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Research AwardsApp Num 8558 Funding Body Dept of Education
Date Submitted 28/04/2005 Amount sought £78,250
Title Bullying in Schools
Notified 23/08/2005 Amount Awarded £76,231
Start Date 01/05/2005 Cost Code (old/new) none/1232R0070
End Date 15/05/2007 Contract Ref S13922/04Name UoA School Faculty
McAleavy, Prof GJ 68 Education Social Sciences
Adamson, Dr G 13 Psychology Life and Health Sciences
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and Engineering
Duffy, Mr J --- Sociology and Applied Social Studies Social Sciences
Livesey, Dr G --- Education Social Sciences
O'Hagan, Ms C --- Education Social SciencesApp Num 7442 Funding Body Northern Ireland Anti-Poverty Network (NIAPN)
Date Submitted 08/05/2003 Amount sought £39,000
Title Project LOCIN+.
Notified 18/02/2004 Amount Awarded £39,000
Start Date 01/05/2003 Cost Code (old/new) none/1232R0060
End Date 30/04/2006 Contract RefName UoA School Faculty
McAleavy, Prof GJ 68 Education Social Sciences
Collins, Dr KE --- Education Social Sciences
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and EngineeringApp Num 6789 Funding Body OFMDFM - Equality Unit Research Branch
Date Submitted 15/09/2002 Amount sought £23,923
Title Addressing policy implications of transgenerational poverty.
Notified 01/11/2002 Amount Awarded £23,923
Start Date 18/10/2002 Cost Code (old/new) none/1232R0050
End Date 31/03/2003 Contract RefName UoA School Faculty
McAleavy, Prof GJ 68 Education Social Sciences
Adamson, Dr G 13 Psychology Life and Health Sciences
Collins, Dr KE --- Education Social Sciences
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and Engineering
O'Hagan, Ms C --- Education Social Sciences
O'Reilly, Mr B --- (none) (none)App Num 5716 Funding Body Equality Unit - Research Branch OFMDFM
Date Submitted 01/10/2000 Amount sought £39,588
Title Addressing cross community participation rates and geodemographic disparity in further and higher education
Notified 07/10/2000 Amount Awarded £39,588
Start Date 07/10/2000 Cost Code (old/new) none/1232R0039
End Date 06/03/2001 Contract RefName UoA School Faculty
McAleavy, Prof GJ 68 Education Social Sciences
Adamson, Dr G 13 Psychology Life and Health Sciences
Collins, Dr KE --- Education Social Sciences
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and EngineeringApp Num 3919 Funding Body Health & Safety Agency
Date Submitted 08/05/1998 Amount sought £9,962
Title An investigation into the causes and epidemiology of vocal strain as a prelude to voice disorder in teachers.
Notified 10/11/1998 Amount Awarded £9,962
Start Date 01/12/1998 Cost Code (old/new) 4281/1231R0011
End Date 31/07/1999 Contract RefName UoA School Faculty
Hazlett, Dr D --- Communication Social Sciences
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and Engineering
Gray, Ms CR --- Communication Social Sciences
McAleavy, Prof GJ 68 Education Social Sciences
App Num 3706 Funding Body E.P.S.R.C. / EQUAL
Date Submitted 27/11/1997 Amount sought £33,389
Title A feasibility study identifying cost effective strategy for realisation of life time homes in existing stock.
Notified 07/05/1998 Amount Awarded £31,442
Start Date 01/11/1998 Cost Code (old/new) 4186/1212R0076
End Date 31/01/2000 Contract Ref GR/M06215Name UoA School Faculty
Shields, Prof TJ --- Built Environment Art, Design and Built Environment
Black, Prof ND 25 Computing and Mathematics Computing and Engineering
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and EngineeringApp Num 443 Funding Body D.O.E.
Date Submitted 04/01/1989 Amount sought £66,305
Title Building Regulations Interaction.
Notified 05/05/1989 Amount Awarded £66,302
Start Date 01/08/1989 Cost Code (old/new) 4304/none
End Date 30/07/1991 Contract Ref 7/6/152Name UoA School Faculty
Shields, Prof TJ --- Built Environment Art, Design and Built Environment
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and Engineering
Silcock, Dr GWH --- Built Environment Art, Design and Built EnvironmentApp Num 450 Funding Body D.O.E. & Coal Advisory Service
Date Submitted 17/01/1989 Amount sought £117,523
Title Solid Condensates in Flue Systems.
