Mary Immaculate College Research Newsletter Spring/An tEarrach

Cambridge University Hosts Mary Immaculate College
IVACS Symposium
Mary Immaculate College Limerick has set up a vibrant international
research network connecting leading researchers and PhD students in the
field of Corpus Linguistics. This inter-institutional network is conducted
through the IVACS (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies) Research Centre.
This year the IVACS annual research symposium was hosted by the Faculty
of English at the University of Cambridge, with papers presented by
researchers from Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick,
Newcastle University, University of Nottingham, Leeds Metropolitan
University, University of Leeds and University of Cambridge. The network,
which was formally established in 2002, has grown strategically so as to
broaden its expertise base through links with other key corpus-based
researchers and research centres, especially in the UK.
Mary Immaculate College Research Newsletter
Spring/An tEarrach 2012
CGDE Workshop in Lesotho
The CGDE held a two day
workshop in Maseru, Lesotho
in December 2011 to present
the findings of two research
projects to key stakeholders
in Lesotho. The workshops
were
attended
by
representatives from the
Ministry
of
Education,
Lesotho College of Education,
the National Examinations
Stella Long, Dr. John Oliphant, Rector, Lesotho College of Education Council of Lesotho, District
and Anne Dolan are pictured at the Two Day Stakeholders Workshop Officers
and
Itinerant
held at the Lehakoe Club, Maseru, Lesotho in December 2011
Teachers in the education
sector and from Action Lesotho. The Irish Ambassador to Lesotho, H.E. Mr. Gerry Gervin
was also in attendance. Anne Dolan (Team Leader),(MIC), Mrs. V. Ntne (Lesotho College of
Education) and Dr. J. Urwick (formely CGDE) presented the findings of the first research
project A study of the assessment practices of teachers in primary and secondary schools
in Lesotho. Findings of the second research project Identification, Assessment and
Inclusion for Learners with SEN: Towards a National Plan for Lesotho was presented by
team leaders Stella Long (MIC) and Dr. J. O'Riordan (UCC), Dr. R. Karanja (LCE) and Dr. J.
Urwick. Research clusters for both research projects were established at the workshops
with a view towards the further development of research on both topics.
Michael Healy and Diarmuid O’ Driscoll attended PGR International Collaborations:
Opportunities & Challenges on 8th March 2012 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
This workshop explored a variety of examples of international PGR collaborations and
highlighted the opportunities that these offer to institutions.
Michael Healy attended the Association of Researcher Managers and
Administrators (ARMA) event ‘Supporting Research Proposals’ on Tue 28
Feb 2012. This was a one-day event on supporting academics in the
research proposal process. The sessions focused on fEC, preparing a
project budget, writing of proposals, quality assurance processes, other
related issues such as risk management and ethics, submitting proposals
and an overview of the peer review process.
The 8th Annual Conference of AFIS (Association of
Franco-Irish Studies), entitled ‘France and Ireland in
the Public Imagination’ will take place in Mary
Immaculate College on 25-26 May, 2012. The
conference is being organised by John Mc Donagh
and Eugene O’Brien.
IVACS Biennial
International
Conference
The sixth Biennial
IVACS International
Conference will be
hosted by Leeds
Metropolitan
University, 21st and
22nd June 2012.
Over 80 papers have
been shortlisted.
Shanru Yang, Newcastle University PhD student, Dr Steve Walsh,
Newcastle University, Anne O’Keeffe, MIC and Tania Palma Fahey,
MIC PhD student, at the January 2012 IVACS Symposium, hosted
by Cambridge University.
Launch of Leonardo da Vinci Partnership:
Recognition of prior learning in vocational education and
training (RIPLVET)
The inaugural meeting for a European project on the recognition of prior
learning (RPL) in vocational education and training (VET) was hosted by Mary
Immaculate College on 19 and 20 January 2012. The two-year project which
is being co-ordinated by Mary Immaculate College aims to compare VET
systems in partner countries, share knowledge on the use of RPL and
prepare documentation on a range of issues, including the potential of
ECVET (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training) for
supporting RPL. Project members attended from the following institutions:
Mary Immaculate College, City of Limerick Vocational Education Committee,
University of Stirling, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied
Sciences, FLORIFORM-Formation Fleuriste, and Gazi University, Turkey. A
follow-up meeting was held at the end of March in Oslo and Akershus
University of Applied Sciences. This
was attended by Cathal de Paor,
Dorothy Morrissey and Brendan
Barry. The project is funded as part of
the European Commission’s Lifelong
Learning Programme.
Toward Mutual Ground:
Religious Pluralism in Educational Practice in Irish Schools
Over 240 people attended this event in MIC in March 2012. It consisted of 18 workshops and
3 keynotes with contributions from a range of academics and teachers and students from
schools including Catholic and Protestant, Jewish and Muslim, Educate Together and VEC
community Schools. The conference brought together a large number of international and
national experts in the area of religious pluralism, theology and educational practice.
Lesa Ní Mhunghaile was one of 295 participants chosen out of
1,200 applicants to attend the HERA ‘Cultural Encounters’
Matchmaking Event in Berlin, 21 February 2012, in order to
identify potential collaboration partners.
