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Griffith College recognises the importance of motivating increased research by

our academic staff and the need to cultivate a research culture within the College.

Having identified research, development and innovation as one of its key strategic

objectives in 2012, the subsequent establishment of the Research Committee was

a vital step in developing our research strategy.

The monthly Research meetings continue and I commend those involved with this

project and the additional research initiatives undertaken. These include hosting

a successful Research Seminar in March 2016 whereby a panel of recent PhD and

Doctoral Research Graduates, chaired by Dr Jane Carrigan, shared their research

experience with other academics in the College, offering them an opportunity to

learn from the panels’ research journeys. In addition, both the Centre for

Promoting Academic Excellence and the Journalism & Media Faculty were

supported in implementing a Faculty Ethical Approval Committee. The launch of

the College’s second Research Booklet at this year’s Research Showcase Event,

identifies exciting research activity across the College. This promotion of research

activities will raise awareness within the College community and promote best

practice and critical dialogue.

Some imminent projects planned for the next academic year include, the

introduction of a college postgraduate and research centre (at the back of the

library) and the launch of both the working paper series led by Dr Niall Meehan

and a college Ethics Committee in September. Additionally, the College repository

will commence population with postgraduate research at a high standard..

Building on solid foundations, a strong and supportive research culture will bring

benefits to many of our stakeholders including lecturers, faculties, and, most

importantly, our learners. As well as developing a research culture we must

continue to disseminate the research within Griffith College and beyond. This

second edition of our Research booklet documents the progress of this vital

function at Griffith College.

ProfessorDIARMUIDHEGARTY

Introduction fromGriffith College President

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Established in 2014, for the past two years the Committee has

worked to develop and realise its vision of how research can be

advanced within Griffith College. The Committee is made up of

members from across Griffith’s faculties who share a commitment

to develop and enhance our research community in Griffith. This is

the second publication documenting current research activity that

is being carried out by College staff.

A broad understanding of research was adopted by the Committee.

Research was understood to refer to research productivity, see the

Research Committee Terms of Reference on page 6 for a more

complete description of the variety of activity that is being

acknowledged.

This booklet gives a flavour of our research capabilities, and shows

the range and quality of work being carried out by Griffith College

staff.

Please do join us in our research initiatives taking place in 2016-2017

and help us create a strong and supportive research culture in

Griffith College.

RESEARCHCOMMITTEE

Dr Fiona O’RiordanActing Chair

Dimphne Ní BhraonáinSecretary

Dr Waseem AkhtarFaculty of Computing Science

Dr Fiona BroughtonFaculty of Law

Prof Wallace EwartGraduate Business School

Dr Pauline GrahamLeinster School of Music and Drama

Selma HarringtonFaculty of Design

Alan LynchGraduate Business School

Dr Níall MeehanJournalism & Media Faculty

Dr Tomás Mac EochagáinDirector of

Academic Programmes

Robert McKennaHead Librarian

Aine McManusGraduate Business School

Jacqui TreacyBusiness Faculty

Email:

research@griffith.ie

Welcome from the

Research Committee

Dimphne Ní Bhraonáin

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CONTENTS6 Research Committee

TERMS OF REFERENCE

7 Getting involved inRESEARCH

8 Recent Griffith CollegeRESEARCH INITIATIVES

9 International Conference onENGAGING PEDAGOGY

10 E-Portfolio as aPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTTOOL

11 FEATURED RESEARCHERS

18 RESEARCH ACTIVITIESArticles / PublicationsAwards and NominationsBlogs for ResearchBooks and ContributionsChairmanships, Board & Committee MembershipConferencesDoctoratesInvited SpeakersScreenings / Exhibitions

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AIMS AND OBJECTIVESThe objective of the Research Committee is to:

l Document what research is currently being

undertaken.

l Acknowledge / celebrate what is being done.

l Determine how the College could support its

further growth.

l Establish and implement specific plans in order

to facilitate research.

MEMBERSHIPThe committee is appointed by the College’s

Management Board and consists of

representatives from the College’s departments

and functions. Other members of staff may be

co-opted to assist the working of the committee

in the light of their particular research expertise.

Research CommitteeTERMS OF REFERENCE

The Research Committee seeks to contribute to and develop the current research strategy

of Griffith College. The committee recognises the importance of motivating increased

research activity among its academic staff as a necessary first step to developing a research

culture and to building a research environment.

Research is understood by the committee to refer to research productivity (journal articles;

books or contributions to books; publications; presentations at conferences; PhD/doctorate

research), including the writing, interpretation and dissemination of research within and

beyond the academic community; the organising of conferences; the generating of research

income; and enabling staff and supporting students in becoming members of the college’s

research community.

RESEARCH COMMITTEE

MEETINGS AND ATTENDANCEAT MEETINGSIn-person meetings will be held at minimum every

two months and more often as required. The

Chairperson will nominate a person to act as

Secretary who will circulate the agenda at least

three working days before meetings, record the

minutes, and circulate them within five days of

the meeting.

AUTHORITYThe committee is charged with recommending

considered proposals to the College’s

Management Board for ultimate approval.

REPORTING PROCEDURESMinutes of meetings, along with supporting

documentation relating to the committee will be

held on a 'shared' drive and made available to the

Management Board and the Academic &

Professional Council and others for whom

proposals are likely to be of direct interest and

impact.

