Dr Anne B. Ryan Publications & Research
My key interests include: Sufficiency, basic securities (finance, energy, food, water), sustainability and subjectivity (the subjective sense of self, including ideas, beliefs and emotions).
Books
2009 Enough is Plenty: Public and Private Policies for the 21st Century. Hants: OBooks See www.enoughisplenty.net for more details
2006 Antonesa, M., Fallon, H., Ryan, A.B., Ryan, A. & Walsh, T. with L. Borys Researching and writing your thesis: A guide for postgraduate students. Maynooth: MACE.
2002 How was it for you? Learning from couples’ experiences of the first years of marriage. Dublin: ACCORD, Dept. of Social and Family Affairs.
2002 Balancing Your Life: a practical guide to work, time, money and happiness. Dublin: The Liffey Press. To read more about the contents of this book: http://www.theliffeypress.com/proddetail.php?prod=20-4 and http://www.walnutbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=386&osCsid=c412cf9d705b04d8c702ea1d2cff87cd To read a review of this book: http://transitionculture.org/book-reviews/balancing-your-life-anne-b-ryan-2002/
2001 Feminist ways of knowing: towards theorising the person for radical adult education. NIACE, Leicester, (2001) Read more information about this book.
Chapters in Books
2011 ‘Discourse: some considerations for the reflective practitioner’. In Tony Walsh, (ed) The Reflective Practitioner. MACE: Maynooth Adult and Community Education.http://eprints.nuim.ie/2447/
2010 ‘Enough: A Worldview for Positive Futures’. In Richard Douthwaite and Gillian Fallon (eds) Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse. Dublin: Feasta. http://eprints.nuim.ie/2448/
2006 ‘Post-positivist Approaches to Research’, in Antonesa, M., Fallon, H., Ryan, A.B., Ryan, A. & Walsh, T. with L. Borys, (2006). Researching and writing your thesis: A guide for postgraduate students. Maynooth: MACE. Pages 12-28 To read this chapter:http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000874/
‘Doing a Review of Literature’, in Antonesa, M., Fallon, H., Ryan, A.B., Ryan, A. & Walsh, T. with L. Borys, (2006). Researching and writing your thesis: A guide for postgraduate students. Maynooth: MACE. Pages 58-67. To read this chapter: http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000873/
‘Methodology: Collecting Data’, in Antonesa, M., Fallon, H., Ryan, A.B., Ryan, A. & Walsh, T. with L. Borys, (2006). Researching and writing your thesis: A guide for postgraduate students. Maynooth: MACE. Pages 70-89. To read this chapter: http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000872/
‘Methodology: Analysing Qualitative Data and Writing Up Your Findings’, in Antonesa, M., Fallon, H., Ryan, A.B., Ryan, A. & Walsh, T. with L. Borys, (2006). Researching and writing your thesis: A guide for postgraduate students. Maynooth: MACE. Pages 92-109. To read this chapter: http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000871/
2004 ‘Subjectivity and consumption: concerns for radical adult education’. In Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh (eds) Unsettling the Horses: Interrogating Perspectives in Adult Education. Maynooth: MACE (2004). To read this chapter: http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000911/
2003 ‘Contemporary discourses of working, earning and spending: acceptance, critique and the bigger picture’. In Steve Coleman and Colin Coulter (eds) The End of Irish History? Critical Approaches to the Celtic Tiger. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. To read this chapter: http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000913/
Other Publications
Facilitating transformative learning: A report on research into the experiences of tutors on the NUI Maynooth Foundation in Counselling Skills course with David McCormack and Mary Ryan. Department of Adult and Community Education, NUI Maynooth. September 2004. To read this: http://eprints.nuim.ie/archive/00000914/
Public Service
I am a trustee of Feasta: The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. www.feasta.org
