Trinity Monday 2009 - Fellows and Scholars
Trinity College Dublin was founded as a corporation consisting of the Provost, the Fellows and the Scholars. Scholars are elected annually in various subjects on the result of an examination held in Trinity term. Scholarship or research achievement of a high order is the primary qualification for Fellowship, coupled with evidence of the candidate's contribution to the academic life of the College and an effective record in teaching.
Traditionally, the election of new Fellows and Scholars is announced by the Provost on Trinity Monday (11th May this year) at 10.00 a.m. from the steps of the famous Examination Hall. Seven Professorial Fellows, Three Honorary Fellows, Fourteen New Fellows and Eighty Three Scholars were elected this morning.
Professorial Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 7 OF THE STATUTES,
| Mani Ramaswami (Prof) | Richard Reilly (Prof) | Matthew Hennessy (Prof) |
| Mark Dyer (Prof) | John Philip O'Doherty (Prof) | Padraic Gerard Fallon (Prof) |
| Thomas Frodl (Prof) |
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIP.
Mani Ramaswami (Prof)
Mani Ramaswami received an M.S. degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and a PhD in Molecular Neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. From 1990 to 1994 Professor Ramaswami was a Fellow at National Centre for Biological Sciences, a TIFR Centre in Bangalore India, where he holds an Adjunct Professorship. Following a period in the University of California at San Francisco, in 1995, he joined the Molecular and Cellular Biology faculty in the University of Arizona at Tucson, where he remains an Adjunct Professor and a Galileo Circle Fellow. He has received several awards for his research including fellowships from the Lucille P Markey foundation, the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSPO), the Life Science Research Foundation and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. He was a McKnight Scholar in Neuroscience (1995), a recipient of two career development awards from the NIH (1997, 2003) and two HFSPO Research grant awards (1995,1999), and is also a Scientific Co-founder of Q Therapeutics, a biotech start up in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2006, Professor Ramaswami moved from the USA to the Schools of Genetics and Microbiology and the School of Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin as a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor.
Prof Ramaswami is a Principle Investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. His research interests include understanding genetic and cellular mechanisms of brain plasticity and the study of unusual proteins that have evolved through natural selection.
Richard Reilly (Prof)
Richard Reilly is Professor of Neural Engineering in the School of Medicine and School of Engineering at Trinity College, Dublin. He is Director and a Principal Investigator of the Trinity Centre for Bioengineering (TCBE) and also a Principal Investigator at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN). His research focuses on the modelling of human multisensory integration process and the human visual and auditory attention system using high density electrophysiological analysis, Diffusion Tensor Imaging and multimodal fusion for neurological diagnosis. This research is targeted at a quantitative understanding of precognitive and cognitive abilities for a quantum leap in the fields of neurorehabilitation. Professor Reilly’s research inputs to the cross-disciplinary translational research of Trinity's Consortium on Ageing and specifically complements activities in the Stroke and Falls Services at St. James's Hospital.
Professor Reilly was a Silvanus P. Thompson International Lecturer for the Institute of Electrical Engineers (1999-2001). In 2004 he was awarded a US Fulbright Award for research collaboration into multisensory integration with the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York, at which he remains a Visiting Researcher. Professor Richard Reilly received his BE degree in electronic engineering, an MEngSc and a PhD in biomedical engineering from the University College Dublin.
Matthew Hennessy (Prof)
Matthew Hennessy is a Research Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin since early 2008, where he is leading a SFI funded research project into the logical foundations of computing. He previously held a Professorship at the University of Sussex, where he was instrumental in setting up the Department of Computer Science, and a Lectureship at the University of Edinburgh, where he co-founded the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science.
Professor Hennessy received a BA degree in Mathematics from University College Cork and an MA, also in Mathematics, from Trinity College Dublin. After periods studying at the University of British Colombia, Vancouver and the University of Paris 7, he received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
Professor Hennessy and his research group are interested in logical and mathematical languages for describing large complex computing infrastructures and using logic based techniques for predicting or guaranteeing their behaviour. Current activity is focused on widely distributed systems consisting of independent agents which periodically cooperate towards a common purpose, and the use of both non-determinism and probabilities to provide high-level specifications of their behaviour.