COMMENCEMENT AND REVIEWThe Research Committee has been in effect since

1st January 2014 and the College’s Management

Board will review the operation, composition and

effectiveness of the committee at least annually

or when it deems necessary.

WANT TO RESEARCHBUT DON’T KNOW WHERE

TO BEGIN? READ ON…

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MEET, SUPPORT AND SHARE IDEAS WITHOTHERS WHO ARE RESEARCH ACTIVEDiscussing research with others who are research active can

help de-mystify the process. This booklet can be used to see

what types of research our colleagues are doing and find

common research interests. Working with others on a research

project can also be a fabulously rewarding way to research and

learn, and can help share the workload too.

In addition, there are a number of research initiatives run by the

College Research Committee that can be used as tools to trigger

research reflection and discussion. For example our monthly

Research Group provides a space to discuss your research goals

and to meet and support others engaging in research. The

Research Seminar series offers a chance to hear what our

colleagues are researching and to learn from their experience.

We will shortly have a working paper series where you can

submit initial research writing to an internal review panel for

feedback.

Not sure what to research? Think about what you do in your day to day work and whether an

aspect of it could be researched academically. It could be an aspect of your teaching, learning

and assessment strategy (see section on ICEP for more on same, page 9).

Or perhaps it might be on something you are interested in pursuing within your own area of

specialism/discipline. Whatever it is be sure it is something that interests you as you will need

this to sustain and energise your research.

Also, consider how this topic might add to the conversation already out there in the area.

Gettinginvolved in

Research

BEGINNING TO RESEARCH CAN SEEM DAUNTING AT FIRST BUT HEREARE SOME TIPS TO GET STARTED.

DECIDE WHAT TO RESEARCH

CREATE TIME ANDSPACE FOR RESEARCHCarving out the time and space to

do research is one of the biggest

challenges for all researchers.

Sometimes there are just so many

other things that seem to take

priority. The colleges recognise this,

and in an effort to be more

supportive, have undertaken to

provide a ‘research space’. This

research space will be in the old

reading room at the back of the

library and will be a relaxing space

where the layout and resources will

hopefully provide a stimulating and

quiet place to progress our

research and writing.

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Recent Griffith College Research Initiatives

MONTHLY RESEARCH GROUP MEETINGFirst Friday in every month (Sept – Dec; Feb – May)

8.30am – 9.30am in Arthurs Bar.

RESEARCH SEMINARSMinimum of one per semester

Details communicated via email to all lecturers a month in advance.

WORKING PAPER SERIESWatch this space.

INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY – go.griffith.ieTo house and showcase College research.

ETHICAL APPROVAL COMMITTEE(S)For postgraduate programmes and general college research.

For more details of these or any other research activities you can contact the

Research Committee at research@griffith.ie. Alternatively please make contact

individually with any of the Research Committee members.

INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE ON

ENGAGINGPEDAGOGY

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ICEP, as a teaching and

learning network, is

recognised as a partner of the

National Forum for the

Enhancement of Teaching and

Learning in Higher Education

www.teachingandlearning.ie/

teaching-learning-partners

For more details on ICEP

(including past proceedings)

please visit the website at

www.icep.ie

Members of Griffith College lecturing team founded the International

Conference for Engaging Pedagogy in 2008. The inaugural conference

was held in Griffith College and has since been hosted by University

College Dublin; Maynooth University, Dublin; the Institute of

Technology, Blanchardstown; National College of Ireland; Institute of

Technology, Sligo; College of Computing Technology; and Athlone

Institute of Technology. This year, once again, ICEP 2016 will be hosted

by Maynooth University. We hope to bring ICEP 2017 back to Griffith

for the tenth anniversary.

This annual event brings together researchers and practitioners in the

field of higher education in order to discuss means and methods of

improving student engagement in learning. The conference format

includes standard paper and poster presentations intermingled with

workshops and panel style discussions. 2016 is the ninth year of the

ICEP conference series, its aim is to further discussion and collaboration

amongst researchers and practitioners in third level teaching and

learning.

For lecturing staff in Griffith, the

ICEP conference is a fantastic way

of using research to inform our

teaching, learning and assessment;

and of presenting or showcasing

this to the wider academic

community. The annual call for

papers will be out in early May

with a paper submission date of

mid-October.

If you are interested in using ICEP to progress some research into your

teaching, learning and assessment, and would like some support or

guidance please contact Dr Fiona O’Riordan - fiona.oriordan@griffith.ie

Above:ICEP 2008 Keynote Speaker

Minister Brian Lenihan

Below left:Dr Tomás MacEochagáin

presenting John McDonald with Best Paper Award at ICEP 2014

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As lecturers we have become very conscious of

citation in particular through Google Scholar.

More recently scholars have been seeking

recognition of the “Altmetrics” – mentions on

Twitter or other social networks, or the news – in

their professional development and recognition.

In the UK the Research Excellence Framework

recognises research impact in media, public

debate, and policy as hugely important research

outcomes rather than just academic literature and

citations.

It is clear that the idea of a scholar, researcher,

and practitioner in the 21st century is undergoing

change. We are helping our learners navigate the

entry into the work world where digital traces of

our identities, activities, and past are findable and

storable by potential employers, clients, and

colleagues. We are making efforts to improve the

employability of our learners, how are we

enhancing our own profiles?

Some effort should be made to curate our digital

identity and having a central repository for

ourselves on the web is a good step, our best

foot forward.

