Nutrition & Health Study Group

Angela Veale (PhD, M. Med.Sc. Psych.) is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Psychology, UCC and a child psychotherapist. Her major research themes are: 1.  Psychology of peace & conflict: post-conflict social reintegration of children & families. 2.  Children, Globalisation, Mobility and 'New Migrations' 3.  Psychosocial and psychotherapeutic interventions to support children's psychological wellbeing. As a researcher, she aims to contribute in the space between academic knowledge, policy and practice. Her research and writing takes a socio-cultural and politically situated understanding of the psychological wellbeing of children & families in Ireland and internationally, often using a participatory action research orientation.  She is interested in innovative and mixed research methodologies, in particular working with creative research methods.  She was partner to  the NORFACE funded Transnational Child-Raising between Europe and Africa, and co-director of the Provictimus/Oak Foundation funded project on the social reintegration of young mother's formerly associated with armed groups in Sierra Leone, Liberia and northern Uganda. She is a former Fulbright Scholar. Her research has been funded by Irish Research Council, UCC Strategic Research Fund, Irish Aid, Oak Foundation amongst others.  

Email: A.Veale@ucc.ie

A graduate of BA in Politics & Public Administration, and holds a Professional Diploma in Project Management from University of Limerick. Miriam has also spent some time on her Ph.D. in the area of Public Administration, namely relating to the experiences of stigmatised groups when engaging with state institutions, and has tutored on a wide range of undergraduate PA modules at UL. Her academic areas of interest are namely the interactions between the concepts, practices and processes of governance and social inclusion/exclusion, the role of PA in promoting social justice and equity, and community development and participation. During much of her degree programme, Miriam worked as an assistant project coordinator on an Irish Aid funded research project under the Programme for Strategic Cooperation. She has been an active member within her community having set up a Residents Assoc., and was instrumental in coordinating and resolving front boundary issues for 98 properties having liaised with public representatives, local government, state agencies, and preparing all the required legal paperwork.

Susan is an Associate Professor in Development Practice in the Discipline of Geography, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests are in international development ethics, policy, and practice, issues in governance and justice, human rights and climate change, and gender and social inclusion. She am the Principal Investigator of GEOFORMATIONS: the geographies of dynamic governance assemblages in development cooperation civil society spaces, funded by the European Research Council (ERC-2022-STG), and research group leader for the Climate Justice in Development Research Group. Susan is also Chair of the Research Ethics Committee, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College; a member of the Department of Foreign Affairs Audit Committee (2021-2027); and a Scientific Committee Member of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD since 2014). Previously, she served as Chair of Trinity International Development Initiative (2013-2020); UCC External Examiner for BSc in International Development (2019-2023); Chair of the Board of Trustees - Oxfam Ireland (2016-2023) & Board of Supervisors, Oxfam International (2018-2021); BISA Ethics and World Politics Co-conveyor (2019-2023) and steering committees of Future Earth Ireland and COALITION 2030.

Susan completed her Ph.D. at University College Dublin researching the politics and ethics of international assistance (2008-2012). Following completion of an MA in Politics and International Relations (1996) Susan spent several years teaching political theory and the philosophical foundations of human rights. She then spent ten years in industry working as a Manager with Accenture. Her research and teaching bring to bear almost thirty years of research and professional experience in academia and industry.

Clodagh joins the DSAI team as Communications Officer, coming from a role as Marketing and Communications officer for the LIVE project, an EU Ireland Wales project promoting sustainable tourism in rural coastal parts of both countries. Further to her interest in sustainable tourism, Clodagh has been a founding member of the Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival, a festival which promotes the importance of the night sky to the people and wildlife of the Iveragh Pensinsula. Clodagh is also heavily involved in community development in her local area, sitting on a committee with the local development officer to draw up a local area development plan. 

Eka Zuni Lusi Astuti is a PhD student in the International Structured PhD (ISPhD), Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. She doing research on political economy and farmer resistance. She has experience in social development studies since getting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social development and being a lecturer at the Department of Social Development and Welfare, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. Having several research, publications, and community engagements on social development, her focus study are on social movements, community development, and social entrepreneurship.

Ciara O'HAlloran holds an MA in Digital Humanities from University College Cork and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from NUI Maynooth. Ciara has worked on a wide number of local, community and area development projects across Ireland, with a focus on resilient and sustainable communities. She currently works on communications for Civic and Community Engagement in University College Cork. Research interests include design thinking and design science, service design, service learning, civic scholarship and communications that can connect, empower and engage people around new models of working together for more ethical, equitable and sustainable societies.

