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and editor of 10 books and a considerable number of essays. In 2004, she was joint winner of the Ruth Michaelis- Jena Ratcliff research prize for folklife. Two years later, she was awarded a Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship at the University of Ulster, She is a member of the sub-panel for European Studies in the current Research Assessment Exercise. Qualifications PhD Anglicisation and culture contact in nineteenth-century Cork. MA (first class honours) Memoirs of Tomás Ó Criomhthain BA (hons) Philosophy, Irish BEd (hons) Education, Irish Research Culture and identity politics; Minority Languages; European Ethnology; Autobiography as a research tool Dr Emmet O’Connor Emmet O’Connor is a member of the School of History and International Affairs. Qualifications O’Connor graduated from University College, Galway with a BA in history and politics in 1977. Following an MA in UCG in 1979, he worked with Combat Poverty in Waterford and then read for a PhD at St John’s College, Cambridge. After post-doctoral work at Churchill College, Cambridge, he joined the staff at Magee College in 1985. Research Fields Emmet O’Connor’s primary research interest is labour history. He was co-editor of Saothar in 1983 and 1984 and from 1986 to 2002, and is an honorary president of the Irish Labour History Society. Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha Dr. Éamonn Ó Ciardha, a native of County Monaghan, holds an M.A from the N.U.I. and a Ph.D from Cambridge University. He has published articles on Irish Jacobitism, law, order and disorder and the use of Irish-language sources for seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. Formerly a research fellow in the School of History, University of Aberdeen, visiting Professor of History at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, and the Keough Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, he held a government of Ireland post-doctoral fellowship at the School of History, Trinity College Dublin. He is is now a lecturer in the School of History and International Affairs, University of Ulster. Qualifications PhD, Clare Hall, Cambridge University MA, University College Dublin BA, University College Dublin (History/Irish). Research Fields Éamonn’s research interests focus on early modern Irish History, Jacobitism, the Irish Diaspora in 17th and 18th Century Europe, the Irish Outlaw, Irish military history and the history of the Irish book (in Irish) since 1567. Mr Elly Omondi Odhiambo Elly Ohiambo is a Kenyan researcher and analyst (international affairs and corporate responsibility). On completing his Masters degree in Peace Studies at the University of Ulster, Elly did community development work in Nairobi, 14
Kenya. He worked as a Research Officer in the theme of Corporate Social Responsibility for Ufadhili Trust, a leading Centre for the research and advocacy of philanthropy and ethical entrepreneurship in East and Central Africa. He has also been involved in civic education of rural and urban communities on the subject of contested constitutional reforms in Kenya. He has been a module coordinator at the School of Sociology (University of Ulster, Magee) where he taught development (Africa in Transition). In his work as a freelance commentator, Elly has written articles on politics of Africa, globalization and race relations issues in Europe. He currently provides editorial analysis for ‘The African Channel’, a London based media group. Elly is currently working on Giving Voice to New Voices an ongoing research project which will explore the manner in which the African community can articulate its views and become involved with local communities as well as with political representatives. This project is supported and funded by the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council and the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation. Qualifications BA (hons) degree in Politics at the University of East London, UEL in 1998. MA in Peace Studies at the University of Ulster in 2002. Research Fields ‘Third’ World Politics and Development - Deconstructing the caricature of the ‘Third world’ Corporate Social Responsibility-Correcting myths of Corporate Social Responsibility Conflict Resolution Race Relations in Europe Migration Poverty Issues Prof Henry Patterson Professor Patterson was an undergraduate at Queen’s University Belfast where he obtained a first class honours degree in Economic and Social History. He was subsequently a postgraduate student at Nuffield College Oxford. After a research fellowship at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s he obtained in lectureship in the School of History, Philosophy and Politics at the Ulster Polytechnic in 1976. With the creation of UU in 1984 he became a lecturer in Politics and has been Professor of Politics since 1995. Research Fields His main areas of research are the politics of Northern Ireland and the Republic, North-South relations, the labour movement, Republicanism, Ulster Unionism and Orangeism. His most recent research project was an ESRC funded study of Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland since 1945. The results of that research will be published as a book in Manchester University Press’s Devolution series in 2007. His current research is on the experience of Protestants in Fermanagh during the Troubles. Dr Loredana Salis Loredana was born in Italy and graduated there in 1997. In 1996 she was awarded a EU grant and spent twelve months on the Erasmus exchange programme c/o the English Department at the University of Manchester, UK. She has lived in UK since 1998, at first in Manchester, where she taught Italian in a private school, and then in Northern Ireland. In 1999, she was awarded a grant from the Sardinian Department of Education, and was admitted to the MA in Irish Literature in English at the University of Ulster. In 2005 she completed her PhD at the University of Ulster, and later worked on the ‘Heritage Network’ project, a faculty inventory on heritages commissioned by the AICH. In 2006 she was offered a post as research associate on a co-financed project between the Università di Sassari and the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster. Her tasks include research as well as contributing to Northbound, a series of symposia organised by the AICH on the established and the new migrant communities in Northern Ireland. 15
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