Profiles

Dr Marie Taylor's focus is on social enterprise and rural development. Marie is also a lecturer in tour guiding and Irish heritage with the Flexible Learning Unit in LIT. https://lit.ie/Research-Development/Development/Our-Team-(1)/Dr-Marie-Taylor

Research interests: sustainable, place-based rural development, community/collective social entrepreneurship, social enterprise and rural co-operatives. Mary is the Short Term Scientific Mission Manager for EU COST Action Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars. She serves on a number of national and international research and policy advisory bodies. Mary is a director at Micro Finance Ireland, founding member of  EMES (International research network, comparative research, social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social and solidarity economy and social innovation), member of the National Social Enterprise Task Force (Ireland) and academic member to the steering group of Ireland’s first National Social Enterprise Policy. She sits on the editorial board of Social Enterprise Journal.  She was awarded UCC Research Supervisor of the Year (2019). Current research projects include: H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Collective Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Rural Development) in collaboration with 10 European research institutes, universities, rural community social enterprises and rural cooperatives; Work Integrations Social Enterprises in the Criminal Justice System (Irish Research Council), and Community-led Multi-Actor Approaches to Sustainable Rural Development in collaboration with Self Help Africa, Teagasc, Partners in Learning and NUIG. Areas of collaboration: Social Enterprise, Sustainable Rural Development and Rural Co-operatives. Please include links to your profiles in any of the following:

• ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-0359
• Twitter @MaryOShaughnes16

Research interests: Social Enterprise Social enterprise in practice, entrepreneurial motivations in social enterprise formation, innovation in social enterprise, local and community benefits provided by social enterprise. Customer Experience Management Educational Partnership Childcare, particularly school age childcare. Action Research and Reflective Practice (e.g. evaluative practice) Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michele_Osullivan LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheleosullivan1/ Your profile page at your institution. https://business.dcu.ie/staff/michele-osullivan/

Research interests: Entrepreneurship, Community Development and Innovation Areas of collaboration: Innovation in higher education, minority entrepreneurship, community development.

• LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/norah-cussen-433445b3/

Research interests: co-operatives, credit unions, financial exclusion/inclusion, governance, social performance and impact measurement Areas of collaboration: Olive is a programme director on the online MSc in Co-operative and Social Enterprise and the MSc in Co-operatives, Agri-Food and Sustainable Development. She serves on a number of national and international research and policy bodies. She is a member of the Credit Union Advisory Committee, appointed by the Minister for Finance, a member of the International Scientific Commission on the Social and Co-operative Economy of CIRIEC (The International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy), an advisory board member of the Centre for Community Finance Europe (CFCFE) and a board member with the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS). Current research projects include social impact measurement for credit unions and financial exclusion among social housing tenants in Ireland (funded by Cluid and The Housing Finance Agency). Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olive_Mccarthy2 Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2791-5214 UCC: https://www.cubsucc.com/faculty-directory/dr-olive-mccarthy/

Research interests: Sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship and enterprise, social and sustainability innovation, circular bioeconomy, community development, qualitative research methods Areas of collaboration: Sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation, circular bioeconomy, entrepreneurship education

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Research interests: Universal Basic Income and Conflict Transformation – my PhD focuses on whether a UBI could assist with transformation in a post-conflict society such as Northern Ireland Areas of collaboration: I would be particularly interested in collaborating with anyone carrying out research on:

• Universal Basic Income
• Welfare reform
• Social liberal theory
• Post conflict societies generally
• Social trust
• Behavioural modelling
• Tax/benefit modelling using tools such as EUROMOD

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Research interests: Public Procurement , Sustainable Communities, Micro Enterprises Areas of collaboration: Access to Public Procurement , Developing sustainable economies, public policy and microenterprises

• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Davis-20
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Robert is a PhD student at Queen's University Belfast. His research explores the role of landownership and landowners in wind energy production. The relatively extensive spatial requirements of renewable energies like wind, solar and biomass situates the landowner as a central political and economic player in the low carbon transition. Drawing on political economy/political ecology, I examine the role of rent relations within the wind industry. I employ a comparative analysis of three European countries to explain the distributive and structural effects of private landownership in these different contexts. The research aims to understand how different systems of property rights can contribute to fair but rapid decarbonisation.

Research interests: Entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurial teams; social entrepreneurship; sustainability and social innovation. Areas of collaboration: Investigating the entrepreneurial student (am national coordinator of GUESSS research project); social entrepreneurship

• Research Gate; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Roisin_Lyons2
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Research interests: Research interests include social entrepreneurship, social enterprise and social impact measurement. Areas of collaboration: Potential areas for collaboration include the creation of a social enterprise database, investigating social enterprise impact measurement methods and collaboration with regional social enterprises to explore their business models and assist their business development opportunities. Please include links to your profiles in any of the following:

• LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosanne-fitzpatrick/

Research interests: Work Integration Social Enterprise; inclusion; human rights; equality Areas of collaboration: social enterprise policy; sustainability; human rights monitoring and reporting

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Research interests: community development; rural development; social enterprise; social innovation; spatial analysis Areas of collaboration: internationalisation in social enterprise; community profiling and planning; social farming; governance and operational structures; training and development.

• LinkedIn; (2) Shane O'Sullivan | LinkedIn
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