Brian is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 25 years post qualification experience. He has worked entirely in the not for profit sector with extensive experience both nationally and overseas in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has a particular interest in the disability sector and holds a law degree from University College Cork. He is currently the Finance Manager for Christian Blind Mission Ireland.

Mairéad Cluskey is a lecturer in the Department of Environmental Humanities and Social Sciences on the Mayo Campus of the Atlantic Technological University teaching across several programmes including Community Development, Youth Work, Outdoor Education and Social Care. Prior to her role in ATU, Mairéad lectured in TU Dublin and taught across all of the programmes in the Department of Humanities. Mairéad is a professionally qualified community development and youth worker and has extensive experience in this area. She is also committed to community engagement and is currently a board member of the Mayo Traveller Movement and the chairperson of Youth Work Ireland, Galway. Mairéad has a particular interest in the professional formation of students in value-based professions, to support an engagement with people and planet that is concerned with positive social change. Mairéad enjoys working alongside students, lecturers and frontline practitioners alike in her continuing journey as a learner, teacher and researcher.

Catherine Corcoran has worked in the development sector for over 30 years with in Ireland and Africa, at management, policy and community levels with CONCERN Worldwide and also in academia at the Technological University of the Shannon. She has led and advised organisations on strategic and community-led planning and provided leadership, research, technical support and advice within challenging contexts, developing and leading consortia and partnerships at an International level. Her PhD research focuses on community-led planning and resilience building.

Dr. Eilish Dillon is an Assistant Professor at the Maynooth University Department of International Development. Eilish has been actively engaged in global and development education in Ireland for over 30 years. She has 10 years second-level teaching experience and 20 years’ experience in programme design, curriculum development, co-ordination and teaching in higher education. She has been an active contributor to civil society global development and education projects during this time through work with Comhlámh, Amnesty International, Banúlacht and the Irish Development Education Association (IDEA). She completed doctoral research in adult and higher education and has published widely on global and development education and communications in peer reviewed journals and books has engaged in supporting ethical global development communications in Ireland for many years, acting as an advisor to Dóchas on its working groups on the Dóchas Code of Conduct on Images and Messages (2010 - 2016) and on its Worldview Research Project (2020 - 2021).

Dr Savage is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and Statistics in Trinity College, the University of Dublin. His current research and teaching focuses on education for sustainable development with a particular focus on creating authentic and situated case-based teaching and learning experiences from the Global South. Prior to this his focus has been on the role technology can play in higher education.

Tim has undertaken many roles within Trinity College including being the inaugural Associate Dean of Online Education and leading the online education initiative and strategy. More recently he was the Project Director of the CHARM-EU European University, a 5 institution collaborative organisation for the delivery of an innovative Masters in Global Challenges for Sustainability and served as the inaugural Chair of the CHARM-EU Board of Examiners and remains a Senior Advisor. This course utilised a challenge-based learning approach and focuses students addressing authentic sustainability challenges within their own locations and contexts. Dr Savage holds a PhD, MSc, and H. Dip from Trinity College and a BA (Hons) from the University of East Anglia.

Alison Duffy, FCA. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2001 having trained with Grant Thornton. Alison has served as a committee member with CAI publishing committee for eight years and as vice chair on the Dochas Finance, Compliance and Governance working group for several years.

Alison worked in finance in the private sector for twelve years and in the humanitarian and development sector for five years. Alison is currently employed as Compliance and Finance manager in Self Help Africa, a leading international development charity with an expertise in small scale farming and growing family-farm businesses.

Her areas of interest include the future direction of Compliance functions as we consider Culture within organisations and the UN Global Compact Sustainability Initiative, a corporate sustainability initiative.

Dr Sheila Long is a qualified social care worker and experienced educationalist with expertise in international children’s rights education, specialized in early childhood education and care, child participation and child protection and adult education with practice experience in Ireland and East Africa and 12 years’ experience in academia and early years teacher training. She has published in the area of children’s rights education and initial early years teacher education.

