Tom is the Galway University Foundation Lecturer in the Economics of Climate Change and Development and Director of the MSc in Global Environmental Economics at NUI Galway. His research interests are at the intersection of environmental and development economics, with a particular focus on the economic impacts of extreme weather events. Tom’s research has been published widely, including in leading economics and generalist science journals, and has been cited over 1900 times.
National University of Ireland Galway
Tom McDermott
University of Birmingham
Rebecca McDonald
Rebecca is a senior lecturer in economics. She conducts research in behavioural economics using experimental methods. She studies how individuals value outcomes that do not have a clear market price, including health, online privacy, and the risk of fatality. In doing so, she explores how risk and delay affect the value of outcomes, and examines the stability of preferences within and across contexts.
Center for Global Development
Anthony McDonnell
Anthony is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development, working on vaccine policy, supply chains and antimicrobial resistance. Anthony previously worked as head of economic research for the UK’s independent review into antimicrobial resistance, as a senior health economist at the University of Oxford and as the only in-house economist at the Wellcome Trust.
University of Edinburgh
Nicola McEwen
Nicola McEwen is Professor of Territorial Politics and Co-Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change. She specialises in nationalism, devolution and intergovernmental relations, with a focus on Scotland and the UK in comparative perspective. Her recent research has examined the impact of Brexit on UK devolution and the future of the Union, supported by an ESRC Senior Fellowship with the UK in a Changing Europe. Nicola is actively involved in informing debate within the wider policy and
Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin (ESRI)
Seamus McGuinness
Seamus is a Research Professor and the Research Area Co-ordinator for labour market research at the ESRI. Before this, he held posts at QUB, the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic & Social Research (University of Melbourne). He obtained his PhD in Economics from QUB in 2003. Most of his published research has been in labour economics and the economics of education. He has also published research in industrial relations, regional economics,
University of Sheffield
Steven McIntosh
Steven McIntosh is a local node director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research. His research focuses on education and labour market outcomes. Areas include the determinants of education choices, rates of return particularly to vocational qualifications and apprenticeships, and the match between the demand and supply of skills, considering the extent to which employees’ skills and abilities are appropriate for their jobs.
