Professor Padraig Carmody

Pádraig Carmody lectures in Development Geography at TCD, from which he holds both a B.A. in Geography and History and M.Sc in Geography. He completed his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota in 1998, where he was a MacArthur Scholar. Subsequently he taught at the University of Vermont, Dublin City University and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He also worked as a policy and research analyst for the Combat Poverty Agency in 2002-3 and has also taught at the University of Cologne. His research centres on the political economy of globalization in Africa. He is Director of the Masters in Development Practice at Trinity and was lead author on the only successful grant proposal in Europe to the MacArthur Foundation in the first round to get seed funding for the programme. He is also the Trinity Director of CHARM-EU. He has consulted for the Office of the President of South Africa, amongst others and is currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. He is a former editor of Irish Geography and sits on the boards of Political Geography, The Journal of the Tanzanian Geographical Association, Hungarian Journal of African Studies, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa (Zed Books) and Geoforum, where he was previously editor-in-chief. He was also an Associate Editor of the journal Transnational Corporations, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and is currently Chair of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a former Chair of the Development Studies Association of Ireland.

  Africa   African Economics   African International Relations   African Politics   Agricultural Economics   Agricultural policy analysis   Anthropogenic Impact on ecosystems   Area & Population Studies/Services   Business Economics, Studies   Chinese Investment in Africa   Comparitive political economy   Conflict/Dispute Resolution   Contemporary social theory   Conversation and discourse analysis   Democracy   Developing/Underdeveloped Nations   Development economics   Development in Africa   Development studies   East (Far East) Asia   Eastern Africa   Ecology and Population   Economic Competitiveness   Economic geography   Economic history, theory   Economic policy making   Economic Stabilization   Economic Studies--Developing Countries   Economic Theory   Economics   Economics of public policy   Economics of Research and Development   Economics of Telecommunications   Economics of the Environment   Environmental planning and sustainable development   Ethiopia   Finance   Foreign direct investment   Gender and work   Genocide   Globalisation   Globalization   History of economic thought   HIV/ AIDS in Africa   Hunger   Imigration policy, Colonial policy, political culture and national identity   Income distribution   Industrial Cooperation   Industrial economics, organisation theory   Industrial Production   Industrial relations   Information technology in education   Information technology, e-commerce   Information technology, Science   Innovation   Innovation and growth   International Affairs   International business   International Economics   International economics, finance, trade and development   International Planning/Policy   International relations theory   International Relations/Diplomacy   International Rights   International Topics   International/Global Development   Internet technologies   Knowledge Based Society   Labor Economics   Labor Market/Unemployment   Labour economics   Macroeconomics   Macroeconomics, open economy, international   Malawi   Microeconomics   Mobile Communications   Non-Aligned/Third World Nations   Political Economics/Economy   Political Economy   Political Geography   Poverty and the Poor   Public Affairs   Regional Economics   Social Movements   Social Organization   Social Stratification/Mobility   Social Structure   Socio economic issues   Socioeconomics   Sociology of development, population society, development   South Africa   Southeast Asia   Southern Africa   Sub-Saharan Africa   Sustainable Development   Tanzania   Tariff Policy   Terrorism   Trade   Transport economics   Urban and regional economics   Urban economic restructuring, regional planning   Urban Economics   WTO trade negotiations   Zambia   Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)