ELEVATE
The ELEVATE International Career Development Fellowship Programme was set up by the Irish Research Council to assist Experienced Researchers (ERs) in the development of their research careers in both Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), and Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) areas. ELEVATE fellowships were co-funded between 2013 and 2018 by the Irish Research Council and the European Commission Marie Curie Actions via an award under the FP7 COFUND Programme.
The objectives of the ELEVATE Programme were to provide a career development experience for ERs, add an international dimension to the Fellows’ research careers, and allow them to gain additional skills and expertise. On their return to Ireland, the objective was for the Fellows to utilise and transfer the various skills they have acquired during the Outgoing Phase.
Learn more about ELEVATE Fellows and their projects:
- Dr Shane O’Reilly: Hunting for Fossil Fat (CafeSci Boston video)
- Dr Anne Karhio: Digital Literature in Context (interview)
- Dr Ida Milne: “Stacking the coffins: the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic in Dublin” – reviews Manchester University Press and The Irish Times Supplement April 2018
What did ELEVATE Fellows say about their fellowship:
- “I have recently secured an ERC Starting Grant, and the ELEVATE award certainly contributed a great deal to my application <…> There is no doubt but that my international mobility has enabled me to build and become part of new academic networks that I would not have been aware of or had access to if I had not received the ELEVATE fellowship.”
- “My ELEVATE Fellowship has been central to my recent career development. <…> I believe I would not have secured this [permanent] position without the opportunities afforded to me through my ELEVATE fellowship.”
- “During the duration of the ELEVATE project (from 2014 to 2017) the number of citations I have received on my papers has increased from 31 to 161, with my h-index also increasing from 3 to 7 during this period.”
| Year | Awardee | Higher education institution | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Lei Shi | Waterford Institute of Technology | An adaptive hierarchical mobile cloud framework for sensor data processing |
| 2013 | Matthew Haugh | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | A recombinant approach to cell-matrix interactions and vascular tissue engineering |
| 2013 | James Murphy | National University of Ireland, Galway | Agent-based modelling of invasive alien seaweeds in marine ecosystems |
| 2013 | Catarina Marvao | Trinity College Dublin | Heterogeneous penalties and private information: Sequential reporting in Cartels |
| 2013 | Conor Lucey | Trinity College Dublin | Architecture and the artisan: House building in the British Atlantic World, 1750-1850 |
| 2013 | Ian Campbell | Trinity College Dublin | Protestant natural law in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1592- 1700 |
| 2013 | Danielle Petherbridge | University College Dublin | Encountering the other: Intersubjectivity, sociality and freedom |
| 2013 | David Doyle | University College Dublin | A history of prisoner mortality, 1842-2012 |
| 2013 | Declan Carolan | University College Dublin | Nano-modification, functionalisation and tailored design of materials: From soft adhesives and composites to super-hard diamonds |
| 2013 | Deirdre Kilbane | University College Dublin | Ultrafast magnetic nanoscopy |
| 2013 | Eoin Brennan | University College Dublin | Exploration of exosomal biomarkers and micro-RNA therapeutics in complications of Diabetes |
| 2013 | Jens Zumbrägel | University College Dublin | Finite semirings and DLP Based cryptosystems |
| 2013 | Linda Holland | University College Dublin | Buffering biological noise: Molecular genetic control of development |
| 2013 | Peter Taylor | University College Dublin | Does the self-force prevent time-travel through wormholes? |
| 2013 | William Megarry | University College Dublin | Mapping marginal space: Developing tools for managing marginal archaeological landscapes |
| 2014 | Dawn Walsh | Dublin City University | How coordination mechanisms and entrenched guarantees contribute to the success of complex power-sharing in post-conflict societies |
| 2014 | Karen Siu Ting | Dublin City University | A hologenomic approach to determine the molecular adaptations associated with toxin sequestration from diet in poison arrow frog |
