGREGATION AND PREDISPOSITION ANIMAL MODELS ASCARIS CEREBRAL TOXOCARIASIS EPIDEMIOLOGY FISH PARASITES HELMINTHOLOGY HOST BEHAVIOUR IMPACT AND CONTROL PARASITOLOGY POMPHORHYNCHUS LAEVIS SOIL-TRANSMITTED NEMATODES TOXOCARA IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MS. ELEANOR HOLLYWOOD hollywoodeleanor ASST PROF/HEAD OF CHILDREN'S NURSING HOLLYWOE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE FAMILY, OBESITY, CHILDHOOD WELL-BEING, RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN, NEONATAL NURSING, CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND NURSING EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) BARNARDOS CHAIR OF THE CHILDREN'S DISCIPLINE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK FOR IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND IRISH NURSES AND MIDWIVES ORGANISATION MEMBER OF BSC CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEMBER OF MSC CURRICULUM COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S RESEARCH GROUP MEMBER OF THE CHILDREN'S DISCIPLINE MEMBER OF THE CHILDREN'S NURSING CLINICAL AND ACADEMIC WORKING GROUP MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL ACADEMIC FORUM MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL MARKETING COMMITTEE CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILDHOOD OBESITY CHILDREN CHILDREN'S NURSING CHILDREN'S RIGHTS CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING DERMATOLOGY FAMILY FAMILY-CENTERED CARE HEALTH OUTCOMES INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NEONATAL NURSING NURSE EDUCATION NURSING AN EVALUATION OF THE HEALTHY SCHOOLS PROGRAMME FOR THE TALLAGHT WEST CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (CDI) LTD THE 'HEALTHY SCHOOLS EVALUATION' (PI: PROFESSOR CATHERINE COMISKEY) COMMENCED IN SEPTEMBER 2009. I WAS A MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH TEAM FOR THIS PROJECT ASSUMING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ORGANISATION AND COLLECTION OF BMI DATA FOR APPROX 600 SCHOOL CHILDREN. THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CHILDREN'S NURSING CONTENT OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMMES IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND' I AM INVOLVED WITH THIS STUDY AS A MEMBER OF THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH GROUP, SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY, TCD. CAREER CHOICES OF STUDENTS UNDERTAKING THE BSC CHILDREN'S AND GENERAL NURSING INTEGRATED PROGRAMME START UP FUND: TCD AIDING AND ASSISTING HEALTHCARE POLICY FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN: AN INVESTIGATION OF HOW THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY INFLUENCES THE HEALTH OF THE SCHOOL-AGED CHILD FROM A DISADVANTAGED AREA. PHD STUDY NURSING INSTRUMENT FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE (NIQA) IN THE CHILDREN'S SERVICES: AN EXPLORATION OF THE RESULTS. PROJECT OBJECTIVES: EXPLORE THE RESULTS WHICH RELATE TO MEDICATION MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. EXPLORE THE RESULTS WHICH RELATE TO THE PATIENT EXPERIENCE. UNFUNDED PROJECT PROFESSOR POUL HOLM holmpoul PROFESSOR HOLMP HISTORY MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE (MHRC) MARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, ALL PERIODS. EARLY MEDIEVAL (VIKING) SCANDINAVIA AND IRELAND DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 LATIN NORWEGIAN SWEDISH DANISH ENGLISH FAROESE FRENCH GERMAN ICELANDIC ACADEMIA EUROPAEA CHAIR, HISTORY OF MARINE ANIMAL POPULATIONS / OCEANS PAST INITIATIVE CHAIRMAN, DANISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES CHAIRMAN, EUROPEAN NETWORK OF RESEARCH COUNCILS FOR THE HUMANITIES (ERCH) CHAIRMAN, METRIS, EU DG RESEARCH COMMITTEE, MONITORING EUROPEAN TRENDS IN RESEARCH IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES COORDINATOR, DANISH MUSEUMS NETWORK FOR FISHERIES HISTORY EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEE, ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK), LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME MEMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEE, ESF-COST INTERDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVE, A EUROPEAN NETWORK OF NETWORKS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LANDSCAPES MEMBER, ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL, DANISH CENTRE FOR MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY MEMBER, ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL, NATIONAL FISHING HERITAGE CENTRE, GRIMSBY, UK MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ØRESUND UNIVERSITY (CONSORTIUM OF 14 DANISH AND SWEDISH UNIVERSITIES) MEMBER, BOARD OF INSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND COASTAL COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT MEMBER, CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE, SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEE (GLOBAL) MEMBER, COUNCIL, ROYAL DANISH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, DANISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES MEMBER, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (FORMANDSKABET), VÆKSTFORUM SJÆLLAND (PUBLIC-PRIVATE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION) MEMBER, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ØRESUND SCIENCE REGION (PUBLIC-PRIVATE CONSORTIUM OF DANISH-SWEDISH BUSINESSES, UNIVERSITIES, REGIONS AND MUNICIPALITIES) MEMBER, EXTERNAL RESEARCH ADVISORY BOARD, DANISH NATIONAL MUSEUM MEMBER, GOVERNING BOARD OF DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES MEMBER, GOVERNING BOARD, LEJRE EXPERIMENTAL CENTRE MEMBER, GOVERNING BOARD, VIKING SHIP MUSEUM MEMBER, LINNAEUS GRANTS COMMITTEE, SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBER, MINISTRY OF FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND FISHERIES RESOURCES MEMBER, MINISTRY OF FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES FISH TAX FOUNDATION MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, THE DANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION'S CENTRE FOR BLACK SEA STUDIES MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEE, HERA HUMANITIES IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC STEERING COMMITTEE, MARBEF (EU) MEMBER, STANDING COMMITTEE FOR THE HUMANITIES, EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION MEMBER, TRINITY COLLEGE RESEARCH COMMITTEE PRESIDENT, ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN SEAS PRESIDENT, ESEH, EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM OF HUMANITIES INSTITUTES AND CENTRES SECRETARY, NORTHERN EUROPEAN HISTORY RESEARCH NETWORK TREASURER, ASSOCIATION FOR THE HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN SEAS VICE-PRESIDENT, ESEH, EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY COASTAL ZONE ECOSYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF DUBLIN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY FISH, FISHERIES MARINE ECOSYSTEMS MARINE SCIENCES, MARITIME STUDIES MEDIEVAL EUROPE URBAN AND ECONOMIC HISTORY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY HISTORY OF MARINE ANIMAL POPULATIONS HTTP://WWW.HMAPCOML.ORG A. P. SLOAN FOUNDATION NORFISH - NORTH ATLANTIC FISHERIES: AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, 1400-1700 NORFISH AIMS TO UNDERSTAND THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC FISHERIES, FISH MARKETS AND FISHERY-DEPENDENT COMMUNITIES BETWEEN AD 1400 AND 1700. THE DISCOVERY OF THE GRAND BANKS FISHERY IN 1497 TURNED FISH FROM A HIGH-PRICED, LIMITED RESOURCE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO A LOW-PRICED, ABUNDANT ONE BY EARLY MODERN TIMES. THE PROJECT WILL ESTABLISH A ROBUST QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORK OF EXTRACTIONS, SUPPLIES AND PRICES, WHILE ALSO CHARTING THE QUALITATIVE PREFERENCES AND POLITICS THAT MOTIVATED ACTORS OF THE FISH REVOLUTION ACROSS THE NORTH ATLANTIC.THE CORE QUESTIONS ARE: WHAT WERE THE NATURAL AND ECONOMIC CAUSES OF THE FISH REVOLUTION? HOW DID MARGINAL SOCIETIES ADAPT TO CHANGING INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND CONSUMPTION PATTERNS AROUND THE NORTH ATLANTIC? HOW DID ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ACTORS RESPOND? THE ANSWERS WILL HELP EXPLAIN THE HISTORIC ROLE OF ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE, HOW MARKETS IMPACTED MARGINAL COMMUNITIES, AND HOW HUMANS PERCEIVED LONG-TERM CHANGE. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL DIGITAL ARTS AND HUMANITIES STRUCTURED PHD PROGRAMME IRISH HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI V HUMANITIES WORLD REPORT RIKSBANKENS JUBILEUMSFOND, SWEDEN; SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL; NWO, NETHERLANDS; IMPACT EU FP7 OCEANS PAST PLATFORM COST IS1403 HUMANITIES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT A. W. MELLON FOUNDATION DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CAROLE HOLOHAN holohancarole ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HOLOHACA HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. ANNE HOLOHAN holohananne ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AHOLOHAN SOCIOLOGY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS COVER THE INTER-RELATED TOPICS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, NETWORKS, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, ORGANIZATIONAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE, GLOBALIZATION, DEVELOPMENT AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH. I HAVE CONDUCTED FIELD RESEARCH IN HAITI, IN KOSOVO, IN THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK, AND MORE RECENTLY ONLINE IN A VARIETY OF SETTINGS. I AM CURRENTLY LEADING A H2020 FUNDED EUROPEAN WIDE CONSORTIUM IN GAMING FOR PEACE (GAP), WHICH IS CREATING A CURRICULUM IN SOFT SKILLS FOR PEACEKEEPING PERSONNEL AND EMBEDDING THIS CURRICULUM IN AN ONLINE VIRTUAL REALITY GAME. DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 GLOBALISATION MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION SYSTEMS ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT, POPULATION SOCIETY, DEVELOPMENT MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS & JOURNALISM SOCIAL JUSTICE A POWER ELITE? MAPPING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN FORMAL AND INFORMAL POWER HOLDERS IN IRELAND 2002-2008. THIS PROJECT STUDIES THE NETWORK COMPRISING BANKERS, PROPERTY DEVELOPERS AND LEGISLATORS IN IRELAND DURING THE PEAK OF THE ECONOMIC BOOM FROM 2002-2006 AND THE SUBSEQUENT CRASH, 2006-2008. I AM MAPPING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS TO DISCOVER 1) WHETHER OR NOT PERSONS IN FORMAL POSITIONS OF POWER WERE LINKED TOGETHER THROUGH INFORMAL NETWORKS OF POWER OR INFLUENCE; (2) WHETHER OR NOT PERSONS WHO DID NOT HOLD FORMAL POLITICAL SYSTEM POWER POSITIONS WERE NONETHELESS LINKED TO THE FORMAL POSITIONS IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY COULD SYSTEMATICALLY INFLUENCE DECISIONS; AND (3) WHETHER OR NOT INFLUENTIAL PERSONS WHO DID NOT HOLD FORMAL POLITICAL POWER WERE THEMSELVES ALSO INTERCONNECTED. THIS STUDY IS EXPLORING THE STRUCTURE OF POWER AND THE ROLE OF ELITES IN IRISH SOCIETY. IN PARTICULAR, I INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF THE 'SOCIAL CIRCLE'; SPECIFICALLY, "THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN HOLDERS OF FORMAL AUTHORITY AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH HOLDERS OF FORMAL AUTHORITY ARE CONNECTED TO THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE SUCH POSITIONS" (KADUSHIN 1968:690). THE SOCIAL CIRCLE IS A MAJOR INFORMAL MECHANISM WHICH LINKS POWERFUL PERSONS AND POWERFUL ORGANIZATIONS, AND THIS STUDY GIVES GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF SUCH LINKAGES ON IRISH SOCIETY NOT JUST IN SPECIFIC ORGANIZATIONS. IT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF THESE RELATIONSHIPS FOR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIETY IN IRELAND. TCD ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND GAMING FOR PEACE (GAP) DR ANNE HOLOHAN IS COORDINATOR OF 'GAMING FOR PEACE', BUILDING AN ONLINE ROLE-PLAYING GAME TO TRAIN PERSONNEL IN CONFLICT PREVENTION AND PEACEBUILDING MISSIONS. THE PROJECT WILL BUILD A BASE CURRICULUM AND EMBED IT IN THE GAME TO PROVIDE A LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN THE SOFT SKILLS OF COMMUNICATION, COOPERATION, GENDER AWARENESS AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY. THE GAME WILL ALLOW USERS TO EXPERIENCE SIMULATIONS OF CHALLENGING SCENARIOS FROM CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING MISSIONS TO LEARN COMMUNICATION AND COOPERATION, GENDER AWARENESS AND CULTURAL COMPETENCY SKILLS. ENTERING THE GAME AS AVATARS, PLAYERS WILL ROLE-PLAY AS A MEMBER OF ANOTHER ORGANISATION, A DIFFERENT GENDER OR NATIONALITY, AND SO WILL EXPERIENCE A VARIETY OF CONFLICT ZONE SCENARIOS FROM A RANGE OF DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. THE 'GAMING FOR PEACE' PROJECT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY A €2 MILLION EUROS GRANT FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION UNDER THE HORIZON 2020 PROGRAMME. LED BY TRINITY, IT BRINGS TOGETHER 14 COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS FROM ACADEMIA, MILITARY, POLICE, CIVIL ACTORS AND BUSINESS, INCLUDING THE PSNI, THE FINNISH MILITARY, THE POLISH MILITARY AND POLISH POLICE, LAUREA UNIVERSITY IN FINLAND, THE TED KENNEDY INSTITUTE AT NUI MAYNOOTH, UPSKILL IN BELFAST, AND IRISH COMPUTER GAMES COMPANY HAUNTED PLANTED, LED BY MADS HAAHR, WHO IS ALSO AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN COMPUTER SCIENCE IN TRINITY. THE PROJECT IS ALSO SUPPORTED BY THE EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENCE COLLEGE, WHICH OVERSEES THE TRAINING OF ALL EU PERSONNEL DEPLOYED ON PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS, NATO AND A NUMBER OF UN BODIES. EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. STEPHANIE HOLT holtstephanie ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SHOLT SOCIAL STUDIES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE MY PRIMARY RESEARCH INTEREST IN ARE LOCATED IN THE FIELD OF CHILD WELFARE WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON ASPECTS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, INCLUDING;THE IMPACT ON EXPOSURE TO DOMESTIC ABUSE ON CHILDREN; THE IMPACT OF DOMESTIC ABUSE ON FATHERING AND MOTHERING; POST SEPARATION CONTACT; & INTIMATE PARTNER HOMICIDE. I HAVE ALSO CONDUCTED RESEARCH AND EVALUATION ON FAMILY SUPPORT AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE. SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE RESEARCHER WITH THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CHAIR OF THE EDITIORAL BOARD OF EISTEACH - IRISH JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. MEMBER OF IASW (IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS) MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, INTIMATE PARTNER HOMICIDE, CHILD WELFARE SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC ABUSE: HELPING STUDENT TEACHERS UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLE IN A PRIMARY SCHOOL SETTING. IT IS WIDELY RECOGNISED THAT CHILDREN WHO LIVE WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE (DA) FACE INCREASED RISK OF NEGLECT, PHYSICAL ABUSE, OR LOSING ONE OR BOTH OF THEIR PARENTS. ADDITIONALLY, CHILDREN LIVING WITH DA ARE AT INCREASED RISK OF BEHAVIOURAL, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCES; COGNITIVE AND ATTITUDINAL PROBLEMS; AND PROBLEMS THAT EXTEND INTO ADULTHOOD. SINCE TEACHERS HAVE ACCESS TO MORE CHILDREN FOR LONGER PERIODS OF TIME, THEY ARE IN AN IDEAL POSITION TO RECOGNISE CHILDREN'S RISK LEVELS AND REACTIONS TO DA AND RESPOND APPROPRIATELY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THESE CHILDREN. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT STUDENT TEACHERS ARE PROVIDED WITH EDUCATION ON THE TOPIC SO THAT WE DO NOT LET CHILDREN FAIL IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM. THIS STUDY ASKS IF THE EXISTING UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM PROVIDES SUFFICIENT EDUCATION ON DA TO STUDENT TEACHERS; WHETHER STUDENT TEACHERS KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF DA WILL INCREASE FOLLOWING PARTICIPATION IN A TAILORED DA EDUCATION PROGRAMME; AND WHAT THE VIEWS ARE OF STUDENT TEACHERS FOLLOWING PARTICIPATION IN THE STUDY. STANDING CONFERENCE ON TEACHER EDUCATION NORTH AND SOUTH EVALUATION OF NAAS CHILD & FAMILY CENTRE NAAS YOUTH PROJECT THE ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AIB SCHOOLMATE AIB FAMILY WELFARE CONFERENCE EVALUATION HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE LISTEN TO ME! CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE TCD & SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY TCD CHILDREN, FATHERS AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE CHILD'S EXPERIENCE OF POST-SEPARATION CONTACT WITH THIER FATHER WHERE THERE HAS BEEN A HISTORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EVALUATION OF BARNARDOS/ONE FAMILY CHILD CONTACT SERVICE THIS IS THE FINAL EVALUATION OF THE BARNARDOS/ONE FAMILY PILOT CONTACT CENTRE SERVICE WHICH COMMENCED IN 2011. BOTH QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS ARE BEING EMPLOYED INVOLVING ALL KEY STAKEHOLDERS BARNARDOS/ONE FAMILY EVALUATION OF THE HEALTH ERVICES EXECUTIVE OUT OF HOURS SERVICE THE HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE (HSE) COMMISSIONED AN EVALUATION OF THEIR PILOT 'OUT OF HOURS' SOCIAL WORK SERVICE IN DONEGAL AND CORK. THIS EVALUATION CONDUCTED JOINTLY WITH CO-PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER DR. EOIN O'SULLIVAN COMPRISED BOTH QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ELEMENTS ENGAGING WITH THE SERVICE PROVIDERS AND RELATED PROFESSIONALS. HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE SOCIAL WORK KEY-WORKING: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY GRADUATES FROM THE CARE SYSTEM ARE DOCUMENTED TO LEAVE CARE WITH AT BEST A MINIMUM EDUCATION, POOR FAMILY SUPPORT AND LIMITED NETWORKS (JACKSON, 2010). EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ALSO ATTESTS TO COMPROMISED MENTAL HEALTH FOR SOME, OFTEN COMPOUNDED BY DRUG AND ALCOHOL DIFFICULTIES. BETTER OUTCOMES ARE HIGHLIGHTED WHEN YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF A SIGNIFICANT OTHER PERSON AVAILABLE TO THEM (BIEHAL ET AL, 1995; COURTNEY ET AL, 2010). SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF A LEGACY OF ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN STATE CARE AND IN RESPONSE TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE RYAN REPORT (2009), THIS STUDY SETS OUT TO EXPLORE THE BENEFITS OF RESIDENTIAL KEY-WORK SUPPORT AS PERCEIVED BY YOUNG CARE LEAVERS WHO HAVE MADE THE TRANSITION INTO AFTERCARE ENVIRONMENTS. GROUNDED IN A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE, THIS STUDY WILL PROVIDE A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO HOW YOUNG PEOPLE IN RESIDENTIAL CARE DRAW FROM THEIR EXPERIENCES OF KEYWORKER SUPPORT IN THE PAST AND HOW THEY BELIEVE THEY CAN BEST BE SUPPORTED AS THEY NEGOTIATE THEIR NEW AFTERCARE ENVIRONMENT. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND 2011-2012 GROUPWORK INTERVENTIONS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: DO THEY WORK AND DO THEY LAST? UTILISING A MIXED-METHODS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE THE BENEFITS GAINED BY PARTICIPANTS OF A GROUPWORK PROGRAMME FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDREN WHO HAD EXPERIENCED DOMESTIC ABUSE PRIOR TO JOINING THE GROUP PROGRAMME. THE STUDY IS ALSO INTERESTED TO ESTABLISH THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ANY BENEFITS GAINED BY THE PARTICIPANTS. TO ACHIEVE ITS AIM, THE RESEARCH DESIGN INVOLVES QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS WITH PARTICIPANTS CONDUCTED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF STANDARDIZED SCALING QUESTIONNAIRES TO MEASURE THEIR SELF-REPORTED GENERAL WELLBEING AND STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES. PARTICIPANTS ARE INTERVIEWED AT THREE POINTS IN TIME, THAT IS, BEFORE THE START OF THE GROUP WORK PROGRAMME, IMMEDIATELY AFTER ITS COMPLETION AND FINALLY, ONE YEAR AFTER THE END OF THE PROGRAMME. INTERVIEWS ARE ALSO CONDUCTED PRE AND POST THE GROUP PROGRAMME WITH THE GROUP FACILITATORS IN ORDER TO INCLUDE THEIR INSIGHTS ON THE USEFULNESS OF THE PROGRAMME IN ITS PRESENT FORM AND FUTURE POSSIBILITIES FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND 2010-2011 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR ROBERT HOLTON holtonrobert FELLOW EMERITUS HOLTONR SOCIOLOGY DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 GLOBALISATION GLOBALIZATION IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. RITA HONAN honanrita ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HONANR PSYCHOLOGY AUTISTIC DISORDER, ASPERGER SYNDROME: SUPPORTING THOSE AFFECTED, THEIR FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS, INCLUDING THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS. FOCUS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF KEY SOCIAL INTERACTION SKILLS INCLUDING 'TRAINING' OF MAINSTREAM PEERS TO ELICIT IMPROVED SOCIAL BEHAVIOURS OF THOSE WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER. WITHIN TCD, THE ASPROJECT BOTH PROVIDES DIRECT SERVICES AND EXPLORES HOW TO IDENTIFY AND SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER TO INSURE THEY COMPLETE COLLEGE AND MAINTAIN GOOD MENTAL HEALTH DURING THESE VULNERABLE YEARS. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY AP 0.31 ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES (SINCE 1971) AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, DIVISIONS OF INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AND BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS ASSOCIATION OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (INTERNATIONAL AND FLORIDA), MEMBER ABA AUTISM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ASSOCIATION OF BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (INTERNATIONAL), INVITED MEMBER OF SUPERVISION TASK FORCE AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA FLORIDA PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY COMMITTEE, DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES, BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA(APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR) MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE'S TASK FORCE ON AUTISM, INVITED MEMBER NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES (NEPS) ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND ASSOCIATE FELLOW, REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST; DIVISION MEMBER- COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS (FOUNDING COMMITTEE MEMBER), AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS: AUTISM (FOUNDING COMMITTEE MEMBER, TREASURER), AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. 6 YEAR (FORMER) MEMBER OF COUNCIL. SPECIAL OLYMPICS WORLD GAMES: ENTERTAINMENT TEAM CO-ORDINATOR FOR TCD BASED ATHLETES AND COACHES BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY COLLEGE STUDENTS EDUCATIONAL PLANNING/POLICY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY SPECIAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DELIVERY OF SUPPORTS TO YOUNG ADULTS WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM CONDITIONS THIS PROJECT IS EXPLORING HOW TO IDENTIFY STUDENTS IN COLLEGE WITH AN AUTISTIC DISORDER, PROVIDES A DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW & A REFERRAL WITH TARGETED RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICE. STUDENTS THEN MEET WITH THE ASPROJECT RESEARCHERS, PG PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS, WHO CONDUCT QUALITY OF LIFE, ADAPTIVE SKILLS, SOCIAL SKILLS AND MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS. INTERVENTION AND SUPPORT IS PROVIDED TO THESE STUDENTS WHO ARE OFFERED A STUDENT-2-STUDENT SUPPORTER (THROUGH THE STUDENT COUNSELLING SERVICES) AND PARTICIPATION IN WEEKLY SOCIAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT GROUP SESSIONS WITH MAINTREAM PEER MODELS, BASED ON PIVOTAL RESPONSE TRAINING PROCEDURES. INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT IS ALSO PROVIDED AS NEEDED OR REQUESTED, E.G. INTERFACING WITH TUTORS, EMPLOYERS, AND ASSISTING TO RESOLVE ANY DIFFICULTIES WITH FAMILY MEMBERS OR IN THE COMMUNITY. TRANSITION PLANNING OUT OF COLLEGE IS ALSO BEING DEVELOPED AND SUPPORT IS PROVIDED TO TCD GRADUATES ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM. MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY WITH AS ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE GROUP SESSIONS (ONLY). THE DRIVING OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS: TO BECOME PROFICIENT IN IDENTIFYING STUDENTS IN COLLEGE WHO HAVE A DIAGNOSIS OR POTENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF AS OR AUTISTIC DISORDER SO AS TO INVOLVE THEM IN A STRUCTURED PROCESS OF INDIVIDUAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT, AND THEN TO COLLABORATIVELY DEVELOP AN INDIVIDUAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL SUPPORT PLAN, TO IMPLEMENT MONITOR AND REVISE THE PLAN AS NEEDED DURING THEIR TIME IN COLLEGE. A FINAL PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A MODEL OF SERVICE TO STUDENTS WITH ASDS THAT CAN BE SUCCESSFULLY REPLICATED NATIONWIDE. ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN TRUST 2006-07 FURTHERING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN IRISH PRIMARY SCHOOLS THIS PROJECT IS THE 5TH YEAR OF A SERIES OF SMALL SCALE EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES DESIGNED TO ASSESS WHICH VARIABLES OF THE PIVITOL RESPONSE TRAINING APPROACH TO INCLUDING CHILDREN WITH AN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER WITH MAINSTREAM PEERS, ARE KEY VARIABLES IN IMPROVING THE SOCIAL INTERACTION/REACTION SKILLS OF THE CHILDREN WITH AN ASD. A PARALLEL PIECE IS REFINING PROCEDURES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALISED INCLUSION PLANS AND FOR SCHOOL-WIDE INCLUSION PLANS FOR STUDENTS ON THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM, FOR USE THROUGHOUT IRISH PRIMARY SCHOOLS. IN 2007-08 SECONDARY SCHOOLS WERE ADDED TO THIS PROJECT. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION & SCIENCE, SPECIAL NEEDS SECTION PHD STUDENTSHIP INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR PATRICK THOMAS HONOHAN honohanpatrickthomas HONORARY PROFESSOR PHONOHAN ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BUSINESS CYCLES/CRISES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS ECONOMIC HISTORY, THEORY ECONOMIC STABILIZATION ECONOMIC STUDIES--DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMICS EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, FINANCIAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FISCAL THEORY/APPLICATION GLOBALISATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT IRISH ECONOMY, PROBLEMS MACROECONOMICS MACROECONOMICS, OPEN ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY ECONOMICS TAXATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. INGRID HOOK hookingrid ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IHOOK SCHOOL OFFICE - PHARMACY & PHARMCEUT SCI <STRONG>MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS </STRONG> <UL><LI> CULTURE AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF MEDICINAL PLANTS, INCLUDING MENTHA, PAPAVER, LEONTOPODIUM, TARAXACUM, DROSERA, DIONAEA, AJUGA, TAXUS, STREPTOCARPUS. THIS WORK HAS FOCUSED ON THE PRODUCTION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES BY THESE PLANT CELL CULTURES, THE OPTIMISATION OF CULTURE CONDITIONS FOR SECONDARY METABOLITE PRODUCTION. <LI> MICROPROPAGATION OF DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS, INCLUDING AGROBACTERIUM RHIZOGENES-MEDIATED ROOTING, INDUCING THE PRODUCTION OF 'HAIRY' ROOTS. </UL> <STRONG> AREAS OF RESEARCH FOCUS</STRONG> <UL><LI> BIOTECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL PLANT CELL CULTURES. <LI>OPTIMISATION OF SECONDARY METABOLITE PRODUCTION IN PLANT CELL CULTURES. <LI> METABOLIC TRANSFORMATION OF ACTIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS IN CELL CULTURE SYSTEMS. <LI> INDUCTION OF DE NOVO METABOLITE SYNTHESIS IN PLANT CELL CULTURES. </UL> <STRONG>RESEARCH COLLABORATORS AND AWARDS</STRONG> <UL> <LI>ENTERPRISE IRELAND (EI)-INDUSTRY PROJECT <LI>EI- BASIC RESEARCH PROJECT. <LI>EU FUNDING FOR TAXUS RESEARCH - A MULTI-CENTRE PROJECT. <LI>EI-BRITISH COUNCIL TRAVEL AWARDS FOR COLLECTION OF SAMPLES <LI>EOLAS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AWARD TO ESTABLISH COLLABORATION WITH CNRS GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX. </UL> <STRONG>COLLABORATIONS WITH: </STRONG><BR> <UL> <LI>CNRS GIF-SUR-YVETTE CEDEX, FRANCE; <LI> DEPT. OF PHARMACEUTICAL BIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG, GERMANY; <LI> DEPT. OF PHARMACOGNOSY, UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA. </UL> SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY MS. NIAMH HOPKINS hopkinsniamh LEARNING TECHNOLOGIST (VLE) NHOPKINS IT SERVICES IT SERVICES 199/200 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 BENEFITS DURATION OF UNEMPLOYMENT IMPACT INSURANCE PIECEWISE-CONSTANT HAZARD RATE STOCK SAMPLING MR. PAUL HORAN horanpaul ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PAHORAN SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES NURSING - THE HISTORY OF IRISH NURSES IN CONFLICTS - REFLECTIVE PRACTICE - - NETWORKING - MODELS OF NURSING SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL NETWORK OF LEARNING DISABILITIES LTD(UK) EXTERNAL EXAMINER - EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY EXTERNAL EXAMINER - LETTERKENNY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MEMBER OF DIRECTOR OF SERVICES GROUP (IRISH SISTERS OF CHARITY) MEMBER OF LIDINAN (LEARNING & INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INTERNATIONAL NURSING ACADEMIC NETWORK) REVIEWER - BRITISH JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES REVIEWER - INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW VICE - CHAIRPERSON - NURSE MANAGER'S ASSOCIATION (INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES) NETWORKING FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS REFLECTIVE PRACTICE USING ELECTRONIC DATA CAPTURE AS RESEARCH METHOD A STUDY OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE WORKLOAD/CASELOAD IN THE WESTERN HEALTH BOARD AREA ( C.BEGLEY, C.GRIFFITHS, P,HORAN, G.BYRNE, AM BRADY, C.MACGREGOR) €32,647 NURSING AND MIDWIFERY DEVELOPMENT UNIT WESTERN HEALTH BOARD A STUDY OF COMMUNITY NURSING PRACTICE IN GALWAY COMMUNITY CARE AREA ( C.BEGLEY, C.GRIFFITHS, P,HORAN, G.BYRNE, AM BRADY, C.MACGREGOR) €68,000 NURSING AND MIDWIFERY DEVELOPMENT UNIT WESTERN HEALTH BOARD AN ANALYSIS OF PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS IDENTIFIED BY STUDENT NURSES. PROJECT TEAM, MARK MONAHAN, LIZ FAHEY MCCARTHY, PATRICIA CRONIN,MARYANNE MURPHY. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO UNDERTAKE AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS IDENTIFIED BY STUDENTS IN THEIR REFLECTIVE LEARNING DURING THEIR INTERNSHIP. THE OVERALL PURPOSE IS TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE AREAS OF CLINICAL PRACTICE THAT ADDRESS OR CHALLENGE STUDENTS. THIS STUDY AIMS TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE IDENTIFIABLE PATTERNS AND THEMES THAT WILL PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR EDUCATION AND PRACTICE. NONE A SURVEY OF THE VIEWS OF NURSE MANAGERS, NURSE PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STAFF AND REGISTERED NURSES IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND IN RESPONSE TO THE REVIEW OF THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. PROJECT TEAM: GRIFFITHS C, CROFTON C, HORAN P, KEENAN P, FLEMING S & SHEERIN F. THIS PROJECT USED FOCUS GROUPS TO SURVEY THE VIEWS OF 67 SELF SELECTED REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES IN IRELAND CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES. THE RESPONDENTS' VIEWS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY FORWARDED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AS A SUBMISSION TO TO THE REVIEW OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. NURSE MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND. CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR JOHN HORNE hornejohn FELLOW EMERITUS JHORNE HISTORY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES 1. FRANCE AND THE GREAT WAR: A CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY . A HISTORY OF FRENCH EXPERIENCE IN THE GREAT WAR THAT USES PRIMARY RESEARCH AND THE LATEST MONOGRAPHS AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL TO GENERATE THE FRAMEWORK OF ANALYSIS WHILE TESTING THE ARGUMENTS AND PROVIDING DETAILED EVIDENCE THROUGH FOUR LOCAL STUDIES. 2. CULTURAL DEMOBILIZATION IN INTER-WAR EUROPE, 1919-39. SUBJECT OF EDITED VOLUME FROM CONFERENCE ORGANIZED IN SEPTEMBER 2001. RELATED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS ON THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND UTOPIAN HOUSING PROJECTS IN INTERWAR PARIS. 3. WAR CRIMES AND WAR CRIMES TRIALS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. SUBJECT OF ONE-DAY SEMINAR TO BE RUN IN THE SUMMER OF 2005, THE PROCEEDINGS TO BE PUBLISHED. 4. RUPTURE- REMEMBRANCE-RENEWAL: POST-WAR PERIOD PERIODS IN 20 TH CENTURY EUROPEAN HISTORY. A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT RUN BY A CONSORTIUM OF HISTORY DEPARTMENTS AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES ACROSS EUROPE (EURHIST XX). DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3120 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IRISH CORRESPONDENT FOR VINGTIÈME SIÈCLE (PARIS) MEMBER OF COMITÉ DIRECTEUR OF THE CENTRE DE RECHERCHE, HISTORIAL DE LA GRANDE GUERRE, PÉRONNE (FRANCE) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY/REVUE EUROPÉENNE D'HISTOIRE. STEERING COMMITTEE OF EURHIST XX [A RESEARCH CONSORTIUM OF DEPARTMENTS AND INSTITUTES ACROSS EUROPE DEVELOPING 'EUROPEAN' APPROACHES TO THE WRITING OF 20 TH CENTURY EUROPEAN HISTORY] CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. BRETT HOULDING houldingbrett ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HOULDINB STATISTICS CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. I HAVE MANY AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST WITHIN STATISTICS AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH, INCLUDING BOTH APPLICATION AND THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT. RECENT WORK HAS FOCUSED ON ESTIMATING THE TOTAL NUMBERS OF SPECIES OF DIFFERENT TAXA, WHICH HAS BEEN JOINT WORK WITH SIMON WILSON OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND MARK COSTELLO OF THE LEIGH MARINE LABORATORY, UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND. CURRENTLY THIS IS BASED ON DATA FROM THE DATES OF FIRST REPORTING OF DIFFERENT SPECIES, STARTING WITH THE INITIAL WORK OF LINNAEUS. THIS QUESTION IS IMPORTANT IN DISCUSSION OF SPECIES EXTINCTION RATES AND BIODIVERSITY. WE FORM PART OF A GLOBAL TEAM, INCLUDING RESEARCHERS IN CANADA, FRANCE, THE UNITED STATES AND AUSTRALIA, THAT IS EVALUATING THE MANY DIFFERENT METHODS OF ESTIMATING SPECIES NUMBERS. OTHER/GENERAL INTERESTS: I HAVE A STRONG INTEREST IN THE FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS, AND SPECIFICALLY, NORMATIVE BAYESIAN STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY, WITH PREVIOUS WORK IN THIS AREA FOCUSING ON THE GENERALISATION OF ADAPTIVE UTILITY THAT PERMITS UNCERTAINTY IN NOT ONLY A DECISION MAKER'S BELIEFS, BUT ALSO THEIR PREFERENCES. A BRIEF OUTLINE OF WORK CONDUCTED IN THIS AREA IS SUMMARISED: THEORIES OF SEQUENTIAL DECISION MAKING HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED TO CONSIDER COHERENT DECISION MAKING STRATEGIES OVER SEVERAL DECISION EPOCHS WHEN ACTUAL DECISION OUTCOMES ARE A PRIORI UNCERTAIN. SUCH THEORIES HAVE MANY AREAS OF APPLICATION, E.G., EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BEING MADE BY RESEARCHERS IN MATHEMATICS, STATISTICS, ECONOMICS, PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY. TRADITIONALLY, ALL UNCERTAINTIES ARE MODELLED VIA PRECISE PROBABILITIES, AND ALL PREFERENCES OVER DECISION OUTCOMES VIA KNOWN UTILITIES. IT IS RECOGNISED, HOWEVER, THAT INDETERMINACY MAY COMPLICATE ASSESSMENT OF SUCH PROBABILITIES AND/OR UTILITIES, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE DECISION MAKER HAS LITTLE OR NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE DECISION PROBLEM UNDER CONSIDERATION. AS SUCH, RECENT ATTENTION HAS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING DECISION MAKING ALGORITHMS THAT ARE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE IMPRECISE PROBABILITIES (WHERE PRECISE VALUES ARE REPLACED BY INTERVALS) AND/OR UNCERTAIN UTILITIES (WHERE FIXED QUANTITIES ARE REPLACED BY RANDOM VARIABLES). THIS THEN ALLOWS INDETERMINACY TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT, GENERALISING CLASSICAL THEORIES OF DECISION MAKING, AND PERMITTING THE CREATION OF ROBUST BAYESIAN METHODS FOR WITHIN STATISTICAL DECISION THEORY. HOWEVER, FURTHER IMPLICATIONS ARE THE EFFECTS THESE GENERALISATIONS HAVE ON THE AXIOMATIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE THEORY, AND ALSO ON TRADITIONAL DECISION THEORY CONCEPTS SUCH AS VALUE OF INFORMATION AND RISK AVERSION. FINALLY, I ALSO HAVE A GROWING INTEREST IN THE USE OF STATISTICAL ARGUMENTS FOR POLICY DEVELOPMENT. DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONSULTANT TO TICTOC PLATFORMS LTD, SOLOVISOR LTD, AND CUSTOMER DIMENSION ANALYTICS THROUGH ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION VOUCHERS. EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF THE IRISH STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH, STRUCTURAL SAFETY, JOURNAL OF RISK AND RELIABILITY, ENVIRONMETRICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE, JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PLANNING AND INFERENCE, QUALITY AND RELIABILITY ENGINEERING, AISTATS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING, OPEN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS, AMONG MANY OTHERS. BIOLOGICAL MODELING BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS CRIMINAL STATISTICS DATA ANALYSIS DECISION SCIENCES FORENSIC LAW GAME THEORY OPERATIONS RESEARCH OPTIMIZATION PROBABILITY RELIABILITY THEORY RISK FACTORS/ANALYSIS SIGNAL PROCESSING SIMULATION AND MODELLING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS STATISTICAL AND SIMULATION METHODOLOGIES STATISTICS STOCHASTIC PROCESSES UTILITIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. FENTON HOWELL howellfenton CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER HOWELLF PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE C/O HSE NORTH EAST RAILWAY STREET NAVAN, CO MEATH 01-8961000 DR. NENG WEI HU hunengwei SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW HUNW PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS DEPT. OF PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS BIOTECHNOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. MERIEL HUGGARD huggardmeriel ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HUGGARDM COMPUTER SCIENCE CONFORMANT COMMUNICATIONS, ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT, WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION, MATHEMATICS EDUCATION COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SENIOR MEMBER: ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) SENIOR MEMBER: INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS, DISCRETE MATHEMATICS COMPUTER ENGINEERING COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SIMULATION/MODELING COMPUTER SOFTWARE COMPUTER/DATA/NETWORK SECURITY CONTROL APPLICATIONS (COMPUTER SCIENCES) CONTROL THEORY (COMPUTER SCIENCES) DATA ANALYSIS DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ENGINEERING EDUCATION EXPERT SYSTEMS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING INTEGER PROGRAMMING INTERNET LINEAR PROGRAMMING LOCAL AREA NETWORKS MATHEMATICS EDUCATION MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY NETWORKING NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH QUEUING REMOTE SENSING TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION WIRELESS SYSTEMS, RADIO TECHNOLOGY WIRELESS ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT: A ROBUST, SCALABLE APPROACH USING CONTROL THEORY. ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT (AQM) TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY INCORPORATED INTO EXISTING INTERNET ROUTERS TO SIGNAL DYNAMICALLY CONGESTION TO SOURCES ON FIXED NETWORKS. THE INCREASING PROLIFERATION OF MOBILE DEVICES HAS CREATED A GROWING AWARENESS OF THE NEED FOR WIRELESS AQM SCHEMES. HOWEVER, WIRELESS LINKS HAVE INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS THAT INVALIDATE THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS OF FIXED INFRASTRUCTURE AQM. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES TO ADVANCE THE THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN WIRELESS AQM. THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL THEN BE USED TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT NEW, HIGHLY EFFICIENT ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT SCHEMES FOR THE WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME TINYTORRENTS - AN EFFICIENT, SCALABLE, ROBUST, CO-OPERATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDING GLOBAL ACCESSIBILITY TO LOCAL WIRELESS SENSORNET INFORMATION WIRELESS SENSOR FUNCTIONALITY IS PREDOMINANTLY CONSTRAINED BY SENSOR SIZE AND BATTERY LIFE CONSIDERATIONS. EXISTING SENSORNET FRAMEWORKS E.G. DELUGE, ARE DESIGNED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, SUCH AS SENSOR CODE UPDATE. TINYTORRENTS PROPOSES A UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL PLATFORM WHICH MAKES SENSOR DATA PROMPTLY, TRANSPARENTLY AND GLOBALLY AVAILABLE USING TRACKERLESS, CO-OPERATIVE PEER TO PEER CONCEPTS. A KEY ELEMENT OF TINYTORRENTS WILL BE THE MODELLING AND INTEGRATION OF WIRELESS QUALITY OF SERVICE ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITY TOGETHER WITH ACCURATE POWER CONSUMPTION AND TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISATION. SENSORS WILL BE ABLE TO REQUEST PRIORITISATION FOR "IMPORTANT" DATA SUBJECT TO PREVAILING FRAMEWORK CONSTRAINTS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ARTHUR PAUL HUGHES hughesarthurpaul ASSISTANT PROFESSOR APHUGHES COMPUTER SCIENCE FORMAL SPECIFICATION & DESIGN NOTATIONS: VDM, Z, RAISE, CSP, CIRCUS, CCS, PI-CALCULUS, FOCUS. APPLICATIONS OF FORMAL SPECIFICATION & DESIGN NOTATIONS: HARDWARE & SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION, ALGORITHM DERIVATION, LANGUAGE DESIGN & MEANING, CORRECTNESS, SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS. MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF FORMAL SPECIFICATION & DESIGN NOTATIONS: RELATIONAL CALCULUS, PREDICATED CALCULUS, ORDER THEORY, CATEGORY THEORY, TOPOS THEORY, HIGHER ORDER LOGIC, TYPE THEORY, ALLEGORIES, UNIFYING THEORIES OF PROGRAMMING. TOOL SUPPORT FOR FORMAL SPECIFICATION & DESIGN NOTATIONS: ALLOY, RAISE, FDR, THEOREM PROVERS, FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING. COMPUTER SCIENCE FMG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 THE IRISH FORMAL METHODS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP THE IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ALGEBRA ALGORITHMS AND COMPLEXITY ANALYSIS & FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS AUTOMATA CALCULUS COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS, DISCRETE MATHEMATICS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING COMPUTER SOFTWARE DEPENDABLE SYSTEMS DISCRETE MATHEMATICS FORMAL SEMANTICS FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS LOGIC MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS MATHEMATICAL LOGIC, SET THEORY, COMBINATORICS, SEMANTICS MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTING OPERATOR ALGEBRAS PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS PURE MATHEMATICS SET THEORY SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TOPOLOGY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. GAVIN HUGHES hughesgavin VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW HUGHESG2 CNTR FOR MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES THE APPLICATION OF MILITARY HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY AND NARRATIVES WITH ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE. THE ROMAN ARMY DURING THE EARLY IMPERIAL PERIOD (SPECIFICALLY THE AGRICOLA CAMPAIGNS IN WALES AND SCOTLAND). WARFARE IN THE BRITISH ISLES FROM LATE ANTIQUITY TO THE HIGH MEDIEVAL (SPECIFICALLY THE EARLY NORSE AND HASTINGS CAMPAIGNS AND 1ST TO 3RD CRUSADES). FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURY WARFARE (INCLUDING PRACTICAL CHIVALRY, ARMS AND ARMOUR). THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR AND THIRTY YEARS' WAR. THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION (SPECIFICALLY BOYNE AND AUGHRIM CAMPAIGNS). THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR (GENERAL INTEREST). THE NAPOLEONIC WARS (SPECIFICALLY 1798 IRISH REBELLION AND WATERLOO CAMPAIGN). THE CRIMEAN WAR (SPECIFICALLY THE ALMA AND BALAKLAVA CAMPAIGNS). VICTORIAN CAMPAIGNS IN INDIAN AND AFRICA (SPECIFICALLY THE INDIAN MUTINY, NORTH-WEST FRONTIER AND ZULU/BOER WARS). THE GREAT WAR (SPECIFICALLY ULSTER / IRISH REGIMENTS). THE SECOND WORLD WAR (GENERAL INTEREST). CNTR FOR MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES COLLEGE 01-8961000 LATIN WELSH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN COMMITTEE MEMBER OF IRISH POST-MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY GROUP MEMBER OF CONFLICT ARCHAEOLOGY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK [CAIRN] MEMBER OF ROYAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE MEMBER OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF IRISH ANTIQUARIES MEMBER OF THE MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. ARCHAEOLOGY IRELAND ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND BATTLEFIELD STUDIES CONFLICT ARCHAEOLOGY GREAT WAR WW1 MILITARY ARCHAEOLOGY MILITARY HISTORY HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DR. MARIAN HUMPHRIES humphriesmarian RESEARCH FELLOW MHUMPHRI GENETICS HUMAN MOLECULAR/MEDICAL GENETICS WITH SPECIAL INTEREST IN HEREDITARY NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES OF THE RETINA AND BLISTERING DISORDERS OF THE SKIN. GENERATION OF ANIMAL MODELS FOR RETINAL DISEASE. DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ALL-IRELAND RETINAL RESEARCHERS NETWORK AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN VISION AND OPHTHALMOLOGY (ARVO) EUROPEAN VISION INSTITUTE IRISH NETWORK OF NEURONAL STEM-CELL INVESTIGATORS IRISH SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS TRINITY COLLEGE NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE (TCIN) ABNORMALITIES ABSENCE ADRP ANIMAL MODEL APOPTOSIS ARM B-WAVE BASEMENT-MEMBRANE C-FOS CAT CELL-DEATH CELLS CHROMOSOME-3 CONE CONGENITAL STATIONARY NIGHT BLINDNESS CONSERVATION CONSTITUTIVE ACTIVATION CULTURED-CELLS CYTOKERATIN GENES DELETION DETACHMENT DISEASE DISK MEMBRANE DNA POLYMORPHISMS DOMINANT RETINITIS-PIGMENTOSA ELECTRORETINOGRAM EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA EXPRESSION FOLDING PROBLEM FORM GENE GENETIC-HETEROGENEITY HETEROGENEITY HETEROZYGOUS MISSENSE MUTATION IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS INTERMEDIATE-SIZED FILAMENTS KERATIN LIGHT LINKAGE LINKAGE ANALYSIS MOLECULAR-CLONING MUTANT MICE MUTATION MUTATIONS PCR DETECTION POINT MUTATIONS POLYMERASE CHAIN-REACTION PREVALENCE RETINITIS-PIGMENTOSA RHODOPSIN RHODOPSIN GENE SUBUNIT AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR PETER HUMPHRIES humphriespeter ADJUNCT PROFESSOR PHUMPHRS GENETICS TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) GLOBALLY, OVER 160 MILLION PEOPLE ARE ESTIMATED TO BE VISUALLY IMPAIRED, IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT UP TO 70% OF GLOBAL VISUAL HANDICAP, CAUSED BY CATARACT, GLAUCOMA, CORNEAL OPACITIES AND INFECTION, IS TREATABLE OR PREVENTABLE (INCLUDING MOST OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMAS). IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD, CONDITIONS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY ECLIPSED BY THE VASTLY MORE COMMON FORMS OF WORLD BLINDNESS BECOME VERY MUCH MORE VISIBLE. THESE ARE THE HEREDITARY RETINOPATHIES (PROMINENT AMONG WHICH IS RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA), AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION (AMD) AND PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY (PDR). ALSO, POSSIBLY UP TO 10% OF CASES OF OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA EITHER DO NOT RESPOND ADEQUATELY, OR BECOME RESISTANT TO CONVENTIONAL PRESSURE-REDUCING MEDICATIONS. FOR THREE DECADES, PETE'S RESEARCH HAS BEEN DIRECTED TOWARD UNDERSTANDING THE MOLECULAR PATHOLOGIES ASSOCIATED WITH RETINAL DEGENERATION, EARLY STUDIES FOCUSING ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ON HEREDITARY RETINOPATHIES, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE LOCALIZATION OF GENES FOR RP TO CHROMOSOMES 3Q (RHODOPSIN), 6P (RDS-PERIPHERIN) AND 7Q (INOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE 1) AND ON THE GENERATION OF TARGETED MURINE DISEASE MODELS. AS A RESULT OF WORLD EFFORTS, IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT HEREDITARY RETINOPATHIES POSSIBLY REPRESENT THE MOST GENETICALLY HETEROGENEOUS OF ANY GROUP OF HEREDITARY CONDITIONS FOR WHICH MOLECULAR PATHOLOGIES HAVE BEEN EXPLORED. ON ONE HAND, THE PROGRESSIVE UNFOLDING OF AN IMMENSELY COMPLEX GENETIC LANDSCAPE HAS BEEN INSPIRATIONAL, BUT ON THE OTHER, AND IN A VERY MUCH MORE TRANSLATIONAL SENSE, THIS SAME GENETIC HETEROGENEITY PRESENTS AN IMMENSELY SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE - DEVELOPING GENE MEDICINES FOR WHAT COULD BE SEVERAL HUNDRED INDIVIDUALLY RATHER RARE HEREDITARY CONDITIONS IS A MAJOR LOGISTICAL AND ECONOMIC HURDLE THAT MUST NOW BE SURMOUNTED. IN THIS REGARD, A MAJOR RECENT FOCUS OF RESEARCH HAS BEEN IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROCEDURES FOR MODULATING PERMEABILITY AT THE BLOOD-BRAIN AND INNER BLOOD RETINA BARRIERS SUCH AS TO ALLOW ACCESS TO THE BRAIN AND RETINA OF SYSTEMICALLY ADMINISTERED LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT POTENTIALLY PROTECTIVE COMPOUNDS TARGETING MOLECULAR PATHOLOGIES COMMON TO MULTIPLE FORMS OF DISEASE (PROTEIN MISFOLDING OR AGGREGATION, OXIDATIVE STRESS, NEUROPROTECTION, ETC) WHICH COULD BE USED EITHER SINGLY OR IN A COMBINATORIAL SENSE TOGETHER WITH GENE THERAPIES. MORE RECENTLY, MULTIFACTORIAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING AMD AND GLAUCOMA HAVE BECOME A MAJOR FOCUS OF RESEARCH. PETER'S WORK ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ASPECTS OF GLAUCOMA THERAPY IS SUPPORTED BY AN ADVANCED GRANT FROM THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL. DEPT. OF GENETICS O'HARA'S LINCOLN PLACE COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ALL-IRELAND RETINAL RESEARCHERS NETWORK AMD (AGE-RELATED MACULAR DYSTROPHY) ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN VISION AND OPHTHALMOLOGY BIOPHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, NETWORK COMMUNICATING EDITOR, HUMAN MUTATION DSC UNIVERSITY OF SEGED DYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (DEBRA)-INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD EDITORIAL BOARD, HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS FELLOW, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN FIGHTING BLINDNESS IRELAND MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS (USA)-FOCUS GROUP ON GENETICS AND GENETIC TECHNOLOGY IRISH NETWORK OF NEURONAL STEM-CELL INVESTIGATORS IRISH SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS (PRESIDENT) MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK) ADVISORY PANEL MEMBER OF EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ORGANIZATION MEMBER, ALCON RESEARCH INSTITUTE (USA) MEMBER, COLLEGE OF REVIEWERS FOR THE CANADA RESEARCH CHAIRS PROGRAMME MEMBER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY RETINA INTERNATIONAL (IRPA)-SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD THE HUMAN GENOME ORGANISATION (HUGO)- FOUNDER IRISH MEMBER TRINITY COLLEGE NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE (TCIN) A-WAVE ABNORMALITIES ABSENCE ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC-LEUKEMIA ACUTE MYELOID-LEUKEMIA ADAPTATION ADRP ALLOGENEIC MARROW ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION ALPHA-SUBUNIT ANIMAL MODEL ANTI-RAS RIBOZYME ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES APLASTIC-ANEMIA APOPTOSIS ARM ARTIFICIAL-CHROMOSOME VECTORS AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE B-WAVE BASEMENT-MEMBRANE BCL-2 BINDING BLOOD BLUE BMT BONE BONE-MARROW TRANSPLANTATION BUPHTHALMOS C-FOS CAENORHABDITIS-ELEGANS CARCINOMA CAT CELL-DEATH CELLS CHANNEL CHILDHOOD CELIAC-DISEASE CHILDREN CHOROIDEREMIA CHROMOSOME CHROMOSOME-11 CHROMOSOME-3 CHROMOSOME-7Q CHROMOSOME-POSITIVE LEUKEMIA CHRONIC GRANULOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA CLEAVAGE CLONING COLLAGEN MESSENGER-RNA CONE CONE DYSTROPHY CONGENITAL STATIONARY NIGHT BLINDNESS CONSERVATION CONSTITUTIVE ACTIVATION CONSTRUCTION CULTURED-CELLS CYTOKERATIN GENES D1S103 LOCUS D3S47 C17 DEGENERATION DEGENERATION SLOW RDS DELETION DETACHMENT DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT POLYMORPHISM DISEASE DISK MEMBRANE DISORDERS DNA DNA POLYMORPHISMS DOMINANT RETINITIS-PIGMENTOSA EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA EUKARYOTIC GENOMES EXPRESSION FAMILY FOLDING PROBLEM FORM GENE GENE THERAPY GENETIC-HETEROGENEITY GLAUCOMA GLAUCOMA GENETICS GLC3A GRAFT HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYMES HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES HETEROGENEITY HETEROZYGOSITY HETEROZYGOUS MISSENSE MUTATION HLA-DQ HOST-DISEASE HUMAN DNA I COLLAGEN IDENTIFICATION IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY IN-VITRO INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS INTERMEDIATE-SIZED FILAMENTS JUVENILE GLAUCOMA KERATIN KINETICS LINKAGE LINKAGE ANALYSIS LOCUS MAPS MARROW STROMAL CELLS MICROSATELLITES MOLECULAR-CLONING MOLECULAR-GENETICS MOSAIC MUTANT MICE MUTATION MUTATIONS MYELOID-LEUKEMIA MYOCILIN NONHEMATOPOIETIC TISSUES PATHOGENESIS PCR PCR DETECTION PHOSDUCIN PDC PHOTORECEPTOR DEGENERATION POINT MUTATIONS POLYMERASE CHAIN-REACTION PREDICTION PREVALENCE PRIMARY CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA PROLACTIN PROTEIN RECURRENCE REGION RETINAL DEGENERATIVE DISEASES RETINITIS-PIGMENTOSA RHODOPSIN RHODOPSIN GENE RIBOZYME-MEDIATED CLEAVAGE RNA ROD PHOTORECEPTORS SECONDARY-STRUCTURE SEQUENCE SHORT ARM SITES SUBUNIT TIGR TURNER SYNDROME VITRO AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. SYLVIA HUNTLEY-MOORE huntleymooresylvia DIRECTOR STAFF EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT SHUNTLEY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY HIGHER EDUCATION WITH PARTICULAR INTERESTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING AND THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC STAFF. . DEVELOPING AND SUPPORTING DEPARTMENTAL TEACHING CULTURES . EVALUATION OF TEACHING SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ACADEMIC PRACTICE AND QUALITY COMMITTEE AUDIO VISUAL AND MEDIA SERVICES COMMITTEE. BESS FACULTY WORKING PARTY ON STUDENT EVALUATION OF COURSES. CHAIR, FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP CHAIR, IRISH UNIVERSITIES TRAINING NETWORK CHAIR, ORGANISING COMMITTEE, COLLOQUIUM ON UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND LEARNING: POLICY AND PRACTICE. EDITOR, AISHE-J ALL IRELAND JOURNAL OF TEACHNG AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION. EDITORIAL BOARD, AISHE-J, ALL IRELAND JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE MEMBER, ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) EXTERNAL EXAMINER, QUALITY REVIEW. DEPT. OF FRENCH, NUI LIMERICK EXTERNAL MEMBER, STANDING COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESIDENT'S TEACHING AWARDS AND TEACHING DEVELOPMENT GRANTS, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES CURRICULUM SUBCOMMITTEE GUEST SPEAKER, TEACHING AND LEARNING DAY DCU. PRESENTATION 'STUDENT SURVEYS- HELP OR HINDRANCE IN PROMTING EFFECTIVE TEACHING' HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA, HERDSA LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY STEERING COMMITTEE LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY GROUP. MEMBER OF HETAC INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW PANEL, DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MEMBER OF HETAC PROGRAMMATIC REVIEW PANEL, ATHLONE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MEMBER, CENTRE FOR ACADEMIC PRACTICE AND STUDENT LEARNING ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE EVALUATION STEERING GROUP, TCD QUALITY COMMITTEE STEERING COMMITTEE ON QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT VICE-PRESIDENT, ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION , AISHE WORKING PARTY ON TEACHING AND LEARNING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT HIGHER EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION EDUCATION LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF STUDENTS' LEARNING PROFILES IN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN' A JOINT PROJECT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP. THE FIRST ROUND OF DATA WAS COLLECTED FROM JUNIOR FRESHER STUDENTS FROM MEDICINE AND NURSING. THE SECOND ROUND OF DATA WAS COLLECTED IN 2006 AND 2007.FINDINGS FROM DATA COLLECTED FROM MEDICAL AND NURSING STUDENTS HAS BEEN PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES IN 2008 AND 2009. RESUTLS FROM THE NURSING STUDENT COHORT WERE PUBLISHED IN 2011. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY TRAINING OF TRAINERS PROGRAMME STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES THE NATIONAL SURVEY OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT(NSSE) OBTAINS INFORMATION FROM U/G STUDENTS IN RELATION TO LEVEL OF ACADEMIC CHALLENGE,STUDENT INTERACTIONS WITH STAFF, ACTIVE & COLLABORATIVE LEARNING, ENRICHING EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES & SUPPORTIVE CAMPUS ENVIRONMENT. FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCE A SURVEY OF FACTORS INFLUENCING STUDENT RESPONSE RATES TO ONLINE COURSE SURVEYS AIM: TO INVESTIGATE FACTORS THAT MAY INFLUENCE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS' DECISION TO RESPOND TO ONLINE SURVEYS IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY WAYS OF INCREASING RESPONSE RATES. OBJECTIVES: 1. TO IDENTIFY DEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF STUDENTS WHO DO AND DO NOT RESPOND TO ONLINE COURSE SURVEYS; 2. TO EXPLORE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TO ONLINE COURSE SURVEYS; 3. TO ASSESS WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENT IN THE EVALUATION PROCESS. THE SURVEY HAS BEEN PILOTED WITH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. BEFORE THE END OF 2013-3014 ACADEMIC YEAR A FOLLOW-UP FOCUS GROUP WILL BE HELD WITH NURSING STUDENTS AND THE REVISED SURVEY WILL BE ROLLED OUT IN OTHER SCHOOLS ACROSS COLLEGE. SELF-FUNDED HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN THEIR COURSE OF STUDY. STUDY AIM: TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF EDUCATIONAL ENGAGEMENT OF NURSING STUDENTS IN THE SENIOR SOPHISTOR YEAR (2012-2013) OF THEIR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE AND TO IDENTIFY ANY CHANGES IN THEIR LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT SINCE 2010 WHEN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES SURVEY OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT WAS ORIGINALLY ADMINISTERED TO THIS GROUP. STUDY OBJECTIVES 1. THE QUALITY OF THE STUDENTS' EDUCATIONAL ENGAGEMENT WILL BE EXAMINED IN RELATION TO THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF: A. THE LEVEL OF ACADEMIC CHALLENGE OFFERED BY THE COURSE B. THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF STAFF /STUDENT INTERACTIONS C. ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING D. ENRICHING EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES E. SUPPORTIVE CAMPUS ENVIRONMENT F. THEIR APPROACH TO LEARNING BACKGROUND:THE SURVEY OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT (SSE) OBTAINS INFORMATION REGARDING STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC COURSES AND ACTIVITIES THAT INSTITUTIONS PROVIDED FOR THEIR LEARNING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE RESULTS PROVIDE AN ESTIMATE OF HOW UNDERGRADUATES SPEND THEIR TIME AND WHAT THEY GAIN FROM ATTENDING COLLEGE. SURVEY ITEMS REPRESENT EMPIRICALLY CONFIRMED GOOD PRACTICES IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION. SELF-FUNDED HIGHER EDUCAITON RESEARCH EVALUATION OF THE POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TCD THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO EVALUATE THE POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BY SEEKING THE PERSPECTIVES OF CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF FUTURE SUPPORT AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH POLICY DEVELOPMENT. A SECONDARY AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO DETERMINE THE UTILITY OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE AS A TOOL FOR GAINING FEEDBACK FROM POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERS. UNTIL VERY RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN NO OVERALL POLICY TO GATHER FEEDBACK FROM TCD POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS. ON THE 17TH APRIL 2013, THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL AGREED TO A PROPOSAL FROM A WORKING GROUP OF THE GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE THAT RESEARCH STUDENTS BE INVITED TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK THROUGH AN ONLINE SURVEY. RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPLEMENTING THIS PROPOSAL ON A PILOT BASIS HAS BEEN DEVOLVED TO THE SCHOOLS. THE STUDY PROPOSED IN THIS APPLICATION WILL MEET THIS RESPONSIBILITY AS WELL AS MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TO THE RESEARCH EVIDENCE ON THE POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE. RESEARCH APPROACH AND DESIGN: A CROSS SECTIONAL DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY DESIGN. DATA COLLECTION: THE POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE SURVEY DEVELOPED BY THE UK HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY WILL BE USED FOR THIS STUDY SELF-FUNDED HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH AN EVALUATION OF THE ELECTIVE MODULE: MADNESS IN THE MOVIES THE USE OF CINEMA IN MEDICAL EDUCATION IS WELL ESTABLISHED IN THE LITERATURE AND IS PART OF A TREND TO INTRODUCE ARTS AND HUMANITIES SUBJECTS INTO THE SCIENCE-BASED CURRICULUM (DATTA 2013). HOWEVER, THIS APPROACH IS LESS PREVALENT IN NURSE EDUCATION. THIS STUDY AIMS TO ADDRESS THIS GAP IN PRE-REGISTRATION NURSE EDUCATION IN IRELAND BY EVALUATING STUDENTS'LEARNING EXPERIENCE ON THE MODULE MADNESS IN THE MOVIES. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT ARE: 1.TO DETERMINE STUDENTS' UNDERSTANDING OF THE INFLUENCE OF CONTEMPORARY CINEMA ON SOCIETAL VIEWS OF MENTAL ILLNESS; 2.THE EXTENT TO WHICH STUDENTS HAVE USED A RANGE OF TOOLS TO CRITIQUE AND ANALYSE THE PORTRAYAL OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN FILM; 3.THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY HAVE COMPARED AND CONTRASTED THE PORTRAYAL OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN FILM WITH CURRENT TRENDS AND APPROACHES TO MENTAL HEALTH 4.THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY HAVE RELATED THE ANALYSIS OF MENTAL HEALTH IN FILM TO THEIR OWN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE 5.THEIR PROFICIENCY IN MAKING INFORMED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MODULE-RELATED BLOG SELF-FUNDED AN EXPLORATION OF THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENCOURAGE STUDENCE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN AN UNDERGRADUATE NURSING COURSE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA SUCH AS FACEBOOK IS UBIQUITOUS PARTICULARLY WITH THAT GROUP OF PEOPLE BORN BETWEEN THE EARLY 1980S AND 1990S WHO ARE ALSO KNOWN AS GENERATION Y OR DIGITAL NATIVES. WITH REGARD TO OUR OWN STUDENTS, MANY OF WHOM BELONG TO GENERATION Y, WE HAVE NOTICED AN INCREASING RELUCTANCE TO ENGAGE IN TRADITIONAL TUTORIAL DISCUSSION. BY REPLACING TUTORIALS WITH FACEBOOK DISCUSSIONS IN ONE MODULE WE HOPED TO SEE INCREASED ENGAGEMENT AND GREATER DEPTH OF LEARNING FROM OUR STUDENTS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF THIS INNOVATIVE APPROACH. SELF FUNDED INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR JULIETTE M HUSSEY husseyjuliettem VICE PRESIDENT GLOBAL RELATIONS JMHUSSEY TCD GLOBAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS IN CHILDREN AND HOW THEY RELATE TO RISK FACTORS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. CHILDHOOD OBESITY. PHYSIOTHERAPY IN PAEDIATRIC RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS. CARDIAC REHABILITATION. PULMONARY REHABILITATION. VICE PRESIDENT FOR GLOBAL RELATIONS EAST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS REHABILITATION FOLLOWING OESPHAGEAL CANCER: IDENTIFYING REHABILTATIVE NEEDS AND STRATEGIES HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD NOVEL METHODS OF MEASURING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN PATIENTS WITH CANCER AND THE ROLE OF EXERCISE INTERVENTIONS HRB FELLOWSHIP ENERGY EXPENDITURE IN CHILDREN PLAYING NINTENDO WII IRCSET EMBARK STUDENTSHIP DEVELOPING CARDIAC REHABILTATION SERVICES IN VIETNAM HRB GLOBAL HEALTH NETWORKING GRANT AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. STEFAN HUTZLER hutzlerstefan ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SHUTZLER PHYSICS AREA OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY: PHYSICS. COMPUTATIONAL AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS, IN PARTICULAR PHYSICS OF FOAMS AND GRANULAR MATERIALS, SOCIOPHYSICS. DOMAIN OF SPECIALIZATION: MY RESEARCH IS IN THE AREA OF SOFT CONDENSED MATTER, GRANULAR MATTER, AND ECONO- AND SOCIOPHYSICS. IN COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR DENIS WEAIRE, I HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF LIQUID FOAMS, WHICH CONSTITUTE A MODEL SYSTEM OF SOFT MATTER, THROUGH BOTH EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS (E.G. DISCOVERY AND MONITORING OF A SOLITARY WAVE IN FOAM DRAINAGE, AVALANCHES OF BUBBLE REARRANGEMENTS IN FOAMS UNDER SHEAR AND CONVECTIVE BUBBLE MOTION IN FOAMS UNDER FORCED DRAINAGE). THE BOOK "THE PHYSICS OF FOAMS" CO-WRITTEN TOGETHER WITH D. WEAIRE (OUP 1999, PAPERBACK 2001) AND FEATURING A LARGE AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL WORK, HAS RECEIVED EXCELLENT REVIEWS IN THE SCIENTIFIC PRESS AND HAS TURNED INTO A STANDARD REFERENCE IN RESEARCH PAPERS ON THE PHYSICS OF FOAMS. PRESENT RESEARCH INTERESTS A FURTHER THEME OF MY RESEARCH ARE ANALOGIES OF FOAMS AND GRANULAR MATTER CONCERNING PACKING PROBLEMS AND DILATANCY (EXPANSION OF A PACKING OF GRAINS UNDER SHEAR). MY CONTRIBUTION TO ECONOPHYSICS CONCERNS A STUDY OF WEALTH DISTRIBUTIONS IN SOCIETIES. AN AGENT BASED MODEL REPRODUCES THE LONG POWER LAW TAILS (PARETO TAILS) THAT ARE TYPICAL FOR SUCH DISTRIBUTIONS. DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHARTERED PHYSICIST, MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS HYDRODYNAMICS OF WET FOAMS (MEMBER OF TEAM) ESA/ESTEC (EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY) DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED FOAMS IN MICROGRAVITY (MEMBER OF TEAM) ESA/ESTEC (EUROEPAN SPACE AGENCY) RESEARCH INTO FOAMS AND EMULSIONS IN FLUIDIC NETWORKS (MEMBER OF TEAM) ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT IRISH FUNDING FOR MY MSC STUDENT IRCSET EMBARK INITIATIVE AVALANCHES AND 1/F NOISE COORDINATOR ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATION OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS TO RISK ANALYSIS IN FINANCE AND SOCIOLOGY SFI BASIC RESEARCH GRANT BUBBLE AND DROPLET STRUCTURE: FROM THE MICRO TO THE NANO SCALE SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED FOAMS IN MICROGRAVITY EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. JAMES HYLAND hylandjames RETIRED STAFF MEMBER JHYLAND RETIRED STAFF MEMBER POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. GERALYN HYNES hynesgeralyn ASSOC PROF PALLATIVE CARE/DIR OF RESEARC HYNESG2 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: ACTION RESEARCH IN HEALTHCARE; PARTICIPATION, VOICE AND POSITIONALITY IN ACTION RESEARCH; EMBEDDING PALLIATIVE CARE IN NURSING PRACTICE ACROSS ACUTE, NON-ACUTE, RESIDENTIAL AND COMMUNITY CARE SETTINGS; CONCEPT OF TOTAL PAIN IN CHRONIC ILLNESS SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ACTION RESEARCH MODULE DEVELOPMENT FOR MSC AND PHD SUPPORT (UCD) CHAIRPERSON, ANAIL (RESPIRATORY NURSES GROUP) EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOCIETY HONOR SOCIETY OF NURSING, SIGMA THETA TAU (STT) 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE ACTION RESEARCH ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT, SOUTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FORUM, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FORUM, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR PALLIATIVE CARE EDUCATION FORUM, ALL IRELAND INSTITUTE FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE ACUTE CARE NURSING ASTHMA, CYSTIC FIBROSIS, OBSTRUCTIVE AIRWAYS, INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASES, PULMONARY FIBROSIS HEALTH OUTCOMES PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING PROVISION AND UTILISATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS RESEARCH ISSUES SPECIFICE TO ANY HEALTH PROFESSION HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) NEIGHBOURHOODS SUPPORTING PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED CHRONIC ILLNESS SEED FUNDING AIMED AT DEVELOPING A PROPOSAL FOR NEIGHBOURHOODS SUPPORTING PEOPLE WITH ADVANCED CHRONIC ILLNESS FEASIBILITY PROJECT. SFI-ISCA (SEED FUNDING) EVALUATION OF GENIO DEMENTIA PROGRAMME THIS IS A MULTI-SITE STUDY THAT IS EVALUATING INTEGRATED CARE FOR PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA AT BOTH HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY CARE LEVEL GENIO DEFINING SOCIAL NEEDS THAT CAN BE ADDRESSED BY A SOCIAL WORKER IN A TB SERVICE ST JAMES HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF AN E-LEARNING PROGRAMME FOR CONDUCTING FORMAL FAMILY MEETINGS IN PALLIATIVE CARE - AN ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT AIIHPC SURVEY OF BEREAVED RELATIVES: A SERVICE EVALUATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE STUDY TO EVALUATE BEREAVED RELATIVES' PERSPECTIVE ON THE QUALITY OF HOSPITALS END OF LIFE CARE FOR PATIENTS AND THEIR RELATIVES/FRIENDS SURVEY OF BEREAVED RELATIVES USING VOICES QUESTIONNAIRE A COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE TO IMPLEMENT PERSON-CENTRED PRACTICE STEWERTS LTD A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT A NEW UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY DEGREE PROGRAMMES MEN AS CARERS: EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCES OF MALE CARERS IN CHRONIC ILLNESS AN EXPLORATORY PROJECT OF THE EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS WITH TUBERCULOSIS AND CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES ROYAL CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL TRUST EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAMME TO SUPPORT PALLIATIVE AND HOSPICE CARE IN IRELAND ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH HOW CAN THE WRAP FRAMEWORK PROMOTE AND GUIDE SELF-MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY PRACTICE IN MENTAL HEALTH THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH HOW CAN THE WRAP FRAMEWORK PROMOTE AND GUIDE SELF-MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY PRACTICE IN MENTAL HEALTH A THEORETICAL STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOGOTHERAPY AND THE PRINCIPLES OF PALLIATIVE CARE MAPPING END OF LIFE CARE REPORTING IN RESIDENTIAL CARE ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING FROM PALLIATIVE CARE ACTION RESEARCH INITIATIVE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION AN EXPLORATION OF NON-SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE IN THE ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL SETTING HRB ADDRESSING PALLIATIVE CARE IN ADVANCED CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT HRB INFORMAL CARE-GIVING IN ADVANCED CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD): CURRENT EXPERIENCES IN THE IRISH CONTEXT IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION THE EXPERIENCE AND NEEDS OF FORMER FAMILY CARERS IRCHSS/CARE ALLIANCE IRELAND A SUPPORT NEEDS ANALYSIS OF THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN FROM OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL HAEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY SERVICE A MULTI-PHASED ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT INVOLVING A PROJECT TEAM COMPRISED OF MEMBERS OF THE MDT AND PARENTS COLLABORATING TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL SUPPORT NEEDS OF PARENTS. PHASES INCLUDE TWO SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS; QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS WITH PARENTS AND STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRE DEVELOPMENT; AND DEVISING A SUPPORT STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. CMRF EVALUATION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF SCHWARTZ ROUNDS IN IRELAND IN TWO HEALTHCARE ORGANISATIONS (UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY AND BLACKROCK HOSPICE) TO ESTABLISH THE FEASIBILITY OF ROUNDS IN THE IRISH HEALTHCARE CONTEXT THE PROJECT APPLIES THE RE-AIM (REACH, EFFECTIVENESS, ADOPTION, IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE) FRAMEWORK TO EVALUATE THE PILOTING OF SCHWARTZ ROUNDS IN THE HSE. SCHWARTZ ROUNDS ARE A WELL-ESTABLISHED AND EVIDENCE BASED MULTIDISCIPLINARY INITIATIVE, WHICH AIM TO DEVELOP MORE COMPASSIONATE AND SUPPORTIVE CULTURES FOR STAFF TO WORK IN, AND IN DOING SO SUPPORTING IMPROVED HEALTHCARE OUTCOMES FOR PATIENTS AND SERVICE USERS. HSE PRACTICE, POLICY, AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH FOR NURSING: A KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS AND QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION. PROJECT IS LED BY CANADIAN RESEARCHERS (PROF BARBARA PESUT, PI). PRACTICE, POLICY, AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH FOR NURSING: A KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS AND QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION. CIHR PROJECT GRANT COMPETITION (CANADA) AGEING CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR HEATHER ELIZABETH INGMAN ingmanheatherelizabeth VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW INGMANH CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES OSCAR WILDE CENTRE RESEARCH AREAS: WOMEN'S STUDIES, GENDER STUDIES, TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN'S LITERATURE, IRISH WOMEN'S FICTION. CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH CRITICAL THEORY, 20TH CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION GENDER STUDIES HISTORY OF THE IRISH SHORT STORY UNDER CONTRACT TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR ALAN IRVINE irvinealan PROFESSOR OF DERMATOLOGY IRVINEA CLINICAL MEDICINE GENETIC BASIS OF SKIN DISORDERS AND ATOPY SUITE 9 ST JAMES PRIVATE CLINIC ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL - FELLOW ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND - MEMBER BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF DERMATOLOGISTS - ORDINARY MEMBER BRITISH SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY - MEMBER BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY - MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: FACULTY OF 1000 MEDICINE (F1000), PAEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY SECTION EDITORIAL BOARD: JOURNAL OF LYMPHOEDEMA EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR DERMATOLOGICAL RESEARCH - MEMBER GRANT REVIEWER: THE WELLCOME TRUST, MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK), THE ITALIAN NATIONAL TELETHON, DEBRA INTERNATIONAL, BRITISH SKIN FOUNDATION IRISH ASSOCIATION OF DERMATOLOGISTS - MEMBER IRISH SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS - MEMBER REVIEWER: THE JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY, THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY, JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY, ALLERGY ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND - MEMBER ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON - FELLOW SOCIETY FOR INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY - MEMBER SOCIETY FOR PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY - MEMBER THE DOWLING CLUB - MEMBER THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND - FELLOW ATOPY DERMATITIS DERMATOLOGY ECZEMA GENETIC/MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION HUMAN GENETICS MAMMILIAN AND HUMAN GENETICS AND GENOMICS MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. ANDREW JACKSON jacksonandrew ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JACKSOAN ZOOLOGY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN UNDERSTANDING ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OR PROCESSES FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE WHICH I TEND TO APPROACH USING COMPUTATIONAL / MATHEMATICAL MODELS. TRADITIONALLY, ECOLOGY IS THE STUDY OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LIVING ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT. DURING MY PHD I FOCUSED ON UNDERSTANDING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL ANIMALS LIVING IN CLOSE PROXIMITY WHICH ARE DETERMINED BY THEIR BEHAVIOURAL RULES. THESE RULES ARE FUNCTIONS BOTH OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S GENOTYPE AND THE LOCAL PHYSICAL/ CHEMICAL/ BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON SIMILAR ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES BUT ON A SMALLER SCALE, WHERE THE TISSUES AND CELLS OF THE SKELETAL SYSTEM REPLACE THE WHOLE ANIMALS IN MY PREVIOUS WORK. DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BEHAVIOURAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY BIOENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL MODELING BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT/PROCESSES COMPARATIVE/ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION COMPUTER SIMULATION COMPUTER SIMULATIONS DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEMS EVOLUTION EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY MORPHOLOGY POPULATION BIOLOGY THEORY & MODELLING ZOOLOGY ENVIRONMENT (INCL.) CLIMATE CHANGE BIODIVERSITY FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ECOLOGY AND MARINE BIOLOGY FORAGING ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF THE VULTURE GYPS AFRICANUS SCAVENGERS PLAY A KEY ROLE IN ECOSYSTEMS BY FEEDING ON THE REMAINS OF OTHER ANIMALS (SODHI AND EHRLICH 2010). THIS IS MAINLY DUE TO THEIR MAINTAINENCE OF FOOD WEBS BY RECYCLING ENERGY; HOWEVER BY REMOVING DECAYING CARCASSES THEY CAN ALSO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF DISEASE (SEKERCIOGLU 2006). IN THE ABILITY TO FLY, BIRDS POSSESS AN ADVANTAGE THAT LENDS ITSELF TO A SCAVENGING LIFESTYLE. THIS ABILITY ALLOWS THEM TO COVER GREAT DISTANCES IN THE SEARCH FOR CARCASSES RELATIVE TO TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS. CONSEQUENTLY NUMEROUS BIRDS HAVE CONVERGENTLY EVOLVED TO BE SCAVENGERS WITH VULTURES THE ONLY OBLIGATE SCAVENGING VERTEBRATES (RUXTON AND HOUSTON 2004; SEKERCIOGLU 2006). THIS PROJECT WILL STUDY THE FORAGING ECOLOGY OF GYPS AFRICANUS IN SWAZILAND IN ORDER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW CONSERVATION EFFORTS HAVE THE MAXIMUM IMPACT. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TRINITY AWARD EVOLUTION OF SKELETAL FORM AND FUNCTION THE VERTEBRATE SKELETAL SYSTEM PROVIDES A FASCINATING SYSTEM IN WHICH STRUCTURAL FORM OF A LOAD BEARING BONE SUCH AS THE HUMAN FEMUR IS DETERMINED BY A COMBINATION OF GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC FACTORS SUCH AS MECHANICAL FORCES. HOW THESE DETERMINANTS OF FORM ALLOW THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURES TO BECOME ADAPTED TO THEIR SPECIFIC FUNCTION OVER PHYLOGENETIC (BETWEEN GENERATIONS) AND ONTOGENETIC (WITHIN GENERATIONS) TIME SCALES IS ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS IN BIOLOGY. I AM WORKING AS PART OF A LARGER GROUP THAT SEEKS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE GENETIC AND MECHANOBIOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF BONE DEVELOPMENT AND REMODELLING USING A VARIETY OF COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS. IRCSET POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW HOW CONFLICT AND COOPERATION SHAPE THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR: FROM INDIVIDUAL INTERACTIONS TO GROUP STRUCTURE IRCSET INSPIRE IRCSET-MARIE CURIE MOBILITY FELLOWSHIP THE EVOLUTION AND MAINTENANCE OF COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOUR THE EVOLUTION AND MAINTENANCE OF COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOUR IS CENTRAL TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, FROM GENE/PROTEIN INTERACTION NETWORKS, TO BACTERIAL COLONIES, ALL THE WAY UP TO COMPLEX SOCIETIES SUCH AS HUMAN CIVILISATION AND ITS COMPONENTS SUCH AS FINANCIAL MARKETS. THE FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE TO UNDERSTANDING THESE SYSTEMS IS HOW COOPERATION EMERGES AND IS RETAINED WHEN EVOLUTIONARY PRESSURE WILL DRIVE INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS TO SELFISHLY CHEAT ON THEIR HONEST COUNTER-PARTS. ULTIMATELY, SUCH CHEATING OR DEFECTION IS PREDICTED TO LEAD TO COLLAPSE AND FAILURE OF THE HIGHER LEVEL FUNCTIONING OF THE GROUP. IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT HUMAN SOCIETY HAS DEVELOPED MECHANISMS SUCH AS JUDICIARY CONCEPTS INVOLVING POLICING AND PUNISHMENT FOR KEEPING CHEATERS AT A TOLERABLY LOW LEVEL WITHIN THE GROUP. WHAT IS ENTIRELY UNCLEAR IS HOW OUR SOCIETY DEVELOPED IN THE FIRST PLACE, OR HOW APPARENTLY MORE PRIMITIVE SYSTEMS LACKING HIGHER LEVEL COGNITIVE ABILITIES OR RECOURSE TO EMERGENT LEGISLATIVE JUDICIARY CAN MODERATE AGAINST INVASION BY CHEATERS. THE MAIN RESEARCH METHOD OF THIS PROJECT WILL BE THE CREATION OF DETAILED MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS. THE MODELS WILL BE NOVEL IN THEIR APPROACH BY COMBINING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS, GAME THEORY AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS TO DETERMINE THE COGNITIVE AND/OR NON-COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY FOR EFFECTIVE POLICING. THE MODELS WILL ALSO INCORPORATE SPITEFUL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND DIFFERENCES IN COMPETITIVE ABILITIES BETWEEN THESE INDIVIDUALS TO INVESTIGATE HOW THESE FACTORS AFFECT COOPERATION. SUPPLEMENTARY TO THESE MODELS, PUBLIC GOODS GAMES WILL BE CARRIED OUT WITH STUDENTS IN ORDER TO ELUCIDATE THE PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING COOPERATION AND POLICING IN FINANCIAL MARKETS IN PARTICULAR. IRCSET POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP THE ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONTEXT DEPENDENT AGGRESSION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS ECOSYSTEMS ACROSS THE GLOBE ARE BECOMING PROGRESSIVELY MORE URBANIZED (UNITED NATIONS 2006), AS HUMANS PRESENT AN INCREASINGLY FORMIDABLE EVOLUTIONARY FORCE ON THE REST OF THE PLANET (PALUMBI 2001). THEREFORE, THE EFFECTS OF URBANIZATION ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT ON A GLOBAL SCALE (GRIMM ET AL. 2008). URBANIZATION IS KNOWN TO HAVE REMARKABLE EFFECTS ON ECOSYSTEM FORM AND FUNCTION, AS WELL AS ON SPECIES' DISTRIBUTIONS AND ABUNDANCES (ALBERTI 2005; SHOCHAT ET AL. 2006). RELATIVELY LITTLE, HOWEVER, IS KNOWN ABOUT WHAT EFFECT URBANIZATION HAS ON THE BEHAVIORS OF INTERACTING SPECIES. FOR EXAMPLE, URBANIZATION IS KNOWN TO ALTER COMMUNITY COMPOSITION THROUGH THE INTRODUCTION OF NEW SPECIES (HOLWAY & SUAREZ 2006), AND SUCH CHANGES ARE IN PART DUE TO THE BEHAVIORAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPECIES (HOLWAY & SUAREZ 1999), YET THERE IS NO CLEAR EVIDENCE FOR HOW URBANIZATION AFFECTS THE BEHAVIORS OF SPECIES (NATIVE OR EXOTIC). THIS PROJECT USED SHORE CRABS (CARCINUS MAENAS) AS A MODEL SYSTEM IN WHICH TO STUDY THE COMPLEX COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS THAT ARISE IN URBAN-LIKE SYSTEMS. SFI UREKA LINKING ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES TO COMMUNITY PATTERNS USING STABLE ISOTOPES NOVEL METHODS TO QUANTIFY DIFFERENCES IN COMMUNITY STRUCTURE: DEVELOPMENT OF STABLE ISOTOPE METRICS IN A BAYESIAN FRAMEWORK. THERE IS AN OVERWHELMING NEED FOR THE ABILITY TO ACCURATELY AND RAPIDLY QUANTIFY THE TROPHIC NICHES OF SPECIES WITHIN THEIR ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES. A HOLISTIC APPROACH WHICH TAKES ACCOUNT OF THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND VARIABLE NATURE OF INTERACTIONS WITHIN AND AMONG SPECIES AND WITH THE WIDER ECOSYSTEM AS A WHOLE IS REQUIRED TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE. IN RECENT YEARS, STABLE ISOTOPE TECHNIQUES HAVE REVOLUTIONISED THE STUDY OF TROPHIC ECOLOGY. HOWEVER, ALTHOUGH THEY ALSO HOLD MUCH PROMISE FOR THE ELUCIDATION AND DESCRIPTION OF TROPHIC STRUCTURE, WE LACK THE MATHEMATICAL TOOLS THAT WILL ALLOW US TO MAKE QUANTITATIVE COMPARISONS OF THESE STRUCTURES. THE MAIN AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP NOVEL METHODS FOR DESCRIBING THE STRUCTURE OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES. THESE "ISOTOPIC COMMUNITY METRICS" WILL BE BASED ON ESTABLISHED STABLE ISOTOPE METHODS (LAYMAN ET AL 2007A, LAYMAN ET AL 2007B), BUT WILL BE UNDERPINNED BY A STATISTICALLY ROBUST QUANTITATIVE FRAMEWORK. THE NEWLY-DEVELOPED MODELS WILL ALLOW US TO COMPARE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES DIRECTLY AND IN AN ECOLOGICALLY RELEVANT MANNER, FOR INSTANCE BEFORE AND AFTER A DISTURBANCE SUCH AS SPECIES INVASION, EUTROPHICATION OR CLIMATE CHANGE. EQUALLY, THE NICHE WIDTH OF ORGANISMS IS INHERENTLY TIED TO THEIR DIVERSIFICATION AND ULTIMATELY THEIR SPECIATION, GIVING THIS PROJECT AN ADDITIONAL EVOLUTIONARY ASPECT. HEA PRTLI5 INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR IN SOCIAL ORGANISMS AIMS 1) DEVELOP MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO INVESTIGATE HOW AGGRESSIVE GROUP BEHAVIOR DURING A COMPETITIVE INTERACTION BETWEEN COOPERATIVE SOCIAL ORGANISMS (E.G. ANTS) EMERGES FROM THE INFORMATION TRANSFER BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS USING CONTEXT-DEPENDENT BEHAVIORAL RULES. 2) EXTEND MODELS TO INCLUDE SOCIAL ORGANISMS WITH INTRA-GROUP COMPETING INTERESTS IN ADDITION TO BETWEEN-GROUP COMPETITION (E.G. BUMBLEBEES). 3) DEVELOP EMPIRICAL LABORATORY AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS TO TEST INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIORAL RULES AND MECHANISMS OF INFORMATION TRANSFER, AS WELL AS MODEL ASSUMPTIONS AND PREDICTIONS. IRCSET POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS IN DISCARDING PRACTICES OF THE IRISH SEA DEMERSAL TRAWL FISHERY - APPLICATION IN DISCARD MITIGATION PLANS DISCARDING FROM FISHING HAS A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON FISH STOCKS AND ON THE SUPPORTING ECOSYSTEMS, YET UNDER THE DATA COLLECTION PROGRAMME (DCP) (EU COUNCIL REGULATION 1543/2000), THE SAMPLING OF DISCARDS IS LESS THAN 1% (BORGES ET AL., 2004; 2005). THIS PAUCITY OF DATA IS HINDERS ATTEMPTS TO ACCURATELY DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF DISCARDING AND HENCE UNDERSTAND ITS SUBSEQUENT IMPACTS. THE PROJECT WILL ENHANCE THE UTILITY OF THE INFORMATION BEING GATHERED IN THESE PROGRAMMES AND WILL BE USED TO (I) IMPROVE PRECISION IN DISCARD ESTIMATES, (II) DESCRIBE THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DISCARDS DERIVED FROM FISHERIES' TACIT KNOWLEDGE, AND (III) QUANTIFY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TECHNICAL MEASURES AT A STOCK LEVEL. THIS WILL ULTIMATELY CULMINATE IN THE QUANTIFICATION OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS OF DISCARDING IN THE IRISH SEA, DESCRIBE THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES AND PROVIDE A STRUCTURED FRAMEWORK TO COMPARE AND CONTRAST VARIOUS MANAGEMENT OPTIONS TO MITIGATE DISCARDS THROUGH A RANGE OF TECHNICAL CONSERVATION MEASURES. MARINE INSTITUTE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2007-2013 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION PROGRAMME AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JOHN JACKSON jacksonjohn ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JJACKSO2 IMMUNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. ISABELLA JACKSON jacksonisabella ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JACKSONI HISTORY CENTRE FOR ASIAN STUDIES I RESEARCH THE MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA AND THE GLOBAL AND REGIONAL NETWORKS THAT SHAPED THE TREATY PORTS, WHICH WERE OPENED TO FOREIGN TRADERS BY FORCE IN THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES. I HAVE FOCUSED IN PARTICULAR ON THE INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENT AT THE HEART OF SHANGHAI, EXAMINING THE TRANSNATIONAL FORM OF COLONIALISM IN PRACTICE THERE AND HOW IT FUNCTIONED ON THE GROUND IN THE FORM OF THE SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. I CO-EDITED A VOLUME, TREATY PORTS IN MODERN CHINA: LAW, LAND AND POWER (2016), AND MY MONOGRAPH 'SHAPING MODERN SHANGHAI: COLONIALISM IN CHINA'S GLOBAL CITY' WILL BE PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN SEPTEMBER (EBOOK) AND OCTOBER (HARDBACK) 2017. I HAVE ALSO WORKED ON THE INTERCONNECTIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE BRITISH WORLD, ESPECIALLY INDIA, THROUGH MY WORK ON THE SIKH POLICEMEN WHO WORKED IN THE SETTLEMENT. I AM INTERESTED IN BRITISH UNDERSTANDINGS OF CHINA AND AM WORKING ON A PROJECT EXAMINING HOW THIS DEVELOPED DURING THE OPIUM WAR. MY RESEARCH ALSO CONCERNS SOCIAL REFORM IN LATE QING AND EARLY REPUBLICAN CHINA, AND MY NEXT MAJOR PROJECT FOCUSES ON HOW SUPPORT FOR AND CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE PRACTICE OF KEEPING MUI TSAI OR PURCHASED 'ADOPTED DAUGHTERS' REVEAL CHANGING NOTIONS OF CHILDHOOD IN MODERN CHINA. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHINESE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR CHINESE STUDIES IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITIES' CHINA COMMITTEE IN LONDON CHINESE HISTORY IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL HISTORY URBAN HISTORY HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. CAROLINE JAGOE jagoecaroline ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CJAGOE CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES MY RESEARCH INTERESTS RELATE TO THE IMPACT OF COMMUNICATION DISABILITIES, SPECIFICALLY APHASIA AND PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA, ON PARTICIPATION, WELLBEING AND IDENTITY. I AM INTERESTED IN THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN COMMUNICATION AND MENTAL HEALTH, BOTH IN THE CONTEXTS OF ADULTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS AND IN RELATION TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING OF ADULTS WITH ACQUIRED COMMUNICATION DISORDERS. MY WORK FOCUSES ON INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION, ADDRESSING BARRIERS WITHIN THE COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT, THEREBY ENHANCING ACCESS TO THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT, IMPROVING HEALTHCARE ENCOUNTERS AND REINTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY. I SEE THIS WORK AS LINKED TO SOCIAL JUSTICE AND REDUCING INEQUALITIES. I HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN HOW THESE CHALLENGES CAN BE ADDRESSED IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT, PARTICULARLY WHERE RESOURCES ARE CONSTRAINED. IN ADDITION I AM INTERESTED IN THE APPLICATION OF RELEVANCE THEORY TO COMMUNICATION DISORDERS IS, WHERE MY WORK HAS FOCUSED ON METAREPRESENTATIONAL ABILITIES OF PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA AS REVEALED IN CONVERSATION; AS WELL AS ON RELEVANCE THEORETIC ANALYSIS OF CONVERSATIONAL STRATEGIES IN INTERACTIONS IN WHICH ONE PARTNER HAS A COMMUNICATION DISABILITY. DEPT OF CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DEPUTY LEAD (ACTING) OF WORKING GROUP 5 OF THE COLLABORATION OF APHASIA TRIALISTS, (ACTING DEPUTY LEAD SEPTEMBER 2017-SEPTEMBER 2018, MEMBER SINCE 2013) INTERNATIONAL EVIDENCE POLICE GROUP WORKING GROUP MEMBER (REPORTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION PROJECT STRATEGIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE) MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE COST ACTION, COLLABORATION OF APHASIA TRIALISTS (IS1208) MEMBER OF THE COLLABORATIVE OF APHASIA TRIALISTS (PHASE 2) MEMBER OF THE IASLT WORKING GROUP ON SCOPE OF PRACTICE MEMBER OF THE IASLT WORKING GROUP ON STANDARDS OF PRACTICE FOR SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS WORKING IN MENTAL HEALTH MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS (IASLT) REGISTERED WITH CORU (REGISTRATION BODY FOR HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS IN IRELAND) REGISTERED WITH THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA (HPCSA) APHASIA COMMUNICATION AND MENTAL HEALTH (DISORDERS) INCLUSIVE GLOBAL HEALTH (ESPECIALLY DISABILITY AND ETHNICITY PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA SOCIAL INCLUSION NAVIGATING CHANGING IDENTITIES: DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOLKIT AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR MESSAGE BANKING AS A SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY INTERVENTION TO OPTIMIZE COMMUNICATION AND MAINTAIN A 'SENSE OF SELF' IN PATIENTS WITH MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE (MND) AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS THIS EXPLORATORY, PATIENT-DRIVEN RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS TO EXPLORE AND DEVELOP THE SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY (SLT) INTERVENTION OF MESSAGE BANKING, WHEREBY PATIENTS WITH PROGRESSIVE CONDITIONS RECORD PHRASES THAT CAN LATER BE USED ON ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES. THESE MESSAGES, RECORDED IN THE PATIENT'S OWN VOICE, HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE BOTH IN OPTIMIZING COMMUNICATION, BUT ALSO IN MAINTAINING A 'SENSE OF SELF' AND THE INDIVIDUAL'S IDENTITY AS A COMMUNICATOR. RESEARCH MOTOR NEURONE (WWW.MND.IE) IDENTITY AND PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE WITH PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS: THE IMPACT OF FAMILY TRAINING IN SUPPORTED CONVERSATION FOR ADULTS WITH APHASIA (SCA) ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND 2015/16 ACTING APHASIA THIS WAS A COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE LINKING PEOPLE WITH APHASIA WITH ACTORS. THE PROJECT AIMED TO ALLOW ACTORS TO WITNESS AND EXPLORE THE CREATIVE USE OF NON-VERBAL MODALITIES OF COMMUNICATION IN EVERYDAY CONVERSATIONS OF PEOPLE WITH APHASIA AND PEOPLE WITH APHASIA TO EXPLORE HOW TECHNIQUES IN ACTING MAY BE USEFUL IN COMMUNICATION CONFIDENCE OR SKILL. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THIS PROJECT MAY LEAD TO OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEATRE COLLABORATIONS WITH PEOPLE WITH APHASIA AND ABOUT APHASIA. VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS FUND, TCD (2016/2017) AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. TANUSREE JAIN jaintanusree ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JAINT BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES - CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - CORPORATE GOVERNANCE - DIVERSITY - EMERGING COUNTRY CONTEXTS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH HINDI ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, SOCIETY FOR BUSINESS ETHICS, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BUSINESS AND SOCIETY, BRITISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, INDIAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT, EGOS BUSINESS ETHICS CORPORATE/NONPROFIT PHILANTHROPY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. THARAPPEL C JAMES jamestharappelc ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JTHRPPEL MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY DR. DAMIEN JANOS janosdamien USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JANOSD RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY MY RESEARCH DEALS WITH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, WITH A FOCUS ON EARLY OR CLASSICAL ARABIC PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY AND THE TRANSMISSION OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE TO ISLAM. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS EXEGESIS (TAFS&#299;R) AND INTERFAITH EXCHANGES AND DIALOGUE, AS WELL AS IN THE INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTION OF ARABIC CHRISTIAN THINKERS IN CLASSICAL ISLAM, A TOPIC COVERED IN MY RECENT VOLUME ON ARABIC CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY IN BAGHDAD. I HAVE PUBLISHED ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF ARABIC PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE, INCLUDING METAPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY, ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY, AND ARABIC CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY. I AM PRESENTLY PREPARING MONOGRAPHIC STUDIES ON AVICENNA'S METAPHYSICS AND FAKHR AL-D&#299;N AL-R&#257;Z&#299;'S PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGY. DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIONS & THEOLOGY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 HISTORY OF ARABIC PHILOSOPHY ISLAMIC STUDIES LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION RATIONALITY AND TRADITION IN FAKHR AL-DIN AL-RAZI'S GREAT COMMENTARY AVICENNA'S METAPHYSICS, QUIDDITY AND EXISTENCE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. RANADEVA JAYASEKERA jayasekeraranadeva ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JAYASEKR BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES MARKET EFFICIENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY ISSUES OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, CAPITAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS, DEFAULT PREDICTION, FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES AND REAL OPTIONS ANALYSIS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 SINHALA; SINHALESE ENGLISH ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE CHARTERED GLOBAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT (AICPA) ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS (ACMA) DELIVERED AN EXECUTIVE EDUCATION CUSTOMISED TRAINING COURSE FOR KUWAIT INVESTMENT AUTHORITY JAYASEKERA, L.I.R. (2010) "REAL OPTIONS APPLICATION TO LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT", DELOITTE & TOUCHE, LONDON JAYASEKERA, L.I.R. (2011) SMALL CAN BE VULNERABLE : FAILURE PREDICTION OF UNLISTED FIRMS SIBR CONFERENCE; BANGKOK; THAILAND JAYASEKERA, L.I.R. (2012), "FINANCIAL FLEXIBILITY AND THE THEORY OF CAPITAL STRUCTURE", WORLD FINANCE CONFERENCE, RIO DE JANEIRO,BRAZIL JAYASEKERA, L.I.R. (2012), -"ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF GENERAL ELECTRIC IN THE US AIRLINE INDUSTRY; A POSSIBLE CAPITAL MARKET MUTATION IN RESPONSE TO THE ANOMALIES OF CHAPTER 11?", MULTINATIONAL FINANCE CONFERENCE, KRAKOW, POLAND JAYASEKERA, L.I.R. (2012), COMPARISON OF EFFICIENCY CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EUROPEAN BANKING SECTOR DURING THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2007-2012; 4TH INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND BANKING SOCIETY CONFERENCE, VALENCIA , SPAIN JAYASEKERA, RANADEVA AND SOOBAROYEN, TEEROOVEN (2012) THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NGO ACCOUNTABILITY AND 'DEVELOPMENT': A CASE STUDY. AOS WORKSHOP ON ACCOUNTING, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CIVIL SOCIETY, LONDON, GB VISITING PROFESSOR OF FINANCE - POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE CORPORATE FINANCE ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT "EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND STOCK PERFORMANCE GRANT FOR STUDY OF "EARNINGS MANAGEMENT AND STOCK PERFORMANCE" BY THE NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE, THE VALUE OF THE GRANT IN EXCESS OF 130,000 EURO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE CENTRE, POLAND PUMP PRIMING GRANT GRANT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (2011) FOR THE STUDY OF NGO ACCOUNTABILITY VALUE OF GRANT -£ 3000 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON THE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF NEW REGULATIONS ON THE BANKING SYSTEM IN UK AND HOW MATHEMATICAL MODELS NEED TO BE ADAPTED OINT RECIPIENT OF A GRANT FROM THE STRATEGIC INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR THE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF NEW REGULATIONS ON THE BANKING SYSTEM IN UK AND HOW MATHEMATICAL MODELS NEED TO BE ADAPTED VALUE OF GRANT - £ 10000 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON CONSTRAINTS TO THE SME SECTOR IN THE UK JOINT RECIPIENT OF A GRANT BY SANTANDER FOR RESEARCH ON GROWTH CONSTRAINTS TO THE SME SECTOR IN THE UK (2012) - VALUE OF GRANT - £ 25000 SANTANDER DR. MATTHIAS JOHN johnmatthias RESEARCH FELLOW JOHNM ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING CTVR DUNLOP ORIEL HOUSE FENIAN STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IEEE MEMBER ANTENNAS TELECOMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. NICHOLAS JOHNSON johnsonnicholas ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JOHNSON DRAMA PREDOMINANTLY TO DATE, NICHOLAS JOHNSON HAS PUBLISHED AS A SAMUEL BECKETT SCHOLAR, AS WELL AS CO-FOUNDING A PERFORMANCE LABORATORY WITH JONATHAN HERON AND CO-FOUNDING THE SAMUEL BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL. HIS PUBLICATIONS IN THIS AREA HAVE RELATED TO ADAPTATIONS AND INTER-MEDIAL PERFORMANCES OF BECKETT, DIRECTING AND ACTING BECKETT, BECKETT AND CENSORSHIP, AND THE USE OF PERFORMANCE AS A TOOL FOR RESEARCH. HE CO-EDITED THE JOURNAL OF BECKETT STUDIES SPECIAL ISSUE ON PERFORMANCE, AND HIS FIRST MONOGRAPH (FORTHCOMING) IS ON THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF PERFORMANCES OF BECKETT'S PROSE. A SECONDARY RESEARCH INTEREST, AND THE TOPIC OF A SECOND MONOGRAPH NOW IN PROGRESS, RELATES TO HOW THEATRE LABORATORY WORK CAN GENERATE NEW KNOWLEDGE FOR MORE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONTEXTS IN A WIDE RANGE OF FIELDS. JOHNSON HAS UNDERTAKEN NUMEROUS PRACTICE-BASED PROJECTS SINCE 2008, INCLUDING COLLABORATIONS WITH LITERATURE SCHOLARS, ART HISTORIANS, EDUCATORS, TRANSLATORS, SOCIOLOGISTS, HISTORIANS, COMPUTER SCIENTISTS, AND MEDICAL CLINICIANS IN WHICH PERFORMANCE HAS PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE. AS HEAD OF THE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE COLLEGE-WIDE RESEARCH THEME, AND AS COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH HUMANITIES INITIATIVE AT TCD, JOHNSON'S RESEARCH IS EXTENDING THE ROLE OF THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE IN THESE ALTERNATIVE SETTINGS. JOHNSON IS A LITERARY TRANSLATOR (FROM GERMAN), WITH CURRENT AND PAST PROJECTS ON TOLLER, KAFKA, FRISCH, TRAKL, AND BRECHT. THESE TRANSLATION PROJECTS SIGNAL A FURTHER RESEARCH INTEREST IN GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM DURING THE WEIMAR PERIOD, AND MORE WIDELY IN MODERNISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. SCHOOL OF DRAMA BECKETT CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN THEATRE, PLAYWRITING DRAMATIC/THEATRE ARTS MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DRAMA AND THEATRE POLITICAL THEATRE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MR. PAUL MEREDITH JOHNSTON johnstonpaulmeredith ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PJHNSTON CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CIVIL STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENG MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. KEITH JOHNSTON johnstonkeith ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KJOHNSTO EDUCATION CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION KEITH JOHNSTON RESEARCHES IN THE AREA OF ICTS IN EDUCATION AND IS A MEMBER OF BOTH THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION (CRITE) AND THE RESEARCH IN SCHOOL EDUCATION (RISE) RESEARCH GROUPING. HIS MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ICT POLICY IN PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION, AND IN THE USE OF ICTS TO SUPPORT TEACHING AND LEARNING AT THESE LEVELS. HE IS ALSO INTERESTED IN USING ICTS TO SUPPORT TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT BOTH PRE-SERVICE AND IN-SERVICE, AND IN TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GENERALLY. RECENT RESEARCH FOCI HAVE INCLUDED THE BRIDGE21 MODEL OF LEARNING IN THE CONTEXT OF PROPOSED JUNIOR CYCLE REFORMS, AS WELL AS THE USE OF TABLET PC'S AND INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS. SOME EMERGENT RESEARCH FOCI INCLUDE MOBILE LEARNING VIA SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS, SOCIAL NETWORKING IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS AND THE USE OF PERSONAL RESPONSE SYSTEMS. DEPT OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH COMPUTER EDUCATION/LITERACY TEACHER EDUCATION THE ORGANISATIONAL IMPACT OF ICT ON IRISH SCHOOLS THIS RESEARCH FOCUSED ON THE IMPACT OF ICT IN SIX CASE STUDY SCHOOLS (BOTH PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY). DATA FOR THIS STUDY WERE OBTAINED FROM CLASSROOM OBSERVATIONS, INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONNAIRES IN EACH SCHOOL. THIS RESEARCH FORMED THE IRISH LEG OF AN OECD STUDY BEING CONDUCTED IN ALL MEMBER COUNTRIES. ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF INTRODUCING A COMPUTER BASED SUBJECT TO THE ESTABLISHED LEAVING CERTIFICATE THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE PREFERRED FORM AND CONTENT OF A NEW COMPUTER-BASED SUBJECT AND ITS PERCEIVED IMPACT IF INTRODUCED TO THE LEAVING CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME. METHODOLOGIES EMPLOYED INCLUDED FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONNAIRES. A FINAL REPORT ENTITLED 'COMPUTERS AND CURRICULUM - DIFFICULTIES AND DICHOTOMIES' WAS PUBLISHED IN 2001. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT (NCCA) THE USE OF ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS WITH POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION STUDENTS AS PART OF THIS PROJECT, RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED INTO THE USE OF ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS WITH POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION STUDENTS, IN COOPERATION WITH THE CENTRE FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGY AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. IT ENTAILED THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE COURSE WITH WAS USED WITH STUDENTS OF THE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION COURSE. EVALUATIVE DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM QUESTIONNAIRES, WORKSHOP OBSERVATIONS, AND FROM DATA GENERATED BY THE INSTRUCTIONAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. CENTRE FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGY, TCD EVALUATION OF THE PRIMARY CURRICULUM SUPPORT PROGRAMME (PCSP) THIS PROJECT WAS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THE PROGRAMME OF PROFESSION DEVELOPMENT, PROVIDED BY THE PCSP, ON TEACHERS' UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM (1999). A MIXED METHODS DESIGN WAS USED TO GATHER DATA FROM A BROAD RANGE OF RELEVANT SOURCES. THE FINAL REPORT INCLUDES RECOMMENDATIONS RELEVANT TO FUTURE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (DES)/NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT (NCCA) INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARDS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION THIS PROJECT IS A LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE POLICY ANTECEDENTS, CURRENT PRACTICE AND EFFICACY OF INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD (IWB) USE IN PRIMARY EDUCATION. THROUGH ANALYSIS OF THE BROADER NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND NON-POLICY CONTEXTS IN WHICH IWBS HAVE/ARE BEING INTRODUCED, THE STUDY WILL HELP UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEX MILIEU IN WHICH THIS ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN ADOPTED IN SCHOOLS. DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AT LOCAL SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY LEVELS ARE ALSO INVESTIGATED, ALONG IMPACTS ON TEACHING AND LEARNING. SITUATED IN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE SMART-ECONOMY AND E-LEARNING, IT IS HOPED THAT THE RESEARCH WILL RETROSPECTIVELY REVEAL THE COMPLEX RATIONALE BEHIND THE EMBRACING OF IWBS AND HIGHLIGHT BEST PRACTICE IN OPTIMISING THE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CURRICULUM AND LEARNING. EVALUATING THE BRIDGE21 INITIATIVE THE BRIDGE21 PROGRAMME IS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT AN INNOVATIVE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WITHIN POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS THAT IS TEAM AND PROJECT-BASED, TECHNOLOGY MEDIATED AND CROSS- CURRICULAR. CENTRAL TO THE BRIDGE21 PROGRAMME IS THE MEDIATION OF KEY SKILLS TO STUDENTS IN KEEPING WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S CURRENT REFORM AGENDA AT JUNIOR CYCLE LEVEL. THE ON-GOING EVALUATION INVESTIGATES THE VIABILITY OF THE BRIDGE21 MODEL IN FACILITATING THE PROMOTION OF KEY SKILLS AND EXPLORES THE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMME IN SCHOOLS. INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. ANDREW CHARLES SEVERIN JOHNSTONE johnstoneandrewcharlesseverin ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PART-TIME JOHNSTOA MUSIC SCHOOL OF MUSIC NO 5 COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD OF TUDOR PARTBOOKS (PROJECT FUNDED BY AHRC) HTTP://WWW.TUDORPARTBOOKS.AC.UK/ MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE OF EARLY ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC (PUBLISHED BY THE BRITISH ACADEMY) ENGLISH CHURCH MUSIC OF THE REFORMATION PERIOD MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS RENAISSANCE POLYPHONIC MODES THEORY AND PEDAGOGY OF COMPOSITION TECHNIQUES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. JEREMY JONES jonesjeremy ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JJONES COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH GROUP: (CAG) COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE GROUP IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PERFORMS RESEARCH ACROSS A BROAD SPECTRUM OF TOPICS IN THE FIELD OF COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE. IN EACH AREA, KNOWLEDGE OF HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE IS COMBINED TO ANALYSE COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND DEVELOP INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. OUR CURRENT RESEARCH INCLUDES TOPICS AS DIVERSE AS CLUSTERING, METACOMPUTING, RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE, VIRTUAL MACHINES, COMPILER OPTIMISATION, MULTIMEDIA SERVERS AND INTEGRATED PC/TV SYSTEMS. RESEARCH INTERESTS --- PARALLELISM, METACOMPUTING & CLUSTERING: CLUSTERS, GRIDS AND INTERCONNECTS. RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE: APPLICATIONS UTILISING AND TOOLS FOR THE HARDWARE COMPILATION TO FPGAS. JVM ARCHITECTURE: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE ARCHITECTURES. MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS: PROJECTS INVOLVING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATES PC/TV SYSTEMS AND THE DESIGN OF SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA SERVERS. REAL-TIME COMPUTING: A REAL-TIME COMPUTER CLUSTER IS CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT. FAULT-TOLERANCE: DEVELOPMENT OF FAULT-TOLERANT MICROPROCESSOR AND STORAGE SYSTEMS. COMPILER OPTIMISATION: TEACHING INITIATIVES: TOOLS TO AID TEACHING OF COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE IN GENERAL. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS COMPUTER SCIENCE CAG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 EGEE: PROJECT TO ESTABLISH A PAN-EUROPEAN PRODUCTION GRID (APPROX. 198,000 EURO OVER 2 YEARS) EU WEBCOM-G PROJECT TO CREATE A CONDENSED GRAPH GRID ENGINE (APPROX. 1,600,000 EURO OVER 4 YEARS) SFI GRID-ENABLED COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA APPROX. EUR 625,000 OVER 4 YEARS HEA EUROPEAN-FUNDED CROSSGRID PROJECT APPROX. EUR 140,000 OVER 3 YEARS DEVELOPMENT OF NEW OPTIMISATIONS FOR INTERPRETERS RUNNING ON MODERN ARCHITECTURES APPROX. EUR 107,000 OVER 2 YEARS ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND ENTERPRISE IRELAND ST/2000/099 IRISH COMPUTATIONAL GRID (GRID-IRELAND) ESTABLISHMENT OF AN IRISH GRID AND INITIAL RESEARCH (APPROX. IR£93,000 OVER 2 YEARS) ENTERPRISE IRELAND DYNAMIC REPLICATION FOR VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVERS APPROX. IR£60,000 OVER 3 YEARS MICROSOFT RESEARCH (CAMBRIDGE, UK) REAL-TIME TRACER/ANALYSER FOR SCI AND RELATED SIMULATION MODELS APPROX. IR£240,000 OVER 3.5 YEARS ESPRIT P25257 SCI DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLOITATION IN EUROPE (SCIEUROPE STATE-OF-THE-ART INTEGRATED PC / TV FOR THE HOTEL BEDROOM APPROX. IR£285,000 OVER 2 YEARS ESPRIT E20855 INTERACTIVE NETWORK KIOSKS (INK) VIDEO ANNOTATION FOR A HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT APPROX. IR£380,000 OVER 3 YEARS ESPRIT P6816 ENHANCED MULTIMEDIA OBJECT SYSTEM (LYNX) HIGH PERFORMANCE FAULT-TOLERANT RAID SUBSYSTEM APPROX. IR£800,000 OVER 4 YEARS ESPRIT P5212 FAULT-TOLERANT ARCHITECTURE USING STABLE STORAGE TECHNOLOGY (FASST) FAULT-TOLERANT MULTIPROCESSOR ORLA APPROX. IR£100,000 OVER 2 YEARS EOLAS ST/89/304 ADVANCED MULTIPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES PROFESSOR MICHAEL BEVAN JONES jonesmichaelbevan FELLOW EMERITUS JONESM BOTANY MIKE JONES IS A PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGIST AND IS EMERITUS FELLOW IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. HIS MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE STUDY OF CLIMATE-PLANT INTERACTIONS AND SINCE THE 1980'S HE HAS BEEN STUDYING THE EFFECTS OF CHANGING CLIMATE, AND THE DIRECT EFFECTS OF RISING CO2 ON A RANGE OF ECOSYSTEMS INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL GRASSLANDS AND TROPICAL WETLANDS. HE HAS COORDINATED SEVERAL EU FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PROJECTS AS WELL AS EPA AND DAFM PROJECTS. HE IS CURRENTLY SUBJECT EDITOR OF GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY (IF 6.9) AND GCB-BIOENERGY (IF 4.7). DEPT BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION (AGU) BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY CHAIR: COST ACTION 627, CARBON STORAGE IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS EDITOR: BIOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY SUBJECT EDITOR: GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY SUBJECT EDITOR: GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY - BIOENERGY AGRI ENVIRONMENT AIR-POLLUTANTS ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEMS BIODIVERSITY C-4 PHOTOSYNTHESIS CARBON SEQUESTRATION ELEVATED CO2 ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ENERGY CROPS ENERGY FROM BIOMASS (SEE FORESTRY ALSO) ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS, MONITORING, RISK ASSESSMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PLANT PHYSIOLOGY LIQUID BIOFUELS TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT (INCL.) CLIMATE CHANGE BIODIVERSITY AIR QUALITY BIOMASS AGRI-ENVIRONMENT - NUTRIENTS, BIODIVERSITY, GASEOUS EMISSIONS, OTHER SOILS AND LAND USE ASSESSING GHG IMPACTS OF ESTABLISHING BIOMASS AND BIOFUEL CROPS THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT ON GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS OF CHANGING FROM INTENSIVE PASTURE AND MARGINAL LAND TO BIOMASS CROPS. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND MARINE ASSESSMENT OF THE EUROPEAN TERRESTRIAL CARBON BALANCE (CARBO-EUROPE-IP) EU EU SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ASSESSING THE GREENHOUSE GAS BUDGET OF ECO-TILLAGE AND OTHER MITIGATION OPTIONS FOR ARABLE ECOSYSTEMS THE RESEARCH CONSISTS OF A DUEL MODELLING AND MANAGEMENT APPROACH. IT INVOLVES THE QUANTIFICATION OF MANAGEMENT EFFECTS ON GREENHOUSE GAS FLUXES USING MULTISCALE OBSERVATIONS AND THE USE OF THESE MEASUREMENTS TO CONSTRAIN CROPLAND CARBON MODELS. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE ENHANCING BIOMASS PRODUCTION FROM MARGINAL LANDS WITH PERENNIAL GRASSES THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO IDENTIFY, CHARACTERISE AND DEVELOP NOVEL VARIETIES OF C3 AND C4 GRASSES THAT SHOW HIGH AND STABLE PRODUCTIVITY WHEN GROWN ON MARGINAL LAND. EU, FP7 GHG IRELAND - AGRICULTURAL AND LAND USE NETWORK THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO ASSESS THE INFLUENCES OF CLIMATE AND SOIL ON CARBON SINK CAPACITY OF IRISH AGRICULTURAL SOILS AS WELL AS QUANTIFYING EFFECTIVE WAYS TO ENHANCE CARBON STORAGE IN GRASS PASTURE SOILS IN PARTICULAR. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE GENES & SOCIETY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR DARRYL JONES jonesdarryl PROFESSOR DRJONES ENGLISH FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITITES & SOCIAL SCIENCES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 WELSH HORROR NINETEENTH-CENTURY FICTION POPULAR LITERATURE WELSH STUDIES LANGUAGES & LITERATURE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. ALICE JORGENSEN jorgensenalice ASSISTANT PROF IN ENGLISH LITERATURE JORGENA ENGLISH CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES MY RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE BROADLY IN ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE AND HAVE INCLUDED REPRESENTATIONS OF VIOLENCE, THE ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE AND NOISE. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON THE VOCABULARY AND CONCEPTUALISATION OF EMOTION, IN PARTICULAR SHAME. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FMRSI (FORUM FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES IN IRELAND) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANGLO-SAXONISTS TEACHERS OF OLD ENGLISH IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ROMANCE, LITERATURE MEDIEVAL BRITAIN THE LITERARY SOURCES LANGUAGES & LITERATURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR MAUREEN JUNKER-KENNY junkerkennymaureen PROFESSOR MJUNKERK RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY CONDITIONS OF THEOLOGY IN MODERNITY (E.G. F. SCHLEIERMACHER), FOUNDATIONS OF THEOLOGICAL ETHICS (E.G., DISCOURSE ETHICS - HABERMAS, HERMENEUTICS - P. RICOEUR), THEORY OF CHRISTIAN PRAXIS, CONDITIONS FOR FAITH IN LATE MODERNITY (E.G. MORAL AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY), AND APPLIED ETHICS (BIOMEDICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL ISSUES). RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN CO-EDITOR OF SERIES PRACTICAL THEOLOGY IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE HUMANITIES ASSOCIATION PAUL RICOEUR CO-EDITOR OF ETUDES RICOEURIENNES/RICOEUR STUDIES ELECTED MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE SOCIETAS ETHICA ELECTED MEMBER OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CATHOLIC THEOLOGY; INTERNATIONALE SCHLEIERMACHER GESELLSCHAFT IRISH THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION KONFERENZ DER DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN PASTORALTHEOLOGEN MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF EUROPEAN THEOLOGY (ET) STUDIES; MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ETHICS IN THE SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN, GERMANY; RICOEUR GROUP STEERING COMMITTEE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION SOCIETAS ETHICA. RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ETHICS INTERRELIGIOUS ETHICS IN THE CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF GLOBALISATION RESEARCH FOCUS IN THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES, TCD, BETWEEN COLLEAGUES FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY AND THE IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS HEA-FUNDED RESEARCH ETHICS POSTGRADUATE GENERIC MODULE DEVELOPED WITH LINDA HOGAN, IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS AND CATHRIONA RUSSELL, DEPT. OF RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY. PUBLICATION: C. RUSSELL/L. HOGAN/M. JUNKER-KENNY (EDS), ETHICS FOR GRADUATE RESEARCHERS. A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH (OXFORD/...: ELSEVIER, 2013) STRATEGIC INNOVATION FUND (SIF) DAAD SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH VISITS TO THE FACULTIES OF PROTESTANT THEOLOGY AT THE LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITY IN MUNICH AND THE HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY IN BERLIN ON MY CURRENT RESEARCH ON F. SCHLEIERMACHER DAAD DAAD SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. JEFFREY LEO KALLEN kallenjeffreyleo ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JKALLEN C.L.C.S. MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH: LANGUAGE IN IRELAND (ESPECIALLY HIBERNO-ENGLISH, BUT CONSIDERING ALSO IRISH AND ULSTER SCOTS, IN STRUCTURAL, DIALECTAL, SOCIOLINGUISTIC, AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES) LINGUISTICS (ESPECIALLY SOCIOLINGUISTICS; DIALECTOLOGY; BILINGUALISM; PHONOLOGY; HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; GENERAL LINGUISTICS; COMPARATIVE SYNTAX) ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION (WITH A FOCUS ON DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, NARRATIVE, AND SEMIOTICS) ETHNIC STUDIES (PARTICULARLY THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG LANGUAGE, EXPRESSIVE CULTURE, AND ETHNICITY). MAIN RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: INTERNATIONAL CORPUS OF ENGLISH (ICE) PROJECT, INITIATED AT THE SURVEY OF ENGLISH USAGE BY PROFESSOR SIDNEY GREENBAUM, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. TWO PROJECTS IN PROGRESS: (1) TO ANALYSE AND MAKE AVAILABLE THE ICE-IRELAND CORPUS OF APPROXIMATELY 1 MILLION WORDS OF STANDARD IRISH ENGLISH (SPOKEN AND WRITTEN) COMPILED ACCORDING TO ICE PROTOCOLS FOR NATIONAL CORPORA, (2) PROSODIC AND PRAGMATIC ANNOTATION OF THE SPOKEN ICE-IRELAND CORPUS. ANALYSIS OF DATA AND PROVISION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES IN PROGRESS. CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE OF SOCIAL DIALECTS IN A CHANGING EUROPE, RESEARCH NETWORK SPONSORED BY THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION, DIRECTED BY PROFESSOR FRANS HINSKENS (LEIPZIG) AND PROFESSOR PETER AUER (FREIBURG). AS A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE, I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR PLANNING AND PARTICIPATION IN THE NETWORK'S INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA, PUBLICATIONS, AND GRADUATE-LEVEL SUMMER SCHOOL IN MÁLAGA (1998). DETAILS OF RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS GIVEN BELOW; ACTIVITIES CONTINUE THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE VARIATION IN EUROPE (ICLAVE). LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN BRITTANY, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES, RESEARCH PROJECT FUNDED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND DIRECTED BY DR. JANIG STEPHENS, UNIVERSITY OF WALES INSTITUTE. AS DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH COMPONENT, I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR ARRANGING COLLECTION, TRANSCRIPTION, AND ANALYSIS OF IRISH-LANGUAGE DATA. THE IRISH PROJECT PROVIDED CO-SPONSORSHIP OF A SPECIAL SESSION ON THE ACQUISITION OF THE CELTIC LANGUAGES AT THE 3RD CELTIC LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE, HELD IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (2000), PROCEEDINGS OF WHICH WERE PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF CELTIC LANGUAGE LEARNING. FUTURE PLANS: TOGETHER WITH COLLEAGUES FROM AROUND THE WORLD, I HAVE RECENTLY BEGUN RESEARCH ON THE LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE, I.E., THE USE OF LANGUAGES IN VISIBLE, PUBLIC SPACES WHERE QUESTIONS OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC VITALITY, LANGUAGE POLICY, AND LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION COME TO THE FORE. I RECENTLY PARTICIPATED IN AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE SUBJECT, AND FURTHER PLANS ARE IN TRAIN FOR PRESENTATIONS IN 2006 AND BEYOND. THE ICE-IRELAND PROJECT ENTAILS A COMMITMENT TO PUBLICATION OF A BOOK IN THE ICE HANDBOOK SERIES ON SOCIOLINGUISTIC ISSUES IN THE STANDARD ENGLISH OF IRELAND, IN ADDITION TO OTHER RELATED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS. I ALSO SEEK TO MAINTAIN A VARIED PROGRAMME OF PUBLICATION AND PUBLIC PRESENTATION ACROSS THE RANGE OF SUBJECT AREAS INDICATED ABOVE. C.L.C.S ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 AMERICAN DIALECT SOCIETY AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND COMDHÁIL NÁISIÚNTA NA GAEILGE, COISTE TEANGA & TEIRIPE (MEMBER OF WORKING PARTY SUPERVISING RESEARCH AND ESTABLISHING BASELINES IN SUPPORT OF IRISH-MEDIUM SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICES) CONFIDENTIAL CONSULTANT TO LEGAL FIRM REGARDING LEXICOGRAPHICAL EVIDENCE IN TRADEMARK DISPUTE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) - EDITORIAL BOARD IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) - EDITOR, TEANGA: THE IRISH YEARBOOK OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) - EXECUTIVE BOARD IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) - PRESIDENT IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS (IASLT), RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCREDITATION (WITH RESPECT TO SPECIALIST ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY) OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY GRADUATES FROM NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES JUDGE FOR THE ANNUAL BOOK PRIZE OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (BAAL). LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS FOR ENGLISH WORLD-WIDE; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUALISM; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM; JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUAL COMMUNICATION DISORDERS; ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS; TEXT; APPLIED LINGUISTICS; CLINICAL LINGUISTICS AND PHONETICS; FOLIA PHONIATRICA ET LOGOPAEDICA; JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH; JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE STUDIES; FOCUS ON CANADA (SANDRA CLARKE, ED.); INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRACTICE IN LSP AND LAP (MARY RUANE AND DÓNALL P. Ó BAOILL, EDS.). NORTH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CELTIC LANGUAGE TEACHERS PROGRAMME REVIEWER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE VARIATION IN EUROPE (ICLAVE). REVIEWS OF GRANT PROPOSALS FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD (UK), ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK), EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION, THE LEVERHULME TRUST, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (USA). HIBERNO-ENGLISH LINGUISTICS INTEGRATING PROSODY, PRAGMATICS AND SYNTAX IN A CORPUS-BASED LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION OF IRISH STANDARD ENGLISH £193,000 FROM THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD (UK) TO EMPLOY RESEARCH ASSISTANTS AND SUPPORT THE WORK OF A PROJECT ENTITLED 'INTEGRATING PROSODY, PRAGMATICS AND SYNTAX IN A CORPUS-BASED LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTION OF IRISH STANDARD ENGLISH'. (ADMINISTERED JOINTLY WITH DR. JOHN KIRK, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST.) ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF STANDARDISATION OF ENGLISH IN IRELAND £164,000 FROM THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD (UK) TO EMPLOY RESEARCH ASSISTANTS AND SUPPORT THE WORK OF A PROJECT ENTITLED 'SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF STANDARDISATION OF ENGLISH IN IRELAND'. INCLUDES COMPILATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CORPUS OF ENGLISH FOR IRELAND (ICE-IRELAND). (ADMINISTERED JOINTLY WITH DR. JOHN KIRK, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST.) ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD (UK) NO DATA IR£600 AWARDED ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY AND BRITISH COUNCIL SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMITTEE IRISH COMPONENT OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN BRITTANY, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES IR£20,000 FROM THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TOWARDS THE IRISH COMPONENT OF THE RESEARCH PROJECT ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN BRITTANY, IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES. (LOCAL SHARE OF APPROX. £100,000 ADMINISTERED BY DR. JANIG STEPHENS, UNIVERSITY OF WALES INSTITUTE CARDIFF, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR.) COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION NO DATA IR£250 FROM THE VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS FUND, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TO SUPPORT VISIT OF DR. PAUL KERSWILL, BRITISH PARTNER IN THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION NETWORK ON THE CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE OF SOCIAL DIALECTS IN A CHANGING EUROPE. VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS FUND, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LOGOPAEDICS AND PHONIATRICS (IALP) IR£680 FROM BORD NA GAEILGE TO ATTEND THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LOGOPAEDICS AND PHONIATRICS (IALP) FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BILINGUALISM AND LANGUAGE DISABILITY (HAIFA). BORD NA GAEILGE NO DATA IR£200 FROM INSTITIÚID TEANGEOLAÍOCHTA ÉIREANN (LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE OF IRELAND) TO ATTEND THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION SUMMER SCHOOL IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, BRIGHTON). INSTITIÚID TEANGEOLAÍOCHTA ÉIREANN (LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE OF IRELAND) NO DATA IR£200 FROM THE ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN TO SUPPORT VISIT TO THE LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT, CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE AND THE INSTITUTE FOR LINGUISTICS, BUDAPEST; OFFICIAL INVITATION ISSUED BY THE CZECHOSLOVAK MINISTER FOR EDUCATION ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR BALZ SAMUEL KAMBER kamberbalzsamuel PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY & MINERALOGY KAMBERBS GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANADIAN GEOSCIENCE REPRESENTATIVE AT PENROSE CONFERENCE ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY EARTH SCIENCE EARTH SCIENCE AND HYDROLOGY EARTH SCIENCES FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH EARTH STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES ELECTRICITY STORAGE ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FIELD MAPPING GEOCHEMISTRY GEOCHRONOLOGY IGENOUS AND METAMORPHIC PETROLOGY MINERALOGY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NATURAL GAS ORIGIN OF SOLAR SYSTEM PETROLOGY, MINEROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, CARTOGRAPHY, CLIMATOLOGY QUARTERNARY SCIENCE RENEWABLE ENERGIES VOLCANOLOGY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. BRIDGET THERESA KANE kanebridgettheresa VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW KANEBT PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES. MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDICAL TEAM WORKING; MEDICAL WORK, ESPECIALLY DIAGNOSTIC WORK PROCESSES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MEETINGS, JOB DESIGN AND INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS AT WORK. BEHAVIOUR AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY & MGT 3/4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH INFORMATICS ASSOCIATE EDITOR JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOUR AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATE IRISH MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE CO-CHAIR SPECIAL TRACK ON 'COLLABORATION AND TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE', AT THE 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2012, ROME, ITALY CO-CHAIR SPECIAL TRACK ON 'COLLABORATION AND TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE', AT THE 26TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2013, PORTO, PORTUGAL CO-CHAIR SPECIAL TRACK ON 'HEALTH KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT', AT THE 21TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2008, JYVASKLA, FINLAND. CO-CHAIR SPECIAL TRACK ON 'SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE', AT THE 22ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2009, NEW MEXICO, USA. CO-CHAIR SPECIAL TRACK ON 'SUPPORTING COLLABORATION AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS', AT THE 23RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2010, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA CO-CHAIR SPECIAL TRACK ON 'SUPPORTING COLLABORATION IN HEALTHCARE', AT THE 24TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2011, BRISTOL, ENGLAND CYTOTECHNOLOGIST MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CYTOLOGY EXTRA-ORDINARY MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL CYTOLOGY FELLOW OF THE ACADEMY OF CLINICAL SCIENCE AND LABORATORY MEDICINE FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES HEALTH INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND IEEE - ORDINARY MEMBER MEMBER OF THE PAPANICOLAOU SOCIETY OF CYTOPATHOLOGY PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 20TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS 2007. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 21TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS, 2008 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE 22ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS, 2009 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE FOR WORKSHOP ON COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMAL CARE, AT CSCW, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, USA, 2014, PROGRAMME COMMITTEE INTERACT, 2009 PUBLICATIONS CHAIR AT THE 27TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2014, NEW YORK, USA, 2014 PUBLICATIONS CHAIR AT THE 28TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS IEEE CBMS 2015, BRAZIL, 2015 ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND TREASURER, ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) SIGCHI IRELAND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CYTOLOGY AND CANCEROLOGY DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS HEALTH INFORMATICS HEALTH MANAGEMENT HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION SYSTEMS MULTIMEDIA ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR INTERACTION IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDICAL DISCUSSIONS MY CURRENT WORK CONTINUES TO EXPLORE SPECIFIC MDT ISSUES IN ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL AND FURTHER INFORM THE MODEL OF MDT WORK. ISSUES OF STANDARDIZATION OF PRACTICES AMONG TEAMS, NAMELY THE SELECTION OF PATIENTS FOR DISCUSSION, THE DATA REQUIRED TO BE AVAILABLE AT THE MDTM FOR DISCUSSION TO TAKE PLACE AND THE RECORDING PRACTICES FOR THE MDTM DECISION, ARE BEING ADDRESSED. INTEGRATION OF MDT KNOWLEDGE INTO MDTM RECORDS AND AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUAL PATIENT ELECTRONIC INTO THE HOSPITAL ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD (EPR) SYSTEM IS BEING EXPLORED. THE USE OF TELECONFERENCING TECHNOLOGY IS ALSO BEING MONITORED. IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME WITH ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL BOARD ECOMMET: ENHANCED COMPUTING SUPPORT FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDICAL TEAM MEETINGS MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDICAL TEAM MEETINGS HAVE BECOME AN ESTABLISHED PRACTICE IN MANY HOSPITALS. TEAMS OF EXPERTS ROUTINELY COME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS CASES AND PATIENT MANAGEMENT DECISIONS. SUCH DISCUSSIONS GENERATE A WEALTH OF INFORMATION THAT IS NOT CAPTURED IN TRADITIONAL MEDICAL RECORDS. ALTHOUGH RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HAVE MADE DIGITAL RECORDING OF ENTIRE MEETINGS A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY, THE USEFULNESS OF THIS KIND OF AUDIOVISUAL DATABASE IS DEPENDENT ON HOW EFFECTIVELY ITS CONTENTS CAN BE ACCESSED. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE HUMAN AND TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN BUILDING ADVANCED COMPUTING SUPPORT FOR COLLABORATION, PRODUCTION AND ACCESS OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS IN THOSE CONTEXTS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS 2006 SIREN: APPROPRIATE CARE IN THE APPROPRIATE SETTING: THE IMPACT OF THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME ON UTILISATION, PATIENT EXPERIENCE, SAFETY AND OUTCOME IN URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE THE AIM IS TO DESCRIBE AND EVALUATE THE DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT EMERGENCY AND URGENT CARE SYSTEMS (EUCS) IN IRELAND. THERE ARE FOUR OBJECTIVES: 1. TO IDENTIFY GEOGRAPHICAL NETWORKS OF EMERGENCY AND URGENT CARE IN IRELAND, AND DESCRIBE THE MODEL OF EUCS CONFIGURATION PLANNED/IMPLEMENTED IN EACH REGION. 2. TO ANALYSE THE PROCESS BY WHICH PLANS FOR EUCS RECONFIGURATION WERE DEVELOPED WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THE USE OF EVIDENCE AND THE ROLES OF DIFFERENT INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS. 3. TO ANALYSE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIFFERENT EUCS MODELS OF GOVERNANCE AND PROVISION, AND SYSTEM-LEVEL INDICATORS OF ACTIVITY, PROCESS AND CLINICAL OUTCOME. 4. TO DEVELOP, IMPLEMENT AND TEST A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION FRAMEWORK FOR EUCS. ULTIMATELY OUR RESEARCH WILL FACILITATE THE DISSEMINATION OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHICH WILL LEAD TO POPULATION WIDE IMPROVEMENTS IN PATIENT EXPERIENCE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CARG CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR DAVID JOHN KANE kanedavidjohn CONSULTANT RHEUMATOLOGIST KANEDJ SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE 7 SANDYCOVE AVENUE WEST SANDYCOVE CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. PASCHALIS KARAGEORGIS karageorgispaschalis ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KARAGEOP PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS PURE MATHEMATICS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. ANTTI KAUPPINEN kauppinenantti VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT KAUPPINA PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NEUROSCIENCE DR. PIERCE VALENTINE KAVANAGH kavanaghpiercevalentine CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER 1 PKVANAGH PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MR. MARK GERARD KAVANAGH kavanaghmarkgerard CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER (SPECIALIST) KAVANAMG BOTANY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 188 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR THOMAS KAVANAGH kavanaghthomas PROFESSOR - MOLECULAR GENETICS TKVANAGH GENETICS DEPT OF GENETICS O'HARA'S LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY MS. ALISON M. KAY kayalisonm RESEARCH ASSISTANT KAYAM PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ÁRAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CLAIRE KEANE keaneclaire VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW KEANECL SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY ESRI WHITAKER SQUARE SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PROFESSOR JOSEPH KEANE keanejoseph PROFESSOR IN RESPIRATORY MEDICINE JOSEPHMK CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES <STRONG>THE HOST RESPONSE TO TUBERCULOSIS</STRONG> <LI> <STRONG>MACROPHAGE RESPONSES</STRONG> WE ASSES THE MACROPHAGE RESPONSE TO INFECTION USING IN VITRO AND EX VIVO MODELS OF HUMAN ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES INFECTED WITH MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS. WE HAVE USED THESE EXPERIMENTS TO DEFINE THE ROLE OF MACROPHAGE CYTOKINE PRODUCTION, BACTERIAL KILLING, PHAGOLYSOSOME MATURATION, AND CELL DEATH IN THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO TUBERCULOSIS. BY USING HUMAN ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES FROM SUBJECTS UNDERGOING BRONCHOSCOPY WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DEFINE CLINICALLY RELEVANT INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES TO THIS IMPORTANT ORGANISM. <LI> <STRONG>CELL MEDIATED IMMUNITY</STRONG> USING HUMAN AND MURINE MODELS OF DISEASE WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CHARACTERISE BOTH THE PRO AND ANTI INFLAMMATORY IMMUNE RESPONSE TO MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS. SPECIFICALLY WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED NEW MECHANISM WHEREBY HUMAN ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES GENERATE A TOLEROGENIC RESPONSE TO MTB INFECTION; WHICH IS REFLECTED IN T-CELL CHANGES THAT CAN POTENTIALLY ACCOMMODATE THE INVADING PATHOGEN. <LI> <STRONG>THE STUDY OF TUBERCULOSIS SUSCEPTIBLE HUMAN HOSTS</STRONG> IN OUR TRANSLATIONAL WORK; WE HAVE CHARACTERISED THE IMMUNE RESPONSE OF PATIENTS TAKING TNF-BLOCKERS, CIGARETTE SMOKERS, AND PATIENT DEFICIENT IN VITAMIN D. IN THIS REGARD WE HAVE HELPED DEFINE THEIR UNIQUE HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DISEASE WITH MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS. <LI> <STRONG>DUBLIN TB GROUP</STRONG> OUR LAB IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TRINITY COLLEGE IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE, INCLUDING INVESTIGATORS WHO DO TB RESEARCH SUCH AS L O'NEILL, K. MILLS, P. FALLON, E. LAVELLE AND C. O'FARRELLY. WE CO-SUPERVISE WORK ON NEW INHALABLE TB THERAPIES FOR TB WITH DR. SALLY ANN CRYAN (RCSI). THESE PI'S AND A CRITICAL MASS OF TB INVESTIGATORS ACROSS DUBLIN ARE AVAILABLE TO COLLABORATE ON FUTURE GRANT CALLS, AND INCLUDE PROF. STEPHEN GORDON, MYCOBATERIOLOGIST, UCD. <LI> <STRONG>CLINICAL TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH</STRONG> WITH ON-SITE ACCESS TO THE LARGEST TB COHORT IN IRELAND, WE HAVE BEEN IN A POSITION TO DEFINE THE ROLE OF NEW DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS FOR TB. WE HAVE REPORTED ON THE USE OF EBUS-TBNA IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF ISOLATED MEDIASTINAL TUBERCULOUS LYMPHADENOPATHY. WE HAVE ALSO DEFINED THE PUBLIC HEALTH HAZARD OF PROLONGED INFECTIOUSNESS SEEN IN OUR PATIENTS WHO SMOKE CIGARETTES AFTER COMMENCEMENT OF ANTI-TB TREATMENT. <LI> <STRONG>NEW TB DIAGNOSTICS</STRONG> THE ROLE OF IGRA IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF LATENT TB INFECTION: WE ARE UNDERTAKING BENCH EXPERIMENTS TO IMPROVE THE SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO AND POTENTIALLY SHORTEN THE BLOOD INCUBATION PERIOD IN IGRA TESTS. IN OUR CLINICS, WE ARE TESTING IGRA PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED POPULATIONS THAT ARE UNIQUELY SUSCEPTIBLE TO PROGRESSION FROM LTBI TO TUBERCULOSIS DISEASE. <LI> TB RESEARCH IS FUNDED BY SFI, HRB AND THE RCDH TRUST <LI> <STRONG>LUNG CANCER</STRONG> <UL><LI>THE GENETIC BASIS OF LUNG CANCER: AT ST. JAMES'S WE SEE 25% OF THE IRISH LUNG CANCER PATIENTS. MY LAB IS COLLABORATING WITH BOSTON UNIVERSITY WHO ARE LOOKING AT THE GENETIC PROFILE OF CELLS FROM THESE PATIENTS TO ADDRESS THE QUESTIONS 'WHY DO SOME SMOKER GET LUNG CANCER, AND SOME SMOKERS DO NOT'. IT IS HOPE THAT THIS TRANSCRIPTOMICS APPROACH WILL ALLOW FOR EARLY DETECTION FOR THIS DISEASE THAT IS ALMOST ALWAYS LETHAL BECAUSE IT PRESENTS LATE. <LI> THE ACCURATE STAGING OF LUNG CANCER USING WHOLE BODY MRI OR PET </UL> CREST DIRECTORATE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY DIRECTOR: CLINICAL TB SERVICES, ST. JAMES'S SUPRAREGIONAL CENTRE DIRECTOR: TB IMMUNOLOGY LAB, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IRISH THORACIC SOCIETY PROGRAM CHAIR: AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY, MTPI ASSEMBLY ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS TBNET, STOP TB PARTNERSHIP, INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE APOPTOSIS HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INNATE IMMUNOLOGY LUNG CANCER MEDICINE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. DAVID KEANE keanedavid CONSULTANT CARDIOLOGIST KEANED2 CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. AIDEEN MARY KEANEY keaneyaideenmary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AKEANEY STATISTICS COMPUTER SECURITY WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON IDENTITY THEFT AND IDENTITY MANAGEMENT. IMPACT OF SPAM ON BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHING. DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY MEMBER OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE FOR THE 5TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE FOR E-GOVERNMENT. MEMBER OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY ASSOCIATION (IRELAND CHAPTER) MS. NOREEN KEARNEY kearneynoreen RETIRED STAFF MEMBER NOKEARNE RETIRED STAFF MEMBER SOCIAL STUDIES COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. MARY ANNE KEATING keatingmaryanne FELLOW EMERITUS MKEATING BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: . CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT WITH A FOCUS ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP . HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGY AND PRACTICES BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIRPERSON, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IRISH COUNTRY COORDINATOR FOR GLOBE (GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR EFFECTIVENESS) PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MR. RAYMOND DOMINIC KEAVENY keavenyraymonddominic CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER 1 RKEAVENY PHARMACY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 CTO REPRESENTATIVE ON TECHNICAL STAFFS COMMITTEE MEMBER OF SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AGEING CANCER DR. PAUL WILLIAM NAPOLEON KEELING keelingpaulwilliamnapoleon FELLOW EMERITUS PKEELING FELLOWS EMERITII MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MR. PAUL KEENAN keenanpaul ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KEENANP1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY PERSON-CENTRED PRACTICE, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY EDUCATION & INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING. SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH AN CUMANN EIREANNACH UM STAIR NA BANALTRACHTA AGUS AN CHNAIMHSEACHAIS / THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY HISTORY EAST OF ENGLAND LEARNING DISABILITY RESEARCH FORUM, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY ADVISORY GROUP MEMBER OF STEERING GROUP, IDRIGHTS. MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE, CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION, TCD. MEMBER OF THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DISCIPLINE AT THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. MEMBER OF THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE - TRANSFORMING HEALTHCARE THROUGH RESEARCH, EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY. SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. NURSING NETWORK IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, IRELAND ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING EDUCATION FORUM ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING LEARNING DISABILITY FORUM ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING RESEARCH SOCIETY SINCE 2014 JOINT CHAIRPERSON NURSING NETWORK IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, IRELAND (NNIDI). MEMBER OF NNIDI CORE COMMITTEE SINCE 2011 COMMUNITY CARE DISABILITIES HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE LEGISLATION AND POLICY INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF HOSPICE DAY CARE IN THE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY EXPLORING JOINT TRAINING IN PRE-QUALIFICATION SOCIAL WORK AND NURSING IN ENGLAND 1971-2003 MSC DISSERTATION, UEA. SCOPE EAST ANGLIA - IDENTIFICATION OF PRIMARY NEED. THE AIM FOR 2005 NATIONALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT IDENTIFYING PRIMARY NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY IN EAST ANGLIA SCOPE EAST ANGLIA NETWORKING IN ID IN UK EXPLORING NETWORKING WITHIN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING THE LEADERSHIP CENTRE, LONDON ON BEHALF OF UK NATIONAL NETWORK OF LEARNING DISABILITY NURSING THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN RELATION TO PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD. €102,090 NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY (NDA) SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES (RNID), ARE CORE PROVIDERS OF SERVICES TO PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND. CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS, RENEWED MOVEMENT INTO COMMUNITY SETTINGS AND NEWLY EMERGING HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IMPLY THAT THE ROLE OF THE RNID IS CHANGING. THESE CHANGES REPRESENT BOTH OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING AND IT IS AGAINST THIS BACKDROP THAT THE HSE HAS ESTABLISHED A PROJECT TO EXAMINE THE CURRENT AND FUTURE ROLE OF REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES. THIS PROJECT IS ENTITLED: 'SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND'. HSE A COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE TO IMPLEMENT PERSON-CENTRED PRACTICE IN RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUMMARY THIS ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO EXAMINE WORKING PRACTICES IN A LARGE PROVIDER SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND REORIENT THEM TOWARDS A PERSON CENTRED FOCUS. THE PROJECT USES A COLLABORATIVE INQUIRY METHODOLOGY AND IS A JOINT VENTURE BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND THE SERVICE PROVIDER. THE ACTION RESEARCH WILL BE LOCATED IN SIX PILOT UNITS WITHIN THE SERVICE. EVALUATION OF SERVICE PROVISION WILL TAKE PLACE PRE AND POST THE JOINTLY AGREED INTERVENTIONS. STEWARTS CARE LTD A SURVEY OF THE VIEWS OF NURSE MANAGERS, NURSE PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STAFF AND REGISTERED NURSES IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND IN RESPONSE TO THE REVIEW OF THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. THIS PROJECT USED FOCUS GROUPS TO SURVEY THE VIEWS OF 67 SELF SELECTED REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES IN IRELAND CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES. THE RESPONDENTS' VIEWS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY FORWARDED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AS A SUBMISSION TO TO THE REVIEW OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. NURSE MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND. EVALUATION OF A COMMUNITY-BASED INITIATIVE IN LEINSTER SUMMARY THE PROJECT AIMS TO EVALUATE THE OUTCOMES OF A SERVICE INITIATIVE, INSTIGATED 3 YEARS AGO, IN WHICH 9 PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES MOVED FROM A SERVICE-BASED CONGREGATED SETTING INTO A COMMUNITY-BASED HOME. A MIXED METHOD APPROACH WILL BE UTILISED TO DATA COLLECTION. INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD WITH ALL RESIDENTS WHO AGREE TO TAKE PART AND WITH ONE RELATIVE OF EACH PARTICIPANT. THE PERSONAL OUTCOME MEASURES OF EACH PARTICPANT WILL ALSO BE EVALUATED.QUALITATIVE DATA WILL BE THEMATICALLY ANALYSED. QUANTITATIVE DATA (SOME ASPECTS OF POMS) WILL BE ANALYSED WITH DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF DEINSTITUTIONALISATION. PEAMOUNT SERVICES A LITERATURE REVIEW TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR PERSON-CENTRED PLANNING IN DISABILITY SERVICES THE LITERATURE REVIEW AIMS TO IDENTIFY AVAILABLE EVIDENCE IN THE AREA OF PERSON-CENTRED PLANNING (PCP) TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL FRAMEWORK. NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR DERMOT P KELLEHER kelleherdermotp ADJUNCT PROFESSOR KELLEHDP SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MY MAJOR INTEREST IS IN THE BIOLOGY OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL IMMUNE SYSTEM AND IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THIS SYSTEM AND EPITHELIAL BIOLOGY. HENCE THE RESEARCH HAS DIRECT IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT INCLUDING COELIAC DISEASE AND HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION. THE RESEARCH PROJECTS WITHIN MY GROUP FOCUS ON THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF THE T-LYMPHOCYTE AND ITS ROLE IN INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION. GASTROINTESTINAL INFLAMMATION IS UNDER IMMUNOGENETIC CONTROL AND THE GENETICS OF COELIAC DISEASE ARE ALSO A FOCUS OF THE GROUP. LASTLY, WE HAVE AN ACTIVE MOLECULAR GROUP WHICH IS CONCERNED LARGELY WITH EPITHELIAL CELL BIOLOGY. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH PROJECTS INCLUDE: SIGNALLING ROLE OF ADHESION MOLECULES ON BOTH PERIPHERAL AND INTESTINAL LYMPHOCYTES. RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS INTERACTIONS BETWEEN H PYLORI AND THE GASTROINTESTINAL EPITHELIUM. VACCINE DEVELOPMENT FOR H PYLORI INFECTION. IMMUNOGENETICS OF GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER DISEASE. SUMMARY OF RESEARCH MILESTONES: CHARACTERISATION OF BIOCHEMICAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN INTEGRIN-MEDIATED LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION, A POTENTIAL TARGET FOR NEW THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES. IDENTIFICATION OF MECHANISMS WHEREBY HELICOBACTER PYLORI PROTECTS ITSELF FROM ANTIBODY ATTACKS. DEVELOPMENT AND PATENTING OF H PYLORI VACCINE, WHICH WE HAVE LICENSED TO CHIRON CORPORATION. CHARACTERISATION OF IMMUNOGENETICS OF HEPATITIS C VIRAL CLEARANCE. RESEARCH STAFF: WELLCOME LECTURERS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS MEDICAL FELLOWS PHD STUDENTS. THE GROUP IS HIGHLY INTERACTIVE AND POSSESSES SKILLS IN MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY, PROTEIN CHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOLOGY. WE HAVE ACCESS TO STATE OF THE ART MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY EQUIPMENT IN THE INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE, ST JAMES' HOSPITAL, MUCH OF WHICH HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY PEER REVIEWED EQUIPMENT GRANTS FROM THE GROUP. THE GROUP IS VIRTUALLY EXCLUSIVELY FUNDED BY PEER-REVIEWED GRANT FUNDING. CLINICAL MEDICINE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL JAMES'S STREET DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 5-AMINOSALICYLIC ACID 6-MERCAPTOPURINE ABSORPTION ACCUMULATION ACTIN ACTIN CYTOSKELETON ACTIVATION ACUTE BILIARY PANCREATITIS ADENOCARCINOMA ADHERENCE ADHESION ADHESION MOLECULE ADHESION MOLECULES ADHESION RECEPTORS ALLELES ALPHA-SUBUNITS ANTI-D ANTIGEN RECEPTOR ANTIGENS ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY APOPTOSIS ARACHIDONIC ACID ASSOCIATION AUTOIMMUNE ENTEROPATHY AUTOMATED NEEDLE AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY AZATHIOPRINE AZODISAL SODIUM BETA BILE-DUCT OBSTRUCTION BINDING BINDING-PROTEINS BIOCHEMISTRY BREATH TEST BROMODEOXYURIDINE CAMPYLOBACTER-PYLORI CANCER CANCER DETECTION CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS CD44 CD8-ALPHA HOMODIMER CELIAC-DISEASE CELL LYMPHOMA CELL-ACTIVITY CELL-ADHESION CELLS CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS REGULATING AND RESISTING APOPTOSIS CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM CHEMOKINES CHILDHOOD CELIAC-DISEASE CHOLANGIOGRAPHY CHOLEDOCHOLITHIASIS CLASS-II CLINICAL-TRIALS COLITIS COLON CANCER COLONIC CARCINOMA COMBINATION COMMON BILE-DUCT COMPLICATIONS CONCENTRATE CONTROLLED TRIAL CROHN'S DISEASE CROHNS-DISEASE CROSS-LINKING CRYOGLOBULINAEMIA CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA CYCLOSPORINE METABOLISM CYCLOSPORINE-A CYTO-TOXICITY CYTOCHROME-P-450 CYTOKINE SECRETION CYTOSKELETON CYTOTOXIC T CELL DEPENDENT CROHNS-DISEASE DEPENDENT DIABETES-MELLITUS DEPENDENT PHOSPHORYLATION DEXAMETHASONE DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION DISEASE DIVERSITY DNA DNA FRAGMENTATION DOMAIN DOUBLE POSITIVE LYMPHOCYTES DOUBLE-BLIND DRUG-RESISTANCE DRUGS E2/NS1 REGION EMBRYO FIBROBLASTS ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY ENDOTHELIUM ENHANCEMENT ENTEROCYTE ENTEROCYTES ENVELOPE PROTEIN EPITHELIAL CELL EPITHELIAL-CELLS EPITHELIUM ESCHERICHIA-COLI EVOLUTION EXPANSIONS EXPRESSION EXTRAHEPATIC TISSUES EXTRATHYMIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR TNF FACTOR-VIII FIBROSIS FLOW FLOW CYTOMETRIC ANALYSIS FOOD INTOLERANCE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1 FUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA GAMMA-DELTA GASTRIC INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTE GASTRODUODENAL INJURY GASTROINTESTINAL TISSUES GENE GENETIC DRIFT GENETICS OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASE GENOME GLUTEN-FREE DIET GLUTEN-SENSITIVE ENTEROPATHY GUT HAEMOPHILIA HEALTHY-VOLUNTEERS HELICOBACTER PYLORI HEMATOPOIETIC-CELLS HEMOPHILIC PATIENTS HEPATITIS C HEPATITIS C VIRUS HLA-DQ HUMAN COLORECTAL TUMORS HUMAN MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTES HUMAN PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTES HUMAN-LIVER HUMAN-MONOCYTES HVR1 ICAM-1 IDENTIFICATION IFN-GAMMA IMMUNE SELECTION INDIVIDUALS INDOMETHACIN INDUCED PANCREATITIS INFLAMMATORY-BOWEL-DISEASE INTEGRIN INTERFERON-ALPHA-2B INTERLEUKIN-2 INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS INTESTINAL INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTES INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTES INVOLVEMENT ISOENZYME LEUKEMIA-CELLS LEUKOCYTE ADHESION LEUKOTRIENE-B4 LIPOXYGENASE LIVER BIOPSY LOCALIZATION LPS LYMPHOCYTE LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN-1 MACROPHAGES MAGNETIC-RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY MALABSORPTION MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS MESALAZINE MICE MICROALBUMINURIA MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN-2 MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODY MONOCYTES MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA NEGATIVE DUODENAL-ULCER NEPHROTIC SYNDROME NF-KAPPA B NF-KAPPA-B NON-A NON-B-HEPATITIS NONSTEROIDAL ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS ODDI DYSFUNCTION PATHOGENESIS PATHWAYS PEPTIC-ULCER DISEASE PERIPHERAL-BLOOD LYMPHOCYTES PHORBOL ESTER PHORBOL MYRISTATE ACETATE PHORBOL-MYRISTATE ACETATE PHYLOGENETIC PKC ISOTYPES POLYMERASE CHAIN-REACTION POLYPS POSSIBLE REGULATORY SYSTEM PROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY PROSTAGLANDIN-E2 PROTEIN PROTEIN C PROTEIN KINASE C PURPURA FULMINANS QUASISPECIES RANDOMIZED TRIAL RAPID UREASE TEST RAT RECEPTOR RECEPTORS RECOGNITION RESPONSES RIBAVIRIN SENSITIVE ENTEROPATHY SEPSIS SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS SMALL-BOWEL SPHINCTEROTOMY SPRUE STENOSIS STIMULATION SUBUNIT SULFASALAZINE SUPPRESSION T HELPER CELL T-CELL ADHESION T-CELL LYMPHOMAS THERAPY TNF-ALPHA TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR TRANSPORT CONDITIONS TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ULCERATIVE JEJUNITIS ULCERATIVE-COLITIS VACCINOLOGY VARIABILITY VARIANTS VILLOUS ATROPHY VIRUS-INFECTION VON WILLEBRAND'S DISEASE AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CLARE KELLY kellyclare USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KELLYC58 PSYCHOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) - DEVELOPING, VALIDATING, AND APPLYING FRONTIER BRAIN IMAGING APPROACHES TO MAP TYPICAL AND ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRAIN'S FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURES, SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW DEVELOPMENT CAN GO AWRY. - UNDERSTANDING BRAIN-BEHAVIOUR RELATIONSHIPS - HOW INTERINDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION PRODUCE INTERINDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOUR. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN HIGHER ORDER COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS SUCH AS WORKING MEMORY AND ATTENTIONAL CONTROL, AS WELL AS IN MOTIVATIONAL FUNCTIONS RELATED TO LEARNING AND REWARD PROCESSING. - IDENTIFYING AND CHARACTERISING DYSFUNCTIONAL BRAIN ORGANISATION AND BRAIN DYSCONNECTIVITY IN CLINICAL POPULATIONS SUCH AS ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD), AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD), MOOD DISORDERS, AND SUBSTANCE USE AND ADDICTION. - UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF EARLY LIFE EXPERIENCE ON BRAIN FUNCTION, BEHAVIOUR, AND LONG-TERM MENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 AD-HOC MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR NEURON; THE JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, CEREBRAL CORTEX; NEUROIMAGE; CORTEX; JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING; AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY; JAMA PSYCHIATRY; PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE; EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE; JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY AND ALLIED DISCIPLINES; JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS; PLOS ONE; NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS; FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE, FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE CHILD DEVELOPMENT COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE FMRI FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING NEUROIMAGING METHODS NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY NEUROSCIENCE DR. VINCENT PATRICK KELLY kellyvincentpatrick ASST PROF/ACADEMIC CO-ORDINATOR KELLYVP BIOCHEMISTRY MICRONUTRUIENTS ARE THE PRINCIPLE AREA OF INTEREST FOR MY LABORATORY AND TO DATE, I HAVE RAISED €2,269,944 FOR RESEARCH IN THIS FIELD. IN PARTICULAR, I HAVE AN KEAN INTEREST ON A BACTERIAL METABOLITE CALLED QUEUINE THAT, PRIOR TO MY WORK IN THE AREA, WAS VERY MUCH AN UNDERSTUDIED AREA. THROUGH A SERIES OF BIOCHEMICAL, GENETIC AND TRANSGENIC STUDIES FROM MY LABORATORY I IDENTIFIED THE PATHWAYS IN MAMMALS THAT USE THE QUEUINE MICRONUTRIENT AND HAVE ELUCIDATED TO SOME DEGREE THE ACTUAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PURPOSE OF THIS ELUSIVE MOLECULE. THE FINDINGS ARE OF BROAD SCIENCTIFIC INTEREST FOR RESEAECHERS IN THE AREAS OF METABOLISM, NEUROSCIENCE, IMMUNOLOGY AND GUT-HOST INTERACTIONS, WHICH IS EVIDENCED BY THE INVITED TALKS THAT I HAVE GIVEN ON THE DISCOVERIES. AN OUTSTANDING ASPECT OF THE QUEUINE-MICRONUTRIENT RESEARCH HAS BEEN THE DISCOVERY THAT THIS MECHANISM CAN BE USED AS POTENTIAL TREATMENT FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS AND OTHER AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS. THIS HAS CREATED CONSIDERING INTEREST IN THE QUEUINE MICRONUTRIENT AND IN THE RNA MODIFICATION FIELD IN GENERAL. THROUGH CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES IN THE SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY, DR. MIKE SOUTHERN AND PROF. STEPHEN CONNON, I SUCCESSED IN CAPTURING VALUABLE COMMERCIAL ASSETS FOR THIS RESEARCH IN THE FORM OF TWO STRONG PATENTS THAT HAVE PASSED THE PCT STAGE AND WHICH ARE EXCLUSINVE IP TO TRINITY COLLEGE. THE COMPANY WE CO-FOUNDED, AZADYNE, AIMS TO EXPLOIT OUR FINDINGS FURTHER. APART FROM CAPITALISING ON THE COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL, THE QUEUINE-MICRONUTRIENT STILL REPRESENTS AN EXCITING AND FRUITFUL AREA FOR FURTHER BASIC DISCOVERIES GIVEN THAT SO LITTLE IN KNOWN ABOUT THE MOLECULE. QUEUINE'S RELATIONSHIP TO CANCER (WHERE IT IS UNIVERSALLY DEPLETED), TO NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION (WHERE WE HAVE PUBLISHED A DECREASE IN TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN) AND METABOLISM (A PAPER IS CURRENTLY IN PRESS) ARE JUST SOME OF THE EXAMPLES OF THE DIRECTION THE RESEARCH IS TAKING. AS STATED EARLIER, IN 2011 I ESTABLISHED A TRANSGENIC FACILITY IN TRINITY COLLEGE. THE GENESIS FOR THIS WORK WAS AN EQUIMENT GRANT THAT I SECURED FROM SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (€194,756; 05/IN3/B761) AS LEAD-PI IN DEC 2006. THIS ALLOWED THE PURCHASE OF CRYOPRESERVATION EQUIPMENT TO FREEZE AWAY MOUSE EMBRYOS. SUBSEQUENTLY, I WAS THE LEAD-APPLICANT ON A HEA-PRTLI5 WORKPACKAGE TO EXTEND THE TRANSGENIC CAPABILITIES THAT TRINITY COLLEGE HAS TODAY AND BRINGING TOGETHER APPLICANTS FROM OTHER UNIVERSITIES TO FORM THE IRISH TRANSGENIC NEWTORK (FOR WHICH I AM THE LEAD-ADMINISTRATOR). THE ITN APPLICATION SECURED €5.31 MILLION OF PTRLI5 FUNDING IN TOTAL, €3.67 MILLION OF WHICH WENT TO TRINITY COLLEGE. APART FROM COMPOSING THE PRTLI5 APPLICATION, I HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR DESIGNED THE FACILITY FROM THE GROUND UP; GUIDING AND ADVISING ARTITECHS PLANS, PURCHASING EQUIPMENT (€1.4 MILLION), EMPLOYING AND TRAINING THE STAFF, ESTABLISHING A PAY-FOR SERVICE BUSINESS IN ADDITION TO MANGING THE FINANCES, REPORTING AND SCIENTIFIC DIRECTION OF THE UNIT I.E. THERE IS A CONSTANT EVOLUTION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE AREA. TO HAVE TRANSGENCIS AS A SERVICE IN COLLEGE IS A MAJOR RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT. FEW ACADEMICS WORLDWIDE WOULD HAVE THE SKILLS AND KNOWHOW TO DEVELOP SUCH A FACILITY FROM THE GROUND UP. THE SERVICES ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF DELIVERING ON THE SICENTIFIC PROGRAMMES OF NUMEROUS RESEARCH GROUPS. ARISING FROM MY EXPERTISE IN ANIMAL TRANSGENICS, I ALSO HAVE A KEEN INTEREST IN HUMAN FERTILITY. CURRENTLY, I AM WORKING TOGETHER WITH KORA HEALTHCARE (AN IRISH SME) ON AN EI INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP GRANT TO DEVELOP PRODUCTS AND PATENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF MALE INFERTILITY USING NATURALLY OCCURRING MICRONUTRIENTS. APART FROM MY WORK ON MICRONUTRIENTS, I HAVE IN-DEPT KNOWLEDGEABLE ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF BIOMEDICAL TOPICS AND HAVE CO-AUTHORED PAPERS IN VARIOUS AREAS INCLUDING METABOLISM, OXIDATIVE STRESS, DIABETES, FERTILITY, DRUG DETOXIFICATION AND NANOMATERIALS. DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE ENGLISH BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY I AM THE IRISH REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE EMMA (EUROPEAN MOUSE MUTANT ARCHIVE), WHICH IS A REPOSITORY AND DISTRIBUTOR OF MUTANT MOUSE STRAINS FOR BASIC BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH. SINCE 2011, I HAVE BEEN THE LEAD ADMINISTRATOR OF THE IRISH TRANSGENIC NETWORK, WHICH CO-ORDINATES THE TRANSGENIC ACTIVITIES OF HEIS NATIONALLY. THE GROUP HAS HELPED SHAPE NATIONAL POLICY FOR THE USE OF TRANSGENIC ANIMALS IN RESEARCH. ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ANIMAL REPRODUCTION EMBRYOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY NUTRITION Q-BASE; AN ESSENTIAL NUTRIENT FOR TYROSINE BIOSYNTHESIS.IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DISEASE PHENYLKETONURIA AND TRANSFER RNA BIOLOGY. IRELAND HAS THE HIGHEST INCIDENCE IN THE WORLD OF THE METABOLIC DISEASE PHENYLKETONURIA (PKU). INDIVIDUALS WITH PKU HAVE ABNORMALLY HIGH LEVELS OF PHENYLALANINE IN THEIR BLOOD BECAUSE THEIR BODIES CANNOT BREAK DOWN PHENYLALANINE TO TYROSINE. BABIES IN PARTICULAR ARE AT RISK OF DEVELOPING SEVERE MENTAL RETARDATION, HENCE WHY THIS DISEASE IS ROUTINELY SCREENED FOR IN NEW-BORN INFANTS. WE ARE STUDYING A MOLECULE FOUND IN EVERYDAY FOOD CALLED QUEUINE. ANIMALS WITH NO QUEUINE ARE UNABLE TO CONVERT PHENYLALANINE TO TYROSINE IN THE SAME WAY AS INDIVIDUALS WITH PKU. UNDERSTANDING WHY THIS IS TRUE WILL OPEN UP A WHOLE NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE PKU DISEASE AND COULD PROVIDE NOVEL DRUG TARGETS. IT IS EVEN POSSIBLE THAT ADMINISTERING THE QUEUINE MOLECULE ITSELF TO PKU SUFFERERS COULD BE OF THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND AGEING CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. CAMILLA KELLY kellycamilla RESEARCH PROJECTS OFFICER KELLYC2 TR&I ADMINISTRATION TRINITY RESEARCH & INNOVATION O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. ELISH MARY KELLY kellyelishmary ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EKELLY7 ECONOMICS DEPT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. DANIEL LUCIUS KELLY kellydaniellucius FELLOW EMERITUS DKELLY BOTANY DR DANIEL KELLY'S RESEARCH AREA LIES IN WOODLAND AND FOREST ECOLOGY. CURRENT WORK WITH COLLEAGUES AND STUDENTS IN IRELAND INCLUDES BIODIVERSITY IN IRISH PLANTATION FORESTRY (GROUND FLORA AND EPIPHYTES), TREE REGENERATION AND THE EFFECTS OF LARGE HERBIVORES ON NATIVE WOODLAND VEGETATION. HE ALSO HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN BRYOPHYTES (MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS). HE IS AN EDITOR OF WATSONIA (JOURNAL OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES). HIS OTHER FIELD OF RESEARCH IS IN THE NEW WORLD TROPICS, AND HE HAS ORGANISED AND LED EXPEDITIONS IN JAMAICA, VENEZUELA, GUYANA AND HONDURAS. THE FOCUS OF HIS TROPICAL INTERESTS IS ON FOREST BIODIVERSITY, STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS AND EPIPHYTIC PLANT COMMUNITIES. BOTANY DEPARTMENT BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH CHAIRMAN, IRISH BRANCH, BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES EDITOR OF WATSONIA (JOURNAL OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES) MEMBER, AN TAISCE MEMBER, ASSOCIATION FOR TROPICAL BIOLOGY & CONSERVATION MEMBER, BRITISH BRYOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT, DUBLIN NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB BIODIVERSITY EPIPHYTES PLANT COMMUNITY ECOLOGY WOODLANDS ECOLOGY MANAGING FOR BIODIVERSITY IN A RANGE OF IRISH FOREST TYPES TO ASSESS THE BIODIVERSITY OF SECOND ROTATION PLANTATION FORESTS; TO MAKE COMPARISONS OF DIVERSITY AMONG DIFFERENT FOREST TYPES, PLANTED AND SEMI-NATURAL; TO IDENTIFY INDICATORS OF BIODIVERSITY FOR DIFFERENT FOREST TYPES; TO IDENTIFY MEASURES WHICH MAY BE USED TO ENHANCE BIODIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT FOREST TYPES; AND TO COMPARE IRISH AND BRITISH FOREST BIODIVERSITY. COFORD COFORD FOREST RESEARCH PROGRAMME 2006-2012 GRAZING EFFECTS ON PLANT AND MOLLUSC DIVERSITY IN WOODLAND AND GRASSLAND HABITATS THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THE IMPACTS OF GRAZING ON BIODIVERSITY IN SEMI-NATURAL GRASSLAND, SCRUB AND WOODLAND ON LIMESTONE, FOCUSSED IN THE BURREN REGION (CO. CLARE). A NETWORK OF EXPERIMENTAL EXCLOSURES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED. RESPONSES ARE BEING MONITORED AMONG THE COMMUNITIES OF VASCULAR PLANTS, BRYOPHYTES AND MOLLUSCS. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY BIOCHANGE CONSERVATION AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERISATION OF VETERAN OAK (QUERCUS SPP.) AND ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR L.) TREES. IRISH VETERAN TREES REPRESENT A RARE AND ENDANGERED GENETIC RESOURCE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ANALYSE THE GENETIC VARIATION IN VETERAN OAK AND ASH FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF THESE GENOTYPES THROUGH A RANGE OF VEGETATIVE PROPAGATION METHODOLOGIES. TEAGASC SPECIES COMPOSITION AND DIVERSITY OF WOODLANDS AND HEDGEROWS IN THE COUNTY OF FINGAL THE PROJECT INVOLVES AN EXTENSIVE SURVEY OF HEDGE AND BROADLEAVED WOODLAND VEGETATION IN FINGAL (NORTHERN CO. DUBLIN). WE ASSESS THE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH HABITAT TO BIODIVERSITY IN THE COUNTY. WE TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT HEDGES FORM IMPORTANT REFUGIA FOR WOODLAND AND OTHER SCARCE SPECIES. OUTPUTS WILL INCLUDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF BOTH HEDGES AND WOODLAND. FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL BIODIVERSITY SURVEY OF CUSUCO NATIONAL PARK, HONDURAS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM IS CARRYING OUT A SURVEY OF MONTANE RAIN FOREST AND ASSOCIATED HABITATS IN CUSUCO NATIONAL PARK, N.W. HONDURAS. THE PARTICIPATING BOTANISTS HAVE FOCUSSED ON ESTABLISHING AND RECORDING A NETWORK OF PERMANENT PLOTS. THESE WILL PROVIDE AN INVENTORY OF THE FOREST COMPOSITION; AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PATTERN OF PLANT COMMUNITIES ASSOCATED WITH DIFFERENT HABITATS; AND A BASELINE AGAINST WHICH TO MONITOR CHANGE OPERATION WALLACEA WOODLAND DYNAMICS, TREE REGENERATION AND THE EFFECTS OF LARGE HERBIVORES IN KILLARNEY NATIONAL PARK. OBJECTIVES: TO MONITOR CHANGES IN TREE POPULATIONS, TREE REGENERATION, FIELD LAYER AND BRYOPHYTE LAYER INSIDE AND OUTSIDE EXPERIMENTAL EXCLOSURES IN NATIVE OAK AND YEW WOODLAND AND ADJOINING HABITATS. THE BROADER AIM IS TO PROMOTE INFORMED MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION IN IRELAND'S NATIONAL PARKS. NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. MARY JACQUELINE KELLY kellymaryjacqueline ASSISTANT ALLOCATIONS OFFICER KELLYM1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MR. KEVIN KELLY kellykevin ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KEKELLY MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG ROBOTICS, DESIGN INNOVATION, ENGINEERING EDUCATION, MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN, MACHINING PROCESS MODELLING, SURFACE GENERATION PROCESSES, TOOL CONDITION MONITORING MECHANICAL & MANUF ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISH MANUFACTURING COUNCIL - IMC ENGINEERING SCHOOL CO-ORDINATOR FOR STANFORD GLOBAL DESIGN ALLIANCE ENGINEERING SCHOOL LIAISON FOR CDIO (CONCEIVE, DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, OPERATE) ORGANISATION ENGINEERING SCHOOL LIAISON FOR IRISH MANUFACTURING COUNCIL JOINT CHAIRMAN OF THE 26TH INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE IMC26 - ENERGY EFFICIENT AND LOW CARBON MANUFACTURING, SEPTEMBER 2-4, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR IMECHE JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANUFACTURE MANAGEMENT COUNCIL MEMBER, SUGAR GLOBAL INNOVATION NETWORK MEMBER OF EXPERT GROUP ON FUTURE SKILLS NEEDS IN MANUFACTURING (FORFAS) PRESIDENT OF IRISH MANUFACTURING COUNCIL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CHATTER COMPLEX/INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING DRILLING DROPOUT PREVENTION ENGINEERING EDUCATION ENGINEERING INNOVATION PROCESSES EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY HUMAN ROBOT INTERFACE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING INNOVATION INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENT AGENTS MACHINE DYNAMICS MACHINING SIMULATION MANUFACTURING (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES (INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERI MICROENGINEERING, MICROMACHINING MOBILE ROBOT APPLICATION MOBILE ROBOTICS MONITORING NUMERICAL ANALYSIS PRODUCT DESIGN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PRODUCTION ENGINEERING QUALITY CONTROL (ENGINEERING) ROBOT ROBOTICS STATISTICS STOCHASTIC PROCESSES SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MODELS DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS CONTROL, MODELLING, NEURAL NETWORKS MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) OTHER ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - REMOTE SENSING AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. AINE KELLY kellyaine ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AIKELLY PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) THE ROLES OF THE NEUROTROPHIN FAMILY OF PROTEINS IN LEARNING AND MEMORY, NEURONAL CELL SURVIVAL AND DEATH AND EXERCISE-INDUCED COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT AND NEUROPROTECTION PHYSIOLOGY DEPT PHYSIOLOGY BLDG COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND MEMBER, BRITISH NEUROSCIENCE ASSOCIATION MEMBER, PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES EXERCISE NEUROCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROGENESIS NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE PHYSIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. JULIE ANNE KELLY kellyjulieanne RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR KELLYJA CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) THE MAIN FOCUS OF DR KELLY'S RESEARCH RELATES TO UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTIONS OF THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE (TRH) IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) AND TO ENHANCING ITS CENTRAL THERAPEUTIC ACTIONS. BASED ON ITS CENTRAL ACTIONS, TRH HAS SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL IN TREATING A VARIETY OF CNS DISORDERS WITH UNMET CLINICAL NEED, INCLUDING CNS TRAUMA, SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION, EPILEPSY AND DEPRESSION. CRITICALLY, HOWEVER, THE CLINICAL USE OF TRH AND INVESTIGATION OF ITS CNS FUNCTIONS ARE HINDERED DUE TO ITS RAPID DEGRADATION. DR KELLY IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING THE PROPERTIES OF NOVEL COMPOUNDS THAT MAY PROVIDE A MEANS TO REDUCE TRH DEGRADATION AND THUS MAY FACILITATE INVESTIGATION OF TRH ACTIONS IN AN EXPERIMENTAL SETTING AND MAY HAVE POTENTIAL MEDICAL APPLICATION. SECTION OF NEUROLOGY, ROOM 5.43 TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, PEARSE ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE (AAAS) AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY (ISN) ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY (RCS) SIGMA XI THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY FURTHERING THE DEVELOPMENT OF POTENT THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE-DEGRADING ECTOENZYME (TRH-DE INHIBITORS - TOWARD A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY FOR CNS DISORDERS. €238,703 (2005-2008) [PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI)] HRB PROJECT GRANT RP/2005/152 EXPLORATION OF METHODS TO PROVIDE SUSTAINED EXPRESSION OF TRH PEPTIDE IN A TARGET TISSUE AND INVESTIGATION OF NEUROPROTECTIVE PROPERTIES OF TRH. €165,000 (2005-2008) WITH DR G. J. FARRAR (PI, TCD) AND PROFESSOR C. O'DRISCOLL. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME 05/RFP/BIM0034 OPTIMISATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF POTENT, SELECTIVE THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE-DEGRADING ECTOENZYME (TRH-DE) INHIBITORS AND INVESTIGATION OF THEIR FUNCTIONAL EFFECTS IN THE CNS €421,805 (2000 -2004) PI WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANT EXPLOITING CHEMICAL LIBRARIES, STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND BIOLOGICAL TESTING TO DESIGN THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE-DEGRADING ECTOENZYME (TRH-DE) INHIBITORS FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF CNS DISORDERS. HRB INTER-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT GRANT: €130,000. CO-PI WITH PROF. K. F. TIPTON (TCD) HRB INTER-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT GRANT EXPLORATION OF RIBOZYME-BASED SUPPRESSION OF THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE-DEGRADING ECTOENZYME (TRH-DE) GENE EXPRESSION AS A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC APPROACH FOR CNS INJURY. HRB PROJECT GRANT: €112,500. CO-PI WITH DR. G. J. FARRAR HRB PROJECT GRANT SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS FOR THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE (TRH) RECEPTOR LIGANDS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT: €126,800 WITH DR. K. M. O'BOYLE (PI, UCD) ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF INHIBITORS OF THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE (TRH)-DEGRADING ECTOENZYME FOR USE IN ASSESSING THE ROLE OF THIS ENZYME AND TRH IN THE CNS. €497,618. PI WELLCOME TRUST RE-ENTRY FELLOWSHIP PRECLINICAL EVALUATION OF A NOVEL NEUROTHERAPEUTIC FOR ALS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FONDATION THIERRY LATRAN DETERMINING BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF A NEW THERAPEUTIC COMPOUND, JAK4D, IN THE SOD1 MOUSE MODEL OF AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) €128,500 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IRISH MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL COMPOUND FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS. €392,415 (2007-2009) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI) ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD/2006/122 DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL COMPOUND FOR TREATING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS. €392,415 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI) ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD/2006/122 PARENTERAL DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR FIRST IN CLASS COMPOUND WITH POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION IN CNS DISORDERS. €85,025 (2006-2007) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (PI) ENTERPRISE IRELAND ENTERPRISE IRELAND PC/2005/201 GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. DAVID JAMES KELLY kellydavidjames VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW DJKELLY ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR DANIEL JOHN KELLY kellydanieljohn PROFESSOR KELLYD9 MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG AMBER TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING ARTICULAR CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING: DR. KELLY'S LAB IS PIONEERING THE USE OF ADULT STEM CELLS ISOLATED FROM SYNOVIAL JOINTS SUCH AS THE KNEE, COMBINED WITH BIOREACTORS TO MECHANICALLY STIMULATE THESE CELLS, TO TISSUE ENGINEER FUNCTIONAL CARTILAGE GRAFTS. THEY HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO ENGINEER ZONALLY ORGANISED TISSUES SUCH AS ARTICULAR CARTILAGE BY RECAPITULATING THE GRADIENTS IN REGULATORY SIGNALS THAT DURING DEVELOPMENT AND SKELETAL MATURATION ARE BELIEVED TO DRIVE SPATIAL CHANGES IN STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION AND TISSUE ORGANIZATION. THEY ARE ALSO DEVELOPING SINGLE STAGE THERAPIES FOR ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REGENERATION THAT COMBINE BIOMIMETIC SCAFFOLDS WITH FRESHLY ISOLATED STROMAL CELLS SOURCED FROM PATIENTS IN-CLINIC. BONE, JOINT AND LIMB REGENERATION: DR. KELLY'S LAB HAVE ALSO DEMONSTRATED HOW COMPLEX TISSUES, SUCH AS THE BONE-CARTILAGE INTERFACE, CAN BE REGENERATED BY DESIGNING TISSUE ENGINEERING STRATEGIES THAT RECAPITULATE ASPECTS OF THE NORMAL LONG BONE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS. THEY HAVE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO SCALE-UP THIS PROCESS TO TISSUE ENGINEER ENTIRE NEW BONES. THEY ARE CURRENTLY EXTENDING THIS STRATEGY TO TISSUE ENGINEER WHOLE JOINTS USING ADULT STEM CELLS AND 3D BIOPRINTING. STEM CELL MECHANOBIOLOGY: DR. KELLY'S LAB IS INVESTIGATING HOW EXTRINSIC MECHANICAL CUES CAN REGULATE STEM CELL FATE. HIS LAB HAS ALSO IDENTIFIED NOVEL ROLES FOR BOTH MECHANICAL SIGNALS AND OXYGEN IN REGULATING CHONDROGENESIS AND HYPERTROPHY OF MSCS. MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ARTHRITIS BIOENGINEERING BIOMATERIALS BIOMECHANICS BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMOLECULES, BIOPLASTICS, BIOPOLYMERS BIOREACTORS CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING MATHEMATICAL MODELLING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICS MEDICAL DEVICES ENGINEERING SOLID MECHANICS STEM CELL STEM-CELLS STENTS TISSUE ENGINEERING OPTIMIZING THE DESIGN OF PERIPHERAL STENTS USING FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE (PVD) IS A CONDITION IN WHICH THERE IS INSUFFICIENT BLOOD FLOW THROUGH THE ARMS OR LEGS, CAUSING PAIN, CRAMPING OR HEAVINESS IN THE MUSCLE. CAUSES OF PVD INCLUDE ATHEROSCLEROSIS, SCAR TISSUE AND BLOOD CLOTS. IN PATIENTS WITH PVD, BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY, WITH OR WITHOUT STENTING, MAY BE USED TO OPEN UP A BLOCKED ILIAC OR FEMORAL ARTERY THAT SUPPLIES BLOOD TO THE LEG; HOWEVER THE PROCEDURAL AND LONG-TERM SUCCESS OF PERIPHERAL STENTING HAS BEEN INFERIOR TO CORONARY STENTING. RESTENOSIS RATES ARE HIGH, AND TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES HAVE BEEN ENCOUNTERED WITH DELIVERING THESE LARGE STENTS FROM A BALLOON CATHETER. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO USE FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE DESIGN OF A PERIPHERAL STENT INFLUENCES (I) ITS DEPLOYMENT FROM A BALLOON, AND (II) THE STRESSES DEVELOPED IN THE VESSEL WALL, WHICH ARE KNOWN TO INFLUENCE RESTENOSIS RATES. ULTIMATELY THE OBJECTIVE IF THIS PROJECT WILL BE TO OPTIMISE THE DESIGN OF A PERIPHERAL STENT SO THAT IT CAN BE DEPLOYED SUCCESSFULLY FROM A BALLOON CATHETER AND WILL MINIMISE THE STRESSES GENERATED IN THE VESSEL WALL. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS MINI STENTS: A NOVEL STENT SYSTEM CONSISTING OF MULTIPLE, INDEPENDENT STENTS DELIVERED FROM A SINGLE DEVICE WHILE SUCCESSFUL IN PREVENTING ELASTIC RECOIL FOLLOWING BALLOON ANGIOPLASTY, STENTING RESULTS IN INCREASED INJURY AND ULTIMATELY RESTENOSIS IN 10-40% OF CASES. COMPLICATION RATES ARE HIGHER IN LONG AND TORTUOUS VESSELS, IN MANY CASES DUE TO THE INABILITY OF A RELATIVELY STIFF STENT TO CONFORM TO THE VESSEL'S CURVATURE. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS DESIGN A NOVEL STENT SYSTEM THAT CAN COMPLY WITH ANY VESSEL WALL, REGARDLESS OF ITS TORTUOSITY, THEREBY MINIMISING VESSEL INJURY. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF IN-STENT RESTENOSIS THE MAJOR LIMITATION OF ANGIOPLASTY WITH OR WITHOUT STENTING IS RESTENOSIS OF THE TARGET VESSEL. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POSSIBLE MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR RESTENOSIS, INCLUDING NEOINTIMIA FORMATION AND NEGATIVE REMODELLING DUE TO UNCONTROLLED CELL PROLIFERATION, MIGRATION AND MATRIX SYNTHESIS FOLLOWING INJURY TO THE VESSEL WALL. DRUG-ELUTING STENTS HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN REDUCING THE INCIDENCE OF RESTENOSIS BY TARGETING SOME (BUT NOT ALL) OF THE BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES CONTRIBUTING TO THE CONDITION, ALTHOUGH EVEN THEIR EFFECTIVENESS HAS RECENTLY BEEN QUERIED. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF THE BIOCHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR IN-STENT RESTENOSIS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EMBARK A NOVEL DEVICE TO CONTROL IN SITU THE THERMAL GELATION AND CONCENTRATION OF CELL-SEEDED HYDROGELS IT IS BELIEVED THAT INJURIES TO CARTILAGE PREDISPOSE A PERSON TO OSTEOARTHRITIS IN LATER LIFE AND EVENTUALLY TO A REQUIREMENT FOR JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY. INJECTABLE CHONDROCYTE-SEEDED HYDROGELS CAN POTENTIALLY BE USED TO FILL CARTILAGE DEFECTS WITH A FUNCTIONAL REPAIR TISSUE. ENSURING THAT THE HYDROGEL HAS THE APPROPRIATE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN SITU (E.G. STIFFNESS, PERMEABILITY, POROSITY) IS CRITICAL FOR SUCCESSFUL REPAIR. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A CLINICAL DEVICE CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING THE HYDROGEL CONCENTRATION AND THE RATE OF COOLING DURING GELATION IN SITU, WHICH CAN BE USED TO ALTER THE DEPTH DEPENDANT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE CONSTRUCT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF-OF-CONCEPT THE INFLUENCE OF BIOPHYSICAL STIMULI ON TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION AND MATRIX SYNTHESIS IN VITRO. RECENT IN VITRO STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT BOTH CHONDROGENESIS AND OSTEOGENEIS OF BONE MARROW-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS) CAN BE INDUCED USING SPECIFIC GROWTH FACTORS. MECHANICAL LOADING IS KNOWN TO INFLUENCE THE BIOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY OF OSTEOBLASTS AND CHONDROCYTES, HOWEVER THE EFFECTS OF MECHANICAL STIMULATION ON REGULATING THE DIFFERENTIATION PATHWAY OF MSCS REMAINS UNCLEAR. THE QUESTION THAT THIS PROPOSAL WISHES TO ADDRESSES IS WHETHER CARTILAGE AND BONE LIKE TISSUES CAN BE SELECTIVELY ENGINEERED USING THE SAME SCAFFOLD TYPE AND THE SAME CELL TYPE (MARROW-DERIVED MSCS) BY VARYING THE MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE CELLS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS DEVELOPMENT OF A METHOD TO PREDICT WHICH CAROTID PLAQUES WILL RUPTURE USING COMPUTERISED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY(CTA) AND DUPLEX ULTRASOUND(US) WITH GREY-SCALE MEDIAN IMAGING, NUMERICAL MODELLING, TISSUE TESTING AND HUMAN SERUM MARKERS MANY ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES FORM IN ARTERIES, SOME CAUSE STENOSIS AND SYMPTOMS OF ISCHEMIA, WHILST OTHERS LIE IN REGIONS OF EXPANSIVE REMODELLING UNRESTRICTING BLOOD FLOW. IT IS THESE VULNERABLE PLAQUES THAT CAN BE PRONE TO SUDDEN RUPTURE AND LEAD TO AN ACUTE STROKE OR SUDDEN DEATH WITHOUT WARNING. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS THEREFORE TO IDENTIFY THE KEY CHARACTERISTICS NORMALLY ASSOCIATED WITH VULNERABLE CAROTID PLAQUES, SUCH AS GEOMETRY AND PLAQUE MATERIAL PROPERTIES USING CTA AND DUPLEX US WITH GSM IMAGING TECHNIQUES. IT IS THEN PROPOSED TO USE THESE IMAGES TO GENERATE 3-D REALISTIC NUMERICAL MODELS OF THE VESSEL TO ESTIMATE THE STRESSES IN THE PLAQUE UNDER PHYSIOLOGICAL LOADING CONDITIONS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF A NOVEL BONE-PROTECTING HANDHELD DISTRACTOR. ORTHOPAEDIC BONE SPREADERS (DISTRACTORS) ARE SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS DESIGNED FOR THE DISTRACTION AND HOLDING APART OF SEGMENTS OF BONE AND ARE COMMONLY USED SURGICAL TOOL. EXISTING VERSIONS ARE RIGID AND NON-JOINTED STEEL INSTRUMENTS WHICH HAVE A TENDENCY TO CUT OR DIG INTO OR OTHERWISE CRUSH OR DAMAGE BONE ALONG THEIR EDGES OR CORNERS, ESPECIALLY WHEN PLACED BETWEEN ANGLED OR NONPARALLEL SURFACES. OUR AIM IS TO CONSTRUCT A INSTRUMENT WHICH IS SURFACE CONFORMING AND EVENLY APPLIES ITS CONTACT STRESS THIS IS INTENDED AS BEING PROTECTIVE OF THE PATHOLOGICALLY FRAGILE BONE OF OSTEOPOROSIS WHICH IS SPECIFICALLY VULNERABLE TO THE KIND OF INTRA-OPERATIVE DAMAGE EXISTING INSTRUMENTS CAN INFLICT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF-OF-CONCEPT NOVEL MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL BASED THERAPIES FOR ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REPAIR ONCE DAMAGED ARTICULAR CARTILAGE HAS A LIMITED REPARATIVE CAPACITY AND THUS LESIONS OFTEN PROGRESS TO ARTHRITIS. THIS HAS MOTIVATED THE DEVELOPMENT OF CELL BASED THERAPIES FOR THE REPAIR OF CARTILAGE DEFECTS SUCH AS AUTOLOGOUS CHONDROCYTE IMPLANTATION (ACI). SUCH THERAPIES ARE LIMITED IN TWO WAYS. FIRSTLY, THEY DO NOT RESULT IN THE REGENERATION OF HYALINE CARTILAGE AND HENCE THE REPAIR IS TEMPORARY. SECONDLY, WIDESPREAD ADAPTATION INTO THE CLINICAL SETTING IS IMPEDED BY PRACTICAL ISSUES SUCH AS THE HIGH COST AND TIME REQUIRED FOR CULTURE EXPANSION OF CHONDROCYTES. THE APPLICANT IS OF THE BELIEF THAT BOTH ISSUES CANNOT CURRENTLY BE ADDRESSED BY A SINGLE NEW THERAPY. THEREFORE THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL PUT FORWARD SEPARATE SOLUTIONS TO BOTH ISSUES. THE FIRST THEME OF THE PROJECT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER FRESHLY ISOLATED (NOT CULTURE EXPANDED) INFRAPATELLAR FAT PAD DERIVED CELLS, EMBEDDED IN A HYDROGEL CONTAINING MICROBEAD-ENCAPSULATED GROWTH FACTORS, CAN USED TO ENGINEER FUNCTIONAL CARTILAGE TISSUE. A COMPONENT OF THIS THEME WILL INVOLVE MAGNETIC MICROBEAD SELECTION FOR CELLS WITH SURFACE MARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS). THEME 2 OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT WILL EXPLORE AN ALTERNATIVE THERAPY FOR CARTILAGE DEFECT REPAIR. SPECIFICALLY, THE OBJECTIVE IS TO TISSUE ENGINEER IN VITRO A FUNCTIONAL TISSUE WITH A ZONAL STRUCTURE MIMICKING THAT OF NORMAL ARTICULAR CARTILAGE USING MSCS. IT IS HYPOTHESISED THAT SUCH A ZONAL STRUCTURE CAN BE GENERATED BY CONTROLLING THE OXYGEN TENSION AND MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT WITHIN THE DEVELOPING TISSUE. THE FINAL THEME OF THE PROJECT WILL BE TO DETERMINE IF REPAIRING HIGH-LOAD BEARING CARTILAGE DEFECTS USING SUCH TISSUE ENGINEERED GRAFTS WILL RESULT IN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED REPAIR COMPARED TO ACI. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL STARTER AWARD MECHANOBIOLOGY OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FOR ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REPAIR MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS) HAVE THE ABILITY TO DIFFERENTIATE INTO DISTINCTIVE END-STAGE CELL TYPES, SUCH AS THOSE THAT SYNTHESISE SPECIFIC MESENCHYMAL TISSUES INCLUDING CARTILAGE, BONE, TENDON AND MUSCLE. MSCS HAVE A NUMBER OF ADVANTAGES OVER PRIMARY CHONDROCYTES FOR CARTILAGE REPAIR, INCLUDING THEIR EASE OF EXPANSION AND MAINTENANCE OF PHENOTYPE. IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT MSCS ISOLATED FROM PATIENTS WITH KNEE OA SHOW GREATER CHONDROGENIC CAPABILITY THAN PRIMARY CHONDROCYTES OBTAINED FROM ARTICULAR CARTILAGE BIOPSIES FROM THE SAME OA JOINTS. HOWEVER THE CLINICAL USE OF MSCS IS RESTRICTED BY INSUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE ENVIRONMENT SUCH CELLS WILL EXPERIENCE IN VIVO WILL INFLUENCE THE LONG-TERM STABILITY OF THE REPAIR TISSUE. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO PROVIDE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE MECHANICAL LOADING EXPERIENCED BY MSCS OR ENGINEERED TISSUES IN VIVO WILL INFLUENCE THEIR DIFFERENTIATION PATHWAY AND THE QUALITY AND TYPE OF TISSUE THEY PRODUCE. FURTHERMORE WE WISH TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SCAFFOLDS USED TO PROVIDE FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT TO IMPLANTED CELLS CAN BE OPTIMISED TO PROMOTE AND ENHANCE CHONDROGENESIS OF THE REPAIR TISSUE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRESIDENT OF IRELAND YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD A NEW CONSTITUTIVE FRAMEWORK TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF MECHANICAL FORCES ON PROTEIN SYNTHESIS AND ORGANIZATION DURING DIFFERENTIATION OF MESENCHYMAL PROGENITOR CELLS IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE MECHANICAL ENVIRONMENT OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS CAN INFLUENCE THEIR DIFFERENTIATION PATHWAY. A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT HYPOTHESES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED WHICH DESCRIBE HOW MECHANICAL FORCES CAN REGULATE THIS PATHWAY. IT HAS BEEN POSSIBLE TO TEST MANY OF THESE IDEAS BY ENCAPSULATING THE HYPOTHESIS INTO AN ALGORITHM, AND THEN CONDUCTING 'NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS' TO DETERMINE IF THE HYPOTHESES ON WHICH THE ALGORITHM IS BASED CAN PREDICT REALISTIC PATTERNS OF TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION. IT IS STILL UNCLEAR AS TO HOW THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TISSUES CHANGE DURING THE DIFFERENTIATION PROCESS DUE TO CHANGES IN PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, ASSEMBLY, CROSS-LINKING, ORIENTATION ETC. THE HYPOTHESIS UNDER INVESTIGATION HERE IS THAT MECHANICAL FORCES REGULATE PROTEIN SYNTHESIS AND ORGANIZATION DURING THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CELLS OF THE MESENCHYMAL LINEAGE, AND HENCE THE RESULTING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE DIFFERENTIATING TISSUE. IRCSET DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL DEVICE TO CONTROL THE FABRICATION, CONFINED COMPRESSION AND IN SITU DELIVERY OF CELL-SEEDED COLLAGEN GEL SCAFFOLDS TISSUE ENGINEERING STRATEGIES OFFER A POTENTIAL SOLUTION FOR CARTILAGE DEFECT REPAIR, HOWEVER RESULTS TO DATE HAVE BEEN MIXED. DELIVERING A FUNCTIONAL CELL-SEEDED CONSTRUCT TO THE DEFECT SITE WOULD APPEAR TO BE CRITICAL FOR SUCCESSFUL CARTILAGE REPAIR. RECENTLY IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT PLASTIC COMPRESSION OF COLLAGEN GEL SCAFFOLDS LEADS TO SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SCAFFOLD. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A HAND-HELD CLINICAL DEVICE TO CONTROL THE GELATION AND LEVELS OF CONFINED COMPRESSION APPLIED TO CELL-SEEDED COLLAGEN GELS PRIOR TO IMPLANTATION. BY CONTROLLING THE RATE AND MAGNITUDE OF THE CONFINED COMPRESSION, IT IS HYPOTHESISED THAT A GRADIENT SCAFFOLD WITH DEPTH DEPENDANT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES SIMILAR TO NORMAL ARTICULAR CARTILAGE CAN BE FABRICATED AND DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO THE DEFECT SITE ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF-OF-CONCEPT POROUS DECELLULARIZED HYPERTROPHIC TISSUE ENGINEERED CARTILAGE AS A SCAFFOLD FOR LARGE BONE DEFECT HEALING MOST BONES DEVELOP BY ENDOCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION, THE REPLACEMENT OF HYPERTROPHIC CARTILAGINOUS TEMPLATES WITH BONE. IT HAS RECENTLY BEEN DEMONSTRATED THAT ADULT HUMAN BONE MARROW DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MSCS) CAN BE USED TO ENGINEER CARTILAGINOUS TISSUES THAT ACT AS A TEMPLATE FOR BONE FORMATION IN VIVO21. WHILE CONCEPTUALLY APPEALING AS A TREATMENT OPTION FOR BONE REGENERATION, CLINICAL TRANSLATION OF ANY CELL-BASED THERAPY IS HAMPERED BY HIGH COSTS AND SIGNIFICANT REGULATORY CHALLENGES. THE HYPOTHESIS OF THIS PROPOSAL IS THAT A POROUS SCAFFOLD DERIVED FROM DECELLULARIZED HYPERTROPHIC CARTILAGE ENGINEERED USING ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW DERIVED MSCS WILL BE HIGHLY OSTEOINDUCTIVE, SUPPORT VASCULARISATION, ALLOW OSTEOCLASTIC RESORPTION AND WILL PROMOTE BONE FORMATION BY HOST PROGENITOR CELLS. THIS SCAFFOLD WILL BE COMPARED TO A HIGHLY POROUS COLLAGEN-HYDROXYAPATITE SCAFFOLD WHICH HAS BEEN DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR BONE REPAIR. THE SCAFFOLD WILL BE EVALUATED BY DEMONSTRATING ITS ABILITY TO INDUCE ECTOPIC BONE FORMATION IN A SUBCUTANEOUS NUDE MOUSE MODEL. IF PROVEN EFFECTIVE, SUCH A TREATMENT OPTION WOULD PROVIDE AN OFF-THE-SHELF SOLUTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF LARGE BONE DEFECTS. AO FOUNDATION LARGE BONE DEFECT HEALING 3D PRINTING OF CELL LADEN BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS AND BIOMOLECULES FOR JOINT REGENERATION. (ERC-2014-COG -647004) OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA) IS A SERIOUS DISEASE OF THE JOINTS AFFECTING NEARLY 10% OF THE POPULATION WORLDWIDE. REALISING AN EFFICACIOUS THERAPEUTIC SOLUTION FOR TREATING OA REMAINS ONE OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGES IN THE FIELD OF ORTHOPAEDIC MEDICINE. THIS PROPOSAL ENVISIONS A FUTURE WHERE 3D BIOPRINTING SYSTEMS LOCATED IN HOSPITALS WILL PROVIDE 'OFF-THE-SHELF', PATIENT-SPECIFIC BIOLOGICAL IMPLANTS TO TREAT DISEASES SUCH AS OA. TO REALISE THIS VISION, THIS PROJECT WILL USE 3D BIOPRINTING TO GENERATE ANATOMICALLY ACCURATE, BIOMIMETIC CONSTRUCTS THAT CAN BE USED TO REGENERATE BOTH THE CARTILAGE AND BONE IN A DISEASED JOINT. IF SUCCESSFUL, SUCH AN IMPLANT WOULD FORM THE BASIS OF A TRULY TRANSFORMATIVE THERAPY FOR TREATING DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL CONSOLIDATOR AWARD A DECELLULARISED EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX DERIVED SCAFFOLD INCORPORATING FRESHLY ISOLATED JOINT TISSUE DERIVED CELLS AS A BIOACTIVE IMPLANT FOR CARTILAGE REPAIR. (CF/2014/4325) WE HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW 'SINGLE-STAGE' OR 'OFF-THE-SHELF' APPROACH TO ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REGENERATION THAT CONSISTS OF A CHONDRO-INDUCTIVE EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM) DERIVED SCAFFOLD SEEDED WITH FRESHLY ISOLATED JOINT TISSUE DERIVED STROMAL CELLS THAT ARE PROCESSED 'IN-THEATRE'. THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY OF THIS 'SINGLE-STAGE' OR 'IN-THEATRE' THERAPY FOR ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REGENERATION IN A LARGE ANIMAL MODEL STUDY. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALIZATION FUND PRECLINICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESOURCE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT HAS BEEN MADE IN IRELAND IN THE RESEARCH UNDERPINNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MEDICAL DEVICES AND IMPLANTS TO TREAT A RANGE OF DISEASES - FROM HEART FAILURE TO ARTHRITIS. IN ORDER TO COMMERCIALISE THIS BASIC RESEARCH AND TO ENSURE ITS TRANSLATION INTO THE CLINIC, THERE IS A CLEAR NEED FOR IMPROVED PRE-CLINICAL FACILITIES TO ASSESS THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF THESE NEW APPROACHES. THIS PROJECT WILL ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A STATE OF THE ART SURGICAL FACILITY FOR THE PRE-CLINICAL EVALUATION OF ADVANCED THERAPEUTIC MEDICINAL PRODUCTS (ATMPS) AND NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AWARD CARBON - CONTROLLING CARTILAGE TO BONE TRANSITIONS FOR IMPROVED TREATMENT OF BONE DEFECTS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS MANY PEOPLE SUFFER FROM DISEASES OF THE LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM, SUCH AS BONE DEFECTS OR OSTEOARTHRITIS, FOR WHICH CURRENT TREATMENTS ARE INSUFFICIENT. UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING THE DUAL CHARACTER OF CARTILAGE IS PIVOTAL: INSUFFICIENT TRANSITION IMPAIRS BONE HEALING, AND UNDESIRED TRANSITION TO BONE LEADS TO OSTEOARTHRITIS. IN CARBON, STATE OF THE ART IN VITRO, IN SILICO AND IN VIVO MODELS WILL BE UNIQUELY COMBINED TO ELUCIDATE HOW THIS TRANSITION IS ORCHESTRATED AND HOW IT CAN BE MODULATED. IN A MULTIFACTORIAL APPROACH, A NETWORK OF 14 YOUNG SCIENTISTS WILL AIM TO IDENTIFY THE BIOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL FACTORS THAT DETERMINE THE FATE OF CARTILAGE. KNOWLEDGE FROM THE FIELDS OF TISSUE ENGINEERING, CARTILAGE AND BONE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY AND PATHOBIOLOGY WILL BE COMBINED WITH SKILLS FROM THE DISCIPLINES OF CELL BIOLOGY, COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING, BIOTECHNOLOGY (BIOREACTORS, BIOMATERIALS) AND DRUG DISCOVERY. H2020 MARIE SKLODOWSKA-CURIE INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORK ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REGENERATION THROUGH THE RECRUITMENT OF BONE MARROW DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS INTO EXTRACELLUAR MATRIX DERIVED SCAFFOLDS ANCHORED BY 3D PRINTED POLYMERIC SUPPORTS OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA), THE MOST COMMON FORM OF ARTHRITIS, IS A SERIOUS DISEASE OF THE JOINTS AFFECTING NEARLY 10% OF THE POPULATION WORLDWIDE. THE ONSET OF OA HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH DEFECTS TO ARTICULAR CARTILAGE THAT LINES THE BONES OF SYNOVIAL JOINTS. CURRENT STRATEGIES TO TREAT ARTICULAR CARTILAGE DEFECTS ARE INEFFECTIVE AND/OR PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE. THE AIM OF ANCHOR IS TO DEVELOP AND COMMERCIALISE A NEW MEDICINAL PRODUCT FOR ARTICULAR CARTILAGE REGENERATION THAT RECRUITS ENDOGENOUS BONE MARROW DERIVED STEM CELLS INTO AN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX DERIVED SCAFFOLD ANCHORED TO THE SUBCHONDRAL BONE BY 3D PRINTED POLYMERIC SUPPORTS. BY RECRUITING ENDOGENOUS CELLS INTO A SUPPORTING SCAFFOLD, ANCHOR WILL OBVIATE THE NEED FOR PRE-SEEDING SCAFFOLDS WITH CELLS PRIOR TO IMPLANTATION INTO CARTILAGE DEFECTS, THEREBY DRAMATICALLY REDUCING THE COST AND COMPLEXITY OF THE REPAIR PROCEDURE. IT WILL ALSO OVERCOME THE NEED FOR SUTURING OF A SCAFFOLD INTO A CARTILAGE DEFECT, WHICH IS A VERY TIME CONSUMING AND TECHNICALLY CHALLENGING SURGICAL PROCEDURE. FINALLY, THE INHERENT CHONDRO-INDUCTIVITY OF THE CARTILAGE ECM DERIVED SCAFFOLDS DEVELOPED BY THE APPLICANT WILL MAXIMISE THE POTENTIAL FOR HYALINE CARTILAGE REGENERATION. THE PROJECT WILL LEVERAGE THE APPLICANTS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN ECM DERIVED BIOMATERIALS AND 3D PRINTING TO DEVELOP A NEW PRODUCT WITH SIGNIFICANT COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL. THE IMPACT OF ANCHOR WILL BE MULTI-FACETED: IT WILL TRANSFORM HOW DAMAGED JOINTS ARE TREATED BY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS, IT WILL CREATE ECONOMIC VALUE THROUGH THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF IP, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY IT WILL IMPROVE PATIENT EXPERIENCE AND THEIR LONG-TERM HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL PROOF OF CONCEPT A TISSUE ENGINEERED BIOLOGICAL JOINT REPLACEMENT PROSTHESIS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE (12/IA/1554) REALISING AN EFFICACIOUS THERAPEUTIC SOLUTION FOR TREATING OSTEOARTHRITIS REMAINS ELUSIVE AND IS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGES IN THE FIELD OF ORTHOPAEDIC MEDICINE. TISSUE ENGINEERING AIMS TO REPLACE OR REGENERATE DAMAGED OR DISEASED TISSUES THROUGH THE COMBINED USE OF CELLS, SCAFFOLDS AND PHYSIO-CHEMICAL CUES. THE AIM OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO TISSUE ENGINEER A BIOLOGICAL JOINT REPLACEMENT PROSTHESIS USING MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS (MCSS) AS THE BASIS OF A NOVEL THERAPY FOR TREATING DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED IN PART BY RECAPITULATING KEY ASPECTS OF NORMAL BONE AND JOINT DEVELOPMENT, SPECIFICALLY THE PROCESS OF ENDOCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION WHERE A HYPERTROPHIC CARTILAGINOUS INTERMEDIARY IS REPLACED BY BONE. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT WILL ATTEMPT TO TISSUE ENGINEER A HYPERTROPHIC CARTILAGINOUS CONSTRUCT USING MSCS THAT MIMICS THE ANATOMY OF THE KNEE JOINT AND THEN DEMONSTRATE THAT SUCH A CONSTRUCT WILL BE REPLACED BY BONE IN VIVO. THE SECOND PHASE OF THE PROJECT WILL USE MSCS TO ENGINEER A STABLE LAYER OF ARTICULAR CARTILAGE ON THE SURFACE OF THE HYPERTROPHIC CONSTRUCT. THE FINAL PHASE OF THE PROJECT WILL EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL OF THE PROPOSED BIOLOGICAL PROSTHESIS TO REGENERATE BOTH THE ARTICULAR CARTILAGE AND UNDERLYING BONE OF THE MEDIAL FEMOROTIBIAL JOINT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND IVP IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. PATRICK HYDE KELLY kellypatrickhyde FELLOW EMERITUS KELLYP HISTORY HISTORY OF ECONOMICS, 1660-1750. IRISH POLITICAL, INTELLECTUAL, SOCIAL HISTORY, 1660-1800. ASPECTS OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE DEPT OF HISTORY 3110 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. PAUL KELLY kellypaul VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT PKELLY1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR BRENDAN KELLY kellybrendan PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY KELLYB19 PSYCHIATRY MY KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF PSYCHOSIS, MENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY. I AM ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN THE EXTENT TO WHICH PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS PARTICIPATE IN CIVIC AND SOCIAL LIFE, AND THE BARRIERS THEY AND THEIR FAMILIES FACE IN EXERCISING THEIR RIGHTS, INCLUDING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 FELLOW, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND FELLOW, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS MEMBER, COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS OF IRELAND MEMBER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND MEMBER, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES EQUALITY ISSUES FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES HISTORY OF MEDICINE MENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION MENTAL HEALTH LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE MENTAL-HEALTH ACT MENTAL-HEALTH POLICY MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY IS BOTH FASCINATING AND UNDER-RESEARCHED. I COLLABORATE WITH THE QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY (CONNECTICUT, USA), NATIONAL FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY SERVICE (DUNDRUM, DUBLIN), UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, DELANEY ARCHIVE (CARLOW) AND ST BRIGID'S HOSPITAL (BALLINASLOE) IN A RANGE OF ORIGINAL STUDIES OF PSYCHIATRIC ARCHIVES FROM THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES. IN 2011, I COMPLETED A PHD IN HISTORY AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON: "CUSTODY, CARE AND CRIMINALITY: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTIONALISATION IN LATE NINETEENTH- AND EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRELAND". IN 2012, I WAS VISITING PROFESSOR AT THE CENTRE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH, QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY, CONNECTICUT, USA, LINKED WITH THEIR 'HISTORY OF MADNESS' MODULE. OUR HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH PROGRAMME HAS RESULTED IN 25 PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS, FOUR INVITED BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS, NUMEROUS NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS, AND THREE SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS: KELLY BD. CUSTODY, CARE AND CRIMINALITY: FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY AND LAW IN 19TH-CENTURY IRELAND (HISTORY PRESS IRELAND, 2014); KELLY BD. ADA ENGLISH: PATRIOT AND PSYCHIATRIST (IRISH ACADEMIC PRESS, 2014); AND KELLY BD. 'HE LOST HIMSELF COMPLETELY': SHELL SHOCK AND ITS TREATMENT AT DUBLIN'S RICHMOND WAR HOSPITAL (1916-19) (LIFFEY PRESS, 2014). MULTIPLE PROJECTS ARE ONGOING AND FURTHER PUBLICATIONS ARE IN PROGRESS. MULTIPLE RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION PROJECTS SCHIZOPHRENIA AND BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER WE ARE INVOLVED IN A BROAD RANGE OF PROJECTS IN THE FIELDS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA (E.G. ROCHE ET AL. THE FACTOR STRUCTURE AND CLINICAL UTILITY OF FORMAL THOUGHT DISORDER IN FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS. SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH 2015; 168: 92-8); ADJUSTMENT DISORDER (DOHERTY ET AL. DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN ADJUSTMENT DISORDER AND DEPRESSIVE EPISODE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY DISORDER. JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS 2014; 168: 78-85; CASEY ET AL. PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS FOR ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS IN ADULTS (PROTOCOL). COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 2013; 6, CD010530); AND BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE USE OF LITHIUM FOR THE TREATMENT OF BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER: KINAHAN ET AL. STRATEGIES TO MANAGE POLYURIA IN LITHIUM-TREATED PATIENTS: A PROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE (IN PRESS); KINAHAN ET AL. RISK FACTORS FOR POLYURIA IN A CROSS-SECTION OF COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC LITHIUM-TREATED PATIENTS. BIPOLAR DISORDERS 2015; 17: 50-62; KINAHAN ET AL. DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF TESTS FOR POLYURIA IN LITHIUM-TREATED PATIENTS. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 2015; 35: 434-41. HAPPINESS OUR WORK ON HAPPINESS CENTRES ON ANALYSES OF DATA FROM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY (WWW.EUROPEANSOCIALSURVEY.ORG). PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS TO DATE INCLUDE: KELLY BD, DOHERTY AM. IMPACT OF RECENT ECONOMIC PROBLEMS ON MENTAL HEALTH IN IRELAND. INTERNATIONAL PSYCHIATRY 2013; 10: 6-8; DOHERTY AM, KELLY BD. WHEN IRISH EYES ARE SMILING: INCOME AND HAPPINESS IN IRELAND, 2003-2009. IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE 2013; 182: 113-9; DOHERTY AM, KELLY BD. THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF HAPPINESS IN SEVENTEEN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY. IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE 2010; 27: 130-4. MENTAL HEALTH LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS WE HAVE AN ONGOING PROGRAMME OF QUANTITATIVE, QUALITATIVE AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH INTO MENTAL HEALTH LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS, BOTH IN IRELAND AND GLOBALLY. ONGOING PROJECTS INCLUDE ANALYSES OF INVOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC ADMISSION PATTERNS IN VARIOUS DUBLIN HOSPITALS (E.G. CURLEY ET AL. EXPLORING AND EXPLAINING INVOLUNTARY CARE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHIATRIC ADMISSION STATUS, GENDER AND OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL VARIABLES. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY, IN PRESS); ANALYSES OF DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (E.G. KELLY BD. AN END TO PSYCHIATRIC DETENTION? IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS' CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY 2014; 204: 174-5); VARIOUS STUDIES OF LAST STATEMENTS BY PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW, TEXAS (E.G. KELLY BD, FOLEY SR. LOVE, SPIRITUALITY AND REGRET: THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF LAST STATEMENTS FROM DEATH ROW, TEXAS, 2006-11. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY AND THE LAW 2013; 41: 540-50); HISTORICAL STUDIES OF MENTAL HEALTH LAW (KELLY BD. CRIMINAL INSANITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES: CASES, CONTEXTS AND CONTROVERSIES. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY 2009; 32: 362-8); AND A RANGE OF OTHER PROJECTS RELATING TO THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN PSYCHIATRY AND LAW (E.G. KELLY BD. VOTING AND MENTAL ILLNESS: THE SILENT CONSTITUENCY. IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE 2014; 31: 225-7). RECENT BOOKS: KELLY BD. DIGNITY, MENTAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS: COERCION AND THE LAW (ROUTLEDGE, 2015); KELLY BD. MENTAL ILLNESS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE LAW (RCPSYCH PUBLICATIONS, 2016). CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY OUR CULTURAL PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH INCLUDES STUDIES OF PATTERNS OF ENGAGEMENT WITH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES AMONG PEOPLE WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN (E.G. KELLY ET AL. CUSTODY, CARE AND COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: DEMOGRAPHIC AND DIAGNOSTIC ADMISSION STATISTICS AT AN INNER-CITY ADULT PSYCHIATRY UNIT. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY 2015; 38: 1-7); ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF TRAUMA AMONG MIGRANTS INTO IRELAND (E.G. DUFFY RM, KELLY BD. PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF SURVIVORS OF TORTURE. ADVANCES IN PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT 2015; 21: 106-15); ONGOING WORK ON THE MENTAL HEALTH OF MIGRANTS IN INNER-CITY DUBLIN (E.G. WILSON ET AL. TRAUMA AND PTSD RATES IN AN IRISH PSYCHIATRIC POPULATION: A COMPARISON OF NATIVE AND IMMIGRANT SAMPLES. DISASTER HEALTH 2013; 1: 1-10); AND CROSS-CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS OF INTERPRETATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY (E.G. KELLY BD. COMPASSION, COGNITION AND THE ILLUSION OF SELF: BUDDHIST NOTES TOWARDS MORE SKILLFUL ENGAGEMENT WITH DIAGNOSTIC CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS IN PSYCHIATRY. IN: MINDFULNESS AND BUDDHIST-DERIVED APPROACHES IN MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION. EDITED BY SHONIN E, VAN GORDON W, GRIFFITHS MD. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER, 2015, PP. 9-28; KELLY BD. SELF-IMMOLATION, SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM IN BUDDHIST AND WESTERN TRADITIONS. TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY 2011; 48: 299-317). CURRENT WORK ALSO INCLUDES ANALYSIS OF PRESENTATIONS AT SPIRASI, THE CENTRE FOR THE CARE OF SURVIVORS OF TORTURE IN DUBLIN (IN PROGRESS). DEBIASING DOCTORS - CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS, JUNIOR DOCTORS AND PRACTISING PHYSICIANS BACKGROUND: WHILE PROCEDURAL AND TECHNICAL SKILLS ARE INTEGRAL TO THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, A LARGE PROPORTION OF DOCTORS' TIME IS SPENT IN COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR. THE LITERATURE SUGGESTS THAT MOST MEDICAL ERRORS ARISE FROM ERRORS OF THINKING, RATHER THAN TECHNIQUE, AND THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO REDUCE SUCH ERROR THROUGH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COGNITIVE BIASES AND DELIBERATE IMPLEMENTATION OF COGNITIVE STRATEGIES. THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE DECISION-MAKING BIASES OVER THE COURSE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND BEYOND FORMAL TRAINING, BRINGING THE EXISTING RESEARCH ON CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING TO BEAR ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, WHICH HAS BEEN NEGLECTED IN THE LITERATURE, AND THE IRISH CONTEXT. THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH MS KATHRYN LAMBE (PHD STUDENT) AND DR DAVID HEVEY, ASSOCIATE PROF, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (PSYCHOLOGY), TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. RESEARCH PLAN: WE WILL FORMULATE, PILOT AND VALIDATE A NEW MEASURE WITH WHICH TO EXAMINE COGNITIVE BIASES AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS. THE MEASURE WILL BE IN QUESTIONNAIRE FORM, FORMULATED WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM AND REVIEWED BY APPROPRIATE MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS, AND PILOTED AMONG POPULATIONS OF INTEREST FOR RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY. IN DUE COURSE, WE WILL ASSESS DECISION-MAKING BIASES AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN DIFFERENT YEARS OF STUDY ON A CROSS-SECTIONAL BASIS TO DESCRIPTIVELY COMPARE THINKING STYLES ACROSS THE COURSE OF UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINING. IN THE FUTURE, WE WILL ALSO ASSESS DECISION-MAKING BIASES AMONG PRACTISING PHYSICIANS TO DESCRIBE THINKING STYLES ACROSS YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND MEDICAL DISCIPLINES. IMPLICATIONS: THE PROJECT WILL YIELD A NEW MEASURE FOR USE BY US AND OTHER RESEARCHERS, AND PROVIDE A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF COGNITIVE ERROR AND BIAS FOR MEDICAL EDUCATORS AND PRACTITIONERS. IT WILL PROVIDE A MODEL INTERVENTION TO INFORM THE INCLUSION OF COGNITIVE SKILLS IN MEDICAL CURRICULA. WE WILL THUS GENERATE USEFUL POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT FIT THEORETICALLY AND PRACTICALLY IN THE MODERN STRATEGIC CONTEXT. SAMPLE PEER-REVIEWED PAPER: LAMBE, K., O'REILLY, G., KELLY, B.D., CURRISTAN, S., DUAL-PROCESS COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS TO ENHANCE DIAGNOSTIC REASONING: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, BMJ QUALITY & SAFETY, 2016 DOI: 10.1136/BMJQS-2015-004417. [EPUB AHEAD OF PRINT] IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL AN ANALYSIS OF VOTING BEHAVIOUR OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS IN THE IRISH GENERAL ELECTION 2016 THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO EXPLORE VOTING BEHAVIOUR OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN INPATIENT AND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. THIS WILL BE STUDIED IN THE CONTEXT OF VOTING BEHAVIOUR OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY WHERE THE HOSPITAL SERVICES ARE LOCATED AND TO THE TWENTY-SIX COUNTIES IN RELATION TO THE IRISH GENERAL ELECTION. PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ENCOUNTER STIGMA AS A PART OF THEIR ILLNESS. A SOCIAL MISPERCEPTION OF MENTAL ILLNESS IS PERCEIVED INCOMPETENCE. A CONSEQUENCE OF THIS CAN BE DISCRIMINATION WHERE PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS CAN BE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIAL PROCESSES SUCH AS VOTING. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE IF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE, ACTUALLY VOTE, AND WHAT THE RELEVANT VOTING PATTERNS ARE. WE WILL ALSO EXAMINE PERCEIVED BARRIERS TO VOTING, DETERMINE ANY INFORMATION NEEDS ABOUT VOTING, AND EXPLORE ATTITUDES TO VOTING AND SOCIAL INCLUSION. THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH DR MICHAEL NASH, ASST PROF IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. SAMPLE PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATION: KELLY BD. VOTING AND MENTAL ILLNESS: THE SILENT CONSTITUENCY. IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE 2014; 31: 225-7. INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR JOHN MOFFAT KELLY kellyjohnmoffat FELLOW EMERITUS JMKELLY FELLOWS EMERITII RESEARCH INTERESTS COVER AREAS OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY, FAST CHEMICAL REACTIONS, AND NUCLEIC ACIDS CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS FALLS INTOTHE FOLLOWING MAIN AREAS (A) THE TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY OF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PHOTOSENSITISERS. (B) THE USE OF PHOTOCHEMICAL REAGENTS TO CARRY OUT SITE-SPECIFIC REACTIONS ON DNA, IN PARTICULAR THOSE INVOLVING PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER. PREVIOUSLY ALSO WORKED ON NANO-/MICRO-PARTICLES, ESPECIALLY (I) SILVER NANOPARTICLES OF DEFINED SHAPE AND SIZE FOR BIOSENSING, ANTIBACTERIALS AND (II) MICRO METAL OXIDES AND METAL SULPHIDES DEPT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIRMAN OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES COMMITTEE (2007-10) PRESIDENT OF THE CHEMISTRY DIVISION OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 2005. FOUNDING VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE IRISH RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY CHEMISTRY EXCITED-STATE DNA BINDING MODES FLASH-PHOTOLYSIS FLUORESCENCE LASER FLASH SPECTROSCOPY MICRO PARTICLES NANO PARTICLES NANOCRYSTALS NUCLEIC-ACIDS PHOTO SENSITISATION PHOTOCHEMISTRY PHOTOCLEAVAGE OF DNA PHOTOINDUCED ELECTRON-TRANSFER POLYPYRIDYLRUTHENIUM (II) COMPLEXES SILVER NANOPARTICLES TI02 TRANSIENT SPECTROSCOPY ZN0 CANCER GENES & SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. ROGER KEMPERS kempersroger ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KEMPERR MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. NICHOLAS PAUL KENNEDY kennedynicholaspaul ASSOC PROF CLINICAL MED (NUTRITION) NKENNEDY CLINICAL MEDICINE COELIAC DISEASE, CLINICAL NUTRITION, HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH BOARD MEMBER, THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM (IRSPEN) CHAIRMAN, EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMITTEE, IRISH SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM CHIEF DELEGATE, ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN COELIAC SOCIETIES, AOECS (REPRESENTING THE COELIAC SOCIETY OF IRELAND) COUNCIL MEMBER, EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM (ESPEN) COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM, ESPEN (REPRESENTING THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM, IRSPEN) COUNCIL, UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN (ELECTED JUNIOR REPRESENTATIVE, FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES) DIETITIANS REGISTRATION BOARD (CORU), MEMBER NOMINATED BY THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND SCIENCE INVITED MEMBER, CONSORTIUM PANEL OF EXPERTS FOR NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND (ESRI-TCD) INVITED MEMBER, NUTRITION EDUCATION STUDY GROUP (NESG), ESPEN MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL (REPRESENTING NON-CONSULTANT HOSPITAL DOCTORS IN SJH) MEMBER, EU NUTRITION NETWORK (EDUCATION TASK FORCE) - AN EU FUNDED PROJECT (DG-SANCO) MEMBER, TCD MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBER, THE NUTRITION SOCIETY MEMBER,THE MEDICAL COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM (UK) ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE ANNUAL NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL MEETING (REPRESENTING THE NUTRITION SOCIETY IRISH SECTION) PARTNER AND MEMBER OF STEERING GROUP, JOBNUT PROJECT - AN EU-FUNDED PROJECT (LEONARDO DA VINCI) PRESIDENT (HONORARY) AND BOARD MEMBER, THE COELIAC SOCIETY OF IRELAND REGIONAL FELLOW, ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE (LONDON) REGISTERED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER (GENERAL REGISTER); MEDICAL COUNCIL (IRELAND); MCRN 05929. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND, FELLOW STRATFORD EXECUTIVE GROUP (ON NUTRITION IN THE UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL CURRICULUM) MEETING (REPRESENTING THE TCD MEDICAL SCHOOL) ADULT CELIAC-DISEASE ANTHROPOMETRY CELIAC SPRUE CELIAC-DISEASE CLINICAL NUTRITION/MALNUTRITION COELIAC DISEASE COMMUNITY NUTRITION & DIETETICS DIETETIC STUDIES GLUTEN SENSITIVITY GLUTEN-FREE DIET MALNUTRITION NUTRITION NUTRITION EDUCATION NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT NUTRITIONAL-STATUS REFERENCE DATA UNDERNUTRITION GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR DENNIS KENNEDY kennedydennis FELLOW EMERITUS DKENNEDY DRAMA THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE HISTORY AND THEORY, ESPECIALLY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY EUROPE. HISTORY AND THEORY OF THE SPECTATOR. SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE. SCENOGRAPHY (STAGE DESIGN). THEATRE DIRECTING AND DRAMATURGY. SCHOOL OF DRAMA SAMUEL BECKETT CNTR COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ACADEMIA EUROPAEA, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH, ASSOCIATION FOR THEATRE IN HIGHER EDUCATION, DRAMATISTS GUILD, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH, INTERNATIONAL SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA BOARD OF ADVISORS, ASIAN SHAKESPEARE INTERCULTURAL ARCHIVE (A-S-I-A), A WEB-BASED ARCHIVE OF MEDIA BOARD OF ADVISORS, CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE RESEARCH, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON BOARD OF ADVISORS, QUANTUM THEATRE, PITTSBURGH BOARD OF ADVISORS, THE NEW RUDE MECHANICALS, NEW YORK BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY, DUBLIN CHAIR, COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY CORRESPONDING SCHOLAR, SHAW FESTIVAL, NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, CANADA DISTINGUISHED VISITING APPOINTMENTS:UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR, JANUARY-APRIL 2008. CHINESE CENTRAL ACADEMY OF DRAMA, BEIJING, DISTINGUISHED VISITING DIRECTOR, APRIL-JUNE 2005. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE, MEYER FELLOW, MARCH 2003. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, HALLS VISITING SCHOLAR, NOVEMBER 1997. UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA, VISITING ORION PROFESSOR, FEBRUARY 1995. MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, HOOKER DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR, SEPTEMBER 1994. FREQUENT EXTERNAL EXAMINER, ASSESSOR, AND REVIEWER IN UK, CANADA, AND USA. DRAMATIC/THEATRE ARTS HISTORY AND THEORY OF THE SPECTATOR HISTORY OF SCENOGRAPHY AND DIRECTING INTERCULTURALISM PERFORMANCE THEORY PERFORMING ARTS POLITICAL THEATRE THEATRE HISTORY CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS THE PERSISTENCE OF ORIENTALISM A PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE NATURE AND MEANING OF EXOTICISM. WHILE THE BACKGROUND IS HISTORICAL AND WILL INVOLVE QUESTIONS ABOUT TOURISM AND THE TOURISTIC, THE PURPOSE IS TO INVESTIGATE THE WEST'S RELATION TO EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA IN CULTURAL AND POLITICAL PERFORMANCE, IN AND OUT OF THE PLAYHOUSE. RESEARCH CENTRE 'INTERWEAVING PERFORMANE CULTURES', BERLIN AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR MICHAEL JOHN KENNEDY kennedymichaeljohn CLINICAL PROFESSOR KENNEDMI CLINICAL MEDICINE BREAST AND COLON CANCER, CLINICAL TRIALS 4 COWPER DRIVE RANELAGH DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 AD HOC REVIEWER FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS BREAST CANCER RESEARCH REVIEW COMMITTEE AD HOC REVIEWER FOR THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, INVESTIGATOR GRANTS FOR CLINICAL CANCER THERAPY RESEARCH AD HOC REVIEWER FOR THE USAMRDC BREAST CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAM AD HOC SITE VISITOR FOR NIH PROGRAM PROJECT GRANT AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT COMMITTEE, EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP BREAST BIOLOGY COMMITTEE, EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP BREAST CANCER CORE COMMITTEE, EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP CHAIRMAN, ICORG CHAIRMAN, ISMO CHAIRMAN, MEDICAL COMMITTEE, IRISH CANCER SOCIETY EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP (ICORG) [VICE CHAIR] IRISH SOCIETY OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY (ISMO) PEER REVIEW FOR: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, CANCER RESEARCH, CANCER, JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, CLINICAL CANCER RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, CANCER INVESTIGATION, ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY, BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, JOURNAL OF HEMATOTHERAPY, BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER NEW THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES FOR BREAST CANCER CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL DIRECT COSTS: $963,502 NIH, NCI CA66084 PHASE II TRIALS OF NEW ANTI-CANCER AGENTS CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $427,288 NIH, NCI U01 CA63437 AUTOLOGOUS GRAFT VS. HOST DISEASE IN HUMAN BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $705,838 NIH, NCI R01 CA67800 IDENTIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF EARLY PREDICTIVE SERUM MARKERS OF RESPONSE TO NEOADJUVANT RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY IN RECTAL AND OESOPHAGEAL CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: JOHN V REYNOLDS CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND CORE FUNDING OF ICORG,THE ALL-IRELAND COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: €2,070,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD FUNDS TO STRENGTHEN CLINICAL CANCER TRIALS INFRASTRUCTURE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: €1,041,000 (FOR YEAR 1). HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD FUNDS TO STRENGTHEN CLINICAL CANCER TRIALS INFRASTRUCTURE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: €1,700,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PHASE II AND PHARMACOLOGIC TRIAL OF SEQUENCES OF TAXOL (NSC125973) AND CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE WITH GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR (R-METHUG-CSF) IN WOMEN WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $49,894 AMGEN A PHASE II MULTICENTER CLINICAL TRIAL TO EVALUATE THE SAFETY, EFFICACY, AND PHARMACOKINETICS OF DMP-840 IN WOMEN WITH METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $46,322 DUPONT MERCK PHARM USE OF PBSC COLLECTION AND REINFUSION TO ACCELERATE HEMATOPOIETIC RECOVERY FOLLOWING HIGH-DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY AND PURGED AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW REINFUSION (AMR) FOR TREATMENT OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $20,000 IMMUNEX MODULATION OF HIGH-DOSE ALKYLATOR EFFICACY BY NOVOBIOCIN PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $79,258 NIH, NCI R03 CA58340 PHASE I AND PHARMACOLOGIC TRIAL OF SEQUENCES OF TAXOL AND CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE WITH GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR IN WOMEN WITH PREVIOUSLY TREATED METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $28,631 AMGEN AUGMENTATION OF HIGH-DOSE ALKYLATING AGENT CYTOTOXICITY BY NOVOBIOCIN PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $65,000 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, RD-353 INCORPORATION OF NOVOBIOCIN INTO A HIGH-DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMEN WITH REINFUSION OF PURGED AUTOLOGOUS MARROW AND POST-REINFUSION TREATMENT WITH G-CSF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $51,695 AMGEN PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS IN SURVIVAL ADJUSTMENT OF BMT RECIPIENTS CO-INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $288,000 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, PBR-40 INCORPORATION OF NAVELBINE INTO A DOSE-INTENSE MULTI-AGENT REGIMEN FOR THE TREATMENT OF METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $36,171 BURROUGHS WELLCOME CLINICAL TRIALS OF AUTOLOGOUS GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE CO-INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $480,822 NIH, NCI U01 CA58270 ANTI-TUMOR ACTIVITY OF AUTOLOGOUS GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE IN METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $805,782 (DECLINED DUE TO OVERLAP) DEPT. OF THE ARMY, MED. RES. DIV. AUTOLOGOUS GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE IN HUMAN BREAST CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $90,000 (DECLINED DUE TO OVERLAP) SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $90,000 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, CDA93032-93 ESTABLISHING THE MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE O F 5-FU, ADMINISTERED AS A 72-HOUR INFUSION IN A DOSE DENSE BREAST ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMEN PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $90,000 BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB ESTABLISHING THE MAXIMUM TOLERATED DOSE OF 5-FU, ADMINISTERED AS A 72-HOUR INFUSION IN A DOSE DENSE BREAST ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMEN PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $85,000 AMGEN THE EFFECTS OF A COMPREHENSIVE COPING STRATEGY ON CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN BREAST CANCER BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT PATIENTS AND PRIMARY CAREGIVERS CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: M. JOHN KENNEDY; TOTAL COSTS: $477,193 DEPT. OF THE ARMY, MED. RES. DIV. DAMD 12-94-J-4068 CANCER DR. JOHN KENNEDY kennedyjohn RESEARCH FELLOW JKENNED5 MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG MY RESEARCH HAS INCLUDED EXTENSIVE EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELDS OF ACOUSTICS AND FLUID MECHANICS. MY PH.D. RESEARCH INVESTIGATED HOW NEW TECHNOLOGIES, FOUND ON THE LATEST COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT DESIGNS, AFFECT THE FUNDAMENTAL NOISE PRODUCING MECHANISMS OF THE JET FLOWS. THIS UNDERSTANDING IS IMPORTANT IN ORDER TO REDUCE NOISE POLLUTION FROM COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT WHICH IS A PROBLEM AFFECTING MANY COMMUNITIES AROUND THE WORLD TODAY. MY RESEARCH INVOLVED THE CALIBRATION AND USE OF THE THREE PRINCIPAL TECHNIQUES USED FOR FLUID FLOW MEASUREMENT NAMELY PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV), LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETRY (LDA) AND CROSS-HOT WIRE ANEMOMETRY. ADVANCED CORRELATION AND SPECTRAL ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES WERE USED TO ANALYSE THE FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE OF THE TURBULENCE STATISTICS. THE WORK HAS PROVIDED EXPERIMENTAL DATA WHICH IS CURRENTLY BEING USED TO VALIDATE AND DEVELOP ADVANCED CFD CODES TO MODEL NOVEL JET ENGINE NOZZLE GEOMETRIES. MY CURRENT WORK IS ALSO ON AEROACOUSTICS IN TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS INVESTIGATING NOVEL COUNTER ROTATING OPEN ROTOR AIRCRAFT DESIGNS AND LOW NOISE LANDING GEAR. FROM APRIL 2010 TO SEPTEMBER 2011 I HELD A SERIES OF POST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH AND BATH SPA UNIVERSITY. I ACTED AS THE EXPERIMENTALIST FOR AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT BETWEEN THE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND THE PSYCHOLOGY DEPARTMENTS THE TWO UNIVERSITIES. THE RESEARCH PROJECT FOCUSED ON THE EXPOSURE OF MOTORCYCLISTS TO NOISE. THE WORK CONSISTED OF WIND TUNNEL TEST CAMPAIGNS, ON-ROAD AND ON-TRACK EXPERIMENTS WITH AN INSTRUMENTED MOTORCYCLIST AND PARTICIPANT TESTING. I HAVE ACTED AS AN INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT ON A RESEARCH PROJECT TO COMMERCIALISE THE OUTPUT OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH AND PRODUCE A PRODUCT TO IMPROVE THE VISIBILITY OF VULNERABLE ROAD USERS TO DRIVERS. MY WORK HAS ENGAGED JOURNALISTS THROUGH PRESS RELEASES FROM THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND INCLUDING INVITED LAY LANGUAGE VERSIONS OF MY RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS. DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACOUSTICS AERONAUTICS APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORTATION FLUID MECHANICS FLUIDS AND VIBRATION MECHANICAL ENGINEERING NOISE POLLUTION, TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORT PSYCHOLOGY AND SAFETY TURBULENCE VIBRATION AND ACCOUSTIC ENGINEERING WENEMOR THE WENEMOR PROJECT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN RESPONSE TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN CLEAN SKY JOINT TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE TO ASSESS THE AERO-ACOUSTIC NOISE EMISSIONS FOR AN ADVANCED REGIONAL OPEN ROTOR AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATION. THE CONSORTIUM CONSISTS OF 7 PARTNERS INCLUDING TWO UNIVERSITIES (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE), A LARGE EUROPEAN WIND TUNNEL FACILITY (PININFARINA) AND SEVERAL SMES (EUROTECH, TEKNOSUD, MICRODB AND PARAGON S.A.) WITH SPECIFIC COMPETENCES IN DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE AND NOISE MEASUREMENTS AND DATA ANALYSIS. THE PROJECT UTILISES A PROPOSED DESIGN FOR AN ADVANCED REGIONAL AIRCRAFT CONFIGURATION FOR THE MODEL GEOMETRIES WITH REALISTIC MODERN BLADE PROFILES FOR THE PROPULSION SYSTEM. THE PROJECT HAS DESIGNED, MANUFACTURED AND TESTED A 1/7TH SCALE MODEL OF THE PROPOSED OPEN ROTOR AIRCRAFT DESIGN. THE MODEL CONSISTED OF A MODULAR DESIGN FEATURING INTERCHANGEABLE TAIL PIECES, VARIABLE FUSELAGE LENGTH, ENGINE PYLON ROTATION AND ELONGATION AND WAS CONTROLLABLE FOR ANGLE OF ATTACK. THE TEST CAMPAIGN CONSISTED OF AERO-ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS IN AN OPEN TEST SECTION OF A LARGE LOW SPEED WIND TUNNEL FOR A WIDE RANGING SET OF CONFIGURATIONS. EU CLEAN SKY GREEN REGIONAL AIRCRAFT FOREVER THE FOREVER PROJECT (FUTURE OPERATIONAL IMPACTS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON NATIONAL EUROPEAN ROADS) ADDRESSES FUTURE VEHICLE TECHNOLOGIES, SPECIFICALLY ELECTRIC AND HYBRID-ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND LOW-NOISE TYRES, AS PART OF THE CEDR TRANSNATIONAL ROAD RESEARCH PROGRAMME CALL 2012 ON NOISE. THE PROJECT AIMS PRIMARILY TO PROVIDE DATA AND INFORMATION ON THE POTENTIAL FUTURE NOISE IMPACTS AND NOISE-RELATED SAFETY IMPACTS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON NATIONAL ROADS, THE LATTER CONSIDERING THE SAFETY OF OTHER ROAD USERS. AS SUCH, THIS TAKES A DIFFERENT FOCUS FROM MUCH OF THE PREVIOUS RESEARCH IN THESE AREAS, WHICH HAS GENERALLY FOCUSSED ON THE NOISE IMPACTS IN CITY (LOW-SPEED) ENVIRONMENTS AND THE POTENTIAL SAFETY RISKS POSED TO PEDESTRIANS. CEDR TRANSNATIONAL ROAD RESEARCH PROGRAM ALLEGRA THIS PROJECT FOCUSES ON THE DESIGN AND TESTING OF MAIN AND NOSE LANDING GEAR NOISE REDUCTION CONCEPTS. THE OUTPUTS OF ALLEGRA WILL RESULT IN PRAGMATIC, VALIDATED SOLUTIONS WHICH WILL REDUCE NOISE, EMISSIONS AND IMPROVE FUEL CONSUMPTION. THESE SOLUTIONS WILL BE DEVELOPED IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN EU AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURER (ALENIA) TO ENSURE FEASIBILITY AND TO REDUCE TIME TO IMPLEMENTATION. DURING LANDING APPROACH WHEN ENGINES ARE OPERATING AT LOW THRUST THE NOISE OF THE AIRFRAME CONTRIBUTES STRONGLY TO THE OVERALL NOISE SIGNATURE OF MODERN AIRCRAFT. AIRFRAME NOISE IS GENERATED BY AIRFLOW AROUND COMPONENTS OF THE AIRCRAFT. THE MAIN SOURCES OF AIRFRAME NOISE ARE THEREFORE THE HIGH DRAG ELEMENTS SUCH AS LANDING GEARS AND ALSO THE HIGH LIFT DEVICES ON THE WINGS. FOR LARGER AIRCRAFT, IT IS THE LANDING GEAR NOISE THAT DOMINATES. ALLEGRA WILL CARRY OUT CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND AEROACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS IN AN OPEN TEST SECTION OF A LARGE LOW SPEED AEROACOUSTIC WIND TUNNEL, ON COMPLETE REDUCED OR FULL SCALE MODULAR MODELS OF DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS OF MAIN AND NOSE LANDING GEAR. EU CLEAN SKY GREEN REGIONAL AIRCRAFT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR HARRY KENNEDY kennedyharry PART-TIME LECTURER KENNEDH PSYCHIATRY CENTRAL MENTAL HOSPITAL DUNDRUM DUBLIN 14 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SEAN KENNELLY kennellysean CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER SKENNELL CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY ALZHEIER'S DISEASE: CLINICAL PHENOMENOLOGY; THERAPEUTIC CLINICAL TRIALS; ROLE OF VASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN PATHOGENESIS;BIOMARKERS OF AD VASCULAR AND MIXED AD/VAD DEMENTIA- AS ABOVE DELIRIUM: CLINICAL SUBTYPING AND PHENOMENOLOGY; CLINICAL OUTCOMES; POTENTIAL PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS; EXPLORATION OF PATHOPHYSIOLOICAL PATHWAYS RESIDENTIAL CARE MEDICINE: DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL CARE PATHWAYS AND CARE BUNDLES FOR PATIENTS IN LONGTERM RESIDENTIAL CARE ACUTE GERIATRIC MEDICINE/ SYNDROMES: FALLS,DELIRIUM, NEUROVASCULAR INSTABILITY, STROKE REHABILITATION MEDICINE MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH BRITISH GERIATRIC SOCIETY EUROPEAN STROKE ORGANISATION IRISH DELIRIUM SOCIETY IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY IRISH SOCIETY OF ACUTE AND INTERNAL MEDICINE ISPGM 1,4-DIHYDROPYRIDINES 24-HOUR AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS DELIRIUM DEMENTIA GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS MEDICINE NURSING-HOME RESIDENTS REHABILITATION/THERAPY STROKE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY NILVAD STUDY MULTI-CENTRE EUROPEAN RCT INVESTIGATING THE EFFICACY OF NILVADIPINE IN THE TREATMENT OF AD EU FP-7 IRISH NATIONAL AUDIT OF DEMENTIA CARE IN ACUTE HOSPITALS COLLABOATION WITH INVESTIGATORS FROM UCC AND SUPPORT OF HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE. THIS IS THE FIRST NATIONAL AUDIT OF DEMENTIA CARE IN ACUTE HOSPITALS. ORGANISATIONAL, CASENOTE REVIEW,AND EVIORNMENTAL AUDIT OF CARE STANDARDS FOR PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA WHEN THEY ARE ATTEND ACUTE HOSPITALS. MODELLED ON THE VERY SUCCESSFUL UK AUDIT. MEATH FOUNDATION, HRB, AP AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. ELAINE KENNY kennyelaine SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW KENNYEL PSYCHIATRY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 BIOINFORMATICS GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION HUMAN GENETICS MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS POPULATION STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS QUANTITATIVE AND MOLECULAR GENETICS QUANTITATIVE GENETICS AND GENETICS OF COMPLEX TRAITS REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION SCHIZOPHRENIA GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. EAMONN KENNY kennyeamonn RESEARCH FELLOW EKENNY COMPUTER SCIENCE MULTIMODAL SYSTEMS AND GAMES WITH MACHINE LEARNING/AI NUMERICAL COMPUTATION/ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE RESEARCH WITH OPTIMISATION COMPUTER ARC GROUP DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MATHEMATICS ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS CANCER DIGITAL HUMANITIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. DAVID KENNY kennydavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KENNYD4 LAW SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. OONA KENNY kennyoona VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT KENNYO2 SOCIOLOGY 105 ANNAMOE DRIVE CABRA DUBLIN 7 01-8961000 DR. STUART KENNY kennystuart SOFTWARE DEVELOPER KENNYST RES & HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, CLOUD COMPUTING, DIGITAL PRESERVATION, DIGITAL HUMANITIES HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CLOUD COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE DIGITAL REPOSITORIES GRID COMPUTING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERACTIVE EUROPEAN GRID ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERACTIVE EUROPEAN GRID; THE EXTENSION OF THE EUROPEAN PRODUCTION GRID (EGEE) TO INCORPORATE INTERACTIVE USAGE. EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK 6 CROSSGRID INTERACTIVE GRID OPERATION EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK 5 STRATUSLAB STRATUSLAB IS DEVELOPING A COMPLETE, OPEN-SOURCE CLOUD DISTRIBUTION THAT ALLOWS GRID AND NON-GRID RESOURCE CENTERS TO OFFER AND TO EXPLOIT AN "INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE" CLOUD. IT IS PARTICULARLY FOCUSED ON ENHANCING DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES SUCH AS THE EUROPEAN GRID INFRASTRUCTURE (EGI). EUROPEAN UNION SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR ROSE ANNE KENNY kennyroseanne PROFESSOR GERIATRIC MEDICINE/CONSULTANT RKENNY CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) PROFESSOR ROSE ANNE KENNY'S RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN NEUROCARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION IN AGEING AND CARDIOVASCULAR AND CEREBRAL DYSFUNCTION IN SYNCOPE, FALLS, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA. COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS RANGE FROM BASIC SCIENCE THROUGH TO HEALTH SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION. SHE IS PI FOR THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA), A 10 YEAR LONG STUDY OF OVER 8,500 PARTICIPANTS, UNIQUE IN ITS COLLECTION OF BIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MEASURES. PROFESSOR KENNY'S RESEARCH EXPERTISE IN CARDIOVASCULAR AND MOBILITY DISORDERS OF AGEING HAS PROMOTED INCORPORATION OF TRADITIONAL AND NOVEL TESTS OF LOCOMOTION, AUTONOMIC FUNCTION AND CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH INTO TILDA COUPLED WITH TRADITIONAL MEASURES OF HEALTH CARE UTILISATION AND ECONOMICS. FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH AT THE INSTITUTE FOR AGEING & HEALTH, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE IN THE UK, SHE IS BEST RECOGNIZED FOR LONGSTANDING RESEARCH INTO CARDIOVASCULAR AND MOBILITY DISORDERS IN AGEING AND MORE RECENTLY POPULATION STUDIES IN SYNCOPE, FALLS, STROKE, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA. THE OVERARCHING AIMS OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAMMES ARE TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS FOR CARDIOVASCULAR AND CEREBRAL DYSFUNCTION IN ORDER TO DEVELOP EARLY DIAGNOSTICS AND INTERVENTION STRATEGIES FOR FALLS, SYNCOPE, COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA. THE RESEARCH INVOLVES COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH DISCIPLINES FROM BASIC SCIENCE (DEVELOPING ANIMAL MODULES OF CARDIOVASCULAR AND CEREBRAL DYSFUNCTION) THROUGH TO HEALTH SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION. PROFESSOR KENNY IS HEAD OF THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY AT TRINITY COLLEGE AND ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DIRECTOR OF THE MERCER'S INSTITUTE FOR SUCCESSFUL AGEING (MISA, DIRECTOR OF THE FALLS AND BLACKOUT UNIT AT ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL AND DIRECTOR OF TRINITY ENGAGE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN AGEING. PRIOR TO PRESENT APPOINTMENT PROFESSOR KENNY HELD THE CHAIR OF CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH AT UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, UK WHERE SHE WAS HEAD OF ACADEMIC AND CLINICAL DEPARTMENTS OF MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY FOR 12 YEARS. MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 EUGMS ACADEMIC BOARD (EUROPEAN UNION GERIATRIC MEDICAL SOCIETY) FESC - FELLOW OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY FRCP (LONDON) - FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COL3ELGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON FRCPE - FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH FRCPI - FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND FTCD - FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN MEMBER OF THE EHRA (EUROPEAN HEART RHYTHM ASSOCIATION) MRIA - MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY AGE RELATED DISEASES AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BALANCE BRAIN AGEING CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS DEMENTIA DEMENTIA VASCULAR DEMENTIA, NEURODEGENERATIVE DEPRESSION ELDERLY FALLS GERONTOLOGY GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS NEURODEGENERATION NEUROPSYCHOLOGY STROKE REHABILITATION SYNCOPE CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES TILDA - THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING TILDA IS A LONGITUDINAL COMMUNITY BASED STUDY WHICH IS CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL. TRINITY COLLEGE WILL BE THE HOST INSTITUTION. ALL PARTICIPANTS (MINIMUM 10,000) WILL BE 55 YEARS AND OVER AND WILL HAVE DETAILED SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND HEALTH ASSESSMENTS AT WAVE 1 AND, 5 & 10 YEARS LATER, WAVES 2 AND 3. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE DRAWN RANDOMLY FROM ACROSS SOUTHERN IRELAND AND, IN ADDITION TO SURVEY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION, WILL HAVE BLOOD TESTS FOR ROUTINE ANALYSIS AND GENETIC ANALYSIS - ALL OF WHICH WILL BE ANONYMISED ACCORDING TO STANDARD CRITERIA SET OUT BY THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. FAMILY PRACTITIONERS WILL BE INFORMED OF ABNORMAL RESULTS FROM ROUTINE EXAMINATIONS AND BLOOD SAMPLES. TILDA WILL MIRROR THE METHODOLOGY OF THE US HEALTH AND RETIREMENT SURVEY AND THE ENGLISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING. LEAD PI: ROSE ANNE KENNY, PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY. PIS: CHARLES NORMAND, EDWARD KENNEDY CHAIR IN HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT VIRPI TIMONEN, DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL POLICY & AGEING RESEARCH PROGRAMME. BRENDAN WHELAN, PROFESSOR OF STATISTICS & SURVEY DESIGN HANNAH MCGEE, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND. IVAN PERRY, PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK RESEARCH TEAM: DR. HILARY CRONIN, CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW DR. AMILCAR MOREIRA, SOCIAL SCIENTIST RESEARCH FELLOW DR. YUMIKO KAMIYA, SOCIAL SCIENTIST RESEARCH FELLOW CLAIRE O'REGAN, CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE DEPT OF HEALTH & CHILDREN, IRISH LIFE AND ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES NEUROCARDIOVASCULAR INFLUENCES ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING: BASIC AND CLINICAL MECHANISMS THIS IS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF OLDER PERSONS OVER 70 YEARS WHO HAVE MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. ALL PARTICIPANTS WILL HAVE NON-INVASIVE HEART, BLOOD PRESSURE, NEUROLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS, MRI HEAD SCANS, EEG TESTING AND TESTS OF COGNITIVE AND MENTAL FUNCTION. CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS WILL TAKE PLACE AT ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL AND IN THE PERSON'S HOME WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MRI SCANS AND EEG TESTS WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE EXISTING FACILITIES AT THE TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE (TCIN). WE PLAN TO STUDY 400 PARTICIPANTS OVER A 5 YEAR PERIOD. THE OBJECTIVES ARE TO TRACK THE INCIDENCE OF DEMENTIA AND CARDIOVASCULAR AND NEUROLOGICAL VARIABLES WHICH PREDICT CONVERSION TO DEMENTIA DURING LONG TERM FOLLOW UP. THE STUDY IS APPROVED BY THE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL ETHICS COMMITTEE & TCIN/PSYCHOLOGY ETHICS COMMITTEE. IN PARALLEL, WE WILL BE STUDYING ANIMAL (RAT) RESPONSES TO CARDIOVASCULAR AND HEART RATE CHALLENGES TO FURTHER INFORM FACTORS WHICH MIGHT PREDICT CONVERSION FROM MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (I.E. AGE RELATED MEMORY PROBLEMS TO DEMENTIA). LEAD PI: PROFESSOR ROSE ANNE KENNY, PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY PIS: PROFESSOR BRIAN LAWLOR, CONOLLY NORMAN PROFESSOR OF OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY PROFESSOR MICHAEL ROWAN, LECTURER IN PHARMACOLOGY. RESEARCH TEAM: DR. ORLA COLLINS, RESEARCH FELLOW DR. GEMMA IRVINE, RESEARCH FELLOW DR. CHRISTIAN KERSKENS, RESEARCH FELLOW SHEILA DILLON, CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD NILVADIPINE (ROSKAMP) STUDY - AN OPEN LABEL EVALUATION OF THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF NILVADIPINE IN MILD TO MODERATE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. THE NILVADIPINE (ROSKAMP) STUDY IS A 2 YEAR GRANT TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF BLOOD PRESSURE AND HEART RATE ABNORMALITIES IN ALZHIEMER'S DISEASE AND THE BENEFIT OF BLOOD PRESSURE TREATMENT IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. DURING THE COURSE OF THE STUDY WE WILL INVESTIGATE 150 PATIENTS WITH ALZHIEMER'S DISEASE. THESE WILL BE RECRUITED THROUGH THE EXISTING STRUCTURES WITHIN ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL AND OUR EXTENDED CARE UNIT AND THROUGH THE MERCER'S INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGEING MEMORY CLINIC. THE STUDY IS SPONSORED BY A NOT-FOR-PROFIT NEUROSCIENCES INSTITUTE IN AMERICA - THE ROSKAMP INSTITUTE. WWW.RFDN.ORG LEAD PI: PROFESSOR BRIAN LAWLOR, CONOLLY NORMAN PROFESSOR OF OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY PI: PROFESSOR ROSE ANNE KENNY, PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH TEAM: DR. SEAN KENNELLY, CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW LISA CROSBY, CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE CLAIRE MOONEY, CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE LINDA WARREN, ADMINISTRATOR THE ROSKAMP INSTITUTE, FLORIDA TRIL - TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING TRIL IS A VIRTUAL CENTRE OF EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH INTO IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF OLDER PEOPLE. TRIL IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT COMBINING INTEL PERSONNEL AND RESEARCHERS FROM IRISH UNIVERSITIES AND HOSPITALS IN MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS. TRIL FOCUSES ON UNDERSTANDING AND DELIVERING ON THE SUPPORT NEEDS AND PREFERENCES OF OLDER PEOPLE AT HOME AND IN CARE ENVIRONMENTS. TRIL'S MISSION IS TO DISCOVER AND DELIVERY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS WHICH SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AGEING, IDEALLY IN A HOME ENVIRONMENT. THIS WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF OLDER CITIZENS WHILE REDUCING THE BURDEN ON CARERS AND ON THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. FALLS STRAND: THE FALL STRAND ADDRESSES A COMMON SOURCE OF INJURY AND EVEN DEATH TO OLDER PERSONS. IT AIMS TO LEVERAGE EHTNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TO CHARACTERISE PRONENESS TO FALLING IN TERMS OF BEHAVIOURAL MARKERS SUCH AS CARDIOVASCULAR VARIABLES, VISUAL AND VESTIBULAR MEASURES, COGNITIVE MEASURES, GAIT INSTABILITY AND LOSS OF BALANCE, TO MONITOR THESE MARKERS IN REAL TIME AND TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK TO THE OLDER PERSON BEFORE A FALL OCCURS. THE ENGINEERING ASPECTS OF THE FALLS STRAND ARE SUPPORTED BY THE RESEARCH COMMONS PLATFORM. INTEL / IDA VASCULAR FACTORS IN LATE DEMENTIA LONGITUDINAL NEUROPATHOLOGICAL SERIES OF STROKE COHORT. LEAD PI: PROF R KALARIA PI: PROF RA KENNY. VASCULAR FACTORS ARE INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT AS RISK F ACTORS FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA. WE ARE STUDYING THE MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING VASCULAR RISK, IN PARTICULAR MICROVASCULAR DISEASE, IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DEMENTIAS, IN AN ONGOING CLINICAL PATHOLOGICAL LONGITUDINAL STUD OF WELL-CHARACTERISED VASCULAR RISK COHORTS (POST-STROKE) NIH GRANT (£300K) NEUROPATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF SMALL VESSEL INNERVATION IN THE CONTEXT OF WHITE MATTER DISEASE - LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY VASCULAR FACTORS ARE INCRASINGLY IMPORTANT AS RISK FACTORS FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA. WE ARE STUDYIN GTHE MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING VASCULAR RISK, IN PARTICULAR MICORVASCULAR DISEASE, IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DEMENTIAS, IN AN ONGOING CLINICAL PATHOLOGICAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF WELL-CHARACTERISED VASCULAR RISK COHORTS (POST STROKE). LEAD PI: PROF R KALARIA, PI: PROF J O'BRIEN, PROF RA KENNY. MRC (£1.7 MILLION) HOMOCYSTEINE IN POST STROKE DEMENTIA - LONGITUDINAL STUDY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOMOCYSTEINE AND OTHER VASCULAR RISK FACTORS IN 400 STROKE SURVIVORS AS A RISKF FACTOR FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA. LEAD PI: PROF RA KENNY NEWCASTLE HEALTHCARE CHAIRITY (£15K) HEART FAILURE IN THE OLDEST OLD THE PREVALENCE OF HEART FAILURE IN OVER 85 YEAR OLD IS UNKNOWN. THIS IS A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC DIAGNOSIS OF HEART FAILURE IN THE OLDEST OLD. LEAD PI: DR B KEAVNEY, PIS: DR A KENNY, PROF RA KENNY BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION (£40K) VASCULAR FACTORS IN COGNITIVE FUNCTION - LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY THIS IS AN ONGOING MRC PROGRAM GRANT DETERMINING THE INCIDENCE AND PROFILE OF COGNITIVE IPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA IN ELDERLY STROKE SURVIVORS. LEAD PI: PROF R KALARIA PIS: PROF C BALLARD, PROF R A KENNY MRC PROGRAMME GRANT (£2.4MILLION) MULTI-CENTRE - SYNCOPE AND FALLS IN THE ELDERLY - PACING AND CAROTID SINUS EVALUATION. A RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIAL OF CARDIAC PACING IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH FALLS AND CAROTID SINUS HYPERSENSITIVITY UNEXPLAINED FALLS ARE NOT INFREQUENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH BRADYARRHYTHMIAS. THIS WAS A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER PACING INTERVENTION REDUCES FALL RATES IN A MULTI-CENTRE SETTING. LEAD PI: PROF RA KENNY COPORATE (£1.2M) NEUROCARDIOVASCULAR INSTABILITY IN COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION AND DEMENTIA A COMMUNITY-BASED LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF NEUROVASCULAR INSTABILITY AND IT'S ASSOCIATION WITH COGNITIVE PROFILES AND THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF DEMENTIA OVER A 2 YEAR PERIOD (HEALTHY AGEING RESEARCH PROJECT - HARP). PI: PROF RA KENNY PPP HEALTH MEDICAL TRUST (£172K) THE PEVALENCE OF ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION AS A RISK FACTOR FOR FALLS AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN PARKINSONIAN PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY A TUDY O FTHE FREQUENCY, DEGREE AND IMPACT OF ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION ON FALLS, FRAILTY AND DEMENTIA IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE. PIS: PROF RA KENNY, DR. D BURN PPP HEALTHCARE MEDICAL TRUST (£137K) NEUROCARDIOVASCULAR INSTABILITY IN COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION - ROLE OF CEREBRAL AUTOREGULATION AND NEUROIMAGING A STUDY OF THE PREVALENCE AND IMPACT OF HYPTENSIVE AND BRADYARRHYTHMIC SYNDROMES ON NFALLS AND COGNITIVE DECLINE IN DIFFEENT DEMENTIA SUB-TYPES. PI: PROF RA KENNY , FELLOW DR. L ALLAN) ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY FELLOWHSIP RESEARCH INTO AGEING (£135K) THE ROLE OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN TELOMERE LENGTH REGULATION AND REPLICATIVE SENESCENCE IN NEUROVASCULAR INSTABILITY A STUDY TO DETERMINE WHETHER TELOMERE LENGTHS PREDICT COGNITIVE DECLINE AND DEMENTIA IN POST-STROKE SURVIVORS WHO ARE AT RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR CAUSES OF DEMENTIA. LEAD PI: PROF T VON ZGLINICKI,CO APPLICANT: POF RA KENNY MRC COMPONENT GRANT (CO APPLICANT) (£120K) PROFANE - POSTURAL STABILITY AND FALL PREVENTION RA KENNY IS A MEMBER OF WORK PARTY 2, WHICH DETERMINES THE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF FALLS IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN CULTURES - PAN TO INFORM EU RCT OF FRACTURE PREVENTION. PIS PROF R A KENNY, DR. J. CLOSE EU 5TH FRAMEWORK (£1.6M) THE PREVALENCE OF ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION AS A RISK FACTOR FOR FALLS AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN PARKINSONIAN PATIENTS IN THE COMMUNITY - LONGITUDINAL STUDY A STUDY OF THE FREQUENCY, DEGREE AND IMPACT OF ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE. LEAD PI: DR D BURN, PIS: PROF RA KENNY, FELLOW DR. L ALLCOCK R & D FELLOWSHIP (£96K) MECHANISMS OF AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DEMENTIAS A POST-MORTEM STUDY OF MICROVASCULAR AND NEUROPATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN KEY AUTONOMIC NUCLEI IN PATIENTS WITH ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION AND CAROTID SINUS HYPERSENSITIVITY. LEAD PI; PROF RA KENNY, PIS PROF R KALARIA, FELLOW DR. V MILLER ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH TRUST - THREE YEAR STUDENTSHIP (£63K) INVESTIGATION OF THE GENETIC BASIS OF VVS THIS IS A STUDY OF GENETIC RISK FACTORS FOR FAMILIAL VASOVAGAL SNCOPE IN THE REGION. LEAD PI: PROF RA KENNY, PI: DR. J NEWTON NEWCASTLE HEALTHCARE CHARITY (£9K) STROKE AND TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC ATTACK SECONDARY TO NEUROCARDIOVASCULAR INSTABILITY. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD SHARE STUDY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH MULTIMORBIDIDTY AND DISABILITY IN THE IRISH POPULATION. CARDI - CENTRE FOR AGEING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND. MERCER'S INSTITUTE FOR SUCCESSFUL AGEING CAPITAL FUNDING ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AND DEPT. OF HEALTH HAEMODYNAMIC STROKE AND TIA SECONDARY TO NEUROCARDIOVASCULAR INSTABILITY HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRISH NEUROSCIENCE AWARD - INVESTIGATION OF HYPOTENSIVE STROKE LUNDBECK SUMMER STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CEREBRAL DAMAGE IN PATIENTS WITH BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD TARGETED ACTION TO IDENTIFY NOVEL INFLAMMATORY AND IMMUNOLOGICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH PREDISPOSITION TO AMD IN THE TILDA POPULATION COHORT HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD THE IMPACT OF STRESS ON THE NEUROCOGNITIVE AND CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH OF OLDER ADULTS IN IRELAND CARDI - CENTRE FOR AGEING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND. FRALITY IN IRELAND - NORTH AND SOUTH (FINS) CARDI - CENTRE FOR AGEING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND. HYPOTENSION, VASOREACTIVITY AND WHITE MATTER INTENSITIES IN THE AGEING BRAIN: THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA). HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INEQUALITIES IN ACCESS TO GP CARE IN IRELAND: AN ANALYSIS USING LONGITUDINAL DATA HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS 2014 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD TILDA NUTRITIONAL BIOMARKER DATABASE ENHANCEMENT INITIATIVE (BIO-TILDA) DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AGRICULTURE AND THE MARINE INTEGRATING THE TILDA HEALTH ASSESSMENTS INTO THE SHARE POLICY BACKGROUND NATIONAL BUREA OF ECONOMIC RESARCH CENTRE FOR AGEING & HEALTH RESEARCH NBER CENTRE FOR AGING AND HEALTH RESEARCH, ADMIN, SUPP.1 NATIONAL BUREA OF ECONOMIC RESARCH CENTRE FOR AGEING & HEALTH RESEARCH NBER CENTRE FOR AGING AND HEALTH RESEARCH, ADMIN, SUPP.1 NATIONAL BUREA OF ECONOMIC RESARCH CENTRE FOR AGEING & HEALTH RESEARCH NILVAD A EUROPEAN MULTICENTRE DOUBLE-BLIND PACEBO-CONTROLLED PHASE III TRIAL OF NILVADIPINE IN MILD TO MODERATE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. FP7 MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS FOR FALLS IN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED CANCER HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD USSHER LECTURESHIP IN LIFE COURSE RESEARCH. UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN TRINITY COLLEGE CAROTENOIDS AND MUSCULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY - RISK FACTORS FOR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROJECT SADD SOCIOECONOMIC POSITION, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION AND DIABETES IN THE AGEING POPULATION OF IRELAND. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EFFECTING CHANGE IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH OF OLDER IRISH ADULTS: RAPID IMPLEMENTATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH RESEARCH FINDINGS INTO POLICY & PRACTICE IN A RECESSION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD ICE CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT GRANT DEVELOPMENT OF A NETWORK FOR CLINICOPATHOLOGIES STUDIES IN DEMENTIA FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD FRAILTY AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN THE OLDER POPULATION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD LAMP LOCAL ASSET MAPPING PROJECT SICCDA PAUL BEESON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD AGEING RESEARCH PROGRAMME. AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGEING RESEARCH. TRANSATIONAL RESEARCH ACCELERATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPIES FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. GSK / IDA INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT (ICE) AWARDS 2011- BUILDING RESEARCH AND IMPLEMENTATION CAPACITY IN THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA): HEALTH INEQUALITIES, MENTAL HEALTH AND OPPORTUNITIES TO INFLUENCE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE POLICIES HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD ICE CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT GRANT LAMP PILOT STUDY LOCAL ASSET MAPPING PROJECT ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES SHARE - TILDA COLLABORATION NATIONAL BUREA OF ECONOMIC RESARCH CENTRE FOR AGEING & HEALTH RESEARCH PAUL BEESON CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD AGEING RESEARCH PROGRAMME AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGEING RESEARCH AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. BRIAN KEOGH keoghbrian SENIOR SCIENTIST KEOGHBR OPSONA OPSONA C/O BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER DR. BRIAN JOSEPH KEOGH keoghbrianjoseph ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KEOGHBJ SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES GENDER AND NURSING MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH NURSING NURSE EDUCATION OLDER PEOPLE PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY DEVELOPING MASTER'S LEVEL E-LEARNING MATERIAL IN MENTAL HEALTH KIKKU, N., CALLAGHAN, P., VAN DOMMELEN, R., DOYLE, L., ELLILA, H., HIGGINS, A., JORMFELT, H., KALEVO, C., KEOGH, B., LAKSY, M-L, VAN DE SANDE, R., SITVAST, J., SKARSATER, I., STICKELY, T. & VUOKILA-OIKKPNEN, P. EU LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME/ERASMUS MULTILATERAL NETWORKS AN EVALUATION OF POWER (PROMOTING OUR OWN WELLNESS AND PROMOTING RECOVERY): A PEER PRISONER MENTORING PROGRAMME. DOYLE, L (PI), HIGGINS, A., KEOGH, B., BRENNAN, M. & MORRISSEY, J. SUICIDE OR SURVIVE EVAULATION FO THE GENIO DEMENTIA PROGRAMME 2014 -2016 GENIO IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. MARITA KERIN kerinmarita ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KERINM EDUCATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH CREATIVE MUSIC EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING PERFORMANCE PRACTICE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE DR. SARAH KERR kerrsarah RESEARCH FELLOW KERRSA LONG ROOM HUB TRINITY THE LONG ROOM HUB ARTS AND HUMANITIES TRINITY COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGRICULTURE, SETTLEMENT AND SOCIETY IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND ARCHITECTURE HISTORY HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE MEDIEVAL BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES MEDIEVAL IRELAND MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND DR. CHRISTIAN MATTHIAS KERSKENS kerskenschristianmatthias LEAD PHYSICIST KERSKENC TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) . EXTRA VASCULAR TRANSPORT MECHANISMS . QUANTIFICATION OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW . NEUROVASCULAR COUPLING . PHYSIOLOGICAL NOISE IN THE BRAIN . TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF MRI DATA . DIRECT DETECTION OF CELL ACTIVATION WITH NMR . NMR RELAXATION MECHANISMS IN BIOLOGICAL TISSUE . INTRA AND EXTRA CELLULAR DIFFUSION . TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT FOR LIVING SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE ROBE 3-4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DEUTSCHE PHYSIKALISCHE GESELLSCHAFT, GERMANY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CEREBRAL PERFUSION BIOMARKERS SFI RFP CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. DAVID KEVANS kevansdavid CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER KEVANSD CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. AMIR RAFIQ KHAN khanamirrafiq ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AMIRRAFK BIOCHEMISTRY THE EXPERIMENTAL GOAL IS DETERMINATION OF STRUCTURES OF RABS WITH THEIR EFFECTOR PROTEINS BY X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. THE FIRST PROJECT WILL INVOLVE RAB6, WHICH REGULATES THE FORWARD AND RETROGRADE TRANSPORT PATHWAYS AT THE LEVEL OF GOLGI MEMBRANES. THE DOWNSTREAM EFFECTS OF RAB6 ARE MEDIATED BY RAB6IP1, A 1263-RESIDUE RAB6IP1 THAT CONTAINS SEVERAL NOVEL DOMAINS FOR WHICH THERE IS NO STRUCTURAL INFORMATION IN THE PROTEIN DATA BANK. THE SECOND PROJECT INVOLVES RAB11, WHICH IS INVOLVED IN ENDOCYTIC RECYCLING PROCESSES, AS WELL AS ENDOSOME-TO-GOLGI TRAFFICKING. ONE OF ITS EFFECTORS IS FIP2, WHICH BELONGS TO A FAMILY OF PROTEINS THAT CONTAIN A CONSERVED C-TERMINAL RAB-BINDING DOMAIN. THE STRUCTURES OF THESE EFFECTORS MAY HAVE NOVEL FOLDS, AND THE COMPLEXES WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE RABS ARE LIKELY TO DEMONSTRATE NOVEL MODES OF INTERACTION. IN ADDITION, THE STRUCTURE OF THE COMPLEX WILL ENABLE A GENERALIZATION OF THE MECHANISM OF RAB FAMILY-MEDIATED SIGNALING, SINCE THE DOMAINS OBSERVED IN RAB6IP1 ARE ALSO FOUND IN A VARIETY OF OTHER MAMMALIAN PROTEINS. BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONGENITAL HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA EXTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY LIGATION LIFE-THREATENING HEMORRHAGE X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF POXVIRUS-MEDIATED ANTAGONISM OF TLR SIGNALING TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS (TLRS) ARE ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF INNATE IMMUNITY AGAINST BACTERIAL AND VIRAL PATHOGENS. THE TEN TLRS IN HUMANS RECOGNIZE BROAD TYPES OF PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERNS (PAMPS) INCLUDING NUCLEIC ACIDS AND LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES. THE SIGNALING CASCADE IS INITIATED BY THEIR INTRACELLULAR TOLL-LIKE/INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR (TIR) DOMAINS WHICH OLIGOMERIZE AND RECRUIT TIR-CONTAINING ADAPTOR PROTEINS SUCH AS MYD88 TO MEDIATE DOWNSTREAM EVENTS. VIRUSES OFTEN ATTENUATE IMMUNE RESPONSES, AND RECENTLY, VACCINIA VIRUS PROTEINS A46R, A52R AND K7R HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO ANTAGONIZE TLR SIGNALING PATHWAYS. INTERESTINGLY, A46R CONTAINS A PUTATIVE TIR DOMAIN THAT BINDS TO MYD88 AND BLOCKS TLR ACTIVATION, IN CONTRAST TO THE TIR DOMAINS OF TLRS WHICH PROMOTE THE SIGNALING CASCADE. THE PROJECT DESCRIBED HERE WILL INVOLVE X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF POXVIRUS PROTEINS A46R, A52R AND K7R ALONE AND IN COMPLEX WITH THEIR CELLULAR TARGETS IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE MOLECULAR BASIS FOR ANTAGONISM OF TLR SIGNALING. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI FRONTIERS PROGRAMME CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. LINDA KIERNAN kiernanlinda VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW KIERNANL HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ASSOCIATION DES ETUDES FRANCAISES ET FRANCOPHONES D'IRLANDE SOCIETY FOR COURT STUDIES SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES SOCIETY FOR SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH STUDIES CULTURAL HISTORY FRANCE, 1660-1815 FRENCH REVOLUTION HISTORY AND GENDER HISTORY OF DRESS AND COSTUME IRISH IN EUROPE, 1607-1815 SPAIN, 1600-1800 DR. HANNI SATU MARIA KIISKI kiiskihannisatumaria RESEARCH FELLOW KIISKIH TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION OF HUMAN FACES AND BODIES, PERSON CHARACTERISTICS/TRAITS AND INTENTIONS, EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITIVE AND PERCEPTUAL FUNCTIONS IN NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN SWEDISH ENGLISH FINNISH FRENCH GERMAN THE FINNISH PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES ASSESSING BRAIN AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS CROSS-SECTIONALLY AND LONGITUDINALLY USING MULTIMODAL METHODS: INSIGHTS FROM HIGH-DENSITY EEG, STRUCTURAL MRI AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL EXAMINATION OF BRAIN FUNCTION AND COGNITION IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WITH HIGH-DENSITY EEG, STRUCTURAL MRI AND NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT. ALSO, INVESTIGATING EEG AS PART OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND ESSENTIAL TREMOR. THE RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE METHODS TO EXAMINE AND TO INCREASE THE UNDERSTANDING OF BRAIN FUNCTION AND COGNITION IN NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY SOCIALIZING AGENTS - USING PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION TO ENDOW VIRTUAL AGENTS WITH MAXIMUM SOCIAL APPEAL THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF MY RESEARCH IN CAPTAVATAR IS TO INVESTIGATE HOW VISUAL AND AUDITORY INFORMATION CONTRIBUTE TO THE PERCEIVED APPEAL OF ANOTHER PERSON. THE ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO ENDOW VIRTUAL AVATARS WITH THESE MULTISENSORY CHARACTERISTICS TO MAXIMISE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN DIFFERENT SETTINGS, SUCH AS EDUCATION AND GAMING. THE RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED AS PART OF A SFI-FUNDED CAPTAVATAR PROJECT (HTTP://GV2.CS.TCD.IE/CAPTAVATAR/). SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE DR. JARLATH KILLEEN killeenjarlath ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN VICTORIAN ENGLISH KILLEEJ ENGLISH VICTORIAN LITERATURE, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE, GOTHIC LITERATURE, IRISH STUDIES, RELIGION AND LITERATURE, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE 19TH CENTURY IRISH CULTURAL HISTORY ANGLO-IRISH CONNECTIONS CHILDREN'S LITERATURE GOTHIC LITERATURE HUMANITIES, GENERAL/OTHER IRISH GOTHIC IRISH POLITICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY, 1660-1800 OSCAR WILDE POPULAR ROMANCE AND CHICK LIT RELIGION AND LITERATURE VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE VICTORIAN STUDIES, POPULAR FICTION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. JAMES EDWARD KILLEN killenjamesedward RETIRED STAFF MEMBER JKILLEN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MY MAJOR RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN TRANSPORTATION PLANNING WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO URBAN TRANSPORTATION. I AM INTERESTED IN ALL ASPECTS OF IRISH TRANSPORT. OTHER INTERESTS INCLUDE THE APPLICATION OF QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES IN GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND COMMITTEE MEMBER IRISH DELEGATE TO INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON DC IRISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GEOGRAPHY MEMBER - IRISH NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD JOURNAL OF IRISH URBAN STUDIES MEMBER GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND SECRETARY - IRISH NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY SECRETARY - IRISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GEOGRAPHY 1987-91 DR. GARRETT KILROY kilroygarrett VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW KILROYGG GEOLOGY MY RESEARCH INTERESTED INCLUDE GROUNDWATER QUALITY, GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS AND SURFACE WATER-GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS, PARTICULARLY CONCERNING PHOSPHORUS TRANSPORT. MORE RECENT WORK HAS FOCUSSED ON THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE, RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT, STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, AND THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON GROUNDWATER RESOURCES. GEOLOGY DEPT COLLEGE 01-8961000 NEPALI MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS (IRISH GROUP) ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEMS ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY HYDROGEOLOGY HYDROLOGY OF LIMESTONE TERRAINS RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MICHAEL KING kingmichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KINGM4 ECONOMICS MICROECONOMICS, DEVELOPMENT, FINANCIAL INCLUSION, BANKING, FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, SPECIAL PROTECTION, POVERTY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION MEMBER, AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION RESEARCH AFFILIATE, INNOVATION FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA) RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, TRINITY RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (TRISS) DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL GOVERNANCE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC EVALUATION ECONOMIC HISTORY ECONOMIC POLICY MAKING FINANCE FINANCIAL CRISES FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT IRISH ECONOMY, PROBLEMS MICROECONOMICS POLITICAL ECONOMICS/ECONOMY POLICY COHERENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE ADVISORY BOARD FOR IRISH AID (ABIA), IIIS IS CONDUCTING A FOUR YEAR RESEARCH PROGRAMME (2007-2010) ON THE COHERENCE OF VARIOUS ASPECTS OF IRISH GOVERNMENT DOMESTIC POLICY WITH THE OBJECTIVES OF IRISH AID TO REDUCE POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN LINE WITH OUR COMMITMENT TO THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS. THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME IS COMPRISED OF TWO PHASES. IN PHASE ONE AN EXTENSIVE SURVEY OF THE ACTIVITIES OF ALL IRISH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WILL BE CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY POLICY AREAS THAT AFFECT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. THE FINDINGS OF THIS SCOPING RESEARCH WILL BE PUBLISHED IN MID-2008. PHASE TWO COMPRISES IN-DEPTH RESEARCH INTO A NUMBER OF KEY PCD ISSUES IDENTIFIED BY THE SCOPING RESEARCH REPORT AND WILL BE CONCLUDED IN 2010. THE IIIS/ABIA RESEARCH WILL BE WIDELY DISSEMINATED TO POLICY MAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY THROUGH OPEN PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS. ABIA FINANCIAL INCLUSION AND FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT IN KENYA THIS RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL INVESTIGATE IMPORTANT ISSUES SUCH AS THE INTERACTION BETWEEN POVERTY AND FINANCIAL INCLUSION, THE GEOSPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF FINANCIAL ACCESS, THE IMPACT OF NEW FINANCIAL SERVICES AND THE CHANGING ROLE OF MOBILE BANKING SERVICES. THE RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL HAVE A SPECIAL FOCUS ON ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF NEW FINANCIAL PRODUCTS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES. FINANCIAL SECTOR DEEPENING (FSD) KENYA THE IMPACT OF INNOVATIVE MOBILE FINANCIAL PRODUCTS ON VULNERABLE GROUPS IN KENYA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH A LEADING BANK IN KENYA THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF MOBILE SAVINGS AND LENDING PRODUCTS ON WELFARE OUTCOMES AND BARGAINING POWER WITHIN THE HOUSEHOLD. TCD PATHFINDER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. MARTIN KING kingmartin ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MKING BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: . ORGANISATIONAL TRUST . TRUST IN EMPLOYMENT & INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS . EXIT AND VOICE BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. CAROLE BERNADETTE KING kingcarolebernadette RETIRED STAFF MEMBER CKING2 RETIRED STAFF MEMBER SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH MEMBER OF THE CHILDRENS RESEARCH GROUP IN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY CHILD ABUSE CHILD PROTECTION EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS FAMILY CENTERED CARE MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. WILLIAM KINGSTON kingstonwilliam ADJUNCT PROFESSOR WKNGSTON BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS GILLIAN KINGSTON kingstongillian RESEARCH STUDENT KINGSTG SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY 01-8961000 DR. MARTINA KIRCHBERGER kirchbergermartina USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KIRCHBEM ECONOMICS I AM A MICRO DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIST WITH A FOCUS ON URBAN ECONOMICS, LABOR ECONOMICS AND PUBLIC ECONOMICS. MOST OF MY RESEARCH USES GEO-REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL LEVEL DATA THAT I COMBINE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL DATA. IN PART OF MY RECENT WORK, I EXPLORE THE USE OF BIG DATA TO ANSWER QUESTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT, SUCH AS THE USE OF MOBILE PHONE DATA TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF CITIES OR THE EFFECT OF INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS. OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS I HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE CONSTRUCTION SECTOR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. TO ANSWER QUESTIONS IN THESE AREAS, I EMPLOY A RANGE OF APPROACHES RANGING FROM NATURAL EXPERIMENTS TO STRUCTURAL MODELS AND DESCRIPTIVE WORK. I CLOSELY WORK WITH SCIENTISTS FROM THE LAMONT-DOHERTY EARTH OBSERVATORY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. A RECENT PAPER ANSWERED THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: CAN DISAMENITIES OF URBAN AREAS RATIONALIZE THE STRIKING GAPS IN LIVING STANDARDS BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES? I CONSTRUCT A NEW DATASET THAT LINKS GEO-LOCATED HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS ON CRIME, MISTRUST, LIVING CONDITIONS, AND SATELLITE-DERIVED MEASURES OF POLLUTION WITH GRIDDED POPULATION DENSITY DATA. THE PAPER FORMS PART OF A LARGER RESEARCH AGENDA THAT USES GEO-REFERENCED DATA TO UNDERSTAND LOCATION CHOICES OF HOUSEHOLDS ACROSS THE RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD WITH DOUG GOLLIN (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD) AND DAVID LAGAKOS (UC SAN DIEGO). OVER THE PAST YEARS I HAVE STARTED A NUMBER OF RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH CHRIS SMALL, A RESEARCH PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA'S LAMONT EARTH OBSERVATORY. WE USE MOBILE PHONE DATA IN SENEGAL TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF CITIES AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH METHODS COMMONLY EMPLOYED IN ANALYZING REMOTELY SENSED SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA CAN BE APPLIED TO MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DATA. AS A PART OF THIS BROADER RESEARCH AGENDA ON USING BIG DATA IN DEVELOPMENT, I WORK WITH JOSH BLUMENSTOCK (UC BERKELEY) AND DAVE DONALDSON (STANFORD UNIVERSITY) ON A PAPER THAT EXPLOITS A NEW TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT TO ESTIMATE THE DISTRIBUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF URBAN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE. MY PHD CONSISTED OF THREE STAND-ALONE CHAPTERS, WHICH ARE CURRENTLY EITHER FORTHCOMING OR UNDER REVIEW. MY FIRST PHD CHAPTER STUDIED THE EFFECTS OF NATURAL DISASTERS ON LOCAL LABOR MARKETS. COMBINING DATA FROM THE INDONESIA FAMILY LIFE SURVEY, THE DESINVENTAR DATABASE, THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND DISTRICT-LEVEL EMPLOYMENT INDICATORS, I EXPLORE HOW A LARGE EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA AFFECTED LOCAL LABOR MARKETS, IN PARTICULAR THE EVOLUTION OF WAGES ACROSS SECTORS. THE PAPER IS PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS. MY SECOND PHD CHAPTER CONSIDERED HETEROGENEITY IN SIBLINGS' PREFERENCES OVER LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION AND BUILDS A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL MODEL FOR CHILDREN'S TIME AND CONSUMPTION ALLOCATIONS IN A HOUSEHOLD. THE PAPER IS UNDER REVIEW IN THE JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCES. MY THIRD PHD CHAPTER FOCUSED ON THE COST OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AND IS CO-AUTHORED WITH PAUL COLLIER (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD) AND MÅNS SÖDERBOM (GOTHENBURG UNIVERSITY). THE PAPER IS PUBLISHED IN THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW. MOTIVATED BY THE DEARTH OF DATA ON THE COST OF TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE, I AM CO-PI ON AN INTERNATIONAL GROWTH CENTRE GRANT WITH SAM ASHER (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD) AND PAUL NOVOSAD (DARTMOUTH COLLEGE) TO INVESTIGATE THE DRIVERS OF THE COSTS OF ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE IN TANZANIA. THIS BUILDS ON A RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TANZANIA ROADS FUND BOARD THAT WE HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE PAST 1.5 YEARS WITH THE AIM OF USING A MIXTURE BETWEEN NATURAL EXPERIMENTS (THE FIFA WORLD CUP IN SOUTH AFRICA) AND AUDIT EXPERIMENTS IMPLEMENTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF TANZANIA. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BIG DATA PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MS. GLORIA MARY KIRWAN kirwangloriamary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KIRWANGM SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY - MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORK - SERVICE USER PARTICIPATION - SOCIAL WORK ETHICS - SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - HISTORY OF SOCIAL WORK - HUMAN TRAFFICKING DEPT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH ARTICLE REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS: JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE; CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW; CHILD CARE IN PRACTICE; GROUPWORK; JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING, EDUCATION AND PRACTICE; BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK. CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMMUNITY AFTER SCHOOL PROJECT, DUBLIN 1 CHAIRPERSON OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING SUB-GROUP OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY (TUSLA) CHAIRPERSON OF THE NORTH INNER CITY FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICE (DUBLIN) CORU REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER EDITORIAL COMMITTEE MEMBER OF EISTEACH, A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAY GUEST EDITOR, IRISH SOCIAL WORKER: JOURNAL OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS JOINT CHAIR OF THE IASW/NIASW ALL IRELAND MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. LAY MEMBER, FITNESS TO PRACTISE COMMITTEE, MEDICAL COUNCIL (IRELAND) MEMBER OF PANEL OF ASSESSORS, CORU (HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS COUNCIL). MEMBER OF THE ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE, MEDICAL COUNCIL (IRELAND) MEMBER OF THE FOCUS IRELAND NATIONAL SERVICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE. MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL TASK FORCE ON SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL MEDIA, CONVENED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORK BOARDS, USA MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS MEMBER OF THE MOJO NATIONAL POLICY, PRACTICE & RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP (NAG) FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY (TUSLA). MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE OF THE JOINT WORLD CONGRESS ON SOCIAL WORK, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT - DUE TO BE HELD IN DUBLIN 2018. MEMBER OF VOLUNTARY SOCIAL SERVICE SECTOR ORGANISATION COMMITTEES INCLUDING THE NORTH INNER CITY MONEY ADVICE & BUDGETING SERVICE, THE IASW CHILD CARE COMMITTEE, THE MOUNTJOY SQUARE NURSERY SELECTION COMMITTEE, MEMBER, EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE PUBLIC SERVICE APPOINTMENTS COMMISSION, INTERVIEW PANEL MEMBER REGISTRANT MEMBER, CORU APPEALS COMMITTEE REGISTRANT MEMBER, PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEE, CORU TREASURER OF THE INTEGRATED SERVICES PROJECT, NORTH-EAST INNER CITY DUBLIN TREASURER, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS E-PROFESSIONALISM HUMAN TRAFFICKING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USER INVOLVEMENT PARTICIPATION PUBLIC AND PATIENT PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHCARE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN HEALTHCARE SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL NETWORKING SOCIAL WORK/SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL WORKERS IN IRELAND - A NATIONAL STUDY THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE SUPPORTS AND OBSTACLES TO ENGAGEMENT IN CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENCOUNTERED BY SOCIAL WORKERS WORKING IRELAND. TCD BOLOGNA RESEARCH FUND SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION - BUILDING AN ACTIVE SOCIETY FOR ALL IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS EUROPEAN COMMISSION ICARUS RESEARCH PROJECT MEMBER OF IRISH RESEARCH TEAM THAT PARTICIPATED IN AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSES TO FAMILIES WITH PARENTAL MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. THE PROJECT WAS LED BY A RESEARCH TEAM BASED AT BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, UK. A NATIONAL STUDY OF WOMEN WHO GAVE BIRTH OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE IN 1983 MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH TEAM INVOLVED IN THE COLLATION OF DATA AND THE COMPILATION OF THE REPORT. THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED BY THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (THEN THE MEDICO-SOCIAL RESEARCH BOARD) AND TREOIR (THEN THE FEDERATION OF SERVICES FOR UNMARRIED PARENTS & THEIR CHILDREN). PUBLICATION : O'HARE, DROMEY, O'CONNOR, CLARKE & KIRWAN, (1988), MOTHERS ALONE? A STUDY OF WOMEN WHO GAVE BIRTH OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE, IRELAND, 1983. DUBLIN, FSUPC. MEDICO-SOCIAL RESEARCH BOARD EIST: A STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USER VIEWS THIS STUDY IS LOCATED IN THE CONTEXT OF IRISH NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH POLICY (A VISION FOR CHANGE, 2006) WHICH ARTICULATES A RECOVERY-INFORMED APPROACH TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY WITH SERVICE USER PARTICIPATION AS A CENTRAL ELEMENT OF THE RECOVERY PROCESS. THE STUDY EXPLORES THE VIEWS OF A SAMPLE OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS ON PARTICIPATION AND HOW THEY CONCEPTUALISE OPTIMUM PARTICIPATION BASED ON THEIR EXPERIENCES OF SERVICE USAGE. THE STUDY ALSO REVEALS THE BELIEFS AND OPINIONS REGARDING PARTICIPATION WHICH SERVICE USERS CARRY INTO SERVICE USAGE, ARISING FROM THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE SYSTEMS. A NARRATIVE METHODOLOGY, VOICE CENTRED RELATIONAL METHOD (VCRM), WAS ADOPTED FOR THE PURPOSES OF DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS, THUS POSITIONING THE VIEWS OF SERVICE USERS AS CENTRAL TO THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE IN THIS STUDY. THE STUDY REVEALS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING VCRM IN THE CONTEXT OF A STUDY OF THIS TYPE. THE ROMA COMMUNITY IN IRELAND: THE ROLE OF THE TALLAGHT ROMA INTEGRATION PROJECT THIS PROJECT SET OUT TO REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE TALLAGHT ROMA INTEGRATION PROJECT (TRIP) AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO EXAMINE ITS CONTRIBUTION TO IMPROVING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE FOR THE ROMA COMMUNITY IN THE GREATER TALLAGHT AREA OF DUBLIN. THE ROMA COMMUNITY IS A NEW MIGRANT GROUP IN IRELAND AND THIS PROJECT ALSO AIMED TO CONSULT WITH MEMBERS OF THE ROMA COMMUNITY REGARDING THEIR PERCEIVED NEEDS AND GAPS IN SERVICE PROVISION. ACROSS EUROPE, THE ROMA COMMUNITY EXPERIENCES HIGH LEVELS OF DISCRIMINATION AND MARGINALISATION AND A FINAL AIM OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO ILLUMINATE EXPERIENCES OF THIS NEW MIGRANT GROUP IN THE IRISH CONTEXT. THE FINAL PUBLICATION OF THIS PROJECT CAN BE ACCESSED AT:HTTP://WWW.TARA.TCD.IE/HANDLE/2262/75826 NATIONAL OFFICE FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION, HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. SYLVIE KLEINMAN kleinmansylvie VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW KLEINMS HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND HUMANITIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. IGOR KLYUBIN klyubinigor SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW KLYUBINI PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS DEPT OF PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS BIOTECHNOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. IWONA KNODEL knodeliwona EXECUTIVE OFFICER KNODELY HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN RESOURCES HOUSE 4 COLLEGE 01-8961000 POLISH ENGLISH DR. ANDREW KNOX knoxandrew ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AKNOX BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, 152-160 PEARSE STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FULL MEMBERSHIP OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES BIOACTIVE PEPTIDES BIOINFORMATICS & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY TECHNIQUES COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND MODELLING COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG DESIGN COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING DRUG DESIGN ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF MACROMOLECULES, PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS PEPTIDE PEPTIDE DRUGS PEPTIDE STRUCTURE PROTEIN DESIGN AND ENGINEERING PROTEIN PURIFICATION STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY STRUCTURAL PROTEINS VIRTUAL SCREENING ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY AGRI-ENVIRONMENT - NUTRIENTS, BIODIVERSITY, GASEOUS EMISSIONS, OTHER ANIMAL HEALTH MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS PROFESSOR ANIL CHRISTOPHER KOKARAM kokaramanilchristopher PROFESSOR/HEAD OF DISCIPLINE AKOKARAM ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC & ELECT ENGINEERING PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AUTOREGRESSIVE MODELS BAYESIAN INFERENCE COMPOSITION SAMPLING CONTENT BASED VIDEO ANALYSIS CONTENT BASED VIDEO AUGMENTATION DIGITAL FILM EDITING AND IMAGE BASED SPECIAL EFFECTS DIGITAL MOTION PICTURE RESTORATION FACTORED SAMPLING GIBBS SAMPLING IMAGE PROCESSING IMAGE SEQUENCES MARGINALIZATION MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO MISSING DATA RECONSTRUCTION MONTE CARLO METHODS MOTION ANALYSIS MOTION ESTIMATION NOISE REDUCTION VIDEO PROCESSING LASTACTIONREPLAY ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. VASILEIOS KOUTAVAS koutavasvasileios ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS VKOUTAV COMPUTER SCIENCE CONCURRENCY IN SOFTWARE IS THE CREATION OF COMPLEX PROGRAMS FROM SMALL INDEPENDENT ENTITIES, POSSIBLY WORKING IN PARALLEL, COMPOSED IN INTRICATE WAYS. CONCURRENT SOFTWARE IS NOW A CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY UNDERPINNING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. ALMOST ALL SOFTWARE RUNNING ON TODAY'S COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS---FROM MICRO-CONTROLLERS AND MOBILE DEVICES, TO PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND LAPTOPS, TO NETWORKED AND CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES---IS CONCURRENT. HOWEVER, BUILDING EFFECTIVE CONCURRENT SOFTWARE IS STILL NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT AND A MAJOR OBSTACLE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS. THUS, CONCURRENCY HAS RECENTLY BECOME ONE OF THE MAJOR STUMBLING BLOCKS TO BUILDING SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS FOR SMALL-SCALE, AVERAGE, AND LARGE-SCALE COMPUTING PLATFORMS, AND IS A CENTRAL CONCERN FOR THE ENTIRE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY. MY RESEARCH AIMS TO OVERCOME THE OBSTACLE OF CONCURRENCY AND DEVELOP METHODS WITH WHICH FUTURE HIGH QUALITY SOFTWARE SYSTEMS WILL BE DESIGNED, BUILT, AND VERIFIED. IN PARTICULAR, I PURSUE TWO INDEPENDENT BUT HIGHLY RELATED RESEARCH DIRECTIONS: - THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MATHEMATICAL/LOGICAL MODELS OF CONCURRENT PROGRAM BEHAVIOUR AND SCALABLE TECHNIQUES, WHICH WILL ALLOW THE INDUSTRY TO DESIGN, VERIFY THE CORRECTNESS, AND IMPROVE THE PERFORMANCE OF CONCURRENT SOFTWARE. - THE INVENTION OF NEXT-GENERATION HIGH LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES THAT WILL MAKE CONCURRENT PROGRAMMING TRACTABLE IN LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS FOR MULTI-CORE, WEB-BASED, CLOUD, AND ADAPTIVE COMPUTING. IN THE FORMER DIRECTION, I HAVE INTRODUCED INNOVATIVE MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF SOFTWARE SYSTEMS THAT MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO EXPRESS THE BEHAVIOUR OF COMPLEX PROGRAMS WRITTEN IN MODERN COMPUTING LANGUAGES WITH CONCURRENT FEATURES. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON DEVELOPING THE UNDERLYING THEORY OF THESE TECHNIQUES ON WHICH TO BASE PRACTICAL TOOLS THAT WILL ASSURE THE QUALITY AND CORRECTNESS OF COMPLEX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS. IN THE LATTER DIRECTION, I HAVE PRESENTED ONE OF THE FEW NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PARADIGMS FOR CONCURRENCY IN RECENT YEARS, CALLED COMMUNICATING TRANSACTIONS, AND I AM WORKING ON ESTABLISHING ITS USEFULNESS IN THE BUILDING OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS. SUCH INNOVATIONS ARE NECESSARY IN ORDER FOR FUTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING GRADUATES TO BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH THE INCREASING COMPLEXITY OF CONCURRENT SOFTWARE AND TO BUILD TOMORROW'S TECHNOLOGY. THE TIME FOR DEVELOPING SUCH PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS IS OPTIMAL, AS COMPANIES SUCH AS MICROSOFT, GOOGLE AND MOZILLA ARE CURRENTLY EXPERIMENTING WITH NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR THE SAME PURPOSE, PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADOPTION OF NEW IDEAS SUCH AS COMMUNICATING TRANSACTIONS. THESE TWO DIRECTIONS OF MY RESEARCH ARE LINKED. MATHEMATICAL MODELS ARE NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND HOW NEW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PARADIGMS BEHAVE AND HOW THEY CAN BE USED IN A PRINCIPLED WAY. ON THE OTHER HAND, NEW PARADIGMS TEST THE LIMITS OF EXISTING MODELS FOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND DRIVE INNOVATION IN THE SCIENCE OF COMPUTING. SINCE MY APPOINTMENT, I HAVE ESTABLISHED AN INDEPENDENT RESEARCH AGENDA IN THE ABOVE DIRECTIONS WHICH I AM PURSUING THROUGH THE MENTORING OF PHD STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS, AND BY COLLABORATIONS WITH LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEADING RESEARCHERS, INCLUDING MY COAUTHORS TO DATE FROM TCD, MICROSOFT RESEARCH AND WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES. I HAVE SECURED FUNDING FROM IRC AND SFI TO FUEL THIS RESEARCH, WHICH HAS BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TCD-BASED RESEARCH OF THE SFI IRISH SOFTWARE RESEARCH CENTRE (LERO). AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL I AM BUILDING ADDITIONAL CONNECTIONS WITH RESEARCHERS AND INSTITUTIONS VIA MY PARTICIPATION IN TWO EU COST ACTIONS, AIMING TO FOSTER COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN RESEARCHERS WORKING ON TOPICS RELEVANT TO MY RESEARCH INTERESTS AND THE EU RESEARCH AGENDA. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MARIA KOUTSOMBOGERA koutsombogeramaria RESEARCH FELLOW KOUTSOMM COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR COMPUTING AND LANGUAGE STUDIES HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION, MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION, COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, CONVERSATION ANALYSIS SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN GREEK, MODERN (1453-) APPLIED LINGUISTICS COGNITIVE-PROCESSES COMMUNICATION-SKILLS COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING CONVERSATION CORPUS LINGUISTICS DISCOURSE & DIALOGUE EMBODIMENT EMOTION IN SPEECH EMOTIONAL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS FACE PERCEPTION GAME BASED LEARNING HUMAN ROBOT INTERFACE INTELLIGENT INTERFACES INTERACTION MULTIMEDIA/INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOL MULTIMODAL SYSTEM NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION PRAGMATICS SEMANTICS USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MULTISIMO EU H2020-MSCA-IF-2015 INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR ALAN RICHARD KRAMER krameralanrichard PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY ALKRAMER HISTORY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES HISTORY OF CULTURE AND MENTALITIES, ESPECIALLY OF GERMANY IN THE ERA OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1912-1933) AND POST-WAR GERMANY (1945 TO 1950); ATROCITIES IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR; COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE LAWS OF WAR; BELGIUM IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR; ITALY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR, THE GERMAN MILITARY, 1870-1933. CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS SINCE 1896; ITALIAN PRISONERS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR; OCCUPATIONS IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR; ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ROOM 3120 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN FRENCH GERMAN ARBEITSKREIS HISTORISCHE FRIEDENSFORSCHUNG ARBEITSKREIS MILITÄRGESCHICHTE FELLOW OF THE ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN GERMAN HISTORY SOCIETY (SEE: HTTP://WWW.GERMANHISTORYSOCIETY.ORG/) SOCIETY FOR FIRST WORLD WAR STUDIES INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS THIS PROJECT IS THE FIRST TRANSNATIONAL COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION OF THE HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS. THE HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN NAZI GERMANY IS NOW WELL ADVANCED, WITH SEVERAL SCHOLARLY HISTORIES OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS FROM 1933 TO 1945 PUBLISHED OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES. THE HISTORY OF THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS OF ITALIAN FASCISM, LONG NEGLECTED BY HISTORIANS, HAS RECENTLY BEEN DISCOVERED AS AN IMPORTANT THEME. THE STORY OF THE GULAG, THE CAMP SYSTEM IN THE SOVIET UNION, HAS BEEN REVITALIZED BY THE OPENING OF ACCESS TO THE ARCHIVES. HOWEVER, NONE OF THE OVERALL HISTORIES OR HISTORIES OF INDIVIDUAL CAMPS ADEQUATELY EXAMINES THEIR ORIGINS AND COMPARES THEIR CHANGING FUNCTION IN HISTORY. THIS PROJECT THEREFORE IS DESIGNED TO TEST VARIOUS HYPOTHESES ON THE ORIGINS OF THE CAMPS BY SYSTEMATICALLY SCRUTINIZING THE SCHOLARLY RESEARCH ON THE SPANISH POLICY OF 'RECONCENTRACIÓN' IN CUBA IN 1896 AND THE BRITISH CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN SOUTH AFRICA TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THE POST-SECOND WORLD WAR PERIOD, AND BY CONDUCTING ORIGINAL RESEARCH ON THE CAMP SYSTEM IN THE BELLIGERENT COUNTRIES OF THE GREAT WAR, THE INTERNATIONAL LEARNING PROCESS, THE TREATMENT OF CIVILIAN INTERNEES, THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PROSECUTION OF VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW IN THE CAMPS. AN EXAMINATION OF THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS THAT ESTABLISHED THE EXTERMINATION CAMPS IN 1941 AND GAVE THE TERM ITS CONTEMPORARY MEANING, IS ESSENTIAL, EVEN IF THE PROCESS OF GENOCIDE IS NOT THE MAIN FOCUS OF THE PROJECT. MANY HISTORIANS JUSTIFIABLY SEE CAMPS AS THE DARK SIDE OF MODERN HUMAN CIVILIZATION. FOR THAT REASON IT WILL BE A CENTRAL PART OF THE PROJECT TO EXPLAIN THE SYSTEM OF INCARCERATION: SECURITY, EXCLUSION, PUNISHMENT, ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION, AND ERADICATION. FIRST RESULTS WERE PUBLISHED IN EDITED COLLECTIONS IN 2011 AND 2013. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. HARIS KREMO kremoharis RESEARCH FELLOW KREMOH ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING CONNECT DUNLOP ORIEL HOUSE 34 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. CARSTEN KROGER krogercarsten ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KROGERC MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY ACINETOBACTER BACTERIA GENE REGULATION MICROBIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS SALMONELLA GENETICS AND GENOMICS MICROBIOLOGY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. VLADIMIR KRYLOV krylovvladimir RESEARCH FELLOW KRYLOVV ADAPT ADAPT CENTRE O¿REILLY INSTITTUE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JOHN KUBIAK kubiakjohn TEACHING & LEARNING OFFICER(CURRICULUM) KUBIAKJ EDUCATION NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY INCLUSION; INCLUSIVE RESEARCH; LEARNING THEORY; PHENOMENOGRAPHY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY 2ND FLOOR, EAST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH AUTONOMY GUIDANCE PROJECT - ADVISORY GROUP HIQA EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND IRISH DISABILITIES STUDIES ASSOCIATION IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS (IFUT) MULTIMEDIA PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE. IDS-TILDA REVIEWER FOR: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND METHODS IN EDUCATION; THE JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES; THE AFRICA EDUCATION REVIEW. ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL STUDIES. THE LEARNER KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY HIGHER EDUCATION INCLUSION INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION INCLUDING STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN THIRD LEVEL UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMMES' THIS RESEARCH BUILT UPON A PILOT STUDY CONDUCTED AT TRINITY COLLEGE IN 2005 - 2006. THE SUCCESS OF THIS SMALL SCALE PROJECT WAS REPLICATED WITH A LARGER GROUP OF STUDENTS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY WHO WERE ENROLLED ON THE CERTIFICATE OF CONTEMPORARY LIVING (CCL). CCL STUDENTS WERE MATCHED WITH A VOLUNTEER MENTOR WHO SUPPORTED THEM TO ATTEND MAINSTREAM COURSES ON THE TRINITY CAMPUS. LECTURERS VOLUNTEERED TO BE PART OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT AND SUPPORTED THE CCL STUDENT TO ATTEND CLASS. THE OUTCOMES OF THIS PROCESS WERE CAPTURED THROUGH THE FACILITATION OF FOCUS GROUPS, INTERVIEWS, ADMINISTRATION OF QUESTIONNAIRES AND OBSERVATION SCHEDULES AND THE COLLATION OF FIELD NOTES. THIS RESEARCH WILL BUILD ON THE BODY OF LITERATURE TO BETTER SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY TO ATTEND THIRD LEVEL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES ALONG WITH THE WIDER STUDENT BODY. IT WILL INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF TRINITY COLLEGE TO RESPOND TO THE ONGOING PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS GROUP OF MARGINALISED STUDENTS. EUROPEAN UNION - MARIE CURIE ACTIONS WIDENING PARTICIPATION: THE ROLL-OUT OF THE CERTIFICATE IN CONTEMPORARY LIVING THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO FURTHER DEVELOP AND ROLL-OUT THE CERTIFICATE IN CONTEMPORARY LIVING(CCL) ACROSS OTHER THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND WITH UCC AS A FIRST SITE AND PARTNER. THIS PROJECT CONSISTED OF FOUR MAIN AREAS OF ACTIVITY: (1) DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUM MATERIALS; (2) IMPLEMENTATION OF A NATIONAL NETWORK OF THIRD LEVEL TEACHING STAFF; (3) TRAINING STAFF IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS, AND (4), MONITORING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CURRICULUM. STRATEGIC INNOVATION FUND II INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. FRANCESCA LA MORGIA lamorgiafrancesca ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FLAMORGI CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES CHILD LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD BILINGUALISM; EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF TRINITY RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE (TRISS). HTTPS://WWW.TCD.IE/TRISS/ DIRECTOR OF MOTHER TONGUES, AN ORGANISATION THAT AIMS TO DISSEMINATE RESEARCH BASED INFORMATION ABOUT CHILDHOOD BILINGUALISM. WWW.MOTHERTONGUES.IE MEMBER OF THE NEW SPEAKERS NETWORK - COST ACTION IS1306 - HTTP://WWW.NSPK.ORG.UK/ MEMBER OF TRINITY RESEARCH IN CHILDHOOD CENTRE BILINGUAL/BICULTURAL EDUCATION BILINGUALISM BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM CHILD LANGUAGE PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION PRIVATE LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT: HOME LITERACY ENVIRONMENTS FOR BILINGUAL DEVELOPMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH DR XIAO LAN CURDT-CHRISTIANSEN CENTRE FOR LITERACY AND MULTILINGUALISM, UNIVERSITY OF READING INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION IN BILINGUAL FIRST LANGUAGE ACQUISITION UROP - UNIVERSITY OF READING THE IMPACT OF NATIVE SCIENTIST LABS NATIVE SCIENTIST LABS ARE STEM WORKSHOPS LED BY SCIENTISTS IN THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE. THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT ARE A) TO PROMOTE CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN STEM AS MEANS TO CREATE A POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT B) TO INSPIRE ETHNIC MINORITY PUPILS TO PURSUE HIGHER EDUCATION AND CONSIDER STEM CAREERS C) TO EMPOWER INTERNATIONAL SCIENTISTS TO INCREASE THE IMPACT OF THEIR RESEARCH. THE PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF THE NATIVE SCIENTIST LABS ON THE CHILDREN'S AND THE SCIENTISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF IMMIGRANT LANGUAGES IN STEM EDUCATION. TBC RESEARCH NETWORK IN CHILDHOOD BILINGUALISM THE NETWORK AIMS TO BRING TOGETHER RESEARCHERS, TEACHERS, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS AND POLICY MAKERS WITH THE VIEW OF ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CHILDHOOD BILINGUALISM, TACKLE CHALLENGES AND IMPACT POLICY. TBC IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. JUAN PABLO LABRADOR labradorjuanpablo ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LABRADOJ GENETICS TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) KEYWORDS: DROSOPHILA, DEVELOPMENT, NEUROGENTEICS, NEUROSCIENCE, GENETICS. DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS GENETICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CELLULAR BIOLOGY CYTOGENETICS DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY GENETIC ENGINEERING GENETICS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS NEUROBIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION (SENSORY/CELLULAR) STEM CELL BIOLOGY TRANSGENICS NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY GENETICS AND GENOMICS REGENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY SFI PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (07/IN.1/B913) SFI IRCSET GRANT IRCSET TRINITY RESEARCH AWARD TRINITY COLLEGE START-UP GRANT SFI RFP 2008 (08/RFP/NSC1617) SFI IRCSET GRANT GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. GERARD JAMES LACEY laceygerardjames ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GJLACEY COMPUTER SCIENCE THE KEY RESEARCH AREAS ARE MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING, AUGMENTED REALITY AND MOBILE ROBOTICS FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY. MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING (VIDEO AND STILL IMAGES): THIS RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON ANALYSIS THE IMAGES FROM ENDOSCOPES AND OTHER IMAGING TOOLS USING IN CLINICAL PRACTICE AND PROVIDING THE USER WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO ASSIST IN CLINICAL DECISION MAKING. AUGMENTED REALITY: BY COMBINING VIDEO IMAGES AND GRAPHICAL IMAGES INTO A SINGLE VIEW THE COMPUTER AND REAL WORLDS MAY BE MERGED TO CREATE AND "AUGMENTED REALITY" THE APPLICATIONS FOR THIS TECHNOLOGY ARE AS DIVERSE AS MEDICAL PROCEDURE GUIDANCE, E-LEARNING AND ENTERTAINMENT. DR. LACEY'S RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON OBJECT TRACKING AND ACCURATE RENDERING OF GRAPHICAL OBJECTS AND STUDYING THE HUMAN FACTORS ISSUES INVOLVED. MOBILE ROBOTICS APPLIED TO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY: TECHNICAL AIDS FOR THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED E.G. ROBOT MOBILITY AIDS (PAM-AID) ROBOT MOBILITY AID (GUIDO), INTELLIGENT INTERFACES AND SMART BUILDINGS SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 EDITORIAL BOARDS: MANAGING INTERACTIONS IN SMART ENVIRONMENTS(MANSE'99), SPRINGER. MEMBER OF IEEE AUGMENTED REALITY COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS DECISION MAKING IN UNCERTAINTY HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS IMAGING AND COMPUTER VISION MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING MULTIMEDIA ROBOTICS VIRTUAL REALITY WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS PAM-AID THE PAM-AID PROJECT (WWW.CS.TCD.IE/PAMAID) HAS BEEN RUNNING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN SINCE 1994. IT AIM IS TO DEVELOP A MOBILITY AID FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BOTH FRAIL AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED. IT IS MOTIVATED BY THE FACT THAT THE COMBINATION OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND FRAILTY SEVERELY LIMITS A PERSONS INDEPENDENCE. PAM-AID AIMS TO PROVIDE A MOBILITY AID WITH MAKES TAKING INDEPENDENT EXERCISE A SAFER AND MORE ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE. THE PROJECT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY THE TRINITY FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL REHABILITATION BOARD AND THE TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. PAM-AID IS NOW BEING COMMERCIALIZED BY HAPTICA (WWW.HAPTICA.COM). THE POTENTIAL USER POPULATION AS BLIND PEOPLE GET OLDER, INFIRMITY PREVENTS THE SAFE USE OF COMMON MOBILITY AIDS SUCH AS LONG CANES AND GUIDE DOGS. OFTEN THIS CAN MEAN THEY ARE CONFINED TO BED FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY. THE RESULTING SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE RESULTS IN A RAPID DETERIORATION OF THEIR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH. BECAUSE THE INCIDENCE OF BLINDNESS RISES AS WE GET OLDER OVER 65% OF BLIND PEOPLE ARE OVER 70 YEARS OLD. APPROXIMATELY 20% OF ALL PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 65 HAVE SOME VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND IF YOU HAVE A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT YOU ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO HAVE A MOBILITY IMPAIRMENT AS WELL, THEREFORE NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IS SIGNIFICANT. THE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS THE SUCCESS OF THE PROJECT HAS BEEN BUILT UPON THE STRONG COLLABORATION BETWEEN USER ORGANISATIONS, UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRY. SINCE 1994 MANY VERSIONS OF PAM-AID HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED. BY 1999 EIGHT SYSTEMS HAD BEEN BUILT AND NINE FIELD TRIAL HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT IN IRELAND, THE UK AND SWEDEN. THE USERS, ALL VISUALLY IMPAIRED RESIDENTS OF RETIREMENT HOMES, FOUND PAM-AID TO BE WELL DESIGNED AND USEFUL. IN 2000 THIS TECHNOLOGY WAS SPUN OFF TO WWW.HAPTICA.COM TRINITY FOUNDATION, THE NATIONAL REHABILITATION BOARD AND THE TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS PROGRAMME OF T CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ELAINE LAING laingelaine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ELAING BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE RISK MANAGEMENT, INTERNATIONAL FINANCE AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. SPECIFIC RESEARCH THEMES INVESTIGATE THE NATURE, EXTENT AND DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE EXPOSURE TO FOREIGN EXCHANGE VOLATILITY. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHAIRSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ASIAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION CORPORATE FINANCE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATE EXPOSURE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DR. EAMON LAIRD lairdeamon RESEARCH FELLOW LAIRDEA CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TILDA CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING LINCOLN GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. NIAMH LALLY lallyniamh VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT LALLYN BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY INCLUSION INCLUSIVE EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION CHANGE MANAGEMENT ADULTHOOD TRANSITIONS HUMAN RIGHTS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS POLICY COLLEGE 01-8961000 "I GO TO UNIVERSITY!" EXPLORING THE OUTCOMES OF THE CENTRE FOR DISABILITY STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PROJECT- THE EXPERIENCES OF THE STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, THEIR MENTORS AND LECTURERS AN INCLUSIVE INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT MODEL IS BEING PILOTED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA WITH SIX STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AUDITING SELF-SELECTED UNDERGRADUATE COURSES AND ENGAGING IN A RANGE OF UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO EVALUATE THIS PILOT PROJECT TO GAIN INSIGHTS INTO THE EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (GROUP 1), THEIR MENTORS (GROUP 2) AND THE LECTURING STAFF OF THE CLASSES THE STUDENTS ARE AUDITING (GROUP 3) TO INFORM FUTURE EFFORTS IN THIS AREA AND TO ADD TO THE CORPUS OF KNOWLEDGE AROUND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, IN THE TERTIARY SECTOR. BY USING FOCUS GROUPS AND INTERVIEWS THIS RESEARCH AIMS TO IDENTIFY THE FACILITATORS OF AND BARRIERS TO A SUCCESSFUL UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE FOR THESE STUDENTS, AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE BROADER POPULATION OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. AGEING, DISABILITY AND HOME CARE (ADHC), NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT, AUSTRALIA WIDENING PARTICIPATION: THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF INCLUSIVE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR STUDENT WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCE OF IMPLEMENTING AN INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN SIX HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES IN IRELAND. MULTIPLE SOURCES OF QUALITATIVE DATA WERE COLLECTED TO GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS, COURSE TUTORS, 'CHAMPIONS' WHO PIONEERED THE INITIATIVE IN EACH SETTING AND STUDENT FAMILY MEMBERS. DATA WAS GATHERED VIA FOCUS GROUPS, INTERVIEWS AND SURVEYS. FINDINGS SHOWED THAT ALL PARTICIPANTS EXPERIENCED PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. FOR STUDENTS, THERE WAS A DEEPENING OF THEIR ABILITIES TO CLAIM THEIR EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS AND ADVOCATE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE. FOR TUTORS, THE GAIN WAS IN THEIR EXPERIENCE OF INNOVATIVE LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES TARGETED ON THIS GROUP. WHAT EMERGED FOR 'CHAMPIONS' WAS A QUESTIONING OF HOW BEST TO INCLUDE STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION. FOR FAMILY MEMBERS, SEEING THEIR SON OR DAUGHTER IN A NEW LIGHT BROUGHT WITH IT THE CHALLENGE OF 'LETTING GO'. CONCLUSIONS: THE STUDY HAS HIGHLIGHTED SOME KEY CHALLENGES AND INSIGHTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES IN HOW BEST TO INCREASE THE INCLUSION OF STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY (HEA) STRATEGIC INNOVATION FUND (SIF) INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR CAITRIONA LALLY lallycaitriona PROFESSOR IN BIOENGINEERING LALLYCA MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING ARTERIAL TISSUE MECHANICS, BOTH EXPERIMENTAL TESTING AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING VASCULAR IMAGING VASCULAR MECHANOBIOLOGY AND TISSUE ENGINEERING MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND (MIEI) AND MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE BIOMEDICAL DIVISION OF THE IEI (2006-2009) MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF IRELAND (RAMI) AND THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS. PI IN THE TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) MATERIALS SCIENCE NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. EDMUND LALOR laloredmund USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EDLALOR ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) PROCESSING OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS REFLECTING ACTIVITY OF HUMAN SENSORY SYSTEMS. MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION. EFFECTS OF SELECTIVE ATTENTION ON SENSORY AND PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING. COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF THE VISUAL SYSTEM AT VARIOUS HIERARCHICAL LEVELS. THE ENCODING AND DECODING OF SENSORY INFORMATION IN POPULATIONS OF NEURONS. SENSORY DEFICITS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA AND AUTISM. BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACING. ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) OTHER ENGINEERING ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JOAN LALOR lalorjoan ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LALORJ1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY IN KEEPING WITH THE COLLEGE STRATEGIC PLAN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY HAVE ESTABLISHED A NUMBER OF RECOGNISED RESEARCH GROUPINGS IN CORE HEALTH CRITICAL RESEARCH AREAS. JOAN'S RESEARCH AREA OF INTEREST LIES WITHIN MATERNITY CARE AND WOMEN'S HEALTH. JOAN'S KEY AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE: METHODS OF ASSESSMENT OF FETAL WELLBEING SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS OF FETAL ANOMALY PRENATAL SCREENING AND DIAGNOSIS (INCLUDING SERVICE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT), THEORY GENERATION, TRANSITION TO AND PREPARATION FOR PARENTHOOD AND ADVANCED PRACTICE WITHIN MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEES (AREC) AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT BIRTH/DEATH RESEARCH GROUP, UK EXPERT MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS COMMITTEE FOR NEONATAL PALLIATIVE CARE GROUNDED THEORY INSTITUTE, SAN FRANSCISCO, USA ICM RESEARCH ADVISORY NETWORK INFORMING FAMILIES STEERING GROUP:THIS GROUP HAS RECEIVED GOVERNMENT FUNDING TO DEVELOP NATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR BEST PRACTICE IN BREAKING THE NEWS TO PARENTS THAT THEIR CHILD HAS A DISABILITY. JOAN IS A MEMBER OF THE INFORMING FAMILIES STEERING GROUP ADVISING ON ASPECTS OF BREAKING BAD NEWS RELEVANT TO PRENATAL SCREENING. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION BEREAVEMENT GUIDELINES IN MATERNITY CARE GROUP PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH GROUP, COCHRANE COLLABORATION, UK. REVIEWER FOR ARCHIVES IN OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY REVIEWER FOR COCHRANE PROTOCOLS AND REVIEWS REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEN'S HEALTH REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY IN EDUCATION REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY REVIEWER FOR IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE AND INFANT PSYCHOLOGY REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE REVIEWER FOR LIBYAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE REVIEWER FOR MIDWIFERY, AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE REVIEWER FOR OXFORD INTERNET INSTITUTE, (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD) FOR THE POLICY STUDIES ORGANIZATION (PSO). REVIEWER FOR PEDIATRICS REVIEWER FOR POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REVIEWER FOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH REVIEWER FOR SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE REVIEWER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE IN MEDICINE ASSESSMENT OF FETAL WELLBEING FATHERS IN MATERNITY CARE HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY HEALTHCARE ETHICS AND LAW IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS MEDICAL AND HEALTH HUMANITIES MIDWIFERY PERINATAL HEALTH POPULATION BASED INTERVENTION TRIALS PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS AND SCREENING SERVICE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES OTHER HUMANITIES NATIONAL SURVEY ON THE USE OF AND EDUCATION FOR ELECTRONIC FETAL MONITORING IN LABOUR CARDIAC SERVICES THE TEEN FATHER PROJECT AN EVALUATION OF THE THE FATHER FOCUS PROJECT IN HSE-NE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE- NORTH EAST JOINT PI WITH A HIGGINS, CO-APPLICANTS, L ANDREWS, J DE VRIES, G BURKE THE FEMPLUS PROJECT AN EVALUATION OF A CRISIS PREGNANCY COMMUNITY BASED INTERVENTION CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY TWO YEAR FOLLOW UP OF COUPLES FOLLOWING FETAL ANOMALY DIAGNOSIS TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY FOR FETAL ANOMALY: EXPERIENCES OF CARE AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF IN-LABOUR TRANSFER TO HOSPITAL FOR PLANNED HOME BIRTH. