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Martin Ryan is a post-graduate researcher in the UCD School of Economics PhD program. He is also affiliated to the UCD Geary Institute, where he has worked as a research assistant on a number of projects, most of which related to higher education and graduate labour markets. He has submited a thesis for a research masters at DIT (2007), in which he examined the micro-econometrics of participation in higher education.
Martin secured funding from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) to begin his PhD thesis in autumn 2007. In his research as a Government of Ireland Scholar he will investigate how individuals arrive at various outcomes throughout higher education.
Martin holds a degree in business studies from the Dublin Institute of Technology (2004), where he specialised in financial and monetary economics. This was followed by an internship in the economics department at AlB (2004), a post-graduate diploma in economic science from UCD (2005) and a summer-school diploma in advanced microeconomics from the London School of Economics (2007).
Publications
Ryan, M., McCarthy, S. and Newman, C., (2007). "Household Characteristics of Higher Education Participants". Geary Institute Working Paper, 2007-2.
Delaney, L. and Ryan, M., (2007). "Psychology of Economics". Business & Finance Magazine, 9th March, pp. 62-63.
Harmon, C., Delaney, L., and Ryan, M. (2007). "Doubling the number of PhD researchers in Ireland: Opportunities and Threats". Business & Finance Magazine, 31st May.
Presentations
Ryan, M., (2007). "Anchoring Vignettes and Student Mental Well-Being: Results from an Irish College Study". (Joint work with Dr. Liam Delaney, Prof. Colm Harmon and Prof. Patrick Wall). The All Ireland Social Medicine Meeting, Marriott Hotel, Druids Glen, Co. Wicklow, October 21st.
Ryan, M., (2007). "Overview of the Irish Universities Study". (Joint work with Dr. Liam Delaney and Prof. Colm Harmon). The National Congress of the Union of Students in Ireland, Waterford Institute of Technology, July 18th.
Ryan, M., (2007). "Anchoring Vignettes and Student Mental Well-Being: Results from an Irish College Study". The Summer Scientific Meeting of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Physicians in Ireland, May 30th.
Ryan, M., (2007). "What Kind of Households have a Member that Participates in Higher Education?". The Annual Conference of the Irish Economics Association, Bunclody, Co.Wexford, April 29th.
Ryan, M. , (2006). "The Abolition of Third-Level Tuition Fees in the Republic of Ireland, and the Subsequent Effects on Participation in Higher Education". The Transformation of Higher Education: International Influences, Universite du Littoral, Boulogne-sur-Mer, November, 20-22/06.
Links
Blog of the Centre for Behaviour and Health
The Irish Society of New Economists - Annual Conference 2007
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