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DSAI Team
Miriam Ryan Coordinator
A graduate of BA in Politics & Public Administration, University of Limerick, and is currently undertaking her Ph.D. in Public Admin., which seeks to document the experiences of stigmatised groups when engaging with state institutions. Miriam has tutored on a wide range of undergraduate PA modules. Her academic areas of interest are namely the interactions between the concepts, practices and processes of governance and social inclusion/exclusion, the role of PA in promoting social justice and equity, and community development and participation. During much of her degree programme, Miriam worked as an assistant project coordinator on an Irish Aid funded research project under the Programme for Strategic Cooperation. She has been an active member within her community having set up a Residents Assoc., and was instrumental in coordinating and resolving front boundary issues for 98 properties having liaised with public representatives, local government, state agencies, and preparing all the required legal paperwork.
A graduate of BA in Politics & Public Administration, University of Limerick, and is currently undertaking her Ph.D. in Public Admin., which seeks to document the experiences of stigmatised groups when engaging with state institutions. Miriam has tutored on a wide range of undergraduate PA modules. Her academic areas of interest are namely the interactions between the concepts, practices and processes of governance and social inclusion/exclusion, the role of PA in promoting social justice and equity, and community development and participation. During much of her degree programme, Miriam worked as an assistant project coordinator on an Irish Aid funded research project under the Programme for Strategic Cooperation. She has been an active member within her community having set up a Residents Assoc., and was instrumental in coordinating and resolving front boundary issues for 98 properties having liaised with public representatives, local government, state agencies, and preparing all the required legal paperwork.
Clodagh Cahill Communications Officer
Clodagh joins the DSAI team as Communications Officer, coming from a role as Marketing and Communications officer for the LIVE project, an EU Ireland Wales project promoting sustainable tourism in rural coastal parts of both countries. Further to her interest in sustainable tourism, Clodagh has been a founding member of the Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival, a festival which promotes the importance of the night sky to the people and wildlife of the Iveragh Pensinsula. Clodagh is also heavily involved in community development in her local area, sitting on a committee with the local development officer to draw up a local area development plan.
Clodagh joins the DSAI team as Communications Officer, coming from a role as Marketing and Communications officer for the LIVE project, an EU Ireland Wales project promoting sustainable tourism in rural coastal parts of both countries. Further to her interest in sustainable tourism, Clodagh has been a founding member of the Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival, a festival which promotes the importance of the night sky to the people and wildlife of the Iveragh Pensinsula. Clodagh is also heavily involved in community development in her local area, sitting on a committee with the local development officer to draw up a local area development plan.