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17 Distinguished Research Fellowship Awards 2014-15 Dr Frank Ferguson Coleraine/Magee – Thursday 18 December 2014, 11.00am Dr Frank Ferguson is internationally recognised as the world’s leading scholar in his specialist area of Ulster-Scots Literature and is currently a key member of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute where he is the Unit Coordinator for English and directs the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies. Dr Ferguson’s substantial output is of extremely high quality consisting of five edited volumes and seven chapters in books, all with major international publishing houses. He has explored new media as a vehicle for dissemination of research findings, producing several touring exhibitions and leading a number of significant digitisation projects. His Ulster-Scots Writing, An Anthology (Four Courts 2008) is the world’s key point of reference in its field and his contributions to the Oxford History of the Irish Book are recognised internationally. Dr Ferguson’s research impact goes beyond academia and is evidenced by contributions to public policy through appointments to key advisory roles such as those on the Ministerial Advisory Group on Ulster-Scots (MAGUS) and by demand from leading broadcasters such as the BBC for his expertise. His ground-breaking work on the Ulster Poetry Project, focused on making findings of his research accessible to school children and the wider public, was returned as a key Impact Case Study in the English submission to REF2014. Dr Emeir McSorley Coleraine/Magee – Thursday 18 December 2014, 11.00am Since joining the University in 2005, Dr McSorley has positively contributed to research focused on nutrition and immunology. She is a core member of both the Biomedical Sciences Research Institute (BMSRI) and the Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health (NICHE). Dr McSorley currently has leading roles in the research subgroups ‘Nutritional Immunology in Health and Disease’ and ‘Nutrition, toxicology and child development’ where studies on Seychellois mother-child cohorts focus on maternal fish intake and children’s optimal neurological development, have been cited widely. This research has resulted in new public health recommendations about the benefits of fish, to advisories on fish consumption during pregnancy, in the US and Australia. Dr McSorley is currently the principal investigator at Ulster for the all-Ireland consortium ‘NutraMara’ a research programme funded by MI/FIRM investigating marine functional foods/bioactivity, the results of which will form the basis of a pre-proof of concept application. Within NutraMara, she is a work-package leader, a member of the Board of Managers, the Scientific Council Committee and the Dissemination Committee. These positions of leadership have enabled Dr McSorley to champion Ulster’s research capabilities, gain access to cutting-edge technologies and initiate areas of collaborative research.
Ulster University Graduation 2014 18 Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship Awards 2014-15 Professor Don MacRaild Coleraine/Magee – Thursday 18 December 2014, 11.00am Professor Don MacRaild has been with the University for over three years and is acknowledged as a leading scholar of the Irish and British diasporas. He is recognised by the large number of invitations to deliver keynotes and funded lectures at significant international gatherings, and by holding a key appointment on significant peer review panels such as AHRC and the Australian Research Council. Professor MacRaild has held a prestigious fellowship at the Research School for Social Sciences, ANU. He is a member of the AHRC peer-review college, a strategic member of that college and an Inner Board member of the Irish Research Council and is also an evaluator for the Australian Research Council. With funding being a strong point, Professor MacRaild has accrued over £650K in various capacities, with most of it from RCUK and charity sources. Support has come from the ESRC, AHRC, Leverhulme and Wellcome. Smaller amounts have been garnered from the BA and Marc Fitch fund. Professor MacRaild’s output is prolific and of extremely high quality, consisting of 11 authored and edited books, four of which are monographs and over 50 chapters and journal articles, all with major international publishing houses and high impact peer-reviewed journals. Professor Tony Byrne Coleraine/Magee – Thursday 18 December 2014, 11.00am Professor Tony Byrne obtained his BSc (Hons) degree in Applied Biochemical Sciences at the University in 1993 and his DPhil in Chemistry in 1997. As a Professor in the School of Engineering, his salient disciplines address the development of novel nanomaterials for use in photocatalysis and electronic applications. Professor Byrne has been with the University for over 20 years and is recognised internationally as a leader in his areas of research activities and has major influence and impact on the fields concerned. He is a foremost member of the Research Institute and is currently performing at a 4 star level. Professor Byrne has published over 200 articles, to date, of these 47 high quality peer reviewed publications have been published. He has an H index of 17 (1,300 citations). His first paper has 260 citations and a recent (2012) review article was the number one hot article for Elsevier’s Applied Catalysis B in 2013 (Impact Factor 5.823).
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