Scothsmaointe 2012
Iris í Scothsmaointe atá á hullmhú faoi láthair
don chló. Is iad na mic léinn féin a scríobh a
bhfuil ann, idir ghearrscéalta, véarsaíocht, agus
iriseoireacht, agus is iad Maighréad Ní Luasa,
Diarmuid Ó Caoimh agus Tomás Ó Coileáin a
chuir in eagar. Táthar ag tnúth le maoiniú ó
Fhoras na Gaeilge ar a son. Leagan méadaithe a
bheidh ann i mbliana agus í ar díol sa siopa.
Professor Michael Hayes with keynote speakers and a selection of workshop presenters at the Toward Mutual
Ground Conference on March 23, 2012.
Publications/Foilseacháin
T. Bonfield, B. Dainuvite, S. Kiefer & A.
Sabanci (Eds.), 2012. ACEP/SINEX Intensive
Programmes: A selection of readings, Linz:
University of Education, Upper Austria.
http://student.ph-ooe.at/book.pdf
P. Connolly, 2012. Memory and the
Eucharist. The Irish Catholic, 8 March.
E. Conway, 2012. Suffering and the
Eucharist, The Irish Catholic, 16 Feb.
E. Conway with László Lukács, 2011. Casta
meretrix – the Church, sinful and holy, ET
Studies, Journal of the European Society for
Catholic Theology, 02/2011.
E. Conway, 2012. God in the Workplace –
challenges for third-level chaplaincy, The
Furrow, May.
E. Conway, 2012. The Incarnation: where
Hope and Salvation History Rhyme – A
response to Terrence Tilley, Proceedings of
the Leuven Explorations in Systematic
Theology VIII Conference, Leuven: Peeters,
E. Conway, 2012. Saint Patrick’s Purgatory,
Lough Derg: keeping ‘An Ancient Vow’, In:
Brendan Leahy and Salvador Ryan (Eds),
Treasures of Irish Christianity, Dublin:
Veritas.
Resource Teacher in the Post-Primary
School: Ten Top Tips. ILSA Spring
Newsletter.
H. Emery & F. Gardiner-Hyland, 2012.
Contextualising EFL for Young Learners:
International Perspectives on Policy and
Practice. TESOL Arabia: Dubai, UAE.
F. Gardiner-Hyland, 2012. In my Reading
Classroom…Emirati Student Teachers
Constructing Teaching Styles in the College
Classroom, Contextualising EFL for Young
Learners: International Perspectives on Policy
and Practice, TESOL Arabia: Dubai, UAE.
F. Gardiner-Hyland, 2012. 10 Ways to
Encourage Beginning Reading in an Emirati
Home. The Read Magazine, International
Printing Press: United Arab Emirates.
F. Gardiner-Hyland, 2012. Teacher
Education Online Reference List, The
International Research Foundation,
http://www.tirfonline.org/resources/
references/
T.G. Grenham & P. Kieran, 2012. (Eds.),
New Educational Horizons in Contemporary
Ireland: Trends and Challenges, Bern,
Switzerland. Peter Lang.
U. Doherty & M. Egan, 2012. Promoting
Early Reading Skills in Children with Down
syndrome and General Learning Disabilities,
Reading Association of Ireland (RAI), Spring
Newsletter.
A. Dolan, (with Gleeson, J. Urwick, J.,Griffin,
R. & Lepota.L., 2011. Study of the
Assessment Practices of Teachers in Primary
and Secondary Schools in Lesotho: Final
Report of Research Project Centre for Global
Development through Education (CGDE) and
Lesotho College of Education (LCE).
A. Dolan, 2011. The Colour of Home,
InTouch, INTO, December.
A. Dolan, 2011. Africa is not a country,
InTouch, INTO, January -February 2012.
A. Dolan, 2011. Celebrating International
Women’s Day, InTouch, INTO, March 2012.
A. Dolan, 2011. Mama Panya’s Pancakes: A
Story from Kenya, InTouch, INTO, April 2012.
G. Downes, 2012. La utilización del poder de
fijar la agenda en la evolución del sistema de
comercio multilateral de la integración
"negativa" a la "positiva". Barataria: revista
castellano-manchega de ciencias sociales,
No. 12, 2011, 65-80.
E.M. Duggan, J. Sturley (Pope), A.P.
Fitzgerald, I.J. Perry & J. O’B. Hourihane,
2012. The 2002–2007 trends of prevalence
of asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema in
Irish schoolchildren, Pediatric Allergy
Immunology, 2012: 00.
M. Egan, 2012. The Learning Support/
Resource Teacher in the Primary School.
ILSA Winter Newsletter.
M. Egan, 2012. The Learning Support
T.G. Grenham, 2012. Teacher Educators and
Teaching, Learning and Reflective Practice
among the Turkana Nomads of Kenya. In: R.
Griffin, (Ed.), Teacher Education in SubSaharan Africa: Closer Perspectives, Oxford:
Symposium Books.
T.G. Grenham, 2012. Religious Education:
Developing Responsible Citizens in an Age of
Pluralism, The Pastoral Review, Vol 8. (2).
T.G. Grenham, 2012. Discovering the
Universal in the Particular: A Vision for
Christian Mission Spirituality, Missiology: An
International Review, Vol. XXXV (1).
E. Humphreys, D. McCafferty & A. Higgins,
2012. How Are Our Kids? Experiences and
Needs of Children and Families in Limerick
City with a Particular Emphasis on Limerick’s
Regeneration Areas.
