Profiles

Research interests: Social economics and urban regeneration Social enterprises and spatial deprivation Social value measurement and local multiplier effects Social finance Areas of collaboration: Cross-border social economies Social economics and socio-spatial deprivation Social enterprises and peacebuilding in contested societies Measuring social impact https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/brendan-murtagh

Research interests: Areas of collaboration:

• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Briga-Hynes
• Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PC0RASIAAAAJ&hl=en
• LinkedIn; com/in/briga-hynes-a7b25a11
• Profile page at institution. https://www.ul.ie/research/dr-briga-hynes

Research interests: Co-operative and community-based responses to social and economic needs at local and regional levels; sustainable development, including the relationship between business and sustainability.  Current research projects: Men’s Sheds as Community-based Responses to Societal Challenges.  This project, in association with the Irish Men’s Sheds Association, is supported by the IRC New Foundations Scheme. Carol is co-Director of the MSc in Co-operative & Social Enterprise at University College Cork.

• Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carol-Power
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-power-ucc/
• CUBS UCC: https://www.cubsucc.com/faculty-directory/dr-carol-power/.

Research interests: Social Enterprise; Social Innovation Areas of collaboration: Please include links to your profiles in any of the following:

• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clodagh_Oreilly3
• LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/clodaghoreilly/
• Twitter: Cloers

Social economy enterprises – taxonomies, structures, typologies and business models; social enterprise mapping methodologies; hybrid institutional logics; social enterprise in public service delivery. Research Topic PhD research topic is: social entrepreneurialism in Irish state-funded third sector organisations. Areas of collaboration: LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/byrnedanielle/ Research Blog: https://socialeconomyresearch393315416.wordpress.com

Research interests: Public Procurement, Human Rights and Social Sustainability; Housing Law and Policy Areas of collaboration: Public Procurement, Human Rights and Social Sustainability; Housing Law and Policy Please include links to your profiles in any of the following:

• LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-halloran-65bb3435/

Research interests: Public policy and the social economy, local government and the social economy, student-owned social enterprises, social enterprises and legal form, relationships between components of the social economy, Anglo-American and European conceptualisations of the social economy. Areas of collaboration: Public policy formulation and the social economy. Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deiric_O_Broin LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/deiric-%C3%B3-broin-2886bb16/ Your profile page at your institution https://www.dcu.ie/researchsupport/research-profile?PERSON_ID=2518961

Research interests: Social Innovation, Social Enterprise, UN SDGs, Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets, Social Enterprise Ethics, Social Enterprise Education, Social Enterprise Scaling Strategies Areas of collaboration: Social Innovation, Social Enterprise, UN SDGs, Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) markets, Social Enterprise Ethics, Social Enterprise Education, Social Enterprise Scaling Strategies

• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Doye_Alale
• Google Scholar; Doye Peter Alale
• LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/doye-alale-pmp-1b983663/

Research interests: Current research interests include social enterprise impact metrics, compilation of a South-East regional social enterprise database, regional labour market dynamics, regional economic policy, internationalisation of Irish SMEs and competitive balance in sports.  Potential areas for collaboration include the creation of a social enterprise database, investigating social enterprise impact metrics and collaboration with regional social enterprises to explore their business models and assist their business development opportunities. Other links:                 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fiona_Burke https://ie.linkedin.com/in/dr-fiona-burke-b8500541 https://www.itcarlow.ie/research/researchers/meet-researchers/dr-fiona-burke.htm

Research interests: Social and solidarity economy; and the role the social economy can perform in the transition to a more sustainable society.  

Research interests: Social Enterprise, Capacity and Demands, Social Enterprise Policy, Social Impact and Challenges. Areas of collaboration:

• LinkedIn: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ie.linkedin.com/in/jade-foynes-189327211&ved=2ahUKEwjHqeuL2K3xAhWRTsAKHeEyDaMQFjABegQIAxAC&usg=AOvVaw2lMVhwh_DYEzkxeAfUa71y

Research interests: Social entrepreneurship / enterprise; regional entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanna-clancy-403a5711/
• https://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/business-and-economics/johannaclancy/

Kevin Flanagan is an anthropologist, artist and educator, specialising in social movements, digital culture and platform cooperatives, the commons and social solidarity economy. He is experienced in conducting qualitative research, the use of creative, collaborative methods, and digital ethnography. Flanagan completed his PhD in Anthropology at Maynooth University in 2022 and holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster. His doctoral thesis, 'Commoning the City' explores the practice, discourse and demands of social movements and municipal policies towards participatory and economic democracy following the election of Barcelona En Comú in 2015. Flanagan has taught courses in Anthropology at Maynooth University and Political Science at the University of Girona. Institution and department/school: Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University. Research interests: Participatory action research, design justice, design anthropology, collaborative mapping, visual and multimodal anthropology. Areas of collaboration: Flanagan is an advocate for democratic community empowerment. As an activist and academic, he has over fifteen years experience working with arts and cultural organisations as well as communities and movements. He has been an active member and collaborator with self-organised arts collectives and hacker spaces, and is a founding member of SolidNetwork; the Irish network for cooperative and solidarity economy (https://www.solidnetwork.ie/). View my research at:

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7717-1081
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-flanagan-169159128/
• https://twitter.com/flgnk

Research interests: Lucas’ research focuses on the intersection between social enterprises and rural development. Within his PhD he investigated how rural based social enterprises mobilise different kind of resources in their interaction with cross-sectoral stakeholders and how they engaged with their ‘places’ in order to contribute to a neo-endogenous development of their rural localities/areas. Lucas has previously done research in the fields of migration and social inclusion/exclusion. Keywords Research interests: Social enterprises, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, social and solidarity economy, rural development, place-based development, migration. Areas of collaboration: other networks on the social economy/social enterprises-entrepreneurship: EMES (emes.net); RurAction (www.ruraction.eu) (EU H2020-MarieSklodowskaCurieAction-Innovative Training Network). Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lucas-Olmedo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-olmedo-75a70b20b/

Lucia is a lecturer and researcher in entrepreneurship and marketing in TU Dublin, School of Marketing. Apart from creating engaging and impactful learning experiences for undergraduate, postgraduate and executive learners (which often includes working with enterprises and social enterprises), Lucia has a strong research interest in entrepreneurship. Lucia’s postdoctoral research in UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Research School involved being embedded in a social enterprise for a number of months and fortunate to observe some significant and unexpected changes. Lucia’s current focus is on understanding of social enterprises that have pursued growth strategy, their triggers for scaling-up and barriers and reasons for failed growth.

Research interests: For her PhD-research, Mara is currently investigating how the hybrid nature of rural social enterprises is of influence on their organisational strategy. Rural-based social enterprises are more and more seen as potential partners in fostering development in rural areas, both by politicians and academics. However, we know very little of the way in which rural social enterprises are able to address the needs of rural areas and how they are able to continue to do this over time. Because of their hybrid nature, these organisations need to balance among others social and economic goals, as well as the perceptions and expectations of many different stakeholders. Through a qualitative case study methodology, Mara investigates how, over time, rural social enterprises deal with this hybridity in their organisational strategy. Keywords Research interests: Social enterprises, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, hybrid organisations, rural development, community development, qualitative research methods, critical realism. Areas of collaboration: Mara is an early stage researcher in the EU Horizon-2020 funded MSCA-ITN ‘RurAction’ (www.ruraction.eu). Mara is also a member of the EMES-network. Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mara_Van_Twuijver2 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvtwuijver/ Twitter: @MWvanTwuijver