Research Support Seminar on Preparing Major Funding Applications

As part of its Academic Research Support Services initiative, the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, in association with the Moore Institute, is hosting a series of research support and information seminars for staff this semester.

The second workshop in this series will consider the topic of Preparing Major Funding Applications.

The session will feature three speakers:  Professor Nicholas Canny (Professor Emeritus, History (NUI Galway) and previously Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, 2011-2016), Professor Marie-Louise Coolahan (Professor of English) and Professor Gary Donohoe (Professor of Psychology), both of whom have significant experience of European funding opportunities.

The session will be chaired by Professor Dan Carey (Moore Institute) and each speaker will provide a short overview of their own experience before the session will be opened to the floor for questions.

Nicholas Canny, FBA, was Professor of History, NUI Galway, 1979-2009; President of the Royal Irish Academy, 2008-2011; and Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, 2011-2016. His major book is Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (Oxford, 2001), and he is currently completing Imagining Ireland’s Pasts: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries also for Oxford University Press.

Marie-Louise Coolahan is a Professor of English specialising in early modern literature at NUI Galway. She is the author of Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (Oxford University Press, 2010), as well as articles and essays about Renaissance manuscript culture, women’s writing, early modern identity, and textual transmission. Marie-Louise is currently Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project, RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700 (www.recirc.nuigalway.ie). She co-edited, with Gillian Wright, Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts (Routledge, 2018) and her special issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, ‘The Cultural Dynamics of Reception’ will be out in January 2020.

Prof. Gary Donohoe is a clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at NUI Galway, and Director of the Center for Neuroimaging and Cognitive Genomics (NICOG). Gary’s research focuses primarily on understanding and addressing those aspects of disability in psychosis related to cognitive deficits. In 2016 he obtained a European Research Council fellowship for his work on immune aspects of cognitive function in schizophrenia (The iRELATE program). In 2018, together with colleagues from NUI Galway, UCD, and RCSI, he received funding for a HRB Collaborative Doctoral Program in Youth Mental Health Research (the YOULEAD program). Gary has been a reviewer for multiple grant funding agencies, including the EU’s Marie Curie fellowship awards.

The Panel Chair, Professor Dan Carey, is Director of the Moore Institute, a board member of the Irish Research Council, is on the Council of the RIA and is the Irish representative on the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) board.  Dan also served as chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (2014-16).