P. Kieran, 2012. Food for Thought: Is Fasting Bretagne, 97-114.
out of Fashion?, Intercom, Vol. 42, (1).
Diarmuid O’Driscoll and Professor Donald
L. Kierans & B. Kreussler, 2012. The Belavin Ramirez of the University of Virginia (2011):
Geometric View of Measurement Errors.
-Drinfeld theorem on non-degenerate
Communications in Statistics- Simulation and
solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter
Computation Volume 40 Issue 9 , 1373, Taylor
equation, Journal of Physics: Conference
and Francis.
Series Vol. 346, 012011
M. Liston, 2012. Introducing the Primary
Science Curriculum. Science, 47 (2), May.
M. Liston, 2012. Using Concept Cartoons.
Intouch, INTO, March.
M. Liston, 2012. Concept Mapping in
Primary Science. Research and Resource
Guide, 3 (4), NCE-MSTL.
Due to the success of the
first edition in hardback,
M. Liston, 2012. Puppets in the Irish Primary Routledge publishers has
decided to produce The
Science Classroom – Promoting Scientific
Routledge Handbook of
Inquiry and Scientific Process Skills.
Corpus Linguistics, edited
Research and Resource Guide, 3 (5),
by Anne O’Keeffe and
NCE-MSTL.
Michael McCarthy (2010;
A. Meehan, & D.
London: Routledge), in
O’Connell, 2012.
paperback, as well as
Son of God and Son
hardback, in its second edition. The volume is
of Mary. Texas:
almost 700 pages in extent and contains 45
Veritas. Part of a
chapters, 17 of which are from IVACS
new series of
researchers.
religious education
B. O’Keeffe, 2012. Innovations in Social
textbooks for
Welfare Systems. In: R. Laratta (Ed.), Social
American Catholic
Welfare. InTech.
high schools .
L. Mac Peaircin, 2012.
An Sguab 1922-1926. Baile Átha
Cliath: Coiscéim.
D’fhoilsigh Liam Mac Peaircín leabhar nua le
déanaí dar teideal An Sguab 1922-1926.
Coiscéim a d’fhoilsigh.
Nuachtán
dúshlánach ba ea An Sguab a foilsíodh idir
na blianta 1922-1926. D’éirigh leis pobal
léitheoireachta ar leith a spreagad lena linn.
Ardaíodh ceisteanna móra na Gaeilge, an
náisiúnachais, agus Ghaelachais mar ábhar
léite agus cainte sa teaghlach. Bailíodh
bloghanna tábhachtacha béaloidis,
leaganacha de scéalta, d’amhráin, agus de
dhánta a bhí gann, agus, thar aon ní eile,
cuireadh ar shúile na muintire go raibh
luach ag baint leis an litríocht bhéil arbh fhiú
é a bhailiú agus a chur ar bhuanchoimeád.
G. Moore, 2012. ‘Tristan chords and
random scores’: exploring undergraduate
students’ experiences of music in higher
education through the lens of Bourdieu.
Music Education Research, Vol 14 1 65-80.
Róisín Nic Dhonncha, 2012. (Roinn na
Gaeilge). Emigration, Oral Discourse and
Traditional Song in Connemara. In: Mícheál
Ó hAodha & John O’Callaghan (Eds.),
Narratives of the Occluded Irish Diaspora,
Peter Lang.
E. O’Brien, 2012. Mobile Technology and
the Actuvirtual/Artifactual Subject. In:
Susan Yi Sencindiver, Maria Beville & Marie
Lauritzen, (Eds.), Otherness: A Multicultural
Perspective, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 261-280.
At the recent launch of ‘How Are Our Kids’ were Kevin O’Farrell, HSE; Ann Higgins, Minister Jan
O’Sullivan; Dr. Eileen Humphreys, UL; Des McCafferty, Brendan Kenny, Limerick Regeneration Agency
Through the organisation Pedagogy, Learning
and Education for the Early Years (PLE),
lecturers in Early Childhood Care and Education
throughout the country have collaborated to
produce a text book for students. Jennifer
Pope has written a chapter on Understanding
Children's Health and Well-being. This Early
Childhood Education and Care Introductory
Text, published by Gill & MacMillan, is available
now.
C. Swift, 2012. Northern migration and Viking
settlement in the south-east of Ireland.
TUI Congress 2012 Journal.
R. Van Nieuwenhove, 2011. Fourteenth
Century Christianity. In: G.T. Kurian (Ed.), The
Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, 3 vols.,
Oxford: Blackwell.
R. Van Nieuwenhove, 2011. Jan van Ruusbroec.
In: G.T. Kurian (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of
Christian Civilization, 3 vols., Oxford: Blackwell.
Rik Van Nieuwenhove, 2012.
An Introduction to Medieval
Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press).
P. Kieran, 2012. Religious Inclusion and
Exclusion in Contemporary primary Schools.
In: T. Grenham & P. Kieran, (Eds.), New
Educational Horizons in Contemporary
Ireland: Trends and Challenges, Frankfurt:
Peter Lang, 233-254.
P. Kieran, 2012. Igniting the Fires of Creativity
and Imagination. T. Grenham & P. Kieran,
(Eds.), New Educational Horizons in
Contemporary Ireland: Trends and
Challenges, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 329-338.
