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Steering Committee

Centre for Global Development Committee

The CGD Committee 2023 is an interdisciplinary group representing a broad range of disciplines from every college across University College Cork.

Dr Rosarii Griffin

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  • Interim Director of the Centre for Global Development (CGD, UCC).

Biography

Dr Rosarii Griffin is the Interim Director of the ‘Centre for Global Development’ at University College Cork, Ireland, and teaches and researches in the area of ‘Education for Global Sustainable Development’; Gender, Disability Studies and Research Methodology (quantitative and qualitative research methods) in UCC. Rosarii’s expertise is in the area of ‘International and Comparative Education’ (D.Phil, Oxford University). She is also involved in several European Horizon 2020 (EUH2020) Projects. Previously, Rosarii was a Director of a Centre for Global Development (MIC/UL, Limerick) where she led six teacher-education capacity-building projects between Africa and Ireland with a €1.8m budget funded by Irish Aid and the Higher Education Authority (HEA). Rosarii co-founded the Centre for Global Development (CGD) at UCC where she now works.

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Dr Barbara Doyle Prestwich

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Lecturer, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science

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Head of Plant Science UCC and Principal Investigator. First female President of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology http://iapbhome.com/ (2015-2018) Congress Chairperson of the 14th Quadrennial Symposium of the International Association for Plant Biotechnology http://iapb2018.com/ Primary degree in Genetics from the University of London and PhD in Plant Genetics from UCC.Employed in UCC since 1998 firstly as a post-doc researcher on an EU funded project (FAIR PL97-3889) `Health Certification of Rosaceous species based on disease-indexing of in vitro plants: validation of diagnostics and diagnostic strategies¿ (1998-2001) , then as a college lecturer and part-time post-doc from 1998-2001. Presently employed as a college lecturer and Principal Investigator in the School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, based in the Distillery Fields, North Mall campus.


Dr Caroline Williamson Sinalo

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Lecturer in World Languages

Biography

Caroline Williamson Sinalo is lecturer in World Languages at University College Cork and author of Rwanda after Genocide: Gender, Identity and Posttraumatic Growth (Cambridge University Press 2018) and co-author of Transmitting Memories in Rwanda: From a Survivor Parent to the next Generation (Brill 2023). She is also the co-editor of Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). Williamson Sinalo’s research focuses on conflict and violence in Africa’s Great Lakes region, and has been supported by the AHRC, the Aegis Trust, the Irish Research Council, the Government of Ireland and Enterprise Ireland. Together with Dr Céire Broderick, she is the co-convener of the Violence, Conflict and Gender research cluster, in UCC’s Centre for Advanced Studies in Languages and Cultures (CASiLaC).


Dr Ciara Heavin

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Lecturer, Business Information Systems

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Ciara Heavin is a Professor in Business Information Systems at Cork University Business School, University College Cork, Ireland. Her research focuses on opportunities for using information systems (IS) in the global healthcare ecosystem and in digital transformation. As Co-Director of the Health Information Systems Research Centre (HIRSC), Ciara has directed funded research in the investigation, development, and implementation of innovative technology solutions in the health/healthcare domain. She has published articles in several top international IS journals and conference proceedings. She has co-authored three books with Daniel J. Power: Decision Support, Analytics, and Business Intelligence, Data-Based Decision Making and Digital Transformation and On Becoming Agile. She earned a PhD from University College Cork.


Dr Claire Dorrity

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Lecturer in social policy, School of Applied Social Studies, UCC and a member of the Centre for Global Development Steering Committee, UCC.

Biography

Dr Claire Dorrity is a lecturer in social policy at the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC. Her main research interests include Migration Policy; Border Securitisation and Refugees; the Criminalisation of Migration; and Critical Multiculturalism and Superdiversity. Her most recent research project EMBRACE: Exploring Mobility: Borders, Refugees & Challenging Exclusion (Irish Research Council New Foundations Program) focused on the frontiers of border militarisation, using two case studies - the EU Mediterranean border and the US/Mexican border. Claire is a research associate with the Institute of Social Science in the 21st Century, UCC (ISS21) and committee member of the Migration and Integration Research Cluster.

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Dr Colette Cunningham

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Lecturer, Epidemiology & Public Health

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olette has worked in the Department since August 2010, and is currently the Online Education Coordinator for the Department overseeing the development and implementation of the new Online Master of Public Health (MPH). She is also course coordinator and lecturer for modules Global Health and Development, International Perspectives on Global Health, and The BIG Four: HIV, TB, Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases. A nurse by profession with an MPH and M.A. in Public Policy, she has a vast and varied experience in Global Public Health, HIV/AIDS, and in adult and children’s palliative care (both nationally and internationally). She has worked extensively in global health with hands-on experience from Rwanda, Kenya and Zambia where she lived.


Dr Edward Lahiff

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Lecturer, Food Business & Development

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I am a lecturer in international development at University College Cork (Dept Food Business and Development), Co-Director of the BSc. Programme in International Development and Co-Director of the MSc Food Security Policy and Management. Between 1998 and 2006 I worked in southern Africa working with a rural NGO and later as Senior Lecturer in Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. In 2009-10 I served as Doctoral Programme Officer with the Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI) and Coordinator of the International Doctoral School in Global Health at the Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin.


Dr Patrick Henn

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Lecturer, Medicine

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Pat Henn graduated from UCC in 1982 and has worked in Paediatrics and Child Health in Ireland, the UK and Australia. Currently he is Director of Research and Education in the ASSERT Centre, at UCC, https://assert.ucc.ie. His research interests include innovation in medical education, simulation in healthcare education and training, Digital Healthcare and Med Tech, Patient Safety and technology enhanced learning in health care and medical education and training, community child health and developmental coordination disorder.


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