Mark Dyer (Prof)
Mark Dyer was appointed to the Michael McNamara Chair in Construction Innovation at Trinity College Dublin in 2008, where he leads TrinityHaus a research centre for innovation in construction, energy and design comprising the McNamara Group, GREENprint and I.School. Before moving to Ireland, Mark pursued a career in both academia and the construction industry. He was the Professor in Civil Engineering at Strathclyde University between 2004 and 2008 as well as being chairman of the David Livingstone Centre for Sustainability. Prior to Strathclyde he worked for over twenty years on the design and construction of infrastructure projects including highways, power stations, offshore oil platforms, flood defences, tailing dams, landfills in Europe, Africa and Asia. In 1997 he received a Foresight Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering which led to his appointment at Durham University for 4 years and more recently in 2008 a Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Research Fellowship. He has been appointed as a consultant for several organisations including UK Environment Agency, HR Wallingford and Studio Geotecncio Italiano and is a visiting professor at the University of Sienna, Italy and University of Karsetsat, Bangkok.
John Philip O'Doherty (Prof)
John O’Doherty obtained his undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Psychology at TCD (1996), and then completed a D.Phil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford (1997-2000). He was then a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience at University College London (2000-2004). Following that he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Psychology at California Institute of Technology (2004-2008). His research is concerned with elucidating how the human brain is capable of making decisions under conditions of uncertainty. To achieve this he applies psychological, computational and economic theories to functional brain imaging data, as well as assessing the patterns of impairment in human patients with certain kinds of brain damage or neurological disease. Prof O’Doherty was a recipient of a Searle Scholarship (2006), and is associate editor of the European Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroimage.
Padraic Gerard Fallon (Prof)
Padraic Fallon is Science Foundation Ireland Stokes Professor of Translational Immunology, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. Previously he was a WellcomeTrust Fellow in the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK. Prof Fallon is an international expert on translational immunology, and his research involves the use of mouse transgenics and disease models to investigate inflammatory disorders.
Prof Fallon currently heads the Inflammation and Immunity Research Group in the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James’s Hospital. Major research interests include the mechanisms of pathogen modulation of innate and adaptive immunity, and how pathogen immunomodulatory molecules may be exploited for the development of new therapeutics for unrelated inflammatory disease. Prof Fallon’s research is focused on allergic conditions (atopic dermatitis/eczema, anaphylaxis and asthma) and inflammatory bowel disease.
Thomas Frodl (Prof)
Thomas Frodl, M.D., is currently Stokes Professor of Integrated Neuroimaging at the Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
He studied medicine at the “Free University Berlin” and the “Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich”, where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree. From 1998 to 2005 he was Registrar and Senior Registrar at the University Hospital, Outpatient Clinic and Day Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Munich with an internship in Neurology at the University Hospital Großhadern in Munich. In 2005 he was certified specialist in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. Since 2008 he is Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research areas are in neuroimaging, imaging genetics and therapeutic interventions including psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy of psychiatric diseases. Using multimodal imaging techniques and genetics the projects deal with early detection, therapy evaluation and early prediction of therapy response.
Prof Frodl is author of more than 70 original publications and received the Hormosan Scientific Award of the German Society of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology and the Research Award of the German Society of Biological Psychiatry (in 2005 and 2006).
Honorary Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 9 OF THE STATUTES,
| John Bowman (Dr) | Owen Smith (Prof) | Yuri Kalmykov (Prof) |
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO HONORARY FELLOWSHIP.
John Bowman (Dr)
John Bowman is a broadcaster, historian and political scientist.
A Dubliner, he was educated at Belvedere College and Trinity College Dublin.
His PhD thesis De Valera and the Ulster Question: 1917-1973 was later published by the Oxford University Press and won the Ewart-Biggs memorial prize for its contribution to North-South understanding in Ireland.
Dr Bowman presents current affairs and historical programmes for RTE radio and television. He is the winner of two Jacobs awards for radio and his documentary on the archives of the Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid: What the Papers Say won television documentary of the year in 1998. He has presented Questions and Answers for the past 21 years on RTE television.
He is a past president of the Irish Association for Economic, Cultural and Social Relations.
Owen Smith (Prof)
Owen Smith is a Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Dublin, and is Professor of Haematology at Trinity College. His active research areas of interest include: childhood and adolescent leukaemias & lymphomas, bone marrow failure syndromes, the molecular and cellular basis of the inflammatory – coagulation interface in human disease. He is the co-author of more than 290 research articles, books, book chapters, papers, letters, and abstracts.
