IRCHSS Awards
Four researchers in the UCD School of Law were recipients in the most recent round of scholarships awarded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The following received IRCHSS scholarships.
Dr Eoin Carolan, lecturer, received an award for an international workshop on 'the separation of powers: re-thinking the architecture of contemporary governance'.
Dr David Doyle, IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow, received an award for research on 'Capital Punishment: The Irish Experience in Global Perspective'. This award will support additional comparative research in furtherance of Dr Doyle's IRCHSS funded post doctoral research project ‘Capital Crime and Punishment in the Two Irelands 1922 -2002'.
Mr Alan Greene, PhD candidate, received an award as a Visiting Researcher at Columbia University School of Law, New York, USA.
Having applied and been accepted for the position of Visiting Researcher at Columbia Law School New York. Alan will use this opportunity to further his PhD research by taking advantage of the facilities Columbia has on offer, such as library access; study space; meetings with expert researchers in his area; present papers disseminating his research; and attend lectures and staff seminars to which visiting researchers are invited.
Professor Colin Scott, Dean of the UCD School of Law. Professor Scott received two awards.
Growing Regulatory Capacity
This project builds on from the Regulatory Capacity and Networked Governance project, which was concerned with understanding the contribution of the various resources underpinning regulation (authority, information, money, organisational capacity) to the capacity for effective regulation in Ireland.
Measuring and Evaluating Performance in Financial Regulation and Corporate Governance
This project is a seeding activity relating to applications for a number of EU project grants and the development of private funding for research in the fields of financial regulation and corporate governance.
(L-R) Professor Colin Scott, Dr David Doyle, Mr Alan Greene