A. O’Keeffe, 2012. Vocabulary Instruction. In: A.
Burns & J. Richards, (Eds.), The Cambridge Guide
to Pedagogy and Practice in Language Teaching.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
236-245.
E. O’Brien, 2011. Python and the Gazelle –
Revolt, Revolution and the Rebels: The Cork
Hurling Saga as Paradigmatic of the
Epistemology of Revolution. In: Yann
Bévant, Anne Goarzin & Grace Neville,
(Eds.), War of the Words: Literary Rebellion
in France and Ireland, Tir: Publication du
CRBC Rennes 2, Université Européenne de
Medieval theology, in
all its diversity, was
radically theo-centric,
Trinitarian, Scriptural
and sacramental. It also
operated
with
a
profound
view
of
human understanding
(in terms of intellectus
rather than mere ratio).
In
a
post-modern
climate, in which the
modern
views
on
'autonomous reason' are increasingly being
questioned, it may prove fruitful to re-engage
with pre-modern thinkers who, obviously, did
not share our modern and post-modern
presuppositions. Their different perspective
does not antiquate their thought, as some of
the 'cultured despisers' of medieval thought
might imagine. On the contrary, rather than
rendering their views obsolete it makes them
profoundly challenging and enriching for
theology today. This book is more than a survey
of key medieval thinkers (from Augustine to the
late-medieval period); it is an invitation to think
along with major theologians and explore how
their thought can deeply challenge some of
today's modern and post-modern key
assumptions.
Conferences/Comhdhálacha
B. Clancy, 2012. Small words, big
ideas: A corpus-based investigation
of empathetic that in the Limerick
Corpus of Irish English. IVACS
Annual Symposium, Faculty of
English, University of Cambridge,
Jan 13.
A. Dolan, 2011. ‘You , Me and
Diversity’: The potential of picture
books for teaching development and
intercultural education. DICE Annual
Conference: You, Me and Diversity, St.
Patrick’s College, Dublin, Nov 25-26.
A. Higgins, 2012. I Know, Therefore
I Act? Building Knowledge Through
Moments of Knowing and
Transformational Research
Practices. AERA Annual Conference,
Vancouver, Canada, Apr 13-17.
Special Interest Group - Narrative
Research.
M. Egan, 2012. A Time of
J. Deegan, 2012. Seeing Serendipity: Transformation: The General
A. Higgins, Knowledge Making as
When Insight, Chance, Discovery
Allocation Model; Insights,
and Ethics Come Together in
Influences and Impacts. ESAI Annual Praxis Situated Within the Social
Context of Education. AERA Annual
Qualitative Research. Annual
Conference, UCC, Cork, Mar 29-31.
Conference, Vancouver, Canada,
Meeting of ESAI, UCC, Cork, Mar 30. N. Flannery & J. Deegan, 2012. An
Apr 13-17. Division G - Social
J. Deegan, 2012. Potential
Evaluation of Participants'
Educational Policy Scenarios in
Perspectives of the safeTalk Suicide Context of Education.
Ireland. Annual Meeting of ESAI,
UCC, Cork, Mar 30.
J. Deegan, 2012. Speaking of
Education Policy…: Broadening the
Conversation about Policy Issues in
Ireland – North and South.
Symposium organised at the 2012
ESAI, UCC, Mar 30, with Steering
Committee of the Institute of
Educational Research in Ireland
(IoERI) Dr. Kevin Davison (NUIG), Dr.
Charlotte Holland (DCU), Prof.
Joanne Hughes (QUB), Prof. Lori
Beckett (Leeds Met) and John Carr
(former General Secretary INTO).
A. Dolan, 2012. The Potential of
Video for Teaching Primary
Geography. Geographical
Association (Primary Geography)
Progress in Primary Geography
Research. Charney Manor,
Oxfordshire, Feb 24-26.
Awareness and Education
Programme. Annual International
Nursing & Midwifery Research &
Education Conference, RCSI, Dublin,
Feb 23.
T.G. Grenham & P. Kieran, 2012.
Transformative Religious Education:
Learning about, for and within
Diverse Religions and Beliefs.
Toward Mutual Ground: Religious
Pluralism in Educational Practice in
Irish Schools MIC, March 23.
T.G. Grenham & P. Kieran, 2012.
Transformative Religious Education:
Learning about, for and within
Diverse Religions and Beliefs in the
Irish Primary School, ESAI Annual
Conference, Cork, Mar 29-31.
A. Higgins, 2012. ‘I felt safe to be a
child. I wanted to learn’: locating
caring adult child relationships as
core components enabling learning
accessibility’. International
conference on Interpersonal
Relationships in Education,
Vancouver, Canada. Apr 11-12.
A. Kenny, & S. Malambo, Tuning in
or tuning out? Investigating teacher
attitudes towards teaching music in
Zambian basic schools. ZITEP
Conference, Lusaka, Zambia, Apr 2-3.
Lesotho. CGDE/LCE Stakeholders
Workshop , Lehakoe Club, Maseru,
Lesotho, Dec 12-13.
S. Long, 2012. Developing a
National System for Inclusion for
Students with Special Educational
Needs in Lesotho. AERA Annual
Conference, Vancouver, Canada,
Apr 13-17.
S. Long, 2012. A National System
for Special Educational Needs in
Lesotho: Findings of an
International Research Project.
Council for Exceptional Children
Annual Convention, Denver,
Colorado, April 11-14.
