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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Dept of Sociology |
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Project Title / Description |
Evaluation of an antisectarian education project An evaluation of a trade union antisectarian education project which started in 1993 and finished in 1996. |
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Contacts |
Prof.
Monica McWilliams, University of Ulster |
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Development Potential |
Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union |
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Funded by |
Central Community Relations Unit (NI Office). |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Dept of Sociology |
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Project Title / Description |
Cost of the Troubles Study The Cost of the Troubles study focussed on the impact of the troubles on people in Northern Ireland. The study started in 1996 and was completed in 1998. |
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Contacts |
Dr Andrew Finlay, TCD |
Dr Marie Smyth, Incore, UU, Magee, Derry |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Dept of Sociology |
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Project Title / Description |
Researching Violent Societies Network The network is international. It has resulted in the forthcoming book: Reflexivity, the Dilemmas of Identification and an Ethnographic Encounter in Northern Ireland, in Smyth, M and Robinson G, Researching Violent Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues, Tokyo: United Nations University Press. The network is ongoing and may result in further publications/conferences. |
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Contacts |
Dr Andrew Finlay, TCD |
Dr
Gillian Robinson |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Social Work/ Social Policy |
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Project Title / Description |
Joint Publication 12 coauthored or edited books/journals or contributing chapters to books with comparative NorthSouth framework. As follows:
Youngsters in Trouble with the law or in need of Protection in the Republic of Ireland A brief review of trends and provisions, with some Comparisons with the position in Northern Ireland. |
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Contacts |
Mr Shane Butler, TCD |
Prof. Derek Birrell, UU |
Prof. Dorota Iwarier, QUB |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Social Work/ Social Policy |
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Project Title/Description |
Tempus
Phare Project |
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Contacts |
Mr Shane Butler, TCD |
Prof. Derek Birrell, UU |
Prof. Dorota Iwarier, QUB |
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Universities Involved |
Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Social Work/ Social Policy |
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Project Title/Description |
Family Support Evaluation Network Family Support Evaluation Network (1996 to date) Joint venture between Centre for Child Care Research, QUB, Children's Research Centre, TCD, NSPCC Northern Ireland/England & Wales. |
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Contacts |
Mr Shane Butler, TCD |
Prof.
Derek Birrell, UU |
Prof. Dorota Iwarier, QUB |
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Universities Involved |
University
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Politics |
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Other Universities |
Edinburgh
University |
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Project Title / Description |
John Whyte trust fund Set up 1991, to promote scholarship problems in Ireland, to encourage young people to exchange with those on other side of border. One postgraduate scholarship offered for QUB student to study at UCD and vice versa in alternate years. Short study grants and conference fees also given. Funded from donations in memory of John Whyte and from royalties of his book 'Interpreting Northern Ireland.' |
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Contacts |
Prof. Bob Eccleshall, Politics Dept, QUB |
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Universities Involved |
University
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Politics |
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Other Universities |
University
of Newcastle |
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Project Title / Description |
1. Guest Seminar Series 19989 called 'After the Agreement'. 2. Edited Book 1999 also
called 'After the Agreement'. All the above contacts were made directly in terms of converging research interests, meetings at conferences etc. The political Studies Association of Ireland is one venue where academics North and South meet. |
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Contacts |
Dr Jennifer Todd, UCD |
Dr Bill Rolston,
Dept Sociology |
Dr Andrew
Sanders, Dept Sociology |
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Prof.
Richard English, Dept of politics, QUB |
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Universities Involved |
University College Cork |
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Department(s) |
Social Studies |
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Project Title / Description |
Citizenship & Peace This interdisciplinary
European research project was developed in cooperation between UCC and QUB,
in light of the first IRA ceasefire. It involved annual working seminars for
twenty academic participants |
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Contacts |
Prof.
