Our Section Chairs
Professor Daniel Carey is Director of the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway and a board member of the Irish Research Council. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and served as chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2014-16). He has held grants from the Mellon Foundation, the IRC, the AHRC, British Academy, MHRA, and other sources, and has mentored 12 postdoctoral fellows funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie actions, the IRC, and other schemes. His academic interests include Irish intellectual history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, early modern colonialism and travel, and questions of cultural diversity in the Enlightenment.
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Dr Michelle Millar is Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Science and Sociology and Research Fellow at the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway. She is Head of the School of Political Science and Sociology since January 2018. She acted as Principal Investigator on several funded research projects, the most recent an IRC Social Protection Research Innovation Award. Her research interest focuses on labour market activation and those parenting alone as well as social inclusion. She has many book chapters, published reports and peer reviewed Journal Articles published in journals such as Social Policy & Administration, Public Administration, Social Science & Medicine, Disability & Society, International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
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Noel Dorr is a retired Irish diplomat. During his career in the Department of Foreign Affairs, among other posts, he served as Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN 1980-1983 (Irish Representative on the Security Council 1981-1982), Ambassador to the UK 1983-1987 and Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs 1987-1995. He represented Ireland on the official-level working groups that drafted the EU Treaties of Amsterdam (1996-1997) and Nice (2001). He is member of the Royal Irish Academy and has an honorary doctorate from NUIG. He has written two books on Ireland and the United Nations. His most recent book 'Sunningdale: The Search for Peace in Northern Ireland' was published by the Royal Irish Academy in November 2017. He lives in Dublin with his wife Caitriona
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