C. Lyons, & A. Higgins, 2012.
Working Together: The Role of a
Transformative School-University
Partnership in Changing Behavior
at School. AERA Annual
Conference, Vancouver, Canada,
Apr 13–17. Special Interest Group Classroom Management.
G. Mark & A. O’Keeffe, 2012.
Exploring spoken grammar
competency. IVACS Annual
Symposium, Faculty of English,
University of Cambridge, Jan 13.
P. Kieran & T. Grenham, 2012.
Religious Education in a religiously
plural and secular world. ESAI Annual Ú. Ní Bhroiméil, 2012. A tinge of
Conference, UCC, Cork, Mar 29.
effeminacy – Masculinity and
P. Kieran & T. Grenham,
National Manhood in the Mosely
Collaborative Research and
Report 1904. AERA Annual
Publication. UL /MIC Conversations Conference, Vancouver, Apr 13-17.
in the Consortium Series, MIC,
Diarmuid O’Driscoll, in
Limerick, Nov 28.
collaboration with Professor
M. Harmon & Elaine Mahon (Veritas),
2012. The Nature and Purpose of
Catholic Schools in an Irish Context.
Towards Mutual Ground: Religious
A. Dolan, 2011 (with Lineo Lepota) Pluralism in Educational Practice in Irish P. Kieran & T. Grenham, 2011. Me,
Schools, MIC, Limerick, March 23.
Presentation of Final Report: A
You and Religious Diversity. Annual
Study of the Assessment Practices of C. K. Healy & A. O’Beirne, 2012.
Development and Intercultural
Teachers in Primary and Secondary Insights into the Hunt Strategy
Education Conference (DICE), St.
Schools in Lesotho. Stakeholders
Group’s Research RecommendPatrick’s College, Dublin, Nov 26.
Workshop to Disseminate the
ations: considering their influence on S. Long, J. O'Riordan & J. Urwick,
findings of research projects cogovernment research policy and its
2011. Identification, Assessment
ordinated by the Centre for Global
potential impact on educational
and Inclusion for Learners with
Development through Education
research in the area of the Health
Special Educational Needs: Towards
(CGDE), Ireland and Lesotho College Promoting School. ESAI Annual
a National System for
of Education, Maseru, Dec 12–13.
Conference, UCC, Cork, Mar 29-31.
Donald Ramirez of the University
of Virginia, presented Moment
Estimation of Measurement Errors
at the international conference
dedicated to the memory of
Professor Moti Lal Tiku (2011),
published in proceedings [http://
www.nedetas.metu.edu.tr/
NEDETAS_Conference%
20Proceedings.PDF].
Public Lectures & Invited Talks/Léachtaí Poiblí & Aoichainteoirí
Tony Bonfield and Des Carswell:
are presenting to students and
faculty of the Pädagogische
Hochschule Oberösterreich, Linz,
Austria (April 24–27). Tony
Bonfield’s lecture is entitled
Critical Discourse Analysis as a
Hermeneutic in Exploring
Educational Policy: The Nature of
Irishness within the 1999 Irish
Primary Curriculum. Des
Carswell’s lecture is entitled
Governmentality: The Literacy and
Numeracy Dilemma in Early
Childhood Education. Both Tony
and Des will be providing a joint
lecture and subsequent workshop
entitled ‘Modeling Democratic
Practice in Education: A Dialogical
Exploration of Issues, Dilemmas
and Opportunities’.
Patrick Connolly :
- delivered a public lecture
entitled "The seal of confession
and the Irish socio-political
context” at the Faculty of
Theology, University of Erfurt,
Germany, 16 December 2011.
- a series of talks on ministerial
issues to those training for the
permanent diaconate for the
dioceses of Armagh and Killmore,
23-24 March 2012.
Eamonn Conway:
- “Nourishing Faith in a Changing
Irish Culture”, Paper to Integritas,
Kilkenny, Jan 12, 2012
- The Changing Face of Global
Catholicism. Implications for
Theology and Theological
Education. Invited Plenary Paper to
the French region of the European
Society for Catholic Theology and
the Ecole Doctorale de Théologie et
de Sciences Religieuses Palais
Universitaire, Strasbourg, Feb 17.
- “God in the Workplace”. Keynote
Address to the Annual Conf. of
Third-Level Chaplains, Tralee, Feb 2
“Being prophetic in contemporary
culture”. Paper to the Rosminian
Province of England and Ireland,
Emmaus, Swords, Mar 14.
Jim Deegan:
‘- In and Out of School
Constructions of Working Class
Lads.’ Invited paper presentation at
Annual Children’s Literature
Festival, Frostburg State University
(FSU), Frostburg, MD, USA, Apr 28.
- ‘Cultivating Self as a Reflexive
Instrument in Particular Ethical
Cases.’ Invited lecture presented at
the Cohort PhD (Education)
Summer School, Education
Department, UCC, 5th July, 2011.
-‘Bridging Educational Policy
Questions and Innovative
Responses’, Master Class organised
as part of the Structured PhD
(Education) degree programme,
with Prof. John Coolahan (NUIM),
Prof. Mary O’Sullivan (UL), Prof.
Algerian Border"
- Curator of experimental music
performance entitled "Tank" at
John Doyle:
Triskel Christchurch Arts Centre,
- Exploring Ways in which Teachers
Cork.