Walter Lorenz |
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Universities Involved |
University
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
German |
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Other Universities |
University of Manchester |
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Project Title / Description |
Conference entitled "Reconstituting Social Criticism" Academic conference 28th30th June 1996 organised by the Dept of Politics, QUB in conjunction with the PSA Poststructuralism and Radical Politics specialist groups. |
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Contacts |
Dr I
McKenzie |
S O'Neill |
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Universities Involved |
Queen’s University Belfast University
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
School of Politics |
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Other Universities |
Prof. Alice Brown Governance of Scotland Forum University of Edinburgh Tel 0044 131 650 4251 alice.brown@ed.ac.uk |
Prof. Brendan O’Leary Department of Government London School of Economics |
Prof. John Loughlin School of European Studies University of Wales at Cardiff |
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Project Title / Description |
Towards New Governance?: The British-Irish Council The overarching aim of this study is to examine and
analyse the impact of the new and developing structure on intergovernmental
relations between the constituent members of the British-Irish Council, within
the context of the European Union. A proposal has been submitted to the
Economic and Social Research Council under its research programme on
devolution and constitutional change. The proposal has been short-listed. The
writing up of the project will be completed in December 2005. |
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Contacts |
Prof. Adrian Guelke, QUB A.Guelke@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK |
Prof. Elizabeth Meehan E.Meehan@Queens-Belfast.AC.UK |
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Prof. Brigid Laffan, UCD Tel + 353 1 716 8344 Fax + 353 1 706 1171 |
Mr John Coakley, UCD Tel + 353 1 716 8696 coakleyj@ollamh.ucd.ie |
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Universities Involved |
Queen’s University Belfast University College
Dublin |
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Project Title / Description |
Redefining Unionism A lecture given by Professor Richard English
on ‘Redefining Unionism’. The lecture was given on 04/05/00 and formed part
of a series of lectures on redefining the union and the nation politics, held
at IBIS. |
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Contacts |
John Coakley, UCD |
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Development Potential |
Contacts were established
between QUB School of Politics and The Institute for British-Irish Studies at
UCD which will yield further exchanges. |
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Universities Involved |
Queen’s University Belfast Trinity College Dublin |
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Project Title / Description |
Visiting Research Fellowship 1998-1999. 1999-2000, funded by Trinity and QUB. In response to Trinity advertisement. The project was self-contained. The objective was to consider whether Ireland had made
the right policy decision to seek opt-outs from the Amsterdam Treaty in order
to preserve the common travel area with the UK. Publication Free movement between Ireland and the UK; from the
“common travel area” to The Common Travel Area. Blue Paper, Trinity College Dublin, 2000. In association with Department of
Justice, Equality and Law Reform. |
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Business
Involvement |
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. c/o Una Nicgiolla Choille The Policy Institute Trinity College Dublin |
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Development Potential |
Expansion into a
monograph using material that could not be fitted into something the size of
a blue paper. |
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Universities Involved |
Queen’s University Belfast University
College Cork |
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Other Universities/Institutes |
Institutions in
Rimini, Bratislava, Klagenfurt, Rome and Paris |
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Project Title / Description |
International Research Group on Citizenship in
Divided Societies 1994. Group was set up by Professor Laurenz. It is open to new collaborators. Main objectives: to analyse questions of
inclusion/exclusion and citizenship in divided societies. To date: 3-4 study visits to places of division,
examining e.g. minority language policies. Project partly funded by EU and by host
institutions. Publications will emerge. |
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Contacts |
Prof. W Laurenz Centre for Social Research University College Cork Tel + 353 21 902770 |
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Universities Involved |
Queen’s University Belfast NUI Galway |
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Department(s) |
School Of Politics |
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Project Title / Description |
Ideology After Poststructuralism Start 01/07/99 End 01/07/01 (approx) Contact was made at another conference. Currently the project is not open to other
collaborators. Objectives A conference on the relationship between theories of
ideology and poststructuralism with a resulting publication. Outcomes Conference held on 1-2/07/99 with book project in
process. Funded (partially) by the British
Academy, School of Politics QUB, PSA specialist group fund, NUI Galway politics
and sociology department. |
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Contacts |
Sinisa Malesevic Tel + 353 91 524411
Ext 3653 |
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Development Potential |
An edited collection
is under consideration with Irish Academic Press under the remit of Social
Science Research Council of RoI. |
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Universities Involved |
Queen’s University Belfast Trinity
College Dublin |
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Department(s) |
Politics |
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Project Title / Description |
How Ireland Voted Start Oct - 1996 End July - 1998 Result - book - How Ireland Voted 1997 Westweir
Press, 1999. |
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Contacts |
Michael Marsh, TCD mmarsh@tcd.ie |
Paul Mitchell, QUB |
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