Áine Macken-Walsh

• Hyland, John and Áine Macken-Walsh (2022) Multi-Actor Short Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs, Sustainability
• Henchion, M., Beecher, M., Regan, A., Macken-Walsh, A. (2022) Developing ‘Smart’ Dairy Farming Responsive to Farmers and Consumer-Citizens: A Review, Animals
• Macken-Walsh, A., Henchion, M., Regan, A. (2021) ‘Come on board’ the systems-based approach: the role of social science in Sustainability Research & Innovation, Irish Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
• Furmankiewicz, M., Krzysztof, J., Macken-Walsh, A,  (2021) Implementation of the EU LEADER programme at member-state level: Written and unwritten rules of local project selection in rural Poland Journal of Rural Studies
• McFarland, L., Macken-Walsh, A., Claydon, G., Casey, M., Douglass, A., McGrath, G., McAloon, C.G. (2020) Irish dairy farmers’ engagement with Animal Health Surveillance services: factors influencing sample submission, Journal of Dairy Science
• Macken-Walsh, A. Byrne, A., Cush, P. (2020) Strategies of Resilience: cooperation in Irish Family Farming, Irish Geography
• Deming, J. Macken-Walsh, A. (corresponding author), O'Brien, B., Kinsella, J. (2020) ‘Good’ farm management employment: emerging values in the contemporary Irish dairy sector, Land Use Policy.
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2019) Multi-Actor Co-design of Extension Interventions: learning arising from three projects, Journal of Agricultural Extension and Education.
• Deming, J. Macken-Walsh, A., O'Brien, B., Kinsella, J. (2018) Entering the occupational category of ‘Farmer’: new pathways through professional agricultural education in Ireland. Journal of Agricultural Extension and Education.
• Giovanna Sacchi et al. (incl. Macken-Walsh, A.) (2018) "A Multi-Actor Literature Review on Alternative and Sustainable Food Systems for the Promotion of Cereal Biodiversity," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 8(11), pages 1-29, November.
• Hooks ,T., Macken-Walsh, A. (corresponding author), McCarthy, O., Power, C. (2018) Co-operation among Irish beef farmers: current perspectives and future prospects in the context of new Producer Organisation (PO) legislation, Sustainability.
• Cush, P. and Macken-Walsh, A. (2018) Reconstituting Male Identities through Joint Farming Ventures in Ireland, Sociologia Ruralis, Wiley
• Hooks, T., Macken-Walsh, Á., McCarthy, O., Power, C., (2018) Farm-level viability, sustainability and resilience: a focus on cooperative action and values-based supply chains, Studies in Agricultural Economics,
• Hooks, T., McCarthy, O., Power, C., Macken-Walsh, Á. (2017) A Co-operative Business Approach to Values-Based Supply Chain: a case study of a beef cooperative, Journal of Cooperative Organisation and Management, Elsevier
• Cush, P., Macken-Walsh, A., Byrne, A. (2017) Joint Farming Ventures in Ireland: gender identities of the self and the social, Journal of Rural Studies, Elsevier.
• McAloon, C., Macken-Walsh, A., Moran, L., Whyte, P., More, S., O' Grady, L., Doherty, M. (2017) Johne’s Disease in the eyes of Irish cattle farmers: a qualitative narrative research approach to understanding implications for disease management. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 04/2017; 141.
• Hooks, T., Macken-Walsh, A., McCarthy, O., Power, C. (2017) The Impact of a Values-Based Supply Chain (VBSC) on Farm-Level Viability, Sustainability and Resilience: Case Study Evidence. Sustainability 02/2017; 9(2):267.
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2017) Bridging the ‘Urban-Rural Divide’ in (eds) Healy, S. and Reynolds, B. Society Matters, Social Justice Ireland Dublin.
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2016) Governance, Partnerships and Power in (eds) Shucksmith, M. and Brown, D. L. International Handbook of Rural Studies, Routledge.
• McDonald, R., Macken-Walsh, A. (2016) An Actor-Oriented Approach to Understanding Dairy Farming in a Liberalised Regime: a case study of Ireland’s New Entrant Scheme Land Use Policy, Vol. 58, Elsevier, pp. 537-544
• Cush, P. and Macken-Walsh, A. (2016) Farming ‘through the ages’: joint farming ventures in Ireland, Rural Society, Vo. 25, Iss. 2, Taylor and Francis
• Cush, P. and Macken-Walsh, A.  (2016) Cooperation in Irish Agriculture: the potential of Joint Farming Ventures (JFVs), European Countryside, De Gruyter.
• Furmankiewicz, M., Macken-Walsh, A. (2016) Government within Governance? Polish Rural Development Partnerships through the lens of Functional Representation, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 46, 12-22, Elsevier.
• Furmankiewicz, M., Janc, K., Macken-Walsh, A. (2016) Governance and Rural Development: the emergence of the third sector in rural Poland, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 43, 225-234, Elsevier.
• Furmankiewicz, M., Macken-Walsh, A., Stefańska, J. (2014) Territorial governance, institutional networks and power: the case of cross-sectoral partnerships in rural Poland, Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography, Volume 96, Issue 4, pp. 299–401, Wiley, ISSN: 1468-046.
• McDonald, R., Macken-Walsh, A., Pierce, K., Horan, B. (2014) Farmers’ Responses to a Deregulated Dairy Regime: insights from Ireland’s New Entrants Scheme, Land Use Policy, Elsevier, Vol. 41, Nov. 2014.
• Byrne, A., Duvvury, N., Macken-Walsh, A., Watson, T. (2014). Finding  ‘Room to Manoeuvre’: Gender, Agency and the Family Farm, in (eds) Barbara Pini, Berit Brandth, Jo Little, Feminisms and Ruralities, Lexington, December 2014.
• Macken-Walsh, A. and Curtin, C. (2013) Governance and Rural Development: The Case of the Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) in Post-Socialist Lithuania, Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 53, Issue 2, pp. 246-264
• Heanue, K. and Macken-Walsh, A. (2012) Static Structures and Dynamic Processes of Participation and Access: A case study of Connemara Community Radio, Irish Communications Review, 13 (7)
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2012) Operationalising Contemporary Rural Development: Socio-Cultural Determinants Arising from a Strong Local Fishing Culture, Human Ecology, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 199-211, Springer ISSN: 1572-9915
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2011) Partnership and Subsidiarity? Exploring the Socio-Cultural Context of Irish Farmers’ Non-Participation in Contemporary Rural Development, Rural Society, Vol. 21, No. 1 ISSN 1037-1656
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2011) Governance, Rural Development & Farmers’ Participation in Local Food Movements: an Irish case-study, in (eds.) Torre, A., Traversac J.B., Territorial Governance, Rural Areas and Agrofood Systems, Regional Development Series, Springer,  ISBN: 978-3-7908-2421-6.
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2011) The Potential of an "Agriculture of the Middle" Model in the Context of EU Rural Development, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Rural Development, Vol. 1 Issue 4 / Spring 2011 ISSN 2152-0801
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2010) Towards a Transverse Inter-Sectoral Debate? A case study of the Rural Partnership Programme (RPP) in Post-Socialist Lithuania, Eastern European Countryside, Issue 16’2010, Versita, ISSN 1232-885.
• Macken-Walsh, A. (2009) Community Action in Post-Socialist Lithuania, Journal of Community Development. Vol. 44, No., 4, Oxford University Press.