Keitumetse Mabole is a PhD student at Department & Adult & Community Education, Maynooth University with a passion to grow knowledge and skills that can benefit the wellbeing and livelihoods of our communities. A recipient of the Irish Research Council  Government of Ireland scholarship for his research ‘The impact of indigenous knowledge in enhancing lifelong learning amongst the marginalised communities: The case of the San communities in Botswana’, his research explores elements of indigenous knowledge that can inform more sustainable strategies of development from the Global South. The research incorporates an ecological, interdisciplinary approach, drawing in insights from adult education, sustainable development, and ecology. Keitumetse has14 years of experience working with different communities on Adult Education programmes in Botswana, in a role that involves refining and repositioning the education programmes to better meet the needs of adult learners and to empower them in a community-based sustainable manner. He holds a Masters in Educational Leadership from the Botswana Open University (Botswana) and  Bachelor of Arts In Education from the University of Pretoria ( South Africa). 

Patricia Wall is Programme Operations Lead, Regional Director - Great Lakes, East Africa, West Africa, & Bangladesh. Previously she has worked in Ireland setting up and managing the Training and Learning Programme for the Development Sector at the Kimmage Development Studies Centre, and for 25 years she worked in Africa including Namibia, The Gambia and Ethiopia, DRC and Cameroon in a variety of leadership roles. Patricia undertook primary research on community water resources in a rural community in Namibia as part of an MA programme in Geography and is currently undertaking further post graduate studies in Applied Social Science at UCC.

Professor Owen Worth is the Head of the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. He works, teaches and publishes in the wide areas of International Political Economy and Global Politics and has published on class, hegemony, resistance, political movement from both the right and left and on International Relations (IR) theory. He is the author of 4 books, a co-editor of a number of collections and has published in several journals throughout his career. He has also been a visiting academic at a number of universities across Europe and North America and has sat and continues to sit on the board of a number of networks and academic committees. He is the Managing Editor of the long-standing journal Capital & Class, which is published by Sage.

Safiye Ergun is currently a Structured PhD researcher in Politics at University of Limerick, studies broadly on International Relations (IR). She is an enthusiastic researcher for academia and proved this with her two bachelor's diplomas plus a master's degree that all about politics. Her academic interests cover regional studies, world politics, global political economy, critical theories of IR, non-Western perspective in IR, postcolonialism, poststructuralism, neo-Gramscianism. She enjoys to study about Inter-Governmental Organizations (like the UN and WB) and the Asian cases. Safiye has one peer-reviewed article and a published master's thesis. Besides, she has written plenty editorials for a think-tank's website while she was working there as a researcher.

Karen Kennedy is the Head of Programme Impact at Trócaire, a partnership-based agency working in more than 17 countries.  She is responsible for leading a team which supports all aspects of Programme Quality and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning across the organisation.  She led the development of Trócaire’s strategic plan 2016 – 2020, and continues to support the monitoring of organisational strategy using a balanced scorecard approach.  She has over ten years’ experience in International Development and Humanitarian response, working for agencies such as Médecins Sans Frontieres and International Rescue Committee.  She was Chair of the Dochas Results Working Group from 2017 – 2019.  She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering. 

EMail: Karen.Kennedy@trocaire.org

Judith Randel is Co-Director of Ideas and Action for Public Good which aims to deliver research, consultancy and engagement on poverty, inequality and the SDGs. She was the Co-Founder and Director of Development Initiatives, an independent organisation set up to use data and information to end poverty. Judith’s particular focus was on financing for development, data, transparency and the people who are left behind. All her work is done together with DI co-founder, Tony German and includes the Reality of Aid reports from 1992 - 2000, the Global Humanitarian Assistance Reports from 2000, Investments to End Poverty 2013 to date and the data used to monitor G8 commitments. For the last two years Judith and Tony have been working on The P20 Initiative: Data to leave no one behind.

Philomena is a postgraduate student of Applied Social Research Methods in Trinity College Dublin. Building on her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Social Policy (also in Trinity) in 2018, where issues relating to international development were a key feature including around 'Globalisation and Development'; 'Gender, Work and Families'; and ‘Economics of Policy Issues', Philomena's primary research interests include Gender; Health; Education, Social Stratification; Housing; Migration; and Ageing Societies. She was elected a Trinity Scholar (non-Foundation) for academic excellence in 2016. 

Email: MURPHP31@tcd.ie

Nguyen Nguyen holds a BA in English from Da Nang University (Vietnam) and an MA in Development Studies at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). He is also a development practitioner with over ten years of experience in facilitating participatory and community-based development initiatives in Vietnam. Moving from his development career into academia, Nguyen is interested in interdisciplinary approaches in development with a particular focus on translating development concepts and terminology into Vietnamese to promote effective policy interventions. His PhD research, funded by the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) at Dublin City University (DCU), seeks to bring together two fields – development studies and translation studies – between which there has to date been little contact or exchange.