In the field of education and professional

development an ePortfolio has long been

recognised as a tool for reflection, collation, and

enhancement of professional profile.

The National Forum recently sought consultation

on ePortfolio practice in Ireland and will be

providing guidelines later in the year but the

elements are known. We can use an ePortfolio as

a repository of our professional practice,

particularly when the work doesn’t lead to

publication.

We can capture other activities such as media

engagements, speaking engagements elsewhere,

or responses and submissions we have made to

bodies. Some of these may be on the web and

indexed but the collation into one place assists

our curation of our digital identity.

In Griffith we typically support the use of

Wordpress for this ePortfolio but the beauty is

that once you have a practice of collecting your

content different views may be constructed for

individual purposes e.g. teaching awards or

research and collaboration proposals.

Robert McKennaHEAD LIBRARIAN

E-Portfolio as a

PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT TOOL

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My very first teaching experience in higher

education was exhilarating. I knew immediately

education was where I wanted to be. Since then

my focus has always been on exploring ways to

better engage learners. Initially, I taught

undergraduate and postgraduate business

students. But such was my interest in all things

pedagogical that I moved into an educational

development role in Griffith College. Now, as

Head of the Centre for Promoting Academic

Excellence in Griffith, providing support for

lecturers is at the heart of everything I do.

I argue that education is a powerful tool. It can

offer transformative potential for learners,

educators, the economy and wider society. We,

as educators, are privileged to be entrusted with

responsibility for the learner’s journey while they

are with us. Thus, my research areas include

engaging pedagogy – the subject of my M.Ed;

internationalisation of higher education; and the

voice of educators. More recently, my doctoral

research area investigated curriculum

development practice and discourse in higher

education. My research addresses a gap in the

current space of curriculum development by

using discourse analysis as a methodology to

help build capacity and stimulate greater

curriculum discourse.

I am a founding member and current conference

Chair for the International Conference for

Engaging Pedagogy (ICEP); Co-Chair of EDIN

(Educational Developers in Ireland Network);

Associate Member of the National Forum for the

Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher

Education; HECA (Higher Education Colleges

Association) Teaching and Learning Committee

member; and an EdTech 2016 reviewer.

I regularly contribute to external workshops and

conferences. In addition I have sat on numerous

external programme validation panels over the

recent two years, as a teaching and learning

expert. These roles offer many valuable

collaborative research opportunities for myself

and the wider teaching and research community

in Griffith College.

Dr Fiona O’RiordanBABS; MBS; M.Ed; Ed.D

FEATURED RESEARCHER

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I first became interested in the area of diversity

while working in Fáilte Ireland (CERT). During this

time the Department of Tourism in Ireland,

became involved in a European Union initiative to

train hospitality students from Poland. This

training was carried out in Fáilte Ireland. The main

premise was to provide hospitality training for the

students, prepare them for work placement in

Ireland, with the view that on completion of this

training they would return to their own country,

with the much needed skills and knowledge for a

burgeoning tourism industry in Poland.

Having experienced and interacted with these

students, I discovered that despite that fact that

many of them held qualifications up to and

including masters, they were not considered as

valuable assets to the Irish companies in which

they were working, they were valued only for

their labour. The value of their qualifications and

knowledge were largely ignored. Following on

from this experience, I decided to investigate

some of these issues in my master’s thesis,

focusing on managing diversity in the hospitality

and tourism industry in Ireland.

Two years ago, I commenced my PhD studies

with two Universities one in Scotland and the

other in Germany. My thesis is placed within the

areas of Human Resource Management and

Entrepreneurship. Continuing my interest in the

area of diversity, my PhD research is based within

Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) examining

diversity and entrepreneurship, linking with a

concept known as Absorptive Capacity, taking an

Institutional Intrapreneurship perspective. In the

last year I have started to share my research

through preparing and delivering papers for

conferences. In November 2015, I presented at

the RENTS conference in Croatia, and recently

my research papers were accepted by EURAM,

European Academy of Management 2016 (Paris,

May 2016) and Uddevalla, 2016, (London, June,

2016), following the presentation these papers,

I will be forwarding the Uddevalla paper for

publication.

I know my PhD research is at an early stage, and

I know there will be many twists and turns along

the way, but it is with the support of my

colleagues in the research committee and the

wider Griffith Community that I will eventually

reach my PhD goal.

I am in a very fortunate position as a Griffith

College lecturer that I lecture in the two subject

areas that have the closest links to my research,

Human Resource Management and

Entrepreneurship. I like to think that not only am I

benefitting from the research I am carrying out,

but that my students are also benefitting.

Jacqueline (Jacqui)Tracey MBS; PGCTL; PGCRM; PhD candidate

FEATURED RESEARCHER

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I love to teach and help my students improve

their own learning development. I believe in their

infinite potential to learn and grow as individuals.

My students are my top priority when practising

education. I try to convey this to them in my

methods of teaching and the time I devote to

teaching through traditional lecturers and

tutorials, guest speakers, online resources,

change in environment settings (classroom to

computer room), games, presentations, case

study analyses, and student-led discussions. I

believe that learning should be seen as an active

and engaging, rather than a passive, didactic

process.

I engage in a lot of activities such as; guest

lecturing, researching, academic tutoring,

invigilation and student support. Certainly, the

idea of ‘Giving Something Back’ is imperative to

me.