Suzanne Kelly, (2020-2024) PhD. Exploring the Value of Social Capital for Innovation within Agri-Food Business Support Networks. Primary Teagasc Supervisor, co-supervised by Dr John Hyland, Teagasc and Prof. Barry Quinn, Dr Kristel Miller and Dr Sandra Moffett, Ulster University. Funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme.

Kieran Harrahill (2018-2022) PhD. An Actor-Oriented Approach to understanding the Bioeconomy-Society Interface in Ireland. Primary Teagasc supervisor, co-supervised by Dr Eoin O’Neill, School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin (UCD). Funded by BiOrbic Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Centre, Ireland.

Aoife Forde (2018-completed). MSc. Facilitating rural communities to create enterprise opportunities using a participatory process developed by SKIN – Short Food Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network. Primary Teagasc Supervisor. Co-supervised by Dr Monica Gorman, School of Agriculture, UCD. Co-funded by SKIN H2020 and Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme.

Marie-Claire McCarthy (2018-2022). PhD. Characterisation of contract rearing in Ireland and associated biosecurity an animal disease risks and outcomes, secondary Teagasc co-supervisor, with Dr John Mee, AGRIP, Teagasc Moorepark and university supervisor Dr Luke O’Grady, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin. Funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme.

Thomas Lawton (2018-2021). PhD.An evaluation of work organisation and human resource management within Irish dairy farm businesses, secondary Teagasc co-supervisor, with Dr Brendan Horan, Dr Marion Beecher and Páidi Kelly AGRIP, Teagasc Moorepark and university supervisor Dr Karina Pierce and Dr Monica Gorman, School of Agricultural Science, University College Dublin. Funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme.

Justine Deming (2014- completed 2018) Management of labour tasks and resources to maximize labour productivity, sustainability, and dairy farm profitability, co-supervised by Dr Bernadette O’Brien, AGRIP, Teagasc, Moorepark and Dr Jim Phelan School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin. Funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme.

Conor McAloon (2013- completed 2017) Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Management Programmes for the control of Johne’s Disease in Irish Dairy Herds, co-supervised by Dr Paul Whyte, Prof. Michael Doherty, School of Agriculture, UCD. Funded by the Research Stimulus Fund (RSF) of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland.

Teresa Hooks (2013 – completed 2017) A Governance approach to enhancing Farm Viability: the potential of Co-operatives (working title) co-supervised by Dr Olive McCarthy and Prof. Michael Ward, Centre for Cooperative Studies, UCC. Funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme.

Patricia O’Flynn (2012 – completed 2016) From Knowledge to Invention: Exploring User Innovation in Irish Agriculture, co-supervised by Dr Chris High, Prof. Andy Lane, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, School of Engineering & Innovation, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Co-funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme and the Open University, UK.

Catherine Seale (2012 – completed, 2016) Learning How to Inform Extension Practices Related to Mandatory Agri-Environmental Policy, co-supervised by Dr Chris High, Prof. Andy Lane, Dr Martin Reynolds, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, School of Engineering & Innovation  Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Co-funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme and the Open University, UK.

Roberta McDonald (2010 – completed, 2013) The evolution of dairy farming systems in Ireland with specific emphasis on the impact of technological adoption among existing and new entrant dairy farmers (working title) co-supervised by Dr Brendan Horan, Moorepark Dairy Production Research Centre, Teagasc and Dr Karina Pierce, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine. Co-funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme and Allied Irish Bank (AIB).

Tanya Watson (2008 – 2018) Women’s Narratives – from ‘Rural Women’ to ’Women in the Countryside’? Investigating Women’s Subjectivities, Identities, and Agency for Sustainable Rural Development (working title) co-supervised by Dr Anne Byrne, Dr Nata Duvvury, School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI, Galway. Funded by Teagasc’s Walsh Scholarship Scheme.