Principal Investigators

Stephen Kinsella is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Limerick. He is the author of Ireland in 2050: How we will be Living, Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis: Prospects for Recovery, QuickWin Economics, and Computable Economics. His research spans the area of computable economics, macroeconomics, and Irish public policy. He is a Research Fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin. He is a recent INET grantee and supervises post-doctoral and doctoral students at UL.

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A Biochemistry graduate and PhD in Exercise Science, Dr Jakeman was appointed as Professor in 1995 and moved from the University of Birmingham to UL in 1996 as Head of the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences with a responsibility to develop high quality teaching and research in exercise science. Teaching and research interests focus on the perturbation invoked by physical exercise as a vehicle to study the regulatory and adaptive processes of human metabolism.

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A graduate of University College Dublin, Dr Barry Linnane (MB BCh BAO DCH MRCPI MRCPCH MD) is a Paediatric Respiratory Consultant at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, where he is the Director of the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Programme, caring for 85 children with cystic fibrosis (CF). During a two year tenure at Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin he introduced a broncho-alveolar lavage (BAL) surveillance programme for pre-school aged children with CF attending the hospital, and is in the process of setting up a similar programme in Limerick.