Undoubtedly, it is extremely important to me that

I am actively engaged in the start-up scene and

as a result, I have worked with a new start-up firm

in Limerick for over two years, promoting and

marketing their business. Events that promote,

foster and nurture new start-ups, entrepreneurial

blood and generate new jobs are fundamental to

creating change. Recently, I curated Ireland’s

Startup Manifesto Policy Tracker -

http://www.europeandigitalforum.eu/startup-

manifest-policy-tracker/country/ie

I am also Digital Marketing Manager and

Secretary of INTRE (Ireland’s Network of

Teachers and Researchers in Entrepreneurship)

which will be rolling out fundamental research

events in the future.

My own research is on ‘What Models of Business

Clusters (BC’s) and Business Incubators (BI’s) can

be Combined to Improve Regional Economic

Strategy (RES)’. This research study will aim to

contribute to existing literature through the

development of a unique framework(s) that

captivates critical business cluster and business

incubator models that improve regional economic

strategy. It is important to examine models of

business clusters and business incubators in order

to identify which combination works best to

enable the fruition of effective regional economic

strategy that leads to potential growth. Lobbying

government regional and national policy has to

be a unique strategic objective of this study.

Jamie Meehan B.Bs; MBS; CTE; Ph.D Researcher

FEATURED RESEARCHER

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Back in 1997 I was working as a magazine

production manager and journalist focused on

environmental and global justice issues. The

Organisation for Economic Co-operation &

Development (OECD) was then trying to get

counties to adopt the Multilateral Agreement on

Investment (MAI). This free investment and trade

deal would have subjected the world’s Western

democratic, capitalist states to an Investor-State

Dispute Settlement (ISDS) arbitration mechanism.

Foreign private companies could sue sovereign

states, in private, in front of a panel of for-profit

arbitrators, for financial compensation for future

unearned profit when they felt their profits were

negatively impacted by state law, regulations or

licencing arrangements. Great democratic gains

of the 20th century: environmental, health and

safety, and workers’ rights legislation, were to be

deemed ‘unnecessarily restrictive barriers to

trade’. The entire deal was torpedoed by the

French parliament who refused to even discuss it.

It was then I realised that certain lobbyists and

politicians wished to use a series of forthcoming

European Union treaties, in order to move

ratification of international trade agreements like

the MAI, out of the hands of member state

national parliaments and into the hands of the

unelected, EU Council and Commission.

These and other avenues of research led me to

complete the MA in International Relations in

DCU, and to take up a lecturing position at

Griffith, which I enjoy very much and am now half

way though my MA in Education & Training.

I am now Programme Director and Senior

Lecturer at the Faculty of Journalism & Media

Communications in Griffith College.

In a voluntary capacity, I am a researcher with

ATTAC (Ireland), a co-facilitator with the TTIP

Information Network, and a member of the

Steering Group of Headline.

Over the past 12 years my research on European

Union international trade policy and civil society

organisations’ responses to it has led to

presentations before Oireachtas and civil service

committees, regular appearances on Newstalk

national radio, numerous and regular

presentations at public meetings and debates

around the country, as well as presentations at

seminars and colloquiums at Trinity College, NUI

Maynooth and Queens

Barry FinneganMAIR

FEATURED RESEARCHER

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I am an educator, and a learner, as well as a

researcher in the fields of computing science, and

higher education management. I am intrigued by

multidisciplinary research where computing

science concepts and techniques are developed

and applied for evidence based management and

improved effectiveness in HEIs.

I have been working in higher education for the

past fifteen years. I joined the faculty of

computing science in Griffith College as a lecturer

and then as Programme Director in 2007.

I completed my PhD in computing science from

University College Dublin in 2007, and took the

position of Head of Computing Faculty in Griffith

College in 2010.

Moving into the realm of managing people,

processes and resources proved to be an

interesting endeavour and I became extremely

interested in developing and implementing

optimum processes to manage all aspects of the

faculty to improve its effectiveness at the

operational level, and also at tactical and

strategic levels.

This led me to start researching higher education

management, on my own and then by joining a

relevant programme at the University College

London. As part of this I have studied a wide

range of Management topics.

Although my natural curiosity has always been

useful while researching; this has never been

limited to my main areas of research. I have

always been fascinated by other “bigger”

questions about our existence, and

consciousness. I am intrigued by our history, and

future as a civilisation, about the universe, its

origin, its structure and its ultimate fate, and

about the way we live and learn, and manage our

lives.

This led to the founding of “Bridging the Gaps - A

Portal for Curious Minds”. At Bridging the Gaps I

invite researchers, explorers and thought leaders

from around the world and ask these big

questions. We aim to have thorough discussions

that are enlightening and educational, academic,

and based on original and cutting-edge research.

Some of the work done as part of Bridging the

Gaps initiative has led to the development of “Self

Assessment Based Career Development and

Management” idea. I regularly run seminars and

workshops on this scientific approach towards

effective career development and management.

Dr Waseem AkhtarBSc, MSc, PhD

FEATURED RESEARCHER

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In 1963, in his letter from Birmingham City Jail,

Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “We know through

painful experience that freedom is never

voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be

demanded by the oppressed”. King’s letter was

an appeal to non-violent resistance to end racial

oppression. He argued that there was a moral

responsibility to disobey unjust laws noting that

unjust laws are ones, which “degrade human

personality”.

It is King’s appeal to us all to distinguish between

just and unjust laws and fight injustice through

non-violent resistance, which has heavily

influenced my own research objectives. It is not

enough to research in an academic vacuum, the

purpose to which the research is directed is just

as, if not more important.

