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College of Business, Public Policy and Law

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions are the European Union’s reference programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training. The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fund excellent research and innovation and equip researchers at all stages of their career with new knowledge and skills, through mobility across borders and exposure to different sectors and disciplines. MSCA are open to all domains of research and innovation and encourage international cooperation to set-up strategic collaborations.

See below a list of the supervisors particularly interested in hosting MSCA PF candidates.

Name of Supervisor	Research Areas	Proposed Projects	Postdoctoral Fellow Expertise	Additional Information
Dr. Pierangelo Rosati	Digital Sustainability, Digital Transformation, Blockchain, Hate Speech, Business Analytics	Projects related to the use of digital technologies for sustainability and operational excellence. Quantitative and mixed methods projects are preferred.	Ph.D. in Information Systems or related areas.
Prof. Paddy Gillespie	Health Economics, Health Technology Assessment	Health Economics Evaluation based on Randomised Controlled Trials and/or Decision Analytic Modelling	PhD Health Economics or Health Services Research
Dr. Edel Doherty	Health Economics; Environmental Economics		Economics, econometrics
Prof. Kate Kenny	Whistleblowing in Organizations	Whistleblowing Speak-up Arrangements; Whistleblower Partners and Allies; Democracy, Critique and Whistleblowing; Gender, Intersectionality and Whistleblowing; Digital Responsibility and Whistleblowing; Human Rights, Speech Rights, and Whistleblowing; National Security, Government and Whistleblowing	Literature review, Qualitative and/or Quantitative methods, Conceptual and Theoretical capacity, Experience with academic journal publishing
Dr. Ekaterina Yahyaoui	Public international law, human rights, global democracy, gender, queer theory, feminist legal work, identity, culture, critical legal thinking and history of these areas, law and literature (especially Kafka)	Any project related to the stated research areas will be considered, with clear links in the proposed project to the global/international dimension of any of the topics.
Dr. Charles O'Mahony	Disability law and policy, mental health law and policy, health law	Projects Related to the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, International and Comparative Disability Law & Policy	Expertise on disability law and policy, human rights law
Dr. Ciara Smyth	International and EU refugee law, policy and practice and how these areas intersect with international and regional human rights law; human rights implications of the EU Common European Asylum System and how they are adjudicated by the European courts.	Exploring the human rights implications of the normalisation of extraordinary asylum procedures in the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. As Member States prepare to receive the instruments of the new Pact into their domestic legal systems, the project will explore how existing national procedures are being changed, evaluating the changes in light of regional and international human rights law. This may involve exploring a single issue, such as border detention, across all Member States; or exploring several issues, such as border admissibility and border merits procedures, in select Member States.	PhD in a related area of international or EU refugee law
Dr. Rónán Kennedy	Information Technology Law, Regulation of Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Law.	Proposals in any relevant fields are welcome but of particular interest are the use of information and communications technology for environmental regulation, the development of open legal data in Ireland, and the environmental footprint of ICT and AI.
Prof. Roja Fazaeli	Gender, Religion and Human Rights, Middle East, Islam in Europe, Access to Justice.	.		https://www.bilqis.ie/
Dr. Umair ul Hassan	Human-AI collaboration, Data-centric AI, Data Spaces, Collective Intelligence, Information Systems	Investigate utility of human-AI collaboration based on LLMs in legal reasoning, question answering, and other AI tasks.	PhD in Information Systems, Computer Science or related disciplines.	https://www.insight-centre.org/our-team/umair-ul-hassan/
Prof. Kieran Walsh	Ageing Social Exclusion and Inequity; Work and Retirement Place and changing contexts Infrastructures of care and support.	We welcome research projects in areas related to ageing and public policy, particularly on any of the following ICSG themes: · Social Exclusion & Inequity · Work & Retirement · Place and changing contexts · Infrastructures of care and support.	Social Science expertise; expertise in other relevant disciplines or areas will be considered	https://www.universityofgalway.ie/ilas/centres/icsg/
Dr. Mahya Ostovar	Social impact of digital technology, online social movement, online activism, new forms of organising, future of work, process and practice theory.