| 2014 | Patrick Bradley | Dublin City University | Transformation electromagnetics beyond the theory |
| 2014 | Sinéad Aherne | Dublin City University | Interrogating the role of miR-140 and miR-200a in the development of prostate cancer to bone metastasis |
| 2014 | Adam Narbudowicz | Dublin Institute of Technology | Circularly polarized UWB antenna systems for indoor communications |
| 2014 | Emma Sheehy | Waterford Institute of Technology | A landscape approach to determining the influence of habitat, genetic diversity and interspecific competition on a recovering predator population, and the consequences for native and alien prey species |
| 2014 | Leana Reinl | Waterford Institute of Technology | Transitioning evolving learning communities to sustainability: A social learning framework for rural tourism development |
| 2014 | Ruairí de Fréin | Waterford Institute of Technology | EOLAS (Knowledge in Irish): Efficient monitoring Of LArge Scale data centers |
| 2014 | Francisco Arqueros | Maynooth University | The experience of being unemployed and responses by trade unions and associations of the unemployed to unemployment in Ireland and Spain |
| 2014 | Ida Milne | Maynooth University | Changing the landscape of childhood diseases in Ireland, 1910-1990: Medicine, politics and people |
| 2014 | Malcolm Sen | Maynooth University | Nature, narrative and postcolonial sovereignties |
| 2014 | Ríona Nic Congáil | St Patrick's College, Drumcondra | Nation, migration and empire: An interdisciplinary study of Irish childhood in Britain, 1841-1921 |
| 2014 | Anne Karhio | National University of Ireland, Galway | Virtual landscapes? New media technologies and the poetics of place in recent Irish poetry |
| 2014 | Shane Browne | National University of Ireland, Galway | Development and optimisation of a hydrogel system to harness the paracrine secretions of encapsulated stem cells for the treatment of limb ischemia |
| 2014 | Edgar Galván López | Trinity College Dublin | Stochastic bio-inspired evolutionary algorithms for optimisation in dynamic problems |
| 2014 | Eoin Carley | Trinity College Dublin | Understanding the solar origins of adverse space weather |
| 2014 | Gearoid O Maille | Trinity College Dublin | Switchable and multi-readable systems for molecular recognition, sensing and upconversion |
| 2014 | John Mulvihill | Trinity College Dublin | Development of a platform for understanding astrocyte mechanobiology: Steps towards the treatment of glaucoma in patients |
| 2014 | Luna Dolezal | Trinity College Dublin | The future of the body: Phenomenology, medicine and the neoliberal subject |
| 2014 | David O'Connor | University College Cork | The development and application of novel instrumentation to improve our understanding of atmospheric ices, clouds, and precipitation |
| 2014 | Grace Cott | University College Cork | An investigation into the degree to which dissolved organic nitrogen regulates the response of wetland plants to future climatic conditions |
| 2014 | Kenn Nakata Steffensen | University College Cork | The political philosophy of the wartime Kyoto school and its intellectual potential: Tanabe Hajime, Miki Kiyoshi and Nishitani Keiji in comparative perspective |
| 2014 | Maksudul Hasan | University College Cork | Chemically robust low cost photocatalysts towards solar Z-scheme water splitting |
| 2014 | Coleman Dennehy | University College Dublin | Competing jurisdictions: Appellate justice in the Dublin and Westminster parliaments, 1603 – c.1730 |
| 2014 | Elaine Pereira Farrell | University College Dublin | Religious landscapes in the eighth century: Ireland and northern Francia in comparison |
| 2014 | Jan Klimas | University College Dublin | Better addiction medicine education for doctors (BEAMED) |
| 2014 | Mark Jones | University College Dublin | The global revolution: Imperial Germany, Europe, and the world, 1890-1918 |
| 2014 | Selena Daly | University College Dublin | Managing the movement: The group dynamics of Italian futurism, 1909-1944 |
| 2014 | Shane O'Reilly | University College Dublin | Investigation of microbial adundance and diversity associated with microbialites: Insights into microbial regulation of global biogeochemical cycles and implications for the origins of life on Earth and the search for extraterrestrial life |
| 2014 | Yixiao Dong | University College Dublin | Skin substitute from in-situ formed stem cell encapsulated hydrogel for diabetic wound repair |