In 2013, I joined Al-Haq, an independent

Palestinian NGO based in the West Bank,

Ramallah as an adjunct legal researcher. Al-Haq

has special consultative status with the United

Nations Economic and Social Council.

In 2015, drawing on the expertise from my PhD

research, I completed a comprehensive report on

oil and gas resources in the OPT – Annexing

Energy: Preventing the Development and

Exploiting Oil and Gas in the Occupied Palestinian

Territory. In 2014 and 2015 I presented this

research at side-panels at the United Nations

Forum on Business and Human Rights.

It is important that the demand for freedom

includes building peace through justice by

making use of any available justice mechanisms,

including through universal jurisdiction and the

international courts.

Laws passed by the military occupant to deprive

the occupied population of their natural and

national economic resources are effectively

unjust laws, which “degrade human personality”.

This is similarly the case for exploitative

provisions contained in so-called peace

agreements. This research, “Rethinking the

Elements of Crimes to Prosecute Systematic

Economic Exploitation of Occupied Territory at

the International Criminal Court” is essentially an

address to the international legal community on

the legal position of prosecuting systematic

public and corporate pillage at the International

Criminal Court. The demand for justice for all

international crimes is a demand for the freedom

of the oppressed, without this there can be no

peace.

Dr Susan PowerA.V.C.M., B.C.L., Ph.D.

FEATURED RESEARCHER

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I undertook my first major research in 1991 for my

dissertation in the Master of Business SEudies

“The High Rate of Strikes over Dismissal in US

Multinational Companies in Ireland.” The premise

was that US MNCs in Ireland were transferring the

employment-at-will culture of the US,

implementing practices at odds with unfair

dismissal legislation in Ireland. I used case studies

of US MNCs in Ireland that had a relatively high

number of strikes on the issue of dismissal and

structured interviews with HR managers and

employee representatives in the companies to

explore the reasons for the disputes on the issue

of dismissals.

My findings were that, in contrast to my premise,

US MNCs had converged on local procedures and

legislation. I found a positive industrial relations

climate and the companies were at the high end

for pay and conditions. Most strikes in Ireland

were on pay and conditions and US MNCs had a

lower rate of strikes than others. The

concentration on dismissal was mainly due to a

very low rate of strikes over pay and conditions.

In later years, I returned to UCD to complete a

B.A. in History because of my interest in the field.

Later, I started a PhD in the area of US history

and politics. I specialised in the interaction of US

domestic politics and the Vietnam War during the

1960s. The title is “Hawk, Dove or Chicken: Robert

Kennedy and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968.” I have

completed the first draft and following a

successful viva, am amending the draft.

My primary research involved studying at libraries

and archives in Boston, Austin, and Washington

reading primary documents, national security

files, and hundreds of hours of recordings, phone

conversations, transcripts, and oral histories from

after Robert Kennedy’s death in 1968.

I also conducted a number of personal interviews

with figures closely associated with Robert

Kennedy. These included Senate aides and

speechwriter Adam Walinsky and Peter Edelman,

press secretary Frank Mankiewicz, special White

House aide and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen,

and anti-war activist Tom Hayden.

Colman Boyd B.Comm (NUI); MBS

FEATURED RESEARCHER

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ARTICLES / PUBLICATIONSCarrigan, Jane, 2015, Inside the institution of the Prison: A Researcher’s Perspective, Journal of Prison Education

and Reentry, Vol 2, (1). 

Carrigan, Jane & Maunsell, Catherine, 2014, “Never really had a good education you know, until I came in here”:Educational Life Histories of Young Adult Male Prisoner Learners, Irish Educational Studies, Vol. 33, (4). 

Coakley, Maurice, 2016. Ireland, Europe and the Global Crisis. Journal of World-Systems Research, 22(1).

Flynn, Anthony, Davis, Paul, 2016, Firms’ Experience of SME-friendly Policy and their Participation and Successin Public Procurement. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development Vol 23 (3).

Flynn, Anthony, Davis, Paul, 2016, Investigating the Effect of Tendering Capabilities on SME Activity andPerformance in Public Contract Competitions. International Small Business Journal, February

Flynn, Anthony, Davis, Paul, 2015, The Policy-practice Divide and SME-friendly Public Procurement. Environment

and Planning C: Government and Policy

Flynn, Anthony, McKevitt, David, Mark & Davis, Paul, 2015. The Impact of Size on Small and Medium-sizedEnterprise Public Sector Tendering. International Small Business Journal, May

Flynn, Anthony, Davis, Paul, 2015, The Rhetoric and Reality of SME-friendly Procurement. Public Money &Management, 35(2), pp.111-118.

Flynn, Anthony, Davis, Paul, 2014. Theory in Public Procurement Research. Journal of Public Procurement, 14(2),

p.139.

Harrington, Selma, 2015, The Politics of Memory: The Museum Sarajevo 1878-1918 and the Centenary of theCatastrophe,  Institut za istoriju u Sarajevu Contributions 43:1–144. 

Keegan, Edward, 2014, Submission to the Minister for Justice and Equality on the Appointment of anIndependent National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking. Dublin: Immigrant Council of Ireland.

Langwallner, David, 2016, The Fragile Rule of Law, The Village, Vol. 4, (3).

