Dr Perry Share
Head of Department of Humanities
Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland

Organisations with which I am connected

• National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis - based at NUI Maynooth

• Irish Social Science Platform - all-island platform of integrated social science research and graduate training

• Sociological Association of Ireland

• Leitrim Sculpture Centre - supports innovation and understanding in contemporary art

• IASCE - the organisation that represents social care educators in Ireland

• PLÉ - the organisation that represents ECCE (Early Childhood Care and Education) educators in Ireland

Webpages I maintain

• socialstudies.ie - a web portal for social care information

• assessment - a resource for third level lecturers (no longer updated)

Books

• Communication and culture in rural areas (1995)

• A sociology of Ireland - 3rd edition (2007) - 4th edition co-authored with Professor Mary P. Corcoran due in Spring 2012!

• Applied Social Care: An introduction for students in Ireland - 2nd edition (2009) (co-edited with Kevin Lalor)

• Belongings - sociological chronicles vol. 6 (2008) (co-edited with Mary P. Corcoran)

• Ireland of the Illusions - sociological chronicles vol. 7 (2010) (co-edited with Mary P. Corcoran)

Research interests

Food and drink

• organic food and farming

• Pubs and drinking in Ireland - paper to SAI conference 2003

• JBR - Jumbo Breakfast Roll paper | pdf | Paper in Sociological Research Online |

Plagiarism

• Managing intertextuality: meaning, plagiarism and power - AISHE 2004 | paper | and  | powerpoint |

• Managing intertextuality - revised version 2nd International Plagiarism conference, Gateshead, June 2006 | paper | powerpoint | pdf |

• Submitted dissertation on plagiarism

Professionalisation and social care education

• Practitioner research, the social Professions and sustainable community
  presentation to ISSP Ireland Through a Social Sciences Lens conference, NUI Maynooth, 5 September 2011

• Academic leadership and curriculum change: the development of a programme in applied social studies [IJASS 4(2) 2003]

• Professionalisation and social care [work in progress] [2005] [presentation] [background paper]

• Professionalisation and prison work (research with Fergus Timmons) | powerpoint | (to come)

E-government

• Out of Reach? The troubled history of Ireland’s quest for e-government [2010] |book chapter|

Last updated 30/09/11 13:19 by Perry Share