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO EXPLORE AND UNDERSTAND THE STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES INHERENT IN THE TRANSITION BETWEEN MIDWIFERY-LED AND OBSTETRIC-LED CARE THROUGH THE TRANSFER PROCESS FOR PLANNED HOME BIRTH WHERE AN IN-LABOUR TRANSFER TO HOSPITAL IS REQUIRED. LALOR JG (PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR) AND OBOYLE, C (CO-SUPERVISOR) TCD STIPEND AND HRB RESEARCH AWARD DOCTORAL NATIONAL SURVEY ON THE PROVISION OF ROUTINE ANTENATAL ULTRASOUND SCREENING IN IRELAND THIS SURVEY EXAMINES NINE KEY AREAS ASSOCIATED WITH SERVICE PROVISION INCLUDING PROTOCOLS FOR SCREENING, THE ANTENATAL ULTRASOUND PACKAGE AVAILABLE AND MANAGEMENT FOLLOWING THE IDENTIFICATION OF A FETAL ABNORMALITY, THE AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION FOR WOMEN, RECORD KEEPING, STANDARDS AND TRAINING, AND MONITORING OF QUALITY. NMH RECASTING HOPE. A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE OF CARRYING A BABY WITH A FETAL ANOMALY UP TO AND BEYOND THE BIRTH. ABSTRACT AIM: THE OVERALL AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO EXPLORE AND UNDERSTAND WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES OF CARRYING A BABY WITH A FETAL ABNORMALITY UP TO AND BEYOND THE BIRTH OF THE BABY, FROM WHICH RECOMMENDATIONS CAN BE MADE TO OPTIMISE PROVISION OF CARE. BACKGROUND: ROUTINE ULTRASOUND IN PREGNANCY HAS RECEIVED UNCRITICAL ACCEPTANCE IN PREGNANCY FROM BOTH WOMEN AND CLINICIANS ALIKE. HOWEVER, DUE CONSIDERATION HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN TO THE PSYCHOSOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF MASS SCREENING RESULTING IN FETAL ANOMALY DETECTION IN LOW RISK POPULATIONS. METHODOLOGY: A CONSTRUCTIVIST GROUNDED THEORY (N=38) WAS CARRIED OUT IN 2004-2005 USING REPEATED IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS BEFORE AND AFTER THE BIRTH. THIRTY WOMEN CHOSE TO CONTINUE THE PREGNANCY AND EIGHT WOMEN ACCESSED TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY SERVICES OUTSIDE THE STATE. DATA WERE ANALYSED USING CONSTANT COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. THE USUAL TENETS OF WRITTEN INFORMED CONSENT WERE OBTAINED. FINDINGS: THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF RECASTING HOPE EMERGED AND REPRESENTS THE PROCESS OF ADAPTATION AFTER FETAL ANOMALY DIAGNOSIS. RECASTING HOPE IS A THEORY OF TRAUMATIC LOSS, AND IS IDIOSYNCRATIC TO THE AREA OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS. THE PROCESS OF ADAPTATION IS REPRESENTED TEMPORALLY IN FOUR PHASES 'ASSUME NORMAL', 'SHOCK', 'GAINING MEANING' AND 'REBUILDING', WHEREBY WOMEN ARE CONCERNED WITH RECONSTRUCTING MEANING IN THE AFTERMATH OF AN OSTENSIBLY NEGATIVE EVENT IN ORDER TO RESOLVE THE INCONSISTENCY BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE AND PREVIOUSLY HELD VIEWS OF PREGNANCY AND BELIEFS IN THE WORLD IN GENERAL. CONCLUSION: THE PROCESS OF ADAPTATION AFTER FETAL ANOMALY DIAGNOSIS IS COMPLEX. THE FRAMEWORK OF RECASTING HOPE IS INTENDED FOR USE AS A TOOL TO ASSIST HEALTH PROFESSIONALS THROUGH OFFERING SIMPLE YET EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS IN ORDER TO SUPPORT WOMEN DURING THIS TIME. THE DATA HAVE SHOWN THAT WOMEN NEED PARTICULAR SUPPORT DURING THIS CRISIS. THEREFORE CONSIDERATION OF THE IMPACT OF A MIDWIFE PRACTITIONER ROLE ON THE PROCESS OF MEANING RECONSTRUCTION IS RECOMMENDED. HRB CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP IN MIDWIFERY AN EXPLORATION OF THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH MATERNITY AND EARLY CHILDHOOD SERVICES PROVIDED TO WOMEN WITH DISABILITY THE STUDY AIMS TO EXPLORE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE FOLLOWING GROUPS OF WOMEN: (A) WOMEN WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (VI) (B) WOMEN WITH A HEARING IMPAIRMENT (HI) (C) WOMEN WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY (PD) (D) WOMEN WITH A MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTY (MHD) (E) WOMEN WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) OBJECTIVES: A) TO REVIEW IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE ON THE CHALLENGES FACING WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN ACCESSING HEALTH SERVICES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD (I.E WITHIN THE FIRST 2 YEARS) (B) TO DOCUMENT AND REVIEW CURRENT POLICY GOVERNING PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE IN SERVICE PROVISION AT :- (I) HSE LEVEL, (II) HOSPITAL/MATERNITY UNIT LEVEL, (III) RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL BODY LEVEL FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES WHO NEED TO ACCESS PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD (C) TO PROVIDE A COMMENTARY ON THE STATE OF SUCH POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND VIS-À-VIS THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION D) TO SEEK AND DISCUSS THE VIEWS OF THE RELEVANT SERVICE PROVIDERS AS TO STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE SERVICES PROVIDED AND THEIR OPINION ON THE DEVELOPMENT REQUIRED (E) TO ASCERTAIN AND EXPLORE THE VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRYAND ACROSS ALL SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPINGS, IN RELATION TO (I)THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES THEY ENCOUNTERED IN PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF MOTHERHOOD, (II) THEIR EXPERIENCES OF ACCESSING GENERAL PRACTITIONERS (GPS), MIDWIVES, OBSTETRICIANS (OBSTETS), NEONATOLOGISTS, PAEDIATRICIANS (PAEDS), ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (AHPS), PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES (PHNS) AND PUBLIC HEALTH DOCTORS (PHDS), HEALTH CARE WORKERS, FAMILY SUPPORT WORKERS, AND (III) THE SERVICE THEY RECEIVED FROM THESE PEOPLE. (F) TO MAKE CLEAR RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO HOW THE EXPERIENCE OF ENGAGING WITH THE VARIOUS PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD CAN BE IMPROVED FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES, AND TO DO THIS IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAXIMISE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE REPORT INFLUENCING POLICY-MAKING. NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY (NDA) 2 YEARS (CO-APPLICANT) WITH C BEGLEY (PI) ET AL DEVELOPING AN ANTENATAL EDUCATION MODEL IN PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD - A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DEVELOP A MEANINGFUL MODEL OF ANTENATAL EDUCATION THAT HAS A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE TRANSITION TO PARENTING FROM WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES. THIS MODEL SHOULD BE SUFFICIENTLY FLEXIBLE TO BE IMPLEMENTED THROUGHOUT THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND; TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION VARIOUS NEEDS IDENTIFIED BY SERVICE USERS, IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT EVIDENCE BASED CLINICAL PRACTICE. TCD 2007-09, HRB 2008-11 DOCTORAL STUDENT STIPENDCLINICAL FELLOWSHIP SCHEME THE SCAPE STUDY EVALUATION OF THE ROLE OF CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALISTS/CLINICAL MIDWIFE SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONERS/ADVANCED MIDWIFE PRACTITIONERS IN IRELAND NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY CO APPLICANT WITH C BEGLEY (PI TCD), AND K MURPHY (PI, NUIG) ET AL MALE PARTNER EXPERIENCES OF PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS LALOR JG (PI), GALAVAN, E EXPERIENCES OF BECOMING A FATHER FOR THE FIRST TIME: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH ANDREWS, L (PHD STUDENT) WITH LALOR JG (PRINCIPAL INVEVSTIGATOR) AND DEVANE D (SUPERVISOR) HRB DOCTORAL STIPEND THE VOS STUDY: ACADEMIC'S VISIONS OF SUPERVISION AND DOCTORAL LEVEL THIS STUDY IS DESIGNED TO EXPLORE 'ACADEMICS' VISIONS OF SUPERVISION AT DOCTORAL LEVEL: THE VOS STUDY' (DELANY D, LALOR J, CREANER M, POTTER J, O'SULLIVAN C AND SEERY A). THIS STUDY WILL EXPLORE THE MODELS OF SUPERVISION ACROSS FACULTIES AND DISCIPLINES. EXPERIENCED SUPERVISORS WILL BE ASKED TO DISCUSS ISSUES SUCH AS PHD COMPLETION RATES, SELECTION OF STUDENTS, WORKING WITHIN RESEARCH TEAMS, ALLOCATION TO SUPERVISORS ETC IN ORDER TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO COLLEGE THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF EFFECTIVE AND EXEMPLARY PRACTICE IN RESEARCH SUPERVISION. NAIRTL A CASE STUDY OF CONCEALED PREGNANCY IN 21ST CENTURY IRELAND THIS RESEARCH FOCUSES ON ISSUES FOR WOMEN WHO CONCEAL A PREGNANCY AND ON THE CHALLENGES FACING THE SUPPORT WORKERS WHO OFFER SUPPORT DURING THIS CRITICAL TIME. HRB DOCTORAL STUDENT PROTECTION OF LIFE IN PREGNANCY ACT 2013 AND THE PATHWAY OF CARE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN IN IRELAND (POLPPATH2013) THIS PROJECT BRINGS TOGETHER KEY MEMBERS OF THE MEDICO-LEGAL COMMUNITY TO DEBATE THE INTERPRETATION OF THE PROTECTION OF LIFE DURING PREGNANCY ACT 2013, WITH REFERENCE TO KEY CLINICAL SCENARIOS IN MATERNITY CARE. THE PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP IS TO EXPLORE IF: 1. THE POLP ACT HAS ADDED CLARITY TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH A WOMAN CAN OBTAIN A LAWFUL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY (TOP) 2. MEDICS AND LAWYERS REACH THE SAME OR VARYING CONCLUSIONS ON WHETHER A TOP IN A PARTICULAR SCENARIO WOULD BE LAWFUL UNDER THE POLP ACT 2013. 3. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED TO INFORM ANY FUTURE LAW REFORM IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS AWARD AN EVALUATION OF A STUDENT PARENT SUPPORT SERVICE THE PROJECT SEEKS TO EVALUATE A THIRD LEVEL COLLEGE STUDENT PARENT SUPPORT SERVICE FOR THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE AN UNPLANNED PREGNANCY DURING THE COURSE OF THEIR STUDIES. THE AIM OF THE EVALUATION IS TO ASSESS THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE SERVICE ARE BEING MET AND TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. CRISIS PREGNANCY PROGRAMME IMPROVING THE ORGANISATION OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, AND OPTIMISING CHILDBIRTH, BY INCREASING VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION (VBAC) THROUGH ENHANCED WOMEN-CENTRED CARE (OPTIBIRTH) THIS STUDY ADDRESSES THE WIDESPREAD CONCERN OVER RISING CAESAREAN SECTION RATES THROUGHOUT EUROPE, PARTICULARLY ROUTINE CS FOLLOWING A PREVIOUS CS, DESPITE CALLS FOR INCREASED VAGINAL BIRTHS AFTER CAESAREAN (VBAC). VBAC IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER MATERNAL MORTALITY THAN REPEAT CS, LESS OVERALL MORBIDITY FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, AND IS THE PREFERRED OPTION FOR THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN. VBAC RATES IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER (29-36%) THAN THOSE IN THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN (45-55%). THE OPTIBIRTH PROJECT WILL USE A CLUSTER RANDOMISED TRIAL IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY, WITH 15 CLUSTERS OF 94 WOMEN IN EACH, TO INCREASE VBAC RATES FROM 33% TO 53% THROUGH A COMPLEX INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO INCREASE WOMEN-CENTRED CARE AND WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR CARE. THE MULTI-NATIONAL, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TEAM FOR THIS PROJECT DEVELOPED FROM THE ESF-FUNDED WORKSHOP: "PROMOTING NORMALITY IN CHILDBIRTH" HELD IN THE SCHOOL IN MARCH 2010, AND FROM THE COST ACTION, (IS0907: CHILDBIRTH CULTURES, CONCERNS, AND CONSEQUENCES: CREATING A DYNAMIC EU FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMAL MATERNITY CARE), WHICH STARTED IN JUNE 2010. THE TEAM IS COMPOSED OF 12 PARTNER INSTITUTIONS FROM 8 COUNTRIES, AND INCLUDES SERVICE USERS, MIDWIVES, OBSTETRICIANS, NEONATOLOGIST, EPIDEMIOLOGIST, SOCIOLOGIST, PSYCHOLOGIST, BIOETHICIST, HEALTH ECONOMIST AND A 'HIGH-TECH' SMALL INDUSTRY. LEAD INSTITUTION: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND LEAD INVESTIGATOR: PROF CECILY BEGLEY, AND TEAM: VALERIE SMITH, DEIRDRE DALY, JOAN LALOR, JANINE STOCKDALE, DAVID PRENDERGAST, INCLUDING THE COOMBE HOSPITAL: CHRIS FITZPATRICK, MICHAEL TURNER, JAN MILETIN, PATRICIA HUGHES CO-APPLICANT INSTITUTIONS AND LEAD INVESTIGATORS: BEVERLEY BEECH, ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN MATERNITY SERVICES, UK PROF INGELA LUNDGREN, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN MARIANNE NIEUWENHUIJZE, ZUYD UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS PROF KATRI VEHVILÄINEN-JULKUNEN, UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND, FINLAND PROF MARLENE SINCLAIR, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, UK HUGH WISEMAN, ENTANDO, UK PROF MIKE CLARKE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST, UK PROF MECHTHILD GROSS, MEDIZINISCHE HOCHSCHULE HANNOVER, GERMANY PROF DECLAN DEVANE, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY IRELAND, GALWAY, IRELAND PROF SANDRA MORANO, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI GENOVA, ITALY PROF KOEN PUTMAN, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, BELGIUM FUNDING AGENCY EU COMMISSION FP7 FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (€3,000,000) PROGRAMME HEALTH 2012 3.2-1 CALL "IMPROVING THE ORGANISATION OF HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY," EU FP7 AN EXPLORATORY RCT OF A MANUALISED NURSE-LED TELEPHONE SUPPORT INTERVENTION FOR PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT/CARERS OF PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MN-TISS TRIAL). THIS IS AN INTERVENTION STUDY WITH 200 CARERS RANDOMLY ASSIGNED TO ONE OF TWO GROUPS: THE INTERVENTION OR CONTROL GROUP. USING A MANUAL DESIGNED TO ENABLE THE NURSE SPECIALIST TO PROVIDE PROACTIVE TELEPHONE SUPPORT, THE NURSE SPECIALIST(S) WILL EMPOWER CARERS BY ENABLING THEM TO LEARN PROBLEM MANAGEMENT SKILLS. CARER OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED IN TERMS OF IMPROVING SELF-EFFICACY IN PROBLEM SOLVING AND OBTAINING RESPITE, PREPAREDNESS TO CARE, QUALITY OF LIFE AND REDUCED CARER BURDEN. FOR PEOPLE WITH MS OUTCOMES ARE DETERMINED BY EXPLORING THEIR EXPERIENCE OF BEING CARED FOR BY A CARER WHO HAS RECEIVED TELEPHONE SUPPORT FROM THE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NURSE SPECIALIST. FUNDING AGENCY HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (FUNDING SPONSORS: PROFS. MIKE CLARKE AND ALISON WHILE) ACADEMIC SUPERVISORS: DR. JOAN LALOR, PROF. MIKE CLARKE, PROF. ALISON WHILE DATE FROM OCTOBER 2011 TO SEPT 2014 HRB FELLOWSHIP ENHANCING ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT ACROSS TCD, EXETER AND LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITIES SEEKING TO DEVELOP A PROJECT TO SUPPORT ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK FOR ACADEMICS AND STUDENTS. WE ARE UNDERTAKING A PILOT STUDY IN TCD AT PRESENT ACROSS FOUR SCHOOLS: MIDWIFERY, HISTORY, PHYSICS AND DENTISTRY. WE HOPE THE DATA FROM THE PILOT PROJECT WILL FORM THE BASIS OF A EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL APPLICATION TO BE SUBMITTED IN FEBRUARY 2013. APPLICANTS: DR CAROL EVANS (PI) EXETER DR MIKE WARING (LOUGHBOROUGH) DR JOAN LALOR (TCD) DR PATRICK GEOGHEGAN (TCD) DR AIDAN SEERY (TCD) DR ANDREW LOXLEY (TCD) ERC FUNDUNG TO BE SOUGHT CONSOLIDATOR GRANT A NATIONAL SURVEY OF PERINATAL PALLIATIVE CARE IN IRELAND THIS SURVEY WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ESTABLISH THE AVAILABILITY AND VARIATION IN PROVISION OF PERINATAL PALLIATIVE CARE ACROSS THE MATERNITY CARE SYSTEM IN IRELAND NONE A NATIONAL SURVEY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON IRISH MATERNITY EARLY WARNING SCORE THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO IDENTIFY EDUCATION AND TRAINING ON IMEWS AND THE USE AND AUDIT OF IMEWS IN YOUR MATERNITY UNIT, AND NATIONALLY IN IRELAND. VISITING PROFESSOR BENEFACTION FUND COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF PERINATAL PALLIATIVE CARE GUIDELINES THE PURPOSE OF THIS REVIEW IS TO SYNTHESISE THE EVIDENCE AND PROFESSIONAL GUIDELINES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO DETERMINE BEST PRACTICE AND AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE AREA OF PERINATAL PALLIATIVE CARE AIIHPC FELLOWSHIP WITH MS DENISE MCGUINNESS A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF HTE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANT IN IRELAND THIS SCOPING REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE BRINGS TOGETHER THE EXISTING EVIDENCE AVAILABLE RELATED TO THE ROLE AND FUNCTION, THE EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION AND POTENTIAL IMPACT AND COST OF THE ROLE OF THE MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANT IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY. THE REVIEW FOCUSES ON THREE MAIN THEMES: 1.THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANT (MCA) 2.THE EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION OF THE MCA 3.THE IMPACT OF THE MCA AND SKILL MIX ON QUALITY AND COST OF CARE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOR STUDENT NURSES AND MIDWIVES THIS PROJECT FUNDED BY ERASMUSPLUS OVER TWO YEARS IS DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY AND NURTURE STUDENT OR JUNIOR LEADERS FOR THE FUTURE EU ERASMUS PLUS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM, ESEL LISBON, MIRABOR SLOVENIA CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. DAVID LANDY landydavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LANDYDA SOCIOLOGY HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS CONCERN THE POLITICS OF ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY; TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (IN PARTICULAR THE TENSION BETWEEN THE OBJECT OF ACTIVISM AND ACTIVISTS THEMSELVES); HUMAN RIGHTS DISCOURSE; DIASPORA AND MIGRATION; ZIONISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM; AND ISRAEL/PALESTINE. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FINNISH FRENCH BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SECRETARY, SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONFLICT/DISPUTE RESOLUTION DIASPORA IMMIGRANTS ISRAEL-PALESTINE MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY RACISM/RACE RELATIONS SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR PHILIP RICHARD LANE lanephiliprichard WHATELY CHAIR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY(1832) PLANE ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS; EUROPEAN ECONOMY; IRISH ECONOMY; GLOBALISATION DEPT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMIC ADVISORY PANEL, SLOVAK COUNCIL FOR BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY AMERICAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION BELLAGIO GROUP COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY AND REFORM COUNCIL MEMBER, ESRI ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW (MANAGING EDITOR) ECONOMIC POLICY (PANEL MEMBER) ECONOMICS AND POLITICS (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) ERC STARTING GRANTS COMMITTEE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REVIEW (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) EUROPEAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK (VISITING SCHOLAR) GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATE, CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CENTRAL BANKING (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (VISITING SCHOLAR) INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOW, KIEL INSTITUTE OF WORLD ECONOMICS. INTERNATIONAL TAX AND PUBLIC FINANCE (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) MANAGING EDITOR, ECONOMIC POLICY NATIONAL STATISTICS BOARD OPEN ECONOMIES REVIEW (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) PRESIDENT, IRISH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION RESEARCH AFFILIATE, CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT IRISH ECONOMY, PROBLEMS MACROECONOMICS, OPEN ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL MONETARY ECONOMICS THE NEW ECONOMICS OF THE CURRENT ACCOUNT IRCHSS THE CHOICE OF EXCHANGE RATE REGIME: THEORY AND EMPIRICS (JOINT WITH MICHAEL DEVEREUX). IR£12000 RESEARCH GRANT FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY THE MACROECONOMICS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION RESEARCH GRANTS FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY NEW PERSPECTIVES ON IRELAND'S BALANCE OF PAYMENTS RESEARCH GRANTS FROM SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY NO DATA RESEARCH GRANTS FROM TCD BESS FACULTY ENDOWMENT FUND NO DATA RESEARCH GRANTS FROM TCD PROVOST'S ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND THE ANALYSIS OF INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL MARKETS: UNDERSTANDING EUROPE'S ROLE IN THE WORLD ECONOMY TOTAL BUDGET €1.5 MILLION SCIENTIFIC LEADER, EU RESEARCH TRAINING NETWORK CHAZEN INSTITUTE RESEARCH GRANT JOINT WITH ROBERTO PEROTTI COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ONE-YEAR DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP NSF-SPONSORED HARVARD-MIT RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP INPOSITIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY AN ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION ON IRISH MACROECONOMIC POLICY IRCHSS RELATIVE PRICE LEVELS AND RELATIVE WEALTH IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP EXTERNAL IMBALANCES AND EXTERNAL ADJUSTMENT: LESSONS FROM THE EUROPEAN CRISIS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL PROJECT GRANT INTERNATIONAL LEVERAGE FONDATION BANQUE DE FRANCE FINANCIAL GLOBALISATION AND MACROECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THINKING AGEING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. GEORGINA LARAGY laragygeorgina ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LARAGYG HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MAKING IRELAND DR. FIONA LARKAN larkanfiona ASSISTANT PROF/ DIRECTOR OF M.SC GLOBAL LARKANF PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE GLOBAL HEALTH MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, SEXUALITY, RISK, SUBSTANCE MISUSE, MORALITY AND THE FEMALE BODY, HIV & AIDS, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC DISEASE, SPECIAL INTEREST IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. CENTRE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH 3RD FLOOR 7/9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ZULU AFRIKAANS ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS INVITED EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO MSC GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMMES AT IIHD, QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH MEMBER OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND COMMITTEE MEMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEE FOR TRINITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE (TIDI) ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE CHRONIC FATIGUE AND RELATED DISORDERS DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES HIV DRUG DEVELOPMENT HIV OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS HIV VIROLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS INFECTIOUS DISEASES MALARIA MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION OTHER HUMANITIES UNDERSTANDING BARRIERS TO ACCESS AND ADHERENCE TO ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT FOR HIV AND AIDS IN THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA. IRISH AID/HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH AWARDS OVERVIEW OF SERVICES FOR PART-TIME STUDENTS AT SIX HIGHER LEVEL INSTITUTES STRATEGIC INNOVATION FUND (SIF) CYCLE 1 REVIEW OF SERVICES FOR MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS/CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE THE IMPACT OF HIV AND AIDS ON THE TEACHING PRACTICES OF STAFF MEMBERS IN THE EDUCATION FACULTY AT UWC HIV/AIDS UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. CHARLES LARKIN larkincharles RESEARCH FELLOW LARKINCH BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. CLAIRE LAUDET laudetclaire ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CLAUDET FRENCH DEPT OF FRENCH 4111 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN DR. ROSIE LAVAN lavanrosie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN IRISH WRITING LAVANRO ENGLISH TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE LITERATURE AND THE MEDIA COMPARATIVE APPROACHES TO LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS, ESPECIALLY PHOTOGRAPHY LIFE-WRITING POETIC FORM TEXTUAL CRITICISM SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR IRISH STUDIES INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE 20TH CENTURY POETRY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURAL THEORY CONTEMPORARY IRISH LITERATURE ENGLISH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, NON-FICTION LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, POETRY MODERN POETRY HUMANITIES LANGUAGES & LITERATURE REPRESENTING DERRY, 1968-2013 THIS PROJECT EXAMINES REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CITY OF DERRY IN POETRY, DRAMA, LIFE-WRITING, JOURNALISM, AND PHOTOGRAPHY DURING THE FORTY-FIVE YEARS WHICH RUN FROM THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA TO DERRY'S YEAR AS A UK CAPITAL OF CULTURE IN 2013. COMPARATIVE, INTERDISCIPLINARY, AND TIMELY, IT SEEKS TO OFFER THE FIRST CULTURAL HISTORY OF DERRY OF THIS KIND, AND IT WILL HAVE DECISIVE IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW EXPERIENCES OF CONFLICT, AND ITS AFTERMATHS AND LEGACIES, ARE REPRESENTED AND REIMAGINED, WITHIN AND BEYOND IRISH STUDIES. SEAMUS HEANEY AND SOCIETY, 1964-1994 THIS PROJECT RESITUATES SEAMUS HEANEY'S WORK IN ITS VARIED TEXTUAL, CULTURAL, INSTITUTIONAL, AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS, IN ORDER TO REVIVE THE WEB OF CONNECTIONS WITHIN WHICH HEANEY'S WORK WAS WRITTEN, PUBLISHED, AND RECEIVED. IT CONSIDERS: THE LONDON PUBLISHING SCENE ON WHICH HIS WORK EMERGED; HIS RELATIONSHIP TO BELFAST MEDIATED THROUGH TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY; HIS RADIO WORK FOR THE BBC NORTHERN IRELAND SCHOOLS SERVICE; HIS RELATIONSHIP TO DERRY MEDIATED THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY; AND IDEAS OF AUDIENCE, ADDRESS, AND REDRESS IN HIS OXFORD LECTURES. IT MAKES EXTENSIVE USE OF ARCHIVAL MATERIAL HELD IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND, THE BBC NORTHERN IRELAND COMMUNITY ARCHIVE, AND THE ARCHIVE OF THE BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE, AND AN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED WITH HEANEY IN 2013. ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR EDWARD LAVELLE lavelleedward PROF/ COURSE CO-ORDINATOR LAVELLEE BIOCHEMISTRY AMBER CRANN TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MODULATION OF INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PATHWAYS BY ADJUVANTS AND IMMUNOMODULATORS. THE USE OF BACTERIAL TOXINS AND THEIR DERIVATIVES AS IMMUNOMODULATORS. PARTICULATES AND NON-SPECIFIC BIOADHESIVES AS ADJUVANTS AND VACCINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS. PLANT LECTINS AS MUCOSAL VACCINE ADJUVANTS AND CARRIERS. DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH EUROPEAN ADJUVANT ADVISORY GROUP EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF IMMUNOLOGY SOCIETIES IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY (PRESIDENT) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD (DRUG DELIVERY) FOR EXPERT OPINION ON THERAPEUTIC PATENTS (1997-2005). MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN VACCINE ADJUVANTS AND GLYCOCONGUGATES (ADJUVANT2004), VARADERO, CUBA. MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE 3ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN VACCINE ADJUVANTS AND GLYCOCONGUGATES (ADJUVANT2006) TO BE HELD IN VARADERO, CUBA (APRIL, 2006). GUEST EDITOR FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF VACCINE ON VACCINE ADJUVANTS (2005). MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY (ISI) COMMITTEE. ORGANISATION OF A SESSION ON "MUCOSAL IMMUNITY" FOR THE 2005 JOINT MEETING OF THE ISI AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE. PEER REVIEWER OF GRANTS FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (NIH) GRAND CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAMME (AUGUST 2004). MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY ADENYLYL-CYCLASE ACTIVITY ADJUVANTS CAMP CREB IL-10 IMMUNITY IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY IMMUNOPHYSIOLOGY LECTIN-BINDING LECTINS LIFE SCIENCES NF-KAPPAB SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION (SENSORY/CELLULAR) SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS VACCINE VACCINE EFFICACY VACCINES IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY NANO-TECHNOLOGY MUCOSAL VACCINES FOR TB, HIV AND MALARIA EU MUVAPRED DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL LIQUID/EMULSION DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM (LEDDS ) FORMULATIONS FOR ORAL VACCINATION IP 2007 0451 DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR ORAL VACCINATION ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS 'THE IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL IMMUNOMODULATORY FACTORS FROM NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS SEROGROUP B' : USE OF HIGH THROUGHPUT PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND DENDRITIC CELL SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES TO IDENTIFY NOVEL ADJUVANTS. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. MENINGITIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION/HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ALUM AS A VACCINE ADJUVANT. SUMMARY: INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH ALUM ACTIVATES AND POLARIZES T CELL RESPONSES, FOCUSING ON ITS EFFECTS ON DENDRITIC CELLS. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY POSTGRADUATE AWARD. A DETERMINATION OF THE EFFICACY OF LEDDS AS AN ORAL VACCINE DELIVERY SYSTEM. SUMMARY: INVESTIGATION OF NOVEL DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR ORAL VACCINES. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. SIGMOID BIOTECHNOLOGIES LIMITED (2006). 'MUCOSAL VACCINES FOR POVERTY RELATED DISEASES' CO-APPLICANT FOR FUNDING: PROJECT ACRONYM: MUVAPRED. TITLE OF GRANT: . AMOUNT AWARDED WAS €350,000. 2003-2007. SUMMARY: DEVELOPMENT OF MUCOSAL VACCINES FOR MALARIA, TB AND HIV USING NOVEL MUCOSAL ADJUVANTS AND DELIVERY SYSTEMS. PARTNER. EU EU SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME. DEVELOPMENT OF PATENTED TARGETING TECHNOLOGIES TO PRODUCE ORAL VACCINES. IP 2006 0372. SUMMARY: INVESTIGATION OF NOVEL CELL TARGETING TECHNOLOGIES TO ENHANCE MUCOSAL VACCINES. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS SCHEME (2006). DETERMINATION OF THE POTENTIAL OF NOVEL LEDDS FORMULATIONS AS ORAL VACCINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS IP 2006 0422 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ENTERPRISE IRELAND FEASIBILITY STUDY GRANT (2007). HRB PHD SCHOLARS PROGRAMME IN IMMUNOLOGY. COAPPLICANT FOR FUNDING: AWARDED TO TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY (NUI MAYNOOTH) AND THE DIVISION OF INFECTION AND IMMUNITY (QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST). PARTNER. BUDGET ALLOCATED TO DR ED LAVELLE (303,360). HRB MODULATION OF INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY BY PARTICULATE ADJUVANTS FOR IMPROVED PARENTERAL AND MUCOSAL VACCINATION. 12/1A/1421. SFI INVESTIGATOR AWARD EUROPEAN MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY GROUP MEETING 2012 12/CW/B2256. (EMIG2012). SFI SFI CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS PROGRAME AWARD. DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL IMMUNOSTIMULATORS TO BOOST THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN CATTLE. ADACEMIC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR TEAGASC TARGETED DELIVERY OF PARTICULATE VACCINE ADJUVANTS. (2011). EPSPG/2012/404. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY OPTIMISATION OF LIQUID EMULSION DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM (LEDDS BASED ORAL VACCINES TO PROMOTE PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY AGAINST MUCOSAL PATHOGENS. (2010). PROPOSAL ID, IP20090046. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS SCHEME IMMUNOMODULATORY PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICULATES. 12 MONTH PROJECT FOCUSING ON CARBON BASED NANOPARTICLES. TIME COMMITMENT 4%. CRANN PATHFINDER PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ORAL VACCINES USING LEDDS TECHNOLOGY. (2010).IRCSET-SIGMOID 2010-01. 2010-2013. TIME COMMITMENT 4%. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME DEVELOPMENT OF POTENT MUCOSAL VACCINES BY COMBINING AN EFFECTIVE TARGETING AGENT WITH IMMUNOSTIMULATORY PARTICULATE ADJUVANTS. PROPOSAL ID, IP20090022. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS SCHEME (2010) TARGETED MUCOSAL VACCINES FOR HIV-POSTGRADUATE AWARD. 2010 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY CAN THE ABILITY OF CHITOSAN TO PROMOTE INNATE IMMUNITY BE HARNESSED TO DEVELOP SAFE AND POTENT ADJUVANTS? (2008) PROPOSAL ID. 08/RFP/BMT1363. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME. ADVANCED IMMUNIZATION TECHNOLOGIES ADITEC CO APPLICANT: AFFILIATED MEMBER. BUDGET TO LAVELLE LAB 47K. EUROPEAN UNION FP7 DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL LIQUID/EMULSION DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM (LEDDS ) FORMULATIONS FOR ORAL VACCINATION (2007) IP 2007 0451. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS SCHEME 2007 DOES EPAC MEDIATE A CYCLIC AMP-INDUCIBLE PATHWAY IN DENDRITIC CELLS THAT PROMOTES PRO-INFLAMMATORY T CELL RESPONSES? PROPOSAL ID: 07/RFP/BICF537. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME (2007). HELICOVAXOR (2013), DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL MUCOSAL VACCINES AGAINST HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION. AMOUNT AWARDED IS €1.3. BUDGET ALLOCATED TO DR ED LAVELLE €250,900. MY ROLE IS AS AN RTD PERFORMER WORKING ON MUCOSAL VACCINATION AND DETERMINATION OF ANTIGEN SPECIFIC CELLULAR AND HUMORAL IMMUNITY. FP7-SME-2012-1 (RESEARCH FOR SMES). SFI RESEARCH CENTRE, ADVANCED MATERIALS AND BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH (AMBER) CENTRE CO-APPLICANT FOR FUNDING: GRANT NUMBER SFI/12/RC/2278. FUNDED INVESTIGATOR. PROJECTED BUDGET TO ED LAVELLE € 904,000K SFI SFI CENTRES PROGRAMME SFI STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER GRANT. (2008). CO-APPLICANT FOR FUNDING: CLUSTER. 7.5M. CO-APPLICANT, PI PROF KINGSTON MILLS. BUDGET ALLOCATED TO DR ED LAVELLE €794,498. SFI STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER GRANT. SFI IMPROVING VACCINE RESPONSES IN THE PAEDIATRIC POPULATION BY HARNESSING CYTOSOLIC NUCLEIC ACID SENSING RESPONSES TO PROMOTE TH1 AND TH17 CELL POLARISATION CO-PI WITH DR SARAH DOYLE. NATIONAL CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTRE NATIONAL CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTRE PROJECT GRANTS CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE MS. MARIE PIERRE LAVERGNE lavergnemariepierre SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER LAVERGNM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MARK LAWLER lawlermark PROFESSOR MPLAWLER CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY OF CANCER; APOPTOSIS AND CANCER. CELL CYCLE CONTROL AND ITS MANIPULATION IN MALIGNANCY. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS REGULATING AND RESISTING APOPTOSIS. NOVEL PRO-APOPTOTIC DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GENETICS OF B CELL MALIGNANCIES; UNDERSTANDING DNA REPAIR PROCESSES IN MULTIPLE MYELOMA; CHIMERIC STATUS AND OUTCOME FOLLOWING STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR SEVERE APLASTIC ANAEMIA: CHIMERISM AND MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE IN HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. STUDY OF MOLECULAR RESPONSE TO IMATINIB MESYLATE IN PATIENTS RELAPSING FOLLOWING STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA. NAPHTHALIMIDES AS NOVEL ANTI CANCER AGENTS; MOLECULAR BASIS OF PROSTATE CANCER. EPIGENETIC CONTROL OF GENE TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOXIA AND PROSTATE CANCER; SUICIDE GENE THERAPY APPROACHES IN PROSTATE CANCER; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS 45 KINGS HALL CHAPELIZOD DUBLIN 20 01-8961000 CHAIRPERSON, CENTRE FOR MOLECULAR RESEARCH IN CANCER (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMMON INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING CELL CYCLE SIGNALING AND REGULATION WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON TWO KEY CANCER-RELATED PROCESSES (CELL CYCLE CONTROL, APOPTOSIS) AND/OR THREE SPECIFIC MALIGNANCY TYPES (OESOPHAGEAL, PROSTATE AND HAEMATOLOGICAL). CHAIRPERSON, PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH CONSORTIUM, MULTI-CENTRED CONSORTIUM FOCUSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW DIAGNOSTIC, PROGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR APPLICATION IN PROSTATE CANCER. COPY, IMAGING FOCUS GROUP MEETING, 1-DAY MEETING ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING - 8TH JUNE 2004 RUN IN CONJUNCTION WITH TCINFROM SINGLE CELL & MOLECULAR THROUGH TO ORGAN & WHOLE BODY MEMBER, CORE TECHNOLOGY PI'S, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS. MEMBER, CYCLE 2 PI'S & RESEARCHERS, ALL CYCLE 2 RESEARCHERS & PI'S MEMBER, DMMC CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL GROUPING OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH ON CANCER THEMES MEMBER, PHG FUNDED PI'S AND RESEARCHERS, ALL RESEARCHERS FUNDED UNDER CYCLE 3 PRTLI - PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN GENOMICS APOPTOSIS AND CANCER CELL CYCLE CONTROL AND ITS MANIPULATION IN MALIGNANCY CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MECHANISMS REGULATING AND RESISTING APOPTOSIS CHIMAERIC STATUS OF LONG-TERM SURVIVORS OF STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR SEVERE APLASTIC ANAEMIA. STUDY OF QUALITY OF LIFE AND CHIMAERISM IN T CELL LINEAGES. AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSTAND LATE GRAFT REJECTION. CHIMERIC STATUS AND OUTCOME FOLLOWING STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR SEVERE APLASTIC ANAEMIA: THE INFLUENCE OF GVHD PROPHYLAXIS. CHIMERISM AND MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE IN HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY MODES OF ASSESSMENT OF FETAL WELLBEING NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND SYSTEMS STUDY OF MOLECULAR RESPONSE TO IMATINIB MESYLATE IN PATIENTS RELAPSING FOLLOWING STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA. STUDY OF THE INCIDENCE OF AUTOLOGOUS RECOVERY FOLLOWING STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR SEVERE APLASTIC ANAEMIA IN EUROPE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE EUROPEAN GROUP FOR BLOOD AND BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION. (EBMT). TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MS. DENISE LAWLER lawlerdenise ASST PROFESSOR/ HEAD OF MIDWIFERY LAWLORDE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY WHILE DENISE IN INTERESTED IN ANY ASPECT OF MATERNITY/MIDWIFERY CARE SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND PARENTHOOD, POSTNATAL DEPRESSION, POSTNATAL CARE, MATERNITY CARE PROVISION AND HUMAN RIGHTS. FOR HER PHD, DENISE EXPLORED THE TRANSITION TO MOTHERHOOD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WITH A DISABILITY. BETWEEN 2007- 2009 DENISE WAS THE RESEARCH ASSISTANT ON A NATIONAL STUDY COMMISSIONED BY THE NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY (NDA) EXPLORING THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE PUBLICLY FUNDED HEALTH SERVICES FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD. IN 2002 AS PART REQUIREMENT OF AN MSC IN ADVANCED MIDWIFERY PROGRAMME DENISE CONDUCTED A STUDY INTO WOMEN'S LIVED EXPERIENCES OF POSTNATAL DEPRESSION. THE FINDINGS WERE DISSEMINATED AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. IN 2003 THE STUDY WAS PUBLISHED IN A PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 BORD ALTRANAIS AGUS CNÁIMHSEACHAIS NA HÉIREANN (THE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND) MEMBER OF THE ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) DISCRIMINATION EQUALITY RIGHTS FEMINISM AND PSYCHOLOGY HISTORY OF IRISH FEMINIST MOVEMENT HUMAN RIGHTS LABOUR LABOUR SATISFACTION MIDWIFERY MIDWIVES MINORITIES AND DISADVANTAGED POSTNATAL ADAPTATION POSTNATAL DEPRESSION PUBLIC HEALTH LAW SERVICE PROVISION SERVICES WOMEN'S STUDIES EXPLORING THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE PUBLICLY FINDED HEALTH SERVICES FOR WMOEN WITH DISABILITIES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD. AIM: TO EXPLORE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO THE FOLLOWING GROUPS OF WOMEN: (A) WOMEN WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (B) WOMEN WITH A HEARING IMPAIRMENT (C) WOMEN WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY (D) WOMEN WITH A MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTY (E) WOMEN WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY OBJECTIVES: A) TO REVIEW IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE ON THE CHALLENGES FACING WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN ACCESSING HEALTH SERVICES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD (I.E. WITHIN THE FIRST 2 YEARS), (B) TO DOCUMENT AND REVIEW CURRENT POLICY GOVERNING PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE IN SERVICE PROVISION AT :- (I) HSE LEVEL UNIT LEVEL (II) HOSPITAL/MATERNITY UNIT LEVEL (III) RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL BODY LEVEL FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES WHO NEED TO ACCESS PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD; (C) TO PROVIDE A COMMENTARY ON THE STATE OF SUCH POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND VIS-À-VIS THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION; (D) TO ASCERTAIN AND EXPLORE THE VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND ACROSS ALL SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPINGS, IN RELATION TO - THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES THEY ENCOUNTERED IN PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF MOTHERHOOD, - THEIR EXPERIENCES OF ACCESSING GENERAL PRACTITIONERS, MIDWIVES, OBSTETRICIANS, NEONATOLOGISTS, PAEDIATRICIANS, ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS, - PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES AND PUBLIC HEALTH DOCTORS, HEALTH CARE WORKERS, FAMILY SUPPORT WORKERS, AND - THE SERVICE THEY RECEIVED FROM THESE PEOPLE; (E) TO MAKE CLEAR RECOMMENDATIONS AS TO HOW THE EXPERIENCE OF ENGAGING WITH THE VARIOUS PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDERS DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD COULD BE IMPROVED FOR WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES, AND TO DO THIS IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAXIMISE THE LIKELIHOOD OF THE REPORT INFLUENCING POLICY-MAKING. NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY (NDA) EXPLORING THE TRANSITION TO MOTHERHOOD FROM THE PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN WITH A DISABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND. BECOMING A MOTHER IS CONSIDERED TO BE A NORMATIVE ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL EXPERIENCE (FABER, 2000). IN IRELAND, A LARGE NUMBER OF WOMEN ARE MOTHERS OR CAN EXPECT TO BECOME MOTHERS AT SOME STAGE IN THEIR LIFE CYCLE (WEAVER AND USSHER, 1997). SOCIETY EXPECTS MOTHERS TO ENGAGE IN A RANGE OF DIVERSE ACTIVITIES INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH STIMULATES AND ENRICHES THEIR CHILD'S PHYSICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT. MEETING THESE EXPECTATIONS CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR SOME MOTHERS, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT. RESEARCH AIM: THE STUDY AIMS TO EXPLORE, DESCRIBE AND UNDERSTAND HOW WOMEN WITH A PRE-EXISTING PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT NEGOTIATE A REVISED IDENTITY DURING THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A MOTHER IN COMTEMPORARY IRELAND. OBJECTIVES: 1. TO EXPLORE HOW WOMEN WITH A PRE-EXISTING PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT NEGOTIATE A REVISED IDENTITY DURING THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A MOTHER. 2. TO EXPLORE THE VIEWS OF WOMEN WITH A PRE-EXISTING PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT, IN RELATION TO THEIR EXPERIENCES OF ESTABLISHING AN INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP AND THE INTERACTION THEREAFTER WITH HEALTH PROFESSIONALS DURING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD. 3. TO EXPLORE WHETHER OR NOT THE ACTIONS OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INFLUENCE HOW WOMEN WITH A PRE-EXISTING PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT NEGOTIATE A REVISED IDENTITY DURING THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A MOTHER. SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TCD RESEARCH STIPEND PHD AN EVALUATION OF A STUDENT PARENT SUPPORT SERVICE CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY AND HSE WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES OF VAGINAL EXAMINATION IN LABOUR: A META-STUDY N/A IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR MARTINA LAWLESS lawlessmartina ADJUNCT PROFESSOR LAWLESM ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. SEAMUS LAWLESS lawlessseamus USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SELAWLES COMPUTER SCIENCE PERSONALISED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, DIGITAL HUMANITIES, ADAPTIVE WEB, ADAPTIVE HYPERTEXT/HYPERMEDIA, INTELLIGENT DIGITAL CONTENT DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACM CHAIR OF THE CNGL SCENARIO WORKING GROUP CHAIR OF THE CULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATION ACCESS AT SCALE WORKSHOP, HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE JOINT CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES 2016, JCDL 2016, "BIG LIBRARIES, BIG DATA, BIG INNOVATION", AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEWARK, NJ, USA CHAIR OF THE EVALUMAP 2016 WORKSHOP - "TOWARDS COMPARATIVE EVALUATION IN THE USER MODELLING, ADAPTATION AND PERSONALIZATION SPACE", HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 24TH CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION AND PERSONALIZATION, AT HALIFAX, CANADA CHAIR OF THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON EXPLORATION, NAVIGATION AND RETRIEVAL IN CULTURAL HERITAGE, ENRICH 2013, HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 36TH ANNUAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, IRELAND. CHAIR OF THE FIRST WORKSHOP ON PERSONALISED MULTILINGUAL HYPERTEXT RETRIEVAL HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH 22ND ACM CONFERENCE ON HYPERTEXT AND HYPERMEDIA , EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS. CHAIR OF THE JOINT WORKSHOP ON PERSONALIZED INFORMATION ACCESS, HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 22ND CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION AND PERSONALIZATION, IN AALBORG, DENMARK GENERAL CHAIR OF THE 23RD CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION AND PERSONALIZATION, UMAP 2015, HELD IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. IEEE LOCAL CHAIR AND MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE 36TH ANNUAL ACM SIGIR (SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL) CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. TECHNICAL CHAIR FOR CNGL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEETING IN LIMERICK, IRELAND. TUTORIAL CHAIR FOR THE 36TH ANNUAL ACM SIGIR (SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL) CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. DATA ANALYSIS DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING DIGITAL SYSTEMS, REPRESENTATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MACHINE TRANSLATION NATURAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING WORD/TEXT PROCESSING CULTURA - CULTIVATING RESEARCH AND UNDERSTANDING THROUGH ADAPTIVITY A KEY CHALLENGE FACING CURATORS AND PROVIDERS OF DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE ACROSS EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE IS TO INSTIGATE, INCREASE AND ENHANCE ENGAGEMENT WITH DIGITAL HUMANITIES COLLECTIONS. TO ACHIEVE THIS, A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN THE WAY CULTURAL ARTEFACTS ARE EXPERIENCED AND CONTRIBUTED TO BY COMMUNITIES IS REQUIRED. CULTURA WILL PIONEER THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEXT GENERATION ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS WHICH WILL PROVIDE NEW FORMS OF MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ADAPTIVITY: - PERSONALISED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND PRESENTATION WHICH RESPOND TO MODELS OF USER AND CONTEXTUAL INTENT - COMMUNITY-AWARE ADAPTIVITY WHICH RESPONDS TO WIDER COMMUNITY ACTIVITY, INTEREST, CONTRIBUTION AND EXPERIENCE - CONTENT-AWARE ADAPTIVITY WHICH RESPONDS TO THE ENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFIED WITHIN THE ARTEFACTS AND ACROSS COLLECTIONS - PERSONALISED DYNAMIC STORYLINES WHICH ARE GENERATED ACROSS INDIVIDUAL AS WELL AS ENTIRE COLLECTIONS OF ARTEFACTS CULTURA ADVANCES AND INTEGRATES THE FOLLOWING KEY TECHNOLOGIES: - CUTTING EDGE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, WHICH NORMALISES AMBIGUITIES IN NOISY HISTORICAL TEXTS ENTITY AND RELATIONSHIP EXTRACTION, WHICH HIGHLIGHTS THE KEY INDIVIDUALS, EVENTS, DATES AND OTHER ENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN UNSTRUCTURED TEXT - SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS OF THE ENTITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN THE CONTENT, AND ALSO OF THE INDIVIDUALS AND BROADER COMMUNITY OF USERS ENGAGING WITH THE CONTENT - MULTI-MODEL ADAPTIVITY TO SUPPORT DYNAMIC RECONCILIATION OF MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF PERSONALIZATION. CULTURA WILL DELIVER INNOVATIVE ADAPTIVE SERVICES AND AN INTERACTIVE USER ENVIRONMENT WHICH DYNAMICALLY TAILORS THE INVESTIGATION, COMPREHENSION AND ENRICHMENT OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES ARTEFACTS AND COLLECTIONS. THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUCH FUNCTIONALITY, CULTURA CAN EMPOWER ALL USERS TO INVESTIGATE, COMPREHEND AND CONTRIBUTE TO DIGITAL CULTURAL COLLECTIONS. CULTURA WILL PROVIDE RIGOROUS EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF ITS ADAPTIVE SERVICES USING HIGH IMPACT, CONTRASTING, MULTICULTURAL DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE COLLECTIONS AND DIVERSE USER COMMUNITIES AND INDIVIDUALS. THE CULTURA USE CASES, DEFINED IN COLLABORATION WITH REAL USERS, WILL CLEARLY ILLUSTRATE HOW THE ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENT WILL OFFER GENUINE USER EMPOWERMENT AND UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THESE COLLECTIONS AND COMMUNITIES. THE CULTURA CONSORTIUM HAS A STRONG EMPHASIS ON MEETING REAL END-USER NEEDS, MAXIMISING SOCIETAL IMPACT AND LAYING A FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIALISATION. THUS, THE PROJECT HAS A STRONG SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION, INFORMED BY TWO SIGNIFICANT DIGITAL CULTURAL RESOURCES AND ASSOCIATED COMMUNITIES, AND SUPPORTED BY EXPERIENCED AND EFFECTIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ICT-2009.4.1 CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION (CNGL) THE CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION IS FUNDED BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) IN THE CATEGORY "CENTRE FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (CSET). ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND SEAMLESS COMMUNICATION ARE KEYS TO SUCCESS IN THE EMERGING MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, AND UNDERPIN GLOBAL COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT. LOCALISATION, THE INDUSTRIAL PROCESS OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ADAPTATION TO MARKET REQUIREMENTS, IS A CORE STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY IN THE TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS INFORMATION- AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMIES. IRELAND IS PARTICULARLY WELL PLACED TO HAVE A STRONG IMPACT ON THIS CORE STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY. IRELAND HAS THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF LOCALISATION INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE, AND HAS CONTINUOUSLY BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOCALISATION PROCESSES AND PRACTICES. CNGL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REVOLUTIONISE LOCALISATION THROUGH ITS UNIQUE INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIP. WE AIM TO ACHIEVE BREAKTHROUGHS IN STANDARDS, INTEROPERABILITY AND AUTOMATION BASED ON LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY. THE BASIC RESEARCH CARRIED OUT BY CNGL UNDERPINS THESE BREAKTHROUGHS AND PROVIDES THE FOUNDATIONS FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF THE RESULTS. THE CENTRE WILL HELP IRELAND TO MAINTAIN ITS LEADING POSITION IN THIS IMPORTANT SECTOR OF ICT, MOVE LOCALISATION ACTIVITIES IN IRELAND UP THE VALUE CHAIN, AND, IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH THE INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS, ENSURE THAT INNOVATIONS FROM THE RESEARCH LABS TRANSLATE INTO BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, REVENUE STREAMS AND CUTTING EDGE, HIGH-TECH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE IRISH ICT SECTOR. IN ADDITION, THROUGH ONE OF ITS INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS, DNP, THE CENTRE HAS THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION OF LOCALISATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASIAN MARKET. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CENTRES FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 1641 DEPOSITIONS THE PROJECT AIMS TO TRANSCRIBE, DIGITISE AND ANALYSE THE 1641 DEPOSITIONS, WHICH COMPRISE 3,400 DEPOSITIONS, EXAMINATIONS AND ASSOCIATED MATERIALS, LOCATED IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IN WHICH PROTESTANT MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL CLASSES TOLD OF THEIR EXPERIENCES FOLLOWING THE OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION BY THE CATHOLIC IRISH IN OCTOBER, 1641. COLLECTED BY GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS, THE WITNESS TESTIMONY RUNS TO APPROXIMATELY 19,000 PAGES, AND CONSTITUTES THE CHIEF EVIDENCE FOR THE SHARPLY CONTESTED ALLEGATION THAT THE REBELLION BEGAN WITH A GENERAL MASSACRE OF PROTESTANT SETTLERS. AS A RESULT, THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN CENTRAL TO A PROTRACTED AND BITTER HISTORICAL DISPUTE. PROPAGANDISTS, POLITICIANS AND HISTORIANS HAVE ALL EXPLOITED THE DEPOSITIONS AT DIFFERENT TIMES, AND THE CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THEM HAS NEVER BEEN SATISFACTORILY RESOLVED. IN FACT, THE 1641 'MASSACRES', LIKE KING WILLIAM'S VICTORY AT THE BOYNE (1690), AND THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1916), HAVE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING A COLLECTIVE PROTESTANT/BRITISH IDENTITY IN THE PROVINCE OF ULSTER. IRCHSS, AHRC, TCD LIBRARY EMIZAR - PERSONALISED MULTILINGUAL CUSTOMER CARE SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND / ENTERPRISE IRELAND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT AWARD (TIDA) EMIZAR - PERSONALISED MULTILINGUAL CUSTOMER CARE ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMPETITIVE STARTUP FUND FAGEL MAP COLLECTION CREATING A DIGITAL RESOURCE FROM THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONTENT OF THE FAGEL LIBRARY: THE FAGEL LIBRARY, ACQUIRED BY THE COLLEGE IN 1803, CONTAINS WITHIN IT ONE OF THE FINEST COLLECTIONS OF MAPS AND ATLASES FROM THE PERIOD 1600-1800 ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THE COLLECTION IS PEERLESS IN TERMS OF THE STATE OF PRESERVATION OF THIS MATERIAL, AND IS TRULY COMPREHENSIVE IN SCOPE. THE COLLECTION INCLUDES SOME 2,800 LARGE FORMAT INDIVIDUAL MAP SHEETS, 80 LARGE FORMAT ATLASES OF WHICH MANY ARE BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED CONTAINING 7,000 MAPS AND A FURTHER 3,000 ITEMS OF A CARTOGRAPHICAL NATURE CONTAINED IN A COLLECTION OF 700 TRAVEL BOOKS AND JOURNALS. THE MAPS SHEETS AND THE MAJORITY OF ATLASES HAVE BEEN DIGITISED TO A HIGH RESOLUTION AT FULL SCALE, AND A DATABASE HAS BEEN CREATED FOR BOTH. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEFINE HOW THESE RESOURCES CAN NOW BE EXPLOITED AS RESEARCH TOOLS AND AS GATEWAYS TO COLLABORATION WITH THIRD PARTY INSTITUTIONS. FACULTY STRATEGIC FUNDS AND PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION (CNGL) - SECOND CYCLE CNGL PIONEERS 'GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT' WHICH ENABLES DIGITAL CONTENT TO BE MORE DISCOVERABLE, ADAPTABLE AND REPURPOSEABLE. BY EMBEDDING NEW LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLIGENCE INTO THE CONTENT, IT ENABLES ADVANCED INTELLIGENT CONTENT SERVICES TO AUTOMATICALLY PROCESS AND TRANSFORM THAT CONTENT. GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT THUS ENABLES ITSELF TO BE ACTIVELY DISCOVERED AND TRANSFORMED BY ADVANCED INTELLIGENT CONTENT SERVICES SO AS TO MAKE THAT CONTENT MORE DISCOVERABLE, SEMANTICALLY RICH, ADAPTABLE, CONTEXTUALLY AWARE AND REUSABLE ACROSS GLOBAL MARKETS. THIS REPRESENTS A MAJOR SHIFT IN THE WAY CONTENT IS MANAGED, CREATING A MORE ROBUST, AGILE AND INTEROPERABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONTENT AND THE VALUE CHAIN OF SERVICES ACTING UPON IT. IN THIS WAY GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT CAN BE DYNAMICALLY TRANSFORMED BASED ON CURRENT USER INTERACTION, PERCEIVED USER INTENTION OR CURRENT DELIVERY CONTEXT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND THE DOWN SURVEY OF IRELAND THIS PROJECT WILL CREATE A CONSOLIDATED DIGITAL ATLAS OF THE 1650S DOWN SURVEY OF IRELAND BY OVERLAYING ALL EXTANT DOWN SURVEY MAPS AND RELATED CARTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL ONTO AN ORDNANCE SURVEY 1:25,000 BASE. A CATALOGUE OF THE SURVIVING MANUSCRIPTS WILL ACCOMPANY THE ATLAS. THE PROJECT WILL CREATE A GEO-REFERENCED TOWNLAND INDEX AND AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS). WHEN COMBINED, THESE CAN BE USED TO CONSOLIDATE A WIDE RANGE OF 17TH-CENTURY SOURCE MATERIAL. BY APPLYING SPATIAL ANALYSIS TOOLS TO DIGITISED HISTORICAL TEXT-BASED DOCUMENTS, SUCH AS THE 1641 DEPOSITIONS, THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO SUPPORT LOCATION-BASED ANALYSIS OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS USING CONTEMPORARY GEOGRAPHIC MODELS. IN SEPTEMBER 2011 THE PROJECT RECEIVED €117,000 FUNDING FROM THE IRCHSS, WHICH WILL FUND THE EMPLOYMENT OF A RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR 15 MONTHS AND A COMPUTER SCIENCE POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW FOR 6 MONTHS. IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND RESEARCH AND SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ADAPT: CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CONTENT PLATFORM RESEARCH THE ADAPT CENTRE WILL ADDRESS THE GRAND CHALLENGE IN DIGITAL PLATFORM CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS: HOW CAN ENTERPRISES, INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS EASILY ASSIMILATE, REUSE AND INTERACT WITH THE GLOBAL TORRENT OF DIGITAL CONTENT? TRANSITIONING FROM THE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT (CNGL), ADAPT WILL BUILD UPON DEMONSTRATED, WORLD-RECOGNISED RESEARCH AND SIGNIFICANT COMMERCIAL IMPACTS OF THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICANT GROUP TO DEVELOP BREAKTHROUGHS IN GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT TECHNOLOGY, WHICH WILL TURN THIS HETEROGENEOUS TORRENT OF CONTENT INTO MEANINGFUL GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ORGANISATIONS AND USERS. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY MAKING UNPRECEDENTED ADVANCES IN THE AREAS OF MULTILINGUAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP), MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS AND TRANSFORMATION, PERSONALISATION AND MULTIMODAL DELIVERY. THE ADAPT CENTRE'S RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL ENABLE: DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF MULTILINGUAL CONTENT THROUGH MULTILINGUAL NLP; DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO BREAK DOWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL BARRIERS; PERSONALISATION OF THE USER EXPERIENCE TO ENSURE RAPID ASSIMILATION AND REUSE OF CONTENT; AND MULTIMODAL/MULTIMEDIA INTERACTION WITH GLOBAL CONTENT FOR NATURAL USER ENGAGEMENT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH CENTRES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. CATHERINE LAWLESS lawlesscatherine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LAWLESSC CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES MEDIEVAL HISTORY RESEARCH CENTRE (MHRC) MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE ROLE OF GENDER AND IDENTITY IN ITALIAN MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ART AND IN PARTICULAR, ON THE REPRESENTATION OF THE FEMALE RELIGIOUS BODY. I AM INTERESTED IN HOW BODIES WERE REPRESENTED AND UNDERSTOOD, SO MY RESEARCH INTERSECTS WITH HISTORY OF THE BODY AND IDEAS SURROUNDING IDENTITY AND EMBODIMENT. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN CATHOLIC ART OF THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IN IRELAND AND THE ROLE OF WOMEN AS PATRONS. CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS COLLEGE ART SOCIETY DUBLIN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY HAGIOGRAPHY SOCIETY MEDIEVAL FEMINIST SOCIETY RENAISSANCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND WOMEN'S HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CULTURAL HISTORY FAMILY, CHURCH HISTORY GENDER AND SEXUALITY ITALIAN HISTORY MEDIEVAL HISTORY MEDIEVAL ITALY, HISTORY OF LUCA, PAOLO GUINIGI MEDIEVAL STUDIES RELIGIOUS HISTORY RENAISSANCE HISTORY RENAISSANCE STUDIES VISUAL ARTS HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR BRIAN LAWLOR lawlorbrian CONOLLY NORMAN PROFESSOR OF OLD AGE PSYC LAWLORBA PSYCHIATRY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MARTHAWHITEWAY DAY HOSPITAL ST. PATRICK'S HOSPITAL STEEVEN'S LANE JAMES'S STREET, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR, INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOGERIATRICS ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JOURNAL OF AGEING AND MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATE EDITOR, JOURNAL OF SEROTONIN RESEARCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE MRCPI (MEMBERSHIP, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND) MRCPSYCH (MEMBERSHIP OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS) MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE MEASUREMENT IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: A USEFUL DIAGNOSTIC TEST ANNUAL DIRECT COST £4000. TIME SPENT: 5%. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EURODARE (WITH PROF WOODS, WENGER AND DRS LUNDH) ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS 40,584 ECU. TIME SPENT 5%. EUROPEAN UNION DGV TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT ON ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (WITH PROFESSOR MORTON WARNER AND PROFESSOR SALLY FURNISH) ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS 275, 000 ECU. TIME SPENT 5%. EUROPEAN UNION DG V AN INVESTIGATION OF APOE GENOTYPE IN DOWN'S SYNDROME IN RELATION TO AGE AT ONSET AND RATE OF PROGRESSION OF DEMENTIA (WITH DR. M GILL) DIRECT COSTS:£62, 863 044220/2/95/2/WRE/MB/JAT WELLCOME TRUST DEPRENYL IN THE MANAGEMENT OF BEHAVIORAL SYMPTOMS IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PI: BRIAN A. LAWLOR MD. ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS: $36,500. SOMERSET PHARMACEUTICALS ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER (SATELLITE CLINIC) NUMBER: P50-AG05138. CENTER DIRECTOR: KL DAVIS MD (BA LAWLOR MD: SATELLITE DIRECTOR). ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS:$150,000. NIA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER (SATELLITE CLINIC) NUMBER: P50-AG05138. CENTER DIRECTOR: KL DAVIS MD (BA LAWLOR MD: SATELLITE DIRECTOR). ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS:$150,000. NIA CHOLINERGIC TREATMENT OF MEMORY DEFICITS IN THE AGED NUMBER: P01-AG02219. PI: RICHARD C. MOHS PHD. ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS: $93,060 (DR. LAWLOR'S SECTION) NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER NUMBER: P50-AG05138. CENTER DIRECTOR: KENNETH L. DAVIS MD. ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS: $104, 464 (DR. LAWLOR'S SECTION) NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING THE ROLE OF HAEMOCHROMATOSIS MUTATIONS IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE DIRECT COSTS: IRP61,356 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD THE UTILITY OF MEASURES OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING VARIABILITY IN DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN NORMAL AGE-RELATED COGNITIVE DECLINE, MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT (MCI) AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (AD) DIRECT COSTS: £45,820 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD MRC GENETICS OF NEURO DEGENERATIVE DISORDERS PROJECT PERIOD: 3 YEARS. DIRECT COSTS: IRP134,000. (MRC) U.K. FACTORS DETERMINING THE NON-DETECTION OF DEMENTIA IN THE COMMUNITY DWELLING ELDERLY DIRECT COSTS: IRP20,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IMPACT AND COURSE OF DEPRESSION IN THE COMMUNITY DWELLING ELDERLY DIRECT COSTS £30,000. TIME SPENT 5%. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD GENETICS OF AUTISM DIRECT COSTS:£30,000 SEEVER FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN AUTISM, NEW YORK ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE UNIT PI: PROF DAVIS COAKLEY. ANNUAL DIRECT COSTS: £80,000. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR RICHARD LAYTE layterichard PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY LAYTER SOCIOLOGY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) RICHARD LAYTE IS PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND A RESEARCH PROFESSOR AT THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE. MUCH OF HIS WORK STEMS FROM A CORE INTEREST IN THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STRATIFICATION IN MODERN SOCIETIES AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIVIDUAL LIFE-CHANCES, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. HIS RESEARCH EXAMINES THE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES WHICH INFLUENCE THE DISTRIBUTION OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN SOCIETIES AND HOW THESE ARE SHAPED BY POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS. RECENT WORK HAS EXAMINED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COUNTRY INCOME INEQUALITY AND INDIVIDUAL HEALTH AND HE HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN IMPROVING UNDERSTANDING OF HOW FAMILY BACKGROUND INFLUENCES CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND THE IMPACT THIS HAS ON THE CHILD'S EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES, ADULT HEALTH AND LIFE EXPECTANCY. HE HAS A KEEN INTEREST IN IRISH HEALTH CARE AND THE ROLE THAT HEALTH CARE CAN PLAY IN IMPROVING HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. HE HAS PUBLISHED WIDELY ON ALL THESE ISSUES BOTH IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY IN BOTH THE ACADEMIC AND POLICY DOMAINS. DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 2004-PRESENT GOVERNING COUNCIL EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH. 2005-PRESENT MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND THEME DIRECTOR OF THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILDREN (GROWING UP IN IRELAND). 2007-PRESENT MEMBER, STEERING COMMITTEE, THE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING ('TILDA'). 2012-PRESENT COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVE - SOCIETY FOR LIFECOURSE AND LONGITUDINAL STUDIES. 2012-PRESENT DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR LONGITUDINAL STUDIES IN IRELAND (WWW.CLSI.IE) 2013-PRESENT MEMBER OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STUDIES COUNCIL SCOPING STUDY FOR KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS SURVEY TOWARD RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE IN IRELAND CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY THE SECOND EUROPEAN QUALITY OF LIFE SURVEY: SOCIAL EXCLUSION, LIVING CONDITIONS AND MENTAL WELL-BEING' EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS THE IMPACT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE ON THE DEMAND FOR AND DELIVERY OF HEALTHCARE IN IRELAND TO 2020 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRISH STUDY OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY SLÁN', THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND LIFETSYLE SURVEY FUNDED BY THE DEPT. OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN SLÁN', THE NATIONAL HEALTH AND LIFESTYLE SURVEY FUNDED BY THE DEPT. OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN SPORTS MONITORING STUDY IRISH SPORTS COUNCIL RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF SPORTS PARTICIPATION IRISH SPORTS COUNCIL GROWING UP IN IRELAND DEPT.OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS TRENDS IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS IN IRELAND 1986-2006' THE PRESENCE OF PRONOUNCED INEQUALITIES IN MORTALITY AND LIFE EXPECTANCY ACROSS INCOME, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CLASS GROUPS IS NOW WELL ESTABLISHED BOTH IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY. ANALYSES OF IRISH DATA FROM THE 1980S AND 1990S SHOW THAT IRISH MEN IN UNSKILLED MANUAL JOBS HAD A MORTALITY RATE ALMOST THREE TIMES HIGHER THAN MEN IN HIGHER PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS. UNFORTUNATELY, THE MOST RECENT YEAR FOR WHICH INFORMATION ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN MORTALITY HAVE BEEN ANALYSED IS 1996 AND WE HAVE NO RESEARCH ON WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FOLLOWING DECADE WHEN EMPLOYMENT GREW BY OVER 55%, UNEMPLOYMENT SHRANK BY OVER 60% AND LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT FELL BY ALMOST 80%. IN THE SAME PERIOD IRISH GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT INCREASED FROM 60 PER CENT OF THE EU AVERAGE TO 110 PER CENT AND REAL INCOMES, ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION, INCREASED ACROSS THE ENTIRE INCOME DISTRIBUTION. IRELAND'S OVERALL MORTALITY RATE HAD BEEN FALLING STEADILY FOR A NUMBER OF DECADES BEFORE 1996 BUT THE RATE OF REDUCTION ACCELERATED SIGNIFICANTLY AROUND 1999. RESEARCH SUGGESTS THIS CHANGE CAN BE EXPLAINED BY SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED MORTALITY FROM CIRCULATORY DISEASES, PARTICULARLY DURING THE WINTER MONTHS AND THAT THIS MAY HAVE BE BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF FREE PRIMARY CARE FOR THE OVER 70S IN 2001 ALONG WITH CHANGES IN THE PATTERN OF CARDIOVASCULAR PRESCRIBING. IT IS NOT KNOWN WHAT IMPACT THIS CHANGE IN CIRCULATORY MORTALITY PATTERNS HAD ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN MORTALITY. METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS HAVE HINDERED PAST RESEARCH ON MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS. IN THIS PROPOSAL WE DEVELOP SOLUTIONS TO THESE PROBLEMS AND SET OUT A PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH ON TRENDS IN MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN 1986 AND 2006 AND VARIATIONS IN TRENDS BY CAUSE AND GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION. ONLY BY UNDERSTANDING RECENT TRENDS WILL WE GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE CAUSES OF MORTALITY DIFFERENTIALS IN IRELAND AND DEVELOP INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND LONGEVITY OF ALL SOCIAL GROUPS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AN ALLOSTATIC LOAD FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH AND MORTALITY THE LIFE COURSE APPROACH RECOGNISES THAT SES IS AN IMPORTANT DETERMINANT OF A WIDE RANGE OF MATERIAL, BEHAVIOURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND PSYCHOSOCIAL EXPOSURES THAT SHAPE HEALTH THROUGH MULTIPLE, COMPLEX AND INTERACTING PATHWAYS. THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF LIVING IN LOW SES ENVIRONMENTS CAN BE SEEN EVERY MAJOR ORGAN SYSTEM OF THE BODY PROMPTING SOME INVESTIGATORS TO SUGGEST THAT SES MAY OPERATE THROUGH GENERAL MECHANISMS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO A RANGE OF BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES AFFECTING MULTIPLE ORGAN SYSTEMS. ALLOSTATIC LOAD (AL) HAS BEEN POSITED AS A POTENTIAL EXPLANATORY FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL EMBEDDING OF SES OVER THE LIFE COURSE. WE PROPOSE TO EXAMINE THE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL UTILITY OF AL AS AN INTERMEDIATE CONSTRUCT ON THE PATHWAY BETWEEN SES AND HEALTH USING THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA). HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EMERGING INVESTIGATORS IMPROVING OBSTETRIC PRACTICE THROUGH UNDERSTANDING VARIATION IN CAESAREAN SECTION RATES IN IRISH MATERNITY HOSPITALS OVER THE PAST 35 YEARS THERE HAS BEEN A SUSTAINED INCREASE IN THE CAESAREAN SECTION (CS) RATE IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES INCLUDING IRELAND. IN 1993, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN IN IRELAND REPORTED A CS RATE OF 13%. BY 1999, THE NEXT YEAR FOR WHICH DATA ARE AVAILABLE, THE RATE WAS 20.4%, INCREASING TO 26.9% BY 2009. TO DATE THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE RESEARCH ON TRENDS IN CS IN IRELAND. IN A RECENT PUBLICATION THE WHO (WHO ET AL 2009) HAVE STATED THAT THERE IS NO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR AN OPTIMUM PERCENTAGE BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN AS TO WHY CS RATES HAVE BEEN INCREASING OVER TIME. SIGNIFICANT VARIATION IN CS RATES ACROSS HOSPITALS IN IRELAND ALSO RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT THE EFFICACY OF THE PROCEDURE IN SOME INSTANCES. RATES OF CS IN IRISH HOSPITALS VARIED FROM 18.6% TO 36.4% IN 2009 AND ALL BUT 3 OF THE 19 MATERNITY UNITS IN THE IRISH HOSPITAL SYSTEM EXPERIENCED AN INCREASE IN THEIR CS RATE OVER THE PERIOD FROM 1999 TO 2009. THIS PROJECT USES LINKED DATA FROM TWO NATIONAL DATABASES, THE HOSPITAL IN-PATIENT ENQUIRY SCHEME (HIPE) AND THE NATIONAL PERINATAL REPORTING SYSTEM (NPRS) AND AN IN DEPTH PROSPECTIVE STUDY FROM A LARGE DUBLIN MATERNITY HOSPITAL TO INVESTIGATE THE FACTORS THAT EXPLAIN THE INCREASE IN CS IN IRELAND AND THE PATTERN OF VARIATION ACROSS IRISH HOSPITALS. THE PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF CHANGING MATERNAL CHARACTERISTICS (E.G. INCREASING AGE, LOWER PARITY (PREVIOUS BIRTHS) AND OBESITY), CLINICAL RISK FACTORS FOR CS (E.G. MALPRESENTATION, PRE-ECLAMPSIA, DIABETES), CHANGING CLINICAL PRACTICES AND ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES (E.G. PRIVATE PRACTICE, STAFFING AND POLICY). BY UNDERSTANDING THE PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH GROWING USE OF CS IN IRISH MATERNITY HOSPITALS THE PROJECT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF POLICY AND PRACTICE IN MATERNITY CARE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD 'THE LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND ACROSS DEVELOPED NATIONS TWO PRONOUNCED SOCIAL REGULARITIES HAVE EMERGED IN RESEARCH OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES. THE FIRST IS THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF EARNINGS, EDUCATION AND OCCUPATIONAL CLASS. ECONOMIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES SUGGEST THAT THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE INCOME AND SOCIAL CLASS OF FAMILY OF ORIGIN AND OWN OCCUPATIONAL CLASS AND INCOME ARE SUBSTANTIAL AND MAY NOT HAVE DECLINED TO ANY SIGNIFICANT EXTENT OVER THE LAST HALF CENTURY. RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT THEY MAY EVEN HAVE INCREASED. THE SECOND REGULARITY IS THE PERSISTENT DIFFERENTIAL IN HEALTH AND MORTALITY ACROSS SOCIO-ECONOMIC GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO EXIST WITHIN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES. STUDIES SUGGEST THAT ALTHOUGH EXPOSURE TO ADVERSITY OVER THE LIFE COURSE CONTRIBUTES TO ADULT HEALTH INEQUALITIES, CONDITIONS EARLY LIFE MAY BE PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR SPECIFIC DISEASES. STUDIES HAVE LARGELY ASSUMED THAT ADULT SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIFFERENTIALS IN HEALTH RESULT FROM THE INTERACTION OF THE TWO REGULARITIES IDENTIFIED ABOVE OPERATING ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE. THAT IS, MATERIAL CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT LIFE ACCUMULATE TO PRODUCE ADULT HEALTH WHILST THE INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF INCOME, EDUCATION AND CLASS INCREASES THE PROBABILITY THAT BOTH POOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE WILL TEND TO ACCUMULATE AMONG THOSE FROM LOWER INCOME AND SOCIAL CLASS BACKGROUNDS. IN THIS PROJECT WE INVESTIGATE WHETHER SOCIO-ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES IN CHILDHOOD HEALTH MAY ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO ADULT SOCIO-ECONOMIC POSITION THROUGH A PROCESS OF 'HEALTH SELECTION'. USING TWO LARGE CHILD COHORT STUDIES: THE "GROWING UP IN IRELAND SURVEY" FROM THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND THE "MILLENNIUM COHORT" FROM NORTHERN IRELAND THE PROJECT WILL MEASURE THE EXTENT OF INEQUALITIES IN CHILD HEALTH AND THEIR DETERMINANTS. WE WILL THEN STUDY THE MANNER IN WHICH CHILD HEALTH INEQUALITIES CONTRIBUTE TO INEQUALITIES IN COGNITIVE AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS CHILDREN AND THE MEDIATING ROLE PLAYED BY FAMILY BACKGROUND, COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES ACROSS THE TWO JURISDICTIONS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. MARGARET M LEAHY leahymargaretm RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MLEAHY RETIRED STAFF MEMBER . ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL DISCOURSE. . REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF THE PBL COURSE. JOINT PROJECT WITH B. DODD (UNCL); I. WALSH (SCSLS). . STUDENT CLINICIANS' PREFERENCES FOR WORKING WITH CLIENT GROUPS. JOINT PROJECT WITH C. DELANEY (UWIC); K. MURPHY; S. MEILIJSON (JERUSALEM, ISRAEL). . PERSONAL REFLECTIONS OF STUDENTS ENTERING CLINICAL PRACTICE. JOINT PROJECT WITH S. MEILIJSON (JERUSALEM, ISRAEL), AND I. WALSH. . RESEARCH FUNDING APPLIED FOR PROJECT: ACCOMMODATING STAMMERING AS A SPEECH DISABILITY. PROF PHILIP LEITH, QUB; (MICHAEL JEFFERSON, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD; MARGARET LEAHY, TCD). CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASHA: INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE MEMBER IALP: SERVED ON BOARD (1995-2001); MEMBER OF EDUCATION COMMITTEE; CHAIR OF PR COMMITTEE: 2000 - PRESENT. CHAIR OF HISTORY COMMITTEE: 2001 IASLT - - - OFFICES HELD INCLUDE: COUNCIL MEMBER; VICE-CHAIRPERSON; CHAIRPERSON. SERVED ON ETHICS COMMITTEE; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE. OVERSEAS APPLICATIONS COMMITTEE. EDUCATION COMMITTEE. RECEIVED HONOURS OF THE IASLT IN 2002. SIG FLUENCY; SIG LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (FOCUS). ADVISOR RE FLUENCY DISORDERS. IFA: MEMBER SINCE ITS FOUNDATION IN 1990. NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE MEMBER 1993-2000. PRESIDENT: 2001 - PRESENT. SERVING ON EDITORIAL BOARD OF JFD. RCSLT: SERVED ON ETHICS COMMITTEE; CREST; INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE. ADVISOR RE. FLUENCY DISORDERS. CURRENTLY SERVING ON EXECUTIVE EDITORIAL BOARD (SINCE 2000). INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. CAITRIONA LEAHY leahycaitriona ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CLEAHY GERMAN MY RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS LIE MOSTLY IN THE AREA OF CULTURAL THEORY AND ITS INTERACTION WITH AND ILLUMINATION OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, AND MORE RECENTLY, VISUAL ART. DEPT OF GERMAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ASSOCIATION OF THIRD-LEVEL TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN IRELAND COMMITTEE MEMBER OF ASSOCIATION OF THIRD-LEVEL GERMAN TEACHERS IN IRELAND COMMITTEE. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONFERENCE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEMBER OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MODERN LANGUAGES COMMITTEE CRITICISM CULTURE GERMAN LANGUAGE/LITERATURE INTER-ARTS--INTERDISCIPLINARY ART FORMS LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, COMPARATIVE LITER LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, MODERN LITERARY CRITICISM LITERARY HISTORY LITERARY THEORY MODERN ART MODERN GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN LITERATURE MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM PHILOSOPHICAL LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY POST WAR GERMAN LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES NEUROSCIENCE DR. KANGHO LEE leekangho RESEARCH FELLOW LEEK1 CRANN CRANN THE NAUGHTON INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MS. MANDY LEE leemandy ASSISTANT PROF/COURSE CO-ORDINATOR MSLEE PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT <P>COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE/COMPLEXITY SCIENCE METHODOLOGIES (IN PARTICULAR SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS); ORGANISATIONAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES (IN PARTICULAR INTERPRETIVIST APPROACHES SUCH AS ETHNOGRAPHY), PHILOSOPHIES OF SOCIAL RESEARCH (IN PARTICULAR PHENOMENOLOGY AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM), AND MIXED METHODS RESEARCH DESIGNS; ORGANISATION THEORY (IN PARTICULAR COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS THEORY, STRUCTURATION THEORY, AND BOUNDARY THEORY); HEALTH SERVICES/HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH (IN PARTICULAR SYSTEM PERSONALISATION AND USER INVOLVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE).</P> DEPT OF HEALTH POLICY & MGMT ROOM 0.21 3-4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHINESE ENGLISH MEMBER OF COCHRANE COLLABORATION QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS GROUP MEMBER OF EUROPEAN GROUP FOR ORGANIZATION STUDIES (EGOS) MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS (INSNA) MEMBER OF THE IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT (IAM) MEMBER OF U.S. ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT (AOM) REVIEWER FOR BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH REVIEWER FOR EDUCATIONAL ACTION RESEARCH (EAR) REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT (JHOM) REVIEWER FOR ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS (ORM) BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH COMPLEXITY THEORY CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY ETHNOGRAPHY HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION HEALTH CARE REFORM HEALTH POLICY HEALTH SERVICES DELIVERY HEALTH SYSTEMS INTEGRATION NARRATIVE ANALYSIS NONPROFIT ORGANISATIONS ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR PHILOSOPHY PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION QUALITY OF CARE RESEARCH ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE RESEARCH METHODS SOCIAL IDENTITY SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS SOCIAL NETWORKS SOCIAL SCIENCES--HUMANISTIC EMPHASIS SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH SOCIOLOGY OF ILLNESS AND HEALTH CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK 'PEOPLE-CENTRED' HEALTHCARE INTERFACE MANAGEMENT: A CROSS-SETTINGS INVESTIGATION OF USERS' AND PROVIDERS' EXPERIENCE OF SERVICE DELIVERY WITHIN THE CARDIAC CARE CONTINUUM IN IRELAND THE RESEARCH INVESTIGATES THE MANAGEMENT OF HEALTHCARE INTERFACES WITHIN CORONARY CARE FROM A 'PEOPLE-CENTRED' STANDPOINT. BY TRACKING HEALTHCARE USERS' AND PROVIDERS' EXPERIENCES OF SERVICE DELIVERY ACROSS CARE SETTINGS, THE STUDY AIMS TO CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS 'EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE' BY IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE ORGANISATIONAL/MANAGEMENT INTERVENTIONS THAT FACILITATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A 'PEOPLE-CENTRED' HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. TRINITY USSHER FELLOWSHIP (2002/2003); IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND SCHOLARSHP (2003/2004) MS. MICHELLE LEECH leechmichelle ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LEECHM RADIATION THERAPY RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING IMAGING FOR PROSTATE CANCER RT EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH CHAIR OF THE RTT COMMITTEE OF ESTRO COURSE DIRECTOR: ESTRO TEACHING COURSE ON BASIC TREATMENT PLANNING EDITOR OF RADIOGRAPHY IRELAND ESTRO MEMBER EXPERT ADVISOR TO CORU ON THE FRAMEWORK CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT AND ETHICS FOR RADIOGRAPHERS AND RADIATION THERAPISTS IIRRT MEMBER MEMBER OF TEACHING FACULTY ON ESTRO TEACHING COURSE ON BEST PRACTICE IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY: A COURSE TO TRAIN RTT TRAINERS. MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL OF THE JOURNAL OF MEDICAL RADIATION SCIENCES MEMBER OF THE UICC GLOBAL TASKFORCE ON THE PROVISION OF RADIATION THERAPY SERVICES NATIONAL RT EDUCATION REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION THERAPY REPRESENTATIVE OF IIRRT ON THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE'S HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONS ADVISORY GROUP RTT REPRESENTATIVE ON THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMITTEE OF ESTRO SECRETARY OF THE IIRRT HUMAN CANCER RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION 'EVALUATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SET-UP ERROR IN HEAD AND NECK RADIOTHERAPY: A PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS'. FAILURE TO DELIVER THE PRESCRIBED DOSE TO THE TUMOUR VOLUME AND ITS MICROSCOPIC EXTENSION IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER RESULTS IN LOWER CURE RATES IN RADIOTHERAPY. THEREFORE, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO QUANTIFY AND POSSIBLY REDUCE PATIENT SET-UP ERRORS DURING TREATMENT. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTIONS QUANTIFY THEIR OWN SET-UP ERRORS IN HEAD AND NECK RADIOTHERAPY AND IMPLEMENT APPROPRIATE CORRECTION PROTOCOLS. SMALLER SET-UP ERRORS CAN BE FOLLOWED BY A REDUCTION OF THE MARGIN FOR SET-UP UNCERTAINTY, WHICH LEADS TO IMPROVED SPARING OF ORGANS AT RISK. THE APPLICATION OF SMALL MARGINS AROUND THE TUMOUR IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT FOR HEAD AND NECK RADIOTHERAPY BECAUSE OF THE PROXIMITY OF DOSE-LIMITING CRITICAL ORGANS. ST. LUKE'S INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH IMPACT OF DOSE TO PHARYNGEAL CONSTRICTOR MUSCLES AND SALIVARY GLANDS ON LATE EFFECTS IN HEAD AND NECK RADIOTHERAPY THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES THE IMPACT OF VARIOUS DOSIMETRIC ENDPOINTS OF THE PHARYNGEAL CONSTRICTOR MUSCLES ON DYSPHAGIA IN HEAD AND NECK PATIENTS. EVALUATION OF DOSE TO THE PAROTID AND SUBMANDIBULAR GLANDS IS ALSO ANALYSED TO ASCERTAIN EFFECT ON XEROSTOMIA. IIRRT RESEARCH GRANTS ONCOVIDEOS: DEVELOPING VOCATIONAL SKILLS IN ONCOLOGY THROUGH E-LEARNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS FOR RTS. THIS VIDEO IS IN RELATION TO PATIENT POSITIONING AND IMMOBILISATION IN THE HEAD AND NECK REGION. EU LEONARDO DA VINCI AGEING CANCER PROFESSOR LORRAINE LEESON leesonlorraine DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE - DEAF STUDIES LEESONL C.L.C.S. CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES LORRAINE IS INTERESTED IN RESEARCH ON (1) LINGUISTICS & APPLIED LINGUISTICS OF SIGN LANGUAGES, (2) INTERPRETING STUDIES, AND (3) TRANS-DISCIPLINARY WORK THAT IMPACTS ON DEAF STUDIES TOPICS. HER FOCUS ON THE LINGUISTICS AND SOCIOLINGUISTICS OF SIGNED LANGUAGES INCLUDES WORK ON THE MORPHO-SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE (ISL) (INCLUDING ISSUES OF WORD ORDER), LANGUAGE PLANNING ISSUES VIS-A-VIS DEAF EDUCATION AND THE USE OF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE, GENDERED ISSUES IN THE IRISH DEAF COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY IN TERMS OF LANGUAGE USE. COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS INTERESTS INCLUDE THE ROLE OF GESTURE IN LANGUAGE, THE ROLE OF METAPHOR AND METONYMY IN ISL, THE IMPACT OF ICONICITY ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURES, SIMULTANEITY IN SIGNED LANGUAGES, POINT OF VIEW PREDICATION AND STANCE MARKING. HER APPLIED LINGUISTICS WORK INCLUDES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CORPUS OF SIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS, FROM WHICH A NUMBER OF STUDIES ARE PLANNED. SHE COORDINATED THE EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MODERN LANGUAGE (ECML)'S PRO-SIGNS PROJECT, WHICH LOOKED AT THE TEACHING, LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT OF SIGN LANGUAGES FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES AND IS A MEMBER OF THE EXPERT GROUP ON A CURRENT ECML PROJECT FOCUSED ON PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN SIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING. HER INTERPRETING STUDIES RESEARCH INCLUDES A FOCUS ON PROVISION OF INTERPRETERS IN A RANGE OF DOMAINS, QUALITY OF OUTPUTS AND ASSESSMENT ISSUES. CURRENT RESEARCH INCLUDES AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS THAT LOOK AT THE EXPERIENCES OF DEAF LEADERS IN WORKING WITH INTERPRETERS AND WORK AS THE IRISH PI ON JUSTISIGNS, A PROJECT THAT LOOKS AT ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR DEAF PEOPLE, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON INTERPRETING IN POLICE SETTINGS. IN TERMS OF DEAF EDUCATION, SHE HAS PUBLISHED ON STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES ON DEAF EDUCATION IN IRELAND , AND IS ALSO INTERESTED IN THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN TRADITIONAL, BLENDED LEARNING AND ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS IN DELIVERING ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION AT TERTIARY LEVEL. LORRAINE HAS ALSO SERVED AS A REVIEWER FOR FUNDING APPLICATIONS FOR GOVERNMENTAL INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND, THE UK, BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS, QATAR, THE USA AND AT EUROPEAN UNION LEVEL AND REVIEWED SUBMISSIONS FOR PUBLICATION FOR A BROAD RANGE OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING HOUSES. SEE: HTTPS://TCD.ACADEMIA.EDU/LORRAINELEESON CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES TRINITY COLLEGE 1ST FLOOR, 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ADVISOR - DEAF STUDIES TRUST, BRISTOL ARTIS ASSOCIATE (ADVANCING RESEARCH IN TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES). BOARD MEMBER - SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING SERVICE (SLIS) CHAIR OF THE EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS EXPERT GROUP CONFERENCE OF INTERPRETER TRAINERS (CIT) COUNCIL OF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (CISLI) DIRECTOR - DUBLIN CITY RADIO (DCR) EDITOR OF "THE SIGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETER", ST. JEROME PUBLISHING. EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES (IATIS) INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS ASSOCIATION IRISH ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (IASLI) (DISBANDED IN 2008) IRISH TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS ASSOCIATION (ITIA) MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD, DCAL - DEAFNESS, COGNITION AND LANGAUGE RESEARCH CENTRE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON MEMBER OF THE AIIC NETWORK (UK/IRE) COMMITTEE ON SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, DEAF WORLDS: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DEAF STUDIES MEMBER OF THE IRISH SIGN LINK ISL/ENGLISH ACCCREDITATION REVIEW PANEL MEMBER OF THE PARTNERSHIP GROUP ON DEAF EDUCATION (CIDP-IDS-DEAFHEAR-SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF-CDS) MEMBER OF THE PEER REVIEW BOARD FOR THE JOURNAL OF ACCESS SERVICE IN POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (JASPE) MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MODERN LANGUAGES COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE TRINITY ASIAN CENTRE FOR ASIAN STUDIES BOARD SECRETARY - CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE BILINGUAL/BICULTURAL EDUCATION COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS DEAF STUDIES DISCOURSE MARKERS E-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT INTERPRETING STUDIES LANGUAGE ACQUISITION MODALITY AND LANGUAGE MORPHO-SYNTAX OF SIGNED LANGUAGES LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES SIGNS OF IRELAND - €23,960 THIS PROJECT AIMED TO COLLATE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, AN ELECTRONIC CORPUS OF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE. THE CORPUS CURRENTLY CONTAINS DATA FROM 40 SIGNERS FROM ACROSS THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE DATA IS BEING TRANSCRIBED USING ELAN (A PROGRAMME DEVELOPED BY THE MAX PLANX INSTITUTE, NIJMEGAN) AND DATA HAS SERVED AS THE STARTING POINT IN ANALYSING ASPECTS OF THE GRAMMAR OF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE AS WELL AS SERVING AS DATA FOR CROSS LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS BY LINGUISTS IN IRELAND AND ABROAD. DATA COLLECTED INCLUDES BOTH ELICITED AND NON-ELICITED DATA, OF WHICH THE ELICITED DATA IS IN LINE WITH THAT COLLECTED FOR OTHER SIGNED LANGUAGES. THIS CORPUS REPRESENTS ONE OF THE LARGEST DIGITAL CORPORA OF A EUROPEAN SIGNED LANGUAGE AND IS THE MOST DETAILED (IN TERMS OF ANNOTATION) WORLDWIDE. SIXTEEN PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS HAVE RESULTED FROM THE SOI CORPUS RELATED WORK TO DATE, AND CURRENTLY 3 PHD STUDENTS AND 1 M.PHIL STUDENT ARE WORKING ON SOI CORPUS-RELATED PROJECTS. A VOLUME DESCRIBING ISL, BASED HEAVILY ON CORPUS DATA, IS DUE SHORTLY (LEESON AND SAEED). THE CORPUS IS ALSO USED IN TEACHING IN CDS AND CLCS. FUNDING CAME FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES: FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE BENEFACTION FUNDS (2006-7) €1, 750; UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN EMERGENCY RESEARCH FUNDS (2003-4) C €7,728.00; FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE BENEFACTION FUND (2003-7) €2,000; START UP RESEARCH FUNDS (2001) €12,482.00. TCD SOURCES NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION - €21,000 CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES, TCD WAS AWARDED THE CONTRACT TO EDIT AND ABRIDGE A REPORT ON DEAF EDUCATION FOR THE NCSE. THE PROJECT BUILT ON THE WORK OF THE DISBANDED ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DEAF EDUCATION. THE REPORT WAS THE FIRST ON THE SUBJECT SINCE 1972. ALL WORK ON THIS REPORT WAS CARRIED OUT BY DR. LORRAINE LEESON WITH INPUT FROM MS. ELIZABETH MATHEWS. NCSE MEDISIGNS - €52,500 - LEONARDO DA VINCI (LLP/LDV/TOI/2010/IRL-511) THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS A GROUND-BREAKING INITIATIVE THAT FOCUSES ON PROVIDING LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO DEAF PEOPLE, INTERPRETERS, AND THOSE IN THE MEDICAL PROFES-SION. SOMETIMES IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GET AN INTERPRETER IN A HEALTHCARE SETTING, OFTEN LEAVING A DEAF PERSON OR THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IN A SITUATION WHICH POTENTIALLY COMPROMISES THE LEVEL OF PATIENT CARE BEING DELIVERED. POTENTIALLY, THIS FORCES A DEAF PATIENT TO EITHER WAIT UNTIL AN INTERPRETER BECOMES AVAILABLE OR RELY ON A FAMILY MEMBER OR FRIEND TO CASU-ALLY INTERPRET ON THEIR BEHALF. THIS IS NOT IDEAL, ESPECIALLY IN MEDICAL SITUATIONS THAT ARE SENSITIVE, CONFIDENTIAL OR PRIVATE. FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A DEAF COMMUNITY AND THE PROJECT CONSORTIUM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE PROVISION OF QUALIFIED INTERPRETERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE TRAINED IN HEALTHCARE ASPECTS, IS NOT VIEWED AS A LUXURY BUT AS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT TO THE ACCESS AND PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE HEALTHCARE. WORKING WITH CONSOR-TIUM LEADER, INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED,TRINTIY COLLEGE DUBLIN (IRELAND), HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY (SCOTLAND), UNIVERSITY OF STOCKHOLM (SWEDEN), UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA (CYPRESS) AND THE TURKISH FEDERATION OF THE DEAF (TURKEY) DEVELOPED CONTENT TO SUPPORT TRAINING FOR FRONTLINE MEDICAL STAFF REGARDING WORKING WITH INTERPRETERS AND DEAF COMMUNITY MEMBERS, TRAINING FOR INTERPRETERS REGARDING WORKING IN MEDICAL CON-TEXTS, AND TRAINING FOR DEAF COMMUNITY MEMBERS REGARDING WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN THEY EN-COUNTER MEDICAL SITUATIONS AND HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH MEDICAL STAFF, MEDIATED THROUGH IN-TERPRETERS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT SUCH AN APPROACH HAS BEEN APPLIED IN EUROPE AND THIS PROJECT HAS SECURED THE SUPPORT OF (AMONGST OTHERS) THE WORLD FEDERATION OF THE DEAF, THE WORLD ASSOCIATION OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS, THE EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF AND THE EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS. IN 2013, THIS PROJECT WAS AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS EUROPEAN LANGUAGE LABEL. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP - €1,130 FUNDS FACILITATED A RESEARCH-BASED VISIT TO BRISTOL UNIVERSITY TO PREPARE A BOOK PROPOSAL WITH PROF. JIM KYLE ON SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING. HIDDEN HISTORIES: INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE AND LEARNING - €81,590 (510217-LLP-1-2010-1-UK-GRUNDTVIG-GMP) THE PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A RANGE OF STRATEGIES TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN SOCIAL OR CIVIL SOCIETY TO ENGAGE IN DEVELOPING COMMUNITY HISTORIES. THIS PROJECT WILL USE THE EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE OF PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN THE LIFELONG LEARNING SECTORS, MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES, TO WORK WITH COMMUNITIES OF BOTH PLACE AND INTEREST TO CREATE AND UTILISE COMMUNITY HISTORIES. THIS WORK WILL INCLUDE WORKING WITH INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS TO USE EXISTING ARCHIVES; TRAINING IN ORAL HISTORY AND LIFE WRITING TO GENERATE MATERIAL FOR EXHIBITIONS AND ARCHIVES; REMINISCENCE WORK; TRAINING FOR PEOPLE TO WORK AS VOLUNTEERS OR IN PAID EMPLOYMENT IN ARCHIVES; CREATING ON-LINE ARCHIVES. IN ORDER TO MEET THE NEEDS OF DEAF COMMUNITY GROUPS, IN BOTH SUSSEX AND IRELAND ALL WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY WILL BE SUPPORTED BY BSL AND ISL INTERPRETATION. IN ADDITION, BSL AND ISL SUMMARIES OF WEBSITE CONTENT WILL BE PROVIDED TO ENHANCE ACCESSIBILITY. AN OUTCOME OF THIS LEARNING PROCESS WILL BE TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING FOR EACH OTHER BY FACILITATING INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE, BY GIVING COMMUNITIES WITH DIFFERENT CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC BACKGROUNDS THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMUNICATE WITH AND LEARN FROM EACH OTHER. THIS WORK WILL BE SUSTAINED THROUGH THE GENERATION OF MATERIAL THAT CAN BE USED WITH OTHER GROUPS OF LEARNERS IN THE FUTURE, THUS CREATING A VALUABLE ARCHIVE OF HIDDEN HISTORIES. THE PROJECT WILL WORK WITH THREE TARGET GROUPS, AS EXEMPLARS OF COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE EU, AND WILL BE REACHED THROUGH THE EXTENSIVE NETWORKS OF PROJECT PARTNERS. THE INTENDED USERS INCLUDE THE DEAF COMMUNITY WHICH HAS ABOUT 700K DEAF SIGNED LANGUAGES USERS IN EUROPE. FOLLOWING FROM EUROPEAN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE RECOGNITION OF SIGNED LANGUAGES IN MEMBER STATES (1988/1998/2003), WE WILL WORK WITH THIS MINORITY LINGUISTIC COMMUNITY TO RECORD THEIR LIVES AND IDENTIFY AND COLLECT CULTURAL ARTEFACTS. OTHER PARTNERS INCLUDE RURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE UK AND FINLAND WHO ARE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED BY GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION, WHO ALSO NEED TO MEET THE CHALLENGE OF RAPID CHANGE IN THE RURAL ECONOMY AND TO EXPLOIT THE POTENTIALITIES OF TRANSITION OF POPULATION DISTRIBUTION BETWEEN TEMPORARY/RECREATIONAL LIVING AND PERMANENT/OCCUPATIONAL LIVING WITHIN COMMUNITIES, THAT IS EVIDENTLY TAKING PLACE IN MANY PARTS OF THE EU. FINALLY, WE WILL WORK WITH MIGRANT COMMUNITIES, TO CAPTURE AND PROMOTE THEIR EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF LIFE IN THEIR NEW COMMUNITIES, AND TO RECORD THEIR CULTURAL HERITAGE. ENGAGING IN LEARNING WILL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND LINGUISTIC SKILLS, AND ALSO PROMOTE A SENSE OF BELONGING AND PLACE IN THE WORLD. THE CONSORTIUM IS LED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (UK). PARTNERS ARE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, INSPIRE - VEREIN (AUSTRIA) AND NOEMA-CMI (FINLAND). DR. JOHN BOSCO CONAMA LEADS THE CDS WORK FOR HIDDEN HISTORIES. EUROPEAN UNION GRUNDTVIG SIGNALL 3 (LLP/LDV/TOI/2009/IRL-525) - €55,670 LED BY INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED, THIS PROJECT BUILDS ON THE GOALS OF SIGNALL I AND SIGNALL II, CREATING DIGITAL MULTIMODAL CONTENT ABOUT HOW TO WORK WITH THE DEAF COMMUNITY (WITH A FOCUS ON EDUCATIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES) LOCALISED FOR DELIVERY IN 5 COUNTRIES: IRELAND, UK, FINLAND, TURKEY AND BELGIUM. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI PRO-SIGN: SIGN LANGUAGES AND THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES €131,790 THE MAIN AIM OF THIS ECML FUNDED PROJECT (2012-2015) IS TO ESTABLISH EUROPEAN STANDARDS FOR SPECIFYING SIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN DEAF STUDIES AND SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING PROGRAMS AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION. SPECIFICALLY, THE PROJECT WILL (A) PROVIDE DEFINITIONS OF PROFICIENCY LEVELS FOR SIGNED LANGUAGES, (B) PROVIDE AN ELABORATION OF CURRICULA THAT FOCUS ON THESE LEVELS WITH SPECIFICATIONS OF SIGNED LANGUAGE CURRICULA FOR L2 LEARNERS; AND (C) DEVELOP A SAMPLE ASSESSMENT KIT FOR SIGNED LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY. ULTIMATELY, IT WILL ENHANCE AWARENESS AND INCLUSION OF EUROPEAN SIGN LANGUAGES AND DEAF COMMUNITIES IN EUROPEAN SOCIETY. THE PROJECT IS COORDINATED BY THE FOLLOWING: DR. LORRAINE LEESON, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND; DR. BEPPIE VAN DEN BOGAERDE, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES, THE NETHERLANDS; DR. TOBIAS HAUG, INTERKANTONALE HOCHSCHULE FÜR HEILPÄDAGOGIK, SWITZERLAND; DR. CHRISTIAN RATHMANN, UNIVERSITÄT HAMBURG, GERMANY; THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE ECML HAS FUNDED A SIGNED LANGUAGE RELATED PROJECT - AND WE ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES THAT THIS PROGRAMME ALLOWS FOR. FOR MORE INFORMATION IN ENGLISH AND INTERNATIONAL SIGN SEE: HTTP://WWW.ECML.AT/ECML-PROGRAMME/PROGRAMME2012-2015/PROSIGN/TABID/1752/DEFAULT.ASPX EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MODERN LANGUAGES (ECML) ECML DEAFVOC 2 (2008-1-FI1-LEO05-00454) DEAFVOC 2 IS A PROJECT LED BY THE FINNISH MINISTRY FOR EDUCATION AND THE FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF. OTHER PARTNERS INCLUDE THE UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR (SLOVENIA) AND KLAGENFURT UNIVERSITY (AUSTRIA) AS WELL AS INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED, WHO REPLACED THE IRISH DEAF SOCIETY IN LATE 2009. THE PROJECT IS GEARED TOWARDS SUPPORTING TEACHERS TO DELIVER CURRICULA THROUGH SIGNED LANGUAGES AND CURRICULA ABOUT SIGNED LANGUAGES. CDS IS SUBCONTRACTED TO CREATE A CURRICULUM WHERE ISL IS THE LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION FOR THE DELIVERY OF MATHS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION, AND TO WORK WITH IRG AND TEACHERS TO CREATE A DIGITAL RESOURCE OF VOCABULARY FOR THESE SPECIFIC DOMAINS AND SAMPLE DELIVERY OF CURRICULUM CONTENT FOR DISSEMINATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI D-SIGNS (UK/08/LLP-LDV/TOI/163_141) - €66, 592 THIS PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP A SIGNED LANGUAGE CURRICULUM FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES (WITH A FOCUS ON LEARNERS IN EMPLOYMENT) FOR FIVE SIGNED LANGUAGES (IRISH, CZECH, BRITISH, CYPRIOT AND GREEK SIGN LANGUAGES). THE CURRICULUM WILL BE LINKED TO THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE, AND DELIVERED WHOLLY ONLINE. THE LEAD PARTNER IS BRISTOL UNIVERSITY. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI SIGNALL II (LLP/LDV/TOI/2007/IRL-516) - €48,075 CDS IS WORK WITH INTERESOURCE (IRE.) TO DEVELOP A DIGITAL MULTI-MEDIA COURSE ON DEAF CULTURE AND DEAF HISTORY FOR EMPLOYERS ACROSS THE EUROPEAN UNION. THE PROJECT PROMOTER IS INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LTD. PROJECT PARTNERS ARE FROM FINLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC, POLAND AND THE UK. WWW.SIGNALLPROJECT.COM EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI REVIEW OF SIGNING INFORMATION PROJECT, MID-WEST - €20,000 THIS PROJECT REVIEWED THE IMPACT OF THE SIGNING INFORMATION PROJECT IN THE MID-WEST, WHICH, FOR THE FIRST TIME, PROVIDED INTERPRETATION SERVICES TO THE DEAF COMMUNITY IN LIMERICK, NORTH TIPPERARY AND CLARE. IT INVOLVED AN ANALYSIS OF DEMAND, CURRENT LEVELS OF PROVISIONS, FEEDBACK FROM SERVICE PROVIDERS AND SERVICE USERS WHO HAD AVAILED OF THE SERVICES AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING GAPS IN THE CURRENT PROVISION. ALL FIELD WORK WAS CARRIED OUT BY MR. JOHN BOSCO CONAMA FOR THE CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES. PAUL PARTNERSHIP SIF II DEAF STUDIES IN IRELAND PROGRAMME - €1.2M (INITIAL GRANT - LATER REDUCED DUE TO ECONOMIC CRISIS) WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BLANCHARDSTOWN, CDS HAS DEVELOPED AND INTRODUCED A BACHELOR IN DEAF STUDIES WITH SIGNIFICANT DIGITAL CONTENT. ORIGINAL AIMS TO ROLL OUT THE PROGRAMME IN COLLABORATION WITH THE TIPPERARY INSTITUTE, THE LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND NUI CORK HAVE HAD TO BE PUT ON HOLD DUE TO FUNDING CUTS. DESPITE THIS SETBACK, THE CORE AIMS OF INCREASING ACCESSIBILITY FOR DEAF, HARD OF HEARING AND MATURE STUDENTS; MAXIMISING THE APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO THE DELIVERY OF SIGNED LANGUAGE AND DEAF STUDIES COURSES; ANALYSING THE SUCCESS OF THESE VENTURES; AND INCREASING COLLABORATION ACROSS HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE FIELD OF DEAF STUDIES REMAIN. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY STRATEGIC INNOVATION FUNDS, CYCLE II (SIF II) JUSTISIGNS - €90,230 (538899-LLP-1-2013-1-IE-LEONARDO-LMP) JUSTISIGNS IS CONCERNED WITH DEAF PEOPLE'S ACCESS TO JUSTICE. IT IS SPECIFICALLY CONCERNED WITH THE FOLLOWING ISSUES: (1)THE LACK OF OR LIMITED STATUS AFFORDED TO SIGNED LANGUAGES INHIBITS ACCESS TO INFORMATION AT ALL STAGES OF THE LEGAL PROCESS FOR DEAF PEOPLE; (2)THE LIMITED UNDERSTANDING IN LEGAL SETTINGS OF THE CONSTRAINTS IMPOSED BY THE INTERPRETING PROCESS WHEN WORKING BETWEEN ANY TWO LANGUAGES, WITH ADDITIONAL CHALLENGES ARISING WHEN WORKING BETWEEN A SPOKEN (AUDITORY-VERBAL) AND SIGNED (VISUAL-SPATIAL) LANGUAGE; (3) THE LACK OF AWARENESS OF THE HISTORICAL EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND OF DEAF PEOPLE WHICH GIVES RISE TO CHALLENGES IN LEGAL SETTINGS. PARTNERS INCLUDE KU LEUVEN (BELGIUM), HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY (BELGIUM), HFH (SWITZERLAND), THE EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (EFSLI) (BELGIUM), THE EUROPEAN LEGAL INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION (EULITA) (BELGIUM), WITH INPUT FROM GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY (USA). THE PROJECT IS MANAGED BY INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (TOTAL BUDGET: €366,467.00) LEONDARDO DA VINCI ENTERPRISE IRELAND: HORIZON 2020 COORDINATION SUPPORT FOR ACADEMICS - €11,492 FUNDING TO SUPPORT PREPARATION OF A HORIZON 2020 APPLICATION IN THE 2017 ROUND OF CALLS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND HORIZON 2020 COORDINATION SUPPORT FOR ACADEMICS PRO-SIGN II: PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN SIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION C €130,000 THIS PROJECT FOCUSES ON THE MAPPING OF SIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS TO B2 LEVEL ON THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES (CEFR). A SECOND GOAL IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO FOR SIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS. THE PROJECT TEAM COMPRISES PROF. CHRISTIAN RATHMANN, PROF. TOBIAS HAUG, PROF. BEPPIE VAN DEN BOGAERDE AND PROF. LORRAINE LEESON HTTP://WWW.ECML.AT/ECML-PROGRAMME/PROGRAMME2016-2019/SIGNLANGUAGEINSTRUCTION/TABID/1856/LANGUAGE/EN-GB/DEFAULT.ASPX EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MODERN LANGUAGES (ECML) LANGUAGES AT THE HEART OF LEARNING DESIGNS: DEAF EMPLOYMENT FOR SIGN LANGUAGE USERS IN THE EU (2016-1-IE-01-KA202-016895) THE DESIGNS PROJECT AIMS TO BRING TOGETHER 7 PARTNERS FROM 4 EU COUNTRIES WHO ARE RENOWNED EXPERTS IN THE FIELDS OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING AND DEAF COMMUNITY ADVOCACY. THE OVERALL AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO CREATE VET AND CPD TRAINING RESOURCES AND EXCHANGE BEST PRACTICES ACROSS EUROPE TO FACILITATE GREATER PARTICIPATION OF DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE USERS IN EMPLOYMENT. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ERASMUS+ A REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE ON NATIONAL AND VOLUNTARY REGISTERS FOR SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS - €6,396 THE GOAL WILL BE TO ANSWER THE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS OUTLINED IN THE SLIS CALL FOR TENDERS, NAMELY: WHAT DOES LITERATURE IDENTIFY AS EFFECTIVE INTERNATIONAL POLICY OR PRACTICE IN DEVELOPING REGISTERS OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS? WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF REGISTERS IDENTIFIED IN TERMS OF RATIONALE (FOR EXAMPLE VOLUNTARY, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT, NATIONAL REGULATION OR LICENCE TO OPERATE), AIMS, OUTCOMES ACHIEVED AND HOW IS THIS EVIDENCED? HOW WAS POLICY DEVELOPED, SUPPORTED, RESOURCED, IMPLEMENTED AND MONITORED? SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING SERVICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. MARINA LEITE PIMENTEL leitepimentelmarina ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEITEPIM DENTAL SCIENCE MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHETICS, PROSTHODONTICS, BIOMATERIALS, OROFACIAL PAIN, SLEEP DISORDERS, TEMPOROMANDIBULAR DISORDERS, ONCOLOGICAL PATIENT CARE, ORAL SURGERY, IMPLANT DENTISTRY, ONCOLOGICAL PATIENT CARE, BIOETHICS SCHOOL OF DENTAL SCIENCE 21/22 LINCOLN PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN SWEDISH ENGLISH FRENCH CONSELHO REGIONAL DE ODONTOLOGIA DO ESTADO DE SAO PAULO - CROSP CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. RONA LEITH leithrona ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PAEDIATRIC DENTIS LEITHRO DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR DOUGLAS LEITH leithdouglas PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS LEITHDO COMPUTER SCIENCE WIRELESS NETWORKS, NETWORK CONGESTION CONTROL, DISTRIBUTED OPTIMISATION AND DATA PRIVACY SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DATA PRIVACY DISTRIBUTED OPTIMISATION NETWORK CONGESTION CONTROL WIRELESS NETWORKS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. SILE LENNON lennonsile ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN ENDODONTOLOGY LENNONSI DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH ENDODONTIC SOCIETY EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENDODONTOLOGY IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION IRISH ENDODONTIC SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. RONIT LENTIN lentinronit RETIRED STAFF MEMBER RLENTIN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES I SPECIALISE IN RESEARCHING RACE AND RACISM, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON RACE CRITICAL THEORY, RACISM, ISRAEL/PALESTINE, GENDER AND GENOCIDE, WOMEN AND WAR, THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE HOLOCAUST, RACISM AND ANTI-RACISM IN IRELAND, AND MIGRANT ACTIVISM. I AM SPECIFICALLY INTERESTED IN THE DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATION OF THE 'OTHER' BY 'RACIAL STATES'. DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN BOARD MEMBER, ZENA - BOSNIAN WOMEN ACCESSING EDUCATION CHAIR, COALITION AGAINST DEPORTATION OF IRISH CHILDREN (CADIC) MEMBER - ANTI DEPORTATION IRELAND MEMBER JUDGING PANEL: METRO EIREANN MULTICULTURAL AWARDS MEMBER, ADVISORY BOARD, AKIDWA: AFRICAN WOMEN'S NETWORK MEMBER, ADVISORY GROUP, HIGHER EDUCATION EQUALITY UNIT: ETHNIC MINORITIES IN EDUCATION MEMBER, EXECUTIVE BOARD, IRISH COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES MEMBER, WOMEN'S SUB-COMMITTEE, NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE ON RACISM AND INTERCULTURALISM (NCCRI) SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONFLICT CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY EUROPEAN MINORITY CULTURES AND IDENTITIES ISRAEL-PALESTINE MIGRATION RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE PI - TRANSNATIONAL GENDERED DIASPORIC NETWORKS, THIS PROJECT, WHICH BUILT ON MY PREVIOUS STUDY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN, POSITED NEW THEORISATIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN NETWORKS AS ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES OF GLOBALISATION. ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEARCH WITH TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS OF MIGRANT WOMEN COMBINED WITH GLOBAL NETWORK THEORY TO ASK NEW QUESTIONS ON MIGRANT AGENCY IN THE CONTEXT OF 'INTERCULTURAL IRELAND'. IN DECEMBER 2005 I ORGANISED THE 'ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES OF GLOBALISATION? NEW THEORISATIONS OF MIGRANT WOMEN'S GLOBAL NETWORKS' CONFERENCE AT THE IIIS AND HAVE EDITED A COLLECTION OF CONFERENCE PAPERS (WWW.TCD.IE/IIIS/PAGES/PUBLICATIONS/DISCUSSIONPAPERS/IIIS.PHP). HEA / PRTLI GLOBAL NETWORKS TESTIMONIES OF TRANSNISTRIA THIS ONGOING PROJECT ANALYSES SOCIOLOGICALLY THE GENDERED NATURE OF TESTIMONIES OF WOMEN FROM BUKOVINA, ROMANIA, WHO SURVIVED TRANSNISTRIA. I RECEIVED IR1,500 FROM THE PROVOST ACADEMIC FUND TO ASSIST IN TRAVELLING AND HAVE PUBLISHED SEVERAL ARTICLED AND BOOK CHAPTERS. PI - ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN MEMORY PRACTICES THIS STUDY BUILDS ON MY EARLIER WORK ON ISRAEL PALESTINE, INCLUDING THE CO-EDITED COLLECTION WITH PROF NAHLA ABDO (2002), THE SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE OF RACE TRAITOR ON THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION (2005), THE EDITED COLLECTION THINKING PALESTINE (2008)AND THE MONOGRAPH CO-MEMORY AND MELANCHOLIA: ISRAELIS MEMORIALISING THE PALESTINIAN NAKBA (2010). INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES GLOBAL NETWORKS PI - MIGRANT NETWORKS - FACILITATING MIGRANT INTEGRATION THE STUDY BUILDS ON ONGOING RESEARCH AND FOCUSES ON FOUR KEY NETWORK ACTIVITIES, IRELAND'S NEW RELIGIOUS NETWORKS; NEW MIGRANT MEDIA; CULTURAL MIGRANT NETWORKS; AND MIGRANT ADVOCACY NETWORKS. CONDUCTED BY A MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM, THE STUDY USES QUALITATIVE ETHNOGRAPHIES TO MAP THE NETWORKING ACTIVITIES BY MIGRANTS IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND. TRINITY IMMIGRATION INITIATIVE TII RESEARCH PROGRAMME CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. M. CHIARA LEVA levamchiara VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW LEVAC PSYCHOLOGY . HUMAN RELIABILITY ANALYSIS . ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS AND ACCIDENT DATABASES . SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRY . HUMAN FACTORS AUDITING DEPT. OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH GERMAN GRADUATE MEMEBER OF INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL SSAFETY AND HEALTH MEMBER OF THE IRISH ERGONOMICS SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JAMES LEVINE levinejames ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JLEVINE PHILOSOPHY DEPT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DAVID LEWIS lewisdavid ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DELEWIS COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. MY RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE, AND HOW IT CAN BE CAPTURED, MODELLED, ANALYSED AND EXCHANGED IN DECENTRALISED DECISION-MAKING SETTINGS. I AM THEREFORE INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING DATA AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE THAT IS USED TO ACHIEVE SHARED GOALS IN SITUATIONS WHERE DECISION-MAKING AUTHORITY IS NOT CENTRALISED, BUT DIFFUSED ACROSS MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANISATIONS. FOR SUCH COLLABORATIVE DECISION-MAKING, I INVESTIGATE THE USE OF DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING OPEN DATA FORMATS, ONTOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE FORMATS SUCH AS DESCRIPTION LOGIC AND DECLARATIVE OPERATIONAL INSTRUCTIONS SUCH AS POLICY RULES, SERVICE SPECIFICATIONS AND WORKFLOW MODELS. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EMPLOYING THESE TECHNIQUES IS MEASURED THROUGH: I) THE EASE WITH WHICH SOFTWARE ENGINEERS CAN INTEGRATE KNOWLEDGE SHARING MODELS WITH NATIVE DATA MODELS EXISTING IN LEGACY AND PROPRIETARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. II) THE ADDITIONAL COMPUTATIONAL AND DATA RETRIEVAL LOADS IMPOSED BY EMPLOYING DECLARATIVE, KNOWLEDGE-BASED REPRESENTATIONS OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION, COMPARED TO EXISTING SOLUTIONS WITH IMPLICIT REPRESENTATIONS. III) THE REDUCTION IN COGNITIVE LOAD FOR HUMAN DECISION MAKERS AGAINST THEIR NEED TO COMPENSATE FOR THE SHORTFALLS EXHIBITED BY AUTOMATED DECISION SUPPORT THAT FROM COMPONENTS LEVERAGING EXPLICIT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE, E.G. IN ACCURACY OF MACHINE-LEARNING AND NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) COMPONENTS AND THE LIMITS IN DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE COMPLETENESS IN REASONING COMPONENTS. IV) THE DEGREE TO WHICH DECISION-MAKERS CAN ASSIMILATE KNOWLEDGE IN MAKING ACCURATE AND TIMELY MANAGEMENT DECISIONS AND THE IMPACT OF PERSONALISED AND INTERACTIVE DATA VISUALSIATION TECHNIQUES. APPLICATION OF THESE TECHNIQUES AND THEIR EVALUATION HAS HAD IMPACT IN THE FOLLOWING APPLICATION AREAS: A) TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT: I WAS AN EARLY PROPONENT OF THE EXTENSIBLE MARK-UP LANGUAGE FOR MANAGEMENT INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND SERVICES, HIGHLIGHTING THE PERFORMANCE AND ENGINEERING TRADEOFFS. THIS APPROACH IS NOW COMMON PLACE IN THE TELECOMS INDUSTRY, WHERE LONG VALUE CHAINS ARE COMMON. I ALSO CHAMPIONED THE TOPIC OF OPEN SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE FORMATS AND ISSUES OF FEDERATED MANAGEMENT IN THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY. B) SMART BUILDING MANAGEMENT: HERE WE HAVE USED OPEN SEMANTIC MODELS AND 3D INTERACTIVE DATA REPRESENTATIONS TO ENABLE BUILDING OCCUPANTS AND BUILDING MANAGERS TO RECONCILE THE MANAGEMENT OF SEVERAL HETEROGENEOUS HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; LOCATION TRACKING AND ENVIRONMENTAL SENSORS AND ELECTRONIC ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEMS TO ACHIEVE PHYSICAL SECURITY, COMFORT AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY. C) ONLINE COMMUNITIES: THESE EXHIBIT A HIGH DEGREE DECENTRALISATION IN MANAGING THE CONDUCT OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE CREATION AND SHARING OF DIGITAL RESOURCES, HERE WE DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED A NOVEL SET OF DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITY DATA VISUALISATION TOOLS TO ASSIST COMMUNITY DECISION-MAKING. D) INTELLIGENT CONTENT PROCESSING: THIS FIELD ADDRESSES THE APPLICATION OF NLP AND PERSONALISATION TECHNOLOGY TO THE PROCESSING OF DIGITAL CONTENT, PRIMARILY IN APPLICATIONS AIMED AT ENGAGING WITH CUSTOMERS, CITIZENS AND LEANERS ONLINE. THIS IS THE CORE TOPIC OF CNGL AND THE NEW ADAPT CENTRE. HERE I HAVE PIONEERED THE USE OF OPEN SEMANTIC MODELS TO MONITOR THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN HUMAN LANGUAGE WORKERS (E.G. TRANSLATORS & TERMINOLOGISTS) AND NLP COMPONENTS, AND CURATING THE RESULT TO IMPROVE THOSE COMPONENTS. I HAVE THEREFORE DEMONSTRATED A SUBSTANTIAL AND SUSTAINED RESEARCH OUTPUT IN DECENTRALISED MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE APPLIED TO A NUMBER OF DOMAINS. COMPUTER SCIENCE KDEG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER AND ARCHITECTURE COMMITTEE CO-CHAIR OF THE AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATION FORUM EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER FOR SPRINGER'S JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR FOR IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, DUBLIN MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC ENGINEERS (IEE) MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) ORGANISING COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE 2ND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP MANAGEMENT OF UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATIONS AND SERVICE (MUCS) REVIEWER FOR IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE; PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE; IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING; COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; JOURNAL OF AUTONOMIC AND TRUSTED COMPUTING, AND JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE. TCD REPRESENTATIVE TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM, TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER, CO-CHAIR MULTILINGUAL WEB LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP AUTOMATED SERVICE COMPOSITION AUTONOMIC COMPUTING COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE BASED NETWORKING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MOBILE COMMUNICATION MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK MANAGEMENT NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PERVASIVE COMPUTING POLICY BASED MANAGEMENT SEMANTIC RULES SEMANTIC WEB SERVICE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MODELS DEVELOPMENT UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS VIRTUAL REALITY ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - REMOTE SENSING MECON MANAGED EXTENSIBLE CONTROL PLANE FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED NETWORKING <P>THIS PROJECT ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF DEPLOYING AND MANAGING A GLOBAL SEMANTIC EVENT NETWORK, OVER WHICH EVENT MESSAGES ARE EFFICIENTLY ROUTED FROM PRODUCERS TO CONSUMERS BASED ON THE MEANING OF THEIR CONTENT. IT AIMS TO ALLOW NOVEL NETWORKING FEATURES TO BE ADDED INCREMENTALLY, SUCH AS THE ROUTING BASED ON THE TRUST THAT CONSUMERS PLACE IN PRODUCERS OR THE SIMILARITY, RATHER THAN MATCHING, OF THE MEANING OF MESSAGES TO THE INTEREST OF THE CONSUMER. THIS IS DELIVERED WITHIN A FLEXIBLE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK THAT ENABLES INCREMENTAL ROLL-OUT AND ENCOURAGES INNOVATION. <P> THE APPROACH TAKEN IS TO DEVELOP AN OPEN, EXTENSIBLE CONTROL PLANE FOR A GLOBAL EVENT SERVICE, BASED ON SEMANTICALLY RICH MESSAGES. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY THE NOVEL APPLICATION OF CONTROL PLANE SEPARATION AND SEMANTIC-BASED MATCHING TO CONTENT-BASED NETWORKS. HOWEVER, THE PRIMARY BENEFITS DERIVE FROM EXPLOITING PEER-CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES FOR DISTRIBUTED ONTOLOGY QUERIES TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENT AGGREGATION OF SEMANTIC QUERIES. THE CLUSTERING OF SUPER-PEERS USING DECENTRALISED POLICY ENGINEERING DELIVERS THE INCREMENTAL DEPLOYMENT OF NEW PEER-CLUSTERING STRATEGIES. THIS WILL BE DEMONSTRATED BY IMPLEMENTING TRUST-AWARENESS AND SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY IN A COMPOSITE ROUTING CONTROL SCHEME. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME 2006 ACCA AUTONOMIC COMPUTING COORDINATING ACTION <P> ACCA IS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT AIMING AT OUTLINING THE SCOPE OF AN EMERGING COMMUNICATION PARADIGM - AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATION IN APPLICATION TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF COMMUNICATION AND FROM VIEWPOINTS OF DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS. THE VISION IS THAT OF A WORLD PERVADED BY UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATION FACILITIES, OFFERING THEIR SERVICES TO THE USERS AND CAPABLE OF SELF-ORGANIZING AND SELF-PRESERVING THEIR FUNCTIONALITIES WITHOUT ANY DIRECT HUMAN INTERVENTION. THIS ENTAILS FUNDAMENTAL ADVANCES BOTH IN THE ARCHITECTURE AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE NETWORK, AND IN THE CHARACTERIZATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMMON COMMUNICATION MEDIUM. <P> KDEG'S CONTRIBUTION HAS BEEN IN ROADMAPPING RESEARCH IN THE FOLLOWING: <LI>MODELLING OF THE POLICY-BASED GOVERNANCE PROCESS FOR AUTONOMIC COMMUNICATION AS A TWO WAY PROCESS FOCUSSED ON MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF SYSTEM AND GOVERNORS AND THE RAPID STABILISATION OF POLICY SET. <LI>PROVIDING A SERVICE THAT FLEXIBLY AND SECURELY DELIVERS AUTONOMIC KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN AUTONOMIC AGENTS BASED ON CONTENT-BASED NETWORKING PRINCIPLES. <LI>ESTABLISHING SEMANTIC MODELS TO START ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF EVALUATING ADAPTIVE AND AUTONOMIC SYSTEMS. EUROPEAN UNION FP6 M-ZONES MANAGEMENT OF UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS <P> PERVASIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS ARE COMMONLY REGARDED AS BEING MADE UP OF A MULTITUDE OF AUTONOMOUS ELEMENTS COLLABORATING TO SENSE AND RESPOND TO A USER'S REQUIREMENTS AND THE CONTEXT OF THE TASK-AT-HAND. THE MANAGEMENT OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS THEREFORE REQUIRES RUNTIME UNDERSTANDING OF A USER'S TASK REQUIREMENTS AND OPERATIONAL CONTEXT, THE STATE OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT THE USER'S TASKS AS WELL AS THE BROADER MANAGEMENT POLICIES THAT ALSO GOVERN THOSE RESOURCES. AT THE SAME TIME, THE DYNAMIC, AD HOC NATURE OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS REQUIRES AN INTEGRATED, CONTEXT-AWARE AND SELF-ORGANIZING APPROACH TO THEIR MANAGEMENT. AUTONOMIC SYSTEMS SELF-MANAGE THEIR CONFIGURATION, PERFORMANCE AND INTEGRITY BASED ON HIGH-LEVEL GOALS SET BY USERS AND ADMINISTRATORS, AND ARE THEREFORE ARE WELL SUITED TO THE MANAGEMENT OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT. <P> IN THIS PROJECT, KDEG ADDRESSES HOW MANAGEMENT OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING MUST BALANCE THE NEED TO HIDE THE COMPLEXITIES OF ADAPTIVE SERVICE OPERATION, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME PROVIDING SUITABLE LEVERS OF CONTROL AND WINDOWS OF INSPECTION THROUGH WHICH USERS CAN MAINTAIN A SENSE OF OWNERSHIP OVER ADAPTIVE SERVICE BEHAVIOUR. WITH A SYSTEM OFFERING HIGHLY ADAPTIVE SERVICES TO USERS, THE MANAGEMENT TASK OF ENFORCING RESPONSIBILITIES OVER RESOURCES IS ESSENTIALLY ONE OF CONSTRAINING THE RANGE OF ADAPTIVITY THE SYSTEM CAN EXHIBIT IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS. THESE CONSTRAINTS MUST THEMSELVES ADAPT TO A HETEROGENEOUS, EVER-CHANGING SET OF RESOURCES, THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE A PRIORI. THE WORK IN THIS PROJECT FOCUSES ON: SEAMLESS INTEROPERABILITY AMIDST A HIGH LEVEL OF ORGANISATION HETEROGENEITY AT DEVELOPMENT TIME AND RUNTIME; SERVICE COMPOSITION AS THE PRIMARY ADAPTIVE MECHANISM; SATISFY MANAGEMENT GOALS USING POLICY-BASED MANAGEMENT AND SUPPORTING THE NEEDS OF USERS BOTH AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES. EXPERIMENTATION HAS INVOLVED SOME USE OF SENSOR AND ACTUATION SYSTEMS, BUT HAS BEEN EFFECTIVELY ACCELERATED BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 3D, MULTI-USER SIMULATOR OF SMART SPACES. IRISH HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI 3 PUDECAS PLATFORM FOR USER CENTRED DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF CONTEXT-AWARE ADAPTIVE SERVICE <P> THIS PROJECT IS DEVELOPING A PLATFORM FOR THE USER-CENTRED DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ADAPTIVE, CONTEXT-AWARE SERVICES FOR THE WIRELESS, MOBILE AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING MARKETS. THE PLATFORM IS AN INTEGRATED SET OF TOOLS THAT ALLOWS MODELS OF ADAPTIVE SERVICE BEHAVIOUR TO BE CAPTURED AND USED TO EVALUATE THE USER'S EXPERIENCE IN USING THE IMPLEMENTED SERVICE IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS. THE PLATFORM USES A 3D VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT TO DELIVER REPEATABLE, INSTRUMENTED, CONTEXT-DEPENDENT EVALUATIONS. SERVICE DEVELOPERS WILL BENEFIT FROM REDUCED DEVELOPMENT COSTS AND MORE EFFECTIVE USER-EMPOWERING SERVICES. INITIALLY WE PLAN COMMERCIALISATION TO TARGET THE LOCATION AWARE SERVICE DEVELOPMENT MARKET. <P> KDEG'S CONTRIBUTION FOCUSSES ON THE USER-CENTRED DESIGN AND TESTING OF CONTEXT-AWARE ADAPTIVE SERVICES. IT IS INNOVATIVE IN APPLYING A SEMANTIC MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH TO THE TIGHT INTEGRATION OF THE RAPID PROTOTYPING OF ADAPTIVE SERVICE BEHAVIOUR AND THE EFFICIENT EVALUATION OF ITS USABILITY. THIS APPROACH IS NOVEL IN DIRECTLY AIMING TO REDUCE THE COST AND IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF USER-CENTRED EVALUATION OF ADAPTIVE SERVICES BY THE EASY CONFIGURATION OF SIMULATIONS OF A WIDE RANGE OF REAL-WORLD SETTINGS FOR USER INVOCATION OF THE SERVICES, E.G. INDOOR AND OUTDOOR, SINGLE USER AND COLLABORATIVE, AD HOC OR STRUCTURED, CELLULAR OR WLAN ACCESS ETC. AS ADAPTIVE SERVICES EXHIBIT A RANGE OF BEHAVIOUR, THE AIM IS NOT TO VERIFY THE CORRECTNESS OF SYSTEM BEHAVIOUR BUT TO VERIFY THAT IT OPERATES WITHIN A WELL DEFINED BEHAVIOURAL ENVELOPE GIVEN FOR SPECIFIC REGIONS OF THE POSSIBLE CONTEXT SPACE THAT CORRESPONDS TO THE OVERALL TESTING GOALS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND TYNDALL NAP INCORPORATING AND VALIDATION SENSOR CAPABILITIES INTO A PERVASIVE COMPUTING SIMULATION TOOL <P> EMBEDDED SENSORS PROVIDE AN ELECTRONICALLY SENSED VIEW OF THE ENVIRONMENT TO APPLICATION SERVICES WHICH IS USED TO ADAPT THE SERVICE TO USERS' CHANGING SOCIAL, PHYSICAL AND USER-TASK CONTEXT. IT IS THE USER'S PERCEPTION OF HOW APPROPRIATELY THAT SENSED CONTEXT IS USED TO ADAPTIVELY PROVIDE APPLICATION SERVICES THAT DETERMINES THE SUCCESS OF THE APPLICATION. IN PRACTICE, EXPLORATION AND THUS UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERACTIONS OF A PERVASIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT IS ONLY POSSIBLE THROUGH TRIAL DEPLOYMENT AND USER EVALUATION ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS. THIS IS EXPENSIVE AND AS A RESULT A SIGNIFICANT BARRIER TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERVASIVE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS. <P> THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A SIMULATION MODEL OF TYNDALL SENSOR MOTES AND INTEGRATING THIS INTO THE PUDECAS SIMULATOR PLATFORM. THE SIMULATOR WILL BE EXTENDED TO SIMULATE PROPAGATION OR PRESENCE OF VARYING PHYSICAL CONDITIONS, SUCH A NOISE, HEAT, LIGHT, MOTION AND HUMIDITY. THESE NEW MODELS WILL BE VALIDATED BY COMPARISONS DRAWN BETWEEN OUR SIMULATED MODEL OF TCD'S LLOYD INSTITUTE AND A REAL DEPLOYMENT IN THE PHYSICAL LLOYD BUILDING. SFI TYNDALL NATIONAL ACCESS PROGRAMME FORM ENGINEERING A CO-OPERATIVE INTER-ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK SUPPORTING DYNAMIC FEDERATED ORGANISATIONS MANAGEMENT <P> FORM'S GOAL IS TO DEVELOP, EVALUATE, DISSEMINATE AND EXPLOIT AN OPEN DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (ODF) FOR THE EMERGING MARKET IN COMPONENT-ORIENTED COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE. THE TARGET AUDIENCE OF THIS FRAMEWORK IS WIDE, COVERING SERVICE PROVIDERS, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM INTEGRATORS, INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE VENDORS AND STANDARDISING BODIES. THIS FRAMEWORK HAS BEEN EVALUATED THROUGH A FOCUS ON THE MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS SERVICES OVER QOS ENABLED IP NETWORKS. SUCH SERVICES ARE TERMED INTER-ENTERPRISE SERVICES (IES) IN FORM. THE PROJECT HAS DEVELOPED PROTOTYPE IES MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS THAT EXERCISES THE PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES EXPRESSED IN THE FRAMEWORK ALLOWING THEM TO BE EVALUATED AND REFINED. <P> KDEG'S CONTRIBUTION IN THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN HAS BEEN: <LI>DESIGN, SPECIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF A METHODOLOGY FOR (I) DEVELOPING REUSABLE MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND (II) DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION TELECOMMUNCIATIONS APPLICATIONS BASED ON SERVICE COMPOSITION AND REUSE <LI>DESIGN AND SPECIFICATION OF A OPEN DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK OF SERVICES FOR COMPOSING TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS <LI>DEVELOPMENT OF QUALITY OF SERVICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS FOR WEB AND INTERNET BASED APPLCIATIONS <LI>DEVELOPMENT OF DYNAMIC WORKFLOW ENGINES TO SUPPORT RAPID COMPOSITION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES EU FP5 CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION LANGUAGE BARRIERS CONSTITUTE A FORMIDABLE OBSTACLE TO THE FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBALISED ECONOMY AND INFORMATION SOCIETY. "LOCALISATION" REFERS TO THE PROCESS OF ADAPTING DIGITAL CONTENT TO CULTURE, LOCALE AND LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENTS AT HIGH QUALITY AND SPEED. LOCALISATION IS A KEY ENABLING, VALUE-ADDING, MULTIPLIER COMPONENT OF THE GLOBAL SOFTWARE AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRY. LOCALISATION SEEKS TO OVERCOME LANGUAGE BARRIERS. THE CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION (CNGL) IS A ACADEMIA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP WITH OVER 100 RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES ADDRESSING THE KEY LOCALISATION CHALLENGES OF VOLUME, ACCESS AND PERSONALISATION. ITS OBJECTIVE IS TO PRODUCE SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCES IN THE BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH UNDERPINNING THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION FACTORY. OUR MISSION IS TO REVOLUTIONISE LOCALISATION VIA BREAKTHROUGHS IN AUTOMATION, COMPOSITION AND INTEGRATION, FOCUSING ON: (I)INTEGRATED MACHINE TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY, (II) SPEECH-BASED INTERFACES AND MORE PERSONALISED SPEECH OUTPUT, (III) MULTILINGUAL DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT FOR PERSONALISED MULTILINGUAL CONTENT ACCESS AND DELIVERY, (IV) LOCALISATION WORKFLOWS AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION. DR LEWIS' TEAM FOCUSSES ON THE LATTER, SYSTEMS INTEGRATION, INCLUDING THE MODELS AND METHODS FOR THE RAPID INTEGRATION OF WORKFLOWS, SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CENTRES FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY FALCON FEDERATED ACTIVE LINGUISTIC DATA CURATION: THIS PROJECT WILL DELIVER A MODULAR SOFTWARE PLATFORM THAT WILL ENABLE SMES IN THE LOCALISATION INDUSTRY TO LEVERAGE OPEN LANGUAGE RESOURCES PUBLISHED BY PUBLIC BODIES. THIS PLATFORM WILL BOOTSTRAP A COMMERCIALLY SUSTAINABLE LOCALISATION PROCESS THAT ALLOWS SME LANGUAGE SERVICE PROVIDERS (LSPS) TO CONTINUOUSLY REUSE THE OUTPUT OF WEB CONTENT TRANSLATION PROJECTS. BY INTEGRATING THESE OUTPUTS WITH LANGUAGE RESOURCES FROM PUBLIC BODIES, SME LSPS CAN EASILY AND CHEAPLY OPTIMISE AND TAILOR OPEN SOURCE MACHINE TRANSLATION AND AUTOMATED TERMINOLOGY EXTRACTION COMPONENTS TO THE NEEDS OF THEIR CUSTOMERS. TODAY, THE CURATION OF PARALLEL TEXT INVOLVES THE PUBLICATION OF THE UNDIFFERENTIATED RESULTS OF TRANSLATION PROJECTS IN DIFFERING FORMATS OR VIA CENTRALISED REPOSITORIES. THIS RESTRICTS SMES IN LEVERAGING THESE RESOURCES TO TRAIN MACHINE TRANSLATION ENGINES TO MATCH INCOMING TRANSLATION PROJECTS. FALCON WILL ENABLE THE CONTROLLED SHARING AND REUSE OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES, COMBINING OPEN CORPORA FROM PUBLIC BODIES WITH RICHLY ANNOTATED OUTPUT FROM COMMERCIAL TRANSLATION PROJECTS. FEDERATED ACCESS CONTROL WILL ENABLE SHARING AND REUSE OF COMMERCIAL RESOURCES WHILE RESPECTING BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS, CLIENT RELATIONSHIPS, COMPETITIVE AND LICENSING CONCERNS. FINE GRAINED TRACEABILITY LANGUAGE RESOURCE REUSE WILL ENABLE RETURN ON INVESTMENT CALCULATIONS ON RESOURCE CURATION IN PUBLIC BODIES AND SME LSPS ALIKE. THE CONSORTIUM COMBINES ACADEMIC EXPERTISE IN LOCALISATION INTEROPERABILITY, LINKED DATA MANAGEMENT, STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION AND STATISTICAL PARSING WITH SMES OFFERING SERVICES AND SOLUTIONS FOR TRANSLATION AND TERMINOLOGY MANAGEMENT. THIS PROJECT WILL ENABLE THE LANGUAGE SERVICE INDUSTRY TO REALISE ITS POTENTIAL AS A MAJOR SOURCES OF SHARED LINKED DATA BY MEASURABLY IMPROVING COST, SPEED AND QUALITY BENEFITS OF REUSE. THE CONSORTIUM MEMBERS WILL THEN BE STRONGLY PLACED TO COMMERCIALLY EXPLOIT THESE BENEFITS. EU FP7-ICT-2013-SME-DCA LIDER LINKED DATA AS AN ENABLER OF CROSS-MEDIA AND MULTILINGUAL CONTENT ANALYTICS FOR ENTERPRISES ACROSS EUROPE: THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF CONTENT IN VOLUME, VELOCITY AND VARIETY ON THE WEB DEMANDS NEW APPROACHES TO CONTENT ANALYTICS, ADDRESSING ISSUES IN LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF HETEROGENEOUS DATA SETS, ORIGINATING IN DIFFERENT MEDIA, HUMAN LANGUAGES, JURISDICTIONS, ETC. AMONG THESE, LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN PARTICULAR HAS BECOME A UBIQUITOUS ASPECT OF THE WEB IN LIGHT OF INCREASING GLOBALIZATION. RECENTLY, SEMANTIC-LEVEL, I.E., LANGUAGE- AND MEDIA-INDEPENDENT, DATA ANALYSIS AND REPRESENTATION METHODS SUCH AS THOSE PROVIDED BY LINKED DATA AND SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES, HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO PROVIDE INNOVATIVE CONTENT ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS FOR SUCH HETEROGENEOUS, MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT. AN IMPORTANT MISSING COMPONENT HOWEVER, IS THE REPRESENTATION OF LANGUAGE- AND MEDIA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION THAT WILL BE NEEDED FOR INTERPRETING SUCH DATA CORRECTLY - ACROSS DIFFERENT MEDIA AND ACROSS THE INCREASING VARIETY OF HUMAN LANGUAGES USED NOWADAYS ON THE WEB. IN THIS PROPOSAL WE THEREFORE AIM AT ADDRESSING THIS MISSING COMPONENT BY PROVIDING AN ECOSYSTEM FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW LINKED OPEN DATA (LOD) BASED ECOSYSTEM OF FREE, INTERLINKED, AND SEMANTICALLY INTEROPERABLE LANGUAGE (CORPORA, DICTIONARIES, LEXICAL AND SYNTACTIC METADATA, ETC.) AND MEDIA (IMAGE, VIDEO, ETC. METADATA) RESOURCES THAT WILL ALLOW FOR FREE AND OPEN EXPLOITATION OF SUCH RESOURCES IN MULTILINGUAL, CROSS-MEDIA CONTENT ANALYTICS ACROSS THE EU AND BEYOND, WITH SPECIFIC USE CASES IN DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES. LIDER ADDRESSES THREE KEY OBJECTIVES: 1. TO SUPPORT MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ANALYTICS IN ENTERPRISES. 2. TO PROVIDE A DISCUSSION PLATFORM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL LOD BASED MULTILINGUAL, CROSS-MEDIA CONTENT ANALYTICS SYSTEMS THAT WILL BE ABLE TO USE FREE, OPEN AND INTEROPERABLE LANGUAGE AND MEDIA RESOURCES AND SERVICES. 3. TO REACH CONSENSUS ON SHORT AND LONG TERM GOALS IN LOD-BASED MULTILINGUAL, CROSS-MEDIA CONTENT ANALYTICS IN ENTERPRISES. EU FP7-ICT-2013-10 ADAPT CENTRE THE ADAPT CENTRE WILL ADDRESS THE GRAND CHALLENGE IN DIGITAL PLATFORM CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS: HOW CAN ENTERPRISES, INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS EASILY ASSIMILATE, REUSE AND INTERACT WITH THE GLOBAL TORRENT OF DIGITAL CONTENT? TRANSITIONING FROM THE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT(CNGL), ADAPT WILL BUILD UPON DEMONSTRATED, WORLD-RECOGNISED RESEARCH AND SIGNIFICANT COMMERCIAL IMPACTS OF THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICANT GROUP TO DEVELOP BREAKTHROUGHS IN GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT TECHNOLOGY, WHICH WILL TURN THIS HETEROGENEOUS TORRENT OF CONTENT INTO MEANINGFUL GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ORGANISATIONS AND USERS. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY MAKING UNPRECEDENTED ADVANCES IN THE AREAS OF MULTILINGUAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP), MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS AND TRANSFORMATION, PERSONALISATION AND MULTIMODAL DELIVERY. THE ADAPT CENTRE'S RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL ENABLE: DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF MULTILINGUAL CONTENT THROUGH MULTILINGUAL NLP; DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO BREAK DOWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL BARRIERS; PERSONALISATION OF THE USER EXPERIENCE TO ENSURE RAPID ASSIMILATION AND REUSE OF CONTENT; AND MULTIMODAL/MULTIMEDIA INTERACTION WITH GLOBAL CONTENT FOR NATURAL USER ENGAGEMENT. ADAPT WILL DELIVER MEASURABLE WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC IMPACT: 1650 PUBLICATIONS, 200 HIGH-QUALITY POSTGRADUATES, 12 SPIN-OUT COMPANIES, 80 LICENCES TO INDUSTRY AND OVER 500 JOBS. THIS WILL REVOLUTIONISE GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT R&D WITH UNPRECEDENTED SOCIETAL IMPACT AND BENEFIT TO THE IRISH ECONOMY, AND BEYOND. THE ADAPT CENTRE HELPS INDUSTRY AND INDIVIDUALS UNDERSTAND, MANAGE AND CONTROL THE OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF CONTENT WITH WHICH WE ARE ALL INCREASINGLY CONFRONTED. IT REVOLUTIONISES CONVENTIONAL MODELS OF CONTENT PRODUCTION, ANALYSIS AND DELIVERY BY EMBEDDING RICH KNOWLEDGE, AUTOMATIC UNDERSTANDING, TRANSLATION, PERSONALISATION AND DELIVERY CAPABILITIES IN GLOBAL CONTENT. ADAPT EMPOWERS ENTERPRISES, INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS TO SEAMLESSLY CREATE, MODIFY AND SHARE CONTENT IN THE WAY MOST SUITED TO THEIR PREFERENCES AND NEEDS. IT UNITES WORLD-LEADING EXPERTS TO CONCRETELY ADDRESS IMPORTANT RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY NEEDS IDENTIFIED BY THE IRISH GOVERNMENT. ADAPT WILL DELIVER CUTTING-EDGE R&D WITH BENEFITS TO IRISH INDUSTRIES, INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI RESEARCH CENTRE CNGL, THE CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION SFI CSET 2ND PLASE FUNDING: ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO PEOPLE'S LIVES IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN THE EXPLOSION OF CONTENT AVAILABLE TO USERS, ENTERPRISES AND COMMUNITIES. THE CONTENT REVOLUTION IS AT THE HEART OF A NEW, EMPOWERING TREND WHICH SEES ENTERPRISES AND USERS IN NEW ROLES AS CREATORS, CURATORS AND CONSUMERS OF CONTENT, IN SOCIAL AND CORPORATE CONTEXTS. THE SCALE OF THIS CHANGE IS ASTONISHING: OVER 175 MILLION TWEETS WILL BE SENT PER DAY IN 2012 (SOLIS, 2012), WITH THE MAJORITY IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH. TODAY FACEBOOK ALONE IS LARGER THAN THE ENTIRE WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW) IN 2004 (SOLIS, 2011). NEW CONTENT IS NOT RESTRICTED TO TEXT, BUT INCLUDES RICHER MEDIA, WITH 60 HOURS OF VIDEO UPLOADED EVERY MINUTE, OR ONE HOUR EVERY SECOND TO YOUTUBE. (YOUTUBE, 2012). FILTERING AND PERSONALISED RETRIEVAL ARE EMERGING AS KEY TRENDS IN ACCESSING CONTENT, WITH GOOGLE USING AS MANY AS 57 DIFFERENT SIGNALS TO INFLUENCE SEARCH (PARISER, 2011)(BOYD, 2011). HOWEVER, THESE TRENDS DO NOT ADDRESS THE DESIRE OF ORGANISATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND INDIVIDUALS FOR CONTENT AND SERVICES TO BE DELIVERED IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN NEEDS, PREFERENCES AND CONTEXT. FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGES ARISE IN THE WAY CONTENT CAN BE DYNAMICALLY CREATED, CURATED, PROCESSED AND DELIVERED FOR GLOBAL USAGE. CNGL II (CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION II) SEEKS TO REVOLUTIONISE THE WAY PEOPLE CAN SEAMLESSLY INTERACT WITH CONTENT, SYSTEMS AND EACH OTHER TO ACHIEVE UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF ACCESS, EFFICIENCY AND EMPOWERMENT. BREAKTHROUGHS IN THE PROCESSING, UNIFICATION AND SEAMLESS INTEGRATION OF MULTILINGUAL, MULTI-MODAL AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ARE KEY GOALS IN ENABLING THE GLOBAL CONTENT INDUSTRY AND SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE. CNGL II WILL PIONEER A NEW CONCEPT CALLED 'GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT'. GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT WILL ENABLE DIGITAL CONTENT TO BE MORE DISCOVERABLE, ADAPTABLE AND REPURPOSEABLE. BY EMBEDDING NEW LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLIGENCE INTO THE CONTENT, IT WILL ENABLE ADVANCED INTELLIGENT CONTENT SERVICES TO AUTOMATICALLY PROCESS AND TRANSFORM THAT CONTENT. GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT WILL THUS ENABLE ITSELF TO BE ACTIVELY DISCOVERED AND TRANSFORMED BY ADVANCED INTELLIGENT CONTENT SERVICES SO AS TO MAKE THAT CONTENT MORE DISCOVERABLE, SEMANTICALLY RICH, ADAPTABLE, CONTEXTUALLY AWARE AND REUSABLE ACROSS GLOBAL MARKETS. THIS REPRESENTS A MAJOR SHIFT IN THE WAY CONTENT IS MANAGED, CREATING A MORE ROBUST, AGILE AND INTEROPERABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONTENT AND THE VALUE CHAIN OF SERVICES ACTING UPON IT. IN THIS WAY GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT CAN BE DYNAMICALLY TRANSFORMED BASED ON CURRENT USER INTERACTION, PERCEIVED USER INTENTION OR CURRENT DELIVERY CONTEXT. SFI CSET IOMEGAT AN INSTRUMENTED REPLAYABLE COMPUTER-AIDED-TRANSLATION TOOL SFI TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT AWARD LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY WEB THE GOAL OF LT-WEB IS TO SET THE FOUNDATION FOR THE INTEGRATION OF LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES INTO CORE WEB TECHNOLOGIES, VIA THE CREATION OF A STANDARD DEFINING THREE KINDS OF METADATA ABOUT: 1) INFORMATION IN WEB CONTENT BEING RELEVANT FOR LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY PROCESSING; 2) PROCESSES FOR CREATING WEB CONTENT VIA LOCALISATION AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT WORK FLOWS; 3) LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS AND RESOURCES USED IN THESE APPLICATIONS. THE ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING IN LT-WEB WILL JOIN THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (W3C) AND CREATE A GROUP DEFINING THE METADATA STANDARD, WITHIN THE INTERNATIONALIZATION ACTIVITY OF W3C. USING THE CREDIBILITY AND OUTSTANDING POSITION OF W3C, LT-WEB WILL CREATE BROAD CONSENSUS ACROSS COMMUNITIES, INVOLVING PRODUCERS OF CONTENT, LOCALIZATION WORKERS, LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS, BROWSER VENDORS AND USERS. W3C WILL HELP TO ESTABLISH A NETWORK BETWEEN STAKEHOLDERS IN THESE COMMUNITIES, TO ENSURE THE LONG-TERM ADOPTION OF THE METADATA STANDARD AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTEGRATING LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND EMERGING WEB TECHNOLOGIES. FINALLY, LT-WEB WILL LAY THE TECHNICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, TO REACH OUT TO A GROWING LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF WEB USERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS TRADE PARTNERS, AND TO RESPOND TO THEIR SPECIFIC NEEDS IN A TIMELY AND COST-EFFECTIVE MANNER. EU FP7-ICT-2011-7 KNOHOLEM KNOWLEDGE-BASED ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS THROUGH HOLISTIC INFORMATION MODELING AND 3D VISUALIZATION ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE BUILDING SECTOR THROUGH INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT IS A KEY MEASURE FOR THE GLOBAL REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMITTED BY THIS SECTOR AND ADDITIONALLY FACILITATES USER COSTS REDUCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF GROWING ENERGY PRICES AND HARSHNESS OF NATURAL RESOURCES. THE KNOHOLEM PROJECT'S AIM IS THE ENGINEERING OF AN INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION THAT WILL CONSIDERABLY REDUCE ENERGY CONSUMPTION, BOTH BY SYSTEMATICALLY AVOIDING ENERGY WASTING IN BUILDINGS AND BY KNOWLEDGE-BASED HOLISTIC OPTIMIZATION OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION. THE SOLUTION WILL BE APPLICABLE AND CONFIGURABLE FOR A BROADBAND OF BUILDING TYPES FROM ANY EU REGION. THE INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION WILL BE BASED ON EXISTING KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION TECHNOLOGIES LIKE FUNCTIONAL MODELING AND ONTOLOGY, WHICH WILL BE USED IN THE CONTEXT OF SMART BUILDINGS IN COMBINATION WITH BUILDING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS. IT WILL BE ENHANCED BY ENERGY CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR SIMULATION WITH REALISTIC VISUALIZATION ASSISTANCE. APPROACHES PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED BY THE PROJECT PARTNERS WILL BE INTEGRATED INTO A HOLISTIC INTELLIGENT ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION. THE FOCUS OF THE PROJECT WILL NOT BE ON DEVELOPMENT, BUT ON DETAILED ANALYSIS AND VALIDATION. KNOHOLEM INCLUDES FOUR TYPES OF DEMONSTRATION OBJECTS IN SPAIN AND THE NETHERLANDS THAT WILL BE USED BY THE CONSORTIUM OF INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH PARTNERS TO DEVELOP, ENHANCE AND EXTENSIVELY TEST THE SOLUTION. AN OVERALL KNOWLEDGE BASE WILL BE CREATED THROUGH A DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE DEMONSTRATION OBJECT BUILDINGS AND THEIR ENERGY CONSUMING/PRODUCING DEVICES, THROUGH THE INTELLIGENT INTERLINKING OF BUILDING USAGE WITH ITS ENERGY DEMAND, AS WELL AS BY VARIOUS ENERGY CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR SIMULATIONS. THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATED WITHIN THE EXTENDED VALIDATION PHASE, KNOHOLEM WILL FACILITATE UP TO 30% OF ENERGY SAVINGS, DEPENDING ON THE BUILDING. THE 13 PARTNERS FROM 6 COUNTRIES WILL ENSURE AN EFFICIENT AND INEXPENSIVE EU-WIDE APPLICATION OF THE RESULTS AFTER THE END OF THE PROJECT. EU FP7-2011-NMP-ENV-ENERGY-ICT-EEB CENTRE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS VALUE CHAIN RESEARCH SELF-MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY SFI CSET CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. XIAONING LIANG liangxiaoning ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LIANGX BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES MARKETING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT MARKETING METRICS MARKETING CAPABILITIES MARKETING ANALYTICS MIXED-METHOD RESEARCH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN MARKETING ACADEMY IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT MARKETING MARKETING ANALYTICS MARKETING CAPABILITIES MARKETING METRICS MARKETING PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT MARKETING RESEARCH MIXED-METHOD RESEARCH DR. DAVID JAMES LIMOND limonddavidjames ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LIMONDD EDUCATION DAVID LIMOND IS INTERESTED IN VARIOUS ASPECTS OF HISTORY OF EDUCATION INCLUDING PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION IN THE UK IN THE 1960S AND 1970S, THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND HAS WRITTEN ON A RANGE OF OTHER TOPICS INCLUDING P H PEARSE AND HIS LEGACY IN IRELAND AND THE STUDY OF HISTORICAL FILMS. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FORMER MEMBER - HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY (UK). FORMER MEMBER OF HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY (UK) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. FOUNDER MEMBER - CULTURES, ACADEMIC VALUES AND EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTRE HISTORY OF EDUCATION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DR. PAUL LISTON listonpaul RESEARCH FELLOW PLISTON PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH AEROSPACE PSYCHOLOGY AIR TRANSPORTATION APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY CULTURE, SYSTEMS AND DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING PSYCHOLOGY ETHNOGRAPHY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY LEADERSHIP ORGANISATION DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, THEORY, BEHAVIOUR PSYCHOLOGY SAFETY, RELIABAILITY AND INNOVATION, ORGANISATIONAL CULTURES VIRTUAL REALITY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR ROGER LITTLE littleroger FELLOW EMERITUS RLITTLE FRENCH FRENCH 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MARK LITTLE littlemark PROFESSOR/CONSULTANT OF NEPHROLOGY MLITTLE CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) I RUN A TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE RESEARCH PROGRAMME FOCUSED ON INVESTIGATION OF PATHOGENESIS AND DISCOVERY OF BIOMARKERS OF DISEASE IN GLOMERULONEPHRITIS. MY PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN ANCA VASCULITIS, AN AUTOIMMUNE CONDITION THAT CAUSES MULTI-ORGAN FAILURE AS A CONSEQUENCE OF OVERWHELMING NECROTISING INFLAMMATION AFFECTING SMALL BLOOD VESSELS. WE ARE ADDRESSING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1. WHAT BIOMARKERS ACCURATELY TRACK GLOMERULAR AND EXTRA-RENAL INFLAMMATION IN ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS? 2. WHAT MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR EVENTS PREVENT RESOLUTION OF VASCULITIC INJURY AFTER THE INITIAL INSULT? 3. WHAT UNDERPINS THE LARGE VARIABILITY IN CLINICAL PHENOTYPE OBSERVED IN ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS? 4. HOW CAN WE MINIMISE THE ADVERSE EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH EXISTING IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE THERAPIES? TO ASSIST IN ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS, WE HAVE SET UP INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ALLOWS COLLECTION OF LONGITUDINAL CLINICAL DATA IN THE FORM OF A NATIONAL REGISTRY AND BIOBANK, WHICH IS LINKED TO A BASIC SCIENCE LABORATORY. DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY CHAIR IRISH RARE KIDNEY DISEASE REGISTRY AND BIOBANK CO-CHAIR UKIVAS NATIONAL VASCULITIS REGISTRY CO-CHAIR UKIVAS, THE VASCULITIS RARE DISEASE GROUP OF THE UK AND IRELAND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN REGISTRIES LEAD, EUROPEAN VASCULITIS SOCIETY THE RENAL ASSOCIATION ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODIES BIOMARKERS OF DISEASE CRESCENTIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS IMMUNE-COMPLEX GLOMERULONEPHRITIS INFLAMMATION MOUSE MODELS NEPHROLOGY NEUTROPHIL ADHESION RAT MODEL REGISTRY SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS VASCULITIS IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE THE ACUTE, UNTREATED PATIENT WITH VASCULITIS: ENHANCING RECRUITMENT AND SAMPLING USING A NATIONAL NETWORK THE TALLAGHT VASCULITIS AND ALLERGY GROUP (TVA GROUP) AIMS TO PROVIDE JOINED UP, EFFICIENT AND EXCELLENT CARE TO PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC VASCULITIC AND ALLERGIC CONDITIONS BY DEVELOPING A STRONG MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ALLIANCE WITHIN TALLAGHT HOSPITAL. BY COMBINING THE ACADEMIC STRENGTH OF THE MEMBERS, THE GROUP ALSO AIMS TO MAXIMISE RESEARCH FUNDING CREDIBILITY AND TO PROVIDE A MECHANISM FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK ENGAGEMENT. THE RKD BIOBANK AND REGISTRY IS AN ESTABLISHED INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH FEEDS INTO THE ACADEMIC ARM OF THE TVA GROUP. IT IS CO-CHAIRED BY MARK LITTLE AND PETER LAVIN ON BEHALF OF THE GROUP. ITS GOAL IS TO CAPTURE LONG-TERM LONGITUDINAL CLINICAL DATA AND HIGH QUALITY BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES FROM PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC VASCULITIC AND ALLERGIC DISORDERS, DISEASE CONTROLS AND HEALTHY CONTROLS. COORDINATED FROM TALLAGHT HOSPITAL, IT CURRENTLY RECEIVES DATA AND SAMPLES FROM FIVE CENTRES ACROSS IRELAND AND HAS BEEN ACTIVELY RECRUITING SINCE SEPTEMBER 2012. IN THIS RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME IT HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BIO-RESOURCES IN THIS FIELD GLOBALLY. TO MAXIMISE ITS POTENTIAL WE NOW WISH TO TARGET A SPECIFIC PATIENT GROUP FOR RECRUITMENT: THOSE WITH VERY ACTIVE DISEASE WHO HAVE NOT YET BEEN TREATED WITH IMMUNE SUPPRESSING MEDICATION. THESE ARE VERY CHALLENGING TO RECRUIT AS THEY CAN PRESENT AT ANY TIME OF DAY OR NIGHT AND NEED TO BE SAMPLED VERY RAPIDLY (USUALLY LESS THAN ONE HOUR) - HENCE THESE TYPE OF PATIENTS ARE VIRTUALLY ABSENT FROM EXISTING BIOBANKS AROUND THE WORLD, DESPITE BEING THE MOST VALUABLE IN STUDYING THE DISEASE. BY EXTENDING RECRUITMENT TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY USING THE CURRENT GRANT PROPOSAL, WE BELIEVE WE CAN RECRUIT AN ADDITIONAL 70 SUCH PATIENTS, MAKING THE BIOBANK UNRIVALLED ANYWHERE, AND AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE FOR DISCOVERING NEW BIOMARKERS AND STUDYING DISEASE MECHANISMS IN THESE RARE DISEASES. MEATH FOUNDATION EDNA O'FLYNN AWARD INTERPLAY BETWEEN INTERFERON-ALPHA AND LOW DENSITY GRANULOCYTES IN ANCA VASCULITIS: A KEY PATHOGENIC PATHWAY UNDERPINNED BY NETOSIS? ANTI-NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASM AUTOANTIBODY (ANCA) VASCULITIS (AAV) IS A SEVERE, SYSTEMIC AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, AND ONE OF THE LEADING CAUSES OF PROGRESSIVE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS,WHICH OFTEN RESULTS IN KIDNEY FAILURE. IT IS A NEUTROPHIL DRIVEN DISEASE, WITH ANTIBODIES TARGETING THE NEUTROPHIL GRANULE PROTEINS MYELOPEROXIDASE (MPO) AND PROTEINASE 3(PR3. BINDING OF ANCA TO THESE ANTIGENS LEADS TO INAPPROPRIATE NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATION,AND SUBSEQUENT DAMAGE TO ENDOTHELIAL CELLS, WITH CONSEQUENT CHRONIC, UNRESOLVING VASCULAR INFLAMMATION. THE REASON FOR THE LOSS OF CONTROL OVER THIS NEUTROPHIL-INITIATED INFLAMMATION IS UNKNOWN; 1. THERE IS STRONG RECENT EVIDENCE THAT THE ANCA-INDUCED RELEASE OF NEUTROPHIL EXTRACELLULAR TRAPS (NETS) PLAYS AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN AAV PATHOGENESIS. NETS ARE COMPOSED OF NUCLEAR CHROMATIN, HISTONES AND ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS AND ARE RELEASED IN PROCESS CALLED NETOSIS, A SPECIALISED FORM OF NEUTROPHIL DEATH. 2. INTERFERON Á (IFNÁ) IS UPREGULATED IN AAV PATIENT SERUM AND IS STRONGLY ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASED RISK OF GLOMERULONEPHRITIS. INTERESTINGLY, IFNÁ CAN PRIME NEUTROPHILS TO UNDERGO NETOSIS IN RESPONSE TO C5A, A PROINFLAMMATORY COMPLEMENT PROTEIN FRAGMENT SHOWN TO BE IMPORTANT IN ANCA-ASSOCIATED GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, AND IT IS LIKELY THAT IFNÁ ALSO ENHANCES ANCA-INDUCED NETOSIS. 3. A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE IDENTIFIED A SUBPOPULATION OF LOW-DENSITY GRANULOCYTES (LDGS), WITH ALL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUTROPHILS, THAT CO-PURIFY WITH PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELLS (PBMCS). COMPARED TO NORMAL DENSITY NEUTROPHILS (NDGS), THESE SHOW A MARKEDLY ENHANCED PROPENSITY TO NETOSIS, AND TO RELEASE IFNÁ. OUR PRELIMINARY DATA SHOW THAT LDGS ARE PRESENT IN RELATIVELY HIGH NUMBERS IN PATIENTS WITH AAV. THUS, WE HYPOTHESISE THAT LDGS IN AAV ARE CAPABLE OF INDUCING TISSUE DAMAGE VIA IFNÁ PRODUCTION, WHICH PRIMES BOTH NDGS AND LDGS TO UNDERGO NETOSIS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IRCSET PROBING THE METABOLIC RESPONSE TO VASCULITIC INJURY: TOWARDS A TOOL FOR NON-INVASIVE MONITORING OF IMMUNE ACTIVATION IN ANCA VASCULITIS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO IDENTIFY A NON-INVASIVE MARKER OF IMMUNE ACTIVATION IN AAV. I WILL INCORPORATE PRE-CLINICAL AND CLINICAL TOOLS TO STUDY THE URINARY METABOLOMIC SIGNATURE AT VARIOUS STAGES OF ACTIVE, INACTIVE AND TOLERANT AAV. THIS PROJECT WILL REQUIRE BIOBANK DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING PATIENT RECRUITMENT AND SAMPLE PROCESSING. WE WILL THEN DEVELOP AN IN VIVO MODEL OF ANTI-MYELOPEROXIDASE (ANTI-MPO) AAV. THE URINARY METABOLOMIC SIGNATURE OF THE IN VIVO MODEL AND PATIENT SAMPLES WILL BE INTERROGATED USING MASS SPECTROSCOPY. BIOINFORMATICS EXPERTISE AND STATISTICAL MODELLING WILL THEN BE UNDERTAKEN TO IDENTIFY A SENSITIVE AND SPECIFIC URINARY METABOLOMIC SIGNATURE OF IMMUNE ACTIVATION IN AAV. I WILL THEN COLLABORATE WITH UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON CENTRE FOR NEPHROLOGY AND THE IMMUNE TOLERANCE NETWORK AND INTERROGATE THE URINARY METABOLOMIC SIGNATURE IN TOLERANT PATIENTS. THESE RESULTS WILL THEN BE VALIDATED BY DEVELOPMENT OF AN IN VIVO MODEL OF TOLERANT AAV. METABOLOMICS IS THE NON-TARGETED MEASUREMENT OF ALL METABOLITES PRODUCED BY THE BODY, IT IS A PROMISING AREA IN BIOMARKER DEVELOPMENT. IT HAS BEEN USED TO IDENTIFY BIOMARKERS IN OTHER KIDNEY DISEASES INCLUDING ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY AND POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD NSAFP IRISH RARE KIDNEY DISEASE REGISTRY AND BIOBANK WE AIM TO RECRUIT, REGISTER AND BIOBANK ALL INCIDENT PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS IN IRELAND. MUCH EFFORT IS PUT INTO ENSURING THE FIRST SAMPLE SET IS OBTAINED BEFORE ANY TREATMENT IS GIVEN. SUBSEQUENT LONGITUDINAL SAMPLE SETS ARE OBTAINED OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. THIS IS BEING RUN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE TALLAGHT VASCULITIS AND ALLERGY GROUP MEATH FOUNDATION EDNA O'FLYNN AWARD DETERMINING THE BREADTH AND BURDEN OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN IRELAND: ASSOCIATIONS WITH COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT, FUNCTIONAL DECLINE AND QUALITY OF LIFE CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) IS A MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEM ALL OVER THE WORLD. AT LEAST 1 IN 10 ADULTS ARE ESTIMATED TO HAVE KIDNEY DISEASE. SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WILL PROGRESS TO END-STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE WHICH REQUIRES DIALYSIS TREATMENT OR A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT FOR SURVIVAL. HOWEVER THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WITH CKD DO NOT SURVIVE LONG ENOUGH TO REACH END-STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE BECAUSE OF HIGH RATES OF EARLY-ONSET HEART DISEASE AND PREMATURE DEATH. WHAT IS DRIVING THESE POOR OUTCOMES IN PEOPLE WITH CKD IS NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD. THE EXTENT TO WHICH KIDNEY DISEASE AFFECTS IRISH PEOPLE IS UNKNOWN. THERE IS AN URGENT NEED FOR PRECISE INFORMATION ABOUT THE IMPACT OF CKD IN IRELAND, SO THAT HEALTHCARE RESOURCES CAN BE DIRECTED AT THOSE THAT NEED THEM MOST. THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA) HAS GATHERED DETAILED HEALTH INFORMATION ON A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF OVER 8000 MEMBERS OF THE IRISH GENERAL POPULATION AGED 50 YEARS AND OVER. AS CKD IS PREDOMINANTLY A DISEASE OF OLDER AGE, TILDA IS THE PERFECT SETTING IN WHICH TO STUDY THIS DISEASE. THE GOALS OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ARE THREE-FOLD: TO DETERMINE THE RATES OF ALL STAGES OF CKD IN THE IRISH GENERAL POPULATION; TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF CKD ON THE PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE HEALTH OF IRISH OLDER ADULTS; AND TO IDENTIFY THOSE PEOPLE WITH CKD MOST AT RISK FOR COMPLICATIONS, WHOM WE EXPECT WOULD BENEFIT MOST FROM MEDICAL INTERVENTION. THIS IMPORTANT RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE CRITICAL INFORMATION TO POLICY MAKERS TOWARDS DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING A NATIONAL STRATEGY DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF IRISH PEOPLE WITH KIDNEY DISEASE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR DAVID GEORGE LITTLE littledavidgeorge FELLOW EMERITUS DLITTLE C.L.C.S. CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE COMMUNICATON STUDIES 4091 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUÉE CHAIRMAN OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY'S NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE TEACHING OF MODERN CONTINENTAL LANGUAGES CONFERENCE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND CONSULTANT AND CONTRIBUTOR TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S MODERN LANGUAGES PROJECTS CONSULTANT TO THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO VALIDATION COMMITTEE (IN THIS CAPACITY I HAVE WRITTEN A SERIES OF DISCUSSION PAPERS AND SHORT STUDIES) CONVENOR AND CHAIR, NATIONAL EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE COORDINATOR OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S INTERNATIONAL SEMINARS ON THE EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO DIRECTOR OF INTEGRATE IRELAND LANGUAGE AND TRAINING, WHICH REPLACED THE REFUGEE LANGUAGE SUPPORT UNIT DIRECTOR, INTEGRATE IRELAND LANGUAGE AND TRAINING (SUCCESSOR TO THE REFUGEE LANGUAGE SUPPORT UNIT), A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CAMPUS COMPANY OF TRINITY COLLEGE EUROCALL (EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING) EUROPEAN SECOND LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION FOUNDER MEMBER AND CHAIRMAN OF INSTITIÚID TEANGEOLAÍOCHTA ÉIREANN'S MODERN LANGUAGES PROJECT FOUNDER MEMBER OF CERCLES (EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION OF LANGUAGE CENTRES IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION) FOUNDER MEMBER OF DULC (DIRECTORS [NOW ASSOCIATION] OF UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE CENTRES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND) IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS MEMBER OF INTERIM BOARD OF LANGUAGE STUDIES OF THE CURRICULUM AND EXAMINATIONS BOARD MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO VALIDATION COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S NETWORK OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO PILOT PROJECTS MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF RECALL, JOURNAL OF EUROCALL (THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF SYSTEM, AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS PRESIDENT OF CERCLES REPORT TO THE REFUGEE AGENCY AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE: MEETING THE LANGUAGE NEEDS OF REFUGEES RESPONSIBLE FOR DEVELOPING SUPPORT MATERIALS AND DELIVERING IN-SERVICE TRAINING FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TO NEWCOMER PUPILS IN PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS (UNDER THE AEGIS FIRST OF THE REFUGEE LANGUAGE SUPPORT UNIT, THEN OF INTEGRATE IRELAND LANGUAGE AND TRAINING) REVIEW EDITOR OF SYSTEM TRINITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE ON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S SYLLABUS COMMITTEE FOR LEAVING CERTIFICATE GERMAN PROFESSOR DAVID LLOYD lloyddavid FELLOW EMERITUS DLLOYD CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT COLLEGE 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY DR. ANDREW THOMAS LLOYD lloydandrewthomas ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ATLLOYD BIOCHEMISTRY I HAVE DONE RESEARCH ON, AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR, CODON USAGE ANALYSIS. COPIES OF CODONS 1.4 ARE AVAILABLE FOR PCS AND UNIX. OTHER PUBLISHED RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: 1. A STUDY OF STRAND BIAS (G/C SKEW) IN SPIROCHAETES WHICH WILL HAVE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DESIGN OF GENOMIC DNA GENE DISCOVERY ALGORITHMS. 2. THE FIRST SECOND-PASS BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST COMPLETELY SEQUENCED EUKARYOTIC CHROMOSOME ( YEAST CHROMOSOME III GENBANK:X59720 ) 3. PROKARYOTIC MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS. THE PHYLOGENETIC TREE DERIVED FROM THE RECA PROTEIN, FOR EXAMPLE CLOSELY AGREES WITH THE FAR LARGER TREE DRAWN FROM STRUCTURAL RNAS. 4. DETERMINATION OF PATTERNS OF TISSUE EXPRESSION IN THE HUMAN AND MOUSE GENOMES. 5. GENOMICS OF THE INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE AND ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES IN CHICKEN, MOUSE AND HUMAN. DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE DUTCH; FLEMISH FRENCH ALIGNMENT CODON USAGE EVOLUTION G+C CONTENT GENE GENE EXPRESSIVITY GENES GENETICS MAMMALOGY MOLECULAR EVOLUTION PATTERNS PROTEIN GENES SYNONYMOUS CODONS TRANSFER-RNAS VERTEBRATE GENES GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. BARBARA MARY LOFTUS loftusbarbaramary PART-TIME CLINICAL LECTURER LOFTUSB HISTOPATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 CANCER DR. CAITRIONA LOGUE loguecaitriona VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW LOGUECA ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR AIDEEN LONG longaideen PROFESSOR LONGAI CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPTIAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CELLULAR, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY CHRONIC INFLAMATION HEPATITIS C HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS IMAGING TECHNIQUES IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNOASSAYS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INNATE IMMUNOLOGY INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY MEMBRANE AND PROTEIN TRAFFICKING OESOPHAGEAL CANCER OESOPHAGEAL, GASTRIC, INTESTINAL AND PANCREATIC DISEASES VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. CLAIRE LONG longclaire CATERING FINANCE OFFICE SUPERVISOR CLONG CATERING CATERING DEPARTMENT CATERING BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MIATI DR. ANDREW LOXLEY loxleyandrew ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LOXLEYA EDUCATION SOCIAL INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION; EDUCATION AND SOCIAL POLICY WITH A CURRENT INTEREST IN HIGHER EDUCATION; ALL THINGS METHODOLOGICAL BUT WITH AN EMPHASIS ON IMAGE BASED APPROACHES AND SEMIOTICS. DEPT OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF THE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY) BOARD MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSICIATION EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER - SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND INTERNATIONAL VISUAL SOCIOLOGY ASSOCIATION INVISIO - INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR VISUAL STUDIES IN ORGANIZATION REFEREE AND MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR SAGE PUBLICATIONS, REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND METHOD, REVIEWER FOR STUDIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION, REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION, REVIEWER FOR EDUCATION STUDIES, REVIEWER FOR POLITICS, REVIEWER FOR SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH ONLINE, REVIEWER FOR SOCIOLOGY, REFEREE FOR UK ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY HIGHER EDUCATION IMAGE BASED METHODOLOGIES & SEMIOTICS POLITICS OF EDUCATION POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE SOCIAL THEORY SOCIOLOGY EDUCATION WHERE NEXT? MAPPING AND UNDERSTANDING THE POST FIRST DEGREE DESTINATIONS OF MATURE DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS COMBAT POVERTY AGENCY EVALUATION STUDY OF THE DES 1999-2003 PRIMARY CURRICULUM SUPPORT PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, IRELAND. NO DATA INVESTIGATION OF ALCOHOL USE BY WOMAN WHO OBTAIN EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION. CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY FEASIBILITY STUDY INTO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SECOND LEVEL SCHOOL EDUCATE TOGETHER PROVISION FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY SUPER PROF-DOC THE CAVE, ALONG WITH EUROPEAN PARTNER INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS HAVE BEEN AWARDED 'ERASMUS +' RESEARCH GRANT OF €170,174 TO DEVELOP A PEDAGOGICAL FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT SUPERVISION PRACTICES ON PROFESSIONAL DOCTORATE PROGRAMMES. THE PROJECT WHICH IS TO BE UNDERTAKEN OVER A TWENTY-FOUR MONTH PERIOD, IS ENTITLED 'DOCTORAL SUPERVISION OF MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PRACTICE BASED DOCTORATES: AN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY INTO BEST PRACTICE IN THEIR DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY'. IT IS BEING JOINTLY UNDERTAKEN BY MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY (UK), UNIVERSITY OF MAASTRICHT (NETHERLANDS), EURODOC (BELGIUM) AND FONDAZIONE ADAPT (ITALY). BRITISH COUNCIL ERASMUS + EVALUATION OF FÁILTE ISTEACH PROJECT THIRD AGE ENHANCING ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL PROJECT ACROSS TCD, EXETER AND LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITIES SEEKING TO DEVELOP A PROJECT TO SUPPORT ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK FOR ACADEMICS AND STUDENTS. WE ARE UNDERTAKING A PILOT STUDY IN TCD AT PRESENT ACROSS FOUR SCHOOLS: MIDWIFERY, HISTORY, PHYSICS AND DENTISTRY. WE HOPE THE DATA FROM THE PILOT PROJECT WILL FORM THE BASIS OF A EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL APPLICATION TO BE SUBMITTED IN FEBRUARY 2013. APPLICANTS: DR CAROL EVANS (PI) EXETER DR MIKE WARING (LOUGHBOROUGH) DR JOAN LALOR (TCD) DR PATRICK GEOGHEGAN (TCD) DR AIDAN SEERY (TCD) DR ANDREW LOXLEY (TCD) MATURE STUDENTS EXPERIENCES OF HIGHER EDUCATION AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR BRIAN MICHAEL LUCEY luceybrianmichael PROFESSOR BLUCEY BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: . INTERNATIONAL ASSET MARKET INTEGRATION AND CONTAGION . FINANCIAL MARKET EFFICIENCY, PARTICULARLY AS MEASURED BY CALENDAR ANOMALIES . THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ECONOMICS. RESEARCH COLLABORATION: . RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES (IIIS) BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMIC DIRECTOR, MIDWEST FINANCE ASSOCIATION (USA) ACADEMIC DIRECTOR, MSC IN FINANCE ASSOCIATE EDITOR "JOURNAL OF APPLIED FINANCE ASSOCIATE EDITOR 'JOURNAL OF MULTINATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT' ASSOCIATE EDITOR - JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF 'THE FINANCIAL REVIEW' EASTERN FINANCE ASSOCIATION EDITOR - INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS EDITOR, FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS EDITOR, JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL AND EXPERIMENTAL FINANCE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST FINANCE ASSOCIATION ANOMALIES BEHAVIOURAL FINANCE COMMODITIES ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ECONOMETRICS/FORECASTING ECONOMICS EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION FINANCE FINANCIAL CRISES FINANCIAL ECONOMICS, FINANCIAL AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS GLOBALIZATION HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT INDEX INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SOCIAL SCIENCES--HUMANISTIC EMPHASIS STOCK SURVEYS & SURVEY RESEARCH ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT CULTURAL & ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY INFINITI A PROJECT TO EXAMINE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INTEGRATION IIIS TIONCHAR AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN IRELAND IRC INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. MARGARET LUCITT lucittmargaret ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LUCITTM PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS THE RESEARCH OF DR LUCITT FOCUSES ON UNDERSTANDING MECHANISMS UNDERLYING CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, INCLUDING ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND THROMBOSIS. CURRENT EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON HOW STATIN THERAPY MEDIATES INFLAMMATORY AND THROMBOTIC EFFECTS OUTSIDE OF THEIR LIPID LOWERING ABILITY IN PROTECTING AGAINST CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. STUDIES ARE CARRIED OUT LOOKING AT INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS IN MACROPHAGE CELLS WHICH CONSTITUTES THE PRIMARY INFLAMMATORY CELL IN ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES IN BLOOD VESSELS. THROMBOTIC EFFECTS FOLLOWING STATIN THERAPY ARE ALSO INVESTIGATED USING MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES AS WELL AS STANDARD AGGREGATORY ASSAYS FOR ASSESSMENT OF PLATELET FUNCTION. THE GOAL IS TO IDENTIFY NEW STRATEGIES TO TREAT THE INFLAMMATORY COMPONENTS OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES' HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. FRANCIS LUDLOW ludlowfrancis RESEARCH FELLOW FLUDLOW HISTORY SCHOOL OF HISTORIES AND HUMANITIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ALEXANDRA LUKES lukesalexandra ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LUKESA FRENCH 19TH- AND 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE; RELATIONS BETWEEN LITERATURE, PSYCHOANALYSIS, PHILOSOPHY, AND LINGUISTICS; MADNESS, NONSENSE, AND MARGINAL FORMS OF WRITING; LEWIS CARROLL, STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ, ANTONIN ARTAUD, SURREALISM; TRANSLATION STUDIES AND TRANSLATION THEORY; UNTRANSLATABILITY; LITERARY BILINGUALISM; AUTOBIOGRAPHY. DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 LANGUAGES & LITERATURE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. PETE LUNN lunnpete ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LUNNP SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR JAMES GERARD LUNNEY lunneyjamesgerard PROFESSOR JLUNNEY PHYSICS MY RESEARCH IN PHYSICS HAS BEEN MAINLY FOCUSSED ON THE INTERACTION OF HIGH POWER LASERS WITH MATERIALS. DURING MY PH. D STUDIES AT THE RUTHERFORD LABORATORY I USED VERY LARGE AND POWERFUL LASERS TO HEAT MATERIALS TO VERY HIGH TEMPERATURE FOR LASER FUSION STUDIES AND X-RAY LASER DEVELOPMENT. I MADE SOME OF THE FIRST X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS ON LASER IMPLODED MICRO-BALLOONS AND OBSERVED FOR THE FIRST TIME DENSITY-DEPENDENT DIELECTRONIC SATELLITE LINE EMISSION. ON JOINING THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS AT TRINITY COLLEGE I WAS ABLE TO CONTINUE SOME OF THIS WORK ON PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY, AND I APPLIED SOME OF THESE TECHNIQUES TO DENSE Z-PINCH PLASMA EXPERIMENTS AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON. I ALSO PUBLISHED 4 IMPORTANT PAPERS ON: . A NEW PUMPING SCHEME FOR AN X-RAY LASER, . A NEW SPECTROSCOPIC METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING HIGH DENSITY PLASMAS, . TIME-RESOLVED X-RAY DIFFRACTION FROM LASER HEATED CRYSTALS, AND . A METHOD FOR WAVE-GUIDING IN X-RAY LASER EXPERIMENTS, WHICH HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED IN LARGE LASER LABORATORIES IN US AND JAPAN IN 1986 I ESTABLISHED A NEW PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH ON LASER PROCESSING OF MATERIALS AT TRINITY COLLEGE. TOGETHER WITH MY RESEARCH STUDENTS, WE HAVE MADE CONTRIBUTIONS ON A NUMBER OF TOPICS IN THIS FIELD: . LASER ABLATIVE ETCHING OF POLYMERS AND INORGANIC MATERIALS, . LASER GLAZING OF METALLIC ALLOYS, . LASER CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, AND . PULSED LASER DEPOSITION OF THIN FILMS. WE WERE THE FIRST GROUP IN IRELAND TO USE THE PULSED LASER DEPOSITION (PLD) TO MAKE THIN FILMS. PLD IS A HIGHLY FLEXIBLE TECHNIQUE FOR THE PREPARATION OF COMPLEX MATERIALS FOR RESEARCH. WE HAVE USED THE TECHNIQUE TO MAKE THIN FILMS OF A WIDE RANGE OF SUPERCONDUCTING, MAGNETIC, SEMICONDUCTING AND METALLIC MATERIALS FOR SEVERAL EU AND NATIONALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS WITH PROF. COEY AND PROF. BLAU. WE HAVE ALSO SHOWN THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE PLD TO MAKE ULTRA-THIN MULTILAYER FILMS FOR THE FABRICATION OF MULTILAYER MIRRORS AND MAGNETO-RESISTIVE DEVICES. MY GROUP HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE PHYSICS OF THE LASER ABLATION PROCESS. IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE MADE IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF LASER ABLATION PLASMAS USING LANGMUIR PROBES. USING THESE PROBES WE HAVE SHOWN THAT IN PLD THE ABLATED VAPOUR IS SUBSTANTIALLY IONISED BECAUSE OF STRONG ABSORPTION OF THE LASER IN THAT MATERIAL. WE HAVE ALSO BEEN ABLE TO VALIDATE THE USE OF ADIABATIC ISENTROPIC MODELS FOR DESCRIBING THE PLASMA EXPANSION. THIS WORK HAS BENEFITED FROM A STRONG COLLABORATION WITH PROF J. SCHOU AT RISOE NATIONAL LABORATORY IN DENMARK WE HAVE USED PLD CAN TO PREPARE FILMS WIDE-BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS SUCH AS GAN AND ZNO. SOME OF THIS WORK HAS BEEN DONE IN COLLABORATION WITH RESEARCHERS AT DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY. WE ARE NOW EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF DOPING THESE MATERIALS TO SEMICONDUCTING THIN FILMS THAT ARE FERROMAGNETIC AT ROOM TEMPERATURE. SUCH MATERIALS MAY PROVE TO BE IMPORTANT IN THE EMERGING FIELD OF SPIN ELECTRONICS. I ALSO HAVE A CONTINUING INTEREST IN FINDING NEW APPLICATIONS FOR LASER ABLATION, SUCH AS USING IT TO PROVIDE THE GAS LOAD FOR PULSED DISCHARGE PLASMA CREATION SCHEMES. IN THIS CONTEXT I WAS PARTNER IN AN EU-FUNDED TMR CONTRACT ON IN CAPILLARY DISCHARGES FOR PULSED X-RAY SOURCES. DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS MEMBER OF OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2-PHASE MAGNETS ABLATION ABLATION DEPOSITION ALUMINUM PLASMAS AMBIENT OXYGEN ANGULAR-DISTRIBUTIONS APPLIED PHYSICS BARIUM FERRITE BEHAVIOR BI2SR2CACU2O8 BIPOLARONIC SUPERCONDUCTIVITY BLUE CATHOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING CD1-XMNXTE CDTE COEFFICIENTS COPPER CRYSTAL DEFECT STRUCTURE DENSITY DEPENDENCE DEPOSITION DIFFUSIVE LIGHT SCATTERING DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS DISTRIBUTED-BRAGG-REFLECTOR DOPED LAMNO3 DYNAMICS EMISSION EPITAXIAL ND0.7SR0.3MNO3-DELTA EPITAXY EUV SPECTROSCOPY EVAPORATION FERRITE THIN-FILMS FILM LAYERED STRUCTURES FILMS FOAMS GAAS GALLIUM NITRIDE GAN GAS-PRESSURE GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE GROWTH HALF-METALLIC FERROMAGNET IMPACT ION EMISSION LA0.7SR0.3MNO3 LASER ABLATION LASER TECHNOLOGY LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION LAYERS LOCALIZATION LUMINESCENCE MAGNETORESISTANCE MANGANITES METALLIC MULTILAYERS NANOWIRE FORMATION OPTICAL MATERIALS OPTICS OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC-ANISOTROPY PHOTOABLATION PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS PLASMAS POINT CONTACTS POLYMER ABLATION PULSED LASER DEPOSITION PULSES QUANTUM-WELL RADIATION RECORDING MEDIA REFRACTIVE-INDEX RESISTANCE RESISTIVITY SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY SR SUPERLATTICES SURFACES SYSTEM THIN FILMS - FERROMAGNETIC THIN-FILMS TRANSITION ULTRAVIOLET VACUUM WIRES X-RAY LASER YBCO THIN-FILMS YIELD AGEING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ROCCO LUPOI lupoirocco ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LUPOIR MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG AMBER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING; COLD SPRAY; MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION; LASERS AND MATERIAL LASER PROCESSING; FRICTION WELDING AND FRICTION STIR WELDING; SUPERSONIC FLOWS AND APPLICATIONS; FLUID MECHANICS, COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) AND APPLICATIONS; SOLID MECHANICS (CRASHWORTHINESS AND ENERGY ABSORBERS); COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS DESIGN FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT DEPT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE - REVIEWER ASME JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - REVIEWER ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR DE GRUYTER - HTTP://DEGRUYTEROPEN.COM/PEOPLE/RLUPOI/ CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE - REVIEWER CIRP JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - REVIEWER FUEL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY - REVIEWER FUNDED INVESTIGATOR OF AMBER - HTTP://AMBERCENTRE.IE/ INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY FOR PRODUCTION ENGINEERING, CIRP-E EVENTS - PART OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES - REVIEWER JOURNAL OF THE BRAZILIAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING - REVIEWER JOURNAL OF THERMAL SPRAY TECHNOLOGY - REVIEWER JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS (JOVE) MATERIALS & DESIGN - REVIEWER MEMBER OF THE IRISH MANUFACTURING COUNCIL (IMC) MEMBER OF THE ITALIAN PROFESSIONAL BODY FOR ENGINEERS (ALBO DEGLI INGEGNERI), CHARTERED ENGINEER LEVEL NOMINATED RESEARCH AFFILIATE (RA) OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY FOR PRODUCTION ENGINEERING (CIRP) ONLY MEMBER IN IRELAND OF THE COLD SPRAY SOCIETY, A GROUP OF WORLD LEADING EXPERTS IN THE FIELD RUN BY THE SCHOOL OF MINES IN PARIS OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY - REVIEWER PROPOSALS REVIEWER FOR CALLS BY RESEARCH FUNDING BODIES IN IRELAND, FRANCE AND CANADA SCIENTIFIC RESEARACH AND ESSAYS - REVIEWER SPRINGER AND SPRINGERPLUS - REVIEWER SURFACE & COATING TECHNOLOGY - REVIEWER ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ENERGY ENERGY ABSORBING MATERIALS ENERGY-ABSORPTION HYDRAULICS ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING LASER LASER CLADDING LASER MACHINING MANUFACTURING (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MATERIALS ENGINEERING MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PHYSICS PROCESS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING PROCESS ENGINEERING PRODUCTION ENGINEERING STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING (INCL. MATERIALS, ADVANCED & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES) PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE, MANUFACTURING & PRODUCTION AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING THE TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF COLD SPRAY APPLICATIONS IN IRELAND - SPRAYIRELAND THIS IS A CHALLENGING AND HIGH IMPACT PROJECT (27 MONTHS DURATION), THAT WILL EXPLORE AND DEVELOP COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS FOR COLD SPRAY. A PRELIMINARY FEASIBILITY INVESTIGATION REVEALED A HIGH IMPLEMENTATION POTENTIAL WITHIN THE IRISH BASED INDUSTRY. IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH A NUMBER OF INDUSTRY PARTNERS, SPRAYIRELAND WILL DEVELOP THE TECHNICAL TOOLS TO ADDRESS, USING COLD SPRAY AND SIMILAR METHODS, KEY CHALLENGES WITHIN THE INDUSTRY SPHERE THAT CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES HAVE SO FAR FAILED TO SOLVE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND (EI) COMMERCIALIZATION FUND DEVELOPMENT OF COLD SPRAY TOWARDS THE NEXT GENERATION ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING COLD SPRAY (CS) IS AN INNOVATIVE COATING MANUFACTURING PROCESS, WHICH ALLOWS FOR THE FORMATION OF MATERIAL LAYERS IN A SOLID-STATE (FREE OF MELTING) MANNER. IN THIS METHOD, THE FEEDSTOCK MATERIAL (IN THE FORM OF POWDER) IS INJECTED AT THE INLET OF A CONVERGING-DIVERGING SUPERSONIC NOZZLE. THE NOZZLE IS FED WITH HIGH PRESSURE GAS (NITROGEN OR HELIUM), WHICH EXPANDS THROUGH THE INTERNAL CHANNEL AND REACHES SUPERSONIC SPEED AT THE EXIT (ABOVE 1000M/S). PARTICLES ARE DRAGGED BY THE FAST JET, AND UPON IMPACT AGAINST A SUBSTRATE MATERIAL THEY PLASTICALLY DEFORM AND STAY BONDED. THIS PROJECT AIMS AT DEVELOPING A UNIQUE CS LABORATORY FACILITY, THE FIRST ONE IN IRELAND, FOR CS APPLICATIONS IN SPACE PROGRAMMES IN THE FORM OF COATINGS AND AND 3D COMPONENTS MADE OUT OF COMPOSITES AND METALS. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMME (TRP) SUPERSONIC SPRAY ADVANCED MODELLING - SSAM CURRENT METHODS FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF METALLIC COATINGS ONTO NON-METALLIC SURFACES ARE SLOW, LIMITED IN SIZE AND TO A SMALL RANGE OF FEEDSTOCK MATERIALS. ALSO, THEY REQUIRE TIME-CONSUMING MASKING STEPS OR COMPLEX ETCHING PROCEDURES, HAVE LOW BOND STRENGTHS, AND ARE COMING UNDER VERY STRONG PRESSURE TO LIMIT THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT THROUGH THE ELIMINATION OF TOXIC WASTE PRODUCTS. THIS PROJECT WILL START INVESTIGATING A REVOLUTIONARY POWDER-BASED TECHNOLOGY WHICH WILL LEAD TO THE DEVICE OF A MASK-FREE, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND LOW-COST DEPOSITION PROCESS TAILORED TO THE MANUFACTURING OF METALLIC COATINGS ONTO NON-METALLIC COMPONENTS. THE DEPOSIT FORMATION IS COMPLETELY SOLID-STATE (FREE OF MELTING). THIS PROGRAMME, SUPERSONIC SPRAY ADVANCED MODELLING - SSAM, WILL GENERATE THE REQUIRED COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO STUDY AND CONTROL THE PARTICLES ACCELERATION PROCESS WITHIN THE PROCESSING NOZZLE. FP7 - MARIE CURIE ACTIONS CIG EXPLORING METAL-AM AND NOVEL 3D PRINTING TECHNIQUES FOR THE MANUFACTURING OF DEVISES IN ORTHOPAEDICS THE BACKGROUND OF THIS PROGRAMME IS DIRECTLY LINKED TO METAL ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING (AM). TECHNIQUES THAT CONSTITUTE THIS FIELD, SUCH AS SELECTIVE LASER MELTING (SLM) AND ELECTRON BEAM MELTING (EBM) HAVE SHOWN GREAT PROGRESS IN RECENT YEARS. IT IS NOW POSSIBLE TO DIRECTLY 3D PRINT COMPONENTS WITH COMPLEX FEATURES AND WITH MINIMUM POST-PROCESSING OPERATIONS BEFORE REACHING THE NET SHAPE. FOR EXAMPLE, THE TYPICAL SLM PROCESS WOULD REQUIRE NO TOOLING, IS FULLY AUTOMATED, AND CAN MANUFACTURE COMPONENTS WITH MULTI-FEATURES IN ONE SINGLE PROCESSING STEP. METAL AM HAS THEREFORE ATTRACTED THE INTEREST OF SEVERAL SECTORS; HOWEVER IT SEEMS PARTICULARLY WELL SUITED FOR THE BIOMEDICAL INDUSTRY. USING CONVENTIONAL MANUFACTURING PROCESSES, THIS WOULD REQUIRE INVESTMENT CASTING, COMPLEX MACHINING PROCESSES, FINISHING PROCESSES COUPLED WITH ETCHING AND COATINGS STEPS TO ACHIEVE A FINAL PRODUCT. USING SLM, THESE MANUFACTURING STEPS CAN BE REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY. AMBER AND DEPUY IRELAND TARGETED PROJECT NOVEL HYBRID ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR THE FABRICATION OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MULTI- MATERIALS COMPONENTS FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MULTI-MATERIALS (FGMS) COMPONENTS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY SPATIALLY VARIATION OF MATERIALS OR MICROSTRUCTURES, RESULTING IN MULTIPLE PROPERTIES AND FUNCTIONS AT DIFFERENT PARTS. FGMS ARE ABLE TO GAIN THE BEST OF ALL CONSTITUENT MATERIALS, HAVING WIDE APPLICATIONS IN THE MODERN INDUSTRY. ADDITIVE MANUFACTURE OF A NEAR-NET-SHAPE FGMS COMPONENT WITH FINE DETAILS IS ALWAYS A CHALLENGE WORK BECAUSE THE WELDING OF INCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS RESULTS IN LARGE RESIDUAL STRESS, HIGH POROSITY AND CRACKS AT THE MULTI-MATERIALS INTERFACE, ESPECIALLY IN METALS. IN THIS RESEARCH, THE WORK AIMS TO DEVELOP A HYBRID ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY COMBINING SELECTIVE LASER MELTING (SLM) AND OTHER EMERGING TECHNIQUES TO FABRICATE HIGH-QUALITY FGMS COMPONENTS, CURRENTLY NOT POSSIBLE TO BE MANUFACTURED. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (IRC) POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SATURNINO LUZ luzsaturnino ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LUZS COMPUTER SCIENCE THE THEORETICAL BASES OF COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATION, MORE SPECIFICALLY PROCESSES RELATED TO INFORMATION STRUCTURING AND RETRIEVAL IN SCENARIOS ENCOMPASSING MULTIMEDIA DATA AND MULTIMODAL INTERACTION. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, INCLUDING: PARSING, CORPUS LINGUISTICS, TEXT CLASSIFICATION, AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION AND HUMAN-FACTORS RESEARCH. COMPUTER SCIENCE AIG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACTED AS MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE IN THE IRISH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES (AICS '03) ACTED AS REVIEWER FOR A NUMBER OF JOURNALS, INCLUDING THE <EM>JOURNAL OF MODELLING AND SIMULATION</EM>, <EM>UNIVERSAL ACCESS IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY</EM>, AND <EM>AI REVIEW</EM>. ACTED AS REVIEWER FOR CHI'07 ACTED AS REVIEWER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CONTEXT MODELLING (CONTEXT '03) CHAIR OF THE SPECIAL TRACK ON 'SUPPORTING COLLABORATION AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS' AT THE 23ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CBMS 2010) CO-CHAIR OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ONTOLOGIES IN INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS CO-CHAIR OF THE SPECIAL TRACK ON 'HEALTH KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT' AT THE 21TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CBMS 2008) CO-CHAIR OF THE SPECIAL TRACK ON 'SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE' AT THE 22ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CBMS 2009) EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR THE AUSTRALASIAN USER INTERFACE CONFERENCE (AUIC 2007) GUEST EDITOR OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOUR AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON COLLABORATION AND TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF JOURNAL BEHAVIOUR AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SPECIAL ISSUE ON MEDICAL TEAM MEETINGS MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) MEMBER OF ISCA, THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF CHINZ 2008 MEMBER OF PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF CHINZ 2009 MEMBER OF PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF CHINZ 2010 MEMBER OF PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF I-CHI 2010 MEMBER OF PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF PROPOR'08: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING OF THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE MEMBER OF PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE CONFERENCE ON MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIMODAL INFORMATION ACCESS EVALUATION (CLEF 2010) MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (ACM) MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF INTERACT 2009 MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALISATION (IV08) MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE 13TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NZ ACM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE 45TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL 2007) MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE 5TH WORKSHOP ON IT AND HUMAN LANGUAGE (TIL 2007) MEMBER OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE 8TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NZ ACM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION (CHINZ 2007) ORGANISED A WORKSHOP ON "WEB-BASED CORPUS SOFTWARE" AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA. ORGANISER OF SPECIAL TRACK ON 'COLLABORATION AND TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN HEALTHCARE' AT THE 26TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CBMS), ROME, ITALY ORGANISER OF SPECIAL TRACK ON 'SUPPORTING COLLABORATION IN HEALTHCARE' AT THE 24TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS (CBMS), BRISTOL, UK. PC CHAIR OF THE 3RD IRISH HCI CONFERENCE (I-HCI 2009) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND TRACK LEADER (SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK) IN THE CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION (CNGL) REVIEWER FOR THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERVASIVE COMPUTING REVIEWER FOR THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS, IMAGING AND VISUALIZATION (CGIV'08) REVIEWER FOR THE CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (EMNLP 2007) REVIEWER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS, IMAGING AND VISUALIZATION (GCIV'05 AND CGIV'06) REVIEWER FOR TIL 2007 SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL <EM>INFORMATION</EM> SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE TECHNICAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE FOR 7TH WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING OF THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE (PROPOR'06) SERVED IN THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE OF THE ASIA-PACIFICCONFERENCE ON COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION (APCHI '04). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BIOINFORMATICS COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK DECISION SUPPORT TOOL HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL INTELLIGENT AGENTS MACHINE LEARNING MODALITY COMBINATIONS MULTIMEDIA MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS SPEECH FUNCTIONALITY SPEECH PROCESSING/TECHNOLOGY SPEECH RECOGNITION TEMPORAL AND CONTEXTUAL DATA VISUALISATION FOR COLLABORATIVE MEETING MEMORIES THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE BASIC TECHNIQUES TO SUPPORT VISUALISATION AND RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION FROM RECORDS OF COLLABORATIVE MULTIMODAL INTERACTION. THE PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP TECHNIQUES TO BE USED IN A LARGE VARIETY OF ORGANISATIONAL MEMORY DEVICES TO SUPPORT COMPUTER-MEDIATED HUMAN INTERACTION. IT WILL BUILD ON A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR DATA VISUALISATION AND RETRIEVAL BASED ON PATTERN DISCOVERY WHICH ENCOMPASSES ELEMENTS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE RESEARCH. EXTENSIVE EMPIRICAL EVALUATION AND INCREMENTAL PROTOTYPING WILL BE USED TO TEST TECHNIQUES AND ASSESS THE VALIDITY OF OUR THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH PROGRAMME ECOMMET: ENHANCED COMPUTING SUPPORT FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDICAL TEAM MEETINGS MULTIDISCIPLINARY MEDICAL TEAM MEETINGS HAVE BECOME AN ESTABLISHED PRACTICE IN MANY HOSPITALS. TEAMS OF EXPERTS ROUTINELY COME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS CASES AND PATIENT MANAGEMENT DECISIONS. SUCH DISCUSSIONS GENERATE A WEALTH OF INFORMATION THAT IS NOT CAPTURED IN TRADITIONAL MEDICAL RECORDS. ALTHOUGH RECENT TECHNOLOGICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS HAVE MADE DIGITAL RECORDING OF ENTIRE MEETINGS A DISTINCT POSSIBILITY, THE USEFULNESS OF THIS KIND OF AUDIOVISUAL DATABASE IS DEPENDENT ON HOW EFFECTIVELY ITS CONTENTS CAN BE ACCESSED. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE HUMAN AND TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN BUILDING ADVANCED COMPUTING SUPPORT FOR COLLABORATION, PRODUCTION AND ACCESS OF ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS IN THOSE CONTEXTS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS 2006 NGL CSET: NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION LOCALISATION IS THE INDUSTRIAL PROCESS OF ADAPTING DIGITAL CONTENT TO CULTURE, LOCALE AND LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENT AT HIGH QUALITY, SPEED, VOLUME AND LOW COST, AND IS THE KEY ENABLING, VALUE-ADDING, MULTIPLIER COMPONENT OF THE GLOBAL SOFTWARE AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRY. THIS COLLABORATIVE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECT WILL CARRY OUT THE FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED RESEARCH UNDERPINNING THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE NEW LOCALISATION TECHNOLOGIES. IT WILL ADDRESS THE ISSUES OF VOLUME OF DATA, INFORMATION ACCESS, AND PERSONALISATION. DR LUZ COORDINATES THE SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK RESEARCH TRACK AND ACTS AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IN THE AREAS OF AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION AND LABELLING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXTS AND INTERACTION DESIGN. SFI CENTRES FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY CNGL 2 CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT. I LEAD ONE OF THE CHALLENGES UNDER THE DELIVERY & INTERACTION THEME, WITH FOCUS ON INTERLINGUAL INTERACTION AND NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION. SFI METALOGUE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS WITH METACOGNITIVE CAPABILITIES. (CO-PI: PROF. NICK CAMPBELL) EU FP7 CANCER DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. ANN-MARIE LYNAM lynamannmarie PRACTICE EDUCATION CO-ORDINATOR LYNAMAN CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. AILEEN MARIA LYNCH lynchaileenmaria ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AMLYNCH SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MY EARLIER RESEARCH IDENTIFIED THAT IL-1BETA, IL-1BETA-SIGNALING PROTEINS, STRESS-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES, CASPASES AND APOPTOSIS ARE ALL UP-REGULATED WHEN INFLAMMATION IS INDUCED IN THE BRAIN. MORE RECENTLY MY RESEARCH HAS INDICATED THAT NEUROINFLAMMATION EVOLVES AS THE BRAIN AGES. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM, AS IT IS WELL ESTABLISHED THAT NEUROINFLAMMATION CONTRIBUTES TO PATHOLOGY IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS SUCH AS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, ALZHEIMER¡¿S DISEASE AND PARKINSON¡¿S DISEASE. RECENTLY, I HAVE INVESTIGATED VARIOUS WAYS OF MODULATING THE INFLAMMATORY PROCESS AND ONE APPROACH I TOOK WAS TO EXPLORE THE REPUTED BENEFICIAL ROLE THE OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS (I.E. EPA) HAVE ON THE BRAIN. THE DATA INDICATES THAT EPA EXERTS AN ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECT AND MEDIATES ITS ACTION BY RESTORING LEVELS OF THE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES IN THE AGEING BRAIN. IN ADDITION, EPA HAS THE ABILITY TO MODULATE MICROGLIAL ACTIVITY WHICH IS KEY, AS THE MICROGLIAL ARE THE MAIN SOURCE OF CYTOKINES IN THE BRAIN. OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE HOW CELL-CELL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NEURAL CELLS MAINTAINS CNS HOMEOSTASIS?; IS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM COMPROMISED WITH AGE AND DO ADDITIONAL INSULTS TO THE AGEING BRAIN FURTHER ACCENTUATED THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE? IN HUMANS, HOW DOES THE INFLAMMATORY STATUS INFLUENCE DISEASE PROCESSES OR SUCCESSFUL AGING? ARE CYTOKINE POLYMORPHISMS LINKED WITH BETTER CLINICAL OUTCOMES? DO ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS WHICH ARE ALREADY ADMINISTERED CLINICALLY, INFLUENCE DISEASE PROCESSES OR CONTRIBUTE TO SUCCESSFUL AGEING? OVERALL, MEASUREMENT OF MARKERS OF INFLAMMATION MIGHT BE A USEFUL INDICATION OF HIGH-RISK SUBGROUPS FOR ANTI-INFLAMMATORY INTERVENTIONS. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE BRITISH NEUROSCIENCE ASSOCIATION NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY (AFFILIATE MEMBER) AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE APOPTOSIS ASTROCYTE AUTOIMMUNITY BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER CELL AND TISSUE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND AGEING CHRONIC INFLAMATION CONSEQUENCES OF ISCHEMIA OR HYPOXIA, CONVULSIVE DISORDERS CYTOKINE ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IMMUNE SYSTEM MICROGLIA MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NERVOUS SYSTEM, DEVELOPMENT, PLASTICIY AND AGEING NEUROCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROENDOCRINE IMMUNOLOGY NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROPHYSIOLOGY SCHIZOPHRENIA STRESS TIGHT JUNCTION PERMEABILITY TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEINS RD-WIFI INFOMATION NEEDS FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES THE SAOIRSE FOUNDATION THE IMPACT OF AGE AND NEUROINFLAMMATION ON THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER AND NEUROVASCULAR UNIT OUR FINDINGS PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF A STRUCTURALLY AND FUNCTIONALLY DISRUPTED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER (BBB) WITH AGE. IL-1BETA SIGNALLING MEDIATES THE TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEIN DISRUPTION, AS EVIDENCED BY THE INCREASED TIGHT JUNCTION EXPRESSION IN AGED IL-1R1-/- MICE. THIS MAY BE PARTIALLY FACILITATED BY ITS ACTION ON MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES AND VIA SIGNALLING THROUGH THE ERK-MAPK PATHWAY. SUCH AGE-RELATED BBB DISRUPTION MAY FACILITATE THE ENTRY OF POTENTIAL NEUROTOXINS INTO THE BRAIN, PROBABLY EXACERBATING NEURONAL DAMAGE WITH INCREASING AGE. RARE DISEASES WEB-INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES IN IRELAND (RD-WIFI) SAOIRSE FOUNDATION LIAM'S LODGE: A NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CARE CENTRE FOR CHILDREN WITH RARE, GENETIC AND LIFE LIMITING CONDITIONS AND A CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE RESPITE SERVICE FOR MUNSTER AND THE MID-WEST. SAOIRSE FOUNDATION RARE DISEASES WEBSITE - DEVELOPING THE PARENT2PARENT CONTENT OF A RARE DISEASE WEBSITE IN IRELAND. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS EVALUATING BUMBLEANCE - THE CHILDREN'S NATIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE SAOIRSE FOUNDATION EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY PEOPLE WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY LIVING INDEPENDENTLY. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR MARINA ANNETTA LYNCH lynchmarinaannetta PROFESSOR LYNCHMA PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) RESEARCH INTERESTS 1. ANALYSIS OF THE UNDERLYING CAUSE(S) AND CONSEQUENCES OF AGE-RELATED NEUROINFLAMMATION IN THE BRAIN, WITH A SPECIFIC EMPHASIS ON ASSESSING CHANGES IN MICROGLIAL ACTIVATION AND THE CONSEQUENT INFLAMMATORY CHANGES. 2. ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF NEUROINFLAMMATION ON SYNAPTIC FUNCTION AND MODULATION BY ANTI-INFLAMMATORY STRATEGIES INCLUDING NEUROIMMUNEREGULATORY PROTEINS, PARTICULARLY CD200 LIGAND-RECEPTOR INTERACTION. 3. INVESTIGATION OF THE DIFFERENT ACTIVATION STATES OF MICROGLIA IN NEUROINFLAMMATORY CONDITIONS INCLUDING IN THE AGED BRAIN AND IN MODELS OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. ASSESSMENT OF THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH ACTIVATION STATES CAN BE MODULATED. 4. EXAMINATION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN SYNAPTIC FUNCTION, PARTICULARLY IN THE AGED BRAIN. 5. ASSESSMENT OF PERIPHERAL INFLAMMATORY CHANGES AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFYING A BIOMARKER WHICH CORRELATES WITH COMPROMISED COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN PRODROMAL ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. DEPT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 2001-2005: MEMBER OF IRISH GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED COMMISSION ON ASSISTED HUMAN REPRODUCTION; WORKGROUP CHAIR & MEMBER OF DRAFTING GROUP FOR THE FINAL REPORT. 2001-2009: MEMBER OF BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE 2005-2008: MEMBER OF BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 2006-2009: DIRECTOR, TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE BRITISH NEUROSCIENCE ASSOCIATION AGE RELATED DISEASES AGING/GERONTOLOGY ANTIINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES BRAIN HIPPOCAMPUS INFLAMMATION POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS PROINFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY NO DATA CURRENT PROJECTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF TLR2 ACTIVATION IN DRIVING INFLAMMATION AND THE IMPACT OF DECREASING ACTIVATION ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION, GLIAL ACTIVATION AND AMYLOID PATHOLOGY IN APP/PS1 MICE. 2. INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF A SMALL MOLECULE INHIBITOR OF THE NLRP3 INFLAMMASOME ON GLIAL AND NEURONAL FUNCTION IN APP/PS1 MICE. 3. ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF INFILTRATING IFN&#947;-PRODUCING PERIPHERAL CELLS ON NEUROINFLAMMATION AND INVESTIGATION OF CONSEQUENCES OF INHIBITING CELL INFILTRATION BY FTY720. 4. INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF SLAM (SIGNALLING LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION MOLECULE) ON MICROGLIAL FUNCTION. 5. IDENTIFICATION OF THE METABOLIC AND FUNCTIONAL SIGNATURES OF DIFFERENT MICROGLIAL PHENOTYPES AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. MUIREANN LYNCH lynchmuireann ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LYNCHM16 ECONOMICS 42 WINDERMERE GILFORD ROAD SANDYMOUNT DUBLIN 4 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MICHAEL EDWARD LYONS lyonsmichaeledward PROFESSOR MELYONS CHEMISTRY AMBER CRANN RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN THE AREAS OF PHYSICAL, MATERIALS, NANO- AND BIO-ELECTROCHEMISTRY AND IN RAW MATERIALS. CURRENT ACTIVITY IS FOCUSED ON THE INVESTIGATION OF THE REDOX, CHARGE STORAGE AND ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURED METAL OXYHYDROXIDE THIN FILMS FOR USE AS ELECTRODES IN WATER ELECTROLYSIS CELLS AND ELECTROCHEMICAL FUEL CELLS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF METAL OXIDE AND POLYMERIC ELECTRODE MATERIALS FOR USE AS AMPEROMETRIC CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SENSORS IN TANDEM WITH THE MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF REACTION AND DIFFUSION OF ANALYTES AT SENSOR ELECTRODE SURFACES IS AN ONGOING RESEARCH ACTIVITY. CHEMISTRY DEPT CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IRISH MEMBER AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ELECTROCHEMISTRY ELECTROCHEMICAL BIOSENSORS ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY CONVERSION ELECTROCHEMICAL KINETICS MATHEMATICAL MODELLING ELECTROCHEMICAL SYSTEMS BATTERIES, HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS ENERGY STORAGE NANO-TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE REDOX & CATALYTIC PROPERTIES OF HYDRATED METAL OXIDE ELECTRODES FOR USE IN ENERGY CONVERSION & STORAGE DEVICES IN THE PRESENT RESEARCH PROGRAMME THE MECHANISM OF HYDROUS OXIDE GROWTH AND THE REDOX CHARGING/DISCHARGING BEHAVIOUR AT A VARIETY OF NOBLE (PT, RH, IR) AND NON-NOBLE METAL (FE, CO, NI, MN) HYDROUS OXIDES WILL BE FULLY ELUCIDATED UNDER WELL DEFINED CONDITIONS USING A RANGE OF IN SITU ELECTROCHEMICAL (STEADY STATE AND TRANSIENT), NANOGRAVIMETRIC, SPECTROSCOPIC AND MICROSCOPIC (SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL AND ATOMIC FORCE) IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH A COHERENT BASIS FOR PREPARATION OF DEFINED MATERIALS WITH DEFINED PROPERTIES. THE ACTIVITY, KINETICS AND MECHANISM OF THE CATALYTICALLY DEMANDING DIOXYGEN EVOLUTION AND ELECTROREDUCTION REACTIONS WILL THEN BE PROBED AND ELUCIDATED ON THE LATTER SURFACES AND AT METAL SURFACES PRE-COATED WITH CARBON NANOTUBE MESHES ON WHICH HYDROUS OXIDES ARE ELECTROCHEMICALLY GROWN. A DETAILED EXPERIMENTAL BASIS TO UNDERPIN A COHERENT PREDICTIVE THEORY OF ELECTROCATALYSIS WILL THEREFORE BE ESTABLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. THIS WILL RESULT IN A HUGE ADVANCE IN THE OPTIMIZATION OF WATER ELECTROLYSIS ANODE AND PEM FUEL CELL CATHODE MATERIALS SCIENCE AND WILL BRING THE IDEAL OF A SUSTAINABLE ELECTROCHEMISTRY BASED HYDROGEN ECONOMY CLOSER TO FRUITION. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. RONAN LYONS lyonsronan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ROLYONS ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES ECONOMIC ACTIVITY AND HUMAN WELFARE ARE SPREAD REMARKABLY UNEVENLY IN THE WORLD. TO UNDERSTAND THIS, ECONOMICS NEEDS TO RECOGNISE THE IMPORTANCE OF BOTH TIME AND PLACE. ON THE ONE HAND, THE PERSISTENT GAP BETWEEN WEALTHY AND POOR COUNTRIES IS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION THAT BEGAN AROUND THE TURN OF THE 18TH CENTURY. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE FACT THAT THE ALMOST ALL INCOME AND WEALTH IS CONCENTRATED GEOGRAPHICALLY ON A TINY FRACTION OF THE WORLD'S LAND UNDERSCORES THE HUGE - AND PERHAPS GROWING - IMPORTANCE OF LOCATION AND CLUSTERS. AS A RESULT, MY RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON BOTH ECONOMIC HISTORY AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. THERE ARE FIVE AREAS WHERE MY RESEARCH IS CURRENTLY FOCUSED. FIRSTLY, MUCH OF MY RESEARCH EXAMINES THE ECONOMICS OF HOUSING MARKETS. HOUSING CONSTITUTES BOTH THE BIGGEST ITEM OF EXPENDITURE AND THE MOST POPULAR INVESTMENT CLASS AND IS THEREFORE CENTRAL TO UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC CYCLES, SUCH AS THE "GREAT RECESSION" STARTING IN 2007. THE IRISH HOUSING BUBBLE OF 1995-2007 AND THE SUBSEQUENT CRASH REPRESENT A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND NOT JUST THE INTERNAL MECHANICS OF THE HOUSING MARKET, INCLUDING THE CENTRAL ROLE OF CONSUMER EXPECTATIONS, BUT ALSO HOW HOUSING RELATES TO THE REST OF THE ECONOMY, IN PARTICULAR THE FINANCIAL SECTOR AND CREDIT CONDITIONS. CLEARLY, HOUSING DEMAND IS IMPORTANT BUT SO TOO IS THE SUPPLY OF HOUSING, WHICH REMAINS POORLY UNDERSTOOD INTERNATIONALLY AND THIS IS ANOTHER AREA OF FOCUS IN MY RESEARCH. LASTLY, I AM INTERESTED IN THE LINKS BETWEEN HOUSING AND LABOUR MARKETS. RELATED TO THIS, I AM INTERESTED IN WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM THE HOUSING MARKET ABOUT HOW PEOPLE VALUE WHAT ARE TYPICALLY TERMED NON-MARKET SERVICES. IT IS NO SECRET THAT HOUSES CLOSE TO GOOD SCHOOLS OR TRANSPORT LINKS ARE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THOSE THAT ARE NOT. ECONOMIC TECHNIQUES CAN REVEAL HOW MUCH THE AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD VALUES A WHOLE RANGE OF AMENITIES, INCLUDING NATURAL AND CULTURAL AMENITIES AND MARKET DEPTH. WHILE FISCAL POLICY HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN BASED ON COSTS, RATHER THAN THE RATIO OF COSTS AND BENEFITS, HIGH LEVELS OF DEBT THROUGHOUT THE DEVELOPED WORLD MEAN THAT THE FOCUS OF POLICYMAKERS MUST SHIFT TO UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL RETURN ON PUBLIC SPENDING, RATHER THAN SEEING IT AS A BLACK BOX. IN THIS CONTEXT, THE VALUATION OF AMENITIES MOVES FROM BEING AN INTERESTING PHENOMENON TO THE FOUNDATION OF SOLID FISCAL POLICY. MY FINAL AREA OF FOCUS IN ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY IS SUSTAINABLE AND BEHAVIOURAL REAL ESTATE. IF MAKING YOUR HOME MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT HAS BOTH AN INCOME EFFECT (LOWER BILLS) AND A WEALTH EFFECT (YOUR HOME IS MORE VALUABLE), WHY DON'T ALL HOMEOWNERS UPGRADE THEIR HOMES? IS THIS EXPLAINED BY IMPERFECT CAPITAL MARKETS, WITH BANKS UNWILLING TO LEND FOR SUCH PURPOSES, OR IMPERFECT RATIONALITY, WITH HOUSEHOLDS NOT BUDGING UNTIL THEY ARE NUDGED. MY INTERESTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY ARE QUANTITATIVE AND RELATE TO INCOME AND WEALTH. THEY CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO TWO MAIN AREAS. THE FIRST IS RELATIVE FACTOR RETURNS: HOW MUCH DID A SKILLED WORKER EARN, RELATIVE TO AN UNSKILLED WORKER OR AN ACRE OF LAND? HOW AND WHY DID THIS VARY ACROSS COUNTRIES AND OVER TIME? INCOME INEQUALITY IS A MAJOR POLICY CONCERN, BOTH WITHIN AND ACROSS ECONOMIES, AND UNDERSTANDING THE CONTRIBUTION OF FACTORS SUCH AS TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY OVER THE LONG RUN CAN INFORM CURRENT DEBATES. LASTLY, I AM INTERESTED IN CONSTRUCTING LONG-RUN SERIES IN INCOME AND WEALTH. OVER RECENT YEARS, I AND OTHER HAVE BEEN BUILDING A DATASET OF IRISH EQUITY PRICES FROM THE 1800S. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EQUITY RETURNS AND RETURNS ON OTHER ASSETS, SUCH AS PROPERTY OR HUMAN CAPITAL, IS PIVOTAL IN UNDERSTANDING HOW THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM AS A WHOLE, WHICH IS BEYOND ANYONE'S CONTROL, FUNCTIONS. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION AMERICAN REAL ESTATE & URBAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION ECONOMIC & SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF IRELAND ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION IRISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY STATISTICAL & SOCIAL INQUIRY SOCIETY OF IRELAND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY ECONOMIC HISTORY URBAN ECONOMICS ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT H2PINA - HISTORICAL HOUSE PRICES IN NORTH AMERICA, 1900-1960 BUILDING A DATASET OF SALES AND RENTAL LISTINGS FOR NORTH AMERICAN HOUSING MARKETS, FOR THE PERIOD 1900-1960, FROM NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PATHFINDER DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. BARRY LYONS lyonsbarry ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BALYONS SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ETHICS/EDUCATION DIVISON BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE PEARSE STREET, COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. CHRISTOPHER GARRY LYONS lyonschristophergarry ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CLYONS MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDINGS COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER,IRISH MANUFACTURING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND ORGANISING COMMITTEE MEMBER & JOINT EDITOR IMC VII. SEVENTH CONFERENCE OF THE IRISH MANUFACTURING COMMITTEE ORGANISING COMMITTEE MEMBER & JOINT EDITOR IMC XII. TWELFTH CONFERENCE OF THE IRISH MANUFACTURING COMMITTEE SECRETARY, ORGANISING COMMITTEE & JOINT EDITOR IMC 1. FIRST CONFERENCE OF THE IRISH MANUFACTURING COMMITTEE BIOENGINEERING COMPUTER-AIDED ENGINEERING DESIGN ENGINEERING ENGINEERING DESIGN HUMAN FACTORS IN ENGINEERING PRECISION ENGINEERING PRECLINICAL TEST PRODUCTION ENGINEERING PVT PROPERTIES THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MAMMALIAN SKELETAL TISSUE THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BIOLOGICAL SOFT TISSUES ARE PRESENTLY POORLY CLASSIFIED. MUSCLE TISSUE PRESENTS DIFFICULTIES DUE TO ITS ACTIVE AND PASSIVE COMPONENTS, NON-LINEARITY, VISCOELASTICITY AND ANISOTROPY. MUSCLE IS SUBJECT TO LARGE DEFORMATIONS AND IS THUS NOT REPRESENTED BY CLASSICAL LINEAR ELASTICITY. FURTHERMORE, PARAMETERS SUCH AS AGE, GENDER AND SPECIES ARE ALSO INFLUENTIAL. THE PROJECT WILL DETERMINE THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HUMAN MUSCLE AS A FUNCTION OF THESE VARIABLES AND SO ALLOW BETTER MODELS TO BE DEVELOPED. THIS WILL AID THE TOPIC OF IMPACT BIOMECHANICS. PRTLI SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR WILLIAM EDWARD LYONS lyonswilliamedward FELLOW EMERITUS WLYONS PHILOSOPHY DEPT.OF PHILOSOPHY 5008 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 DR. SEÁN LYONS lyonssen ADJUNCT PROFESSOR SELYONS ECONOMICS ESRI WHITAKER SQUARE SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 HONORARY SECRETARY OF THE STATISTICAL AND SOCIAL INQUIRY SOCIETY OF IRELAND ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ECONOMETRICS/FORECASTING ECONOMICS OF ARTS, REGULATION, TAX POLICY, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE ECONOMICS OF CONSUMPTION ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC POLICY ECONOMICS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENERGY ECONOMICS INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JOANNE LYSAGHT lysaghtjoanne ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JLYSAGHT SURGERY DR. LYSAGHT'S RESEARCH GROUP FOCUS ON A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT AREAS AROUND THE CENTRAL THEME OF TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY. A MAJOR RESEARCH INTEREST IS THE AREA OF OBESITY AND CANCER, AND HOW THIS IMPACTS ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNITY. THE MAJORITY OF RESEARCH IN THE TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY GROUP IS FOCUSED ON UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER, PARTICULARLY OESOPHAGEAL CANCER. RESEARCH INTO HOW THE REGULATION AND TRAFFICKING OF LYMPHOCYTES CAN BE TARGETED TO REDUCED ADIPOSE TISSUE AND LIVER-ASSOCIATED INFLAMMATION IS A MAJOR THEME WITHIN THE GROUP. OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE IDENTIFYING NOVEL IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC TARGETS IN THE PRE-MALIGNANT SETTING SUCH AS BARRETT'S OESOPHAGUS, WHICH CAN BE USED TO SLOW OR PREVENT PROGRESSION TO MALIGNANCY. WE ARE ALSO CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIOTHERAPY ON ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNITY AND IMMUNOTHERAPIES. ANOTHER AREA UNDER CURRENT INVESTIGATION IS THE ROLE OF ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY AND OBESITY IN THE DEBILITATING CANCER-ASSOCIATED WASTING DISEASE CACHEXIA AND SARCOPENIA, WHICH IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR UP TO 20% OF ALL CANCER DEATHS. DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH TREASURER AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY ADIPOCYTES ADIPOSE TISSUE ADIPOSE-TISSUE DISTRIBUTION ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY ADVANCED CANCER ANTICANCER THERAPIES AUTOIMMUNITY BARRETTS ESOPHAGUS CACHEXIA CANCER BIOLOGY CANCER BIOPSIES CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY CANCER CLASSIFICATION CANCER DEVELOPMENT CANCER PATIENTS CANCER RISK CANCER THERAPY CANCER/CARCINOGENESIS CD4+ T CELLS CHEMO-RADIOTHERAPY COMBINATION IMMUNOTHERAPY DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL ANTI-CANCER THERAPIES DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL NEO-ADJUVANT TREATMENTS FOR OESOPHAGEAL AND PROSTATE CANCER ESOPHAGEAL CANCER GASTRIC CANCER GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER HUMAN ESOPHAGEAL CANCER HUMAN T-CELLS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNOASSAYS IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY INNATE IMMUNOLOGY METABOLIC DISORDERS NK CELLS OBESITY RADIOTHERAPY, BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS AND CHEMOPREVENTION REGULATORY T CELLS SARCOPENIA TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY TUMOUR IMMUNOTHERAPY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF T CELLS IN ADIPOSE TISSUE AND HEPATIC INFLAMMATION IN OBESITY ASSOCIATED CANCER. VISCERAL OBESITY IS CONSIDERED TO BE A STATE OF CHRONIC SYSTEMIC LOW GRADE INFLAMMATION, DRIVEN LARGELY BY THE RELEASE OF INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS FROM INFILTRATING IMMUNE CELLS. STEATOHEPATITIS, IS A HEPATIC INFLAMMATORY CONSEQUENCE OF VISCERAL ADIPOSE TISSUE INFLAMMATION AND NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE (NAFLD). RECENT MURINE STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT EXCESS FAT CAN EXACERBATE T CELL MEDIATED LIVER INJURY, BY POLARISING T HELPER CELLS TOWARDS A TH-1 RESPONSE. OBESITY IS ALSO KNOWN TO ENHANCE LYMPHOCYTE RESPONSIVENESS TO HEPATIC CHEMOKINES, RESULTING IN INCREASED LYMPHOCYTE TRAFFICKING TO THE LIVER IN RESPONSE TO INFLAMMATORY INSULTS. HOWEVER THE CHARACTERISATION AND SOURCE OF THESE LYMPHOCYTES IN HUMANS HAS NOT BEEN ADDRESSED. OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA (OAC) HAS THE FASTEST GROWING INCIDENCE OF ALL CANCERS, PARTICULARLY IN IRELAND. IT HAS THE STRONGEST ASSOCIATION WITH OBESITY OF ALL CANCERS AND ARISES IN A BACKGROUND OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION MAKING IT AN IDEAL MODEL TO STUDY THE ROLE OF T CELLS IN ADIPOSE TISSUE AND LIVER INFLAMMATION. THIS NOVEL PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE CHEMOATTRACTANT PROPERTIES OF THE HUMAN OMENTUM AND LIVER IN ATTRACTING NAIVE OR ACTIVATED T CELLS IN OAC PATIENTS. THE INFLAMMATORY PROFILE IN BLOOD, OMENTUM, LIVER AND TUMOUR WILL BE ASSESSED AND CORRELATED WITH VISCERAL OBESITY. WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY SHOWN THAT LARGE POPULATIONS OF ACTIVATED INFLAMMATORY T CELLS RESIDE WITHIN THE OMENTUM AND THIS PROJECT AIMS TO EXAMINE THE CLONALITY OF THESE T CELLS BY TCR REPERTOIRE RESTRICTION ANALYSIS AND COMPARE IT TO THAT OF HEPATIC T CELLS IN MATCHED PATIENTS, WHERE THEY MAY PLAY A ROLE IN NAFLD. OVERALL THIS PROJECT, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND, WILL DELINEATE THE ROLE OF OMENTAL AND HEPATIC T CELLS IN MAINTAINING CHRONIC INFLAMMATION IN OBESE CANCER PATIENTS AND POTENTIALLY IDENTIFY IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC CELLULAR OR PROTEIN TARGETS IN ORDER TO CONTROL PATHOLOGICAL INFLAMMATION AND ENHANCE ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNE RESPONSES IN THESE PATIENTS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INVESTIGATING THE IMMUNOMODULATORY PROPERTIES OF ADIPOSE TISSUE IN OESOPHAGEAL AND COLORECTAL CANCER. OBESITY HAS INCREASED MARKEDLY OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES AND IS PREDICTED TO OVERTAKE SMOKING AS THE LEADING CONTRIBUTING FACTOR FOR CANCER BY 2015. THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO STUDY AN ADIPOSE TISSUE BIORESOURCE FROM PATIENTS UNDERGOING RESECTIVE SURGERY FOR OESOPHAGEAL AND COLORECTAL CANCER, TO INVESTIGATE THE MECHANISMS WHERE OBESITY MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESSION OF THESE MALIGNANCIES. VISCERAL ABDOMINAL FAT HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE ESSENTIAL FAT DEPOT FOR PATHO-GENETIC THEORIES THAT RELATE OBESITY, METABOLIC SYNDROME AND CANCER. IN A PROSPECTIVE STUDY, SUBPOPULATIONS OF IMMUNE CELLS IN FRESHLY DIGESTED, RESECTED PERIPHERAL AND OMENTAL ADIPOSE TISSUE WILL BE CHARACTERISED. DATA WILL ANALYSED COMPARING OBESE AND NON-OBESE PATIENTS, AND PATIENTS WITH OR WITHOUT CANCER. IMMUNE CELL POPULATION WILL ALSO BE ASSESSED IN THE BLOOD TO DETERMINE HOW EXCESS ADIPOSE TISSUE MAY REGULATE SYSTEMIC IMMUNE RESPONSES, POTENTIALLY EFFECTING CANCERS AT DISTAL SITES. IN A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY, THE ACTIVATION STATUS AND LOCALISATION OF DISTINCT IMMUNE CELLS WITHIN THE TUMOUR MICROENVIRONMENT WILL BE DETERMINED BY IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY USING SPECIFICALLY GENERATED TISSUE MICRO-ARRAYS. THIS DATA WILL BE CORRELATED WITH CLINICAL PARAMETERS INCLUDING BMI, VISCERAL ADIPOSITY, METABOLIC SYNDROME STATUS, PATHOLOGICAL FEATURES AND OVERALL SURVIVAL IN ORDER TO EXAMINE THE ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNE RESPONSE IN OBESE PATIENTS. THE ABILITY OF ADIPOCYTES TO ACT AS ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS AND DIRECT INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSES WILL ALSO BE EXAMINED. THIS COULD HAVE IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS IN THE ROLE OF ADIPOSE TISSUE IN HOST DEFENCE, IMMUNE MEDIATED DISEASES AND CANCER. ON COMPLETION OF THIS PROJECT IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE REGULATORY MECHANISMS LINKING OBESITY, METABOLIC SYNDROME, IMMUNOMODULATION AND TUMOUR GROWTH WILL BE GREATLY ENHANCED, WHICH COULD IDENTIFY NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OBESITY RELATED CANCERS. HEALTH RESEACH BOARD POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP EVALUATING THE ROLE OF T CELLS IN THE PROGRESSION OF BARRETT'S OESOPHAGUS TO OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA: IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL IMMUNOTHERPEUTIC TARGETS BARRETT'S OESOPHAGUS (BO) IS THE PRE-MALIGNANT LINK IN THE PROGRESSION FROM REFLUX OESOPHAGITIS TO OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA (OAC), A CANCER WHOSE INCIDENCE RATES ARE RISING RAPIDLY IN IRELAND. PREMALIGNANT CONDITIONS THAT DEVELOP IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRONIC INFLAMMATION ARE OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH A DYSREGULATED IMMUNE RESPONSE. THE ROLE OF T CELLS IN THE PROGRESSION TO OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA IS LARGELY UNKNOWN, HOWEVER RECENT STUDIES SUGGEST THAT T CELLS MAY PLAY A KEY ROLE IN THE DRIVING AND MAINTAINING INFLAMMATION IN THE OESOPHAGUS. THIS UNIQUE STUDY WILL EXAMINE THE INFILTRATION AND ACTIVATION OF T CELLS IN NORMAL, OESOPHAGITIS, BO, DYSPLASTIC AND OAC TISSUE USING EX-VIVO SAMPLES. A NUMBER OF STUDIES HAVE SUGGESTED THAT THE LOCAL IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT UNDERGOES A RADICAL CHANGE WITH THE PROGRESSION TO ADENOCARCINOMA, STARTING WITH AN INFLAMMATORY CELL-MEDIATED LIKE RESPONSE IN OESOPHAGITIS, SWITCHING TO A HUMORAL RESPONSE IN BO AND BACK TO AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE WITH THE EMERGENCE OF CANCER. THEREFORE, THE INFLUENCE OF THE LOCAL MICROENVIRONMENT ON T CELL FUNCTION AT EACH DISEASE STAGE WILL BE ASSESSED USING A VARIETY OF T CELL FUNCTIONAL ASSAYS INCLUDING PROLIFERATION, CYTOKINE PROFILING, CYTOTOXICITY AND MIGRATION. TISSUE CONDITIONED MEDIA (TCM), GENERATED BY CULTURING FRESH TISSUE BIOPSIES REPRESENTATIVE OF EACH DISEASE STAGE, WILL BE SCREENED BY MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY (NMR) TO IDENTIFY FACTORS CAPABLE OF REGULATING T CELL PHENOTYPE AND ACTIVATION. WE HYPOTHESISE THAT SPECIFIC FACTORS RELEASED FROM THE OESOPHAGEAL TISSUE AS IT PROGRESSES THROUGH THE MALIGNANT SEQUENCE WILL SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER T CELL FUNCTION AND ULTIMATELY ACCELERATE DISEASE PROGRESSION. OVERALL THIS PROJECT, THE FIRST OF ITS KIND, WILL IDENTIFY AND FUNCTIONAL VALIDATE MEDIATORS WHICH MAY ACT AS POTENTIAL NOVEL IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC CELLULAR OR PROTEIN TARGETS, CAPABLE OF ENHANCING THE ANTI-TUMOUR IMMUNE RESPONSE OR PREVENT THE PROGRESSION TO ADENOCARCINOMA IN THESE PATIENTS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HRA CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. MICHEÁL MAC AOGÁIN macaoginmichel RESEARCH FELLOW MACAOGAM CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY DEPT OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY SIR PATRICK DUN LABS, CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORY ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH IRISH AGE RELATED DISEASES ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE MECHANISMS BACTERIOLOGY AND BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS BIOINFORMATICS BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES DNA TYPING EPIDEMIOLOGY GENETIC/MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GENOMES, GENOMICS INFECTIOUS DISEASES MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION EVALUATION OF NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING TO INVESTIGATE THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION HEALTH RESEACH BOARD NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE TRANSMISSION DYNAMICS OF HEALTHCAREASSOCIATED CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION THROUGH WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING ASTELLAS PHARMA IRELAND MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TRANSCRIPTOME SEQUENCING OF IRISH CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE ISOLATES. HEALTHCARE INFECTION SOCIETY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MS. SINEAD MAC BRIDE macbridesinead SOLICITOR/INFORMATION COMPLIANCE OFFICER MACBRIDS SECRETARY'S OFFICE SECRETARY'S OFFICE WEST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IRISH ADMITTED TO THE ROLL OF SOLICITORS REGISTERED TRADE MARK AGENT DR. EOIN MAC CÁRTHAIGH maccrthaigheoin ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EMACCART IRISH SCHOOL OF IRISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. DENISE MAC CARTHY maccarthydenise ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN RESTORATIVE DENTI MCCRTHYD DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL DEPT DENTAL SCIENCE 30 WESTLAND COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH, IRISH DIVISION INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MAXILLOFACIAL REHABILITATION IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION IRISH SOCIETY OF PERIODONTOLOGY ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN EDINBURGH AGEING CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. SIOBHAN MAC COBB maccobbsiobhan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SMACCOBB OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY FROM A RESEARCH BACKGROUND IN PLAY AND EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION THROUGH OCCUPATION TO SUPPORT SELF DETERMINATION AND PARTICIPATION IN A MEANINGFUL LIFE, A NEW AREA OF PRACTICE BASED RESEARCH HAS DEVELOPED SINCE 2008. THIS HAS ESTABLISHED METHODOLOGIES FOR COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE WITH TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS AND HAS MADE A UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION FROM OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TO THE NATIONAL BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT SERVICE, ENABLING SECOND LEVEL SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES AND LEARNING DISABILITIES TO PARTICIPATE BETTER IN SCHOOL. THIS UNDERSTANDING HAS EMERGED FORM EARLIER COLLABORATIVE WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND AGENCIES TO ENHANCE ADVOCACY AND SELF DETERMINATION SKILLS IN YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. IN 2012 A RESEARCH REPORT ON A NATIONAL STUDY OF THE MOBILITY NEEDS AND EXPERIENCES OF VISION IMPAIRED AND BLIND ADULTS FUNDED BY NCBI AND IRISH GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND WAS LAUNCHED IDENTIFYING AN URGENCY TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES AND SOCIAL LIFE OF SOCIETY. SCH OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND I CO-ORDINATOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY RESEARCH AND SERVICES IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SKILLS NATIONAL BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT SERVICE. INTERNATIONAL ASSOC.OF SCIENNTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. SOCIAL EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES ASSOC. UK WORLD FEDERATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE INCLUSIVE EDUCATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTER-PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION LEARNING DISABILITIES SCHOOL PARTICIPATION SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIOURAL DIFFICULTIES EDUCATION OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN THE NBSS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF METHODOLOGIES TO SUPPORT CHILDREN WITH SOCIAL EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND DISABILITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN SECOND LEVEL SCHOOL NATIONAL BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT SERVICE SERVICE DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE A NATIONAL STUDY OF THE MOBILITY NEEDS AND EXPERIENCES OF BLIND AND VISION IMPAIRED ADULTS IN IRELAND THIS WAS A NATIONAL SURVEY OF THE PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF OVER 560 ADULTS ON THE BLIND REGISTER IN IRELAND ON THE NCBI DATA BASE. NCBI AND IGDB INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. CAOIMHIN MAC GIOLLA PHADRAIG macgiollaphadraigcaoimhin ASSISTANT PROF IN PUBLIC DENTAL HEALTH CMACGIOL DENTAL SCIENCE I HAVE RECEIVED TRAINING IN APPLIED RESEARCH METHODOLOGY IN CENTRES INCLUDING TCD AND UCD. I HAVE PUBLISHED PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES RELEVANT TO SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY, SPECIFICALLY IN EPIDEMIOLOGY, AGEING, HEALTH PROMOTION, HEALTH-SERVICES RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. I HAVE APPLIED FOR FIVE GRANTS. I HAVE RECEIVED SIX AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS RELEVANT TO SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY. I AM CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN A NUMBER OF FIELDS OF RESEARCH INCLUDING: ORAL HEALTH AND DISABILITY ORAL HEALTH SERVICES AGEING AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT ORAL HEALTH PROMOTION FOR PEOPLE WITH ID SCHOOL OF DENTAL SCIENCE 30 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF IRISH SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH MEMBER OF THE DENTAL SEDATION TEACHER'S GROUP, UK MEMBER OF THE IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH MEMBERSHIP OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS PRESIDENT IRISH SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IRELAND ON THE STANDING ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY FOR THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, UK. AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. CAITRIONA NIC PHILIBIN nicphilibincaitriona ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CNICPHIL SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MENTAL HEALTH; CHILD AND ADOLESCENCE PSYCHIATRY; FAMILY THERAPY; EDUCATION SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF FAMILY THERAPY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (F.T.A.I.) EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK FOR IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND (CRNINI)AND COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER FOR (CRNINI) THE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING ALCOHOL EDUCATION CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILD WELFARE CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH CLINICAL EDUCATION COLLEGE STUDENTS COUNSELING/GUIDANCE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT EDUCATIONAL GERONTOLOGY EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN HEALTHCARE LIFELONG LEARNING MEDICAL EDUCATION MENTAL HEALTH NURSING MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION NURSING EDUCATION PALLIATIVE CARE PRIMARY CARE PSYCHIATRY PUBLIC HEALTH SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH TEACHER EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION ACCESSING STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES:THE PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF STUDENT SERVICE USERS,POTENTIAL STUDENT USERS AND THE PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IT IS QUESTIONABLE WHETHER OR NOT ACCESS AND UPTAKE FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR THIRD LEVEL STUDENT'S HAS IMPROVED. THE INTERFACE BETWEEN STUDENT HEALTH,STUDENT COUNSELLING AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES WILL BE EXPLORED FROM STUDENT'S AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS PERSPECTIVE. PHD A STUDY OF COMMUNITY NURSING IN THE GALWAY COMMUNITY CARE AREA AN EXPLORATION OF THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE AND DESIGNING A WORKLOAD MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - WITH PROF BEGLEY, G. BYRNE, A-M BRADY, C. GRIFFITHS, & P. HORAN. FUNDING €68,000 NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT WESTERN HEALTH BOARD MIXED METHODS PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES' WORKLOAD IN THE WESTERN HEALTH BOARD MEASUREMENT OF PHN WORKLOAD IN THE WHB USING THE COMMUNITY CLIENT NEED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED IN THE GALWAY AREA. WITH PROFESSOR C. BEGLEY, G. BYRNE, A-M BRADY, C. GRIFFITHS,& P. HORAN. FUNDING 49,994 EURO NURSING & MIDWIFERY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT UNIT WESTERN HEALTH BOARD MEASUREMENT INTERDISCIPLINARY MODULES IN CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE A PROJECT FOCUSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF A LEVEL 9 PROGRAMME IN CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION FUNDED CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. JUSTIN MAC GREGOR macgregorjustin JOHN SHERLOCK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MACGREGJ DRAMA BECKETT CENTRE WORKING ON DOCUMENTARY THEATRE, DOCUMENTARY FILMS AND NARRATIVE FEATURES FILMS. ALSO INTERESTED IN THE USE OF MULTIPLE TRANSMEDIA PLATFORMS FOR THE DISSEMINATION AND PROMOTION OF THESE ARTWORKS. SCHOOL OF DRAMA, FILM & MUSIC BECKETT CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ASSOCIATE MEMBER, CANADIAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS CHAIR, MEET THE FILMMAKERS, CINEWORKS INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS SOCIETY DIRECTOR'S GUILD OF CANADA DIRECTOR'S GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN EXTERNAL EXAMINER, NUI GALWAY, MA IN PRODUCTION & DIRECTION FULL MEMBER, DOCUMENTARY ORGANISATION OF CANADA GOLD DUKE OF EDINBURGH AWARD GUEST SPEAKER, CINEMATIC SALON, CINEWORKS INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS SOCIETY HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR, MAISON DES SCÉNARISTES, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL AUTHOR, MAISON DES SCÉNARISTES, CLAREMONT FERRAND FILM FESTIVAL JUROR, BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTS COUNCIL KEYNOTE SPEAKER, VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TRADE FORUM SCREEN DIRECTORS GUILD OF IRELAND WRITER'S GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN WRITER'S GUILD OF IRELAND ARTS EDUCATION ARTS IN EDUCATION ARTS/HUMANITIES/CULTURAL ACTIVITIES CREATIVE ARTS DOCUMENTARY THEATRE DRAMATIC/THEATRE ARTS FILM FILM MUSIC FILM STUDIES FILM THEORY FILM THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY FILMMAKING IRISH THEATRE, FILM AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCE MEDIA ARTS MULTIPLATFORM STUDIES PERFORMANCE ARTS PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE OF THE REAL TRANSMEDIA CREATION VISUAL ARTS MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES CROSSING DUBLIN (CHASED BY JOYCE) A FEATURE FILM ABOUT A NOVELIST WITH A HEART CONDITION AND HIS MAD BEST FRIEND (PERFORMANCE ARTIST TINA) DECIDE THE ONLY WAY TO CURE HIM IS TO FULFIL JAMES JOYCE'S CHALLENGE IN ULYSSES TO CROSS DUBLIN WITHOUT PASSING A PUB... PRIVATE AND INTERNAL VACLAV'S PRAGUE SPRING BLUES THE TRUE STORY OF THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY'S 1964 TOUR OF PETER BROOK'S KING LEAR WITH PAUL SCOFIELD BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN TO CELEBRATE SHAKESPEARE'S 400TH BIRTHDAY. IN PRAGUE, THE ACTORS SPENT MANY NIGHTS DRINKING AND DEBATING WITH AN EMERGING PLAYWRIGHT NAMED VACLAV HAVEL. THE PEGGY RAMSAY FOUNDATION AND THE LOWRY NEVERBEENSEEN MUGABELAND! AN ADAPTATION OF THE MANCHESTER THEATRE AWARD NOMINATED "MUGABELAND!" INTO A FEATURE FILM. ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, THE PEGGY RAMSAY FOUNDATION, KWAZULU NATAL FILM COMMISSION QUANTUM HAZE: THE TRUE STORY OF A ROCK AND ROLL LOVING, DRAFT DODGING, TIME TRAVELLING, QUANTUM MECHANIC. DR. JASON BRENT HAS SPENT DECADES PURSING A THEORY THAT WOULD COMBINE SUPERSYMMETRY AND THE MULTIVERSE INTO ONE GRAND UNIFYING THEORY OF EVERYTHING. BUT FIRST HE NEEDS TO FIND PART OF A GUITAR JIMI HENDRIX THREW INTO THE AUDIENCE AT THE MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL IN 1968. WITH THAT HE WILL RECONCILE EINSTEIN WITH THE QUANTUM THEORIES HE HATED AND ACCIDENTALLY CREATED. SHRAPNEL FROM THE WAR'S END A LOOK AT IRISH SOLDIERS WHO DESERTED TO FIGHT FASCISM AND THE TERRIBLE PRICE THEY PAID FOR DEFEATING THE NAZIS. AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR MALCOLM MAC LACHLAN maclachlanmalcolm ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MLACHLAN PSYCHOLOGY GLOBAL HEALTH SOCIAL INCLUSION, AS IT RELATES TO THE FOLLOWING AREAS: DISABILITY, ESPECIALLY PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVES, ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES AND EMBODIED EXPERIENCE. INTERNATIONAL AID, ESPECIALLY HUMAN DYNAMICS. CULTURE AND HEALTH. GLOBAL HEALTH. STRENGHTENING HEALTH SYSTEMS, ESPECIALLY IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIES. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 . DISABILITY EMBODIMENT INCLUSIVE GLOBAL HEALTH (ESPECIALLY DISABILITY AND ETHNICITY INTERNATIONAL AID PSYCHOPROSTHETICS SOCIAL INCLUSION STRENGTHENING HEALTH SYSTEMS INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ANDREW MAC LARAN maclaranandrew RETIRED STAFF MEMBER AMCLARAN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER CENTRE FOR URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF URBAN ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING; ENTREPRENEURIAL PLANNING, URBAN REGENERATION, INNER-CITY DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES AND RESIDENTIAL GENTRIFICATION; PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AND THE SHAPING OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT. DEPT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CAOIMHIN MAC MAOLAIN macmaolaincaoimhin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MACMAOLC LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES EU LAW; EU AND INTERNATIONAL FOOD LAW; INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (WTO) ; FOOD LAW AND REGULATION; EU SUBSTANTIVE LAW LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 EXAMINER LLB UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, COMPANY LAW AND EUROPEAN UNION LAW MEMBER SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS, CONVENOR FOR IRELAND MEMBER UK ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN LAWYERS SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS CONVENOR FOR IRELAND EU LAW FOOD LAW INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (WTO) CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. DEIRDRE MADDEN maddendeirdre ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN CREATIVE WRITING DMADDEN ENGLISH OSCAR WILDE CENTRE FICTION, PARTICULARLY THE NOVEL. CREATIVE WRITING SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ELECTED TO FOLIO ACADEMY JUDGE FOR THE GEOFFREY FABER MEMORIAL PRIZE JUDGE FOR THE IMPAC LITERARY AWARD MEMBER OF AOSDANA CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. GRACE MAGNIER magniergrace RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MAGNIET RETIRED STAFF MEMBER DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. CIARAN MANUS MAGUIRE maguireciaranmanus RESEARCH FELLOW CMAGUIR9 CRANN TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) I AM A HIGHLY MOTIVATED RESEARCHER WITH INTERESTS IN ALL AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, WITH A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN NANOMATERIALS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS. DURING THE COURSE OF MY PHD I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE OPTIMISATION AND VALIDATION OF NANOPARTICLE CHARACTERISATION TECHNIQUES, AS WELL AS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPEUTICS FOR BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS. I HAVE WORKED AS PART OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS WITH BOTH ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY, ALONG WITH CARRYING OUT MY OWN SELF-MOTIVATED CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH. I ALSO HAVE A GROWING INTEREST IN REGULATORY AFFAIRS BROUGHT ABOUT THROUGH MY ENGAGEMENT WITH INDUSTRY PARTNERS. I AM CURRENTLY ACTING AS A POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW AIDING IN THE SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT OF NOVEL NANOMEDICINE PRODUCTS AND DEVICES. CRANN NAUGHTON INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN BRITISH SOCIETY OF NANOMEDICINE ACACADMIC MEMMBER ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY HAEMOSTASIS HIGH CONTENT SCREENING NANOPARTICLE TRACKING ANALYSIS NANOPARTICLES NANOTOXICOLOGY PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISATION THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. STEPHEN MAHER maherstephen USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MAHERST SURGERY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) STEPHEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN CANCER AND ITS TREATMENT. HAVING COMPLETED A PHD THAT EXAMINED T CELL BIOLOGY AND INTERLEUKIN-2 THERAPY FOR MELANOMA AND RENAL CELL CARCINOMA, HE MOVED THE THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE IN THE USA TO PURSUE POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES IN THE ANTI-TUMOUR POTENTIAL OF A NEWLY DISCOVERED CYTOKINE, INTERFERON-LAMBDA (IL-29). OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS HAVE LARGELY FOCUSED ON UNDERSTANDING TUMOUR RESPONSE AND RESISTANCE TO MORE CONVENTIONAL, BROADLY APPLICABLE, CANCER TREATMENTS, SPECIFICALLY CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIOTHERAPY. STEPHEN'S GROUP EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF THE MICRORNA COMPARTMENT, DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE AND, MORE RECENTLY HYPOXIA, ON REGULATING CELLULAR SENSITIVITY TO CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIOTHERAPY IN OESOPHAGEAL AND MESOTHELIAL TUMOURS. HIS GROUPS ARE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED AS LEADERS IN TRANSLATIONAL RADIOTHERAPY RESEARCH. BEING A MEMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY AT TTMI, BASED AT ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN, HIS WORK IS HIGHLY PATIENT CENTRIC. DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IRISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH (AACR): ASSOCIATE MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF RADIATION RESEARCH (UK) BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY UK BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH (BACR) BRITISH LUNG FOUNDATION CLINICAL TRIALS IRELAND (FORMERLY ICORG) EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH (EACR) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR INTERFERON AND CYTOKINE RESEARCH (ISICR) IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH (IACR) IRISH ASSOCIATION OF RADIATION RESEARCH (IRRS) ANGIOGENESIS APOPTOSIS APOPTOSIS, MOLECULAR CONTROL AUTOIMMUNE AND HYPERSENSITIVITY DISEASES AUTOIMMUNITY BIOINFORMATICS BREAST CANCER CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS CELL CYCLE CONTROL CELLULAR, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY CHRONIC INFLAMATION COAGULATION BIOCHEMISTRY AND DISORDERS CYTOKINES, NITRIC OXIDE CYTOSKELTON, CELL DIVISION DNA TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION GENE TARGETING IN BREAST CANCER GENE THERAPY GENE TRANSCRIPTION IN HUMAN CANCER GENERAL SURGERY, UPPER GI, COLORECTAL AND BREAST GENETIC/MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY HAEMOTOLOGY HUMAN GENETICS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNOASSAYS IMMUNOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOGENETICS IMMUNOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO SURGICAL TRAUMA INFLAMMATION AND COAGULATION SYNDROMES INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE INNATE IMMUNOLOGY INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING LEUKEMIAS AND LYMPHOMAS LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY MAMMILIAN AND HUMAN GENETICS AND GENOMICS MEMBRANE AND PROTEIN TRAFFICKING MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY OESOPHAGEAL CANCER OESOPHAGEAL, GASTRIC, INTESTINAL AND PANCREATIC DISEASES ONCOGENES, APOPTOSIS AND TUMOUR DEVELOPMENT PROTEIN PROCESSING, STABILITY AND REGULATION PROTEIN SEQUENCE, FUNCTION AND EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE AND MOLECULAR GENETICS RADIOTHERAPY, BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS AND CHEMOPREVENTION REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION RNA PROCESSING, STABILITY AND DEGRADATION STEM CELL BIOLOGY AND HEMATOPOIESIS THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY THERAPEUTIC RADIOGRAPHY TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY VASCULAR BIOLOGY, THROMBOSIS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY OTHER BASIC MEDICINE MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) TISSUE AND SERUM MICRORNA SIGNATURES FOR PREDICTING RESPONSE TO CHEMORADIOTHERAPY FOR OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA OESOPHAGEAL CANCER IS INCREASING IN INCIDENCE AND HAS ONE OF THE WORST PROGNOSES OF ALL CANCERS. CURRENT THERAPEUTIC REGIMENS TEND TOWARD NEOADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY (NEO-CRT), FOR WHICH LESS THEN 25% OF PATIENTS RESPOND. PRESENTLY, THERE ARE NO REPORTS DESCRIBING MIRNA SIGNATURES FOR PREDICTING RESPONSE TO NEO-CRT IN OESOPHAGEAL CANCER. STUDIES TO DETERMINE MOLECULAR PREDICTORS OF RESPONSE TO CHEMORADIOTHERAPY ARE ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVE PATIENT SELECTION AND THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY. THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE, BY MICROARRAY, THE DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF MIRNA IN BOTH MATCHED OESOPHAGEAL TUMOUR TISSUE AND SERUM SAMPLES FROM RESPONDERS AND NON-RESPONDERS TO NEO-CRT. THE MIRNA DATA WILL BE APPLIED TO A SOFTWARE-BASED PREDICTIVE ALGORITHM, ESTABLISHING A MIRNA SIGNATURE OF RESPONSE. THIS PREDICTIVE MODEL WILL BE USED TO VALIDATE THE TUMOUR AND SERUM MIRNA SIGNATURE IN AN INDEPENDENT COHORT OF PATIENTS. ADDITIONALLY, THE MIRNA DATA WILL BE COMBINED WITH EXISTING GENE EXPRESSION DATA FROM A PREDICTIVE SIGNATURE PREVIOUSLY GENERATED IN OUR LAB, ESTABLISHING A MORE REFINED MIRNA-GENE EXPRESSION SIGNATURE FOR NEO-CRT RESPONDERS AND NON-RESPONDERS. FUNCTIONALLY, THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SPECIFIC SIGNATURE MIRNAS TO CHEMO- AND RADIO-SENSITIVITY WILL BE ASSESSED USING ISOGENIC CELL LINES MODELS OF CHEMO- AND RADIO-RESISTANCE. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED USING A STATE-OF-THE-ART MIRNA CLONING AND MANIPULATION STRATEGY. THIS WORK HAS IMPORTANT IMPLICATIONS FOR OESOPHAGEAL CANCER THERAPY, IN THAT THE IDENTIFICATION OF GENE AND MIRNA SIGNATURES PREDICTING PATIENT RESPONSE TO TREATMENT WILL PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW DIAGNOSTIC TEST, ULTIMATELY IMPROVING PATIENT SELECTION, TREATMENT BENEFIT, AND SURVIVAL. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP THE ROLE OF THE CHEMOKINE CCL28 (MEC) IN OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA PROGRESSION: INTERACTION BETWEEN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AND THE TUMOUR PREVIOUS WORK IN OUR LABORATORY HAS IDENTIFIED A GENE 'SIGNATURE' THAT PREDICTS, WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF ACCURACY, OESOPHAGEAL CANCER PATIENTS WHO WILL RESPOND TO PRE-SURGICAL CHEMORADIATION THERAPY (CRT). EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS SIGNATURE ARE A NUMBER OF GENES THAT ARE IMMUNE-RELATED. ONE GENE, CCL28, WAS SHOWN TO BE EXPRESSED AT SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER LEVELS IN TUMOUR TISSUE FROM CRT NON-RESPONDERS, COMPARED WITH RESPONDER TUMOUR TISSUE. CCL28 IS A CHEMOKINE THAT DISPLAYS CHEMOTACTIC ACTIVITY FOR CCR10-EXPRESSING T CELLS AND CCR3-EXPRESSING EOSINOPHILS. THESE CELLS ARE IMPORTANT MEDIATORS OF INFLAMMATION IN OESOPHAGEAL CANCER. CCL28 IS NOT NORMALLY EXPRESSED IN THE OESOPHAGUS, BUT IS PREFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED BY COLUMNAR EPITHELIAL CELLS, SUCH AS THOSE FOUND IN THE COLON, SALIVARY GLAND, MAMMARY GLAND, TRACHEA, AND LUNG. CCL28 EXPRESSION CAN BE INCREASED BY PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES, SUCH AS IL-1B AND TNF-A, WHICH CAN BE INDUCED BY BILE ACIDS; THIS IMPLIES A ROLE FOR CCL28 IN EFFECTOR CELL RECRUITMENT TO SITES OF REFLUXATE-INDUCED EPITHELIAL INJURY. WE PROPOSE THAT CCL28 EXPRESSION INCREASES AS NORMAL OESOPHAGEAL TISSUE PROGRESSES THROUGH THE BARRETT'S METAPLASIA-DYSPLASIA-ADENOCARCINOMA SEQUENCE, WHICH OCCURS THROUGH CHRONIC EXPOSURE TO REFLUXATE. IN THIS STUDY, WE WILL EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IL-1B, TNF-A, AND CCL28 EXPRESSION IN RESPONSE TO BILE ACIDS IN NORMAL, BARRETT'S, AND OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA CELL LINES AND TISSUE EXPLANTS. FURTHERMORE, USING CHEMOTACTIC ASSAYS WE WILL EXAMINE THE SUBPOPULATIONS OF T CELLS AND EOSINOPHILS RECRUITED IN RESPONSE TO CCL28. USING TISSUE MICROARRAYS, WE WILL EXAMINE CCR3- AND CCR10-EXPRESSING IMMUNE INFILTRATES AND CORRELATE THESE WITH DISEASE STATUS AND TUMOUR RESPONSE TO CHEMORADIATION. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP THE ROLE OF MICRORNA AND RANDOM MITOCHONDRIAL DNA MUTATIONS IN A NOVEL CLINICALLY-RELEVANT ISOGENIC MODEL OF RADIORESISTANCE IN OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA OESOPHAGEAL CANCER HAS ONE OF THE WORST PROGNOSES FOR PATIENTS OF ALL CANCERS, AND ITS OCCURRENCE IS INCREASING FASTER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER DISEASE IN IRELAND. THE CURRENT TREATMENT FOR THIS DISEASE INVOLVES A COMBINATION OF CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION THERAPY (NEO-CRT) BEFORE SURGERY. HOWEVER, TUMOUR RESISTANCE TO RADIATION THERAPY REMAINS A SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM. OUR GROUP RECENTLY DEVELOPED A CELL MODEL THAT HAS BEEN FOUND TO REFLECT RADIORESISTANCE IN OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA PATIENTS. OUR PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THIS MODEL IDENTIFIED CERTAIN MOLECULAR FEATURES AS CONTRIBUTING TO THE RADIORESISTANCE. IMPORTANTLY, A NUMBER OF THESE DIFFERENCES WERE AUTHENTICATED IN PATIENT SAMPLES, DEMONSTRATING CLINICAL UTILITY OF THE MODEL. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO FURTHER EXPLORE THIS MODEL BY; FIRSTLY, PROFILING THE MIRNA COMPARTMENT TO IDENTIFY THOSE MIRNA CANDIDATES LIKELY TO BE INVOLVED IN THE RADIORESISTANT PHENOTYPE. MIRNA ARE TINY PIECES OF GENETIC INFORMATION THAT REGULATE CELL FUNCTION. WE WILL ASSESS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF KEY MIRNA BY DETERMINING THEIR EFFECTS ON ALTERING CELL SENSITIVITY TO RADIATION, DNA DAMAGE INDUCTION AND REPAIR, DNA REPAIR GENE EXPRESSION, ROS AND ASSOCIATED ANTIOXIDANT LEVELS, WHICH ARE ALL LINKED TO RADIORESISTANCE IN OUR MODEL. SECONDLY, GIVEN THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME TO THE ROS PRODUCTION SITE AND THE LOW PROFICIENCY OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA REPAIR MECHANISMS, WE AIM TO EXAMINE THE CONTRIBUTION OF MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME INSTABILITY TO RADIORESISTANCE. THIS WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY ASSESSING THE LEVELS OF MITOCHONDRIAL MUTATIONS USING A NEW RANDOM ASSAY AND CORRELATING OUR FINDINGS WITH THE RADIORESISTANCE. IMPORTANTLY, WE WILL ASSESS RADIORESISTANCE-ASSOCIATED MIRNA AND MITOCHONDRIAL MUTATIONS IN PRE-TREATMENT TUMOUR SAMPLES FROM PATIENTS AND COMPARE WITH DOWNSTREAM RESPONSES TO NEO-CRT AND SURVIVAL. UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS OF, AND IDENTIFYING CELLULAR FEATURES PREDICTIVE OF RADIORESISTANCE FOR OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA WILL AID DOCTORS SELECTING THE RIGHT PATIENTS FOR NEO-CRT, ULTIMATELY IMPROVING TREATMENT EFFICACY AND PATIENT SURVIVAL. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. EVELYN MAHON mahonevelyn FELLOW EMERITUS EMAHON SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY FUNDED POLICY ORIENTATED RESEARCH I AM AN ACTIVE RESEARCHER AND HAVE BEEN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL IN OBTAINING RESEARCH FUNDS THROUGH COMPETITIVE TENDERS. SINCE 1995, I HAVE GENERATED ALMOST £550,000 OF RESEARCH FUNDING FROM BOTH EU FUNDING AND GOVERNMENT FUNDING. THE LARGEST AND MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE WAS £220,000 FOR A RESEARCH PROJECT ON WOMEN AND CRISIS PREGNANCY. THE REPORT WOMEN AND CRISIS PREGNANCY WAS PUBLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WAS COVERED EXTENSIVELY BY THE MEDIA, REGULARLY REFERRED TO AS 'THE TRINITY REPORT'. THIS WAS MY GREATEST RESEARCH CHALLENGE TO DATE AND I WAS VERY PLEASED WITH ITS RECEPTION. IT ALSO LED TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY. ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION TO EXTERNAL COMMITTEES: I WAS AN ASSESSOR FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILS SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME. I SERVED ON THE EPIDEMIOLOGY, HEALTH OF THE POPULATION AND PRIMARY CARE COMMITTEE OF THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD. I AM A MEMBER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION'S GENDER EQUALITY UNIT'S RESEARCH COMMITTEE, CHAIRPERSON OF THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE OF THE HOMELESS AGENCY, A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATION BOARD. AT THE INVITATION OF HRB, I MADE A CRITICAL RESPONSE TO THEIR POLICY DOCUMENT MAKING KNOWLEDGE WORK FOR HEALTH, AT A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH STRATEGIES IN DUBLIN CASTLE. INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: I HAVE BEEN AN INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT CONFERENCES ORGANISED BY THE FOLLOWING: WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT IN THE CIVIL SERVICE NETWORK; NETWORK IRELAND, THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL, THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, IRISH MEDICAL ORGANISATION. CONFERENCES PAPERS: SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE WOMEN AND CRISIS PREGNANCY STUDY, I HAVE ADDRESSED THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES OF CURA AND LIFE; A CONFERENCE ON TEENAGE PREGNANCIES ORGANISED BY THE SOUTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD AND A NORTH-SOUTH CONFERENCE ON POLICIES FOR LONE PARENT. INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION: I AM WELL KNOWN INTERNATIONALLY AND WAS THE ONLY IRISH ACADEMIC ASKED TO CONVENE A SESSION AT THE EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE IN 1996 IN ESSEX. I WAS ALSO AN INVITED DISCUSSANT TO THE SESSION ORGANISED BY RESEARCH COMMITTEE 19 OF THE 14TH WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY ON POVERTY, SOCIAL WELFARE AND SOCIAL POLICY WHICH TOOK PLACE ON FRIDAY JULY 31ST 1998 IN MONTREAL. THE THEME OF THE SESSION WAS "A NEW DIVISION OF LABOUR: FAMILY POLICY, WORK AND CARE IN DIFFERENT WELFARE SYSTEMS." I HAVE CHAIRED A SESSION ON COMPARATIVE POLICY RESEARCH AT THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE IN SEPTEMBER 1998. THIS IS PART OF MY ON-GOING WORK WITH THE RESEARCH NETWORK ON GENDER, POLITICS AND THE STATE (RNGS). WE HAVE ALREADY PRODUCED AN EDITED COLLECTION ENTITLED COMPARATIVE STATE FEMINISM (1995), AND FURTHER PUBLICATIONS ARE IN PRESS. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH CHAIRWOMAN OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN POLITICAL SCIENTISTS. CONSULTANT [WITH DEARBHAL NÍ CHEARTAIGH] TO THE EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT, RTE, FOR THEIR SERIES ON WOMEN'S STUDIES. CONVENOR, "GENDER INEQUALITY AND THE EUROPEAN REGIONS", EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION, TRINITY COLLEGE IN JULY 3-6TH. 1997. THE PROGRAMME INCLUDED SESSIONS ON MALE VIOLENCE; GENDER AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION AND CHANGING GENDER IDENTITIES AND SEXUALITIES. CONVENOR, "NEW FORMS OF PATRIARCHY", EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX, 27-30 AUGUST. EXECUTIVE MEMBER/CHAIR, SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND. FOR THE YEAR 1987-88, I WAS CHAIRPERSON OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN OF THE ASSOCIATION AND PRODUCED FOUR ISSUES DURING THAT PERIOD. IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE'S EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES. JOINT CONVENOR OF "WORKSHOP ON FAMILIES, LABOUR MARKETS AND GENDER ROLES", (WITH E. DREW AND R. EMEREK) FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING AND WORKING CONDITIONS. MEMBER OF A WORKING GROUP ON THE COMMISSION ON ASSISTED HUMAN REPRODUCTION. MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION FUNDED NETWORK ON "GENDER INEQUALITIES IN THE REGIONS." MEMBER OF WISE, EUROPEAN WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION RESEARCH NETWORK ON GENDER, POLITICS AND THE STATE (RNGS), CONVENORS ARE PROF. D.STETSON -MCBRIDE AND PROF. A.MAZUR (USA) THIRD INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS. I WAS A MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL FOR THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS ON WOMEN HELD IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN IN JULY 1987. WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND. I WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER AND FORMER SECRETARY OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND. I WAS CHAIRPERSON OF THE LIMERICK BRANCH FROM 1987-88 AND ONE OF THREE EDITORS OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES REVIEW. DIVORCE AND NEW FAMILY FORMATIONS POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE INFERTILITY IN IRELAND THIS IS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF COUPLES UNDERGOING FERTILITY TREATMENT. THE RESEARCHER IS NOELLE COTTER. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PATHWAYS TO AND EFFECTS OF METHADONE MAINTENANCE IN DUBLIN CITY FORBAIRT EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS AND EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE IN A SMALL TOWN AN EVALUATION OF A COMMUNITY BASED HEALTH CENTRE SERVICE AND AN EVALUATION OF A GP SKILLS TRAINING INITIATIVE FUNDED BY THE IRISH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CONSULTANT TO THE EU COMMISSION COMPLETED A NATIONAL EVALUATION OF "WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUNDED" TRAINING FOR DGV. EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROVISION FOR TEENAGE MOTHERS PART OF A TEAM LED BY DR. N. DAWSONP. LEONARDO POST-SEPARATION PARENTING- A STUDY OF PARENT-CHILD CONTACT AGREEMENTS THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO CLASSIFY CONTACT ARRANGEMENTS BETWEEN PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN AS AGREED IN FAMILY LAW COURTS. OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN CHILDREN'S FUNDED RESEARCH PROGRAMME THE IMPACT OF LOCAL WELFARE SYSTEMS ON FEMALE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION (FLOWS0 THE AIM OF THE PROJECT WAS TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF LOCAL WELFARE SYSTEMS INCLUDING CHILDCARE AND ELDERCARE SERVICES ON WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE LABOUR FORCE IN 11 EUROPEAND CITIES. IT EXAMINED LOCAL POLICY MAKING PROCESSES AND THEIR IMPACT ON WOMEN'S DECISION MAKING IN RELATION TO EMPLOYMENT EUOPEAN COMMISSION FP7 AGEING DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. NICHOLAS JAMES MAHONY mahonynicholasjames ASST PROF & MSC SPORTS MEDICINE CO-ORDIN NJMAHONY ANATOMY TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING MY INITIAL RESEARCH INTEREST WAS ALLIED TO MY MEDICAL SERVICE PROVIDER ROLE IN THE HUMAN PERFORMANCE LABORATORY WHERE I WAS INITIALLY INVOLVED WITH RESEARCH IN ROWING AND KAYAKING ERGOMETRY, FATIGUE AND OVER-TRAINING FATIGUE STATES IN ATHLETES, AND LABORATORY AND FIELD BASED TESTING OF ATHLETES WITH EXERCISE INDUCED ASTHMA. IN SUPPORT OF PHD PROGRAMMES IN THE DISCIPLINE OF PHYSIOLOGY I HAVE SUPPORTED RESEARCH IN SPORTS RECOVERY DRINKS IN RUGBY PLAYERS, COLD WATER IMMERSION, AND POPULAR CARBONATED STIMULANT DRINKS INCORPORATING CAFFEINE. ALTHOUGH MAINLY INVOLVED IN MSC RESEARCH PROJECT SUPERVISION I WILL SHORTLY BE CO-SUPERVISING TWO PHD PROJECTS, ONE ON FUNCTIONAL THRESHOLD POWER IN CYCLISTS AND ONE ON EXERCISE BASED REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES FOR ADOLESCENT CHILDREN WITH SCOLIOSIS. I AM ALSO CURRENTLY IN THE PLANNING STAGES WITH A COLLEAGUE FROM THE IRFU ON A POSSIBLE PHD RESEARCH PROJECT ON SUCCESSFUL LOAD MANAGEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL RUGBY PLAYERS. MY OWN PERSONAL EXERCISE MEDICINE RESEARCH HAS RECENTLY FOCUSED ON MEDICAL EXCLUSIONS AND RESTRICTIONS FROM LABORATORY BASED EXERCISE TESTING IN THE HUMAN PERFORMANCE LABORATORY AND ON PHYSIOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE PROFILING OF NON-ELITE CLUB AND RECREATIONAL ATHLETES DURING WINTER PREPARATORY TRAINING PHASE. IN ANATOMY I HAVE ALSO HAD A LONG INTEREST IN MSK ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY, AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH COLLEAGUES FROM THE RCSI AND TCBE AND SUPERVISED BY PROFESSOR DAVID TAYLOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING I COMPLETED MY PHD STUDIES EXAMINING THE DETERMINANTS OF BONE STRENGTH IN 2013. THIS RESEARCH EVALUATED THE RELATIONSHIP OF DXA DERIVED BONE QUANTITY TO INDICES OF BONE STRENGTH IN AN OVINE LARGE ANIMAL MODEL OF OSTEOPOROSIS, AND INVOLVED SIGNIFICANT VALIDATION STUDIES, EXAMINATION OF BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY IN THE ANIMAL MODEL AND THEN THE RELATIONSHIP OF TRABECULAR AND CORTICAL BONE MINERAL DENSITY TO VARIOUS STRENGTH TESTS. MY CURRENT ANATOMY RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN SPINAL CORD INJURY REHABILITATION I AM CURRENTLY A PI IN A MAJOR COLLABORATIVE STUDY (TCIN, CRF SJH, UCLA & PAVLOV INSTITUTE) EXAMINING THE USE OF EXOSKELETON ROBOTIC WALKING AND TRANS-CUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL STIMULATION IN SPINAL CORD INJURY REHABILITATION. THIS RESEARCH REPRESENTS A PARADIGM SHIFT IN SPINAL CORD INJURY REHABILITATION IN ITS EXPLORATION OF NEUROPLASTICITY OF SPINAL CORD INTERNEURONS. THE PROJECT WAS INITIALLY DEVELOPED AS A SINGLE PATIENT PILOT STUDY FOLLOWING A REQUEST BY SCI ADVOCATE MR MARK POLLOCK TO CONTINUE A NOVEL REHABILITATION PROGRAMME INITIATED IN UCLA. THE PROJECT, FOLLOWING HPRA APPROVAL, IS NOW TO BE EXPANDED TO A 12 PATIENT PROJECT EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ROBOTIC WALKING AND TRANSCUTANEOUS NEURAL STIMULATION IN THE CLINICAL RESEARCH FACILITY AT ST JAMES HOSPITAL. THE PROJECT HAS ALREADY SECURED CAPITAL EQUIPMENT GRANT FUNDING FROM EKSO BIONICS WORTH APPROXIMATELY 150,000 EUROS (ROBOTIC WALKING SYSTEM) AND IS SHORTLY TO ANNOUNCE FURTHER GRANT FUNDING FROM A US BIOTECHNOLOGY COMPANY NEURORECOVERY TECHNOLOGIES (NRT) THE MANUFACTURER OF THE NEUROSTIMULATOR TO PROVIDE A 2-YEAR CONTRACT FOR A SALARIED POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW. AS HEAD OF DISCIPLINE OF ANATOMY I HAVE ALSO REALIGNED DR DENIS BARRY'S TISSUE BASED STUDIES IN ANATOMY'S NEUROSCIENCE LABORATORY TOWARD AXONAL BRIDGING AND REGENERATION FOLLOWING INJURY. SINCE 2012 AS CHAIR OF THE FSEM'S ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE I INSTIGATED COLLABORATION WITH PARTNER ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN SPORTS MEDICINE (ISCP, ARTI & ESSAI), DESIGNATED 4 KEY THEMES(EXERCISE MEDICINE, INJURY TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION, EXERCISE SCIENCE, AND TRAUMA ORTHOPAEDICS/RADIOLOGY), AND GUARANTEED ORAL PRESENTATIONS TO ENCOURAGE JUNIOR RESEARCHERS. THE CONFERENCE ATTRACTS BETWEEN 250+ DELEGATES AND 100+ ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS PER YEAR FROM ATHLETIC REHAB THERAPISTS, CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS, MEDICAL DOCTORS AND SPORTS AND EXERCISE SCIENTISTS FROM IRELAND, THE UK AND INCREASINGLY EUROPE. DEPT OF ANATOMY, FLOOR 1 TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANATOMICAL SOCIETY UK AND IRL BOARD MEMBER FACULTY OF SPORTS AND EXERCISE MEDICINE IN IRELAND CHAIR ANATOMICAL COMMITTEE IRISH MEDICAL SCHOOLS CHAIRMAN, ORGANISING COMMITTEE, ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING, FACULTY OF SPORTS AND EXERCISE MEDICINE IN IRELAND, 2012 TO DATE EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF SPORTS SCIENCE FACULTY OF SPORTS AND EXERCISE MEDICINE MEDICAL OFFICER HUMAN PERFORMANCE LABORATORY TCD MEMBER OF THE IRISH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS SECRETARY ANATOMICAL COMMITTEE OF IRISH MEDICAL SCHOOLS SECRETARY DUBLIN ANATOMICAL COMMITTEE VICE DEAN FACULTY OF SPORTS AND EXERCISE MEDICINE (RCSI & RCPI) ANATOMY BIOENGINEERING AND RADIOLOGIC IMAGING BIOMECHANICS EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY SPORTS AND EXERCISE MEDICINE SPORTS INJURIES RESPIRATORY MEDICINE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER BASIC MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) OTHER ENGINEERING AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR JAMES FRANCIS MALONE malonejamesfrancis RETIRED STAFF MEMBER JFMALONE RETIRED STAFF MEMBER INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR SCIENCE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND THE FOLLOWING ARE AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN WHICH I MAINTAIN A RESEARCH INTEREST TO A LEVEL INVOLVING PUBLICATION: MEDICAL PHYSICS; RADIATION SAFETY IN DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND DENTAL RADIOLOGY; JUSTIFICATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF MEDICAL USES OF RADIATION; ETHICAL ISSUES IN RADIOLOGICAL PRACTICE. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL VALUES. SPIRITUALITY, WELL BEING AND THE HEALTH SECTOR; LITERATURE, THE VISUAL ARTS AND THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY; 66 CORN EXCHANGE POOLBEG ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF DUBLIN DENTAL HOSPITAL BOARD MEMBER OF TALLAGHT HOSPITAL BOARD MEMBER OF THE DUBLIN MOLECULAR MEDICINE CENTRE BOARD MEMBER OF THE HAUGHTON INSTITUTE BOARD MEMBER OF THE RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE OF IRELAND CHAIRMAN OF INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL IMAGING IN ATTENDANCE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL BOARD MEMBER /OFFICE HOLDER OF NUMEROUS HOSPITAL, UNIVERSITY, PROFESSIONAL, STANDARDS COMMITTEES. MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, TRINITY COLLEGE. SEE QUALIFICATIONS ABOVE STEERING COMMITTEE OF MERCERS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING TRUSTEE OF ROBERT BOYLE FOUNDATION ART CRITICISM ASPECTS OF 17TH CENTURY SCIENCE BIOENGINEERING AND RADIOLOGIC IMAGING BIOMEDICAL INSTRUMENT DESIGN BLOOD-PRESSURE CLINICAL ENGINEERING CRITICAL THEORY AND THEOLOGY CULTURAL/SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY HEALTH MANAGEMENT HEALTH POLICY HEALTH, RADIATION EFFECTS IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS IMAGING TECHNIQUES LITERARY CRITICISM MEDICAL DEVICES MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION MEDICAL LAW MEDICAL PHYSICS MEDICAL/DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING MODERN ART MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY OCULAR MICROTREMOR PAINTING QUALITY-CONTROL RADIOIODINE RELIGIOUS STUDIES SOCIAL MOVEMENTS STANDARDS SENTINEL AN EU PROJECT ON DIGITAL MEDICAL IMAGING INVOLVING IONIZING RADIATION. INTERESTS IN ISSUES OF PATIENT DOSE, STAFF DOSES, IMAGE QUALITY, EQUIPMENT STANDARDIZATION, MEDICO LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES. SPECIAL INTERESTS IN MAMOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY AND CARDIOLOGY, DEXA, AND DENTAL RADIOLOGY. EU RADIATION PROTECTION DIMOND 3 EXAMINATION OF DIGITAL RADILOOGIALA IMAGE QUALITY AS A FUNCTION FO RADIATION DOSE AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE DOSE-QUALITY RELATIONSHIP. PARTICULAR APPLICATIONS TO INTERVENTIONAL APPLICATIONS IN RADIOLOGY AND CARDIOLOGY WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL DOSES ARE RELATIVELY HIGH. ALSO APPLICATION TO THE PROBLEMS OF ENSURING EQUIPMENT IS OPERATING AT A SATISFACTORY LEVEL THROUGHOUT ITS LIFE. EU RADIATION PROTECTION PREDECESSORS TO DIMOND 3 AND AMIE FROM ABOUT 1976 TO 2000 APPROXIMATELY 15 MAJOR EU CONTRACTS HELD IN SOME OF WHICH I WAS THE CO-ORDINATOR. THESE WERE IN THE AREA OF RADIATION PROTECTION, MEDICAL IMAGING, EQUIPMENT DESIGN, AND IT. PARTICIPATED IN VARIOUS DG X1, DG X11 AND DG X111 PROGRAMMES IN THE MEDICAL AND INDUSTRIAL AREAS. EU ESPRIT, RADIATION PROTECTION, OTHERS. SECULAR SPIRITUALITY AND IMPLICIT RELIGION A SERIES OF ENQUIRIES CONNECTED WITH EXPRESSIONS OF SPIRITUALITY IN A SECULAR SETTING HAVE BEEN INITIATED. THEY INCLUDE LOOKING AT THE PLACE OF THE ARTS, PARTICULARLY LITERATURE AND MODERN VISUAL ART, FOR THOSE WHOSE SPIRITUALITY DOES NOT HAVE STRONG FORMAL RELIGIOUS CONNECTIONS. THE PROJECTS ARE ALSO LOOKING AT CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE HEALTH SECTOR AND SPIRITUALITY AT THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GOVERNANCE LEVELS. THE POSSIBILITY OF INTERPRETING OR MODELLING BOTH OF THESE AREAS IN TERMS OF THE CONCEPT OF IMPLICIT RELIGION IS BEING EXAMINED. PERSONAL PROJECTS REVISION OF CRITERIA OF ACCEPTQBILITY FOR RADIOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT THE EU REQUIRES MEMBER STATES TO ADOPT CRITERIA OF ACCEPTABILITY FOR RADIOLOGICAL, NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND RADIOTHERAPY EQUIPMENT. THE PRESENT CRITERIA WERE ESTABLISHED IN 1997, AND THE COMMISSION HAVE FUNDED A PROJECT TO ESTABLISH RECOMENDATIONS FOR A NEW SET OF CRITERIA. I AM LEADING THE ACTIVITY FOR RADIOLOGICAL IMAGING EQUIPMENT. EU DG TREN CANCER NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. HELEN MALONE malonehelen RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HMALONE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 22Q11 DELETION SYNDROME, CYSTIC FIBROSIS, HEALTH CARE SHARED DECISION MAKING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS, TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD HEALTH SERVICES. INFORMATION NEEDS OF FAMILIES CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX CONDITIONS. SCHOOL OF NURSING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH ACTED AS MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR THE ANNALS OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND RESEARCH ACTED AS MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES. COCHRANE.ORG COMMUNITY REGISTERED UNDER THREE DIVISIONS OF AN BOARD ALTRANAIS AGUS CNAIMHSEACHAIS NA HEIREANN(NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND. NURSING DIVISION, MIDWIFERY DIVISION AND NURSE TUTOR DIVISION. DATA ANALYSIS DATA MANAGEMENT PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH STUDY DESIGN SHARED DECISION-MAKING TEACHING INTERVENTIONS FOR THE PROMOTION OF SHARED DECISION-MAKING FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS HEALTH RESEARH BOARD GENES & SOCIETY MS. ANNE-MARIE MALONE maloneannemarie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ANMALONE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY ORTHOPAEDIC NURSING, HEALTH ECONOMICS, GENERAL NURSING, NURSING MANAGEMENT, HEALTH POLICY, HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT, PATIENT SAFETY. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IFUT NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM REVIEW 2011 -2012 NATIONAL IFUT REPRESENTATIVE ON THE WORKFORCE PLANNING SUB-GROUP OF THE NATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM REVIEW COMMITTEE 2011-2012 REVIEWER BRITISH JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY NURSING REVIEWER BRITISH JOURNAL OF NURSING REVIEWER JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT BONE HEALTH BONE HEALTH AND HIP FRACTURES CHRONIC HEALTH EVALUATION ECONOMICS OF HEALTH SERVICE PROVISION ELDERLY HEALTH HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT HEALTH CARE COSTS HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH PLANNING/POLICY HEALTH SERVICE MANAGEMENT HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH HEALTH-CARE UTILIZATION POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) A SURVEY OF NURSES EXPERIENCES OF STRESS IN A REFORMING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY AN EVALUATION OF THE DRUG CALCULATION SKILLS OF REGISTERED NURSES OSTEOPOROSIS IN IRISH MEN: COST-OF-ILLNESS, A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION AND PRELIMINAY ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF REDUCING THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS. OSTEOPOROSIS IS DEFINED AS A SKELETAL DISEASE WITH LOW BONE MINERAL DENSITY INCREASING SUSCEPTIBILITY TO FRAGILITY FRACTURES. OSTEOPOROSIS IS LESS COMMON IN MEN THAN WOMEN, BUT REMAINS A SIGNIFICANT HEALTH PROBLEM FOR MEN WITH BETWEEN 13-22% OF MEN OVER 5 0 YEARS EXPECTED TO SUSTAIN AN OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURE. THESE FRACTURES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SIGNIFICANT MORBIDITY WHICH INCLUDES PAIN AND SUFFERING, LOSS OF HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE AND LOSS OF INDEPENDENCE REQUIRING HOME OR RESIDENTIAL CARE, AS WELL AS SIGNIFICANT MORTALITY. DESPITE THIS, OSTEOPOROSIS IN MEN REMAINS UNDERDIAGNOSED AND UNDERTREATED. THE OVERALL AIMS OF THIS STUDY ARE TO ESTIMATE THE COST-OF-ILLNESS OF OSTEOPOROSIS, TO QUALITATIVELY EXPLORE THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL SCREENING PROGRAMME FOR OSTEOPOROSIS IN IRISH MEN OVER 50 YEARS AND TO UNDERTAKE A PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF SCREENING AND TREATING OSTEOPOROSIS. IT IS HOPED THAT THE FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY WILL GIVE INSIGHTS THAT MAY INFORM DECISION MAKERS ON THE VALUE OF SCREENING AND TREATING MEN OVER 50 YEARS FOR OSTEOPOROSIS, TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF FRAGILITY FRACTURES AND THE ASSOCIATED COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES. THE FINDINGS MAY ALSO PROVIDE GUIDANCE ON THE DESIGN AND EXECUTION OF A FULLER ECONOMIC EVALUATION. SPHERE PROGRAMME AGEING DR. SHANE MALONEY maloneyshane RESEARCH FELLOW SMALONEY PHYSICS SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. RUSTOM MANECKSHA manecksharustom CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER MANECKSR SURGERY INTEREST IN PROSTATE CANCER, IN PARTICULAR, THE MECHANISMS BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANDROGEN-INDEPENDENT PROSTATE CANCER. MAIN AREA OF RESEARCH FOCUSES ON CAG REPEATS AND THEIR ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANDROGEN-INDEPENDENT PROSTATE CANCER. WORK CARRIED OUT TO DATE INCLUDES CHARACTERISATION OF CAG REPEATS IN A SERIES OF NON-TUMORIGENIC PROSTATE CELL LINES AND PROSTATE CANCER CELL LINES. ALSO STUDYING THE ROLE OF CAG REPEATS IN HUMAN PROSTATE TISSUE. 29 CAMBERLEY OAKS CHURCHTOWN DUBLIN 14 01-8961000 DR. JAN MANSCHOT manschotjan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MANSCHOJ PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS HAMILTON MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE MY RESEARCH DEALS WITH FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF GAUGE THEORY, GRAVITY AND STRING THEORY. I AM IN PARTICULAR INTERESTED IN THE QUANTUM SPECTRA OF NON-PERTURBATIVE OBJECTS OF THESE THEORIES, SUCH AS INSTANTONS, MONOPOLES, BLACK HOLES AND D-BRANES. TWO DIRECTIONS OF MY PAST AND CURRENT RESEARCH ARE: 1) BOUND STATES OF FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUENTS: SUPERSYMMETRIC GAUGE AND GRAVITY THEORIES HAVE A RICH SPECTRUM OF SO-CALLED BOGOMOLNY'I-PRASAD-SOMMERFIELD BOUND STATES OF THEIR FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUENTS. THE DEGREES OF FREEDOM ASSOCIATED WITH THE BOUND STATE CAN BE DESCRIBED USING THE MATHEMATICS OF QUIVER REPRESENTATION THEORY. 2) PARTITION FUNCTIONS OF YANG-MILLS THEORY AND SUPERGRAVITY: PARTITION FUNCTIONS CONTAIN CRUCIAL INFORMATION ABOUT QUANTUM SPECTRA AND ARE INDISPENSABLE TOOLS TO ADDRESS QUESTIONS ABOUT ENTROPY, PHASE TRANSITIONS, SYMMETRIES AND DUALITIES OF THE PHYSICAL THEORIES. THESE SYMMETRIES AND DUALITIES IMPLY INTERESTING NUMBER THEORETIC PROPERTIES FOR THE PARTITION FUNCTIONS. SUPERSYMMETRIC QUANTUM SPECTRA TYPICALLY DEPEND DISCONTINUOUSLY ON EXTERNAL PARAMETERS J (A PHENOMENA ALSO KNOWN AS WALL-CROSSING). THIS IS CAPTURED BY PARTITION FUNCTIONS THROUGH SUMS OVER AN INDEFINITE LATTICE. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ALGEBRA BLACK HOLE PHYSICS MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS NUMBER THEORY PARTICLE PHYSICS, FIELDS THEORY THEORETICAL PHYSICS PHYSICS MATHEMATICS INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. TIMOTHY J MANTLE mantletimothyj FELLOW EMERITUS TMANTLE BIOCHEMISTRY . CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: RESEARCH IN THE MOLECULAR ENZYMOLOGY GROUP CENTRES ON STRUCTURAL, KINETIC AND REGULATORY ASPECTS OF A NUMBER OF ENZYMES. . BILIVERDIN-IX&#61537; REDUCTASE AS A PHARMACOLOGICAL TARGET FOR NEONATAL JAUNDICE. . STRUCTURAL AND KINETIC STUDIES ON GST-P1-1. . . BILVERDIN REDUCTASE AND THE ANTIOXIDANT RESPONSE. . THE TRANSIENT KINETICS OF SULPHATASE A. . FINANCIAL SUPPORT: SFI, ENTERPRISE IRELAND (PROOF OF CONCEPT), HRB, IACR, PRTLI . MAJOR COLLABORATORS: MIQUEL COLL (BARCELONA), JOHN HAYES (DUNDEE), MIKE GORE (SOUTHAMPTON), PHIL BOARD (CANBERRA), PEDRO PEREIRA (PORTO). DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY (MEMBER) BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY: EDITORIAL BOARD,BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY: ELECTED TO IRISH AREA SECTION COMMITTEE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY: ELECTED TO THE MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PHARMACOLOGY GROUP BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY: ELECTED TO THE MOLECULAR ENZYMOLOGY GROUP DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN DIRECTOR, NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN EDITOR: GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES AND CARCINOGENESIS, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS EDITOR: GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES AND DRUG RESISTANCE, TAYLOR AND FRANCIS EDITOR: STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASES, CRC PRESS EDITORIAL ADVISER: BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL; BIOCHIM. BIOPHYS. ACTA; EUR. J. BIOCHEM; DIABETOLOGIA EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL ELECTED SECRETARY OF THE MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PHARMACOLOGY GROUP OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY. EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENTAL MUTAGEN SOCIETY: COUNCILLOR FOR IRELAND NOMINATED TO THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR BIOCHEMISTRY (OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY) 3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE ACID ALBUMIN-BOUND BILIRUBIN ALPHA REDUCTASE ANTIOXIDANT ARYLSULPHATASE A AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY BETA REDUCTASE BILE-PIGMENTS BILIRUBIN BILIRUBIN ANALOGS BINDING C57BL/6 MICE CANCER CARDIOVASCULAR RISK-FACTORS CELLS CHEMICAL HEPATOCARCINOGENESIS CIGARETTE SMOKING CLEAVAGE CROHNS-DISEASE DISEASE DNA ENZYME KINETICS ENZYME STRUCTURE ETHACRYNIC-ACID EXCRETION EXPRESSION FACTOR-I FORMS GENE GLUTATHIONE GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE GLUTATHIONE-S-TRANSFERASE-MU GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS HEME OXYGENASE HEPATOCARCINOGENESIS HIGH CATALYTIC ACTIVITY HUMAN PLACENTA HUMAN-SERUM IGF-I INACTIVATION INDEX INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION KIDNEY LEUKOCYTES LIVER LUNG CANCER MARKER PROTEINS PURIFICATION RAT-LIVER SCHIZOPHRENIA SMOKING SOMATOMEDIN-C ULCERATIVE-COLITIS NO DATA MRC (UK) NO DATA WELLCOME TRUST (UK) NO DATA NIH (USA) NO DATA AICR (UK) GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE DR. MICHAEL MANZKE manzkemichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MANZKEM COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS HARDWARE, COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, COMPUTER GRAPHICS, RAY-TRACING, PERFORMANCE ANALYSES, NON-INTRUSIVE TRACE DATA ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS, COMPUTE STATE ESTIMATION, KALMAN FILTERING, DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY GRAPHICS CLUSTERS, RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE, REAL-TIME CLUSTERS, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, INTERACTIVE HIGH PERFORMANCE VISUALISATION, HIGH SPEED INTERCONNECTS, SCALABLE COHERENT INTERFACE, FPGA INTERCONNECTS AND FIELD PROGRAMMABLE ANALOGUE ARRAYS (FPAAS). COMPUTER SCIENCE CAG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN ACM SIGGRAPH AND SIGARCH CO-DIRECTOR SONY TOSHIBA IBM (STI) CELL CENTER OF COMPETENCE EUROPE CTO QUATERNION LABS LIMITED EXTERNAL EXAMINER WITH THE SCHOOL OF COMPUTING, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY FOR THE BSC IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (SOFTWARE ENGINEERING) PROGRAMME. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES (IPC): 4TH INTERNATIONAL SCI-EUROPE CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES (IPC): GRAPHICS AND VIRTUAL REALITY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES (IPC): INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS THEORY AND APPLICATIONS GRAPP INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES (IPC): WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION WCAE JOURNAL REFEREE: COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM JOURNAL REFEREE: IEE PROCEEDINGS COMPUTERS & DIGITAL TECHNIQUES JOURNAL REFEREE: IEEE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS LETTERS JOURNAL REFEREE: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS JOURNAL REFEREE: JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE JOURNAL REFEREE: NEUROCOMPUTING MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER TO COST ACTION IC1005: HDRI: THE DIGITAL CAPTURE, STORAGE, TRANSMISSION AND DISPLAY OF REAL-WORLD LIGHTING ORGANISING COMMITEE: 1ST SCI SUMMER SCHOOL ORGANISING COMMITEE: 2ND SCI SUMMER SCHOOL ORGANISING COMMITEE: INDUSTRY PROGRAMME CHAIR - EUROGRAPHICS PROGRAM CHAIR: WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION WCAE, HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE 42ND ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MICROARCHITECTURE REVIEWER: EURO-PAR 2008 REVIEWER: NATURAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA'S STRATEGIC PROJECT GRANTS (SPG) PROGRAM REVIEWER: SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 COURSES PROGRAM REVIEWER: WEB3D 2008 REVIEWER: WSCG STEERING COMMITTEE: 4TH INTERNATIONAL SCI-EUROPE CONFERENCE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER GRAPHICS, META COMPUTING COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING DIGITAL SYSTEMS, REPRESENTATION DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IMAGE SYNTHESIS KALMAN FILTER MODELLING, MODELLING TOOLS, 3D MODELLING NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PERIPHERALS TECHNOLOGIES SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS CONTROL, MODELLING, NEURAL NETWORKS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SYSTEMS/CONTROL A SHARED-MEMORY HYBRID GRAPHICS CLUSTER FOR VISUALISATION AND VIDEO PROCESSING IN JULY 2004, SFI AWARDED MICHAEL MANZKE OF THE CAG, DR CAROL O'SULLIVAN OF THE ISG AND DR ANIL KOKARAM OF THE ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT A BASIC RESEARCH GRANT. AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, DR CAROL O'SULLIVAN LEADS THIS RESEARCH EFFORT THAT INVESTIGATES "A SHARED-MEMORY HYBRID GRAPHICS CLUSTER FOR VISUALISATION AND VIDEO PROCESSING". SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT REAL-TIME RAY TRACING ON MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURES INVESTIGATING EFFICIENT MULTI THREADING/PARALLELISATION OF GRAPHICS AND RENDERING ALGORITHMS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO REAL TIME RAYTRACING ON NEXT GENERATION MULTI-CORE CPU ARCHITECTURES. IRCSET A SCALABLE PROGRAMMABLE ARCHITECTURE FOR RAY-TRACING APPLICATIONS THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES SCALABLE AND PROGRAMMABLE ARCHITECTURE FOR RAY-TRACING APPLICATIONS ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD/2008/202 MOTION CAPTURE AND MOTION CAPTURE DATA COMPRESSIONON ON CELL PROCESSORS THIS ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP PROJECT WITH SONY TOSHIBA AND IBM IN CONCEREND WITH MOTION CAPTURE AND MOTION CAPTURE DATA COMPRESSION ON CELL PROCESSORS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND IP//2007/505 PHYSICAL SIMULATION ON SCALABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE SHARED-MEMORY GRAPHICS CLUSTER IRCSET ARTIVVIS: REAL-TIME TIME-VARIANT VOLUME VISUALISATION THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES THE PROBLEM OF REAL-TIME INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION OF 3D SCIENTIFIC DATA, NAMELY VOLUMETRIC DATASETS, WHICH ARE UBIQUITOUS IN MANY APPLICATION DOMAINS SUCH AS MEDICINE, BIOLOGY, BIOMECHANICS, NEUROSCIENCE, FLUID DYNAMICS AND VETERINARY MEDICINE. SPECIFICALLY, WE DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF TIME-VARIANT AND MULTIVARIATE VOLUME DATA SETS WHICH HAVE BECOME MORE READILY AVAILABLE IN RECENT YEARS DUE TO IMPROVED SCANNING TECHNOLOGIES AND SIMULATION TECHNIQUES. SUCH DATA SETS ARE PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT TO DEAL WITH DUE TO THEIR COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY AS WELL AS THE INFORMATION OVERLOAD THAT CAN ARISE FROM SUCH VISUALLY CHALLENGING DATA. WE WILL EMPLOY GRAPHICS HARDWARE AND PARALLEL COMPUTING STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THE PERFORMANCE ISSUE, WHILST INFORMATION OVERLOAD WILL BE DEALT WITH USING TECHNIQUES FROM PERCEPTUALLY ADAPTIVE GRAPHICS, COMPUTATIONAL AESTHETICS AND NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING WHICH APPLY SMART TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE USABILITY AND UNDERSTANDABILITY OF DATA. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATORS PROGRAM LOW POWER ARCHITECTURES FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DR. NICOLA MARCHETTI marchettinicola USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARCHETN ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. CONNECT CENTRE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS MULTIPLE ANTENNA AND MULTIPLE CARRIER TECHNIQUES, RADIO RESOURCE DETECTION AND MANAGEMENT, INTEGRATED OPTICAL-WIRELESS NETWORKS, COGNITIVE AND SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORKS, AND APPLICATIONS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS SCIENCE TO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN DANISH ENGLISH FRENCH IEEE UKRI COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL CHAPTER COMMITTEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MATHEMATICS COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS SPECTRUM SHARING FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS DANISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (FTP) ADVANCED DYNAMIC SPECTRUM 5G MOBILE NETWORKS EMPLOYING LICENSED SHARED ACCESS (ADEL) FLEXIBLE SPECTRUM USAGE IS A PROMISING ENABLER OF SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY FOR NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS BROADBAND NETWORKS. IN ORDER TO DELIVER THE NEXT ORDER OF MAGNITUDE GAINS IN TERMS OF OVERALL SPECTRAL AND RADIO EFFICIENCY ENVISIONED FOR 2020, WIRELESS ACCESS WILL HAVE TO BE REVISITED BOTH FROM A POLICY AS WELL AS FROM A TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PERSPECTIVE. ON THE POLICY SIDE, WITH THE EMERGENCE OF HETEROGENEOUS AND SMALL CELL NETWORKS, THE ORIGINAL ''LICENSED VS. UNLICENSED'' SPECTRUM USAGE MODEL HAS RECENTLY GIVEN WAY TO THE ''LICENSED SHARED ACCESS (LSA)'' PARADIGM WHEREIN INCUMBENT OPERATORS MAY ALLOW SMALLER ONES TO SHARE THEIR SPECTRUM AT SPECIFIC TIMES AND PLACES, ACCORDING TO AN AGREED SET OF RULES. IN ORDER TO DELIVER THE TARGETED GAINS, THE LSA APPROACH NEEDS TO ADDRESS SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES. IN ADEL WE PLAN TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING KEY CHALLENGES WITHIN THE LSA WIRELESS ACCESS PARADIGM: I) THE DYNAMIC AND OPTIMISED ALLOCATION OF THE SPECTRAL AND POWER RESOURCES AT A SHORT TIME SCALE (ON THE ORDER OF SECONDS TO EVEN MILLISECONDS), II) THE GUARANTEE OF QUALITY OF SERVICE TO THE USERS OF ALL PARTICIPATING SPECTRUM-SHARING NETWORKS AND III) THE MINIMISATION OF THE OVERALL ENERGY EXPENDITURE OF LSA NETWORKS. AS KEY TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS TOWARDS THESE GOALS, WE PROPOSE THE USE OF I) DECENTRALISED SPECTRUM SHARING TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOW BOTH FASTER DECISION MAKING AND LESS CONTROL OVERHEAD; II) ADVANCED COLLABORATIVE SENSING BETWEEN THE COOPERATING WIRELESS NETWORKS AND INDIVIDUAL NODES FOR BETTER NETWORK COORDINATION; III) ADVANCED FREQUENCY AGILE TRANSCEIVERS; AND IV) SELF-OPTIMISATION TECHNIQUES AT THE LSA NETWORKS TO FURTHER MINIMISE THE EMF RADIATION AND THE INTERFERENCE CAUSED TO THE INCUMBENT NETWORKS. WITH THE ABOVE, WE BELIEVE THAT ADEL WILL LEAD TO FUTURE HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS OF AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE HIGHER CAPACITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY THUS SETTING THE ROADMAP FOR THE ADOPTION OF SPECTRUM FLEXIBLE BROADBAND WIRELESS SYSTEMS BY 2020. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING AND SELF-CARE OF SENIORS WITH COGNITIVE PROBLEMS OR MILD DEMENTIA (ISISEMD) EC RELIABLE SELF ORGANIZING NETWORKS (REASON) HUAWEI ENABLING CELLULAR NETWORKS TO EXPLOIT MILLIMETER-WAVE OPPORTUNITIES (NEMO) THE AIM IS TO EXPLORE THE CREATION OF NETWORKS UTILIZING DEVICE-TO-INFRASTRUCTURE LINKS TO SUPPORT DENSE, HIGH-CAPACITY NETWORKS, SUCH AS THOSE REQUIRED IN SPORTS ARENAS, THEATRES, AND TRANSPORTATION HUBS. CRITICAL TO THESE NETWORKS ARE HIGH-CAPACITY, YET UNCERTAIN LINKS THAT CHANGE RAPIDLY DUE TO THE MORE PRONOUNCED EFFECTS OF FACTORS SUCH AS SHADOWING AND MICRO-MOBILITY ON MILLIMETRE-WAVE LINKS (I.E. OPERATING IN THE 30-300 GHZ FREQUENCY RANGE). SUCH NETWORKS DEMAND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW WIRELESS NETWORK ARCHITECTURES AND NEW RESOURCE ALLOCATION TECHNIQUES BASED ON NEW MEASUREMENT BASED CHANNEL PROPAGATION MODELS AND ASSESSED AGAINST NEW CAPACITY ANALYSES. SFI & NSF SFI - US-IRELAND R&D PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. LAURE MARIGNOL marignollaure ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARIGNL RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF RADIATION RESISTANCE IN PROSTATE TUMOURS DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMARKERS OF BIOCHEMICAL TREATMENT FAILURE FOLLOWING RADIATION THERAPY RELEVANCE OF TUMOUR HYPOXIA TO DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RADIATION TREATMENT PLANNING MRI IMAGING OF THE PROSTATE SCHOOL OF RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES HOSPITAL JAMES'S STREET DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH INVITED PRESENTATION, MAASTRO CLINIC, THE NEDERLANDS. "DEVELOPING THERAPEUTIC PACKAGES FOR PROSTATE CANCER RADIOTHERAPY" INVITED TALK "5-STEP GUIDE TO THE MANAGEMENT OF A RESEARCH PROJECT" ESTRO ANNUAL MEETING, BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER 12-16TH 2010 INVITED TALK ""RADIATION ACTIVATED GENE THERAPY -A REVIEW" ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND, I FACULTY ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING, DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER 2007 INVITED TALK " THE TREATMENT FIELD FROM THE RADIOBIOLOGIST AND MOLECULAR ONCOLOGIST'S EYE" ESTRO TREATMENT PLANNING COURSE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH MEMBER, RADIOBIOLOGY COMMITTEE, EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY (ESTRO) ORAL PRESENTATION "HYPOXIA IN PROSTATE TUMOURS: DETECTION, CONSEQUENCES AND CLINICAL EXPLOITATION" ST LUKES YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND, DUBLIN, IRELAND, JANUARY 2009 (WINNER ST LUKE'S YOUNG INVESTIGATOR MEDAL) ORAL PRESENTATION "HYPOXIA MAY PARTICIPATES IN DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RADIORESISTANCE THROUGH THE INDUCTION OF NOTCH-3 AND UPREGULATION OF DNA REPAIR GENES IN PROSTATE CANCER" ASSOCIATION FOR RADIATION RESEARCH, ANNUAL MEETING, GLASGOW, UK, JUNE 2009 ORAL PRESENTATION "HYPOXIA MAY PARTICIPATES IN DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RADIORESISTANCE THROUGH THE INDUCTION OF NOTCH-3 AND UPREGULATION OF DNA REPAIR GENES IN PROSTATE CANCER" FACULTY OF RADIOLOGIST ANNUAL MEETING, DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER 2009 ORAL PRESENTATION: "DEVELOPING THERAPEUTIC PACKAGES FOR PROSTATE CANCER RADIOTHERAPY" BIOMARKERS IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY WORKSHOP, ONCORAY, DRESDEN, GERMANY POSTER PRESENTATION "IDENTIFICATION OF A MIRNAS SIGNATURE OF RADIORESISTANCE IN A PROSTATE CANCER MODEL" POSTER PRESENTATION "HYPOXIA MAY PARTICIPATES IN DISEASE PROGRESSION AND RADIORESISTANCE THROUGH THE INDUCTION OF NOTCH-3 AND UPREGULATION OF DNA REPAIR GENES IN PROSTATE CANCER" 11TH INTERNATIONAL WOLFSBERG MEETING ON MOLECULAR RADIATION BIOLOGY/ONCOLOGY, ERMATINGEN, SWITZERLAND, JUNE 2009 POSTER PRESENTATION "REDUCED OXYGENATION DOES NOT PROTECT ALL PROSTATE CANCER CELLS FROM RADIATION: A NEW ROLE FOR HYPOXIA IN RADIATION THERAPY?" ESTRO ANNUAL MEETING, BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER 12-16TH 2010 POSTER PRESENTATION "REDUCED OXYGENATION DOES NOT PROTECT ALL PROSTATE CANCER CELLS FROM RADIATION: A NEW ROLE FOR HYPOXIA IN RADIATION THERAPY?" IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RADIATION RESEARCH, MARCH 2010 POSTER PRESENTATION "REDUCED OXYGENATION DOES NOT PROTECT ALL PROSTATE CANCER CELLS FROM RADIATION: A NEW ROLE FOR HYPOXIA IN RADIATION THERAPY?" RADIATION RESEARCH SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING, USA, SEPTEMBER 2010( WINNER SCHOLAR-IN-TRAINING TRAVEL AWARD). POSTER PRESENTATION - ESTRO ANNUAL MEETING, TURIN "THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF THE YB-1/NOTCH-3 INTERACTION IN PROSTATE CANCER" POSTER PRESENTATION -ESTRO ANNUAL MEETING, BARCELONA, 2015 "IDENTIFICATION OF MIRNAS ASSOCIATED WITH RADIORESISTANCE IN A PROSTATE CANCER MODEL" SCHOLAR IN TRAINING COMMITTEE MEMBER EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY (ESTRO) SCHOLAR IN TRAINING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR RADIATION RESEARCH (UK) SCHOLAR IN TRAINING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE RADIATION RESEARCH SOCIETY (USA) SECRETARY, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RADIATION RESEARCH TREASURER, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RADIATION RESEARCH CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS MATHEMATICAL MODELLING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PROSTATE CANCER RADIOMICS RADIOTHERAPY, BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS AND CHEMOPREVENTION THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY TISSUE CULTURE TRANSGENE EXPRESSION ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY REDUCED OXYGENATION DOES NOT PROTECT ALL PROSTATE CANCER CELLS FROM RADIATION: A NEW ROLE FOR HYPOXIA IN RADIATION THERAPY? OXYGEN IS ESSENTIAL FOR OPTIMAL CYTOTOXICITY OF RADIATION THERAPY. IN THE ABSENCE OF OXYGEN AT THE TIME OF RADIATION EXPOSURE, CELL SURVIVAL IS COMMONLY EXPECTED TO INCREASE BY UP TO THREE-FOLD. WE PROPOSED THAT THE PROPORTION OF CELLS COMPLETELY DEPRIVED OF OXYGEN WITHIN TUMOURS MAY NOT BE SUFFICIENTLY LARGE TO BE CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT AND HYPOTHESISED THAT THE SURROUNDING HYPOXIC CELLS IN FACT MAY GOVERN TUMOUR RESPONSE TO RADIOTHERAPY. TO TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS, THIS STUDY PROPOSED TO RE-EXAMINE THE RADIORESPONSE OF HYPOXIC PROSTATE CANCER CELLS AND DETERMINE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THESE POTENTIALLY CLINICALLY RELEVANT OXYGEN LEVELS. PROGNOSIS POTENTIAL OF MIRNAS IN HIGH RISK RADIOTHERAPY PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS FAILURE TO IDENTIFY TUMOURS WITH A RADIORESISTANT PHENOTYPE IN THE 1,000+ IRISH PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS/YEAR RECEIVING RADIATION THERAPY (RT) IS ASSOCIATED WITH RECURRENCE AND DECREASED OVERALL SURVIVAL IN APPROXIMATIVELY 300-400 OF THESE MEN, PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH LOCALISED GLEASON 8-10 PROSTATE CARCINOMA. THIS STUDY AIMS TO IDENTIFY A MIRNA PANEL THAT CAN BE DETECTED IN DIAGNOSTIC TISSUE BIOPSY SPECIMEN FROM HIGH-RISK PATIENTS, WHICH WILL ASSIST THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE 30-50% WHO ARE AT GREATER RISK OF BIOCHEMICAL FAILURE FOLLOWING RT. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPANION DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR RADIOTHERAPY PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS (CASPAR) HERE IS AN UNMET NEED TO DEVELOP COMPANION DIAGNOSTIC TESTS THAT CAN GUIDE PATIENTS AND THEIR CLINICIANS THROUGH THE TREATMENT DECISION PROCESS. THIS PROJECT PROPOSE ASSESSES A NOVEL PROTEIN FOR ITS PROGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL IN HIGH RISK RADIOTHERAPY PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS. THE LONG-TERM FOCUS OF CASPAR IS TO DEVELOP A NOVEL COMPANION DIAGNOSTIC TEST AND THERAPEUTIC COMBINATION THAT CAN ALLOW PERSONALIZED PRESCRIPTION OF RADIOTHERAPY FOR THESE PATIENTS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TIDA CANCER DR. CHRISTOPHER MARK markchristopher RESEARCH FELLOW MARKC GEOLOGY THE EARTH'S SURFACE IS THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PLANET AND PEOPLE, AND AS SUCH AFFECTS NEARLY EVERY ASPECT OF HUMAN LIFE, FROM THE GROWTH OF CIVILISATIONS AND THE LOCATION OF CITIES TO THE VULNERABILITY OF OUR HOMES TO FLOODING. MY RESEARCH FOCUSSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANDSCAPES OVER GEOLOGICAL TIME, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE TECTONIC FORCES WHICH DRIVE THE GROWTH AND EXHUMATION OF BOTH ACTIVE (COLLISIONAL) AND PASSIVE (RIFT-RELATED) MOUNTAIN RANGES. DURING MY DOCTORAL STUDIES, I INVESTIGATED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROMINENT ELEVATED RIFT FLANK AND RIFT ESCARPMENT WHICH RUN THE LENGTH OF THE BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA AND DEFINE THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA RIFT. BY UTILISING A SUITE OF TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING LOW-TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY, GIS ANALYSIS, AND FIELD INVESTIGATION, I WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE MECHANISM WHICH DROVE RIFT FLANK UPLIFT AND LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SPECTACULAR PASSIVE MOUNTAIN RANGE. HERE AT TCD I AM EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF DETRITAL APATITE U-PB THERMOCHRONOLOGY (DEVELOPED BY DR. DAVID CHEW AND COLLABORATORS) TO ACT AS A SEDIMENTARY PROVENANCE INDICATOR, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE FORELAND BASINS OF THE EUROPEAN ALPS. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA CORDILLERAN AND INTERNATIONAL SECTIONS EXHUMATION TECTONICS GEOMORPHOLOGY LOW TEMPERATURE THERMOCHRONOLOGY RIFT TECTONICS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES PROFESSOR NICOLA MARY MARPLES marplesnicolamary PROFESSOR NMARPLES ZOOLOGY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN THEMES EACH WITH A NUMBER OF ASPECTS CURRENTLY UNDER ACTIVE RESEARCH: 1)AVIAN PREDATORY BEHAVIOUR: UNDERSTANDING OF PREDATOR-PREY SYSTEMS PARTICULARLY AS THEY RELATE TO AVIAN PREDATION ON INSECTS. ·RESPONSES OF BIRDS TO NOVEL COLOUR AND ODOUR CUES IN THEIR PREY. ·THE EFFECTS OF PREY AGGREGATION ON LEARNING AND MEMORY IN BIRDS. ·THE STAGES INVOLVED IN THE RECRUITMENT OF NEW PREY INTO A BIRDS' DIET. ·MIMICRY SYSTEMS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON PREDATION PRESSURES. ·THE EVOLUTION OF APOSEMATIC COLOUR PATTERNS. 2)ZOO RESEARCH: BEHAVIOURAL STUDIES LEADING TO THE EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF CAPTIVE ANIMALS IN ZOOS. CURRENT TOPICS INCLUDE: ·EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF BIRDS. ·IDENTIFICATION AND ALLEVIATION OF DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS WHICH VISITORS HAVE ON ZOO ANIMALS 3) FEEDING ECOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF BADGERS IN IRELAND. 4)I HAVE A GREAT INTEREST AND INCREASING OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY BIRD POPULATIONS IN RELATION TO BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION IN THE TROPICAL RAINFORESTS AND ISLANDS OF SULAWESI. DEPT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ADVISOR TO 2001 WINNER OF YOUNG SCIENTIST OF THE YEAR, SENIOR SECTION. ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR ZOOS AND AQUARIA BRITISH TRUST FOR ORNITHOLOGY CHAIRMAN OF THE EDUCATION SUB-COMMITTEE OF ASAB EARTHWATCH EXTERNAL REFEREE FOR PHD THESIS IN BRISTOL, LEEDS, AND ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITIES, AND MSC THESIS IN SOUTHAMPTON. INVITED RESEARCH SUPERVISOR TO OPERATION WALLACEA MEMBER AT LARGE OF THE FELLOWS STANDING COMMITTE MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION COMMITTEE OF DUBLIN, FOTA AND BELFAST ZOOS MEMBER OF THE ZOO RESEARCH COMMITTEE OF THE ZOO FEDERATION OF UK AND IRELAND. OPERATION WALLACEA REFEREE FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS INCLUDING ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR; BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY, SCIENCE, BEHAVIOUR, EVOLUTION, AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B. SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR TO OPERATION WALLACEA, (CONSERVATION IN SULAWESI) ANIMAL HEALTH, WELFARE APOSEMATISM AVIAN PREDATION BADGER BEHAVIOUR CHICKS CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE BIOLOGY DIET ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT EVOLUTION FOOD FOOD NOVELTY MIMICRY NEOPHOBIA PREY REPRODUCTION SELECTION ZOO BIOLOGY AVIAN FORAGING AND EVOLUTION OF INSECTS TO UNDERSTAND THE EVOLUTIONARY EFFECTS OF AVIAN FORAGING DECISIONS ON THE DEFENSE SYSTEMS OF THEIR PREY. THE WORK IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE IS ON THE PLASTICITY OF FORAGING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY BIRDS, WHEN ENCOUNTERING NOVEL PREY TYPES. INDIVIDUALS HAVE A GENETIC PROPENSITY EITHER TO ATTACK OR TO AVOID NEW PREY TYPES, AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THESE TWO STRATEGIES ARE EXPRESSED IN DIFFERING HABITATS IS IMPORTANT FOR UNDERSTANDING FORAGING BEHAVIOUR. THIS WORK HAS STRONG IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION OF BIRDS AS THEIR RANGES AND THE RANGES OF THIER PREY EXPAND OR MOVE IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE. IRCSET ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR OF BADGERS TO GAIN A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR OF IRISH BADGERS, WITH A VIEW TO FACILITATING THEIR VACCINATION AGAINST TB. THIS BRANCH OF RESEARCH AT TCD BEGAN IN 2005 AND CURRENTLY SUPPORTS A POST DOCTORATE RESEARCHER AND A POST GRADUATE. DEPT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES ENRICHMENT OF ZOO ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR TO IMPROVE WELFARE AND REINTRODUCTION SUCCESS OF ZOO ANIMALS BY A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR BEHAVIOUR IN CAPTIVITY. THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN DUBLIN ZOO AND TCD HAS BEEN HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE OVER MORE THAN 10 YEARS, PRODUCING A STEADY STREAM OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS ON THE BEHAVIOURAL EFFECTS OF ENCLOSURE DESIGN, AND THE EFFECTS OF VISITORS ON THE WELFARE AND BEHAVIOUR OF ZOO HELD ANIMALS. DUBLIN ZOO, ENTERPRISE IRELAND AVIAN BIOGEOGRAPHY IN INDONESIA ASSESSMENT OF THE EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES OCCURRING IN THE BIRDS OF THE ISLANDS OF SOUTH EAST SULAWESI. THIS RESEARCH TAKES PLACE IN THE SUMMER IN COLLABORATION WITH OPERATION WALLACEA, AN ORGANIZATION FACILITATING RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ALL OVER THE WORLD. IN SUMMER 2007 WE WILL COMPLETE A LONG-TERM STUDY, BEGUN IN 1999, OF THE BIRDS ON A GROUP OF ISLANDS OFF SOUTH EAST SULAWESI. OPERATION WALLACEA AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR MICHAEL ANTHONY MARSH marshmichaelanthony FELLOW EMERITUS MMARSH POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES POLICY INSTITUTE IRISH POLITICS (IRISH ELECTIONS AND PUBLIC OPINION), COMPARATIVE ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR ( PARTICULARLY EUROPEAN UNION), POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY ORGANISATIONS DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND BACKGROUNDS, ATTITUDES AND ACTIVISM OF PARTY MEMBERS ELECTORAL SYSTEMS EU POLITICS IRISH OPINION POLLS, ELECTION DATA ARCHIVE IRISH POLITICS, ELECTION STUDY, ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR POLITICAL BEHAVIOR POLITICAL PARTICIPATION POLITICAL PARTIES IRISH ELECTION STUDY 2006/7 THIS STUDY WILL COMPLETE AN UNPRECEDENTED INTER-ELECTION PANEL STUDY OF THE IRISH ELECTORATE WITH A RANDOM SAMPLE, FACE-TO-FACE SURVEY OF 1800 MEMBERS OF THE ELECTORATE AFTER THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION, EXPECTED IN 2006 OR 2007. THE STUDY WILL BUILD ON THE LONGTITUDINAL CORE OF THE PRTLI FUNDED PANEL STUDY STARTED AFTER THE 2002 ELECTION , WITH WAVES IN 2002 [2,600 CASES] , 2003, 2004 [APPROX 1,000 CASES EACH] AND 2005/6. THOSE RESPONDENTS WILL BE REINTERVIEWED ALONG WITH A TOP-UP OF NEW CASES TO ENSURE THE 2006/7 WAVE WILL ALSO BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE 2006/7 ELECTORATE. THIS PROJECT PROVIDES A UNIQUE VEHICLE FOR RESEARCH ON THE ELECTORAL PROCESS. HENCE WE WILL CONSULT THE LARGER POLITICAL STUDIES COMMUNITY ABOUT THE CONTENT OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE. THE SURVEY WILL 'CARRY' SEVERAL SEPARATE BUT INTERELATED PROJECTS, MOST NOTABLY THE THIRD MODULE FROM THE COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF ELECTORAL SYSTEMS (CSES) PROJECT [WWW.CSES.ORG], AS WELL AS OTHERS WHICH MAY REQUIRE AND ATTRACT ADDITIONAL FUNDING. WHILE THE IMMEDIATE FOCUS OF THE STUDY WILL BE TO ESTABLISH WHY PEOPLE VOTE AS THEY DO IN THIS PARTICULAR ELECTION, THE PRIMARY RESEARCH AIM WILL BE TO ESTABLISH A ORIGINAL DATASET OF HIGH QUALITY THROUGH WHICH SCHOLARS OF ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR IN GENERAL AND IRISH ELECTIONS IN PARTICULAR CAN EXPLORE THE ATTITUDINAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND EVALUATIVE BASES OF POLITICAL STABILITY AND POLITICAL CHANGE. TO DATE ONLY CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA HAS BEEN AVAILABLE AND THIS HAS SEVERELY HANDICAPPED ANALYSES. FOR THIS REASON, THE COMPLETION OF A PANEL STUDY TO ENCOMPASS TWO GENERAL ELECTIONS, AS WELL AS INTERVENING LOCAL AND EUROPEAN ELECTIONS, PROVIDES AN INVALUABLE PIECE OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POLITICAL CHANGE IN THE ELECTORATE. THIS IS CRITICAL TO THE EXAMINATION OF THE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY AND WILL BE USED WIDELY BY THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS. IRCHSS INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECT CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS MRS. CLARE WHELAN whelanclare CLINICAL SKILLS TUTOR MARTINC4 SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE SCH OF MEDICINE, CLINICAL SKILLS OLD STONE BUILDING TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES' HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. CARA MARTIN martincara ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CMARTIN3 HISTOPATHOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) DEPARTMENT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LAB ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH APOPTOSIS APOPTOSIS, MOLECULAR CONTROL AUTISM BIOINFORMATICS BIOLOGY CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS CELL CYCLE CONTROL CERVICAL CANCER CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS COMMERCIALISATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COMMUNITY HEALTH AND GENERAL PRACTICE CYTOLOGY AND CANCEROLOGY DNA POLYMORPHISMS, EVALUATE CHIMERISM AFTER BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT DNA TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION DNA TYPING DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENESIS EPIDEMIOLOGY GENE THERAPY GENE TRANSCRIPTION IN HUMAN CANCER GENETIC/MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION GYNAECOLOGY ONCOLOGY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH MANAGEMENT HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS HUMAN GENETICS IMAGING TECHNIQUES INFERTILITY INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY MEMBRANE AND PROTEIN TRAFFICKING MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS NUCLEI ACID CHEMISTRY, STRUCTURE AND FOLDING ONCOGENES, APOPTOSIS AND TUMOUR DEVELOPMENT PATHOLOGY POPULATION BASED INTERVENTION TRIALS REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION RNA PROCESSING, STABILITY AND DEGRADATION STEM CELL BIOLOGY AND HEMATOPOIESIS THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF DISEASE RELATED MOLECULAR CELL ACTIVITY EU 6TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME STREP (SPECIFIC TARGETED RESEARCH OR INNOVATION PROJECTS). 2005-2008. (CO-APPLICANT) (FP6 2004-ISTNMP2) EU 6TH FRAMEWORK EU 6TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME STREP (SPECIFIC TARGETED RESEARCH OR INNOVATION PROJECTS HPV MRNA AND P16 INK4A DETECTION FOR IMPROVED DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF CERVICAL NEOPLASIA IN SMOKERS. TO EVALUATE A COMBINED HPV MRNA AND P16INK4A DETECTION APPROACH FOR DETECTING HIGH GRADE CERVICAL DISEASE IN WOMEN REFERRED TO COLPOSCOPY RESULTING IN IMPROVED PATIENT MANAGEMENT AND REDUCED COSTS TO HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS. SPECIFIC AIMS: 1. TO DEFINE A CONSISTENT, ACCURATE AND ADEQUATE SCORING MECHANISM FOR MICROSCOPIC INTERPRETATION OF P16INK4A IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY. 2. TO CORRELATE EXPRESSION OF P16INK4A EXPRESSION WITH EXPRESSION OF HPV E6/E7 MRNA IN CYTOLOGICAL SMEAR SPECIMENS AND URINARY COTININE LEVELS IN WOMEN ATTENDING COLPOSCOPY FOR MANAGEMENT OF LOW AND HIGH GRADE CERVICAL LESIONS. 3. TO CORRELATE P16INK4A, HPV E6/E7 MRNA EXPRESSION AND URINARY COTININE LEVELS IN CYTOLOGICAL SMEAR AND URINE SPECIMENS WITH HISTOLOGICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE SAME PATIENTS. 4. TO DETERMINE THE PPV AND SPECIFICITY OF P16INK4A AND HPV MRNA DETECTION AT TIME OF REFERRAL TO COLPOSCOPY FOR PREDICTING DISEASE OUTCOME. CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND FELLOWSHIP SPECIFIC TARGETING OF CANCER STEMNESS: POTENTIAL CANCER THERAPY? THIS GRANT IS EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF KNOCKING-DOWN OF 5 TARGET MIRNAS IN EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA CELL LINES. CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND PROJECT GRANTS CERVIVA: WORKING TOWARDS A WORLD CLASS CERVICAL SCREENING SYSTEM FOR IRISH WOMEN. PROJECT GOALS: TO DEVELOP NEW SCREENING TOOLS AND DIAGNOSTICS IN CERVICAL SCREENING. PROJECT AIMS: 1.AUTOMATION AND ITS IMPACT ON CERVICAL SCREENING 2.HEALTH ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF AUTOMATED CERVICAL SCREENING WITH THE AIM TO PROVIDE A SOUND BASIS FOR DECISIONS ON DEVELOPING A COST-EFFECTIVE CERVICAL SCREENING PROGRAMME IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGING SCREENING TECHNOLOGIES 3.EXAMINE THE ATTITUDES OF WOMEN TO CERVICAL SCREENING AND HPV TESTING 4.CRITICALLY EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF A POSITIVE SMEAR AND HPV TEST RESULT IN IRISH WOMEN 5.EXAMINE STREAMLINING CERVICAL SCREENING THROUGH THE INTRODUCTION OF ANCILLARY HPV TESTING: IN SPECIFIC MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS 6.HEALTH ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF INTRODUCING HPV ANCILLARY TESTING IN THE IRISH POPULATION 7.THE IMPACT OF HPV VACCINES ON CERVICAL CANCER AND SCREENING PROGRAMMES 8.INTRODUCTION OF QUALITY INITIATIVES IN A ROUTINE SCREENING SERVICE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A VIRTUAL SLIDE EQA SCHEME 9.IMPROVEMENT OF THE EXISTING OPPORTUNISTIC SCREENING SERVICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 10.CARRY OUT BLUE-SKY RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF CANCER BIOCHIP DEVELOPMENT HRB HEALTH SERVICES R&D AWARD. : EU 7TH FP GRANT (FP7-HEALTH-2007-A) AUTOMATIC CANCER SCREENING BASED ON REAL-TIME PCR PROJECT GOALS: TO DEVELOP AND TO VALIDATE A POINT OF CARE (POC) DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR CANCER SCREENING, COMBINING THE METHODS OF REAL TIME PCR AND DNA MICROARRAYS. PROJECT AIMS: TO DEVELOP A COMBINED THERMAL CYCLER AND OPTICAL DETECTION SYSTEM TO PERFORM PCR CYCLING AND MICROARRAY DETECTION SIMULTANEOUSLY TO DEVELOP A MICROFLUIDIC CARTRIDGE CONTAINING LIGHT GUIDING COMPONENTS TO ENABLE ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION (ATR) AND THE IMMOBILIZED MICROARRAY WITHIN A REACTION CHAMBER, WHICH IS AMENABLE FOR PCR CYCLING AND OPTICAL READOUT BY TIRF .TO DEVELOP A NOVEL TYPE OF ASSAY PROTOCOL (THE MEDIATOR PROBE ASSAY) TO ENABLE SCREENING OF ANY NUCLEIC ACID BY A SINGLE UNIVERSAL/ GENERIC MICROARRAY TO TEST A NEW COMBINATIONAL APPROACH FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING INCLUDING BOTH HPV AND HUMAN GENE BIOMARKER TESTING . TO PERFORM A CLINICAL FEASIBILITY AND VALIDATION STUDY TO BENCHMARK THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NEW TEST TO EXISTING DIAGNOSTIC PLATFORMS WITH RESPECT TO HPV DIAGNOSTICS EUROPEAN UNION FP7 PROGRAMME FP7-HEALTH-2007-A HSA-MIR-141 AND HSA-MIR-223 ARE CENTRAL TO OVARIAN SEROUS CARCINOMA PATHOGENESIS THROUGH REGULATION OF JAG1 AND SMARCD1 PROTEINS. PROJECT GOALS: TO ASSESS THE THE ROLE OF TWO MIRNAS IN OVARIAN SEROUS CARCINOMAS AND EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF KNOCKING DOWN THESE TARGETS USING ANTI-MIRS. CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND PROJECT GRANTS DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPEUTICS IN OVARIAN CANCER VALIDATION OF FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF NOVEL GENES AND MIRNAS IN RECURRENT OVARIAN CANCER SPECIMENS AND DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERAPEUTICS. THIS PROJECT IS CRITICALLY EXAMINING SEVERAL MIRNA MOLECULES IN RECURRENT OVARIAN CANCER THE EMER CASEY FOUNDATION PHD FELLOWSHIP PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED SINGLE CELL-MANIPULATION AND ANALYSIS PROJECT GOALS: TO DEVELOP PASCA A PLATFORM FOR ADVANCE SINGLE CELL-MANIPULATION AND ANALYSIS (PASCA), WHICH IS A NOVEL APPROACH TO PERFORM CELL RESEARCH OR CELL BASED EXPERIMENTS WITH SINGLE CELLS INSTEAD OF ENSEMBLES (BATCHES) OF CELLS. PROJECT AIMS: FIRSTLY TO ESTABLISH AND VALIDATE THE PASCA PLATFORM USING THE SCM INSTRUMENT AS THE KEY ENABLING TECHNOLOGY. SECONDLY, SCIENTIFIC RESULTS WILL BE OBTAINED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE LIFE SCIENCE APPLICATIONS REALIZED BY THE PASCA PLATFORM. THE APPLICATION, FOR THE FIRST TIME WILL ALLOW MULTI-DIMENSIONAL CHARACTERISATION OF ISOLATED PRE-CANCER AND CANCER CELLS FROM COMPLEX CELL POPULATIONS. EUROPEAN UNION FP7 PROGRAMME FP7-STREP-2010) A NOVEL TOOL FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING BASED ON LOW RESOLUTION RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, CERVASSIST. TO DEVELOP A ROBUST COMMERCIAL PRODUCT FOR RAPID AND LOW COST CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING BASED ON A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE MICRO RAMAN SYSTEM. PROJECT AIMS: 1.TO CONDUCT A LARGE SCALE STUDY ON LOW RESOLUTION RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY FOR DISCRIMINATING BETWEEN NORMAL AND ABNORMAL CERVICAL TISSUE AND SMEAR SAMPLES. 2.TO USE MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES TO DEVELOP AN ALGORITHM TO CLASSIFY NORMAL, CIN I, CIN II, CIN III AND INVASIVE CARCINOMA SAMPLES FOR THE NON SPECIALIST USER 3.TO CUSTOMISE A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE MICRO RAMAN SYSTEM TO MAKE IT SUITABLE FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING 4.TO CONDUCT BETA TESTING AT THE NATIONAL MATERNITY HOSPITAL AND THE COOMBE WOMEN AND INFANTS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TO TEST AND VALIDATE THE TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION REGULATION AND FUNCTION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS IN OVARIAN CANCER: A SYNERGISTIC MODEL CHARACTERISATION OF TLR4/MYD88 IN OVARIAN CANCER CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND PROJECT GRANTS ANTIBODY PROFILING IN OVARIAN CANCER IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL AUTO-ANTIBODIES IN THE SERUM OF OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS USING A NOVEL HUMAN PROTEIN EXPRESSION ARRAY LIBRARY. GRANT 3 EMER CASEY FOUNDATION PHD FELLOWSHIP SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACHES TO CERVICAL PRE-CANCER AND CANCER SYSTEMCERV EUROPEAN UNION 7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME. FP7 HEALTH-2012.2.1.2-1 [SYSTEMS MEDICINE: SME DRIVEN RESEARCH APPLYING SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROA NON-CODING MIRNAS AS REGULATORS OF CHEMORESISTANCE IN OVARIAN CANCER, ROYAL CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL TRUST FUND 'MOLECULAR PAP TEST' FOR CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING - DETECTING HPV INFECTION AND CELLULAR ABNORMALITIES IN EXFOLIATED CERVICAL CELLS ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND BIOMEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS INSTITUTE 2 [BDI2] SFI CSET ONC1 PROGRAMME SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CERVIVA 2: BUILDING CAPACITY AND ADVANCING RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE IN CERVICAL SCREENING IN IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD ICE CERVIVA 2: BUILDING CAPACITY AND ADVANCING RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE IN CERVICAL SCREENING AND OTHER HPV ASSOCIATED DISEASES IN IRELAND. TITLE: CERVIVA 2: BUILDING CAPACITY AND ADVANCING RESEARCH AND PATIENT CARE IN CERVICAL SCREENING AND OTHER HPV ASSOCIATED DISEASES IN IRELAND. (CO PRINCIPAL APPLICANT) AWARDING BODY: HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD. COLLABORATIVE APPLIED RESEARCH GRANT (2012-2017) TOTAL VALUE: €1,250,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COLLABORATIVE APPLIED RESEARCH GRANTS CERVIVA STUDENTSHIP FOR ECHO STUDY THE COOMBE WOMEN AND INFANTS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL STUDENTSHIP CERVIVA: FROM EPISODIC CARE TO DISEASE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT: DEVELOPING ANALYTICAL SKILLS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING FROM THE CASE OF HPV RELATED CANCERS. THE CERVIVA ICE PROGRAMME REPRESENTS AN INTEGRATED INTER-DISCIPLINARY PROPOSAL THAT IS TRANSFORMATIVE AND CAPACITY-ENHANCING FOR 3 FELLOWS WORKING IN 3 KEY AREAS OF HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH: EPIDEMIOLOGY, ECONOMICS AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY/INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT. THE APPLICATION BUILDS ON SUBSTANTIAL EXISTING CAPACITY AND EXPERTISE WITHIN THE INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNISED CERVIVA RESEARCH CONSORTIUM (WWW.CERVIVA.IE) AND EXTENDS THE COVERAGE OF ITS RESEARCH EFFORT BY ADDRESSING A SERIES OF IMPORTANT KNOWLEDGE GAPS WITHIN CERVICAL PRE-CANCER/CANCER AND HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV)-ASSOCIATED HEAD AND NECK CANCER [HNSCC]; THESE KNOWLEDGE GAPS ALSO REPRESENT IMPORTANT CHALLENGES FOR POLICY-MAKERS, SERVICE PROVIDERS AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. THROUGH AN INTEGRATED INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMME, THE FELLOWS WILL SEEK TO DERIVE SIGNIFICANT OUTPUTS IN THREE AREAS: AREA 1 (EPIDEMIOLOGY): ADVANCING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HPV INFECTION IN THE ORAL CAVITY (PREVALENCE, PERSISTENCE, CLEARANCE); DEVELOPING A MATHEMATICAL-BIOLOGICAL MODEL OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HPV INFECTION IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER; AND EXTENDED LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF BIOMARKERS FOR TRIAGE IN CERVICAL PRE-CANCER. AREA 2 (HEALTH ECONOMICS): ASSESSING THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF NOVEL BIOMARKERS IN CERVICAL CANCER PREVENTION; AND QUANTIFICATION OF THE DIFFERENCES IN COSTS AND EFFECT OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER, FOCUSING ON THE POTENTIAL GAINS FROM EARLY DETECTION. AREA 3 (HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY/INTERVENTION DEVELOPMENT): DEVELOPING AND TESTING THEORYBASED INTERVENTIONS TO: REDUCE ADVERSE PSYCHOLOGICAL AFTER-EFFECTS IN WOMEN UNDERGOING COLPOSCOPY AND RELATED PROCEDURES; AND SUPPORT HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN DISCUSSING HPV WITH HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENTS. THE PROGRAMME PLACES SIGNIFICANT EMPHASIS ON ADVANCED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, CAREER TRAINING, ACADEMIC PLACEMENT AND CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT. ULTIMATELY IT WILL DEVELOP INDIVIDUALS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME FUTURE LEADERS IN HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH AS WELL AS IMPROVING HEALTH SERVICES AND HEALTH IN IRELAND. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT AWARDS CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR SEAMUS JOSEPH MARTIN martinseamusjoseph SMURFIT PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL GENETICS MARTINSJ GENETICS MOLECULAR CONTROL OF APOPTOSIS (PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH). NATURAL KILLER CELL AND CTL PROTEASES (PARTICULARLY GRANZYME B) AND THEIR MODE OF ACTION. THE ROLE OF CASPASES IN INFLAMMATION. THE ROLE OF BCL-2 FAMILY PROTEINS IN CHEMORESISTANCE IN CANCER. CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY. DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. APPOINTED TO EDITORIAL BOARD, CELL DEATH & DIFFERENTIATION. APPOINTED TO THE BOARD OF THE EUROPEAN WORKING GROUP ON APOPTOSIS. EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR FULL PROFESSOR & PERSONAL CHAIR APPOINTMENTS, SCRIPPS INSTITUTE, LA JOLLA, USA; UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, UK; UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, UK APPOINTMENTS & TENURE COMMITTEES PHD EXAMINER FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, NUI MAYNOOTH. SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH, UK. SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANT, CLONTECH INC. PALO ALTO, USA. SENIOR EDITOR, 'CELL DEATH & DIFFERENTIATION', NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY. ANTISERA APOPTOSIS APOPTOSIS, MOLECULAR CONTROL AUTOPHAGY BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS BIOLOGICAL MARKERS BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS BIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS CANCER BIOLOGY CANCER CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUGS- MODE OF ACTION CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS CANCER/CARCINOGENESIS CASPASE PROTEASES CELL AND TISSUE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND AGEING CELL COMMUNICATION CELL COMPONENTS CELL CYCLE CONTROL CELL LINES CELLULAR, MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AGENTS CHEMOTHERAPY CHRONIC INFLAMATION COMMERCIALISATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CYTOTOXIC T CELL KILLING DIABLO GENETICS GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION GRANZYMES HIV VIROLOGY AND PATHOGENESIS IMMUNE ENHANCERS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNE SYSTEM DISORDERS IMMUNITY IMMUNIZATION IMMUNOGENETICS IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOPATHOLOGY IMMUNOTHERAPY IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS INFLAMMATION INHIBITION INNATE IMMUNOLOGY INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING LEUKEMIA LEUKEMIAS AND LYMPHOMAS LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY LYMPHOCYTES LYMPHOMA MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH MITOCHONDRIAL FISSION & FUSION MECHANISMS MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR CLONING MOLECULAR GENETICS MOLECULAR/CELLULAR ENTITIES MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES OLIGOMERIZATION ONCOGENES, APOPTOSIS AND TUMOUR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH PROTEIN PROTEINS AND MACROMOLECULES PROTEOMICS SCREENING OF DRUGS/AGENTS SMAC TISSUE CULTURE TOXICITY AND TOXINOLOGY TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY VACCINE VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. GILLIAN SUZANNE MARTIN martingilliansuzanne ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GSMARTIN GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES (1) GLOBE PROJECT: THIS RESEARCH EXPLORES HOW SOCIETAL CULTURE AND ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE IMPACT ON PREFERRED LEADERSHIP STYLES AND IS PART OF A 62-NATION STUDY CO-ORDINATED BY PROFESSOR ROBERT HOUSE OF THE WHARTON SCHOOL. TOGETHER WITH MY RESEARCH PARTNER, MARY KEATING (SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES, TCD), WE HAVE COLLECTED AND ANALYSED DATA ON SOCIETAL CULTURE, ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE, AND LEADERSHIP IN IRELAND USING A MULTI-METHOD APPROACH INCLUDING A QUESTIONNAIRE BASED SURVEY, QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS, FOCUS GROUPS, AND A REVIEW OF UNOBTRUSIVE MEASURES OF CULTURE. THE FINDINGS OF THE RESEARCH ARE HIGHLY RELEVANT FOR IRISH BUSINESS PRACTITIONERS WHO INCREASINGLY MUST LEAD AND MANAGE MULTI-CULTURAL WORKFORCES IN BOTH A LOCAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXT. AS MORE AND MORE IRISH COMPANIES INTERNATIONALISE, OUR WORK UNDERSCORES THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING THESE 'SOFT' FACTORS AS A MEANS OF SUSTAINING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. EMERGING FROM THE GLOBE RESEARCH, MARY AND I HAVE RECENTLY COMPLETED COMPARATIVE RESEARCH ON MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOUR AND PRACTICE IN GERMANY AND IRELAND, RESULTING IN THE PUBLICATION OF AN EDITED BOOK IN 2004. THE BOOK BROUGHT TOGETHER RESEARCHERS FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES (ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, LINGUISTICS TO NAME BUT TWO) AND INCORPORATED A MANAGERIAL COMMENTARY AFTER EACH ACADEMIC CHAPTER IN ORDER TO UNDERLINE THE PRACTICAL RELEVANCE OF THE RESEARCH FINDINGS AND TO FURTHER THE EXCHANGE BETWEEN ACADEMICS AND PRACTITIONERS. THE THEMES COVERED IN THE BOOK HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN ADDRESSED FROM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE. ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: BUILDING ON THE COMPARATIVE RESEARCH WHICH WE HAVE CONDUCTED ON ORGANISATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN IRELAND AND GERMANY, WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING ON A STUDY OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN THE TWO COUNTRIES . THE RESEARCH ALSO INCLUDES DATA FROM THE USA . AS WITH THE GLOBE PROJECT, THE RESEARCH INVOLVES BOTH QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS AND MAKES A CONTRIBUTION TO THE VERY LIMITED BODY OF EMPIRICAL WORK ON ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN IRELAND. VALUE CHANGE: WITH MARY KEATING AND ERNA SZABO (AUSTRIAN GLOBE CO-ORDINATOR) WE HAVE CONDUCTED A STUDY OF VALUE CHANGE IN AUSTRIA AND IRELAND, DRAWING ON THE GLOBE MANAGERIAL DATA SET AND COLLECTING ADDITIONAL QUANTITATIVE DATA FROM BUSINESS STUDIES STUDENTS IN BOTH COUNTRIES. THE RESEARCH CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEBATE ON CULTURAL CONVERGENCE VERSUS DIVERGENCE, WHICH, IN TURN, HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR HOW FUTURE MANAGERS ARE TRAINED. (2) INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN BUSINESS SETTINGS: MY RESEARCH ON COMMUNICATION HAS TO DATE FOCUSED ON THE CONDUCT OF CROSS-CULTURAL SALES NEGOTIATIONS AND ON HOW GREATER INTEGRATION MIGHT BE ACHIEVED BETWEEN THE ORGANISATIONAL, CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIMENSIONS OF NEGOTIATION IN THE DESIGN OF SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS. MOST OF THIS WORK HAS CENTRED ON GERMAN-IRISH NEGOTIATION AND HAS INVOLVED EMPIRICAL RESEARCH WITH GERMAN AND IRISH BUSINESS PRACTITIONERS USING A RANGE OF QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGIES. I HAVE RECENTLY USED MY DATA SET ON IRISH-ENGLISH NEGOTIATION TO CONDUCT A STUDY OF INDIRECTNESS IN IRISH-ENGLISH BUSINESS COMMUNICATION, LINKING THIS INTER ALIA TO POST-COLONIALISM AND TO OTHER DIMENSIONS OF SOCIETAL CULTURE IDENTIFIED IN THE GLOBE STUDY. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WHICH AIMS TO BUILD AN INTELLIGENT LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (ILE) THROUGH WHICH BUSINESS PEOPLE CAN LEARN CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE NEGOTIATION SKILLS. THREE CULTURES WILL BE MODELLED: CHINESE, IRISH, AND GERMAN (3) ORGANISATIONAL AND INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION IN MEDICAL SETTINGS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MULTI-CULTURAL HEALTH CARE TEAMS AND HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT INTERACTION, EXPLORING ISSUES SUCH AS HOW CULTURE AND LANGUAGE IMPACT ON PERCEPTIONS OF CARE AND ITS DELIVERY IN THE AREA OF DIABETES CARE. THE STUDY TAKES AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH AND INVOLVES RESEARCH COLLABORATION WITH CLINICIANS. I AM A RESEARCH ASSOCIATE IN THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES, TCD. DEPT OF GERMAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSESSOR FOR NCEA (DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND FRENCH/GERMAN IN CARLOW INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY). DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY, EXTERNAL EXAMINER, ADVANCED NEGOTIATION SKILLS DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KEVIN STREET. EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR FINAL YEAR STUDENTS, BA IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND LANGUAGES GUEST LECTURE AT FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITÄT NÜRNBERG. GUEST LECTURE AT FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITÄT BONN. GUEST LECTURER, HEINRICH-HEINE UNIVERSITÄT ZU DÜSSELDORF GUEST LECTURER, JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITÄT LINZ INVITED SPEAKER AT A CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS GERMAN AT ASTON UNIVERSITY, BIRMINGHAM. INVITED SPEAKER AT CONFERENCE 'DIABETES IN CRISIS', DUBLIN CASTLE INVITED SPEAKER AT CONFERENCE ON 'DEUTSCH FÜR KARRIERE UND BERUF' IN THE GOETHE INSTITUT DUBLIN. MEMBER OF SELECTION COMMITTEES FOR THE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND, THE DIT, THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION, AND THE INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY FOR POSTS IN LANGUAGES, ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, BUSINESS STUDIES AND LAW. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF THIRD-LEVEL TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN IRELAND MEMBER OF THE CONFERENCE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEMBER OF THE GERMAN-IRISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR TO THE YEARBOOK OF THE GERMAN-IRISH CHAMBER OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE AND, MOST RECENTLY, GUEST SPEAKER AT THE CHAMBER'S ANNUAL CHRISTMAS LUNCH IN DECEMBER 2004 CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STYLES CULTURE AND HEALTH INTERCULTURAL AND INTRACULTURAL NEGOTIATION IN BUSINESS SETTINGS LEADERSHIP E-LAB TO DEVELOP A SUITE OF SELF-ACCESS ON-LINE EXERCISES AND TESTS - E-LAB - FOR JUNIOR SOPHISTER BUSINESS STUDIES AND GERMAN STUDENTS TO USE ON THEIR YEAR ABROAD). TEACHING DEVELOPMENT GRANT (TCD) SPEAKWISE THIS PROJECT AIMS TO PROMOTE CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC AWARENESS AMONGST BUSINESS GERMAN STUDENTS THROUGH E-LEARNING. STUDENTS ARE MATCHED WITH BUSINESS ENGLISH STUDENTS AT A GERMAN OR AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITY AND PARTICIPATE VIA WEB CT IN BOTH CULTURAL AND LANGUAGE AWARENESS RAISING ACTIVITIES WITH AN EMPHASIS ON BUSINESS COMMUNICATION. UNLIKE EXISTING WEB-BASED CULTURAL LEARNING PROGRAMMES, THE ACTIVITIES FOCUS ON UNDERSTANDING NOT JUST WHICH VALUES AND BELIEFS DIFFER OR ARE SIMILAR ACROSS THE TWO CULTURES, BUT ALSO HOW THEIR VALUE SYSTEMS ARE ENACTED AND REPRODUCED LINGUISTICALLY AND PRAGMATICALLY, I.E., HOW LANGUAGE IS USED IN DIFFERENT CULTURES TO ACHIEVE A PARTICULAR COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE. PHASE ONE ENGAGES STUDENTS IN A PROCESS OF CULTURAL REFLECTION AND AWARENESS RAISING USING FIELD RESEARCH; WORD ASSOCIATION AND DIALOGUE COMPLETION EXERCISES; CASE STUDIES; AND CRITICAL INCIDENT ANALYSIS. PHASE TWO BUILDS ON THIS ENHANCED AWARENESS AND INVOLVES STUDENTS IN TASK-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING ON-LINE, REQUIRING THEM TO DRAW ON KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR MOTHER TONGUE AND THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, NEGOTIATE MEANING AND MAKE CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY APPROPRIATE DECISIONS TO ACHIEVE PARTICULAR COMMUNICATIVE OBJECTIVES. LEARNING INNOVATION GRANT (TCD) IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR STEPHEN MATTERSON mattersonstephen PROFESSOR SMTTRSON ENGLISH MODERN ENGLISH 4013 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES IRISH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION WALLACE STEVENS SOCIETY 20TH CENTURY POETRY AMERICAN LITERATURE GENERALLY, ESPECIALLY HERMAN MELVILLE POETRY OF WALLACE STEVENS REPRESENTATIONS OF RACE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE A THEMATIC INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE A MONOGRAPH THAT EXPLORES THE RECURRENCE OF THEMES AND AGENCIES IN THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE MELVILLE EN COSTUME A MONOGRAPH FOCUSSED ON THE REPRESENTATION OF DRESS AND COSTUME IN THE FICTION OF HERMAN MELVILLE AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR ALAN MATTHEWS matthewsalan FELLOW EMERITUS AMTTHEWS ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE IRISH FARM AND FOOD SYSTEM, AGRICULTURAL POLICY MODELLING, THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TRADE, AID AND FOOD SECURITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, AND WTO TRADE NEGOTIATIONS. ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT 3017 ARTS BUIDLING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COUNCIL MEMBER AND FORMER PRESIDENT, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS. EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEMBER, UK AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY MEMBER, RESEARCH ADVISORY GROUP, TROCAIRE (THE IRISH CATHOLIC AGENCY FOR WORLD DEVELOPMENT). CHAIRMAN, 1986-92. PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS AGRICULTURAL POLICY ANALYSIS EXTERNAL TRADE POLICY OF EU WTO TRADE NEGOTIATIONS IMPACT OF EU AGRICULTURAL POLICY ON POVERTY IN AFRICA THIS PROJECT IS PART OF AGFOODTRADE, AN EU SEVENTH FRAMEWORK RESEARCH PROJECT. IT USES AN APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL TO EXAMINE THE HOUSEHOLD-LEVEL IMPACTS OF EU AGRICULTURAL TRADE POLICY IN TWO AFRICAN CASE STUDY COUNTRIES. EU SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME AGFOODTRADE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. PATRICK MATTHEWS matthewspatrick ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN DEAF STUDIES MATTHEP C.L.C.S. A SYSTEM OF ORTHOGRAPHY FOR IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE, THE LINGUISTICS OF ISL, DEAF CULTURE, PEDAGOGY AND ASSESSMENT METHODS, DEAF EDUCATION AND THE DEAF COMMUNITY CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES TRINITY COLLEGE 1ST FLOOR, 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ADVISORY SYLLABUS COMMITTEE FOR EXTRA MURAL STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION SKILLS WITH DEAF PEOPLE CHAIRPERSON FOR SIGN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND COMMITTEE OF THE DEAF ACADEMICS CONFERENCE 2008, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CONSULTANT ADVISOR FOR THE DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF A DEAF STUDIES PROGRAMME IN QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST COURSE DIRECTOR FOR THE DIPLOMA IN IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING PROGRAMME. EXAMINATIONS CO-ORDINATOR FOR SIGN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION (NOW KNOWN AS SIGN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND) IRISH ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) IRISH DEAF SOCIETY IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE (ISL) ACADEMY - ISL TEACHER MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE FOR 'SIGN ON BOOK' PUBLISHED BY DEAFHEAR & SIGN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISHSIGN LINK ISL/ENGLISH ACCREDITATION REGISTRY PANEL ON ACCREDITATION PANEL FOR REGISTRY OF ISL/ENGLISH SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS SIGN LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS SOCIETY ASSESSMENT CURRICULUM DEAF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE DEAF EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT OF ISL MATERIALS FIRST AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION INTERCULTURALSIM IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE WRITING SYSTEM LINGUISTICS OF ISL PEDAGOGY TRANSLATION IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE NATIONAL SURVEY & RESEARCH PROJECT AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDED THE OVERSEEING OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT AND ITS DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT. PLANNING THE SCHEDULE AND DESIGNING THE STRUCTURE FROM WHICH ALL STAFF COULD WORK AS A TEAM. I ALSO TRAVELLED THE COUNTRY DOING PR WORK FOR THE PROJECT. THIS INCLUDED GIVING LECTURES ON ISL, DEAF ISSUES, ETC. WHILST CARRYING OUT THE PROJECT, I ALSO CONDUCTED RESEARCH, PRINCIPALLY OF THE SURVEY/CENSUS TYPE AND ON THE LINGUISTICS OF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE. INSTITUID TEANGEOLAIOCHTA NA EIREANN (THE LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE OF IRELAND) ISL MATERIALS PROJECT THE PRODUCING AND RECORDING OF ISL MATERIALS. AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDED THE OVERSEEING OF ALL ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT AND ITS DAY-TO-DAY MANAGEMENT. PLANNING THE SCHEDULE AND DESIGNING THE STRUCTURE FROM WHICH ALL STAFF COULD WORK AS A TEAM CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. PHILIP SYDNEY MATTHEWS matthewsphilipsydney RETIRED STAFF MEMBER PMTTHEWS RETIRED STAFF MEMBER 12 VALLEY VIEW DELGANY CO WICKLOW 01-8961000 MS. JANE MARY MAXWELL maxwelljanemary PRINCIPAL CURATOR MAXWELLJ LIBRARY THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 WOMEN'S HISTORY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND ARCHIVES ADMINISTRATION EARLY MODERN IRELAND, COLONIAL COMMUNITIES EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS EPISTOLARY HISTORY IRELAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MANUSCRIPT CURATION MODERN IRISH HISTORY MUSEUMS THE LITERARY SOURCES MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. PETER MAY maypeter RESEARCH FELLOW PEMAY PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE ECONOMICS OF HEALTH CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS ILLNESS. KEY SKILLS: MODELLING COST DATA, ESTIMATING TREATMENT EFFECTS, ANALYSING OBSERVATIONAL DATA, RESEARCH DESIGN, CAUSAL INFERENCE, PROPENSITY SCORING. HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ROOM 0.21 3-4 FOSTER PLACE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AGEING CANCER PROFESSOR JOHN D'ARCY MAY darcymayjohn FELLOW EMERITUS MAYJD IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES AFTER COMPLETING A STUDY OF HOW BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS HAVE INTERACTED WITH INDIGENOUS OR 'PRIMAL' RELIGIONS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC (ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA, MELANESIA, THAILAND, JAPAN), IN PARTICULAR HOW THESE 'UNIVERSALIST' RELIGIONS WERE NOT IMMUNE TO COMPLICITY IN VIOLENCE, I HAVE BEEN DEVELOPING TWO LINES OF ENQUIRY: 1. A RE-THINKING OF THE ECUMENICAL PERSPECTIVE IN A BROADER SENSE, SHOWING HOW THE 'GLOBALISATION OF ETHICS' THROUGH THE RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS, WHETHER TRANSCENDENT-UNIVERSAL OR ETHNIC-LOCAL, CAN LEAD TO AN ETHICAL GLOBALISATION, INVOLVING AMONG OTHER THINGS AN EXPANSION OF THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS TO EMBRACE COMMUNITY AND ECOLOGICAL RESPONSIBILITY; 2. EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY OF 'COLLABORATIVE THEOLOGY' IN WHICH BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN THINKERS WOULD ENGAGE WITH ONE ANOTHER, SUCH THAT RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISATIONS OF TRANSCENDENCE, IN PARTICULAR BUDDHIST CONCEPTIONS OF ABSOLUTE NOTHINGNESS AND DYNAMIC EMPTINESS, WOULD CORRELATE WITH CHRISTIAN THEISTIC ATTEMPTS TO GROUND ETHICS IN A TRANSCENDENTAL COMMITMENT WHICH TAKES ACCOUNT OF HISTORY AND CREATION. IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS MILLTOWN PARK DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ACTING DIRECTOR, IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE, 2009-2011 ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE ADVISORY BOARD, CENTRE FOR INTERCULTURAL ETHICS, UNIVERSITY OF TILBURG, NETHERLANDS AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION (AAR) AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION (AASR) BOARD MEMBER,EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN STUDIES BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR MISSION STUDIES (BIAMS) INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR, SOCIETY FOR BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN STUDIES (SBCS) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MISSION STUDIES (IAMS) IRISH COUNCIL OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN NETWORK OF BUDDHIST-CHRISTIAN STUDIES THREE FAITH FORUM, IRELAND ASIA AUSTRALIA DEVELOPING/UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS EAST (FAR EAST) ASIA FIJI INDONESIA INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT JAPAN MELANESIA NEW ZEALAND NON-ALIGNED/THIRD WORLD NATIONS OCEANIA (INCLUDING AUSTRALIA) PACIFIC OCEAN PACIFIC RIM PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOUTHEAST ASIA SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE SRI LANKA (CEYLON) THAILAND THINKING GOD IN EUROPE TODAY THREE 10-DAY CONFERENCES STUDIED NAMING AND THINKING GOD IN EUROPE TODAY (VIENNA, 2003), POSTCOLONIAL EUROPE IN THE CRUCIBLE OF CULTURES: EMPOWERING GOD IN A WORLD OF CONFLICT (LEUVEN, 2004); AND TRANSLATING GOD(S): THINKING THE DIVINE IN INTERRELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER (PARIS, 2005). EUROPEAN UNION, PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES INTENSIVE PROGRAMME OVER THREE YEARS THEOLOGIE INTERKULTURELL THE PROJECT CARRIES ON INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN EUROPEAN AND NON-EUROPEAN THEOLOGIES BY INVITING A VISITING PROFESSOR FROM A CULTURAL CONTEXT OUTSIDE WESTERN EUROPE FOR A SERIES OF LECTURES AND SEMINARS, IN THE COURSE OF WHICH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM IS HELD (I WAS THE VISITING PROFESSOR IN 1988, LECTURING ON THEOLOGY IN THE PACIFIC). UNIVERSITY OF FRANKFURT AND EXTERNAL DONORS EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY AND INTERRELIGIOUS STUDIES (ESITIS) THE PROJECT AIMS TO STIMULATE RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION IN RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF MULTICULTURALISM IN EUROPE AND BEYOND. NOT YET DETERMINED CONFERENCES, EXCHANGE OF PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. PAULA MAYOCK mayockpaula ASSISTANT PROF IN YOUTH RESEARCH PMAYOCK SOCIAL STUDIES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE MARGINALISED YOUTH, YOUTH HOMELESSNESS, WOMEN'S HOMELESSNESS, DRUG USE, ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY, LGBT MENTAL HEALTH, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS, BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, QUALITATIVE LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTRE 3-4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSISTANT EDITOR, ADDICTION ASSOCIATION FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (ACJRD) BOARD MEMBER (VICE CHAIR), EPIC (EMPOWERING PEOPLE IN CARE) EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, YOUTH STUDIES IRELAND EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL DRUGS RESEARCH (ESSD) FOUNDER AND CHAIRPERSON, WOMEN'S HOMELESSNESS IN EUROPE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL MENTOR, FOUR-COUNTRY STUDY OF STREET CHILDREN (ALBANIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, MACEDONIA AND KOSOVE), EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA, ALBANIA IRISH SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION (IAPA) MANAGEMENT TEAM MEMBER, GROWING UP IN IRELAND (NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND) MEMBER, CLINICAL ADVISORY GROUP, COOLMINE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL EXPERT REFERENCE GROUP TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE YOUTH POLICY FRAMEWORK, DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS A STUDY OF SEXUAL HEALTH ISSUES, ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS: THE VIEWS OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS A CORE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS THE SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATION OF THE SEXUAL ATTITUDES, BEHAVIOURS AND BELIEFS OF YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 13 AND 17.5 YEARS. THE RESEARCH ALSO SOUGHT TO INVESTIGATE THE PROCESSES AND MECHANISMS WHEREBY YOUNG PEOPLE CONSTRUCT, EXPERIENCE AND DEFINE THEIR SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL PRACTICE. THIS STUDY SPECIFICALLY TARGETED YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LEAVE SCHOOL PREMATURELY, THAT IS, BEFORE THE LEGAL SCHOOL-LEAVING AGE, WHICH IS FIFTEEN YEARS IN IRELAND. IT ALSO INCLUDES A SMALLER NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WE DESCRIBE AS 'AT RISK' OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING. SPECIFICALLY, THE RESEARCH AIMED TO: 1.EXAMINE THE SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS OF THE STUDY'S YOUNG PEOPLE. 2.INVESTIGATE YOUNG PEOPLE'S SEXUAL PRACTICES (INCLUDING THEIR SEXUAL RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR) AND TO EXAMINE THE BELIEF SYSTEMS, CONCEPTS AND IDEAS UNDERLYING THESE PRACTICES. 3.IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENT SOURCES AND CONTEXTS FROM WHICH YOUNG PEOPLE ACQUIRE THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF SEXUAL ISSUES AND SEXUAL HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR. 4.IDENTIFY THE SEXUAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND SERVICE NEEDS OF THIS GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE. CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY A EXPLORATORY STUDY OF COCAINE USEE IN IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD NO DATA RESEARCHER: RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA COLLECTION (IN-DEPTH INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS) WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AGED BETWEEN 10 AND 14 YEARS AS PART OF A MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH STRATEGY FOR EVALUATING A NATIONWIDE STRATEGY FOR EVALUATING A NATIONAL INTERVENTION AIMED AT TACKLING EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE. NO DATA PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: PHASE I OF A COMMUNITY-BASED ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE'S DRUG USE, CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. FIELDWORK AND DATA COLLECTION INVOLVED PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION AND THE CONDUCT OF IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONSL HOMELESS YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES THIS BIOGRAPHICAL STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PATHS TO HOMELESSNESS OR HOUSING INSTABILITY AND TRACE THEIR 'JOURNEYS' THROUGH HOMELESSNESS. THE STUDY ALSO AIMS TO INCLUDE A FAMILY MEMBER OF THE HOMELESS YOUNG PERSON (SIBLING, PARENT, CARER) AND TO GAIN THEIR PERSPECTIVES ON THE YOUNG PERSON'S CURRENT LIVING SITUATION. FOCUS IRELAND MAPPING SERVICES FOR HOMELESS WOMEN IN DUBLIN THIS MAPPING EXERCISE WAS DESIGNED TO SUPPORT THE COMMITMENT ON THE PART OF THE DUBLIN REGION HOMELESS EXECUTIVE TO CONDUCT A REVIEW OF SERVICE PROVISION FOR HOMELESS WOMEN. IT PRIMARILY AIMED TO COLLECT COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION ON THE RANGE OF ACCOMMODATION SERVICES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO WOMEN IN THE DUBLIN REGION IN ORDER TO DEVELOP A CLEARER AND MORE NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF CURRENT PROVISION FOR FEMALE SERVICE USERS WOMEN. IT ADDITIONALLY AIMED TO GAIN SERVICE PROVIDERS' PERSPECTIVES ON THE ADEQUACY OF EXISTING SERVICES FOR HOMELESS WOMEN. DUBLIN REGION HOMELESS EXECUTIVE WOMEN AND HOMELESSNESS: A BIOGRAPHICAL PATHWAYS ANALYSIS THE CORE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO CONDUCT AN IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION OF THE LIVES AND EXPERIENCES OF HOMELESS WOMEN IN IRELAND WITH SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO THEIR HOMELESS 'PATHWAYS', THAT IS, THEIR ENTRY ROUTES TO HOMELESSNESS, THE HOMELESS EXPERIENCE ITSELF AND, POSSIBLY, THEIR EXIT ROUTES FROM HOMELESSNESS. THE STUDY, WHICH INTEGRATED BIOGRAPHICAL INTERVIEWING AND ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATION,AIMED TO CONTEXTUALISES AND LOCATE WOMEN'S HOMELESSNESS WITHIN A CONTINUUM OF PRECIPITATING, PERPETUATING AND/OR ENABLING FACTORS, CROSSING BOTH STRUCTURAL AND INDIVIDUAL FACTORS, THAT HELP TO EXPLAIN THEIR HOMELESS/ HOUSING 'CAREERS'. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP SCHEME, 2009-10 THE PROCESS OF YOUTH HOMELESSNESS: A SIX-YEAR QUALITATIVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY THIS STUDY SET OUT TO CONDUCT AN IN-DEPTH EXAMINATION OF THE LIVES AND EXPERIENCES OF HOMELESS YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE DUBLIN REGION. A CORE AIM WAS TO UNDERSTAND TRANSITION AND CHANGE IN THEIR LIVES WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THEIR TRAJECTORIES INTO, THROUGH AND OUT OF HOMELESSNESS. THE TERM 'HOMELESS' WAS DEFINED AND OPERATIONALISED TO INCLUDE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WERE 'ROOFLESS' OR SLEEPING ROUGH AS WELL AS THOSE LIVING IN HOMELESS HOSTELS OR OTHER EMERGENCY OR TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION TYPES. IT ALSO INCLUDED A SMALL NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAD RECENTLY EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS. THE STUDY DESIGN WAS UNDERPINNED BY A PATHWAYS APPROACH, A CONCEPTUALISATION WHICH RECOGNISES THE FLUID AND CHANGEABLE NATURE OF HOMELESSNESS AND THE EXPERIENCES THAT SURROUND HOMELESSNESS. THUS, HOMELESSNESS IS NOT VIEWED AS STATIC OR FIXED, BUT RATHER IS AN EVOLVING STATUS THAT IS CONTINUALLY SUBJECT TO CHANGE. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS AND DUBLIN REGION HOMELESS EXECUTIVE A STUDY OF COCAINE USE IN NORTHERN IRELAND THE AIM OF THE STUDY WAS TO PROVIDE DHSSPS AND TREATMENT SERVICE PROVIDERS WITH A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF COCAINE USE IN NORTHERN IRELAND BY USING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS TO EXPLORE PATTERNS OF DRUG USE AND THE LIFESTYLES OF COCAINE USERS. THE RESEARCH INCORPORATED THE FOLLOWING: 1.AN ASSESSMENT OF DRUG USE PATTERNS AND LIFESTYLES OF COCAINE USERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND; AND 2.INFORMATION PREVENTION TREATMENT OPTIONS AND INFORMATION NEEDS ABOUT COCAINE USE. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY (DHSSPS), NORTHERN IRELAND SUPPORTING LGBT LIVES: A STUDY OF THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH THIS RESEARCH SET OUT TO EXAMINE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING AMONG LGBT PEOPLE IN IRELAND WITH A SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO: . THE IDENTIFICATION OF EXPERIENCES THAT HEIGHTEN VULNERABILITY TO SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR AMONG LGBT PEOPLE IN IRELAND, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON YOUNG PEOPLE. . THE IDENTIFICATION OF EXPERIENCES THAT STRENGTHEN RESILIENCE IN THE LIVES OF LGBT PEOPLE. A CORE AIM OF THE STUDY WAS TO MAKE POLICY, SERVICE DELIVERY AND PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION AND SUICIDE PREVENTION. NATIONAL OFFICE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION A REVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE ON THE ROLE OF OUTSIDE FACILITATORS IN THE DELIVERY OF SCHOOL-BASED SEX EDUCATION THIS INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE ROLE OF OUTSIDE FACILITATORS IN THE DELIVERY OR RELATIONSHIP AND SEXUALITY EDUCATION (RSE) IN POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL AIMED TO: (I) DEVELOP AN EVIDENCE BASE OF THE RANGE, TYPE, AND ROLE OF OUTSIDE FACILITATORS OF RSE PROGRAMMES IN POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS; (II) DOCUMENT RSE PROGRAMMES INTERNATIONALLY THAT MAY MEET THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN IRELAND, INCLUDING THE RANGE OF EXPERTISE OF FACILITATORS DELIVERING THEM AND HOW THEY IDEALLY MEET THE NEEDS IN IRELAND; AND (III) FEED INTO FORMULATING 'GOOD PRACTICE' GUIDELINES AND MODELS FOR RSE SUPPORT INVOLVING OUTSIDE FACILITATORS. CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY NATIONAL STUDY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY EDUCATION IN IRISH POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS THIS STUDY AIMED TO BUILD UPON RESEARCH ON RSE IN IRELAND, WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THE STRUCTURES AND PROCESS RELATED TO RSE IMPLEMENTATION AND DELIVERY AT A NUMBER OF LEVELS; THESE RANGE FROM NATIONAL (DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE AND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN) TO LOCAL (SCHOOL) LEVEL. SPECIFICALLY, THE STUDY AIMED TO: 1.INVESTIGATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH RSE POLICY IS IMPLEMENTED AND THE RSE CURRICULUM DELIVERED IN POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS NATIONWIDE. 2.EXPLORE THE FACTORS AND PROCESSES THAT IMPACT ON RSE DELIVERY AT NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND SCHOOL LEVELS. 3.IDENTIFY BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS TO RSE IMPLEMENTATION AND DELIVERY AT POLICY AND PRACTITIONER LEVEL. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE AND CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY A STUDY OF 'OUT OF HOME' YOUNG PEOPLE IN CORK CITY A CORE OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO GENERATE IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXPERIENCES OF HOMELESS YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SOUTHERN REGION OF THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO CORK CITY. CORK HAS CONSISTENTLY RECORDED ONE OF THE HIGHEST NUMBERS OF ¡¥OUT OF HOME¡¿ YOUNG PEOPLE NATIONALLY. DESPITE THIS, RELATIVELY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE FACTORS OR EXPERIENCES THAT LEAD TO YOUNG PEOPLE BECOMING HOMELESS IN THIS REGION OR ABOUT THE IMPACT OF HOUSING INSTABILITY ON THEIR LIVES. IN ITS BROADEST TERMS, THE RESEARCH SET OUT TO: "X IDENTIFY YOUNG PEOPLE¡¿S PATHWAYS OR ROUTES INTO HOMELESSNESS. "X EXAMINE THE EXPERIENCE OF LIVING OUT OF HOME FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF YOUNG PEOPLE. "X EXAMINE THE CHALLENGES AND DIFFICULTIES EXPERIENCED BY YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LEAVE HOME PREMATURELY. "X MAKE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO SERVICE PROVISION, EARLY INTERVENTION AND THE PREVENTION OF NEGATIVE HEALTH OUTCOMES. HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, SOUTH YOUNG PEOPLE'S INITIATION TO HEROIN USE: AN ETHNO-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACH THE STUDY ADOPTED AN ETHNO-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL APPROACH IN ORDER TO MORE FULLY EXPLORE THE CONTEXTUAL FACTORS INFLUENCING YOUNG PEOPLE'S INITIATION TO HEROIN USE. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH, WHICH INCORPORATED ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATION AND QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING TECHNIQUES, INCLUDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE TYPES OF PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND SOCIAL GROUPS IN WHICH YOUNG PEOPLE FIRST USE HEROIN. METHODOLOGICALLY, THE RESEARCH INCLUDED MANY OF THE BASIC APPROACHES ROUTINELY EMPLOYED IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK (MAYOCK ET AL., 2009) AND THE STUDY WAS DIVIDED INTO FOUR COMPONENTS: (1) COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT PROCESS; (2) ETHNOGRAPHIC OBSERVATION; (3) THE ADMINISTRATION OF AN 'INTERCEPTOR' SURVEY; AND (4) THE CONDUCT OF LIFE HISTORY INTERVIEWS. EACH OF THE FOUR COMPONENTS WAS DESIGNED TO BUILD ON ANOTHER, BOTH METHODOLOGICALLY AND THEORETICALLY, WITH THE GENERAL AIM OF GAINING IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL COURSE OF HEROIN INITIATION. NIDA INVEST FELLOWSHIP SCHEME AND IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. GIUSEPPE MAZZIOTTI mazziottigiuseppe ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MAZZIOTG LAW EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW, EU LAW, ANTITRUST LAW, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, MEDIA LAW, CULTURAL POLICY, INTERNET LAW AND GOVERNANCE LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (ATRIP) RADICALI ITALIANI CONTRACTS CREATIVE ARTS CREATIVE COMMONS EUROPEAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION EUROPEAN UNION LAW INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PATENT PROTECTION PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE EUROPEAN UNION PUBLIC LICENCE (EUPL) REVIEW OF THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE EUPL AS DRAFTED BY THE COMMISSION'S LEGAL SERVICES EU COMMISSION, DG INFORMATION SOCIETY OPEN SOURCE OBSERVATORY AND DEPOSITORY, HTTP://OSOR.EU/EUPL LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION (LAPSI) LED CONCEPTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A THEMATIC NETWORK FOCUSED ON THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION COORDINATED BY THE NEXA CENTER AT POLITECNICO DI TORINO EU COMMISSION MARCH 2010 EUROPEAN MEDIA POLICIES REVISITED: VALUING AND RECLAIMING FREE AND INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS LED CONCEPTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A THREE-YEAR FP7 PROJECT UNDERTAKEN BY FOURTEEN UNIVERSITIES COORDINATED BY THE HELLENIC FOUNDATION FOR EUROPEAN & FOREIGN POLICY (ELIAMEP) IN ATHENS, GREECE, AND FOCUSED ON THE LEGAL AND POLICY ASPECTS OF THE INTERNET AND MEDIA LANDSCAPES IN EUROPE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (FP7) ADDRESSING LIABILITY IMPACT IN AUTOMATED SYSTEMS ACTED AS LEGAL ADVISOR OF A PROJECT FOCUSING ON LEGAL ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGIES IMPLEMENTED IN THE AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT BUSINESS. CONDUCTED RESEARCH ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, LIABILITY PRINCIPLES AND DUTIES OF INFORMATION RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF AUTOMATED SYSTEMS EUROCONTROL COPYRIGHT IN THE EU DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET COORDINATED A MULTI-STAKEHOLDER TASK FORCE ON COPYRIGHT IN DIGITAL EUROPE; ORGANIZED HIGH-LEVEL WORKSHOPS ON LAW-AND-TECHNOLOGY ISSUES; LIAISED WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND EU OFFICIALS; DRAFTED AND PUBLISHED A BOOK ('COPYRIGHT IN THE EU DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET') WHICH HAS BEEN DOWNLOADED BY APPROXIMATELY 7000 SINGLE USERS CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES (CEPS) COLLECTING SOCIETIES AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE MUSIC SECTOR CONTRIBUTED AS NATIONAL EXPERT AND CO-AUTHOR TO A PROJECT COMMISSIONED BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO THE HELLENIC FOUNDATION FOR EUROPEAN & FOREIGN POLICY (ELIAMEP). THE FINAL STUDY WAS PRESENTED BEFORE PUBLICATION TO THE COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AFFAIRS AT THE HEARING OF 2 DECEMBER 2009. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DG FOR INTERNAL POLICY, CULTURE AND EDUCATION) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. MARGARET MC ADAM mcadammargaret ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MMCADAM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN HEALTHCARE. ADULT EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN HEALTHCARE A STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE HEALTHCARE STUDENTS VIEWS REGARDING INTERPROFESSIONAL WORKING AND EDUCATION. MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMWORK, COLLABORATION AND EFFECTIVE INTERPROFESSIONAL WORKING (IPW) AMONG HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE SUCCESSFUL DELIVERY OF QUALITY HEALTHCARE AND IS HOW HEALTHCARE IS MANAGED WITHIN THE IRISH SYSTEM. THE WORLD HEALTHCARE ORGANISATION (1988) RECOMMENDED MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM WORKING AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING HEALTHCARE DELIVERY. YET, PARADOXICALLY, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF HEALTHCARE LEARN THEORY AND SKILLS RELATED TO THEIR PROFESSION ON EDUCATIONAL COURSES THAT ARE COMPLETELY SEPARATE FOR BOTH CLINICAL AND ACADEMIC CONTENT. INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION (IPE) ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE AND AIMS TO IMPROVE IPW. THE U.K CENTRE FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION(CAIPE)(1997)DEFINES IPE AS OCCASIONS WHEN TWO OR MORE PROFESSIONS LEARN FROM AND ABOUT EACH OTHER TO IMPROVE COLLABORATION AND QUALITY OF CARE. THIS SHOULD NOT BE CONFUSED WITH MULTIPROFESSIONAL OR INTERDISCIPLINARY LEARNING, WHICH IMPLIES LEARNING THAT DOES NOT HAVE INTERACTION AND TEAMWORK AS ITS FOCUS. A KEY FACTOR TO THE SUCCESS OF IPE INVOLVES EMBRACEMENT OF ITS PURPOSE AND VALUE BY THE STUDENTS OF HEALTHCARE. ATTITUDES, STEREOTYPES AND PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT POTENTIALLY IMPACT ON THE SUCCESS OF IPE AND IPW AND IT WOULD APPEAR IMPORTANT TO DETERMINE THESE PRIOR TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF IPE. THIS STUDY AIMS TO DESCRIBE IRISH UNDERGRADUATE HEALTHCARE STUDENTS' VIEWS AND ATTITUDES REGARDING IPE AND IPW IN ONE LARGE UNIVERSITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND TO EXAMINE IF EXPOSURE TO THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT CHANGES ATTITUDES DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF STUDY. A SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE WILL BE ISSUED TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ON 6 HEALTHCARE COURSES NAMELY, NURSING, MEDICINE, DIETETICS, PHYSIOTHERAPY, PHARMACY, AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ON COMMENCEMENT OF PROGRAMME, AND ON RETURN TO STUDY ONE YEAR LATER. THIS STUDY WILL YIELD INFORMATION GUIDING FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF IPE WITHIN IRISH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WITH THE AIM TO IMPROVE IPW. THE ULTIMATE AIM IS TO ENHANCE QUALITY PATIENT CARE THROUGH GREATER EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS WITHIN THE IRISH HEALTHCARE SERVICE. PROFESSOR DERMOT MC ALEESE mcaleesedermot FELLOW EMERITUS DMCLEESE ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES IRISH ECONOMIC POLICY, EUROPEAN INTEGRATION, FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT DEPT. OF ECONOMICS 3009 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC POLICY EXTERNAL TRADE POLICY OF EU INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. PHILOMENA RITA MC ATEER mcateerphilomenarita CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER 1 PMCATEER ANATOMY DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY, FLOOR 1 TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. NEAL EDWARD MC BRIDE mcbridenealedward RESEARCH FELLOW NMCBRIDE CTVR / CONNECT CTVR/CONNECT DUNLOP ORIEL HOUSE FENION STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. DOMINICK MC CABE mccabedominick CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER IN NEUROLOGY MCCABEDO CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPT OF NEUROLOGY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. CATHERINE MC CABE mccabecatherine ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CAMCCABE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MY KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE: .HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR EXTENDING/BROADENING THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH CARE, EG, HOMES, RESIDENTIAL SETTINGS AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR SELF-MANAGEMENT AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE IN CHRONIC ILLNESS. .USER PARTICIPATION IN ICT CONTENT DEVELOPMENT, DESIGN, FUNCTION AND EVALUATION. .TECHNOLOGY FOR THE PROVISION OF MEANINGFUL SOCIAL/CULTURAL EXPERIENCES FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS WITH AND WITHOUT COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT. .ARTS AND HEALTH .SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 THE IRISH PLATFORM FOR PATIENTS' ORGANISATIONS, SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY (IPPOSI) ADJUSTMENT PSYCHOLOGY ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR IMPROVING QOL IN RESIDENTIAL CARE BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION AND TRANSFUSION CHRONIC ILLNESS SELF-MANAGEMENT PSYCHOMETRICS QUALITY OF LIFE RANDOMISED-CONTROLLED TRIAL HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) 'OPEN WINDOW' STUDY - AN EVALUATION OF A NOVEL ART INTERVENTION IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION OVER THE PAST 25 YEARS IN HEALTH CARE, ART HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY RECOGNISED AS A KEY INGREDIENT IN THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF PATIENT-CENTERED AND HEALING ENVIRONMENTS. THIS IS NOT A NEW IDEA (CLAYTON AND OPOTOW 2003; CROW ET AL 2002)AND EVEN TODAY ART, WHOSE VALUE IN HEALTH LIES IN ITS ABILITY TO COMFORT, CONSOLE AND SUSTAIN (WIKOFF 2004) IS THOUGHT TO REDUCE STRESS AND ANXIETY LEVELS, PROMOTE WELL-BEING AND A POSITIVE MOOD IN PATIENTS [CLAYTON AND OPOTOW 2003; STARICOFF ET AL 2001). OPEN WINDOW' IS A NOVEL ART INTERVENTION IN THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCIES AND HAS BEEN AVAILABLE ON A PILOT BASIS IN TWO ROOMS ONLY ON THE DENIS BURKITT WARD FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF. PATIENTS ON THIS WARD ARE CARED FOR IN PROTECTIVE ISOLATION IN SINGLE, AIR CONDITIONED EN SUITE ROOMS AND VISITING IS RESTRICTED. THE ROOMS ARE CLINICAL IN APPEARANCE AND VIEWS FROM THE WINDOWS ARE RESTRICTED. 'OPEN WINDOW' WAS DEVELOPED SPECIFICALLY AS AN ART INTERVENTION IN RESPONSE TO THE PATIENTS' ENVIRONMENT AND ALSO BECAUSE IT MAY HELP PATIENTS ADJUST POSITIVELY TO THEIR EXPERIENCE OF HAVING A LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS DURING AND AFTER STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION. ART SPECIFICALLY IS THOUGHT TO HELP PATIENTS MODIFY OR DEVELOP A NEW SENSE OF SELF AND SELF-ESTEEM WHICH IS ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY HAVING A LIFE THREATENING ILLNESS. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES .TO MEASURE THE EFFECT OF 'OPEN WINDOW' ON PATIENTS' PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING .TO EXPLORE PATIENT PERCEPTIONS OF HOW 'OPEN WINDOW' INFLUENCED THEIR EXPERIENCE OF HAVING A STEM CELL TRANSPLANT. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY CANCER RESEARCH PROJECT AND PHD SCHOLARSHIP . DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGICAL BASED EDUCATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND HEALTH PROMOTING MATERIAL TO SUPPORT SELF MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY USING BEHAVIOUR CHANGE PRINCIPLES IS TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGICAL BASED EDUCATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND HEALTH PROMOTING MATERIAL TO SUPPORT SELF MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES. OBJECTIVES: . TO EXPLORE CARE NEEDS, SOURCES OF SUPPORT & EXPERIENCES OF PATIENTS & CARERS LIVING AT HOME WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS . TO ASSESS PATIENT KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY AND READINESS TO SELF MANAGE THEIR CARE NEEDS IN RELATION TO CHRONIC ILLNESS . TO DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND HEALTH PROMOTING MATERIAL FOR USE BY PATIENTS AND CARERS FOR GENERIC AND SPECIFIC CHRONIC ILLNESSES . TO OPTIMISE THE SELF CARE MANAGEMENT POTENTIAL FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS AN ACTION RESEARCH DESIGN IS USED AND IT IS A PROCESS BY WHICH BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE IS INTEGRATED WITH SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND APPLIED TO SOLVE REAL ORGANISATIONAL PROBLEMS' (SHANI AND PASSMORE, 1985). IN THIS STUDY IT IS PROPOSED THAT AN INITIAL REFLECTIVE PROCESS WILL ENABLE USER/CARER SUPPORT NEEDS TO BE IDENTIFIED. USING PRINCIPLES OF BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE, THE RESEARCH TEAM WILL THEN DEVELOP NEW RESOURCE MATERIAL, OR ENHANCE EXISTING MATERIAL, TO ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC SELF MANAGEMENT NEEDS OF THIS GROUP. TO COMPLETE THE ACTION RESEARCH CYCLE, PARTICIPANTS OF THE PATIENT/CARER GROUP WILL BE INVITED EVALUATE THE DEVELOPED MATERIAL. TRIL(TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING) IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INTEL IRELAND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSISTIVE NAVIGATIONAL SOFTWARE PLATFORM TO ENABLE SELF MANAGEMENT IN CHRONIC ILLNESS (E.G. COPD & STROKE) SINCE THE WIDESPREAD INTRODUCTION OF A NEW GENERATION OF MOBILE SMART TABLETS IN 2010 THE CAPABILITIES OF THE PC HAVE BEEN SURPASSED BY A NEW HIGHLY INTUITIVE, USER FRIENDLY, MOBILE SYSTEM. WE ARE PROPOSING TO USE THIS NEW ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE AN APPLICATION DESIGN WHICH WILL ALLOW PATIENTS WITH A VARIETY OF CHRONIC ILLNESSES EG. COPD, DIABETES ETC. TO TAILOR THEIR OWN SUBJECTIVE RECOVERY ON VARIOUS REWARDS BASED MOTIVATIONAL PARADIGMS AND WILL ALSO BE TRANSFERRABLE TO OTHER CHRONIC ILLNESSES. THIS SOFTWARE APPLICATION ALLOWS FOR THE PROVISION OF SELF-MANAGEMENT, IS INTERACTIVE, PROVIDING 'REAL TIME' REHABILITATION DATA THAT IS RESPONSIVE TO THE SUBJECTIVE REHABILITATION OF THE USER ON SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS. THIS PLATFORM WILL PROVIDE THE END USER WITH A CULTURALLY ATTUNED, INDIVIDUALISED RESPONSIVE APPLICATION TO ENABLE SELF-MANAGEMENT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND: COMMERCIALISATION FEASIBILITY CASE GRANT AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF AN ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMME ON HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL'KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUES AND PRACTICE THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF AN ACTION LEARNING PROGRAMME ON HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL'KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND PRACTICE IN RELATION TO CANCER RELATED PAIN MANAGEMENT IN ACUTE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WARDS. DOCTORAL NATIONAL REVIEW OF ART AND HEALTH PRACTICE IN IRELAND THE MAIN AIM OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO EXPLORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FORMAL FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS AND HEALTH PRACTICE IN IRELAND. THE RESEARCH EXAMINES WHAT FORM SUCH A FRAMEWORK MIGHT TAKE. DATA WAS COLLECTED USING A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW, A NATIONAL AUDIT OF CURRENT ARTS AND HEALTH PRACTICE AND INTERVIEWS WITH RELEVANT STAKEHOLDERS IN ARTS AND HEALTH. OBJECTIVES .CARRY OUT A REVIEW EXAMINING THE SCOPE OF ARTS AND HEALTH PROJECTS ON BOTH A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL. .IDENTIFY THE NATURE OF PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES IN IRELAND, THE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE INVOLVED AND THE TYPES OF PEOPLE INVOLVED. .IDENTIFY THE RANGE AND TYPE OF HEALTH SERVICES INVOLVED. .IDENTIFY THE RANGE OF ARTS PRACTICES INVOLVED IN HEALTH RELATED PROJECTS. JOINT HSE AND ARTS COUNCIL COCHRANE REVIEW COMPUTER AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTIONS FOR SELF MANAGEMENT IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE A STUDY OF INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION & INTERPROFESSIONAL WORKING THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE UNDERGRADUATE HEALTHCARE STUDENTS' VIEWS AND ATTITUDES REGARDING INTERPROFESSIONAL WORKING AND EDUCATION IN ONE LARGE UNIVERSITY IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND OVER ONE ACADEMIC YEAR DOCTORAL AGEING CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. THOMAS MC CABE mccabethomas RETIRED STAFF MEMBER TMCCABE RETIRED STAFF MEMBER CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS PROFESSOR EITHNE MARY MC CABE mccabeeithnemary FELLOW EMERITUS EMCCABE PHYSICS PROFESSOR MCCABE'S RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREA OF HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING. SHE BRINGS AN ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE TO THIS SUBJECT WITH A CAREER SPANNING ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS DEPARTMENTS AND ALSO INDUSTRY IN AT&T (LUCENT) BELL LABORATORIES. THIS FIELD OF MICROSCOPY HAS REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY BIOLOGISTS, PHYSICISTS AND ENGINEERS USE LIGHT TO IMAGE A RANGE OF SAMPLES FROM BIOLOGICAL CELLS TO SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES. THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL, HIGH-RESOLUTION, NON-DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES ARE CAPTIVATING NEW MICROSCOPE USERS AROUND THE GLOBE AND DRIVING THE DEVELOPMENT OF RADICALLY NEW TYPES OF CONFOCAL MICROSCOPES. PROFESSOR MCCABE'S GROUP FOCUSES ON THE THEORETICAL AS WELL AS THE EXPERIMENTAL ASPECTS OF CONFOCAL IMAGING WHERE SHE DESIGNS NEW MICROSCOPES AND DEVELOPS NEW IMAGING TECHNIQUES. SHE HOLDS PATENTS ON THIS WORK. SHE IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN MULTI-APERTURE IMAGING USING NOVEL APPROACHES TO INCREASE IMAGING SPEED BY IMAGING IN PARALLEL. HER WORK HAS FOCUSED ON NEW IMAGING TECHNIQUES WHICH MAY ULTIMATELY DRIVE DOWN THE COST OF HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SYSTEMS. DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FORMER ADVISOR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IN IRELAND MEMBER OF CATERING MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, TCD MEMBER OF EQUALITY COMMITTEE, TCD MEMBER OF FINANCE COMMITTEE, TCD MEMBER OF GOVERNING BODY MAGDALEN COLLEGE OXFORD MEMBER OF GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE, TCD MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JUNO COMMITTEE FOR THE UK AND IRELAND EVALUATING AND ADVISING ON BEST PRACTICE IN GENDER AND PHYSICS MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS WOMEN IN PHYSICS GROUP COMMITTEE MEMBER OF INTEGER COMMITTEE, TCD MEMBER OF NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE UNESCO INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT MEMBER OF PERSONNEL AND APPOINTMENTS COMMITTEE, TCD MEMBER OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE SPIE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL OPTICS, MUNICH MEMBER OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE SPIE OPTO IRELAND CONFERENCE MEMBER OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE SPIE PHOTONICS WEST, SAN JOSE, USA MEMBER OF SCHOOL OF PHYSICS EXECUTIVE, TCD MEMBER OF TCD SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FESTIVAL OF SCIENCE MEMBER OF TEACHING AND LEARNING COMMITTEE, TCD MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE OF WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE (WITS) MEMBER OF THE HELSINKI GROUP MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS IN IRELAND TEAM LEADER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PURE AND APPLIED PHYSICS (IUPAP) AND THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY FOR THE WOMEN IN PHYSICS INITIATIVE, PARIS TUTOR, TCD WOMEN IN PHYSICS AND IOP JUNO LEADER, TCD ANNEALING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY CONFOCAL PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING DEFECT IMAGING DEGRADATION DIRECT-VIEW MICROSCOPY LASER DIODE METROLOGY, PHYSICAL INSTRUMENTATION MICROSPHERE IMAGING MULTI-APERTURE IMAGING OPTICAL MATERIALS OPTICAL SECTIONING OPTICS PROGRAMMABLE ARRAY MICROSCOPY SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONICS SOURCE COHERENCE SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS SWITCHABLE FIBRE-COUPLING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING VARIABLE-FOCUS MICROLENSES WOMEN IN PHYSICS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS PROFESSOR PHILIP MC CALLION mccallionphilip ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MCCALLIP SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN AGING & COMMUNITY WELLNESS SCH SOCIAL WELFARE UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY ALBANY NY 12222 USA 01-8961000 DR. MARGARET MC CANN mccannmargaret ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - HEAD OF GENERAL NU MCCANNM1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY RESEARCH INTEREST IN CHRONIC ILLNESS MANAGEMENT AND SELF-MANAGMENT. RESEARCH AREAS INCLUDE UROLOGY AND RENAL CARE INCLUDING VASCULAR ACCESS IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS, DIALYSIS ADEQUACY, RENAL NURSE PRESCRIBING AND IMPACT ON ANAEMIA MANAGEMENT IN PERSONS WITH ESKD, INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL WITHIN THE HAEMODIALYSIS ENVIRONMENT, PREVENTION OF HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER-RELATED INFECTION IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS, SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS INCLUDING COCHRANE REVIEWS, AND INTERVENTIONAL RESEARCH. HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR SELF MANAGEMENT IN PERSONS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS E.G., CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES. THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE SOCIAL/CULTURAL EXPERIENCES OF CLIENTS WITH DEMENTIA LIVING IN RESIDENTIAL SETTINGS. OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE INAPPROPRIATE ATTENDANCE IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 EDUCATION OFFICER, IRISH NEPHROLOGY NURSES ASSOCATION EDUCATION OFFICER, IRISH NEPHROLOGY NURSES ASSOCIATION EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN NURSING (RENAL, ORTHOPAEDICS, PRACTICE NURSING AND INFECTION CONTROL) AND STAND ALONE MODULE ON CERVICAL SCREENING, FACULTY OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR STAND ALONE MODULES IN RESPIRATORY NURSING CARE, DEMENTIA AND NURSING CARE OF CHILDREN WITH RENAL DISEASE, SCHOOL OF NURSING, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY. EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE BSC (HONS) PRIMARY CARE, PRACTICE NURSING (MODULES NM3146, NM3189, NM3944, NM3945) AND POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE NURSING PROGRAMME, AT CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON IRISH NURSES ORGANISATION MEMBER OF ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE, EUROPEAN DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANT NURSES ASSOCIATION/EUROPEAN RENAL CARE ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BOARD, EUROPEAN DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANT NURSES ASSOCIATION/RENAL CARE ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF SARI SUB COMMITTEE DEVELOPING GUIDELINES ON PREVENTION OF INTRAVENOUS CATHETER-RELATED INFECTION, HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN NEPHROLOGY NURSES ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE EDUCATION ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE, EUROPEAN DIALYSIS TRANSPLANT NURSES ASSOCIATION/EUROPEAN RENAL CARE ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE INFECTION PREVENTION SOCIETY REVIEWER JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING REVIEWER JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING CATHETER INFECTIONS CHRONIC ILLNESS SELF-MANAGEMENT CLINICAL TRIALS HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS HOSPITAL INFECTION CONTROL HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTION INFECTION CONTROL NURSE EDUCATION PATIENT EDUCATION RENAL NURSING OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EXPLORING NURSES EXPERIENCES AND KNOWLEDGE OF URINARY CATHETERISATION, MANAGEMENT AND CARE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT WITH 2 HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS COCHRANE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON THE INTERVENTIONS FOR PREVENTING INFECTIOUS COMPLICATIONS IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS WITH CENTRAL VENOUS LINES WAS AWARDED HRB COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP GRANT OF 94,872 EURO TO UNDERTAKE A SYSTEMATIVE REVIEW ON THE INTERVENTIONS PREVENTING INFECTIONS IN HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS WITH CENTRAL VENOUS LINES HRB COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP GRANT AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF HOSPICE DAY CARE IN THE CARE OF PATIENT WITH LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS MEMBER OF RESEARCH TEAM THAT WAS AWARDED 80,000 EURO TO EXAMINE THE ROLE OF HOSPICE DAY CARE IN THE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS IRISH CANCER SOCIETY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF 2% CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE IN 70% ISOPROPYL IN THE PREVENTION OF CVC-RELATED INFECTIIONS IN OUTPATIENT HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS COMPARED TO ROUTINELY USED CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE SOLUTIOSN: A PILOT MULT-CENTRE RANDOMISED TRIAL COCHRANE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON COMPUTER AND MOBILE TECHNOLOGY INTERVENTION FOR SELF MANAGEMENT IN CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE THE CLINICAL UTILITY OF A SMARTPHONE APPLICATION CALLED "MIKIDNEY" IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH KIDNEY DISEASE. TO DEVELOP THE 'MIKIDNEY' APP, TO ASSIST PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE (CKD) TO SELF-MANAGE THEIR OWN HEALTH AND WELLNESS. SPECIFICALLY, TO: EMPOWER PATIENTS, PROVIDE THE NECESSARY INFORMATION AND EDUCATION, IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF PATIENT-HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL INTERACTION AND INCREASE ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND ADVICE. LED ACADEMIC OF AN INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN (PI NUALA DOYLE CNM11 ST JAMES HOSPITAL DUBLIN) SYSTEMATIC REVIEW ON CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE AS AN ANTISEPTIC SKIN SOLUTION FOR THE PREVENTION OF CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH INTRAVASCULAR CATHETERS THE REVIEW WILL BE GUIDED BY THE COCHRANE HANDBOOK FOR SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF INTERVENTIONS (HIGGINS & GREEN 2011) AND THE PICO ACRONYM (PARTICIPANTS, INTERVENTIONS, COMPARISONS AND OUTCOMES). OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO EVALUATE THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF CHLORHEXIDINE BASED ANTISEPTIC SOLUTIONS ON THE INCIDENCE OF CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS IN COMPARISON TO OTHER CHLORHEXIDINE OR NON CHG ANTISEPTIC SKIN SOLUTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH INDWELLING VASCULAR CATHETERS. OBSERVATION OF MEALTIME ASSISTANCE AT BREAKFAST: A CROSS HOSPITAL PROJECT. OBSERVATION OF MEALTIME ASSISTANCE AT BREAKFAST: A CROSS HOSPITAL PROJECT. COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND THREE ACUTE GENERAL HOSPITAL SITES IN DUBLIN PHMB ANTIMICROBIAL FOAM DRESSING FOR THE PREVENTION OF INFECTION IN PATIENTS WITH AN EXTERNAL FIXATOR THE STUDY IS AN INTERVENTIONAL QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN WHEREBY STUDY PARTICIPANTS WILL HAVE THEIR PIN SITES DRESSED WITH A PHMB ANTIMICROBIAL FOAM DRESSING. FINDINGS FROM THIS GROUP OF PARTICIPANTS WILL BE COMPARED TO A SIMILAR COHORT OF PATIENTS WHOSE PIN SITES WERE DRESSED WITH DRY GAUZE OR INADINE/BETADINE TULLE IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR SHAUN MC CANN mccannshaun HONORARY FELLOW SRMCCANN SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION. CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA. COELIAC DISEASE. HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA : LONG-TERM FOLLOW UP OF PATIENTS RECEIVING TRANSPLANTATION. A QUALITY OF LIFE STUDY AND A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF CHIMAERIC AND FLT 3 LIGAND STATUS. SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION. THE ROLE OF FCR COMBINATION THERAPY AND REDUCED INTENSITY STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA: ARE PROGNOSTIC MARKERS PREDICTIVE OF OUTCOME? SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH COPY, INFLAMMATORY LUNG DISEASE, PROPOSED WORKSHOP ON INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE LUNG.INCLUDES CLINICIANS PRESENTING ON THEIR SPECIFIC DISEASE TYPE TO FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTISTS.OBJECTIVES :TO BUILD LINKS BETWEEN FUNDAMENTAL AND CLINICAN SCIENTISTS. TO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION. TO CONNECT SENIOR POST-DOCS (EMERGING PI'S) WITH CLINICIAN COUNTERPART MEMBER, CENTRE FOR MOLECULAR RESEARCH IN CANCER (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMMON INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING CELL CYCLE SIGNALING AND REGULATION WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON TWO KEY CANCER-RELATED PROCESSES (CELL CYCLE CONTROL, APOPTOSIS) AND/OR THREE SPECIFIC MALIGNANCY TYPES (OESOPHAGEAL, PROSTATE AND HAEMATOLOGICAL). MEMBER, CYCLE 2 PI'S & RESEARCHERS, ALL CYCLE 2 RESEARCHERS & PI'S BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA COELIAC DISEASE HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA : LONG-TERM FOLLOW UP OF PATIENTS RECEIVING TRANSPLANTATION. A QUALITY OF LIFE STUDY AND A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF CHIMAERIC AND FLT 3 LIGAND STATUS. SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION THE ROLE OF FCR COMBINATION THERAPY AND REDUCED INTENSITY STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA: ARE PROGNOSTIC MARKERS PREDICTIVE OF OUTCOME? THE ROLE OF PCR IN THE EARLY DETECTION OF INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTION CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. EDWARD MC CANN mccannedward ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCCANNED SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SEXUALITY ISSUES AND MENTAL HEALTH; SERVICE USER AND CARERS VIEWS ON MENTAL HEALTH PROVISION; THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ELEMENTS OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE DELIVERY PARTICULARLY AROUND THE AREA OF RECOVERY.EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEVELOPMENT AND INVOLVEMENT AND SUPPORT FOR SERVICE USERS. FAMILY AND CARER WORK. SUPERVISION AND SUPPORT TO PRACTITIONERS. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) AMNESTY IRELAND ASSOCIATION FOR COGNITIVE ANALYTICAL THERAPISTS MEMBERSHIP BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL PSYCHOTHERAPISTS MEMBERSHIP EDITORIAL BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NURSING SCIENCE EXTERNAL EXAMINER UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MSC EXTERNAL EXAMINER - HOMERTON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. BSC PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS EXTERNAL EXAMINER - MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, MSC FAMILY THERAPY EXTERNAL EXAMINER - UNIVERSITY OF CARDIFF EXTERNAL EXAMINER - UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY EXTERNAL EXAMINER - UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, MSC PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS EXTERNAL EXAMINER - UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON FELLOWSHIP OF HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IRISH INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING (EXECUTIVE OFFICER) MEMBER OF THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE (JBI) AFFILIATE CENTRE OF THE TRINITY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION (TCPHI) MENTAL HEALTH REFORM NATIONAL POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATION NATIONAL SCHIZOPHRENIA FELLOWSHIP (RETHINK) NATIONAL SERVICE USERS EXECUTIVE REVIEWER - AGING AND MENTAL HEALTH REVIEWER - CLINICAL SCHIZOPHRENIA AND RELATED PSYCHOSES REVIEWER - JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING REVIEWER - JOURNAL OF FAMILY NURSING REVIEWER - JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY REVIEWER - JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH REVIEWER - JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH REVIEWER - JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING REVIEWER - NURSE EDUCATION TODAY REVIEWER - PRIMARY HEALTH CARE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL REVIEWER - PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH REVIEWER - PSYCHOSIS REVIEWER - SEXUALITY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY REVIEWER - SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING SOCIETIES (MENTAL HEALTH, SEXUAL HEALTH, EDUCATION) SENTINEL READER - MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, CANADA SHINE (SCHIZOPHRENIA IRELAND) THE CENTRE FOR EVIDENCE BASED MENTAL HEALTH, OXFORD THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF NURSING EDITORS (INANE) EDUCATION AND TRAINING FAMILY WORK HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES LGBT MENTAL HEALTH AND RECOVERY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION PROVISION AND UTILISATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS PSYCHOSIS PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS SEXUALITIES OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) LGBT IRELAND: HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE EXPERIENCES GLEN AND HSE LGBT MINDS: LGBT PEOPLE AND THEIR SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES LGBT MINDS IS A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH PROJECT THAT AIMS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBT PEOPLE WITHIN MAINSTREAM MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN IRELAND. THIS STUDY IS SUPPORTED BY TRINITY COLLEGE, GAY AND LESBIAN EQUALITY NETWORK (GLEN) AND THE HSE. THE FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY WILL BE USED TO HIGHLIGHT AREAS OF GOOD PRACTICE THAT ENCOURAGES SOCIAL INCLUSION AT ALL LEVELS. ALSO, RECOMMENDATIONS WILL BE MADE ON HOW TO RESPOND TO THE KEY ISSUES IDENTIFIED IN THE RESEARCH AS THEY RELATE TO LGBT PEOPLE IN AN IRISH CONTEXT. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, GLEN, HSE TRINITY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP VISIBLE LIVES: IDENTIFYING THE EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS OF OLDER LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) PEOPLE IN IRELAND THE OVERALL AIM OF THE RESEARCH IS TO EXAMINE THE CIRCUMSTANCES, EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS AMONG THE IRISH LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) POPULATION AGED 55 AND OVER AND TO DETERMINE HOW TO BEST ADDRESS THESE NEEDS. PROJECT TEAM: PROF AGNES HIGGINS PI), DANIKA SHAREK, DR EDDIE MCCANN,DR FINTAN SHEERIN,PROF MARY MCCARRON, DR MICHELE GLACKEN, GAY AND LESBIAN EQUALITY NETWORK EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROVISION FOR PROFESSIONALS WORKING IN THE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN IRELAND AN EXPLORATORY STUDY INVESTIGATING CURRENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROVIDED FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. RESEARCH PROJECT TEAM: PROF. AGNES HIGGINS, DR JANE ALEXANDER, DR. MARY CREANER, MS. ORLA O'NEILL, DR. EDDIE MCCANN, DR. MALCOLM GARLAND, MR. MIKE WATTS, MR. GERRY MAGUIRE AND DR. SHOBHA RANI. MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION LEADERSHIP IN COMPASSIONATE CARE ONE MILLION POUNDS WAS PROVIDED BY A PRIVATE DONOR TO CARRY OUT A STUDY RELATED TO COMPASSIONATE CARE AND NURSING. THE AIMS OF THE STUDY ARE TO IDENTIFY, IMPLEMENT AND EVALUATE STRATEGIES THAT PROMOTE COMPASSIONATE PERSON CENTRED CARE WITHIN IN-PATIENT AREAS IN SCOTLAND THE PROJECT TEAM INCLUDES: PROF MORAG PROWSE; PROF MORAG GRAY; MR STEPHEN SMITH; DR EDDIE MCCANN; DR JANE DONALDSON; DR DOROTHY HORSBURGH;MR SIMON PULLEN, MS RIA TOCHER; MS BILLIE MORROW PRIVATE DONOR (£1,000,000) AN EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE DISSEMINATION OF EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT VALUES BASED AND RECOVERY FOCUSSED MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE A COLLABORATION BETWEEN EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN INVESTIGATING THE USE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING RESOURCES TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INITIATIVES. MR HUGH MASTERS, DR EDDIE MCCANN PROF LAWRIE ELLIOT, MR IAN BAGULEY, PROF CHARLIE BROOKER, MR IAIN MCGONAGLE NHS EDUCATION SCOTLAND STUDENT NURSES EXPERIENCES REGARDING SUICIDAL BEHAVIOURS OF CLIENTS THE STUDY EXPLORED THE EXPERIENCES OF MENTAL HEALTH STUDENT NURSES IN THEIR PLACEMENT AREAS DURING AND FOLLOWING INCIDENCES OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR. QUALITATIVE DATA WAS OBTAINED THROUGH THE ADMINISTRATION OF A SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEW SCHEDULE THAT CONSISTED OF A RANGE OF QUESTIONS THAT ELICITED MENTAL HEALTH STUDENT NURSES VIEWS AND OPINIONS RELATED TO THEIR CLINICAL EXPERIENCES. CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON THE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WHO RECEIVE DEPOT INJECTIONS THE STUDY EXPLORED THE SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WHO RECEIVE DEPOT INJECTIONS IN THE COMMUNITY. EXISTING STUDIES TEND TO FOCUS UPON THE SIDE EFFECTS OF DEPOT NEUROLEPTIC MEDICATION. THIS STUDY EXPLORES HOW, WITHIN THE PROCESS OF GIVING A DEPOT INJECTION, CMHNS ARE ABLE TO CARRY OUT AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR CLIENTS NEEDS AS WELL AS BEING SOMEONE WHO IS CONSISTENT, RELIABLE AND SUPPORTIVE. CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON IMPROVING THE SEXUAL HEALTH OF PEOPLE WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS PEOPLE WITH SEVER MENTAL ILLNESS (SMI) HAVE HIGHER MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY DUE TO PHYSICAL ILLNESS THAN THE GENERAL POPULATION. MANY HAVE COEXISTING DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY AND HAVE DIFFICULTIES IN FORMING STABLE PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. CONSEQUENTLY, PEOPLE WITH SMI ARE MORE LIKELY TO ENGAGE IN HIGH RISK SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR PUTTING THEM AT INCREASED RISK OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AND UNINTENDED PREGNANCIES. HIGHER RATES OF HOMELESSNESS AND CHAOTIC LIFESTYLES COMPOUND THE RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH POOR SEXUAL HEALTH. MOST AVAILABLE RESEARCH ON THIS TOPIC HAS BEEN CONDUCTED IN THE USA AND IT IS NOT KNOWN HOW TRANSFERABLE THIS MAY BE TO UK SETTINGS. AN INITIAL FEASIBILITY STUDY TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS SUITABLE FOR THE UK IS THEREFORE PROPOSED. ROUTINE STI TESTING AND ADHERENCE TO TREATMENT ARE IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF GOOD SEXUAL HEALTH AND IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THESE ARE CONSIDERED IN POTENTIAL INTERVENTIONS. NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME SCOPING NURSING EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA THE PURPOSE OF THE PROCESS WAS TO PROVIDE A NEEDS ANALYSIS AND A SCOPING STUDY OF THE EXISTING CAPACITY IN TERMS OF EDUCATION, HUMAN RESOURCES, CLINICAL STRUCTURES, PROCEDURES AND PROCESSES FOR A FUTURE TOP-UP AND FULL DEGREE. SUNWAY UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA EXPLORING THE POSSIBLE BARRIERS AND BENEFITS TOWARDS SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FORENSIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO EXPLORE SEXUAL AND RELATIONSHIP ISSUES FOR MENTAL HEALTH CLIENTS IN A FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL. THE RESEARCH WILL UTILISE AN EXPLORATORY QUALITATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH. SELF FUNDING MENTAL HEALTH EVALUATION OF A HOME CARE SERVICE FOR PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MENTAL ILLNESS THE IRISH GOVERNMENT, IN THE VISION FOR CHANGE POLICY DOCUMENT, HAS PROPOSED THAT SPECIALIST MULTIDISCIPLINARY COMMUNITY-BASED TEAMS ARE ESTABLISHED IN ORDER TO MEET THE NEEDS OF CLIENTS, FAMILIES AND CARERS (DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN 2006). AS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THESE GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVES, DUBLIN SOUTH EAST MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ESTABLISHED AN ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT TEAM KNOWN AS RE&#769;IMSE HOME CARE AS PART OF THEIR COMMUNITY SERVICES. THE SERVICE COMMENCED IN MARCH 2009 AND THE PRESENT STUDY AIMS TO EVALUATE RE&#769;IMSE HOME CARE SIX MONTHS AFTER SETTING UP. THE STUDY IS BASED ON AN AUDIT OF ALL DOCUMENTATION USED BY RE&#769;IMSE HOME CARE SERVICE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE AGREED POLICIES AND GUIDELINES WERE BEING IMPLEMENTED. FURTHERMORE, PATIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRES (N = 21) WERE RETURNED BY CLIENTS WHO HAD RECEIVED TREATMENT AND CARE FROM RE&#769;IMSE. ADDITIONAL DATA WAS GAINED THROUGH A FOCUS GROUP INVOLVING THE STAFF ASSIGNED TO RE&#769;IMSE HOME CARE SERVICE.THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY SUGGEST THAT THERE IS OVERALL SATISFACTION WITH THE SERVICE, AS INDICATED BY CLIENTS WHO HAVE USED THE SERVICE.THE RESULTS OF THE STUDY SUGGEST THAT THERE IS OVERALL SATISFACTION WITH THE SERVICE, AS INDICATED BY CLIENTS WHO HAVE USED THE SERVICE. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN STARTUP FUND SAFETY IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS: A PROGRAMME TO PROMOTE SEXUAL HEALTH FOR PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS ISSUES RELATED TO SEXUAL HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS FOR PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN OVERLOOKED IN PRACTICE AND RESEARCH, BUT EVIDENCE FROM RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL UNMET NEED IN THE UK. THE RESEARCH WILL BE UNDERTAKEN IN 3 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND ALSO INCLUDE SEXUAL HEALTH AND FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES IN THOSE LOCATIONS. THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TEAM (LED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF YORK) REPRESENTS HIGHLY SKILLED AND EXPERIENCED MENTAL HEALTH AND SEXUAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS WHO HAVE THE EXPERTISE TO UNDERTAKE THE PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH, AND HAVE A TRACK RECORD OF UNDERTAKING SIMILAR RESEARCH.THE STUDY WILL GAIN AN UNDERSTANDING OF SEXUAL HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIP NEEDS FROM THE SERVICE USER PERSPECTIVE USING A SPECIALLY DEVELOPED SURVEY AND QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS. THIS WILL INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF AN INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE SEXUAL HEALTH (USING A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL). NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH NIHR PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT GRANTS COMP 8 EVALUATION OF THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME IN SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION (AND SUPPORT ACTIVITIES) WITH REGARD TO ITS CREATION OF SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION CAPACITY WITHIN INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR ORGANISATION. TO ASSESS THE FPSHP'S APPROACH AGAINST INTERNATIONALLY RECOMMENDED BEST PRACTICE WITH REGARD TO SEXUAL HEALTH TRAINING AS A CAPACITY BUILDING MEASURE. TO COMPLETE AN OVERVIEW OF SEXUAL HEALTH PROMOTION TRAINING WITHIN IRELAND AND TO COMMENT ON THE FPSHP AGAINST THIS LANDSCAPE.FINALLY, TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING POTENTIAL FUTURE DIRECTIONS WITHIN HSE SOUTH WITH REGARD TO SEXUAL HEALTH TRAINING AS AN ELEMENT OF CAPACITY BUILDING. HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE HEALTH PROMOTION AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. THE AIM OF THE STUDY WAS TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES, CONCERNS AND NEEDS OF TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND TO PREPARE A REPORT ON BOTH THE PROCESS AND OUTCOME OF THE CONSULTATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS (DCYA). THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ARE TO: 1. IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT MAKE THEIR LIVES EASY AND THE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE HARD FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 2. IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT WORK WELL FOR TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE 3. IDENTIFY THE THINGS THAT TRANSGENDER IDENTIFIED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE CONSIDER NEEDS TO CHANGE TO ENHANCE THEIR LIVES. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS REFLECTION EU REFLECTION PUBLISHED A REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN NURSING PRODUCED OR UNDERTAKEN IN EUROPE BY EUROPEAN NURSING SCIENTISTS, USING PUBLICATIONS FROM 2010 IN THE TOP 20 NURSING JOURNALS RATED BY IMPACT FACTOR. IN THIS SECOND REVIEW, WE AIM TO REPEAT THIS PROCESS TO DETERMINE THE FREQUENCY OF DIFFERENT PRIMARY AND SECONDARY RESEARCH METHODS USED IN PUBLISHED NURSING RESEARCH, AND THE EXTENT OF TRANSLATIONAL, MIXED/MULTI-METHODS AND PROGRAMMATIC RESEARCH INTO CARE PROVIDED BY NURSES THREE YEARS AFTER THE FIRST REVIEW USING PAPERS FROM 2013. AS A PROJECT TEAM MEMBER, I WILL IDENTIFY, APPRAISE AND SYNTHESISE RESEARCH REPORTS USING SYSTEMATIC SEARCHING, APPRAISAL AND DATA EXTRACTION METHODS. PROJECT MEMBERS WILL FORM INTERNATIONAL REVIEW GROUPS UNDER THE OVERALL DIRECTION OF THE CORE TEAM FROM THE UNIVERSITIES OF EXETER, UK, MALMO, SWEDEN AND TROMSO, NORWAY. SCOPING REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN NURSING II FULL SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE (JBI) TITLE: SEXUALITY AND INTIMACY ISSUES AMONG PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS IN HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW PROTOCOL OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH. THE AIM OF THIS REVIEW IS TO SYNTHESIZE THE BEST AVAILABLE QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE ON THE EXPERIENCES AND SUPPORT NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS (SMI) REGARDING SEXUALITY AND INTIMACY WITHIN HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PRESENT STUDY ARE: .TO EXPLORE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WITH SMI .TO EXPLORE SPECIFIC ISSUES RELATED TO SEXUALITY IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE WITH SMI .TO UNCOVER POTENTIAL OBSTACLES TO THE EXPRESSION OF SEXUALITY AND .TO PRESENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE. COLLABORATORS: MCCANN,E., DONOHUE,G., DE JAGER,J., VAN OS,J., NUGTER,A., STEWART,J. & EUSTACE-COOK,J. CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT (CPHI) JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW PROTOCOL SEXUALITY AND INTIMACY AMONG PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS IN HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY SETTINGS: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW PROTOCOL OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH. MCCANN,E., DONOHUE,G., DE JAGER,J., VAN OS,J., NUGTER,A., STEWART,J. & EUSTACE-COOK,J. REVIEW QUESTION/OBJECTIVE THE AIM OF THIS REVIEW IS TO SYNTHESIZE THE BEST AVAILABLE QUALITATIVE EVIDENCE ON THE EXPERIENCES AND SUPPORT NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS (SMI) REGARDING SEXUALITY AND INTIMACY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR MARY MC CARRON mccarronmary PROFESSOR OF AGEING & INTELLECTUAL DISAB MCCARRM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY AN INTERNATIONAL EXPERT IN THE FIELD OF AGEING AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, PROFESSOR MCCARRON IS THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR THE FIRST EVER LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING IN PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (IDS-TILDA) TO BE CONDUCTED IN IRELAND OR IN THE EU AND THE ONLY STUDY TO DATE WITH THE POTENTIAL TO COMPARE THE AGEING PROCESS IN PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY WITH OTHER GROUPS. THIS STUDY IS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA). LEADING A RESEARCH TEAM FOCUSED UPON AGEING, DEMENTIA END OF LIFE AND PALLIATIVE CARE PROFESSOR MCCARRON'S WORK, FUNDED BY THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, THE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION, THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES NATIONALLY KNOWN SERVICE PROVIDERS AND OTHER FUNDERS HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF: - LONGITUDINALLY FOLLOWING THE INCIDENCE OF DEMENTIA SYMPTOMS IN A POPULATION OF PERSONS WITH DOWN SYNDROME - ADDRESSING COST AND QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES IN DEMENTIA CARE AND END OF LIFE CARE CONSIDERATIONS FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND DEMENTIA - AWARD WINNING APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND DEMENTIA - EXTENDING PALLIATIVE TO PERSONS WITH ADVANCED AND TERMINAL DEMENTIA AND OTHER NON-MALIGNANCIES SUCH AS COPD, - ASSESSING THE POLICY IMPACT OF FUNDED INTERVENTIONS - BUILDING CAPACITY FOR ASSESSMENT OF SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIALIST MEMORY CLINIC SERVICES - SUPPORTING A RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF VITAMIN E AS A PROTECTIVE AGENT FOR PERSONS WITH DOWN SYNDROME - BUILDING EVIDENCE-BASED DAY-TO-DAY CARE MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE RE-DESIGN PRACTICES. HER WORK IS WIDELY PUBLISHED. FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES OLD CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHAIR FOR THE 2003 ROUNDTABLE SESSION ON INTERNATIONAL SERVICE DELIVERY FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND DEMENTIA. VOLOS, GREECE. EXPERT PANEL EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE TASKFORCE ON PALLIATIVE CARE/END OF LIFE CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES EXTERNAL MEMBER ON THE RESIDENTIAL CARE STANDARDS FOR OLDER PEOPLE BY THE HEALTH INFORMATION QUALITY AUTHORITY (HIQA) AT ST. PATRICKS HOSPITAL CASHEL. 2008 GUEST REVIEWER, IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE , JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY RESEARCH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL RETARDATION. INCLUSION IRELAND (ADVISOR ON AGEING RELATED ISSUES IN PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (IASSID) (MEMBER) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (IASSID). MEMBER OF THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIRG) ON AGING AND OF THE NURSING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP. CHAIR FOR THE 2003 ROUNDTABLE SESSION ON INTERNATIONAL SERVICE DELIVERY FOR PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND DEMENTIA. VOLOS, GREECE. INTERNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (MEMBER) MEMBER AND ACTIVE PARTICIPANT IN TRINITY CONSORTIUM ON AGING. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES RESEARCH COMMITTEE 2008 MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL DEMENTIA OFFICE HSE, PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A DEMENTIA POST-DIAGNOSTIC SUPPORT PATHWAY MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL WORKING GROUP ON EXTENDING PALLIATIVE CARE TO PERSONS WITH ADVANCED DEMENTIA SET UP THE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION. 2008 MEMBER OF THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIRG) ON AGING AND OF THE NURSING SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP. NATIONAL FEDERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES REPRESENTATIVE ON THE NATIONAL STEERING GROUP ON DEMENTIA SET UP BY THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) 2008 PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY GROUP ALZHEIMER'S EUROPE CONFERENCE 2005 (MEMBER) STRATEGIC PLANNING GROUP ON OLDER PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES (MEMBER) REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN 2004. AGED CARE NURSING AGEING, HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DEMENTIA IN PEOPLE WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) GETTING THE MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE THAT MATTER; INNOVATION IN RESEARCH DISSEMINATION. IRCHSS AWARD COST EFFECTIVENESS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN SERVICE DELIVERY FOR PERSONS WITH THE DUAL DISABILITY OF DOWN SYNDROME (DS) ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA (AD). RESPONDING TO DEMENTIA NEEDS IS A NEW CHALLENGE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICE PROVIDERS AND PARTICULARLY PRESSING WHEN CONSUMERS PRESENT WITH DOWN SYNDROME. NEW MODELS OF SERVICE ARE CALLED FOR AND ARE BEING ATTEMPTED. THIS STUDY WILL ASSESS THE RELATIVE COST AND IMPACTS ON QUALITY OF LIFE OF FOUR DIFFERENT CARE OPTIONS: COMMUNITY AND CAMPUS BASED GROUP HOMES, AGING SETTINGS AND DEMENTIA SPECIFIC SETTINGS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD A PALLIATIVE CARE MODEL FOR SUPPORTING PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (ID) AND DEMENTIA (AD) DEVELOPMENT OF AND EFFECTIVENESS TESTING FOR AN EVIDENCE-BASED TRAINING MODULE TO FOSTER EARLIER APPLICATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE PRINCIPLES IN CARE OF PERSONS WITH INTELELCTUAL DISABILITIES AND DEMENTIA. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD STIGMA AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE EXPEREINCE OF STIGMA BY PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA AND THEIR FAMILIES ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF IRELAND DEVELOPING RESPIRATORY PRACTICE TO ADDRESS PALLIATIVE CARE NEEDS OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD): EXPLORING THE LAY CARER EXPERT KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE. HYNES, G -DOCTORAL STUDENT MCCARRON, M (PI) COX, K IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION AN INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF HOSPICE DAY CARE IN THE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS MCCARRON, M, (PI), NEENAN, K, (DOCTORAL STUDENT), RYAN, F, MCCANN, M, CONNAIRE, K, COX, K, IRISH CANCER SOCIETY EXPANDING PALLIATIVE CARE TO MEET THE NEEDS OF PERSONS WITH COPD HYNES, G, -DOCTORAL STUDENT MCCARRON, M (PI) COX, K. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD WAVE II AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUNDINAL STUDY ON AGEING TILDA. WAVE II. AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL MCCARRON M (PI), MCCALLION, P HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD & DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAMME TO SUPPORT PALLIATIVE AND HOSPICE CARE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES THE POST-CARING EXPERIENCE: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NEEDS OF FORMER FAMILY CARERS. IRCHSS AND CARE ALLIANCE NO DATA IDENTIFYING THE EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS OF OLDER LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER (LGBT) PEOPLE IN IRELAND AND RECOMMENDING POSITIVE AGEING STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS TO PROMOTE THEIR FULL PARTICIPATION AND INCLUSION IN IRISH SOCIETY GLEEN A COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE TO IMPLEMENT PERSON-CENTRED PRACTICE IN RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. MCCARRON M(PI), MCCALLION, P., KEENAN, P., GRIFFITHS, C., ROLFE G. STEWARTS HOSPITAL WHAT ARE THE RESPITE NEEDS AND EXPERIENCES OF FAMILY'S CARING FOR A CHILD WITH A LIFE-LIMITING CONDITION REQUIRING PALLIATIVE CARE? LING, J-DOCTORAL STUDENT AND HRB CLINICAL RESEARCH FELLOW MCCARRON, M (PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR) HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AN INVESTIGATION OF DEPENDENCY LEVELS OF AGEING PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) MCCARRON, M (PI), MCCALLION, P, FLEMING, S. HSE PEAMOUNT INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES SERVICE AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING TILDA - WAVE 1 BACKGROUND & AIM: IN IRELAND AND ELSEWHERE THERE IS FOR THE FIRST TIME A SIZEABLE AND GROWING POPULATION OF OLDER PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (ID). THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE SUCCESS BUT ALSO A TREMENDOUS CHALLENGE; WE KNOW LITTLE ABOUT THEIR AGEING AND THERE IS MUCH CONCERN THAT MORTALITY IS HIGHER, HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE GREATER, ACCESS TO SERVICES AND HEALTH PROMOTION IS POORER AND QUALITY OF LIFE IS OFTEN COMPROMISED. A COMPREHENSIVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING (TILDA) IS ABOUT TO BEGIN IN IRELAND. USE OF THE ELECTORAL REGISTER AS A SAMPLING FRAME WILL UNINTENTIONALLY EXCLUDE MANY PEOPLE WITH ID. USE OF THE NATIONAL INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY DATABASE WILL OFFER AN HISTORIC AND CRITICAL OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A SUPPLEMENTAL LONGITUDINAL FOLLOW-UP OF AGEING IN PERSONS WITH ID. APPROACH: SAMPLE: THERE WILL BE TWO SAMPLES; (1) A STRATIFIED CONVENIENCE PILOT SAMPLE OF 50 PERSONS WITH ID AGED 40-70 YEARS, (2) APPROXIMATELY 800 PERSONS OVER AGE 40 RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM THE HRB ID DATABASE WITH AN OVER-SAMPLE OF THOSE OVER 55 AND THOSE 40-49 LIVING AT HOME OR INDEPENDENTLY. MEASURES: MEASURES WILL ADDRESS HEALTH, COGNITIVE STATUS, ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING, LIVING SITUATIONS, SOCIAL LIFE AND OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE. MEASURES WILL BE COMPARABLE TO THESE BEING USED IN THE LARGER TILDA STUDY AND YET WILL ADDRESS UNIQUE ISSUES. ANALYSIS: FOR THE PILOT SAMPLE ANALYSIS WILL FOCUS UPON USABILITY OF INSTRUMENTS AND INSTRUMENT RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY ISSUES. WHEN THE FINALIZED PROTOCOL IS THEN ADMINISTERED TO THE FIRST WAVE SAMPLE OF THE LONGITUDINAL STUDY, A DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICAL PICTURE OF THE LIFE EXPERIENCES OF ADULT PERSONS OF ID WILL BE DEVELOPED AS WELL AS COMPARISONS BETWEEN IMPORTANT SUBGROUPS AND WITH THE GENERAL POPULATION FINDINGS OF TILDA. IMPLICATIONS: THE STUDY WILL PROVIDE THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF AGEING IN PERSONS WITH ID AND PREPARE FOR LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF THAT AGEING. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD & DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RESEARCH NATIONAL CONSULTATION WITH SERVICE USERS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS REGARDING HOME NURSING SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH STATE ACQUIRED HEPATITIC C VIRUS (HCV) TIMMINS, F, (PI) GLACKEN, M, GROGAN, A. FRAZER, K., MCCARRON, M HSE FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND. HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE IRELAND/TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. NATIONAL INDICATORS OF POSITIVE AGEING FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILTY DOH HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY EIT HEALTH KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PALLIATIVE CARE RESEARCH NETWORK WORK PACKAGE. IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AALPHC GENIO DEMENTIA PROGRAMME AN EVALUATION FOR THE GENIO DEMENTIA PROGRAMME THE LAST MONTHS OF LIFE OF PEOPLE WITH LD LIVING IN WALES OVER A 12 MONTH PERIOD. STUART TODD DUNHILL MEDICAL TRUST GRANT NISCHR (WAG) ST ITA'S MOVING TO COMMUNITY SETTINGS RESIDENTS OF ST JOSEPHS IN ST ITA'S PORTRANE MOVING TO COMMUNITY SETTINGS. UNDERSTANDING THE CHANGES IN THEIR LIVES EFFECTIVE FAMILY SUPPORT MODELS DURING THE TRANSITION OF ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INTO OLD AGE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE BELFAST BEADS BRAIN EXERCISE FOR ADULTS WITH DOWN SYNDROME DOWN SYNDROME IRELAND ASSISTID (ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND AUTISM PI: PROF. BRIAN HARVEY. CORE TCD TEAM: PROF. MARY MCCARRON, DR. JOHN DINSMORE. STUDY TITLE: ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR AUTISM AND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. ROLE: TCD PI (PRESENTLY SUPPORTING TCD APPLICANTS IN THE PROCESS OF TARGETING FELLOWS AND PUSHING SUBMISSIONS WITH ONE SUCCESSFUL AND 4 APPLICATIONS IN PROGRESS) PROPORTION DIRECT TO TCD WILL BE DETERMINED IN 2016. TO DATE 2 DOCTRID ASSISTID FELLOWS AT €171,832 PER FELLOW HAVE BEEN SECURED UNDER THE PROGRAMME EUROPEAN COMMISSION - MARIE CURIE FP7 CO-FUND UNDERSTANDING FAMILY STRATEGIES THAT ENABLE LONG TERM AND SUSTAINABLE HOME ENVIRONMENTS FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (IDS-TILDA) IS THE FIRST AND MOST EXTENSIVE SUCH STUDY TO BE CONDUCTED IN IRELAND OR IN THE EU, AND IT IS RECOGNISED INTERNATIONALLY AS PIONEERING IN THIS FIELD. THIS STUDY PROVIDES THE DEFINITIVE AND MOST NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID. WITHIN THIS STUDY THE NOW COMPLETED "CARER'S SELF-COMPLETION QUESTIONNAIRE" HAS A SAMPLE OF 62 CARERS OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID LIVING WITHIN FAMILY SETTINGS. THE KEY METHODOLOGY EMPLOYED IN THIS STUDY ENTAILED QUALITATIVE FOCUS GROUPS AND INTERVIEWS WITH THESE FAMILIES. ALL FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS WERE TRANSCRIBED AND DATA INPUTTED INTO NVIVO WITH DATA ANALYSED AND MINED TO EXTRACT KEY THEMES AND CONCEPTS. OBJECTIVES: . DESCRIBE THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS WITHIN FAMILIES CARING FOR AN OLDER PERSON WITH AN ID 1. DESCRIBE STRATEGIES FOR LONG TERM CARE PLANNING WITHIN FAMILIES 2. DESCRIBE PATTERNS OF TRANSFER OF CARE (PARENT TO SIBLING, SIBLING TO SIBLING ETC) 3. DESCRIBE KEY FAMILY, ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL FACTORS INFLUENCING STRATEGIES FOR LONG TERM FAMILY CARE . ILLUMINATE BARRIERS AND ENABLERS FOR FAMILIES WITH AN OLDER PERSON WITH ID 1. IDENTIFY PRESSURE POINTS FOR THESE FAMILIES 2. IDENTIFY STRATEGIES, SUPPORTS AND ENABLERS WHICH SUSTAIN OLDER PEOPLE WITH ID WITHIN THE FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SETTING INCLUDING THE ROLE OF CAREGIVING NETWORKS AND SUPPORTIVE NEIGHBOURS AND COMMUNITIES . IDENTIFY BEST PRACTICE FOR SUPPORTING FAMILIES WITH AN OLDER PERSON WITH ID 1. IDENTIFY GAPS BETWEEN FAMILY EXPERIENCES AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ID SOCIAL POLICY 2. ARTICULATE THE PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILIES WITH REGARD TO FUTURE POLICY 3. PROPOSE MODELS OF SUPPORT THAT FACILITATE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY IN SUSTAINING OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN ID WITHIN THE COMMUNITY NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY RESEARCH PROMOTION SCHEME WAYFINDING PI: DR. JOHN DINSMORE. TO PILOT A SMART WATCH NAVIGATION APPLICATION FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY/MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT TCD FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES AWARD - DEAN'S RESEARCH INITIATIVE FUND NATIONAL KEY INDICATORS OF POSITIVE AGEING FOR PEOPLE WITH ID. THE NATIONAL POSITIVE AGEING INTICATORS WILL BE USED TO ASSESS THE LEVEL OF PROGRESS BEING MADE THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OLDER PEOPLE OVER TIME. BEST AND MOST COST EFFECTIVE DAY SERVICE MODELS TO SUPPORT THE TRANSITION OF ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES (ID) INTO OLD AGE. PI: LAURENCE TAGGART, MCCARRON M, MCCALLION P ULSTER UNIVERSITY & NORTHERN IRELAND RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE UNDERSTANDING THE CONTRIBUTORS TO BETTER INTEGRATION AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION BY PERSONS WITH SEVERE AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY A TIME TO MOVE ON FROM CONGREGATED SETTINGS: A STRATEGY FOR COMMUNITY INCLUSION (HSE, 2011) RECOMMENDS A MODEL OF COMMUNITY INCLUSION TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY CURRENTLY LIVING IN CONGREGATED SETTINGS TO MOVE TO DISPERSED HOUSING IN ORDINARY COMMUNITIES. HOWEVER, THERE IS INSUFFICIENT DATA ON HOW SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY INCLUSION AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION MAY BE ACHIEVED FOR PEOPLE WITH SEVERE AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. AS A MEANS OF FILLING THIS GAP, THE RESEARCH TEAM, WORKING WITH INCLUSION IRELAND CONDUCTED IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH CARERS AND SERVICE MANAGERS OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH SEVERE AND PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY TO DISCERN BEST PRACTICES, DEVELOP TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING, AND INFORM PUBLIC POLICY. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME P PALS PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISAILITY - PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEADERS EIT HEALTH A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PILOT STUDY TO ENHANCE LONG TERM CARE PLANNING FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) IN IRELAND AND THEIR FAMILIES THIS IS A 'BOLT-ON' PROJECT TO IDS-TILDA, WHICH BUILDS ON THE NDA FUNDED PROJECT "UNDERSTANDING FAMILY STRATEGIES THAT ENABLE LONG TERM AND SUSTAINABLE HOME ENVIRONMENTS FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY". IRC 2016 RESEARCH FOR POLICY AND SOCIETY SCHEME SEED FUNDING TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF CARING FOR PERSONS WITH THE DUAL DISABILITY OF ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA AND DOWN SYNDROME MCCARRON, M (PI) ALL-IRELAND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP GRANT FROM AN BORD ALTRANAIS AND THE NATIONAL BOARD OF NURSING EFFECTIVE FAMILY SUPPORT MODELS DURING THE TRANSITION OF ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INTO OLD AGE CO. P.I MCCALLION, P., MCCARRON, M RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, BELFAST NATIONAL KEY INDICATORS OF POSITIVE AGEING FOR PEOPLE WITH ID A BOLT ON STUDY TO IDS TILDA TO DEVELOP NATIONAL KEY INDICATORS OF POSITIVE AGEING FOR PEOPLE WITH ID DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH NATIONAL POSITIVE AGEING STRATEGY A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PILOT STUDY TO ENHANCE LONG TERM CARE PLANNING FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (ID) IN IRELAND AND THEIR FAMILIES THIS IS A 'BOLT-ON' PROJECT TO IDS-TILDA, WHICH BUILDS ON THE NDA FUNDED PROJECT "UNDERSTANDING FAMILY STRATEGIES THAT ENABLE LONG TERM AND SUSTAINABLE HOME ENVIRONMENTS FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY". IRC THE IRC 2016 RESEARCH FOR POLICY AND SOCIETY SCHEME CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH FELLOW, INVESTIGATING THE 'INFLUENCE OF ALZHJEIMER'S DEMENTIA ON TIME SPENT CAREGIVING FOR PERSONS DOWN SYNDROME AND ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA' MCARRON, M (PI AND DOCTORAL STUDENT), BEGLEY, C GILL M. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD END OF LIFE CARE PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND, THROUGH A SOCIAL JUSTICE LENS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE IDS-TILDA STUDY AIIHPC WAVE III AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUNDINAL STUDY ON AGEING TILDA. WAVE III AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL MCCARRON M (PI), MCCALLION, P HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD & DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PROACT (INTERGRATED TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEMS FOR PROACTIVE PATIENT CENTRED CARE) PI: DR. JOHN DINSMORE. TCD TEAM: PROF. MARY MCCARRON, DR. ANNE-MARIE BRADY, DR. JOAN CAHILL. DEVELOPMENT OF PROACTIVE INTEGRATED CARE TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEMS TO SUPPORT MULTIMORBIDITY DISEASE MANAGEMENT (INCLUDING DETECTION OF EARLY ONSET COGNITIVE DECLINE/DEMENTIA) IN AN AGEING POPULATION. INVOLVES 12 PARTNERS ACROSS 6 EU MEMBER STATES. TRIAL SITES IN IRELAND, BELGIUM AND ITALY. AWARD SECURED AUGUST 2015. EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 UNDER CALL SC1-PHC25-2015 AGEING CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. DANIEL PATRICK MC CARTHY mccarthydanielpatrick FELLOW EMERITUS DMCCRTHY COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER ARITHMETIC, PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES & PROCESSING, HISTORY OF NUMBERS AND COMPUTATION, COMPUTISTICS, LUNAR AND SOLAR CYCLES, ASTRONOMY, CHRONOLOGY, THE CHRONICLES OF EUSEBIUS, JEROME, SULPICIUS SEVERUS, PROSPER, BEDE AND THE IRISH ANNALS, THE PASCHAL CONTROVERSY COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MR. ANTHONY MC CASHIN mccashinanthony VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW AMCCSHIN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL POLICY IN IRELAND SOCIAL SECURITY, POVERTY AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION LONE PARENT FAMILIES AND FAMILY POLICY HOUSING POLICY PUBLIC OPINION, SOCIAL ATTITUDES AND THE WELFARE STATE SOCIAL STUDIES 3063 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIRMAN, SOCIAL POLICY ADVISORY GROUP, SIMON COMMUNITY NATIONAL OFFICE MEMBER OF THRESHOLD RESEARCH ADVISORY GROUP. OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTOR TO MAGAZINES OF COMBAT POVERTY AGENCY (POVERTY TODAY), HOMELESS AGENCY (CORNERSTONE) AND THE IRISH TIMES VICE CHAIRMAN, IRISH SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION, UK MEMBER OF ESPANET, EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION NETWORK MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF EUROPEAN AFAIRS MEMBER OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE MEMBER OF SOCIAL AND STATISTICAL INQUIRY SOCIETY OF IRELAND HOUSING POLICY, HOMELESSNESS POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE POVERTY SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP PROCESS, THEORIES OF LOCAL PARTNERSHIP SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY IRISH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES SURVEY DESIGNED A MODULE ON ATTITUDES TO POVERTY, INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL POLICY IN THE ISPAS-THIS WAS A NATIONAL INTERVIEW SURVEY OF ADULTS' SOCIAL AND POITICAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR. FIELDWORK UNDERTAKEN IN 2002 (COLLABORATORS DR DIANE PAYNE AND DR NIAMH HARDIMAN, UCD) IRCHSS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. MATHEW MC CAULEY mccauleymathew ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MMCCAUL PSYCHOLOGY ADULT MENTAL HEALTH, MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA, CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOTHERAPY, AND OCCUPATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE FELLOW, BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, UK CHARTERED SCIENTIST, SCIENCE COUNCIL, UK FELLOW, HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY, UK FELLOW, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, IRELAND FELLOW, ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE, UK MEMBER, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, USA MEMBER, FACULTY OF CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, UK MEMBER, SOCIETY FOR MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY, DIVISION 19, AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, USA MEMBER, SOCIETY OF BEHAVIOURAL MEDICINE, UK REGISTERED EUROPSY PSYCHOLOGIST REGISTERED, TRICARE, MILITARY HEALTH SYSTEM, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, USA REGISTERED/LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST AEROSPACE PSYCHOLOGY CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY MILITARY SCIENCES POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOTHERAPY QUALITATIVE RESEARCH MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EXPERIENCES OF SIBLINGS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY... EXPERIENCES OF SIBLINGS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION. SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL STUDY BY CLAIRE KEOGH HSE DCLINPSY EVALUATING THE USE OF CISM IN THE IRISH FIRE SERVICE CO-AUTHORING WITH PROF HEVEY AND PROF WILSON IRISH FIRE SERVICE CAMS: EXPLORING THE PROCESS OF CHANGE IN RESOLVING SUICIDALITY SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL STUDY BY SUZANNE FINNEGAN HSE DCLINPSY GOOD LIVES MODEL: MECHANISMS OF CHANGE DOCTORAL SUPERVISION OF RESEARCH BY MIRIAM RYAN HSE DCLINPSY FAMILIES' EXPERIENCES OF THE DEINSTITUTIONALISATION... FAMILIES' EXPERIENCES OF THE DEINSTITUTIONALISATION OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH. SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH BY EIMEAR GOULDING HSE DCLINPSY TRANSITION INTO CIVILIAN LIFE: EXPLORING ARMY VETERANS EXPERIENCES OF MILITARY RELATIONSHIPS SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH BY FELICITY WALKER. NHS DCLINPSY PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR SPOUSES OF SERVICES MEMBERS WITH OPERATIONALLY-ATTRIBUTABLE MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES. SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH BY ROSIE LANGFORD NHS DCLINPSY DR. DARREN MC CAUSLAND mccauslanddarren RESEARCH FELLOW DMCCAUSL SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY RESEARCH FELLOW WITH THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (IDS-TILDA), WITH A FOCUS ON AGEING AND ID. I HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. MY PHD FROM TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN EXAMINED RATES AND OUTCOMES OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH ID IN IRELAND. CURRENTLY WORKING ON RESEARCH ABOUT LONG-TERM FUTURE CARE PLANNING FOR OLDER ADULTS WITH ID LIVING WITH THEIR FAMILY. OTHER INTERESTS INCLUDE PERSON CENTERED PLANNING, INCLUSIVE METHODOLOGIES, AND SOCIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS OF COMMUNITY, INCLUSION AND SOCIAL CAPITAL. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH IRISH DISABILITY STUDIES ASSOCIATION SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE IDS-TILDA THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (IDS-TILDA) IS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGING AMONG PEOPLE WITH ID AGED 40 YEARS AND OLDER IN IRELAND. CURRENTLY IN WAVE 3 OF THE STUDY. HRB AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. SEAN MC CLENAGHAN mcclenaghansean ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCCLENS GEOLOGY MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON DISSECTING ORE DEPOSIT SYSTEMS THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF BULK GEOCHEMICAL AND ADVANCED MICRO-ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES. MUCH OF THIS RESEARCH HAS CENTRED ON THE PETROLOGY OF VOLCANIC AND SHALE-HOSTED EXHALATIVE MASSIVE SULPHIDE (ZN-PB-CU-AG-AU) DEPOSITS IN THE APPALACHIANS AND PRECAMBRIAN CANADIAN SHIELD OF NORTH AMERICA. I CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY RESEARCH HYDROTHERMAL EXHALATIVE SYSTEMS IN ADDITION TO OTHER MINERAL DEPOSIT TYPES SUCH AS THE CARBONATE HOSTED ZN-PB DEPOSITS OF THE IRISH MIDLANDS, DEVONIAN GRANITE-HOSTED SN-W-MO DEPOSITS AND A WIDE RANGE OF EPIGENETIC AU, AG, AND BASE-METAL SYSTEMS. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ATLANTIC GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM EDITOR GANGUE NEWSLETTER, MINERAL DEPOSITS DIVISION, GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, MINERAL DEPOSITS DIVISION PEER REVIEWER OF PAPERS FOR MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS, GEOCHEMISTRY: EXPLORATION, ENVIRONMENT, ANALYSIS PROSPECTORS AND DEVELOPERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA SOCIETY FOR GEOLOGY APPLIED TO MINERAL DEPOSITS SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS TEST BANK CONTRIBUTOR FOR PEARSON PUBLISHING FINGERPRINTING ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES FOR METAL ENRICHMENT IN EUROPEAN TREES: DEVELOPING VECTORS FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION THE PROJECT ESTABLISHES BASELINE LEVELS OF METAL UPTAKE IN A VARIETY OF EUROPEAN TREE SPECIES AND LESSER VEGETATION IN REGIONS KNOWN TO EXHIBIT ANOMALOUS SOIL-METAL SIGNATURES. GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES ARE CHARACTERIZED FURTHER THROUGH THE USE OF STABLE METAL ISOTOPES (ZN, PB, CU, FE), ESTABLISHING A DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF METAL ABSORPTION AND DISTINGUISHING THE METAL FOOTPRINT OF PB-ZN MINERALIZATION FROM ANY EXTRANEOUS ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS. EUROPEAN UNION - MARIE CURIE FRAMEWORK ISONOSE CHARACTERISING DISPERSED METAL PLUMES IN SURFICIAL SOILS AND SEDIMENTS IN THE IRISH MIDLANDS: USING ISOTOPE FINGERPRINTS TO DEVELOP VECTORS IN MINERAL EXPLORATION THE PROJECT DEFINES AND CHARACTERISES THE DISPERSION OF METAL, TRACE-ELEMENT AND STABLE ISOTOPIC (ZN, PB, CU, FE) SIGNATURES IN SOIL AND GLACIAL TILLS OVERLYING THE BALLINALACK PB-ZN DEPOSIT. THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF THE METAL PLUME FEATURES A CHEMICAL PROFILE RECONSTRUCTING THE FULL ISOTOPIC PATHWAY FROM METAL DEPOSIT TO SOIL. CHARACTERIZING THE METAL AND ISOTOPIC HALOES SURROUNDING CARBONATE-HOSTED PB-ZN DEPOSITS AND WITHIN THEIR OVERLYING SEDIMENTS HAS WIDE APPLICATIONS FOR THE IRISH MIDLANDS AND GLACIAL TERRANES, WORLDWIDE. EUROPEAN UNION - MARIE CURIE FRAMEWORK ISONOSE NOVEL GEOCHEMICAL METHODS FOR MINERAL EXPLORATION IN IRISH PEATLANDS THE TERRAIN IN WHICH GEOLOGISTS EXPLORE IS BECOMING MORE MATURE. WITH MOST OF THE NEAR SURFACE (EASY-TO-FIND) DEPOSITS DISCOVERED, EXPLORATION GEOLOGISTS ARE NOW FOCUSSING THEIR ATTENTION TOWARDS "BLIND DEPOSITS" BURIED BENEATH PEATLAND, THICK GLACIAL OVERBURDEN AND BARREN COVER ROCK. REFINEMENT OF EXISTING EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ANALYTICAL METHODS ARE REQUIRED TO ADVANCE EXPLORATION THE NEXT LEVEL. CONVENTIONAL SOIL GEOCHEMICAL SURVEYS IN IRELAND HAVE EMPLOYED AQUA REGIA AND MULTI-ACID EXTRACTION/DIGESTION TECHNIQUES IN THEIR ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY. THESE METHODS HAVE BEEN HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL IN DELINEATING MINERALISATION IN THE BRITISH AND IRISH ISLES; HOWEVER, IN PEATLAND SETTINGS, CONVENTIONAL GEOCHEMISTRY IS KNOWN TO PRODUCE SPURIOUS RESULTS. THIS RESEARCH IS DEVELOPING CRITERIA FOR GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION IN IRISH PEATLANDS MAKING USE OF TECHNIQUES SUCH AS IONIC LEACH, ENZYME LEACH, AND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AS WELL AS STATE OF THE ART INSTRUMENTATION. THESE NOVEL METHODS, WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN WIDELY USED IN IRELAND, ARE INCREASINGLY BEING EMPLOYED GLOBALLY TO DETECT BLIND DEPOSITS AND HAVE GREAT POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS IN THE PEATLANDS OF IRELAND. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL EMPLOYMENT BASED POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DAVID MC CLOSKEY mccloskeydavid USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DMCCLOSK PHYSICS AMBER CONNECT CENTRE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS CRANN WASTE HEAT HARVESTING, TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN THERMAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES, THERMOELECTRICS, THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS, HEAT EXCHANGERS, PLASMONICS, HEAT TRANSFER IN 2D MATERIALS, DIAMOND PHOTONICS, OPTICAL MICRORESONAOTORS , NEAR FIELD OPTICS, HEAT TRANSPORT ON NANOSCALE, AND NANOFABRICATION (EBL, UV LITHO, FIB, HELIUM ION MICROSCOPY AND LITHOGRAPHY). HE IS DEVELOPING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY MASTERS PROGRAM IN THE SCIENCE OF ENERGY HOSTED ACROSS THE SCHOOLS OF PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, ENGINEERING AND GEOLOGY. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (OSA), AND THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS(IOP). SOLAR, THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY THERMAL ENERGY THERMAL MANAGEMENT THERMAL RADIATION THERMAL-CONDUCTIVITY THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS THERMOELECTRIC-POWER THERMOELECTRICITY THERMOREFLECTANCE ULTRAFAST PROCESSES ENERGY EFFICIENCY ELECTRICAL GRID PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS VISIBLE LIGHT SCATTERING FROM MICRON SCALE SILICON NITRIDE STRUCTURES SPATIAL CONFINEMENT AND ANGULAR DIVERGENCE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION ARE INTIMATELY RELATED THROUGH DIFFRACTION, WHICH IMPOSES THE SO CALLED DIFFRACTION LIMIT ON LIGHT CONFINEMENT AND IMAGING RESOLUTION USING FAR-FIELD OPTICS. THIS LIMIT CAN BE SURPASSED CLOSE TO PARTICLES OR INTERFACES BY INCORPORATING EVANESCENT FIELDS. RECENT STUDIES SHOW THAT LIGHT SCATTERING FROM MICRON SCALE DIELECTRIC PARTICLES CAN PRODUCE OPTICAL NEAR-FIELDS EXTENDING RELATIVELY FAR FROM THE PARTICLE, WITH FEATURES WHICH BREAK THE FREE SPACE DIFFRACTION LIMIT. SPECIFICALLY LIGHT CAN BE FOCUSED TO BEAMS WITH A SUB-WAVELENGTH WAIST AND STILL RETAIN A LOW DIVERGENCE ANGLE. IN THIS THESIS WE EXPLORE FULLY LIGHT SCATTERING IN THIS SIZE REGIME USING AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL SYSTEM OF PLANAR SCATTERERS FABRICATED IN SILICON NITRIDE USING ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY. THIS SYSTEM GIVES PRECISE CONTROL OVER THE SHAPE, SIZE AND POSITION OF THE SCATTERERS. WE SHOW THAT THESE LOW DIVERGENCE FEATURES ARE A GENERAL PROPERTY OBSERVED IN THE NEAR-FIELD OF ARBITRARILY SHAPED SCATTERERS IN THIS SIZE REGIME. CONTROLLING THE DIRECTION AND POLARIZATION OF THE INCIDENT LIGHT AND THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE PARTICLE ALLOWS DIRECT CONTROL OVER THE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION IN THE NEAR-FIELD. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL PHD AWARD QUANTITATIVE TEMPERATURE MAPPING IN METALLIC NANOWIRES IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ULYSSES THERMAL PROPERTIES OF METALLIC NANOWIRES: DETERMINING THE ULTIMATE LIMIT IN MINIATURISATION OF METALLIC ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTS ELECTRICAL INTERCONNECTS ARE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ALL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ICS), AND CONSTITUTE THE WIRING SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES POWER AND DISTRIBUTES CLOCK SIGNALS TO VARIOUS FUNCTIONAL BLOCKS IN A COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR (CMOS) IC. THE INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP FOR SEMICONDUCTORS (ITRS) HAS IDENTIFIED METALLIC INTERCONNECT SCALING AS A KEY CHALLENGE LIMITING OVERALL CHIP PERFORMANCE. LIMITED BANDWIDTH OF INTERCONNECTS IN PROCESSORS HAS RESULTED IN ONLY 10% OF TRANSISTORS BEING ACTIVE AT ANY TIME, AND HAS LED TO A STAGNATION IN THE RATE OF INCREASE OF COMPUTING POWER. AS FEATURE SIZES CONTINUE TO SHRINK IN ICS, INTERCONNECT DIMENSIONS ARE BECOMING COMPARABLE TO THE ELECTRON MEAN FREE PATH. ELECTRON SCATTERING FROM GRAIN BOUNDARIES, SURFACES AND DEFECTS NOW DOMINATES THE ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT RESULTING IN GREATLY INCREASED RESISTIVITY. SINCE ELECTRONS ARE THE MAIN CARRIERS OF HEAT IN METALLIC SYSTEMS THE THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY IS ALSO GREATLY DIMINISHED. THIS MEANS THAT HEAT CANNOT BE EASILY REMOVED FROM SOURCES AND THE LOCAL TEMPERATURE CAN SPIKE LEADING TO FAILURE IN DEVICES. THIS PROBLEM IS COMPOUNDED BY A REDUCTION IN MATERIAL MELTING POINT AT THE NANOSCALE KNOWN AS MELTING POINT DEPRESSION. THIS PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE ELECTRICAL AND THERMAL TRANSPORT IN CHEMICALLY SYNTHESISED METALLIC NANOWIRES IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE ULTIMATE SCALING LIMIT OF METALLIC INTERCONNECTS. A KEY DIFFERENTIATOR IN THIS PROJECT IS THAT THE LOCAL TEMPERATURE WILL BE DETERMINED USING AN OPTICAL TECHNIQUE, DECOUPLING THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS. OPTICAL TECHNIQUES ALLOW NON-INVASIVE MEASUREMENT OF LOCAL TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTIONS WITH ~250 NM RESOLUTION, REMOVING THE NEED TO RELY ON ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE CURRENT INDUCED HEATING IN THE NANOWIRE. UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROLLING THE THERMAL PROPERTIES OF NANOMATERIALS WILL LEAD TO DISRUPTIVE BREAKTHROUGHS IN MICRO AND NANO-ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH GLOBAL TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IRC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP HEATING IN GAN ELECTRONICS SFI, DUBLIN, IRELAND AMBER DIRECTORS FUND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR DAVID JOHN MC CONNELL mcconnelldavidjohn FELLOW EMERITUS DMCCNNLL GENETICS DEPT OF GENETICS LINCOLN PLACE GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. SARAH MC CORMACK mccormacksarah ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MCCORMS1 CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CIVIL STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF COST ACTION TU0802: NEXT GENERATION COST EFFECTIVE PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS FOR INCREASED ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS IN BUILDINGS (NECOE-PCM) HTTP://W3.COST.ESF.ORG/INDEX.PHP?ID=240&ACTION_NUMBER=TU0802 IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE EUROPEAN PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM MIRROR GROUP MEMBER OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY SECRETARY OF THE SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY OF IRELAND ELECTRICITY STORAGE ENERGY CONVERSION PROCESSES OR CYCLES ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, INTERACTIONS INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS NANOTECHNOLOGY OPTICS PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS, CELLS AND MODULES MANUFACTURING POLYMERS RENEWABLE ENERGIES COST ACTION TU0802 COST EPHOCELL FP7 NMP NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JOHN MC CORMICK mccormickjohn FELLOW EMERITUS JMCCRMCK DRAMA BECKETT CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. SELINA MC COY mccoyselina ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MCCOYSE SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. CATHAL MC CRORY mccrorycathal SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW MCCRORC CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY ONE OF THE MOST CONSISTENTLY DOCUMENTED FINDINGS IN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IS THAT HEALTH IS SOCIALLY PATTERNED AND THAT INDIVIDUALS AT THE LOWER END OF THE SOCIAL SPECTRUM ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER THE BURDEN OF ILL HEALTH. THE GRADIENT IS APPARENT IN EARLY INFANCY AND EXTENDS THROUGH CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE INTO ADULTHOOD AND OLD AGE. MY RESEARCH AIMS TO ELUCIDATE THE PROCESSES, PATHWAYS AND MECHANISMS THROUGH WHICH SOCIALLY MEDIATED VARIATIONS IN RISK EXPOSURES COME TO INFLUENCE HEALTH AND MORTALITY ACROSS THE LIFE-COURSE. IN TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE PREMATURE ONSET OF DISEASE AMONG VULNERABLE GROUPS, IT IS HOPED THAT WE WILL BE BETTER ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE AGEING PROCESS. TILDA CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING LINCOLN GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP, GROWING UP IN IRELAND MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR LONGITUDINAL AND LIFE COURSE STUDIES (SLLS) RESEARCH AFFILIATE, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SOCIAL JUSTICE AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. LAURA MARIA MC CULLAGH mccullaghlauramaria ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MCCULLLM PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS RESEARCH INTERESTS TO DATE INCLUDE PHARMACOECONOMIC EVALUATION, VALUE OF INFORMATION ANALYSIS, MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS, SURVIVAL ANALYSIS, COST OF CARE STUDIES AND ANALYSIS OF DRUG UTILISATION AND EXPENDITURE IN THE REAL WORLD SETTING. LAURA IS PART OF A COLLABORATIVE TEAM (INCLUDING THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, THE NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY AND THE NCPE)WHICH HAS BEEN AWARDED A HRB APA GRANT TO EXAMINE HOW ANALYSIS OF DRUG UTILISATION AND REAL WORLD OUTCOMES DATABASES CAN SUPPORT PHARMACOECONOMIC EVALUATIONS. FURTHER, LAURA IS A CO-APPLICANT ON A HRB RCQPS AWARD WHICH IS INVESTIGATING HOW A GP PRACTICE-BASED PHARMACIST MEDICINES OPTIMISATION PROGRAMME MIGHT SUPPORT PRESCRIBING IN IRISH PRIMARY CARE. LAURA HAS PUBLISHED WIDELY IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AND HAS PRESENTED HER RESEARCH AT NATIONAL, EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES. SHE HAS PROVIDED PEER-REVIEW FOR A NUMBER OF JOURNALS INCLUDING: VALUE IN HEALTH, PHARMACOECONOMICS, THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS, THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS, JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE, COST EFFECTIVENESS AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION. SHE HAS ALSO PROVIDED PEER-REVIEW FOR THE INNOVATIONAL RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME - VENI, NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. LAURA IS CURRENTLY CO-SUPERVISING 2 PHD STUDENTS AND 1 MSC STUDENT. DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CANCER CONTROL PROGRAMME (NCCP) TECHNOLOGY REVIEW GROUP MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PHARMACOECONOMICS (NCPE)TECHNOLOGY REVIEW GROUP MEMBER OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN. CANCER DR. SEAN RAYMOND MC DERMOTT mcdermottseanraymond PART-TIME LECTURER MCDERMSR CLINICAL MEDICINE CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 DR. MICHAEL BOSCO MC DERMOTT mcdermottmichaelbosco PART-TIME LECTURER MCDERMMB HISTOPATHOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY OUR LADY'S HOSPITAL CRUMLIN DUBLIN 12 01-8961000 DR. JOSEPH JOHN MC DONAGH mcdonaghjosephjohn ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JMCDONGH BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES PRINCIPAL INTEREST IN THE PROCESS OF LEADING LARGE-SCALE CHANGE IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS OF ORGANIZATIONS, PARTICULARLY CHANGE ENABLED BY THE DEPLOYMENT OF MODERN ICT SYSTEMS. SPECIFIC RESEARCH THEMES INCLUDE THE DIVERSE ROLES OF MANAGERIAL GROUPS (E.G. EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT, SENIOR MANAGEMENT, MIDDLE MANAGEMENT, ICT MANAGEMENT) IN LEADING LARGE-SCALE CHANGE; INTEGRATING ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, CHANGE, AND ICT; AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES TO INQUIRY AND CHANGE. BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW OF THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. ANDREW GRIEG MC DONALD mcdonaldandrewgrieg VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW AMCDONLD BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, 152-160 PEARSE STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY, ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY (M.R.S.C.), SOCIETY FOR MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY, BIOPATHWAYS CONSORTIUM CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. NICHOLAS MC DONALD mcdonaldnicholas ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NMCDONLD PSYCHOLOGY CENTRE FOR INNOVATIVE HUMAN SYSTEMS HUMAN FACTORS AND ORGANISATIONAL ASPECTS OF SAFETY IN RISK SENSITIVE INDUSTRIES INCLUDING AVIATION. ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK. INNOVATION AND CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS. TECHNOLOGY DESIGN FOR OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS. HUMAN FACTORS AND ORGANISATIONAL THEORY. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH EDITORIAL BOARD OF COGNITION, TECHNOLOGY AND WORK EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF AVIATION PSYCHOLOGISTS INTERNATIONAL ERGONOMICS ASSOCIATION (IEA) TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ON AEROSPACE HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS IRISH ERGONOMICS SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE AIR SAFETY WORKING GROUP OF THE EUROPEAN TRANSPORT SAFETY COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE HUMAN FACTORS WORKING GROUP OF THE SAFETY COMMITTEE OF THE ACARE STRATEGIC RESEARCH AGENDA MEMBER OF THE SAFETY AND SECURITY WORKING GROUP OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR AVIATION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION IN EUROPE (ACARE), RESPONSIBLE FOR DRAFTING THE HUMAN FACTORS COMPONENT OF THE STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AGENDA. PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND AVIATION HUMAN FACTORS HUMAN FACTORS ORGANISATIONAL SAFETY CULTURE RISK ANALYSIS RISK MANAGEMENT SAFETY, RELIABAILITY AND INNOVATION, ORGANISATIONAL CULTURES COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS TRANSPORT PLANNING & LOGISTICS PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES TOTAL AIRPORT SECURITY SYSTEM TASS IS DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED SECURITY INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR AIRPORTS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 HUMAN INTEGRATION IN THE LIFECYCLE OF AVIATION SYSTEMS HILAS PROJECT DEVELOPED A 'SYSTEM LIFE-CYCLE' MODEL FOR HUMAN FACTORS FROM DESIGN TO OPERATIONS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP6 TECHNIQUES & TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEW MAINTENANCE CONCEPTS TATEM SHOWED THE OPERATIONAL BENEFITS FROM AIRCRAFT HEALTH MONITORING SYSTEMS EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP6 STAMP - SAFETY TRAINING FOR AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE PROFESSIONALS STAMP DEVELOPED AN INTEGRATED TRAINING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TRAINING. EUROPEAN COMMMISSION LEONARDO ADVANCED INTEGRATED TRAINING IN AERONAUTICS MAINTENANCE AITRAM DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED A MAINTENANCE TRAINING PROGRAMME BASED ON AUGMENTED REALITY. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP5 SAFETY BEHAVIOUR IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS OF CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES AND ON-SITE SAFETY PERFORMANCE WERE COMPARED HEALTH AND SAFETY AUTHORITY HUMAN FACTORS IN AIRCRAFT DISPATCH & MAINTENANCE SAFETY ADAMS COMPARED THE QUALITY AND SAFETY SYSTEM OF EUROPEAN AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ORGANISATIONS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP4 SAFETY COURSES FOR AIRPORT RAMP FUNCTIONS SCARF IMPLEMENTED & EVALUATED SAFETY COURSES FOR AIRPORT WORKERS, THEIR SUPERVISORS, TRAINERS & MANGERS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMETT ALL CONDITIONS OPS & INNOVATIVE COCKPIT INFRASTRUCTURE ALICIA IS DEVELOPING NEW COCKPIT APPLICATIONS FOR ALL CONDITIONS OPERATIONS EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 FUTURE SKY SAFETY THE EC FLIGHT PATH 2050 VISION AIMS TO ACHIEVE THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF SAFETY TO ENSURE THAT PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT AS WELL AS THE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURE ARE PROTECTED. HOWEVER, TRENDS IN SAFETY PERFORMANCE OVER THE LAST DECADE INDICATE THAT THE ACARE VISION 2020 SAFETY GOAL OF AN 80% REDUCTION OF THE ACCIDENT RATE IS NOT BEING ACHIEVED. A STRONGER FOCUS ON SAFETY IS REQUIRED. THERE IS A NEED TO START A JOINT RESEARCH PROGRAMME (JRP) ON AVIATION SAFETY, AIMING FOR COORDINATED SAFETY RESEARCH AS WELL AS SAFETY RESEARCH COORDINATION. THE PROPOSED JRP SAFETY, ESTABLISHED UNDER COORDINATION OF EREA, IS BUILT ON EUROPEAN SAFETY PRIORITIES, AROUND FOUR MAIN THEMES WITH EACH THEME CONSISTING OF A SMALL SET OF PROJECTS. THEME 1 (NEW SOLUTIONS FOR TODAY'S ACCIDENTS) AIMS FOR BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH WITH THE PURPOSE OF ENABLING A DIRECT, SPECIFIC, SIGNIFICANT RISK REDUCTION IN THE MEDIUM TERM. THEME 2 (STRENGTHENING THE CAPABILITY TO MANAGE RISK) CONDUCTS RESEARCH ON PROCESSES AND TECHNOLOGIES TO ENABLE THE AVIATION SYSTEM ACTORS TO ACHIEVE NEAR-TOTAL CONTROL OVER THE SAFETY RISK IN THE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM. THEME 3 (BUILDING ULTRA-RESILIENT SYSTEMS AND OPERATORS) CONDUCTS RESEARCH ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF SYSTEMS AND THE HUMAN OPERATOR WITH THE SPECIFIC AIM TO IMPROVE SAFETY PERFORMANCE UNDER UNANTICIPATED CIRCUMSTANCES. THEME 4 (BUILDING ULTRA-RESILIENT VEHICLES), AIMS AT REDUCING THE EFFECT OF EXTERNAL HAZARDS ON THE AERIAL VEHICLE INTEGRITY, AS WELL AS IMPROVING THE SAFETY OF THE CABIN ENVIRONMENT. TO REALLY CONNECT AND DRIVE COMPLEMENTARY SAFETY R&D (BY EREA) TO SAFETY PRIORITIES AS PUT FORWARD IN THE EASA EUROPEAN AVIATION SAFETY PLAN (EASP) AND THE EC ACARE STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (RIA)AGENDA, SAFETY RESEARCH COORDINATION ACTIVITIES ARE PROPOSED. FOCUS ON KEY PRIORITIES THAT IMPACT THE SAFETY LEVEL MOST WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE LEVERAGE EFFECT OF THE COMPLEMENTARY SAFETY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ACTIONS PLANNED AND PERFORMED BY EREA. H2020 MG-1.4-2014 AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE PROCEDURE OPTIMISATION SYSTEM AMPOS DEVELOPED & EVALUATED AN IMPROVEMENT PROCESS BETWEEN AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND MANUFACTURE EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP4 HUMAN CENTRED SYSTEMS FOR A/C DISPATCH & MAINTENANCE SAFETY ADAMS 2 COMPARED MANAGEMENT OF HF & SAFETY IN AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ORGANISATIONS EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP5 TRANSPORT RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR PEOPLE TRIP EXAMINED THE PRESSURES AND RISKS FACED BY URBAN MULTIDROP DELIVERY DRIVERS HEA PRTLI VIRTHUALIS HUMAN FACTORS ARE INTEGRATED IN A VIRTUAL REALITY DESIGN CAPABILITY TO MAXIMISE SAFETY IN PROCESS INDUSTRY. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP6 PROACTIVE SAFETY PERFORMANCE FOR OPERATIONS PROSPERO WILL INTEGRATE AND DISTRIBUTE OPERATIONAL RISK INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 - AERONAUTICS SAFETY TRAINING IN THE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE INDUSTRY STAMINA DEVELOPED & IMPLEMENTED HUMAN FACTORS COURSES FOR TECHNICIANS, TRAINERS & SUPERVISORS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO COMMON OPERATIONAL PICTURE EXPLOITATION COPE DEVELOPED AN INFORMATION SYSTEM TO SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDERS IN EMERGENCIES EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 MANAGING SYSTEM CHANGE IN AVIATION MASCA WILL DELIVER A CHANGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE AIR TRANSPORT SYSTEM EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. AIDAN MC DONALD mcdonaldaidan ASSOCIATE PROF IN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY AIMCDONA CHEMISTRY CRANN RESEARCH IN THE BIOINSPIRED INORGANIC CHEMISTRY GROUP REVOLVES AROUND MODEL COMPOUNDS AND CATALYSTS THAT MIMIC THE ROLES METALS PLAY IN BIOLOGY. OUR GOALS ARE TO: DESIGN NOVEL CATALYSTS; UNDERSTAND METALLOPROTEINS; DEVELOP TREATMENTS FOR ADVERSE METALLOPROTEIN CHEMISTRY; AND INVESTIGATE THE CHEMISTRY OF 2D NANOMATERIALS. HTTP://CHEMISTRY.TCD.IE/STAFF/PEOPLE/MCDONALD SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL INORGANIC CHEMISTRY BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY CATALYSIS INORGANIC CHEMISTRY MECHANISMS OF REACTIONS MS. RACHEL MC DONNELL mcdonnellrachel USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RAMCDONN COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE ISG 01-8961000 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. LOUISE MC DONNELL mcdonnelllouise ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LMCDONNE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS' INCORPORATE THE PROMOTION AND ENHANCEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL HOLISTIC NURSING PRACTICE FOR PATIENT CENTERED CARE. WHILE THIS IS NON-EXHAUSTIVE I HAVE A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON PRECEPTORSHIP AND CLINICAL NURSING COMPETENCE IN RELATION TO NURSING STUDENTS' THEORETICAL AND PRACTICE LEARNING. ADDITIONALLY, THE AREA OF INFECTION CONTROL - PARTICULARLY HAND HYGIENE - HAS BEEN ONE OF PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LONG-TERM INTEREST. I HAVE TWELVE YEARS SPECIALIST CLINICAL PRACTICE IN RENAL NURSING WHERE PATIENTS' WERE IMMUNOCOMPROMISED DUE TO THE CHRONIC CONDITION OF RENAL FAILURE. HANDWASHING WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A FUNDAMENTAL ASPECT OF OUR CLINICAL NURSING PRACTICE FROM A PROFESSIONAL CARING AND ETHICAL VIEWPOINT. SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER OF AN BORD ALTRANAIS. MEMBER OF INFECTION CONTROL ASSOCIATION. (U.K.) MEMBER OF THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY. MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANT ASSOCOCIATION. MEMBER OF INTERVIEWING PANEL FOR UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS FOR THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY, AMNCH MEMBER OF POSTGRADUATE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE - T.C.D. MEMBER OF CLINICAL COMPETENCY GROUP - T.C.D. LINK LECTURER / VERIFIER FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS'CLINICAL PLACEMENTS IN VARIOUS HOSPITALS -T.C.D. MEMBER OF TCD SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE COMMITTEE/ PRIZE PANEL COMMITTEE/GENERAL DISCIPLINE REPRESENTATIVE CHRONIC ILLNESS CLINICAL NURSING COMPETENCE INFECTION CONTROL PRECEPTORSHIP RENAL NURSING AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ON THE PERCEPTIONS' OF QUALIFIED NURSES IN EVALUATING STUDENTS'CLINICAL PRACTICE DR. TONY MC ELLIGOTT mcelligotttony ASSISTANT PROF IN MOLECULAR HAEMATOLOGY MCELLIGA HAEMATOLOGY JOHN DURKAN INSTITUTE FOR LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) DEPT OF HAEMATOLOGY INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH HAEMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH APOPTOSIS BIOLOGY AND THERAPY OF MYELOMA DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION HAEMOTOLOGY LEUKEMIAS AND LYMPHOMAS MULTIPLE MYELOMA CANCER PROFESSOR GAIL MC ELROY mcelroygail PROFESSOR MCELROY POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, EUROPEAN POLITICAL PARTIES, ELECTORAL POLITICS DEPT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN FRENCH GERMAN AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION CHAIR, INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE, AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL BOARD, BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE EDITORIAL BOARD, EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES EDITORIAL BOARD, LEGISLATIVE STUDIES QUARTERLY EDITORIAL BOARD, POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND METHODS EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, COUNCIL MEMBER EUROPEAN UNION STUDIES ASSOCIATION IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION, VICE-PRESIDENT MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL SYSTEMS EU POLITICS EUROPEAN ELECTIONS EUROPEAN UNION GENDER AND POLITICS IRISH POLITICS IRISH POLITICS, ELECTION STUDY, ELECTORAL BEHAVIOUR LEGISLATION LEGISLATIVE REFORM POLITICAL METHODOLOGY POLITICAL PARTIES QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS POLITICAL SCIENCE THE GLOBALISATION OF PARTY COMPETITION THIS PROGRAMME OCUSES ON THE GLOBALISATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND PARTY COMPETITION, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE EUROPEAN UNION. THIS PROJECT STUDIES THE EFFECTS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION ON POLITICAL COMPETITION AT BOTH THE NATIONAL AND SUPRA-NATIONAL LEVEL AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THESE TWO DOMAINS. INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES LEGISLATIVE PARTY SWITCHING NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION EMPIRICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THEORETICAL MODELS REPRESENTATION IN EUROPE: POLICY CONGRUENCE BETWEEN CITIZENS AND ELITES EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION/IRCHSS EUROCORES GENDER AND LEGISLATIVE DEBATE IN IRELAND: WHEN AND WHAT FEMALE TDS TALK ABOUT DOES GENDER MATTER FOR LEGISLATIVE BEHAVIOUR? DO FEMALE REPRESENTATIVES HAVE DISTINCT POLICY GOALS? DO WOMEN BRING ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES TO POLICY DEBATES? WITH THE CENTENARY OF BOTH WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND THE ELECTION OF THE FIRST WOMAN TO THE DÁIL (MARKIEVICZ 1918) FAST APPROACHING, WE KNOW SURPRISINGLY LITTLE ABOUT WHAT FEMALE TDS DO, ONCE ELECTED. DO THEY DIFFER FROM THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS IN THE TOPICS THEY FOCUS ON FOR INSTANCE; DO THEY BROADEN THE RANGE OF PUBLIC INTERESTS REPRESENTED, DO THEY REPRESENT WOMEN'S AND MINORITY ISSUES MORE SYSTEMATICALLY? THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THESE QUESTIONS BY EXAMINING PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES IN THE 22ND-31ST DÁLA. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS WHERE ARE ALL THE WOMEN? THE POLITICAL AMBITION GAP IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND IN SPITE OF SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL CHANGE, THE USE OF A PROPORTIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM AND NO OBVIOUS VOTER BIAS, THE NUMBER OF IRISH FEMALE LEGISLATORS (TDS) REMAINS LOW BY INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS. THE EVIDENCE TO DATE SUGGESTS THAT, ALL ELSE EQUAL, WOMEN HAVE AS GOOD A CHANCE OF GETTING ELECTED AS MEN AND THE REAL DIFFICULTIES IN ACHIEVING EQUITABLE REPRESENTATION LIE IN THE CANDIDATE EMERGENCE AND NOMINATION STAGES. THIS PROJECT MOVES CURRENT RESEARCH BEYOND THE STUDY OF ELECTORAL RESULTS AND VOTER DATA TO EXAMINE THE POOL OF POTENTIAL CANDIDATES, EXPLORING WHY QUALIFIED WOMEN DO NOT PUT THEMSELVES FORWARD FOR ELECTION. IRCHSS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS COHESIFY: THE IMPACT OF COHESION POLICY ON EU IDENTITY COHESIFY WILL ASSESS THE CONTRIBUTION OF COHESION POLICY TO CITIZENS' IDENTIFICATION WITH THE EU AND PRODUCE A NEW STRATEGY TO COMMUNICATE EU COHESION POLICY TO CITIZENS. TO ASSESS HOW AND TO WHAT EXTENT EU COHESION POLICY AFFECTS CITIZENS' PERCEPTIONS OF AND IDENTIFICATION WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE PROJECT FOCUSES ON THREE INTER-RELATED ISSUES: (1) THE IDENTITY OF EU REGIONS IN AN EU, NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL CONTEXT (2) GOVERNANCE, COMMUNICATION AND IMPACTS OF COHESION POLICY, INCLUDING CITIZENS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLICY AND IDENTIFICATION WITH THE EU (3) WHAT IS NEEDED TO MAKE THE COHESION POLICY MORE EFFECTIVE IN TERMS OF PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLICY AND THE EU MORE GENERALLY. A MIXED METHODS DESIGN IS EMPLOYED USING A RANGE OF QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES INCLUDING A SET OF GEOGRAPHICALLY BALANCED AND COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES. COHESIFY WILL FILL A KEY GAP IN KNOWLEDGE FOR EU AND NATIONAL/REGIONAL POLICYMAKERS AND INTERESTED STAKEHOLDERS. THE OUTPUTS WILL INFORM COHESION POLICY COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AT THE EU, MEMBER STATE AND REGIONAL LEVELS ENABLING COMMUNICATION EFFORTS TO ADAPT TO LOCAL AND REGIONAL REALITIES MAXIMISING THEIR IMPACT, TO INCREASE THE CIVIC APPRECIATION OF COHESION POLICY AND HOW TO IMPROVE REGIONAL POLICY RELEVANCE AND EFFICIENCY. THE CONSORTIUM COMPRISE ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND SMES ACROSS A RANGE OF EU MEMBER STATES WITH COMPLEMENTARY DISCIPLINARY AND METHODOLOGICAL EXPERTISE AND APPLIED EXPERTISE OF COHESION POLICY, COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR ENGAGING WITH CITIZENS AND THE VARIOUS POLITICAL STRUCTURES AT EU, NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL LEVELS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR JENNIFER MC ELWAIN mcelwainjennifer PROFESSOR OF BOTANY (1711) JMCELWAI BOTANY MY RESEARCH INTERFACES BETWEEN GEOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND IS MAINLY FOCUSED ON EXPLORING MACROECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES OF PLANTS TO LONG TERM CLIMATIC AND ATMOSPHERIC CHANGE. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING AND DOCUMENTING PLANT COMMUNITY RESPONSES IN THE PLANT FOSSIL RECORD TO CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION. INTERVALS OF PAST GLOBAL CHANGE CAN SERVE AS IMPORT ANALOGS WITH WHICH WE CAN IMPROVE OUR PREDICTIONS OF HOW BROAD-SCALE ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS AND PLANT COMMUNITIES MAY RESPOND TO FUTURE CARBON DIOXIDE-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING. I HAVE BEEN WORKING EXTENSIVELY ON DOCUMENTING PLANT COMMUNITY RESPONSES ACROSS MASS EXTINCTION BOUNDARIES IN THE FOSSIL RECORD, INCLUDING THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC MASS EXTINCTION EVENT (200 MILLION YEARS AGO) WHEN OVER 50% OF INVERTEBRATE FAUNA WENT EXTINCT AND THE CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN OCEANIC ANOXOIC EVENT, WHICH WAS AN INTERVAL OF MAJOR CLIMATIC AND ATMOSPHERIC UPHEAVAL IN THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD AROUND 90 MILLION YEARS AGO. MUCH OF MY RESEARCH HAS ALSO FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING TOOLS WITH WHICH WE CAN RECONSTRUCT PAST ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES, INCLUDING THE CONCENTRATION OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE IN ANCIENT ATMOSPHERES AND PALEOELEVATION (THE ELEVATION OF PAST LAND SURFACES) USING FOSSIL PLANTS. BOTANY DEPARTMENT BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH BOARD MEMBER, MARY ROBINSON CLIMATE JUSTICE FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY BOTANY CLIMATE CHANGE PALAEOCLIMATE PALAEOECOLOGY PLANTSENSEKIT -PLANTS AS SENSORS FOR STANDARDIZATION AND CALIBRATION OF CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT CHAMBERS (PI) ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT SFI INFRASTRUCTURE -INTEGRATED PLANT PHENOMICS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTAL CLIMATE PLATFORM (PI) SFI THE 'CLOUDFOREST' PROJECT -INVESTIGATING FUTURE PLANT RESPONSES TO CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC [CO2] AND HURRICANE INTENSITY (PI WITH POST DOC FELLOWSHIP, DR. SVEN BATKE) IRC RECONSTRUCTING CO2 AND VEGETATION DYNAMICS ACROSS THE CENOMANIAN-TURONIAN OAE2 (CO-PI) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, USA EXPEDITION TO WEST GREENLAND. PI STUART ROBINSON. (CO-PI) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EVOLUTION OF STOMATAL FUNCTION (PI) IRCSET EAR1024737: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH-EARTH LIFE TRANSITIONS - INTEGRATED DATA-MODEL ANALYSIS OF CO2-CLIMATE-VEGETATION FEEDBACKS IN A DYNAMIC ICEHOUSE (CO PI) NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, USA PREDICTING BIOME-LEVEL VEGETATION RESPONSES TO FUTURE GLOBAL CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE FLOOD RISK (PI) SFI CAN INCREASED PLANT DIVERSITY IN AGRONOMIC SWARDS IMPROVE ADAPTATION TO DROUGHT? (CO PI) TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN AS A DRIVER OF PLANT EVOLUTION OVER THE PAST 400 MILLION YEARS (PI) HEA PRTLI5 TROPICAL ARCTIC: THE SCIENCE AND ART OF LOST LANDSCAPES (PI) UCD SEED FUND ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN AS A DRIVER OF PLANT EVOLUTION (PI) UCD SEED FUND RECONSTRUCTING ANCIENT CO2 USING RELICT CONIFER STOMATA (PI) SFI (RFP) ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN AS A DRIVER OF PLANT EVOLUTION OVER THE PAST 400 MILLION YEARS (PI) ERC FP7 BIODIVERSITY DYNAMICS AT THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC MASS EXTINCTION EVENT: A NOVEL APPROACH TO STUDYING MARIE CURIE EXCELLENCE (EU) SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. PHILIP DANIEL MC EVANSONEYA mcevansoneyaphilipdaniel ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PMCEVANS HISTORY OF ART BRITISH AND IRISH ART 1600-1800 PATRONAGE AND COLLECTING IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1600-1900 INSTITUTIONS OF ART IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND ART IN FRANCE ESPECIALLY 1800-1900 IRISH ANTIQUARIANISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY HISTORY OF ART 5082 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MR. CIARAN MC EVOY mcevoyciaran RESEARCH PROJECT OFFICER MCEVOYCI TR&I ADMINISTRATION TRINITY RESEARCH & INNOVATION O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. NIALL MC EVOY mcevoyniall RESEARCH FELLOW MCEVOYNI CRANN MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF DIFFERENT 2D NANOMATERIALS, INCLUDING GRAPHENE AND TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES (TMDS), BY CVD. CRANN THE NAUGHTON INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. SHAUN MC FADDEN mcfaddenshaun ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SMCFADD MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG I HAVE A RESEARCH INTEREST IN MODELLING THE SOLIDIFICATION OF METALLIC ALLOYS. I AM INTERESTED IN DENDRITIC GROWTH IN METALLIC SYSTEMS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICROSTRUCTURE. A PARTICULAR INTEREST OF MINE IS THE COLUMNAR TO EQUIAXED TRANSITION IN VARIOUS CAST ALLOY SYSTEMS. I ALSO HAVE RESEARCH INTEREST AND INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN AUTOMOTIVE DESIGN, SPECIFICALLY, IN OFF-ROAD PLATFORMS. IN THIS REGARD I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN DESIGN, MANUFACTURE, ENGINEERING ANALYSIS, AND PERFORMANCE OF OFF-ROAD VEHICLES. I HAVE EXPERIENCE OF DESIGNING BESPOKE ELECTRIC VEHICLE DRIVELINES. MECHANICAL & MANFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGINEERS IRELAND, CENG MIEI AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN DESIGN ENGINEERING FATIGUE FAILURE HEAVY VEHICLES HYBRID AND ELECTRICAL VEHICLES MATERIALS SCIENCES MICROGRAVITY/REDUCED GRAVITY EXPERIMENTS SOLIDIFICATION TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING DESIGN CETSOL COLUMNAR TO EQUIAXED TRANSITION IN SOLIDIFICATION PROCESSING OF ALLOYS. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY ELIPS - MICROGRAVITY APPLICATION PROGRAMME GRADECET GRAVITY DEPENDENCE OF THE COLUMNAR TO EQUIAXED TRANSITION IN METALLIC ALLOYS EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY - PRODEX CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CHRISTINE MC GARRIGLE mcgarriglechristine RESEARCH FELLOW/SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST CMCGARRI CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY DR CHRISTINE MCGARRIGLE IS A SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH FELLOW ON THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING. AS PART OF THE TILDA TEAM HER RESEARCH IS CURRENTLY FOCUSED ON INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS, AND THE DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL AND HEALTH FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSFERS BETWEEN THE GENERATIONS. TILDA CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING LINCOLN GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE AGEING DR. ANNE MC GETTRICK-DILLON mcgettrickdillonanne SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW MCGETTRA BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR JOHN FINLAY MC GILP mcgilpjohnfinlay FELLOW EMERITUS JMCGILP PHYSICS SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS; EPITAXIAL GROWTH OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIAL ON PLANAR SURFACES; LOW DIMENSIONAL MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES. LINEAR AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE OF SURFACES, INTERFACES AND ULTRATHIN FILMS. OPTICAL RESPONSE OF CAPPED NANOSTRUCTURES. PHYSICS DEPT. PHYSICAL LABORATORY COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ENGLISH ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY, MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY 2ND HARMONIC GENERATION CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE ELLIPSOMETRY EPIOPTICS FILMS GLASSES HYPERPOLARIZABILITIES INTERFACES LOW-ENERGY ELECTRON DIFFRACTION (LEED) MAGNETISM AND SPIN ELECTRONICS METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR INTERFACES METAL-SURFACES MOLECULAR-ORIENTATION MONOLAYERS NANOTECHNOLOGY OPTICAL-PROPERTIES PHOTOEMISSION QUANTUM CHAINS QUANTUM DOTS REFLECTANCE SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGIES SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES SILICON SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS SURFACE PHYSICS SURFACES VICINAL SI(111) SURFACES IN SITU CHARACTERIZATION AND CONTROL OF DEFECTS AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN NEW HIGH-K DIELECTRIC MATERIALS AND SILICON PROGRESS IN ICT REQUIRES MAKING ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH SMALLER ACTIVE REGIONS, BECAUSE THESE ARE FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT. NANOSCALE FEATURES OF 45NM ON SILICON ARE BEING DEVELOPED, REQUIRING SIO2 GATE OXIDES <1NM THICK, WHICH THEN LEAK BY QUANTUM MECHANICAL TUNNELING. HIGH-K DIELECTRICS OFFER THE POSSIBILITY OF USING THICKER LAYERS TO DELIVER THE REQUIRED PERFORMANCE WITH THE SAME CHIP ARCHITECTURE. GROWING NEW, HIGH-K GATE OXIDE IS VERY DIFFICULT AND WILL BE OPTIMIZED BY A NEW APPLICATION OF ELECTRIC-FIELD-INDUCED SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION TO MAKE IN SITU, CONTACTLESS MEASUREMENTS OF THE BAND OFFSET AND DEFECT DENSITY AT THE OXIDE INTERFACE DURING GROWTH. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROTECTING NANOWIRES GROWN ON PLANAR SILICON PROGRESS IN ICT IS DRIVEN BY MAKING ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH EVER SMALLER ACTIVE REGIONS, BECAUSE THESE PRODUCE FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT DEVICES. ALIGNED ATOMIC WIRES OF INDIUM HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY GROWN ON SILICON SINGLE CRYSTAL SURFACES BY NUCLEATION AT ATOMIC STEPS BUT, TO BE USEFUL, SUCH NANOWIRES MUST BE CAPPED BY ULTRA-THIN FILMS TO PROTECT THEM FROM CONTAMINATION. THE INTERFACIAL REGION FORMED BY CAPPING WILL HAVE A CRITICAL EFFECT ON THE PROPERTIES OF THESE NANOWIRES. NEW LINEAR AND NONLINEAR OPTICAL TECHNIQUES, USING A FEMTOSECOND LASER, WILL BE USED TO PROBE THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF THIS UNEXPLORED INTERFACIAL REGION. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS CHIRAL STRUCTURES AT CRYSTALLINE INTERFACES THE MOLECULES OF LIFE ARE CHIRAL. FOR ICT, ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL RECOGNITION AND BIOCHEMICAL SENSING WILL NEED CHIRAL MOLECULAR STRUCTURES ATTACHED TO SILICON SURFACES TO FUNCTIONALISE THEM. BIOLOGICAL AMINO ACIDS ARE LEVOROTATORY, BUT CIRCULAR DICHROISM CANNOT DETECT CHIRALITY IN MONOLAYERS AT SURFACES, AS THE RESPONSE IS VERY WEAK. PROGRESS IS SLOW IN THIS IMPORTANT MATERIALS AREA. THE PROJECT WILL GROW CHIRAL STRUCTURES ON CRYSTALLINE SILICON, GOLD AND SILVER, USING SECOND-HARMONIC (SH) GENERATION TO DETECT THE CHIRALITY. FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES WILL BE AMPLIFIED AND TUNED INTO ELECTRONIC RESONANCES AT THE SH FREQUENCY TO PRODUCE MEASURABLE SIGNALS WITHOUT DAMAGING THE MATERIAL. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS NANOSCALE MAGNETISM IN ATOMIC WIRES PROTECTED BY CAPPING LAYERS PROGRESS IN ICT IS DRIVEN BY MAKING ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC DEVICES WITH EVER SMALLER ACTIVE REGIONS, BECAUSE THESE PRODUCE FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENT DEVICES. SINGLE ATOMIC WIRES OF COBALT, POSSESSING UNUSUAL MAGNETIC PROPERTIES, HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY GROWN ON PLATINUM SINGLE CRYSTAL SURFACES BUT, TO BE USEFUL, SUCH NANOWIRES MUST BE CAPPED BY ULTRA-THIN FILMS TO PROTECT THEM FROM CONTAMINATION. THE INTERFACIAL REGION FORMED BY CAPPING WILL AFFECT THE PROPERTIES OF THESE NANOSCALE MAGNETIC STRUCTURES. NEW LINEAR AND NONLINEAR MAGNETO-OPTIC TECHNIQUES, USING A FEMTOSECOND LASER, WILL BE USED TO PROBE THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC AND MAGNETIC STRUCTURE OF THIS CRITICAL INTERFACIAL REGION. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS BAND STRUCTURE ENGINEERING OF ATOMIC WIRES ON SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF NANOSTRUCTURES IS OF HUGE IMPORTANCE, BECAUSE PROGRESS IN ICT IS DRIVEN BY MAKING ELECTRONIC DEVICES WITH SMALLER ACTIVE REGIONS THAT ARE FASTER AND MORE ENERGY EFFICIENT. ALIGNED ATOMIC CHAINS OF GOLD HAVE RECENTLY BEEN GROWN ON SILICON AND GERMANIUM SURFACES BY SELF-ASSEMBLY. BAND-GAP ENGINEERING OF THESE ULTIMATE ATOMIC NANOSTRUCTURES APPEARS POSSIBLE, BUT THE PHYSICS IS CONTROVERSIAL. A NEW INTERFACE OPTICAL PROBE, COMBINED WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART CALCULATIONS USING HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS, WILL BE USED TO SOLVE THIS FRONTIERS RESEARCH PROBLEM AND TO PROBE WHETHER BAND-GAP ENGINEERED ATOMIC WIRES CAN BE PROTECTED FROM DEGRADATION BY CAPPING. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS PROFESSOR BRIAN MC GING mcgingbrian FELLOW EMERITUS BMCGING CLASSICS MY MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE : THE HISTORY OF ASIA MINOR IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD; GREEK HISTORIOGRAPHY; PAPYROLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF GRECO-ROMAN EGYPT; JEWS AND JUDAISM IN HELLENISTIC AND EARLY ROMAN TIMES; APART FROM ARTICLES ON VARIOUS MATTERS OF PAPYROLOGY AND ANCIENT HISTORY, I HAVE THE FOLLOWING MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS: 1. PUBLICATION OF A BOOK ON POLYBIUS FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2. PUBLICATION OF 1ST CENTURY AD PAPYRI IN CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY. 3. RETRANSLATION OF LOEB EDITION OF APPIAN. CLASSICS DEPARTMENT 5234 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN EDITOR, HERMATHENA EDITORIAL CIRCLE, ARCHIV FUR PAPYROLOGIE UND VERWANDTE GEBIETE EXTERNAL EXAMINER IN ANCIENT HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK EXTERNAL EXAMINER IN LATIN, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, MEMBER GREEK AND ROMAN COMMITTEE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, MEMBER NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GREEK AND LATIN STUDIES ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, SECRETARY NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GREEK AND LATIN STUDIES GREEK AND ROMAN BIOGRAPHY HELLENISTIC HISTORY HISTORY AND PAPYROLOGY JEWISH HISTORY LITERATURE MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES RESEARCH PROJECT LEADERSHIP: MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES SINCE 1998 I HAVE BEEN PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR TRINITY COLLEGE'S MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES PROJECT (MNES), A JOINT INITIATIVE BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF CLASSICS AND OF RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY. WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN ATTRACTING FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY UNDER THE PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS. IN THE FIRST ROUND OF FUNDING WE RECEIVED £276,000 FOR THREE YEARS, AND IN PRTLI 3, EURO 1.27 MILLION FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS. THE PRIMARY SUBJECT IS THE STUDY OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER IN THE ANCIENT WORLD BETWEEN EAST AND WEST, AND PARTICULARLY IN THE REGION OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND LEVANT. OUR BIGGEST EXPENDITURE HAS BEEN ON THE SUPPORT OF FIVE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS AND THREE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS; AND ON THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION, AN INTEGRAL PART OF MNES. WE HAVE ALSO HELD OVER 100 SEMINARS WITH RESIDENT SCHOLARS AND VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. EIGHT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS HAVE BEEN, OR ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING, PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION, AND WE HAVE SUPPORTED THE FURTHER PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES AND BOOKS. WE RAN A POPULAR SERIES OF EVENING LECTURES FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN 2002 AND 2003, THE LATTER, 'EGYPT FROM THE PHARAOHS TO MUHAMMED', ATTRACTING A REGULAR AUDIENCE OF BETWEEN 200 AND 600 PEOPLE. ANOTHER PUBLIC COURSE ON EGYPT WAS HELD IN 2007. PRTLI CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. CONOR MC GINN mcginnconor ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCGINNCO MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG MOBILE ROBOTICS, DESIGN, MECHANISM DESIGN, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, ROBOT ARCHITECTURES, COMPUTER VISION, FPGA DEVELOPMENT, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND INFORMATION HIDING, EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN, EMBODIED COGNITION DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AUTOMATION, ROBOTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN DESIGN ENGINEERING HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION MACHINE DESIGN UNIVERSAL DESIGN USER-CENTERED DESIGN OTHER ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATIC CONTROL INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. FRANCES MC GINNITY mcginnityfrances ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MCGINNIF SOCIOLOGY ESRI WHITAKER SQUARE SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. EIMEAR MC GLINCHEY mcglincheyeimear RESEARCH FELLOW MCGLINE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. CIARAN SEAMUS MC GOLDRICK mcgoldrickciaranseamus ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CMCGLDRK COMPUTER SCIENCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTER NETWORKS, WIRELESS NETWORKS, PERVASIVE AND UBIQUITOUS AND AMBIENT COMPUTING, SENSOR NETWORKS, WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS, LOCATION BASED SERVICES, NETWORK SECURITY, NETWORK PERFORMANCE, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, DYNAMIC PRICING, ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT, STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING, COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH MEMBER: INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND (IEI) SENIOR MEMBER: ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY (SMACM) SENIOR MEMBER: INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (SMIEEE) COMMUNICATION SCIENCES COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS, DISCRETE MATHEMATICS COMPUTER ENGINEERING COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SIMULATION/MODELING COMPUTER SOFTWARE COMPUTER VISION COMPUTER VISION AND ROBOTICS COMPUTER/DATA/NETWORK SECURITY CONTROL APPLICATIONS (COMPUTER SCIENCES) CONTROL THEORY (COMPUTER SCIENCES) CRYPTOGRAPHY CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CODING THEORY CRYPTOLOGY DATA PROTECTION, STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, CRYPTOGRAPHY DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC COMMERCE,PAYMENT, SIGNATURE GATEWAYS HARMONIC ANALYSIS, WAVELETS IMAGE PROCESSING IMAGING AND COMPUTER VISION IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION/COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES LOCAL AREA NETWORKS LOCATION BASED SERVICES MICROELECTRONICS MOBILE MOBILE APPLICATIONS MOBILE COMMUNICATION MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MOBILE COMPUTING MOBILE NETWORKS MOBILE POSITIONING MOBILE RADIO MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS MOBILE-RADIO MULTIMEDIA NETWORK POSITIONING NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY NETWORKING NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PATTERN RECOGNITION QUEUING SATELLITE, TECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMS, POSITIONING, COMMUNICATION SIGNAL ANALYSIS SIGNAL PROCESSING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS WIRELESS SYSTEMS, RADIO TECHNOLOGY MARINE ENERGY WIND ENERGY INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - REMOTE SENSING EDUCATION TINYTORRENTS - AN EFFICIENT, SCALABLE, ROBUST, CO-OPERATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDING GLOBAL ACCESSIBILITY TO LOCAL WIRELESS SENSORNET INFORMATION WIRELESS SENSOR FUNCTIONALITY IS PREDOMINANTLY CONSTRAINED BY SENSOR SIZE AND BATTERY LIFE CONSIDERATIONS. EXISTING SENSORNET FRAMEWORKS E.G. DELUGE, ARE DESIGNED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, SUCH AS SENSOR CODE UPDATE. TINYTORRENTS PROPOSES A UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL PLATFORM WHICH MAKES SENSOR DATA PROMPTLY, TRANSPARENTLY AND GLOBALLY AVAILABLE USING TRACKERLESS, CO-OPERATIVE PEER TO PEER CONCEPTS. A KEY ELEMENT OF TINYTORRENTS WILL BE THE MODELLING AND INTEGRATION OF WIRELESS QUALITY OF SERVICE ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONALITY TOGETHER WITH ACCURATE POWER CONSUMPTION AND TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISATION. SENSORS WILL BE ABLE TO REQUEST PRIORITISATION FOR "IMPORTANT" DATA SUBJECT TO PREVAILING FRAMEWORK CONSTRAINTS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME WIRELESS ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT: A ROBUST, SCALABLE APPROACH USING CONTROL THEORY. ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT (AQM) TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY INCORPORATED INTO EXISTING INTERNET ROUTERS TO SIGNAL DYNAMICALLY CONGESTION TO SOURCES ON FIXED NETWORKS. THE INCREASING PROLIFERATION OF MOBILE DEVICES HAS CREATED A GROWING AWARENESS OF THE NEED FOR WIRELESS AQM SCHEMES. HOWEVER, WIRELESS LINKS HAVE INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS THAT INVALIDATE THE UNDERLYING ASSUMPTIONS OF FIXED INFRASTRUCTURE AQM. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES TO ADVANCE THE THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN WIRELESS AQM. THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL THEN BE USED TO DESIGN AND IMPLEMENT NEW, HIGHLY EFFICIENT ACTIVE QUEUE MANAGEMENT SCHEMES FOR THE WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME SYSWIND TRAINING FUTURE MECHANICAL, CIVIL, ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS AND COMPUTER SCIENTISTS IN SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION, CONDITION & HEALTH MONITORING FOR A NEW GENERATION OF WIND TURBINES. WWW.SYSWIND.EU EUOPEAN COMMISSION SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JOANNA MCGOURAN mcgouranjoanna ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JMCGOURA CHEMISTRY RESEARCH IN THE LABORATORY FOCUSES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF NEW ACTIVITY BASED PROBES FOR CHEMICAL BIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY APPLICATIONS. CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON DNA DAMAGE REPAIR AND DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYMES (DUBS) AS TWO KEY REGULATORY CLASSES OF ENZYME. THERE IS GROWING EVIDENCE FOR A PIVOTAL ROLE OF DEUBIQTINATING ENZYMES (DUBS) IN PATHOLOGIES INCLUDING INFECTION, AUTOIMMUNITY, CANCER AND NEURODEGENERATION. DNA DAMAGE REPAIR ENZYMES PLAY CRUCIAL ROLES IN CELL MAINTENANCE AND RESPONSE TO CANCER TREATMENTS. TECHNIQUES TO MAKE THE PROBES RANGE FORM PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND MODIFICATION TO RIGHT THROUGH TO PURELY SYNTHETIC APPROACHES. AN ACTIVITY BASED PROTEOMICS APPROACH ALLOWS US TO STUDY THESE KEY ENZYMES IN THEIR NATIVE ENVIRONMENT, EXAMINING HOW ACTIVITY LEVELS CHANGE WITH CELLULAR STATE. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY, NUCLEIC ACID CELLULAR BIOLOGY EPIGENETICS MASS SPECTROMETRY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PROTEINS, ENZYMOLOGY AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING PROTEOMES, PROTEOMICS PROFESSOR IGNATIUS MCGOVERN mcgovernignatius FELLOW EMERITUS IMCGOVRN PHYSICS MY GENERAL AREA OF RESEARCH IS SURFACE PHYSICS, SPECIFICALLY THE PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY OF SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION. MY PRINCIPAL INTEREST HAS BEEN IN THE ADSORPTION OF SMALL MOLECULES ON CLEAN, ORDERED SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES; THE AREA HAS A CONNECTION WITH DEVICE PROCESSING. MORE RECENTLY, RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED ON ORGANIC MOLECULE ADSORPTION. SYNCHROTRON RADIATION HAS A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF PROPERTIES OF INTENSITY, TUNABILITY, POLARISATION AND TIME-STRUCTURE; WHEN APPLIED TO TRADITIONAL SPECTROSCOPY SUCH AS PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY, THERE IS BOTH A QUALITY ENHANCEMENT AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO P[ERFORM NOVEL VARIATIONS ON THE TECHNIQUE, SUCH AS 'NEAR-EDGE ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE ' OR NEXAFS AND 'PHOTOELECTRON DIFFRACTION' OR PHD PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER, ELECTRONIC, MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS SURFACE CHEMISTRY DIODE DIODE (DESIGNING INORGANIC-ORGANIC DEVICES) IS A NETWORK OF PHYSICISTS, CHEMISTS AND ENGINEERS, FOCUSING ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF HOW A THIN INTERFACIAL LAYER OF ORGANIC MOLECULES CAN IMPROVE SCHOTTKY DIODE PERFORMANCE EU IHP ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ADSORPTION OF ORGANIC MOLECULES ARE INVESTIGATED BY A COMBINATION OF LABORATORY TECHNIQUES SUCH AS XPS AND STM (AT DCU) AND THE CENTRAL FACILITY OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION, AVAILABLE AT VARIOUS EUROPEAN CENTRES HEA PRTLI SYNCHROTRON X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE IN ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS THIS PROJECT COMBINES TRADITIONAL PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY WITH X-RAY ABSORPTION/EMISSION METHODS TO EXAMINE THE ELECTRONIC AND GEOMETRIC STRUCTURES OF ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILMS SFI BASIC RESEARCH GRANT THE FABRICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF HIGH-K DIELECTRIC/INP BASED DEVICES THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT (PI: PROF G HUGHES OF DCU) WILL OPTIMISE THE DEPOSITION OF HIGH-K DIELECTRIC THIN FILMS ON PASSIVATED SURFACES OF INDIUM PHOSPHIDE, USING THE COMBINATION OF SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY, USING LABORATORY AND SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCES. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PORPHYRIN-BASED NANOMESHES AS A NOVEL ROUTE TO MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CONDITIONS FOR CREATING NANOMESHES VIA COVALENT BONDING OF SUITABLY MODIFIED PORPHYRIN MOLECULES; THE PRINCIPAL TECHNIQUES ARE SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND SOFT X-RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME 2008 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. DAVID MC GOVERN mcgoverndavid RESEARCH FELLOW MCGOVED1 TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSICENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MORAY MC GOWAN mcgowanmoray FELLOW EMERITUS MCGOWAMN GERMAN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY GERMAN LITERATURE, CULTURE AND SOCIAL HISTORY. CULTURES OF MIGRATION. CURRENTLY WORKING PRINCIPALLY IN THREE AREAS: GERMAN THEATRE AND DRAMA IN AND SINCE THE 'WENDE' OF 1989-90, IDEAS OF 'EUROPA' IN MODERN GERMAN THOUGHT, AND TURKISH-GERMAN WRITING. GERMANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN EXTERNAL ADVISER FOR APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS AND PROFESSORSHIPS AT UNIVERSITIES OF ABERDEEN, ASTON, BATH, BELFAST, BIRMINGHAM, BRADFORD, LANCASTER, NEWCASTLE, NOTTINGHAM, STRATHCLYDE, SUNDERLAND, SWANSEA AND WARWICK, NUI MAYNOOTH AND NUI GALWAY. ASSESSMENTS OF GERMAN-ENGLISH POETRY AND PROSE TRANSLATIONS FOR IRISH LITERATURE EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION OF THIRD LEVEL GERMAN TEACHERS IN IRELAND BRITISH ACADEMY POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSHIPS SELECTION COMMITTEE CONFERENCE OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DEBATTE: REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN AFFAIRS, EDITORIAL BOARD EDITORIAL ADVISER, FITZROY-DEARBORN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF GERMAN LITERATURE EXTERNAL EVALUATOR, BRITISH ACADEMY RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIPS, AHRC AND LEVERHULME RESEARCH GRANT AND LEAVE SCHEMES, UK EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR BA (INTERNATIONAL) IN EUROPEAN STUDIES AT NUI MAYNOOTH, 2002 EXTERNAL REVIEWER, QUALITY REVIEW, FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK FROM PERIOD PRIOR TO APPOINTMENT TO TCD IN 2000, EXAMPLES ONLY. GERMAN ACADEMIC EXCHANGE SERVICE LEKTOR SELECTION PANEL, BONN, GERMANY GERMAN PANEL FOR UFC RESEARCH ASSESSMENT EXERCISE, UK GERMAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (USA) GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS ASSESSOR INTERNATIONAL BRECHT SOCIETY MARIELUISE-FLEIßER-GESELLSCHAFT (GERMANY) PEER REFEREEING OF MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOK PROPOSALS FOR BERG, CUP, CAMDEN HOUSE, GERMAN QUARTERLY, JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES, LONGMANS, MUP, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW, OUP, SEMINAR. THE COLLINSON LECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL CULTURES OF MIGRATION GERMAN IDEAS OF EUROPE GERMAN LANGUAGE/LITERATURE GERMAN UNIFICATION MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY GERMAN DRAMA AND THEATRE POST WAR GERMAN LITERATURE TURKISH-GERMAN WRITING CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. CONOR MC GUCKIN mcguckinconor ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCGUCKIC EDUCATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE FELLOW (A.F.PS.S.I.) OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. ASSOCIATE FELLOW (AFBPSS) OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CHARTERED PSYCHOLOGIST (CPSYCHOL): THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. CHARTERED SCIENTIST (CSCI): THE SCIENCE COUNCIL. FELLOW (FISRA) OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH ON AGGRESSION. REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST (REG. PSYCHOL., PS.S.I.): THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. AGEING DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR SEAMUS MC GUINNESS mcguinnessseamus ADJUNCT PROFESSOR SMCGUIN ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. CORMAC MC GUINNESS mcguinnesscormac ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CMCGUIN PHYSICS I AM INTERESTED IN THE APPLICATION OF X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES TO THE INVESTIGATION OF THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF MATERIALS. MATERIALS STUDIED RANGE FROM ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, WIDE BANDGAP NITRIDE SEMICONDUCTORS, WIDE BAND GAP OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS, DOPED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS, TRANSITION METAL OXIDES AND HIGHLY CORRELATED ELECTRON SYSTEMS EXHIBITING METAL-INSULATOR TRANSITIONS AND SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AS WELL AS CAPPED MAGNETIC ATOMIC NANOWIRES. <BR> MORE SPECIFICALLY MY CURRENT RESEARCH HAS A NUMBER OF DISTINCT STRANDS. THE FIRST AND SECOND STRANDS OF RESEARCH ARE THE MEASURING OF SITE-SPECIFIC, SYMMETRY-, STATE- AND POLARISATION-DEPENDENT ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF TRANSITION METAL OXIDES, SPECIFICALLY THE STUDY OF CHEMICAL BONDING IN RUTILE TYPE TRANSITION METAL OXIDES. AND SECONDLY THE INVESTIGATION OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE IN ORGANIC MOLECULAR SEMICONDUCTORS SUCH AS THE PHTHALOCYANINE FAMILY OF COMPOUNDS. <BR> FOR BOTH OF THESE STRANDS I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN THE SIMULATION OF THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF THESE MATERIALS AND THE RXES AND XAS VIA DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT) METHODS EMPLOYING WIEN2K AND STOBE CODES; AS WELL AS ATOMIC-MULTIPLET METHODS FOR RESONANT INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING (RIXS); <BR> THE THIRD STRAND OF MY RESEARCH CONCERNS THE MAGNETIC BEHAVIOUR OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL ATOMIC NANOWIRES; THE GROWTH OF LOW-DIMENSIONAL SEVERAL-ATOM-WIDTH NANOWIRES ON STEPPED VIVINAL SINGLE CRYSTAL METAL SURFACES AND THEIR CHARACTERISATION BY X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM (XMCD), ELEMENT-SPECIFIC HYSTERESIS LOOPS AND MAGNETO-OPTIC SPECTROSCOPIES. <BR> AN EARLIER STRAND WAS THE INVESTIGATION OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF DOPED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS. <BR> THESE INVESTIGATIONS ALL USE HIGH-BRIGHTNESS SYNCHROTRON X-RAY SOURCES SUCH AS MAX-LAB (SWEDISH NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON FACILITY), THE NSLS (NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE, NEW YORK), THE ALS (ADVANCED LIGHT SOURCE, CALIFORNIA) AND THE SLS (SWISS LIGHT SOURCE) AND ELETTRA (ITALY). THE TECHNIQUES USED ARE SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY (XAS), SOFT X-RAY EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY (XES), SOFT X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY (XPS) AND X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM (XMCD). THESE TECHNIQUES REVEAL DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONDUCTION BAND STRUCTURE, THE VALENCE BAND STRUCTURE AND THE CORE-LEVEL STRUCTURE OF THE MATERIAL RESPECTIVELY. FURTHER, THROUGH THE USE OF RESONANT SOFT X-RAY EMISSION (RXES) THE LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS IN A MATERIAL CAN BE DIRECTLY PROBED LEADING TO A RESONANT INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING (RIXS) SPECTRUM, OR CHEMICAL SITE DEPENDENT XES SPECTRA CAN BE OBTAINED, PARTICULARLY IN THE CASE OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS. PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS IRISH USER REPRESENTATIVE ON THE <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.ESUO.ORG/">EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON USERS ORGANISATION (ESUO)</A>. CONDENSED MATTER EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS MAGNETISM AND SPIN ELECTRONICS MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS ORGANIC COATINGS PHOTOELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY RESONANT INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING SOLID STATE PHYSICS SPECTROSCOPY SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS SURFACE PHYSICS SURFACE SCIENCE SYNCHROTRON RADIATION THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS THIN FILM, TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS VACUUM SCIENCE X-RAY EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY X-RAY FLUORESCENCE X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY X-RAY-ABSORPTION X-RAY-SCATTERING XANES XPS ZNO FILMS SYNCHROTRON X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE IN ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS ORGANIC MOLECULAR SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS ARE OF INCREASING TECHNOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE. ULTRATHIN PURE FILMS OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR SEMICONDUCTORS CAN BE CREATED BY ORGANIC MOLECULAR BEAM DEPOSITION. THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF ORGANIC MOLECULAR SEMICONDUCTORS IS GENERALLY STUDIED BY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY, ESPECIALLY USING SYNCHROTRON RADIATION. ADDITIONALLY, SYNCHROTRON BASED SOFT X-RAY EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AND ITS RESONANT COUNTERPART PROVIDES ANOTHER POWERFUL INVESTIGATIVE TOOL. IT IS PROPOSED TO COMBINE THESE TWO REGIMES IN A MULTI-TECHNIQUE, MULTI-THEME INVESTIGATION OF THE METAL-PHTHALOCYANINE FAMILY OF ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS. THE THEMES INCLUDE, ENERGETICS, BEAM DAMAGE, GROWTH MODES AND INTERFACIAL REACTION/INTERACTION. SPECIFIC ATTENTION IS PAID TO A COMPARISON OF ELECTRON-EMISSION AND PHOTON-ABSORPTION/EMISSION METHODS. THIS PROJECT IS IN COLLABORATIONS WITH <A HREF="HTTP://PEOPLE.TCD.IE/IMCGOVRN">PROF. I. T. MCGOVERN</A> OF THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANTS 2004 SOFT X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF TRANSITION METAL OXIDE AND NITRIDE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS CANDIDATE MATERIALS FOR FUNCTIONAL ROOM TEMPERATURE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES ARE CURRENTLY BEING ACTIVELY DEVELOPED AND DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF THE ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC STRUCTURE OF THESE CANDIDATE MATERIALS IS NEEDED. THIS INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES WHERE SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BASED TECHNIQUES ARE ESPECIALLY USEFUL DUE TO THEIR ELEMENTAL SELECTIVITY. THIS PROPOSED COLLABORATION SEEKS TO APPLY THESE SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BASED TECHNIQUES TO A NUMBER OF THESE MATERIALS, SPECIFICALLY TRANSITION METAL DOPED SEMICONDUCTOR OXIDES SUCH AS CO-DOPED ZNO AND CO-DOPED SNO2. TWO OTHER MATERIALS, HFO2 AND CAB6, WILL ALSO BE TARGETED AS THIN FILMS OF THESE MATERIALS UNEXPECTEDLY EXHIBIT MAGNETIC BEHAVIOUR EVEN THOUGH NOMINALLY THEY ARE D0 MATERIALS. THE TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO INVESTIGATE THESE MATERIALS WILL BE SOFT X-RAY EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY, X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY AND X-RAY PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AND THEIR RESONANT COUNTERPARTS TO ELUCIDATE THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE. IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM WILL ALSO BE APPLIED TO MEASURE THE SPIN AND ORBITAL MOMENTS OF THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS WITHIN THE MATERIALS. INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM SUCH MEASUREMENTS WILL HELP CONFIRM THEORETICAL MODELS AND ALSO ELUCIDATE CURRENT QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ROLES OF DOPANTS AND NON-MAGNETIC ELEMENTS IN THEIR MAGNETIC BEHAVIOUR. THIS PROJECT IS A COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATION WITH PROF. K. E. SMITH OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION TRAVEL AWARD SOFT X-RAY EMISSION STUDIES OF TRANSITION METAL OXIDES AND ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS WE PROPOSE TO USE SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BASED SOFT X-RAY EMISSION (SXE) SPECTROSCOPY TO INVESTIGATE THE VALENCE BAND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF TWO MATERIALS: LI2CUO2 AND COPPER-PHTHALOCYANINE (CU-PC). THE TRANSITION METAL OXIDE, LI2CUO2, IS AN EDGE-SHARING 1D CHAIN COMPOUND, WITH MANY PROPERTIES IN COMMON WITH OTHER CU-O COMPOUNDS. THESE SYSTEMS EXHIBIT LOW ENERGY ELECTRONIC EXCITATIONS IN WHICH THERE IS CURRENTLY GREAT INTEREST. THEIR EXCITATION SPECTRUM CAN BE PROBED THROUGH APPLICATION OF RESONANT SXE TO OBTAIN THE RESONANT INELASTIC X-RAY SCATTERING SPECTRUM REVEALING D-D AND ZHANG-RICE SINGLET EXCITATIONS. THIS CAN PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ON ZHANG-RICE SINGLETS WHICH ARE AN IMPORTANT EXCHANGE MECHANISM WITHIN CU-O SYSTEMS. SECONDLY, APPLICATION OF THE TECHNIQUES OF RESONANT SXE AND SOFT X-RAY ABSORPTION TO ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS CAN YIELD DETAILED INFORMATION ON THEIR HIGHEST OCCUPIED (HOMO) AND LOWEST UNOCCUPIED (LUMO) MOLECULAR ORBITALS RESPECTIVELY. FUNDAMENTAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE HOMO AND LUMO OF ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS IS OFTEN EITHER ABSENT OR INCOMPLETE AND YET THEY DETERMINE THE USEFULNESS OF A GIVEN MATERIAL AS AN ORGANIC BASED ELECTRONIC DEVICE. UNDOPED AND DOPED CU-PC WITH OTHER PHTHALOCYANINE ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS WILL BE STUDIED BY THIS PROGRAMME TO PROVIDE SUCH INFORMATION. THIS IS A COLLABORATION WITH PROF. K. E. SMITH OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISE IRELAND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION TRAVEL AWARD SOFT X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF DILUTE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS DILUTE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR (DMS) MATERIALS FOR USE IN FUNCTIONAL ROOM TEMPERATURE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES ARE BEING ACTIVELY DEVELOPED. DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC STRUCTURE IS URGENTLY NEEDED. THIS CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF SOFT X-RAY SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BASED SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES WHICH ARE ESPECIALLY USEFUL DUE TO THEIR ELEMENTAL SELECTIVITY. THE PROPOSAL SEEKS TO APPLY THESE TECHNIQUES TO A NUMBER OF DMS MATERIALS, SPECIFICALLY TRANSITION METAL DOPED SEMICONDUCTOR OXIDES AND NITRIDES SUCH AS CO-DOPED ZNO, CO-DOPED SNO2 AND MN-DOPED GAN AND ALN. THIN FILMS OF THESE DMS MATERIALS ARE BEING GROWN BY PULSED LASER DEPOSITION. THE QUALITY AND OBSERVED FERROMAGNETIC MOMENTS OF THESE FILMS ARE CRITICALLY SENSITIVE TO GROWTH CONDITIONS DURING DEPOSITION, AS IS THE OBSERVED ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE. IN CO-DOPED ZNO THESE PHENOMENA, INCLUDING MAGNETISM, ARE DIRECTLY LINKED TO OXYGEN VACANCIES. THIS CAN BE VERIFIED BY STUDYING THEIR ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE BY ELEMENT-SPECIFIC SOFT X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY. CORRELATION BETWEEN OBSERVED ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, MEASURED MAGNETIC MOMENT & GROWTH CONDITIONS WILL GIVE INSIGHT INTO PRODUCING BETTER THIN FILM FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS. FURTHER, THE APPLICATION OF THESE TECHNIQUES MAY HELP ADDRESS THE QUESTION OF THE DETAILED PHYSICAL ORIGIN OF MAGNETISM IN THESE DILUTE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS, A MATTER OF SOME CONTROVERSY. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION TRAVEL PROGRAMME NOVEL ELEMENT-SELECTIVE SYMMETRY, POLARISATION AND STATE RESOLVED INVESTIGATIONS OF CHEMICAL BONDING NO TOPIC IS MORE FUNDAMENTAL TO CHEMISTRY THAN THE NATURE OF THE CHEMICAL BOND. IN CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, THE CHEMICAL BOND GIVES RISE TO THE ELECTRONIC BANDSTRUCTURE OF THE MATERIAL, THIS THEN DETERMINES WHETHER THE MATERIAL IS A METAL, SEMICONDUCTOR, SEMI-METAL, ETC.; IT DETERMINES THE OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS, THE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES AND THE USEFULNESS OF ANY GIVEN CRYSTALLINE SOLID. NOVEL X-RAY SPECTROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES ARE NOW AVAILABLE TO PROBE THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, ELEMENT-BY-ELEMENT AND EVEN STATE-BY-STATE. THESE SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BASED METHODS WILL BE APPLIED TO A PARTICULAR CLASS OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS TO STUDY MORE FULLY THEIR BASIC ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE. THE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF A CLASS OF CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS WILL BE INVESTIGATED THROUGH A NOVEL APPLICATION OF POLARISATION DEPENDENT SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BASED RESONANT SOFT X-RAY EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY AND X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES TO OBTAIN ELEMENT SPECIFIC, SYMMETRY AND STATE SELECTIVE MEASUREMENTS OF THE OCCUPIED PARTIAL DENSITY OF STATES OR OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITALS OF THESE SOLIDS. SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE CHEMICAL BONDING IN THESE RUTILE SYSTEMS CAN THUS BE CARRIED OUT AND COMPARED TO ELECTRONIC BANDSTRUCTURE CALCULATIONS. OPPORTUNITIES THEN EXIST TO EXAMINE THE BONDING WITHIN THESE SYSTEMS TO ALTERNATIVE TRANSITION METALS SUBSTITUTIONALLY DOPED ONTO THE CATION SITES IN THESE RUTILE SYSTEMS. THIS PROJECT IS IN COLLABORATION WITH <A HREF="HTTP://PEOPLE.TCD.IE/WATSONG">PROF. GRAEME WATSON</A> OF THE SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY AND PROF. RUSSELL EGDELL, OF THE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME 2007 X-RAY MAGNETIC DICHROISM OF NANOSCALE MAGNETISM IN ATOMIC WIRES PROTECTED BY CAPPING LAYERS PROGRESS IN ICT IS DRIVEN BY MAKING ELECTRONIC AND MAGNETIC DEVICES WITH EVER SMALLER ACTIVE REGIONS PRODUCING FASTER, MORE EFFICIENT DEVICES. SINGLE ATOMIC WIRES OF COBALT, POSSESSING UNUSUAL MAGNETIC PROPERTIES, HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY GROWN ON SINGLE CRYSTAL PLATINUM SURFACES. TO BE USEFUL, THESE NANOWIRES MUST BE CAPPED BY ULTRA-THIN FILMS PROTECTING THEM FROM CONTAMINATION. THE INTERFACIAL REGION FORMED BY CAPPING THESE NANOSCALE MAGNETIC STRUCTURES CAN ENHANCE THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES, AS MEASURED BY OPTICAL LASER-INTERFACE INTERACTIONS. THESE ENHANCED MAGNETIC PROPERTIES WILL BE STUDIED BY X-RAY BASED MAGNETIC-SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING TECHNIQUES AND WILL ALLOW FOR MAGNETIC TUNING OF DEVICES BASED ON THESE WIRES. ATOMIC WIRES OF COBALT, POSSESSING UNUSUAL MAGNETIC PROPERTIES, HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY GROWN ON PLATINUM SINGLE CRYSTAL SURFACES BUT, TO BE USEFUL, SUCH NANOWIRES MUST BE CAPPED BY ULTRA-THIN FILMS TO PROTECT THEM FROM CONTAMINATION. THE INTERFACIAL REGION FORMED BY CAPPING WILL AFFECT THE PROPERTIES OF THESE NANOSCALE MAGNETIC STRUCTURES; FOR CERTAIN CAPPING LAYERS AND THICKNESSES ENHANCED CURIE TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED. X-RAY MAGNETIC CIRCULAR DICHROISM SPECTROMICROSCOPY WILL BE USED TO PROBE THE MAGNETISATION OF THESE ATOMIC WIRES ON AN ELEMENT AND ELECTRONIC ORBITAL SPECIFIC BASIS, TO COMPLEMENT AND EXTEND NEW NON-LINEAR MAGNETO-OPTIC STUDIES OF THE SAME ADVANCED MATERIALS. THIS PROJECT IS IN COLLABORATION WITH <A HREF="HTTP://PEOPLE.TCD.IE/JMCGILP">JOHN MCGILP</A> OF THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME 2007 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MR. DARAGH MARTIN MCGUIRE mcguiredaraghmartin PROGRAMMER, US MCGUIRED IT SERVICES IT SERVICES 200 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. GERARD MC HUGH mchughgerard ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GMCHUGH BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACCA INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. GABRIELLE MC KEE mckeegabrielle ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES GMCKEE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING HEALTH CARE INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS IN CHRONIC ILLNESS: EFFECTIVENESS OF AN EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ON SYMPTOM RESPONSE TIME IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME PATIENTS. IMPROVING OUTCOMES IN COPD USING TELEHEALTH. OUTCOMES OF PHASE III CARDIAC REHABILITATION: LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN QUALITY OF LIFE, STAGES OF CHANGE AND EXERCISE. UNDERSTANDING THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH:PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE AGED, THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THIS AND THE INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON HEALTH PARTICULARLY CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH. UNDERSTANDING THE DETERMINANTS OF ILL HEALTH: THE LONGITUDINAL MODIFICATION OF LIFESTYLE FACTORS IN CARDIOVASCULAR PATIENTS PARTICULARLY EXERCISE. DETERMINANTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN CARDIAC POPULATION. THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRE HOSPITAL DELAY TIME IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME PATIENTS. OTHER : STUDENT LEARNING STYLES AND APPROACHES.EVALUATION OF E-LEARNING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES COMPONENT OF THE NURSING DEGREE. THE NEEDS OF MATURE STUDENTS IN NURSE EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 CHAIR OF EUROPEN COUNCIL OF CARDIOLOGY COUNCIL FOR CARDIAC NURSES AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS ( CCNAP) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, MEMBER OF CCNAP BOARD. COMMITTEE MEMBER IRISH PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES ASSOCIATION IRISH NURSES CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATION IRISH NURSES CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATION TREASURER/COMMITTEE MEMBER MEMBER IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION MEMBER OF BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION (BARC) MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION MEMBER OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR COMMITTEE TILDA MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ETHICS COMMITTEE AGEING CARDIAC REHABILITATION CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION ELDERLY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS HEALTH OUTCOMES NURSING EDUCATION PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REHABILITATION/THERAPY, PHYSICAL UNDERSTANDING THE DETERMINANTS OF ILL HEALTH CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) THE LEARNING STYLES AND APPROACHES TO LEARNING OF FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCE STUDENTS AND HOW THEY CHANGED OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR PROGRAMME A JOINT PROJECT UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH GROUP. THE FIRST ROUND OF DATA WAS COLLECTED FROM JUNIOR FRESHER STUDENTS FROM MEDICINE AND NURSING. THE SECOND ROUND OF DATA WAS COLLECTED IN 2006 AND 2007.FINDINGS FROM DATA COLLECTED FROM MEDICAL AND NURSING STUDENTS HAS BEEN PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES IN 2008 AND 2009. RESUTLS FROM THE NURSING STUDENT COHORT WERE PUBLISHED IN 2011 RESEARCH TEAM: HUNTLEY-MOORE S, FLEMING S, MCKEE G, PATTERSON A. HIGHER EDUCATIONAL AUTHORITY TRAINING THE TRAINERS UNDERSTANDING THE DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH AND ILL HEALTH IN THE AGED THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA) IS A MAJOR INTER-INSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE LED BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. THE STUDY WILL INVOLVE INTERVIEWS ON A TWO YEARLY BASIS WITH A SAMPLE OF 8,000+ PEOPLE AGED 50 AND OVER (OR THEIR SPOUSES/PARTNERS) OF THEIR LIVES, INCLUDING THE ECONOMIC (PENSIONS, EMPLOYMENT, LIVING STANDARDS), HEALTH (PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SERVICE NEEDS AND USAGE) AND SOCIAL ASPECTS (CONTACT WITH FRIENDS AND KIN, FORMAL AND INFORMAL CARE, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION). I AM A MEMBER OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR TEAM WITHIN THIS PROJECT AND AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ASPECT OF THIS STUDY. PROJECT 1: WHAT ARE THE DETERMINANTS AND INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ACROSS THE AGED COHORT? 2012- 2015 COMPLETE. PROJECT 2: PHD PROJECT: THE PREDICTORS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CHANGE IN THE OLDER ADULT 2013- ONGOING PROJECT 3: THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND ALCOHOL , COMMENCED 2014 - ONGOING. PROJECT 4: DETERMINE PREDICTORS OF ADL AND IADL DISABILITY IN THE OLDER ADULT. TEAM MEMBERS: DR DEIDRE CONNOLLY (OT,TCD), DR GABRIELLE MCKEE (TCD). 2014- COMPLETE. PROJECT 5: DETERMINE UNMET SUPPORT NEEDS OF OLDER ADULTS LIVING IN THE COMMUNITY WITH ADL AND IADL DISABILITIES. TEAM MEMBERS: DR DEIDRE CONNOLLY (OT,TCD), DR GABRIELLE MCKEE (TCD). 2015- ONGOING OBSERVATIONAL LONGITUDINAL SURVEY IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING HEALTH INNOVATIONS IN HAEMOPHILIA AND ANTI-COAGULATION CLINICS 1) HAEMOPHILIA CARRIER TESTING PATIENT SATISFACTION SURVEY: QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY, 2010- 2012 COMPLETE. MS EADAOIN O'SHEA (PI ST JAMES HOSPITAL ), MR MICHAEL COUGHLAN (TCD), MS. HELEN CORRIGAN(TCD AND ST JAMES). DR GABRIELLE MCKEE(TCD) 2) DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL OF QUALITY EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT WITHIN A HAEMOPHILIA SERVICE: MOVING FROM PATIENT INVOLVEMENT THROUGH PATIENT PARTICIPATION. MULTIDISCIPLINARY PRACTICE LED ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT INCLUDING A SERVICE USER THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT. THE PROJECT IDENTIFIED PATIENT ISSUES WITH THE SERVICE AND WHICH WERE THEN ADDRESSED USING PATIENT PARTICIPATION. TEAM MEMBERS: MS ANNE GROGAN (PI ST JAMES HOSPITAL), MR MICHAEL COUGHLAN (TCD), MR BRIAN O'MAHONY(HAEMOPHILIA SOC.), GABRIELLE MCKEE( TCD). 2010-2012 COMPLETE. 3)AN EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ANTI-COAGULATION SELF-TESTING PROGRAMME FROM THE PATIENT PERSPECTIVE COMMENCED 2014 TEAM MEMBERS : ANNE GROGAN (PI, ST JAMES HOSPITAL), MICHAEL COUGHLAN (TCD), GERALDINE PRIZEMAN (CPHI TCD AND ST JAMES HOSPITAL , GABRIELLE MCKEE(TCD). QUANTITATIVE SURVEY 2012 - ONGOING SUPPORTED IN PART BY NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, HSE MEETING THE NEEDS OF MATURE STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY. EVUATION OF THE NEEDS OF MATURE NURSING STUDNENTS WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY REASERCH TEAM: MS SANDRA FLEMING, DR GABRIELLE MCKEE IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A WEB BASED MODULE AND IMPACT OF IT'S USE ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT TO MEET THE DIFFERENT LEARNING NEEDS AND EXPERIENCES OF STUDENTS ENTERING NURSING THE TEAM CREATED A ONLINE INTRODUCTION TO BIOLOGY MODULE. TEAM: DR GABRIELLE MCKEE, DR PAUL COSTELLO, MS AUDREY ADAMS, DR MICHEAL PORTER TCD CAPSL AWARD CARDIAC NURSES HEART DISEASE KNOWLEDGE STUDY THIS STUDY SEEKS TO EXPLORE CARDIAC NURSE'S KNOWLEDGE, HOW CARDIAC NURSES ACQUIRE THIS KNOWLEDGE AND THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE OUR KNOWLEDGE LEVEL. REASERCH TEAM: IRISH CARDIAC NURSES ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE : DR GABRIELLE MCKEE (PI) MARY KERINS, EMER LODGE,CARMEL CONLON, AUDREY KEARNS, GERALDINE LYNCH, KATE O'DONOVAN, ERIC REYES, ELIZABETH REILLY, RITA SMITH, CECILIA TRACY. IRISH HEART FOUNDATION THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A STRUCTURED EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ON THE LENGTH OF PRE-HOSPITAL DELAY IN PATIENTS AT RISK OF ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME (ACS): ACS RESPONSE TIME -INTERVENTION TRIAL: RCT TESTING A BRIEF EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION AND EXAMINING ITS EFFECT ON PRE-HOSPITAL DELAY IN ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME PATIENTS. THE SECONDARY OBJECTIVES INCLUDED: TO DETERMINE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRE-HOSPITAL DELAY; TO DETERMINE THE IMPACT OF THE EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND BELIEFS ABOUT HEART DISEASE AND ACS SYMPTOMS; TO COMPARE GTN AND AMBULANCE USE FOLLOWING AN EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION; TO ELUCIDATE THE DETERMINANTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE ACS POPULATION AND HOW IT CHANGES POST CARDIAC EVENT; TO DETERMINE INTENTION TO ATTEND CARDIAC REHABILITATION, SUBSEQUENT ATTENDANCE AND THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THIS. SECONDARY ANALYSIS 2013-2016 A) : LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN ACS PATIENTS. ONGOING B) IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN ACS SYMPTOM PRESENTATION IN THE AGED COMPARED TO YOUNGER COHORTS. ONGOING HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD 2007 -2010 GENERAL PROGRAMME GRANTS NURSE SENSITIVE OUTCOMES IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PROJECT 1 : (PHD STUDY) DR PATRICIA MINNOCK DETERMINATION OF CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS , CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS AND PATIENTS PERCEPTIONS OF FATIGUE IN INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS (2007- 2011). PROJECT 2:MEASURING FATIGUE IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS: PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF TWO FATIGUE MEASUREMENT SCALES COMPARED 2012-2015 COMPLETE PROJECT 3: NURSE SENSITIVE OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS - A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 2014- 2017. PHD STUDY WAS FUNDED BY HRB FELLOWSHIP AWARD AN EVALUATION OF STUDENTS' SMOKING BEHAVIOUR SMOKING IS CURRENTLY MORE PREVALENT IN YOUNG ADULTS THAN PREVIOUSLY. PREVIOUS SURVEYS HAVE OBSERVED THE NEED FOR FURTHER MONITORING OF YOUNG ADULT SMOKING LEVELS, SMOKING CONTEXTS AND ATTITUDES TO SMOKING. THIS STUDY EXPLORES THESE AREAS IN A SAMPLE OF THE CURRENT STUDENT POPULATION. IF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A SMOKE FREE POLICY IN TRINITY COLLEGE GOES FORWARD THE STUDY WILL ALSO COMPARE SMOKING LEVELS, SMOKING CONTEXTS AND ATTITUDES TO SMOKING BEFORE AND YEAR AFTER THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS POLICY. PHASE 1 COMPLETE. INSTITUTE OF POPULATION HEALTH PROJECT (GABRIELLE MCKEE, SHANE ALLWRIGHT, JOE BARRY, CATHERINE HAYES AND MARTINAMULLEN) UNFUNDED THE PSORIASIS PATIENT EXPERIENCE AND IMPACT SURVEY FOLLOWING A SMALL STUDY TO EVALUATE OVERALL PSORISIS SATISTACTION WITH THE SERVISE THE TEAM HAS NOW DEVELOPED AN INDEPTH QUESTIONNAIRE TO AUDIT AND EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE ATTENDING THE NURSE LED COURSE OF PHOTOTHERAPY AND THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THIS IMPACT. THIS STUDY IS RUNNING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PSORIASIS NURSING TEAM AMNCH. RESEARCH TEAM: KELLY IMPEY (AMNCH), MICHELLE GREENWOOD(AMNCH), CARMEL BLAKE (AMNCH), KAREN BEESLEY (AMNCH) DR GABRIELLE MCKEE EVALUATING HEALTH CARE INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS : CHEST PAIN CLINICS PROTOCOLS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT NON-ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME (ACS) CHEST PAIN UNLIKE THOSE WITH ACS CHEST PAIN ARE NOT WELL ESTABLISHED. THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE EFFECTIVENESS ON BOTH CLINICAL AND PATIENTS' OUTCOMES UTILISING AN ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER LED REFERRAL FROM EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT AND OUTPATIENT CHEST PAIN CLINIC. DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RESEARCH CAPACITY OF THE CNS AND ANP (CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST AND ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER) AT ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN. THIS INITIATIVE IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM, WHICH AIMS TO ENHANCE AND DEVELOP THE PROFILE, SKILLS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE OF CNS'S AND ANP'S IN ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL. PROGRAMME EVALUATED 2013 FUNDING SOURCED ANNUALLY: NCNM, HSE AND ROYAL HOSPITAL BAGGOT ST EVALUATING HEALTH CARE INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS : CARDIAC REHABILITATION IN TALLAGHT HOSPITAL REASERCH TEAM : NOELEEN FALLON (AMNCH), GABRIELLE MCKEE, CAROLINE FINN (AMNCH), NORA FLYNN (AMNCH), ROSE O'MAHONY (AMNCH), PATRICIA MCGEARY (AMNCH). PROJECT 1: 2014 ;THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SYSTEMATIC IDENTIFICATION AND FOLLOW UP OF HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS USING AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING (APBM) IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION (CR). PROJECT 2 MASTER BY RESEARCH STUDY 2013-2015 (CAROLINE FINN): PREDICTORS OF PARTICIPATION IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY ( COMPLETE). PROJECT 3: ANALYSIS & MANAGEMENT OF PROBLEMS DURING PHASE III CARDIAC REHABILITATION. THE COMPLEXITY OF PATIENT CARE IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION 2012-2015. PROJECT 4: EVALUATION OF PATIENT'S OUTCOMES FOLLOWING ATTENDANCE AT A HEART FAILURE CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAMME. 2015 ON GOING INPART FUNDED IN 2014 BY NMBA AND IN 2015 BY MEATH FOUNDATION DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGICAL BASED EDUCATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND HEALTH PROMOTING MATERIAL TO SUPPORT SELF MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES THIS PROJECT WAS DEVELOPED IN LINE WITH THE CURRENT HEALTH SERVICE CHANGE IN EMPHASIS FROM HOSPITAL TO COMMUNITY CARE. IN THE FIRST PHASE THE PROJECT AIMS ARE TO EXPLORE THE CARE NEEDS SOURCES OF SUPPORT & EXPERIENCES OF PATIENTS & CARERS LIVING AT HOME WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE COPD. THIS INFORMATION WILL BE SUPPORTED BY BEHAVIOUR CHANGE PRINCIPLES AND WILL BE THEN USED TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGICAL BASED EDUCATIONAL, MOTIVATIONAL AND HEALTH PROMOTING MATERIAL TO SUPPORT SELF MANAGEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ILLNESSES, COPD IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TRIL EVALUATION HEALTH CARE INTERVENTION ST JAMES HOSPITAL CARDIAC REHABILITATION ONGOING MULTIPRONGED PROJECT EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION BY EXAMINING THE PROGRAMME OUTCOMES AND THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THESE. RESEARCH TEAM: MS MARY KERINS (ST JAMES HOSPITAL) , MS GERALDINE FITZGERALD (ST JAMES HOSPITAL), DR GABRIELLE MCKEE (TCD) 2000-2002 QUALITY OF LIFE OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION PATIENTS 2004 PATIENT SATISFACTION 2007 THE INFLUENCE OF STAGES OF CHANGE ON PATIENT OUTCOMES IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION. 2009-2011 FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAMME ATTENDANCE 2011 : CHANGES IN LIFESTYLE FACTORS: NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOLLOWING CARDIAC REHABILITATION. 2013:ACHIEVING BLOOD PRESSURE AND LDL TARGETS IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION CENTRES IN IRELAND: HOW WELL ARE WE MEETING EUROPEAN GUIDELINES ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PREVENTION RECOMMENDATIONS. A MULTI-SITE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY. TEAM MEMBERS N. FALLON (AMNCH), M. KERINS (ST JAMES)2, G. MCKEE(TCD), S. CHARLES(ST COLMCILLES), C. FINN (AMNCH), B. HANNON(BEAUMONT), H. NEWTON(BEAUMONT), J. STEPHENSON( WEXFORD), G. PRIZEMAN (CPHI & TCD). 2015 PROJECT 1: CHANGES IN RISK FACTOR PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING CARDIAC REHABILITATION OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS M. KERINS (ST JAMES) & G. MCKEE(TCD). PROJECT 2: CARDIAC REHABILITATION - AN INNOVATIVE E LEARNING SOLUTION. TEAM MEMBERS:M KERINS (ST JAMES), F THOMPSON (ST JAMES), C DEEGAN (ST JAMES), G MCKEE (TCD). 2015- ONGOING 2007 PROJECT FUNDED IN PART BY HSE, 2015 PROJECT IN PART FUNDED BY NMBA COUNCIL OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS'(CCNAP) SURVEY ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY GUIDELINES THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY CREATE NEW GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE ON A REGULAR BASIS. IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE GUIDELINES IS NOT ALWAYS OPTIMAL. THE AIMS OF THE RESEARCH IS THREE FOLD TO: ASCERTAIN THE CURRENT USE OF AND THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE USE OF GUIDELINES AND TO IDENTIFY THE PERCEIVED BARRIERS TO THE USE OF GUIDELINES. SURVEY OF FACTORS AND BARRIERS THAT INFLUENCE THE USE OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY GUIDELINES IN IRISH NURSES WORKING WITH CARDIAC PATIENTS THIS STUDY IS A FOLLOW ON FROM THE SUCCESSFUL SURVEY OF THE MEMBERS OF CCNAP ( 2015)AND THEIR BARRIERS TO GUIDELINE USE AND A SMALL STUDY FUNDED BY IRISH HEART FOUNDATION (2012. IN COLLABORATION WITH THE THE IRISH NURSES CARDIAC ASSOCIATION (INCA) THIS ALL IRELAND PROJECT SEEKS TO IDENTIFY THE USE AND BARRIERS TO GUIDELINE USE IN ALL PRACTICE NURSES AND IN ALL HOSPITALS THAT HAVE NURSES CARING FOR CARDIAC PATIENTS. INCA AGEING DR. KIM MC KELVEY mckelveykim ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCKELVEK CHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. MIRIAM MC KENNA mckennamiriam CLINICAL NURSE TUTOR MCKENNMI SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. KENNETH MC KENZIE mckenziekenneth ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MCKENZIK PSYCHOLOGY 52 KILLEGLAND MEADOWS NEW TOWN CENTRE ASHBOURNE CO MEATH 01-8961000 FRENCH FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF NEW ECONOMISTS (ISNE) MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCATION HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY IN CANCER THE IMPACT OF SUPPORT GROUPS ON CANCER PATIENTS IN COLLOBORATION WITH ANITA O'DONOVAN AND DR MICHAEL MORIARTY (BOTH ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN). WE ARE ASSESSING THE OUTCOME OF A PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL SUPPORT PROGRAMME IN PROSTATE PATIENTS. THE DESIGN IS BETWEEN GROUPS, AND THE MAIN PSYCHOMETRIC TOOL USED IS THE HADS IRISH CANCER SOCIETY PATIENT UNDERSTANDING OF AND MOTIVATION TO PARTICIPATE IN TUMOUR BANKING IN COLLABORATION WITH DRS PATRICIA FITZPATRICK (UCD) AND JOHN SHEEHAN (THE MATER HOSPITAL, DUBLIN). WE ARE USING A MODIFED SURVEY DESIGN TO ASSESS PATIENT VIEWS ODF THE ACCPETABILITY OF REQUESTS TO THEM TO DONATE THEIR TISSUE TO TUMOUR BANKS. THE STUDT IS BEING ROLLED OUT IN 4 DUBLIN HOSPITALS AND WILL HOPEFULLY YILED SOME MUCH-NEEEDED INSIGHT INTO BOTH LAYPERSON VIEWS ON MEDICAL ADVANCES AND MALE PATIENTS' VIEWS ON THEIR LEVELS OF TRUST IN MEDICAL PERSONNEL. PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH CONSORTIUM PROFESSOR SUSAN MC KIERNAN mckiernansusan CLINICAL LECTURER SMCKIERN SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE 20 HADDON ROAD CLONTARF DUBLIN 3 01-8961000 CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. RACHEL MARY MC LOUGHLIN mcloughlinrachelmary USSHER ASST PROF IN IMMUNOLOGY MCLOUGRM BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY COLLEGE CENTRE FOR IMMUNOLOGY INVESTIGATING THE ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION, UNDERSTANDING T-CELL- PHAGOCYTE CROSSTALK. UNCOVERING NOVEL T-CELL SUBSETS UNCOVER NOVEL T-CELL SUBSETS THAT PLAY CRITICAL ROLES IN THE HOST'S IMMUNE RESPONSE TO BOTH INFECTION AND COLONIZATION WITH S. AUREUS. UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF S.AUREUS COLONIZATION ON IMMUNE FUNCTION. DELINEATING S.AUREUS IMMUNE EVASION STRATEGIES SPECIFICALLY MANIPULATION OF PHAGOCYTES. DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF IMMUNOLOGY AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MICROBIOLOGY BRITISH SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL CYTOKINE SOCIETY BACTERIAL INFECTION BLOOD-STREAM INFECTIONS CD4(+) T-CELLS HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS HUMAN INFECTION HUMAN POLYMORPHONUCLEAR NEUTROPHILS HUMAN T-CELLS IMMUNE CELLS IMMUNOLOGY INFECTION INFECTION AND IMMUNITY INFECTION MODEL MONONUCLEAR-CELLS MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) REGULATION OF THE NEUTROPHIL RESPONSE BY T-CELL DERIVED CYTOKINES IMPACTS UPON STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION OUTCOMES (WT086515MA) THIS PROPOSAL INVESTIGATES HOW T-CELLS ACTIVATED IN THE CONTEXT OF ACUTE S.AUREUS INFECTION CAN MODULATE THE LOCAL NEUTROPHIL RESPONSE. A CLINICALLY RELEVANT MURINE MODEL OF S. AUREUS WOUND INFECTION WILL BE EMPLOYED IN CONJUNCTION WITH KNOCKOUT MICE TO ESTABLISH IF SPECIFIC T-CELL PHENOTYPES PRESENT AT SITES OF S.AUREUS INFECTION AND THE CYTOKINES THEY PRODUCE CAN CONTROL NEUTROPHIL TRAFFICKING, ACTIVATION AND SURVIVAL. THE MAJOR FOCUS OF THIS GRANT IS THE NEUTROPHIL RESPONSE DURING S.AUREUS INFECTION. IN PARTICULAR IT WILL INVESTIGATE THE CONTROVERSIAL CONCEPT THAT S.AUREUS CAN EXPLOIT THE NEUTROPHIL RESPONSE AND SURVIVE INTRA-CELLULAR WITHIN THE NEUTROPHIL. THE CONDITIONS THAT FAVOR THIS PHENOMENA AND THE MECHANISM INVOLVED WILL BE DETERMINED E.G. RATE OF NEUTROPHIL APOPTOSIS/NECROSIS, PHAGOCYTIC ACTIVITY, AND AUTHOPHAGY. IN PARTICULAR WE WILL INVESTIGATE IF T-CELL DERIVED CYTOKINES CAN MODULATE THESE PHENOMENA. WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH CAREER DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP " A ROLE FOR THE IMMUNOMODULATORY CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE SP1 EXPRESSED BY STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE IN THE TREATMENT OF ASTHMA (PIRG06-GA-2009-256378) THIS PROPOSAL WILL INVESTIGATE THE IMMUNOMODULATORY PROPERTIES OF A CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE MOLECULE EXPRESSED BY THE ORGANISM STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE, WHICH IS COMMONLY FOUND TO COLONISE THE NASOPHARYNX. THIS MOLECULE HAS BEEN SHOWN TO POSSESS A UNIQUE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE THAT CONFERS UPON IT THE ABILITY TO ACTIVATE IMMUNOMODULATROY T-CELLS TO PRODUCE THE ANTI-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINE INTERLEUKIN-10. WE WILL NOW INVESTIGATE THE ABILITY OF THIS POLYSACCHARIDE TO INDUCE IL-10 PRODUCTION AND PROTECT AGAINST EXPERIMENTAL ASTHMA. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE CURIE INTERNATIONAL REINTEGRATION GRANT UNDERSTANDING CELLULAR IMMUNITY TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS IS REQUIRED FOR NOVEL ANTI-S.AUREUS VACCINE DESIGN 12/IP/1532 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR TARGETING CELLULAR IMMUNITY; THE FUTURE FOR STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS VACCINE DESIGN HRA_POR/2012/104 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARDS STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INDUCED IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE MEMORY: CONSEQUENCES FOR BUG AND FOR HOST 202846/Z/16/Z WELLCOME TRUST INVESTIGATOR AWARDS CHARACTERISATION OF STAPHYLOCOCCAL PROTEIN A - BCELL INTERACTIONS TO FACILITATE ITS DEVELOPMENT AS A VACCINE ANTIGEN GSK GSK POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IMMUNOMODULATION BY THE PATHOBIONT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS: BENEFITS FOR BUG OR HOST CS/2014/1150/E ENTERPRISE IRELAND COORDINATION SUPPORT FOR H2020 APPLICATION COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BLOOD, MILK AND UTERINE NEUTROPHIL FUNCTION IN PRIMIPAROUS AND MULTIPAROUS HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN COWS WITH DIVERGENT IMMUNITY GENOTYPES GO1535 TEAGASC TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP PROFILING IMMUNE SIGNATURES PREDICTIVE OF OUTCOME IN STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION: ADVANCING NEXT-GENERATION VACCINE DESIGN 15/IA/3041 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAM (IVP) CHARACTERISATION OF EPITHELIAL SURFACE IMMUNITY TO STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS: TARGETING IL-22 GOIPD/2014/385 IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP CONFERENCE GRANT TO SUPPORT STAPH GBI 13/CW/B2624 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP GRANTS INVESTIGATING THE LINK BETWEEN IL8 HAPLOTYPE AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BACTERIAL AND VIRAL INFECTION IN CALVES 201603 TEAGASC TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. TRISTAN MC LOUGHLIN mcloughlintristan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TMCLOUG PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS MANY OF MY RESEARCH INTERESTS CENTRE AROUND THE GOAL OF DEVELOPING A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE NONPERTURBATIVE BEHAVIOUR OF STRONGLY COUPLED GAUGE THEORIES. SUCH THEORIES UNDERPIN OUR MODERN DESCRIPTION OF A WIDE RANGE OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA FROM THE EXISTENCE OF PROTONS AND NEUTRONS, DUE TO CONFINEMENT IN QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD), TO THE FRACTIONAL QUANTUM HALL EFFECT (FQHE) FOR STRONGLY COUPLED ELECTRONS IN TWO-DIMENSIONS. AS THESE PHENOMENA OCCUR BEYOND THE REGIME WHERE STANDARD PERTURBATIVE APPROACHES ARE APPLICABLE WE HAVE LIMITED THEORETICAL TOOLS WITH WHICH TO DEVELOP ANY PHYSICAL UNDERSTANDING AND THERE REMAIN A GREAT NUMBER OF PROFOUND OPEN QUESTIONS. ONE NOVEL APPROACH TO THESE PROBLEMS, WHICH IS AT THE HEART OF MUCH OF MY RESEARCH, IS THE REMARKABLE DUALITY BETWEEN SPECIFIC QUANTUM THEORIES OF GRAVITY, SUCH AS STRING THEORY, AND GAUGE THEORIES. THE DUALITY RELATES THE WEAKLY INTERACTING REGIME OF ONE THEORY TO THE STRONGLY COUPLED REGIME OF THE DUAL THEORY. WHILE THIS MAKES PROVING THE DUALITY RATHER DIFFICULT, IT MEANS THAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT STRONGLY COUPLED GAUGE THEORIES BY CONSIDERING WEAKLY INTERACTING STRING THEORIES. FURTHERMORE, AND JUST AS INTERESTING, IT IMPLIES WE CAN STUDY PROBLEMS IN QUANTUM GRAVITY THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF GAUGE THEORIES. A SEPARATE, BUT RELATED, THEME IN MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN THE STUDY OF SCATTERING AMPLITUDES IN GAUGE THEORIES, INCLUDING GRAVITATIONAL THEORIES AND, MOST RECENTLY, HIGHER-SPIN THEORIES. FROM A CONCEPTUAL POINT OF VIEW AMPLITUDES ARE INTERESTING AS GEDANKEN EXPERIMENTS WHICH CAN GIVE INSIGHT INTO THE UNDERLYING PROPERTIES OF A GIVEN THEORY. ULTIMATELY WE ARE LOOKING TO FIND A MATHEMATICAL REFORMULATION OF GRAVITY THAT MAKES THE KNOWN SYMMETRIES MANIFEST, THAT GIVES AN EFFICIENT METHOD FOR COMPUTATION AND, MOST OPTIMISTICALLY, TO FIND A USEFUL HOLOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF ASYMPTOTICALLY FLAT SPACE-TIMES THAT WOULD GIVE A DEFINITION OF QUANTUM GRAVITY IN SUCH SPACES. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADVISORY PANEL OF JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A: MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS QUANTUM FIELD THEORY QUANTUM GRAVITY STRING THEORY PHYSICS MATHEMATICS NEW METHODS IN EXACTLY SOLVABLE MODELS IRC ULYSSES EXACT METHODS IN STRING AND GAUGE THEORIES EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE CURIE EXACT METHODS IN STRONGLY COUPLED SYSTEMS THE OVERARCHING OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEORETICAL AND MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORK TO STUDY THE NONPERTURBATIVE BEHAVIOUR OF STRONGLY COUPLED SYSTEMS AND TO USE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICS UNDERPINNING THE DISCOVERY OF NEW MATERIALS WITH NOVEL PROPERTIES. SFI CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD PROFESSOR DECLAN MC LOUGHLIN mcloughlindeclan ACADEMIC CONSULTANT MCLOUGDE PSYCHIATRY I HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING THE NEURONAL SIGNALLING FUNCTION OF THE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN (APP) AND WAS AMONG THE FIRST TO IDENTIFY THE FE65 AND X11 ADAPTOR PROTEINS AS APPBINDING PARTNERS. TO STUDY THEIR FUNCTIONS IN VIVO, WE HAVE MADE X11 TRANSGENIC MICE AND HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT THE X11S REGULATE APP PROCESSING AND REDUCE CEREBRAL AB PRODUCTION AND DEPOSITION. THE NEURONAL X11 PROTEINS ARE THEREFORE NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. I AM NOW LEADING A RESEARCH GROUP STUDYING BEHAVIOURAL AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF X11- MEDIATED REDUCTION IN CEREBRAL AB IN AN ALZHEIMER'S ANIMAL MODEL. ON THE CLINICAL SIDE, I HAVE ALSO BEEN LEADING RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS OF THERAPEUTIC NEUROMODULATION TECHNIQUES (E.G. TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION, ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY) FOR NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS SUCH AS DEPRESSION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA. IN ST PATRICK'S HOSPITAL AND TCD, WE ARE ABOUT TO START A 5-YEAR RESEARCH PROGRAMME CALLED THE EFFECT-DEP STUDY (ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY IN SEVERE DEPRESSION AND UNDERSTANDING ITS MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF ACTION). THIS PROGRAMME IS SUPPORTED BY A HRB TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AWARD AND ITS PURPOSE IS TO IMPROVE ECT PRACTICE AND USE IT TO INTERROGATE THE MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY OF DEPRESSION. WE WILL CARRY OUT A DEFINITIVE RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL COMPARING BILATERAL AND HIGH-DOSE UNILATERAL ECT, RECRUITING 140 PATIENTS WITH SEVERE DEPRESSION. WE WILL ALSO USE AN ANIMAL MODEL OF ECT TREATMENT TO CHARACTERISE CHANGES IN GLOBAL PROTEIN EXPRESSION (I.E. THE PROTEOME) IN BOTH BRAIN AND BLOOD PLASMA AND ALSO CARRY OUT SIMILAR STUDIES USING PLASMA FROM DEPRESSED PATIENTS RECRUITED INTO THE CLINICAL TRIAL. THE RESULTS OF THESE STUDIES WILL IMPROVE CLINICAL ECT AND ALSO HELP US UNDERSTAND BETTER THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ECT, AS WELL AS ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS, AND LEAD TO IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATE PERIPHERAL BIOMARKERS FOR DEPRESSION, TREATMENT RESPONSE AND DEPRESSION RELAPSE. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST PATRICK'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR AOIFE MC LYSAGHT mclysaghtaoife PROFESSOR MCLYSAGA GENETICS IN THIS LAB WE CONDUCT MOLECULAR EVOLUTION RESEARCH THROUGH BIOINFORMATICS METHODS. THE CURRENT FOCUS OF OUR RESEARCH IS ON THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF NEW GENES AND GENE LOSS. WE ARE EXAMINING THESE PHENOMENA IN TWO WIDELY DIFFERENT GROUPS OF ORGANISMS: VERTEBRATES AND POXVIRUSES. ORGANISMS INNOVATE, DIFFERENTIATE AND ADAPT THROUGH THE GAIN, LOSS AND RELOCATION OF GENES IN THEIR GENOME. ANALYSIS OF THE RECENTLY SEQUENCED CHICKEN GENOME REVEALED MANY DIFFERENCES IN THE GENE CONTENT OF VERTEBRATE GENOMES. GENE GAIN DURING VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE EVOLUTION OF THE APE BRAIN (THE GLUD2 GENE INVOLVED IN NEUROTRANSMITTER FLUX WAS ACQUIRED ABOUT 23 MILLION YEARS AGO), THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY (THE RAG1/2 GENES THAT INCREASE THE CODING CAPACITY OF THE MHC WERE ACQUIRED BY HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER FROM BACTERIA), AND DISEASE (THE APOLIPOPROTEIN(A) GENE WAS ACQUIRED BY MAMMALS AND IS ASSOCIATED WITH CHOLESTEROL BUILD-UP ON ARTERY WALLS). GENE LOSS HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH DISEASE (E.G., THE ABSENCE OF THE URATE OXIDASE GENE IN HUMANS AND GREAT APES RESULTS IN A SUSCEPTIBILITY TO KIDNEY STONES), AND IS ALSO A MODE OF GENOMIC DIFFERENTIATION. IT HAS ALSO BEEN POSTULATED THAT IN SOME CASES NEW GENES MAY EXIST IN CLOSE PHYSICAL CLUSTERS (IN TERMS OF THEIR POSITION ON THE CHROMOSOME) WHICH MAY HAVE A ROLE IN THEIR FUNCTION, FOR EXAMPLE BY FACILITATING CONCERTED REGULATION OF EXPRESSION OR GROUPING GENES INVOLVED IN THE SAME METABOLIC PATHWAY. WE ARE STUDYING GENOMIC SEQUENCE AVAILABLE FROM MANY VERTEBRATES IN ORDER TO EXAMINE THE PHYLOGENETIC DISTRIBUTION OF GENES PRESENT IN EACH VERTEBRATE LINEAGE AND TO EXAMINE THE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF GENES THAT HAVE BEEN GAINED RECENTLY IN THE VERTEBRATE LINEAGE. POXVIRUSES HAVE SIMPLE GENOMES AMENABLE TO ANALYSIS AND ARE THEREFORE A USEFUL SYSTEM TO STUDY. MANY DIFFERENT MEMBERS OF THE POXVIRUS GROUP ARE IMPORTANT INFECTIOUS AGENTS IN HUMANS AND OTHER VERTEBRATES (THIS GROUP INCLUDES SMALLPOX AND MYXOMATOSIS) AND SO A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR EVOLUTION MAY ALSO BE USEFUL FOR UNDERSTANDING THEIR PATHOGENICITY AND HOST SPECIFICITY. THE PROPERTIES OF THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF NEW GENES IN POXVIRUSES ARE EXPECTED TO BE DIFFERENT FROM THE PROPERTIES IN VERTEBRATE GENOMES BOTH BECAUSE OF THE COMPARATIVE SIMPLICITY OF POXVIRUS GENOMES, AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THEIR LIFE CYCLE (FOR EXAMPLE, THE FACT THAT THE VIRUSES ARE INTRACELLULAR PARASITES IS LIKELY TO MAKE HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER, OR GENE CAPTURE FROM THE HOST, A MORE FREQUENT OCCURRENCE THAT IN VERTEBRATES). DEPT OF GENETICS GENETICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ASSOCIATE EDITOR - MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION EDITORIAL BOARD, CELL REPORTS MEMBER - GENETICS SOCIETY (UK) SOCIETY FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (SMBE) ACCELERATED SEQUENCE EVOLUTION ANCIENT BIOCOMPUTING BIOINFORMATICS COEVOLUTION COMPARATIVE GENOMICS COMPLETE NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE CONCERTED EVOLUTION EVOLUTION EVOLUTION RATE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE GENES GENETICS GENOMES, GENOMICS HIGH-FREQUENCY RETROTRANSPOSITION HUMAN EVOLUTION HYPOTHESIS LINKAGE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION MOLECULAR GENETICS MONOAMINE-OXIDASE-A PATTERN POLYPLOIDS RECEPTOR SEQUENCE VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION GENE GAINS, LOSSES AND RELOCATIONS DURING VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRESIDENT OF IRELAND YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD THE ORIGIN OF NEW GENES IN POXVIRUSES IRCSET POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP DOSAGE-SENSITIVE GENES IN EVOLUTION AND DISEASE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL STARTING GRANT ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF VERTEBRATE DE NOVO GENES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CANCER GENES & SOCIETY DR. RICHARD MC MAHON mcmahonrichard ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RIMCMAHO HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) MY PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN THE FIELDS OF MODERN IRISH, SCOTTISH AND AMERICAN HISTORY WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF VIOLENCE AND THE LAW. I HAVE A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF VIOLENCE AND THE LAW IN IRELAND AND AMONG IRISH MIGRANTS IN GLASGOW, SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK AND TORONTO AS WELL AS IN RURAL ONTARIO AND PENNSYLVANIA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. I HAVE ALSO PUBLISHED WORK IN THE FIELD OF EUROPEAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE HISTORY AND HAVE A KEEN INTEREST IN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO HISTORY. IN COLLABORATION WITH FELLOW RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF BERN AND WINTHORP UNIVERSITY, I AM A CO-DIRECTOR OF THE HISTORICAL VIOLENCE DATABASE. PRIOR TO MY ARRIVAL AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, I ALSO HELD RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AT A RANGE OF UNIVERSITIES OUTSIDE OF IRELAND INCLUDING STANFORD UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE, THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 HISTORICAL VIOLENCE DATABASE (DIRECTOR) TRANSNATIONAL IRELAND IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND DR. BARRY MC MAHON mcmahonbarry CHIEF PHYSICIST/CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER MCMAHOB CLINICAL MEDICINE PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT, GI BIOMECHANICS & MOTILITY, NON-IONISING DIAGNOSITIC IMAGING IN MEDICINE, PROCESS IMPROVEMENT, ENDOSCOPIC INSTRUMENTATION AND TECHNIQUES CLINICAL MEDICINE AMNCH TALLAGHT DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATION (AGA) ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENTISITS IN MEDICINE (APSM) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (BEAI) INSTITUTE OF PHYSICISTS & ENGINEERS IN MEDICINE (U.K.) IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY (ISG) VICE-PRESIDENT & GOVERNOR, IRISH COLLEGE OF MEDICAL PHYSICISTS BIOENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BIOMATERIALS BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH RESOURCES, OTHER BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TRAINING BIOSENSORS DIAGNOSTICS DIGESTIVE DISEASES & DISORDERS EDUCATION/INSTRUCTION (HEALTH/SAFETY/MEDICAL) GASTROENTEROLOGY GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES/DISORDERS HEALTH PHYSICS HEALTH/MEDICAL SCIENCE--COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INSTRUMENTS/INSTRUMENTATION/DEVICES (HEALTH/M MEDICAL DEVICES MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION MEDICAL/DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROLS AND SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT/TRANSFER/OUTREACH (HLTH ULTRASOUND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR PETER DAMIAN MC MANUS mcmanuspeterdamian CHAIR OF EARLY IRISH, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT PMCMANUS IRISH MEDIEVAL IRISH: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS. WRITING SYSTEMS, IN PARTICULAR OGAM CLASSICAL MODERN IRISH BARDIC POETRY. THE GRAMMATICAL AND SYNTACTICAL TRACTS OF THE CLASSICAL MODERN IRISH POETS. IRISH DEPARTMENT 4055 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR ROSS MC MANUS mcmanusross PROFESSOR IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE RMCMANUS CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) I AM INTERESTED IN THE GENETICS/GENOMICS OF COMMON DISEASES WITH AN INFLAMMATORY COMPONENT, PARTICULARLY COELIAC DISEASE, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE AND SEPSIS. WE CURRENTLY ALSO HAVE PROGRAMMES INTO THE GENETIC BASIS OF PSORIASIS AND OESOPHAGEAL CANCERS IN CONJUNCTION WITH COLLABORATORS NATIONWIDE AND IN EUROPE. CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS CHAIRPERSON OF EUROLIFE JOINT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME IN TRANSLATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE COORDINATOR, EUROLIFE NETWORK COUNCIL MEMBER, IRISH SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS IRISH SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS IRISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY MEMBER OF EUROLIFE NETWORK OF EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES IN THE LIFE SCIENCES STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER OF LIPGENE WP1.1. GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY OF CANDIDATE GENES IN THE METABOLIC SYNDROME IN A LARGE FRENCH COHORT. MEMBER OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND (MMI) EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBER, PHG FUNDED PI'S AND RESEARCHERS, ALL RESEARCHERS FUNDED UNDER CYCLE 3 PRTLI - PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN GENOMICS MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, FINBAR, ALL-IRELAND GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY OF OESOPHAGEAL CANCER AUTOIMMUNITY CHRONIC INFLAMATION COELIAC DISEASE GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS GENE POLYMORPHISM GENETIC ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME (SARS) GENETIC MAPPING, GENE SEQUENCE GENETICS GENETICS OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASE GENOMES, GENOMICS GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MOLECULAR GENETICS PSORIASIS SEPSIS AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. BRENDA MC MANUS mcmanusbrenda VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW BMCMANU DENTAL SCIENCE COLLABORATIVE INVESTIGATION OF CANDIDA POPULATIONS IN IRISH PATIENTS WITH AUTOIMMUNE POLYENDOCRINOPATHY-CANDIDIASIS-ECTODERMAL DYSTROPHY (APECED). MY MOST RECENT RESEARCH FOCUSED IRISH PATIENTS WITH APECED, AN AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE GENETIC DISEASE THAT OFTEN MANIFESTS ITSELF IN THE FORM OF CHRONIC MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS. THE STUDY WAS CARRIED OUT OVER 5 YEARS IN COLLABORATION WITH DENTAL CLINICIANS IN THE DDUH, AIMING TO CHARACTERISE THE CANDIDA POPULATION PRESENT IN THIS GROUP, AND TO CORRELATE CLINICAL SIGNS OF CANDIDIASIS WITH MICROBIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF SUCH. THE GENETIC RELATEDNESS OF CANDIDA ALBICANS ISOLATES RECOVERED DURING SEQUENTIAL CLINICAL ASSESSMENTS OF THESE PATIENTS WAS INVESTIGATED, AS WAS THE EFFECT OF PROPHYLACTIC INTERMITTENT ANTIFUNGAL THERAPY ON THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF THESE ISOLATES TO AZOLE ANTIFUNGALS. THIS STUDY HIGHLIGHTED THE NEED FOR MICROBIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS OF CANDIDIASIS PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANTIFUNGAL THERAPY IN ORDER TO PREVENT UNNECESSARY AZOLE THERAPY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AZOLE RESISTANCE. PREVIOUS RESEARCH FOCUSED ON THE USE OF MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING (MLST) TO CHARACTERISE THE POPULATION STRUCTURE OF THE PATHOGENIC YEAST CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS, AND TO COMPARE THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF C. DUBLINIENSIS WITH THAT OF ITS CLOSEST RELATIVE, C. ALBICANS. THE APPLICATION OF SIMILAR TECHNIQUES TO C. DUBLINIENSIS ISOLATES RECOVERED FROM SEAGULLS SHOWED THAT SUCH ISOLATES WERE GENETICALLY DISTINCT TO THOSE RECOVERED FROM HUMAN SOURCES. ONE OF THE THREE SPECIFIC CLADES IN THE POPULATION STRUCTURE OF C. DUBLINIENSIS IS CHARACTERISED BY HIGH-LEVEL RESISTANCE TO THE ANTIFUNGAL DRUG 5-FLUOROCYTOSINE. MY RESEARCH DEMONSTRATED THAT THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THIS CLADE-SPECIFIC RESISTANCE IS A RECESSIVE SER29LEU SUBSTITUTION IN THE CYTOSINE DEAMINASE. FURTHER RESEARCH INTO THE EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY OF C. DUBLINIENSIS WILL INVOLVE THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS (SNPS) THROUGHOUT THE COMPLETE GENOMES OF TEN C. DUBLINIENSIS ISOLATES REPRESENTATIVE OF EACH MLST CLADE. COMPARISON OF SUCH SNPS WITH THOSE IN C. ALBICANS MAY IDENTIFY REASONS WHY, DESPITE THEIR CLOSE GENETIC RELATIONSHIP, C. DUBLINIENSIS IS SIGNIFICANTLY LESS PATHOGENIC THAN C. ALBICANS. DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH DNA DRUG RESISTANCE EPIDEMIOLOGY GENE CLONING GENE EXPRESSION GENETIC/MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GENOMICS MOLECULAR CLONING MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS NUCLEIC ACIDS ORAL DISEASES AND ORAL MEDICINE ORAL MICROBIOLOGY POPULATION STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS MICROBIOLOGY DR. MAIRIN E MC MENAMIN mcmenaminmairine PART-TIME LECTURER MCMENAMM HISTOPATHOLOGY DEPT HISTOPATHOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LA BORATORY ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL 01-8961000 DR. JASON PHILIP MC MORROW mcmorrowjasonphilip RESEARCH FELLOW JMCMORRO CLINICAL MEDICINE CENTRE FOR ADVANCED MEDICAL IMAGING, ROOM NO: MRI 11 ST. JAMES'S HOSPTAL JAMES'S STREET, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 3D IMAGING AGING AGING/GERONTOLOGY BRAIN IMAGING BREAST CANCER CANCER CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE DIAGNOSTIC BIOIMAGING DISEASE STAGING HEAD AND NECK CANCER HIGH-RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING LUNG CANCER MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) MEDICAL/DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING NEUROIMAGING OESOPHAGEAL CANCER PROSTATE CANCER ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) AGEING PROFESSOR T BRIAN H MC MURRY mcmurrytbrianh FELLOW EMERITUS TMCMURRY CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT COLLEGE 01-8961000 (+/-)-PENTALENIC ACID (2-CHLOROETHYL)NITROSOUREAS 1,3-DICARBONYL COMPOUNDS 1,4-DIAZABICYCLO&LT;2.2.2&GT;OCTANE 2+2 PHOTOCYCLOADDITION 2-CYCLOHEXENONE 2-PYRIDINONE DERIVATIVES 3-METHYLADENINE DNA GLYCOSYLASE 4-HYDROXYCINNAMAMIDE DERIVATIVES 5-FLUOROURACIL 9-ALKOXYPURINES ABSORPTION ACID DERIVATIVES ACYCLIC NUCLEOSIDES AGENTS ALKYLATING-AGENTS ALKYLTRANSFERASE ALPHA,BETA-UNSATURATED KETONES AMIDE CONFORMERS ANALOGS ATASE BREAST CALCIUM-CHANNEL CELL-LINES CHLOROETHYLNITROSOUREA CLEAVAGE COLON CROSS-LINK DACARBAZINE DERIVATIVES DNA-DAMAGE DOUBLE MICHAEL REACTION ETHERS FACILE HERPES-SIMPLEX VIRUS HETEROCYCLIC ENAMINES HUMAN-TUMOR-CELLS HYPOIODITE INACTIVATION INHIBITORS ISOMERS LUNG-TUMORS MALIGNANT-MELANOMA MALONONITRILE MAMMALIAN O-6-ALKYLGUANINE-DNA ALKYLTRANSFERASE MECHANISM METHYLATING AGENTS METHYLENE-COMPOUNDS MGMT MICE MOLECULES N-ISOPROPYLIDENEHYDRAZINOCARBONYL DERIVATIVES NITROSOUREA NMR NUCLEAR MAGNETIC-RESONANCE O-6-METHYLGUANINE PHOTOADDITIONS PHOTOCHEMISTRY POTENT PSEUDOSUBSTRATES PURINE PYRANO&LT;2,3-D&GT;PYRIMIDINE RAT REAGENTS REGIOCHEMICAL CONTROL REPAIR RESIDUES REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS SUBSTITUTED CYCLIC ENONES SUBSTITUTED ETHYLENES SYSTEMS THEORETICAL APPROACH THERAPEUTIC INDEX TYROSINE TYROSINE KINASE TYRPHOSTINS VIRUS CANCER DR. AONGHUS MC NABOLA mcnabolaaonghus ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AMCNABO CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CENTRE FOR TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR PEOPLE (TRIP) DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH GERMAN MEMBER OF THE AEROSOL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF INDOOR AIR QUALITY AND CLIMATE AIR POLLUTION MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS ENERGY ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORTATION ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS, FOSSIL ENERGY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING FLUID PHYSICS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION ASSESSMENT HYDRAULICS ENGINEERING HYDRO POWER POLLUTION CONTROL RENEWABLE ENERGIES WATER SUPPLY TRIP-BY-TRIP EMISSIONS MODELLING EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECT THAT WILL EXAMINE METHODS OF REDUCING TRANSPORT EMISSIONS USING REAL-TIME TRANSPORT INFORMATION. THE PROJECT INVOLVES A COLLABORATION BETWEEN TRINITY, CURE - CENTER FOR USABILITY RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING, FLUIDTIME DESIGN SOFTWARE SERVICE, TELEMATIX SOFTWARE, A.S., ETH ZURICH SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH INSTITUTE FOR TRANSPORT PLANNING AND SYSTEMS, NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, VERKEHRSVERBUND OST-REGION VORG MBH/ ITS, VIENNA REGION AND TOMTOM INTERNATIONAL BV. TCD WILL CARRY OUT I) THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMISSIONS AND EXPOSURE MODEL USING REAL-TIME TRAFFIC DATA (CO-PI A.MCNABOLA), AND II) DETERMINATION OF THE BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSES TO REAL-TIME TRAFFIC AND EMISSIONS INFORMATION (PI B. CAULFIELD). EU FP7 (330,000) TOWARDS A MORE SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM OF WATER SUPPLY IN IRELAND AND WALES: EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HYDROPOWER IN BREAK PRESSURE TANKS (HYDRO-BPT) THIS PROJECT WILL ADVANCE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PROCESS OF WATER SUPPLY IN IRELAND AND WALES BY EXPLOITING THE POTENTIAL FOR ENERGY RECOVERY THAT EXISTS AT BREAK PRESSURE TANKS (BPTS). WATER SUPPLY IS A CORE SERVICE ON WHICH CIVILISED SOCIETY DEPENDS AND IT INVOLVES CONSIDERABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND CO2 EMISSIONS (WATER TREATMENT, PUMPING AND MONITORING). TREATED WATER IS COMMONLY SUPPLIED FROM A CENTRAL STORAGE RESERVOIR BY GRAVITY THROUGHOUT A CATCHMENT AND THIS WATER MUST BE SUPPLIED WITHIN SATISFACTORY PRESSURE BANDS. WHEN THE PRESSURE IN WATER FLOW BECOMES TOO HIGH A BPT IS COMMONLY INSTALLED IN THE NETWORK, WHEREBY THE PRESSURE, KINETIC & POTENTIAL ENERGY WITHIN THE FLOW IS DISSIPATED TO THE ATMOSPHERE. THIS COMMON FEATURE OF WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS PRESENTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECOVER THIS ENERGY WASTAGE BY USING MICRO-HYDROPOWER TECHNOLOGY TO TRANSFORM IT INTO ELECTRICITY WITHOUT INTERFERING IN THE WATER SUPPLY SERVICE. THE KEY OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT COMPRISE: 1. DETERMINING THE TECHNICAL/ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF APPLYING HYDRO-BPTS TO WATER INFRASTRUCTURE: USING EXPERIMENTAL MODELS THE ENERGY RECOVERABLE FROM BPTS WILL BE ASSESSED/DEMONSTRATED 2. DETERMINING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THIS NEW TECHNOLOGY: ASSESSMENTS WILL BE MADE IN TERMS OF THE CO2 EMISSIONS SAVING, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS 3. A FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE APPLICATION OF HYDRO-BPTS IN EXISTING IRISH/WELSH BPTS: INFORMATION ON THE EXISTING BPTS WILL BE GATHERED IN A GIS DATABASE WHICH WILL BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE THE UNTAPPED ENERGY POTENTIAL IN WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS IN IRELAND/WALES 4. AN EXPLORATION OF THE FORMS OF COLLABORATION AMONG THE KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A BUSINESS MODEL: THIS SECTION OF THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP GUIDELINES FOR THE WIDESPREAD IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS TECHNOLOGY BY INDUSTRY INTERREG IV (€975,000) IRELAND WALES AN ASSESSMENT OF THE FEASIBILITY AND ENERGY POTENTIAL OF ROCK OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN (OWC) WAVE ENERGY SYSTEMS IN IRELAND. THE OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN (OWC) WAVE ENERGY DEVICE IS CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST COMMON CONCEPTS IN USE FOR WAVE ENERGY CAPTURE. HOWEVER IT HAS YET TO BE DEMONSTRATED THAT ENERGY CAN BE EXTRACTED FROM OCEAN WAVES AT AN ECONOMICALLY VIABLE RATE USING OWC TECHNOLOGY. THIS IS PREDOMINANTLY DUE TO THE INITIAL CAPITAL COST OF THE STRUCTURE. PREVIOUS RESEARCH HAS ESTABLISHED THAT THE APPROACH OF USING A CHAMBER BUILT IN NATURAL ROCK FOR AN OWC HELD CONSIDERABLE PROMISE FOR THE SHORELINE CAPTURE OF OCEAN WAVE ENERGY. THIS FORM OF CONSTRUCTION COULD POTENTIALLY PROVE MORE ECONOMICALLY VIABLE THAN CONVENTIONAL METHODS OF OWC MANUFACTURE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILTY OF THIS CONCEPT AT SUITABLE SITES ON THE WEST COAST OF IRELAND AND TO INVESTIGATE THE ENERGY POTENTIAL OF ROCK OWCS. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN . AN INVESTIGATION OF THE HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS OF COMMUTER MODAL CHOICE IN DUBLIN CITY. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO BUILD ON RESEARCH INTO THE EFFECT OF COMMUTER MODAL CHOICE ON THE HEALTH OF URBAN COMMUTERS IN DUBLIN. THE PROJECT WILL ADVANCE THE SCIENCE IN THIS AREA PRIMARILY BY INCLUDING THE DIRECT MONITORING OF HEALTH INDICATORS, SUCH AS HEART RATE VARIABILITY, IN ADDITION TO AIR POLLUTION EXPOSURE AMONG THE POPULATION. HOW YOUR CHOICE OF TRANSPORT MODE INFLUENCES YOUR HEALTH DUE TO AIR POLLUTION IS THE QUESTION ADDRESSED BY THIS RESEARCH. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRTLI4 ACTIVITY/LOCATION GIS PERSONAL EXPOSURE AIR POLLUTION MODEL PROJECT TO DEVELOP A GIS MODEL OF PERSONAL EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION IN DUBLIN AND ITS ENVIRONS, DEPENDENT ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S ACTIVITIES AND LOCATIONS. FUNDED BY THE EPA STRIVE PROGRAMME THE PROJECT WILL COMPRISE THE MONITORING OF THE PERSONAL EXPOSURE, ACTIVITY AND LOCATION OF A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT SUBJECTS LIVING AND WORKING IN DUBLIN AND ITS SATELLITE TOWNS. THIS DATA WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP A GIS MODEL OF PERSONAL EXPOSURE ALLOWING INDIVIDUALS OR SUB-GROUPS OF THE POPULATION TO ASSESS THEIR HEALTH RISKS DUE TO AIR POLLUTION. THE MODEL WILL INFORM INDIVIDUALS OF ACTIVITIES OR LOCATIONS IN THEIR DAILY LIVES WITH HIGH PERSONAL EXPOSURE TO AIR POLLUTION, ALLOWING THEM TO TAKE STEPS TO REDUCE OR AVOID THESE HEALTH RISKS. COLLABORATORS (PROF. B. BRODERICK & MR. L. GILL, TCD; DR. M BYRNE NUIG) EPA (€350,000) STRIVE ABLATIVE FLASH PYROLYSIS OF BIOMASS AND WASTE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW ABLATIVE FLASH PYROLYSIS REACTOR FOR THE CONVERSION OF BIOMASS/WASTE TO BIOFUEL. TCD (€8,200) DEVELOPMENT OF A PERSONAL EXPOSURE REDUCTION STRATEGY FOR PEDESTRIANS USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE LOW BOUNDARY WALLS PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS AT TCD REVEALED THE EFFECT OF PASSIVE LOW BOUNDARY WALLS (LBWS) IN URBAN STREET CANYONS IN REDUCING THE EXPOSURE OF PEDESTRIANS ON THE FOOTPATH. NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD) HAVE SHOWN THAT A LBW MAY ACT AS A BAFFLE IN AN URBAN STREET CANYON, DISRUPTING NORMAL FLOW PATTERNS AND INCREASING THE LEVELS OF DISPERSION/DILUTION ON TAILPIPE EMISSIONS BEFORE THEY REACH PEDESTRIANS ON THE FOOTPATH. THIS PROJECT WILL TAKE THESE NEW GENERIC FINDINGS AND DEVELOP THEM FURTHER INTO AN IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FOR PEDESTRIAN EXPOSURE REDUCTION. THIS STRATEGY WILL THE UNDERGO EXPERIMENTAL TRIALS AT A SELECTED LOCATION IN DUBLIN TO PROVE THE CONCEPT. IN ADDITION, ACTIVE LBWS WILL ALSO BE INVESTIGATED BY INCORPORATING A PHOTCATALYST SURFACE COATING TO REDUCE NOX CONCENTRATIONS. HEA PHD THE AER PROJECT PROOF OF CONCEPT OF AN INNOVATIVE AIR POLLUTION REMEDIATION DEVICE ENTERPRISE IRELAND (€76,000) COMMERCIALISATION FUND ENERGY EFFICIENT AIR POLLUTION CONTROL IN BUILDING HVAC SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENERGY EFFICIENT PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DEVICE FOR USE IN BUILDING HVAC SYSTEMS. THE DEVICE WILL REDUCE THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF AIR POLLUTION CONTROL IN BUILDINGS BY 10-20%. ENTERPRISE IRELAND & MARK EIRE BV (113000) INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP REFLECTIVE PRACTICE & THE SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING. MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESK STUDY OF TEACHING AND LEARNING PRACTICE. NAIRTL TECHNOLOGIES FOR MONITORING, DETECTING & TREATING OVERFLOWS FROM URBAN WASTEWATER NETWORKS AS CSO DISCHARGES COTAIN RAW SEWAGE AND A RANGE OF DISSOLVED AND PARTICULATE CONTAMINANTS INCLUDING HEAVY METALS, PAHS, OILS AND GREASE, ALOMNG WITH LARGE VOLUMES OF STORM WATER, THEY CAN CREATE SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC HEALTH AND WATER QUALITY CONCERNS. IN THIS PROJECT TECHNOLOGIES FOR MONITORING, DETECTING AND TREATING CSO DISCHARGES WILL BE REVIEWED AND ASSESSED IN THE IRISH CONTEXT. A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL WILL ALSO BE DEVELOPED. WEBSITE: HTTP://CSOMONITORINGIRE.WIX.COM/CSO-MONITORING-IRE EPA (75,000) STRIVE ASSESSMENT, ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF PROGRAMMES FOR IMPROVEMENT OF IRISH GHG EMISSIONS INVENTORIES AND PROJECTIONS TO LIMIT THE CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSED BY ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITIES, THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) IS COMMITTED TO LIMITING EMISSION OF GREENHOUSE GASES (GHGS). NUMEROUS INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS, TARGETS AND METHODOLOGIES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED TO AID IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THIS GOAL. AS PART OF THESE AGREEMENTS MEMBER STATES IN THE EU ARE REQUIRED TO PREPARE NATIONAL GHG EMISSIONS INVENTORIES AND FUTURE EMISSIONS PROJECTIONS TO BOTH MONITOR EXISTING EMISSIONS ACTIVITY AND PREDICT THE LIKELY FUTURE COMPLIANCE OF COUNTRIES WITH AGREED REDUCTION TARGETS. THE METHODOLOGIES/GUIDELINES FOR PREPARING GHGS EMISSIONS INVENTORIES AND PROJECTIONS REQUIRE LARGE DISAGGREGATED DATASETS. THE EPA IN IRELAND HAS BEEN WORKING ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THIS PROCESS, WHICH REQUIRES THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PROGRAMMES FOR THE ESTIMATION OF EMISSION FACTORS, ACTIVITY DATA, AND MAINTENANCE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMMES. IN ADDITION, RECALCULATION OF THE PREVIOUS ESTIMATIONS WITH IMPROVED DATA AND TECHNIQUES IS REQUIRED. EXPERTISE IS NEEDED TO FACILITATE THIS WORK, AS WELL AS INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS TO ENSURE IMPROVED ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURES WITHIN THE EPA FOR THIS PURPOSE. THIS PROJECT WILL DEVELOP IMPROVED GHGS EMISSIONS INVENTORIES AND PROJECTIONS FOR IRELAND IN LINE WITH THE NEEDS OF THE EPA. THE IMPACTS OF EXISTING AND POTENTIAL CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION POLICY IN IRELAND WILL ALSO BE EXAMINED. EPA (198,847 EURO) CLIMATE CHANGE AN ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACTS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY & INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES ON OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY: EMISSIONS, EXPOSURE & HEALTH IMPACT THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP WILL BE THE ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACTS OF CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT POLICY AND INFRASTRUCTURE ON OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY. THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES WILL INCLUDE: . A DETAILED REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACTS OF AIR POLLUTION CONTROL MEASURES IN THE OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT UNDER THE HEADINGS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGE. . METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT: REVIEW OF THE METHODOLOGIES USED IN LITERATURE TO ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF MEASURES ON AIR QUALITY INCLUDING: EMISSIONS MODELLING, ECONOMIC MODELLING, TRANSPORT MICRO-SIMULATION, EXPOSURE MODELLING & HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT. . ASSESSMENT OF THE AIR QUALITY, POPULATION EXPOSURE AND RELATED HEALTH IMPACTS OF CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT POLICY ON OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY, FOCUSING ON I) THE EXISTING & POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF CARBON TAX ON TRANSPORT AND DOMESTIC EMISSIONS SOURCES AND II) THE IMPACTS OF INCENTIVISATION OF CYCLING, AND (III) THE IMPACTS OF THE BAN ON THE BURNING, SALE, MARKETING AND DISTRIBUTION OF BITUMINOUS COAL IN IRELAND. . ASSESSMENT OF THE AIR QUALITY, POPULATION EXPOSURE AND RELATED HEALTH IMPACTS OF CHANGES IN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ON OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY, FOCUSING ON THE IMPACTS OF I) CHANGES IN VEHICLE SPEED, AND II) THE DUBLIN PORT TUNNEL & HGV MANAGEMENT STRATEGY. . A CROSS-COMPARISON OF THE RELATIVE IMPACTS OF CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT POLICY AND TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ON OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY, INCLUDING A COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS AND HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT. . DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH TO THE BROADER SCIENTIFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND MANAGEMENT COMMUNITIES TO PROMOTE THE EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY. EPA (150,000) STRIVE DRAIN WATER HEAT RECOVER: A LOW ENERGY SHOWER SYSTEM (LESS) DEVELOPMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF A DRAIN WATER HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM EFFICIENT IN A HORIZONTAL ORIENTATION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND PARTICULATE MATTER FROM DIESEL VEHICLES: EMISSION AND EXPOSURE IN IRELAND. THE PROJECT COMPRISES AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF DIESEL VEHICLE EMISSIONS ON THE EXPOSURE OF THE POPULATION TO PM2.5 AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT HEALTH IMPACTS. THE PROJECT INCLUDES THE COLLECTION OF PM2.5 SAMPLES IN LOCATION-SPECIFIC MICROENVIRONMENTS AND AMONG SELECTED POPULATION SUBGROUPS TO COMPLEMENT EXISTING RECORDS OF PM2.5 EXPOSURE. SOURCE APPORTIONMENT IS ALSO BEING CONDUCTED TO IDENTIFY THE CONTRIBUTION OF DIESEL EMISSIONS TO THE TOTAL MASS OF PARTICLES IN DIFFERENT MICROENVIRONMENTS. TO EXTRAPOLATE THE RESULTS OF THE MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN AND EXISTING DATA RECORDS TO A LARGE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION EXPOSURE MODELS ARE BEING DEVELOPED, BUILDING ON A NUMBER OF PREVIOUS DETERMINISTIC AND STATISTICAL APPROACHES RECENTLY DEVELOPED FOR DUBLIN. THE MOST SUITABLE APPROACH WILL BE IDENTIFIED FOLLOWING PERFORMANCE COMPARISON TO CONDUCT A PM2.5 POPULATION EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT FOR DUBLIN BASED ON TIME-ACTIVITY PROFILES AND CENSUS RECORDS A DIESEL VEHICLE EMISSIONS MODEL WILL ALSO BE DEVELOPED TO ASSESS THE CURRENT AND FUTURE IMPACT OF DIESEL VEHICLES ON EMISSIONS AT A LOCAL URBAN SCALE. THESE EMISSIONS AND EXPOSURE MODELS WILL ENABLE THE PROJECT TO INFORM POLICY AND DEVELOP SOLUTION TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF DIESEL VEHICLES IN IRELAND. EPA (€249,000) STRIVE PROGRAME DISTRIBUTION OUR WATER RESOURCES: UTILISING INTEGRATED, SMART & LOW-CARBON ENERGY (DWR UISCE) THE DWR UISCE PROJECT COMPRISES THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY TO IMPROVE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS. THE PROJECT INCLUDES TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREAS OF HYDROPOWER, HEAT RECOVERY AND NETWORK CONTROL AND OPTIMISATION. WORK ALSO INCLUDES BENCHMARKING, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTION. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO INCLUDE A STAKEHOLDER NETWORK TO FACILITATE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ERDF INTERREG IV 2014-2020 (€3.4 M) IRELAND WALES QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS NEUTRALITY ANTHROPOGENIC GHGS ARE PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE. THE LITERATURE HAS HIGHLIGHTED THAT BOTH HUMAN AND OTHER SPECIES IN IRELAND WILL BE SEVERELY AFFECTED BY THE ADVERSE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE. THE EPA IN IRELAND IS WORKING WITH OTHER NATIONAL BODIES, THE EU AND UNFCCC TO REDUCE GHGS IN ORDER TO KEEP THE RISE OF AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES BELOW 2OC. IN LIGHT OF RECENT POLICY CHANGES ARISING FROM THE PARIS AGREEMENT, THERE IS A NEED TO MAKE A SYNERGY BETWEEN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLICIES, TO UPDATE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHANGES TO THE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM FOR GHG EMISSIONS FOR EU COUNTRIES, AND TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE EMISSIONS INVENTORY PREPARATION AND PROJECTIONS IN LINE WITH THE STATE OF THE ART. THIS PROJECT WILL: PROVIDE IMPROVED GHG EMISSIONS ESTIMATION, AND INFORMATION REGARDING LOOPHOLES IN POLICIES; ASSIST EMISSIONS PROJECTION AND REPORTING OF EMISSION BY EXPLORING THE RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE, GUIDELINES AND PRACTICES; AND ASSIST THE EPA WITH QUANTITATIVE MEASURES TO ASSESS PROGRESS TOWARDS A LOW CARBON FUTURE. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL ALSO PRODUCE NEW KNOWLEDGE ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICABILITY OF A SET OF GHG INDICATORS FOR ASSESSING THE CARBON NEUTRAL OR CARBON BALANCED FUTURE IN IRELAND. EPA (€210,000) EPA RESEARCH IMPROVING THE SMART CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION IN EUROPE (ISCAPE) THE ISCAPE PROJECT IS LED BY DR FRANCESCO PILLA (OVERALL COORDINATOR), PROF BRIAN BRODERICK, DR AONGHUS MCNABOLA AND DR JOHN GALLAGHER. THE PROJECT AIMS TO INTEGRATE AND ADVANCE THE CONTROL OF AIR QUALITY AND CARBON EMISSIONS IN EUROPEAN CITIES (DUBLIN (IE), INNOVATION-CITY RUHR (BOTTROP - DE), LAZZARETTO BOLOGNA (IT), VANTAA (FI), HASSELT (BE), BOLOGNA (IT), GUILFORD (UK)) IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND PASSIVE AIR POLLUTION REMEDIATION STRATEGIES, POLICY INTERVENTIONS AND BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE INITIATIVES. IT WILL TACKLE THE PROBLEM OF REDUCING AIR POLLUTION AT TARGET RECEPTORS WITH AN INNOVATIVE SME-LED APPROACH, FOCUSING ON THE USE OF "PASSIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS" IN URBAN SPACES. HORIZON 2020 SOCIETAL CHALLENGES 5 CANCER SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SINEAD MC NALLY mcnallysinead VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MCNALLS1 PSYCHOLOGY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER, INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, RESEARCH AND POLICY, TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH, HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK FOR IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND GRADUATE MEMBERSHIP OF PSI AUTISM CHILD PSYCHOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOLINGUISTICS PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. DEIRDRE MC NAMARA mcnamaradeirdre ASSOC PROF CONSULTANT/HEAD OF DEPT MCNAMAD CLINICAL MEDICINE MAJOR DESCRIPTION: TRANSLATIONAL GASTROENTEROLOGY. FOUNDER AND CO-DIRECTOR OF THE TAGG (TRINITY ACADEMIC GASTROENTEROLOGY GROUP) RESEARCH CENTRE MAJOR THEMES: A) INFECTION: HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION. CHAIRPERSON IRISH HELICOBACTER PYLORI WORKING GROUP. CLINICAL LEAD FAECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTS, AMNCH. B) INFLAMMATION: INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. MEMBER OF THE EPI -IBD EUROPEAN RESEARCH GROUP, ICARE RESEARCH CONSORTIUM AND INITIATIVE IBD RESEARCH NETWORK. C) ANGIOGENESIS: ANGIODYSPLASIA. MEMBER ESGE SMALL BOWEL RESEARCH COMMITTEE. MEMBER OF THE SBCE RESEARCH NETWORK. ACTIVE PROJECTS: HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION. 1. PROSPECTIVE RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF TAILORED VERSUS STANDARD ERADICATION THERAPY 2. HELICOBACTER PYLORI ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE MONITORING 3. GENETIC NON-INVASIVE IDENTIFICATION OF H. PYLORI ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE 4. MANAGEMENT GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT 5. TARGETING NOTCH SIGNALING IN GASTROINTESTINAL INFLAMMATION. INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE 1. EU VALIDATION OF THE LEMANN MRI INDEX 2. EPI-IBD INCEPTION COHORT STUDY 3. IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THERAPEUTIC DRUG MONITORING AND TAILORED THERAPY 4. DEVELOPMENT OF NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS OF MUCOSAL HEALING 5. RISK OF NON-MELANOMA AND MELANOMA SKIN CANCER IN IBD PATIENTS ON IMMUNOMODULATORS AND ANTI-TNF-A MEDICATIONS. PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT AWARENESS AND INTERVENTION STUDY. 6. MULTICENTRE ASSESSMENT OF ANTIBODIES TO VEDOLIZUMAB AND TROUGH LEVELS ON CLINICAL EFFICACY 7. COLOCORT STUDY. ROLE OF HSD 1 & 2 IN CORTICOSTEROID RESISTANCE IN IBD ANGIODYSPLASIA 1. LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF SERUM ANGIOPOIETINS IN A COHORT OF ANGIODYSPLASIA PATIENTS 2. IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL PUTATIVE ANGIOGENIC FACTORS IN AN IRISH ANGIODYSPLASIA COHORT 3. MULTICENTRE TRIAL OF OCTREOTIDE ANALOGUES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF SYMPTOMATIC ANGIODYSPLASIA I HAVE A PROVEN TRACK RECORD AS A PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENT SUPERVISOR. SINCE MY APPOINTMENT IN 2010 I HAVE ATTRACTED AND FUNDED 2 PHD, 7 MD AND 2 MSC STUDENTS TO WORK ON PROJECTS IN MY AREAS OF INTEREST. OUR WORK HAS ALREADY RECEIVED NUMEROUS ACCOLADES AND RESULTED IN SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING 3 NATIONAL SCHOLAR AWARDS FROM THE UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION AND 2 DISTINCTION AWARDS FROM THE AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY CHAIRPERSON IRISH HELICOBACTER PYLORI WORKING GROUP CHAIRPERSON IRISH HELICOBACTER PYLORI WORKING GROUP DEPUTY EDITOR BURDEN OF GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE IN EUROPE, PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION DIRECTOR TRINITY ACADEMIC GASTROENTEROLOGY GROUP (TAGG) RESEARCH CENTRE ENDOSCOPY LEAD CLINICIAN FOR GRAMPIAN, DIAGNOSTICS COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMME,SCOTTISH EXECUTIVE EPI-IBD EUROPEAN CROHN'S AND COLITIS ORGANISATION (ECCO) RESEARCH CONSORTIUM EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY (ESGE) SMALL BOWEL RESEARCH COMMITTEE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY SMALL BOWEL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY SMALL BOWEL RESEARCH COMMITTEE FELLOW ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND FELLOW ROYAL COLLEGE PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH GRAMPIAN LEAD CLINICIAN, NHS SCOTLAND DIAGNOSTICS COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMME HONORARY TREASURER MEDICAL BOARD, ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL I-CARE (IBD CANCER AND SERIOUS INFECTIONS IN EUROPE) RESEARCH CONSORTIUM MEMBER EUREKA PANEL, EUROSTARS TECHNICAL EXPERT MEMBER EUROPEAN CROHN'S AND COLITIS ORGANISATION (ECCO) MEMBER EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY (ESGE) SMALL BOWEL QUALITY IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER INITIATIVE IBD RESEARCH NETWORK MEMBER JOINT ADELAIDE AND MEATH AND ST JAMES'S HOSPITALS RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE MEMBER NATIONAL CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE GUIDELINES SUBGROUP HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE MEMBER NATIONAL SOCIETIES FORUM, UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION MEMBER TALLAGHT HOSPITAL / ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL JOINT RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE (REC). MEMBER UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION (UEGF) COUNCIL MEMBER UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION MEETING OF MEMBERS (COUNCIL) MEMBER UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION TRAINEE MENTOR FACULTY MEMBER UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION TRAINEE MENTORSHIP FACULTY NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY FEDERATION (UEGF) NATIONAL SOCIETIES FORUM NATIONAL SPECIALIST WIRELESS ENDOSCOPY AND DEVICE ASSISTED ENTEROSCOPY REPRESENTATIVE IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY NATIONAL CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE GUIDELINES SUBGROUP HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, ENDOSCOPY TRAINING FACULTY MEMBER COLON CANCER SCREENING CROHNS DISEASE HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION SMALL BOWEL ANGIODYSPLASIA GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JOSEPH MC PARTLIN mcpartlinjoseph RETIRED STAFF MEMBER JMCPRTLN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIAL STORAGE SYSTEMS (BIOBANKING) PROVISION OF LABORATORY RESEARCH SERVICES DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CHAIRPERSON, CATEGORY 3 BIOSAFETY FACILITY, INSTITUTE MOLECULAR MEDICINE, TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL FELLOW, ROYAL COLLEGE PATHOLOGY, LONDON MEMBER, INTERIM WORKING GROUP WELLCOME TRUST-HRB CLINICAL RESEARCH FACILITY AT ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL SAFETY COMMITTEE, INSTITUTE MOLECULAR MEDICINE, TRINITY CENTRE, ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL. DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMATERIAL STORAGE SYSTEMS ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR KIERAN MC QUINN mcquinnkieran ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MCQUINNK ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JAMES MEANEY meaneyjames CLINICAL PROFESSOR JMEANEY SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 AGEING GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. CARLOS MEDINA MARTIN medinamartincarlos ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARTINC2 PHARMACY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS FIT WITH THREE OF TCD'S STRATEGIC RESEARCH PRIORITIES, NAMELY CANCER, INFLAMMATION AND NANOSCIENCES. MY RESEARCH PROGRAMME PRIMARILY FOCUSES ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENT MOLECULAR TARGETS INVOLVED IN COLON CANCER AND INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION. THE SECONDARY RESEARCH OBJECTIVE IS TO DESIGN NEW EFFECTIVE THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES FOR BOTH CONDITIONS, AND FINALLY MY PROGRAMME ALSO CONCENTRATES ON NOVEL NANOPARTICLE-BASED THERAPEUTICS. MY RESEARCH FIELD IS ALIGNED WITH TWO OF THE STRATEGIC AREAS OF IMPORTANCE OF IRISH INVESTMENT DIRECTED TOWARDS ECONOMIC OUTCOMES, NAMELY PRIORITY AREA F - DIAGNOSTICS AND AREA G - THERAPEUTICS: SYNTHESIS, FORMULATION, PROCESSING AND DRUG DELIVERY. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 26 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN CATALAN; VALENCIAN ENGLISH CANARY GASTROETNEROLOGIST ASSOCIATION IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACOLOGISTS IRISH PLATELET WORKING GROUP MEMBER OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF ALL IRELAND SCHOOLS OF PHARMACY MEETING WHICH IS HELD ANNUALLY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. MEMBER OF SPANISH RESEARCH SOCIETY IN IRELAND MEMBER OF THE CANARY GASTROENTEROLOGIST ASSOCIATION. MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACOLOGISTS MEMBER OF THE IRISH PLATELET WORKING GROUP MEMNER OF THE SPANISH GASTROENTEROLOGIST ASSOCIATION REFEREE FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS: NANOMATERIALS, INT J NANOMEDICINE, THE JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY, JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY, BBA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY, NEUROGASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY, THROMBOSIS RESEARCH, THE JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY RESEARCH, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY. REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING FUNDING AGENCIES: PHILIP MORRIS EXTERNAL RESEARCH PROGRAM AWARD, USA; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE GRANTS, THE BROAD FOUNDATION, USA; COMGRAD GRANTS, CANADA. SPANISH GASTROENTEROLOGIST ASSOCIATION SPANISH RESEARCH SOCIETY IN IRELAND CANCER CROHN'S DISEASE GENETICS OF INFLAMMATORY DISEASE GI PHYSIOLOGY INFLAMMATION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES MOLECULAR BASIS TO INFLAMMATION AND INNATE IMMUNITY ULCERATIVE COLITIS AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR MARY JANE MEEGAN meeganmaryjane FELLOW EMERITUS MMEEGAN PHARMACY ADDICTION RESEARCH CENTRE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTE MY RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTRY IN THE RATIONAL DESIGN OF NEW MEDICINES, SPECIFICALLY IN THE DESIGN OF HIGHLY POTENT AND SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS (SERMS) WHICH MAY BE UTILISED IN THE TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER AND OSTEOPOROSIS. EXTENSIVE MOLECULAR MODELLING ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIFIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DRUGS SUCH AS TAMOXIFEN AND RALOXIFENE AND MODELS OF THE PROTEIN TARGET (THE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR) HAS LED TO THE DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL STRUCTURALLY MODIFIED ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS WITH ALTERED SELECTIVITY AND AFFINITY FOR THE PROTEIN RECEPTOR. ONGOING RESEARCH IS EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY OF THESE PRODUCTS AGAINST MCF-7 BREAST CANCER CELLS, AND MAY LEAD TO A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPECIFIC STRUCTURAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTROGEN RECEPTOR AGONIST AND ANTAGONIST ACTIVITY. THIS RESEARCH WORK IS CARRIED OUT IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. D. ZISTERER AND DR. D. LLOYD IN THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. RELATED RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF NOVEL CYTOTOXIC HETEROCYCLES AGAINST BREAST CANCER CELL LINES (BOTH ER+ AND ER-)AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING COMPUTATIONAL METHODOLOGIES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF NEW ANTICANCER MOLECULAR SCAFFOLDS. IN ADDITION, WE HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERTISE IN THE AREA OF IMPURITY PROFILING OF AMPHETAMINES AND RELATED ECSTASY TYPE DRUGS OF ABUSE AND ALSO HAVE ESTABLISHED CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS INVOLVING THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL SELECTIVE SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITORS. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GUEST EDITOR OF CURRENT TOPICS IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY CHARTERED CHEMIST AMPHETAMINES ANTICANCER DRUG DESIGN ANTIESTROGENS CARBAPENEM ANTIBIOTICS CHEMISTRY OF DRUG METABOLISM CHEMISTRY OF DRUG RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF DRUGS DRUG DEVELOPMENT MOLECULAR MODELLING OF ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS PHARMACOLOGICALLY ACTIVE HETEROCYCLES DEVELOPMENT OF AN IN SILICO HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING SYSTEM FOR THE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BEFORE THE ADVENT OF RATIONAL DRUG DESIGN (RDD), NEW DRUG CANDIDATES WERE SCREENED RANDOMLY AND THE SUCCESS RATES WERE EXTREMELY LOW (ABOUT 1 IN 15 000) THUS DELAYING THE PROVISION OF NEW THERAPEUTICS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF RDD APPROACHES HAS GIVEN RESEARCHERS THE POWER TO DESIGN CANDIDATE DRUGS BASED ON THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THEIR TARGETS. THE OUTPUT FROM THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF PROTEOMICS AND STRUCTURAL GENOMICS ARE NOW FURNISHING VALIDATED TARGETS FOR VARIED DISEASE STATES. IN THIS PROJECT WE HAVE DEVELOPED A SUITE OF COMPUTATIONAL DRUG DESIGN PROGRAMS OPTIMISED TO CARRY OUT HIGH THROUGHPUT IN SILICO SCREENING OF CANDIDATE COMPOUNDS ON HIGHLY PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEMS USING X-RAY CRYSTAL OR HOMOLOGY MODELS OF BIOLOGICAL RECEPTORS FOR SPECIFIC DISEASE STATES. INITIALLY WE HAVE FOCUSSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL DOCKING ALGORITHMS TO FIT CANDIDATE LIGANDS TO THE ESTROGEN RECEPTORS TO FACILITATE OUR RESEARCH IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERAPEUTICS FOR USE IN BREAST CANCER TREATMENT. THE EFFICACY OF FIT ARISING FROM THESE DOCKING ROUTINES IS COMPLIMENTED THROUGH PARALLEL WET BIOCHEMICAL EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF BINDING AFFINITIES FOR LIGANDS IN CLONED ESTROGEN RECEPTORS USING COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE ASSAY KITS. THIS EXPERIMENTAL DATA HAS BEEN USED TO VALIDATE THE IN SILICO METHODOLOGY AND TO PROVIDE REFINEMENT PARAMETERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMISATION OF SCORING ALGORITHMS. THESE TOOLS WILL BE APPLICABLE IN THE DESIGN OF LIGANDS FOR ANY PATHOGENIC PROCESS WHEREIN A TARGET PROTEIN STRUCTURE IS KNOWN OR MAY BE DETERMINED, THUS SHORTENING R&D TIMES FOR THE PROVISION OF NEW THERAPEUTICS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. BERNARD MEEHAN meehanbernard RETIRED STAFF MEMBER BMEEHAN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MY PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN INSULAR MANUSCRIPTS AND CULTURE 6TH-9TH CENTURY; AND IN THE HISTORY AND MANUSCRIPTS OF SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN ENGLAND IN THE LONG HUNDRED YEARS AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST. THE LIBRARY COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES IN RESEARCH COLLECTIONS CERL, EUROPEAN MANUSCRIPT LIBRARIANS GROUP CHAIRMAN OF AMARC (ASSOCIATION FOR MANUSCRIPTS AND ARCHIVES IN RESEARCH COLLECTIONS) NATIONAL REPORTER FOR IRELAND: CERL, EUROPEAN MANUSCRIPT LIBRARIANS GROUP ARCHAEOLOGY OF MEDIEVAL BRITAIN AND IRELAND BIBLICAL STUDIES CELTIC STUDIES EUROPEAN HISTORY FINE ARTS HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS HISTORY HISTORY & APPRECIATION OF ART INSULAR ART IRELAND, SCOTLAND AND WALES IN THE MIDDLE AGES IRISH WRITING MANUSCRIPTS/BOOKS/MUSIC SCORES MEDIEVAL MEDIEVAL ART IN IRELAND MEDIEVAL BRITAIN MEDIEVAL EUROPE MEDIEVAL HISTORY MEDIEVAL IRELAND MEDIEVAL STUDIES MUSEUMS RELIGIOUS HISTORY THE LITERARY SOURCES MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. JUDITH MEEHAN meehanjudith ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JMEEHAN PAEDIATRICS DEPT OF PAEDIATRICS TALLAGHT HOSPITAL TALLAGHT DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 PROFESSOR CHRISTINE MEEK meekchristine FELLOW EMERITUS CMEEK HISTORY MEDIEVAL ITALY, ESPECIALLY THE HISTORY OF LUCCA; URBAN HISTORY, THE ECONOMY; LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, HISTORY OF WOMEN. DEPT. OF HISTORY 3145 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. GEORGE MELLOTTE mellottegeorge ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MELLOTTG CLINICAL MEDICINE PERITONEAL DIALYSIS AND DIALYSIS CATHETERS, ERYTHROPOIETIN: CARDIOVASCULAR MORBIDITY IN CKD 37 PARK DRIVE RANELAGH DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 IRISH NEPHROLOGY SOCIETY (PRESIDENT 2006-10) ACUTE-RENAL-FAILURE AUTOMATED PERITONEAL DIALYSIS GLOMERULONEPHRITIS NEPHROTIC SYNDROME PLASMA EXCHANGE RENAL-TRANSPLANTATION DR. GERARD MENEZES menezesgerard ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MENEZESK RADIATION THERAPY MY OVERARCHING RESEARCH THEME IS TO DEVELOP METHODS TO INCREASE THE ACCURACY OF CALCULATED DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS AND THE ASSESSMENT OF THEIR IMPACTS ON PATIENTS. CURRENTLY WHEN A PATIENT RECEIVES RADIATION THERAPY A PLANNED DOSE DISTRIBUTION IS CALCULATED BASED ON THEIR INITIAL CT SCAN. DAILY TREATMENT FRACTIONS THEN DELIVER DOSE TO THE PATIENT HOWEVER THE PATIENTS' ANATOMY WILL HAVE CHANGED SLIGHTLY. THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS WHICH PRODUCE THESE CHANGES INCLUDING DAILY BREATHING PATTERNS FOR LUNG PATIENTS AND BLADDER AND RECTAL FILLING FOR PELVIC PATIENTS. THE CHANGE IN LOCATION OF THE ORGANS FROM THE INITIAL CT SCAN CAN BE ANALSYSED AND MODELLED SUCCESSFULLY, HOWEVER CHANGES TO THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF ORGANS CANNOT. CURRENT METHODS OF CALCULATING THE LIKELY IMPACT OF SCATTERED RADIATION DOSE ON AN ORGAN AT RISK (NTCP) INVOLVE QUANTIFYING THE DOSE IN EACH VOXEL OF THE ORGAN. HOWEVER IF THE ORGAN DEFORMS (AS IS COMMON IN PELVIC PATIENTS) THEN IT IS DIFFICULT TO MAP THE DOSE ON SUBSEQUENT FRACTIONS TO THE ORIGINAL SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE ORGAN. MY RESEARCH GOAL IS TO WORK TOWARDS A METHOD BY WHICH WE CAN MAP THE DAILY DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS BACK ON TO THAT ORGAN. THIS WOULD ALLOW US TO MORE ACCURATELY MEASURE THE AMOUNT OF ORGAN TISSUE ABOVE THE DOSE THRESHOLDS CURRENTLY USED IN NTCP CALCULATIONS AND THEREFORE GET A BETTER PREDICTION OF THE LIKELIHOOD OF NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATIONS. SINCE MANY TREATMENTS ARE LIMITED BY THE AMOUNT DOSE TOLERANCE OF THESE NEARBY ORGANS, THIS COULD HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON TREATMENTS. IN ORDER TO DO THIS I HAVE SPLIT MY RESEARCH INTO 3 DIFFERENT WORK PACKAGES WHICH ARE AN AMALGAMATION OF SEVERAL PREVIOUS STRANDS OF RESEARCH 1.....THE DEVELOPMENT OF VIRTUAL LINEAR ACCELERATOR MODELS USING PRIMO TO REPLICATE THE BEAM DATA THAT WE USE IN OUR TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM. THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO ACQUIRE VERY ACCURATE MEASURES OF RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION. MONTE-CARLO MODELS ARE WELL ESTABLISHED IN THIS FIELD AND ARE CONSIDERED THE GOLD STANDARD FOR ACCURATE CALCULATION OF DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS. DEVELOPMENT OF A THESE MODELS IS EXTREMELY COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE, USING MULTIPLE COMPUTERS OVER MANY DAYS TO RUN EXPERIMENT. I HAVE COMPLETE THE DEVELOPMENT (AS A TRIAL) OF ONE OF THE BEAM ENERGIES NECESSARY FOR CALCULATION. I INTEND TO SUPERVISE A STUDENT PROJECT TO CONTINUE THIS WORK ON TO OTHER BEAM ENERGIES IN THE COMING ACADEMIC SESSION. 2.....THE APPLICATION OF DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION TO DAILY TREATMENT DELIVERIES TO DETERMINE VECTOR MAPS OF THE DEFORMATION. I HAVE ACCESS TO ANONYMOUS IMAGE SETS FOR IMAGE REGISTRATIO AND HAVE GATHERED DIFFERENT METHODS OF DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION THAT ARE AVAILABLE. THE NEXT STEP IS TO QUANTIFY THE DIFFERENCES THAT EACH OF THE MULTIPLE PARAMETERS MAKES ON THE ACCURACY OF THE DEFORMATION. I AM CURRENTLY DEVELOPING A METHODOLOGY TO PERFORM THIS HOWEVER THE MAIN DIFFICULTY WITH THIS IS THAT THERE IS LITTLE IN THE WAY OF GOLD STANDARD TO COMPARE TO. 3.....THE APPLICATION OF THOSE VECTOR MAPS TO THE DELIVERED DOSE DISTRIBUTION TO TRY TO MAP NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES. THIS IS THE MOST NOVEL AREA OF RESEARCH SINCE THERE ARE MANY WAYS OF AMALGAMATING THE DELIVERED DOSE TO DEFORMED PARTS OF THE PATIENT. MY NEXT STEP WITH THIS COMPONENT OF RESEARCH IS TO WRITE UP A LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE CURRENT STATE OF NTCP VARIATIONS IN THE MAIN TUMOUR SITES. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY TO AMALGAMATE DOSES FROM DIFFERENT VOXELS TO PROVIDE BETTER NTCP DATA SHOULD THEN FOLLOW. I AM ALSO IN THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING LIKELY COLLABORATORS IN THIS FIELD. SCHOOL OF RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ESTRO (EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY) CLINICAL PHYSICS COMPUTING RESOURCES HEALTH INFORMATICS HEALTH PHYSICS MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY RADIOTHERAPY, BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS AND CHEMOPREVENTION THERAPEUTIC RADIOGRAPHY ANALYSIS OF SABR DATA SABR (STEREOTACTIC ABLATIVE RADIOTHERAPY) IS A RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUE THAT USES SPECIALIST EQUIPMENT TO PRECISELY TARGET RADIOTHERAPY TO TREAT CERTAIN CANCERS. SABR USES SMALLER THINNER BEAMS OF RADIATION THAN STANDARD RADIOTHERAPY. THE TUMOUR ITSELF RECEIVES A HIGH RADIATION DOSE WHILE EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL BEAMS TRAVELS THROUGH THE SURROUNDING HEALTH TISSUE WHICH THEREFORE GETS A MUCH LOWER DOSE. SABR IS GIVEN WITH TYPICALLY 3-5 TREATMENT SESSIONS. THE HIGH PRECISION NECESSARY FOR ACCURATE TREATMENT MEANS THAT THE EXACT POSITION OF THE TUMOUR NEEDS TO BE CAREFULLY MONITORED BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER TREATMENT. THIS IS DONE USING AN INFRA-RED MARKER SYSTEM PLACED ON THE PATIENT'S BODY WHICH IS TRACKED BY AN INFRARED CAMERA WHICH SHOWS EXACTLY HOW THE PATIENT IS BREATHING. THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT SCANS AND BREATHING TRACES TAKEN BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE TREATMENT PROCESS. THIS STUDY WILL ANALYSE THE BREATHING TRACES AND IMAGES TO DETERMINE IF ANY IMPROVEMENTS CAN BE MADE TO THE SABR PROCESS AND HOW THE VARIATION IN BREATHING PATTERNS MAY AFFECT THE TREATMENT. NONE CANCER DR. CONCEPTA MERRY merryconcepta LECTURER IN THERAPEUTICS -PART-TIME CMERRY CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND ROLE OF PHARMACOLOGY (GENOMICS/KINETICS & ECONOMICS) IN OPTIMISING OUTCOMES FOR HIV INFECTED INDIVIDUALS IN THE RESOURCE LIMITED SETTING. PHARMACOKINETICS - I HAVE ESTABLISHED A HIV PHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH LABORATORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAKERERE, KAMPALA AND AM STUDYING THE QUALITY OF GENERIC DRUGS; THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WHO ARE CO-INFECTED WITH TB AND HIV OR MALARIA AND HIV; AND DRUG DOSING IN PREGNANCY, FOR CHILDREN AND LOW-WEIGHT ADULTS. I AM THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON A GRANT FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S EDCTP FOR A LARGE PROJECT WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN AND A CO-RECIPIENT OF FUNDING FROM THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT FOR A PROJECT BETWEEN UGANDA AND RWANDA THEREBY ESTABLISHING AN EXPERT HIV PHARMACOLOGY NETWORK THROUGH SOUTH-SOUTH AND NORTHSOUTH RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS. PHARMACOECONOMICS, INVESTIGATOR ON STUDY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA EVALUATING THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF PREVENTION OF MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION IN MALAWI. I HAVE PREVIOUSLY WORKED IN BOTSWANA ON A WHO SPONSORED PROGRAMME EVALUATING THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT THE ROLL-OUT OF ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS I CO-ORDINATED THE APPLICATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MAKERERE IN COLLABORATION WITH JOHNS HOPKINS AND UCSF TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CALL FOR A COLLABORATIVE CLINICAL TRIAL AND PREVENTION SITES. CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ADVISOR ON HIV POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS TO NGOS, CONCERN AND SUAS CO-FOUNDER/BOARD MEMBER OF MEREPA A CHARITY BASED IN GHANA TO SUPPORT EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT. EXPERT ADVISOR TO NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT ON HIV CARE INITIATIVES ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL: (15444) MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD OF THE ACADEMIC ALLIANCE FOR HIV/AIDS CARE AND PREVENTION MEMBER, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH INTO GLOBAL DISEASE (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMPLEMENTARY INTERESTS IN GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE. INTERESTS INCLUDE INNATE IMMUNITY, IMMUNE REGULATION, REGIONAL IMMUNITY, IMMUNE EVASIOB, VACCINE & ADJUVANT DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS DRUG & TARGET DEVELOPMENT. MEMBER, DMMC INFLAMMATION, IMMUNITY & INFECTION PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH IN INFLAMMATION, IMMUNIT AND INFECTION. PHARMACOLOGY ADVISOR TO THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND UGANDAN MEDICAL COUNCIL ROLE OF PHARMACOLOGY (GENOMICS/KINETICS & ECONOMICS) IN OPTIMISING OUTCOMES FOR HIV INFECTED INDIVIDUALS IN THE RESOURCE LIMITED SETTING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. CRAIG MESKELL meskellcraig ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CMESKELL MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG UNSTEADY FLUID MECHANICS IN POWER GENERATION APPLICATIONS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN MANUFACTURING; FLUID INDUCED VIBRATION AND NOISE; SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AEROELASTICITY FLUID DYNAMICS FLUIDS AND VIBRATION INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES, ENERGY USE NUCLEAR REACTOR TECHNOLOGY TIDAL AND WAVE ENERGY VIBRATION AND ACCOUSTIC ENGINEERING WIND, WIND ENERGY ENGINEERING MODELLING ACOUSTIC RESONANCE IN HEAT EXCHANGERS HEAT EXCHANGERS CAN EXHIBIT PERIODIC VORTEX SHEDDING. IF THE FLUID IS GAS FLOW, THEN THE VORTEX SHEDDING MAY EXCITE AN ACOUSTIC DUCT MODE AND HENCE CAUSE ACOUSTIC RESONANCE. THE ACOUSTIC SOURCES ARE DISTRIBUTED AND DIFFUSE. THE ONSET, AND LOCK-IN BEHAVIOUR DEPENDS ON THE NON-LINEAR INTERACTION BETWEEN THE (LINEAR) ACOUSTIC FIELD AND THE FLUID DYNAMICS. THIS PROJECT USES UNSTEADY CFD TO INVESTIGATE THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF ACOUSTIC SOURCES. SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FOR A WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES THE DYNAMICS A SELF REACTING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER, ESPECIALLY AS IT EXHIBITS PARAMETRIC ROLL/PITCH, ARE MODELLED USING A NON-LINEAR PANEL METHOD. THE RESPONSE OBTAINED IS USED TO IDENTIFY A SIMPLIFIED 7 DEGREE OF FREEDOM LUMPED PARAMETER MODEL. WAVEBOB AND IRCSET EPS FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATION OF NUCLEAR STEAM GENERATORS NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DEPENDS ON LARGE HEAT EXCHANGERS, CALLED STEAM GENERATORS, TO TRANSFER THE HEAT FROM THE REACTOR TO STEAM, SO THAT ELECTRICITY CAN BE GENERATED AT THE TURBINES. THESE STEAM GENERATORS ARE EFFECTIVE BUNDLES OF LONG, THIN (AND HENCE FLEXIBLE) TUBES SUBJECT TO FLOW PERPENDICULAR TO THEIR AXES. THIS GIVES RISE TO THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATION. IN THIS PROJECT WE ARE INVESTIGATING A RECENTLY DISCOVERED PHENOMENON IN TUBE ARRAYS, CALLED BI-STABLE FLOW. WE ARE FOCUSSING ON A TUBE BUNDLE ARRANGE IN A PARALLEL TRIANGULAR ARRAY PATTERN WITH A PITCH RATIO OF 1.375 AS THIS IS TYPICAL OF WHAT IS USED IN CANDU REACTORS. HEA INVESTIGATION OF FLOW-INDUCED VIBRATION OF HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINES INDUSTRIAL SCALE WIND TURBINES MUST BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND OCCASIONAL EXTREME WINDS. THIS INCLUDES GUSTS WHICH CAUSE A RAPID CHANGE IN WIND DIRECTION. THIS WILL MEAN THAT THE BLADES ARE NOW ARE VERY HIGH, EVEN REFLEXIVE, ANGLES OF INCIDENCE TO THE FLOW, AND SO MAY BE CONSIDERED AS BLUFF BODIES, RATHER THAN STREAMLINED LIFTING SURFACES. IN THIS PROJECT, WE INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITY OF WIND TURBINE BLADE SECTIONS EXPERIENCING VORTEX SHEDDING, AND VORTEX SHEDDING LOCK-IN DUE TO STRUCTURAL MOTION, AT HIGH ANGLES OF ATTACK. THE SIMULATED DATA IS USED TO OBTAIN A SIMPLE NON-LINEAR WAKE MODEL WHICH IS COUPLED TO THE MOTION OF THE STRUCTURE. EU ITN SYSWIND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JAMES MILLER millerjames TEACHING FELLOW JAMILLER PHILOSOPHY MY MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN THE INTERSECTION OF METAPHYSICS (BROADLY CONSTRUED) AND LANGUAGE. MY AREAS OF SPECIALISATION ARE METAPHYSICS, PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, META-METAPHYSICS (META-ONTOLOGY), AND PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. I HAVE FURTHER INTERESTS (AREAS OF COMPETENCE) IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY (ESP. DESCARTES, BERKELEY, HUME, AND KANT), PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, AND LOGIC. MUCH OF MY WORK TRIES TO RELATE SOME OF THESE THEMES, ESPECIALLY FINDINGS FROM EMPIRICAL WORK IN LINGUISTICS, TO METAPHYSICS, AND PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE. PLEASE SEE HTTPS://LANGONT.WORDPRESS.COM FOR RECENT NEWS ABOUT MY RESEARCH PROJECT 'THE LANGUAGE OF ONTOLOGY'. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 METAMETAPHYSICS METAPHYSICS PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY OF LINGUISTICS PHILOSOPHY OF MIND PROFESSOR JOHN MILLER millerjohn FELLOW EMERITUS JMILLER PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS DESIGN, MODELLING, TESTING AND DEVELOPMENT OF WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS (WECS) TO GENERATE ELECTRIC POWER FROM OCEAN WAVES. MATHEMATICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR KINGSTON MILLS millskingston PROFESSOR MILLSK BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY COLLEGE CENTRE FOR IMMUNOLOGY A MAJOR INTEREST OF MY RESEARCH IS TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTOR IMMUNE RESPONSES THAT PROTECT US AGAINST INFECTION AND CANCER AND HOW, WHEN UNCONTROLLED THIS CAN LEAD TO AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED THE FACTORS THAT AFFECT THE INDUCTION, OF THE DISTINCT SUBPOPULATIONS OF CD4+ T CELLS, TERMED TH1, TH2 AND T REGULATORY (TREG) AND TH17 CELLS, AND THE ROLE OF INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM, IN PARTICULAR DENDRITIC CELLS, IN DIRECTING T CELL RESPONSES. THE WORK HAS DIRECT APPLICATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW OR IMPROVED VACCINES AND INCLUDES STUDIES ON BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS, FASCIOLA HEPATICA, INFLUENZA VIRUS AND HEPATITIS C VIRUS. IN THE LAST NUMBER OF YEARS MY GROUP HAS FOCUSED ON IMMUNE REGULATION AND IMMUNE MODULATION BY PATHOGENS. THIS HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH PI AND STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER (SRC) AWARDS FROM SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND. THE AIMS ARE TO EXAMINE THE ROLE OF PATHOGEN-DERIVED MOLECULES IN MODULATING IMMUNE RESPONSES, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE INDUCTION, REGULATION AND FUNCTION OF T CELL SUBTYPES AND THE INDUCTION AND CONTROL OF INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES. OUR HYPOTHESIS IS THAT THE STUDY OF IMMUNOMODULATION BY MICROBIAL PATHOGENS IS AN IDEAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTAND MECHANISMS OF PROTECTIVE IMMUNITY AND IMMUNOREGULATION IN VIVO AND WILL ALLOW THE IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL IMMUNOMODULATORY MOLECULES WITH POTENTIAL AS THERAPIES FOR IMMUNE MEDIATED DISEASES. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED MOLECULES CAPABLE OF SPECIFICALLY SUPPRESSING OR ENHANCING IMMUNE RESPONSE THAT REGULATE OR MEDIATE CERTAIN HUMAN DISEASES. THE APPLICATION OF THIS RESEARCH IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW OR IMPROVED VACCINES AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASES, ACTIVE IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS AGAINST CANCER AND ANTI-INFLAMMATORY THERAPEUTICS AGAINST AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES. A RECENT SFI PI AWARD ON 'THE ROLE OF REGULATORY T CELL CONTROL OF PATHOGENIC AND EFFECTOR T CELLS AND THEIR MANIPULATION AS POTENTIAL THERAPIES FOR HUMAN DISEASE' IS FOCUSED ON THE INTERFACE BETWEEN INNATE AND ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY, SPECIFICALLY HOW WE CAN MANIPULATE DENDRITIC CELLS TO SELECTIVELY ALTER THE BALANCE OF REGULATORY (TREG) VERSUS EFFECTOR (TH1 OR TH2) OR PATHOGENIC (TH17). OUR AIM IS TO DESIGN NEW APPROACHES TO TREAT AUTOIMMUNITY BY ENHANCING INDUCTION OF TREG WHICH SUPPRESS TH17 CELLS AND TO DEVELOP NEW INFECTIOUS DISEASES VACCINES AND CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS BY ENHANCING INDUCTION OF TH1 AND TH2 CELLS, WHILE INHIBITING TREG CELLS. DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF IMMUNOLOGISTS AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY ASSOCIATE EDITOR. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY BRITISH AND IRISH SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY CHAIR AN EXPERT GROUP ESTABLISHED BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH AND CHILDREN TO EXAMINE PROCESSES TO ENSURE CONTINUING QUALITY OF VACCINE PRODUCTS. CHAIRMAN OF INFECTION & IMMUNITY GROUP OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY. INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF IRELAND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY IRISH REPRESENTATIVE AT THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF IMMUNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES AND THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF IMMUNOLOGY SOCIETIES. IRISH RESEARCH SCIENTISTS ASSOCIATION IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY MEMBER EXPERT COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL DEVICES, IRISH MEDICINES BOARD. MEMBER OF BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL OF THE ADELAIDE, MEATH AND NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, TALLAGHT, DUBLIN. MEMBER OF LIFE SCIENCE COMMITTEE OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. MEMBER OF MICROBIOLOGY AND MECHANISMS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AND HOST DEFENCE COMMITTEE OF THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD. MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD. IMMUNOLOGY AND CELL BIOLOGY MEMBER OF THE WELLCOME TRUST IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE COMMITTEE MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD OF EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETIES, IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY. MEMBER, EXPERT COMMITTEE ON BLOOD PRODUCTS AND VACCINES OF IRISH MEDICINES BOARD. MEMBER, IMMUNOLOGY & PATHOLOGY COMMITTEE OF THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD. MEMBER, INFECTION & IMMUNITY COMMITTEE OF BRITISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY. MEMBER, IRISH AREA COMMITTEE OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY. MEMBER, IRISH BRANCH COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY MEMBER, IRISH BRANCH COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY. MEMBER, LIFE SCIENCES / BIOTECHNOLOGY PANEL, ENTERPRISE IRELAND STRATEGIC AND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT SCHEMES. MEMBER, NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR BIOCHEMISTRY OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. MEMBER, UK MRC COMMITTEE ON VACCINES & IMMUNIZATION PROCEDURES MEMBER, WHO INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON DNA VACCINES. MEMBER, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WORKING GROUP ON PERTUSSIS VACCINES. PANEL CHAIRMAN, SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANTS. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND SECTION EDITOR, THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS-VACCINE ACTIVATION PATHWAY ANTIGEN BACTERIAL BACTERIAL INFECTION BACTERIAL LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BACTERIAL TOXINS BIODEGRADABLE MICROPARTICLE BLOOD MONONUCLEAR-CELLS BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS CD4+ T CELLS CELL-MEDIATED-IMMUNITY CHOLERA-TOXIN CYTOKINE PRODUCTION CYTOKINES DEMYELINATION ENDOTOXIN EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS FILAMENTOUS HEMAGGLUTININ GROWTH-FACTOR-BETA HOST-DEFENSE HUMAN DENDRITIC CELLS HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS IL-1 IL-1 RECEPTOR IL-1/MAP KINASES IL-10 IL-12 IL-4 IMMUNE-RESPONSES IMMUNOSUPPRESSION INFLAMMATION INTERFERON-GAMMA INTERLEUKIN-1 INTERLEUKIN-1 BETA INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTORS INTERLEUKIN-1-BETA INTERLEUKIN-1-BETA MESSENGER-RNA INTERLEUKIN-2 LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULES LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE MACROPHAGES MAP KINASE MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODIES MONOCYTE MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS MURINE MACROPHAGES MYELIN BASIC-PROTEIN NF-KAPPA-B NITRIC-OXIDE PHOSPHORYLATION PROTEINS SEIZURE SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS SURFACE PROTEIN T LYMPHOCYTES T-CELL ACTIVATION T-CELLS T-LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION TH1 CELL TH1 CELLS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR VACCINATION VIRAL-INFECTIONS IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) HIV NUCLEIC ACID VACCINATION: TARGETING OF ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS AND INDUCTION OF SPECIFIC MUCOSAL IMMUNE RESPONSES' €85,000 EU BIOMED PROGRAMME NEUROIMMUNOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO INFECTION WITH A GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM €95,000 FORBAIRT BASIC RESEARCH GRANT PURCHASE OF AN IRRADIATOR FOR INHIBITION OF CELL PROLIFERATION, INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS AND GENE MUTATIONS AND CONDITIONING RECIPIENTS IN MURINE ADOPTIVE TRANSFER EXPERIMENTS €100,000 WELLCOME TRUST EQUIPMENT AWARD S. MARTIN, CO-APPLICANT INTERDEPENDENCE OF IMMUNE MECHANISMS IN PROTECTION AGAINST BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS €215,000 WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANT ACQUISITION OF AN AUTOMATED DNA SEQUENCER AND GEL DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MECHANISMS OF PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH AND IMMUNITY TO INFECTIOUS DISEASES €75,500 WELLCOME TRUST/HRB EQUIPMENT AWARD WITH S. MARTIN REGULATION AND EFFECTOR FUNCTION OF TH1 AND TH2 CELLS IN IMMUNITY TO A RESPIRATORY PATHOGEN' €38,000 THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT BIOSAFETY OF VACCINES BASED ON SELF-REPLICATING RECOMBINANT ALPHAVIRUS' €123, 000 EU BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME THE ROLE OF CATHEPSIN L CYSTEINE PROTEINASES SECRETED BY HELMINTH PATHOGNS IN MODULATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES €76,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP DEMONSTRATION AND SHARED COST PROJECTS MUCOSAL VACCINES - MUCOSAL ADJUVANTICITY OF LT MUTANTS WITH INFLUENZA VIRUS ANTIGENS FOR INTRANASAL IMMUNIZATION €200,000 EU FRAMEWORK 5 BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME MODULATION OF IMMUNE RESPONSES BY FILAMENTOUS HAEMAGGLUTININ FROM BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS €89,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT ROLE OF TOXIN INDUCED INTERLUKIN-1B IN THE NEUROLOGICAL RESPONSES TO GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA' €89,000 ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND €11.3MILLION AWARD TO THE NUI MAYNOOTH, INCLUDING €1M CURRENT COSTS FOR IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH, HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY ACTIVATION OF INNATE RESPONSES BY IMMUNOSTIMULATORY SEQUENCES IN BACTERIAL DNA €155,500 ELAN CORPORATION STUDENT FELLOWSHIP NASAL VACCINATION - A BALANCE BETWEEN BENEFICIAL IMMUNITY AND NEUROTOXICITY' €152,000, HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT REGULATORY T CELL INDUCTION - AN IMMUNE SUBVERSION STRATEGY BY BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS' €149,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP TO DR PETER MC GUIRK PATHOGEN-DERIVED IMMUNOMODULATORY MOLECULES - FUTURE THERAPEUTICS AND VACCINES €6.5M SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AWARD THE ROLE OF REGULATORY T CELLS IN PARASITE IMMUNOSUPPRESSION' €163,021 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP TO DR MIRIAM BRADY MODULATION OF HOST IMMUNE RESPONSES BY EFFECTOR PROTEINS OF HE TYPE III SECRETION SYSTEM OF BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS €163,352 IRSCET BASIC RESEARCH PROJECT WITH PROF CLIONA O'FARRELLY, ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL (PI), DR DERMOT KELLEHER, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND DR DEREK DOHERTY, NUI MAYNOOTH. CHARACTERISATION OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS INDUCED IMMUNOLOGICAL SUBVERSION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT RESPONSE €552,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROGRAMME GRANT MUCOSAL VACCINES FOR POVERTY RELATED DISEASES (MUVAPRED). FP6-2002-LIFESCIHEALTH-2.3, PROPOSAL NO 503240 €15M APPROX €350,000 TO TCD EU 6TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THE LOCAL IMMUNE RESPONSE TO A RESPIRATORY PATHOGEN €38,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT INVESTIGATIONS ON THE MECHANISM OF IMMUNITY TO B. PERTUSSIS IN A MURINE MODEL €283,000 WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANT PROGRAMME EVA "VACCINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR THE SELECTIVE INDUCTION OF CELLULAR IMMUNE RESPONSES WITH CANDIDATE HIV VACCINES €38,000 EU BIOMED-1 T CELL RESPONSES TO BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS IN CHILDREN AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINE €38,000 THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT CELLULAR IMMUNE RESPONSES TO HIV SUPPORT FOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW PLUS €13,000 FOR CONSUMABLES COSTS COMMONWEALTH AIDS RESEARCH GRANTS THE USE OF CONTROLLED RELEASE MICROPARTICLES AS ORAL AND PARENTERAL VACCINES AGAINST VIBRIO CHOLERA, E. COLI AND BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS €15,400 EU STD PROGRAMME INVESTIGATIONS OF THE BIOCHEMICAL BASIS FOR THE IMMUNOMODULATORY PROPERTIES OF PERTUSSIS TOXIN €25,000, FORBAIRT BASIC RESEARCH GRANT MUCOSAL VACCINES FOR RESPIRATORY DISEASES BASED UPON NASAL ADMINISTRATION €239,000, 1996-2000. EU INNOVATION PROGRAMME THE ROLE OF T CELL-DERIVED CYTOKINES IN VACCINE INDUCED IMMUNITY AGAINST WHOOPING COUGH IN INFANTS €44,000 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH (NIH), USA EVALUATION OF BIODEGRADABLE MICROPARTICLES AS A VACCINE DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR AN ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINE €305,000 FORBAIRT APPLIED RESEARCH AWARD AND ELAN CORPORATION GENETIC AND IMMUNOLOGICAL SAFETY OF NUCLEIC ACID VACCINES €220,000, EU BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME VIRUS VARIANTS AND HOST IMMUNE RESPONSE IN THE RESOLUTION AND PROGRESSION OF CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE FOLLOWING HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION €890,000 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD UNIT WITH D. KELLEHER, C. O'FARRELLY, W. HALL, J, HEGARTY CHIRON CORPORATION FELLOWSHIP 'MECHANISM OF ADJUVANT ACTIVITY OF E €68,000 COLI HEAT LABILE TOXIN MECHANISM OF ADJUVANT ACTIVITY OF E. COLI HEAT LABILE TOXIN €68,000 CHIRON CORPORATION FELLOWSHIP PURCHASE OF A HIGH SPEED CELL SORTER €387,200. SFI EQUIPMENT SUPPLEMENT PRE-CLINICAL EVALUATION OF IMMUNOMODULATORY MOLECULES IN THE PREVENTION OR TREATMENT OF IMMUNE-MEDIATED DISEASES €379,646 ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION GRANT REGULATION OF T CELL RESPONSES IN IMMUNITY TO BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS €209491 HRB PROJECT GRANT THE EVALUATION OF IMMUNOMODULATORS IN EX-VIVO MODELS OF CELL BASED THERAPIES AND IN THE ENHANCEMENT OF EFFICACY OF MARKETED BIOLOGICALS €372,704 EI INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP REGULATORY T CELL CONTROL OF PATHOGENIC AND EFFECTOR T CELLS AND THEIR MANIPULATION AS POTENTIAL THERAPIES FOR HUMAN DISEASES €3.6M SFI INVESTIGATOR AWARD THE ROLE OF NOD-LIKE RECEPTORS IN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD TO PATRICK KELLY, CO-FUNDED BY INDUSTRIAL SPONSOR OPSONA THERAPEUTIC IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME PHD IA STUDY OF EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS FACTORS THAT PRECIPITATE, EXACERBATE OR REGULATE THE T CELLS THAT CAUSE AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES IRSCET EMBARK POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD TO LARA DUNGAN, NASAL PANDEMIC INFLUENZA VACCINE (NASPANVAC) €4.07M; €488,016 TO TCD EU 7TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE €7.5M SFI STRATEGIC RESERCH CLUSTER THE EFFECT OF RETINOIC ACID ON THE FATE OF &#947;&#948; T CELLS. EU-FP7 MARIE CURIE TRAINING FELLOWSHIP TO MATHILDE RAVERDEAU FUNCTION AND REGULATION IL-17-SECRETING T CELLS PRTLI 4-YR PHD PROGRAMME IN INFLAMMATION NEW IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS APPROACHES BASED ON THE TH1/TH17 AXIS AND ITS REGULATION. SFI PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FLOW CYTOMETRY CELL SORTER, €587,000. SFI INFRASTRUCTURE AWARD HELMINTH-DERIVED IMMUNOMODULATORY MOLECULES AS THERAPEUTICS FOR IMMUNE-MEDIATED DISEASE SFI TIDA THE ROLE OF INFECTIONS AGENTS IN PRECIPITATING THE NEURODEGENERATIVE CHANGES THAT LEAD TO DEVELOPMENT OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE. TCD-UCD INNOVATION ALLIANCE (JOINT PROJECT WITH MARINA LYNCH) ACTIVATION AND ROLE OF &#947;&#948; T CELLS IN MUCOSAL IMMUNITY HRB 4-YR PHD PROGRAMME IN IMMUNOLOGY. REGULATORY T CELL INDUCING VACCINE FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES. HRB 4-YR PHD PROGRAMME IN IMMUNOLOGY. CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. RICHARD MILLWOOD millwoodrichard VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MILLWOOR COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION I AM CURRENTLY PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL THINKING ACROSS THE LIFECOURSE AND IN COLLABORATION IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AS A MODEL FOR LEARNING. I AM ALSO BUILDING THE UK NATIONAL ARCHIVE OF EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW OF THE BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY, CHARTERED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL FBCS CITP FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF THE ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE FRSA COMPUTATIONAL THINKING COMPUTER BASED TRAINING COMPUTER EDUCATION/LITERACY COMPUTER MODELING COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION COMPUTER SIMULATION COMPUTER SIMULATION/MODELING COMPUTER SIMULATIONS COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION COMPUTER-SIMULATION CYBERNETICS DISTANCE LEARNING E-LEARNING EDUCATION AND WORK EDUCATION/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL MODES/PSYCHOLOGY/THEORY EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PRACTICES INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MATHEMATICS EDUCATION MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMMING, INFORMATION SYSTEMS SCHOOL ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS CONTROL, MODELLING, NEURAL NETWORKS TEACHER EDUCATION UNIVERSITY/INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS WORK-FOCUSSED LEARNING COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. STEPHEN MINTON mintonstephen ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MINTONST EDUCATION ANTI-BULLYING RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTRE CURRENTLY, I AM INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH AREAS: (I) THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF AGGRESSION, INCLUDING SCHOOL BULLYING BEHAVIOUR AND VIOLENCE, AND CYBER-BULLYING; (II) THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF PROCESSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN EDUCATION AND SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY REGARDING SO-CALLED 'MINORITIES' (E.G. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, LGBT PEOPLE, AND MEMBERS OF YOUTH SUB-CULTURES), AND ADDRESSING PREJUDICE IN AND THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE; AND, (III) MOST GENERALLY OF ALL, PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES IN EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY SCHOOL TEACHING AND EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE COUNSELLING. I CURRENTLY SERVE AS THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION'S DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, AND CHAIR THE SCHOOL'S ETHICS COMMITTEE. EDUCATION DEPT 3095 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NORWEGIAN SWEDISH ENGLISH GERMAN ASSOCIATE FELLOW OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY CHARTERED PSYCHOLOGIST WITH THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR DUBLIN BUSINESS SCHOOL'S HETAC PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMMES (B.A. (HONS). IN PSYCHOLOGY, AND HIGHER DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY) EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORE'S UNIVERSITY B.A. (HONS). BUSINESS WITH PSYCHOLOGY PROGRAMME GENERAL MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S DIVISION OF EDUCATIONAL AND CHILD PSYCHOLOGY GENERAL MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S DIVISION OF TEACHERS AND RESEARCHERS IN PSYCHOLOGY MEMBER OF BRNET (BULLYING RESEARCH NETWORK) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE JOURNAL OF AGGRESSION, CONFLICT AND PEACE RESEARCH ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY AFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLYING CHILD PSYCHOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT CHILDREN'S SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, DIVORCE, ADOPTION, JUVENILE CRIME COMPARATIVE/ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFLICT/DISPUTE RESOLUTION DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY DISCIPLINE PROBLEMS DROPOUT PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL MODES/PSYCHOLOGY/THEORY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATIONAL REFORM EDUCATIONAL RETENTION INFANT PSYCHOLOGY PARENT INVOLVEMENT PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHODYNAMICS TEACHER ATTITUDES TEACHER EDUCATION VIOLENCE PREVENTION VIOLENT BEHAVIOR PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION THE NATIONWIDE INTERVENTION PROGRAMME AGAINST BULLYING BEHAVIOUR IN IRISH SCHOOLS PRINCIPALLY, A PROGRAMME WHICH TRAINED AND RESOURCED A NATIONWIDE PROFESSIONAL NETWORK OF TEACHERS TO CONDUCT ANTI-BULLYING WORK IN THEIR LOCAL SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, AND OVERSAW AND EVALUATED THEIR SUBSEQUENT ACTIVITIES. I WAS JOINTLY RESPONSIBLE, WITH PROFESSOR O' MOORE, FOR THE RECRUITMENT, SELECTION AND TRAINING OF THE PROFESSIONAL NETWORK, AND THE CO-ORDINATION OF ITS MEMBERS' ANTI-BULLYING ACTIVITIES. MY ROLE INCLUDED THE PREPARATION OF TRAINING MATERIALS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS, AND THE EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAMME. OUTPUTS INCLUDED A BOOK ('DEALING WITH BULLYING IN SCHOOLS: A TRAINING MANUAL FOR TEACHERS, PARENTS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS' (2004; A.M. O' MOORE & S.J. MINTON). IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DONEGAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS ANTI-BULLYING PROGRAMME A PROGRAMME WHICH TRAINED AND RESOURCED A PROFESSIONAL NETWORK OF TEACHERS IN CO. DONEGAL TO CONDUCT ANTI-BULLYING WORK IN THEIR LOCAL SCHOOL COMMUNITIES, AND OVERSAW AND EVALUATED THEIR SUBSEQUENT ACTIVITIES. THE DESIGNER AND CO-ORDINATOR OF THE PROJECT WAS PROFESSOR O' MOORE; MY OWN ROLE WAS TO ASSIST IN THE EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAMME. OUTPUTS INCLUDED TWO CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS AND A JOURNAL ARTICLE (SEE PUBLICATIONS, BELOW). CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, NORTH-EASTERN HEALTH BOARD, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE VISTA (VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS TRAINING ACTION) THE PROJECT AIMED TO PROVIDE TRAINING RESOURCES, GEARED PRINCIPALLY AT SCHOOL POLICY MAKERS, TO HELP PREVENT AND COUNTER VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS EUROPE-WIDE. THE PROJECT SAW PARTICIPATION FROM SIX COUNTRY TEAMS (BELGIUM, BULGARIA, IRELAND, NORWAY, SPAIN, UK) UNDER THE CO-ORDINATION OF PROFESSOR HELEN COWIE (UK). THE COUNTRY TEAMS CAME FROM A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES: CRIMINOLOGY, EDUCATION, LAW, PSYCHOLOGY. MY OWN ROLE WAS AS A PROJECT RESEARCHER. OUTPUTS INCLUDED A WEB RESOURCE (WWW.VISTA-EUROPE.ORG). EUROPEAN COMMISSION (COMENIUS 2.1) A REVIEW OF SCIENTIFICALLY EVALUATED GOOD PRACTISES OF PREVENTING AND REDUCING BULLYING AT SCHOOL IN THE EU MEMBER STATES COMMISSIONED (AFTER SUCCESSFUL OPEN TENDERING) BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION TO PRODUCE SUCH A REVIEW. THE FINISHED DOCUMENT WAS SUBSTANTIAL, BEING OVER 75, 000 WORDS IN LENGTH. THE RESEARCH GROUP COMPRISED PERSONNEL OF THE ANTI-BULLYING RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. MY OWN (DUAL) ROLE WAS AS PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR AND AS ONE OF SIX PROJECT RESEARCHERS. THE FINISHED REVIEW WAS PUBLISHED ON-LINE BY THE EC (SEE PUBLICATIONS, BELOW). EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONNECT UK-001: TACKLING VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS ON A EUROPEAN-WIDE BASIS THE PROJECT COMPRISED TEAMS FROM THE THEN FIFTEEN EU MEMBER STATES, PLUS NORWAY AND ICELAND, PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW OF KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING AND ACTION TAKEN IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES CONCERNING TACKLING VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS. THE PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR WAS PROFESSOR PETER K. SMITH (U.K.); MY OWN ROLE WAS AS THE PROJECT RESEARCHER FOR THE IRISH TEAM. OUTPUTS INCLUDED A WEB RESOURCE (WWW.GOLD.AC.UK/CONNECT), AND BOOK ('VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS: THE RESPONSE IN EUROPE' (2003; EDITED BY P.K. SMITH)). EUROPEAN COMMISSION VISTOP (VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS TRAINING ON-LINE PROGRAMME THE PROJECT AIMS AT DEVELOPING AN ON-LINE COURSE THAT INTRODUCES TEACHERS, PRINCIPALS, POLICY-MAKERS, PARENTS AND OTHER SCHOOL STAFF TO THE TOPIC OF SCHOOL BULLYING AND VIOLENCE (SBV). THERE ARE FIVE PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS (FROM BULGARIA, IRELAND, SPAIN AND THE UK, UNDER THE CO-ORDINATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LANDAU'S THOMAS JAEGER (GERMANY)). MY OWN ROLE IS AS A PROJECT RESEARCHER. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (COMENIUS 2.1) ERRIS ANTI-BULLYING INITIATIVE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF A 'WHOLE-SCHOOL / COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT' ANTI-BULLYING PROGRAMME IN ERRIS, CO. MAYO, INVOLVING LOCAL PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS, AND DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS. PARTNERSHIP WITH IORRAS LE CHEILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. IORRAS LE CHEILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT COUNTERING PREJUDICE IN SCHOOLS ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND PROJECT AIMS ARE (I) TO RAISE AWARENESS OF PREJUDICE AND THE DESIRABILITY OF ITS BEING COUNTERED, AND TO BUILD COMPETENCIES IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND IN DOING SO; (II) TO IMPLEMENT AND PROFESSIONALLY EVALUATE A SPECIFICALLY-DESIGNED EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE, THE S.O.P.H.I.E. GAME, WHICH HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO SHOW YOUNG PEOPLE HOW EASY IT IS TO BE MORE TOLERANT, AND TO OPEN THEIR MINDS TO ACCEPT ALL PEOPLE, REGARDLESS OF LIFESTYLES OR APPEARANCES, IN SIX POST-PRIMARY SCHOOLS ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND - THREE IN CO. MAYO, AND THREE IN NORTHERN IRELAND; (III) TO FOSTER LINKS BETWEEN SCHOOL SCHOOL COMMUNITIES ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND AND THE UK CHARITY, THE SOPHIE LANCASTER FOUNDATION; AND (IV) TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF ALTEROPHOBIC PREJUDICE AND THE MEANS BY WHICH PREJUDICE CAN BE COUNTERED THROUGH AND IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES. PROJECT PARTNERS ARE (I) MYSELF (PROJECT CO-ORDINATION / CONTACT, EVALUATION); (II) THE SOPHIE LANCASTER FOUNDATION, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND (TRAINING AND RESOURCES) (SYLVIA LANCASTER); (III) THE IORRAS LE CHÉILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, BELMULLET, CO. MAYO (IMPLEMENTATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) (ROSE CONWAY-WALSH); AND (IV) PIPS PROGRAMMES, BELFAST (IMPLEMENTATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND) (MARIE BANNON). IORRAS LE CHÉILE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 'MUNCH-GRUPPEN' - TOWARDS A PSYCHOSOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF YOUTH SUB-CULTURES. THE PRINCIPAL AREA OF FOCUS FOR OUR PROJECT IS ACHIEVING A PSYCHOSOCIAL UNDERSTANDING OF SUB-CULTURES. THEORETICALLY, IT IS IMPORTANT (I) IN ITSELF, IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURAL HISTORY, AND COMMON HUMAN MEANING-MAKING; (II)IN UNDERSTANDING YOUTH CULTURE, ESPECIALLY MEANING-MAKING. YOUTH SUB-CULTURES TELL US MUCH ABOUT SOCIETY TODAY, E.G. THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN 'NORMALITY' AND 'DEVIANCE', AND THE SPEED OF CHANGE; AND (III) IN DEMONSTRATING HOW SOME YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SOMETIMES MISUNDERSTOOD - IF THEY ARE JUDGED ON THEIR VARIANT APPEARANCES, THEIR POTENTIAL MAY NOT BE SEEN, AND STEREOTYPING AND SIMILAR IS INDULGED IN. FOR PRACTITIONERS, IT IS IMPORTANT (I) IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS; (II) IN INFORMING INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION; AND (III) N PROMOTING INCLUSION, AND BETTER PRACTITIONER-YOUTH LINKS. 'HARRY' IS NOT ENTIRELY TO BLAME IF A PRACTITIONER CAN'T CONNECT WITH HIM! HENCE, IN CHALLENGING ONESELF THROUGH REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AND A COMMITMENT TO CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE MEMBERS OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY (PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL WORK) 'MUNCH-GRUPPEN' [THE 'MUNCH GROUP'] ARE MYSELF; PROFESSOR WILLY AAGRE (VESTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NORWAY); ARNBJØRG ENGENES (VESTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NORWAY). SHARK: BULLYING, EXCLUSION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF SELF - PSYCHOSOCIAL WORK AND INDIGENOUS METHODOLOGY IN THIS PROJECT, WE ARE EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIETAL GROUPS, WITH ATTENTION TO THE EXPERIENCES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND MAJORITY POPULATIONS. WE AIM TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROCESSES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION, OPERATING AT SOCIAL ECOLOGICAL LEVELS FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO NATIONAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS. WE HOLD THAT SIGNIFICANT IN THIS ARE OPERATIONS OF POWER INCLUDING MICRO- AND MACRO-PROCESSES GROUNDED IN PERSONAL, GROUP AND NATIONAL NARRATIVES, WHICH REFLECT UNDERSTANDINGS OF BELONGING IN LOCAL AND GLOBALISED SOCIETIES. WE BELIEVE THAT THE COMPLEXITY OF SUCH PROCESSES NEEDS TO BE UNDERSTOOD, IN ORDER TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS BULLYING, AND PROMOTE EQUALITY IN HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL PROVISION. PRIMARY RESEARCH AREAS, WHICH ARE TO BE ADDRESSED BY INTER-RELATED PROJECTS, INCLUDE (I) THE CONSTRUCTION OF SÁMI IDENTITIES AND HISTORY EDUCATION, INCLUDING THE REPRESENTATION OF THE SÁMI PEOPLE IN EDUCATIONAL CURRICULA, AND DETERMINING WHETHER THIS REPRESENTATION PROMOTES RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY AND RIGHTS; (II) HOW SÁMI CHILDREN EXPERIENCE THE PSYCHOSOCIAL SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT IN NORWAY, WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THEIR EXPERIENCES OF SCHOOL BULLYING; AND, (III) UNDERTAKING A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF SÁMI PEOPLE IN NORWAY, AND INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN PEOPLES. THE GROUPING INCLUDES REPRESENTATIVES FROM NORWAY (DR HADI STRØMMEN LILE AND DR ANNA LYDIA SVALASTOG, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ØSTFOLD; PROFESSOR HARALD GASKI AND DR KETIL LENERT HANSEN, UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ), AUSTRALIA (DR SHAWN WILSON, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY; DR KATE SENIOR, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG; DR RICHARD CHENHALL, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE) AND MYSELF. THE GROUP, WHICH HAS BEEN FORMING SINCE FEBRUARY 2016, WILL MEET AT A ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ØSTFOLD, NORWAY, IN OCTOBER 2016, AND IS DUE TO MAKE A RESEARCH FUNDING PROPOSAL TO THE NORWEGIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL IN FEBRUARY 2017. PREJUDICE, BULLYING AND PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH AMONGST SÁMI YOUTH IN NORTHERN NORWAY THIS PROJECT IS ON UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF ETHNICITY-RELATED PREJUDICE AS AN INFLUENCE ON PATTERNS OF BULLYING BEHAVIOUR, WITH THE PSYCHOSOCIAL HEALTH OF SÁMI YOUTH IN NORTHERN NORWAY AS ITS PRINCIPAL AREA OF FOCUS. THE INTER-DISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION IS BETWEEN DR KETIL LENERT HANSEN (A SOCIOLOGIST OF HEALTH AT UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ, NORWAY) AND MYSELF. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MR. BRUCE DUDLEY MISSTEAR misstearbrucedudley ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BMISSTER CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. . GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY AND CONTAMINATION . RECHARGE AND RELIABLE YIELDS OF GROUNDWATER SOURCES . AIR POLLUTION MONITORING AND EVALUATION. CIVIL STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENG MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ADVISOR ON A CONTAMINATED LAND INVESTIGATION AT A DOCKLAND SITE IN DUBLIN ADVISOR ON EPA PROJECT CONCERNED WITH GUIDELINE AND INTERVENTION VALUES FOR THE PROTECTION OF GROUNDWATER IN IRELAND. ADVISOR TO THE EPA AT THE ORAL HEARING IN CONNECTION WITH A PROPOSED LANDFILL IN COUNTY FINGAL ADVISOR TO THE EPA ON THE PROPOSED ORAL HEARING IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED DECISION ON A WASTE LICENCE FOR A LANDFILL AT SILVERMINES, TIPPERARY (NR) ADVISOR TO THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND (GSI) ON THE PREPARATION OF GUIDELINES FOR DELINEATING NITRATE VULNERABLE ZONES. ASSESSOR TO AN BORD PLEANÁLA FOR THE PLANNING APPEAL IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF A LANDFILL FACILITY AT MULHUDDART, CO. FINGAL. ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL ASSOCIATE EDITOR QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING GEOLOGY & HYDROGEOLOGY CHAIRMAN OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THE INT. GROUNDWATER CONFERENCE, CRANFIELD EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR THE EASTERN REGIONAL FISHERIES BOARD FOR A PROPOSED REMEDIATION STRATEGY FOR THE AVOCA MINES AREA FELLOW OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY INDEPENDENT CHAIRMAN OF THE GROUNDWATER MONITORING COMMITTEE CONCERNED WITH POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THE KILDARE BYPASS ON THE HYDROLOGY OF POLLARDSTOWN FEN MEMBER OF EU THEMATIC NETWORK ON CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN EUROPE (EUCEET I AND II PROGRAMMES) MEMBER OF INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING SECTION OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE EPA/GSI WORKING GROUP ON THE GROUNDWATER PROTECTION RESPONSE FOR LANDSPREADING. MEMBER OF THE HYDROGEOLOGICAL GROUP COMMITTEE OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGISTS OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS MEMBER OF THE IRISH NATIONAL COMMITTEES OF THE INTERNATIONAL HYDROLOGICAL PROGRAMME AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE INT. CONFERENCE ON GROUNDWATER: DROUGHT, POLLUTION AND MANAGEMENT, BRIGHTON MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE 34TH WEDC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE, ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE 35TH WEDC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE, LOUGHBOROUGH, UK MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE 39TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS, NIAGARA FALLS, CANADA, SEPTEMBER 2012. MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE 42ND CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS, ROME, SEPTEMBER 2015 MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, DUBLIN MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE 44TH CONGRESS OF THE INTENRATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS, DUBROVNIK MEMBER OF THE UK GROUNDWATER FORUM SECRETARY GENERAL INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS (IRISH GROUP) SUPERVISOR OF THE HYDROGEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE AVOCA MINE SITE CHARACTERISATION STUDY CARRIED OUT BY THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND AS PART OF THE AVOCA/AVONMORE CATCHMENT CONVERSION PROJECT (EC LIFE PROGRAMME) VICE PRESIDENT (FINANCE AND MEMBERSHIP) OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS. AIR POLLUTION MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT GROUNDWATER ENGINEERING GROUNDWATER RECHARGE GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY AND CONTAMINATION ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT AIR QUALITY ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, GEOTECHNICS; OTHER ENGINEERING HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE OF SUBSOILS HYDROGEOLOGICAL RESEARCHER ON 3 EPA PROJECTS TO ESTABLISH THE HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCIES OF DIFFERENT SUBSOILS AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERNATIVE SECONDARY SYSTEMS FOR TREATING EFFLUENT FROM SINGLE HOUSES. THE CURRENT PROJECT (2011-2014) IS INVESTIGATING TREATMENT PERFORMANCE AND OPTIONS (INCLUDING WILLOW BEDS) IN AREAS WITH POOR SOIL DRAINAGE CHARACTERISTICS. EPA STRIVE GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY RESEARCH SUPERVISOR OF A PROJECT WITH THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND THAT DEVELOPED PROCEDURES FOR ASSESSING GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY IN IRELAND. THIS INCLUDED THE INTRODUCTION OF SECONDARY INDICATORS OF GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY, SUCH AS SURFACE DRAINAGE DENSITY AND VEGETATION CHARACTERISTICS. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND OPTIMAL MONITORING OF AIR QUALITY IN THE VICINITY OF POINT SOURCES CO-ORDINATOR OF AN EU-FUNDED PROJECT FOR THE EPA CONCERNED WITH OPTIMAL MONITORING OF AIR QUALITY IN THE VICINITY OF POINT SOURCES. PROJECT INCLUDED MONITORING AND DISPERSION MODELLING OF AIR POLLUTANTS NEAR A PEAT-POWERED FIRED POWER STATION AND A MANUFACTURING SITE IN THE IRISH MIDLANDS. EPA RELIABILITY OF SEWERS IN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS / CONTROL OF INFILTRATION TO SEWERS TWO RESEARCH PROJECTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RESEARCH AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION (CIRIA) CONCERNED WITH SEWER EXFILTRATION AND INFILTRATION, RESPECTIVELY. CIRIA SOURCE RELIABLE OUTPUT STUDY DEVELOPMENT OF A METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING RELIABLE OUTPUTS OF GROUNDWATER SUPPLY SOURCES. THIS PROJECT WAS CARRIED OUT FOR UK WATER INDUSTRY RESEARCH, AND THE METHODOLOGY WAS ADOPTED IN THE 1996 DOE REPORT 'WATER RESOURCES AND SUPPLY: AGENDA AND ACTION'. A JOURNAL PAPER BASED ON THIS WORK WON THE BEST PAPER OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM MOTT MACDONALD. UK WATER INDUSTRY RESEARCH INVESTIGATION INTO THE HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH PRIVATE RURAL WELL SCHEMES IN IRELAND THERE ARE OVER 100,000 PRIVATE WELLS IN IRELAND, MANY OF WHICH ARE POORLY LOCATED OR POORLY CONSTRUCTED. THE AIM OF THE RESEARCH WAS TO QUANTIFY HEALTH RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH PRIVATE WELL SUPPLIES, AND ALSO TO EXPLORE THE AWARENESS AMONGST CONSUMERS OF THE LINKS BETWEEN WATER AND HEALTH. THE RESEARCH INCLUDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOURCE SUSCEPTIBILITY PREDICTIVE MODEL. EPA ERTDI VALIDATION OF AIR DISPERSION MODELS FOR THE ROAD TRANSPORT SECTOR IN IRELAND CO-ORDINATOR OF RESEARCH PROJECT FOR THE EPA, CONCERNED WITH VALIDATION OF AIR POLLUTION DISPERSION MODELLING FOR THE ROAD TRANSPORT SECTOR UNDER IRISH CONDITIONS. PROJECT INCLUDED MONITORING OF AIR POLLTANTS AT A FREE-FLOWING MOTORWAY SITE (NEAR LEIXLIP) AND AN INTERUPTED-FLOW ROUNDABOUT SITE IN GALWAY. THE TWO MODELS MAINLY APPLIED WERE THE DMRB AND CALINE4 AIR DISPERSION MODELS. THE RESULTS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED BY THE EPA IN A SYNTHESIS REPORT. EPA ERTDI RECHARGE AND VULNERABILITY CO-ORDINATOR OF RESEARCH PROJECT FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THAT DEVELOPED A QUANTIFIED LINK BETWEEN GROUNDWATER RECHARGE AND VULNERABILITY IN IRELAND. THE PROJECT INCLUDED THE INVESTIGATION OF GROUNDWATER RECHARGE IN FOUR AREAS WITH CONTRASTING GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY - TYDAVNET (MONAGHAN), CURRAGH (KILDARE) AND GALMOY AND BENNETSBRIDGE (KILKENNY). EPA ERTDI BACKGROUND AIR QUALITY PREVIOUS RESEARCH INDICATED THAT THE ACCURACY OF AIR QUALITY MODEL PREDICTIONS IS STRONGLY INFLUENCED BY ASSUMPTIONS MADE ABOUT BACKGROUND AIR QUALITY. THIS RESEARCH INCLUDED AN ASSESSMENT OF DIURNAL AND SEASONAL VARIATIONS IN THE BACKGROUND CONCENTRATIONS OF AIR POLLUTANTS SUCH AS PM10, NOX AND CO, BACK TRAJECTORY MODELLING OF AIR MASS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDELINES FOR ESTIMATING BACKGROUND CONCENTRATIONS OF AIR POLLUTANTS FOR A RANGE OF IRISH CONDITIONS. EPA STRIVE GROUNDWATER MONITORING IN IRELAND CO-SUPERVISOR OF RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP ANALYSING GROUNDWATER LEVEL AND GROUNDWATER QUALITY DATA IN IRELAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE INVESTIGATING LINKS BETWEEN PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION, COMMUTER CHOICE AND HEALTH THIS RESEARCH IS BEING CARRIED OUT AS PART OF THE PRTLI 4 COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME. THE EXPOSURE TO PARTICULATE POLLTION IS BEING MONITORED AMONGST VOLUNTEER COMMUTERS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THEIR HEART RATE VARIABILITY. HEA PRTLI4 WATER IS LIFE PROJECT INCLUDES DOCTORAL RESEARCH CONCERNED WITH SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER DEVELOPMENT IN UGANDA. THIS ASPECT INVOLVES AN ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF IMPROVED WELL SOURCES IN AN AREA OF SOUTHWEST UGANDA, TOGETHER WITH PREPARATION OF A CATCHMENT WATER BALANCE AND MODELING OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF CHANGING CLIMATE ON WATER SOURCES. THE WIDER PROJECT INVOLVES 7 IRISH THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS (INCLUDING TCD), PLUS MAKERERE UNIVERSITY IN KAMPALA, AND IS BEING LED BY DUNDALK IT. HEA / IRISH AID ASSESSING, MODELLING AND MANAGING WATER AND CONTAMINANT MOVEMENT ALONG PATHWAYS, FROM THE LAND SURFACE TO AQUATIC RECEPTORS THE RESEARCH WILL IMPROVE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF OVER-GROUND AND UNDERGROUND PATHWAYS FROM BOTH DIFFUSE AND POINT POLLUTION SOURCES TO RECEIVING WATER BODIES, BY EXAMINING FLOW, TRANSPORT AND ATTENUATION PROCESSES. MODELLING OF THESE PATHWAYS IS A KEY OBJECTIVE, ENABLING THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT TOOL. PROJECT PARTNERS ARE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST AND UCD. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE THE IMPACTS OF DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT SYSTEMS ON PRIVATE WELLS AND RIVERS THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF DWWTS EFFLUENT AS A HEALTH HAZARD TO CONSUMERS OF GROUNDWATER FROM PRIVATE WELLS AND ALSO A SOURCE OF NUTRIENT WATER POLLUTION TO SURFACE WATER IN SMALL CATCHMENTS. THE MAIN POLLUTANTS BEING STUDIED ARE MICROBIAL PATHOGENS AND PHOSPHORUS. THE RESEARCH INCLUDES IDENTIFYING AN APPROPRIATE FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUE IN ORDER TO TRACK EFFLUENT CONTAMINATION IN BOTH SURFACE AND GROUNDWATER. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE ICRAG IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON GROUNDWATER RECHARGE IN FRACTURED ROCK AQUIFERS. THIS IS PART OF THE MAJOR SFI-FUNDED IRISH APPLIED GEOSCIENCES (ICRAG) RESEARCH PROGRAMME SFI AIR QUALITY MODELLING FELLOWSHIP SUPERVISOR OF RESEARCH FELLOW (DR AOIFE DONNELLY) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN AIR QUALITY FORECASTING MODEL FOR IRELAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STRIVE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR FRASER JOHN GRAY MITCHELL mitchellfraserjohngray PROFESSOR FMITCHLL BOTANY DR FRASER MITCHELL JOINED THE BOTANY DEPARTMENT IN 1990. HE IS A MEMBER OF BOTH THE PALAEOECOLOGY AND WOODLAND ECOLOGY RESEARCH GROUPS. HIS PRIMARY RESEARCH ACTIVITY IS THE INVESTIGATION OF LONG-TERM VEGETATION CHANGE. THIS ENCOMPASSES PALAEOECOLOGICAL RESEARCH (PRIMARILY POLLEN ANALYSIS) TO RECONSTRUCT THE CHANGE COUPLED WITH RESEARCH INTO CONTEMPORARY ECOSYSTEMS TO GAIN A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANISMS OF VEGETATION CHANGE. CLIMATE CHANGE AND LARGE HERBIVORE GRAZING IN WOODLAND ARE ACTIVELY RESEARCHED IN THIS RESPECT. HE CURRENTLY COLLABORATES ON RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH DRS. DANIEL KELLY, PAUL DOWDING AND TREVOR HODKINSON WITHIN THE BOTANY DEPARTMENT AND WITH RESEARCHERS IN UCC, COILLTE AND TEAGASC. IN 2000 DR MITCHELL WAS A CHARLES BULLARD FELLOW AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHERE HE INVESTIGATED THE IMPACT OF DISTURBANCE REGIMES ON THE STAND DYNAMICS OF THE PISGAH OLD GROWTH FOREST IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. DEPT OF BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BIODIVERSITY ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOREST HISTORY FOREST SUCCESSION PALAEOCLIMATE PALEOECOLOGY PALEOGEOGRAPHY PALEOHYDROLOGY IRISH PALAEOECOLOGICAL DATA SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS PROJECT (IPAL) - PHASE 1. RECONSTRUCTION OF LAKE ENVIRONMENTS SINCE THE LAST ICE AGE USING DIATOM ANALYSIS FROM A SERIES OF HIGH ALTITUDE LAKES IN IRELAND. STAFF: DR. MANEL LEIRA EU- MARIE CURIE - PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR HIGH ALTITUDE IRISH LAKES. CO-ORDINATOR: TO RECONSTRUCT THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE CATCHMENTS OF THE LAKES USED IN THE IPAL PROJECT USING POLLEN AND SEDIMENT ANALYSIS. STAFF: DR. EDWINA COLE ENTERPRISE IRELAND ECOLOGY OF IRISH YEW. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: INVESTIGATE THE ECOLOGY OF IRISH YEW (TAXUS BACCATA) BOTH IN THE FIELD AND THROUGH DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS. COLLABORATION WITH DR. DANIEL KELLY. STAFF: MR. PHILIP PERRIN DÚCHAS POLLEN DRIFT FROM OIL SEED RAPE. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: INVESTIGATE DISTANCE THAT POLLEN TRAVELS FROM OIL SEED RAPE CROPS ON THE WIND AND VIA BEES. ASSESS THE RISK OF HYBRIDISATION OF CROP PLANTS WITH OTHER BRASSICAS. COLLABORATION WITH DRS. TREVOR HODKINSON AND PAUL DOWDING. STAFF: MS. MARIE-LOUISE FLANNERY TEAGASC WOODLAND DYNAMICS, TREE REGENERATION AND THE EFFECTS OF LARGE HERBIVORES IN KILLARNEY NATIONAL PARK. PARTNER / COLLABORATOR: MONITOR VEGETATION CHANGE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE EXPERIMENTAL EXCLOSURES IN NATIVE WOODLANDS OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE. THE BROADER AIM IS TO PROMOTE INFORMED MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION IN THE NATIONAL PARK. STAFF: MS. G. THERESE HIGGINS, MR. R. LARKIN DÚCHAS (NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE) NATIVE WOODLAND RESTORATION ON CLEAR-FELL SITES. RESTORATION OF NATIVE WOODLAND ON THE SITES OF FORMER CONIFER PLANTATIONS IN IRISH NATIONAL PARKS AND NATURE RESERVES: WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO WICKLOW NATIONAL PARK. STAFF: MR. GEORGE F. SMITH BIOFOREST BIODIVERSITY OF IRISH PLANTATION FORESTS HTTP://BIOFOREST.UCC.IE/ EPA AND COFORD ACCROTELM PROJECT WILL GENERATE CONTINUOUS RECORDS OF PROXY-CLIMATE DATA FROM MIRE SITES IN TRANSECTS ACROSS EUROPE, AND COMPARE WITH COMPLEMENTARY DATA ON LAKE-LEVEL CHANGES, TO FOCUS ON EPISODES OF PAST ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE. THE PROJECT WILL GENERATE A PAN-EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGES OF THE PAST 4500 YEARS, AND THROUGH STUDY OF MIRE CARBON-BALANCE AN ASSSESSMENT OF THE 'GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL' OVER THAT PERIOD. THE BENEFITS INCLUDE A MUCH CLEARER PERSPECTIVE ON THE MAGNITUDE, RATE, FREQUENCY, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF PAST CLIMATE CHANGE IN EUROPE. HTTP://WWW2.GLOS.AC.UK/ACCROTELM/ EU 5 IRISH PALAEOECOLOGICAL DATA SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS PROJECT (IPAL) - PHASE 2 DEVELOPMENT OF DATABASE OF ALL IRISH FOSSIL POLLEN RECORDS AND SUBSEQUENT DATA ANALYSIS. STAFF: DR ROB MARCHANT EU MARIE CURIE WOODUSE QUANTIFYING WOODLAND RESOURCE USAGE IN THE IRISH MIDLANDS USING ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PALAEOECOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES NRA (NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY) IRISH PINE PROJECT MODERN AND PALAEOECOLOGY OF PINUS SYLVESTRIS IN IRELAND IRCSET (IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY) PLANFORBIO PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT TOOLS FOR BIODIVERSITY IN A RANGE OF IRISH FORESTS WWW.UCC.IE/EN/PLANFORBIO/ COFORD (NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR FOREST RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT) FORESTBIO FOREST BIODIVERSITY COFORD ECOLOGY OF DEEP SEA ECHINOIDS IRC LONG TERM FOREST MONITORING NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE BIOPLAN FOREST BIODIVERSITY COFORD EARTH AND NATURAL SCIENCES DOCTORAL STUDIES PROGRAMME HEA PRTLI5 SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. TARA MITCHELL mitchelltara ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MITCHET ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, ECONOMICS OF INFORMATION DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 A CROSS-COUNTRY ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY IN THIS PAPER, I USE A LOGISTIC MODEL OF TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RATES OF MOBILE PHONE AND INTERNET USE AND A NUMBER OF GEOGRAPHIC, INSTITUTIONAL AND ECONOMIC VARIABLES, IN A SAMPLE OF 164 COUNTRIES FROM 1990 TO 2009. THE AIM OF THIS PAPER IS TO IDENTIFY THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNTRIES THAT HAVE HAD SUCCESS IN ADOPTING THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN ORDER TO GIVE US SOME INSIGHT INTO THE BARRIERS WHICH MAY BE FACED BY THOSE COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE BEEN LESS SUCCESSFUL. MIDDLEMEN, BARGAINING AND PRICE INFORMATION: IS KNOWLEDGE POWER? THIS PAPER INVESTIGATES AN IMPORTANT CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH IMPROVED ACCESS TO MARKET INFORMATION COULD INCREASE THE PRICES THAT PRODUCERS RECEIVE FROM MIDDLEMEN. I DEVELOP A THEORETICAL MODEL OF TRADE BETWEEN A FARMER AND A MIDDLEMAN WHICH ALLOWS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF MIDDLEMEN. THE SOURCE OF HETEROGENEITY IS ATTITUDES TOWARDS FAIRNESS. I PROVIDE AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE THEORY FROM AN ORIGINAL FRAMED FIELD EXPERIMENT CARRIED OUT WITH FARMERS AND MIDDLEMEN IN INDIA. THE MODEL PREDICTS THAT THERE WILL BE A NON-MONOTONIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE BENEFIT OF INFORMATION AND THE COST OF SWITCHING TO A NEW MIDDLEMAN. THE RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENT SUPPORT THE PREDICTIONS OF THE MODEL AND DEMONSTRATE THAT ACTUAL MIDDLEMEN DIFFER IN THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARDS FAIRNESS, MIDDLEMEN MAKE HIGHER OFFERS WHEN THE FARMER IS INFORMED, AND THE BENEFIT OF INFORMATION TO THE FARMER VARIES WITH THE COST OF SWITCHING. STICERD, LSE QUALITY OBSERVABILITY AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN SUPPLY CHAINS THIS PAPER PRESENTS A MODEL OF A SUPPLY CHAIN FOR A GOOD INVOLVING TWO STAGES OF PRODUCTION. EFFORT MUST BE EXERTED AT BOTH STAGES IF A HIGH-QUALITY GOOD IS TO BE PRODUCED. EFFORT IS NOT OBSERVABLE AND THE QUALITY OF THE GOOD IS NOT PERFECTLY OBSERVABLE. THE MODEL PREDICTS THAT THERE WILL BE A RANGE OF VALUES OF THE PRICE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIGH-QUALITY AND LOW-QUALITY GOODS FOR WHICH PRODUCTION OF HIGH-QUALITY GOODS WILL OCCUR WITH VERTICAL INTEGRATION BUT WILL NOT OCCUR IF THE TASKS ARE CARRIED OUT BY SEPARATE AGENTS. THE RANGE OF PRICE VALUES FOR WHICH THIS OCCURS WILL BE DECREASING AS THE LEVEL OF OBSERVABILITY OF QUALITY INCREASES AND WILL DISAPPEAR AS QUALITY BECOMES PERFECTLY OBSERVABLE. THE PAPER ALSO PRESENTS SOME CASE STUDIES OF SUPPLY CHAINS FOR VARIOUS PRODUCTS IN A NUMBER OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THAT HAVE CHARACTERISTICS WHICH ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE PREDICTIONS OF THE MODEL. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. DAVID MITCHELL mitchelldavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DAMITCHE IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS 683 ANTRIM ROAD BELFAST BT15 4EG NORTHERN IRELAND 01-8961000 CONFLICT RESOLUTION ETHNIC-CONFLICT NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES NORTHERN IRELAND/BRITISH-IRISH POLITICS PEACEBUILDING RELIGION, CONFLICT AND PEACE SPORT STUDIES POLITICAL SCIENCE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MRS. CAROL MITCHELL mitchellcarol ADMIN SERVICES MANAGER - ADMIN SERVICES MITCHELC ESTATES & FACILITIES DEPARTMENT ESTATES AND FACILITIES 194 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. KEVIN MITCHELL mitchellkevin ASSOC PROF IN DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLO KEMITCHE GENETICS TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) THROUGHOUT MY CAREER, MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN AIMED AT UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF THE GENETIC PROGRAM THAT SPECIFIES THE WIRING OF THE BRAIN. BY IDENTIFYING GENES THAT AFFECT NEURAL CONNECTIVITY IN FLIES AND MICE WE HAVE HELPED ELUCIDATE THE UNDERLYING DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES AND MOLECULAR LOGIC OF THIS PROGRAM. WE ARE ALSO WORKING TO DEFINE HOW MUTATIONS IN SUCH GENES CAN LEAD TO PSYCHIATRIC OR NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN HUMANS. MY OVER-ARCHING GOAL IS TO DEVELOP A COHERENT CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IN WHICH THESE QUESTIONS CAN BE CONSIDERED. THIS REQUIRES INTEGRATION OF FINDINGS FROM DIVERSE AREAS (GENETICS, DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY) AND ACROSS LEVELS OF ANALYSIS (MOLECULAR, CELLULAR, ANATOMICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL, BEHAVIOURAL). I HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY CONCEIVING AND PROMOTING THIS KIND OF SYNTHESIS IN THEORETICAL AND SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED NUMEROUS MOLECULES INVOLVED IN AXON GUIDANCE, CELL MIGRATION AND SYNAPSE FORMATION IN MICE, FOCUSING ON MEMBERS OF THE SEMAPHORIN AND PLEXIN GENE FAMILIES AND LEUCINE-RICH REPEAT (LRR) SUPERFAMILY. WE USE ANALYSES OF MUTANT MICE, ALONG WITH CELLULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL ASSAYS TO UNDERSTAND THEIR ROLES AND COMPLEX INTERACTIONS IN NEURAL DEVELOPMENT IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE BRAIN. MOST RECENTLY, WE HAVE DISCOVERED IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF SEMAPHORIN AND PLEXIN GENES IN MEDIATING CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THALAMUS AND CORTEX AND IDENTIFIED OVER 80 OTHER CANDIDATE CONNECTIVITY MOLECULES IN THIS SYSTEM. WE HAVE ALSO BEEN USING SEVERAL MOUSE MUTANTS (SEMA6A, ELFN1, DISC1) AS MODELS TO UNDERSTAND HOW NEURODEVELOPMENTAL INSULTS CAN LEAD TO PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL PHENOTYPES OF RELEVANCE TO NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS. THESE FINDINGS PROVIDE A PLATFORM TO DISSECT PATHOGENIC MECHANISMS AND LINK DYSFUNCTION OF SPECIFIC BRAIN CIRCUITS TO EMERGENT SYMPTOMS, SUCH AS SEIZURES AND PSYCHOSIS. IN PARALLEL, I HAVE DEVELOPED THEORIES OF THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS, HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF RARE MUTATIONS AND APPROACHES TO MODELING THEM IN ANIMALS. THESE THEORIES CONTRADICTED THE PREVAILING DOGMA IN THE FIELD OF CAUSATION BY COMMON VARIANTS, BUT HAVE BEEN EMPIRICALLY VALIDATED AND ARE NOW WIDELY ACCEPTED. WE ALSO STUDY A HUMAN PERCEPTUAL CONDITION CALLED SYNAESTHESIA, INVOLVING CROSS-ACTIVATION BETWEEN CORTICAL AREAS. WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT A GENERAL DISPOSITION IS INHERITED AND SHOWN THAT IT AFFECTS BRAIN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION MORE GENERALLY, USING EEG AND MRI, SETTING US UP FOR FUTURE GENETIC STUDIES. WE HAVE ALSO RECENTLY FOUND THAT SUCH EXPERIENCES CAN BE SUPPRESSED BY VARIOUS DRUGS, BUT THE UNDERLYING ASSOCIATIONS REMAIN STABLE EVEN THROUGH LONG PERIODS OF SUCH EFFECTS. MY CURRENT PROJECTS CENTRE ON INVESTIGATING THE GENETIC ARCHITECTURE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA USING STATISTICAL ANALYSES OF LARGE-SCALE DATASETS, IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. KRISTIN NICODEMUS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. I ALSO HAVE A GRANT APPLICATION UNDER REVIEW AT SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TO PERFORM WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING ON A COHORT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN MALFORMATIONS, IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. DAVID WEBB IN NEUROLOGY AT CRUMLIN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND THE COMPANY GENOMIC MEDICINE IRELAND. WE ALSO PROPOSE TO RECAPITULATE POTENTIALLY PATHOGENIC MUTATIONS IN ANIMAL MODELS. FINALLY, I AM CURRENTLY FINISHING A MONOGRAPH ENTITLED "BORN THAT WAY: HOW THE WIRING OF OUR BRAINS MAKES US ALL UNIQUE". IT WILL PROVIDE A COHERENT CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK IN WHICH TO CONSIDER THE ORIGINS OF VARIATION IN HUMAN FACULTIES, THROUGH A NOVEL SYNTHESIS OF FINDINGS FROM BEHAVIOURAL GENETICS, DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY. IT IS UNDER CONTRACT WITH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, FOLLOWING A PEER-REVIEWED PROPOSAL, AND IS ON TIME FOR THE DELIVERY DATE IN JUNE 2017. THE BOOK WILL ALSO BE PEER-REVIEWED AND SHOULD BE OF INTEREST TO STUDENTS, ACADEMICS AND CLINICIANS ACROSS MANY FIELDS, AS WELL AS NON-SPECIALISTS. DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS GENETICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR GRANT "MOLECULAR GENETIC ANALYSES OF THALAMOCORTICAL CONNECTIVITY" €802,000 SFI SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR GRANT "CORTICAL CONNECTIVITY, FROM GENES TO BEHAVIOUR" €250,000 SFI SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS GRANT "CHEMICAL GENETIC DISSECTION OF TRANSMEMBRANE SEMAPHORIN SIGNALING IN THE CNS". COLLABORATION WITH DR. ISABELLA GRAEF, STANFORD UNIVERSITY. €192,837 SFI EMBO YOUNG INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME AWARD "THE GENETICS OF BRAIN WIRING IN MICE AND MEN" €45,000 EMBO HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT "A MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY IN THE IRISH POPULATION OF THE PHENOTYPIC CHARACTERISTICS AND FAMILIALITY OF SYNAESTHESIA" €165,000. HRB HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT "THE ROLE OF THE TRANSMEMBRANE SEMAPHORIN SEMA6A IN AXON GUIDANCE IN THE MAMMALIAN BRAIN." €165,000. HRB SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR GRANT "THE GENETIC BASIS OF BRAIN WIRING IN MICE" €1,750,000. SFI HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT "SEMAPHORIN AND PLEXIN GENES IN THE ETIOLOGY OF EPILEPSY". €298,000 HRB PROGRAMME WELLCOME TRUST PROJECT GRANT "A COMPARATIVE FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC SCREEN FOR NOVEL AXON GUIDANCE MOLECULES IN FLY AND MOUSE". WITH DR. GUY TEAR, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON. TOTAL: €594,027. TO TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN: €334,516 WEELCOME TRUST HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PH.D. TRAINING SITE GRANT "INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE AT TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN". ONE OF NINE CO-APPLICANTS ~€900,000 OVER FOUR YEARS. HRB GENES & SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE MR. DAVID MOCKLER mocklerdavid ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN READER SERVICES MOCKLERD LIBRARY THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MATTHIAS MOEBIUS moebiusmatthias ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MOBIUSM PHYSICS MY RESEARCH IS ON EXPERIMENTAL SOFT CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM PHYSICS. IN PARTICULAR I HAVE INVESTIGATED THE FLOW PROPERTIES AND FLOW INSTABILITIES OF GRANULAR MEDIA AND FOAMS. I HAVE EMPLOYED AND DEVELOPED NOVEL TECHNIQUES IN MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING AS WELL AS HIGH SPEED IMAGING TO ELUCIDATE THE ROLE OF INTERSTITIAL GAS IN GRANULAR SIZE SEPARATION AND TO STUDY SHEAR FLOW IN GRANULAR MEDIA. MOREOVER, I HAVE DISCOVERED A NOVEL FLOW INSTABILITY IN GRANULAR JETS. THIS RESEARCH HAS LEAD TO PUBLICATIONS IN HIGH IMPACT JOURNALS. PRESENT RESEARCH INTERESTS: CONNECTION BETWEEN BULK RHEOLOGY AND BUBBLE DYNAMICS IN FOAMS. FOR THIS RESEARCH, WE COMBINE RHEOMETRY AND IMAGE PROCESSING BASED ON CUSTOM SOFTWARE TO INVESTIGATE SHEAR-INDUCED BUBBLE DYNAMICS. IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. STEFAN HUTZLER WE EMPLOY SIMULATIONS TO COMPLEMENT THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH GERMAN MEMBER OF AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS) NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. KENNETH HUN MOK mokkennethhun ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MOK1 BIOCHEMISTRY CRANN 1. PROTEIN FOLDING / MISFOLDING AND BIOMOLECULAR NMR SPECTROSCOPY (I) DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL NMR SPECTROSCOPIC-BASED METHODOLOGIES TO PROBE PROTEIN STRUCTURE AND FOLDING-MISFOLDING, (II) INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF ALTERNATIVELY FOLDED PROTEINS. 2. PROTEIN / PEPTIDE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING (I) DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF ANTI-OBESITY COMPOUNDS, (II) INHIBITION OF AMYLOID FIBRIL GROWTH AND/OR CONTROL OF FIBRIL MORPHOLOGY IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES. DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 KOREAN ENGLISH CO-EDITOR; PROTEIN NMR: MODERN TECHNIQUES AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOLOGICAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE SERIES, SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, LLC, NEW YORK. (EXPECTED PUBLICATION DATE: 2013) EDITORIAL BOARD, DATASET PAPERS IN PHYSICS, BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS SECTION. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER AND IRELAND REPRESENTATIVE; EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR HYPERPOLARISATION PHYSICS AND METHODOLOGY IN NMR AND MRI - COST (EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN SCI AND TECH) ACTION TD 1103 THE UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS OF IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND, LIFE SCIENCES PANEL MEMBER ULTRA PROGRAMME ADVISOR, MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, REPUBLIC OF KOREA ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY, PROTEINS BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTATION BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCE BIOPHYSICS CHROMATOGRAPHY MAGNETIC RESONANCE (MR) MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING APOPTOSIS & CELL CYCLE NANO BIOTECHNOLOGY NANOSTRUCTURES NANOTECHNOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES/DISORDERS NMR NMR SPECTROSCOPY NUCLEAR-MAGNETIC-RESONANCE OBESITY PROTEIN CONFORMATIONS PROTEIN FIBRILLOGENESIS PROTEIN FOLDING PROTEIN STRUCTURES PROTEIN-FOLDING KINETICS PROTEIN-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS PROTEIN-STRUCTURE PROTEINS AND MACROMOLECULES PROTEINS, ENZYMOLOGY AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING PROTON NMR PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, DETERMINATION, FUNCTION ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY NANO-TECHNOLOGY AMYLOID FIBRIL GROWTH AND THE CONTROL OF MORPHOLOGY BIOMOLECULAR AND PHOTO-CIDNP NMR SPECTROSCOPY OF PARTIALLY-FOLDED PROTEIN INTERMEDIATES AND ULTRA-FAST FOLDING MINIPROTEINS BIOA-LAC - BIOACTIVE PROTEIN COMPLEXES IN MILK DEPT OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES, AND FOOD (DAFF) FOOD INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH MEASURE (FIRM) PROTEIN FOLDING/MISFOLDING IN MEDICINE AND THE DESIGN OF PROTEIN-BASED BIOMATERIALS: A BIOPHYSICAL APPROACH VETENSKAPSRÅDET (THE SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL) PROJECT RESEARCH GRANT DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ANTI-OBESITY (SERUM-TRIGLYCERIDE LEVEL-LOWERING) PEPTIDOMIMETIC COMPOUNDS ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND DECOUPLING PH AND IONIC EFFECT IN PROTEIN SUPER-CONCENTRATES DEPT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE COMPETITIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMMES AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ANNE MOLLOY molloyanne FELLOW EMERITUS AMOLLOY CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) . THE ROLE OF FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12 IN PREGNANCY: THIS INCORPORATES TWO PRINCIPAL AREAS; (1) THE CAUSE OF FOLATE RESPONSIVE NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS, IN PARTICULAR THE NUTRITIONAL, BIOCHEMICAL AND GENETIC PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE DISORDERS AND (2) THE EFFECTS OF INADEQUATE FOLATE OR VITAMIN B12 NUTRITION ON COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY AND ADVERSE PREGNANCY OUTCOMES. THE ROLE OF THESE VITAMINS IN OTHER CONGENITAL DISORDERS INCLUDING ORO-FACIAL CLEFTS AND CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE IS AN EXTENSION OF THIS AREA OF INTEREST. . THE UPTAKE AND UTILISATION OF FOLATES IN NORMAL AND DEFICIENT STATES: A PARTICULAR AREA OF INTEREST IS THE EFFECT OF GENETIC VARIANTS IN FOLATE RELATED ENZYMES ON FOLATE STATUS AND METABOLISM. RESEARCH METHODS INCLUDE CELL CULTURE STUDIES AND STUDIES ON NUTRITIONAL STATUS IN HUMAN SUBJECTS, STRATIFIED ACCORDING TO A GENOTYPE OF INTEREST. . THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNIQUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF FOLATES AND FOLATE RELATED METABOLITES. INCLUDING HPLC METHODS, AMINO ACID ANALYSIS, RADIOISOTOPE METHODS, MICROBIOLOGICAL ASSAYS AND CELL CULTURE TECHNOLOGY. . LINKS BETWEEN FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12; SPECIFICALLY, THE INFLUENCE OF FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12 STATUS ON METHYLATION REACTIONS AND S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE METABOLISM. BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NUTRITION EDITORIAL BOARD, BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION EXPERT ADVISOR AT THE BIOMARKERS OF NUTRITION FOR DEVELOPMENT (BOND) VITAMIN B12 CONSULTATION, OFFICE OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, NIH, WASHINGTON, EXPERT ADVISOR AT THE NHANES FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12 ASSESSMENT ROUND-TABLE MEETING HOSTED BY THE OFFICE OF DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS, NIH, WASHINGTON, 15TH -16TH JULY EXPERT ADVISOR WHO GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT MEETING ON 'OPTIMAL BLOOD FOLATE CONCENTRATIONS IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE FOR PREVENTION ON FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCIES' EXPERT PANEL FOR THE PROJECT "IDENTIFYING RESEARCH NEEDS FOR ASSESSING SAFE USE OF HIGH INTAKES OF FOLIC ACID" ORGANIZED BY THE OFFICE OF HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND TRANSLATION, (NIEHS AND ODS, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, USA) FOLIC ACID REVIEW GROUP, ORGANIZED BY FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY OF IRELAND, IRELAND MEETING CHAIR AND EXPERT ADVISOR AT THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL (WHO/CDC) TECHNICAL CONSULTATION ON "OPTIMAL BLOOD FOLATE CONCENTRATIONS IN WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE FOR PREVENTION OF NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS" ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA . MEMBER OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE (COORDINATOR PROFESSOR LINDSAY ALLEN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS) FOR TRACK 2 OF THE MICRONUTRIENT FORUM CONFERENCE, HELD IN ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, JUNE 2014 RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE, COOMBE WOMENS' HOSPITAL THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY THE NUTRITION SOCIETY WHO TECHNICAL CONSULTANT ON FOLATE AND VITAMIN B12 DEFICIENCIES AGE RELATED DISEASES FOLATE, VITAMIN B12 METABOLISM AND METABOLIC DISEASES MOLECULAR NUTRITION POPULATION BASED INTERVENTION TRIALS AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR ELEANOR MOLLOY molloyeleanor PROFESSOR OF PAEDIATRICS & CHILD HEALTH MOLLOYEL PAEDIATRICS OUR RESEARCH GROUP AIMS TO DELINEATE PERINATAL AND EARLY NEONATAL INFLAMMATORY RESPONSES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. WE HAVE ESTABLISHED LONGITUDINAL COHORTS OF INFANTS WITH NEONATAL ENCEPHALOPATHY AND PRETERM INFANTS AS WELL AS NEONATAL CONTROLS IN ORDER TO EXPLORE THE ROLE OF EARLY INFLAMMATORY CHANGES AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES. WE HAVE STUDIED THE ROLE OF ACTIVATED MONOCYTES AND NEUTROPHILS IN NEONATAL DISEASES AND THE USE OF IMMUNOMODULATORY AGENTS SUCH AS VITAMIN D AND ACTIVATED PROTEIN C. DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 1,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN-D3 OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. MICHAEL MONAGHAN monaghanmichael USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MONAGHMI MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING DR. MONAGHAN'S RESEARCH FOCUS IS THE GENERATION OF CARDIAC TISSUE IN VITRO TOWARDS THE PURPOSE OF DISEASE MODELLING AND THERAPEUTIC TRANSPLANTATION. HEART ATTACKS ARE AN INCREASING HEALTHCARE BURDEN AND DESPITE MANY MEDICAL ADVANCES, ONCE HEART MUSCLE DIES FOLLOWING A HEART ATTACK IT DOES NOT HEAL SUFFICIENTLY, AND BECOMES SCARRED, LEADING TO REDUCED FUNCTION AND QUALITY OF HEALTH. IT IS POSSIBLE TO GENERATE NEW HEART MUSCLE FROM STEM CELLS AND MORE RECENTLY FROM ADULT CELLS OF THE BODY (E.G. SKIN CELLS) BUT SUCH NEW HEART MUSCLE IS NOT FULLY FUNCTIONAL OR MATURE AS IT IS NOT EXPERIENCING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE HEART. HIS RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON THE USE OF TUNABLE BIOMATERIAL SCAFFOLDS USING BOTH BIOMECHANICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR STIMULI TO MIMIC THE CARDIAC ENVIRONMENT AND ACHIEVE ROBUST CARDIOMYOCYTE TRANSDIFFERENTIATION. DR. MONAGHAN RESEARCH INTERESTS ALSO INCLUDE NON-INVASIVE MICROSCOPY. MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY IS A POWERFUL METHOD FOR THE NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF DEEP-TISSUE, CELLS AND EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM) STRUCTURES. BY INTERACTING WITH HIGHLY NON-CENTROSYMMETRIC MOLECULAR ASSEMBLIES, THE NON-LINEAR PHENOMENON OF SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION (SHG) HAS ALSO PROVEN TO BE AN IMPORTANT DIAGNOSTIC TOOL FOR THE VISUALIZATION OF COLLAGEN AND MYOSIN. MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY CAN BE ADDITIONALLY EQUIPPED WITH TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING BOARDS WHICH ALLOW EXTENSIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PHOTONS BEING EMITTED FROM ANY MATERIAL DUE TO EXCITATION BY A SPECIFIC WAVELENGTH AND PROVIDES A PHOTON DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS. NOTABLY, THIS FACILITATES FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING (FLIM), WHICH PRODUCES IMAGES BASED ON THE DIFFERENCES IN THE EXPONENTIAL DECAY RATE OF THE FLUORESCENCE FROM A FLUORESCENT SAMPLE, WHERE THE LIFETIME OF A FLUOROPHORE SIGNAL IS USED TO CREATE THE IMAGE. THIS METHOD REDUCES THE EFFECT OF PHOTON SCATTERING IN THICK SAMPLES AND ALSO AVOIDS SAMPLE BLEACHING AND PHOTO-INDUCED TOXICITY. INVESTIGATED FLUOROPHORES CAN BE NATURALLY PRESENT IN THE CELL (E.G. NAD(P)H, WHICH IS INDICATIVE OF CELLULAR METABOLISM), OR FLUOROPHORES THAT WE CAN INTRODUCE EXTERNALLY TO UNDERSTAND CELL PATHWAYS AND SIGNALING. LINK TO PUBMED: HTTP://WWW.NCBI.NLM.NIH.GOV/PUBMED/?TERM=MONAGHAN+AND+(PANDIT+OR+WALLES+OR+SCHENKE-LAYLAND) LINK TO GOOGLE SCHOLAR: HTTPS://SCHOLAR.GOOGLE.COM/CITATIONS?USER=X1MGIBEAAAAJ&HL=EN&OI=SRA MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN DGMB-GERMAN MATRIX BIOLOGY SOCIETY ESB- EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR BIOMATERIALS MBI- MATRIX BIOLOGY IRELAND ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND (RAMI)- BIOENGINEERING SECTION TERMIS - TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE SOCIETY 2ND HARMONIC GENERATION 3D IMAGING ANALYSIS BIOENGINEERING AND RADIOLOGIC IMAGING BIOMATERIALS COLLAGEN CONFOCAL IMAGING CONFOCAL PHOTOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING DRUG TARGETING DRUG-DELIVERY SYSTEM EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM) GENE SILENCING GENE-THERAPY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY REGENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING MATERIALS SCIENCE CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR JOHN MICHAEL MONAGHAN monaghanjohnmichael ADJUNCT PROFESSOR / FELLOW EMERITUS JMONGHAN MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG (A) MICROFORMING ANALYSIS: FORM ROLLING OF VARIOUS GEOMETRICAL SHAPED GROOVES ON WIRE IN THE SUB-MILLIMETRE RANGE WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE 'SIZE EFFECT' AS PARTS REDUCE IN DIMENSIONS. ELASTOPLASTIC FEA IS USED TO PREDICT THE MATERIAL FLOW AND THE OCCURRENCE OF LIKELY INTERNAL DEFECTS IN THE MINIATURE PARTS DUE TO RESIDUAL TENSILE STRESSES. (B) FRICTION STIR WELDING: EXPERIMENTAL AND VISCOPLASTIC FEA OF FRICTION STIR WELDING OF 2024 AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE PANELS. THE EXPERIMENTAL WORK INVOLVES THE PRODUCTION OF BUTT JOINTS WHILE THE VISCOPLASTIC FEA IS BEING USED TO SIMULATE THE MATERIAL FLOW, TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION AND STRESS DISTRIBUTIONS WITHIN THE WELDED SHEETS. (C) DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF ALUMINIUM METALLIC FOAMS: EXPERIMENTAL AND ELASTOPLASTIC FEA OF THE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF ALUMINIUM METALLIC FOAMS SUBJECT TO COMPRESSION, BENDING, IMPACT AND PENETRATION TESTS. (D) METALFORMING SIMULATIONS: OPTIMISATION OF THE COLD FORGING SEQUENCES USED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HIGH STRENGTH AEROSPACE COMPONENTS. THE WORK INVOLVES ELASTOPLASTIC FEA SIMULATIONS OF THE FLOW OF THE WORKPIECE MATERIAL AND THE STRESSES INDUCED IN THE FORGING TOOLING DURING COMBINED FORGING/EXTRUSION OPERATIONS ON DIFFICULT TO FORM MATERIALS. THE USE OF ELASTOPLASTIC FEA FOR THE OPTIMISATION OF THE DESIGN OF THE TOOLING USED IN COLD FORMING PROCESSES. (E) FORM ROLLING: EXPERIMENTAL AND FE ANALYSIS OF MACRO FORM ROLLING PROCESS USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF GROOVES AND OTHER COMPLEX FEATURES ON THE SHANKS OF HIGH STRENGTH AEROSPACE FASTENERS. THIS WORK INVOLVES THE OPTIMISATION OF THE TOOL DESIGN PROCESS IN AN EFFORT TO REDUCE LENGTHY AND COSTLY PHYSICAL PROTOTYPING. (F) SHEET FORMING SIMULATIONS - (A) ANALYSIS OF RIVETED JOINTS: ELASTOPLASTIC FEA AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF RIVETED 2024 ALUMINIUM AND GLARE SHEETS SUBJECTED TO STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOADING. (B) DENTING OF AIRCRAFT PANELS: EXPERIMENTAL AND ELASTOPLASTIC FEA OF THE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR AND RESULTING RESIDUAL STRESSES INDUCED IN 2024 AIRCRAFT FUSELAGE PANELS DUE TO INDENTATION BY VARIOUS SHAPED INDENTERS - E.G. HAIL; BAGGAGE TRUCKS, SPANNERS, ETC MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 C.ENG. FIEI EXTERNAL EXAMINER - CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER - DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER - LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER - TALLAGHT INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EXTERNAL EXAMINER - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK EXTERNAL EXAMINER - UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK EXTERNAL EXAMINER THE QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST F.IEE F.IOM FIMECH.E AERONAUTICS AIRFRAME STRUCTURES AND MATERIALS COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS CONTACT STRESS ANALYSIS CONTINUUM MECHANICS FATIGUE OF MATERIALS MACHINE DESIGN MANUFACTURING (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES (INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERI MATERIALS JOINING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICS MEDICAL DEVICES ENGINEERING PLASTICITY PRECISION ENGINEERING PROCESS ENGINEERING PRODUCTION ENGINEERING SOLID MECHANICS STRUCTURES & MATERIALS (AERO./ASTRO. ENGINEER ANALYSIS OF PUMP FLOW €49,000.00 EI -HE/99/312 DEEP DRAWING €13,967.00 INDUSTRIAL - ABS PUMPS PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT €300,000.00 EI - ATRP RAPID PROTOTYPING €57,138.00 EI- ATRP METAL FORMING ANALYSIS €233,000.00 EI - PAT'S MPRC (SO2014) METAL FORMING ANALYSIS €370,880.00 EI - PAT'S MPRC (S02029) TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER €282,000.00 EI - SLA - MPRC (SO2033) FORM ROLLING €237,000.00 EI-RTI (HI-LIFE TOOLS) FORM ROLLING DESIGN €177,000.00 EI - RTI (HI-LIFE TOOLS) TENSILE TEST STANDARDS €49,276.00 CEC - F5 (TENSTAND) FUSELAGE DAMAGE €200,000.00 CEC - F5 (IARCAS) TURBINE BLADE ANALYSIS €223,473.00 CEC -F4 (SCARF) NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. MARK MONAHAN monahanmark ASST PROF/HEAD OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING MONAHANM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING. WORKING WITH PEOPLE GIVEN A MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA. WORKING WITH FAMILIES WHERE A DIAGNOSIS OF PSYCHOSIS IS PRESENT. FACILITATION OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN NURSING. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH IRISH INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSES HEALTH INFORMATICS MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS RECOVERY IN MENTAL HEALTH AN EVALUATION OF A PILOT SELF-STAFFING PROJECT IN A PSYCHIATRIC REHABILITATION UNIT. HEALTH SERVICES NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FORUM AN EVALUATION OF MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS EXPERIENCES IMPLEMENTING A COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE DIAGNOSED WITH PSYCHOSIS. EVALUATION OF STAFF EXPERIENCES USING COGNITIVE INTERVENTIONS IN PRACTICE NURSING SCHIZOPHRENIA: COPING WITH PROFESSIONAL DISSONANCE IN A COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH TEAM EOLAS PHASE 3 THE ROLL OUT OF A PEER AND PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOEDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR FOR PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE PSYCHOSIS AND THEIR FAMILIES HSE AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS IDENTIFIED BY STUDENT NURSES AS PART OF THEIR REFLECTIVE LEARNING. THIS QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED WITH FINAL YEAR STUDENTS IN A BSC NURSING PROGRAMME IN IRELAND. AS PART OF THEIR FINAL YEAR IN THE RESEARCHERS' UNIVERSITY, STUDENT NURSES UNDERTAKE A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODULE THAT INCLUDES 20 HOURS STRUCTURED FACILITATED REFLECTIVE WORKSHOPS. THE PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOPS IS TO ENABLE STUDENTS TO MAP THEIR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT USING REFLECTIVE PRACTICE BY PRESENTING PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS (REFLECTIVE VIGNETTES) TO THEIR PEERS. THESE ARE CO-FACILITATED BY ACADEMIC AND CLINICAL STAFF. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO UNDERTAKE AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO AREAS OF CLINICAL PRACTICE THAT ADDRESS OR CHALLENGE THE STUDENTS. THE EOLAS PROJECT (PHASE 2) A PEER AND CLINICIAN LED MENTAL HEALTH INFORMATION PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE WITH EXPERIENCE OF PSYCHOSIS, THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS GENIO REPORT OF THE SCOPING EXERCISE ON THE INTRODUCTION OF GRADUATE ENTRY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING IN IRELAND THE HSE NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION, THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY SERVICES DIRECTOR COMMISSIONED AND FUNDED THIS SCOPING REVIEW. IT EXPLORES THE FEASIBILITY OF INTRODUCING A GRADUATE ENTRY PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROGRAMME, LEADING TO NURSING REGISTRATION IN IRELAND. THE REPORT COMPRISES SIX CHAPTERS. THE INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER FOCUSES ON THE BACKGROUND CONTEXT AND THE METHODOLOGY USED TO ACHIEVE FOUR KEY OBJECTIVES. THESE OBJECTIVES WERE: OBJECTIVE 1: TO CONDUCT A LITERATURE REVIEW ON GEN, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON GRADUATE ENTRY PSYCHIATRIC/MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, AND EXPLORE THE PROCESS, CHALLENGES AND OUTCOME OF GEN PROGRAMMES. OBJECTIVE 2: TO EXPLORE EXPERIENCES OF DESIGNING, DELIVERING AND UNDERTAKING GEN PROGRAMMES, WITH SPECIFIC EMPHASIS ON MENTAL HEALTH NURSING. OBJECTIVE 3: TO OUTLINE THE NECESSARY STEPS TO BE TAKEN FOR THE APPROVAL OF GEN PROGRAMMES IN IRELAND. OBJECTIVE 4: TO IDENTIFY THE POSSIBLE SOURCE OF A POTENTIAL POOL OF GRADUATES FOR PROGRAMME UPTAKE IN IRELAND. THE REPORT CONCLUDES WITH RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE ANTICIPATED ACTIONS REQUIRED ACROSS MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF A GRADUATE ENTRY MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PROGRAMME IN IRELAND. HSE ONMSD/DOH MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION LITERATURE REVIEW USING SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES TO EXPLORE PHYSICAL ILLNESS CO-MORBIDITY AMONG PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AND RELATED HEALTHCARE INTERVENTIONS HSE STRENCO - STRENGTHENING MULTI-PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES IN MENTAL HEALTH IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT, THROUGH CO-PRODUCTION WITH ACADEMICS, STUDENTS, SERVICE USERS AND PROFESSIONALS. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO STRENGTHEN COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACADEMICS AND STUDENTS, SERVICE USERS AND PRACTITIONERS AND TO DEVELOP MULTI-PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCES IN MENTAL HEALTH STUDENTS THROUGH A PROCESS OF CO-PRODUCTION. THE PROJECT USES A PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH DESIGN WITH COLLABORATIVE LEARNING METHODS. HEA ERASMUS+ INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. LORENA MONZON monzonlorena VISITOR RESEARCH FELLOW ARANZAZL PHYSICS SCHOOL OF PHYSICS SNIAMS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MS. MARY MOONEY mooneymary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MOONEYMA SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ACADEMIC LEAD AND COORDINATOR FOR THE INTERNATIONAL WINTER AND SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. REVIEWER FOR SCHOOL ETHICS COMMITTEE. MODULE LEADER FOR MASTERS DISSERTATION MODULE. ALL IRELAND SOCIETY OF HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) IRISH NURSES CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATION CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY CARDIOLOGY, NURSE EDUCATION HEART FAILURE AND TRANSPLANTATION CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH EDUCATION A STUDY TO DETERMINE WHETHER MODE OF SELECTION INFLUENCES ATTRITION RATE, ACADEMIC SUCCESS, CLINICAL COMPETENCE, CAREER INTENTIONS, PERCEPTIONS OF NURSING AND PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES OF NURSING STUDENTS. THE AIM OF THE PROPOSED STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER MODE OF SELECTION (INTERVIEW & CAO) VERSUS CAO ONLY) INFLUENCES ATTRITION RATES, ACADEMIC SUCCESS, CLINICAL COMPETENCIES, CAREER INTENTIONS, PERCEPTIONS OF NURSING AND PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES OF NURSING STUDENTS. A LONGITUDINAL CORRELATION DESIGN WILL BE EMPLOYED WITH ALL SELECTED AMNCH NURSING STUDENTS REGISTERING FOR THE BSCN AT TCD IN OCTOBER 2005 INVITED TO PARTICIPATE THIS PROPOSED STUDY IS RELEVANT TO THE FUTURE OF NURSING EDUCATION IN IRELAND AND IS PERTINENT TO THE MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL GAIN OF CLIENTS WHO DEPEND ON NURSING CARE, WITHIN AND BEYOND OUR HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS. THE RECRUITMENT OF GENERAL NURSES IN IRELAND HAS SUFFERED A DECLINE IN RECENT PAST YEARS (WELLS & MCELWEE 2000). THIS POTENTIAL LOSS OF ENTRANTS TO THE NURSING PROFESSION, COMBINED WITH INCREASED ATTRITION RATES RAISES CONCERNS FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS, AT A TIME WHEN THE SUPPLY OF NURSES FAILS TO MEET DEMANDS (KENNEDY 1999). THE COMMISSION ON NURSING - A BLUE PRINT FOR THE FUTURE, REITERATED THE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE PLANNING AND POLICY FUNCTION OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. ONE SUCH REQUIREMENT WAS TO STRENGTHEN THE WORKFORCE PLANNING FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN. THE COMMISSION ON NURSING (1998:83) RECOMMENDED, "THAT ADMISSION TO THE NURSING PROFESSION BE ON THE BASIS OF THE ATTAINMENT OF A SPECIFIED LEAVING CERTIFICATE STANDARD PLUS AN INTERVIEW". THIS RECOMMENDATION WAS MADE BASED ON CONSULTATIONS WITH MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION. T HE SELECTION PROCESS ADHERED TO BY THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY IS IN LINE WITH THAT MADE BY THE COMMISSION ON NURSING, AND THUS ENSURES BEST PRACTICE. NURSING RESEARCH IS ONE METHOD OF ENSURING THAT BEST PRACTICE IS MAINTAINED. THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECT WOULD ENABLE THOSE MEMBERS OF THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY TO IDENTIFY, THROUGH EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, WHETHER THE METHODS USED IN THE SELECTION OF NURSES IS EFFECTIVE IN TERMS OF THE AFOREMENTIONED MEASURABLE OUTCOMES. SHOULD THE FINDINGS FROM THIS STUDY INDICATE THAT THE COMBINED METHOD OF NURSING-STUDENT RECRUITMENT IS MORE EFFECTIVE, THIS WOULD PROVIDE THE IMPETUS FOR CHANGE, CERTAINLY AT A NATIONAL AND PERHAPS AT AN INTERNATIONAL LEVEL. THE OUTCOME OF THE STUDY WILL, IN ANY EVENT, IDENTIFY THE NEED FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF CHANGES TO THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS. SEVERAL AUTHORS HAVE RECOGNISED THE RELEVANCE OF AND THE NEED TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF ATTRITION AMONG PRE-REGISTERED NURSES (WHITE ET AL. 1999, GLOSSOP 2002, DEARY ET AL. 2003) AND REGISTERED NURSES (MCCARTHY ET AL. 2002). ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY: VALUE €25,000 THE ACS RESPONSE-TIME INTERVENTION TRIAL: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL TO DETERMINE WHETHER AN INDIVIDUALISED EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION AFFECTS RESPONSE-TIME IN PATIENTS WHO HAVE SYMPTOMS OF ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD €315,000 PHD ICD-RECIPIENTS' EXPERIENCES, ATTITUDES AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ICD-TREATMENT AT LIFE'S END IN IRELAND THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO FIND OUT HOW PATIENTS WITH AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) FELT ABOUT HAVING THEIR DEVICE REPLACED IN THE FUTURE AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE GIVEN THOUGHT TO HAVING IT SWITCHED OFF TOWARDS THE END OF THEIR LIFE. N/A REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' SELF-ASSESSED NEEDS IN RESPECT OF SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING: A NEEDS ANALYSIS. INTRODUCTION: THE TERM HOLISTIC CARE IN NURSING ENCOMPASSES COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE CARE REQUIREMENTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL. THIS INCLUDES PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS. TO ACHIEVE THE DELIVERY OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING, NURSES NEED TO BE ADEQUATELY SKILLED TO CARRY OUT MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS AND SUBSEQUENTLY DELIVER APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS OR IDENTIFY THE NEED FOR SPECIALIST REFERRALS, AS APPROPRIATE. A STUDY CONDUCTED AMONG ONCOLOGY NURSES IN IRELAND (NASH 2017) DEMONSTRATED THAT A RANGE OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE ENCOUNTERED IN PRACTICE. WHILE NURSES WERE EQUIPPED TO HANDLE SOME ASPECTS OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE REQUIREMENTS, THEY GENERALLY FELT THAT THEY WERE IN NEED OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO COMPLEX CONDITIONS THAT EXTENDED BEYOND ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION. THIS QUESTION HAS NOT BEEN RAISED AMONG GENERAL NURSES IN THE ACUTE SETTING AND THEREFORE A DECISION WAS MADE TO ASSESS REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' NEEDS IN RELATION TO SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR MENTAL HEALTH (DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 2000) RECOMMENDED STANDARDS FOR PLANNING AND DELIVERING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE UK. THIS IS SEEN AS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE IRISH POPULATION ALSO. RESEARCH QUESTION. WHAT ARE THE NEEDS OF REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES IN RELATION TO SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE SETTING? STUDY AIM: TO ASSESS REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' NEEDS IN RELATION TO SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. OBJECTIVES: . TO DETERMINE WHETHER REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' FEEL ADEQUATELY EQUIPPED TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. . IF DEFICITS ARE IDENTIFIED, THIS STUDY SEEKS TO ASCERTAIN THE NURSES' SPECIFIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING NEEDS THAT WOULD HELP IN SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. . BASED ON THE INFORMATION COLLECTED, A NEEDS ANALYSIS WILL BE COMPILED AND FROM THIS, A BUSINESS AND EDUCATION PLAN WILL BE PROPOSED WITHIN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. PENDING NEWLY QUALIFIED NURSES' EXPERIENCES AND PERCEIVED VALUE OF THEIR INTERNSHIP: AN ALL-IRELAND CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY. BACKGROUND: FOLLOWING THE REPORT ON THE COMMISSION ON NURSING IN IRELAND IN 2002, THE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING DEGREE PROGRAMME WAS INITIATED. ONE COMPONENT OF THE NEWLY INTRODUCED PROGRAMME WAS THE UNDERTAKING OF MANDATORY CLINICAL PRACTICE PLACEMENTS, KNOWN AS THE INTERNSHIP. THE INTENTION OF THE INTERNSHIP IS TO LINK THEORY WITH PRACTICE AND TO ACHIEVE COMPETENCE IN THE CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. THE INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS PROVIDE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY, TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND TO RECEIVE CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK ON THE NURSING CARE THEY PROVIDE. THE FINAL 36 WEEKS OF THE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING DEGREE PROGRAMME IS DEDICATED TO THIS INTERNSHIP PERIOD AND IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CLINICAL CHANGES IN UNDERGRADUATE NURSE EDUCATION SINCE 2002. HOWEVER, TO DATE, THE IMPACT AND VALUE OF THE INTERNSHIP PERIOD HAS NOT BEEN EVALUATED NATIONALLY. THIS PROPOSED PIECE OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH WILL SEEK TO EVALUATE THE VALUE OF THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME IN IRELAND. AIM: THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO EVALUATE NEWLY QUALIFIED NURSES' EXPERIENCES AND PERCEIVED VALUE OF THE INTERNSHIP PERIOD. METHODOLOGY: THE STUDY IS USES A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH DESIGN. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED FROM ALL NEWLY QUALIFIED NURSES IN IRELAND, COMBINED WITH A SERIES OF FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS. THE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND (NMBI) WILL CIRCULATE THE QUESTIONNAIRE ON BEHALF OF THE RESEARCHERS. NURSES WILL SELF-SELECT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS. ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY €5,000 AN EXPLORATION OF RECIPIENTS KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF LIVING AND DYING WITH AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR. THIS QUALITATIVE STUDY WILL EXPLORE PATIENTS' EXPERIENCES OF LIVING WITH AN ICD AND HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT HAVING THE DEVICE DISABLED AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE. APPROXIMATELY TWELVE PATIENTS WILL PARTICIPATE IN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH THE RESEARCHER. ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY €4,500 "AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE, DURATION AND COMPLICATIONS OF EPICARDIAL PACING WIRES FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY. THIS STUDY WILL IDENTIFY HOW MANY PATIENTS USE EPICARDIAL PACING WIRES AFTER THEY ARE INSERTED FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY. FOR THOSE THAT USE THE WIRES, WE WILL ASCERTAIN THE DURATION OF USE, THE DURATION OF WIRE INSERTION AND DETERMINE WHETHER THERE WERE COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WIRES. OBJECTIVE . TO COLLECT TANGIBLE DATA TO INFORM US ABOUT PACING WIRE USE AND COMPLICATIONS WITH A VIEW TO MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRACTICE IN RESPECT OF WIRE INSERTION AND REMOVAL. N/A DR. ROBIN PATRICK MOONEY mooneyrobinpatrick RESEARCH FELLOW/ADJ ASSISTANT PROF RPMOONEY MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH BRIDGMAN GROWTH CASTING CHARACTERISATION COLUMNAR TO EQUIAXED TRANSITION CONTROL SYSTEMS (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) GAMMA TITANIUM ALLOYS HEAT TRANSFER MANUFACTURING (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SOLIDIFICATION PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS OTHER ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING GRAVITY DEPENDENCE OF COLUMNAR TO EQUIAXED TRANSITION IN GAMMA TIAL ALLOYS THE GRADECET PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY ON MICROSTRUCTURE FORMATION AND SEGREGATION IN PERITECTIC TI-AL ALLOYS. EXPERIMENTS ARE TO BE CARRIED OUT UNDER MICROGRAVITY, 1-G AND HYPER-G (UP TO 20G) CONDITIONS. THE GRADECET PROJECT CONSOLIDATES AND COMPLEMENTS MICROGRAVITY INVESTIGATIONS OF AL-TI ALLOYS CARRIED OUT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE INTEGRATED PROJECT IMPRESS. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY GRADECET COLUMNAR-TO-EQUIAXED TRANSITION IN SOLIDIFICATION PROCESSING THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE CETSOL IS TO IMPROVE AND VALIDATE THE MODELLING OF COLUMNAR-EQUIAXED TRANSITION (CET) AND OF THE GRAIN MICROSTRUCTURE IN SOLIDIFICATION PROCESSING. THIS AIMS TO GIVE INDUSTRY CONFIDENCE IN THE RELIABILITY OF THE NUMERICAL TOOLS INTRODUCED IN THEIR INTEGRATED NUMERICAL MODELS OF CASTING, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP. TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL, INTENSIVE DEEPENING OF THE QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BASIC PHYSICAL PHENOMENA THAT, FROM THE MICROSCOPIC TO THE MACROSCOPIC SCALES, GOVERN MICROSTRUCTURE FORMATION AND CET WILL BE PURSUED. THIS ENDEAVOR WILL BE BASED ON THE BENCHMARK DATA OBTAINED FROM SYSTEMATIC SERIES OF CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS UNDER DIFFUSIVE CONDITIONS (CRITICAL EXPERIMENTS UNDER CONVECTIVE CONDITIONS), WITH FLUID FLOW IN THE MELT DUE TO NATURAL BUOYANCY-DRIVEN CONVECTION (CONVECTION CONTROLLED BY APPLYING AN EXTERNAL FIELD, MAGNETIC FIELD OR VIBRATION). EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY CETSOL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. PATRICK MOORE moorepatrick VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MOOREP3 CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) PHARMACOECONOMICS, ECONOMETRICS, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, HEALTH POLICY, MICROECONOMICS, ECONOMIC EVALUATION TILDA CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING LINCOLN GATE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN HEALTH ECONOMICS STUDY GROUP (HESG) INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION (IHEA) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHARMACOECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH (ISPOR) ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY SOCIAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE (REVIEWER) APPLIED MICROECONOMETRICS ECONOMETRICS/FORECASTING HEALTH ECONOMICS HEALTH POLICY PHARMACOECONOMICS POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT EFFECTING CHANGE IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH OF OLDER IRISH ADULTS: RAPID IMPLEMENTATION OF CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH RESEARCH FINDINGS INTO POLICY AND PRACTICE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) IRELAND INTER-DISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT (ICE) WHAT ARE THE IMPORTANT DETERMINANTS FOR MAINTAINING SOCIAL PARTICIPATION IN OVER 50S IN IRELAND? EVIDENCE FROM THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA) THE CONTINUING SOCIAL PARTICIPATION OF OLDER PEOPLE THROUGH VOLUNTEERING AND INFORMAL CARING FOR GRANDCHILDREN AND FAMILY MEMBERS PROVIDES AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION TO IRISH SOCIETY. THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (TILDA) IS A NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, HEALTH AND WELLBEING CIRCUMSTANCES OF PEOPLE AGED 50 AND OVER RESIDENT IN IRELAND. SOCIAL PARTICIPATION MEASURES COLLECTED IN TILDA INCLUDE BOTH ACTIVE AND PASSIVE LEISURE ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT INCLUDING VOLUNTEERING. INFORMAL CARING IS ALSO MEASURED. WE WILL EXAMINE THE TRANSITIONS INTO, AND OUT OF, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION OVER TIME AND AGEING AND IDENTIFY THE DETERMINANTS THAT BOTH CONSTRAIN AND ENABLE THIS PARTICIPATION; INCLUDING RELIGIOUS ENGAGEMENT, EMPLOYMENT, FAMILY STRUCTURE, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH, AND ACCESSIBILITY OF SERVICES. WE WILL ALSO INVESTIGATE THE SUPPORT INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABLE FOR CARERS AND EXAMINE THE DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OUTCOMES FOR THOSE WHO RECEIVED SERVICES WHILE PROVIDING INFORMAL CARING. THIS WILL ENABLE US TO DETERMINE WHICH COMBINATION OF SOCIAL AND HOMECARE SERVICES IS MOST EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING CARER ILL-HEALTH. THIS STUDY WILL INFORM DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES AND POLICIES FOR PARTICIPATION OF OLDER PEOPLE IN SOCIETY AND ALSO INFORM POLICIES AND PRACTICES TO PROVIDE SUPPORT TO CAREGIVERS TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND WELLBEING. HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE (HSE) AGEING MAKING IRELAND DR. ALAN MOORE moorealan FELLOW EMERITUS RMOORE ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING INTEGRATED-CIRCUITTECHNOLOGY SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MIEE LOW-LOSS MICROFIBRES ON SI FOR PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS ENTERPRISE IRELAND LOW-K DIELECTRIC FILMS FROM METALLORGANIC PRECURSORS BY PULSED INJECTION MOCVD ENTERPRISE IRELAND DESIGN, FABRICATION AND INVESTIGATION OF SI BASED COMPOSITE PHOTONIC MATERIALS SFI CHEMICAL BONDING OF METALLORGANICS TO THE SILICON SURFACE ENTERPRISE IRELAND NANOPOROUS SEMICONDUCTORS HEA RAPID THERMAL PROCESSING: CHARACTERISATION AND DEFECT ANALYSIS TCD, DIT SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES AND PRECISE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF SILICON STRUCTURES ENTERPRISE IRELAND OPTICAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THIN FILMS FORMED ON SILICON ENTERPRISE IRELAND GROWTH AND CHARACTERISATION OF THIN SIGE LAYERS WITH HIGH GE CONTENT ENTERPRISE IRELAND MICRO-RAMAN INVESTIGATION OF STRESS IN MACRO-POROUS SILICON ENTERPRISE IRELAND TECHNOLOGY AND CHARACTERISATION OF CARBON/CARBON-SIC COMPOSITES ENTERPRISE IRELAND OPTICAL CHARACTERISATION OF QUANTUM DOTS ENTERPRISE IRELAND MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF SIGEC, SIC MULTILAYERS AND GE/SI(001) QUANTUM DOTS ENTERPRISE IRELAND AND FRENCH EMBASSY, IRELAND FABRICATION OF ULTRA-SHALLOW BORON JUNCTIONS USING PROXIMITY RAPID THERMAL DIFFUSION INTEL IRELAND INVESTIGATION OF THE STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF INTERLAYER DIELECTRICS BY INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY INTEL IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. GARY MORAN morangary ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GMORAN DENTAL SCIENCE MY RESEARCH INTERESTS FOCUS ON ORAL MICROBIOLOGY, INCLUDING: 1) THE PATHOGENIC YEAST CANDIDA ALBICANS, RESPONSIBLE FOR ORAL AND SYSTEMIC FUNGAL INFECTIONS - I AM INTERESTED IN A TELOMERIC GENE FAMILY (TLO GENES) THAT ENCODE SUBUNITS OF THE MEDIATOR TRANSCRIPTIONAL COMPLEX. THIS FAMILY OF 14 GENES REGULATE VIRULENCE TRAITS AND WE ARE CURRENTLY MUTATING THIS FAMILY USING CRISPR-CAS MUTAGENESIS. 2) THE ORAL MICROBIOME: USING 16S COMMUNITY PROFILING IDENTIFY NEW DISEASE ASSOCIATIONS AND DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS IN THE ORAL MICROBIOME. PROJECTS INCLUDE THE ORAL CROHN'S DISEASE AND ORAL CANCER MICROBIOMES. 3) PATHOGENICITY OF ORAL ANAEROBIC BACTERIA PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS AND FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM. MICROBIOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT DIVISION OF ORAL BIOSCIENCES DUBLIN DENTAL SCHOOL & HOSPITAL LINCOLN PLACE, COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY DUBLIN ACADEMY OF PATHOGENOMICS AND INFECTION BIOLOGY INTERNATION ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) IRISH FUNGAL SCOIETY (IFS) MEETINGS SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF MEDICAL MYCOLOGY PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH FUNGAL SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY 16S PROFILING ANTIFUNGAL DRUG RESISTANCE CANDIDA ALBICANS COMPARATIVE GENOMICS FUNGAL MORPHOGENESIS FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM GENOMES, GENOMICS IN VITRO MODELS OF INFECTION MICROBIOME MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PERIODONTAL DISEASE PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS TISSUE CULTURE TRANSCRIPTOMICS VIRULENCE FACTORS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS MICROBIOLOGY THE TLO GENES OF CANDIDA ALBICANS THE GENOME OF THE FUNGAL PATHOGEN CANDIDA ALBICANS CONTAINS A FAMILY OF ~14 TELOMERIC TLO GENES ENCODING PUTATIVE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS. THE CLOSELY RELATED NON-PATHOGENIC SPECIES C. DUBLINIENSIS CONTAINS ONLY TWO ORTHOLOGOUS GENES, SUGGESTING THAT THE INCREASED GENE NUMBER IN C. ALBICANS MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE INCREASED VIRULENCE OF THIS SPECIES. USING A COMBINATION OF MUTANT CONSTRUCTION, TRANSCRIPT PROFILING AND CHIP-CHIP ANALYSIS, THIS STUDY AIMS TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF THESE GENE IN THE BIOLOGY AND VIRULENCE OF CANDIDA SPECIES. TCD AND SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME THE HAG GENES OF PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS WE ARE CURRENTLY ANALYSING THE ROLES OF THE HAGB AND HAGC OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS OF P. GINGIVALIS IN ADHESION AND TISSUE INVASION. THIS STUDY INVOLVES CREATING DELETION MUTANTS OF THE HAGB AND HAGC GENES, AND A DOUBLE HAGB/C MUTANT. THE PATHOGENICITY OF THESE MUTANTS WILL BE ASSESSED USING IN VITRO AND IN VIVO INFECTION MODELS. THIS STUDY IS BEING CARRIED OUT IN COLLABORATION WITH PROF, ANN PROGULSKE-FOX, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA. TCD AND DUBLIN DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 1252 STUDENTSHIP THE ROLE OF TOR KINASE IN FILAMENTATION IN CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS OUR RECENT STUDIES HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE ROLE OF NUTRIENTS AND THE NUTRIENT SENSING KINASE TOR1 IN REGULATING FILAMENTATION AND VIRULENCE IN THE FUNGAL PATHOGEN C. DUBLINIENSIS. IN THIS STUDY WE WILL EXAMINE THE ROLE OF MUTATIONS IN THE TOR KINASE PATHWAY THAT LEAD TO TOR HYPERACTIVITY. IT IS OUR HYPOTHESIS THAT TOR HYPERACTIVE STRAINS OF C. ALBICANS WILL RESEMBLE THE LESS VIRULENT PATHOGEN C. DUBLINIENSIS. THESE DATA WILL INDICATE WHETHER TOR AGONISTS HAVE POTENTIAL AS ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME THE ORAL MICROBIOME IN DISEASE THE ORAL MICRO BIOME CONSTITUTES SEVERAL HUNDRED SPECIES OF BACTERIA AND FUNGI. THEIR ROLE IN ORAL AND SYSTEMIC HEALTH IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. THIS STUDY WILL USE 16S AND 18S SEQUENCING TO IDENTIFY POPULATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH MALIGNANT LESIONS IN THE ORAL CAVITY AND MARKER ORGANISMS FOR DISEASES OF THE BOWEL (COLITIS AND CROHN'S) LIBYAN GOVT. SCHOLARSHIP GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MR. BARRY MORAN moranbarry RESEARCH FELLOW MORANBA BIOCHEMISTRY MANAGING FLOW CYTOMETRY (FACS) FACILITY, LOCATED IN THE BIOCHEMISTRY (WELLCOME) BUILDING ON CAMPUS, EQUIPPED WITH ONE HIGH PERFORMANCE FLOW CYTOMETER SORTER AND TWO FLOW CYTOMETER ANALYZERS, PLUS OFF-LINE WORKSTATIONS FOR ANALYSIS. SERVICES INCLUDE SORTING, INCLUDING 4-WAY OR 96-WELL PLATE ETC.; ANALYSER OPERATION, AS WELL AS TECHNICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ASSISTANCE AND EXPERTISE; AND TRAINING AS REQUIRED. DEPT. OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER MORASH morashchristopher VICE PROVOST /CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER MORASHC ACADEMIC SECRETARIAT I HAVE PUBLISHED A HISTORIES OF IRISH THEATRE, AND OF IRISH MEDIA, BOTH EXTENDING FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT; I HAVE ALSO PUBLISHED ON IRISH FAMINE WRITING, AND, MOST RECENTLY, ON THEORIES OF SPACE IN RELATION TO THEATRE. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON YEATS'S THEATRE. MY RESEARCH INTERESTS IN THE FIELD OF IRISH STUDIES THUS RANGE FAIRLY WIDELY OVER THE FIELD, WITH THEATRE AND CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION FLOW AS A KIND OF EPICENTRE. I HAVE ALSO SERVED AS CHAIR OF THE COMPLIANCE COMMITTE OF THE BROADCASTING AUTHORITY OF IRELAND, AND THUS HAVE AN INTEREST IN BROADCASTING REGULATION. OFFICE OF THE VICEPROVOST WEST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF IRISH STUDIES (CAIS) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURE (IASIL) MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY CINEMA AND IRELAND CULTURE DRAMATIC/THEATRE ARTS IRELAND IRISH HISTORY IRISH POLITICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY, 1660-1800 IRISH SOCIAL HISTORY IRISH THEATRE IRISH THEATRE, FILM AND CULTURAL PERFORMANCE IRISH URBAN HISTORY, DUBLIN AND CORK IRISH WRITING IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA IRISHNESS JOURNALISM LITERARY CRITICISM MEDIA PERFORMANCE THEORY POETS RADIO TELEVISION THEATER-MAKING THEATERS THEATRE HISTORY THEATRE/FILM CRITICISM CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY CO-EDITING OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MODERN IRISH THEATRE CO-EDITING, WITH PROF. NICHOLAS GRENE OF TCD, THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MODERN IRISH THEATRE. THIS VOLUME WILL INCLUDE 40+ CONTRIBUTORS, AND WILL BE APPROX. 330,000 WORDS IN LENGTH, COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF THE FIELD. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. GERALD RAYMOND MORGAN morgangeraldraymond RETIRED STAFF MEMBER GMORGAN DEPT OF ENGLISH ROOM 4013 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN ENGLISH FRENCH SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ROMANCE, LITERATURE CHAUCER'S KNIGHT, THE KNIGHT'S TALE, AND THE ARBITRATION OF WAR DR. JEFF MORGAN morganjeff RESEARCH FELLOW MORGANJ2 MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG THE FOUNDATION OF MY RESEARCH LAYS IN MY PH.D RESEARCH WHICH EXPLORED THE DYNAMICS OF DECENTRALISED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE WITHIN FIELD-LEVEL MANUFACTURING PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEMS. THE NEED FOR THIS UNDERSTANDING HAS BEEN DRIVEN BY THE PREDICTION THAT THESE CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS WILL CREATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF INNOVATIVE INTELLIGENT MACHINES. THIS RESEARCH INVESTIGATES THE CAPABILITY OF DECENTRALISATION DESIGN TO PROVIDE THE CORE FUNDAMENTAL FUNCTIONALITY OF PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEMS IN A NEW RECONFIGURABLE FORMAT. THE EMBODIMENT OF THIS INVESTIGATION IS THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A DECENTRALISED ARCHITECTURE FOR THE CREATION OF A RECONFIGURABLE PROCESS MONITORING SYSTEM WITHIN FIELD-LEVEL MANUFACTURING. SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONTINUOUS MONITORING CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS DECENTRALISED CONTROL MACHINE CONDITION MONITORING SENSOR NETWORKS SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE SIGNAL ANALYSIS SIGNAL PROCESSING SR-TEX THE CREATION OF AN INNOVATIVE RECONFIGURABLE PRODUCTION LINE. THIS SYSTEM WILL HAVE INTERCHANGEABLE PRODUCT TESTING STATIONS WITH DEDICATED RT CONTROLLERS. EACH STATION IS DYNAMIC AND CAN RE-CONFIGURE TEST SETTING DEPENDING ON THE PART TYPE PRESENT IN REAL TIME. FURTHERMORE, PART ROUTINE AND DATA COLLECT WILL BE ORCHESTRATED BY A MASTER CONTROLLER VIA TCP, ENABLING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGH COMPUTATION ANALYTICS AND ENSURE SEAMLESS DATA INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN STATIONS. THIS SYSTEM IS A SERVICE ORIENTED PRODUCTION LINE, WHICH IS OPEN, FLEXIBLE TO CHANGE, AND EXTENSIBLE FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. CORE STATION OPERATIONS INCLUDE: HIGH VOLTAGE TESTING (HIPOT), ELECTRICAL RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT, THERMAL IMAGING AND ANALYSIS, SERIAL PART PRINTING. ENTERPRISE IRELAND IRELANDS EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL AND INVESTMENT FUNDS PROGRAMMES 2014-2020 PROFESSOR EDGAR MORGENROTH morgenrothedgar ADJUNCT PROFESSOR MORGENRE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ELAINE MORIARTY moriartyelaine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EMORIAR SOCIOLOGY DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION HERMES, THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN RESEARCHERS IN MIGRATION AND ETHNIC STUDIES SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND GLOBALISATION IDENTITY POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE LABOUR MIGRATION MIGRATION RACE AND ETHNIC STUDIES MIGRANT CAREERS AND ASPIRATIONS THE MIGRANT CAREERS AND ASPIRATIONS PROJECT FOCUSES ON EASTERN EUROPEAN WORKERS IN THE IRISH LABOUR MARKET, PARTICULARLY POLISH MIGRANTS. IT SEEKS TO STUDY THE INTERACTION OF MIGRANTS' AND EMPLOYERS' STRATEGIES. TO DO SO, THE PROJECT WILL CONDUCT A QUALITATIVE PANEL STUDY OF BOTH IMMIGRANTS AND WORKPLACES, PRECEDED BY SECTORAL REPORTS AND FLANKED BY A SYSTEMATIC MONITORING OF LABOUR MARKET TRENDS. PHILANTHROPIC TRINITY IMMIGRATION INITIATIVE CAREERS, CONJUNCTURE AND CONSEQUENCES: THE IMPLICATIONS OF POLISH MIGRATION TO IRELAND FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH EMIGRATION THIS PROJECT IS A FOLLOW UP TO THE MIGRANT CAREERS AND ASPIRATIONS (2007-2010). IT PROPOSES TO RE-INTERVIEW THE ORIGINAL PANEL OF YOUNG POLES WHO CAME TO IRELAND TO WORK IN THE IRISH LABOUR MARKET DURING THE BOOM. IT ALSO DEVELOPS A NEW PANEL OF YOUNG IRISH GRADUATE EMIGRANTS. WE EVALUATE WHETHER NOVEL FORMS OF MIGRANT CAREERS EXIST WITHIN THE EUROPEAN AND TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY SPACE, THE IMPACT ON MIGRANTS' CAREERS OF TWO DIFFERENT CONJUNCTURES (BUBBLE AND RECESSION) AND FINALLY THE LASTING CONSEQUENCES FOR IRISH EMPLOYMENT REGULATION OF THE PERIODS OF MASS IMMIGRATION AND MASS EMIGRATION. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. MARIE MORRIS morrismarie CLINICAL SKILLS TUTOR MORRISM4 SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE EDUCATION CENTRE TRINITY CENTRE - HEALTH SCIENCES TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR MICHAEL MORRIS morrismichael AMBER DIRECTOR MORRISM2 CRANN WITHIN CRANN, THE MORRIS RESEARCH GROUP FOCUSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES WHICH HAS STRONG LINKS TO INTEL. THEIR WORK CENTRES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-ORGANISED BLOCK COPOLYMERS FOR THE GENERATION OF PRECISE SURFACE PATTERNS WHICH CAN BE TRANSFERRED INTO SUBSTRATES TO CREATE NOVEL NANODIMENSIONED DEVICE STRUCTURES. THE GROUP ALSO USES CHEMICAL BASED PROCESSES FOR DEVELOPING NANOENGINEERED SURFACE COATINGS AND TREATMENTS WHICH HAVE SUPERIOR FUNCTION COMPARED TO STANDARD MATERIALS. THIS EXPERTISE IS THE BASIS OF IMPORTANT INDUSTRY RELATIONSHIPS INCLUDING DEPUY, (SYNTHESIS OF APATITE MATERIALS) AND MERCK MILLIPORE (NOVEL MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGIES). THE GROUP HAS STRONG EXPERTISE IN THE SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY OF LANTHANIDE OXIDES AND THEIR USE IN CATALYSIS, ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIATION AND ELECTRONICS. MICHAEL MORRIS IS A FOUNDER OF GLANTREO, A SME SPIN OUT FOR CORK, AND MAINTAINS LINKS IN DEVELOPING NOVEL STATIONARY PHASE MATERIALS FOR CHROMATOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS. CRANN COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. CHRISTINE ELIZABETH MORRIS morrischristineelizabeth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CMORRIS CLASSICS CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES DR MORRIS' RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS FOCUS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE AEGEAN BRONZE AGE. HER RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE CONCERNED WITH CERAMICS; ART AND RELIGION (GODDESSES, HEALING/MEDICINE); GENDER IN ARCHAEOLOGY; HISTORIOGRAPHY AND RECEPTION OF MINOAN CRETE; DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY. SCHOOL OF CLASSICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ARCHAEOLOGY AND GENDER IN EUROPE (AGE), WORKING GROUP WITHIN THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF ARCHEOLOGISTS CHAIR, IRISH INSTITUTE OF HELLENIC STUDIES AT ATHENS COROPLASTIC STUDIES INTEREST GROUP (AFFILIATED TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA) IRISH INSTITUTE OF HELLENIC STUDIES AT ATHENS (MEMBER) IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, LEXICON ICONOGRAPHICUM MYTHOLOGIAE CLASSICAE MEMBER, ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY CONGRESS 2008 (DUBLIN) ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, MEMBER NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GREEK AND LATIN STUDIES TCD REPRESENTATIVE, IRISH INSTITUTE OF HELLENIC STUDIES AT ATHENS TREASURER, IRISH INSTITUTE OF HELLENIC STUDIES AT ATHENS AEGEAN BRONZE AGE ANCIENT ART ARCHAEOLOGY OF CYPRUS COGNITIVE ARCHAEOLOGY CULTURAL HERITAGE GREEK ARCHAEOLOGY MINOAN ARCHAEOLOGY RECEPTION STUDIES PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY AN INTRA-SITE GIS ANALYSIS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RITUAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE ATSIPADHES PEAK SANCTUARY IN CRETE THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CREATE AN INTERACTIVE SYSTEM BETWEEN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RITUAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE MINOAN PEAK SANCTUARY (C.1900-1700 BC) OF ATSIPADHES KORAKIAS IN WESTERN CRETE AND A G(EOGRAPHICAL) I(NFORMATION) S(YSTEM). THIS WILL CREATE AN EFFECTIVE RESEARCH TOOL FOR INTRA-SITE ANALYSIS, THAT IS THE STUDY OF SPATIAL ORGANISATION AND PATTERNS OF RITUAL ACTIVITY IN RELATION TO THE TOPOGRAPHY AND EXCAVATED FEATURES OF THE SITE, AS WELL AS PRODUCING HIGH-QUALITY DATA PRESENTATION FOR PUBLICATION. THE PRIMARY ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA COMPRISES TOPOGRAPHIC PLANS OF THE SITE, TRENCH PLANS AND A DATABASE OF OVER 5,000 FIGURINE FRAGMENTS, ALL PLOTTED DURING EXCAVATION. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO PROVIDE AN INNOVATIVE MODEL WHICH CAN BE USED AND DEVELOPED FURTHER FOR OTHER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES SINCE THE USE OF GIS FOR INTRA-SITE ANALYSIS (AS OPPOSED ITS MORE FAMILIAR USE FOR REGIONAL STUDIES) IS STILL RELATIVELY RARE. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THESE BRONZE AGE MOUNTAIN SHRINES, WITH THEIR DISPOSED OFFERINGS OF FIGURINES AND POTTERY, ARE RECOGNISED AS A PRIMARY LOCATION OF CULT IN THE MINOAN RITUAL LANDSCAPE, AND ARE ALSO INTIMATELY CONNECTED TO THE EMERGING POWER OF EARLY STATE ELITES IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM BC, THE ONLY OTHER PEAK SANCTUARY PUBLISHED IN ANY DETAIL IS PETSOPHAS IN EASTERN CRETE IN 1903. UNSURPRISINGLY, THE NATURE OF RITUAL ACTIVITY ON THESE SITES IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD AND SCHOLARLY INTERPRETATIONS (AND ASSUMPTIONS) DEPEND ON OLD AND LIMITED PRIMARY DATA. ATSIPADHES IS THE ONLY PEAK SANCTUARY TO HAVE BEEN FULLY EXCAVATED (IN 1989) TO MODERN STANDARDS WITH ALL ITS FINDS PLOTTED IN SITU; IT THEREFORE PROVIDES A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF CRETAN BRONZE AGE RITUAL. AS WELL AS BEING OF CENTRAL IMPORTANCE WITHIN MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY, THE PROJECT WILL ALSO CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY (METHODS OF SPATIAL ANALYSIS), THE CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF FIGURINES, AND COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS/RITUAL STUDIES. IRCHSS SMALL THEMATIC GRANT 3D DIGITAL SCANNING OF CLAY FIGURINES FROM CRETAN BRONZE AGE PEAK SANCTUARIES. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT COLLABORATORS: CHRISTINE MORRIS; ALAN PEATFIELD (UCD); WILL MEGARRY (UCD) THIS PROJECT WILL TAKE PLACE IN TWO MUSEUMS IN CRETE: RETHYMNON MUSEUM WHERE THE ATSIPADHES MATERIAL IS STORED; AND IRAKLION MUSEUM WHERE MATERIAL FROM OTHER PEAK SANCTUARIES, IN PARTICULAR, PETSOPHAS, IS CURATED). PERMISSION TO DO THE WORK DURING THE SUMMER OF 2011 HAS BEEN GIVEN BY THE DIRECTORS OF BOTH MUSEUMS. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO BRING A PORTABLE 3D SCANNER TO THE MUSEUMS TO SCAN SELECTED FIGURINES. PRELIMINARY WORK IN ESTABLISHING THE OPTIMUM SCANNING METHODS (USING A VERY SMALL SET OF COMPARABLE MATERIAL) HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED IN DUBLIN DURING 2010 IN COLLABORATION WITH COLLEAGUES IN THE SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, UCD (WHICH ALSO PROVIDED THE SEED FUNDING TO PURCHASE THE SCANNING EQUIPMENT). TRADITIONALLY, ARTEFACTS SUCH AS FIGURINES ARE STUDIED AND THEN REPRESENTED IN PUBLICATIONS (OR IN ORAL PRESENTATIONS) THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS AND/OR TECHNICAL DRAWINGS. THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO EXPLORE HOW 3D SCANNING CAN COMPLEMENT AND ENHANCE THESE METHODS WITH THE TECHNOLOGY CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. THE OVERALL AIM WILL BE TO PRODUCE HIGH QUALITY SCANNED IMAGES WHICH CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY IN AN INTERACTIVE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT (VRE) WHERE THE IMAGES CAN BE ROTATED BY THE VIEWER. THE IMAGES WILL ALSO ENHANCE THE TRADITIONAL PUBLICATION AND BE USEFUL FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS. RESEARCH QUESTION. PUT SIMPLY, THE PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF 3D IMAGING FOR THE RECORDING, ANALYSIS AND PUBLICATION OF PORTABLE CLAY FIGURINES, AS WELL AS PRODUCING THE 3D IMAGES OF THIS TYPE OF MATERIAL FOR THE FIRST TIME. METHODOLOGY (INVESTIGATIVE AND ANALYTIC METHODS, THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS) THE INVESTIGATIVE/ANALYTIC METHOD IS 3D SCANNING, TO TAKE PLACE IN TWO CRETAN MUSEUMS ON COLLECTIONS OF CLAY FIGURINES FROM TWO DIFFERENT SITES IN WESTERN AND EASTERN CRETE. AS THE STYLES, FABRICS AND CONDITION/FRAGMENTATION OF THE FIGURINES FROM THE TWO SITES ARE DIFFERENT, SCANNING SAMPLES OF BOTH SETS OF MATERIAL IS HIGHLY DESIRABLE. ON THE PRACTICAL SIDE, PERFORMANCE (IN GREEK MUSEUM CONDITIONS, I.E.HEAT AND DUST TO CONTEND WITH), SPEED AND ACCURACY WILL BE EVALUATED IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE PRACTICE FOR SUCH WORK, GIVEN THAT THE MATERIAL IS OFTEN FRAGMENTARY AND MAY HAVE DAMAGED/ABRADED SURFACES. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO MAKE AN INTERESTING CASE STUDY FOR EXPLORING WIDER METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES CONCERNING DIGITAL REPRESENTATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY. IT PROPOSES TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS BY CONSIDERING TRADITIONAL MODES OF REPRESENTATION IN RELATION TO THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY NEWER TECHNOLOGIES. BEYOND THE PURELY PRACTICAL ISSUES OF TIME, SKILL AND ACCURACY, THERE ARE DEEPER QUESTIONS OF HOW THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF REPRESENTATION IMPACT ON HOW THE MATERIAL IS STUDIED (SO THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND ARTEFACT) AND ON HOW IT IS REPRESENTED AND DISSEMINATED IN PUBLICATIONS FOR BOTH A SPECIALIST AND MORE GENERAL AUDIENCE. FOR THIS ASPECT OF THE WORK THERE WILL BE INPUT AND DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE TWO ARCHAEOLOGISTS INVOLVED IN THE FIGURINE STUDY, THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ILLUSTATOR WHO HAS DRAWN MUCH OF THE ATSIPADHES MATERIAL, AND AN ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO HAS EXPERTISE WITH THE SCANNING EQUIPMENT. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND; SEED FUNDING FROM UCD FOR EQUIPMENT TWO BOOK LENGTH PUBLICATIONS OF PEAK SANCTUARY MATERIAL FROM THE CRETAN BRONZE AGE THE PROJECT COMPRISES THE PREPARATION AND PUBLICATION OF TWO CLOSELY LINKED BOOKS ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRETAN BRONZE AGE PEAK SANCTUARIES. THESE ARE A CO-EDITED VOLUME OF PAPERS ON PEAK SANCTUARIES UNDER CONTRACT TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, AND A CO-AUTHORED VOLUME ON THE CLAY FIGURINES FROM THE PRINIAS PEAK SANCTUARY. BOTH PUBLICATIONS WILL MAKE PRIMARY, UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL AVAILABLE TO THE SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY, AND WILL INTRODUCE AND INNOVATIVE DIGITALLY-BASED METHODS OF REPRESENTING AND INTERPRETING THIS MATERIAL. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL 'UNLOCKING' SACRED LANDSCAPES: SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF RITUAL AND CULT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN THE PRIMARY AIM OF THIS PROJECT WAS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ('UNLOCKING SACRED LANDSCAPES) THROUGH THE ORGANISATION OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORKSHOP ON 'SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF RITUAL AND CULT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN', ORGANISED BY CHRISTINE MORRIS AND GIORGOS PAPANTONIOU. WE INCLUDED PAPERS WITH A STRONG METHODOLOGICAL FOCUS ON SPATIAL ANALYSIS AND USING CASE STUDIES FROM ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN, RANGING FROM THE BRONZE AGE TO THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD. THESE PAPERS INVESTIGATED THE INTERACTION BETWEEN POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES, AS EXPRESSED IN SACRED LANDSCAPES AND SPACE. IN ADDITION, MOVING BEYOND ELITE AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES, FOCUS WAS ALSO GIVEN TO HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF THE NUMINOUS IN THE CREATION OF PERSONAL SPIRITUAL IDENTITIES. THE WORKSHOP IS CURRENTLY UNDER PUBLICATION IN THE FORM OF AN EDITED COLLECTIVE VOLUME. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. JEAN MORRISSEY morrisseyjean ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MORRISJE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SELF-HARM, SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR, EATING DISORDERS, CLINICAL SUPERVISION AND ETHICS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 BACP,IACP, NURSING MIDWIFERY COUNCIL (NMC UK) NMPDU RISK PROJECT: STEPPING UP TO THERAPEUTIC RISK IN A MENTAL HEALTH CONTEXT: THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A RISK FRAMEWORK AND EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR CLINICAL STAFF HIGGINS A; DOYLE L (JOINT PIS); NASH M; BRENNAN M; COSTELLO P; MORRISSEY J NURSING MIDWIFERY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT UNIT DEVELOPING INTERPROFESSIONAL CLINICAL SUPERVISION AND END OF LIFE CARE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR SUPERVISORS CO-RESEARCHER: DR CREANER M., DR DELANEY, S. HAYES, A. DR CONNAIRE, K. & MORRISSEY,J. EVALUATION OF TRAINING IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION AN EVALUATION OF MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY AND WELLNESS RECOVERY ACTION PLAN (WRAP) EDUCATION PROGRAMME ON PARTICIPANTS' KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND SKILLS OF MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY AND THE WRAP APPROACH . EVALUATION OF A 2 AND 5 DAY TRAINING PROGRAMME. A MIXED METHODS DESIGN IMREC -THE IRISH MENTAL HEALTH & RECOVERY EDUCATION CONSORTIUM. AN EVALUATION OF POWER (PROMOTING OUR OWN WELLNESS & RECOVERY) A PEER PRISONER MENTORING PROGRAMME (DOYLE, L., HIGGINS, A., KEOGH,B., BRENNAN ,M. & MORRISSEYJ.) SUICIDE OR SURVIVE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. TONY MORTON-BLAKE mortonblaketony FELLOW EMERITUS TBLAKE CHEMISTRY DEPT. OF CHEMISTRY COLLEGE 01-8961000 WELSH ENGLISH CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. IRENE MOSCA moscairene RESEARCH FELLOW MOSCAI CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY POPULATION AGEING, MIGRATION, LABOUR MARKET TILDA CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, DUBLIN, IRELAND AGEING INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. HILARY MOSS mosshilary ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HIMOSS CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY 2 THE CLOISTERS CLANE CO KILDARE 01-8961000 AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DR. RACHEL LAURA MOSS mossrachellaura ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RMOSS HISTORY OF ART IRISH ART RESEARCH CENTRE DEPT OF HISTORY OF ART ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN BOARD MEMBER, IRISH ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE (MINISTERIAL NOMINEE) COUNCIL MEMBER, ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND DIRECTOR, EIGSE HERITAGE SERVICES FELLOW, ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND FELLOW, SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES (LONDON) MEMBER OF DIRECTORATE, DISCOVERY PROGRAMME (HERITAGE COUNCIL NOMINEE) MEMBER, BOARD OF THE SCIENCE GALLERY DUBLIN MEMBER, BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL ART MEMBER, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS MEMBER, IRISH COMMITTEE FOR HISTORICAL SCIENCES PRESIDENT, ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, CORPUS OF ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND PROJECT STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, MAPPING THE PRACTICE AND PROFESSION OF SCULPTURE 1851-1951 PROJECT ARCHITECTURE HISTORY INSULAR ART MEDIEVAL BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES MEDIEVAL IRELAND MEDIEVAL SCULPTURE RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION ROMANESQUE ART AND ARCHITECTURE CROOKSHANK GLIN ARCHIVE GETTY FOUNDATION PROF. EDWIN RAE IMAGE ARCHIVE HERITAGE COUNCIL RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE GOTHIC PAST THIS PROJECT AIMS TO TRANSFORM THE STUDY OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND THROUGH THE USE OF MODERN ANALYTICAL METHODS AND DATA RESOURCES. THE STUDY WILL FOCUS ON THE INTRODUCTION AND SPREAD OF GOTHIC FORMS, ESPECIALLY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, AND IT WILL LAY PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PERCEPTION AND EXPLOITATION OF THESE BUILDINGS IN SUCCEEDING AGES. THE INTENTION IS TO ESTABLISH A SMALL RESEARCH TEAM, BASED ON AN EXISTING AREA OF STRENGTH WITHIN THE SCHOOL OF HISTORIES AND HUMANITIES. IT IS IMPORTANT TO STRESS THAT THERE HAS BEEN NO 'DEFINING' WORK ON IRISH GOTHIC DESIGN SINCE THE 1950S, AND VIRTUALLY NO EXAMINATION OF THE WAYS IN WHICH IRISH DESIGN RELATES TO GOTHIC FOUND ELSEWHERE IN EUROPE, NOR ANY EXAMINATION OF ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS OF THE TIME. A KEY (AND UNUSUAL) ELEMENT IN THE PROPOSAL IS THE INTENTION TO TAKE A 'HOLISTIC' VIEW OF THE GOTHIC MONUMENTS INVOLVED, EXAMINING BUILDING AS PART OF A CONTINUOUS HISTORICAL PROCESS; IN OTHER WORDS THE AIM IS TO ANALYSE BUILDINGS NOT JUST AS MONUMENTS OF ONE PARTICULAR PERIOD, BUT AS HISTORICAL 'DOCUMENTS' WHICH HAVE MUCH TO TELL US ABOUT THE ATTITUDES AND ASPIRATIONS OF SUBSEQUENT ERAS. THE PROJECT WILL THUS EXAMINE HOW THE USE AND TREATMENT OF GOTHIC BUILDINGS HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN SUBSEQUENT AGES (INCLUDING THE MODERN ERA). WITH ITS EMPHASIS ON THE PROCESS OF COLONISATION AND POST COLONISATION, COMBINED WITH THE INVESTIGATION OF HOW THE MEANING AND PERCEPTION OF GOTHIC MONUMENTS HAVE CHANGED AND EVOLVED OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE HUNDRED YEARS. IRCHSS THEMATIC GRANTS SCHEME ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF IRELAND PROJECT ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN IRELAND IS AN AMBITIOUS PROJECT TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO PRODUCE A DEFINITIVE FIVE VOLUME ACADEMIC REFERENCE TEXT THAT COVERS THE HISTORY OF IRISH ART AND ARCHITECTURE FROM C. AD400 TO C.2000. IT IS ENVISAGED THAT THE TEXT WILL ALSO BE PUBLISHED IN DIGITAL FORM. INVOLVEMENT INCLUDES EDITING AND OVER TWO THIRDS OF THE WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS TO VOLUME 1, MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE, C.400-1600. NAUGHTON TRUST AND DEPARTMENT OF ARTS SPORTS AND TOURISM TCD IRISH GOSPEL BOOKS PROJECT THE PROJECT ENTAILS THE TREATMENT, TECHNICAL EXAMINATION, DIGITISATION AND ART HISTORICAL STUDY OF FOUR OF TCD LIBRARY'S MOST IMPORTANT EARLY MEDIEVAL GOSPEL BOOKS; CODEX USSERIANIUS PRIMUS, THE GARLAND OF HOWTH, THE BOOK OF DIMMA AND THE BOOK OF MULLING. BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH ART CONSERVATION FUND MONASTIC IRELAND: LANDSCAPE AND SETTLEMENT MONASTIC IRELAND: LANDSCAPE AND SETTLEMENT IS PHASE 2 OF RESEARCH INITIATED BY DR RACHEL MOSS, (TCD) DR EDEL BHREATHNACH( THE DISCOVERY PROGRAMME) AND DR MALGORZATA KRASNODEBSKA-D'AUGHTON(UCC) IN 2010. PHASE 1, NOW NEARING COMPLETION, HAS ACHIEVED THE SUCCESSFUL ASSEMBLY OF BASELINE DATA (HISTORICAL SYNOPSES, IMAGE ARCHIVES, TRANSCRIPTIONS OF RELEVANT PRIMARY DOCUMENTS AND TOURISM INFORMATION) RELATING TO MONASTERIES ACROSS THE ISLAND OF IRELAND. PHASE 2 OF THE PROGRAMME WILL SEEK TO CLARIFY THE ROLE OF MONASTERIES C. 1100-1700 IN SHAPING THE DISTRIBUTION AND FORM OF IRISH URBAN AND RURAL SETTLEMENT. THE ROLE PLAYED BY MONASTIC COMMUNITIES IN ATTRACTING ADJACENT SETTLEMENTS, AND IN THE PROCESS OF COLONISATION AND SOCIAL CONTROL OF ALREADY ESTABLISHED POPULATIONS, WILL BE ANALYSED IN THE CONTEXT OF BROADER TRENDS ACROSS EUROPE. THE PARTICULARLY RICH SURVIVALS OF RELEVANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ARCHITECTURAL AND DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN IRELAND MEANS THAT IT IS IDEALLY PLACED WITHIN THE NOW VIBRANT ARENA OF EUROPEAN MONASTIC STUDIES TO ANSWER KEY QUESTIONS RELEVANT TO THE CONTINENT AS A WHOLE. THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN TCD, UCC AND THE DISCOVERY PROGRAMME WILL ENABLE THE PROJECT TO COMBINE MORE TRADITIONAL DESK-BASED STUDY AND FIELD OBSERVATION WITH CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGIES NOT USUALLY HARNESSED IN THE DISCIPLINES OF ART HISTORY AND HISTORY. DIGITAL SURVEYING TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING LIDAR AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY, HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REVEAL SUBTLE CHANGES IN BUILDING FABRIC, AND ADJACENT, NOW BELOW GROUND, EVIDENCE OF SETTLEMENT NOT VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. THIS WILL PROVIDE NEW INFORMATION, WHICH WILL COMPLEMENT AND CLARIFY MORE TRADITIONAL SOURCES, RESEARCH AND TEACHING METHODS. IRC ADVANCED PROJECT GRANTS MONASTIC IRELAND THE MONASTIC IRELAND PROJECT AIMS TO CONSTRUCT A WEBSITE, DATABASE AND IMAGE SENSITIVE APPLICATION OF IRISH MONASTERIES, NUNNERIES, HOUSES OF CANONS AND MENDICANT FOUNDATIONS DATING FROM 1100-1700AD. THE WEBSITE AND DATABASE WILL AIM TO PROVIDE EASILY NAVIGABLE INFORMATION ABOUT EACH SITE (ARCHAEOLOGY, ARCHITECTURE, ARCHIVES, HISTORY, SOURCE REFERENCES, ACCESS). IT WILL ALSO INCLUDE PHOTOGRAPHS AND LOCATION MAPS. THE DATABASE WILL ALLOW LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND INTERESTED GROUPS TO SEE HOW CHALLENGES FACING SITES IN THEIR OWN LOCALITY ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE FACED ELSEWHERE. FOR EDUCATIONAL AND TOURISM PURPOSES IT WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF SITES IN A HOLISTIC REGIONAL CONTEXT AS OPPOSED TO INDIVIDUAL SITES DEVOID OF A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NARRATIVE. THIS PROJECT WILL FORM THE BASIS OF A POWERFUL TOOL FOR CULTURAL TOURISM IN IRELAND. PROJECT PARTNER WITH: DR EDEL BHREATHNACH, (DISCOVERY PROGRAMME)AND DR MALGORZATA KRASNODEBSKA-D'AUGHTON(UCC) DEPT. OF ARTS, HERITAGE & THE GAELTACHT; FÁILTE IRELAND (APPLIED RESEARCH GRANT) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. CARLO MOTTA mottacarlo RESEARCH FELLOW MOTTAC PHYSICS I AM A COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICIST, AND I USE COMPUTER SIMULATIONS TO INVESTIGATE PROPERTIES OCCURRING AT THE NANOSCALE (I.E. ONE-BILLIONTH OF A METER) IN A VAST RANGE OF MATERIALS RELEVANT FOR ELECTRONICS, PHOTOVOLTAICS, NEW MATERIALS DISCOVERY. THIS IS AN EXCITING FIELD WHERE MANY DISCIPLINES SUCH AS PHYSICS, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, MERGE AND WHOSE BORDERS ARE NOT ALWAYS WELL-DEFINED. PART OF MY RESEARCH ACTIVITY FOCUSES ON THE STUDY OF CHARGE TRANSPORT PROCESSES IN ORGANIC AND HYBRID SYSTEMS. DURING MY PHD I WORKED ON THE THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION OF BALLISTIC ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT IN METAL/ORGANIC NANOJUNCTIONS, WITH PARTICULAR INTEREST IN GRAPHENE-DERIVED DEVICES, AND ON THE ELECTRON DYNAMICS AT COMPLEX ORGANIC/INORGANIC INTERFACES SUCH AS THOSE OCCURRING IN DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS. THE METHODS ADOPTED WERE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT) COMBINED WITH THE NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION TECHNIQUE. CURRENTLY, MY RESEARCH SPANS OVER SEVERAL AREAS. I AM DEVELOPING MULTISCALE METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF CHARGE TRANSPORT IN ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS. IN THIS RESPECT, I FOCUS ON PARAMETRIZING A COARSE TIGHT BINDING HAMILTONIAN BY EXTRACTING THE PARAMETERS FROM DFT WITH THE AID OF WANNIER FUNCTIONS. I AM ALSO ACTIVE IN THE STUDY OF LAYERED COMPOUNDS SUCH AS METAL DICHALCOGENIDES, WHICH ARE ALMOST TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS WITH POTENTIAL DEVICE APPLICATIONS. I AM INVOLVED IN THE STUDY AND DESIGN OF NEW NANOMATERIALS FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS, AND IN THE LAST YEARS I HAVE BEEN FOCUSING ON THE HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC PEROVSKITE, THE MOST NOVEL AND PROMISING MATERIALS CLASS IN THE SOLAR ENERGY ARENA. IN THIS REGARD MY RESEARCH IS AIMED AT DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR INTRINSIC PROPERTIES AND SEARCHING MORE EFFICIENT COMPOUNDS. C/O PROF. STEFANO SANVITO CRANN THE NAUGHTON INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DENSITY FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS MATERIALS SCIENCE PHYSICS SIMULATION SOLID STATE PHYSICS THEORETICAL PHYSICS DR. DANIA MOVIA moviadania RESEARCH FELLOW DMOVIA CLINICAL MEDICINE CRANN TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) RESEARCH AREAS: &#9658; ONCOLOGICAL NANOMEDICINE &#9658; TISSUE-MIMETIC IN VITRO CELL MODELS FOR CANCER RESEARCH &#9658; ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL RESEARCH AND 3RS PRINCIPLE &#9658; MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY &#9658; RISK ASSESSMENT OF NANOMATERIALS &#9658; NANOTECHNOLOGY DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCE ST JAMES'S HOPSITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH GERMAN EACR (EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH) MEMBERSHIP. REVIEWER FOR VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS (IF > 2). ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL TESTING BIOLOGY BIOMATERIALS CELLULAR BIOLOGY IMAGING TECHNIQUES IN VITRO ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL STUDIES IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS LUNG CANCER MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY NANOCHEMISTRY NANOMEDICINE NANOTECHNOLOGY PANCREATIC CANCER PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY SPECTROSCOPY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY NANO-TECHNOLOGY INEDITED - IMPROVE NANOMEDICINE TRANSLATION INTO CLINICAL LUNG CANCER DRUGS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL EU FP7 FLAGSHIP NANOREG PROJECT "A COMMON EUROPEAN APPROACH TO THE REGULATORY TESTING OF MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS" (HTTP://WWW.NANOREG.EU) EUROPEAN COMMISSION EU FP7 NAMDIATREAM PROJECT "NANOTECHNOLOGICAL TOOLKITS FOR MULTI-MODAL CANCER DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT MONITORING" (HTTP://WWW.NAMDIATREAM.EU/JOOMLA/) EUROPEAN COMMISSION EU FP7 QUALITYNANO RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT "QUALITY IN NANOMATERIALS SAFETY TESTING" (HTTP://WWW.QUALITYNANO.EU/) EUROPEAN COMMISSION CRANN PATHFINDER FELLOWSHIP "METHODOLOGY FOR NANOMATERIALS SAFETY ASSESSMENT" POST-GRADUATE EMBARK SCHEME SCHOLARSHIP "PHOTOCHROMIC NETWORK POLYMERS AND SUPRAMOLECULAR MODIFICATION OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES" IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. SERGEY MOZGOVOY mozgovoysergey ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MOZGOVOS PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS I AM INTERESTED IN REPRESENTATION THEORY, ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY, AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS. MORE SPECIFIC TOPICS THAT I AM INTERESTED IN ARE: MODULI SPACES OF QUIVER REPRESENTATIONS, NAKAJIMA QUIVER VARIETIES, QUIVERS WITH SUPERPOTENTIALS, NONCOMMUTATIVE CREPANT RESOLUTIONS OF 3-CALABI-YAU VARIETIES, BRANE TILINGS, ENUMERATIVE PROBLEMS IN REPRESENTATION THEORY, REFINED DONALDSON-THOMAS INVARIANTS AND BPS COUNTING, WALL-CROSSING FORMULAS, MODULI SPACES OF HIGGS BUNDLES, MODULI SPACES OF VECTOR BUNDLES ON CURVES AND SURFACES, HILBERT SCHEMES OF SURFACES AND HILBERT SCHEMES OF PLAIN CURVE SINGULARITIES. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN UKRAINIAN ENGLISH GERMAN DR. PETER MUHLAU muhlaupeter ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MUHLAUP SOCIOLOGY EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH CENTRE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY 3 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT STUDIES GENDER AND WORK LABOR MARKET/WOMEN AND MINORITIES MIGRATION SURVEYS & SURVEY RESEARCH PARALLEL SOCIETIES OR OVERLAPPING IDENTITIES? THE PROJECT STUDIES THE SOCIO-CULTURAL INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE AND HOW HOST COUNTRY INSTITUTIONS AND THE PARTICULARITIES OF THE IMMIGRANT GROUPS SHAPE THE INTEGRATION PROCESS PHILANTHROPIC TRINITY IMMIGRATION INITIATIVE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF EARLY SOCIO-CULTURAL INTEGRATION PROCESSES AMONG NEW IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE (SCIP) THE PROJECT EXAMINES HOW DIFFERENT NATIONAL CONTEXTS SHAPE THE EARLY STAGES OF INTEGRATION OF NEW IMMIGRANTS IN THEIR HOST COUNTRIES. IT SETS UP A PANEL SURVEY OF ABOUT 7,000 MIGRANTS WHO RECENTLY ARRIVED IN IRELAND, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS OR GREAT BRITAIN. IT WILL STUDY THE INTERACTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE IMMIGRANTS AND CONTEXTUAL CONDITIONS IN THE DESTINATION COUNTRIES. THE INTEGRATION TRAJECTORIES OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS FROM TURKEY, PAKISTAN AND MOROCCO WILL BE COMPARED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF THE FIRST YEARS OF POLISH MIGRANTS IN GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, GREAT BRITAIN AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. NORFACE MIGRATION IN EUROPE EXPLORING RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING FOR A LONGITUDINAL SURVEY OF IMMIGRANTS IN IRELAND THIS METHOD-EXPLORATIVE PROJECT AIMS TO EXPLORE AND ASSESS THE USEFULNESS OF A NEW NETWORK-BASED PROBABILITY SAMPLING METHOD FOR HARD-TO-REACH POPULATIONS, RESPONDENT-DRIVEN SAMPLING, AS A SAMPLING METHOD FOR A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS IN IRELAND. IRCHSS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INTEGRATING NEW IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE (INI-EU) THE PROJECT, FUNDED BY THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL, AIMS TO ANALYSE PROCESSES OF SOCIO-CULTURAL INTEGRATION AND ITS INTERPLAY WITH ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS IN SEVERAL EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. THE PROJECT WILL BE MAINLY EXPLOIT DATA FROM THE 'EARLY SOCIO-CULTURAL INTEGRATION PROCESSES OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE (SCIP)'-PROJECT. THE PROJECT INVOLVES COLLABORATION WITH PARTNERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG. IRC NEW FOUNDATIONS MIGRANTS' SOCIAL CAPITAL AND INTEGRATION: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS AND BOUNDARIES THE PROJECT ANALYSES THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND HOW THIS IS SHAPED BY SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND BOUNDARIES BETWEEN MAINSTREAM SOCIETIES AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, USING DATA FROM THE 'EARLY SOCIO-CULTURAL INTEGRATION PROCESSES OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS IN EUROPE (SCIP)'-PROJECT AND THE 'POLONIA IN IRELAND'-PROJECT. THE PROJECT INVOLVES COLLABORATION WITH PARTNERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ AND THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG ARTS AND SOCIAL BENEFACTION FUND IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. EVA MUHLHAUSE muhlhauseeva SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER MULHAUSE LONG ROOM HUB THE LONG ROOM HUB 6TH FLOOR ART'S BLOCK COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN PROFESSOR FIONA MULCAHY mulcahyfiona PROFESSOR MULCAHF CLINICAL MEDICINE GUIDE DIRECTORATE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 2',3'-DIDEOXYINOSINE 3'-AZIDO-3'-DEOXYTHYMIDINE ABNORMALITIES ABT-538 ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME ACQUIRED-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-SYNDROME ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC-LEUKEMIA ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA ACYCLOVIR-RESISTANT AFRICAN ORIGIN AIDS ALBICANS ANTIBODIES ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE ANTIGENS ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY ARBITRARY PRIMERS ASPERGILLOSIS ATTITUDES AUTOPSY AVIUM COMPLEX INFECTION AZIDOTHYMIDINE AZT BEHAVIOR BETA-LYSIN BINDING DISPLACEMENT INTERACTIONS BISEXUAL MEN BLEOMYCIN BLOOD-DONORS BLOODSTREAM INFECTION CALCIFICATION CANCER CANDIDA CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS CANDIDIASIS CATHETERS CD4 CELL COUNTS CD4 CELLS CELL COUNTS CELL LEUKEMIA-VIRUS CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM CERVICAL SMEARS CHROMAGAR CANDIDA CLINICAL ENTITY CLINICAL-TRIALS CLUSTER COBALAMIN DEFICIENCY COHORT COMBINATION COMBINATION THERAPY COMPLEX CONTAINING REGIMEN CONTROLLED TRIAL CUBIC MILLIMETER CUTANEOUS CYCLOSPORINE-A CYP3A4 CYTOMEGALOVIRUS DAPSONE DEFINING ILLNESSES DEHYDROGENASE LEVELS DEPRESSION DIDANOSINE DIGOXIN DISEASE DISEASE PROGRESSION DNA TYPING METHODS DOUBLE-BLIND DRUG RESISTANCE DRUG-INTERACTIONS DUBLIN ELECTROPHORETIC KARYOTYPE ENZYME-INDUCTION FACTOR-VIII FEMALE PROSTITUTES FLOW CYTOMETRY FOSCARNET GEL-ELECTROPHORESIS GENITAL-TRACT GENOTYPE GENOTYPIC RESISTANCE GUM ATTENDERS HAEMOPHILIA HEMOPHILIA HEPATITIS B HERPES-SIMPLEX VIRUS HIV HIV INFECTION HIV PROTEASE INHIBITORS HIV-1 DRUG SUSCEPTIBILITY HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS HIV-INFECTION HTLV-II HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS HYPERICUM-PERFORATUM I-ASSOCIATED MYELOPATHY IMMUNE-DEFICIENCY-SYNDROME IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS INFECTION INDIVIDUALS INFECTION INHIBITOR IRELAND KAPOSI'S SARCOMA KNOWLEDGE LYMPHOMA VIRUS MALIGNANCIES MDR1 MORTALITY NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA NORTH-AMERICA NUCLEAR RECEPTOR P-GLYCOPROTEIN PATIENT PHONOTYPE PLACEMENT PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII PNEUMOCYSTIS-CARINII PNEUMONIA PNEUMONIA PREGNANE-X RECEPTOR PROPHYLAXIS PROTEASE PROTEASE INHIBITOR PROTEASE INHIBITOR THERAPY PROTEASE INHIBITORS RAPID IDENTIFICATION REDUCED SENSITIVITY REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS REVERSE-TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS RITONAVIR SAQUINAVIR PHARMACOKINETICS SAQUINAVIR-NELFINAVIR INTERACTION SARCOMA SCROTUM SPECTRUM ST JOHN'S WORT SUBTYPE-B SURVIVAL SUSCEPTIBILITY THYROID TROPICAL SPASTIC PARAPARESIS USERS VIROLOGICAL RESPONSE VIRUS-INFECTED PATIENTS VIRUS-RELATED LYMPHOMA WOMENS ATTITUDES ZIDOVUDINE-RESISTANCE AIDS DIRECTED PROGRAMME ON HIV TREATMENT. I. CONCORDE: A DOUBLE BLIND PLACEBO CONTROLLED STUDY TO DETERMINE THE EFFICACY OF ZIDOVUDINE IN REDUCING DISEASE PROGRESSION AMONG PATIENTS WITH CDC GROUP II AND III HIV INFECTION, (MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, UK).<BR> II. ALPHA: A STUDY OF THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF 2,3 DDI IN PATIENTS WITH HIV INFECTION WHO ARE INTOLERANT TO ZIDOVUDINE (MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, UK).<BR> III. DELTA: A RANDOMISED DOUBLE-BLIND TRIAL TO ASSESS THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF COMBINATIONS OF AZT (ZIDOVUDINE 3-AZIDO-3-DEOXYTHYMIDINE) DDI (DIDANOSINE, 2,3-DIDEOXYINOSINE) AND DDC (DIDEOXYCYTIDINE) IN PATIENTS WITH HUMAN IMMUNE VIRUS (HIV) INFECTION. CO-GRANT HOLDER OF MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC) COLLABORATIVE MULTICENTRE STUDY ON HIV INFECTION IN WOMEN. CO-GRANT HOLDER INVESTIGATOR OF MRC COLLABORATIVE MULTICENTRE STUDY ON HIV INFECTION IN WOMEN. MRC STUDY ON MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIV INFECTION CO-INVESTIGATOR OF MRC STUDY ON MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HIV INFECTION MRC "AN OPEN RANDOMISED TRIAL TO EVALUATE DIFFERENT THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES OF COMBINATION THERAPY FOR HIV I INFECTION" PRINCIPAL -INVESTIGATOR OF INITIO TRIAL WITH MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC), LONDON. . MRC COLATE (CONTINUE ON LAMIVIDINE TREATMENT IN EUROPE) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF COLATE (CONTINUE ON LAMIVIDINE TREATMENT IN EUROPE), COPENHAGEN HIV PROGRAMME (CHIP). "AN EVALUATION OF THE BENEFITS AND RISKS OF ISONIAZID CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS FOR TUBERCULOSIS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH HIV INFECTION, CONSIDERED TO BE AT INCREASED RISK OF DEVELOPING TUBERCULOSIS". CO-INVESTIGATOR OF MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (MRC) MRC ESPIRIT (MRC/HIH) A PHASE III OPEN LABEL, RANDOMISED TRIAL TO COMPARE THE EFFECTS OF SUBCUTANEOUS RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 2 (SC RIL -2) ON DISEASE PROGRESSION IN PATIENTS WHO ARE RECEIVING ART. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR RESIST (BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM) RANDOMISED EVALUATION OF STRATEGIC INTERVENTION IN MULTI DRUG RESISTANT PATIENTS WITH TIPRANAVIR. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR RESIST ROLL-OVER (BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM) ACCESS TO TIPRANAVIR FOR PATIENTS WHO WERE RANDOMISED TO THE PI?RTV ARM WITH A LACK OF VIROLOGIC RESPONSE OR CONFIRMED VIROLOGIC FAILURE AFTER EIGHT WEEKS OF TREATMENT. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OD + METHADONE (GILEAD) AN OPEN LABEL MULTICENTRE STUDY PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR - OD + METHADONE (GILEAD) AN OPEN LABEL MULTICENTRE STUDY TO ASSESS EFFICACY, TOLERABILITY AND ADHERENCE OF A ONCE DAILY TAKEN ART CONTAINING TENOFOVIR 300MGS IN COMBINATION WITH THE BEST SUITABLE ONCE DAILY REGIMEN BEING 2 NRTI'S OR 1 NRTI PLUS 1 PI OR 1 NRTI PLUS 1 NNRTI IN HIV INFECTED IVDU PATIENTS WITH OPIATE SUBSTITUTION BEING EITHER ART NAÏVE OR WITH SUPPRESSED VIRAL LOAD AND WITHOUT A HISTORY OF VIROLOGICAL FAILURE. 2NN EXTENDED FOLLOW UP. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR - 2NN EXTENDED FOLLOW UP. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO COMPARE THE VIROLOGICAL, IMMUNOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL EFFICACY OF THE DIFFERENT ARMS IN THE 2NN STUDY IN PATIENTS WHO WERE STILL USING RANDOMISED TREATMENT AT THE END OF THE 2NN STUDY (WEEK 48) METHADONE/NEVIRIPINE STUDY PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR - AN OPEN LABEL PHARMACOKINETIC STUDY TO EVALUATE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN NEVIRAPINE AND METHADONE IN HIV-1 INFECTED, OPOID-DEPENDENT ADULTS ON STABLE METHADONE MAINTENANCE THERAPY. BOEHRINGER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MS. KATHRYN MULDOON muldoonkathryn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KMULDOON SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY HAVING COMPLETED MY MSC DISSRETAION ON THE WHOLE AREA OF TRANSITION TO MOTHERHOOD AND THE REALITY OF CARING FOR A NEW BABY I AM VERY INTERESTED IN PURSUEING THIS TOPIC FURTHER FROM A IRISH PERSPECTIVE. I HAVE PRESENTED ON THIS TOPIC BOTH NATIONALL AND INTERNATIONALLY I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THE AREAS OF INFANT NUTRITION AND TRANSITION TO MOTHERHOOD. THESE 2 AREAS ARE ALSO MY AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN TEACHING HERE WITHIN THE SCHOOL. I AM CURRENTLY DEVELOPING MY DOCCTORAL STUDIES PEROPOSAL ON THE AREA OF INFANT NUTRITION. I AM PART OF A TEAM OF MIDWIVES WHO PROVIDE MIDWFERY LED CARE TO WOMEN IN THE COOMBE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL. THESE WOMEN ATTEND THIS CLINIC THORUGHOUT THEIR PREGANCY AND RECEIVE ALL THEIR CARE FROM THIS TEAM OF MIDWIVES. I AM INTERESTED IN AUDITING THIS SERVICE AND IDENTIFY THE BENEFITS TO WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES WHEN THEY RECEIVE THIS CARE. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF LACTATION CONSULTANTS IRELAND REVIEWER FOR MC CRAW-HILL EDUCATION WRITING FO RACADEMIC JOURNALS, MURRAY R.2007 REVIEWER FOR PALGRAVE PUBLICATIONS- MIDWIFE MOTHER RELATIONSHIP, KIRKAM M (2010) WITHIN TRINITY COLLEGE AM ON THE MIDWIFERY JOINT WORKING GROUP COMMITTEE, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, COURSE COMMITTEE, CURRICULUM COMMITTEE,MIDWIFERY FORUM, RERSARCH FORUM. BREASTFEEDING COMMITTEE GROUP IN COOMBE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL MIDWIFERY STUDENTS EXPERIENCES OF LEARNING USING A POSTER PRESENTATION SELF FUNDING THE EFFECTS OF FRENOTOMY ON BREASTFEEDING VARIABLES IN NEWBORN INFANTS WITH ANKYLOGOSSIA BEFORE AND AFTER PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY IS BEING CARRIED OUT TO DETERMINE THE ASSOCIATED EFFECTS (IF ANY) THAT FRENOTOMY MAY HAVE ON BREASTFEEDING VARIABLES IN INFANTS WITH ANKYLOGOSSIA AND WHO DETERMINE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE BREASTFEEDING WOMEN'S DECISION MAKING IN CHOOSING FRENOTOMY FOR THEIR INFANTS. MR. JAMES MULKERRINS mulkerrinsjames CLINICAL NURSE TUTOR MULKERJ SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH MS. LAURA MULLANEY mullaneylaura ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MULLANL2 RADIATION THERAPY MAIN AREAS OF RESEARCH INCLUDE ORGAN MOTION IN PROSTATE EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY AND DOSE REDUCTION IN RADIATION THERAPY IMAGING. DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ACADEMIC ADVISOR ON THE RADIATION THERAPY EXTERNAL QUALIFICATION REVIEW BOARD FOR THE HSE ACADEMIC ASSESSOR ON THE CORU RADIOGRAPHERS REGISTRATION BOARD ASSESSOR PANEL BOARD MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY (ESTRO) COUNCIL MEMBER OF IRISH INSTITUE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIAITON THERAPY COURSE DIRECTOR: ESTRO PATIENT POSITIONING AND IMMOBILISATION COURSE ESTRO:EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY ICORG:ALL IRELAND COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY RESERACH GROUP IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION THERAPY IRISH RADIATION RESEARCH SOCIETY MEMBER (RADIATION THERAPIST REPRESENTATIVE) ON THE YOUNG ESTRO COMMITTEE MEMBER OF ESTRO RADIATION THERAPISTS COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE CORU'S (IRISH MULTI-PROFESSION HEALTH REGULATOR) PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEE PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH INSTITUE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIAITON THERAPY HIGHER EDUCATION RADIOTHERAPY TECHNOLOGISTS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EDUCATION THE EFFECT OF RECTAL AND BLADDER PREPARATION IN PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY PATIENTS' ANATOMY CAN VARY DURING A COURSE OF FRACTIONATED PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO RECOMMEND A RECTAL AND BLADDER PREPARATION PROTOCOL FOR USE DURING RT IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN A CONSISTENT PROSTATE POSITION. FORTY PROSTATE PATIENTS TREATED USING CONE BEAM CT IMAGE GUIDED 3- DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RT WERE ENROLLED AND RANDOMISED TO NO SPECIFIC RECTAL PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS OR A RECTAL PREPARATION PROTOCOL FOR PLANNING AND RT. THE PATIENTS WERE ALSO RANDOMLY ASSIGNED ONE OF TWO BLADDER-FILLING PROTOCOLS (6-CUPS OR 3-CUPS OF WATER, 30-40MINS PRIOR TO TREATMENT). PROSTATE DISPLACEMENT WAS MEASURED. RECTAL AND BLADDER VOLUMES AND GI AND GU TOXICITY WERE ALSO ASSESSED. IIRRT CANCER DR. ANDREA MULLIGAN mulliganandrea ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PART-TIME MULLIGA3 LAW MY PRIMARY RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE FIELD OF MEDICAL LAW AND BIOETHICS. MY PARTICULAR AREA OF SPECIALISATION IS IN THE REGULATION OF HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. I AM CURRENTLY FOCUSING ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ON THE REGULATION OF REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AT A DOMESTIC LEVEL ACROSS THE CONTRACTING STATES. THIS RESEARCH EXPLORES THE REQUIREMENT TO RECOGNISE PARENTAL STATUS ARISING FROM INTERNATIONAL SURROGACY ARRANGEMENTS, AND ON THE IDENTITY RIGHTS OF DONOR-CONCEIVED PEOPLE UNDER ARTICLE 8 ECHR. MY CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE BROADER FIELD OF MEDICAL LAW ENCOMPASSES WORK ON ADULT SOCIAL CARE, AND PARENTAL CONSENT TO GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY. I HAVE AN ONGOING INTEREST IN REPRODUCTIVE ETHICS, AND IN ABORTION ETHICS AND REGULATION, BOTH AT A DOMESTIC LEVEL AND AS REGARDS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS PROTECTIONS UNDER THE ECHR. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON DEVELOPING A DUTY-BASED ACCOUNT OF ABORTION ETHICS. MY SECONDARY RESEARCH SPECIALISATION IS IN THE FIELD OF DATA PROTECTION LAW, AND IN PARTICULAR, THE INTERSECTION OF DATA PROTECTION LAW AND STATE SURVEILLANCE. SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 GENETICS AND GENOMICS MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION GENES & SOCIETY DR. DAMIAN MURCHAN murchandamian ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MURCHAND EDUCATION I HAVE RESEARCH INTERESTS SPANNING A RANGE OF RELATED TOPICS ASSOCIATED WITH MONITORING, ASSESSING AND ENHANCING STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION. WORKING INDIVIDUALLY, WITH COLLEAGUES IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION'S RESEARCH GROUP RESEARCH IN SCHOOL EDUCATION (RISE) AND WITH COLLEAGUES IN OTHER INSTITUTIONS, MY RESEARCH EMPHASISES PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF EVIDENCE-BASED METHODS AND PROCEDURES TO OPTIMISE EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT FOR ALL STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS. MY RESEARCH INVESTIGATES A RANGE OF TRADITIONAL AND DIGITAL APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT, HIGHLIGHTING NOVEL SOLUTIONS IN RELATION TO ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTIONS FOR STUDENTS. ONE STRAND OF THE RESEARCH FOCUSES ON FORMATIVE INTERVENTIONS IN PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MATHEMATICS LEARNING BASED ON THE APPLICATION OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, BOTH PENCIL-AND-PAPER AND DIGITAL. ANOTHER AREA OF INTEREST IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-LEARNING AND VIRTUAL CLASSROOM APPROACHES AND PLATFORMS TO AID STUDENT LEARNING IN SECONDARY SCHOOL. THIS WORK HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE POTENTIAL COMPLEMENTARY ROLE FOR HOME-BASED E-LEARNING AND E-ASSESSMENT ALONGSIDE TRADITIONAL TEACHING AND LEARNING IN CLASS. ANOTHER KEY RESEARCH INTEREST CENTRES ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF EDUCATION CURRICULA FRAMED AROUND KEY SKILLS, FREQUENTLY REFERRED TO AS 21ST CENTURY SKILLS OR COMPETENCIES. THESE PROMISING KEY-SKILLS APPROACHES ARE THE SUBJECT OF MUCH EDUCATIONAL AND POLITICAL DEBATE, YET EFFORTS TO OPERATIONALIZE THEM IN SCHOOLS AND CLASSROOMS HAVE PROVED ELUSIVE. WORKING WITH COLLEAGUES IN RISE AND IN TCD'S CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (CRITE), I HAVE INVESTIGATED EFFORTS TO EMBED KEY COMPETENCIES IN TECHNOLOGY-ASSISTED CURRICULA AT SECONDARY LEVEL. MY RECENT RESEARCH AT THE POLICY LEVEL HAS FOCUSED ON CONTINUING EFFORTS TO REFORM JUNIOR CYCLE (LOWER SECONDARY) CURRICULA IN IRELAND. THROUGH ORGANISING CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC WRITING, MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ESPECIALLY ON THE ROLE OF SCHOOL-BASED ASSESSMENT IN NATIONAL CERTIFICATION PROCESSES AND THE ASSOCIATED PERSPECTIVES OF STAKEHOLDERS SUCH AS POLICYMAKERS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND THE MEDIA. ONE ASPECT OF THIS WORK COMPLEMENTS A FURTHER RESEARCH INTEREST IN THE PROCESSES OF CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT REFORM. I HAVE EXPLORED BOTH LARGE-SCALE FACE-TO-FACE APPROACHES TO CPD AND MORE TAILORED VIRTUAL AND BLENDED METHODOLOGIES. THIS RESEARCH IS DISSEMINATED THROUGH MY WORK WITH POLICYMAKERS AND TEACHERS IN IRELAND AND ABROAD AND THROUGH MY WORK WITH STUDENTS IN TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMMES IN TRINITY COLLEGE WHERE I EMPHASISE EVIDENCE-LED PRACTICE. WIDER DISSEMINATION IS FACILITATED THROUGH REGULAR CONTRIBUTION OF RESEARCH PAPERS TO SCHOLARLY JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS AT PREMIER ACADEMIC CONFERENCES SUCH AS: AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (AERA); ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT - EUROPE (AEA-E); EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (ESAI); EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (ECER); INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (IPDA) AND THE BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (BERA). I HAVE ALSO DEVELOPED POLICY LINKS WITH A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES IN THE BALKANS REGION (MACEDONIA, KOSOVO, ALBANIA, CROATIA), CO-ORDINATING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND SUPPORT TO GROUPS OF KEY POLICYMAKERS AND EDUCATORS. SUPPORT HAS BEEN PROVIDED ABROAD AND BASED IN TRINITY COLLEGE. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT - EUROPE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS: ASSESSMENT IN EDUCATION: PRINCIPLES, POLICY AND PRACTICE; IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND METHOD IN EDUCATION. MEMBER, GOVERNING BODY & ACADEMIC COUNCIL, MARINO INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION MEMBER, PRIMARY ASSESSMENT SUB-COMMITTEE, NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT. DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REVISED PRIMARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON MEASUREMENT IN EDUCATION ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING CURRICULUM REFORM IN PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT EDUCATIONAL REFORM EDUCATIONAL TESTING/MEASUREMENT ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL SURVEYS OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT JUNIOR AND LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS EDUCATION EVALUATION OF THE PRIMARY CURRICULUM SUPPORT PROGRAMME THIS PROJECT WAS COMMISSIONED AND FUNDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (DES) AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT (NCCA), DUBLIN. IT INVOLVED AN INDEPENDENT, EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF THE PCSP, AN AGENCY THAT HAD AT THE TIME RECEIVED 25 MILLION EURO TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TO ALL 26,000 PRIMARY TEACHERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE AIM OF THE PCSP WAS TO FACILITATE TEACHERS IN IMPLEMENTING A REVISED PRIMARY CURRICULUM. THE EVALUATION EXAMINED THE IMPACT OF THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND A FINAL REPORT WAS PRESENTED TO THE SPONSORS IN MAY 2005. THIS REPORT IS AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY AT: WWW.TCD.IE/EDUCATION/RESEARCH/PROJECTS.PHP DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (DES) AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT (NC CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. GRAEME MURDOCK murdockgraeme ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MURDOCG HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CULTURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION HISTORY OF EUROPEAN REFORMATION HISTORY OF FRANCE, C. 1550-1700 HISTORY OF GENDER HISTORY OF HUNGARY AND TRANSYLVANIA RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. LUCY MURPHY murphylucy ADMINISTRATIVE VISITOR LUMURPHY HUMAN RESOURCES KEY ASPECTS OF RESEARCH HTTP://WWW.THEIRISHSTORY.COM/2013/02/20/IRISH-WOMEN-AND-WORLD-WAR-I/#.WKRR4HPVIM8 IN IRELAND, THE FIRST WORLD WAR SAW NOT ONLY PARTICIPATION IN THE GLOBAL CONFLICT BUT ALSO THE BEGINNINGS OF NATIONALIST REVOLUTION. WHAT DID ALL OF THIS MEAN FOR IRISH WOMEN? FIONNUALA WALSH TRACKS THE ADVANCES MADE BY WOMEN DURING THE WAR &#150; WORKING IN FACTORIES, CONTRIBUTING TO THE WAR EFFORT, NURSING AT THE FRONT AND CONCLUDES THAT SOME STRIDES WERE MADE TOWARDS GENDER EQUALITY BUT THAT THESE THINGS WERE SEEN BY MOST PEOPLE AT THE TIME AS TEMPORARY &#145;ABERRATIONS&#146;. ONE GROUP OF WOMEN WHO WERE PARTICULARLY AFFECTED BY THE WAR WERE THE &#145;SEPARATION WOMEN, SO CALLED BECAUSE THEY WERE PAID &#145;SEPARATION MONEY&#146; WHILE THEIR HUSBANDS SERVED AT THE FRONT. THE SEPARATION WOMEN WERE A MUCH-MALIGNED GROUP. MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN FORMED &#145;PATROLS&#146; TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE NOT &#145;BEHAVING IMPROPERLY&#146; BY DRINKING TOO MUCH OR &#145;CONSORTING&#146; WITH SOLDIERS OTHER THAN THEIR HUSBANDS. A RECRUITING NOTICE ADVERTISING THE BENEFITS OF 'SEPARATION PAY'. A RECRUITING NOTICE ADVERTISING THE BENEFITS OF &#145;SEPARATION PAY&#146;. EQUALLY, WHEN, IN THE EASTER RISING OF 1916, THE VOLUNTEERS FOUND INNER CITY DUBLIN WOMEN OBJECTING TO THEIR TURNING THE CITY CENTRE INTO A BATTLEFIELD, THEY ALSO BLAMED THE SEPARATION WOMEN, ALLEGEDLY THE DREGS OF THE DUBLIN SLUMS. OPPOSITION BETWEEN SEPARATISTS AND THE WIVES OF SERVICEMEN WAS NOT CONFINED TO THE RISING EITHER. WALSH TALKS ABOUT VIOLENT CONFRONTATION BETWEEN AT A PARADE IN LIMERICK IN 1915 AND IN WATERFORD DURING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN OF 1918, WHEN SOME VOLUNTEERS SAID THEY WERE MORE AFRAID OF THE REDMONDITE WOMEN THAN THE MEN. MEANWHILE, ANOTHER GROUP OF WOMEN IN CUMMAN NA MBAN WERE AIDING NATIONALIST INSURRECTION, BUT WALSH TELLS US THEY DID SO IN VERY GENDER SPECIFIC ROLES &#150; TENDING THE WOUNDED, COOKING THE FOOD, CARRYING MESSAGES, BUT NOT FIGHTING. IN 1918, WOMEN (ALONG WITH THE BULK OF ADULT MALES) FOR THE FIRST TIME RECEIVED THE RIGHT TO VOTE. FIONNUALA WALSH CONCLUDES THAT THE WAR&#146;S LEGACY TO WOMEN IN IRELAND CANNOT BE CONSIDERED UNTIL THE ENSUING PERIOD OF TURMOIL UNTIL 1923 IS EXAMINED. A STORY WE WILL RETURN TO HERE ON THE IRISH STORY. FIONNUALA WALSH IS PURSUING A PHD IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ON IRISH WOMEN IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. HUMAN RESOURCES HOUSE 4 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH POSITION HELD WHERE DATE FROM DATE TO HRIS PROJECT LEAD TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN MAY 2016 APRIL 2017 HRIS SYSTEM SUPPORT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AUGUST 2011 PRESENT SYSTEM SUPPORT OFFICER LISNEY, 24 ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN 2 FEBRUARY 2003 MARCH 2011 RESEARCH ASSISTANT, PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR AND DEPARTMENTAL SECRETARY LISNEY, 24 ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN 2 MARCH 1992 MARCH 2003 REPRESENTATIONS - EXAMPLES OF NATIONAL PUBLIC LEADERSHIP CHAIR OF A LEARNED SOCIETY; MEMBERSHIP OF INTERNATIONAL OR NATIONAL WORKING GROUP WHERE INVOLVEMENT RESULTS IN OUTPUT SUCH AS POLICY DOCUMENT, CONSENSUS DOCUMENT, ADVISORY DOCUMENT, ACCREDITATION PANEL OUTPUT, FORUM/DICUSSION GROUP MODERATOR/CHAIR (ONLINE OR AT MEETING/GROUP); INVITED MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD FOR INDUSTRY OR A UNIVERSITY OR AN EDITORIAL MEMBER OF JOURNAL; EVIDENCE OF PATIENT, INDUSTRIAL, REGULATORY/GOVERNMENTAL/PROFESSIONAL BODY/ASSOCIATION AND/OR PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT AS APPROPRIATE TO DISCIPLINE. 'SCHIZOPHRENIA-LIKE' PSYCHOSIS (100)-MGO SURFACE BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS BUSINESS-CYCLE INTERCULTURAL AND INTRACULTURAL NEGOTIATION IN BUSINESS SETTINGS GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) RESPIRATORY MEDICINE OTHER BASIC MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE ESTABLISHING AND GROWING FORESTS HARVESTING AND PRODUCTS ANIMAL HEALTH PLANT HEALTH PLANT BIOSCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION RESEARCH SUPPORT EQUALLY, WHEN, IN THE EASTER RISING OF 1916, THE VOLUNTEERS FOUND INNER CITY DUBLIN WOMEN OBJECTING TO THEIR TURNING THE CITY CENTRE INTO A BATTLEFIELD, THEY ALSO BLAMED THE SEPARATION WOMEN, ALLEGEDLY THE DREGS OF THE DUBLIN SLUMS. OPPOSITION BETWEEN SEPARATISTS AND THE WIVES OF SERVICEMEN WAS NOT CONFINED TO THE RISING EITHER. WALSH TALKS ABOUT VIOLENT CONFRONTATION BETWEEN AT A PARADE IN LIMERICK IN 1915 AND IN WATERFORD DURING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN OF 1918, WHEN SOME VOLUNTEERS SAID THEY WERE MORE AFRAID OF THE REDMONDITE WOMEN THAN THE MEN. MEANWHILE, ANOTHER GROUP OF WOMEN IN CUMMAN NA MBAN WERE AIDING NATIONALIST INSURRECTION, BUT WALSH TELLS US THEY DID SO IN VERY GENDER SPECIFIC ROLES &#150; TENDING THE WOUNDED, COOKING THE FOOD, CARRYING MESSAGES, BUT NOT FIGHTING. IN 1918, WOMEN (ALONG WITH THE BULK OF ADULT MALES) FOR THE FIRST TIME RECEIVED THE RIGHT TO VOTE. FIONNUALA WALSH CONCLUDES THAT THE WAR&#146;S LEGACY TO WOMEN IN IRELAND CANNOT BE CONSIDERED UNTIL THE ENSUING PERIOD OF TURMOIL UNTIL 1923 IS EXAMINED. A STORY WE AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. MARYANNE MURPHY murphymaryanne ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MURPHM17 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY FAMILY-CENTERED CARE, CHILDREN'S NURSING PRACTICES , CHILDREN'S NURSING EDUCATION, PARENTS NEEDS SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AN BORD ALTRANAIS. CHILDREN'S RESEARCH GROUP (SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN). CHILDREN'S NURSING. NEONATAL NURSING. FAMILY-CENTERED CARE. AN ANALYSIS OF PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS IDENTIFIED BY STUDENT NURSES. PROJECT TEAM, MARK MONAHAN, PAUL HORAN, PATRICIA CRONIN, THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO UNDERTAKE AN ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICE-BASED CRITICAL INCIDENTS IDENTIFIED BY STUDENTS IN THEIR REFLECTIVE LEARNING. THE OVERALL PURPOSE IS TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO THE AREAS OF CLINICAL PRACTICE THAT ADDRESS OR CHALLENGE STUDENTS. THIS STUDY AIMS TO DETERMINE IF THERE ARE IDENTIFIABLE PATTERNS AND THEMES THAT WILL PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR EDUCATION AND PRACTICE. NONE A RESEARCH STUDY EXPLORING THE USE OF THE COMPETENCY DOCUMENT USED FOR THE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NURSES SINCE EARLY 2000 AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION FOR NURSES, THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NURSES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE LIES WITH THE REGISTERED NURSE KNOWN AS THE PRECEPTOR. REGISTERED NURSES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO ASSESS THE COMPETENCE OF STUDENT NURSES, THEREBY REGULATING ENTRY TO THE REGISTER OF NURSE MAINTAINED BY AN BORD ALTRANAIS. WHILE A PLETHORA OF LITERATURE EXITS ON THE QUALITATIVE EXPERIENCES OF PRECEPTORS THERE IS A LACK OF QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ON THE ACTUAL ASSESSMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT NURSES BY THE REGISTERED NURSE. FUNDING APPLICATION UNSUCCESSFUL AN INVESTIGATION OF CHILDREN'S NURSES PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF FAMILY-CENTERED CARE PROFESSOR IMELDA COYNE, (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), MR THOMAS COSTELLO, RESEARCH ASSISTANT,MS RITA O'SHEA, DIRECTOR OF NURSING, CHILDREN'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, TEMPLE STREET, DUBLIN 2, MS COLLEEN O'NEILL, LECTURER, SCHOOL OF NURSING, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY, MS MARYANNE MURPHY, LECTURER, SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION PRACTICES OF CHILDREN'S NURSES THE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINES TO INFANTS INCLUDES ASSESSING THE CHILD'S HEALTH CONDITION, PLANNING AND EVALUATING INTERVENTIONS AND DOCUMENTING THE PROCESS. THERE ARE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE SAFE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINES TO CHILDREN. CHILDREN'S NURSES REQUIRE A RANGE OF SKILLS FOR THE SAFE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINES TO CHILDREN RANGING FROM A SOUND THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE ON THE THEORY UNDERPINNING SAFE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINES TO BEING NUMERICALLY COMPETENT AND UP TO DATE ON CURRENT LITERATURE AVAILABLE ON MEDICINE USE IN CHILDREN. THIS STUDY IS INVESTIGATING THE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION PRACTICES OF CHILDREN'S NURSES IN ONE UNIT IN IRELAND. START-UP FUND (TRINTY COLLEGE DUBLIN) AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CHILDREN'S NURSING CONTENT OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMMES IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND. NICHOLL, H. (PI), BEGLEY, T., HOLYWOOD, E., MURPHY, M AND KING, C. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO CLARIFY THE CHILDREN'S NURSING THEORETICAL AND CLINICAL COMPONENT IN UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMMES IN IRELAND. DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFORMATION LEAFLET ON 22Q11 DELETION SYNDROME FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PARENTS WITH CHILDREN DIAGNOSED WITH 22Q11 DELETION SYNDROME (PART OF A FUNDED STUDY - MARTHA MCMENAMIN FUND- PI HONOR NICHOLL) A RESEARCH PROJECT ON CREATING AN INFORMATION LEAFLET ON 22Q11 DELETION SYNDROME BY PARENTS FOR USE BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS THE MARTHA MCMENAMIN SCHOLARSHIP 2010/11 AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXTENT OF THE INCLUSION OF SPIRITUALITY AND SPIRITUAL CORE CONCEPTS IN CORE UNDERGRADUTE NURSING TEXTBOOKS THE STUDY AIMED TO EXAMINE WHETHER OR NOT CORE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING TEXTBOOKS INCLUDE SPIRITUALITY OR SPIRITUAL CARE CONTENT. IT ALSO AIMS TO EXAMINE WHETHER OR NOT CORE NURSING TEXTBOOKS DEFINE SPIRITUALITY OR SPIRITUAL CARE OR THEIR CORE ELEMENTS OF AND TO EXAMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH CORE NURSING TEXTBOOKS ADVOCATE SPIRITUAL ASSESSMENT BY NURSES. THE SAMPLING FRAMEWORK WAS IDENTIFIED BY IDENTIFYING SUITABLE TEXTBOOKS FOR INCLUSION FROM NURSING COLLECTION LISTS, AND ACADEMIC PUBLISHING HOUSES IN THE UK AND IRELAND. DATA WAS COLLECTED QUANTITATIVELY AND QUALITATIVELY DATA USING A SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED INSTRUMENT WHICH CAPTURED INFORMATION ABOUT INCLUSION OF SPIRITUALITY, DEFINITIONS, USE OF ASSESSMENT AND OVERALL APPROACH. THE FINDINGS REVEALED AN OVERALL LACK OF CONSISTENCY WITH REGARD TO THE INCLUSION OF SPIRITUALITY WITHIN CORE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING TEXTBOOKS. WHILE SOME ADVOCATE ASSESSMENT OF SPIRITUAL NEEDS, FEW REFER SPECIFICALLY TO ASSESSMENT TOOLS, AND THERE IS LITTLE CONSISTENCY AMONG THOSE THAT DO SUGGEST THEIR USE. OVERALL SPIRITUALITY, WHILE ACCEPTED AS A COMPONENT OF HOLISTIC CARE IS OPERATIONALISED AS AN ADJUNCT TO CARE. NONE RARE DISEASES WEBSITE - DEVELOPING THE PARENT2PARENT CONTENT OF A RARE DISEASE WEBSITE IN IRELAND THIS STUDY BUILDS ON THE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD)/SAOIRSE FOUNDATION'S (SF) STUDY - WEB INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES - INFORMING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST IRISH WEBSITE FOR CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES. THIS DESCRIPTIVE QUALITATIVE STUDY'S AIM IS TO FURTHER EXPLICATE PARENTS' REQUIREMENTS FOR PARENT TO PARENT SUPPORT IN THE WEBSITE. IN DATA COLLECTION SF WILL ACT AS GATEKEEPER IN THE RECRUITMENT OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES. TCD WILL CONDUCT FOUR NATIONWIDE FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS (N=30-60). DATA WILL BE ANALYSED USING THEMATIC ANALYSIS. ETHICAL APPROVAL FOR THIS STUDY WILL BE OBTAINED FROM TCD. PROJECT NUMBER 203831 AND AWARD NUMBER 13351 IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND 'NEW FOUNDATIONS' SCHEME 2014 NATIONAL AUDIT OF CHAPLAINCY SERVICE PROVISION AND SPIRITUAL CARE RESOURCES AMONG HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS AND LONGTERM OLDER CARE FACILITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI). THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS : TO EXPLORE CURRENT APPROACHES TO AND FACILITIES FOR SPIRITUAL CARE PROVISION AMONG HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS AND LONGTERM OLDER CARE FACILITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI) USING AN ONLINE SURVEY APPROACH. OBJECTIVES: 1. TO DESCRIBE CURRENT APPROACHES TO AND FACILITIES FOR SPIRITUAL CARE PROVISION AMONG HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS AND LONGTERM OLDER CARE FACILITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI) USING AN ONLINE SURVEY APPROACH USING AN AUDIT TOOL DEVELOPED BY THE SPIRITUALITY INTEREST GROUP, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (SIG), 2. TO INFORM A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF FAITH/CULTURAL/SPIRITUAL CARE AT LOCAL LEVEL THAT INCLUDES ALL OF THE CARE SETTINGS FOR ALL POPULATIONS THAT THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS AND LONGTERM OLDER CARE FACILITIES CATERS FOR. INCREASINGLY NURSES ARE ASSESSING CLIENTS' NEEDS, PROVIDING SPIRITUAL CARE IN ADDITION TO THE TRADITIONAL ROLE OF REFERRAL TO THE CHAPLAIN (RCN 2011). HOWEVER EVEN WITHIN THE EXISTENT CHAPLAINCY FRAMEWORK CLIENTS' SPIRITUAL NEEDS MAY BE UNMET (RADFORD, 2008). MODERN APPROACHES EMPHASISE THE NEED FOR AN INTEGRATED, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO SUPPORTING SPIRITUAL NEEDS IN THE HEALTH CARE SETTING (MCSHERRY 2006A). THIS INVOLVES NOT ONLY A WHOLE TEAM APPROACH BUT ALSO AN INCLUSIVE APPROACH THAT VIEWS DIVERSITY HOLISTICALLY, TREATS CLIENTS AS UNIQUE AND LISTENS TO THEIR VIEWS IN ORDER TO INFORM POLICY (MCSHERRY 2006A). THE HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE (HSE) CURRENTLY AIM TO EXPLORE MULTI FAITH AND INTEGRATED SPIRITUAL CARE PROVISION AND REVIEW THE CHAPLAINCY ROLE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. AT THE SAME TIME THE HSE HAVE CALLED FOR A REVIEW OF CHAPLAINCY SERVICES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GOVERNMENT'S REFORM PROGRAMME 'FUTURE HEALTH' AND WISHES TO GIVEN CONSIDERATION TO THE PROVISION OF CHAPLAINCY SERVICES IN ALL HOSPITALS IN RECEIPT OF HSE FUNDING TO ENSURE THAT CURRENT BEST PRACTICE IN HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY IS BEING DELIVERED. THE RESEARCH TEAM IN THIS PROJECT ARE WORKING WITH THE HSE IN THE REVIEW OF CURRENT APPROACHES TO AND FACILITIES FOR SPIRITUAL CARE PROVISION AMONG HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE, VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS AND LONGTERM OLDER CARE FACILITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THIS AUDIT WILL INFORM PART OF THIS WORK. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO EXPLORE CURRENT APPROACHES TO AND FACILITIES FOR SPIRITUAL CARE PROVISION IN (HSE)/VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS AND LONGTERM OLDER CARE FACILITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND USING AN ONLINE SURVEY APPROACH. NONE MEDICATION MANAGEMENT IN CHILDREN'S NURSING: A REVIEW OF NIQA SCORES OVER A FIVE YEAR PERIOD IN ONE CHILDREN'S SERVICES CENTRE. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO REVIEW NIQA-C SCORES FOR MEDICATION MANAGEMENT IN A CHILDREN'S SERVICES CENTRE AND EVALUATE HOW EFFECTIVE THE NIQA INSTRUMENT IS FOR MEDICATION MANAGEMENT IN CHILDREN'S NURSING. THE ADELAIDE SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. SUSAN MURPHY murphysusan ASSISTANT PROF IN DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE MURPHS64 GEOGRAPHY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL THEORY, ISSUES IN GLOBAL JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE, GENDER AND SOCIAL INCLUSION. I HAVE PUBLISHED IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEW AND SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS ON MATTERS RELATED TO ETHICS AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT INCLUDING THE JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES, THE JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ETHICS, AND GLOBAL JUSTICE: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND RHETORIC, AND I HAVE RECENTLY PUBLISHED ONE BOOK WITH SPRINGER STUDIES IN GLOBAL JUSTICE - RESPONSIBILITY IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD (2016). FURTHER, MY RESEARCH PROJECT ON AID IN COMPLEX CONTEXTS HAS RECENTLY BEEN SHORTLISTED FOR AN ERC STARTER GRANT - INTERVIEW SCHEDULED FOR LATER THIS YEAR. IMPACT: MY RESEARCH HAS HAD A DIRECT IMPACT ON BOTH THE POLICY AND RESEARCH ARENAS. EVIDENCE OF IMPACT INCLUDES - INVITATION TO ADDRESS THE IRISH AID EXPERT ADVISORY PANEL ON MY CO-AUTHORED PAPER EXAMINING IRELAND'S AID AND TRADE POLICY ARCHITECTURE (CITED IN REPORT TO DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IRISH AID DIVISION, DECEMBER 2015). MY ONGOING WORK ON THE ETHICS OF DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE PROMPTED AN INVITATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS EVALUATION UNIT TO DELIVER A SEMINAR ENTITLED "INNOVATIONS IN INTERDISCIPLINARY EVALUATION" (2017). MY RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLE WITH THE JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES HAS ALREADY RECEIVED THREE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FELLOW RESEARCHERS AND POINTS TO EVIDENCE OF MY ABILITY TO DRIVE INTER-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, USING ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHICAL METHODS AND THEORIES TO EVALUATE AND PROGRESS THINKING IN THE EMPIRICALLY GROUND DISCIPLINE OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. FINALLY, MY RESEARCH ON CONSTRUCTIONS OF GENDER IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS DIRECTLY INFLUENCED THE DESIGN OF 2 POLICIES (GENDER EQUITY AND EQUALITY FOR ALL) IN DAR ES SALAAM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (2017). SUPERVISION: MY RECORD IN RESEARCH SUPERVISION DEMONSTRATES MY COMMITMENT TO NURTURING NEW TALENT. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE PHD SUPERVISION (4 ACTIVE PHD PROJECTS); MSC SUPERVISION (17 COMPLETED MSC TAUGHT DISSERTATIONS, 12 ACTIVE MSC PROJECTS AND 3 SENIOR SOPHISTER DISSERTATIONS); INTERNAL EXAMINER ON 2 PHD PROJECTS, AND 3 PHD PROGRESSION PANEL ASSESSMENTS; IRC APPLICATIONS - 6 PHD CANDIDATES AND 1 POSTDOCTORAL CANDIDATE (3 SUCCESSFUL APPLICATIONS). SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS: (2013-17) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER - GENDER AND SOCIAL INCLUSION AND HUMANITARIAN INNOVATIONS (HTTP://IC-SD.ORG/); (2017) GENERAL ADVISOR TO THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER AND HIGHER EDUCATION (HTTP://DICG.DUCE.AC.TZ/), SUPPORTED BY IRISH AID, EMBASSY OF IRELAND, TANZANIA; (2015-16) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER - INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE FOR IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY; INVITED REVIEWER FOR 3 LEADING PEER-REVIEW INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS (GEOFORUM, DISASTERS, AND SUTIDES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE), AND 1 MAJOR PUBLISHER (ROUTLEDGE PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT SERIES) RESEARCH OUTPUT HIGHLIGHTS: MURPHY, S., CARMODY, P., AND OKAWAKOL, J. (2017). "WHEN RIGHTS COLLIDE: LAND GRABBING, FORCE, AND INJUSTICE IN UGANDA". JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES; MURPHY, S., MWITA, E., (2017) "CHALLENGING HEGEMONIC DISCOURSES: EXPOSING THE CYCLES OF GENDERED VULNERABILITIES IN EDUCATIONAL OUTPUTS AS DRIVERS OF GENDER INEQUALITY AND INJUSTICE IN YOUNG ADULTS." JOURNAL OF ETHICS AND SOCIAL WELFARE; MURPHY, S. (2016), RESPONSIBILITY IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD: INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE, DUTY, AND ACTION. SPRINGER STUDIES IN GLOBAL JUSTICE SERIES; MURPHY, S., (2015) "GLASS CEILINGS AND IRON BARS: WOMEN, GENDER, AND POVERTY IN THE POST-2015 DEVELOPMENT AGENDA", GLOBAL JUSTICE: THEORY, PRACTICE AND RHETORIC; MURPHY, S., (2014) "UNLOCKING THE BEAUTY OF THE IMPERFECT DUTY TO AID: SEN'S IDEA OF THE DUTY OF ASSISTANCE", JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ETHICS; MURPHY, S., AND WALSH, P.P., (2014) "SOCIAL PROTECTION BEYOND THE BOTTOM BILLION." THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN COALITION 2030 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ASSOCIATION IRELAND, SECRETARY FUTURE EARTH IRELAND COMMITTEE MEMBER INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ETHICS ASSOCIATION INVITED JOURNAL REVIEW - GEOFORUM INVITED JOURNAL REVIEWER - DISASTERS INVITED REVIEWER - MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS INVITED REVIEWER - ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INVITED REVIEWER - STUDIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY OXFAM IRELAND COUNCIL MEMBER PROGRAMME AND PROJECT IMPACT AND EVALUATION COMMITTEE, OXFAM IRELAND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER - FUTURE EARTH IRELAND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NETWORK, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRINITY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE STEERING COMMITTEE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS NETWORK AFRICA CLIMATE CHANGE DEVELOPING/UNDERDEVELOPED NATIONS EQUALITY RIGHTS ETHICS ETHICS AND INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE GENDER GENDER AND FAMILY, HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURES GENDER AND LEADERSHIP GENDER DIMENSIONS IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS GENDER ISSUES IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT GENDER RELATED POLICY ISSUES IN IRELAND HUMAN RIGHTS HUMANITARIAN THEORY INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL/GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT JUSTICE KYOTO AGREEMENT POLITICAL THEORY RWANDA SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TANZANIA THEORIES OF GLOBAL JUSTICE UGANDA VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, ELDERS, ADULTS AND CHILDREN LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIAL JUSTICE CULTURAL & ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CATRIONA MURPHY murphycatriona VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MURPHC87 CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) TILDA MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE POLICY HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) AGEING DR. BERNICE MARY MURPHY murphybernicemary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MURPHB12 ENGLISH AT THE MOMENT, MY RESEARCH IS VERY HISTORICALLY GROUNDED AND MAINLY FOCUSES ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLACE AND SPACE IN AMERICAN HORROR AND GOTHIC NARRATIVES. IN 2009 I PUBLISHED A BOOK WHICH DEFINED AND OUTLINED 'THE SUBURBAN GOTHIC', AND I AM CURRENTLY REVISING FOR PUBLICATION A MONGRAPH ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HORROR AND THE WILDERNESS/RURAL LANDSCAPE IN AMERICAN HORROR AND GOTHIC NARRATIVES. ANOTHER MAJOR RESEARCH INTEREST IS THE WRITER SHIRLEY JACKSON. I WROTE MY PHD ON HER FICTION, EDITED A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS ABOUT HER WORK, AND HAVE PUBLISHED SEVERAL BOOK CHAPTERS ON HER WRITING. MY MORE GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: TWENTIETH-AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICAN POPULAR LITERATURE AND CULTURE, THE LITERARY, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY DURING THE 1950S,AND SUPERNATURAL LITERATURE. I HAVE PUBLISHED MANY ARTICLES AND REVIEWS ON TOPICS RELATED TO AMERICAN HORROR, AND ALSO HAVE A STRONG INTEREST IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 "AMERICAN PARRICIDE: MURDEROUS CHILDREN IN THE WORK OF SHIRLEY JACKSON AND LIONEL SHRIVER". DELIVERED AT THE IAAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST. "AMERICAN PARRICIDE: MURDEROUS CHILDREN IN THE WORK OF SHIRLEY JACKSON AND LIONEL SHRIVER". DELIVERED AT: MONSTERS AND THE MONSTROUS: MYTHS AND METAPHORS OF ENDURING EVIL. MANSFIELD COLLEGE, OXFORD. "BUT WOULD YOU LET YOUR SISTER MARRY ONE?": RICHARD MATHESON'S SUBURBAN GOTHIC. DELIVERED AT THE INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION BIANNUAL CONFERENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF PROVENCE, FRANCE. "CONJURE WIFE: THE SUBURBAN WITCH". TCD GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR. "IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG WAIT": SATIRISING THE APOCALYPSE IN SHIRLEY JACKSON'S THE SUNDIAL. DELIVERED AT THE IAAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK. "ALL THAT ZOMBIES ALLOW"; RE-IMAGINING THE 1950S IN FIDO AND FAR FROM HEAVEN. PRESENTED AT "IT CAME FROM THE 1950S! POPULAR CULTURE, POPULAR ANXIETIES" TCD, MAY 2008. "GHOST ESTATES AND ZOMBIE HOTELS: THE IRISH SUBURBAN GOTHIC" DELIVERED AT "WALES, IRELAND AND POPULAR FICTION". CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, WALES. "HIDEOUS DOUGHNUTS AND HAUNTED HOUSEWIVES": GOTHIC UNDERCURRENTS IN SHIRLEY JACKSON'S DOMESTIC FICTION. A GHOSTLY GENRE: ONE DAY CONFERENCE, TCD. "NATURE IS SATAN'S CHURCH: LARS VON TRIER'S ANTICHRIST AND THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC" INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION, TENTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF HIEDELBERG, GERMANY, 2011. "SELLING THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: ESTATE AGENTS AND THE SUBURBAN GOTHIC" (IGA) INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION BIANNUAL CONFERENCE LANCASTER UNIVERSITY "THE MASTER OF POST-LITERATE PROSE?" STEPHEN KING'S BAD WRITING. (KEYNOTE ADDRESS), "BAD WRITING: A SYMPOSIUM ON LITERATURE AND VALUE", KING'S COLLEGE LONDON. "THE WORMS ARE COMING UP THE STAIRS!" UNDERSTANDING THE 1970S ECO-HORROR FILM. INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC ASSOCIATION, BIANNUAL CONFERENCE 2013, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. "THIS INHUMAN PLACE MAKES HUMAN MONSTERS": STEPHEN KING'S THE SHINING AS WENDIGO STORY. POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, BOSTON, USA. "WELCOME TO DISTURBIA: DEFINING THE SUBURBAN GOTHIC" URBAN GOTHIC: HAUNTED CITIES, SPECTRAL TRACES LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY "YOU'RE NEXT: THE HOME INVASION NARRATIVE IN RECENT AMERICAN HORROR CINEMA" IAAS CONFERENCE, TCD. 'CITIES OF THE INSANE': THE ASYLUM AS RUIN IN RECENT AMERICAN HORROR. KEYNOTE ADDRESS, BETWEEN PLACES AND SPACES: LANDSCAPES OF LIMINALITY CONFERENCE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. 'PLAGUE NARRATIVES IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE' AT BASS/IAAS JOINT CONFERENCE, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES (BAAS) MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN STUDIES, SECRETARY OF THE NAES (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ENGLISH STUDIES), MEMBER OF THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION "DEAD END: WHY MODERN HORROR ISN'T SCARY ANYMORE". DELIVERED AT FEAR: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. "INVITATIONS TO HELL: WES CRAVEN'S SUBURBAN NIGHTMARES" DELIVERED AT: NEW NIGHTMARES: ISSUES AND THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY HORROR CINEMA, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY. "THE LAND IS HAUNTED BECAUSE IT IS STOLEN": JAY ANSON'S THE AMITYVILLE HORROR AND THE SUBURBAN GOTHIC. DELIVERED AT THE "GLOBAL GOTHIC" SYMPOSIUM, STIRLING UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND. "THE PIT WANTS WHAT IT WANTS: RITUAL AND HUMAN SACRIFICE IN THE AMERICAN RURAL GOTHIC". "LOCATING THE GOTHIC": LIMERICK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. AMERICAN LITERATURE HORROR POPULAR LITERATURE SUBURBIA THE AMERICAN GOTHIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURE THE RURAL GOTHIC IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE: BACKWOODS HORROR AND TERROR IN THE WILDERNESS, THIS MONOGRAPH EXAMINES THE ROLE THAT RURAL SURROUNDINGS/THE WILDERNESS PLAY IN AMERICAN HORROR AND GOTHIC NARRATIVES FROM THE BEGINNING OF EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT DAY. THE BOOK IS WAS PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2013. TRINITY ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND KEY CONCEPTS IN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR FICTION I AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO KEY CONCEPTS AND TERMS WITHIN CONTEMPORARY POPULAR FICTION STUDIES FOR EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS. THE BOOK IS PARTICULARLY TARGETED AT UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS. PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE: 2016 LOST SOULS: HORROR AND THE GOTHIC GENRES FORGOTTEN AND NEGLECTED PERSONAGES ALONG WITH ELIZABETH MCCARTHY, I AM CURRENTLY EDITING THIS ESSAY COLLECTION, WHICH CONSISTS OF 60 SHORT ESSAYS ON NEGLECTED AND FORGOTTEN FIGURES WHO HAVE MADE AN UNDER APPRECIATED CONTRIBUTION TO THE HORROR AND GOTHIC GENRES. THE BOOK WILL BE PUBLISHED BY MCFARLAND IN 2016. THE HIGHWAY HORROR FILM I HAVE RECENTLY COMPLETED A SHORT MONOGRAPH FOR THE PALGRAVE PIVOT SERIES. THERE IS AN INCREASING INTEREST IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPACE/ENVIRONMENT AND THE INDIVIDUAL IN RELATION TO HORROR AND GOTHIC STUDIES. I ARGUE THAT THE ANXIETIES ARTICULATED IN THE 'HIGHWAY HORROR FILM' REFLECT PROFOUND UNEASE ABOUT THE IMPACT THAT THE RAPID TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II HAD UPON BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY AT LARGE. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. SINEAD MURPHY murphysinead CONSULTANT NEUROLOGIST / CLINICAL SENIOR SMURPH13 SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE 8 CROSTHWAITE PK EAST DUN LAOGHAIRE CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 RCPI CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. BARRY MURPHY murphybarry RESEARCH FELLOW MURPHB36 PHYSICS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. COLETTE MURPHY murphycolette ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MURPHC80 EDUCATION . THE LIFE AND WORK OF LEV SEMENOVICH VYGOTSKY: THE MOZART OF PSYCHOLOGY . SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION . COTEACHING AND COGENERATIVE DIALOGUE IN SCIENCE LEARNING AND TEACHING . CHILDREN'S RIGHTS-BASED RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH IN SCHOOL EDUCATION (RISE) RESEARCH GROUP DIRECTOR OF STEM-ERC RESEARCH GROUP CURRICULUM REFORM IN PRIMARY AND POST-PRIMARY EDUCATION ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION PRECOLLEGIATE EDUCATION--SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS PRIMARY EDUCATION SCIENCE EDUCATION STEM EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATION VYGOTSKY AND EDUCATION EDUCATION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. EMMA MURPHY murphyemma RESEARCH FELLOW MURPHE50 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DEVELOPING ARTHRITIS IRELAND'S EASY TO USE SCHEME FROM PILOT PROJECT TO ESTABLISHED TRADEMARK SCHEME EASY TO USE IS A PILOT TOOL TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE PRODUCTS TO MARKET THAT ARE ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH ARTHRITIS CARRIED OUT BY INCLUSIVE DESIGN EXPERTS AND PEOPLE WITH ARTHRITIS. WE (ARTHRITIS IRELAND AND TCD) AIM TO DEVELOP AND EXPAND EASY TO USE FROM ITS PILOT PHASE TOWARDS A FULLY OPERATIONAL TRADEMARK SCHEME. THIS IRC NEW FOUNDATIONS GRANT WILL SUPPORT SHORT-TERM COLLABORATION, PARTNER BUILDING AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES TOWARDS CREATING A SUSTAINABLE TRADEMARK SCHEME. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. FIONA MARIE MURPHY murphyfionamarie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FMURPHY5 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY RENAL NURSING, NURSE EDUCATION, PATIENT EDUCATION, SEXUALITY, BODY IMAGE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) AN BORD ALTRANAIS CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEPHROLOGY NURSES AND TECHNOLOGISTS (CANNT) EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF THE JOURNAL OF RENAL CARE (OFFICIAL JOURNAL FROM THE EUROPEAN DIALYSIS TRANSPLANT NURSES ASSOCIATION/ EUROPEAN RENAL CARE ASSOCIATION EDTNA/ ERCA) EDUCATION OFFICER OF THE IRISH NEPHROLOGY NURSES ASSOCIATION (INNA) EUROPEAN DIALYSIS TRANSPLANT AND NURSES ASSOCIATION / EUROPEAN RENAL CARE ASSOCIATION (EDTNA/ ERCA) EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN RENAL NURSING COURSE AT THE LETTERKENNY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (LYIT). IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS (IFUT) IRISH NEPHROLOGY NURSES ASSOCIATION (INNA) MEMBER OF THE EDUCATION & RESEARCH BOARD (E & RB) OF THE EUROPEAN DIALYSIS TRANSPLANT NURSES ASSOCIATION/ EUROPEAN RENAL CARE ASSOCIATION (EDTNA/ERCA) NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL (UK) REVIEWER FOR SAGE PUBLICATIONS, LONDON REVIEWER FOR THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF NURSING REVIEWER FOR THE CANADIAN NEPHROLOGY NURSES TECHNOLOGIST (CANNT) JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF RENAL NURSING REVIEWER FOR THE NEPHROLOGY NURSING JOURNAL (OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN NEPHROLOGY NURSES' ASSOCIATION). ONLY EUROPEAN REVIEWER SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL NURSES' HONOR SOCIETY: ALPHA MU CHAPTER THE AMERICAN NEPHROLOGY NURSES ASSOCIATION (ANNA) BODY IMAGE CHRONIC ILLNESS NURSE EDUCATION PATIENT EDUCATION RENAL DISEASES, CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE, TRANSPLANTATION RENAL NURSING SEXUALITY UROLOGY AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF HAEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ADVANCED NURSING SCIENCE AN INVESTIGATION INTO STRESS LEVELS AMONGST NEPHROLOGY NURSES MSC IN ADVANCED NURSING SCIENCE EXPLORING TEACHING PRACTICE POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN CLINICAL HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION TO EXPLORE HOW INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITH END STAGE RENAL DISEASE PERCEIVE THEIR SEXUALITY CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR PHILIP GERARD MURPHY murphyphilipgerard CLINICAL PROFESSOR MURPHYP4 CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND MAYERLING BRENNANSTOWN ROAD CABINTEELY DUBLIN 18 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR PAULA MURPHY murphypaula PROFESSOR PMURPHY3 ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 3D IMAGING DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY EMBRYOLOGY EXPRESSION ANALYSIS GENETICS IN SITU HYBRIDISATION MORPHOGENESIS WNT SIGNALLING PATHWAY CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. BRUCE MURPHY murphybruce ASSOC PROF. IN BIOMECHANICAL ENGINEERING MURPHB17 MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING REPAIR AND REGENERATION OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM. NAMELY: MITRAL VALVE DISEASE, ADVENTITIAL DELIVERY OF THERAPEUTICS, CARDIAC REGENERATION, CUSTOMISING DECELLULARIZED TISSUE FOR REPLACING DISEASED VASCULAR TISSUE DEPT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEDICAL DEVICES CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY THE IN VIVO EVALUATION OF AN EASY TO POSITION TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE REPAIR/REPLACEMENT DEVICE A SSIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD SUFFER FROM MODERATE TO SEVERE MITRAL VALVE DISEASE, HOWEVER 50-80% OF THE PATIENTS THAT PRESENT THEMSELVES AT SURGICAL CENTRES ARE DENIED SURGERY DUE TO THE HIGH RISK OF INTRAOPERATIVE DEATH. ONE OF THE REASONS FOR A HIGH DEATH RATE IS THE TRAUMA THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH OPEN HEART SURGERY. THERE IS A CLINICAL NEED TO TREAT THESE PATIENTS WITH A LESS TRAUMATIC MINIMALLY INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL RESULT IN MINIMAL POST PROCEDURE MORTALITY. TO MEET THIS NEED OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS THERE HAS BEEN A DRIVE TO DEVELOP TRANSCATHETER TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE CAPABLE OF REPAIRING THE MITRAL VALVE OF THESE PATIENTS IN A MINIMALLY INVASIVE MANNER. THESE TECHNOLOGIES HAVE ADVANCED MAINLY IN TWO TECHNOLOGY BRANCHES: (1) LEAFLET PLICATION AND (2) CORONARY SINUS ANNULOPLASTY. HOWEVER THESE TWO TECHNOLOGIES HAVE A NUMBER OF DRAWBACKS. OUR "GAP" OR "ANGLE" IS THAT A SAFE EFFECTIVE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS LOW IN PROFILE AND EASY TO DELIVER WILL BE ACCEPTED BY CARDIOLOGISTS AND HEART SURGEONS AS THE PREFERRED DEVICE DUE TO ITS USER-FRIENDLINESS. WE ARE DEVELOPING ONE OF THE MOST STRAIGHTFORWARD AND EASY TO USE DEVICES IN THE ARENA OF TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE REPAIR/REPLACEMENT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND CARDIOCOLL - A COLLAGEN-ALGINATE COMPOSITE SCAFFOLD TO ENHANCE THE CARDIAC STEM CELL RESPONSE AND PROMOTE HEALING IN HEART FAILURE THIS PROJECT IS INVESTIGATING THE HYPOTHESIS THAT CARDIAC STEM CELLS CAN REPAIR DAMAGED MYOCARDIUM, ONCE THE CORRECT BIOCHEMICAL SIGNALS CAN BE DELIVERED TO THE SITE OF THE DAMAGED HEART MUSCLE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND DEVELOPMENT OF A CUSTOM DECELLULARIZED VASCUALR GRAFT. 1.0 INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES NUMEROUS RESEARCH GROUPS HAVE ENDEAVOURED TO TISSUE ENGINEER FUNCTIONAL SMALL DIAMETER (<5MM) VASCULAR GRAFTS IN AN IN VITRO ENVIRONMENT (SEE (NAITO ET AL., 2011, L'HEUREUX ET AL., 2007, DALY ET AL., 2005, MITCHELL AND NIKLASON, 2003) FOR REVIEW ARTICLES IN THE FIELD). HOWEVER, TO DATE, NO RESEARCH GROUP HAS ACHIEVED THE GOAL OF PRODUCING A REGULATORY APPROVED TISSUE ENGINEERED MEDICAL DEVICE DURING THE 25 YEAR PERIOD THAT THE RESEARCH FIELD HAS BEEN ACTIVE. CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS HAS BEEN REALIZED, AND CURRENT RESEARCH IS INCREMENTALLY PROGRESSING TOWARDS THE ULTIMATE GOAL. HOWEVER, THERE IS STILL CONSIDERABLE SCOPE AVAILABLE TO INVESTIGATE NOVEL METHODS THAT MAY ACHIEVE THE GOAL OF PRODUCING A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE CLINICAL PRODUCT. MOREOVER, IF THIS GOAL IS ACHIEVED THE END PRODUCT HAS A SECONDARY FUNCTION - AS A LABORATORY TOOL. THIS TOOL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE USED TO INVESTIGATE THE PATHOLOGY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW THERAPIES TO TREAT ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND RESTENOSIS. TO THIS END, WE ARE PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A NOVEL TISSUE ENGINEERED VASCULAR GRAFT UTILISING NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR REPOPULATING CUSTOMISED DECELLULARIZED ARTERIAL SEGMENTS. IF SUCCESSFUL, THIS TISSUE ENGINEERED ARTERIAL SEGMENT MAY LEAD TO A NEW BYPASS GRAFT THERAPY FOR SMALL DIAMETER BLOOD VESSELS, OR A STANDARD LABORATORY TOOL THAT COULD BE USED TO INVESTIGATE THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF VASCULAR DISEASE. TO ADVANCE THE KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD TOWARDS THE GOAL OF ACHIEVING A NEW SOLUTION FOR REVASCULARISATION OUR RESEARCH PROPOSAL AIMS TO ANSWER FIVE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS: 1. CAN DECELLULARIZED PORCINE ARTERIAL TISSUE BE MODIFIED TO PRODUCE A SCAFFOLD WITH SUFFICIENT STRENGTH THAT WILL PERMIT RAPID SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL (SMC) AND ENDOTHELIAL CELL (EC) REPOPULATION? 2. WHAT IS THE OPTIMUM CELL SOURCE FOR REPOPULATING OUR CUSTOM DECELLULARIZED SCAFFOLD? 3. CAN WE ACHIEVE A STABLE/QUIESCENT SMC POPULATED MEDIA BY DETERMINING THE MOST FAVOURABLE MECHANICAL STIMULI? 4. WILL AN IN VIVO MODEL VERIFY THE APPROACH? I. UTILISING OUR OPTIMISED STABLE REPOPULATED SCAFFOLD II. UTILISING OUR OPTIMISED CELL-FREE SCAFFOLD 5. CAN WE SUCCESSFULLY ENGINEER A LABORATORY MODEL THAT MIMICS IN VIVO RESTENOSIS? COLLEGE AWARD EVALUATING THE SAFETY AND EFFICACY AND COMMERCIAL CASE FOR A NEW CHEMICAL RENAL DENERVATION (C-RDN) CATHETER WE ARE PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A NEW C-RDN CATHETER WITHIN THE SPACE OF INTRAVASCULAR MANAGEMENT OF HYPERTENSION. THE CURRENT LEADING CE APPROVED TECHNOLOGY IN THIS SPACE IS THE MEDTRONIC/ARDIAN CATHETER. THIS DEVICE OPERATES IN THE THERMAL RDN (T-RDN) ARENA. RECENT CLINICAL TRIALS OF THIS DEVICE HAVE PROVEN THE PRINCIPAL THAT RENAL DENERVATION CAN REDUCE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IN PATIENTS WITH RESISTANT HYPERTENSION. THIS CATHETER BURNS THE NERVE FIBERS THAT SURROUND THE RENAL ARTERIES AND DISRUPTS THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM, AND THE SUBSEQUENT EFFECT FOR THE PATIENT IS A REDUCTION IN BLOOD PRESSURE. THIS RESULT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "REMARKABLE" AND OPENS UP A NEW MEDICAL DEVICE MARKET ESTIMATED TO BE IN THE REGION OF $25-30BN. MEDTRONIC PURCHASED ARDIAN FOR $800M IN 2010 TO ACHIEVE FIRST TO MARKET IN THE T-RDN FIELD, RETURNING OVER 10 TIMES THE INVESTED CAPITAL TO THE INVESTORS. SUBSEQUENT TO THESE RECENT CLINICAL TRIAL RESULTS A NUMBER OF "FAST FOLLOWERS" ARE DEVELOPING CATHETERS IN THE T-RDN SPACE. HOWEVER, T-RDN HAS A NUMBER OF MAJOR DISADVANTAGES: (I) PATIENTS ARE IN SEVERE PAIN DURING THE PROCEDURE. (II) COLLATERAL DAMAGE IS CAUSED WITHIN THE ARTERIAL WALL, THIS IS IN THE FORM OF BURNING THE MEDIA OF THE RENAL ARTERY. POTENTIALLY THIS COLLATERAL DAMAGE MAY CAUSE FUTURE STENOSES OR ANEURYSM FORMATION. TO OVERCOME THESE DISADVANTAGES WE ARE PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A CONTROLLED C-RDN CATHETER. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND WESTLAND MITRAL VALVE WE HAVE DEVELOPED A MINIMALLY INVASIVE MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT DEVICE ON A PREVIOUS ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALIZATION FUND. WE HAVE CONTINUED THE DEVELOPMENT WORK ON THIS MEDICAL DEVICE POST THE ENTERPRISE IRELAND FUNDING TO ASSESS ITS SAFETY AND EFFICACY. THE DEVICE'S KEY ATTRIBUTES LIE IN THE TECHNICAL FEATURES THAT ALLOW FOR SAFE AND SIMPLE FIXATION OF THE PROSTHESIS TO THE NATIVE MITRAL VALVE ANATOMY. THE DEVICE IS CURRENTLY BEING TESTED IN LARGE ANIMALS AND WE ARE OPEN TO PURSUING LICENSING AGREEMENTS WITH STRUCTURAL HEART MEDICAL DEVICE COMPANIES. AMCARE - ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR CARDIAC REGENERATION AMCARE DEVELOPS REGENERATIVE THERAPIES WHICH AIM TO CIRCUMVENT SOME OF THE LIMITATIONS OF CURRENT TREATMENTS FOR MI PATIENTS. OUR RATIONALE IS TO USE BIOMATERIALS TO DELIVER CELLS OR GROWTH FACTORS TO THE HEART.BIOMATERIALS ARE MATERIALS IN WHICH CELLS CAN BE ENCAPSULATED OR ATTACHED, CAN SUPPORT DELIVERED CELL GROWTH AND WHICH ARE TOLERATED BY THE BODY. IN THIS WAY, DELIVERED THERAPEUTICS ARE RETAINED WITHIN THE HEART TISSUE FOR EXTENDED PERIODS. IN ADDITION, BIOMATERIALS PROVIDE A PROTECTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR DELIVERED STEM CELLS AND ENHANCE STEM CELL SURVIVAL IN THE HARSH CONDITIONS OF THE INFARCT. BY COMBINING REGENERATIVE STEM CELLS AND GROWTH FACTORS WITHIN THE SAME BIOMATERIAL, OUR AIM IS TO MAXIMISE REGENERATION IN THE HEART THANKS TO THE SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF BOTH THERAPEUTICS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TRANSCATHETER TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR SYSTEM (CROIVALVE) BRUCE MURPHY AND CONSULTANT CARDIOLOGIST MARTIN QUINN HAVE DEVISED AN EASY-TO-USE MINIMALLY INVASIVE SOLUTION FOR TREATING PATIENTS WITH GREATER THAN MODERATE TRICUSPID REGURGITATION. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT CLINICAL NEED WITH UP TO 1.6M PATIENTS IN THE US ELIGIBLE FOR THIS THERAPY. THE TRICUSPID VALVE IS OFTEN TERMED THE FORGOTTEN HEART VALVE, AS SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS ARE CARRIED OUT ON LESS THAN 1% (8,000) OF THE ESTIMATED 1.6M ELIGIBLE PATIENT POPULATION IN THE US. THIS IS BECAUSE PATIENTS WITH TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE OFTEN HAVE SIGNIFICANT CO-MORBIDITIES AND MANY PATIENTS ARE NOT CANDIDATES FOR SURGERY. EVEN IN THOSE WHO ARE FIT FOR SURGERY THE RISKS ARE HIGH WITH AN OPERATIVE MORTALITY OF BETWEEN 10% AND 35%. THUS THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT CLINICAL NEED FOR A MINIMALLY INVASIVE SOLUTION. THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP USES STANDARD PROCEDURES AND TECHNIQUES THAT ARE USED DURING PACEMAKER LEAD IMPLANTATION. THIS APPROACH WILL ENSURE SAFETY, EASE OF USE AND A HIGH PHYSICIAN ADOPTION RATE. THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY RELIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPLANT THAT CAN ALWAYS BE PLACED IN THE CORRECT POSITION TO INHIBIT REGURGITATION OF THE TRICUSPID VALVE. THE TECHNOLOGY IS CURRENTLY THE SUBJECT OF AN IRISH PATENT FILING (PRIORITY DATE SEP 2014) AND A SUBSEQUENT PCT FILING IN SEP 2015. THE COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE IS REASONABLY LIMITED. THE CLEVELAND CLINIC, CARDIO SOLUTIONS AND EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES HAVE INITIATED R&D PROGRAMS THAT UTILISE A SIMILAR APPROACH TO THE ONE PROPOSED IN THIS APPLICATION. GALWAY BASED 4TECH HAVE A UNIQUE SOLUTION. WHILE THE MITRALIGN SYSTEM IS A TRANSLATION OF THEIR MITRAL SYSTEM TO THE TRICUSPID POSITION - THIS SYSTEM HAS MANY INTRICACIES AND MAY HAVE A LOW USER ADOPTION RATE. IN SUMMARY, THE COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS DO NOT POSSES THE DESIRED USER REQUIREMENTS OF EASE-OF-USE, ADJUSTABILITY AND ATRAUMATIC PROPERTIES THAT WE ARE PROPOSING. A CONSIDERABLE MARKET OPPORTUNITY EXISTS IN THIS FIELD, FOR EXAMPLE: BY 2020 THERE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 56 MILLION US CITIZENS OVER THE AGE OF 65, UTILISING A CONSERVATIVE FIGURE OF 1.5% OF THIS POPULATION EXPERIENCING GREATER THAN MODERATE TR (ESTIMATED FROM THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY) EQUATES TO 850,000 PATIENTS WITH GREATER THAN MODERATE TR. THE COHORT OF THIS PATIENT-SET THAT COULD BENEFIT IMMEDIATELY FROM TREATMENT DUE TO SEVERE QUALITY OF LIFE INTERFERING DISEASE CAN BE DETERMINED FROM DE MEESTER ET AL, WHEREBY THEY OBSERVED THAT 10% OF PATIENTS UNDERGOING A DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE HAD SIGNIFICANT TR. IMPLYING THAT 85,000 PATIENTS IN THE US WOULD HAVE IMMEDIATE QUALITY OF LIFE BENEFITS FROM A TRICUSPID INTERVENTION. AN ESTIMATED TOTAL US MARKET OF $1.7BN EXISTS. POTENTIALLY THE OUS MARKET WOULD BE ANOTHER $1.7BN, EQUATING TO A GLOBAL MARKET OPPORTUNITY OF APPROXIMATELY $3.4BN. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP THE CROIVALVE TECHNOLOGY TO THE VALUE ADD POINT THAT IT HAS BEEN VERIFIED IN IN VIVO MEDIUM-TERM PRE-CLINICAL STUDIES. FURTHERMORE A ROBUST REGULATORY, CLINICAL, TECHNICAL AND BUSINESS PLAN WILL BE DEVELOPED IN PARALLEL TO ASSEMBLING A ROUNDED TEAM TO RAISE FUTURE FINANCE AND DEVELOP THE DEVICE THROUGH A EUROPEAN REGULATORY SUBMISSION AND INVESTIGATIONAL DEVICE TRIALS IN EUROPE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND CTO RE-ENTRY DEVICE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT THIS COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A RE-ENTRY DEVICE FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSIONS DUE TO PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE (PAD). CURRENTLY, THE COMPANY USES GLASS AND/OR SILICONE MODELS TO ITERATE DESIGNS AT AN EARLY CONCEPT STAGE AND THIS HELPS TO EVALUATE PRODUCT PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCT DELIVERABILITY TO THE SITE OF THE CTO. HOWEVER, THE PROPOSED SOLUTION FOR THIS PROJECT WILL BE DEPENDENT ON ITS ABILITY TO EXIT THE VESSEL WALL AFTER CROSSING A CTO IN THE SUB-INTIMAL (SI) SPACE. THIS IS A VERY DELICATE PROCEDURE WHICH REQUIRES BOTH DEXTERITY AND FINESSES BY THE END-USER AND WILL REQUIRE A NOVEL SOLUTION TO ACHIEVE THIS TECHNICALLY CHALLENGING ENDPOINT. AS A RESULT, BOTH THE PENETRATION CAPABILITY AND THE TRACKABILITY OF THE DEVICE WILL HAVE TO BE DEVELOPED USING MORE CLINICALLY RELEVANT MODELS EARLIER IN THE NPD LIFECYCLE. UTILISING PROF. MURPHY RESEARCH GROUP'S EXPERTISE, PARTICULARLY THEIR CAPABILITY TO SUCCESSFULLY PENETRATE THE VESSEL WALL AND TRACK THOUGH THE SI SPACE AND THEIR EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF VASCULAR TISSUE WILL PROVIDE THE CLEARSTREAM WITH THE ADDITIONAL CAPABILITY THEY REQUIRE TO DEVELOP A NEXT GENERATION CTO DEVICE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. PATRICK MURPHY murphypatrick ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PSYCHOLOGY MURPHP36 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY DEPT OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH DIVISION OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, PSI EUROPEAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND (REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST) IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR ANTOIN EANNA MURPHY murphyantoineanna FELLOW EMERITUS AEMURPHY ECONOMICS . MACROECONOMIC/MONETARY THEORY AND POLICY FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY. . EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION. DEPT OF ECONOMICS 3008 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIRMAN OF THE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION. FOUNDING DIRECTOR AND VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION [DIRECTOR 1999] IRISH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF ECONOMICS. JOINT MANAGING EDITOR OF THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, (ROUTLEDGE). MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT JOURNAL (PERGAMON PRESS). MEMBER OF THE BRITISH MONEY STUDY GROUP MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE QUESNAY CONFERENCE AT THE ECOLE NORMALE DE FONTENAY/ST. CLOUD. MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE QUESNAY TRI-CENTENARY CONFERENCE IN VERSAILLES. ORGANISING SECRETARY OF THE IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS OF ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR DEIRDRE MURPHY murphydeirdre CHAIR IN OBSTETRICS MURPHYD4 OBSTETRICS THE COOMBE WOMEN'S HOSPITAL DOLPHINS BARN DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 BIRTH/CONGENITAL DEFECTS CEREBRAL PALSY CHILD/MATERNAL HEALTH CLINICAL TRIAL EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH--WOMEN EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING NEONATAL DISORDERS OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY PERINATAL DISORDERS PERINATAL HEALTH PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION PREGNANCY PREGNANCY DISORDERS PRENATAL FACTORS REGISTRIES DR. KATHLEEN MC TIERNAN mctiernankathleen ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KMURPH10 CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES IDENTITY, WELLBEING, HAPPINESS, REMINISCENCE AND GENERATIVITY WISDOM AND AGEING, NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH CHARTERED PSYCHOLOGIST OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIETY FOR THE TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIETY OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIETY OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION LIFE HISTORIES LIFE LONG LEARNING NARRATIVE COMPLEXITY PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING WELLBEING MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES EDUCATION AGEING DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JO MURPHY-LAWLESS murphylawlessjo ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JLAWLESS SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MY EXPERTISE IS IN THE AREAS OF: . CHILDBIRTH AND MATERNITY SERVICES . WOMEN'S HEALTH . POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION . ILLEGAL DRUG USE . HEALTH ISSUES IN A GLOBALISED WORLD . HEALTH CARE DELIVERY . THE USES AND PROBLEMS OF RISK IN SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES . RETRIEVING DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION AT LOCAL LEVELS I HAVE A VERY STRONG COMMITMENT TO USING MY ROLE AS AN ACADEMIC TO BE AN ENGAGED 'PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL' RESPONSIVE TO THE NEED FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND ANALYSING AND MITIGATING WHAT THE SOCIOLOGIST PIERRE BOURDIEU HAS TERMED 'SUFFERING IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY'. I ENDEAVOUR TO KEEP THESE CORE OBJECTIVES TO THE FORE IN MY RESEARCH AGENDA. MY RESEARCH HAS ENTAILED BRINGING THE MATERIAL IMPACTS OF UNMET PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEED INTO SHARP FOCUS FOR USE IN THE POLICY-MAKING AND TEACHING ARENAS WHERE THESE ISSUES SHOULD RECEIVE SCRUPULOUS EVIDENCE-BASED ATTENTION. I HAVE HUGE EXPERIENCE IN GENERATING RESEARCH PROPOSALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH FUNDERS' REQUIREMENTS. I CAN ALSO ATTRACT FUNDING FOR PROJECTS THAT FALL OUTSIDE COMMISSIONED RESEARCH, BUT WHICH CAN PRODUCE INNOVATIVE WORK, SUCH AS THE MOTHERHOOD AND DRUGS PROJECT BASED IN DUBLIN'S NORTH INNER CITY WHICH FOCUSED ON LOCAL DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, FUNDED BY THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST AND KATHERINE HOWARD FOUNDATION. MY MOST RECENT WORK IN THIS AREA HAS BEEN FOR THE NORTH INNER CITY DRUGS TASK FORCE, A RESEARCH PROJECT EXPLORING THE NEED FOR GREATER ACCOUNTABILITY IN BENCHMARKS TO MEASURE STATE ACTIONS ON ILLEGAL DRUG USE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION. I HAVE AN ESTABLISHED REPUTATION FOR MY WORK ON CHILDBIRTH AND NEW MOTHERHOOD IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING TO DEVELOP RESEARCH WITH A TEAM BASED IN THE ROTUNDA HOSPITAL TO EXPLORER WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES OF NON-MAINSTREAM ANTENATAL CARE. I HAVE MAINTAINED AND DEVELOPED STRONG ONGOING COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH LINKS. I AM A MEMBER OF THE EU-WIDE RESEARCH NETWORK, 'CHILDBIRTH CULTURES, CONTEXTS, AND CONSEQUENCES' COORDINATED FROM UCLAN IN THE UK. I ALSO CARRY OUT JOINT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, WOMEN'S STUDIES DEPARTMENT AND THE BIRTH PROJECT GROUP (UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, NAPIER UNIVERSITY AND THE BIRTH RESOURCE CENTRE, EDINBURGH). BETWEEN 2003 AND 2007, I COMPLETED TWO MAJOR STUDIES FOR THE CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY (THE FIRST WITH MY COLLEAGUE, DR LAURY OAKS, AN ANTHROPOLOGIST FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA), ON YOUNG IRISH WOMEN'S DECISION-MAKING ON SEX, FERTILITY AND CHILDBEARING, A PROJECT WHICH EXPLORED THE MAJOR CHANGES IN ATTITUDES OF IRISH SOCIETY ABOUT SEX. THE PROJECT WAS LOCATED IN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDIES, TCD. FINDINGS FROM THIS PROJECT HAVE RELEVANCE FOR THE DEBATE ON THE FUTURE OF MOTHERHOOD AND THE FAMILY, AN ISSUE THAT HAS EMERGED AS A MAINSTREAM CONCERN IN MANY POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES AND ONE ON WHICH I HAVE ALSO PUBLISHED. DR OAKS AND I ARE CURRENTLY WORKING TO COMPLETE THE BOOK THAT FOLLOWS FROM THIS RESEARCH, THE SALLY GARDENS: WOMEN, SEX AND MOTHERHOOD IN IRELAND. AS A RESULT OF THAT WORK, I SECURED TWO FURTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS ON WOMEN AND SEXUALITY, CARRIED OUT WITH MY COLLEAGUE PROFESSOR AGNES HIGGINS. I HAVE BROADENED THE SCOPE OF MY INITIAL INVESTIGATIONS ON RISK AND OBSTETRIC SCIENCE TO EXAMINE PROBLEMS WITHIN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE REGARDING RISK CREATION AND HOW CIVIL SOCIETIES ARE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE SENSE OF HEALTH PROBLEMS AND HEALTH RISKS. I HAVE PUBLISHED WORK ON THE PROBLEMS SET BY BSE (BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY) AND FMD (FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE). I WAS INVITED TO PRESENT A PAPER AT THE TEAGASC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD SAFETY IN 2004. MY MOST RECENT WORK ON RISK CENTRES ON THE PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN RESPONDING TO RISK. I HAVE PARTICIPATED AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OR CO-INVESTIGATOR ONTWO PROPOSALS ON THE SOCIAL MEANINGS OF BREAST CANCER. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN MEMBER OF THE BIRTH PROJECT GROUP MEMBER OF THE COOMBE MIDWIFERY RESEARCH GROUP MEMBER OF THE PRESIDENT'S ANIMAL RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE BREAST CANCER DRUG ADDICTION AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION DRUG PROBLEMS, TREATMENT, POLICIES, WOMEN, HIV, PARENTING FAMILY POLICY, LONE PARENTS, SOCIAL CHANGE HEALTH POLICY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES LOCALISM IN POLICY INTERVENTIONS AND SERVICE DELIVERY MENTAL HEALTH POLICY AND SERVICE PROVISION MIDWIFERY PATTERNS OF HEALTH POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE POVERTY REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SEXUALITY AND REPRODUCTION SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP PROCESS, THEORIES OF LOCAL PARTNERSHIP SOCIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON HEALTH SOCIOLOGY OF ILLNESS AND HEALTH TRACKING THE IMPACT OF RECENT BUDGETARY CUTS ON SOCIAL INCLUSION IN DUBLIN'S NORTH INNER CITY ST. STEPHEN'S TRUST/KATHERINE HOWARD FOUNDATION EVALUATION OF THE WISE UP PROGRAMME FOR SEXUAL HEALTH IRISH FAMILY PLANNING ASSOCIATION FILLING THE GAPS: TWO FOLLOW-UP PROJECTS CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY A QUALITATIVE STUDY ON WOMEN'S DECISION-MAKING ON SEX, FERTILITY AND MOTHERHOOD CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN, IRELAND CRITICAL APPRAISAL SKILLS: TRAINING WORKSHOPS FOR WOMEN TO HELP EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION IN MATERNITY SERVICES CONSUMER COMMITTEES WITH THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN THE RUHAMA NEXT STEP INITIATIVE: IDENTIFYING THE SUPPORT NEEDS OF STREET PROSTITUTES IN DUBLIN. CONSULTANT TO THIRD SYSTEM APPROACHES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND LAW REFORM THE PALLIATIVE CARE NEEDS OF CHILDREN WITH LIFE-LIMITING ILLNESS WITH S. QUIN AND J. CLARKE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN ESTABLISHING ADVISORY COMMITTEES ON WOMEN'S MATERNITY SERVICES FOR CONSUMERS AND PROVIDERS: LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE TASK FORCE ON MATERNITY SERVICES, NORTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD MEETING THE CHANGING NEEDS OF WOMEN IN CHILDBIRTH: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF WOMEN AND MIDWIVES IN THE NORTH EASTERN HEALTH BOARD ON NEEDS AND PERCEPTIONS OF MATERNITY SERVICES SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PILOTING A HOLISTIC SEX EDUCATION PROGRAMME: EVALUATION FOR THE LETTERKENNY WOMEN'S CENTRE CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY SUPPORTING NORMAL BIRTH AND MOTHERING IN MARGINALISED COMMUNITIES IN DONEGAL SNM STIPEND CHILDBIRTH IN EXILE: REFUGEE AND ASYLUM SEEKING WOMEN'S EXPERIENCE OF CHILDBIRTH IN IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EVALUATION OF THE BIRTH PROJECT GROUP, 'STROPPY WOMEN' WORKSHOP: SUPPORT FOR NEWLY QUALIFIED MIDWIVES AN EXPLORATION OF THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN RELATION TO PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD WORKED WITH DEVELOPING THE PROPOSAL AND WRITING SECTIONS OF THE INITIAL LITERATURE REVIEW NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF INDEPENDENT MIDWIFERY IN IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD MS. CAROL MURRAY murraycarol RESEARCH ASSISTANT MURRAYC7 BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR DARINA BRIDGET MURRAY murraydarinabridget PROFESSOR DMURRAY MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG THE FOCUS OF MY RESEARCH WORK IS THE CHARACTERISATION OF CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISMS IN SINGLE AND TWO PHASE FLOWS, WHICH IS CORE TO THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION PROCESSES AS WELL AS TO THE COOLING OF ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS AND MANUFACTURING PROCESSES. THIS IS ACHIEVED MAINLY THROUGH THE USE OF COUPLED LOCAL AND TIME-RESOLVED HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW MEASUREMENTS, USING ADVANCED MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES SUCH AS HOT FILM ANEMOMETRY, INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY, HIGH SPEED IMAGING AND PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY. MY CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE IMPINGING JET FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER, NATURAL CONVECTION AND HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT IN BUBBLY FLOWS. MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHARTERED ENGINEER WITH ENGINEERS IRELAND IRISH REPRESENTATIVE (AND SECRETARY FROM 2010-2014) ON THE EUROTHERM COMMITTEE FOR THE PROMOTION AND FOSTERING OF EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN THERMAL SCIENCES AND HEAT TRANSFER IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON EUROTHERM COMMITTEE (SECRETARY FROM 2010-2014) MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF PROFESSORS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING IN IRISH UNIVERSITIES MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS (UK) PART E: JOURNAL OF PROCESS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL BALTIC HEAT TRANSFER COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE ASSEMBLY OF WORLD CONFERENCES ON EXPERIMENTAL HEAT TRANSFER, FLUID MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE WIT PRESS BOOK SERIES ON DEVELOPMENTS IN HEAT TRANSFER REGULAR REVIEWER OF PAPERS FOR 21 INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS, INCLUDING THE TOP JOURNALS IN MY FIELD SUCH AS JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIPHASE FLOW BUBBLE DYNAMICS FORCED CONVECTION HEAT TRANSFER HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT HOT FILM SENSOR JET IMPINGEMENT HEAT TRANSFER LASER DOPPLER ANEMOMETER MULTIPHASE FLOWS PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY SIMULTANEOUS VELOCITY AND HEAT FLUX MEASUREMENTS SYNTHETIC JETS THERMAL MANAGEMENT THERMAL MODELLING OF EXHAUST GAS SENSORS WITH J.FITZPATRICK: £94,000 BRITE/EURAM (BE-97-4028) VAPOUR PHASE MOTION & HEAT TRANSFER IN NUCLEATE BOILING £52,800 ENTERPRISE IRELAND (SC/1998/711) IMPROVED EVAPORATION SURFACES FOR COMPACT HEAT EXCHANGERS £33,000 JOULE II (PL 93 0261) INVESTIGATION OF AIR JET COOLING OF GRINDING PROCESSES €165,613, WITH PROF.A.A.TORRANCE ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT OF BLOOD PERFUSION PROBE €60,693 ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND LIQUID MICROJET COOLING OF PHOTONICS INVESTIGATION OF LIQUID MICROJET COOLING AS POTENTIAL THERMAL MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE FOR PHOTONICS SYSTEMS. €244,133 SFI CSET CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER MODELLING IN TWO PHASE FLOW €114,593, WITH DR. Y.DELAURE IN DCU IRCSET BASIC RESEARCH ENHANCED GAS-JET COOLING €218,904 SFI BASIC RESEARCH SYNTHETIC MINIATURE JET ELECTRONICS COOLER CONSULTATION WITH THE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH TEAMS IN THE CTVR HAS REVEALED THAT A SYNTHETIC MINIATURE JET ELECTRONICS COOLER HAS HUGE POTENTIAL FOR THE THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF LASERS WHICH WILL DIRECTLY BENEFIT THE IRISH PHOTONICS INDUSTRY. THERMAL HARDWARE WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT INCORPORATES AN ARRAY OF MINIATURE IMPINGING SYNTHETIC JETS TO COOL ELECTRONIC PACKAGES. THE NEW THERMAL PACKAGE IS AN ECONOMICAL, COMPACT, EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE REPLACEMENT FOR CONVENTIONAL ROTARY FAN-BASED COOLING UNITS. COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL FOR THE NOVEL COOLING SYSTEM IS IMMENSE CONSIDERING THAT AN ESCALATING NUMBER OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS ARE BECOMING THERMALLY LIMITED. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND SYNTHETIC AIR JETS: A STUDY OF CONVECTIVE COOLING IN THERMAL MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS TO ENHANCE THE COOLING PERFORMANCE OF IMPINGING SYNTHETIC AIR JETS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEMPORAL NATURE OF THE FLOW VELOCITY AND HEAT FLUX IS REQUIRED. THIS RESEARCH WILL MEASURE THE HEAT TRANSFER AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS ALONG THE IMPINGEMENT SURFACE AND CORRELATE THIS WITH MEASUREMENTS OF THE LOCAL FLOW VELOCITY AND TEMPERATURE. OF PARTICULAR INTEREST ARE THE THERMAL GRADIENTS IN THE JET FLOW DUE TO VORTICES AND THE INFLUENCE THAT "ENERGY SEPARATION" HAS ON THE LOCAL AND AREA AVERAGED HEAT TRANSFER. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME ENVIRONMENTALLY GREEN MEDIUM TEMPERATURE HEAT PIPES ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND NON-TOXIC HEAT PIPES THAT OPERATE IN THE TEMPERATURE RANGE OF 200 DEGC TO 500 DEGC ARE NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE. AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMME HAS BEEN INITIATED WHEREBY WORKING FLUID-WICK-CONTAINER COMBINATIONS ARE BEING EXPLORED AND HEAT PIPES ARE BEING MANUFACTURED AND TESTED FOR USE IN THIS TEMPERATURE RANGE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT MIST JET HEAT TRANSFER IMPINGING JETS ARE KNOWN AS A METHOD OF ACHIEVING PARTICULARLY HIGH HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS AND ARE THEREFORE EMPLOYED IN MANY ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS. THE ADDITION OF A FINE WATER MIST TO AN AIR JET FLOW HAS THE POTENTIAL TO ACHIEVE SUPERIOR HEAT TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS IN EXCESS OF CONVENTIONAL SINGLE-PHASE GAS JET COOLING. THIS PROJECT WILL EXPLORE THE INFLUENCE OF A RANGE OF MIST PARAMETERS ON THE OVERALL HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW IRCSET EMBARK INITIATIVE FLOW STRUCTURES AND HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENTS IN THE WAKES OF SLIDING BUBBLES IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL/ BELL LABS ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SLIDING BUBBLES AND THE MECHANISMS OF ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME MICROFLUIDIC PUMP HEAT EXCHANGER IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL/ BELL LABS ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP ASTUDY OF HEAT TRANSFER IN FORCED CONVECTIVE DRYING WITH THE APPLICATION OF LASER-INDUCED FLUORESCENCE THERMOMETRY HEA PRTLI NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JOHN DAMIEN MURRAY murrayjohndamien ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MURRAYJD RUSSIAN RUSSIAN PRINT MEDIA, CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN VISUAL ART, RUSSIAN HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, RUSSIAN TRANSLATION DEPT OF RUSSIAN 5044 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH CIOMBRA GROUP, EASTERN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES TASKFORCE, TRINITY REPRESENTATIVE 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE 20TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE RUSSIA RUSSIAN CULTURAL HISTORY RUSSIAN LEXICOLOGY SOUTH SLAVIC LINGUISTICS TRANSLATION STUDIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JAMES MURRAY murrayjames ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JMURRAY6 BIOCHEMISTRY 1. REGULATION AND FUNCTION OF PROTEIN AND LIPID KINASES IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION. 2. CONTROL OF CELL METABOLISM, GROWTH AND PROLIFERATION. 3. AUTOPHAGY REGULATION BY REVERSIBLE PHOSPHORYLATION. 4. DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL MOLECULES THAT CAN TARGET SPECIFIC KINASES FOR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION IN AGEING-RELATED DISEASES (E.G. CANCER, DIABETES, AUTOIMMUNITY, NEURODEGENERATION AND INFECTION). SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AUTOPHAGY DRUG DISCOVERY KINASE KINASE INHIBITORS LIPID PHOSPHORYLATION METABOLISM MITOPHAGY PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE PHOSPHOINOSITIDE 3-KINASE PHOSPHORYLATION PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION REVERSIBLE PHOSPHORYLATION SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION XENOPHAGY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SOPHIE MURRAY murraysophie RESEARCH FELLOW MURRAS17 PHYSICS SOLAR PHYSICS, SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING, THERMOSPHERIC PHYSICS, DATA ASSIMILATION, SPACE MISSIONS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY (FRAS) MEMBER OF AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (MINSTP) FLARE LIKELIHOOD AND REGION ERUPTION FORECASTING EUROPEAN COMMISSION HORIZON 2020 ADVANCED THERMOSPHERE MODELLING FOR ORBIT PREDICTION EUROPEAN COMMISSION FRAMEWORK PACKAGE 7 FIELDS AND FLARES: UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEX MAGNETIC TOPOLOGIES OF SOLAR ACTIVE REGSION AXA INSURANCE HELIOSPHERIC CATALOGUING, ANALYSIS AND TECHNIQUES SERVICE EUROPEAN COMMISSION FRAMEWORK PACKAGE 7 DR. AISLING MURRAY murrayaisling VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MURRAYA5 CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND PROBLEM SOLVING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. LAURENT MUZELLEC muzelleclaurent ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN MARKETING MUZELLEL BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES MY RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY IS THAT BUSINESS RESEARCH SHOULD BE GROUNDED IN REAL LIFE STRATEGIC AND MANAGERIAL ISSUES. THIS APPROACH IS INSTRUMENTAL IN ALLOWING ME TO GAIN ACCESS TO RELEVANT, QUALITY DATA AND TO DEVISE HIGHLY APPROPRIATE AND IMPACTFUL RESEARCH QUESTIONS. PREVIOUS RESEARCH WAS IN THE AREA OF BRANDING (CORPORATE RE-BRANDING AND FICTIONAL BRANDS). MY CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON DIGITAL BUSINESS (E.G. DIGITAL BUSINESS MODELS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF VALUE PROPOSITIONS IN TWO-SIDED MARKETS) AND DIGITAL MARKETING ISSUES (E.G. THE IMPACT OF BRAND MESSAGE CHARACTERISTICS ON E-WOM ON SOCIAL NETWORKS SITES). MY RESEARCH AGENDA IS ALIGNED WITH MY TEACHING INTERESTS AND INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN BUSINESS COMMUNICATION BUSINESS MODELS EARLY ADOPTERS, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL NETWORKS, TWITTER, GOOGLE+, PERSONALITY TRAITS, INFORMATION, RUMOR, INFLUENCE SOCIAL NETWORKS ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES DIGITAL HUMANITIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. KRISTIAN MYRSETH myrsethkristian ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MYRSETHK BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 NEUROSCIENCE DR. SHIGEKI NAKAGOME nakagomeshigeki ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NAKAGOMS PSYCHIATRY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) MY GENERAL AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL ROLES OF REGULATORY VARIANTS IN HUMAN DISEASE AND EVOLUTION. GROWING EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT REGULATORY VARIANTS HAVE FACILITATED LOCAL ADAPTATIONS IN HUMANS AND MANY OF THESE VARIANTS MAY AFFECT DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY. THE MAIN FOCUS OF MY RESEARCH IS ON GENE BY ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS (GEIS) THAT RESULT IN DYSREGULATION OF HOST IMMUNE RESPONSE TO COMMENSAL BACTERIAL FLORA AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASES (IBD). BECAUSE THE GUT MICROBIOME PLAYS KEY ROLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF IBD, GEIS INVOLVING THE MICROBIOME ARE A LIKELY CONTRIBUTOR TO IBD RISK. REGULATORY VARIANTS ALSO HAVE A WELL-RECOGNIZED MEDICAL RELEVANCE IN COMPLEX DISEASES AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE ENRICHMENT OF THE REGULATORY VARIANTS IS STRONG IN THE CASE OF IBD. THEREFORE, REGULATORY VARIATION IN RESPONSE TO THE GUT MICROBIOME IS LIKELY TO RESULT IN GEIS. MY RESEARCH LEVERAGES CUTTING-EDGE GENOMIC AND COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS AND APPROACHES, INTEGRATING THEM INTO A NOVEL WAY TO ANALYZE GENOMIC DATA. THE GOALS OF MY RESEARCH ARE TO UNDERSTAND HOW REGULATORY VARIANTS THAT INTERACT WITH THE GUT MICROBIOME CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO IBD AND WHAT EVOLUTIONARY FORCES ACTED ON SUCH REGULATORY VARIANTS. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 JAPANESE ENGLISH MEMBER OF ASIAN DNA REPOSITORY CONSORTIUM REVIEW EDITOR FOR FRONTIER IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION SOCIETY FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS BAYESIAN COMPUTATION BIOINFORMATICS EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS GENE POLYMORPHISMS GENE REGULATION GENE-EXPRESSION GENOMES, GENOMICS GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION HUMAN EVOLUTION HUMAN POPULATION GENETICS INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MICROBIOME MOLECULAR EVOLUTION POPULATION GENETICS IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY GENES & SOCIETY DR. GAIA NARCISO narcisogaia ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NARCISOG ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, MIGRATION, POLITICAL ECONOMICS, TRADE. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS MIGRATION POLITICAL ECONOMY TRADE ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT WTO ACCESSION AND TARIFF EVASION THIS STUDY ARGUES THAT AN IMPORTANT BENEFIT OF THE WTO MEMBERSHIP MAY LIE IN BRINGING ABOUT IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FUNCTIONING OF THE CUSTOMS SERVICE WHICH RESULT IN LOWER TARIFF EVASION. THE WTO CUSTOMS VALUATION AGREEMENT LIMITS THE DISCRETION OF CUSTOMS OFFICIALS AND THUS THE SCOPE FOR CORRUPT ACTIVITY LEADING TO A BETTER COLLECTION RATE OF TARIFF REVENUE. OUR ANALYSIS FOCUSES ON MISREPRESENTATION OF THE IMPORT PRICE AND ITS SENSITIVITY TO THE TARIFF RATE BEFORE AND AFTER THE WTO ACCESSION. TO EVADE PAYING TARIFFS, IMPORTERS HAVE AN INCENTIVE TO UNDERREPORT THE PRICE OF IMPORTED PRODUCTS. THIS INCENTIVE INCREASES WITH THE TARIFF RATE. IF THE WTO CUSTOMS VALUATION AGREEMENT LIMITS THE DISCRETION OF CUSTOMS OFFICIALS IN TERMS OF ASSESSING THE PRICE OF IMPORTS, IT SHOULD LOWER THE SENSITIVITY OF PRICE MISREPRESENTATION TO THE TARIFF RATE AFTER THE WTO ACCESSION. USING DATA ON 15 COUNTRIES WHICH JOINED THE WTO BETWEEN 1996 AND 2008, WE CALCULATE THE DISCREPANCY IN THE UNIT VALUES OF IMPORTS AS REPORTED BY THE EXPORTER AND THE IMPORTER. WE FIND THAT (I) THERE IS A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TARIFF RATE AND MISREPRESENTATION OF IMPORT PRICES, AND (II) THIS RELATIONSHIP DISAPPEARS AFTER THE COUNTRY JOINS THE WTO. OUR RESULTS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE WTO SERVING AS AN EXTERNAL COMMITMENT DEVICE ALLOWING COUNTRIES TO INTRODUCE POLITICALLY DIFFICULT REFORMS. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND THE EFFECT OF MAFIA ON PUBLIC TRANSFERS ORGANIZED CRIME IS A WORLDWIDE, WIDESPREAD PHENOMENON, WHICH AFFECTS DEVELOPING AS WELL AS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, AND ENTAILS DEEP ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY IS TO ENHANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZED CRIME ACTIVITIES. BY USING AN INNOVATIVE DATA SET ON SICILIAN MAFIA ACTIVITY AVAILABLE AT MUNICIPALITY LEVEL, WE TEST WHETHER FIRMS LOCATED IN MUNICIPALITIES WITH MAFIA-RELATED CRIMES OBTAIN MORE PUBLIC SUBSIDIES. IN ORDER TO DEAL WITH THE ENDOGENEITY OF THE RELATIONSHIP, WE EXPLORE THE ORIGINS OF MAFIA. WE INSTRUMENT CURRENT MAFIA ACTIVITY WITH EXOGENOUS HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SHIFTERS OF LAND PRODUCTIVITY, I.E. RAINFALL IN THE XIX CENTURY AND GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES AT MUNICIPALITY LEVEL. WE PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT THE PRESENCE OF MAFIA AFFECTS THE ALLOCATION OF PUBLIC TRANSFERS: MUNICIPALITIES WITH MAFIA ACTIVITY RECEIVE LARGER PUBLIC FUNDING. THE ESTIMATED IMPACT OF MAFIA IS ALSO ECONOMICALLY RELEVANT AND EQUALS ONE STANDARD DEVIATION OF THE DEPENDENT VARIABLE. ACCORDING TO OUR ESTIMATES THE PRESENCE OF MAFIA INCREASES THE TOTAL AMOUNTS OF FUNDS BY ABOUT 35% ON AVERAGE. A SERIES OF ROBUSTNESS CHECKS CONFIRMS THE ABOVE FINDINGS. MIGRATION NETWORKS AND INFORMATION HOW DO INFORMATION FLOWS MATTER FOR REMITTANCE BEHAVIOR? WE EXAMINE THIS QUESTION USING A TAILORED SURVEY OF IMMIGRANTS IN IRELAND, INCLUDING VERY DETAILED DATA ON THEIR NETWORKS BEFORE AND AFTER MIGRATION (BOTH IN THE HOST COUNTRY AND ABROAD) AS WELL AS ON THE INFORMATION FLOWS BETWEEN THESE IMMIGRANTS AND THEIR NETWORKS. WE IMPLEMENT A RANDOMIZED FIELD EXPERIMENT IN WHICH SOME OF THE SURVEYED IMMIGRANTS ARE OFFERED THE POSSIBILITY OF CONTACTING THEIR NETWORKS OUTSIDE THE HOST COUNTRY FOR FREE FROM THEIR MOBILE PHONES OVER A VARYING NUMBER OF MONTHS. WE EXAMINE THE IMPACT THAT THESE INCREMENTAL INFORMATION FLOWS HAD ON DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF REMITTANCE BEHAVIOR AND INTENTIONS TO RETURN. NORFACE VIETNAM ACCESS TO RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POLICY RESEARCH AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT WITHIN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM. UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN REFUGEES AND ILLEGAL ARMS TRADE THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF ILLEGAL ARMS FLOWS ACROSS COUNTRIES. WE PROCEED IN TWO STEPS. FIRST, WE MEASURE THE EXTENT OF ILLEGAL ARMS FLOWS ON THE BASIS OF OFFICIAL TRADE STATISTICS, BY CONSIDERING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXPORT DATA REPORTED BY THE EXPORTER COUNTRY AND IMPORT FIGURES RECORDED BY THE IMPORTER COUNTRY. SECOND, WE SHOW THAT ILLEGAL ARMS FLOWS ARE RELATED TO THE DEGREE OF STRAIN EXPERIENCED BY CUSTOMS AND BORDERS ON THE IMPORTER SIDE. WE PROVIDE EVIDENCE THAT REFUGEE FLOWS REDUCE THE ABILITY OF THE RECEIVING COUNTRY TO PATROL ITS BORDERS AND ITS CUSTOMS. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND VIETNAM ACCESS TO RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POLICY RESEARCH AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT WITHIN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN VIETNAM ACCESS TO RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SURVEY POLICY RESEARCH AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT WITHIN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAM UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN NOURISH NUTRITION AND TREATMENT OUTCOME: DEVELOPMENT OF A UGANDAN-IRISH HIV/NUTRITION RESEARCH CLUSTER IRISH AID PROGRAMME OF STRATEGIC COOPERATION BETWEEN IRISH AID AND HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED REBELLION: EVIDENCE FROM THE IRISH REVOLUTION THE AIM OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER RADICAL HISTORICAL EVENTS HAVE A LONG-RUN IMPACT IN THE DECISION TO PARTICIPATE IN A REBELLION. IN PARTICULAR, I INTEND TO TEST THE IMPACT OF THE IRISH FAMINE ON THE PROBABILITY OF JOINING THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS AND THE MOVEMENT OF INDEPENDENCE IN IRELAND DURING THE PERIOD 1913-1921. BY COMBINING DIFFERENT HISTORICAL DATA SOURCES I INTEND TO IDENTIFY THE DETERMINANTS OF THOSE WHO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED IN THE MOVEMENT FOR INDEPENDENCE. I WILL TEST THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE ROLE OF THE IRISH FAMINE AS AN EXCEPTIONAL LEGACY OF VIOLENCE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE IRISH REVOLUTION. IRC, PATHFINDER (TCD), ASSBF (TCD) IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MR. MICHAEL NASH nashmichael ASST PROF IN PSYCHIATRIC NURSING NASHMI SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY MY CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREA OF PHYSICAL HEALTH IN PEOPLE WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS. THIS INCLUDES SPECIFIC WORK IDENTIFYING MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS TRAINING NEEDS IN THIS AREA. I HAVE COMPLETED PROJECTS THAT EXPLORED MENTAL HEALTH NURSES DIABETES CARE SKILLS AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS (MHSUS) EXPERIENCES OF DIABETES CARE. THESE HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED AND PRESENTED AT CONFERENCE. I AM NOW DEVELOPING AN INTEREST IN BARRIERS AND ACCESS TO PHYSICAL HEALTHCARE FOR MHSUS AND AM FOCUSING ON STIGMA AND DIAGNOSTIC OVERSHADOWING AS POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR THIS. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY (UK) NURSING & MIDWIFERY BOARD CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, PHARMACOLOGY DIABETES AND DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES MENTAL HEALTH NURSING PRIMARY CARE PSYCHIATRY PUBLIC HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS PARTICIPATION IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS AN ANALYSIS OF VOTING BEHAVIOUR OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS IN THE LOCAL DUBLIN AND EUROPEAN ELECTIONS IN JUNE 2009 AND THE LISBON TREATY REFERENDUM OCTOBER 2009 TCD START UP FUND STEPPING UP TO THERAPEUTIC RISK IN A MENTAL HEALTH CONTEXT: STEPPING UP TO THERAPEUTIC RISK IN A MENTAL HEALTH CONTEXT: THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF A RISK FRAMEWORK AND EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR CLINICAL STAFF . TO DEVELOP A SINGLE RISK ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK THAT IS PERSON CENTRED AND FACILITATES COLLABORATION WITH SERVICE USERS AND HIS/HER FAMILY/CARERS THAT WILL MEET SHARED NEEDS ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. . TO ENSURE THAT THE FRAMEWORK FACILITATES DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE RISK SCREENING AND ASSESSMENT; AND TO IDENTIFY THE NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE ASPECTS OF RISK AND FACILITATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE USERS TO IDENTIFY THEIR OWN STRENGTHS AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR OWN RISK REDUCTION. . TO ENSURE THAT THE FRAMEWORK MUST INTEGRATE THE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK INTO THE INDIVIDUALS CARE PATHWAY. . TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON INTEGRATING THE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CLINICAL RISK TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES/ORGANISATIONS. . TO DEVELOP AN EDUCATION/TRAINING PROGRAMME THAT WILL EQUIP NURSES/CLINICIANS IN THE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK IN ALL LOCATIONS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. . TO HIGHLIGHT GOOD PRACTICE IN THE PARTICIPATING SERVICES IN THE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF RISK FOR SERVICE USERS AND MAKE FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS ON BEST PRACTICE IN THIS RESPECT. . TO LIAISE WITH SERVICES TO COLLATE EVIDENCE BASED APPROACHES FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO CLINICAL PRACTICE. NMPDU HIGGINS A; DOYLE L (JOINT PIS); NASH M; BRENNAN M; COSTELLO P MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS EXPERIENCES OF STIGMA AND DIAGNOSTIC OVERSHADOWING WHEN SEEKING HELP FOR PHYSICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USERS TEND TO HAVE WORSE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND POORER HEALTH OUTCOMES THAN THE GENERAL POPULATION. SERVICE USERS ALSO FACE STIGMA ASSOCIATED WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. THIS RESEARCH USED A QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE APPROACH TO EXPLORE EXPERIENCES OF STIGMA WHEN SEEKING HELP FOR PHYSICAL HEALTH NEEDS. A FIFTEEN ITEM SURVEY, POSTED ON SURVEYMONKEY, WAS USED TO COLLECT DATA. ETHICAL APPROVAL WAS GIVEN BY THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ETHICS COMMITTEE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND PERMISSION WAS SOUGHT FROM VARIOUS MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUPS TO HOST THE SURVEYLINK ON THEIR WEBSITES. UNFUNDED CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. BAHMAN NASSEROLESLAMI nasseroleslamibahman SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW NASSEROB CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES NEURAL CONTROL OF HUMAN MOVEMENT; HUMAN MOTOR NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; EEG, EMG AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF NEURO-MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING; DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS IN NEUROMOTOR DYSFUNCTION AND MOTOR NEURON DISEASE (MND); COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF MOTOR CONTROL AND LEARNING; NEUROMUSCULAR BIOMECHANICS; VARIABILITY STRUCTURES IN MOTOR CONTROL AND LEARNING ACADEMIC DIVISION OF NEUROLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, 152-160 PEARSE STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PERSIAN B. NASSEROLESLAMI*, "EEG SIGNAL PROCESSING: A RESEARCH TOOL IN MOTOR NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND A ROUTE TO DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE," UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN, SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING. FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETIES (FENS)/NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND IEEE IEEE EMBS INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY & KINESIOLOGY (ISEK) SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE (SFN) AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS / MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE BIOMECHANICS OF HUMAN MOVEMENT BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING EEG ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG) MOTOR CONTROL NEURAL CONTROL OF HUMAN MOVEMENT NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) OTHER ENGINEERING IMPAIRMENTS OF NEURO-MUSCULAR COMMUNICATION IN MOTOR-NEURON DISEASE: A BIO-MARKER FOR EARLY AND PERSONALISED DIAGNOSIS IRC NEUROSCIENCE DR. OWEN NAUGHTON naughtonowen RESEARCH FELLOW ONAUGHT CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONFERENCE SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS (IRISH GROUP) MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HYDROGEOLOGISTS CIVIC - CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY RISKS, AWARENESS, PERCEPTIONS, AND BEHAVIOURS PERTAINING TO THE ADVERSE HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS OF PREVIOUS AND FUTURE FLOOD EVENTS IN IRELAND IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL / GEOLOGICAL SURVEY IRELAND GWFLOOD ESTABLISHING A GROUNDWATER FLOOD MONITORING AND MODELLING PROGRAMME FOR IRELAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRELAND BUILDING A SPATIALLY- AND TEMPORALLY-RESOLVED NATIONAL EMISSION INVENTORY THE IDENTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF GIS-BASED EMISSION INDICATORS FOR NATIONAL SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL BACKGROUND AIR QUALITY MODELS. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDDED DATASETS OF HYDRO-CLIMATE INDICES FOR IRELAND THE OVERALL AIM OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO PRODUCE A 'DEFINITIVE' GRIDDED CLIMATE DATASET OF HYDRO-CLIMATE VARIABLES SUCH AS POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (PET), ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (AET), SOIL MOISTURE DEFICITS (SMD), RAINFALL INTENSITY AND STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX (SPI) FOR IRELAND, COVERING THE PERIOD 1981-PRESENT. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER FLOOD RISK POSED BY TURLOUGHS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL / OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP POSTDOCTORAL SCHEME DR. BORISLAV GEORGIEV NAYDENOV naydenovborislavgeorgiev RESEARCH FELLOW NAYDENOB CHEMISTRY ULTRA-HIGH VACUUM TECHNIQUES CRYOGENIC SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY AND SPECTROSCOPY (LT-STM/STS) SFI LAB OLD CHEMISTRY EXTENSION COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS PROFESSOR PAUL NEARY nearypaul CLINICAL PROFESSOR NEARYPA SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 PROFESSOR FRANCIS DEVASSY NEELAMKAVIL neelamkavilfrancisdevassy FELLOW EMERITUS FNLMKVIL COMPUTER SCIENCE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTI-MEDIA; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ANIMATION; VISUALISATION; VIRTUAL REALITY; SYSTEMS SIMULATION. COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. FREDA NEILL neillfreda CLINICAL SKILLS MANAGER NEILLF SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY HIGHER EDUCATION WITH A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING CLINICAL SKILLS FOR PRE-REGISTRATION NURSES AND THE INTERGRATION OF THESE SKILLS IN THE WORK PRACTICE AREA AND SIMULATED LEARNING IN THE CLINICAL SKILLS TEACHING ROOMS. DEVELOPING INTERPROFESSIONAL LEARNING AT SCHOOL AND FACULTY LEVEL. FURTHER INTERESTS INCLUDE PRIMARY CARE AND FAMILY WORK IN THE COMMUNITY. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MEMBERSHIP OF AN BORD ALTRANAIS: MIDWIFERY AND GENERAL NURSING. TREASURER OF THE IRISH CLINICAL SKILLS FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY ASSOCIATION. ALTERNATIVE MODES EDUCATION CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING E-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION/ASSESSMENT FAMILY WORK NATIONAL DIGITAL LEARNING REPOSITORY - FUNDING FOR DEVELOPEMT OF ON LINE LEARNING TOOLS NATIONAL DIGITAL LEARNING REPOSITORY (NDLR) FUNDED BY THE HEA, AWARDED €40,000. A MEMBER OF THE SCHOOLS PROJECT TEAM CONTRIBUTING TO THE NURSING COMMUNITY FOR THE NATIONAL DIGITAL LEARNING REPOSITORY TO SUPPORT GREATER COLLABORATION BETWEEN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS. CURRENTLY I AM ONE OF A TEAM OF THREE STAFF FROM THE SCHOOL WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH A TEAM FROM THE SCHOOL OF NURSING, DCU, TO DEVELOP ON-LINE TOOLS FOR CLINICAL SKILLS TEACHING. THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT IS DUE FOR PILOT IN NOVEMBER 2007. NATIONAL DIGITAL LEARNING REPOSITORY (NDLR) FUNDED BY THE HEA, CAPSL LEARNING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CAPSL LEARNING DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 2005-2006, AWARDED €5,000. PROJECT TITLE: PROTOCOLS AND TOOLS FOR SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF TAUGHT PROGRAMMES. JOINT PROJECT FUNDED WITH FIVE OTHER COLLEAGUES IN THE SCHOOL, FUNDED FROM THE CENTRE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, TCD. THE PROJECT WAS AWARDED €5,000 FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2005-2006. TCD CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MS. MARY NEVIN nevinmary RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOW NEVINM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY PALLIATIVE CARE. ACUTE HOSPITAL CARE SETTING. NON-SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE. END OF LIFE CARE. SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH IRISH ALL IRELAND INSTITUTE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE REVIEWER NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE (ELSEVIER) REVIEWER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ACUTE CARE NURSING NURSING EDUCATION PALLIATIVE CARE PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING EXPLORATION OF THE LEARNING STYLES OF UNDERGRADUATE BSC NURSING STUDENTS MSC NURSING EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT OF A CORE SET OF CLINICAL CARE PROVISION INDICATORS FOR NON-SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE IN THE ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL SETTING HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PHD TRAINING FELLOWSHIP PROFESSOR FIONA NEWELL newellfiona PROFESSOR FNEWELL PSYCHOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION; SYNAESTHESIA; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SCENE RECOGNITION; FACE PERCEPTION AND FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PERCEPTION IN VISUAL IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS; DYNAMIC OBJECT RECOGNITION; VISUAL, HAPTIC AND AUDITORY PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION OF CROWDS; PERCEPTION OF EMOTION; AGEING AND MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH NEUROSCIENCE ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, UK MEMBER OF IEEE ROBOTICS PSYCHONOMICS SOCIETY, USA BRAIN AGEING BRAIN-FUNCTION FACE PERCEPTION FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS MULTISENSORY PERCECEPTION OBJECT RECOGNITION SPATIAL COGNITION SYNAESTHESIA VIRTUAL REALITY VISION, AUDITION, SOMATOSENSATION SOCIALISING AGENTS: ENDOWING VIRTUAL AGENTS WITH MULTISENSORY SOCIAL SKILLS TO INCREASE APPEAL AND USER ENGAGEMENT THERE IS AN INCREASING DEMAND FOR MORE REALISM IN VIRTUAL CHARACTERS, PARTICULARLY WITH VIRTUAL AGENTS IN GAMES DESIGNED TO INTERACT WITH THE USER AND IN ENTERTAINMENT DESIGNED TO EVOKE INTENSE EMOTIONS. HOWEVER, COMPUTER GRAPHICS EXPERTS HAVE LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT UNDERLIES OUR PREFERENCES FOR CERTAIN PERCEPTUAL FEATURES OVER OTHERS (SUCH AS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, VOICE INTONATIONS OR BODILY GESTURES). IN A NOVEL INTER-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT COMBINING COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND SOCIAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, WE WILL APPLY PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING TO ENDOW VIRTUAL AGENTS WITH MAXIMUM SOCIAL APPEAL. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PI THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL, LOW-COST INTERVENTION GAMES SYSTEM DESIGNED TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL BEING IN OLDER ADULTS BARRIERS TO HEALTHY AGEING INCLUDE DECLINES IN BOTH PHYSICAL (E.G. POSTURAL CONTROL) AND MENTAL PROCESSES (E.G. COGNITIVE DECLINE). AS THESE PROCESSES ARE INTERCONNECTED ONE OF THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP INTERVENTION PROGRAMMES THAT TRAIN THE BODY AND THE BRAIN AT THE SAME TIME AND ARE ADAPTED TO THE NEEDS OF OLDER ADULTS. IN THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN QUB AND TCD WE WILL CREATE GAMES THAT PROFILE BALANCE CONTROL (QUB EXPERTISE), DUAL TASKING, SELECTIVE ATTENTION AND SENSORY INTEGRATION (TCD EXPERTISE). THE OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE A HOLISTIC APPROACH THAT WILL RESULT IN A NEW, FUN AND ENGAGING WAY FOR OLDER ADULTS TO MASTER NEW GAMING BASED SKILLS THAT WILL IMPROVE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELL BEING. CARDI: CENTRE FOR AGEING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND RESEARCH PROJECT MONAT: MEASUREMENT OF NATURALNESS WE INSTINCTIVELY KNOW WHETHER SOMETHING IS NATURAL, OR A SYNTHETIC MIMIC. BUT THE KEY FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS PERCEPTION HAVE YET TO BE IDENTIFIED: THIS IS THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT. THE PERCEPTION OF NATURALNESS IS DOMINATED, IN MOST CASES, BY VISUAL APPEARANCE AND TOUCH. BASIC VISUAL SENSORY INFORMATION, SUCH AS COLOUR AND GLOSS, AND OTHER VISUAL TRIGGERS, SUCH AS SHAPE AND SIZE IS OFTEN SUFFICIENT TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC MATERIALS. TOUCHING THE MATERIAL SERVES TO REINFORCE THE INITIAL VISUAL PERCEPTION: HERE TACTILE INFORMATION FROM CUTANEOUS PRESSURE SENSITIVE AND THERMAL SENSORY TRANSDUCERS, AS WELL AS KINESTHETIC DATA, PROVIDES THE REQUISITE SENSORY INPUT. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO UNDERSTAND HOW THESE SENSORY DATA STREAMS ARE PROCESSED BY THE RELEVANT NEURAL NETWORKS AND HOW THEY CONTRIBUTE TO THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERCEPTION OF NATURALNESS. EU 6TH FRAMEWORK EU PATHFINDER METROPOLIS: SUPERCROWDS FOR MULTISENSORY URBAN SIMULATIONS THIS IS A NOVEL INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT COMBINING COMPUTER GRAPHICS, SOUND ENGINEERING AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, IN WHICH WE APPLY PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION TO CREATE REALISTIC, SCALABLE AND LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS OF CROWDS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PI TRIL: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING THE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING (TRIL) PROJECT IS A LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION BETWEEN INTEL CORPORATION, GE AND RESEARCH TEAMS AT UCD, TCD, NUI GALWAY AND ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN. THIS MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CENTRE FOCUSES ON DISCOVERING HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED TO FACILITATE OLDER PEOPLE LIVING INDEPENDENT LIVES IN THE LOCATION OF THEIR CHOICE. INTEL CORPS., GE AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY CROSS-BORDER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDING PROGRAMME COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN ISCS IN ULSTER UNIVERSITY AND TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE TO CONDUCT NEUROIMAGING ON OLDER ADULTS DEL-NI: "STRENGTHENING THE ALL-ISLAND RESEARCH BASE" VERVE VERVE IS A RESEARCH PROJECT THAT AIMS TO DEVELOP NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT THE TREATMENT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE AT RISK OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION, EITHER BECAUSE OF FEAR AND APATHY ASSOCIATED WITH AGEING, OR BECAUSE OF A NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER. EU FP7 AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR CAROL NEWMAN newmancarol PROFESSOR CNEWMAN ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, APPLIED MICROECONOMETRICS, HOUSEHOLD/INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR, FIRM BEHAVIOUR DEPT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF IRISH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE ECONOMETRICS SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE IRISH AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY RESEARCH ASSOCIATE TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES UNU-WIDER NON-RESIDENT RESEARCH FELLOW AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AGRICULTURAL POLICY ANALYSIS APPLIED MICROECONOMETRICS CONSUMPTION DEMAND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DOUBLE-HURDLE MODEL ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ECONOMIC STUDIES--DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ECONOMICS FIRM BEHAVIOUR HOME HOUSEHOLD FOOD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD/INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOUR INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, ORGANISATION THEORY INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INFREQUENCY OF PURCHASE MODEL IRELAND MEAT EXPENDITURE MICROECONOMICS PREFERENCES STATISTICAL-MODELS VIETNAMESE ACCESS TO RESOURCES HOUSEHOLD SURVEY RURAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY IN 12 PROVINCES IN VIETNAM UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN LEARNING TO COMPETE: ACCELERATING INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA LEARNING TO COMPETE SEEKS TO ANSWER A SEEMINGLY SIMPLE BUT PUZZLING QUESTION: WHY IS THERE SO LITTLE INDUSTRY IN AFRICA? INDUSTRY-INCLUDING MODERN SERVICES AND AGRO-INDUSTRY-IS OFTEN THE KEY TO JOB CREATION, POVERTY REDUCTION, AND GROWTH. MOST ASIAN ECONOMIES BEGAN THEIR INDUSTRIALIZATION PROCESSES WITH INITIAL CONDITIONS QUITE SIMILAR TO MANY AFRICAN COUNTRIES TODAY, YET, WHILE ASIA HAD EXPLOSIVE INDUSTRIAL GROWTH, AFRICA'S SHARES OF GLOBAL MANUFACTURING VALUE ADDED AND EXPORTS HAVE FALLEN. TO SUSTAIN GROWTH AFRICA MUST LEARN TO COMPETE IN GLOBAL MARKETS. A MICRO LEVEL ANALYSIS OF THE IRISH AGRI-FOOD SECTOR: LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DENMARK AND THE NETHERLANDS THIS PROJECT ANALYSES THE IMPACT OF RECENT POLICY CHANGES ON VARIOUS ASPECTS RELATING TO THE AGRI-FOOD SECTORS IN IRELAND AND OTHER EU COUNTRIES FOCUSSING IN PARTICULAR ON DENMARK AND THE NETHERLANDS. USING THE IRISH NATIONAL FARM SURVEY A MICRO APPROACH IS TAKEN THAT ALLOWS SPECIFIC RESEARCH QUESTIONS RELATING TO: 1) PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPETITIVENESS; 2) THE CHANGING STRUCTURE OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN TERMS OF FARM NUMBERS, THE ROLE OF ECONOMIES OF SCALE, SPECIALISATION AND SYSTEM SWITCHING; AND 3) THE WIDER RURAL COMMUNITY TO BE ADDRESSED. THE AVAILABILITY OF A COMPARABLE SURVEY FOR DENMARK AND THE NETHERLANDS PRESENTS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE IRISH EXPERIENCE TO BE COMPARED TO THAT OF SIMILAR REGIONS OF EUROPE FACING THE SAME SET OF CONSTRAINTS BUT WITH SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT SECTORS IN TERMS OF STRUCTURE, ORGANISATION AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS THIS STUDY WILL PROVIDE VALUABLE LESSONS FOR POLICY BY DEEPENING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR IN IRELAND AT THE MICRO LEVEL AND OBSERVING HOW THE IRISH EXPERIENCE COMPARES TO THAT OF SIMILAR EUROPEAN REGIONS. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO EXPLORE ALTERNATIVE USES FOR LAND POST-DECUPLING FOCUSSING IN PARTICULAR ON OPPORTUNITIES IN RELATION TO ORGANIC FARMING AND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES DRAWING ON THE SUCCESSES OF THE DANISH EXPERIENCE. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH STIMULUS FUND PROJECT 2007 NOURISH NUTRITION AND TREATMENT OUTCOME: DEVELOPMENT OF A UGANDAN-IRISH HIV/NUTRITION RESEARCH CLUSTER IRISH AID PROGRAMME OF STRATEGIC COOPERATION BETWEEN IRISH AID AND HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. LOUISE NEWMAN newmanlouise RESEARCH ASSISTANT LONEWMAN CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOPSITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. ELIZABETH NEWNHAM newnhamelizabeth USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NEWNHAME SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY NORMAL CHILDBIRTH, MIDWIFERY PRACTICES, BIRTH CULTURE, THE CONSTRUCTION OF RISK, ETHNOGRAPHY, FOUCAULT. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER, AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF MIDWIVES CHILD/MATERNAL HEALTH ETHNOGRAPHY FOUCAULT HISTORY OF CHILDBIRTH MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MIDWIFERY PHYSIOLOGICAL CHILDBIRTH QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS SYSTEMS OF CHILDBIRTH ORGANISATION HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MISS MAIRE NI BHAIN nibhainmaire RETIRED STAFF MEMBER MNIBHAIN IRISH DEPT.OF IRISH 4063 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 PROFESSOR AILBHE NI CHASAIDE nichasaideailbhe PROFESSOR IN PHONETICS ANICHSID C.L.C.S. I CARRY OUT RESEARCH ON THE VOICE, AND ON ITS ROLE IN SPEECH COMMUNICATION, ON THE PROSODIC AND SEGMENTAL STRUCTURE OF IRISH, AND ON SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FOR IRISH. THIS RESEARCH IS CARRIED OUT WITH THE RESEARCH GROUP OF THE PHONETICS & SPEECH LAB. THE VOICE CARRIES DIFFERENT STRANDS OF INFORMATION: PERSONAL (ON THE IDENTITY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SPEAKER), LINGUISTIC (SHAPING THE PROSODIC STRUCTURE OF THE MESSAGE) AND PARALINGUISTIC (THROUGH TONE-OF-VOICE CONVEYING OUR FEELINGS AND ATTITUDE TO THE SPEAKER AND TO THE MESSAGE). I AM INTERESTED PARTICULARLY ON THE INTERACTION OF THE LATTER TWO, WHICH TOGETHER MAKE UP THE 'PROSODY OF THE VOICE', AND WORK TOWARDS THE ELABORATION A MORE HOLISTIC MODEL OF SPEECH PROSODY, USING SPECIALISED VOICE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED HERE AT TCD. I ALSO RESEARCH THE PROSODY AND SEGMENTALS OF IRISH AND OF IRISH ENGLISH. DEVELOPING SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FOR IRISH DIALECTS IS A FURTHER RESEARCH INTEREST THAT BUILDS ON THE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL STRANDS OF MY RESEARCH. TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYSTEMS, DEVELOPED FOR IRISH DIALECTS, ARE MADE AVAILABLE AT WWW.ABAIR.IE, AND ALONG WITH THIS, A GROWING BODY OF RESOURCES, AIMED AT LANGUAGE USERS/LEARNERS, AND AT DISABILITY ACCESS. THIS WORK ON IRISH AIMS FURTHER TO EXPLORE HOW SPEECH TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES CAN PLAY A ROLE IN THE MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES. LANGUAGE & COMM. CEN 4091 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SWEDISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA COLLOQUIUM OF BRITISH ACADEMIC PHONETICIANS COUNCIL MEMBER, AND PAST VICE PRESIDENT AND TREASURER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION IRISH SPEECH GROUP HUMAINE - HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION NETWORK ON EMOTION EU NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE TO DEVELOP SYSTEMS THAT CAN REGISTER, MODEL AND/OR INFLUENCE HUMAN EMOTIONAL STATES AND PROCESSES. INVOLVES 29 EUROPEAN LABORATORIES. EU SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PROSODY OF IRISH DIALECTS: THE USE OF INTONATION, RHYTHM, VOICE QUALITY FOR LINGUISTIC AND PARALINGUISTIC SIGNALLING A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE PROSODIC STRUCTURE OF THE FOUR MAIN IRISH DIALECTS. IRCHSS - IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES WISPR - WELSH AND IRISH SPEECH PROCESSING RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT OF ANNOTATED SPEECH CORPORA FOR IRISH AND WELSH AND THE PREREQUISITES FOR TEXT-TO-SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS. EU IRELAND/WALES INTERREG IIIA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE VOCON - VOICE CONTROL IN UNIT SELECTION CONCATENATIVE SYNTHESIS DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS FOR VOICE ANALYSIS TO PERMIT CONTROL IN SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS BASED ON NON-UNIFORM UNIT-SELECTION CONCATENATION. HITACHI, JAPAN FELLOWSHIP FOR SENIOR RESEARCHER FROM HITACHI INTERACTION OF VOICE QUALITY AND F0 IN PROSODY THIS RESEARCH LOOKED AT HOW PITCH AND OTHER VOICE SOURCE PARAMETERS (VOICE QUALITY) INTERACT AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE EXPRESSION OF PROSODY IRCHSS - IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP COST 258 - THE NATURALNESS OF SYNTHETIC SPEECH RESEARCH CONCERNED WITH THE NATURALNESS OF SYNTHETIC SPEECH IN CONCRETE APPLICATIONS, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOUND QUALITY AND PROSODIC MODELLING. OUR INVOLVEMENT IN THIS PROJECT STARTED IN MARCH 2000. EU COST TECHNOLOGY AND IRISH LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY PROJECT SUPPORTING THE EXTENSION OF THE LANGUAGE MODULES TO IRISH, WHICH MAY BE TAKEN ACROSS COLLEGE. THE POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH ATTACHING TO THE POST WILL FOCUS ON HOW TECHNOLOGY CAN BE HARNESSED IN THE TEACHING OF IRISH, CREATING A BRIDGE TO THE APPLIED LINGUISTICS ACTIVITIES OF THE SCHOOL. HEA BROAD CURRICULUM FUNDING VERIVOX - VOICE VARIABILITY IN SPEAKER VERIFICATION FEASIBILITY STUDY TO EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPROVING SPEAKER VERIFICATION SYSTEMS BY INCORPORATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HOW THE VOICE OF A SPEAKER VARIES DEPENDING ON STRESS, RATE OF SPEECH, LOUDNESS LEVEL, ETC. EU LTR WORKING GROUP UNDER RTD PROGRAMME IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SPEECH MAPS - SOUND-TO-GESTURE INVERSION IN SPEECH THIS PROJECT EXPLORED HOW AN ARTICULATORY ROBOT CAN LEARN TO PRODUCE ARTICULATORY GESTURES FROM SOUNDS. A MAJOR COMPONENT INVOLVED THE RECOVERY OF THE SOURCES (ARTICULATORY AND ACOUSTIC) FROM THE SPEECH OUTPUT SIGNAL. EU ESPRIT/BRA VOX - THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF SPEAKER CHARACTERISTICS WORKING GROUP CONCERNED WITH THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF VOICE QUALITY AS IT VARIES ACROSS SPEAKERS AND WITHIN THE SPEECH OF THE INDIVIDUAL. EU ESPRIT/BRA ACCOR I - ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC CORRELATIONS IN COARTICULATION A CROSS-LANGUAGE INVESTIGATION OF COARTICULATION INCLUDING ACQUISITION OF AN ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC DATABASE IN 7 LANGUAGES. OUR LABORATORY WORKED ON IRISH AND ON VOICE VARIABILITY IN A NUMBER OF LANGUAGES. EU ESPRIT/BRA ACCOR II - ARTICULATORY-ACOUSTIC CORRELATIONS IN COARTICULATION CONTINUATION OF ACCOR I EU ESPRIT/BRA SPACT (PHASE 1 AND 2) - APPLICATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION/SYNTHESIS TECHNOLOGY IN THE MIR SPACE STATION THIS PROJECT HAD AS ITS OBJECTIVE TO EQUIP A WORKSTATION, USED FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS ON THE MIR SPACE STATION, WITH SPEECH INPUT/OUTPUT FACILITIES. THIS FACILITY MAY BE OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE WHEN THE ASTRONAUT IS CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS WHERE THE HAND AND EYES ARE BUSY. THE TASK OF OUR GROUP WAS TO SELECT THE MOST APPROPRIATE SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM AND TO ADAPT IT TO THE USER SITUATION, E.G., BY SELECTING/DESIGNING THE VOICE QUALITY PARAMETERS THAT WOULD BE USED IN MESSAGES TO SIGNAL CAUTION, WARNINGS ETC. IN SPITE OF PROBLEMS WITH MIR, THE OUTPUT OF THIS PROJECT DID MAKE IT INTO ORBIT. EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY CABÓGAÍ II SPEECH SYNTHESIS AND CORPORA FOR IRISH DIALECTS (CONTINUED WORK OF CABÓGÍN I) FORAS NA GAEILGE CNGL CSET NEXT GENERATION LOCALIZATION SFI CABÓIGÍN I BASIC LINGUISTIC RESOURCES AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS PROTOTYPE FOR DONEGAL IRISH FORAS NA GAEILGE CABAIRE EXPLORING THE EDUCATIONAL APPLICATION OF IRISH SYNTHETIC VOICES COGG: AN CHOMHAIRLE UM OIDEACHAS GAELTACHTA & GAELSCOLAÍOCHTA FASTNET -- FOCUS ON ACTIONS IN SOCIAL TALK: NETWORK-ENABLING TECHNOLOGY MODELLING FOR SPEECH TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS THE 'SECOND CHANNEL' IN SPEECH, WHERE TONE-OF-VOICE AND MANNER OF SPEAKING CONVEYS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPEAKER'S AFFECT AND ATTITUDE TO THE LISTENER AND TO THE DISCOURSE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ABAIR DEVELOPING MULTI-DIALECT TEXT-TO-SPEECH AND RESOURCES FOR IRISH DIALECTS. (CONTINUES THE RESEARCH OF CABÓGAÍ) AN ROINN EALAÍON OIDHREACHTA AGUS GAELTACHTA ABAIR-NCBI IMPLICTIONS OF IRISH SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED: EVALUATING SCREENREADING TECHNOLOGY WITH IRISH SYNTHETIC VOICES FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USERS NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND OF IRELAND ABAIR-NCBI EXPLORING IMPLICATIONS OF IRISH SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED. RESEARCH ON THE ELABORATION AND EVALUATION OF SCREENREADING TECHNOLOGY WITH IRISH SYNTHETIC VOICES. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND OF IRELAND DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. NEASA NI CHIARAIN nichiarainneasa USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NICHIAN C.L.C.S. - COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING - SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY - SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION - TEACHING/LEARNING OF IRISH - INTERACTIVE LANGUAGE LEARNING GAMES CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION STUDIES ROOM 4091, ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH DIGITAL HUMANITIES MAKING IRELAND DR. AINE NI CHOISDEALBHA nichoisdealbhaaine VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW NCHOISDI SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN nichuilleanaineilean FELLOW EMERITUS ENCHLLNN FELLOWS EMERITII RENAISSANCE LITERATURE; LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH REFORMATION; TRANSLATION STUDIES; LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE; MARIA EDGEWORTH. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN ROMANIAN FRENCH IRISH LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE LITERATURE OF THE REFORMATION RENAISSANCE LITERATURE TRANSLATION STUDIES AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MS. MELANIE NI DHUINN nidhuinnmelanie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MNIDHUIN EDUCATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH MEMBER OF BRITISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (BERA) MEMBER OF DROICHEAD STEERING COMMITTEE TEACHING COUNCIL OF IRELAND, MEMBER OF PROGRAMME EVALUATION PANEL FOR LEVEL 8 DEGREE PROGRAMMES AT CARLOW IT MEMBER OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (ESAI) REGISTERED WITH THE TEACHING COUNCIL OF IRELAND/ AN COMHAIRLE MHÚINTEOIREACHTA AN GHAEILGE CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR PRACTISING TEACHERS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHER EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATION VISUAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE DR. AISLING NI SHUILLEABHAIN nishuilleabhainaisling ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN PRIMARY C NISHUIA PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE CLINICAL RESEARCH IN PRIMARY CARE. CAREER PATHS / PLANS OF YOUNG GPS. CONTRACEPTION. ALCOHOL USE. PATIENT ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE. PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 IRISH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN IRELAND ALCOHOL COMMUNITY HEALTH AND GENERAL PRACTICE CONTRACEPTION DIABETES AND DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES IRISH FEMALE GENERAL PRACTITIONERS PREGNANCY PRIMARY CARE DIMINISHING OPTIONS: A REPORT ON GP ACCESS TO SERVICES MEASUREMENT OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION IN PREGNANCY THIS PROJECT HAS TWO AIMS. THE FIRST IS TO ASCERTAIN ALCOHOL USE AMONG PREGNANT WOMEN, BY MEANS OF A SELF-COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRE. 15 GP TRAINING PRACTICES FROM THE TRINITY / HSE GP TRAINING SCHEME ARE RECRUITING 20 PATIENTS EACH, GIVING A TOTAL COHORT OF 300 WOMEN. THE SECOND AIM IS TO LOOK AT THE FEASIBILITY OF CONDUCTING THIS TYPE OF RESEARCH IN PRIMARY CARE. THE 15 PRACTICES HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS OF FIVE, WITH A DIFFERENT METHODOLOGY FOR EACH GROUP. THESE WILL BE COMPARED AND THE RESULT WILL INFORM THE METHODOLOGY USED IN A PROPOSED NATIONAL STUDY OF ALCOHOL USE IN PREGNANCY. HSE RECONFIGURING A HOSPITAL TOWARDS GENERAL PRACTICE: THE CASE OF PEAMOUNT. PEAMOUNT HOSPITAL MS. CLIONA NI SHUILLEABHAIN nishuilleabhaincliona ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN COSULLVN LIBRARY ELECTONIC AND ONLINE RESOURCE LANDSCAPE THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH IREL (IRISH RESEARCH ELIBRARY) MONITORING GROUP. TCD LIBRARY REPRESENTATIVE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND LIR HEANET USER GROUP FOR LIBRARIES LIR HEANET USER GROUP FOR LIBRARIES - COMMITTEE. TCD LIBRARY REPRESENTATIVE TCD COISTE NA GAEILGE. LIBRARY REPRESENTATIVE TCD GREEN CAMPUS COMMITTEE. LIBRARY REPRESENTATIVE. DR. CHRISTOPHER JOHN NICHOLAS nicholaschristopherjohn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NICHOLYJ GEOLOGY IT IS NOW WIDELY RECOGNISED THAT THE LAST OF THE WORLD'S LARGE, 'EASY' TO PRODUCE OIL DISCOVERIES HAVE BEEN MADE, YET THE GLOBAL DEMAND FOR PETROLEUM CONTINUES TO INCREASE. CONSEQUENTLY, THERE IS NOW INTENSE ECONOMIC PRESSURE FROM GOVERNMENTS TO EXPLORE FOR HYDROCARBONS IN MORE AND MORE INACCESSIBLE TERRESTRIAL AND MARINE REGIONS OF THE GLOBE. SUCCESS IN THIS EXPLORATION IS VITAL IN ORDER TO PROLONG THE PLANET'S LAST OIL AND GAS RESERVES AND SO EASE THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFER TO RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES DURING THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS. MY RESEARCH OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS HAS GRADUALLY BECOME CONCENTRATED ON APPLYING A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GEOLOGICAL APPROACH TO FINDING PETROLEUM IN DEVELOPING REGIONS WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO BE UNECONOMIC. A PARTICULAR FOCUS OF STUDY HAS BECOME EAST AFRICA, WHICH HAS THE POTENTIAL TO YIELD LARGE HYDROCARBON RESERVES TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DESPERATE FOR THEIR OWN ENERGY SOURCES. I HAVE ESTABLISHED A 'TROPICAL GEOLOGY & EXPLORATION GROUP' IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AT TCD, COMPRISING A CORE OF FOUR PHD STUDENTS AND A POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER. THEIR RESEARCH IS AIMED AT INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF REGIONAL TECTONICS COUPLED WITH GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOW THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THEM HAS CONTROLLED SEDIMENTARY BASIN FILL ARCHITECTURE. CURRENT PROJECTS ARE AIMED AT RESOLVING NEOGENE TO RECENT STRUCTURE AND SEDIMENTOLOGY ON BOTH WESTERN AND EASTERN BRANCHES OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM, MODERN INVERSION AND CONTOURITES IN DEEP OFFSHORE TANZANIA, KAROO TO MESOZOIC RIFTING ON THE TANZANIAN COAST AND TRACKING DOWN OUTCROP EQUIVALENTS OF THE SUBSURFACE PRECAMBRIAN - CAMBRIAN ARA RESERVOIR CARBONATES IN OMAN. THE GROUP'S PRIMARY APPROACH IS THE APPLICATION OF FIELD GEOLOGY, SUPPORTED BY A VARIETY OF GEOCHEMICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES, TO STRIP AN AREA DOWN INTO ITS COMPONENT GEOLOGICAL 'NUTS AND BOLTS' AND THROUGH DETAILED FIELD OBSERVATION, DATA COLLECTION AND LABORATORY ANALYSES, PIECE IT BACK TOGETHER TO BUILD A COMPREHENSIVE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY. THIS WORK HAS A DUAL ROLE TO BOTH ACADEMIA AND THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. WE ARE CURRENTLY OPERATING IN TANZANIA, UGANDA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, SULTANATE OF OMAN AND JAVA WITH SUPPORT FROM DOMINION PETROLEUM LTD., SOCO INTERNATIONAL LTD., PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN (SHELL), THE PETROLEUM EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF ENERGY, UGANDA AND THE TANZANIAN PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FORMER CHIEF GEOLOGIST FOR DOMINION PETROLEUM LTD., NOW ACTING AS GEOLOGICAL ADVISOR MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AFRICA MEMBER OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE EAST AFRICAN RIFT SYSTEM GEOLOGICAL FIELD SURVEYING IN FRONTIER REGIONS MESOZOIC TO RECENT STRATIGRAPHY OF TANZANIA PETROLEUM EXPLORATION IN EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA QUATERNARY GEOLOGY OF LAKE EDWARD, UGANDA & DR CONGO STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY OF THE MANDAWA BASIN, SOUTHERN COASTAL TANZANIA TANZANIA PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (WITH DOMINION PETROLEUM) MAJOR GLOBAL CLIMATE FLUCTUATIONS RECORDED AT LOW LATITUDE ON THE INDIAN OCEAN MARGIN DURING THE PALEOGENE (65-24 MILLION YEARS AGO) SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME) SEDIMENTARY RESPONSE TO COUPLED EAST AFRICAN CLIMATE CHANGE AND ACTIVE RIFTING IN THE LAKE EDWARD BASIN, ALBERTINE RIFT, UGANDA MINISTRY OF ENERGY, UGANDA MSC. RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP NITROGEN AND CARBON ISOTOPES IN MODERN AND FOSSIL AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (BASIC RESEARCH GRANT) RIFTING, SEA LEVEL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE EAST AFRICAN MARGIN DURING THE PAST 300 MILLION YEARS ENTERPRISE IRELAND (BASIC RESEARCH GRANT) SELOUS BASIN PROJECT DOMINION PETROLEUM LTD STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF THE ARA GROUP IN OUTCROP AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PLAY DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH OMAN SALT BASIN PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN/SHURAM OIL & GAS GEOLOGY OF KIDUMBA & MIHAMBIA, MANDAWA BASIN, SOUTHERN COASTAL TANZANIA DOMINION PETROLEUM LTD. GEOLOGICAL FIELD SURVEY GEOLOGY OF EXPLORATION AREA 4B, SE LAKE EDWARD, UGANDA DOMINION PETROLEUM LTD. GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN LAKE EDWARD, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO SOCO INTERNATIONAL PLC. GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF THE SOUTHERN TANZANIAN CONTINENTAL MARGIN EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION / IRCSET DR. HONOR MARGARET NICHOLL nichollhonormargaret VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW NICHOLLH SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY TERMINOLOGY USED IN CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS. MOTHERS' EXPERIENCES OF CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX NEEDS. COMMUNICATION. CHILDREN'S NURSING. TEACHING IN CLASSROOM AND CLINICAL SETTINGS. MICROTEACHING. STRESS. COMPLEX NEEDS IN CHILDREN, PALLIATIVE CARE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MEMBER OF IRISH PLATFORM FOR PATIENT'S ORGANISATIONS,SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY(IPPOSI) BOOK REVIEWER LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS AND WILKINS BOOK REVIEWER PALGRAVE MCMILLAN CHAIR OF ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE, CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK IRELAND, N IRELAND(CRNINI) CHAIR OF THE ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE SUBGROUP OF THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK IRELAND/N. IRELAND(CRNINI) ELECTED MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH NETWORK IRELAND/N. IRELAND(CRNINI) EXAMINER AND SUPERVISOR ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING, UNITED KINGDOM EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE CHILDREN'S NETWORK, IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND ELECTED MEMBER HEALTH INFORMATION RESEARCH UNIT,MCMASTER UNIVERSITY,CANADA. SENTINEL READER/NURSE RATER FOR EVIDENCE- BASED NURSING INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE NETWORK INVITED JOURNAL REVIEWER JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN NURSING INVITED REVIEWER JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INVITED REVIEWER BRITISH JOURNAL OF NURSING INVITED REVIEWER CONTEMPORARY NURSE INVITED REVIEWER JOURNAL FOR SPECIALISTS IN PEDIATRIC NURSING INVITED REVIEWER NURSING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE JOURNAL REVIEWER SA JOURNAL OF NURSE EDUCATION MEMBER IAPC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE MEMBER IRISH ASSOCATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE MEMBER NATIONAL CLINICAL PROGRAMME ON RARE DISEASES WORKING GROUP MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S NURSES MEMBER OF NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC ADVISORY GROUP MEMBER OF NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC ADVISORY GROUP MEMBER OF THE EDUCATION WORKING GROUP OF THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE HSE) MEMBER OF THE SIGMA THETA TAU ETA CHI CHAPTER (NURSES HONOR SOCIETY) MEMBER SCHOLAR INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR QUALITATIVE METHODOLOGY(IIQM) NEW BOOK REVIEWER SAGE PUBLICATIONS NEW BOOK REVIEWER OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS/MCGRAW HILL REVIEWER BMC PAEDIATRICS REVIEWER FOR BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION REVIEWER INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS REVIEWER JOURNAL OF CHILD HEALTH CARE REVIEWER THE OPEN JOURNAL SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW AIIHPC SENIOR RESEARCHER STRUCTURED RESEARCH NETWORK[SRN] OF THE ALL IRELAND INSTITUTE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE[AIIHPC] (BACILLUS-STEAROTHERMOPHILUS) CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH PROMOTION OF CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH RARE DISEASES OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD DISABILITY ON FAMILY DYNAMICS MEMBER OF RESEARCH STEERING COMMITTEE ISPCC UNDER NDA RESEARCH PROMOTION SCHEME PROGRAMME RELATED STRESSORS AMONG PART- TIME UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS A DESCRIPTIVE EXPLORATORY STUDY. NONE REFLECTION IN PRE-REGISTRATION NURSING CURRICULA NONE CHILDREN WITH LIFE- LIMITING ILLNESSES- AND EXPLORATION OF TERMINOLOGY USED A DESCRIPTIVE EXPLORATORY STUDY USING A STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE ADMINISTERED BY TELEPHONE INTERVIEW. TO INVESTIGATE TERMINOLOGY USED WHEN CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH LIFE- LIMITING CONDITIONS. SAMPLE OF 46 NURSES. SOME TERMINOLOGY USED VARIES FROM THAT FOUND IN THE LITERATURE INCUDING TERMINOLOGY RELATED TO LIFESPAN, DEPENDENCY,LIMITATIONS AND THE THREATENING OR GENETIC NATURE OF THE CHILD'S ILLNESS. AN BORD ALTRANAIS PART FUNDED EXPLORING MOTHERS EXPERIENCES OF CARING FOR A CHILD WITH COMPLEX NEEDS A DOCTORAL STUDY FOCUSSED ON EXPLORING MOTHERS EXPERIENCES OF CARING FOR A CHILD/CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX NEEDS.DATA COLLECTION BY INTERVIEW, DIARY AND FIELD NOTES. A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH USING GADAMERIAN APPROACHES. SELF- FUNDED INTERDISCIPLINARY MODULE IN CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE A PROJECT FOCUSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF A LEVEL 9 PROGRAMME IN CHILDREN'S PALLIATIVE CARE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. IHF FUNDED A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF THE NURSING OBSERVATIONS RECORDED ON CHILDREN IN THE FIRST HOUR FOLLOWING THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF THE NURSING OBSERVATIONS RECORDED ON CHILDREN IN THE FIRST HOUR FOLLOWING THEIR ARRIVAL AT THE CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT,(AMNCH) EILEEN MANSFIELD SCHOLARSHIP,THE ADELAIDE SOCIETY THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY USED BY CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX NEEDS WHO ARE RECEIVING CARE AT HOME THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO IDENTIFY THE COMPLEXITY OF CARE THAT IS DELIVERED TO CHILDREN AT HOME AND THE TECHNOLOGY USED TO SUPPORT THEIR NEEDS. IHF AN INTERPRETATION OF THE CHILDREN'S NURSING CONTENT OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMMES IN IRELAND AN EXPLORATION OF THE CHILDREN'S NURSING CONTENT IN UNDERGRADAUTE PROGRAMMES IN IRELAND UNFUNDED DEVELOPING AN INFORMATION RESOURCE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ON Q2211 DELETION A SMALL PROJECT ON CREATING AN INFORMATION LEAFLET ON Q2211 DELETION SYNDROME BY PARENTS FOR USE BY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS THE MARTHA MCMENAMIN SCHOLARSHIP 2010/11 PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD SUMMARY THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH IS TO EXPLORE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN RELATION TO PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY, 'WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES' INCLUDES ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: (A)WOMEN WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (B)WOMEN WITH A HEARING IMPAIRMENT (C)WOMEN WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY (D)WOMEN WITH A MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTY (E)WOMEN WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY/NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF IRELAND MEASURING THE DEVELOPMENT AND WELL-BEING LONGITUDINAL OUTCOMES OF CHILDREN FROM BIRTH TO TWO YEARS FOLLOWING PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE INTERVENTION. THIS IS AN IRISH STUDY WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN IN TWO OUT OF THE FOUR HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) AREAS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THIS IS A QUANTITATIVE PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY DESIGN INVOLVING A RANDOM SAMPLE OF 150 CHILDREN FOLLOWED FROM BIRTH TO TWO YEARS. PARTICIPANTS WERE RECRUITED IN TWO HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AREAS AND FOLLOWED UP BY THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR USING REPEAT MEASUREMENTS WITHIN 3-6 WEEKS OF BIRTH, 4-7.5 MONTHS, 9-14 MONTHS & 23-24 MONTHS. FUNDING AGENCY NON-FUNDED TRANSITION TO ADULT SERVICES BY YOUTH WITH LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE STUDY WITH QUB, SICK KIDS TORONTO, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, HOLLAND BLOORFIELD, EMILY'S HOUSE HOSPICE AND ST GEORGES AND KINGSTON UNIVERSITY. REPLICATION OF N IRELAND STUDY IN TORONTO ON SERVICE S AT TRANSITION NONE TRANSITION TO ADULT SERVICES BY YOUTH WITH LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE STUDY WITH QUB, SICK KIDS TORONTO, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, HOLLAND BLOORFIELD, EMILY'S HOUSE HOSPICE AND ST GEORGES AND KINGSTON UNIVERSITY. REPLICATION OF N IRELAND STUDY IN TORONTO ON SERVICE S AT TRANSITION NONE RD-WIFI INFOMATION NEEDS FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES SOURCING INFORMATION ON RARE DISEASES- WHERE AND WHAT INFORMATION DO PARENTS REQUIRE THE SAOIRSE FOUNDATION RARE DISEASE WEBSITE - DEVELOPING THE PARENT 2 PARENT CONTENT OF A RARE DISEASE WEBSITE A DESCRIPTIVE QUALITATIVE STUDY AIMED TO FURTHER ELUCIDATE PARENTS REQUIREMENTS FOR PARENT TO PARENT SUPPORT IN A SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED IRISH WEBSITE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENGAGING CIVIC SOCIETY EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY PEOPLE WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY LIVING INDEPENDENTLY THE AIM IS TO FURTHER INVESTIGATE PARTICULAR ISSUES WHICH IMPEDE INDIVIDUALS WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY FROM INDEPENDENT LIVING IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENGAGING CIVIC SOCIETY NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIAM'S LODGE A NEEDS ANALYSIS TO UNDERPIN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH RARE DISEASES THE SAOIRSE FOUNDATION DEATHS OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND ANALYSIS OF ORGANISATIONAL RECORDS TO IDENTIFY PLACE ETC OF DEATH OF CHILDREN UNDER 4 IN IRELAND NONE GIVING MEDICINES TO CHILDREN AT HOME PHD STUDENT STUDY( CARMEL DOYLE) TO EXPLORE THE PHENOMENON OF GIVING MEDICINES TO CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITY AT HOME NONE EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCE OF GIVING GROWTH HORMONE TO CHILDREN AT HOME PHD STUDENT STUDY( RASHA ALSAIGH) TO EXAMINE MOTHERS EXPERIENCES OF GIVING GROWTH HORMONE TO CHILDREN AT HOME- PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY NONE AN EXPLORATION TO ACCESS,DECISION MAKING AND EXPERIENCES OF PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH NON-MALIGNANT LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS STUDY IS PART OF A LARGER STRUCTURED RESEARCH NETWORK STUDY FUNDED BY THE AIIHPC PHD SUPERVISED BY DR HONOR NICHOLL & DR G KIRWIN (DCU) ALL IRELAND INSTITUTE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVECARE AN ORGANISATIONAL CASE STUDY OF TRANSITION OT ADULT SERVICES BY YOUNG PEOPLE WITH LIFE-LIMITING CONDITIONS IN IRELAND AS ABOVE. AN AIIHPC FUNDED DOCTORAL STUDY INVOLVING CROSS BORDER COLLABORATION, SUPERVISED BY DR P O'HALLORAN (QUB) ,DR J.PRICE (QUB) AND DR HONOR NICHOLL(TCD) ALL IRELAND INSTITUTE OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AWARD DEVELOPING AN END OF LIFE CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK NATIONAL PROJECT, FUNDED BY HSE AND IHF TO DEVELOP A NATIONAL CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK IN PALLIATIVE CARE FOR NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH CARE ASSISTANTS. HSE/IHF PARENTS PREFERENCES OF CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH COMPLEX CARE NEEDS HRB FUNDED SCHOLARSHIP BEING UNDERTAKEN BY AOIFE MCNAMARA AND SUPERVISED BY PROFESSOR CHARLES NORMAND AND DR HONOR NICHOLL HRB CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. ANDREEA NICOARA nicoaraandreea ACCENTURE ASSOC PROF IN MATHEMATICS NICOARAA PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES, REAL AND COMPLEX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY, MODEL THEORY SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN PORTUGUESE ROMANIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN PROFESSOR VALERIA NICOLOSI nicolosivaleria PROFESSOR NICOLOV CHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH APPLIED PHYSICS COMPOSITE MATERIALS IMAGING, IMAGE PROCESSING MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING NANOCHEMISTRY NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTUBES OPTICAL MATERIALS OPTICS POLYMERS THERMODYNAMICS "X INTERFACING BIOMOLECULES (DNA & PEPTIDES) TO CARBON NANOTUBES "X DISPERSION AND EXFOLIATION OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN COMMON ORGANIC SOLVENTS CHARACTERIZATION OF MOSI NANOWIRES PURIFICATION OF BORON NITRITE NANOTUBES DISPERSION AND PURIFICATION OF TUNGSTEN DISULFIDE NANOTUBES EXFOLIATION OF GRAPHITE INTO SINGLE GRAPHENE LAYERS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. ELIZABETH NIXON nixonelizabeth ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ENIXON PSYCHOLOGY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, PARENTING, PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS, ADOPTION, IRISH CHILDHOODS, CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES, CHILDHOOD OBESITY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT, PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR FAMILY RELATIONS ADOPTION CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IRISH CHILDHOODS, CHANGE AND DIVERSITY PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS PARENTING NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND - GROWING UP IN IRELAND MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT TEAM OF THE STUDY. THE STUDY IS BEING CONDUCTED BY A CONSORTIUM LED BY THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR PROF. JAMES WILLIAMS) AND THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE (LEAD CO-INVESTIGATOR, PROF. SHEILA GREENE). OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN TRANSITIONS IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AMONG IRISH YOUTH IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (€16,000 PER ANNUM) PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN CHILDREN'S FOOD CHOICES CO-INVESTIGATOR WITH DR. CAROLINE HEARY (PI) AND DR. COLETTE KELLY (CO-INVESTIGATOR), BOTH FROM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY. IRISH HEART FOUNDATION (€9,000) DISCOURSES OF MASCULINITY, SEXUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND FATHERHOOD AMONG DISADVANTAGED YOUNG MEN IN IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY (€90,000) PARENTAL ETHNOTHEORIES AMONG IMMIGRANT AND IRISH PARENTS OF INFANTS IN IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. CO-INVESTIGATORS: PROF. SHEILA GREENE, CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, TCD; PROF. IMELDA COYNE, SCHOOL OF NURSING, TCD & PROF. KEVIN NUGENT, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTES AT AMHERST, USA. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES (€99,970) A NATIONAL SURVEY OF PARENTING STYLES IN IRELAND CO-INVESTIGATOR WITH DR. ANN MARIE HALPENNY (PI) FROM SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN (€125,000) CHILDREN'S PERSPECTIVES ON PARENTING STYLES & DISCIPLINE: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OFFICE OF THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN (€17,000) A NATIONAL STUDY OF THE OUTCOMES OF INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION IN IRELAND ADOPTION BOARD IRELAND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. MARIA NOGAL nogalmaria ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NOGALM CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION BUILT ENVIRONMENT CIVIL ENGINEERING COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING RISK AND RESILIENCE SIMULATION AND MODELLING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING STRUCTURE RELIABILITY STRUCTURES TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CLODAGH NOLAN nolanclodagh ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NOLANCL OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY UNILINK - AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SERVICE FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION; ADD AND THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS; ASPERGER'S SYNDROME AND THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS; FATIQUE AND THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS; TIME USE; TRANSITIONING TO THE WORKPLACE FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES; SUPPORTING STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN WORK PLACEMENTS. SCH OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND CHAIRPERSON OF THE GOVERNMENT APPOINTED OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY REGISTRATION BAORD MEMBER OF THE MENTAL HEALTH SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF THE AOTI NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION GROUP FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS WORLD FEDERATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS ADD AND THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS ASPERGERS SYNDROME AND THIRD LEVEL STUDENTS MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH OF STUDENTS IN THIRD LEVEL OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE SERVICE LEARNING TRANSITIONING TO WORK FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES TRANSITION TO EMPLOYMENT FOR GRADUATES EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDIVIDUALIZED RECOVERY-ORIENTATED AND EMPLOYMENT-FOCUSED APPROACH TO SUPPORTING COLLEGE STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADUATES EXPERIENCING MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES FROM FIVE DUBLIN HEIS AND NATIONALLY IN THEIR TRANSITION TO EMPLOYMENT. THIS PROCESS FACILITATES THE INDIVIDUALS TO EVALUATE THEIR CURRENT SKILLS, PROVIDE THEM WITH SUPPORT TO SOURCE AND OBTAIN SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT WHILE ALSO DEVELOPING THEIR PERSONAL SELF-MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO MAINTAIN HEALTH AND WELL-BEING WHILE IN EMPLOYMENT. AS REQUIRED, THE STUDENT/GRADUATE CAN MEET REGULARLY WITH THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST AND/OR SPECIALIST CAREERS ADVISER AND ENGAGE WITH PEER-SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS WHICH WILL BE TAILORED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF EACH INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANT. A COLLABORATIVE TRIANGULATION BETWEEN CURRENT STUDENTS, RECENT GRADUATES AND SPECIALIST SUPPORTS. THIS PROJECT WILL BE BUILD CAPACITY INTO THE PRACTICE STUDENT SERVICES WITH SPECIALIST SERVICES LEADING TO MAINSTREAMED INTERVENTIONS AND DEVELOPED INTO AN ONLINE TRANSITION TOOL, WHICH THE STUDENT WILL HAVE OWNERSHIP OF THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS AND INTO THE WORKPLACE. GENIO 2014 GENIO 2014 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. DEREK NOLAN nolanderek ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DENOLAN BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND . EXPRESSION AND FUNCTION OF SURFACE PROTEINS IN PROTOZOAN PARASITES. ENDOCYTOSIS, PROTEIN TRAFFIC AND FLAGELLAR POCKET FUNCTION.. PARASITE BIOENERGETICS . REGULATION AND FUNCTION OF ACTIN CYTOSKELETON. . MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF THE AFRICAN TRYPANOSOME TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI. . VESICULAR TRAFFIC AND THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETON IN T. BRUCEI. BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GRANT REVIEWER FOR: [1] - THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20550, U.S.A. [2] - THE WELLCOME TRUST (UK), FNRS (BELGIUM), BBSRC (UK) MEMBER OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY LONDON TREASURER OF IRISH AREA SECTION OF BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWER FOR EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY; EMBO JOURNAL; MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY TODAY; J. CELL SCIENCE; MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY ACIDIC REPETITIVE PROTEIN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES BLOOD-STREAM FORMS CELL-SURFACE CONCANAVALIN-A CROSS-LINKING GPI-ANCHORED PROTEINS LIPOPHILIC CATION MEMBRANE-POTENTIAL CHANGES MITOGENIC STIMULATION NEURO-BLASTOMA PARASITOLOGY PH GRADIENTS PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL MEMBRANE ANCHOR PLASMA-MEMBRANE PROCYCLIC FORMS PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE SECONDARY STRUCTURE STREPTOCOCCUS-LACTIS TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR CHARACTERIZATION OF GLYCOPROTEINS FROM THE FLAGELLAR POCKET AND ENDOCYTIC PATHWAY IN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES: A NEW PARADIGM FOR PROTEIN TRAFFICKING IN A HIGHLY POLARIZED CELL. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS THE IDENTIFCATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEINS FROM THE FLAGELLAR POCKET AND ENDOCYTIC PATHWAY IN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES AND TO INVESTIGATE THE MECHANISMS FOR SPECIFIC SORTING AND ROUTING OF PROTEINS TO AND FROMTHE POCKET WELLCOME TRUST SENIOR FELLOWSHIP IN BASIC BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES POLARITY AND FUNCTION OF ACTIN IN VESICLE TRAFFIC IN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES THIS SFI FUNDED RESEARCH PROGRAMME SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE POLARITY OF THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETON IS MAINTAINED AND THE ROLE OF THIS CYTOSKELETON IN VESICLE TRAFFIC (ENDOCYTOSIS/EXOCYTOSIS) IN AFRICAN TRYAPANOSMES. SORTING OF PROTEINS WITHIN THE UNIQUE REGION OF THE FLAGELLAR POCKET SFI BASIC ORGANIZATION OF THE ACTIN CYTOSKELETON IN AFRICAN TRYPANSOMES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (PD/2007/10). 2007-2012 ROLE COLLEGE PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR/ SPONSOR FOR DR. J RUBOTHAM HRB FLAGELLAR ATTACHMENT IN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES: INVESTIGATING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CO-ORDINATION OF PROTEINS IN A CELL A MAJOR QUESTION IN CELL BIOLOGY IS HOW ARE PROTEINS, COMPLEXES AND ORGANELLES, POSITIONED IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME? FLAGELLA ARE MORPHOLOGICALLY STRIKING ORGANELLES IN EUKARYOTES, DEFINED BY THEIR FUNCTION IN MOTILITY. FLAGELLAR REPLICATION AND INHERITANCE IS A VISUALLY DRAMATIC EXAMPLE OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CO-ORDINATION WHICH IS ESPECIALLY OBVIOUS IN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES, E.G. TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI. THESE UNICELLULAR EUKARYOTES CAUSE FATAL HUMAN SLEEPING SICKNESS AND NAGANA IN DOMESTIC ANIMALS AND ARE A SIGNIFICANT MEDICAL, VETERINARY AND ECONOMIC BURDEN THROUGHOUT SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. THE SINGLE FLAGELLUM OF T. BRUCEI EMERGES FROM THE POSTERIOR END OF THE CELL AND UNIQUELY IS THEN ATTACHED ALONG THE CELL BODY THROUGH A SPECIALIZED DOMAIN INVOLVING THE CYTOSKELETON AND SURFACE MEMBRANES CALLED THE FLAGELLAR ATTACHMENT ZONE (FAZ), BEFORE EXTENDING TO AN ANTERIOR FREE FLAGELLUM. THIS REGION CONSISTS OF A SERIES OF JUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES THAT ARE PRECISELY SPACED ALONG THE FAZ. THESE COMPLEXES CAN BE VIEWED AS MOLECULAR RIVETS THAT EXTEND FROM THE CELL BODY THROUGH THE SURFACE AND FLAGELLAR MEMBRANES AND TO LINK INTO THE CYTOSKELETAL STRUCTURE OF THE FLAGELLUM. ATTACHMENT REQUIRES COORDINATED, CONTINUOUS AND PRECISE POSITIONING OF THESE RIVETS AS THE NEW FLAGELLUM IS GROWING. TRYPANOSOMES DIVIDE BY BINARY FISSION ALONG AN AXIS DEFINED BY THE NEW AND EXISTING FLAGELLUM. ATTACHMENT FAILURE RESULTS IN FISSION FAILURE AND CELL DEATH. LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS INVOLVED OR HOW THE PROCESS IS COORDINATED. THE PLACE TO START IS FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEINS REQUIRED FOR ATTACHMENT. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE NOVEL FAMILIES OF FAZ SPECIFIC, PRECISELY POSITION SURFACE PROTEINS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR ATTACHMENT BY COMBINING MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES WITH RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY. UNDERSTANDING THE FUNCTION AND POSITIONING OF THESE PROTEINS WILL PROVIDE NEW INSIGHTS INTO FLAGELLAR ATTACHMENT AND MAY HAVE TRANSLATIONAL BENEFITS THROUGH IDENTIFICATION OF NEW TARGETS FOR ANTI-TRYPANOSOMES AGENTS. IRC PHD STUDENSHIP "IN SILICO DISCOVERY OF NOVEL THERAPETEUTICS FOR AFRICAN SLEEPING SICKNESS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (PD/2009/33). 2010-2013 DURATION: 36 MONTHS. ROLE COLLEGE PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR/ SPONSOR FOR DR. A KNOX HRB "ENERGY METABOLISM OF TRYPANSOMES: TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MITOCHONDRIAL METABOLISM" ULYESSES RESEARCH VISIT AWARD 2008 . ROLE: PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR. CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR JOHN JAMES NOLAN nolanjohnjames ADJUNCT PROFESSOR JNOLAN CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPT ENDOCRINOLOGY TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DANISH ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR STUDY OF DIABETES EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION IRISH ENDOCRINE SOCIETY THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS COMPUTERISED CLINICAL SYSTEMS DIABETES AND DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY GENETIC/MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING METABOLISM AND METABOLIC DISEASES NUTRIENT METABOLISM, OBESITY AND CLINICAL NUTRITION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. ANNE NOLAN nolananne ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ANNOLAN SCH OFFICE SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY SOCIAL SCIENCES & PHILOSOPHY COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. THOMAS FRANCIS NOONE noonethomasfrancis ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NOONET SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY ACUTE CARE NURSING, CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING, ASSASSMENT IN NURSE EDUCATION. TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NURSING,CRITICAL THINKING IN NURSING SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF NURSE TEACHERS(SECRETARY) GENERAL NURSING FORUM IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS ACADEMIC STAFF ASSOCIATION TRINITY COLLEGE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH GROUP SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE FOR THE TRANSFER OF NURSING EDUCATION TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (MEMBERS APPOINTED BY MINISTER FOR HEALTH) QUALITY COMMITTEE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY TCD.(2002 - 2007) PROCEDURES INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY COMMOTTEE(PIST)(2002 2007) PROMOTION & MARKETING COMMITTEE SCHOOL OF NURSINGAND MICWIFERY (2002 2007) NATIONAL PROMOTION AND MARKETING LIAISON IN NURSING NURSING CAREERS CENTR AN BORD ALTRANAIS (2002 - 2007) GENERAL NURSING FORUM SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY (PRESENTLY) ACADEMIC FORUM SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY(2002 - PRESENT) EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP 2005 - PRESENT) HEALTH CARE POLICY AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH GROUP (2006 - 2007) CONFERENCE COMMITTEE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 2005 - 2008) BSC UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM COMMITTEE 2011 BSC UNDERGRADUATE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE 2011 -2013 ACUTE CARE NURSING CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CRITICAL THINKING INNOVATION IN LEARNING NURSING EDUCATION TEACHING AND LEARNING IN NURSING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR CHARLES NORMAND normandcharles ADJUNCT PROFESSOR NORMANDC PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE HEALTH ECONOMICS, HEALTH CARE FINANCING, HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH, HEALTH POLICY, AGEING AND HEALTH, HEALTH SECTOR MANAGEMENT, ECONOMIC EVALUATION. HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT 3/4 FOSTER PLACE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH CHAIR OF STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE WHO EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY ON HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POLICY HEALTH ECONOMICS STUDY GROUP INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE EUROPEAN REGION AGE RELATED DISEASES AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA BIOMEDICAL ETHICS CERVICAL CANCER COMMUNITY HEALTH AND GENERAL PRACTICE ECONOMETRIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ECONOMICS OF HEALTH SERVICE PROVISION ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC POLICY EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH INFORMATICS HEALTH MANAGEMENT HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH POLICY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION SYSTEMS MATHEMATICAL MODELLING MIDWIFERY PATTERNS OF HEALTH PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC, PRIVATE MIX NETWORK RESEARCH ISSUES SPECIFICE TO ANY HEALTH PROFESSION TAXATION PALLIATIVE CARE - COMPARISON OF SERVICES IN LONDON, DUBLIN AND NEW YORK THIS STUDY IS COMPARING THE ORGANISATION AND DELIVERY OF END OF LIFE CARE SERVICES IN THREE CITIES WHICH HAVE DIFFERENCES IN THE SYSTEMS OF FINANCE AND SERVICE DELIVERY. THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHOPIES MOTIVATION PROJECT A STDUY OF MOTIVATION OF HEALTH WORKERS IN MALAWI, TANZANIA AND SOUTH AFRICA, IN ASSOCICIATION WITH CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI AND NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH, TANZANIA IRISH AID VIA HRB IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING I AM A CO-PI ON TILDA, A COLLABORATIVE STUDY BY 5 HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND LED BY PROFESSOR ROSE ANNE KENNY OF TCD IRISH LIFE, THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE - OPTIONS FOR IRELAND THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THE OPTIONS FOR FINANCING HEALTH CARE IN IRELAND, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF UNIVERSAL SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY CERVICAL CANCER RESEARCH PROGRAMME (CERVIVA) LEADING THE HEALTH ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAMME HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD REVOLUTIONISING CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT WITH ICT A STUDY OF CHRONIC DISEASE MANAGEMENT, USING THE CASE OF EPILEPSY, LED FROM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL. A PARTICUALR FOCUS IS THE ROLE OF ICT. TCD IS LEADING ON THE EVALUATION ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT, HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EFFECTS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE ON THE HEALTH SECTOR IN IRELAND THIS IS A COLLABORATION WITH THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, AND EXAMINES THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIIONS FOR THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. LUCY ANGELA NORRIS norrislucyangela SENIOR EXP OFFICER OBS&GYN (P/T 17/8/06) LNORRIS OBSTETRICS TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) THE ROLE OF COAGULATION PROTEASES AND PLATELETS IN THE AETIOLOGY OF GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCERS. DEVELOPMENT OF RISK MODELS FOR THE PREDICTION OF THROMBOSIS IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS. AETIOLOGY OF THROMBOSIS RISK IN HIGH RISK PREGNANCY PATIENTS. EFFECTS OF OESTROGENS, PROGESTOGENS AND PHYTOESTOGENS ON COAGULATION GENE EXPRESSION AND THEIR ROLE IN THROMBOSIS RISK. THE ROLE OF COAGULATION GENE EXPRESSION IN THE TRANSITION FROM ENDOMETRIOSIS TO CLEAR CELL CANCER. DEPT OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH IRISH SOCIETY FOR GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THROMBOSIS RESEARCH BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CARDIOVASCULAR RISK ASSESSMENT AND HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS COAGULATION BIOCHEMISTRY AND DISORDERS CYTOKINES, NITRIC OXIDE FOETAL, MATERNAL AND NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY HAEMOTOLOGY HORMONE PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY INFLAMMATION AND COAGULATION SYNDROMES MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH MENOPAUSE MOLECULAR HAEMATOLOGY ORAL CONTARACEPTIVES AND HAEMOSTASIS PRE-ECLAMPSIA AND INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION PREVENTION, TREATMENT OF THROMBOEMBOLIC COMPLICATIONS IN PREGNANCY REPRODUCTION, FERTILITY AND CONTRACEPTION THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS VASCULAR BIOLOGY, THROMBOSIS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF ORAL (ESTRADIOL 1MG/0.5MG NORETHISTERONE ACETATE) VERSUS TRANSDERMAL (ESTRADIOL 25µG/125µG NORETHISTERONE) ON HAEMOSTATIS IN HEALTHY POST MENOPAUSAL WOMEN HRT IS KNOWN TO CAUSE CHANGES IN COAGULATION AND FIBRINOLYTIC GENE ACTIVATION WHICH MAY EXPLAIN THE INCREASED RISK OF THROMBOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE COMBINATIONS. IF THESE PREPARATIONS ARE TAKEN TRANSDERMALLY, THE LIVER FIRST PASS EFFECT IS AVOIDED AND THIS MAY REDUCE THEIR EFFECTS ON COAGULATION AND FIBRINOLYTIC ACTIVITY. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF THE ROUTE OF ADMIMINSTRATION ON THE EFFECTS OF HRT ON HAEMOSTASIS. LEVELS OF COAGULATION AND FIBRINOLYTIC ACTIVATORS AND INHIBITORS WILL BE MEASURED IN A GROUP OF HEALTHY POST MENOPAUSAL WOMEN TAKING A TRANSDERMAL PREPARATION COMPARED WITH A GROUP TAKING AN ORAL PREPARATION NOVARTIS PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR (HAEMOSTASIS DATA) AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE IN VITRO EFFECTS OF OESTRADIOL AND NORETHISTERONE ON COAGULATION AND FIBRINOLYTIC GENE EXPRESSION ALTHOUGH IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT HORMONE PREPARATIONS CAN ALTER COAGULATION AND FIBRINOLYTIC ACTIVITY, THE MECHANISM FOR THIS AND ITS RELATION TO INCREASED CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN HORMONE USERS IS UNCLEAR. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE IN VITRO EFFECTS OF ESTRADIOL AND NORETHISTERONE ON THE EXPRESSION OF COAGULATION AND FIBRINOLYTIC GENES IN CELL CULTURE. USING TAQMAN PCR AND LOW DENSITY ARRAYS, THE DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF THESE PREPARATIONS WILL BE INVESTIGATED IN ENDOTHELIAL AND HEPATOCYTE CULTURES TCD OBS AND GYNAE PHYTOESTOGENS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO HRT: ASSESSING THROMBOTIC RISK IN CELL AND ANIMAL MODELS THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO EXAMINE THE MOLECULAR EFFECTS OF PHYTOESTROGENS ON THE MOLECULAR DETERMINANTS OF THROMBUS FORMATION IN BOTH CELL AND ANIMAL MODELS. BY UNDERSTANDING THESE EFFECTS WE MAY BE ABLE TO ASSESS THE POTENTIAL OF THESE COMPOUNDS AS OESTROGEN ALTERNATIVES WITH LESS THROMBOTIC RISK. HRB PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR THE ROLE OF TISSUE FACTOR AND TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR IN OVARIAN CANCER TISSUE FACTOR (TF) IS A POTENT TRIGGER OF THE COAGULATION CASCADE WHICH IS NORMALLY RELEASED FOLLOWING VASCULAR INJURY. IN NORMAL TISSUE, TF EXPRESSION IS RESTRICTED TO EXTRAVASCULAR SITES HOWEVER RECENT EVIDENCE HAS SHOWN THAT TUMOUR CELLS CAN CONSTITUTIVELY EXPRESS TF LEADING TO THROMBIN AND FIBRIN FORMATION ON THE CELL SURFACE. THIS ACTIVATION OF THE COAGULATION SYSTEM HAS BEEN SHOWN TO BE RELATED TO SURVIVAL AND IS ALSO IMPLICATED IN THE INCREASED VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLIC (VTE) RISK IN CANCER PATIENTS. TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR (TFPI) IS THE NATURAL INHIBITOR OF TF COAGULANT AND SIGNALLING ACTIVITIES. TFPI EXHIBITS ANTI-ANGIOGENIC AND ANTIMETASTATIC EFFECTS IN VITRO AND IN VIVO. IN ANIMAL MODELS OF EXPERIMENTAL METASTASIS, BOTH CIRCULATING AND TUMOUR ASSOCIATED TFPI HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE TUMOUR CELL INDUCED ACTIVATION AND LUNG METASTASIS. OVARIAN CANCER IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FROM GYNAECOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. THE LIFETIME RISK OF DEVELOPING THE DISEASE IS NOW ESTIMATED AT 1 IN 59. OVARIAN CANCER IS KNOWN TO DISPLAY A PARTICULAR ASSOCIATION WITH VTE WITH REPORTS OF UP TO 14% OF PATIENTS WITH CLEAR CELL CARCINOMA OF THE OVARY DEVELOPING THROMBOEMBOLIC COMPLICATIONS. IN ADDITION, PATIENTS UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY HAVE AN ENHANCED RISK OF VASCULAR THROMBOSIS WHICH VARIES AMONG DIFFERENT CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC REGIMENS. VTE IS A LIFE THREATENING CONDITION AND ITS MANAGEMENT IS CHALLENGING IN THESE PATIENTS WHO OFTEN UNDERGO MAJOR PELVIC AND ABDOMINAL SURGERY AND RECEIVE COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY. THE PATHOLOGICAL AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THIS THROMBOGENIC RISK IN CANCERS ARE NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE THE ROLE OF TF AND ITS INHIBITOR TFPI IN THE PROGRESSION OF OVARIAN CANCER AND TO ASSESS THEIR POTENTIAL AS PREDICTIVE TOOLS FOR VENOUS THROMBOSIS IN OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS DURING TREATMENT. ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL GYNAE ONCOLOGY FUND PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN PREGNANCY VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM REMAINS THE LEADING CAUSE OF MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY. DELAYED DIAGNOSIS, INADEQUATE TREATMENT AND INADEQUATE THROMBOPROPHYLAXIS ACCOUNT FOR THE MAJORITY OF DEATHS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DISEASE. PHARMACOKINETICS STUDIES ARE REQUIRED IN SPECIFIC GROUPS OF PREGNANT WOMEN RECEIVING LMWH PROPHYLAXIS IN ORDER TO DEVISE EFFECTIVE EVIDENCE BASED DOSING STRATEGIES. THE RECENT TRIENNIAL REPORT INDENTIFIED OBESE PREGNANT WOMEN AND WOMEN POST CAESAREAN SECTION, AS TWO GROUPS PARTICULARLY AT RISK AND WHERE FURTHER WORK IS REQUIRED. THIS STUDY WILL (1) INVESTIGATE THROMBIN ACTIVITY AS A POTENTIAL PREDICTIVE TOOL FOR VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN PREGNANCY USING THE SCOPE STUDY COHORT (2) STUDY THE FULL ANTICOAGULANT (ANTI-IIA AND ANTI-XA) PROFILE OF OBESE PREGNANT WOMAN AND WOMEN POST CAESAREAN SECTION RECEIVING LMWH PROPHYLAXIS. ANU RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP/LEO LABORATORIES ANU RESEACH CENTRE FELLOWSHIP THE ROLE OF TISSUE FACTOR IN THE TRANSITION FROM ENDOMETRIOSIS TO CLEAR CELL CANCER OF THE OVARY INCREASED EXPRESSION OF BOTH PAR-2 AND TF IN THE EUTOPIC AND ECTOPIC ENDOMETRIUM FROM WOMEN WITH ENDOMETRIOSIS COMPARED WITH NORMAL WOMEN HAS BEEN REPORTED (KRIKUN ET AL,2008) HOWEVER IT IS UNKNOWN WHETHER A FURTHER INCREASE IN EXPRESSION IS IMPLICATED IN MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION OF ENDOMETRIOMA INTO CLEAR CELL CANCER. OUR HYPOTHESIS IS THAT EXPRESSION AND ACTIVATION OF THE TF-VIIA-PAR-2 SIGNALLING PATHWAY IS FURTHER INCREASED IN CLEAR CELL CANCERS PARTICULARLY THOSE FORMED ON A BACKGROUND OF ENDOMETRIOSIS AND THAT THIS MAY PROVIDE A POTENTIAL TARGET FOR TREATMENT OF CLEAR CELL CANCERS. WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT TFPI-2 MAY BE A USEFUL DIAGNOSTIC MARKER FOR CLEAR CELL CANCERS. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO COMPARE THE EXPRESSION OF TF, VIIA AND PAR-2 IN CLEAR CELL CANCERS WITH ENDOMETRIAL TISSUE FROM PATIENTS WITH ENDOMETRIOSIS. A SECONDARY AIM IS TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF SERUM TFPI-2 AS A POSSIBLE NON INVASIVE TOOL FOR DISTINGUISHING ENDOMETRIOSIS FROM CLEAR CELL CANCERS. LEO PHARMA UNRESTRICTED EDUCATIONAL GRANT ENDOGENOUS THROMBIN POTENTIAL (ETP) AND MICROPARTICLE TISSUE FACTOR(TF) ACTIVITY AS MARKERS OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS. INCREASED TISSUE FACTOR FROM TUMOUR CELLS MAY CAUSE AN ENHANCED PLASMA PROCOAGULANT ACTIVITY ULTIMATELY RESULTING IN VTE. THE MAJORITY OF THESE PATIENT WOULD HAVE MAJOR PELVIC SURGERY AS PART OF THEIR TREATMENT, WITH THE RISK OF BLEEDING. ENDOGENOUS THROMBIN POTENTIAL (ETP) ASSAY IS A NEW METHOD WHICH HAS SHOWN POTENTIAL AS PREDICTOR OF VTE RISK. THE AIM OF THE STUDY IS TO COMPARE THE PROCOAGULANT ACTIVITY IN PLASMA OF PATIENTS WITH BENIGN AND MALIGNANT OVARIAN TUMOUS USING THE ETP ASSAY. AND TO COMPARE THE PROCOAGULANT ACTIVITY LEVELS IN PATIENTS FOLLOWING NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY WITH THOSE UNDERGOING SURGERY FOR PRIMARY TUMOURS LEO PHARMA IIS/GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY FUND SJH UNRESTRICTED EDUCATIONAL GRANT (LEO) A RISK MODEL FOR PREDICTION OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS POST SURGERY VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM (VTE) IS A COMMON CAUSE OF DEATH IN PATIENTS WITH SOLID TUMOURS. CANCER ITSELF CAUSES A HYPERCOAGULABLE STATE, IN ADDITION CHEMOTHERAPY AND SURGERY ENHANCE THE RISK. GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCERS HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH RATES OF VTE WHICH IS EXCACERBATED BY PELVIC SURGERY AND CHEMOTHERAPY. A RECENT STUDY IN OUR CENTRE SHOWED THAT ONE THIRD OF VTE IN OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS OCCURS WITHIN 5 DAYS OF SURGERY DESPITE HEPARIN PROPHYLAXIS. RECENTLY, CLINICAL RISK MODELS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED TO PREDICT VTE IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING CHEMOTHERAPY, THESE MODELS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE MORE POWERFUL WHEN COMBINED WITH HAEMOSTATIC BIOMARKERS. THROMBUS FORMATION IS COMPLEX IN CANCER AND IS THOUGHT TO RESULT FROM A RELEASE OF PROCOAGULANT MATERIAL FROM THE TUMOUR COMBINED WITH DAMAGE TO THE ENDOTHELIUM AS A RESULT OF CHEMOTHERAPY AND SURGERY. GLOBAL TESTS OF HYPERCOAGULABILITY WHICH CAPTURE THESE EFFECTS ARE THEREFORE ATTRACTIVE AS DETERMINANTS OF THROMBOTIC RISK. CALIBRATED AUTOMATED THROMBOGRAPY (CAT) IS A RECENTLY DEVELOPED GLOBAL TEST WHICH MEASURES THROMBIN GENERATION IN PLASMA. INCREASED THROMBIN GENERATION IS PREDICTIVE OF VTE IN A VARIETY OF CLINICAL SETTINGS. THE OVERARCHING AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AND VALIDATE A SPECIFIC RISK SCORING MODEL FOR VTE RISK IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS USING A COMBINATION OF EASILY AVAILABLE CLINICAL AND LABORATORY PARAMETERS AND HAEMOSTATIC BIOMARKERS. IN A LARGE POPULATION OF GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS, WE WILL IDENTIFY THE KEY RISK FACTORS FOR VTE AND USE THEM TO DERIVE A RISK SCORE MODEL. BASED ON OUR PILOT DATA, WE BELIEVE THAT A THROMBIN GENERATION TEST MAY BE A USEFUL BIOMARKER FOR VTE IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER. BY UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER INCREASES PROCOAGULANT ACTIVITY, WE WILL OPTIMISE A SPECIFIC THROMBIN GENERATION ASSAY WHICH WHEN COMBINED WITH THE DERIVED RISK SCORE MODEL WILL ACCURATELY IDENTIFY GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF VTE. HRB PROJECT GRANT THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY AS A PREDICTOR OF VENOUS THROMBOSIS IN GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY PATIENTS UNDERGOING SURGERY. OVARIAN CANCER IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH RATES OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM (VTE) PARTICULARLY AFTER SURGERY EVEN IN THE SETTING OF APPROPRIATE PROPHYLAXIS.THE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF VTE IS CHALLENGING IN THESE PATIENTS AFTER MAJOR SURGERY, AS PELVIC SURGERY ITSELF IS ALSO AN ADDITIONAL HIGH RISK FACTOR FOR VTE. THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY(TEG) IS A TECHNIQUE WHICH ALLOWS RAPID GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF HAEMOSTATIC/FIBRINOLYTIC FUNCTION AND HAS BEEN PROPOSED AS A MARKER OF HYPERCOAGULABILITY IN A VARIETY OF CLINICAL SETTINGS. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF HYPERCOAGULABILITY USING TEG IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING MAJOR GYNAECOLOGICAL SURGERY FOR SUSPECTED CANCER, AND TO DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL OF TEG AS A PREDICTOR OF VTE. GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCER FUND, SJH INTERROGATION OF THE ONCO-METABOLOME IN OVARIAN CANCER THE METABOLIC SYNDROME IS CHARACTERISED BY LOW-LEVEL INFLAMMATION, COAGULATION ACTIVATION AND INCREASED RISK OF CANCER. THIS STUDY SEEKS TO INTERROGATE THE INTER-LINKED NATURE OF THESE MECHANISMS IN OVARIAN CANCER. THE ASSOCIATION WHILE PRESENT IN OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS IS NOT WELL DEFINED. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO ASSESS IF PLATELET CLOAKING OF CTCS IN OBESE PATIENTS WITH OVARIAN CANCER, DUE TO INCREASED SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION IS A MECHANISM UNDERLYING WORSE PROGNOSIS IN THESE PATIENTS. ROYAL CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL TRUST CO-APPLICANT WITH DR. SHARON O'TOOLE AND PROF JOHN O'LEARY TOWARDS INCREASED AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE RISK OF THROMBOSIS IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCERS A RECENT SURVEY OF PATIENTS WHO SUFFERED A THROMBOSIS DURING THEIR CANCER JOURNEY SHOWED THAT, GENERALLY, PATIENTS ARE NOT WARNED ABOUT THE RISK OF CLOTS DURING CANCER AND ARE NOT TOLD WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR. IN ADDITION RESEARCH BY OUR GROUP HAS SHOWN THAT ONLY 45% OF GYNAECOLOGISTS IN EUROPE ARE USING THE CORRECT GUIDELINES FOR THROMBOSIS PREVENTION. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INCREASE AWARENESS AMONG PATIENTS REGARDING THROMBOSIS AND TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE BETWEEN GYNAECOLOGIST AND SCIENTISTS WORKING IN THE AREA HRB KEDS CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR JUNE NUNN nunnjune FELLOW EMERITUS NUNNJ DENTAL SCIENCE SPECIAL CARE DENTISTRY; DENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY SCHOOL OF DENTAL SCIENCE 21/22 LINCOLN PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF COMMUNITY DENTISTRY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH BRITISH SOCIETY OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY- IRISH DIVISION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH- IRISH DIVISION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH IRISH SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROFESSOR CORMAC O CUILLEANAIN ocuilleanaincormac RETIRED STAFF MEMBER COCULLNN RETIRED STAFF MEMBER TRANSLATION STUDIES, DANTE AND BOCCACCIO STUDIES, CREATIVE WRITING ITALIAN DEPARTMENT NO. 4087 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IRISH TRANSLATORS' AND INTERPRETERS' ASSOCIATION. MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL OF THE IRISH WRITERS' CENTRE. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. COLM O DUNLAING odunlaingcolm ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CODUNLNG PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN IRISH EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE IRISH FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IRISH MATHEMATICS SOCIETY PROFESSOR CATHAL GEAROID O HAINLE ohainlecathalgearoid FELLOW EMERITUS COHAINLE IRISH MODERN IRISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE. SCHOOL OF IRISH 4059 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR AENGUS O MARCAIGH omarcaighaengus CONSULTANT HAEMATOLOGIST OMARCAIA HAEMATOLOGY PHASE III RANDOMISED CLINICAL TRIALS IN PAEDIATRIC LEUKAEMIA. PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR OR CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR ALL INTERNATIONAL LEUKAEMIA PHASE III CLINICAL TRIALS AT OLCHC, 1997 - PRESENT. APPROXIMATELY NEW 50 CHILDREN WITH LEUKAEMIA ARE ENROLLED AND TREATED ON PHASE III CLINICAL TRIALS AT OLCHC PER ANNUM RESULTING IN A COHORT OF APPROXIMATELY 150 CHILDREN ON ACTIVE CLINICAL TRIAL TREATMENTS AT ANY TIME. THE CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT AT OLCHC CURRENTLY MANAGES A PORTFOLIO OF 16 OPEN AND ACCRUING, INVESTIGATOR-LED, INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTRE PHASE I-III CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS EARLY PHASE CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS IN PAEDIATRIC LEUKAEMIA. HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION IN CHILDREN. MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF RELAPSED ACUTE MYELOID LEUKAEMIA. MOLECULAR BASIS FOR JUVENILE MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA (JMML). 4 AUBURN VILLAS RATHGAR DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HAEMATOLOGY AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY AND ONCOLOGY FELLOWSHIP OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS FELLOWSHIP OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND. IRISH HAEMATOLOGY SOCIETY IRISH PAEDIATRIC ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE CLINICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE JOINT NATIONAL HAEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANT CENTRES (SJH/OLCHC/IBTS. REPRESENTING PAEDIATRIC TRANSPLANTATION. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CANCER CONTROL PROGRAMME (NCCP) EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP (EAG) ON HAEMATOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY. REPRESENTING PAEDIATRICS. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CANCER CONTROL PROGRAMME (NCCP) EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP (EAG) ON INTRATHECAL CYTOTOXIC MEDICATION. REPRESENTING PAEDIATRICS. MEMBERSHIP OF THE FACULTY OF PAEDIATRICS, RCPI. MEMBERSHIP OF THE FACULTY OF PATHOLOGY, RCPI. REGISTERED CANCER THERAPY EVALUATION PROGRAM (CTEP) INVESTIGATOR, NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, USA. CTEP INVESTIGATOR ID 46386 VICE-CHAIR OLCHC RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE. REPRESENTING CLINICAL PAEDIATRICS. ANTICANCER THERAPIES CHILDHOOD CANCERS CLINICAL-TRIALS MULTINATIONAL CLINICAL-TRIALS PAEDIATRICS PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY PEDIATRIC-ONCOLOGY-GROUP RANDOMIZED CLINICAL-TRIAL SYNTHESIS & TESTING OF NOVEL ANTICANCER DRUGS FOR LEUKAEMIA ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY CANCER DR. EAMONN O NUALLAIN onuallaineamonn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ONUALLAE COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING HIGH FREQUENCY TECHNOLOGY, MICROWAVES MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MODELLING, MODELLING TOOLS, 3D MODELLING NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH NUMERICAL ANALYSIS REMOTE SENSING SIGNAL PROCESSING TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT WIRELESS SYSTEMS, RADIO TECHNOLOGY AN ACCURATE MODELLING TOOL FOR WIRELESS BROADBAND NETWORK DESIGN ENTERPRISE IRELAND INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. PADRAIG O RIAGAIN oriagainpadraig VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW ORIAGAP C.L.C.S. SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE, LANGUAGE POLICY, SOCIOLOGY OF EUROPEAN MINORITIES, GLOBALISATION, BILINGUALISM, MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY, CULTURAL IDENTITY, SURVEYS AND SURVEY RESEARCH, BILINGUAL EDUCATION. C.L.C.S ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, NOVES SL, REVISTA DE SOCIOLINGUÍSTICA, BARCELONA. MEMBER, ADVISORY PLANNING COMMITTEE (BORD NA GAEILGE). MEMBER, COMMITTEE ON IRISH LANGUAGE ATTITUDES RESEARCH (DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE). MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE, LANGUAGE POLICY RESEARCH CENTRE, BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY, ISRAEL. MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE (LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICIES), COUNCIL OF EUROPE. MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, SOCIOLINGUISTICS SEMINAR 16 MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, SOCIOLINGUISTICS SEMINAR 17 MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE, "EUROMOSAIC" PROJECT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION (DGXXII) MEMBER, STEERING COMMITTEE, MODERN LANGUAGES PROJECT, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. REVIEW EDITOR, LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND CURRICULUM. SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND IN THE FIRST DECADE OF THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY: A REVIEW OF CENSUS AND SURVEY EVIDENCE. UTILISING PRIMARY DATA COLLECTED BY THE AUTHOR IN AN ALL-IRELAND SURVEY, TOGETHER WITH SECONDARY NATIONAL DATA OBTAINED UNDER LICENCE FROM NATIONAL, UK AND EUROPEAN DATA ARCHIVES, THE STUDY WILL PROVIDE AN INTEGRATED STATISTICAL OVERVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE RELATING TO THE INCIDENCE IN THE TWO ADULT POPULATIONS OF SPEAKING AND OTHER SKILLS IN IRISH, THE DEGREE TO WHICH IRISH IS USED IN HOME AND COMMUNITY LIFE, AND PUBLIC ATTITUDES TO THE IRISH LANGUAGE AND TO POLICIES TO PROMOTE IT. FORAS NA GAEILGE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR MICHEAL O SIOCHRU osiochrumicheal PROFESSOR OSIOCHRM HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) I COMPLETED MY PHD AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN IN 1997 UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROFESSOR AIDAN CLARKE. SINCE THEN I HAVE PUBLISHED A MONOGRAPH, CONFEDERATE IRELAND, 1642-49: A CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL ANALYSIS, WHICH HAS BEEN FAVOURABLY REVIEWED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC. BASED ON MY DOCTORAL THESIS, THE BOOK RESURRECTS THE POLITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CATHOLIC CONFEDERATES DURING THE 1640S, AND CHALLENGES CERTAIN MISCONCEPTIONS COMMON TO MOST PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED RESEARCH ON THE NATURE AND OPERATION OF THEIR ASSOCIATION. MY SECOND MONOGRAPH, GOD'S EXECUTIONER: OLIVER CROMWELL AND THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND, 1649-1653, WAS PUBLISHED BY FABER & FABER IN 2008, WITH A SECOND EDITION IN 2009. BASED ON EXTENSIVE ARCHIVAL RESEARCH, UNDERTAKEN DURING MY TWO-YEAR LEVERHULME RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (2002-04), THIS WORK ADDRESSES POLITICAL, MILITARY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN IRELAND DURING THE CROMWELLIAN WARS. THERE IS A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON KEY THEMES SUCH AS ENGLISH PROTESTANT ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE CATHOLIC IRISH, THE NATURE OF WARFARE IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD, AND THE EXTENT OF FOREIGN INVOLVEMENT IN THE CONFLICT. MY RESEARCH ON CROMWELL ALSO RESULTED IN A NUMBER OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS, AS WELL AS SCHOLARLY JOURNALS SUCH AS THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL AND PAST & PRESENT. I HAVE ALSO EDITED A FAVOURABLY REVIEWED VOLUME OF ESSAYS, ENTITLED KINGDOMS IN CRISIS: IRELAND IN THE 1640S, IN WHICH LEADING HISTORIANS EXAMINE A RANGE OF POLITICAL, MILITARY, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES RELATING TO IRELAND DURING THE 1640S. A SECOND EDITED COLLECTION (WITH DR ANDREW MACKILLOP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN), ENTITLED FORGING THE STATE: EUROPEAN STATE FORMATION AND THE ANGLO-SCOTTISH UNION OF 1707, APPEARED IN 2009, WHILE MOST RECENTLY I EDITED A COLLECTION WITH DR EAMONN O CIARDHA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER ON THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER, PUBLISHED BY MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS. IN ADDITION TO MY OWN RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS, I AM ALSO ACTIVE IN A NUMBER OF COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS WITH COLLEAGUES BASED IN SCOTLAND, ENGLAND AND IRELAND. SINCE 2007, I HAVE BEEN CENTRALLY INVOLVED IN A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL PROJECT TO TRANSCRIBE AND DIGITISE THE '1641 DEPOSITIONS' HELD IN THE TCD LIBRARY. THIS PROJECT RECEIVED €1 MILLION IN FUNDING FROM THE AHRC, THE IRCHSS AND THE TCD LIBRARY. THE 1641 WEBSITE WAS LAUNCHED BY PRESIDENT MARY MCALEESE IN 2010. FURTHER OUTCOMES WILL INCLUDE AN EDITED VOLUME OF ESSAYS TO BE PUBLISHED BY MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS IN 2013, WHIEL THE IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION WILL PUBLISH A HARD COPY OF THE ENTIRE COLLECTION IN 12 VOLUMES, STARTIGN IN 2013. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL MAKE A SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO EXISTING HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATES, BUT CRUCIALLY, IT WILL ALSO ACTIVELY PROMOTE INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE AND RESEARCH BETWEEN HISTORY AND LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS, GENDER STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY. OTHER MAJOR ONGOING COLLABORATIVE ENTERPRISES ARE LISTED BLEOW AND INCLUDE THE CULTURA PROJECT, WHICH RECEIVED €3 MILLION OF FP7 FUNIDNG, THE CROMWELL PROJECT FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND MOST RECENTLY, THE IRCHSS-FUNDED DOWN SURVEY OF IRELAND PROJECT. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY IFUT TCD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND NATIONAL COUNCIL ANGLO-IRISH CONNECTIONS BRITISH HISTORY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EARLY MODERN IRELAND, COLONIAL COMMUNITIES INTERNATIONAL LAW IRISH HISTORY IRISH POLITICAL VIOLENCE IRISH POLITICS IRISH URBAN HISTORY, DUBLIN AND CORK MILITARY HISTORY URBAN HISTORY HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES FAGEL MAP COLLECTION CREATING A DIGITAL RESOURCE FROM THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONTENT OF THE FAGEL LIBRARY: THE FAGEL LIBRARY, ACQUIRED BY THE COLLEGE IN 1803, CONTAINS WITHIN IT ONE OF THE FINEST COLLECTIONS OF MAPS AND ATLASES FROM THE PERIOD 1600-1800 ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. THE COLLECTION IS PEERLESS IN TERMS OF THE STATE OF PRESERVATION OF THIS MATERIAL, AND IS TRULY COMPREHENSIVE IN SCOPE. THE COLLECTION INCLUDES SOME 2,800 LARGE FORMAT INDIVIDUAL MAP SHEETS, 80 LARGE FORMAT ATLASES OF WHICH MANY ARE BEAUTIFULLY COLOURED CONTAINING 7,000 MAPS AND A FURTHER 3,000 ITEMS OF A CARTOGRAPHICAL NATURE CONTAINED IN A COLLECTION OF 700 TRAVEL BOOKS AND JOURNALS. THE MAPS SHEETS AND THE MAJORITY OF ATLASES HAVE BEEN DIGITIZED TO A HIGH RESOLUTION AT FULL SCALE, AND A DATABASE HAS BEEN CREATED FOR BOTH. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEFINE HOW THESE RESOURCES CAN NOW BE EXPLOITED AS RESEARCH TOOLS AND AS GATEWAYS TO COLLABORATION WITH THIRD PARTY INSTITUTIONS. STAGE 1 OF THE PROJECT INVOLVES THE CREATION BY THE SUMMER OF 2015 OF AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE, SHOWCASING THE TREASURES OF THE FAGEL MAP COLLECTION. THIS STAGE IS BEING FUNDED BY A PHILANTHROPIC GRANT OF €161,396. THE CREATION OF A CONSORTIUM FOR A MAJOR HORIZON 20/20 BID IN 2015 IS BEING FUNDED BY THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME AND THE TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL; FACULTY STRATEGIC FUNDS; TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB; PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS THE DOWN SURVEY OF IRELAND THIS PROJECT WILL CREATE A CONSOLIDATED DIGITAL ATLAS OF THE 1650S DOWN SURVEY OF IRELAND BY OVERLAYING ALL EXTANT DOWN SURVEY MAPS AND RELATED CARTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL ONTO AN ORDNANCE SURVEY 1:25,000 BASE. A CATALOGUE OF THE SURVIVING MANUSCRIPTS WILL ACCOMPANY THE ATLAS. THE PROJECT WILL CREATE A GEO-REFERENCED TOWNLAND INDEX AND AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS). WHEN COMBINED, THESE CAN BE USED TO CONSOLIDATE A WIDE RANGE OF 17TH-CENTURY SOURCE MATERIAL. BY APPLYING SPATIAL ANALYSIS TOOLS TO DIGITISED HISTORICAL TEXT-BASED DOCUMENTS, SUCH AS THE 1641 DEPOSITIONS, THIS PROJECT WILL ALSO SUPPORT LOCATION-BASED ANALYSIS OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS USING CONTEMPORARY GEOGRAPHIC MODELS. IN SEPTEMBER 2011 THE PROJECT RECEIVED €117,000 FUNDING FROM THE IRCHSS, WHICH IN ADDITION TO MY WORK AS PI WILL FUND THE EMPLOYMENT OF A RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR 15 MONTHS AND A COMPUTER SCIENCE POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW FOR 6 MONTHS. IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND RESEARCH AND SENIOR RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES THIS PROJECT AIMS TO MODIFY CUTTING-EDGE IBM SOFTWARE, CREATING A SHARED EDITING ENVIRONMENT AND A CUSTOMISED SET OF DATA RULES AND LIBRARIES FOR THE 1641 DEPOSITIONS. THIS WILL ENABLE (A) ACCELERATED AND MACHINE DRIVEN TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE [TEI] MARK-UP OF THE TRANSCRIPTIONS; (B) COLLABORATIVE TRANSCRIPTION AND CAPTURE OF THE COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PROCESS; (C) EXPLORATION OF HOW EXISTING STRUCTURED DATASETS (E.G. THE TCD MILITARY MIGRATION OR THE IRISH STATUTE STAPLE DATASETS) MIGHT BE MADE INTEROPERABLE WITH THE UNSTRUCTURED 1641 TRANSCRIPTS. THE PROJECT, THEREFORE, WILL APPLY STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND SOFTWARE IN AN INNOVATIVE WAY AND, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, TO A MAJOR HUMANITIES PROJECT, AS WELL AS DEVELOP A MEANINGFUL R&D RELATIONSHIP WITH IBM, WORLD LEADERS IN THE AREA. TCD LONG ROOM HUB OLIVER CROMWELL: LETTERS AND PAPERS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS HAS INVITED A HANDFUL OF LEADING EARLY MODERN SCHOLARS TO PRODUCE A NEW FIVE-VOLUME EDITION OF OLIVER CROMWELL'S LETTERS AND PAPERS, THE FIRST SINCE W.C ABBOTT'S FOUR VOLUME WORK PUBLISHED IN THE 1930S. ABBOTT'S EDITION IS VERY PROBLEMATIC, AS IS THE THREE-VOLUME EDITION PRODUCED BY THOMAS CARLYLE IN THE 1840S. SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS OF LETTERS AND PAPERS ARE OMITTED FROM BOTH EDITIONS, NEITHER OF WHICH IS FULLY ANNOTATED. MOREOVER, SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP OVER THE PAST 70 YEARS NEED TO BE INCORPORATED AS COMMENTARY INTO A NEW CRITICAL EDITION. I AM THE ONLY IRISH SCHOLAR INVITED TO PARTAKE IN THIS PRESTIGIOUS PROJECT. AS A FIRST STEP IN THIS PROCESS, WE HAVE EMPLOYED THREE POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS FOR TWO YEARS TO LOCATE, DIGITISE AND TRANSCRIBE ALL THE PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL IN THE IRISH AND ENGLISH ARCHIVES. OUP INTEND TO PRODUCE THE EDITION ONLINE AND IN HARD COPY IN 2014.. IRCHSS; AHRC; BRITISH ACADEMY; LEVERHULME; TCD START-UP FUND 1641 DEPOSITIONS THE COLLECTION OF '1641 DEPOSITIONS' IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN COMPRISES SOME 3,100 PERSONAL STATEMENTS, IN WHICH MAINLY PROTESTANT MEN AND WOMEN OF ALL CLASSES TOLD OF THEIR EXPERIENCES AT THE OUTBREAK OF THE REBELLION BY THE CATHOLIC IRISH IN 1641. THIS MATERIAL, COLLECTED BY GOVERNMENT-APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS OVER THE COURSE OF A DECADE, RUNS TO APPROXIMATELY 19,000 PAGES. IT WAS SYSTEMATICALLY USED IN THE SUBSEQUENT TRIALS OF REBEL LEADERS, AND TO INFORM DECISIONS RELATING TO THE TREATMENT OF CATHOLIC LANDHOLDERS UNDER OLIVER CROMWELL'S PROTECTORATE REGIME. DURING THE EARLY DECADES OF THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH AND ENGLISH PLANTERS (WHO INCREASINGLY IDENTIFIED THEMSELVES AS 'BRITISH') COLONISED THE PROVINCE, OFTEN DISPOSSESSING THE NATIVE CATHOLIC POPULATION. THE DEPOSITIONS VIVIDLY DOCUMENT THESE COLONIAL AND 'CIVILIZING' PROCESSES, WHICH INCLUDED THE SPREAD OF PROTESTANTISM IN ONE OF THE REMOTEST REGIONS OF THE STUART KINGDOMS AND THE INTRODUCTION OF LOWLAND AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL PRACTICES, TOGETHER WITH THE NATIVE RESPONSE TO THESE DEVELOPMENTS. THE DEPOSITIONS ALSO CONSTITUTED THE CHIEF EVIDENCE FOR THE SHARPLY CONTESTED ALLEGATION THAT THE 1641 REBELLION BEGAN WITH A GENERAL MASSACRE OF PROTESTANT SETTLERS, AND AS A RESULT THEY HAVE BEEN CENTRAL TO THE MOST PROTRACTED AND BITTER OF IRISH HISTORICAL CONTROVERSIES, WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN SATISFACTORILY RESOLVED. IN FACT, THE 1641 'MASSACRES', LIKE KING WILLIAM'S VICTORY AT THE BOYNE (1690), AND THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME (1916), HAVE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN CREATING AND SUSTAINING A COLLECTIVE PROTESTANT/BRITISH IDENTITY IN ULSTER. THIS BODY OF MATERIAL, UNPARALLELED ELSEWHERE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, PROVIDES A UNIQUE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON THE 1641 REBELLION AND FOR THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, CULTURAL, RELIGIOUS, AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND, ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. HOWEVER, IT IS DIFFICULT TO READ AND LARGELY INACCESSIBLE TO SCHOLARS, NEVER MIND THE GENERAL READER. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO TRANSCRIBE AND DIGITISE THE '1641 DEPOSITIONS', CREATING A UNIQUE RESEARCH TOOL OF INTEREST TO BOTH THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WEB SITE PUBLICATION WOULD GIVE USERS FULL ACCESS TO ALL IMAGES AND TRANSCRIPTS, WITH FREE TEXT SEARCH, WHILE THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DATABASE WILL FACILITATE MORE DETAILED RESEARCH PROJECTS IN A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES, AND PROVIDE AN IDEAL TOOL FOR USE IN THE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE MATERIAL FOR POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH, ENHANCE THE RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION OUTPUTS OF THE PRINCIPAL APPLICANTS, AND GIVE VALUABLE TRAINING AND WORK EXPERIENCE TO FOUR RESEARCH STAFF. IT WILL ALSO DELIVER A WORKING METHODOLOGY FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION AND DIGITISATION OF MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS, WHICH CAN BE APPLIED TO OTHER UNIQUE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS. THERE WILL BE A NUMBER OF OTHER SPECIFIC OUTCOMES, INCLUDING AN ARTICLE FOR A POPULAR JOURNAL DESCRIBING THE PROJECT, A REFEREED ARTICLE FOR A SCHOLARLY JOURNAL, A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 1641, THE PAPERS OF WHICH WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AN EDITED VOLUME, AND AN EXHIBITION (INCLUDING A PUBLISHED CATALOGUE) IN THE TCD LIBRARY. BY EXPLOITING EXISTING INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORKS THE PROJECT WILL ALSO ADDRESS KEY HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATES, AS WELL AS CROSS-BORDER ISSUES OF IDENTITY IN IRELAND. PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS HAVE ALSO REVEALED A WIDE LEVEL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEREST FROM LITERATURE, LINGUISTICS, GENDER STUDIES, ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY. THIS PROJECT IS PART OF A JOINT INITIATIVE, INVOLVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, WHICH WILL DEVELOP EXISTING INSTITUTIONAL LINKS BETWEEN ALL THREE. I SUCCESSFULLY APPLIED FOR £426,000 FROM THE AHRC RESOURCE ENHANCEMENT SCHEME, WHILE PROFESSOR JANE OHLMEYER OBTAINED €250,000 FROM THE IRCHSS. TCD HAS ALSO COMMITTED FUNDS TO THIS PROJECT, BRINGING THE TOTAL FUNDING TO OVER €1,000,000. AHRC; IRCHSS; TCD €1 MILLION IN TOTAL 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ULSTER PLANTATION 2008 - 2010 MARKS THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER. THE PLANTATION OF ULSTER SIGNALLED THE END OF THE OLD GAELIC ORDER IN IRELAND, AND RADICALLY ALTERED THE POLITICAL AND CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE, GIVING RISE TO MANY OF THE STRUCTURES, IDENTITIES AND CULTURES THAT UNDERPIN IRISH SOCIETY TODAY. AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MARK THIS SEMINAL EVENT IN IRISH HISTORY IN THE CONTEXT OF RENEWED PEACE AND COOPERATION ON OUR ISLAND. IN MARKING THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE PLANTATIONS IN IRELAND, WE CAN FOSTER STRONG CROSS BORDER LINKS THAT CELEBRATE BOTH THE UNIQUE CULTURAL DIVERSITIES OF ALL IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND BY FOCUSING ON THE EVENTS THAT UNDERPINNED, AND WERE CENTRAL TO, IRELAND'S HISTORY FOR THE LAST 400 YEARS. WE PROPOSE TO MARK THE ANNIVERSARY THROUGH A SERIES OF THREE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES HELD IN 2009 - LONDON (JUNE); DERRY (JULY); TCD (OCT) IN COLLABORATION WITH GOLDSMITH COLLEGE (LONDON) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. FUNDING HAS BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE IRCHSS, AHRC AND BRITISH ACADEMY. TWO VOLUMES, BASED ON THE PROCEEDINGS, WILL BE PUBLISHED BY MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS IN 2011. IRCHSS; AHRC; BRITISH ACADEMY CULTURA THE KEY TO REALISING TRUE INNOVATION IN HUMANITIES RESEARCH OVER THE NEXT DECADE IS BY SUPPORTING COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BETWEEN SCHOLARS IN THE HUMANITIES, INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPERS AND ICT RESEARCHERS. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER BETWEEN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED UNIVERSITIES (TCD AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA) AND WORLD LEADING INDUSTRY PARTNERS (IBM). MORE SPECIFICALLY THE CULTURA PROJECT PROPOSES A KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER PROGRAMME THAT EXCHANGES KEY TECHNOLOGY KNOW-HOW IN CONTENT ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT WITH THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY TO ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT OF RESEARCH METHODS AND PRACTICES FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. THE SPECIFIC INTERSECTORAL PROJECT AIMS ARE: 1. TO SUPPORT THE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE NEEDED FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF HUMANITIES RESEARCH PROCESSES AND PRACTICES THROUGH SHARING, EXCHANGING AND ENHANCING CURRENTLY DISCONNECTED EXPERTISE IN THE AREAS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH, DIGITAL ARCHIVES, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, DATA MINING, SEMANTIC SEARCHING, MACHINE LEARNING, DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS. 2. THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAMME, ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE WEB ENVIRONMENT TO SUPPORT THESE RESEARCH PRACTICES IN THE HUMANITIES. 3. TO VALIDATE THE KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE BY APPLYING THESE ENHANCED RESEARCH PROCESSES AND PRACTICES TO A VARIETY OF RESEARCH TOPICS (AND ASSOCIATED CONTENT REPOSITORIES) IN THE HUMANITIES. 4. TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THIS UNIQUE INTEGRATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF CONTENT TECHNOLOGIES, WEB BASED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENTS, INNOVATIVE ADAPTIVE INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND ADAPTIVE PRESENTATION TECHNOLOGIES, TO ENABLE DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH IN NEW AREAS. FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE HUMANITIES/HISTORY THIS SORT OF INTERSECTORAL EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE WITH TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IS UNIQUE AND WILL ENABLE SCHOLARS TO ASK QUESTIONS THAT HITHERTO WERE REGARDED AS UNANSWERABLE OR SIMPLY TOO LABOUR INTENSIVE TO JUSTIFY EVEN ATTEMPTING. IN ADDITION, CULTURA WILL HELP TO TRANSFORM ATTITUDES AND LEAD TO NEW COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIPS. PARTNERS INCLUDE THE UNIVERSITIES OF SOFIA, PADUA AND GRAZ AS WELL AS IBM. FP7 €3 MILLION FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE THE INTENTION IS TO ESTABLISH AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SCHOLARS TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CIVILIANS AND THE MILITARY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE, WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE THREE STUART KINGDOMS - IRELAND, ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND. I WAS A SUCCESSFUL CO-APPLICANT IN 2006 WITH DR PHIL WITHINGTON OF LEEDS UNIVERSITY AND DR ANDREW MACKILLOP OF ABERDEEN FOR A SMALL RESEARCH GRANT OF £7,500 FROM THE BRITISH ACADEMY, TO HOLD A NUMBER OF EXPLORATORY WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES, AS WELL AS DEVELOPING AN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC NETWORK OF COLLEAGUES IN EUROPE, NORTH AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA. THE FIRST (HUGELY SUCCESSFUL) CONFERENCE WAS HELD IN LEEDS IN DECEMBER 2006, WITH A SECOND ONE SCHEDULED FOR 2009, AFTER WHICH WE INTEND TO APPLY FOR A MAJOR GRANT TO DEVELOP THE PROJECT. THE JOURNAL OF EARLY MODERN HISTORY HAS JUST AGREED TO DEVOTE A SPECIAL ISSUE TO A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS PREPARED BY MEMBERS OF THE NETWORK. BRITISH ACADEMY COMMENTARIUS RINUCCINIANUS I AM CHAIR THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE COMMENTARIUS RINUCCINIANUS PROJECT, WHICH IS BASED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER AND FUNDED BY THE IRISH GOVERNMENT. OVER TWENTY TRANSLATORS HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR THREE YEARS ON TRANSLATING THE SIX VOLUMES OF THE COMMENTARIUS, ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL SOURCES OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND, FROM LATIN INTO ENGLISH. THE COMMENTARIUS PROVIDES A CONTINUOUS NARRATIVE ON THE WARS IN IRELAND DURING THE 1640S, FOCUSING IN PARTICULAR ON THE MISSION TO IRELAND OF THE PAPAL NUNCIO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA RINUCCINI, AS WELL AS COPIES OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, MANY OF THEM LONG SINCE LOST. THE TRANSLATIONS, PLUS THE ORIGINAL LATIN TEXT, WILL BE DIGITISED AND MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE EARLY FROM 2010. THE IRISH MANUSCRIPT COMMISSION WILL ALSO PUBLISH THE ENTIRE TRANSLATION IN FIVE VOLUMES. IRISH GOVERNMENT BOOKS OF SURVEY AND DISTRIBUTION THIS IS AN EXCITING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT, WORKING WITH THE IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION AND THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TO PRODUCE A UNIQUE AND COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH PLATFORM FOR THE STUDY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY IRISH HISTORY. THE KEY OUTPUTS WILL BE: . A FULLY FUNCTIONAL ONLINE RESEARCH PLATFORM, INTEGRATING THE BOOKS AND SURVEY AND DISTRIBUTION WITH THE EXISTING DOWN SURVEY MATERIAL; . PREPARATION OF THE TRANSCRIBED TEXT WITH INDEXES OF THE QUIT RENT OFFICE SET OF THE BOOKS OF SURVEY AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOR SUBSEQUENT PUBLICATION IN PRINT BY THE IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION IN FOUR VOLUMES. IRISH MANUSCRIPTS COMMISSION DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. COLM OBOYLE oboylecolm ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COBOYLE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY HOME BIRTH, DOMICILIARY MIDIWFERY, MIDWIFERY, MIDWIFERY EDUCATION, MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANTS, PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH, LABOUR WARD AND DELIVERY, COPING IN LABOUR, SELF - EFFICACY, CONTROL, MIDWIFERY AND OBSTETRIC CARE OUTCOMES. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 COMMUNITY MIDWIVES ASSOCIATION (CMA) DOMICILIARY BIRTHS GROUP (WHICH PUBLISHED 'DELIVERING ON CHOICE' 2008) IRISH NURSES AND MIDWIVES ORGANISATION (INMO) MIDWIVES' SECTION (SECRETARY 2008 - 2012) NATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE ON HOME BIRTH (NSCHB) WHICH EACH HAVE HELPED ESTABLISH HSE HOME BIRTH SERVICES THROUGH MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING WITH SELF EMPLOYED COMMUNITY MIDWIVES (SECMS). REVIEWER BIOMED CENTRAL BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH REVIEWER INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDBIRTH REVIEWER JOURNAL OF ORGANISATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY BIRTH EDUCATION/INSTRUCTION (HEALTH/SAFETY/MEDICAL) ETHNOGRAPHY GENDER ISSUES, GENDER STUDIES MATERNITY/STANDARDS/UTILIZATION MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY MIDWIFERY MIDWIFERY EDUCATION MIDWIVES SYSTEMS OF CHILDBIRTH ORGANISATION OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) A MINIMUM OUTCOME SET FOR MATERNITY CARE TO CREATE A MINIMUM OUTCOME SET FOR MATERNITY CARE, LITERATURE REVIEW OF RCT'S AND SUBSEQUENT E-DELHPI STUDY AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF INDEPENDENT MIDWIFERY IN IRELAND DOCTORAL STUDY HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (IRELAND) A MIXED METHOD EXPLORATION OF THE UNMET DEMAND FOR HOME BIRTH IN IRELAND. BSC MIDWIFERY STUDENT EILEEN KENNY WITH DR JO MURPHY-LAWLESS, CO-SUPERVISOR HRB STUDENT SUMMER SCHOLARSHIP PROVISION OF EVIDENCE TO INFORM THE FUTURE EDUCATION, ROLE AND FUNCTION OF MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANTS IN IRELAND' TO PRODUCE A REPORT BASED ON THE LITERATURE (INCLUDING GREY LITERATURE) ON THE EDUCATION, ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE MATERNITY CARE ASSISTANT IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY. WHICH WILL EXAMINE AND PROVIDE EVIDENCE FROM THE LITERATURE ON: . THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE MATERNITY HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT - INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF SAMPLE JOB DESCRIPTIONS/JOB SPECIFICATIONS . THE EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - CONTENT, LEVEL, DURATION ETC. . THE IMPACT OF MIDWIFERY/ MATERNITY HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT SKILL-MIX ON QUALITY OF CARE AND COST OF THAT CARE. TO BE USED TO INFORM THE FUTURE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF THE MATERNITY HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT IN IRELAND. WITH PROF. JOAN LALOR PROF. ANNE-MARIE BRADY PROF. HUGH MCKENNA DR. FELICITY HASSON DR. PADHRAIG RYAN GREG SHEAF CHIARA PITTALIS HSE PROJECT REF 6967 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. NIAMH O'BOYLE oboyleniamh ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NIOBOYLE PHARMACY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES DR. O'BOYLE'S RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN THE AREAS OF IMPROVING PATIENT OUTCOMES BY APPLYING PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY. HER MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TREATMENTS FOR CANCER, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON BREAST CANCER. DRUG TARGETS OF INTEREST INCLUDE THE PROTEIN TUBULIN, THE ESTROGEN AND PROGESTERONE RECEPTORS, AND THE ROLE OF REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES. SHE IS ALSO INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING NOVEL CHEMOTHERAPEUTICS FROM NATURAL PRODUCTS. ADDITIONALLY, SHE IS INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING COMPOUNDS THAT CAUSE LESS SKIN ALLERGY FOR PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM OCCUPATIONAL CONTACT ALLERGY. NIAMH'S BACKGROUND PROVIDES HER WITH EXPERTISE IN MANY AREAS OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES (INCLUDING ORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL ANALYSIS, SPECTROSCOPY) AND BIOCHEMISTRY (CELLULAR VIABILITY, TUBULIN BINDING, APOPTOSIS, RECEPTOR BINDING STUDIES, AND REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES USING TECHNIQUES INCLUDING WESTERN BLOTTING, FLOW CYTOMETRY AND CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY). SCHOOL OF PHARMACY & PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 SWEDISH ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH ANTI-TUBULIN ACTIVITY ANTICANCER DRUG DESIGN ANTICANCER DRUGS MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES CAN THE STRESS RESPONSE TO REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES IN TUMOURS BE EXPLOITED TO GIVE A NEW CLASS OF ANTI-CANCER DRUGS? DUAL-TARGETING OF THE STRESS RESPONSE TO REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES AND TUBULIN BY PIPERLONGUMINE AND RELATED ANALOGUES CANCER IS A DISEASE THAT AFFECTS THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES EVERY YEAR. THE AIM OF CANCER RESEARCH IS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENS IN THE BODY TO CAUSE CANCER, ENABLING US TO PREVENT IT OR TREAT IT. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE NEW WAYS TO TREAT CANCER, USING CHEMICALS CALLED 'OXYGEN FREE RADICALS' THAT ARE FOUND IN TUMORS. THE RESEARCH WILL BE BASED ON A NATURAL PRODUCT KNOWN AS PIPERLONGUMINE AND THE EFFECT THAT IT HAS ON THE RESPONSE OF CANCER CELLS TO OXYGEN FREE RADICALS. PIPERLONGUMINE IS FOUND IN THE FRUIT PLANT PIPER LONGUM ('LONG PEPPER'). IT WAS RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT PIPERLONGUMINE CAN SELECTIVELY KILL CANCER CELLS WITHOUT HARMING NORMAL, HEALTHLY CELLS. IT IS THOUGHT THAT THIS IS BECAUSE PIPERLONGUMINE RAISES THE LEVELS OF REACTIVE OXYGEN FREE RADICALS IN CANCER CELLS, WHICH CAUSES THEM TO DIE. I WILL INVESTIGATE IF PIPERLONGUMINE AND OTHER RELATED CHEMICALS HAVE ADDITIONAL BIOCHEMICAL EFFECTS IN CANCER CELLS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR ANTI-CANCER EFFECTS. IN PARTICULAR THE RESEARCH WILL FOCUS ON A PROTEIN CALLED TUBULIN THAT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR CELL REPLICATION, BOTH IN CANCER CELLS AND HEALTHY CELLS. THE OVERALL, LONG-TERM GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DESIGN NEW ANTI-CANCER DRUGS THAT WILL SELECTIVELY KILL CANCER CELLS BY MANIPULATING OXYGEN FREE RADICALS AND TUBULIN. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. SARAH O'BRIEN obriensarah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OBRIES51 C.L.C.S. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE NARRATIVES; ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING; DUAL LANGUAGE EDUCATION; IRISH IN LATIN AMERICA; MINORITY COMMUNITIES AND LINGUISTIC IDENTITIES; ARGENTINA; MIGRATION CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN SECRETARY, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS ARGENTINA BILINGUALISM & IRISH DIASPORA HERITAGE LANGUAGE EDUCATION IRISH DIASPORA EDUCATION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY HERITAGE LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN CONTEXT: A CASE STUDY OF NEW MEXICO THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EXPLORE FEATURES OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO, PARTICULARLY AS THEY PERTAIN TO THE POPULATION'S 80% HISPANIC AND 11% NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. OVER THE LAST DECADE, LANGUAGE PLANNING AT STATE LEVEL HAS LED TO THE DELIVERY OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS DESIGNED TO EXPOSE STUDENTS TO THE LANGUAGES THAT WERE TRADITIONALLY SPOKEN WITHIN THEIR HOMES AND COMMUNITIES, PARTICULARLY SPANISH AND THE NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES (KERES, TEWA, TIWA, TOWA) OF NEW MEXICO'S INDIGENOUS PUEBLO COMMUNITIES (FIGURES 1, 3). DESPITE THESE INTERVENTIONS, CONSECUTIVE EDUCATIONAL REPORTS FROM NEW MEXICO PUBLIC EDUCATION DEPARTMENT SINCE 2010 HAVE REPORTED ACCELERATED RATES OF DECLINE IN SPANISH AND NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TOGETHER WITH HIGH DROP-OUT RATES FROM BILINGUAL/ MULTICULTURAL SCHOOL PROGRAMS. IN ORDER TO MORE FULLY UNDERSTAND THE FACTORS THAT UNDERLIE THESE RESULTS THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO CONDUCT A QUALITATIVE FIELD RESEARCH PROJECT AMID IMPACTED COMMUNITIES AND, IN SO DOING, TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH QUESTIONS; WHAT ARE TEACHERS, PARENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TO THE USE OF HERITAGE LANGUAGES (SPANISH AND TEWA) IN THE SCHOOL, HOME AND COMMUNITY; HOW DO HERITAGE LANGUAGE ATTITUDES VARY ACROSS DIFFERENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND ETHNIC GROUPS IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO; WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ATTITUDES TO HERITAGE LANGUAGE USE AND HERITAGE LANGUAGE PROGRAM PERFORMANCE IN NEW MEXICO TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ARTS & BENEFACTIONS FUND IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR FERGAL O'BRIEN obrienfergal ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FOBRIEN TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING REGENERATIVE MEDICINE: TISSUE ENGINEERING OF BONE AND CARTILAGE, SCAFFOLDS, BIOREACTORS AND STEM CELL BIOLOGY. MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF BONE, BONE REMODELLING, BONE QUALITY AND OSTEOPOROSIS. TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGIN. COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH MEMBER OF THE ANATOMICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE COUNCIL MEMBER, 2004 NEWSLETTER EDITOR, 2004 WEBSITE EDITOR, 2004 MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND CHARTERED ENGINEER, 2005 MEMBER OF THE IRISH FULBRIGHT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION SEE HERE: HTTP://WWW.RCSI.IE/RESEARCHDB/RESEARCH_PIPROFILE.JSP?UID=62&PIP=TEAM#THEMES ANIMAL MODEL BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS BIOENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL MODELING BIOLOGICAL POLYMERS BIOMATERIALS BIOMECHANICS BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, MULTIDISCIPLINARY BIOPOLYMERIC MATERIALS BIOREACTORS BIOTECHNOLOGY BONE BONE DISEASES BONE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT BONE LOSS BONE MASS BONE MICRODAMAGE BONE REGENERATION BONE REMODELLING AND REPAIR BONE TURNOVER BONE-DENSITY BONE-RESORPTION CARTILAGE CELL AND TISSUE DEVELOPMENT CELL AND TISSUE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND AGEING CELL SIGNALLING, PROLIFERATION & DIFFERENTIATION CELLULAR BIOLOGY CHEMICALS/MATERIALS COMPOSITE MATERIALS ENGINEERING UNDERPINNING BIOMEDICINE FATIGUE/FRACTURE FRACTURES MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES, MATERIALS MEDICAL DEVICES MEDICAL DEVICES ENGINEERING MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY ORTHOPEDICS OSTEOPOROSIS SCAFFOLD STEM CELL STEM CELL BIOLOGY TISSUE ADAPTATION TISSUE CULTURE TISSUE ENGINEERING WEBSITE SEE HERE FOR PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS HTTP://WWW.RCSI.IE/RESEARCHDB/RESEARCH_PIPROFILE.JSP?UID=62&PIP=PROJECTS#THEMES EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL, SFI, ENTERPRISE IRELAND, IRCSET, HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. FRANCES O'BRIEN obrienfrances ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OBRIENFR SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; MATURE STUDENTS IN NURSE EDUCATION; SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ACADEMIC LEAD INTERNATIONAL WINTER AND SUMMER SCHOOLS AISHE IRISH NURSES CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATION THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A STRUCTURED EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION IN REDUCING PRE-HOSPITAL DELAY TIME IN PATIENTS AT RISK FOR ACUTE CORONARY SYNDOME: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD €315,000 PHD RECIPIENTS KNOWLEDGE, PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF LIVING AND DYING WITH AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR. THIS QUALITATIVE STUDY WILL EXPLORE PATIENTS' EXPERIENCES OF LIVING WITH AN ICD AND HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT HAVING THE DEVICE DISABLED AT THE END OF THEIR LIFE. APPROXIMATELY TWELVE PATIENTS WILL PARTICIPATE IN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH THE RESEARCHER. ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY €4500 AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE USE, DURATION AND COMPLICATIONS OF EPICARDIAL PACING WIRES FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY. THIS STUDY WILL IDENTIFY HOW MANY PATIENTS USE EPICARDIAL PACING WIRES AFTER THEY ARE INSERTED FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY. FOR THOSE THAT USE THE WIRES, WE WILL ASCERTAIN THE DURATION OF USE, THE DURATION OF WIRE INSERTION AND DETERMINE WHETHER THERE WERE COMPLICATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WIRES. OBJECTIVE . TO COLLECT TANGIBLE DATA TO INFORM US ABOUT PACING WIRE USE AND COMPLICATIONS WITH A VIEW TO MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PRACTICE IN RESPECT OF WIRE INSERTION AND REMOVAL. ICD RECIPIENTS' EXPERIENCES, ATTITUDES AND KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ICD TREATMENT AT LIFE'S END IN IRELAND THE AIM OF THIS STUDY, WAS TO FIND OUT HOW PATIENTS WITH AN IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATOR (ICD) FELT ABOUT HAVING THEIR DEVICE REPLACED IN THE FUTURE AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAVE GIVEN THOUGHT TO HAVING IT SWITCHED OFF TOWARDS THE END OF THEIR LIFE. REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' SELF-ASSESSED NEEDS IN RESPECT OF SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING: A NEEDS ANALYSIS. BACKGROUND: THE TERM HOLISTIC CARE IN NURSING ENCOMPASSES COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE CARE REQUIREMENTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL. THIS INCLUDES PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH REQUIREMENTS. TO ACHIEVE THE DELIVERY OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING, NURSES NEED TO BE ADEQUATELY SKILLED TO CARRY OUT MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS AND SUBSEQUENTLY DELIVER APPROPRIATE INTERVENTIONS OR IDENTIFY THE NEED FOR SPECIALIST REFERRALS, AS APPROPRIATE. A STUDY CONDUCTED AMONG ONCOLOGY NURSES IN IRELAND (NASH 2017) DEMONSTRATED THAT A RANGE OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS ARE ENCOUNTERED IN PRACTICE. WHILE NURSES WERE EQUIPPED TO HANDLE SOME ASPECTS OF MENTAL HEALTH CARE REQUIREMENTS, THEY GENERALLY FELT THAT THEY WERE IN NEED OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO COMPLEX CONDITIONS THAT EXTENDED BEYOND ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION. THIS QUESTION HAS NOT BEEN RAISED AMONG GENERAL NURSES IN THE ACUTE SETTING AND THEREFORE A DECISION WAS MADE TO ASSESS REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' NEEDS IN RELATION TO SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE NATIONAL SERVICE FRAMEWORK FOR MENTAL HEALTH (DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 2000) RECOMMENDED STANDARDS FOR PLANNING AND DELIVERING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE UK. THIS IS SEEN AS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE IRISH POPULATION ALSO. RESEARCH QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE NEEDS OF REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES IN RELATION TO SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE SETTING? STUDY AIM: TO ASSESS REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' NEEDS IN RELATION TO SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. OBJECTIVES: . TO DETERMINE WHETHER REGISTERED GENERAL NURSES' FEEL ADEQUATELY EQUIPPED TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. . IF DEFICITS ARE IDENTIFIED, THIS STUDY SEEKS TO ASCERTAIN THE NURSES' SPECIFIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING NEEDS THAT WOULD HELP IN SUPPORTING INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN THE ACUTE CARE SETTING. . BASED ON THE INFORMATION COLLECTED, A NEEDS ANALYSIS WILL BE COMPILED AND FROM THIS, A BUSINESS AND EDUCATION PLAN WILL BE PROPOSED WITHIN THE SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY. PENDING NEWLY QUALIFIED NURSES EXPERIENCES AND VALUE OF THE INTERNSHIP PERIOD: AN ALL IRELAND CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY BACKGROUND: FOLLOWING THE REPORT ON THE COMMISSION ON NURSING IN IRELAND IN 2002, THE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING DEGREE PROGRAMME WAS INITIATED. ONE COMPONENT OF THE NEWLY INTRODUCED PROGRAMME WAS THE UNDERTAKING OF MANDATORY CLINICAL PRACTICE PLACEMENTS, KNOWN AS THE INTERNSHIP. THE INTENTION OF THE INTERNSHIP IS TO LINK THEORY WITH PRACTICE AND TO ACHIEVE COMPETENCE IN THE CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. THE INTERNSHIP PLACEMENTS PROVIDE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY, TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND TO RECEIVE CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK ON THE NURSING CARE THEY PROVIDE. THE FINAL 36 WEEKS OF THE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING DEGREE PROGRAMME IS DEDICATED TO THIS INTERNSHIP PERIOD AND IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CLINICAL CHANGES IN UNDERGRADUATE NURSE EDUCATION SINCE 2002. HOWEVER, TO DATE, THE IMPACT AND VALUE OF THE INTERNSHIP PERIOD HAS NOT BEEN EVALUATED NATIONALLY. THIS PROPOSED PIECE OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH WILL SEEK TO EVALUATE THE VALUE OF THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME IN IRELAND. AIM: THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO EVALUATE NEWLY QUALIFIED NURSES' EXPERIENCES AND PERCEIVED VALUE OF THE INTERNSHIP PERIOD. METHODOLOGY: THE STUDY USES A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH DESIGN. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED FROM ALL NEWLY QUALIFIED NURSES IN IRELAND. THE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND (NMBI) WILL CIRCULATE THE QUESTIONNAIRE ON BEHALF OF THE RESEARCHERS. NURSES WILL SELF-SELECT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS. ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY €5000 EVALUATING PATIENT SATISFACTION OF A DIRECT RANP CARDIOLOGY TO RANP CARDIOLOGY REFERRAL SYSTEM FOR PATIENTS WITH POTENTIAL STABLE CAD THIS COLLABORATIVE STUDY BETWEEN TCD, NAAS GENERAL HOSPITAL AND TALLAGHT HOSPITAL AIMS TO EVALUATE PATIENT SATISFACTION OF A DIRECT RANP CARDIOLOGY TO RANP CARDIOLOGY REFERRAL SYSTEM FOR THOSE PATIENTS WITH POTENTIAL STABLE CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (SCAD). CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MR. SEAN O'CALLAGHAN ocallaghansean SENIOR TECHNICAL OFFICER OCALLAS ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING POWER AND ENERGY, SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT, SMART AND DISTRIBUTED GRID NETWORKS, SUSTAINABLE POWER GENERATION, INTELLIGENT LOAD MANAGEMENT AND IOT INTEGRATION OF DISPATCHABLE LOADS. ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MIEI MIET MPMI BUILDINGS, RESIDENTIAL ENERGY USE ENERGY ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ENERGY EFFICIENCY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS SOLAR ENERGY TIDAL AND WAVE ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE WASTE TO ENERGY OTHER ENERGY BATTERIES, HYDROGEN FUEL CELLS MARINE ENERGY WIND ENERGY SOLAR ENERGY BIOMASS GEOTHERMAL ELECTRICAL GRID ENERGY STORAGE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CORMAC O'COILEAIN ocoileaincormac RESEARCH FELLOW COCOILEA CRANN CRANN NAUGHTON INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. JOHN BRIAN O'CONNELL oconnelljohnbrian RETIRED STAFF MEMBER JBOCONEL RETIRED STAFF MEMBER INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND USE. BASIC SKILLS LEARNING THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN FRENCH GERMAN IRISH CILIP LONDON; CHARTERED LIBRARIAN JUDAICA LIBRARIES GROUP, UK BASIC SKILLS EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING LIBRARIANSHIP LIBRARIES LIBRARY VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS GABRIELLE GORE-BOOTH LOCAL HISTORY PROJECT ON THE 'LISSADELL AFFAIR' WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF A MANUSCRIPT SIGNED BY GABRIELLE GORE-BOOTH WHICH I ENCOUNTERED BY CHANCE. DR. REDMOND O'CONNELL oconnellredmond ASSOCIATE PROF IN SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE REOCONNE PSYCHOLOGY TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY VISION NEURAL MECHANISMS FOR PERCEPTUAL DECISIONS IN HUMANS HOW DO WE MAKE RELIABLE DECISIONS ABOUT NOISY SENSORY INPUTS? THIS FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION HAS DRAWN INTENSE INTEREST FROM MATHEMATICIANS, EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGISTS, COGNITIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGISTS AND ENGINEERS ALIKE, CULMINATING IN THE EMERGENCE OF A RICH THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING. AT THE CENTER OF THIS FRAMEWORK LIES THE NOTION OF A "DECISION VARIABLE," WHICH INTEGRATES SENSORY EVIDENCE OVER TIME AND TRIGGERS THE APPROPRIATE ACTION UPON ACCRUING A CRITERION AMOUNT. MONKEY ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY STUDIES HAVE PROPELLED THE FIELD FORWARD BY IDENTIFYING NEURAL SIGNALS IN THE BRAIN THAT FIT THIS ROLE. HOWEVER, PROGRESS IN ESTABLISHING THE NEURAL UNDERPINNINGS OF HUMAN DECISION MAKING HAS BEEN SEVERELY HAMPERED BY TECHNICAL CHALLENGES. THIS HAS PRESENTED AN ENORMOUS OBSTACLE TO THE FIELD, NOT ONLY BECAUSE MORE ELABORATE DECISION MAKING SITUATIONS CAN BE EXAMINED MORE FEASIBLY IN HUMANS, BUT BECAUSE DECISION MAKING, EVEN WHEN BASED ON SIMPLE PERCEPTIONS, MAY BE FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT IN HUMANS THAN IN ANIMALS. THE PRESENT PROPOSAL BUILDS ON A RECENT PARADIGM BREAKTHROUGH THAT ENABLES ISOLATION OF A GENUINE "DECISION VARIABLE" IN A FREELY-EVOLVING ELECTRICAL SCALP SIGNAL THAT PRECISELY DETERMINES THE TIMING AND ACCURACY OF PERCEPTUAL REPORTS. THIS PROVIDES AN UNPRECEDENTED, DIRECT NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL WINDOW ONTO THE DISTINCT PARAMETERS OF THE DECISION PROCESS (E.G. "DRIFT RATE", BASELINE AND CRITERION LEVELS) SUCH THAT THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF SEVERAL MAJOR BEHAVIORAL PHENOMENA CAN BE FINALLY RESOLVED. THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO DEVELOP A SYSTEMS-LEVEL UNDERSTANDING OF PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING IN THE HUMAN BRAIN BY TACKLING FOUR MAJOR QUESTIONS: 1) HOW ARE DECISIONS REACHED MORE QUICKLY WHEN BASED ON STRONGER EVIDENCE? 2) HOW IS THE DECISION PROCESS STRATEGICALLY ADAPTED TO DEAL WITH PRIOR INFORMATION AND SPEED PRESSURE? 3) HOW DOES TOP-DOWN SPATIAL ATTENTION FACILITATE FASTER AND MORE ACCURATE DECISION MAKING? 