O'Riordan, Fiona, 2015, A Student for Life, Times of India: Times Ascent, June

Power Susan, Shittu, Adewale, 2015, Corporations Exploitation of Hydrocarbons in the occupied Saharan ArabDemocratic Republic, Irish Law Times.  

Power Susan, 2015, International Legal Personality for Palestine, Palestine Israel Journal of Politics, Economicsand Culture, Volume 20, No. 2 and 3.  

Power Susan, 2014, Israel’s Cash Cow: Natural Resources in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Palestine IsraelJournal of Politics, Economics and Culture, Volume 20, No. 1.  

Power, Susan, Shittu, Adewale, 2016, Corporations Exploitation of Hydrocarbons in the occupied Saharan ArabDemocratic Republic – Part I. Irish Law Times, 34(7), 99-104

Power, Susan, Shittu, Adewale, 2016, Corporations Exploitation of Hydrocarbons in the occupied Saharan ArabDemocratic Republic – Part II. Irish Law Times, 34(7), 99-104

Power, Susan, 2015, Report: Israel’s Deadly Catch: Attacks on Gaza’s Civilian Fishermen, Ramallah: Al Haq

Power, Susan, 2015, Report: Annexing Energy: Exploiting and Preventing the Development of Oil and Gas in

the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Ramallah: Al Haq

Power, Susan, van Hooydonk, Kiswanson, 2015, Divide and Conquer - A Legal Analysis of Israel’s 2014 Offensive

Against the Gaza Strip, Ramallah: Al Haq

RESEARCHACTIVITY

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Doyle, Tanya & Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Bia Dúchais (Cáis), Winner Best Documentary Short, Devour Food Film

Festival; London. 

Doyle, Tanya & Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Waterlilies. Shortlisted for Grierson British Documentary Awards; London. 

Doyle, Tanya & Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Waterlilies. Official Selection Ethnografilm Festival; Paris. 

Doyle, Tanya & Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Waterlilies. Official Selection Galway Film Fleadh;  Galway. 

Doyle, Tanya & Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Waterlilies. Official Selection Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Hot

Springs.

Doyle, Tanya & Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Waterlilies. Official Selection Uppsala Short Film Festival, Uppsala. 

Doyle, Tanya & Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Waterlilies. Winner of Audience Choice Award, Dingle International Film

Festival, Kerry.

Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, Multiple Intelligences, Future Minds and Educating the App Generation: A discussionwith Dr Howard Gardner. A Bridging the Gaps blogpost and podcast, http://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/

2015/07/multiple-intelligences-future-minds-and-educating-the-app-generation-a-discussion-with-dr-howard-

gardner/

Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, From Consciousness to Synthetic Consciousness: From One Unknown to AnotherUnknown with David Chalmers, A Bridging the Gaps blogpost and podcast. http://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/

2015/03/from-consciousness-to-synthetic-consciousness-from-one-unknown-to-another-unknown-with-

david-chalmers/ and http://researchblogging.org/blog/home/id/4130

Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, On the Seven Sins of Memory with Daniel Schacter. A Bridging the Gaps blogpost and

podcast. http://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2015/01/on-the-seven-sins-of-memory-with-daniel-schacter/

Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, Is Philosophy Dead? On the Bittersweet Relationship between Science and Philosophy.A Bridging the Gaps blogpost and podcast. http://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2015/01/is-philosophy-dead-on-

the-bittersweet-relationship-between-science-and-philosophy/

Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, Growth Mindset: A Must Have Tool for Success. A Bridging the Gaps blogpost and

podcast. http://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2015/01/growth-mindset-a-must-have-tool-for-success/

Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, How much do we think about thinking? Science of Meta-awareness and Mind-

wandering. A Bridging the Gaps blogpost and podcast. http://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2014/12/how-much-

do-we-think-about-thinking-science-of-meta-awareness-mind-wandering-and-mindfulness/

Power, Susan, Avenues for Accountability: A New Path for the Commission of Inquiry into the OccupiedPalestinian Territory, Shared Insight, Available at https://sharedinsightblog.wordpress.com

Power, Susan, 2015, The Commission of Inquiry: Israel’s Obligations as Belligerent Occupant in the Gaza Stripfor Post Conflict Reconstruction, Human Rights in Ireland Available at http://humanrights.ie/uncategorized/the-

commission-of-inquiry-israels-obligations-as-belligerent-occupant-in-the-gaza-strip-for-post-conflict-

reconstruction/

Power, Susan, 2015, The Commission of Inquiry: Israel’s Accountability for War Crimes during OperationProtective Edge and Operation Brothers Keeper, Human Rights in Ireland Available at http://humanrights.ie/

uncategorized/the-commission-of-inquiry-israels-accountability-for-war-crimes-during-operation-protective-

edge-and-operation-brothers-keeper/

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

BLOGS FOR RESEARCH

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Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, Member of Conference Review Committee - International Conference on Engaging

Pedagogy.

Broughton, Fiona, 2015, Member of Conference Review Committee, International Postgraduate Conference in

International Law.

Carrigan, Jane, Current, Chair of IPEA, Irish Prison Education Association 

Childs, Alice. Current. EdTech 2016, Conference Review Committee Member

Harrington, Selma, Current, Chair, Irish Delegation to Architects Council of Europe (ACE) RIAI International

Affairs Division.

Langwallner, David, 2015, Member of Conference Review Committee - International Wrongful Conviction and

Human Rights Conference

McKenna, Robert, 2015, Member of Conference Review Committee - International Conference on Engaging

Pedagogy. 

