Irish Research Council New Foundations Funding

Ten community engaged research partnerships between researchers at NUI Galway and a number of community based organisations have received funding from the Irish Research Council’s New Foundations scheme. The community based organisations include the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, Age & Opportunity, Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, Croí, Dóchas and the Trust for Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Details of the projects are outlined below.

The call for the next round of funding has been announced and information is available at: https://research.ie/funding/new-foundations/

• Dr Sinéad Hynes, Occupational Therapy, who will work with The Alzheimer Society of Ireland to develop recommendations and identify what the future care needs of older LGTBQI+ people living with dementia in Ireland are.
• Dr Haroon Zafar, School of Medicine and BioInnovate Ireland, who will be part of a research collaboration with Croí, the Heart and Stroke Charity on the remote management of heart failure during Covid-19 through ‘telehealth’.
• Dr Charlotte McIvor, Drama and Theatre Performance, who will partner with Baboró International Arts Festival for Children on the first national project to look at interculturalism, diversity and inclusion in theatre for the young audiences sector.
• Dr Michael Lang, J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, whose research will contribute towards a better understanding of the nature of rural crime – perceived, experienced, and recorded – and will analyse how it varies across different regions of Ireland.
• Dr Orla Dolan, Occupational Therapy, whose research will look at an evidence base for meeting therapeutic care needs using Virtual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy with individuals living with mild to moderate dementia residing in the community in Ireland.
• Dr Barry McDermott, Engineering and Informatics, who will work in partnership with Busitema University on a novel low-cost, robust device for the prevention and treatment of post-partum haemorrhage in low resource settings.
• Dr Oonagh Meade, School of Psychology, who will partner with Croí Heart and Stroke Charity who have developed “MySláinte”, a new cardiac rehabilitation programme delivered online to ensure equal access to cardiac rehabilitation in Ireland.
• Dr Rónán Kennedy, School of Law, who will partner with the Trust for Civil Liberties, Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and with Dr Laura Cahillane of the University of Limerick to examine whether the establishment of the Judicial Council will bring the Irish approaches to judicial conduct and ethics and judicial education and training up to international best practice.
• Dr Miriam Haughton, Drama and Theatre Performance, who will work with Age & Opportunity on the documentary ‘Mad, Bad and Dangerous: ‘Difficult’ Irish Women Abroad’.
• Dr Kevin O’Sullivan, Department of History, who will be part of a research collaboration with Dóchas – the Irish Association of Non-Governmental Development Organisations focusing on the historical research into humanitarian practice.