Talks &
Publications
Publications
January 2021 (Pending)
Editor and Contributing Author - Glass Ireland, published by Glass Society of Ireland
Autumn 2018
Growing up in ‘The Mental’: childhood experiences at Cavan and Monaghan Mental Hospital on the Irish border, 1930-1950, Oral History: The Journal of the Oral History Society, University of London, Egham, Vol. 46, No. 2
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January 2017
Editor and Contributing Author - Communities of Culture Phase II Report, Hunt Museum
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March 2016
Review of Museum Space: Where Architecture meets Museology, Kali Tzortzi, ISBN 9781472439017, Irish Museums Association Journal, Vol. 25
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May 2015
Contributing Author - World Within Walls: From Asylum to Contemporary Mental Health Services, Chapter: Any News From Inside? Published by the Health Service Executive, Monaghan
February 2014
Editor and Contributing Author - A celebration of Irish glass 2011-2014, Glass Society of Ireland
Talks, Papers, Lectures
March 2019
Crafts and Heritage week, National Heritage Week training day, Heritage Council, National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks
July 2018
Building a culture of Visitor Research in Irish Museums and Galleries, Irish Museums Association Education and Outreach Forum, National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks
June 2018
Through the eyes of a child: A different perspective of life within the walls of an Irish mental hospital. Centuries of Childhood Conference, The History of Irish Childhood Network, Dublin City University, School of History and Geography, Ireland
May 2017
Using IPA to investigate how dependency and the precarity of labour in the Irish museum and gallery sector has impacted on visitor research, The UK Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Conference 2017: ‘IPA: where are we now?’, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland
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September 2016
Where is the Art? Arts place in standard visitor evaluation, Paper for 9th MIDTERM CONFERENCE OF THE RN-SOCIOLOGY OF THE ARTS: Arts Management Research Stream, University of Porto, Portugal
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October 2016
Creating a digital resource with sensitive material: The St. Davnet’s archive on the Digital Repository of Ireland, Paper for People and Place: Oral History in Ireland, University College Cork,Cork
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July 2016
HOME: Community based engagement, Paper for Irish Museums Association: Education and Outreach Forum, Collins Barracks, Dublin
May 2016
Trying to Understand: Do we really understand why we do what we do when evaluating audience experiences? Paper for DOING RESEARCH ON PARTICIPATION: Methods and data for understanding everyday participation, conference at the University of Manchester, Manchester, England
Jan 2016
Professional Practice: Websites and Blogging, Lecture delivered to glass and ceramic students at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin