Key Collaborators
Key Collaborators
ILAS was formally established, and the Institute building was opened, in 2014. Linked to an original Atlantic Philanthropies feasibility grant for a life-course building, this marked the culmination of a 6-year collaboration between three Atlantic funded centres: the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, and the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre. This new state-of-the-art building has driven the development of ILAS and marked a significant coming together of the University and the community, in symbolic and programmatic terms. There are now nine constituent ILAS centres and units, representing different disciplines, a diverse range of methodologies and different populations of interest. These include:
- Centre for Disability Law and Public Policy (CDLP)
- Community Engaged Research in Action (CORA)
- Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI)
- Health Economics and Policy Analysis Centre (HEPAC)
- Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG)
- Irish Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Research (ICAN)
- PPI Ignite Network
- Speech and Language Therapy
- UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre (UNCFRC)
There are 95 associated staff within ILAS, comprising research, professional support and academic personnel, and approximately 50 PhD students. ILAS has established an international reputation for scholarship and impactful research, and has attracted significant research funding from a diversity of different sources, with over 85 active research projects currently underway representing €27 million in grant monies.