Can Support Children’s Development
-Organiser and performer at
as Writers of Narrative and Poetry’.
an introduction to Sound Art Event
Presentation given to members of the
at MIC. Inaugural event for the
Tarbert Education Support Centre in
MIC Audio Research Centre.
the Community Centre, Tarbert, Co.
-presented "Pop Music, Politics
Kerry. Nov 22.
and Sufism in Eastern Morocco" at
- Approaching the Teaching of Writing
the MIC Arts Faculty Seminar
in Our School. A facilitated discussion
Series.
with the Staff of Scoil Eoin Naofa,
Garryowen, Limerick on the school’s John Mc Donagh:
aim to improve the teaching/learning spent a week at the McGraw
Centre for Teaching and Learning
of writing in the school. March 6.
in Princeton University, New
Patricia Kieran:
Jersey, USA in December. He gave
th
- March 5 , 2012. ‘Living
an invited lecture to the faculty
Compassionately and supporting faith
entitled ‘Teaching and Learning in
in families.’ Invited public lecture in a
Mary Immaculate College: An
Lenten series of lectures featuring
Emerging Model’. The Director of
Justin Kilcullan and Peter Mc Verry,
the Centre, Professor Carol Porter,
Millstreet, Cork.
will visit MIC in the autumn
Bernd Kreussler:
semester of 2012.
- "On two-dimensional moduli spaces
Lesa Ní Mhunghaile:
of vector bundles on K3 surfaces"
was invited to give a guest lecture
at the UCC Geometry seminar, Feb.
entitled: ‘The Prevalence of the
- "Six pigeons, three prisoners and a
Irish-Language in Eastern Ontario
balance" at the UCC Science
during the late Nineteenth
Conference.
Century: Evidence from the 1901
Tony Langlois:
Canadian Census ‘ at the Research
- was guest speaker at Centre of Near
Institute for Scottish and Irish
& Middle East Studies - Philipps
Studies, University of Aberdeen, 15
University, Marburg, Germany. His
March 2012.
talk was entitled: "Music, Religion
and Politics on the Moroccan/
Kathy Hall (UCC), Prof. Eugene Wall
(MIC) and Dr. Jim Gleeson (UL).
B. O’Keeffe, 2011. Turning the Tide
– Communities and Renewal. 4th
Annual Laurentic Conference and
Commemoration, Buncrana, Co.
Donegal, Jan 27.
J. O’Shea, & A. Leavy, 2012.
Mathematical problem posing: pre
-service teacher knowledge and
practice. ESAI Annual Conference ,
UCC, Cork, March 31.
E. Vaughan, 2012. Taking it to the
next level: Humour and
conversational language in
A ‘written’ genre, the Irish based
blog Homeand AwayIreland.com.
IVACS Annual Symposium, Faculty
of English, University of
Cambridge, Jan 13.
Teresa McElhinney, Richard Bowles
& Déirdre Ní Chróinín, 2012.
Assessment in Physical Education:
Practical Ideas. Irish Primary Physical
Education Association (IPPEA) 10th
Annual Conference, A, B, C’s and
1,2,3’s: Exploring Literacy and
Numeracy in PE, Marino Institute of
Education, Dublin, Mar 3.
A collaboration between staff in the
Departments of Language, Literacy &
Mathematics Education and Arts
Education & Physical Education, this
presentation posed the question: PE
and literacy - an arranged marriage
or a marriage made in heaven? It
emphasised the strong connections
between these apparently diverse
subjects and suggested a range of
approaches to the assessment of PE
through the literacy lens to the
enhancement of learning in both
areas.
Algebraic Geometry Conference
The first mathematics conference
since 1982 at MIC with speakers
from abroad took place on 3rd and
4th February 2012. The topic of the
conference was Algebraic
Geometry. At the start of the
conference, Donal Hurley (UCC)
gave a speech in which he paid
tribute to the work of Gerard
Enright and Pat O'Sullivan at Mary
Immaculate College. Afterwards,
the talks that dealt with various
topics from Algebraic Geometry
got under way. More details can
be found on the conference
homepage:
http://www.maths.mic.ul.ie/
kreussler/
Algebraic_Geometry_2012.html
Darach Sanfey was the invited
speaker at a recent event hosted
by the UCD School of Politics and
International Relations to mark the
300th anniversary of the birth of
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the
Genevan-born philosopher and
author. His lecture was entitled
‘“Reckless, scandalous, impious':
un drôle de citoyen. Rousseau on
the prerogatives of citizenship’.
The event was attended by his
Excellency Beat
Loeliger, the
Swiss
Ambassador to
Ireland, who
presented the
UCD Library
with a set of
Rousseau’s
collected works
in translation.
Nótaí an Chomh Leas-Uachtaráin Taighde
A Chomhghleacaithe,
This has been a particularly busy year for staff and research
postgraduates in terms of applications for research funding.
While in most of these cases we are awaiting the outcomes
of applications, it is noteworthy I think that MIC staff and
postgrads are competing for funds under prestigious
national and international schemes. Some examples (not a
full list) include applications to the European Research
Council, the European Commission (FP7 – Social Sciences &
Humanities), ICUSTA, the EU Tempus Programme, the EU
Erasmus Programme, the Irish Department of Foreign
Affairs / Irish Aid PSC, the IRCHSS New Ideas Scheme, the
IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Scheme and nine applications to the
IRCHSS PG Scheme 2012-13. Over the next few weeks we will have several applications to the
new Government of Ireland Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities and Social
Sciences Scheme, as well as up to four applications to the HERA (Humanities in the European
Research Area) JRP Cultural Encounters. This augurs well for our continuing research
development, and I wish to commend all involved.