EMail: nguyen.nguyen4@mail.dcu.ie

Paul Keating is a Researcher and Lecturer in the Technological University of the Shannon based in Limerick School of Art and Design on the Clonmel Campus. With a background in Civil Engineering and Sustainable Rural Development, he has worked as Community Worker in Ireland, across the EU, East Africa and the Balkans for over 20 years.

Pauls current research interest involves the exploration of the extent to which media such as computer games and virtual reality can be used as a space for Critical Pedagogy informed by the work of Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal.

In recent years Paul has partnered with the National Youth Council of Ireland and Youth Work Ireland, researching and developing the use of games in youth work practice particularly as it related to development education.  He has also partnered with international NGOs such as Trocaire in integrating games into their Global Citizenship Education programmes. Paul is currently completing a Doctorate in the use of Multiplayer Online Computer Games in Critical Pedagogy.   

Dr Nita Mishra is a reflective development researcher, practitioner, and occasional lecturer on International Development. Her research focuses on human rights-based approaches to development, feminist methodologies, gender, non-government organisations, environment, and peace studies. 

Nita has worked extensively at grassroots level with civil society organisations, faith-based organisations, and funding bodies in India. She has worked on innumerable research projects housed in organisations including the National Council of Applied Economic Research (Gender and Tobacco), Nehru Memorial Museum Library (Muslim Womens’ Lives), Self Employed Women’s Association and the International Labour Organisation (Women Bidi Workers) in India. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the Economic & Political Weekly, European Journal of Development Research, and Policy & Practice. In 2014, Nita received the Strategic Research Fund Award from the Vice President's Office, UCC for crosscutting research in the politics of Poverty, Human Rights, Environment and Sustainable Development. She is currently engaged as a Researcher on a Coalesce project focusing on social inclusion of rural to urban migrants in Hanoi, Vietnam. 

Nita's poetry has been critically acclaimed as the future of Irish feminism. Currently, Nita sits on the Board of Directors of Children’s Rights Alliance, is national coordinator of Academics Stand Against Poverty-Irish Network and is an active member of several Irish community-based organisations. 

Chair of DSAI Steering Committee, Dr Nita Mishra also co-convenes the DSAI Gender Study Group. 

Email: chair@dsaireland.og 

Elizabeth Carthy has worked with legal and women’s rights non-governmental organisations’ on access to justice and projects addressing gender-based violence in Haiti, Somalia, and South Africa. She is currently finalising a PhD at the University College Dublin Centre of Humanitarian Action exploring aid organisations’ efforts to address sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law with French Law (BCL) from University College Dublin and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School. She is admitted to practice law in New York State.

David is an Education Researcher with Plan International Ireland as well as a PhD researcher at University College Dublin as a Government of Ireland Employment based PhD Scholar. His PhD research focuses on the adoption and adaptation of international education policy debates in INGO programming. Prior to working with Plan, he led Monitoring & Evaluation for Camara Education for almost five years. David has experience working across West, East and Southern Africa, including two years in Uganda. David holds degrees from the University of Edinburgh, NUI Galway, and TU Dublin. 

Dr David Nyaluke is the UCD Proudly Made in Africa Fellow in Business and Development.  He researches and teaches on 'Doing Business in and with Africa' and on sustainable development across 15  business schools and departments of business in universities, colleges and institutes of technology in Ireland. David's current research is within the area of Africa and the international trade system. His research questions focus on how can the international trade system be reformed in various sectors to foster sustainable development in Africa and globally. Before joining UCD College of Business and Proudly Made in Africa, David completed a PhD from Dublin City University (DCU). His doctoral thesis investigated trajectories of political and economic development transformation of African states from independence into the 21st Century.

Maria Collison is Programme Performance Advisor with Christian Aid Ireland, an international development agency working with local partners in over 40 countries worldwide. In this role she collaborates with programme teams and partner organisations to strengthen programme performance, and learn from the use of adaptive approaches across Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

She previously worked with Trócaire in a variety of roles including technical programme quality advisor to programmes across Latin America and Africa, leading a digital data pilot in Malawi and managing a project to streamline organisational programmatic processes and systems.

Caitriona Dowd is Assistant Professor in Security Studies at Dublin City University, where her research focuses on using data and digital technologies for monitoring and analysing conflict; and the intersection of conflict, humanitarian crises and protection of civilians. She has worked across research, policy and humanitarian practice, and has recently worked overseas in Somalia, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Haiti, Nigeria and Kenya.

