academy for irish cultural heritages - Research - University of Ulster

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.
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