McKenna, Robert, 2015, Member of Advisory Board - Studies in Arts and Humanities, Dublin Business School. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, Current, Chair of EDIN, Educational Developers in Ireland Network. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, Current Associate Member of the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and

Learning in Higher Education, Dublin. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, 2015, Current, Member of Conference Review Committee - International Conference on

Engaging Pedagogy.

O’Riordan, Fiona, Current, HECA Conference Committee Member. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, Current, HECA Teaching and Learning Committee Member. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, Current, EdTech 2016, Conference Review Committee Member.

Power, Susan, Current, Member of Journal Editorial Boards, Islamabad Law Review. 

Smyth, Robbie, 2015, Member of Conference Review Committee, International Conference on Engaging

Pedagogy.

CHAIRMANSHIPS, BOARD & COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

BOOKS AND CONTRIBUTIONSCoakley, Maurice (Ed), Beatty, Aidan(Ed), Deckard, Sharae(Ed), 2016, Special Issue on Ireland, Journal of World

Systems Research,

Childs, Alice (Ed) & Childs, Roger (Ed), Byrne, Gay, 2014, The Meaning of Life 2. More Lives, More Meaning.

Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. 

Galvan, Susan, 2016, The Architecture of Dublin’s Victorian Bourgeoise 1850-1901, London: Ashgate. 

Keegan, Edward & Hilkka Becker, 2014, The ECHR, Socio-Economic Disadvantage and Access to Justice. In

Ireland and the European Convention on Human Rights: 60 Years and Beyond. Dublin: Bloomsbury Professional.

Keegan, Edward  & Egan, Suzanne, 2015, Protecting Victims of Human Trafficking in Ireland. In International

Human Rights: Perspectives from Ireland. Dublin: Bloomsbury Professional. 

Langwallner, David, 2015, The Common Vocabulary of Innocence: Internationalization of the innocence Network

as a Human Rights Organisation, In Understanding Wrongful Conviction: the Protection of the Innocent AcrossEurope and America. Milan: Kluwer.

Maye, Brian, 2015, Michael Keogh: Recruiting Sergeant for Casement’s Irish Brigade, In Years of Turbulence: TheIrish Revolution and its Aftermath. Dublin: University College Dublin Press.

Savage, Johnny, 2015, Fallout, London/Osaka: The Velvet Cell

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Akhtar, Waseem, 2015, A Scientific Approach Towards Effective Career Development and Management. Grand

Canal: Bank of Ireland.

Broughton, Fiona, 2015, Enhancing the Value of Legal Academia through Pushing Rights Boundaries:  a Case-study of the Right of the Pre-natal Child to Prophylactic HIV Treatment in Ireland, In Annual Conference of the

Irish Association of Law Teachers, Galway: Co. Galway. 

Broughton, Fiona, 2014, Pre-natal Children as a Marginalised Segment of Society and the Potential Impact ofLegal Academia on the Realisation of a Variety of Rights of Such Children. In Annual Conference of the Irish

Association of Law Teachers, Kilkenny; Co. Kilkenny. 

Carrigan, Jane & Ryan, Michelle, 2015, Sharing Innovation and Good Practice: a Practical Guide to Developingand Producing a Newsletter. In: European Prison Education Association Conference, Antwerp, EPEA. 

Carrigan, Jane, 2015, Panel member, The Challenges of Implementing Research in Education Settings, In Hibernia

College Conference - Integrating Research into Teacher Education, Dublin: Hibernia College. 

Carrigan, Jane, 2015, Panel member, The Irish Prison Education Association National Conference. Portlaoise:

November 2014 and 2015.

Childs, Alice, 2015, Conversion Course, in Ed Tech Limerick: ILTA. 

Child, Alice, 2015, Educational Technology : What works for me, In EdTECx Talks, Dublin: UCD.

Cummins, Claire, 2015, CBA’s Construction Law Periodical, The Construction Bar Association of Ireland's Annual

Open Conference, Dublin: Construction Bar Association of Ireland

Harrington, Selma, 2015, Memories of Normality: The Grandchildren of Revolution at Sarajevo’s Nazi BirthdayParty. In Memories and Identities in Central and Eastern Europe International Conference. Trinity College Dublin:

IARCEES. 

Harrington, Selma, 2015, Revolution in Museum: Salvaging the Bosnian Modernist Ruin, In The Importance of

Place:  21st Century Heritage Without Borders - Sustainability and Heritage in a World of Change. Sarajevo:

BHCICOP. 

Keegan, Edward & Yonkova, Nusha, 2015, STOP Traffick: Tackling Demand for Sexual Services of TraffickedWomen and Girls. In: European Conference on Domestic Violence. Trinity College Dublin.    

Keoghan, Justin, Madden, Gráinne, 2014, Presentations for Group Assessment: Effective and Fair? InInternational Conference on Engaging Pedagogy. Dublin: ICEP. 

Langwallner, David, 2015, The Vocabulary of Innocence, International Wrongful Conviction and Human Rights

Conference, Dublin: Griffith College

McKenna, Robert & Harris, Tricia, 2015, Assessment using Digital Literacies. In 2015 Ed Tech. Limerick: ILTA. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, 2015, Developing a Module in Mindfulness Approaches to Teaching and Learning in HigherEducation. In International Conference on Engaging Pedagogy. Dublin: ICEP. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, 2015, Transformation Pedagogy Through Curriculum, In International Conference on

Innovations, Shifts and Challenges in Learning and Teaching (ICISC). Kuala Lumpur: UCSI University. 

