Profiles
Brendan Murtagh
Urban Planning School of Natural and Built Environment
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
Briga Hynes
Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick
Research interests:
Social Innovation; Social Enterprise Scaling Strategies; Marketing in the Social Enterprise; Social entrepreneurial behaviours; Social Enterprise Education, Social Impact Assessment
Areas of collaboration:
Social Enterprise Incubation and Growth; Narratives of Social Entrepreneurship and bridging the divide between social and mainstream enterprises; Social Entrepreneurs and Partnerships, Social Impact Assessment.
- 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
Carol Power
Business School and Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
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.
Clodagh O'Reilly
PhD Candidate TU Dublin, Dept. of Marketing
Research interests:
Social Enterprise; Social Innovation
Areas of collaboration:
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- Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clodagh_Oreilly3
- LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/clodaghoreilly/
- Twitter: Cloers
Danielle Byrne
Visiting Research Fellow, Trinity Centre for Social Innovation, Trinity Business School, University of Dublin
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
Deirdre Halloran
Currently NUI Galway Law Department From January 2021 DCU Law and Government
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
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- LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-halloran-65bb3435/
Deiric Ó Broin
Dublin City University, School of Law and Government
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/
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Doye Peter Alale
PhD Candidate TU Dublin
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/
Emma McEvoy
Maynooth University, Department of Law
Research interests: Social Enterprises; Public Procurement; EU Law; Company Law.
Areas of collaboration: Public Procurement Law and Policy; Company Law; Social Enterprise Policy.
• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma_Mcevoy2
• Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=M4ZdPvUAAAAJ&hl=en
• LinkedIn; https://ie.linkedin.com/in/emma-mcevoy-bb216449
• Your profile page at your institution. https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/law/current-phd-students
Felicity Kelliher
Senior Lecturer Management, Waterford Institute of Technology
Research interests: SME/ Social Enterprise capability development, Rural SME Networks
Felicity is a Senior Lecturer in Management at the School of Business, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland and Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Partner Faculty Shanghai University, China. She is currently Chair of the Irish Academy of Management (2017- present) and a member of the Irish Research Council and the Royal Irish Academy Social Science Committee. A Fulbright Scholar, Felicity has published widely in the area of management capability development, rural community engagement and learning in small firms and has co-authored three books. As co-founder and senior researcher of the RIKON research group, Felicity has engaged with over 1200 small firms in service innovation, capability development and small enterprise learning initiatives since 2007, supported by Failte Ireland, INTERREG and Enterprise Ireland, among others and was awarded the Knowledge Transfer Ireland Research2Business Collaborative Impact award in 2015 in recognition of this work. Before entering academia, Felicity worked internationally as a project manager in the technology sector.
Areas of collaboration: SME/ Social Enterprise management capability development, Rural SME Networks
• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Felicity_Kelliher
• Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=4Y8fPfoAAAAJ
• LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicity-kelliher-ab92798/
• Your profile page at your institution. https://www.wit.ie/about_wit/contact_us/staff_directory/felicity_kelliher
Fiona Burke
School of Business and Humanities, Institute of Technology Carlow
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
Gavin D. Brown
Dublin City University, DCU Business School
Research interests:
Societal resilience; organisational resilience; corporate sustainability; crisis management; protection motivation; stakeholder management; environmental sustainability; risk perception; corporate social responsibility; social innovation.
Areas of collaboration:
Business & Society: organisational & societal resilience; sustainability; corporate social responsibility; social innovation.
Contact:
• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gavin_Brown6
• Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DlCPWHMAAAAJ&hl=en
• LinkedIn; https://ie.linkedin.com/in/gavindbrown
• Profile page (DCU); https://business.dcu.ie/staff/gavin-brown/
Ger Doyle
TU Dublin, School of Environment and Planning
Research interests:
Social and solidarity economy; and the role the social economy can perform in the transition to a more sustainable society.
Jade Foynes
Limerick Institute of Technology
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
Johanna Clancy
School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway
Research interests:
Social entrepreneurship / enterprise; regional entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship
Kevin Flanagan
Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University
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/).
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Luca Pistilli
UCD – College of Business / Management
Lucas Olmedo
Researcher, University College Cork
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 Walsh
Lecturer & Researcher in Marketing & Entrepreneurship, TU Dublin
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.
Mara van Twuijver
University College Cork, Cork University Business School, Department of Food, Business and Development
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