4) HOW DOES PRACTICE STRENGTHEN PERCEPTUO-MOTOR INTERACTIONS AND PROMOTE INTENTIONAL DECISION MAKING? EACH OF THE EXPERIMENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS PROPOSAL WILL DEFINITIVELY TEST KEY PREDICTIONS FROM PROMINENT THEORETICAL MODELS USING ROBUST NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS THAT HAVE EXQUISITE TEMPORAL RESOLUTION, ARE UNENCUMBERED BY MODEL ASSUMPTIONS, AND REQUIRE MINIMAL SIGNAL TRANSFORMATION. US NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE THE IMPACT OF AGING ON PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL EMBARK PINPOINTING THE NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING ELEVATED INTRA-SUBJECT VARIABILITY IN ADHD BACKGROUND THE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENTS EXHIBITED BY INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACITIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) VARY CONSIDERABLY FROM PERSON TO PERSON AND CONSEQUENTLY A MAJOR PRIORITY FOR RESEARCH HAS BEEN TO IDENTIFY CORE IMPAIRMENTS THAT CAN BE LINKED TO DISEASE-SPECIFIC ABNORMALITIES. ONE OF THE MOST RELIABLE HALLMARKS OF ADHD IS A DIFFICULTY MAINTAINING CONSISTENT PERFORMANCE LEVELS OVER TIME: KNOWN AS 'INTRA-SUBJECT VARIABILITY' (ISV). ISV HAS BEEN REVEALED TO BE A STABLE AND HERITABLE TRAIT BUT ITS NEURAL ORIGINS REMAIN POORLY UNDERSTOOD. A KEY CHALLENGE IN THE EFFORT TO EXPLAIN ISV IS THAT ALL COGNITIVE TASKS REQUIRES A COMPLEX SERIES OF BRAIN MECHANISMS WHOSE SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTION TO PERFORMANCE CAN BE DIFFICULT TO CONCLUSIVELY ESTABLISH. RECENTLY I DEVELOPED A NOVEL TECHNIQUE THAT ENABLES THE SIMULTANEOUS MONITORING OF THE CRITICAL PROCESSING STAGES OF SENSORY ENCODING, DECISION FORMATION AND MOTOR PREPARATION, AS WELL AS CRUCIAL SUPPORTING FACTORS OF ATTENTION AND AROUSAL WHILE PARTICIPANTS PERFORM A SIMPLE PERCEPTUAL TASK. THE SIGNALS CAN BE MEASURED ON A TRIAL-BY-TRIAL BASIS ALLOWING THEM TO BE DIRECTLY LINKED TO THE TIMING AND ACCURACY OF THE PARTICIPANT'S RESPONSES. IN THE PRESENT PROJECT I WILL UTILIZE THIS TECHNIQUE TO PINPOINT THE SPECIFIC NEURAL ABNORMALITIES THAT GIVE RISE TO ELEVATED ISV IN ADHD. METHOD A GROUP OF 35 CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS DIAGNOSED WITH ADHD AND A NON-ADHD COMPARISON GROUP WILL UNDERGO ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG) RECORDING WHILE THEY PERFORM A SIMPLE PERCEPTUAL TASK THAT REQUIRES DETECTION OF GRADUAL CONTRAST CHANGES IN A PATTERNED STIMULUS. GROUP-LEVEL AND SINGLE-TRIAL NEURAL SIGNAL ANALYSES WILL BE CONDUCTED TO ESTABLISH PRECISELY WHICH PROCESSING STAGES CONTRIBUTE TO INCONSISTENT PERFORMANCE IN ADHD. BENEFITS OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT SEVERAL COMPETING EXPLANATORY ACCOUNTS OF ELEVATED ISV IN ADHD HAVE BEEN PROPOSED BUT THERE HAS BEEN A LACK OF CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE TO ADJUDICATE BETWEEN THEM. IDENTIFYING THE NEURAL ORIGINS OF ISV IN ADHD IS ESSENTIAL TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THIS DISORDER IMPACTS ON BRAIN FUNCTION. THIS RESEARCH HAS THE POTENTIAL TO IDENTIFY DISEASE-SPECIFIC BIOMARKERS FOR ADHD THAT CAN CONTRIBUTE TO IMPROVED STRATEGIES FOR EARLIER AND MORE ACCURATE DIAGNOSIS AS WELL AS PROVIDING NOVEL TARGETS FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL AND NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTION. BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH FOUNDAITON NARSAD YOUNG INVESTIGATOR GRANTS AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION NEUROSCIENCE DR. ANNE O'CONNELL oconnellanne ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OCONNEA DENTAL SCIENCE DEVELOPMENTAL DEFECTS OF THE DENTITION CARIES AESTHETIC RESTORATIVE MATERIALS PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING IN CHILDREN TRAUMA PROFESSINAL EDUCTAION DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS AAPD AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTY CHAIR FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE IADT EDITORIAL BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY EDITORIAL BOARD OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY EDUCATION COMMITTEE IAPD EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE, PAEDIATRIC ORAL HEALTH RESEARCH GROUP IADR GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT GROUP HSE IRELAND HONORARY EDITOR IAPD INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION IRISH SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH IRISH SOCIETY OF DENTISTRY FOR CHILDREN NATIONAL EXECUTIVE IRISH HOSPITAL CONSULTANTS ASSOCIATION PAST PRESIDENT ISDC PRESIDENT ELECT IADT PRESIDENT ISDC REVIEWER FOR ORAL DISEASES, CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ORAL BIOLOGY, EUROPEAN J PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY. USE OF ULTRASOUND TO IMPROVE SALIVARY GLAND OUTPUT FOLLOWING RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN EARLY BACTERIAL COLONIZATION IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF DENTAL CARIES FREDERICK DREW RESEARCH AWARD INTRA-ORAL FLUORIDE DISTRIBUTION IN CHILDREN WITH W.H. BOWEN UNILEVER CORP. INTRA-ORAL DISTRIBUTION OF FLUORIDE FOLLOWING BRUSHING IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAL STATUS OF PAROTID GLANDS EXPOSED TO THERAPEUTIC IRRADIATION ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR. CYCLODEXTRIN ITRACONAZOLE IN THE TREATMENT OF ORO-PHARYNGEAL CANDIDIASIS IN CHILDREN WITH HIV-INFECTION ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR VALIDATION OF THE CIBA/ONCOGENE CONSENSUS CONFERENCE SCALE FOR MUCOSITIS IN PATIENTS RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY OR RADIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR GENERAL DENTAL DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC STUDY PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONAL STATUS OF PAROTID GLANDS EXPOSED TO THERAPEUTIC IRRADIATION ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR INCIDENCE OF NBCC IN PATIENTS WITH MEDULLABLASTOMA ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR PATIENT EVALUATION AND TREATMENT OF SOFT TISSUE DISEASES ACCORDING TO GENERALLY AVAILABLE STANDARD PROCEDURES AND THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD OSTEOPOROSIS WITH ALENDRONATE ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATOR PROSPECTIVE STUDY EVALUATING SALIVARY HISTATIN LEVELS IN HIV- INFECTED CHILDREN NO DATA ORAL EVALUATION OF THE OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA POPULATION NO DATA DENTAL ANOMALIES IN HYPER IGE SYNDROME NO DATA ATTITIDES TOWARDS PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY IN THE COMMUNITY NO DATA EVALUATION OF CHILDREN WITH INTRUSIVE INJURIES TO PERMANENT TEETH. NO DATA COMAPRISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT MODALITIES OF TEACHING METHODS IN PAEDIATRIC DENTISTRY. IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. BRENDAN O'CONNELL oconnellbrendan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OCONNEB2 ENGLISH DEPT OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR BRIAN O'CONNELL oconnellbrian PROFESSOR/ DEAN OF DENTAL SCIENCE BOCONNE DENTAL SCIENCE CRANN TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING RESTORATIVE DENTISTY DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION (GRANT REVIEWER) AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ANATOMICAL RECORD (REVIEWER) ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY (REVIEWER) ARCHIVES OF ORAL BIOLOGY (REVIEWER) CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ORAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE (REVIEWER) FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PROSTHODONTISTS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER (REVIEWER) JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH (EDITORIAL BOARD) ORAL BIOSCIENCE AND MEDICINE (EDITORIAL BOARD) ORAL DISEASES (EDITORIAL BOARD) ALBICANS BIOENGINEERING AND RADIOLOGIC IMAGING BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BIOLOGY BIOMATERIALS BIOMECHANICS BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BIOTECHNOLOGY BONE CANDIDA SPP CELL COMMUNICATION CELL LINES CULTURE COLLECTIONS, MICROBIAL, CELL, TISSUE AND GERMPLASM DENTAL EDUCATION DENTISTRY DNA ENGINEERING UNDERPINNING BIOMEDICINE EUKARYOTIC GENE REGULATION GENE CLONING GENE THERAPY GENETIC ENGINEERING GENOMES, GENOMICS HISTIDINE-RICH POLYPEPTIDES HUMAN SALIVARY HISTATIN-5 IMPLANTS INFECTION MEDICAL DEVICES MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR CLONING MYCOLOGY AND FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS NANO BIOTECHNOLOGY ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY ORAL CLINICAL RESEARCH ORAL DISEASES ORAL DISEASES AND ORAL MEDICINE ORAL HEALTH PEPTIDES PROSTHETIC DEVICES (GENERAL) RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE SALIVA AND SALIVARY GLAND SALIVARY GLANDS STEM CELL STEM CELL BIOLOGY AND HEMATOPOIESIS TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS TISSUE CULTURE TISSUE ENGINEERING TRANSGENE EXPRESSION TRANSGENIC ANIMALS REAL TIME PCR EQUIPMENT HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD-CO-INVESTIGATOR FOR EQUIPMENT GRANT. ANTIFUNGAL MECHANISM OF HUMAN SALIVARY HISTATIN HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD-PROJECT GRANT MECHANOBIOLOGY OF TISSUE ENGINEERING THEME CO-ORDINATOR. TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING (TCBE) HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY-PRTLI REGULATION OF SALIVARY GLAND GENE EXPRESSION WELLCOME TRUST-TRAVELLING FELLOWSHIP INVESTIGATIVE AND THERAPEUTIC GENE TRANSFER TO THE SALIVARY GLANDS NIH GRANT-NIDCR PROJECT Z01-DE00675-01-03 CONSTRUCTION OF ADENOVIRUS VECTORS FOR THE STUDY OF GENE CONTROL AND PROTEIN FUNCTION NIH-NIDCR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT. PRODUCTION AND TESTING OF ADENOVIRUS VECTORS FOR CLINICAL USE NIH-NIDCR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT. PROVOST AWARD TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN IN VIVO FUNCTION AND REGULATION OF SALIVARY ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD-PROJECT GRANT. CELLS UNDER STRAIN PROJECT LEADER, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON ADAPTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES AND NANODEVICES (CRANN) SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) DIFFERENTIAL CELLULAR RESPONSE TO NANOSCALE ENGINEERED TITANIUM SURFACES CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR SFI/TCD ANNUAL OVERHEAD INVESTMENT PROGRAM (AOIP) SMART SPLINT SUPERIOR MONITORING & ANALYSIS RELAYED THROUGH SENSORS PROVIDING LONGITUDINAL INFORMATION ON NOCTURNAL TOOTH GRINDING ENTERPRISE IRELAND COLLABORATIVE PROJECT AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. ALEXANDER O'CONNOR oconnoralexander CASUAL AOCONNO COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES: RDF, SPARQL ONTOLOGIES UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING CONTEXT & CONTEXT-INFORMED TECHNOLOGIES CUSTOMER SUPPORT TECHNOLOGIES 11 GLEN GROVE CABINTEELY DUBLIN 18 01-8961000 ACM CENTRE FOR NEXT-GENERATION LOCALISATION SFI DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MR. DONAL O'CONNOR oconnordonal ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/REGISTRAR OCONND15 SURGERY DEPT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. JOHN O'CONNOR oconnorjohn ASST PROF IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGYPART-TIM JOCONNO8 PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND PRACTICE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE STATES; INTERPERSONAL DYNAMICS IN GROUPS AND ORGANISATIONS; HOARDING AND OTHER COMPULSIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; THE TRAINING PROCESS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY; HOMELESSNESS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF HOME; PSYCHOSOMATIC STATES. PSYCHOLOGY DEPT ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 BIPOLAR STATES PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY SUICIDE MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MRS. LEONA O'CONNOR oconnorleona SENIOR TECHNICAL OFFICER MULVEYLE GEOLOGY CENTRE FOR MICROSCOPY & ANALYSIS DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY ICRAG LAB/CMA EAST END 4 COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. CATHERINE O'CONNOR oconnorcatherine HEAD OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS COCONNO7 SCHOOL OFFICE - COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATS CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: MAKING THE TRANSITION FROM SECOND LEVEL TO THIRD LEVEL; ADDRESSING THE GENDER ISSUE IN PARTICIPATION WITHIN THE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) COURSES AND SPECIFICALLY WITHIN COMPUTER SCIENCE AND RELATED DISCIPLINES. OTHER RESEARCH AREAS INCLUDE: THE APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION; AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ON-LINE SYNCHRONOUS ELEARNING FOR MATURE LEARNERS SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS ROOM 0.42 LLOYD INSTITUTE, COLLEGE 01-8961000 AISHE (ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION) AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AONTAS ESAI (EDUCATION STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND) FIITD (IRISH INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING) IDAC (INSTITUTE OF DRAMA AND COMMUNICATIONS) ILTA (IRISH LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION) MEMBER OF STUDENT LED LEARNING (SLL), A SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP UNDER THE LEARNING INNOVATION NETWORK (LLN) WWW.LIN.IE. THE PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL FORUM FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING. MEMBER OF THE THIRD LEVEL COMPUTING FORUM NETWORK DUBLIN STEM ERC RESEARCH GROUP AT TCD MS. ERNA O'CONNOR oconnorerna ASST PROF IN SOCIAL WORK/FIELDWORK CO-OR CONNORER SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS; BEREAVEMENT AND TRAUMA; REFLECTIVE PRACTICE; PRACTICE TEACHING AND LEARNING; SUPERVISION IN SOCIAL WORK. SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BEAUMONT HOSPITAL REPRESENTATIVE ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF THE COOLOCK AND DARNDALE HOME CARE SERVICE DELEGATE AT EU CONFERENCES ON PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE IN MAJOR EMERGENCIES IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORK. MEMBER OF IASW - MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEMBER OF ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF A SERIES OF NATIONAL CONFERENCES MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT FORUM MEMBER OF THE PANEL OF ASSESSORS (NQSWB) FOR THE ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN FIELDWORK PRACTICE AND SUPERVISION (SOCIAL WORK) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK. AGEING CANCER DR. ALAN JOHN O'CONNOR oconnoralanjohn ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OCONNOAJ CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. PROBABILITY BASED SAFETY ASSESSMENT AND OPTIMISED LIFECYCLE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT OF INFRASTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS/NETWORKS, ENGINEERING FOR EXTREMES, STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY, OPTIMISATION, STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING AND CONTROL, STATISTICAL LOAD MODELLING, DESIGN CODE CALIBRATION, DURABILITY AND PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN, NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES, STATISTICAL MODELLING, BRIDGE DESIGN. CIVIL STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENG MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DANISH ENGLISH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (AFF.M.ASCE) ASSOCIATE EDITOR BRIDGE ENGINEERING (FRONTIERS) ASSOCIATE EDITOR, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (ASCE) - JOURNAL OF BRIDGE ENGINEERING BOARD MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL ENGINEERING RISK AND RELIABILITY ASSOCIATION (CERRA) COST 323 ACTION WEIGH IN MOTION COST 345 ACTION PROCEDURES REQUIRED FOR ASSESSING HIGHWAY STRUCTURES COST ACTION TU1402 - QUANTIFYING THE VALUE OF STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING. MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR IRELAND AND STSM COORDINATOR. COST TU0601 ACTION ROBUSTNESS OF STRUCTURES ENGINEERS IRELAND - STRUCTURES & CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ENGINEERS IRELAND, CHARTERED ENGINEER (CENG) & FELLOW (FIEI) FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN HIGHWAY RESEARCH LABORATORIES (FEHRL) - IRISH RESEARCH COORDINATOR INSTITUTION OF CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY (LONDON) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BRIDGE AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BRIDGE MANAGEMENT AND SAFETY INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LIFE CYCLE CIVIL ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGE & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS (IABSE), ROI BRANCH - FOUNDING CHAIRMAN & BOARD MEMBER JOINT COMMITTEE ON STRUCTURAL SAFETY TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD (USA) - STEEL BRIDGE COMMITTEE BRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS BRIDGES BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CEMENT AND CONCRETE CHEMISTRY CIVIL ENGINEERING CIVIL ENGINEERING, PAVEMENTS AND STRUCTURES COASTAL & OCEAN ENGINEERING CONCRETE STRUCTURES DAMS AND EARTH STRUCTURES DESIGN ENGINEERING MASONRY ENGINEERING MATERIALS ENGINEERING MATERIALS, ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OFFSHORE PLATFORMS AND STRUCTURES RAILWAY ENGINEERING STEEL STRUCTURES STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS STRUCTURAL DESIGN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING STRUCTURE RELIABILITY STRUCTURES TUNNELS VEHICLE IMPACT WIND ENERGY OTHER ENGINEERING MEDACHS THE PROJECT FOCUS IS ON ANALYSIS OF MARINE ENVIRONMENT DAMAGE TO ATLANTIC COAST HERITAGE STRUCTURES. RESEARCH PERFORMED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING WILL FOCUS ON TIME DEPENDENT MATERIAL DETERIORATION MODELS AND INCORPORATION OF THESE MODELS INTO A RELIABILITY ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK. IT IS INTENDED AT THE END OF THE PROJECT TO PROVIDE STRUCTURE OWNERS/MANAGERS WITH A RIGOROUS DECISION TOOL, WHICH WILL FACILITATE OPTIMIZATION OF MAINTENANCE BUDGETS THROUGH RELIABILITY BASED ASSET MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT. HTTP://MEDACHS.UNIV-LR.FR/MEDACHS.HTM INTERREG FP6 SAMARIS THE SAMARIS PROJECT (SUSTAINABLE AND ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE) IS FOCUSED ON METHODS AND PROCEDURES FOR IMPROVED MAINTENANCE OF HIGHWAY STRUCTURES. HTTP://SAMARIS.ZAG.SI/ EU FP5 DURATINET DEVELOPMENT OF A NETWORK OF DURABLE TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE ATLANTIC AREA. HTTP://WWW.DURATINET.ORG/ INTERREG ALTANTIC SPACE DEVELOPMENT OF A MARKOVIAN BASED BRIDGE NETWORK LIFE CYCLE COST OPTIMISATION MODEL IRISH NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY PROBABILITY BASED OPTIMISATION OF DESIGN OF EARTHWORKS OPERATIONS FOR ROAD SCHEMES IRISH NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION OF CONCRETE WIND TURBINE TOWER DEISGN IRCSET + BANAGHER CONCRETE ACADEMIC INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP ERANET ROAD - SCORING TRAFFIC AT ROADWORKS (STARS) ERA-NET ROAD TRAINING IN EUROPEAN ASSET MANAGEMENT TEAM IS A MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORK FUNDED UNDER THE SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (FP7) BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION THAT DEALS WITH TRAINING IN EUROPEAN ASSET MANAGEMENT. HTTP://WWW.UCD.IE/TEAM/ EU FP7 MARIE CURIE RAIN RISK ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS FOR EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS EU FP7 PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT & WHOLE LIFE MAINTENANCE OPTIMISATION OF BRIDGES IRCSET + IRISH NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY ACADEMIC INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP RISK BASED OPTIMISATION OF SEISMIC RETROFIT STRATEGIES FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS/NETWORKS IRCSET DEVELOPMENT OF PROCEDURES FOR CROSS ASSET MANAGEMENT OPTIMISATION (PROCROSS) ERA-NET ROAD BROWSER CEDR ERA-NET ROAD THE DESIGN OPTIMISATION OF OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES BASED ON SITE SPECIFIC STOCHASTIC LOAD MODELLING IRCSET RESILENS REALISING EUROPEAN RESILIENCE FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE EU H2020 TRUSS TRAINING IN REDUCING UNCERTAINTY IN STRUCTURAL SAFETY EU H2020 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ANTHONY O'CONNOR oconnoranthony CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER OCONNA12 CLINICAL MEDICINE HELICOBACTER PYLORI PREMALIGNANT LESIONS OF THE STOMACH CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE OUTCOMES OF ENDOSCOPY CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE AMNCH TALLAGHT DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IRISH IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND CANCER/CARCINOGENESIS DIGESTIVE SYSTEM GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA GASTRIC BIOPSIES GASTRIC CANCER GASTRIC CARCINOGENESIS GASTRIC CARCINOMA GASTRIC CARCINOMAS GASTRIC CARDIA GASTRIC HEMORRHAGE GASTRIC METAPLASIA GASTRIC MUCOSA GASTRIC ULCER GASTRIC-CANCER GASTRIC-CARCINOMA GASTROENTEROLOGY HELICOBACTER PYLORI HELICOBACTER PYLORI ERADICATION HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTION HELICOBACTER-PYLORI HELICOBACTER-PYLORI ERADICATION HELICOBACTER-PYLORI INFECTION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE INTESTINAL EPITHELIUM INTESTINAL METAPLASIA MEDICINE IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. EOIN O'DELL odelleoin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ODELLE LAW CONTRACT, RESTITUTION, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, DEFAMATION, COMPETITION POLICY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 PRESIDENT IALT ACTING PRESIDENT OF IALT COUNCIL MEMBER OF SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS DUBLIN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL EDITOR DUBLIN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL TECHNICAL EDITOR EXECUTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS IRISH MOOT COURT COMMITTEE, FOUNDER, TREATER AND AUTHOR OF THE 1991 AND 2003 CASES IRISH STUDENT LAW REVIEW EDITOR MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH STUDENT LAW REVIEW MEMBER OF ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR ALT / IALT ANNUAL CONFERENCE MEMBER OF ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR BILETA ANNUAL CONFERENCE MEMBER OF ORGANISING COMMITTEE OF IALT ANNUAL CONFERENCE ORGANISER OF ANNUAL CONFERENCE "THE LEADING CASES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" ORGANISER OF ANNUAL IALT CONFERENCE: THE ACADEMY, THE BENCH AND LAW REFORM RESTITUTION LAW REVIEW, REGIONAL EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR FOR IRELAND COMPETITION POLICY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CONTRACT, RESTITUTION, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, DEFAMATION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. SIOBHAIN O'DOHERTY odohertysiobhain VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT ODOHERS1 SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE INCLUSIVE RESEARCH, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, UNIVERSAL DESIGN, INFORMATION ACCESSIBILITY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND MARGINALISED GROUPS, MENTAL HEALTH, SELF HELP GROUPS FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS, SOCIAL INCLUSION, EDUCATIONAL MODELS FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, SEXUALITY AND PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, CARE STAFF ATTITUDES, DEINSTITUTIONALISATION AND DISABILITY, COMMUNITY SUPPORTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT 3/4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MOVING AHEAD PROJECT THE PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE THE FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER OF RESIDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES FROM CONGREGATED TO COMMUNITY-BASED RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. KNOWLEDGE OF THESE FACTORS WILL PROVIDE VALUABLE INFORMATION AS A NATIONAL DEINSTITUTIONALISATION PROGRAMME COMMENCES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD ANTI - BULLYING RESEARCH PROJECT (NATURE AND EXTENT OF BULLYING OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN IRELAND). AN INCLUSIVE RESEARCH PROJECT UNDERTAKEN BY RESEARCHERS AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN COLLABORATION WITH MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ANTI - BULLYING ADVOCACY GROUP. THE PROJECT AIMED TO DOCUMENT THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF BULLYING OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY, AND TO EXPLORE THE EXPERIENCES OF THOSE WHO ARE BULLIED. THE RESEARCH ALSO PRODUCED AN EASY-TO-READ ANTI - BULLYING GUIDE AIMED AT PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITES. NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND PERSONS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. DESK AND FIELD RESEARCH INVESTIGATING THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN EUROPE. THEMATIC AREAS INCLUDED ACCESS TO JUSTICE, ACCESSIBLITY, INDEPENDENT LIVING, INVOLUNTARY TREATMENT AND INVOLUNTARY PLACEMENT,LEGAL CAPACITY AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION. EUROPEAN UNION AGENCY FOR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS (FRA) RELATIONSHIPS AND SUPPORTS STUDY: PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN IRELAND [INCLUSIVE RESEARCH NETWORK]. INCLUSIVE RESEARCH PROJECT CONDUCTED BY THE INCLUSIVE RESEARCH NETWORK (SUPPORTED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES) WHICH INVESTIGATED THE PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES OF PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IN IRELAND WITH REGARD TO RELATIONSHIPS, FRIENDSHIPS AND SUPPORTS. MARIE CURIE 6TH RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ALL WE WANT TO SAY - 2ND PART - PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES PRESENTING RESEARCH FINDINGS IN IRELAND. INCLUSIVE RESEARCH PROJECT UNDERTAKEN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER ON THE DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS OF THE 'ALL WE WANT TO SAY. LIFE FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES' (NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, 2009). MARIE CURIE 6TH RESEARCH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME IN THE EUROPEAN UNION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. GARRET EDWARD O'DONNELL odonnellgarretedward ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ODONNEGE MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE BASED AROUND ADVANCING MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY, INCLUDING MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY THAT UNDERPINS ICT AND BIO-MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, HIGH PERFORMANCE MACHINING IN BIOMEDICAL, AUTOMOTIVE AND AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS. SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: . SENSING, PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL OF MANUFACTURING AND HIGH PERFORMANCE MACHINING AND GRINDING OPERATIONS. . MICRO-MANUFACTURING INCLUDING THE MACHINING, HANDLING, ASSEMBLY AND INSPECTION OF MICRO-COMPONENTS. . AUTOMATION OF MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AND THE AUTOMATION OF LABORATORY TESTING. . SUSTAINABLE AND ENERGY EFFICIENT MANUFACTURING. . DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISATION OF SENSOR SYSTEMS AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL. . MEASUREMENT AND INSPECTION IN MANUFACTURING. MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING CHAIRMAN OF THE TERMINOLOGY COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING CIRP COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING COMMITTEE -IMC COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR SIMULATION IN MANUFACTURING, SERVICES AND LOGISTICS. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER OF 12TH CIRP CONFERENCE ON MODELLING OF MACHINING OPERATIONS, SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN, 7-8 MAY 2009 JOINT CHAIRMAN OF THE 26TH INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE IMC26- ENERGY EFFICIENT AND LOW CARBON MANUFACTURING, SEPTEMBER 2-4, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND JOINT CHAIRMAN OF THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL CIRP CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE CUTTING- MICROMANUFACTURING, 12-13 JUNE, 2008, UCD, DUBLIN IRELAND. JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR CIRP JOURNAL OF MANUFACTURING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR IMECHE JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANUFACTURE JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR IMECHE JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCE MEMBER OF INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND, MIEI MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PRECISION ENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY-EUSPEN MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS, MIEEE MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS, MINSTP MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING -CIRP (RESEARCH AFFILIATE) MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS TECHNICAL SECRETARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING (CIRP), SCIENTIFIC TECHNICAL COMMITTEE STC-D/TERMINOLOGY (TECHNICAL DICTIONARY) ABRASIVE MACHINING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATION, ROBOTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS CELL-SURFACE CONTROL ENGINEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION ENERGY EFFICIENCY ENERGY MINIMIZATION ENGINEERING DESIGN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES, ENERGY USE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEMS MACHINE DESIGN MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MICROENGINEERING, MICROMACHINING MICROMANUFACTURING MODELLING, MODELLING TOOLS, 3D MODELLING OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT PRECISION ENGINEERING PRODUCTION ENGINEERING ROBOTICS SENSORY SCIENCE, SENSORS AND INSTRUMENTATION SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND MODELS DEVELOPMENT TRIBOLOGY AND SURFACE ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT OF A WEAR TESTING APPARATUS FOR SHOULDER GLENOID PROSTHESIS THE DEVELOPMENT OF GLENOID SHOULDER PROSTHESIS FOR HUMANS REQUIRES RIGOROUS TESTING TO ENSURE LONG AND RELIABLE COMPONENT LIFE. AN AUTOMATED WEAR TESTING SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED USING SERVO MOTOR CONTROL FOR ABDUCTION-ADDUCTION COMBINED WITH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL JOINT ROTATION. THE CONTROL SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED USING NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS FIELDPOINT HARDWARE. THE CONTROL STRATEGIES INCLUDED THE RECORDING OF WEAR DATA AND FACILITED REMOTE ACCESS VIA INTERNET TO THE MACHINE CONTROLLER DURING TESTING. THE PROJECT IS ONGOING AND FORMS PART OF A LARGER PROJECT BETWEEN STRYKER EUROPE, DEPARTMENT OF MATERIAL SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONIC AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. MICRO-MANUFACTURING 5 AXIS MICRO MACHINING FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF MACRO COMPONENTS WITH MICRO FEATURES (WITH DR. T. ROBINSON) SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING TCD LECTURER DEVELOPMENT FUND DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTROHYDRODYNAMIC (EHD) MICROPUMPS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF EHD MICROPUMPS FOR COOLING. (LEAD BY DR. C. CHING, WITH DR. T. ROBINSON) TYNDALL NATIONAL ACCESS PROGRAMME MESO AND MICRO SCALE MACHINING INVESTIGATIONS MACHINING OPERATIONS SUCH AS DRILLING AND MILLING AT THE MESO AND MICRO SCALE PRESENT SIGNIFICANT TECHNICAL CHALLENGES SUCH AS THE REQUIREMENT FOR HIGH SPINDLE SPEEDS AND THE NEED FOR PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL. THIS PROJECT IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN WESTWIND AIR BEARING LTD. AND THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING TCD LOOKING AT FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS IN MICRO MACHINING. BILATERAL PROJECT DESIGN OF VARIABLE CONDUCTANCE HEAT PIPES IN THIS PROJECT A NOVEL APPROACH TO ACTIVE CONTROL OF HEAT TRANSFER IN HEAT PIPES WILL BE DEVELOPED. A KEY ASPECT OF THE WORK INCLUDES THE DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE, THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THERMAL MODELS AND THERMO-MECHANICAL DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR OPTIMISED HEAT TRANSFER (WITH DR. T. ROBINSON) ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD IN-PROCESS MONITORING DURING ABRASIVE MATERIAL REMOVAL PROCESSES THE AIM IS TO DEVELOP A METHODOLOGY FOR MEASURING AND CHARACTERISING THE ABRASIVE MATERIAL REMOVAL PROCESSES FOR FINISHING AND SUPERFINISHING OF BIOMEDICAL COMPONENTS. THE PROJECT WILL CONSIDER THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROCESSING AND DECISION MAKING ALGORITHMS INCLUDING THE CORRELATION OF THE IN-PROCESS SENSOR INFORMATION WITH THE PROCESS QUALITY. IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME- DEPUY IRELAND CHARACTERISATION OF COMPRESSED AIR SYSTEMS IN MANUFACTURING ENERGY COSTS IN MANUFACTURING ARE FORCING INDUSTRIES TO ADOPT MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY EFFICIENT MANUFACTURING PROCESSES AND STRATEGIES. THIS RESEARCH WORK IS FOCUSSING ON THE CHARACTERISATION OF COMPRESSED AIR SYSTEMS, IN PARTICULAR FOCUSSING ON CHARACTERISATION OF PENUMATIC DEVICES IN AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT. IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME -HP IRELAND INVESTIGATING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) SENSORS THIS RESEARCH PROJECT INVOLVES THE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERISATION OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE (SAW) SENSORS. THE PROJECT INVOLVED THE DESIGN OF SAW SENSORS, AND THE INTEGRATION OF INTERROGATION SOLUTIONS INTO SUITABLE MEASUREMENT CHAINS. THE WORK ALSO FOCUSSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUITABLE CALIBRATION CHARACTERISATION EQUIPMENT FOR TRADITIONAL STRAIN AS WELL AS SAW BASED STRAIN SOLUTIONS. (WITH MR. D GERAGHTY) INTELLIGENT MONITORING OF MICRODRILLING OPERATIONS USING ACOUSTIC EMISSION MICRODRILLING OF HOLES LESS THAN 1 MM DIAMETER IS BECOMING COMMONPLACE IN A NUMBER OF SECTORS DUE TO THE ONGOING TREND TOWARDS THE MINIATURISATION OF PRODUCTS, E.G. DIESEL INJECTION SYSTEMS, BIOMEDICAL FILTERS. WHILE MICRODRILLING IS WELL ESTABLISHED IN THE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD MANUFACTURING SECTOR, MICRODRILLING PRESENTS SIGNIFICANT TECHNICAL AND OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES. FOR EXAMPLE, DUE TO THE SCALE IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE HUMAN TO MONITOR THE PROCESS. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PROVE THE CONCEPT THAT THE ACOUSTIC EMISSION SIGNAL CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT THE MICRODRILLING PROCESS WHICH CAN BE PROCESSED IN ORDER TO DETECT MICRODRILL WEAR AND PREVENT MICRODRILL BREAKAGE. THIS WILL PROVIDE COST SAVINGS TO END USERS INVOLVED IN MICROMANUFACTURING IN THE AUTOMOTIVE, BIOMEDICAL AND ELECTRONICS SECTORS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND POC ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS MANUFACTURING THE AIM IS TO DEVELOP A METHODOLOGY FOR MEASURING AND CHARACTERISING ENERGY USAGE IN COMBINED CONTINUOUS AND DISCRETE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES. THE METHODOLOGY SHOULD THEREFORE CONSIDER ALL DIRECT ENERGY INPUTS INTO THE PROCESS (E.G. HEAT, MACHINE POWER) AND ALSO ALL SUPPORTING ENERGY REQUIRED (E.G. CLEAN ROOM, LIGHTING, HVAC). THIS WILL INVOLVE THE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE ENERGY CONSUMPTION METRICS WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE. IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME - DEPUY IRELAND ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF METAL CUTTING ADACOM ADACOM WILL DEVELOP A GENERIC MODULAR ADAPTIVE CONTROL PLATFORM THAT WILL ALLOW METAL CUTTING PROCESSES TO RESPOND TO CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES BY COMBINING TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SENSOR SYSTEMS, PROCESS ADAPTIVE CONTROL STRATEGIES AND ACTUATOR SYSTEMS. A BROAD RANGE OF INDUSTRY SECTORS; AUTOMOTIVE, INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES, PRINTING MACHINE MANUFACTURER HAVE DEFINED COMMON PROBLEMS WHICH ADACOM WILL ADDRESS. SENSOR COMPANIES TOGETHER WITH THE KNOWLEDGE PROVIDERS WZL, TCD AND MONDRAGON UNIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS WILL COMBINED THEIR EFFORTS TO DEVELOP A ROBUST SOLUTION. THE PROPOSED ADAPTIVE CONTROL PLATFORM WILL DIRECTLY BENEFIT THE PROJECT PARTNER INDUSTRIES AND WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT IN INDUSTRIES INVOLVED IN METAL CUTTING AND THEREFORE WILL OFFER BENEFITS FOR WIDER EUROPEAN INDUSTRY. EU-FP7 NMP INVESTIGATION OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN POLYMER PROCESSING- INTERNAL RECYCLING OF ENERGY POLYMER PROCESSING TECHNIQUES SUCH AS BLOW MOULDING AND INJECTION MOULDING USE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF HEAT, CHILLED AIR, COMPRESSED AIR, CHILLED WATER AND ELECTRICAL ENERGY. THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE WORK PUBLISHED ON QUANTIFYING THE ENERGY USE IN THE POLYMER PROCESSING CYCLE. FOR EXAMPLE, CAPTURING THE HEAT ENERGY AND REUSING THIS ENERGY IN OTHER PROCESSES OR IN SPACE HEATING IS AN OBVIOUS ENERGY SAVING SOLUTION- EFFECTIVELY "INTERNAL RECYCLING". THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO OPTIMISE THE ENERGY USAGE IN POLYMER PROCESSING BY UNDERTAKING A SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPING AN ENERGY OPTIMISATION METHODOLOGY/MODEL FOR THE BLOW MOULDING PROCESS IN COLLABORATION WITH AN INDUSTRIAL PARTNER. EPA MICROMACHINING OF BIOMEDICAL POLYMERS IRCSET- ALCON IRELAND ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SHEME ENERGY AND POWER CONSUMPTION IN MACHINE TOOLS GREP GREP ENERGY PROGRAMME THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE STRAIN SENSORS SAW'S FOR PROCESS MONITORING SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVE STRAIN SENSORS HAVE ADVANTAGES OF WIRELESS AND PASSIVE OPERATION, AND HAVE SIGNIFICANT POTENTIAL IN STRAIN MEASURING APPLICATIONS ON ROTATING OR MOBILE EQUIPMENT. THE PROJECT BUILDS ON PREVIOUS PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATING FUNDAMENTAL ASPECTS OF SAW SENSORS. THE CURRENT PROJECT FOCUSSED ON WIRELESS INTEROGATION AND APPLICATION INVESTIGATIONS. (WITH D.GERAGHTY) IRCSET EVALUATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN MANUFACTURING PROCESS CHAINS ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN MANUFACTURING IS CURRENTLY A FOCUS OF INTENSE SCRUTINY DUE TO ENERGY COSTS AND COMPANY CONCERN REGARDING CARBON EMISSIONS. THIS PROJECT FOCUSSED ON DEVELOPMENT OF ENERGY METRICS FOR MANUFACTURING PROCESS CHAINS, INCLUDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS STRATEGIES. IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME- DEPUY IRELAND MEASUREMENT AND CHARACTERISATION OF THE FRICTION STIR WELDING PROCESS FRICTION STIR WELDING IS A RELATIVELY NEW PROCESS PIONEERED BY THE TWI IN THE UK. THE PROCESS OFFERS CONSIDERABLE ADVANTAGES IN THE JOINING OF MATERIALS SUCH AS THE 20XX SERIES ALUMINIUMS. THIS PROJECT FOCUSSED ON THE MODELLING AND MEASUREMENT OF THE FRICTION STIR WELDING PROCESS (WITH PROF. J. MONAGHAN). TCD AWARD ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN COMPRESSED AIR SYSTEMS THE I2E2 COMPETENCE CENTRE IN COLLABORATION WITH TCD DEVELOPED EVALUATION TOOLS TO EXAMINE THE EFFICIENCY OF COMPRESSED AIR SYSTEMS IN LARGE SCALE INDUSTRY WITH A NUMBER OF LEADING US MNC'S (WITH DR. C. MESKELL). ENTERPRISE IRELAND/IDA COMPETENCE CENTRES DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENERGY SAVING IN PNEUMATIC PRODUCTION SYSTEMS THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACCURATE DEVICE MODELS FOR PNEUMATIC ACTUATION SYSTEMS REQUIRES THE COMBINATION OF DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS MODELS. THE INTEGRATION OF THESE MODELS WITH APPROPRIATE MACHINE CONTROL SYSTEMS SUCH AS PLC AND DCS SYSTEMS, COULD ALLOW FOR THE PREDICTIVE CONSUMPTION OF COMPRESSED AIR. THE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECT INVESTIGATES THIS SPECIFIC AREA IN COLLABORATION WITH HP IRELAND AND THE I2E2 COMPETENCE CENTRE RESEARCH ACTIVITY TAKING PLACE IN TCD IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME POST DOCTORAL FUNDAMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE MACHINING OF POLYMERS IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME- DEPUY CHARACTERISING THE CVD DRESSING PROCESS IRCSET ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP SCHEME- GRINDING DOC MEASURABLE PHENOMA IN THE MACHINING OF POLYMERS BILATERAL- DEPUY IRELAND COMPRESSED AIR SYSTEMS OPTIMISATION THE I2E2 COMPETENCE CENTRE IN COLLABORATION WITH TCD ARE UNDERTAKING RESEARCH ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR THE OPTIMUM USAGE OF COMPRESSED AIR IN LARGE SCALE AND SME TYPE INDUSTRIES(WITH DR. C. MESKELL). ENTERPRISE IRELAND/IDA COMPETENCE CENTRES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR JAMES O'DONNELL odonnelljames CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER JODONNE HAEMATOLOGY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) DEPARTMENT OF HAEMATOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR HEMATOLOGY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HAEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS BRITISH SOCIETY OF HAEMATOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS IRISH HAEMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TRAINING BLEEDING DISORDERS BLOOD DISEASES CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES HEMATOLOGY HEMOPHILIA PREGNANCY DISORDERS THROMBOSIS VON WILLEBRAND'S DISEASE AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. MARY J O'DONNELL odonnellmaryj ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MJODONNE DENTAL SCIENCE MICROBIOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT DIVISION OF ORAL BIOSCIENCES DUBLIN DENTAL SCHOOL & HOSPITAL LINCOLN PLACE, COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY MEMBER OF THE INFECTION PREVENTION SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE INVESTIGATION TEAM FOR THE INDEPENDENTLY CHAIRED REPORT ON LEGIONELLOSIS AT WATERFORD REGIONAL HOSPITAL MEMBER OF THE IRISH DENTAL NURSES ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP OF IADR PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH DENTAL NURSES ASSOCIATION AEROBIC BACTERIA BIOFILM DENTAL CHAIR WATERLINES DENTAL CLINIC DENTAL DISINFECTANTS DENTAL HANDPIECES ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA LEGIONELLA MICROBIAL-CONTAMINATION MICROBIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS PREVALENCE SYSTEMS WATER MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. SHARON O'DONNELL odonnellsharon ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SODONNE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY GENDER & HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH; HEALTH OUTCOMES; HEALTH INEQUALITIES; WOMEN'S HEALTH SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH AN BOARD ALTRANAIS EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING IRISH ASSOCATION OF CRITICAL CARE NURSES IRISH HEART FOUNDATION: WOMEN'S COUNCIL REVIEWER: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING REVIEWER: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING ACUTE CARE NURSING ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, PHARMACOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM CHANGING GENDER ROLE ATTITUDES IN IRELAND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS CRITICAL CARE EMERGENCY EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICES GENDER GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER DIMENSIONS IN HEALTH AND ILLNESS GENDER ISSUES IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT GENDER ISSUES, GENDER STUDIES HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH DISPARITIES HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES HEALTH/MEDICAL SCIENCE--COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY HEART HEART FAILURE HEART FAILURE AND TRANSPLANTATION INPATIENTS MEDICAL DISCLOSURE AND THEORIES OF THE FEMALE BODY NURSING PATIENT CARE AND EDUCATION PATTERNS OF HEALTH PREVENTIVE MEDICINE SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT/TRANSFER/OUTREACH (HLTH TELEMEDICINE WOMEN'S HEALTH GENDER & MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: AN ANALYSIS OF CARE-PATHWAY DELAYS IN JULY 2005, I COMPLETED MY PHD ENTITLED' GENDER AND MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: AN ANALYSIS OF CARE-PATHWAY DELAYS. MY PHD EXAMINED GENDER DIFFERENCES IN TREATMENT FOR WOMEN AND MEN WITH MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION WITH RESULTS SHOWING THAT WOMEN WAITED LONGER TO SEEK HELP AND HAVING EVENTUALLY SOUGHT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE, RECEIVED SLOWER AND DELAYED TREATMENT. THE STUDY WAS BASED IN 6 HOSPITALS IN DUBLIN AND INCLUDED 890 PATIENTS. THIS WAS THE FIRST STUDY CARRIED OUT IN IRELAND ON THIS SUBJECT AREA, DESPITE ITS RECEIVING INCREASING INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS. AS SUCH, THIS STUDY WAS LONG OVER-DUE IN IRELAND, AND I WOULD HOPE THAT WITH ITS PUBLICATION, THE CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH OF WOMEN WILL IMPROVE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PHD AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS EILEEN O'DONNELL odonnelleileen RESEARCH STUDENT ODONNEE COMPUTER SYSTEMS RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: ADAPTIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES, TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING, PERSONALISED E-LEARNING, ADAPTIVE SIMULATIONS, USER PROFILING, HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION AND STUDENTS VIEWS AND REACTIONS TO THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION. COMPUTER SYSTEMS 01-8961000 REVIEWER: ACCOUNTING EDUCATION: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL REVIEWER: ADULT AND COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION: TOOLS, TRENDS, AND METHODOLOGIES REVIEWER: AWARENESS AND REFLECTION IN TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING REVIEWER: CRITICAL DESIGN AND EFFECTIVE TOOLS FOR E-LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THEORY INTO PRACTICE REVIEWER: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REVIEWER: EPEDAGOGY IN ONLINE LEARNING: NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN WEB MEDIATED HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION REVIEWER: HANDBOOK OF RESEARCH ON EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN A CHANGING SOCIETY (2 VOLUMES) REVIEWER: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES (IJDET) REVIEWER: JOURNAL OF BEHAVIOUR AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER BASED TRAINING HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. CATHAL O'DONNELL odonnellcathal ICT FACILITIES MANAGER ODONNEC4 IT SERVICES IT SERVICES 200 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. ANITA O'DONOVAN odonovananita ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ODONOVA4 RADIATION THERAPY GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY SCHOOL OF RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES' HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GEORGIAN IRISH CHAIR OF THE MEMBERSHIP AND NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY (SIOG) ESTRO MEMBER IIRRT MEMBER MEMBER OF BOARD AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY (SIOG) MEMBER OF FACULTY ESTRO COURSE NON-MELANOMA SKIN CANCER MEMBER OF FACULTY SIOG ADVANCED COURSE IN GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY MEMBER OF TEACHING FACULTY ON THE ESTRO TEACHING COURSE ON BASIC TREATMENT PLANNING. MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY (SIOG) MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY GROUP OF YOUNG ESTRO MEMBERS FOR ESTRO 33. NATIONAL RADIATION THERAPY REVIEWER ON THE RADIOGRAPHY QUALIFICATIONS REVIEW BOARD NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY (SIOG) REGISTERED MEMBER OF CORU MANAGING THE ELDERLY IN RADIOTHERAPY USING GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT (MERGE): BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: ELEVEN PER CENT OF IRELAND'S POPULATION IS CURRENTLY OVER THE AGE OF 65; THIS IS PROJECTED TO DOUBLE TO 1.4 MILLION BY 2040. APPROXIMATELY 60% OF ALL IRISH CANCER CASES OCCUR IN THE OVER 65 AGE GROUP. ACCORDING TO IRISH CANCER SOCIETY AND NATIONAL CANCER CONTROL PROGRAMME (NCCP) PREDICTIONS, NEW CANCER CASES IN IRELAND COULD POTENTIALLY DOUBLE BY 2040. DESPITE THE BODY OF EVIDENCE DEMONSTRATING THE BENEFITS OF GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT, ITS ADOPTION IN ONCOLOGY HAS NOT BEEN WIDESPREAD. TRADITIONALLY A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IS REQUIRED IN COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT (CGA) IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMS AND DEVELOP A CARE PLAN APPROPRIATE TO INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS. HOWEVER, IT IS WELL RECOGNISED THAT CGA IS TIME CONSUMING AND EXPENSIVE. HOW GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT CAN BEST BE INTEGRATED INTO ONCOLOGY REMAINS TO BE CLARIFIED. MY RESEARCH IS FOCUSSED ON INTEGRATION OF GERIATRIC MEDICINE PRINCIPLES IN RADIATION THERAPY. OUTCOMES: TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT ON SPECIFIED TREATMENT ONCOLOGICAL OUTCOMES, SUCH AS THE ABILITY TO IMPACT TREATMENT DECISIONS, TREATMENT TOLERANCE AND QUALITY OF LIFE. IMPACT: POPULATION AGEING WILL HAVE A PROFOUND EFFECT ON THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN IRELAND IN THE COMING YEARS. THIS WILL BE ESPECIALLY EVIDENT IN IRELAND, WHERE THERE WILL BE A PREDICTED DOUBLING IN THE PROPORTION OF THE POPULATION OVER THE AGE OF 65. THERE IS NOW AN IMPETUS IN ALL ASPECTS OF ELDERLY CARE, TO PUT THE NECESSARY INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE TO PROMOTE SUCCESSFUL AGEING. THE PROVISION OF STATE-OF-THE-ART ONCOLOGY SERVICES IS ONE SUCH AREA. AGEING CANCER DR. MARY-ANN O'DONOVAN odonovanmaryann ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ODONOVM3 EDUCATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING PROFESSOR THOMAS O'DOWD odowdthomas FELLOW EMERITUS TODOWD PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE MY RESEARCH HAS COVERED MEDICAL EDUCATION AND MANY ASPECTS OF PATIENT WELFARE AND HEALTHCARE DELIVERY INCLUDING INEQUALITIES, WORKFORCE PLANNING AND CHRONIC DISEASES AND I HAVE PUBLISHED WIDELY IN IRISH AND INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS (HTTPS://TCDLOCALPORTAL.TCD.IE/PLS/WEBAPPS/CERIF.CERIF_CV.DISPLAY_CV?P_CV_ID=728). I AM CURRENTLY A MEMBER OF THE STUDY TEAM OF THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND (GROWING UP IN IRELAND) WHICH IS STUDYING THE LIVES OF 18,000 CHILDREN. I LED TRINITY COLLEGE'S SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION FOR THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD FUNDED CENTRE ON PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH WITH RCSI AND QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST I HAVE SERVED ON A NUMBER OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARDS AND COMMITTEES. CONTACT DETAILS: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE TRINITY COLLEGE CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL, INCORPORATING THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24, IRELAND TELEPHONE: +353 (0)1 8961087 FAX: +353 (0)1 4031211 EMAIL: TODOWD@TCD.IE PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS OF GENERAL PRACTICE IN IRELAND COUNCIL OF THE MEDICAL DEFENCE UNION ELECTED TO COUNCIL OF IRISH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS EUROPEAN GENERAL PRACTITIONER RESEARCH WORKSHOP SOCIETY OF ACADEMIC PRIMARY CARE CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS EPIDEMIOLOGY HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES HUMAN GENETICS INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH IRISH CHILDHOODS, CHANGE AND DIVERSITY POPULATION BASED INTERVENTION TRIALS PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC, PRIVATE MIX NETWORK GROWING UP IN IRELAND 2 LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF 10,000 9 MONTH AND 8,500 9 YEAR OLDS. SEE GROWINGUP.IE FOR FURTHER DETAILS OFFICE OF MINISTER FOR CHILDREN VULNERABLE GROUPS IN PRIMARY CARE PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH CENTRE WITH 3 WORKSTREAMS - THE ONE INVOLVING TRINITY IS IN CHRONIC DISEASE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD OBESITY IN CHILDHOOD : PRIMARY CARE STUDY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CRUMLIN, DUBLIN 12 GENE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN CHILDREN HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR LORRAINE O'DRISCOLL odriscolllorraine PROFESSOR LODRISC PHARMACY BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; CANCER RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS; PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS; PREDICTIVE MARKERS; NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS; TARGETED THERAPIES; PIPELINE DRUGS; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES; SMALL MOLECULES; CLINICAL AND INDUSTRY COLLABORATIONS; BREAST CANCER; LUNG CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELLS (CTCS); MULTI-DRUG RESISTANCE; STEM CELLS; DIFFERENTIATION; DIABETES; ISLET TRANSPLANTS; MICROARRAYS; PROTEOMICS; MRNAS; MICRORNAS (MIRNAS); CLINICAL TRIALS SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CELLULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY CHAIR, EUROPEAN NETWORK ON MICROVESICLES AND EXOSOMES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE DEPUTY-PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH BRANCH OF THE EUROPEAN TISSUE CULTURE SOCIETY (ETCS) DIRECTOR/COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (IACR) EDITOR OF ANTICANCER RESEARCH EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER FOR CANCER GENOMICS & PROTEOMICS EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER FOR ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BIOSCIENCE FRONTIER IN BIOSCIENCE ELECTED MEMBER ON DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY'S FACULTY OF SCIENCE & HEALTH RESEARCH COMMITTEE ELECTED MEMBER ON DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY'S RESEARCH ADVISORY PANEL GUEST-EDITION OF METHODS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING GUEST-EDITOR OF BOOK VOLUME OF CURRENT CANCER DRUG TARGETS ENTITLED "MECHANISMS OF CANCER DRUG SENSITIVITY & RESISTANCE: A TRANSLATIONAL APPROACH" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISNG COMMITTEE MEMBER: 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY CANCER AND DRUG RESISTANCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISNG COMMITTEE MEMBER: 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ANTICANCER RESEARCH, CORFU INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISNG COMMITTEE MEMBER: 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF ANTICANCER RESEARCH, KOS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISNG COMMITTEE MEMBER: GLOBAL MRNA & PROTEIN EXPRESSION ANALYSIS FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS & BIOPHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION, DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANISNG COMMITTEE MEMBER: INTERNATIONAL ISLET AND PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION ASSOCIATION CONGRESS INVITED MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (IACR) RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING COMMITTEE INVITED MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANTICANCER RESEARCH (IIAR) SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER OF IRISH NETWORK OF STEM-CELL INVESTIGATORS (INNSI) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (EACR) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF DIABETES (EASD) MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CELLULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD RESEARCH SPECIALIST: ALL IRELAND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP (& PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ON PHASE I & II TRIALS) APOPTOSIS APOPTOSIS, MOLECULAR CONTROL BIOINFORMATICS BIOLOGY BIOLOGY AND THERAPY OF MYELOMA BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BREAST CANCER CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS CELL AND TISSUE DEVELOPMENT CELL AND TISSUE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND AGEING CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS DIABETES AND DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS DIAGNOSTICS DNA TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION DRUG DISCOVERY, PROFILING, TARGETING EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT ENDOCRINE FUNCTION AND DISEASE GENE TARGETING IN BREAST CANCER GENE THERAPY GENE TRANSCRIPTION IN HUMAN CANCER HUMAN GENETICS IMMUNOASSAYS IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS MAMMILIAN AND HUMAN GENETICS AND GENOMICS MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH MEMBRANE AND PROTEIN TRAFFICKING MULTIPLE MYELOMA ONCOGENES, APOPTOSIS AND TUMOUR DEVELOPMENT PATHOLOGY PROSTATE CANCER REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION RNA PROCESSING, STABILITY AND DEGRADATION STEM CELL BIOLOGY AND HEMATOPOIESIS THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER BASIC MEDICINE GENETICS AND GENOMICS PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY LUNGMARK DISCOVERY & VALIDATION OF PANELS OF NEW DIAGNOSTIC AND THERANOSTIC BLOOD-BASED BIOMARKERS FOR LUNG CANCER ENTERPRISE IRELAND (UNDER NATIONAL STRATEGIC DEV. PLAN 2007-2013 CO-FINANCED BY ERDF) COMMERCIALISATION NEW DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS FOR AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION IRCSET EMPOWER BIOMARKERS & THERAPEUTICS TARGETS: MES, DIABETES AND CANCER IN VITRO, IN VIVO AND CLINICAL TRIALS STUDIES INCLUDING RESEARCHERS FROM IRELAND, DENMARK, THE NETHERLANDS, AND GERMANY TO IDENTIFY AND VALIDATE BIOMARKERS & NEW THERAPEUTICS TARGETS OF POTENTIAL RELEVANT TO METABOLIC SYNDROME, DIABETES AND CANCER DANISH STRATEGIC RESEARCH COUNCIL / EU MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION PHD SCHOLARSHIP AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN DEVELOPING BLOOD TESTS FOR EARLIER DIAGNOSIS & OPTIMAL TREATMENT SELECTION FOR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION, TRINITY FOUNDATION, TCD EXPLORING THE RELEVANCE OF EXOSOMES IN CANCER IRCSET EMPOWER MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION PHD SCHOLARSHIP AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN BETTER WAYS OF ASSESSING ANTI-CANCER DRUGS IN THE LABORATORY TO INCREASE THEIR SUCCESS FOR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION, TRINITY FOUNDATION, TCD MOLECULAR THERAPEUTICS FOR CANCER THIS CLUSTER OF SCIENTIFIC, CLINICAL, INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS, WITH SUPPORT FROM THE ALL IRELAND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP (ICORG) FOCUSSES ON MOLECULAR THERAPEUTICS FOR CANCER. THIS FULLY-INTEGRATED TRANSLATIONAL CANCER DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME WILL SIGNIFICANTLY BENEFIT CANCER PATIENTS. OUR INDUSTRY PATNERS INCLUDE SRC'S INDUSTRY PARTNERS ARE GLAXOSMITHKLINE, PFIZER, MERCK SHARPE & DOHME, NOVARTIS, ROCHE, AND AMGEN. SFIS SUPPORT FOR THIS SRC IS €7.3M. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) SRC CHARACTERISATION OF 2 NOVEL MRNAS PRESENT IN BREAST TUMOURS - BUT NOT NORMAL BREAST TISSUE - WITH POTENTIAL AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS & DIAGNOSTIC/PROGNOSTIC BIOMARKERS. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED, USING WHOLE GENOME EXPRESSION MICROARRAY ANALYSIS OF A LARGE BANK OF BREAST CANCER AND NORMAL BREAST BIOPSIES, TWO NOVEL POORLY CHARACTERISED TRANSCRIPTS WHICH DO NOT OCCUR IN NORMAL BREAST BUT ARE FOUND IN MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF BREAST CANCER BIOPSIES. KAPLAN-MEIER, X2 AND COX REGRESSION ANALYSES SHOWED THAT EXPRESSION OF EACH OF THESE TRANSCRIPTS IS SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH POOR PROGNOSIS. WE PROPOSE TO CHARACTERISE AND INVESTIGATE THE FUNCTION OF THESE TWO GENES, WHICH WERE NOT PRESENT IN PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MICROARRAY ANALYSES, IN ORDER TO ASSESS THEIR POSSIBLE IMPORTANCE IN BREAST CANCER CELL BIOLOGY, AS THERAPEUTIC TARGETS AND AS DIAGNOSTIC/PROGNOSTIC/PREDICTIVE MARKERS. IN THIS PROJECT, WE PROPOSE TO ISOLATE AND SEQUENCE THE FULL LENGTH CDNAS, AND TO INVESTIGATE HOMOLOGIES TO BETTER CHARACTERISED GENES WITH KNOWN ROLES WITHIN THE CELL. WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE FUNCTIONS OF THESE GENES IN RELATION TO PROPERTIES SUCH AS CELL GROWTH RATE, CELL SURVIVAL, CELL DIVISION, INVASION, DRUG RESISTANCE AND SOFT AGAR COLONY FORMATION, IN A PANEL OF BREAST CANCER CELL LINES USING CDNA AND SIRNA TRANSFECTIONS. QRT-PCR WILL BE USED TO CHOOSE CELL LINES MOST APPROPRIATE FOR UP- OR DOWN-REGULATION OF EXPRESSION. PEPTIDES FROM THE PREDICTED PROTEIN STRUCTURE WILL BE USED TO RAISE ANTIBODIES FOR WESTERN BLOTTING AND IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY. GFP-TAGGED CDNAS WILL BE PREPARED IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE SUBCELLULAR LOCALISATION OF THE GENE PRODUCTS. BY ANALOGY WITH THE HER2/HERCEPTIN DIAGNOSTIC/THERAPEUTIC PAIRING, WE HOPE THIS PROJECT MAY LEAD TO IDENTIFICATION OF NEW SPECIFIC TARGETS FOR DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY OF SUBSETS OF BREAST CARCINOMA PATIENTS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD GENERAL GRANTS (FUNDING ICNCL. A POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW) BIOMARKERS OF RESPONSE TO TAXOTERE IN HORMONE-REFRACTORY PROSTATE CANCER THE STANDARD OF CARE FOR HORMONE REFRACTORY PROSTATE CANCER (HRPC) IS TAXOTERE (GENERALLY 2-3 WEEKLY; FOR 10 CYCLES). THIS TREATMENT INCREASES OVERALL SURVIVAL (OS) BY, ON AVERAGE, 2.5 MONTHS. MECHANISMS ARE NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO DETERMINE (I) THOSE PATIENTS WHO ARE MOST SUITABLE/WOULD BENEFIT FROM THIS TREATMENT; (II) WHY THIS BENEFIT IS SHORT-TERM (WHY RELAPSE/RESISTANCE OCCURS); AND (III) WHICH PATIENTS ARE UNLIKELY TO RESPOND TO TAXANES AND SO SHOULD POTENTIALLY BE OFFERED TARGETED THERAPIES. THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS TO ESTABLISH IF GENE EXPRESSION IN CIRCULATING TUMOUR CELLS (CTC) FROM HRPCS PATIENTS IS PREDICTIVE OF RESPONSE TO THERAPY. ADNAGEN FACILITATED AND APPROVED BY THE IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP (ICORG) BIOMARKERS (MRNAS, MIRNAS, PROTEINS) FOR TYPE 1 & TYPE 2 DIABETES TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS (T2DM) IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED &#946;-CELL FUNCTION, RELATIVELY REDUCED &#946;-CELL MASS AND INSULIN RESISTANCE. SERUM BIOMARKERS OF &#946;-CELL MASS AND/OR FUNCTION HAVE NOT BEEN DESCRIBED. AMPLIFIABLE MRNAS, WHICH HAVE BEEN DETECTED IN CONDITIONED MEDIUM FROM CULTURES OF INSULIN-PRODUCING ANIMAL CELL-LINES, IF DETECTABLE IN HUMAN SERUM, COULD SERVE AS MARKERS OF &#946;-CELL MASS. WE ATTEMPTED TO DETECT THESE MRNAS IN SERUM FROM PATIENTS WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED T2DM AND COMPARED THEM TO HEALTHY CONTROLS. WE RECRUITED T2DM SUBJECTS (MEAN DM DURATION 4.36±2.33 MONTHS) AND CONTROLS (AGE, GENDER AND BMI MATCHED). MEDICAL HISTORY, PHYSICAL EXAM AND FASTING BLOODS WERE OBTAINED. SERUM MRNA LEVELS WERE ANALYSED USING REAL TIME QUANTITATIVE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION-PCR. TWO MRNAS, THIOREDOXIN INTERACTING PROTEIN (TXNIP) AND EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1 (EGR1), PREVIOUSLY ASSOCIATED WITH CELL-LINE GLUCOSE RESPONSIVENESS, WERE DETECTED.LEVELS OF EGR1 WERE LOWER AND LEVELS OF TXNIP TENDED TO BE HIGHER IN T2DM. EGR1 LEVEL CORRELATED POSITIVELY WITH SMOKING HISTORY IN PACK-YEARS (&#961;=0.485, P=0.042), TOTAL (&#961;=0.554, P=0.017) AND LDL CHOLESTEROL (&#961;= 0.495, P= 0.043). TXNIP LEVEL CORRELATED POSITIVELY WITH AGE (&#961;= 0.471, P=0.042) AND HOMA%S (&#961;= 0.489, P= 0.034) BUT NOT WITH SMOKING HISTORY OR CHOLESTEROL LEVEL. TO OUR KNOWLEDGE, THIS IS A FIRST DESCRIPTION OF DETECTABLE SERUM MRNAS POSSIBLY LINKED TO THE DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETES. SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS FINDING IS UNCLEAR AT PRESENT AND CONFOUNDING VARIABLES MAY HAVE AN EFFECT ON THESE RESULTS. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY & SEED FUNDING PRTLI EUROPEAN NETWORK ON MICROVESICLES & EXOSOMES IN HEALTH AND DISEASE MICROVESICLES AND EXOSOMES (ME) HAVE ATTRACTED MUCH RECENT INTEREST BECAUSE OF THEIR POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS, USE AS DISEASE BIOMARKERS AND POSSIBLE THERAPEUTIC EXPLOITATION. DUE TO THEIR ENORMOUS RELEVANCE, THROUGH NATIONALLY-FUNDED PROJECTS THROUGHOUT EUROPE, THIS RELATIVELY NEW FIELD OF RESEARCH IS QUICKLY EXPANDING. THERE ARE, HOWEVER, MANY ASSOCIATED ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED TO ENSURE OPTIMAL RESEARCH PERFORMANCE AND COLLATION AND CROSS-INTERPRETATION OF DATA. THESE ISSUES RANGE FROM THE NEED TO DERIVE A CONSENSUS ON FUNDAMENTAL GUIDELINES/NOMENCLATURE AND OPTIMAL TECHNIQUES FOR VESICLE ISOLATION AND ANALYSIS, TO MORE ADVANCED ISSUES SUCH AS COLLATING EMERGING DATA AND EXPERTISE TOWARDS BETTER UNDERSTANDING, AND THUS EXPLOITING, THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL ROLES OF ME. THERE IS ALSO URGENCY TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN ME KNOWLEDGE AND HOW BEST COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CAN ADDRESS THESE QUESTIONS. THIS CONSRTIUM CREATES A NETWORK OF EUROPEAN EXPERTS, FOSTERING A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO ENHANCE BOTH BASIC UNDERSTANDING AND TRANSLATIONAL POTENTIAL OF ME. EU H2020 COOPERATION IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY EXOSOMAL NEUROMEDIN U AND MIR-X: POTENTIAL PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS FOR HER2-TARGETED DRUGS A NEW RANGE OF ANTI-CANCER DRUGS HAVE BECOME AVAILABLE THAT ARE USED TO TREATMENT SOME BREAST CANCER PATIENTS. THE BEST KNOWN ONE IS HERCEPTIN (TRASTUZUMAB), BUT THERE ARE OTHER NEW DRUGS IN THIS FAMILY. THESE DRUGS WERE DESIGNED TO INTERACT WITH HER2, A MOLECULE FOUND AT GREATER AMOUNTS ON CANCER CELLS COMPARED TO NORMAL CELLS FOR ~25% OF BREAST CANCER PATIENTS. THESE DRUGS ARE MORE CANCER-SPECIFIC THAN OLDER CHEMOTHERAPY AND CAN OFFER ADVANTAGES OF GREATLY HELPING MANY PATIENTS WITHOUT CAUSING SERIOUS SIDE-EFFECTS. UNFORTUNATELY, SOME PATIENTS WHO SEEM SUITABLE CANDIDATES BASED ON THE HER2 TEST, DON'T BENEFIT FROM THESE TREATMENTS. SOME OTHERS RESPOND AT FIRST, BUT THEN BECOME UNRESPONSIVE (RESISTANT) TO THE TREATMENT. ADDED TO THE PROBLEM OF SOME PATIENTS NOT BENEFITING, THESE DRUGS ARE EXTRAORDINARILY EXPENSIVE COSTS TO HEALTHCARE. WE URGENTLY NEED WAYS OF PREDICTING WHICH PATIENTS WITH "HER2 TUMOURS" ARE LIKELY TO BENEFIT. WE ALSO NEED TO BE ABLE TO OVERCOME THE RESISTANCE PROBLEM. STUDYING CELLS FROM BREAST TUMOURS, WE RECENTLY FOUND TWO MOLECULES, NMU AND MIR-X, AT SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT AMOUNTS BOTH INSIDE AND OUTSIDE CELLS THAT ARE RESISTANT TO THESE DRUGS COMPARED TO THOSE THAT ARE SENSITIVE. BY "TWEAKING" THEIR AMOUNTS IN THE CELLS, WE CAN MAKE CELLS MORE RESISTANT OR MORE SENSITIVE TO THESE DRUG; SUGGESTING THAT THIS APPROACH MIGHT HELP OVERCOME THE SERIOUS RESISTANCE PROBLEM IN TUMOURS. SO, (I) WE EXPLAINED THIS STUDY TO MANY PATIENTS ENROLLING IN CLINICAL TRIALS USING THESE DRUGS. THEY DONATED BLOOD SPECIMENS THAT WE WANT TO TEST TO SEE IF ANALYSE FOR NMU AND MIR-X CAN PREDICT THOSE WHO WILL/WON'T RESPOND; (II) WE ARE AT A STAGE WHERE WE NOW NEED TO PROGRESS OUR WORK OF "TWEAKING" NMU AND MIR-X TO SEE IF WE CAN HELP OVERCOME THIS RESISTANCE IN A LIVING ORGANISM. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD BREAST-PREDICT BREAST-PREDICT IS A COUNTRY-WIDE COLLABORATION BETWEEN EXPERTS IN THE AREA OF BREAST CANCER RESEARCH, FUNDED BY THE IRISH CANCER SOCIETY. THIS 'VIRTUAL CENTRE' WAS LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER 2013 AND WILL RUN FOR A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS. BREAST-PREDICT BRINGS TOGETHER RESEARCHERS FROM SIX ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS ACROSS IRELAND: UCD, TCD, RCSI, DCU, NUIG AND UCC, AND A NATIONWIDE CLINICAL TRIALS GROUP, ICORG. WE COLLECT INFORMATION AND TUMOUR SAMPLES FROM NEARLY EVERY BREAST CANCER PATIENT IN THE COUNTRY, WITH THEIR CONSENT. USING THESE VALUABLE RESOURCES, WE WILL IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THIS DISEASE CAN SPREAD AND BECOME RESISTANT TO TREATMENT, AND FIND WAYS TO COMBAT THIS WITH NEW AND BETTER THERAPIES. THIS IS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CENTRE, WHICH UNITES BREAST CANCER EXPERTS WITH DIFFERENT SKILLS, TO WORK TOWARDS A COMMON GOAL. IRISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTRE CANCER GENES & SOCIETY DR. ANN MARIE O'DWYER odwyerannmarie SENIOR LECTURER PART-TIME AMODWYER PSYCHIATRY 15 CARLISLE AVENUE DONNYBROOK DUBLIN 4 01-8961000 DR. MAIRE O'DWYER odwyermaire ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MODWYER6 PHARMACY I AM INTERESTED IN APPROPRIATENESS OF MEDICATION USE, IN PARTICULAR, THE USE OF MULTIPLE MEDICINES IN OLDER POPULATIONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES OR MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES, AND EFFECTS OF PSYCHOTROPIC AND ANTICHOLINERGIC MEDICINES ON FUNCTIONAL AND COGNITIVE OUTCOMES. I AM INTERESTED IN AND HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN QUANTITATIVE, EVIDENCE BASED RESEARCH METHODS AND PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY. I CONTINUE TO PRACTICE AS A COMMUNITY PHARMACIST (PART-TIME) AND I AM INTERESTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROLE OF THE PHARMACIST AS PART OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM TO IMPROVE PATIENT CARE AND SAFETY. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY & PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) DRUG BURDEN INDEX TO DEFINE THE FUNCTIONAL BURDEN OF MEDICINES IN OLDER ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES DEAN'S FUND AWARD, FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. DERMOT WILLIAM O'DWYER odwyerdermotwilliam ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DWODWYER CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. RAILWAY ENGINEERING - ALL ASPECTS OF PERMANENT WAY AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INFRASTRUCTURE WITH A PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON BRIDGE AND TRACK DYNAMICS. STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION - APPLICATION OF OPTIMISATION METHODS RANGING FROM LINEAR AND QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING METHODS TO GENETIC ALGORITHMS STRUCTURAL MASONRY - THE ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF HISTORIC MASONRY STRUCTURES INCLUDING MASONRY VAULTS, ARCHES, BRIDGES AND CANTILEVERED STONE STAIRS ENGINEERING HISTORY AND HERITAGE CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHARTERED ENGINEER, MIEI IRISH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS' PANEL FOR HISTORIC ENGINEERING WORKS (PHEW) IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS' PANEL FOR HISTORIC ENGINEERING WORKS (PHEW) MEMBER OF THE RAILWAY SAFETY ADVISORY COUNCIL MICE RAILWAY BRIDGE DYNAMICS WORK ON MODELLING THE BEHAVIOUR OF RAILWAY BRIDGES UNDER LOAD EXTENDED OVER A NUMBER OF PROJECTS FROM 1996 TO ABOUT 2006. THESE PROJECTS WERE FUNDED LARGELY BY IRISH RAIL WITH SOME ADDITION SUPPORT FROM OTHER AGENCIES. IRISH RAIL RAILWAY BRIDGE DUNAMICS WORK ON MODELLING THE BEHAVIOUR OF RAILWAY BRIDGES UNDER LOAD EXTENDED OVER A NUMBER OF PROJECTS FROM 1996 TO ABOUT 2006. THESE PROJECTS WERE FUNDED LARGELY BY IRISH RAIL WITH SOME ADDITION SUPPORT FROM OTHER AGENCIES. IRISH RAIL CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CLODAGH O'DWYER odwyerclodagh CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER ODWYERCL CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 PROFESSOR CLIONA O'FARRELLY ofarrellycliona CHAIR IN COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY OFARRECL BIOCHEMISTRY SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY ANIMAL DISEASES/PATHOLOGY ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CHRONIC INFLAMATION EQUINE DISEASES/PATHOLOGY FOOD SAFETY HEPATITIS C HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS HUMAN GENETICS IMMUNE CELLS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNE-MEDIATED IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELLS INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFERTILITY INFLAMMATION INNATE IMMUNE-SYSTEM INNATE IMMUNITY INNATE IMMUNOLOGY LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY LIVER DISEASES AND TRANSPLANTATION MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY POULTRY PRODUCTS POULTRY SCIENCE REPRODUCTION, FERTILITY AND CONTRACEPTION STEM CELL BIOLOGY AND HEMATOPOIESIS TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY, TOLERANCE AND REJECTION TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY VACCINES VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS ENTERPRISE IRELAND GRANT 1999 SC/1999/345 THE EFFECT OF INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL MICROENVIRONMENT ON T CELL ACTIVATION (WITH DR. D. O'DONOGHUE) IRISH CANCER SOCIETY GRANT 1999 CRAB 1999/2000 NATURAL T CELLS IN HUMAN BONE MARROW AND THEIR ROLE IN HAEMATOPOIETIC MALIGNANCY (WITH DR. D. MCCARTHY) IRISH CANCER SOCIETY HRB (PROJECT GRANT) 1999 165/99 STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS ADHERENCE TO HYDROXYAPATITE BEADS AND ITS PREVENTION (WITH DR. L. FENELON) HRB ENTERPRISE IRELAND GRANT 1999 ST/1999/150 CHARACTERISATION OF NOVEL ANTIMICROBIAL PROTEINS FOR INCLUSION IN ORAL HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS (WITH MR. M. FOLAN) ENTERPRISE IRELAND HRB (GRANT IN AID) 1998 T LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION IN ADULT HUMAN LIVER (WITH DR. J. HEGARTY) HRB DEPT. AGRICULTURE FUNCTIONAL FOODS PROGRAMME NOVEL ANTIBACTERIAL FACTORS FROM HEN EGGS DEPT. AGRICULTURE FUNCTIONAL FOODS PROGRAMME H.R.B. (GRANT-IN-AID) 1995 CYTOKINE ELABORATION BY INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS HRB SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS 2008 08/RFP/BMT1403 THE ROLE OF HEPATITIS C VIRUS IN REGULATING SIGNAL TRANSDUCER AND ACTIVATOR OF TRANSCRIPTION (STAT) PROTEIN EXPRESSION TO EVADE ANTI-VIRAL INTERFERON-Á RESPONSES. SFI HRB PROJECT GRANT 2007 RP/2007/278 SUPPRESSOR OF CYTOKINE SIGNALLING (SOCS) PROTEIN INVOLVEMENT IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) INFECTION AND FAILURE TO RESPOND TO INTERFERON ALPHA THERAPY HRB HRB TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AWARD 2007 TRA/2007/14 (WITH DR. AIDEEN LONG TCD & PROF. DERMOT KELLEHER, TCD) IMMUNE TARGETING STRATEGIES: IMPROVING THE RESPONSE RATE TO IFN-ALPHA/RIBAVIRIN THERAPY IN CHRONIC HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION HRB DEPT. AGRICULTURE RESEARCH STIMULUS FUND 2006 06/340 STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL IDENTIFICATION OF CANDIDATE IMMUNE GENES FOR RESISTANCE TO MASTITIS AND METRITIS DEPT. AGRICULTURE FIRM GRANT 2006 06/RDD/486 IDENTIFICATION OF GENES RESPONSIBLE FOR NATURAL HOST RESISTANCE TO CAMPYLOBACTER COLONISATION TOOLS TO IDENTIFY AND BREED GENETICALLY RESISTANT CHICKENS FIRM GRANT ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT PHASE WINTER CALL 2005 PC/2005/242 EVOLUTION BASED APPROACHES TO DIRECTED ALTERATION OF AMPS FOR IMPROVED EFFICACY AGAINST PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES AND MRSA ENTERPRISE IRELAND SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME 2005 05/RFP/BIC0012 ROLE OF CD1D ISOFORMS AND REACTIVE CELLS IN REGULATING IMMUNE RESPONSES TO MALIGNANCY SFI HRB RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS - GENERAL 2005 RP/2005/217 (WITH DR. CLAIR GARDINER, T.C.D. & HCV RESEARCH CONSORTIUM) INVESTIGATION OF KIR GENOTYPE IN THE RESOLUTION OF HCV INFECTION LIVER TRUST S.V.U.H. IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF HEPATIC FEATURES PROGNOSTIC OF DISEASE PROGRESS IN TRANSPLANT REJECTION AND HEPATITIS C FIRM GRANT 2004 04/R&D/D/295 FUNCTIONAL IMMUNOGENOMICS IN THE CHICKEN: RELEVANCE TO AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION FIRM HRB RESEARCH PROGRAMME GRANT 2003 BPRO/02/2003 CHARACTERISATION HEPATITIS C INDUCED IMMUNOLOGICAL SUBVERSION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT RESPONSE HRB ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAMME 2003 SC/2003/567 CYTOKINE MILIEU, NATURAL KILLER RECEPTOR POSITIVE CELLS, HAEMATOPOIETIC PROGENITORS IN HUMAN ENDOMETRIUM ENTERPRISE IRELAND HRB RESEARCH PROJECT GRANTS GENERAL 2001RP141/2001 ADULT STEM CELLS: DEVELOPMENT OF T CELLS IN THE HUMAN INTESTINE HRB FIRM PROGRAMME GRANT 200101/R&D/D/135 ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY IN HEN EGGS, A COMBINED BIOINFORMATIC, BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL APPROACH FIRM ENTERPRISE IRELAND/BRITISH COUNCIL 2000: (FOR PROMOTING COLLABORATION): ADULT STEM CELLS IN HUMAN LIVER (WITH PROF. A. STRAIN, BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY) ENTERPRISE IRELAND/BRITISH COUNCIL HRB PROJECT GRANT 2000 RP86/2000 QUANTIFICATION OF HEPATITIS C VIRAL LOAD IN LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATIONS (WITH JOHN HEGARTY) HRB H.R.B. (GRANT-IN-AID) PREVENTION OF C.DIFFICILE INFECTION WITH EGG (WITH DR. L. FENELON) HRB H.R.B. (GRANT-IN-AID) T CELL POPULATIONS IN THE HUMAN UTERUS (WITH PROF. C.O'HERLIHY) HRB FORBAIRT BASIC GRANT UNCONVENTIONAL T LYMPHOCYTES IN THE INTESTINE FORBAIRT FORBAIRT STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT AWARD PREVENTION OF NEONATAL SCOUR USING PROBIOTIC BACTERIA AND HEN EGG ANTIBODIES (WITH DR. M.O'SULLIVAN) FORBAIRT H.R.B. (GRANT-IN-AID) THE LIVER AS A SITE OF EXTRATHYMIC T CELL DIFFERENTIATION HRB EOLAS HIGHER EDUCATION INDUSTRY CO-OPERATION GRANT 1994 EOLAS HIGHER EDUCATION INDUSTRY CO-OPERATION GRANT 1994: PASSIVE IMMUNISATION OF PIGS AGAINST SCOUR (WITH DR. J. KELLY) EOLAS HIGHER EDUCATION INDUSTRY CO-OPERATION H.R.B. (GRANT-IN-AID) THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT: A SITE OF EXTRATHYMIC T CELL DIFFERENTIATION EOLAS/BRITISH COUNCIL RESEARCH EOLAS/BRITISH COUNCIL RESEARCH EXCHANGE SCHEME (WITH DR. P. BLAND) 1993 EOLAS/BRITISH COUNCIL RESEARCH D.I.T. STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANT (WITH DR. J. KELLY): PASSIVE ORAL IMMUNISATION OF PIGS AGAINST SCOUR USING SPECIFIC EGG IMMUNOGLOBULIN DIT H.R.B. (FELLOWSHIP) HUMAN GI EPITHELIAL CELLS AND THEIR ROLE IN EXTRATHYMIC T LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION HRB H.R.B. (GRANT-IN-AID) PHENOTYPE AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTES FROM COELIAC SMALL INTESTINAL BIOPSIES HRB THE ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF IRELAND, DIETARY ANTIGENS AND THE GUT IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS THE ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF IRELAND, H.R.B. (GRANT-IN-AID) ANTIGEN PRESENTATION BY NORMAL AND COELIAC SMALL INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS HRB GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MS. ELLEN O'FLAHERTY oflahertyellen ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN EOFLAHE LIBRARY MANUSCRIPTS THE LIBRARY COLLEGE 01-8961000 DIGITAL HUMANITIES MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR PAUL O'GRADY ogradypaul PROFESSOR POGRADY PHILOSOPHY I WORK IN TWO AREAS OF ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY - EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. IN EPISTEMOLOGY I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN COGNITIVE RELATIVISM, CONTEXTUALISM, AND THE A PRIORI. IN PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION I WORK ON CLASSICAL THEISTIC ARGUMENTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH AQUINAS AND HIS CONCEPTION OF THE NATURE OF GOD. I AM CURRENTLY COMPLETING A BOOK ENTITLED 'AQUINAS'S PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION''. DEPT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EPISTEMOLOGY HISTORY OF ANLYTICAL PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AQUINAS'S PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION THIS BOOK IS AN INVESTIGATION OF AQUINAS'S MAIN CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, VIEWED FROM THE STANCE OF ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY. IT PROVIDES THE REQUIRED CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK TO UNDERSTAND HIS WORK AND EXPLORES IN DETAIL THE ISSUES OF FAITH AND REASON, ARGUMENTS FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE, OBJECTIONS TO GOD'S EXISTENCE, GOD'S NATURE AND ATTRIBUTES. COGNITIVE RELATIVISM I AM WRITING A NUMBER OF PAPERS DEALING WITH RELATIVISM ABOUT TRUTH, EPISTEMLOGICAL PLURALISM AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL RELATIVISM, INCLUDING "RELATIVISM ABOUT TRUTH" "FUTURE CONTINGENTS AND RELATIVE TRUTH" "FAULTLESS DISAGREEMENT ABOUT TASTE" WISDOM AND VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY THIS IS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE NATURE OF WISDOM. IT DRAWS ON VIRTUE THEORY, ESPECIALLY THAT OF AQUINAS AND RECENT ANALYTICAL VIRTUE EPISTEMOLOGY. IT ALSO EXPLORES THE REASONS WHY WISDOM HAS LARGELY DISAPPEARED AS A TOPIC OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR JOHN O'HAGAN ohaganjohn FELLOW EMERITUS JOHAGAN ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES DEPT. OF ECONOMICS 3004 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHAIR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FORUM WORKING GROUP ON THE ARTS AND SOCIAL COHESION CHAIR, EMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC POLICY COMMITTEE, NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FORUM CHAIRPERSON, WORKING COMMITTEE OF COMBAT POVERTY AGENCY AND ARTS COUNCIL ON POVERTY AND ACCESS TO THE ARTS MEMBER OF IRISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF STATISTICAL AND SOCIAL INQUIRY SOCIETY OF IRELAND ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF ASSOCIATION OF CULTURAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONSL (1994-). ALSO DREW UP STATUTES AND BYE-LAWS FOR ASSOCIATION AND REVISED THEM TWO YEARS LATER. PRESIDENT OF ASSOCIATION 1998-2000 ONE OF THREE JOINT-FOUNDERS OF THE FOUNDATION FOR FISCAL STUDIES (1985), AND MEMBER OF THE FOUNDATION'S COUNCIL UNTIL 1997. CHIEF INSTIGATOR BEHIND HAVING FOUNDATION LOCATED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, 1989-1996 PRESIDENT, ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL VISITING FELLOW, CENTRE FOR FISCAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF BATH, ENGLAND VISITING FELLOW, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, ENGLAND VISITING PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS, COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL, DENMARK VISITING PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, GERMANY VISITING PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN/HERDECKE, GERMANY CURRENT ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, IRELAND CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. CIARA O'HAGAN ohaganciara ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COHAGAN HISPANIC STUDIES HISPANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. MARTHA O'HAGAN LUFF ohaganluffmartha ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OHAGANM BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MARTHA O'HAGAN-LUFF'S PHD RESEARCH, AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INDIRECT DIVERSIFICATION BENEFITS OF US EQUITY PRODUCTS, INCLUDES AN IN-DEPTH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF US MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS (MNCS), AN INVESTIGATION INTO THEIR INDIRECT INTERNATIONAL DIVERSIFICATION BENEFITS AND A DETAILED STUDY OF THE DIVERSIFICATION BENEFITS OF 5 US-TRADED EQUITY PRODUCTS; MNCS, INDUSTRY INDICES, AMERICAN DEPOSITORY RECEIPTS, CLOSED-END COUNTRY FUNDS AND SINGLE COUNTRY ISHARES EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS. IT FINDS COMPELLING EVIDENCE THAT HOME BIAS IS BEING OVERSTATED AND THAT US INVESTORS CAN EFFECTIVELY DIVERSIFY USING DOMESTICALLY-TRADED PRODUCTS. SHE IS CURRENTLY RESEARCHING MARKET REACTIONS TO FOREIGN SHOCKS BASED ON THE LEVEL OF INTERNATIONALISATION OF THE FIRM. SHE IS ALSO UNDERTAKING A STUDY OF THE INTERNATIONALISATION PATTERNS OF EUROPEAN FIRMS AND THE IMPACT ON THEIR PERFORMANCE IN THE LAST 20 YEARS. IN THE AREA OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SHE HAS UNDERTAKEN A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT ON THE FINANCIAL WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS AGED 50 AND OVER ACROSS 21 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. A FURTHER STUDY IN THE AREA OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP LOOKS AT THE JOINT IMPACT OF LABOUR FORCE EDUCATION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT ON LEVELS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INTRAPRENEURSHIP AT THE COUNTRY LEVEL. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ACADEMIC ADVISOR TO THE TRINITY STUDENT MANAGED FUND ACADEMIC MENTOR FOR CHARTERED FINANCIAL ANALYST INSTITUTE ACADEMIC MENTOR FOR THE CHARTERED FINANCIAL ANALYST CHALLENGE JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS PANEL ORGANISER FOR TRINITY GLOBAL BUSINESS FORUM ENTREPRENEURSHIP ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONAL FINANCIAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME IS A CRUCIAL DRIVER OF WELL-BEING. HOWEVER, ESPECIALLY FOR RELATIVELY OLDER LABOR FORCE PARTICIPANTS, CURRENT INCOME IS ONLY PART OF A PERSON'S FINANCIAL HEALTH, AS ACCUMULATED SAVINGS MAY VARY GREATLY ACROSS INDIVIDUALS. THIS PAPER USES BROADER MEASURES OF PERSONAL FINANCIAL HEALTH AND RELATES THEM TO EIGHT INDICATORS OF WELL-BEING, CLASSIFIED IN THREE CATEGORIES OF WELL-BEING: GENERAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND HAPPINESS. USING DATA OF WORKERS AGED 50 AND OVER FROM 21 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, WE FIND STRONG AND CONSISTENT EVIDENCE FOR A NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN POOR FINANCIAL HEALTH AND OUR VARIOUS INDICATORS OF WELL-BEING. MOREOVER, WE FIND THIS RELATION TO BE MODERATED BY SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN THE SENSE THAT FINANCIAL PROBLEMS ARE MUCH STRONGER ASSOCIATED WITH POOR HEALTH FOR THE SELF-EMPLOYED COMPARED TO THE WAGE-EMPLOYED. INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. AISLING O'HALLORAN ohalloranaisling SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW AIOHALLO CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TILDA (THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING) HER CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE AGEING, FRAILTY, FALLS, RESILIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING - WITH AN INTEREST IN CHARACTERISING THE BIOLOGICAL (GENES, BIOMARKERS, PROCESSES), COGNITIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RISK FACTORS WHICH PREDISPOSE OLDER PEOPLE TO THESE OUTCOMES. THE GOAL OF HER RESEARCH IS TO IDENTIFY EARLY BIOMARKERS FOR USE IN SCREENING AND INTERVENTION IN THE PROGRESSION OF FRAILTY AND INVESTIGATE PATTERNS OF HEALTH CARE USE. THIS WORK WILL INFORM FRAILTY DETECTION/PREVENTION/INTERVENTION, FRAILTY-RELATED HEALTH SERVICE USE AND PROVISION AND RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF FRAILTY ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND. TILDA CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IRISH BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY (BGS) EUROPEAN UNION GERIATRIC MEDICINE SOCIETY (EUGMS) IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY IRISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGEING (NIA) BIOMARKER NETWORK. AFFECT AGE RELATED DISEASES AGEING AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA AGING/GERONTOLOGY BRAIN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM ELDERLY HEALTH EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH--GERIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY FALLS FRAILTY & RESILIENCE GERONTOLOGY POSITIVE AGEING PSYCHOLOGY OF AGING QUANTITATIVE GENETICS AND GENETICS OF COMPLEX TRAITS OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER BASIC MEDICINE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY FRAILTY IN IRELAND NORTH AND SOUTH THE UNPRECEDENTED GLOBAL INCREASE IN LIFE EXPECTANCY OVER THE PAST CENTURY HAS LEAD TO A RAPIDLY EXPANDING AGEING POPULATION, PLACING EVER HIGHER DEMANDS ON PUBLICLY-FUNDED HEALTHCARE RESOURCES IN IRELAND, NORTH AND SOUTH. CURRENT TRAJECTORIES INDICATE THAT SUCH DEMANDS ARE UNSUSTAINABLE. EARLY IDENTIFIERS OF DECLINING HEALTH WILL BE CENTRAL TO MEASURING HEALTH RISK. THE EUROPEAN INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP ON ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGEING HAS HIGHLIGHTED FRAILTY AS KEY TO SEEKING A TWO YEAR INCREASE IN HEALTHY LIFE YEARS BY 2020. RESILIENCE AND FRAILTY REPRESENT OPPOSITE ENDS OF A SPECTRUM OF DECLINE FROM ROBUST HEALTH TO PROFOUND FUNCTIONAL DEPENDENCE. FRAILTY IS A DRIVER OF FUNCTIONAL AND COGNITIVE DECLINE, PREDICTING MULTI-MORBIDITY, DISABILITY, INCREASED HEALTH CARE UTILISATION AND MORTALITY (FRIED ET AL, 2001, 2004). HOWEVER, FRAILTY CAN BE AMELIORATED BY EARLY DETECTION AND INTERVENTION. DATA FROM THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGEING (TILDA) WILL BE USED TO TRACK TRANSITIONS ALONG THE FRAILTY SPECTRUM AND INVESTIGATE HOW FRAILTY-RELATED BIOMARKER PROFILES OF PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH AT BASELINE (WAVE 1) CHANGE AND PREDICT FRAILTY DURING FOLLOW-UP (WAVES 2 AND 3). NORTH-SOUTH COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF FRAILTY USING WAVE 3 OF TILDA AND PHASE 1 OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND COHORT FOR LONGITUDINAL AGEING (NICOLA), WHICH COINCIDE DURING 2014. WILL BE PERFORMED. ELUCIDATING FRAILTY-RELATED RISK FACTORS AND RESOURCE DEMANDS IN THE AGEING POPULATION WILL HELP TO IDENTIFY: (1) NEW EVIDENCE-BASED TARGETS FOR PRE-CLINICAL FRAILTY DETECTION AND INTERVENTION, AND (2) SPECIFIC NEEDS THAT WILL BE VITAL IN DELIVERING EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE HEALTHCARE SERVICES AND INCREASING HEALTHY LIFE-YEARS INTO THE FUTURE CARDI - CENTRE FOR AGEING RESEARCH IN IRELAND AGEING RESEARCH LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR EUNAN O'HALPIN ohalpineunan PROFESSOR OHALPINE HISTORY CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES IRISH AND BRITISH 20TH CENTURY POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY; UNNATURAL INFANT DEATH IN IRELAND (WITH DR CIARA BREATHANCH, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK); INTELLIGENCE HISTORY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; BELLIGERENT COMPETITION IN AFGHANISTAN DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR; BRITISH POLICY TOWARDS AFGHAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN JEWISH COMMUNITIES, 1933-47 DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ARCHIVES ADVISORY GROUP FREQUENT CONTRIBUTOR ON HISTORICAL AND CURRENT AFFAIRS ON RTE RADIO 1 AND NEWSTALK106, AND OCCASIONALLY ON BRITISH, EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN BROADCAST MEDIA. MEMBER, BARRISTERS PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT APPEALS BOARD MEMBER, BARRISTERS' PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT APPEALS BOARD MEMBER, BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE MEMBER, EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP ON COMMEMORATIONS MEMBER, KATHERINE KAVANAGH TRUST MEMBER, NATIONAL ARCHIVES ADVISORY COUNCIL MEMBER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEM NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR HISTORY, SINCE 1989 (CHAIRMAN, 2001-3) MEMBER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, SINCE 1993 (CHAIRMAN, 1996-99) MEMBER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MILITARY SERVICE PENSIONS PROJECT ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY COMMITTE FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES SECRETARY, MILITARY HERITAGE OF IRELAND TRUST AFGHANISTAN ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS INTELLIGENCE STUDIES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIAL JUSTICE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES THE DEAD OF THE IRISH REVOLUTION THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ESTABLISH WHO DIED WHERE AND IN WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES AND AT WHO'S HANDS AS A RESULT OF IRISH POLITICAL VIOLENCE BETWEEN 1912 AND 1923. THE FIRST VOLUME ARISING FROM THE PROJECT, BY EUNAN O'HALPIN AND DR DAITHI O CORRAIN, COVERING THE YEARS 1917 TO 1921, WILL BE PUBLISHED BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN 2011. IRCHSS MAJOR PROJECTS AFGHANISTAN AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR THIS PROJECT HAS GROWN CONSIDERABLY IN SCOPE OVER THE LAST SIX YEARS. THE OVERALL AIM REMAINS TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF THE WAR ON AFGHANISTAN, AND TO EXAMINE THE MEANS BY WHICH SHE AVOIDED BEING DRAWN INTO THE CONFLICT DESPITE HER PROXIMITY TO KEY BELLIGERENTS - BRITISH INDIA, AND THE SOVIET UNION - AND THE ACTIVITIES AND PLANS OF THE AXIS POWERS. IT IS BASED LARGELY ON RESEARCH IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENT RECORDS, WHICH INCLUDE A LARGE AMOUNT OF INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS OF THE AFGHAN AND OTHER NEUTRAL AND AXIS STATES, AS WELL AS ON SIGNIFICANT PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. RESEARCH IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA AND THE NEHRU MEMORIAL LIBRARY IN 2012 HAS ENABLED THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROJECT. IT ALSO OPENED UP AN UNEXPECTED VEIN OF INQUIRY INTO THE FATE OF JEWS IN AFGHANISTAN, RESULTING IN AN ARTICLE IN HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES 30, NO. 2 (FALL, 2016), PP. 298-327, AND A NUMBER OF ENTRIES WITH DR SARA KOPLIK HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED FOR THE REVISED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JEWS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD (1ST ED., BRILL, 2010). ANARTICLE ON BRITISH CRYPTANALYIS AND CHINA, 1937-1945, HAS RECENTLY APPEARED IN TWENTIETH CENTURY CHINA 42, NO. 2, MAY 2017, PP. 198-212. FURTHER PAPERS ARE IN PREPARATION DEALING WITH AXIS AND WITH BRITISH INTELLIGENCE CONCERNING AFGHANISTAN, AND WITH SOVIET COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING THE USSR'S SOUTHERN FRONTIERS IN THE 1930S. TCD ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTIONS FUND; IIIS PERSONAL RESEARCH BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND CRISIS, 1965-98 THIS PROJECT EXPLORES EXPLORE THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN BRITISH AND IRISH MANAGEMENT OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND CRISIS FROM 1969 ONWARDS. IT ALSO LOOKS AT HOW THE TWO STATES NEGOTIATED UNDERSTANDINGS ON SECURITY ISSUES, ON HOW THEIR DEALINGS IN THIS DELICATE AREA WERE MANAGED, AND ON HOW SUCH DEALINGS WERE MANAGED AT THE PROFESSIONAL INTERAGENCY LEVEL AS WELL AS AT THE TOP INTERGOVERNMENTAL TABLE. THE STUDY ALSO EXPLORES THE EXTENT TO WHICH SECURITY AND TERRORISM ISSUES WERE REFLECTED IN THE DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITIES OF BOTH GOVERNMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, AS WELL AS PROBING THE CHANGING PERSPECTIVE OF SUCCESSIVE AMERICAN GOVERNMENTS ON THE BROADER NORTHERN IRELAND ISSUE. DRAWING LARGELY ON BRITISH, IRISH AND AMERICAN OFFICIAL RECORDS, IT LOOKS BOTH AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF ASSESSMENT AND TASK SETTING IN WHITEHALL, AND AT THE OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF INTELLIGENCE GATHERERS AND ASSESSORS. IT ADDRESSES QUESTIONS ARISING FROM PROBLEMS OF LEAKAGE AND COLLUSION BETWEEN THE SECURITY FORCES AND PARAMILITARY GROUPS, AND ISSUES SURROUNDING THE INTERROGATION REGIME FOR PRISONERS AND DETAINEES. THE LATTER PROBLEMS WERE PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT IN TERMS OF ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS, AS LONDON FELT THAT DUBLIN PLAYED THESE ISSUES UP GRATUITOUSLY. I HOPE TO COMPLETE A MONOGRAPH BASED ON THIS RESEARCH IN 2011. IRCHSS SMALL PROJECTS AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR VERONICA O'KEANE okeaneveronica ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT VOKEANE PSYCHIATRY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) STRESS SYSTEMS AND NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; MOOD DISORDERS; PREGNANCY; FEMALE HORMONE-RELATED MOOD DISORDERS DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 FELLOW OF THE IRISH COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS MEMBER OF EUROPEAN CONGRESS NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS ANTENATAL DEPRESSION DEPRESSED-PATIENTS DEPRESSION ILLNESS DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS EPIGENETICS GENETIC-MARKER HYPOTHALAMICO-PITUITARY-ADRENAL (HPA) AXIS INFLAMMATION LONG-TERM DEPRESSION NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) DEPRESSION IN PREGNANT WOMEN: EFFECTS ON THE BABY'S STRESS SYSTEMS "FETAL PROGRAMMING" IS THE PROCESS WHEREBY FETAL SYSTEMS, VIA ADAPTION TO INTRA-UTERINE CONDITIONS, BECOME PROGRAMMED TO RESPOND TO THE POST-UTERINE ENVIRONMENT IN A SIMILAR WAY. ANIMAL STUDIES DEMONSTRATE THAT BABY/PUP HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENAL (HPA) AXIS FUNCTION IS PROGRAMMED BY MATERNAL HPA AXIS DURING GESTATION VIA TRANSPLACENTAL CORTISOL TRANSMISSION. CORTISOL ALTERS NEURONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REDUCES HIPPOCAMPAL GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR (GR) EXPRESSION. GRS DETERMINE THE HOMEOSTATIC SET POINT OF THE HPA AXIS BECAUSE OF THEIR FUNCTION IN TERMINATING THE STRESS RESPONSE CENTRALLY. MATERNAL GESTATIONAL STRESS, IN ANIMALS, RESULTS IN ABNORMAL HPA AXIS HOMEOSTASIS AND RESPONSES TO STRESSORS, AND BEHAVIOURS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN ANIMAL MODELS OF DEPRESSION, IN THE OFFSPRING. THERE IS ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE IN HUMANS THAT HIGH MATERNAL CORTISOL LEVELS DURING PREGNANCY, ASSOCIATED WITH PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS, CAN HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON BABY HPA AXIS FUNCTION AND CONFER DEVELOPMENTAL DISADVANTAGE UP TO ADULTHOOD, AND DEPRESSION THEREAFTER. THE POINT WHERE PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS HAS A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE MATERNAL HPA AXIS REMAINS UNDEFINED. IN PREVIOUS WORK WE ESTABLISHED THAT DEPRESSION DURING PREGNANCY IS SPECIFICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED DIURNAL CORTISOL SECRETION DURING THE SECOND TRIMESTER AND THAT, IN A SMALL SAMPLE OF BABIES, THOSE BORN TO DEPRESSED WOMEN HAD HIGHER CORTISOL LEVELS AND BLUNTED CORTISOL STRESS RESPONSES. OUR MAIN AIM IS TO CONFIRM, IN A LARGE SAMPLE, THAT DEPRESSION IN PREGNANT WOMEN DEFINES A CLINICAL STATE THAT IS LIKELY TO IMPACT ON BABY HPA AXIS HOMEOSTASIS AND STRESS RESPONSES AT WEEK 8 POST-BIRTH. OUR SECOND AIM IS TO OBSERVE HOW BABY HPA AXIS FUNCTION, BEHAVIOUR AND DEVELOPMENT ALTER OVER THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE IN RELATION TO THE MATERNAL HPA AXIS, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT MATERNAL-BABY ATTACHMENT AND PARENTING STYLE. WE WILL ALSO EXAMINE THE HYPOTHESIS THAT EPIGENETIC PROCESSES IN THE GR GENE ARE INVOLVED IN THE FETAL PROGRAMMING OF THE HPA AXIS. HRB HRA A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE CLINICAL FEATURES, STRESS BIOMARKERS AND BRAIN IMAGING FINDINGS IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH DEPRESSION A KEY PROBLEM IN CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY IS IDENTIFYING BIOMARKERS FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS. THE CLINICAL PRESENTATION OF DEPRESSION IS VERY VARIABLE, BUT THERE ARE NO BIOMARKERS TO IDENTIFY ONE FORM FROM ANOTHER AND THUS LOOK FOR TARGETED TREATMENTS. WE ARE EXAMINING THE CLINICAL FEATURES, BIOMARKERS, AND NEUROIMAGING DATA, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON STRESS SYSTEMS, IN FIRST-EPISODE DEPRESSION IN YOUNG ADULTS. WE ARE PARTICULARLY FOCUSING ON BIOMARKERS RELATED TO THE FUNCTION OF THE HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY-ADRENALAXIS (HPAA). THIS STUDY IS BEING CONDUCTED IN OUR LOCAL PSYCHIATRY SERVICE BASED IN TALLAGHT, SOUTH DUBLIN. THE POPULATION IS DEMOGRAPHICALLY STABLE AND THE CLINICAL SERVICES ARE WELL DEVELOPED ALLOWING FOR A LONGITUDINAL COHORT STUDY. OUR AIMS ARE TO GET A DETAILED BASELINE EVALUATION OF THE FOLLOWING MEASURES IN YOUNG ADULTS AT THEIR FIRST EPISODE OF DEPRESSION AND LOOK AT POSSIBLE CHANGES IN THESE MEASURES OVER TIME: - CLINICAL FEATURES OF DEPRESSION, PARTICULARLY SUICIDAL IDEATION, BIOLOGICAL FEATURES AND RESPONSE TO TREATMENT; - HPAA: BY EXAMINING THE CORTISOL AWAKENING RESPONSE (CAR) AND DIURNAL PATTERN OF SALIVARY CORTISOL CONCENTRATIONS; AND DETAILED STEROID METABOLITE PROFILE IN THE URINE; - FMRI, DTI AND RESTING STATE MRI OF LIMBIC AND ASSOCIATED BRAIN AREAS; - BLOOD BIOMARKERS, PARTICULARLY INFLAMMATORY AND KYNEURENINE PATHWAY MARKERS - GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC MARKERS. WE WILL OBSERVE HOW THESE MEASURES CHANGE OVER TIME: IN THE FIRST INSTANCE AT 1 YEAR. THE PROJECT IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, TCIN, TCD; AND THE CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY SERVICES IN SOUTH DUBLIN. MEATH FOUNDATION, TALLAGHT HOSPITAL TALLAGHT DEPRESSION PROGRAMME/ DEPRESSION INTEREST GROUP, TCIN IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MR. IAN O'KEEFFE okeeffeian RESEARCH FELLOW OKEEFFI COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PERSONALISED AND COLLABORATIVE INFORMAL LEARNING ACROSS CONNECTED ENVIRONMENTS (PERCOLATE) THE CHALLENGE FOR PERCOLATE WAS TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP RESEARCH DEMONSTRATORS ALIGNED TO THE SPECIFIC BUSINESS NEEDS OF OUR INDUSTRY PARTNERS. WE DEVELOPED A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH WITH INDUSTRY, RESULTING IN A SUITE OF NEXT PRACTICE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS. TOMORROW'S LEARNING MUST BE A MORE FLEXIBLE, PERSONALISED EXPERIENCE WHERE TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTS LEARNING OUTSIDE TRADITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS. OUR RESEARCH SOLUTIONS PROVIDE INNOVATIVE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMAL AND FORMAL LEARNING WITHIN SCHOOLS, HIGHER EDUCATION AND ORGANISATIONS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND GENERIC RESPONSIVE ADAPTIVE PERSONALIZED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (GRAPPLE) GRAPPLE IS AN EU FP7 STREP PROJECT. GRAPPLE STANDS FOR "GENERIC RESPONSIVE ADAPTIVE PERSONALIZED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT". THE GRAPPLE PROJECT AIMS AT DELIVERING TO LEARNERS A TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING (TEL) ENVIRONMENT THAT GUIDES THEM THROUGH A LIFE-LONG LEARNING EXPERIENCE, AUTOMATICALLY ADAPTING TO PERSONAL PREFERENCES, PRIOR KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND COMPETENCES, LEARNING GOALS AND THE PERSONAL OR SOCIAL CONTEXT IN WHICH THE LEARNING TAKES PLACE. THE SAME TEL ENVIRONMENT CAN BE USED/ACCESSED AT HOME, SCHOOL, WORK OR ON THE MOVE (USING MOBILE/HANDHELD DEVICES). GRAPPLE WILL INCLUDE AUTHORING TOOLS THAT ENABLE EDUCATORS TO PROVIDE ADAPTIVE LEARNING MATERIAL TO THE LEARNERS, INCLUDING ADAPTIVE INTERACTIVE COMPONENTS (VISUALIZATIONS, SIMULATIONS, VIRTUAL REALITY). AUTHORING INCLUDES CREATING OR IMPORTING CONTENT, ASSIGNING OR EXTRACTING MEANING FROM THAT CONTENT, DESIGNING LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND DEFINING PEDAGOGICAL PROPERTIES OF AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR THE CONTENT AND ACTIVITIES EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 ADAPTIVE MEDIA AND SERVICES FOR DYNAMIC PERSONALISATION AND CONTEXTUALISATION (AMAS) SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION (CNGL) THE CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION (CNGL) IS A DYNAMIC ACADEMIA-INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP WITH OVER 100 RESEARCHERS DEVELOPING NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES ADDRESSING THE KEY LOCALISATION CHALLENGES OF VOLUME, ACCESS AND PERSONALISATION. LANGUAGE BARRIERS CONSTITUTE A FORMIDABLE OBSTACLE TO THE FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN AN INCREASINGLY GLOBALISED ECONOMY AND INFORMATION SOCIETY. "LOCALISATION" REFERS TO THE PROCESS OF ADAPTING DIGITAL CONTENT TO CULTURE, LOCALE AND LINGUISTIC ENVIRONMENTS AT HIGH QUALITY AND SPEED. LOCALISATION IS A KEY ENABLING, VALUE-ADDING, MULTIPLIER COMPONENT OF THE GLOBAL SOFTWARE AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRY. LOCALISATION SEEKS TO OVERCOME LANGUAGE BARRIERS. OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO PRODUCE SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCES IN THE BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH UNDERPINNING THE DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION OF THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION FACTORY. OUR MISSION IS TO REVOLUTIONISE LOCALISATION VIA BREAKTHROUGHS IN AUTOMATION, COMPOSITION AND INTEGRATION, FOCUSING ON: INTEGRATED MACHINE TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY, SPEECH-BASED INTERFACES AND MORE PERSONALISED SPEECH OUTPUT, MULTILINGUAL DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT FOR PERSONALISED MULTILINGUAL CONTENT ACCESS AND DELIVERY, LOCALISATION WORKFLOWS AND SYSTEM INTEGRATION. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) ICLASS THE EDUCATIONAL VISION THAT DROVE THE ICLASS PROJECT WAS THAT OF PERSONALISATION THROUGH EMPOWERMENT. THE OUTCOME OF THE WORK WAS A SUITE OF PEDAGOGICALLY COHERENT TOOLS AND A SET OF PEDAGOGICAL METHODOLOGIES. THE UNDERLYING PEDAGOGICAL CONCEPT OF THE ICLASS PLATFORM WAS SELF-REGULATED PERSONALISED LEARNING WITHIN A USER CENTRIC APPROACH. THIS WAS SUPPORTED BY A SET OF GUIDELINES TOWARDS ITS APPLICATION TO CLASSROOM PEDAGOGY, SCHOOLING SYSTEM CHANGE, CONTENT DEVELOPMENT, EVALUATION, DISSEMINATION AND EXPLOITATION. THE SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED TO BOOST A PUPIL'S MOTIVATION TO LEARN BY PERSONALISING THE LEARNING PROCESS, PLACING AN EMPHASIS ON SELF-DIRECTION AND SELF-RELIANCE, AND TRUSTING THE LEARNER TO MAKE MINDFUL AND MEANINGFUL CHOICES. THIS ALLOWED FOR THE TAILORING OF TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES TO INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES AND NEEDS. RECOGNISING THE INCREASING IMPORTANCE OF INFORMAL, AS WELL AS LIFELONG, LEARNING, THE WEB-BASED ICLASS PLATFORM PROVIDED PUPILS WITH UBIQUITOUS ACCESS AND IS WELL PLACED TO LINK SEAMLESSLY THE FORMAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT. BY PROMOTING GREATER SELF-RELIANCE AND A PASSION FOR INQUIRY AMONG PUPILS, ICLASS HELPS EQUIP THEM WITH CRUCIAL ATTITUDES FOR THE EMERGING KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY, WHICH REQUIRES PEOPLE TO UPDATE AND UPGRADE THEIR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE CONSTANTLY THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES. BESIDES SUPPORTING LEARNERS, ICLASS ALSO CONSIDERED THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF TEACHERS IN THE LEARNING PROCESS. WITH THE ICLASS ENVIRONMENT, TEACHERS ARE EMPOWERED THROUGH TOOLS AND A METHODOLOGY IN ORDER TO DESIGN AND DELIVER PERSONALISED LEARNING. IN PRACTICE, THIS MEANS THAT TEACHERS CREATE LEARNING PLANS BASED ON A GOAL TO BE ACHIEVED, SUGGESTING SUB-GOALS AND ACTIVITIES, WHILE SOME ACTIVITIES CAN BE LEFT OPEN FOR THE STUDENT TO SHAPE. THE PLATFORM ALSO RECOGNISES THAT THE SCHOOL CURRICULUM IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES PLACES DIFFERENT DEMANDS ON TEACHERS, AND SO HAS BUILT-IN FLEXIBILITY TO ALLOW THE SYSTEM TO BE CUSTOMISED. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP6 INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. BRENDAN O'KELLY okellybrendan ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BOKELLY CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. SOIL MECHANICS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; GEOENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL GEOTECHNICS. MY RESEARCH EXPERTISE ENCOMPASSES THE FOLLOWING AREAS: 1. BESPOKE GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES, WHICH CAN BE CATEGORIZED INTO THREE MAIN THEMES, AS FOLLOWS: (A) NANOPARTICLES, BIOPLOYMERS, MICP, POLYELECTROLYTES, CEMENT AND LIME; (B) GRANULAR COLUMNS AND ANCHORS, GEOSYNTHETICS AND EMBEDDED PILE WALLS; (C) GROUND IMPROVEMENT FOR PEAT DEPOSITS. 2. GEOTECHNICS OF BIOSOLIDS, SEWAGE SLUDGE AND WATER-TREATMENT RESIDUE MATERIALS. 3. MONOPILE FOUNDATIONS FOR OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES. 4. AXIAL MONOTONIC AND CYCLIC LOADING OF OPEN AND CLOSED-ENDED PILES AND FOOTINGS. 5. GEOMECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR/PROPERTIES OF PEAT, INCLUDING EFFECTIVE-STRESS STRENGTH PROPERTIES AND CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING. 6. ATTERBERG LIMITS DETERMINATION. 7. GENERALISED STRESS PATH TESTING OF SAND USING A HOLLOW CYLINDER APPARATUS. 8. WATER CONTENT DETERMINATIONS FOR PEAT AND OTHER HIGHLY ORGANIC SOILS USING THE OVEN DRYING METHOD. MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THESE RESEARCH ARE INCLUDED IN THE PROJECTS SECTION BELOW. DEPT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH CHARTERED ENGINEER (CENG MICE), INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, LONDON CHARTERED ENGINEER AND FELLOW (CENG FIEI) OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND CHARTERED ENGINEER, ENGINEERING COUNCIL UK CHARTERED ENVIRONMENTALIST (CENV), SOCIETY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, UK CO-CHAIR (B.C. O'KELLY AND A. KAHRU) FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION (SESSION II) AT THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, ENGINEERING, PLANNING AND ECONOMICS (CEMEPE), SKIATHOS, GREECE, 28TH JUNE, 2007 EUROPEAN ENGINEER (EURING), EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF NATIONAL ENGINEERING ASSOCIATIONS FELLOW GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON (FGS) INTERNATIONAL REGISTER OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS (INTPE) IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, EUCEET II, EU ACADEMIC NETWORK PROJECT ON EUROPEAN CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING (WWW.EUCEET.EU) IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, EUCEET III, EU ACADEMIC NETWORK PROJECT ON EUROPEAN CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TRAINING (WWW.EUCEET.EU) IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, EUROPEAN GEOTECHNICAL NETWORK FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (GEOTECHNET) MEMBER OF CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR THE FOURTH DECENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON CONCRETE PRACTICE IN IRELAND HELD AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (10TH-11TH MAY 1995) MEMBER SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING RESEARCH IN IRELAND CONFERENCE (BRIDGES, CONCRETE, GEOTECHNICS, MATERIALS, AND STRUCTURES), 28TH-29TH AUGUST 2014, BELFAST MEMBER SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON BRIDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH IN IRELAND AND CONCRETE RESEARCH IN IRELAND (4TH-5TH DECEMBER 2008), GALWAY MEMBER SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON BRIDGE AND INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH IN IRELAND AND CONCRETE RESEARCH IN IRELAND (2ND-3RD SEPTEMBER 2010), CORK MEMBER, GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND (MGSI), ENGINEERS IRELAND, INCLUDING COMMITTEE MEMBER 2004-2006 MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF SOIL MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (AND NON-VOTING MEMBER ON COUNCIL IN 2005) NATIONAL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR COST ACTION TU1202: IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON ENGINEERED SLOPES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE (HTTP://WWW.COST.EU/DOMAINS_ACTIONS/TUD/ACTIONS/TU1202) PR OFFICER, GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY, SECTOR OF ENGINEERS IRELAND PROFESSIONAL GEOLOGIST (PGEO), INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGISTS OF IRELAND TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBER - 7TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF GEOMATERIALS (IS-GLASGOW2019): LABORATORY STRESS STRAIN STRENGTH TESTING OF GEOMATERIALS CONFERENCE, BEING HELD IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, 26TH-28TH JUNE 2019. DAMS AND EARTH STRUCTURES ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING GEOTECHNICS LANDSLIDES MATERIALS TESTING SOIL MECHANICS & FOUNDATIONS SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL WASTE, RESOURCE, MANAGEMENT & CHEMICALS MARINE, COASTAL AND OCEAN ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, GEOTECHNICS; WIND ENERGY OTHER ENGINEERING STABILITY OF PEAT EMBANKMENTS DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MS. GRAINNE MCINERNEY (RESEARCH STUDENT). FUNDING:- POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD FROM RPS-MCOS CONSULTING ENGINEERS; POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH AWARD FROM THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND. A STUDY OF THE GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF MUNICIPAL WATER TREATMENT RESIDUES GENERATED IN IRELAND DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. MICHAEL QUILLE (RESEARCH STUDENT). FUNDING:- POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH AWARD FROM THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND. EFFECT OF BIODEGRADATION ON THE COMPRESSIBILITY OF PEAT DEPOSITS DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. SOM PONG PICHAN (RESEARCH STUDENT_MALAYSIA). PUBLIC SERVICE DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF MALAYSIA MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT SCHOLAR IN - SERVICE TRAINING SCHEME (HLP) APPLICATION OF BIOPOLYMERS IN SOIL IMPROVEMENT BY GROUTING DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. HAMID REZA KHATAMI (RESEARCH STUDENT_IRAN). IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL EMBARK POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME (RS/2010/2571) MODEL STUDIES ON MONOPILE UNDER LONG-TERM CYCLIC LATERAL LOADING DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. MUHAMMAD ARSHAD(RESEARCH STUDENT_PAKISTAN). POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE (2011-2014) STABILITY OF PEAT DAMS CONSTRUCTED ON BOGLAND DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. KEVIN FLYNN (RESEARCH STUDENT_IRELAND). POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. STRAIN RATE AND ACCURACY OF THE CONSTANT-RATE-OF-STRAIN OEDOMETER TEST DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. HUGH FITZPATRICK (RESEARCH STUDENT_IRELAND). FUNDING: - POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP FROM DEPARTMENT CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, AND GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH AWARD FROM THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND. MODEL STUDIES ON CAISSON SUPPORTED MONOPILES UNDER LONG-TERM MONOTONIC AND CYCLIC LATERAL LOADS DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. ALI KORDZADEH KERMANI (RESEARCH STUDENT_IRAN). THE APPLICABILITY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF EFFECTIVE STRESS IN PEAT MATERIALS DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MS. LIN ZHANG (RESEARCH STUDENT_CHINA). POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE (2010-2011) MSC DESIGN APPROACH FOR IMPROVING BOG RAMPART ROADS INVESTIGATORS: DR. ERIC R. FARRELL (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PHD SUPERVISOR) AND DR. JIM MCELVANEY; AND MR. JUAN PABLO OSORIO SALAS (PHD RESEARCH STUDENT_COLOMBIA). FUNDING:- RESEARCH PROGRAMME FELLOWSHIPS (2007) FROM THE NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY, IRELAND; POSTGRADUATE USSHER FELLOWSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND GEOTECHNICAL RESEARCH AWARD FROM THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND. THE TOTAL FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT FROM THE NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY IS €136,000. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A VACUUM CONSOLIDATION FIELD TEST WAS SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTED FOR A 10 X 10 M AREA OF RAISED BOG, IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE METHOD IN PSEUDO-FIBROUS PEAT DEPOSITS AND ALSO TO EVALUATE THE VIABILITY OF THIS TECHNIQUE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS OVER PEAT. THE EFFICIENCY OF TWO DIFFERENT SPACING OF PREFABRICATED DRAIN WAS INVESTIGATED FOR THE 4-M DEEP PEAT DEPOSIT. THE TEST WAS INSTRUMENTED AND MONITORED FOR A PERIOD OF 11 MONTHS. TWO DIFFERENT VACUUM GENERATING SYSTEMS WERE ALSO TESTED DURING THE PROJECT. THE FIELD DATA WERE BACK-ANALYSED USING A RANGE OF FINITE ELEMENT MODELS INCORPORATED IN PLAXIS. ACCEPTABLE RESULTS WERE OBTAINED FOR THE GROUND VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS. THE DESIGN PARAMETERS WERE DETERMINED BY MEANS OF OEDOMETER TESTS, INDICATING THAT THE GEOTECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF THE PEAT OBTAINED IN CONVENTIONAL TESTS CAN BE USED IN THE DESIGN OF VACUUM CONSOLIDATION PROJECTS. PROJECT PROFILE: HTTP://WWW.NRA.IE/NRA-RESEARCH/RESEARCH-PROFILES/DESIGN-APPROACH-FOR-IMPROVING-RAMPART-ROADS.PDF HTTP://WWW.ENGINEERSIRELAND.IE/ENGINEERSIRELAND/MEDIA/SITEMEDIA/GROUPS/SOCIETIES/GEOTECHNICAL/VACUUM-CONSOLIDATION-IN-PEAT.PDF?EXT=.PDF NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY (IRELAND) RESEARCH PROGRAMME FELLOWSHIP (2007): PROJECT REFERENCE NR/250/04 PO 6269 CHARACTERISATION OF MACRO- AND MICRO-MECHANICS OF BIO-CEMENTED SANDS USING DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. MOHAMMAD AMINPOUR (RESEARCH ASSISTANT_IRAN). POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE (2014-2016) LABORATORY STUDY OF THE VACUUM CONSOLIDATION TECHNIQUE IN PEAT DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR HARRY GRIFFIN TRINITY COLLEGE POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD BESPOKE GROUND IMPROVEMENT TECHNOLOGIES MY RESEARCH CAN BE CATEGORIZED IN THREE MAIN THEMES, AS FOLLOWS: . NANOPARTICLES, BIOPLOYMERS, MICP, POLYELECTROLYTES, CEMENT AND LIME: 1) EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE STRENGTH/STIFFNESS IMPROVEMENTS ACHIEVED FOR CLEAN AND KEROSENE-CONTAMINATED CLAY USING NANOCLAY AND NANOSILICA AS ADDITIVES; 2) GUIDELINES PRESENTED FOR SELECTING POTENTIALLY USEFUL NATURAL POLYMERS (BIOPOLYMERS) AS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND SUSTAINABLE GROUTING CHEMICALS FOR STRENGTHENING SAND; 3) MICROBIAL-INDUCED CARBONATE PRECIPITATION (MICP), INCLUDING LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS OF DIFFERENT INJECTION STRATEGIES AND USING DIFFERENT CONCENTRATIONS OF BACTERIAL CELL AND UREA-CALCIUM CHLORIDE SOLUTIONS FOR THE STRENGTH/STIFFNESS IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOSE SAND; 4) USING DILUTE POLYELECTROLYTE SOLUTION IN COMBINATION WITH ALUMINIUM SULPHATE AS SOIL IMPROVEMENT MEASURE FOR ORGANIC RESIDUES AND ULTRA-SOFT ORGANIC CLAY; 5) IMPROVEMENT OF PHYLLITE CLAYS USING CEMENT AND LIME FOR VARIOUS CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL APPLICATIONS. . GRANULAR COLUMNS AND ANCHORS, GEOSYNTHETICS AND EMBEDDED PILE WALLS; 1) GRANULAR COLUMNS, INCLUDING LABORATORY MODEL STUDIES ON (A) SETTLEMENT PERFORMANCE OF SINGLE LONG FLOATING GRANULAR COLUMNS AND END-BEARING COLUMN GROUPS INSTALLED USING DISPLACEMENT AND REPLACEMENT METHODS IN SOFT CLAY BEDS AND (B) SETTLEMENT PERFORMANCE OF PAD FOOTINGS BEARING ON REINFORCED LOOSE AND DENSE SAND BEDS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF FLUCTUATING GROUNDWATER TABLE; 2) GRANULAR ANCHOR PERFORMANCE INSITU (LODGEMENT TILL AND MADE GROUND), INCLUDING NUMERICAL MODELLING, DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW METHOD OF ANALYSIS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ULTIMATE PULLOUT CAPACITY AND NOVEL MODIFICATION OF THE ANCHOR'S CONVENTIONAL FLAT BASEPLATE PRESENTED FOR ENHANCED PERFORMANCE ; 3) ENHANCEMENT IN SHORT-TERM SHEAR STRENGTH FOR EMBANKMENTS CONSTRUCTED FROM MARGINAL FILL ACHIEVED USING DUAL-FUNCTION GEOSYNTHETICS (REINFORCEMENT AND LOCAL IN-PLANE DRAINAGE FUNCTIONS); 4) EMBEDDED PIN PILE WALLS FOR SLOPE STABILISATION/REHABILITATION; 5) MODEL STUDIES PERFORMED TO DEMONSTRATE THE NOVEL USE OF CONCENTRIC RINGS OF SMALL DIAMETER DISPLACEMENT PILES AROUND CENTRAL MONOPILE TO LIMIT ITS LATERAL DISPLACEMENT (ROTATION) UNDER LONG-TERM CYCLIC LATERAL LOADING. . GROUND IMPROVEMENT FOR PEAT DEPOSITS: 1) THE VACUUM CONSOLIDATION TECHNIQUE APPLIED TO PEAT, INCLUDING HEAVILY INSTRUMENTED FIELD TRIAL ON A 10M X 10M X 4M DEEP FIBROUS PEAT DEPOSIT; 2) FOR FIBROUS/HEMIC PEATS, LABORATORY TRIAL DEMONSTRATING OSMOSIS EFFECT ACHIEVED BY ADDITION OF SALT GRAINS TO ACCELERATE THE RATE OF PRIMARY CONSOLIDATION AND REDUCE CREEP RATE; 3) STIMULATED DECOMPOSITION IN PEAT FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING FEASIBILITY TRIAL UNDERTAKEN REGARDING THE ABILITY TO ARTIFICIALLY STIMULATE AND PRE-DECOMPOSE A BEARING PEAT STRATUM PRIOR TO THE MAIN CONSTRUCTION WORKS TOWARDS MITIGATING AGAINST UNACCEPTABLE COMPRESSION RATES OCCURRING OVER THE DESIGN LIFE. GEOTECHNICS OF BIOSOLIDS, SEWAGE SLUDGE AND WATER-TREATMENT RESIDUE MATERIALS THIS PROJECT COMPRISES EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS AND THEORETICAL WORK ON THE GEOTECHNICAL BEHAVIOUR/PROPERTIES OF BIOSOLIDS, SEWAGE SLUDGE AND WATER-TREATMENT RESIDUE MATERIALS, WHICH ARE BY-PRODUCTS OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND WATER TREATMENT PROCESSES. TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE THEIR PHYSICAL, GEOTECHNICAL INDEX, COMPACTION, UNDRAINED STRENGTH AND EFFECTIVE-STRESS STRENGTH PROPERTIES, COMPRESSIBILITY, CONSOLIDATION AND PERMEABILITY, AND THE EFFECTS OF OXIDATION, BIODEGRADATION, THE VISCOUS GEL-LIKE PORE FLUID FOR BIOSOLIDS/SEWAGE SLUDGE MATERIAL, AND CHEMICALS ADDED DURING THE TREATMENT PROCESSES. THE PROJECT ADDRESSES VARIOUS GEOTECHNICAL ISSUES PERTINENT TO LANDFILL (MONOFILL) DISPOSAL OF THESE MATERIALS, INCLUDING UNDRAINED STRENGTH REQUIREMENTS, DESIGN STRENGTH, ON-SITE AND LABORATORY STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS AND WATER CONTENT-STRENGTH CORRELATIONS. MONOPILE FOUNDATIONS FOR OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES THIS PROJECT INVOLVED A COMPREHENSIVE EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM OF 1G REPEATED LATERAL LOAD TESTS PERFORMED ON SCALED RIGID MONOPILES INSTALLED IN SAND BEDS. FIRSTLY, A NEW MECHANICAL LOADING SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED TO APPLY MANY THOUSANDS OF REPEATING CYCLES OF LATERAL LOAD IN DIFFERENT FORMS TO THE 1G MODEL, WITH FULL CONTROL PROVIDED OVER THE LOADING DIRECTION (I.E. ONE-WAY OR TWO-WAY LATERAL LOADING), AMPLITUDE, FREQUENCY AND WAVEFORM SHAPE (SINUSOIDAL, SQUARE OR HAVERSINE). NOVEL TECHNIQUES TO LIMIT THE LATERAL DISPLACEMENT (ROTATION) OF THE MONOPILE UNDER LONG-TERM CYCLIC LATERAL LOADING WERE INVESTIGATED INCLUDING: 1, USE OF CONCENTRIC RINGS OF SMALL DIAMETER DISPLACEMENT PILES AROUND THE MONOPILE; 2, INSTALLATION OF FOUR SHORTER PILES, ARRANGED IN A CRUCIFORM, WHICH ATTACH TO THE HEAD OF THE CENTRAL MONOPILE BY WAY OF A GRILLAGE. LATERAL SOIL RESISTANCE PROFILES WERE DETERMINED FROM MEASURED PILE BENDING STRAIN DATA. FURTHER, AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT VARIOUS BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE APPLIED LATERAL LOAD CYCLES WAS DEVELOPED FOR ESTIMATION OF THE PILE'S ACCUMULATED ROTATION. GEOMECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR/PROPERTIES OF PEAT, INCLUDING EFFECTIVE-STRESS STRENGTH PROPERTIES AND CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING (SLOPE STABILIZATION AND EMBANKMENT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION) THESE FIELD PROJECTS INVOLVED FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS AND GEOTECHNICAL REMEDIAL WORKS NECESSARY TO ENHANCE THE FACTOR OF SAFETY ON SLOPE INSTABILITY FOR ROAD AND RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE ON EMBANKMENTS CONSTRUCTED OVER NATURAL SIDELONG GROUND, IN PARTICULAR USING EMBEDDED PILE RETAINING WALL SOLUTION. MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF EMBANKMENTS CONSTRUCTED ON SOFT SOIL DEPOSITS. UNDRAINED TRIAXIAL EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS AND HYPERVISCOPLASTIC MODELLING OF PEAT MATERIALS DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), DR. T. NAGEL (COSUPERVISOR) AND MS. LIN ZHANG (RESEARCH STUDENT_CHINA). THIS PHD RESEARCH INCLUDES TWO PARTS, VIZ. EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE UNDRAINED MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF UNDISTURBED FIBROUS PEAT AND A FINITE STRAIN CONSTITUTIVE MODEL WITHIN A THERMODYNAMICALLY CONSISTENT FRAMEWORK BASED ON THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF THE TESTED PEAT. FROM THE LABORATORY INVESTIGATION, NONLINEAR BEHAVIOUR WITH LARGE STRAIN WAS OBSERVED FROM THE LOADING-UNLOADING TESTS ON PEAT. THE INFLUENCE OF CELL PRESSURE, STRAIN RATE, STRESS RELAXATION ON THE CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIOUR AS WELL AS STRAIN RECOVERIES FROM UNLOADING WERE INVESTIGATED. RELAXATION TESTS WERE CARRIED OUT FOR OVERSTRESS QUANTIFICATION AS WELL AS TO OBTAIN THE EQUILIBRIUM STATE. THE TESTED PEAT WAS CATEGORISED AS A RATE-DEPENDENT MATERIAL WITH EQUILIBRIUM HYSTERESIS. STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED BY TESTING THE UNDISTURBED VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL SPECIMENS UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS. ALTHOUGH IN THE PROPOSED MODEL, THE STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY WAS NOT INCLUDED, THE EXPERIMENTAL DATA PROVIDED THE FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF ANISOTROPIC CONSTITUTIVE MODELS. THE OBSERVED MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR MOTIVATED A RHEOLOGICAL MODEL COMPRISING FOUR PARALLEL LAYERS, EACH CONSISTING OF ELASTIC, VISCOELASTIC AND ELASTOPLASTIC ELEMENTS. THE PROPOSED HYPERVISCOPLASTIC MODEL WAS DERIVED FROM THE ENTROPY INEQUALITY. EACH PART OF THE MODEL WAS VERIFIED AGAINST THEIR ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS. THE MODEL PARAMETER FITTING STARTED WITH THE RATE-INDEPENDENT EQUILIBRIUM TESTS, WHERE THE HYPERELASTOPLASTIC MODEL WAS FITTED TO THE DEFINED LABORATORY EQUILIBRIUM TEST. TWO COMPRESSION-RELAXATION TESTS, CARRIED OUT AT DIFFERENT STRAIN RATES, WERE USED FOR THE PARAMETER ESTIMATION OF THE RATE-DEPENDENT HYPERVISCOPLASTIC MODEL. THE HYPERVISCOPLASTIC MODEL WAS VALIDATED AGAINST FIVE STRAIN RATE TESTS UNDER VARIOUS LOAD CASES AS WELL AS AN UNDRAINED TRIAXIAL CREEP TEST. THE FINITE STRAIN CONSTITUTIVE MODEL DERIVED WITHIN A THERMODYNAMICALLY CONSISTENT FRAMEWORK SHOWED ITS VERSATILITY IN SIMULATING PEAT BEHAVIOUR IN VARIOUS LOAD CASES BY A GOOD AGREEMENT OF THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS. ALSO, FROM THE PROCESS OF THE DERIVING THE HYPERVISCOPLASTIC MODEL, IT IS PERCEIVED THAT IT WOULD BE EASY TO EXTEND THE CURRENT MODEL WITH MORE FEATURES IN A MATHEMATICALLY AND THERMOMECHANICALLY CONSISTENT MANNER. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (2011-MAR 2015) AND TCD POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP (MAR 15 TO MAR 16) EMBARK POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME (RS/2011/271) DETERMINATION OF SOIL PLASTICITY USING A NEW APPARATUS DR. B.C. O'KELLY (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR), AND MR. SEYEDMASOUD MANAFIGHORABAEI (RESEARCH STUDENT_IRAN). DETERMINATION OF SOIL PLASTICITY IS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING PROJECTS. CONSISTENCY OF SOIL CAN BE EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF ATTERBERG LIMITS OF SOILS. LIQUID LIMIT AND PLASTIC LIMIT TESTS ARE AMONG THE TWO MOST REGULAR TESTS FOR DETERMINATION OF INDEX PROPERTIES OF FINE GRAIN SOILS. SOIL CLASSIFICATION OF FINE GRAIN SOILS IS BASED ON RESULTS OF ATTERBERG LIMIT TESTS. IN ADDITION, MANY ENGINEERING PROPERTIES OF SOILS CAN BE CORRELATED TO THE RESULTS OF SOIL PLASTICITY DETERMINATION TESTS. CURRENT STANDARD METHODS FOR DETERMINATION OF SOIL PLASTICITY HAVE SEVERAL ISSUES THAT MAKE THEIR RESULTS UNRELIABLE IN MANY CASES. IN THIS RESEARCH, IT IS TRIED TO ADDRESS PROBLEMS OF CONVENTIONAL METHODS REGARDING SOIL PLASTICITY DETERMINATION, DESIGN A NEW APPARATUS FOR DETERMINATION OF LIQUID LIMIT AND PLASTIC LIMIT OF SOILS, AND STANDARDISE A NEW TEST METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF SOIL PLASTICITY WITH MORE ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY IN COMPARISON TO CONVENTIONAL METHODS. SOIL CONSISTENCY IS A QUALITATIVE PHENOMENON. IN THIS REGARD, AUTHOR?S SUGGESTION FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS RELATED TO THE DETERMINATION OF SOIL PLASTICITY IS UTILISATION OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH. ACCORDINGLY, THE AUTHOR HAS PROPOSED A NEW TEST METHOD AND DESIGNED A NEW APPARATUS (MANAFI APPARATUS) FOR DETERMINATION OF SOIL CONSISTENCY BASED ON THE NATURE OF SOIL DEFORMATION UTILISING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH, REFERRED TO AS MANAFI METHOD. IN THIS TECHNIQUE, IT IS POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE WORKABILITY OF SOIL AT ATTERBERG LIMITS AND SPECIFY THE CONSISTENCY STATE OF THE SOIL. TEN DIFFERENT SOILS WERE SELECTED CAREFULLY TO COVER A WIDE RANGE OF SOILS PLASTICITY WITH PLASTIC LIMITS RANGE FROM 18.6% TO 30.8%, AND THE LIQUID LIMITS RANGE FROM 30.3% TO 61.8%. THE MOST DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE RESULTS OBTAINED BY PROPOSED METHOD AND STANDARD METHODS WERE 2.4% AND 1.9% OF WATER CONTENT FOR LIQUID AND PLASTIC LIMITS CORRESPONDINGLY. THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OBTAINED BY DESIGNED APPARATUS CONFIRMED THE PROPOSED METHOD AND PROVIDED MORE CONSISTENT RESULTS IN SOIL PLASTICITY DETERMINATION IN COMPARISON TO CURRENT STANDARD METHODS (FALL CONE AND THREAD ROLLING METHODS). POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP FROM TRINITY COLLEGE (2015-2018) AXIAL MONOTONIC AND CYCLIC LOADING OF OPEN AND CLOSED-ENDED PILES AND FOOTINGS THIS PROJECT INVOLVED AXIAL LOADING OF REDUCED SCALE PILES AND FOOTINGS ON SAND BEDS INSITU. FOR CLOSED-ENDED PILES IN DENSE SAND, STATIC AND CYCLIC AXIAL COMPRESSION AND TENSION LOAD TESTING WAS PERFORMED TO STUDY THE CAUSES OF FRICTION FATIGUE. FOR OPEN-ENDED PILES IN LOOSE AND MEDIUM-DENSE SAND, THE EFFECTS OF INSTALLATION METHOD, SOIL-CORE DEVELOPMENT AND CYCLIC LOADING ON SHAFT RESISTANCE MOBILISATION WERE INVESTIGATED. A NEW DESIGN METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE SHAFT CAPACITY OF PILES IN SAND WAS PROPOSED AND COMPARED WITH MEASUREMENTS MADE ON PROTOTYPE FIELD-SCALE PILES. ECCENTRIC LOAD TESTING WAS PERFORMED ON MODEL FOOTINGS HAVING DIFFERENT ASPECT RATIOS AND EMBEDMENT DEPTH IN DENSE SAND TO STUDY THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE BEARING RESISTANCE OF SHALLOW FOOTINGS IN SAND. ATTERBERG LIMITS DETERMINATION THIS PROJECT CONCERNS VARIOUS METHODS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE ATTERBERG LIMITS, INCLUDING CORRELATION WITH UNDRAINED STRENGTH, THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DROP-CONE METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE PLASTIC STRENGTH LIMIT (PL100), AND THE APPLICABILITY OF ATTERBERG LIMIT CONCEPTS APPLIED TO PEAT AND PEATY SOILS. GENERALISED STRESS PATH TESTING OF SAND USING A HOLLOW CYLINDER APPARATUS THIS PROJECT INVOLVED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW HOLLOW CYLINDER APPARATUS (HCA), INCLUDING ASSOCIATED INSTRUMENTATION, CALIBRATION AND CONTROL SYSTEMS, WHICH FACILITATE ACCURATE STRESS PATH MEASUREMENTS FROM THE PSEUDO ELASTIC DOMAIN TO FAILURE STRAIN LEVELS. THE HCA IS PARTICULARLY SUITED TO STUDYING THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF CROSS-ANISOTROPIC TEST SPECIMENS SINCE BOTH THE MAGNITUDES OF THE THREE PRINCIPAL STRESSES AND THE ORIENTATION OF THE MAJOR-MINOR PRINCIPAL STRESS AXES CAN BE INDEPENDENTLY CONTROLLED. IN THIS PROJECT, THE PLASTIC YIELD BEHAVIOUR OF FULL SATURATED WATER-PLUVIATED SAND SPECIMENS WAS STUDIED UNDER GENERALIZED STRESS CONDITIONS. USING THE EXPERIMENTAL YIELD DATA GATHERED, SOME EXISTING YIELD CRITERIA WERE INVESTIGATED TO ESTABLISH WHETHER THEY PROVIDE SATISFACTORY PREDICTIONS OF THE ONSET OF PLASTIC YIELDING IN SAND DEPOSITS UNDER GENERALIZED STRESS CONDITIONS FOR ROUTINE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING DESIGN. WATER CONTENT DETERMINATIONS FOR PEAT AND OTHER HIGHLY ORGANIC SOILS USING THE OVEN DRYING METHOD THERE HAS BEEN MUCH DEBATE IN THE LITERATURE OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS REGARDING AN APPROPRIATE OVEN-DRYING TEMPERATURE FOR WATER CONTENT DETERMINATIONS IN PEAT AND OTHER ORGANIC SOILS. FOR THESE SOILS, SEVERAL RESEARCHERS HAVE RECOMMENDED DRYING TEMPERATURES IN THE RANGE 60-90 DEGREE CELSIUS IN AN ATTEMPT TO PREVENT POSSIBLE CHARRING, OXIDATION AND/OR VAPORIZATION OF SUBSTANCES OTHER THAN PORE WATER. THIS EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT ESTABLISHES THE OVEN DRYING TEMPERATURE RANGE ACCEPTABLE FOR ROUTINE WATER CONTENT DETERMINATIONS ON PEAT AND OTHER ORGANIC SOILS, INCLUDING A NEW METHOD DEVELOPED TO RELATE WATER CONTENT VALUES DETERMINED FOR THE SAME MATERIAL BUT ON THE BASIS OF DIFFERENT OVEN-DRYING TEMPERATURES. EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF HELICAL SCREW PILES FOR OFFSHORE FOUNDATIONS THE PERFORMANCE OF HELICAL SCREW PILES IN NONCYCLIC ONSHORE APPLICATIONS INDICATES THAT THEY HAVE THE REQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS TO MAKE THEM SUITABLE IN CYCLIC OFFSHORE APPLICATIONS. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT, JOINTLY BETWEEN THE GEOTECHNCIAL RESEARCH GROUPS AT THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SLIGO, AND TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, WILL INVOLVE EXPERIMENTAL TESTING USING THE IT SLIGO GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE TO INVESTIGATE THE LOAD CAPACITY AND CYCLIC PERFORMANCE OF HELICAL SCREW PILES FOR OFFSHORE FOUNDATION APPLICATIONS. DR PAT NAUGHTON (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, IT SLIGO), DR B.C. O'KELLY (CO-SUPERVISOR) AND MR. DARREN REAPE (RESEARCH STUDENT BASED IN IT SLIGO) INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY IRELAND (IOTI) IOTI POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP INITIATIVE 2014 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. KEVIN O'KELLY okellykevin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OKELLYK MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING MATERIALS & BIOMATERIALS: FAILURE MECHANISMS IN CANCELLOUS BONE: CHANGES IN BONE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES DUE TO OSTEOPOROSIS AND OSTEOARTHRITIS: FRACTURE MECHANICS OF BRITTLE MATERIALS: NANO-INDENTATION TECHNIQUES: COMPLEX MICROSTRUCTURES IN CERAMICS MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH CHARTERED ENGINEER, INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS FELLOW, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF IRELAND MEMBER, INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND PRESIDENT, SECTION OF BIOENGINEERING OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND SECRETARY, SECTION OF BIOENGINEERING OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS CERAMIC ENGINEERING FAILURE MECHANICS FRACTURE FRACTURE ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY FRACTURE MECHANICAL STIFFNESS FRACTURE MECHANICS FRACTURE PATH FRACTURE TOUGHNESS MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING MATERIALS, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES MICROCRACKS OSTEOPOROSIS PROSTHETIC DEVICE, NEURAL TRABECULAE MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) MATERIALS SCIENCE OTHER ENGINEERING MECHANICAL INTEGRITY AND ARCHTICTURE OF BONE THE WORK PROGRAMMA ASSESSED THE EFFECTS OF OSTEOPOROSIS, DRUG-TREATMENT, AND NORMAL AGEING ON THE MECHANICAL INTEGRITY AND ARCHITECTURE OF BONE. IT INVOLVED A 52 WEEK LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF WISTAR RATS. EU 5TH FRAMEWORK TISSUE LEVEL PROPERTY CHANGES IN OSTEOARTHRITIC BONE THE WORK INVESTIGATED HIGHLY LOCALISED CHANGES IN BONE MINERAL COMPOSITION AND COLLAGEN CROSSLINKING AND CORRELATED THEM TO LOCAL MEASUREMENTS OF HARDNESS AND STIFFNESS IN BONE TISSUE. SFI PRTLI 3 DEVELOPMENT OF ELASTOMERIC, BIOCOMPATIBLE SCAFFOLD FOR BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING PROJECT AIM IS TO DEVELOP CERAMIC AND STRAINABLE POLYMER SCAFFOLDS WITH A REGULAR ARCHITECTURES TO ENHANCE CELL VIABILITY, PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION FOR BOTH IN-VITRO AND IN-VIVO BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS. SFI PRTLI 3 MODELLING SUBSURFACE DEFORMATION & FRACTURE IN CERAMICS TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CAPSL - CLT SCALE EFFECTS IN NANO-INDENTATION FRACTURE TOUGHNESS MEASUREMENTS OF BRITTLE CERAMICS ARISING FROM CRACK-MICROSTRUCTURE INTERACTIONS THE WORK WILL DEVELOP FRACTURE TOUGHNESS MODELS RELEVANT TO SMALL SCALE MICRO ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS) BY QUANTIFYING THE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MICROSTRUCTURE AND FRACTURE PROCESS IN REAL CERAMIC SYSTEMS. THIS WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT BENEFIT FOR DESIGN IN MEMS APPLICATIONS. THIS WORK PROPOSES TO DEVELOP A MODEL FOR NANO-INDENTATION FRACTURE BASED ON THE 3D MORPHOLOGY OF CRACKS AND THE STRESS FIELDS ARISING IN MATERIALS OF VARYING MICROSTRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY. THIS WORK WILL CARRY OUT EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL WORK TO INVESTIGATE THE STRESS FIELDS AND CRACKS GENERATED BY DIFFERENT INDENTER GEOMETRIES IN MATERIALS OF VARYING MICROSTRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY. THE APPROACH IS BASED ON PRELIMINARY WORK CARRIED OUT INDEPENDENTLY BY THE TCD AND THE UNSW GROUPS AS WELL AS COLLABORATIVE WORK CARRIED OUT WHILE DR. O'KELLY WAS A VISITING RESARCH FELLOW IN UNSW. SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT OF ACTIVE IMPLANTED ELECTRODE SYSTEMS FOR NEURAL APPLICATIONS. NEURAL ELECTRODES ARE DEVICES IMPLANTED INTO THE BRAIN FOR EITHER RECORDING NEURAL IMPULSES OR STIMULATING NEURONS WITH ELECTRICAL IMPULSES FROM AN EXTERNAL SOURCE. ELECTRODES CAN BE FOR ACUTE (SHORT TERM) OR CHRONIC (LONG TERM) RECORDING OR STIMULATION. AN IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IS THE RESPONSE OF LIVING TISSUE TO ELECTRODE IMPLANTATION. IT IS THIS TISSUE RESPONSE THAT CAUSES ELECTRODES TO FAIL BY ENCAPSULATING THE ELECTRODE IN A PROTECTIVE LAYER CALLED THE GLIAL SCAR. THE OBSERVED TISSUE RESPONSE IS CAUSED BY A COMBINATION OF THE TRAUMATIC INJURY OF ELECTRODE INSERTION AND THE PERSISTENT PRESENCE OF A FOREIGN BODY IN THE NEURAL TISSUE. A SCIENTIFIC NEED EXISTS FOR ACTIVE IMPLANTED ELECTRODES THAT IMPROVE ON THE FUNCTIONALITY OF EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE TWO DIFFERENT STRATEGIES: (1) MINIMISE THE SIZE OF THE ELECTRODE TO DIAMETERS OF <25 &#956;M. IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT BY CONSTRUCTING A MICROMETER-SIZE DEVICE, REDUCTION OF INITIAL SWELLING AND GLIAL SCAR FORMATION CAN BE ACHIEVED. ELECTRODES OF THIS SIZE WILL REQUIRE NOVEL INSERTION AND FIXATION METHODS. (2) DEVELOP ELECTRODES THAT SUPPRESS ACTIVITY IN SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE BRAIN BY LOCALIZED COOLING. CURRENT TECHNIQUES INVOLVE ELECTRICALLY "OVERSTIMULATING" THESE AREAS TO SUPPRESS ACTIVITY. NEW DEVELOPMENTS HAVE SHOWN THAT COOLING THESE AREAS PRODUCES A SIMILAR EFFECT WITHOUT THE ACCOMPANYING COMPLICATIONS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP CLINICALLY RELEVANT ELECTRODE SYSTEMS THAT ARE COMMERCIALLY VIABLE. HEA PRTLI5 DEVELOPMENT OF A BONE TISSUE ENGINEERING SCAFFOLD OPTIMISED FOR TRANSITION FROM BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS TO IN-VIVO DENTAL APPLICATIONS THIS PROJECT WILL BUILD ON PREVIOUS FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH DEVELOPING A NOVEL CERAMIC SCAFFOLD WITH A TRI-MODAL PORE STRUCTURE. IT WILL ADVANCE THE RESULTS FROM IN VITRO TESTING TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFICACY FOR PROVIDING APPROPRIATE NUTRIENT AND GROWTH FACTOR ENVIRONMENTS TO SUPPORT PROLIFERATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF SEEDED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS IN A DIFFUSION ENVIRONMENT SIMILAR TO IN VIVO CONDITIONS. IT WILL ALSO OPTIMISE THE MANUFACTURING PARAMETERS WITH A VIEW TO COMMERCIALISATION AND LARGER SCALE MANUFACTURING, FOCUSING INITIALLY ON THE DENTAL IMPLANT APPLICATIONS. THE PROJECT ADDRESSES THE LIMITATIONS OF BONE GRAFTS SCAFFOLDS OPTIMISED FOR PERFUSION BIO-REACTORS WHICH FAIL TO PROVIDE A SUITABLE ENVIRONMENT THROUGHOUT THE VOLUME FOR IN-VIVO APPLICATIONS, FORMING BONE ONLY IN THE OUTER 250&#956;M - 500&#956;M. IT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT SUPPLY OF NUTRIENT MOLECULES AND REMOVAL OF METABOLIC WASTE PRODUCTS ARE CRUCIAL TO PROMOTE TISSUE FORMATION. OVERCOMING THE MASS TRANSPORT LIMITATIONS OCCURING IN VIVO REPRESENTS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES FOR BONE TISSUE SCAFFOLDS. HEA PRTLI5 PERFORMANCE OF ANTIWEAR FILM IN PRESENCE OF FRICTION MODIFIERS IN THIS PROJECT WE WILL DESCRIBE HOW THE ADDITION OF TWO FRICTION MODIFIERS CHANGE PROPERTIES OF ZDDP ANTIWEAR FILMS. SURFACES WILL BE ANALYSED WITH PROFILOMETRY, SEM AND XPS. I THINK THIS PAPER WILL COVER THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF THE LAYERS. FRESH AND AGED OILS WILL BE USED. THERE IS ALSO A TREND IN THE OF THE FRICTION TESTS THAT ONE FM WORK BETTER IN BOUNDARY LUBRICATION REGION WHILE THE OTHER IN MIXED LUBRICATION. WILL PERFORM TESTS AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS IN THE WEAR TEST TO SEE IF THE SAME TRENDS ARE OBSERVED THERE. IF SO THE I MIGHT USE SEM TO SEE IF THERE IS ANY CHANGES IN CHEMICAL NATURE OF THE FILMS. ALSO SAMPLES WITH BOTH FMS WILL BE TESTED AS THIS MIGHT SHOW THAT THE BLEND IS THEN WORKING IN "ALL" REGIONS. THE INFLUENCE OF FRICTION MODIFIERS ON THE ANTIWEAR FILM - EFFECT OF AGED OILS II - WILL ALSO BE INVESTIGATED USING NANOINDENTION AND AFM TO ANALYSE THE SURFACES. THIS WORK WILL THEN COVER THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE FILM AS WELL AS DISTRIBUTION AND LOCAL FRICTION AND FINALLY THE INFLUENCE OF ROUGHNESS. EU FRAMEWORK 6 MARIE CURIE FELLOWSHIP NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR JOHN JAMES O'LEARY olearyjohnjames PROFESSOR CONSULTANT OLEARYJJ HISTOPATHOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND BIOMARKERS OF DISEASE. CERVICAL CANCER. DEVELOPMENT OF ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES. MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY. PROSTATE CANCER. DEPT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LAB ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 INVITEE, BREAST CANCER CONSORTIUM (PROPOSED), INVESTIGATORS TO BE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN BREAST CANCER WORKSHOP WITH A VIEW TO ESTABLISHING FORMAL CONSORTIUM AND INFORMAL INDIVIDUAL COLLABORATIONS.LAST UPDATED : 19 NOVEMBER 2004. EXTRACT FROM DMMC RESEARCH DATABASE MEMBER, CENTRE FOR MOLECULAR RESEARCH IN CANCER (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMMON INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING CELL CYCLE SIGNALING AND REGULATION WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON TWO KEY CANCER-RELATED PROCESSES (CELL CYCLE CONTROL, APOPTOSIS) AND/OR THREE SPECIFIC MALIGNANCY TYPES (OESOPHAGEAL, PROSTATE AND HAEMATOLOGICAL). MEMBER, CORE TECHNOLOGY PI'S, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS. MEMBER, DMMC CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL GROUPING OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH ON CANCER THEMES BIOMARKERS OF DISEASE CERVICAL CANCER DEVELOPMENT OF ARRAY TECHNOLOGIES MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY PROSTATE CANCER CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MS. RUTH O'LEARY olearyruth POSTGRAD CAREER DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI MGE RUOLEARY BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION CAREERS SERVICES (AHECS) CHARTERED MEMEBER OF THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONEL AND DEVELOPMENT (CIPD) THE ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATE CAREERS ADVISORY SERVICES (AGCAS) DR. SEONADH O'LEARY olearyseonadh SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW OLEARYSE CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL 01-8961000 AMERICAN THORAIC SOCIETY EU COST 845 ACTION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. JAMES O'MAHONY omahonyjames RESEARCH FELLOW OMAHONJ1 HISTOPATHOLOGY DR O'MAHONY'S PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN METHODS OF COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS (CEA), PARTICULARLY MODELLING METHODS. MOST BROADLY, JAMES IS INTERESTED IN THE WAY THE POLICY QUESTIONS FACED BY DECISION MAKERS ARE INTERPRETED BY ANALYSTS WHEN CONSTRUCTING MODELS AND COMMUNICATING RESULTS BACK TO DECISION MAKERS. HE IS INTERESTED IN HOW WELL THE MODEL ESTIMATES PROVIDED TO DECISION MAKERS FIT THE POLICY QUESTIONS AT HAND. ONE OF THE AREAS OF INTEREST FOR JAMES WHERE MODELS MAY NOT FIT WITH POLICY QUESTIONS IS WHERE THERE ARE MULTIPLE HETEROGENEOUS COHORTS THAT ARE POTENTIAL RECIPIENTS OF A GIVEN INTERVENTION. DIFFERENTIAL DISCOUNTING OF COST AND HEALTH EFFECTS LEADS TO EXAMPLES OF MODELS WITH HETEROGENEOUS COHORTS. JAMES IS ALSO INTERESTED IN THE REPRESENTATION OF UNCERTAINTY TO DECISION MAKERS, PARTICULARLY PROBABILISTIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS AND COST-EFFECTIVENESS ACCEPTABILITY CURVES. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT 2-4 FOSTER PLACE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHARMACOECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH SOCIETY OF MEDICAL DECISION MAKING CANCER PROFESSOR DONAL EDWARD O'MAHONY omahonydonaledward PROFESSOR/HEAD OF DISCIPLINE DOMAHONY COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. COMPUTER NETWORKS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, MOBILE INTERNET, PERVASIVE AND UBIQUITOUS AND AMBIENT COMPUTING, COMPUTER SECURITY, CRYPTOGRAPHY, ELECTRONIC PAYMENT COMPUTER SCIENCE NTRG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE FRENCH DIRECTOR OF CENTRE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS VALUE-CHAIN RESEARCH (CTVR) MIEEE SENIOR MEMBER OF THE IEEE COMPUTER/DATA/NETWORK SECURITY CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CODING THEORY CRYPTOLOGY DATA PROTECTION, STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, CRYPTOGRAPHY DISTRIBUTED DATABASE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS EDIFACT ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (E COMMERCE) ELECTRONIC COMMERCE,PAYMENT, SIGNATURE ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE (EDI) ELECTRONIC DATA, RECORD INTERCHANGE ELECTRONIC PURCHASING ELECTRONIC WARFARE INTERNET INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES LOCAL AREA NETWORKS MOBILE APPLICATIONS MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS MOBILE NETWORKS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY NETWORKING NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PHOTONIC NETWORKS SATELLITE, TECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMS, POSITIONING, COMMUNICATION SECURITY SYSTEMS SIGNAL PROCESSING SMART CARDS TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TELECOMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY TELESHOPPING WIRELESS SYSTEMS, RADIO TECHNOLOGY X.400 MESSAGE HANDLING SERVICE X.500 DIRECTORY SERVICE ENERGY EFFICIENCY WIND ENERGY ELECTRICAL GRID ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE CENTRE FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS VALUE-CHAIN-DRIVEN RESEARCH(CTVR) A MULTI-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTRE WORKING IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH BELL LABS IRELAND, OUR MAJOR INDUSTRIAL PARTNER. THE CENTRE IS FOCUSSED ON FUTURE TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS AND THE COMPLEX VALUE CHAINS THAT LEAD TO THEIR REALIZATION. THE CENTRE HAS FIVE MAJOR RESEARCH STRANDS: NETWORK ARCHITECTURE, NEXT GENERATION RF, PHOTONICS, TEST & RELIABILITY SCIENCE AND VALUE CHAIN OPTIMISATION. RESEACHERS ARE DRAWN FROM 8 THIRD-LEVEL INSTITUTES ACROSS IRELAND. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CENTRES FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (CSET) TELECOMMUNICATIONS GRADUATE INITIATIVE PROJECT AIMED AT INTRODUCING AND DEVELOPING STRUCTURED PHD PROGRAMS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ALIGNED TOPICS ACROSS 8 IRISH HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES - INVOLVES DELIVERY OF A SET OF ADVANCED GRADUATE LEVEL MODULES, GIVEN BY WORLD EXPERTS AND OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS IN IRELAND. ADDITIONALLY, A COHORT OF 10 PHD STUDENTS AT TCD (AND 20 ELSEWHERE) ARE FULLY FUNDED TO PARTIIPATE IN THESE STRUCTURED PHD PROGRAMMES HEA PRTLI CYCLE 5 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR MARGARET MARY O'MAHONY omahonymargaretmary CHAIR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING MMMAHONY CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CENTRE FOR TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION FOR PEOPLE (TRIP) TRANSPORT ENGINEERING, CITY NETWORKS, ENERGY, HIGHWAY ENGINEERING, TRANSPORT NETWORK MODELLING, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TRANSPORT, EXTERNAL COSTS OF TRANSPORT, TRAFFIC DEMAND MANAGEMENT. CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACCREDITATION PANEL REVIEWER FOR ENGINEERS IRELAND BOARD MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY CHARTERED ENGINEER, FIEI, CENG, ENGINEERS IRELAND CHARTERED ENGINEER, MICE, INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, UK COUNCIL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF EUROPEAN TRANSPORT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITIES TRANSPORT STUDY GROUP (UK) EXPERT EVALUATOR FOR THE EU R&D CALLS HAS SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE FOLLOWING TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD COMMITTEES (US): SOCIO AND ECONOMIC FACTORS, FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND LOGISTICS, BUS TRANSIT SYSTEMS, LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT, STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY AND SOFTWARE IN TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH INVITED EXPERT ON THE TRANSPORT PANEL OF THE RECENT TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT IRELAND TO FORMULATE FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPORT POLICIES IN IRELAND. IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE BENCHMARKING GROUP OF THE EU TRANSPORT RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE CENTRE PROJECT, EXTR@WEB MEMBER OF BOARD OF RAILWAY PROCUREMENT AGENCY (DELIVERING LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT AND METRO TO DUBLIN) MEMBER OF THE IRISH ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING MEMBER OF TRANSPORT ADVISORY GROUP, EU HORIZON 2020 REPRESENTED THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN ON THE DUBLIN TRANSPORTATION INITIATIVE CONSULTATIVE PANEL REVIEWER FOR SEVERAL HIGH IMPACT JOURNALS INCLUDING TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH, ENERGY POLICY, AND APPLIED ENERGY AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES CIVIL ENGINEERING, PAVEMENTS AND STRUCTURES ENERGY ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ENERGY EFFICIENCY ENERGY ENGINEERING ENERGY UTILIZATION ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAY ENGINEERING IMPACTS OF NEW PUBLIC TRANSPORT INTELLIGENT VEHICLES INTERMODAL TRANSPORT NEW MEANS OF TRANSPORT NOISE POLLUTION, TECHNOLOGY RENEWABLE ENERGY ROAD TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY SIMULATION AND MODELLING TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT TRANSPORT POLICY TRANSPORT PSYCHOLOGY AND SAFETY TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY USE SECURITY ON TRANSPORT NETWORKS ELECTROMOBILITY- USER IMPACTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIREMENTS POTENTIAL IMPACT OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IN TRANSPORT NETWORKS POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION ON TRANSPORT NETWORKS AND USERS THE TENSION BETWEEN SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN TRANSPORT INFORMATION PROVISION AND USE PREVIOUS PROJECT EXPERIENCE COORDINATOR OR PARTNER ON FOLLOWING EU FUNDED PROJECTS: GREEN EMOTION, ADDPRIV, TRENEN, TRENEN II STRAN, UNITE AND EUROPRICE. CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. KATE O'MALLEY omalleykate VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW KOMALLEY CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY CNTR FOR CONTEMP. IRISH HISTORY COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL EDITORS OF DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTS GROUP 20TH CENTURY IRISH DIPLOMATIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY BRITISH DECOLONISATION BRITISH IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY INTELLIGENCE HISTORY THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT FIFTY YEARS OF IRISH REPRESENTATION IN AUSTRALIA I WAS COMMISSIONED TO RESEARCH THE CAREER OF THE IRISH DIPLOMAT DR T.J. KIERNAN DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MS. DEIRDRE O'MALLEY omalleydeirdre RESEARCH FELLOW OMALLEDE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF MIDWIVES IRISH NURSES AND MIDWIVES ORGANISATION MIDWIFERY POSTPARTUM SEXUAL HEALTH SEXUALITY AND SEXUAL HEALTH PROFESSOR SHANE MICHAEL O'MARA omarashanemichael PROFESSOR OF EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH SMOMARA PSYCHOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) BIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY; MECHANISMS OF BRAIN REPAIR; DRUG ACTION IN CNS; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY; VISUALISING IN VIVO NEURONAL ACTIVITY; DEFINING DISTRIBUTION OF BIOACTIVE AGENTS IN CNS; IMAGING HUMAN BRAIN DURING LEARNING AND MEMORY; MODELS OF NEURODEGENERATION; MODELS OF SECONDARY DEPRESSION AND THEIR TREATMENT; ORGANIC DISORDERS OF MEMORY. KEY RESEARCH QUESTION: HOW DOES THE BRAIN CHANGE AS A RESULT OF EXPERIENCE? TO INVESTIGATE THIS GENERAL PROBLEM, I HAVE ADOPTED MULTIDISCIPLINARY TECHNIQUES FROM DIVERSE DISCIPLINES (E.G. NEUROPHYSIOLOGY, NEUROPHARMACOLOGY, BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS, NEUROIMMUNOLOGY). TECHNIQUES ROUTINELY USED IN MY RESEARCH GROUP INCLUDE: IN VIVO NEUROPHYSIOLOGY IN FREELY-MOVING/ANAESTHETISED RAT (FIELD POTENTIALS/ACTION POTENTIAL RECORDINGS OF SINGLE NEURONS/NEURONAL ENSEMBLES); NEUROBEHAVIOURAL ASSAYS (AUTOMATED WATER, RADIAL, OPEN FIELD; OBJECT EXPLORATION, ODOUR DISCRIMINATION, ETC.); BRAIN PROTEIN ASSAYS (BDNF; PROSTAGLANDINS); RADIOIMMUNOASSAYS; NEUROHISTOLOGY. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE; SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE; EUROPEAN BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR SOCIETY; NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND MAJOR CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: THE EUROPEAN BRAIN AND BEHAVIOUR SOCIETY MEETING SEPT 2005. I WAS THE CHAIR AND CHIEF ORGANISER OF THIS CONFERENCE; I LED THE SUCCESSFUL BID TO BRING THIS CONFERENCE TO DUBLIN AND TO HAVE IT HOSTED BY THE TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE. THIS WAS A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF SOME 450 DELEGATES. ACTIVATED PROTEIN-KINASE ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE AMINO-ACID RECEPTORS AMMONS HORN ANATOMICAL DATA ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI ARACHIDONIC-ACID AREA CA1 BDNF BDNF PROTECTS BEHAVIORAL STRESS BIOLOGY OF LEARNING, MEMORY AND COGNITION CA1 CALCIUM CHRONIC NEUROINFLAMMATION COGNITIVE MAPS COMPLEX-SPIKE CELLS CORTEX CUE CONTROL CYTOKINES DENTATE GYRUS DEPOTENTIATION DISORIENTATION EFFERENT CONNECTIONS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICALLY-DEFINED CLASSES ENTORHINAL CORTEX ENVIRONMENT FIRING PATTERNS FIRING PROPERTIES FREELY-MOVING FRONTAL-CORTEX GYRUS IN-VITRO HEAD DIRECTION CELLS HIGH-FREQUENCY STIMULATION HIPPOCAMPAL HIPPOCAMPAL AREA CA1 HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION HIPPOCAMPAL SLICES HIPPOCAMPUS IN-VIVO LASTING POTENTIATION LEARNING AND MEMORY LESIONS LONG-TERM POTENTIATION MESSENGER-RNA METHYL-D-ASPARTATE NEURONS PAIRED-PULSE FACILITATION PARIETAL CORTEX PATH INTEGRATION PLACE NAVIGATION PLASTICITY POTENTIATION RAT RAT HIPPOCAMPUS RATS SLICES SPATIAL MEMORY SUBICULUM SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION WATER MAZE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. AENGUS S O'MARCAIGH omarcaighaenguss CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER OMARCAAS PAEDIATRICS DEPT OF PAEDIATRIC HAEMATOLOGY OUR LADY'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL CRUMLIN DUBLIN 12 01-8961000 PROFESSOR ASTRID MONA ELIZ O'MOORE omooreastridmonaeliz FELLOW EMERITUS MOMOORE EDUCATION ANTI-BULLYING RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTRE EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD OF SCHOOL & ADULT BULLYING, AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE. CHILD & EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY ANTI BULLYING CENTRE ROOM 449 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NORWEGIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH MEMBER OF THE BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES MEMBER OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE BULLYING EDUCATIONAL VALUES HEALTH AND SAFETY EDUCATION PARENT INVOLVEMENT SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER ATTITUDES VISTA (VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS TRAINING ACTION) THE PROJECT AIMED TO PROVIDE TRAINING RESOURCES, GEARED PRINCIPALLY AT SCHOOL POLICY MAKERS, TO HELP PREVENT AND COUNTER VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS EUROPE-WIDE. THE PROJECT SAW PARTICIPATION FROM SIX COUNTRY TEAMS (BELGIUM, BULGARIA, IRELAND, NORWAY, SPAIN, UK) UNDER THE CO-ORDINATION OF PROFESSOR HELEN COWIE (UK). THE COUNTRY TEAMS CAME FROM A VARIETY OF DISCIPLINES: CRIMINOLOGY, EDUCATION, LAW, PSYCHOLOGY. OUTPUTS INCLUDED A WEB RESOURCE (WWW.VISTA-EUROPE.ORG). EUROPEAN COMMISSION (COMENIUS 2.1) DONEGAL ANTI-BULLYING PROJECT(A WHOLE SCHOOL COMMUNITY APPROACH) DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION & SCIENCE AND THE CALOUSRE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION NATIONWIDE STUDY ON SCHOOL BULLYING RESULTS PRESENTED AT IRELAND'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SCHOOL BULLYING(OCT.1996) AND PUBLISHED IN A SPECIAL EDITION OF THE IRISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY,18,2,1997 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION & SCIENCE AND THE CALOUSTE GULKENKIAN FOUNDATION NATIONAL SURVEY OF WORKPLACE BULLYING REPORT TO H.S.A & MINISTERIAL TASK FORCE ON WORKPLACE BULLYING. LEADING TO AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS. HEALTH & SAFETY AUTHORITY PEER MEDIATION TO COMBAT BULLYING PRODUCTION OF CD ROM FOR USE IN SCHOOLS ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCE BENEFACTION FUND CD ROM PUBLICATION SELF ESTEEM & BULLYING ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCE BENEFACTION FUND VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS IN IRELAND WORKING TOWARDS CREATING A MULTI-NATIONAL WEBSITE FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS ACROSS EUROPE. EU - 1999-1581/001 CONNECT PEER MEDIATION TO COUNTER VIOLENCE IN SCHOOL, FAMILY & THE COMMUNITY PEER MEDIATION TO COUNTER VIOLENCE IN SCHOOL, EU - 1999-1580/001- 001 INO PROJET GESPOSIT CREATING AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE CREATING AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE EU - 1999-1577/001- INO PROJET NOVAS RES A NATIONWIDE INTERVENTION PROGRAMMED TO PREVENT AND COUNTER BULLYING HARASSMENT AND VIOLENCE IN IRISH PRIMARY AND POST PRIMARY SCHOOLS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PREVENTATIVE AND INTERVENTATIVE STRATEGIES IN SCHOOLS AROUND IRELAND AT PRIMARY AND POST PRIMARY LEVEL, THROUGH THE SURVEYING OF SCHOOLS AND TRAINING OF FOCAL TEACHERS AROUND IRELAND. IRCHSS UNDERSTAND AND EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION AGAINST VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS ON A EUROPEAN WIDE BASIS WORKING WITH OTHER INSTITITUTES AROUND EUROPE DETAILING THE WORK DONE TO DATE IN EACH COUNTRY IN ORDER TO CREATE A USEFUL AND PRACTICAL DATABASE OF INFORMATION FOR USE BY SCHOOLS AND PRACTITITIONERS. CONNECT UK-001 VISTOP(VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS TRAINING ONLINE PROJECT) VISTOP AIMED AT DEVELOPING AN ONLINE COURSE THAT INTRODUCES TEACHERS, HEAD TEACHERS, POLICY-MAKERS, PARENTS AND OTHER SCHOOL STAFF TO THE TOPIC OF SCHOOL BULLYING AND VIOLENCE (SBV). THE ONLINE COURSE WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN TWO ALTERNATIVE VESIONS: ONE MODERATED ONLINE COURSE THAT WILL BE FULLY ACCOMPANIED BY A TUTOR AND ONE SELF-GUIDED ONLINE COURSE THAT CAN BE COMPLETED INDEPENDENTLY. E.U. - 129352 - CP-1-2006-1-DE-COMENIUS-C21 SOCRATES/MINERVA DEMOCRATIC SCHOOLS WITHOUT VIOLENCE THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO DELIVER THE EUROPEAN CHARTER FOR DEMOCRATIC SCHOOLS WITHOUT VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS THROUGH CLUSTERS MADE UP OF SCHOOLS AND TEACHER TRAINING CENTRES IN EACH PARTICIPATING COUNTRY SUPPORTED BY BEST PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE FROM LEADING ASSOCIATE PARTNERS IN THE FIELD OF EDC AND VIOLENCE REDUCTION. E.U. 230211-CP-1-2006-1-UK-COMENIUS-C3 SOCRATES PROGRAMME COMENIUS 3 CYBER-TRAINING:TAKING ACTION AGAINST CYBER-BULLYING PARTNERS FROM PORTUGAL,GERMANY,BULGARIA,SPAIN, U.K.& SWITZWELAND WILL DEVELOP A RESEARCH-BASED TRAINING MANUAL ON CYBERBULLYING FOR TRAINERS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LEONARDO DA VINCI PROGRAMME CYBER-BULLYING:COPING WITH NEGATIVE AND ENHANCING POSITIVE USES OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES,IN RELATIONSHIPS IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS THE COST ACTION AIMS AT SHARING EXPERTISE IN CYBER-BULLYING IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS,AND COPING WITH NEGATIVE AND ENHANCING POSITIVE USES OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES.THIS WILL BE DONE ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF COST COUNTRIES. THE SCIENTIFIC WORKPLAN WILL INVOLVE WORKING GROUPS,WORKSHOPS AND A FINAL CONFERENCE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION COST ACTION IS0801 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR COLM ANTOINE O'MORAIN omoraincolmantoine FELLOW EMERITUS OMORAINC FELLOWS EMERITII MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND AUTISM. PATHOGENESIS OF HELICOBACTER INFECTION ROOM 2.7/84 DAY CARE UNIT LEV 2 TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 INVITEE, COLORECTAL & GI CANCER RESEARCH GROUP (PROPOSED), SPECULATIVE IDEA TO CLUSTER PI'S AROUND COLLABORATIVE STUDY ON UPPER GI AND COLON CANCERS.DELIBERATELY WIDE SELECTION OF SURGEONS, PATHOLOGISTS AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS BASED ON STATED INTEREST OR PUBLICATION IN FIELDS OF OESOPHAGEAL OR COLORECTAL CANCER.TO BE REVIEWED/FOCUSED BY DK/JR/PMACM.EXTRACTED FROM DMMC RESEARCH DATABASE - 8 NOV 2004. AUTISM PATHOGENESIS OF HELICOBACTER INFECTION CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. CIARAN O'NEILL oneillciaran USSHER LECTURER IN 19TH CENTURY HISTORY ONEILC29 HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) MY RESEARCH HAS MOSTLY FOCUSED ON ELITES AND ELITE EDUCATION, SOMETHING VERY MUCH AT THE CORE OF BOTH OF MY BOOKS, IRISH ELITES (2013) AND CATHOLICS OF CONSEQUENCE (2014). MY NEXT BOOK WILL BE ABOUT POWER. I ALSO OCCASIONALLY PUBLISH ON OBSCURE NOVELS OF THE 1890S, AND HAVE ALSO BECOME MORE AND MORE INTERESTED IN PUBLIC HISTORY SINCE MY TIME AT TCD. SINCE 2014 I HAVE BEEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE SSNCI - AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIETY DEDICATED TO THE STUDY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND. IN ADDITION TO THIS I HAVE ALSO BEEN INVOLVED WITH A GROUP OF LIKEMINDED HISTORIANS WORKING TOGETHER IN THE TRANSNATIONAL IRELAND NETWORK, AND IN A GLOBAL RESEARCH NETWORK CALLED SPECTRESS, FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FINNISH FRENCH IRISH AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES FOUNDER MEMBER: TRANSNATIONAL IRELAND RESEARCH NETWORK INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR PUBLIC HISTORY IRISH HISTORICAL STUDIES PRESIDENT: SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF NINETEENTH CENTURY IRELAND ELITES AND EDUCATION IRISH AND BRITISH HISTORY 1800-1920 IRISH SOCIAL HISTORY PUBLIC HISTORY HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND DR. ARLENE GALLAGHER gallagherarlene ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ARONEILL PHYSICS SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS PROFESSOR DESMOND O'NEILL oneilldesmond PROFESSOR IN MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY DONEILL CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TRINITYHAUS 22 GREENMOUNT ROAD DUBLIN D06 KP02 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN CHAIR, GOVERNMENT WORKING GROUP ON ELDER ABUSE CHAIR, NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ARTS AND HEALTH CHAIR, NATIONAL REVIEW GROUP ON IMPLEMENTATION OF POLICY ON ELDER ABUSE CHAIR, POLICY GROUP ON AGEING, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND CHAIR-ELECT OF THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS COMMITTEE, GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA CO-CHAIR, RCPI WORKING GROUP ON FITNESS TO DRIVE COUNCIL MEMBER, RCPI EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS, EUROPEAN REGION (IAGG-ER) FOUNDER BOARD MEMBER, EUROPEAN UNION GERIATRIC MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDER/CHAIR, COUNCIL ON STROKE, IRISH HEART FOUNDATION IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT AND MEMBER EXECUTIVE BOARD, EUROPEAN UNION GERIATRIC MEDICINE SOCIETY MEDICAL DIRECTOR, ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, EUROPEAN GERIATRIC MEDICINE MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, WORLD DEMOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION FORUM MEMBER, OECD WORKING GROUP ERS4, AGEING AND TRANSPORT: MOBILITY NEEDS AND SAFETY ISSUES PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN UNION GERIATRIC MEDICINE SOCIETY PRESIDENT, IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT-ELECT, EUROPEAN UNION GERIATRIC MEDICINE SOCIETY PROVISIONAL MEMBER, HUMANITIES AND ARTS COMMITTEE, GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA SECRETARY, EUROPEAN UNION GERIATRIC MEDICAL SOCIETY SECRETARY, IRISH GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY AGE RELATED DISEASES AGED, AUTOMOBILE DRIVING AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES AGEING, STROKE, DEMENTIA ALZHEIMERS DISEASE ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE BIOMEDICAL ETHICS DEGLUTITION DEGLUTITION DISORDERS DEMENTIA DRIVING GERONTOLOGY MEMORY CLINICS OLDER PERSONS STROKE TRANSPORT IRISH NATIONAL STROKE AUDIT A €600,000 PROJECT, PI'S PROF HANNAH MCGEE (RCSI) AND DESMOND O'NEILL (TCD), THE WORK INVOLVES A NATIONAL STROKE AUDIT OF HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY STROKE SERVICES FOR THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE AUDIT OF HOSPITAL BASED STROKE SERVICES IS TO ESTABLISH THE CURRENT LEVEL AND FUNCTIONING OF SERVICES AVAILABLE FOR THE CARE OF STROKE PATIENTS IN ACUTE HOSPITALS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE AUDIT OF HOSPITAL-BASED SERVICES WILL HAVE TWO COMPONENTS: I) AN AUDIT OF THE ORGANISATIONAL ASPECTS OF STROKE CARE IN ACUTE HOSPITALS WITH REGARD TO THEIR RESOURCES FOR ORGANISED STROKE CARE: AND II) A CLINICAL AUDIT OF STROKE CARE INVOLVING REVIEW OF CLINICAL CASE NOTES FOR A SELECTED SAMPLE OF PATIENTS WITH STROKE. IRISH HEART FOUNDATION/DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN HEALTHY AGEING RESEARCH PROJECT THE FIRST DATA IS BEING ANALYZED FROM THE FIRST LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING IN IRELAND, A JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT BETWEEN TCD (LEADER PROF DES O'NEILL (1983)), RCSI AND QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. FUNDING OF €800,000 HAS BEEN PROVIDED BY THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, AND THE ACRONYM FOR THE STUDY (HARP) HELPS TO IDENTIFY THE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN! DRAWING ON A SECOND COHORT OF OLDER PEOPLE FROM THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND, AS WELL AS A COHORT FROM NORTHERN IRELAND, THE STUDY HAS GREAT POTENTIAL TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF AGEING IN IRELAND, AND IN PARTICULAR SOME OF THE REASONS WHY LONGEVITY HAS BEEN LAGGING BEHIND THAT OF THE EU 15 STATES. THE SURVEY LOOKS AT NOT ONLY HEALTH, SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES, BUT ALSO AT USAGE PATTERNS AND PERCEPTIONS OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN BOTH SYSTEMS. A SUB-STUDY OF THE PROJECT IS THE EXAMINATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MODELS OF COPING AFTER STROKE, WHICH IS BEING CARRIED OUT AT THE STROKE SERVICE IN TALLAGHT HOSPITAL, THE FIRST ACUTE SERVICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. AS MUCH NEUROREHABILITATION SERVES AS MUCH TO FACILITATE ADAPTATION AS TO RESTORE FUNCTION, THIS IS A KEY (AND UNDER-EXPOLORED) AREA OF RESEARCH. A FIRST STUDY FROM THIS ARM OF THE PROJECT WON THE POSTER PRIZE AT THE NATIONAL STROKE STUDY DAY IN MAY 2005, AND FURTHER PUBLICATIONS ARE IN PREPARATION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, IRELAND MUSIC THERAPY IN STROKE A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF MUSIC THERAPY IN STROKE: GRANT OF €40,000 MEATH FOUNDATION ROAD SAFETY IN AGEING SOCIETIES - CONCERNS AND SOLUTIONS (CONSOL) EUROPEAN COMMISSION - DIRECTORATE FOR MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT TREN/SUB/01-2010 COST OF STROKE A JOINT PROJECT INVOLVING THE IRISH NATIONAL AUDIT OF STROKE CARE TEAM (TCD, RCSI, ESRI, HSE) TO GIVE AN ESTIMATE OF THE COSTS OF STROKE IN IRELAND: FUNDING €100,000. IRISH HEART FOUNDATION ROBOTICS IN STROKE €250,000 HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE ENHANCING STROKE REHABILITATION WITH BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE COLLABORATOR WITH PI DR TOMÁS WARD (NUIM). FUNDING €118,000. STROKE IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DISABILITY WORLD-WIDE. EFFECTIVE REHABILITATION IS ESSENTIAL IN MINIMISING ITS SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT. WE CONTEND THAT A BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI) MAY BE USED TO INCREASE REHABILITATION EFFICACY AND OUTCOME. SPECIFICALLY A MOTOR-RELEARNING PARADIGM WILL BE AUGMENTED FOR THOSE STROKE SURVIVORS WITH NO MOVEMENT THROUGH PROVISIONING OF A MOTOR CORTEX-DRIVEN BCI. USING REAL-TIME MEASURES OF CORTICAL EFFORT IN THE VICINITY OF THE AFFECTED AREA FEEDBACK CAN BE ADMINISTERED THROUGH VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS AND/OR MECHANICAL ASSISTANCE. EFFICACY WILL BE ASSESSED IN A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL IN COLLABORATION WITH A STROKE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL. STROKE IS A LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AND DISABILITY WORLD-WIDE. EFFECTIVE STROKE REHABILITATION IS ESSENTIAL BOTH IN MAXIMISING QUALITY OF LIFE AND MINIMISING THE BURDEN ON THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. EFFICACY OF REHABILITATION IS ASSESSED USING OUTCOME MEASURES OR SCALES. WE CONTEND THAT THROUGH THE ADDITION OF A SUITABLE BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI) EFFECTIVE STROKE REHABILITATION THERAPY CAN BE ADMINISTERED TO STROKE RECOVERY PATIENTS THEREBY INCREASING REHABILITATION OUTCOME. AN ADAPTATION OF OUR EXISTING MOTOR CORTEX ACTIVITY DRIVEN BCI WILL BE USED IN A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL IN COLLABORATION WITH A STROKE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL CLINIC.` SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ELDER ABUSE OVERVIEW OF ELDER ABUSE IN IRELAND IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT. PROJECT UNDERTAKEN WITH VISITING PROFESSOR JAMES G O'BRIEN, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, USA ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES ARTISTS IN HOSPITALS PROJECT TO DEVELOP A TRAINING COURSE FOR ARTISTS WORKING IN HOSPITALS. GRAND OF €25,000 ARTS COUNCIL A COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS TO UPDATE GUIDELINES FOR DETERMINING MEDICAL FITNESS TO OPERATE MOTOR VEHICLES BACKGROUND. THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S (CMA) DRIVER'S GUIDE IS WIDELY USED BY PHYSICIANS ACROSS CANADA TO GUIDE DECISION-MAKING ABOUT ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND TREATMENTS ON DRIVING ABILITIES, ADVISING PATIENTS OF THE RISKS AND REPORTING TO TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES. THE CMA DRIVER'S GUIDE AND OTHER SIMILAR INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES ARE LIMITED IN THEIR CURRENCY, APPLICABILITY, RIGOUR OF DEVELOPMENT, AND INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE-USER PERSPECTIVES. THOSE MOST AFFECTED BY THE GUIDELINES, HEALTHY DRIVERS, PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS HAVE NOT PROVIDED INPUT. OBJECTIVE. THE OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE AN UP-TO-DATE KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS AND CLINICAL GUIDELINES ON DRIVING RISKS WITH TWO TOPICS OF HIGH PRIORITY FOR UPDATING: TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) AND DEMENTIA. THE KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS WILL LEVERAGE SKILLS OF CANADIAN AND INTERNATIONAL KNOWLEDGE EXPERTS, AND INCORPORATE THE INPUT OF CLINICIAN AND TRANSPORTATION KNOWLEDGE-USERS AS WELL AS DRIVERS, PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS. METHOD. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM EXISTING INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES ON DRIVING WITH TBI AND DEMENTIA WILL BE SUMMARIZED AND REVIEWED AND PRECISE QUESTIONS WILL BE REFINED AND PRIORITIZED TO SHAPE A REVISED SEARCH STRATEGY FOR AN UPDATED KNOWLEDGE-SYNTHESIS. DATA ADDRESSING THE PRIORITIZED QUESTIONS FROM THE REFERENCES FROM EXISTING GUIDELINES AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AS WELL AS THE UPDATED LITERATURE SEARCH WILL BE EXTRACTED AND THE QUALITY OF EVIDENCE AND RISK OF BIAS WILL BE RATED BY THE SYNTHESIS TEAM. REVISED GUIDELINES BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS WILL BE DEVELOPED, AND CLINICIAN- AND TRANSPORTATION- KNOWLEDGE-USERS WILL PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THEIR CLARITY, CURRENCY, APPLICABILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY. THE VALUES, PREFERENCES AND PERSPECTIVES OF HEALTHY DRIVERS AS WELL AS INDIVIDUALS AND CAREGIVERS WITH TBI AND DEMENTIA REGARDING THE REVISED GUIDELINES AND INTERPRETATIONS OF RISK WILL BE ASCERTAINED. RELEVANCE. MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISIONS ARE PREDICTED TO BE THE 3RD LEADING CAUSE OF DISABILITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS LOST BY 20208. CURRENT ESTIMATES PREDICT THAT WITHIN THE NEXT 20 YEARS THERE WILL BE ALMOST 100,000 DRIVERS WITH DEMENTIA IN ONTARIO9, AND 1.1 MILLION CANADIANS WITH DEMENTIA10, MANY OF WHOM WILL DRIVE FOR YEARS AFTER DIAGNOSIS11. ADDITIONALLY, BY 2031, IT IS ESTIMATED THAT 730,000 PATIENTS WILL BE HOSPITALIZED ANNUALLY FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) IN CANADA12, AND SINCE MOST INDIVIDUALS WITH TBI ARE NOT HOSPITALIZED13, THIS IS A VAST UNDER-ESTIMATE. DRIVING IS A RISK WITH BOTH OF THESE CONDITIONS1. NO RECENT SYNTHESIS HAS BEEN DONE WITH THE AIM OF CREATING QUALITY GUIDELINES FOR CLINICIANS. A WELL-EXECUTED KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS INCORPORATING KNOWLEDGE-USER INPUT WILL INCREASE CONFIDENCE OF CLINICIANS USING THE GUIDELINES41, INFORM TRANSPORTATION POLICY, AND PROVIDE A MODEL FOR UPDATING SYNTHESES AND CANADIAN AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL GUIDELINES FOR OTHER HEALTH CONDITIONS AND DRIVING. KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION. KNOWLEDGE-USERS WILL BE INVOLVED THROUGHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS PROCESS, KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESES WILL BE PUBLISHED IN OPEN-ACCESS JOURNALS, PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, AND THE CORRESPONDING CHAPTERS OF THE CMA DRIVER'S GUIDE WILL BE UPDATED IN ELECTRONIC AND PRINT FORMAT. THE PROCESS REFINED IN THE PRESENT GRANT WILL BE USED TO ADVOCATE FOR FURTHER INTERNATIONALLY-DEVELOPED KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESES OF MEDICAL ILLNESS AND DRIVING AND HIGH QUALITY, KNOWLEDGE-USER INFORMED CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES. CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS IRISH NATIONAL AUDIT OF DEMENTIA CARE (INAD) COLLABORATION TOGETHER WITH DR SEAN KENNELLY (TCD) AND INVESTIGATORS FROM UCC (DRS SUZANNE TIMMONS AND PAUL GALLAGHER) AND SUPPORT OF HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE. THIS IS THE FIRST NATIONAL AUDIT OF DEMENTIA CARE IN ACUTE HOSPITALS. ORGANISATIONAL, CASENOTE REVIEW,AND EVIORNMENTAL AUDIT OF CARE STANDARDS FOR PATIENTS WITH DEMENTIA WHEN THEY ARE ATTEND ACUTE HOSPITALS. MODELLED ON THE VERY SUCCESSFUL UK AUDIT. MEATH FOUNDATION, HRB, AP SEAN-KEY: SUPPORTED EPISODIC AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SEAN-KEY: NOESIS FOR HEALTH OLDER AND MEMORY IMPAIRED ADULTS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW HORIZONS IMPLEMENTING DEMENTIA FRIENDLY IRISH HOSPITAL DESIGN PI: HOSPITALS CAN BE VERY COMPLEX AND CONFUSING ENVIRONMENTS FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA, AND MAY ADD TO THEIR DISTRESS, DISORIENTATION AND SUFFERING. TO DATE, ACADEMIC AND PRAGMATIC DISCOURSE ON DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY DESIGN OF IRISH HOSPITALS HAS BEEN LACKING IN EXPERTISE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE PARADIGMS OF INCLUSIVE/UNIVERSAL DESIGN. THIS RESEARCH WILL EXAMINE THE KEY ISSUES AROUND THE DESIGN OF DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY HOSPITALS IN IRELAND TO IDENTIFY KEY OPPORTUNITIES, BARRIERS, COSTS AND SOLUTIONS. THIS WILL BE CONDUCTED USING MIXED METHODS RESEARCH UNDERPINNED BY A USER-CENTRED DESIGN AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PROCESS FOCUSSING IN THE FIRST YEAR ON TALLAGHT HOSPITAL AND SUBSEQUENTLY TO PEAMOUNT AND NAAS HOSPITALS. THIS PROCESS WILL INFORMED BY A LITERATURE REVIEW AND INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES OF DEMENTIA FRIENDLY HOSPITALS TO DETERMINE BEST PRACTICE EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN AS IMPLEMENTED GLOBALLY. THE PHYSICAL HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT WILL BE ANALYSED USING SPATIAL AND PHYSICAL DESIGN FRAMEWORK BASED AROUND: APPROACH AND ARRIVAL; ENTERING, EXITING AND CIRCULATION; KEY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SPACES; AND ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS (INCLUDING MATERIALS, FINISHES, TECHNOLOGY, ARTWORK ETC.) THE FINAL OUTPUT WILL RESULT IN A DEMENTIA FRIENDLY DESIGN MANUAL AND KEY FINDINGS TO UNDERPIN ANY FUTURE HSE GUIDELINES, CONTAINING 1) GUIDANCE AROUND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT OR PARTICIPATORY DESIGN PROCESSES 2) A PRELIMINARY IRELAND SPECIFIC DEMENTIA FRIENDLY HOSPITAL AUDIT TOOL: THESE WILL ASSIST IN MAKING HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENTS MORE DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY. THE RESEARCH GROUPING OF DESIGN, ARTS AND HEALTH IS UNIQUE IN IRELAND, AND COULD PROVIDE INTERNATIONAL AS WELL AS NATIONAL IMPACT ON DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY DESIGN. MEATH FOUNDATION VALIDATION OF THE PROFILE FOR COMMUNICATION ABILITIES IN DEMENTIA (P-CAD) CO-INVESTIGATOR ON THIS PROPOSAL WHICH ALIGNS WITH 'MANAGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING' SPECIFICALLY 'TIMELY DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTION' AND 'PERSON CENTRED PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING'. THE ARGUMENT FOR THIS THEME IS THAT (1) THE AVAILABILITY OF THE P-CAD WILL FACILITATE TIMELY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY MANAGEMENT OF COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH DEMENTIA. (2) IT WILL PROVIDE A VALID AND RELIABLE TOOL TO ENABLE DECISION MAKING THROUGH INFORMING PERSON CENTRED CARE PATHWAYS. THESE CARE PATHWAYS WILL BE MONITORED THROUGHOUT THE PERSON'S JOURNEY WITH DEMENTIA. HRB APPLIED DEMENTIA RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS GRANT: MEDICAL ILLNESS AND DRIVING: A KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS OF THE RISKS OF HARM. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION OF ONTARIO ROAD SAFETY RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM RETHINKING AGEING AND MEMORY THROUGH INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AGEING AND MEMORY REPRESENT TWO EXTRAORDINARILY IMPORTANT THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. A DEFINING CHARACTERISTIC OF AGEING IS COMPLEXITY AND INCREASED INTER-INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY. THIS PROVIDES A RICH FIELD FOR STUDY AND REFLECTION, AND BY ITS VERY COMPLEXITY LENDS ITSELF TO INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY AND RESEARCH. RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE OF INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKING HAS BEEN THE EMERGENCE OF AN INNOVATIVE, EXCITING AND PURPOSEFULLY INTERDISCIPLINARY MOVEMENT IN GERONTOLOGY AND THE ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (AHSS). THIS IRC-FUNDED WORKSHOP IS BEING CURATED BY TCD, THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ARTS AND HEALTH, NUIG, MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY AND DIT GRADCAM. THE CHOICE OF LOCATIONS FOR THE WORKSHOP IS EMBLEMATIC OF OUR DESIRE TO UPROOT AND CHALLENGE EXISTING ORTHODOXIES OF THOUGHT AND THEORY. THE FIRST DAY (9 MAY 2016) WILL BE HELD IN THE TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE WHICH HOSTS THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH HUMANITIES INITIATIVE AND THE SECOND DAY (10 MAY 2016) IN THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ARTS AND HEALTH, TALLAGHT HOSPITAL WHICH HAS A VIBRANT ARTS AND HUMANITIES PROGRAMME THE WORKSHOP WILL A) GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT THEORY AND PRACTICE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; B) PROVIDE EXAMPLES FROM EXISTING FUNDED INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AMONG THE WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS; C) PROVIDE A PLATFORM FOR RESEARCHERS TO PRESENT CURRENT OR PROPOSED RESEARCH FOR WHICH THEY ARE SEEKING POTENTIAL PARTNERS; D) FOCUS ON PERCEIVED BARRIERS AND FACILITATORS TO INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ACROSS AHSS/STEM/HEALTH SCIENCES; AND E) DEVELOP A SUMMARY REPORT AND ACTION PLAN. PARTICIPANTS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO READ CALLARD AND FITZGERALD'S 2015 MONOGRAPH ON INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, AN OPEN ACCESS BOOK THE TARGET PARTICIPANTS ARE: SCHOLARS IN AHSS, SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, DESIGN, HEALTH CURRENTLY ENGAGED WITH, OR PLANNING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH RESEARCH SUPPORT/DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS IN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS STAFF IN FUNDING BODIES (INVITATIONS ISSUED TO IRC, HRB, SFI, ARTS COUNCIL, WELLCOME, CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS) IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL DEMENTIA FRIENDLY IRISH HOSPITALS: OPPORTUNITIES, BARRIERS, COSTS AND SOLUTIONS PI: TO DATE, ACADEMIC AND PRAGMATIC DISCOURSE ON DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY DESIGN OF IRISH HOSPITALS HAS BEEN LACKING IN EXPERTISE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE PARADIGMS OF INCLUSIVE/UNIVERSAL DESIGN. THIS RESEARCH WILL EXAMINE THE KEY ISSUES AROUND THE DESIGN OF DEMENTIA FRIENDLY HOSPITALS IN IRELAND TO IDENTIFY KEY OPPORTUNITIES, BARRIERS, COSTS AND SOLUTIONS. THIS WILL BE CONDUCTED USING MIXED METHODS RESEARCH UNDERPINNED BY A USER-CENTRED DESIGN AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT PROCESS USING THREE CASE STUDY IRISH HOSPITALS INCLUDING TALLAGHT, PEAMOUNT AND NAAS. THIS PROCESS WILL INFORMED BY A LITERATURE REVIEW AND INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES OF DEMENTIA FRIENDLY HOSPITALS TO DETERMINE BEST PRACTICE EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN AS IMPLEMENTED GLOBALLY. THE PHYSICAL HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT WILL BE ANALYSED USING SPATIAL AND PHYSICAL DESIGN FRAMEWORK BASED AROUND: APPROACH AND ARRIVAL; ENTERING, EXITING AND CIRCULATION; KEY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SPACES; AND ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS (INCLUDING MATERIALS, FINISHES, TECHNOLOGY, ARTWORK ETC.) THE FINAL OUTPUT WILL RESULT IN A DEMENTIA FRIENDLY DESIGN MANUAL AND KEY FINDINGS TO UNDERPIN ANY FUTURE HSE GUIDELINES, CONTAINING 1) GUIDANCE AROUND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT OR PARTICIPATORY DESIGN PROCESSES 2) AN IRELAND SPECIFIC DEMENTIA FRIENDLY HOSPITAL AUDIT TOOL BASED ON THE KING'S TRUST TOOL HRB APPLIED DEMENTIA RESEARCH AGEING CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR LUKE ANTHONY JOHN O'NEILL oneilllukeanthonyjohn CHAIR OF BIOCHEMISTRY(1960) LAONEILL BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CURRENT RESEARCH: RESEARCH AREA: MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BASIS TO INFLAMMATION AND INNATE IMMUNITY. TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS. PRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES. SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF INFLAMMATORY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES.<BR/> RESEARCH FUNDING: €5.4M IN ACTIVE GRANTS (TOTAL FUNDING RAISED SINCE APPOINTMENT TO TCD: €12.2M). <BR/> CORE GRANTS: SFI RESEARCH PROGRAMME GRANT (€4.1M) HRB UNIT GRANT (€220K) DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AD HOC MEMBER OF BACTERIOLOGY AND MYCOLOGY-2 STUDY SECTION, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, USA AD HOC MEMBER OF CELL AND MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY A STUDY SECTION, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, USA AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY CHAIR OF EU DELEGATION TO NSF/EU JOINT COMMITTEE ON BIOTECHNOLOGY OF HOST DEFENCE CHAIR, SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD, AUSTRALIAN CO-OPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASES EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR 30 PHD THESES TO DATE (UNIVERSITIES OF CAMBRIDGE, LONDON, BATH, SHEFFIELD, MANCHESTER, LIEGE, ST. ANDREWS, ULSTER, MELBOURNE, SIENNA, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST). EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR DEGREE PROGRAMME IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF WALES INTERNATIONAL CYTOKINE SOCIETY (COUNCILLOR) MEMBER AVENIR COMMITTEE INSERM, FRENCH NATIONAL INSITUTE OF HEALTH MEMBER OF BACTERIOLOGY AND MYCOLOGY-2 STUDY SECTION, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, USA MEMBER OF BOARD OF EXTERNAL ASSESSORS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF GHENT AND MELBOURNE (CHAIRMAN OF THE LATTER) MEMBER OF MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ADVISORY BOARD, UK MEMBER OF MRC ADVISORY BOARD, UK MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARDS OF THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (SECTION EDITOR), TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY, JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND CYTOKINE MEMBER OF THE PRE-CLINICAL COMMITTEE, IRISH MEDICINES BOARD MEMBER ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY LIFE SCIENCES COMMITTEE MEMBER, ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION OF IRELAND ACADEMIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH INTO GLOBAL DISEASE (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMPLEMENTARY INTERESTS IN GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE. INTERESTS INCLUDE INNATE IMMUNITY, IMMUNE REGULATION, REGIONAL IMMUNITY, IMMUNE EVASIOB, VACCINE & ADJUVANT DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS DRUG & TARGET DEVELOPMENT. MEMBER, CYCLE 2 PI'S & RESEARCHERS, ALL CYCLE 2 RESEARCHERS & PI'S MEMBER, DMMC INFLAMMATION, IMMUNITY & INFECTION PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH IN INFLAMMATION, IMMUNIT AND INFECTION. MEMBER, HEPATITIS C FOCUS GROUP MEETING, FOCUS GROUP OF INVESTIGATORS WITH HEPATITIS C RELATED RESEARCH INTERESTS.SUGGESTED THEMES : IMMUNOGENOMICS OF HEPATITIS C OR MORE BROAD THEME MEMBER, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY LIFE SCIENCES COMMITTEE MEMBER, SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOARD SECTION EDITOR FOR JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY 3-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE ACCEPTOR ACIDIC SPHINGOMYELINASE ACTIN-BASED MOVEMENT ACTIVATED PROTEIN-KINASE ACTIVATION ACTIVATION PATHWAY ADHESION MOLECULE ADHESION MOLECULE-1 ALPHA ANTIGEN ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS ANTIOXIDANTS ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESION BACTERIAL LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BLOOD MONONUCLEAR-CELLS C-JUN CALCIUM CURRENTS CALCIUM INFLUX CASCADE CATALYTIC ACTIVITY CD18 CELL-FREE SYSTEM CELLS CELLULAR STRESSES CERAMIDE CHEMOKINE GENE-EXPRESSION CHROMOSOMAL LOCATION CLOSTRIDIUM-DIFFICILE COMPLEX FACTOR ELK-1 CORD BLOOD CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE CUTTING EDGE CYCLIC-AMP CYTOKINES DAUNORUBICIN-INDUCED APOPTOSIS DENTATE GYRUS DEPENDENT GENE-EXPRESSION DEPENDENT MECHANISM DEPENDENT TRANSCRIPTION DIACYLGLYCEROL PRODUCTION DISEASE DISULFIDE DNA-BINDING DNA-BINDING ACTIVITY DNA-BINDING SUBUNIT DORSOVENTRAL POLARITY DROSOPHILA E-CADHERIN EFFECTOR PATHWAYS ENDOTHELIAL-CELL LINE ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS ENDOTOXIN EXPRESSION FACTOR INCREASE PHOSPHORYLATION FACTOR-ALPHA FACTOR-KAPPA-B FAMILY FAS-LIGAND FIBROBLASTS FUNCTIONAL-RESPONSES GENE GENE-EXPRESSION GROWTH-FACTOR-BETA GTP-BINDING GTP-BINDING PROTEINS HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE HIPPOCAMPAL SLICES HIPPOCAMPAL-NEURONS HIPPOCAMPUS HL-60 CELLS HL-60 LEUKEMIA-CELLS HOST-DEFENSE HUMAN-ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS HUMAN-IMMUNODEFICIENCY-VIRUS IDENTIFICATION IL-1 IL-1 RECEPTOR IL-1, TOLL RECEPTORS, NF-KAPPAB IL-1/MAP KINASES IL-2 MESSENGER-RNA IL1HY1 IMMUNOMODULATORY MOLECULES AS THERAPY FOR INFLAMMATORY OR IMMUNE-MEDIATED DISEASESPRO-INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES, INTERLEUKIN-1, TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS, TOLL-IL-1 RECEPTOR DOMAIN, LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE IN-VITRO INDUCED APOPTOSIS INFLAMMATION INHIBITORS INTACT-CELLS INTERLEUKIN-1 INTERLEUKIN-1 BETA INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST INTERLEUKIN-1 RECEPTORS INTERLEUKIN-1-BETA INTERLEUKIN-2 INTERLEUKIN-2 PROMOTER INTERNALIN MULTIGENE FAMILY KAPPA-B KAPPA-B ACTIVATION KINASE LETHAL TOXIN LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULES LINE ECV304 LIPOPOLYSACCARIDE LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE LONG-TERM POTENTIATION LONG-TERM POTENTIATION & SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION MECHANISMS INCLUDING MAP KINASES MAMMALIAN-CELLS MAP KINASE MECHANISMS MESSENGER-RNA MESSENGERS MOLECULAR BASIS TO INFLAMMATION AND INNATE IMMUNITY MOLECULE CD28 MONOCYTE MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS MURINE MACROPHAGES MUTATIONS NECROSIS-FACTOR-ALPHA NEONATAL T CELLS NF-KAPPA-B NITRIC-OXIDE SYNTHASE ORGANIZATION P50 SUBUNIT PATHWAY PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE PHOSPHOINOSITIDE 3-KINASE PHOSPHORYLATION PROTEINS RECEPTOR RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST BINDS RECEPTOR CD44 RECEPTOR SUPERFAMILY RECOGNITION RICH REPEAT REGION SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, NF-KAPPAB, T1/ST2, MAP KINASES SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION SIGNAL-TRANSDUCTION PATHWAYS SUBSTRATE-SPECIFICITY SUPERFAMILY SUPEROXIDE SURFACE PROTEIN T LYMPHOCYTES T-CELL ACTIVATION T-LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION TERM POTENTIATION TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TRANSDUCTION TUMOR-NECROSIS-FACTOR IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) CONTROL OF TLRS AND NLRS BY MICRORNAS SFI ROLE OF METABOLISM IN INNATE IMMUNITY CIRCADIAN CONTROL OF INNATE IMMUNITY ROLE OF NLRP3 IN TYPE 2 DIABETES . NOVEL PROTEINS IN THE TLR AND NLR SYSTEMS AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE MS. TRACEY O'NEILL oneilltracey NURSE TUTOR TRONEILL SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES' HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH CLINICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN NURSING DR. JOHN TERENCE O'NEILL oneilljohnterence VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW JTONEILL CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY CNTR CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. AILBHE O'NEILL oneillailbhe USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ONEILLA4 LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES COMPANY LAW - PARTICULARLY CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND CORPORATE INSOLVENCY AND RESCUE. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - IRISH AND COMPARATIVE. THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS. LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IRISH FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH MEDICINE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE MEDIA PLURALISM MONITOR - NATIONAL EXPERT FOR IRELAND MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE THE LAW LIBRARY, FOUR COURTS, INNS QUAY, DUBLIN 7 THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS ETHICS COMMITTEE THE EUROPEAN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE OF THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES (IIIS) BUSINESS/CORPORATE LAW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CRIMINAL LAW INSOLVENCY/BANKRUPTCY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. CONOR O'NEILL oneillconor P/T LECTURER IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY CONEILL1 PSYCHIATRY DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. EOGHAN O'RAGHALLAIGH oraghallaigheoghan ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ERGHLLGH IRISH SCHOOL OF IRISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. DAVID O'REGAN oregandavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OREGAND2 PHYSICS MY RESEARCH IS DEDICATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF NOVEL, ACCURATE, BUT COMPUTATIONALLY TRACTABLE METHODOLOGY FOR ATOMISTIC ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE SIMULATIONS, BOTH OF SOLID STATE MATERIALS AND MOLECULAR SYSTEMS. I FOCUS ON THE INTERFACE BETWEEN TECHNIQUES FOR TREATING LARGE LENGTH-SCALES, THE STRONG ELECTRONIC CORRELATIONS ALMOST UBIQUITOUS IN SYSTEMS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INTEREST, AND THEORETICAL SPECTROSCOPY. I AM ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINEAR-SCALING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY. HERE, I IMPLEMENT AND IMPROVE CORRECTIVE APPROACHES SUCH AS DFT+U, CONSTRAINED DFT AND DFT+DMFT, AS WELL AS RESEARCHING NEW WANNIERISATION AND TIME PROPAGATION (TDDFT) ALGORITHMS. I MAINTAIN A LONG-TERM PROGRAMME IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRACTABLE AND EASILY-USED METHODS MOVING BEYOND KOHN-SHAM DFT, VIA THE DENSITY-MATRIX AND GREEN'S FUNCTION, NOT ONLY FOR SPECTRA BUT FOR ENERGIES AND THEIR DERIVATIVES. I'M INTERESTED IN MULTIFERROIC AND MULTIPLE-VALENCE PROPERTIES, GENERALLY, AND OPTICAL, MAGNETO-OPTICAL, AND PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPIES. A PARTICULAR FOCUS IS PLACED ON THESE PROPERTIES AS EXHIBITED BY TRANSITION-METAL COMPRISING MATERIALS, COMPLEXES, AND NANOSTRUCTURES. AT PRESENT, APPLICATIONS OF THESE MATERIALS TO NEW HIGH-DENSITY ENERGY AND DATA-STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES ARE RECEIVING SOME ATTENTION. I COLLABORATE EXTENSIVELY WITH LEADING SCIENTISTS FROM DIVERSE FIELDS INCLUDING NANOSTRUCTURE FABRICATION, HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, AND CONDENSED MATTER THEORY. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS ATOMISTIC SIMULATION BIOSCIENCE CHIROPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION CONSTRAINED DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY DYNAMICAL MEAN-FIELD THEORY FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS HARD MAGNETIC MATERIALS LINEAR-SCALING DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY MAGNETIC MATERIALS MANY-BODY PERTURBATION THEORY MANY-BODY THEORY MATERIALS SCIENCE METALLOPROTEINS NANOSCIENCE ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY REDUCED DENSITY-MATRIX FUNCTIONAL THEORY SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND MATERIALS THEORETICAL PHYSICS THEORETICAL SPECTROSCOPY TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MYRA O'REGAN oreganmyra ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MOREGAN STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING DR. DEIRDRE MARY O'RIORDAN oriordandeirdremary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ORIORDAD CLINICAL MEDICINE GEMS DIRECTORATE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. BREFFNI O'ROURKE orourkebreffni ASSISTANT PROFESSOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS OROURKEB C.L.C.S. <P>I WORK CHIEFLY IN THE AREA OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING. NEW TECHNOLOGIES HAVE TRANSFORMED THE EVERYDAY COMMUNICATIVE LANDSCAPE FOR USERS OF MOST LANGUAGES, AND CAN BE TRANSFORMATIVE OF LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY. BUT PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE LAGS INNOVATIONS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS. RESEARCHERS IN TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LANGUAGE LEARNING AIM TO HELP LEARNERS, TEACHERS AND CURRICULUM DESIGNERS TO UNDERSTAND AND SYSTEMATICALLY EXPLOIT THE POTENTIAL OF NEW MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGIES. <P>MY MAIN INTEREST IS IN THE POTENTIAL OF ONLINE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE LEARNERS, PARTICULARLY TELECOLLABORATION OR <I>VIRTUAL EXCHANGE</I>, A BURGEONING AREA OF PRACTICE AND RESEARCH. MY PUBLICATIONS ON ONLINE TANDEM LEARNING AND METALINGUISTIC FOCUS IN ONLINE CHAT ARE WIDELY CITED. CURRENT FOCUSES OF INVESTIGATION INCLUDE: <UL> <LI><EM>LEARNER/LEARNER INTERACTION IN VIRTUAL EXCHANGE ENVIRONMENTS:</EM> ATTENTION TO LINGUISTIC FORM; DISCUSSION ENGAGEMENT; COMMUNICATIVE ALIGNMENT. THESE PHENOMENA ARE CENTRAL TO ONLINE LANGUAGE LEARNING, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNICATION GENERALLY. I HAVE PIONEERED THE USE OF EYE-TRACKING METHODS TO EXPLORE THEM, ALONGSIDE INNOVATIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES. <LI><EM>TOOLS AND PRACTICES OF VOCABULARY LEARNING:</EM> THIS WORK IS DRIVEN BY TWO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: IN RESEARCH, INCREASING RECOGNITION OF VOCABULARY AS A CENTRAL COMPONENT OF LANGUAGE COMPETENCE; AND IN TECHNOLOGY, THE RISE OF UBIQUITOUS ONLINE AND CLOUD COMPUTING. THESE DEVELOPMENTS INEVITABLY HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR HOW LEARNERS LEARN, NOT LEAST WHAT THEY DO BEYOND THE CLASSROOM. MY WORK IN THIS AREA SEEKS TO FIND OUT WHAT TOOLS AND PRACTICES UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USE TO COLLECT AND LEARN VOCABULARY AND TO DEVELOP NEW TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS TO ENHANCE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THIS CENTRAL ASPECT OF LEARNERS' COMPETENCE. </UL> C.L.C.S. ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH BOARD MEMBER / PUBLICATIONS OFFICER, UNICOLLABORATION: THE ASSOCIATION FOR TELECOLLABORATION AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION CO-CHAIR, EDITORIAL BOARD, <I>WORKING PAPERS IN TELECOLLABORATION AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE</I> (ONLINE PEE-REVIEWED JOURNAL TO BE HOSTED IN TRINITY, UNDER DEVELOPMENT) EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, LANGUAGE LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (EUROCALL) EUROPEAN CONFEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE CENTRES (CERCLES) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER, <I>BELLATERRA JOURNAL OF TEACHING & LEARNING LANGUAGE & LITERATURE</I> UNICOLLABORATION: BOARD MEMBER / PUBLICATIONS OFFICER 2ND LANGUAGE AUTONOMY IN LANGUAGE LEARNING CLASSROOM SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING/ACQUISITION COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL) FOREIGN LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY FOREIGN LANGUAGES EDUCATION LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGE PEDAGOGY MODALITY AND LANGUAGE ONLINE CHAT SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, SOCIO-CULTURAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS SYNCHRONOUS COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGE WRITTEN LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR KEVIN H O'ROURKE orourkekevinh VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW OROURKEK ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES FIELDS OF INTEREST: ECONOMIC HISTORY, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS. I WORK ON THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF GLOBALIZATION, AND ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALIZATION. ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DANISH ENGLISH FRENCH AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ECONOMICS BULLETIN CENTRE OF ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH, LONDON CO-ORGANISER, CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH ECONOMIC HISTORY INITIATIVE (LAUNCHED 2004). THE CEPR IS EUROPE'S LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL ECONOMICS RESEARCH NETWORK. FOR FULL DETAILS OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY INITIATIVE, SEE HTTP://WWW.CEPR.ORG/RESEARCH/INITIATIVES/EH.HTM. CO-ORGANISER, ESF/CEPR CONFERENCE ON 'THE LONG RUN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE WORLD ECONOMY: MEASUREMENT AND THEORY,' VENICE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (APRIL 28-MAY 1 2005). CO-ORGANIZER, CONFERENCE ON 'THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GLOBALIZATION: CAN THE PAST INFORM THE PRESENT?', IIIS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (AUGUST 29-31, 2002) ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY EDITOR, EUROPEAN REVIEW OF ECONOMIC HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, WORLD POLITICS, 2007-2010. EUROPEAN HISTORICAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY NETWORK MEMBER, ECONOMIC POLICY PANEL, 2006-2008. MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD, CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBALISATION AND REGIONALISATION, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. ORGANIZER, EHES SUMMER SCHOOL IN ECONOMIC HISTORY, DUBLIN PANEL MEMBER, ECONOMIC POLICY, 2006-2008. PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN HISTORICAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY, 2009-2011. PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBER, 4TH WORLD CONGRESS OF CLIOMETRICS, MONTREAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, NATIONAL BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS (INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT PROGRAM) RESEARCH FELLOW, CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC POLICY RESEARCH, LONDON (INTERNATIONAL MACRO, INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC POLICY PROGRAMMES) TRUSTEE, CLIOMETRIC SOCIETY TRUSTEE, EUROPEAN HISTORICAL ECONOMICS SOCIETY VISITING PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR BUSINESS AND POLITICS, COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL. ECONOMIC HISTORY, THEORY INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT UNIFYING THE EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE: HISTORICAL LESSONS OF PAN-EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT CO-ORDINATOR. THE PROPOSAL WAS MADE ON BEHALF OF THE ECONOMIC HISTORY INITIATIVE AT THE CEPR. THE PROPOSAL WAS THE ONLY SUCCESSFUL ECONOMICS PROPOSAL IN THIS ROUND. THE GRANT IS FOR OVER €1.7 MILLION. THE RTN AIMS TO PROMOTE COMPARATIVE AND PAN-EUROPEAN ECONOMIC HISTORY, AS WELL AS 'PRESENTIST' ECONOMIC HISTORY WHICH SPEAKS TO TODAY'S ACADEMIC AND POLICY DEBATES. EUROPEAN UNION TCD PRTLI APPLICATION TO THE HEA CO-ORDINATOR. THE PRTLI GRANT WAS WORTH €8.8 MILLION. HEA RESEARCH TRAINING NETWORK PROPOSAL ON TRADE, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM LEADER. EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MR. EUGENE O'ROURKE orourkeeugene SENIOR TECHNICAL OFFICER EUOROURK ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 BEAI WWW.BEAI.IE IEEE WWW.IEEE.ORG DR. SEAMUS O'SHAUGHNESSY oshaughnessyseamus USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OSHAUGSE MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG AMBER CRANN I AM INTERESTED IN THE THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND RENEWABLE ENERGY PROCESSES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND AM CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) AND THERMOELECTRIC PROJECTS IN THIS AREA. I ALSO HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONICS USING SINGLE AND TWO-PHASE FLOWS, AS WELL AS PASSIVE AND FORCED CONVECTIVE METHODS. DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY BIOMASS ENERGY COMBINED HEAT AND POWER SYSTEMS COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING CONTROL ENGINEERING CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER COOLING COOLING OF MANUFACTURING PROCESSES DESIGN ENGINEERING DIRECT ENERGY CONVERSION ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN ELECTRONIC COOLING TECHNIQUES ELECTRONICS COOLING EMISSION ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ENERGY FROM BIOMASS (SEE FORESTRY ALSO) ENERGY FROM WASTE ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ENERGY/ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES--DEVELOPING COUN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING EVAPORATIVE COOLING FLUID MECHANICS FLUIDS AND HEAT TRANSFER HEAT TRANSFER INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING INFRARED, GENERAL INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT JET IMPINGEMENT HEAT TRANSFER MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING RENEWABLE ENERGIES SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SOLAR ENERGY SOLAR, THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING THERMAL ENERGY THERMAL ENGINEERING THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS THERMOELECTRIC-POWER THERMOELECTRICITY TRANSIENT AND UNSTEADY HEAT TRANSFER TWO-PHASE FLOW AND HEAT TRANSFER WATER-IMMERSION COOLING WASTE TO ENERGY OTHER ENERGY BIOMASS ENERGY STORAGE PHYSICS OTHER ENGINEERING SOLID STATE THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL . FUNDED BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON ADAPTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES AND NANO-DEVICES (CRANN). . THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DESIGN AND TESTING OF NOVEL SOLID STATE THERMAL INTERFACES. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE EXPERIMENTAL RIG DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, LABVIEW INSTRUMENT CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION, AND DATA ANALYSIS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND VALVE FEASIBILITY STUDY FUNDED BY THE SCHUF GROUP AND UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF DR CRAIG MESKELL, THIS PROJECT INVOLVED THE USE OF ANSYS CFX TO QUANTIFY THE EFFECTS OF SUDDEN VALVE CLOSURE ON THE PROPERTIES OF A MULTIPHASE FLUID FLOWING THROUGH AN OIL PIPELINE. SCHUF GROUP THERMAL CYCLING OF INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBTS) THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED FOR A MULTINATIONAL ELECTRONICS COMPANY. THE IGBTS WERE SUBJECTED TO AN ACCELERATED LIFETIME TEST OF 50,000 CYCLES, EACH CYCLE COMPRISING APPROXIMATELY TWO MINUTE LONG HEATING AND COOLING PERIODS WITH LARGE ELECTRICAL CURRENTS AND THERMAL GRADIENTS IMPOSED. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED PROJECT MANAGEMENT, EXPERIMENTAL RIG DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, EXTENSIVE LABVIEW INSTRUMENT CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION, DATA ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TO THE INDUSTRIAL PARTNER. PRIVATE LONG-TERM EXTREME CONDITION STORAGE OF INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBTS) THE EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM STORAGE OF THE IGBTS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH HUMIDITY, AND A COMBINATION OF HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY WERE INVESTIGATED. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SPECIAL PRESSURISED CHAMBER TO ACHIEVE THE REQUIRED CONDITIONS, HIGH-VOLTAGE/CURRENT EXPERIMENTATION AND DATA ANALYSIS. PRIVATE INVESTIGATION OF BUBBLE INDUCED MARANGONI CONVECTION THERMAL MARANGONI CONVECTION ABOUT A 1MM RADIUS AIR BUBBLE SITUATED UNDER A HEATED WALL OF CONSTANT TEMPERATURE IMMERSED IN A SILICONE OIL LAYER (PR = 220) OF CONSTANT DEPTH 5MM WAS EXPERIMENTALLY INVESTIGATED USING A FLOW IMAGING TECHNIQUE KNOWN AS PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY, OR PIV. THE RESPONSE TO INCREASING TEMPERATURE GRADIENT AND MARANGONI NUMBERS IN THE RANGE 145&#8804;MA&#8804;363 WAS INVESTIGATED. FOR ALL EXPERIMENTS, STEADY-STATE CONVECTION WAS OBSERVED AND PRIMARY, THERMOCAPILLARY-DRIVEN VORTICES WERE SEEN TO DEVELOP ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BUBBLE, ALONG WITH A JET-LIKE FLOW OF LIQUID FROM THE BUBBLE TIP. BENEATH THESE PRIMARY FLOW STRUCTURES, SECONDARY, SLOWER-MOVING VORTICES WERE ALSO OBSERVED, AND THESE BUOYANCY-DRIVEN VORTICES ROTATED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION TO THE PRIMARIES. THE RESULTS OF THE EXPERIMENTS WERE COMPARED WITH NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS AND GOOD AGREEMENT WAS OBSERVED. TWO-DIMENSIONAL AXISYMMETRIC SIMULATIONS WERE CONDUCTED TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF MARANGONI NUMBER, PRANDTL NUMBER AND THE MAGNITUDE OF GRAVITATIONAL ACCELERATION ON THE FLOW AND TEMPERATURE FIELDS AND ULTIMATELY THEIR INFLUENCE ON LOCAL HEAT TRANSFER. SIMULATIONS WERE CARRIED OUT FOR MARANGONI NUMBERS IN THE RANGE 0&#8804;MA&#8804;915 UNDER ZERO-GRAVITY CONDITIONS. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE ENHANCED HEAT TRANSFER PENETRATED A DISTANCE OF APPROXIMATELY SEVEN BUBBLE RADII ALONG THE HOT WALL, AND FOUR BUBBLE RADII ALONG THE COLD WALL. FOR THE RANGE OF MARANGONI NUMBERS TESTED, A 20% IMPROVEMENT IN THE AVERAGE HEAT TRANSFER IN THE VICINITY OF THE BUBBLE HAS BEEN CALCULATED FOR THE HOT WALL, AND UP TO 90% FOR THE COLD WALL. FOR A MARANGONI NUMBER OF MA = 915, INCREASING THE GRAVITY LEVEL ABOVE A CERTAIN MAGNITUDE CAUSED THE FORMATION OF SECONDARY VORTICES AND A REDUCTION IN THE EFFECTIVE RADIUS AND AREA OF ENHANCEMENT. MAXIMUM ENHANCEMENT OCCURRED UNDER ZERO-GRAVITY CONDITIONS. THE GRAVITY LEVEL WAS ALSO VARIED AT DIFFERENT MARANGONI NUMBERS IN THE RANGE 0&#8804;MA&#8804;915. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT AT LOW TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS AND THEREFORE LOW MA, INCREASING THE GRAVITY LEVEL ACTUALLY INCREASED HEAT TRANSFER, WHICH CONTRASTED THE BEHAVIOUR AT HIGHER VALUES OF MA. IT WAS POSTULATED THAT WHEN THE MARANGONI NUMBER WAS INCREASED IN THE PRESENCE OF GRAVITY, THE PRIMARY VORTICES LOST SOME MECHANICAL ENERGY TO THE SECONDARY VORTICES. THE INFLUENCE OF PRANDTL NUMBER WAS ALSO INVESTIGATED. IT HAD BEEN SUGGESTED BY SOME AUTHORS THAT AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT AND PRANDTL NUMBER EXISTED, BUT FOLLOWING THE DIMENSIONLESS SOLUTION OBTAINED IN THIS STUDY, IT HAS BEEN CONCLUDED THAT THE PRANDTL NUMBER HAS LITTLE TO NO EFFECT ON THE HEAT TRANSFER. THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL GRIDS WERE CONSTRUCTED WHICH INCLUDED A SECOND BUBBLE. THE SPACING BETWEEN THE TWO BUBBLES WAS VARIED BETWEEN SIMULATIONS TO ANALYSE THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEPARATION DISTANCE BETWEEN THEM. FOR ZERO GRAVITY CONDITIONS, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE LOCAL WALL HEAT FLUX WAS GREATEST FOR THE SMALLEST SEPARATION OF THREE BUBBLE RADII, BUT THAT THE INCREASE IN HEAT TRANSFER OVER THE WHOLE DOMAIN WAS GREATEST FOR A SEPARATION OF TEN BUBBLE RADII. WHEN THE EFFECTS OF GRAVITY WERE INCLUDED IN THE MODEL, THE BEHAVIOUR WAS OBSERVED TO CHANGE BETWEEN THE CASES. AT LARGE SEPARATIONS BETWEEN THE BUBBLES, INCREASING THE GRAVITY LEVEL WAS FOUND TO DECREASE THE LOCAL WALL HEAT FLUX, WHICH WAS CONSISTENT WITH MUCH OF THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL WORK. AT SMALL SEPARATIONS HOWEVER, THE INCREASE IN GRAVITY LED TO AN INCREASE IN THE LOCAL WALL HEAT FLUX, WHICH WAS CAUSED BY A BUOYANCY-DRIVEN FLOW FORMED BY THE INTERACTION OF SECONDARY VORTICES. IRCSET THE MPOWER STOVE GENERATOR APPROXIMATELY 2.5 BILLION PEOPLE BURN BIOMASS AS A PRIMARY ENERGY SOURCE AND THIS NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO GROW TO 5 BILLION BY 2050. HALF OF THOSE WHO BURN BIOMASS LACK ACCESS TO GRID ELECTRICITY. THIS STUDY DETAILS THE DEVEL-OPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE STOVE WITH INTEGRATED THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR (TEG). A SINGLE THERMOELECTRIC MODULE IS UTILISED TO CONVERT A SMALL PORTION OF HEAT TO ELECTRICITY. THE ELECTRICITY PRODUCED IS USED TO CHARGE A SINGLE 3.3 VOLT LI-ION BATTERY AND DRIVE A LOW POWER FAN, AS WELL AS SOME OTHER AUXILIARY FEATURES. FROM EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED USING WOOD AS A FUEL SOURCE, A MAXIMUM TEG POWER OUTPUT OF 5.9W HAS BEEN OBTAINED. OVER THE COURSE OF THREE ONE HOUR-LONG EXPERIMENTS, 9WHRS OF POWER WAS STORED IN THE BATTERY. FURTHERMORE, THE COOKING PERFORMANCE OF THE STOVE HAS NOT BEEN NEGATIVELY IMPACTED. FIELD TRIALS HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN MALAWI, AFRICA IN DEC 2011 AND JULY 2012. ICRSET & INTEL ENTERPRISE PARTNERSHIP, IRISH AID POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW THERMAL CYCLING OF THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS (TEGS) THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS, OR TEGS, ARE SOLID STATE DEVICES THAT CONVERT HEAT (TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES) DIRECTLY INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY THROUGH A PHENOMENON CALLED THE SEEBECK EFFECT. TEGS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN USED IN A VARIETY OF WASTE HEAT RECOVERY APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING WITH COOKING STOVES USED IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. FOR APPLICATIONS INVOLVING RELATIVELY STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS, THERMOELECTRIC MODULE RELIABILITY IS EXTREMELY HIGH. HOWEVER, THERMAL SHOCKS AND TEMPERATURES MUCH HIGHER THAN THE DESIRED OPERATING RANGE COULD CAUSE STRUCTURAL FAILURE OF THE THERMOELECTRIC ELEMENTS. THIS LIMITATION IS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFICULTY WHEN DESIGNING A SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING WASTE HEAT FROM COOKING STOVES TO THERMOELECTRIC ELEMENTS, SINCE TEMPERATURES MAY VARY WIDELY AND FREQUENTLY. THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH STUDY IS TO QUANTIFY THE EFFECTS OF THERMAL CYCLING ON COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE TEG MODULES. MAI IN ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST PV CELL SOLAR TRACKER FOR USE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) HAS BEEN SUGGESTED AS A MEANS OF MITIGATING THE ENERGY ACCESS PROBLEM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, BUT THERE ARE MANY OBSTACLES TO OVERCOME BEFORE THIS BECOMES A REALITY. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE AT A DOMESTIC HOUSEHOLD LEVEL BY DEVELOPING A LOW COST SOLAR TRACKER FOR USE WITH VERY SMALL SCALE PV PANEL INSTALLATIONS. A SOLAR TRACKER IS A DEVICE THAT ORIENTS A PAYLOAD (SUCH AS A LENS, MIRROR OR SOLAR PANEL) TOWARD THE SUN. FOR FLAT-PANEL PV SYSTEMS, TRACKERS ARE USED TO MINIMIZE THE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE BETWEEN THE INCOMING SUNLIGHT AND A PHOTOVOLTAIC PANEL. THIS INCREASES THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY PRODUCED FROM A FIXED AMOUNT OF INSTALLED POWER GENERATING CAPACITY. MAI IN ENGINEERING THE WANROU STOVE GEMERATOR AN INVESTIGATION INTO ELECTRICITY GENERATION, USING THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS, FROM STOVES LOCALLY MADE IN PARTS OF BENIN. THE TEGS ARE COOLED USING COMPLETELY PASSIVE MEANS, RELYING ONLY ON NATURAL CONVECTION. THE TEGS ARE INTEGRATED INTO STOVES THAT ARE PART OF A LARGE SCALE CARBON CREDIT FINANCING PROJECT. THIS PROJECT INVOLVES BOTH PRIVATE PARTNERS AND INVESTORS, AS WELL AS LOCAL NGOS IN BENIN. THE PROJECT BEGAN IN APRIL 2017 AND FIELD TRIALS OF THE TECHNOLOGY ARE EXPECTED IN LATE 2017. PRIVATE THE ICE CLAMP WORKHOLDING AND FIXTURING IS A CRITICALLY IMPORTANT ASPECT OF MANUFACTURING THAT HAS DIRECT IMPLICATIONS FOR THE QUALITY OF THE MANUFACTURED COMPONENT DURING PROCESSING AS WELL AS A DIRECT IMPACT ON THE COST OF THE COMPONENT. THE FIELD OF WORKHOLDING IS MATURE WITH NUMEROUS TECHNIQUES EMPLOYED, MOSTLY USING CONTACT PRESSURE, BUT ALSO USING MAGNETICS AND ADHESIVES. LOOKING TO NATURE FOR INSPIRATION PRESENTS US WITH THE USE OF ICE AS A MECHANISM FOR ADHESION, REFERRED TO AS CRYO-ADHESION. CRYO-ADHESION OFFERS SOME ADVANTAGES OVER MORE TRADITIONAL FIXTURING METHODS SUCH AS REMOVING CONTACT PRESSURE AND THEREFORE REDUCING THE DEPENDENCE ON THE MACHINING OF COMPLEX, INTRICATE BESPOKE FIXTURES. WHILE THE CONCEPT OF ICE ADHESION IS KNOWN, THERE IS MINIMAL RESEARCH PRESENTED ON THE APPLICATION OF ICE ADHESION IN MANUFACTURING PROCESSES. THIS RESEARCH REPORTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL PELTIER-BASED CRYO-COOLING FIXTURE FOR WORKHOLDING IN MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS. THE RESEARCH PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE MAIN INTERACTIONS THAT MIGHT BE EXPERIENCED IN MANUFACTURING TYPE SCENARIOS AND PRESENTS PRELIMINARY FINDINGS ON THE CRYO FIXTURE'S THERMAL AND GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS, THE USE OF THE NOVEL CRYO FIXTURE FOR HOLDING VARIOUS MATERIALS UNDER TENSILE AND SHEAR LOADS, AS WELL AS A CONSIDERATION OF CONTACT AREA AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS ON THE CRYO FIXTURE PERFORMANCE. CRYO-MILLING OF BIOMEDICAL GRADE POLYMERS THIS PROJECT IS ONGOING AND CURRENTLY FUNDED BY A LARGE PRIVATE INDUSTRIAL PARTNER IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ADVANCED MATERIALS AND BIO-ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTRE (AMBER). INVOLVES THE INVESTIGATION OF NOVEL METHODS FOR COOLING POLYMER COMPONENTS UNDERGOING MANUFACTURING PROCESSES SUCH AS MILLING. THE PROJECT HAS DIRECT APPLICATION IN INDUSTRY, WITH THE PROJECT PARTNER LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT A SUCCESSFUL DESIGN INTO THEIR PRODUCTION LINE IMMEDIATELY. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE CAD DESIGN, ANALYTIC AND NUMERICAL MODELLING, EXPERIMENTATION AND DATA ACQUISITION, BUDGET MANAGEMENT, REPORT GENERATION AND LIAISING WITH THE INDUSTRIAL PARTNER. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. DAVID O'SHAUGHNESSY oshaughnessydavid RESEARCH FELLOW DOSHAUG ENGLISH EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY THEATRE, ESPECIALLY IRISH DRAMATISTS; BRITISH RADICALISM OF THE 1790S, ROMANTIC PERIOD THEATRE; THE JACOBIN NOVEL, CLUBS AND SOCIETIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DISSENTING CULTURE. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH IRISH ADVISORY EDITOR FOR THE PROSE WORKS OF RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (UNDER CONTRACT, OUP); BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR ROMANTIC STUDIES BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY PEER REVIEWED MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION, THE JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES, AND THE KEATS-SHELLEY REVIEW. RAN A WORKSHOP ON THEATRE CENSORSHIP AS PART OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH NIGHT. REVIEWS EDITOR FOR THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR ROMANTIC STUDIES SPECIAL SUBJECT EDITOR (THEATRE) FOR THE REMINISCENCES AND DIARIES OF HENRY CRABB ROBINSON (UNDER CONTRACT, OUP) 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE, ESP. 1690-1830 DIASPORA IRELAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, ROMANTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT POLITICAL THEATRE THE LETTERS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH IN COLLABORATION WITH DR MICHAEL GRIFFIN (UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK), I AM CURRENTLY EDITING A NEW EDITION OF GOLDSMITH'S LETTERS FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. THE CENSORSHIP OF BRITISH THEATRE, 1737-1843 THIS PROJECT WILL DRAW ON MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS AT THE BRITISH AND HUNTINGTON LIBRARIES TO PRODUCE THE FIRST INTEGRATED STUDY OF BRITISH THEATRE CENSORSHIP BETWEEN THE STAGE LICENSING ACT (1737) AND THE THEATRES ACT (1843), WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON IRISH AND SCOTTISH PLAYWRIGHTS WORKING IN LONDON DURING THIS TIME. EU MARIE CURIE CAREER INTEGRATION GRANT THE DIARY OF HENRY CRABB ROBINSON A MULTI-VOLUME SCHOLARLY EDITION OF ROBINSON'S DIARY (INTEGRATED FOR THE FIRST TIME WITH HIS TRAVEL DIARIES) AND REMINISCENCES IS NEEDED (I) TO ALLOW HIM TO EMERGE AS AN AUTHOR IN HIS OWN RIGHT, SPANNING THE ROMANTIC AND VICTORIAN PERIODS; (II) TO BRING TO LIGHT HIS NEGLECTED CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNITARIAN MOVEMENT AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH NONCONFORMITY; (III) TO PROVIDE A RESOURCE FOR RESEARCHERS IN VARIOUS FIELDS, INCLUDING COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, TRAVEL WRITING, LIFE WRITING, AND RELIGIOUS HISTORY. A WORKING TEXT OF THE DIARY AND REMINISCENCES WILL BE CREATED BY TIMOTHY WHELAN, GENERAL EDITOR, AND JAMES VIGUS, ASSISTANT EDITOR, BY JANUARY 2013, WHEN THE PROJECT OFFICIALLY BEGINS. ANNOTATIONS TO THE TEXTS WILL BE PROVIDED BY A TEAM OF SPECIAL EDITORS REPRESENTING AN ARRAY OF SUBJECT AREAS. THE CRABB ROBINSON PROJECT WILL CONSIST OF AN INTRODUCTORY VOLUME OF ESSAYS ON ROBINSON, FOLLOWED BY THE REMINISCENCES (2-3 VOLUMES, TO BE COMPLETED BY 2017-18), THE DIARY (APPROXIMATELY 20 VOLUMES, TO BE COMPLETED BETWEEN 2017 AND 2027), AND AN ONLINE INDEX. THE WHOLE EDITION WILL BE PUBLISHED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. I AM THE SPECIAL SUBJECT EDITOR FOR THE THEATRE. HTTP://WWW.ENGLISH.QMUL.AC.UK/DRWILLIAMS/RESEARCH/CRABB.HTML DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. BRENDAN O'SHEA osheabrendan ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BOSHEA PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE CURRENTLY COMPLETING MD ON CHILDHOOD OVERWEIGHT IN GENERAL PRACTICE, UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF PROF TOM O' DOWD, EXPECTED COMPLETION 2013, AND FUNDED BY THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE. ADDITIONAL CURRENT INTERESTS INCLUDE END OF LIFE CARE PLANNING, DELAYED ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING IN GENERAL PRACTICE, AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT IN GENERAL PRACTICE, INCLUDING MINOR INJURIES SERVICE, GP SPECIAL INTERESTS, GENERAL PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OF PATINENTS WITH COMPLEX CO MORBIDITIES, AND COMPLAINTS MANAGEMENT IN THE OUT OF HOURS ENVIRONMENT. PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 FELLOW BY ASSESSMENT AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS IRISH COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE AT EURACT (EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF GENERAL PRACTICE TEACHING LICENTIATE FACULTY OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE, RCPI MEMBER IRISH COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS REPRESENTATIVE OF KILDARE FACULTY ICGP ON ICGP COUNCIL REPRESETATIVE OF KILDARE FACULTY ICGP ON ICGP COUNCIL GENERAL PRACTICE MANAGEMENT OF CHILDHOOD OVERWEIGHT RESEARCH QUESTION: IS IT ACCEPTABLE FOR GPS TO ROUTINELY CCHECK WEIGHT OF CHILDREN PRESENTING FOR UNRELATED ROUTINE CARE IN GENERAL PRACTICE. PROJECT COMPRISES TWO ELEMENTS, INCLUDING A SURVEY ON A 20% SAMPLE OF IRISH GPS EXAMINING THEIR CURRENT BELIEFS, PRACTICES AND CONCERNS IN THIS AREA OF CARE, AND SECONDLY A STUDY ON THE ACCEPTABILITY TO PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN OF CHECKING BODY MASS INDEX OF 5-12 YEAR OLDS PRESENTING FOR ROUTINE CARE IN GENERAL PRACTICE. NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, OUR LADY'S HOSPITAL, CRUMLIN. MS. JUDY O'SHEA osheajudy ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OSHEAJU OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IRISH SOCIAL POLICY, IRISH HEALTH POLICY, COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATES, THE POLITICS OF IRISH HEALTH POLICY, HISTORY OF IRISH HEALTH POLICY, DISABILITY POLICY. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IRISH SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION (UK) WORKSHOP LEADER ON JOINT NORTH/SOUTH SOCIAL POLICY SUMMER SCHOOL FOR CIVIL SERVANTS. CORI RESEARCH FOR CORI ANNUAL SOCIO ECONOMIC REVIEW AN EVALUATION OF PARTICIPATIVE STRUCTURES IN IRISH LOCAL PARTNERSHIP ORGANISATIONS TRINITY COLLEGE - DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES (PART OF RESEARCH PROJECT COMMISSIONED BY THE CANAL COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP (CCP)) CANAL COMMUNITIES PARTNERSHIP (CCP) PROFESSOR JACINTHA O'SULLIVAN osullivanjacintha PROFESSOR OSULLIJ4 SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. HELEN JANE O'SULLIVAN osullivanhelenjane VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW OSULLIHJ GERMAN INTERCULTURAL LITERATURE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. 10 RICHMOND PLACE RANELAGH DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN CHINESE DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR GERMAN STUDIES IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND ASSOCIATION OF THIRD-LEVEL TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN IRELAND CONVENOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC STUDIES RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LANGUAGES AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION JOINT COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER FOR IALIC. MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF LANGUAGE AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION. POETICS AND LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION INTERCULTURALISM LINGUISTIC ANALYSES OF CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JEFFREY O'SULLIVAN osullivanjeffrey ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENE JOSULLI DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF BASIC SCIENCE TEACHERS IN DENTISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY SOCIETY EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH IRISH DIVISION IADR COUNCIL MEMBER BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY, METABOLISM BIOCHEMISTRY, NUCLEIC ACID BIOCHEMISTRY, PROTEINS BIOLOGICAL MODELING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CELL AND TISSUE DEVELOPMENT CELL COMMUNICATION CELLULAR BIOLOGY DENTAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGY ENZYMES CATALYSIS ENZYMOLOGY AND CATALYSIS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY MATHEMATICAL MODELLING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION NEUROSCIENCE PERIDONTOLOGY PROTEIN CHEMISTRY, STRUCTURE AND FOLDING PROTEINS, ENZYMOLOGY AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING PROTEOMES, PROTEOMICS SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY TISSUE CULTURE THE DEVELOPMENT OF IN-VITRO MODELS OF ALCOHOL INDUCED ORAL CARCINOGENESIS DUBLIN DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL/ TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 1252 SCHOLARSHIP CLONING AND CHARATERISATION OF DENTAL PULP SSAO THE ROLE OF DENTAL PULP STEM CELLS IN NEUROTROPHIC SUPPORT BENCH RESEARCH THE INFLUENCE OF PERIODONTITIS IN DIABETES CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. DECLAN O'SULLIVAN osullivandeclan ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OSULLDPS COMPUTER SCIENCE ADAPT MY GOAL IS TO ESTABLISH THE THEORETICAL, CONCEPTUAL AND ALGORITHMIC TECHNIQUES THAT WILL ENABLE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND MANAGEABLE INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS. IN ORDER TO PROVIDE INSIGHTS INTO THE CONCRETE PROBLEMS THAT NEED TO BE SOLVED BY MY TECHNIQUES, I HAVE FOCUSED UPON APPLICATION SPACES WHERE HETEREOGENITY OF MODELS NEED TO BE OVERCOME IN AN ONGOING AND SUSTAINABLE MANNER IN ORDER FOR SERVICES TO BE DELIVERED. IN PARTICULAR OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS THE STRATEGY HAS BEEN TO FOCUS ON ENVIRONMENTS: THAT DELIVER END TO END SERVICES IN TELECOMS ENVIRONMENTS; THAT DELIVER UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING SERVICES WITHIN BUILT ENVIRONMENTS; AND THAT DELIVER MULT-LINGUAL CONTENT WITHIN THE WEB ENVIRONMENT. DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE KDEG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SERVICES MANAGEMENT EXPERT REVIEWER FOR NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT (CNPQ), BRAZIL EXPERT REVIEWER FOR FRENCH RESEARCH AGENCY EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR BSC IN ENTERPRISE COMPUTING, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR MSC IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FEDERATION MANAGEMENT MOBILE APPLICATIONS SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY SEMANTIC MAPPING SEMANTIC WEB SEMANTICS SERVICE MANAGEMENT TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING TELECOMMUNICATIONS FAME-FEDERATED AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT OF END-TO-END COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF IRELAND STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER CNGL: CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH CENTRE ALIGNED: ALIGNED, QUALITY-CENTRIC SOFTWARE AND DATA ENGINEERING ALIGNED WILL DEVELOP NEW WAYS TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN IT SYSTEMS THAT USE BIG DATA ON THE WEB. ALIGNED BRINGS TOGETHER WORLD CLASS COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCHERS (TCD, OXFORD, LEIPZIG), SOFTWARE COMPANIES SPECIALISED IN DATA-INTENSIVE SYSTEMS (SEMATIC WEB COMPANY), INFORMATION COMPANIES (WOLTERS KLUWER GERMANY) AND ACADEMIC CURATORS OF LARGE DATASETS DESCRIBING WORLD HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY (OXFORD, POZNAN). TOGETHER THEY WILL CREATE MORE EFFICIENT METHODS OF BUILDING IT SYSTEMS THAT EXTRACT, PROCESS, PUBLISH AND SHARE WEB DATA. THIS WILL LAY THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF BIG DATA SYSTEMS THAT LOWER COSTS AND DEAL WITH THE WEB DATA CHALLENGES OF DYNAMISM, COMPLEXITY, SCALE AND INCONSISTENCY. EUROPEAN UNION H2020 ADAPT: CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CONTENT PLATFORM RESEARCH THE ADAPT CENTRE WILL ADDRESS THE GRAND CHALLENGE IN DIGITAL PLATFORM CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS: HOW CAN ENTERPRISES, INSTITUTIONSBAND INDIVIDUALS EASILY ASSIMILATE, REUSE AND INTERACT WITH THE GLOBAL TORRENT OF DIGITAL CONTENT? TRANSITIONING FROM THE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENT CONTENT(CNGL), ADAPT WILL BUILD UPON DEMONSTRATED, WORLD-RECOGNISED RESEARCH AND SIGNIFICANT COMMERCIAL IMPACTS OF THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPLICANT GROUP TO DEVELOP BREAKTHROUGHS IN GLOBAL DIGITAL CONTENT TECHNOLOGY, WHICH WILL TURN THIS HETEROGENEOUS TORRENT OF CONTENT INTO MEANINGFUL GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ORGANISATIONS AND USERS. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY MAKING UNPRECEDENTED ADVANCES IN THE AREAS OF MULTILINGUAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP), MULTIMEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS AND TRANSFORMATION, PERSONALISATION AND MULTIMODAL DELIVERY. THE ADAPT CENTRE'S RESEARCH PROGRAMME WILL ENABLE: DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF MULTILINGUAL CONTENT THROUGH MULTILINGUAL NLP; DYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT TO BREAK DOWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL BARRIERS; PERSONALISATION OF THE USER EXPERIENCE TO ENSURE RAPID ASSIMILATION AND REUSE OF CONTENT; AND MULTIMODAL/MULTIMEDIA INTERACTION WITH GLOBAL CONTENT FOR NATURAL USER ENGAGEMENT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) RESEARCH CENTRE MISCELLANEOUS IRCSET, EUROPEAN UNION ETC. DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT NEMBES: NETWORK EMBEDDED SYSTEMS HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PRLTI NUDGING ENERGY EFFICIENT PURCHASING DECISIONS (NEEPD) IN AN ATTEMPT TO REDUCE THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY GAP AND PROVIDE CUSTOMERS WITH ENERGY CONSUMPTION INFORMATION, THE EU MANDATED THAT ALL ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES CARRY LABELS TO INDICATE THEIR ENERGY CONSUMPTION. THESE LABELS CONSIST OF COLOURCODED EFFICIENCY BANDS AND ANNUAL KWH ESTIMATES. HOWEVER, IT IS HYPOTHESISED THAT CONSUMERS DO NOT UNDERSTAND OR CORRECTLY INTERPRET THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THESE LABELS, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO HOW MUCH THE APPLIANCE WILL COST TO OPERATE. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES THAT IF CONSUMERS WERE PROVIDED WITH INFORMATION ON THE OPERATING COSTS OF ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES THAT THIS INFORMATION WOULD NUDGE THEM TOWARDS MORE EFFICIENT PURCHASES. THIS PROJECT WILL THUS CONDUCT AN EXPERIMENTAL RETAIL TRIAL TO INVESTIGATE FIRSTLY IF DISPLAYING MONETARY COST INFORMATION ON A RANGE OF ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES WOULD ENCOURAGE CONSUMERS TOWARDS THE PURCHASE OF MORE EFFICIENT APPLIANCES. RECENT ECONOMICS LITERATURE USING STATED PREFERENCE TECHNIQUES INDICATES THAT CONSUMERS ARE MORE LIKELY TO RESPOND TO MONETARY USAGE INFORMATION IF IT MORE ACCURATELY REFLECTS THEIR OWN USAGE PATTERNS (RATHER THAN AVERAGE PRICES AND CONSUMPTION). HOWEVER, THIS HYPOTHESIS IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO TEST IN A MEANINGFUL WAY IN A RETAIL SETTING WITHOUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF SMART TECHNOLOGY. THUS, THE SECOND COMPONENT OF THIS PROJECT BRINGS TOGETHER THE DISCIPLINES OF BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN A NOVEL WAY TO CONDUCT A FIELD EXPERIMENT TO INVESTIGATE IF PROVIDING THIS PERSONALISED INFORMATION WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TOWARDS MORE EFFICIENT PURCHASES. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS PROBLEM FOCUSED AND ADDRESSES ISSUES OF SOCIAL, TECHNICAL AND POLICY RELEVANCE. IN PARTICULAR, IT INVOLVES TRANSFERRING INFORMATION FROM BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LABORATORIES INTO THE REAL WORLD THROUGH THE USE OF A FIELD EXPERIMENT. IT WILL CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE LITERATURE ON BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF THE 'ENERGY EFFICIENCY GAP', AND TO THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS LITERATURE IN THE AREAS OF PERSONALISATION AND DATA VISUALISATION. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW HORIZONS' RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT, STRAND TWO INTERDISCIPLINARY (IDR) DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. MARY O'SULLIVAN osullivanmary RESEARCH FELLOW OSULLIM2 CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY MEMBER, IMAGING FOCUS GROUP MEETING, 1-DAY MEETING ON BIOMEDICAL IMAGING - 8TH JUNE 2004 RUN IN CONJUNCTION WITH TCINFROM SINGLE CELL & MOLECULAR THROUGH TO ORGAN & WHOLE BODYLAST REVISED : 22 MAY 2004 MEMBER, PHG FUNDED PI'S AND RESEARCHERS, ALL RESEARCHERS FUNDED UNDER CYCLE 3 PRTLI - PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN GENOMICS APOPTOSIS AUTOPHAGY CASPASE PROTEASES CELL DEATH HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS IMAGING TECHNIQUES IMMUNOLOGY INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFLAMMATION INNATE IMMUNOLOGY INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY DEFINING THE ROLE OF HUMAN DENDRITIC CELL SUBSETS IN HOST IMMUNE RESPONSES TO MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION. HRB HRA DEVELOPMENT OF INHALED MEDICINES FOR TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS HRB PROJECT GRANT THE MECHANISM OF MACROPHAGE CELL DEATH IN RESPONSE TO M. TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION AND ITS ROLE IN THE FATE OF MYCOBACTERIA SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS PARTICLE ENGINEERING TO TARGET INTERFERON-GAMMA TO ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES FOR THE ADJUNCT TREATMENT OF MULTI-DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS HRB PROJECT GRANT TOWARDS HOST-DIRECTED THERAPIES TO OVERCOME IMMUNE IMPAIRMENT IN CIGARETTE SMOKERS DURING MYCOBACTERIAL INFECTION HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD/ IRISH THORACIC SOCIETY MRCG/HRB JOINT FUNDING SCHEME LEVERAGING AUTOPHAGY TO DIRECT AN INHALES TB VACCINE TO DENDRITIC CELL AUTOPHAGOSOMES FOR BETTER ANTIGEN PRESENTATION DEAN'S RESEARCH INITIATIVES RESEARCH FUND IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN osullivanmichael ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MISULLVN DENTAL SCIENCE (1) SPECIAL DENTAL NEEDS THE RESTORATIVE SPECIAL NEEDS CLINIC IS A TERTIARY REFERRAL CENTRE FOR THE TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL CRANIOFACIAL AND DENTAL ANOMALIES. THESE ARE HEREDITARY /DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS THAT MAY AFFECT THE NUMBER, SIZE OR QUALITY OF TEETH. THE MOST COMMON CONDITION IS HYPODONTIA, WHERE A PERSON'S TEETH FAIL TO DEVELOP. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO DATA AVAILABLE FOR IRELAND, BUT BASED ON OTHER EUROPEAN FIGURES THE NUMBER OF PATIENTS IN IRELAND MISSING FIVE OR MORE TEETH IS LIKELY TO BE 12,000 (0.3% OF THE TOTAL POPULATION). THE GENERAL INCIDENCE OF HYPODONTIA IN EUROPEAN POPULATION IS 2.3-10.1%. THE SECOND MOST COMMON CONDITION IS AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA. THIS TERM COVERS A RANGE OF CONDITIONS WHERE ALL THE ENAMEL IS DEFECTIVE. IT MAY PRESENT MERELY AS MARKED PITTING OF THE SURFACE OF THE TOOTH TO SEVERE CASES WHERE THE ENAMEL DISINTEGRATES UPON ERUPTION OF THE TOOTH. NO DATA IS AVAILABLE ON ITS INCIDENCE BUT STUDIES FROM OTHER POPULATIONS PUT ITS INCIDENCE AT 1:4000 TO 1:8000 (1% AND 2% OF THE TOTAL POPULATION). OTHER DENTAL CONDITIONS OCCUR LESS FREQUENTLY, SUCH AS DENTINOGENESIS IMPERFECTA (THE LAYER UNDER THE ENAMEL IS POORLY FORMED LEADING TO TOOTH FRACTURE) AND CONDITIONS THAT ALSO AFFECT HAIR, SKIN AND NAILS SUCH AS ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA. RESEARCH INTEREST IN THIS AREA INCLUDES THE CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF THIS POPULATION, ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL DATABASE OF DEVELOPMENTAL DENTAL DISORDERS AND INVESTIGATION OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THESE DISORDERS (2) DENTAL PULP BIOLOGY (WITH DR JEFF O'SULLIVAN, DIVISION OF RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY AND PERIODONTOLOGY) CURRENTLY RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON TWO DISTINCT AREAS. OUR PRIMARY FOCUS IS UNDERSTANDING THE ENZYMATIC REGULATION OF CELLULAR EVENTS WITHIN DENTAL PULP. THESE INCLUDE PAIN TRANSMISSION AND MODULATION, THE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE OF DENTAL PULP AND THE MECHANISMS BEHIND TOOTH DEVELOPMENT. CENTRAL TO OUR STUDIES OF THESE EVENTS IS A UNIQUE ENZYME CALLED SEMICARBAZIDE-SENSITIVE AMINE OXIDASE (SSAO) WHICH IS INVOLVED IN SIMILAR EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE BODY AND MAY MODULATE THE RESPONSE OBSERVED. SECONDARY STUDIES INCLUDE THE ROLE OF PERIODONTITIS IN SYSTEMIC DISEASE AND THE UTILISATION OF DENTAL PULP STEM CELLS IN NEURO-PROTECTION. (3) SLEEP APNOEA (WITH PROF WALTER MCNICHOLAS, NEWMAN CLINICAL RESEARCH PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE & MEDICAL SCIENCE, ST. VINCENT'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, DUBLIN) OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNOEA (OSA) IS A COMMON SLEEP-RELATED BREATHING DISORDER CHARACTERISED BY REPETITIVE OBSTRUCTIONS OF THE UPPER AIRWAY DURING SLEEP. THESE DISORDERS RESULT FROM SLEEP RELATED NARROWING OF THE UPPER AIRWAY, WHICH IS THOUGHT TO BE DUE TO VARYING COMBINATIONS OF ANATOMICAL AND NEUROMUSCULAR FACTORS THAT CULMINATE IN AN IMBALANCE OF FORCES ACTING ON THE AIRWAY. THIS CAUSES AIRFLOW LIMITATION (SNORING), PARTIAL (HYPOPNEA) OR COMPLETE (APNOEA) CLOSURE OF THE UPPER AIRWAY; WITH CONSEQUENT ADVERSE EFFECTS ON SLEEP QUALITY AND GAS EXCHANGE. PREVIOUS STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GENIOGLOSSUS (GG) MUSCLE AND OSA. THE GENIOGLOSSUS MUSCLES (GG) ARE THE PRIMARY PROTRUDERS OF THE TONGUE AND PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN MAINTAINING THE PATENCY OF THE UPPER AIRWAY. GENIOGLOSSUS MUSCLE ACTIVITY NORMALLY DECREASES IN NO-OSA INDIVIDUALS, WHEREAS, PATIENTS WITH OSA SHOW AN INCREASED LEVEL OF GG MUSCLE ACTIVITY, BOTH WHILE AWAKE AND ASLEEP, DUE TO THE NECESSITY OF COUNTERACTING THE PHARYNGEAL NARROWING ASSOCIATED WITH OSA. ELECTROMYOGRAPHY (EMG) OF GENIOGLOSSUS MUSCLES MAY THEREFORE BE AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR DIAGNOSING OSA. THROUGH EXAMINATION OF MUSCLE FIBRE SIGNALS FROM THE GG, IMPORTANT INFORMATION CAN BE EXTRACTED, SUCH AS CONDUCTION VELOCITY, AMPLITUDE AND FREQUENCY OF ELECTRICAL SIGNALS. THIS JOINT PROJECT INVOLVES THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION AN ORAL APPLIANCE TO MEASURE ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC SIGNALS FROM THE GENIOGLOSSUS MUSCLE, WHICH IS A KEY FACTOR IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SLEEP APNOEA. DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FIXED PROSTHODONTICS EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR THE ITALIAN MINISTRY FOR EDUCATION UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH REVIEWER FOR THE JOURNAL OF THE IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN EDINBURGH ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND DISINFECTION PROCEDURES: THEIR EFFICACY AND EFFECT ON DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY AND SURFACE QUALITY OF AN IRREVERSIBLE HYDROCOLLOID IMPRESSION MATERIAL ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: THIS STUDY INVESTIGATED THE ANTIBACTERIAL EFFICACY AND EFFECT OF 0.55% ORTHOPHTHALALDEHYDE (CIDEX OPA1) AND 0.5% SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE (NAOCL) ON THE DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY AND SURFACE QUALITY OF GYPSUM CASTS RETRIEVED FROM AN IRREVERSIBLE HYDROCOLLOID IMPRESSION MATERIAL. METHODS: A SIMULATED CLINICAL CAST AND TECHNIQUE WAS DEVELOPED TO COMPARE THE DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY AND SURFACE QUALITY CHANGES OF THE TEST GYPSUM CASTS WITH CONTROLS. DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY MEASUREMENTS WERE COMPLETED BETWEEN FIXED POINTS USING A TRAVELLING MICROSCOPE UNDER LOW ANGLE ILLUMINATION AT A MAGNIFICATION OF X3. SURFACE QUALITY CHANGES OF ''SMOOTH'' AND ''ROUGH'' AREAS ON THE CAST WERE EVALUATED BY MEANS OF OPTICAL PROFILOMETRY. THE EFFICACY OF THE DISINFECTION PROCEDURES AGAINST PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA WAS EVALUATED BY DETERMINING THE NUMBER OF COLONY FORMING UNITS (CFU) RECOVERED AFTER DISINFECTION OF ALGINATE DISCS INOCULATED WITH 1 X 106 CFU FOR DEFINED INTERVALS. RESULTS: THE DIMENSIONAL ACCURACY OF THE GYPSUM CASTS WAS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED BY THE DISINFECTION PROTOCOLS. NEITHER DISINFECTANT SOLUTION NOR IMMERSION TIME HAD AN EFFECT ON THE SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF THE ''SMOOTH'' AREA ON THE CAST, HOWEVER, A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN SURFACE ROUGHNESS WAS OBSERVED WITH INCREASING IMMERSION TIME FOR THE ''ROUGH'' SURFACE. COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF VIABLE PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA CELLS FROM ALGINATE DISCS WAS OBTAINED AFTER 30 AND 120 S IMMERSION IN CIDEX OPA1 AND NAOCL, RESPECTIVELY. CONCLUSIONS: IMMERSION OF IRREVERSIBLE HYDROCOLLOID IMPRESSIONS IN CIDEX OPA1 FOR 30 S WAS PROVED TO BE THE MOST EFFECTIVE DISINFECTION PROCEDURE. MAXILLARY ANTERIOR TOOTH DIMENSIONS AND PROPORTIONS IN AN IRISH YOUNG ADULT POPULATION SUMMARY THIS STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN IN A YOUNG IRISH POPULATION TO DETERMINE THE DIMENSIONS AND RATIOS OF THE SIX MAXILLARY ANTERIOR TEETH. ONE HUNDRED AND NINE IRISH SUBJECTS (AGE 18-25 INCLUSIVE) HAD IRREVERSIBLE HYDROCOLLOID IMPRESSIONS MADE OF THEIR MAXILLARY DENTITION POURED IN TYPE V STONE. CLINICAL CROWN DIMENSIONS WERE MEASURED WITH A DIGITAL CALLIPER. THE STONE CASTS WERE DIGITALLY PHOTOGRAPHED IN A STANDARDISED MANNER ENABLING CALCULATION OF VARIOUS RATIOS BETWEEN THE MAXILLARY ANTERIOR TEETH. SEXUAL DIMORPHISM EXISTED FOR VARIOUS TOOTH DIMENSIONS; MOST NOTABLY CANINE TEETH WERE IN THE REGION OF 0.8 MM LONGER AND 0.6 MM WIDER IN MALES. CENTRAL AND LATERAL INCISORS WERE FOUND TO BE 0.5 MM WIDER IN MALES. IT IS, THEREFORE, RECOMMENDED THAT DIMENSIONAL TOOTH GUIDELINES SHOULD BE GIVEN FOR EACH OF THE SEXES AND NOT ON A POPULATION BASIS. WITH REGARD TO TOOTH PROPORTION RATIOS, NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND BETWEEN GENDERS OR THE LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES FOR ANY OF THE MEASUREMENTS OR RATIOS MEASURED. THE DIGITALLY RECORDED TOOTH PROPORTIONS WERE SIMILAR FOR BOTH SEXES, AND THE GOLDEN PROPORTION GUIDELINES COULD ONLY BE APPLIED TO THE LATERAL INCISOR &#8260; CENTRAL INCISOR WIDTHS (0.618). IDENTIFIED WIDTH PROPORTIONS FOR THE CANINE &#8260; CENTRAL INCISOR WERE 0.58 AND FOR CANINE &#8260; LATERAL INCISOR 0.89. DATABASE ESTABLISHMENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN A DEVELOPMENTAL DENTAL ANOMALIES POPULATION THERE ARE THE PRINCIPLE AIMS OF THE PROJECT: (1) ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL DATABASE FOR PATIENTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DENTAL ANOMALIES. (2) QUALITY OF LIFE INVESTIGATIONS FOR ADULT HYPODONTIA AND AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA PATIENTS. (3) QUALITY OF LIFE INVESTIGATIONS FOR CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HYPODONTIA AND AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA. INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF SKELETAL PATTERN IN DETERMINING ARTICULATOR SETTINGS FOR PROSTHODONTIC REHABILITATION: AN IN-VIVO STUDY. ABSTRACT AIMS. DURING EXTENSIVE PROSTHODONTIC TREATMENT THE USE OF AN ACCURATELY ADJUSTED ARTICULATOR IS RECOMMENDED TO SIMULATE SOME MANDIBULAR MOVEMENTS. THIS CLINICAL STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO ASSESS ANY POSSIBLE EFFECT OF UNDERLYING SKELETAL PATTERN ON PROGRAMMING ARTICULATOR SETTINGS. MATERIALS AND METHODS. SUBJECTS WERE RECRUITED (N=73) FROM A DENTAL SCHOOL AND TWO REGIONAL SPECIALIST ORTHODONTIC UNITS. SUBJECTS WERE ALLOCATED INTO GROUPS BASED ON UNDERLYING SAGITTAL AND VERTICAL SKELETAL PATTERNS BY A GROUP CONSISTING OF THREE ORTHODONTISTS AND THREE PROSTHODONTISTS WHO EXAMINED PROFILE PHOTOGRAPHS. ELECTRONIC PANTOGRAPHIC RECORDINGS WERE MADE OF EACH SUBJECT WITH THE CADIAX® COMPACT SYSTEM TO RECORD THE SAGITTAL CONDYLAR INCLINATION (SCI), PROGRESSIVE MANDIBULAR LATERAL TRANSLATION (PMLT) AND IMMEDIATE MANDIBULAR LATERAL TRANSLATION (IMLT). RESULTS. AGREEMENT BETWEEN ASSESSORS FOR SAGITTAL SKELETAL PATTERN CLASSIFICATION WAS EXCELLENT (97% FOR TOTAL OR GOOD AGREEMENT). AGREEMENT BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS FOR VERTICAL SKELETAL PATTERN WAS HIGH, BUT AT A LOWER LEVEL THAN FOR SAGITTAL RELATIONSHIPS (70% FOR TOTAL OR GOOD AGREEMENT). SCI SETTINGS FOR SAGITTAL II SUBJECTS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN THOSE FOR SAGITTAL I (P<0.05) AND SAGITTAL III (P<0.001) SUBJECTS. NO STATISTICAL DIFFERENCE COULD BE OBSERVED BETWEEN THE SCI VALUES OF THE SAGITTAL I AND SAGITTAL III GROUPS. SUBJECTS WITH AN AVERAGE VERTICAL SKELETAL PATTERN HAD SCI VALUES LOWER THAN THOSE WITH A REDUCED VERTICAL SKELETAL PATTERN (P=0.058) AND SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER THAN SUBJECTS WITH AN INCREASED (P<0.01) VERTICAL SKELETAL PATTERN. NO PATTERNS COULD BE DETERMINED FOR PMLT OR IMLT BETWEEN THE STUDY GROUPS. THE PMLT MEASUREMENTS FOR ALL STUDY GROUPS CLUSTERED AT THE MINIMUM VALUE (5°) AND TO A LESSER EXTENT THE MAXIMUM (15°). THE MAJORITY OF THE SAMPLE POPULATION HAD IMLT SETTINGS OF 0MM, WITH THE REMAINING VALUES RANGING FROM 0.1 MM TO 1MM. CONCLUSION. DURING PROSTHODONTIC TREATMENT OF PATIENTS WITH A NOTICEABLE SKELETAL DISCREPANCY CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE GIVEN TO CUSTOMISING SCI VALUES. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. CARMEL O'SULLIVAN osullivancarmel ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CAROSULL EDUCATION CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION SOCIAL DRAMA, ASPERGER SYNDROME AND AUTISM . THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUB-TYPES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER . EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION . ARTS EDUCATION . DRAMA AND THEATRE IN EDUCATION . TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION DEPT OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS FOR TEACHING STAFF IN SEVERAL HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ON EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADEI (ASSOCIATION FOR DRAMA IN EDUCATION IN IRELAND): FOUNDING MEMBER AND CHAIRPERSON (1999 TO 2009) ADJUDICATION OF DRAMA AND THEATRE FESTIVALS (NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY). AISHE (ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION) ATE (ASSOCIATION FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH) CHAIRPERSON OF ADEI (ASSOCIATION FOR DRAMA IN EDUCATION IN IRELAND) COMMISSIONED WRITER FOR THE NCCA (NATIONAL GUIDELINES ON THE USE OF DRAMA IN EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS WITH GENERAL LEARNING DISABILITIES) ETAI (ENCOUNTERING THE ARTS IRELAND) EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE, DRUMCONDRA (2011-2014) EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE CORK SCHOOL OF MUSIC, CIT (2003-2008) EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK (2006-2009) EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK (2014-2016) - TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION EXTERNAL EXAMINER IN THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL STUDIES, DIT (2011-2014; 2000-2003) EXTERNAL EXPERT ON THE VALIDATION PANEL FOR THE PG CERTIFICATE IN CREATIVE AND CULTURAL EDUCATION, EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY, LIVERPOOL, UK IDEA (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DRAMA AND THEATRE IN EDUCATION): MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (1998-2004); SECRETARY TO THE ACCOUNTANCY COMMITTEE (1998-2004); MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (2005-2007) MEMBER OF ACADEMIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR IDIERI (THE INTERNATIONAL DRAMA IN EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE) MEMBER OF ACCREDITED PROGRAMMES WORKING GROUP FOR NAIRTL (NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED RESEARCH IN TEACHING AND LEARNING) MEMBER OF HETAC VALIDATION PANEL FOR A POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME ON TEACHING AND LEARNING AT GRIFFITH COLLEGE DUBLIN (2008) AND THE BA IN HUMANITIES AT CARLOW COLLEGE (2006). MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ADVISORY COMMITTEES: IDEA (INTERNATIONAL DRAMA, THEATRE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION) 6TH WORLD CONGRESS IN HONG KONG; 7TH IDIERI CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL DRAMA IN EDUCATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE). MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIC BOARD OF IICP (INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATED COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR FIVE PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS: RIDE (RESEARCH IN DRAMA EDUCATION) (2005 TO DATE); THE JOURNAL FOR DRAMA IN EDUCATION (2004 TO DATE); DRAMA RESEARCH - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRAMA IN EDUCATION (2011 TO DATE); THE IRISH JOURNAL OF ARTS MANAGEMENT AND CULTURAL POLICY (2013 TO DATE); AND APPLIED THEATRE RESEARCH (2014 TO DATE). MEMBER OF THE PEER REVIEW GROUP OF ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME, IRISH UNIVERSITIES QUALITY BOARD) NATD (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE TEACHING OF DRAMA), UK: NATIONAL PUBLICITY OFFICER (1995-'98); NATIONAL CONFERENCE OFFICER (1996-'98); MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (2004 TO DATE) NAYD (NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH DRAMA - IRELAND) ND (NATIONAL DRAMA, UK) ONE OF THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE TRINITY STEM WALTON CLUB SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP CONVENOR FOR DRAMA AND SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION FOR IDEA (INTERNATIONAL DRAMA, THEATRE AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION) TRUSTEE OF THE ALFRED BEIT FOUNDATION (TCD NOMINEE), AND CHAIR OF THE RUSSBOROUGH ARTS EDUCATION STRATEGY SUB-GROUP ARTS AND HEALTH ARTS IN EDUCATION ASPERGER SYNDROME AND AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AUTISM SPECTRUM DANCE EDUCATION DRAMA AND THEATRE IN EDUCATION EARLY YEARS EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION SPECIAL EDUCATION EDUCATION CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS 'HEADS UP': ACHIEVING CREATIVE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH REUSE MATERIALS 'HEADS-UP' IS DESIGNED TO FACILITATE NEW AVENUES OF COMMUNICATION, INCLUSION AND COLLABORATION THROUGH THE ARTS USING SURPLUS MATERIALS FROM MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. IT AIMS TO ENCOURAGE A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION WHERE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT LEARNING ABILITIES ARE WORKING CREATIVELY SIDE BY SIDE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THERE IS NO 'RIGHT' WAY TO WORK ARTISTICALLY. USING AN 'ARTIST IN RESIDENCE' MODEL, 18 SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY BASED INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS THROUGHOUT IRELAND WILL EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF INTRODUCING TEACHERS, FACILITATORS, PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR PARENTS TO REUSE MATERIALS. THE WORKSHOPS WILL BE FACILITATED BY ARTISTS USING CLEAN, HIGH QUALITY MATERIALS FROM RECREATE THAT HAVE BEEN SALVAGED FROM BUSINESS. AS PART OF THEIR MISSION TO CREATE A GREENER ENVIRONMENT, RECREATE HAVE COMMISSIONED THIS STUDY TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF CREATIVE REUSE OF MATERIALS IN SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE SETTINGS. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY SCHOOLSCAPE@FUTURE (LEAD PARTNER) THIS EU MINERVA PROJECT INVESTIGATED A VISION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY SCHOOL IN WHICH ICT IS INTEGRATED INTO ICT PRACTICE IN SCHOOLS. THROUGH WORKING WITH SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS AND INDUSTRIAL EXPERTS, THE PROJECT IDENTIFIED EXAMPLES OF INNOVATIVE PRACTICE IN THE THREE MEMBER COUNTRIES (IRELAND, UK, AND PORTUGAL). A DATABASE OF BEST PRACTICE WAS PREPARED USING "NETWORKED KNOWLEDGE" BETWEEN TEACHERS, RESEARCHERS AND INDUSTRY IN ORDER TO CREATE TEACHER BRIEFING PACKS WHICH CONTAIN NEW MODELS OF PRACTICE FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS AS WELL AS A SERIES OF CASE STUDIES WHICH BENEFIT TEACHERS, RESEARCHERS, TEACHER TRAINERS AND LEARNERS ACROSS EUROPE. EU MINERVA OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING INITIATIVE THE ROLE OF DRAMA IN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STRATEGY (OFFICE FOR THE MINISTER OF CHILDREN) 'GOOD BUZZ - BAD BUZZ' THIS THEATRE IN EDUCATION PERFORMANCE WAS RESEARCHED AND DEVISED TO LAUNCH THE TASK FORCE REPORT ON JOYRIDING AND RAISE AWARENESS OF THE POTENTIAL ROLE OF DRAMA AND THEATRE IN EDUCATION AS A CREATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL TOOL TO STIMULATE DEBATE AND DISCUSSION ABOUT ISSUES OF YOUTH JOYRIDING NATIONALLY. BLUE DRUM: THE GOVERNMENT ARTS SPECIALIST SUPPORT AGENCY THE USE OF DRAMA IN EDUCATION IN THE HOLISTIC EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME DORMANT ACCOUNTS FUND, THE IRELAND FUND, DUBLIN BUS AND THE ASPERGER SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INTEGRATED EXECUTIVE FUNCTION (IEF) TRAINING THIS STUDY IS INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF A NOVEL FORM OF BRAIN TRAINING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD). IT IS A COLLABORATIVE STUDY BETWEEN RESEARCHERS IN TRINITY COLLEGE, DCU AND ASPIRE, AND IS THE FIRST OF ITS KIND TO TAKE PLACE IN IRELAND. ASPIRE (ASPERGER SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND) 'CORDUROY' - A SHORT FILM BASED ON A YOUNG ADULT WITH HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM CONSULTANT TO A SHORT FILM BASED ON THE LIFE OF A YOUNG ADULT WITH HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM (WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY HUGH O'CONNOR). 'CORDUROY' WAS SELECTED FOR COMPETITION AT THE 60TH BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL (2010) AND AT THE DUBLIN FILM FESTIVAL (2010). IRISH FILM BOARD RAISING STUDENT AND PUBLIC AWARENESS OF IRELAND'S ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TOWARDS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE SCHOOLS OF ECONOMICS AND EDUCATION DEPT. OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS/IRISH AID JOINT FUNDED PROJECT GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EDUCATION: ENHANCING TEACHER EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH THROUGH INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION 13 COLLABORATING HE INSTITUTIONS IN IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND, UGANDA AND LESOTHO THE PROGRAMME OF STRATEGIC COOPERATION BETWEEN IRISH AID AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ASPERGER SYNDROME: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR PARENTS, YOUNG PEOPLE, TEACHERS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS THIS PROJECT WAS SET UP TO RESEARCH AND CREATE AN EDUCATIONAL DVD WHICH HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED TO EVERY SCHOOL IN IRELAND, AND ALSO TO PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS AND OTHER CARERS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. IT FEATURES INTERVIEWS WITH KEY PERSONNEL WORKING IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS TO SUPPORT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AN ASD. SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THE DRAMA IN EDUCATION SOCIAL SKILLS EDUCATION PROGRAMME. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, ASPIRE, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION (TCD) AND AVMS (TCD) SOCIAL SKILLS EDUCATION THROUGH DRAMA FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM ASPERGER SYNDROME (AS) IS A PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER, WHICH MOST RESEARCHERS FEEL FALLS AT THE HIGHER-FUNCTIONING END OF THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM. INDIVIDUALS WITH AS CAN EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT DIFFICULTIES WITH SOCIAL INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATION, FLEXIBLE THINKING, AND IMAGINATIVE PLAY. PEOPLE WITH THE SYNDROME ARE OFTEN CHARACTERISED BY AN IMPAIRMENT IN SOCIAL INTERACTION AS WELL AS STEREOTYPED PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOUR, INTERESTS, AND ACTIVITIES. THERE IS NO KNOWN TREATMENT THAT HAS ANY EFFECT ON THE BASIC IMPAIRMENTS UNDERLYING ASPERGER SYNDROME, BUT CHALLENGES CAN BE DIMINISHED BY APPROPRIATE MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION. THE PRIME MOTIVATION FOR THIS RESEARCH PROJECT CAME FROM THE REALISATION THAT ALTHOUGH IT IS WIDELY RECOGNISED THAT YOUNG PEOPLE WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME LACK THE ABILITY TO EMPATHISE WITH OTHER PEOPLE, THERE IS LITTLE RESEARCH ON HOW TO HELP THEM DEVELOP THIS ABILITY, AS MOST LITERATURE IN THE FIELD FOCUSES ON THE OUTCOME RATHER THAN THE PROCESS: ON METHODS TO ENABLE CHILDREN ACHIEVE SOCIAL SKILLS BY IMITATING THE 'CORRECT' (ACCEPTABLE) BEHAVIOURS, RATHER THAN HELPING THEM DECODE THE IMAGES THEY SEE AND UNDERSTAND THE MEANINGS BELOW THE SURFACE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER THE SUSTAINED USE OF AN INTEGRATED CREATIVE ARTS APPROACH WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON THE USE OF DRAMA IN EDUCATION WILL LEAD TO A MORE SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL, PERSONAL, EMOTIONAL AND COGNITIVE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AS. IT AIMS TO BRING ABOUT A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE WITH AS AND THE IMPLICATIONS ON ONE'S LIFE. ASPIRE (ASPERGER SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND); NATIONAL LOTTERY FUNDING 'SOCIAL DRAMA©' TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS FROM A LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH STUDY EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF A NEW DRAMA BASED APPROACH TO DEVELOPING SOCIAL SKILLS CALLED 'SOCIAL DRAMA©', DEVELOPED IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH ASPIRE. ASPIRE (ASPERGER SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND) AND ARTS EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP (TCD) SUB-TYPES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER THE DATA FROM AN ONGOING LARGE-SCALE LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH PROJECT INVOLVING THE USE OF EDUCATIONAL DRAMA IN THE SOCIAL SKILLS EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AN ASD, SUPPORT COMPELLING EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF 12 SUB-TYPES ACROSS THE HIGH FUNCTIONING END OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM. THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS DATA IN TERMS OF EXTENDING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE ON HOW TO COMMUNICATE, INTERACT WITH AND SUPPORT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO REPRESENT DIFFERENT SUB-TYPES ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM. THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXPLORATION OF THESE NEW SUB-TYPES HOLDS CONSIDERABLE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGES IN POLICY, PRACTICE AND FUTURE RESEARCH IN THE FIELD. ASPIRE (ASPERGER SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND); NATIONAL LOTTERY YOUTH THEATRE: CONTEXT, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE THE ARTS EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP (AERG) IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, TRINITY COLLEGE, AND THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH DRAMA (NAYD) HAVE ESTABLISHED A RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP TO EXPLORE YOUTH THEATRE PRACTICE IN IRELAND. NAYD SUPPORTS THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH THEATRE IN IRELAND AND WORKS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES, YOUTH SERVICES, THEATRES, ARTS CENTRES, ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. NAYD IS COMMITTED TO CONDUCTING RESEARCH THAT INVESTIGATES YOUTH THEATRE PRACTICE AND EXPLORES ITS IMPACT ON THE ARTISTIC, SOCIAL AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE YOUNG PERSON. IN ORDER TO DEVELOP YOUTH THEATRE RESEARCH IN AN ACADEMICALLY RIGOROUS MANNER, THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO CONDUCT AN EXHAUSTIVE LITERATURE REVIEW TO ESTABLISH THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TERMS OF YOUTH THEATRE PRACTICE AND RESEARCH. THERE APPEARS TO BE AN ABSENCE OF PEER REVIEWED PUBLISHED RESEARCH SPECIFIC TO THIS SECTOR. IN PHASE 1 OF THE STUDY, THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION AND NAYD AIM TO EXAMINE THE EXISTING, RELEVANT LITERATURE IN THIS FIELD AND LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR FUTURE RESEARCH. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS ARTFUL DODGERS (PHASE 2): A CO-MENTORING PROGRAMME FOR EARLY YEARS EDUCATORS WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TWO ARTISTS PROJECT AIMS: . TO DELIVER A CO-MENTORING PROGRAMME BETWEEN THE EARLY YEARS EDUCATORS IN TWO COMMUNITY CRÈCHES AND TWO ARTISTS, WHERE THE FOCUS IS ON 'ARTISTIC PRACTICE'. . TO EXAMINE WHETHER ARTFUL DODGERS AS A MODEL THAT INCLUDES 'THE EXPERIENTIAL' IN PHASE ONE AND 'CO-MENTORING' IN PHASE TWO, CAN SUSTAIN ARTS PRACTICES IN EARLY YEARS SETTINGS. . TO EXAMINE THE EFFICACY OF AN ARTISTIC MODEL OF CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ENHANCING EARLY YEARS EDUCATORS' KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS, AND IN THEIR ABILITIES TO INITIATE A CHANGE IN THEIR PRACTICE AND INCREASE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ARTS IN THEIR CHILDCARE SETTINGS. ARTS OFFICE FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE ARTS EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP (TCD) ARTFUL DODGERS (PHASE 1): AN EARLY YEARS MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS PROGRAMME FOR CHILDREN AGED 3-5 YEARS . TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MODEL THAT WORKS THROUGH TWO ARTS FORMS WITH THE CHILDREN AND EARLY YEARS EDUCATORS IN TWO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE SERVICES. 'AN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE MODEL' WILL BE ADOPTED WHERE TWO ARTISTS WILL BE LOCATED IN EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE SERVICES, DELIVERING INTEGRATED MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOPS TO CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 3-5 YEARS. THE STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF THE ARTS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY LITERACY AND NUMERACY PRACTICES. THROUGH OBSERVING THE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, IT IS INTENDED THAT THE EARLY YEARS EDUCATORS WILL DEVELOP A STRONG FOUNDATION IN MUSIC AND THE VISUAL ARTS AND BE EQUIPPED WITH THE SKILLS TO EMBED THESE ARTS PRACTICES IN THEIR SERVICES ONCE THE ARTS PROGRAMME IS FINISHED. ARTS OFFICE FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL AND FINGAL COUNTY CHILDCARE COMMITTEE THE WONDER PROJECT - AN EARLY YEARS ARTS EDUCATION PROGRAMME FOR TRAVELLER MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL ARTS OFFICE, FINGAL TRAVELLER ORGANISATION, COMMUNITY ARTISTS AND THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP, AIM TO PILOT A UNIQUE EARLY YEARS ARTS PROGRAMME FOR TRAVELLER CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHERS LIVING IN NORTH COUNTY DUBLIN. THE PROGRAMME WILL INTRODUCE YOUNG CHILDREN (5 MONTHS TO 3.5 YEARS) AND THEIR MOTHERS TO A QUALITY ARTS EXPERIENCE, PRIMARILY THROUGH THE MEDIA OF MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS. STRAND ONE WILL BE DEVELOPED AS AN 'ARTIST RESIDENCY MODEL FOR ARTS DEVELOPMENT AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT', AND WILL INVOLVE THE USE OF THE DIEAC FRAMEWORK IN ITS DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION. THE STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINES THE ROLE OF THE ARTS IN ENGAGING MOTHERS WITH THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN, AND ENCOURAGES THEM TO PRACTICE THE ARTS IN THEIR HOME, SO THAT THEIR CHILDREN BECOME REGULARLY EXPOSED TO ARTS EXPERIENCES. FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL CHILDCARE COMMITTEE THE DIEAC FRAMEWORK (DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND EVALUATE ARTS IN CONTEXT) IN RESPONSE TO THE DIVERSITY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF COLLABORATIVE ARTS PRACTICES IN A RANGE OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS, THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CREATE (NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR COLLABORATIVE ARTS IN SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS) AND THE ARTS COUNCIL, PROPOSE TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP THE DIEAC FRAMEWORK (CONCEIVED BY CARMEL O'SULLIVAN AND SARAH TUCK). THIS FRAMEWORK IS PROPOSED ON THE BASIS OF PROVIDING AN ADAPTIVE AND FLEXIBLE TOOL FOR DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING AND EVALUATING ARTS IN CONTEXT (DIEAC). EXISTING GUIDELINES AND MODELS MAINLY CATER EITHER FOR PROJECT PLANNING OR RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION. THIS FORWARD-LOOKING FRAMEWORK IS PREDICATED ON THE BASIS OF PROVIDING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO ARTISTS WORKING IN SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY CONTEXTS. THE DIEAC FRAMEWORK WILL UTILISE THE ARTS COUNCIL'S ARTIST IN THE COMMUNITY SCHEME, MANAGED BY CREATE, AS THE SOURCE MATERIAL FOR THE RESEARCH ENQUIRY. CREATE, THE ARTS COUNCIL AND THE ARTS EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP (TCD) 'ALL HEADS TOGETHER': WORKING THROUGH THE VISUAL ARTS TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT THIS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, COMMISSIONED BY RECREATE AND FUNDED BY THE EPA, WILL RESPOND TO THE DATA FROM AN EARLIER STUDY ('HEADS UP') BY DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING A SET OF BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES AND A DETAILED PRACTICE MANUAL, CONCENTRATING ON ARTISTIC PROCESSES NOT TEMPLATES IN VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION. &#8232;IN ADDITION, A SERIES OF SPECIALIST CPD TRAINING MODULES FOR ARTISTS, TEACHERS, EARLY YEARS EDUCATORS, AND SPECIAL NEEDS ASSISTANTS WORKING IN INCLUSIVE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS WITH REUSE MATERIALS WILL BE DEVELOPED, TRIALED AND EVALUATED. RECREATE IS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE WHICH MAKES ART MATERIALS AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPLIES AVAILABLE TO ALL SECTORS OF SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE REUSE, THROUGH SALVAGING CLEAN REUSEABLE MATERIALS FROM BUSINESS WHICH WOULD OTHERWISE BE SENT TO LANDFILL. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) MAPPING OF WHOLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGIES AND MODELS IN WESTERN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA THIS STUDY INVOLVES A MAPPING OF PEDAGOGICAL AND ASSESSMENT INITIATIVES, ACTORS, AND CHANGE IN SUPPORT OF WHOLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN 8 WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES AND IN NORTH AMERICA. A WHOLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT (WCD) APPROACH AIMS TO PROMOTE MULTIPLE INTERCONNECTED ASPECTS OF HUMAN GROWTH INCLUDING COGNITIVE, SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT. THIS STUDY COVERS MIDDLE CHILDHOOD, ADOLESCENCE, AND EMERGING ADULTHOOD, AND AIMS TO IDENTIFY THE NATURE AND THE SCOPE OF CURRENT EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE WCD IN SCHOOLS AND OTHER SETTINGS, SUCH AS YOUTH CLUBS, SERVICE LEARNING COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS, OUTDOOR EDUCATION, AND INTERNSHIPS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. THE DOMAINS OF WCD INCLUDE PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY; RESILIENCE; ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT; SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT; POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT; ENGAGEMENT AND CONNECTEDNESS; ACADEMIC CHALLENGE AND LEARNING; CAREER AND COLLEGE READINESS. THIS STUDY IS BEING LED BY THE AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH (AIR). THE PORTICUS FOUNDATION CAREER LEAP (LOCAL EMPLOYMENT ACTION PARTNERSHIP) - PHASE 2 FOLLOWING THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A PILOT STUDY (2015-2016) WHICH HIGHLIGHTED KEY FINDINGS IN THE AREA OF YOUTH SERVICES AND EDUCATION, AND RESULTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING MANUALS FOR PARTICIPANTS AND TRAINERS IN THE AREA OF WORK READINESS, IN THIS MAIN STUDY WE AIM TO TAKE THE LEARNING FROM THE PILOT PROJECT AND EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE CAREER LEAP PROGRAMME ON YOUNG ADULT (18-24 YEAR-OLD) UNEMPLOYED JOB SEEKERS, THEIR PARENTS/PARTNERS/FRIENDS, AND MENTORS IN LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND ASSESS THE IMPACT OF A SUBSTANTIAL 'TRAIN THE TRAINERS' EDUCATION COMPONENT. CDETB (CITY OF DUBLIN EDUCATION AND TRAINING BOARD) ARTFUL DODGERS (PHASE 3): WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF A MENTORING PROGRAMME WITH PARENTS OF THE YOUNG CHILDREN WHO PARTICIPATED IN EARLIER PHASES OF THE ARTFUL DODGER'S RESEARCH PROGRAMME. IT INVOLVES WORKING WITH PARENTS TO INTRODUCE THEM TO NEW AND CREATIVE FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT IN ARTS PRACTICES. IT AIMS TO EXAMINE THE EFFICACY OF AN ARTISTIC MODEL OF CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ENHANCING PARENTS' KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS, AND INCREASE THEIR ACTIVE PARTICIPATION AND ENGAGEMENT THROUGH THE ARTS WITH THEIR EARLY YEARS CHILDREN IN THEIR HOME SETTINGS. ARTS OFFICE, FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL AND ARTS EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP (AERG), TCD CAREER LEAP (LOCAL EMPLOYMENT ACTION PARTNERSHIP) THIS PILOT STUDY IS A COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN COMMUNITY YOUTH ORGANISATIONS, OVER 20 MEMBERS OF THE BUSINESS IN THE COMMUNITY (BITC) BUSINESS NETWORK OPERATING IN THE DOCKLANDS AREA, AND RESEARCH PARTNERS. ADAPTING THE DIEAC FRAMEWORK, IT AIMS TO DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND EVALUATE A UNIQUE 'WORK READINESS' PROGRAMME TO REDUCE BARRIERS TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FOR HARD TO REACH 18-24 YEAR OLDS IN THE NORTH INNER CITY. USING A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH, THIS STUDY WILL DRAW FROM RESEARCH, PARTICIPANTS' INDIVIDUAL NEEDS, AND THE EXPERTISE OF LARGE BUSINESSES TO CREATE AND EVALUATE AN INNOVATIVE MODEL OF 'WORK READINESS'. CDETB; DEPT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS; PARTICIPATING BUSINESSES 'THE DRUMMER AND THE GOALKEEPER' CONSULTANT TO A FEATURE LENGTH MOVIE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY NICK KELLY. 'THE DRUMMER AND THE GOALKEEPER' IS THE STORY OF AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN A 25-YEAR-OLD ROCK'N'ROLL PARTY LOVING YOUNG MAN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER WHO REVELS IN REJECTING SOCIETY'S RULES, AND A 17-YEAR-OLD GOALKEEPER WHO SUFFERS FROM ASPERGER SYNDROME AND YEARNS TO FIT IN. 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RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT IT IS DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE WITH ASD TO GENERALISE SKILLS FROM ONE ENVIRONMENT TO ANOTHER AND THAT FOR POSITIVE LIFE OUTCOMES AND EMPLOYABILITY, GENERALISABILITY OF SOCIAL SKILLS IS CRUCIAL. DATA FROM PHASES 1-3 OF THE LONGITUDINAL DRAMA AND AUTISM SOCIAL SKILLS STUDY SUGGEST A POSITIVE CORRELATION BETWEEN ATTENDING THE PROGRAMME AND PARTICIPANTS' SOCIAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT. USING A QUASI-ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH APPROACH, THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE THE GENERALISABILITY OF THE SOCIAL SKILLS DEVELOPED IN O'SULLIVAN'S SOCIAL DRAMA MODEL TO ENVIRONMENTS OUTSIDE OF THE DRAMA CLASSROOM. DORMANT ACCOUNTS FUND (MEASURE 7 - SUPPORT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MARIA O'SULLIVAN osullivanmaria ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN HUMAN NUTRITION MOSULLI5 CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY BROAD MEDICAL RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR IBD, CA, USA. INVITED GRANT REVIEWER. CHAIR OF RESEARCH COMMITTEE, AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER IRISH SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL NUTRITION & METABOLISM (IRSPEN) CHAIR OF THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE, AND MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL NUTRITION & METABOLISM (IRSPEN) EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY (IMPACT FACTOR 5.2) EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL NUTRITION AND METABOLISM (ESPEN) FUNCTIONAL BRAIN GUT RESEARCH GROUP INVITED EXPERT EVALUATOR FOR EU FP7-HEALTH (OBESITY-METABOLISM)AS A REMOTE REVIEWER, ON-SITE PANEL MEMBER AND PANEL REPRESENTATIVE, BRUSSELS. INVITED EXPERT EVALUATOR FOR THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES FOR GRANTS AWARDED BY THE US GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE. WASHINGTON DC. INVITED REVIEWER FOR SEVERAL HIGH IMPACT JOURNALS INCLUDING GASTROENTEROLOGY, GUT, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; JOURNAL OF CROHN'S AND COLITIS; ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS; DIGESTIVE DISEASES ;'EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY'; NUTRIENTS; AGE & AGEING IRISH NUTRITION & DIETETIC INSTITUTE IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE FOR THE EUROPEAN COST ACTION 'BM1007: MAST CELLS AND BASOPHILS - TARGETS FOR INNOVATIVE THERAPIES 2011-14' MEMBER OF THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND A PI IN THE 'CENTRE OF APPLIED SCIENCES FOR HEALTH (CASH), A GOVERNMENT (HEA/PRTLI CYCLE 4) FUNDED RESEARCH CONSORTIUM WWW.APPLIEDSCIENCE4HEALTH.IE MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE; MEMBER OF THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE, THE NUTRITION SOCIETY UK (2012-) NUTRITION SOCIETY MEMBER (2007), MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE AND OF THE PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY UK (2012-), PROGRAMME NATIONAL DE RESEARCHES SUR LA NUTRITION HUMAINE (PRNH), FRANCE. INVITED EXPERT REVIEWER RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER, HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONS RESEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBER, HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONS, IRELAND ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, COMMITTEE FOR LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES, APPOINTED MEMBER WOMEN IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING TCD (CURRENT) ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE (2001-3) BMI/OBESITY BRAIN-GUT, MAST CELLS CLINICAL NUTRITION/MALNUTRITION FUNCTIONAL BOWEL DISORDERS MALNUTRITION MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY OBESITY TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEINS VITAMIN D VITAMIN-D DEFICIENCY VITAMIN-D SUPPLEMENTATION GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS VITAMIN D AND INFLAMMATION: OPTIMAL REQUIREMENTS AND NOVEL ROLES IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE THIS PROGRAM OF RESEARCH FOCUSES ON INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION ON INFLAMMATORY IN PATIENTS WITH IBD, PRIMARILY THROUGH RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AND MECHANISTIC STUDIES. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL AND TCD POSTGRAD AWARD A STUDY OF VITAMIN D AND EXERCISE ON COGNITION IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS- A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ROLE OF VITAMIN D ON INFLAMMATORY MARKERS AND SUPPORTING COGNITION IN OLDER ADULTS. INCLUDES INTERVENTION AND MECHANISTIC STUDIES. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL VITAMIN D AND COGNITION - AN ANALYSIS OF 25OHD LEVELS AND COGNITIVE DOMAINS IN HEALTHY OLDER ADULTS. A PROOF OF CONCEPT STUDY, WITH NIAMH ASPELL, IN COLLABORATION WITH TRIL, PROF BRIAN LAWLOR (TCD)AND DR JOANNA MCHUGH (QUB) IRC AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT MALNUTRITION, DEFICIENCY, AND NUTRITIONAL PRACTICE IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS AN INVESTIGATION INTO MALNUTRITION, OSTEOPOROSIS AND OPTIMISING BEST NUTRITIONAL PRACTICE IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE AND CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; ROLE: ACADEMIC CO-SUPERVISOR HRB THERAPY AWARD FOR SINEAD DUGGAN 'ROLE OF TIGHT JUNCTION MARKERS AND MAST CELLS IN GUT-BARRIER FUNCTION IN COLONIC DISEASE. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR - HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTES (PRTLI) CYCLE 4 FUNDING 'CENTRE OF APPLIED SCIENCES FOR HEALTH' CASH CONSORTIUM'. INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE INTESTINAL PERMEABILITY IN COLONIC DISEASE, INCLUDING MAST CELLS, JAMA, E-CADHERIN AND ZO1. CO-PI: DR SIOBHAN MCCLEAN, ITT, TALLAGHT HEA (PRTLI) CYCLE 4 AND MEATH FOUNDATION NUTRITIONAL FACTORS AND INFLAMMATION: ROLE OF OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. STUDIES OF OBESITY AND LIFESTYLE FACTORS IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, INCLUDING THE IMPACT OF OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY ON INFLAMMATION AND CO-MORBIDITY IN DISEASES TRADITIONAL ASSOCIATED WITH UNDERWEIGHT. MEATH FOUNDATION AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR TOMÁS EOIN O'SULLIVAN osullivantomseoin PROFESSOR IN SOCIAL POLICY TOSULLVN SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY HOUSING POLICY, HOMELESSNESS, COMPARATIVE PENAL POLICY, COMPARATIVE WELFARE STATES, HISTORY OF IRISH SOCIAL POLICY. SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EXTERNAL EXAMINER IN SOCIAL POLICY FOR CORK AND WATERFORD INSTITUTES OF TECHNOLOGY, 2000 - 2005; THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, DEGREE AND POST-GRADUATE DIPLOMA / M.LITT IN HOUSING STUDIES 2002-2007; SOCIAL POLICY AND CRIMINOLOGY, THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, 2006-10; UG PROGRAMME IN CRIMINOLOGY, QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST, 2010-2013. LEAD EDITOR, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HOMELESSNESS MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE AS CHAIR OF THE EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARRANGEMENTS IN GALWAY. MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE AS CHAIR OF THE INDEPENDENT STATUTORY COMMITTEE TO REVIEW LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARRANGEMENTS IN GALWAY MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE AS CHAIR OF THE NATIONAL TRAVELLER ACCOMMODATION CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED PLANNING GROUP ON RENTAL ASSISTANCE MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE TO THE PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES BOARD MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE TO THE RENT TRIBUNAL RESEARCH CONSULTANT TO RTE DOCUMENTARY STATES OF FEAR. THIS THREE PART DOCUMENTARY HAS WON FIVE MEDIA AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST DOCUMENTARY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT THE IRISH FILM AND THEATRE AWARDS. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR MAUREEN J. O'SULLIVAN osullivanmaureenj CONSULTANT PAEDIATRIC PATHOLOGIST/CLINIC OSULLM10 HISTOPATHOLOGY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) MY RESEARCH GROUP FOCUSES ON THE GENOMICS AND EPIGENETICS OF SOLID PEDIATRIC TUMORS, NOTABLY SARCOMAS AND RENAL TUMORS. ONE ASPECT OF INVESTIGATION THAT WE HAVE FOCUSED ON VERY SUCCESSFULLY TO-DATE IS THE CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL CHROMOSOMAL TRANSLOCATIONS IN THESE TUMOR TYPES. THROUGH A MORE IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF SIMILAR TYPE GENETIC ABERRATIONS IN OTHER TUMORS, SUCH AS LEUKAEMIAS, THERE HAVE BEEN VERY SIGNIFICANT STRIDES TOWARDS IMPROVED TREATMENT IN PAEDIATRIC LEUKAEMIA PATIENTS. OUR AIM IS TO UNRAVEL THE GENETIC ABERRATIONS THAT GOVERN SARCOMAGENESIS IN ORDER TO ULTIMATELY DEVELOP TARGETED THERAPIES FOR THESE TUMORS WHICH ARE LARGELY RESISTANT TO TRADITIONAL CHEMO- AND IRRADIATION THERAPIES. AS CHROMOSOMAL TRANSLOCATIONS ARE COMMONLY THE INITIATING ONCOGENIC EVENT IN CANCER DEVELOPMENT, EXPLOITING THESE AS A PORTAL INTO THE PERTURBED CELLULAR BIOLOGY CAN ELUCIDATE TARGETABLE ABERRATIONS. WE RECENTLY PUBLISHED OUR FINDINGS ON THE CHARACTERISATION OF A NOVEL CHROMOSOMAL TRANSLOCATION T(10;17) IN CLEAR CELL SARCOMA OF KIDNEY [CCSK] IN THE JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY. THIS IS ESSENTIALLY THE FIRST MEANINGFUL DEVELOPMENT IN OUR UNDERSTANDING ON CCSK AND HAS LED TO A LARGE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH EFFORT INTERNATIONALLY WITH SIOP [THE INTERNATIONAL PAEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY SOCIETY] IN WHICH WE ARE THE DESIGNATE MOLECULAR RESEARCH LAB. WORK IS CONTINUING ON THE ROLE OF A NOVEL CHROMOSOMAL TRANSLOCATION WHICH WE HAVE CHARACTERISED IN UNDIFFERENTIATED SARCOMA. AN ANALYSIS OF COPY NUMBER ALTERATIONS TO DETECT SECONDARY GENOMIC ABERRATIONS IN EWING SARCOMA WAS ACCEPTED WITHOUT REVIEW INTO THE JOURNAL MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY. WE HAVE ALSO COMPLETED RESEARCH WITH TRULY INTERESTING FINDINGS ON THE ROLE OF MICRO RNAS IN WILMS TUMOR [NEPHROBLASTOMA] FOR WHICH A PAPER IS IN PRESS IN PLOS ONE AND SIMILARLY WITH GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS WITH A PAPER SUBMITTED TO PLOS ONE. 4 SUNBURY GARDENS DARTRY DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH FELLOW, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. MEMBER, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH. MEMBER, CONNECTIVE TISSUE ONCOLOGY SOCIETY. MEMBER, NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH [NIH] PEDIATRIC AND WILD-TYPE GIST CLINIC MEMBER, PAEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY SOCIETY MEMBER, SIOP RENAL TUMOR STUDY GROUP. MEMBER, SOCIETE INTERNATIONALE D'ONCOLOGIE PAEDIATRIQUE [SIOP]. MEMBER, US AND CANADIAN ACADEMY OF PATHOLOGY. CANCER PROFESSOR CAROL ANN O'SULLIVAN osullivancarolann PROFESSOR OF VISUAL COMPUTING (2010) OSULLICA COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS, ANIMATION, PERCEPTION, PERCEPTUALLY ADAPTIVE GRAPHICS, PHYSICALLY BASED ANIMATION, COLLISION HANDLING, VISUALISATION, VISUALIZATION. COMPUTER SCIENCE ISG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN ASSOCIATE EDITOR IN CHIEF (SPECIAL ISSUES), IEEE COMPUTER GRAPHICS & APPLICATIONS (FORMERLY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER) ASSOCIATE EDITOR, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED PERCEPTION ASSOCIATE EDITOR, COMPUTERS AND GRAPHICS (ELSEVIER) CO-CHAIR - SCA: ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ANIMATION CO-CHAIR AND CO-ORGANISER OF THE EUROGRAPHICS IRELAND 2002 WORKSHOP, DUBLIN CO-CHAIR AND CO-ORGANISER: ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS CAMPFIRE ON PERCEPTUALLY-ADAPTIVE GRAPHICS SNOWBIRD, UTAH CO-CHAIR AND ORGANISER OF THE FIRST IRISH WORKSHOP ON EYE-TRACKING, DUBLIN CO-CHAIR, EUROGRAPHICS: THE 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS. CO-EDITOR IN CHIEF, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON APPLIED PERCEPTION (TAP) CO-ORGANISER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED ARCHITECTURE (VAA01), DUBLIN IPC MEMBER, EUROGRAPHICS MEMBER ACM SIGGRAPH MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD, GRAPHICAL MODELS (ELSEVIER) MEMBER IPC, APGV: ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION MEMBER IPC, CASA: COMPUTER ANIMATION AND SOCIAL AGENTS MEMBER IPC, EG-IRELAND: IRISH WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS, MEMBER IPC, ETRA: ACM SIGGRAPH/SIGCHI SYMPOSIUM ON EYE TRACKING RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS, 2002, 2004 MEMBER IPC, I3D: ACM SYMPOSIUM ON INTERACTIVE 3D GRAPHICS MEMBER IPC, IEEE VIRTUAL REALITY MEMBER IPC, SCA: ACM SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ANIMATION MEMBER IPC, V-CROWDS MEMBER IPC, VAA: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED ARCHITECTURE MEMBER IPC, VAST: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON VIRTUAL REALITY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE MEMBER IPC, WSCG: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES IN CENTRAL EUROPE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER VISION MEMBER PAPERS COMMITTEE, ACM SIGGRAPH PROGRAM CO-CHAIR, APGV 2009: ACM SIGGRAPH SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED PERCEPTION IN GRAPHICS AND VISUALIZATION REVIEWER FOR VARIOUS CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA, E.G., EUROGRAPHICS SYMPOSIA ON RENDERING, EUROGRAPHICS SYMPOSIA ON GEOMETRY PROCESSING REVIEWER FOR VARIOUS JOURNALS, E.G., ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS, IEEE CG&A, PRESENCE, COMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, THE VISUAL COMPUTER, AND OTHER JOURNALS AND BOOKS. STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER ANIMATION ANIMATION COLLISION HANDLING COMPUTER GRAPHICS EVALUATION EYE MOVEMENTS GRAPHICS AND PERCEPTION INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS PERCEPTION SIMULATION LEVELS OF DETAIL VIRTUAL REALITY VISUALIZATION COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE MOBISYM: FRAMEWORKS AND APPLICATIONS FOR MOBILE NETWORKS USING SYNTHETIC MULTIMEDIA ENTERPRISE IRELAND ATRP IITAC: PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS: ANIMATION AND VISUALISATION HEA PRTLI A SHARED-MEMORY HYBRID GRAPHICS CLUSTER FOR VISUALISATION AND VIDEO PROCESSING SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH/RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME NATURAL GESTURE IN CROWDS HEA MMRP ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR REAL-TIME ANIMATION ENTERPRISE IRELAND STRATEGIC RESEARCH GRANT REAL-TIME PHYSICALLY BASED CHARACTER ANIMATION ENTERPRISE IRELAND STRATEGIC GRANT TIME-CRITICAL, ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR PERCEPTUALLY-SENSITIVE, REAL-TIME ANIMATION ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT AUTOMATED ACQUISITION AND ARCHIVAL OF IRISH MOULDING PROFILES (WITH HISTORY OF ART ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT METROPOLIS THE METROPOLIS PROJECT IS A NOVEL INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT COMBINING COMPUTER GRAPHICS, ENGINEERING AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH. TRINITY COLLEGE RESEARCHERS PROF. CAROL O'SULLIVAN AND DR. STEVEN COLLINS FROM COMPUTER SCIENCE TOGETHER WITH DR. FIONA NEWELL FROM THE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND PROF. HENRY RICE FROM MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WILL APPLY PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN MULTISENSORY PERCEPTION TO CREATE THE MOST REALISTIC, SCALABLE AND LARGE-SCALE SIMULATIONS OF POPULATED CITIES EVER REALISED. THE AIM OF THE RESEARCH IS TO SIMULATE LARGE CROWDS CONSISTING OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND TO INTRODUCE A HIGH LEVEL OF VARIETY IN ANIMATION, APPEARANCE AND SOUND, INSPIRED BY PERCEPTUAL MODELS AND METRICS. REAL MEANING WILL BE ADDED TO THE SIMULATIONS BY ENDOWING INDIVIDUAL CROWD MEMBERS WITH APPROPRIATE, SENTIENT BEHAVIOURS THAT ARE BASED ON COGNITIVE AND SOCIOLOGICAL MODELS. FURTHERMORE, REALISTIC POPULACE AND TRAFFIC NOISE WILL BE SIMULATED, EFFECTIVELY PROPAGATED DEPENDING ON ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, AND DRIVEN BY PSYCHOACOUSTIC PRINCIPLES. THE PROJECT WILL BUILD UPON TCD'S ONGOING VIRTUAL DUBLIN PROJECT. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS RESEARCH WILL BE DEMONSTRATED IN THE AREAS OF GAMES (THEREBY CONTRIBUTING TO THE GROWTH OF AN EMERGENT ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY IN IRELAND), ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS (EIS) FOR IMPROVED PLANNING, AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES TO CREATE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR DISABLED CHILDREN. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME GEOPOSTORS: A GAME DEVELOPERS TOOLKIT FOR REAL-TIME CROWDS BUILDING ON OUR REAL-TIME CROWD SYSTEM, WE ARE DEVELOPING A COST-EFFECTIVE TOOL THAT COULD BE DEPLOYED BY GAMES DEVELOPERS TO ADD LARGE REALISTIC CROWDS TO THEIR SIMULATIONS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT GUILD: GENERATING URBAN INFRASTRUCTURES FROM LIDAR DATA THIS PROJECT INVOLVES AUTOMATING THE GENERATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER MODELS FROM AERIAL FLYOVER DATA. LIDAR IS A RADAR-BASED, LASER SCANNING SYSTEM, WHICH CAN PROVIDE THE TECHNOLOGICAL UNDER-PINNINGS TO CREATE AUTOMATED THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING (FEM) MESHES. THE PROJECT LEVERAGES SUBSTANTIAL PREVIOUS INVESTMENT IN THE FORM OF THE VIRTUAL DUBLIN PROJECT. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND EUROGRAPHICS CONFERENCE GRANT THIS GRANT WAS AWARDED TO SUPPORT THE ORGANISATION OF EUROGRAPHICS 2005, THE 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS, WHICH TOOK PLACE IN TCD IN SEPTEMBER 2005. FOR FURTHER DETAILS, SEE: HTTP://ISG.CS.TCD.IE/EG2005 SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CONFERENCE/WORKSHOPS GRANTS HUMAN SIMULATION - ADDING VARIETY TO HANDS AND FACES THIS PROJECT IS WITH POST-GRADUATE STUDENT SOPHIE JOERG AND FOCUSES ON HUMAN MOTION CAPTURE - IN PARTICULAR HANDS AND FACES. WE ARE ALSO COLLABORATING WITH THE GRAPHICS LAB IN CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY. IRCSET POSTGRADUATE AWARDS EVALUATION AND PERCEPTION OF MOTION GRAPHS REALISTIC AND DIRECTABLE HUMANLIKE CHARACTERS ARE AN ONGOING GOAL IN ANIMATION. MOTION GRAPH DATA STRUCTURES HOLD MUCH PROMISE FOR ACHIEVING THIS GOAL; HOWEVER, THE QUALITY OF THE RESULTS OBTAINABLE FROM A MOTION GRAPH MAY NOT BE EASY TO PREDICT FROM ITS INPUT MOTION CLIPS. WITH POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER, PAUL REITSMA, WE ARE BUILDING ON HIS PHD WORK (CONDUCTED IN CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY) TO EVALUATE AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HUMAN MOTION USING PERCEPTUAL AND TASK-BASED METRICS. IRCSET POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS VERVE EU ICT CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NEUROSCIENCE DR. RONAN O'TOOLE otooleronan ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OTOOLER3 CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY TUBERCULOSIS, MYCOBACTERIUM GENUS, BACTERIAL PHYLOGENETICS, METAGENOMICS, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, HEALTHCARE INFECTION CONTROL, ANTIBIOTIC DISCOVERY, TARGET VALIDATION, DRUG DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION, DRUG RESISTANCE MECHANISMS DEPT OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORY ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY NEW ZEALAND MICROBIOLOGICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY, UK WORKING GROUP ON NEW TB DRUGS, STOP TB PARTNERSHIP ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE MICROBIOLOGY PHYLOGENETICS TUBERCULOSIS ROLE OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS PHYLOGENETIC LINEAGE IN TB DISEASE IN IRELAND THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO RELATE MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS LINEAGE DATA DETERMINED USING SNP, LSP AND MIRU-24 ANALYSES TO PATIENT DEMOGRAPHICS AND DISEASE PHENOTYPES IN IRELAND. THE PROJECT IS BEING CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH PROF. THOMAS ROGERS (TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN), PROF. JOSEPH KEANE (ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN), AND DR. MARGARET FITZGIBBON (IRISH MYCOBACTERIA REFERENCE LABORATORY). DETERMINATION OF PHYLOGENETIC LINEAGES OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS ISOLATES IN NEW ZEALAND THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO DETERMINE THE GENETIC LINEAGES OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS PRESENT IN NEW ZEALAND USING SNP, LSP AND MIRU-24 ANALYSES AND TO RELATE THE LINEAGE DATA TO TRANSMISSION, PATIENT DEMOGRAPHICS, AND DISEASE PHENOTYPES. THE PROJECT IS BEING CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. JOSHUA FREEMAN AND DR. INDIRA BASU (AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL), AND DR. JAMES BOWER (LABPLUS, AUCKLAND DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD). SYNTHETIC GENE ARRAY ANALYSIS FOR DETERMINING THE MODE OF ACTION OF UNIQUE TUBERCULOSIS DRUGS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF SPECIFIC CELLULAR PATHWAYS TARGETED BY CANDIDATE DRUGS, THE APPLICANT HAS CONDUCTED GLOBAL TRANSPOSON MUTAGENESIS IN MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS. THE MUTANT LIBRARY HAS BEEN UTILISED FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF SUPPRESSOR AND ENHANCER MUTATIONS WHICH MODULATE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO ANTI-MYCOBACTERIAL INHIBITORS. THESE DATA PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE MODE OF ACTION OF TUBERCULOSIS LEAD COMPOUNDS. THIS PROJECT IS BEING CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH PROF. GREG COOK (UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO). DEVELOPMENT OF A SINGLE-TARGET TUBERCULOSIS/HIV DRUG ANTAGONISM AND OVERLAPPING TOXICITIES BETWEEN TUBERCULOSIS AND ANTI-RETROVIRAL DRUGS POSE A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE TO CONTROL EFFORTS. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DETERMINE WHETHER A SINGLE TARGET, DUAL INHIBITOR WOULD BE FEASIBLE IN THE TREATMENT OF HIV/TB CO-INFECTIONS. THIS PROJECT IS BEING CONDUCTED IN COLLABORATION WITH MUDASSAR ALTAF (VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON) AND PROF. TED BAKER AND DR. STEPHANIE DAWES (UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND). IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. SHARON O'TOOLE otoolesharon SNR EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER SHOTOOLE OBSTETRICS TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) -EARLY DIAGNOSTICS IN OVARIAN CANCER -CHEMORESISTANCE IN OVARIAN CANCER CHEMOSENSITIVITY/RESISTANCE TESTING OF MALIGNANT GYNAECOLOGICAL TUMOURS -EXAMINATION OF FIBRINOLYTIC SYSTEMS OF MALIGNANT GYNAECOLOGICAL TUMOURS -EXAMINATION OF ANGIOGENESIS IN OVARIAN CANCERS. -EXAMINATION OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE GENES IN GYNAECOLOGICAL TUMOURS. -ESTROGEN REGULATED GENES IN ENDOMETRIAL CANCER. -PHYTOSERMS AND ENDOMETRIAL CANCER DEPT OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8. 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER OF EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH. MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH GYNAECOLOGY ONCOLOGY OBSTETRICS/GYNECOLOGY OESTREGENS IN AGE RELATED UROGENITAL DISEASES MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES CHEMOSENSITIVITY TESTING IN GYNAECOLOGICAL CANCERS BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB/ENTERPRISE IRELAND IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL BIOMARKERS IN RECURRENT/CHEMORESISTANT OVARIAN CANCER OVARIAN CANCER IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMON CANCERS AFFECTING WOMEN AND IS OFTEN DETECTED IN THE ADVANCED STAGE OF THE DISEASE, RESULTING IN A HIGH MORTALITY RATE. THIS IS BECAUSE THE SYMPTOMS OF OVARIAN CANCER ARE NOT RECOGNISED IMMEDIATELY, THE MOLECULAR PATHOBIOLOGY OF OVARIAN DISEASE IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD AND SENSITIVE SCREENING TESTS ARE NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE. TREATMENT USUALLY INVOLVES SURGERY FOLLOWED BY CHEMOTHERAPY. WHILE MANY WOMEN RESPOND WELL INITIALLY, A WORRYING NUMBER OF WOMEN WILL FACE A RECURRENCE OF DISEASE, OFTEN WITH THE TUMOUR BECOMING LESS AMENABLE TO CHEMOTHERAPY OVER TIME. UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING RECURRENCE OF OVARIAN CANCER AND ADDRESSING CHEMORESISTANCE IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE FOR IMPROVING TREATMENT AND OUTCOME OF THE DISEASE. RECURRENCE REPRESENTS THE "TRUE KILLER" AMONG OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS AND IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL MOLECULAR MARKERS PRESENT IN RECURRENT TUMOURS IS URGENTLY REQUIRED. USING CDNA MICROARRAYS, WE WILL CARRY OUT GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING BETWEEN PRIMARY AND RECURRENT OVARIAN CANCERS FROM DIFFERENT PATIENTS WITH THE SAME HISTOLOGY AND FROM THE SAME PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT HISTOLOGY AIMING TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS OF RECURRENCE. USING TAQMAN PCR TECHNIQUES, SELECTED TARGETS WILL BE FURTHER VALIDATED TO CORRELATE WITH MICROARRAY RESULTS. SIGNATURES FROM BOTH COHORTS WILL BE ALSO VALIDATED AGAINST AN INDEPENDENT SET OF SEROUS PAPILLARY OVARIAN ADENOCARCINOMAS, THE MOST COMMON HISTOLOGICAL SUBTYPE. USING REAL-TIME RT-PCR, WE WILL ALSO EXAMINE THE PATTERNS OF DYSREGULATION OF MIRNAS IN RECURRENT OVARIAN CANCER AND WE WILL ELUCIDATE POTENTIAL MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS DYSREGULATION. WE WILL OBSERVE FOR ANY POSSIBLE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN OUR TRANSCRIPTOMIC AND MIRNA TARGETS. WE WILL ALSO INVESTIGATE THE IN VITRO EFFECTS OF SELECTED TARGETS IN PLATINUM SENSITIVE AND RESISTANT CELL LINES. ROYAL CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL TRUST FUND A CONSORTIUM OF RESEARCHERS DEDICATED TO UNDERSTANDING AND TREATMENT OF OVARIAN CANCER: THE DISCOVARY CONSORTIUM WE HAVE ESTABLISHED AN INTERNATIONAL TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONSORTIUM [DISCOVARY] TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF OVARIAN CANCER. OUR CURRENT WORK IS FOCUSSED ON IDENTIFYING TRANSCRIPTOME, PROTEOME AND REGULATORY SIGNATURES WHICH CHARACTERISE EARLY (STAGE I), ADVANCED (STAGE III-IV), RECURRENT, CHEMORESISTANT AND CHEMOSENSITIVE OVARIAN CANCER AND WHICH CAN BE USED IN A CLINICAL SETTING TO IMPROVE THE DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF THIS DISEASE IN ADDITION, WE BELIEVE THAT HYPOXIA PLAYS A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE EMERGENCE OF THE CHEMORESISTANT PHENOTYPE IN OVARIAN CANCER PATIENTS. AS PART OF OUR TRANSLATIONAL DISCOVERY PIPELINE, WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES FOR THIS STUDY: A. EXTENSION AND MAINTENANCE OF A HUMAN OVARIAN TISSUE AND SERUM BIORESOURCE NETWORK IN IRELAND, WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE LINK B. GENERATION OF A NOVEL HUMAN OVARIAN LIBRARY PROTEOME RESOURCE [OVA-1] C. CONSTRUCTION OF A SERUM ANTIBODY PROFILE IN OVARIAN CANCER D. VALIDATION OF A PROTEOME MAP OF BORDERLINE AND EARLY [STAGE I] OVARIAN CANCER E. CONSTRUCTION OF A TRANSCRIPTOME AND MIRNA TRANSLATIONAL CONTROL MAP OF EARLY, RECURRENT, NON-RECURRENT AND CHEMO-RESISTANT OVARIAN CANCER F. FORMULATION OF DIAGNOSTIC, PROGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC VALIDATION PIPELINES G. PATIENT SPECIFIC LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES TO BE USED IN THERAPEUTIC MONITORING, BIO-DISCOVERY AND NOVEL CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC DRUG DISCOVERY H. UNCOUPLING HYPOXIA AND CHEMORESISTANCE IN OVARIAN CANCER I. UNDERSTANDING BLOOD-BORNE MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN GROWTH AND SPREAD OF OVARIAN CANCER J. UNDERSTANDING CANCER STEM CELLS IN OVARIAN CANCER THE CONSORTIUM HAS BEEN FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE FUNDING FROM THE EMER CASEY FOUNDATION. FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF EMER ESTABLISHED THE FOUNDATION FOLLOWING HER UNTIMELY DEATH FROM OVARIAN/UTERINE CANCER IN JUNE 2006. EMER CASEY FOUNDATION CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. FRANCIS THOMAS O'TOOLE otoolefrancisthomas ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FOTOOLE ECONOMICS COMPETITION POLICY AND REGULATION; REDISTRIBUTION; SURVEY METHODOLOGY; PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING; TAXATION POLICY; TAX REFORM; UNJUST ENRICHMENT; AND, COMPULSORY VOTING. DEPT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION (AEA) INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MS. LYNN O'TOOLE otoolelynn RESEARCH FELLOW OTOOLELY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AOTI COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE AOTI PRIMARY CARE ADVISORY GROUP COMMITTEE ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND WORLD FEDERATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS CLINICAL TRIAL HEALTH PROMOTION MULTIMORBIDITY PRIMARY CARE OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF FATIGUE IN RHEUMATIC CONDITIONS ON PERCEPTIONS TO PERFORM WORK AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF WORKPLACE ACCOMMODATIONS RHEUMATIC DISEASES ARE ONE OF THE LEADING CAUSES OF WORK DISABILITY. DESPITE THE FACT THAT UP TO 90% OF PEOPLE WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES REPORT FATIGUE, LIMITED RESEARCH HAS EXPLORED THE IMPACT OF FATIGUE ON WORK DISABILITY AND PRODUCTIVITY. THIS STUDY AIMS TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF FATIGUE ON WORK-RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR THOSE WITH RHEUMATIC DISEASES. THE STUDY WILL ALSO EXPLORE PARTICIPANTS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE IMPACT OF FATIGUE ON THEIR WORK ABILITY AND FATIGUE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY RESEARCH PROMOTION SCHEME AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF A DANCE PROGRAMME FOR COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS THE DANCE THEATRE OF IRELAND HAVE DEVELOPED A 10-WEEK DANCE PROGRAMME FOR COMMUNITY DWELLING OLDER ADULTS TO INCREASE THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCE AND CONTRIBUTE TO PREVENTION OF FALLS. THIS STUDY WILL THEREFORE EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THE PROGRAMME ON PARTICIPANTS' FALLS SELF-EFFICACY, BALANCE AND MOBILITY, LEVELS AND FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION, MOOD, AND QUALITY OF LIFE. IT ALSO EXPLORES PARTICIPANTS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE PROGRAMME IMPACT AND DELIVERY. DUN LAOGHAIRE RATHDOWN COUNTY COUNCIL/HSE DUBLIN MID LEINSTER ARTS AND HEALTH PARTNERSHIP THE OPTIMAL STUDY: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL AND PROCESS EVALUATION OF AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LED SELF MANAGEMENT SUPPORT PROGRAMME FOR PATIENTS WITH MULTIMORBIDITY IN PRIMARY CARE MANY PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC DISEASE HAVE MORE THAN ONE CHRONIC CONDITION, REFERRED TO AS MULTIMORBIDITY. THE NUMBERS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH MULTIMORBIDITY IS SET TO INCREASE SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FUTURE AS A RESULT OF THE GROWING AGEING POPULATION. THOSE WITH MULTIMORBIDITY EXPERIENCE POORER PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING, POORER PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING, DIFFICULTY ENGAGING IN VALUED ROLES AND ACTIVITIES AND INCREASED HEALTH CARE UTILISATION. THERE IS A LACK OF INTERVENTIONS TARGETING THOSE WITH MULTIMORBIDITY AND FOCUSING ON ENABLING INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTIVITIES THEY WANT AND NEED TO DO. THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OPTIMAL, AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (OT) GROUP-BASED INTERVENTION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH MULTIMORBIDITY. THE AIM OF THIS GROUP IS TO IMPROVE PARTICIPANT'S SELF-MANAGEMENT OF THEIR CONDITIONS AND INCREASE ENGAGEMENT IN VALUED ACTIVITIES. THIS STUDY IS A DEFINITIVE RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS INTERVENTION ON PARTICIPANTS' QUALITY OF LIFE, FREQUENCY OF ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION, THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR ABILITY TO PERFORM ACTIVITIES, THEIR SATISFACTION WITH THEIR PERFORMANCE, THEIR CONFIDENCE IN MANAGING THEIR CONDITIONS AND MOOD. THIS STUDY WILL ALSO INVOLVE A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS, EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCES OF THOSE PARTICIPATING IN AND DELIVERING THE INTERVENTION. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MS. MAGDALENA OHAJA ohajamagdalena ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OHAJAMA SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY I VALUE DEEPLY THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE MIDWIVES, GROUP LEARNING AND ITS IMPACT IN HELPING STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING A TEAM/MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO MIDWIFERY PRACTICE. I AM PART OF A TEAM THAT CONDUCTED EXPLORATORY RESEARCH ON STUDENT MIDWIVES' EXPERIENCE OF GROUP WORK IN 2011. MY RESEARCH INTEREST ALSO INCLUDE: WOMEN'S AND MATERNAL HEALTH, WOMEN'S LED CARE, CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE, SAFETY, RISK AND NORMALITY IN CHILDBIRTH, INTERNATIONAL POLICIES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON HEALTH WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON MATERNAL AND CHILD CARE, SOCIO-ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL DETERMINANTS OF MATERNAL HEALTH. I RECENTLY COMPLETED A PHD STUDY WHICH EXPLORED SAFE MOTHERHOOD AS EXPERIENCED AND UNDERSTOOD BY WOMEN, MIDWIVES, AND TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS (TBAS) IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA. I HAVE UNDERTAKEN AN INTERNSHIP AT THE AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE (APHRC) BASED IN NAIROBI, KENYA WHICH CONDUCTS HIGH QUALITY POLICY-RELEVANT RESEARCH ON POPULATION, HEALTH, EDUCATION AND RELATED DEVELOPMENT ISSUES ACROSS AFRICA AS WELL AS DEVELOPING AFRICAN SCHOLARS THROUGH THEIR LINKS WITH THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS ACROSS AFRICA AND BEYOND. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND (NMBI) UNION FOR AFRICAN POPULATION STUDIES MATERNAL HEALTH STUDENT MIDWIVES' EXPERIENCES OF SUPPORT FOR LEARNING IN THE CLINICAL AREA PRIOR TO 2006 IRISH MIDWIFERY EDUCATION WAS AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE FORM OF POSTGRADUATE IN HOSPITAL TRAINING TO REGISTERED NURSES. SINCE 2006 MIDWIFERY EDUCATION CONTINUES TO BE OFFERED AS A POSTGRADUATE COURSE BUT IT IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A DIRECT ENTRY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN A NUMBER OF IRISH THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS. THIS STUDY EXPLORES POSTGRADUATE POST REGISTRATION STUDENT MIDWIVES' EXPERIENCES OF LEARNING SUPPORT IN THE CLINICAL AREA. A QUALITATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH WAS USED. LACK OF SUPPORT, LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, EMPLOYEE STATUS, SUPPORT STRATEGIES, WAYS OF LEARNING, AND THEORY-PRACTICE INTEGRATION WERE THE KEY FINDINGS. SELF FUNDED MSC MIDWIFERY EDUCATION AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF STUDENT MIDWIVES' EXPERIENCES OF POSTER PRESENTATION FOR LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT TRADITIONALLY, WRITTEN EXAMINATION AND CLINICAL PRACTICE ASSESSMENTS ARE THE MAIN WAYS OF DEEMING MIDWIFERY STUDENTS FIT AND COMPETENT FOR PRACTICE. A QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE APPROACH WAS USED TO EXPLORE MIDWIFERY STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES AND VIEWS ON THE USE OF GROUP POSTER PRESENTATION FOR LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT. SELF FUNDED SAFE MOTHERHOOD IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA AND ITS COMPLEXITIES THE CURRENT GLOBAL SAFE MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVE (SMI), BASED ON HEGEMONIC WESTERN INSTITUTIONAL ARTICULATIONS, LIMITS THE CAUSES OF MATERNAL MORTALITY (MM) TO LARGELY MEDICAL COMPLICATIONS. IN DOING SO, IT FAILS TO REACH BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE COMPLEXITIES SURROUNDING PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND POSTPARTUM PERIOD. CORRESPONDINGLY, STUDIES IN THIS AREA OFFER LIMITED SPACE FOR WOMEN'S VOICES AND THAT OF THEIR PRIMARY CARE PROVIDERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD. AT WORST IT IGNORES THE SOCIAL STRUCTURES THAT SHAPE THE EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN, MIDWIVES AND TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS (TBAS), WHILE THE VOICES OF THOSE IN DOMINANT POSITIONS OF POWER BECOME LOUDER. THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS ARE TO FURTHER MARGINALISE WOMEN AND THE ISSUES RELATING TO THEIR WELL-BEING IN PREGNANCY AND MOTHERHOOD. THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE CONCEPT OF SAFE MOTHERHOOD (SM) AS EXPERIENCED AND UNDERSTOOD BY WOMEN, MIDWIVES, TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS AND THE IGBO SOCIAL STRUCTURES THAT SHAPE THEIR EXPERIENCES AND UNDERSTANDING IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA. THE STUDY USED A POSTSTRUCTURAL FEMINIST THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK, AND, METHODOLOGICALLY, IT EMPLOYED A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH. THE FINDINGS REVEAL THE MANY LAYERS AND COMPLEXITIES THAT WOMEN AND PRACTITIONERS NEGOTIATE IN SEARCH OF WHAT THEY CONSIDER TO BE SM. THIS IS PRESENTED UNDER FOUR MAJOR THEMES: "HEALTHY MOTHERHOOD," "CONVENTIONAL MOTHERHOOD," "THE BELIEF SYSTEMS AND THE REALITY OF SM," AND "NEGOTIATING A PLURAL WORLD." FOR IGBO WOMEN, ACHIEVING SM IS NOT A LINEAR PROCESS, BUT IS DYNAMIC AND CYCLICAL, INVOLVING INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN TRADITION, MODERN VALUES AND PRACTICES, WITH A NOTABLE CONFLICT EXISTING BETWEEN PARADIGMS. THE FINDINGS EXTEND BEYOND THE USUAL MEDICAL DISCOURSE TO INCLUDE ISSUES THAT ADDRESS THE WIDER SOCIO-ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF WOMEN'S LIVES THAT AFFECT THEIR OVERALL WELL-BEING. PHD PROFESSOR JANE OHLMEYER ohlmeyerjane ERASMUS SMITH'S CHAIR OF MODERN HISTORY OHLMEYEJ HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) . IRELAND AND EMPIRE . IRISH HISTORY IN THE 17TH CENTURY - SOCIAL, POLITICAL . EARLY MODERN BRITISH HISTORY . THE "MILITARY REVOLUTION" OF EARLY MODERN EUROPE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF IRISH STUDIES AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION BRITISH SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES CHAIR, IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL CHAIR, IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES [IRCHSS]-DIGITAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES [DARIAH] DIGITIZATION COMMITTEE. IRISH MEMBER, DARIAH COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY AND MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FELLOW OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY; SINCE 2004, MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL ASSESSOR FOR THE ACADEMY OF FINLAND, HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL ASSESSOR FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL IRISH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY GROUP IRISH GAELIC LANDSCAPE GROUP IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY IRISH MEMBER FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, SPORTS AND TOURISM, MEMBER STATES EXPERT GROUP ON DIGITIZATION IRISH MEMBER, EUROPEAN STRATEGIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES (SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES WORKING GROUP) MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS FOR THE CALEDONIAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION NATIONAL ARCHIVES ADVISORY COMMITTEE PARNELL FELLOW, MAGDALENE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY TRUSTEE AND GUARDIAN OF MARSH'S LIBRARY, DUBLIN TRUSTEE OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND VISTING PROFESSOR, CENTRE FOR HISTORICAL STUDIES, JNU, DELHI HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY USSHER PROJECT IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT PILOT STUDY OF EARLY MODERN IRISH MERCANTILE NETWORKS (WITH PROFESSOR DAVID DICKSON) IIIS/PRTLI COLLABORATIVE PROJECT - INVOLVING COLLEAGUES FROM THE UNIVERSITIES ABERDEEN, EDINBURGH AND MAYNOOTH - ENTITLED 'FROM CIVIC MILITIA TO GARRISON TOWN: URBANISATION AND STATE-FORMATION IN SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, AND IRELAND C.1530 TO 1750' TCD UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COMMITTEE AWARD TO EMPLOY A RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO WORK FOR 4 MONTHS (MAY-AUGUST) NO DATA SMALL GRANTS AWARD TO FUND A CONFERENCE ON 'USSHER AND THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS' (ORGANISED BY DR ELIZABETHANNE BORAN, NOVEMBER 2004). IRCHSS PILOT STUDY OF IRISH CHANCERY RECORDS, 1627-1634 IRISH LEGAL HISTORY SOCIETY NO DATA RESEARCH AWARD FROM THE RESEARCH TO EMPLOY A RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO ENTER THE RECORDS OF THE DUBLIN STATUTE STAPLE INTO A TEXTUAL RETRIEVAL DATABASE. COMMITTEE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN / DUBLIN CITY CORPORATION TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ELEMENT OF 'HUMANITIES SERVING IRISH SOCIETY' FUNDED UNDER PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH IN THIRD LEVEL INSTITUTIONS (PRTLI CYCLE 4) - €10.78M FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB, SEE HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/LONGROOMHUB/] PRTLI 4/HEA 1641 DEPOSITIONS IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT (€247,000) FOR THE '1641 DEPOSITIONS PROJECT' (THIS HELPED TO LEVERAGE AN ADDITIONAL €650,000 FROM THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL), SEE HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/HISTORY/1641/ IRCHSS/AHRC DIGITAL HUMANITIES MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. ELIZABETH EVELYN OLDHAM oldhamelizabethevelyn ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EOLDHAM PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM, TEACHING AND LEARNING; PHILOSOPHIES OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY; TEACHING AND LEARNING (ESPECIALLY TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS) WITH ICTS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND COMPUTATIONAL THINKING IN SCHOOL CURRICULA SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE COMPUTER EDUCATION SOCIETY OF IRELAND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY IRISH MATHEMATICS TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION REVIEWER FOR IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES REVIEWER FOR THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF TEACHER EDUCATION COMPARATIVE EDUCATION COMPUTER EDUCATION/LITERACY EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY ELEMENTARY/SECONDARY EDUCATION MATHEMATICS EDUCATION PRECOLLEGIATE EDUCATION--SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION THE EFFECT OF CALCULATOR USE ON MATHEMATICS IN SCHOOLS AND IN CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF INTRODUCING CALCULATORS INTO THE JUNIOR CYCLE MATHEMATICS SYLLABUS AND THE JUNIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE AN EXPLORATION OF MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY USING NARRATIVE AS A TOOL (MINT) THE PROJECT INVOLVES INVESTIGATING THE MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY OF COHORTS OF STUDENT TEACHERS AND OTHERS WHO ARE, WILL BE, OR MAY BE INVOLVED IN MATHEMATICS TEACHING. THE CHIEF AIM IS TO PROPOSE AN EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE PROTOCOL BY WHICH THIRD LEVEL MATHEMATICS EDUCATORS CAN EXPLORE THE MATHEMATICAL IDENTITIES OF THEIR STUDENTS, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF MATHEMATICS. THE PROJECT IS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN MATHEMATICS EDUCATORS AT ST. PATRICK'S COLLEGE (DRUMCONDRA), STRANMILLIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE (BELFAST), TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, THE UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK, AND THE INSTITUTE OF ART, DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY (DUN LAOGHAIRE). A COLLEAGUE FROM NUI GALWAY IS ACTING AS A CONSULTANT. SCOTENS (STANDING CONFERENCE ON TEACHER EDUCATION NORTH AND SOUTH) THE PROGRAMMING STUDIO AFTER DECADES IN WHICH THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE FOCUS ON THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF PROGRAMMING IN SCHOOLS, THE TOPIC HAS RETURNED TO PROMINENCE. IN SOME COUNTRIES, ATTEMPTS ARE BEING MADE TO BALANCE THE TEACHING OF ICT SKILLS, AND/OR USING ICT IN TEACHING AND LEARNING, BY PROVIDING CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN TO PROGRAM AND TO DEVELOP THEIR COMPUTATIONAL THINKING SKILLS. THIS IS THE CASE IN BOTH NORTHERN IRELAND AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. HOWEVER, IN BOTH JURISDICTIONS, THERE ARE CONCERNS ABOUT THE READINESS OF TEACHERS TO TEACH THE RELEVANT COURSES SO THAT STUDENTS REACH AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL OF SKILL AND UNDERSTANDING FOR NATIONAL CERTIFICATION. "THE PROGRAMMING STUDIO," A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT BETWEEN QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST AND TRINITY COLLEGE,ADDRESSES THIS ISSUE. THE CHIEF AIMS OF THE PROJECT ARE TO DOCUMENT THE LEVELS OF PROGRAMMING EXPERTISE AND READINESS AMONG TEACHERS LIKELY TO BE INTERESTED IN TEACHING PROGRAMMING COURSES, AND TO ALLOW A PILOT GROUP OF TEACHERS TO EXPERIENCE PROGRAMMING AS A "DIGITAL LITERACY" BY MASTERING APPROPRIATE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) THROUGH GAMES-BASED LEARNING. SCOTENS (STANDING CONFERENCE ON TEACHER EDUCATION NORTH AND SOUTH) CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. OSAMA ELAMIN OMER omerosamaelamin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN RESTORATIVE DENTI OMERO DENTAL SCIENCE CLINICAL DENTAL MATERIALS SCIENCE RESTORATIVE DENTAL ONCOLOGY USE OF DENTAL IMPLANTS IN THE REHABILITAION OF THE HEAD AND NECK CANCER PTIENTS ROOT CANAL MORPHOLOGY DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF IMPLANT DENTISTRY BRITISH SOCIETY OF RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY DENTAL MATERIALS GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) IMPLANTOLOGY GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MAXILLOFACIAL REHABILITATION (ISMR) IRISH ENDODONTIC SOCIETY IRISH HEALTH INFORMATICS SOCIETY PROSTHODONTIC SOCIETY OF IRELAND DR. JAN ONDREJ ondrejjan RESEARCH FELLOW ONDREJJ COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CZECH ENGLISH GERMAN CROWD SIMULATION INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS VIRTUAL REALITY VISUALIZATION DR. HANNES OPELZ opelzhannes ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OPELZH FRENCH DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 18TH CENTURY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY 18TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY WRITING CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY CRITICAL THEORY DECONSTRUCTION GEORGES BATAILLE JACQUES DERRIDA JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU MARTIN HEIDEGGER MAURICE BLANCHOT MIMESIS MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM MYTH STUDIES PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE ROMANTICISM SCIENCE FICTION FILM THEORY OF TRAGEDY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. CONNY OPITZ opitzconny ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COOPITZ RUSSIAN MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREA OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO ADULT MULTILINGUAL DEVELOPMENT. IN RELATION TO MY TEACHING PRACTICE, I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN COLLABORATIVE, CO-CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING. DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 POLISH RUSSIAN ENGLISH GERMAN CO-EDITOR (WITH NEIL ROBINSON) OF IRISH SLAVONIC STUDIES 24 GUEST EDITOR (WITH ESTHER DE LEEUW AND DOROTA LUBI&#324;SKA) OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM. SPECIAL ISSUE 17(6) ON "DYNAMICS OF FIRST LANGUAGE ATTRITION ACROSS THE LIFESPAN" IAM (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MULTILINGUALISM) IRAAL (IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS); MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2004 TO DATE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (IARCEES, FORMERLY IAREES): VICE PRESIDENT 2014/15; WEBMASTER 2007 TO DATE; MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY AND TREASURER 2001-2004 ITIA (IRISH TRANSLATORS' AND INTERPRETERS' ASSOCIATION; MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2000-2003 MANUSCRIPT REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AND BILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE LEARNING, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BILINGUALISM MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, IRISH TRANSLATORS' AND INTERPRETERS' ASSOCIATION (IRAAL) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, ONE VOICE FOR LANGUAGES (OVFL) MEMBER OF NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS (IRAAL) MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY AND TREASURER, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (IARCEES) OVFL (ONE VOICE FOR LANGUAGES) SEEFA (SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN FOLKLORE ASSOCIATION) VICE-PRESIDENT, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (IARCEES) WEBMASTER, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (IARCEES) COMPLEXITY THEORY DYNAMIC SYSTEMS THEORY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE ATTRITION/MAINTENANCE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT MIGRATION, MULTILINGUALISM, MULTICULTURALISM MINORITY LANGUAGES RUSSIAN CULTURE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE L1 ATTRITION AND L2 ACQUISITION - THE IMPACT OF L2 PROFICIENCY ON L1 THE PROJECT EXPLORES THE COGNITIVE PROCESSES INVOLVED IN MAINTAINING ONE'S FIRST LANGUAGE IN A SECOND LANGUAGE SETTING AND SEEKS TO ESTABLISH WHETHER AND IN WHAT RESPECTS THE L1 OF ADULT BILINGUALS UNDERGOES ATTRITION AND WHETHER THERE IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF L2 PROFICIENCY AND THE LEVEL OF MAINTENANCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE. CURRENT THEORY SUGGESTS THAT THE SIMULTANEOUS MAINTENANCE OF SEVERAL LANGUAGES BY A BILINGUAL MAY BE SUBJECT TO TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN THOSE LANGUAGES, AND THAT CHANGES IN ONE LANGUAGE SYSTEM MAY BRING WITH THEM CHANGES IN THE OTHER(S). THE RESEARCH DESIGN ENTAILS THE ELICITATION OF WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST DATA FROM GERMAN NATIVE SPEAKER SUBJECTS LIVING IN IRELAND IN BOTH THEIR MOTHER TONGUE AND ENGLISH. THE SUBJECTS' PROFICIENCY LEVELS IN BOTH LANGUAGES WILL BE CORRELATED, AND THE INCIDENCE OF FIRST LANGUAGE ATTRITION ESTABLISHED. IT IS HYPOTHESIZED THAT SUBJECTS WITH A HIGHER LEVEL OF L2 PROFICIENCY ARE MORE LIKELY TO SHOW SIGNS OF L1 ATTRITION. DEVELOPING L2 PROFICIENCY AND LEARNER AUTONOMY IN AB INITIO STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN PURPOSE OF RESEARCH: THE STUDY HAS TWO MAIN INTERESTS: A) THE DEVELOPMENT OF AB INITIO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, AND B) OF LANGUAGE-LEARNER AUTONOMY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC STUDIES AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. IN RELATION TO THE FIRST INTEREST, THE RESEARCH FOCUSES ON A DIARY TASK ROUTINELY COMPLETED BY ALL, NOT JUST PARTICIPATING, FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS ON A WEEKLY BASIS. IN RELATION TO THE SECOND INTEREST, IT INVESTIGATES STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENT WITH TECHNOLOGY, AGAIN MAINLY THROUGH ASSIGNMENTS SET FOR ALL STUDENTS WHICH ENTAIL OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF-GUIDED LEARNING AND THUS THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE-LEARNER AUTONOMY. JUSTIFICATION FOR THE RESEARCH: THE WEEKLY DIARY TASK PRESENTS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO TRACE STUDENTS' LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT FROM AB INITIO OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME (ONE ACADEMIC YEAR = FIVE MONTHS/17 TEACHING WEEKS IN PHASE I; SOME LEARNERS WILL BE FOLLOWED FOR THE DURATION OF THEIR 4-YEAR DEGREE). IT ALLOWS US TO BUILD A DENSE LONGITUDINAL CORPUS OF WRITTEN STUDENT PRODUCTIONS, WHICH WILL BE VERY VALUABLE IN IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL AND CROSS-INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS. THIS PART OF THE PROJECT ADDRESSES THE DEARTH OF LONGITUDINAL WRITTEN CORPORA IN STUDIES OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (SLA), PARTICULARLY AT THE EARLY STAGES OF SLA. IT TAKES ITS IMPETUS FROM RECENT THEORETICAL ADVANCES WHICH CONCEPTUALISE LANGUAGE AS A COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEM TO BE STUDIED HOLISTICALLY AND WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DEVELOPMENT AND EMERGENT PROPERTIES, SUCH AS WILL BE DISCERNABLE FROM THE DATA COLLECTED DURING THIS PROJECT. IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL AND MORE GENERAL DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS IS ALSO RELEVANT FOR POTENTIAL PEDAGOGICAL INTERVENTION IN FUTURE YEARS. THE SECOND PART OF THE PROJECT IS DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNER AUTONOMY, AND IS ALSO OF THEORETICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL INTEREST. BY INVESTIGATING HOW AB INITIO LEARNERS USE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT THEIR LEARNING, THE PROJECT CONTRIBUTES TO THE BODY OF RESEARCH ON COMPUTER-MEDIATED/ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING, ON LEARNER AUTONOMY AND LIFELONG LEARNING. LANGUAGE ASSISTANTS AND THEIR MULTILINGUAL DEVELOPMENT - A COMPLEX SYSTEMS STUDY THE PROJECT STUDIES THE LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT OF FOUR LANGUAGE ASSISTANTS HOLISTICALLY ACROSS THE RANGE OF THEIR LANGUAGES OVER A PERIOD OF TWO YEARS. THE PARTICIPANTS INTERACT WITH ONE ANOTHER IN VARIOUS WAYS AS COLLEAGUES IN THE WORKPLACE AND INTERLOCUTORS/FACILITATORS IN SEVERAL OF THE LANGUAGES UNDER INVESTIGATION. <BR> THE PROJECT AIMS TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1) GIVEN THAT LANGUAGE ASSISTANTS ARE PROFESSIONAL USERS OF THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE AND ARE EMPLOYED TO TEACH THEIR NATIVE LANGUAGE, TO WHAT EXTENT DOES THAT LANGUAGE CHANGE IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT? 2) AGAINST THIS BACKGROUND, TO WHAT EXTENT ARE LANGUAGE ASSISTANTS ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM BEING PLACED IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT AND MAKE GAINS IN ACQUIRING THE LANGUAGE OF THE HOST COUNTRY? 3) WHAT CHANGES DO THEY EXPERIENCE IN OTHER LANGUAGES? 4) WHAT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LANGUAGES CAN BE DISCERNED AS THE MULTILINGUAL SYSTEM DEVELOPS? MULTILINGUAL IDENTITIES AND MIGRATION THE PROJECT STUDIES THE CHANGING MULTILINGUAL IDENTITIES OF ADULT MIGRANTS. IT DRAWS ON SOCIOLINGUISTIC DATA COLLECTED WITH THE LANGUAGE ATTRITION TEST BATTERY, LATB, PRIMARILY SIX UNPUBLISHED PHD THESES COMPLETED DURING THE FIRST STAGE OF THE GRADUATE NETWORK OF FIRST LANGUAGE ATTRITION. TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH INCENTIVE SCHEME AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. TREVOR ORR orrtrevor ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TORR CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN . RISK AND RELIABILITY IN GEOTECHNICS . APPLICATIONS OF PROBABILISTIC AND STATISTICAL METHODS IN GEOTECHNICS . LIMIT STATE DESIGN AND GEOTECHNICAL CODES . DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN GEOTECHNICAL STANDARDS INCLUDING EUROCODE 7 . TUNNELLING AND MICROTUNNELLING . PROPERTIES AND BEHAVIOUR OF IRISH SOILS . PROPERTIES AND STABILITY OF PEAT . PROBLEMS DUE TO PYRITIC FILL . GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN ADVISOR FOR ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS ON THE GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF VARIOUS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN DUBLIN AND ELSEWHERE IN IRELAND. RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE: - INVESTIGATION OF THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE OF A CULVERT UNDER A ROAD EMBANKMENT - THE DESIGN OF THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE NEW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS IN DUBLIN PORT - THE DESIGN OF FOUNDATIONS FOR A BUILDING WITH A DEEP BASEMENT IN RAHENY - THE DETERMINATION OF THE CAUSE OF CRACKS IN BUILDINGS IN SWORDS, - THE PREPARATION OF A REPORT ON THE GROUND CONDITIONS IN DUBLIN FOR THE UNDERGROUND PART OF THE LUAS PROJECT - ADVISOR TO AN BORD PLEANALA ON THE STABILITY OF THE GROUND FOR THE CORRIB GAS TERMINAL, CO. MAYO. CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE FOR EUROPEAN YOUNG GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS CONFERENCE, HELD IN DUBLIN IN 2002. CONVENOR OF CEN TC250/SC7 EVOLUTION GROUP 3: MODEL SOLUTIONS COST ACTION C7 - SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION: . IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON EU COST ACTION COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING OCCURRENCE OF, AND DESIGN FOR, SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION IN URBAN CIVIL ENGINEERING. EUROCODE 7, GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN: . 