Notified 15/06/1989 Amount Awarded £75,624
Start Date 01/11/1989 Cost Code (old/new) 4307/none
End Date 15/10/1991 Contract Ref PECD 7/6/155Name UoA School Faculty
Shields, Prof TJ --- Built Environment Art, Design and Built Environment
Brown, Prof NMD --- Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Computing and Engineering
Byers, Dr W --- Health Sciences Life and Health Sciences
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and Engineering
McIlhagger, Prof R --- Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Computing and Engineering
Silcock, Dr GWH --- Built Environment Art, Design and Built EnvironmentApp Num 200 Funding Body Building Research Est.
Date Submitted 14/01/1988 Amount sought £43,173
Title Life safety potential of disabled people in fire.
Notified 23/05/1989 Amount Awarded £43,173
Start Date 02/10/1989 Cost Code (old/new) 4305/1202R0005
End Date 31/10/1990 Contract Ref F3/2/399Name UoA School Faculty
Shields, Prof TJ --- Built Environment Art, Design and Built Environment
Bunting, Prof BP 13 Psychology Life and Health Sciences
Donegan, Dr HA --- Computing and Mathematics Computing and Engineering
Silcock, Dr GWH --- Built Environment Art, Design and Built Environment
Total number of applications 9
Total amount sought £451,113.00
Total number of awards (excludes awards with £0 awarded) 9
Total amount awarded £405,245.00
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
AN ACADEMIC'S LAMENT [Published in Mathematics Today February 2008 - p55]
By Tony DoneganWhy am I standing on this very spot?
Why am I thinking of 'this' very lot?
Those innocent faces – a portrait of smiles
All waiting to learn with big A4 files.Another department is biting the dust
In this case it's Maths that's causing disgust.
The government process is taking its toll
Widening access the management’s call.The corridor silent – the echoes no more
Only ghosts, only spirits - look out through the door.
I stand here and wonder - just why all those years
My subject's succumb to my very worst fears.There used to be symbols and squiggles with frowns
Sometimes there was humour - with theatre clowns;
But always respect for the depth and the rigour
Of a subject now starved like a size zero figure.The blue suits of ignorance – for personal gain
Looked on mathematics with total disdain.
That's why I'm standing - on this very spot
I'm reflecting upon their devilish plot.Staff student ratios - no more the affliction
Widening access – now less a restriction.
Maths was a problem too hard for solution
It’s now integration without substitution.You make up your own mind – and try to be fair
But ask yourself this before you compare -
Would an evening meal supplied without salt
Be a wholesome reminder of someone at fault?
A DRAUGHTSMAN'S INDENTURES [Published in Larne Times Thursday, May 1, 2008]
by Tony Donegan [2002]This poem caricatures the training of typical young Engineering Draughtsmen during the late 1950s. The story centres on the Drawing Office (DO) of Larne’s former Large Steam Turbine Factory – BTH (British Thompson Houston) – later AEI and currently FG Wilson’s.
The World War had ended a decade or more,
And BTH - had come to the fore,
In Larne they settled with views to the sea,
Large steam turbines they made for a fee.The layout impressive for all to see,
A massive factory - perhaps for free,
The largest in Europe without a doubt,
Export - the business they were about.The press had a harvest - industrial news!
And Ulstermen read the competitive views.
No doubt they were thinking - what lodge or what creed,
But the Larne firm ignored any satire indeed.People when meeting were using new words,
Describing their futures as though they were birds,
Free pickings - no rations, a new time was born,
The sixties were coming and turbines were norm.In Shorts they were speaking of turbine powered planes,
In Harlands - great ships with turbines sought names,
The gossip - from Stormont to men in the street,
Was all about training and being upbeat.Colleges thriving - courses abounding,
Advancing procedures - all technical sounding,
Senior certificates, Juniors as well,
Endorsed with tradition and used for the swell.BTH in its wisdom - unique in its style,
Recruited young draughtsmen straight from the pile,
Their training was different and somewhat aloof
When set against Harlands - and all without proof.With knowledge and hindsight it grew in affection,
Supported at all times by college reaction.
Board skills artistic - nice to observe,
But time on the shopfloor was there in reserve.Apprenticeship training - five years in the firm,
Five years of emotion, a sentence or term,
From six in the morning with breakfast repeating,
Competing and cheating - meeting and eating.How could I know this - you readily ask,
I'll tell you - bear with me - its no simple task,
A young man was pondering his future one day
While sitting at home in the month of May.He thought and he wondered - what sort of career
Would train him up as a great engineer.
His art teacher told him that he had some skill,
Perhaps as an artist or draughtsman at will.When he told his parents - they nearly went spare,
The thought of their son with very long hair,
But when he explained that it was a trade,
They smiled at each other - he knew he was made.Newspaper adverts - for jobs there were many,
To buy them - no chance. He hadn't a penny.
He went to the library! Now that was sad;
He even made friends with a newspaper lad.Then one day it happened - while sitting in class,
Reading a newspaper - bold as brass,
Apprenticeship Draughtsmen willing to learn,
BTH placed an advert for all to discern.With school soon behind him - and sixteen to boot,
A career as a draughtsman seemed guaranteed loot.
He wrote as requested - his very best scroll,
And the Art Teacher too - played a very great rôle.When he was selected along with some more,
He jumped with joy at the note through the door,
Report here on Monday - and wear a good suit,
You've been chosen in Larne as a DO recruit.His mother's emotion was clear to be seen,
Her thanksgiving prayers were reigning supreme.
His father just smiled and offered his hand -
No doubting his son was the best in the land.The first three month epoch - they all had a ball,
They were put in an office, eleven in all.
Instruction was given on drawing fine lines,
They thought we were brilliant, dressed up to the nines.Drawing boards, tee squares and set squares as well
These were the tools on which they would dwell.
Straight lines with angles and circles galore
Would represent steelwork and castings and more.The honeymoon ended – but this was foretold,
They moved into limbo - a workshop of old,
In Larne's Curran Road – with boilersuits blue,
It was here that Old Alfie tried teaching the few.Filing and fooling - machine shop retooling,
Turning and forging with lessons on cooling.
These were the skills they tried to accomplish,
But soccer at lunchtime removed all the anguish.A year of this lasted to end with a shock,
They were going to mix with the rest of the flock;
Fitters, tin-bashers, lofters and turners,
Machinists, inspectors and welders with burners.First, a probation with tough trouble-shooters,
These were notorious craft training tutors,
Avoiding suspension - the name of the game,
Suspension was common and so was the shame.One of the tutors – God was he feared,
"What are you doing - your bench has been cleared?"
This he would bellow in late afternoon,
The lads felt like prisoners in some great lampoon.Back in the factory - great overhead cranes,
Departments and sections all laid out in lanes,
The vastness impressive, and frightening too,
Instinct the teacher - they knew what to do.Heads down for the foremen - smiling to storemen,
Try as they would, they could never ignore them.
Strange as a lesson - not taught but just learned,
Everything now just had to be earned.The lads had a hard time - but not without humour,
With spot-welded heels, they were left in a stumer,
And cynical storemen would tell them to wait,
When seeking long stands for a journeyman's mate.They learned about detail and shopfloor routine,
Reading the paper and not being seen -
They even learned nicknames and just who was who,
And soon they were treated as part of the crew.Now they were learning the Trade Union rules,
BTH draughtsmen were not to be fools,
With all this behind them - three years having past,
The office reunion would certainly last.Day release to the Tech – it was the norm
But lads being lads were slow to conform.
They needed the theory to boost their careers;
In truth, there were only a few volunteers.Back in their good suits with pencils and slide-rules,
They sat at their desks while working through schedules.
Designing scheme layouts with intricate details,
Yet finding the time to chat with the females.On Fridays the talk was of dances galore,
And gossip could run to girlfriends and more.
On Saturday, football was followed by stingo^
And then most would head for Sammy's Flamingo* .Sore heads on a Sunday, ah! what the hell,
It was great while it lasted and no one would tell.
Of course there was Monday; the office again -
The routine, the gossip the RotoRing pen.The story must end now before its too late,
And one thing is certain – there is no debate
The training was super and all without blame.
Indentures? They got them; sure that was the aim.^ A type of Beer
* A Dance Hall in 1960's Ballymena