Triona Pender is Head of Programmes at ActionAid Ireland having joined the federation in 2014. She currently leads an innovative Women's Rights Programme in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal with a public engagement component to this in Ireland. She is also a member of the ActionAid International emergency surge team and of the Irish Consortium on GBV.

Before joining ActionAid, Triona worked in the Irish development NGO Trocaire for six years and lived and worked in Bolivia for 2.5 years managing a Livelihoods & Climate Change Programme in Bolivia and Peru. She also managed a Governance Programme with Trocaire in Malawi for one year before joining Norwegian Church Aid in 2012 as Economic Justice Coordinator in Malawi.

Triona has a has B.A. in Applied Languages (Spanish & French) and an M.A. in Globalisation & International Relations.

Jacinta Greene is the current lead of the Nutrition and Health Study group in the DSAI.   She is a CORU registered Dietitian currently working in Children’s Health Ireland at Tallaght hospital Dublin.  Jacinta's interests include nutrition and paediatric health, maternal and child health and child growth and development.  Jacinta has a particular interest in nutrition in development and she lectures nutrition and medical students on Global nutrition at UUC, UCD and TCD.  She spent three years working as a nutrition advisor in Cambodia with local Public Health Department and National Nutrition Programme.  She is currently on the external board of advisors for the Safe Water research which is funded by Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF).  This is interdisciplinary research between Ulster University, University of Medellin, the University of Sao Paulo, along with NGO’s in Colombia, and Mexico. She graduated in 2000 with a BSc (Hons) and MSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from University of Ulster Coleraine and a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin in 2010.

Walt Kilroy is the Associate Director of DCU's Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, and also Assistant Professor at the School of Law and Government. His research interests include development, conflict, and post-war reconstruction, and the interactions between these processes. His teaching has included these topics, as well as international media and reporting.  His doctoral thesis was awarded the Basil Chubb Prize for the best PhD in political science (2012) by the Political Studies Association of Ireland and he is coordinator of the EU Erasmus+ funded PESTUGE project. Walt has worked in the Horn of Africa for the development organisation, Trocaire, on conflict and advocacy (2004-06) and in journalism for print, radio, and television, including as Deputy Foreign Editor at the Irish public service broadcaster, RTE where he reported from conflict zones such as Afghanistan and the Balkans. 

Dr. P.J. Wall is a Research Fellow and lecturer with both the ADAPT Center and the School of Religion in Trinity College Dublin.  His research explores digital innovation in the Global South, with a specific focus on the ethical, social, cultural and political aspects associated with the implementation and use of mobile technologies for healthcare in Africa.  

P.J. has over 20 years’ experience teaching in a variety of third level institutions including TCD, the University of Manchester, Institute of Technology Carlow and the National College of Ireland.  P.J. has also worked with a variety of national and international development organisations, governmental bodies and NGO’s where he has gained extensive in-country development experience in a variety of countries including Sierra Leone, India, Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania and Guyana.  P.J. holds a PhD from the School of Computer Science in TCD, a Master’s Degree from the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, and a Batchelor’s degree in Accounting from the Institute of Public Administration (UCD).

Rob Kevlihan has been working as a practitioner and scholar in the development, humanitarian and international relations field for the past 15 years with extensive experience working in both Africa (including Sudan, Angola and Ghana) and Asia (both Central and South East Asia).

Rob has a Masters in Accounting from University College, Dublin and a Masters in International Relations from Dublin City University. He completed his Ph.D in International Relations at The American University in Washington, D.C. in 2009 and is also a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland. His research focuses on the nexus of conflict, development and security, with a particular focus on state building, conflict management and complex humanitarian emergencies. He has published single and co-authored peer reviewed articles in a number of scholarly journals, including Disasters, Nations and Nationalism, Ethnopolitics, The European Journal of Development Research, African Security Review, Studies in Transition States and Societies, Irish Studies in International Affairs and International Studies Quarterly (forthcoming). In 2013 he published his first book, entitled “Aid, Insurgencies and Conflict Transformation, When Greed is Good”.

Rob took up the position of Exective Director of the Kimmage Development Studies Centre in January 2014, having spent the Autumn 2013 semester as a visiting lecturer in Ha Noi University, teaching on their International studies programme.

