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Assoc ProfessorKaren Keaveney

Associate Professor

School of Agriculture and Food Science

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  • Associate Professor
    School of Agriculture and Food Science
  • 01 716 7858
  • University College Dublin, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Agriculture and Food Science Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Karen is a Rural Geographer and Planner, with research interests in rural planning, rural development, and agricultural education. She has expertise in local decision-making and governance, rural power relations and socio-economic change in the countryside. Her publications and research include the areas of policy responses to rural change, cross-border and inter-jurisdictional planning, local government reform, and planning on the island of Ireland.

GRANTS

  • SCHOLARSHIP
    The role of women in leading sustainable and transformative farming practices through Agroecology
    Research Ireland (IRC)1 Sep 2025 - 31 Aug 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Keaveney K
  • PROJECT GRANT
    SANKOFA – ReSilient climate smArt agriculture, iNdigenous Knowledge and traditiOn For sustAinable food production
    Research Ireland (SFI)1 Feb 2025 - 31 Jul 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ofori A,
    • Keaveney K
  • GRANT
    Key competencies for engaging with Education for Sustainable Development (opens in a new tab)⁠
    University College Dublin1 Sep 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
    PI: Dr Sarah Browne. How we teach and learn: Key competencies for engaging with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) 2025 | The initiative aims to engage with the UCD community and create opportunities to explore and strengthen the knowledge and application of key competencies for ESD to support the development of a shared pathway to ESD integration across disciplines
  • GRANT
    Our Rural Future Graduate Bursaries (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht1 Aug 2024
  • GRANT
    Citizen Rural: Digital Data for Participatory Democracy in Remote Places
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Sep 2021 - 30 Apr 2024
    This project brings together established community and co-operative networks in rural areas, current rural development strategies around the Smart Village concept and Community-Led Local Development (CLLD), and emerging or established digital technologies and data exploration to engage citizens in co-design for territorial plans/strategies (county level and below). The project will establish a living lab in a specific study area to test these technologies with specific cohorts, e.g. farmers, small business owners, local officials.
  • GRANT
    Kerry LIFE Socio-Economic Study (Action D7, Element 2)
    KerryLIFE Project, LIFE13 NAT/IE/0001441 Aug 2020 - 30 Sep 2020
  • GRANT
    Charting a New Rural Economic Development Course: A Comparison of Ontario and Ireland
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)1 Apr 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
  • GRANT
    Sustainable Development Goals in Agricultural Higher Education
    1 Oct 2019 - 30 Nov 2020
  • GRANT
    Engaging Ireland's West Coast communities in Heritage Landscape Conservation and Development Projects: A Participatory Approach for Mulranny, Asdee and Cromane's Networking
    Research Ireland1 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Keaveney K
  • GRANT
    Evaluation of future role of and support for practical learning in agricultural education
    Teagasc1 Oct 2017 - 30 Jun 2019
  • GRANT
    Determination of what is needed to enhance access and participation for learners with diverse ability levels in agricultural education programmes
    Teagasc12 Sep 2016 - 12 Jun 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Keaveney K
  • GRANT
    Categorisation of ‘hard to reach’ drystock farmers in terms of their aspirations intentions and motivations
    Teagasc1 Oct 2014 - 30 Jun 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Keaveney K