MIC seed funding for research projects has been distributed by the Research Office
throughout the academic year 2011-12. 24 projects received funding to date, reflecting
enthusiastic participation of staff in advancing a wide range of research projects. Similarly, the
Conference Fund has supported faculty members to attend 36 conferences this year. A small
sum remains available for the remainder of the academic year. Please contact me as soon as
possible if you need some small-scale funding support.
I am currently planning a showcase event for all MIC Research Centres to be held in
September 2012. Preparation for the event is under way among the co-ordinators of the
centres, including devising the programme, the event format and the content. Centres are
also updating their respective websites preparatory to the showcase and the quality review
programme upcoming next year. I hope that the College academic community will attend the
showcase event along with collaborators and professional colleagues from other HEIs.
Best wishes,
Michéal O hÉaluithe
Comh-Leasuachtarán Taighde
MIC Research Seed Funding Awards
- Round 2 2011-2012
Roibeard O'Cathasaigh: Lís Ní Shúilleabháin
Collaborations/Comhoibriú
Appointments/Ceapacháin
Patrick Connolly:
acted as the external examiner for a PhD thesis on lying and police work entitled “The
Roman Catholic Church's Teaching on Lying and the Nature of the Moral Act: An Analysis
and Application to Social Practice”, Open University, Birmingham, 30 Sept 2011.
Eamonn Conway :
- was appointed a peer reviewer for the international journal Acta Theologica.
- is guest thematic editor of the 02/11 volume of ET Studies, Journal of the European Society
for Catholic Theology
Jim Deegan:
- External Examiner, EdD Viva, Department of Adult and Community Education, National
University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM), Nov. 2011.
Michael Healy:
has been appointed as an expert evaluator (CT-EX2002B001424-101) under the EU Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7) for Research and Technological Development : Theme 8 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Subject: FP7-SSH-2012-1 and FP7-SSH-20122. This work will take place in April – May 2012.
Tony Langlois:
- was Programme Co-ordinator for annual conference of the International Council on
Traditional Music, held at Trinity College, Dublin.
- was appointed co-editor of the organisation's peer-reviewed web journal.
Rik Van Nieuwenhove:
- has been appointed a member of the International Advisory Board of the Irish Theological
Quarterly.
Postgraduate News
Anissa Bennaïli and
Marion Joassin, who are
PhD students in the
Department of French
Studies, both gave a
paper on 3rd March at a
postgraduate conference
jointly organized at the
University of Sheffield by
the Irish Association for
French & Francophone Studies (ADEFFI), the
Association for the Study of Modern and
Contemporary France (ASMCF) and the
Society for the Study for French History
(SSFH). Anissa spoke about representations
of young King Louis XIV in Alexandre Dumas’
novels and Marion spoke about her work on
French 19th century playwright Casimir
Delavigne.
Now: 21st Century Writing in English, July
16-18, 2012, Lincoln University.
Michelle Kennedy (Dept of English Lang &
Literature):
Representations of Madness in Irish
Society in the drama of Brian Friel.
New Voices in Irish Criticism: “Legitimate
Ireland” Conference, Queens University
Belfast, 19th – 21st April 2012.
‘Are We Not Men?’ The Effect of Cloning
on Traditional Theories of Humanity and
Personhood’, The Journal of Franco Irish
Studies: France and Ireland: Cultures en
Crise, No. 2, Winter 2011, 109-133.
Among the IRCHSS New
Aislinn O'Donnell: Philosophy at the Margins Ideas grants awarded to
Mary Immaculate College
Michael Breen: Mass media and Medicine:
in Spring 2012 is one for a
Donna Mitchell (Dept. Of English
Analysing media content on medical issues
project entitled Linn na
Language & Literature) recently shared
Lesa Ní Mhunghaile: A Study of IrishnGéinte
Éireannacha:
sections from her research work in two
Language Speakers in Nineteenth-Century
Genes of Celts, Vikings
conference papers. The first paper, ‘“Do
Ontario, Canada
and
Normans.
This
you want me to be a doll forever?” - The
Angela Hayes: Late Quaternary
project
investigates
Kristy Butler (Dept of English Lang & Lit):
Gothic Female’s Resistance to Patriarchy,’
palaeoclimatic and palaeoecological changes surnames
which
are Dr Turi King, Dept of
Breaking the Frame: Alternative Histories,
was presented at the MIC Postgraduate &
in the Gulf of Lion (western Mediterranean
attested in townland Genetics, University
Monstrous Ideologies and the Political
Postdoctoral Conference on the 6th
Sea) - Phase 2
of
Leicester
names from counties
Gothic. Monsters: Subject, Object, Abject
December 2011. The second paper, ‘From
Sandra Ryan: A further examination of
Limerick, Galway and
Conference, Manchester, Apr 11-12.