1981 TO 1994 FIRST A MEMBER AND THEN, FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS, SECRETARY OF THE DRAFTING PANEL FOR EUROCODE 7, THE NEW EUROPEAN STANDARD FOR GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN. . 1997 TO 1998 IRISH MEMBER AND SECRETARY OF WORKING GROUP 1 OF CEN TECHNICAL COMMITTEE 250/SC7 FOR THE CONVERSION OF THE PRESENT PRE-STANDARD VERSION OF EUROCODE 7 INTO A FULL EUROPEAN STANDARD. . SINCE 1998 MEMBER OF THE ISSMFE COMMITTEE ON LIMIT STATE DESIGN IN GEOTECHNICS. . CHAIR OF EUROPEAN COMMITTEE ON APPLICATION OF EUROCODE 7 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE CIVIL ENGINEERING DIPLOMA AND CERTIFICATE COURSES AT DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND: . FOUNDER MEMBER AND CURRENTLY A COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND INVITED PANELIST AT INTERNATIONAL GEOTECHNICAL CONFERENCE IN OSAKA, JAPAN MEMBER OF IRISH NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ACADEMIC AWARDS' ACCREDITATION PANEL FOR THE NEW CIVIL ENGINEERING DEGREE COURSE AT THE CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MEMBER OF THE ICE JOURNAL GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING EDITORIAL ADVISORY PANEL MEMBER OF THE ICE JOURNAL GEOTECHNIQUE EDITORIAL ADVISORY PANEL MEMBER OF THE ICE JOURNALS AWARDS PANEL ORGANISED EUROPEAN YOUNG GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERS CONFERENCE IN TCD PRESENTED BRITISH GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY'S TOURING LECTURE FOR 2002. PRESENTED FIRST PRESTIGE LECTURE OF 2014 AT THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, LONDON WHICH WAS BASED ON MY CRAMPTON PRIZE AWARD WINNING PAPER: "HOW EUROCODE 7 HAS AFFECTED GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN: A REVIEW" PUBLISHED IN THE JOURNAL PROC. ICE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING IN DECEMBER 2012 PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EUROCODE 7" AT THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEW GENERATION DESIGN CODES FOR GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING PRACTICE, TAIPEI, TAIWAN PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "EUROCODE 7 - TEACHING STUDENTS" TO THE MEETING OF TEACHERS OF GEOTECHNICAL SUBJECTS, QUEENS UNIVERSITY, BELFAST PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "EUROCODE 7 - THE GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN CODE OF THE FUTURE" TO THE MALAYSIAN INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, KULALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "EUROCODE 7 - THE GEOTECHNICAL DESIGN CODE OF THE FUTURE" TO THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "EUROCODE 7 AND GEOTECHNICAL MODELS" AT VON DER FORSHUNG ZUR PRAXIS, SYMPOSIUM ANLASSICH DES 80, GEBURTSTAGS VON PROF. U. SMOLTCZYK, STUTTGART, GERMANY PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "EUROCODE 7 AND PILE DESIGN IN IRELAND AND THE UK" AT THE BALTIC PILING DAYS CONFERENCE, TALLINN, ESTONIA PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "EUROCODE 7, CHARACTERISTIC VALUES AND NEW GEOTECHNICAL STANDARDS" AT THE ILF SEMINAR ON EUROCODE 7, INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "GEOTECHNICAL EDUCATION AND EUROCODE 7", 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GEOTECHNICAL EDUCATION, CONSTANTZA, ROMANIA PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "HARMONIZATION OF GEOTECHNICAL WITH STRUCTURAL DESIGN CODES IN EUROPE" TO THE ASIAN CIVIL ENGINEERING COORDINATING COUNCIL WORKSHOP ON HARMONIZATION OF DESIGN CODES IN THE ASIAN REGION, TAIPEI, TAIWAN, PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE "WHAT LEARNING OUTCOMES CAN BE ACHIEVED BY INCORPORATING CASE HISTORIES IN GEOTECHNICAL COURSES?" AT THE XV EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOIL MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING, ATHENS, GREECE PRESENTED INVITED LECTURE ON "GROUND VIBRATIONS AND THE DUBLIN PORT TUNNEL" TO SWEDISH GEOTECHNICAL SOCIETY, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN PRESENTED THEME LECTURE AT THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FOUNDATION DESIGN CODES IN KAMAKURA, JAPAN, MARCH, 2002 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOCIETY: . CURRENTLY CHAIRMAN OF THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOCIETY OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND. REVIEWER OF PAPERS FOR THE JOURNAL, GEOTECHNIQUE THE BRITISH GEOTECHNICAL ASSOCIATION THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, LONDON THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOCIETY OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND: . CHAIR SINCE 2001 VISITING PROFESSOR AT WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, POLAND IN 2010 ON A CO-FUNDED PROJECT FOR THE ENHANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING CAPACITY OF UNIVERSITIES WITHIN THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND FRAMEWORK DRILLING TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, POLLUTION CONTROL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, INTERACTIONS GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING GEOGRAPHY OF AGRICULTURE GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING GEOTECHNICS MINING TECHNOLOGIES SOIL MECHANICS SOIL SCIENCES SOIL SCIENCES, CONSERVATION SOIL SCIENCES, EROSION SOIL SCIENCES, SOIL GENESIS ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, GEOTECHNICS; OTHER ENGINEERING INVESTIGATION OF VIBRATIONS DUE TO TUNNEL BORING NISHIMATSU CONSTRUCTION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DAVID ORR orrdavid CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER IN PAEDIATRICS DORR SURGERY DISCIPLINE OF ANATOMY LEVEL 1 BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, 152-160 PEARSE ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ADRENALINE INFILTRATION BURN EPINEPHRINE PAEDIATRIC SUBCUTANEOUS THICKNESS SKIN-GRAFTS DR. MELANIE OTTO ottomelanie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OTTOM ENGLISH CARIBBEAN LITERATURE, LITERATURES OF THE AMERICAS, SETTLER CULTURES SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN EXTERNAL ASSESSOR, APPOINTMENT COMMITTEE FOR A POST IN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE, MAYNOOTH INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTER-AMERICAN STUDIES 20TH CENTURY NEW ZEALAND AND CARIBBEAN WRITING POSTCOLONIALITY AND GLOBALIZATION NO DATA LAFCADIO HEARN'S CREOLE POETICS NO DATA THE SHORT FICTION OF KERI HULME CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR PETER OWEN owenpeter FELLOW EMERITUS POWEN FELLOWS EMERITII CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: (A) INVESTIGATION OF THE IRON/HAEM UPTAKE IN THE VETERINARY PATHOGENS STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSPECIES EQUI AND STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSPECIES ZOOEPIDEMICUS WITH EMPHASIS ON THE ROLE OF HAEM UPTAKE IN VIRULENCE AND THE MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND PROTECTIVE POTENTIAL OF THE VARIOUS HAEM UPTAKE COMPONENTS. (B) MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE FIBRINOGEN-BINDING PROTEIN OF THE EQUINE PATHOGEN STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI SUBSPECIES EQUI, ITS LIGAND-BINDING PROPERTIES, ROLE IN VIRULENCE AND VACCINOGENIC POTENTIAL. (C) FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF ANTIGEN 43 (AG43), A MAJOR PHASE-VARIABLE SURFACE ANTIGEN OF ENTEROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI. DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY (ASM) SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY (SGM) INFECTIOUS DISEASES/AGENTS MEMBRANE STRUCTURE/FUNCTION MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PROTEINS AND MACROMOLECULES STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, DETERMINATION, FUNCTION VACCINES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. RAMESH BABU PADAMATI padamatirameshbabu SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW BABUP PHYSICS RESEARCH INTERESTS: NANOCOMPOSITES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS, NANOCLAYS, NANOTUBES AND COMPOSITES, QUANTUM DOT POLYMER COMPOSITES, SMART POLYMERS, ELECTRO SPINNING, BIO-DEGARDABLE POLYMERS, SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION POLYMERS, TEXTILE CHEMICALS AND MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. JONGWOOK PAK pakjongwook ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PAKJ BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES DR. PAK'S PRIMARY INTEREST LIES IN ENHANCING THE IMPLEMENTATION EFFECTIVENESS OF STRATEGY AND INNOVATION. POINTING OUT ORGANIZATIONAL INITIATIVES OFTEN FAIL, HE MAINTAINS THAT PROPERLY MANAGING THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS IS, IF NOT MORE, AS CRUCIAL FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS AS FORMULATING THE RIGHT STRATEGY. AND AT THE HEART OF IT ARE TRANSFORMING HUMAN RESOURCES AND LEADING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE. RESEARCH KEYWORDS ARE: STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION, AND TECHNOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES IN MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS TRINITY BUSINESS SCHOOL ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 THE ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT THE KOREAN ACADEMIC SOCIETY OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT DR. EVA PALSSON MCDERMOTT palssonmcdermotteva RESEARCH FELLOW PALSSONE BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT BIOCHEMISTRY BLDG COLLEGE 01-8961000 SWEDISH ENGLISH FRENCH IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. VITALY PANOV panovvitaly RESEARCH FELLOW VPANOV SCHOOL OFFICE - ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL LIQUID CRYSTAL SOCIETY APPLIED PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ELECTRO-OPTICS ELECTRONIC MATERIALS ELECTRONIC/OPTICAL MATERIALS ELECTRONICS EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS LIQUID CRYSTALS METROLOGY NANOTECHNOLOGY NOVEL DEVICE CONCEPTS OPTICS PHYSICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT THIN FILM, TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MS. SUSAN PARKES parkessusan FELLOW EMERITUS SPARKES EDUCATION EDUCATION COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ANDREI PARNACHEV parnachevandrei ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PARNACHA PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS; STRONGLY INTERACTING QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES IN CONDENSED MATTER AND PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY; GAUGE/GRAVITY DUALITY AND OTHER NON-PERTURBATIVE METHODS IN QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES; CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES AND RENORMALIZATION GROUP FLOWS; SUPERSYMMETRIC FIELD THEORIES; STRING THEORY. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FIELD THEORY (PHYSICS) GAUGE/GRAVITY DUALITY MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS PARTICLE PHYSICS, FIELDS THEORY QUANTUM FIELD THEORY STRING THEORY THEORETICAL PHYSICS THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS PHYSICS MATHEMATICS PROFESSOR JOHN ADRIAN PARNELL parnelljohnadrian PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC BOTANY JPARNELL BOTANY HIGHER PLANT TAXONOMY AND FLORISTICS; BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION. MY BASE OF BOTANICAL EXPERIENCE IS EUROPEAN BUT SINCE COMING TO TCD I HAVE FOCUSSED MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ON THE PALAEOTROPICS. I HAVE CO-AUTHORED/EDITED A NUMBER OF BOOKS: THESE INCLUDE, A REVISED VERSION OF THE STANDARD IRISH FLORA 'AN IRISH FLORA' WITH DAVID WEBB; A NEW ACCOUNT OF THE FLORA OF COUNTY DUBLIN - A PROJECT RUN BY THE DUBLIN NATURALISTS FIELD CLUB; A THIRD, WITH TREVOR HODKINSON, IS PUBLISHED BY THE SYSTEMATICS ASSOCIATION AND DEALS WITH THE PROBLEM OF SPECIES-RICH GROUPS AND THE TREE OF LIFE; THE PENULTIMATE, ALSO PUBLISHED BY THE SYSTEMATICS ASSOCIATION AND WITH A NUMBER OF AUTHORS FROM TCD, IS ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND SYSTEMATICS; FINALLY, THE NEWEST EDITION OF THE IRISH FLORA 'WEBB'S AN IRISH FLORA' IS EXPECTED TO BE IN BOOKSHOPS THIS NOVEMBER. MOST OF MY PALEOTROPICAL WORK HAS CONCENTRATED ON REVISIONS FOR THE FLORA OF THAILAND; RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORK COVERS THE LENTIBULARIACEAE AND OROBANCHACEAE OF THAT COUNTRY. I AM AN EDITOR OF THE FLORA OF THAILAND AND VARIOUS JOURNALS INCLUDING NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY AND THAI FOREST BULLETIN, HAVE BROUGHT IN CA. €1,650,000 IN RESEARCH FUNDING AND PUBLISHED OVER 150 PEER REVIEWED PAPERS. BOTANY DEPARTMENT BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF THE BRITISH ISLES COLLECTION MANAGERS OF MAJOR HERBARIA IN THE BRITISH ISLES COMMITTEE EDITOR FLORA OF THAILAND EDITOR THAI FOREST BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PLANT TAXONOMISTS LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON NATIONAL CONTACT MEMBER FOR THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY NETWORK (COMMITTEE MEMBER 1995-1997) NATIONAL DELEGATE AND INVITED SPEAKER TO EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION ON TROPICAL FOREST BIODIVERSITY NATIONAL DELEGATE ON RESEARCH PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT PANEL FOR THE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRAMME OF THE IV FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME OF THE E.U. NATIONAL DELEGATE ON RESEARCH PROPOSAL ASSESSMENT PANEL FOR THE CO-OPERATION WITH THIRD COUNTRIES AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS PROGRAMME OF THE IV FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME OF THE E.U. NATIONAL DELEGATE TO THE E.C. ON TROPICAL FORESTS NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE ON EUROBIO ORGANISER (WITH T. HODKINSON & S. WALDREN) OF FOURTH BIENNIAL MEETING OF THE SYSTEMATICS ASSOCIATION ORGANISER (WITH T. HODKINSON, S. WALDREN & M. JONES) OF SYSTEMATICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE MEETING ORGANISER OF 13TH INTERNATIONAL FLORA OF THAILAND MEETING SUBJECT EDITOR NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY U.K. SYSTEMATICS FORUM. COLLECTION MANAGERS OF MAJOR HERBARIA IN THE BRITISH ISLES' COMMITTEE BIODIVERSITY BOTANY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY FLORA OF THAILAND PLANT SCIENCES PLANT SYSTEMATICS PLANT TAXONOMY FINISHING THE ACCOUNT OF THE CLUSIACEAE AND HYPERICACEAE OF THAILAND THIS PROJECT WILL WILL FACILITATE THE FINAL STAGE OF THE PRODUCTION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE PLANT FAMILIES CLUSIACEAE AND HYPERICAEAE FOR THE FLORA OF THAILAND. ROYAL FOREST DEPARTMENT, BANGKOK FINISHING THE ACCOUNT OF THE VITACEAE OF THAILAND THIS PROJECT WILL WILL FACILITATE THE FINAL STAGE OF THE PRODUCTION OF THE ACCOUNT OF THE PLANT FAMILY VITACEAE FOR THE FLORA OF THAILAND. ROYAL FOREST DEPARTMENT, BANGKOK REVISION OF EMBELLIA (PRIMULACEAE) IN MAINLAND SE ASIA THIS PROJECT AIMS TO TEST THE MONOPHYLLY OF EMBELIA, TEST, REDEFINE AND INVESTIGATE THE PHYLOGENY OF THE SUBGENERA, STUDY THE SUBGENUS EUEMBELIA AND SPLIT IT INTO SECTIONS AND WRITE A COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THIS SUBGENUS. WEBB STUDENTSHIP DIGITISATION OF NON-LATIN AMERICAN, NON-AFRICAN TYPE SPECIMENS AND SELECTED HISTORICAL SPECIMENS IN THE HERBARIUM OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD) THIS PROJECT WILL DIGITISE AND DATABASE A LARGE NUMBER OF PLANT SPECIMENS, MAINLY FROM AUSTRALIA AND SE ASIA, IN THE TCD HERBARIUM. IT WILL SUPPLEMENT THE PROJECTS ALREADY UNDERTAKEN WHICH DIGITISED MATERIAL FROM LATIN AMERICA AND AFRICA. MELLON FOUNDATION PHYLOGENETICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF CAMELLIA (THEACEAE) IN INDO-CHINA CAMELLIA IS A LARGE GENUS THAT INCLUDES TEA, CAMELLIAS AND TEA-OIL TREES. APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD OF ALL KNOWN CAMELLIA SPECIES, HALF OF WHICH ARE ENDEMIC, OCCUR IN THE INDO-CHINA PENINSULA. MANY NEW SPECIES OF CAMELLIA ARE STILL BEING DESCRIBED FROM THIS AREA, SUGGESTING THAT IT IS A NEW BIODIVERSITY HOT SPOT OF CAMELLIA. ALMOST NO WORK, HOWEVER, HAS FOCUSED ON THE PHYLOGENETICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF CAMELLIA IN THIS AREA. IN THIS PROJECT, WE WILL ADDRESS THESE ISSUES USING MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR APPROACHES. CHINESE GOVERNMENT VIA A CSC STUDENSHIP EARLY BOTANICAL BOOKS IN IRISH LIBRARIES AND THEIR READERS A STUDY OF THE RICH COLLECTION OF PRE-LINNAEAN BOTANICAL TEXTS IN IRISH (PRINCIPALLY DUBLIN) LIBRARIES IN THE PERIOD 1680-1775 AND THE USE WHICH LATE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY READERS AND WRITERS ON BOTANY IN IRELAND IN THE PERIOD 1680-1775 MADE OF THESE BOOKS. IMAGING, DATABASING AND INCREASING ACCESS TO TWO EXTREMELY RARE BOTANICAL WORKS HELD IN THE HERBARIUM OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (TCD) IMAGING AND DATABASING OF BOTANICAL WORKS. MELLON FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. DAVID LESLIE PARRIS parrisdavidleslie FELLOW EMERITUS DPARRIS FRENCH DEPT. OF FRENCH 4107 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN RUSSIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ARABIC DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH FOUNDING MEMBER AND TWICE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN STUDIES IN IRELAND MEMBER OF BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN STUDIES MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE D'ÉTUDES QUÉBÉCOISES MEMBER OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DE C. F. RAMUZ MEMBER OF THE SOCIÉTÉ D'ÉTUDE DE LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE DU XXE SIÈCLE (SELF) MEMBER OF THE ASSOCATION D'ÉTUDES FRANÇAISES ET FRANCOPHONES D'IRLANDE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY WRITING CANADIAN AND SWISS LITERATURE FRENCH CANADIAN LITERATURE LINGUISTICS NARRATIVE THEORY TRANSLATION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR EVE VERONICA PATTEN patteneveveronica PROFESSOR EPATTEN ENGLISH CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) OSCAR WILDE CENTRE MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE; NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRISH CULTURAL AND CIVIC HISTORY, AND IN PARTICULAR THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF DUBLIN; THE WRITINGS OF SAMUEL FERGUSON, WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON, EMILY LAWLESS; THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF IRISH SCIENCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; YEATS THE THE LITERARY REVIVAL; MODERN IRISH STUDIES AND CULTURAL THEORY; CONTEMPORARY IRISH FICTION AND THE MODERN IRISH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL. OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS COVER TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH CULTURAL HISTORY AND FICTION. SPECIFIC INTERESTS IN THE WAR-RELATED AND TRAVEL WRITINGS OF REBECCA WEST AND OLIVIA MANNING; CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE AREA OF BRITISH MODERNIST WRITERS AND IRELAND. IRISH AND BRITISH BOOK AND PUBLISHING HISTORY (C19TH AND 20TH). SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ROMANIAN FRENCH GERMAN MEMBER OF IASIL (INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE). MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ENGLISH 19TH CENTURY IRISH CULTURAL HISTORY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY CRITICAL THEORY, 20TH CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH FICTION IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA VICTORIAN STUDIES, POPULAR FICTION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. CHARLES HUBERT PATTERSON pattersoncharleshubert ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CPTTRSON PHYSICS ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE THEORY CODE DEVELOPMENT OPTICS OF SEMICONDUCTOR SURFACES AND INTERFACES COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE MANY-BODY THEORY OF ELECTRONS IN SOLIDS ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF MAGNETIC MATERIALS MY RESEARCH CONSISTS OF DEVELOPING AND APPLYING ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE METHODS TO PROBLEMS IN MOLECULAR, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE THEORY IS NOW A RELATIVELY MATURE FIELD AND DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR MANY APPLICATIONS. MORE ACCURATE MANY BODY METHODS, BASED ON ELECTRON GREEN'S FUNCTIONS, AND ELECTRON-HOLE POLARIZATION PROPAGATORS YIELD THE MOST ACCURATE PREDICTIONS OF EXCITED STATE PROPERTIES (EXCITONS) OF MOLECULES AND CONDENSED MATTER. THE EXCITON CODE PERFORMS SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD HARTREE-FOCK CALCULATIONS AS WELL AS GW (GREEN'S FUNCTION) AND BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION CALCULATIONS. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CODES DIVIDE ROUGHLY INTO THOSE WHICH REPRESENT ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTIONS USING PLANE WAVES AND THOSE WHICH USE LOCAL ORBITALS. THE FORMER ARE BEST SUITED TO CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH LIMITED NUMBERS OF ATOMS PER UNIT CELL, THE LATTER HAVE MANY ADVANTAGES FOR MOLECULES, ESPECIALLY LARGE MOLECULES AND SYSTEMS WITH LITTLE OR NO SYMMETRY. ACCURATE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE METHODS SUCH AS THE GW GREEN'S FUNCTION METHOD AND BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION POLARIZATION PROPAGATOR METHOD HAVE APPLICATIONS IN OPTICAL EXCITATIONS OF BIOMOLECULES, PHOTOVOLTAICS AND PHOTOCATALYSTS FOR LIGHT HARVESTING AND CHEMICAL REACTION PROMOTION SUCH AS ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXCITON CODE WAS BEGUN WITH TWO GRADUATE STUDENTS, DRS. CONOR HOGAN AND SVJETLANA GALAMIC-MULAOMEROVIC, OVER A DECADE AGO. THAT FIRST PHASE OF CODE DEVELOPMENT WAS BASED ON A PLANE WAVE REPRESENTATION OF THE COULOMB POTENTIAL, WHICH IS STRAIGHTFORWARD TO CODE. THE ORIGINAL EXCITON CODE RESULTED IN TWO PUBLICATIONS IN PHYSICAL REVIEW B IN 2005. BASED ON EXPERIENCE GAINED IN DEVELOPING THE FIRST EXCITON CODE, I BEGAN DEVELOPING AN ENTIRELY NEW VERSION OF THE CODE DURING A SABBATICAL YEAR SPENT AT THE QUANTUM THEORY PROJECT, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, HOSTED BY PROF. RODNEY BARTLETT. THE NEW CODE EMPLOYS THE EWALD REPRESENTATION OF THE COULOMB POTENTIAL FOR PERIODIC SYSTEMS. IT MAKES FULL USE OF POINT, LAYER OR SPACE GROUP SYMMETRIES IN REAL AND RECIPROCAL SPACE AS WELL AS TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY IN RECIPROCAL SPACE. SYMMETRY IS ALSO USED TO TRANSFORM THE GAUSSIAN ATOMIC ORBITAL BASIS INTO A SYMMETRY ADAPTED BASIS, WHICH RESULTS IN BLOCK DIAGONALIZATION OF OPERATORS, A REDUCTION OF RUNNING TIME AND INCREASED ACCURACY OF WAVE FUNCTIONS. THE MANY-BODY PART OF THE CODE RELIES ON AN APPROACH CALLED DENSITY FITTING, WHICH GREATLY REDUCES THE TIME REQUIRED TO CALCULATE COULOMB INTEGRALS OVER MOLECULAR ORBITALS. CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF THE SELF-CONSISTENT HARTREE-FOCK, GW AND BSE MODULES IN THE CODE TO MOLECLUES AND MOLECULAR COMPLEXES HAVE BEEN TESTED USING UP TO 1800 BASIS FUNCTIONS IN THE WAVE FUNCTION BASIS AND 4500 BASIS FUNCTIONS IN THE DENSITY FITTING BASIS. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CODE WILL INCLUDE THE CAPACITY TO PERFORM GW AND BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION CALCULATIONS FOR CRYSTALLINE SYSTEMS. APPLICATIONS WHERE THE CODE WOULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGES OVER PLANE WAVE CODES ARE METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (MOF) MATERIALS WHICH HAVE OPEN STRUCTURES. EXCITON IS DEVELOPED IN C++ AND MPI AND CONSISTS OF AROUND 50,000 LINES OF CODE. THE CURRENT EXCITON CODE IS ALSO INTERFACED TO THE CRYSTAL CODE WHICH ALLOWS IT TO PERFORM SINGLE-PARTICLE OPTICAL EXCITATIONS CALCULATIONS USING WAVE FUNCTIONS AND ENERGY BAND STRUCTURES FROM CRYSTAL. THIS PART OF EXCITON LED TO 15 PUBLICATIONS IN THE SEVEN YEAR PERIOD SINCE 2010. THIS VERSION OF THE CODE PRODUCED TWO PUBLICATIONS IN 2005. DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY BOARD MEMBER, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS GROUP. BOARD OR STEERING GROUP MEMBER, PSI-K NETWORK WWW.PSI-K.ORG. EUROPEAN NETWORK FUNDED BY SUCCESSIVE EUROPEAN COMMISSION HUMAN CAPITAL AND MOBILITY AND TWO 5 YEAR EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANTS. INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER, ELECTRONIC, MAGNETIC AND SUPERCONDUCTIVE PROPERTIES CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES MAGNETISM AND SPIN ELECTRONICS QUANTUM CHEMISTRY QUANTUM MECHANICS THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS PHYSICAL & CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING (INCL. MATERIALS, ADVANCED & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES) NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE EXCITON COMPUTER CODE MY RESEARCH CONSISTS OF DEVELOPING AND APPLYING ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE METHODS TO PROBLEMS IN MOLECULAR, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE THEORY IS NOW A RELATIVELY MATURE FIELD AND DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY CODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR MANY APPLICATIONS. MORE ACCURATE MANY BODY METHODS, BASED ON ELECTRON GREEN'S FUNCTIONS, AND ELECTRON-HOLE POLARIZATION PROPAGATORS YIELD THE MOST ACCURATE PREDICTIONS OF EXCITED STATE PROPERTIES (EXCITONS) OF MOLECULES AND CONDENSED MATTER. THE EXCITON CODE PERFORMS SELF-CONSISTENT FIELD HARTREE-FOCK CALCULATIONS AS WELL AS GW (GREEN'S FUNCTION) AND BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION CALCULATIONS. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CODES DIVIDE ROUGHLY INTO THOSE WHICH REPRESENT ELECTRON WAVE FUNCTIONS USING PLANE WAVES AND THOSE WHICH USE LOCAL ORBITALS. THE FORMER ARE BEST SUITED TO CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH LIMITED NUMBERS OF ATOMS PER UNIT CELL, THE LATTER HAVE MANY ADVANTAGES FOR MOLECULES, ESPECIALLY LARGE MOLECULES AND SYSTEMS WITH LITTLE OR NO SYMMETRY. ACCURATE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE METHODS SUCH AS THE GW GREEN'S FUNCTION METHOD AND BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION POLARIZATION PROPAGATOR METHOD HAVE APPLICATIONS IN OPTICAL EXCITATIONS OF BIOMOLECULES, PHOTOVOLTAICS AND PHOTOCATALYSTS FOR LIGHT HARVESTING AND CHEMICAL REACTION PROMOTION SUCH AS ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS. DEVELOPMENT OF THE EXCITON CODE WAS BEGUN WITH TWO GRADUATE STUDENTS, DRS. CONOR HOGAN AND SVJETLANA GALAMIC-MULAOMEROVIC, OVER A DECADE AGO. THAT FIRST PHASE OF CODE DEVELOPMENT WAS BASED ON A PLANE WAVE REPRESENTATION OF THE COULOMB POTENTIAL, WHICH IS STRAIGHTFORWARD TO CODE. THE ORIGINAL EXCITON CODE RESULTED IN TWO PUBLICATIONS IN PHYSICAL REVIEW B IN 2005. BASED ON EXPERIENCE GAINED IN DEVELOPING THE FIRST EXCITON CODE, I BEGAN DEVELOPING AN ENTIRELY NEW VERSION OF THE CODE DURING A SABBATICAL YEAR SPENT AT THE QUANTUM THEORY PROJECT, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, HOSTED BY PROF. RODNEY BARTLETT. THE NEW CODE EMPLOYS THE EWALD REPRESENTATION OF THE COULOMB POTENTIAL FOR PERIODIC SYSTEMS. IT MAKES FULL USE OF POINT, LAYER OR SPACE GROUP SYMMETRIES IN REAL AND RECIPROCAL SPACE AS WELL AS TIME-REVERSAL SYMMETRY IN RECIPROCAL SPACE. SYMMETRY IS ALSO USED TO TRANSFORM THE GAUSSIAN ATOMIC ORBITAL BASIS INTO A SYMMETRY ADAPTED BASIS, WHICH RESULTS IN BLOCK DIAGONALIZATION OF OPERATORS, A REDUCTION OF RUNNING TIME AND INCREASED ACCURACY OF WAVE FUNCTIONS. THE MANY-BODY PART OF THE CODE RELIES ON AN APPROACH CALLED DENSITY FITTING, WHICH GREATLY REDUCES THE TIME REQUIRED TO CALCULATE COULOMB INTEGRALS OVER MOLECULAR ORBITALS. CURRENT APPLICATIONS OF THE SELF-CONSISTENT HARTREE-FOCK, GW AND BSE MODULES IN THE CODE TO MOLECLUES AND MOLECULAR COMPLEXES HAVE BEEN TESTED USING UP TO 1800 BASIS FUNCTIONS IN THE WAVE FUNCTION BASIS AND 4500 BASIS FUNCTIONS IN THE DENSITY FITTING BASIS. FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CODE WILL INCLUDE THE CAPACITY TO PERFORM GW AND BETHE-SALPETER EQUATION CALCULATIONS FOR CRYSTALLINE SYSTEMS. APPLICATIONS WHERE THE CODE WOULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT ADVANTAGES OVER PLANE WAVE CODES ARE METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORK (MOF) MATERIALS WHICH HAVE OPEN STRUCTURES. EXCITON IS DEVELOPED IN C++ AND MPI AND CONSISTS OF AROUND 50,000 LINES OF CODE. THE CURRENT EXCITON CODE IS ALSO INTERFACED TO THE CRYSTAL CODE WHICH ALLOWS IT TO PERFORM SINGLE-PARTICLE OPTICAL EXCITATIONS CALCULATIONS USING WAVE FUNCTIONS AND ENERGY BAND STRUCTURES FROM CRYSTAL. THIS PART OF EXCITON LED TO 15 PUBLICATIONS IN THE SEVEN YEAR PERIOD SINCE 2010. THIS VERSION OF THE CODE PRODUCED TWO PUBLICATIONS IN 2005. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY/ENTERPRISE IRELAND PRTLI IITAC II / BASIC RESEARCH AWARD CHARGE AND ORBITAL ORDER IN MAGNETITE MANY OF THE MOST EXOTIC STATES AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER SUCH AS SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, CHARGE AND SPIN ORDER, ETC ARISE IN MATERIALS WITH UNPAIRED ELECTRON SPINS ON METAL IONS SUCH AS FE3+ OR CU2+. MY WORK IN THIS AREA INCLUDES FIRST PRINCIPLES HYBRID DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT) CALCULATIONS ON MANGANITES, CUPRATES AND MAGNETITE. MAGNETITE IS A FERRIMAGNET, ALSO KNOWN AS LODESTONE, WHICH HAS AN UNUSUAL PHASE TRANSITION BETWEEN A CONDUCTING AND SEMICONDUCTING STATE AT 120 K, KNOWN AS THE VERWEY TRANSITION. THE CONTRIBUTION THAT I AND MY STUDENT, ANDREW ROWAN, AND PROF. LEV GASPAROV AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA MADE IN THIS AREA IS IN UNDERSTANDING CHARGE ORDER IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED MATERIALS. MY MOST RECENT WORK IN THIS AREA HAS BEEN ON ELUCIDATING THE CHARGE ORDER IN MAGNETITE IN THE SEMICONDUCTING PHASE OF MAGNETITE WHICH EXISTS BELOW THE VERWEY TEMPERATURE. THE TRANSITION HAS PUZZLED PHYSICISTS, INCLUDING MANY DISTINGUISHED SCIENTISTS, SINCE ITS DISCOVERY BY VERWEY IN 1939. THE PROBLEM IS QUITE SIMPLE TO EXPLAIN. MAGNETITE CONSISTS OF FE3+ IONS IN TETRAHEDRAL 'A' SITES AND AN EQUAL PROPORTION OF FE2+ AND FE3+ IONS IN OCTAHEDRAL 'B' SITES. FE2+ AND FE3+ IONS ARE IN D6 AND D5 ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATIONS, RESPECTIVELY. THIS MEANS THAT HALF OF THE IONS AT 'B' SITES CONTAIN ONE MINORITY SPIN ELECTRON, WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDUCTION ABOVE THE VERWEY TRANSITION TEMPERATURE AND MUST SOMEHOW BECOME IMMOBILE BELOW THE VERWEY TEMPERATURE. IT IS THIS QUESTION THAT HAS PUZZLED PHYSICISTS FOR 75 YEARS. A COMPLICATING FACTOR IN DETERMINING THE CAUSE OF THE VERWEY TRANSITION WAS THAT THE STRUCTURE OF MAGNETITE IN THE LOW TEMPERATURE PHASE WAS POORLY RESOLVED BECAUSE IF MULTIPLE TWINNING OF DOMAINS. IT WAS FINALLY RESOLVED BY ATTFIELD AND COWORKERS WHO USED X-RAY DIFFRACTION ON A MICRON SIZED GRAIN WITH ONE DOMINANT DOMAIN IN 2012 [NATURE 481, 173 (2012)]. THE UNIT CELL CONTAINS 112 IONS AND HAS 16 TYPES OF FE 'B' SITE AND 8 TYPES OF 'A' SITE. THE LOW TEMPERATURE PHASE SHOWS CHARGE ORDERING OF ELECTRONS ON FE 'B' SITES, WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CHANGE IN ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY AND WHICH WAS DUBBED 'TRIMERON' FORMATION BY ATTFIELD AND COWORKERS. SOME CHAINS OF 3 FE IONS SHOWED ON OF THE CONDUCTION ELECTRONS BEING LOCALIZED ON 3 FE IONS. MY CONTRIBUTION TO THIS PROBLEM WAS TO CALCULATE THE NMR (NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE) SPECTRA OF 'A' AND 'B' SITE FE IONS IN THE NEWLY DISCOVERED STRUCTURE OF MAGNETITE AS A FUNCTION OF CRYSTAL ORIENTATION IN AN EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD. NMR IS A POTENTIALLY POWERFUL PROBE OF CHARGE ORDER IN FE COMPOUNDS BECAUSE 57FE IS A SPIN ¿ NUCLEUS WHICH WILL COUPLE TO THE MINORITY SPIN ELECTRON IN D6 FE2+. MEASUREMENT OF THE NMR RESONANCE FREQUENCY AS A FUNCTION OF ORIENTATION OF THE MAGNETITE CRYSTAL IN A MAGNETIC FIELD YIELDS CURVES WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE SHAPE OF THE D ORBITAL CONTAINING THIS ELECTRON. MY PAPER PUBLISHED IN PHYSICAL REVIEW B IN 2014 SHOWED THAT HYBRID DFT CALCULATIONS USING THE CRYSTAL CODE AND THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE PUBLISHED BY ATTFIELD AND COWORKERS IN 2012 COULD REPRODUCE THE VARIATION OF NMR FREQUENCY WITH CRYSTAL ORIENTATION, AND THEREFORE THAT THE CHARGE ORDER IN OUR CALCULATIONS WAS CORRECT. I CONCLUDED THAT MOLECULAR POLARONS AND CHARGE LOCALIZATION IN ZIG-ZAG CHAINS (ATTFIELD'S TRIMERONS) WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VERWEY TRANSITION. HYBRID DFT CALCULATION OF 57FE NMR RESONANCES AND ORBITAL ORDER IN MAGNETITE , C. H. PATTERSON, PHYS. REV. B 90, 075134 (2014) HYBRID DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY APPLIED TO MAGNETITE: CRYSTAL STRUCTURE, CHARGE ORDER AND PHONONS, A. D. ROWAN, C. H. PATTERSON AND L. V. GASPAROV, PHYS. REV. B 79 205103 (2009) SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME SURFACE AND INTERFACE OPTICS CALCULATIONS LIGHT CAN BE USED AS A PROBE OF THE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF MATTER IN SITUATIONS WHERE CONVENTIONAL LIGHT-IN/CHARGED PARTICLE-OUT SPECTROSCOPIES SUCH AS PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPIES CANNOT. THE EJECTED ELECTRON IN PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY CANNOT BE DETECTED IF THE AMBIENT SURROUNDING THE SAMPLE IS NOT HIGH VACUUM. IN CONTRAST, LIGHT-IN/LIGHT-OUT SPECTROSCOPIES SUCH AS REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS CAN BE USED WITHOUT A VACUUM AMBIENT. THE SURFACE AND INTERFACE OPTICS PROJECT IS FOCUSSED ON APPLYING DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY (DFT) METHODS TO CALCULATION OF OPTICAL SPECTRA OF SURFACES AND INTERFACES OF SEMICONDUCTORS AND OXIDES. THE WORK IS DONE IN COLLABORATION WITH EXPERIMENTALISTS, NOTABLY PROF. JOHN MCGILP IN THE SCHOOL OF PHYSICS. RECENT WORK ON THE INTERFACE BETWEEN GAP THIN FILMS AND THE UNDERLYING SI SUBSTRATE HAS BEEN DONE WITH PROF. T. HANNAPPEL AND DR. O. SUPPLIE AT THE HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM, BERLIN WHO ARE EXPERIMENTALISTS WORKING ON THIS PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR III-V SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH ON SILICON. REFLECTION OF LIGHT BY A SURFACE DEPENDS ON THE DIELECTRIC RESPONSES OF ATOMS FROM THE SURFACE LAYER TO MANY LAYERS BELOW THE SURFACE. IN ORDER TO USE VISIBLE LIGHT AS A PROBE OF ELECTRONS AT SURFACES, IT IS ESSENTIAL TO DISTINGUISH THE REFLECTED SIGNAL COMING FROM THE LAYERS IMMEDIATELY AT THE SURFACE FROM THAT COMING FROM MANY MORE LAYERS NEAR THE SURFACE. ONE WAY OF DOING THIS IS TO CHOOSE SYSTEMS WHERE THE SURFACE IS ANISOTROPIC IN THE SURFACE PLANE WHILE THE UNDERLYING LAYERS ARE ISOTROPIC. AN EXAMPLE OF AN ISOTROPIC SURFACE IS WHERE SURFACE ATOMS FORM PAIRS (OR DIMERIZE) IN CHAINS AT (001) SURFACES OF SILICON OR III-V SEMICONDUCTORS. IF THE DIFFERENCE IN REFLECTIVITY OF LIGHT IS MEASURED IN NORMAL INCIDENCE WITH THE OPTICAL POLARIZATION VECTOR ALIGNED PARALLEL OR PERPENDICULAR TO THE DIMER CHAINS, THEN THE SURFACE CONTRIBUTION TO REFLECTIVITY ARISES ONLY FROM THE ANISOTROPIC SURFACE. REFLECTANCE ANISOTROPY SPECTROSCOPY (RAS) CONSISTS OF MEASURING THIS DIFFERENCE, USUALLY IN THE PHOTON ENERGY RANGE FROM 1 TO 5 EV. THE EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT BY ITSELF YIELDS ONLY A FINGERPRINT OF THE SURFACE. IN ORDER TO USE RAS TO OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF THE SURFACE, EXPERIMENTAL DATA MUST BE COMPARED TO RESULTS OF OUR CALCULATIONS USING THE CRYSTAL AND EXCITON CODES. THESE CALCULATIONS SHOW WHICH FEATURES IN A RAS SPECTRUM ARISE FROM TRANSITIONS BETWEEN PARTICULAR SURFACE STATES. ARMED WITH THIS ANALYSIS, EXPERIMENTALISTS MAY USE THE RAS TECHNIQUE TO DIAGNOSE THE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF A SURFACE ON WHICH A SEMICONDUCTOR IS BEING GROWN UNDER NON-HIGH VACUUM CONDITIONS. ONE RECENT HIGHLIGHT OF THIS WORK HAS BEEN APPLICATION OF THE METHODS THAT WE HAVE DEVELOPED SINCE 2010 FOR CALCULATING RAS FOR SURFACES, TO THE INTERFACE BETWEEN GAP THIN FILMS GROWN ON THE SI(001) SURFACE BY HANNAPPEL AND SUPPLIE IN BERLIN. THEY MEASURED THE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY OF THE INTERFACE BETWEEN THE THIN FILM AND SILICON SUBSTRATE. MY PHD STUDENT, PANKAJ KUMAR, CALCULATED THE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY FOR THIS INTERFACE USING CRYSTAL AND EXCITON AND FOUND AGREEMENT BETWEEN THEORY AND EXPERIMENT ONLY WHEN THE SILICON SUBSTRATE WAS DOPED SO THAT THE INTERFACE WAS SEMICONDUCTING. OUR WORK SHOWED THAT THE MEASURED INTERFACE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY ARISES FROM ELECTRONS TRAPPED IN INTERFACE STATES LOCALIZED IN SEVERAL LAYERS OF SILICON ATOMS CLOSEST TO THE FIRST P LAYER IN THE GAP THIN FILM. IT ALSO SHOWED THAT IF THE GAP LAYER WAS TERMINATED BY A GA/SI INTERFACE, THE INTERFACE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY SPECTRUM WAS QUITE DIFFERENT. THUS A COMBINATION OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT CAN SHOW WHETHER A BURIED INTERFACE IS CONDUCTING OR SEMICONDUCTING AND WHETHER THE GAP LAYER IN CONTACT WITH THE SI SUBSTRATE IS GA OR P. OUR WORK IS, AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL, THE FIRST APPLICATION OF DFT TO THE OPTICAL ANISOTROPY OF AN INTERFACE AND IT HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION IN PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. SARA PAVIA paviasara ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PAVIAS CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION. BUILDING LIMES AND LIME MORTARS. POZZOLANS. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND THEIR TESTING METHODS. STANDARISATION OF TESTING METHODS AND QUALITY. SUSTAINABLE LIME COMPOSITES INCLUDING HEMP OR INDUSTRIAL WASTE PRODUCTS. LIME MORTAR TECHNOLOGY, MORTAR EXECUTION, INTERACTION WITH MASONRY UNITS AND DURABILITY. STONE AND CERAMICS: RAW MATERIALS, INDUSTRIAL AND TRADITIONAL PRODUCTION METHODS, PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES, DURABILITY AND DECAY. REPAIR AND CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC MASONRY. CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY. CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY. CONSOLIDANTS AND WATER REPELLENTS. ARCHAEOMETRY. DEPT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH CONSERVATION ADVISOR: OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS. MATERIALS AUDITS FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS, NATIONAL MONUMENTS, IRISH GOVERNMENT. MEMBER OF RILEM TECHNICAL COMMITTEE BBM: BIO-AGGREGATE BASED BUILDING MATERIALS. MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE FOR STANDARISATION OF LIMES (CEN, WG11, TG1)WITH RESPONSABILITY FOR THE EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF THE PHYSICAL TESTING METHODS AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF LIMES. NO DATA AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR OF STONE STAIRCASES. CASTLETOWN HOUSE. OPW NO DATA CONSOLIDATION OF IRISH SANDSTONE. OPW NO DATA PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF LIME MORTARS FOR MASONRY REPAIR. ENTPE (SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND PUBLIC WORKS, LYON) NO DATA BOND CAPACITIES AND VAPOUR TRANSFER OF HYDRAULIC LIME MORTARS. US-IRELAND ALLIANCE UNDER THE G. J. MITCHELL SCHOLARSHIP NO DATA DETERMINATION OF BRICK PROVENANCE AND FIRING TECHNOLOGY USING MINERALOGICAL AND PETROGRAPHICAL METHODS: JIGGISTOWN HOUSE. DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT NO DATA A TECHNICAL DATABASE FOR IRISH QUARRIES- PART I: ANALYSIS OF LIMESTONE. OFFICE OF PUBLIC WORKS NO DATA AUTOMATED SURVEYING TOOLS FOR RECORDING HISTORIC METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION. DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY- HEA NO DATA THE TECHNOLOGY OF BUILDING DEFECTS. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION IN SAUDI ARABIA. GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA. NO DATA DESIGN, TESTING AND EXECUTION OF HYDRAULIC LIME AND MAGNESIAN LIME MORTARS. OPW IMPROVEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIME MORTARS. LIME MORTAR MASONRY PROJECT. OPW ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE OF ROMAN MORTAR AND CONCRETE. IER IRISH BIO-COMPOSITES FOR BUILDING. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY IRCSET - NDA ENERGY CONSERVATION AND RETROFITTING HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN TRINITY COLLEGE IRCSET A STUDY OF CALCIUM LIME-POZZOLAN MORTARS. TCD AND UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, CANADA REPAIR AND CONSERVATION OF PORTLAND STONE: THE FOUR COURTS DOME. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL /OPW RETROFITTING FOR ENERGY PERFORMANCE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL/ OPW INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR DAVID PAYNE paynedavid RESEARCH FELLOW PAYNED CTVR / CONNECT CTVR LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. KENNETH PEARCE pearcekenneth USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PEARCEK PHILOSOPHY PEARCE'S HISTORICAL WORK FOCUSES ON ISSUES AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN METAPHYSICS, THEOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE IN 17TH AND 18TH CENTURY EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY. A CENTRAL QUESTION THAT HE SEES TYING THESE AREAS TOGETHER FOR MANY THINKERS IN THE PERIOD IS THE NATURE OF MENTAL AND LINGUISTIC REPRESENTATION: HOW DO WE MANAGE TO THINK AND TALK ABOUT MINDS, EXTERNAL OBJECTS, GOD, OR THE THEORETICAL POSITS OF PHYSICS? HE IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN BERKELEY, ARNAULD, AND LEIBNIZ AND HAS ALSO PUBLISHED ON METAPHYSICAL ISSUES IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PHILPAPERS.ORG CATEGORY EDITOR FOR "GEORGE BERKELEY;" "BERKELEY: METAPHYSICS," WITH SUBCATEGORIES; "BERKELEY: PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE;" "BERKELEY: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION," WITH SUBCATEGORIES; "DIVINE ATTRIBUTES;" AND "DIVINE OMNIPOTENCE" READER FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS REFEREE FOR HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY QUARTERLY, PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY, ERKENNTNIS, SOPHIA, BERKELEY STUDIES, DIALECTICA, SOCIETY AND POLITICS, JOURNAL OF POLISH PHILOSOPHY, ANNALS OF PHILOSOPHY, AND DIAMETROS GEORGE BERKELEY HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION DIGITAL HUMANITIES DR. MICHAEL JAMES PEARDON peardonmichaeljames ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PEARDONM PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS I WORK ON NUMERICAL METHODS FOR AB INITIO COMPUTATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY DESCRIBES THE INTERACTIONS OF MATTER AT SUB-NUCLEAR SCALE, FOR EXAMPLE QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD) DESCRIBES THE STRONG INTERACTION BETWEEN QUARKS AND GLUONS INSIDE THE NUCLEONS. I AM WORKING ON IMPROVING THE NUMERICAL TOOLKIT AVAILABLE TO STUDY THESE THEORIES ON THE COMPUTER. THESE TECHNIQUES HAVE BEEN USED TO COMPUTE THE PROPERTIES OF EXOTIC FORMS OF MATTER, SUCH AS THE GLUEBALL, A STATE COMPRISED MOSTLY OF GLUONS. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMLITON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ALGORITHMS CHARMED PARTICLES GLUEBALL SPECTRUM MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO MONTE CARLO METHODS MONTE-CARLO ALGORITHMS PARTICLE PHYSICS QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS QUARK QUARK CONFINEMENT PHYSICS MATHEMATICS COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MR. J.D.T. PEARE pearejdt RETIRED STAFF MEMBER TPEARE RETIRED STAFF MEMBER THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE. 01-8961000 CHAIRMAN, A.U.D.I. [ASSOCIATION OF USERS OF DYNIX IN IRELAND] CHAIRMAN, DYNIX USERS' GROUP [UK] CHAIRMAN, GEAC USERS' GROUP FOR UK & IRELAND CHAIRMAN, ONLINE USERS' GROUP / IRELAND FCLIP, FLAI DIGITAL HUMANITIES DR. GESINE PEETERS peetersgesine RESEARCH FELLOW PEETERSG TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TCIN LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH AGEING DR. NEIL PEIRCE peirceneil RESEARCH FELLOW NPEIRCE COMPUTER SCIENCE MY RESEARCH INTERESTS COVER MANY ASPECTS OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INCLUDING PERSONALISED LEARNING, GAME-BASED LEARNING, LEARNING ANALYTICS, AND DATA VISUALISATION. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CO-CHAIR OF THE IRISH CONFERENCE ON GAME-BASED LEARNING ENGINEERS IRELAND ORDINARY MEMBER INVITED PANELLIST EC H2020 DIGITAL LEARNING ROUND TABLE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GAME BASED LEARNING (ECGBL) REGIONAL CHAIR FOR IRELAND, SERIOUS GAMES SOCIETY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS EXPERT SYSTEMS KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT LEARNING MULTIMEDIA COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE LEARNOVATE CENTRE THE LEARNOVATE CENTRE IS AN INDUSTRY-LED CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR INNOVATION AND RESEARCH IN LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES. OUR MISSION IS TO ENHANCE THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF THE LEARNING TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY BY PARTNERING BUSINESS WITH LEADING RESEARCHERS FROM WORLD CLASS HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS. OUR FOCUS IS TO PIONEER BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSFER IT INTO MEASURABLE LEARNING INNOVATION. OUR GOAL IS TO BE A GLOBALLY RECOGNISED, INDUSTRY-LED CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN APPLIED LEARNING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION. WE DEVELOP NEW KNOW-HOW AND LEVERAGE EXISTING RESEARCH EXPERTISE FROM LEADING IRISH UNIVERSITIES - RESULTING IN EMPIRICALLY PROVEN AND INDUSTRY VALIDATED NEXT PRACTICE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES. ENTERPRISE IRELAND/IDA TECHNOLOGY CENTRES ELEKTRA - ENHANCED LEARNING EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR THIS PROJECT IS THE OBSERVATION THAT DIGITAL LEARNING GAMES SUFFER FROM VARIOUS DEFICITS THAT SEVERELY IMPAIR THEIR EFFECTIVENESS AS A LEARNING TOOL. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY DO NOT MAKE USE OF THE MOTIVATING POWER OF ELABORATE STORY TELLING. ELEKTRA'S RESPONSE TO THIS PROBLEM IS TO LINK RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF PEDAGOGY WITH NEUROSCIENCE, COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. THIS WILL BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN COGNITIVE THEORY AND GAMING PRACTICE AND HELP TO ASSESS THE COGNITIVE POTENTIAL OF LEARNING GAMES AND TO PUT THEIR DEVELOPMENT ON SOLID SCIENTIFIC GROUNDS. THE NEUROSCIENCE PART OF ELEKTRA WILL STUDY THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT TEACHING/LEARNING SCENARIOS BY EVENT-RELATED BRAIN IMAGING IN COMBINATION WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL LEARNING TESTS. ELEKTRA'S VISION IS TO MAKE LEARNING AS EXCITING FOR LEARNERS AS LEADING-EDGE COMPUTER GAMES ARE EXCITING FOR GAMERS. THIS VISION SHALL BE REALISED IN THE FORM OF AN IMMERSIVE 3D WORLD FOR LEARNING THAT USES STATE-OF-THE-ART GAME DESIGN TECHNIQUES FOR VISUALISATION, INTERACTION AND STORYTELLING. ELEKTRA'S 3D WORLD WILL VISUALISE LEARNING TOPICS AS HIGHLY INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL LANDSCAPES, CONCEIVED AS A 'GARDEN OF KNOWLEDGE' THROUGH WHICH THE LEARNER CAN PERAMBULATE FREELY OR BY FOLLOWING THE GUIDANCE OF A STORYLINE AND/OR A GAME CHARACTER. THIS TYPICAL CONCEPT FOR GAME-PLAY COMPRISES A USER-CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE, SUPPORTED BY MULTIMODAL CONCEPTS FOR LEARNING PATHS AND LEARNER MODELS. NARRATION ('THE ORIGINAL FORM OF TEACHING') WILL BE PART OF THE DIDACTIC DESIGN. THE GAME-PLAY WILL BE ENHANCED WITH INTERACTIVE DRAMATURGY AND DIRECTION IN ORDER TO DRIVE THE STORYTELLING AND DEEPEN THE IMMERSION OF THE LEARNER INTO THE LEARNING TOPIC. MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF THE LEARNER WILL BE INTEGRATED IN A WAY THAT ENABLES A SITUATED AND ACTIVITY-DRIVEN LEARNING EXPERIENCE. THE VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WILL REACT IN RELATION TO THE LEARNER'S BEHAVIOUR AND COGNITIVE STATE AND TO THE LEARNING PROGRESS REPRESENTED IN THE LEARNER MODEL. TARGET GROUPS FOR THESE NEXT GENERATION LEARNING GAMES ARE SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. ELEKTRA IS SET UP AS A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT. THE CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCH EXPERTISE IN THE FIELDS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE, PEDAGOGICAL THEORY AND NEUROSCIENCE WITH THE DESIGN TECHNIQUES OF COMPUTER GAMES AND E-LEARNING. EUROPEAN COMMISSION (IST) FP6 CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION (CNGL) THE CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION IS FUNDED BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) IN THE CATEGORY "CENTRE FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (CSET). ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND SEAMLESS COMMUNICATION ARE KEYS TO SUCCESS IN THE EMERGING MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL SOCIETIES, AND UNDERPIN GLOBAL COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT. LOCALISATION, THE INDUSTRIAL PROCESS OF LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL ADAPTATION TO MARKET REQUIREMENTS, IS A CORE STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY IN THE TRANSFORMATION TOWARDS INFORMATION- AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMIES. IRELAND IS PARTICULARLY WELL PLACED TO HAVE A STRONG IMPACT ON THIS CORE STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY. IRELAND HAS THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF LOCALISATION INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE, AND HAS CONTINUOUSLY BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LOCALISATION PROCESSES AND PRACTICES. CNGL HAS THE POTENTIAL TO REVOLUTIONISE LOCALISATION THROUGH ITS UNIQUE INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIP. WE AIM TO ACHIEVE BREAKTHROUGHS IN STANDARDS, INTEROPERABILITY AND AUTOMATION BASED ON LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY. THE BASIC RESEARCH CARRIED OUT BY CNGL UNDERPINS THESE BREAKTHROUGHS AND PROVIDES THE FOUNDATIONS FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF THE RESULTS. THE CENTRE WILL HELP IRELAND TO MAINTAIN ITS LEADING POSITION IN THIS IMPORTANT SECTOR OF ICT, MOVE LOCALISATION ACTIVITIES IN IRELAND UP THE VALUE CHAIN, AND, IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH THE INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS, ENSURE THAT INNOVATIONS FROM THE RESEARCH LABS TRANSLATE INTO BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, REVENUE STREAMS AND CUTTING EDGE, HIGH-TECH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN THE IRISH ICT SECTOR. IN ADDITION, THROUGH ONE OF ITS INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS, DNP, THE CENTRE HAS THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO DIRECTLY ENGAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION OF LOCALISATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE ASIAN MARKET. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CENTRES FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY PERCOLATE (PERSONALISED AND COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ACROSS CONNECTED ENVIRONMENTS) THE OBJECTIVE OF PERCOLATE IS TO INVESTIGATE INNOVATIVE SOCIAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS BY RESEARCHING AND EVALUATING TECHNIQUES AND RESEARCH DEMONSTRATORS USING STATE OF THE ART SOCIAL DISCOVERY, COLLABORATION AND PERSONALISATION TECHNOLOGIES. PERCOLATE WILL FOCUS ON THREE ASPECTS, NAMELY SOCIAL AND INFORMAL LEARNING, INFORMAL LEARNING METRICS/MEASUREMENT AND SERVICE & INFORMATION INTEROPERABILITY. ENTERPRISE IRELAND & IDA IRELAND DEVELOP A KEY CHALLENGE IN IMPROVING LIFE-LONG LEARNING, EMPLOYEE FLEXIBILITY, AND SKILL-MATCHING IS THE ASSESSMENT OF WORKPLACE RELEVANT COMPETENCIES AND THE PLANNING OF INDIVIDUAL LEARNING PATHS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A PERSONALISED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT. THE ENVIRONMENT WILL PROVIDE ASSESSMENT OF TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES AND SOCIAL CAPITAL TO HIGHLIGHT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT. IT WILL COMBINE THIS WITH PERSONALISED VISUALISATIONS OF POTENTIAL CAREER PATHS TO INFORM AND GUIDE LEARNERS TOWARDS REALISTIC AND ATTAINABLE CAREERS. DEVELOP WILL: -USE SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS TO ASSESS SOCIAL CAPITAL THAT HAS BEEN BUILT AMONG COLLEAGUES -ASSESS TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES SUCH AS LEADERSHIP AND COLLABORATION, USING GAME-BASED ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES COMBINED WITH SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS EVIDENCE -APPLY AI PLANNING TECHNIQUES TO RECOMMEND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT -CREATE INTERFACES FOR EMPLOYEES AND HR TO AID BOTH CAREER AWARENESS AND TALENT MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN ORGANISATION -SUPPORT INTERNAL MOBILITY OF EMPLOYEES AND BETTER SKILL-MATCHING TO INCREASE EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AND REDUCE ATTRITION RATES -CONSIDER DIVERSE SOURCES OF SOCIAL NETWORK EVIDENCE INCLUDING ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKS, EMAIL, AND SELF-REPORTING TOOLS -GAIN END-USER TRUST BY PROVIDING CLEAR INFORMED CONSENT AND TRANSPARENT DATA PRIVACY DEVELOP WILL DELIVER AN ADAPTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT DYNAMICALLY TAILORS THE EXPLORATION, COMPREHENSION, AND PLANNING OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES AND CAREER PATHS IN MEDIUM AND LARGE COMPANIES. IT WILL AID EMPLOYEE LEARNING THROUGH REFLECTION ON TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES AND SOCIAL CAPITAL, AS KEY ENABLERS OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT. DEVELOP WILL USE A CLOSE ACADEMIC-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION TO DELIVER NEW TOOLS AND METHODS FOR LEARNING TECHNOLOGY VENDORS. THESE TOOLS AND METHODS WILL BE INFORMED BY, TRIALLED, AND EVALUATED WITH END-USERS ACROSS ICT, PHARMACEUTICALS, AND FINANCIAL SERVICES. EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020 INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. NIALL PENDER penderniall ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PENDERN PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY/TCIN COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, HEADWAY IRELAND FOUNDING MEMBER AND CHAIR, DIVISION OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND FOUNDING MEMBER, IRISH BRAIN COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, RESEARCH MOTOR NEURONE MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND. MEMBER, BEAUMONT HOSPITAL RESEARCH (MEDICAL) ETHICS COMMITTEE MEMBER, ETHICS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE, NATIONAL LIVING RELATED DONOR PROGRAMME. MEMBER, EXPERT ADVISORY PANEL, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF IRELAND PRESIDENT, IRISH BRAIN COUNCIL PRESIDENT, PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND CONCUSSION: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY IN AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES. DOHERTY, C, PENDER, N (CO-PI), ET AL. (2015). ST JAMES' HOSPITAL ST JAMES' HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION EXAMINING THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF OMEGA 3-PUFA / VITAMIN B ENRICHMENT OF CHICKEN MEAT AND EGGS ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING. ALICE STANTON & NIALL PENDER (2016). IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL EMPLOYMENT BASED POST-GRADUATE PROGRAMME NOVEL BIOMARKERS OF ALS SUBPHENOTYPES USING ADVANCED IMAGING AND SPECTRAL EEG TECHNOLOGY PROFESSOR O. HARDIMAN, PROFESSOR A. BOKDE, DR N. PENDER, DR E. LALOR HRB HRA-POR-2013-246 A STUDY OF THE ABSORPTION, DISTRIBUTION AND CARDIOVASCULAR BENEFITS FOR HUMS OF EATING CHICKEN-MEAT AND EGGS ENRICHED WITH OMEGA-3 PUFAS OVER A 6 MONTH PERIOD. PROF. A. STANTON, DR. E. DOLAN, PROF. N. MORAN, PROF. D. WILLIAMS, DR. N. PENDER, DR. A. FAHEY, MS. K. SHORTALL, MS. T. EL-SAYED, RCSI & BEAUMONT HOSPITAL, DUBLIN (RCSI). DEVENISH NUTRITION DEFINING THE COMPLEX NEEDS OF ALS CAREGIVERS. HARDIMAN, O, GALVIN, M, PENDER N (CO-PI), BURKE, T. (2016) AMERICAN ALS ASSOCIATION. THE STROKECOG STUDY HICKEY, A, N.PENDER, D WILLIAMS, BENNETT, K, HORGAN, F. WREN M-A. THE STROKECOG STUDY: MODELLING AND MODIFYING THE CONSEQUENCES OF STROKE-RELATED COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT THROUGH INTERVENTION. (CO-APPLICANT). INTER-DISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT INTER-DISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT AWARDS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE CHANGES IN MOTOR NEURON DISEASE (MND) HARDIMAN, O (PI), PENDER N (PI) AND PINTO-GRAU M. .A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE CHANGES IN MOTOR NEURON DISEASE (MND): NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROIMAGING CORRELATES OF LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE IN MND. APPLICATION NUMBER 30/579. MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE ASSOCIATION NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE. PENDER, N. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE. HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND ENROLL-HD: AN INTERNATIONAL LONGITUDINAL OBSERVATIONAL TRIAL OF HUNTINGOTN'S DISEASE IRISH SITE LEAD FOR THIS MULTI-CENTRE LONGITUDINAL OBSERVATIONAL TRIAL OF HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE. CHDI/QUINTILES NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL AND FUNCTIONAL CORRELATES OF SOCIAL COGNITION IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES EVALUATING SOCIAL COGNITIVE PROCESSES IN PATIENTS HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE AND MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE IRISH INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE/NOVARTIS THE COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE-BASED EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR SELF-DISCLOSURE STRATEGIES FOR PEOPLE WITH EPILEPSY ELLIOT, N, DOHERY, C, WHITE, M, PENDER, N. ET AL MRCGP BRAINWAVE NEUROSCIENCE DR. TATIANA PEROVA perovatatiana FELLOW EMERITUS PEROVAT ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF CONDENSED MATTER; ALIGNMENT AND SURFACE PHENOMENA IN LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THIN FILMS FORMED ON SEMICONDUCTORS; COMPOSITION, STRESS AND STRAIN ANALYSES IN AMORPHOUS SOLIDS, LIQUID CRYSTALS AND SEMICONDUCTORS, FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON BASED MICROSTRUCTURES AND NANOSTRUCTURES, MODELLING AND MEASUREMENT OF PHOTONIC PROPERTIES OF 1D AND 2D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS. ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ENGLISH INTERNATIONAL LIQUID CRYSTAL SOCIETY THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING THE MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND ALIGNMENT AND SURFACE PHENOMENA IN LIQUID CRYSTALS FAR-INFRARED AND LOW-FREQUENCY RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF CONDENS INFRARED AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF LIQUID CRYSTALS ... INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS MOLECULAR DYNAMICS PHASE TRANSITION PHENOMENA SPECTROSCOPIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THIN FILMS FORMED ON S.C'S.. STRESS AND STRAIN IN SILICON STRUCTURES DESIGN, FABRICATION AND INVESTIGATION OF SI BASED COMPOSITE PHOTONIC MATERIALS A SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACH WILL BE UNDERTAKEN IN THE INVESTIGATION OF OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SI BASED PHOTONIC MATERIALS. IN PARTICULAR, THE CHARACTERISTIC MATRIX METHOD WILL BE APPLIED FOR THE CALCULATION OF PHOTONIC BAND GAPS (PBGS) FOR 1D SI PHOTONIC CRYSTALS (PCS). THE RESULTS OF THESE CALCULATIONS WILL BE VERIFIED BY FTIR MICROSCOPY MEASUREMENTS. WE ARE ALSO GOING TO INVESTIGATE A WIDE RANGE OF PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS FABRICATED BY THE INFILTRATION OF DIFFERENT COMPOUNDS (MAGNETIC PARTICLES, POLYMERS, LIQUID CRYSTALS AND LUMINESCENT MATERIALS) INTO POROUS AND GROOVED SILICON MATRICES. POLARISED MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY WILL BE APPLIED IN THE INVESTIGATION OF LOCALISED STRUCTURE IN ANISOTROPICALLY NANOSTRUCTURED SILICON WHICH EXHIBITS UNUSUAL NON-LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES. SFI BASIC RESEARCH 8. LOW-LOSS MICROFIBRES ON SI SUBSTRATE FOR PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF LOW-LOSS FIBRES ON POROUS SI SUBSTRATES AND TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR UTILITY AS MICROCYLINDRICAL EMITTERS FOR PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE: THE FABRICATION OF REACH THROUGH POROUS SILICON, PREPARATION OF XEROGEL- AND GLASS- ON POROUS SILICON FIBRES, PHOTO-PHYSICAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE MATERIALS, DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A PROTOTYPE OF A NEW MICROCYLINDRICAL EMITTING DEVICE. THE PROJECT IS INTERDISCIPLINARY BY NATURE AND WILL INVOLVE EXPERTS FROM 3 DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS (ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS), TO ASSURE ITS SUCCESSFUL REALISATION. EI COMMERCIALISATION FUND LOW-K DIELECTRIC FILMS FROM METALLORGANIC PRECURSORS BY PULSED INJECTION MOCVD IN COLLABORATION WITH PROF. YU. GUN'KO, SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY COMMERCIALISATION FUND 10. CHEMICAL BONDING OF METALLORGANICS TO THE SILICON SURFACE NEW METALLORGANIC COMPOSITES WILL BE DEVELOPED ON CRYSTALLINE OR POROUS SILICON SURFACES. THESE MATERIALS ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE A WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATIONS IN NANO-TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRONICS. THE PROJECT CONSISTS OF :- (I) FABRICATION AND INVESTIGATION OF CL-, HO-, FERROCENYL AND CP- MODIFIED SI-SURFACES. (II) PREPARATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF METALLASILOXANE LAYERS ON CRYSTALLINE SILICON. (III) CHARACTERISATION OF METALLORGANIC LAYERS ON SI BY FTIR AND MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY, XPS AND CPD MEASUREMENTS. (IV) SYNTHESIS OF CP- METAL DERIVATIVES, BOUND TO THE CRYSTALLINE SI-SURFACE. (V) PREPARATION AND INVESTIGATION OF METALLORGANIC COMPOSITES WITH POROUS SILICON. (IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. A. MOORE) EI BASIC RESEARCH GRANT INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION IN MICRO- AND NANO-ENGINEERING GREP (GREP PI - PROF. GABRIEL CREAN TCD PI - DR. T. PEROVA) IRCSET GRADUATE RESEARCH EDUCATION PROGRAMME QUANTUM DOT - LIQUID CRYSTAL CONJUGATES THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP NEW QUANTUM DOT-LIQUID CRYSTAL CONJUGATES AND TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR POTENTIAL AS MATERIALS FOR PHOTONIC AND FLAT-PANEL DISPLAY APPLICATIONS. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE: I) SYNTHESIS OF II-VI QUANTUM DOTS (QDS), II) CONJUGATION OF QDS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS, III) PHOTO-PHYSICAL CHARACTERISATION OF THESE NANOCOMPOSITES AND THEIR ELECTRO-OPTICAL STUDIES. THE PROJECT IS INTERDISCIPLINARY BY NATURE AND WILL INVOLVE EXPERTS FROM TWO DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS (ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND CHEMISTRY), TO ASSURE ITS SUCCESSFUL REALISATION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FABRICATION OF PHOTONIC STRUCTURES ON <100> SI BY DEEP REACTIVE ION ETCHING FOR MICRO-PHOTONICS AND OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS SFI NATIONAL ACCESS PROGRAMME RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY IN LOW-FREQUENCY RANGE OF SPECTRA SFI HORIZONTAL LIQUID CRYSTAL MICRO-CELL ON SILICON CHIP FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW DESIGN AND PROCESS FOR FABRICATION OF HORIZONTAL LIQUID CRYSTAL MICRO-CELLS BUILD ON SI SUBSTRATE AND TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR UTILITY AS MICRO-POLARIZERS FOR PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS. THE WORK WILL INCLUDE: THE FABRICATION OF HORIZONTAL LIQUID CRYSTAL MICRO-CELLS, ELECTRO-OPTICAL CHARACTERISATION OF THESE CELLS, DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A PROTOTYPE OF A NEW MICRO-POLARIZER FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS. THE PROJECT IS INTERDISCIPLINARY BY NATURE AND WILL INVOLVE EXPERTS FROM 2 DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS (ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND PHYSICS), TO ASSURE ITS SUCCESSFUL REALISATION. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND FABRICATION AND INVESTIGATION OF GROOVED SILICON AS A MATERIAL FOR INFRARED MICRO-PHOTONICS AND HIGHLY SENSITIVE MOLECULAR ANALYSIS EI INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION PROGRAMME EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES OF OPTICAL TRANSITIONS IN SINGLE GE/SI QUANTUM DOT LAYERS AND EXPLORATION OF THE POSSIBILITY TO DEVELOP NOVEL METHODS FOR ANALYSIS AND MAPPING OF COMPOSITION AND STRESS IN NANOSTRUCTURES WITH NANOMETER SPATIAL RESOLUTION TCD ACADEMIC CAPACITY BUILDING SCHEME CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. TIM PERSOONS persoonstim USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PERSOONT MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES INCLUDE MULTI-SCALE CONVECTIVE HEAT TRANSFER IN ELECTRONICS THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS USING UNSTEADY FLOWS, ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVICES, AND DEVELOPING EXPERIMENTAL THERMO-FLUID MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES. MY RESEARCH HAS A STRONG EXPERIMENTAL FOCUS INVOLVING HIGH SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS OF FLOW, TEMPERATURE AND HEAT TRANSFER QUANTITIES USING ADVANCED EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES (E.G., PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY, INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY, CONSTANT TEMPERATURE ANEMOMETRY), AND APPLYING THESE METHODS TO ADVANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICAL THERMO-FLUIDS PHENOMENA IN ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS, PROMOTING THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF ENERGY IN DEVICES AND SYSTEMS. MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY FLUIDS AND VIBRATION HEAT TRANSFER IMAGING TECHNIQUES JET IMPINGEMENT HEAT TRANSFER LASER-DOPPLER VELOCIMETRY LASERS AND LASER APPLICATIONS PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY SIMULTANEOUS VELOCITY AND HEAT FLUX MEASUREMENTS THERMAL ENGINEERING TRANSIENT AND UNSTEADY HEAT TRANSFER VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY VELOCITY-MEASUREMENT MARINE, COASTAL AND OCEAN ENGINEERING ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENCY OTHER ENERGY MARINE ENERGY WIND ENERGY PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING CHARACTERISATION OF IMPINGING SYNTHETIC AIR JETS FOR ENHANCED ELECTRONICS COOLING IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IRCSET) OPTIMAL APPLICATION OF IMPINGING SYNTHETIC JETS FOR ACTIVE MICROELECTRONICS COOLING IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IRCSET) MARIE CURIE INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR JOHN BERNARD PETHICA pethicajohnbernard PROFESSOR JP12 PHYSICS INTERDISCIPLINARY, IN THE GENERAL AREA OF NANO- OR ATOM-SCALE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. RECENT AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY AND NANOMECHANICS: NEW TECHNIQUES FOR ATOMIC RESOLUTION, FORCE SPECTROSCOPY AND ENERGY DISSIPATION AT SINGLE CHEMICAL BONDS, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF HIGHLY CONFINED LIQUIDS INCLUDING WATER, SURFACE CAPILLARY EFFECTS AND ADSORPTION, LOCALISED ELECTROSTATIC FORCES, IMAGING OF BIO-MOLECULES STM IMAGING AND SURFACE ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE: APPLICATIONS TO OXIDES, CATALYSTS, AND THIN FILMS. NOVEL MEASUREMENT OF FORCES AND CURRENTS BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL ATOMS, AND APPLICATION TO SINGLE ATOM POSITIONING AND MOLECULE MANIPULATION. NANOINDENTATION AND CONTACT MECHANICS: PROPERTIES OF THIN FILMS, MICROTRIBOLOGY, ADHESION, FRACTURE, PHASE CHANGES AND CHEMO-MECHANICAL EFFECTS. LOSS PROCESSES (G"(W)) IN POLYMERS AND BIOMATERIALS AT NANOMETRE VOLUMES. MECHANICS OF AGGLOMERATES AND GRANULAR MATERIALS. NANO-PLASTICITY. DIELECTRIC BREAKDOWN IN THIN FILMS. POLYMER IMPRINTING FOR NOVEL LITHOGRAPHY OF NANOSTRUCTURES. THEORETICAL ATOMISTIC MODELLING OF SURFACES, TIP-SURFACE INTERACTIONS, ATOMIC SCALE DEFORMATION AND INELASTICITY, AND OF NANOMETRE STRUCTURES. RESEARCH GROUP TYPICALLY COMPRISES 3-4 POST-DOCS, 4-5 STUDENTS AND A VISITING PROFESSOR. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AUTHOR - (WITH M.E.WELLAND) OF THE EPSRC UK SCANNED PROBE MICROSCOPY INITIATIVE. £6M AWARDED OVER 4 YEARS. INITIATIVE CO-ORDINATOR 1993-1994 CHAIRMAN - UK SPM USER GROUP (FOUNDING & 1992-1997) IP FOR SMES, UK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONFERENCE, SAID BUSINESS SCHOOL, OXFORD MEMBER - ROYAL SOCIETY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY WORKING GROUP MEMBER - ROYAL SOCIETY NATO PANEL MEMBER - ROYAL SOCIETY RESEARCH GRANTS BOARD B MEMBER - ROYAL SOCIETY SECTIONAL COMMITTEE 4 (ENGINEERING & MATERIALS) MEMBER - ROYAL SOCIETY WOLFSON FUND COMMITTEE MEMBER - ROYAL SOCIETY/RAENG GOVT. COMMISSIONED NANOTECHNOLOGY POLICY WORKING GROUP. MEMBER - CNRS REVIEW PANEL FOR ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON, FRANCE MEMBER - EPSRC ASSESSMENT PANELS [SEVERAL] MEMBER - RISØ LABORATORY (DENMARK) 4YR. MAIN REVIEW PANEL MEMBER - SURFACE & INTERFACE SCIENCE BOARD, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER - THIN FILMS & INTERFACES COMMITTEE, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS. MEMBER - TRIBOLOGY COMMITTEE, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS MEMBER - UK-JAPAN N+N PANELS OFFICIAL GUEST OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY FROM THE ROYAL SOCIETY ROYAL SOCIETY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY GROUP. REPORT AT WWW.ROYALSOC.AC.UK/FILES/STATFILES/DOCUMENT-221.PDF UK GOVT. (DTI) ADVISORY GROUP ON NANOTECHNOLOGY. REPORT AT WWW.DTI.GOV.UK/INNOVATION/NANOTECHNOLOGYREPORT.PDF NANOTECHNOLOGY SFI (SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND) AD HOMINEM RESEARCH AWARD SFI (SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND) AD HOMINEM RESEARCH AWARD OF €6.3M COMMENCED 2001 AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND OXFORD BIO-NANOTECHNOLOGY IRC BOARD MEMBER (& CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR) OF THE OXFORD BIO-NANOTECHNOLOGY IRC (>£9M) CRANN (CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON ADAPTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES & NANODEVICES) FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON ADAPTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES & NANODEVICES, DUBLIN, IRELAND. CRANN COMPRISES A ~29M€ NEW SPECIALIZED BUILDING, 10M€ DISCRETIONARY RESEARCH FUNDS AND ~3.5M€ OF INDUSTRIAL SUPPORT. THE FUNDS WERE RAISED FROM SFI, INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY, AND PRIVATE BENEFACTIONS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND, INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY, AND PRIVATE BENEFACTIONS SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLES INCLUDE SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPY... NANOMETRE MECHANICS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLES INCLUDE... NANOMETRE MECHANICS... THEORETICAL MODELLING DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLES INCLUDE... THEORETICAL MODELLING... AFM & QUANTUM CONTACTS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLES INCLUDE... AFM & QUANTUM CONTACTS... NANOTRIBOLOGY DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLES INCLUDE... NANOTRIBOLOGY... ATOMIC RESOLUTION AFM AND SPECTROSCOPY DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLLES INCLUDE... ATOMIC RESOLUTION AFM AND SPECTROSCOPY VARIABLE TEMPERATURE STM OF OXIDES DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLES INCLUDE... VARIABLE TEMPERATURE STM OF OXIDES TEM NANOINDENTATION DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR TOTAL OF APPROX. £3.5 MILLION IN OXFORD, GRANT TITLES INCLUDE... TEM NANOINDENTATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. DANIELE PEVARELLO pevarellodaniele ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PEVARELD RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY SCHOOL OF RELIGIONS & THEOLOGY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. DIARMUID ROSSA PHELAN phelandiarmuidrossa ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DRPHELAN LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES JURISPRUDENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND EPISTEMOLOGY OF LAW, COMPETITION AND REGULATORY LAW, EUROPEAN UNION LAW, PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW, CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW LAW SCHOOL NO. 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN FRENCH GERMAN IRISH CHAIR OF THE FELLOWS OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN EU COMMISSION LEAD EXPERT IN THE CREATION OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STRUCTURED PHD IN EUROPEAN STUDIES IN TBLISI STATE UNIVERSITY EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF KING'S INNS FELLOW OF THE EUROPEAN LAW INSTITUTE JOINT GENERAL EDITOR OF THE IRISH JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN LAW LINCOLNS INN MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN THE BAR OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK THE EUROPEAN LAW INSTITUTE THE HONORABLE SOCIETY OF THE KING'S INNS THE LAW LIBRARY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN'S DIRECTOR OF THE CHINA-EUROPE LAW SCHOOL (CESL.EDU.CN) AND REPRESENTATION OF TRINITY AT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLIES IN LUND, BRUSSELS, KRAKOW, BUDAPEST AND BEIJING. COMPETITION AND REGULATORY LAW CONSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LAW EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW JURISPRUDENCE PHILOSOPHY AND EPISTEMOLOGY PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW SEE ENTRY UNDER RESEARCH TAGS AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. WILLIAM THOMAS PHELAN phelanwilliamthomas ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PHELANW POLITICAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN UNION STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW EUROPEAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT EUROPEAN UNION, WTO, AND NAFTA INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY EUROPE'S CONSTITUTION: ENCOMPASSING INSTITUTIONS AND INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC GOODS THE PROJECT IS TO PROVIDE A NEW, GENERALISABLE EXPLANATION FOR THE UNIQUE, 'CONSTITUTIONAL' EFFECTIVENESS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION'S TRANSATIONAL LEGAL ORDER - AN EXPLANATION WHICH EMPHASISES FEATURES OF THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE PARTICIPATING STATES. CURRENT SCHOLARSHIP TENDS TO EXPLAIN THE DECENTRALISED PROVISION OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC GOODS AMONG EQUALS BY TIT-FOR-TAT SPECIFIC RECIPROCITY - FOR EXAMPLE, THE ENFORCEMENT OF WTO LEGAL OBLIGATIONS THROUGH TRADE SANCTIONS. IN THE EU, HOWEVER, SIMILAR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS - TO FOLLOW INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS WHICH IMPOSE COSTS ON ORGANISED GROUPS - ARE FOLLOWED EVEN WITHOUT TIT-FOR-TAT SANCTIONS BETWEEN THE MEMBER STATES. THIS PROJECT USES OLSON'S THEORY OF COLLECTIVE ACTION TO PROVIDE AN EXPLANATION: WHILE GROUPS REPRESENTING SMALL CONSTITUENCIES HAVE INCENTIVES TO PURSUE REDISTRIBUTION OF INCOME AT THE COST OF COLLECTIVE WELFARE, COHESIVE GROUPS REPRESENTING COHESIVE LARGE CONSTITUENCIES - 'ENCOMPASSING GROUPS' - HAVE INCENTIVES TO UNILATERALLY ACCEPT COSTS IN RETURN FOR THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS. IF DECISION-MAKERS ARE APPOINTED BY COHESIVE LARGE CONSTITUENCY COALITIONS (AS IS PERVASIVE AMONG GOVERNMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE), THE ENCOMPASSING NATURE OF THESE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS PROVIDES SIMILAR INCENTIVES TO ACCEPT COSTS TO SUPPORT THE COLLECTIVE GOOD OF STABLE INTERNATIONAL MARKETS. THE ABILITY OF THE EU MEMBER STATES TO RELIABLY SUBMIT TO COSTLY INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS EVEN WITHOUT STATE-TO-STATE SANCTIONS GIVES THE EU LEGAL SYSTEM ITS 'CONSTITUTIONAL' CHARACTER. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT THEREFORE CONTRIBUTES TO ONE OF THE BROADEST RESEARCH QUESTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY - THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC GOODS OUTSIDE THE WEBERIAN STATE - AS WELL AS THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION, INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY, THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND THE POLITICS AND LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. IRCHSS, €38,000 INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ANDELKA PHILLIPS phillipsandelka USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PHILLIAN LAW ANDELKA'S RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN THE AREAS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW AND HEALTH AND MEDICAL LAW, PRIMARILY IN RELATION TO THE TREATMENT OF GENETIC INFORMATION AND NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTHCARE AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS. ANDELKA'S CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: ELECTRONIC CONTRACTS, REGULATION OF NEW, EMERGING, AND DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, ESPECIALLY DEVELOPMENTS IN HEALTHCARE AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS MORE GENERALLY AND INCLUDING WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY AND IMPLANTS, AS WELL AS CONSUMER PROTECTION, PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION, SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGIES, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND REGULATION OF ROBOTICS, SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION. SHE IS ALSO PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF NEW, EMERGING, AND DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ALL LEGAL DISCIPLINES CONTRACT GENETICS AND GENOMICS COMPUTER SCIENCE - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ERIKA CATERINA PIAZZOLI piazzolierikacaterina ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PIAZZOLE EDUCATION I'M INTERESTED IN PERFORMATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING, AESTHETICS, CREATIVITY, AND PARTICULARLY HOW WE LEARN THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ARTS. WITHIN THIS AREA, MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DRAMA-BASED LEARNING, AS WELL AS LANGUAGE/DRAMA TEACHER EDUCATION. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN POLISH SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ASSOCIATION FOR DRAMA IN EDUCATION IRELAND (ADEI) INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (IB) NETWORK TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION AESTHETICS ARTS EDUCATION CLASSROOM SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING/ACQUISITION DRAMA AND THEATRE IN EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATION EDUCATION CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE LINKLATER VOICE TRAINING AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING: ENHANCING LANGUAGE LEARNING THROUGH THE USE OF PERFORMATIVE VOCAL TRAINING A COLLABORATION BETWEEN GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY (BRISBANE) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, LOOKING AT TRAINING A GROUP OF MODERN LANGUAGE TEACHERS TO IMPLEMENT A LINKLATER-BASED VOICE STUDIES PROJECT WITH A GROUP OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE BRISBANE UNIVERSITIES LANGUAGES ALLIANCE (BULA) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. GRAHAM PIDGEON pidgeongraham ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PIDGEONG SURGERY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND MY RESEARCH INTERESTS FOCUS ON THE REGULATION OF VASCULAR FUNCTION AND ANGIOGENESIS BY BIOACTIVE LIPIDS/PROSTANOIDS. BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM CYCLOOXYGENASE (COX) AND LIPOXYGENASE (LOX) MEDIATED METABOLISM OF ARACHIDONIC ACID ARE INVOLVED IN A RANGE OF CLINICAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING ARTHRITIS, CANCER AND HEART DISEASE. ONE AREA OF MY RESEARCH IS IN THE EXAMINATION OF THE ROLE OF THE DIFFERENT COX ISOFORMS, AND THEIR DOWNSTREAM PRODUCTS IN PULMONARY DISEASE. THERE ARE REPORTS THAT DRUGS WHICH SELECTIVELY INHIBIT COX-2 HAVE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ON CARDIAC FUNCTION, TO DATE OUR RESULTS CONFIRM THAT SELECTIVE INHIBITION OF COX-2 IN MODELS OF HYPOXIA-INDUCED PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AGGRAVATES THE PROBLEM. WE ARE CURRENTLY EXAMINING THE MECHANISMS WHEREBY CYCLOOXYGENASE ISOZYMES REGULATE PULMONARY HYPERTENSION AND LUNG CANCER, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON COX-MEDIATED ANGIOGENESIS AND THROMBOSIS IN THESE DISEASES. A SECOND AREA OF RESEARCH INVOLVES EXAMINING THE ROLE OF BIOACTIVE LIPIDS AS SURVIVAL FACTORS IN CANCER. WE ARE CURRENTLY EXAMINING THE ROLE OF 12-LIPOXYGENASE, COX-2 AND THROMBOXANE SYNTHASE AS SURVIVAL FACTORS IN LUNG CANCER AND MESOTHELIOMA. THE GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO IDENTIFY THE MECHANISMS WHEREBY THESE ENZYMES FACILITATE TUMOUR SURVIVAL UNDER CONDITIONS FOUND WITHIN THE TUMOUR MICROENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING HYPOXIA AND SERUM DEPRIVATION. MY THIRD AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTORS AND THEIR EXPRESSION IN LUNG CANCER AND MESOTHELIOMA. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE NEUROPILIN FAMILY OF RECEPTORS, THEIR ROLE IN CELL SURVIVAL AND REGULATION BY BIOACTIVE LIPIDS. WE ARE CURRENTLY EXAMINING THE EXPRESSION PROFILE OF VEGF RECEPTORS IN CELL LINES AND RETROSPECTIVE HUMAN LUNG CANCERS, TO CORRELATE THEIR EXPRESSION WITH TUMOUR GRADE AND STAGE. DEPT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 HONARARY FELLOW OF THE IBS (INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES), RCSI. MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH ANGIOGENESIS ANTICANCER THERAPIES APOPTOSIS APOPTOSIS, MOLECULAR CONTROL BIOLOGICAL MARKERS BREAST CANCER CANCER BIOLOGY CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS CANCER/CARCINOGENESIS CARDIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR AND MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, PHARMACOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES CARDIOVASCULAR REGULATION AND HYPERTENSION CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM CELL COMMUNICATION CELL COMPONENTS CELL CYCLE CONTROL CELL LINES CLINICAL RESEARCH, TRIALS CORONARY ARTERY ISCHAEMIA CYTOSKELTON, CELL DIVISION DNA TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX GENE THERAPY GENE TRANSCRIPTION IN HUMAN CANCER GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION GROWTH FACTORS IMMUNOLOGY INFLAMMATION AND COAGULATION SYNDROMES INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING LIPIDS, STEROIDS, MEMBRANES LUNG CANCER METABOLISM, LIPID MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS NUTRITION/DIETETICS ONCOGENES, APOPTOSIS AND TUMOUR DEVELOPMENT ONCOLOGY PATHOGENESIS PATHOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY PLATELET ACTIVATING AGENTS PROSTAGLANDINS PROSTATE CANCER PROTEOMICS PULMONARY DISEASES RADIOTHERAPY, BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIERS AND CHEMOPREVENTION RECEPTORS REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION RESPIRATORY SYSTEM THERAPEUTIC AND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY THROMBOSIS THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS TISSUE CULTURE TRANSGENIC ANIMALS TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY VASCULAR BIOLOGY VASCULAR BIOLOGY, THROMBOSIS NEUROPILIN-1 EXPRESSION AND REGULATION BY 12-LIPOXYGENASE IN LUNG CANCER. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT INSIGHTS INTO THE POTENTIAL MECHANISMS WHEREBY NEUROPILIN-1 EXPRESSION IN LUNG CANCER MAY CONFER A SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE ON TUMOUR CELLS DIRECTLY. THE SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS WILL EXAMINE THE POTENTIAL CORRELATION BETWEEN TUMOUR EXPRESSION OF THE ARACHIDONIC ACID METABOLISING ENZYME 12-LOX AND NEUROPILIN-1 RECEPTOR EXPRESSION IN LUNG CANCER. EACH OF THESE PATHWAYS HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED IN VARIOUS FORMS OF MALIGNANCIES AND A NUMBER OF SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF LOX PATHWAYS HAVE SHOWN PROMISE IN CLINICAL TRIALS, SUGGESTING THE TRANSLATION OF THE RESEARCH PROPOSED HERE INTO FUTURE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS IN LUNG CANCER SHOULD BE RAPID. THESE EXPERIMENTS ARE CAREFULLY DESIGNED TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL SURVIVAL MECHANISMS AT THE CELLULAR PROTEIN LEVEL, BY OVEREXPRESSION OF 12-LOX WHILE TARGETING NRP-1 PATHWAYS BY A NEUTRALISING OR RNA SILENCING APPROACH. DIRECT CLINICAL RELEVANCE WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED BY RETROSPECTIVELY EXAMINING THE EXPRESSION OF 12-LOX AND NRP-1 EXPRESSION IN A SERIES OF RESECTED LUNG TUMOURS WITH VARYING STAGE AND TYPE OF DISEASE. BY FURTHERING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THESE CRITICAL REGULATORY MECHANISMS CONTROLLING TUMOUR CELL SURVIVAL, IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT NEW INTERVENTIONAL THERAPIES MAY BE DESIGNED TO TARGET LUNG CANCER, EITHER ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH CONVENTIONAL RADIOTHERAPY AND CHEMOTHERAPY. CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND PROJECT GRANTS AN INVESTIGATION OF THE THROMBOXANE AND PROSTACYCLIN SYNTHASE PATHWAYS IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL PROVIDE SIGNIFICANT INSIGHTS INTO THE POTENTIAL MECHANISMS WHEREBY THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE EXPRESSION OF THROMBOXANE SYNTHASE AND PROSTACYCLIN SYNTHASE IN LUNG CANCER MAY CONFER A SURVIVAL ADVANTAGE ON TUMOUR CELLS DIRECTLY. THE SERIES OF EXPERIMENTS WILL EXAMINE THE POTENTIAL CORRELATION BETWEEN TUMOUR EXPRESSION OF THESE PGH2 METABOLISING ENZYMES AND CLINICAL PARAMETERS, INCLUDING THROMBOTIC EVENTS, TUMOUR ANGIOGENESIS AND OVERALL SURVIVAL. THESE PATHWAYS HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED IN VARIOUS FORMS OF MALIGNANCIES AND A NUMBER OF SPECIFIC INHIBITORS OF TXS HAVE SHOWN PROMISE IN CLINICAL TRIALS, SUGGESTING THE TRANSLATION OF THE RESEARCH PROPOSED HERE INTO FUTURE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS IN LUNG CANCER SHOULD BE RAPID. THE IN VITRO EXPERIMENTS ARE CAREFULLY DESIGNED TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL SURVIVAL MECHANISMS AT THE CELLULAR PROTEIN LEVEL, BY GENERATING NSCLC CLONES WITH OVEREXPRESSION OR SILENCED EXPRESSION OF THESE TARGETS USING MOLECULAR STRATEGIES. THESE CLONES WILL BE THOROUGHLY CHARACTERISED BOTH INVITRO AND INVIVO FOR THEIR EFFECT ON TUMOUR CELLS. DIRECT CLINICAL RELEVANCE WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED BY RETROSPECTIVELY EXAMINING THE EXPRESSION OF TXS AND PGIS EXPRESSION IN A SERIES OF RESECTED LUNG TUMOURS WITH VARYING STAGE AND TYPE OF DISEASE AND ALSO IN FROZEN NORMAL / TUMOUR SAMPLES TAKEN FROM THE EU BIOBANK AT ST. JAMES HOSPITAL. BY FURTHERING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THESE CRITICAL REGULATORY MECHANISMS CONTROLLING TUMOUR CELL SURVIVAL, IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT NEW INTERVENTIONAL THERAPIES MAY BE DESIGNED TO TARGET LUNG CANCER, EITHER ALONE OR IN COMBINATION WITH CONVENTIONAL RADIOTHERAPY AND CHEMOTHERAPY. CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND PROJECT GRANT SCHEME COX-ISOFORMS AND PROSTAGLANDINS IN AN HYPOXIA-INDUCED MODEL OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION. ALTERED REGULATION OF THE CYCLOOXYGENASE (COX) SIGNALLING PATHWAY UNDERLIES THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESSION OF MANY DISEASES. THE PGI2/TXA2 RATIO IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE IN-VIVO, WITH THE CORRESPONDING SYNTHASES BEING SHOWN TO BE DIFFERENTIALLY REGULATED. COX-DERIVED PROSTANOIDS HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PH, AND AN IMBALANCE BETWEEN THE GENERATION OF THROMBOXANE A2 (TXA2) AND PROSTACYCLIN (PGI2) HAS BEEN REPORTED IN BOTH PRIMARY AND SECONDARY FORMS OF THE DISEASE. THESE PROSTANOIDS HAVE DIRECTLY OPPOSING EFFECTS; PGI2 IS A POTENT VASODILATOR, IS ANTI-PROLIFERATIVE, AND INHIBITS PLATELET ACTIVATION AND AGGREGATION, WHILE TXA2 IS A VASOCONSTRICTOR, IS MITOGENIC AND ACTIVATES PLATELETS AND THEIR AGGREGATION. COX-2 IS THE MAIN ISOFORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GENERATION OF PGI2, WHILE TXA2 IS MAINLY DERIVED FROM PLATELETS, WHERE COX-1 IS THE MAIN ISOFORM. EXOGENOUS PGI2 IS EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING PULMONARY VASCULAR RESISTANCE IN SOME FORMS OF HUMAN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION (PH). TO EXAMINE WHETHER ENDOGENOUS PROSTANOIDS PLAYED A SIMILAR ROLE IN PH, WE EXAMINED THE EFFECT OF DELETING COX-GENE ISOFORMS IN A CHRONIC HYPOXIA MODEL OF THE DISEASE. AN EXPERIMENTAL MODEL OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION (PH) WAS GENERATED USING COX-GENE DISRUPTED MICE. PH WAS INDUCED BY 3 WEEKS OF HYPOBARIC HYPOXIA, AND WAS CONFIRMED BY DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF RIGHT VENTRICULAR END SYSTOLIC PRESSURE (RVESP), RIGHT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY (RVH) AND INCREASED HAEMATOCRIT. RVESP WAS INCREASED IN WILD-TYPE (WT) HYPOXIC MICE COMPARED TO NORMOXIC CONTROLS, WHILE COX-2 KNOCK-OUT (KO) MICE SHOWED A FURTHER INCREASE IN RVESP FOLLOWING HYPOXIA. URINARY TXB2 EXCRETION INCREASED FOLLOWING HYPOXIA, AN EFFECT THAT WAS EXACERBATED FOLLOWING COX-2 GENE DISRUPTION. IN CONTRAST, THE INCREASE IN 6-KETO-PGF1Á EXCRETION FOLLOWING HYPOXIA WAS REDUCED BY COX-2 GENE DISRUPTION. TAIL-CUT BLEED TIMES WERE REDUCED FOLLOWING HYPOXIA, AND THERE WAS (IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL) EVIDENCE OF INTRAVASCULAR THROMBOSIS IN LUNG VESSELS THAT WAS EXACERBATED BY DISRUPTION OF COX-2 AND REDUCED BY DELETION OF COX-1. THE THROMBOXANE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST, IFETROBAN (50MG/KG/DAY) OFFSET THE EFFECT OF COX-2 GENE DELETION, BY ATTENUATING THE HYPOXIA-INDUCED RISE IN RVESP AND INTRAVASCULAR THROMBOSIS. IN ADDITION TO PULMONARY VASCULAR THROMBOSIS, A SECOND CHARACTERISTIC FEATURE OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF PULMONARY VASCULAR REMODELLING AN ANGIOGENESIS. REAL-TIME PCR ANALYSIS OF VASCULAR REMODELLING IN THE DISEASE IMPLICATED A NUMBER OF GENES TO BE ALTERED IN THE DISEASE INCLUDING VEGFC, EPHB2, TNFÁ, TNFAIP2, AND CCL2. GENES OF PARTICULAR INTEREST INCLUDED VEGFC, EPHB2, TNFÁ AND TNFAIP2, WHICH ARE ALL PRO-ANGIOGENIC FACTORS THAT WERE DOWN-REGULATED FOLLOWING COX-2 GENE DISRUPTION. FURTHER WORK IS REQUIRED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THESE CHANGES IN GENE EXPRESSION PROFILE REPRESENT A BENEFICIAL OR DETRIMENTAL ADAPTATION TO CHRONIC HYPOXIA EXPOSURE. IN CONCLUSION, THE FINDINGS OF THIS RESEARCH DEMONSTRATE THAT COX-2 GENE DELETION EXACERBATES THE PATHOGENESIS OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION, ENHANCES SENSITIVITY TO TXA2 AND INDUCES INTRAVASCULAR THROMBOSIS IN RESPONSE TO HYPOXIA. COX-2 GENE DELETION ALSO DOWN-REGULATED THE EXPRESSION OF A NUMBER OF ANGIOGENIC GENES IN RESPONSE TO HYPOXIA, SUGGESTING THAT EXPRESSION OF THESE GENES MAY HAVE A BENEFICIAL EFFECT IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF THE DISEASE. OUR DATA PROVIDES EVIDENCE THAT ENDOGENOUS PROSTANOIDS MODULATE THE PULMONARY RESPONSE TO HYPOXIA. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP SCHEME CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. ANDREW PIERCE pierceandrew ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PIERCEAN IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS RELIGION AND THE EXPERIENCE OF MODERNITY; RELIGIOUS ANTI-MODERNISM OR FUNDAMENTALISM; ROMAN CATHOLIC MODERNISM; NINETEENTH CENTURY RELIGIOUS THOUGHT; ECUMENICAL ECCLESIOLOGY; AUGUSTE SABATIER'S PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION; THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF PLACE IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION IRISH THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF, AND CONSULTANT TO, INTERNATIONAL ANGLICAN STANDING COMMISSION ON UNITY, FAITH AND ORDER (IASCUFO), 2009-ONWARDS MEMBER, ANGLICAN-METHODIST COVENANT COUNCIL MEMBER, BOARD OF GOVERNORS, CHURCH OF IRELAND COLLEGE OF EDUCATION MEMBER, BOARD OF MANAGEMENT, APCK MEMBER, THE CHURCH OF IRELAND BISHOPS' ADVISORY COMMISSION ON DOCTRINE MEMBER, THEOLOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKING GROUP (CHURCH OF IRELAND, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) SOCIETAS OECUMENICA SOCIETAS OECUMENICA, THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ECUMENICAL RESEARCH; PRESIDENT 2010-2012 STANDING COMMITTEE, SOCIETAS OECUMENICA ECUMENICAL ECCLESIOLOGY ECUMENICAL THEOLOGIES NINETEENTH CENTURY RELIGIOUS THOUGHT RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM THEOLOGY AND EXPERIENCE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION TOWARDS THEOLOGICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM RESURGENT RELIGIOSITY HAS ATTRACTED WIDESPREAD ATTENTION FROM SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENTISTS, BUT NOT - IN ANY SIGNIFICANT WAY - FROM THOSE ENGAGED IN CHRISTIAN SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY. AS A PREPARATION FOR AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF FUNDAMENTALISM'S THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE, THIS PROJECT WILL INVOLVE A SCOPING STUDY OF THE FIELD, CULMINATING IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATION IN DUBLIN TO MAKE AVAILABLE THE INITIAL RESULTS. ST STEPHEN'S GREEN TRUST, IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS TRUST MODERNITY AND MODERNISM: INTERPRETING THE ROOTS OF RELIGIOUS CRISIS IN 1907, PIUS X CONDEMNED 'MODERNISM,' IMPOSING THEOLOGICAL 'INTEGRALISM' AND A RESTRICTIVE DISCIPLINE WHICH REMAINED IN FORCE UNTIL VATICAN II (1962-65). AFTER A CENTURY, THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERNISM AND ANTI-MODERNISM MERIT EVALUATION. MODERNISM OCCURRED WITHIN A MODERNITY THE VALUE OF WHICH IS DEBATED. THIS PROJECT SITUATES DEBATES FROM THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY IN THE CONTEXT OF CURRENT THEOLOGICAL CONTENDINGS WITH MODERNITY, THUS CONTRIBUTING TO DEBATE WITHIN MODERNIST STUDIES, AND TO THE THEOLOGICAL RECEPTION OF MODERNITY'S PAST. IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. FRANCOIS PITIE pitiefrancois USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PITIEF ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING ADAPT MY RESEARCH WORK COVERS A WIDE RANGE OF MEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS RELATED TO MOVIE POST-PRODUCTION. SOME OF MY CONTRIBUTIONS ARE REFERENCES IN THEIR FIELD (EG. MY WORK ON COLOUR TRANSFER, FLICKER TOTAL 200+ CITATIONS) AND ARE BEING USED BY COMPANIES SUCH AS GOOGLE, THE FOUNDRY AND WETA DIGITAL. THE AIM OF MY RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP TOOLS THAT CAN ENHANCE THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE OF IMMERSION. ONE RESEARCH AREA THAT IS OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO ME IS MOTION ANALYSIS AND OBJECT SEGMENTATION. CUTTING OUT FOREGROUND OBJECTS FROM THEIR BACKGROUND IS A CORNERSTONE OF OF VIDEO MANIPULATION AND ENHANCEMENT APPLICATIONS. THIS IS ALAS USUALLY DONE BY HAND. TYPICALLY SHOTS IN MOVIES REQUIRE HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF MANUAL WORK TO DELINEATE AND TRACK ALL OBJECTS OF INTERESTS. MY RESEARCH OBJECTIVE IS TO DEPART FROM THE TRADITIONAL FRAME-BASED PROCESSING APPROACH AND TO AVAIL OF MODERN COMPUTING RESOURCES TO DEVELOP A NEW METHODOLOGY TO MANIPULATE ENTIRE SHOTS AT ONCE. THE AIM IS TO CONSIDER A COMPLETE MOTION MODEL THAT INTEGRATES INFORMATION ABOUT DEPTH, MOTION BLUR, DEFOCUS, NOISE, OBJECT LAYERS AND TRANSPARENCY. ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENG ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING VIDEO PROCESSING ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE ADVANCED VIDEO DEBANDING IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF ONLINE VIDEOS IS A KEY CHALLENGE FOR VIDEO STREAMING COMPANIES. WE CONSIDERED IN THIS PROJECT THE ISSUE OF BANDING, WHICH IS A QUANTISATION ARTEFACT THAT AFFECTS MOST VIDEOS AND DOES NOT GO AWAY BY SIMPLY INCREASING THE ALLOWED BANDWIDTH. WE BUILT ON OUR EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPING TOOLS FOR THE MOVIE-POSTPRODUCTION INDUSTRY TO PRODUCE A SOLUTION THAT TARGETS THE WHOLE RANGE OF VIDEOS, FROM LOW-BANDWIDTH TO HIGH QUALITY MOVIES. GOOGLE RESEARCH AWARD 3DSCAM PRODUCING STEREOSCOPIC 3D CONTENT FOR TV'S AND CINEMA TURNS OUT TO BE BE A VERY EXPENSIVE TASK. IN THE CASE OF ANIMATED MOVIES, A 3D STEREO VERSION CAN IN THEORY BE SIMPLY CREATED BY RENDERING THE 3D OBJECT DATA FROM THE TWO VIEWS FOR LEFT AND RIGHT EYE. THIS HOWEVER CONSUMES A HUGE AMOUNT OF RENDERING TIME, HAS A MASSIVE IMPACT ON THE TRADITIONAL PRODUCTION PIPELINE AND THUS RESULT IN AN DRAMATICALLY INCREASED PRODUCTION COST. IT WAS PROPOSED IN 3DSCAM TO CREATE A TECHNOLOGY SUITE THAT ALLOWS DIGITAL ARTISTS TO HAVE FULL ARTISTIC CONTROL OVER THE CREATION OF A STEREOSCOPIC SCENE IN ITS FINAL VERSION, WHILE NOT REQUIRING ANY CHANGE TO THE PRODUCTION PIPELINE. TECHNOLOGY ISSUED FROM THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN LICENSED TO PIXELPUFFIN (WWW.PIXELPUFFIN.COM). ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. JEAN PAUL PITTION pittionjeanpaul FELLOW EMERITUS PITTIONJ FELLOWS EMERITII FRENCH DEPT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDIN COLLEGE 01-8961000 DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. DOMINIQUE PLANT plantdominique SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER PLANTD SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE DISCIPLINE OF NEUROLOGY, RM 5.43 BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BUILDING PEARSE ST, D2 COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. PATRICK PLUNKETT plunkettpatrick CLINICAL PROFESSOR PPLUNKTT SURGERY DEPT. OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER, FACULTY OF ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY MEDICINE (GRANTED ROYAL CHARTER AS "COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE", 2008) CHAIR OF NATIONAL BOARD FOR IRELAND AND COUNCIL MEMBER, COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE CHAIRMAN, ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINING (ACEMT); MEMBER, IRISH SURGICAL POST-GRADUATE TRAINING COMMITTEE (ISPTC) AND MEMBER, BASIC SURGICAL TRAINING COMMITTEE (BST), ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF IRELAND COLLEGE TUTOR AND MEMBER OF SPECIALIST ADVISORY BOARD (SAB) IN ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY MEDICINE, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH COMMISSIONER, ST JOHN AMBULANCE BRIGADE OF IRELAND COUNCIL MEMBER AND MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR EMERGENCY MEDICINE COUNCIL MEMBER, PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY CARE COUNCIL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE EMERITUS EDITOR, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEDICAL ADVISER/ LEAD - ST JOHN AMBULANCE, IRELAND MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS OF THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, THE POLISH JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND OF "EMERGENCIAS", THE SPANISH EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL MEMBER, ADVANCED TRAUMA LIFE SUPPORT (ATLS) COMMITTEE - RCSI MEMBER, CONSULTANT COMMITTEE, IRISH MEDICAL ORGANISATION MEMBER, EDUCATION AND EXAMINATION COMMITTEE, FACULTY OF ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEMBER, MEDICAL ADVISORS GROUP (MAG) OF PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY CARE COUNCIL (PHECC) MEMBER, PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE, COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE MEMBER, SECTION OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, UEMS DEPRIVATION AND HEALTHCARE INEQUITY EMERGENCIES EMERGENCY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH HEALTH SYSTEMS AND POLICY OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. VASILIS POLITIS politisvasilis ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VPOLITIS PHILOSOPHY CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, ESPECIALLY PLATO AND ARISTOTLE (ALL AREAS, ESP. METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY AND ETHICS). ANCIENT SCEPTICISM. APORIA AND ITS PLACE IN INQUIRY, IN PLATO, ARISTOTLE AND ANCIENT SCEPTICISM. CONTEMPORARY MODERN METAPHYSICS: ESSENCE. DEPT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF THE COMMITTEE FOR PHILOSOPHY, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. DIRECTOR OF THE DUBLIN CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF THE PLATONIC TRADITION FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. HEAD OF DEPARTMENT, PHILOSOPHY. MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY. MEMBER OF THE FELLOWS STANDING COMMITTEE. MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PLATO SOCIETY. MEMBER OF THE IRISH PHILOSOPHICAL CLUB. SECRETARY TO THE FELLOWS. ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, ESP. PLATO AND ARISTOTLE. ANCIENT SCEPTICISM. ESSENCE, EXPLANATION, AND UNIVERSALS. APORIA, THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE, AND THE DEMAND FOR DEFINITIONS IN THE EARLY PLATONIC DIALOGUES THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO ESTABLISH THE FUNCTION OF APORIA IN PLATO'S EARLY DIALOGUES AND TO SHOW THAT THIS IS CRUCIAL FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF, FIRST, THE METHOD AND STRUCTURE OF PLATO'S ARGUMENTS AND INQUIRIES, AND, SECOND, PLATO'S DEMAND FOR DEFINITIONS AND THE VIEW THAT KNOWLEDGE REQUIRES KNOWLEDGE OF DEFINITIONS. THIS PROJECT IS NOW AT A STAGE OF COMPLETION, WITH SEVERAL ARTICLES AND A MAJOR BOOK. IRC. WISSENSCHAFTSKOLLEG ZU BERLIN. THE APORETIC TRADITION IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY THIS PROJECT STUDIES THE ROLE OF APORIA IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY, FROM THE ELEATICS AND SOPHISTS, THROUGH PLATO AND ARISTOTLE, TO LATER SCEPTICISM (BOTH ACADEMIC AND PYRRHONIAN) AND UP TO PLOTINUS AND DAMASCIUS. THE PROJECT IS A JOINT UNDERTAKING OF VASILIS POLITIS AND GEORGE KARAMANOLIS (VIENNA). IT BRINGS TOGETHER A TEAM OF FOURTEEN INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS. IT WILL ISSUES IN A VOLUME OF PAPERS TO BE PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN 2016. PLATO'S MASTER ARGUMENT FOR FORMS FOLLOWING A NUMBER OF ARTICLES ON THE PLACE OF APORIA IN PLATO'S EARLY DIALOGUES, AND WITH THE RECENT PUBLICATION OF THE STRUCTURE OF ENQUIRY IN PLATO'S EARLY DIALOGUES, A VERY MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO A SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION. NOW IS A GOOD MOMENT TO LOOK FORWARD WITH A VIEW TO THE NEXT PROJECT. THIS PROJECT EMERGES DIRECTLY OUT OF THE PREVIOUS, AND FROM THE STRUCTURE OF ENQUIRY. MY AIM IS TO ADDRESS, IN A NEW WAY AND FROM A NEW ANGLE, THE QUESTION OF THE ORIGIN OF PLATO'S THEORY OF FORMS; AND TO DO SO BASED ON THE CONCLUSIONS AT WHICH I ARRIVED IN MY RECENT BOOK, ESPECIALLY REGARDING THE ROLE THAT A SPECIFIC KIND OF APORIA, WHICH I LABEL RADICAL APORIA, OCCUPIES IN PLATO'S METHOD OF ARGUMENT AND ENQUIRY. THE CENTRAL QUESTION OF THE PROJECT IS: IN WHAT WAY, AND BASED ON WHAT REASONING, DID PLATO ARRIVE AT THE COMMITMENT NOT ONLY TO DEFINITIONS AND ESSENCES, BUT TO FORMS AND THE DIVISION OF ALL THINGS INTO, ON THE ONE HAND, CHANGELESS, IMPERCEPTIBLE FORMS AND, ON THE OTHER-HAND, SENSE-PERCEPTIBLE THINGS SUBJECT TO PHYSICAL CHANGE? I BELIEVE THIS PROJECT HAS THE POTENTIAL OF TRANSFORMING THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART (THE FORSCHUNGSSTAND) WITH REGARD TO THE QUESTION OF THE CHARACTER AND ORIGIN OF PLATO'S THEORY OF FORMS. BOTH TRADITIONALLY AND TODAY, THERE ARE TWO CATEGORIES OF VIEWS REGARDING THIS QUESTION. ON THE ONE VIEW, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS 'UNITARIANISM', THE THEORY OF FORMS IS PRESENT ALREADY IN PLATO'S EARLY DIALOGUES. ON THE OTHER VIEW, THIS BEING THE ARISTOTELIAN STYLE VIEW INDICATED ABOVE, THE THEORY IS DERIVED BY PLATO FROM TWO DISTINCT AND INDEPENDENT ELEMENTS, ONLY ONE OF WHICH IS PRESENT IN THE EARLY DIALOGUES. I ARGUE AGAINST BOTH VIEWS. THE ARISTOTELIAN STYLE VIEW IS PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE, AS I WILL ARGUE, IT IMPLIES THAT PLATO DOES NOT HAVE A NON-QUESTION-BEGGING REASONING FOR FORMS. THE UNITARIAN VIEW IS EQUALLY, IF NOT MORE, PROBLEMATIC, I BELIEVE. FOR IT LEAVES PLATO WITHOUT AN ATTEMPT TO ARGUE FOR FORMS. TCD N/A IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. IOANNIS POLYZOIS polyzoisioannis ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PERIODONTOLOGY POLYZOI DENTAL SCIENCE PERIODONTOLOGY, ORAL SURGERY, IMPLANT SURGERY, DENTAL EDUCATION DENTAL SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) HELLENIC SOCIETY OF PERIODONTOLOGY JOURNAL OF DISABILITY AND ORAL HEALTH: REVIEWER JOURNAL OF THE IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION: EDITORIAL BOARD JOURNAL OF THE IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION: REVIEWER MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE (ADEE) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF PERIODONTOLOGY (EFP) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH (IADR) MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF PERIODONTOLOGY (ISP) REVIEWER (AD HOC) IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS:JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PERIODONTOLOGY, JOURNAL OF PERIODONTOLOGY, COCHRANE COLLABORATION, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY, ACTA ODONTOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA, JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF DENTISTRY, QUINTESSENCE INTERNATIONAL, CLINICAL ORAL IMPLANTS RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH : PART B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF DENTAL EDUCATION. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DENTAL HYGIENE DENTAL EDUCATION DENTAL IMPLANTOLOGY ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY ORAL CLINICAL RESEARCH ORAL MICROBIOLOGY PERIODONTITIS IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MS. CLAIRE POOLE pooleclaire ASSISTANT PROFESSOR POOLEC RADIATION THERAPY ONE OF MY MAIN RESEARCH AREAS WAS BASED ON SETTING STANDARDS/COMPETENCIES WITHIN THE FIELD OF RADIATION THERAPY. COMPETENCY WITHIN THE PROFESSION AND HARMONISATION OF TRAINING FOR RADIATION THERAPISTS ACROSS EUROPE HAS BEEN A CORE INTEREST OF MINE. I HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN RESEARCH IN THE AREA AT A NATIONAL LEVEL. MY RESEARCH HAS ENABLED ME TO WORK WITH THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE EDUCATON AND DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY GROUP, THE NATIONAL FORUM FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHERS AND RADIATION THERAPISTS TO PRODCUE A POSTION PAPER, AN EDUCATION STRATEGY, SCOPE OF PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR RADIATION THERAPISTS AND TO CONTRIBUE TO ONGOING DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREA OF EDCATION ESPECIALLY IN THE AREA OF PROFESSIONAL ASESSMENT. I HAVE NOW ALSO JOINED A WORKING COMMITTEE FOR THE ESTRO SCHOOL OF PAEDOGOGY. COMPETENT RADIATION THERAPISTS ARE SPECIFIC TRAINED PROFESSIONALS WITHIN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY THAT HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER PATIENTS. THE TRAINING OF RADIATION THERAPISTS IS SIGNIFCANTLY DIFFERENT ACROSS EUROPE AS IS THE UTILISATION OF RADIATION THERAPY AS A TREATMENT MODALITY. THE FIRST AIM OF MY PHD IS TO INVESTIGATE WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS TO RT UTILISATION FOLLOWING THE ESTRO-HERO PROJECT WHICH REPORTED UNDERUTILISATION OF RADIATION THERAPY AS A TREATMENT MODALITY. I EXPECT TO INVESTIGATE BARRIERS TO ASSESS FROM A PATIENT/CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE AND ULTIMATELY SEE HOW THESE CAN BE ADDRESSED. RADIATION THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ACADEMIC ADVISOR ON THE RADIATION THERAPY QUALIFICATION REVIEW BOARD FOR THE HSE. ACADEMIC ASSESSOR ON THE CORU RADIOGRAPHERS REGISTRATION BOARD ASSESSOR PANEL CONTRIBUTOR TO THE NATIONAL FORM FOR ENHANCEMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION- WORK BASED ASSESSMENT SERIES CORU- REGISTERED MEMBER COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIOTHERAPY ESTRO EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY INVITED MEMBER OF THE CLINICAL EDUCATION ADVISORY GROUP, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN IRISH INSTITUTE OF RADIOGRAPHY AND RADIATION THERAPY (IIRRT) IRISH NETWORK OF MEDICAL EDUCATORS (INMED) MEMBER OF THE CORU COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY- PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT COMMITTEE PRACTICE EDUCATION CO-ORDINATORS NETWORK (PECNET) PRIMARY CO-ORDINATOR AND MEMBER OF THE JOINT WORKING GROUP ON CLINICAL EDUCATION STANDARDS FOR RADIATION THERAPY. REPRESENTATIVE FROM ACADEMIA TO CORU FOR CONSULTATION ON CRITERIA AND STANDARDS OF PROFICIENCY FOR RADIATION THERAPIST EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES REPRESENTATIVE OF THE IIRRT ON THE HSE'S HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONS ADVISORY GROUP RADIOTHERAPY TECHNOLOGISTS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION CORE COMPETENCIES AND MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE FINAL CLINICAL PLACEMENT OF RADIATION THERAPY STUDENTS IN IRELAND: PERSPECTIVES OF EXPERIENCED CLINICAL RADIATION THERAPISTS. IN IRELAND CLINICAL RADIATION THERAPIST WORK IN A RANGE OF DIFFERENT RADIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENTS AND CONDUCT STUDENT ASSESSMENTS. THEY ARE EXPECTED TO ASSESS STUDENTS AGAINST A PRE-DETERMINED LIST OF CRITERIA AND MAKE JUDGMENTS ON WHETHER THAT STUDENT MEETS THESE COMPETENCIES OR NOT. THE MEANING GIVEN TO CRITERIA OR HOW PERSONAL BELIEFS, VALUES OR EXPECTATIONS MAY INFLUENCE THEIR JUDGMENTS IS UNKNOWN. MY RESEARCH STUDY AIMED TO EXPLORE THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THESE FACTORS AND EXPLORE THE CONCEPT OF INTERNALISED STANDARDS AND HOW THEY MAY INFLUENCE JUDGMENTS. CANCER INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. RICHARD KEVIN PORTER porterrichardkevin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RKPORTER BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND BIOENERGETICS OF IMMUNE CELL FUNCTION. ANTI-OBESITY AND ANTI-TYPE 2 DIABETES STRATEGIES. SENESCENCE AND MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION. ENERGY METABOLISM. EFFICIENCY OF ENERGY TRANSDUCTION IN MAMMALS. MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION. MITOCHONDRIAL UNCOUPLING PROTEINS. MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSPORTERS.METABOLIC CONTROL/ELASTICITY ANALYSIS. SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH CHAIRMAN OF EUROPEAN BIOENERGETICS CONFERENCE 2008 (EBEC 2008)[WWW.TCD.IE/BIOCHEMISTRY/EBEC2008/][EBEC2008@TCD.IE] APPOINTED TO THE BIOENERGETICS AND METABOLISM THEME PANEL III OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY. EDITOR OF ELSEVIER'S BIOCHIMICA BIOPHYSICA ACTA (BIOENERGETICS) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN BIOENERGETICS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OXYGEN TRANSPORT IN TISSUES (ISOTT) MEMBER OF THE IRISH AREA SECTION OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR TO IPERBOREAL PHARMA PESCARA ITALY TREASURER OF THE IRISH AREA SECTION OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY (IASBS) (HUMAN) (RAT LIVER) (SKELETAL MUSCLE) AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES BASIC SKILLS EDUCATION BIOCHEMISTRY, CARBOHYDRATES BIOCHEMISTRY, LIPIDS BIOCHEMISTRY, METABOLISM BIOCHEMISTRY, PROTEINS BODY-MASS BRAIN BROWN-ADIPOSE-TISSUE DIABETES & OBESITY DIABETES AND DIABETIC COMPLICATIONS DRUG DISCOVERY ENERGY CHEMICAL SCIENCES IMMUNE SYSTEM INNATE IMMUNOLOGY LIFE SCIENCES LIPIDS, STEROIDS, MEMBRANES MEMBRANE TRANSPORT MEMBRANE TRANSPORT, STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS METABOLIC BIOLOGY METABOLISM AND METABOLIC DISEASES MITOCHONDRIA NEUROSCIENCE PHOTOSYNTHESIS PROTEINS, ENZYMOLOGY AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING THERMAL EFFECTS MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEOME INVESTIGATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSPORTERS/ TRANSPORTER REGULATORS. [EUROS 1.2M] COLLABORATORS: KEITH TIPTON, GAVIN DAVEY AND CAROLINE JEFFERIES MARIE CURIE THE MECHANISM OF FUNCTION MITOCHONDRIUAL UNCOUPLING PROTEINS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) AN EXAMINATION OF THE BIOCHEMICAL CONTROL OF CELLULAR ENERGETIC EFFICIENCY IN MUSCLE OF BEEF CATTLE DIVERGENTLY SELECTED FOR RESIDUAL FEED INTAKE (RFI) (I) TO ESTABLISH AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY CHARACTERISE TWO POPULATIONS OF CATTLE, GENETICALLY AND PHENOTYPICALLY DIVERGENT IN ENERGETIC EFFICIENCY (BASED ON RESIDUAL FEED INTAKE - RFI) (II) TO EXAMINE CHANGES IN TEMPORAL GENE EXPRESSION IN MUSCLE TISSUE OF CATTLE DIVERGENT IN ENERGETIC EFFICIENCY (III) TO EXAMINE THE PREMISE THAT EFFICIENCY OF ENERGY TRANSDUCTION IN CATTLE IS A FUNCTION OF MITOCHONDRIAL ABUNDANCE AND MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY. (IV) TO EXAMINE THE EXPRESSION OF CELLULAR PROTEINS DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED BETWEEN ENERGETICALLY EFFICIENT AND INEFFICIENT ANIMALS WILL BE EXAMINED USING TARGETED AND GLOBAL APPROACHES. (V) TO: I) CONDUCT A BIOINFORMATICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL DATA (TASK 2) TRANSCRIPTION PROFILES (TASK 3) AND PROTEOMIC DATA (TASK 4); II) INTEGRATE PHYSIOLOGICAL, MITOCHONDRIAL, TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND PROTEOMIC DATA IMPORTANT TO THE REGULATION OF ENERGETIC EFFICIENCY AND III) IDENTIFY POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS FOR SELECTION OF CATTLE WHICH HAVE A SUPERIOR ABILITY FOR MUSCLE ENERGETIC EFFICIENCY. TEAGASC WALSH STUDENTSHIP THE ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIAL EFFICIENCY IN THYMUS FUNCTION THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD OF IRELAND AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MS. CHRISTINE MARGARET POULTER poulterchristinemargaret ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CPOULTER DRAMA THE APPLICATION OF THEATRE TECHNIQUES IN NON-THEATRE CONTEXTS AND COMMUNITIES. MY WORK WITH THEATRE WORKSHOP TECHNIQUES CENTRES AROUND THE CREATION OF SAFE SPACES IN WHICH TO EXPRESS ONESELF AND ENCOUNTER OTHERS - THE ENCOUNTER AND EXPRESSION MAY BE FACILITATED THROUGH THEATRE TECHNIQUES BUT OFTEN TAKE PLACE WITHIN NON-THEATRE "COMMUNITIES" AND CONTEXTS. I HAVE DEVELOPED TRAINING MODELS TO ENABLE A RANGE OF PROFESSIONALS TO USE THIS IN THEIR OWN PRACTICE.E.G. 1- PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN COLLABORATION WITH CO-OPERATION IRELAND, THE MAJOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION ORGANISATION IN IRELAND TO DEVELOP THIS USE OF THE ARTS THROUGH THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A SCHOOLS EXCHANGE PROGRAMME IN 2004 AND 2005. 30 YOUNG ACTORS, ARTISTS AND FILM-MAKERS WERE MENTORED AS FACILITATORS ON THE PROGRAMME 2- SERVICES MARKETING A COLLABORATION WITH DR AIDAN DALY (NUI GALWAY) WHO IS RESEARCHING THE APPLICATION OF THE THEATRE MODEL TO SERVICES MARKETING. THIS INVOLVED A MASTER-CLASS WITH MBA AND UNDERGRADUATES PLUS A TRAINING FOR AER ARRAN CABIN CREW IN THE USE OF IMPROVISATION. 3- PERFORMANCE ESSAYS A PERFORMANCE DEVELOPED FROM THE RESPONSES OF PERFORMERS AND OTHERS TO ONE OR MORE WRITTEN TEXT EG PLAY OR NOVEL..A FORM WELL-KNOWN IN THE WORLD OF COMMUNITY PLAYS WHERE THE PERFORMERS ARE FROM THE COMMUNITY AND OFTEN IT IS THEIR RESPONSES TO THEIR OWN RECORDED, REMEMBERED HISTORIES THAT FORM THE BEDROCK OF THE PRODUCTION. PERFORMERS IN FRANCE, SPAIN, GREECE AND IRELAND HAVE TAKEN PART IN 4 SUCH PROJECTS TO DATE SCHOOL OF DRAMA SAMUEL BECKETT CNTR COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ASSOCIATION OF DRAMA ADJUDICATORS BOARD MEMBER IETM (INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMING ARTS)) MEMBER THEATRE FORUM (IRELAND) ALTERNATIVE MODES EDUCATION ARTS IN EDUCATION BILINGUAL/BICULTURAL EDUCATION BULLYING CHILDREN/YOUTH CITIZENSHIP COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNITY DRAMA COMMUNITY/OUTREACH PROGRAMS CONFLICT/DISPUTE RESOLUTION CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CROSS-CULTURAL STUDIES CULTURAL DIVERSITY CULTURAL IDENTITY DIRECTING DRAMA DRAMATIC/THEATRE ARTS INNOVATION IN LEARNING INTER-ARTS--INTERDISCIPLINARY ART FORMS INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS INTERCULTURALISM INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION/TRAINING IRISH THEATRE IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT LEARNING MOTIVATION LIFELONG LEARNING MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION ORAL HISTORY PEACE/DISARMAMENT/AMNESTY PERFORMING ARTS PLAY TEACHER EDUCATION VISUAL ARTS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT/LEADERSHIP THE QUEST THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL ENGAGING VILLAGE ELDERS IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL LOCAL HISTORY PROGRAMME,FROM WHICH THE CHILDREN PRODUCED ARTWORK WHICH THEN FORMED THE BASIS FOR COMMISIONING A PROFESSIONAL SCULPTOR TO CREATE A SCULPTURE FOR THE SCHOOL, REFLECTING THE CHILDREN'S ARTWORK. THE SCULPTURE WAS THEN INTERPRETED BY THE CHILDREN FOR VISITING ACTORS (THE QUESTORS) WHO THEN BORROWED THE SCULPTURE IN THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND DEVELOPED A STREET THEATRE PIECE WITH TEENAGERS FROM EACH OF THE 9 VILLAGES INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAMME. THE STREET THEATRE TOLD THE STORIES OF THE VILLAGES AS IT TOOK AN AUDIENCE ROUND THE SCULPTURE TRAIL CREATED BY BRINGING ALL 9 SCULPTURES TO EACH VILLAGE FOR THEIR SUMMER FESTIVAL/FAIR. DOWN COMMUNITY ARTS VISIONS THE DESIGN AND PILOT OF A CROSS-BORDER SCHOOLS EXCHANGE PROGRAMME WORKING WITH ACTORS AND PAINTERS FOR THE PRIMARY PROGRAMME, ACTORS AND FILM-MAKERS FOR THE SECONDARY PROGRAMME. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT WAS TO DEVELOP AN ARTS-BASED EXCHANGE PROGRAMME THAT WOULD SERVE THE PEACE-BUILDING MISSION OF CO-OPERATION IRELAND. THE PROJECT WAS ALSO DESIGNED AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND MENTORED APPRENTICESHIP FOR THE ARTISTS, DEVELOPING FACILITATION SKILLS, PROJECT DESIGN AND COLLABORATIVE WORKING PRACTICES. TEACHERS RECEIVED INDUCTION AND TRAINING AS WELL AS CONTRIBUTING TO THE EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODEL FOR YEAR TWO AND AGAIN FOR FINAL EVALUATION. CO-OPERATION IRELAND VISIONS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. AMY PRENDERGAST prendergastamy TEACHING FELLOW PRENDEA1 ENGLISH AMY PRENDERGAST'S RESEARCH FOCUSES ON LITERARY HISTORY OF THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, WOMEN'S WRITING IN IRELAND AT THIS TIME, AND FRANCO-IRISH CONNECTIONS. SHE HAS PUBLISHED ARTICLES ON ASSOCIATIONAL LIFE IN IRELAND, AND IS THE AUTHOR OF LITERARY SALONS ACROSS BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (PALGRAVE, 2015), COMPLETED DURING AN IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP. AMY IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON SEVERAL PROJECTS, INCLUDING LOOKING AT THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN IRISH AND FRENCH SENTIMENTAL WRITINGS IN THE 1760S AND 70S, AND THE CAREER OF ELIZABETH GRIFFITH AS EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR. HER NEXT PROJECT, AN EXPLORATION OF WOMEN'S LIFE WRITING IN IRELAND 1750-1820, WILL BE SUPPORTED BY THE RECEIPT OF THE A.C. ELIAS JR. IRISH-AMERICAN TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP, ENABLING RESEARCH TO BE UNDERTAKEN AT THE BEINECKE LIBRARY AT YALE UNIVERSITY IN JUNE 2017. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMITTEE MEMBER OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE LITERARY HISTORY LANGUAGES & LITERATURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. DAVID PRENDERGAST prendergastdavid ASSISTANT PROF IN COMPARATIVE LAW DPRENDER LAW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: JUDICIAL REVIEW, ELECTORAL PROCESSES. CRIMINAL LAW: LEGALITY, STRICT LIABILITY, ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY. COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. LEGAL PHILOSOPHY: LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAW. SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CO-EDITOR OF THE CRIMINAL LAW AND PRACTICE REVIEW CO-EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL IRISH ASSOCIATION OF LAW TEACHERS (IALT) IRISH JURISPRUDENCE SOCIETY CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CRIMINAL LAW CRIMINAL LAW THEORY JURISPRUDENCE PHILOSOPHY OF CRIMINAL LAW DR. PATRICK JOHN PRENDERGAST prendergastpatrickjohn PROVOST PPRENDER PROVOST'S OFFICE TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN BIOMECHANICS AND IMPLANT DESIGN, AND IN TISSUE ENGINEERING AND MECHANOBIOLOGY. PROVOSTS OFFICE HOUSE 1 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR, 12TH CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS CHAIR, EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS WORKSHOP ON FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING IN BIOMECHANICS AND MECHANOBIOLOGY DIRECTOR, EBLANA PHOTONICS, TRINITY ENTERPRISE CENTRE, PEARSE ST., DUBLIN, IRELAND EDITORIAL BOARD OF CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS EDITORIAL BOARD OF EUROPEAN CELLS AND MATERIALS (WWW.ECMJOURNAL.ORG) EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS (2001-05 AS BOOK REVIEW EDITOR; 2005- AS SURVEYS EDITOR) EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDICS AND TRAUMATOLOGY EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, INTERFACE EXAMINER, DOTTORATO DI RICERCA (VIII CYCLE) SCUOLA INTERPOLITECNICA DI DOTTORATO (MILANO, TORINO, BARI) EXTERNAL EXAMINER, MECHANICAL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND FOUNDING FELLOW, EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETIES (EAMBES) GUEST EDITOR (WITH PROF. T.C. LEE) "MICRO-DAMAGE IN BONE", EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, VOL. 42, ISSUE NR. 1/2, 2005 GUEST EDITOR WITH PROF. R. CONTRO, "MECHANICS OF TISSUES AND IMPLANTS", MECCANICA VOL.35, ISSUE NR. 4/5, 2002 MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS MEMBER OF THE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY (US) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND MEMBER OF TISSUE ENGINEERING SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETIES PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETIES PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS PRESIDENT, SECTION OF BIOENGINEERING, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND ACCUMULATION ACOUSTICS ADAPTATION ALTERED STRAIN ENVIRONMENTS ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL TESTING ANTHROPLASTY ARTHRITIS ARTHROPLASTIES ARTHROPLASTY ARTICULAR-CARTILAGE BAYESIAN ANALYSIS BEHAVIOR BIMATERIAL INTERFACE BIOENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL TISSUES BIOMATERIALS BIOMECHANICS BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BIPHASIC ARTICULAR-CARTILAGE BONE BONE ADAPTATION BONE CEMENT BONE DAMAGE BONE-CEMENT CANCELLOUS BONE CAT EARDRUM CELL BIOMECHANICS CELLS CEMENT CEMENT TECHNIQUE COMPACT BONE COMPONENTS COMPUTER SIMULATION CRACKS DAMAGE DAMAGE ACCUMULATION DENSITY DESIGN EAR ENERGY RELEASE/TRANSPORT ENGINEERING UNDERPINNING BIOMEDICINE EPIPHYSEAL-BASED DESIGNS FAILURE FATIGUE FEMORAL STEMS FEMUR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FINITE ELEMENT MODELS FINITE ELEMENTS FIXATION FRACTURE FIXATION DEVICES FRACTURE HEALING FRACTURE MECHANICS HAND-ACCESS PORT HEARING HIP PROSTHESIS HIP REPLACEMENT HIP-JOINT HUMAN TEMPORAL BONES HYDRATED SOFT-TISSUE IMPLANT DESIGN IMPLANT TESTING IMPLANTS INDUCIBLE DISPLACEMENT INTERFACES INTRAMEDULLARY PLUG INTRAMEDULLARY PROSTHESES LOOSENING LUMBAR MOTION SEGMENT MECHANISM MECHANOBIOLOGY MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS MICROCRACKING MICROMANUFACTURING MICROTEXTURED MIGRATION MODEL NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY OBSTRUCTION ORTHOPAEDICS PRE-CLINICAL TEST PROSTHESES PROSTHESIS PROSTHESIS COLLAR PUSH-OUT TEST REMODELLING REPLACEMENT STABILITY STANDARDS STEM STRENGTH STRESS STRESS-ANALYSIS STRESSES SUBSIDENCE TIBIAL PLATEAU COMPONENTS TISSUE BANKS, ENGINEERING TOTAL HIP-ARTHROPLASTY TOTAL HIP-REPLACEMENT TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT TOTAL SHOULDER ARTHROPLASTY CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS FOR BIOMECHANICAL MODELLING OF VASCULAR SYSTEMS MEDTRONIC/AVE & ENTERPRISE IRELAND BIOMECHANICAL INTERACTIONS IN TISSUE ENGINEERING AND SURGICAL REPAIR (BITES) EUROPEAN COMMISSION COMPUTER SIMULATION FOR IMPROVED BIOFUNCTIONALITY OF IMPLANTS FOR MIDDLE-EAR SURGERY HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HAS GLENOID ACROMION FIXATION PROSTHESES STRYKER-HOWMEDICA NOVEL BIORESORBABLE SCAFFOLDS AND CULTURE METHODS FOR CARTILAGE TISSUE ENGINEERING (SCAFCART) EUROPEAN COMMISSION MECHANICAL INTEGRITY AND ARCHITECTURE OF BONE RELATIVE TO OSTEOPOROSIS, AGEING AND DRUG TREATMENT (MIAB) JOINTLY OBTAINED WITH DR. KEVIN O'KELLY OF DEPT. OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, TCD. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ADVANCED DECISION SUPPORT IN MEDICINE: INTEGRATING MULTIMEDIA PATIENT RECORDS WITH COMPUTER SIMULATION AND PROTOCOL BASED SYSTEMS MEDILINK: PROF. JANE GRIMSON, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR HIGHER TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING AND JOINT PROGRAMME OF RESEARCH WITH NUI, GALWAY HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY - PRTLI PATIENT-SPECIFIC PROSTHESIS ANALYSIS ENTERPRISE IRELAND OPTIMIZATION OF MEDICAL IMPLANT DESIGN: APPLICATION TO VENTILATION TUBES FOR OTTIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE PROGRESSION OF THE DISEASE OF OSTEOPOROSIS EMBARK INITIATIVE A SCHEME FOR INVESTIGATING THE EVOLUTION OF BONE REMODELLING LAWS EMBARK INITIATIVE DESIGN OF A BIOREACTOR TO INDUCE STEM CELLS TO DIFFERENTIATE INTO SPECIFIC CELL PHENOTYPES TO PRODUCE CARTILAGE/BONE TISSUE EMBARK INITIATIVE SMARTCAP - INJECTABLE MACROPOROUS BIOMATERIAL BASED ON CALCIUM PHOSPHATE CEMENT FOR BONE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AUTOMATED PATIENT-SPECIFIC COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THE BIOMECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF MEDICAL IMPLANTS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS TISSUE ENGINEERING OF CARTILAGE AND BONE IN A HYPOXIC ENVIRONMENT HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD BASIC RESEARCH GRANT THE COMBINED ROLE OF MECHANICS AND GENETICS IN JOINT MORPHOGENESIS IN THE DEVELOPING LIMB, AND IDENTIFICATION OF MECHANOSENSITIVE GENES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ANNUAL OVERHEAD INVESTMENT PLAN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IN-VITRO AND NUMERICAL PRE-CLINICAL TESTING TECHNIQUE TO OPTIMISE THE BIOMECHANICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF INTRAVASCULAR STENT DESIGNS ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIPS NEST-PROMOTING RESEARCH ON OPTIMAL METHODOLOGY AND IMPACTS SUPPORTED BY EXPERIENCE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES FP6-SSA (NEST) NEST - PROMOTING RESEARCH ON OPTIMAL METHODOLOGY AND IMPACTS SUPPORTED BY EXPERIENCE EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP6 PATIENT-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS AND MONITORING OF PROSTHETIC IMPLANTS USING COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION PLUS COMPUTATIONAL MECHANOBIOLOGY: FUNDAMENTAL ADVANCES AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE ENGINEERING SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR GRANT COLLABORATIVE PROJECT GRANT FRENCH EMBASSY DUBLIN FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING IN BIOMECHANICS & MECHANOBIOLOGY WORKSHOP SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND WORKSHOP GRANT EVOLUTION AND BONE MORPHOLOGY EMBARK INITIATIVE POSTDOC FELLOWSHIP AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ENTITLED "INNOVATION: THE THIRD PILLAR OF IRISH HIGHER EDUCATION?" NAIRTL COMPUTER SIMULATION OF BIODEGRADATION SCAFFOLDS: VALIDATION AGAINST EXPERIMENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND NORTH/SOUTH SUPPLEMENT MECHANOREGULATION OF PATTERNING GENES DURING DEVELOPMENT OF THE EMBRYONIC SKELETON: GROWTH AND DIFFERENTIATION IN THE ABSENCE OF MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS. WELLCOME TRUST MECHANORESPONSIVENESS OF MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS WITH AGEING SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. MARK PRENDERGAST prendergastmark ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MPRENDE EDUCATION I HAVE A WIDE RANGE OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNAL ARTICLE PUBLICATIONS TO DATE REFLECTING MY SPECIALIST TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS IN THE FIELDS OF: - MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION - CURRICULUM REFORM IN MATHEMATUCS - EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS - TEACHING AND LEARNING OF SCHOOL ALGEBRA - PROMOTING INTEREST IN MATHEMATICS - MATHEMATICS SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS IN THIRD LEVEL - THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERACY SKILLS IN LEARNING MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR TEACHER EDUCATION IN EUROPE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION EXTERNAL / INTERNAL EXAMINER AND CHAIR FOR A NUMBER OF PHD AND MASTERS VIVA EXAMINATIONS EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR AN INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME IN ST PATRICKS COLLEGE, THURLES IRISH MATHEMATICS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR NALA NUMERACY CONFERENCE MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL FORUM PEER REVIEW PANEL OF EXPERTISE FOR DIGITAL BADGE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PAPERS FOR A NUMBER OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICS EDUCATION CONFERENCES REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY REVIEWER FOR IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES JOURNAL REVIEWER FOR TUNING JOURNAL FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ALGEBRA EFFECTIVE TEACHING MATHEMATICS EDUCATION STUDENT INTEREST TEACHER EDUCATION EDUCATION DR. ROGER PRESTON prestonroger ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PRESTONR BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) ADMINISTRATION OF RECOMBINANT VERSIONS OF ENDOGENOUS PLASMA PROTEINS IS A COMMON THERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO HEMATOLOGICAL AND INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS, BUT CAN BE EXPENSIVE, IMMUNOGENIC AND ASSOCIATED WITH UNDESIRABLE SIDE-EFFECTS. DR. PRESTON'S RESEARCH SEEKS TO ADDRESS THESE DEFICIENCIES BY GENERATING ENHANCED RECOMBINANT THERAPEUTICS THROUGH INNOVATIVE BIOENGINEERING OF EXISTING PLASMA PROTEINS. TO DATE, HIS GROUP HAS DEVELOPED A NUMBER OF UNIQUE RECOMBINANT MUTANT PLASMA PROTEINS POSSESSING ENHANCED PROPERTIES WITH SIGNIFICANT THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL. THESE NOVEL DRUG CANDIDATES HAVE BEEN CREATED VIA MANIPULATION OF ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY, PROTEIN INTERACTION, SUBSTRATE RECOGNITION AND POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION. THE ULTIMATE AIM OF THIS APPROACH IS TO DEVELOP NEW TREATMENT APPROACHES FOR ADULT AND PAEDIATRIC INFLAMMATORY, HAEMOSTATIC AND MALIGNANT DISEASES. DR. PRESTON'S RESEARCH GROUP IS CURRENTLY FUNDED BY A COMBINATION OF CHARITABLE, GOVERNMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL SOURCES. THESE INCLUDE THE PAEDIATRIC RESEARCH IN TRANSLATIONAL IMMUNOLOGY PROGRAM AT THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, A SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND STARTING INVESTIGATOR AWARD AND A BAYER HEMOPHILIA PROGRAM EARLY CAREER INVESTIGATOR AWARD. SUMMER COTTAGE STRADBROOK ROAD BLACKROCK CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH HAEMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS BLOOD DISEASES HEMOPHILIA THROMBOSIS CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. ADRIELE PRINA MELLO prinamelloadriele USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PRINAMEA CLINICAL MEDICINE AMBER CRANN TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) PRINA-MELLO'S RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE FOCUSED ON: 1) ADVANCED TRANSLATION RESEARCH IN NANOMEDICINE (IN VITRO/ IN VIVO DIAGNOSTIC AND IMAGING), 2) THERAPEUTICS BASED ON NANOTECHNOLOGY AND MULTILAYERED STRUCTURES, 3) THERANOSTICS AND PERSONALISED MEDICINE, 4) DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN NANO-DEVELOPED-PRODUCTS AND BIOLOGICALLY RELEVANT MODELS (NANOTOXICOLOGY, NANOBIOCOMPATIBILITY AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY), 5) MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS APPLIED TO ULTRA-SENSITIVE DIAGNOSTICS 6) BIOMEDICAL DEVICES AND TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY AND NANOMATERIALS, 7) NANOMEDICINE CHARACTERIZATION AND SAFETY 8) IN VITRO COMPLEX MODELS AND TISSUE MIMETIC 9) COMPLIANCE TO 3RS PRINCIPLE ADDITIONAL INTERESTS ARE ALSO IN NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOMATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBILITY, HIGH THROUGHPUT AND CONTENT SCREENING, MULTIPARAMETRIC ANALYSYS, DATA MINING, BIOELECTROMAGNETISMS BIOPHYSICS, BIOMECHANICS, SINGLE CELL ASSAY AND CELLULAR ENGINEERING. DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ACADEMY OF NANOGAGLIATO, ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR OF THE TOXICOLOGY AND CHARACTERISATION WORKING GROUP AT THE EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM IN NANOMEDICINE (ETPN) EURONANOFORUM 2013 - INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP AREA NANOMEDICINE, HEALTHCARE, NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOMATERIALS EUROPEAN COMMISSION EXPERT ADVISOR TASK FORCE CHARACTERIZATION EUROPEAN COMMISSION EXPERT-ADVISOR FOR JOINT INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION POLICY (NANODATA PROJECT) MEMBER OF EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM (ETP) IN NANOMEDICINE MEMBER OF THE BIOELECTROMAGNETICS SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN BIOELECTROMAGNETICS ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF MOLECULAR IMAGING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND MEMBRO DELL'ORDINE DEGLI INGEGNERI ITALIANI NANO WORLD CANCER DAY - ORGANISING COMMITTEE NANOFAR ASSOCIATED MEMBER FOR EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL DOCTORATE VICE-CHAIRMAN OF NANODIAGNOSTIC WORKING GROUP - EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM IN NANOMEDICINE BIOELECTROMAGNETISM BIOENGINEERING BIOMAGNETISM BIOMATERIALS BIOMECHANICS BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BIOPHYSICS BIOREACTORS BIOSENSORS BIOTECHNOLOGY CELL AND TISSUE DEVELOPMENT CELL COMMUNICATION CYTOSKELTON, CELL DIVISION INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MEDICAL DEVICES ENGINEERING MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY MULTISENSORY TECHNOLOGY, MULTI SENSING NANO BIOTECHNOLOGY NANO-MATERIALS NANOCHEMISTRY NANOMEDICINE NANOTECHNOLOGY NEUROBIOLOGY STEM CELL BIOLOGY AND HEMATOPOIESIS SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS TISSUE CULTURE ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE RESPIRATORY MEDICINE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE OTHER BASIC MEDICINE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING OTHER ENGINEERING OTHER HUMANITIES BARCODE PROJECT SFI SFI-CSET MULTIFUN THE MULTIFUN CONSORTIUM FOCUSES ON THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF NEW SYSTEMS BASED UPON MINIMAL INVASIVE NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARLY AND SELECTIVE DETECTION AND ELIMINATION OF BREAST AND PANCREATIC CANCER WITH REDUCED SIDE EFFECTS. THE PROJECT WILL DEPLOY A STRATEGY BASED ON THE MULTIFUNTIONALISATION OF MAGNETIC IRON OXIDE NANOPARTICLES (MNP), COMBINING DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC FEATURES AGAINST BREAST AND PANCREATIC CANCER AND CANCER STEM CELLS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 NAMDIATREAM (EU-FP7-NMP LA) NAMDIATREAM WILL DEVELOP NANOTECHNOLOGY-BASED TOOLKIT TO ENABLE EARLY DETECTION AND IMAGING OF MOLECULAR BIOMARKERS OF THE MOST COMMON CANCER TYPES AND OF CANCER METASTASES, AS WELL AS PERMITTING THE IDENTIFICATION OF CELLS INDICATIVE OF EARLY-STAGE DISEASE ONSET. THE PROJECT IS BUILT ON THE INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS OF SUPER-SENSITIVE "LAB-ON-A-BEAD", "LAB-ON-A-CHIP" AND "LAB-ON-A-WIRE" NANO-DEVICES. NAMDIATREAM IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY AND PAN-EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM THAT BUILDS AROUND 7 HIGH-TECH SMES, 2 MULTINATIONAL INDUSTRIES AND 13 ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS. EU FP7 NMP INEDITED IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (IRC) IRC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP AMBER CENTRE HORIZONTAL PLATFORM HORIZONTAL PLATFORM IN ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (EHS) ASSESSMENT OF MANUFACTURED MATERIALS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SFI CENTRE PROGRAMME AMCARE FP7 PROJECT AMCARE IS A TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM TO DEVELOP ADVANCED MULTIMODAL REGENERATIVE THERAPIES USING CARDIOPOEITIC STEM CELLS AND SMART BIOMATERIALS THAT EFFECTIVELY TREAT DAMAGE CAUSED BY ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 QUALITY NANO QUALITYNANO IS A RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR NANOSAFETY ASSESSMENT. QUALITYNANO'S CORE AIM IS THE CREATION OF A 'NEUTRAL' SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL SPACE IN WHICH ALL STAKEHOLDER GROUPS CAN ENGAGE, DEVELOP, AND SHARE SCIENTIFIC BEST PRACTICE IN THE FIELD. INITIALLY IT WILL HARNESS RESOURCES FROM ACROSS EUROPE AND DEVELOP EFFICIENT, TRANSPARENT AND EFFECTIVE PROCESSES. THEREBY IT WILL ENABLE PROVISION OF SERVICES TO ITS USERS, AND THE BROADER COMMUNITY, ALL IN THE CONTEXT OF A BEST-PRACTICE ETHOS. THIS WILL ENCOURAGE EVIDENCE-BASED DIALOGUE TO PROSPER BETWEEN ALL STAKEHOLDERS. HOWEVER, QUALITYNANO WILL ALSO PRO-ACTIVELY SEEK TO DRIVE, DEVELOP AND PROMOTE THE HIGHEST QUALITY RESEARCH AND PRACTICES VIA ITS JOINT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (JRA), NETWORKING ACTIVITIES (NA) AND PROVISION OF TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS (TA) FUNCTIONS, WITH A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE AND MODE OF IMPLEMENTATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 NANOREG THE NANOREG PROJECT WILL ESTABLISH A BETTER LEVEL OF TRUST BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND POLICY DEVELOPERS AND ALSO ESTABLISH A NEW, DEMAND DRIVEN APPROACH, INVOLVING THE INTERACTION OF MATERIAL SPECIALISTS AND NANO-TOXICOLOGISTS. THIS WILL HELP TO ESTABLISH TRUST BETWEEN THE MAIN PLAYERS, NAMELY REGULATORS, SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AND INDUSTRY. WITH THIS PROJECT WE WILL GET NOT ONLY A BETTER COORDINATION OF THE EU RESEARCH AGENDA REGARDING THE REDUCTION OF RISK OF NANO MATERIALS, BUT IMPROVED OR MORE FOCUSED INTERACTION BETWEEN INDUSTRY, REGULATORS AND THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 EU NCL - H2020 EUROPEAN NANOMEDICINE CHARACTERISATION LABORATORY (EU-NCL) THE EMPHASIS OF THE EU-NCL IS TO SERVE AS A NEXUS FOR TRANS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY. THEREFORE, LESSONS-LEARNED, BEST PRACTICES, KNOWLEDGE, TOOLS AND METHODS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY SUCH AS ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS, INDUSTRY, REGULATORY BODIES, METROLOGY INSTITUTES AND OTHERS. EC HORIZON2020 INFRAIA 2014 IRC POSTGRADUATE ASSESSING THE POTENTIAL OF NANOMEDICINE TO IMPROVE THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC CANCER IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. GERALDINE PRIZEMAN prizemangeraldine RESEARCH ASSISTANT PRIZEMAG SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS; HEALTHCARE SERVICES RESEARCH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN HOSPITALS; PATIENT EXPERIENCES OF HEALTH SERVICES; NURSE EDUCATION; NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT; SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 CONTINENCE PROMOTION PROJECT COLLABORATOR WITH JOSEPHONE DONLON, ANNA AYTON, CORA O'CONNOR, CLARE O'CARROLL & MARY BELL FAILURE TO FAIL: AN EXPLORATION OF STAFF NURSES' VIEWS OF COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS CROSS HOSPITAL PROJECT (ST. JAMES,S HOSPITAL AND TALLAGHT HOSPITAL). COLLABORATOR WITH HELEN FENN, ORLA NUGENT, SIOBHAN PART, LISA KEANE, CHRISTINA LYDON, CAITRIONA DENNEHY, FIONA TIMMINS 'MIKIDNEY': A PILOT STUDY OF A SELF-MANAGEMENT SMARTPHONE APP FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE COLLABORATOR WITH NUALA DOYLE, MAIREAD MURPHY, LAURA BRENNAN, ALICE WAUGH, PROF. GEORGE MELLOTTE, MARGARET MCCANN METRICS-EVALUATION OF THE ADOPTION OF A QUALITY MANAGEMENT PROCESS IN A LARGE TEACHING HOSPITAL COLLABORATOR WITH JULIE O'GRADY, MIRIAM ROCHE, ANNE-MARIE BRADY EVALUATION OF BUMBLEANCE, THE CHILDREN'S NATIONAL AMBULANCE SERVICE IN IRELAND COLLABORATOR WITH AILEEN LYNCH, HONOR NICHOLL, CAROLE KING, CATHERINE TREACY EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES EXPERIENCED BY PEOPLE WITH MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY LIVING INDEPENDENTLY. COLLABORATOR WITH HONOR NICHOLL, CARMEL DOYLE, JESSICA EUSTACE-COOK,CATHERINE TRACEY, AILEEN LYNCH, & CLAIR KELLY RARE DISEASES WEBSITE: DEVELOPING THE PARENT-TO-PARENT CONTENT OF A RARE DISEASE WEBSITE IN IRELAND COLLABORATOR WITH HONOR NICHOLL, JESSICA EUSTACE-COOK, CAROLE KING, MARYANNE MURPHY,CATHERINE TRACEY & AILEEN LYNCH END-OF-LIFE-VOICES PROJECT (BEREAVED RELATIVES SURVEY) COLLABORATOR WITH BETTINA KORN, DIARMUID O' COIMIN, MARGARET CODD, MAIREAD CURRAN, GERALYN HYNES, SARAH DONNELLY A PATIENT SATISFACTION STUDY EVALUATING PATIENT EXPERIENCES OF OUTPATIENT VARICOSE VEIN SURGERY IN THE VEINS UNIT OF ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL COLLABORATOR WITH BERNIE HANNON AND SHARON O'DONNELL CANCER NURSES RESEARCH WRITING GROUP - JBI SYSTEMATIC REVIEW COLLABORATOR WITH CATHERINE O'BRINE, GERALYN HYNES AND CANCER NURSES IN ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL AN EVALUATION OF RECREATIONAL WARD FACILITIES FOR LONG STAY IN-PATIENTS ON ONE WARD COLLABORATOR WITH LORRAINE DOLAN, MARIA KANE, FIONA TIMMINS THE NEED FOR SOCIAL WORKER REFERRAL IN OUTPATIENTS TB CLINIC COLLABORATOR WITH DONNA STAPLETON, MARIA KANE, LORRAINE DOLAN, GERALYN HYNES EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ANTICOAGULATION SELF-TESTING PROGRAM. COLLABORATOR WITH ANNE GROGAN, FINOLA GRIFFEN, GABRIELLE MCKEE, MICHAEL COUGHLAN NUTRITION AND HYDRATION RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT GROUP CROSS HOSPITAL PROJECT (TALLAGHT HOSPITAL, ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, NAAS HOSPITAL). COLLABORATOR WITH PATRICIA CRONIN, LOUISE DALY, MARGARET MCCANN, AMANDA ROBERTS, MARY QUIRKE, SHAUNA ENNIS, NORA O'MAHONY, JULIE O'GRADY CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. JOHN MARY QUIGLEY quigleyjohnmary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JQUIGLEY PHARMACY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY IN IRELAND INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. PAULA QUIGLEY quigleypaula ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PQUIGLEY DRAMA FILM THEORY GENRE GENDER MELODRAMA HOLLYWOOD CINEMA EUROPEAN CINEMA SCHOOL OF DRAMA SAMUEL BECKETT CNTR COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN CINEMA FILM AND GENDER FILM THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY HOLLYWOOD CINEMA CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES DR. JEAN MARY QUIGLEY quigleyjeanmary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR QUIGLEYJ PSYCHOLOGY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE MOST OF HER RESEARCH TO DATE HAS CENTRED ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT, WITH A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN SOCIO-COMMUNICATIVE AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. RECENTLY SHE IS MOST INTERESTED IN INVESTIGATING THE VERY BEGINNINGS OF INTENTIONALITY AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. DEVELOPMENTS IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION RESEARCH ARE COALESCING ON EARLIER AND EARLIER STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT AS THE CRUCIAL TIMES AND HER WORK FOCUSSES ON THE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF IMPORTANT INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONAL VARIABLES FOR LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND FOR OVERALL OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENT. USING VIDEO MICROANALYSIS AND ADVANCED SOFTWARE AND ANALYSIS PROGRAMMES THERE ARE NOW REAL POSSIBILITIES FOR ACCESSING CRITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PREVERBAL PERIOD. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND (PSI); INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF CHILD LANGUAGE (IASCL) AUTISM DEVELOPMENTAL PRAGMATICS AND CHILD DISCOURSE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT PSYCHOLINGUISTICS EMBODIMENT AND MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IRCHSS PHD STUDENTSHIP LANGUAGE INTERVENTIONS WITH NON-VERBAL ASD CHILDREN IRCSET PHD STUDENTSHIP MOTHER'S INFANT DIRECTED SPEECH IN FACE TO FACE INTERACTION WITH NORMALLY DEVELOPING INFANTS AND INFANT SIBLINGS OF CHILDREN WITH ASD IRCHSS CANCER INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MR. JOHN QUILLIAM quilliamjohn ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR QUILLIAJ SCHOOL OFFICE - BUSINESS · CULTURAL & BEHAVIOURAL ISSUES IN ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE · ORGANISATIONAL COMMUNICATION · ORGANISATION DESIGN BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ANTHONY PAUL QUINN quinnanthonypaul ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AQUINN ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING RESEARCH EXPERTISE: BAYESIAN STATISTICAL THEORY & METHODS; BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRICS FOR ROBUSTNESS & FLEXIBLE DESIGN; OPTIMAL DECISION MAKING & ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSFER MACHINE LEARNING; DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING IN SENSOR NETWORKS; INFORMATION-THEORETIC CRITERIA; BAYESIAN INFERENTIAL APPROXIMATION; DESIGN OF RECURSIVE ALGORITHMS FOR REAL-TIME SIGNAL PROCESSING & DIGITAL RECEIVER DESIGN; IMAGE ANALYSIS (TEXTURE MODELLING & SEGMENTATION); COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS FOR MEDICINE; ADVISORY SYSTEM DESIGN. RESEARCH SUMMARY: PROF. QUINN HAS SPECIALIZED IN BAYESIAN METHODS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING, SYSTEM ANALYSIS & MACHINE LEARNING FOR TWENTY NINE YEARS. HE WORKS AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, PROBABILITY & STATISTICS, AND IS AMONG THE FEW INTERNATIONALLY WITH GROUNDING JOINTLY IN ELECTRICAL/INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS & DESIGN, AND IN ADVANCED STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY. HIS CURRENT POSITION AS ONE-YEAR FULBRIGHT VISITING SCHOLAR IN THE RENOWNED MICHAEL JORDAN GROUP IN THE STATISTICS DEPARTMENT AT UC BERKELEY REFLECTS THIS, AS DO HIS INVITED LECTURES (UC BERKELEY, UC SANTA CRUZ AND UW MADISON TO DATE) IN 2017. BAYESIAN METHODS FOCUS ON FULLY PROBABILISTIC SETTINGS FOR INFORMATION-BEARING PROCESSES/SYSTEMS. PROF. QUINN FOCUSSES ON BAYESIAN ANSWERS TO FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS. RATHER THAN APPLICATIONS AS PRIMARY GOAL, HE APPLIES HIS METHODS SELECTIVELY. TYPICAL OUTPUTS ARE THEREFORE (A) FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ASSUMPTIONS UNDERLYING CLASSICAL & EMPIRICAL SOLUTIONS (WHAT HE CALLS THE `AUDITING PROPERTY' OF BAYESIAN METHODS), AND (B) NEW DESIGNS ARISING OUT OF BAYESIAN ANALYSIS (WHAT HE CALLS THE `PRESCRIPTIVE PROPERTY'). THE FOLLOWING IS A SELECTIVE LIST OF THE `FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS' ABOVE: (I) OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT OF PARAMETRIC MODEL COMPLEXITY, LEADING TO OPTIMAL TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN PARSIMONY AND PREDICTION; MANY PUBLICATIONS IN MODEL ORDER INFERENCE, SIGNAL DETECTION, THRESHOLD-FREE PARAMETER ESTIMATION, AND AUTOMATIC RANK DETERMINATION (ARD) IN MATRIX DECOMPOSITION. (II) DESIGN OF RECURSIVE COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHMS FOR FLEXIBLE CLASSES OF OBSERVATION MODELS. THESE BAYESIAN ALGORITHMS - WHICH CAN BE HOSTED BY COMPUTING HARDWARE - PROVIDE ATTRACTIVE TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN COST AND ACCURACY. THIS IS THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF PROFESSOR QUINN'S (WIDELY CITED) 2006 SPRINGER MONOGRAPH WITH A FORMER STUDENT, AND RELATED PAPERS. (III) NONPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN SOLUTIONS FOR FLEXIBLE MODEL DESIGN AND MODEL-ROBUST INFERENCE. HERE, THE MODEL ITSELF IS INFERRED, WITHOUT FINITE DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM CONSTRAINTS. (IV) RANDOMIZED DESIGN FOR KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING AND TRANSFER LEARNING. A NUMBER OF MAJOR RECENT PAPERS WITH HIS CZECH COLLABORATORS ADDRESS MACHINE LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING PROBLEMS, PROCESSING KNOWLEDGE SPECIFICATIONS BROADER THAN THE CRISP DATA SETS OF SIGNAL PROCESSING. DESIGNS ARE RANDOMIZED, THEREBY ALLOWING EXPLORATION, AND CIRCUMVENTING THE NEED FOR OPTIMIZATION. THESE CONTEXTS HAVE BEEN EXPLORED IN SELECTIVE APPLICATIONS. RESPECTIVELY: (I) ARD LED TO IMPROVED RECONSTRUCTION OF NOISY FUNCTIONAL SCINTIGRAPHIC IMAGES OF THE HUMAN KIDNEY; (II) A NOVEL VARIATIONAL BAYES FILTER-BANK PROVIDED EXCELLENT SMOOTHING OF IMPULSIVELY CORRUPTED SPEECH; IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AN ITERATIVE SYMBOL DETECTOR FOR A DIGITAL RECEIVER YIELDED IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OVER STATE-OF-THE-ART VITERBI ALGORITHM; (III) A NONPARAMETRIC STOPPING RULE FOR SAMPLING FROM UNKNOWN DISTRIBUTIONS REVEALED A NEW NON-UNIFORM QUANTIZER DESIGN; AND (IV) AN APPLICATION IN DISTRIBUTED KNOWLEDGE PROCESSING FOR SENSOR NETWORKS YIELDED A NEW WAY OF POOLING DISTRIBUTIONS, EQUIPPING IT WITH ERROR BOUNDS AND PROVIDING IMPROVED PREDICTION; A NEW BAYESIAN TRANSFER LEARNING MECHANISM ALLOWED EXTERNAL DATA FROM A PATIENT POPULATION TO BE EXPLOITED, IMPROVING DESIGN OF RADIO-IODINE THERAPY FOR INDIVIDUAL THYROID CANCER PATIENTS. ELEC & ELECT ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 LATIN CZECH FRENCH IRISH CHAIR OF THE IRISH SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, 2011: . ASSEMBLED AN OUTSTANDING SET OF FOUR INTERNATIONAL PLENARY SPEAKERS (PURDUE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AALBORG UNIVERSITY, MIT). . SINGLE-HANDEDLY RAISED €10,200 FROM IRISH TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES TO SUPPORT THE CONFERENCE AND SEE IT SAFELY INTO THE FUTURE. . INAUGURATED THE BEST PAPER AWARD AND A BEST MATHS PAPER AWARD TO ENCOURAGE STANDARDS AND INTEREST IN MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN IRISH SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH. . ORGANIZED INNOVATIVE OPENING SESSION ON CIRCUIT DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION WITH AIM OF ATTRACTING DELEGATES FROM THE IRISH MICROELECTRONICS INDUSTRY DESIGN ASSOCIATION (MIDAS). THE SESSION WAS HEAVILY ATTENDED BY DELEGATES FROM INDUSTRY, WITH A VERY POSITIVE INTERCHANGE BETWEEN THEM AND THE INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIC DELEGATIONS. EXTERNAL PHD EXAMINER, IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE, AT THE ÉCOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE (SUPÉLEC), PARIS, IN BOTH 2010 AND 2012. FULBRIGHT ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE IEEE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR BAYESIAN ANALYSIS (ISBA) REVIEW WORK/INVITATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL FUNDING AGENCIES: . CZECH NATIONAL FUNDING AGENCY (GA&#268;R) (2009, 2012, 2015, 2016) . FRENCH RESEARCH AGENCY (CNRS) (2012) . VIENNA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FUND (2007) . EUROPEAN COMMISSION ERC SCHEME (2016) REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS/PUBLISHERS: . VERY ACTIVE REVIEWER FOR MANY OF THE BEST JOURNALS IN HIS FIELD, SUCH AS THE IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, IMAGE PROCESSING, INFORMATION THEORY, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS; IEE PROCEEDINGS ON VISION, IMAGE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING; AND AUTOMATICA. . SERVED ON EDITORIAL BOARD OF ELSEVIER JOURNAL, "SIGNAL PROCESSING" (2011-12). . WAS CHOSEN AS ACADEMIC REVIEWER OF THE MAJOR TEXTBOOK BY MACMILLAN (2002), "DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING", MULGREW, GRANT AND THOMPSON. TECHNICAL/SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE: . EURASIP EUROPEAN SIGNAL PROCESSING CONFERENCE (2012-15). . INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS, CACHAN, FRANCE (2011-17). . IRISH SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (ISSC) STEERING COMMITTEE (1998-2017). EXTENSIVE REVIEWING WORK FOR THE IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (REGULARLY SINCE 2002). BAYESIAN INFERENCE BAYESIAN SIGNAL AND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION BAYESIAN SIGNAL PROCESSING IN MEDICINE AND COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATION THEORY DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ESTIMATION IMAGE SEGMENTATION INFORMATION THEORY PROBABILITY THEORY SIGNAL PROCESSING VARIATIONAL / STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATIONS BAYESIAN INFERENCE COLLABORATION WITH UNIV. PARIS V FORBAIRT/CNRS VISIT S.U.N.Y. FORBAIRT COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS FORBAIRT HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SCHOLARSHIP T.C.D./QUEEN'S PRODACTOOL (PHASE I) ESPRIT (E.U.) MEDICAL IMAGING PROVOST'S FUND PRODACTOOL (PHASE II) ESPRIT (E.U. FIFTH FRAMEWORK) RESEARCH INCENTIVE GRANT T.C.D. INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. FRANCIS QUINN quinnfrancis ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FQUINN DENTAL SCIENCE CONTINUING RESEARCH INTO THE SEALING ABILITY OF DENTAL RESTORATIONS, INCLUDING THE 3-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF ENDODONTIC LEAKAGE PATTERS DENTAL SCHOOL DENTAL SCHOOL 30 WESTLAND COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIRMAN OF THE INSPECTION AND RECOGNITION COMMITTEE OF THE FACULTY OF DENTISTRY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND. EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF THE IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE FACULTY OF DENTISTRY FOR THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND EXAMINER IN THE INTERCOLLEGIATE SPECIALTY FELLOWSHIP EXAMINATION IN RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY INTERNAL EXAMINER FOR M.DENT.SC. THESIS FOR DR. SPYRIDON RAPTIS, DUBLIN UNIVERSITY INTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE DENTAL SURGERY ASSISTANT DIPLOMA, SCHOOL OF DENTAL SCIENCE, DUBLIN UNIVERSITY INTERNAL EXAMINER FOR THE DIPLOMA IN DENTAL TECHNOLOGY, SCHOOL OF DENTAL SCIENCE, DUBLIN UNIVERSITY INTERNAL EXAMINER IN DENTAL HYGIENE DIPLOMA INTERNAL EXAMINER OF FELLOWSHIP IN DENTAL SURGERY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND IRISH DENTAL COUNCIL, STATUTARY EXAMINATION FOR NON-E.U. DENTISTS LOCAL CO-ORDINATOR OF FELLOWSHIP IN DENTAL SURGERY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND MEMBER OF DENTAL MATERIALS GROUP OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH MEMBER OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF CLINICAL CONTINUING EDUCATION MEMBER OF THE POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL AND DENTAL BOARD, EASTERN REGIONAL COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE IRISH DENTAL ASSOCIATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS MS. SARAH QUINN quinnsarah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SAQUINN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SCHOOL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND. VICE-CHAIR OF RESEARCH COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JAMES JOSEPH QUINN quinnjamesjoseph ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JIQUINN BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: . INDUSTRY EVOLUTION AND CHANGE . STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PROCESS . STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION FIRMS BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT (US) EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT (IRISH BOARD REPRESENTATIVE 2005 - PRESENT) EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION (EAERCD) IRISH ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT (COUNCIL MEMBER 2006 - ) MARKETING INSTITUTE OF IRELAND (CHAIRMAN OF THE INSTITUTE IN 1993/1994) CHANGE PROCESS CORPORATE/STRATEGIC PLANNING DISTRIBUTION FOOD AND GROCERY RETAILING FOOD AND GROCERY WHOLESALING INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, ORGANISATION THEORY INDUSTRY INDUSTRY EVOLUTION ORGANISATIONAL EVOLUTION/CHANGE STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY AND MARKETING STRATEGY PROCESS WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. MARY BRIGID QUIRKE quirkemarybrigid RESEARCH FELLOW QUIRKEMB SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CENTRE FOR PRACTICE AND HEALTHCARE INNOVATION EVALUATION RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTHCARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION; THE SCHOOL AS A SETTING FOR SUPPORT CHILD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING/HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOLS; ETHICAL ISSUES ARISING FROM RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN; MIXED METHODOLOGIES; MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF OFFENDING POPULATIONS; PATIENT ADVOCACY IN THE HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT EXPERIENCES OF HEALTH SERVICES SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY THE GAS BUILDING 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 OUT OF HOURS EVALUATION PROJECT COLLABORATOR WITH ANNE MARIE BRADY (PI),GOBNAIT BYRNE, MEABH PRENDERGAST, SHAUNA ENNIS, MEATH FOUNDATION MEDICATION MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; A 5 YEAR REVIEW OF THE NIQAC COLLABORATOR WITH THELMA BEGLEY (PI), MARIANNE MURPHY, CAITRIONA DENNEHY, CARMEL DOYLE, ELEANOR HOLLYWOOD, FIONA LAWLOR ADELAIDE FOUNDATION EVALUATION OF THE EFFICACY AND TOLERABILITY OF LEVETIRACETAM AS A FIRST LINE TREATMENT FOR EPILEPSY IN A NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC POPULATION (KEPPRA NATIONAL STUDY) COLLABORATOR WITH ANN CONNOLLY(PI), DAVID WEBB, GRAINNE GRIFFIN SUZANNE CROWLEY,NOREEN TEEHAN, EADAOIN HAYES EVALUATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EWS SYSTEM IN IRISH EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS COLLABORATOR WITH MARGAURITA O'BRIEN (PI), CATHERINE MCCABE, HELEN O'REILLY, MARY QUIRKE NUTRITION AND HYDRATION RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT GROUP CROSS HOSPITAL PROJECT (TALLAGHT HOSPITAL, ST. JAMES HOSPITAL, NAAS) COLLABORATOR WITH PATRICIA CRONIN, LOUISE DALY, MARGARET MCCANN, AMANDA ROBERTS, GERALDINE PRIZEMAN SHAUNA ENNIS, NORA O'MAHONY, JULIE O'GRADY BLOSSOM IRELAND EVALUATION PROJECT COLLABORATOR WITH CATHERINE COMISKEY (PI) AND KARIN O'SULLIVAN CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF NON-ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME CHEST PAIN PATIENTS FOLLOWING DISCHARGE FROM EMERGENCY CARE: AN ADVANCED NURSE PRACTITIONER-LED CHEST PAIN CLINIC COLLABORATOR WITH SHIRLEY INGRAM (PI), GABRIELLE MCKEE,AISHLING MOLONEY, NIAMH KELLY EXAMINATION OF PATIENT WHO RETRIGGER OF ERT CALLS COLLABORATOR WITH GOBNAIT BYRNE, SHAUNA ENNIS(PI), ANNE MARIE BARNES, PATRICIA MORRISON, SIOBHAN CONNORS EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION IN CHANGING THE RISK PROFILE OF HEART FAILURE PATIENTS COLLABORATOR WITH NOELEEN FALLON (PI), GABRIELLE MCKEE, CAROLINE FINN, ROSE O'MAHONY, , MARY QUIRKE EVALUATING THE INTRODUCTION OF AN ANP-LED ADULT EPILEPSY RAPID ACCESS CLINIC COLLABORATOR WITH DENISE CUNNINGHAM (PI), NAOMI ELLIOTT THE TRADITIONAL DOCTOR-LED WARD ROUND: EXAMINING INTERVENTIONS AIMED AT IMPROVING ADHERENCE TO BEST PRACTICE IN THE ADULT ACUTE HOSPITAL SETTING: A JBI SYSTEMATIC REVIEW COLLABORATOR WITH ANNA SMYTH, LOUISE DALY, ANNE MARIE BRADY EXAMINING PATIENT SATISFACTION AND EXPERIENCE OF CARE PATHWAYS OF THE CARDIAC RANP-RANP REFERRAL SERVICES (NAAS-TH) CROSS-HOSPITAL PROJECT (TALLAGHT AND NAAS HOSPITAL) COLLABORATOR WITH FRANCIS O'BRIEN, AMANDA ROBERTS, SHIRLEY INGRAM, FIONA CAGNEY, JACKIE O'TOOLE HEALTHY SCHOOLS EVALUATION PROJECT COLLABORATOR WITH CATHERINE COMISKEY (PI), KARIN O'SULLIVAN, CIARA WYNNE, ELEANOR HOLLYWOOD, SINEAD MCGILLOWAY TALLAGHT WEST CHILD DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. ARAN RAFFERTY raffertyaran RESEARCH FELLOW RAFFERTA CRANN CERAMIC MATERIALS: ZIRCONIA, ALUMINA, FERRITES, INTERMETALLICS GLASSY MATERIALS: CONTROLLED PORE GLASS, SODIUM BORO SILICATE, IONOMER GLASSES. GLASS-CERAMICS: FLUORAPATITE, ZIRCON, ALUMINO-SILICATE CRYSTAL PHASES. BIOMASS: PRE-TREATMENT OF BIOMASS TO INCREASE GAS YIELDS DURING ANAEROBIC DIGESTION MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION: EXPERT IN CERAMICS CHARACTERIZATION AND POROUS MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION. VAST EXPERIENCE OF PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS, MERCURY POROSIMETRY, DILATOMETRY, THERMO-GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS, PYCNOMETRY, BET SURFACE AREA ANALYSIS, ZETA POTENTIAL. MATERIALS PROCESSING: EXPERIENCE OF HEAT-TREATING CERAMIC MATERIALS, SPRAY DRYING, HAMMER MILLING, ATTRITION MILLING, BALL MILLING,SCREEN PRINTING, GLASS POURING, GLASS FORMING, AND LEACHING TO FORM POROUS GLASS. TESTING: MAGNETOSTRICTIVE TESTING, YOUNG'S MODULUS TESTING. ROOM 2.23 CRANN OLD CHEMISTRY EXTENSION COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS, MINERALS & MINING. CHARTERED ENGINEER. AMORPHOUS MATERIALS CERAMIC ENGINEERING CERAMIC MATERIALS AND POWDERS CERAMICS/REFRACTORIES ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS FERRITES GLASS MAGNETIC MATERIALS MAGNETIC OXIDES MAIZE SILAGE MATERIALS SCIENCES MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING MICROELECTRONICS MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY POROUS PARTICLES INVESTIGATION OF POROUS GLASS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR DCU CAREER START MAGNETOSTRICTIVE COBALT FERRITE FOR MEASUREMENT OF HIGH CURRENTS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT A NEW CHROMATOGRAPHIC MEDIA FOR BIOSEPARATIONS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. TATSIANA RAKOVICH rakovichtatsiana RESEARCH FELLOW RAKOVIT CLINICAL MEDICINE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE DEPT OF MOLECULAR RHEUMATOLOGY TBSI COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR YURY RAKOVICH rakovichyury VISITING ACADEMIC RAKOVICY SCHOOL OFFICE - PHYSICS SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. DAVID RALPH ralphdavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RALPHDA SOCIOLOGY CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES BROADLY, MY RESEARCH INTERESTS LIE IN TWO MAIN AREAS: MIGRATION STUDIES, AND FAMILY STUDIES. SPECIFICALLY, MY PHD DISSERTATION EXAMINED THE RE-INTEGRATION EXPERIENCES OF RETURN MIGRANTS TO "CELTIC TIGER" IRELAND. IT LOOKED AT HOW RETURNEES UNDERSTOOD IDEAS OF HOME, BELONGING AND IDENTITY IN THE WAKE OF RE-SETTLEMENT. FOLLOWING THIS, I WORKED ON THE "FAMILY RHYTHMS" PROJECT AT MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY. THIS IRC-FUNDED PROJECT EXAMINED CHANGES AND CONTINUITY TO THE IRISH FAMILY THROUGHOUT THE 20TH CENTURY. NEXT, I MOVED TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, WHERE I TOOK UP A MARIE CURIE INTRA-EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP TO WORK ON THE "EURO-COMMUTERS" PROJECT. THERE I EXAMINED A NOVEL FORM OF POST-CRISIS MIGRATION IN EUROPE, WHEREBY EU CITIZENS LIVE IN ONE EU COUNTRY BUT WORK IN ANOTHER, COMMUTING OVER AND BACK BETWEEN THE TWO CHRONICALLY. PRESENTLY, I AM DEVELOPING THE VARIOUS STRANDS OF THIS PAST RESEARCH AGENDA INTO A NEW PROJECT THAT WILL INVESTIGATE CONTEMPORARY DILEMMAS AROUND WORK, CAREER AND FAMILY FOR MOBILE WORKERS IN THE BURGEONING TECH SECTOR ACROSS EUROPE. THE COMMON THREAD RUNNING THROUGHOUT ALL THESE PROJECTS - WHICH IS THERE IN MY FIRST PUBLICATION FROM 2009 AND THERE IN MY MOST RECENT FROM 2016 - IS HOW ISSUES AROUND FAMILY AND MIGRATION INTERSECT IN OFTEN IRRECONCILABLE WAYS IN THE LIVES OF HIGHLY MOBILE POPULATION GROUPS. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND TRINITY REPRESENTATIVE ON THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK FAMILY RHYTHMS THE "FAMILY RHYTHMS" PROJECT LOOKS AT CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE IRISH FAMILY OVER THE COURSE OF THE 20TH CENTURY. A SECONDARY QUALITATIVE DATA ARCHIVE PROJECT, IT EXAMINES THE DOMAINS OF PARENTHOOD, CHILDHOOD, GRANDPARENTHOOD, AS WELL AS FAMILY FORMS AND STRUCTURES. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IRC RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT EURO-COMMUTERS THIS PROJECT EXAMINES A FORM OF POST-CRISIS MIGRATION THAT I TERM "EURO-COMMUTING" - THAT IS, WHERE AN EU CITIZEN LIVES IN ONE EU COUNTRY, BUT WORKS IN ANOTHER, COMMUTING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE TWO ROUTINELY. THE PROJECT EXAMINES THE IMPACTS OF THIS FORM OF MOBILITY ON BOTH THE CROSS-BORDER COMMUTER AS WELL AS THEIR "LEFT BEHIND" FAMILY MEMBERS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE CURIE FELLOWSHIP REVISITING RETURN MIGRATION THIS PROJECT RE-VISITED TWO PROJECTS CARRIED OUT ORIGINALLY ON RETURN MIGRATION TO "CELTIC TIGER" IRELAND. IN COLLABORATION WITH DR CAITRIONA NI LAOIRE FROM UCC, THIS PROJECT RE-INTERVIEWED RETURN MIGRANTS WE HAD ORIGINALLY INTERVIEWED DURING THE BOOM YEARS. THE AIM WAS TO EXAMINE THE RE-INTEGRATION TRAJECTORIES OF RETURNEE IN THE CONTEXT OF ONGOING AUSTERITY AND RECESSION. HAD OUR ORIGINAL INTERVIEWEES RE-SETTLED FULLY NOW THAT THEY WERE BACK IN THEIR ORIGIN COUNTRY FOR SEVERAL YEARS? OR WAS RETURN JUST ONE MORE SOJOURN ON AN EVER LENGTHENING MIGRATORY CAREER? HOW WOULD RETURN MIGRANTS MOBILISE THEIR MOBILITY CAPITAL IN THE FACE OF ECONOMIC CONTRACTION? IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR MANI RAMASWAMI ramaswamimani PROFESSOR OF NEUROGENETICS RAMASWAM GENETICS TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) RESEARCH INTERESTS &#8232; MY LABORATORY IS INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING MOLECULAR AND CIRCUIT MECHANISMS OF SIMPLE LEARNED BEHAVIORS. WE USE THE GENETIC MODEL ORGANISM DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER TO STUDY FUNDAMENTAL SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS AS WELL AS MECHANISMS OF SIMPLE OLFACTORY MEMORY. AN OBVIOUS EXTENSION OF THESE STUDIES TO ASK HOW THESE MECHANISMS ARE AFFECTED IN DISEASE AND WE CURRENTLY STUDY DISEASE MODELS FOR FRAGILE-X MENTAL RETARDATION AND SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA. FIVE POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS AND THREE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS IN MY LAB USE MANY IN VIVO APPROACHES INCLUDING DROSOPHILA GENETICS, TWO-PHOTON MICROSCOPY BASED LIVE-BRAIN IMAGING, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, AND A RANGE OF CELL BIOLOGICAL, BEHAVIORAL & MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES. SEVERAL COLLABORATIONS, PARTICULARLY WITH TOP RESEARCH GROUPS IN INDIA AND THE US, EXPAND OUR WORK INTO OTHER FIELDS SUCH AS NATURAL PRODUCTS AND PEPTIDE NEUROTOXINS. RECENT ADVANCES IN THE LAB INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING. 1. PRIMARILY IN COLLABORATION WITH VERONICA RODRIGUES' GROUP IN THE NCBS, BANGALORE, WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT GENE EXPRESSION- AND SYNAPTIC GROWTH DEPENDENT POTENTIATION OF GABAERGIC NEURONS DRIVES SPECIFIC FORMS OF LEARNED OLFACTORY BEHAVIOR. 2. IN COLLABORATION WITH ROY PARKER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, WE HAVE FOUND THAT THAT PROTEINS AND MECHANISMS THAT CONTROL TRANSLATION OF MRNAS IN YEAST, ALSO REGULATE THE TRANSLATION OF MRNAS STORED IN SYNAPSES. SOME OF THESE REGULATORY MECHANISMS, REQUIRED FOR PROPER NEURONAL HOMEOSTASIS/PLASTICITY ARE REQUIRED FOR MIRNA FUNCTION AND ALTERED IN HUMAN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE. INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF IRELAND INVESTIGATOR WELLCOME TRUST CELLULAR AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF SYNAPSE ASSEMBLY AND FUNCTION (PROJECT GRANT) ROLE PI WELLCOME TRUST DEPT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, GOVT OF INDIA. CIRCUIT MECHANISMS OF LONG-TERM HABITUATION ROLE: COLLABORATOR (PI: VERONICA RODRIGUES) DEEP SEQUENCING OF VENOM DUCT CDNAS FROM INDIAN CONE SNAILS DEPT OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, GOVT OF INDIA. ROLE: COLLABORATOR (PI: K.S. KRISHNAN) SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF IRELAND RESEARCH PROFESSOR. FOS, JUN AND THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY. NIH/NIDA (RO1): FOS, JUN AND THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY (CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD). NIDA (K02) MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SYNAPTIC-VESICLE RECYCLING. NIH/NINDS (RO1) IDENTIFICATION OF DROSOPHILA PROTEINS MODIFIED BY NEURAL ACTIVITY: A PROTEOMIC AND GENETIC APPROACH. NIH/NIDA (R21) ANALYSIS OF THE PATHWAY OF SPIRE, AN ACTIN-BINDING PROTEIN. MARCH OF DIMES A NOVEL TECHNOLOGY FOR PROTEIN DELIVERY TO THE CNS. (SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH GRANT TO Q. THERAPEUTICS) NIH/NINDS (R43) MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SYNAPTIC-VESICLE RECYCLING NIH/NINDS (RO1) NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES FOR IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF GENES INVOLVED IN LONG-TERM NEURAL PLASTICITY. NIH/ NIDA (RO1) MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF SYNAPTIC VESICLE RECYCLING (CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD) NIH/ NIMH (K02) DISSECTION OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING NEURAL PLASTICITY IN THE FRUIT FLY AND THE HONEY BEE.. HFSPO MCKNIGHT AWARD GENETIC ANALYSIS OF PRESYNAPTIC MECHANISMS. SLOAN AWARD GENETIC ANALYSIS OF PRESYNAPTIC MECHANISMS. IN VIVO ANALYSIS OF DYNAMIN FUNCTION IN SYNAPTIC VESICLE RECYCLING. NSF A GENETIC AND CELLULAR ANALYSIS OF SYNAPTIC FUNCTION IN DROSOPHILA. HFSPO AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. KIERAN RANKIN rankinkieran RESEARCH FELLOW KRANKIN LIBRARY SYSTEMS OFFICE USSHER LIBRARY COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MATHILDE RAVERDEAU raverdeaumathilde RESEARCH FELLOW RAVERDEM BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE, PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MR. NARAYANASAMY RAVI ravinarayanasamy ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT RAVIN SURGERY DEPT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER MR. NIALL REDMOND redmondniall VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW REDMONN1 ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. JAMES ANTHONY REDMOND redmondjamesanthony RETIRED STAFF MEMBER JREDMOND RETIRED STAFF MEMBER COMPUTER SYSTEM MODELLING; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK. RESEARCH GROUP: (AISG) APPLIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP, FLEXIBLE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACE COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SENIOR PROMOTIONS COMMITTEE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. PADRAIC REGAN reganpadraic ASSISTANT PROFESSOR REGANPA BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT, AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY. INDUSTRY RESEARCH INTEREST: AVIATION. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH MEMBER OF WORLD CONFERENCE ON TRANSPORT RESEARCH SOCIETY CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORT TRANSPORT PLANNING & LOGISTICS ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT AND TOURISM EDUCATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. JULIE REGAN reganjulie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JUREGAN CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE EVALUATION AND TREATMENT ORO-PHARYNGEAL AND OESOPHAGEAL DYSPHAGIA IN ADULTS. SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY, FIBEROPTIC ENDOSCOPIC EVALUATION OF SWALLOWING, TRANS-NASAL OESOPHAGOSCOPY AND HIGH RESOLUTION MANOMETRY. CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS INCLUDE ADAPTION OF THE FUNCTIONAL LUMEN IMAGING PROBE (FLIP) FOR DYSPHAGIA EVALUATION, OESOPHAGEAL SCREENING DURING VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY, UNSEDATED TRANS-NASAL OESOPHAGOSCOPY (TNO) TO INVESTIGATE DYSPHAGIA AND USE OF HIGH RESOLUTION MANOMETRY TO ESTABLISH CHANGES IN UPPER OESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER OPENING DURING SWALLOWING ACROSS BOLUS CONDITIONS. OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE NEUROGENIC DYSARTHRIA, TRACHEOSTOMY AND EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE, INCLUDING A RECENT COCHRANE REVIEW FOCUSING ON THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR BOTULINUM TOXIN TO TREAT UOS DYSFUNCTION IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE. CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 STH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER OF IRISH MOTOR NEURON DISEASE ASSOCIATION FULL MEMBER OF DYSPHAGIA RESEARCH SOCIETY MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR SWALLOWING DISORDERS (ESSD) MEMBER OF IRISH ADULT DYSPHAGIA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS (IASLT) MEMBER OF STEERING GROUP COMMITTEE FORMED TO SET UP AND DEVELOP THE ALL IRELAND DYSPHAGIA RESEARCH SOCIETY (AIDRS) MEMBER OF THE TRINITY ACADEMIC GASTROENTEROLOGY GROUP (TAGG) REVIEWER FOR NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY AND MOTILITY, DYSPHAGIA, EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY, JOURNAL OF REHABILITATIVE MEDICINE, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE STUDIES AMONGST OTHER JOURNALS DEGLUTITION DISORDERS DYSARTHRIA DYSPHAGIA NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS OESOPHAGUS VIDEO FLUOROSCOPY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES AGEING CANCER NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MS. JOAN PHILOMENA REIDY reidyjoanphilomena RETIRED STAFF MEMBER REIDYJP RETIRED STAFF MEMBER BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR RICHARD REILLY reillyrichard RESEARCH CHAIR OF NEURAL ENGINEERING REILLYRI SCHOOL OFFICE - ENGINEERING TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) NEURAL ENGINEERING: ADVANCED, ORIGINAL NEURAL SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS TO CREATE NOVEL AND LEADING-EDGE, PATIENT-ORIENTED NEURODIAGNOSTICS METHODS ALONG WITH NEURAL PROSTHETICS AND THERAPEUTIC NEUROMODULATION DEVICES. COUPLING UNIQUE AND ADVANCED NEURAL ENGINEERING TO PATIENT NEEDS FROM NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS, BRAIN TRAUMA AND INSULT THROUGH TO UNDERSTANDING PATHOPHYSIOLOGY COGNITIVE, SENSORY AND MOTOR FUNCTIONS. C/O ENGINEERING SCHOOL OFFICE MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF IEEE JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL ENGINEERING IN HEALTH AND MEDICINE (JTEHM) ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA ASSOCIATE EDITOR IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING BOARD MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE (ESEM) EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF THE IET'S HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY LETTERS EDITORIAL BOARD OF FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE, A SPECIALTY OF FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY FELLOW OF THE EUROPEAN ALLIANCE OF MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND (RAMI) FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL NEUROMODULATION SOCIETY AND NEUROMODULATION SOCIETY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND MEMBER OF THE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY (BMES) MEMBER OF THE IRISH INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE (IICN) MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY (RIA) MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF NEUROSCIENCE (SFN) MEMBER: INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND (ENGINEERSIRELAND) MEMBER: INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (IET) PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ENGINEERING AND MEDICINE REVIEWER FOR IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL SIGNAL PROCESSING SENIOR MEMBER: INSTITUTE FOR ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) AGING/GERONTOLOGY ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (HANDICAPPED) ASTHMA BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA BIOENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, MULTIDISCIPLINARY BRAIN CLINICAL ENGINEERING COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS, HEARING COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS, SPEECH DEMENTIA DYSTONIA ELDERLY HEALTH EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH--GERIATRIC INSTRUMENTS/INSTRUMENTATION/DEVICES (HEALTH/M MEDICAL DEVICES MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION MEDICAL/DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES/DISORDERS NEUROIMAGING NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PARKINSON'S DISEASE PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROLS AND SYSTEMS PROSTHETIC DEVICE, HEARING PROSTHETIC DEVICE, NEURAL PROSTHETIC DEVICE, SPEECH PROSTHETIC DEVICE, VISION SCHIZOPHRENIA SPEECH PATHOLOGY RESPIRATORY MEDICINE NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION: A HIGH-DENSITY EEG APPROACH USING ECOLOGICALLY VALID STIMULI MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION: A HIGH-DENSITY EEG APPROACH USING ECOLOGICALLY VALID STIMULI SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RFP TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ASSESSMENT OF COGNITIVE FUNCTION THROUGH ANALYSIS OF SPEECH CHARACTERISTICS INTEL-IDA TRIL TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLD AS AN ENDOPHENOTYPE IN ADULT ONSET PRIMARY DYSTONIA TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLD AS AN ENDOPHENOTYPE IN ADULT ONSET PRIMARY DYSTONIA HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD AND DYSTONIA IRELAND DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM TO OBJECTIVELY AND LONGITUDINALLY ASSESS ADHERENCE TO RESPIRATORY MEDICATIONS FOCUS ON DEVELOPING ADHERENCE MONITORING TECHNOLOGY FOR NEW AND EMERGING INHALERS DEVICES FROM A RANGE OF MANUFACTURERS LEADING TO A COMPLETELY NEW SUITE OF SENSOR RECORDING DEVICES FOR USE WITH THE MOST COMMERCIALLY RELEVANT INHALER DEVICES. IT IS ENVISAGED THAT INHALERS ENABLED WITH SUCH TECHNOLOGY WOULD THEN BE USED TO IN CLINICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES TO REDUCE MEDICATION DOSES AND ACCOUNT FOR ERRORS FROM UNRECOGNISED POOR ADHERENCE BY CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPANTS. IN ADDITION, SUCH SYSTEMS COULD BE EMPLOYED IN CLINICAL PRACTICE TO ENABLE CLINICAL TEAMS RATIONALISE HEALTHCARE DECISION AND REDUCE THE COST OF TREATING PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RESPIRATORY DISEASE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME POSTURAL INSTABILITY AS AN ENDOPHENOTYPE FOR EARLY DYSFUNCTION AND DECLINE THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETECT, CHARACTERISE, AND UNDERSTAND EARLY SUBTLE POSTURAL INSTABILITY SYMPTOMS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MAY BE AT HIGH RISK OF DEVELOPING NEURODEGENERATIVE OR MOVEMENT DISORDERS. THIS WILL BE DONE THROUGH THE IDENTIFICATION OF COGNITIVE AND MOTOR ENDOPHENOTYPES ASSOCIATED WITH NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS SUCH AS FXTAS. COGNITIVE TESTING AND POSTURAL EXAMINATION COMBINED WITH THE ASSESSMENT OF EEG ACTIVITY DURING SUCH CONDITIONS, MAY PROVIDE IMPORTANT INSIGHT INTO NEURAL DYSFUNCTION AND DISEASE PROGRESSION, POSSIBLY HIGHLIGHTING POTENTIAL BIOMARKERS FOR SUCH DISORDERS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENTERPRISE PARTNER PROGRAMME TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLD AS A MEDIATIONAL ENDOPHENOTYPE IN ADULT ONSET PRIMARY TORSION DYSTONIA WE ARE PLANNING TO DISCOVER THE CAUSES OF A MOVEMENT DISORDER CALLED ADULT ONSET PRIMARY TORSION DYSTONIA. DYSTONIA IS CHARACTERIZED BY AN EXCESS OF UNNEEDED INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT, WHICH OCCURS AT REST AND WHEN ATTEMPTING TO MAKE A NORMAL MOVEMENT. THE EXCESSIVE UNWANTED MOVEMENTS CAUSE CLUMSINESS, PAIN, DISTRESS, DISABILITY AND SOCIAL EMBARASSMENT. WRITER'S CRAMP CAUSES GREAT DIFFICULTY WRITING. CERVICAL DYSTONIA CAUSES TWISTING TREMULOUS MOVEMENTS OF THE HEAD TO ONE SIDE. BRAIN SCANS ARE NORMAL AND THE CONDITION IS NOT PROGRESSIVE. THE ABNORMAL MOVEMENTS START USUALLY AFTER THE AGE OF 30 YEARS AND REMAIN FOR THE REST OF LIFE. BOTULINUM TOXIN INJECTIONS PARTLY HELP. MOST PATIENTS HAVE NO OTHER AFFECTED RELATIVE; RARE FAMILIES HAVE MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS WITH DYSTONIA. THERE IS INCREASING EVIDENCE THAT THE CAUSE OF THIS FORM OF DYSTONIA IS GENETIC. A SIMPLE TEST OF THE ABILITY TO PERCEIVE TWO STIMULI, A FLASHING LIGHT, AS SEPARATED IN TIME IS ABNORMAL IN THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WITH THIS DYSTONIA AND IN HALF OF THEIR UNAFFECTED SIBLINGS AND OFFSPRING. WE CALL THIS THE TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION THRESHOLD (TDT). WITH NEW POWERFUL GENETIC METHODS, CALLED EXOME SEQUENCEING AND THE TDT WE HOPE TO DISCOVER GENES THAT CAUSE THIS DISORDER. BY FINDING NEW GENES WE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS OF THIS FORM OF DYSTONIA AND THUS EVENTUALLY NEW TREATMENTS. ONLY A FEW INDIVIDUALS WITH THE ABNORMAL GENE DEVELOP THE DISORDER AND SOME EFFECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT MUST PLAY A PART; WE WILL INVESTIGATE THIS ALSO. WE ALSO ARE DOING MRI SCANS AND SPECIALIZED BRAIN WAVE TESTS IN PEOPLE WITH DYSTONIA TO DISCOVER WHICH PART OF THE BRAIN IS AFFECTED. THIS WORK IS SUPPORTED BY PATIENTS AND RELATIVES THROUGH DYSTONIA IRELAND, A SELF HELP GROUP, AND WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY DOCTORS, NEUROSCIENTISTS AND NEUROGENETICISTS IN DUBLIN, LONDON AND NEW YORK. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CSA SPECTRAL AND TEMPORAL PROCESSING IN COCHLEAR IMPLANT USERS AIMS . DEVELOP NEW AND IMPROVED NEURAL ENGINEERING AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF CORTICAL RESPONSE TO COMPLEX STIMULI WHICH PROBE A COCHLEAR IMPLANT USER'S SPECTRAL AND TEMPORAL PROCESSING CAPABILITIES. . EVALUATE THESE NOVEL METHODS WITH CLINICAL POPULATIONS AND AGE-MATCHED CONTROLS IN COLLABORATION WITH CLINICAL COLLEAGUES MS LAURA VIANI AND MR PETER WALSHE. . VALIDATE THESE METHODS IN A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF OBJECTIVE MEASURES OF SPEECH PERCEPTION. COCHLEAR LTD AGEING NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JULIE RENWICK renwickjulie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RENWICKJ CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON CHRONIC RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS, WITH A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CF). IN RECENT YEARS THE AIRWAYS OF PEOPLE WITH CF HAVE BEEN FOUND TO HARBOUR A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OF MICROORGANISMS. THESE FINDING ARE FORCING A PARADIGM SHIFT IN HOW WE VIEW AIRWAY INFECTIONS. TO DATE THE CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRESENCE OF THESE MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES IN THE CF AIRWAYS IS STILL POORLY UNDERSTOOD. I CURRENTLY HAVE NUMEROUS BASIC SCIENCE AND CLINICAL STUDIES UNDERWAY EXPLORING THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES PRESENT IN THE AIRWAY AND HOW THEY CONTRIBUTE TO CHRONIC AIRWAY DISEASE PROGRESSION. I CO-FOUNDED THE AIRWAY MICROBIOME IN CF (AIM CF) PROJECT WHICH IS AN ARM OF THE LARGER STUDY OF HOST IMMUNITY AND EARLY LUNG DISEASE IN CF (SHIELD CF) LONGITUDINAL PROJECT. I ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN ADVANCING DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND IMPROVING DETECTION OF COMMON AIRWAY PATHOGENS SUCH AS PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA AND ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS. MY RESEARCH IS MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND RELIES ON A HIGH LEVEL OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CLINICIANS AND SCIENTISTS TO APPLY THE MOST ADVANCED, CUTTING-EDGE SEQUENCING AND MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES TO THE CLINICAL SETTING. DEPT OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORY ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOCIETY IRISH THORACIC SOCIETY ASPERGILLUS-FUMIGATUS CYSTIC FIBROSIS DIAGNOSTICS LOWER RESPIRATORY-TRACT MICROBIOLOGY MICROBIOME PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA RESPIRATORY INFECTION RESPIRATORY MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS MICROBIOLOGY ISOLATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF AN ANTI-PSEUDOMONAL AND ANTI-BIOFILM AGENT PRODUCED BY ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS: A POTENTIAL THERAPY PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF INFECTION IN PEOPLE WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS (CF). COLONISATION WITH P. AERUGINOSA OCCURS EARLY IN LIFE AND ONCE ESTABLISHED IS VERY DIFFICULT TO ERADICATE. UP TO 95% OF MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN CF OCCURS AS A RESULT OF CHRONIC AIRWAY INFECTIONS. IN PEOPLE WITH CF, AIRWAY DAMAGE BEGINS EARLY IN LIFE AND THE COURSE OF INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION IN CHILDHOOD CAN INFLUENCE FUTURE PROGNOSIS. P. AERUGINOSA IS INDEPENDENTLY LINKED TO WORSENED PROGNOSIS FOR CF PATIENTS AND HAS THE ABILITY TO RAPIDLY DEVELOP RESISTANCE TO MULTIPLE CLASSES OF ANTIBIOTICS INCLUDING PENICILLIN, CEPHALOSPORIN, AMINOGLYCOSIDES, QUINOLONES, POLYMYXINS AND CARBAPENEMS WHICH ARE THE LEADING ANTIBIOTICS USED TO TREAT P. AERUGINOSA INFECTIONS CURRENTLY. P. AERUGINOSA ACQUIRES RESISTANCE GENES AND SPECIFIC MUTATIONS THAT ENHANCE ITS SURVIVAL IN THE PRESENCE OF ANTIBIOTICS. NEW THERAPEUTIC AVENUES FOR TREATMENT OF P. AERUGINOSA INFECTIONS IN CF ARE IMMINENT AND EARLY ERADICATION IS VITAL TO PREVENT ESTABLISHMENT OF CHRONIC INFECTION. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A MOLECULE PRODUCED BY ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS (A FUNGUS THAT COMMONLY CO-COLONISES THE CF AIRWAYS WITH P. AERUGINOSA) THAT CAN INHIBIT P. AERUGINOSA GROWTH IN PLANKTONIC AND BIOFILM FORMS. WE AIM TO EXPLORE THE THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF THIS MOLECULE. THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL EARLY DETECTION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA INFECTION AND THE ASSOCIATED MICROBIAL COMMUNITY IN CHILDREN WITH CF THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ESTABLISH A MOLECULAR TECHNIQUE CALLED RIBOSOMAL INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS (RISA) IN TALLAGHT HOSPITAL WITH THE ULTIMATE AIM OF MONITORING THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY IN THE AIRWAYS OF CHILDREN WITH CF AND PROVIDING A MEANS FOR EARLY DETECTION OF IMPORTANT PATHOGENS, SUCH AS P. AERUGINOSA. WE WILL MONITOR THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY BEFORE THE ACQUISITION OF P. AERUGINOSA AND CHARACTERISE THE CHANGES IN MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION UPON ONSET OF P. AERUGINOSA INFECTION. THIS WILL ENABLE US TO IDENTIFYING EARLY SIGNS OF SUSCEPTIBLITY TO P. AERUGINOSA INFECTION AND EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF THE MICROBIOME AS AN EARLY BIOMARKER OR PREDICTOR OF P. AERUGINOSA INFECTION. THIS RESEARCH WILL IMPROVE EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF P. AERUGINOSA INFECTION IN CF PROVIDING CLINICIANS WITH ADVANCED NOTICE FROM WHICH TO PLAN THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES AND ULTIMATELY DELAY ONSET OF CHRONIC INFECTION. THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ADVANCING BONE AND JOINT INFECTION DIAGNOSTICS CULTURE-BASED METHODS OF DIAGNOSIS HAVE INHERENT LIMITATIONS. WE CAN ONLY DETECT THE BACTERIA WE KNOW AND THOSE WE KNOW HOW TO GROW. THERE ARE MANY CASES WHERE NO MICROORGANISMS GROW FROM A PRESUMED INFECTED SITE. FOR EXAMPLE, OVER HALF OF BONE/ JOINT SPECIMENS FROM PRESUMED INFECTED PATIENTS ARE RECORDED AS HAVING "NO GROWTH" FOLLOWING CULTURE-BASED DIAGNOSTICS. WHETHER THIS IS TRUE ABSENCE OF MICROORGANISMS IN A SPECIMEN OR A FALSE NEGATIVE IS UNKNOWN. WE ARE USING MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY THE BACTERIA THAT MAY BE CAUSING INFLAMMATION FROM "PRESUMED INFECTED" BONE AND JOINT TISSUE. THE MEATH FOUNDATION AIM CF: FUTURE DEVELOPMENT THE AIM CF PROJECT WILL BE FURTHER DEVELOPED TO BEGIN EXPLORING THE FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES OF THE AIRWAY MICROBIOME AND HOW MICROBIOME METABOLITES CAN INFLUENCE AIRWAY INFLAMMATION AND DISEASE PROGRESSION. WELLCOME INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC SUPPORT FUND (ISSF) THE AIRWAY MICROBIOME IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS (AIM CF) AIM CF IS A BRANCH OF THE LARGER STUDY OF HOST IMMUNITY AND EARLY LUNG DISEASE IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS (SHIELD CF) BIOBANKING PROJECT ESTABLISHED BY PROF PAUL MCNALLY AND DR BARRY LINNANE. I AM CO-PI ON THE AIM CF PROJECT WHERE WE HAVE DEVELOPED PROTOCOLS FOR ISOLATING DNA AND RNA FROM CF PATIENT BAL SAMPLES AND OPTIMISED AN ASSAY FOR DETECTED VIABLE BACTERIA USING MOLECULAR METHODS. WE HAVE EMPLOYED A 16S RRNA MICROARRAY, 454 PYROSEQUENCING AND ILLUMINA MISEQ TO CHARACTERISE THE UPPER AND LOWER CF AIRWAY MICROBIOME AND COMPARE IT TO HEALTHY CONTROLS. THIS IS AN ONGOING LONGITUDINAL STUDY. THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. JULIAN REYNOLDS reynoldsjulian FELLOW EMERITUS JRYNOLDS ZOOLOGY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AQUATIC BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION, PARTICULARLY BIOLOGY OF FRESHWATER CRAYFISH AND OTHER CRUSTACEANS, EELS AND WATER BEETLES; ECOLOGY OF FRESHWATER BODIES INCLUDING TURLOUGHS, SPRINGS AND BOG POOLS; WATER QUALITY OF STREAMS. TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY - FLORA AND INVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF TERRESTRIAL HABITATS; ECOLOGY OF OTTERS. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT. GLACIAL RELICTS AND POSTGLACIAL COLONISATION. PROTECTED SPECIES AND THREATENED BIOTOPES. ALIEN INVASIVE SPECIES. ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN CORE MEMBER EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORK CRAYNET INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT REGIONAL EUROPEAN CRAYFISH WORKSHOP, PISEK, CZECH REPUBLIC INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT SPANISH CRAYFISH MEETING, GRANADA, SPAIN, 2004, AND AT INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ASTACOLOGISTS', INNSBRUCK, 2012 INVITED MEMBER OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE, REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON CRAYFISH, CZECH REPUBLIC, SEPT. 2009 INVITED REVIEWER FOR MANY JOURNALS IN RECENT YEARS, INCLUDING: ACTA OECOLOGIA, AQUACULTURE, AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL, AQUATIC CONSERVATION, ARCHIV FUR HYDROBIOLOGIE, BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION, BIOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT, BULLETIN FRANCAIS PECHE ET PISCICULTURE, FRESHWATER BIOLOGY, FUNDAMENTAL & APPLIED LIMNOLOGY, HYDROBIOLOGY, IRISH NATURALISTS JOURNAL, JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY, JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, MARINE & FRESHWATER RESEARCH, KNOWLEDGE & MANAGEMENT OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS INVITED SPEAKER AT REGIONAL MEETING OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS, POITIERS, FRANCE INVITED SPEAKER ON POSTGLACIAL COLONISATION OF IRELAND, 'MIND THE GAP' CONFERENCE, UCC INVITED SPEAKER ON TURLOUGHS AT FIRST INTERNATIONAL POND SYMPOSIUM, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND INVITED SPEAKER, BRISTOL MEETING ON CONSERVATION OF THREATENED CRAYFISH JUDGE FOR BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY IN BT YOUNG SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION. MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIMNOLOGY, BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY, WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY, IRISH WILDLIFE TRUST SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER AND INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER, EUROPEAN MEETING ON CRAYFISH, POITIERS, FRANCE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER OF CRAYFISH MEETING, YORKSHIRE 2015. SECRETARY, NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR HYDROBIOLOGY, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY AGE AGE AR MIGRATION AGRI ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE CONSERVATION ANGUILLA ANGUILLA (L.) ANIMAL ECOLOGY ANIMAL TAXONOMY AQUACULTURE AQUATIC ECOLOGY ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION ASTACULTURE AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS AUSTROPOTAMOBIUS PALLIPES BEHAVIOR BIOCONTROL BIODIVERSITY BIOGEOGRAPHY BIOLOGICAL MONITORING, RISK FACTORS AND ASSESSMENT CANADA CHANGES CONSERVATION CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE BIOLOGY CONSERVATION GENETICS CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT CRAYFISH CRAYFISH PREDATION CRUSTACEA DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS DECAPODA DIET DIFFERENTIAL GROWTH BETWEEN THE SEXES DIVERSITY OF WATER BEETLES IN IRELAND AND CO LIMERICK DREISSENA ECOLOGY ECOSYSTEM(S) ECOSYSTEMS EEL ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION/REMEDIATION ENVIRONMENTAL ZOOLOGY FISH, FISHERIES FLOODS/FLOODING FLORA AND VEGETATION OF COUNTY LIMERICK FRESH-WATER CRAYFISH FRESHWATER ECOLOGY GENETIC STRUCTURE GRAZING GROWTH HEAD SHAPE ICHTHYOLOGY INCREMENTAL GROWTH INVASIVE SPECIES INVERTEBRATE PHYSIOLOGY IRELAND LANDBRIDGE LIMNOLOGY MARINE SCIENCE AND FISHERIES BIOLOGY MIGRATORY ANIMALS AND BIRDS MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA NATURAL HISTORY NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT NORTH-AMERICA OMNIVOROUS CRAYFISH POLYMORPHISMS PREY PUBLIC EDUCATION RAPD RESTRICTION DATA RIVER RIVERS/STREAMS SIZE-SELECTION SOIL SCIENCES, CONSERVATION TEMPERATE ZONES VEGETATION WESTERN AFRICA WESTERN EUROPE WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS WETLANDS WILDLIFE YELLOW EELS ZOOLOGY BIODIVERSITY WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE ECOLOGY AND MARINE BIOLOGY WOODLICE AND GRASSLAND BIODIVERSITY USE OF WOODLICE AS BIOINDICATORS OF GRASSLAND QUALITY, IN FRANCE AND IRELAND. CNRS, TURLOUGH INVERTEBRATE ECOLOGY UNDERSTANDING TURLOUGH INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY LEADING TO TYPOLOGY AND CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT COLLABORATION WITH NPWS WET FEET: MEMOIR MEMOIR OF MY TRAINING, EXPERIENCES AND TRAVEL IN RELATION TO AQUATIC HABITATS, IN IRELAND, AFRICA, CANADA AND BACK IN TCD. FRESHWATER CRAYFISH BIOLOGY ONGOING STUDIES OF THE ECOLOGY, LIFE HISTORY, DISTRIBUTION, AQUACULTURE AND CONSERVATION OF FRESHWATER CRAYFISH IN IRELAND AND GLOBALLY LANDED CLASS IN CO. LIMERICK, 19TH CENTURY LATER LIFE OF SIR STEPHEN DE VERE - INFLUENCE, FRIENDS, CLASSICAL TRANSLATIONS, ECONOMICS OF RUNNING A LARGE HOUSE, DOWNSIZING WATER BEETLES OF CO LIMERICK TO DEVELOP A DISTRIBUTION ATLAS AND CHECK-LIST OF THE LIMERICK WATER BEETLES. NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY DATA CENTRE BURSARY PLANT HABITATS OF CO. LIMERICK ASSISTING SYLVIA C.P. REYNOLDS IN HER STUDIES OF THE LIMERICK FLORA. MY INTERESTS ARE PARTICULARLY IN PLANT COMMUNITIES OF AQUATIC AND SEMI-AQUATIC HABITATS. PUBLISHED IN 2013 AS FLORA OF COUNTY LIMERICK, BY SYLVIA C.P. REYNOLDS, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF JULIAN D. REYNOLDS, BY NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS, GLASNEVIN, DUBLIN. HISTORY OF FOYNES ISLAND, CO. LIMERICK, AND ITS PEOPLE. COMPILING AND ANALYSING THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE AND SOCIAL CHANGE ON FOYNES ISLAND, CO. LIMERICK, FROM EARLIEST TIMES, USING BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES AND REMINISCENCES AND DIARIES OF INHABITANTS. INTERIM OUTPUT: 'A SHORT HISTORY OF FOYNES ISLAND IN 20 OBJECTS', DECEMBER 2014. AGEING GENES & SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR JOHN REYNOLDS reynoldsjohn PROFESSOR & HEAD OF DEPARTMENT REYNOLJV SURGERY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND ANTI-OXIDANTS IN INFLAMMATORY DISEASE. GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS IN UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER AND BARRETT'S OESOPHAGUS. LIVER AND GUT IMMUNE FUNCTION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING COMPLEX MAJOR SURGERY. MOLECULAR PREDICTORS OF RESPONSE AND RESISTANCE TO CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION THERAPY. TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS IN INFLAMMATION AND NEOPLASIA OF THE OESOPHAGUS. UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL PHYSIOLOGY. DEPT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 MEMBER, CENTRE FOR MOLECULAR RESEARCH IN CANCER (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMMON INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING CELL CYCLE SIGNALING AND REGULATION WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON TWO KEY CANCER-RELATED PROCESSES (CELL CYCLE CONTROL, APOPTOSIS) AND/OR THREE SPECIFIC MALIGNANCY TYPES (OESOPHAGEAL, PROSTATE AND HAEMATOLOGICAL). MEMBER, COLORECTAL & GI CANCER RESEARCH GROUP (PROPOSED), SPECULATIVE IDEA TO CLUSTER PI'S AROUND COLLABORATIVE STUDY ON UPPER GI AND COLON CANCERS.DELIBERATELY WIDE SELECTION OF SURGEONS, PATHOLOGISTS AND ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS BASED ON STATED INTEREST OR PUBLICATION IN FIELDS OF OESOPHAGEAL OR COLORECTAL CANCER. MEMBER, DMMC INFLAMMATION, IMMUNITY & INFECTION PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH IN INFLAMMATION, IMMUNIT AND INFECTION. MEMBER, PHG FUNDED PI'S AND RESEARCHERS, ALL RESEARCHERS FUNDED UNDER CYCLE 3 PRTLI - PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN GENOMICS ANTI-OXIDANTS IN INFLAMMATORY DISEASE GENETIC POLYMORPHISMS IN UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER AND BARRETT'S OESOPHAGUS LIVER AND GUT IMMUNE FUNCTION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING COMPLEX MAJOR SURGERY MOLECULAR PREDICTORS OF RESPONSE AND RESISTANCE TO CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION THERAPY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS IN INFLAMMATION AND NEOPLASIA OF THE OESOPHAGUS UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL PHYSIOLOGY CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. MARY-LEE RHODES rhodesmarylee ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RHODESML BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES CENTRE FOR NON-PROFIT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MY RESEARCH IS AIMED AT UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF SOCIETAL WELL-BEING AND THE ROLE OF GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE SYSTEMS IN URBAN MANAGEMENT. SPECIFIC RESEARCH TOPICS INCLUDE: DEFINING AND MEASURING SOCIAL IMPACT, MODELLING COMPLEX PUBLIC SERVICE SYSTEMS, PROCESSES OF VALUE CO-CREATION AND ANALYTICS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGERS. DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROJECTS CURRENTLY UNDER SUPERVISION INCLUDE WORK ON PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT IN HEALTHCARE AND POLICY-CHANGE PROCESSES. VACANCIES FOR HIGH-CALIBRE PHD STUDENTS EXIST IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS: . CO-CREATION PROCESSES IN COLLABORATIVE URBANISM (SEE COST TU1204 PROJECT) . INDICATORS AND DRIVERS OF WELL-BEING IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS . HYBRID ORGANISATIONS IN HOUSING / HOMELESS SERVICE SECTORS . MEASURES OF RISK AND RETURN IN SOCIAL INVESTMENT MARKETS . ANALYTICS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGERS BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EUROPEAN NETWORK OF HOUSING RESEARCHERS INFORMS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THIRD-SECTOR RESEARCH COMPLEXITY THEORY HOUSING POLICY, HOMELESSNESS IRISH HOUSING SYSTEM LIVEABLE CITIES PUBLIC MANAGEMENT SMART CITIES SOCIAL HOUSING ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT HEA RESEARCH GRANT: "TOWARDS RICHER DECISION-MAKING" HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY OF IRELAND NORTH SOUTH PROGRAMME FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH RESEARCH SUPPORT GRANTS FOR APPLICATION TO MARIE CURIE FUNDING ENTERPRISE IRELAND THE CHANGING ROLE OF NONPROFIT HOUSING ORGANISATIONS IN IRELAND NORTHERN IRELAND HOUSING EXECUTIVE, DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT COST TU1204: PEOPLE-FRIENDLY CITIES IN A DATA-RICH WORLD NETWORK FOR RESEARCHERS INTERESTED IN THE NATURE OF 'PEOPLE-FRIENDLY' CITIES AND HOW TECHNOLOGY, DESIGN PROCESSES AND COLLABORATIVE URBANISM CONTRIBUTE TO THESE. EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION COST NON-PROFIT HOUSING IN IRELAND STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF HOUSING ASSOCIATIONS IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT, NI HOUSING EXECUTIVE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR HENRY JOSEPH RICE ricehenryjoseph PROFESSOR HRICE MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG ANALYSIS OF VIBRO/ACOUSTIC SYSTEMS. IDENTIFICATION OF NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEMS. LASER SPECKLE HOLOGRAPHY. NUMERICAL MODELLING OF VIRATION AND ACOUSTICS AT MID FREQUENCIES. DYNAMICS OF STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS. MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CENG MIEI ARRAY CAT EARDRUM CROSS-FLOW DISTANCE AND TIME BASED PRICING DYNAMICAL MODEL EARDRUM ELEMENTS EXTERNAL COSTS FLUIDELASTIC INSTABILITY FORMULATION GLASS WOOL MATERIALS HELMHOLTZ-EQUATION HIGHER FREQUENCY ANALYSIS IDENTIFICATION INTERNALISATION LIGHT FIBROUS MATERIALS LOCATION MEDIA MIDDLE EAR MIDDLE-EAR MODEL MULTIPLE PROBE MEASUREMENTS NATURAL FREQUENCIES NON-LINEAR SYSTEMS NONPARAMETRIC IDENTIFICATION OSSICULAR DISPLACEMENT PANEL RECONSTRUCTION ROAD PRICING SIGNAL SOUND-TRANSMISSION SPECTRAL-ANALYSIS STABILITY STATE MAPPING APPROACH SYSTEMS TUBE TUBE BUNDLES RESEARCH IN SILENT AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS (ROSAS) WITH J.FITZPATRICK .... EURO 184,000 EU FP5 AERONAUTICS FP5 EUROPEAN DOCTORATE IN SOUND AND VIBRATION STUDIES £120,000 EU FP5 MARIE CURIE TRANSPORT RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOR PEOPLE (TRIP) WITH C.MESKELL .... EURO 185,000 HEA PRTLI ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT INTERFACE (ETI) - NOISE MODULE WITH C.MESKELL ... EURO 220,000 EPA EUROPEAN DOCTORATE IN SOUND AND VIBRATION STUDIES II € 240, 400 EU FP6 MARIE CURIE BASIC RESEARCH IN AIRCRAFT INTERIOR NOISE £81,000 BRITE/AERO CONTRACT CT92 0032 VIBRO ACOUSTIC MODELLING AND PREDICTION OF TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES' DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR IN THE MEDIUM FREQUENCY RANGE £72,000 BRITE/EURAM CONTRACT CT94 0987 ADVANCED STUDY OF ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL IN AIRCRAFT II WITH J.FITZPATRICK .... £31,000 EC BRITE/AERO CONTRACT CT94 0062 MIDDLE EAR PROSTHESIS DESIGN WITH P.PRENDERGAST .... £10,000 MEDISOLVE IRELAND VISITING PROFESSORSHIP, MARCUS.WALLENBERG LABORATORIES. £20,000 DEPT OF VEHICLE ENGINEERING, KTH, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN STATISTICAL ENERGY ANALYSIS NETWORK £8,000 SEANET EU THEMATIC NETWORK CONTRACT BRRT-CT98-5088 HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SCHOLARSHIP £25,500 CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING IN IRELAND TYRE NOISE € 60,000 IRCSET POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP NOVEL AIRCRAFT CONCEPTS RESEARCH € 279,000 EU FP6 ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE € 125,000 EPA POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP WAVE PROPAGATION € 60,000 IRCSET POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DEREK RICHARDS richardsderek RESEARCH FELLOW DRICHARD PSYCHOLOGY I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND RESEARCH OF TECHNOLOGY DELIVERED INTERVENTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS. IN PARTICULAR I HAVE AN INTEREST IN RESEARCHING SUCH INTERVENTIONS FOR HIGH PREVALENCE DISORDERS SUCH AS DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY. CURRENTLY I AM ATTEMPTING TO INVESTIGATE THE TRANSFERABILITY OF SUCH TECHNOLOGY DELIVERED INTERVENTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA. IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHETHER THEY CAN ACHIEVE THE SAME APPEAL AND EFFICACY AS HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED FOR MANY SUCH INTERVENTIONS IN HIGHER-INCOME COUNTRIES. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ÁRAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN FRENCH ACCREDITED MEMBER: IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC AND INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY AD HOC PEER REVIEWER FOR: BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING; CYBERPSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING JOURNAL; JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS; COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW; COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHOTHERAPY; JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH; BACP COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH JOURNAL (CPR)(SPECIAL EDITION - TECHNOLOGY IN COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY) ASSOCIATE MEMBER: IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MENTAL HEALTH ONLINE TECHNOLOGY FOR WELL-BEING GROUP ANXIETY BEHAVIOR AND HEALTH CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY DEPRESSION EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH--MINORITIES HEALTH CARE HEALTH, CLINICAL AND COUNSELLING HEALTH/MEDICAL SCIENCE--COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY MEN'S HEALTH MENTAL DISORDERS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH ONLINE SYSTEMS PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHOTHERAPY TECHNOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT/TRANSFER/OUTREACH (HLTH TELEMEDICINE THERAPY EVALUATION MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES ONLINE TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL ON AN ADULT STUDENT POPULATION THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL INVESTIGATING THE ONLINE DELIVERY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION. THE INCREASING INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION IN ADULTS, ADOLESCENTS AND CHILDREN HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED (WHO, 2001; GOTLIB, & HAMMEN, 2002). DEPRESSION IS AMONG THE MAIN REASONS FOR REFERRAL TO FACE-TO-FACE AND ONLINE COUNSELLING SERVICES (RICHARDS & TANGNEY, IN PRESS). DEPRESSION IS LINKED TO SUICIDAL IDEATION AND COMPLETED SUICIDES (GOTLIB, & HAMMEN, 2002). YET, DESPITE ITS PREVALENCE ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE ACCESS THE HELP THEY REQUIRE (MARKS ET AL, 2007). PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION ARE ESTABLISHED. COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY IS ONE OF THE MOST ESTABLISHED TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION (NATHAN & GORMAN, 1997). COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT) IS A THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT THAT AIMS TO HELP ELIMINATE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS THAT MAINTAIN DEPRESSION (NATHAN & GORMAN, 2002). HOWEVER, DUE TO DEMAND, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES OFTEN HAVE WAITING LISTS AND THE SHORTAGE OF THERAPISTS ADDS FURTHER COMPLICATIONS (PROUDFOOT ET AL, 2003). SUCH A SITUATION RUNS CONTRARY TO THE BENEFICIAL IMPACT OF EARLY INTERVENTION (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS, 2003). IN AN ATTEMPT TO INCREASE ACCESS, REDUCE THE STIGMA IN RECEIVING HELP AND MANAGE RESOURCES, SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE IN DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING ONLINE DELIVERY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS (MARKS ET AL, 2007; PROUDFOOT ET AL, 2003). ESPECIALLY CBT CAN BE EASILY TRANSFERRED INTO ONLINE FORMATS. ONLINE THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO REACH AN AUDIENCE THAT DO NOT ORDINARILY USE TRADITIONAL SERVICES (RICHARDS & TANGNEY, 2007). THEY CAN INCREASE ACCESS AND EXPAND RESOURCE CAPACITY FOR CLINICAL SETTINGS (MARKS ET AL, 2007). HOWEVER, FURTHER RESEARCH IS REQUIRED TO DETERMINE THE BEST TYPE OF ONLINE INTERVENTION FOR A GIVEN POPULATION AND THE AMOUNT OF THERAPIST SUPPORT REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS (MARKS ET AL, 2007; NICE, 2007). THE PRESENT STUDY IS A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL TREATING DEPRESSION VIA THE INTERNET USING TWO CONDITIONS: CONDITION 1: ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS COUNSELLING FOLLOWING A CBT PROTOCOL FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION [THERAPIST-LED] CONDITION 2: SELF-DIRECTED COMPUTERISED COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY SOFTWARE FOR THE TREATMENT OF DEPRESSION [CLIENT-LED] THE TWO CONDITIONS INCLUDE A COMPREHENSIVE SCREENING AND A PROTOCOL-DRIVEN TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION VIA THE INTERNET. THE EFFICACY OF THE TREATMENT CONDITIONS WILL BE COMPARED. A COMPARISON OF THE DIFFERENCES AMONG THERAPIST-LED AND CLIENT-LED ONLINE INTERVENTIONS WILL BE MADE BASED ON THE KEY VARIABLE OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP (NORCROSS, 2002). THE STUDY WILL ASSESS THE PERCEPTION OF WORKING ALLIANCE (HORVATH & GREENBERG, 1989) WITHIN THE STATED CONDITIONS AND EXAMINE WHICH ASPECTS OF THE INTERVENTIONS USERS FIND MOST SIGNIFICANT (TIMULAK, 2007). CONSIDERATION WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TO THEIR COST EFFECTIVENESS, INCLUDING A COMPARISON WITH FACE-TO-FACE DELIVERY. ESB/ HSE INTERNET DELIVERED TREATMENT FOR GENERALISED ANXIETY IN ROUTINE CARE (2013-ONGOING) PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: DEREK RICHARDS, LADISLAV TIMULAK, GAVIN DOHERTY AND JOHN SHARRY. GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER IS TYPICALLY CONSIDERED A CHRONIC CONDITION. IN EUROPE THE LIFETIME PREVALENCE OF GAD HAS BEEN ESTIMATED AT 4.3-5.9%, AND A 12-MONTH PREVALENCE OF 1.2-1.9%; YET ONLY A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE SEEK TREATMENT. SEVERAL STUDIES HAVE REPORTED ELEVATED LEVELS OF ANXIETY AND STRESS IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. THE CURRENT RESEARCH IS A NATURALISTIC EFFECTIVENESS STUDY UTILIZING A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL DESIGN OF A LOW-INTENSITY INTERNET INTERVENTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF GAD. RESEARCH QUESTIONS: GREY BULLETT FIRST, CAN AN ONLINE TREATMENT FOR GAD BE EFFECTIVE FOR AN ADULT STUDENT POPULATION IN A SERVICE-BASED SETTING? GREY BULLETT SECOND, WHAT DO PARTICIPANTS FIND HELPFUL AND HINDERING IN THEIR ONLINE TREATMENT FOR ANXIETY? GREY BULLETT THIRD, ARE PARTICIPANTS SATISFIED WITH ACCESSING AND USING AN ONLINE TREATMENT FOR ANXIETY? GREY BULLETT FOURTH, WHAT ARE THE REASONS FOR DROPOUT FROM AN ONLINE TREATMENT? FUNDING: THE STUDY IS FUNDED JOINTLY FROM RESOURCES PROVIDED BY TCD STUDENT COUNSELLING AND SILVERCLOUD HEALTH LTD. THE PROJECT IS A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH TRIAL INVOLVING TCD AND SILVERCLOUD HEALTH LTD. SILVERCLOUD HEALTH COMPUTER-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION (2011-2012 COMPLETED) THE STUDY WAS A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW & META-ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE ON COMPUTER-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION. THE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS SUPPORT THE EFFICACY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION, IN DIVERSE SETTINGS AND WITH DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. FURTHER RESEARCH IS NEEDED, IN PARTICULAR TO INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF THERAPIST FACTORS IN SUPPORTED TREATMENTS, THE REASONS FOR DROPOUT, AND THE MAINTENANCE OF GAINS POST-TREATMENT. INTERNET-DELIVERED TREATMENT: ITS POTENTIAL AS A LOW-INTENSITY COMMUNITY INTERVENTION FOR ADULTS WITH SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION [WITH AWARE CHARITY] THE STUDY IS A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL OF AN ONLINE COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (CBT) PROGRAM FOR THE TREATMENT OF ADULTS WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS COMPARED TO A WAITING-LIST CONTROL GROUP. THE TREATMENT CONSISTS OF 8 MODULES OF ONLINE DELIVERED CBT, OVER 8 WEEKS, WITH SUPPORTERS PROVIDING WEEKLY FEEDBACK. THE PRIMARY OUTCOME IS DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS, MEASURED BY THE BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY (BDI-II). SECONDARY OUTCOMES INCLUDED QUALITY OF LIFE INDICATORS. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED AT BASELINE AND AT POST-TREATMENT. PROJECT TEAM: RICHARDS, D., TIMULAK, L., DOHERTY, G., SHARRY, J., & HAYES, C. SILVERCLOUD HEALTH & AWARE CHARITY FEASIBILITY, ACCEPTABILITY AND SATISFACTION WITH INTERNET-DELIVERED TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND STRESS IN STUDENTS: AN OPEN FEASIBILITY TRIAL BACKGROUND: IN RECENT YEARS UNIVERSITY COUNSELING AND HEALTH SERVICES HAVE REPORTED AN EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN YEARLY VISITS, AS WELL AS AN EXPONENTIAL INCREASE IN TOTAL YEARLY CLIENTS. THIS TREND HAS BEEN OBSERVED AT MANY UNIVERSITIES AS BEHAVIORAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES POSE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS FOR MANY COLLEGE STUDENTS. AIMS/OBJECTIVES: THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY, ACCEPTABILITY AND SATISFACTION OF INTERNET-DELIVERED TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND STRESS IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. METHODS/DESIGN: THE STUDY IS AN OPEN FEASIBILITY TRIAL OF THE SILVERCLOUD PROGRAMS FOR DEPRESSION (SPACE FROM DEPRESSION), ANXIETY (SPACE FROM ANXIETY), AND STRESS (SPACE FROM STRESS), EACH ARE 8-MODULE INTERNET-DELIVERED CBT (ICBT) INTERVENTION PROGRAMS. PARTICIPANTS ARE ASSIGNED A SUPPORTER WHO WILL PROVIDE WEEKLY POST-SESSION FEEDBACK ON PROGRESS AND EXERCISES. PARTICIPANTS WILL COMPLETE THE PHQ-9, GAD-7 AND STRESS SUB-SCALE OF DASS-21 AS THE PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES FOR THE RESPECTIVE INTERVENTIONS (DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND STRESS). SECONDARY OUTCOMES INCLUDE MEASURES OF ACCEPTABILITY AND SATISFACTION OF THE INTERVENTION. DATA WILL BE COLLECTED AT BASELINE AND AT POSTTREATMENT. DISCUSSION: IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THE STUDY WILL INFORM THE RESEARCHERS AND SERVICE PERSONNEL OF THE STUDY'S EFFICACY AS WELL AS PROTOCOLS AND PROCEDURES TO BE EMPLOYED IN A FUTURE TRIAL. IN ADDITION, IT WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PROGRAM, THEIR USER-EXPERIENCE AND THEIR SATISFACTION WITH THE ONLINE DELIVERY FORMAT WHILE MEETING THE NEEDS OF SERVICES IN DEMAND. FRAZIER, P1., RICHARDS, D*2,3., HOFMANN, S4,5., BEIDEL, D6., PALMIERI, P7., VU, A1., MOONEY, J2., BONNER, C2., SILVERCLOUD HEALTH ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY IN IRELAND (2004-2008 COMPLETED) USING CONSTRUCTIVIST PRINCIPLES AND A MODEL OF INFORMAL LEARNING A PORTAL CALLED THE TRINITY ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY WAS BORN. IT ALLOWED STUDENTS TO ACCESS PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, JOIN IN DISCUSSION WITH THEIR PEERS ON TOPICS RELATED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING, AND ALSO USERS COULD ENGAGE IN ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS COUNSELLING WITH A COUNSELLOR FROM THE COLLEGES COUNSELLING SERVICE. PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION & ASSOCIATED RISK FACTORS IN COLOMBIA (2011-2012 COMPLETED) SINCE SEPTEMBER 2011 I HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WITH THE FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO NARIÑO ON A PROJECT INVOLVING RESEARCH INTO THE PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION IN A SAMPLE OF COLOMBIAN STUDENTS. THIS IS ONE PART OF A LARGER PROJECT INVESTIGATING ATTITUDES TOWARDS ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH AND ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING A ONLINE TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION. DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE PLATFORM TO SUPPORT SELF-MANAGEMENT OF SYMPTOMS AND PROMOTE WELLBEING OF PEOPLE WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND ASSOCIATED LONG-TERM CONDITIONS (LTCS) [WITH KINGS COLLEGE LONDON] CVD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PREMATURE DEATH, IMPAIRED QUALITY OF LIFE AND DISPROPORTIONATE SERVICE USAGE AND COSTS. PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS IN CVD IS COMMON AND ASSOCIATED WITH POOR OUTCOME. IMPROVED MANAGEMENT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY IS NEEDED. CURRENT ONLINE PSYCHOLOGICAL CARE PACKAGES DO NOT ADDRESS THE CVD SYMPTOMS AND RISK FACTORS THAT ARE RELATED TO POOR OUTCOME. WE WILL DEVELOP AN ONLINE COGNITIVE, PSYCHOEDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC CVD-SPECIFIC PACKAGE TO SUPPORT SELF-MANAGEMENT AND PROMOTE WELLBEING. THIS WILL IMPROVE ACCESS TO HOLISTIC CARE WHILE REDUCING COSTS. PROJECT TEAM: BARLEY, E., CLIFTON, A., ENRIGHT, A., LEE, G., NORMAN, I., RICHARDS, D., STURT, J. SBRI LOW-INTENSITY INTERNET-DELIVERED TREATMENT FOR ADULTS WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN COLOMBIA - SOUTH AMERICA PREVALENCE RATES FOR DEPRESSION IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ARE NOT FAR REMOVED FROM RATES REPORTED IN HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES. MANY BARRIERS TO ACCESSING TREATMENTS EXIST, SUCH AS THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF SERVICES, WAITING LISTS, COST OF THE SERVICES, AND PERSONAL STIGMA. INTERNET-DELIVERED TREATMENTS FOR DEPRESSION HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEIR EFFICACY. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SUCH INTERNET-DELIVERED TREATMENTS COULD OVERCOME SOME OF THE BARRIERS TO ACCESSING TREATMENT IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES COUNTRIES. PROJECT TEAM: ALICIA SALAMANCA, DEREK RICHARDS, LADISLAV TIMULAK IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL PREVALENCE AND CLINICAL COURSE OF DEPRESSION THE STUDY WAS A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE OF THE PREVALENCE AND CLINICAL COURSE OF DEPRESSION. THE STUDY CONSIDERED LITERATURE FROM HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES. THE REVIEW CONSIDERED THE LITERATURE ON MAJOR DEPRESSION BEGINNING WITH A BRIEF HISTORICAL OVERVIEW, ITS CLASSIFICATION, AND A SYNTHESIS OF THE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE REGARDING PREVALENCE AND COURSE. CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND MS. HELEN RICHARDSON richardsonhelen STUDENT SUPPORT OFFICER HMCLEOD SENIOR TUTOR SENIOR TUTORS OFFICE HOUSE 27 COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. PAUL RIDGWAY ridgwaypaul ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT RIDGWAYP SURGERY DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 BIOTECHNOLOGY CANCER/CARCINOGENESIS DEEP-VEIN THROMBOSIS E-LEARNING EDUCATION AND WORK EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT EDUCATIONAL REFORM GENE EXPRESSION GENOME/PHENOME HEALTH CARE REFORM HOME LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY LIVER CANCER LIVER FUNCTIONS MECHANISM MEDICAL INFORMATICS MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION METAANALYSIS MOLECULAR-WEIGHT HEPARIN MOTION ONCOLOGY PANCREAS PANCREATITIS SKILL SURGERY THORACIC SURGERY THROMBOEMBOLISM VENOUS THROMBOSIS WARFARIN WOUND HEALING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. EVANGELIA RIGAKI rigakievangelia ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RIGAKIE MUSIC COMPOSITION, INSTRUMENTAL THEATRE, EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC-THEATRE, CONTEMPORARY OPERA, MUSICALS, EXTENDED TECHNIQUES, IMPOVISATION, COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES, MIXED MEDIA. DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC HOUSE 5 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CENTRE, IRELAND SHORTLISTED COMPOSER FOR SOCIETY FOR PROMOTION OF NEW MUSIC, UK (FORMER NAMED SPNM) 'DEPARTED' WORDS BY JOHN LLOYD DAVIES (OUT OF HIS LIBRETTO 'PENELOPE IN CONNEMARA' SONG WRITTEN FOR MICHELLE O'ROURKE CREATIVE LAB, NEW MUSIC DUBLIN FESTIVAL 2013 'LULLABALOO' WORDS: W.N. HERBERT, MUSIC & DIRECTOR: EVANGELIA RIGAKI VISUALS: ANDREAS PAPANASTASIU, WRITTEN FOR CABARET ARTIST MARGITTA ZALITE, FIRST PERFORMANCE: RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON,TÊTE-À-TÊTE OPERA FESTIVAL, AUGUST 2010 'LITTLE INSTRUMENTS OF APPREHENSION' WORDS: W.N. HERBERT CHOREOGRAPHY: DARREN ELLIS, FIRST PERFORMANCE: RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON, TÊTE-À-TÊTE OPERA FESTIVAL, AUGUST 2009 'HADITH AL ROUH' (DUTCH TITLE: GESPREKKEN VAN DE ZIEL) WORDS: SJARON MINAILO (AFTER THE SONG 'HADITH AL ROUH' BY OUM KALTHOUM), DIRECTOR: SJARON MINAILO, FIRST PERFORMANCE: OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM FESTIVAL, MAY 2009 'POIOS EKANE PIPI STO MISSISIPI?' WORDS: ADAPTED BY EVANGELIA RIGAKI AFTER THE SAME TITLED CHILDREN STORY BY EUGENE TRIVIZAS, DIRECTOR: ANASTASIA CHATZILIADOU, FIRST PERFORMANCE: PAIS OPERA FESTIVAL, OPERA OF THESSALONIKI, MAY 2008 'BUMBLEPUPPY' WORDS: W.N. HERBERT, DIRECTOR: BILL BANKES JONES, FIRST PERFORMANCE: RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON, TÊTE-À-TÊTE OPERA FESTIVAL, AUGUST 2008 'PROFESSIONAL SUICIDE' WORDS: TAMSIN COLLISON, DIRECTOR: JOHN LLOYD DAVIES, FIRST PERFORMANCE: LINBURY STUDIO (ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 2), JANUARY 2011 'TUTARE' FOR 4 TABLA PLAYERS AND 4 PERCUSSIONISTS, FIRST PERFORMANCE: QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL, APRIL 2009 'ANTONIUS IS FORSAKEN BY HIS GOD' WORDS: CONSTANTINE CAVAFY, FIRST PERFORMANCE: MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL, JOHN ARMITAGE MEMORIAL CONCERT (JAM), MARCH 2009 'THE DRESS I WEAR' WORDS: EMILY DICKINSON, FIRST PERFORMANCE: BBC SINGERS, JULY 2007 'NARCISSUS' WORDS: EVANGELIA RIGAKI (AFTER OVID) FIRST PERFORMANCE BY DAMIEN HARRON, THE HYDRAULIC STATION, LONDON, MARCH 2007 'TEMPT MY BETTER ANGEL' CHOREOGRAPHY: DARREN ELLIS, FIRST PERFORMANCE: THE PLACE, LONDON, JUNE 2007 'EXILES' WORDS: CONSTANDINE CAVAFY, DIRECTOR: SJARON MINAILO, FIRST PERFORMANCE: OSTADETHEATER, AMSTERDAM, DECEMBER 2009 'STRING QUARTET' FIRST PERFORMANCE: BARBIROLLI QUARTET, CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL, JULY 2008 'DYARCHIA' WRITTEN FOR AND PRIEMERED BY ENSEMBLE AMORPHA, LONDON, THE FORGE, MARCH 2010 '...BUT ONLY WATER' FOR PREPARED PERCUSSION, PREMIERED BY MATTHEW JENKINS, DARMSTADT INTERNATION SUMMER COUSE (IMD), STUDIO CONCERT, JULY 2008 'TO BE ELSEWHERE' TRIO WRITTEN FOR ENSEMBLE AVALON, PERFORMED NOVEMBER 2011 THE PREGNANT BOX WORDS BY W.N. HERBERT, AFTER A TEXT BY CATHERINE CONLON WRITTEN FOR SINGER AND FLUTIST IN A SPECIALLY CONSTRUCTED CONFESSION BOX AND A WANDERING CHOIR. RESEARCH NIGHT TCD & LONG ROOM HUB RESEARCH NIGHT TCD MONSIEUR JEAN & MONSIEUR JEAN OBJECT MUSIC THEATRE, DIRECTOR AGNES LIMBOS, LUCILIN ENSEMBLE, TO BE PREMIERED IN TRAFFO, CARRÉROTONDES, LUXEMBOURG CARREROTONDES ANTIMIDAS, OR, BANKERS IN HADES WORDS: W.N. HERBERT, DIRECTOR: JOHN LLOYD DAVIES, BECKETT THEATRE, DUBLIN, DECEMBER 2013 ARTS COUNCIL IE 'EVOCATION' STRING TRIO WRITTEN FOR KIRKOS ENSEMBLE AMEND AMEND IS A WORK FOR FEMALE PERCUSSIONIST AND TWO BASS DRUMS. INSPIRED BY THE REPEAL MOVEMENT IN IRELAND, AMEND WAS WRITTEN FOR AND DEVELOPED IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH JENNIFER TORRENCE. WITH THE PERFORMER STANDING ALONE BETWEEN TWO LARGE BASS DRUMS, AMEND DEPICTS THE STRUGGLE OF DUALITY, OF BEING MORE THAN ONE, OF HAVING A BODY THAT IS ALSO AN-OTHER'S BODY, OF LOSING ONE'S OWN BODY, OF BECOMING ONLY A BODY. TRAVERSING THE COMPLEXITIES OF THIS IN-BETWEEN, AMEND MOVES FLUIDLY FROM TENDERNESS TO VIOLENCE, FROM PUBLIC RITUAL TO PRIVATE CONFESSIONAL. AMEND IS INCARNATED WITH TWO VERSIONS FOR PUBLIC PERFORMANCE: AS A MUSIC PIECE WITH A DURATION OF 18 MINUTES, OR AS AN INSTALLATION-PERFORMANCE WITH A DURATION OF 9 HOURS. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES GENES & SOCIETY TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. KIM ROBERTS robertskim USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KROBERTS MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SOCIETY FOR APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY INFLUENZA MICROBIOLOGY MOLECULAR-BIOLOGY VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS VIROLOGY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MS. PAULA ROBERTS robertspaula ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ROBERTSP COMPUTER SCIENCE APPLIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY. RESEARCH GROUP: (AISG) APPLIED INFORMATION SYSTEMS GROUP COMPUTER SCIENCE AISG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR IAN H ROBERTSON robertsonianh ADJUNCT PROFESSOR IROBERTS TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) NEUROPSYCHOLOGY,BIOMARKERS, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, AGEING, COGNITIVE FUNCTION, EEG GLOBAL BRAIN HEALTH INSTITUTE C/O TCIN LLOYD INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES WORKING GROUP ON THE INTERFACE BETWEEN BASIC AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE DEPUTY EDITOR NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION. FOUNDING EDITOR NEUROCASE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF THE WORLD FEDERATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION. MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF RESTORATIVE NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE. MEMBER OF RESEARCH GRANTS COMMITTEE, UK STROKE ASSOCIATION. MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF ATTENTION AND PERFORMANCE MEMBER OF THE IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER OF THE WELLCOME TRUST NEUROSCIENCE PANEL ATTENTION AWARENESS CLOSED HEAD-INJURY EXECUTIVE FUNCTION FRONTAL LOBES HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PLASTICITY REHABILITATION THE SHORT AND LONG RANGE DYNAMICS OF ATTENTION IRCHSS/EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION TCIN RESEARCH CONSORTIUM ON NEURODEGENERATION GLAXO SMITH KLEIN AND IDA TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INTEL AND IDA TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INTEL AND IDA RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENOTYPE AND PHENOTYPE IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT ADHD: A GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY USING NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE AND TASK-RELATED BRAIN ACTIVATION AS POTENTIAL ENDOPHENOTYPES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENOTYPE AND PHENOTYPE IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT ADHD: A GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY USING NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE AND TASK-RELATED BRAIN ACTIVATION AS POTENTIAL ENDOPHENOTYPES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR AWARD SELF ALERT TRAINING FOR ADULTS WITH ATTENTIONAL DEFICITS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD NEUROENHANCEMENT FOR INEQUALITIES IN ELDER LIVES ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AGEING IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. DEIRDRE ROBERTSON robertsondeirdre VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW ROBERTD3 PSYCHOLOGY TCIN PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. ANTHONY ROBINSON robinsonanthony ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AROBINS MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. MY RESEARCH INTERESTS CENTRE AROUND THE THERMO-FLUID SCIENCES. THESE INCLUDE BOTH EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HEAT TRANSFER, THERMODYNAMICS AND FLUID DYNAMICS. I ENJOY RESEARCH TOPICS WHICH ADDRESS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN THE THERMAL SCIENCES AS WELL AS INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES FOR REAL LIFE THERMAL MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS. SPECIFIC TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE NUCLEATE POOL BOILING BUBBLE DYNAMICS THERMOCAPILLARY (MARANGONI) CONVECTION CONVECTIVE TWO PHASE FLOWS ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS (EHD) ELECTROSPRAYS HEAT PIPES AND THERMOSYPHONS JET IMPINGEMENT HEAT TRANSFER THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT THERMOELECTRICITY ENERGY AND BUILDINGS EFFICIENT BIOMASS TECHNOLOGIES PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS ENERGY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH CENTRE FOR TELECOMUNICATIONS VALUE-CHAIN RESEARCH APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGY COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS HEAT TRANSFER HEATING/VENTILATION/AIR CONDITIONING SPACE TECHNOLOGY THERMAL ENGINEERING THERMOSCIENCES ENGINEERING ENERGY EFFICIENCY WASTE TO ENERGY BIOMASS ENERGY STORAGE COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING AND SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIQUID MICROJET ARRAY HEAT TRANSFER A FUNDAMENTAL STUDY OF THE HEAT TRANSFER TO AN IMPINGING LIQUID MICROJET ARRAY IS BEING PERFORMED WITH DIRECT APPLICATION TO PHOTONICS THERMAL MANAGEMENT. SFI CSET - CTVR ENVIRONMENTALLY GREEN MEDIUM TEMPERATURE HEAT PIPES ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND NON-TOXIC HEAT PIPES THAT OPERATE IN THE TEMPERATURE RANGE OF 200 DEGC TO 500 DEGC ARE NOT COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE. AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAMME HAS BEEN INITIATED WHEREBY WORKING FLUID-WICK-CONTAINER COMBINATIONS ARE BEING EXPLORED AND HEAT PIPES ARE BEING MANUFACTURED AND TESTED FOR USE IN THIS TEMPERATURE RANGE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT SYNTHETIC MINIATURE JET ELECTRONICS COOLER THERMAL HARDWARE WILL BE DEVELOPED THAT INCORPORATES AN ARRAY OF MICRO IMPINGING SYNTHETIC JETS TO COOL ELECTRONIC PACKAGES. THE NEW THERMAL PACKAGE IS AN ECONOMICAL, COMPACT, EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE REPLACEMENT FOR CONVENTIONAL ROTARY FAN-BASED COOLING UNITS. COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL FOR THE NOVEL COOLING SYSTEM IS IMMENSE CONSIDERING THAT AN ESCALATING NUMBER OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS ARE BECOMING THERMALLY LIMITED. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS NOVEL THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS (TIMS) ARE BEING DEVELOPED TO REDUCE THE CONTACT RESISTANCE BETWEEN ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS AND THE FIRST LEVEL OF THERMAL HARDWARE INDUSTRY LIQUID JET IMPINGEMENT HEAT TRANSFER TO ARRAYS OF MINIATURE JETS LIQUID-BASED THERMAL MANAGEMENT HARDWARE IS BEING DEVELOPED BASED ON THE SCIENCE OF IMPINGING LIQUID JET ARRAYS. THIS WORK TARGETS THE OPTIMISATION OF THE HEAT TRANFER WITH REGARD TO MINIMUM PUMPING POWER PENALTY BY INVESTIGATING THE INFLUENCE OF ORIFICE GEOMETRY ON THE HEAT TRANSFER & PRESSUR DROP. SFI CSET - CTVR THE EFFECT OF THERMOCAPILLARY CONVECTION ON THE HEAT TRANSFER NEAR A BUBBLE GROWING ON A HEATED SURFACE THERMOCAPILLARY DRIVEN FLOW AROUND BUBBLES GROWING ON A HEATED SURFACE IS BEING INVESTIGATED. IN PARTICULAR, THIS INVESTIGATION TARGETS THE EFFECT OF THE SURFACE TENSION DRIVEN FLOW ON THE HEAT TRANSFER ENHANCEMENT IN THE VICINITY OF THE BUBBLE. THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY ON THE HEAT TRANSFER IS ALSO BEING INVESTIGATED. IRCSET A NOVEL DEVICE TO CONTROL IN SITU THE THERMAL GELATION AND CONCENTRATION OF CELL-SEEDED HYDROGELS IT IS BELIEVED THAT INJURIES TO CARTILAGE PREDISPOSE A PERSON TO OSTEOARTHRITIS IN LATER LIFE AND EVENTUALLY TO A REQUIREMENT FOR JOINT REPLACEMENT SURGERY. INJECTABLE CHONDROCYTE-SEEDED HYDROGELS CAN POTENTIALLY BE USED TO FILL CARTILAGE DEFECTS WITH A FUNCTIONAL REPAIR TISSUE. ENSURING THAT THE HYDROGEL HAS THE APPROPRIATE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN SITU (E.G. STIFFNESS, PERMEABILITY, POROSITY) IS CRITICAL FOR SUCCESSFUL REPAIR. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A CLINICAL DEVICE CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING THE HYDROGEL CONCENTRATION AND THE RATE OF COOLING DURING GELATION IN SITU, WHICH CAN BE USED TO ALTER THE DEPTH DEPENDANT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF THE CONSTRUCT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT VARIABLE CONDUCTANCE HEAT PIPE HEAT PIPES (HP) ARE EFFICIENT, LOW COST AND SIMPLE PHASE CHANGE HEAT TRANSFER DEVICES. RECENTLY THEY HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS TO TRANSFER HEAT FROM A CENTRALIZED SOURCE AND DISPERSE IT FOR COOLING AND HEATING APPLICATIONS ALIKE. IN ADDITION TO THE ADVANTAGES OF THE HP, THE VARIABLE CONDUCTANCE HEAT PIPE (VCHP) INCORPORATES A NON-CONDENSABLE GAS INTO THE PIPE TO CONTROL THE AMOUNT OF HEAT THAT CAN BE TRANSFERRED THROUGH IT. ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD THE MECHANISMS OF HEAT TRANSFER DURING NUCLEATE POOL BOILING A DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF BUBBLE GROWTH ON A HEATED SURFACE WILL BE PERFORMED. THE PHYSICAL MODEL WILL INCORPORATE IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF BOILING, SUCH AS THERMOCAPILLARY CONVECTION, THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN IGNORED. THE EFFICACY AND ACCURACY OF THE PHYSICAL MODEL AND SOLUTION TECHNIQUE WILL BE ASSURED BY VALIDATION WITH NEW BUBBLE GROWTH MEASUREMENTS WITH SPATIALLY AND TEMPORALLY RESOLVED SURFACE MEASUREMENTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE BUBBLES. THE INTRICATE COUPLING BETWEEN THE BUBBLE GROWTH AND THE MECHANISMS RESPONSIBLE FOR HEAT REMOVAL DURING BOILING WILL BE ELUCIDATED FOR DIFFERENT BOILING CONDITIONS INCLUDING TERRESTRIAL AND MICROGRAVITY ENVIRONMENTS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RFP SOLID STATE THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIAL (TIM) TECHNOLOGY FOR MITIGATING CONTACT THERMAL RESISTANCE IN ELECTRONIC HARDWARE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TIDA THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF REMOTE RADIO HEADS THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGGRESSIVE COOLING SOLUTIONS FOR TELECOMS HARDWARE, IN PARTICULAR REMOTE RADIO HEADS (RRHS). IRCSET & ALCATEL LUCENT THE ETERNAL CANDLE THIS PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE OFF-GRID LIGHTING FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD. ENTERPRISE IRELAND POC THE ELECTRIC COOK STOVE PROJECT ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD OF IRELAND: ELECTRIC AID DISTRIBUTED MICRO-POWER GENERATION FOR AFRICA BASED ON AN ULTRA LOW COST GASIFIED COOK STOVE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS: IRISH AID RELIABILITY OF THERMAL INTERFACE MATERIALS ACCELERATED STRESS TEST FACILITIES AND ASSOCIATED TESTS ARE BEING PERFORMED ON THERMAL GREASES. SIEMENS WIND POWER THE MPOWER STOVE THIS PROJECT HAS DEVELOPED AN ELECTRICAL GENERATOR SYSTEM THA USES THE HEAT FROM EFFICIENT BIOMASS COOKSTOVES AS THE ENERGY SOURCE. THE GENERATORS HAVE BEEN TESTED IN MALAWI, AFRICA. IRISH AID, INTEL SCALABILITY ASSESSMENT OF TEG-STOVES IN RURAL OFF-THE-GRID MALAWI THE PROJECT INVOLVES THE DEVELOPMENT OF OFF GRID ELECTRICAL GENERATING DEVICES FOR REMOTE REGIONS OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD. IRISH AID DEVELOPMENT OF INFRARED AND ENERGY ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS A NOVEL MEASUREMENT DEVICE IS BEING DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE PERFORMANCE OF ENERGY EFFICIENT INFRARED HEATING ELEMENTS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND & CERAMICX LTD. INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP TAYLORMED: ELECTROSPRAY THIS PROJECT IS DEVELOPING MEDIATED DELIVERY OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES INTO MAMMALIAN CELLS FP7 MARIE CURIE INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIPS AND PATHWAYS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR IAN STUART ROBINSON robinsonianstuart FELLOW EMERITUS IROBNSON HISTORY I.S. ROBINSON'S RESEARCH COVERS THE FIELDS OF PAPAL AND IMPERIAL HISTORY, CHRONICLE WRITING AND THE HISTORY OF IDEAS IN ELEVENTH- AND TWELFTH-CENTURY WESTERN EUROPE. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3145 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN FRENCH GERMAN ALEXANDER-VON-HUMBOLDT STIFTUNG MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. CARLOS ROCHA rochacarlos ASSOCIATE PROF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ROCHAC SCHOOL OFFICE - NATURAL SCIENCES CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT MY PERSONAL INTEREST FOCUSES ON THE STUDY OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL "HOT" SPOTS AND MOMENTS. MY RESEARCH HENCE DEALS WITH FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS OF AQUATIC BIOGEOCHEMISTRY THAT CUT ACROSS TRADITIONAL BOUNDARIES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, (E.G.: GEOCHEMISTRY, OCEANOGRAPHY, HYDROGEOLOGY, MARINE AND MICROBIAL ECOLOGY, HYDROLOGY AND THE PHYSICS OF FLUIDS UNDERPINNING TRANSPORT AND REACTION THROUGH POROUS MEDIA). SINCE 2005, MY MAIN RESEARCH EFFORT HAS BEEN THE STUDY OF COASTAL SYSTEMS HOSTING SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE (SGD), AIMING TO UNDERSTAND SOLUTE TRANSFER DYNAMICS AND ECOLOGICAL IMPACT IN RECEIVING ECOSYSTEMS. TRINITY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH ASSOCIATE EDITOR, "JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH" (ISSN-1385-1101) EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOCHEMISTRY (EAG) PEER-REVIEWER: JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH, LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE, MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES, HYDROBIOLOGIA, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT ON ECOSYSTEMS BIOGEOCHEMISTRY COASTAL MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION COASTAL PROCESSES EARTH SCIENCES FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH EARTH SCIENCES INSTRUMENTATION ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, INTERACTIONS ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION/REMEDIATION ESTUARINE SCIENCES EUTROPHICATION FLUID DYNAMICS GLOBAL CHANGE GROUND, SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY MARINE POLLUTION OCEAN CHEMISTRY OCEANOGRAPHY SEDIMENT SEDIMENTARY GEOCHEMISTRY SHALLOW WATER BOTTOM INTERACTION WATER POLLUTION WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS WETLANDS ENVIRONMENT (INCL.) CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT WASTE, RESOURCE, MANAGEMENT & CHEMICALS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES CLIMATE RESEARCH INCLUDING MARINE CLIMATE CHANGE & OCEANOGRAPHY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, AGRICULTURE, FOOD, FISHERIES, MARINE & NATURAL RESOURCES FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE AGRICULTURE AGRI-ENVIRONMENT - NUTRIENTS, BIODIVERSITY, GASEOUS EMISSIONS, OTHER ECOLOGY AND MARINE BIOLOGY SOILS AND LAND USE CONTROLS ON SEDIMENT P RELEASE FROM TEMPERATE INTERTIDAL SEDIMENTS SEVERAL RECENT ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE DUTCH WESTERN WADDEN SEA IS LIMITED BY PHOSPHORUS (P), AS A CONSEQUENCE OF EFFECTIVE REDUCING POLICIES. HOWEVER, THE PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY HAS CHANGED REMARKABLY, BUT ANNUAL PRIMARY PRODUCTION REMAINED UNAFFECTED. TO RECONCILE THESE OBSERVATIONS, WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT A SUBSTANTIAL PROPORTION OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION FOLLOWING THE SPRING BLOOM IS SUPPORTED BY P REGENERATION, BUFFERING THE REDUCTION IN P LOADS SINCE 1987. TO TEST THIS HYPOTHESIS, WE PROPOSE A STUDY ON REGENERATIVE SHUNTS OF P CYCLING IN THE WATER COLUMN AND SEDIMENT FROM THE WESTERN WADDEN SEA, INCLUDING FIELD WORK, LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS AND DIAGENETIC MODELING. THE OBTAINED RESULTS CAN BE COMPARED WITH OTHER ECOSYSTEMS THAT ARE PHOSPHORUS LIMITATED LIKE THE RIA FORMOSA IN THE SOUTH OF PORTUGAL. THIS WORK IS EXPECTED TO ADD SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF NUTRIENT DYNAMICS AND ITS RELATIONS WITH PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND WITH THE ECOSYSTEMS CARRYING CAPACITY. ESF-EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND; FCT-NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, PORTUGAL; IN COLLABORATION WITH DR ERIC EPPING, ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH NITROLINKS - NITROGEN LOADING INTO THE RIA FORMOSA THROUGH COASTAL GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE (CGD) - PATHWAYS, TURNOVER AND LINKS BETWEEN LAND AND SEA IN THE COASTAL ZONE [PTDC/MAR/70247/] NITROLINKS FOCUSES ON THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD COASTAL ECOTONE: COASTAL SEDIMENTS INCLUDING GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE. USING THE RIA FORMOSA AS A STUDY SITE, WE SEEK TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS: 1) HOW IMPORTANT ARE PERMEABLE SEDIMENTS ON THE BORDERLINE BETWEEN INLAND GROUNDWATER INPUTS AND PRODUCTIVE MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AS SOURCES OR SINKS OF NITROGEN? 2) HOW IMPORTANT IS THE DISCHARGE OF GROUNDWATER CONTAINING NITRATE INTO THE COASTAL LAGOON AND WHAT IS ITS BIOGEOCHEMICAL RELEVANCE, AND FINALLY, 3) DO COASTAL MANAGERS NEED TO ACCOUNT FOR POTENTIAL SOURCE WHEN IMPLEMENTING WATER AND LAND-USE POLICIES IN THE LITTORAL ZONE? RESEARCH INCLUDES MAPPING OF GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE ZONES, EVALUATION OF FLUXES AND SEASONAL DISCHARGE PATTERNS, QUANTIFICATION OF BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS RATES AT SEEPAGE SITES, AND TRACING THE TRANSFER OF GROUNDWATER-BORNE N TO THE AUTOTROPHIC FOOD-WEB. RESULTS WILL CLARIFY HOW CGD RELATES TO THE N CYCLE IN THE RIA FORMOSA, FILLING A CURRENT GAP IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUNCTIONING OF COASTAL LAGOON ECOSYSTEMS. EU (FEDER), NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (FCT) AND THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT FUNDING: 191,000 EURO NITROGEN REDUCTION IN MARINE SYSTEMS: IN-SITU STUDY OF ALTERNATIVE METABOLIC PATHWAYS LINKED TO COASTAL GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROPOSAL ARE THEREFORE TO IDENTIFY, QUANTIFY AND PARAMETERIZE KEY BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES OF N INSIDE PERMEABLE SEDIMENTS AND CORRELATE THESE PROCESSES WITH IN-SITU FLUX MEASUREMENTS, WHILE USING SELECTED REPRESENTATIVE N MOLECULES AS PROXIES. LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS AND FIELD MEASUREMENTS WILL AIM TO DESCRIBE N DYNAMICS IN SANDY SEDIMENTS LOCUS OF COASTAL GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE (CGD). BY USING STABLE ISOTOPES AS TRACERS OF COMPETING METABOLIC PATHWAYS LEADING TO NITRATE REDUCTION IN LABORATORY ASSAYS, AND COMPLEMENTING THESE STUDIES WITH STOICHIOMETRIC AND DIAGENETIC MODELING, WE WILL IDENTIFY AND QUANTIFY KEY PROCESS RATES, THUS ELUCIDATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS CONTROLLING THE RESULTING SEDIMENT-WATER FLUXES AND MITIGATORY CAPABILITY OF COASTAL TIDAL ECOSYSTEMS ON HUMAN-DERIVED NITROGEN INPUTS.THE EXPECTED RESULTS WILL CLARIFY THE MEDIATION ROLE PLAYED BY MARINE SANDY SEDIMENTS LOCATED ON THE BORDERLINE BETWEEN CONTINENTAL NITROGEN INPUTS AND RECEIVING COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS. ULTIMATELY, THE DERIVED MODELING STUDIES WILL ALLOW THE STUDY OF HOW PROJECTED ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES COULD AFFECT NITROGEN PROCESSING IN THESE SYSTEMS, FILLING A CURRENT GAP IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE FUNCTIONING OF THE COASTAL ECOSYSTEM. EU (FEDER), NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (FCT) AND THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT CO-PI, DR. MARK FITZSIMMONS, UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, UK DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE SENSING AS A TOOL FOR DETECTION, QUANTIFICATION AND EVALUATION OF SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE (SGD) TO IRISH COASTAL WATERS SUBMARINE GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE (SGD) IS RECEIVING CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION IN THE LITERATURE AS A MAJOR PATHWAY FOR ANTHROPOGENICALLY DERIVED POLLUTANTS TO COASTAL WATERS. THE SPECIFIC GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP REMOTE SENSING AS A TOOL IN THE IDENTIFICATION, QUANTIFICATION AND MAPPING OF SGD. THE PRINCIPAL MEANS OF THE ASSESSMENT WILL BE VIA THERMAL INFRARED REMOTE SENSING FOR TWO CASE-STUDY AREAS IN IRELAND - GALWAY BAY AND DUBLIN BAY. A THIRD SITE, THE RIA FORMOSA, PORTUGAL, WILL BE USED AS A REFERENCE SYSTEM FOR THE TOOLS DEVELOPED. THE THERMAL IMAGERY WILL BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS OF TEMPERATURE, CONDUCTIVITY (SALINITY) AND NATURAL CHEMICAL TRACERS OF GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE (222RN) TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF SGD. THE STUDY AIMS TO IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PATHWAYS AND DISCHARGE OF CONTAMINANTS VIA SGD INTO IRISH COASTAL WATERS. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT, TO BE LED BY DR. JEAN WILSON UNDER DR. CARLOS ROCHA'S SUPERVISION, AIMS TO: . EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL OF THERMAL REMOTE SENSING IN SGD ASSESSMENT IN IRELAND USING GALWAY BAY AND DUBLIN BAY AS CASE-STUDIES . VALIDATE THE AREAS OF SGD IDENTIFIED USING THERMAL IR IMAGERY IN THE FIELD AND CALCULATE THE ANTHROPOGENIC COMPONENT (USING THE NITROLINKS PROJECT FOR CALIBRATION AND CONTROL) . DETERMINE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANTHROPOGENICALLY DERIVED SGD TO THE NUTRIENT LOAD . IDENTIFY THE GEOLOGIC AND ANTHROPOGENIC CONTROLS ON SGD THROUGH AN ANALYSIS OF AVAILABLE NATIONAL OFFSHORE AND ONSHORE GEOLOGICAL SPATIAL DATASETS (E.G. INFOMAR AND EPA) AND AVAILABLE SATELLITE IMAGERY WITHIN A GIS EPA (STRIVE), REF: 2008-FS-W-4-S5 STRIVE POSTDOCTORAL PROJECT, FUNDING: 336,891 EURO THE EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENICALLY FIXED NUTRIENTS DELIVERED TO COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS VIA SGD ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION IRCSET POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME COST ACTION ES0801: THE OCEAN CHEMISTRY OF BIOACTIVE TRACE ELEMENTS AND PALEOCLIMATE PROXIES THE CYCLING OF KEY TRACE ELEMENTS IN THE OCEAN IS CRITICAL TO THE FUNCTIONING OF OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS, TO THE CARBON CYCLE, TO CONTAMINATION OF THE OCEAN, AND TO ASSESSMENT OF PAST CLIMATE CHANGE. THIS COST ACTION SEEKS TO MAXIMIZE THE BENEFIT FROM RESEARCH ON THE MARINE CHEMISTRY OF TRACE ELEMENTS CONDUCTED IN A LARGE NUMBER OF COST COUNTRIES. NATIONAL RESEARCH CRUISES WILL USE NEW ANALYTICAL AND MODELLING TECHNIQUES TO DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE UNDERSTANDING OF OCEAN TRACE-ELEMENT CYCLES. THIS ACTION WILL UNITE THESE NATIONAL EFFORTS WITH WORKING GROUPS FOCUSED ON: I) MAXIMIZING THE RESEARCH ACHIEVED ON NATIONALLY-FUNDED CRUISES THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION; II) INTERCALIBRATION AND STANDARDISATION OF ANALYTICAL MEASUREMENTS ACROSS THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA; AND, III) DATA MANAGEMENT AND THE PRODUCTION OF GLOBAL DATA PRODUCTS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF END-USERS. A FOURTH WORKING GROUP WILL CO-ORDINATE SIGNIFICANT TRAINING AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES, THOUGH WHICH THE ACTION WILL GENERATE AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS WHO UNDERSTAND TRACE-ELEMENT CYCLES SUFFICIENTLY WELL TO CONTRIBUTE TO A WIDE RANGE OF FUTURE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES. THIS ACTION WILL LIAISE CLOSELY WITH INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS, PARTICULARLY THE GEOTRACES PROGRAMME, AND WILL ALLOW REALISATION OF CROSS-NATIONAL GOALS OF THAT PROGRAMME WITHIN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA. EU RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME COST - EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. EDNA FRANCES ROCHE rocheednafrances ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT ROCHEEF PAEDIATRICS MY OVERALL RESEARCH FOCUS IS, TO: OPTIMISE CLINICAL CARE; PROMOTE HEALTH; PREVENT UNNECESSARY COMPLICATIONS; AND ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE, THROUGH BUILDING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEVELOPING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS. CLINICAL AREAS INCLUDE PAEDIATRIC DIABETES AND ENDOCRINOLOGY (RARE SYNDROMES, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WHICH UNDERPIN HEALTH IN CHILDHOOD AND ADULT LIFE) AND DOWN SYNDROME. SECURED €2.39 M RESEARCH FUNDING AS PI OR COLLABORATOR. DIABETES: CHILDHOOD TYPE 1 DIABETES (T1D) IS POTENTIALLY FATAL. POOR CONTROL IS ASSOCIATED WITH MAJOR LONGTERM COMPLICATIONS IN CHILDHOOD AND ADULT LIFE, INCLUDING BLINDNESS, KIDNEY FAILURE, AND AMPUTATIONS. GOOD DIABETES CONTROL REQUIRES QUALITY DATA NO RELIABLE DATA WERE AVAILABLE REGARDING T1D IN IRELAND. I DEVELOPED THE CORE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE IRISH CHILDHOOD NATIONAL DIABETES REGISTER (ICDNR). AS A RESULT ACCURATE DATA IS NOW AVAILABLE TO INFORM HEALTH PLANNING, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, SUPPORT AUDIT, RESEARCH AND OPTIMIZE CLINICAL CARE. THE ICDNR IS UNIQUE INTERNATIONALLY AS IT CAPTURES DETAILED CLINICAL DATA ON A LARGE T1D COHORT (OVER 2,300) AND UNUSUAL WITH NATIONAL COVERAGE IN A SMALL COLLEGIATE HEALTH SYSTEM, MANY OTHERS ARE REGIONAL. DIRECT AND LEAD THE REGISTER SUPPORTED BY A HIGHLY SKILLED TEAM (MEDICAL, NURSING, IT, STATISTICS, HEALTH INFORMATICS) WITH EXTENSIVE COLLABORATIONS: INTERNATIONAL (EURODIAB, NI REGISTER, HVIDORE, ISPAD) AND NATIONAL (PAEDIATRICIANS, DIABETOLOGISTS, RCPI, PCRS, HSE, DIABETES IRELAND, ITT). THE ICDNR PROVIDES ROBUST INCIDENCE DATA ("A BASIC HEALTH INDICATOR" - WHO) IMPORTANT NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY, AND MONITORS IRISH T1D EPIDEMIOLOGY, COLLABORATING INTERNATIONALLY WITH EURODIAB TO EXPLORE T1D CAUSALITY. SOME DEVELOP METABOLIC DECOMPENSATION (DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS, DKA) AT DIABETES DIAGNOSIS WHICH CAN BE FATAL OR RESULT IN A TRAJECTORY OF POOR METABOLIC CONTROL WITH INCREASED COMPLICATIONS IN ADULT LIFE. THIS IS OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONCERN. THE ICDNR IS MONITORING NATIONAL DKA RATES BEFORE AND AFTER A 2 YEAR COLLABORATIVE NATIONAL DKA PREVENTION CAMPAIGN TO GAIN INSIGHT INTO FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH DKA AND ITS PREVENTION. OTHER KEY PROJECTS ARE IN PROGRESS AS OUR COHORT IS NOW OF SUFFICIENT SIZE. SECURED €220,000 FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE REGISTER TO DATE. DOWN SYNDROME (DS) CHILDREN WITH DS CAN EXPERIENCE A WIDE VARIETY OF ASSOCIATED HEALTH CONDITIONS RESULTING IN AVOIDABLE SECONDARY DISABILITY AND CHRONIC HEALTH PROBLEMS. DESPITE PROBABLY THE HIGHEST RATE OF DS WORLDWIDE, NO ROBUST DATA EXIST TO INFORM SERVICES OR CLINICAL CARE FOR THOSE WITH DS. TO MEET THIS NEED I DEVELOPED THE UNIQUE NATIONAL REGISTER FOR DS, WHICH INCORPORATES A PROSPECTIVE STUDY. I AM DIRECTOR AND LEAD THE REGISTER SUPPORTED BY A CLINICAL RESEARCH NURSE AND STEERING GROUP (CHAIR). I UNDERTOOK THE BASELINE CLINICAL STUDY IN DS TO INFORM THE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES (MMG) WITH COLLEAGUES AND LED THE REVISION OF THE MMG TO OPTIMIZE THE HEALTH OF THOSE WITH DS. COLLABORATIONS: NATIONAL (MATERNITY AND NEONATAL CENTRES AND PAEDIATRICIANS, DSI, HSE, GENETICS, RCPI) AND INTERNATIONAL (DSMIG). THE REGISTER WILL PROVIDE FOR THE FIRST TIME ACCURATE DATA TO INFORM APPROPRIATE HEALTHCARE PLANNING AND CLINICAL AUDIT, PERMITTING MONITORING OF THE MMG IMPLEMENTATION NATIONALLY. IT WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT INTERNATIONALLY. CHILDREN WILL BE FOLLOWED LONGITUDINALLY LINKING WITH KEY FACULTY RESEARCH IN ADULT DS. OUR WORK IN DS TO DATE HAS ATTRACTED FUNDING OF €1.12M AS PI OR COLLABORATOR. ENDOCRINOLOGY - GROWTH PI FOR A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE TRIAL (NESGAS), WHICH EXPLORES MOLECULAR, IMMUNOLOGICAL AND METABOLIC ASPECTS OF CHILD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. LEAD THE IRISH COMPONENT, SECURING €933,474, SUPPORTED BY A RESEARCH NURSE. SIT ON THE NESGAS STEERING GROUP. THIS STUDY IS PROVIDING SIGNIFICANT INSIGHT INTO GROWTH, INSULIN RESISTANCE, DIABETES RISK, BODY COMPOSITION AND BONE HEALTH. I LEAD ON BONE HEALTH ASPECTS FOR ALL SITES. DEPARTMENT OF PAEDIATRICS TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER FOR HEALTH TO THE NATIONAL PAEDIATRIC HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT BOARD CHAIR OF THE NUTRITION COUNCIL OF THE IRISH HEART FOUNDATION ELECTED TO MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY (ESPE) FELLOW FACULTY PAEDIATRICS ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS FELLOW OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, IRELAND FELLOW ROYAL COLLEGE OF PAEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH, LONDON (FRCPCH) FELLOW ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND (FRCPI) MEMBER OF THE ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY AND DIABETES (BSPED) MEMBER OF THE DOWN SYNDROME MEDICAL INTEREST GROUP UK & IRELAND (DSMIG) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY (ESPE) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT DIABETES (ISPAD) MEMBER OF THE IRISH AMERICAN PAEDIATRIC ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE IRISH ENDOCRINE SOCIETY (IES) MEMBER OF THE IRISH PAEDIATRIC ASSOCIATION MEMBER OF THE STEERING GROUP OF DOWN SYNDROME MEDICAL INTEREST GROUP (IRELAND AND UK) MEMBER OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION (WHO) EURODIAB GROUP, INTERNATIONAL GROUP RESPONSIBLE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN TYPE 1 DIABETES MEMBER, NATIONAL CLINICAL ADVISORY GROUP, FACULTY OF PAEDIATRICS, RCPI MEMBER, STEERING GROUP OF DOWN SYNDROME MEDICAL INTEREST GROUP UK AND IRELAND (DSMIG) MEMBERSHIP OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, EDINBURGH IRISH CHILDHOOD DIABETES NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. JOSEPH ROCHE rochejoseph ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ROCHEJ9 EDUCATION CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS CITIZEN SCIENCE SCIENCE COMMUNICATION STEM EDUCATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADULT EDUCATION AEROSPACE ENVIRONMENTS AEROSPACE PSYCHOLOGY AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY ASTROPHYSICS BASIC SKILLS EDUCATION CAREER EDUCATION & PLANNING COMMUNICATION, INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION, COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION CONTINUING-EDUCATION EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ETHICS EDUCATION GALAXIES, STELLAR SYSTEMS GALLERY INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT INTERSTELLAR STUDIES MANNED SPACEFLIGHT MARS MUSEUMS PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION PHYSICS PUBLIC EDUCATION SCIENCE COMMUNICATION SCIENCE EDUCATION SPACE SPACE TECHNOLOGY STELLAR OBJECTS STEM EDUCATION TEACHER EDUCATION WOMEN'S EDUCATION PHYSICS EDUCATION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CICELY ROCHE rochecicely ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ROCHECI PHARMACY MORAL REASONING COMPETENCIES DEVELOPMENT IN COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS IN IRELAND. (PHD THESIS). PROFESSIONAL ETHICS EDUCATION AS PROPOSED IN 'MORAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROFESSIONS: PSYCHOLOGY AND APPLIED ETHICS' (REST & NARVAEZ, 1994) INCORPORATES THE FOUR COMPONENT MODEL (FCM) OF MORALITY, NAMELY MORAL SENSITIVITY, REASONING , MOTIVATION AND IMPLEMENTATION, AS INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PROFESSIONAL (BEBEAU & MONSON, 2008; BEBEAU, 2002; BEBEAU & THOMA, 1999). MORAL REASONING IS THE COMPONENT SPECIFICALLY CONSIDERED IN THIS STUDY, WHICH REVIEWS THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL REASONING COMPETENCIES, AS MEASURED BY A PSYCHOMETRIC MEASURE KNOWN AS THE DIT2 (REST ET AL, 1999A, 1999B), FOLLOWING AN EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION INCORPORATING PROFESSION-SPECIFIC DILEMMAS. PARTICIPANTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION HAD ALL BEEN, AT THE TIME, REGISTERED PHARMACISTS FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS AND WORKING IN COMMUNITY PHARMACIES, REFERRED TO AS RETAIL PHARMACY BUSINESSES (RPBS) IN THE PHARMACY ACT (PHARMACY ACT, 2007). RESEARCH IN OTHER PROFESSIONS, E.G. DENTISTRY (BEBEAU, 2002) AND BUSINESS (JONES, 2008), INDICATES THAT EVEN RELATIVELY SHORT PROFESSION-SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES (REFERRED TO AS AN INTERVENTION FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS RESEARCH) CAN LEAD TO SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS IN MORAL REASONING COMPETENCIES, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF THE INTERVENTION IS CONTEXT-APPROPRIATE. THE QUESTION THAT THIS RESEARCH AIMED TO ADDRESS WAS WHETHER A SIMILAR INTERVENTION COULD IMPACT ON COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS USING THE IRISH CONTEXT AS A STUDY ENVIRONMENT. THIS STUDY THEREFORE INCLUDED THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF A PROFESSION-SPECIFIC EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION, DELIVERED OVER 16 WEEKS AS A BLENDED LEARNING PROGRAMME, IN ORDER TO CONSIDER ITS IMPACT ON MORAL REASONING COMPETENCIES IN COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS IN IRELAND AS MEASURED BY THE DIT2. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASTHMA SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEDICAL COMMITTEE CHAIR, FITNESS TO PRACTICE - COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY (HEALTH), PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND CHAIR, JOINT WORKING GROUP PSI/ICCPE/HSE/DOH, ENGAGEMENT OF PHARMACISTS IN JOINT CONTINUING EDUCATION INITIATIVES CHAIR, PHARMACY LAW AND ETHICS ASSOCIATION DIRECTOR, GOREY EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD (REG. CHY) DIRECTOR, PHARMACY BEVENVOLENT FUND (REG CHY) IRISH CENTRE FOR CONTINUING PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION (BOARD MEMBER) IRISH MEDICINES BOARD (BOARD MEMBER) MEMBER OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE PHARMACY LAW AND ETHICS ASSOCIATION (IRELAND) MEMBER OF THE PHARMACY LAW AND ETHICS ASSOCIATION (UK) PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND - CORE COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT GROUP PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND: ACCREDITATION STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT (LEVEL 8, LEVEL 9 AND 5-YEAR INTEGRATED PROGRAMMES)... EXPERT GROUPS. PRESIDENT, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND PRESIDENT, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND BENEVOLENT FUND (REG. CHY) REVIEWER, JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS ASSESSMENT OF JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING SKILLS BUSINESS ETHICS ETHICS MORAL REASONING DEVELOPMENT NEO-KOHLBERGIAN THEORY PATIENT CARE AND EDUCATION PEER TO PEER NETWORKS PHARMACY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EDUCATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. JOHN MARK ROCHFORD rochfordjohnmark ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RCHFORDJ BIOLOGY C/O ZOOLOGY DEPT ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MAMMAL SOCIETY AGRI ENVIRONMENT BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE BIOLOGY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY ECOLOGY ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL ZOOLOGY MAMMALOGY NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ORNITHOLOGY WOODLANDS ECOLOGY PROFESSOR KEVIN ROCKETT rockettkevin FELLOW EMERITUS KROCKETT DRAMA INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES IRISH FILM IN ALL ITS ASPECTS: ITS HISTORY, REPRESENTATIONS, AND NATIONAL FILM PRODUCTION POLICY, AS WELL AS THE CINEMAS OF THE IRISH DIASPORA.DEVELOPING RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE PRE-CINEMA VISUAL CULTURE, ESPECIALLY THE HISTORIES OF THE MAGIC LANTERN AND THE PANORAMA. SCHOOL OF DRAMA & THEATRE STUDIES BECKETT CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER, IRISH FILM INSTITUTE ARCHITECTURE CINEMA/VIDEO CULTURAL HISTORY DIGITAL TELEVISION JOURNALISM LITERARY CRITICISM MEDIA ARTS PHOTOGRAPHY RADIO TELEVISION THEATRE/FILM CRITICISM TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY VISUAL ARTS IRISH FILM & TV RESEARCH ONLINE (WWW.TCD.IE/IRISHFILM) THIS IS A COMPLEMENTARY PROJECT TO PROF. KEVIN ROCKETT'S 'THE IRISH FILMOGRAPHY: FICTION FILMS 1896 - 1996', PUBLISHED IN 1996. IT HAS DOCUMENTED ALMOST 40,000 FICTION AND NON-FICTION FILMS, AS WELL AS NEWSREEL AND ANIMATED FILMS, MADE IN IRELAND AND ABOUT THE IRISH PRODUCED WORLDWIDE SINCE THE BEGINNINGS OF CINEMA TO 2007, AND INCLUDES BOTH CINEMA AND TELEVISION PRODUCTIONS. THE PROJECT DREW ON THE ARCHIVE RECORDS OF RTE, TG4, BBC, ITV, THE IRISH FILM ARCHIVE, AND FILM PRODUCTION COMPANIES. THREE OTHER PROJECTS HAVE SINCE BEEN ADDED TO THE WEBSITE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF IRISH FILM AND TELEVISION WRITINGS; IRISH FILM CENSORS' RECORDS, 1923-38; AND NINE RESTORED IRISH SILENT FILMS MADE DURING 1910-15. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES; IRISH FILM BOARD MAJOR GRANTS SCHEME RESEARCHING IRISH FILM HISTORY THIS WAS A COLLABORATIVE VENTURE BETWEEN FILM STUDIES AT TRINITY COLLEGE, LED BY PROF. KEVIN ROCKETT, AND THE SCHOOL OF MEDIA & PERFORMING ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, COLERAINE LED BY PROF. JOHN HILL, AND FROM 2005 ADMINISTERED AT COLERAINE BY PROF. MARTIN MCLOONE. THE SUPPORT RECEIVED INCLUDED; 1. FUNDING OF THREE IRISH FILM STUDIES PH.D. STUDENTS FOR THREE YEARS, TWO OF WHOM ARE BASED AT TRINITY COLLEGE AND ONE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, COLERAINE. 2. SUPPORT FOR THE ANNUAL IRISH POSTGRADUATE FILM RESEARCH SEMINAR AND ASSOCIATED FILM RESEARCH WORKSHOPS. 3. SUPPORT FOR THE PUBLICATION OF FOUR VOLUMES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FILM RESEARCH SEMINAR. HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY NORTH SOUTH PROGRAMME FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. KARSTEN RODE rodekarsten SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW RODEK PHYSICS PHYSICS DEPT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NORWEGIAN SWEDISH DANISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. SINÉAD RODEN rodensinad ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RODENS BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (EUROMA) SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ZULEIKA RODGERS rodgerszuleika ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/HEAD OF DEPT RODGERSZ NEAR & MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES HERZOG CENTRE JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTURE IN PALESTINE AND THE DIASPORA IN THE GREEK AND ROMAN PERIODS. FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS DEPARTMENT OF NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH STUDIES ACADEMY COMMITTEE CLASSICAL AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH STUDIES CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR BIBLICAL STUDIES CO-CHAIR, HELLENISTIC JUDAISM SESSION, SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE EDITORIAL BOARD, ZUTOT: PERSPECTIVES ON JEWISH CULTURE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH STUDIES ORIENTAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS JEWISH IDENTITY IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD JEWISH STUDIES MODERN RECEPTION OF HELLENISTIC JUDAISM SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM MODERN EUROPEAN RECEPTION OF HELLENISITC JUDAISM MNES, PRTLI DIGITISATION OF THE HOLDINGS OF THE WEINGREEN MUSEUM PRTLI, LONG ROOM HUB CENTRE FOR MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EASTERN STUDIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. JUAN DIEGO RODRIGUEZ-BLANCO rodriguezblancojuandiego USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RODRIGJD GEOLOGY CENTRE FOR MICROSCOPY & ANALYSIS I STUDY THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH BIOMINERALS FORM AND TRANSFORM. MY AIM TO SHED LIGHT ON BIOMINERALISATION PROCESSES, WHICH ARE DEEPLY LINKED TO THE EVOLUTION OF PAST AND FUTURE OCEAN CHEMISTRY. ALSO, I STUDY MINERAL-WATER REACTIONS THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO REMEDIATE POLLUTED WATERS AND SOILS, TO CONTROL THE MOBILITY AND TO FIND NEW SOURCES OF STRATEGIC METALS. IN PARTICULAR: 1. MINERAL FORMATION AND ITS ROLE IN BIOMINERALISATION PROCESSES: WE KNOW THAT BIOMINERALISATION PROCESSES ARE DEEPLY LINKED TO THE EVOLUTION OF PAST AND FUTURE OCEAN CHEMISTRY. HOWEVER, THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH BIOMINERALS FORM AND TRANSFORM ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. I HAVE FOCUSED MY RESEARCH ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMATION MECHANISMS OF CARBONATES, PHOSPHATES AND SULFATES, USING A SERIES OF STATE-OF-THE-ART, IN SITU SYNCHROTRON METHODS COMBINED WITH CONVENTIONAL OFF-LINE TECHNIQUES. MY RESULTS HAVE SHED LIGHT ON THE MECHANISMS OF FORMATION OF A NUMBER OF BIOMINERALS (E.G., CALCITE, MONOHYDROCALCITE, DOLOMITE), THE EFFECTS OF SEAWATER IONS AND ORGANICS DURING THESE PROCESSES AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PAST AND FUTURE OCEAN CHEMISTRY, CO2 CAPTURE AND STORAGE AND INDUSTRIAL MINERAL SYNTHESIS. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF MY PAPERS (VAN DRIESSCHE ET AL., 2012) FOCUSED ON THE EARLY-STAGE STRUCTURE AND CRYSTALLISATION PATHWAYS OF PRECIPITATED CASO4. THIS RESEARCH LED TO THE DISCOVERY A NEW, LOW COST AND LOW TEMPERATURE WAY OF MAKING PLASTER OF PARIS THAT COULD LEAD TO A MASSIVE COST AND ENERGY SAVING FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PLASTER. ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS MY OWN PROJECT NANOCARB FUNDED WITH € 300 000 (MARIE CURIE INTRA-EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE PROGRAM, 2015-2016). THIS PROJECT AIMED TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS BY WHICH BORON IS TAKEN UP DURING THE FORMATION OF BIOMINERALS TO VALIDATE THE ISOTOPIC METHODS WE USE FOR PALAEO-PH RECONSTRUCTIONS. THIS INFORMATION WILL BE VITAL TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE IMPACT OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION ON ITS BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INCREASED ANTHROPOGENIC CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE. 2. MINERAL-WATER INTERACTION PROCESSES: I AIM TO SHED LIGHT ON MINERAL-WATER REACTIONS THAT CAN BE APPLIED TO REMEDIATE POLLUTED WATERS AND SOILS, TO CONTROL THE MOBILITY AND TO FIND NEW SOURCES OF STRATEGIC METALS. IN PARTICULAR, I HAVE FOCUSED MY WORK ON THE EVALUATION OF THE CAPACITY OF CARBONATES, SULPHATES AND PHOSPHATES TO REMOVE POLLUTANTS (E.G., ASO43-, PB2+) AND RARE-EARTHS (RE) FROM NATURAL WATERS. RESULTS INCLUDE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THERMODYNAMIC AND KINETIC FACTORS AFFECTING THE FATE OF POLLUTANTS AND GOVERNING THE FORMATION OF RE-BEARING CARBONATES AND PHOSPHATES IN HYDROTHERMAL ORE DEPOSITS. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOCHEMISTRY. HONORARY MEMBER. MEMBER OF THE COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF GEOCHEMISTRY (EAG). GRAPHICAL ADVISOR OF THE EAG PUBLICATION 'GEOCHEMICAL PERSPECTIVES' (WWW.GEOCHEMICALPERSPECTIVES.ORG) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL 'MINERALS' (MDPI JOURNALS) AMORPHOUS SOLIDS AQUEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY BIOMINERALIZATION CARBONATES CRYSTALLIZATION ECONOMIC GEOLOGY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY FOURIER-TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPY GEOCHEMISTRY GEOLOGY KARSTIC GEOMORPHOGY, KARST HYDROGEOLOGY, LANTHANIDES MATERIALS SCIENCE MINERAL-WATER INTERACTION MINERALOGY MINERALOGY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NANOCRYSTALS NUCLEATION PETROLOGY, MINEROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY PHOSPHATES RARE-EARTHS RECRYSTALLIZATION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING SULPHATES SYNCHROTRON RADIATION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY WIDE ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING X-RAY DIFFRACTION ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT WASTE, RESOURCE, MANAGEMENT & CHEMICALS PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING, GEOTECHNICS; CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE MATERIALS SCIENCE CRYSTALLIZATION OF CALCIUM CARBONATE POLYMORPHS IN THE PRESENCE OF MG, SO4 AND PO4 IONS: FROM PRIMARY NANOPARTICLES TO CRYSTALLINE MINERALS SYNCHROTRON-BASED EXPERIMENTS TO STUDY CRYSTALLIZATION OF CALCIUM CARBONATE POLYMORPHS IN THE PRESENCE OF MG, SO4 AND PO4 IONS TO SHED LIGHT ON THE MOST IMPORTANT PROCESSES OF CARBONATE BIOMINERAL FORMATION IN SEAWATER. CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. I PARTICIPATED ON PROPOSAL WRITING, DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS, ATTENDED BEAMTIME AND EVALUATED THE SYNCHROTRON DATA. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL, UK NANOCARB: THE ROLE OF BORON IN THE CRYSTALLISATION AND SURFACE PROPERTIES OF CACO3 AT THE NANOSCALE MARIE_CURIENANOCARB IS AN FP7 EU-FUNDED MARIE CURIE PROJECT: "THE ROLE OF BORON IN THE CRYSTALLISATION AND SURFACE PROPERTIES OF CACO3 AT THE NANOSCALE". THE GOAL OF NANOCARB IS TO CARRY OUT AN IN DEPTH STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF BORON IN THE CHEMISTRY AND CRYSTALLISATION OF CARBONATES. HOW SURFACE PROPERTIES OF CALCITE IN CONTACT WITH BORATE-RICH SOLUTIONS ARE AFFECTED AT THE ATOMIC- AND NANOSCALE, IS A SUBJECT THAT ONLY HAS BEEN ADDRESSED IN THE LABORATORY FROM A BASIC VIEWPOINT. THIS STUDY WILL ENABLE ME TO PROVIDE KEY INFORMATION ON HOW TO IMPROVE WATER CLEANING TREATMENTS, SCALING INHIBITION METHODS, DEVELOP BETTER STRATEGIES TO EXTRACT OIL FROM CHALK, AND ALSO TO ADVANCE IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF PROCESSES THAT OCCUR AT THE GLOBAL SCALE (E.G. OCEAN ACIDIFICATION, CLIMATE CHANGE). EU FP7 MARIE CURIE INTRA-EUROPEAN FELLOWSHIP FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT GYPSUM GROWS FROM SUB-3 NM ROD-SHAPED PRIMARY PARTICLES. WHAT ARE THEY? WE STUDIED THE EARLY STAGES OF CRYSTALLIZATION OF CALCIUM SULFATES FROM SOLUTION TO UNDERSTAND THE EARLY STAGE FORMATION PROCESSES OF BASSANITE, ALSO KNOWN AS "PLASTER OF PARIS", AND TRANSFORMATION TO GYPSUM (CASO4.2H2O) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL, UK COARSENING AND STABILITY OF CALCITE IN SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTS: AN IN-SITU SAXS/WAXS STUDY SYNCHROTRON-BASED EXPERIMENTS TO STUDY THE COARSENING OF CALCITE AT AMBIENT AND HYDROTHERMAL CONDITIONS. PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR I WROTE THE PROPOSAL, DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS, ATTENDED BEAMTIME AND EVALUATED THE SYNCHROTRON DATA. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL, UK THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF CALCIUM SULPHATES: A MECHANISTIC INSIGHT INTO AN ELUSIVE PROCESS I STUDIED THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF CALCIUM SULFATES FROM SOLUTION TO UNDERSTAND THE EARLY STAGE FORMATION PROCESSES OF TWO OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL MINERALS (BASSANITE, ALSO KNOWN AS "PLASTER OF PARIS" AND GYPSUM). SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL, UK FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES OF CARBONATE BIOMINERAL FORMATION PROCESSES - PRIMARY PARTICLES TO AGGREGATES SYNCHROTRON-BASED EXPERIMENTS TO STUDY THE CRYSTALLISATION OF CARBONATES IN SITU AND REAL-TIME. CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR. I PARTICIPATED ON PROPOSAL WRITING, DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS, ATTENDED BEAMTIME AND EVALUATED THE SYNCHROTRON DATA. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL, UK NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MARY ROGAN roganmary ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN LAW ROGANMA LAW . I HAVE SHAPED THE DISCIPLINES OF PRISON LAW AND PRISON LAW NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY; . I HAVE RECEIVED A EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL STARTING GRANT WORTH €1.5 MILLION FOR WORK ON THE INSPECTION AND OVERSIGHT OF PRISONS; . I HAVE OBTAINED €1,754,343 IN RESEARCH FUNDING SINCE 2010; . I AM CURRENTLY ENGAGED IN A RESEARCH PROJECT ON PRE-TRIAL DETENTION WITH SIX OTHER EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION; . I HAVE CREATED A RESEARCH TEAM WHICH WILL COMPRISE NINE PEOPLE BY THE END OF 2017, AN UNUSUAL FEAT IN THE DISCIPLINE OF LAW; . MY RESEARCH IS INTER-DISCIPLINARY, INVOLVING LAW, POLITICAL SCIENCE, HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND PSYCHOLOGY, AND HAS BEEN CITED BY WORK IN THESE OTHER DISCIPLINES; . MY RESEARCH TEAM IS MULTI-DISCIPLINARY IN NATURE, AND MY COLLABORATORS ARE DRAWN FROM LAW, MEDICINE, SOCIOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY IN IRELAND, THE UNITED STATES, UK, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, LITHUANIA, ROMANIA, BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS; . I HAVE PUBLISHED TWO WELL-REVIEWED MONOGRAPHS AND ONE CO-EDITED COLLECTION AS WELL AS SIX BOOK CHAPTERS, EIGHTEEN PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES, AND EIGHT RESEARCH REPORTS, WITH FIVE PIECES IN PREPARATION FOR SUBMISSION IN 2017; . THE INTERNATIONAL REACH OF MY WORK IS ALSO REFLECTED IN MY RESEARCH CONSULTANCY FOR THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE IN UKRAINE AND THE FYRO MACEDONIA; . I AM THE IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON THE INTERNATIONAL PENAL AND PENITENTIARY FOUNDATION, WHICH ADVISES THE UNITED NATIONS; . KNOWLEDGE-EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION TO POLICYMAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS IS AT THE HEART OF MY ACADEMIC ACTIVITY. I. I HAVE ENGAGED IN FOUR FUNDED PROJECTS WITH COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANISATIONS AS PARTNERS; II. I AM CURRENTLY ORGANISING A THREE DAY SERIES OF WORKSHOPS FOR SENIOR PRISON STAFF FROM THE UNITED STATES, IRELAND (NORTH AND SOUTH), SWEDEN, NORWAY, GERMANY AND THE UK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST AND THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO; III. MY PRISON LAW BOOK HAS BEEN CITED REGULARLY IN JUDGMENTS OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS; IV. I BRING MY RESEARCH TO POLICYMAKERS THROUGH DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE POLICY PROCESS. MY RESEARCH EXAMINES THE LAW AND REGULATION OF PRISON SYSTEMS, IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY. MY WORK REVOLVES AROUND TWO CENTRAL AREAS: HUMAN RIGHTS AND IMPRISONMENT, AND THE PENAL POLICYMAKING PROCESS. TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT ON THE DISCIPLINE MY COMBINATION OF SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE IS UNIQUE AND MEANS I CAN WORK ACROSS DISCIPLINES, AND SHAPE POLICY AND PRACTICE. THROUGH MY ERC-FUNDED WORK, I AM CREATING A NEW DISCIPLINE WITHIN PENOLOGY - THAT OF ACCOUNTABILITY WORK. IT IS ALSO THE FIRST TIME THAT THE DISCIPLINES OF PUBLIC LAW AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF PUNISHMENT ARE BEING BROUGHT TOGETHER TO UNDERSTAND OUR PRISON SYSTEMS. EXPERT REVIEWERS OF THIS PROJECT FOR THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL STATED THE FOLLOWING: "THERE IS NO DOUBT ABOUT THE POTENTIAL GROUND-BREAKING EFFECT OF THIS STUDY" "THE EMPHASIS ON 'ACCOUNTABILITY WORK' SHOULD ADVANCE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE MICROPHYSICS OF POWER RELATIONS IN A FUNDAMENTAL WAY" "THE PROJECT ADDRESSES AN IMPORTANT MATTER OF CONSIDERABLE LEGAL, POLITICAL AND ETHICAL CONCERN" "THIS TYPE OF RESEARCH HAS NEVER BEEN UNDERTAKEN IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT" "THE PROPOSAL IS ALSO AMBITIOUS AND BEYOND THE STATE OF THE ART BY ITS INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH" THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF MY WORK IS NOW ALSO BEING EXTENDED TO INCLUDE ANALYSIS OF PRE-TRIAL DETENTION ACROSS THE EUROPEAN UNION. I HAVE, FURTHER, PROVIDED RESEARCH SUPPORT AND TRAINING ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE TO PRISON SYSTEMS IN UKRAINE AND FYRO MACEDONIA. TRAJECTORY MY FUTURE RESEARCH RESTS ON THE VERY SOLID FOUNDATION OF A EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL STARTING GRANT. I AM CURRENTLY PREPARING A PROOF OF CONCEPT APPLICATION (€150,000) FOR THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL TO EXTEND MY WORK IN EUROPEAN UNION ACCESSION STATES. THIS WORK ALSO PROVIDES THE BASIS FOR A CENTRE FOR PRISON LAW AND POLICY WHICH I WISH TO ESTABLISH. LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMIC ADVISOR, TRINITY COLLEGE LAW REVIEW APPOINTED BY THE CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE TO THE EXPERT GROUP ON CRIME STATISTICS APPOINTED BY THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY TO THE WORKING GROUP CONDUCTING A STRATEGIC REVIEW OF PENAL POLICY IN IRELAND APPOINTED BY THE TÁNAISTE AND MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OVERSIGHT GROUP FOR THE REPORT OF THE STRATEGIC REVIEW GROUP ON PENAL POLICY BARRISTER-AT-LAW BOARD MEMBER, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF OFFENDERS CHAIR OF ROUNDTABLE ON PAROLE REFORM, ORGANISED BY THE IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST, DUBLIN/IRELAND CHAIRPERSON, ADVISORY BOARD, PRISONER SUPPORT NETWORK (PATHWAYS PROJECT AND CARE AFTER PRISON) CHAIRPERSON, IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST CHAIRPERSON, IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST (FOREMOST NGO ON PENAL AFFAIRS IN IRELAND) CONVENOR, 'CULTURAL AND LEGAL LIVES OF INCARCERATION' NETWORK, LAW AND SOCIETY ASSOCIATION DIRECTOR, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF OFFENDERS ELECTED TO THE INTERNATIONAL PENAL AND PENITENTIARY FOUNDATION IN RESPECT OF IRELAND: ADVISORY BODY TO THE UNITED NATIONS EXTERNAL EXAMINER, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/IRELAND EXTERNAL EXAMINER, LETTERKENNY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (LAW) EXTERNAL EXAMINER, SCHOOL OF LAW AND GOVERNMENT, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY/IRELAND: LLB (LAW AND SOCIETY) AND LLM PROGRAMMES EXTERNAL EXAMINER, SLIGO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, (HIGHER CERTIFICATE IN CUSTODIAL CARE, LAW PROGRAMMES) HONORARY LIFETIME MEMBER, IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST INVITED CONTRIBUTOR, PRISON HEALTH AND POLICY WORKSHOP, ORGANISED BY DR. CATHERINE COX, UCD AND PROF HILARY MARLAND, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, FUNDED BY THE WELLCOME TRUST INVITED PARTICIPANT IN "PUBLIC CRIMINOLOGY" SESSION, WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AUTUMN CRIMINOLOGY SCHOOL, BLACKWATER CASTLE/IRELAND INVITED RESEARCH COLLABORATOR, CONFEDERATION OF EUROPEAN PROBATION MEMBER OF THE INTERIM BOARD OF THE VICTIMS' RIGHTS ALLIANCE MEMBER OF THE INTERIM BOARD, VICTIMS' RIGHTS ALLIANCE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC LAW MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MEMBER, DIVISION ON CORRECTIONS AND SENTENCING, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY MEMBER, IRISH WOMEN LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION ORGANISER OF A PUBLIC EVENT ON 'CHANGING IRELAND, CHANGING LAW' SELECTED FOR INCLUSION IN PROBE: RESEARCH UNCOVERED EVENT AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN/IRELAND PRESENTATION ON "THE IMPACT OF ERC FUNDING", EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL DAY, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, DUBLIN/IRELAND PRESENTED TO THE JOINT OIREACHTAS COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE, DEFENCE AND EQUALITY ON RESEARCH INTO PUBLIC INTEREST LAW AND STRATEGIC LITIGATION REVIEWER, PALGRAVE MACMILLAN REVIEWER, ROUTLEDGE REVIEWER, UNIVERSITY OF MONASH LAW REVIEW ACCOUNTABILITY IN PRISONS HUMAN RIGHTS IN PRISON PRISON PRISON LAW PRISON OVERSIGHT PRISON POLICY PRISON POLICY IN IRELAND PRISONER HEALTH LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS TOWARDS PRE-TRIAL DETENTION AS ULTIMA RATIO? THIS PROJECT EXAMINES THE USE OF PRE-TRIAL DETENTION AND ALTERNATIVES TO SUCH DETENTION ACROSS EUROPE. IT INVOLVES WORK IN IRELAND, ROMANIA, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, LITHUANIA AND THE NETHERLANDS. IT WILL ANALYSE PRE-TRIAL DETENTION PRACTICES, WITH A PARTICULAR FOCUS ON DECISIONS WHICH HAVE A CROSS-BORDER ELEMENT, EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG JUSTICE ACTION GRANTS LEADERSHIP, CULTURE AND MANAGING PRISONS: KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE USA AND EUROPE LEADERS WILL BUILD A GLOBAL NETWORK OF INNOVATIVE PRISON LEADERS ENGAGED IN PROGRESSIVE REFORMS TO PRISON SYSTEMS, THE NGO PARTNER, THE IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST, AND THE ACADEMIC AND NGO SECTORS IN IRELAND AND THE USA. LEADERS PROVIDES MASTERCLASSES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFLECTION BY PRISON LEADERS IN SELECTED US STATES AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. PARTICIPANTS WILL BE INVITED TO TAKE PART IN RESEARCH EXAMINING THE CHALLENGES FACED BY PRISON LEADERS. LEADERS FULFILS A CORE AIM OF THE NGO PARTNER - TO SUPPORT PRISON LEADERSHIP TO IMPLEMENT POLICY CHANGE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS: ENHANCING CIVIC SOCIETY IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT PRISONS: THE RULE OF LAW, ACCOUNTABILITY AND RIGHTS THIS PROJECT AIMS: 1. TO FIND OUT WHETHER 'ACCOUNTABILITY' IS A DISTINCTIVE NORM OF THE EUROPEAN LEGAL SYSTEM, AND WHAT EUROPEAN PRISON LAW AND POLICY REQUIRES REGARDING THE OVERSIGHT AND MONITORING OF PRISONS; 2. TO FIND OUT HOW ACCOUNTABILITY IS EXPERIENCED BY PRISONERS, PRISON STAFF AND STAFF OF BODIES SUCH AS OMBUDSMEN, INSPECTORS, AND BODIES WHICH DEAL WITH COMPLAINTS; 3. TO CREATE A TYPOLOGY OF ACCOUNTABILITY BODIES IN EUROPEAN PRISON SYSTEMS, AND EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PRESENCE OF SUCH BODIES AND OTHER INDICATORS OF PRISON REGIMES. DR. ROGAN WILL LEAD A TEAM OF THREE POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS, TWO PHD STUDENTS, AN MPHIL STUDENT AND A RESEARCH ASSISTANT TO CARRY OUT THE WORK. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL STARTING GRANT AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR THOMAS RICHARD FRAZER ROGERS rogersthomasrichardfrazer CHAIR IN CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY/HEAD OF ROGERSTR CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY INFECTIONS IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOSTS. INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTIONS. ANTIFUNGAL THERAPY. HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS. ESCHERICHIA COLI BLOODSTREAM INFECTION. ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE. NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF TUBERCULOSIS. DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR TUBERCULOSIS. DEPT OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LAB ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 PRESIDENT IRISH FUNGAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT OF THE HEALTHCARE INFECTION SOCIETY ANTIBIOTICS BACTERIOLOGY AND BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS FUNGAL DISEASES INFECTIOUS DISEASES/AGENTS MYCOLOGY AND FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS TUBERCULOSIS IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MICROBIOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS "MANASP" DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS FOR INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS. STUDY OF DNA RELEASE FROM ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS DURING IN VITRO GROWTH AND CORRELATION WITH DYNAMICS OF DNA RELEASE DURING EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS IN VIVO. STUDY OF ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS-HUMAN DENDRITIC CELLS INTERACTION EX VIVO. STUDY OF A FUMIGATUS-HUMAN MONOCYTES INTERACTION EX VIVO. INVESTIGATION OF IMMUNOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT ASPERGILLUS ANTIGENS PRODUCED IN HUMAN SERUM DURING INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK 6 EVALUATION OF NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING TO INVESTIGATE THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF C DIFFICILE INFECTION IN HOSPITALISED PATIENTS USING NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING AS A TOOL TO PROVIDE HIGH LEVEL DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN STRAINS. AN ADDITIONAL THEME WILL BE INVESTIGATION OF THE INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA IN SELECTED PATIENTS WITH C DIFFICILE INFECTION HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP SCHEME CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. LARRY ROLEN rolenlarry USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ROLENL PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS MY MAIN AREA OF STUDY CONSISTS OF NUMBER THEORY AND COMBINATORICS. I AM ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN THE FIELDS OF MODULAR FORMS, JACOBI FORMS, HARMONIC MAASS FORMS, AND THE EMERGING FIELD OF QUANTUM MODULAR FORMS. I HAVE A SUCCESSFUL TRACK RECORD IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MACHINERY FOR STUDYING NEW TYPES OF MODULAR OBJECTS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN OTHER FIELDS OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICS, INCLUDING MOONSHINE, LIE ALGEBRAS, AND GROMOV-WITTEN POTENTIALS. I AM ALSO CURRENTLY CO-WRITING THE FIRST TEXTBOOK ON THE GROWING FIELD OF HARMONIC MAASS FORMS IN THE AMS COLLOQUIUM SERIES. WITH MY COLLABORATORS I HAVE PROVEN THEOREMS SOLVING A 90-YEAR OLD CONJECTURE OF RAMANUJAN, AN OLD PROBLEM RELATED TO THE BIRCH AND SWINNERTON-DYER CONJECTURE, AND A FAMOUS PROBLEM OF KAC ABOUT CHARACTERS OF LIE ALGEBRAS WHICH YIELDS AS AN ADDED BONUS INFINITE FAMILIES OF NEW PDES GENERALIZING THE IMPORTANT RANK-CRANK PDE OF ATKIN AND GARVAN. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ARABIC ENGLISH GERMAN DR. DAVIDE ROMELLI romellidavide ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ROMELLID ECONOMICS CENTRAL BANKING, CENTRAL BANK INDEPENDENCE, FINANCIAL STABILITY, BANKING AND FINANCIAL SUPERVISION, POLITICAL ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL MACROECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ROMANIAN ENGLISH FRENCH AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION SUERF - THE EUROPEAN MONEY AND FINANCE FORUM CENTRAL BANKS INTERNATIONAL TRADE & FINANCE MONETARY POLICY SUPERVISION ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. ROMAN ROMERO-ORTUNO romeroortunoroman VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW ROMEROOR CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TILDA MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGEING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE DR. MARISA RONAN ronanmarisa RESEARCH FELLOW RONANM LONG ROOM HUB MY RESEARCH INTERESTS CENTRE ON A NUMBER OF PROJECTS WITH A MARINE HERITAGE FOCUS, INCLUDING INTERVENTION POINTS AND BEST PRACTICE FOR MANAGING TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE MARINE HERITAGE AND TACKLING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES TO COASTAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPES. MY CURRENT WORK FOCUSES ON DUBLIN BAY, RECENTLY DESIGNATED A UNESCO BIOSPHERE THE BAY OFFERS A RICH TAPESTRY FOR THE STUDY OF MARITIME CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION, POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE. THIS RESEARCH DRAWS ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF MARINE HERITAGE WHILE SUPPORTING "BLUE GROWTH" STRATEGIES. I AM A CORE MEMBER OF THE COST ACTION, OCEAN'S PAST PLATFORM WHICH AIMS TO MEASURE AND UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE AND VALUE TO EUROPEAN SOCIETIES OF LIVING MARINE RESOURCE EXTRACTION AND PRODUCTION TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF COASTS AND OCEANS. HTTPS://WWW.TCD.IE/HISTORY/OPP/ AS PART OF OUR EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY FOR THE NEW HUMAN CONDITION I EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND HOW SYSTEMS OF FAITH IMPACT PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, HUMAN AGENCY AND SCIENTIFIC INTERVENTION. HTTPS://WWW.TCD.IE/TRINITYLONGROOMHUB/ENVIRONMENTAL-HUMANITIES/EUROPEAN-OBSERVATORY/ I ALSO HAVE A LONGTERM INTEREST IN HUMANITIES IMPACT, POLICY AND STEAM (STEM+ART) PROJECTS. I AM A RESEARCH PARTNER IN THE IMPACT-EV EUROPEAN PROJECT, THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF IMPACT-EV IS TO DEVELOP A PERMANENT SYSTEM OF SELECTION, MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE VARIOUS IMPACTS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND THE HUMANITIES RESEARCH. WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING INDICATORS AND STANDARDS FOR EVALUATING SCIENTIFIC IMPACT OF SSH RESEARCH BUT ESPECIALLY, FOR EVALUATING THEIR POLITICAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT. HTTP://IMPACT-EV.EU TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB APOLLO HOUSE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY (ASEH) COST ACTION 1403: OCEANS PAST PLATFORM EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES' (EASSH) EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR HUMANITIES INSTITUTES AND CENTRES (ECHIC) ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES HUMANITIES IMPACT MARINE HERITAGE RELIGIOUS STUDIES ROMA DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR IAN CAMPBELL ROSS rossiancampbell FELLOW EMERITUS ICROSS ENGLISH CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) PROFESSOR ROSS HAS WRITTEN WIDELY ON IRISH LITERATURE IN ENGLISH, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THE PERIOD 1690-1800. A CO-FOUNDER OF THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY, HE ALSO CO-FOUNDED THE JOURNAL, <I>EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND</I>, WHICH HE CO-EDITED FOR 10 YEARS. A FORMER CHAIR OF THE INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH-SCOTTISH ACADEMIC INITIATIVE, HE IS NOW CO-DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN AND A CO-DIRECTOR OF HEA-FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS THAT HAVE BROUGHT OVER €1,500,000 INTO RESEARCH IN THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES (1999-2005). A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE <I>FIELD DAY ANTHOLOGY OF IRISH WRITING</I> (1991), THE <I>OXFORD COMPANION TO IRISH LITERATURE</I> (1996) AND THE <I>CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF IRISH LITERATURE</I> (2006), HE HAS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO MANY STANDARD REFERENCE WORKS, INCLUDING THE <I>OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY</I> (2004) AND THE <I>DICTIONARY OF IRISH BIOGRAPHY</I> (2009). HIS WORK ON TRAVEL WRITING INCLUDES <I>UMBRIA: A CULTURAL HISTORY</I> (VIKING, 1995; 3RD REVISED ED. SIGNAL, 2013). HE IS CO-GENERAL EDITOR OF 'EARLY IRISH FICTION, C. 1680-C.1820' (DUBLIN: FOUR COURTS PRESS), A SERIES OF CRITICAL EDITIONS OF NOVELS, FOR WHICH HE HAS EDITED OR CO-EDITED [ANON], <I>VERTUE REWARDED; OR, THE IRISH PRINCESS</I> (2010), SARAH BUTLER, <I>IRISH TALES</I> (2010), ELIZABETH SHERIDAN, <I>THE TRIUMPH OF PRUDENCE OVER PASSION</I> (2011), AND WILLIAM CHAIGNEAU, <I>THE HISTORY OF JACK CONNOR</I> (2013). ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 4010 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN FRENCH CHAIR OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY/CUMANN ÉIREANN SAN OCHTÚ CÉAD DÉAG CHAIR OF THE INTER-UNIVERSITY STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH-SCOTTISH ACADEMIC INITIATIVE CHAIRMAN, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY/CUMANN ÉIRE SAN OCHTÚ CÉAD DÉAG CO-FOUNDER OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY/CUMANN ÉIREANN SAN OCHTÚ CÉAD DÉAG CO-FOUNDER OF JOURNAL, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND/IRIS AN DÁ CHULTÚR, AND CO-EDITOR CONVENOR, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE RESEARCH NETWORK IN IRELAND: HTTP://WWW.ECLRNI.COM/ FOUNDER AND MEMBER OF THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE RESEARCH NETWORK IN IRELAND [ECLRNI] (HTTP://WWW.ECLRNI.COM) MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND/IRIS AN DÁ CHULTÚR MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA MEMBER OF THE IRISH-SCOTTISH ACADEMIC INITIATIVE STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, ADVISORY BOARD, IRCHSS RESEARCH PROJECT, AN ELECTRONIC EDITION TO THE LOEBERS' GUIDE TO IRISH FICTION MEMBER, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD, IRISH UNIVERSITY REVIEW MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF IRISH AND SCOTTISH STUDIES MEMBRO AGGREGATO, CENTRO DI RICERCA INTERDIPARTIMENTALE PR GLI STUDI IRLANDESI SCOZZESI (CRISIS), UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI, ROMA TRE. SECRETARY OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY/CUMANN ÉIREANN SAN OCHTÚ CÉAD DÉAG SECRETARY, EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND SOCIETY/CUMANN ÉIRE SAN OCHTÚ CÉAD DÉAG VISITING PROFESSOR, ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY VISITING PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI, ROMA TRE BIOGRAPHY DETECTIVE AND CRIME FICTION EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE, C.1690-1830 JONATHAN SWIFT TEXTUAL EDITING THE NOVEL, ESP. SMOLLETT, STERNE, JAMES TRAVEL LITERATURE IRISH-SCOTTISH PROJECTS IN ARTS AND HUMANITIES AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT INVOLVING COMPARATIVE RESEARCH IN ENGLISH AND IRISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE AND MEDIEVAL AND MODERN IRISH HISTORY HEA PRTLI EARLY IRISH FICTION 1680-1820 A SERIES OF CRITICAL EDITIONS OF EARLY IRISH PROSE FICTION, TO BE PUBLISHED BY FOUR COURTS PRESS. THE FIRST THREE TITLES, TO APPEAR IN 2009 AND 2010, ARE 'VERTUE REWARDED; OR, THE IRISH PRINCESS', ED. IAN CAMPBELL ROSS AND ANNE MARKEY; SARAH BUTLER, 'IRISH TALES', ED. IAN CAMPBELL ROSS AND AILEEN DOUGLAS, AND THOMAS AMORY, 'MEMOIRS OF SEVERAL LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN', ED. MOYRA HASLETT. IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. ANGELA SARAH ROSSNEY rossneyangelasarah PART-TIME LECTURER ROSSNEYA CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY CENTAL PATHOLOGY BUILDING ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION PROFESSOR MICHAEL JOSEPH ROWAN rowanmichaeljoseph PROFESSOR OF NEUROPHARMACOLOGY MROWAN PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS BIOTECHNOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MECHANISMS OF THE SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY DISRUPTING ACTIONS OF Aß SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME GRANT NEUROCARDIOVASCULAR INFLUENCES ON COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING THIS TRANSLATIONAL PROGRAMME GRANT IS A COLLABORATION WITH PROF ROSEANNE KENNY AND PROF BRIAN LAWLOR HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD MEMOLOAD EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK 7 AGEING GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE MR. SURYAPRATIM ROY roysuryapratim ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SUROY LAW SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION FOR CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES (UACES) EUROPEAN UNION STUDIES ASSOCIATION HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITIES ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PUBLIC LAW INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR ISABEL ROZAS rozasisabel PROFESSOR ROZASI CHEMISTRY CENTRE FOR SYNTHESIS AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) DRIVEN BY MY PASSION, MY RESEARCH FORMS THE CORE OF MY WORK. SINCE MY ARRIVAL IN TCD, I HAVE BECOME AN INTERNATIONAL LEADER IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY. MY WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN HIGHLY PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND MY EXPERT OPINION HAS BEEN SOUGHT FROM SEVERAL SOURCES, ATTESTING TO MY EXPERTISE IN THE AREA. MORE IMPORTANTLY, MY TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT AND LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY PUBLISHING IN THE LEADING JOURNALS, WHOSE CITATIONS HAVE GROWN (E.G. >350 TIMES IN 2016). DURING THE LAST TEN YEARS I PUBLISHED 11 ARTICLES IN THE TOP-JOURNAL IN MY FIELD, THE JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY. MY CITATIONS CLEARLY INDICATE A SUBSTANTIAL TRACK-RECORD OF SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT. AT PRESENT, MY RESEARCH IS MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN EVER, WITH NEW IDEAS HIGHLIGHTING A CONTINUING TRAJECTORY OF RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AND IMPACT. REGARDING NEW RESEARCH, EIGHT YEARS AGO I STARTED WORKING ON KINASE INHIBITORS, A HIGHLY-PROMISING FIELD ATTRACTING MOST OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST GROUPS SEEKING TO DEVELOP ANTICANCER THERAPIES. THIS WORK HAS ALREADY RENDERED 2 PHD THESES, ANOTHER FUNDED FOR THIS YEAR AND 3 ACCEPTED ARTICLES. FURTHER, BUILDING ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SYNERGIES, I HAVE ESTABLISHED A NEW, EXCITING COLLABORATION WITH RESEARCHERS IN UCD (KOLCH, APPLYING FOR WORLDWIDE CANCER RESEARCH GRANT). THROUGHOUT MY CAREER, MORE SO TODAY, I AIM TO FIND NEW THERAPIES TO CURE DISEASES SUCH AS CANCER, PROTOZOAL INFECTIONS AND NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. I AM A DYNAMIC RESEARCHER WHO COMBINES EXPERIMENT AND COMPUTATION. THE MULTI-FACETED NATURE OF MY RESEARCH UNDERLINES MY NOVEL CONTRIBUTIONS. CURRENT RESEARCH: 1-EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY INVOLVING THE DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION OF AGENTS ACTING AS &#945;2-ADRENOCEPTORS BLOCKERS (APPLICATION IN DEPRESSION). RECENTLY, A CONNEXION BETWEEN &#945;2C-AR AND SCHIZOPHRENIA WAS ESTABLISHED AND WE ARE NOW WORKING IN THIS AREA; DNA MINOR-GROOVE BINDERS. WE HAVE PREPARED MANY MGBS THAT STRONGLY BIND TO DNA WITH APPLICATION AS ANTICANCER OR ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; PT-COMPLEXES OF DNA MGBS. WE ARE BRINGING THE PT CYTOTOXICITY (SUCH AS CISPLATIN) TO DNA USING THE MGB AS A CARRIER. THESE COMPLEXES COULD BECOME ANTICANCER THERAPY; PROTEIN KINASES INHIBITORS (ANTICANCER AGENTS). CONSIDERING THE SIMILARITIES OF SOME OF OUR MGBS WITH KINASES INHIBITORS, DIFFERENT FAMILIES OF COMPOUNDS AS BRAF INHIBITORS ARE BEING PREPARED; FLUORESCENT PROBES TO BIND GUANINE QUADRUPLEXES. THE ROLE OF GQS IN HUMAN DISEASES (CANCER, ALS) IS STILL BEING EXPLORED AND OUR CONJUGATES WILL ENABLE THESE STUDIES. 2-COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; VERY SIGNIFICANT PART OF MY RESEARCH MAKING MY GROUP UNIQUE IN COMBINING EXPERIMENT AND COMPUTATION. MODELLING BRAF-ATP SYSTEM TO EVALUATE IN SILICO THE SELECTIVITY OF POTENTIAL ALLOSTERIC INHIBITORS OF THIS KINASE; COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF WEAK INTERACTIONS TO UNDERSTAND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES OR MECHANISMS OF REACTION. MY EMPHASIS IS ON PRODUCING INNOVATIVE RESEARCH DISSEMINATED IN HIGH-RANKING INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND TRANSLATED INTO BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS. SINCE BECOMING PROFESSOR, I HAVE PUBLISHED 41 HIGH-RANKING INTERNATIONAL PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PAPERS (RESULTING IN 146 PIECES PUBLISHED, PLUS 2 SUBMITTED). THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MY RESEARCH CAN BE JUDGED BY CONFERENCES (E.G. AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY-MEETINGS, EFMC-INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY OR CONGRESS OF THE WORLD ASSOCIATION OF THEORETICAL & COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTS) AND JOURNALS (E.G. MEDICINAL RESEARCH REVIEWS, IF: 9.583; JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, IF: 5.614; CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS, IF: 24.892 OR JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, IF: 10.677) WHERE THE RESULTS WERE WELL-ACKNOWLEDGED. IN TERMS OF CITATIONS (WEB OF SCIENCE) WHILE THE AVERAGE CITATION/ARTICLE IN CHEMISTRY IS 11.19, THE AVERAGE CITATION FOR EACH OF MY 146 PAPERS IS 29.60. MY H-INDEX IS AT 30. ALL THESE INDICATORS POSITIVELY COMPARE WITH INTERNATIONAL FULL-PROFESSORS. DEPT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE DIT PHARMACEUTICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISH PANEL FOR THE ERA-CHEMISTRY PROGRAM MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY MEMBER OF THE SCIENCE COUNCIL OF THE IRISH CENTRE OF HIGH-END COMPUTING (ICHEC) SPANISH SOCIETY OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY WORLD ASSOCIATION OF THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTS (WATOC) ANTICANCER THERAPIES CHEMISTRY OF DRUG RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND MODELLING COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG DESIGN DEPRESSION DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF DRUGS DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION DRUG DISCOVERY GENITOURINARY, PROSTATIC FUNCTION AND DISEASE HETROCYCLIC CHEMISTRY HYDROGEN BONDING MALARIA MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY NEURODEGENERATION ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PROTEIN CHEMISTRY, STRUCTURE AND FOLDING QUANTUM CHEMISTRY STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, DETERMINATION, FUNCTION SYNTHESIS AND NEW MOLECULES THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING TOWARDS MORE SELECTIVE AND ACTIVE LIGANDS OF I2-IMIDAZOLINE BINDING SITES HEA-CSCB PRTLI-4 COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF ALPHA1B AND ALPHA1D ADRENOCEPTOR SUBTYPES AND THEIR LIGANDS: TOWARDS A SELECTIVE INTERACTION HEA-IITAC PRTLI-4 NEW AND IMPROVED DERIVATIVES OF PATRIN2 AS INHIBITORS OF ATASE MCELHENY MEMORIAL DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF NEW DERIVATIVES WITH AFFINITY AND SELECTIVITY TOWARDS ALPHA1A-ADRENOCEPTORS HEA-CSCB PRTLI-4 CHIRAL RECOGNITION IN HYDROGEN BONDED COMPLEXES SPANISH MINISTRY OF EDUCATION BQU2003-01251 AROMATIC BIS-AMIDINES AND THEIR ACRIDINE DERIVATIVES AS A DIFFERENT CLASS OF DNA MINOR-GROOVE BINDERS AND DUAL DNA INTERCALATORS/MINOR-GROOVE BINDERS OUR AIM IS TO FIND NEW ANTICANCER DRUGS BY IMPROVING THEIR DNA AFFINITY. THUS, IN A RATIONAL APPROACH WE WILL DESIGN, PREPARE AND EVALUATE NEW DUAL-AGENTS THAT INTERACT WITH DNA BY INTERCALATING AND BINDING THE MINOR-GROOVE SIMULTANEOUSLY. SEVERAL DICATIONIC-DIPHENYL DERIVATIVES PREPARED BY US HAVE SHOWN TO BIND THE MINOR-GROOVE. NEW COMPOUNDS WITH DIFFERENT LINKERS, CATIONS (GUANIDINIUM, ISOURONIUM, 2-IMINOIMIDAZOLIDINIUM, N-HYDROXYGUANIDINIUM) AND INTERCALATING AGENTS (ACRIDINIUM) IN ONE END ARE PROPOSED. THE PLAN OF RESEARCH INVOLVES: * MODELLING OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DNA AND PROPOSED COMPOUNDS. * SYNTHESIS OF MOST PROMISING DERIVATIVES. * PHYSICOCHEMICAL MEASUREMENTS OF DNA BINDING (MINOR-GROOVE, INTERCALATING). * CITOTOXICITY EVALUATION. SFI RFP PLATINUM COMPLEXES OF GUANIDINIUM BASED DNA MINOR-GROOVE BINDERS: CONJUGATING FORCES TOWARDS BETTER ANTICANCER AGENTS WE WILL DEVELOP MORE EFFICIENT ANTICANCER THERAPEUTICS BY MULTI-TARGETING DNA AND EXPLORE THE BIOPHYSICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THIS DNA DISRUPTION BY: 1) DESIGNING, USING MOLECULAR MODELLING, NEW BIFUNCTIONAL COMPOUNDS CONTAINING A PT COMPLEXED MOEITY (CISPLATIN-LIKE) AND A MINOR-GROOVE BINDER LIKE THOSE PREVIOUSLY PREPARED IN OUR LABORATORY, EXPLORING THE COMPLEXATION OF THE MINOR-GROOVE BINDER TO PT BY MEANS OF DIFFERENT FUNCTIONALITIES (GUANIDINIUM OR MALONATE), 2) PREPARING THE MOST PROMISING PT-COMPLEXES FROM THE MODELLING AND THE EXPLORATIVE COMPLEXATION STUDIES, ASSESSING THEIR DNA BINDING, AND 3) STUDYING THEIR CYTOTOXICITY. THIS CONJUGATIVE EFFORT HAS PROVED SUCCESSFUL WHEN PT COMPLEXES OF GUANIDINIUM BASED DNA MINOR-GROOVE BINDERS COMBINING CISPLATIN-LIKE AGENTS WITH HYSTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS. SFI RFP RATIONALLY DESIGNED INHIBITORS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS COLONIZATION RATIONALLY DESIGNED INHIBITORS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS COLONIZATION SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TIDA DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL PORPHYRIN-BASED PORTMANTEAU LIGANDS TARGETING GUANINE-QUADRUPLEXES (GQS) AS ANTICANCER AGENTS DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF NOVEL PORPHYRIN-BASED PORTMANTEAU LIGANDS TARGETING GUANINE-QUADRUPLEXES (GQS) AS ANTICANCER AGENTS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTDOCTORAL AWARD NEW APPROACHES TO TREATMENTS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA NEW APPROACHES TO TREATMENTS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AMIDINE-LIKE DERIVATIVES TARGETING THE RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK PATHWAY AMIDINE-LIKE DERIVATIVES TARGETING THE RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK PATHWAY IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS DERIVATIVES OF GUANIDINE-BASED DNA MINOR GROOVE BINDERS AS ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS DERIVATIVES OF GUANIDINE-BASED DNA MINOR GROOVE BINDERS AS ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. MARCO RUFFINI ruffinimarco ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RUFFINM COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE TELECOMS. VALUE CHAIN DRIVEN RES. CONNECT CENTRE FOR FUTURE NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE LONG-REACH PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS, DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL NETWORKS, FLOW-BASED IP OPTICAL NETWORKING, CROSS-LAYER INTELLIGENT AND SELF-AWARE ARCHITECTURES, LARGE-SCALE TESTBED TRIALS, HPC OPTICAL INTERCONNECT AND FPGA-HARDWARE ACCELERATED ARCHITECTURES. SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSITITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH PHOTONIC NETWORKS DISCUS DISCUS WILL ANALYSE, DESIGN, AND DEMONSTRATE A COMPLETE END-TO-END ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR AN ECONOMICALLY VIABLE, ENERGY EFFICIENT AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE FUTURE-PROOF OPTICAL NETWORK. IT WILL PROVIDE A REVOLUTION IN COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS APPLICABLE ACROSS EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD EXPLOITING TO THE FULL THE OPPORTUNITY OFFERED BY LR-PONS AND FLAT OPTICAL CORE NETWORKS TO PRODUCE A SIMPLIFIED AND EVOLVABLE ARCHITECTURE WHICH WILL BE THE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE LONG TERM FUTURE. THE ARCHITECTURE WILL BE ULTRA ENERGY EFFICIENT, SIMPLE TO OPERATE, ROBUST TO NEW TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION AND PROVIDING UNIVERSAL AVAILABILITY OF BANDWIDTH AND FEATURES REGARDLESS OF GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION. THIS IDEAL IS OBTAINED BY A CLEAN-SLATE APPROACH TO THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN BY UNIVERSAL APPLICATION OF OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES THROUGHOUT THE FIXED NETWORK ELIMINATING TRADITIONAL DEMARCATIONS OF METRO, REGIONAL, CORE AND ACCESS. THUS OUR ESSENTIAL CONCEPT IS TO USE ADVANCED OPTICAL TECHNOLOGIES THROUGHOUT GIVING RISE TO ECONOMIES OF SCALE AND ALLOWING BANDWIDTHS AND FLEXIBILITY HITHERTO UNIMAGINABLE. SPECIFICALLY THE DISCUS ARCHITECTURE WILL: SCALE GRACEFULLY AND ECONOMICALLY, OVER A COMMON PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AS FTTP DRIVES BANDWIDTH GROWTH BY THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE OR MORE. IT WILL EVOLVE FROM TODAY'S ARCHITECTURES, ADOPTING FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES WHILE CO-EXISTING WITH EARLIER GENERATIONS. A UNIQUE FEATURE WILL BE A "PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE" WHEREBY ALL NETWORK ACCESS POINTS HAVE EQUAL BANDWIDTH AND SERVICE CAPABILITY INCLUDING CORE BANDWIDTHS (10GB/S TO 100+GB/S) DELIVERED TO THE ACCESS EDGE. IT WILL SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATE WIRELESS AND FIXED OPTICAL NETWORKS, FULLY EXPLOITING BOTH TECHNOLOGIES. IT WILL ENABLE A COMPETITIVE AND SIMPLE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT CONTROLLED BY CUSTOMERS AND USERS RATHER THAN NETWORK OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION FP7 O'SHARE O'SHARE AIMS AT DESIGNING AND DEMONSTRATING AN SDN-BASED DYNAMIC CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORKS TO ENABLE EFFICIENT SHARING OF PHYSICAL RESOURCES AMONG MULTIPLE NETWORK OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS. THE MAIN ISSUE BEHIND THE SLUGGISH DEPLOYMENT OF HIGH-SPEED AND UBIQUITOUS FIBRE ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE LONG PAYBACK PERIOD. BESIDES THE HIGH UPFRONT COST, THE ISSUE IS EXACERBATED BY THE FACT THAT MANY OPERATORS ARE CONSIDERING FIBRE-TO-THE-HOME AS A RESIDENTIAL-ONLY SOLUTION, WHICH CAN ONLY GENERATE A SMALL AMOUNT OF REVENUE. IN O'SHARE WE AIM AT DEVELOPING AN SDN- BASED ACCESS NETWORK CONTROL FRAMEWORK THAT WILL ENABLE CONVERGENCE OF MULTIPLE OPERATORS AND SERVICES OVER THE SAME PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, THUS INCREASING THE REVENUE GENERATED BY THE ACCESS NETWORK. THIS IS ACHIEVED THROUGH TWO MAIN INNOVATIONS: OPEN-ACCESS ORIENTED INTERFACES, WHICH WILL SIMPLIFY NETWORK ACCESS BY MULTIPLE NETWORK OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS; AND ALGORITHMS AND TECHNIQUES TO VIRTUALISE PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS, LEADING TO A MORE EFFICIENT EXPLOITATION OF SYSTEM RESOURCES. THE THEORETICAL WORK CARRIED OUT IN O'SHARE WILL BE FIRST TESTED THROUGH SIMULATIONS AND THEN IMPLEMENTED INTO A HARDWARE TESTBED, WHICH WILL LEAD UP TO AN INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATOR SHOWCASING INDUSTRY-LED NETWORKING SCENARIOS. O'SHARE WILL CREATE THE BASIS FOR AN INFORMATION-LED SOCIETY WITHOUT DIGITAL DIVIDE. SFI INVESTIGATOR PROGRAMME (IVP) AGILE CLOUD SERVICE DELIVERY USING INTEGRATED PHOTONICS NETWORKING. NEXT GENERATION TRANSPARENT OPTICAL DATACENTRES SFI/NSF US-IRELAND CENTRES PROGRAMME SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. EDUARDO RUIZ-HERNANDEZ ruizhernandezeduardo USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RUIZHERE PHARMACY - INVESTIGATION OF DRUG RELEASE AND STABILITY OF NANOMEDICINES - SYNTHESIS OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID NANOPARTICLES FOR THE DELIVERY OF BIOACTIVE THERAPEUTICS - DESIGN, PROCESSING AND ASSESSMENT OF BIOMATERIALS FOR DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. HELEN RUSSELL russellhelen ADJUNCT PROFESSOR HRUSSELL SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. RONALD J RUSSELL russellronaldj ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RRUSSELL MICROBIOLOGY TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN INFECTION CONTROL FOR NICHE APPLICATIONS, BIOFILM MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL, ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVATED SOLUTIONS IN DISINFECTION, PROCESSING, CLEANING, INFLUENCE OF NANOBUBBLES ON ACTIVE SOLUTIONS, MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ACTED AS NBST SCRUTINEER FOR LICENCING OF COMMERCIAL GM WORK IN IRELAND TILL EPA UNIT WAS ESTABLISHED ADVISER TO DEPARTMENT OF THE MARINE ON RESEARCH AND PROJECTS INCLUDING TRAINING, FISH SPOILAGE, SHELLFISH WATERS DESIGNATION, DEPURATION SCHEMES, UV WASTEWATER TREATMENT ADVISER TO DEPT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & TRADE AT UN ON BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION APPROVALS BOARD ILAM /ACTIVE IRELAND APPROVALS BOARD AN TAISCE/FEEE BLUE FLAG SCHEME APPROVALS BOARD OF EXCELLENCE IRELAND QUALITY ASSOCIATION CHAIR OF HSE NATIONAL DECONTAMINATION ADVISORY GROUP CHAIRED EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION EXPERT GROUP ON CYANOBACTERIAL TOXINS CHAIRED THE HSE REVIEW OF DECONTAMINATION SERVICES IN 52 IRISH ACUTE HOSPITALS AND PRODUCED NATIONAL REPORT CO-FOUNDED IRISH SOCIETY FOR IMMUNOLOGY PRESIDENT OF IRISH DECONTAMINATION INSTITUTE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES AT UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO, BOISE AGRICULTURAL HYDROLOGY, WATER PROCESSES ANIMAL HEALTH, WELFARE APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY BACTERIAL PATHOGENICITY BACTERIOLOGY BIODEFENSE BIODEGRADATION BIOFILM BIOSAFETY COMMUNICABLE DISEASES DISINFECTANTS EDUCATION/INSTRUCTION (HEALTH/SAFETY/MEDICAL) ELECTROCATALYTIC PROPERTIES ELECTROCHEMICALLY ACTIVATED SOLUTIONS ELECTROCHEMISTRY ENTEROBACTERIACEAE ENTEROCOCCI ENVIRONMENT (HEALTH/SAFETY/MEDICAL) ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS, MONITORING, RISK ASSESSMENT ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY EPA LABORATORY SUPPORT EPIDEMIOLOGY FOOD MICROBIOLOGY FOOD QUALITY MANAGEMENT, POLICY, LABELLING FRESH WATER POLLUTION GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS, ENVIRONMENT IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNOASSAYS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INFECTIOUS DISEASES/AGENTS INNATE IMMUNOLOGY INSTRUMENTS/INSTRUMENTATION/DEVICES (HEALTH/M MARINE POLLUTION MATERIALS/PRODUCTS (HEALTH/SAFETY/MEDICAL) MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY MICROBIAL DEGRADATION MICROBIAL ECOLOGY MICROBIAL PROCESSES MICROBIAL SYSTEMATICS, DIVERSITY MICROBIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS OF GRAM POSITIVE PATHOGENS MYCOLOGY AND FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE ORAL MICROBIOLOGY PERIDONTOLOGY PUBLIC HEALTH STERILISATION PROCESSES STERILIZATION VACCINES WASTE MANAGEMENT, RECYCLING WATER ENGINEERING WATER MICROBIOLOGY WATER MONITORING, QUALITY, TREATMENT WATER POLLUTION WATER QUALITY WATER-TREATMENT IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT MICROBIOLOGY FOOD SAFETY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CLEMENS RUTHNER ruthnerclemens ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RUTHNERC GERMAN LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES (CENTRAL EUROPE, 18TH-21ST C.) + IMAGES OF THE SELF AND THE OTHER (E.G. ETHNICITY, GENDER, SEXUALITY, MONSTROSITY, VAMPIRISM ETC.) + LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY (E.G. TEXT/IMAGE, THE ECONOMY OF CULTURE, LIMINALITY) + COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND TRANSLATION + AREA STUDIES (CEE, BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA) DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ASSOCIATION OF THIRD-LEVEL TEACHERS OF GERMAN IN IRELAND AUSTRIAN SOCIETY OF GERMANISTS (ÖGG) AUTHOR FOR "KILLY¿S LITERATURLEXIKON" AND "OBERÖSTERRECHISCHES LITERATURLEXIKON" BELGISCHER GERMANISTEN- UND DEUTSCHLEHRERVERBAND (BGDV) BOARD MEMBER & ACADEMIC SECRETARY BGDV (BRUSSELS) CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT OF IG.MOF, VIENNA EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL "GERMANISTISCHE MITTEILUNGEN" (GM), BRUSSELS FÖRDERKREIS PHANTASTIK E.V., WETZLAR (D) INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR AGALEV, BELGIAN CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS, ANTWERP INTERDISCIPLINAIRE WERKGROEP POSTCOLONIALE LITERATUREN, ANTWERPEN (B) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS (IAFA), USA INTERNATIONALE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR MITTEL- UND OSTEUROPAFORSCHUNG E.V. (IG.MOF), VIENNA INTERNATIONALE VEREINIGUNG FÜR GERMANISTIK (IVG) MEMBER OF ADVISORY BOARD FOR AN M.A. PROGRAM IN SEXUALITY STUDIES (DCU) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF "MODERN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE" (USA) PEER REVIEWER FOR AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND, CAMDEN HOUSE PUBL. (UK), U OF TORONTO PRESS (CANADA), GM (BRUSSELS) ALTERITY / OTHERNESS AREA STUDIES (CENTRAL EUROPE) CULTURAL ECONOMY CULTURAL STUDIES AND THEORY LITERARY THEORY MODERN GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN LITERATURE SEXUALITY STUDIES TRANSLATION HERRSCHAFT, LITERARIZITÄT UND ETHNISCHE DIFFERENZIERUNG IN ÖSTERREICH-UNGARN, 1867-1918 ON THE RELATION OF CULTURAL SYMBOLISM AND POWER IN CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY / ETHNICITY IN THE LATE HABSBURG EMPIRE. TEAM MEMBER AS A PAID RESEARCHER (PART-TIME, POST-DOC) AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND (FWF) P_14727 KONSTRUKTIONEN DES FREMDEN: BOSNIEN-HERZEGOWINA IN DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN TEXTEN, 1878-1918 ON THE CULTURAL ("COLONIAL") CONSTRUCTION OF THE BOSNIAN OTHER IN AUSTRIAN AND GERMAN TEXTS AROUND 1900 (PART-TIME RESEARCHER) SFO, U OF ANTWERP ZENTREN / PERIPHERIEN IN ÖSTERREICH-UNGARN, 1867-1918 ON POWER RELATIONS AND CULTURES IN THE MULTI-ETHNIC LATE HABSBURG EMPIRE - THEIR IMPACT ON THE CREATION AND SYMBOLISM OF SPACE (UNPAID BOARD MEMBER AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATE) AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND (FWF), VIENNA CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. BARBARA RYAN ryanbarbara CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER BARYAN CLINICAL MEDICINE I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN BASIC AND TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH FOR ALL OF MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF STRANDS TO MY RESEARCH WHICH REFLECT MY CLINICAL AREAS OF INTEREST / SUB SPECIALISATION. 1. INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE, IBD -RELATED METABOLIC BONE DISEASE AND THE EFFECTS OF BIOLOGIC THERAPY THEREON. BIOMARKERS IN IBD, SOCIAL ASPECTS OF IBD INCLUDING INSURANCE PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED BY PATIENTS, CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY. 2. CHRONIC PANCREATIC DISEASE. I AM PART OF THE PANCREATIC RESEARCH GROUP IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY IN TALLAGHT HOSPITAL AND AM INVOLVED IN A NUMBER OF ONGOING PROJECTS. I ALSO HAVE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN PANCREATOBILIARY ENDOSCOPY AND HAVE ESTABLISHED A NATIONAL TERTIARY REFERRAL PRACTICE FOR COMPLEX PANCREATIC INTERVENTION, INCLUDING ENDOSCOPIC CYST-GASTROSTOMY. I AM CURRENTLY COLLABORATING WITH GROUPS IN THE UK INVESTIGATING THE EFFICACY OF NEW PANCREATIC CYSTGASTROSTOMY AND METAL STENT DEPLOYMENT DEVICE. 3. BIOINNOVATE NUIG: I AM WORKING WITH A GROUP OF RESEARCHERS TO HELP DESIGN AND TRIAL IMPROVED FNA NEEDLES FOR USE IN ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND -GUIDED FNA. 4. COELIAC DISEASE GENOTYPE AND PHENOTYPE. I HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WITH PROF ROSS MCMANUS, TCD FOR MANY YEARS AND AM CURRENTLY INVOLVED IN A NATIONAL PHENOTYPE /GENOTYPE STUDY OF COELIAC DISEASE IN IRELAND. 5. COLORECTAL CANCER: I HAVE PUBLISHED ON PLASMA MARKERS IN COLORECAL CANCER PATIENTS AND AM CURRENTLY WORKING WITH EXACT SCIENCES USA LOOKING AT STOOL DNA MARKERS OF COLORECTAL CANCER. DEPARTMENT OF GASTROENTEROLOGY TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH NATIONAL SPECIALTY DIRECTOR FOR HIGHER SPECIALIST TRAINING IN GASTROENTEROLOGY IRISH REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY - MEMBER OF BOARD AND SCIENTIFIC ORGANISING COMMITTEE IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY HONORARY TREASURER MEMBER OF GASTROENTEROLOGY ADVISORY PANEL FOR THE IRISH NATIONAL CANCER CONTROL PROGRAMME (NCCP). REVIEWER FOR ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS REVIEWER FOR EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY REVIEWER FOR GUT REVIEWER FOR THE UNITED EUROPEAN GASTROENTEROLOGY JOURNAL (UEGJ) THE AMERICAN GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATION THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY (ESGE) THE IRISH SOCIETY OF GASTROENTEROLOGY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. PAUL RYAN ryanpaul ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RYANP28 BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. DESMOND RYAN ryandesmond ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DRYAN14 LAW EMPLOYMENT LAW AND THE CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STATUTE AND COMMON LAW IN EMPLOYMENT LAW AND TORT LAW TORT LAW ESP. NEGLIGENCE AND VICARIOUS LIABILITY PRIVATE LAW THEORY: OBLIGATIONS THE LAW SCHOOL NO 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONVENOR FOR IRELAND AND MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS CONVENOR FOR IRELAND, SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION FOUNDER AND CO-DIRECTOR, PRIVATE LAW DISCUSSION GROUP, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN FOUNDING MEMBER, EMPLOYMENT LAW ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND HEALTH AND SAFETY LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CANCER CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. J MARK RYAN ryanjmark CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER RYANJ34 SURGERY GLOBAL HEALTH TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY IS A TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED SPECIALTY THAT INVOLVES PERFORMING MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURES WITH SPECIALIST MEDICAL DEVICES UNDER IMAGING GUIDANCE. DR RYAN HAS BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN CLINICAL RESEARCH FOR OVER 20 YEARS, HAS PUBLISHED AND PRESENTED MORE THAN 120 PEER-REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND ARTICLES WITH OVER 1160 CITATIONS IN THE MEDICAL LITERATURE. DR RYAN'S AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST ARE IN THE FIELD OF INTERVENTIONAL ONCOLOGY WHICH INCLUDES TUMOUR EMBOLIZATION AND ABLATION, MANAGEMENT OF VISCERAL ORGAN OBSTRUCTION, MAINTENANCE OF VASCULAR ACCESS, PAIN MANAGEMENT AND PALLIATIVE THERAPIES. HE ALSO HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN UROLOGICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH GYNAECOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY AND HAS DEVELOPED NEW TECHNIQUES AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR PATIENTS WITH THESE PROBLEMS. HE HAS A SPECIALIST INTEREST AND EXPERTISE IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND MINIMALLY-INVASIVE TREATMENT OF ACUTE LIFE THREATENING HAEMORRHAGE AS WELL AS IN VASCULAR INTERVENTIONS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF VASCULAR DISEASE INCLUDING ACUTE THROMBOSIS, BLEEDING DISORDERS, ARTERIAL AND VENOUS OBSTRUCTION, CONGENITAL VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS IN PAEDIATRIC AND ADULT POPULATIONS, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE STROKE WITH INTRA-ARTERIAL PHARMACOLOGICAL AND MECHANICAL THROMBOLYSIS. HE ALSO HAS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE INTERVENTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT OF CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE AND IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE TREATMENTS INCLUDING CHEMOEMBOLISATION FOR HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AND TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNTS (TIPS) FOR PORTAL HYPERTENSION. DR RYAN HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN MEDICAL DEVICE TESTING, EVALUATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOR OVER 15 YEARS AND HAVE WORKED AS A MEDICAL ADVISOR TO A NUMBER OF MEDICAL DEVICE COMPANIES OVER THAT TIME. HE IS ALSO INVOLVED IN HELPING DEVELOP SPECIALIST MEDICAL CARE IN EMERGING ECONOMIES. WITH OPERATION CHILDLIFE (OCL) HE CURRENTLY PROVIDES VOLUNTARY MEDICAL CARE AND TEACHING IN CHILDRENS HOSPITAL NO 2, HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM. A SIMILAR PROGRAM IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ANGKOR HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA. THE OCL TEAM TRAVELS TO HCMC REGULARLY AND VIETNAMESE DOCTORS-IN-TRAINING RETURN TO DUBLIN FOR SECONDMENTS TO LEARN NEW TECHNIQUES (WWW.OPERATIONCHILDLIFE.COM). - WWW.RESEARCHGATE.NET/PROFILE/J_MARK_RYAN DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL JAMES'S STREET DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBER OPERATION CHILDLIFE. BOARD MEMBER OF OPERATION CHILDLIFE AND MEDICAL VOLUNTEER OCL (WWW.OPERATIONCHILDLIFE.COM) EBIR FOR CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL SOCIETY OF EUROPE (CIRSE) EXAMINER EUROPEAN BOARD OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY FACULTY MEMBER AT SIR, CIRSE, ISET, GEST, ECIO, SEAS FELLOW OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF EUROPE (FCIRSE) FELLOW OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL SOCIETY OF EUROPE FELLOW OF THE FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS IN THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGISTS, LONDON MEMBER HOST ORGANISING COMMITTEE; EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF INTERVENTIONAL ONCOLOGY, DUBLIN 2016 MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ROENTGEN RAY SOCIETY (ARRS) MEMBER OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONAL SOCIETY OF EUROPE (CIRSE) MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF RADIOLOGY MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY (ISIR) MEMBER OF THE RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (RSNA) MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY (SIR) REVIEWER FOR AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY. REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL ANTI-CANCER THERAPIES DIAGNOSTIC-RADIOLOGY HEALTH INTERVENTIONS AND INNOVATIONS ; HEALTH OUTCOMES;HEALTH INFORMATICS ;HEALTH MANAGEMENT ; RADIOLOGY INTERVENTIONAL NEURORADIOLOGY INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY RADIOLOGY THERAPEUTIC RADIOLOGY, INTERSTITIAL AND INTRACAVITARY ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) MANAGEMENT OF OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY IN PATIENTS WITH CERVICAL CANCER COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH DEPARTMENT OF GYNAECOLOGICAL ONCOLOGY. LEAD COLLABORATOR DR NOREEN GLEESON. CLINICAL EVALUATION OF NEW EMBOLIC DEVICE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH EMBA MEDICAL. LEAD COLLABORATOR KEVIN CONLON. RETROGRADE TRANSURETHRAL URETERIC STENT PLACEMENTS IN A PATIENT POPULATION WITH GYNAECOLOGICAL MALIGNANCY A 5 YEAR EXPERIENCE AND AUDIT OF MORE THAN 300 PROCEDURES COMPARITIVE DOSIMETRY STUDY IN IR SETTINGS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL PHYSICS -LEAD COLLABORATOR UNA O CONNOR MPBE. AGEING CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. TOMAS RYAN ryantomas ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TRYAN6 BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) THE RYAN LAB INVESTIGATES THE FUNDAMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE OF MEMORY. WE EMPLOY A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACH IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND HOW MEMORIES ARE ENCODED, STORED, AND RETRIEVED IN THE BRAIN. TO THIS END WE UTILIZE A WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES INCLUDING OPTOGENETICS, ENGRAM CELL LABELLING, MOUSE TRANSGENICS, PHARMACOLOGY, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, IN VIVO CALCIUM IMAGING, AND BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS. THE CENTRAL QUESTION WE AIM TO ADDRESS IS HOW IS MEMORY CODED IN THE BRAIN AS INFORMATION? AT THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL, MEMORY IS INFORMATION THAT IS ENCODED INTO THE BRAIN THROUGH A PROCESS OF LEARNING. WE REFER TO THE SPECIFIC CHANGE IN THE BRAIN THAT ACCOUNTS FOR A PARTICULAR LEARNED PIECE OF INFORMATION AS A MEMORY ENGRAM. MEMORY ENGRAMS MUST EXIST SOMEWHERE IN OUR BRAINS AND THE SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGE IS FIRSTLY TO FIND THEM AND SECONDLY TO UNDERSTAND HOW THEY FUNCTION. GENETIC TECHNIQUES HAVE ALLOWED US TO IDENTIFY SUBSETS OF CELLS THAT ARE ACTIVATED BY PARTICULAR EXPERIENCES, AND MANIPULATION OF THESE CELLS HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT THEY CONTRIBUTE TO THE REPRESENTATION OF SPECIFIC MEMORIES. THESE CELLS ALSO UNDERGO VARIOUS FORMS OF PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PLASTICITY (CHANGE) DUE TO LEARNING, WHICH MAY ACCOUNT FOR INFORMATION STORAGE. OUR GROUP FOCUSES ON UNDERSTANDING HOW VARIOUS FORMS OF NEURONAL PLASTICITY CONTRIBUTE ESSENTIALLY TO MEMORY INFORMATION CODING AND FUNCTIONALITY. SCHOOL OF BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ENGRAM EVOLUTION MEMORY NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) NEUROSCIENCE DR. WILLIAM RYAN ryanwilliam ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WMRYAN ANATOMY DEPT OF ANATOMY, FLOOR 1 TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152 - 160 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR SINEAD MARIE RYAN ryansineadmarie PROFESSOR RYANSIN PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS MY RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE PHYSICS. IN PARTICULAR, NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS (QCD), THE THEORY OF THE STRONG NUCLEAR FORCE TO DETERMINE PROPERTIES OF HEAVY HADRONS, ABOVE AND BELOW THE QCD TRANSITION TEMPERATURE. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EXCITED HEAVY MESONS LATTICE QCD PARTICLE PHYSICS QUANTUM FIELD-THEORY QUARK-GLUON PLASMA THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS HEAVY QUARK PHYSICS IN FINITE TEMPERATURE LATTICE QCD THIS PROJECT WILL PROBE THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE MOMENTS AFTER THE BIG BANG, THROUGH NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE STRONG INTERACTION. THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLES WILL BE INVESTIGATED TO DETERMINE MELTING AND SURVIVAL PATTERNS OF BOUND STATES NEAR THE CRITICAL TEMPERATURE OF QCD. THIS WILL BE THE FIRST SUCH NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND BRINGS TOGETHER COLLABORATORS FROM AROUND THE WORLD WITH A RANGE OF EXPERTISE. SFI RFP NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. FRANCES RYAN ryanfrances ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RYANFR SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY PALLIATIVE CARE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. FÁINCHE RYAN ryanfinche ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FARYAN LOYOLA INSTITUTE MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS: 1) TRUTH, THE VIRTUE OF TRUTH TELLING IN THOMAS AQUINAS - AND HOW HIS THOUGHT MIGHT ENGAGE IN DEBATE AND THE FORMATION OF SOCIETY IN A POST-TRUTH CULTURE. 2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW IDEAS IN THE THEOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP AND ORDINATION. THE AIM OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT IS TO INFLUENCE THE WIDESPREAD DEBATE ON THESE TOPICS IN SUCH A WAY THAT EFFECTIVE CHANGE WILL RESULT. TO THIS END I PLAN TO PUBLISH A MONOGRAPH ON TOPICS WHICH PERTAIN TO THIS TOPIC. THERE WILL BE TWO SECTIONS IN THE MONOGRAPH. THE FIRST WILL OFFER HISTORICAL RESEARCH. THE SECOND SECTION WILL OFFER A THEOLOGY OF EUCHARIST AND SACRAMENTALITY IN THE CATHOLIC TRADITION. THE AIM IS TO INDICATE HOW, WITH NEW THINKING, THESE VITAL ASPECTS OF CHURCH LIFE, CAN BE CARRIED THROUGH WITH NEW STRUCTURAL ARRANGEMENTS. OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I HAVE BOTH PUBLISHED AND GIVEN PAPERS IN THE AREA OF ORDINATION, ECCLESIAL LEADERSHIP AND EUCHARIST, AS PART OF THE PREPARATORY WORK FOR THIS MONOGRAPH. QUALITY LEADERSHIP: IN RESEARCH FOR THE MONOGRAPH I PLACE PARTICULAR FOCUS ON THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP. IT IS CRUCIAL THAT SERIOUS HISTORICAL RETRIEVAL OF THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN ECCLESIAL TRADITIONS BE BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT IN CURRENT DEBATE. 3) THE THEOLOGY OF AQUINAS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GOD QUESTION TODAY. THE TEXTS OF THOMAS AQUINAS ARE CLASSIC TEXTS IN THE TRADITION. THEY HAVE A REMARKABLE CAPACITY TO GENERATE NEW LINES OF EXPLORATION AND TO BRING A PROFUNDITY OF UNDERSTANDING TO CONTEMPORARY THEMES AND TOPICS. IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT THE TEXTS OF AQUINAS HAVE A CAPACITY TO BE AT THE CENTRE OF CULTURAL WARS WITHIN THE THEOLOGICAL TRADITION, IN THE SENSE THAT THEY HAVE OFTEN BEEN BRANDISHED AS EVIDENCE THAT ALL THE BIG QUESTIONS HAVE LONG SINCE BEEN ANSWERED IN THE PAST. IN MY ONGOING RESEARCH I WORK HARD TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THIS APPROACH FAILS TO DO JUSTICE TO THE RICHNESS OF THINKING TO BE FOUND IN THE WRITINGS OF AQUINAS. TO THIS END, AS WELL AS WRITING NUMEROUS PAPERS, I HAVE PUBLISHED A MONOGRAPH IN AN IMPORTANT SERIES WITH THE THOMAS INSTITUUT TE UTRECHT, AND AM CURRENTLY WORKING ON A MONOGRAPH ON THE THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF AQUINAS. 4) THE STUDY OF THE BOOK OF KELLS IN THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. SINCE COMING ONTO THE STAFF OF TRINITY I HAVE DEVELOPED A NEW AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST IN THE THEOLOGY THAT IS EMBEDDED IN THE INSULAR ART OF THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD. I HAVE CONCENTRATED ON THE ART WORK OF THE IRISH HIGH CROSSES AND IN THE ILLUMINATED GOSPEL BOOKS, IN PARTICULAR THE BOOK OF KELLS. WITH MY COLLEAGUE DR. CORNELIUS CASEY, I HAVE DEVELOPED AND TAUGHT A MODULE ENTITLED THE BOOK OF KELLS: A THEOLOGICAL READING. WE HAVE PUBLISHED A POPULAR ARTICLE IN THE IRISH TIMES [AT HTTP://WWW.IRISHTIMES.COM/OPINION/THE-BOOK-OF-KELLS-THE-MOST-PURELY-IRISH-THING-WE-HAVE-JAMES-JOYCE-1.2159952]AND PLAN TO PUBLISH AGAIN IN THIS AREA. THIS IS AN AREA OF RESEARCH WITH GOOD POSSIBILITIES FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY LINKS, AND TO THIS END DR CASEY AND I HAVE INITIATED DISCUSSIONS WITH COLLEAGUES IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS, WITH SPECIALISMS IN THESE AREAS. LOYOLA INSTITUTE ISE & LOYOLA INSITITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN LATIN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (GB) EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CATHOLIC THEOLOGY (ESCT) IRISH BIBLICAL ASSOCIATION IRISH THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (CURRENTLY PRESIDENT) THEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. THOMAS RYAN ryanthomas MEDICAL ASSOCIATE RYANTH SURGERY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND ORIAN DIRECTORATE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY MS. SHEILA ANNE RYDER rydersheilaanne ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SRYDER PHARMACY PHARMACOLOGY: BEHAVIOURAL PHARMACOLOGY OF POLYAMINES AND THEIR ROLE IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS, INCLUDING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND PARKINSONISM. ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS AS ANTI-CANCER AGENTS. PHARMACY PRACTICE: HEALTH PROMOTION/HEALTH EDUCATION BY PHARMACISTS; THE COMMUNITY-HOSPITAL INTERFACE; PHARMACY EDUCATION; MEDICINES MANAGEMENT; DRUG MISUSE; ASTHMA MANAGEMENT; MEDICATION ERRORS; ANTIMICROBIAL USE. SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 COUNCIL OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND FOUNDER MEMBER, PHARMACY LAW AND ETHICS ASSOCIATION (IRELAND) MEMBER OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND NATIONAL FORUM FOR PHARMACY EDUCATION AND ACCREDITATION (SUB-FORUM ON PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT) NATIONAL FORUM FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, TEAM MATE - TEACHING EXPERT ORGANISING COMMITTEE - ALL IRELAND PHARMACY CONFERENCE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, M.PHARM. ACCREDITATION GUIDELINES WORKING GROUP PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING COMMITTEE PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, REGISTRATION AND QUALIFICATION RECOGNITION COMMITTEE PROJECT STEERING GROUP, PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND'S REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL CPD MODELS ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND, NATIONAL PHARMACY INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME ADVISORY GROUP ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DISTANCE LEARNING E-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY MEDICINES MANAGEMENT NEURODEGENERATION NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROPROTECTION NEUROTOXICITY NMDA RECEPTOR PHARMACEUTICAL CARE PHARMACOECONOMICS PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY PHARMACY EDUCATION PHARMACY PRACTICE POLYAMINES AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. JOANNA RZEPA rzepajoanna THOMAS BROWN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RZEPAJ RUSSIAN DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN & SLAVONIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EUROPEAN MODERNISM AND AVANT-GARDE HOLOCAUST STUDIES HOLOCAUST WRITING MODERNISM TRANSLATIONAL STUDIES TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE WORLD WAR II TRANSLATING AUSCHWITZ: THE HOLOCAUST AND THE POLITICS OF TRANSLATION THE PROJECT OFFERS A PIONEERING APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF HOLOCAUST WRITING AND ITS RECEPTION BY FOCUSING ON THE PROCESSES OF TRANSLATION. IT SEEKS TO GAIN A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW POLISH HOLOCAUST NARRATIVES WERE GIVEN OR DENIED A CHANCE TO REACH GLOBAL READERSHIP VIA THE MEDIUM OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS. IT DEPLOYS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK THAT COMPRISES BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH, HISTORICAL ARCHIVAL METHODS, CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS, AND COMPARATIVE TRANSLATION CRITICISM, IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH HOW THE PROCESSES OF TRANSLATION, WHICH INCLUDE TRANSLATORS' LINGUISTIC STRATEGIES, EDITORS' PRACTICES, PUBLISHERS' MARKETING POLICIES, AND A WIDER SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT, HAVE AFFECTED THE DISSEMINATION, READING AND RECEPTION OF HOLOCAUST LITERATURE. THE PROJECT BUILDS UPON EXISTING SCHOLARSHIP IN THE FIELD OF TRANSLATION STUDIES, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, AND HOLOCAUST STUDIES, AND AIMS TO ACHIEVE A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF THE KEY IMPORTANCE OF TRANSLATION IN THE CREATION OF A TRANSNATIONAL AND CROSSCULTURAL MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. EWA SADOWSKA sadowskaewa ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER ESDOWSKA ACADEMIC SECRETARIAT OFFICE OF THE VICE-PROVOST WEST THEATRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATORS MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL "BRISTOL" ASSOCIATION OF POLISH AND FOREIGN TEACHERS OF POLISH CULTURE AND POLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (GLASGOW-CRACOW) DR. PIOTR SADOWSKI sadowskipiotr VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW PSDOWSKI SCHOOL OFFICE - ENGLISH CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE DRAMA; VISUAL SEMIOTICS; LINGUISTIC ICONICITY; EARLY CINEMA; SYSTEMS THEORY OF LITERATURE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH COLLEGE 01-8961000 POLISH GERMAN BRITISH SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION ICONICITY IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE RESEARCH GROUP MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE ONLINE OPEN ACCESS ACADEMIC JOURNAL STUDIES IN ARTS AND HUMANITIES (HTTP://SAHJOURNAL.COM/INDEX.PHP/SAH) CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES PROFESSOR JOHN IBRAHIM SAEED saeedjohnibrahim PROFESSOR IN LINGUISTICS JSAEED C.L.C.S. I HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GRAMMATICAL KNOWLEDGE AND PRAGMATIC PROCESSES. A PARTICULAR INTEREST HAS BEEN INFORMATION STRUCTURE, WHICH HAS LED ME TO INVESTIGATE CONSTITUENT ORDER, FOCUS AND TOPIC IN A RANGE OF LANGUAGES, BUT IN MOST DETAIL IN SOMALI AND RELATED CUSHITIC LANGUAGES, AND MORE RECENTLY, IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ENGAGED IN LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION AND DOCUMENTATION, AND HAVE WRITTEN GRAMMATICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF SOMALI, ITS DIALECTS, AND IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE. C.L.C.S. 4091 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SOMALI SPANISH; CASTILIAN FRENCH ASSOCIATION FOR LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS GRAMMATICAL THEORY LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY LINGUISTICS PRAGMATICS SEMANTICS SYNTAX DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR EDA SAGARRA sagarraeda FELLOW EMERITUS ESAGARRA GERMAN GERMANIC STUDIES COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN CATALAN; VALENCIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH DR. DARIUS SAGHERI sagheridarius ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DSAGHERI DENTAL SCIENCE SCHOOL OF DENTAL SCIENCE 21/22 LINCOLN PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN DR. PAULE SALERNO-O'SHEA salernoosheapaule ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PSALERNO FRENCH DEPT OF FRENCH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. MAIJA SALOKANGAS salokangasmaija ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SALOKAM EDUCATION - EDUCATION POLICY, LEADERSHIP, AND GOVERNANCE - COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION - QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS - ETHNOGRAPHY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SWEDISH ENGLISH FINNISH IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR CORINNA SALVADORI LONERGAN salvadorilonergancorinna FELLOW EMERITUS CLONERGN ITALIAN ITALIAN DEPARTMENT COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. IAN SANDERS sandersian FELLOW EMERITUS ISANDERS GEOLOGY DEPT OF GEOLOGY MUSUEM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, MEMBER OF THE METEORITICAL SOCIETY, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. MARIA JOSE SANTOS-MARTINEZ santosmartinezmariajose ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SANTOSMM PHARMACY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES DR MARIA J SANTOS-MARTINEZ IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR SPECIALIST IN RESPIRATORY MEDICINE FROM THE UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA (SPAIN) AND PHD FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN. SHE WAS APPOINTED AS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (USSHER) IN NANOPHARMACEUTICAL DRUG DISCOVERY (SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES & SCHOOL OF MEDICINE) IN 2010. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE FOCUSED ON BLOOD PLATELETS; NANOPARTICLE-CELL AND NANOPARTICLE-PLATELET INTERACTIONS (NANOTOXICOLOGY) AND CANCER. DURING HER PHD STUDIES SHE DEVELOPED A NOVEL METHOD FOR MEASURING PLATELET AGGREGATION USING A QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE WITH DISSIPATION MONITORING (QCM-D). THIS IS A UNIQUE AND VERY SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY ABLE TO QUANTIFY AND CHARACTERISE SURFACE-MOLECULES-CELLS INTERACTIONS AT NANOSCALE. HER EXPERTISE ON THE USE OF QCM-D HAS BEEN CONSOLIDATED AND SHE APPLIES THIS TECHNOLOGY FOR INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT COMPOUNDS, NANOMATERIALS AND NOVEL FORMULATIONS ON PLATELET FUNCTION AND THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NANOPARTICLES DEVELOPED FOR DRUG DELIVERY, THEIR TARGETS AND THE POTENTIAL BARRIERS THAT THEY HAVE TO OVERCOME TO EXERT THEIR ACTION. IN THE FIELD OF CANCER, HER RESEARCH IS MAINLY FOCUSED ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF PLATELETS TO CANCER PROGRESSION (TUMOR INVASION, ANGIOGENESIS AND BLOOD METASTASIS). SCHOOL OF PHARMACY & PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACOLOGISTS (IAP) MEMBER AND FOUNDER OF THE SPANISH RESEARCH SOCIETY IN IRELAND REVIEWER:PNAS; NANOMEDICINE: NANOTECHNOLOGY, BIOLOGY, AND MEDICINE (NANOMEDICINE); CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS SPANISH RESPIRATORY MEDICINE ASSOCIATION (SEPAR) ANGIOGENESIS BLOOD PLATELETS CANCER MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES NANOMEDICINE NANOTOXICOLOGY PULMONARY DISEASES QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE RESPIRATORY MEDICINE PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY NANO-TECHNOLOGY CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR STEFANO SANVITO sanvitostefano PROFESSOR OF CONDENSED MATTER THEORY SANVITOS PHYSICS SPIN-TRANSPORT AT THE ATOMIC SCALE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL STUDY OF ELECTRONIC AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF SPINTRONICS MATERIALS AND IN PARTICULAR OF III-V DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES FOR QUANTUM ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT USING AB INITIO METHODS DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY METHODS FOR STRONGLY CORRELATED ELECTRONS TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF MAGNETIC HYBRID SYSTEMS AND CARBON NANOTUBES DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH CO-ORGANIZER OF THE "SPINTRONICS" SESSION AT THE 2003 ELECTRONIC MATERIALS CONFERENCE COLLABORATOR FOR CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS MEMBER OF THE AMERICAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF "JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL NANOSCIENCE" ORGANIZER OF THE SYMPOSIUM ON "SPIN INJECTION INTO SEMICONDUCTORS" AT JEMS 2004 ORGANIZER OF THE "MAGNETISM AND SPIN INJECTION IN SEMICONDUCTORS" SYMPOSIUM AT THE 2004 JOINT EUROPEAN MAGNETIC SYMPOSIA (DRESDEN) REVIEWER FOR PHYSICAL REVIEW B, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B, EUROPHYSICS LETTERS, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS C: CONDENSED MATTER, SEMICONDUCTOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL NANOSCIENCE CONDENSED MATTER CONDENSED MATTER THEORY ELECTRONIC/OPTICAL MATERIALS MAGNETIC MATERIALS MAGNETICS MATERIALS SCIENCES SEMICONDUCTORS THEORETICAL PHYSICS COMPUTATIONAL SPINTRONICS AT THE MOLECULAR LEVEL 926,705 EURO OVER 5 YEARS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF IRELAND. CURRENT INDUCED EFFECTS IN NANOSCALE CONDUCTORS. 214,000 EURO OVER 3 YEARS. HIGH EDUCATION AUTHORITY. AB-INITIO METHODS FOR STRONGLY CORRELATED DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS. 184,000 EURO OVER 3 YEARS ENTERPRISE IRELAND. LDA+U METHOD FOR DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS. 5,500 EURO OVER 1 YEAR. ENTERPRISE IRELAND. SPIN-ORBIT EFFECTS IN DFT. 5,500 EURO OVER 1 YEAR ENTERPRISE IRELAND. AB-INITIO SPIN TRANSPORT. 12,600 EURO OVER 2 YEARS. ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. MOLECULAR SPINTRONICS. 5,400 EURO OVER 1 YEAR. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. ASTRID SASSE sasseastrid ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SASSEA PHARMACY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 LATIN ENGLISH GERMAN DPHG, DEUTSCHE PHARMAZEUTISCHE GESELLSCHAFT (GERMAN PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY) EHRS, EUROPEAN HISTAMINE RESEARCH SOCIETY EUFEPS, EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES EUROPEAN HISTAMINE RESEARCH SOCIETY (EHRS) COUNCIL MEMBER FENS, FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETIES FINANCIAL RAPPORTEUR, COST ACTION BM0806 IRISH REPRESENTATIVE, MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF COST ACTION BM0806 'RECENT ADVANCES IN HISTAMINE RECEPTOR H4R RESEARCH'. LEADER OF WORKING GROUP 3 OF COST ACTION BM0806 NI, NEUROSCIENCE IRELAND PSI - PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND SFN, SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CLINICAL GENETICS COMMERCIALISATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION DRUG DISCOVERY DRUG DISCOVERY, PROFILING, TARGETING IMAGING TECHNIQUES IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY NEUROCHEMISTRY AND NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY NEUROPHARMACOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE PROTEIN SEQUENCE, FUNCTION AND EXPRESSION PROTEINS, ENZYMOLOGY AND PROTEIN ENGINEERING SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTROSCOPY SYNTHESIS AND NEW MOLECULES IDENTIFYING NOVEL THERAPEUTIC TARGETS FOR PATIENTS CARRYING SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND (MALTA) STRATEGIC EDUCATIONAL PATHWAYS SCHOLARSHIPS - STEPS RECENT ADVANCES IN HISTAMINE H4 RESEARCH COST ACTION BM0806 EU RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME BIOMEDICINE AND MOLECULAR BIOSCIENCES CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. MATTHEW SAUNDERS saundersmatthew ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SAUNDEM BOTANY I SPECIALISE IN THE FIELD OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PHYSIOLOGY, AND MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE RESPONSE OF PLANTS TO CHANGES IN THEIR PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND HOW THIS INFORMATION CAN BE USED TO ASSESS THE RESILIENCE AND ADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. MY WORK UTILISES AN INTEGRATED EXPERIMENTAL AND MODEL-BASED APPROACH TO ASSESS THE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES THAT REGULATE PLANT PRODUCTIVITY, CARBON SEQUESTRATION, GREENHOUSE GAS DYNAMICS, PLANT-WATER RELATIONS AND ENERGY BUDGETS AT THE LEAF, WHOLE PLANT AND ECOSYSTEM SCALE. RECENT PROJECTS HAVE FOCUSSED ON THE IMPACTS OF LAND USE CHANGE, HABITAT RESTORATION AND EXTREME CLIMATIC EVENTS ON CARBON, WATER AND NUTRIENT DYNAMICS IN NATURAL AND AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS IN BOTH TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL CLIMATES. THIS WORK HAS DIRECTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICY RELEVANT, SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT TOOLS THAT ARE CENTRED ON THE ROLE OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS IN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION. DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 WETLANDS PROFESSIONAL PLATFORM. AGRO-ENVIRONMENT BIOENERGY CROPS CANDIDA SPECIES CARBON CYCLE CLIMATE CHANGE CYPERUS PAPYRUS L. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE GREENHOUSE GASES NITROGEN CYCLE PLANT ECOPHYSIOLOGY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TROPICAL WETLANDS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. MICHAEL SAVAGE savagemichael VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT MISAVAGE ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. TIMOTHY SAVAGE savagetimothy ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TSAVAGE COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: FOCUSSING ON THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY INTO THE LEARNING PROCESS, ONLINE AND DISTANCE EDUCATION, AND MOOCS. ONLINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES: EXPLORING THE DYNAMICS OF ONLINE COMMUNITIES FOR LEARNING AND INQUIRY WITH A FOCUS ON BLENDED LEARNING COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYSIS FRAMEWORKS FOR BOTH. MULTI USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS IN EDUCATION: THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF LEARNING IN VIRTUAL WORLDS. COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 IRISH LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES "FORWARD DIRECTIONS WORKING GROUP" MEMBER JOURNAL REVIEWER - BEHAVIOUR AND IT (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL) JOURNAL REVIEWER - COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION (INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL) ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION COMPUTER BASED TRAINING COMPUTER EDUCATION/LITERACY COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY HIGHER EDUCATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION LIFELONG LEARNING VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION V-LEARNING V LEARNING IS A VIRTUAL WORLDS LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THAT PLUGS INTO TRADITIONAL WEB BASED LMS, HARNESSING THE POWER OF 3D TECHNOLOGY. THIS REPLICATES EXISTING PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES AND PROVIDES NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR NOVEL IMMERSIVE AND ENGAGING LEARNING EXPERIENCES. THESE IMMERSIVE SPACES CAN BE USED FOR COLLABORATION, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, PERSONAL LEARNING, SIMULATION TRAINING OR SOCIAL NETWORKING. NATIONAL DIGITAL RESEARCH CENTRE COLLABORATIVE CONTENT FILTERING NDRC MULTI USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS IN DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION IRISH AID, DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SARAH-JANE SCAIFE scaifesarahjane ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SCAIFES DRAMA 'THE CULTURALLY INSCRIBED BODY AND SPACES OF PERFORMANCE IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S THEATRE' SARAH JANE USES PRACTICE-AS-RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES, DRAWING ON HER PRACTICE AS A PERFORMER AND DIRECTOR, TO RESEARCH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SIGNIFYING BODY AND ITS PLACEMENT WITHIN DIFFERENT SITES OF PERFORMANCE IN THE DRAMA OF SAMUEL BECKETT. SHE IS SPECIFICALLY INTERESTED IN THE PLAY ACT WITHOUT WORDS II. HER RESEARCH QUESTIONS ON THE CULTURALLY INSCRIBED BODY AND SPACE ARISE FROM HER WORK AS A DIRECTOR OF BECKETT'S DRAMA IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY (EUROPE AND ASIA). AS PART OF HER DOCTORAL PROJECT SHE PRESENTED ACT WITHOUT WORDS II AT FESTIVALS IN DUBLIN, LONDON, NEW YORK AND LIMERICK. SHE HAS CONTINUED THIS FUSION OF RESEARCH AND PERFORMANCE TO INCLUDE ROUGH FOR THEATRE I IN 2014 AND IS CURRENTLY WORKING ON THREE BECKETT PLAYS FOR WOMEN. HER OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE WITHIN IRISH THEATRE, IN PARTICULAR YEATS, SYNGE AND CARR. SHE COMES FROM A PHYSICAL THEATRE AND DANCE BACKGROUND AND TEACHES THEATRE FROM A PHENOMENOLOGICAL VIEWPOINT. 79 NEWTOWN AVENUE BLACKROCK CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 IRISH SOCIETY OF THEATRE RESEARCH IRISH ACTORS EQUITY DANCE IRELAND INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THEATRE RESEARCH CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DR. JOHN SCALLY scallyjohn ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JSCALLY RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. EOIN SCANLAN scanlaneoin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SCANLAE CHEMISTRY ORGANIC SYNTHESIS, CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY, GLYCOCONJUGATES, FREE RADICAL METHODOLOGY, NATURAL PRODUCT SYNTHESIS SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. PAUL SCANLON scanlonpaul ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SCANLOP ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MACROECONOMICS, FINANCE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION AMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION IRISH ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION PANELLIST, PUBLIC LECTURE ON "THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION" REFEREE, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REVIEW REFEREE, SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY MACROECONOMICS, OPEN ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR YVONNE SCANNELL scannellyvonne FELLOW EMERITUS HSCNNELL FELLOWS EMERITII LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. LYNN SCARFF scarfflynn DIRECTOR LSCARFF SCIENCE GALLERY SCIENCE GALLERY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PROFESSOR VINCENT JOHN SCATTERGOOD scattergoodvincentjohn FELLOW EMERITUS JSCATTER ENGLISH MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE MAINLY FROM 1300 TO 1550. PALAEOGRAPHY AND CODICOLOGY. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 4015 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY LANGUAGES & LITERATURE MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR WOLFGANG SCHMITT schmittwolfgang PROFESSOR SCHMITTW CHEMISTRY WE ARE DEVELOPING METHODOLOGIES FOR ENGINEERING HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC COORDINATION COMPOUNDS. THE CONCEPT OF HYBRID ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS PRESENTS A MEANS FOR CUSTOMIZING PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES BY REDUCING THE DIMENSIONALITY AND BY INFLUENCING THE DEVOLUTION PATTERN OF CLASSICAL INORGANIC MATERIALS WITHIN ORGANIC MATRICES. THIS APPROACH ALLOWS A COMBINATION OF THE SUPERIOR PROPERTIES OF INORGANIC AND ORGANIC MATERIALS. OUR INVESTIGATIONS INCLUDE THE SYNTHESIS, SELF-ASSEMBLY AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COORDINATION POLYMERS, CLUSTER COMPOUNDS, BIOMINERALS AND BIOINORGANIC ENZYME MODELS. KEY RESEARCH AREAS UNDER THIS PURVIEW INCLUDE GAS STORAGE MATERIALS (E.G. FOR HYDROGEN), CATALYSIS, SEPARATION SCIENCE AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS. FURTHERMORE, WE USE COORDINATION POLYMERS AS TEMPLATES FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS BY THERMOLYSIS, PYROLYSIS AND INTRA-CRYSTAL POLYMERIZATION RESULTING IN ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPOSITES, PURE INORGANIC OR CARBON-BASED MATERIALS. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN GERMAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (GDCH) BIO-INORGANIC CHEMISTRY CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES CLUSTER COMPOUNDS COORDINATION POLYMERS CRYSTAL ENGINEERING GAS STORAGE MATERIALS HETROGENEOUS CATALYSIS HYDRO- AND SOLVOTHERMAL SYNTHESIS INORGANIC CHEMISTRY MAGNETO CHEMISTRY METALLO SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY NANOSTRUCTURES NANOTECHNOLOGY NEW MATERIALS, SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURES SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY SUPRAMOLECULAR COORDINATION CHEMISTRY SURFACE CHEMISTRY CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE NANO-TECHNOLOGY MATERIALS SCIENCE CHEMICAL SCIENCES & ENGINEERING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. ALEXANDER SCHUSTER schusteralexander ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASCHUSTR LAW LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE. 01-8961000 DR. YVONNE SCOTT scottyvonne ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SCOTTY HISTORY OF ART IRISH ART RESEARCH CENTRE MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, PARTICULARLY IRISH ART. THEORIES OF LANDSCAPE, SPACE AND PLACE AND THEIR REPRESENTATION IN ART AND VISUAL CULTURE IRISH ART RESEARCH CENTRE DEPT OF HISTORY OF ART ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN CONFERENCE FOR IRISH STUDIES (ACIS) ART COLLECTIONS ADVISORY GROUP, TCD ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DES CRITIQUES D'ART ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS BOARD MEMBER, DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY CHAIR, ADVISORY BOARD FOR RIA: VOLUME 5, ART AND ARTISTS IN IRELAND 20TH CENTURY CHAIR, PROVOST'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ART PURCHASES COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, SCHOOL OF HISTORIES AND HUMANITIES EXTERNAL EXAMINER UP TO AND INCLUDING PH.D LEVEL FOR VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, M.A. (TAUGHT) IN HISTORY OF ART AND DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK FELLOW TCD FRIENDS OF IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY IDENTITY INITIATIVE STEERING COMMITTEE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY IRISH STUDIES COURSE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY MEMBER OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE NATIONAL SELF-PORTRAIT COLLECTION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY PROGRAMME BOARD MEMBRE TITULAIRE REPRESENTING IRELAND, COMITE INTERNATIONALE DE L'HISTOIRE D'ART (CIHA) NOMINATING COMMITTEE, O'MALLEY ART AWARD, IRISH AMERICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE. POST-GRADUATE COMMITTEE, SCHOOL OF HISTORIES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COMMITTEE, SCHOOL OF HISTORIES AND HUMANITIES TCD ESTATES COMMITTEE TREASURER, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS IMAGE AND THEORY OF LANDSCAPE, SPACE AND PLACE IRISH MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART THE LIVED LIFE AND CONTEMPORARY IRELAND THIS PROJECT IS PART OF THE CONSORTIUM ON AGEING. SIX MEMBERS OF STAFF RUNNING M.PHIL. PROGRAMMES ARE SUPERVISING UP TO 7 STUDENT DISSERTATIONS ON THE THEME OF AGEING RELEVANT TO THEIR DISCIPLINES. TRINITY COLLEGE FRONT GATE CLUB CONSORTIUM ON AGEING ART, IRELAND AND MIGRATION THIS PROJECT EXPLORES THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION WITHIN, INTO, AND FROM IRELAND ON IRISH ART IN TERMS OF THE MOVEMENT OF IDEAS, AND IN PROVIDING VISUAL THEMES. THE THEME ENCOMPASSES ALL PERIODS, AND FACILITIATES INTERDISCIPLINARY AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS. PRIVATE BENEFACTION: WHITE FELLOWSHIPS AGENDAS IN LANDSCAPE, SPACE AND PLACE IN IRISH MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART THIS RESEARCH WAS SUPPORTED BY A GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND IRCHSS POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP (2001-03). THE RESEARCH HAS GIVEN RISE TO A RANGE OF RESEARCG PAPERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES. IT FORMED THE BASIS OF A MAJOR EXHIBITION AT THE ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY IN 2005, ENTITLED THE WEST AS METAPHOR, WHICH WAS ACCOMPANIED BY AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. A BOOK IS IN PROGRESS, NEARING COMPLETION. IRCHSS POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP BACON'S BOOKS: FRANCIS BACON'S LIBRARY AND ITS ROLE IN HIS ART JOINT PROJECT WITH BARBARA DAWSON, DIRECTOR, DUBLIN CITY GALLERY/THE HUGH LANE. THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF AN ARTIST IS WIDELY RECOGNISED AS AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE FOR EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING THEIR WORK. THIS PROJECT IS DEVOTED TO CATALOGUING AND ANALYSING THE LIBRARY OF INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED, DUBLIN-BORN ARTIST, FRANCIS BACON (1909-1982), WHOSE ESTATE INCLUDES C.1,000 BOOKS. DONATED TO DUBLIN CITY GALLERY, THE HUGH LANE, IRELAND'S FIRST MUSEUM DEDICATED TO MODERN ART, THE FRANCIS BACON LIBRARY REPRESENTS AN INVALUABLE, BUT SO FAR UNDER-EXPLOITED RESOURCE FOR ILLUMINATING THE IMAGERY OF THIS TOWERING FIGURE OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY VISUAL EXPRESSION. ARTIST'S LIBRARIES PROVIDE AN INVALUABLE INSIGHT INTO: (I) THE LATENT INTERESTS THAT STIMULATE THE ACQUISITION OF SELECTED BOOKS IN THE FIRST PLACE, (II) BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS THAT INFORM OR INFLUENCE THE ARTIST'S APPROACH TO IMAGERY, AND (III) POTENTIAL SOURCES OF INTELLECTUAL INSPIRATION THAT MAY EMERGE IN THE WORK. BACON READ VORACIOUSLY AND HIS RANGE OF INTERESTS IS EVIDENT IN THE NUMEROUS BOOKS ON SUBJECTS AS DIVERSE AS ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, HISTORY, POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, CINEMA, SPORT, SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA, AND MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS. AS WELL AS DRAWING ON VISUAL IMAGERY, BACON EXPLORED LITERARY SOURCES FOR INSPIRATION. HIS PROFOUND INTEREST IN POETRY AND PROSE OF CLASSIC AUTHORS INCLUDED T.S. ELIOT, AESCHYLUS, SHAKESPEARE, FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA AND W.B. YEATS. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CERTAIN THEMES IS INDICATED BY THE NUMBERS OF BOOKS IN IDENTIFIABLE FIELDS, AND MANY ALSO HAVE GLOSSES AND NOTES, PAINT ACCRETIONS, PAGES REMOVED AND MAINTAINED, FOR REFERENCE. THESE BOOKS, AND RELEVANT ASPECTS OF THEIR CONDITION, HAVE NEVER BEEN FULLY CATALOGUED, AND - MOST SIGNIFICANTLY - NO COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEXT AND IMAGE IN THE WORK OF THIS ARTIST HAS YET BEEN UNDERTAKEN. IN THE YEAR THAT DUBLIN HAS BEEN RECOGNISED AND HONOURED AS A UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE, THIS PROJECT WILL FACILITATE AN EXAMINATION OF THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VERBAL AND VISUAL TEXTS, IN THE WORK OF THIS MAJOR IRISH ARTIST. IRCHSS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE COOKE'S EXPLORATION OF NEW ZEALAND ARTIST BARRIE COOKE (1931-2014) TRAVELLED TO NEW ZEALAND ANNUALLY FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS FROM THE LATE 1980S TO THE MID 2000S.A MAJOR ARTIST, HE WAS ARGUABLY THE FIRST IN IRELAND TO ADDRESS ECOLOGICAL ISSUES. THE PROJECT MAPS HIS VISITS TO SITES PRIMARILY ON THE SOUTH ISLAND OF NEW ZEALAND, EXAMINES THEM FOR THEIR LOCAL, TOPOGRAPHICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE, AND COMPARES THEM WITH EQUIVALENT IMAGERY OF LOCATIONS IN IRELAND. VARIOUS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROFESSOR DAVID HENRY TUDOR SCOTT scottdavidhenrytudor FELLOW EMERITUS DSCOTT FRENCH LITERARY STUDIES, TEXTUAL AND VISUAL STUDIES, CULTURAL STUDIES (INCLUDING SPORTS STUDIES) AND SEMIOTICS DEPT. OF FRENCH 4104 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANNUAL VISITING PROFESSORSHIP AT THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SEMIOTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS AT PUC-SÃO PAULO, WITH LECTURE VISITS ALL OVER BRAZIL APPOINTMENT TO CURATORSHIP OF THE COLLEGE GALLERY; ORGANISATION OF RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS OF TCD MODERN COLLECTION IN 1980 AND 1992 CURATORSHIP OF EXHIBITION AT DESIGN MUSEUM, LONDON. MEMBERSHIP OF EXHIBITION COMMITTEE AND LATER BOARD OF DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORD & IMAGE STUDIES (IAWIS) POETICS OF THE POSTER CURRENTLY COMPLETING A BOOK ON TEXT/IMAGE RELATIONS IN THE EARLY MODERN POSTER. NO DATA COLLABORATING ON JOINT PROJECT NUIG/TCD ON SPORT AND IDENTITY WITH SPECIFIC INPUT ON BOXING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MR. JIJO SEBASTIAN sebastianjijo DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR SEBASTJ IT SERVICES IT SERVICES 200 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. AIDAN SEERY seeryaidan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEERYA EDUCATION CULTURES, ACADEMIC VALUES AND EDUCATION (CAVE) MY PRINCIPAL FIELD OF INTEREST IS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE CONNECTION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND SELF-FORMATION AND THE NATURE AND STATUS OF KNOWLEDGE IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH. A SECOND FOCUS OF INTEREST IS THE AREA OF THE ETHICS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING. I BELONG TO THE CULTURES, ACADEMIC VALUES AND EDUCATION RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION WHICH HAS DEVELOPED A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AGENDA IN THE FIELD OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE COMING YEARS. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ACADEMIC ADVISOR SOLAS EVALUATION OVERSIGHT GROUP FOR THE POST LEAVING CERTIFICATE [PLC] PROGRAMME BOARD REPRESENTATIVE ON THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION POLICY COMMITTEE, TCD BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AUTO|BIOGRAPHY STUDY GROUP FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE ON THE TCD RESEARCH ETHICS POLICY COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH EDUCATIONAL STUDIES MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION NETWORK 22 HIGHER EDUCATION MEMBER SOCIETY FOR EDUCATIONAL STUDIES UK NON-FELLOW ACADEMIC REPRESENTATIVE BOARD OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN THE PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN HIGHER EDUCATION HIGHER EDUCATION, PUBLIC HISTORY/PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION EDUCATION FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE OPENING OF A SECOND-LEVEL SCHOOL BY EDUCATE TOGETHER THE PROJECT EXAMINES SOME OF THE SIGNIFICANT FACTORS INFLUENCING THE OPENING OF A SECOND-LEVEL SCHOOL BY THE EDUCATE TOGETHER ORGANISATION. EDUCATE TOGETHER DEVELOPING ALL -ROUND EDUCATION DARE + THE PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO TO SYSTEMATISE THE WORK ON 6 GENERIC COMPETENCES CARRIED OUT SO FAR IN DIFFERENT UNIVERSITIES AND TO JOINTLY DESIGN STRONGER PEDAGOGICAL PROPOSALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EACH OF THESE COMPETENCES IN DIFFERENT EDUCATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ERASMUS+ AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR SIDDHARTHA SEN sensiddhartha FELLOW EMERITUS SSEN PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS CRANN ROOM 412 COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR MATHIAS SENGE sengemathias CHAIR OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY SENGEM CHEMISTRY CENTRE FOR SYNTHESIS AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) THE MAIN RESEARCH AREA OF MY GROUP IS SYNTHETIC BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND MY INTERESTS FOCUS PRIMARILY ON PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY THAT CAN BE SOLVED WITH A COMBINATION OF MODERN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL, AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL METHODS. SPECIAL TOPICS ARE: BIOORGANIC AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY; HETEROCYCLIC AND NATURAL PRODUCT CHEMISTRY; DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SYNTHETIC METHODS, BIOINORGANIC CHEMISTRY; CATECHOLASE AND CYTOCHROME MODEL REACTIONS; REGULATION OF ENZYMATIC REACTIONS ON A MOLECULAR LEVEL; ENANTIOSELECTIVE CATALYSTS; MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, ESP. PHOTODYNAMIC CANCER THERAPY, PORPHYRIAS, MALARIA, SCHIZOPHRENIA; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP IN BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE MOLECULES; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION AND CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS AND COORDINATION COMPOUNDS. IN ADDITION WE HAVE SMALLER RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE AREA OF NOVEL PHOTONICS MATERIALS AND ENANTIOSELECTIVE OXIDATION CATALYSTS. THE GROUP HAS MANY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS WITH GROUPS FROM INDUSTRY, MEDICINE, PHYSCIAL CHEMISTRY AND STRUCTURAL SCIENCE AND IS FUNDED EXCLUSIVELY BY EXTERNAL GRANTS. SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN ACS, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ASP, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOBIOLOGY EPA, EUROPEAN PHOTOCHEMICAL ASSOCIATION EPPM, EUROPEAN PLATFORM OF PHOTOMEDICINE AND PHOTODIAGNOSIS (2008- ESP, EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHOTOBIOLOGY GDCH, GESELLSCHAFT DEUTSCHER CHEMIKER HIST, DIVISION OF HISTORY, ACS OVER 140 INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT UNIVERSITIES, RESEARCH CENTERS AND INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS. REVIEWER FOR GRANTS: AVH, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT-STIFTUNG, GERMANY; PRF, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: THE PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND, USA; DFG, DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT, GERMANY; FCT, FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA, PORTUEGESE SCIENCE FUND, PORTUGAL; GIF, GERMAN ISRAELI FUNDS, ISRAEL; MARSDEN FUND, NEW ZEALAND; NSF, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, USA; NIH/ADAMHA PEER REVIEW CONSULTANT, USA; RESEARCH COUNCIL OF LITHUANIA; SOUTH AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH, SOUTH AFRICA; FWF, AUSTRIAN SCIENCE FUND: LISE-MEITNER FELLOWSHIPS AND REGULAR RESEARCH GRANTS; THE WELLCOME TRUST: RESEARCH GRANTS, UK. 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ANNALISA SETTI settiannalisa VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW ASETTI CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY MY MAIN RESEARCH INTEREST IS THE COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OF AGEING. IN PARTICULAR THE OVERLAP BETWEEN PERCEPTUAL AND HIGHER-LEVEL COGNITIVE PROCESSING AND THE BRAIN MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THEM. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE LIFESPAN PERSPECTIVE, HAVING WORKED WITH CHILDREN AND BOTH YOUNG AND OLDER ADULTS. <BR> MY MAIN TOPICS OF INVESTIGATION ARE: <BR> -INTEGRATION OF DIFFERENT SENSES IN AGEING, IN PARTICULAR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEPTUAL AND MULTISENSORY DECLINE AND HIGHER-LEVEL COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS (E.G. ATTENTION, MEMORY) AND ITS NEURAL UNDERPINNINGS. I AM ALSO STUDYING THE ONSET OF PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS SUCH AS FRAILTY AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO FALLS;<BR> -PERCEPTION AND SEMANTIC MEMORY ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN, IN PARTICULAR EMBODIED COGNITION, I.E. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY CHANGES AND CHANGES IN KNOWLEDGE ACTIVATION (SEMANTIC MEMORY). I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHANGES IN BODY SCHEMA AND PERCEPTION. TILDA CHEMISTRY EXTENSION BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH AGEING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR GEORGE DEMETRIUS SEVASTOPULO sevastopulogeorgedemetrius FELLOW EMERITUS GSVSTPUL GEOLOGY GEOLOGY DEPT. MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 CARBONIFEROUS, DEVONIAN AND ORDOVICIAN GEOLOGY OF IRELAND EARTH STRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTARY PROCESSES PALEONTOLOGY STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ALEKSANDAR SEVIC sevicaleksandar ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEVICA BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS: INTERNATIONAL FINANCE, MARKET MICTOSTRUCTURE, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS STUDIES ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 CAIA CHARTERHOLDER CHARTERED FINANCIAL ANALYST ACCOUNTING FINANCE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AGEING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. AMANDA SHANTZ shantzamanda ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SHANTZA BUSINESS & ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. MICHELLE SHARE sharemichelle SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW SHAREM EDUCATION SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 EVALUATION OF THE COPE FOUNDATION EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICE THE EVALUATION OF THE COPE FOUNDATION EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICE (EIS) IS A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH STUDY THAT EXAMINES: 1) TO WHAT EXTENT DOES COPE FOUNDATION'S EIS MEET INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL BEST PRACTICE STANDARDS 2) HOW DOES COPE FOUNDATIONS'S EIS IMPACT ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES COPE FOUNDATION EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS AND NUTRITION THIS IS A MIXED METHODS INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH STUDY THAT WILL EXAMINE THE NUTRITION EDUCATION NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN EARLY SCHOOL LEAVER (ESL) SETTINGS ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND. THE STUDY OBJECTIVES ARE TO: 1) PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE KEY STRUCTURES/NETWORKS FOR ACCESSING EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS IN NI AND ROI 2) IDENTIFY RELEVANT KEY EXISTING HEALTH PROMOTION ACTIVITIES AND GAPS IN HEALTH PROMOTING ACTIVITIES THAT FOCUS ON HEALTHY EATING AND ACTIVE LIFESTYLES THAT TARGET EARLY SCHOOL-LEAVERS 3) TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL HEALTHY EATING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RELATED PROGRAMMES THAT ARE APPROPRIATE AND ACCEPTABLE TO EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS IN NI AND ROI THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED BY SAFEFOOD IN THE OUT OF SCHOOL SETTING. THESE OBJECTIVES WILL BE ADDRESSED USING SECONDARY DOCUMENTARY SOURCES, QUANTITATIVE SURVEYS, AND QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS. THE STUDY WILL INVOLVE PARTICIPANTS FROM ROI AND NI THAT REPRESENT EARLY SCHOOL LEAVER EDUCATION PROVIDERS AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN A RANGE OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVER SETTINGS. THE PROJECT RESULTS WILL INFORM SAFEFOOD'S FUTURE WORK IN EARLY SCHOOL LEAVER SETTINGS. SAFEFOOD THE FOOD SAFETY PROMOTION BOARD BASELINE RESEARCH FOR THE EARLY LEARNING INITIATIVE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF IRELAND BASELINE RESEARCH FOR THE RIALTO LEARNING COMMUNITY FATIMA REGENERATION BOARD INTERGENERATIONAL IMPACT OF THE TRINITY ACCESS PROGRAMMES NISSAN CLONGOWES WOOD STRATEGY FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE FOOD ACCESS AND NUTRITIONAL HEALTH AMONG FAMILIES EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS IN THE DUBLIN REGION THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO: EXAMINE FOOD POVERTY AMONG FAMILIES RESIDING IN EMERGENCY HOMELESS ACCOMMODATION AND THE IMPACT THIS HAS ON THE NUTRITION AND HEALTH OUTCOMES OF PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN; UNDERSTAND FAMILIES' ACCESS TO FOOD, STORAGE AND COOKING FACILITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGENCY HOMELESS ACCOMMODATION. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AFFAIRS & DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MRS. MARY SHARP sharpmary ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MSHARP COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASE SYSTEMS, HEALTH INFORMATICS, SKILL ACCREDITATION SYSTEMS IN MATHEMATICS, TOOLS FOR REUSABLE, INTEGRATED, ADAPTABLE LEARNING, EVALUATION OF ELEARNIING, MEDICAL DATABASE ANALYSIS AND SECURITY USING CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES, ETHICS IN IT. RESEARCH GROUPS: (KDEG) KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING GROUP, (CHI) CENTRE FOR HEALTH INFORMATICS COMPUTER SCIENCE KDEG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH CHAIR OF THE ETHICS AND DISCIPLINARY BOARD, ENGINEERS IRELAND. MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS, ENGINEERS IRELAND. MEMBER OF HEALTH INFORMATION SECURITY GROUP FOR NATIONAL STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND. REVIEWER FOR EU PROPOSALS AND PROJECTS. MEMBER OF TEH COUNCIL OF THE IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY. MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION. FELLOW INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND FELLOW IRISH COMPUTER SOCIETY FELLOW ROYAL ACADEMY MEDICINE OF IRELAND MEMBER HEALTH INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR SAMSON SHATASHVILI shatashvilisamson UNIV CHAIR OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY (1847) SHATASS PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS HAMILTON MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE THEORETICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ALGEBRA GEOMETRIC QUANTISATION GROUP REPRESENTATIONS PARTICLE PHYSICS QUANTUM FIELD THEORY RELATIVITY STATISTICAL PHYSICS THEORETICAL PHYSICS MATHEMATICS MR. GREG SHEAF sheafgreg ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN SHEAFG LIBRARY THE LIBRARY COLLEGE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. FREDERICK SHEEDY sheedyfrederick USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FSHEEDY BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE DIVERSITY OF MACROPHAGE FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. THIS KEY PATROLLING CELL OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE MAINTAINING HEALTH AND HOMEOSTASIS THROUGHOUT THE BODY, BUT DURING INFECTION AND IN RESPONSE TO DANGER, ACTIVATES AND ORCHESTRATES THE CHARACTERISTIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE. MY GROUP INVESTIGATES HOW THIS IS CONTROLLED BY POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL MECHANISMS INCLUDING REGULATION BY MICRORNA AND THE ACCUMULATION AND METABOLISM OF LIPIDS. WE ARE APPLYING THIS KNOWLEDGE TO CASES WHERE MACROPHAGE FUNCTION BECOMES DEFECTIVE INCLUDING INFECTIOUS DISEASE LIKE TUBERCULOSIS, CAUSED BY INFECTION OF LUNG MACROPHAGES WITH THE BACTERIA MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS AND ALSO TO CANCER, WHERE MACROPHAGES REGULATE THE RESPONSE TO TUMORS. DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST PEARSE STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - ATVB COUNCIL IRISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY TRINITY BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY BACTERIOLOGY AND BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS IMMUNE SYSTEM IMMUNOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOGENETICS IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY INFECTIOUS DISEASES INNATE IMMUNOLOGY LIPID METABOLISM METABOLISM AND METABOLIC DISEASES MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION RNA PROCESSING, STABILITY AND DEGRADATION TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY VACCINES VASCULAR BIOLOGY, THROMBOSIS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) RESPIRATORY MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) GENETICS AND GENOMICS BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY FOOD PRODUCTS INCL. INGREDIENTS, ENZYMES, BY-PRODUCTS, FUNCTIONAL INGREDIENTS ETC. MEASURING MONOCYTE FUNCTION AS A MARKER OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND IMMUNE ACTIVATION ATHEROSCLEROSIS, A LEADING CAUSE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, IS TRIGGERED BY RECRUITMENT OF MACROPHAGES TO AREAS OF LIPID DEPOSITION ALONG VESSEL WALLS. THE MACROPHAGES ARE RECRUITED AS PRECURSOR MONOCYTES AND DIFFERENTIATE LOCALLY TO PROINFLAMMATORY MACROPHAGES. EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THE TYPE OF MONOCYTE RECRUITED IS AFFECTED BY NUMEROUS FACTORS. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES TO DEVELOP TECHNOLOGIES TO PROFILE MONOCYTE PRECURSORS IN CIRCULATION BY EXAMINING KEY MRNA AND PROTEIN EXPRESSION AS BIOMARKERS. THIS CAN BE APPLIED TO APPROACHES TO MONITOR MONOCYTES IN DISEASE SUSCEPTIBLE PATIENTS. IRISH HEART FOUNDATION STROKE PREVENTION RESEARCH BURSARY TARGETING MICRORNA TO DRIVE A SUCCESSFUL HOST RESPONSE TO MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND STARTING INVESTIGATOR AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. FINTAN SHEERIN sheerinfintan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SHEERINF SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY GLOBAL HEALTH DR. SHEERIN'S PRINCIPAL AREAS OF RESEARCH RELATE TO THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE OF HUMAN DIVERSITY WITHIN BOTH IRISH AND GLOBAL HEALTH CONTEXT (E.G. NDA MOTHERS WITH DISABILITIES STUDY, TRANSFORMATIVE PRAXIS MALAWI STUDIES, GENIO'S TOWARDS A FULL LIFE). HE HAS WORKED ON THE TWO MOST RECENT IRISH STUDIES INTO LGBTI ISSUES (VISIBLE LIVES AND LGBTIRELAND). HE IS ALSO INTERESTED IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HAS BEEN CO-PI ON THE HSE-FUNDED PROJECT, SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND AS WELL AS THE SCAPE STUDY INTO SPECIALIST AND ADVANCED NURSING/MIDWIFERY PRACTICE. HE IS CURRENTLY LEADING THE MENTAL HEALTH COMPONENT OF THE IDS TILDA STUDY WITH A VIEW TO EXPLORING HOW MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING ARE IMPACTED BY VARIOUS PREDICTIVE INDICATORS. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH ACENDIO ADVISOR ON SPINAL NURSING TO THE DUBLIN AREA TEACHING HOSPITALS SAFE HANDLING GROUP. ASSISTANT TO THE HEAD OF HIGHER DIPLOMAS IN THE STANDARDISATION OF MODULES ACROSS HIGHER DIPLOMA COURSES, AS PART OF THE PROCESS OF RE STRUCTURING THEM AS GRADUATE DIPLOMAS. BOARD MEMBER OF ACENDIO. BRITISH INSTITUTE OF LEARNING DISABILITIES CAPITAL AREA ROUNDTABLE ON INFORMATICS IN NURSING. CHAIR OF THE PHD WORKING GROUP. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. CHAIRMAN OF PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE OF ACENDIO. CO-CHAIR OF ACENDIO IRELAND/UK. CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SUB-COMMITTEE, MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL/UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL COORDINATION OF THE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN NURSING (CLINICAL PRACTICE) REHABILITATION - SPINAL INJURY. DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES NURSES ASSOCIATION DIRECTOR ON THE BOARD OF SUNBEAM HOUSE SERVICES EDITOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY HEALTH COORDINATOR FOR PRAXIS MALAWI INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES IRISH REPRESENTATIVE UK/IRELAND SPINAL CORD INJURY MULTI-PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS GROUP MEMBER HIGHER DIPLOMA IN NURSING PRACTICE COMMITTEE AND RELEVANT SUBCOMMITTEES - UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. MEMBER OF ACENDIO SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. MEMBER OF DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM COMMITTEE MEMBER OF EXPERT CLINICAL ADVISORY PANEL OF NANDA-I (INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY) MEMBER OF SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY POLICY COMMITTEE OF STTI HONOR SOCIETY OF NURSING. MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF SPIRITAN HORIZONS - JOURNAL OF THE CENTER FOR SPIRITAN STUDIES AT DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, PITTSBURGH. MEMBER OF THE GRADUATE STUDIES COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND NURSING STEERING GROUP. MEMBER OF THE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN NURSING (CLINICAL PRACTICE) COMMITTEE. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY MEMBER OF THE WORKING GROUP INTO STUDENT EVALUATION OF MODULES NANDA INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL NETWORK FOR LEARNING DISABILITY NURSES (UK). PRESIDENT OF ACENDIO SECRETARIAT TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMMON EUROPEAN NURSING DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOMES (ACENDIO). SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMMON EUROPEAN NURSING DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOMES SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY OF NURSING - ALPHA CHI AND UPSILON XI CHAPTERS STRAND LEADER, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ONGOING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION OF THE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN NURSING (CLINICAL PRACTICE) REHABILITATION SPINAL INJURY AND ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY, AND THE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN NURSING (CLINICAL PRACTICE) UROLOGY, AND FOR THE RESTRUCTURING OF THESE AS GRADUATE DIPLOMAS. STRAND LEADER, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ONGOING CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND COORDINATION OF THE HIGHER DIPLOMAS IN NURSING (CLINICAL PRACTICE) PAEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE AND PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY, AND FOR THE RESTRUCTURING OF THESE AS GRADUATE DIPLOMAS. UK-IRELAND SPINAL CORD INJURY MULTI-PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS GROUP UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP VICE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMMON EUROPEAN NURSING DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOMES ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (HANDICAPPED) EQUALITY RIGHTS HANDICAPPED DEVICE DEVELOPMENT HEALTH DISPARITIES HEALTH OF UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY LEARNING DISABILITIES MINORITIES AND DISADVANTAGED SOCIAL JUSTICE IDENTIFYING THE FOCUS OF NURSING IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICES SUPPORT RESEARCH WHILE TAKING PHD STUDIES AT UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER NAMHI/INCLUSION IRELAND EMPLOYING STANDARDISED NURSING LANGUAGE TO IDENTIFY THE UNIQUE INTERVENTIONS OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING THE STUDY SPECIFICALLY SOUGHT TO IDENTIFY: 1) THE INTERVENTIONAL FOCI OF NURSING; 2) THE CURRENT CONTRIBUTION OF NURSING; AND 3) THE USEFULNESS OF A TERMINOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR DESCRIBING THE UNIQUE CONTRIBUTION OF NURSING? PHD STUDY AN BORD ALTRANAIS ALL IRELAND NURSING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF INCIDENCE OF PRESSURE ULCERS IN PATIENTS ADMITTED LOCALLY AND DISTALLY TO THE NATIONAL SPINAL INJURIES UNIT RETROSPECTIVE STUDY MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NURSING RESEARCH BURSARY THE OCCIPITAL AND SACRAL PRESSURES EXPERIENCED BY HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS UNDER SPINAL IMMOBILISATION: A TRIAL OF THREE SURFACES EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE PRESSURES EXPERIENCED UNDER THE SACRUM AND OCCIPUT OF THREE HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS WHILST IMMOBILISED ON THREE SURFACES REVIEW OF THE FIVE POINTS OF ENTRY FOR NURSES AND MIDWIVES TO THE REGISTER MAINTAINED BY AN BORD ALTRANAIS THE PROJECT WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO STAGES. STAGE 1 LITERATURE REVIEW AND DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS, PUBLIC CONSULTATION, CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, FOCUS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND INDIVIDUAL SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS. STAGE 2 NATIONAL POSTAL SURVEY OF A SAMPLE OF OVER 8,000 NURSES AND MIDWIVES ON THE REGISTER. AN BORD ALTRANAIS IRISH NURSING MINIMUM DATA SET/JUDGEMENT AND DECISION MAKING IN NURSING STUDIES NON-APPLICANT MEMBER OF THE STUDY TEAM 2006 HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE IN IRELAND THIS FIVE YEAR STUDY WILL EXPLORE THE PREVALENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONG PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY. DURING THE FIRST YEAR THE DATA COLLECTION TOOL WILL BE DEVELOPED BY THE RESEARCHER AND HIS ASSOCIATE, PROF. HUGH STEPHENSON OF ITHACA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK. TCD START-UP FUND PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH IS TO EXPLORE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF PUBLICLY FUNDED IRISH HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED TO WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES IN RELATION TO PREGNANCY, CHILDBIRTH, AND EARLY MOTHERHOOD. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY, 'WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES' INCLUDES ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: (A)WOMEN WITH A VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (B)WOMEN WITH A HEARING IMPAIRMENT (C)WOMEN WITH A PHYSICAL DISABILITY (D)WOMEN WITH A MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTY (E)WOMEN WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY/NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF IRELAND NURSING DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM I WORKED WITH ST. FRANCIS HOSPICE, RAHENY, TO DEVELOP A NEW NURSING DOCUMENTATION SYSTEM. THIS WAS UNDERTAKEN USING A DELPHI/FOCUS GROUP APPROACH. EVALUATION OF A PERSON-CENTRED PRACTICE INITIATIVE IN A DUBLIN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY SERVICE THE PURPOSE OF THIS EVALUATION WAS TO EXPLORE WHETHER, AND TO WHAT EXTENT, THE MOVE TO COMMUNITY LED TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF INDIVIDUALISED AND PERSONAL OUTCOMES FOR TENANTS. IN ADDITION IT SOUGHT TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MOVE IN TERMS OF WHERE TENANTS HAD MOVED FROM AND TO EXAMINE WHETHER OR NOT IT HAD RESULTED IN THEIR INTEGRATION IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. VISIBLE LIVES A MIXED METHODS STUDY INTO THE NEEDS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS GROUP OF IRISH PEOPLE GAY AND LESBIAN EQUALITY NETWORK TENDER SHAPING THE FUTURE OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSING IN IRELAND TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE ROLE OF THE REGISTERED NURSE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY (RNID) WHO PROVIDES HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY AND TO THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS IN THIS CHANGING LANDSCAPE. HSE LGBTIRELAND THIS STUDY HAS THREE OVERALL AIMS TO: 1. EXPLORE THE IMPACT OF MINORITY STRESS ON LGBT MENTAL HEALTH INCLUDING EXPERIENCES OF COMING OUT, SCHOOL, BULLING/VIOLENCE/HARASSMENT, SUBSTANCE MISUSE AND SELF HARM BEHAVIOUR AND COMPARE THE RESEARCH FINDINGS TO THE FINDINGS FROM SUPPORTING LGBT LIVES TO EVALUATE CHANGES AND IDENTIFY TRENDS IN THE AREA MENTAL HEALTH; 2. MEASURE HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOURS AMONG THE IRISH GENERAL POPULATION AND EXPLORE FACTORS UNDERLYING THEM; AND 3. IDENTIFY PRIORITIES AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE SERVICE DEVELOPMENTS BASED ON THE RESEARCH EVIDENCE, BEST PRACTICE AND EVIDENCE FROM IRELAND AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS. GLEN AND BELONGTO THE VIEWS OF NURSE MANAGERS, NURSE PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT STAFF AND REGISTERED NURSES IN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND IN RESPONSE TO THE REVIEW OF THE INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. THIS PROJECT USED FOCUS GROUPS TO OBTAIN THE VIEWS OF 67 SELF SELECTED REGISTERED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES IN IRELAND CONCERNING THE EDUCATION OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY NURSES. THE RESPONDENTS' VIEWS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY FORWARDED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AS A SUBMISSION TO TO THE REVIEW OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING PROGRAMME. NURSE MANAGERS' ASSOCIATION FOR INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY IN IRELAND. TRANSFORMATIVE PRAXIS MALAWI TRANSFORMATIVE PRAXIS MALAWI IS A PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH ACTION OF TRANSFORMATIVE PRAXIS WHICH SEEKS TO DEVELOP EVIDENCE-BASED, SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES IN THE AREAS OF EDUCATION, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE KASUNGU REGION OF MALAWI. ITS FOCI FOR RESEARCH ARE DETERMINED COLLABORATIVELY THROUGH DIALOGUE WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS. IT IS CURRENTLY ENGAGED IN TWO MAIN PIECES OF RESEARCH, ONE CENTRED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL CURRICULA AND THE OTHER ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE HEALTH VOLUNTEERISM. DISCRETE RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE UNDERTAKEN BY VISITING STUDENTS IN COOPERATION AND UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF COMMUNITY AND PROJECT LEADS. BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY, CANADA ENABLING SUSTAINABLE HEALTH VOLUNTEERISM IN RURAL MALAWI THE OVERALL AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO EMPOWER A VOLUNTEER HEALTH GROUP IN RURAL MALAWIAN TO DEVELOP POSITIVE AND CREATIVE STRATEGIES WHICH CAN BE EMPLOYED TO ADDRESS THEIR COMMUNITY'S HEALTH AND WELLNESS NEEDS THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CANADIAN-IRISH PROJECT, TRANSFORMATIVE PRAXIS MALAWI. EMPHASIS WILL BE PLACED ON IDENTIFYING A WAY FORWARD WITH CLEAR AND PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENTS BASED ON RESEARCH EVIDENCE, COLLABORATION AND BEST PRACTICE WELCOME MEDICAL HUMANITIES SEED AWARD PROPOSAL (UNSUCCESSFUL) MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION OF FRAILTY IN OLDER PEOPLE MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL AND CROSS-PROFESSIONAL PROPOSAL A WORKING PACKAGE SPECIFIC TO REVIEW THE UTILISATION AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CURRENTLY USED FRAILTY SCREENING TOOLS. THIS WOULD INCLUDE A REVIEW OF THE TOOLS INCLUDING THE FRAIL SCALE[2] AND THE CANADIAN STUDY OF HEALTH & AGING CLINICAL FRAILTY SCALE[3]. IT IS NOTED THAT RECENTLY THERE HAS BEEN CONSENSUS REGARDING THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THESE SCREENING TOOLS[4] AND THAT THEIR WIDER USE IN PATIENTS, SPECIFICALLY OVER 70 YEARS WILL BE OF GREAT BENEFIT TACKLING THIS ISSUE. THE COST EFFECTIVENESS OF SUCH SCREENING TOOLS HAS NOT BEEN ASSESSED HOWEVER AND THE ROLE OF REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE REVIEWED IN A WORK PACKAGE DEDICATED AT REVIEWING THE IMPACT OF SCREENING AND TREATMENT OF POTENTIAL FRAIL ADULTS AND HOW THIS CAN BE ACHIEVED IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL HEALTHCARE MODELS. THE CONCLUSION OF THIS WORK PACKAGE WILL SUPPORT THE SUSTAINABILITY AND LONG TERM IMPACT OF THE PROPOSAL. MANAGEMENT OF FRAIL PATIENTS IN CLINICAL SETTINGS WILL BE ADDRESSED BY WORK PACKAGES FOCUSING ON THE ACCURACY OF INFORMATION TRANSFER RELATING TO MEDICINES AND THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS. EU 3RD HEALTH PROGRAMME (UNSUCCESSFUL) SCAPE - EVALUATION OF CLINICAL NURSE/MIDWIFE SPECIALIST AND ADVANCED NURSE/MIDWIFE PRACTITIONER IN IRELAND THIS STUDY, THROUGH EXTENSIVE RESEARCH METHODS, UTILISING A VARIETY OF DATA COLLECTION TOOLS, EXAMINED THE CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF CLINICAL SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS IN IRELAND. THIS STUDY HAS DEMONSTRATED CONCLUSIVELY THAT CARE PROVIDED BY CLINICAL SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS IMPROVES PATIENT/CLIENT OUTCOMES, IS SAFE, ACCEPTABLE AND COST-NEUTRAL. NURSING AND MIDWIFERY CARE IS PROVIDED IN A COMPLEX CHANGING ENVIRONMENT AND IT IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THAT RESOURCES ARE UTILISED IN A COST-EFFECTIVE, STRATEGIC MANNER. THE STUDY SHOWS THE POTENTIAL OF CLINICAL SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF HEALTH POLICY, MEET THE CHANGING HEALTH NEEDS OF THE POPULATION, ADDRESS PATIENT EXPECTATIONS, CONTRIBUTE TO SERVICE RECONFIGURATION AND PROVIDE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY LEADERSHIP FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF CARE MODELS AND CARE PROGRAMMES INTO THE HSE AND, POTENTIALLY, OTHER HEALTH SERVICES. CLINICAL SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS SUPPORT A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PATIENTS BY INCREASING THE USE OF EVIDENCE-BASED CLINICAL GUIDELINES. THEIR OVERALL POSITIVE EFFECT ON PATIENT/CLIENT CARE, OTHER STAFF AND THE HEALTH SERVICES IN GENERAL IS VERY APPARENT. GIVEN THESE CONSIDERABLE BENEFITS, AND THE FACT THAT THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS DID NOT DEMONSTRATE A DIFFERENCE IN COSTS BETWEEN SERVICES WITH CLINICAL SPECIALISTS/ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS AND THE COMPARISON SITES, THERE IS A STRONG CASE FOR INTRODUCING MORE CLINICAL SPECIALISTS AND ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY TEACHER LEADERSHIP AS A MEANS TO EMANCIPATORY CURRICULUM IN RURAL MALAWI. THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND IN WHAT WAYS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR LEADERSHIP FOSTERS THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF EMANCIPATORY, COMPETENCY-BASED CURRICULUM IN RURAL CHILANGA, MALAWI. THROUGH INTENSIVE CONSULTATION WITH EDUCATION STAKEHOLDERS, THREE KEY AREAS WERE IDENTIFIED AS PRIORITIES IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AS A MEANS TO COUNTER ONGOING CYCLES OF IMPOVERISHMENT: CREATIVITY, CRITICAL THINKING AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE PRIORITY AREAS, THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF "BANKING KNOWLEDGE" WIDELY EMPLOYED IN MALAWIAN SCHOOLS IS UNABLE TO NURTURE SUCH GROWTH IN CHILDREN. OUR RESEARCH TEAM WILL UTILIZE AN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY APPROACH TO PARTICIPANT ACTION RESEARCH TO ATTEND TO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THEMES IN LEADERSHIP, EMANCIPATORY PEDAGOGY AND COMPETENCY-BASED CURRICULUM DESIGN. LEADERSHIP IS ESSENTIAL TO THE PROCESS, AS A MEANS TO ENCOURAGE A PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY, WITHOUT WHICH THE COURAGE TO CHANGE EXISTING EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORKS OF INJUSTICE WILL NOT OCCUR. OUR RESEARCH INTENT IS TO WORK WITH LOCAL TEACHERS IN DEVELOPMENT OF EMANCIPATORY PEDAGOGICAL SKILLS, WHILE CHRONICLING OUTCOMES OF CURRICULUM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OVER A ONE-YEAR PERIOD. BISHOPS UNIVERSITY SRC IDENTIFYING THE KNOWLEDGE UNDERPINNING A NURSE-FACILITATED HEALTH VOLUNTEERISM INITIATIVE IN RURAL MALAWI THIS STUDY IS EXPLORING THE KNOWLEDGE UNDERPINNING THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS PRIORITIES OF A GROUP OF HEALTH VOLUNTEERS WORKING IN ASSOCIATION WITH A NURSE IN RURAL MALAWI. USING A PARTICIPATORY-ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH AND CENTRED ON A KNOWLEDGE-TRANSFER INTERVENTION, THE RESEARCH WILL REVEAL THE DIAGNOSES, INTERVENTIONS AND OUTCOMES PERTINENT TO THEIR WORK IN PROMOTING AND MAINTAINING COMMUNITY WELLNESS. DATA DERIVED FROM THE WORK WILL BE MAPPED TO THE NANDA-I, NIC AND NOC CLASSIFICATIONS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR EXTRAPOLATING THE ROLE OF NURSES IN SUPPORTING AND FACILITATING SUCH COMMUNITY ACTIONS. NANDA-I TOWARDS A FULL LIFE - AN EVALUATION OF FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMMES FOR PEOPLE WITH A DISABILITY IN IRELAND THE AIM OF THIS EVALUATION WAS TO EVALUATE FOUR GENIO GRANT-AIDED FAMILY-FOCUSED INITIATIVES FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF FAMILIES OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND SERVICES/ORGANISATIONS. THE EVALUATION HAD SEVEN SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES, WHICH WERE TO: . ESTABLISH AND IDENTIFY THE GENERAL AND SPECIFIC BENEFITS DERIVED BY FAMILIES AND OTHERS THROUGH PARTICIPATING IN EACH PROJECT; . EVALUATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH PARTICIPATING FAMILIES FORMED INFORMAL SUPPORT NETWORKS OR OTHER FORMS OF INFORMAL SUPPORT; . IDENTIFY WHAT FAMILIES FOUND MOST HELPFUL ABOUT THE SPECIFIC PROJECT THEY WERE A PART OF AND WHAT THEY THOUGHT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE DIFFERENTLY; . ESTABLISH AND IDENTIFY THE IMPACT/BENEFITS TO EACH ORGANISATION AS A RESULT OF RUNNING THIS INITIATIVE AND LEARNING AT THE ORGANISATIONAL LEVEL; . IDENTIFY WHAT ORGANISATIONS THOUGHT COULD BE DONE DIFFERENTLY; . EXPLORE ISSUES WHICH AROSE FROM THE PROJECTS AND WHICH NEED TO BE ADDRESSED AT A POLICY OR SYSTEMIC LEVEL; AND . EXPLORE AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON WAYS IN WHICH FAMILY SUPPORT INITIATIVES SHOULD BE FUNDED AND SUSTAINED ON AN ON-GOING BASIS. GENIO CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND MR. HAARIS SHEIKH sheikhhaaris ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HSHEIKH CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: - TRIADIC RELATIONSHIPS IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION - TRIADIC RELATIONSHIPS IN POLICE SETTINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION - EQUALITY IN EMPLOYMENT SETTINGS WITH RESPECT TO SIGN LANGUAGE USERS AS APPLICANTS AND EMPLOYEES - THE ROLE OF ICT AND MULTIMEDIA IN THE FIELD OF DEAF STUDIES - EQUALITY, RIGHTS AND DEAF SIGN LANGUAGE USERS 10 SHORESIDE CULLENAGH BALLINA KILLALOE CO TIPPERARY 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN URDU ENGLISH CHARTERED FELLOW, CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF PERSONNEL & DEVELOPMENT (FCIPD) MEMBER, EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS MEMBER, INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS AND ADVISERS (IMCA) ACCESS FOR THE DEAF COMMUNITY DEAF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE DEAF STUDIES IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING MULTIMEDIA IN DEAF STUDIES SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING TRAINING ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION OTHER HUMANITIES SIGNALL 3 - WORKING IN THE DEAF COMMUNITY SIGNALL3 BUILT ON THE CONCEPT AND AUDIENCES OF BOTH FORMER SIGNALL I AND SIGNALL II PROJECTS THAT HAVE MADE A VERY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT REACHING AUDIENCES IN EUROPE, AUSTRALIA AND THE USA. THE PROJECT FOCUSSES ON PROVIDING EDUCATORS, INTERPRETERS AND THOSE WORKING WITH THE DEAF COMMUNITY A VOCATIONAL COURSE THROUGH A BLENDED LEARNING APPROACH USING MOODLE. THE COURSE IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE CONSORTIUM PARTNERS IN 4 COUNTRIES, IN 4 LANGUAGES INCLUDING 5 SIGNED LANGUAGES. THE CONSORTIUM COMPRISED OF WORLD RENOWNED ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTED BY EUROPEAN EXPERTS. COORDINATOR - INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED PARTNERS -THE CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND -UNIVERSITY OF JYVASKYLA, FINLAND -THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX -LESSIUS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY, ANTWERP, BELGIUM -THE TURKISH NATIONAL FEDERATION, ISTANBUL TURKEY EUROPEAN COMMISSION LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME MEDISIGNS - DEAF COMMUNITY ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE MEDISIGNS (2010-2012) REPRESENTS A GROUND-BREAKING INITIATIVE THAT FOCUSES ON PROVIDING LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO DEAF PEOPLE, INTERPRETERS AND THOSE IN THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. SOMETIMES IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO GET AN INTERPRETER IN A HEALTHCARE SETTING, OFTEN LEAVING A DEAF PERSON OR THE HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IN A SITUATION WHICH POTENTIALLY COMPROMISES THE LEVEL OF PATIENT CARE BEING DELIVERED. POTENTIALLY, THIS FORCES A DEAF PATIENT TO EITHER WAIT UNTIL AN INTERPRETER BECOMES AVAILABLE, OR RELY ON A FAMILY OR FRIEND TO CASUALLY INTERPRET ON THEIR BEHALF. THIS IS NOT IDEAL ESPECIALLY IN MEDIAL SITUATIONS THAT ARE SENSITIVE, CONFIDENTIAL OR PRIVATE IN NATURE. FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A DEAF COMMUNITY AND THE PROJECT CONSORTIUM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE PROVISION OF QUALIFIED INTERPRETERS, AND ESPECIALLY THOSE TRAINED IN HEALTHCARE ASPECTS, IS NOT VIEWED AS A LUXURY BUT AS A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT TO THE ACCESS AND PROVISION OF APPROPRIATE HEALTHCARE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME SIGNALL 2 - INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEAFNESS SIGNALL II OFFERS A COURSE ON PERSPECTIVES ON DEAFNESS (POD) THAT IS ACCREDITED BY TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND OFFERED AS PART OF THE BACHELOR IN DEAF STUDIES. THE COURSE FOCUSES ON DEAF CULTURE, SOCIO-CULTURAL VERSUS MEDICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEAFNESS AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEAFNESS. EXPERIENTIAL AND EVIDENCED-BASED MATERIAL WILL ILLUSTRATE EXPERIENCES OF DEAFNESS BY USING CASE STUDIES AND VIDEO MATERIALS. THE PRINCIPAL AIM IS THAT THIS COURSE WILL BE OFFERED AS A DISTANCE-LEARNING PROGRAMME WITH FULLY ACCESSIBLE COURSE CONTENT IN EACH PARTNER COUNTRY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN E-LEARNING PLATFORM SPECIFICALLY DEVISED FOR THIS COURSE. COORDINATOR - INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED PARTNERS -THE CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND -THE IRISH DEAF SOCIETY, DUBLIN, IRELAND -GRANT ADVISOR, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC -THE FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF, HELSINKI FINLAND -THE FOUNDATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, LODZ, POLAND -CENTRE FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, UK EUROPEAN COMMISSION LIFELONG LEANRING POGRAMME JUSTISIGNS - ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE DEAF COMMUNITY THE JUSTISIGNS PROJECT IS A TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROJECT INVOLVING EXPERTS FROM IRELAND, BELGIUM, UK AND SWITZERLAND. JUSTISIGNS IS CO-FUNDED UNDER EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S LIFE LONG LEARNING PROGRAMME AND RUNS FROM 2013-2016 THE PARTNERS IN IRELAND INCLUDE INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED (PROJECT COORDINATOR) AND THE CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. THE BELGIAN PARTNERS INCLUDE THE EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (EFSLI), THE EUROPEAN LEGAL INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION (EULITA) AND KU LEUVEN (ANTWERP). THE OTHER PARTNERS ARE THE CENTRE FOR TRANSLATION & INTERPRETING STUDIES AT HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND AND THE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES FOR SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION IN ZURICH, SWITZERLAND. EUROPEAN COMMISSION LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME DESIGNS - DEAF COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT THE DESIGNS PROJECT (DEAF EMPLOYMENT FOR SIGN LANGUAGE USERS IN THE EU) IS AN EU PROJECT COORDINATED BY INTERESOURCE GROUP (IRELAND) LIMITED. EU PARTNERS ARE CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, ASSOCIATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS & DISABILITY (AHEAD), THE EUROPEAN UNION OF THE DEAF (EUD), EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS (EFSLI), HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN AND HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY. IT IS AIMED AT CREATING RESOURCE FOR EMPLOYERS, SL INTERPRETERS AND THE DEAF COMMUNITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF INCREASING EMPLOYMENT POTENTIAL THROUGH BETTER COMMUNICATION. EUROPEAN COMMISSION ERASMUS + CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR ORLA SHEILS sheilsorla PROFESSOR OSHEILS HISTOPATHOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) MY RESEARCH IS OF INTERNATIONAL CONSEQUENCE AND OF CONSEQUENCE TO INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS. I HAVE DEVELOPED A SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMME CONCERNED WITH MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS AND PROGNOSTICS. I HAVE MADE SEMINAL DISCOVERIES IN THE AREAS OF THYROID AND CERVICAL PATHOBIOLOGY. I HAVE PROCURED GRANTS WORTH >€35M, I HAVE PUBLISHED >120 PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND PRESENTED MY WORK ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE. I AM A LEADER IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY. I HAVE CHAMPIONED A NICHE AREA FACILITATING INTERACTION BETWEEN BASIC SCIENCE, TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH, CLINICAL SERVICE PROVISION AND BIOTECHNOLOGY. THE SIGNIFICANCE AND TRANSFORMATIONAL VALUE OF MY WORK RESIDES IN MY INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION, INDUSTRY DISRUPTIVE RESEARCH AND BENEFIT TO CANCER PATIENTS QUALITY OF LIFE. I AM DIRECTOR OF AND A PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR IN THE TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE INSTITUTE AND A PI IN BIOMEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS INSTITUTE AT DCU. I WORK CLOSELY WITH SEVERAL BIOTECH COMPANIES AND HAVE PROCURED EUROPEAN REFERENCE LAB STATUS FROM THERMOFISHER. THIS INDUSTRY RECOGNITION OF MY RESEARCH ENSURES WE HAVE PRE-COMMERCIAL LAUNCH ACCESS TO NOVEL CHEMISTRIES AND WE ACT AS A BETA TEST SITE FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS AND ANALYSIS KITS. MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON ELUCIDATING THE UNDERLYING MECHANISMS OF HUMAN DISEASE WITH A FOCUS ON CANCER AND METASTASIS OF SOLID TUMORS. THIS WORK IS TRANSLATED INTO NOVEL ASSAYS FOR BETTER DIAGNOSIS AND PROGNOSTICATION OF PATIENTS' DISEASE. I HAVE MADE SEMINAL DISCOVERIES INTO THE PATHOBIOLOGY OF CANCERS INCLUDING THYROID AND CERVIX, WHICH HAVE RESULTED IN MAJOR CHANGES TO THE WAY PATIENTS ARE TREATED. I AM A FOUNDER MEMBER OF SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIA WORKING TO ESTABLISH NOVEL SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES AS ROUTINE DIAGNOSTIC TESTING REGIMENS IN CLINICAL LABORATORIES. MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS AND HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO FUNDAMENTAL PATHOLOGY TEXTBOOKS. MY RESEARCH CONTINUES TO ENHANCE TCD'S REPUTATION AS AN INTERNATIONAL FORCE IN CANCER RESEARCH. THE INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MY RESEARCH IS RECOGNIZED BY INVITATIONS TO DELIVER PLENARY AND KEYNOTE ADDRESSES AT LEADING CONFERENCES IN PATHOLOGY AND HUMAN GENETICS. ADDITIONAL TRANSFORMATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE HAS SEEN TRINITY COLLEGE AFFILIATED ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL BECOME IRELAND'S FIRST ACCREDITED CANCER DIAGNOSTICS LABORATORY. MY POSITION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY MEANS THAT I HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC DEFICIENCIES WITHIN CURRENT CLINICAL PRACTICE AND MANY OF THE RESEARCH INNOVATIONS MADE UNDER MY SUPERVISION HAVE BEEN GEARED TOWARDS ENHANCED SERVICE DELIVERY. THUS THERE IS A SPECTRUM OF RESEARCH IN WHICH I AM INVOLVED FROM BASIC SCIENCE TO MORE TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH WITH DIRECT APPLICATION IN THE CLINICAL SETTING. MY WORK IN EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSTICS AND THERANOSTICS IS RECOGNISED GLOBALLY AND HAS MADE TANGIBLE DIFFERENCES IN THE WAY PATIENTS ARE MANAGED. THE TRANSLATION OF BASIC RESEARCH TO CLINICALLY RELEVANT ASSAYS HAS HAD AN INDUSTRY DISRUPTIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE INFLUENCE ON MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS. I HAVE POSITIONED MYSELF FOR LEADERSHIP BY BUILDING AN INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN AND OUTWITH OF TCD THAT IS UNIQUE TO THE COLLEGE ECOSYSTEM AND FROM WHICH TCD CONTINUES TO MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN PEOPLE'S LIVES WHO ARE AFFECTED BY CANCER. MY TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH POSITIONS US TO LEAD CANCER RELATED DIAGNOSTICS IN IRELAND AND BEYOND. THIS RESEARCH WILL FORM THE BEDROCK OF SERVICE PROVISION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INNOVATION THAT ARE CENTRAL TO THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE NEWLY PROPOSED CANCER INSTITUTE AT THE SJH SITE. IN SUMMARY, MY RESEARCH HAS LED TO DISCOVERIES HIGHLIGHTING PIVOTAL MUTATIONS IN CANCERS AND DIRECTLY INFLUENCING IMPROVED TREATMENT OF PATIENTS. IN ESSENCE MY RESEARCH HAS BEEN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE OR DEATH FOR MANY PATIENTS. RESEARCH LAB. CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LAB ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH ADVISOR TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL WITH EXPERTISE IN MEDICAL TEACHING -USI ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ADVISORY PANEL. ASSOCIATE EDITOR BMC CANCER ASSOCIATE EDITOR IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE BOARD MEMBER - EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINE PATHOLOGY MEMBER OF MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE - SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 1, HEALTH & DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MEMBER OF THE PATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND MEMBER, CORE TECHNOLOGY PI'S, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS. MEMBER, MMI CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL GROUPING OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH ON CANCER THEMES NATIONAL WORKGROUP ON BIO-BANKING REVIEWER FOR HONG KONG EARMARKED RESEARCH GRANTS (ERG) [ADMINISTERED BY THE RESEARCH GRANTS COUNCIL (RGC) ] REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS INCLUDING: ONCOGENE, NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY, NATURE MEDICINE, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM, MOLECULAR CANCER, MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY, JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY, MODERN PATHOLOGY, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY, DU LAW REVIEW REVIEWER FOR SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR - I ACT IN AN ADVISORY CAPACITY FOR THERMOFISHER, OFFERING INSIGHT INTO PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS, ENSURING THE INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED PROFILES OF THE DISCIPLINE OF HISTOPATHOLOGY AND OF COLLEGE ARE MAINTAINED AND POSITIONING US TO HAVE EARLY ACCESS TO NOVEL PRODUCTS AND HAVE INPUT INTO THEIR CONSTRUCTION. WELLCOME TRUST - REVIEWER AUTOIMMUNITY BIOINFORMATICS BIOMEDICAL ETHICS CANCER GENETICS AND CELL BIOLOGY INCLUDING METASTASIS CERVICAL CANCER COMMERCIALISATION OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DIAGNOSTICS ENDOCRINE FUNCTION AND DISEASE ENVIRONMENTAL CARCINOGENESIS FOETAL, MATERNAL AND NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY GENE TRANSCRIPTION IN HUMAN CANCER GYNAECOLOGY ONCOLOGY HASHIMOTO THYROIDITIS IMMUNOCHEMISTRY AND IMMUNOGENETICS INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING MEDICAL LAW MEDICAL SCIENCES, RESEARCH MEMBRANE AND PROTEIN TRAFFICKING ONCOGENES, APOPTOSIS AND TUMOUR DEVELOPMENT ORAL DISEASES AND ORAL MEDICINE ORAL PATHOLOGY PATHOPHYSIOLOGY PROSTATE CANCER QUANTITATIVE AND MOLECULAR GENETICS REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION RET ONCOGENE ACTIVATION RNA PROCESSING, STABILITY AND DEGRADATION ROLE OF OESTROGENS IN AGE RELATED UROGENITAL DISEASES SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION TAQMAN RT-PCR THYROID CANCER TUMOUR IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOTHERAPY TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY INVESTIGATORS: DR. ESTHER O'REGAN (PHD CANDIDATE) DR. MARY TONER PROF. CONRAD TIMON DR. ORLA SHEILS PROF. JOHN O'LEARY HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA (HNSCC) IS AN AGGRESSIVE EPITHELIAL MALIGNANCY THAT IS THE SIXTH MOST COMMON NEOPLASM IN THE WORLD TODAY. THIS TUMOUR USUALLY AFFLICTS MIDDLE TO OLDER-AGED INDIVIDUALS WITH A HISTORY OF TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL USE. HOWEVER RECENT EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS AN INCREASED INCIDENCE OF HNSCC IN INDIVIDUALS IN PATIENTS UNDER THE AGE OF 40, WHO HAVE NOT BEEN CHRONIC USERS OF TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL. GENOME WIDE EVALUATION OF TUMOURS IS POSSIBLE. OUR GROUP PLANS TO DETERMINE THE MOLECULAR GENETIC ALTERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH HNSCC IN YOUNG PEOPLE, AND COMPARE IT TO THOSE IN AN OLDER POPULATION. RATHER THAN COMPARE THE COMMONLY ALTERED CHROMOSOMAL REGIONS IN TYPICAL HNSCC, WITH THE SAME REGIONS IN HNSCC AFFECTING A YOUNGER POPULATION, WE PLAN TO PERFORM A GENOME WIDE ANALYSIS OF HNSCC IN A COHORT OF YOUNG INDIVIDUALS, IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL CANDIDATE GENES THAT MAY BE SIGNIFICANT IN THE TUMORIGENESIS OCCURRING IN THIS YOUNG POPULATION. THE HYPOTHESIS IS THAT HNSCC IN YOUNG PATIENTS (WITHOUT SIGNIFICANT RISK FACTORS) IS A DISTINCT DISEASE. CRI MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY OF THYROID DISEASE CURRENT RESEARCH BEING UNDERTAKEN BY OUR GROUP ASPIRES TO ELUCIDATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RET/PTC-1 ACTIVATION AND ITS ASSOCIATED MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERNS, BY INVESTIGATING THE LINK BETWEEN RET/PTC-1 ACTIVATION AND EXPRESSION OF CELL ADHESION MOLECULES SUCH AS E-CADHERIN, AND THE CATENIN FAMILY OF PROTEINS. AN ASSOCIATED PROJECT IS UNDERWAY TO CHARACTERISE RET/PTC3 POSITIVE PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMAS AND CORRELATE THE FINDINGS WITH DISEASE MANIFESTATION. THE FOCUS OF THE PROPOSED STUDY IS TO BROADEN THE SCOPE OF THE CURRENT RESEARCH, BY USING GENOME WIDE ANALYSIS OF DIAGNOSTIC COHORTS OF THYROID TUMOURS, TO ATTEMPT TO INTEGRATE MORPHOLOGIC AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS AS SUGGESTED BY ROSAI ET AL. THIS WOULD CULMINATE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS OF DIAGNOSTIC COHORTS. . IT WILL COMPREHENSIVELY DETERMINE LEVELS OF EXPRESSION OF GENE TARGETS ACROSS A SPECTRUM OF THYROID DISEASE - FROM NORMAL, THROUGH AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS TO PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA AND ITS VARIANTS (FOLLICULAR VARIANT, TALL CELL VARIANT, COLUMNAR CELL VARIANT, HURTHLE CELL PAPILLARY CARCINOMA) USING COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDISATION (CGH) AND MICRO-ARRAY TECHNOLOGY. CRI, HRB, APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS MOLECULAR MARKERS IN CERVICAL CANCER RECENTLY, OUR GROUP IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTOPATHOLOGY HAS IDENTIFIED A NOVEL SET OF MOLECULAR MARKERS FOR USE IN CERVICAL SCREENING PROGRAMMES. THE MARKERS INCLUDE HPV TYPE, LOAD AND INTEGRATION STATUS, CDC6 AND MCM5 EXPRESSION, TELOMERASE EXPRESSION AND TELOMERIC STABILIZATION/LENGTHENING. PRELIMINARY DATA SUGGESTS THAT CDC6 AND MCM5 (PROTEINS INVOLVED IN DNA REPLICATION) SELECTIVELY MARK DYSKARYOTIC CELLS IN SMEARS AND TISSUE BIOPSIES. THE ABILITY TO ISOLATE INDIVIDUAL DYSKARYOTIC CELLS FROM CIN/CGIN AND MALIGNANT CELLS FROM SQUAMOUS AND GLANDULAR CARCINOMAS CAN NOW BE ACHIEVED USING LCM TECHNOLOGY. THE ABOVE INVESTIGATORS WILL ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY THE MECHANISM OF CDC6 AND MCM5 LOCALISATION IN THE NUCLEI OF DYSKARYOTIC CELLS, AND IN TANDEM WILL EXAMINE THE INFLUENCE OF HPV INFECTION, TELOMERASE EXPRESSION AND TELOMERIC LENGTHENING/STABILIZATION ON SUCH LOCALIZATION PHENOMENA. THE EXPERIMENTS WILL INVOLVE GEOGRAPHICAL ISOLATION AND CGH ARRAY ANALYSIS OF CELLS IN CIN 1,2,3,CGIN AND INVASIVE SQUAMOUS AND GLANDULAR CARCINOMAS OF THE CERVIX. HRB, CRI, APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS MOLECULAR PROFILING IN PROSTATE CANCER THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO STUDY THE GENETIC PROFILE OF PRE-INVASIVE PROSTATIC NEOPLASIA AND SUBSEQUENT STAGES OF PROSTATIC CARCINOMA IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY GENETIC DISCRIMINATORS OF DISEASE PROGRESSION. THIS KNOWLEDGE COULD FORM THE BASIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TREATMENT STRATEGIES. PROSTATE CANCER IS A MAJOR WORLD-WIDE PROBLEM, AND IS THE SECOND COMMONEST CANCER IN MEN IN IRELAND. THE NUMBER OF NEWLY DIAGNOSED CASES HAS INCREASED IN MEN OF ALL AGES. PROSTATE CANCER HAS A HIGH MORTALITY RATE, AND ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST 500 DEATHS IN IRELAND ANNUALLY. THE NUMBER OF DEATHS IS INCREASING BY 3.5% PER ANNUM. THE RISING MORTALITY RATE MAY BE DUE TO A NUMBER OF FACTORS, INCLUDING UNDERTREATMENT. ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES IN PROSTATE CARCINOMA IS TO PREDICT THE OUTCOME OF INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS. DIAGNOSIS OF PROSTATIC CARCINOMA IS USUALLY MADE ON PROSTATE BIOPSY, PERFORMED FOR A RAISED PSA. IN ADDITION, PROSTATIC CARCINOMA MAY BE DIAGNOSED INCIDENTALLY IN TRANSURETHREAL PROSTATIC RESECTION (TURP) SPECIMENS, PERFORMED FOR BENIGN PROSTATIC DISEASE. SUCH TUMOURS APPEAR TO BE BIOLOGICALLY MORE INDOLENT COMPARED WITH CLINICALLY SUSPECTED PROSTATE CANCERS, AND THIS MAY BE DUE DUE A DIFFERENT GENETIC PROFILE. THERE IS NO LABORATORY TEST CURRENTLY AVAILABLE WHICH WILL PREDICT PROGRESSION OF DISEASE. KNOWLEDGE OF GENETIC CHANGES UNDERLYING INITIATION, DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESSION OF PROSTATE CARCINOMA IS LIMITED, AND NO SPECIFIC GENETIC EVENT HAS YET BEEN IDENTIFIED. WE HYPOTHESISE THAT DEMONSTRATION OF CHROMOSOMAL GAINS AND LOSSES USING CGH MICRO-ARRAY TECHNOLOGY MAY IDENTIFY GENETIC MARKERS FOR DISEASE PROGRESSION. AMNCH TRUST, APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS ASSESSMENT OF VIRAL PATHOGENS IN IBD THE INVESTIGATORS ARE EXAMINING A RANGE OF VIRAL PATHOGENS WHICH MAY PLAY A ROLE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. PRELIMINARY EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT PARAMYXOVIRUSES MAY SELECTIVELY LOCALIZE TO DENDRITIC ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS IN THE MUCOSA OF THE GUT, THEREBY ESTABLISHING FOCI OF INFLAMMATION AND ALTERING ANTIGEN PRESENTATION FROM MUCOSA TO GUT ENDOTHELIUM. IT IS INTENDED TO DELINEATE THE PRECISE LOCATION OF GI INFECTION AND TO EXAMINE THE ALTERATION IN CYTOKINE CASCADE OF LARGE AND SMALL BOWEL MUCOSA IN PATIENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE, ULCERATIVE COLITIS AND 'NEW VARIANT IBD' WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH AUTISM.. INTESTINAL DYSFUNCTION IN AUTISM IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. RECENTLY, ONE CENTRE IN THE UK HAS DESCRIBED ENTEROCOLITIS IN CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER. ILEOCOLONIC LYMPHOID NODULAR HYPERPLASIA (LNH) APPEARS TO BE A CONSISTENT FEATURE OF THIS 'NEW VARIANT IBD'. IN ADDITION TO LNH, MILD TO MODERATE COLITIS THAT LACKS THE SPECIFIC HISTOPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES OF EITHER CROHN'S DISEASE OR ULCERATIVE COLITIS IS FOUND. HOWEVER, THESE OBSERVATIONS REQUIRE CONFIRMATION AND EXPANSION. CD8(+) DENSITY, GD T CELL AND INTRAEPITHELIAL LYMPHOCYTE (IEL) NUMBERS ARE INCREASED IN CHILDREN WITH THIS 'NEW VARIANT IBD' AS COMPARED TO PATIENTS WITH CROHN'S DISEASE, ISOLATED LNH (NOT RELATED TO AUTISM) AND NORMAL CONTROLS. IN ADDITION, GUT ENTEROCYTIC EPITHELIUM IS HLA DR NEGATIVE, SUGGESTING PREDOMINANTLY A T(H)2 IMMUNE RESPONSE IN THE MUCOSA OF AFFECTED CHILDREN, LEADING TO IMPAIRED INTESTINAL PERMEABILITY. IN THIS STUDY, WE INTEND TO ESTABLISH THE PREVALENCE OF GASTROINTESTINAL DYSFUNCTION/ ABNORMALITIES IN PATIENTS WITH AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER USING A COMBINED ENDOSCOPIC, IMMUNOLOGICAL, BIOCHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL APPROACH, WHICH WILL CHARACTERISE THE FUNCTIONAL IMMUNOLOGY AND PATHOBIOLOGY OF GASTROINTESTINAL ABNORMALITIES IN AUTISTIC PATIENTS, AND HIGHLIGHT ANY DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN ENTEROCOLITIS IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER AND CONVENTIONAL INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE. CURRENT PROJECTS IRISH CANCER SOCIETY PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH CONSORTIUM 2011-2016 WORK PACKAGE 3: INTEGRATED MRNA AND MIRNA SIGNATURES SHEILS O- [COPI] . MERCK SERONO VALIDATION OF K-RAS TESTING IN COLORECTAL SAMPLES SHEILS O [PI] €5000 2011-12 . AMGEN VALIDATION OF KRAS DETECTION IN COLORECTAL SAMPLES SHEILS O [PI] €5000 2011-12 . BDI 2 CSET (ONC 1 PROJECT) SFI SHEILS O [CO-INVESTIGATOR] TOTAL €19.2M TCD COMPONENT €991K 2010-1015 . EU 7TH FP GRANT (FP7-HEALTH-2007-A) SHEILS O [CO-INVESTIGATOR] 'AUTOMATIC CANCER SCREENING BASED ON REAL-TIME PCR' "AUTOCAST" TOTAL €4,188,503.00 TCD COMPONENT €682K 2010-2013 . EU 7TH FP GRANT (FP7-HEALTH-2007-A) SHEILS O [CO-INVESTIGATOR] PROJECT NUMBER 257073 PASCA-PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED SINGLE CELL-MANIPULATION AND ANALYSIS TOTAL €3,000,000 TCD COMPONENT €700K 2010-2013 . EU 7TH FP GRANT (FP7-HEALTH-2010-CP-FP) SHEILS O [PI] PROJECT NUMBER: 258759-2 FAST AUTOMATED MULTIPLEX ANALYSIS OF NEONATAL SEPSIS MARKERS ON A CENTRIFUGAL MICROFLUIDIC PLATFORM 'ASCMICROPLAT' TOTAL €2,452,517 TCD COMPONENT €686K 2011-2015 . THE IRISH CANCER SOCIETY [2008-2012] . SHEILS O [CO-PI] 'HSA-MIR-141 AND HSA-MIR-223 ARE CENTRAL TO OVARIAN SEROUS CARCINOMA PATHOGENESIS THROUGH REGULATION OF JAG1 AND SMARCD1 PROTEINS' ROLE: CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR . THE EMER CASEY FOUNDATION [2008-2012] SHEILS O [CO-INVESTIGATOR] ' THE ROLE OF HYPOXIA IN CHEMORESISTANCE IN OVARIAN CANCER' ROLE: CO-INVESTIGATOR . THE EMER CASEY FOUNDATION [2008-2012] SHEILS O [CO-INVESTIGATOR] 'DISCOVERING NOVEL SIGNATURES OF EARLY OVARIAN CANCER' ROLE: CO-INVESTIGATOR . HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD [2004-2012] SHEILS O [CO-P.I.] 'PHD TRAINING SITE GRANT' ROLE: CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR . HRB_HRA/2012/82 SHEILS O [CO-INVESTIGATOR] 2012 - 2015, TITLE: "UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF CANCER STEM-LIKE CELLS IN RESISTANCE TO RADIATION USING A CLINICALLY-RELEVANT MODEL OF RADIORESISTANCE IN OESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA". €291,357. CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. DAVID SHEPHERD shepherddavid ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SHEPHERD LOYOLA INSTITUTE DR. SHEPHERD'S PUBLISHED RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE HEBREW BIBLE (ESP. THE DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY AND EZRA-NEHEMIAH), THE NEW TESTAMENT (ARAMAIC BACKGROUND AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN), ANCIENT TRANSLATION TRADITIONS (ESP. ARAMAIC TRADITIONS: TARGUM, PESHITTA AND QUMRAN VERSIONS) AND THE BIBLE AND POPULAR CULTURE (ESP. THE BIBLE AND THE EARLY CINEMA). LOYOLA INSTITUTE ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR TARGUM STUDIES MEMBER, IRISH BIBLICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER, SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE MEMBER, SOCIETY OF OLD TESTAMENT STUDIES ANCIENT BIBLE TRANSLATION ARAMAIC STUDIES BIBLE AND POPULAR CULTURE BIBLE AND THE MOVING IMAGE CRITICAL THEORY AND THEOLOGY DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY EARLY ISRAELITE HISTORY AND RELIGION EZRA-NEHEMIAH JEWISH STUDIES JUDGES WISDOM LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION OTHER HUMANITIES CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MS. SARAH SHERIDAN sheridansarah ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SHERIDS1 C.L.C.S. CENTRE FOR DEAF STUDIES TRINITY COLLEGE 1ST FLOOR, 7-9 STH LEINSTER ST DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER - SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING SERVICE COUNCIL OF IRISH SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS EUROPEAN FORUM OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS IRISH ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS DEAF STUDIES INTERCULTURAL STUDIES SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING SIGNED LANGUAGE TEACHING AND LEARNING SOCIOLINGUISTICS TEACHING AND LEARNING SIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION CORPUS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. HELEN SHERIDAN sheridanhelen ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HSHERIDN PHARMACY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES MY RESEARCH HAS ALWAYS BEEN MULTIDISCIPLINARY BUILT ON COLLABORATION WITH PHARMACOLOGISTS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGISTS, BIOTECHNOLOGISTS AND BOTANISTS, AND IS RECOGNISED AT A NATIONAL AND INTER-NATIONAL LEVEL. I BELIEVE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IS THE KEY REQUIREMENT FOR NOVEL DRUG DISCOVERY, WHERE A RANGE OF EXPERTISE IS REQUIRED TO BRING THERAPEUTIC DISCOVERIES FROM CONCEPT TO EXECUTION. MY POST-GRADUATE STUDENTS HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THIS APPROACH, LEARNING EARLY IN THE PROCESS, TO WORK IN A TEAM WITH JOINT, OR MULTIPLE SUPERVISORS, AT THE INTERFACE OF MANY AREAS OF EXPERTISE. I AM NOT AFRAID TO LEAD IN THIS AREA, AND BELIEVE THAT MULTI-COMPONENT THERAPEUTICS FROM NATURAL SOURCES WILL BE IN USE CLINICALLY, GLOBALLY, IN MY LIFETIME. THIS IS WHY I HAVE ENGAGED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL, MULTIDISCIPLINARY TCM CONSORTIUM ESTABLISHING GOOD PRACTICE (GP-TCM) AND GOLD STANDARDS FOR QUALITY, SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF THESE COMPLEX MEDICINES, AS DETERMINED BY 2004/24/EC. IRELAND AND TCD NEED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE CRITICAL MASS OF THIS COMPLEX DRUG DISCOVERY PLATFORM. ONE OF MY CORE RESEARCH AND TEACHING BELIEFS IS THAT 'IT IS AT THE INTERFACE OF DISCIPLINES AND EXPERTISE THAT NEW IDEAS AND CREATIVITY EMERGE'. DUE TO MY RESEARCH LED TEACHING IN NATURAL PRODUCTS CHEMISTRY, THE INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF THIS AREA IS CONSTANTLY UNDERLINED AT ALL LEVELS. . MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT. . THE USE OF PLANTS AND CELL CULTURES (PLANT, FUNGAL AND ANIMAL), FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NOVEL BIO-ACTIVE MATERIALS. . PREPARATION OF NOVEL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, ANTICANCER, AND IMMUNOMODULATORY COMPOUNDS BY CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL MEANS. . TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM). OVERVIEW THE BEST PRACTICE METHODOLOGY, RECOMMEND APPLICATIONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR METABOLIC PROFILING, COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND PURIFICATION OF SECONDARY METABOLITES IN PREPARATIONS UTILISED IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE. . TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINES. COLLABORATIVE ANALYSIS OF BIOACTIVE BRAZILIAN AND PAKASTINI PLANT SPECIES. . CO-FOUNDER OF TRINO THERAPEUTICS (FORMERLY PHARMATRIN LTD), A TCD CAMPUS COMPANY WHOSE ACTIVITIES ARE CENTERED ON DRUG DISCOVERY/DEVELOPMENT. . FINDING NEW THERAPIES TARGETED AT DISEASES WITH UNMET CLINICAL NEED. . DRUG DISCOVERY FROM THE NATURAL WORLD, INSPIRED BY ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY . DRUG DISCOVERY AND OPTIMISED PRODUCTION:- PLANTS; FUNGI; MARINE SPECIES. USE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY TO MODIFY BIOSYNTHESIS AND TO GENERATE BIOMASS . UTILISING METABOLOMIC TECHNIQUES TO ESTABLISH BEST PRACTICE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF QUALITY, SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF HERBAL MEDICINES FOR HUMAN AND VETERINARY USE. . GLOBAL HEALTH IN A DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT: IMPACT ON HEALTH. (RWANDA, MALAWI, KENYA). SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH APPOINTED EXTERNAL EXAMINER TO TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE MASTERS PROGRAMMES AT THE SCHOOL OF PHARMACY. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. APPOINTED TO THE HEALTH PRODUCTS REGULATORY AUTHORITY (HPRA) HERBAL MEDICINES SUB-COMMITTEE IRISH MEDICINES BOARD TRADITIONAL HERBAL MEDICINAL PRODUCTS AD HOC SUB-COMMITTEE. YOUTH SCIENCE COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ANTIINFLAMMATORY DRUGS BIOTRANSFORMATION DEVELOPMENT OF DRUGS FOR MALARIA, CANCER AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASES DRUG DISCOVERY FUNGI HERBAL MEDICINE IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS INDANES, INDANONES, MUSCEL, NAST CELL STABILISATION, IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS INFLAMMATION INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MEDICINAL PLANTS MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS NATURAL PRODUCT CHEMISTRY ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PHARMACOGNOSY PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS OF NATIVE AND FOREIGN PLANTS PHYTOMEDICINES PLANT AND ALGAL CELL MONOCULTURES SECONDARY PLANT METABOLISM THE USE OF CELL CULTURES FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NOVEL DRUGS TRADITIONAL AND INDIGENOUS HEALTH SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE EFFECT OF NOVEL INDANES ON MAST CELL FUNCTION NOVEL SYNTHETIC INDANES WILL BE INVESTIGATED ON MAST CELL FUNCTION AND DEGRNAULATION USING HARVESTED PERITONEAL MAST CELLS, AND MAST CELL LINES SUCH AS RBL-3H3 AND LAD2. MEDIATORS STUDIED WILL INCLUDE HISTAMINE, CYTOKINES ETC. ENTERPRISE IRELAND AND TRINO THERAPEUTICS LTD INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP NOVEL INDANES AS POTENTIAL THERAPIES FOR AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASE NOVEL INDANE COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF IBD. FROM DISCOVERY TO PHASE 1 HUMAN TRIALS. WELLCOME TRUST; VENTURE CAPITAL; TRINO THERAPEUTICS LTD PRECLINICAL AND CLINICAL DRUG DISCOVERY PROGRAMME NOVEL NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PARKINSONS DISEASE AND OTHER NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS PARKINSONS DISEASE, WITH WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION, IS A NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDER WITH SYMPTOMS OF TREMOR, AKINESIA AND RIGIDITY. AS PART OF AN ONGOING STUDY WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A SERIES OF COMPOUNDS WITH NEUROPROTECTIVE AND NEUROREGENERATIVE PROPERTIES. WE ARE INVESTIGATING THESE MOLECULES AS A NOVEL DISEASE-MODIFYING THERAPY FOR THIS IMPORTANT CLASS OF DISEASES ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT INVESTIGATION INTO MECHANISM OF ACTION OF PH46A USING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND HIGH RESOLUTION NMR TO INVESTIGATE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF ACTION OF THE ANTI INFLAMMATORY CLINICAL CANDIDATE PH46A TRINO THERAPEUTICS LTD (INDUSTRY) DRUG DEVELOPMENT A NOVEL INDANE SCAFFOLD WITH POTENTIAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS. INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE (IBD) CONSISTS OF TWO MAJOR FORMS, CROHN'S DISEASE (CD) AND ULCERATIVE COLITIS (UC). BOTH CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DISORDERS FOLLOW A COMPLEX INTERACTION OF MULTIPLE FACTORS IN THE PATHOGENESIS N IBD. DURING THE LAST TWO DECADES, DEVELOPMENT OF NEW IBD DRUGS HAS EXPANDED THE THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS FOR IBD PATIENTS. HOWEVER, THE NUMBER OF FAILED THERAPIES ESPECIALLY BIOLOGIC DRUGS IS NOTICEABLY HIGH. THERE IS STILL A CLEAR GAP IN ADDRESSING THIS UNMET NEED TO IMPROVE THE TREATMENT OF IBD. DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL MOLECULE DRUGS (SMDS) HAVE RECENTLY RESURFACED WITH NEW THERAPEUTIC AGENTS AT VARIOUS CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT STAGES. THE DISCOVERY OF PH46A, A NOVEL FIRST IN CLASS, DIMERIC INDANE WITH TWO CHIRAL CENTRES ORIGINATED FROM THIS RESEARCH GROUP AND HAS RECENTLY COMPLETED A PHASE I, SINGLE ASCENDING DOSE DOUBLE-BLIND, RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY FOR THE TREATMENT OF IBD. THE SCAFFOLD OF PH46A INCORPORATES THE INDANE SKELETON AND IS THE N-GLUCAMINE SALT OF A SINGLE ENANTIOMER PH46 OF THIS NOVEL DRUG. THE CURRENT STUDY FOCUSSES ON TWO THEMES: (1) THE PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF PH46 TO DEFINE A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF THE MECHANISM OF ITS MOLECULAR ACTION. (2) IN ADDITION, WE HAVE DESIGNED AN EXCITING NEW INDANE SCAFFOLD. PHARMACOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS TO CHARACTERISE THE STRUCTURAL ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS (SARS) OF THIS GROUP OF NOVEL INDANES IN IN VITRO AND IN VIVO MODELS HAVE RESULTED IN THE DISCOVERY OF A NOVEL GROUP OF MOLECULES WITH POTENT IL6 INHIBITORY PROPERTIES. THESE MOLECULES ARE UNDERGOING FURTHER EVALUATION. TRINO THERAPEUTICS LTD (INDUSTRY) RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE RESEARCH IN THE POST-GENOMIC ERA: GOOD PRACTICE,PRIORITIES, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES P-TCM IS THE 1ST EU-FUNDED COORDINATION ACTION CONSORTIUM DEDICATED TO TRADI-TIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE (TCM) RESEARCH. THIS PAPER AIMS TO SUMMARISE THE OBJECTIVES, STRUCTURE ANDACTIVITIES OF THE CONSORTIUM ANDINTRODUCES THE POSITION OF THE CONSORTIUM REGARDING GOOD PRACTICE,PRIORITIES, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN TCM RESEARCH. SERVING AS THE INTRODUCTORY PAPER FOR THE GP-TCM JOURNAL OF ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY SPECIAL ISSUE, THIS PAPER DESCRIBES THE ROADMAP OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUEAND REPORTS HOW THE MAIN OUTPUTS OF THE TEN GP-TCM WORK PACKAGES ARE INTEGRATED, AND HAVE LED TOCONSORTIUM-WIDE CONCLUSIONS EU FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME(FP7) AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR MICHAEL GERALD SHEVLIN shevlinmichaelgerald PROFESSOR MSHEVLIN EDUCATION RECENT RESEARCH: . CREATING A SAFE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT COMENIUS / EUROPEAN (1997-9) . TEACHER ATTITUDES TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 1998-9 . HIDDEN VOICES: THE SCHOOL EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 1999-2000. . ACCESS AND INCLUSION ISSUES FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES IN THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION (COMMISSIONED BY AHEAD AS PART OF EUROPEAN FUNDED PROJECT) 2000-1 . CANADA-EUROPEAN COMMUNITY CO-OPERATION AGREEMENT 2001-2003 . UNESCO PARTICIPATION PROGRAMME 2001-3 SUPPORT FOR THE FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES . IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CENTRE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON) ENCOURAGING VOICES PROJECT: ENSURING THAT THE VOICE OF THE CHILD, PARTICULARLY THOSE PREVIOUSLY MARGINALIZED, BECOMES INTEGRAL TO THE EDUCATION PROCESS. CURRENT RESEARCH: . IN COLLABORATION WITH NUI MAYNOOTH AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN STUDENT TEACHER PROFILES AND EXPERIENCES OF TEACHER EDUCATION - BECOMING TEACHERS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PROFILES OF FIVE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION COHORTS. 2001-6. . IN COLLABORATION WITH STRANMILLIS COLLEGE, BELFAST: INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION AND THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS. 2004-ONGOING. . IN COLLABORATION WITH THE CENTRE FOR SPECIAL NEEDS EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NORTHAMPTON): EXPLORING VOICES OF DISABLED PEOPLE IN EDUCATION. DEPT OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ADVISOR TO DOWN SYNDROME IRELAND IN RESEARCH PROJECT ON ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES. ADVISOR TO DOWN SYNDROME IRELAND IN RESEARCH PROJECT ON INCLUSION. ADVISOR TO EQUALITY AUTHORITY ON EDUCATIONAL ISSUES CONCERNING YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. ADVISOR TO SAGE PUBLICATIONS ON NEW HANDBOOK-THE HANDBOOK OF SPECIAL EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD OF SUNFIELD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (BIRMINGHAM, UK) AN POST DISABILITY AWARENESS. EDUCATION CONSULTANT. APPEALS COMMITTEE-EXCLUSION OF PUPILS FROM SCHOOLS (DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE) ARTS & DISABILITY SUB COMMITTEE OF ARTS COUNCIL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF A SPECIAL SCHOOL. CEDR NETWORK TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF DISADVANTAGE IN EDUCATION EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD OF JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION). N.C.E.A. EXTERN EXAMINER (SPECIAL EDUCATION) ST. NICHOLAS MONTESSORI COLLEGE, DUBLIN 2000-3. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT LITERACY BLANCHARDSTOWN. EDUCATION CONSULTANT. NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION NORTH-SOUTH COMMITTEE ON SPECIAL EDUCATION IN INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION SPECIAL EDUCATION REVIEW COMMITTEE SPECIAL OLYMPICS IRELAND. EDUCATION CONSULTANT. THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY GROUP AND CONTRIBUTOR TO POSTGRADUATE COURSE) 1998-2005. THE DRAKE MUSIC PROJECT: ENABLING DISABLED PEOPLE TO MAKE MUSIC THROUGH TECHNOLOGY (TRUSTEE). THE OPEN TRAINING COLLEGE (MEMBER OF ACADEMIC COUNCIL). THE PUFFIN HOUSE TRUST: PROVIDING A BREAKAWAY SCHEME FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES (TRUSTEE). AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. FERGAL SHEVLIN shevlinfergal ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FSHEVLIN COMPUTER SCIENCE OPTICS, LASERS, ELECTRONICS, IMAGE PROCESSING. COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. ANNA SHORE shoreanna USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASHORE DENTAL SCIENCE MY MAIN RESEARCH INVOLVES MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AND CHARACTERISATION OF METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA), METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE S. AUREUS AND COAGULASE-NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCI FROM HOSPITAL, COMMUNITY AND ANIMAL SOURCES. THE AIM OF THIS WORK IS TO IMPROVE SURVEILLANCE OF STAPHYLOCOCCI AND REDUCE THE BURDEN ON PATIENTS AND THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM. THIS INCLUDES GENOTYPING STAPHYLOCOCCAL ISOLATES USING THE MOST UP TO DATE MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES SUCH AS WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING AND MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGY, CHARACTERISATION OF ISOLATES WITH ENHANCED VIRULENCE AND/OR RESISTANCE POTENTIAL AND CHARACTERISATION OF MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS HARBOURING RESISTANCE AND VIRULENCE GENES AMONG STAPHYLOCOCCI INCLUDING BACTERIOPHAGE, PLASMIDS AND THE STAPHYLOCOCCAL CHROMOSOMAL CASSETTE MEC (SCCMEC) ELEMENT. MY OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL DECONTAMINATION STRATEGIES, HAND HYGIENE, RAPID DETECTION METHODS FOR CONTROLLING MICROBIAL SPREAD IN HOSPITALS AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERISATION OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA. MICROBIOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT DIVISION OF ORAL BIOSCIENCES DUBLIN DENTAL SCHOOL & HOSPITAL LINCOLN PLACE, COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY BIOFILMS COMMUNITY-ASSOCIATED S. AUREUS FUSIDIC ACID RESISTANCE GENOTYPING HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS LINEZOLID RESISTANCE METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS METHICILLIN-SUSCEPTIBLE S. AUREUS MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL TYPING MOLECULAR EVOLUTION AND BIOINFORMATICS MOLECULAR POPULATION GENETICS MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION PULSED-FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS REAL-TIME PCR SCCMEC SPA TYPING TRANSLATIONAL MICROBIOLOGY TYPING METHODS VIRULENCE WHOLE-GENOME SEQUENCING IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) MICROBIOLOGY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES PROFESSOR IGOR SHVETS shvetsigor PROFESSOR OF APPLIED PHYSICS IVCHVETS PHYSICS CRANN MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND MATERIALS SCIENCE NANOTECHNOLOGY SURFACE SCIENCE CONDUCTING OXIDES RENEWABLE ENERGY APPLIED PHYSICS DEPT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CO-FOUNDED MIRAVEX LTD AS A RESULT OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH. CO-FOUNDERS ARE EX-STUDENTS. LAUNCHED IN 2009 AND OPERATING IN THE AESTHETIC MEDICINE BUSINESS SPACE. FOUNDED COMPANY CELLIX LTD SPECIALISING IN NANOTECHNOLOGY INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE MEDICAL AREA. THE COMPANY IS TO COMMERCIALISE INVENTIONS ACHIEVED IN THE RESEARCH GROUP. PROF. SHVETS IS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. FOUNDED THE COMPANY ALLEGRO TECHNOLOGIES LTD (DEERAC FLUIDICS), WHICH IS A RESULT OF RESEARCH IN THE GROUP. PROF. SHVETS IS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. THE COMPANY SPECIALISES IN THE AREA OF NANOLITRE DISPENSING FOR PHARMACEUTICAL FIELD. MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES MAGNETIC NANOSTRUCTURES - MAGNETIC & ELECTRON TRANSPORT MAGNETIC OXIDES THE SURFACES AND INTERFACES OF MAGNETIC MATERIALS SOLAR ENERGY PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE STUDIES OF SURFACES AND INTERFACES OF MAGNETIC OXIDES ON NANOMETER AND ATOMIC SCALE. NANOMAG SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND (SFI) ADVANCED SCANNING PROBES FOR INNOVATIVE NANOSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. (ASPRINT) EU FP6 NMP CONTACT TEST TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGH FREQUENCY DEVICES (ANTEC). EI NANO ENABLED TRANSPARENT CONDUCTORS WE WILL INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF IMPROVING TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING LAYERS GROWN AT LOW TEMPERATURES FOR USE IN FLEXIBLE PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR CELLS OR OTHER TRANSPARENT ELECTRONICS DEVICES. TWO NEW METHODS WILL BE EVALUATED. THE FIRST IS STABILISATION OF KNOWN ELECTRODE MATERIALS, SUCH AS SILVER AND CARBON NANOWIRE NETWORKS IN AN OXIDE MATRIX. THE SECOND APPROACH IS THE CREATION OF POROUS METAL NETWORKS BY THE ASSEMBLY OF CORE SHELL NANO-PARTICLES. THE AIM IS TO ESTABLISH IN WHAT WAY SUCH NOVEL CONCEPTS OF NANO ENABLED TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING LAYERS, CAN COMPETE WITH KNOWN, BUT RELATIVELY EXPENSIVE MATERIALS, SUCH AS INDIUM TIN OXIDE. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TIDA NOVEL QUATERNARY TRANSPARENT P-TYPE CONDUCTING OXIDES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND TIDA TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS IN NANOSTRUCTURES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SHORT TERM TRAVEL PROGRAMME STRAIN EFFECT ON THE ENERGY BAND GAP IN BENT ZNO WIRES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND SHORT TERM TRAVEL PROGRAMME STUDIES OF THE CURRENT INDUCED MAGNETISATION DYNAMICS IN NANOWIRE ARRAYS INDUSTRIAL SUPPLEMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH SEAGATE SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PI INDUSTRIAL SUPPLEMENT STUDIES OF PLANAR NANOWIRE ARRAYS AS BASIS FOR NEW GENERATION ICT DEVICES DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL NANOWIRE ARRAY FABRICATION VIA ATOMIC TERRACE LOW ANGLE SHADOWING (ATLAS). UTILISATION OF ATLAS TO FABRICATE PLANAR ARRAYS OF BOTH MAGNETIC AND SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES FOR POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS IN ICT LOGIC AND MEMORY DEVICES. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR NANOWIRE BASED MICROWAVE EMITTERS FOR USE IN MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL COUPLED NANO-SCALE STRUCTURES FOR ENHANCED MICROWAVE POWER EMISSION. POSSIBLE USE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AND OTHER MINIATURE ICT DEVICES. EU FP7 ERA NET: NANOSCI-E+ 3D SURFACE METROLOGY FOR COSMETIC AND DERMATOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS DERMASCAN COMMERCIALISATION PROJECT WHICH LEAD TO THE FORMATION OF MIRAVEX LTD ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION TUNGSTEN AND MOLYBDENUM OXIDE SOLAR CELLS DEVELOPMENT OF NEW MATERIALS FOR SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT - COMMERCIALISATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. EMMA SIDDALL siddallemma RESEARCH PROJECTS OFFICER SIDDALE TR&I ADMINISTRATION TRINITY RESEARCH & INNOVATION O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. MELISSA SIHRA sihramelissa ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MSIHRA DRAMA IRISH THEATRE, MARINA CARR, GENDER AND FEMINISM IN PERFORMANCE. PLAYWRITING. DRAMATURGY. SCHOOL OF DRAMA BECKETT CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF IRISH STUDIES, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF THEATRE RESEARCH (IFTR) MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF STUDIES IN IRISH LITERATURE (IASIL) PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH (ISTR) IRISH THEATRE, MARINA CARR. IRISH PLAYWRIGHTS. WOMEN IN PERFORMANCE. FEMINISM LADY GREGORY MARINA CARR. AUGUSTA GREGORY CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. MARY KATHARINE SIMMS simmsmarykatharine FELLOW EMERITUS MKSIMMS HISTORY CENTRE FOR IRISH-SCOTTISH AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES (CISCS) SOCIAL HISTORY OF GAELIC IRELAND 1200-1500 A.D. HISTORICAL SOURCES IN THE IRISH LANGUAGE (ANNALS, GENEALOGIES, BARDIC POETRY, LATER LEGAL COMMENTARIES). MILITARY AND ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3143 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN BASQUE ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH FAMILY, CHURCH HISTORY GAELIC LORDSHIPS IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT MEDIEVAL IRELAND THE LITERARY SOURCES THE IRISH CHANCERY PROJECT MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE FOR THIS IRCHSS-FUNDED PROJECT (PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR DR DAVID DITCHBURN, ASSOCIATE INVESTIGATORS DR PETER CROOKS AND PROF. SEAN DUFFY) WHICH SEEKS TO ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE 'MAKING OF IRELAND' BETWEEN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES AND THE DAWN OF THE MODERN ERA-ONE OF THE MOST FORMATIVE PERIODS IN IRELAND'S PAST-BY PUBLISHING ON THE WEB AND IN PRINT AN ENGLISH CALENDAR OF THE ROLLS OF THE MEDIEVAL IRISH CHANCERY, C. 1216-1509. THE CHANCERY WAS A KEY ORGAN OF ENGLISH GOVERNMENT IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND. ACCESS TO ITS RECORDS IS, HOWEVER, SEVERELY RESTRICTED. THE ORIGINAL CHANCERY ROLLS SUFFERED A SERIES OF CALAMITIES FROM THE 13TH CENTURY, CULMINATING IN 1922 WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LAST 123 ORIGINAL ROLLS. A LATIN CALENDAR PRODUCED BY THE IRISH RECORD COMMISSION (1828) DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR THEIR DESTRUCTION: IT WAS POORLY EDITED AND LACKS AN ADEQUATE CRITICAL APPARATUS. MOREOVER, IT OFFERS NO ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS AND THE TEXT IS PRINTED IN 'RECORD TYPE', REFLECTING ABBREVIATIONS IN THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS. THIS PROJECT WILL REMEDY THESE DEFICIENCIES BY RECONSTRUCTING THE CHANCERY ROLLS FROM TRANSCRIPTS AND CALENDARS DATING FROM 14TH-19TH CENTURIES LOCATED IN IRELAND AND ENGLAND. THE OUTCOME WILL BE A WEB-BASED ENGLISH CALENDAR, TO BE FOLLOWED BY A MULTI-VOLUME PRINTED EDITION. THIS PROJECT WILL REVOLUTIONISE MEDIEVAL IRISH STUDIES BY PROVIDING BOTH SPECIALISTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC WITH ACCESS TO AN UNPARALLELED SOURCE OF INFORMATION. MORE GENERALLY, THE PROJECT WILL GENERATE INTEREST FROM SCHOLARS WORKING ON ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY IN A EUROPE-WIDE CONTEXT AND ON THE 'ANGLICIZATION' OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN MIDDLE AGES. IT WILL ALSO STIMULATE EXCITING COMPARATIVE WORK ACROSS THE MEDIEVAL-MODERN DIVIDE ON THE ADAPTATION (OR 'CREOLISATION') OF METROPOLITAN GOVERNING PRACTICES AND VALUES IN A COLONIAL CONTEXT, AND ON THE PROCESSES OF STATE FORMATION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THE BRITISH ISLES AND THE EARLY MODERN ATLANTIC WORLD. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CIARAN KNUT SIMMS simmsciaranknut ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CSIMMS MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE INJURY BIOMECHANICS, SOFT TISSUE MECHANICS AND DEVICE DESIGN. I HAVE PUBLISHED 77 PAPERS IN INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS ON TOPICS VARYING FROM HEAD INJURIES IN SPORT, THE MECHANICS OF SOFT TISSUES, THE INFLUENCE OF VEHICLE DESIGN ON HUMAN INJURY, FORENSIC BIOMECHANICS, WOUND CLOSURE DEVICES, WHEELCHAIR USER SAFETY, ROADSIDE SAFETY BARRIERS, ROWING INJURIES, SAFE SCHOOL BAG WEIGHTS, AND CEREBRAL PALSY GAIT. I HAVE A H-INDEX OF 21 ON GOOGLE SCHOLAR WITH OVER 1400 CITATIONS. IN THE LAST 15 YEARS A MAJOR FOCUS HAS BEEN ON CHARACTERIZING THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF PASSIVE SKELETAL MUSCLE AND OTHER SOFT TISSUES (ESPECIALLY ABDOMINAL CONNECTIVE TISSUES). THESE PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN IMPACT BIOMECHANICS, REHABILITATION ENGINEERING AND SURGICAL SIMULATION. MY RESEARCH GROUP HAS PUBLISHED A NUMBER OF WELL CITED PAPERS IN THIS FIELD AND CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON THIS TOPIC. I HAVE A PARTICULAR EXPERTISE IN PEDESTRIAN AND CYCLIST IMPACT BIOMECHANICS AND HAVE WRITTEN THE ONLY TEXTBOOK ON THIS TOPIC, WHICH HAS ACHIEVED THOUSANDS OF SALES. I HAVE FOCUSSED RECENTLY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VEHICLE DESIGN AND PEDESTRIAN INJURY OUTCOME. I AM ACTIVE IN MEDICAL DEVICE DESIGN. I HAVE DEVELOPED AN AWARD-WINNING WALKING AID FOR CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES IN COLLABORATION WITH MOORINGS MEDIQUIP. I ALSO ENGAGED WITH MCELMEEL MOBILITY IN DEVELOPING CRASH RESISTANT SWIVEL SEATS FOR EASY ACCESS TO VEHICLES AND WELL AS BLK BOX DESIGNS ON IMPROVED GYM EQUIPMENT DESIGNS. I WORKED WITH THE NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY OF IRELAND TO DEVELOP LOW-COST ROADSIDE BARRIERS FROM NATURAL BUILDING MATERIALS. I HAVE FOCUSSED ON DEVELOPING WOUND CLOSURE DEVICES FOR LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DEVICES SUITABLE FOR OBESE PATIENTS. I AM NOW COLLABORATING WITH LEINSTER RUGBY AND OTHERS TO STUDY HEAD INJURIES IN RUGBY. MECHANICAL & MANUFACTURING ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN CHARTERED ENGINEER WITH ENGINEERS IRELAND I AM A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE IRISH SEATING AND MOBILITY INTEREST GROUP I AM PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ON BIOMECHANICS OF INJURY I AM THE SOFT TISSUE MECHANICS OF THE ELSEVIER JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL ON BIOMECHANICS OF INJURY MEMBER OF THE ROAD SAFETY TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT PANEL RSA MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF BIOMECHANICS, SEVILLE, JULY 2017 BIOMECHANICS OF HUMAN MOVEMENT BIOMECHANICS, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ROAD TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY SAFETY TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH OTHER ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TRANSPORT PLANNING & LOGISTICS LUMBAR SPINE INJURY IN ROWING: KINEMATICS, ROWING MODE AND FATIGUE ON WATER EVALUATION OF ROWING KINEMATICS AND FATIGUE TO ASSESS LUMBAR SPINE PAIN TCD SCHOOLBAG-RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN AN INVESTIGATION OF SCHOOLBAG-RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN IN THE CONTEXT OF SCHOOLBAG WEIGHT LIMIT GUIDELINES TCD HUMAN MUSCLE PROPERTIES IN TENSION THE ABILITY TO ACCURATELY MODEL THE HUMAN BODY USING THE FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUE DEPENDS ON MATERIAL LAWS. THE MATERIAL LAWS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN COMMERCIAL CRASH CODES ARE NOT CAPABLE OF CAPTURING THE COMPLEX CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONS PRESENT IN SOFT TISSUE AND THIS PROJECT AIMS TO FURTHER CHARACTERISE AND MODEL PASSIVE MUSCLE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR. GALWAY COUNTY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT OF PERSON SPECFIC WHEELCHAIR CRASH SAFETY MODELS WHEELCHAIR OCCUPANT CRASH SAFETY HAS NOT RECEIVED THE RESEARCH FOCUS WHICH CAR SEAT OCCUPANTS HAVE BENEFITED FROM. I AM SUPERVISING A PHD STUDENT WHO IS USING A COMBINED NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO IMPROVE WHEELCHAIR SAFETY, AND INVESTIGATE THE INFLUENCE OF SCOLIOSIS ON IMPACT INJURIES. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD GENERAL PROJECT GRANT SAFER VEHICLE RESTRAINT SYSTEMS (SAVERS) EU PROJECT FUNDED BY CEDR ON GUIDELINES FOR VEHICLE RESTRAINT SYSTEM CHOICE AND PLACEMENT. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF ACCIDENT DATA AND ROADWAYS TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES. TCD IRISH COLLABORATION IS WITH DR GIUSEPPINA AMATO OF QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST. CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN DIRECTORS OF ROADS (CEDR) APPLICATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONSTANT INERTIAL PROPERTY PEDESTRIAN MODEL TO ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH DENIS WOOD ASSOCIATES USES STATISTICALLY BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF THE VEHICLE PEDESTRIAN IMPACT TO PROVIDE PREDICTION METHODS FOR PEDESTRIAN SPEED RECONSTRUCTION IN THE EVENT OF VEHICLE PEDESTRIAN COLLISIONS. IRCSET DEVEOPMENT OF IMPROVED GYM EQUIPMENT DESIGNS PRINCIPAL GOALS: 1. STREAMLINING THE DESIGN OF EXISTING GYM FRAME DESIGNS TO ENSURE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY, SCALABILITY AND RELIABILITY. 2. DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING OF UNIVERSAL INTERFACE BRACKETRY TO FACILITATE MODULAR INCLUSION OF COMMON MANUAL EXERCISE EQUIPMENT INTO THE GYM FRAME DESIGN. THE FOCUS WAS ON CONNECTIONS AND FASTENERS WHICH ARE EASY TO USE AND REUSE. INTERTRADE IRELAND FUSION THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A NEW SURGICAL TASK TRAINER TO TRAIN SURGEONS THE SKILLS OF WOUND CLEANSING, EXPLORATION AND ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE REPAIR RESEARCH QUESTIONS: 1. DO EXISTING MODELS ADDRESS THE LEARNING OUTCOMES OF A TRAUMATIC CONTAMINATED WOUND MODEL? 2. HOW REALISTIC IS EXISTING SYNTHETIC SKIN, MUSCLE, TENDON AND NERVE IN TERMS OF HANDLING PROPERTIES, STIFFNESS, STRETCH, LAYERS, ADHERENCE TO SURROUNDING STRUCTURES FOR SURGICAL SKILLS EDUCATION? 3. DESIGN AND VALIDATION OF A NEW WOUND EXPLORATION MODEL? 4. ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS OF EXISTING SYNTHETIC SKIN, MUSCLE, TENDON AND NERVE AND DETERMINE FIT FOR PRACTICE IN SURGICAL SKILLS EDUCATION? RCSI A MESH BASED WOUND CLOSURE DEVICE FOR LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY TISSUE TESTING AND METHODICAL DESIGN OF A NOVEL CLOSURE METHOD, USING A TENSION-FREE MESH APPROACH THAT WILL REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF HERNIA FORMATION. IRC EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL CHARACTERISATION OF LOW-COST ROADSIDE BARRIER SOLUTIONS THE NRA IS SEEKING LOW-COST ROADSIDE BARRIER SOLUTIONS FOR NATIONAL SECONDARY ROADS SUITABLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION FOLLOWING ROAD REALIGNMENT PROJECTS. THE CURRENT PROJECT PROPOSES TO USE WELL-ESTABLISHED COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING TECHNIQUES TO EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL FOR PROPOSED NEW DESIGNS THAT ARE BASED ON FREELY AVAILABLE LOW-COST NATURAL BUILDING MATERIALS (E.G. STONE WALL, EARTH ETC.) AND WHICH MEET COST, AESTHETIC AND ENGINEERING REQUIREMENTS. SEVERAL OUTLINE CONCEPTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN DEVELOPED AS PART OF THIS PROPOSAL, AND MECHANICAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE CONSTITUENT MATERIALS AND BASIC SCALED PROTOTYPE IMPACT TESTS AS WELL AS BUILDABILITY AND COST EVALUATION WILL BE PERFORMED TO PROVIDE PRELIMINARY DATA ON THE POTENTIAL FOR THE PROPOSED DESIGNS. THE RESEARCH GROUP'S SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL CRASH MODELLING WILL THEN BE USED TO EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL FOR THE PROPOSED DESIGNS TO MEET THE REQUIRED NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN STANDARDS FOR ROADSIDE BARRIERS. THE PROPOSED DESIGNS WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY BE EVALUATED FOR AESTHETICS AND LIFECYCLE COST AND A COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS ON THE PROPOSED DESIGNS WILL BE PERFORMED BY COMPARISON WITH EXISTING PRODUCTS. THIS PROCESS WILL BE PERFORMED IN AN ITERATIVE MANNER IN WHICH PROPOSED DESIGNS ARE COMPUTATIONALLY EVALUATED, AMENDED AS REQUIRED, AND THEN RE-EVALUATED. THE COMPUTATIONAL MODELS WILL BE BENCHMARKED USING DATA FROM EXISTING TESTS AT THE TRANSPORT RESEARCH LABORATORY (TRL) IN THE UK, AND THE DEFORMATION RESPONSE OF THE PROPOSED COMPONENTS FOR THE DESIGNS WILL BE EXPERIMENTALLY EVALUATED. A SCALED PROTOTYPE OF THE FINAL PROPOSED DESIGN WILL BE PRODUCED AND PHYSICALLY CRASH TESTED TO PREDICT THE LIKELY PERFORMANCE OF THE PROPOSED NEW DESIGN IN A FULL-SCALE BARRIER TEST. IF THE SCALED PROTOTYPE PHYSICAL TEST INDICATES A HIGH POTENTIAL FOR SUCCESS, A FULL-SCALE BARRIER TEST WILL BE PERFORMED AT TRL IN THE UK, AND THE FINAL REPORT DETAILING THE POTENTIAL FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW BARRIER DESIGNED WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE NRA. NATIONAL ROADS AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT OF A SWIVEL SEAT INTERTRADE IRELAND FUSION (2009-2011) THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH MCELMEEL MOBILITY IN ARMAGH TO DEVELOP A SWIVEL SEAT FOR EASY ACCESS TO VEHICLES WHICH IS CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING CRASH LOADS. INTERTRADE IRELAND FUSION DEVELOPMENT OF A WALKING AID FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS WITH MMOORINGS MEDIQUIP IN NORTHERN IRELAND AIMS TO DEVELOP A NOVEL WALKING AID FOR CHILDREN WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES INTERTRADE IRELAND FUSION TAGGED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) AND FINITE ELEMENT (FE) ANALYSIS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF ARTERIAL AND SKELETAL MUSCLE TISSUE PROPERTIES THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH DR TRIONA LALLY IN DCU AIMS TO USE INVERSE FINITE ELEMENT MODELING COMBINED WITH NOVEL MAGNETIC LEMON NOVEL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING APPROACHES TO ESTIMATE THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MUSCLE TISSUE IN VIVO SFI RESEARCH FRONTIERS GRANT SAFER PUBLIC TRANSPORT FOR OLDER PEOPLE: PREVENTING NON-COLLISION INJURIES. THIS COLLABORATIVE PROJECT WITH PROFS O'NEILL, O'MAHONY & FULLER, (ALL TCD) AIMS TO USE MULTIBODY MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT OF URBAN BUSES ACCELERATION PROFILES TO ESTIMATE STANDING OCCUPANT INJURY RISK. TCD FRONT GATE CLUB PASSIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MUSCLE IN COMPRESSION THIS PROJECT AIMS TO CHARACTERISE AND MODEL PASIVE MUSCLE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR IN COMPRESSION. PRTLI CYCLE 3 A BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TRUNK AND SPINE DURING PAEDIATRIC CEREBRAL PALSY GAIT THIS IS AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PATHOLOGICAL MOVEMENT OF THE TRUNK AND LOADING AT THE LOWER LUMBAR SPINE. THE SPECIFIC IMPACT OF TRENDELENBURG AND DUCHENNE TYPE MOVEMENT PATTERNS ON LOADING AT THE SPINE WAS ALSO EXAMINED. CRC MECHANICS OF THE LINEA ALBA AND SUTURE BASED WOUND CLOSURE THIS PROJECT CHARACTERISED ABDOMINAL TISSUE PROPERTIES AND DEVELOPED AN OPTIMISED SUTURING METHOD TO REDUCE THE RISK OF INCISIONAL HERNIA IN LAPAROTOMY SURGERY. GREP OPTIMIZATION OF VEHICLE FRONTS FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY THIS PROJECT USES ACCIDENT DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING TO FIND VEHICLE FRONT-END SHAPES WHICH ARE SAFER FOR PEDESTRIANS ACROSS THE BROAD RANGE OF COLLISION CONFIGURATIONS BETWEEN VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS CHINESE SCHOLARSHIP COUNCIL EVALUATION OF THE MECHANICS OF HEAD INJURIES IN RUGBY THIS PROJECT USES VIDEO ANALYSIS OF THE HEAD IMPACT ON RUGBY AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING AS WELL AS STAGED IMPACT TESTS TO UNDERSTAND BETTER THE MECHANICS OF HEAD IMPACTS IN RUGBY IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL MECHANICS OF PEDESTRIAN GROUND CONTACT THIS PROJECT USES VIDEO ANALYSIS OF REAL-WORLD COLLISIONS AS WELL AS COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE MECHANICS OF PEDESTRIAN GROUND CONTACT, AS A PRECURSOR TO DEVELOPING INJURY MITIGATION SCHEMES. CHINESE SCHOLARSHIP COUNCIL PASSIVE SKELETAL MUSCLE FORM AND FUNCTION THIS PROJECT USES IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY APPROACHES TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF PASSIVE SKELETAL MUSCLE TO EXTERNAL DEFORMATION, WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOPING A CONSTITUTIVE MODELS FOR FINITE ELEMENT IMPLEMENTATION TCD E3 FUND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CRISTINA SIMOES - FRANKLIN simoesfranklincristina ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SIMOESC SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE COLLEGE 01-8961000 PORTUGUESE SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCES SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCES (USA) ADDICTIONS COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT/PROCESSES DRUGS/DRUG ABUSE ELECTROMAGNETISM MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING NO DATA IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR PETER SIMONS simonspeter FELLOW EMERITUS PSIMONS PHILOSOPHY METAPHYSICS AND ONTOLOGY: PURE (SYSTEMATIZATION, CATEGORIES, NOMINALISM, TROPES, NATURALISM, EMERGENCE, QUANTITIES, ) APPLIED, TO VARIOUS DISCIPLINES (DATABASE DESIGN, MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING, ENTERPRISE DESIGN, PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY, MUSIC, ) PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE AND LOGIC (TRUTHMAKERS, NOMINALIST SEMANTICS, TERM LOGIC, LESNIEWSKIAN LOGIC, CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR) PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS (ABSTRACTION, STRUCTURALISM, NUMBERS, SETS, VECTORS, GEOMETRICAL ALGEBRA) HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY (BOLZANO, FREGE, WHITEHEAD, RUSSELL, WITTGENSTEIN) HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC IN CENTRAL EUROPE (BOLZANO, BRENTANO, FREGE, MEINONG, HUSSERL, TWARDOWSKI, LUKASIEWICZ, LESNIEWSKI, TARSKI) DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN POLISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANALYTISCHE PHILOSOPHIE INTERNATIONALE BERNARD-BOLZANO-GESELLSCHAFT SALZBURGER PHILOSOPHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT ÖSTERREICHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE HISTORY OF ANLYTICAL PHILOSOPHY METAPHYSICS PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY OF LOGIC AND LANGUAGE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE WITTGENSTEIN PROFESSOR BRIAN ROBERT SINGLETON singletonbrianrobert SAMUEL BECKETT CHAIR OF DRAMA & THEATRE BSNGLTON DRAMA MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE FIELD OF ORIENTALISM AND INTERCULTURALISM IN PERFORMANCE, WITH A PARTICULAR SPECIALISM IN IRISH, BRITISH AND FRENCH CULTURAL HISTORY. IN ADDITION HE PUBLISHES IN THE AREA OF CONTEMPORARY DEVISED PERFORMANCE. SCHOOL OF DRAMA SAMUEL BECKETT CNTR COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH IRISH SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH CULTURAL HISTORY FRENCH THEATRE HISTORY OF SCENOGRAPHY AND DIRECTING INTERCULTURALISM IRISH THEATRE OPERA/MUSICAL THEATRE POPULAR THEATRE SET/THEATRE DECORATION/DESIGN TELEVISION THEATRE HISTORY ANU PRODUCTIONS: THE MONTO CYCLE CURRENT MONOGRAPH PROJECT ANALYSING FOUR PRODUCTIONS OF THE CELEBRATED AND AWARD-WINNNING IRISH COMPANY, ANU PRODUCTIONS, AND THEIR FOUR-PART SERIES 'THE MONTO CYCLE'. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR DAVID MICHAEL SINGLETON singletondavidmichael FELLOW EMERITUS DSNGLTON C.L.C.S. MY RESEARCH INTERESTS HAVE RANGED FROM FAIRLY THEORETICAL AREAS OF LINGUISTICS (E.G. LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND SEMANTIC CHANGE) TO VERY PRACTICAL AND APPLIED DOMAINS (E.G. SECOND LANGUAGE SYLLABUS DESIGN). IN RECENT TIMES MOST OF MY RESEARCH ACTIVITY AND PUBLICATIONS HAVE BEEN CONCERNED WITH SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, AND IN PARTICULAR (I) CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING, (II) THE SECOND LANGUAGE MENTAL LEXICON, (III) MULTILINGUALISM AND (IV) AGE-RELATED FACTORS IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. CLCS ROOM 4091 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 POLISH SPANISH; CASTILIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUÉE MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUÉE MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS MEMBER OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUÉE SECRETARY OF THE EUROPEAN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. SARAH-JO SINNOTT sinnottsarahjo VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW SINNOTTS PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS PHARAMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCES ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. STEFAN SINT sintstefan ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SINTS PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE MY BASIC RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS, LATTICE QCD AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS. HOWEVER, THE TECHNIQUES USED INCLUDE NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS, HIGH PERFORMANCE PARALLEL COMPUTING, MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO, MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND HYBRID MONTE CARLO METHODS. THERE IS A CONTINUED INTEREST IN IMPROVING THE NUMERICAL TOOLS NEEDED, SUCH AS PRECONDITIONING METHODS FOR LARGE SPARSE MATRIX INVERSIONS AND VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN RUSSIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUMERICAL ANALYSIS PARTICLE PHYSICS PHYSICS QUANTUM MECHANICS QUANTUM PHYSICS THEORETICAL PHYSICS THERMODYNAMICS PHYSICS MATHEMATICS OTHER ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - SOFTWARE ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE COMPUTER SCIENCE - THEORY & METHODS, ALGORITHMS A STRONGLY INTERACTING ELECTROWEAK SYMMETRY BREAKING SECTOR THIS RESEARCH IS IN ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS. ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE BASIC CONSTITUENTS OF MATTER AND THEIR INTERACTIONS (EXCEPT GRAVITY) IS SUMMARIZED IN THE SO-CALLED STANDARD MODEL. THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE STANDARD HIGGS BOSON (NOBEL PRIZE 2013 TO ENGLERT AND HIGGS) PROVIDES ONE OF THE LAST MISSING PIECES TO THE PUZZLE. NEVERTHELESS, THERE ARE MANY SHORTCOMINGS OF THE STANDARD MODEL WHICH AWAIT CLARIFICATION. FOR INSTANCE, THERE IS NO EXPLANATION OF THE FAMILY STRUCTURE OF MATTER, THE MECHANISM FOR CP VIOLATION CAN'T EXPLAIN THE OBSERVED MATTER-ANTIMATTER ASYMMETRY OF THE UNIVERSE, THERE ARE NO CANDIDATES FOR DARK MATTER AND THERE IS NO EXPLANATION FOR THE STRONG DISPARITY OF PARTICLE MASSES. IN ORDER TO MAKE PROGRESS AND DISCOVER NEW PHYSICS, IT IS MANDATORY TO OBTAIN PRECISION STANDARD MODEL RESULTS ALSO IN CASES WHERE THE STRONG NUCLEAR FORCE PREVENTS THE USE OF ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES. A PRIME EXAMPLE ARE THE VALUES OF FUNDAMENTAL STANDARD MODEL PARAMETERS SUCH AS THE STRONG COUPLING CONSTANT OR THE QUARK MASSES. PINNING THEIR VALUES DOWN TO THE PERCENT LEVEL WOULD HAVE A MAJOR PHENOMENOLOGICAL IMPACT ON THE DETERMINATION OF MANY DERIVED OBSERVABLES AND COULD HELP UNCOVER SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS BY YET UNKNOWN PHYSICS. A BIT MORE SPECULATIVE ARE IDEAS THAT THE HIGGS BOSON MIGHT NOT BE ELEMENTARY BUT RATHER A COMPOSITE PARTICLE OF MORE FUNDAMENTAL INGREDIENTS STILL TO BE DISCOVERED. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT USES NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF LATTICE GAUGE THEORIES AND RECURSIVE FINITE SIZE TECHNIQUES TO STUDY THE COUPLING CONSTANT IN SUCH MODELS, THEREBY TESTING THEIR PHENOMENOLOGICAL VIABILITY. IN ADDITION A PRECISION DETERMINATION OF THE STRONG COUPLING CONSTANT IS BEING CARRIED OUT BASED ON THE SAME TECHNIQUES. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROGRAMME UNVEILING PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS THE KEY OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO HELP UNVEIL NEW PHYSICS BEYOND THE KNOWN PHYSICS DESCRIBED BY THE STANDARD MODEL (SM) OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS. THE MAIN FOCUS IS ON STRONGLY COUPLED THEORIES WHERE METHODS OF LATTICE GAUGE THEORY ARE BEST PLACED TO MAKE PROGRESS. THIS INCLUDES QUANTUM CHROMO DYNAMICS (QCD), I.E. THE COMPONENT OF THE SM DESCRIBING THE STRONG INTERACTIONS OF QUARKS AND GLUONS, AS WELL AS MORE HYPOTHETICAL MODELS POTENTIALLY UNDERLYING THE SM HIGGS SECTOR. THE COMMON DENOMINATOR FOR BOTH APPLICATIONS IS THE IDENTICAL METHODOLOGY. ANOTHER KEY OBJECTIVE AND MAJOR COMPONENT OF THIS RESEARCH PROJECT THUS CONSISTS IN THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE METHODS WITH THE AIM TO SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE SYSTEMATIC ERRORS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (IRC, FORMERLY IRCSET) EMBARK INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MR. ROSS MURRAY SKELTON skeltonrossmurray RETIRED STAFF MEMBER RSKELTON RETIRED STAFF MEMBER ESPECIALLY SINCE COMPLETING THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA MY INTERESTS ARE ON COMPARATIVE PSYCHOANALYSIS, THAT IS THE AREAS OF INTERSECTION AND DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VARIOUS DISPARATE SCHOOLS OF THE WORLD. IN PARTICULAR I HAVE BEEN CONCERNED WUITH CREATING A LOGIC OF THE UNCONSCIOUS OR 'DREAM LOGIC' AS SOME WOULD HAVE IT.THIS PROJECT ATTEMPTS TO PUT SOME SHAPE ON THE NOTION OF AN EMOTIONAL LOGIC - WHEN A PERSON'S EMOTIONS OVERRULE THEIR REASON. DEPT. OF PHILOSOPHY 5015 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IRISH FORUM FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY INTERNATIONAL BILOGIC GROUP DR. JAN SKOPEK skopekjan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SKOPEKJ SOCIOLOGY SUBSTANTIAL: SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, LIFE COURSE AND FAMILY DEMOGRAPHY. PARTICULAR: ASSORTATIVE MATING; GRANDPARENTHOOD; GENDERED DIVISION OF LABOR; EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE; COMPARATIVE LIFE-COURSE RESEARCH; GENDER INEQUALITIES; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS AND INEQUALITIES OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY. METHODOLOGICAL: CROSS-NATIONAL RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH; PANEL DATA ANALYSIS; CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS; EVENT HISTORY ANALYSIS; MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS, METHODS OF DATA MANAGEMENT; SURVEY METHODOLOGY AND ONLINE-RESEARCH. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 COMPARATIVE LIFE COURSE AND INEQUALITY RESEARCH CENTRE (CLIC) INSTITUTE FOR LONGITUDINAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (INBIL) RESEARCH COMMITTEE 28 ON SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY SOCIAL SCIENCES, ECONOMICS, LAW & BUSINESS SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION PROCESSES OF MATE CHOICE IN ONLINE DATING THE UTILIZATION OF INTERNET-BASED DATING TECHNOLOGIES IS A SOCIAL REVOLUTION WHICH HAS BEEN GAINING INCREASING POPULARITY IN MODERN SOCIETIES IN THE LAST ONE AND A HALF DECADES. DATING SITES REPRESENT A DIGITAL PARTNER MARKET PROMISING UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES FOR SEARCHING AND SELECTING POTENTIAL PARTNERS IN AN EFFICIENT WAY BUT ALSO A WAY THAT IS QUITE DISTINCT FROM RATHER TRADITIONAL SETTINGS AND MODES OF PARTNER SEARCH. FOR SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, DATA BEING GENERATED ON ONLINE DATING SITES IS OF HIGH VALUE AS IT PROVIDES AN INNOVATIVE ACCESS TO DETAILS OF THE ENCOUNTERING PROCESS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN THAT IS HIGHLY INTERACTIONAL AND DYNAMIC IN NATURE AND HARD TO REACH BY RATHER TRADITIONAL RESEARCH DESIGNS. THE PROJECT AIMS WERE THREE-FOLD. FIRST, THE PROJECT INVOLVED THEORIZING MATE SEARCH IN THOSE NEW DIGITAL MATE MARKETS. SECOND, THE PROJECT SERVED TO ESTABLISH A UNIQUE DATA SET COMPRISING BIG DATA UNOBTRUSIVELY COLLECTED BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS IN ONLINE DATING COMBINED WITH AN INNOVATE ONLINE PANEL-SURVEY DESIGN FOLLOWING UP USERS AND DATING OUTCOMES. WITHIN THE PROJECT AN ONLINE SURVEY TOOL WAS DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH A MAJOR GERMAN PROVIDER OF ONLINE DATING SERVICES. THIRD, THE PROJECT CARRIED OUT INDUCTIVE AS WELL AS DEDUCTIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS IN STUDYING MATE SEARCH FROM A NEW PERSPECTIVE. BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF MATE SEARCH, THE PROJECT ADVANCED METHODOLOGIES EMPLOYING BIG DATA FOR STUDYING SOCIAL ACTION. THE PROJECT WAS HOSTED AT THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ECONOMICS OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BAMBERG (GERMANY). FUNDING GENEROUSLY GRANTED BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AMOUNTED TO 432,000 EURO. GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT) EDULIFE: EDUCATION AS A LIFELONG PROCESS. COMPARING EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES IN MODERN SOCIETIES. STUDYING INEQUALITY IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES HAS A LONG TRADITION IN SOCIOLOGY, AND MANY SOCIAL RESEARCHERS HAVE ARGUED THAT EDUCATION HAS BECOME THE KEY VARIABLE IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION. OVER THE LAST DECADES, MODERN SOCIETIES HAVE BECOME CHARACTERIZED AS KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMIES IN WHICH THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND ITS ORGANIZATION IN INSTITUTIONS HAVE IMPORTANT CONSEQUENCES FOR EDUCATIONAL PARTICIPATION IN ALL PHASES OF THE LIFE COURSE. NOWADAYS, EDUCATION MAY BE SEEN AS A LIFELONG PROCESS IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS ACQUIRE SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES IN FORMAL AND NON-FORMAL LEARNING SETTINGS NOT ONLY IN SCHOOL BUT ALSO BEFORE SCHOOL AND AFTERWARDS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE LIFE-SPAN. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE EDULIFE PROJECT WAS TO STUDY HOW THE EDUCATIONAL CAREERS OF INDIVIDUALS UNFOLD OVER THE ENTIRE LIFE COURSE IN DIFFERENT SOCIETIES AND TO RELATE THIS TO FAMILY BACKGROUND, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, JOB CAREERS, WORKPLACES, AND PRIVATE LIFE EVENTS. THE PROJECT ADOPTED AN EXPLICIT LIFE-COURSE PERSPECTIVE, UTILIZED COMPARATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS, AND EXPLOITED MOST SUITABLE CROSS-SECTIONAL AND LONGITUDINAL DATASETS FOR STUDYING EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES IN MODERN SOCIETIES. TO ANALYSE EDUCATION AS A LIFELONG PROCESS, THE PROJECT WAS STRUCTURED INTO FOUR PHASES, EACH FOCUSING ON A SPECIFIC, VERY SENSITIVE STAGE OF THE EDUCATIONAL CAREER: (1) CHILDCARE, EARLY EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY, (2) MODELS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY, (3) GENDER, EDUCATION AND THE SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITION, (4) ADULT LEARNING. REPUTED SCHOLARS FROM A LARGE CROSS-NATIONAL NETWORK HAVE CONTRIBUTED COMPARABLE COUNTRY-SPECIFIC ANALYSES TO THE EDULIFE PROJECT. FINDINGS OF THE PROJECT ARE PUBLISHED IN FOUR VOLUMES. THE PROJECT (P.I. HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD) WAS HOSTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG (GERMANY) AND THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (FLORENCE, ITALY). FUNDING WAS GENEROUSLY GRANTED BY THE ERC. EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL THE LATE DIVIDE: GENDER AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR IN OLDER COUPLES THIS PROJECT PROPOSES A COMPREHENSIVE LONGITUDINAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DIVISION OF LABOR IN OLDER COUPLES. IT ADDRESSES A MAJOR GAP OF KNOWLEDGE, AS PREVIOUS RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ON HOW YOUNGER COUPLES NEGOTIATE THEIR DIVISION OF MARKET AND DOMESTIC WORK THROUGHOUT EARLIER PERIODS OF MARRIED LIFE. EXTENDING THE ANALYTICAL SCOPE TO OLDER COUPLES IS PARTICULARLY WORTHWHILE, AS BOTH THEORY AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE SUGGEST THAT THE DIVISION OF LABOR - AND THE ASSOCIATED GENDER INEQUALITIES - MIGHT SHIFT SUBSTANTIALLY IN LATER LIFE. MOST IMPORTANTLY, TWO CRITICAL LIFE TRANSITIONS OF THIS PERIOD - GRANDPARENTHOOD AND RETIREMENT - REPRESENT TURNING POINTS THAT MAY INSTIGATE PROCESSES OF ADAPTATION AND RENEGOTIATION OF THE PREVIOUS DIVISION OF LABOR IN OLDER COUPLES. CONSEQUENTLY, THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL TRACE OLDER COUPLES OVER EXTENDED PERIODS OF TIME TO EXPLORE HOW, WHY, AND UNDER WHICH CONDITIONS GRANDPARENTHOOD AND RETIREMENT AFFECT THEIR ARRANGEMENTS OF MARKET AND DOMESTIC WORK. THE ANALYSES WILL DRAW ON COMPREHENSIVE LONGITUDINAL DATA FROM THE GERMAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC PANEL STUDY (SOEP), THE GERMAN AGING SURVEY (DEAS), THE SURVEY OF HEALTH, AGEING AND RETIREMENT IN EUROPE (SHARE), AND THE PANEL ANALYSIS OF INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS AND FAMILY DYNAMICS (PAIRFAM). THE INVESTIGATION WILL BE INFORMED BY LIFE COURSE, SOLIDARITY, AND SOCIAL NETWORK PERSPECTIVES AS WELL AS ESTABLISHED THEORIES OF THE DIVISION OF LABOR. IN TYING THESE FRAMEWORKS TOGETHER AND EXTENDING THEM TO THE STUDY OF LATER LIFE AND OLDER COUPLES, THE PROJECT WILL YIELD IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS BOTH AT THE THEORETICAL AND AT THE EMPIRICAL LEVEL. THE PROJECT IS HOSTED AT THE INSTITUTE OF FAMILY RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG (GERMANY). FUNDING GENEROUSLY GRANTED BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AMOUNTS TO 178,300 EURO. GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT) ISOTIS - INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SUPPORT TO TACKLE INEQUALITIES IN SOCIETY THE PROJECT ISOTIS - INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SUPPORT TO TACKLE INEQUALITIES IN SOCIETY - FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION (H2020) IS A RESEARCH CONSORTIUM OF 17 PARTNER INSTITUTIONS ACROSS EUROPE COLLABORATIVELY STUDYING EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY BETWEEN SOCIAL AND ETHNIC GROUPS WITHIN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. ISOTIS WILL INFORM BEST PRACTICE IN STRATEGIES FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION. JAN SKOPEK IS LEADING WORKING PACKAGE 1 "INEQUALITY IN VARIOUS STAGES OF THE EDUCATIONAL CAREER: PATTERNS AND MECHANISMS". MAJOR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES INVOLVE (1) A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL AND ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, (2) A LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE ROOTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF SKILL GAPS AMONG CHILDREN IN SELECTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AND (3) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS AIMING TO REDUCE ACHIEVEMENT GAPS AMONG CHILDREN. EUROPAN COMMISSION H2020 THE INTERNET AS A PARTNER MARKET: ANALYZING THE EARLY PHASE OF MEETING AND MATING USING DATA FROM ONLINE DATING THE PROJECT "THE INTERNET AS A PARTNER MARKET: ANALYZING THE EARLY PHASE OF MEETING AND MATING USING DATA FROM ONLINE DATING" (GERMAN: DAS INTERNET ALS PARTNERMARKT: ANALYSEN DER FRÜHEN PHASEN DES KENNENLERNENS AUF BASIS VON DATEN AUS DEM ONLINE-DATING) WAS HOSTED AT THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ECONOMICS OF THE UNIVERSITY AT BAMBERG. THE PROJECTS' OBJECTIVE WAS A STUDY OF THE EARLY PHASES OF ASSORTATIVE MATING BASED ON DATA COLLECTED IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF ONLINE DATING. CONTRASTING MOST PREVIOUS SOCIOLOGICAL STUDIES ON ASSORTATIVE MATING HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING SEARCH OUTCOMES LIKE CONSENSUAL UNIONS OR MARRIED COUPLES, THE PROJECT CONCEPTUALIZED AND STUDIED MATE CHOICE AS A PROCESS INVOLVING INITIAL CONDITIONS AND EVOLUTION OF ROMANTIC INTERACTION AMONG MEN AND WOMEN. IN THEORETICAL TERMS, THE RESEARCH WAS INFORMED BY SOCIAL EXCHANGE THEORY, SEARCH THEORY AND FAMILY ECONOMICS, SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISTS APPROACHES, AND RELATIONAL SOCIOLOGY. EMPIRICALLY THE PROJECT DREW UPON BIG DATA COLLECTED UNOBTRUSIVELY COLLECTED FROM ONLINE USER TRANS- AND INTERACTIONS AS WELL AS AN ADDITIONAL SURVEY DATA WHICH HAS BEEN COLLECTED VIA AN ONLINE PANEL. THE RESEARCH STRATEGY ADOPTED MIXED-METHOD METHODOLOGY INCLUDING QUANTITATIVE BUT ALSO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGNS. FUNDING GENEROUSLY GRANTED BY THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION AMOUNTED TO 225,810 EURO. GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION (DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAFT) AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. JON-IVAR SKULLERUD skullerudjonivar VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW SKULLERJ PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS NONPERTURBATIVE QUANTUM FIELD THEORY INCLUDING LATTICE GAUGE THEORY; THERMAL FIELD THEORY AND APPLICATIONS TO HEAVY-ION COLLISIONS, COSMOLOGY AND COMPACT STARS; ONTOLOGY OF PARTICLE PHYSICS. DEPT OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NORWEGIAN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH GERMAN NORWEGIAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (NORSK FYSISK SELSKAP) NUCLEAR PHYSICS PARTICLE PHYSICS, FIELDS THEORY THEORY AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS QCD THERMODYNAMICS ON ANISOTROPIC LATTICES USING THE METHODS DEVELOPED AT TCD TO PERFORM DYNAMICAL QCD SIMULATIONS ON ANISOTROPIC LATTICES, WE STUDY ASPECTS OF THE HIGH TEMPERATURE PHASE TRANSITION WHICH IS CURRENTLY BEING EXPLORED AT HEAVY-ION COLLIDERS (RHIC AND CERN). WE FOCUS IN PARTICULAR ON HADRON SPECTRAL FUNCTIONS, WHICH DESCRIBE THE FATE OF HADRONS IN THE HOT MEDIUM, AND ARE USED AS A PROBE OF THE PHASE TRANSITION IN EXPERIMENTS. QCD-LIKE THEORIES AT HIGH BARYON DENSITY QCD AT HIGH BARYON DENSITY CANNOT BE STUDIES WITH STANDARD MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS BECAUSE THE ACTION (WHICH GIVES THE MONTE CARLO PROBABILITY WEIGHT) BECOMES COMPLEX. WE CAN GAIN INSIGHT INTO GAUGE THEORIES AT HIGH DENSITY BY STUDYING QCD-LIKE THEORIES WHERE THIS PROBLEM IS ABSENT. ONE SUCH THEORY IS TWO-COLOUR QCD. WE ARE PROBING THE PROPERTIES OF THIS THEORY, INCLUDING BULK THERMODYNAMICS, DECONFINEMENT, THE GLUON AND QUARK PROPAGATORS, HADRON SPECTRUM AND TOPOLOGY, AT HIGH DENSITY AND LOW TEMPERATURE, IN THE REGION OF PHASE SPACE POPULATED BY COMPACT STARS. DR. PAULINE SLOANE sloanepauline ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PSLOANE CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH FUND; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WITH DR PETER MURPHY, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK. DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR ROUTINE, NON-INVASIVE, CLINICAL EVALUATION OF PATHOLOGICAL VOICE. VOICE DISORDERS & STRESS IN THE STUDENT-TEACHER POPULATION; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WITH DR. KATHLEEN MURPHY, SCHOOL OF CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE DYSPHONIA AND ASTHMA MEDICATION IN COLLABORATION WITH MS MARY BUCKLEY, SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPIST, AND MR DAVID CHARLES FRCS, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL. CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF LARYNGECTOMEES MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LOGOPEDISTS & PHONIATRISTS MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS MEMBER OF THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON VOICE DISORDERS, IASLT MEMBER OF VOICE CARE NETWORK, UK JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF OBJECTIVE INDICES OF TURBULENT NOISE IN THE GLOTTIC LARYNX SEED FUNDING £5,000. THE DEVELOPMENT & USE OF A WEB BASED MULTIMEDIA TOOL TO BENEFIT STUDENTS IN SPEECH PATHOLOGY FROM 8 UNIVERSITIES IN 5 EU COUNTRIES PROJECT PARTNER, 70,000 ECU. DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS TECHNIQUE FOR ROUTINE, NON-INVASIVE CLINICAL EVALUATION OF PATHOLOGICAL VOICE E 4,625. IN COLLABORATION WITH DR PETER MURPHY, ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND DR. SAMUEL SLOTE slotesamuel ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SLOTES ENGLISH JAMES JOYCE, SAMUEL BECKETT, GENETIC CRITICISM, MODERNISM, POST-MODERNISM, CRITICAL THEORY SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN FRENCH BECKETT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF IRISH LITERATURES INTERNATIONAL JAMES JOYCE FOUNDATION ÉQUIPE JOYCE, INSTITUT DES TEXTES ET MANUSCRITS MODERNES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES MRS. CAROLINE ROONEY rooneycaroline SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICER SLYNEC SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. VALERIE SMITH smithvalerie FACULTY ADMINISTRATOR VSMITH FACULTY OFFICE : AHSS FACULTY OF ARTS HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES ROOM 2018 ARTS BUILDING, COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN PROFESSOR OWEN SMITH smithowen CHAIR OF HAEMATOLOGY SMITHOW PAEDIATRICS MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND <UL> <LI> THE CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BASIS OF THE LIVER TOXICITIES (SINUSOIDAL OCCLUSION SYNDROME / VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE) FOLLOWING MYLOTARG AND THIOGUANINE AS ANTI-LEUKAEMIA THERAPY. <LI> THE ROLE OF MRD DETECTION IN CHILDHOOD ACUTE LEUKAEMIA (LYMPHOBLASTIC & MYELOBLASTIC). <LI> THE ROLE OF E2A-HLF TRANSCRIPT (T17:19) IN CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA <LI> THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF THE APLASTIC PRESENTATION OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA <LI> THE MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF INFANT & CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA'S, DYSHAEMATOPOIESIS OF DOWN SYNDROME, INHERITED BONE MARROW FAILURE SYNDROMES, WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME, SHWACHMAN-DIAMOND SYNDROME, AND KOSTMANN'S DISEASE. <LI> THE ROLE OF MICROVESSEL DENSITY INDEX AS A MARKER OF ANGIOGENEIC POTENTIAL IN CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA. <LI> WASP MUTATIONS AS A MOLECULAR TRIGGER FOR CONGENITAL NEUTROPENIA <LI> THE POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC ROLE OF RECOMBINANT FVIIA IN, (I) REDUCING ALLOGENEIC BLOOD PRODUCT EXPOSURE IN SURGICAL (CARDIAC) NEONATAL CASES AND (II) PREVENTION OF INTRAVENTRICULAR HAEMORRHAGE IN PREMATURE NEONATES <LI> HAEMOPHILIA A & B MUTATION ANALYSIS WITH CARRIER TESTING AND PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS <LI> MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF OTHER INHERITED COAGULATION PROTEIN DEFICIENCIES <LI> VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE CHARACTERISATION BY FUNCTIONAL TESTING AND MOLECULAR STRATEGIES <LI> THROMBOPHILIC GENOTYPES (FV506, FII20210, TL-MTHFR, PAI-1 (4G), ACE) IN VTE DISEASE <LI> THROMBOPHILIC GENOMIC POLYMORPHIC PROFILES IN RECURRENT FOETAL LOSS WOMEN, INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PATIENTS AND IN STROKE PATIENTS (PAEDIATRIC AND ADULT) <LI> THE ROLE OF UNFRACTIONATED HEPARINS AS ANTI-INFLAMMATORY MEDIATORS <LI> THE ROLE OF UNFRACTIONATED HEPARINS IN HAEMORRHAGIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE <LI> HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA AND THE ROLE PLAYED BY PLATELET FC-GAMMA-IIA / FC-GAMMA-IIIA RECEPTORS <LI> THE EFFICACY OF LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARINS AS THROMBOPHYLAXIS IN PREGNANCY </UL> 62 SAINT LAWRENCE ROAD CLONTARF DUBLIN 3 01-8961000 <UL> <LI>CHILDHOOD ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKAEMIA COLLABORATIVE GROUP <LI>CLINICAL TRIALS SERVICE UNIT OXFORD, UK <LI> IRISH MEDICINES BOARD, DUBLIN. <LI>ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN MEDICINES (EX MEMBER) <LI>ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR BLOOD PRODUCTS (EX MEMBER) <LI>BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE BOARD, DUBLIN. <LI>NATIOANL BLOOD USERS GROUP <LI>MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (EX MEMBER) <LI>BAXTER-IMMUNO PLC, VIENNA, AUSTRIA. <LI> PROTEIN THERAPEUTICS ADVISORY COMMITTEE <LI>NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN <LI>MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (EX MEMBER) <LI>ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN. MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE <LI> CHILDREN'S MEDICAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION - OLCH <LI> SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE <LI>NATIONAL HAEMOPHILIA COUNCIL PAEDIATRIC REPRESENTATIVE </UL> AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HAEMATOLOGY, USA BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HAEMATOLOGY, UK EUROPEAN PAEDIATRIC NETWORK FOR HAEMOPHILIA MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF PAEDIATRICS (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND) FACULTY OF PATHOLOGY (ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND) MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA WORKING PARTY, UK PAEDIATRIC HAEMATOLOGY FORUM OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HAEMATOLOGY, UK ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND ROYAL COLLEGE OF PAEDIATRICIANS AND CHILD HEALTH, LONDON, UK ROYAL COLLEGE OF PATHOLOGISTS, LONDON , UK ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF EDINBURGH, UK ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF GLASGOW, UK ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, UK THE WORSHIPFUL SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES OF LONDON, UK TRINITY COLLEGE MEDICAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF DUBLIN UNITED KINGDOM CHILDREN'S CANCER STUDY GROUP, UK UNITED KINGDOM HAEMOPHILIA CENTRE DIRECTORS ORGANISATION, UK CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. MARTINE MARY SMITH smithmartinemary ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MMSMITH CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION: THE IMPACT OF SEVERE SPEECH AND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS ON LITERACY DEVELOPMENT AND WORKING MEMORY; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN AIDED COMMUNICATION; THE IMPACT OF AIDED COMMUNICATION ON INTERACTION PROCESSES; PERSPECTIVES OF AIDED COMMUNICATORS. DEVELOPMENTAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DISORDERS DROOLING AND CEREBRAL PALSY LANGUAGE BASED LITERACY DIFFICULTIES CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN IRISH ASSOCIATE EDITOR, AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION JOURNAL ASSOCIATE EDITOR, CHILD LANGUAGE TEACHING AND THERAPY JOURNAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN EUROPE (AAATE) BOARD MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LOGOPEDICS AND PHONIATRICS (IALP) EDITOR, AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE HEARING ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION-IRELAND IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS (IASLT) MEMBER OF ADVISORY GROUP FOR DUBLIN CITY CHILDREN'S SERVICES LITERACY SUBGROUP MEMBER OF EXPERT ADVISORY GROUP FOR YOUNGBALLYMUN PROJECT MEMBER OF THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONALS RESEARCH GROUP MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, IALP CONGRESS, GREECE MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, ISAAC CONFERENCE, BARCELONA MEMBER OF THE SPEECH LANGUAGE THERAPISTS REGISTRATION BOARD, CORU NATIONAL DESIGNATED EXPERT WITH THE RESEARCH SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF VOLUNTARY BODIES PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION, (ISAAC) ROYAL COLLEGE OF SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS (RCSLT) ALTERNATIVE AND AUGMENTATIVE COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION LANGUAGE DISORDER LITERACY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES LITERACY ACQUISITION AND SEVERE SPEECH AND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE SPEECH AND OT PERCEIVE SPEECH IS UNRESOLVED. ONE VIEW IS THAT SPEECH PRODUCTION IS FUNDAMENTAL TO THE PERCEPTION OF SPEECH (LIBERMAN, COOPER, SHANKWEILER & STUDDERT-KENNEDY, 1967). SUCH A POSITION WOULD PREDICT THAT CHILDREN UNABLE TO PRODUCE SPEECH SHOULD BE IMPAIRED IN THEIR SPEECH PERCEPTION AND HENCE COMPREHENSION. OTHER STUDIES HAVE PROVIDED CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT A SEVERE CONGENITAL SPEECH IMPAIRMENT DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSION. PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS IS AN UMBRELLA TERM FOR A GROUP OF SKILLS INVOLVING THE ABILITY TO DETECT, IDENTIFY AND MANIPULATE THE SOUND STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE. THERE IS STRONG RESEARCH EVIDENCE LINKING THESE SKILLS WITH SUCCESS IN LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE. PHONOLOGICAL PROCESSING SKILLS ARE KNOW TO EMERGE OVER TIME, AND TO INCREASE IN SOPHISTICATION. THE AIM OF THE RESEARCH IN THIS PROJECT IS TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SPEECH IMPAIRMENT AND SPEECH PROCESSING SKILLS IN CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL ANARTHRIA ACROSS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL YEARS. A MORE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF A SEVERE SPEECH IMPAIRMENT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH PROCESSING SKILLS OVER TIME WILL PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR INTERVENTION TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERACY SKILLS. THIS RESEARCH IS LINKED WITH ONGOING COLLABORATION WITH PARTNERS IN SWEDEN AND SPAIN. CENTRAL REMEDIAL CLINIC REMEMBERING SYMBOLS: VALIDATING A SYMBOL SPAN TASK. ASSESSING THE WORKING MEMORY SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH SEVERE SPEECH AND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS IS CHALLENGING, BECAUSE OF THE CONTRAINTS IN TERMS OF MOTOR RESPONSE ACCESSIBLE. THE MOST COMMONLY USED TOOL IS AN ADAPTED VERSION OF THE DIGIT SPAN TASK, WITH NUMBER DISPLAYS PRESENTED VISUALLY SO THAT PARTICIPANTS CAN SELECT DIGITS FROM THE DISPLAY. THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP AND VALIDATE ACCESSIBLE SYMBOL- AND TEXT-BASED WORKING MEMORY TASKS, INITIALLY WITH TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CHILDREN AND SUBSEQUENTLY WITH CHILDREN WITH SEVERE SPEECH AND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS. THE RESEARCH INVOLVES COLLABORATION WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF LA CORUNA AND MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY. BECOMING AN AIDED COMMUNICATOR THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL CROSS-LINGUISTIC PROJECT ACROSS 19 SITES, COORDINATED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, FOCUSING ON THE LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH SEVERE SPEECH AND PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS WHO RELY ON GRAPHIC SYMBOLS AND/OR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES TO COMMUNICATE. THE RESEARCH SEEKS TO EXPLORE THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RECEPTIVE AND EXPRESSIVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS ACROSS SPOKEN AND GRAPHIC MODALITIES, IN CHILDREN AGED 5-15 YEARS. CHILDREN ACQUIRING LANGUAGE USING GRAPHIC SYMBOLS TYPICALLY ARE EXPOSED PRIMARILY TO SPEECH AS THE PRIMARY MODE OF COMMUNICATION, BUT RELY PRIMARILY ON GRAPHIC SYMBOLS FOR THEIR OWN EXPRESSIVE COMMUNICATION. THE IMPACT OF THIS MODALITY ASYMMETRY IS POORLY UNDERSTOOD. MOST OF THESE CHILDREN HAVE LITTLE ACCESS TO ROLE MODELS WHO ARE EXPERT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND MANY MAY BE MORE EXPERT IN THE USE OF THEIR GRAPHIC SYMBOLS THAN THE ADULTS WHO ARE EXPECTED TO SUPPORT THEIR COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT. THE INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION WITH THIS PROJECT CREATES THE POTENTIAL FOR EXPLORING THE SOLUTIONS TO THIS UNUSUAL COMMUNICATION SITUATION THAT ARE CREATED BY A UNIQUELY LARGE COHORT OF PARTICIPANTS. EVALUATION OF THE HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE NORTHERN AREA SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY WAITING LIST INITIATIVE IN JANUARY 2003, THE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE IN THE HSE NORTHERN AREA INTRODUCED A NEW WAITING LIST INITIATIVE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEAL WITH THE CRISIS OF LONG WAITING LISTS FOR ASSESSMENT AND THERAPY. THIS PROJECT WAS COMMISSIONED TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THIS INITIATIVE AND TO EXAMINE ITS EFFECTIVENESS. HSE NORTHERN AREA WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO COMMUNICATE USING GRAPHIC SYMBOLS? CHILDREN COMMUNICATING USING GRAPHIC SYMBOLS TYPICALLY PRODUCE EXPRESSIVE OUTPUT THAT IS LIMITED IN TERMS OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY AND FREQUENTLY DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF STRUCTURAL FEATURES RELATIVE TO AN EXPECTED SPOKEN UTTERANCE. IT IS NOT CLEAR WHETHER THESE FEATURES REFLECT (1) UNDERLYING LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES THAT ARE MANIFESTED IN BOTH GRAPHIC AND SPOKEN MODALITIES, WITH ONLY THE GRAPHIC MODALITY AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION; (2) STRATEGIC ACCOMMODATION TO THE TIME DEMANDS OF AIDED COMMUNICATION; OR (3) MODALITY SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS. ONE OF THE MORE PRODUCTIVE AVENUES FOR EXPLORING THE VALUE OF EACH OF THESE CANDIDATE EXPLANATIONS IS THE INVOLVEMENT OF TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CHILDREN, WHO HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GENERATE OUTPUT BOTH IN GRAPHIC SYMBOLS AND IN SPEECH. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT EXPLORES THE IMPACT OF VARYING SENTENCE CONSTRUCTIONS ON (1) THE INTERPRETATION AND (2) THE GENERATION OF DESCRIPTIONS OF EVENTS ACROSS SPOKEN AND GRAPHIC SYMBOL CONTEXTS IN TYPICALLY DEVELOPING CHILDREN AGED 5-7 YEARS. SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA EVALUATION OF AN INTERVENTION IN CHILDREN WITH OROMOTOR DISORDERS THIS INTERVENTION INVESTIGATED THE IMPACT OF THE USE OF ORAL SCREEN APPLIANCES ON THE DROOLING AND SPEECH PRODUCTION OF CHILDREN WITH PRIMARY PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENTS AND ASSOCIATED OROMOTOR DIFFICULTIES. CENTRAL REMEDIAL CLINIC CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. VALERIE C SMITH smithvaleriec ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (50%) SMITHV1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY ALL AREAS OF MATERNITY CARE WITH SPECIFIC INTEREST AND EXPERTISE IN THE AREAS OF PRETERM BIRTH, ANTENATAL AND INTRAPARTUM FETAL ASSESSMENT (MONITORING THE FETAL HEART RATE AND FETAL MOVEMENT MONITORING IN PREGNANCY) AND INTRAPARTUM CARE (CAESAREAN SECTION, VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION AND SALUTOGENIC LABOUR AND BIRTH). VALERIE'S AREAS OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGICAL EXPERTISE INCLUDE SURVEY RESEARCH, RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALS, INCLUDING METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE DESIGN AND CONDUCT OF TRIALS) AND SYSTEMATIC REVIEW METHODOLOGY. VALERIE IS PRESENTLY SUPERVISING FIVE PHD AND TWO MSC STUDENTS AND HAS SUPERVISED TO COMPLETION, ONE PHD STUDENT AND FIVE MSC STUDENTS. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MEMBER AND TEACHING FELLOW OF THE HRB-TRIALS METHODOLOGY RESEARCH NETWORK MEMBER OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE COCHRANE PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH, WOUNDS, CONSUMER AND COMMUNICATIONS, AND METHODOLOGY REVIEW GROUPS MEMBER OF THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRISH PRIMARY CARE TRIALS NETWORK MEMBER OF THE HRB-MOTHER AND BABY CLINICAL TRIALS NETWORK MEMBER OF THE RESEARCH ADVISORY NETWORK (RAN) OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF MIDWIVES OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) FETAL MOVEMENT COUNTING IN PREGNANCY FOR ASSESSING FETAL WELLBEING THREE-PART PROJECT INVOLVING A) A NATIONAL SURVEY OF OBSTETRICIANS AND MIDWIVES PRACTICES FOR DETECTING AND MANAGEING DECREASED FETAL MOVEMENTS (DFM), B) A RETROSPECTIVE CHART REVIEW FOR LABOUR AND BIRTH OUTCOMES OF WOMEN WHO PRESENT WITH DFM IN PREGNANCY AND C) DEVELOPMENT OF A TRIAL ON THE MANAGEMENT OF DFM IN PREGNANCY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN POST-DOCTORAL OPPORTUNITY FETAL CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY VERSUS INTERMITTENT AUSCULTATION DURING LABOUR WARD ADMISSION: A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL AND QUALITATIVE FOLLOW-UP: THE ADCAR TRIAL A MULTICENTRE TRIAL COMPARING THE USE OF ADMISSION CTG VERSUS INTERMITTENT AUSCULTATION OF THE FETAL HEART RATE IN LOW RISK WOMEN ON ADMISSION TO THE LABOUR WARD WITH SIGNS OF POSSIBLE LABOUR HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CHILDHOOD NEURODEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT METHODS IN-DEPTH LITERATURE REVIEW ON METHODS FOR ASSESSING NEURODEVELOPMENTAL STATUS IN THE INFANT HSE NORTH EASTERN REGION PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF PRETERM BIRTH NATIONAL SURVEY OF PRACTICES FOR PREDICTING AND PREVENTING PRETERM BIRTH AND TWO SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF REVIEWS ON THE TOPIC HSE NORTH EASTERN REGION ORAL NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (SINGLE DOSE) FOR PERINEAL PAIN IN THE EARLY POSTPARTUM PERIOD COCHRANE REVIEW: ORAL NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS (SINGLE DOSE) FOR PERINEAL PAIN IN THE EARLY POSTPARTUM PERIOD (I AM PI AND MENTOR TO THE FELLOW, MS F. WUYTACK) HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COCHRANE TRAINING FELLOWSHIP SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL CLINICAL GUIDELINE ON MATERNITY EARLY WARNING SCORE SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL CLINICAL GUIDELINE: MATERNITY EARLY WARNING SYSTEM (MEWS) NCEC/HSE MATERNAL HEALTH AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN IRELAND; PHASE 2 (MAMMI 2) DETERMINATION OF MATERNAL MORBIDITY IN A COHORT OF 1ST TIME MOTHERS ANTENATALLY AND UP TO 18MONTHS POSTPARTUM HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH AWARDS 2012 STUDENT MIDWIVES ATTITUTUDES TOWARDS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE OBJECTIVE STRUCUTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION (OSCE) AS A STRATEGY FOR ASSESSING CLINICAL COMPETENCE A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH STUDY EVALUATING THE USE OF THE OSCE FOR ASSESSMENT OF CLINICAL COMPETENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE STUDENT; SURVEY DESIGN AND QUALITATIVE EXPLORATORY FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEWS ARE USED UNFUNDED IMPROVING THE ORGANISATION OF MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY, AND OPTIMISING CHILDBIRTH, BY INCREASING VAGINAL BIRTH AFTER CAESAREAN SECTION (VBAC) THROUGH ENHANCED WOMEN-CENTRED CARE: THE OPTIBIRTH PROJECT THE STUDY ADDRESSES THE WIDESPREAD CONCERN OVER RISING CAESAREAN SECTION RATES THROUGHOUT EUROPE, PARTICULARLY ROUTINE CS FOLLOWING A PREVIOUS CS, DESPITE CALLS FOR INCREASED VAGINAL BIRTHS AFTER CAESAREAN (VBAC). VBAC IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER MATERNAL MORTALITY THAN REPEAT CS, LESS OVERALL MORBIDITY FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES, AND IS THE PREFERRED OPTION FOR THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN. VBAC RATES IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY ARE SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER (29-36%) THAN THOSE IN THE NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, AND SWEDEN (45-55%). THE OPTIBIRTH PROJECT WILL USE A CLUSTER RANDOMISED TRIAL IN IRELAND, GERMANY, AND ITALY, WITH 15 CLUSTERS OF 94 WOMEN IN EACH, TO INCREASE VBAC RATES FROM 33% TO 53% THROUGH A COMPLEX INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO INCREASE WOMEN-CENTRED CARE AND WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR CARE HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-1 FP7 HEALTH.2012.3.2-1 SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEWS AND BUDGET IMPACT ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL CLINICAL GUIDELINES CONDUCT OF 5 SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF TO ASSIST THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL CLINICAL GUIDELINES NCEC/HSE PHYSICAL ILLNESS CO-MORBIDITY AMONG PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AND RELATED HEALTHCARE INTERVENTIONS LITERATURE REVIEW, USING SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES TO EXPLORE PHYSICAL ILLNESS CO-MORBIDITY (DIABETES, OBESITY, ETC,) AMONG PEOPLE WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS (DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR AND SCHIZOPHRENIA) HSE HEALTH & WELLBEING DIVISION/HSE MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION HRB-MOTHER AND BABY CLINICAL TRIALS NETWORK LARGE NETWORK SUPPORTING AND CONDUCTING TRIALS IN PERINATAL CARE. I AM A COLLABORATOR ON THIS PROJECT WITH CO-RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK PACKAGE 5 - DEVELOPMENT OF A CORE OUTCOME SET HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CLINICAL TRIAL NETWORK EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR RECRUITERS TO TRIALS AN EMBEDDED METHODOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECT WHICH WILL DEVELOP AND PILOT TEST AN EDUCATION AND TRAINING INTERVENTION FOR RECRUITERS TO TRIALS, AIMED AT IMPROVING RECRUITMENT RATES TO RANDOMISED TRIALS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRELAND HRB-TMRN RENEWAL MIDWIVES EXPERTISE IN PRESERVING THE PERINEUM INTACT (THE MEPPI STUDY) QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS WITH MIDWIFE EXPERTS ON THEIR SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES IN PRESERVING THE PERINEUM INTACT DURING CHILDBIRTH THE CONCEPT, PROVISION AND PROMOTION OF WOMEN-CENTRED CARE DURING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH IN IRELAND A THREE PHASE STUDY, INVOLVING A CONCEPT ANALYSIS OF WOMEN-CENTRED CARE, INTERVIEWS WITH CLINICIANS AND WOMEN, AND A NATIONAL SURVEY OF POSTPARTUM WOMEN ON THE IMPORTANCE, PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY OF WOMEN-CENTRED CARE IN IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRELAND NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PRIORITY STUDIES IRISH PRIMARY CARE TRIALS NETWORK (IPC TRIALS NETWORK) NETWORK SUPPORTING AND CONDUCTING CLINICAL TRIALS IN PRIMARY CARE. I AM A COLLABORATOR ON THIS BID ASSUMING CO-RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK PACKAGE 5 - STUDY WITHIN A TRIAL HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CLINICAL TRIAL NETWORK TELEPHONE INTERVENTIONS, DELIVERED BY HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS, FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS OF ADULTS WITH DIAGNOSED MEDICAL ILLNESSES COCHRANE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; I AM THE MENTOR TO THE TRAINING FELLOW HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COCHRANE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS PRIORITY SETTING IN UNCERTAINTIES IN TRIAL METHODOLOGY CONSENSUS PRIORITY SETTING EXERCISE ON UNCERTAINTIES IN RECRUITMENT TO TRIALS USING A JAMES LIND ALLIANCE APPROACH HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION SCHEME (KEDS) 2015 REDUCING CAESAREAN SECTION RATES IN IRELAND: A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND PILOT RANDOMISED TRIAL OF AN EVIDENCE BASED INTERVENTION DESIGNED TO REDUCE UNNECESSARY CAESAREAN SECTION CLUSTER RANDOMISED PILOT-FEASIBILITY TRIAL AIMED AT REDUCING CAESAREAN SECTION RATES IN IRELAND HRB DIFA 2017 DEVELOPMENT OF A CORE SET OF CLINICAL CARE PROVISION INDICATORS FOR NON-SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE IN THE ACUTE CARE HOSPITAL SETTING FOUR-PHASE PROJECT CULMINATING IN A CORE SET OF CLINICAL CARE PROVISION INDICATORS FOR NON-SPECIALIST PALLIATIVE CARE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PHD TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS PERSPECTIVES OF PARTNERS OF WOMEN WHO EXPERIENCE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN THE POSTNATAL PERIOD GROUNDED THEORY - FOCUSING ON PARTNERS OF POSTPARTUM WOMEN HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PHD TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS DEVELOPMENT OF A SALUTOGENICALLY FOCUSED INTRAPARTUM CORE OUTCOME SET (SIPCO) SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, EDELPHI SURVEY AND CONSENSUS SETTING ON A SALUTOGENICALLY FOCUSED CORE OUTCOME SET FOR INTRAPARTUM RESEARCH N/A EU COST ACTION (NO: ISO907) RISK FACTORS FOR AND OUTCOMES ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED FETAL MOVEMENTS IN PREGNANCY: A MATCHED COHORT STUDY A PROSPECTIVE MATCHED COHORT STUDY EXPLORING RISK FACTORS AND PREGNANCY, LABOUR AND BIRTH, AND NEONATAL OUTCOMES IN WOMEN EXPERIENCING REDUCED FETAL MOVEMENTS AT OR BEYOND 28 WEEKS OF PREGNANCY PHD STUDENTSHIP QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES AND COST CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH PROVIDING SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY WHO MOVE FROM CONGREGATED SETTINGS TO COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENTS A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF MULTIPLE STUDY DESIGNS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRELAND HRB-RESEARCH (ER#1) METHODS TO INFLUENCE THE COMPLETENESS OF RESPONSE TO SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRES A COCHRANE METHODOLOGY REVIEW GROUP SYSTEMATIC REVIEW HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD IRELAND COCHRANE TRAINING FELLOWSHIP FRENOTOMY AND ASSOCIATED EFFECTS ON BREASTFEEDING VARIABLES A BEFORE AND AFTER COHORT STUDY OF WOMEN WHO ARE BREASTFEEDING AND WHOSE INFANTS UNDERGO FRENOTOMY UNFUNDED PRIORITISING KEY MOTIVATORS AND CHALLENGES INFLUENCING INFORMAL CAREGIVERS' DECISIONS FOR PARTICIPATING IN RANDOMISED TRIALS EMBEDDED STUDY WITHIN A RANDOMISED TRIAL HRB-TMRN SWAT-2017 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. SINEAD SMITH smithsinead USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SMITHSI CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANCE APOPTOSIS BACTERIOLOGY AND BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS BIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES CHRONIC INFLAMATION DNA TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION GENE TRANSCRIPTION IN HUMAN CANCER H PYLORI AND PEPTIC ULCER HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS IMMUNE SYSTEM INFECTIOUS DISEASES INNATE IMMUNOLOGY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY NOTCH NUCLEAR FACTOR KAPPA B REGULATORY METHODS OF GENE EXPRESSION TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR VIROLOGY AND VIRAL PATHOGENESIS CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MR. CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL SMITH smithchristophermichael EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER CHSMITH PHYSICS PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS DARK-FIELD MICROSCOPY ELLIPSOMETRY FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY MICROSCOPY OPTICAL MICROSCOPY SPECTROPHOTOMETRY SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. STEPHEN SMITH smithstephen ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SGSMITH CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY MY LABORATORY INVESTIGATES HOW GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA, IN PARTICULAR E. COLI AND SALMONELLA, ATTACH TO AND INVADE HUMAN CELLS. WE ARE CURRENTLY USING CELLOMICS-BASED APPROACHES TO MORE ACCURATELY QUANTIFY BACTERIAL INVASION. THIS METHODOLOGY ALSO GENERATES INFORMATION ON THE KINETICS OF INVASION AND THE CELLULAR LOCATION OF THE INVADING BACTERIA. WE ARE ALSO INTERESTED IN THE GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS THAT GOVERN ATTACHMENT BY E. COLI E.G. THE RNS VIRULENCE REGULATOR.INVASION OF CELLULAR BARRIERS BY BACTERIA CAN BE A PRELUDE TO ENTRANCE INTO THE BLOODSTREAM. WE ARE USING TRANSCRIPTOMICS TO IDENTIFY GENES IN E. COLI THAT ARE REGULATED IN RESPONSE TO HUMAN SERUM AND ITS ANTI-BACTERIAL COMPONENTS. MORE RECENTLY, AND IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND, WE HAVE SHOWN THAT HUMAN ESTROGEN CAN MODULATE THE VIRULENCE OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA. DEPT OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORY ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY MEMBER SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY UK ANTIBIOTICS BIOLOGICAL MARKERS BRAIN CELL COMMUNICATION DIAGNOSTICS DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DNA EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES/DISORDERS GENE EXPRESSION GENE REGULATION GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS GENOMES, GENOMICS INFECTIOUS DISEASES/AGENTS MENINGITIS MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY, MICROBIAL MODELLING MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR GENETICS NUCLEIC ACIDS PATHOGENESIS PROTEINS AND MACROMOLECULES PROTEOMICS RECOMBINANT DNA RESPIRATORY SYSTEM UROGENITAL SYSTEM E. COLI SEPSIS; BETTER TREATMENT OPTIONS USING GENOMICS HYPOTHESIS 1 WE HAVE IDENTIFIED GENES IN PATHOGENIC E. COLI THAT PROTECT THE BACTERIA FROM SERUM KILLING IN VIVO. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT THESE GENES WILL BE IMPORTANT IN CLINICALLY-SIGNIFICANT E. COLI BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS. HYPOTHESIS 2 WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT E. COLI BLOODSTREAM ISOLATES ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY MORE VIRULENT AND RESISTANT TO ANTIMICROBIALS. AIMS THE AIM OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO MEASURE GENE EXPRESSION OF PATHOGENIC E. COLI FROM PATIENT BLOOD SAMPLES. WE WILL ASCERTAIN IF THE INDUCTION OF PARTICULAR BACTERIAL GENES DURING INFECTION IS CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT. IN PARALLEL WITH THIS APPROACH WE WILL CONTINUE TO GATHER LARGE AMOUNTS OF GENOTYPIC INFORMATION ON EACH BACTERIAL ISOLATE USING MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGIES. OBJECTIVES THE MAIN OBJECTIVES WILL BE TO; . MEASURE THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSES OF PATHOGENIC E. COLI EXPOSED TO COMPLEMENT-DEFICIENT SERUM. . REFINE AND ENHANCE THE VIRULENCE AND RESISTANCE MICROARRAY. . ESTABLISH THE SCOTS METHODOLOGY IN VITRO . APPLY SCOTS TO PATIENT SAMPLES . DETERMINE IF THERE IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE EXPRESSION OF PROTECTIVE GENES IN E. COLI AND CLINICAL OUTCOME. HRB HIGH THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS OF ENTEROBACTERIAL INVASION ENTEROBACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS SUCH AS HEK, PAGN AND TIA (ALSO KNOWN AS PATH PROTEINS) UTILISE MAMMALIAN, CELL SURFACE, HEPARINATED-MOLECULES TO ACCOMPLISH INVASION OF THESE CELLS. WHAT IS THE MOLECULAR IDENTITY OF THESE MAMMALIAN MOLECULES AND WHAT SIGNALLING EVENTS ARE TRIGGERED IN EPITHELIAL CELLS THAT FACILITATE BACTERIAL ENTRY MEDIATED BY PATH PROTEINS? FURTHERMORE, WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE BACTERIAL LIGANDS AND THEIR RECEPTORS; SPECIFICALLY - WHAT AMINO ACID SEQUENCES ARE REQUIRED IN PATH PROTEINS FOR EPITHELIAL INVASION? TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS THE FOLLOWING EXPERIMENTS ARE UNDERWAY 1. TO ADOPT AND ADAPT HIGH-THROUGHPUT FLUORESCENT MICROSCOPY (CELLOMICS) IN THE ANALYSIS OF MICROBIAL INVASION OF HUMAN EPITHELIAL CELLS. 2. TO DEFINE THE CLASS OF HSPG THAT PATH PROTEINS BIND TO. 3. DEFINE, AT A MOLECULAR LEVEL, THE SEQUENCES WITHIN PATH PROTEINS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR HSPG-BINDING. SFI E. COLI SEPSIS; BETTER TREATMENT OPTIONS USING GENOMICS HYPOTHESIS 1 WE HAVE IDENTIFIED GENES IN PATHOGENIC E. COLI THAT PROTECT THE BACTERIA FROM SERUM KILLING IN VIVO. WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT THESE GENES WILL BE IMPORTANT IN CLINICALLY-SIGNIFICANT E. COLI BLOODSTREAM INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS. HYPOTHESIS 2 WE HYPOTHESIZE THAT E. COLI BLOODSTREAM ISOLATES ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY MORE VIRULENT AND RESISTANT TO ANTIMICROBIALS. AIMS THE AIM OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO MEASURE GENE EXPRESSION OF PATHOGENIC E. COLI FROM PATIENT BLOOD SAMPLES. WE WILL ASCERTAIN IF THE INDUCTION OF PARTICULAR BACTERIAL GENES DURING INFECTION IS CLINICALLY SIGNIFICANT. IN PARALLEL WITH THIS APPROACH WE WILL CONTINUE TO GATHER LARGE AMOUNTS OF GENOTYPIC INFORMATION ON EACH BACTERIAL ISOLATE USING MICROARRAY TECHNOLOGIES. OBJECTIVES THE MAIN OBJECTIVES WILL BE TO; . MEASURE THE TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSES OF PATHOGENIC E. COLI EXPOSED TO COMPLEMENT-DEFICIENT SERUM. . REFINE AND ENHANCE THE VIRULENCE AND RESISTANCE MICROARRAY. . ESTABLISH THE SCOTS METHODOLOGY IN VITRO . APPLY SCOTS TO PATIENT SAMPLES . DETERMINE IF THERE IS A CORRELATION BETWEEN THE EXPRESSION OF PROTECTIVE GENES IN E. COLI AND CLINICAL OUTCOME. HRB GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. SAMANTHA SMITH smithsamantha ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SSMITH1 ECONOMICS DEPT. OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 MR. COLIN SMITH smithcolin ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SMITHC3 LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW GENERALLY, AND IN PARTICULAR: INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW; INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW; AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 TREASURER, IRISH SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW; MEMBER, SOCIETY OF LEGAL SCHOLARS; MEMBER, IRISH COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES; MEMBER, IRISH PENAL REFORM TRUST. INTERNATIONAL PROCESS AND JUSTICE PROJECT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION PROFESSOR ALJOSA SMOLIC smolicaljosa SFI RES PROF OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES SMOLICA COMPUTER SCIENCE SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. GERALDINE SMYTH smythgeraldine ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GSMYTH IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES ECUMENICAL THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIOLOGY; INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE; THE ROLE OF ECUMENISM IN PEACEBUILDING AND RECONCILIATION IN DIVIDED CONTEXTS; THE WIDER FIELD OF ECUMENICS IN LATE MODERNITY - LIFE AND WORK/FAITH AND ORDER/INTERRELIGIOUS THEOLOGY AND PRACTICE. THEOLOGY OF CREATION; ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY AND ETHICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY. ATTACHMENT, SOCIAL TRAUMA AND LOSS: THEOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO SEPARATION/IDENTITIES IN OPPOSITION/CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS BEREAVEMENT. TRUTH, MEMORY AND JUSTICE IN POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES. THE THEOLOGY, ETHICS AND SOCIAL THEORY OF FORGIVENESS AND PEACEBUILDING; HERMENEUTICS OF POST-VIOLENCE SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS TRANSFORMATION. IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 LATIN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH CHAIRPERSON OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY GROUP INCORE, (INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT RESEARCH): A JOINT PROJECT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER AND THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY TOKYO - COMBINING RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. MEMBER (INSTITUTIONAL) OF SOCIETAS OECUMENICA - EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ECUMENICAL THEOLOGY MEMBER AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION. MEMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS: HEALING THROUGH REMEMBERING: HTR IS N.IRELAND-BASED PUBLIC BODY AND LIMITED COMPANY, ADDRESSING ISSUES OF DEALING WITH THE PAST IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CONFLICT IN AND ABOUT NORTHERN IRELAND: ISSUES INCLUDE TRUTH RECOVERY PROCESSES; NETWORK OF COMMEMORATION; LIVING MEMORIAL MUSEUM, STORY-TELLING. METHODOLOGIES INCLUDE CONFERENCES, COMMISSIONING OF RESEARCH, AND RESEARCH COLLABORATION. ALSO DURING THIS PERIOD, CHAIR OF HEALING THROUGH REMEMBERING 'COMMEMORATION' WORKING GROUP. SEE WWW.HEALINGTHROUGHREMEMBERING.ORG MEMBER EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CATHOLIC THEOLOGY MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD: ONE IN CHRIST MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD; STUDIES MEMBER OF IRISH THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION; FROM 1995-1998, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER: CONFERENCES ORGANISED:'THEOLOGY TODAY' (DUBLIN, 26-27 APRIL 1996); 'THE THEOLOGY OF LIFE AND DEATH AND ASSOCIATED ETHICAL ISSUES' (9-10 MAY 1997); 'THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF ABSENCE'(MAYNOOTH, 8TH-9TH MAY 1998). ITA COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE IN DIALOGUE MEETINGS WITH THE THEOLOGICAL COMMISSSION OF THE EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, IRELAND CHAIRED BY DR LAURENCE RYAN, BISHOP OF KILDARE AND LEIGHLIN (1996-1997). MEMBER OF MAZE-LONG KESH REFERENCE GROUP - CURRENTLY WORKING STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND WITH DANIEL AND NINA LIBESKIND ON THE VISION, CONCEPTUALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION CENTRE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE REGENERATION OF THE FORMER PRISON SITE. MEMBER OF STANDING COMMITTEE, GLENSTAL ECUMENICAL CONFERENCE. MEMBER, AQUINAS SEMINAR, PRIORY INSTITUTE, TALLAGHT MEMBER, CHURCH INITIATIVES GROUP, NORTHERN IRELAND MEMBER, FAITH AND POLITICS GROUP - INTERDENOMINATIONAL, CROSS-BORDER ASSOCIATION PART-TIME STAFF/TEAM MEMBER, ECKHART HOUSE: INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOSYNTHESIS AND TRANSPERSONAL THEORY, DUBLIN. PATRON (ONE OF FOUR) WORLD VISION IRELAND - AID AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY REGISTERED PSYCHOTHERAPIST, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF HUMANISTIC AND INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY (2004 - PRESENT, AN ASSOCIATE MEMBER). RESEARCH ASSOCIATE AND FOUNDING MEMBER, CENTRE FOR POST-CONFLICT JUSTICE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ST. CUTHBERT VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW, DURHAM UNIVERSITY, DEPT. OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGION THEOLOGICAL ADVISER TO WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES, AND 2005 TO PRESENT, CONSULTANT ON THE WCC DECADE TO OVERCOME VIOLENCE ON THEMES OF CHURCHES AND PEACEBUILDING; THEOLOGY OF CREATION AND THE ETHICS OF CIMATE CHANGE. INTER-CHURCH RELATIONS AND ECUMENISM RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE THEOLOGY IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE - FAITH AND POLITICS IN NI THEOLOGY OF PEACE-BUILDING AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION SOCIAL JUSTICE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION VISIONING ECUMENISM FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: DIVERSITY, DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION PROVIDING AND SUSTAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVALUATION OF THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT, IN IRELAND AND GLOBALLY, ELUCIDATING NEW VISION AND PROSPECTS. THIS GROUND-BREAKING ISE RESEARCH PROJECT PROVIDED A SPRINGBOARD FOR A MAJOR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN JUNE 2010 - 'FROM WORLD MISSION TO INTERRELIGIOUS WITNESS', TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF WHAT WE KNOW AS MODERN ECUMENISM, BY EXAMINING THE ROLE OF ECUMENISM IN GLOBAL, IRISH, AND OTHER NATIONAL CONTEXTS, AND IDENTIFYING KEY AREAS IN WHICH ECUMENISM CAN CONTRIBUTE TO ONGOING GLOBAL CONVERSATIONS ON SUCH ISSUES AS DIVERSITY, IMMIGRATION, INTERRELIGIOUS THEOLOGY, DIALOGUE AND RECONCILIATION. THE PROJECT HAS STIMULATED RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS WHICH ARE GLOBAL IN SCOPE. THE RESEARCH CONSISTS OF THEOLOGICAL WORK, MAINLY FROM A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE, WHICH CRITICALLY EXAMINES AND SEEKS TO DEVELOP THEOLOGICAL MODELS OF IDENTITY IN PLURAL CONTEXTS, EXTRAPOLATING FROM BIBLICAL COVENANT TRADITIONS OF EXCLUSIVENESS-INCLUSIVENESS, JUSTICE AND RIGHT RELATIONSHIP, AND HOSPITALITY. RESEARCHERS ARE DEVELOPING A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE THAT WILL TEST THE BOUNDARIES OF ECUMENISM BEYOND THE INTRA-CHRISTIAN TO INTERRELIGIOUS APPROACHES, AND BY ECUMENICAL ENGAGEMENT WITHIN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, INCLUDING POLITICS, RELIGION AND THE ARTS. IN ITS FINAL PHASE, THE RESEARCH HAS PROCEEDED FROM A COMPARATIVE RELIGIOUS STUDIES ETHNOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF THE CHURCHES AND OTHER FAITH COMMUNITIES (ISLAM, JUDAISM, HINDUISM) ON THE ISLAND OF IRELAND (INCLUDING WEB-BASED SURVEYS OF CLERGY AND LAYPEOPLE - CULMINATING IN AN AUDITED REPORT AND CONFERENCES IN BELFAST IN NOV. 2009 AND DUBLIN 2011. A SERIES OF EXPERT THEMATIC SEMINARS (2011) ENABLES A FURTHER THEOLOGICALLY FOCUSSED ANALYSIS ON PARADIGMATIC ISSUES IN ECUMENICS. THROUGH PRINT-BASED AND WEB-BASED PUBLICATIONS THE RESEARCH WILL EQUIP CHURCHES AND OTHER FAITH COMMUNITIES WITH THEOLOGICAL AND EMPIRICAL RESOURCES FOR ARTICULATING A NEW ECUMENICAL VISION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. THE LEAD INVESTIGATOR IS PROFESSOR LINDA HOGAN; ASSOCIATE RESEARCHERS INCLUDE: PROFESSOR GLADYS GANIEL, PROFESSOR ANDREW PIERCE, PROFESSOR GERALDINE SMYTH, PROFESSOR DAVID TOMBS AND PROFESSOR JOHN D'ARCY MAY. OTHER STAFF AND THREE PH.D CANDIDATES ARE ALSO ENGAGED IN CORRELATIVE FIELDS OF RESEARCH. IRCHSS GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND, THEOOLGY AND RELIGION RELIGION IN CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS, TRINITY COLLEGE COORDINATOR: ERASMUS-SOCRATES PROGRAMME RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DEPT OF RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF UPPSALA AND THE DEPT OF THEOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MUENSTER - INCLUDING PILOT AND ESTABLISHMENT 2007-8 OF UNIV. OF UPPSALA M.A. PROGRAMME RELIGION IN CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION AND THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF A READER IN RELIGION, CONFLICT AND PEACEBUILDING EU ERASMUS (WITH SOCRATES COMPONENT) ERNST STRÜNGEMANN FORUM: 'FORMATIVE CHILDHOODS, PATHS TO PEACE?': MEMBER OF PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEE (7 INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS) CHAIRED BY PROFS. JAMES F. LECKMAN, CATHERINE PANTER-BRICK (YALE) AND DR RIMA SALAH UNICEF. CF., HTTP://WWW.ESFORUM.DE THE ERNST STRÜNGMANN FORUM FACILITATES THE CONTINUAL EXPANSION OF KNOWLEDGE BY PROVIDING A CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT WITHIN WHICH EXPERTS SCRUTINIZE HIGH PRIORITY PROBLEMS FROM MULTIPLE VANTAGE POINTS. THE GOAL OF THIS FORUM IS TO IDENTIFY "GAPS" IN KNOWLEDGE, POSE KEY QUESTIONS AND FIND WAYS TO "FILL THESE GAPS" VIA A UNIQUE SYNERGISM TOWARDS FUTURE RESEARCH. . TO ASSESS CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF FAMILIAL/GROUP RELATIONS, AND ITS ROLE IN PEACEBUILDING . TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE AND COMMUNICATION . TO EXAMINE NOVEL APPROACHES TO TRANSLATING KNOWLEDGE INTO ACTION. THE THEMATIC OF THIS FORUM BRINGS TOGETHER BIO-SCIENTISTS, PHYSICIANS, THEOLOGIANS, EDUCATORS AND PEACE THEORISTS AND PRACTITIONERS TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGE OF FORMATIVE CHILDHOODS AND PEACEBUILDING. PEACE AS A MULTI-FACETED CONSTRUCT, DEFINED DIFFERENTLY FROM VARIOUS DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES, MOST OFTEN REFERS TO A STATE OF HARMONY CHARACTERIZED BY THE LACK OF VIOLENT CONFLICT. PEACE-BUILDING IS A TERM USED BY THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY TO DESCRIBE THE PROCESSES AND ACTIVITIES INVOLVED IN RESOLVING VIOLENT CONFLICT AND ESTABLISHING A SUSTAINABLE PEACE. PEACE-BUILDING ACTIVITIES PROMOTE CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND RECONCILIATION; RE-INTEGRATE FORMER COMBATANTS INTO CIVILIAN SOCIETY; STRENGTHEN THE RULE OF LAW; AND IMPROVE THE STANDARD OF LIVING AND PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS. EFFORTS TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS OF PEACE-BUILDING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION REQUIRE AN ECLECTIC CONSIDERATION OF HUMANS AS BIOLOGICAL BEINGS AND THEIR BEHAVIOR ON MULTIPLE LEVELS: INTRA- AND INTER-FAMILY, COMMUNITY, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL. NONETHELESS, CURRENT UNDERSTANDING AS WELL AS RESULTANT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN BASED ON PERSPECTIVES THAT HAVE EMANATED FROM MAINLY FROM POLITICAL SCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND RELIGION. ALTHOUGH NEARLY SELF-EVIDENT THAT THE ROLE OF EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND INTRA- AND INTER-FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIPS AS WELL AS THE UNDERLYING BIOLOGY OF AFFILIATIONS (E.G., BONDING AND PARENTING) MUST BE CONSIDERED, THESE INTEGRAL PERSPECTIVES HAVE YET TO BE ADDRESSED OR FACTORED INTO AN OVERALL UNDERSTANDING.IN SUMMARY, PREVIOUS EFFORTS TO UNDERSTAND, DEFINE, AND PROMOTE THE MECHANISMS OF PEACE-BUILDING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION MUST BE EXPANDED. INFORMED BY RESEARCH ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND THE LATEST FINDINGS FROM THE NEUROSCIENCE COMMUNITY, A NEW PARADIGM IS CLEARLY NEEDED. A COGENT AND EMPIRICALLY VALIDATED THEORETICAL FOUNDATION IS REQUIRED TO GUIDE THE NOVEL APPROACHES THAT CAN EFFECT CHANGE, AND GUIDELINES ARE NEEDED TO ASSIST THE NEXT GENERATION OF DECLARATIONS. IN SUMMARY, PREVIOUS EFFORTS TO UNDERSTAND, DEFINE, AND PROMOTE THE MECHANISMS OF PEACE-BUILDING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION MUST BE EXPANDED. INFORMED BY RESEARCH ON CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND THE LATEST FINDINGS FROM THE NEUROSCIENCE COMMUNITY, A NEW PARADIGM IS CLEARLY NEEDED. A COGENT, EMPIRICALLY VALIDATED THEORETICAL FOUNDATION IS REQUIRED TO GUIDE THE NOVEL APPROACHES THAT EFFECT CHANGE, AND GUIDELINES ARE NEEDED TO ASSIST THE NEXT GENERATION OF DECLARATIONS. THIS FORUM AIMS TO ADVANCE THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ROLE OF EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THEIR NEUROBIOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS IN PEACE-BUILDING. THIS FORUM OF INVITED INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS TOOK PLACE AT THE FRANKFURT INSITITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES (FIS), OCTOBER 13-19, 2013. A MAJOR PUBLICATION IS ANTICIPATED - TIMELY IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE RENEWAL PROCESS FOR AT LEAST TWO GLOBAL DECLARATIONS IN 2015, WHICH WILL GUIDE FUTURE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD: 1. UNITED NATIONS MILLENNIUM DECLARATION (MDG, 2000), SIGNED IN 2000 BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF 191 COUNTRIES, CALLS FOR AN INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH EIGHT GOALS. 2. EDUCATION FOR ALL (UNESCO, EFA, 1990) DECLARATION, SIGNED BY LEADERS OF OVER 160 COUNTRIES, AIMS TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND TO REDUCE POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION. ERNST STRÜNGEMANN FOUNDATION WOMEN RELIGIOUS: WITNESS SEMINARS - REMEMBERING THE CONFLICT IN AND ABOUT NORTHERN IRELAND WITNESS TESTIMONY HAS A VITAL ROLE IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACADEMIC INTEGRITY REQUIRED FOR A COMPREHENSIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE YEARS OF THE CONFLICT IN AND ABOUT NORTHERN IRELAND. WOMEN'S VOICES HAVE UNTIL RECENTLY BEEN MISSING FROM THE DISCOURSE, AND ONLY RECENTLY HAVE COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS BEGUN TO REMEDY THIS VIA WITNESS AND ARCHIVING PROJECTS WITHIN CULTURAL COMMUNITIES. THIS PROJECT WORKS BY CONVENING, FILMING AND ARCHIVING WITNESS STATEMENTS FROM WOMEN OF FAITH, AND INITIALLY, FROM FEMALE MEMBERS OF CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS ORDERS WHO LIVED AND WORKED WITHIN AND ACROSS VARIOUS CONTEXTS IN THE YEARS OF VIOLENT CONFLICT AND SUBSEQUENT TRANSITION. THE CONVERSATION FORMAT FACILITATES THE SHARING OF PERSONAL AND SHARED RECOLLECTIONS, INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS FROM SISTERS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES IN A SAFE AND RESPECTFUL SPACE.THEY WITNESS TO PERSONAL, COMMUNITY SOCIAL EXPERIENCES FROM DIVERSE VANTAGE POINTS AND GIVE EXPRESSION TO THE AMBIGUITIES, TENSIONS AND CHALLENGES OF LIVING ALONGSIDE OR MINISTERING WITH AND TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES OR IN CROSS COMMUNITY ENDEAVOUR. THE FORMAT OF SEMINARS IS OF A CONVERSATION SEMINAR FACILITATED TO EVOLVE NATURALLY AND ELICIT PERSONAL OR SHARED RECOLLECTIONS, MEMORIES AND REFLECTIONS, ACKNOWLEDGING RESPECTFULLY THE RANGE OF SOCIO-POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES FROM RELIGIOUS WOMEN WORKING ACROSS DIFFERENT AND SOMETIMES CONFLICTING LINES OF CHURCH AND COMMUNITY IDEALS AND PRIORITIES IN TIMES OF VIOLENCE AND PEACE BUILDING. WITNESS TESTIMONY HAS A VITAL ROLE IN CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACADEMIC INTEGRITY REQUIRED FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE, HOLISTIC AND TEXTURED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PERIOD OF THE CONFLICT. SUCH WITNESS SEMINARS COMPLEMENT AND ENRICH ACADEMIC DATA AND ARCHIVES BY DRAWING ON THE INDISPENSABLE KNOWLEDGE OF THOSE WHO WERE ACTIVELY INVOLVED WITH PASTORAL, COMMUNITY OR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITHIN AND BETWEEN COMMUNITIES, OFTEN ALONGSIDE THOSE LIVING IN AREAS AFFECTED BY VIOLENCE - PERSONALLY AND STRUCTURALLY. THE SEMINARS ARE RECORDED AND WILL BE AVAILABLE VIA UTUBE AND ARCHIVED FOR ACCESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER. THE RESEARCH PROJECT IS LED BY DR DIANNE KIRBY (DEPT OF HISTORY, ULSTER UNIV.) AND PROF. LISA ISHERWOOD (INSTITUTE FOR THEOLOGICAL PARTNERSHIPS, UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER), IN COLLABORATION WITH DR GERALDINE SMYTH, IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, AND DR JOLENE MAIRS DYER, (MEDIA, FILM AND JOURNALISM, ULSTER UNIVERSITY) . UNIV. OF WINCHESTER AND PRIVATE SOURCES IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. FIONA SMYTH smythfiona RESEARCH FELLOW SMYTHF3 MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG ACOUSTICS, HISTORY OF SCIENCE, CONSTRUCTION HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY SOCIETY MEMBER INSTITUTE OF ACOUSTICS (MIOA) ACOUSTICS BUILDING SCIENCE CONSTRUCTION HISTORY HISTORY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY SAAB - SCIENCE AS APPLIED TO BUILDING: SCIENCE CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS IN BRITAIN (1914-1954) EUROPEAN COMMISSION MARIE SK&#322;ODOWSKA-CURIE ACTIONS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. PAUL SMYTH smythpaul SENIOR MEDICAL SCIENTIST SMYTHPA HISTOPATHOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND HISTOPATHOLOGY CENTRAL PATH LAB ST JAMES'S HOSIPTAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER DR. SARAH SMYTH smythsarah ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SSMYTH RUSSIAN RUSSIAN 19TH-CENTURY PROSE NARRATIVE; SYLLABUS AND TEXTBOOK DESIGN; RUSSIAN IN THE DIASPORA DEPT OF RUSSIAN 5042 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN FRENCH COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTROY OF RUSSIA 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE MIGRATION, MULTILINGUALISM, MULTICULTURALISM RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE RUSSIAN CULTURAL HISTORY RUSSIAN LANGUAGE/LITERATURE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITIES TEACHING RUSSIAN AS A FORIEGN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION STUDIES RUSSIAN SPEAKERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: WHO ARE THEY? A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF HYBRID IDENTITIES SINCE THE EARLY 1990S EUROPE HAS EXPERIENCED A WAVE OF MIGRATION WESTWARDS OF PEOPLE OF VARIOUS ETHNIC ORIGINS AND NATIONALITIES FROM THE TERRITORIES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION. A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER SETTLED IN IRELAND: SOME WERE TARGETED AT RECRUITMENT FAIRS (ON THE WHOLE, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BEFORE EU EXPANSION SATISFIED IRELAND'S LABOUR NEEDS); SOME HAVE OBTAINED REFUGEE STATUS; SOME MARRIED IRISH OR EU CITIZENS; SOME CAME AS STUDENTS AND REMAINED ON IN THE WORK FORCE; SOME HAVE COME SINCE EU EXPANSION FROM THE ACCESSION STATES; SOME WERE SIMPLY THE BEST AT WHATEVER IT IS THEY DO AND WERE RECRUITED TO EMPLOYMENT THROUGH OPEN COMPETITION. THERE HAS BEEN NO ATTEMPT TO PAINT A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF WHO OR WHERE THESE MIGRANTS ARE OR WHAT CAPITAL THEY HAVE BROUGHT TO IRELAND. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT WILL ADDRESS THIS DEFICIT. THIS GROUP WAS SELECTED AS PARTICULARLY INTERESTING FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS: . THEIR GEO-POLITICAL SPACE OF ORIGIN WAS TRADITIONALLY MULTICULTURAL AND MULTILINGUAL (WITH RUSSIAN AS THE SUPRA-ETHNIC LINGUA FRANCA); . THEY DO NOT SHARE AN ETHNIC OR HOMELAND IDENTITY, BUT AN IDENTITY BASED ON A SHARED LANGUAGE; ALL TO SOME DEGREE ASSOCIATE OR DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM HOMO SOVIETICUS, AN IDENTITY CONSTRUCTED ON A SHARED HISTORIC PAST AND COMMON CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND; . THEY ARE VERGING ON BEING INVISIBLE IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND: ALL CENTRAL OR EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE ERRONEOUSLY AND MISLEADINGLY REFERRED TO AS 'ACCESSION STATES' IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE; ALL MIGRANTS ARE CONCEIVED OF AS A RATHER HOMOGENIZED SET OF 'NEW IRISH' OR 'NON-NATIONALS'; . THEY EXEMPLIFY NOT ONLY THE POSSIBILITY, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS, OF LIVING IN AND WITH MULTIPLE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES - OR LIVING WITH DIVERSITY AND DIFFERENCE. IRELAND CAN LEARN CONSIDERABLY FROM THE PAST AND PRESENT EXPERIENCE OF THESE COMMUNITIES WHOSE LIFE STORIES EXEMPLIFY THE FLUX, FRAGMENTATION AND RUPTURE THAT CHARACTERIZE MODERN LIFE WITHOUT NECESSARILY COMPROMISING CONTINUITY AND TRADITION. AIMS: THE CENTRAL AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO ASK WHO ARE THE RUSSIAN SPEAKERS CURRENTLY RESIDENT IN IRELAND. THIS STUDY WILL BE STRUCTURED IN TWO INTER-CONNECTED LINES OF ENQUIRY. THE FIRST IS BEST SUMMARIZED AS WHO ARE YOU? THIS INVESTIGATION WILL PROVIDE EMPIRICAL SOCIOLINGUISTIC DATA. THIS DATA IS PRODUCT-ORIENTED; IT CAPTURES A SNAP-SHOT OF THE PARTICIPANTS' SOCIAL REALITIES AND LANGUAGE PRACTICES. THE SECOND IS CONCERNED TO PRESENT AND MAKE PRESENT THE VOICES AND POINTS OF VIEW OF THE PARTICIPANTS. IT INVITES PARTICIPANTS TO ARTICULATE RESPONSES IN VARIOUS GENRES TO THE SELF-REFLEXIVE QUESTIONS WHO AM I? WHO ARE WE? THIS DATA IS PROCESS-ORIENTED: THE ANALYSIS WILL BE CONCERNED WITH THE PROCESSES BY WHICH PARTICIPANTS BECOME WHAT THEY ARE AS THEY SPEAK AND THROUGH THEIR SPEECH. THIS SECOND WILL ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: A) THE NARRATIVE OF MIGRATION: WHAT HAS MIGRATION MEANT IN TERMS OF CONTINUITY, CHANGE, OPPORTUNITY AND LOSS? B) RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITIES: WHAT GROUPS WITHIN THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITY(-IES) DO PARTICIPANTS IDENTIFY/NOT IDENTIFY WITH? WHAT IDENTITY OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE TO THEM WITHIN VARIOUSLY CONFIGURED RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COMMUNITIES? C) THE IRISH EXPERIENCE: WHAT IDENTITY OPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE TO RUSSIAN-SPEAKING MIGRANTS IN IRELAND AT PRESENT? HOW DO THEY CONCEIVE THAT IRELAND'S 'LANGUAGE POLICY' AND POLICY OF INTEGRATION IMPACT ON IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION? TO WHAT EXTENT DO THEY FEEL EMPOWERED/ DISEMPOWERED BY THE CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES OF THE HOST COMMUNITY? D) ASPIRATIONS: WHAT HOPES AND IDENTITY OPTIONS DO THEY HAVE FOR THE FUTURE FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THE NEXT GENERATION? E) DEGREE OF TRANSMISSION OF RUSSIAN LANGUAGE/ RUSSIAN CULTURAL VALUES FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT: WHAT LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL VALUES DO THEY WANT/NOT WANT TO TRANSMIT TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION? IRCHSS THEMATIC AREA 1: MIGRATION AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY DEVELOPING L2 PROFICIENCY AND LEARNER AUTONOMY IN AB INITIO STUDENTS OF RUSSIAN PURPOSE OF RESEARCH: THE STUDY HAS TWO MAIN INTERESTS: A) THE DEVELOPMENT OF AB INITIO LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, AND B) OF LANGUAGE-LEARNER AUTONOMY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC STUDIES AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. IN RELATION TO THE FIRST INTEREST, THE RESEARCH FOCUSES ON A DIARY TASK ROUTINELY COMPLETED BY ALL, NOT JUST PARTICIPATING, FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS ON A WEEKLY BASIS. IN RELATION TO THE SECOND INTEREST, IT INVESTIGATES STUDENTS' ENGAGEMENT WITH TECHNOLOGY, AGAIN MAINLY THROUGH ASSIGNMENTS SET FOR ALL STUDENTS WHICH ENTAIL OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF-GUIDED LEARNING AND THUS THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE-LEARNER AUTONOMY. JUSTIFICATION FOR THE RESEARCH: THE WEEKLY DIARY TASK PRESENTS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO TRACE STUDENTS' LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT FROM AB INITIO OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME (ONE ACADEMIC YEAR = FIVE MONTHS/17 TEACHING WEEKS IN PHASE I; SOME LEARNERS WILL BE FOLLOWED FOR THE DURATION OF THEIR 4-YEAR DEGREE). IT ALLOWS US TO BUILD A DENSE LONGITUDINAL CORPUS OF WRITTEN STUDENT PRODUCTIONS, WHICH WILL BE VERY VALUABLE IN IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL AND CROSS-INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS. THIS PART OF THE PROJECT ADDRESSES THE DEARTH OF LONGITUDINAL WRITTEN CORPORA IN STUDIES OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (SLA), PARTICULARLY AT THE EARLY STAGES OF SLA. IT TAKES ITS IMPETUS FROM RECENT THEORETICAL ADVANCES WHICH CONCEPTUALISE LANGUAGE AS A COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEM TO BE STUDIED HOLISTICALLY AND WITH AN EMPHASIS ON DEVELOPMENT AND EMERGENT PROPERTIES, SUCH AS WILL BE DISCERNABLE FROM THE DATA COLLECTED DURING THIS PROJECT. IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL AND MORE GENERAL DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERNS IS ALSO RELEVANT FOR POTENTIAL PEDAGOGICAL INTERVENTION IN FUTURE YEARS. THE SECOND PART OF THE PROJECT IS DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNER AUTONOMY, AND IS ALSO OF THEORETICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL INTEREST. BY INVESTIGATING HOW AB INITIO LEARNERS USE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT THEIR LEARNING, THE PROJECT CONTRIBUTES TO THE BODY OF RESEARCH ON COMPUTER-MEDIATED/ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING, ON LEARNER AUTONOMY AND LIFELONG LEARNING. CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR CYRIL JAMES SMYTH smythcyriljames FELLOW EMERITUS CSMYTH MICROBIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY MOYNE INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SWEDISH ENGLISH FRENCH EXTERN EXAMINER FOR B.SC. MODULAR COURSES IN MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, MICROBIAL GROWTH AND PHYSIOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY AND MICROBIAL GENETICS, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON EXTERN EXAMINER M.MED.SCI. LABORATORY SCIENCE, THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST, BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND IRISH MEDICINES BOARD SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE AVAILABILITY OF INTRAMAMMARY PRODUCTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF BOVINE MASTITIS JOINT ORGANISER OF THE SECOND EUROPEAN MEETING ON PATHOGENESIS AND HOST RESPONSES IN HELICOBACTER PYLORI INFECTIONS, GALWAY, IRELAND, MARCH 1997. CHAIRPERSON OF ONE SCIENTIFIC SESSION JOINT ORGANISER OF THE MAIN SYMPOSIUM AND JOINT EDITOR OF THE SYMPOSIUM VOLUME OF THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY. CHAIRPERSON OF ONE SCIENTIFIC SESSION. MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS, HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH, MARCH, 1997 MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR EMER SMYTH smythemer ADJUNCT PROFESSOR SMYTHE2 SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. BOBBY SMYTH smythbobby CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER IN ADDICTION ST SMYTHBO PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE I AM INTERESTED IN ALL AREAS OF RESEARCH INTO ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE MISUSE, INCLUDING AETIOLOGY, TREATMENT MATCHING AND EVALUATION OF TREATMENT OUTCOME. I HAVE PREVIOUSLY EVALAUTED OUTCOME FOLLOWING INPATEINT TREATMENT OF OPIATE DEPENDENCE. I HAVE ALSO EXAMINED FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH UNSAFE INJECTING PRACTICES AMONG INJECTING DRUG USERS, MEASURING INCIDENCE AND PREVALANCE OF BOTH HCV AND HIV IN THIS GROUP. PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ADDICTION ADDICTION AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE ADDICTIONS ADOLESCENT ADOLESCENT DRUG-USE ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY AETIOLOGY CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE IN CHILDREN EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR HEALTH OUTCOMES HEPATITIS C INJECTION-DRUG USERS NEUROPHYSIOLOGY PSYCHIATRY PSYCHOMETRICS PUBLIC HEALTH IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. AISLING SNOW snowaisling CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER ASNOW PAEDIATRICS IMAGING OF THE PAEDIATRIC MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. USE OF FOETAL MRI TO STREAMLINE PERINATAL AND POSTNATAL MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CARE. THE APPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED 3D PRINTING IN THE PAEDIATRIC HEALTHCARE SETTING IN IRELAND. 32 MOUNT ARGUS ROAD HAROLDS CROSS D6W NT35 01-8961000 AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF SKELETAL RADIOLOGY SOCIETY FOR PAEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY 3D PRINTING BONE DENSITY DIAGNOSTICS DXA HEALTH PLANNING/POLICY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) MRI MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PAEDIATRIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT RADIOLOGY RADIOLOGY, TOMOGRAPHY AND MEDICAL IMAGING ULTRASOUND OTHER CLINICAL MEDICINE HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) DR. MARTIN SOKOL sokolmartin ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SOKOLM GEOGRAPHY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; GEOGRAPHIES OF KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES; POST-SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS; GEOGRAPHIES OF FINANCE. DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SLOVAK ENGLISH FRENCH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS (AAG) ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH GROUP (EGRG) GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND (GSI) GLOBAL NETWORK ON FINANCIAL GEOGRAPHY (FINGEO) REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (RSA) RESEARCH NETWORK ON GEOGRAPHIES OF FINANCE AND POST-SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY/INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS (RGS-IBG) ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHY ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SOCIAL JUSTICE CULTURAL & ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY SEARCHING FOR SUSTAINABLE FINANCE: GEOGRAPHIES OF FINANCIALIZATION AND DEBT IN POST-SOCIALIST EAST CENTRAL EUROPE (GEOFIN) AIM : THE KEY AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW, GEOGRAPHICALLY-INFORMED, THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE IN POST-SOCIALIST EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE CONTEXT OF FINANCIALISATION. OBJECTIVE: TO ACHIEVE THE ABOVE AIM, THE OVERARCHING OBJECTIVE IS TO FUSE TWO DISTINCTIVE FIELDS OF GEOGRAPHICAL INQUIRY: THE STUDY OF GEOGRAPHIES OF FINANCE AND FINANCIALIZATION ON THE ONE HAND, AND GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES OF POST-SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS ON THE OTHER. THESE TWO FIELDS OF GEOGRAPHICAL STUDY HAVE CONTRIBUTED A LOT TO OUR UNDERSTANDING OF TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT HAVE RESHAPED EUROPE AND THE WORLD: (1) FINANCIALIZATION (I.E. THE PROCESS OF GROWING ROLE OF FINANCE IN THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY) IN THE WEST, AND (2) THE TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMIES AND SOCIETIES FOLLOWING THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM (STATE-SOCIALISM) IN THE EAST. HOWEVER, TO DATE, THESE TWO PROCESSES HAVE BEEN LARGELY STUDIED IN ISOLATION FROM EACH OTHER, IN GEOGRAPHY AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES ALIKE. THE KEY HYPOTHESIS OF THIS PROJECT IS THAT THESE TWO PROCESSES ARE INTERRELATED IN A NUMBER OF WAYS AND THAT THEY ARE MUTUALLY CONSTITUTIVE. THE PROJECT THEREFORE POSTULATES THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FULLY UNDERSTAND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE IN POST-SOCIALIST EUROPE WITHOUT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE IMPLICATIONS OF FINANCIALIZATION; AND, LIKEWISE, THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF FINANCIALIZATION WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE IMPLICATIONS STEMMING FROM THE COLLAPSE OF STATE-SOCIALISM. IT IS THEREFORE EXPECTED THAT THE PROJECT WILL HAVE IMPACT ON BOTH THESE FIELDS OF INQUIRY. INDEED, WHILE BUILDING A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING THE POST-SOCIALIST CHANGE IS A PRIME CONCERN, IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE PROJECT WILL ALSO FEED INTO THE DEBATES ON FINANCIALIZATION. IN DOING SO, IT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE SEARCH OF SUSTAINABLE FINANCIAL FUTURES IN EUROPE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND H2020 - PROPOSAL PREPARATION SUPPORT THE REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION RESEARCH NETWORK ON FINANCIAL GEOGRAPHIES (FINGEO) THIS PROJECT WILL ALLOW FINGEO NETWORK TO ORGANISE THE FIRST EVER GLOBAL SEMINAR SERIES IN FINANCIAL GEOGRAPHY. REGIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (RSA) RSA NETWORK GRANT INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. RICHARD ANDREW SOMERVILLE somervillerichardandrew FELLOW EMERITUS RSOMRVLL ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES DR SOMERVILLE IS A SENIOR LECTURER IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND IS A GRADUATE OF DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. RECENTLY, HIS AREAS OF INTEREST HAVE INCLUDED FINANCE, MICROECONOMIC THEORY, THE MEASUREMENT OF COST-OF-LIVING INDEXES, THE IRISH HOUSING MARKET, AND THE ECONOMICS OF INSURANCE. HE HAS PUBLISHED ON ALL THESE TOPICS, AND HIS PAPERS HAVE APPEARED IN JOURNALS IN IRELAND, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. HIS CURRENT RESEARCH IS ON PRODUCTION THEORY, WELFARE ECONOMICS INCLUDING THE ECONOMICS OF EXTERNALITIES, MEASURING RESEARCH QUALITY, AND POISSON UNCERTAINTY IN ECONOMIC MODELLING. DEPT. OF ECONOMICS 3010 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MS. HILARY SOUTHERN southernhilary CLINICAL NURSE TUTOR SOUTHEH SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH AN BORD ALTRANAIS, NURSING BOARD CANCER DR. JOHN MICHAEL SOUTHERN southernjohnmichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SOUTHERJ CHEMISTRY OUR OVERALL GOAL IS TO EXPLOIT SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY TO PROBE BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND AND PROVIDE TREATMENT FOR DISEASE. NEURONAL NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS ARE AN EXTREMELY EXCITING SET OF ION CHANNELS THAT WE ARE TARGETING BY DEVELOPING SUB-TYPE SPECIFIC LIGANDS. AREAS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO US ARE: ADDICTION, PAIN MANAGEMENT, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, SCHIZOPHRENIA AND ANXIETY. IN ANOTHER AREA WE EMPLOY A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT APPROACH. RATHER THAN TARGETING SPECIFIC GROUP OF RECEPTORS THE FOCUS IS ON THE PREPARATION OF A DIVERSE RANGE OF HETEROSUGARS, IN WHICH THE ENDOCYCLIC OXYGEN IS REPLACED WITH ANOTHER HETEROATOM E.G. SULPHUR, NITROGEN OR SELENIUM. THIS CLASS OF COMPOUNDS HAVE EXCITING ANTI-VIRAL, ANTI-CANCER AND ANTI-BACTERIAL PROPERTIES AND THEY ARE ALSO GLYCOSIDASE INHIBITORS. THE DISEASES WE ARE TARGETING VIA THIS APPROACH INCLUDE HEPATITIS C, HIV, AVIAN FLU, CANCER, MRSA, DRUG RESISTANT TB, DIABETES (TYPE 1 AND TYPE 2) AND OBESITY. OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE CHIRAL ALPHA-OXY ANIONS, CHIRAL REACTIONS OF ELECTRON-RICH ALKENES AND REMOTE CHIRALITY CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHARTERED CHEMIST AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. JAMES PAUL SPIERS spiersjamespaul ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SPIERSJ PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE PROCESSES: ACTIVATION OF COMPENSATORY/ DECOMPENSATORY MECHANISMS. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR INVESTIGATIONS OF CARDIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES IN NORMAL AND DISEASED MYOCARDIUM: CHANGES IN MYOCYTE FUNCTION IN RESPONSE TO OVEREXPRESSION OF NEUROHORMONES AND PEPTIDES; LONG-TERM CELLULAR CHANGES, INCLUDING HYPERTROPHY AND ALTERED GENE EXPRESSION; EXTRACELLULAR AND CYTOSKELETON CHANGES - VENTRICULAR REMODELLING. ROLES OF ENDOTHELIN, NITRIC OXIDE, CYTOKINES AND HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS IN HEART FAILURE AND SEPTIC SHOCK: FACTORS IMPLICATED IN ALTERED MYOCARDIAL RESPONSES, INCLUDING RECEPTOR AND POST-RECEPTOR MECHANISMS OF ACTION; MECHANICAL, BIOCHEMICAL, MOLECULAR AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS. PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION BRITISH PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR CARDIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEART RESEARCH IRISH ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACOLOGISTS CALCIUM CARDIAC PHYSIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR AND MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, PHARMACOLOGY CLINICAL-TRIALS CONVERTING ENZYME CYCLOSPORINE-A CYP3A4 CYTOKINES, NITRIC OXIDE DEPRESSION DIGOXIN ENDOTHELIN ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ENDOTHELIN-1 ENDOTOXIN ETA-RECEPTOR FAILURE FLOW CYTOMETRY HEART FAILURE AND TRANSPLANTATION HIV PROTEASE INHIBITORS HUMAN GENETICS HUMAN HEART HYPERICUM-PERFORATUM INTRA AND INTERCELLULAR SIGNALLING INVITRO MDR1 MEMBRANE AND PROTEIN TRAFFICKING MESSENGER-RNA NITRIC OXIDE NUCLEAR RECEPTOR P-GLYCOPROTEIN PATHOPHYSIOLOGY PEPTIDES PREGNANE-X RECEPTOR RELEASE REMODELING RITONAVIR SEPSIS SMOOTH-MUSCLE CELLS ST JOHN'S WORT VASCULAR BIOLOGY, THROMBOSIS CARDIOVASCULAR REMODELING IN HEART FAILURE ASSESSMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR REMODELLING DUE TO PHYSIOLOGICAL AGEING IN CONTRAST TO PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL DISEASE, PARTICULARLY HEART FAILURE. THIS RECENT WORK HAS RESULTED IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF ACCELERATED AGEING PROCESSES IN DISEASE AND FURTHER IDENTIFIED SPECIFIC SIGNALLING PATHWAYS ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERTENSION AND FAILURE. KEY FINDINGS REPORTED FROM THIS WORK INCLUDE: . ENDOTHELIN RECEPTORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALTERED MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE ACTIVITY IN CHRONIC HYPERTENSION BUT NOT ACUTE HYPERTENSION. BR J PHARMACOL 2003, 138, SUPPL S, 56P . Â-ADRENOCEPTOR BLOCKADE EXHIBITS A NOVEL ANTI-REMODELLING EFFECT IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE THROUGH ATTENUATION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE ACTIVITY. BR J CLIN PHARMACOL. 2003, 55, 426-427 . RAISED MMP LEVELS PRIOR TO REDUCED CARDIAC FUNCTION IN VIRAL MYOCARDITIS, MAY PROVIDE A USEFUL MARKER OF DETERIORATING FUNCTION AND HAVE A ROLE IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF MYOCARDIAL LESION. CHIN MED J. 2004; 117, 1195-1199 THESE FINDINGS HAVE BEEN EXAMINED IN AN ANIMAL MODEL OF HYPERTENSION AND HEART FAILURE, AND ALSO IN PATIENTS. I HAVE SET UP ALL THE METHODOLOGIES NECESSARY FOR THESE INVESTIGATIONS IN THE DEPARTMENT INCLUDING ZYMOGRAPHY AND INVESTIGATIONS OF SPECIFIC TARGET PROTEIN EXPRESSION. THE LATER STUDY WAS SET UP AS AN INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN ORDER TO AVAIL OF EXPERTISE AND READY ACCESS TO AN ANIMAL MODEL OF VIRAL MYOCARDITIS. SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME IS NOTED IN PUBLICATION OF WORK. ROYAL CITY OF DUBLIN HOSPITAL TRUST NOVEL MECHANISM ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEART FAILURE QUESTIONS RELATING TO MOLECULAR MECHANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEART FAILURE ARE CURRENTLY BEING ADDRESSED THROUGH 3 COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMMES: (I) PROFESSOR ZHAO, CHINA; (II) PROFESSOR WANG, CHINA, AND (II) PROFESSOR KRAINIAS, U.S.A. WE ARE UTILISING ALREADY ESTABLISHED CELL SYSTEMS SET UP BY THESE TEAMS, IN ADDITION TO VALUABLE RESOURCES, INCLUDING CONSTRUCTS, TO ADDRESS: . THE PROMOTER REGION OF MMP-9 AND THE RESPONSIVENESS TO ADRENERGIC STIMULATION THROUGH SPECIFIC SUBTYPES, TEMPORAL DYNAMICS AND LOCATION OF INVOLVEMENT . HSP20 POLYMORPHISMS: WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SEQUENCED THE GENE AND ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT POLYMORPHISMS IN EXON 1 OF THE GENE IN HEART FAILURE PATIENTS. RESULTS FROM THIS WORK HAVE IDENTIFIED EIGHT POLYMORPHISMS TO DATE. . FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIVENESS OF HSP20, THROUGH INTRODUCTION OF THE GENE INTO VIRAL VECTORS WHICH ARE THEN USED TO TRANSFECT ADULT CARDIOMYOCYTES. IT IS EARLY TO IDENTIFY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS WORK, BUT FROM RESULTS TO DATE IT WOULD APPEAR THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A CARDIOPROTECTIVE ROLE OF HSP20, AND IT IS LIKELY THAT THE PRESENCE OF POLYMORPHISMS WILL REFLECT POOR OUTCOME. THIS WORK IS PARTICULARLY EXCITING AND WILL LEAD TO A NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS, IN ADDITION TO FORMING THE BASIS OF FUTURE GRANT APPLICATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS. HEA CYCLE III AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. ANNE-MICHELLE SPIRTOS spirtosannemichelle ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SPIRTOSA OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY RESEARCH INTERESTS: LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT AND THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD. CHILDREN - ACTIVITY AND PARTICIPATION. THE UPPER LIMB IN NEUROLOGICAL IMPAIRMENT. CEREBRAL PALSY. CHILDREN AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY. DEPT OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND IRISH ASSOCIATION OF HAND THERAPISTS - COMMITTEE MEMBER CHILD CENTRED RESEARCH QUESTIONS, STUDY DESIGN, DATA ANALYSIS CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES AN EXPLORATION OF THE PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN WITH FINE MOTOR DIFFICULTIES AND THE IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTION NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MR. PETR SPODNIAK spodniakpetr VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT SPODNIAP ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR TREVOR SPRATT spratttrevor AIB PROFESSOR IN CHILDHOOD RESEARCH SPRATTT SOCIAL STUDIES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE 1. PROFESSIONAL DECISION MAKING. I HAVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL DECISION MAKING WITH RESPECT TO CHILDREN'S PROTECTION AND THEIR WELFARE. MUCH OF THIS HAS BEEN CONCERNED WITH NATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO KNOWLEDGE AND CONTEXTUAL DETERMINANTS OF DECISION MAKING. 2. THE TRANSLATION OF SOCIAL POLICY INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES. I HAVE UNDERTAKEN RESEARCH INTO PATTERNS OF PRACTICE IN RESPONSE TO SOCIAL POLICY INITIATIVES PERTAINING TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. THIS WORK HAS BEEN PARTICULARLY CONCERNED TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OFFICIAL SYSTEM OUTPUT MEASURES AND CHILD WELLBEING INDICATORS. 3. THE LIFE-COURSE INFLUENCES OF MULTIPLE ADVERSITIES EXPERIENCED IN CHILDHOOD. THIS INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH HAS BEEN CONCERNED WITH INVESTIGATING ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN EARLY CHILDHOOD ADVERSITIES AND LATER HEALTH, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL OUTCOMES IN ADULTHOOD AND DRAWING OUT IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKERS AND PRACTITIONERS CONCERNED WITH EVIDENCE INFORMED INTERVENTIONS. CHILDRENS RESEARCH CENTRE ROOM 1.06 30 ANGLESEA STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH REGISTERED SOCIAL WORKER WITH THE NORTHERN IRELAND SOCIAL CARE COUNCIL POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK DECISION MAKING IN CHILD WELFARE THIS IS AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY COMPRISING PARTNERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND, ISRAEL, THE NETHERLANDS AND SPAIN. A CASE STUDY METHODOLOGY AND STANDARDISED QUESTIONS IS USED TO EXAMINE MALTREATMENT SUBSTANTIATION, RISK ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTIONS RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THE ROLE OF PROFESSIONALS' CHILD WELFARE ATTITUDES. THE HARAV INSTITUTE ISRAEL SURVEY OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN FOUR COUNTRIES AND COMPARISON OF DATA THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SERVICE PROVIDED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDISED INSTRUMENTATION TO MEASURE THE EFFICACY OF SERVICES PROVIDED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES BY THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY. STAFF WILL BE TRAINED IN THE USE OF THESE INSTRUMENTS AND THE RESULTS WILL BE ANALYSED TO MEASURE ANY EFFECT OF SERVICE INTERVENTION OVER TIME. THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUMENTATION, TRAINING OF STAFF, ANALYSIS OF DATA AND PUBLICATION OF RESULTS. INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. ATHANASIOS STAIKOPOULOS staikopoulosathanasios RESEARCH FELLOW STAIKOPA COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS DR. ANDREA STAINO stainoandrea ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR STAINOA CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOHN STALKER stalkerjohn ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR STALKERJ PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN CZECH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN PROFESSOR ROGER ANDREW STALLEY stalleyrogerandrew FELLOW EMERITUS RSTALLEY HISTORY OF ART IRISH ART RESEARCH CENTRE HISTORY OF ART DEPARTMENT 5074 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF ART HISTORIANS BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION COMITÉ INTERNATIONAL DE L'HISTOIRE DE L'ART - MEMBRE TITULAIRE FOR IRELAND 2000-4 DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, GOVERNING BOARD INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF MEDIEVAL ART (NEW YORK) - INTERNATIONAL ADVISOR MEMBER OF COUNCIL, ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND MEMBER OF COUNCIL, SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES (LONDON) MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, THE IRISH ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE (TWO TERMS). MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE CHESTER BEATTY LIBRARY [ANCIENT AND ORIENTAL ART] NOMINEE OF THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE BOARD,THE DOUGLAS HYDE GALLERY [CONTEMPORARY ART] NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CURRICULUM ASSESSMENT, ART COMMITTEE (REPRESENTING THE COMMITTEE OF THE HEADS OF IRISH UNIVERSITIES) ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON (FELLOW) - SERVED AS MEMBER OF COUNCIL 2001-4 SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS SOCIÉTÉ FRANCAISE D'ARCHÉOLOGIE EARLY GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND FINE ARTS HIGH CROSSES OF IRELAND MEDIEVAL ART IN IRELAND ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF THE GOTHIC PAST IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL HUMANITIES MAKING IRELAND DR. PLAMEN STAMENOV stamenovplamen ASSISTANT PROFESSOR STAMENP PHYSICS CRANN MY RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE FOCUSED ON THE GENERAL AREA OF MAGNETISM AND SPIN ELECTRONICS. I AM INVOLVED IN PROJECTS ON MAGNETIC TUNNEL JUNCTIONS AND SENSORS, OXIDE MAGNETIC METARIALS, HIGH-FREQUENCY MAGNETICS AND MAGNETOTRANSPORT. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN BULGARIAN ENGLISH GERMAN AMERICAL PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS) INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS (IEEE) DIAMAGNETISM ELECTROMAGNETISM FERROMAGNETISM MAGNETISM MAGNETISM AND SPIN ELECTRONICS MAGNETISM-PROSPECTS NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. EWA STANCZYK stanczykewa ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR STANCZYE RUSSIAN - EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES; <BR/> - CONTEMPORARY POLISH HISTORY AND CULTURE; <BR/> - MEMORY STUDIES AND PUBLIC HISTORY; <BR/> - CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD STUDIES; <BR/> - COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN & SLAVONIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. TADHG STAPLETON stapletontadhg ASSISTANT PROFESSOR STAPLEY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY MAIN AREA OF RESEARCH INTEREST IS IN THE AREA OF COMMUNITY MOBILITY AND DRIVING FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, PARTICULARLY THOSE AFTER STROKE, BRAIN INJURY, AND AGE RELATED COGNITIVE DECLINE. CURRENTLY CO-SUPERVISING A PHD STUDY ON DRIVING AND DEPRESSION. OTHER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE SUPPORTING AND IMPLEMENTING CLINICAL BASED RESEARCH DIRECTLY STEMMING FROM SPECIFIC AREAS OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY PRACTICE. AREAS OF RESEARCH INCLUDE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY MEMORY STRATEGY TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE WITH MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AND DEMENTIA, IMPACT OF PROVIDING CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH PROGRESSIVE DISORDERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON INFORMAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS, OCCUPATIONAL IMPACT OF OBESITY AND PILOTING AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INTERVENTION PROGRAMME FOR PEOPLE WITH OBESITY, IMPACT OF INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS ON EMPLOYMENT AND WIDER PARTICIPATION, AS WELL AS CONTINUED CLINICAL BASED RESEARCH ON OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INPUT IN THE ASSESSMENT OF FITNESS TO RETURN TO DRIVE FOR PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL CONDITIONS AND ASSOCIATED DISABILITY. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI). MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND. PREVIOUS COUNCIL MEMBER OF AOTI 2008-2009, MEMBER OF THE AOTI NATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE FROM 2009 - 2015 (CO-CHAIR OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE 2015). CHAIRPERSON OF THE REHABILITATION THERAPY RESEARCH SOCIETY (RTRS) HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE (HSE) NATIONAL STEERING GROUP FOR PRACTICE EDUCATION (NSGPE). SINCE 2015 HAVE REPRESENTED THE DISCIPLINE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY TCD AS A CONTRIBUTING MEMBER TO THE NSGPE. THE FOCUS OF THE NSGPE IS ON NATIONAL ISSUES RELATED TO THE EXECUTION OF THE MANDATORY PRACTICE EDUCATION (CLINICAL PLACEMENT) REQUIREMENTS OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, PHYSIOTHERAPY, AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY STUDENTS. INTERNATIONAL EXPERT ADVISORY PANEL IN COMMUNITY HEALTH AND TRANSPORT (I-CHAT). INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FORMATION OF I-CHAT, AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF PRIMARILY OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY RESEARCHERS IN THE AREA OF DRIVING AND COMMUNITY MOBILITY WITH THE AIM OF DEVELOPING A COHESIVE GROUP OF INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS TO WORK ON AGREED RESEARCH PRIORITIES, COLLABORATE ON INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS, SEEK COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS, AND GUIDE PRACTICE INTERNATIONALLY ON THE AREA OF DRIVING AND COMMUNITY MOBILITY FOR OLDER ADULTS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITY. THE INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE GROUP WAS IN NOVEMBER 2016. IRISH HEART FOUNDATION COUNCIL ON STROKE. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY REPRESENTATIVE TO THE COUNCIL ON STROKE, FROM 2011 TO PRESENT. MEMBER OF THE STROKE STUDY DAY CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE 2017, ACTIVE CONTRIBUTOR TO THE STROKE SURVIVORS DAY 2012, 2013, CONTRIBUTING MEMBER TO THE STROKE OUTCOME MEASURES WORKING GROUP IN 2012. IRISH NATIONAL STROKE AUDIT 2015. MEMBER OF THE IHF/HSE NATIONAL STROKE AUDIT 2015 STEERING GROUP 2014 - 2015. REPORT PUBLISHED 2015, HTTP://HSE.IE/ENG/ABOUT/WHO/CLINICAL/NATCLINPROG/STROKEPROGRAMME/NATIONALSTROKEAUDIT2015.PDF MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND (AOTI) MEMBER OF THE IRISH HEART COUNCIL ON STROKE (OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY REPRESENTATIVE) MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY OF THE REHABILITATION AND THERAPY RESEARCH SOCIETY (RTRS) NATIONAL OFFICE FOR TRAFFIC MEDICINE (NOTM) EDUCATION SUBGROUP. ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EDUCATION SUBGROUP OF THE NOTM AND CONTINUE TO INPUT TO THIS GROUP. MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR THE TO DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIRST ONLINE CERTIFICATE IN TRAFFIC MEDICINE (RCPI) DESIGNED FOR MEDICAL DOCTORS AND OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS. DESIGNED THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ONLINE MODULE FOR THIS CERTIFICATE COURSE AND DELIVER THE REQUIRED WORKSHOPS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CERTIFICATE. NATIONAL OFFICE FOR TRAFFIC MEDICINE (NOTM). CURRENTLY THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY REPRESENTATIVE TO THE JOINT ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND/ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY RCPI/RSA NATIONAL OFFICE FOR TRAFFIC MEDICINE. NOTM. THE NOTM WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2011 WITH THE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING MEDICAL DOCTORS, OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSSIONALS, AND LICENCING AUTHORITIES PROMOTE SAFE MOBILITY IN IRELAND AND THEIR WORK INCLUDES OVERSEEING THE ANNUAL REVIEW AND PUBLICATION OF THE IRISH MEDICAL FITNESS TO DRIVE GUIDELINES (SLAINTE AGUS TIOMAINT). SLAINTE AGUS TIOMAINT GUIDELINES UPDATED YEARLY, AVAILABLE AT: HTTP://WWW.RSA.IE/DOCUMENTS/LICENSED%20DRIVERS/GUIDELINES_MEDICAL_FITNESS_TODRIVE1.PDF NATIONAL OFFICE FOR TRAFFIC MEDICINE: HTTPS://WWW.RCPI.IE/TRAFFIC-MEDICINE/ NATIONAL STEERING GROUP ON THE PREVENTION OF FALLS IN OLDER PEOPLE AND THE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF OSTEOPOROSIS THROUGHOUT LIFE. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY REPRESENTATIVE TO THE STEERING GROUP ON FALLS AND OSTEOPOROSIS. THE REPORT OF THE STEERING GROUP 'STRATEGY TO PREVENT FALLS AND FRACTURES IN IRELAND'S AGEING POPULATION' WAS PUBLISHED IN 2008. HTTP://WWW.HSE.IE/ENG/SERVICES/PUBLICATIONS/OLDERPEOPLE/STRATEGY_TO_PREVENT_FALLS_AND_FRACTURES_IN_IRELAND%E2%80%99S_AGEING_POPULATION_-_FULL_REPORT.PDF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY REPRESENTATIVE ON THE JOINT ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND (RCPI), ROAD SAFETY AUTHORITY (RSA) NATIONAL OFFICE FOR TRAFFIC MEDICINE. REHABILITATION THERAPY RESEARCH SOCIETY (RTRS). THE RTRS WAS AN ALL IRELAND SOCIETY ESTABLISHED TO FOSTER AND DISSEMINATE CLINICAL RESEARCH IN THE THERAPY PROFESSIONS (OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, PHYSIOTHERAPY, AND SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY). ACTED AS MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY TO THE RTRS FROM 2006-2009, AND CHAIRPERSON OF THE RTRS FROM 2009 TO 2012, AS WELL AS CONFERENCE SECRETARY IN 2010. REVIEWER. INVITED TO ACT AS REVIEWER FOR SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS INCLUDING: TOPICS IN STROKE REHABILITATION, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY IN HEALTHCARE, BRITISH JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY, AUSTRALIAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY JOURNAL, ADVANCES IN TRANSPORTATION STUDIES IRISH JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY. ACTED AS CONFERENCE ABSTRACT REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY AND INTERPROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES: ASSOCIATION OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS OF IRELAND ANNUAL CONFERENCE (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) REHABILITATION THERAPY RESEARCH SOCIETY ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) IRISH HEART FOUNDATION ANNUAL STROKE STUDY DAY (2017) HPF/2009/7 OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY INVOLVEMENT IN PRE-DRIVING ASSESSMENT FOR PEOPLE AFTER STROKE AND HOW THE FINDINGS FROM THE ASSESSMENT RELATE TO IN-CAR DRIVING PERFORMANCE PHD STUDY FOCUSED ON THE ASSESSMENT OF FITNESS TO DRIVE FOR PEOPLE AFTER STROKE. THREE PHASED STUDY; PHASE 1 IDENTIFYING ASSESSMENT APPROACHES RECOMMENDED FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSESSMENT, PHASE 2 THE CLINICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LED ASSESSMENT PROCESS PATHWAY, AND PHASE 3 A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF FACTORS INFLUENCING CLINICAL DECISION MAKING IN THE PROCESS OF ASSESSING FITNESS TO DRIVE AFTER STROKE. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS HPF/2009/7/K KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION BASED ON FINDINGS FROM RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP GRANT (HPF/2009/7). THE GRANT WAS AWARDED TO ENABLE THE DEVELOPMENT AND DELIVERY OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS WORKING IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS IN IRELAND TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF ASSESSING FITNESS TO DRIVE IN THE CLINICAL SETTING. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND DISSEMINATION (KEDS) AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR LEO STASSEN stassenleo CHAIR OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY STASSENL DENTAL SCIENCE DENTAL SCIENCE SCHOOL LINCOLN PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH ASSISTANT EDITOR OF BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY DEPUTY EDITOR OF BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY EDITOR IRISH DENTAL JOURNAL EDITOR OF BRITISH JOURNAL OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY EDITORIAL BOARD IRISH DENTAL JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY FACULTY OF SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE (UK) REPRESENTATIVE ON THE IRISH FACULTY OF SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE, FFSEM (UK), RCS (ENGLAND) FELLOW OF THE FACULTY OF SPORT & EXERCISE MEDICINE (UK) FELLOW OF THE RCS (EDINBURGH) FELLOW OF THE RCS (ENGLAND) GENERAL DENTAL COUNCIL (UK) REGISTRATION NO. 51904 GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL (UK) REGISTRATION NO 2722566 HONORARY EDITOR OF CRANIOFACIAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN IRISH DENTAL COUNCIL IRISH MEDICAL COUNCIL OMFS IRISH SURGICAL POSTGRADUATE TRAINING COMMITTEE, RCSI OMFS REPRESENTATIVE, PROFESSIONAL & GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE, RCSI OMFS RESEARCH COMMITTEE, RCSI OMFS SPECIALIST LIST IMC OS SPECIALIST LIST (IMC) SPECIALIST LIST ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY (GMC-UK) SPECIALIST LIST ORAL MEDICINE (IMC?) SPECIALIST LIST ORAL SURGERY (IMC?) SPECIALIST LIST SURGICAL DENTISTRY (IMC?) IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION MS. GAYE MARY STEPHENS stephensgayemary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GSTEPHEN COMPUTER SCIENCE (KDEG) KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING GROUP: THE GROUP FOCUSES ON RESEARCH ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS IN KNOWLEDGE AND DATA MANAGEMENT. IN PARTICULAR THE GROUP IS ACTIVELY RESEARCHING ADAPTIVE (HYPERMEDIA) SYSTEMS, INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, SEMANTIC WEB AND INTEROPERABILITY, WEB ORCHESTRATION AND BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION. IN PARTICULAR, KDEG HAS PIONEERED RESEARCH IN FOUR FOCUSED APPLICATION AREAS, NAMELY · TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES MANAGEMENT · SMART SPACE (UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING) MANAGEMENT · ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA AND ELEARNING · HEALTH INFORMATICS MY CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS CONCERN ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF INFORMED CONSENT MODELS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR SHARING INFORMATION CONTAINED IN ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS (EHR). OWNERSHIP OF THE EHR, DIGITAL HEALTH LITERACY AND PATIENT ENGAGEMENT ARE ALL ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS IN DESIGNING APPROPRIATE AND USEFUL MODELS AND INSTRUMENTS THAT CAN BE SUPPORTED BY AND INFLUENCE EHR SYSTEM INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES. NOVEL RESEARCH DISSEMINATION AND ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES ARE IMPORTANT AS SCALABLE EHR RESEARCH IS BOTH INTERDISCIPLINARY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND NEEDS TO CONSIDER LEGACY SYSTEMS AS WELL AS NASCENT TECHNOLOGIES EMBEDDED IN THE COMPLEX WORLD OF HEALTHCARE. MY STRATEGY OF WORKING IS A PATIENT CENTERED ONE AS IT IS THE PATIENT WHO IS IN THE UNIQUE POSITION TO VIEW INTEGRATION OF INFROMATION ACROSS THE HEALTH SERVICES. TO THAT END I AM WORKING TO DEVELOP A FRAMEWORK FOR PATIENT ENGAGEMENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IRISH ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD. DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH COUNCIL OF CLINICAL INFORMATION OFFICERS HEALTH INFORMATICS ECOSYSTEM WORKING GROUP HEALTH INFORMATICS SOCIETY OF IRELAND HSE GROUPS ACCESS TO INFORMATION HEALTHCARE TERMINOLOGY GROUP I HAVE STRATEGICALLY PLACED MYSELF TO MAKE CONTRIBUTION AND DEVELOP MY RESEARCH AREA AND TEACHING. I HAVE ORGANISED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS. IRISH PLATFORM FOR PATIENT ORGANISATION SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY NATIONAL STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF IRELAND HEALTH INFORMATICS GROUP ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF IRELAND GENES & SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. ANETA STEPIEN stepienaneta VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW STEPIENA RUSSIAN GENDER STUDIES, POLISH LITERATURE OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY, YIDDISH STUDIES AND LANGUAGE, COMMUNISM, IN PARTICULAR THE HISTORY OF THE POLISH REPUBLIC OF PEOPLE (1945-1989). MY MOST RECENT PROJECT FOCUSES ON GENDER RELATIONS AND SEXUALITY IN THE PROSE OF ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER AS WELL AS THE LITERARY CULTURE IN THE INTER-WAR POLAND AND ITS IMPACT ON JEWISH WRITERS. DEPT OF RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 POLISH RUSSIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH IARCEES, IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SEXUALITY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY (IASSCS) CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION DR. JAMES CHARLES STEWART stewartjamescharles ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JSTEWART SCHOOL OFFICE - BUSINESS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: . CORPORATE FINANCE AND TAXATION . PENSION FUNDS AND FINANCIAL PRODUCTS . FINANCIAL SYSTEMS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL OF BUSINESS COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. MARTIN STICKER stickermartin RESEARCH FELLOW STICKERM PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY COLLEGE 01-8961000 LATIN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ASSOCIATE FELLOW OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY DR. EMMA KATHERINE STOKES stokesemmakatherine ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ESTOKES PHYSIOTHERAPY STROKE REHABILITATION - NOVEL TECHNOLOGIES, FAMILY-MEDIATED EXERCISE INTERVENTION, ACTIVITY & EXERCISE PARTICIPATION PROFESSIONAL ISSUES PHYSIOTHERAPY PRACTICE - DIRECT ACCESS, REGULATION, ADVANCED SCOPE OUTCOME MEASURES IN PHYSIOTHERAPY PRACTICE SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHSYIOTHERAPISTS AT EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS WORLD CONFEDERATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY- EUROPEAN REPRESENTATIVE ON WCPT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (HANDICAPPED) ELDERLY HEALTH EXERCISE HANDICAPPED DEVICE DEVELOPMENT HEALTH/MEDICAL SCIENCE--COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY INSTRUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES/DISORDERS OUTCOME MEASURES PHYSIOTHERAPY STROKE REHABILITATION TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT/TRANSFER/OUTREACH (HLTH THERAPY EVALUATION GENTLE/S DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ROBOT-MEDIATED THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH STROKE EU FP5 I-MATCH DEISGN ADN EVALUATION OF TECHNOLOGY TO HELP MATCH USERS TO APPROPRAIE INPUT DEVICES FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (AT). PYSCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF AT. EU FP5 IST ALLADIN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR NEURO-REHABILITATION EU FP6 IST FAME - FAMILY MEDIATED EXERCISE INTERVENTION POST STROKE THIS STUDY INVESTIGATES THE ROLE OF FAMILY MEDIATED EXERCISE INTERVENTION POST STROKE. FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL DONNYBROOK AGEING CANCER CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES NEUROSCIENCE DR. PETER STONE stonepeter USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PSTONE POLITICAL SCIENCE STONE SPECIALIZES IN POLITICAL THEORY, ESPECIALLY SUCH AREAS AS DEMOCRATIC THEORY, THEORIES OF JUSTICE, RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. HE IS PARTICULARLY CONCERNED WITH QUESTIONS INVOLVING THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF HUMAN REASON. HIS SECONDARY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE POLITICS AND RELIGION AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF BERTRAND RUSSELL. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL PHILOSOPHY ASAP (ACADEMICS STAND AGAINST POVERTY) IRELAND ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL THEORY BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY BOARD MEMBER, BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY CO-CONVENOR, POLITICAL THEORY SPECIALIST GROUP, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT COORDINATOR, CONFERENCE FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT (UPSTATE NEW YORK CHAPTER) MEMBER, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MIDWEST POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND POLITICAL THEORY CATEGORY CHAIR, ANNUAL MEETING--EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION REVIEW EDITOR, FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL THOUGHT PROJECT SECRETARY OF SOCIETY AND BOARD, BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY SECRETARY, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND VICE CHAIR, BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY VICE PRESIDENT, BERTRAND RUSSELL SOCIETY BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL SCIENCES BERTRAND RUSSELL CITIZEN JURIES COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS CONDORCET JURY THEOREM DECISION MAKING DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC EQUALITY FORMAL THEORY (POLITICAL SCIENCE) GAME THEORY GLOBAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONS LOTTERIES POLITICAL METHODOLOGY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL THEORY RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY RATIONALITY THEORIES OF GLOBAL JUSTICE SOCIAL SCIENCES, ECONOMICS, LAW & BUSINESS POLITICAL SCIENCE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR JANE CATHERINE STOUT stoutjanecatherine PROFESSOR STOUTJ BOTANY TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH I AM AN ECOLOGIST AND MUCH OF MY RESEARCH USES PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS AS A MODEL SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS ON BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. I HAVE PARTICULAR INTERESTS IN RARE NATIVE AND INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES, IN BOTH MANAGED AND UNMANAGED LANDSCAPES. I EMPLOY FIELD-BASED EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES COMBINED WITH LABORATORY ANALYSES TO CHARACTERISE INSECT BEHAVIOUR, PLANT BREEDING SYSTEMS, BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION OF POLLINATORS AND THEIR IMPACTS ON PLANT POPULATION DYNAMICS. SCHOOL OF BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATED PARTNER IN EU INTEGRATED PROJECT ON ASSESSING LARGE SCALE RISKS FOR BIODIVERSITY WITH TESTED METHODS (ALARM) BRITISH ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY CO-ORGANISER OF INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL INSECTS (BRITISH SECTION) MEETING, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CO-ORGANISER OF IRISH PLANT SCIENTISTS' ASSOCIATION MEETING, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN CONSULTANT, BEE CONSERVATION WORKSHOP - CREATING RED DATA LIST FOR IRISH BEES, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL BEE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL INSECTS (BRITISH SECTION) MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE COST ACTION SUPER-B MEMBER, NATIONAL PLATFORM FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH, IRELAND TRUSTEE, BUMBLEBEE CONSERVATION TRUST BEHAVIOURAL AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY BIODIVERSITY ENTOMOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY LAND USE PLANNING/POLICY NATURAL CAPITAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE WEEDS BIODIVERSITY AGRI-ENVIRONMENT - NUTRIENTS, BIODIVERSITY, GASEOUS EMISSIONS, OTHER ECOLOGY AND MARINE BIOLOGY THE ROLE OF REPELLENT SCENT MARKING IN EFFICIENT FORAGING BY BEES WE SHOWED THAT THE DURATION OF THE REPELLENT EFFECT CORRESPONDED TO NECTAR SECRETION RATES, EVIDENCE FOR INTER-GENERIC INTERPRETATION OF SCENT MARKS AND THAT BEES BEHAVED ACCORDING TO PREDICTIONS MADE FROM AN ESS MODEL. NATURAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NERC) SMALL RESEARCH GRANT INVASIVE WEEDS: THE ROLE OF POLLINATION MUTUALISMS IN POPULATION EXPANSION I INVESTIGATED MUTUALISTIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN INVASIVE PLANTS AND NATIVE POLLINATORS, USING INVASIVE RHODODENDRON PONTICUM AS A MODEL. I FOUND THAT R. PONTICUM HAS A GENERALISED POLLINATION SYSTEM, BOTH IN ITS NATIVE AND ITS EXOTIC RANGES, BUT THAT FRUIT PRODUCTION MAY BE POLLINATOR LIMITED. FIELD OBSERVATIONS HAVE INDICATED INFREQUENT LONG-DISTANCE POLLEN TRANSFER AND I AM USING AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM (AFLP) AND MICROSATELLITE MOLECULAR MARKERS QUANTIFY LEVELS OF GENE FLOW AND TO CHARACTERISE PATTERNS OF GENETIC VARIATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN POPULATIONS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF RARE IRISH ORCHIDS SEVERAL SPECIES OF ORCHID ARE EXTREMELY RARE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. RARITY CAN HAVE SEVERE IMPACTS ON PLANT POPULATION VIABILITY AND RECRUITMENT AND KNOWLEDGE OF A RARE PLANT'S REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY IS ESSENTIAL FOR ITS CONSERVATION. MANY ORCHIDS RELY ON ANIMAL POLLINATORS TO TRANSFER POLLEN BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS TO FACILITATE THE PRODUCTION OF SEEDS. HOWEVER, INTERACTIONS WITH POLLINATORS ARE AFFECTED BY RARITY, AND A NEGATIVE FEEDBACK MAY EXIST WHEREBY RARE PLANTS FAIL TO ATTRACT SUFFICIENT POLLINATORS WHICH RESULTS IN REDUCED SEED PRODUCTION, WHICH INCREASES RARITY. THIS PROJECT WILL DETERMINE WHETHER LIMITATION IN POLLINATION IS REDUCING SEED PRODUCTION IN FOUR RARE ORCHID SPECIES IN IRELAND AND SUGGEST MECHANISMS FOR MANAGING NOT ONLY ORCHIDS, BUT ALSO THEIR POLLINATORS. IN ADDITION, DETAILED ECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF SITES WHERE THESE ORCHID SPECIES ARE FOUND WILL CONTRIBUTE TO MONITORING PROGRAMMES OF RARE PLANT SPECIES. NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE SERVICE IMPACTS OF EXOTIC PLANTS ON NATIVE PLANT-POLLINATOR MUTUALISMS EXOTIC SPECIES THAT BECOME NATURALISED IN NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS CAN HAVE A WIDE RANGE OF IMPACTS AND DISRUPT KEY ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES. SINCE MANY EXOTIC PLANTS REQUIRE ANIMALS TO TRANSFER POLLEN BETWEEN FLOWERS, THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DISRUPT NATIVE PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS. THIS POTENTIAL HAS LARGELY BEEN OVERLOOKED IN PREVIOUS STUDIES. USING A COMBINATION OF FIELD AND LABORATORY TECHNIQUES, THIS PROJECT WILL MAKE A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE POTENTIAL DIRECT AND INDIRECT IMPACTS OF A MODEL SPECIES (RHODODENDRON PONTICUM) ON NATIVE PLANTS AND POLLINATORS IN IRELAND. FINDINGS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF IMPACTS OF INVASIVE SPECIES ON NATIVE AND AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT URBAN VERSUS AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS: BUMBLE BEE SPECIES DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE IN IRELAND BUMBLE BEES ARE ECOLOGICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT POLLINATORS AND A CHARISMATIC COMPONENT OF IRELAND'S NATIVE BIODIVERSITY. NATURAL POPULATIONS OF BUMBLE BEES HAVE DECLINED IN NORTHERN EUROPE IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, LARGELY BECAUSE OF CHANGES IN FARMING PRACTICES. USING MALAISE TRAPS, WE SURVEYED BUMBLEBEES IN URBAN AND AGRICULTURAL AREAS. URBAN AREAS HOSTED A MORE SPECIES-RICH BUMBLE BEE ASSEMBLAGE, BUT THERE WAS NO OVERALL DIFFERENCE IN DIVERSITY BETWEEN URBAN AND AGRICULTURAL AREAS. URBAN AREAS ALSO SUPPORTED LARGER BUMBLEBEE POPULATIONS, ALTHOUGH THE STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS DIFFERENCE VARIED ACROSS THE YEAR. BUMBLEBEE ABUNDANCE PEAKED TWO WEEKS EARLIER IN URBAN SITES, BUT DUE TO THE LACK OF QUEENS AND MALES CAUGHT IN AGRICULTURAL SITES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE MORE DETAILED STATEMENTS ABOUT DIFFERENCES IN PHENOLOGY. MALAISE TRAPS PROVED TO BE GOOD SAMPLERS OF THE BUMBLE BEE ASSEMBLAGE, BUT MODIFICATIONS TO AVOID BY-CATCH PROBLEMS ARE SUGGESTED. OVERALL, THIS WORK DOES SUGGEST THAT URBAN AREAS HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY AS RESERVOIRS FOR BUMBLE BEE POPULATIONS. HERITAGE WILDLIFE THE DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF THE MOUNTAIN BUMBLEBEE, BOMBUS MONTICOLA BUMBLEBEES ARE ECOLOGICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT COMPONENTS OF IRELAND'S NATURAL HERITAGE. OF OUR 18 NATIVE IRISH SPECIES, 10 ARE LIKELY TO QUALIFY FOR IUCN THREATENED STATUS. BOMBUS MONTICOLA (SMITH) WAS FIRST DISCOVERED IN IRELAND IN 1974. THIS SPECIES IS GENERALLY CONFINED TO MOUNTAINS AND MOORLANDS, AND IS ONLY FOUND IN THE WICKLOW MOUNTAINS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. WE KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT THE LOCAL DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF B. MONTICOLA IN IRELAND. AS PART OF A GENERALLY DECLINING BUMBLEBEE FAUNA, AND A SPECIALIST OF HEATHLAND PLANTS, THIS SPECIES REPRESENTS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF IRISH BIODIVERSITY. SINCE THE GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF B. MONTICOLA IS RESTRICTED TO THE BRITISH ISLES AND FENNO-SCANDINAVIA, IRISH POPULATIONS ARE GLOBALLY IMPORTANT. CONSEQUENTLY, WE NEED TO KNOW MUCH MORE ABOUT ITS DISTRIBUTION, FORAGING ECOLOGY, POPULATION PHENOLOGY (LIFE CYCLE THROUGH THE YEAR) AND NESTING REQUIREMENTS IN IRELAND. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO MAKE PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE SPREAD OF THIS SPECIES AND ITS POTENTIAL INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER BUMBLEBEE SPECIES. HERITAGE COUNCIL WILDLIFE GRANT WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS OF ALIEN PLANTS ON NATIVE POLLINATORS? POLLINATORS PROVIDE ESSENTIAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND MAY BE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY ALIEN PLANTS. BUMBLEBEES ARE IMPORTANT GENERALIST POLLINATORS WHICH HAVE DECLINED DURING THE LAST CENTURY, PARTLY AS A RESULT OF A REDUCTION IN WILDFLOWER FORAGE RESOURCES. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE WHETHER INVASION BY REWARDING ALIEN PLANTS HAS BENEFICIAL IMPACTS ON NATIVE BUMBLEBEES BY PROVIDING AN ALTERNATIVE FORAGE RESOURCE; OR NEGATIVE EFFECTS, BOTH DIRECTLY BY PROVIDING LOW QUANTITY AND QUALITY REWARDS, OR INDIRECTLY BY REDUCING REWARDING NATIVE FORAGE RESOURCES. BY MANIPULATING NUMBERS OF ALIEN PLANTS, THIS PROJECT WILL ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF MANAGEMENT OF INVASIVE ALIEN PLANTS ON NATIVE BUMBLEBEE SPECIES. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY PHD SCHOLARSHIPS PREDICTING PLANT INVASION - WHICH TAXA ARE THE FUTURE INVASIVE ALIENS? GLOBALLY, ALIEN PLANT INVASIONS HAVE SEVERE IMPACTS ON BIODIVERSITY AT ALL LEVELS. OFTEN INVADING ALIEN PLANTS ARE ONLY RECOGNISED AS SUCH ONCE THEY HAVE BECOME ESTABLISHED AND ARE ALREADY VERY DIFFICULT TO ERADICATE. ALTHOUGH IT IS NOTORIOUSLY DIFFICULT TO PREDICT WHICH TAXA WILL BECOME INVASIVE IN THE FUTURE, ONE OF THE TARGETS OF THE NATIONAL PLANT CONSERVATION STRATEGY FOR IRELAND IS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT MECHANISMS FOR EARLY DETECTION AND RAPID ACTION AGAINST POTENTIALLY NEW INVASIVE SPECIES. THIS IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT IN IRELAND AS APPROXIMATELY HALF OF IRELAND'S FLORA IS RECORDED AS NON-NATIVE. THIS PROJECT WILL FOCUS ON ESTABLISHED NON-NATIVE TERRESTRIAL AND AQUATIC PLANT SPECIES IN IRELAND. WE WILL CREATE A DATABASE OF ALIEN PLANTS AND THEIR BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL FUTURE INVASIVES. EPA BIODIVERISTY CLUSTER HABITAT MOSAICS AND BIODIVERSITY AT THE LANDSCAPE SCALE THIS PROJECT WILL DETERMINE INSECT ASSEMBLAGES ACROSS HABITATS IN THE LANDSCAPE MOSAIC (FOCUSING ON BUMBLE BEES, BUTTERFLIES, LADYBIRDS AND ANTS), DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL RESOURCE VALUE OF EACH HABITAT TO SPECIFIC TAXA, DETERMINE IF RARE AND COMMON SPECIES INTERACT WITH THE HABITAT MOSAIC IN THE SAME, OR CONTEXT-SPECIFIC WAYS, AND DEVELOP A MODEL OF HOW HABITATS INTERACT, AND THUS PREDICT HOW INDIVIDUAL MANAGEMENT DECISIONS WILL AFFECT LANDSCAPE-SCALE BIODIVERSITY. EPA BIODIVERSITY CLUSTER PROJECT TOXIC NECTAR AND POLLNE: IMPACTS ON FLOWER-VISITING MUTUALISTS AND ANTAGONISTS AND ROLE IN INVASION SUCCES THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE EFFECTS OF TOXIC NECTAR FROM INVASIVE RHODODENDRON ON NATIVE INSECTS AND DETERMINE WHY TOXIC NECTAR IS PRODUCED - IS IT TO DETER FLOWER VISITORS THAT DO NOT POLLINATE? ALSO, WE WILL INVESTIGATE WHICH RHODODENDRON SPECIES HAVE TOXIC NECTAR AND HOW POISONOUS IT IS. FINDINGS WILL BE CRUCIAL FOR INFORMING CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT OF DECLINING POLLINATORS AND INVADING NON-NATIVE PLANTS. RHODODENDRON PONTICUM, AN INVASIVE SPECIES IN IRELAND, PRODUCES TOXIC NECTAR AND POLLEN WHICH APPEARS TO HAVE LITTLE IMPACT ON THE SURVIVAL OF BUMBLEBEES, THE MAIN POLLINATORS IN IRELAND. IN FACT, R. PONTICUM MAY ACT AS AN IMPORTANT FLORAL RESOURCE FOR THESE BEES. HOWEVER, OTHER BEES (E.G. HONEYBEES) AVOID RHODODENDRON FLOWERS, PRESUMABLY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT TOLERATE THE TOXINS. THIS 4-YEAR PROJECT IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION, BRINGING TOGETHER DR STOUT AND DR GERALDINE WRIGHT (NEWCASTLE), DR PHIL STEVENSON (KEW/GREENWICH) AND DR MARK BROWN (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, LONDON). THE TEAM WILL ASSESS THE IMPACTS OF FLORAL TOXINS ON PLANT MUTUALISTS (POLLINATORS) AND ANTAGONISTS (NECTAR THIEVES - INSECTS WHICH VISIT FLOWERS IN ORDER TO COLLECT NECTAR, BUT WHO DO NOT TRANSFER POLLEN AND ACT AS POLLINATORS) AND EXPLORE THE EXTENT TO WHICH TOXIC NECTAR PLAYS A ROLE IN INVASION BY NON-NATIVE SPECIES. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PARALLEL DECLINES IN POLLINATORS AND ANIMAL-POLLINATED PLANTS IT HAS LONG BEEN RECOGNIZED THAT PLANT AND POLLINATOR DECLINE ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED AND RECENT WORK HAS DEMONSTRATED PARALLEL DECLINES USING HISTORICAL DATA. WHAT IS STILL LACKING, HOWEVER, IS A DEMONSTRATION OF THE CAUSAL LINK, IF ANY, AND ITS DIRECTION BETWEEN PLANT AND POLLINATOR DECLINE. IN THIS PROJECT WE WILL DETERMINE THE DIRECTION OF CAUSALITY USING MODELING AND EMPIRICAL APPROACHES. IF CAUSALITY CAN BE DEMONSTRATED, THIS WILL FURTHER JUSTIFY DEVELOPMENT OF PRIORITIES TO HALT POLLINATOR DECLINE. IRCSET PHD SCHOLARSHIPS TOXIC NECTAR AND POLLEN: IMPACTS ON FLOWER-VISITING MUTUALISTS AND ANTAGONISTS AND ROLE IN INVASION SUCCESS DESPITE THE ECOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL IMPORTANCE OF SECONDARY PLANT COMPOUNDS, THEIR ROLE IN BIOLOGICAL INVASION AND IMPACTS ON NATIVE SPECIES ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD. USING FIELD SURVEYS, LABORATORY BIOASSAYS AND CHEMICAL ANALYSES, WE WILL ASCERTAIN THE IMPACTS OF TOXINS IN NECTAR (AND POLLEN) ON PLANT MUTUALISTS (POLLINATORS) AND ANTAGONISTS (NECTAR ROBBERS), DETERMINE HOW LOCAL SELECTION PRESSURES AFFECT THE EXPRESSION OF TOXIC COMPOUNDS AND ELUCIDATE HOW TOXINS INFLUENCE INVASION BY NON-NATIVE SPECIES. BY DETERMINING IMPACTS OF NON-NATIVE TOXIC NECTAR ON KEY ECOSYSTEM SERVICE PROVIDERS, RESULTS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF POLLINATORS AND INVASIVE SPECIES. IRCSET IMPACTS OF LEGUME CROPPING ON BIODIVERSITY LEGUMES FUTURES IS AN EU PROJECT (FULL TITLE: LEGUME-SUPPORTED CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR EUROPE), COORDINATED BY THE SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, INVOLVING 18 PARTNER INSTITUTIONS. THE PROJECT WILL DELIVER KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE OPTIMISATION OF LEGUMES IN EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS AND PROMOTE THE PARTNERSHIPS NEEDED TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC POLICY OUTCOMES SOUGHT. OUR TASK IS TO CARRY OUT AN ASSESSMENT OF THE INFLUENCE OF LEGUME CROPS ON PLANT AND SOIL BIODIVERSITY IN CROPPING SYSTEMS ACROSS ATLANTIC, CENTRAL EUROPE AND SCANDINAVIAN CLIMATE ZONES. WE WILL ASSESS HIGHER PLANT BIODIVERSITY, EARTHWORM BIODIVERSITY AND WITHIN-SOIL BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY. EU FP7 LEGUMES FUTURES PLANT-POLLINATOR ECOLOGY IN DUNE ECOSYSTEMS COASTAL SAND DUNES ARE DIVERSE HABITATS BOTH IN TERMS OF PHYSICAL STRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY RICHNESS AND ARE PROTECTED UNDER THE EU HABITATS DIRECTIVE. DESPITE BEING RECOGNISED AS PROVIDING A RANGE OF PHYSICAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (EG RAINWATER AND/OR GROUNDWATER FILTRATION, PROTECTION FROM STORM DAMAGE, SEDIMENT STORES ETC), THEIR VALUE IN PROVIDING BIOLOGICAL SERVICES, SUCH AS POLLINATION, HAS NOT BEEN WELL EXPLORED. DUNES PROVIDE EXCELLENT HABITATS FOR A WIDE RANGE OF PLANTS AND INVERTEBRATES, PARTICULARLY WARMTH-LOVING SPECIE THAT NEED A DEGREE OF OPENNESS OF HABITAT AS PART OF THEIR LIFE-HISTORY REQUIREMENTS, AND REPRESENT A REFUGIA FOR RARER SPECIES. THIS PROJECT WILL ASSESS HOW THE SIZE, MANAGEMENT AND SURROUNDING LAND USE OF COASTAL SAND DUNES AFFECTS PLANT AND INSECT COMMUNITIES, INSECT-FLOWER INTERACTION NETWORKS, AND POLLINATION SERVICES. WE ARE WORKING IN COLLABORATION WITH DR UNA FITZPATRICK AT THE NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY DATA CENTRE. TCD STUDENTSHIP BIRDS, BEES AND BUTTER THIS PROJECT WILL DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TREE, BIRD AND POLLINATOR DIVERSITY, TO ENABLE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF SHEA FRUITS, AND TO HELP CONSERVE THE MIXED AGROFORESTRY PARKLAND SYSTEMS OF THE SUDANO ZONE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. THE LONG-TERM GOAL IS MORE RESILIENT RURAL LIVELIHOODS AND RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION OF HABITAT FOR MIGRATORY BIRDS, HONEYBEES AND OTHER POLLINATING INSECTS AND WIDER BIODIVERSITY. LUSH PRECISION PASTURE MANAGEMENT: IMPACTS ON WEEDS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR BIODIVERSITY GRASSLAND RENOVATION IS THE BASIS FOR THE GENERATION OF IMPROVED GRASSLAND FOR IRISH LIVESTOCK FARMERS. TO DATE THE EXTENT OF RESEEDING WITHIN REGION, FARM ENTERPRISE OR STOCKING RATE IS UNKNOWN. HOWEVER IN THE FUTURE IT'S LIKELY THAT GRAZED GRASS WILL PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE IN UNDERPINNING THE PROFITABILITY OF LIVESTOCK ENTERPRISES. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE EXCELLENT GUIDELINE DATA ON THE IMPACTS OF WEED CONTROL WITH PLANT ID TECHNOLOGY IN BOTH HIGH/LOW INPUT AND ORGANIC GRASSLAND SYSTEMS BY QUANTIFYING THE EXTENT OF RESEEDING, METHODS USED, INPUT USAGE AND SUCCESS ON GRASSLAND FARMS. EXPERIMENTS WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF USING AUTOMATED SYSTEMS TO RECOGNISE SPECIFIC WEEDS AND SPOT-APPLY HERBICIDE, SUCH METHODS WILL BE COMPARED AGAINST BLANKET APPLICATION TECHNIQUES AND MANUAL SPOT SPRAYING (AS USED IN LOW N SYSTEMS). THE IMPACT OF PLANT MACHINE TECHNOLOGY TO IDENTIFY WEEDS AND WEED GRASSES TO SPRAY WILL ALSO BE TESTED IN A MINIMAL CULTIVATION RESEEDING EXPERIMENT AGAINST SWARD RENOVATION CONTROLS. WITH MINIMAL HERBICIDE APPLICATION TECHNOLOGIES MAJOR ADDITIONAL BENEFITS ARE ANTICIPATED FOR BIODIVERSITY: A LARGE REDUCTION IN HERBICIDE DAMAGE TO NON-TARGET SPECIES THROUGH THE MUCH GREATER PRECISION IN HERBICIDE APPLICATION AND THE ELIMINATION IN SPRAY DRIFTING. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD RESEARCH STIMULUS FUND PROGRAMME SECTORAL IMPACTS ON BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES (SIMBIOSYS) BIODIVERSITY AND ASSOCIATED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO HUMANITY BUT ARE THREATENED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY IN A RANGE OF SECTORS. THIS €1.6M PROJECT INVOLVING RESEARCHERS AT TCD, UCD AND UCC WILL QUANTIFY IMPACTS OF KEY SECTORAL ACTIVITIES (IN PARTICULAR: CULTIVATION OF BIOENERGY CROPS, ROAD LANDSCAPING AND AQUACULTURE) ON GENETIC, SPECIES AND LANDSCAPE BIODIVERSITY AND THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THEY PROVIDE, INCLUDING POLLINATION, BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL, CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND RESISTANCE TO ALIEN SPECIES INVASION. IN ADDITION, WE WILL TEST METHODS FOR MITIGATING IMPACTS, CARRY OUT IN-DEPTH STRATEGIC REVIEWS IN ORDER TO INFORM NATIONAL POLICY DECISIONS, AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT. EPA STRIVE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HYDROLOGY AND ECOLOGY OF DUNE SLACK ECOSYSTEMS DUNE SLACKS ARE FRESHWATER WETLANDS FOUND BETWEEN DRY, FIXED DUNE RIDGES IN SAND DUNE SYSTEMS. THE GROUNDWATER TABLE IS CLOSE TO THE SURFACE AND FLOODING TYPICALLY OCCURS IN WINTER. BECAUSE OF THEIR SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT AND PLANT COMMUNITIES, DUNE SLACKS INCREASE THE HABITAT AND SPECIES DIVERSITY OF SAND DUNE SYSTEMS WHERE THEY OCCUR. THEIR CONSERVATION VALUE HAS BEEN RECOGNISED UNDER THE EU HABITATS DIRECTIVE (COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 92/43/EEC), WHERE DUNE SLACKS ARE LISTED AS AN ANNEX I HABITAT. THE MOST RECENT MONITORING ROUND FOR ANNEX I HABITATS IN EUROPE IDENTIFIED POLLUTION AND ABSTRACTION OF GROUNDWATER AS MAJOR THREATS TO THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF DUNE SLACKS. CURRENTLY, THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF DUNE SLACKS IS ASSESSED PRIMARILY ON THE FLORISTIC CHARACTERISTICS AND VEGETATION STRUCTURE OF THE HABITAT. INVERTEBRATES FULFIL A KEY ROLE IN ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION OF NATURAL AND AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES, FACILITATING POLLINATION AND NUTRIENT CYCLING AMONG OTHER FUNCTIONS. SENSITIVITY OF AQUATIC MACRO-INVERTEBRATES TO WATER QUALITY HAS BEEN UTILISED IN FRESHWATER MONITORING METHODOLOGIES SUCH AS Q-VALUE ASSESSMENT. THE EFFECTS OF CHANGING WATER LEVELS AND WATER QUALITY ON FLORA OF DUNE SLACKS HAS BEEN STUDIED ELSEWHERE, BUT THE INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES OF DUNE SLACKS ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD IN COMPARISON, PARTICULARLY IN IRELAND. THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO ESTABLISH WHAT RESOURCES DUNE SLACKS PROVIDE FOR INVERTEBRATES IN SAND DUNE SYSTEMS AND WHETHER THEY SUPPORT SPECIFIC ASSEMBLAGES OF PLANTS AND INVERTEBRATES WHICH ARE INDICATIVE OF HABITAT QUALITY. THE EFFECTS OF HUMAN INTERFERENCE WITH GROUNDWATER IN SAND DUNE SYSTEMS WILL ALSO BE INVESTIGATED. TCD EFFECTS OF SCALE AND LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE ON POLLINATOR DIVERSITY AND THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES POLLINATING INSECTS ARE IMPORTANT IN AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL LANDSCAPES TO ENSURE SEED PRODUCTION IN CROP AND WILD PLANT SPECIES. HOWEVER, POLLINATORS ARE BECOMING MORE SCARCE IN FARMLAND AND SEMI-NATURAL AREAS AND REQUIRE CONSERVATION IN ORDER TO CONTINUE DELIVERING THIS POLLINATION SERVICE. SINCE POLLINATING INSECTS ARE VERY MOBILE AND ARE INFLUENCED BY THE AVAILABILITY OF FLOWERS AND NEST SITES OVER A SCALE OF SEVERAL KILOMETRES, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT CONSERVATION IS IMPLEMENTED AT THE APPROPRIATE SCALE. THIS PROJECT WILL INVESTIGATE HOW DIFFERENT POLLINATING INSECTS (BEES, HOVERFLIES, BUTTERFLIES) ARE AFFECTED BY AGRICULTURAL HABITATS AT THE FIELD SCALE (WHICH CROP IS BEING GROWN), AT THE LOCAL SCALE (THE DIVERSITY OF CROP AND NON-CROP HABITATS SURROUNDING AGRICULTURAL FIELDS) AND THE REGIONAL SCALE (THE TYPE AND INTENSITY OF FARMING IN REGION). AT THE SAME TIME, WE WILL INVESTIGATE HOW THIS AFFECTS POLLINATION OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF PLANTS. THIS PROJECT WILL ALLOW US TO DETERMINE CONSERVATION MEASURES FOR DIFFERENT POLLINATING INSECTS AND TO RECOMMEND STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE POLLINATION OF BOTH CROP AND WILD PLANTS IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES. IRC POLLIVAL: ASSESSING MARKET AND NON-MARKET VALUES OF POLLINATION SERVICES IN IRELAND ASSESSING AND EVALUATING NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES WHICH FLOW FROM IT ARE KEY NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH PRIORITIES (FOR VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING THE EPA, NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY PLAN, IRISH FORUM ON NATURAL CAPITAL, ALL-IRELAND POLLINATOR PLAN), ENABLING INTEGRATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL INTO DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES AND THE SUSTAINABLE USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT OF THE MARKET VALUE OF POLLINATION SERVICES IN IRELAND USING BEST-PRACTICE METHODS. DATA GAPS IN TERMS OF POLLINATION DEPENDENCY OF IRISH CROPS WILL BE IDENTIFIED AND FILLED. IN ADDITION, THE PROJECT WILL DELIVER A METHOD FOR ASSESSING NON-MARKET VALUES OF POLLINATION SERVICES, INCLUDING SUPPORTING, REGULATING AND CULTURAL SERVICES. FINALLY, BY INVESTIGATING FUTURE DRIVERS OF CHANGE, INCLUDING CLIMATE, POLICY AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR USING HORIZON SCANNING AND SCENARIO MODELLING, WE CAN PREDICT HOW VALUES MAY CHANGE. BY UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATING THE TOTAL VALUE OF KEY ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, SUCH AS POLLINATION, WE CAN DEVELOP A BETTER APPRECIATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL FOR POLICY AND PLANNING DECISIONS AT MANY LEVELS AND IN SEVERAL SECTORS. THE POLLIVAL PROJECT WILL DEVELOP NATIONAL CAPACITY IN EVALUATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES USING POLLINATION AS A CASE STUDY. BY INTEGRATING MARKET AND NON-MARKET VALUES, ASSESSING CURRENT STATUS AND IDENTIFYING DRIVERS OF FUTURE CHANGE, THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP A MODEL SYSTEM TO ENABLE EVALUATION OF OTHER FORMS OF NATURAL CAPITAL FOR DECISION-MAKING AND PLANNING PROCESSES. THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT ARE: 1. TO IDENTIFY BEST PRACTICE TO EVALUATE THE CURRENT MARKET VALUES OF POLLINATION SERVICES IN IRELAND 2. TO DEVELOP METHODS TO ASSESS NON-MARKET VALUES 3. TO INTEGRATE THE IMPLICATIONS OF LAND USE CHANGE (DRIVEN BY VARIOUS PROCESSES INCLUDING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, POLICY CHANGE AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR) ON THE VALUE OF POLLINATION SERVICES IN IRELAND THE PROJECT WILL INTEGRATE APPROACHES FROM NATURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES AND WILL INVOLVE CONSULTATION WITH EXPERTS AND INTEGRATION OF EXPERT KNOWLEDGE, DATA-GATHERING (FROM A RANGE OF SOURCES, INCLUDING COLLECTION OF NOVEL ECOLOGICAL DATA SETS), DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS, AND MODELLING OF FUTURE SCENARIOS. EPA EFFECTS OF FERTILISATION ON THE STRUCTURE OF MUTUALISTIC PLANT-POLLINATOR COMMUNITIES HUMANS RELY ON SERVICES PROVIDED BY NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS, INCLUDING POLLINATION OF AGRICULTURAL CROPS BY WILD AND NATIVE POLLINATORS. UNDERSTANDING HOW TO SUPPORT AND PROTECT THESE SERVICES IS CRITICAL TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. THIS PROJECT WILL ENABLE EVIDENCE-BASED PREDICTIONS OF THE IMPACT OF FERTILIZER USE ON POLLINATION SERVICE DELIVERY. MUCH WORK HAS BEEN DONE ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF PESTICIDE USE FOR POLLINATOR HEALTH, BUT THE ROLE OF FERTILISERS IN AGROECOSYSTEMS IS UNDERSTUDIED. YET, GIVEN THE VOLUME OF FERTILIZER RUNOFF, IMPACTS ON PRIMARY PLANT PRODUCTIVITY AND FLORAL RESOURCE AVAILABILITY, MAY HAVE CASCADING IMPACTS ON PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS. OUR RESEARCH SEEKS TO FILL THIS GAP IN UNDERSTANDING BY QUANTIFYING COMMUNITY LEVEL IMPACTS OF FERTILISER USE WITH ECOLOGICAL NETWORK THEORY AND THEORETICAL SIMULATIONS OF PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS. FURTHER, WE WILL QUANTIFY THE QUALITY OF RESOURCES PROVIDED BY PLANTS IN TERMS OF THEIR POLLEN AND NECTAR, AND THE QUALITY OF THE POLLINATION SERVICES PROVIDED BY INSECTS BY LOOKING AT PLANT FITNESS. EU MSC INCOMING FELLOWSHIP URBAN BEES URBAN BEES: POLLEN COLLECTION IN RELATION TO RESOURCE AVAILABILITY AND LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE - THIS PROJECT WILL SEEK TO IDENTIFY WHERE AND UPON WHAT URBAN BEES ARE FORAGING IN DUBLIN, REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. EXISTING DATA WILL BE USED TO CHARACTERISE URBAN LANDSCAPES AND RESOURCE AVAILABILITY FOR BEES. WE WILL COLLECT POLLEN FROM THREE GROUPS OF BEES: HONEYBEES (APIS MELLIFERA), BUMBLEBEES (BOMBUS SPP.), AND SOLITARY/SEMI-SOCIAL BEES. THE DIVERSITY OF POLLEN COLLECTED BY BEES WILL BE RELATED TO URBAN LANDSCAPE CHARACTER AND RESOURCE AVAILABILITY. WE WILL ALSO USE MARK-RELEASE-RECAPTURE EXPERIMENTS TO ANALYSE FORAGING PATTERNS TO IDENTIFY DIFFERENCES IN BEHAVIOUR BETWEEN COMMON AND RARE BEE SPECIES. THE RESULTS WILL FEED INTO THE ALL IRELAND POLLINATOR PLAN GUIDE FOR LOCAL COUNCILS, ALLOWING APPROPRIATE STEPS TO BE TAKEN TO IMPROVE URBAN BEE DIVERSITY. EVA CRANE TRUST BUILDING RESILIENT LANDSCAPES AND LIVELIHOODS IN BURKINA FASO'S SHEA PARKLANDS. SHEA TREES PROVIDE VITAL FOOD AND INCOME FOR 80M PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE SUDANO-SAHEL REGION OF AFRICA. HOWEVER, UNSUSTAINABLE SHEA PARKLAND MANAGEMENT HAS REDUCED TREE, POLLINATOR AND BIRD DIVERSITY, THREATENING LONG-TERM LIVELIHOODS. THE PROJECT, COORDINATED BY BIRDLIFE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RSPB, NATURAMA, VOGELBESCHERMING NEDERLAND (VBN), GLOBAL SHEA ALLIANCE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OUAGADOUGOU, WILL RESEARCH AND PILOT BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR OPTIMUM POLLINATION, AND INFORM SUSTAINABLE SHEA PRODUCTION IN BURKINA FASO AND BEYOND. DEFRA DARWIN INITIATIVE ENHANCING NATURAL CAPITAL FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICE PROVISION NATURAL CAPITAL AND THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES THAT FLOW FROM IT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN LIVELIHOODS, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING. OUR FOOD SUPPLY DEPENDS ON HEALTHY FUNCTIONING AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS. INSECT POLLINATORS AND PEST-CONTROL AGENTS PROVIDE KEY ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN THESE SYSTEMS. IT IS CRUCIAL WE UNDERSTAND INTERACTIONS BETWEEN AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND INSECT POPULATIONS TO OPTIMIZE BENEFITS AND MINIMIZE CONFLICTS. AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AT THE LOCAL (E.G. THE USE OF PESTICIDES) AND LANDSCAPE (E.G. HABITAT FRAGMENTATION) SCALES CAN DAMAGE INSECT POPULATIONS, BUT CAN BE MITIGATED BY REGULATING PESTICIDE USE AND INTRODUCING FLOWER STRIPS INTO CROPPED LANDSCAPES. WHILE SUCH PRACTICES CAN BENEFIT INSECT POPULATIONS, FURTHER RESEARCH IS NEEDED ON WHETHER FLOWER STRIP HABITATS NEAR CROPS ARE SAFE FOR INSECTS, AND ENSURE THEY ARE NOT BEING AFFECTED BY PESTICIDE RESIDUES. THIS PROJECT WILL TAKE A NOVEL APPROACH TO TEST WHETHER FLOWER STRIPS ENHANCE POLLINATOR AND NATURAL ENEMY ACTIVITY AND INSECT EXPOSURE TO AGROCHEMICALS. HOVERFLIES WILL BE USED AS MODEL SPECIES AS THEY ARE ATTRACTED TO FLOWER STRIPS AND CAN ENHANCE PEST CONTROL AND POLLINATION IN CROPS, BUT CAN BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY AGROCHEMICALS. USING TWO TEST MODEL SPECIES OF HOVERFLY (EPISYRPHUS BALTEATUS AND ERISTALIS TENAX, BOTH POLLINATORS, THE FORMER WITH PREDATORY LARVAE THAT ACT AS PEST-CONTROL AGENTS) WE WILL ALSO INVESTIGATE HOW CHEMICAL EXPOSURE AFFECTS ADULT BEHAVIOUR AND MORTALITY. WE HYPOTHESISE THAT FLOWER STRIPS WILL ENHANCE THE ACTIVITY OF HOVERFLIES AND IMPROVE POLLINATION AND PEST CONTROL SERVICES, BUT THIS BENEFIT WILL BE MEDIATED BY EXPOSURE TO AGRICHEMICALS. PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON FLOWER STRIPS AND AGRICHEMICALS HAS FOCUSSED ON BEES, BUT HOVERFLIES ARE ALSO IMPORTANT CROP POLLINATORS, AND THEIR LARVAE PERFORM ADDITIONAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, THUS UNDERSTANDING HOVERFLIES IS BOTH NECESSARY AND NOVEL. THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY CAN BE USED TO ALTER AND ENCOURAGE PESTICIDE POLICIES AND THE MANAGEMENT, PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICE PROVIDERS ON FARMLAND. IRC FARMING AND NATURAL RESOURCES: MEASURES FOR ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY BIODIVERSITY HAS UNDERGONE SIGNIFICANT DECLINES THROUGHOUT IRELAND AND EUROPE IN RECENT DECADES. THE TREND IS PARTICULARLY APPARENT IN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS, WHERE CHANGES IN FARMING PRACTICES (E.G. INTENSIFICATION, SPECIALISATION, ABANDONMENT) HAVE LED TO A DECREASE IN HABITATS AND SPECIES DEPENDENT ON AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES. CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES (INCLUDING BIODIVERSITY) AND HALTING THE DEGRADATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ARE KEY ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES ARE ALLOCATED TO THESE OBJECTIVES IN THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY (E.G. 'GREENING'; AGRI-ENVIRONMENT SCHEMES) HOWEVER, DEFICIENCIES IN RELATION TO THE DESIGN, TARGETING, MONITORING, EVALUATION AND FLEXIBILITY OF MEASURES AND SCHEMES HAVE RESULTED IN THEIR EFFECTIVENESS BEING QUESTIONED (KLEIJN & SUTHERLAND, 2003; FINN & Ó HUALLACHÁIN, 2012). THIS POSES A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE TO DEVELOP MEASURES WITH A STRONG EVIDENCE BASE TO SUPPORT THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTIVENESS, AND COST-EFFICIENCY. THIS PROJECT, IN CLOSE CONSULTATION WITH KEY STAKEHOLDERS, WILL IDENTIFY AND OUTLINE THE EVIDENCE BASE FOR NOVEL, COST-EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO PROTECT AND ENHANCE FARMLAND BIODIVERSITY. THESE MEASURES WILL INCREASE HABITAT QUANTITY, ENHANCE HABITAT QUALITY AND IMPROVE ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY, FROM FARM TO LANDSCAPE SCALE. MEASURES WILL THUS HELP HALT BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND ENHANCE THE PROVISION OF ABOVE AND BELOW GROUND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES, THUS SUPPORTING AGRICULTURE AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES. THE PROJECT WILL BUILD ON INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH TO IDENTIFY NEW AGRI-ENVIRONMENT MEASURES APPROPRIATE TO IRISH CONDITIONS. COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF SELECTED MEASURES WILL IDENTIFY THOSE MOST SUITABLE FOR INCLUSION IN FUTURE ITERATIONS OF AGRI-ENVIRONMENT POLICY (E.G. GLAS, ECOLOGICAL FOCUS AREAS). THE FARM AND LANDSCAPE SCALE RESEARCH IN THIS STUDY WILL ADDRESS GAPS IN KNOWLEDGE RELATED TO THE IMPORTANCE OF HABITAT QUALITY AND ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY IN HALTING BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND ENHANCING THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. ADDITIONALLY, THE SPATIAL EXTENT OF BENEFITS WILL BE DETERMINED USING SPATIAL MODELLING. THE RESULTS WILL FEED BACK INTO COST-BENEFIT MODELS TO HELP STAKEHOLDERS ASSESS THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH FARM HABITATS. THIS APPROACH WILL FACILITATE THE IDENTIFICATION OF MEASURES AND PRACTICES REQUIRED TO ENHANCE HABITAT QUANTITY, QUALITY, CONNECTIVITY AND THE PROVISION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. THE PROJECT WILL PROVIDE STAKEHOLDERS WITH THE NECESSARY EVIDENCE BASE FOR NOVEL MEASURES AND PRACTICES TO EFFECTIVELY PROTECT AND ENHANCE BIODIVERSITY AND ASSOCIATED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. ADDRESSING THESE CHALLENGES WILL HELP THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR ACHIEVE ITS OBJECTIVES IN RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMICALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION SYSTEMS. DAFM GENES & SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET MR. GLENN STRONG strongglenn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GSTRONG COMPUTER SCIENCE I AM INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING TYPE-LEVEL FRAMEWORKS FOR FUNCTIONAL MODELLING OF OBJECTS, AND MORE BROADLY IN THE POSSIBILITY OF THE FUNCTIONAL STYLE TO EXPRESS BOTH DEEP AND ELEGANT SOLUTIONS. I HAVE DEVELOPED FORMALLY MODELLED CORRECTNESS STATEMENTS AND PROOFS FOR SOME SOFTWARE TOOLS. THIS WORK HAS MORE RECENTLY LEAD ME TO CONSIDER HOW TYPE LEVEL ANALYSIS OF OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING MODELS CAN BE USED IN NON-FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGES TO PROVIDE STATIC ANALYSES WITH THE POTENTIAL TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IN DYNAMIC LANGUAGES (SUCH AS LUA AND JAVASCRIPT). THESE LANGUAGES ARE DIFFICULT TO HANDLE IN TRADITIONAL TYPE INFERENCE SYSTEMS BECAUSE THE DYNAMIC NATURE OF THE LANGUAGES RESISTS CERTAIN KINDS OF ANALYSIS. I AM INTERESTED IN THE POTENTIAL OF CONSTRAINT BASED SYSTEMS TO OVERCOME THIS, AND AM ACTIVELY DEVELOPING SYSTEMS TO PERFORM TYPE INFERENCE ON DYNAMIC LANGUAGES. I ALSO HAVE A SERIOUS INTEREST IN HOW STUDENTS (OF ALL AGES) DEVELOP AN ABILITY TO PROGRAM AND PARTICULARLY IN HOW PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGN CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS DEVELOPMENT. THIS INTEREST HAS RECENTLY LEAD ME TO BECOME A FOUNDER MEMBER OF THE 'COMPUTATIONAL THINKING FOR LIFE' (CT4L) RESEARCH GROUP IN OUR SCHOOL, LEAD BY RICHARD MILLWOOD, AND TO COLLABORATE WITH COLLEAGUES FROM THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN IT AND EDUCATION. WITHIN CT4L I AM RUNNING AN ONGOING MULTI-YEAR PROJECT TO GATHER DATA ON FRESHMAN UNDERGRADUATES ACROSS IRELAND WHO STUDY PROGRAMMING AS PART OF THEIR DEGREE IN ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE EXTENT OF THEIR PRIOR EXPOSURE TO PROGRAMMING AS WELL AS ITS NATURE, ORIGINS, AND USEFULNESS AND HOW THIS IS CHANGING OVER TIME. THIS IS CONNECTED TO AN INTEREST IN THE PHENOMENON OF INFORMAL LEARNING ACTIVITIES SUCH AS CODERDOJO, AND I AM SUPERVISING A PHD STUDENT WORKING IN THIS AREA. COMPUTER SCIENCE FMG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION SOCIETY OF IRELAND (CESI) COMPUTING AT SCHOOL (CAS) IRISH FREE SOFTWARE ORGANISATION QQI EXPERT GROUP MULTIMEDIA AND ELECTRO-TECHNOLOGY AWARDS QQI VALIDATION PANEL COMPUTER SCIENCE/ENGINEERING FOUNDATIONS AND METHODS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTING PROGRAMMING, INFORMATION SYSTEMS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR DEREK SULLIVAN sullivanderek PROFESSOR DJSULLVN DENTAL SCIENCE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PATHOGENESIS OF FUNGAL PATHOGENS, IN PARTICULAR CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF ANTIFUNGAL DRUG RESISTANCE. EPIDEMIOLOGY OF FUNGAL PATHOGENS. MICROBIOLOGY RESEARCH UNIT DIVISION OF ORAL BIOSCIENCES DUBLIN DENTAL SCHOOL & HOSPITAL LINCOLN PLACE, COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF THE 17TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMAN AND ANIMAL MYCOLOGY, TOKYO, JAPAN 2009 AD HOC REFEREE FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS: MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY, JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY MYCOLOGY, JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY, GENE, FEMS YEAST RESEARCH REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA DE MICOLOGIA FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY MYCOSES MYCOPATHOLOGIA ACTA PATHOLOGICA, MICROBIOLOGICA ET IMMUNOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY MEDICAL MYCOLOGY AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY CO-CONVENOR AND SPEAKER AT MEDICAL MYCOLOGY SESSION OF THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON YEASTS, ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS, AUGUST 2000. CHAIR AND SPEAKER AT ASM CANDIDA AND CANDIDIASIS 2004, BSMM 2004 AND 2005 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PHDS IN NUI MAYNOOTH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO, BILBAO, UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE, BLOEMFONTEIN, S. AFRICA, UNIVERSITY OF ANNAMALAI, INDIA AND THE UNIVERSITY OF JENA, GERMANY FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS (EDITORIAL BOARD) FEMS YEAST RESEARCH (EDITORIAL BOARD) FOUNDING SECRETARY OF IRISH FUNGAL SOCIETY FUNGAL BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (EDITORIAL BOARD) GRANT REVIEW PANEL OF THE FRENCH RESEARCH AGENCIES INSERM AND THE AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE (ANR) GRANTS REFEREED FOR: WELLCOME TRUST, BBSRC, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE (FRANCE), FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA (PORTUGAL) AND THE FLEMISH RESEARCH AGENCY FONDS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK (BELGIUM). HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD, "INFECTIONS, IMMUNITY AND HOST DEFENCE" RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT REVIEW PANEL INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH (ELECTED MEMBER OF IRISH DIVISION COUNCIL 2004-2007) INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH, IRISH DIVISION COUNCIL MEMBER LOCAL ORGANISER OF THE 1999 CONFERENCE OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY (BSMM) ELECTED AS THE MEETINGS SECRETARY OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL MYCOLOGY (BSMM) IN 1999. RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING PART IN THE ORGANISATION OF ANNUAL MEETINGS IN STRATFORD UPON AVON (2000), LONDON (2001), ABERDEEN (2002) AND MANCHESTER (2003). ELECTED AS COUNCILLOR FOR IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR DENTAL RESEARCH (JUNE 2004). MEMBER OF REVIEW BOARD FOR AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE (ANR, FRANCE) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF THE 18TH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMAN AND ANIMAL MYCOLOGY 2012 (BERLIN, ISHAM 2012) REVIEWS EDITOR FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD OF THE SECOND FEBS ADVANCED LECTURE COURSE ON HUMAN FUNGAL PATHOGENS, NICE, FRANCE, 2009 SECRETARY OF THE IRISH FUNGAL SOCIETY BACTERIAL PATHOGENICITY BACTERIOLOGY AND BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS BIOTYPING CANDIDA CANDIDA ALBICANS OUTBREAK CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS CANDIDA-ALBICANS CANDIDIASIS DENTAL CHAIR WATERLINES DIAGNOSIS DIAGNOSTICS DNA FINGERPRINTING DNA TYPING METHODS DUBLINIENSIS ELECTROPHORETIC KARYOTYPE EPIDEMIOLOGY FLUCONAZOLE FUNGAL-INFECTIONS FUNGEMIA GENOMIC STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, MOLECULAR APPROACHES TO GENE FUNCTION GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA HOST, PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS INFECTIOUS DISEASES MYCOLOGY AND FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS NOSOCOMIAL FUNGAL-INFECTIONS NOSOCOMIAL OUTBREAK ORAL CANDIDA ORAL MICROBIOLOGY PATHOGENS PUTATIVE VIRULENCE FACTORS RAPID IDENTIFICATION RIBOSOMAL-RNA SUSCEPTIBILITY WATER MICROBIOLOGY THE ROLE OF A NOVEL TELOMERE-ASSOCIATED (TLO) GENE FAMILY IN FUNGAL PATHOGENESIS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS PROJECT RESPONSES OF CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION SYSTEMS AS TOOLS TO IDENTIFY ANTIFUNGAL TARGETS IN C. ALBICANS AND C. DUBLINIENSIS EUROPEAN UNION COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ADHESION OF CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD TRICLOSAN-BASED ANTAGONISM OF THE ACTIVITY OF AZOLE ANTIFUNGAL DRUGS AGAINST CANDIDA SPECIES HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COMPARATIVE GENOMIC ANALYSIS OF CANDIDA ALBICANS AND CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS: A TOOL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CANDIDAL PATHOGENICITY SCIENCE FOUNDTION IRELAND PROGRAMME INVESTIGATOR GRANT REDUCING HOSPITAL INFECTIONSCAUSED BY METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS AND VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCI BY EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL DECONTAMINATION AND EFFECTIVE HAND HYGIENE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AWARDS 2006 THE ROLE OF HYPHAE AND HYPHA-SPECIFIC GENES IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. CAROLINE SUTTON suttoncaroline RESEARCH FELLOW CASUTTON BIOCHEMISTRY DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. MARK SWEETNAM sweetnammark ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SWEETNMS ENGLISH SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. LORRAINE SWORDS swordslorraine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SWORDSL PSYCHOLOGY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE LORRAINE'S RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE IN THE AREA OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH AND WELLBEING, WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON I) CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCES OF STRESS AND MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES, HELP-SEEKING AND COPING AND II) CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS OF PEERS EXPERIENCING PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTIES, HELP-GIVING AND PEER RELATIONSHIPS, III) CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE OF DEPRIVATION AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION. CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE 3/4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY GROUP FOR GROWING UP IN IRELAND, THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND. PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH CHILD HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY PEER RELATIONSHIPS PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES FAMILY WELL-BEING IN DIFFICULT TIMES: A MODEL OF FACTORS INFLUENCING THE WELL-BEING OF FAMILIES ON LIMITED INCOMES IN IRELAND IN RECENT YEARS IRELAND HAS SUFFERED ITS MOST SERIOUS ECONOMIC CONTRACTION IN GENERATIONS, WITH ONE IN FIVE IRISH HOUSEHOLDS WITH CHILDREN LIVES ON INCOMES THAT ARE 60 PER CENT BELOW THE MEDIAN NATIONAL INCOME (CENTRAL STATISTICS OFFICE, 2008). SUCH ECONOMIC PRESSURES CAN RESULT IN LONG-TERM SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COSTS FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES (E.G. GOLONKA & HOFFMAN, 2008; MARCH ET AL., 2011; RIDGE, 2002, 2007). RESEARCH IN IRELAND BY MCKEOWN, PRATSCHKE AND HAASE (2003) HAS IDENTIFIED FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES SUCH AS EMPLOYMENT OR SOCIAL CLASS AS ONE OF FOUR BROAD SETS OF INFLUENCES ON THE WELL-BEING OF FAMILY MEMBERS. WHILE IT IS CLEAR THAT FAMILIES UNDER FINANCIAL PRESSURE EXPERIENCE THE REPERCUSSIONS ACROSS MANY ASPECTS OF THEIR MEMBERS' LIVES, RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT FAMILIES CAN BE ACTIVE AGENTS IN HOW THEY RESPOND TO, AND MANAGE, THESE SITUATIONS (E.G. GORDON, 2000). GUIDED BY FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ABOUT FAMILIES, THE PRESENT STUDY PROPOSES TO MINE DATA COLLECTED AS PART OF GROWING UP IN IRELAND (GUI), THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND, TO INVESTIGATE HOW LIMITED FAMILY INCOME CAN INFLUENCE KEY FAMILY WELL-BEING MEASURES. KEY RESEARCH QUESTION O AMONG FAMILIES LIVING ON LIMITED INCOMES, WHAT ARE THE KEY FACTORS THAT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, INFLUENCE THEIR WELL-BEING? . WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILIES WHO 1. ARE DOING WELL? 2. ARE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTY? UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIVE ROLES OF KEY FACTORS IN CONTRIBUTING TO ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONING AMONG FAMILIES ON LIMITED INCOMES IS OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE TO DEVELOPING FUTURE POLICY TO SAFEGUARD THE WELLBEING OF THE FAMILY AND ITS MEMBERS. USING DATA COLLECTED AS PART OF GUI CAN GIVE US A SENSE OF HOW FAMILIES WITH LIMITED INCOMES ARE FARING AND HOW THIS IS SO ON A TRULY NATIONAL SCALE. FAMILY SUPPORT AGENCY ALL YOU NEED IS... CHILDREN'S PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF DEPRIVATION IN IRELAND THIS PAPER REPORTS THE RESULTS OF A STUDY AIMING TO DERIVE A CHILD-GENERATED SET OF INDICATORS OF CHILD DEPRIVATION. TO DATE CHILD POVERTY AND DEPRIVATION HAVE BEEN CALCULATED ON THE BASIS OF THE CHILD BEING REARED IN A HOUSEHOLD ASSESSED AS LIVING IN RELATIVE OR CONSISTENT POVERTY. THERE IS A CONVINCING ARGUMENT FOR INCLUDING CHILDREN IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD-SPECIFIC INDICATORS TO CAPTURE THE EXTENT AND EXPERIENCE OF CHILD DEPRIVATION. USING THE SOCIALLY PERCEIVED NECESSITIES METHOD WITH CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS TO IDENTIFY CHILD NECESSITIES AND ENFORCED LACK OF THESE NECESSITIES IS INNOVATIVE IN THE STUDY OF CHILDHOOD DEPRIVATION IN IRELAND. TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY TWO CHILDREN, AGED FROM NINE TO ELEVEN YEARS FROM 28 URBAN AND RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS, AND THEIR PARENTS, FROM ACROSS THE SOCIAL SPECTRUM, PARTICIPATED IN THIS STUDY. THE APPROACH USED WAS THE SOCIALLY PERCEIVED NECESSITIES METHOD WHICH HAS BEEN WIDELY APPLIED WITH ADULTS BUT NOT WITH CHILDREN. IN THIS STUDY, A LIST OF 49 MATERIAL (THINGS TO HAVE), ACTIVITY (THINGS TO DO) AND SERVICE (THING THAT HELP) NECESSITIES WAS PRESENTED TO THE CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS AND THEY WERE ASKED WHICH ITEMS THEY BELIEVE ARE NECESSITIES THAT NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO DO WITHOUT DUE TO LOW INCOME. THEY THEN REPORTED ON THEIR OWNERSHIP AND DEPRIVATION OF THESE ITEMS. AN INDEX OF 12 INDICATORS OF CHILD DEPRIVATION WAS DEVELOPED BASED SOLELY ON CHILD RESPONSES. ALTHOUGH CHILDREN ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPORTANCE OF BASIC NECESSITIES SUCH AS ADEQUATE FOOD AND CLOTHING, THEY ALSO PLACE AN EMPHASIS ON BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN TYPICAL FAMILY ACTIVITIES (E.G. HOLIDAYS OR GOING OUT FOR A MEAL) AND TO ACCESS SERVICES (E.G. LIBRARY OR SHOPS). EVIDENCE FROM THIS STUDY SUGGESTS THAT WHILE HOUSEHOLD DEPRIVATION IS RELATED TO CHILD-SPECIFIC DEPRIVATION, HOUSEHOLD AND CHILD DEPRIVATION ARE NOT ONE AND THE SAME PHENOMENON. IN SOME INSTANCES CHILDREN EXPERIENCE MORE DEPRIVATION THAN THEIR PARENTS, WHILE IN OTHERS PARENTS MAY BE GOING WITHOUT IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT THEIR CHILDREN'S NEEDS ARE MET. IT APPEARS THAT SOME CHILDREN ARE PROTECTED FROM EXPERIENCING THE LEVEL OF CHILD-SPECIFIC DEPRIVATION THAT MIGHT BE EXPECTED CONSIDERING THEIR PARENTS' REPORTS OF HOUSEHOLD DEPRIVATION, WHILE OTHER CHILDREN IN HOMES WITH LITTLE OR NO APPARENT HOUSEHOLD DEPRIVATION ARE EXPERIENCING A SURPRISING LACK OF CHILD ESSENTIALS. THUS, THE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES WITHIN THE FAMILY IS COMPLEX AND THERE IS A NEED TO CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE FACTORS AT PLAY HERE. HOWEVER, USING HOUSEHOLD INDICATORS OF DEPRIVATION OR PARENT REPORTS OF DEPRIVATION IN DATA COLLECTION AS A PROXY FOR CHILDREN'S OWN EXPERIENCES IS INADEQUATE AS IT DOES NOT HELP US TO SUFFICIENTLY IDENTIFY OR SATISFACTORILY UNDERSTAND THE ACTUAL EXPERIENCES OF DEPRIVED AND NON-DEPRIVED CHILDREN LIVING IN DEPRIVED AND NON-DEPRIVED HOMES. PRELIMINARY RESULTS ARISING FROM THE DEVELOPMENT AND EARLY APPLICATION OF THE 12-ITEM CHILD-GENERATED DEPRIVATION MEASURE SUGGEST THAT IT HAS POTENTIAL FOR USE WITH CHILDREN IN THE CHANGING IRISH ECONOMIC CONTEXT AND THAT IT COULD SERVE AS A USEFUL CHILD-CENTRED ADJUNCT TO CURRENT MEANS OF CALCULATING LEVELS OF CHILD POVERTY. BARNARDOS & THE SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL TRANSNATIONAL ACADEMIC CAREERS IN CHILD AND YOUTH WELFARE (TACHYWE) TACHYWE IS A TRANSNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE LEARNING AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT THAT AIMS TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT POSTGRADUATE COURSES ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD AND YOUTH WELFARE. THE 10 PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES AND INSTITUTES ARE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM (GERMANY), FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN (ITALY), HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM (ISRAEL), BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV (ISRAEL), SAPIR COLLEGE (ISRAEL), HARUV INSTITUTE JERUSALEM (ISRAEL), MOSCOW STATE REGIONAL UNIVERSITY (RUSSIA), DON STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (RUSSIA), AND FONDAZIONE EMANUELA ZANCAN (ITALY). THE PROJECT IS FUNDED FOR THREE YEARS BY THE EU-COOPERATION PROGRAMME TEMPUS IV WITH A GRANT OF &#128;970,000. EU TEMPUS IV INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. CLIVE SYMMONS symmonsclive VISITING ACADEMIC CSYMMONS LAW INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES LAW SCHOOL HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. LIDIA TAJBER tajberlidia ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LTAJBER PHARMACY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 4/5 EAST END DEVELOPMENT COLLEGE 01-8961000 POLISH RUSSIAN ENGLISH GERMAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENTISTS AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY CONTROLLED RELEASE SOCIETY AMORPHOUS MATERIALS CHEMICAL PHYSICS COMPOSITE MATERIALS COMPUTER MODELLING OF PHARMACEUTICAL SYSTEMS CRYSTAL ENGINEERING DENDRIMERS DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS HYDROGEN BONDING LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PROPERTIES NANOTECHNOLOGY PHARMACEUTICAL CO-CRYSTALS PHARMACEUTICAL SALTS PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY POLYMER POLYMERS POLYMORPHISM POROUS PARTICLES RESPIRATORY SYSTEM SPECTROSCOPY SPRAY DRYING THERMAL ANALYSIS SOLID STATE PHARMACEUTICAL CLUSTER SFI STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER PROGRAMME SYNTHESIS AND SOLID STATE PHARMACEUTICAL CENTRE SFI TRANS-INT EU 7TH EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS AS IONIC LIQUIDS: SIGNIFICANCE OF PROTONICS AND FUNCTIONAL PROFILING FOR THE DESIGN OF EFFECTIVE MEDICINES A LARGE PROPORTION OF PHARMACEUTICAL MOLECULES EXHIBIT LOW AQUEOUS SOLUBILITY AND/OR POOR MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES RESULTING IN LOW ORAL BIOAVAILABILITY AND DELIVERY PROBLEMS. THUS, MANY COMPOUNDS WITH HIGH PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTIVITY ARE BEING DROPPED FROM DEVELOPMENT PIPELINES. TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF POOR SOLUBILITY AND/OR PERMEABILITY OF ACTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INGREDIENTS, A NEW TACTIC IS PROPOSED WHEREBY THE ACTIVE MOLECULE IS CONVERTED INTO AN IONIC LIQUID (IL), A FUNCTIONAL MATERIAL WITH SUPERIOR PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES TO THE "PARENT" MOLECULE. ILS COMPRISE ANIONS AND CATIONS AND POSSESS LOW LATTICE ENERGY AND LOW MELTING POINTS, OFTEN WELL BELOW 100 °C. THROUGH THE SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS OF STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF ILS, THEIR METHODS OF SYNTHESIS, THE DEGREE OF IONISATION AND TYPE OF PROTON TRANSPORT WITHIN THE ILS AS WELL AS EXTENSIVE PHARMACEUTICAL PROFILING INCLUDING STABILITY, SOLUBILITY, PERMEABILITY AND IN VITRO TOXICITY, A NEW GENERATION OF ILS WITH TUNABLE PHARMACEUTICAL PROPERTIES (PILS) WILL BE ESTABLISHED. TO DEMONSTRATE THE PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPABILITY OF PILS AND THEIR POTENTIAL AS A PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY, PROTOTYPE TABLET FORMULATIONS WILL BE MANUFACTURED AND TESTED USING NOVEL, BIO-RELEVANT DISSOLUTION STRESS TEST DEVICES. A RANGE OF ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND ANTI-INFECTIVE MOLECULES WILL BE EXAMINED DUE TO THEIR EFFICACY LIMITATIONS THAT ARE OFTEN CAUSED BY LOW SOLUBILITY AND PERMEABILITY. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MR. BRIAN NOEL TALBOT talbotbriannoel CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER (SPECIALIST) TALBOTB PHARMACY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR BRENDAN TANGNEY tangneybrendan PROFESSOR DTANGNEY COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN IT IN EDUCATION CURRENT RESEARCH ADDRESSES THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO MEDIATE LEARNING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION. OVER THE YEARS A NUMBER OF GRAPHICAL SOFTWARE EDUCATIONAL TOOLS, BASED ON A SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST PEDAGOGY, HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED AND EVALUATED IN THE AREAS SUCH AS MATHEMATICS, ACADEMIC WRITING, MUSIC COMPOSITION AND ANIMATION. (SOME OF THESE HAVE BEEN BASED ON ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SOME ON MOBILE DEVICES.) THIS WORK ON TOOLS HAS LEAD ON TO AN INTEREST IN THE LEARNING CONTEXT IN WHICH SUCH TOOLS ARE USED. A MODEL FOR TEAM BASED, COLLABORATIVE, PROJECT BASED, TECHNOLOGY MEDIATED LEARNING HAS BEEN DEVELOPED WHICH ENCAPSULATES IN A PRAGMATIC FASHION MANY OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF 21ST CENTURY LEARNING. SINCE 2007, UNDER THE BANNER OF BRIDGE2COLLEGE OR B2C, THIS MODEL HAS BEEN USED IN A SOCIAL OUTREACH PROGRAMME WITH OVER 10,000 STUDENTS. (THE B2C PROGRAM WAS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2009 IRISH LEARNING TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN LEARNING.) CURRENT RESEARCH (BRIDGE21.IE) IS FOCUSING ON HOW THE MODEL CAN BE USED IN MAINSTREAM CLASSROOMS TO HELP BRING ABOUT SYSTEMIC CHANGE IN THE IRISH SECONDARY SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM SO THAT THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED TO HELP UNLEASH THE POTENTIAL OF ALL STUDENTS. COMPUTER SCIENCE CRITE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMPUTER EDUCATION/LITERACY COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION CREATIVE MUSIC EDUCATION E-LEARNING EDUCATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION INNOVATION IN LEARNING BRIDGE21 BRIDGE21 IS A DESIGN BASED RESEARCH PROGRAMME WHICH IS EXPLORING A NEW MODEL OF TECHNOLOGY MEDIATED LEARNING, THAT CAN BE ADAPTED FOR USE IN IRISH SECONDARY SCHOOLS. GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, NCCA, IRELAND FUNDS, THE IRIS O'BRIEN FOUNDATION, ICS SKILLS AND PHILANTHROPY TEACHING FOR TOMORROW DEVELOPING THE BRIDGE21 MODEL OF TEACHING & LEARNING FOR A EUROPEAN WIDE CONTEXT. EU TRINITY ACCESS 21 TRINITY ACCESS 21 IS A MANIFESTATION OF TRINITY COLLEGE'S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH, EXPRESSED IN THE 'ENGAGEMENT WITH SOCIETY' THEME OF THE CURRENT STRATEGIC PLAN. IT IS A PARTNERSHIP OF BRIDGE 21, THE TRINITY ACCESS PROGRAMMES AND THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION TO DEVELOP AND DISSEMINATE ENGAGING, INNOVATIVE, INSIPIRATIONAL EDUCATIONAL MODELS, GROUNDED IN RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY. GOOGLE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. ETAIN TANNAM tannametain ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TANNAME IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES BREXIT BRITISH-IRISH RELATIONS AND POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELANDINTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ETHNIC CONFLICT, CYPRIOT CONFLICT, EUROPEAN UNION AND UNITED NATIONS POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY, BRITISH-IRISH RELATIONS AND POLITICS IN NORTHERN IRELAND SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ISA) EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM FOR POLITICAL RESEARCH (ECPR): STANDING GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ECPR STANDING GROUP ON REGIONALISM, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSSOCIATION OF THE UK, BRITISH INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION, IRISH POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION IRISH-SCOTTISH ACADEMIC INITIATIVE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS/DIPLOMACY POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION IN ETHNIC CONFLICT: COMPARSION OF EU AND UN THIS STUDY EXAMINES THE BUREAUCRATIC ROLES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION AND THE UN SECRETARIAT IN POLICY-MAKING PROCESSES TOWARDS CONFLICT ZONES. TCD START-UP FUND THE ROLE OF NORMS AND NARRATIVES IN INTENRATIONAL CRISES ENTERPRISE IRELAND H2020 -PROPOSAL PREPARATION SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR DAVID TAYLOR taylordavid PROFESSOR DTAYLOR MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1) FATIGUE AND FRACTURE OF MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS THE STUDY OF FATIGUE FAILURE AND BRITTLE FRACTURE IN METALS AND OTHER MATERIALS. FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION AND FRACTURE MECHANICS; FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION OF COMPONENTS; USE OF FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; THE BEHAVIOUR OF STRESS CONCENTRATIONS. 2) FORENSIC ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS AND METALLURGICAL EXAMINATION OF COMPONENTS FOR FORENSIC PURPOSES. CONSULTANCY WORK TO ENGINEERING COMPANIES ON COMPONENT DESIGN AND LIFE PREDICTION. 3) BIOENGINEERING THE ASSESSMENT OF MATERIALS FOR USE IN HUMAN-BODY IMPLANTS AND OTHER BIOMATERIALS. FATIGUE AND FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF BONE IN HUMANS AND ANIMALS. MECH & MANUF ENG PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN CHARTERED ENGINEER DIRECTOR OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING FORENSIC ENGINEERS FELLOW OF THE INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND FELLOW, ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND (PRESIDENT, BIOENGINEERING SECTION 1994-1996) MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF MEDISOLVE, LTD., AN IRISH HEALTHCARE CONSULTANCY COMPANY. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY 316L STAINLESS STEEL 3D ACCUMULATION AUTOGRAFT AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS BAYES INFERENCE BAYESIAN INFERENCE BEHAVIOR BETA-LIMIT BIOMECHANICS BONE BONE ADAPTATION BONE DAMAGE BOVINE BONE CARBON CAST IRON CHELATING CHROMATOGRAPHY COALESCENCE COMPACT BONE COMPONENT COMPONENTS CRACKS CRITICAL DISTANCE CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION DAMAGE DENSITY DYNAMICS EVENT FAILURE FATIGUE FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION FATIGUE DAMAGE FATIGUE LIMIT FEMORAL CONDYLE FRACTURE FEMUR FLUOROCHROME FRACTURE PATH FRACTURES HIERARCHICAL MODEL HIPS HOLD TIME IMAGES INDEX INTRAMEDULLARY PROSTHESES MICRO-CRACKS MICROCRACK MICRODAMAGE NON-PROPAGATING CRACK NOTCH NOTCHES OPERATION PARIS-ERDOGAN EQUATION PARTICLE-VOLUME FRACTION PHYSICS PLASMAS PLASTICS POLYMER COMPOSITE HIGH IMPACT POLYSTYRENE POROSITY PREDICTION PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS PROPAGATION PROSTHESIS COLLAR RELIABILITY REMOTE SENSING REMOVAL RUBBER PARTICLE SIZE AND PHASE VOLUME TENSILE PROPS RUPTURE SHORT FATIGUE CRACKS SIZE STRENGTH TEARING MODES TFTR TRANSPORT UNREAMED FEMORAL NAIL THE THEORY OF CRITICAL DISTANCES DEVELOPMENT OF NEW APPROACHES IN FRACTURE MECHANICS, USING THEORETICAL ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING BONE MECHANICS INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE STRENGTH AND FRACTURE OF BONE, INCLUDING REPAIR AND ADAPTATION. THEORETICAL MODELLING AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INSECT CUTICLE INVESTIGATIONS INTO STRUCTURE/PROPERTY/MORPHOLOGY RELATIONSHIPS IN CUTICLE AS FOUND IN INSECT LEGS, WINGS ETC, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO FRACTURE MECHANICS AND FATIGUE AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MARY TEELING teelingmary ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TEELINM SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE . CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY . PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE . CLINICAL ONCOLOGY . PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND (APPI) EU MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HARMONISATION (ICH) FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE CPMP AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ANTI-CANCER AGENTS FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVICE WORKING PARTY, EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY NATIONAL SPECIALTY DIRECTOR, PHARMACEUTICAL MEDICINE, ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND. ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN IRELAND (FELLOW) ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF IRELAND (FELLOW) VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE FOR PROPRIETARY MEDICINAL PRODUCTS (CPMP, EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY MEDICAL EDUCATION MEDICATION USE ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AGEING INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. CONOR TELJEUR teljeurconor VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW TELJEURC PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE DEPT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL D24 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. HITESH TEWARI tewarihitesh ASSISTANT PROFESSOR HTEWARI COMPUTER SCIENCE NETWORK AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, SECURITY AND MOBILITY COMPUTER SCIENCE O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH HINDI COMPUTER NETWORKS CRYPTOGRAPHY ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LOCAL AREA NETWORKS MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK SECURITY TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH EAZIPASS NDRC SPONSORED PROJECT TO COMMERCIALIZE RESEARCH CARRIED OUT IN THE AREAS OF PERSONAL IDENTITY MANAGEMENT (PIM) AND SECURE CLOUD COMPUTING. THE PROJECT AIMS TO LEVERAGE THE UBIQUITOUS MOBILE PHONE TO SECURELY STORE AND DISTRIBUTE AUTHENTICATION DATA AND ENCRYPTION KEYS WHILE TRANSACTING ONLINE. NDRC FEASIBILITY STUDY CIPHERDOCS THE CIPHERDOCS TECHNOLOGY THAT ALLOWS A USER TO SEAMLESSLY ENCRYPT THEIR CLOUD DOCUMENTS. ONE OF THE IMMEDIATE APPLICATIONS FOR CLOUD COMPUTING IS SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE, WHEREBY COMPANIES ARE LOOKING TO HOSTED SERVICES AS A MEANS OF REDUCING THEIR OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURE. HOWEVER AN IMPORTANT DRAWBACK IS THAT USERS ARE REQUIRED TO DELEGATE TRUST OF THEIR DATA TO THIRD PARTIES. THE CIPHERDOCS BROWSER PLUG-IN MAKES USE OF A NUMBER OF NOVEL CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES TO ENCRYPT IN REAL-TIME USER DATA THAT IS BEING TRANSMITTED TO THE CLOUD. ENTERPRISE IRELAND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT QUANTUM RESISTANT CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES THE PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE BOTH PUBLIC-KEY ENCRYPTION SCHEMES AND SIGNATURE SCHEMES BASED ON MATHEMATICAL PRIMITIVES THAT FACILITATE HIGHLY-EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION, ARE RESISTANT TO QUANTUM CRYPTANALYSIS, AND CAN BE FORMALLY PROVED SECURE IN THE STANDARD MODEL. IRCSET PHD RESEARCH PAY-AS-YOU-GO FOR NEXT GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKS WITH THE ADVENT OF LOW-COST WIRELESS HARDWARE (E.G. WI-FI AND WIMAX), ANYONE WITH THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT AND A HIGH-SPEED CONNECTION TO THE INTERNET HAS THE ABILITY TO ESTABLISH A LOW-COST, INDEPENDENT PICO- OR MICROCELLULAR NETWORK. THESE NEXT-GENERATION OPERATORS WILL PROVIDE HIGH-SPEED NETWORK INTERNET ACCESS TO LARGE NUMBERS OF ROAMING MOBILE USERS AND WILL BE REQUIRED TO GENERATE REVENUE FOR SERVICES RENDERED. HOWEVER TRADITIONAL TELECOMS BASED ACCOUNTING AND BILLING SOLUTIONS WILL NOT BE SUITABLE IN SUCH DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS. THIS PROPOSAL AIMS TO IMPLEMENT A PROTOTYPE ELECTRONIC PAYMENT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL ALLOW NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS TO BE PAID IN "REAL TIME" FOR SERVICE PROVISION TO ROAMING MOBILE USERS, WITHOUT THE NEED FOR LONG-LIVED TRUST AND BILLING RELATIONSHIPS WITH SUCH USERS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATION PAY-AS-YOU-GO FOR NEXT GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKS AS PART OF THIS PROJECT WE AIM TO DEVELOP A HIGHLY FLEXIBLE AND SCALABLE ELECTRONIC PAYMENT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL ALLOW A USER TO PAY ANY WISP AND SUBSEQUENTLY A VOIP PROVIDER OF HIS CHOOSING WITHOUT THE NEED FOR LONG-LIVED TRUST AND BILLING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEM. THE WISP AND VOIP PROVIDER WILL BE PAID IN "REAL-TIME" FOR SERVICE PROVISION AND WILL BE GUARANTEED PAYMENT ONCE THEY HAVE SIGNED UP TO ACCEPT TOKENS FROM A PAYMENT BROKER. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PROPOSAL, WE SHALL CALL THE PAYMENT TOKENS "METAKOINS" THAT CAN REPRESENT A QUANTUM OF TIME OR MONEY DEPENDING ON THE DEPLOYMENT SCENARIO. THE MICROPAYMENT TECHNOLOGY EMPLOYED IN THIS PROJECT MAKES USE OF A ONE-WAY HASH FUNCTION. THE USE OF LIGHTWEIGHT CRYPTOGRAPHICALLY PROTECTED MICROPAYMENT TOKENS MEANS THAT WE CAN PAY THE WISP AND VOIP PROVIDER FOR VERY SHORT ACCESS PERIODS E.G. A FEW MINUTES. ALSO, THE USE OF MICROPAYMENTS ELIMINATES THE NEED FOR CALL DETAIL RECORDS (CDRS) TO BE GENERATED AND EXCHANGED BETWEEN THE VARIOUS ENTITIES IN THE SYSTEM. THIS GREATLY REDUCES THE POSSIBILITY OF DISPUTE BETWEEN THE VARIOUS PARTIES POST SERVICE PROVISION, AS THE PAYMENT TOKENS CAN ONLY BE GENERATED BY THE MOBILE USERS DEVICE, AND ONCE RELEASED TO THE OPERATOR OR SERVICE PROVIDER ACT AS A PAYMENT GUARANTEE. THIS PROPOSAL WILL ENDEAVOUR TO DELIVER AN ELECTRONIC PAYMENT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL SPUR THE GROWTH OF INDEPENDENT NETWORK OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS. THIS IN TURN WILL GIVE END USERS GREATER ROAMING CAPABILITIES AND CHOICE OF WISPS AND VOIP PROVIDERS. IN TERMS OF EXISTING OPERATORS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS IT WILL BRING IN NEW CUSTOMERS AND INCREASE THEIR REVENUE STREAMS. OUR SOLUTION WILL ENHANCE THE USER EXPERIENCE BY SIMPLIFYING THE OVERALL PAYMENT PROCESS. A USER WILL BE ABLE TO LOAD HIS MOBILE DEVICE WITH PREPAID TOKENS AND PAY ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN THE CALL USING A SINGLE PAYMENT METHOD (AS IS THE CASE IN CELLULAR NETWORKS TODAY) WITH THE ADDED ABILITY TO CHOOSE HIS WISP AND VOIP PROVIDER INDEPENDENTLY BASED ON CRITERIA SUCH AS COST AND QUALITY OF SERVICE. ENTERPRISE IRELAND RESEARCH COMMERCIALIZATION CIPHERDOCS - SECURE CLOUD DOCUMENTS ENTERPRISE IRELAND INVITED US FOR A SECOND ROUND OF FUNDING IN ORDER TO ASSEMBLE A COMMERCIAL TEAM AND FURTHER DEVELOP THE GOOGLE DOCS AND OFFICE 365 OFFERING OF CIPHERDOCS. THE AIM OF THIS ROUND OF FUNDING IS TO TRY SPIN OUT A COMMERCIAL ENTITY. ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALIZATION PLUS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. STEPHEN DAVID THOMAS thomasstephendavid ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR THOMASSD SCHOOL OFFICE - MEDICINE GLOBAL HEALTH HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT HEALTH FINANCING AND SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH POLICY ANALYSIS; HUMAN RESOURCE MOTIVATION AND WORKFORCE PLANNING HEALTH SYSTEM EVALUATION CENTRE FOR HEALTH POLICY & MANAGEMENT 3/4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER: BIOMED CENTRAL - GLOBALISATION AND HEALTH HONORARY EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER FOR APPLIED HEALTH ECONOMICS AND HEALTH POLICY MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION REGULAR REVIEWER FOR HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING REVIEWER FOR BIOMED CENTRAL - HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH REVIEWER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE ECONOMICS OF HEALTH SERVICE PROVISION GOVERNMENT STUDIES HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS HEALTH MANAGEMENT HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES HEALTH SYSTEMS INTEGRATION IDENTIFICATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF HEALTH CARE NEEDS POLITICAL ECONOMICS/ECONOMY PRIMARY CARE PUBLIC PLANNING/POLICY PUBLIC, PRIVATE MIX NETWORK APPROPRIATE CARE IN THE APPROPRIATE SETTING: THE IMPACT OF THE HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME ON UTILISATION, PATIENT EXPERIENCE, SAFETY AND OUTCOME IN URGENT AND EMERGENCY CARE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD CARG STRUCTURED POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH PROGRAMME (SPHERE) HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD DEVELOPMENT OF A MODEL TO FORECAST THE DEMAND FOR AND SUPPLY OF GP AND PRACTICE NURSE SERVICES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH PUBLIC SUBSIDIZATION OF NON-STATE HEALTH FACILITIES TO EXPAND ACCESS AND RISK- PROTECTION IN MALAWI ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND SYSTEMS THE RESILIENCE OF THE IRISH HEALTH SYSTEM HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD DOCTOR MIGRATION INTO IRELAND HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HRA 2011 CHRAIC PROJECT HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE OIREACHTAS FUTURE HEALTHCARE COMMITTEE HOUSE OF THE OIREACHTAS PROGRESSING UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE: INFORMING CITIZENS BY POOLING AND DISSEMINATING RESEARCH AND GENERATING DEBATE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH ON SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE IN IRELAND ADELAIDE HOSPITAL SOCIETY MAPPING THE PATHWAY TO UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN IRELAND THIS RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS TO PROVIDE AN EXCELLENT EVIDENCE BASE THAT WILL INFORM STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN IRELAND. THE RESEARCH WILL CONSIST OF THREE COMPONENTS: 1) ASSESSING THE GAP BETWEEN CURRENT IRISH HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, USING AND ADAPTING WHO CONCEPTS. 2) EVALUATING THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF DIFFERENT MODELS OF UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE AND ASSESSING THEIR FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTATION WITHIN THE CURRENT CONTEXT ACCORDING TO KEY CRITERIA SUCH AS AFFORDABILITY, HUMAN RESOURCES AND COMPLEXITY OF DESIGN. 3) ASSESSING THE ORGANISATIONAL CHALLENGES OF MOVING TO UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BY REVIEWING THE EXPERIENCE OF OTHER COUNTRIES AND EXPLORING THE CURRENT CAPACITY AND CONSTRAINTS FACING DECISION MAKERS THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARDS KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE LINKED TO THE RESILIENCE PROJECT HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD RESEARCH ON EVALUATING QUALITY OF CARE PHD SCHOLARSHIP HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. MAEVE THORNTON thorntonmaeve VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MTHORNTO CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. ADRIAN TIEN tienadrian ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN CHINESE STUDIES TIENA C.L.C.S. CENTRE FOR ASIAN STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS: PROF. TIEN IS A LINGUIST WHO SPECIALISES IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND SEMANTICS. MUCH OF HIS RESEARCH WORK ADOPTS A COGNITIVE AND SEMANTIC FRAMEWORK AND HAS ENCOMPASSES ASPECTS OF CHINESE LINGUISTICS, INCLUDING WORK ON CHINESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (ESPECIALLY THE IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSES OF CULTURAL "KEYWORDS" IN CHINESE), CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION INVOLVING CHINESE, LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, STUDIES ON CHINESE-ENGLISH OR ENGLISH-CHINESE TRANSLATION, AND CHINESE SOCIOLINGUISTICS. AS PROF. TIEN IS ALSO A MUSICIAN AND MUSICOLOGIST, HE HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING THE VARIOUS RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND MUSIC, ESPECIALLY AT THE LEVEL OF MEANING AND COGNITION. PROF. TIEN IS THE AUTHOR OF TWO BOOKS: THE SEMANTICS OF CHINESE MUSIC: ANALYSING SELECTED CHINESE MUSICAL CONCEPTS (JOHN BENJAMINS 2015) AND LEXICAL SEMANTICS OF CHILDREN'S MANDARIN CHINESE DURING THE FIRST FOUR YEARS (LINCOM 2011). SCHOOL OF LINGUSITIC, SPEECH & COMMUNICATION STUDIES ROOM 3029, ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 JAPANESE CHINESE DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. PAUL JOHN TIERNEY tierneypauljohn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PTIERNEY ANATOMY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES WHEN I BECAME HEAD OF DEPT IN ANATOMY, TCD, I EMBARKED ON A CHANGE OF DIRECTION FOR THE DEPARTMENT, IN HOW IT PRIORITIZED IT'S GOALS. BECAUSE I WAS AT THAT TIME THE ONLY PHD IN THE DEPARTMENT, THE DEPT OF ANATOMY HAD ENGAGED PRIMARILY IN TEACHING CLINICAL ANATOMY TO A LARGE (600+) STUDENT BODY. I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO HIRE SCIENCE GRADUATES RATHER THAN MEDICAL GRADUATES, AND TO WORK WITH THEM TO START BUILDING THE DEPARTMENT'S RESEARCH BASE. THERE ARE THREE AREAS IN WHICH I AM CURRENTLY ENGAGED IN RESEARCH. FIRSTLY, IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION RESEARCH. AS PRESSURE ON ACADEMIC STAFF TO PRODUCE PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS INCREASES INEXORABLY, EVERY COMMITTED ACADEMIC LOOKS FOR WAYS WHEREBY THE EFFICIENCY OF INFORMATION TRANSFER DURING AND OUTSIDE CONTACT HOURS IS OPTIMIZED. ONE AREA OF PERENNIAL DIFFICULTY FOR HEALTH SCIENCE STUDENTS IS READING ECG STRIPS. IN CONJUNCTION WITH COLLEAGUES WITHIN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, TRINITY COLLEGE, AND THE INSTITUTE OF ART, DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY, DUN LAOGHAIRE, I AM DEVELOPING AN INTERACTIVE APP THAT STUDENTS WILL USE TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH COMMON VARIATIONS IN ECG LEAD DEFLECTIONS, BASED ON VISUAL ASSOCIATION ONLY. TO DATE MODELS OF THE BEATING HEART AND THORACIC CAGE HAVE BEEN PRODUCED BY THE STUDENTS OF IADT, AND THE NEXT STEP IS AMALGAMATING THE TWO, AND BUILDING IN INTERACTIVE ECG LEADS, WITH THE DEFLECTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH, IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. WE HAVE ALSO PRODUCED BRAIN IMAGES WITH ASSOCIATED ARTERIES, INTO WHICH WE ARE GOING TO INCORPORATE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DEFICITS ASSOCIATED WITH COMMON OCCLUSIVE INSULTS. A SECOND AREA OF RESEARCH IS IN THE AREA OF BIOMECHANICS. I HAVE BEEN COLLABORATING WITH ATHLONE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, ON MODEL MAKING PROJECTS. IN OUR CURRENT COLLABORATION, WE ARE MODELING THE DIMENSIONS OF THE ARTICULAR SURFACES OF THE HUMAN KNEE, THE INTRA-ARTICULAR MENISCI, AND PATHOLOGY THEREOF WITH A VIEW TO MODELLING THE MECHANICAL FORCES ACTING ON BOTH WHICH LEAD TO PREMATURE AGEING OF CARTILAGINOUS SURFACES. I HAVE SENT SPECIMENS OF DONOR FEMURS TO ATHLONE, AND WILL BE SUPPLYING THE AIT LABORATORY WITH DONOR TIBIAS AND MENISCI, IN THE NEAR FUTURE, SO THAT ACCURATE TESTING RIGS MAY BE MODELLED, FOR REPLICATING PATTERNS OF WEAR AND TEAR TO THESE CRITICAL JOINTS. IT IS HOPED THAT THIS REPRESENTS AN AREA OF LONG TERM COLLABORATION BETWEEN AIT AND ANATOMY, TCD. A THIRD AREA OF INTEREST FOR ME IS THE FIELD OF EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY. MANY ASPECTS OF MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE ARE SURPRISINGLY POORLY UNDERSTOOD, ESPECIALLY FOR A DISCIPLINE SUCH AS ANATOMY THAT IS HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD. DRIVEN INITIALLY BY THE DESIRE TO TEACH CLINICAL ANATOMY IN A COHERENT, HOLISTIC MANNER, I HAVE BEGUN TO INVESTIGATE THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF DEEPLY PLACED MUSCLE GROUPS, USING FLASH FROZEN HUMAN MUSCLE, AS A MEANS OF ELUCIDATING MORE ABOUT THEIR FUNCTION PRIOR TO DEATH. I HAVE BEGUN WITH MUSCLE GROUPS OF HIGH CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE, WHOSE DEEP LOCATION PRECLUDES MUSCLE BIOPSY AND LIMITS THE USEFULNESS OF ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC STUDIES. IDEALLY, IF WE COULD CONTRIBUTE A NOVEL APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING HUMAN MUSCLE FUNCTION, IT COULD SUGGEST BETTER REGIMES FOR INJURY AVOIDANCE AND REHABILITATION. THERE ARE CURRENTLY HUGE GAPS IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SPECIFIC MUSCLES GROUPS FUNCTION IN HUMANS, AS AVAILABLE ANIMAL MODELS ARE OF VERY LIMITED USE. THIS DEFICIT HAS CONSEQUENCES FOR INJURY, TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THESE MUSCLES GROUPS. THESE IN TURN HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH CARE COSTS, AND PATIENT QUALITY OF LIFE. UNDER MY HEADSHIP COLLEGE THE DEPT OF ANATOMY HAS ESTABLISHED A TISSUE LABORATORY, IN WHICH I PLAN, WITH COLLEAGUES, TO INVESTIGATE THE BIOCHEMICAL BASIS OF MUSCLE FUNCTION AND APPLY IT TO HUMAN CLINICAL PRACTICE. DEPT OF ANATOMY, FLOOR 1 TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INST 152-160 PEARSE STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 ANATOMICAL COMMITTEE OF IRISH MEDICAL SCHOOLS ANATOMICAL SOCIETY EUROPEAN UNDERWATER AND BAROMEDICAL SOCIETY. SOUTH PACIFIC UNDERWATER MEDICINE SOCIETY. UNDERSEA & HYPERBARIC MEDICAL SOCIETY. AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. KEVIN TIERNEY tierneykevin ASSOCIATE PROF IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY TIERNEN PSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS; APPLIED BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS; COMPUTERPHOBIA; ATTENTION AND ANXIETY. DEPT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 PRESIDENT - PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE DR. FIONA TIMMINS timminsfiona ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TIMMINSF SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY BROAD RESEARCH OBJECTIVES: TO CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN A QUALITY SCHOLARLY OUTPUT THAT CONTINUES TO SHOWCASE TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND CONTRIBUTES TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE THEMES OF IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IN RELATION TO PROVIDING PERSON CENTERED CARE AND SUPPORTING PATIENT AND FAMILIES' SPIRITUAL NEEDS IN THE HEALTH CARE. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE ORGANISATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL NET (NETWORKING FOR EDUCATION IN HEALTHCARE) CONFERENCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH JILL ROGERS ASSOCIATES (UK) INCLUDING YEARLY CONVENING/CHARING AT THEIR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE; PEER REVIEW AND SELECTION OF ABSTRACTS AND CONFERENCE ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT. ASSOCIATE EDITOR, NURSE EDUCATION TODAY (ELSEVIER SCIENCE) CHAIR AND FOUNDER, SPIRITUALITY IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SIGO) STEERING GROUP AND MANAGER OF FIRST (AND ANNUAL) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN SPIRITUALITY IN HEALTHCARE IN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. COMMITTE MEMBER OF THE IRISH NURSES CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATION (INCA) CRITICAL READER FOR THE UPDATED CARDIOLOGY PATHWAY AS PART OF THE BSC (HONS)/ GRADUATE DIPLOMA AND POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA SPECIALIST PRACTICE. QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST. EDITOR, JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT. ELECTED MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND EXTERNAL EXAMINER (PROGRAMME), BSC HEALTH STUDIES, CATHERINE MC AULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND. EXTERNAL EXAMINER (PROGRAMME), COMMON FOUNDATION PROGRAMME ADULT NURSING MSC ADULT/MENTAL HEALTH (NURSING THEORY AND PRACTICE NURS011052; THE PROFESSION OF NURSING NURS11051; MANAGEMENT & CARE DELIVERY NURS11060; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE 1 & 2; PRACTICE LEARNING ADULT) SCHOOL OF HEALTH, NURSING & MIDWIFERY, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND (UWS), UK. EXTERNAL EXAMINER SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, UK. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, BSC NURSING, RESEARCH METHODS & STATISTICS, QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST EXTERNAL EXAMINER, BSC NURSING, ST. ANGELA'S COLLEGE, SLIGO EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD VIVA, CANDIDATE, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, UK. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD VIVA, CATHERINE MC AULEY SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD VIVA, DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD VIVA, EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF HEALTH, LIFE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD VIVA, QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD VIVA, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES, GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND., UK. EXTERNAL EXAMINER, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NUI. BSC NURSING. EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIVE, PANEL MEMBER, LOCAL RESEARCH ETHICS COMMITTEE, ENABLE IRELAND, DUBLIN. INTERNAL EXAMINER, PHD VIVA, SCHOOL OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. MANAGEMENT OF A SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT ISSUE 12 2012 TOPIC: SPIRITUALITY. MEMBER AND CHAIR OF THE SPIRITUALITY RESEARCH AND INNOVATION GROUP, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. MEMBER AND TRUSTEE OF THE SPIRE - SPIRITUALITY INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION, DUBLIN. MEMBER OF BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SPIRITUALITY, UK. MEMBER OF CENTRE FOR SPIRITUALITY STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, UK. MEMBER OF THE ALL IRELAND SOCIETY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION (AISHE) 2013- MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE (ELSEVIER SCIENCE) MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL NURSING STANDARD MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE - EDUCATION COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL ON CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING AND ALLIED PROFESSIONS (CCNAP) (UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY) MEMBER OF THE IRISH NURSES CARDIOVASCULAR ASSOCIATION (INCA) MEMBER OF THE NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL (ELSEVIER SCIENCE) MEMBER OF THE NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY PANEL (ELSEVIER SCIENCE) MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC PANEL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL NET (NETWORKING FOR EDUCATION IN HEALTHCARE)CONFERENCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH JILL ROGERS ASSOCIATES (UK) INCLUDING YEARLY CONVENING/CHARING AT THEIR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND PEER REVIEW AND SELECTION OF ABSTRACTS. MEMBER, HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE (HSE) CHAPLAINCY COUNCIL PRE-REGISTRATION REVIEW STEERING GROUP, SCHOOL OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES, GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY, SCOTLAND. REVIEWER - WORLD VIEWS ON EVIDENCED BASED NURSING REVIEWER EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION AND REHABILITATION REVIEWER EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSING (ELSEVIER SCIENCE) REVIEWER JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING (BLACKWELL SCIENCE) REVIEWER JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT (BLACKWELL SCIENCE) REVIEWER LEARNING IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE (BLACKWELL SCIENCE) REVIEWER MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE REVIEWER NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE (ELSEVIER SCIENCE) REVIEWER NURSE EDUCATION TODAY(ELSEVIER SCIENCE) REVIEWER NURSING FORUM (BLACKWELL SCIENCE) REVIEWER NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE (BLACKWELL SCIENCE) REVIEWER PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LONDON REVIEWER PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING REVIEWER ROUTLEDGE PUBLICATIONS OXFORD REVIEWER WORLD VIEWS ON EVIDENCED BASED NURSING REVIEWER- MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL, HONOR SOCIETY OF NURSING, RHO CHI BRANCH. NURSE COMMUNICATION IN INTENSIVE CARE NURSING EDUCATION SPIRITUALITY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EXPLORATION OF ABSENTEEISM AMONG STUDENT NURSES AN BORD ALTRANAIS MSC EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT EXPLORATION OF NURSE EDUCATORS' VIEWS ON STUDENT ABSENTEEISM AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENT ABSENCE AND EXAM PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTION OF STUDENT PERCEIVED STRESSORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPLETION OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES INFORMATION NEEDS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS AN BORD ALTRANAIS EXPLORATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF CARDIOVASCULAR NURSES IN IRELAND EXPLORATION OF NURSES VIEWS OF THEIR ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOUR WHAT DO REGISTERED NURSES AND MIDWIVES FEEL AND KNOW ABOUT RESEARCH EILEEN MANSFIELD SCHOLARSHIP, THE ADELAIDE SOCIETY DUBLIN. NURSING STUDENTS' LIFESTYLE SURVEY- A PILOT STUDY A VISIT TO THE ART GALLERY AS A TEACHING-LEARNING METHOD TO FACILITATE THE EXPLORATION OF SPIRITUALITY WITH NURSING STUDENTS CAPSL PROJECT GRANT, TCD. DEVELOPING A CURRICULUM EVALUATION TOOL CAPSL, TCD. AN INVESTIGATION OF SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING ABILITY AMONG UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS AIMS: TO IDENTIFY THE LEVEL OF SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING ABILITY AMONG UNDERGRADUATE NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDENTSOBJECTIVES:Ø TO ASCERTAIN THE SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING ABILITY OF A SELECTION OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY STUDENTS IN IRELAND.Ø TO ADMINISTER A STRUCTURED QUANTITATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE TO MEASURE THE EXTENT TO WHICH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS ENGAGE IN SELF-DIRECTED STUDY.TO USE THE QUANTITATIVE DATA TO ESTABLISH THE SUPPORTS THAT IS IN PLACE AND THE ATTITUDES TOWARDS THIS METHOD OF LEARNING AMONG THE GROUP. AN EXPLORATION OF NURSES' ATTITUDES TO SPIRITUALITY WITHIN AN ACUTE HOSPITAL SETTING THE ADELAIDE SOCIETY- EILEEN MANSFIELD SCHOLARSHIP NATIONAL CONSULTATION WITH SERVICE USERS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS REGARDING HOME NURSING SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WITH STATE ACQUIRED HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) THIS PROJECT AIMS TO CONSULT WITH SERVICE USERS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS TO ESTABLISH THEIR VIEWS ON THE PROVISION OF HOME NURSING SERVICES IN IRELAND FOR PEOPLE WITH STATE ACQUIRED HEPATITIS C VIRUS (HCV) HSE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF TOOLKIT TO SUPPORT NURSE AND MIDWIFE CLINICAL COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT TO DEVELOP A DRAFT TOOLKIT DOCUMENT THAT WILL PROVIDE AN ACCESSIBLE, EASY TO USE PROCEDURAL GUIDE AND STEP BY STEP RESOURCE TO SUPPORT THE DETERMINATION AND ATTAINMENT OF CLINICAL COMPETENCIES REQUIRED BY NURSES AND MIDWIVES IN ALL AREAS OF PRACTICE BASED ON SERVICE NEED. NATIONAL NURSING AND MIDWIFERY COUNCIL EXPLORING THE NEED FOR AND EVALUATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PATIENTS ROOM FOR RECREATIONAL USAGE SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF CARE: DEVELOPING AN EDUCATIONAL PACKAGE FOR NURSES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. THE ROLE OF NURSES IN SPIRITUALITY CARE PROVISION IS NOT CLEARLY OUTLINED IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI). THIS AND OTHER DEFICITS REVEAL THAT THERE ARE CURRENT GAPS IN NURSES' KNOWLEDGE AND CONFIDENCE IN THIS AREA. IN RESPONSE, AN EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION HAS BEEN DEVELOPED AND PILOTED. MIDWIVES' ASSERTIVENESS A SURVEY OF MIDWIVES' VIEWS OF THEIR ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN THE WORKPLACE THIS PROJECT WAS PERFORMED BY FIONA TIMMINS AND CATHERIN MC CABE IN 2014. IT AIMED TO EXPLORE FOR THE FIRST TIME THE ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOUR OF PRACTICING MIDWIVES IN THE UK.A PREVIOUSLY VALIDATED CROSS SECTIONAL 28-ITEM SURVEY WAS ADMINISTERED TO UK MIDWIVES USING SURVEYMONKEY . TOP RANKING BARRIERS TO USING ASSERTIVE BEHAVIOUR WERE ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE AND RESISTANCE TO CHANGE IN THE ENVIRONMENT. ADVOCACY WAS THE MAIN CITED REASON FOR BEING ASSERTIVE IN THE HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENT. AN EXPLORATION OF CURRENT SPIRITUAL CARE RESOURCES IN HEALTH CARE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI) AND REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL CHAPLAINCY STANDARDS. THIS STUDY AIMED TO EXPLORE CURRENT APPROACHES TO AND FACILITIES FOR SPIRITUAL CARE PROVISION IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI). IT ALSO AIMED TO EXPLORE MODELS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY AND BEST PRACTICE IN THE AREA THAT COULD GUIDE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED, RESPONSIVE FUTURE RESOURCES IN THE ROI. THE FINDINGS IDENTIFY THAT PROVIDING SPIRITUAL CARE TO PATIENTS IS A KEY COMPONENT OF HOSPITAL POLICY. SPIRITUAL SUPPORT IS IDENTIFIED AS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WHOLE HEALTHCARE TEAM WITH SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITY BEING ATTRIBUTED TO THE HEALTHCARE CHAPLAIN. CHAPLAINCY SERVICES ARE ENSHRINED WITHIN THE DOMINANT FAITH, HOWEVER THE SERVICE IS ALSO PERCEIVED AS A MULTIFAITH SERVICE. MOST SITES PROVIDED A SACRED SPACE OR QUIET PLACE FOR CLIENTS, VISITORS AND STAFF TO CONTEMPLATE. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SACRED SPACE PROVIDED VARIED BETWEEN THE SELF-REPORT AND POLICY AND WEBSITE INFORMATION RECEIVED. THE RELIGIOUS PROVISION IDENTIFIED WAS CONSISTENT WITH CONTEMPORARY DISTRIBUTIONS OF RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION IN THE ROI ACCORDING TO THE LATEST IRISH CENSUS. GETTING TO GRIPS WITH PSYCHOLOGY - A TEXT FOR NURSING STUDENTS WRITTEN BY JAN DE VRIESAND FIONA TIMMINS THIS IS A TEXTBOOK DESIGNED FOR UNDERGRADUATE MURSING STUDENTS. IT COMPRISES PART OF THE TRANSFORMING NURSING PRACTICE SERIES PUBLISHED IN EXETER, UK BY LEARNING MATTERS LTD. OUR TEXT AIMS TO PROVIDE A RANGE OF PSYCHOLOGY TOPICS, TRADITIONAL AS WELL AS CONTEMPORARY, APPLIED TO NURSING AND HEALTH CARE THAT WILL PROVIDE A FOUNDATION FOR NEWLY EMERGING AND PRACTICING NURSES. IT WILL ADDRESS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR NURSE REGISTRATION AND PRESENT THEORY AND RESEARCH, ITS APPLICATION TO THE FIELD, AS WELL AS PSYCHOLOGICAL TOOLS AND SKILLS THAT ARE INTEGRAL TO CARE PROVISION. WHILE THE CHAPTERS WILL BE CONSTRUCTED TO ALLOW THEM TO BE READ SEPARATELY, THEY WILL ALSO BUILD ON ONE ANOTHER. KEY THEMES WILL BE INTEGRATED IN WAYS THAT ALLOW THE STUDENT TO RELATE, REFLECT AND EXERCISE IN ORDER TO BUILD UP A MEANINGFUL WELL STRUCTURED AND PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE AROUND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF NURSING AND HEALTH CARE. NURSES' VIEWS OF AND CONFIDENCE WITH COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (SR) OF THE EXPERIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH DEMENTIA AN EXPLORATION OF THE EXTENT OF INCLUSION OF SPIRITUALITY AND SPIRITUAL CARE CONCEPTS IN CORE NURSING TEXTBOOKS A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINS' EXPERIENCE OF ENGAGING WITH PATIENTS AND SERVICE USERS FROM MINORITY RELIGIOUS OR NON-RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI). THIS PROJECT IS UNDERDEVELOPMENT AND AIMS TO: TO EXPLORE HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINS' LIVED EXPERIENCES OF ENGAGING WITH PATIENTS AND SERVICE USERS FROM MINORITY RELIGIOUS OR NON-RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN THE ROI. OBJECTIVES: TO PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINS' EXPERIENCES OF ENGAGING WITH PATIENTS AND SERVICE USERS FROM MINORITY RELIGIOUS OR NON-RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN THE ROI. TO DEVELOP A CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF CHAPLAINS' EXPERIENCES OF ENGAGING WITH PATIENTS AND SERVICE USERS FROM MINORITY RELIGIOUS OR NON-RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN THE ROI. TO IDENTIFY WHAT CHAPLAINS PERCEIVE THEIR ROLE IN HEALTH CARE TO BE TO IDENTIFY THE CHALLENGING AND ENABLING FACTORS IN PROVIDING CHAPLAINCY FOR PATIENTS AND SERVICE USERS FROM MINORITY RELIGIOUS OR NON-RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN THE ROI COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR NURSING PRACTICE- AUTHORS CATHERINE MC CABE AND FIONA TIMMINS THIS IS A NEWLY REVISED TEXTBOOK DESIGNED FOR UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS. IT IS USED WIDELY INTERNATIONALLY, AND HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO SWEDISH. AN EXPLORATION OF VALUES THAT GUIDE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN THEIR CHOSEN PROFESSIONS FAILURE TO FAIL-AN EXPLORATION OF STAFF NURSES' VIEWS OF RELUCTANCE IN COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT CONJOINT CLINICAL PROJECT WITH ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL AND TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN AN EXPLORATION OF THE EFFECT OF AN ARTS-FOCUSED DVD ON PERCEIVED SPIRITUAL WELLBEING AMONG HOSPITALISED OLDER ADULTS-A PILOT STUDY THIS PROJECT IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL OF A DVD BASED PROGRAMME FOCUSED AROUND THE ARTS AND NATURE, TO INCREASE THE PERCEIVED SPIRITUAL AND SOCIAL WELLBEING OF OLDER PEOPLE IN LONG-TERM INSTITUTIONAL CARE. THE PROJECT WILL RESEARCH, DESIGN AND PRODUCE FOUR DVDS EACH APPROXIMATELY 30 MINUTES LONG, WITH CONTENT INCLUDING READINGS FROM CLASSIC BOOKS AND PLAYS, PAINTINGS, POETRY, IMAGES FROM NATURE AND MUSIC AND EACH DVD WILL FOCUS AROUND A DIFFERENT SPIRITUAL THEME (NATURE, SPIRIT, SHARED HERITAGE AND LOVE). INPUT FROM OLDER PEOPLE IN LONG-TERM CARE TOGETHER WITH THEIR RELATIVES AND CARERS WILL BE A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE PROJECT AND WILL INFORM THE MATERIAL SELECTED FOR INCLUSION ON THE DVD AS WELL AS INFLUENCING THE PRESENTATION STYLE. THIS PROJECT IS BASED ON A VERY SUCCESSFUL INITIATIVE BY SONAS APC (2014). A SERIES OF CDS WAS PRODUCED IN 2013 CONTAINING HYMNS, READINGS AND PRAYERS AND ALLOWS NURSING HOMES AND OTHER LONG STAY INSTITUTIONS TO PROVIDE THIS FACILITY IN AN EASY TO USE FORMAT FOR THEIR RESIDENTS. AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR VIRPI TIMONEN timonenvirpi PROFESSOR TIMONENV SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY MY CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUSES ON INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY, EXPERIENCES OF AND ROLES IN OLD AGE, AND POLICY PERTAINING TO OLDER ADULTS, BUT I ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE ENTIRE LIFE COURSE, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY RELATIONS. EXAMPLES OF LATTER INCLUDE MY RESEARCH ON GRANDPARENTHOOD (IN PARTICULAR, IN THE CONTEXT OF NUCLEAR FAMILY BREAKDOWN); ON THE NEVER-MARRIED OLDER ADULTS; AND ON HOW PARENTS SOCIALISE THEIR CHILDREN IN MATTERS PERTAINING TO SEXUALITY AND RELATIOSHIPS. THESE ELEMENTS OF MY RESEARCH AGENDA COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER AS SOME ARE MICRO-, OTHERS MACRO-FOCUSED. THIS SENSITIVITY TO INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY LEVEL EXPERIENCES IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL POLICIES AND WELFARE STATE STRUCTURES INVESTS MY WORK WITH THE ABILITY TO ILLUMINATE THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP OF POLICY STRUCTURES AND INDIVIDUAL AGENCY IN AGEING SOCIETIES. I ALSO HAVE EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE OF WORKING IN INTER-DISCIPLINARY CONTEXTS, MOST RECENTLY WITH HEALTH SCIENCES RESEARCHERS IN A PROJECT TRAINED AT MAPPING OUT OPTIMAL CARE FOR PEOPLE WITH MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE. I HAVE PUBLISHED 60+ PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES IN ISI-RANKED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS BY MAJOR ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS. THE LEADING JOURNALS I HAVE PUBLISHED IN INCLUDE SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, AGEING & SOCIETY, FAMILY RELATIONS, QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF AGING STUDIES, SOCIAL POLITICS, RESEARCH ON AGING, HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, THE JOURNAL OF FAMILY ISSUES, THE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY, QUALITATIVE RESEARCH AND THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGEING, AMONG OTHER IMPORTANT JOURNALS; I HAVE AUTHORED OR CO-AUTHORED FIVE BOOKS INCLUDING A MAJOR INTRODUCTORY TEXTBOOK TITLED AGEING SOCIETIES: A COMPARATIVE INTRODUCTION (OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008); AND CO-EDITED (WITH PROF. SARA ARBER) THE FIRST BOOK ON GRANDPARENTING IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS (POLICY PRESS, 2012). EXAMPLES OF INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION INCLUDE PARTICIPATION IN AN EU FRAMEWORK PROJECT ON WELFARE REFORM AND SOCIETAL CHANGE IN SEVEN EU COUNTRIES (WRAMSOC) AND PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORKS FOCUSING ON MIGRANT LABOUR IN THE ELDER CARE SECTOR (MILES)AND ON HOME CARE POLICIES FOR OLDER PEOPLE (LIVINDHOME). I HAVE SUPERVISED EIGHT PHDS TO SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION AND CURRENTLY SUPERVISE FOUR PHD STUDENTS. I AM OPEN TO SUPERVISING POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS WHO WISH TO CONDUCT QUALITATIVE PRIMARY OR SECONDARY (DATA ARCHIVAL) RESEARCH. MOST OF MY WORK HAS BEEN ON AGEING AND OLDER ADULTS, BUT I WOULD BE HAPPY AND CAPABLE OF SUPERVISING QUALITATIVE PHDS PERTAINING TO ANY PART OF THE LIFECOURSE, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERGENERATIONAL FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS. DEPT OF SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SWEDISH ENGLISH FINNISH FRENCH GERMAN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, SOCIAL AND PUBLIC POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ, FINLAND ASSOCIATE CHAIRPERSON, TRINITY CONSORTIUM ON AGEING BOARD MEMBER, BOARD OF ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN BOARD MEMBER, EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION (ESPANET) CHAIRPERSON OF THE TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND POLICY IMPLEMENTATION SUB-COMMITTEE OF TILDA CHAIRPERSON, BOARD SUB-COMMITTEE ON QUALITY, SAFETY AND RISK, ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN CO-CHAIRPERSON, RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON SOCIOLOGY OF AGEING (RC11), INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ISA) CONFERENCE, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. COST EU EXPERT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN EUROPE DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY ASSOCIATION (ESPANET), BOARD MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER, IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING (WWW.TILDA.TCD.IE) EXPERT ADVISER FOR THE NEW ZEALAND SCIENCE CHALLENGES NATIONAL FUNDING PROGRAMME (TRANCHE 2: AGEING WELL STRAND) GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (ISA) RESEARCH COMMITTEE 11 (SOCIOLOGY OF AGEING) MEMBER OF RESEARCH ETHICS APPROVAL COMMITTEE, SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD, JOURNAL OF AGING STUDIES MEMBER OF THE EXPERT GROUP THAT WAS CONVENED, BY INVITATION, TO DRAFT THE NORFACE ('NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH FUNDING AGENCY COOPERATION IN EUROPE') RESEARCH PROGRAMME CALL ENTITLED 'WELFARE STATE FUTURES' MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OVERSEEING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AND THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ESRI) OFFICER-AT-LARGE, RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON AGEING, INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ORGANISING COMMITTEE, RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON AGEING (RC11), WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 2010 (GOTHENBURG); PROGRAM COMMITTEE FOR RC11 FOR THE XVIII ISA WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY 2014(YOKOHAMA, JAPAN). . POLICY STANDING COMMITTEE, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGEING AND OLDER PEOPLE (REPLACED IN 2009 BY THE NATIONAL OFFICE FOR OLDER PEOPLE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND CHILDREN) PRESIDENT, RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF AGEING (RC 11) OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBER, ISA WORLD FORUM OF SOCIOLOGY 2008 (BARCELONA), RC11 (AGEING RESEARCH) STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBER, TRINITY CONSORTIUM ON AGEING TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 'THEME CHAMPION' OF THE RESEARCH THEME 'INCLUSIVE SOCIETY' VISITING RESEARCHER, NATIONAL EUROPE CENTRE, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY AGEING AND THE LIFE-COURSE COMMUNITY SERVICES FAMILY FAMILY STUDIES GLOBALIZATION GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS IMMIGRANTS INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY MIGRANT CARE WORKERS MIGRATION NATIONAL PLANNING/POLICY OLDER ADULTS OLDER PEOPLE OLDER PERSONS POLITICS OF THE WELFARE STATE SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICE PROGRAMS SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY SOCIAL SERVICES SOCIAL SERVICES DELIVERY SOCIAL SERVICES PLANNING/POLICY SOCIAL WELFARE PLANNING/POLICY WELFARE REFORM INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT INTERROGATES UNDERSTANDINGS OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOLIDARITY AND JUSTICE AMONG FOUR DIFFERENT COHORTS IN IRELAND (1. THOSE EMERGING INTO THE LABOUR MARKET AT PRESENT; 2. PEOPLE AT MID-CAREER/FAMILY FORMATION STAGE; 3. RECENTLY RETIRED OR ABOUT TO RETIRE; 4. OCTOGENARIANS), USING A QUALITATIVE LONGITUDINAL DESIGN. THE PROJECT WILL ALSO COMMUNICATE THE KEY CONTOURS OF THESE UNDERSTANDINGS TO RELEVANT STAKEHOLDER ORGANISATIONS AND FACILITATE DISCOURSE BETWEEN THEM AND AMONG THE WIDER PUBLIC. THE EMPHASIS IS ON ELICITING UNDERSTANDINGS OF SOCIETAL INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE AS SHAPED BY SOCIAL POLICIES, BUT PERCEPTIONS OF INTERGENERATINAL JUSTICE WITHIN FAMILIES WILL ALSO BE STUDIED. THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS ARE DR VIRPI TIMONEN (TCD) AND PROF THOMAS SCHARF (NUIG). ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES WELFARE REFORM AND THE MANAGEMENT OF SOCIETAL CHANGE RESEARCHER (UNDER DIRECTION OF PROF OLLI KANGAS, UNIVERSITY OF TURKU)IN EU-FUNDED FRAMEWORK FIVE PROJECT. LEAD PI FOR STUDY WAS PROF TAYLOR-GOOBY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY. EU ANALYSIS OF INNOVATIVE FUNDING MECHANISMS IN HOMECARE OF OLDER PEOPLE IN THE NETHERLANDS, THE UK AND FINLAND RESEARCH PROJECT GRANT. PI VIRPI TIMONEN, CO-INVESTIGATORS SUZANNE CAHILL AND JANET CONVERY. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (IRCHSS) SOCIAL POLICY AND AGEING GRANT FROM ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES FOR DEVELOPING RESEARCH, TEACHING AND POLICY WORK IN THE AREA OF AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICY. ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES MILES (MIGRANT LABOUR IN THE ELDER CARE SECTOR) THIS IS A PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH NETWORK THAT FOCUSES ON MIGRANT CARE WORKERS EMPLOYED IN THE ELDER CARE SECTOR. THE NETWORK IS CO-ORDINATED BY DR LEESON AND DR HOFF OF THE OXFORD INSTITUTE ON AGEING. IRISH PARTNER IS THE SOCIAL POLICY AND AGEING RESEARCH CENTRE, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (VIRPI TIMONEN AND MARTHA DOYLE). NORFACE THE ROLE AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MEALS-ON-WHEELS SERVICE IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT INVOLVES MAPPING MEALS-ON-WHEELS AND OTHER COMMUNITY MEALS ORGANISATIONS IN IRELAND; IN-DEPTH CASE STUDIES OF SIX DIFFERENT ORGANISATIONS; AND A DETAILED SEMI-STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS AND MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENTS CONDUCTED WITH OLDER PEOPLE WHO HAVE RECENTLY BEEN REFERRED TO THE SERVICE (AND A 6-MONTH FOLLOW-UP) IN ORDER TO CONSTRUCT A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE EXTENT, NATURE AND IMPACT OF MEALS-ON-WHEELS PROVISION TO OLDER PERSONS IN IRELAND. PI VIRPI TIMONEN, CO-INVESTIGATOR CIARA O'DWYER. ADVISOR ON NUTRITION COMPONENTS OF STUDY WAS DR CLARE CORISH, DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGEING AND OLDER PEOPLE THEORIES OF AGEING AND APPROACHES TO WELFARE IN IRELAND, NORTH AND SOUTH THE OVERALL AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO PREPARE A DISCUSSION PAPER ON THEORIES OF AGEING AND APPROACHES TO WELFARE IN IRELAND, NORTH AND SOUTH, CONSISTING OF: (1) AN OVERVIEW OF THE MOST RELEVANT THEORIES OF AGEING; (2) AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF AGEING IN IRELAND, NORTH AND SOUTH; AND (3) AN ANALYSIS OF APPROACHES TO THE WELFARE OF OLDER PEOPLE IN IRELAND, NORTH AND SOUTH. THE RESULTING PAPER IS INTENDED TO ENCOURAGE DISCUSSION AMONGST KEY STAKEHOLDERS ON THE EVIDENCE BASE REQUIRED FOR DEVELOPING APPROPRIATE POLICY AND SERVICES FOR THE AGEING POPULATION IN IRELAND, NORTH AND SOUTH. THE RESEARCHER AND CO-INVESTIGATOR IN THIS PROJECT IS DR. MARIA PIERCE. CARDI (CENTRE FOR AGEING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND) TILDA - THE IRISH LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON AGEING - SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS & INFORMAL CARE PROVIDED AND RECEIVED BY OLDER PEOPLE TILDA IS A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF THE OLDER ADULT(50+) POPULATION OF IRELAND. USING A LARGE NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE RANDOM SAMPLE (8,000) OF THE OLDER POPULATION, TILDA PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF THE HEALTH, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERTISTICS OF THE AGEING POPULATION IN IRELAND, AND SERVES AS AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE FOR THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY AND POLICY MAKERS. THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF TILDA IS PROF RA KENNY, MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY, TCD. CO-INVESTIGATOR FOR THE SOCIAL STRAND (SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, SOCIAL CARE AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFERS) IS VIRPI TIMONEN, WORKING WITH RESEARCH FELLOW DR YUMIKO KAMIYA. SEE WWW.TILDA.TCD.IE LIVING INDEPENDENTLY AT HOME: REFORMS IN ORGANISATION AND GOVERNANCE OF EUROPEAN HOME CARE FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE THE PROJECT WILL IDENTIFY HOW 9 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HAVE REFORMED THEIR HOME HELP SYSTEMS, BY IDENTIFYING THE DRIVERS OF CHANGES AND RESPONSES IN THE ORGANISATION, PROVISION, REGULATION AND QUALITY OF HOME CARE/HELP. HYPOTHESES ARE THAT CROSS-NATIONAL VARIATION IN REFORMS IN HOME CARE POLICIES 1) INFLUENCE THE INVOLVEMENT OF DIFFERENT CARE SECTORS AND THE USE OF SERVICES VS. CASH BENEFITS, 2) SHAPE THE DEGREE OF FORMALISATION/INFORMALISATION AND THE DEGREE OF PROFESSIONALIZATION, AND 3) CONTRIBUTE TO THE QUALITY OF CARE. THE STUDY WILL BE BASED ON NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND STATISTICS, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE REVIEWS, AND ON COMPARABLE OECD HEALTH DATA. THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES PARTICIPATE: FINLAND, SWEDEN, NORWAY, DENMARK, GERMANY, ITALY, AUSTRIA, UK AND IRELAND. THE STUDY WILL PROVIDE A TIMELY OVERVIEW OF RECENT REFORMS IN THE ORGANISATION AND GOVERNANCE OF HOME CARE SYSTEMS IN 9 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AND WILL ELUCIDATE WHAT ARE THE INTENDED AND UNINTENDED RESULTS OF THE REFORMS, IN PARTICULAR HOW REFORMS HAVE AFFECTED QUALITY OF CARE. THIS PROJECT IS CO-ORDINATED BY DR TINE ROSTGAARD, SFI, DENMARK. PI FOR IRISH STRAND OF THE STUDY IS VIRPI TIMONEN, CO-INVESTIGATORS MARTHA DOYLE & CIARA O'DWYER, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. MINISTÈRE DE LA SANTÉ, DE LA JEUNESSE, DES SPORTS ET DE LA VIE ASSOCIATIVE (FRANCE) GRANDPARENTS' ROLE IN DIVORCED AND SEPARATED FAMILIES IN IRELAND DIVORCE AND SEPARATION IMPACT UPON RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN NUCLEAR AND EXTENDED FAMILIES, INCLUDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GRANDPARENTS, THE DIVORCED/SEPARATED COUPLE AND GRANDCHILDREN. THIS STUDY SEEKS TO ACQUIRE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THESE INTER-GENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE AFFECTED FOLLOWING DIVORCE/SEPARATION. IN PARTICULAR, IT SEEKS TO EXPLORE SOME ASPECTS OF THE EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES OF FAMILY BREAK-UP FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GRANDPARENTS, A GROUP RARELY CONSIDERED IN DISCUSSIONS ON DIVORCE/SEPARATION. PI VIRPI TIMONEN, CO-INVESTIGATORS CIARA O'DWYER AND MARTHA DOYLE. FAMILY SUPPORT AGENCY RESEARCH WITH PARENTS THIS PROJECT, COMMISSIONED BY IRELAND'S CRISIS PREGNANCY PROGRAMME, FOCUSES ON HOW PARENTS ENGAGE WITH THEIR YOUNGER CHILDREN ON ISSUES RELATING TO SEXUALITY. WE WILL EXPLORE THE FACTORS THAT INHIBIT AND ENABLE AGE-APPROPRIATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PARENTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN AGED BETWEEN 4 AND 9 YEARS REGARDING RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY AND GROWING UP. FOCUS GROUPS WITH PARENTS WILL BE CARRIED OUT EXPLORING THE MEANINGS, PRACTICES AND PROCESSES INVOLVED FOR THEM AS THEY NEGOTIATE THE PLACE OF INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND DISCOURSES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUALITY AND THE BODY IN EVERYDAY INTERACTION WITH THEIR YOUNG CHILDREN. CO-INVESTIGATOR WITH PI DR CATHERINE CONLON (ALSO OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN). CRISIS PREGNANCY PROGRAMME (HSE) LIVING AND DYING WITH AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS: A POPULATION BASED ANALYSIS OF PALLIATIVE NEEDS, SERVICES AND OUTCOMES IN NON-MALIGNANT TERMINAL ILLNESS LEAD-PI PROF HARDIMAN, CO-PIS DR MCQUILLAN, PROFS NORMAND, PERRY, STAINES, TIMONEN HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB), IRELAND INTERDISCIPLINARY CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT (ICE) AWARD AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE PROFESSOR RICHARD TIMONEY timoneyrichard PROFESSOR RTIMONEY PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS OPERATOR SPACES AND OPERATOR ALGEBRAS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON ELEMENTARY OPERATORS; COMPLEX ANALYSIS, MAINLY IN SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES; JORDAN TRIPLE SYSTEMS; WAVELETS; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS GENERALLY. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY; EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY. ALGEBRAS BANACH ALGEBRAS BOUNDED SYMMETRIC DOMAINS COMPLEX AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OPERATOR ALGEBRAS JORDAN AND COMPLEX ANALYTIC METHODS FOR OPERATOR SPACES SFI RFP05 PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH BOUNDED SYMMETRIC DOMAINS A TOPIC KNOWN AS NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY HAS BECOME A THEME OF IMPORTANCE IN MODERN MATHEMATICS AND THE PROPOSAL DEALS WITH THE NONCOMMUTATIVE FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS WHICH UNDERLIES THAT GEOMETRY. JORDAN ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES SHARE A LINK TO MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS WITH NONCOMMUTATIVE GEOMETRY BUT THE TWO THEORIES HAVE DEVELOPED RATHER SEPARATELY. THIS PROPOSAL AIMS TO DEVELOP A RECENTLY ESTABLISHED WAY OF LINKING THE TWO THEORIES, ONE WHICH ENRICHES BOTH TOPICS AND LEADS TO COMPLETELY NEW QUESTIONS. THE ANSWERS PROVIDED BY WORK IN PROGRESS ON THIS TOPIC ALREADY JUSTIFY THE INTEREST IN THE IDEAS. SFI RFP DR. LADISLAV TIMULAK timulakladislav COURSE DIRECTOR, M.SC COUNSELLING PSYCH TIMULAKL PSYCHOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTION-FOCUSED PSYCHOTHERAPY FOR PARTICULAR DISORDERS AND DIFFICULTIES (E.G., ANXIETY DISORDERS, CANCER PATIENTS). DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES FOR STUDYING PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES. PROCESS AND OUTCOME INVESTIGATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES. EVALUATION OF ONLINE PROVISION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION WITH COMPUTER SCIENCE. ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS IN PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN SLOVAK CZECH ENGLISH FRENCH A MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL PSYCHOTERAPIE A MEMBER OF THE PSI ACCREDITATION PANEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK MSC IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY. CHAIR OF COMMISSION (HUMANISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPIES) FOR REGISTRATION IN THE REGISTER OF PSYCHOTHERAPISTS OF SLOVAK PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC SOCIETY. CHAIR OF DIVISION OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY OF SLOVAK CHAMBER OF PSYCHOLOGISTS CO-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY DIVISION OF COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, PAST COMMITTEE MEMBER EXTERNAL EXAMINER OF THESES: CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON, UK; UNIVERSITY OF WEST ENGLAND, BRISTOL, UK; STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY, GLASGOW, UK; UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY, DUNDEE, UK; RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA; MASARYK UNIVERSITY, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD JOURNAL OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JOURNAL PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD OF PERSON-CENTERED AND EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIES. MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE OF SLOVAK PSYCHOTHERAPY SOCIETY PEER REVIEWED FOR: BRITISH JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY, CANADIAN PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: SCIENCE & PRACTICE; JOURNAL OF COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTERAPIE; COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY; PERSON-CENTERED AND EXPERIENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPIES; COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH; PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH; EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY; JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION; JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS; EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY & COUNSELLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND PERSONALITY PROGRAMME EXTERNAL EXAMINER - DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC AND COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF SURREY, UK PSI BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT PSI FOREIGN QUALIFICATIONS EXPERT VALIDATION COMMITTEE PSI QUALITY ASSURANCE GROUP REVIEWING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING GUIDELINES PSI QUALITY ASSURANCE GROUP REVIEWING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING GUIDELINES IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY (SINCE ) PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND, PAST COUNCIL MEMBER, HONORARY SECRETARY SLOVAK PSYCHOTHERAPY SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR EXPLORATION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH THE SLOVAK CHAMBER OF PSYCHOLOGISTS ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT BEHAVIORAL THERAPY DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS EMOTIONAL/MENTAL HEALTH HEALTH, CLINICAL AND COUNSELLING MENTAL DISORDERS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPY PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH, EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPY RELAXATION TECHNIQUES SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY PROCESS MAIN RESEARCHER SLOVAK MINISTRY OF EDUCATION VEGA &#269;. 1/1387/04 EMPOWERMENT EVENTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY THE FULBRIGHT COMMISSION ($ 18,000) SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY PROCESS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH CONFLICTUAL FAMILY BACKGROUND MAIN RESEARCHER P-76 RESEARCH TASK OF RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PATHOPSYCHOLOGY PROVISION OF METHODICAL SERVICES AND INFORMATION FOR COUNSELING CENTERS IN SCHOOL SECTOR CO-WORKER (THE CHAIR OF THE TASK: PHDR. DAGMAR KOP&#269;ANOVÁ) INSTITUTIONAL TASK OF RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PATHOPSYCHOLOGY LIFELONG DEVELOPMENTAL COUNSELLING AS A MEANS OF PERSONAL GROWTH IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT (FOCUS ON ADULT POPULATION) CO-RESEARCHER; THE MAIN RESEARCHER DOC. PHDR. TATIANA TARO&#269;KOVÁ, CSC.) SLOVAK MINISTRY OF EDUCATION VEGA &#269;. 1/1358/94 PSYCHOLOGICAL CHANGE AND PROVISION OF PSYCHOTHERAPY IN ROUTINE PRACTICE GRANT OF SLOVAK MINISTRY OF EDUCATION VEGA È. 1/4520/07 (€ 9,000) ONLINE TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION A PHD SUPERVISOR (STUDENT DEREK RICHARDS) OF THE PHD PROJECT HSE THE HSE INNOVATION FUND (€ 76,000) RECOVERY FROM EATING DISORDERS THE GRANT SUPPORTS A PHD OF KIELTY OBERLIN BODYWHYS (€ 45,000) EMOTION FOCUSED THERAPY FOR GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER DEVELOPMENT OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY FOR GAD HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (€100,800) HELPFUL AND UNHELPFUL ASPECTS OF EATING DISORDER TREATMENTS A QUALITATIVE META-SYNTHESIS OF QUALITATIVE STUDIES EXAMINING HELPFUL AND UNHELPFUL ASPECTS OF EATING DISORDER TREATMENTS. BACP ONLINE TREATMENT OF GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER A PROJECT EXAMINING AN EFFECTIVENESS OF A CBT-BASED ONLINE INTERVENTION FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS. CO-PI DR. DEREK RICHARDS. SILVERCLOUD (FUNDING A POST-DOC RESEARCHER) EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY FOR MIXED ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN CANCER PATIENTS A PROJECT RUN BY MY PHD STUDENT ALLISON CONNOLLY THAT LOOKS AT THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY FOR CANCER PATIENTS EXPERIENCING DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY. ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL ONLINE TREATMENT FOR DEPRESSION A PROJECT EXAMINING EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ONLINE TREATMENT (CBT-BASED) FOR SYMPTOMS OF DEPRESSION. IN COLLABORATION WITH SILVERCLOUD (DRS. RICHARDS AND SHARRY) AND AWARE (DR. HAYES) SILVERCLOUD, AWARE LOW-INTENSITY, INTERNET DELIVERED TREATMENT FOR ADULTS WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA. PHD STUDENT ALICIA SALAMANCA IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ENTERPRISE GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP AWARDS EMOTION-FOCUSED THERAPY VS. COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER. HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD HEALTH RESEARCH AWARD COUNSELLING IN PRIMARY CARE IN IRELAND - A NATIONAL EVALUATION OF CLINICAL AND COST EFFECTIVENESS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL EMPLOYMENT BASED PROGRAMME INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR KEITH TIPTON tiptonkeith FELLOW EMERITUS KTIPTON BIOCHEMISTRY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) ENZYMOLOGY: REGULATION, KINETICS, INHIBITION, ISOLATION, APPLICATIONS. ENZYME BIOINFORMATICS: METABOLIC ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION. SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. NEUROCHEMISTRY: DEPRESSION, DEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND 'NEUROPROTECTION'. BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUG DESIGN, ETHANOL. BIOCHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 BEILSTEIN INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON STANDARDS FOR REPORTING OF ENZYMOLOGY DATA BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY (COMMITTEE) EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY (COUNCIL) HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (NEUROSCIENCES & MENTAL HEALTH COMMITTEE) HUNGARIAN PHARMACOLOGICAL SOCIETY (HONORARY MEMBER) INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF IRELAND (CHAIRMAN) INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF IRELAND (PRESIDENT) INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY (PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE) INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON ENZYMOLOGY (CHAIRMAN ) INTERNATIONAL UNION OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (IUBMB) IRISH NEUROSCIENCES DISCUSSION GROUP IRISH SOCIETY FOR TOXICOLOGY (PRESIDENT) IRISH SOCIETY FOR TOXICOLOGY (VICE-PRESIDENT) IUBMB-IUPAC JOINT COMMITTEE ON BIOCHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE (RESPONSIBLE FOR ENZYME NOMENCLATURE, CLASSIFICATION & BIOINFORMATICS) MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (U.K.) NEUROSCIENCES GRANTS COMMITTEE MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO THE HUGO GENE NOMENCLATURE COMMITTEE MOLECULAR ENZYMOLOGY GROUP (CHAIRMAN), (BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY) MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF IRELAND: RESEARCH COMMITTEE NEUROCHEMICAL GROUP (CHAIRMAN) (BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY) PUBLICATIONS BOARD, (BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY) BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY, METABOLISM BIOINFORMATICS BIOSYSTEMATICS DEGENERATION DEPRESSION DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF DRUGS DRUG METABOLISM ENZYME INHIBITION ENZYME KINETICS ENZYMOLOGY ETHANOL NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES/DISORDERS NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NEUROPROTECTION GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. GERALD H TOMKIN tomkingeraldh RETIRED STAFF MEMBER TOMKING CLINICAL MEDICINE CLINICAL MEDICINE NEW TALLAGHT HOSP DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 DR. EMMA TOMLINSON tomlinsonemma ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TOMLINSE GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND LA-ICP-MS MANTLE TEPHRA TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES ISONOSE LAND-USE HAS CHANGED SOIL DYNAMICS IN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND HUGE AMOUNTS OF METAL POLLUTANTS ARE CONTINUOUSLY RELEASED INTO THE ENVIRONMENT BY INDUSTRIAL AND DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES. IN OTHER PLACES, METAL DEFICIENCY IN SOILS IS OBSERVED. THESE MODIFICATIONS AFFECT THE NUTRIENT STATUS OF SOILS AND FRESHWATER. THIS PROJECT WILL WILL DETERMINE AND USE THE DISTINCT ISOTOPE FINGERPRINT OF THESE ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCES ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND WILL INVESTIGATE THE POTENTIAL FOR USING NOVEL STABLE ISOTOPES AS ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS (E.G. FIND POLLUTION SOURCES). EU FP7 MARIE CURIE INITIAL TRAINING NETWORK SCHEME HALOGENS IN MAGMATIC SYSTEMS: FROM MANTLE TO CRUST THE ABUNDANCES AND DISTRIBUTIONS OF HALOGENS (F, CL, BR, I) IN THE EARTH'S MANTLE ARE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN, YET THE MANTLE IS THE SOURCE OF MAGMAS EMPLACED IN THE CRUST AND ERUPTED AT THE SURFACE. THIS PROJECT WILL AIMS TO ADDRESS THIS GAP IN KNOWLEDGE BY: 1) DEVELOPING A NEW ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR HALOGENS BY ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION ICP-MS/OES; 2) CHARACTERIZING THE ELEMENTAL AND ISOTOPIC HALOGEN COMPOSITION OF THE PRIMITIVE MANTLE, USING SAMPLES FROM BAFFIN ISLAND AND WEST GREENLAND; AND 3) TO ASSESS HALOGEN RECYCLING AND THE MANTLE RESIDENCE TIME OF RECYCLED HALOGENS THOROUGH INVESTIGATION OF MAFIC ALKALINE ROCKS FROM THE GREENLANDIC PORTION OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC CRATON. THIS WILL PROVIDE A UNIQUE INSIGHT INTO THIS SIGNIFICANT AND UNEXPLORED HALOGEN RESERVOIR AND WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN PRIMITIVE HALOGENS FROM THE DEEP MANTLE AND THOSE INTRODUCED INTO THE MANTLE VIA SUBDUCTION. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND ERC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. MARY ELIZABETH TONER tonermaryelizabeth ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CONSULTANT MTONER DENTAL SCIENCE HISTOPATHOLOGY DEPT CENTRAL PATH LAB ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 CANCER GENES & SOCIETY DR. BRIAN TORODE torodebrian RETIRED STAFF MEMBER BTORODE RETIRED STAFF MEMBER CONSUMER COMPLAINTS HANDLING BY COMMERCIAL COMPANIES AND BY STATE AGENCIES; MEDIA AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATATION OF CONSUMER INTERESTS AND ISSUES; BROADCAST AND PRINT MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF SINN FEIN. DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH BOOK REVIEWS EDITOR, DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY JOURNAL AND DISCOURSE STUDIES JOURNAL BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ELECTED COMMITTEE MEMBER, SUBSEQUENTLY BULLETIN EDITOR, AND SUBSEQUENTLY CHAIRPERSON OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL ASOCIATION OF IRELAND ELECTED COMMITTEE MEMBER, SUBSEQUENTLY ELECTED SECOND VICE PRESIDENT, SUBSEQUENTLY ELECTED FIRST VICE PRESIDENT, OF THE RESEARCH COMMITTEE FOR SOCIOLINGUISTICS (RESEARCH COMMITTEE RC025 OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS ASSOCIATION SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, SOCIETY CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ETHNOMETHODOLOGY POPULAR CULTURE, MUSIC SOCIAL THEORY MS. RUTH VERA TORODE toroderuthvera VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT RTORODE SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES MEMOIRS OF CHILDHOOD: HAVE BEEN COMPILING MATERIALS FOR A STUDY OF NARRATIVES OF ADVERSE CHILDHOODS. AM ALSO INTERESTED IN EXPLORING THE INCLUSION OF MODULES ON BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR IN SOCIAL WORK TRAINING COURSES (2005-PRESENT); REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS (1999-PRESENT); DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (1996-PRESENT); BULLYING & HARASSMENT (1993-PRESENT); ELDER ABUSE (1995-1997); CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE (1985-1988). SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY COLLEGE 01-8961000 BOARD MEMBER (MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT), NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATIONS BOARD CHAIR OF NSWQB ACCREDITATION REVIEW OF BSW DEGREE UCC. SITE VISIT. WROTE REPORT. CO-FOUNDER OF IRISH MEDIATION TRAINING NETWORK. CO-ORGANISER OF 'SURVIVING CHILDHOOD ADVERSITY' INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. COUNSELLOR & FOUNDER MEMBER, INCEST CRISIS SERVICE: VOLUNTEER COUNSELLING. FUNDED BY DEPT OF SOCIAL WELFARE. EXTERN EXAMINER FOR (I) NCEA CERTIFICATE AND (II) DIPLOMA IN SOCIAL CARE, (DIT) EXTERN EXAMINER FOR B.SC HONS SOCIAL WORK, MAGEE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR NCEA: REVIEWED TWO DEGREE PROPOSALS IN SOCIAL CARE (CIT, WIT) AND A DIPLOMA IN WOMEN'S STUDIES PROPOSAL (SIT). EXTERNAL ASSESSOR FOR NEW MSC / POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SOCIAL WORK STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. MEMBER, SOCIAL AFFAIRS PANEL, NATIONAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL OF IRELAND MEMBER, (CHAIR 2000-2003), NON-NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE, NSWQB MEMBER, ACCREDITATION PANEL, NSWQB MEMBER, CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE TRAINING GROUP. DUBLIN MEMBER, CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE ON ELDER ABUSE, NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGEING & OLDER PEOPLE, STEERING EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SERVICE RESPONSES TO ELDER ABUSE IN IRELAND. MEMBER, ICCL SUBCOMMITTEE ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IN IRELAND: CO-WROTE & EDITED BOOK. MEMBER, IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS: SERVED ON SEVERAL SUBCOMMITTEES. MEMBER, NATIONAL ACCREDITATION PANEL, NSWQB MEMBER, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PRACTICE TEACHERS. CO-CONDUCTED SURVEY OF IRISH PRACTICE TEACHERS. WROTE SURVEY REPORT FOR DISSEMINATION AMONGST PRACTICE TEACHERS AND EDUCATORS. MEMBER, NON-NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE, NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATIONS BOARD (NSWQB) SOLE ORGANISER OF ' MEDIATION' NATIONAL CONFERENCE PROFESSOR ARCHIBALD ANDREW TORRANCE torrancearchibaldandrew FELLOW EMERITUS ATORRNCE MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG 1. MIST-JET COOLING OF GRINDING: THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND, IS TO PROVE THE CONCEPT OF MIST JET COOLING FOR ABRASIVE MACHINING. A PROTOTYPE COOLER HAS BEEN BUILT, AND IS AVAILABLE FOR DEMONSTRATION ON SITE.IT CAN BE EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE WITH VERY SMALL QUANTITIES OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY LIQUIDS. 2. MEASUREMENT OF ABRASIVES AND ABRASIVE TOOLS: THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY THE IRISH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, SEEKS TO DEVELOP A METHOD FOR ACCURATELY QUANTIFYING THE SHARPNESS OF INDIVIDUAL ABRASIVES, AND OF ABRASIVE TOOLS USING STEREO MICROSCOPY. 3. ENHANCED GAS-JET COOLING OF MACHINING PROCESSES: THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND, SEEKS TO APPLY THE TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED IN THE PROJECT ON GRINDING TO OTHER MACHINING PROCESSES. EARLY RESULTS INDICATE THAT EXCELLENT RESULTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FLUIDS AND GOOD NOZZLE DESIGN. 4. ENHANCED GAS-JET COOLING OF DISK BRAKES: THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND, SEEKS TO APPLY THE TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED IN THE PROJECTS ON GRINDING AND MACHINING TO THE COOLING OF DISK BRAKES. PRELIMINARY WORK IS ONGOING ON THE DESIGN OF A SUITABLE PROCESS. 5. FUEL AND LUBRICANT INTERACTIONS WITH NON-FERROUS METALS: THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY THE E.U.AND SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF FUEL AND LUBRICANT ADDITIVES ON THE FROISTION AND WEAR OF CONTACTS INVOLVOING NON-FERROUS METALS. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROJECT WILL BE A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMATION OF SURFACE FILMS ON SURFACES OTHER THAN STEEL, AND HOW THE SURFACE FILM CONTRIBUTES TO THE FRICTION AND WEAR PERFORMANCE OF THE LUBRICANT IN SUCH SYSTEMS. 6. A NEW TEST FOR FRICTION IN FORGING: THIS IS AN UNSPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECT TO DEVELOP A NEW, TEST MORE REALISTIC THAN THE CONVENTIONAL RING TEST TO MEASURE FRICTION IN FORGING. MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH M.I.M.M.M. C.ENG ABRASION ABRASIVE MACHINING ABRASIVE WEAR ADDITIVE ASPERITY DEFORMATION MODELS ATTRITIOUS WEAR BALL BEARING BORE POLISHING BOUNDARY FICTION BOUNDARY LUBRICATION COEFFICIENTS CONTACT DEBRIS DEFORMATION ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC CONTACTS FATIGUE FITTING FORM GRINDING FRICTION FRICTION AND WEAR OF ENGINE COMPONENTS FRICTION PREDICTION GRINDING TEMPERATURE LIFE LUBRICANT CHEMISTRY MECHANISM METAL CUTTING MICROSTRUCTURE MODELLING OF BOUNDARY FRISTION AND WEAR PARAMETERS PERFORMANCE PREDICTION PROFILOMETRY RESISTANCE ROLLING-CONTACT FATIGUE ROUGH SURFACES STEEL THICK ANTIWEAR FILMS TRANSFORMATION WEAR MIST-JET COOLING OF GRINDING THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY ENTERPRISE IRELAND, IS TO PROVE THE CONCEPT OF MIST JET COOLING FOR ABRASIVE MACHINING. A PROTOTYPE COOLER HAS BEEN BUILT, AND IS AVAILABLE FOR DEMONSTRATION ON SITE.IT CAN BE EXTREMELY EFFECTIVE WITH VERY SMALL QUANTITIES OF ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY LIQUIDS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PROOF OF CONCEPT MEASUREMENT OF ABRASIVES AND ABRASIVE TOOLS THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY THE IRISH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, SEEKS TO DEVELOP A METHOD FOR ACCURATELY QUANTIFYING THE SHARPNESS OF INDIVIDUAL ABRASIVES, AND OF ABRASIVE TOOLS USING STEREO MICROSCOPY. SOFTWARE WHICH IMPLEMENTS SOME OF THE FEATURES OF THIS CAN BE FOUND AT: WWW.MECHENG.TCD.IE/~TORRANCE/SOFTWARE.HTML IRCSET POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ENHANCED GAS-JET COOLING OF MACHINING PROCESSES THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND, SEEKS TO APPLY THE TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED IN THE PROJECT ON GRINDING TO OTHER MACHINING PROCESSES. EARLY RESULTS INDICATE THAT EXCELLENT RESULTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY FLUIDS AND GOOD NOZZLE DESIGN. SFI BASIC RESEARCH ENHANCED GAS-JET COOLING OF DISK BRAKES THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND, SEEKS TO APPLY THE TECHNIQUES DEVELOPED IN THE PROJECTS ON GRINDING AND MACHINING TO THE COOLING OF DISK BRAKES. PRELIMINARY WORK IS ONGOING ON THE DESIGN OF A SUITABLE PROCESS. SFI BASIC RESEARCH DURABILITY OF GRAPHITE SEALS THIS PROJECT PROVIDED BASIC MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL DESIGN DATA FOR GRAPHITE SEALS, AND DESIGN RULES FOR THEIR INSTALLATION. IT INVOLVED DEVELOPING NEW MECHANCIAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL TEST METHODS AND NEW CONSTITUTATIVE MODELS TO DESCRIBE THE HIGHLY NON-LINEAR BEHAVIOUR OF GRAPHITE ENTERPRISE IRELAND/MERKEL FREUDENBERG INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP FUEL AND LUBRICANT INTERACTIONS WITH NON-FERROUS METALS THIS PROJECT, SPONSORED BY THE E.U.AND SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF FUEL AND LUBRICANT ADDITIVES ON THE FROISTION AND WEAR OF CONTACTS INVOLVOING NON-FERROUS METALS. THE OUTCOME OF THE PROJECT WILL BE A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FORMATION OF SURFACE FILMS ON SURFACES OTHER THAN STEEL, AND HOW THE SURFACE FILM CONTRIBUTES TO THE FRICTION AND WEAR PERFORMANCE OF THE LUBRICANT IN SUCH SYSTEMS. E.U. SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS MARIE CURIE SOFTWARE FOR THE PREDICTION OF FRICTION COEFFICIENTS. RENAULT COMMISSIONED THIS WORK TO DEVELOP A FRICTION MODEL AND SOFTWARE TO ALLOW FOR THE CONDITIONS IN THE CONTACT BETWEEN A PISTON RING AND CYLINDER LINER. BY ALLOWING FOR BOTH ELASTIC AND PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF ASPERITIES, AND FOR THE PROPERTIES OF BOUNDARY FILMS, IT COULD BE SHOWN THAT THERE IS AN OPTIMUM FINISH FOR THESE COMPONENTS. IF THE FINISH IS EITHER TOO ROUGH OR TOO SMOOTH, THERE IS A DANGER OF HIGH FRICTION AND SCUFFING. THE MODELS DEVELOPED PREDICTED WELL THE FRICTION MEASURED EXPERIMENTALLY FOR A WIDE RANGE OF FINISHES. SOFTWARE TO IMPLEMENT THE ALGORITHMS CAN BE FOUND AT: WWW.MECHENG.TCD.IE/~TORRANCE/SOFTWARE.HTML RENAULT D.E.MAT (FRANCE). MODELLING AND DESIGN OF BACK GRINDING WHEELS THE EFFECTS OF ABRASIVE SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BACK GRINDING WHEELS WAS MODELLED TO PROVIDE A DESIGN TOOL FOR MAKERS OF THESE WHEELS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND/ATLANTIC DIAMOND INNOVATIN PARTNERSHIP PROFESSOR WILLIAM TORREGGIANI torreggianiwilliam CONSULTANT RADIOLOGY TORREGGW SURGERY 27 GREENFIELD ROAD MOUNT MERRION CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 MS. HILARY TOVEY toveyhilary FELLOW EMERITUS HTOVEY SOCIOLOGY INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES POLICY INSTITUTE RURAL SOCIAL CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE, NATURE, ANIMALS, BIODIVERSITY; SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DEPT OF SOCIOLOGY 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 FRENCH GERMAN IRISH CHAIR, SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND COMMITTEE MEMBER, SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND COUNCIL MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL RURAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR RURAL SOCIOLOGY EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL RURAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD, ELSEVIER/JAI PRESS RESEARCH IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT SERIES MEMBER, EDITORIAL BOARD, SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL BOARD, IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY MEMBER, NATIONAL PLATFORM FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE ON MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, COST ACTION 12 PRESIDENT ESRS 1999-2003 SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY FOOD FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND RURAL CHANGE MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY RURAL SOCIOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL THEORY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO RURAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (CORASON) STUDY OF THE MULTIPLE KNOWLEDGES USED/AVAILABLE FOR INNOVATORY RURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, IN 12 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES (LEAD INSTITUTION: TCD) EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME 6 BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY: EXPLORING CONFLICT AROUND IRELAND'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATURA 2000 PH. D. FELLOWSHIP TO STUDY PROBLEMS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DESIGNATED NATURE SITES IN IRELAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES, VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS IN IRELAND JOINT UCD/TCD PROJECT IN 3 PARTS: (I) QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ATTITUDES IN REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF POP; (II) QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCOURSES IN FOCUS GROUPS; (III) QUAL. STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM (MOVEMENTS AND ACTIVISTS) ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GLOBAL 'SAFE FOOD': REGULATING THE BEEF INDUSTRY ANALYSIS OF MEANINGS, INSTITUTIONS AND REGULATORY PROCESSES INVOLVED IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF 'SAFETY' FOR BEEF; FUNDED THROUGH THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY INTERNATIONAL REGULATION ORGANIC FOOD AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CONSUMER TRUST JOINT SLIGO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/TCD FUNDED POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP TO RESEARCH ORGANIC FOOD IN IRELAND, PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORITY BIO-SOLIDS ALTERNATIVE FOOD ENTREPRENEURS AS PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPISTS STUDY OF ORGANIC AND POST-ORGANIC FOOD PRODUCERS IN SOUTH-WEST IRELAND WHICH LOOKED AT THEIR ROLE AS DEVELOPMENT ACTORS WITHIN THE RURAL ECONOMY AND CIVIL SOCIETY TARA/TRINITY FOUNDATION LAND, CULTURE AND CRISIS: FROM PRODUCTIONIST SUCCESS TO FISCAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPASSE ON EUROPEAN FARMS 1940-90 STUDY OF EUROPEAN FARM ATTITUDES AND PRACTICES TOWARDS NATURE, IN THE CONTEXT OF A CHANGING AGRICULTURAL POLICY REGIME EUROPEAN COMMISSION SEER, AREA III (THE HUMAN BEING, NATURE AND SOCIETY) MINORITY LANGUAGE PLANNING AND POLICY IN IRELAND ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE AND SECONDARY DATA TO INTERPRET NATIONAL POLICY ACTIONS FOR THE IRISH LANGUAGE (JOINT AUTHOR WITH PROF. O'RIAGAIN, LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE OF IRELAND) EUROPEAN COMMISSION EUROMOSAIC CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CHARLES TRAVIS travischarles VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW CTRAVIS HISTORY THE DIGITAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES, THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMANITIES GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) METHODOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS, AND THE LITERARY, HISTORICAL, CULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOGRAPHIES OF EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY IRELAND. TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB COLLEGE 01-8961000 AMERICAN CONFERENCE OF IRISH STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS ENVIRONMENT (INCL.) CLIMATE CHANGE COMPUTER SCIENCE - GRAPHICS, VISUALISATION AND IMAGING SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCES, ECONOMICS, LAW & BUSINESS MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS & JOURNALISM CULTURAL & ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY HUMANITIES LANGUAGES & LITERATURE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OTHER HUMANITIES EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY OF THE NEW HUMAN CONDITION THE OBSERVATORY SEEKS NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION AS IT RELATES TO GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE, TO EXPLORE ITS ROOT PROBLEMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS. THE OBSERVATORY WILL BRING TOGETHER ACADEMICS, SENIOR EXECUTIVES AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN OUR FORUM WORKSHOPS FOR DIALOGUE AND ACTION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES. THE RESEARCH UNDERTAKEN IN OUR THREE FORUM WORKSHOPS WILL TAKE US BEYOND RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY AND BEHAVIORAL DECISION THEORY TOWARDS A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF:PERCEPTIONS OF RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGY, AND RISK IN AN AGE OF SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE; CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF TIME AND DIFFERENTIAL DISCOUNTING OF FUTURE OUTCOMES. STRATEGIES FOR ARRIVING AT "RATIONAL" DECISIONS, AND:PRO-SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN COMMON-PROPERTY RESOURCE DILEMMAS. ANDREW W. MELLON THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES AND ITS DIGITAL APPLICATIONS THIS PROJECT INTEGRATES CLIMATE CHANGE STUDIES, DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY, SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY MODELS AND ANALYSES TO EXPLORE HUMAN-ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS AS THEY RELATE TO SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES, SMART CITY PLANNING, TRANSPORT AND PUBLIC HEALTH, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS, AND SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS SCHEME IMPACT-EV EXPLORING SOCIAL IMPACTS OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH. DIGITAL LITERARY ATLAS OF IRELAND, 1922-1949 [HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/LONGROOMHUB/DIGITAL-ATLAS/] EMPLOYING GIS, WEB 2.0 OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE AND PHP / JAVASCRIPT CODING APPLICATIONS TO CREATE INTERACTIVE WEB PLATFORM CHARTING THE LIVES AND WORKS OF EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY IRISH WRITERS, UTILIZING DIGITIZED HISTORICAL MAPS AND LITERATURE SELECTIONS FROM TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS PRTLI CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR EILEEN PATRICIA TREACY treacyeileenpatricia CLINICAL PROFESSOR EPTREACY PAEDIATRICS EPIDEMIOLOGY OF RARE DISEASES TREATMENT OF GENETIC DISEASES INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM GALACTOSAEMIA 5 CHESTERFIELD VIEW CHESTERFIELD CASTLEKNOCK DUBLIN 15 01-8961000 GALACTOSAEAMIA, TRANSLATING NOVEL MONITORING APPROACHES INTO IMPROVED CLINICAL PRACTICE HRB HRA -POR-2014 HRB POR EC 3RD PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMME, JOINT ACTION IN RARE DISEASES HSE COORDINATOR EC PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAMME GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION DR. SIMON JOHN TREZISE trezisesimonjohn ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/HEAD OF MUSIC STREZISE MUSIC DEPT. OF MUSIC NO. 5 COLLEGE. 01-8961000 DEBUSSY HISTORICAL RECORDINGS MUSIC ANALYSIS MUSIC AND TEXT PERFORMANCE PRACTICE WAGNER 'THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND THE ROLE OF THE CONDUCTOR' (WORKING TITLE ONLY) EUGENE ORMANDY TOOK OVER THE PRINCIPAL CONDUCTORSHIP OF THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA FROM LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI IN THE LATE 1930S. WHILST ORMANDY'S STYLE OF CONDUCTING WAS DIFFERENT TO STOKOWSKI'S (IN THE EARLY DAYS HE WAS REGARDED AS A SPECIALISTS IN THE VIENNESE CLASSICS, STOKOWSKI ON THE OTHER HAND WAS FAMOUS FOR ROMANTIC AND MODERN REPERTOIRE), THE REPERTOIRE HE UNDERTOOK AND THE SOUND HE OFTEN ACHIEVED HAVE MANY PARALLELS WITH STOKOWSKI'S. IN SPITE OF ORMANDY'S PROFESSED ADMIRATION FOR TOSCANINI AND DETERMINATION TO MODEL HIS PERFORMANCES ON THOSE OF THE ITALIAN, THE RESULT OF HIS CONDUCTING -- ENSHRINED IN MYRIAD STUDIO RECORDINGS, AND LIVE RECORDINGS MOSTLY HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (AND NOT DISTRIBUTED COMMERCIALLY) -- SUGGESTS A BROADER ATTACHMENT TO WHAT MIGHT BE LOOSELY TERMED THE 'PHILADELPHIA SOUND', WHICH BRINGS ORMANDY INTIMATELY INTO STOKOWSKI'S INTERPRETATIVE DOMAIN (STOKOWSKI HAD LITTLE IN COMMON WITH TOSCANINI AND PROFESSED TO DISLIKE HIS INTERPRETATIONS). THIS BROAD DESCRIPTION ENCOMPASSES A GREAT RANGE OF EXPRESSIVE NUANCE, WHICH CAN BE DETERMINED BY DETAILED ANALYSIS OF RECORDINGS AND THE MANY ANNOTATED SCORES OF THE TWO CONDUCTORS, WHICH ARE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. METHODOLOGY WILL INCLUDE DETAILED STUDY OF PERFORMANCE GESTURE IN THEIR RECORDINGS, BASED, WHEN POSSIBLE, ON SPECTRAL VIEWS OF THE WAVE FORMS OF RECORDINGS, AND WHEN THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE (I.E. IN COPYRIGHT-PROTECTED LIVE RECORDINGS) BY MAPPING OF TEMPO AND OBSERVATIONAL DATA OBTAINED BY CLOSE LISTENING AND COMPARISON WITH OTHER PERFORMANCES. SUCH CLOSE STUDY OF AN ORCHESTRA, AN ORCHESTRAL SOUND, AND TWO CONDUCTORS (PUT IN CONTEXT AND COMPARED WITH OTHER CONDUCTORS OF THE PERIOD AND LATER) CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ORCHESTRA, HAS NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT BEFORE. THE PROJECT WILL THEREFORE BE AN ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE BURGEONING FIELD OF MUSICAL-PERFORMANCE STUDIES AND WILL ADD BOTH TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF A GREAT ORCHESTRA AND ITS CONDUCTORS, AND TO THE METHODOLOGIES DEPLOYED IN OBTAINING ACCURATE AND THEREFORE VERIFIABLE DATA IN SUPPORT OF CLAIMS THAT MIGHT HITHERTO HAVE BEEN LARGELY SUBJECTIVE. THE PRIMARY MEANS WHEREBY THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED LIES IN THE QUANTIFICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF 'PERFORMANCE GESTURE', WHICH IS A SYNTHESIS OF TEMPO, TIMBRE, RHYTHMIC NUANCE, AGOGIC ACCENT, ARTICULATION SUCH AS PORTAMENTO, AND OTHER PARAMETERS. THE WORK CAN ONLY BE CARRIED OUT IN PHILADELPHIA ON ACCOUNT OF THE EXTENSIVE HOLDINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (AND ANALOGOUS HOLDINGS IN NEW YORK). AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, LONG ROOM HUB, TAYLOR BEQUEST CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DANIEL TRIMBLE trimbledaniel ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DTRIMBLE MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG MY RESEARCH IS FOCUSED ON DESIGN INNOVATION AND FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING TO ADVANCE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES WITHIN THE BIOMEDICAL, AEROSPACE AND AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES. SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: BIOMEDICAL GRADE POLYMERS: -MICRO MILLING -DEVELOPING CRYOGENIC COOLING SOLUTIONS BIOMEDICAL GRADE COBALT CHROME: -DEVELOPING FINITE ELEMENT MODELS TO SIMULATE MACHINING -HOT MACHINING -CRYOGENIC COOLING -TOOL WEAR CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING -DEVELOPING FLOW STRESS EQUATIONS OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING -SPLIT HOPKINSON PRESSURE BAR -GLEEBLE SYSTEM FRICTION STIR WELDING -WELDING WING AND FUSELAGE PANELS (AA7075, AA2024) -WELDING ALUMINIUM AND CARBON FIBRE COMPOSITES -DEVELOPING FINITE ELEMENT MODELS OF FRICTION STIR WELDING PROCESS METAL 3-D PRINTING: -MATERIAL CHARACTERISATION -DESIGN FOR 3-D PRINTING -BIOMEDICAL GRADE TITANIUM AND COBALT CHROME DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CIRP RESEARCH AFFILIATE ENGINEERS IRELAND THE TEACHING COUNCIL IRELAND DESIGN OF A LOW POWERED EMERGENCY EXIT SIGN THIS RESEARCH WAS FOCUSED ON THE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF A LOW POWERED EMERGENCY EXIT SIGN THAT CONSUMES 80% LESS POWER THAN STANDARD SIGNS. THIS WAS ACHIEVED THROUGH THE DESIGN OF A NOVEL LIGHT GUIDE AND DIFFUSER FILMS USING LOW POWERED LEDS. THE PRODUCT WAS BROUGHT FROM CONCEPT TO PROTOTYPE AND MET ALL LUMINANCE, LUX AND CONTRAST MEASUREMENTS TO ISO STANDARDS. ENTERPRISE IRELAND DESIGN OF A WATER HARVESTING SYSTEM THIS RESEARCH WAS FOCUSED ON THE DESIGN OF A WATER HARVESTING SYSTEM FOR DOMESTIC HOUSEHOLDS. THE SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED TO STORE AND DELIVER RAINWATER FOR TOILET FLUSHING AND GARDEN IRRIGATION. WHEN THE SYSTEM STORE IS LOW, IT IS SUPPLEMENTED BY WATER FROM MAIN. PROCESS MATERIAL INTERACTION DURING MICROMACHINING OF BIOMEDICAL POLYMER MATERIALS THIS WORK FOCUSED ON THE CHARACTERISATION OF PROCESS MATERIAL INTERACTION DURING THE MICROMACHINING OF A BIOMEDICAL GRADE POLYMER WHICH IS USED TO MANUFACTURE INTRAOCULAR LENS (IOLS) BY THE PARTNERING COMPANY, ALCON. THE MACHINING CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYMERS DEPEND PRIMARILY ON THEIR MECHANICAL, THERMAL, AND RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES. HIGH MATERIAL ELASTICITY AND THERMAL EXPANSIONS MAY MAKE EFFICIENT MATERIAL REMOVAL AND PRECISION MACHINING A CHALLENGE. OFTEN, LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITIES AND SOFTENING TEMPERATURES FURTHER HAMPER THESE EFFORTS. MANY PROPERTIES ARE ALSO HIGHLY TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN-RATE SENSITIVE WHICH CAN CAUSE UNWANTED CHANGES IN MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR IN THE CUTTING ZONE DURING MACHINING. AMBER TARGETED PROJECT FUNDAMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE MACHINING OF COBALT CHROME COBALT CHROME ALLOYS ARE USED EXTENSIVELY WITHIN THE BIOMEDICAL INDUSTRY DURING THE MANUFACTURING OF ORTHOPAEDIC IMPLANTS DUE TO THEIR DESIRABLE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FATIGUE RESISTANCE, TENSILE STRENGTH, CORROSION RESISTANCE AND BIOCOMPATIBILITY. HOWEVER, THESE ALLOYS ARE DIFFICULT TO MACHINE DUE TO THEIR STRAIN HARDENING CAPABILITIES. THE GOAL OF THIS RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE CUTTING MECHANICS OF COBALT CHROME, SPECIFICALLY FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FINITE ELEMENT MODEL AND A STATISTICAL MACHINING CAMPAIGN. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL MS. VALERIE TRIMBLE trimblevalerie RESEARCH NURSE TRIMBLEV CLINICAL MEDICINE HEALTH CARE CENTRE HOSPITAL 5 ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 GENES & SOCIETY DR. TIM TRIMBLE trimbletim ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TRIMBLT PSYCHOLOGY HIS CURRENT RESEARCH IS IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PROBATION SERVICE IN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND, AND AN GARDA SIOCHANA, AND THE POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND - THIS IS EVALUATING TECHNIQUES FOR SEX-OFFENDER RISK ASSESSMENT. RESEARCH WITH THE PBNI ALSO INCLUDES EVALUATING ANGER MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES FOR OFFENDERS IN THE COMMUNITY. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHARTERED PSYCHOLOGIST - BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND - SECRETARY TO THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY ADOLESCENTS APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT CHILD PSYCHOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT CHILD SUPPORT--GOVERNMENTAL/PARENTAL CHILDREN/YOUTH CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFLICT/DISPUTE RESOLUTION COUNSELING/GUIDANCE CRIME CAUSATION CRIME CONTROL CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION CRIMINAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS CRIMINAL JUSTICE CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY CRIMINOLOGY CULTURAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY FIREARMS/GUNS HOMELAND SECURITY JUVENILE DELINQUENCY JUVENILE JUSTICE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND BEHAVIOR PENOLOGY/CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS & PROCEDUR PRISON PSYCHOANALYSIS PSYCHODYNAMICS PSYCHOMETRICS TERRORISM VIOLENT BEHAVIOR VOCATIONAL COUNSELING WORKER ATTITUDES AND TECHNOLOGY CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND DR. DANIELA TROPEA tropeadaniela ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TROPEAD PSYCHIATRY I STUDY THE BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES FOR NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS IDENTIFIED WITH GENETIC SCREENS. THESE GENES CAN BE STUDIED IN VITRO AND IN VIVO USING DIFFERENT CELLULAR MODELS. THESE MODELS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN HELPING TO UNDERSTAND THE NEUROBIOLOGY THAT LEADS TO THE EXPRESSION OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS, FOR IMPROVING DIAGNOSIS AND LEADING TO NEW TREATMENTS. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH INVITED TALKS TRINITY COLLEGE INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE ANNUAL MEETING (IRELAND) NOVEMBER 2013 IRISH RETT SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (ATHLONE, IRELAND) SEPTEMBER 2013 AMERICAN COLLEGE NEUROPHARMACHOLOGY ANNUAL MEETING (FL, USA) DECEMBER 2012 IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (UK) OCTOBER 2012 ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM IRSF (VA, USA) JUNE 2011 MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (NY, USA) FEBRUARY 2011 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (OH, USA) JANUARY 2011 KINGS COLLEGE LONDON (UK) DECEMBER 2010 WORLD CONGRESS PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS (ATHENS, GREECE) OCTOBER 2010 SYMPOSIUM ON RARE GENETIC DISEASES (VIAREGGIO, ITALY) FEBRUARY 2010 WORLD CONGRESS PSYCHIATRIC GENETICS (SAN DIEGO, CA) NOVEMBER 2009 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON RETT SYNDROME (MILAN, ITALY) JUNE 2009 STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY (NY) APRIL 2009 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (NJ) DECEMBER 2008 STANFORD UNIVERSITY (CA) SEPTEMBER 2008 ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE (PARIS) APRIL 2008 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (IL) FEBRUARY 2008 CENTER FOR BRAIN REPAIR CAMBRIDGE (UK) FEBRUARY 2008 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA (CA) APRIL 2007 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (NY) AUGUST 2006 NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) NEUROSCIENCE DR. DMITRI TSISKARASHVILI tsiskarashvilidmitri ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DTSISKAR RUSSIAN TO DATE I HAVE CONCENTRATED MY ACADEMIC RESEARCH ON TWO DISTINCT AREAS: 1.CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN BASED ON MY PHD RESEARCH AND LANGUAGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE, I HAVE ACQUIRED EXPERTISE IN AREAS OF THE CURRICULUM WHICH INVOLVE INTERDISCIPLINARY COMPONENTS AND LANGUAGE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE STUDY OF RUSSIAN FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES. I DESIGNED AN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN "BUSINESS RUSSIAN COMMUNICATION"(INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED LEVEL) AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN WHICH I HAVE DELIVERED SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1992. IN ADDITION I HAVE CREATED A COMPLETE PACKAGE OF COURSE MATERIALS FOR THE INTENSIVE FORMAT PROGRAMME IN BUSINESS RUSSIAN, WHICH AIMS TO PREPARE IRISH/EU GRADUATES FOR CAREERS IN BUSINESS IN RUSSIA. 2.ANALYSIS OF CURRENT RUSSIA-EUROPEAN UNION RELATIONS. THE STUDY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL TRENDS IN THE BALTIC STATES AND THEIR RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA. THIS RESEARCH INTEREST DEVELOPED FROM LECTURING AND SUPERVISING MA DISSERTATIONS AND ESSAYS FOR THE COURSE "EASTERN EUROPE. PROBLEMS AND FUTURE RELATIONS WITH THE EU. PROSPECT FOR EU ENLARGEMENT TO THE EAST" AS PART OF THE MASTER OF ARTS PROGRAMME IN EUROPEAN UNION STUDIES AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH (DEPARTMENT OF MODERN HISTORY). BASED ON MY CURRENT RESEARCH, I AM DELIVERING A POST-GRADUATE MODULE (EU7008) FOR THE MPHIL IN EUROPEAN STUDIES: "EU-RUSSIA RELATIONS". THE MODULE INCLUDES ANALYSIS OF THE COMPLEXITY OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE EU AND RUSSIA AND PROVIDES UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ABOUT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA'S FOREIGN POLICY AS WELL AS COVERAGE OF RUSSIA-EU TRADE RELATIONS AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION. THE MODULE FOCUSES NOT ONLY ON EU-RUSSIA RELATIONS BUT ALSO GIVES STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BROADEN THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION COUNTRIES WHICH PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EASTERN PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMMES AND THE EU SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SUPPLIERS TO BYPASS RUSSIA. MY RESEARCH CONCENTRATES ON THREE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS: MIGRATION PROCESSES, BORDER REGIONS DEVELOPMENTS, AND CROSS BORDER COOPERATION. DEPT OF RUSSIAN ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN RUSSIAN ENGLISH ASSOCIATE MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR SLAVONIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (BASEES) MEMBER OF THE TEACHING COUNCIL (FURTHER EDUCATION SECTION) PRESIDENT OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (IAREES) IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ALAN ROBERT TUFFERY tufferyalanrobert RETIRED STAFF MEMBER ATUFFERY RETIRED STAFF MEMBER TRINITY ACCESS PROGRAMME GOLDSMITH HALL COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. OGENNA UDUMA udumaogenna ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MANAFAO PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH 3RD FLOOR 7/9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. JÜRGEN UHLICH uhlichjrgen ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR UHLICHC IRISH EARLY IRISH LINGUISTICS; EARLY IRISH TEXTS AND LITERATURE; COMPARATIVE CELTIC LINGUISTICS; CONTINENTAL CELTIC LINGUISTICS; INDO-EUROPEAN COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. DEPT OF IRISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH CO-EDITOR OF ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR CELTISCHE PHILOLOGIE CO-PROPOSER AND MEMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEE OF TRINITY COLLEGE RESEARCH THEME "MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT STUDIES" INDOGERMANISCHE GESELLSCHAFT MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY PANEL TO THE ELECTRONIC DICTIONARY OF THE IRISH LANGUAGE (EDIL) SUPPLEMENT (ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY / UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER COLERAINE / QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST / UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE). PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY CELTIC MORPHOLOGY CONTINENTAL CELTIC EARLY IRISH TEXTS AND LITERATURE INDO-EUROPEAN LINGUISTICS MIDDLE IRISH OGAM INSCRIPTIONS OLD IRISH HISTORICAL PHONOLOGY OLD IRISH LANGUAGE LANGUAGES & LITERATURE A HANDBOOK OF EARLY OLD IRISH THIS PROJECT WILL GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE TEXTUAL REMAINS OF THE EARLY OLD IRISH PERIOD (C. 550-70 AD). IT WILL OFFER, FOR THE FIRST TIME, CRITICAL EDITIONS OF THE PRINCIPAL DOCUMENTS DATING FROM THIS PERIOD BUT MOSTLY ATTESTED IN LATER MANUSCRIPT COPIES ONLY. THESE CONSIST OF ONE CONTINUOUS PROSE FRAGMENT (THE CAMBRAI HOMILY), VARIOUS COLLECTIONS OF GLOSSES ON LATIN TEXTS AND PROPER NAMES EMBEDDED IN LATIN DOCUMENTS. EACH EDITION WILL BE INTRODUCED BY A SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC ASSESSMENT OF THE MANUSCRIPT SOURCE(S). IN ADDITION, A COMPLETE GRAMMATICAL DESCRIPTION AND HISTORICAL EVALUATION OF ALL KNOWN LINGUISTIC FACTS WILL BE PROVIDED. AN EDITION OF THE TEXT FINGAL RÓNÁIN 'THE "KIN-SLAYING" OF RÓNÁN' THIS EARLY MIDDLE IRISH TEXT (C. EARLY 10TH CENTURY AD) IS PRESERVED IN TWO MANUSCRIPTS (BOTH KEPT IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN). THE CRITICAL EDITION WILL DISCUSS THE MANUSCRIPTS' RELATIONSHIP AND ESTABLISH THAT THEY ARE INDEPENDENT COPIES, DISCUSS THE EVIDENCE FOR RESTORING THE LOST ARCHETYPE AND ON THAT BASIS PRESENT A LINGUISTIC PROFILE OF THE ORIGINAL COMPOSITION. FURTHERMORE, ITS LITERARY CONNECTIONS AND INDEPENDENT MERITS WILL BE ASSESSED, INCLUDING A LITERARY USE OF DIFFERENT LINGUISTIC REGISTERS THAT AT THE PRESENT STAGE OF KNOWLEDGE IS UNIQUE IN EARLY IRISH LITERATURE. DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. ELAINE UI DHONNCHADHA uidhonnchadhaelaine ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/HEAD OF DISCIPLINE UIDHONNE C.L.C.S. C.L.C.S. ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH COISTE BAINISTÍOCHTA [MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE] FHOCLÓIR NA NUA-GHAEILGE, ACADAMH RÍOGA NA HÉIREANN [ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY] FO-CHOISTE RÍOMHAIREACHTA DEN CHOISTE TÉARMAÍOCHTA, FORAS NA GAEILGE. [COMPUTING TERMINOLOGY SUB-COMMITTEE ] NATIONAL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY (NCLT), DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY NSAI REPRESENTATIVE ON INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANISATION (ISO) LANGUAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SUB-COMMITTEE OF STANDARDISATION OF TERMINOLOGY AND LANGUAGE AND CONTENT RESOURCES (TC37/SC4) COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS CORPUS LINGUISTICS EDUCATION AND MINORITY LANGUAGE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION LINGUISTICS MORPHOLOGY NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SPEECH PROCESSING/TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE - INFORMATION SYSTEMS OTHER HUMANITIES WISPR: SPEECH PROCESSING RESOURCES FOR WELSH AND IRISH EU INTERREG IIIA COMMUNITY INITIATIVE PROGRAMME ENHANCED PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING FOR IRISH EXTEND LEXICON AND RULES FOR IRISH PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER. </BR> <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/SLSCS/RESEARCH/PROJECTS/PAST/#POS">HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/SLSCS/RESEARCH/PROJECTS/PAST/#POS</A> FORAS NA GAEILGE CORPAS NA GAEILGE LABHARTHA TO DESIGN AND COLLECT A CORPUS OF TRANSCRIBED SPONTANEOUS SPOKEN IRISH.</BR> <A HREF="HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/SLSCS/RESEARCH/PROJECTS/CURRENT/GALA.PHP">GALA PROJECT</A> FORAS NA GAEILGE RULE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATION FOR IRISH-ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, HERITAGE AND THE GAELTACHT LINGUISTIC ANNOTATION OF ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY CORPUS OF MODERN IRISH (1600-2000) CORPUS PREPARATION AND AUTOMATIC LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF MAINLY HISTORICAL TEXTS TO FACILITATE THE DIACHRONIC STUDY OF MODERN IRISH. IT IS ENVISAGED THAT THE CORPUS LINGUISTIC METHODOLOGY WILL GREATLY REDUCE THE TIME FRAME FOR PRODUCING THE RIA HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN IRISH. PRO BONO PLEAN DIGITEACH DON GHAEILGE [DIGITAL PLAN FOR IRISH LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY] DEPARTMENT OF ARTS, HERITAGE AND THE GAELTACHT LINGUISTIC ANNOTATION OF THE CORPUS BARDIC TEXTS (1200-1600) THIS PROJECT INVOLVES LINGUISTICALLY ANNOTATING TCD IRISH DEPT'S CORPUS OF BARDIC POETRY WHICH DATES FROM 1200 TO 1600AD. IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. EOIN MAC CÁRTHAIGH, ROINN NA GAEILGE, WE ARE AUTOMATICALLY LEMMATIZING AND PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGING EACH WORD IN THE CORPUS USING LANGUAGE PROCESSING TOOLS FOR IRISH. THIS WILL FACILITATE THE PRODUCTION OF A BARDIC POETRY DICTIONARY. TO DATE APPROXIMATELY HALF OF THE TOKENS IN THE CORPUS HAVE BEEN AUTOMATICALLY RECOGNISED USING THE PRE-EXISTING IRISH LANGUAGE TOOLS. WE ARE SEEKING FUNDING TO COMPLETE THE WORK OF CUSTOMISING THE TOOLS FOR LINGUISTIC ANNOTATION FOR THIS PERIOD AND FOR CHECKING THE ANNOTATED TEXT BY 2020. N/A CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS MAKING IRELAND DR. DANIEL ULRICH ulrichdaniel ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN NEUROSCIENCE ULRICHD PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY INST. OF NEUROSCIENCES (TCIN) NEUROPHYSIOLOGY ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION AND PLASTICITY CALCIUM IMAGING SLEEP PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BRAIN BRAIN CORTEX CELL-MEMBRANES ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION IMAGING LEARNING AND MEMORY MICROSCOPY PLASTICITY SLEEP NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY MEDICAL ENGINEERING, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVICES (INCLUDING MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIES AND INFORMATICS) MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY INCLUDING BIOINFORMATICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY SLEEP SPINDLES AND MEMORY FORMATION AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. CARA USHER ushercara ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CUSHER PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS DEPT OF PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS TRINITY CNTR FOR HEALTH SCIENCE ST JAMES' HOSPITAL, DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 AGE RELATED DISEASES HEALTH STATUS AND INEQUALITIES PATTERNS OF HEALTH PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY PRESCRIBING PATTERNS PRIMARY-CARE DR. MARYANN VALIULIS valiulismaryann FELLOW EMERITUS MVLIULIS FELLOWS EMERITII CENTRE FOR GENDER & WOMENS STUDIES THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN SOCIETY AND POLITICS AN 20TH CENTURY IRELAND AND CONTINENTAL EUROPE; WOMEN'S HISTORY; WOMEN'S STUDIES. CENTRE FOR GENDER AND WOMENS STUDIES ROOM 3077/3078 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 THE DIVERSITY OF WOMEN AND MULTIPLE DISCRIMINATION THIS PROJECT RELATES TO THE CENTRE FOR GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES' INTEREST IN ISSUES OF EQUALITY AND DIFFERENCE. THE PROJECT IS TO PRODUCE AN INTRODUCTORY BOOKLET ON ISSUES OF MULTIPLE DISCRIMINATION FOR TEN GROUPS OF WOMEN CHOSEN BY THE EQUALITY AUTHORITY: . TRANSSEXUAL WOMEN . WOMEN PARENTING ALONE . WOMEN CARERS . WOMEN TRAVELLERS . WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES . LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN . WOMEN FROM DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDS . BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY WOMEN . YOUNG WOMEN . OLDER WOMEN THE INTERSECTION OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION WITH OTHER FORMS OF PREJUDICE IS THE KEY FOCUS: HOW DO LESBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN EXPERIENCE DISCRIMINATION BOTH AS WOMEN AND MEMBERS OF A MINORITY? HOW DOES THE IMPACT OF AGEIST BIAS AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION MANIFEST ITSELF IN THE LIVES OF OLDER WOMEN? HOW DOES RACISM COLLIDE WITH GENDER STEREOTYPING FOR BLACK AND ETHNIC MINORITY WOMEN? THESE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES EXPLORED IN THE BOOKLET. IT IS EXPECTED THAT RESEARCH WILL BE COMPLETED IN APRIL 2007. WE PRODUCED AN INTERIM REPORT IN DECEMBER 2006 AND A DRAFT FINAL REPORT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED. THE PROJECT IS PART OF IRELAND'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE EUROPEAN YEAR OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES AND WILL BE LAUNCHED LATER IN 2007. THE EQUALITY AUTHORITY AN INTRODUCTION TO GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES IN THE MARKETING AND DESIGN OF GOODS FOR CHILDREN THE PROJECT WAS BASED ON A REVIEW OF MARKETING AND ADVERTISING OF CHILDREN'S TOYS IN IRELAND IN RELATION TO GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES. THE RESEARCH HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 2007. THE PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS A PERVASIVE AND THOROUGH GENDER STEREOTYPING IN THE MARKETING AND DESIGN OF GOODS TO CHILDREN. GENDER STEREOTYPING IS FOUND TO BE DEEPLY EMBEDDED AT ALL LEVELS OF THE MARKETING PROCESS. IT IS IDENTIFIED IN:- · THE LANGUAGE USED. THE TEXT, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT ACCOMPANIES THE GIRL'S PRODUCTS DESCRIBES THE PRODUCT AND DOES NOT ENGAGE WITH THE CHILDREN SHOWN. THE TEXT DIRECTED AT BOYS IS DIFFERENT IN TONE AND INTENT-ACTIVELY ENGAGING THE CHILDREN AND AFFIRMING THE ACTIVE POTENTIAL OF THE BOYS. · THE SYMBOLS USED. THE USE OF BLUE AND PINK TO COMMUNICATE GENDER APPROPRIATENESS OF TOYS IS INSTANTLY RECOGNISABLE IN MOST TOY CATALOGUES, FOR EXAMPLE. : THE PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES USED. EXAMPLES GIVEN INCLUDE THE PREDOMINANCE OF MALE VOICE-OVERS AND THE USE OF DIFFERENT CAMERA ANGLES FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. THE TILT UP ANGLE IS MOST COMMON IN ADVERTISEMENTS DEPICTING BOYS AND THE TILT DOWN ANGLE IN THOSE DEPICTING GIRLS. · THE USE AND PORTRAYAL OF SPACE IN BOTH VISUAL AND PRINT ADVERTISING. BOYS ARE DEPICTED USING PRODUCTS OUTDOORS WHEREAS GIRLS WERE PREDOMINANTLY SHOWN PLAYING INDOORS. SEPARATE SECTIONS ARE RESERVED IN SHOPS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SUPPOSED GENDER APPROPRIATENESS OF THE TOYS BEING SOLD. THE OVERALL IMPACT IDENTIFIED IS A GENDER STEREOTYPING WHERE ­ BOYS ARE PORTRAYED AS INDEPENDENT, ACTIVE AND AGGRESSIVE ­ GIRLS ARE PORTRAYED AS DEPENDENT, PASSIVE AND NURTURING. THE EQUALITY AUTHORITY RESEARCH INTO MEASURES TO FACILITATE PROMOTION OF WOMEN IN SENIOR GRADES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT THIS RESEARCH PROJECT ENTAILS A POLICY AND LITERATURE REVIEW, THE HOSTING OF FOCUS GROUPS AND A DEPARTMENT WIDE SURVEY ON THE ISSUE OF THE PROMOTION OF WOMEN TO SENIOR GRADES DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON PROSTITUTION IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT IS LOOKING AT THE LITERATURE ON PROSTITUTION AND TRAFFICKING IN IRELAND AND INTERNATIONALLY, AS WELL AS A REVIEW OF IRELAND'S LEGAL STANDARDS AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITMENTS TO THOSE ENGAGED IN PROSTITUTION. THE PROJECT ALSO INVOLVES A REVIEW OF SERVICES FOR THOSE ENGAGED IN PROSTITUTION. IRISH HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION LITERATURE REVIEW ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE, WORK PLACE CULTURE AND MATERNITY/CHILDCARE ISSUES THE CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY (WWW.CRISISPREGNANCY.IE) HAS COMMISSIONED THE CENTRE FOR GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES TO UNDERTAKE A LITERATURE REVIEW OF ISSUES RELATED TO WORK LIFE BALANCE, WORKPLACE CULTURE AND MATERNITY/CHILDCARE ISSUES. JENNIFER REDMOND IS THE PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER, AND THE PROJECT IS DIRECTED BY DR. MARYANN VALIULIS AND DR. EILEEN DREW. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO PRODUCE A COMPREHENSIVE AND INTERNATIONALLY COMPARATIVE REVIEW OF LITERATURE RELATING TO WORK LIFE BALANCE, WORKPLACE CULTURE AND MATERNITY/CHILDCARE ISSUES. IT WILL OUTLINE AND EXAMINE THE SITUATION IN IRELAND FOR WORKERS STRIVING FOR WORK LIFE BALANCE, AND FOR WORKING PARENTS NEGOTIATING EMPLOYMENT AND DOMESTIC RESPONSIBILITIES. IN PARTICULAR, IT WILL HIGHLIGHT ISSUES FOR THOSE FACING CRISIS PREGNANCY, IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE IMPACT THAT CURRENT WORKPLACE POLICIES AND ENVIRONMENTS HAS ON THEIR LIVES AND DECISION-MAKING CAPACITIES. CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY THE ART OF DECISION PROJECT THE ART OF DECISION PROJECT IS A PARTNERSHIP PROJECT BETWEEN THE CENTRE FOR GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES, AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, TRINITY COLLEGE. THE PROJECT ADDRESSES THE UNEQUAL REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING IN IRELAND AND HOW NEW MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED IN A MORE INNOVATIVE WAY, IN THE FORM OF A MULTIMEDIA RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENT, TO ENCOURAGE WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION. THE PROJECT COMBINES A GENDER PERSPECTIVE WITH CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY AND IS CURRENTLY PRODUCING AN INTERACTIVE SPACE TO REPRESENT RESEARCH DATA THROUGH ARTISTIC MEDIA. THE PROJECT AIMS TO LEVER INCREASED POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN USING MULTIMEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY AS A NEW LANGUAGE AND SPACE THAT WILL PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE CREATIVE, INNOVATIVE AND INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE. THE SPACE WILL AIM TO EXCITE PEOPLE AND GET THEM TO REACT BY PROVIDING AWARENESS OF THEIR CAPACITY, CAPABILITY, NEED FOR INVOLVEMENT AND IMPACT. THE INTERACTIVE PIECES IN THE SPACE WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION, NETWORK GROUPS AND IDEAS AND PROVIDE AN EXPERIENCE THAT MAY CHALLENGE CURRENT THOUGHT AND SOCIETAL NORMS THAT ARE UNCONSCIOUS TO PEOPLE. THIS PROJECT IS INNOVATIVE IN ITS APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF THE SPACE. THERE WILL BE A NUMBER OF WORKSHOPS IN THE COMMUNITY EXPLORING THE MAIN IDEAS AND THEMES OF GENDER BALANCE IN DECISION-MAKING. THE PARTICIPATING GROUPS WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET INVOLVED IN THE CREATIVE SIDE OF THE PROJECT AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE IMAGES, VIDEO FOOTAGE, TEXT OR AUDIO SECTIONS OF THE MULTIMEDIA RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENT. RESEARCH TEAM: DR. MARYANN VALIULIS, DR. LINDA DOYLE, FIONNUALA CONWAY, JANE WILLIAMS DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND LAW REFORM EQUALITY FOR WOMEN MEASURE (EWM) SPRINGBOARD FOR WOMEN IN BUSINESS INITIATIVE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT WERE TO IDENTIFY WOMEN'S MOTIVATIONS FOR BECOMING ENTREPRENEURS AND THE BARRIERS THEY ENCOUNTERED IN SETTING-UP AND RUNNING A BUSINESS. THE STUDY EXAMINED THE ROLE OF SUPPORT AGENCIES IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE SERVICES PROVIDED TO FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS AND TO IDENTIFY A MODEL OF BEST PRACTICE. SUMMARY AND FINAL REPORTS WERE PREPARED. RESEARCH TEAM: DR.MARYANN VALIULIS, DR.EILEEN DREW, ANNE-LAURE HAMBERT WICKLOW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THE GENDER HISTORY PROJECT THE GENDER HISTORY PROJECT IS A COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE BETWEEN THE CENTRE FOR GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES, TRINITY COLLEGE, AND THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN. COMMISSIONED BY THE GENDER EQUALITY UNIT (GEU) IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, THE PROJECT'S AIM IS TO EXAMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO BE PRESENT IN BOTH THE DELIVERY AND ASSESSMENT OF THE JUNIOR CYCLE HISTORY CURRICULUM. THIS INVOLVED A LITERATURE REVIEW OF THE CURRENT CONTEXT OF GENDER BALANCE IN TEACHING, WHICH HIGHLIGHTED ISSUES FOR CONTINUOUS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL SURVEY OF POST-PRIMARY HISTORY TEACHERS AND HIGHER DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD), AS WELL AS DOCUMENTARY ANALYSIS OF TEXTBOOKS AND EXAMINATION PAPERS 1992-2002. THE RESEARCH TEAM HAS PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE, AND HAS DISSEMINATED FINDINGS OF THE PROJECT AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, INCLUDING THE HISTORY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONFERENCES (2003 AND 2004) AND THE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (2004). A COPY OF THE SUMMARY REPORT WILL BE SENT TO EVERY POST-PRIMARY SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY. THE TEAM WILL ALSO BE PRESENTING AT MORE CONFERENCES IN 2005, INCLUDING THE EDUCATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND CONFERENCE (UCC) AND THE 5TH ANNUAL GENDER AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE ( CARDIFF UNIVERSITY ). RESEARCH TEAM: DR. MARYANN VALIULIS, DR. DEIRDRE RAFTERY, DR. JUDITH HARFORD, JENNIFER REDMOND, CATHERINE CREGAN DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND DR. FRÉDÉRIQUE VALLIERES vallieresfrdrique ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/COORDINATOR INDIGO FVALLIER PSYCHOLOGY GLOBAL HEALTH ORGANISATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY | HEALTH SYSTEM STRENGTHENING | TASK SHIFTING FOR GLOBAL HEALTH (COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS) | GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH (PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF TRAUMA) | SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH DEPUTY EDITOR, BMC GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH (IMPACT FACTOR: 2.540) GLOBAL HEALTH IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND PSYCHOLOGY POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS PSYCHOLOGY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES SOCIAL JUSTICE SMSB-CGH PARTNERSHIP THE SMSB-CGH PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO DEVELOP THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CENTRE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND THE SUDANESE MEDICAL SPECIALISATION BOARD. THE SMSB IS THE SOLE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING BODY IN THE REPUBLIC OF SUDAN, WITH A MANDATE TO MANAGE AND DELIVER MEDICAL AND HEALTH SPECIALTY PROGRAMMES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. CGH AND SMSB WILL WORK TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THE FOLLOWING PARTNERSHIP OBJECTIVES: (1) TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND ACCREDITATION STANDARDS AND PROCESSES OF POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES; (2) TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETENCY-BASED CURRICULA AND TRAINING PROGRAMMES; AND (3) TO FACILITATE THE EXCHANGE OF ACADEMIC AND SCHOLARLY MATERIAL IN THE FIELD OF GLOBAL HEALTH SCIENCES. ESTHER IRELAND VALIDATING THE ICD-11 TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE FOR USE WITH SYRIAN REFUGEES THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO VALIDATE THE ICD-11 TRAUMA QUESTIONNAIRE FOR USE WITH SYRIAN REFUGEES CURRENTLY LIVING IN THE LEBANON. WE ALSO SEEK TO ASSESS THE ACCEPTABILITY OF THE SCALE, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF NGO-BASED PSYCHOTHERAPISTS. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN PATHFINDER PERFORM2SCALE PERFORM2SCALE USES A PROBLEM-BASED MANAGEMENT STRENGTHENING INTERVENTION TO IMPROVE HEALTH WORKFORCE PERFORMANCE AND HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY IN THREE AFRICAN COUNTRIES: MALAWI, UGANDA, AND GHANA. THE GOAL OF PERFORM2SCALE IS TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE A SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO SCALING UP A DISTRICT LEVEL MANAGEMENT INTERVENTION IN DIFFERENT AND CHANGING CONTEXTS. EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020-SC1-2016-RTD COORDINATOR SUPPORT GRANT TO SUPPORT THE COORDINATION OF AN APPLICATION FOR HORIZON 2020 FUNDING. ENTERPRISE IRELAND CONTEXT - THE COLLABORATIVE NETWORK FOR TRAINING AND EXCELLENCE IN PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY CONTEXT AIMS TO CONDUCT HIGH QUALITY, INNOVATIVE RESEARCH, BUILD CAPACITY AND EXPERTISE, AND FOSTER INNOVATIVE PRACTICE IN THE AREA OF GLOBAL PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY. CONTEXT IS AN INTERNATIONAL, INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION BETWEEN NINE EUROPEAN PARTNER ORGANISATIONS SPANNING THE ACADEMIC, NON-GOVERNMENTAL, VOLUNTARY, AND PUBLIC SECTORS. CONTEXT HAS THREE INTERCONNECTED RESEARCH PROGRAMMES, EACH CONCERNING A PRIORITY POPULATION IN EUROPE: (1) EU-BASED ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES; (2) EMERGENCY-SERVICE PERSONNEL AND HUMANITARIAN FIRST-RESPONDERS; AND; (3) SURVIVORS AND PERPETRATORS OF CHILDHOOD- AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE. TWELVE CONTEXT FELLOWS WILL RECEIVE A UNIQUE PHD TRAINING EXPERIENCE, WORKING ACROSS POPULATIONS NOT ACCESSIBLE IN ANY OTHER DOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAMME. EACH RESEARCH PROJECT HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO ADDRESS CURRENT AND EMERGENT SKILL AND PROFESSIONAL DEFICIENCIES, ESSENTIAL FOR CURBING THE ADVERSE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF TRAUMA-RELATED PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS. FELLOWS WILL GRADUATE WITH AN ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO TRANSLATE PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE, THEREBY CONTRIBUTING TO MITIGATING THE IMPACT OF PSYCHOTRAUMA IN THE EU. WWW.PSYCHOTRAUMANETWORK.COM EUROPEAN COMMISSION H2020-MSCA-ITN-2016 (NO. 722523) INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. JANA VAN DER ZIEL FISCHEROVA vanderzielfischerovajana ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VANDERZJ RUSSIAN MY MAIN AREA OF EXPERTISE LIES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE, MAINLY CZECH AND IRISH, BUT ALSO BRITISH AND (SOVIET) RUSSIAN. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT OF LITERARY AND OTHER CENSORSHIP, AS WELL AS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LITERATURE AND SOCIETY. MY RESEARCH WORK HAS BEEN LARGELY COMPARATIVE, FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON THE POST-INDEPENDENCE CZECH (CZECHOSLOVAK) AND IRISH CONTEXTS. RECENTLY I HAVE ALSO BEEN WORKING ON EXPANDING MY SCOPE BY EXPLORING THE RELATED CULTURAL TERRITORIES OF THE SOVIET UNION AND GREAT BRITAIN. IN ADDITION, I AM INTERESTED IN THE POLITICS OF TRANSLATION. AS A TRAINED PHILOLOGIST, I ALSO TEACH CZECH LANGUAGE COURSES AT THE DEPARTMENT. 45 THE PARKLANDS RATHFARNHAM DUBLIN 14 01-8961000 PROFESSOR ELISABETH VANDENBERGHE vandenbergheelisabeth CLINICAL PROFESSOR VANDENBE HAEMATOLOGY 14 DARTMOUTH SQUARE DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 FRENCH AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HAEMATOLOGY CHAIRMAN OF THE HAEMATOLOGY AND LYMPHOMA SUB GROUP OF ICORG (CLINICAL TRIALS IRELAND) CHAIRMAN OF THE LYMPHOMA FORUM OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE LYMPHOMA WORKING PARTY OF THE EUROPEAN BLOOD AND MARROW TRANSPLANT (EBMT) GROUP ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GENETICS AND GENOMICS PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF IMMUNOPHENOTYPE, CYTOGENETIC AND MOLECULAR STATUS ON THE CLINICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE ST JAMES HOSPITAL C CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA COHORT HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD THE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MOLECULAR ANALYSIS OF COELIAC DISEASE, REFRACTORY CELIAC DISEASE AND ENTEROPATHY-ASSOCIATED T CELL LYMPHOMA (EATCL). ANALYSIS OF THE T CELL RECEPTOR CLONALITY STATUS IN DUODENAL BIOPSIES AND BLOOD CORRELATED WITH MORPHOLOGY AND IMMUNOPHENOTYPE TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COELIAC DISEASE, REFRACTORY COELIAC DISEASE AND ENTEROPATHY ASSOCIATED T CELL LYMPHOMA BONE MARROW FOR LEUKAEMIA TRUST ROLE OF FISH ANALYSIS IN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA PROGNOSIS ' FELLOWSHIP, 2001 PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR E60, 000.00 BONE MARROW FOR LEUKAEMIA TRUST FELLOWSHIP TP53 MUTATION TESTING IN CLL IN IRELAND: A TEMPLATE FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF TREATMENT DEFINING MOLECULAR ASSAYS GILEAD UK AND IRELAND FELLOW SHIP 2016 TP53 MUTATION TESTING IN CLL IN IRELAND: A TEMPLATE FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF TREATMENT DEFINING MOLECULAR ASSAYS GILEAD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM CANCER DR. WILLIAM EDWARD VAUGHAN vaughanwilliamedward FELLOW EMERITUS WVAUGHAN HISTORY NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND, ESPECIALLY CRIME, POLICE AND THE CONDUCT OF TRIALS DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY 3111 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MUNUSWAMY VENKATESAN venkatesanmunuswamy RESEARCH FELLOW VENKATEM PHYSICS PHYSICS DEPT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. ALINE VIDOTTO vidottoaline ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VIDOTTOA PHYSICS THE RESEARCH OF MY GROUP IS FOCUSED ON STAR-EXOPLANET RELATIONSHIP. I AM A LEADER IN THE STUDY OF THE INTERACTION OF EXOPLANETS WITH THEIR HOST STAR'S WIND, AND HOW THIS INTERACTION CAN AFFECT PLANETARY HABITABILITY. MY WORK IN THIS FIELD CONSISTS OF BOTH OBSERVATIONAL AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES. ON THE THEORETICAL FRONT, MY GROUP DEVELOP 3D MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF WINDS OF COOL STARS, WHICH PERMEATE ENTIRE EXOPLANETARY SYSTEMS. I PIONEERED THE STEP-CHANGE IN MODELLING STELLAR WINDS THAT OCCURRED WHEN STELLAR SURFACE MAGNETIC MAPS BECAME AVAILABLE. SINCE MAGNETISM AND WINDS HAVE A STRONG INTERPLAY, OUR MODELS ARE SOME OF THE MOST REALISTIC TO DATE. OUR REALISTIC ACCOUNT OF THE WIND CAN THEREFORE SUPPLY MORE DETAILED DIAGNOSTICS OF ITS INTERACTION WITH EXOPLANETS, GUIDING OBSERVERS TOWARDS THE MOST PROMISING SYSTEMS TO HOST DETECTABLE SIGNATURES OF SUCH INTERACTIONS. I HAVE RECENTLY PROPOSED AN INNOVATIVE METHOD TO MEASURE EXOPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS, WHICH HAS ATTRACTED CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION IN THE ASTROPHYSICS COMMUNITY. I AM ALSO DEEPLY INVOLVED ON THE OBSERVATIONAL FRONT OF STAR-EXOPLANET RELATIONSHIP. I AM A CO-INVESTIGATOR ON A RECENTLY NASA-FUNDED CUBESAT MISSION CUTE, WHICH IS A DEDICATED MISSION THAT WILL SURVEY ATMOSPHERIC ESCAPE IN CLOSE-IN EXOPLANETS ORBITING BRIGHT STARS. I AM A MEMBER OF SEVERAL INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIA, SUCH AS BCOOL (MEMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEE), TOUPIES, MATYSSE, SPIROU, UVMAG, AND BRITEPOL. THESE CONSORTIA AIM AT DETECTING EXOPLANETS AROUND VERY YOUNG STARS, AT STUDYING MAGNETISM OF STARS AT DIFFERENT AGES, AMONG OTHERS. I AM ALSO A CO-INVESTIGATOR ON AN ON-GOING MULTI-WAVELENGTH CAMPAIGN, USING INTERNATIONAL SPACE- AND GROUND-BASED FACILITIES, AIMING AT OBSERVING AND MODELLING THE INTERACTION OF A WELL-KNOWN HOT-JUPITER WITH THE WIND OF ITS HOST STAR. I AM ALSO A CO-INVESTIGATOR OF A 36-ORBIT HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE PROGRAM TO DETECT WINDS OF M DWARF STARS. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 PROFESSOR JAGDISH KUMAR VIJ vijjagdishkumar HONORARY PROFESSOR OF ELECTRO.MATERIALS JVIJ ELECTRONIC & ELECT. ENGINEERING I SPECIALIZE IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC PROPERTIES OF LIQUID CRYSTALS FOR APPLICATIONS IN PHOTONICS AND DISPLAYS. OUR CURRENT INTEREST IS FOCUSED ON INVESTIGATING DE VRIES SMECTICS WHICH SHOULD EXHIBIT ALMOST ZERO LAYER SHRINKAGE IN GOING FROM SMA TO SMC* PHASE. OUR SECONDARY INTEREST IS IN DISCOVERING NEW TEMPERATURE INDUCED AND FIELD INDUCED SUBPHASES IN ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS OTHER THAN THE STANDARD 2, 3 AND 4 LAYERS. WE DISCOVERED A NUMBER OF FIELD INDUCED SUPHASES. WE DISCOVERED 5 LAYER, 7 LAYER AND 8 LAYER TEMPERATURE INDUCED SUBPHASES. THESE HAVE NOW BEEN VERIFIED BY RESONANT X-RAYS. IN THE RECENT PAST WE DISCOVERED THE TWIST-BEND NEMATIC PHASE IN BIMESOGENS/DIMERS BASED ON CYANOBIPHENYLS AND DIFUOROTERPHENYLS. I HAVE BEEN THE PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR AND THE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF TWO LARGE EU PROJECTS ON LIQUID CRYSTALS, SCIENCE PROGRAMME (1990-93) AND THE HUMAN CAPITAL AND MOBILITY PROGRAMME (1994-97). BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS WERE APPROVED BY THE SCIENCE/PHYSICS COMMITTEE OF THE EU. UNDER THE 5TH PROGRAMME, I WAS A PARTNER IN TWO PROJECTS (I) LIQUID CRYSTALLINE DENDRIMERS AND (II) SYNCLINIC AND ANTICLINIC (SAMPA) LIQUID CRYSTALS. THESE WERE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED. I WAS GRANTED A TWO YEAR PROJECT BY THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY ON GLASS SCIENCE IN 1999. IN 2000, I WAS ALSO AWARDED A BASIC RESEARCH GRANT TO WORK ON THE DYNAMIC PYROELECTRIC EFFECT, STRATEGIC PROJECT ON LOW K, AND 2 SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF IRELAND GRANTS. I WAS AWARDED 2 MAJOR PROJECTS OF ~1.35 M EURO BY THE SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF IRELAND, UNDER ONE OF WHICH PROFESSOR A. FUKUDA WAS APPOINTED FOR TWO YEARS AS A SFI RESEARCH PROFESSOR. UNDER FP7 I WAS ONE OF THE 7 PI'S IN A BIND PROJECT. THE PROJECT STARTED IN FEB. 2008. TRINITY SHARE OF THE TOTAL BUDGET WAS OVER EURO 400,000. THIS PROJECT WAS COMPLETED IN FEB 2012.AS A RESULT OF THESE PROJECTS, IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES WERE MADE BY MY RESEARCH GROUP. THE NOTABLE ONE IS TWIST-BEND NEMATIC PHASE. I HAD TWO TIDA PROJECTS IN 2010 AND 2012. FUNDING IN EACH OF THESE WAS OF THE ORDER OF EURO 95,000. THESE WERE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED TOO. THE OTHER RESEARCH PROFESSORS APPOINTED WERE PROFESSOR ANTONI KOCOT [2008-2009] (UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA, KATOWICE, POLAND) AND PROFESSOR S. KUMAR (2012-2013) RRI, BANGALORE, INDIA. THESE COLLABORATIVE GRANTS WERE AWARDED ON THE BASIS OF THE THROUGHPUT OF MY RESEARCH GROUP. I HAVE CURRENTLY SFI PI PROJECT UNDER IRELAND -US COLLABORATIVE PROJECT 2014-2017 ON DE VRIES SMECTICS. WE HAVE PUBLISHED EXTENSIVELY IN TOP RANKING JOURNALS. ELECTRONIC & ELECTRICAL ENG PRINTING HOUSE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATE EDITOR JOURNAL OF INFORMATION DISPLAYS, PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS C. ENG. C. PHYS. F. INST. P. F.I.E.E. GUEST EDITOR OF VOLUMES: 610 TO 613 (2015) OF MOLECULAR CRYSTALS LIQUID CRYSTALS, PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF ILCC 2014 GUEST EDITOR OF 4 VOLUMES OF FERROELECTRICS (VOLUMES 309-312) PUBLISHED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS IN 2004. MEMBER AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD, CEYLON JOURNAL OF SCIENCE PUBLISHED BY PERADENIYA, UNIVERSITY, SRI LANKA MEMBER EDITORIAL BOARD: MOLECULAR MATERIALS PUBLISHED BY GORDON AND BREACH, USA. MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD: LIQUID CRYSTALS (THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON ANISOTROPIC FLUIDS) PUBLISHED BY FRANCIS AND TAYLOR, UK. REVIEWER: FOR PAPERS ON LIQUID CRYSTALS, LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS FOR VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS INCLUDING PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, PHYSICAL REVIEW, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIQUID CRYSTALS, FERROELECTRICS, LIQUID CRYSTALS, JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR LIQUIDS AND THE JOURNALS OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY AND EXTERNAL EXAMINERS FOR PH.D.'S IN CANADA, UK, POLAND AND INDIA. REVIEWER OF NSF, CANADIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL, SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF GREECE AND INTAS PROJECTS ON LIQUID CRYSTALS A PHASE-TRANSITION ABRIKOSOV ABSORPTION ACCEPTORS ACETONITRILE ALIGNMENT ALKYL CHAINS ALPHA-ASTERISK PHASE ALPHA-RELAXATION ANAEROBIC ADHESIVE ANGLE ANNNI MODEL ANOMALIES ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTALS ASTERISK ASTERISK PHASE ATR FTIR SPECTROSCOPY BEHAVIOR BENZOPHENONE BETA-RELAXATION BIAS ELECTRIC-FIELD BINARY-MIXTURES BISPHENOL-A BISPHENOL-A) BLENDS BOOKSHELF STRUCTURE BORATE GLASSES BOSON C-ASTERISK PHASE CELLS CHARGE HOPPING CHEVRON STRUCTURE CHIRAL SMECTIC-C COLUMNAR-PHASE COMPLEX PERMITTIVITY CONDUCTIVITY CONSTANT CRITICAL-POINT CROSS-LINKING CURE PROFILING CURE THROUGH VOLUME CURING KINETICS DEBYE DECALIN DENDRIMERS DEPENDENCE DEPOLARIZATION FIELD DEVICES DEVILS STAIRCASE DGEBA-BASED THERMOSETS DICHROISM DIELECTRIC RELAXATION DIELECTRIC RELAXATION SPECTROSCOPY DIELECTRIC RESPONSE DIELECTRIC-RELAXATION DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY DISCOTICS DOBAMBC DYNAMICS ELASTOMERS ELECTRIC-FIELD ELECTROCLINIC EFFECT EPOXY-RESIN EXPERIMENTAL-VARIABLES FAR-INFRARED ABSORPTION FAR-INFRARED SPECTRA FAR-INFRARED-ABSORPTION FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS FERROELECTRICITY FIELD FIELD-INDUCED REORIENTATION FILMS FLUIDS FORMING LIQUIDS FREE-VOLUME FREQUENCY FRUSTOELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL FT-IR SPECTROSCOPY GLASS LIQUID TRANSITION GLASS-FORMING LIQUIDS GLASS-TRANSITION GOLDSTONE MODE HYDRATION HYDROGELS INDUCED MOLECULAR-REORIENTATION INFRARED DICHROISM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF A LC POLYMER INTERNAL-ROTATION IR ISOTHERMAL CURE KETONES KINETIC-PARAMETERS LAYER LIGHT-SCATTERING LIQUID CRYSTALS LIQUID-CRYSTAL LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE PROPERTIES LIQUID-CRYSTALS LIQUIDS LOW-FREQUENCY RAMAN SPECTRA MECHANISM MELANIN POLYMER METHYL-CHLORIDE MODEL MOLECULAR ORDER PARAMETER MOLECULES ORDER ORDER-PARAMETER ORIENTATION TRANSITIONS PERESTER DERIVATIVES PERMITTIVITY PHASE PHASE-BEHAVIOR PHASE-SEPARATION PHASES PHEMA PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION ACTIVITY POLAR ANCHORING POLAR FLUIDS POLAR-MOLECULES POLEY POLYACRYLATES POLYMERS POLYMORPHISM POLYPROPYLENE PRESSURE RAMAN-SPECTROSCOPY REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY RELAXATION RELAXATIONS RESOLUTION RESOLVED FOURIER SPECTROSCOPY RIGID MOLECULES SCATTERING SERIES SMECTIC-A PHASE SOFT MODE SPECTRA SURFACE CHARGE SURFACE-STABILIZED CELLS SURFACE-STABILIZED STATES SWITCHING SYNTHETIC MELANIN TEMPERATURE TERPHENYL THERMOSETS THRESHOLDLESS ANTIFERROELECTRICITY TILT ANGLE TRANSITION VIEW VISCOUS LIQUIDS WATER X-RAY CHARACTERIZATION PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING MATERIALS SCIENCE POLYMER SCIENCE STRATEGIC PROJECT ON NANOFOAM MORPHOLOGY £70,000 ENTERPRISE IRELAND APPLIED RESEARCH ON LOW K £22,000 INTEL POSTGRADUATE STUDENTSHIP FOR 3 YEARS £36,000 BASIC RESEARCH PROGRAM ON FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS £58,000 ENTERPRISE IRELAND LIQUID CRYSTALLINE DENDRIMERS €180,000 SYNCLINIC AND ANTICLINIC LIQUID CRYSTALS €150,000 INTAS €5,000 SFI RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIP €300,000 SFI INVESTIGATORS AWARD GRANT €1, 000,000 FLC2003 CONFERENCE GRANT €50,000 PRTL PROGRAMMES PHASES 2 AND 3 €250,000 HEA EQUIPMENT GRANT €127,000 NON-SHRINKABLE LAYER THICKNESS AT SMA TO SMC* TRANSITIONS SFI, EURO 345,000 US-IRELAND EU STREP GRANT BIND 21605 INVESTIGATE, DESIGN AND FABRICATE BIAXIAL NEMATIC DEVICES USING BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS AND ORGANIC TETRAPODES IN THEIR NEMATIC PHASE EU, EURO 400,000 FP7 BASIC RESEARCH ON BIAXIAL NEMATICS INVESTIGATE BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASES IN LIQUID CRYSTALS SFI EURO 150,000 RFP FEASIBILITY STUDY OF NON-DISPLAY APPLICATIONS OF NOVEL LIQUID CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS INVESTIGATE PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS OF BIMESOGENIC LIQUID CRYSTALS SFI EURO 94,978 TIDA NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS TELECOMMUNICATIONS MRS ALIONA VILINSKY-REDMOND vilinskyredmondaliona RESEARCH STUDENT VILINSKA NURSING AND MIDWIFERY NURSING AND MIDWIFERY 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GREEK, MODERN (1453-) DR. CARL VOGEL vogelcarl ASSOC PROF. -COURSE DIR. BA CSLL VOGEL COMPUTER SCIENCE CENTRE FOR COMPUTING AND LANGUAGE STUDIES LINGUISTIC ANOMALY: FORMAL SYNTAX, FORMAL SEMANTICS, COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, COGNITIVE COMPUTING, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, FORENSIC LINGUISTICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, MACHINE LEARNING, LANGUAGE EVOLUTION, NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOG, REASONING AND LAW. RESEARCH GROUP: (CLG) COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS GROUP, (AIG) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS LABORATORY COMPUTER SCIENCE CLG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS COST ACTION 2102 "CROSS-MODAL ANALYSIS OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION": MC MEMBER COST ACTION IS1004 "WEBDATANET: WEB-BASED DATA-COLLECTION - METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, SOLUTIONS AND IMPLEMENTATIONS": MC MEMBER FOUNDATION FOR LOGIC LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (FOLLI) LOCAL CHAIR: 19TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION PROGRAM CO-CHAIR, 14TH IRISH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE, DUBLIN. REFEREE: LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY, TBILISI SYMPOSIA ON LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION, COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ETC. SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA TCD CLUSTER REPRESENTATIVE (CONSORTIUM LINKING UNIVERSITIES OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH) TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN REPRESENTATIVE TO THE EUROPEAN NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE IN HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES (ELSNET) AUTOMATIC SPAM EMAIL DETECTION SUPERVISED RESEARCH PROJECT WITH CORMAC O'BRIEN AS AN MSC STUDENT BY RESEARCH IRCSET POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IRISH SPELLCHECKING COMPACT DATA STRUCTURES DEVELOPED TO HOST CREATED 250,000 WORD LEXICON DERIVED FROM CORPORA AND COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY, SUBSEQUENTLY LICENSED TO MICROSOFT AS THE IRISH LANGUAGE SPELLING CHECKER, THROUGH CARLOW ANSWERS. ITE -- IRISH LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE PARACONSISTENT FEATURE LOGIC FEATURE LOGIC FOR CONSTRAINT BASED THEORIES OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS LIKE HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR, IN THE CONTEXT OF GRADUATIONS IN GRAMMATICALITY. FORBAIRT COUNTERFACTUAL REASONING APPLYING CLUSTER ANALYSIS TO LARGE SCALE TIME SERIES DATA IN EMPIRICAL JUSTIFICATION OF THEORIES OF COUNTERFACTUAL REASONING FROM FORMAL LOGIC. INTEL AUTHORSHIP IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUES ADVANCES IN CORPUS BASED STATISTICAL METHODS FOR AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION, WITH APPLICATIONS IN FORENSIC LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY COMPUTING. IRCSET DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION RESEARCH IS PROPOSED TO EXTEND EXISTING IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR TEXT CLASSIFICATION AND ACCOMPANYING EXPERIMENTATION TO QUANTIFY THE RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF THE TECHNIQUES GIVEN A RANGE OF CORPUS TYPES. APPLICATION PROBLEMS INCLUDE AUTHORSHIP IDENTIFICATION, SPAM EMAIL DETECTION, ESTIMATION OF SEMANTIC SIMILARITY AND DISSIMILARITY ACROSS TEXTS, AMONG OTHERS. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOP GRANT SUPPORT FOR THE 19TH EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION (ESSLLI07). SFI SCIENTIFIC WORKSHOPS NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION SUB-AREA LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY: TEXT CLASSIFICATION SFI CSET IRISH LEXICAL RESOURCES LANGUAGE PROCESSING TOWARDS IRISH LEXICA AND COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE CHANGE IN IRISH IRCSET EMBARK AGEING CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. DMYTRO VOLIN volindmytro ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VOLIND PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS I WORK IN THE FIELD OF MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS, WITH THE FOCUS ON QUANTUM INTEGRABILITY AND RELATED TOPICS SUCH AS STRONGLY COUPLED GAUGE THEORIES, REPRESENTATION THEORY, SYMBOLIC PROGRAMMING AND OTHERS. I AM ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF THE QUANTUM SPECTRAL CURVE (QSC) APPROACH - AN EFFICIENT TOOL FOR FINDING SPECTRUM OF CERTAIN INTEGRABLE MODELS, INCLUDING MSYM INTRODUCED BELOW. THE MAIN MOTIVATION FOR MY WORK IS TO FIND BETTER TECHNICAL TOOLS FOR ANALYSING QUANTUM FIELD THEORY (QFT) MODELS. QFT IS THE APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE TO DESCRIBE MODERN PARTICLE PHYSICS, AT LEAST UP TO THE ENERGIES OF MODERN EXPERIMENTS. IT IS ALSO INTENSIVELY USED IN CONDENSED MATTER APPLICATIONS. THEREFORE OUR PROGRESS IN UNDERSTANDING THIS WORLD CRITICALLY DEPENDS ON OUR FLUENCY IN THE QFT LANGUAGE. IT IS MY GOAL, AND THE GOAL OF MANY OTHER RESEARCHERS, TO DEVELOP THIS FLUENCY. MANY NEWLY PROPOSED TECHNIQUES IN QFT'S ARE TESTED ON A SPECIFIC, IN A WAY THE SIMPLEST POSSIBLE YET STILL NONTRIVIAL, GAUGE MODEL - PLANAR MAXIMALLY SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORY (MSYM). IT IS A COMMON OBSERVATION THAT MSYM HAS A RICH HIDDEN STRUCTURE, YET IT IS ONE NOBODY CAN DESCRIBE IN FULL DETAIL. UNVEILING IT IS PARAMOUNT FOR A FULL COMMAND OF MSYM AND FOR THE MOST EFFICIENT GENERALISATION OF THE NEW METHODS BEYOND THIS SIMPLIFIED CASE. I ATTEMPT TO PIN-POINT THIS HIDDEN STRUCTURE: BY EXPLORING THE FUNDAMENTAL ORIGINS OF A REMARKABLE PROPERTY OF MSYM - INTEGRABILITY. MY IDEA IS THAT THE PROBLEM IS EQUIVALENT TO THE CONSTRUCTION, BY MEANS SIMILAR TO QUANTUM INVERSE SCATTERING METHODS IN OTHER INTEGRABLE SYSTEMS, OF THE TRANSFER MATRICES. DESPITE MSYM INTEGRABILITY HAVING BEEN ADDRESSED IN THOUSANDS OF PUBLICATIONS OVER THE PAST DECADE, THIS CENTRAL QUESTION OF TRANSFER MATRIX CONSTRUCTION WAS ANSWERED ONLY AT THE LEADING ORDER OF THE WEAK COUPLING EXPANSION. HOWEVER, WITH THE ADVENT OF QUANTUM SPECTRAL CURVE, ACHIEVED IN COLLABORATION WITH N.GROMOV, V.KAZAKOV, AND S.LEURENT, WE FINALLY HAVE A HANDLE TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM AT ARBITRARY COUPLING. THIS IS THE BASIS OF MY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM. THE EXPECTED IMPACT OF MY RESEARCH IS A BOOST IN COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY IN QFT, BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE IN SOME CASES (ALREADY CONFIRMED ON STUDIED EXAMPLES). CONNECTIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT MODERN QFT TOOLS WILL BECOME CLEAR IN THE RESOLVED PUZZLE OF MSYM. ALSO WE EXPECT TO PROVIDE A PROOF OF MSYM INTEGRABILITY (WHICH IS ONLY CONJECTURED SO FAR), AND MAYBE EVEN OF THE GAUGE-GRAVITY DUALITY (THE HOTTEST TOPIC OF MODERN THEORETICAL PHYSICS, WITH MSYM BEING ITS MAIN EXAMPLE). BESIDES THIS, THESE DEVELOPMENTS WILL ADVANCE SIGNIFICANTLY SEVERAL IMPORTANT MATHEMATICAL TOPICS, INCLUDING REPRESENTATION THEORY AND STUDY OF FINITE-DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS. SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN UKRAINIAN ENGLISH FRENCH DUBLIN THEORETICAL PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM ORGANISER ORGANISER OF 2 IRISH-FRENCH ULYSSES WORKSHOPS ORGANISER OF YRISW WORKSHOP PRESIDENT OF STUDENT MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY REFEREE OF JHEP, NUCL. PHYS. B, PHYS.REV.LETT, J.PHYS A. TCD REPRESENTATIVE IN GATIS INTERNATIONAL TRAINING NETWORK AND ITS FOLLOW UP GATIS+. PHYSICS MATHEMATICS PROFESSOR YURI VOLKOV volkovyuri PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR & TRANSLATIONAL M YVOLKOV CLINICAL MEDICINE CRANN TRINITY TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL INSTITUTE (TTMI) PROFESSOR YURI VOLKOV IS THE DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH OF THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. HIS PERSONAL INTERESTS INCLUDE NANOMEDICINE AND BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES, MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF IMMUNE SYSTEM FUNCTIONING IN HEALTH AND DISEASE, CELL ADHESION AND MIGRATION IN INFLAMMATION AND CANCER, INTRACELLULAR SIGNALLING AND CYTOSKELETAL DYNAMICS, ADVANCED CELL AND MOLECULAR IMAGING. CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 RUSSIAN ENGLISH AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY CELL MIGRATION & IMAGING DIAGNOSTICS IMAGING TECHNIQUES IMMUNE SYSTEM INTEGRIN INTEGRINS LIVE CELL IMAGING & HIGH THROUGHPUT (CONTENT) SCREENING NANO BIOTECHNOLOGY NANOMEDICINE IRSCET IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL AMBER-PLATFORM D ENHANCED CAPABILITY ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AND SAFETY SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND NAMDIATREAM - NANOTECHNOLOGICAL TOOLKITS FOR MULTI-MODAL DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS AND TREATMENT MONITORING TOTAL BUDGET €16,562,000; EU CONTRIBUTION €12,000,000. THE LARGEST SINGLE FUNDING AMOUNT GRANTED BY THE EC TO AN IRISH APPLICANT OVER THE LAST YEARS AND THE HIGHEST AMOUNT AWARDED AMONG ALL THE EU FP-7 PROJECTS UNDER THIS PRIORITY CALL. EUROPEAN COMMISSION MULTIFUN - BIFUNCTIONAL NANOPARTICLES FOR CANCER TREATMENT TOTAL BUDGET €12,004,000; EU CONTRIBUTION €9,800,000 EUROPEAN COMMISSION CELTIC ALLIANCE FOR NANOHEALTH TOTAL BUDGET € 1,200,000 INTERREG CONSORTIUM QNANO - THE PAN-EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE IN NANOTOXICOLOGY AND NANOMEDICINE TOTAL BUDGET EU CONTRIBUTION €7,000,000, TCD SHARE €300,000 EUROPEAN COMMISSION EU FP7 PROGRAMME CARBON NANOTUBE BIODEGRADATION BY NEUTROPHIL MYELOPEROXIDASE $352,245, CDC-UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, USA, TCD SHARE $120,000 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH D03040 "BIONANOINTERACT" TOTAL BUDGET €7.2 MLN, TCD SHARE €2,900,000 SFI STRATEGIC RESEARCH CLUSTER NANOINTERACT - "NANOPARTICLE INTERACTIONS WITH LIVE CELLS, ORGANELLES AND EXTRACELLULAR STRUCTURES" TOTAL BUDGET €3,500,000 EU FP-6 PROJECT, TCD SHARE €400,000 EUROPEAN COMMISSION "TOWARDS A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR NANOMATERIALS' SAFETY ASSESSMENT: EXPLOITATION OF 3D TISSUE-MIMETIC SCAFFOLDS FOR HIGH CONTENT SCREENING AND ANALYSIS (HCSA) APPLICATIONS" €100,000 SFI/CRANN CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. NICOLE VOLMERING volmeringnicole RESEARCH FELLOW VOLMERN IRISH THE LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF EARLY MEDIEVAL IRELAND AND BRITAIN, INCLUDING: . EARLY CHRISTIAN IRELAND AND ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND; IN PARTICULAR HAGIOGRAPHY, MONASTICISM AND ASCETIC IDEALS, ESCHATOLOGY, MARTYROLOGIES AND SAINT'S LIVES, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF BIBLICAL AND APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE . OLD AND MIDDLE IRISH AND THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE . EDITING, TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION, AND PALAEOGRAPHY . VISIONARY, PROPHETIC AND OTHERWORLDLY LITERATURE . LITERARY HISTORY AND GENRE STUDIES . CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGE IN THE INSULAR WORLD . INSULAR CONNECTIONS WITH MEROVINGIAN AND CAROLINGIAN FRANCIA DEPARTMENT OF IRISH AND CELTIC LANGUAGES ARTS BUIDLING COLLEGE 01-8961000 LATIN DUTCH; FLEMISH ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH HENRY BRADSHAW SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANGLO-SAXONISTS IRISH BIBLICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIETAS CELTOLOGICA EUROPAEA THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MEDIEVAL LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, MEDIEVAL MEDIEVAL IRELAND MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE PHILOSOPHY, ETHICS AND RELIGION RELIGIOUS WRITING IN IRELAND, 800-1630: THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF THE FÉLIRE ÓENGUSSO THE TEXT KNOWN AS THE 'FÉLIRE ÓENGUSSO('MARTYROLOGY OR CALENDAR OF ÓENGUS')IS THE EARLIEST SURVIVING MARTYROLOGY COMPOSED IN IRISH VERSE, AND ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE. IT WAS COPIED OVER A PERIOD OF MORE THAN EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS AND ATTRACTED COPIOUS GLOSSES AND COMMENTARIES IN THE COURSE OF ITS TRANSMISSION, SO THAT IT BECAME A REPOSITORY OF KNOWLEDGE IN ITS OWN RIGHT. HOWEVER, THE TEXT HAS NEVER BEEN STUDIED IN ITS MANUSCRIPT CONTEXT. THE LAST EDITION OF THE MARTYROLOGY DATES TO 1905 AND IS BOTH INCOMPLETE AND OUTDATED. MOREOVER, IT'S EDITORIAL POLICY IS CONFUSED AND OBSCURES THE TEXTUAL EVIDENCE FROM THE INDIVIDUAL MANUSCRIPTS. THIS RESEARCH PROJECT THEREFORE INVOLVES A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF THE 'FÉLIRE ÓENGUSSO' THROUGH AN EXAMINATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL MANUSCRIPT WITNESSES. SUCH A STUDY WILL ALLOW US AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE MEDIEVAL TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP IN A KEY PERIOD OF IRELAND'S RELIGIOUS AND LINGUISTIC HISTORY (800-1630). THIS APPROACH TRANSLATES INTO TWO COMPLEMENTARY FOCUS POINTS, EXAMINING, ON THE ONE HAND, THE TEXT AND ITS TRANSMISSION, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO ITS LINGUISTIC ASPECTS; ON THE OTHER, THE HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND SOCIO-RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF THE MANUSCRIPT COPIES OF THE 'FÉLIRE' AS WITNESSES TO LIVING COMMUNITIES, THEIR SCHOLARSHIP AND THEIR RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OR BELIEFS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. HOWARD PAUL VOORHEIS voorheishowardpaul FELLOW EMERITUS HVOORHIS BIOCHEMISTRY THE MAIN THRUST OF MY RESEARCH WORK HAS BEEN THE STUDY OF MEMBRANE PROCESSES IN TRYPANOSOMES. SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES IN THIS WORK: A. FIRST STUDIES OF AMINO ACID TRANSPORT IN TRYPANOSOMES, (REFS 1-2, 5-8, 10 & 14) B. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CURRENT METHOD USED FOR THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION OF [&#61537;&#61485;32P]ATP (REF 9) C. FIRST PRODUCTION OF ISOLATED PLASMA MEMBRANES IN TRYPANOSOMES (REF 12) D. DEVELOPMENT OF A MILD METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY AND REVERSIBLY PERMEABLIZING PLASMA MEMBRANES TO SMALL MOLECULES WHILE LEAVING OTHER CELLULAR MEMBRANES UNAFFECTED, (REF 16) E. FIRST SERIES OF STUDIES CHARACTERIZING THE ADENYLATE CYCLASE IN BLOODSTREAM FORM TRYPANOSOMAL PLASMA MEMBRANES AND DISCOVERY OF THE REGULATION OF THIS ENZYME BY CA2+, (REF 11, 16-17, 20 & 38) F. FIRST STUDY OF GLYCOPROTEIN BIOSYTHESIS IN TRYPANOSOMES, (REF 15) G. DISCOVERY OF THE PHOSPHODIESTER LINKAGE OF THE VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN TO THE LIPID ANCHOR AND ITS CLEAVAGE DURING RELEASE FROM THE CELL SURFACE, (REF 18-19, 21, 23 & 25) H. FIRST SERIES OF STUDIES OF THE BIOENERGETICS OF BLOODSTREAM FORM TRYPANOSOMES, (REFS 31,33,35, 44-45) I. DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INVARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS ON THE SURFACE OF BLOODSTREAM FORM TRYPANOSOMES AND DEMONSTRATION OF THEIR LIFE CYCLE SPECIFICITY, (REF 40, 43 & 47) J. DISCOVERY OF THE ABILITY OF BLOODSTREAM STAGE TRYPANOSOMES TO DEFEND THEMSELVES AGAINST ANTIBODY WITHOUT CELL DAMAGE, (REF 41 & 49) K. FIRST 3-D STRUCTURE OF THE C-TERMINAL FOLDING DOMAIN OF THE VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN (VSG) IN TRYPANOSOMES (REF. 48) L. DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CONTINUOUS, PRE-STEADY STATE, SINGLE TURN-OVER FLUORESCENCE ASSAY FOR THE ENDOCYTOTIC-EXOCYTOTIC CYCLE AND ITS USE TO CHARACTERIZE THE ENDOCYTOSIS OF SURFACE IMMUNE COMPLEXES AND NUTRITIONAL FACTORS, (REFS 49-50) M. DEVELOPMENT OF SPECIFIC FLUORESCENT PHOSPHOLIPID PROBES FOR THE PLASMA MEMBRANE OF ALL EUKARYOTIC CELLS (PATENT PENDING, EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE, SUBMITTED 2004) N. DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CLASS OF FLUORESCENT PROBES (PHRODO) THAT CAN BE LINKED TO PROTEINS AND RESPOND WITH INCREASED FLUORESCENCE AS PH DROPS (PATENT PENDING, EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE, SUBMITTED 2004) DEPT. OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 KOREAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN ACIDIC REPETITIVE PROTEIN AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES AGGREGATION ANEMIA ANTIBODIES BLOOD BLOOD-STREAM BLOOD-STREAM FORMS BOVINE CARASSIUS-AURATUS CATTLE CELL-SURFACE CONCANAVALIN-A CRYPTOBIA-SALMOSITICA CYCLIC-AMP CYCLICAMP DANILEWSKYI DIFFERENTIATION DISAGGREGATION DISTINCT ENDOSOME EXPRESSION SITE FISHES GAIRDNERI GOLDFISH GUANYLATE-CYCLASE HEMOFLAGELLATE IMMUNITY IMMUNOGLOBULIN-A INOSITOL-ACYLATION LAVERAN LIPOPHILIC CATION MEMBRANE MEMBRANE-POTENTIAL CHANGES MESNIL MITOGENIC STIMULATION NA+/H+ EXCHANGE NEURO-BLASTOMA ONCORHYNCHUS PH GRADIENTS PHORBOL ESTER PLASMA-MEMBRANE PROCYCLIC FORMS PROTEIN KINASE PROTEIN-KINASE-C PROTEOLYSIS PROTON PUMP PROTON-MOTIVE FORCE RAINBOW-TROUT SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE SALMOSITICA KATZ STREPTOCOCCUS-LACTIS TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI VARIANT SURFACE GLYCOPROTEIN CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPIC LOCALIZATION OF INVARIANT STAGE-SPECIFIC SURFACE GLYCOPROTEINS IN TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI AS PART OF THE EFFORT TO DEVELOP AN ANTI-TRYPANOSOMAL VACCINE NPBC THE ROLE OF A NEW PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE IN GENERATING ATP ANAEROBICALLY IN TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD PROJECT GRANT PHOSPHORYLATION OF A UNIQUE SITE IN HUMAN TAU PROTEIN AND FORMATION OF PAIRED-HELICAL-FILAMENTS FORBAIRT BASIC RESEARCH GRANT CONTRACT SC/97/314 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CDL GENETIC ELEMENT FOR ANALYSING GENE EXPRESSION AND PATHOGENICITY IN LEISHMANIA (FIXED PRICE - EXPENDITURE NOT TIME LIMITED) EU CONTRACT CI1*-CT93-0020 IMMUNIZATION AGAINST THE PATHOGENIC FACTORS OF T. EVANSI. ITS APPLICATION TO CAMELS, SWINE AND WATER BUFFALOES EU CONTRACT TS3*CT94-0293 STUDIES OF THE VACCINE POTENTIAL OF RECOMBINANT INVARIANT SURFACE MEMBRANE PROTEINS OF THE MEDICALLY IMPORTANT AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMES FROM THE SURFACE OF T. BRUCEI EEC CONTRACT T53-CT92-0075 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR CIRCULATING ANTIGENS AND ANTIBODIES IN TRYPANOSOMIASIS USING STAGE-SPECIFIC INVARIENT SURFACE ANTIGENS: PHASE 2 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT OF A DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BASED ON CIRCULATING TAU PROTEIN FRAGMENTS AMERICAN BIOGENETIC SCIENCES, INC. ASSAY OF CIRCULATING ANTI-ISG70 ANTIBODIES IN PATIENTS WITH AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS BIORESEARCH IRELAND LTD. IGM-DEPENDENT CLEARANCE OF IG-VSG COMPLEXES FROM THE SURFACE OF TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI EEC CONTRACT TS2*0303-IRL (EDB) STUDIES ON THE PHOSPHOKETOLASE PATHWAY, A RECENTLY DISCOVERED PATHWAY FOR THE METABOLISM OF GLUCOSE MEDICAL RESEARCH BOARD (IRELAND) ROLE OF CA2+ IN SURFACE ANTIGEN SWITCHING MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF IRELAND CYTOSKELETON - PLASMA MEMBRANE INTERACTION TRINITY COLLEGE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUND THE BIOENERGETICS OF PARASITE (TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI) ADAPTION TO LIFE IN AN INSECT VECTOR (TSETSE FLY) ENTERPRISE IRELAND BASIC RESEARCH GRANT DEVELOPMENT OF 3-D DISPLAYS OF CONFOCAL IMAGES & MODELLING THE MOVEMENT & DOCKING OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS ITAC-2 DEVELOPMENT OF A MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR FITTING INTEGRATED RATE EQUATIONS TO FLUORESCENCE DATA FROM A PRE-STEADY STATE, SINGLE TURN-OVER ASSAY OF THE ENDOCYTOTIC - EXOCYTOTIC CYCLE ITAC-1 DIAGNOSTIC TESTS IN TRYPANOSOMIASIS USING STAGE-SPECIFIC INVARIENT SURFACE ANTIGENS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION STUDIES ON THE L-PENTOSE PHOSPHOKETOLASE PATHWAY THE WELCOME TRUST ANTIBIOTICS ACTING VIA THE L-GLYCEROL-3-PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT SYSTEM OF T.BRUCEI MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF IRELAND ROLE OF CAMP IN SURFACE COAT SWITCHING TRINITY COLLEGE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FUND AMINO ACID TRANSPORT CARRIERS IN T. BRUCEI MINISTRY (UK) FOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT LIPIDS IN TRYPANOSOMES MINISTRY (UK) FOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT AMINO ACID TRANSPORT IN TRYPANOSOMES MINISTRY (UK) FOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ISOLATION OF THE N1 AMINO ACID CARRIER MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF IRELAND ENERGY COUPLING TO AMINO ACID TRANSPORT MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (UK) MECHANISMS CONTROLLING CELL DIFFERENTIATION IN T. BRUCEI. TARGETS FOR CHEMOTHERAPY EEC CONTRACT TSD-M-046-IRL(H) IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS MEDIATING CELL - CELL CONTACT IN NORMAL AND TRANSFORMED CELLS IRISH CANCER SOCIETY GENES & SOCIETY IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. EMA VYROUBALOVA vyroubalovaema ASST. PROF. IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE VYROUBAE ENGLISH SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN CZECH FRENCH GERMAN EDITOR FOR THE LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA ("SHAKESPEARE ON FILM" SECTION) IRISH RENAISSANCE SEMINAR MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA READER FOR EARLY MODERN STUDIES JOURNAL SHAKESPEARE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 17TH CENTURY DRAMA CINEMA/VIDEO DRAMATIC/THEATRE ARTS EARLY MODERN (RENAISSANCE) WOMEN WRITERS EARLY-MODERN DRAMA ENGLISH LANGUAGE/LITERATURE GLOBAL SHAKESPEARE STUDIES LANGUAGE AND/OR LITERATURE, COMPARATIVE LITER LITERARY CRITICISM RENAISSANCE HISTORY RENAISSANCE LITERATURE RENAISSANCE STUDIES SHAKESPEARE TRANSLATION TRAVEL LITERATURE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR VINCENT PATRICK WADE wadevincentpatrick PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (1990) VWADE COMPUTER SCIENCE VINCENT'S SPECIFIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES INCLUDE CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR NETWORKS AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS, ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS, SYSTEMS INTEROPERABILITY AND NEXT GENERATION ELEARNING SERVICES. SINCE 1991, VINCENT HAS BEEN TRINITY COLLEGE'S PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR FOR OVER TEN EU RESEARCH PROJECTS UNDER THE EU RACE, TELEMATICS, ESPRIT, ACTS, AND IST RESEARCH PROGRAMMES. THESE PROJECTS INCLUDED ADVANCE (1988-93), GUIDELINE (1988-1993), DESSERT (1993-1996), OPENLABS (1993-1996), PROSPECT (1995-2000), FLOWTHRU (1998-2000), VIRTUES (1997-2000), GESTALT (1998-2000), FORM (2000-2002),AND EASEL (2000-2002), FROM 1991-1993 VINCENT LED THE EU RESEARCH INITIATIVE TO DESIGN DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS FOR FUTURE BROADBAND TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS (TELECOMMUNICATION COMPUTER PLATFORM TASK FORCE). THIS RESULTED IN KEY INPUT INTO EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS FORA AND STANDARDISATION. VINCENT IS PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR FOR THE HEA SPONSORED M-ZONES PROJECT (2002-2006) IN WHICH HE IS RESEARCHING INNOVATIVE DYNAMICALLY ADAPTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR MANAGING SMART SPACE APPLICATION SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE. ALSO VINCENT IS PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR FOR EU FP6 INTEGRATED PROJECT CALLED ICLASS WHICH WILL RESEARCH INTELLIGENT ADAPTIVE COGNITIVE-BASED OPEN LEARNING SYSTEMS AND SERVICE FRAMEWORK. FROM 1998-2000 VINCENT LED THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH INITIATIVE TO ESTABLISH GUIDELINES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEXT GENERATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS. THESE GUIDELINES, FOR WHICH HE WAS EDITOR AND PRINCIPLE CONTRIBUTOR, WERE CHOSEN BY THE EU ACTS RESEARCH PROGRAMME AS ONE OF THE KEY RESEARCH RESULTS FROM THE PROGRAMME. THESE DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES WERE SUCCESSFULLY DISSEMINATED INTO SEVERAL STANDARDS AND INDUSTRY FORA INCLUDING ISO AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT FORUM. HE HAS ALSO LED INDUSTRY SPONSORED RESEARCH INTO MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING. SUCH COLLABORATIONS INCLUDED TELECOM OPERATORS, NETWORK VENDORS AS WELL AS MANAGEMENT COMPONENT DEVELOPERS, E.G. INTEL, EIRCOM (FORMERLY TELECOM EIREANN), BROADCOM RESEARCH LTD (IN CONJUNCTION WITH ERICSSON AND TELECOM EIREANN), VIRTUAL ACCESS LTD. HE IS A FOUNDING MEMBER AND MEMBER OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE TELEMANAGEMENT FORUM'S UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME WHICH IS CHARTERED TO DEVELOP INCREASED COOPERATION BETWEEN TOP TIER UNIVERSITIES ACTIVE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH AND THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY. ON A NATIONAL LEVEL, VINCENT IS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF COMMSOFT, THE IDA/EI BACKED ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL FORUM FOR COLLABORATION IN COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND MANAGEMENT. COMPUTER SCIENCE KDEG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CONFERECE/PROGRAMME CHAIR, MANAGEMENT OF UBIQUITOUS COMMUNICATIONS AND SYSTEMS CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN FOR THE IBC CONFERENCE ON 'ADVANCES IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK MANAGEMENT', HELD AT THE SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY LECTURE THEATRE IN LONDON. CONFERENCE/PROGAMME CHAIR, ACM ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA AND ADAPTIVE WEB SYSTEMS CONFERENCE/PROGRAMME CHAIR, ILTA EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE EDITOR OF IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING, DISTANCE LEARNING PUBLICATION DUE MAY/JUNE 2007 EDITOR OF INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS JOURNAL, PUBLISHED BY BALTZER PRESS. EDITOR OF 'PERVASIVE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS ON "PERVASIVE MANAGEMENT" (JPCC). MEMBER ACM MEMBER IEEE AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. STEPHEN WALDREN waldrenstephen ASSOC PROF/ CURATOR OF BOTANIC GARDENS SWALDREN BOTANIC GARDENS T.C.D.BOTANIC GARDEN PALMERSTON PARK DUBLIN 6 01-8961000 BGCI/IABG EUROPEAN BOTANIC GARDENS CONSORTIUM, IRISH REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTOR, BOTANICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION CONSULTANTS LTD. DIRECTOR, GENETIC HERITAGE IRELAND (IRISH GENETIC RESOURCES COSNERVATION TRUST) DIRECTOR, PLANTNETWORK (FORMERLY PLANTNET), THE UK & IRELAND NETWORK OF PLANT COLLECTIONS DIRECTOR, THE IRISH NATURALIST'S JOURNAL LTD (TCD REPRESENTATIVE) EDITORIAL BOARD, BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION (ELSEVIER) EDITORIAL BOARD, BIOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT (ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY) HON TREASURER, GENETIC HERITAGE IRELAND (IRISH GENETIC RESOURCES CONSERVATION TRUST) IRISH ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ADAPTATION AMPHIBIOUS PLANTS AQUATIC MACROPHYTES ASSIMILATION BIODIVERSITY BIOGEOGRAPHY BIOSPHERE BOTANY CO2 COLONIZATION COMMUNITY CONSERVATION BIOLOGY CONSERVATION GENETICS CREEPING BUTTERCUP DEMOGRAPHY DUCIE ECOLOGY ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY FLOODING FLORA OF IRELAND GENETIC MAPPING, GENE SEQUENCE HENDERSON HENDERSON ISLAND HERITABILITY HISTORY OF THE IRISH FLORA ISLAND CONSERVATION LEAF LEAF SHAPE LEAVES LIMESTONE ISLAND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS NATURAL HISTORY NATURAL RESOURCES OENO PEPEROMIA SYSTEMATICS PHENOLOGIES PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE PHYSIOLOGY OF FLOODING TOLERANCE PHYTOCHEMICALS PITCAIRN PLANT NUTRITION PLANT PHENOLOGY PLANT SYSTEMATICS PLANT TAXONOMY PLANTS POLYNESIA POPULATION BIOLOGY RANUNCULUS REPENS L. SEED GENEBANKS SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY SYSTEMATICS TROPICAL BIOLOGY TROPICAL FOREST TURLOUGHS VEGETATION AND FLORA OF PITCAIRN ISLANDS VEGETATION COMMUNITIES WESTERN EUROPEAN ENDEMIC PLANTS WETLAND PLANTS WETLANDS BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: AN INTEGRATED STUDY ENCOMPASSING A RANGE OF SCALES, TAXA AND HABITATS THIS RESEARCH CLUSTER, INVOLVING RESEARCHERS FROM EIGHT INSTITUTIONS, WILL PROVIDE AN INTEGRATIVE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH FRAMEWORK FOR NATIONAL AND LOCAL BIODIVERSITY POLICY IN IRELAND. CORE RESEARCH IN THE CLUSTER DIRECTLY ADDRESSES THE PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT OF ECOLOGICAL RESOURCES IN THE CONTEXT OF PRESSURES THAT MIGHT LEAD TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE BY FOCUSING ON HABITAT FRAGMENTATION AND LOSS, IMPACTS OF NON-NATIVE SPECIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, POLLUTION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. THE RESEARCH WILL ALSO EXTEND CAPABILITY BY DEVELOPING FUNDAMENTAL BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN TAXONOMIC SKILLS AS WELL AS BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS AND BIOMONITORING TOOLS. ADDITIONALLY, TWO CROSS-CUTTING RESEARCH PROJECTS WILL MAKE SPECIFIC PROGRESS IN THE INVENTORY AND OUTPUT OF TAXONOMIC DATA AND IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF POLITICAL PROCESSES, INCLUDING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, THAT ALSO SHAPE BIODIVERSITY POLICIES. WHILE UTILISING NATIONAL INFORMATION WERE APPROPRIATE PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION WILL BE CONCENTRATED IN THE GREATER COUNTY CLARE AREA TO MAXIMISE INTEGRATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES, HABITATS, TAXA AND DRIVERS OF CHANGE. DESK STUDIES, WORKSHOPS AND WORKING GROUPS WILL SYNTHESISE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE AND IDENTIFY PRIORITY AREAS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH. OUR STRATEGIC AIM IS TO BUILD A FOUNDATION FOR COLLABORATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CAPACITY IN IRELAND THROUGH A NETWORK OF RESEARCHERS DELIVERING THE HIGH QUALITY MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH REQUIRED FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF IRELAND'S BIODIVERSITY. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (~€1.6 MILLION) ERTDI ASSESSING THE CONSERVATION STATUS OF TURLOUGHS THIS INTEGRATED, MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT WILL FOR THE FIRST TIME INTEGRATE HYDROLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL NUTRIENT DATA FROM SELECTED TURLOUGHS. THIS NOVEL APPROACH WILL INVOLVE CLOSE COLLABORATION BETWEEN ZOOLOGISTS, BOTANISTS, LIMNOLOGISTS AND HYDROGEOLOGISTS WITH EXCELLENT TRACK RECORDS OF RESEARCH IN RELEVANT AREAS. THIS TEAM WILL COLLATE EXISTING DISPARATE DATA, AND GENERATE A VERY LARGE AMOUNT OF NOVEL DATA, IN THE KEY AREAS OF: . TURLOUGH HYDROLOGY, . VEGETATION DESCRIPTION, . AQUATIC ALGAL AND INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES, . SOIL AND WATER NUTRIENT CHEMISTRY. STANDARD, WELL-TESTED METHODOLOGIES WILL BE USED THROUGHOUT; THE NOVEL ASPECT OF THIS PROJECT IS IN THE INTEGRATION OF WHAT ARE TOO OFTEN DISPARATE DISCIPLINES. INTEGRATED, CONSISTENT DATA DRAWN FROM THE MAIN RESEARCH AREAS OUTLINED ABOVE WILL BE USED TO DEVELOP NEW MODELS RELATING HYDROLOGY WITH TURLOUGH ECOLOGY, THEREBY PROVIDING IMPROVED ECOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE MAIN FACTORS AND PROCESSES AFFECTING TURLOUGH BIOTA. THIS WILL BE USED TO FORMULATE SCIENTIFICALLY SOUND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR BOTH MONITORING AND MAINTAINING THE INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION VALUE OF THIS EU PRIORITY HABITAT. NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE (~€0.8 MILLION) QUANTIFYING LINKS BETWEEN TURLOUGH VEGETATION COMMUNITY DIVERSITY AND HYDROLOGY THIS PROJECT WILL DERIVE QUANTITATIVE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE VEGETATION OF TURLOUGHS (PRIORITY EU HABITATS, LARGELY RESTRICTED TO IRELAND) AND THE INCIDENCE OF FLOODING. VEGETATION COMMUNITIES IN A RANGE OF TURLOUGH BASINS WILL BE DESCRIBED QUANTITATIVELY, THEREBY PROVIDING GREAT IMPROVEMENT ON CURRENTLY AVAILABLE QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIONS. THESE DATA WILL BE USED TO DESCRIBE HOW VEGETATION CHANGES ALONG GRADIENTS OF FLOODING, USING DATA DERIVED FROM CONTINUOUSLY MONITORED WATER DEPTH IN SELECTED TURLOUGH BASINS, AND THIS APPROACH WILL BE USED TO DERIVE PREDICTIVE MODELS OF TURLOUGH VEGETATION IN RELATION TO FLOODING. THE INFORMATION PROVIDED WILL HELP TO DELIVER BOTH ENVIRONMENTAL AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION POLICY. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (€75,000) ERTDI CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF SAXIFRAGA HIRCULUS SAXIFRAGA HIRCULUS IS A RED DATABOOK SPECIES IN IRELAND AND IS A THREATENED PLANT OF EURPEAN INTEREST (EU HABITATS DIRECTIVE ANNEX 2). THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THE POPULATION STRUCTURES AND STATUS, POPULATION GENETICS AND CLONAL SPREAD USING AFLP, AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF S. HIRCULUS, WHICH IN IRELAND IS RESTRICTED TO FLUSHES IN BLANKET BOGS IN CO. MAYO AND IN ANTRIM (NORTHERN IRELAND). INITIAL FIELD WORK HAS ALREADY LOCATED SEVERAL COLONIES NOT PREVIOUSLY NOTED IN THE IRISH REPUBIC. [IN COLLABORATION WITH DR DEIRDRE LYNN. PERSONNEL: MS CAOIMHE MULDOON] NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE CONSERVATION GENETICS OF LURONIUM NATANS LURONIUM NATANS IS KNOWN IN THE WILD FROM A SINGLE POPULATION IN A STREAM OUTFLOW FROM BLANKET OF IN CONNEMARA. QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED ABOUT WHETHER THE PLANT IS NATIVE OR INTRODUCED INTO IRELAND- THIS COULD GREATLY AFFECT THE CONSERVATION EFFORT PUT INTO THIS TAXON. UNTIL THE PROJECT CAN RESOLVE THE GENETIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE IRISH, WELSH AND NW ENGLISH POPULATIONS, IT SEEMS PRUDENT TO ADOPT THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE AND SSUME NATIVE STATUS, AS THE EXISTING POPULATION IS SMALL. THE PROJECT WILL USE AFLP TO EXAMINE THE GENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG POPULATIONS, AND USE DNA SEQUENCING TO DETERMINE A MOLECULAR METHOD TO DIFFERENTIATE THE TAXON FROM BALDELLIA RANUNCULOIDES, WHICH WHEN STERILE IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEPARATE FROM LURONIUM. [IN COLLABORATION WITH DR NAOMI KINGSTON. PERSONNEL: DR RHIAN SMITH.] NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE INVASIVE SPECIES CONTROL AND THREATENED PLANT RECOVERY ON PITCAIRN ISLAND, SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN THIS PROJECT WORKS CLOSELY WITH THE COMMUNITY OF PITCAIRN ISLAND (MOST ARE DIRECT DESCENDENTS OF TEH BOUNTY MUTINEERS) TO CONTROL INVASIVE ROSEAPPLE (SYZYGIUM JAMBOS) IN SELECTED EXPERIMENTAL PLOTS, AND REPLANT THESE AREAS WITH NATIVE TREES PROPAGATED IN THE ISLAND NURSERY. IN ADDITION, MONITORING OF THREATENED NATIVE PLANT POPULATIONS, INITIATED IN 1997, HAS CONTINUED, AND RECOVERY OF SOME OF THE MOST CRITICALLY THREATENED TAXA STARTED. THE ENDEMIC ABUTILON PITCAINENSE AND MYSRINE AFF. NIAENSIS, BOTH CONSIDERED EXTINCT IN 1997, HAVE RECENTLY BEEN REFOUND AND ARE IN CULTIVATION BOTH ON PITCAIRN AND IN TRINITY COLLEGE BOTANIC GARDEN. PROGENY RAISED FROM SELF POLLINATIONS WILL BE GENETICALLY SCREENED USING AFLP TO DETERMINE THE MOST SUITABLE INDIVIDUALS TO INITIATE A BREEDING PROGRAMME AS THE FIRST STEP IN THE RECOVERY OF THESE GLOBALLY THREATENED SPECIES. [PERSONNEL: MS NOELEEN SMYTH] UK FOGEIGN & COMMONWEALTH OFFICE, IRCSET, FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL EXPERMINETAL TRANSLOCATION OF OTANTHUS MARITIMUS AND GYMNOCARPIUM ROBERTIANANUM EXPERIMENTAL TRANSLOCATIONS OF OTANTHUS MARITIMUS AND GYMNOCARPIUM ROBERTIANUM BEGAN IN 1996, AND HAVE BEEN MONITORED BY DR WALDREN AND RESEARCHERS SINCE THEN. BOTH ARE RESTRICTED TO SINGLE NATIVE SITES IN IRELAND. FOLLOWING AN INITIAL DECLINE IN SURVIVORSHIPOF GYMNOCARPIUM, NUMBERS HAVE STABILISED AT ABOUT 18% SURVIVAL: MUCH OF THE INITIAL DECLINE CAN BE ATTRIBUTED TO AN ABNORMALLY DRY SPRING FOLLOWING TRANSLOCATION. FOR OTANTHUS THE DECLINE HAS BEEN MORE PROGRESSIVE, CAUSED BY PROBLEMS WITH THE TRANSLOCATION MICROSITE (EROSION, COMPETITION FROM AMMOPHILA ARENARIA). FURTHER TRANSLOCATIONS WERE FUNDED IN 2003, AND THESE WILL BE MONITORED IN 2004. [IN COLLABORATION WITH DR DEIRDRE LYNN] NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF SPIRANTHES ROMANZOFFIANA SPIRANTHES ROMANZOFFIANA IS AN AMPHI-ATLANTIC SPECIES, WITH THE BULK OF ITS GLOBAL POPULATION IN NORTH AMERICA. IN EUROPE THE SPECIES IS RESTRICTED TO IRELAND AND SOME OF THE HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. IN IRELAND THE SPECIES IS RARE AND LOCAL, AND POPULATIONS OFTEN SHOW VERY LARGE ANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS IN THE NUMBERS OF FLOWERING SPIKES. THE RARITY COUPLED WITH HIGHLY DISJUNCT DIDTRIBUTION HAS LEAD TO SUGGESTIONS THAT THE SPECIES MAY BE INTRODUCED IN IRELAND. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE TAXON USING MOLECULAR TOOLS (AFLP, MICROSATELLITES) WHILE ALSO ASSESSING THE ECOLOGY, POPULATION SIZE AND CENSUS, AND REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF IRISH POPULATIONS. [PERSONNEL: MR DARACH LUPTON] NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE, HERITAGE COUNCIL, TRINITY COLLEGE POST-GRADUATE STUDENTSHIP NUTRIENT FLUXES IN TURLOUGH SOIL AND PLANTS THIS PROJECT EXAMINES NUTRIENT FLUXES IN TURLOUGH SOILS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED PLANT COMMUNITIES. TURLOUGHS ARE TEMPORARY WATER BODIES IN KARST LIMETSONE IN THE WEST OF IRELAND. THEY LACK AN OVERGROUND WATER EXIT AND ARE INTIMATELY LINKED WITH SUBTERRANEAN WATER SUPPLY- HENCE NUTRIENT INPUTS ARE OFTEN DIFFUSE AND CATCHMENT-BASED. THIS STUDY IS EXAMINING HOW PATCHY THE DISTRIBUTION OF PLANT-AVAILABLE NUTRIENTS IS WITHIN AND BETWEEN CONTRASTING TURLOUGHS, AND WHETHER VARIATIONS IN NUTRIENTS WITHIN TURLOUGH BASINS IS AN IMPORTANT DRIVER OF VEGETATION CHANGE WITHIN A BASIN. [PERSONNEL: MS SARAH KIMBERLEY] EPA ERTDI PROGRAMME CONSERVATION GENETICS OF ASPARAGUS PROSTRATUS ASPARAGUS PROSTRATUS (A. OFFICINALIS SSP. PROSTRATUS) IS A PROSTRATE COASTAL PLANT RESTRICTED TO WESTERN EUROPE (NETHERLANDS TO WESTERN SPAIN). WE HAVE ASSESSED THE POPULATION SIZE OF ALL IRISH POPULATIONS, AND COLLECTED SILICA-DRIED TISSUE MATERIAL THROUGHOUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. WE ARE CURRENTLY COMPLETING AFLP ANALYSES OF THIS MATERIAL, WHICH WILL ENABLE US TO PLACE THE IRISH AND BRITISH POPULATIONS IN A WIDER EUROPEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC SETTING, ALLOWING US TO COMMENT ON THE GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE POPULATIONS. [PERSONNEL: DR RHIAN SMITH] NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE, NATIONAL MUSUEM & GALLERY OF WALES USING MOLECULAR MARKERS TO STUDY THE HISTORICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE 'LUSITANIAN' ELEMENT IN THE IRISH FLORA THIS PROJECT EXAMINED THE HISTORY OF IRISH POPULATIONS OF SPECIES WITH A 'LUSITANEAN' DISTRIBUTION, ESPECIALLY ERICA MACKAIANA, ERICA CILIARIS, ERICA VAGANS, AND DABOECIA CANTABRICA, USING MOLECULAR MARKERS. VARIATION WITHIN AND AMONG IRISH POPULATIONS WAS COMPARED WITH EUROPEAN POPULATIONS USING AFLP AND MICROSATELLITE MARKERS. IRISH DABOECIA POPULATIONS SHOWED A LARGE SEPARATION FROM NW SPANISH AND PYRENEAN POPULATIONS, SUGGESTING THAT THE TAXON HAS BEEN GENETICALLY ISOLATED FROM THE CONTINENTAL MATERIAL FOR A CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME. IRISH E. MACKAIANA POPULATIONS ALSO SHOW SOME DIFFERENTIATION FROM CONTINENTAL POPULATIONS, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE PROBLEMS WITH THE IRISH MATERIAL DUE TO HYBRIDISATION, AND A MORE DETAILED STUDY OF THE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE TAXON IS NEEDED WHICH TAKES INTO ACCOUNT HYBRIDISATION WITH E. TETRALIX. [PERSONNEL: DR NAOMI KINGSTON] ENTERPRISE IRELAND THE EFFECTS OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON THE DYNAMICS AND CONSERVATION STATUS OF TURLOUGH PLANT COMMUNITIES THERE WERE TWO MAIN OBJECTIVES TO THIS PROJECT: (I) EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF GRAZING AND FERTILIZATION ON TURLOUGH SWARDS, USING FIELD PLOTS, (II) INVESTIGATION OF THE MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF THE PHYSIOLOGICALLY AND MORPHOLOGICALLY DISTINCT TURLOUGH FORM OF RANUNCULUS REPENS. FIELD PLOTS SHOW IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF BOTH FERTILIZER APPLCATION AND GRAZING, WITH BOTH TENDING TO REDUCE DIVERSITY. MOLECULAR STUDIES (ISSR, AFLP) ON R. REPENS REVEALED THAT MANY GENOTYPES MAY BE PRESENT IN A TURLOUGH BASIN, DESPITE THE OBVIOUS CAPACITY FOR CLONAL GROWTH. MOREOVER, COMPARISON OF GENETCI VARIATION AMONG DIFFERENT TURLOUGH POPULATIONS SUGGESTS THAT TURLOUGH PLANTS MAY BE MORE CLOSELY RELATED TO EACH OTHER THAN TO R. REPENS POPULATIONS IN OTHER HABITATS. A FORM OF R. REPENS WITH FINELY DISSECTED LEAVES ALSO OCCURS IN THE BRECKLAND MERES: OUR MOLECULAR DATA SUGGEST IT IS NOT GENETICALLY VERY CLOSE TO THE MORPHOLOGICALLY SIMILAR TURLOUGH POPULATIONS. [PERSONNEL: DR. DEIRDRE LYNN, MS. SUSAN MURPHY] ENTERPRISE IRELAND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE AND CAMPANULA TRACHELIUM THIS PROJECT HAS FOCUSSED ON THE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF TWO RARE SPECIES WHOSE DISTRIBUTION CENTRES ON THE NORE VALLEY. POPULATIONS HAVE BEEN CENSUSSED, THERE REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT ASSESSED AND CONSERVATION GENETICS EXAMINED USING AFLP. SOME DOUBTS HAVE PREVIOUSLY BEEN RAISED ABOUT THE NATIVE STATUS OF COLCHICUM IN IRELAND, BUT USE OF MOLECULAR MARKERS INDICATES A LARGE PROPORTION OF GENETIC VARIATION WITHIN IRISH POPULATIONS, SIMILAR TO THAT FOUND IN OTHER WESTERN EUROPEAN POPULATIONS; MOREOVER, THE IRISH AND BRITISH POPULATIONS FORM WELL SUPPORTED GROUP TOGETHER WITH POPULATIONS FROM NW SPAIN, AND THIS GROUP IS GENETCIALLY DISTINCT FROM THE FRENCH AND PYRENEAN (BOTH FRENCH AND SPANISH) POPULATIONS. CAMPANULA EXISTS AS FRAGMENTED POPULATIONS, AND EXPERIMENTAL WORK SUGGESTS THAT THE SMALLER POPULATIONS MAY BE SUFFEREING FROM THE EFFECTS OF INBREEDING. MALE-STERILE PLANTS HAVE BEEN RECORDED IN IRISH POPULATIONS OF THIS SPECIES WITH VARIABLE FREQUENCY. [PERSONNEL: DR RHIAN SMITH WHO HAS RECENTLY SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED HER PH.D THESIS] NATIONAL PARKS & WILDLIFE SERVICE, TRINITY COLLEGE POST-GRADUATE STUDENTSHIP GENETIC VARIATION IN NATIVE POPULATIONS OF IRISH ASH (FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR) ASH IS A NATIVE HARDWOOD WHICH HAS GREAT POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR PRODUCTIVE SPECIES FOR FARM FORESTRY. IT IS VALUED FOR ITS STRONG AND FLEXIBLE TIMBER AND CURRENTLY ITS DEMAND GREATLY EXCEEDS SUPPLY. THE MAIN AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO UNDERTAKE RESEARCH THAT WILL IMPROVE THE AGRONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CROP. WE WILL DETERMINE GENETIC VARIATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF IRISH ASH USING POWERFUL MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES INCLUDING, MICROSATELLITE, AFLPS AND CHLOROPLAST DNA MARKERS TO ENABLE FORESTERS TO SELECT OPTIMAL MATERIAL FOR PLANTING AND FOR BREEDERS TO SELECT APPROPRIATE LOCALLY ADAPTED GENOTYPES FOR CROP DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES. MOLECULAR MARKER SYSTEMS ARE ALSO REQUIRED FOR MARKER AIDED SELECTION PURPOSES AND FOR THE MAPPING OF QUANTATATIVE TRAIT LOCI (QTLS). [IN COLLABORATION WITH DR. TREVOR HODKINSON AND DR. GERRY DOUGLAS (TEAGASC). PERSONNEL: MS MAEVE HARBOURNE] TEAGASC (WALSH FELLOWSHIP) BIOGEOGRAPHY AND SPECIATION OF THE GENUS PEPEROMIA RUIZ & PAVÓN IN EASTERN POLYNESIA THIS PROJECT USED DNA SEQUENCING (PLASTID TRNL-F; NUCLEAR ITS) AND MOPRPHOLOGIAL CHARACTERS TO ASSESS VARIATION WITHIN AND AMONG SPECIES OF PEPEROMIA IN SOUTH EASTERN POLYNESIA (AUSTRALS, SOCIETY, PITCAIRNS, COOK ISLANDS). MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS ARE HIGHLY CRYPTIC DUE TO THE REDUCED NATURE OF THE FLOWERS IN PEPEROMIA, BUT SEQUENCING PROVIDED INFORMATIVE CHARACTERS THAT COULD SEPARATE SPECIES AND ALLOW ASSESSMENT OF THEIR BIOGEOGRAPHY. IN SOME CASES THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF HYBRIDISATION, AND AFLP HELPED TO RESOLVE THESE ISSUES. ESSENTIALLY, THERE ARE A SMALL NUMBER OF TAXA (E.G. P. BLANDA) WHICH OCCUR WIDELY IN THE PACIFIC (AND ELSEWHERE) BUT HAVE NOT SPECIATED. OTHER CLADES HAVE SPECIATED WIDELY, RESULTING IN OTHER WIDESPREAD SPECIES BUT ALSO A NUMBER OF LOCAL (ARCHIPELAGO OR SINGLE ISLAND) ENDEMICS. A SMALL NUMBER OF TAXA SHOW WIDE DISJUNCTIONS, AND THEPROBLEM OF UNDERSTANDING THESE IS OFTEN CLOUDED BY HYBRIDISATION. [PERSONNEL: DR UNA BRADLEY] TRINITY COLLEGE POST-GRADUATE STUDENTSHIP, ENTERPRISE IRELAND STUDENTSHIP PLANT CONSERVATION IN THE KACHENJUNGA NATIONAL PARK, NEPAL THIS PROJECT WILL EXAMINE THREATS TO THE ALPINE PLANT COMMUNITIES, THEIR TRADITIONAL USE BY INDIGENOUS ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS, AND DEVISE WAYS OF ENSURING CONSERVATION OF THE REGIONS HIGHLY SPECIALISED PLANT DIVERSITY WHILE ALSO ENSURING THE SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES IRCSET EMBARK CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF TRICHOMANES SPECIOSUM THIS PROJECT, A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND TCD, WILL EXAMINE THE CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF THE KILLARNEY FERN (TRICHOMANES SPECIOSUM), A SPECIES LISTED ON THE EU HABITATS DIRECTIVE. THE PROJECT WILL DEVELOP APPROPRIATE MONITORING PROTOCOLS FOR THE INDEPENDENT GAMETOPHYTE AND SPOROPHYTE GENERATIONS, EXAMINE THE LEVEL OF THREAT TO DIFFERENT POPULATIONS, AND ASSESS THE GENETIC DIVERSITY WITHIN AND AMONG IRISH POPULATIONS. NPWS/NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOHN WALDRON waldronjohn ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WALDROJ COMPUTER SCIENCE . 1.RESEARCH GOALS: MY CURRENT RESEARCH GOAL IS TO WORK AS PART OF THE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE GROUP WITH MY PHD STUDENT, OWEN HARRISON, ON GENERAL PURPOSE STREAM PROCESSING ON GRAPHICS HARDWARE. . 2.METHODOLOGY: DESKTOP COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE IS AT A TURNING POINT. IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, CPU SPEEDS HAVE NEARLY STOPPED INCREASING AND ALL MAJOR CPU MANUFACTURERS HAVE ANNOUNCED MULTI-CORE, PARALLEL PROCESSORS. FUTURE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS WILL PREDOMINANTLY COME FROM PARALLELISM RATHER THAN FROM AN EVER-INCREASING UNIPROCESSOR CLOCK SPEED. COMMODITY GRAPHICS PROCESSORS (GPUS), IN CONTRAST, ALREADY CONTAIN MANY PARALLEL PROCESSING UNITS AND ARE CAPABLE OF SUSTAINING COMPUTATION RATES GREATER THAN TEN TIMES THAT OF A MODERN CPU. THE GPU PROGRAMMING MODEL, HOWEVER, IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM TRADITIONAL CPU MODELS. RESEARCHERS IN THE EVOLVING FIELD OF GENERAL-PURPOSE COMPUTATION ON GRAPHICS PROCESSORS (GPGPU) ARE ACTIVELY DEVELOPING TECHNIQUES TO MAKE THE POWER OF GPUS ACCESSIBLE TO A WIDE RANGE OF PROGRAMMERS. MY PRESENT PROJECT INVOLVES RESEARCH INTO THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF GRAPHICS HARDWARE AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO NON GRAPHICS ORIENTED APPLICATIONS. THE CATEGORY OF APPLICATIONS WHICH BEST SUIT THE CURRENT GRAPHICS HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS ARE THOSE WHICH FOLLOW A STREAM PROCESSING MODEL. THIS MODEL DESCRIBES A HIGH LEVEL ABSTRACTION OF PROCESSING IN WHICH THE OPERATING CODE REMAINS SMALL AND RELATIVELY CONSISTENT, THE RATIO BETWEEN THE DATA AND CODE IS NORMALLY MUCH HIGHER THAN CONVENTIONAL PROCESSING MODELS AND MEMORY ACCESS IS GENERALLY SEQUENTIAL OR OTHERWISE RESTRICTED. GRAPHICS HARDWARE, IN PARTICULAR GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS(GPUS), ARE EVOLVING RAPIDLY AND WHILE FOLLOWING A RESTRICTED STREAM PROCESSING FRAMEWORK, ARE BECOMING MORE FLEXIBLE WITH EACH DESIGN ITERATION. GPUS OFFER A LARGE PERFORMANCE ADVANTAGE OVER CONVENTIONAL CPUS WHEN USED TO EXECUTE SUITABLE STREAM BASED ALGORITHMS. THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATES STREAM PROCESSING IN GENERAL AND APPLICATIONS OR PARTS THEREOF WHICH CAN LEND THEMSELVES TO THIS MODEL WITH AN AIM TO BETTER HARNESS THE AVAILABLE PROCESSING POWER WITHIN THE NOW UBIQUITOUS GPU. THE CURRENT APPLICATION AREA BEING LOOKED INTO IS CRYPTOGRAPHY. . 3.EXPECTED OUTPUTS AND PUBLICATION PLAN: OUR MOST RECENT PAPER OPTIMISING DATA MOVEMENT RATES FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS ON GRAPHICS PROCESSORS HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO PDCN 2007, PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING AND NETWORKS AND IS UNDER REVIEW. BY THE END OF THIS RESEARCH WORK WE WOULD HOPE TO PUBLISH A SIGNIFICANT JOURNAL ARTICLE. COMPUTER SCIENCE CAG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. TOM WALKER walkertom USSHER ASST PROF IN IRISH WRITING WALKERTO ENGLISH TWENTIETH-CENTURY IRISH WRITING AND CULTURAL HISTORY (ESPECIALLY POETRY); ART WRITING; LITERATURE ON THE RADIO; INFLEUNCE, ALLUSION, COLLABORATION. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. SHANE WALLACE wallaceshane ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SWALLACE CLASSICS MY RESEARCH FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON THE STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CITY AND KING IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD. I AM CURRENTLY WRITING A BOOK ON THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CITY AND KING IN THE EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD. I AM ALSO CO-EDITING THE PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE ON THE HELLENISTIC COURT RECENTLY HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. CLASSICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN GREEK, MODERN (1453-) BRITISH EPIGRAPHY SOCIETY BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL 'CLASSICS IRELAND' PUBLICATION COMMITTEE FOR JOURNAL, CLASSICS IRELAND TCD REPRESENTATIVE ON THE CENTRAL COUNCIL OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. CIARÁN WALLACE wallaceciarn RESEARCH FELLOW CIWALLAC HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ROOM 3118, ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MAKING IRELAND DR. PATRICIA ANN WALSH walshpatriciaann ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PAWALSH SCH OFFICE - SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL POLICY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE (I) THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS WITH CHILDREN AND FAMILIES OVER THE LIFESPAN; (II) BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT, END-OF-LIFE CARE AND LOSS; (III)SOLUTION-FOCUSED AND STRENGTHS-BASED APPROACHES; (IV) GENDER, TRANSNATIONALISM AND MIGRATION; (V) CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HELPING PROFESSIONS; (VI) INCLUSIVE PRACTICE: THE EXPERIENCES OF MIGRANT AND ETHNICALLY DIVERSE CARERS AND SOCIAL WORKERS IN IRELAND. SOCIAL STUDIES ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSESSOR FOR JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION (JSWE)SINCE 2004; EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK (EJSW) SINCE 2006 AND BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK (BJSW)SINCE 2009 BOARD MEMBER OF NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATIONS BOARD - STATUTORY REGISTRATION BODY EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR IRISH ASSOCIATION OF COUNSELLORS AND THERAPISTS (IACT) SUPERVISOR ACCREDITATION SCHEME EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND (GALWAY) MA IN FAMILY & YOUTH STUDIES, ST. ANGELA'S COLLEGE, SLIGO EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER POST-QUALIFYING SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH COURSE FOUNDER - EDITOR OF THE IRISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH MANAGEMENT BOARD MEMBER OF ACCESS IRELAND, EU FUNDED IRISH REFUGEE COUNCIL PROJECT FOR THE INTEGRATION OF REFUGEES MEMBER OF COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS (NSWQB) MEMBER OF CORU PANEL OF ASSESSORS FOR THE SOCIAL WORK REGISTRATION BOARD. MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD, CHILD CARE IN PRACTICE JOURNAL MEMBER OF EUROPEAN BRIEF THERAPY ASSOCIATION (EBTA) MEMBER OF EXPERT ADVISORY PANEL FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IRELAND MEMBER OF GENDER AND CHILD WELFARE RESEARCH GROUP (INTERNATIONAL) MEMBER OF GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL WORK MEMBER OF IASW (IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE IRISH SOCIAL WORKER JOURNAL MEMBER OF THE PANEL OF ASSESSORS OF THE NSWQB; SERVED ON THREE COURSE ACCREDITATION PANELS VICE-CHAIR OF NATIONAL SOCIAL WORK QUALIFICATIONS BOARD (STATUTORY BODY) CHILD WELFARE CRITICAL THEORY GENDER AND FAMILY, HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURES INTERVENTIONS WITH FAMILIES ACROSS THE LIFESPAN MENTAL HEALTH SOCIAL WORK/SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION SOLUTION FOCUSED HELPING A CASE STUDY IN THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION IN IRISH SOCIAL WORK AN IN-DEPTH CASE STUDY OF THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW PRACTICE APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORKERS IN DUBLIN.DOCTORAL RESEARCH. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES, TCD SOCIAL WORK WITH REFUGEES AND ASYLUM-SEEKERS ESTABLISHING SERVICE NEEDS OF THIS CLIENT GROUP AND CO-AUTHORING FIRST IRISH CURRICULUM MATERIALS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS ON THIS AREA OF PRACTICE. COMMISSIONED RESEARCH PROJECT WITH RUTH TORODE AND MARGUERITE WOODS OF TCD. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND LAW REFORM BEAUMONT BEREAVEMENT CARE SERVICE PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR FOR FUNDED RESEARCH: AN EVALUATION OF BEAUMONT HOSPITAL BEREAVEMENT CARE SERVICE. BEAUMONT HOSPITAL/IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION TEMPUS PHARE PROJECT EVALUATION P.I. FOR AN INTERNAL INITIAL EVALUATION OF THE TEMPUS PHARE PROJECT, ESTABLISHING A POSTGRADUATE SOCIAL WORK AND HEALTH PROMOTION COURSE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TRANSILVANIA; SUPERVISED TWO RESEARCH ASSISTANTS CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS WITH STUDENTS AND PROJECT PARTNERS & PARTICIPANTS IN ROMANIA AND EU; WROTE FINAL REPORT. TEMPUS PHARE PROJECT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW OF BEST INTERNATIONAL POLICY AND PRACTICE IN THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. PRINICPAL INVESTIGATOR MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION OF IRELAND MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IRELAND DEVELOPMENT OF CASEWORK AND SUPERVISION POLICIES AND PRACTICES NATIONALLY. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS IRELAND JOINT PROJECT WITH ERNA O'CONNOR CAPTURING THE NEEDS AND RESOURCES OF MIGRANT AND ETHNICALLY DIVERSE SOCIAL WORKERS: BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF BUILDING CAPACITY ALL-IRELAND PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH WITH MIGRANT AND ETHNICALLY DIVERSE SOCIAL WORKERS (MEDSWS) WHICH AIMS TO CREATE A FORUM FOR MEDSWS; DIALOGUE BETWEEN MEDSWS AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATORS AND ACADEMICS ON RESPECTIVE NEEDS AND RESOURCES. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND EVALUATION OF END-OF-CARE TRAINING FOR STAFF IN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL AND RESIDENTIAL CARE SETTINGS. PI: DR. TRISH WALSH RESEARCH ASSISTANT: DR SARAH DONNELLY THE IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION THE CHILDRENS GRIEF PROJECT, LIMERICK SISTERS OF MERCY PROVINCIATE TEAM SIGNS OF SAFETY AND DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE MODELS IN CHILD WELFARE A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EVIDENCE BASE AND INTERNATIONAL DISSEMINATION OF THE SIGNS OF SAFETY (TM) AND DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE MODELS IN CHILD WELFARE. ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND AGEING CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. CATHAL DOMINIC WALSH walshcathaldominic ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WALSHC PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOC EDITOR JSCS COUNCIL MEMBER (ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY, LONDON) FELLOW OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY LOCAL GROUPS EDITOR (RSS NEWS) OFFICIAL STATISTICS SECTION COMMITTEE (RSS) STATISTICAL EDITOR, COCHRANE COLLABORATION (CARG) BAYESIAN INFERENCE BIOINFORMATICS BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS EPIDEMIOLOGY EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS LATENT VARIABLES META-ANALYSIS MONTE CARLO METHODS STATISTICS AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. RACHAEL WALSH walshrachael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WALSHR1 LAW PROPERTY LAW AND THEORY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PLANNING LAW. A PARTICULAR FOCUS IS THE INTERFACE BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAW RULES AND PROCESSES IN THE CONTEXT OF PROPERTY, AND ON THE THEORETICAL AND BROADER CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF THAT INTERFACE. SCHOOL OF LAW HOUSE 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 FELLOW, SOUTH AFRICAN RESEARCH CHAIR IN PROPERTY LAW GROUP PROPERTY FRONTIERS RESEARCH NETWORK CONSTITUTIONAL LAW ENVIRONMENTAL LAW LAND LAW PLANNING LAW PROPERTY LAW LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS RESILENS FUNDED H2020 INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT, WORKING WITH SME'S, PUBLIC BODIES AND ACADEMICS ON RESILIENCE PLANNING IN CORE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT. EU COMMISSION H2020 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MAKING IRELAND SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. PATRICK WALSH walshpatrick PIYRA/USSHER ASSISTANT PROF WALSHP10 CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY COLLEGE CENTRE FOR IMMUNOLOGY THE RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY OUR GROUP INVESTIGATES THE MECHANISMS WHICH CONTROL INFLAMMATION, WITH THE AIM OF IDENTIFYING NEW AVENUES FOR TREATING AUTOIMMUNE AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASE CONDITIONS IN HUMANS. WE TAKE A TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH APPROACH, USING BOTH PRECLINICAL MODELS AND PATIENT SAMPLES, TO INVESTIGATE NOVEL MECHANISMS IMPLICATED IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF DISEASES SUCH AS PSORIASIS AND INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE WITH THE GOAL OF IDENTIFYING NOVEL TARGETS FOR THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION. OUR LABORATORY IS LOCATED AT THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE AT OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CRUMLIN ALLOWING CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH PAEDIATRIC CLINICIAN SCIENTISTS TO FACILITATE THESE STUDIES. WE ALSO COLLABORATE WITH COLLEAGUES IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL DRUG DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY. CURRENT AREAS OF INVESTIGATION INCLUDE THE ROLE OF NOVEL INTERLEUKIN-1 FAMILY MEMBERS IN INFLAMMATION AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE AS WELL AS UNDERSTANDING THE MECHANISMS THROUGH INTERLEUKIN-2 ACTS IN THE MAINTENANCE OF IMMUNE TOLERANCE AND PREVENTING AUTOIMMUNITY (MUCOSAL IMMUNOL. 2016, 9(5):1193, J. IMMUNOL. 2013 ,191(6):3337, PLOS ONE. 2012;7(10):E47748 ). OUR AIM IS TO TRANSLATE OUR FINDINGS TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMPROVED THERAPEUTICS FOR AUTOIMMUNE AND INFLAMMATORY DISEASE IN PATIENTS. NATIONAL CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, GATE 5 OUR LADYS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CRUMLIN, DUBLIN 12 01-8961000 ENGLISH BRITISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY FACULTY MEMBER OF F1000 BIOLOGY IRISH SOCIETY OF IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY MEDICINE RESPIRATORY MEDICINE IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MS. ANNABEL WALSH walshannabel ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER RESEARCH ACCOUNTS WALSHA11 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 MS. JULIE BRODERICK broderickjulie ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BRODERJU PHYSIOTHERAPY THE ROLE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION ACROSS A RANGE OF CHRONIC DISEASES NAMELY; CANCER, CARDIORESPIRATORY CONDITIONS, MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY CARDIOVASCULAR& RELATED DISEASE RESPIRATORY MEDICINE MENTAL HEALTH (INCLUDING PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY) AGEING CANCER PROFESSOR JAMES BERNARD WALSH walshjamesbernard CLINICAL PROFESSOR JBWALSH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GERONTOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 3 ARDLUI PARK BLACKROCK CO DUBLIN 01-8961000 AGEING NEUROSCIENCE DR. JOHN MARK WALSH walshjohnmark USSHER ASST. PROF. IN HIGHER EDUCATION WALSHJ8 EDUCATION CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH HISTORY MY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE HIGHER EDUCATION IN IRELAND; EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; THE INTERACTION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE IN EDUCATION AND HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY IRELAND. MY CURRENT INTERESTS INCLUDE THE IMPACT OF THE HUNT REPORT AND THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES ON NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL POLICIES. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH IRISH MEMBER, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, TCD ASSOCIATION AND TRUST 2Q32 EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY EDUCATIONAL PLANNING/POLICY HIGHER EDUCATION MODERN IRISH HISTORY SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MR. MICHAEL WALSH walshmichael SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR MICWALSH STATISTICS DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. DARRAGH M WALSH walshdarraghm VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW WALSHD21 ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. IRENE PATRICIA WALSH walshirenepatricia ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IPWALSH CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: RESEARCH INTERESTS: ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE IN ORDINARY AND EXTRAORDINARY CONTEXTS; CLINICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ILLNESS NARRATIVES ANALYSIS AND PERSONAL LIFE TRAJECTORIES; COMMUNICATION DISORDERS IN CHILD AND ADULT PSYCHIATRY, INCLUDING FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; PBL TEACHING AND LEARNING. RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH OFF-CAMPUS INSTITUTIONS: CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES 'CONVERSATIONAL SOCIABILITY IN INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SLPS AND SPECIFIC CLINICAL POPULATIONS' (E.G. PEOPLE WITH APHASIA, TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA); COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WITH PROFESSOR D. KOVARSKY, UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND, US. ''LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION PROFILES OF CHILDREN ADHD' IS A JOINT RESEARCH ENDEAVOUR WITH ORDER OF ST JOHN OF GOD SERVICES, CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRES (LUCENA SERVICES: DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN AND BRAY, CO. WICKLOW). CONVERSATIONAL SOCIABILITY 'THE EFFICACY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATION & CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS PROGRAMMES FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS' IS A JOINT PROJECT WITH THE CLINICAL SPECIALIST IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY FOR ADULTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS BASED AT AMNCH, TALLAGHT HOSPITAL. RECENTLY COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS (2006) 'LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION PROFILES OF CHILDREN ATTENDING CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES' IS A JOINT RESEARCH ENDEAVOUR WITH ORDER OF ST JOHN OF GOD SERVICES, CHILD AND FAMILY CENTRES (LUCENA SERVICES: DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN AND BRAY, CO. WICKLOW). 'AN EXPLORATION OF THE INCIDENCE OF COMMUNICATION & SWALLOWING DISORDERS IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS ATTENDING THE PSYCHIATRIC UNIT AT AMNCH AND ASSOCIATED COMMUNITY DAY CENTRES'. THIS STUDY LED DIRECTLY TO THE CREATION AND SUBSEQUENT APPOINTMENT OF THE FIRST CLINICAL SPECIALIST IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY FOR ADULTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND. CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 I HAVE BEEN EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE STUDIES. * PUBLISHED BY THE SCHOOL OF CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES AND THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS MEMBER OF AMERICAN SPEECH & HEARING ASSOCIATION (ASHA) MEMBER OF IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS PAST MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPISTS (RCSLT) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: MEMBER OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OF SLTS IN MENTAL HEALTH RCSLT & IASLT MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SPEECH & HEARING ASSOCIATION (ASHA) ADHD AUTISM BIPOLAR DISORDER CHILD LANGUAGE ACQUISITION CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH CHILDREN, HEALTH AND DISABILITY COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS CONVERSATION SKILLS IN SCHIZOPHRENIA EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS PSYCHIATRY REHABILITATION RESEARCH ISSUES SPECIFICE TO ANY HEALTH PROFESSION SCHIZOPHRENIA SEE RESEARCH INTERESTS SECTION ABOVE AGEING CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. JOHN JARLATH WALSH walshjohnjarlath ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JJWALSH PHARMACY DRUG DISCOVERY, ASSAY DEVELOPMENT, TUMOUR ANGIOGENESIS, TUMOUR VASCULATURE, ENDOTHELIAL CELLS, TUBULIN, PROTEASES, INTEGRINS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR, ALLERGIES, MAST CELLS, BASOPHILS, HISTAMINE, MALARIA, NATURAL PRODUCTS, HERBAL MEDICINAL PRODUCTS. RESEARCH STUDENTS SUPERVISED: PHD GRADUATES: DR JAMES BARLOW (JAN 2003); DR EMMET MCCORMACK (APR 2003); DR RICHARD SHAH (APR 2003); DR ADAM BYRNE (JUN 2007); DR GILLIAN HUDSON (JUN 2007); DR MARTINA WHITE (SEPT 2008); DR TAO ZHANG (FEBRUARY 2010); DR ORLA WOODS, (DECEMBER 2010); DR PAUL O'BYRNE (CONJOINT WITH JG), (DECEMBER 2010); DR DEIRDRE FINN, (OCTOBER 2011), DR ELAINE BREEN (DECEMBER 2012), DR EKATHERINE PROKOPIOU (CONJOINT WITH SR) (JANUARY 2013), DR GARY STACK (JULY 2013), DR ADRIAN COOGAN (AUGUST 2013). MSC STUDENTS SUPERVISED: SHARON BUTTERLY JUN 1998 (CONJOINT WITH NF); AENGUS MCHUGH (APR 2007); WILLIAM CASEY, (NOVEMBER 2010); MIRIAM HOLOHAN (OCTOBER 2011). SCHOOL OF PHARMACY 23 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 EUROPEAN HISTAMINE RESEARCH SOCIETY PHYTOCHEMICAL SOCIETY OF EUROPE ALLERGY ASSAY BASOPHILS DRUG DISCOVERY ENDOTHELIAL CELLS HISTAMINE MALARIA MAST-CELLS NATURAL PRODUCT SYNTHESIS PROTEASES VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR (VEGF) PRE-CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ANTI-ALLERGIC COMPOUNDS ALLERGY RESEARCH: IF/2001/014: RESEARCH INNOVATION FUND. ENTERPRISE IRELAND PRE-CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ANTI-ALLERGIC COMPOUNDS ENTERPRISE IRELAND EI-CFTD/04/115: COMMERCIALISATION FUND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PHASE DISCOVERY OF NOVEL ANTI-CANCER COMPOUNDS HE/98/249: APPLIED RESEARCH GRANT ENTERPRISE IRELAND ENDOTHELIUM AS A TARGET IN THE DESIGN OF NOVEL ANTI-CANCER AGENTS T05009 CANCER RESEARCH IRELAND SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION OF TUNABLE CYCLOLACTAMS FOR ANTIMALARIAL THERAPY IN COLLABORATION WITH DR AONGUS BELL, DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY, TCD: PC/2003/013: PROOF OF CONCEPT ENTERPRISE IRELAND DEVELOPMENT OF DUAL INHIBITORS OF TUMOUR ANGIOGENESIS/VASCULATURE ENTERPRISE IRELAND CFTD COMMERCIALISATION FUND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PHASE DESIGN OF TUMOUR HOMING VASCULATURE TARGETING AGENTS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EMBARK POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME 2008 STUDIES ON NOVEL MAST CELL STABILISING COMPOUNDS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EMBARK POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME 2008 DESIGN OF HYBRID-BASED TUMOUR HOMING ANTI-ANGIOGENESIS AGENTS IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY EMBARK POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME 2008 AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE DR. MARGARET WALSHE walshemargaret ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WALSHEMA CLIN SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION IN ACQUIRED MOTOR SPEECH DISORDERS AND IN NEUROLOGICAL DYSPHAGIA. I AM SPECIFICALLY INTERESTED IN THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF DYSARTHRIA. CURRENT RESEARCH INVOLVES DEVELOPING AN ASSESSMENT, THE DYSARTHRIA IMPACT PROFILE, TO MEASURE THE PSYCHOSOCIAL IMPACT OF DYSARTHRIA ON THE SPEAKER. THIS RESEARCH INVOLVES COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR RICHARD PEACH AT RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, CHICAGO AND DR NICK MILLER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK. EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE: I HAVE COMPLETED A COCHRANE REVIEW ON THE MANAGEMENT OF DROOLING IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY. I AM INVOLVED IN THE COMPLETION OF FIVE OTHER COCHRANE REVIEWS. DYSPHAGIA: ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION FOR DYSPHAGIA WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO UPPER OESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER DYSFUNCTION. I AM INVOLVED IN THE SUPERVISION OF A NUMBER OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THIS AREA. CLINICAL SPEECH & LANGUAGE STUDIES 7-9 SOUTH LEINSTER STREET COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF ROYAL COLLEGE OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS CLINICAL ADVISORY GROUP IN DYSARTHRIA BOARD MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF SWALLOWING DISORDERS DYSPHAGIA RESEARCH SOCIETY EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR SWALLOWING DISORDERS EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR GRANT APPLICATIONS: (1) NHS NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCH (2) PARKINSON'S UK IASLT REPRESENTATIVE ON HSE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH GROUP INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE AMERICAN SPEECH AND HEARING ASSOCIATION IRISH ASSOCIATION OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS MEMBER OF IASLT DYSPHAGIA COMPETENCY COMMITTEE MEMBER OF STEERING COMMITTEE ON DYING IN A DISABILITY SERVICE IN IRELAND ( JOINT POLICY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE BETWEEN ST FRANCIS HOSPICE RAHENY AND CHESHIRE IRELAND. PROJECT FUNDED BY IRISH HOSPICE FOUNDATION REVIEWER FOR THE FOLLOWING JOURNALS: DEVELOPMENTAL MEDICINE AND CHILD NEUROLOGY, DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION, JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS, PARKINSON'S DISEASE, ANNALS OF ORAL BIOLOGY JOURNAL OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND DIETETICS, DYSPHAGIA, JOURNAL OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD FOR JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SPEECH AND LANGUAGE STUDIES ROYAL COLLEGE OF SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPISTS SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY REPRESENTATIVE ON HSE COMMITTEE DEVELOPING ONLINE LEARNING ( WRITING FOR PUBLICATION). UK SWALLOW RESEARCH GROUP ACQUIRED MOTOR SPEECH DISORDERS DYSPHAGIA EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE OUTCOME MEASURES OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH HEALTH CARE & HEALTH SERVICES (INCLUDING HEALTH TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS) EVALUATION OF THE HEALTH SERVICES EXECUTIVE NORTHERN AREA SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY WAITING LIST INITIATIVE IN JANUARY 2003, THE SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE IN THE HSE NORTHERN AREA INTRODUCED A NEW WAITING LIST INITIATIVE IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEAL WITH THE CRISIS OF LONG WAITING LISTS FOR ASSESSMENT AND THERAPY. THIS PROJECT WAS COMMISSIONED TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF THIS INITIATIVE AND TO EXAMINE ITS EFFECTIVENESS. HSE NORTHERN AREA TOWARDS AN OBJECTIVE AND RELIABLE EVALUATION OF THE UPPER OESOPHAGEAL SPHINCTER THIS PROJECT IS IN COLLABORATION WITH JULIE REGAN, PHD STUDENT AND DR BARRY MCMAHON,SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, TCD HRB CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF OROMOROR INTERVENTIONS FOR NEONATES THIS PROJECT IS IN COLLABORATION WITH ZELDA GREENE AND DR COLM O' DONNELL. HRB COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF INTERVENTIONS IN DROOLING FOR CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP. HRB INVESTIGATING THE FEASIBILITY OF DOMICILIARY BASED SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE THIS QUALITATIVE STUDY EXAMINED THE DIFFICULTIES PEOPLE WITH ACQUIRED NEUROLOGICAL COMMUNICATION DIORDERS EXPERIENCE IN ATTENDING OUTPATIENT SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY CLINICS AND EXAMINED THE SERVICE DELIVERY OPTIONS FOR THIS CLIENT GROUP WITHIN THE DUBLIN AREA. THE MONKSTOWN TRUST THE ROLE OF VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY IN INFLUENCING DYSPHAGIA MANAGEMENT THIS RETROSPECTIVE STUDY EXAMINED THE FACTORS THAT INFLUENCED DECISION MAKING IN PEOPLE WITH DYSPHAGIA WHO HAD UNDERGONE VIDEOFLUOROSCOPY AT CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL, LONDON. NORTH THAMES REGIONAL AUTHORITY, UK BOTULINUM TOXIN TO REDUCE DROOLING IN PEOPLE WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE FIONA HILL, SENIOR SLT AT TALLAGHT HOSPITAL IS THE PI ON THIS PROJECT. MY ROLE IS THAT OF SUPERVISOR. HRB COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME EXAMINING THE CONCURRENT VALIDITY OF THE OROPRESS PI WITH UNDERGRADUATE JS STUDENT ORLA GILHEANEY HRB SUMMER STUDENTSHIP PROGRAMME METHODS TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL HEALTH IN PEOPLE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA: AN OVERVIEW OF COCHRANE AND NON COCHRANE SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS JULE BRODERICK, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY IS THE PI ON THIS PROJECT. MY ROLE IS THAT OF SUPERVISOR. HRB COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME DIET MODIFICATION FOR OROPHARYNGEAL DYSPHAGIA IN ADULTS WITH DEMENTIA THIS PROJECT IS IN COLLABORATION WITH MS EADAOIN FLYNN, DR CATHAL WALSH TCD AND DR CHRISTINA SMITH UCL, LONDON UK HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD COCHRANE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME AGEING CANCER IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. HEIDI NING KANG WANG-KAEDING wangkaedingheidiningkang ASSISTANT PROFESSOR NINGKANH POLITICAL SCIENCE MY RESEARCH EXAMINES THE ROLE OF INTEREST GROUPS IN CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL FOREIGN RELATIONS. I HAVE WRITTEN ON SUCH TOPICS AS NGOS IN CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL DIPLOMACY AND THE BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY IN CHINA. DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 1 COLLEGE GREEN COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHINESE ENGLISH GERMAN EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF TAIWAN STUDIES INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION POLITICAL SCIENCE DR. MARIE WARD wardmarie VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW MAWARD PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. IMMO WARNTJES warntjesimmo USSHER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IWARNTJE HISTORY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES PROFESSOR GRAEME WILLIAM WATSON watsongraemewilliam PROFESSOR OF THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY WATSONG CHEMISTRY HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CENTRE MY BROAD RESEARCH AIMS ARE TO DEVELOP APPROACHES FOR AND PERFORM HIGH QUALITY ATOMISTIC AND QUANTUM MECHANICS SIMULATIONS IN THE FIELDS OF SOLID STATE MATERIALS, MOLECULAR AND BIO-MOLECULAR CHEMISTRY. TO ACHIEVE THIS FUNDING FROM HEA, EU, EI AND SFI HAS BEEN SECURED. THE GROUP HAS EXPERTISE IN FORCEFIELD AND QUANTUM (HF, DFT, DFT+U, TDDFT) SIMULATIONS APPLIED TO MATERIALS, MOLECULAR AND BIO-MOLECULAR MODELLING. RECENT WORK PERFORMED ON OXIDE THIN FILMS HAS DEVELOPED A SIMULATED AMORPHISATION AND CRYSTALLISATION PROCEDURE WHICH IS THE ONLY METHODOLOGY AVAILABLE FOR THE PREDICTION OF THIN FILM STRUCTURE. USING THIS FORCEFIELD BASED APPROACH WE HAVE STUDIED A WIDE RANGE OF DEFECTS THAT FORM WITHIN SUPPORTED THIN FILMS OF ROCK SALT (MGO, SRO, BAO) AND FLUORITE (CAF2, BAF2) MATERIALS CURRENT STUDIES ARE EXTENDING OUR WORK TO INCLUDE TIO2 AND CEO2 THIN FILMS. PERIODIC DENSITY FUNCTION THEORY HAS BEEN USED TO STUDY ATOMIC AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE. RECENT WORK ON ADSORPTION AT METAL SURFACES HAS INVESTIGATED THE ADSORPTION OF MOLECULAR AT METAL SURFACES AND SHOWN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SURFACE RELAXATION AND CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCE IN THE PROPERTIES OF THE GROUP 10 METALS]. STUDIES OF OXIDES HAVE INCLUDED THE UNUSUAL ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF HEAVY OXIDES AND MATERIALS WITH NS2 LONE PAIRS SUCH AS THOSE CONTAINING PB(II), SN(II) AND BI(III). RECENTLY COLLABORATIVE WORK WITH PROF. EGDELL AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY HAS CONFIRMED OUR INITIAL FINDINGS THAT THE SO CALLED LONE PAIR IN FORMED THROUGH ANTIBONDING INTERACTIONS AND IS HENCE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE ANION INVOLVED. THIS FINDING IS CONTRARY TO CURRENT TEXTBOOKS. ALSO OF RELEVANCE IS OUR RECENT WORK ON THE ATOMIC AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE OF DEFECTS AT THE SURFACES OF CEO2. THESE CALCULATIONS, IN WHICH THE STRUCTURE AND ENERGETICS OF CE(III) FORMATION HAS BEEN CALCULATED FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM FIRST PRINCIPLES (DFT+U) AIM TO UNDERSTAND THE CATALYTIC REACTIONS THAT OCCUR AT THE SURFACE. CURRENTLY THESE STUDIES ARE CONSIDERING THE SURFACE DEPENDENT REACTIVITY OF CEO2 FOR THE OXIDATION OF CO AND REDUCTION OF NO2. OUR MODELLING ALSO INCLUDES BIO-MOLECULAR SYSTEMS. WE HAVE DEVELOPED NEW HOMOLOGY MODELS FOR THE A1A ADREOCEPTOR AND PERFORMED A SERIES OF INVESTIGATIONS ON LIGAND DOCKING AND DYNAMICS. THESE STUDIES HAVE INDICATED THAT DIFFERENT LIGANDS INDUCE DIFFERENT CONFORMATIONAL CHANGES ON THE RECEPTOR. SUCH CHANGES ARE LARGE ENOUGH THAT THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF THE BINDING SITE IS SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTED. A SMALL TRIAL OF VIRTUAL SCREENING INDICATED THAT SUCH CHANGES GENERATED BY RELATIVELY SMALL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS (2 NS) WERE SUFFICIENT TO CHANGES THE RELATIVE SCORING OF LIGAND SCREENED WITH THE STRUCTURES. THIS INDICATES THAT CURRENT RIGID SCREENING METHODS ARE LIKELY TO IDENTIFY LIGANDS WHICH ARE STRUCTURALLY SIMILAR TO THOSE USED IN OBTAINING THE TARGET STRUCTURE EITHER BY MODELLING OR EXPERIMENT. RESEARCH CENTRES: I AM ALSO DIRECTOR OF TRINITY CENTRE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (TCHPC) WWW.TCHPC.TCD.IE. THIS IS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTRE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH, SERVICE, SUPPORT AND TRAINING. DEPT OF CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES - COMMITTEE MEMBER FOR THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND SECTION AB-INITIO ACETYLENE ADATOMS ADSORPTION ALKALINE EARTH METALS ALPHA-PBO AMORPHISATION AMORPHIZATION AMORPHOUS THIN FILMS ATOMISTIC DYNAMICS ATOMISTIC SIMULATION ATOMISTIC STRUCTURE BONDED ETHYLENE BULK REDUCTION CATALYSIS CERAMIC INTERFACES CERAMICS CERIA CERIA FILMS CHEMISORPTION CHEMISTRY OF DRUG RECEPTOR INTERACTIONS CO CHEMISORPTION COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY AND MODELLING COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG DESIGN COMPUTER MODELLING OF STRUCTURE REACTIVITY COMPUTER SIMULATIONS COMPUTER-SIMULATION CONDENSED MATTER, OPTICAL AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES COPPER CORROSION DEFECTS DEPOSITION DIFFUSION DISSOCIATION DRUG DEVELOPMENT DRUG DISCOVERY DYNAMICS ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY ETHYLENE ADSORPTION FILMS GRAIN BOUNDARIES GRAIN-BOUNDARY DISLOCATIONS GROWTH H-2 HETROGENEOUS CATALYSIS HIGH-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION HYDROGEN INORGANIC CHEMISTRY INTERFACE INTERFACE MODEL INTERFACES IONIC SURFACES IRON LONE-PAIR MECHANISMS OF REACTIONS MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY METAL-SURFACES METALS MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS NANOCHEMISTRY NANOTECHNOLOGY NI(111) NIO OPTICAL MATERIALS OPTRONICS OXIDE SURFACES OXYGEN MIGRATION PALLADIUM PD(111) PSEUDOPOTENTIALS PT(111) PURE NICKEL QUANTUM CHEMISTRY QUANTUM MECHANICS RECRYSTALLIZATION SCATTERING SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY SOLID STATE PHYSICS SURFACE AND INTERFACE PHYSICS SURFACE CHEMISTRY SURFACE-STRUCTURE THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY THEORY & MODELLING THEORY DFT THERMODYNAMICS AND ENERGETICS TOTAL-ENERGY CALCULATIONS WAVE BASIS-SET AB INITIO MODELLING OF CEO2 SURFACES AND THIN FILMS €169,998 SFI COMPUTER MODELLING OF THE STRUCTURE AND REACTIVITY OF TIO2 THIN FILMS €174,884 SFI ATOMISTIC AND QUANTUM MECHANICAL MODELLING STUDIES OF THE STRUTURE, IONIC CONDUCTIVITY AND CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF SUPPORT CEO2 THIN FILMS US $80,000 ACS-PRF PI ON A HEA PRTLI APPLICATION AWARDED €8,800,000 TO PROVIDE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER FACILITIES AND SUPPORT HPC RESEARCH IN TRINITY COLLEGE €8,800,000 HEA DEVELOPMENT OF A 'SIMULATED AMORPHISATION AND RECRYSTALLISATION' METHOLODOLGY TO MODEL SUPPORTED OXIDES IR £ 89,667 ENTERPRISE IRELAND COLLABORATION WITH DR S.M. DRAPER (PI) IN DEVELOPING MATERIALS WITH TUNEABLE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES €960,000 EU- TOK MOTT2 - UPGRADE OF THE MOTT FACILITIES AT RAL GB£400,000 EPSRC CONCORE - COORDINATION OF NANOSTRUCTURED CATALYTIC OXIDE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE - TRAVEL MONEY FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH €11,400 EU - FP6 EVOLUTIONARY SIMULATION OF THE STRUCTURE PROPERTIES AND REACTIVITY OF IONIC NANOPARTICLES USING TERAFLOP COMPUTING: ATOMISTIC MODELLING (PI DR D.C. SAYLE) GB£132,000 EPSRC GR/S48448/01 EVOLUTIONARY SIMULATION OF THE STRUCTURE PROPERTIES AND REACTIVITY OF IONIC NANOPARTICLES USING TERAFLOP COMPUTING: QUANTUM MECHANICS MODELLING (PI PROF S.C. PARKER) GB£73,170 EPSRC GR/S48431/01 MOTT GROUP - GRANT TO PROVIDE COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES AT RAL FOR A 9 MAN CONSORTIUM GB£550,000 JOINT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT INITIATIVE (HEFCE) CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR DOROTHY WATSON watsondorothy ADJUNCT PROFESSOR WATSONDO SOCIOLOGY ESRI WHITAKER SQUARE SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PROFESSOR DENIS LAWRENCE WEAIRE weairedenislawrence FELLOW EMERITUS DWEAIRE PHYSICS MY RESEARCH HAS RANGED OVER A NUMBER OF AREAS IN SOLID STATE PHYSICS, MATERIALS SCIENCE AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS. EARLY WORK IN CAMBRIDGE WAS IN PSEUDOPOTENTIAL THEORY APPLIED TO METALS: IT RESULTED IN AN INFLUENTIAL REVIEW ARTICLE, BUT PRECEDED THE MAJOR EXPANSION OF THAT SUBJECT, IN TERMS OF LOCAL DENSITY APPROXIMATIONS. AT HARVARD I WAS ATTRACTED TO TWO THEMES IN DISORDERED MATERIALS: AMORPHOUS METALS AND AMORPHOUS SILICON. THE LATTER WAS TO ABSORB MY INTEREST FOR MANY YEARS, IN THE PROOF OF THEOREMS AND COMPUTATIONS THAT HAD TO DO WITH ELECTRONIC AND VIBRATIONAL PROPERTIES. THE FOREMOST OF THESE RIGOROUSLY ESTABLISHED THE EXISTENCE OF A BAND GAP FOR AN IDEALISED ("WEAIRE-THORPE") HAMILTONIAN, REGARDLESS OF DISORDER, WHICH WAS AN IMPORTANT STEP IN UNDERSTANDING A-SI. I ALSO BECAME INTERESTED IN THE PROCESS OF BUILDING RANDOM NETWORK MODELS FOR THIS MATERIAL. MUCH LATER, I WAS TO DEVELOP WITH OTHERS THE WWW MODEL, BASED ON AN ALGORITHM OF MY OWN CONCEPTION. THIS HAS BEEN GREATLY USED AND HIGHLY CITED EVER SINCE. QUITE EARLY IN MY CAREER I RECOGNISED THAT FOAM STRUCTURES, PARTICULARLY IN TWO DIMENSIONS, PRESENTED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THIS KIND OF RESEARCH, IN TUNE WITH THE GROWING INTEREST IN COMPLEX, DISORDERED MATERIALS. THIS GREW INTO A RESEARCH PROGRAMME THAT HAS BY NOW EXCLUDED ALL ELSE, AND IS PARTLY ENCAPSULATED IN THE BOOK PHYSICS OF FOAMS, NOW A STANDARD REFERENCE. IN 1984 WE ORGANISED IN IRELAND THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF CONFERENCES ON THE PHYSICS OF FOAMS, OF WHICH THE LATEST WAS HELD IN FRANCE THIS YEAR, ATTRACTING 200 PARTICIPANTS. STARTING AT YALE, THEN AT UCD AND TCD, THIS RESEARCH HAS PRODUCED MANY KEY RESULTS SUCH AS: THE ABOAV-WEAIRE LAW FOR STATISTICAL CORRELATIONS IN CELLULAR STRUCTURES THE FIRST REALISTIC COMPUTER SIMULATION OF A DRY 2D FOAM THE FIRST REALISTIC SIMULATION FOR A WET FOAM THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE VARIATION OF ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF A 2D FOAM WITH LIQUID FRACTION, BASED ON SIMULATION THE DISCOVERY OF MANY ORDERED CYLINDRICAL FOAM STRUCTURES THE DISCOVERY AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF A SOLITARY WAVE IN FOAM DRAINAGE THE DISCOVERY OF CONVECTIVE INSTABILITY IN FOAM DRAINAGE RECENTLY, THE DISCOVERY OF A REMARKABLE NEW FORM OF MEANDERING RIVULET INSTABILITY HOWEVER THE MOST PROMINENT OUTCOME OF OUR WORK AT TCD WAS THE WEAIRE-PHELAN STRUCTURE, THE MINIMUM ENERGY STRUCTURE (AS FAR AS WE KNOW) OF A FOAM OF EQUAL-SIZED BUBBLES IN THREE DIMENSIONS. THIS OVERTHREW A CENTURY-OLD CONJECTURE OF LORD KELVIN (AS RECOUNTED IN THE KELVIN PROBLEM), AND IT ATTRACTED WORLDWIDE RECOGNITION. ONE OF THE MAIN BUILDINGS FOR THE BEIJING OLYMPICS IS BEING CONSTRUCTED IN THE FORM OF A FRAMEWORK EXPLICITLY BASED ON THIS STRUCTURE - THE WATER CUBE. THE MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS SURROUNDING FOAM STRUCTURES ARE INTRIGUING. I WAS INVITED TO BE THE PRIMARY COORDINATOR OF A SUMMER PROGRAMME AT THE ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUTE IN CAMBRIDGE IN 2002, TO WHICH LEADING MATHEMATICIANS CAME TO DISCUSS THESE TOPICS INTENSIVELY FOR ONE MONTH. HOWEVER THIS IS NOT REALLY CHARACTERISTIC OF OUR GENERAL STYLE OF RESEARCH, WHICH COMBINES THEORY, COMPUTATION AND SIMPLE EXPERIMENTS IN THE PURSUIT OF MANY DIFFERENT PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND EVEN THEIR APPLICATIONS. TODAY MOST OF THESE TOPICS BELONG IN SOME SENSE TO FLUID DYNAMICS. THIS RESEARCH LINE IS CONTINUING UNABATED INTO RETIREMENT, WITH SOME ADDITION OF THEMES FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, WHICH BUILD UPON LONGSTANDING INTERESTS. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BELFAST ROYAL ACADEMY BIRR SCIENTIFIC AND HERITAGE TRUST(CHARITABLE FOUNDATION) EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS: CONDENSED MATTER ELECTED MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA MAGNETIC SOLUTIONS LTD (MANUFACTURING COMPANY) MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA VICE-PRESIDENT, EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR MARCUS WEBB webbmarcus FELLOW EMERITUS MWEBB FELLOWS EMERITII FELLOW EMERITUS 01-8961000 DR. STEFAN WEBER weberstefan ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SWEBER COMPUTER SCIENCE STEFAN WEBER'S RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS SUCH AS WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, DATA SHARING AND SYNCHRONISATION AND MOBILITY ISSUES. HIS AIM IS TO IMPROVE THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MOBILE AND STATIC NETWORK NODES THROUGH UNDERSTANDING COMMON COMMUNICATION PATTERNS AND PROVIDING ADEQUATE SUPPORT THEM IN MIDDLEWARE, TRANSPORT AND NETWORK LAYER IMPLEMENTATIONS. HIS CURRENT WORK FOCUSES ON THE INVESTIGATION OF AD HOC NETWORKS, THEIR COMBINATION WITH INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORKS AND THE PROVISION OF END-TO-END COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MOBILE NODES. HE'S ALSO INTERESTED IN TECHNOLOGIES THAT FACILITATE RESEARCH IN THIS AREA SUCH AS TESTBEDS AND SIMULATORS FOR THE EVALUATION OF AD HOC NETWORKS. COMPUTER SCIENCE DSG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION SCIENCES DATA PROTECTION, STORAGE TECHNOLOGY, CRYPTOGRAPHY DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH WIRELESS SYSTEMS, RADIO TECHNOLOGY CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS DR. ERIC WEITZ weitzeric ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WEITZER DRAMA SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS BECKETT CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 HUNGARIAN ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HUMOR STUDIES, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE IRISH SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH, PRESIDENT SMASHING TIMES THEATRE COMPANY, BOARD AND CHAIR COMEDY, THEATRE, PERFORMANCE HUMOUR CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. VINCENT LAURENCE WELDON weldonvincentlaurence RETIRED STAFF MEMBER VWELDON RETIRED STAFF MEMBER PHYSICS DEPARTMENT PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. FRANK WELLMER wellmerfrank ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WELLMERF GENETICS DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS GENETICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS GENETICS GENOMES, GENOMICS MOLECULAR GENETICS PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY PLANT DEVELOPMENT PLANT SCIENCES REGULATORY BIOLOGY GENES & SOCIETY DR. ROGER PLUMER WEST westrogerplumer ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RWEST CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY: IMPACT, DIFFUSION, RHEOLOGY, FIBRE-REINFORCING, RECYCLED PAPER WASTE. CONSTRUCTION: INNOVATIVE METHODS AND MATERIALS, E-PROCUREMENT. STRUCTURAL MECHANICS: VIBRATIONS AND STABILITY OF PARTIALLY PILES, STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION. CIVIL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE. 01-8961000 CHAIR OF EXTERNAL REVIEW PANEL FOR NEW DEGREE COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, LIT CHAIRMAN OF THE STRUCTURES AND CONSTRUCTION SECTION OF IEI CHAIRMAN TO THE IRISH CONCRETE SOCIETY DURABILITY COMMITTEES CHARTERED ENGINEER PANELIST, IEI CHARTERED ENGINEER, INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND CONFERENCE ADVISOR TO 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROTECTION OF STRUCTURES AGAINST HAZARDS, PADUA, SEPT. 2006 CORPORATE MEMBER OF IRISH CONCRETE SOCIETY FELLOW OF INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS OF IRELAND GUEST EDITOR FOR ISSUE OF INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS (UK) JOURNAL BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES ON IMPACT ON CONCRETE IRISH CONCRETE CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE (NATIONAL STANDARDS AUTHORITY OF IRELAND) IRISH EUROCODE 2 LIAISON ENGINEER IRISH REPRESENTATIVE ON EUROPEAN CONCRETE SOCIETIES NETWORK JOINT EDITOR OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCRETE RESEARCH IN IRELAND 1997 COLLOQUIUM, 2006, 2008 JOINT-ORGANISER OF COLLOQUIUM ON CONCRETE RESEARCH IN IRELAND 2007 MEMBER OF ACCREDITATION PANEL AT SLIGO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MEMBER OF ACCREDITATION PANEL, IEI: SLIGO IT MEMBER OF CIVIL DIVISION COMMITTEE, IEI MEMBER OF CONSTRUCTION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE (CITA) MEMBER OF EXAMINATION BOARD OF INSTITUTE OF CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY, UK MEMBER OF EXAMINATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS BOARD IEI MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION OF CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY, UK MSC EXAMINER, IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE, LONDON NATIONAL EUROCODES ADVISORY COMMITTEE REVIEWER FOR AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE - MATERIALS JOURNAL PAPERS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR BRIDGE RESEARCH CONFERENCE, TCD 2006 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE FOR CONCRETE RESEARCH IN IRELAND COLLOQUIA 1997, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS, CONCRETE: CONSTRUCTION'S SUSTAINABLE OPTION, DUNDEE, SEPT. 2007 SECRETARY TO IRISH MIRROR GROUP TO TC135, EUROCODE ON STEEL STRUCTURE FABRICATION TASK FORCE CHAIRMAN ON THIRD LEVEL LINKS, IEI VERIFIER FOR SAMARIS RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON CORROSION INHIBITORS VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE IRISH CONCRETE SOCIETY BUILDING CONSTRUCTION CIVIL ENGINEERING, PAVEMENTS AND STRUCTURES DESIGN ENGINEERING EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT STRUCTURES STRUCTURES VIBRATION AND ACCOUSTIC ENGINEERING NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. JOHN WHELAN whelanjohn BLACKSTONE LAUNCHPAD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WHELANJO TR&I ADMINISTRATION TRINITY RESEARCH & INNOVATION O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ADELE M WHELAN whelanadelem VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW WHELANAD ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. ROBERT WHELAN whelanrobert ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN PSYCHOLOGY WHELANR3 PSYCHOLOGY SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY & GLOBAL BRAIN HEALTH INSTITUTE ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES MS. SUSAN WHELAN whelansusan VISITING RESEARCH ASSISTANT SWHELAN1 LAW LAW SCHOOL COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. JACQUELINE WHELAN whelanjacqueline ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WHELANJ1 SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY TO ADVANCE SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY IN SUPPORTING PERSON CENTERED CARE AND SPIRITUAL CARE WITHIN IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION THEME AS A KEY PRIORITY RESEARCH THEME WITHIN TRINITY COLLEGE AND BEYOND IN ORDER TO ULTIMATELY SERVE INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY AND SOCIETAL NEEDS. SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH CENTRE FOR SPIRITUAL STUDIES (UNIVERSITY OF HULL) SRIG CHAIRING AT TCD SONM INTERNATIONAL NURSING CONFERENCE, PEER REVIEW AND SELECTION OF ABSTRACTS JUDGE CONFERENCE POSTERS AND SHORT-LIST ORAL PRESENTATIONS CHAIRING AT TCD SPIRITUALITY AND RESEARCH INTEREST GROUP (SRIG) ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL NURSING AND HEALTHCARE CONFERENCES, PEER REVIEW AND SELECTION OF ABSTRACTS, MARK STUDENT PRIZE SUBMISSIONS, SHORT-LIST ORAL PRESENTATIONS EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER OF JOURNAL OF NURSING SCIENCE MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR FIRST GLOBAL CARING CONFERENCE, WUHAN, CHINA MEMBER OF SPIRITUALITY RESEARCH INNOVATION GROUP SONM TCD REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE(ELSEVIER) REVIEWER FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. REVIEWER JOURNAL OF RELIGIONS SPIRE - SPIRITUALITY INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION, DUBLIN (SRIG) TCD SCHOLS EXAMINER AND MARKER VIKTOR FRANKL INSTITUTE CARING COMMUNICATION-SKILLS INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION PERSON CENTRED CARE SPIRITUALITY VALUES OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES OTHER HUMANITIES PROMOTING RESPECT AND DIGNITY IN HEALTH CARE THEME DIGNITY AND RESPECT PROMOTING RESPECT AND DIGNITY IN HEALTH CARE. INHERENT IN THE PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE OF NURSING IS RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, INCLUDING CULTURAL RIGHTS, THE RIGHT TO DIGNITY AND TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT (ICN, 2005). WITHIN NURSING, RESPECT FOR CLIENTS IS CENTRAL TO CARE DELIVERY, YET EVIDENCE EXISTS THAT MARGINALISED GROUPS OF HEALTHCARE MAY BE LESS THAN OPTIMUM. THIS INITIATIVE WILL FACILITATE INTERACTION BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES FROM VARIOUS GROUPS WITH UNDERGRADUATE AND POST GRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS SO THAT GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEEDS OF MEMBERS OF THESE GROUPS WILL BE FACILITATED. THIS INITIATIVE INVOLVED FACILITATING SIX LUNCH TIME SESSIONS FOR NURSING STUDENTS WITHIN THE SCHOOL. SIX ORGANISATIONS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH VULNERABLE GROUPS WILL BE INVITED TO MAKE A PRESENTATION ABOUT THEIR WORK AND THEIR CLIENT'S EXPERIENCES OF HEALTH CARE. RESEARCH FUNDING EQUALITY OFFICE AN EXPLORATION OF CURRENT SPIRITUAL CARE RESOURCES IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AND REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL CHAPLAINCY STANDARDS - A PRELIMINARY SCOPING EXERCISE TO INFORM PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT THIS STUDY AIMED TO EXPLORE CURRENT APPROACHES TO AND FACILITIES FOR SPIRITUAL CARE PROVISION IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND (ROI). IT ALSO AIMED TO EXPLORE MODELS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR HEALTHCARE CHAPLAINCY AND BEST PRACTICE IN THE AREA THAT COULD GUIDE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED, RESPONSIVE FUTURE RESOURCES IN THE ROI. THE FINDINGS IDENTIFY THAT PROVIDING SPIRITUAL CARE TO PATIENTS IS A KEY COMPONENT OF HOSPITAL POLICY. SPIRITUAL SUPPORT IS IDENTIFIED AS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WHOLE HEALTHCARE TEAM WITH SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITY BEING ATTRIBUTED TO THE HEALTHCARE CHAPLAIN. CHAPLAINCY SERVICES ARE ENSHRINED WITHIN THE DOMINANT FAITH, HOWEVER THE SERVICE IS ALSO PERCEIVED AS A MULTIFAITH SERVICE. MOST SITES PROVIDED A SACRED SPACE OR QUIET PLACE FOR CLIENTS, VISITORS AND STAFF TO CONTEMPLATE. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SACRED SPACE PROVIDED VARIED BETWEEN THE SELF-REPORT AND POLICY AND WEBSITE INFORMATION RECEIVED. THE RELIGIOUS PROVISION IDENTIFIED WAS CONSISTENT WITH CONTEMPORARY DISTRIBUTIONS OF RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION IN THE ROI ACCORDING TO THE LATEST IRISH CENSUS. NA PROJECT COMPLETED ON BEHALF OF HSE NURSE'S CONFIDENCE WITH COMMUNICATION SKILLS: AN EXPLORATION OF THE COMMUNICATION REQUIRED FOR CONTEMPORARY NURSING PRACTICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND WHILE THE CONTENT OF THE CONTEMPORARY UNDERGRADUATE NURSING COURSES USUALLY AIMS TO COMPLY WITH NATIONAL REGULATORY GUIDELINES AND REFLECT CURRENT ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND THOUGHT, IT IS NOT CLEAR THE EXTENT TO WHICH TEACHING OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS BY NURSE EDUCATORS PREPARES NURSING STUDENTS FOR PRACTICE. FOR EXAMPLE, GAPS IN UK CURRICULA IN RELATION TO COMPASSION ARE BEING VIGOROUSLY ADDRESSED. AIM: THIS PAPER REPORTS ON AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW THAT EXPLORES KEY COMMUNICATION SKILLS REQUIRED BY NURSES IN PRACTICE, POTENTIAL BARRIERS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND BEST PRACTICE IN TEACHING APPROACHES. METHODS: A SECTION OF THE MODULE TEAM (N=5) EXPLORED THE RELEVANT LITERATURE IN THE FIELD. FINDINGS: OVERALL STUDENTS WERE SATISFIED WITH PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS OF THIS MODULE. THE LITERATURE REVIEW REVEALED THAT WHILE AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH IS A COMMON APPROACH TO TEACHING, THERE ARE VARIANCES IN APPROACHES AND PRIORITIES RELATED TO COMMUNICATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES. COMMUNICATION SKILLS ARE COMMONLY DELIVERED EARLY IN THE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME AND PRIOR TO ANY CLINICAL EXPERIENCE. THIS METHOD HAS BEEN QUESTIONED. IT HAS ALSO BEEN SUGGESTED THAT COMMUNICATION MODULES WOULD BE OF INCREASED BENEFIT TO STUDENTS FOLLOWING THEIR PRACTICE EXPERIENCE WITH A COMPONENT OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS ALSO DELIVERED IN THEIR FINAL YEAR IN ORDER TO FACILITATE TRANSITION OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS INTO PRACTICE. NA RE-AFFIRMING VALUES IN NURSING /MIDWIFERY PRACTICE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND AIM - FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE AND NURSING & MIDWIFERY BOARD OF IRELAND TO DEVELOP A POSITION PAPER ON CORE VALUES FOR NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PRACTICE IN IRELAND, ALL NURSES, MIDWIVES, ACADEMIA, MANAGEMENT, STUDENTS SPANNING THE HEALTH SYSTEM WERE ENCOURAGED TO CONTRIBUTE. SIX REGIONAL CONSULTATIONS WERE HELD INVOLVING 250 PARTICIPANTS. SEVEN NATIONAL CONFERENCES YIELDED 855 NURSE PARTICIPANTS. DIRECTORS OF NURSING /HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS WERE ENCOURAGED TO ADVISE ALL STAFF AND ACADEMICS TO RESPOND TO AN E-SURVEY ON NURSING AND MIDWIFERY VALUES RESULTING IN A FURTHER 436 RESPONSES. QUALITATIVE THEMATIC ANALYSIS WAS UNDERTAKEN FROM FEEDBACK FROM ALL CONTRIBUTIONS. FINDINGS: DATA COLLECTED FROM THREE SOURCES WAS ANALYSED UTILISING A POLICY APPROACH THAT INCLUDED AN EXPERT PANEL OF ACADEMICS TO IDENTIFY THREE CORE VALUES, ACCOMPANYING DESCRIPTIONS AND BEHAVIOURS ALIGNED TO EACH RESPECTIVE CORE VALUE. PAPER EXPLORES THE PROCESSES USED TO IDENTIFY AND SUPPORT VALUES IN PRACTICE. FINDINGS SUPPORT THE NEED TO SUSTAIN AND EMBED THE THREE IDENTIFIED VALUES IN PRACTICE, MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION THROUGH INTERRELATED EXPLICIT ACTIONS. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE REQUIRES EACH PRACTITIONER TO BE MOTIVATED BY PROFESSIONAL VALUES, TO BE RESPONSIBLE / ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CARE PROVIDED WITH A VIEW TO PROMOTING A SAFE CULTURE OF PRACTICE, RELATED TO PATIENTS/CLIENTS HEALTH/ILLNESS JOURNEY. PATIENTS EXPECT TO RECEIVE NURSING CARE FROM COMPETENT PROFESSIONALS WHO DEMONSTRATE CARE, COMPASSION, COMMITMENT AND ATTENTIVENESS TO THE HUMANITY OF THE OTHER PERSON. COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT TO DEVELOP E-LEARNING RESOURCES TO HELP UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS IN HEALTH SCIENCES TO LEARN COMMUNICATION SKILLLS SPIRITUALITY AND NURSING ; A LOGONARRATIVE VIEW MEANING MAKING IS WHAT MAKES US HUMAN, GIVING US PURPOSE AND HOPE IN LIFE WHEN FACED WITH THE ADVERSE REALITY OF ILLNESS AND LOSS. THE NOTION OF MEANING MAKING IS GAINING POPULARITY AS THE CENTRAL COMPONENT OF SPIRITUALITY (LA COUR AND HIDVT 2010). PARADOXICALLY THE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF SPIRITUAL CARE IN NURSING IS COUPLED WITH MISUNDERSTANDINGS. HOW SPIRITUAL CARE IS CULTIVATED AND INTERPRETED, IN NURSING REQUIRES A COHERENT UNDERSTANDING. ADDRESSING CLIENTS' SPIRITUAL NEEDS, BY SUPPORTING MEANING-MAKING CONNECTIONS CAN ALLEVIATE SUFFERING AND PROVIDE A SENSE OF WELLBEING (WEATHERS ET AL. 2014). THE PURPOSE OF THIS REVIEW IS TO ATTEMPT TO CLARIFY THE MEANING OF SPIRITUALITY IN NURSING IN THE CONTEXT OF VIKTOR FRANKL'S CONTRIBUTION INCORPORATE MEANING MAKING INTO PRACTICE, EDUCATION, AND RESEARCH. NA NEOPHYTE NOTIONS OF NURSING- TRANSMITTING PROFESSIONAL NURSING VALUES THROUGH PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES -VALUE ADDED OR VALUE LADEN? THIS PROJECT HAS ARISEN OUT OF A NEED TO EXPLORE HOW PROFESSIONAL VALUES ARE INSTILLED IN NURSING STUDENTS AND WHETHER OR NOT APPROACHES COULD BE STRENGTHENED. NURSING IS A VALUE BASED PROFESSION VIEWED AS FUNDAMENTALLY CARING FOR AND ABOUT AND HELPING OTHERS (ALFRED ET AL 2013). HOWEVER THERE IS A GROWING AWARENESS THAT MODERN SOCIETY IS MORE INDIVIDUALISTIC AND LESS ALTRUISTIC (JOHNSON ET AL 2007), WITH THE CONSEQUENT DECLINE OF DIGNITY AND COMPASSION AS IMPORTANT VALUES IN NURSING (FRANCIS 2013). AIM: THIS PAPER REPORTS ON FIRST YEAR NURSING STUDENTS' INITIAL VIEWS ON NURSING AND THE PROCESS OF TEACHING NURSING STUDENTS PROFESSIONAL VALUES. METHODS: FIRST YEAR NURSING STUDENTS (N=230) WERE ASKED AT THE OUTSET OF THE MODULE TO OUTLINE THE FOLLOWING USING AN OPEN ENDED QUESTION APPROACH DURING THE CLASS WHAT IS NURSING? FOLLOWING LECTURES, STUDENTS WERE ASKED ONCE AGAIN, USING THE OPEN ENDED QUESTION, FOR THEIR VIEWS ON NURSING. FINDINGS: QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE INITIAL STUDENT RESPONSES (N=230) REVEALED THAT MOST NURSING STUDENTS IDENTIFIED NURSING AS BEING CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH CARING AND DOING FOR OTHERS. MANY SAW THE ROLE AS PHYSICALLY CARING FOR THOSE WHO WERE SICK. THESE VIEWS REMAINED CONSISTENT. LECTURERS' PERSONAL REFLECTIONS REVEALED CONTENT TO BE RELEVANT IN RELATION TO CURRICULAR REQUIREMENTS (ABA 2006) AND STUDENT NEEDS. 'ENHANCING NURSES COMPETENCE IN PROVIDING SPIRITUAL CARE THROUGH INNOVATIVE EDUCATION AND COMPASSIONATE CARE (EPICC)', 2016-2019 THE AIMS OF THE EPICC PROJECT ARE TO; . ESTABLISH A SUSTAINABLE NETWORK AND PARTNERSHIPS WHERE NURSING EDUCATORS CAN SHARE EXPERIENCES, RESEARCH AND RESOURCES RELATED TO SPIRITUAL CARE, TO INFORM THEIR TEACHING. . ENABLE NURSING EDUCATORS TO ACQUIRE NEW KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS IN THE LEARNING AND TEACHING OF PERSONAL, RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF PERSON CENTRED CARE. . REVIEW HOW PERSONAL, RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF CARE ARE CURRENTLY ADDRESSED IN A SAMPLE OF HEI'S FROM ACROSS EUROPE. . ANALYSE CURRENT PRACTICE IDENTIFYING FACTORS AND PROCESSES THAT ENABLE OR INHIBIT THE TEACHING OF THESE AREAS IN NURSING CURRICULA. . DEVELOP AND TEST AN INNOVATIVE, DYNAMIC AND FLEXIBLE SPIRITUAL CARE MATRIX FOR NURSE EDUCATION BASED UPON INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE AND EVIDENCE WHICH CAN BE ADOPTED BY HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (HEI) ACROSS EUROPE. THE PARTNERS AND THEIR LEADS INCLUDE STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY (PROFESSOR W MCSHERRY), THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES (DR LINDA ROSS), THE UNIVERSITY OF MALTA (PROFESSOR D BALDACCHINO, DR JOSEPHINE ATTARD), VID SPECIALIZED UNIVERSITY, BERGEN, NORWAY (PROFESSOR T GISKE), CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES VIAA, ZWOLLE NETHERLANDS (PROFESSOR R VAN LEEUWEN), DIAKONOVA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE NORWAY (DR T KLEIVEN). NURSES VIEWS OF AND CONFIDENCE WITH COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. ALEX WHELAN whelanalex ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CWHELAN IMMUNOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND ADHERENCE OF HELICOBACTER TO GASTRIC CELLS IMMUNOLOGY 01-8961000 COPY, INFLAMMATORY LUNG DISEASE, PROPOSED WORKSHOP ON INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE LUNG.INCLUDES CLINICIANS PRESENTING ON THEIR SPECIFIC DISEASE TYPE TO FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTISTS.OBJECTIVES :TO BUILD LINKS BETWEEN FUNDAMENTAL AND CLINICAN SCIENTISTSTO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONTO CONNECT SENIOR POST-DOCS (EMERGING PI'S) WITH CLINICIAN COUNTERPART ADHERENCE OF HELICOBACTER TO GASTRIC CELLS DR. BARRY WHITE whitebarry CLINICAL SENIOR LECTURER IN HAEMATOLOGY WHITEB1 HAEMATOLOGY MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND DEPARTMENT OF HAEMATOLOGY CENTRAL PATHOLOGY BUILDING ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 COPY, INFLAMMATORY LUNG DISEASE, PROPOSED WORKSHOP ON INFLAMMATORY DISEASES OF THE LUNG.INCLUDES CLINICIANS PRESENTING ON THEIR SPECIFIC DISEASE TYPE TO FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTISTS.OBJECTIVES :TO BUILD LINKS BETWEEN FUNDAMENTAL AND CLINICAN SCIENTISTSTO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATIONTO CONNECT SENIOR POST-DOCS (EMERGING PI'S) WITH CLINICIAN COUNTERPART CANCER DR. ARTHUR WHITE whitearthur ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ARWHITE STATISTICS MODEL BASED CLUSTERING, MIXTURE MODELS, MIXED-MEMBERSHIP MODELS, DECISION THEORY, SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS. DEPT OF STATISTICS SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSITITUTE, COLLEGE 01-8961000 BAYESIAN INFERENCE DATA ANALYSIS LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS MIXED-MEMBERSHIP MODELS MODEL BASED CLUSTERING SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS STATISTICS DR. PÁDRAIC WHYTE whytepdraic ASSISTANT PROF IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WHYTEPA ENGLISH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE ONE MONOGRAPH, TWO CO-EDITED COLLECTIONS, AND FOURTEEN PEER-REVIEWED ESSAYS/ARTICLES (AND ANOTHER FORTHCOMING). RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS INCLUDE: 'HOUSE, LAND, AND FAMILY LIFE: CHILDREN'S FICTION AND IRISH HOMES' IN LIAM HARTE (ED.), THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF MODERN IRISH FICTION (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, FORTHCOMING); 'CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND NEW YORK CITY' IN RJ WILSON (ED), THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY LITERATURE (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, FORTHCOMING 2019); AND 'FIRING FOR THE HEARTH: STORYTELLING, LANDSCAPE, AND PADRAIC COLUM'S THE BIG TREE OF BUNLAHY' IN KEITH O'SULLIVAN AND PÁDRAIC WHYTE (EDS.), CHILDREN'S LITERATURE COLLECTIONS: APPROACHES TO RESEARCH (PALGRAVE, 2017). RECEIVED IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL GRANT TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS PROJECT (€352,000). CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY RESEARCH AWARD (€95,000) - MEMBER OF THE TEAM THAT SUBMITTED THE SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATION. NON-PEER REVIEWED RESEARCH OUTPUTS INCLUDE A REPORT -'DISCOURSES ON SEXUAL RESPONSIBILITY, FATHERHOOD AND MASCULINITY AMONG YOUNG MEN SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS' (DUBLIN: CRISIS PREGNANCY AGENCY, 2010); ARTICLES FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS IRELAND MAGAZINE. PEER REVIEWER FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS: THE LION AND THE UNICORN, CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY; CANADIAN JOURNAL OF IRISH STUDIES; AND FOR THE DOVETAIL POSTGRADUATE JOURNAL, BANGOR UNIVERSITY. MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL REVIEW PANEL FOR THE STUDIES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE SERIES, PUBLISHED BY FOUR COURTS PRESS, AND WHICH INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING TITLES: TREASURE ISLANDS, DIVIDED WORLDS, AND YOUNG IRELANDS (2007-2011). CONSULTANT FOR US PUBLISHER FOR EDITION OF 'IRELAND' IN THEIR BOOK SERIES. CONSULTANT FOR PUBLISHERS, ARTS ORGANIZATIONS, AND GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. CURATOR OF A NUMBER OF HIGH PROFILE EXHIBITIONS, INCLUDING UPON THE WILD WAVES: A JOURNEY THROUGH MYTH IN CHILDREN'S BOOKS, LONG ROOM, OLD LIBRARY, TCD. OCT 2014- OCT 2015; COME CLOSER: THE DARKER SIDE OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS, DUBLIN CITY LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE, PEARSE ST (2015)(WITH THE NCCB TEAM); AND TELLING TALL AND TINY TALES, A CHILDREN'S LITERATURE EXHIBITION AT THE ARK, A CULTURAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN, 2012 (6 MONTHS) - THIS INVOLVED WORKING WITH A RANGE OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FIGURES IN THE FIELD OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND CULTURE: AUTHORS, ILLUSTRATORS, ARTISTS, ACTORS, FILMMAKERS, THE ARCHIVAL DEPARTMENT AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, THE NATIONAL GALLERY, BELFAST'S TITANIC CENTRE, THE MINISTER FOR CHILDREN, THE OMBUDSMAN FOR CHILDREN, STAFF FROM EPB, CHILDREN'S BOOKS IRELAND, AGENTS AND PUBLISHERS IN IRELAND AND THE UK, THE UK'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE, IRELAND'S CHILDREN'S LAUREATE. INTERVIEWED BY RTE (SEAN O'ROURKE SHOW), NEWSTALK (THE RIGHT HOOK) TG4, BBC, THE IRISH TIMES, AND THE NEW YORK TIMES. HELPED TO CREATE A YOUTUBE VIDEO ON EQUALITY THAT RECEIVED OVER ONE MILLION VIEWS AND LED TO A FEATURE AND AN INTERVIEW IN THE NEW YORK TIMES (IT WAS THE 'MOST READ' NEWS STORY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ON 23RD MAY, 2015). PRESENTED AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS, SUCH AS 'TALES OF ATLANTIC AND PERSONAL DISCOVERY: PADRAIC COLUM AND AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE', STAFF-POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES, TCD, OCT 2016; 'FROM THE UNIVERSAL TO THE PARTICULAR: PADRAIC COLUM AND THE REWRITING OF MYTH', IRSCL 2015, WORCESTER. INVITED TO GIVE A LECTURES, INCLUDING: 'THE POLLARD COLLECTION OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS: CONSTRUCTING A HISTORY OF IRISH CHILDREN'S LITERATURE', AS PART OF THE TRINITY LONG ROOM HUB LIBRARY LECTURE SERIES TO MARK THE TERCENTENARY OF THE OLD LIBRARY, 2013; THE 2012 BETSY BEINECKE SHIRLEY LECTURE ON AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AT YALE UNIVERSITY; AND 'IRISH CHILDHOODS' AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND, AS PART OF THEIR 'SMALL LIVES' SERIES, 2012. SCHOOL OF ENGLISH ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE 19TH CENTURY IRISH CULTURAL HISTORY ANGLO-IRISH LITERATURE, POETRY CHILDREN'S LITERATURE FICTION 1780-1820 GENDER STUDIES IRISH WRITING, POETRY, DRAMA, CINEMA EDUCATION CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS LANGUAGES & LITERATURE CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. JEAN WHYTE whytejean FELLOW EMERITUS JWHYTE SOCIAL STUDIES LONGITUDINAL DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES; GENDER ISSUES; EFFECTS OF THE TROUBLES; IDENTITY AND SELF-WORTH; CIVIC INVOLVEMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE; ATTITUDES AND MEMORIES IN IRELAND/NORTHERN IRELAND, READING DEVELOPMENT AND DISORDERS; RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY ISSUES; QUALITATIVE METHODS; INNOVATIVE METHODS; SERVICES FOR CHILDREN; EDUCATIONAL DISADVANTAGE. CHILDERN'S RESEARCH CENTRE 3-4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 NO DATA €52,000 NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION NO DATA €207.000 AIB SCHOOLMATE NO DATA €7,000 SOCIAL SERVICES INSPECTORATE NO DATA OMBUDSMAN FOR CHILDREN - PARTICIPATION AUDIT (€30,000) NO DATA EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES - €68,000 NATIONAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY AIB SCHOOLMATE EVALUATION €210,000 NO DATA €50,000 IPPA COMMUNITY PLAYGROUPS HEARING THE VOICES OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGE IN RELATION TO THEIR LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL NEEDS €20,000 NO DATA €29,0000 ROSCOMMON CHILDCARE COMMITTEE MAKING A NEW LIFE IN IRELAND: LONE REFUGEE AND ASYLUM SEEKING MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN €15,000 EVALUATION OF BARNARDOS' SERVICES TO REFUGEES IN DUN LAOGHAIRE AND GUIDELINES FOR BEST PRACTICE IN DEALING WITH THE NEEDS OF REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS €35,000 ETHICS IN RESEARCH WITH CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES €49,000 NDA STUDENT COUNCILS NATIONAL CHILDREN'S OFFICE PROFESSOR GERARD FRANCIS WHYTE whytegerardfrancis PROFESSOR GWHYTE LAW PUBLIC INTEREST LAW, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, LABOUR LAW, SOCIAL WELFARE LAW, LAW AND RELIGION. LAW SCHOOL ROOM 02C NO 39 COLLEGE 01-8961000 MEMBER OF EU GROUP OF EXPERTS ON CONVERGENCE OF SOCIAL PROTECTION POLICIES MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE TO COMMISSION ON ASSISTED HUMAN REPRODUCTION MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE TO SELECTION PANEL FOR IRISH HUMAN RIGHTS AND EQUALITY COMMISSION DESIGNATE MINISTERIAL APPOINTEE TO STEERING GROUP FOR IRISH COUNCIL OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CONSTITUTIONAL LAW LABOR LAW LAW AND RELIGION PUBLIC INTEREST LAW SOCIAL WELFARE LAW LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS SOCIAL JUSTICE AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND MS. AILISH WHYTE whyteailish ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER AWHYTE SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY SCHOOL OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY STUDIES 24 D'OLIER STREET DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 PROFESSOR JAMES JOHN RUFUS WICKHAM wickhamjamesjohnrufus FELLOW EMERITUS JWICKHAM FELLOWS EMERITII EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH CENTRE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES I CURRENTLY RESEARCH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYMENT AND DIFFERENT FORMS OF MOBILITY, RANGING FROM MIGRATION TO BUSINESS AIR TRAVEL. I RECENTLY COMPLETED A STUDY OF POLISH MIGRANTS IN THE DUBLIN LABOUR MARKET; MY CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT 'LEARNING FROM POLAND' COMPARES IRISH GRADUATE EMIGRATION TO THAT FROM POLAND IN THE LAST DECADE. SEPARATELY I AM WORKING ON THE IMPACT OF THE EUROPEAN FINANCIAL CRISIS, ESPECIALLY PERSONAL DEBT, ON PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO TRAVEL FOR WORK AND PLEASURE. I ALSO WORK AND PUBLISH ON EUROPEAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE DEMISE OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL MODEL. FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES ROOM 2015 ARTS BUILDING, COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN FRENCH GERMAN BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER, CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE ON THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT REFORM GREEN PAPER MEMBER, DUBLIN TRANSPORTATION OFFICE CONSULTATIVE PANEL MEMBER, SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COUNCIL, SOZIALFORSCHUNGSSTELLE DORTMUND (GERMANY) SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND AIR TRANSPORTATION EU POLITICS GENDER AND WORK HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS LABOUR MIGRATION MIGRATION TRANSPORTATION UNEMPLOYMENT WORKER ATTITUDES AND TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK DYNAMO ANALYSIS OF THE CHALLENGES FACING NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT SYSTEMS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION; IN PARTICULAR THE EXTENT TO WHICH DISTINCTIVE NATIONAL STRUCTURES ARE BEING REPRODUCED. EUROPEAN COMMISSION 6FP MOBILE LIVES ANALYSIS OF THE FACTORS GENERATING BUSINESS TRAVEL AND THE LOCATION OF PARTICULARLY TRAVEL-INTENSIVE FORMS OF BUSINESS; THE IMPLICATIONS OF EXTENSIVE TRAVEL FOR WORK/LIFE BALANCE AND SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT. IIIS PRTLI MIGRANT CAREERS AND ASPIRATIONS MUCH OF THE DEBATE ON IMMIGRATION IN IRELAND TODAY IS CONCERNED WITH THE QUESTION M OF 'INTEGRATION'. HOWEVER, THIS ASSUMES THAT CONTEMPORARY IMMIGRANTS WILL IN FACT BE STAYING IN IRELAND, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS CONSIDERABLE EVIDENCE THAT THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE. EQUALLY, IT IS ASSUMED THAT EMPLOYERS UTILISE MIGRANT LABOUR BECAUSE OF 'SKILL SHORTAGES', BUT THERE IS NO DISCUSSION OF HOW THIS RELATES TO THE OVERALL NATURE OF EMPLOYMENT IN IRISH WORKPLACES. THIS PROJECT THEREFORE STUDIES THE INTERACTION OF MIGRANTS' AND EMPLOYERS' STRATEGIES. IT STUDIES THE CHOICES OF BOTH SIDES OF THE NEW EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP THROUGH ANALYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL MIGRANTS' CAREERS AND CASE STUDIES OF WORKPLACES. TO TACKLE THESE ISSUES MIGRANT CAREERS AND ASPIRATIONS USES A QUALITATIVE PANEL STUDY OF BOTH IMMIGRANTS AND WORKPLACES, FLANKED BY A SYSTEMATIC MONITORING OF LABOUR MARKET TRENDS. FIELDWORK WILL BEGIN IN LATE 2007. THE RESEARCH WILL THUS FOLLOW IMMIGRANTS TO IRELAND AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE LABOUR MARKET. IT WILL PROVIDE THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF MIGRANTS' CAREERS AND ASPIRATIONS AND HOW THESE CHANGE OVER TIME. PHILANTHROPIC TRINITY IMMIGRATION INITIATIVE CAREERS, CONJUNCTURES AND CONSEQUENCES. THE IMPLICATIONS OF POLISH MIGRATION TO IRELAND FOR CONTEMPORARY IRISH EMIGRATION OUR 'MIGRANT CAREERS' STUDY SUGGESTED THAT POLISH MIGRATION TO IRELAND WAS PROTOTYPICAL FOR OTHER EMERGING EUROPEAN MIGRATIONS - INCLUDING THAT FROM IRELAND TODAY. THE PROPOSED PROJECT FURTHER DEVELOPS OUR QUALITATIVE PANEL STUDY METHODOLOGY TO RE-INTERVIEW YOUNG POLES WHO WORKED IN IRELAND DURING THE BOOM AND INTERVIEW A MATCHING GROUP OF IRISH GRADUATE EMIGRANTS. WE EVALUATE WHETHER NOVEL FORMS OF MIGRANT CAREERS EXIST WITHIN THE EUROPEAN THE MOBILITY SPACE, THE IMPACT ON MIGRANTS' CAREERS OF TWO DIFFERENT CONJUNCTURES (BUBBLE AND RECESSION) AND FINALLY THE LASTING CONSEQUENCES FOR IRISH EMPLOYMENT REGULATION OF THE PERIODS OF MASS IMMIGRATION AND MASS EMIGRATION. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL ADVANCED COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT CARS, DEBTS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT: URBAN MOBILITY IN THE CRISIS AFTER HOUSING, FOR MOST PEOPLE THEIR MAJOR INVESTMENT IS A CAR. IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS IRELAND CAR OWNERSHIP, LIKE HOME OWNERSHIP, IS TAKEN AS SELF-EVIDENTLY DESIRABLE, YET THE EXTENT AND FORM OF BOTH ARE MASSIVELY SHAPED BY PUBLIC POLICY. HOWEVER, CARS, LIKE HOUSES, HAVE TO BE BOUGHT. CAR PURCHASE OFTEN INVOLVES SUBSTANTIAL DEBT AND THE EXPANSION OF CAR OWNERSHIP IS THUS INTERWOVEN WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY. FURTHERMORE, MOTORING COSTS AS A PROPORTION OF TOTAL HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE VARY INVERSELY WITH INCOME. LIKE HOME OWNERSHIP, CAR OWNERSHIP IS BOTH ENTANGLED WITH THE GROWTH OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY AND INVOLVES PARTICULAR RISKS FOR LOW INCOME GROUPS; THIS IS ESPECIALLY THE CASE WHEN SOME POLICIES (E.G. LIMITED PUBLIC TRANSPORT, DISPERSED SETTLEMENT PATTERN) MAKE CAR OWNERSHIP CRUCIAL FOR LOW INCOME GROUPS. THE FINAL STAGES OF THE CELTIC TIGER BOOM APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN AN EXTREME CASE OF THIS CONVERGENCE: WITH A CREDIT BUBBLE AND MASSIVE HOUSING PRICE INFLATION, HOME OWNERSHIP, SUBURBAN SPRAWL, CAR OWNERSHIP AND CONSUMER DEBT ALL EXPANDED TOGETHER. IN THIS CONTEXT THE RESEARCH PROJECT EXAMINES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND MOBILITY IN AN EPOCH OF FINANCIALISATION. IN THE CURRENT CRISIS IT IS ARGUABLE THAT THOSE MOST THREATENED BY NEW SOCIAL EXCLUSION ARE THOSE MOST DEPENDENT ON THE EXPANSION OF BOTH MOBILITY AND CREDIT IN THE BOOM - THOSE ON FIRST TIME MORTGAGES IN NEW SUBURBAN AREAS. HAS THE CRISIS CREATED NEW FORMS OF EXCLUSION FOR NEW SOCIAL GROUPS, AND IF SO, HOW DOES THEIR EXPERIENCE COMPARE WITH THOSE OF GROUPS WHO ALREADY HAVE A LONG TERM EXPERIENCE OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION? THE PROJECT WILL COMPRISE CASE STUDIES OF TWO DISTINCT SUBURBAN AREAS OF DUBLIN: AN ESTABLISHED 'WORKING CLASS' AREA WITH HIGH LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT EVEN DURING THE BOOM YEARS, A SECOND AN AREA WITH NEW PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSING CONSTRUCTED DURING THE BOOM. IT WILL LARGELY USE QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES AS WELL AS VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND EXISTING STATISTICAL DATA. THE PROJECT COMBINES THE RESEARCH METHODS AND CONCERNS OF THE DEVELOPING FIELD OF MOBILITY STUDIES BOTH WITH THE WELL ESTABLISHED FIELD OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND THE NEW AREA OF THE FINANCIALISATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, INCLUDING THE ROLE OF ASSETS AND DEBT IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION TCD ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES BENEFACTION FUND IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DAVID RAYNOR WILKINS wilkinsdavidraynor ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DWILKINS PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND OPERATOR THEORY. HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN IRISH IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY DIGITAL HUMANITIES MR. DEREK WILLIAMS williamsderek TECHNICAL MANAGER DEWILLIA SCIENCE GALLERY SCIENCE GALLERY TRINITY COLLEGE COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. MICHAEL LEONARD WILLIAMS williamsmichaelleonard ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WILLIMSM BOTANY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT SOIL RESPIRATION AND CARBON STOCKS NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS FROM AGRICULTURAL SOILS SOIL MINERALISATION PHOTOSYNTHESIS CARBOHYDRATE PARTITIONING IN HIGHER PLANTS PLANT CELL ANATOMY CHLOROPLAST SYMBIOSIS DEPT OF BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 AGRI ENVIRONMENT AGRONOMY ALGAE CHLOROPLASTS PLANT BIOCHEMISTRY PLANT PHYSIOLOGY SOIL SCIENCE CCFLUX MEASUREMENT AND MODELLING OF ANNUAL GREENHOUSE GAS BUDGETS FOR AGRICULTURAL CROPS USING EDDY COVARIANCE TOWERS AND STATIC CHAMBERS. EPA GREENGRASS MEASUREMENT AND MODELLING OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS EU FLUXES OF NITROUS OXIDE FROM ARABLE SOILS: EMISSION FACTORS, ANNUAL TOTALS AND PREDICTIVE MODELLING. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF REDUCED TILLAGE, COVER CROP AND N-SUPPLY ON SOIL EMISSIONS OF N2O AND CO2 FOR A SPRING BARLEY CROP AND TO MODEL SOIL FLUXES OF N2O AND CO2 USING BOTH AN EMPIRICAL (PREDICTIVE) AND AN ESTABLISHED PROCESS-BASED APPROACH (DNDC MODEL). TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FROM EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS: FIELD MANIPULATION STUDIES TEAGASC WALSH FELLOWSHIP LEGUME FUTURES THIS RESEARCH WILL DELIVER KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR THE OPTIMISATION OF THE USE OF LEGUMES IN EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS AND PROMOTE THE PARTNERSHIPS NEEDED TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC POLICY OUTCOMES SOUGHT. BY INTEGRATING THE CONSORTIUM'S EXTENSIVE SET OF EXISTING FIELD CASE STUDIES, MODELLING AND KNOWLEDGE BASE, THE PROJECT WILL TEST, VALIDATE AND DELIVER NOVEL CROPPING SYSTEMS. THIS NETWORK OF 18 CASE STUDIES, IN 12 COUNTRIES, WILL BE THE FOCUS OF INTERACTION WITH FARMERS, SMES, OTHER BUSINESSES, AND POLICY MAKERS. OUTPUTS WILL INCLUDE SYSTEM-OPTIMISED CROPPING PLANS FOR EACH PEDO-CLIMATIC REGION, INPUT INTO EXISTING FARM-PLANNING TOOLS, LOCAL ON-FARM DEMONSTRATIONS, A SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS THAT WILL ENABLE LOCAL ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF CROPPING SYSTEMS, AND AN ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTS OF RELEVANT FARMING SYSTEM CHANGES ON GREENHOUSE GAS AND NITROGEN BUDGETS, BIODIVERSITY AND SOIL HEALTH FROM THE FARM TO THE CONTINENTAL SCALE. A BOOK ON LEGUME-SUPPORTED ECO-EFFICIENT FARMING SYSTEMS COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF THE USE OF LEGUMES IN EUROPE WILL BE PUBLISHED. THE RESEARCH IS PLANNED AROUND THE APPRECIATION OF HOW NITROGEN FERTILISATION AND THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF PLANT PROTEIN LIE AT THE HEART OF MANY OF THE GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES ARISING FROM AGRICULTURE. THE PROJECT WILL TAKE A NOVEL STRATEGIC APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE INTERACTION AND DELIVERY, IN ORDER TO ENHANCE AND POOL EXISTING KNOWLEDGE PLATFORMS AND DATABASES. IT WILL THEN DELIVER THE RESULTS INTO THE FARMING COMMUNITY, COMMERCIAL USE, AND POLICY PRACTICE BEYOND THE LIFE OF THE PROJECT. THE PROJECT WILL FACILITATE WIDE ACCESS TO NEW AND EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGIES AND IT WILL PROMOTE AWARENESS OF THE ROLE OF LEGUMES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS AND CONSUMPTION PATTERNS. ALL RESEARCH RESULTS AND PRODUCTS WILL BE PUT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN, AND PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL THE AGENTS OF CHANGE, INCLUDING POLICY MAKERS, WILL BE A KEY ELEMENT OF THE WORK. EU FP7 INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR JAMES WILLIAMS williamsjames ADJUNCT PROFESSOR JWILLIA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR DAVID CLIVE WILLIAMS williamsdavidclive FELLOW EMERITUS DWILLIMS FELLOWS EMERITII CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PROJECTS FACULTY OF ENG, MATHS & SCIENCE 1ST FLOOR 27 WESTLAND ROW COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHAIR OF LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE, AND MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE FOR THE 9TH GENERAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY, DUBLIN 1992 CHAIRMAN ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR EU TMR EUROCONFERENCE ON NEURONAL TRANSPORTERS DUBLIN 1998 EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR RESEARCH DEGREES IN ST ANDREWS, LEEDS, CARDIFF, GALWAY, CORK, AARHUS, ETC MEMBER AND COUNCIL MEMBER OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY MEMBER AND SOMETIME CHAIR OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR BIOCHEMISTRY MEMBER OF HRB MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROLOGY, AND POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP RESEARCH GRANTS COMMITTEES MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR NEUROCHEMISTRY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEMBER ORGANISING COMMITTEES FOR 636 AND 648TH BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETING - DUBLIN 1990, 2002, 21ST FEBS MEETING -DUBLIN 1992, INSERM PHILLIPE LAUDET CONFERENCE ON NEURONAL TRANSPORTERS - STRASBOURG, 1993 NUI PHELAN SCHOLARSHIP EVALUATION PANEL ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECRETARY AND MEMBER OF THE NEUROCHEMICAL GROUP COMMITTEE OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRUSTEE OF THE IRISH AREA SECTION OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY FEBS FUND FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE UPTAKE ANTIDEPRESSANT DRUGS ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTION APOPTOSIS BCR-ABL BENZODIAZEPINE BINDING-SITES BENZODIAZEPINES CANCER CASPASES CELL CYCLE CELL PROLIFERATION CHOLESTEROL COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY DIFFERENTIATION ESTROGEN-RECEPTOR GABA TRANSPORTER IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOTHERAPY IN VITRO TESTING, TRIAL METHODS INSECTICIDES L-GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER LIGAND MITOCHONDRIA MOLECULAR BIOLOGY PERIPHERAL-TYPE BENZODIAZEPINE BINDING SITE PYRROLO-1,5-BENZOXAZEPINES PYRROLO-1,5-BENZOXAZEPINES INDUCE APOPTOSIS RECEPTOR LIGANDS RECEPTORS SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY, DETERMINATION, FUNCTION AGEING CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET PROFESSOR STEPHEN ELLIOT WILMER wilmerstephenelliot FELLOW EMERITUS SWILMER DRAMA SCHOOL OF DRAMA SAMUEL BECKETT CNTR COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES DIGITAL HUMANITIES GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. FIONA WILSON wilsonfiona ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WILSONF PHYSIOTHERAPY SPORTS INJURY EPIDEMIOLOGY LOW BACK PAIN TENDINOPATHY IN SPORT EXERCISE IN BONE AND JOINT DISEASE SCHOOL OF PHYSIOTHERAPY TRINITY CENTRE ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH CHIEF PHYSIOTHERAPIST IRISH ROWING TEAM MEMBER OF THE IRISH SOCIETY OF CHARTERED PHYSIOTHERAPISTS JUNIOR SOCCER INJURY EPIDEMIOLOGY LUMBAR SPINE INJURY AND LOW BACK PAIN ROWING INJURY EPIDEMIOLOGY OTHER HEALTH SCIENCES IMMUNITY AND INFECTION (INCLUDING RHEUMATOLOGY & INFLAMMATORY DISEASE) EXERCISE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF ANKYLOSING SPONDYLOSIS PREDICTORS OF OUTCOMES FOLLOWING SPINAL SURGERY RETURN TO SPORT FOLLOWING ACL REPAIR PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY IN ELITE RUGBY A CLINICAL AND ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION OF PATELLAR TENDON DISORDERS OF THE ACADEMY MEMBERS OF MUNSTER, ULSTER, CONNACHT AND LEINSTER ACADEMIES. CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. CHARLOTTE EMMA WILSON wilsoncharlotteemma ASSISTANT PROF IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY CEWILSON PSYCHOLOGY CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE MY MAIN INTERESTS ARE BEHAVIOURAL AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS IN CHILDREN. IN PARTICULAR I AM INTERESTED IN THE ROLE OF PARENTS AND DEVELOPING DEVELOPMENTALLY SENSITIVE COGNITIVE-BEHAVIOURAL MODELS OF CHILDREN'S DISORDERS. ONE FOCUS IS ON WORRY AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN INCLUDING EXAMINING DEVELOPMENTAL, CLINICAL AND SYSTEMIC FACTORS. THIS ALSO INVOLVES RESEARCH TESTING MODELS OF ANXIETY DISORDERS IN ADULTS BEFORE THEY ARE THEN TESTED IN YOUNGER POPULATIONS. I ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN MENTAL HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PARENTING ISSUES IN CHILDREN WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS. SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH COLLEGE 01-8961000 ASSOCIATION OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPIES BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY AETIOLOGY OF MENTAL ILLNESS ALLIED HEALTH EDUCATION ANXIETY AT-RISK CHILDREN/YOUTH BEHAVIORAL/EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH CHILD PSYCHOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT CHILDHOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH CHILDREN'S WORRY CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT/PROCESSES CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT, PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISEASE OR DISORDER DEVELOPMENTAL AND MENTAL DISORDERS DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE DISORDERS FAMILY GENDER DIFFERENCES HIGHER EDUCATION INFANTS MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USER INVOLVEMENT PHOBIAS BRIGHT HORIZONS CHILD DEVELOPMENT STUDY THE BRIGHT HORIZONS STUDY AIMS TO PROVIDE A TWO YEAR (CORRECTED AGE) DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR BABIES WHO WERE BORN PREMATURELY. THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION EFFECTIVENESS OF THERAPY FOR ANXIETY IN YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THIS SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS EXPLORES THE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXISTING THERAPIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE BOTH AUTISM SPECTRUM CONDITIONS AND CLINICAL LEVELS OF ANXIETY. IT ALSO EXPLORES POSSIBLE MEDIATORS AND MODERATORS OF EFFECTIVENESS. AGEING IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY PROFESSOR SIMON PAUL WILSON wilsonsimonpaul PROFESSOR SWILSON STATISTICS BAYESIAN STATISTICS, RELIABILITY THEORY, SOFTWARE RELIABILITY, IMAGE PROCESSING, MULTIMEDIA DATABASE RETRIEVAL, MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH ELECTED MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE FELLOW OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY MEMBER OF SIGMA XI SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SOCIETY MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BAYESIAN ANALYSIS REVIEWING (SINCE 2004)<BR> JOURNAL NO. OF PAPERS REVIEWED<BR> BIOSTATISTICS <BR> BONE <BR> COMPUT. STAT. DATA ANAL. <BR> IEE TRANS. <BR> IEEE JSAC <BR> IEEE TRANS. IMAGE PROC. <BR> IEEE TRANS. RELIAB. <BR> IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING <BR> J. RISK AND RELIABILITY <BR> J. ROY. STATIST. SOC. B <BR> J. ROY. STATIST. SOC. C <BR> NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS <BR> STAT. AND COMP. <BR> BOOK PROPOSAL REVIEWS ACCELERATED TEST ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE BAYES INFERENCE BAYESIAN ANALYSIS BAYESIAN COMPUTATION BAYESIAN INFERENCE BAYESIAN STATISTICS BIODIVERSITY BIOMATHEMATICS, BIOMETRICS COMPUTER SIMULATION/MODELING COMPUTER STORAGE & RETRIEVAL DATA ANALYSIS DATABASES, DATABASE MANAGEMENT, DATA MINING FATIGUE/FRACTURE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IMAGE ANALYSIS IMAGE PROCESSING IMAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER ASSISTED IMAGE SEGMENTATION IMAGING AND COMPUTER VISION MACHINE LEARNING IN MULITMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO MARKOV RANDOM FIELD MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING MATHEMATICAL MODEL MATHEMATICAL MODELING MATHEMATICAL MODELLING MATHEMATICAL SIMULATION MONTE-CARLO ALGORITHM MONTE-CARLO ALGORITHMS MONTE-CARLO PROGRAM MONTE-CARLO SIMULATION MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS MULTIMEDIA PARALLEL PROGRAMMING PARALLEL SYSTEMS PROBABILITY RELIABILITY RELIABILITY (ENGINEERING) RELIABILITY THEORY SOFTWARE SOFTWARE DEBUGGING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SOFTWARE RELIABILITY SOFTWARE TESTING STATISTICS WARRANTIES WARRANTY RESERVE RELIABILITY OF COMPLEX TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE EXPONENTIAL RATES OF GROWTH IN DATA TRANSMISSION, AND ORGANISATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS ARE RELYING MORE AND MORE ON THESE NETWORKS TO SUPPORT CRITICAL ACTIVITIES. THESE TRENDS DRIVE THE DESIRE FOR HIGHLY RELIABLE NETWORKS THAT SUFFER MINIMAL SERVICE OUTAGES. THE CORE RESEARCH QUESTION THAT IN THIS PROJECT IS THE RELIABILITY OF A COMPLEX NETWORK WHERE FAILURE OCCURS THROUGH THE DEPENDENCE OR INTERACTION BETWEEN ITS COMPONENTS: HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND HUMAN. STATISTICAL MODELS FOR THIS PROCESS FORM THE FOCUS OF THE RESEARCH. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN BAYESIAN NETWORK (BN) MODELS, SUCH AS DYNAMIC BNS AND INFERENCE FOR BN STRUCTURE, ARE GOING TO BE USED TO DEVELOP A UNIFIED MODELLING APPROACH THAT CAN MODEL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HARDWARE COMPONENTS, SUB-SYSTEM REDUNDANCY, THE INTERACTION WITH SOFTWARE BUGS AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF HUMAN ERROR. COLLABORATION WITH BELL LABS IN DUBLIN AND NEW JERSEY IS PROVIDING DATA AND FEEDBACK. THE NOVELTY IN THE RESEARCH IS (A) ADVANCES IN STATISTICAL MODELLING METHODOLOGY WITH BNS FOR THESE COMPLEX NETWORKS AND (B) ON THE APPLICATION SIDE, BETTER PREDICTION OF FAILURES IN COMPLEX NETWORKS AND HOW THEY ARISE. IRCSET POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP STATISTICAL METHODS IN ICT APPLICATIONS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) CONTINUES TO GENERATE DATA THAT CHALLENGE THE STATE-OF-THE-ART IN STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY. THESE DATA FORM "COMPLEX DATA SYSTEMS"; OF LARGE SIZE AND/OR GENERATED AT A HIGH RATE, INDEXED IN SPACE AND/OR TIME, WITH COMPLEX DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN VARIABLES THAT MUST BE ACCOUNTED FOR IN ANY MEANINGFUL ANALYSIS. OFTEN, PARTICULARLY WHERE CONTROL AND DECISION-MAKING ARE NEEDED, THE ANALYSIS MUST BE FAST. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO (A) ADVANCE THE STATE OF THE ART OF STATISTICAL ANALYSIS FOR COMPLEX DATA SYSTEMS IN ICT APPLICATIONS (B) SUPPORT ON-GOING EFFORTS TO CREATE A CENTRE OF EXPERTISE IN THIS AREA WITH INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION. THE CHALLENGES PROVIDED BY SEVERAL CONCRETE APPLICATIONS WILL MOTIVATE THE WORK, INCLUDING: RELIABILITY OF TELECOMS NETWORKS, ROAD TRAFFIC MODELLING AND MANAGEMENT AND SOURCE SEPARATION FOR MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES. SFI PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR INSIGHT CENTRE FOR DATA ANALYTICS THIS IS A LARGE SFI FUNDED RESEARCH CENTRE IN THE AREA OF DATA ANALYTICS. I AM PART OF THE BAYESIAN LEARNING WORKPACKAGE. INTEREST FOCUSES ON HOW TO SCALE BAYESIAN ANALYSIS METHODS TO LARGE AND/OR FAST STREAMING AND COMPLEX DATA. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH CENTRES CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET TELECOMMUNICATIONS MS. DIANA WILSON wilsondiana ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DIWILSON COMPUTER SCIENCE CRITICAL SOCIAL THEORY RESEARCH IN ICT: PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORICISM OF TECHNOLOGY, FUTURE PARADIGMS OF WORK AND TECHNOLOGY, ORGANISATIONAL IMPACTS OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE LABOUR PROCESS COMPUTER SCIENCE AISG O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE DIGITAL HUMANITIES INCLUSIVE SOCIETY MAKING IRELAND PROFESSOR JAMES GOW WILSON wilsonjamesgow FELLOW EMERITUS JWILSON ZOOLOGY CENTRE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT PROF. WILSON'S RESEARCH INTERESTS ARE DIRECTED TO THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM FITNESS OF INDIVIDUALS, OF POPULATIONS AND OF ECOSYSTEMS. THE DETERMINATION OF FITNESS PROCEEDS IN THREE STEPS: 1. INVESTIGATIONS TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PARTICULAR HABITAT AND OF THE CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL STRESSES; 2. QUANTIFICATION THROUGH BIOENERGETICS AND COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF LIFE STRATEGIES; 3. CONSTRUCTION AND VERIFICATION OF PROCESS MODELS AND SYSTEM MODELS. THE FOCUS OF THESE RESEARCHES HAS BEEN, ON THE SYSTEM SIDE, ESTUARINE AND COASTAL MARINE SYSTEMS, AND ON THE ORGANISM SIDE, BIVALVES AND PARTICULARLY THE TELLINIDAE. IN ESTUARINE AND COASTAL SYSTEMS, THE MAJOR STRESSES ARE IMPOSED BY ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS SUCH AS TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY, AND BY ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS SUCH AS THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF POLLUTION. QUALITY INDICES AND BIOINDICATORS PROVIDE AN INTEGRATED SYNOPSIS OF THE DEGREE OF PERTURBATION, PROVIDING BOTH SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AS TO THE FITNESS OF THE TARGET ORGANISM(S) AND ALSO THE PERFORMANCE OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMIC STRATEGIES ON THE SYSTEMS. AS WELL AS MANY ARTICLES IN THIS AREA, PROF. WILSON HAS WRITTEN A BOOK CHAPTER ON INDICES; HE HAS EDITED A SYMPOSIUM VOLUME ON ESTUARINE MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT; HE WAS ONE OF THE AUTHORS OF THE INTER-GOVERNMENTAL IRISH SEA STUDY GROUP REPORT AND HE HAS WRITTEN A BOOK ON THE BIOLOGY OF ESTUARINE MANAGEMENT. THE MOST RECENT VOLUME ON THIS TOPIC IS THE INTERTIDAL ECOSYSTEM (RIA, 2006), AND HE IS CURRENTLY WRITING A MAJOR REVIEW ON THE TOPIC. BIOENERGETICS IS THE STUDY OF WHAT DARWIN SAW AS THE DRIVING FORCE OF EVOLUTION, THE STRUGGLE FOR FOOD. ENERGY ACQUISITION AND PARTITIONING IS CENTRAL TO THE SURVIVAL OF INDIVIDUALS, OF POPULATIONS AND ULTIMATELY OF THE SPECIES THEMSELVES. BIOENERGETICS CAN ALSO QUANTIFY THE SHORT-TERM COSTS AND BENEFITS OF AN ORGANISM'S LIFE STRATEGY AS WELL AS THE IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC STRESSES. PROF. WILSON HAS PUBLISHED WIDELY ON VARIOUS ASPECTS OF BIOENERGETICS, WHICH HAVE BEEN USED TO QUANTIFY THE FITNESS OF INDIVIDUALS, OF POPULATIONS, AND OF SYSTEMS. THE MODELS INCLUDE CONCEPTUAL MODELS WHICH ARE IMPLICIT IN MANY OF THE IDEAS IN THE PRECEDING TWO SECTIONS, BUT THE PRIMARY FOCUS IS MATHEMATICAL MODELS WHICH CAN THEN BE DEVELOPED FOR PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY. THESE MODELS CAN BE FORMULATED, AND INTEGRATED, AT PROCESS LEVEL, FOR EXAMPLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION AND METABOLISM, AT INDIVIDUAL AND POPULATION LEVEL WITH ENERGY PARTITIONING, AND AT SYSTEM LEVEL WITH ENERGY AND NUTRIENT BUDGETS. AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, THIS PHILOSOPHY FORMS THE BASIS OF THE SYMPOSIUM VOLUME EDITED FOR THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY EUTROPHICATION IN IRISH WATERS. IT ALSO FORMS THE BASIS FOR OTHER MATHEMATICAL TREATMENTS SUCH AS MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS. THE SYSTEMS ANALYSIS APPROACH IS ALSO AT THE CORE OF HIS WORK IN DUBLIN BAY AND ON THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE IRISH SEA. THE LATTER WORK IS JUST COMING TO FRUITION WITH THE PUBLICATION IN 2001 OF THE FIRST OF 3 VOLUMES, WITH FURTHER INVESTIGATION PLANNED EXTENDING THE SCOPE SOUTH INTO THE CELTIC SEA AND OFFSHORE. DEPT OF ZOOLOGY ZOOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH FRENCH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND ESTUARINE AND COASTAL SCIENCES ASSOCIATION ESTUARINE RESEARCH FEDERATION MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY PORCUPINE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE ANIMAL TAXONOMY AQUATIC ECOLOGY BIODIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL MODELING BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY COASTAL ZONE ECOSYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT ECOLOGY ECOSYSTEM(S) ENERGETICS ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL ZOOLOGY ESTUARINE SCIENCES GLOBAL CHANGE HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS ICHTHYOLOGY INVERTEBRATE PHYSIOLOGY LIMNOLOGY MARINE AND OCEAN SCIENCES MARINE BIOLOGY MARINE ECOSYSTEMS MARINE ENVIRONMENT MARINE SCIENCE AND FISHERIES BIOLOGY MARINE ZOOLOGY SEDIMENT SEDIMENTOLOGY WATER POLLUTION STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF THE DUBLIN BAY ECOSYSTEM SFI BRG INTERACTIONS BETWEEN HOSTS AND PARASITES IN PALAEARCTIC COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS EC INTAS OPEN CALL HABITAT MAPPING IN THE IRISH SEA (HABMAP) EC INTERREG IRELAND-WALES 3C BIODIVERSITY AND ECOLOGICAL REQUIREMENTS OF MEIOFAUNA AND A TYPOLOGY FOR IRISH TRANSITIONAL WATERS. EPA STRIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF POLLUTION THE USE OF INTEGRATED CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS ASSESSMENT HAS BECOME THE PREFERRED APPROACH FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE POLLUTION. SPECIFICALLY, MEASUREMENT OF BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS IN INDIVIDUAL ORGANISMS IN SITU CAN PROVIDE SENSITIVE AND SPECIFIC EARLY WARNING SIGNS OF BIOLOGICAL STRESS IN RESPONSE TO POLLUTION. IN CONTRAST, MEASUREMENTS AT A BROADER ECOSYSTEM SCALE MAY BE INSUFFICIENTLY SENSITIVE OR UNABLE TO DISCERN CONTRIBUTORY CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS. THIS SUITE OF MONITORING TECHNIQUES MUST PERFORCE SPAN THE RANGE OF ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY FROM SINGLE SYSTEMS TO POPULATIONS AND ECOSYSTEMS. THIS PROJECT PROPOSES A RANGE OF TECHNIQUES AS CANDIDATE BIOMARKERS WHICH COVER THE RANGE OF BIOCOMPLEXITY AND WHICH IN ADDITION OFFER THE POTENTIAL BY WHICH SPECIFIC CONTAMINANTS CAN BE IDENTIFIED MARINE INSTITUTE NDP CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. HENRY WINDLE windlehenry ASST PROF IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE HJWINDLE CLINICAL MEDICINE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INFECTIOUS PATHOGENS: HELICOBACTER PYLORI, FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM, CAMPYLOBACTER SHOWAE, CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE CLINICAL MEDICINE MEDICAL SCHOOL BUILD ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 ENGLISH BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, CENTRE FOR RESEARCH INTO GLOBAL DISEASE (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMPLEMENTARY INTERESTS IN GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT INFECTIOUS DISEASE. INTERESTS INCLUDE INNATE IMMUNITY, IMMUNE REGULATION, REGIONAL IMMUNITY, IMMUNE EVASIOB, VACCINE & ADJUVANT DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS DRUG & TARGET DEVELOPMENT. MEMBER, CYCLE 2 PI'S & RESEARCHERS, ALL CYCLE 2 RESEARCHERS & PI'S MEMBER, DMMC INFLAMMATION, IMMUNITY & INFECTION PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH IN INFLAMMATION, IMMUNIT AND INFECTION. BACTERIAL PATHOGENICITY FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM GASTRIC CANCER HELICOBACTER PYLORI HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION IDENTIFICATION OF VACCINE CANDIDATES IN VITRO MODELS OF INFECTION INFECTIOUS DISEASES INNATE AND ACQUIRED RESISTANCE TO INFECTION INNATE IMMUNITY PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES PROTEIN CHEMISTRY, STRUCTURE AND FOLDING PROTEOMICS VACCINES EVALUATION AND CONTROL OF NEGLECTED MUCOSAL ENTERIC INFECTIONS IN CHILDHOOD MICROBIAL ENTERIC PATHOGENS ARE A MAJOR CAUSE OF CHILDHOOD MORBIDITY WORLD-WIDE, CONTRIBUTING TO IMPAIRED GROWTH AND COGNITIVE FUNCTION. IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES THE DIVERSITY OF CHILDHOOD ENTERIC INFECTIONS MAKES DIAGNOSIS AND DISEASE SURVEILLANCE DIFFICULT. TO DATE THERE HAS BEEN LIMITED DATA ON THE IMPACT OF THE MAJOR CHILDHOOD INFECTION HELICOBACTER PYLORI ON GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES IN CHILDREN IN UNDERDEVELOPED REGIONS OF THE WORLD. INITIAL INFECTION WITH H. PYLORI IS ASSOCIATED WITH A PERIOD OF HYPOCHLORHYDRIA (REDUCED ACID SECRETION), WHICH WE HYPOTHESISE IS CRITICAL FOR THE AQUISTION OF OTHER ENTERIC INFECTIONS, DIARRHOEAL DISEASE AND IMPAIRED CHILDHOOD GROWTH. IN ADDITION, WE HYPOTHESISE THAT GASTRIC H. PYLORI INFECTION IS A CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR TO IRON DEFICIENCY ANAEMIA IN CHILDHOOD. THE OBJECTIVE OF THE CONTENT PROJECT IS TO IMPROVE KNOWLEDGE AND APPLY NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPROVE THE CONTROL OF NEGLECTED ENTERIC PATHOGENS IN SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDHOOD POPULATIONS OF LATIN AMERICA EUROPEAN UNION FP6 EVALUATION OF THE CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL OF FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM IDENTIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUENT BACTERIAL SPECIES OF THE INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA UNDER NORMAL AND DISEASE CONDITIONS HAS LED TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN DYSBIOSIS AND SEVERAL CHRONIC DISEASE STATES. IN THIS REGARD, AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE BACTERIUM FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM AND INTESTINAL CANCER HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED. ORIGINALLY THIS ORGANISM WAS IDENTIFIED AS AN ORAL PATHOGEN RESPONSIBLE IN PART FOR PERIODONTITIS BUT NOW IS FOUND TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH SEVERAL EXTRAORAL DIEASES, INCLUDING COLON CANCER. INTERESTINGLY, THIS PATHOGEN IS ALSO ENRICHED AT SITES OF ADENOMA FORMATION, THE PRECURSORS OF CARCINOMA, SUGGESTING THAT IT MAY BE A PRIMARY INITIATOR OF CARCINOGENESIS. ALTHOUGH CAUSALITY HAS NOT YET BEEN ESTABLISHED THERE IS COMPELLING EVIDENCE INDICATING A PRIMARY ROLE FOR THIS PATHOGEN IN DISEASE PROGRESSION. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO INVESTIGATE THE PATHOGENIC/CARCINOGENIC POTENTIAL OF F. NUCLEATUM USING IN VITRO MODELS BY EVALUATING ITS ABILITY TO INDUCE A PRO-INFLAMMATORY ENVIRONMENT AND MODULATE/SUBVERT CELLULAR SIGNALLING PATHWAYS. DEPT OF EDUCATION, GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA DEVELOPMENT OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE VACCINE ENTERPRISE IRELAND DEVELOPMENT OF A HELICOBACTER PYLORI VACCINE ENTERPRISE IRELAND POC CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. ALICE WITNEY witneyalice ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AWITNEY PHYSIOLOGY TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIOENGINEERING OUR RESEARCH USES EXPERIMENTAL METHODS TO EXAMINE MOVEMENT CONTROL USING BOTH HUMAN STUDIES AND, FOR MORE NATURALISTIC STUDIES, AND AN UNDERSTANDING OF SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION AT A NEURAL LEVEL: INSECT MODEL SYSTEMS. THE GENERAL AREAS OF INTEREST ARE: (1) THE ROLE OF SENSORY INPUT IN PRODUCING MOTOR OUTPUT ADAPTIVE TO THE CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT. (2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER LEVEL MOVEMENT GOALS FROM LOWER LEVEL SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION (3) DEVELOPMENT OF PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF MOVEMENT. DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 BRITISH NEUROSCIENCE ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF PAIN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR THE NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT AGE RELATED DISEASES AGEING, MEMORY AND OTHER COGNITIVE PROCESSES ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY BIOMECHANICS OF HUMAN MOVEMENT COMMUNITY HEALTH AND GENERAL PRACTICE COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL MODELS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES ECONOMICS OF HEALTH SERVICE PROVISION HEALTH ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR MEDICINE NEUROBIOLOGY NEUROPHYSIOLOGY NEUROPSYCHOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY STROKE REHABILITATION TRAUMATIC BRAIN OR SPINAL CORD INJURY, REGENERATION, TRANSPLANTATION NEUROSCIENCE AND CLINICAL NEUROLOGY THE INFLUENCE OF NEUROSTIMULATION ON MOVEMENT LATERALIZATION DURING OBJECT MANIPULATION THE PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP NON-INVASIVE NEUROMODULATION PROTOCOLS TO ENHANCE MOTOR LEARNING, PARTICULARLY IN BIMANUAL TASKS. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL IRCSET THE DEVELOPMENT OF NON-INVASIVE NEUROMODULATION TECHNIQUES FOR PAIN MODULATION THE PROJECT AIMS TO DEVELOP ROBUST AND NOVEL NEUROMODULATION PROTOCOLS USING TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION AND TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION TO MODULATE EXPERIMENTAL PAIN THRESHOLDS IN A HEALTHY ADULT POPULATION. TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN AGEING INCLUSIVE SOCIETY NEUROSCIENCE NEXT GENERATION MEDICAL DEVICES DR. BENJAMIN WOLD woldbenjamin ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WOLDB SCH OFFICE RELIGIONS THEOLOGY ECUMENICS SCHOOL OF RELIGIONS & THEOLOGY AND ECUMENICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH GERMAN GREEK, MODERN (1453-) ASSOCIATE EDITOR, DE GRUYTER OPEN BRITISH NEW TESTAMENT SOCIETY ENOCH SEMINAR EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF BIBLICAL STUDIES EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH STUDIES JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE PSEUDEPIGRAPHA (EDITORIAL BOARD) SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL STUDIES (SBL) EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GRECO ROMAN ANTIQUITY GALILEE IN HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN TIMES JEWISH IDENTITY IN THE HELLENISTIC WORLD JEWISH STUDIES SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MR. TREVOR WOODS woodstrevor TECHNICAL OFFICER WOODST PHARMACY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES PANOZ INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 SOCIETY OF PLASTICS ENGINEERS CARBON NANOSTRUCTURES CERAMIC MATERIALS AND POWDERS COMPOSITE MATERIALS LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT, ANALYSIS MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING NANOTECHNOLOGY NANOTUBES PLASTICS POLYMERS SPECTROSCOPY TEXTILES TECHNOLOGY THERMODYNAMICS DESGYN IT ARC DISCHARGE OPERATION/OPTIMISATION FOR PRODUCTION OF SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES. STREP - EUROPEAN FUNDED PROJECT EUROPEAN FUNDED RESEARCH OROJECT PET/NANOCLAY COMPOSITES FOR SPUN FIBRE APPLICATIONS. PET/NANOCLAY COMPOSITES FOR SPUN FIBRE APPLICATIONS. MELT BLENDED NANOCLAY PET COMPOSITES WERE RESEARCHED FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THERMAL, PROCESSING AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SMART MATERIALS FOR HEATER APPLICATIONS POLYETHYLENE/PVC ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SMART MATERIALS FOR HEATER APPLICATIONS. PVC AND POLYETHYLENE COMPOSITES WERE PREPARED BY MELT BLENDING WITH VARIOUS ADDITIVES FOR HEATER APPLICATIONS. TESTING INCLUDED NEGATIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT ELECTRICAL PROPERTY ADJUSTMENT AND IMPROVEMENTS IN MECHANICAL, THERMAL PROPERTIES. ENTERPRISE IRELAND INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP DR. ZELALEM WORKU workuzelalem RESEARCH FELLOW WORKUZ PHARMACY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY PANOZ INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 MS. MAEV-ANN WREN wrenmaevann ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MWREN ECONOMICS HEALTH POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ROOM 0.21 3-4 FOSTER PLACE DUBLIN 2 01-8961000 DR. MICHAEL WRIDE wridemichael ACADEMIC DEVELOPER WRIDEM ACADEMIC SECRETARIAT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN ACADEMIC PRACTICE CREATIVITY AND THE CURRICULUM ACTIVE LEARNING PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION GOETHEAN SCIENCE CAPSL ROOM 2.06/2.09 3-4 FOSTER PLACE COLLEGE 01-8961000 HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY, U.K. THE ROLE OF INHIBITORS OF APOPTOSIS (IAPS) DURING CHICK RETINAL GANGLION CELL (RGC) DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERISATION OF THE SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERN OF EXPRESSION OF INHIBITORS OF APOPTOSIS (IAPS) DURING RETINAL GANGLION CELL (RGC) DEVELOPMENT. CHARACTERISATION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF SELECTED IAPS IN RGC DEVELOPMENT USING IN VITRO MODELS OF RGC DIFFERENTIATION. THE GOVERNMENT OF SAUDI ARABIA OCULAR DEVELOPMENT AND NEUROBIOLOGY THE ROLE OF HOMEOBOX GENES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ZEBRAFISH ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MOLECULAR GENETIC BASIS OF HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISEASE NORMAL INTESTINAL MOTILITY REQUIRES COORDINATED INTERACTION OF THE ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (ENS), SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS AND INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF CAJAL (ICCS). THE ENS IS A NETWORK OF NERVE CELLS AND GLIA THAT LIES WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS OF THE ENS CAN RESULT IN LIFE THREATENING INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION AT BIRTH. HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISEASE (HSCR, AGANGLIONIC MEGACOLON) IS THE COMMONEST, OCCURRING IN 1 IN 5000 LIVE BIRTHS. THE PRIMARY PATHOLOGY OF HSCR IS AN ABSENCE OF GANGLION CELLS IN THE DISTAL GUT WHICH LEADS TO INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION, RESULTING IN CONSIDERABLE MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY. DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENS REQUIRES A NUMBER OF DISTINCT STEPS THAT INCLUDE NEURAL CREST CELL MIGRATION, COLONIZATION OF THE GUT, PROLIFERATION, AND DIFFERENTIATION INTO NEURONAL AND GLIAL PHENOTYPES. DURING THE PAST 15 YEARS, THERE HAS BEEN AN EXPLOSION OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE GENES THAT CONTROL THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENS. THE HOMEOBOX (HOX) GENES ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT IN DEVELOPMENT BEING INVOLVED IN PATTERNING THE EARLY EMBRYO. IN DROSOPHILA, HOX GENES HAVE BEEN SHOWN BY BOTH MOLECULAR AND GENETIC ANALYSES TO REGULATE MAJOR EVENTS IN PATTERNING AND SPECIFICATION DURING DEVELOPMENT. HERE WE WILL USE ZEBRAFISH AS A MODEL SYSTEM TO INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF HOMEOBOX GENES IN ENS DEVELOPMENT. THE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTRE, OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CRUMLIN, DUBLIN NEUROBIOLOGY ENRICHING UNDERGRADUATE PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES THROUGH TRANSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN AND COLLABORATIVE ENQUIRY THIS PROJECT AIMS TO ENRICH ACADEMIC PRACTICES ACROSS THE FULL ACADEMIC LIFE CYCLE, FROM UNDERGRADUATES TO PROFESSORS, BY RESURRECTING THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE WORD UNIVERSITY: FROM MEDIEVAL LATIN UNIVERSITATEM, "THE WHOLE, AGGREGATE," IN LATE LATIN "CORPORATION, SOCIETY," FROM UNIVERSUS "WHOLE, ENTIRE". WE PROPOSE A PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT AIMED AT "FOSTERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STUDENTS, FACULTY AND ALUMNI, AND HARNESSING THIS COLLECTIVE EXPERTISE FOR THE BENEFIT OF STUDENTS"*, THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MODULE AND BEST PRACTICES IN TRANSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN AND COLLABORATIVE ENQUIRY THAT TRANSCENDS DISCIPLINES AND CONTRIBUTES TOWARDS OVERCOMING FRAGMENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE, THEREBY FOSTERING AND SUPPORTING CREATIVITY, INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL RESPONSIBILITY. CAPSL MICRORNAS AS BIOMARKERS IN HUMAN AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION THE GOVERNMENT OF LIBYA, CULTURAL COMMISSION, LONDON, UK. AND IRC PROFESSOR BARBARA WRIGHT wrightbarbara FELLOW EMERITUS BWRIGHT FRENCH DEPT. OF FRENCH 4112 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES DR. MICHAEL WYCHERLEY wycherleymichael ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WYCHERLM ECONOMICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES MACROECONOMICS, LONG RUN GROWTH, ECONOMIC POLICY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL, PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS (CO-EDITOR) DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS INNOVATION AND GROWTH INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, FINANCE, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT MACROECONOMICS, OPEN ECONOMY, INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION MAKING IRELAND DR. GILLIAN WYLIE wyliegillian ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WYLIEG IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION STUDIES (1) TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ACROSS EUROPE. TO DATE I HAVE EXPLORED THE ETHICS SURROUNDING DOING RESEARCH ON TRAFFICKING; FEMINIST DEBATES ABOUT TRAFFICKING AND GLOBAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORKS AS WELL AS UNDERTAKING EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON THE EXTENT AND NATURE OF TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION INTO IRELAND. (2) TRAFFICKING FOR FORCED LABOUR. I WAS INVOLVED IN AN ESF STUDY INTO TRAFFICKING FOR FORCED LABOUR IN EUROPE, INVOLVING BOTH EMPIRICAL, ANALYTICAL AND NORMATIVE WORK. (3) GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY. RESEARCH INTO THE EMPIRICAL REALITY AND ETHICAL POSSIBILITIES OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY THROUGH STUDIES OF TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM, FOCUSING IN PARTICULAR ON PAN-EUROPEAN PEACE MOVEMENTS AND GLOBAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORKS. IRISH SCHOOL OF ECUMENICS ISE & LOYOLA INSTITUTE BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 GERMAN EDITORAL BOARD MEMBER AND REVIEWER FOR JOURNAL OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING (TAYLOR AND FRANCIS) MEMBER OF CONFLICT RESEARCH SOCIETY MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD - QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST RESEARCH PROJECT COMMISSIONED BY DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (NI) INTO PROSTITUTION IN NORTHERN IRELAND MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD FOR RESEARCH INTO PRESBYTERIANS RESPONSE TO THE TROUBLES (QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST) MEMBER OF POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF CHRISTIAN AID IRELAND AND MEMBER OF ADVISORY GROUP ON STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE - TACKLING VIOLENCE BUILDING PEACE MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE JESUIT PUBLICATION STUDIES: AN IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW MEMBER OF TROCAIRE PROJECT REVIEW COMMITTEE REPRESENTING TCD ON COIMBRA GROUP COMMITTEE ON UNIVERSITY RESPONSES TO THE REFUGEE CRISIS CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY GLOBALISATION HUMAN TRAFFICKING MIGRATION SEX TRAFFICKING TRAFFICKING UN1325 WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY SOCIAL SCIENCES, ECONOMICS, LAW & BUSINESS POLITICAL SCIENCE SOCIAL JUSTICE 'TRAFFICKING FOR FORCED LABOUR: THE IRISH CASE' THIS PROJECT WAS PART OF A SIX COUNTRY STUDY ON 'TRAFFICKING IN INDUSTRIES OTHER THAN THE SEX INDUSTRY ACROSS EUROPE'. IT INVOLVED EMPIRICAL RESEARCH INTO THE EXTENT OF LABOUR TRAFFICKING IN IRELAND AND ANALYSIS OF THE ROOT CAUSES OF MIGRANT WORKER EXPLOITATION AND ANALYSIS OF POLICY RESPONSES. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ESF EUROCORES DESIGNING GBV PROGRAMMING IN FRAGILE STATES AND CONTEXTS AFFECTED BY VIOLENCE THIS PROJECT IS A COLLABORATION WITH CHRISTIAN AID IRELAND TO RESEARCH BEST PRACTICE PROGRAMMING IN RESPONDING TO GENDER BASED VIOLENCE. IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW FOUNDATIONS PROGRAMME IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION DR. JASON WYSE wysejason ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WYSEJA STATISTICS COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS, MODEL EVALUATION AND SELECTION, SPATIAL STATISTICS, SIMULATION BASED INFERENCE, BIG DATA, APPLIED BAYESIAN ANALYSIS, CHANGEPOINT MODELS, ANALYSIS OF SEQUENTIAL DATA DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS LLOYD BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 DR. PATRICK WYSE JACKSON wysejacksonpatrick ASSOC PROF & CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM WYSJCKNP GEOLOGY TRINITY CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH PALAEONTOLOGY; PALAEOZOIC BRYOZOANS; RECENT BRYOZOANS; HISTORY OF GEOLOGY; HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN IRELAND; BUILDING STONES AND MATERIALS. MY RESEARCH AREA HAS FOCUSED ON BRYOZOANS THAT RANGE IN AGE FROM THE ORDOVICIAN TO THE RECENT, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON MISSISSIPPIAN FAUNAS. I AM MOST INTERESTED IN THE SYSTEMATICS AND TAXONOMY OF THE GROUP AS WELL AS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEIR SKELETAL STRUCTURE AND THE BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF SUCH ELEMENTS. RECENT STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EPIBIONTIC BRYOZOANS AND CEPHALOPODS, AND BORING ORGANISMS ASSOCIATED WITH BRYOZOAN HOSTS. CURRENTLY I AM ENGAGED IN DETERMINING THE GROWTH RATES OF ORDOVICIAN BRYOZOAN COLONIES TO USE AS PROXIES FOR CLIMATIC CHANGE AT VARIOUS TIMES IN THE GEOLOGICAL PAST. IN ADDITION TO BRYOZOOLOGICAL STUDIES, I AM INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF GEOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PARTICULARLY IN BIOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS OF IRISH SCIENTISTS. I AM CURRENTLY WORKING TOWARDS AN IN-DEPTH ASSESSMENT OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE GEOPHYSICIST JOHN JOLY (1857-1933). DEPT OF GEOLOGY MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH DUBLIN NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB HISTORY OF EARTH SCIENCES SOCIETY HISTORY OF GEOLOGY GROUP, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY DUBLIN NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB HON. SECRETARY 1988-1991; VICE PRESIDENT 1994-1995; PRESIDENT 1992-1993; COMMITTEE MEMBER/DIRECTOR 1988-1995, 2005-2006 EARTH SCIENCES HISTORY, EDITOR 2005-2007; ASSOCIATE EDITOR 2008-DATE EDITOR 'THE GEOLOGICAL CURATOR', GEOLOGICAL CURATORS' GROUP EXTERNAL PH.D. REVIEWER: UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM AND UNIVERSITY OF READING. GEOLOGICAL CURATORS' GROUP GEOLOGICAL CURATORS' GROUP, CHAIRMAN HISTORY OF GEOLOGY GROUP, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, COMMITTEE MEMBER HISTORY OF THE EARTH SCIENCES SOCIETY (U.S.A.) COUNCILOR-AT-LARGE INTERNATIONAL BRYOZOOLOGY ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL BRYOZOOLOGY ASSOCIATION COUNCIL MEMBER 1992-DATE; CONFERENCE VOLUME FACILITATOR 2001-DATE; PRESIDENT-ELECT 2010-2013; PRESIDENT 2013 INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE HISTORY OF GEOLOGY (INHIGEO) IRISH GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION SECRETARY 1989-1990; VICE PRESIDENT 1994; PRESIDENT 1995-1996 IRISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, EDITOR IRISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, EDITORIAL BOARD JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, USA, ASSOCIATE EDITOR NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, MEMBER NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR GEOLOGY, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER 1996-1999; 2003-2004 NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN IRELAND, ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY MEMBER 1996-2012; CHAIR 2005-2009 PALAEONTOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HISTORY REPRESENTATIVE FOR IRELAND BUILDING STONES CARBONIFEROUS, DEVONIAN AND ORDOVICIAN GEOLOGY OF IRELAND EARTH SCIENCE FOSSIL AND LIVING BRYOZOANS GEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS GEOLOGY FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC HISTORY OF GEOLOGY PALEONTOLOGY, PALEOECOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE BIODIVERSITY PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES OTHER BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MATERIALS SCIENCE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY GEOSCHOL - GEOLOGY FOR SCHOOLS IN IRELAND THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE OUTREACH MATERIALS TO SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE AN AWARENESS OF IRELAND'S GEOLOGICAL HERITAGE. GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND (€120,000) GRIFFITH AWARDS PALAEOZOIC BRYOZOANS OF IRELAND, BRITAIN AND EUROPE NONE REVISION OF BRYOZOA, PART G, TREATISE ON INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY: FENESTRATA UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS THE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN JOLY JOHN JOLY (1857-1933), PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY, TCD, WAS A SKILLFUL PHOTOGRAPHER WHO INVENTED A METHOD OF COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY. HE LEFT A LARGE COLLECTION OF B/W GLASS NEGATIVES AND THESE WILL BE SCAANNED AND ARCHIVALLY STORED. THE HERITAGE COUNCIL MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES AWARD SCHEME MAKING VICTORIAN DUBLIN IRISH RESEARCH COUNCIL NEW HORIZONS CREATIVE ARTS PRACTICE MAKING IRELAND MANUSCRIPT, BOOK AND PRINT CULTURES SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. LIWEN XIAO xiaoliwen ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LXIAO CIVIL STRUCT & ENV. ENG. I HAVE DEVOTED MYSELF TO RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN THE AREAS OF ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION OF IMPACT OF LAND USE ON WATER QUALITY AND ECOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT OF WATER AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES IN THE LAST 10 YEARS. DEPT OF CIVIL, STRUCTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING MUSEUM BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHINESE ENGLISH MIEI, CHARTERED ENGINEER, ENGINEERS IRELAND AGRI ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FIBRE OPTICAL SENSORS FRESH WATER POLLUTION FRESHWATER ECOLOGY GROUND, SURFACE WATER HYDROLOGY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WATER QUALITY WATER RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS WATER-TREATMENT WIND ENERGY, GENERAL WATER QUALITY AND THE AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT WASTE, RESOURCE, MANAGEMENT & CHEMICALS FORESTRY NANO-TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT OF NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER (NOM) AND PTAQUILOSIDE IN IRISH WATERS THE AIM OF THE PROPOSED STUDY IS TO QUANTIFY MORE ACCURATELY THE RISK OF NOM INCLUDING NATURALLY-OCCURRING (ORGANIC) TOXINS SUCH AS PTAQUILOSIDE FROM BRACKEN TO SURFACE WATER AND GROUNDWATER SUPPLIES IN IRELAND. THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE KNOWLEDGE ON NOM AND PTAQUILOSIDE IN IRISH WATERS. (PROJECT PI, TCD/NUIG) EPA STRIVE USING NANOTECHNOLOGY TO TREAT WASTEWATER FROM OFFSHORE OIL & GAS INDUSTRY - A FEASIBILITY STUDY THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF EMPLOYING NANOMATERIAL TO REMOVE DISSOLVED HYDROCARBONS AND HEAVY METALS FROM OFFSHORE OIL/GAS INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER IN IRELAND.(PROJECT PI) THE IRISH PETROLEUM INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMME (PIP) IRISH SHELF PETROLEUM STUDY GROUP (ISPSG) HIGH SENSITIVITY OPTICAL CHEMICAL SENSOR FOR WATER QUALITY MONITORING THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY OF EMPLOYING A LOW COST, FAST RESPONSE, HIGH SENSITIVITY FIBRE BASED STRUCTURE FOR CHEMICAL SENSOR, PARTICULARLY FOR THE APPLICATION OF WATER QUALITY MONITORING WHICH IS ESSENTIAL FOR WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND WATER QUALITY CONTROL. (PROJECT COLLABORATOR, DIT/TCD) SFI TIDA DEVELOPMENT OF A WATER USE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR THE DAIRY PROCESSING INDUSTRY THIS PROJECT AIMS TO IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES, WHICH WILL TREAT DAIRY WASTE AND REDUCE WATER USAGE IN THE DAIRY PROCESSING SECTOR. TCD RESEARCH TEAM WILL INVESTIGATE THE TREATMENT OF DAIRY WASTEWATER BY USING NANOTECHNOLOGIES.(PI OF THE TCD PROJECT TEAM, NUIG/UCC/TCD/AIT/TEAGASC) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE FIRM/RSF/COFORD BIOMASS AND RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM SHORT ROTATION FORESTRY THIS RESEARCH PROJECT AIMS TO EXPLORE THE POTENTIAL OF SHORT ROTATION FORESTRY (SRF) TO CONTRIBUTE TO BIOMASS PRODUCTION AND RENEWABLE ENERGY TARGETS IN IRELAND. (PI OF THE TCD PROJECT TEAM, UCD/TEAGASC/WIT/TCD/UL/COILLTE) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE FIRM/RSF/COFORD ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION OF GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, CARBON AND NUTRIENT LOSSES FROM WIND FARM CONSTRUCTION ON PEATLAND THE 2009 RENEWABLE ENERGY DIRECTIVE (2009/28/EC) SET THE TARGET OF 20% FOR ALL ENERGY COMING FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES IN THE EU BY 2020. IN ORDER TO MEET THIS TARGET, THE IRISH GOVERNMENT HAS PROPOSED THAT 40% OF THE GROSS ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION WILL COME FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES BY 2020, MAINLY FROM WIND ENERGY, WHICH IS ABUNDANT THROUGHOUT IRELAND (IWEA, 2012). THE IRISH WIND ENERGY INDUSTRY HAS DEVELOPED VERY SIGNIFICANTLY IN THE LAST TWO DECADES AND ITS INSTALLED CAPACITY HAS INCREASED FROM 16.5 MW IN 1994 TO 1,500 MW IN 2011 (IWEA, 2012). AN ADDITIONAL 3,100 MW FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES WILL BE REQUIRED TO MEET THE 2020 TARGET (SEAI, 2010). DUE TO THEIR SUITABLE LOCATIONS AND HIGH WIND ENERGY CHARACTERISTICS, UPLAND PEAT SITES WILL BE CHOSEN FOR WIND FARM CONSTRUCTION TO SATISFY THE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT ARE TO: (1) ESTABLISH A DATABASE ON CLIMATE CHANGE PARAMETERS FOR EXISTING WIND FARMS CONSTRUCTED ON PEATLAND IN THE WEST OF IRELAND; (2) EXAMINE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IMPLEMENTED FOR ESTABLISHED PEATLAND WIND FARMS ON GHG EMISSION, CARBON AND NUTRIENT RELEASE CONTROLS BASED ON THE DATA SET ESTABLISHED; (3) VERIFY CARBON LOSS MODELS FOR USE IN IRISH CONDITIONS BASED ON THE DATA SET ESTABLISHED; (PROJECT PI) SEAI RENEWABLE ENERGY RD&D PROGRAMME ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION OF SOIL AND NUTRIENT LOSSES FROM ACID-SENSITIVE FOREST CATCHMENTS THIS STUDY'S OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABILITY GUIDELINES FOR THE CLEARFELL-SIZING AND HARVESTING MANAGEMENT OF FOREST COUPES WITHIN ACID-SENSITIVE CATCHMENTS SO THAT LOSSES FROM FORESTRY ACTIVITIES ARE REDUCED SUFFICIENTLY BY DILUTION OR BUFFER ZONES IN ORDER NOT TO ADVERSELY AFFECT THE BIOTA IN PRODUCTIVE SALMONID RECEIVING WATERS. THE GUIDELINES WILL BE BASED ON: COMPREHENSIVE PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE FIELD AND LABORATORY; AND SYNTHESES OF FLUXES OF WATER, SOIL AND NUTRIENT INPUTS, UPTAKES/RELEASES AND OUTPUTS. THE FIELD STUDY WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN THREE ACID-SENSITIVE WELL-DEFINED MICROCATCHMENTS IN THE COILLTE FOREST, BURRISHOOLE, CO. MAYO. (PROJECT COORDINATOR) THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE RESEARCH STIMULUS FUND PROGRAMME FLEXISAM: AN AUTOMATED FLUID SAMPLER (INCORPORATING A NOVEL MODULAR DESIGN AND STACKABLE STORAGE BOTTLE UNIT WITH SAMPLE FIXING CAPABILITIES FOR SUBSEQUENT LABORATORY ANALYSIS) COMMERCIAL FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A NOVEL AUTOMATED FLUID SAMPLER (PROJECT PI) ENTERPRISE IRELAND COMMERCIALISATION FUND PROGRAMME FORSITE CRITICAL BIOMASS REMOVAL ON IRISH FOREST SOILS THE RECENT EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE ON THE PROMOTION OF ENERGY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES SETS A MANDATORY TARGET OF 20% OF ENERGY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES BY 2020. THIS NEED IS DRIVING BIOENERGY USE FROM FORESTS. HOWEVER, CONCERNS EXIST ABOUT THE EFFECTS OF BRASH REMOVAL ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS. IN THIS PROJECT, A NEW CONCEPT IS INTRODUCED, OF CRITICAL BIOMASS REMOVAL, WHICH IS THE QUANTITATIVE AMOUNT OF LONG-TERM BIOMASS REMOVAL BELOW WHICH IMPACTS TO NUTRIENT SUPPLY WILL NOT OCCUR ACCORDING TO CURRENT KNOWLEDGE. (PI OF THE TCD PROJECT TEAM, UCD/TCD/UL/TEAGASC/COILLTE) DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE FIRM/RSF/COFORD A FRAMEWORK FOR THE RESTORATION OF DEGRADED PEATLANDS (WP LEADER) EPA STRIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR MONITORING, DETECTING AND TREATING OVERFLOWS FROM URBAN WASTEWATER NETWORKS (PROJECT PI) EPA STRIVE INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES, IMPACTS AND MEASURES TO DEAL WITH ALGAL BLOOMS IN VARTRY RESERVOIRS (PROJECT PI) EPA STRIVE IMPROVEMENT AND APPLICATION OF MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS CHINA SCHOLARSHIP COUNCIL / SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING PHD SCHOLARSHIP THE CAUSE OF DIATOM ALGAL BLOOM IN LAKES CHINA SCHOLARSHIP COUNCIL / SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING PHD SCHOLARSHIP SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. IRENA YANUSHEVSKAYA yanushevskayairena RESEARCH FELLOW YANUSHI C.L.C.S. I AM AN EXPERT PHONETICIAN WITH MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN SPEECH RESEARCH. MY RESEARCH PRIMARILY CONCERNS THE ROLE OF THE VOICE SOURCE IN SPEECH COMMUNICATION, IN PARTICULAR VOICE SOURCE DYNAMICS IN THE SIGNALLING OF LINGUISTIC PROSODY (E.G., PROMINENCE) AND EMOTION AND AFFECT. I AM AN EXPERT IN THE PROSODIC ANALYSIS OF SPEECH AND SPEECH ACOUSTICS. I HAVE WORKED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ROBUST TOOLS FOR VOICE ANALYSIS. I HAVE A STRONG INTEREST IN STUDYING PROSODIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SPEECH OF INDIVIDUALS WITH NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS. C.L.C.S ROOM 4091 ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 RUSSIAN SPANISH; CASTILIAN ENGLISH FRENCH INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ASSOCIATION ISCA - INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE OTHER HUMANITIES HUMAINE HUMAN-MACHINE INTERACTION NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE ON EMOTION, EU NETWORK OF EXCELLENCE CNGL CENTRE FOR NEXT GENERATION LOCALISATION WWW.CNGL.IE FASTNET FOCUS ON ACTIONS IN SOCIAL TALK: NETWORK-ENABLING TECHNOLOGY HTTP://WWW.TCD.IE/SLSCS/RESEARCH/PROJECTS/CURRENT/FASTNET.PHP INTELLIGENT CONTENT & COMMUNICATIONS SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. SHUO YIN yinshuo RESEARCH FELLOW YINS MECHANICAL & MANUF. ENG COLD SPRAYING, SELECTIVE LASER MELTING, PLASMA SPRAYING, NUMERICAL MODELING DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PARSONS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHINESE ENGLISH DR. ABDUL ZAHEER zaheerabdul VISITING RESEARCH FELLOW ZAHEERAB CLINICAL MEDICINE DEPARTMENT OF CLINICAL MEDICINE TRINITY CENTRE ST. JAMES'S HOSPITAL DUBLIN 8 01-8961000 DR. DMITRI ZAITSEV zaitsevdmitri ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ZAITSEVD PURE & APPLIED MATHEMATICS HAMILTON MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE COMPLEX ANALYSIS AND GEOMETRY, SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES, CR GEOMETRY SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS HAMILTON BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ITALIAN RUSSIAN ENGLISH FRENCH GERMAN EXTERNAL EXAMINER FOR PHD OF RAFFAELLA MASCOLO AT PADUA UNIVERSITY, 2008. IRISH MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY COMPLEX ANALYSIS AND GEOMETRY CR GEOMETRY DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY SEVERAL COMPLEX VARIABLES PHYSICS MATHEMATICS GEOMETRY OF REAL SUBMANIFOLDS IN COMPLEX SPACES THIS PROJECT IS THE CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS SAME NAMED PROJECT SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS GEOMETRY OF REAL SUBMANIFOLDS IN COMPLEX SPACES IT IS WELL-KNOWN THAT ANY SURFACE IN THE EUCLIDEAN SPACE CAN BE LOCALLY TRANSFORMED INTO A PLANE BY A SUITABLY CHOSEN DIFFERENTIABLE COORDINATE CHANGE. HOWEVER, THIS IS NO MORE TRUE IF THE COORDINATES ARE COMPLEX AND THE COORDINATE CHANGE IS HOLOMORPHIC, I.E. "DIFFERENTIABLE" IN THE COMPLEX SENSE. IN FACT, IT IS AN OLD AND STILL UNSOLVED PROBLEM TO DECIDE, WHICH SURFACES CAN BE TRANSFORMED INTO EACH OTHER BY SUCH A COORDINATE CHANGE. A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PROBLEM IS THE SUBJECT OF MY PROJECT. ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION OF NORMAL FORMS, I.E. FINDING NATURAL DISTINGUISHED COORDINATES, IN WHICH THE SURFACES CAN BE COMPARED EXPLICITLY; COMPARISON OF VARIOUS NATURAL EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS FOR SURFACES - UNDER COORDINATE CHANGES GIVEN BY FORMAL POWER SERIES AND EQUIVALENCES AT THE LEVEL OF LOWER ORDER TERMS OF ANY ORDER. SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND RESEARCH FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DR. LINA ZGAGA zgagalina ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ZGAGAL PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON THE GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN CANCER PREVENTION AND SURVIVAL, THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THESE FACTORS FOR FACILITATING PERSONALIZED TREATMENT AND PREVENTION (IN PARTICULAR REGARDING VITAMIN D), GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES, AND COMMON PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES, INCLUDING CHILDREN'S HEALTH, OBESITY, AND BREASTFEEDING. VITAMIN D AND PRESCRIBING SUNSHINE I HAVE A DEEP INTEREST IN VITAMIN D RESEARCH AND IMPROVING PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGES REGARDING CANCER AND SUNSHINE EXPOSURE. . COLLABORATED WITH EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA) TO GATHER SATELLITE DATA ON UV RADIATION, AND DEVELOPED METHODS TO INCLUDE THIS DATA IN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES, CALCULATING EXACT AMBIENT UVB AT THE PLACE OF RESIDENCE OF STUDY PARTICIPANTS . CURRENTLY WORKING ON ALIGNING ESA UVB RADIATION DATA WITH MULTIPLE LARGE EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES INCLUDING UK BIOBANK (500,000 PARTICIPANTS). THIS WILL DIRECTLY INFORM INTENSELY-DEBATED GLOBAL ISSUES: ESTABLISHING OPTIMAL VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION, AND THE CUT-OFF DEFINING VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY . INITIATED A PROJECT WITH NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY OF IRELAND INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF UVB RADIATION ON COLORECTAL CANCER (CRC) SURVIVAL. LINKED WITH BREAST-PREDICT TO INCLUDE BREAST CANCER PATIENTS I AIM TO DEVELOP A PERSONALIZED "SUNSHINE PRESCRIPTION" ALGORITHM OPTIMIZING VITAMIN D STATUS THROUGH CONTROLLED SUN EXPOSURE, WHILE MINIMIZING SKIN CANCER RISK. GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION (GXEI) IN CANCER OCCURRENCE AND SURVIVAL GXEI EXISTS WHEN INDIVIDUALS WITH DIFFERENT GENOTYPES ARE AFFECTED BY THE SAME ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTORS IN DIFFERENT WAYS. IN MY RECENT GXEI WORK, I HAVE FOCUSED ON VITAMIN D AS AN INTERACTING ENVIRONMENTAL RISK FACTOR. I HAVE PUBLISHED LANDMARK RESEARCH ON THE GXE INTERACTION BETWEEN VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY AND VITAMIN D RECEPTOR MUTATIONS ON COLORECTAL CANCER SURVIVAL. I AM EXPANDING THIS WORK FURTHER THROUGH: . LEADING A PROJECT INVESTIGATING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN GENETIC VARIANTS LINKED WITH COLORECTAL CANCER OCCURRENCE AND VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY IN A LARGE STUDY OF OVER 7,000 CASE-CONTROL PAIRS . AN ACTIVE GRANT FOR INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY, GENES AND THEIR INTERACTION ON UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL (UGI) CANCER RISK AND SURVIVAL USING TRINITY'S COHORT OF UGI PATIENTS (ESTABLISHED BY PROFS REYNOLDS AND O'SULLIVAN) . PI ON UKBIOBANK PROJECT (12653) EXAMINING GXEI ON UGI CANCER RISK AND SURVIVAL GENE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION ENABLES EXCEPTIONAL INSIGHT INTO DISEASE CAUSATION. IN THE COMING YEARS THIS RESEARCH WILL PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONALISED MEDICAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND DISEASE PREVENTION. GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES TO DATE, I HAVE CONDUCTED ANALYSIS FOR OVER 10 HIGH IMPACT GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES (GWAS). MY CURRENT PROJECTS INCLUDE: . IDENTIFICATION OF GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY TO COLORECTAL CANCER, INCLUDING EXOME ANALYSIS AND NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING. COLLABORATOR ON CRUK PROGRAM GRANT "INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS IN COLORECTAL CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY" (3.1M GBP). . CO-INVESTIGATOR ON A UKBIOBANK PROJECT (7441), CONDUCTING A GWAS ON COLORECTAL CANCER (CRC) SURVIVAL. THIS RESEARCH CAN BE TRANSLATED IN MORE EFFECTIVE CANCER SCREENING PROGRAMS AND BETTER PREVENTION POLICIES, IMPROVING PROGNOSIS IN HIGH-RISK GROUPS. COMMON PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES I TAKE A KEEN INTEREST IN RESEARCH ON IMPACTFUL PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES. MANY OF THESE WILL BE EXPLORED THROUGH THE GROWING UP IN IRELAND STUDY IN THE COMING YEARS. MY RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORK (2015-2017) AND CURRENT GENERAL RESEARCH INCLUDES: . ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SHORT SLEEP DURATION AND OVERWEIGHT/OBESITY . GENETIC ASSOCIATIONS WITH INSULIN, BMI AND OBESITY . DESCRIBING FACTORS AFFECTING WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN IN IRELAND . RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FLUORIDE AND COGNITION . FACTORS AFFECTING BREASTFEEDING, AND EFFECTS OF BREASTFEEDING ON INFANT TEMPERAMENT . GENETICS OF SMOKING BEHAVIOR AND LUNG FUNCTION . USING ACCELEROMETERS TO MEASURE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND MOVEMENT PUBLIC HEALTH & PRIMARY CARE TRINITY CENTRE TALLAGHT HOSPITAL DUBLIN 24 01-8961000 ITALIAN CROATIAN ENGLISH GERMAN COST ACTION BM1206 COOPERATION STUDIES ON INHERITED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO COLORECTAL CANCER, MC MEMBER CROATIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, ENDOCRINE ONCOLOGY AND METABOLISM JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER, JOURNAL OF GLOBAL HEALTH GROWING UP IN IRELAND MANAGEMENT TEAM MEMBER MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY GROUP, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH TRINITY ACADEMIC GASTROENTEROLOGY GROUP WRITING GROUP OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE 1,25-DIHYDROXYVITAMIN-D 25-HYDROXYVITAMIN-D CONCENTRATIONS CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE COLORECTAL CANCER CORTISOL PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS SURVIVAL ANALYSIS VITAMIN D VITAMIN-D DEFICIENCY VITAMIN-D STATUS VITAMIN-D SUPPLEMENTATION MEDICAL, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY NUTRITION & DIETETICS (INCLUDING FOOD AND HEALTH AND DIABETES) GENETICS AND GENOMICS POPULATION HEALTH, PUBLIC & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AGEING CANCER GENES & SOCIETY IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY DR. MIMI ZHANG zhangmimi ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ZHANGM3 STATISTICS . STOCHASTIC MODELLING . MARKOV DECISION PROCESS . MULTIVARIATE MODELLING . DATA MINING SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & STATISTICS O'REILLY INSTITUTE COLLEGE 01-8961000 INDUSTRIAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT DR. HONGZHOU ZHANG zhanghongzhou ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HOZHANG PHYSICS CRANN OUR PRIMARY RESEARCH AT TRINITY FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING AND UTILIZING ULTRAMICROSCOPY METHODOLOGIES SUCH AS HELION-ION MICROSCOPY AND ELECTRON MICRSCOPY. SPECIFICALLY, OUR CURRENT RESEARCH INCLUDES ELECTRON/HELIUM ION DIFFRACTION AND IMAGING, STRUCTURAL DEFECTS OF MAGNETIC AND ELECTRONIC MATERIALS(E.G., INTERFACES, DOMAIN/GRAIN BOUNDARIES, STACKING FAULTS,...), IN-SITU MICROSCOPY, AND E-BEAM/ION BEAM ETCHING/DEPOSITOIN/LITHOGRAPHY. THE MAJOR OBJECT IS TO FURTHER UNDERSTAND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ELECTRON/HELIUM ION BEAM WITH MATERIALS AND THUS TO DEVELOP METHODOLOGIES FOR MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MANIPULATION. OUR RESEARCH ALSO INCLUDES THE STUDY OF THE GROWTH-STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIP OF NANOSTRUCTURES BY EMPLOYING ULTRAMICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES. THIS COVERS THE SYNTHESIS OF NANOSCALED CRYSTALS, ADVANCED NANOSCALE COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE ANALYSIS (SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY, AND ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY ETC.), LUMINESCENCE OF NANOSTRUCTURES, AND FIELD EMISSION OF NANOSTRUCTURES. WE HAVE A SPECIAL INTEREST IN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DOPING OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOMATERIALS, IN-SITU OBSERVATION OF DOPANT MIGRATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR FABRICATION AND APPLICATION OF NOVEL NANODEVICES. SCHOOL OF PHYSICS PHYSICS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 CHINESE ENGLISH AMERICAN VACUUM SOCIETY <BR> AMERICAN MICROSCOPY SOCIETY <BR> MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND <BR> INSITUTE OF PHYSICS APPLIED PHYSICS CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY ELECTRON MICROSCOPY MATERIALS SCIENCES MICROSCOPY NANOTECHNOLOGY SOLID STATE PHYSICS SURFACE PHYSICS ULTRAFINE MICROSTRUCTURE PHOTONICS, SENSING AND IMAGING NANO-TECHNOLOGY PHYSICS MATERIALS SCIENCE HELIUM ION MICROSCOPY FOR GRAPHENE DEVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION IRELAND PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR CANCER NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS NEUROSCIENCE DR. JESKO ROBERT GERRIT ZIMMERMANN zimmermannjeskorobertgerrit RESEARCH FELLOW JZIMMERM BOTANY DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY BOTANY BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH GERMAN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND (ESAI) EUROPEAN GEOSCIENCES UNION (EGU) ENVIRONMENT (INCL.) CLIMATE CHANGE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INCLUDING MARINE BIODIVERSITY PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND GEOSCIENCES CLIMATE RESEARCH INCLUDING MARINE CLIMATE CHANGE & OCEANOGRAPHY BIOMASS AGRICULTURE AGRI-ENVIRONMENT - NUTRIENTS, BIODIVERSITY, GASEOUS EMISSIONS, OTHER SOILS AND LAND USE IDENTIFICATION OF GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT AND LAND-USE CHANGE USING HIGH RESOLUTION SPATIAL DATABASES GRASSLANDS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED TO BE AN IMPORTANT PART IN IRELAND'S NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS BUDGET. RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT THEY CAN ACT BOTH AS CARBON SOURCE OR SINK, DEPENDING ON MANAGEMENT PRACTICES. ALSO THE TRAJECTORY OF LAND-USE CHANGE TO AND FROM GRASSLAND HAS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON CARBON STOCKS ASSOCIATED WITH GRASSLANDS. CURRENTLY LARGE SCALE IDENTIFICATION OF MANAGEMENT REGIMES AND SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MAPPING OF LAND-USE CHANGE IS NOT CONDUCTED IN IRELAND. THE AIM OF THE PROJECT IS TO USE THE LAND PARCEL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (LPIS) TO REFINE GRASSLAND CLASSIFICATION AND TO SPATIALLY EXPLICITLY IDENTIFY LAND-USE CHANGE. EPA STRIVE MODELLING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AS PART OF THE MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL AGRI-I (AN AGRICULTURAL GREENHOUSE GAS RESEARCH INITIATIVE FOR IRELAND) THE AIM OF MY RESEARCH IS TO USE MEASURED NITROGEN AND CARBON FLUX DATA FROM A VARIETY OF AGRICULTURAL TREATMENTS TO PARAMETERISE EXISTING GREENHOUSE GAS MODELS. THE MODELS WILL THEN BE USED TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT OF MITIGATION MEASURES, ESPECIALLY CHANGES IN THE FERTILISER REGIME, ON A REGIONAL SCALE. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND THE MARINE INCLUSIVE SOCIETY SMART & SUSTAINABLE PLANET DR. DANIELA MARIA ZISTERER zistererdanielamaria ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DZISTRER BIOCHEMISTRY ADDICTION RESEARCH CENTRE MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND OUR RESEARCH INTERESTS CENTRES AROUND THE FIELD OF APOPTOSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ANTI-CANCER AGENTS. SPECIFICALLY WE ARE DEVELOPING A NOVEL SERIES OF PYRROLO-1,5-BENZOXAZEPINE (PBOX) COMPOUNDS AS POTENTIAL ANTI-CANCER AGENTS. THESE COMPOUNDS POTENTLY INDUCE APOPTOTIC CELL DEATH IN MANY RESISTANT HUMAN CANCER CELL LINES IN VITRO SUCH AS CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKAEMIA CELLS. THEY ALSO INDUCE APOPTOSIS IN EX VIVO PATIENT SAMPLES SUCH AS B-CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA SAMPLES, WHILE ELICITING MINIMAL TOXICITY ON NORMAL BONE MARROW CELLS. FURTHERMORE, THEY EXHIBIT ANTI-TUMOUR PROPERTIES IN VIVO, IN A BREAST CARCINOMA TUMOUR MODEL THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE LAB. THIS SUGGESTS THE POTENTIAL OF THESE DRUGS AS NOVEL ANTI-CANCER THERAPEUTICS IN THE TREATMENT OF BOTH SOLID TUMOURS AND HAEMATOPOIETIC TUMOURS. WE HAVE THUS PATENTED THESE COMPOUNDS AND HAVE SYNTHESISED, SCREENED AND IDENTIFIED LEAD PRO-APOPTOTIC PBOX COMPOUNDS. CURRENT ON-GOING INVESTIGATIONS ARE SEEKING TO CHARACTERISE THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS BY WHICH THESE DRUGS INDUCE APOPTOSIS OF CANCEROUS CELLS. WE HAVE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED TUBULIN AS THE MOLECULAR TARGET OF THE PBOX COMPOUNDS. OUR STUDIES HAVE DEMONSTRATED THAT PBOX COMPOUNDS CAUSE A DEPOLYMERISATION OF THE MICROTUBULE NETWORK OF CANCER CELLS. THEY ALSO CAUSE A DISASSEMBLY OF PURIFIED TUBULIN IN VITRO. WE ARE CURRENTLY ATTEMPTING TO CHARACTERISE THE PBOX BINDING SITE ON TUBULIN. RELATED STUDIES IN THE LAB INVOLVE EVALUATING THE PBOX COMPOUNDS AS ANTI-ANGIOGENIC AGENTS AS COMPOUNDS THAT TARGET THE MICROTUBULE CYTOSKELETON ARE KNOWN TO INTERFERE WITH ANGIOGENIC PROCESSES. THROUGH COLLABORATION, WE ARE ALSO DEVELOPING OTHER ANTI-CANCER AGENTS INCLUDING A SERIES OF NOVEL ANTI-ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS AND COMBRETASTATIN A4 ANALOGUES. DEPT OF BIOCHEMISTRY BIOCHEMISTRY BUILD COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH COORDINATOR OF CANCER STRAND OF PRTLI-FUNDED PHD PROGRAMME 'MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES IN NEUROSCIENCE, INFECTION & IMMUNITY AND CANCER' (2011-2015) MEMBER OF THE TRINITY BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE CANCER DRUG DISCOVERY CENTRE MEMBER, CENTRE FOR MOLECULAR RESEARCH IN CANCER (PROPOSED), THIS CONSORTIUM COMBINES RESEARCHERS WITH COMMON INTEREST IN UNDERSTANDING CELL CYCLE SIGNALING AND REGULATION WITH SPECIFIC FOCUS ON TWO KEY CANCER-RELATED PROCESSES (CELL CYCLE CONTROL, APOPTOSIS) AND/OR THREE SPECIFIC MALIGNANCY TYPES (OESOPHAGEAL, PROSTATE AND HAEMATOLOGICAL). MEMBER, CORE TECHNOLOGY PI'S, DMMC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS. MEMBER, DMMC CANCER PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS, TRANS-INSTITUTIONAL GROUPING OF PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS LEADING RESEARCH ON CANCER THEMES MEMBER, PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH CONSORTIUM, MULTI-CENTRED CONSORTIUM FOCUSED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW DIAGNOSTIC, PROGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC AGENTS FOR APPLICATION IN PROSTATE CANCER. MEMBERSHIP OF THE IRISH ASSOCIATION OF CANCER RESEARCH TREASURER OF THE IRISH AREA SECTION OF THE BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF NOVEL ANTI-CANCER THERAPIES DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND MECHANISM OF ACTION OF NOVEL ANTI-ESTROGENIC COMPOUNDS DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ANTI-CANCER DRUGS MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING APOPTOSIS & CELL CYCLE ONCOLOGY AND CANCER BIOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY INCLUDING DRUG FORMULATION AND DELIVERY BIOCHEMISTRY, MOLECULAR & CELLULAR BIOLOGY EVALUATION OF TRAIL SENSITISATION OF CHILDHOOD ACUTE LEUKAEMIA CELLS BY NOVEL PYRROLOBENZOXAZEPINES CHILDREN'S LEUKAEMIA RESEARCH PROJECT EVALUATION OF THE ANTI-CANCER EFFECTS OF NOVEL PYRROLOBENZOXAZEPINES (PBOXS) IN GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOURS HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD EVALUATION OF THE ANTI-CANCER EFFECTS OF NOVEL PYRROLOBENZOXAZEPINES IN NEUROBLASTOMA NATIONAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CRUMLIN CANCER IMMUNOLOGY, INFLAMMATION & INFECTION NANOSCIENCE & MATERIALS DR. NOEL O MURCHADHA omurchadhanoel ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MURCHADN EDUCATION I AM A SOCIOLINGUIST CURRENTLY FOCUSING ON ATTIDUDES AND IDEOLOGIES AROUND LINGUISTIC VARIATION, ON FOLK LINGUISTICS AND ON PERCEPTUAL DIALECTOLOGY. MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON PERCEPTIONS OF LINGUISTIC VARIATION IN CONTEMPORARY SPOKEN IRISH AND ON THE STANDARDISATION OF MODERN IRISH. I AM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE MODERN AGE AND IN THE IMPACT SUCH CHANGES HAVE ON LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE IN A MINORITISED LANGUAGE CONTEXT. WITHIN THIS PARADIGM, I HAVE INVESTIGATED THE ROLE OF SUBJECTIVE, SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS IN LANGUAGE VARIATION AND CHANGE IN IRISH. SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ARTS BUILDING COLLEGE 01-8961000 ENGLISH IRISH CENTRE FOR APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES EXTERNAL EXAMINER, UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK IRISH ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS MEMBER OF ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PROJECT ON 'MULTILINGUALISM: EMPOWERING INDIVIDUALS, TRANSFORMING SOCIETY' MEMBER OF MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE FOR COST ACTION IS1306: NEW SPEAKERS IN A MULTILINGUAL EUROPE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES WORKING GROUP LEADER FOR COST ACTION IS1306 (WG 1 AND WG7) APPLIED LINGUISTICS CELTIC LINGUISTICS FOLK LINGUISTICS LINGUISTICS SOCIOLINGUISTICS SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION LANGUAGES & LITERATURE NO DATA IDENTITIES IN TRANSFORMATION INCLUSIVE SOCIETY