O’Toole, Mary & Childs, Alice, 2015, The Virtual Classroom: Legally Blended. In Ed Tech Limerick: ILTA 

Pierse, Paul, 2014, Regulating Our Principles, Mediators Institute of Ireland Annual Conference. Dublin: MII. 

Pierse, Paul, Pierse Clíona, 2015, Thy Will be Done - The Right Way. Cork: Chartered Accountants Society of

Ireland Seminar

CONFERENCES

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Power, Susan, 2015, Exploiting Sea Resources in Palestine. In United Nations Business and Human Rights Forum.

Geneva, United Nations. 

Power, Susan, 2014, The Academic Boycott of Israel: Why Legal Academics can make a difference. In: Irish

Association of Law Teachers. Kilkenny: Co. Kilkenny. 

Power, Susan, 2014, The Exploitation of Oil and Gas in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. in: United Nations

Business and Human Rights Forum. Geneva: United Nations. 

Wallis, Ruby, 2015, Autowalks, UK. In On-Walking, International Multi-Disciplinary Conference. UK: University

of Sunderland & The Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art. 

Wallis, Ruby, 2015, Coolorta: Re-imagining the Landscape through Artistic Practice’, In:  Mind the Gap,

Symposium on practice based research in the arts. Dublin: NCAD. 

Broughton, Fiona, 2015, PhD - A Study of the Extent to Which Irish laws, Policies and Practices Allow for Ireland’sApplication of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child to Pre-natal Children. Cork:  University

College Cork. 

Harrington, Selma, Current - Doctorate in Architecture - Towards sustainable development of a 20th centurymodernist heritage Museum building in Sarajevo, Glasgow: University of Strathclyde. 

Keegan, Edward, Current. PhD - A Missing Piece in the Puzzle: Monitoring Mechanisms and the Protection of

Trafficking Victims in Europe. Dublin: University College.

O’Keefe, Angela, Current, Doctorate in Education, Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, 2015, Doctorate in Education - Curriculum Development in Higher Education: InvestigatingPractice and Discourse, Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast. 

Smyth, Robbie, 2015, PhD - The Quality of Opinion Poll Reporting in the Irish Print Media, Belfast: Queen’s

University Belfast. 

Tracey, Jacqueline, Current. PhD - Building Absorptive Capacity through Employee Diversity: an Opportunityfor Small to Medium Enterprises. Glasgow: University of Strathclyde, and Dortmun: University of Applied

Sciences.

Wallis, Ruby, 2015, PhD in Fine Art Practice – Coolorta – Revisiting the Landscape Via Lens-based Art Practice, Dublin: National College of Art and Design.

CONFERENCES CONTD..

DOCTORATES

Galavan, Susan, 2015, Lumber kings and schooners: New Brunswick and the Irish Victorian city. University of

New Brunswick, Canada. 

Harrington, Selma, 2015, ‘Sustainable diversity: A role of architect in contemporary society. Sarajevo: IUS.

Langwallner, David, 2015, The Innocence Project, Milan: University of Milan

Langwallner, David, 2016, The Scandal of Homelessness in Ireland, Dublin: The Ballymun Law Centre

McKenna, Robert 2015, Disruptive technology: friend or foe? In  DBS Annual Library Seminar Dublin, Dublin:

DBS. 

Murphy, Siobhan, 2015, Design Thinking and Principles. Carlow:  IT Carlow. 

Murphy, Siobhan, 2015. Research workshop: Equality in Design, Limerick: The Gray Legacy Project

O’Riordan, Fiona, 2016, Embedding Assessment Strategies in Curriculum Development in NCI Innovative

Assessment Conference. NYC?

O’Riordan, Fiona, 2016, The Use of ePortfolio’s as a Teaching, Learning and Assessment Tool on a Professional

HE Teaching Qualification in DIT at ePortfolio Conference. 

O’Riordan, Fiona, 2016, Mapping F2F to Blended and Online in DCU at TEL Week.

INVITED SPEAKERS

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Doyle, Tanya 2015, Waterlilies. Post screening Q&A at Guth Gafa, International Documentary Festival. Donegal

& Meath. 

Galavan, Susan, 2015, Research Project on the Architecture of Henrietta Street for Dublin City Council for a

Permanent Exhibition for the City Tenement Museum, Henrietta Street. 

Hegarty, Daniel 2015, Waterlilies. Post screening Q&A at American Film Institute Documentary Film Festival

(AFI Docs). Washington D.C. 

Savage, Johnny, 2015, Fallout: Photography exhibition. Co. Kildare: The Riverbank Arts Centre. 

Wallis Ruby, 2014, Exhibition: Restless, 126 Members Show, Galway Arts Festival

Wallis Ruby, 2014, Unfixed Landscape, Galerie du Faoue ̈dic, Lorient, France

Wallis, Ruby, 2015, Belfast Exposed Futures: Photography exhibition. Paris: CCI. 

Wallis, Ruby, 2015, Exhibition: Pallas Projects, Dublin

Wallis, Ruby, 2015, Remote Photo Festival. Donegal: An Grianan. 

Wallis, Ruby, 2015, Unfixed Landscape. Clare: The Burren College of Art Gallery.  

SCREENINGS / EXHIBITIONS

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