Research Projects

Project Title

Staff (partners not listed*)

Current Funding (where relevant)

Relevant Departmental Research Clusters

A Life History Approach to Social Change in Twentieth Century Ireland

Jane Gray, Seán Ó Riain, Peter Murray

€168,000

(IRCHSS, 2005-8)

Historical and Comparative Sociology

Poverty and the Life-Cycle in 20th Century Ireland: A Childhood Centred Analysis

Jane Gray

€20,000 (Combat Poverty Agency)

Historical and Comparative Sociology

E-Consultation (Projects on North-South Cooperation and on the Oireachtas)

Honor Fagan

€500,000 (North-South Programme, 2003-2005)

€86,000 (Oireachtas, 2006)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

New Urban Living

Mary Corcoran, Jane Gray, Michel Peillon

Grants from RIA, Katherine Howard Foundation now concluded

€45,000 in total

Urban/Suburban Studies

The Iraq War and the Irish Public Sphere

Colin Coulter

€25,000 (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Fund, 2005-6)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Irish broadcasting and the ‘New Ireland’.Mapping and visioning Cultural Diversity

Aphra.Kerr, Rebecca King- O’Riain

€16,000 (Broadcasting Commission of Ireland)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Ballymun Oral History Project

Laurence Cox

€21,000 (Ballymun Regeneration Limited, 2000-1)

€3,000 (Heritage Council, 2006)

Urban/Suburban Studies

NUIM Sociology Postgraduate Skills and Employment Survey

Rebecca King- O’Riain, Laurence Cox, Maria Griffin

€2,000 (Department of Sociology, NUIM)

Europe’s Productivity Drive after WWII and the Making of Contemporary Ireland

Peter Murray

€75,000 (IRCHSS, 2005-2007)

Historical and Comparative Sociology

Serving Society – Management of Future Communications Networks and Services

Aphra Kerr

€4,321,407 (PRTLI Cycle 4, HEA)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Follow-up Study of Quality of Life in Social Housing estates

Mary Corcoran

€150,000 (Combat Poverty Agency, Department of the Environment, and various County Councils

Urban/Suburban Studies

The history of Buddhism in Ireland

Laurence Cox, Maria Griffin

€2,000 (Department of Sociology, NUIM)

Historical and Comparative Sociology

European Civil Society: Ideology, Division and Coalition

Pauline Cullen

Non-Funded

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Transnational nongovernmental coalitions: micropolitics, culture and political mobilisation 

Pauline Cullen

Non-Funded

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Gamedevelopers.ie

Aphra Kerr

€2,000 (Demonware Ltd.)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Water is Life: Amazzi bulamu’

Honor Fagan

€110, 000 (Irish Aid and HEA)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Catholic Sociology in Ireland

Brian Conway, Kerry Gallagher

€2,000 (Department of Sociology, NUIM)

Historical and Comparative Sociology

Polish and Chinese Immigrants in Ireland

Rebecca King-O’Riain

€4,000 (NCCRI, 2006)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices; Historical and Comparative Sociology

The experience of discrimination in Ireland

Rebecca King-O’Riain

€35,000 (Equality Authority)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Developing a gender sensitive friendly antipoverty pensions system

Mary Murphy

€20,000 (Combat Poverty Agency Poverty Research Initiative)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices; Political Economy, Work and Working Lives

Communicating Europe

John O’Brennan

€8,000 (Department of Foreign Affairs)

Historical and Comparative Sociology

The Globalisation of Love

Rebecca King-O’Riain

Non-Funded

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices

Towards a Better Ireland

Mary Murphy

€6,000 (Community Platform)

Critical Political Thought, Activism and Alternative Futures; Political Economy, Work and Working Lives

A gender and equality analysis of the Developmental Welfare State

Mary Murphy

€5,000 (Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform)

Critical Political Thought, Activism and Alternative Futures; Political Economy, Work and Working Lives

Silicon Valley and Ireland: A Global Workplace?

Seán Ó Riain

$5,000 (Russell Sage Foundation)

Globalisation, Identities and Cultural Practices; Historical and Comparative Sociology; Political Economy, Work and Working Lives