Biography

Maura Adshead is Head of Community Engagement and Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. She is a former president of the Political Studies Association of Ireland and a regular political commentator on Irish TV, radio, newspapers and online journals in Ireland and internationally. She is a strong advocate for community engagement, using her position to drive an engaged research agenda in Ireland concerning both engaged research praxis and policies. At national level, her work with the Irish Universities Association (IUA) and Campus Engage has contributed to a significant policy re-orientation in Irish Higher Education towards Engaged Research. At local level, Maura is head of UL Engage, located in the Office of the Vice President for Global and Community Engagement at the University of Limerick. The unit is responsible for developing and supporting community-university partnerships, engaged research and community engaged learning and acts as the European training hub for the UNESCO-sponsored Knowledge for Change (K4C) global consortium of universities committed to best practice community engaged scholarship and research. Maura is an Executive Board member of the International Federation of Workers' Education Association (IFWEA), responsible for developing community-based learning and research with IFWEA affiliates worldwide. She has published on Irish politics and public policy; engaged pedagogy and research in a variety of journals and carried out commissioned research for Combat Poverty, the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE), the Health Research Board (HRB), Irish Research Council (IRC) and the National Economic and Social Forum (NESF) and Government departments including the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. Books include: Developing European Regions? Ashgate, 2002; (with Jonathon Tonge) Government and Politics in Ireland, Palgrave, 2009; (with Michelle Millar) Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland: theory and methods, Routledge 2003; (with Peadar Kirby and Michelle Millar) Contesting the State: lessons from the Irish case, MUP, 2008; and (with Tom Felle) FOI@15, Ireland's experience of Freedom of Information, MUP, 2016. Her latest book, Doing Community Research, will be published in Autumn 2024.

Research Interests

Politics and public policy in Ireland; comparative public policy in western Europe; Europeanisation and the impact of Europeanisation on national politics and public policy, community-oriented research methods and praxis.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6120-3635

Professional Activities

Award

  • 2019 - Comhairle na nOg Engagement Case Study
  • 2018 - IRC/EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie CAROLINE post-doc award
  • 2018 - Oireachtas Centenary Project
  • 2018 - HEI MEITHEAL - UL
  • 2017 - Youth Engage ~ Enhancing civil society within an international context
  • 2016 - Ethnic Minority Health in Ireland - Building the evidence base to address health inequities
  • 2012 - Public Adminstration systems responding to HIV Aids in Africa (€923,486)
  • 2010 - (with Ronni Michelle Greenwood) collaborative work with ethnic minority women on ‘Identities, Immigration and Integration' (€5,000)
  • 2010 - UL Quality Improvement Fund Award €28,150.00 to develop the UL Practicum
  • 2009 - (with Chris McInerney) 'An evaluation of Irish participatory governance at sub-national level'
  • 2007 - HSE Research contract
  • 2007 - PRTLI funding
  • 2006 - University of Limerick Research Seed Funding
  • 2004 - Combat Poverty research award
  • 2000 - PSA UK (Political Studies Association ) annual prize
  • 2000 - University of Limerick College of Humanities research grant
  • 1997 - Deutscher Akademiker Austausch Dienst (DAAD) research grant
  • 1996 - Joint Royal Irish Academy and British Council research grant
  • 1995 - University of Liverpool research studentship
  • 1991 - U.L. College of Humanities Research Scholarship

Committee

  • 2005 College of Humanities Research Strategy Committee,
  • 2001 Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Research Committee 2001,
  • 1999 Political Studies Association of Ireland,executive committee member since 1998,
  • 0 Subject Group Leader, *
  • 0 Joint Editor, *
  • 0 Joint Convener, *
  • 0 Postgraduate Convener and Admissions Officer, *
  • 0 Member of the Centre for European Studies, *
  • 0 First year social-science course co-ordinator for European studies, *
  • 0 Socrates Co-ordinator, *
  • 0 Course Director, *
  • 0 Course Director, *

Association

  • 2001 Member, Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Research Committee
  • 1999 Executive Committee Member. (Vice President 2000-2002, President, 2002 -current), Political Studies Association of Ireland
  • 1999 Ordinary member, The Irish Society for Contemporary European Studies
  • 1999 Associate member, Irish Institute for European Affairs
  • 1999 Ordinary member, The Political Studies Association (UK)
  • 1999 Consultant/Contributor on Government for Gill and Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Ireland, forthcoming 2003, Gill and Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Ireland

Employment

  • 1999 University of Limerick - Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration
  • 1998 University of Dundee - Lecturer in West European Politics
  • 1996 University of Liverpool - Part-time teaching assistant
  • 1994 University of Essex - Teaching Fellow
  • 1993 University College Galway - Teaching Assistant
  • 1993 Dublin Institute of Technology - Guest lecturer
  • 1993 University College Dublin - Part-time researcher for Professor Brigid Laffan
  • 1991 University of Limerick - Part-time teaching assistant
  • 1990 FAS - Researcher
  • 1989 Students? Union, University of Limerick - President

Education

  • 1998 University of Liverpool - PhD
  • 1993 University of Limerick - Masters by research
  • 1989 University of Limerick, (First) - BA

Language

  • German
  • English

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

2019

Clarifying the mechanisms and resources that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research: a collaborative rapid realist review process

Maura Adshead, Eidin Ni She, Sarah Morton, Veronica Lambert, Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Vanessa Lacey, Eleanor Dunn, Cliona Loughnane, Joan O'Conneor, Amanda McCann and Thilo Kroll (2019) Clarifying the mechanisms and resources that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research: a collaborative rapid realist review process. Health Expectations :298-306

2019

Clarifying the mechanisms and resources that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research: a collaborative rapid realist review process

Maura Adshead, Eidin Ni She, Sarah Morton, Veronica Lambert, Cliona Ni Cheallaigh, Vanessa Lacey, Eleanor Dunn, Cliona Loughnane, Joan O'Conneor, Amanda McCann and Thilo Kroll (2019) Clarifying the mechanisms and resources that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research: a collaborative rapid realist review process. Health Expectations :298-306

Books

Book Chapters

2015

Conclusions

Adshead M.;Felle T.;O'Connor N. (2015) Conclusions. Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act :163-182

2008

Conclusions

Adshead, M; Kirby, P; Millar, M (2008) Conclusions. Manchester : Manchester University Press Contesting the State: lessons from the Irish case :186-197

Edited Books

Other Journals

Conference Publications

Conference Contributions

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Published Reports

Editorials

2015

Introduction

Adshead M.;Felle T. (2015) Introduction. Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act :1-5

2003

Preface

Adshead M.;Millar M. (2003) Preface. Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland: Theory and Methods

Book Reviews

Other Publications

2019

Clarifying the mechanisms and resources that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research: A collaborative rapid realist review process

Ní Shé É.;Morton S.;Lambert V.;Ní Cheallaigh C.;Lacey V.;Dunn E.;Loughnane C.;O'Connor J.;McCann A.;Adshead M.;Kroll T. (2019) Clarifying the mechanisms and resources that enable the reciprocal involvement of seldom heard groups in health and social care research: A collaborative rapid realist review process. Health Expectations

2015

Introduction

Adshead M.;Felle T. (2015) Introduction. Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act :1-5

2013

Open Secrets

Felle, T and Adshead, M (2013) Open Secrets. Cork Irish Examiner

2009

Getting to Know You.

Adshead, M; Ni She, E; Lodge, T (2009) Getting to Know You.. : HSE West for Inter-Agency Steering Group :1-144

2003

Preface

Adshead M.;Millar M. (2003) Preface. Public Administration and Public Policy in Ireland: Theory and Methods