In 2001 Professor Smith was awarded the Graves Medal by the Royal Academy of Medicine and Health Research Board for his research into the pathobiology and novel therapeutic strategies in severe sepsis that had received international acclaim, and in 2006, he was awarded the St Luke’s Medal by the Royal Academy of Medicine and St Luke’s Hospital for his work on improving outcomes in adolescent cancers with specific reference to the leukaemia’s and lymphoma’s.
Yuri Kalmykov (Prof)
Yuri P. Kalmykov is Professor of Physics at the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1978 and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1998 Professor Kalmykov was a member of the research staff at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). In 1998 he joined the physics department at the Université de Perpignan, where now he is a leader of the research laboratory investigating relaxation phenomena in condensed matter. He has been a visiting academic at TCD for many years as well as being visiting Professor at the Queens University of Belfast and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Professor Kalmykov has published over 200 papers, reviews, book chapters and is a co-author of the highly acclaimed research monograph "The Langevin Equation" published by World Scientific, Singapore. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and has received several research awards including the Honorary Diploma of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Fellowship
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION IN CHAPTER 5, SECTION 6 OF THE STATUTES,
HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO FELLOWSHIP.
Orla Sheils (Prof)
Orla Sheils is Associate Professor of Molecular Pathology and Lecturer in Medical Jurisprudence. She is based in St. James’s Hospital working between the IMM and newly refurbished Sir Patrick Dun Research labs. She received her PhD from TCD for research exploring novel prognostic markers in thyroid neoplasia.
She was awarded a Masters in Medical Law and Ethics from King’s College London in 2006. She Chairs the Faculty of Health Sciences REC and is also a member of the RCPI working group on Ethics.
The underlying theme of Prof Sheils’ research is to understand the causes and molecular basis of the development of disease, with particular reference to cancer, and to apply this knowledge to improving disease prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment. Her research interests are centered in the area of functional genomics. More recently she has become involved in the area of non-coding RNA species with a particular interest in microRNA expression and investigation of regulatory processes controlling gene expression.
Louis Brennan (Prof)
Louis Brennan’s unique nexus of expertise in the areas of Global Supply Chain Management and International Manufacturing, International Business, Culture and Operations and Technology Management has earned him global recognition for his critical perspectives on the processes of globalisation. Dr Brennan has shared invited keynote speaker roles at prestigious international conferences with leading scholars including 2003 Nobel laureate Sir Clive Granger and 2004 Nobel laureate Finn Kydland. He has over 150 refereed publications and has worked with major national and international organisations and companies in Asia, Europe and North America. He is the Director of the Global Business Systems Centre at Trinity College and is the Irish co-ordinator of the International Manufacturing Strategy Survey network.
Dr Brennan graduated from University College Galway with a B.E. and M.Eng.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and went on to receive a PhD in Manufacturing Management from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He was later awarded an MBA degree with a concentration in International Management and was admitted to the register of the Ergonomics Society. After holding faculty positions in Ireland and the USA in Industrial Engineering and Management, he joined Trinity College in 1999 as Senior Lecturer in Business Studies. He was appointed to his present position as Associate Professor in Business Studies in 2008. Dr Brennan has also held visiting appointments at Senshu University in Japan and at the National University of Singapore and has served as guest lecturer at universities worldwide.
Ciaran Cosgrove (Dr)
Ciaran Cosgrove graduated with a First in Spanish and French from Queen’s University, Belfast and went on to receive a PhD from the University of Essex. His thesis was written on the work of Mexican Nobel Prize winner, Octavio Paz. Dr Cosgrove’s specialist interests are contemporary Latin American poetry and prose fiction on which he has published widely. Other strong academic interests are in comparative literature and literary theory, and he has published on authors as diverse as Borges, Beckett, Nabokov, Calvino and Heaney. His work on the finest Mexican novelist of the twentieth century, Juan Rulfo, has been recognized within Mexico as having made a substantial contribution to Rulfo scholarship. For this work, he was awarded the highest academic research scholarship given by the Mexican Government.
As well as setting up agreements of cooperation between College and important Latin American universities, particularly the Colegio de México, Latin America’s most prestigious Humanities’ Research Institution, Dr Cosgrove helped to establish the College’s hosting of an annual series of lectures by a visiting Mexican academic.