Honor Fagan is a Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Her theoretical project has been to contribute to the development of a social sustainability paradigm from a sociological perspective. Her research interests focus on human security and international development, social sustainability, and gender and governance. She is currently leading the Social Science component of WaterSPOUTT (https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/social-sciences-institute/research/waterspoutt) an EU-H2020-funded project which is being carried out in Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda and South Africa. 

She has served as expert evaluator at national and international level for such prestigious research organisations as the International Social Science Council (ISSC), European Commission (REA), Suomen Akatemia (Academy of Finland), The National Research Foundation of South Africa, the Irish Research Council (IRC). She is co-editor of the International Social Science Council's (ISSC) Comparative Research Programme on Poverty's (CROP) International Poverty Studies Series alongside leading intellectual Thomas Pogge. She has published five books with top international publishing houses including the prize-winning Globalisation and Security: An Encyclopaedia; seven book length national reports informed by original field research, designed to engage with and successful in directly impacting targeted policy developments, including one developed for the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) and another funded by EU Framework funds; over thirty journal articles and book chapters, including articles in top international journals such as the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (ANNALS), Capitalism, Nature and Class, European Journal of Development Research, Journal of Education, and Policy and Politics.

Derina is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, based at the university's Children's Research Centre. Her PhD explores the perspectives, challenges and strategies of young men and women from Myanmar as they negotiate growing up as 'illegal migrants' and refugees along the Thailand-Myanmar border. Her research involved 10 months' immersive fieldwork on the Thailand-Myanmar border, where she had previously lived for three years developing psychosocial and mental health projects for displaced children and youth. Originally from Wicklow, Derina obtained her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology from University College Dublin, and trained in Play Therapy and Psychotherapy at the Children's Therapy Centre under Eileen Prendiville.

Gráinne Kilcullen is a programme adviser for governance and human rights with Christian Aid Ireland, an international development agency working with local partners in over 40 countries worldwide. Previously Gráinne worked as a Communications Officer with UNESCO supporting local community radios to deliver civic and voter education to rural populations and facilitate local dialogue for increased accountability.

Gráinne also worked as a governance adviser with UNDP in Tanzania supporting the Tanzanian National Human Rights Commission to develop, disseminate and implement a National Human Rights Action Plan.

She has worked at the grassroots level in Myanmar with Nonviolent Peaceforce supporting local peace building initiatives specifically building the capacity of civil society to monitor and reduce violence, and support the protection of civilians. In Nepal, Gráinne worked with Peace Brigades International offering support, protection and capacity building to human rights defenders and human rights organisations at risk.

Gráinne has a LLM in International Human Rights Law from National University of Ireland and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Philosophy.

Hugh Mc Bride is a Senior Lecturer in Business at GMIT, Mayo Campus. He graduated from UCD with a B.Comm (in 1976) and an MBS (in 1977). He has worked as an accountant and has been a member of CIMA since 1987. His areas of academic interest include Management Control Systems, Management Accounting, Financial Management, Corporate Ethics and Corporate Governance. Hugh has also lectured at DCU, NUIG, the Copperbelt University (Zambia), the University of Malawi, the University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), and at the Fachhochschule Vorarlberg (Austria). He has been a member of GMIT’s Academic Council for 20 years, and also served as a member of the Institute’s Governing Body for 5 years.

Bernard Daly graduated with a degree in Economics (BA Mod Econ) from TCD in 1978. After completing his university studies, Bernard worked in the Irish State Development Bank, Industrial Credit Corporation (ICC) for nearly 18 years, prior to its privatisation and sale to Bank of Scotland in 2000. He has also worked overseas for the World Bank on assignments in the finance and banking sectors in South America and Asia.

In 1997, he completed a Masters in Development Studies in UCD and for the next 5 years he lectured on a part-time basis in the Centre for Development Studies teaching courses in the Economic and Financial Analysis of Development Projects as well as the Political Economy of Transition. His paper on the transformation of the Chinese Economy was published by UCD.

He is a member of the Board of Plan Ireland and previously served as a member of the Trocaire Project Sub-Committee. Bernard is also a former Treasurer of Comhlamh, the Irish Association of Development Workers.

He now works as Director of the ICC Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) and is company secretary of ICC ESOP Trustee Ltd. He is a former Chairperson of the Irish Profit Sharing Association and is a Director of the European Federation of Employee Share Schemes (EFES) an organisation with headquarters in Brussels dedicated to the promotion of employee financial participation and employee share ownership in Europe. He is a former Irish executive member of the MSF trade union and is currently a Branch Secretary of the Unite union.