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Research Fields Minority Communities in the Public Space Teaching Multiculturalism in Northern Ireland Schools Linguistic links between Ulster and Scotland Dr Elizabeth Doherty Liz Doherty, from Buncrana, Co. Donegal was appointed Irish Traditional Music Lecturer at the School of Creative Arts, University of Ulster in 2007. She previously held a full-time lecturing position in the Music Department, University College, Cork (1992-2001) and has been a visiting lecturer at the Instituto Universitario Irlandeses, Amergin, La Coruna, Irish World Music and Dance Academy, University of Limerick, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, University of the Highland and Islands, Scotland, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Scotland, Cape Breton University, Canada and National University of Australia. In 2001 she was appointed Edwards Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Arts at Marshall University, West Virginia and was also a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. From 2005-2007 Liz has been Traditional Arts Specialist with the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon with responsibility for developing and implementing national policy for the traditional arts. She is also a noted fiddle player with several recordings to her credit (including Quare Imagaination, Busy Lizzy Records, 2002 and Last Orders, 1999). She has toured extensively as a solo artist and with various bands and shows. Liz has also won several awards including the Fleishmann Prize for outstanding contribution to music in Ireland (2000). Qualifications Liz Doherty graduated from University College, Cork with a B Mus in 1991 and University of Limerick with a PhD in 1996. Her PhD dissertation was entitled ‘The Paradox of the Periphery – Evolution of the Cape Breton Fiddle Tradition c1928-1995.’ Research Fields Irish, Scottish, Canadian and related fiddle traditions The dance tradition as it relates to fiddle repertoires and styles Performance issues for traditional artists Gender issues within traditional music circles Collectors and collections of traditional music National policies for the support and recognition of traditional arts Dr Maria Angela Ferrario Dr M.A. Ferrario is an Italian national who has been living in Ireland for over a decade. After obtaining a degree in Philosophy in 1995, she left Milan for Dublin where she completed an MSc in Multimedia Systems at Trinity College Dublin. In February 2002, shortly after completing a PhD in Computer Science at University College Dublin, she moved to Donegal to work as an Information Technology Officer with the non-profit cross-border agency ERNACT (European Regional Network for Application of Communication Technologies). Her responsibilities included liaising, informing, and networking with senior representatives of public agencies at local, departmental and national level. She lead a number of projects which involved managing and liaising with private consultancy companies, educational institutions, community groups and public sectors from a range of European Countries. She joined AICH as an Associate Researcher in Heritage in July 2006, since then her key responsibilities included the planning, organisation and communication of the Northbound symposia series and SIEF2008, International Congress of Ethnology and Folklore Qualifications Ph.D. Intelligent On-line Applications, Computer Science Department, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland MSc. Multimedia Systems, Trinity College Dublin, Engineering Department, College Green, Dublin, Ireland B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy, Social Communications & Media Studies, Catholic University of Milan.
Research Fields Migration Networks, European Cultural Heritages Digital Cultures Information Society andE-government Collaborative Knowledge Management Prof Graham Gargett Graham Gargett was born and brought up in the North East of England. After studying at Reading and Norwich, he taught English for several years in Dijon and Paris. Appointed Lecturer in West European Studies at the New University of Ulster, he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1981. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he was active in forming twinning links between Coleraine and La Roche-sur-Yon, being Vice-Chairman of the Coleraine Twinning Association 1981-4. In 1984 he became Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Ulster and in 1999 was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of French Culture and Ideas. He was President of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society/Cumann Eire san Octu Cead Deag 2000-2006 and was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in March 2006 Qaulifications He graduated with a degree in French Studies at the University of Reading in 1967, then studied for a Ph.D. at the University of East Anglia on the subject of ‘Voltaire and Protestantism’ (awarded 1974). Research Fields Voltaire, the philosophes, and the literature and ideas of eighteenth-century France - the ‘Counter-Enlightenment’ in eighteenth-century France, in particular the abbé Trublet and the abbé Bergier; enlightened Protestantism’ in eighteenth-century France, Switzerland and Ireland, especially Jacob Vernet; the struggle to regain civil rights for French Huguenots, especially by Gilbert de Voisins; the influence of the French Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Ireland - Jean-Pierre Droz and A Literary Journal (1744-9); French influences on Oliver Goldsmith, particularly Voltaire Dr Neal Garnham Neal Garnham is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Ulster. He has previously worked at universities in Belfast, Oxford and Sunderland. Qualifications Neal holds a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in history from the University of Ulster. Research Fields Neal’s research interests include sport, popular culture, and aspects of the law in Ireland and England. Dr Anne Jamison Anne Jamison is a lecturer in the School of Languages and Literature. She joined the University of Ulster in 2005 as Editorial Assistant to Professors Robert Welch and Brian Walker’s ‘History of the Irish Book’ project - a 5 volume series they are producing for Oxford University Press. In 2007 she was appointed to a lectureship. Previous to joining UU, she was a research fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, where she developed an online archive of parts of the Somerville and Ross papers held in the Special Collections library at Queen’s. In 2006 she was appointed Visiting Fellow in the Women’s Studies department at the University of Limerick where she worked on the Kate O’Brien archive as part of the department’s ‘Gender, Memory, and Modernity’ research group. In 2006 she also organised an exhibition of the Somerville and Ross archive in the Visitors Centre at Queen’s, which ran from October to December, and is due to travel to University College Cork in 2007.
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