Dr Cosgrove was a tutor in College for 11 years and is currently the Head of the Department of Hispanic Studies. He has served as External Examiner at the Universities of Liverpool, Stirling, León, Granada and Guadalajara, and has been Ph.D. examiner at the Universities of Queen’s Belfast, Liverpool and León. He is a member of advisory Boards of two U.S. literary journals that specialise in Latin American literature. He has been a member of the Poetry Ireland Council, and was consultant for the Department of Education Syllabus Review on New Poetry in Schools Programme. Dr Cosgrove has also been a regular contributor to RTE’s Arts Show.
Bruce Misstear (Mr)
Bruce Misstear graduated in geology from TCD in 1975 and spent the next 18 years working on groundwater projects in 10 countries, becoming a Divisional Director with international engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald. Bruce joined the Department of Civil Engineering at TCD in 1995, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. His research interests lie in hydrogeology and environmental engineering, including groundwater recharge, aquifer vulnerability and air pollution. He is the author or co-author of more than 80 publications, including the international text book Water wells and boreholes published by J Wiley & Sons in 2006. He has been an expert advisor on several external panels and has also acted as external examiner for MSc courses at the University of Birmingham and University of Wales.
Bruce served as Trinity College’s first Dean of Students between 2004 and 2007, during which time he was closely involved in the preparation of the College’s first integrated strategic plan for Student Services.
Ross McManus (Dr)
Ross McManus is a Senior Lecturer in Molecular Medicine. He received his primary degree in Genetics and graduated with a Ph.D. in Genetics from TCD in 1990. He was appointed Lecturer in Molecular Medicine in 1998 and was awarded a Wellcome Trust / HRB ‘New Blood’ Fellowship in the same year.
His research interests are in the genetics of human disease and he was involved in the discovery of the breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2 in 1994 as a research fellow in TCD’s School of Medicine. Since then he has focussed primarily on the genomics of inflammatory diseases, with particular emphasis on diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract such as coeliac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. He was joint principal investigator of an international consortium which has recently discovered eight new candidate genes for causing susceptibility to coeliac disease.
Dr McManus is the director of the postgraduate programme in Molecular Medicine which includes Diploma and Masters degrees and a HRB-funded, four year Doctoral programme in Molecular Medicine.
Maryann Valiulis (Dr)
Maryann Valiulis is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, School of Histories and Humanities. She is also Director of the Research Unit of the Centre. Her primary interest is in gender and both her historical and contemporary research and her teaching revolve around that concept. Her teaching focuses on women’s history and feminist theories. Her research includes publications in Irish traditional and women’s history, including an award-winning biography of General Richard Mulcahy. She is in the process of completing a manuscript that focuses on the way in which masculinities and femininities were constructed to enhance the stability and respectability of the Irish Free State. Dr Valiulis has also directed numerous funded research projects on contemporary aspects on gender equality and inequality in Irish society, including a major study on women and the Irish civil service. Currently, she is President of Women’s History Association, Ireland, 2008-2012.
Áine Kelly (Dr)
Áine Kelly is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine. A TCD graduate, she was awarded a B.A. (Mod) in Physiology and College gold medal in 1995 and completed her PhD in 1998. She has been a principal investigator in the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience since its inception in 2002. Dr Kelly's research is largely centred on the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory and on age-related neurodegenerative changes that impact on mnemonic function. She has a particular interest in the roles of neurotrophic factors in these processes. The aim of her current projects is to identify neuroprotective strategies that may prevent cognitive impairments associated with the ageing process.
Kevin Mitchell (Dr)
Kevin Mitchell is a Senior Lecturer in the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. He is a graduate of the Genetics Department, Trinity College Dublin (B.A., Mod. 1991) and received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (1997), where he studied nervous system development with Prof Corey Goodman. He did postdoctoral research with Prof Marc Tessier-Lavigne at the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University, using molecular genetics to study neural development in the mouse. Since 2002 he has been on the faculty at Trinity College Dublin as a Science Foundation Ireland Investigator and is also an EMBO Young Investigator. He studies the genetics of brain wiring in mice and humans, with particular interest in mechanisms of cortical connectivity, in neurodevelopmental mouse models for psychiatric disorders and in synaesthesia.
