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PhD candidate receives Fulbright-CRH Award

Date: 01 Jul 2010

Sinéad Murnane, a PhD candidate at UCD Smurfit School, has been granted the Fulbright-CRH Award in Business Studies for 2010/11.  She will use the Award to take up a 6-month research fellowship position at the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah in order to conduct her doctoral fieldwork.
 
Sinéad is being supervised by Dr Seamas Kelly and is a member of the Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organisation (CITO) research group. Her research is concerned with understanding the manner in which clinical practices may come to be reconfigured around the introduction of new information technologies and the associated social and organisational implications of such changes for the delivery of healthcare services.

UCD Fulbright awardees pictured (Sinéad Murnane far left second row) with front row (l-r): Minister Dick Roche, Minister for European Affairs; Dan Rooney (US Ambassador to Ireland) and Patricia Rooney; Una Halligan, Government and Public Affairs Director, Hewlett Packard Ireland; and Colleen Dube, Executive Director, the Fulbright Commission in Ireland. 

The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under legislation introduced by then Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and is sponsored and administered by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State. It was established in Ireland in 1957 and provides scholarships to Irish citizens to lecture, research or study in the United States and for US citizens to carry out similar pursuits in Ireland. Since its establishment more than 1,600 Irish students, academics and professionals have studied in the United States under the auspices of the Fulbright Program.

Sinéad was one of ten UCD Scholars (staff and students) to be awarded the prestigious Irish 2010-2011 Fulbright Awards which recognise academic merit and leadership potential. 

“To have received such a high number of 2010-2011 Fulbright Awards – ten out of twenty-three – is a great reflection on the depth and relevance of UCD scholarship. These young scholars are at an early stage in their careers and are part of the new generation of research-active, teaching academics,” said Dr Brady, President of UCD, congratulating the UCD recipients.