Profiles
Marie Taylor
Senior Project Assistant, Development Unit LIT
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
Mary Lee Rhodes
Trinity College Dublin, Centre for Social Innovation, Trinity Business School
Research interests: Public Administration, Complex Systems, Housing, Social Impact
Areas of collaboration: Social Impact Reporting, Social Enterprise Mapping, Innovation Systems, Wicked Problems
• Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mary_Rhodes
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RPSHLMgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mary-lee-rhodes-3026013/
• Profile Page at TCD: https://www.tcd.ie/business/people/marylee-rhodes.php
Mary O’Shaughnessy
Senior Lecturer, Cork University Business School, College of Business and Law, University College Cork.
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.
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- ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6875-0359
- Twitter @MaryOShaughnes16
Michele O’Sullivan
DCU Business School Enterprise and Innovation, Marketing
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/
Norah Cussen
School of Hospitality Management & Tourism, TU Dublin
Research interests:
Entrepreneurship, Community Development and Innovation
Areas of collaboration:
Innovation in higher education, minority entrepreneurship, community development.
Olive McCarthy
Centre for Co-operative Studies, University College Cork
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/
Oonagh B. Breen
Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
Research interests: Oonagh teaches NGO Law, Governance and Social Change at master’s level at UCD. A graduate of UCD and Yale Law School, her research focuses on comparative charity law regulation and governance and the development of more structured legal relationships between the State and the non-profit sector. She has a keen interest in governance, financial accountability and disclosure, the development of non-profit legal structures at both national and European levels, the regulation of non-profits and social enterprise and the legal enablement of philanthropy. She is co-author, with Philip A. Smith, of Law of Charities in Ireland (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Areas of collaboration: Oonagh is President Elect of the International Society for Third Sector Research (ISTR) and will take up on her Presidency on January 1, 2021. She is a former Chair of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) and currently serves as a member of ICNL’s International Advisory Council. She is PI on a Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellowship on Third Sector Involvement in Higher Education for Refugees - a Forum Theatre Approach with Dr Nina Lueck. Oonagh is also an active member of ARNOVA and the European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP) and is part of the local host committee that will see the convening of ERNOP’s 10th biennial conference in Dublin in July 2021.
• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Rs03tyUAAAAJ&hl=en
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oonagh-breen-897b745/
• Profile page at your institution: https://people.ucd.ie/oonagh.breen
Orlagh Reynolds
University College Dublin, College of Business
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
- Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Orlagh_Reynolds
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/orlagh-reynolds-67a16b49/?originalSubdomain=ie
- Your profile page at your institution: https://people.ucd.ie/orlagh.reynolds
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/orlaghrey
Patrick Brown
Queen’s University Belfast, History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (HAPP) / The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice
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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- LinkedIn; - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickbrown92/?originalSubdomain=uk
- Your profile page at your institution. - https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/patrick-brown
Paul Davis
Dublin City University Business School
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
- Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0kNiJT0AAAAJ&hl=en
- LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauldavisdcu/
- Your profile page at your institution. https://www.dcu.ie/researchsupport/research-profile?person_id=14332#tab-biography
Rhea Kinsella
TU Dublin, School of Tourism and Hospitality Management
Robert Wade
PhD Candidate, Queen's University Belfast
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.
Roisin Lyons
DCU Business School – Entrepreneurship department
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
- Google Scholar; https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=VGtD5vMAAAAJ
- LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/in/roislyons/
- Your profile page at your institution. https://business.dcu.ie/staff/dr-roisin-lyons/
Rosanne Fitzpatrick
Department of Business and Humanities, Institute of Technology Carlow
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.
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Sarah Hofmayer
NUI Galway, Centre for Disability Law and Policy
Research interests: Work Integration Social Enterprise; inclusion; human rights; equality
Areas of collaboration: social enterprise policy; sustainability; human rights monitoring and reporting
- Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sarah_Hofmayer
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-hofmayer-585a88b9/
- Your profile page at your institution https://www.nuigalway.ie/centre-disability-law-policy/education/doctoralcandidates/sarahhofmayer/
Shane O’Sullivan
Institution and department/school: Department of Applied Social Sciences, Limerick Institute of Technology, Moylish Park, Limerick
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
- Your profile page at your institution. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5342-4320