Geography Media Contacts
The Geographical Society of Ireland is keen to promote the discipline of Geography and the work of Geographers. We believe that Geography can provide a unique and integrating perspective that moves beyond the traditional disciplinary ‘silos’ that typify academic endeavour. Listed below are details of Geographers that are not only expert in their given field, but have come forward as being interested in working with the media:
Dr Almar Barry,Lecturer in Geography, Department of Geography, St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra, Dublin (Contact: [email protected]; 01- 8842085) Expertise: Geographies of minority social groups (the Travellers and LGBT geographies); children’s geographies; university-industry links; gender and employment; gender and entrepreneurship; knowledge economy; entrepreneurship education; family histories and geographies; research methods; active learning teaching methodologies and geographic education. See:http://www.spd.dcu.ie/site/geography/almar_barry.shtml
Dr Nessa Cronin, Lecturer in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway (Contact:[email protected]) Expertise: Irish cultural landscapes; sense of place; Irish cultural geography; historical and cultural cartography. See:http://www.nuigalway.ie/research/centre_irish_studies/staff_nessa.htm
Dr Ronan Foley, Lecturer, Dept. of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Contact: [email protected]; 01 708 6024) Expertise: Health Geography, GIS, Therapeutic Landscapes, Spatial Data. See:http://geography.nuim.ie/staff/foleyronan
Dr. James Jeffers, Teaching Associate in Geography, School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde (Contact: [email protected]; +44 141 444 8624) Expertise: Human dimensions of natural hazards and disasters. See:https://sites.google.com/site/jamesjeffers1/Home
Dr. Adrian Kavanagh Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Contact: [email protected] 01-708 6014/086-3313255) Expertise: Geography of Elections (Election boundaries, geography of party support, geography of candidate support, voter turnout), Political geographies of sporting and cultural events (Eurovision Song Contest, Olympics, World Cup, Champions League, Gaelic Games…). See:http://geography.nuim.ie/staff/kavanaghadrian or www.adriankavanaghelections.orgor www.adriankavanagh.com
Prof. Gerry Kearns, Dept. of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Contact:[email protected]; 01-708 6153) Expertise: Geopolitics, AIDS, Church-state relations, 19th century Irish nationalism. See: http://geography.nuim.ie/staff/kearnsgerry
Christina Noble, PhD Student, Dept. of Geography & Environment, University of Aberdeen (Contact: [email protected]; 0044 7748967469) Expertise: Return Migration, human geography, biographical methods, rural studies. See: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top
Dr Susan Pike, Lecturer in Geography Education, St Patrick’s College / Dublin City University Institute of Education ([email protected] 01 884 2235 / 086 024 2345
Expertise: Geography in primary schools, geography at Junior Certificate, Geography at Leaving Certificate, inquiry based learning, enquiry based learning, environmental education, children’s knowledge of Ireland, children’s knowledge of the world, children and citizenship, children’s participation, children’s geographies, children’s abilities in map making and reading, Teacher Education / ‘teacher training’ in geography and related areas.
Dr Jan Rigby, Director: Centre for Health Geoinformatics, Dept. of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Contact: [email protected]; 01 708 6728) Expertise: Health/Medical Geography, Public Health. See: http://www.chg.ie
Prof. John Sweeney, Director: ICARUS, Dept. of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Contact:[email protected]; Expertise: Climate, climate change. See:http://icarus.nuim.ie/people/sweeney-john
Dr Karen Till, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, NUI Maynooth (Contact:[email protected]; 353 1 708 4550) Expertise: Public, conceptual, modern and performing art (in Ireland, US, other parts of Europe); memorials, monuments and other public landscapes (politics of memory-debates); US planning; community and grassroots social movements; placemaking; Berlin, Cape Town, Bogota. See: http://geography.nuim.ie/staff/till-karen;http://geography.nuim.ie/research/space-place; http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/karen-till/9/b8b/378