Louise Bradley (Dr)
Louise Bradley is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics. She graduated from University College Dublin with a B.Sc. in Experimental Physics (1992) and subsequently was awarded a M.Sc. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) by Trinity College Dublin. Her research is in the area of semiconductor photonic materials and devices. During her Ph.D. she studied light-matter interaction in microcavity structures, with her post-doctoral work focusing on microcavity enhanced light emitters. She joined the staff of the School of Physics in Trinity College in 2001 where she continued her research on microcavity devices. Dr Bradley is co-inventor of two patents in this field. Over the past number of years she has developed research in nano-photonics and her group is looking at energy transfer in quantum dot systems, which is of relevance to nano-sensing and energy funnelling applications. Other interests include wide-band gap CuCl materials and the physics of semiconductor optical amplifiers. Her research group has won awards for their work at international conferences and Dr Bradley has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals. Her research is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland.
Robert Thomson (Dr)
Robert Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses mainly on politics in the European Union and on politics at the national level in different European countries. In the area of European Union politics, his recent publications examine the ways in which the latest enlargements have affected how decisions are taken in the EU. With regard to politics at the national level, his research examines the fulfilment of election pledges by parties when they enter government, notably in the coalition systems of the Netherlands and Ireland.
Dr Thomson joined Trinity College in 2005. Prior to that, he held research and lecturing appointments in the Netherlands, at the University of Groningen and at Utrecht University. He has a B.A. from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland and a Ph.D. from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Yuri Volkov (Prof)
Yuri Volkov received his MD from the Moscow Medical Academy and subsequently a PhD in biomedical sciences at the Institute of Immunology, Moscow. He has been working at the Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin since 1995 and is currently also one of the Principal Investigators at the Institute of Molecular Medicine. His research interests for a number of years have been focused in leukocyte biology, mechanisms of inflammation and cell adhesion receptors functioning in immune defense and disease development. Among the main achievements in this area was the discovery and characterization of the crucial impact of intracellular phosphorylation enzyme of the protein kinase C family – PKC-beta for the process of T cell migration. Success of these studies has been made possible through the implementation of the cutting edge High Content Analysis (HCA) molecular imaging technologies. Prof Volkov’s group has made a key contribution in establishing the HCA facility at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, which represents a state-of-the art setup in the academic institution at international level. Prof Volkov has developed a large-scale interdisciplinary alliance between the Schools of Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry at Trinity College, opening the opportunities to develop new nano-scale diagnostic and drug delivery systems. Prof Volkov is also a PI in NanoBiology of the Trinity College’s CRANN centre, where his group is developing the applications of nanomaterials for advanced research and medical diagnostics. Prof Volkov is Trinity College’s lead partner of the EU-funded Consortium NanoInteract and of the SFI strategic research cluster BioNanoInteract.
Lorraine Leeson (Dr)
Lorraine Leeson is a graduate of the University of Bristol, Trinity College and UCD. She has worked with Deaf communities in Ireland, the UK and at EU level for almost 20 years, and has been Director of the Centre for Deaf Studies (CDS) at Trinity College since its establishment in 2001. She has written widely on aspects of the linguistics and applied linguistics of signed languages, including morphosyntax, language policy, signed language interpreting and the educational experiences of Deaf people. She is the first Irish woman to have completed a PhD in the field of Deaf Studies and was a member of the first cohort of professionally trained Irish Sign Language (ISL)/English interpreters in Ireland. She is editor of the international journal, 'The Sign Language Translator and Interpreter' and the CDS’ Monograph Series, and associate editor of the international Deaf Studies journal, Deaf Worlds. Lorraine is currently preparing a description of ISL with Professor John I. Saeed, for publication with Edinburgh University Press. This is based on the Signs of Ireland corpus, one the largest and most richly annotated digital multimodal corpora of a signed language in the world today. With colleagues at the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences and Dr Brian Nolan (Institute for Technology, Blanchardstown), Dr Leeson secured significant Strategic Innovation Funding (SIF II) in 2008. She is also working on a number of Leonardo da Vinci funded projects including SIGNALL II (promoted by Interesourcegroup (Ireland) Limited) and D-Signs (promoted by the University of Bristol’s Centre for Deaf Studies, UK). Dr Leeson was named a Léargas Language Ambassador for her work on ISL in 2008.
Wolfgang Schmitt (Dr)
Wolfgang Schmitt is currently a Lecturer in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry.
