The presentations from our Annual Conference in November are now available as follows:
Opening Plenary Round Table: Development 2.0?
- Sally Anne Kinehan (Deputy General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions) – Workers Rights and Democratic Development: The Decent Work Agenda and the MDGs.
- Dr. C Rammanohar Reddy (editor of the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) – Development, Poverty and Democracy in Contemporary India
- Sue Branford (editor at Latin America Bureau) – Brazil: from dependency to what?
- Prof. Ronaldo Munck (Head of Civic Engagement, Dublin City University) – Migration and Development: Blessing or Curse?
Parallel Session 1: Development 2.0
- Jacqui O’Riordan (School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork) and Michael FitzGibbon (Department of Food Business and Development, University College Cork): Institutionalised Infantilisation and State Subjugation: state control of the mundane in an environment of uncertainty
- Khoo, Su-ming (School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway): Accounting for the silences: critical development theory after the MDGs.
- Lorraine Mancey (Trinity College Dublin/University College Dublin): Illusion and disillusion in Irish development: Exploring the donors
Plenary Session 1 - Gender Equity and Global Crisis
- Prof. Diane Elson (Department of Sociology, University of Essex)
- Dr. Simel Esim (Chief and Senior Specialist, Cooperative Branch, Chief and SeniorInternational Labour Organization)
- Dr. Una Murray (part-time Lecturer and an International Development Consultant)
Parallel Session 1: Gender - Violence, Vulnerability and HIV
- Anne Marie Coonan (formerly Trócaire) and Carol Ballantine (Trócaire, Maynooth): Women’s vulnerability to HIV
- The Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence (ICGBV): Prioritizing gender based violence in the post 2015 agenda
- Esther Richards (Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): Gender, equity & health in a global context: experiences from LSTM’s gender and health research group
Parallel Session 2: Gender - Power, Participation and Voice
- Bernadette Crawford (Concern Worldwide – Ireland) and Chris Pain (Concern Worldwide – Ireland) - Measuring Gender Equitable Attitudes and Behaviours
- Emma Newbury (Trócaire), Lea Valentini (Trócaire) and Carol Wrenn (Trócaire): Exploring Women’s Participation In Decision Making Spaces Through Women’s Experiences
- Nita Mishra (Department of Food Business and Development, University College Cork) - Women Development Practitioners and Processes of Empowerment: Stories from Odisha, India
Parallel Session 3: Gender - Poverty, Empowerment and Conflict
- Angela Veale (School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork), Susan McKay (School of Women & International Studies, University of Wyoming), Miranda Worthen (Dept. of Health Science & Recreation, San Jose State University), Mike Wessells (Program on Forced Migration & Health, Columbia University): Enhancing personal agency and collective resilience among war-affected young mothers. Please find a manuscript published by Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers that relates to this presentation on community resilience here.
- Clionadh O’ Keeffe (The School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway): Women’s voices on poverty: Understanding gender inequality in post conflict Timor-leste
- Caroline Finn (NUI Galway) and Nata Duvvury (Global Women’s Studies, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway): Employment, gender relations and recession
- Meghna Kanwar (Centre of Global Health, Trinity College Dublin) and Eilish McAulliffe (Centre of Global Health, Trinity College Dublin): Barriers to the uptake of cervical cancer screening among women from the Indian Community in Ireland – A qualitative study
Plenary Session 2 - Health Equity and Global Crisis
- Dr. David McCoy (Centre for International Health and Development at University College London)
- Finola Finnan (Head of Programmes, Trocaire) - "Health in a Period of Economic Crisis"
Parallel Session 1: Health - HIV, policy and mental health
- Breda Gahan (Concern): AIDS is not over: Ireland’s responsibility to finish the job
- Enida Friel (Oxfam Ireland): AIDS in crisis: A comparison of Dóchas member responses from 2007 to 2012
- Nadine Ferris France (Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin; Irish Forum for Global Health, Dublin), Sandra King (Open Heart House), Ronán Conroy (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Dublin), Fiona Larkan (Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin), Christoforos Mallouris (UNAIDS, Geneva), Ian Hodgson (University of Bradford), David O'Duffy (Open Heart House, Dublin): An unspoken world of unspoken things: Identifying and exploring core beliefs underlying self-stigma among people living with HIV and AIDS in Ireland
- Marie Hallissey (GOAL): Addressing the Challenge of Non-Communicable Disease in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Parallel Session 2: Health - Health Systems
- Heayoung Cho (Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin) and Steve Thomas (Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin): Optimising Brain Drain: A qualitative study on the contribution of Nigerian and Sudanese medical doctors living in Ireland to human resources for health in their home countries
- Jennifer Weiss (Concern Worldwide, New York), Ros Tamming (Concern Worldwide, Dublin): Community Case Management as a tool to improve equitable access to essential Healthcare
- Esther Richards (Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine): Gender influences on child survival, health and nutrition from a global perspective: a narrative review
- Brynne Gilmore (Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin), Frédérique Vallières (Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin), Eilish McAuliffe (Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin), Nazarius Mbona Tumwesigye (School of Public Health, College of Health Science, Makerere University) & Gilbert Muyambi (World Vision Uganda): The last one heard: The importance of an early stage participatory evaluation for programme implementation
Please note that we were unable to include some presentations as the research they are based on is currently being published, which prohibits publication in other spheres.