Specialist Staff
There are 13 specialist academic staff in the Heritage Research Group – with research interests across a wide range of areas in Heritage Studies.
Their names, affiliations, contact details, and research interests are furnished below:
Dr Sarah Berthaud
Department: Languages & Humanities
Campus: Dublin Road, Galway
Email: sarah.berthaud@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 742422
Research Interests: European cultural Heritage Studies, bilingualism, second language acquisition, teaching and learning, technologies in translation/interpreting (especially with the issue of Irish being a ‘minority language’), language policy.
Paul Gosling
Department: Heritage & Tourism
Campus: Dublin Road, Galway
Email: paul.gosling@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 742027
Research Interests: Built and cultural Heritage Studies, archaeological survey (rural and urban), Táin Bó Cúailnge (topographic and toponymic aspects).
Dr Mark McCarthy
Department: Heritage & Tourism
Campus: Dublin Road, Galway
Email: mark.mccarthy@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 742411
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage Studies, heritage tourism, public history, memory studies of wars & rebellions in post-conflict societies, modern & early modern Irish & international history, historical & cultural geography, local history, genealogy, the Irish Diaspora, human-environment relations.
Dr Yvonne McDermott
Department: Business, Humanities & Technology
Campus: Mayo
Email: yvonne.mcdermott@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)94 9043176
Research Interests: Built and cultural Heritage Studies, history and archaeology of mendicant orders of friars in the late medieval period, medieval friaries and leper houses.
Cian Marnell
Department: Heritage & Tourism + Languages & Humanities
Campus: Dublin Road, Galway
Email: cian.marnell@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 742052
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage Studies, Ireland’s literature, folklore, Irish language pedagogy and grammar, graduate employment.
Fergal O’Dowd
Department: Business, Humanities & Technology
Campus: Mayo
Email: fergal.odowd@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)94 9043120
Research Interests: Cultural and natural Heritage Studies, evolution and future development of agri-environment schemes, development of ‘slow adventure’ within the adventure tourism sector, Irish language usage and change.
Dr Deirdre O’Mahony
Department: Centre for Creative Arts & Media
Campus: Centre for Creative Arts & Media
Email: deirdre.omahony@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 770661, Ext 5404
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage Studies, contemporary art in rural places; landscape and representation; archive as counter-narrative; postcolonial and counter-cartographies; community mapping projects; space/place studies.
Margaret O’Riordan
Department: Business, Humanities & Technology
Campus: Mayo
Email: margaret.oriordain@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)94 9043153
Research Interests: Cultural and natural Heritage Studies, environmental policy and planning.
Dr Suzanne O’Shea
Department: Centre for Creative Arts & Media + Heritage & Tourism
Campus: Centre for Creative Arts & Media + Galway
Email: suzanne.oshea@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 770661, Ext 2490
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage Studies, art history and theory, aesthetics and philosophy, curatorial practice, art education, gender and history, historical cultural politics, feminist aesthetics, feminist philosophy.
Dr Cilian Roden
Department: Heritage & Tourism
Campus: Dublin Road, Galway
Email: cilian.roden@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 742470
Research Interests: Natural Heritage Studies, aquatic ecology, algae, marine biology, terrestrial vegetation, nature conservation.
John Tunney
Department: Heritage & Tourism
Campus: Dublin Road, Galway
Email: john.tunney@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 742102
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage Studies, heritage tourism, Irish traditional music (especially singing in West Ulster), museum studies/design.
Dr Fiona White
Department: Business, Humanities & Technology
Campus: Mayo
Email: fiona.white@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)94 9043216
Research Interests: Built and cultural Heritage Studies, archaeology (post-medieval archaeology, ceramics), history (local history of Mayo).
Dr Shirley Wrynn
Department: GMIT CUA (Connacht-Ulster Alliance) Project Office
Campus: Dublin Road, Galway
Email: shirley.wrynn@gmit.ie
Tel: +353 (0)91 742794
Research Interests: Cultural Heritage Studies, heritage tourism, history, memory studies.