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Dr.
Andrew Shorten
Task 5.3
Language and social justice
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The University of Limerick is an independent university established in 1989; its campus is at the heart of the 650-acre National Technological Park, which holds over 80 organisations and employs over 4,000 people, and with which the University of Limerick maintains close working relationships. With a solid record of involvement in EC funded collaborative projects, the University of Limerick has a thriving reputation in social science and humanities research supported by one of four university-wide research institutes, the Institute for Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS). ISKS and the University of Limerick have participated in Framework since FP3 as well as in EC research training initiatives. Previous large-scale funded projects have included those funded by the EUSSPPR, Programme of Strategic Cooperation between Irish Aid and Higher Education and Research Institutes, FP7 Project Funding and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Task in the project
University of Limerick will lead task 5.3 on “Language and Social Justice” in Work package 5 - “Policy” and will contribute to other MIME tasks, in particular in the “Policy” work package.
Staff
  • Dr. Andrew Shorten
  • Brian Carey
Experience
The University of Limerick coordinator participated in an interdisciplinary research programme on Identities and Culture in Europe since 1945 at University College London, is convenor of the Political Theory Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of Ireland, and is a member of the Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, the Britain and Ireland Association for Political Thought, the UK Political Studies Association and the Political Studies Association of Ireland. A political theorist, he has pursued research on distributive justice as well as cultural and linguistic diversity. Much of his research has been of an ‘applied’ and policy orientated character, including published work on language policy, education policy and legal issues.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 613344 (MIME Project).