Dr Schmitt studied Chemistry at the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany and graduated as Dipl. Ing. (Chemistry) in 1999. He was awarded the Dr Anton Keller Prize from the University of Darmstadt and received his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe in 2002. From 2002-2003 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In March 2003 he was selected to join the International Centre for Young Scientists at the National Institute for Materials Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan as an independent research fellow. Dr Schmitt joined the School of Chemistry in October 2005. His research interests focus on the supramolecular chemistry of hybrid organic-inorganic materials aiming to exploit these advanced materials for sustainable energy applications, catalysis and molecular magnetic devices.
Virpi Timonen (Dr)
Virpi Timonen left her home in the Arctic Circle at the age of 16 to complete her schooling at Atlantic College, Wales and went on to study at the universities of Heidelberg, Durham and Oxford. Her D.Phil. and early publications analysed welfare state restructuring in the Nordic context. She started lecturing in social policy in Trinity in 2003, founded the Social Policy and Ageing Research Centre in 2005, and is currently the Director of Research in the School of Social Work and Social Policy. Her research examines social change and policy development as they relate to the older populations of Ireland and other developed countries, with a particular interest in long-term care policies. Dr Timonen has published widely in international journals including the Journal of Aging Studies, Ageing & Society and the Journal of Social Policy, and authored several books including a textbook titled Ageing Societies: A Comparative Introduction. She is one of the co-investigators in the Irish Longitudinal Study of Ageing, with a focus on the social care and engagement of older adults. She has undertaken policy-relevant research for several government bodies, been a visiting researcher at the University of Turku, Finland and at the Australian National University, and participates actively in the International Sociological Association and the Network for European Social Policy Analysis.
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Scholarship
THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO SCHOLARSHIP 2009:
| Department | Name | |
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| Business Studies and a Language | Nadja Turunen | |
| Computer Science (BA) | Jimmy Cleary |
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| Dental Science |
Hamed Fesharaki Emma Claire McAleese |
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| Economic and Social Studies | Christine Judith Coakley |
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| Engineering | Ailbhe Cullen Mathew Lyons Sinéad Cáit Ní Riada |
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| European Studies | Donal Hassett Magdalena Loehr |
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| History and Political Science | Gavin Neville Charles Morrison Chloe Teevan |
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| Human Genetics | Roisin Dunne | |
| Law | Donncha Conway Joelle Grogan Molly Joyce |
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| Law and French | Emile Burke-Murphy Emma Libreri Emma Sinead McCarron Garret Sammon |
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| Management Science and Information Systems Studies | Hugh Doyle Cailin Maguire |
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| Mathematics | Ruadhai Dervan Christoph Stefan Hellmayr Cian Tomas O'Criodain John Ronan Shee Robin Joshua Tobin |
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| Medicine |
Gabriel Blankson Beecham Conor Broderick Valerie Broderick Justin Chan Tai Kong Jessica Cooke Anna Clare Megan Feeney Aileen Therese Fenelon Martina Feyzrakhmanova Samantha Irwin David Mark Kelly Paul McElhinney Thomas-John McGrath-Daly Melissa Murphy Mai Nguyen Gerard Anthony Sheridan |
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| Music | Reiltin Nic Charthaigh Duill | |
| Natural Sciences | Niamh Fox Kevin Gaughan Beth Kelly Graham Patrick Murphy Aidan Murray Fergus Poynton Lucia Salatova Kilian Walsh |
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| Pharmacy | Niamh Mary Ennis Helen Gallagher Naomi Hodgins Helen Geraldine O'Donnell Sanghee Park |
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| Philosophy | Matthew Patrick Ivan McKeever Daniel Vanello |
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| Philosophy and Political Science | Fay Niker | |
| Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials | Christian Wirtz | |
| Physiotherapy |
Edel Cronin Brendan Stephen Heck Elizabeth Melvin |
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| Psychology | Clare Delargy | |
| Religions and Theology | Geoffrey Wharton | |
| Theoretical Physics | Claire Marie O'Brien Sean Breanndan O'Conchuir |
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| Two Subject Moderatorship | English Literature & Modern Irish | Roisin Louise Adams |
| French & Philosophy | Huw Duffy | |
| English Literature & Drama Studies | Hugh Declan Farrell | |
| English Literature & Psychology | Aine Ni Choisdealbha | |
| Economics & Psychology | Jason Somerville | |
| English Literature & French | Tim Smyth | |