Dolls to Demons: Constructions of
factors contributing to rural educational
Wexford, where the same surnames are listed Acts of Hunger, Acts of War: The Undead as
Femininity in the Gothic Female’s
disadvantage in Ireland
in medieval documentation for these counties. a Political Rebel in the Nineteenth-Century
Evolution’ was presented at the
Modern-day individuals who bear such names Irish Imagination. France and Ireland in the
Thomas Grenham & Patricia Kieran: CICE
Postgraduate Contemporary Women's
are then asked to swirl a cotton bud around Public Imagination, AFIS (Association of
and MIC Survey of First Year Primary Student
Writing Network Conference in Queens
their mouth for a DNA sample which will then Franco-Irish Studies, MIC, May 25-26.
Teachers’ Attitudes to the Teaching of Religion in
University, Belfast on the 29th February.
be
tested
to
identify
the
characteristics
of
the
Primary Schools and the Place of RE in the B.Ed.
Intertextual Identities: The Crisis of Voice
Shane O’Sullivan (Dept of Geography):
Cathy Swift: Medieval population of Ireland’s DNA associated with Irish, Norse, Norman and and Location in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso
A Socio-Economic Analysis of
English origins. Led by Cathy Swift, this is a joint Sea, The Journal of Franco Irish Studies:
cities: DNA analysis of ethnic diversity
the Rathkeale RAPID Area (Shane
exercise between ourselves and Leicester but France and Ireland: Cultures en Crise, No 2,
Gwen Moore: An Investigation of Teaching and
O'Sullivan, Brendan O'Keeffe & Des
with Universities of Nottingham and Liverpool Winter 2011, 83-108.
Learning in Higher Music Education with Specific
McCafferty)
Invading Ideologies and the Politics of
Reference to the Continuum from Leaving Cert. and involvement as well.
Policy Implications Associated with East
Terror: Framing Afghanistan in The Kite
Curriculum Content in Higher Education
European Immigration into Rural Ireland.
Teachers’ Support Group for the
Runner, in Culture, Diaspora and Modernity
Maurice Harmon & Deirdre O'Rourke:
The Rural Studies Symposium, Royal Irish
Pedagogy of Writing
in Muslim Writing, Peter Morey, Amina
Listening to young people's voices: helping
Academy, Dublin , Dec 6 2011.
In October 2011, a group of teachers from 15
Yaqin & Rehana Amhed, (Eds) London:
the education system to value diversity
(Forthcoming) Community Sponsored
schools in the Limerick region met in Mary
Routledge, 2012, 149-163.
Social Integration Initiatives for
Immaculate
College
on
the
invitation
of
John
Tony Langlois: Reggada and Traditional Drums
Immigrants in Rural Ireland, New and
Doyle to explore ways in which teachers can Deirdre Flynn: (Dept of English Lang & Lit):
Kathryn Laing: The Vagabond’s Scrutiny’:
Emerging Rural Researchers Session.
support children's development as writers within If Modern Life is Rubbish What is
Gender, genre and nation in the writing of
Royal Geographical Society with British
the primary classroom by seeking ways to be pro Postmodern Life? The Contemporary: An
Hannah Lynch, 1885-1905
Institute of Geographers Conference at
-active in promoting and sharing good practice. International Conference of Literature and
University of Edinburgh (July 2012).
That meeting resulted in the setting up of a the Arts, June 24–26, 2011, Nayang
Jennifer Pope
in collaboration with Teachers’ Support Group which, it is hoped, will University, Singapore.
(Forthcoming) Population Mobility in a
the Department of Paediatrics and Child provide a forum for teachers to exchange When Work Doesn't Work.
‘Globalised’ Countryside: Insights from
Health, UCC & the Department of expertise and resources in relation to the RePresentations of Working Life Conference,
Rural Ireland, The Innovative Perspectives
Epidemiology and Public Health, UCC has Teaching of Writing, and to raise the issues of Nov 18-20, 2011, Erlangen Univ. Germany.
on Population Mobility: Mobility,
been examining the prevalence of Asthma, concern to them, with a view to taking effective Adventures in the Postmodern Wonderland,
Immobility and Well-Being Conference,
Allergic Rhinitis and Eczema in Irish steps to bring about solutions. The group meets Future Adventures in Wonderland: The
hosted by the University of St. Andrews
Schoolchildren at five year intervals (2002, on a monthly basis, but maintains contact Aftermath of Alice Conference, Dec 1, 2011,
under the auspices of the Population
2007 and currently in the process of securing through the use of e-mail and, in particular, HIC Dragonnes, Manchester.
Geography Research Group and the ESRC
funding for 2012 round of data collection).
‘Postmodern
Literature:
Murakami’s
Centre for Population Change - 2 July 12.
Moodle. Hopefully, this pilot project will be
International
Chronicle’,
What
Happens
successful and will continue and expand over the
Tony Langlois was invited to collaborate coming years.
with a consortium of Moroccan Universities
As part of ZITEP (Zambia Ireland Teacher Education Programme) Ailbhe Kenny (MIC) and Stephen Malambo (Charles Lwanga College, Zambia)
in an EU Tempus programme project. If this
engaged in a research exchange visit in MIC this January. The purpose of the visit was to progress research into teacher attitudes towards teaching
is successful it will lead to the first MA
music in Zambian basic schools. This research forms part of the last phase of ZITEP where Irish and Zambian counterparts act as co-researchers on
programme in Documentary Film Making in
studies based in Zambia. The research findings will be co-presented at the ZITEP conference in Lusaka in April.
Morocco.