Dr Irene McMaster
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Personal statement
Personal statement
Dr Irene McMaster is a Senior Research Fellow in the European Policies Research Centre. She specialises in cross-national research on INTERREG and transnational cooperation, with emphasis on the UK, Ireland and the Nordic States.
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Prize And Awards
- Strategic Themes Research and Knowledge Exchange Impact Awards: Research Team of the Year (Joint winner)
- Recipient
- 25/8/2025
- European Commission AMI expert list
- Recipient
- 2024
- HASS Research Impact Award
- Recipient
- 2023
- Specialist Advisor to House of Lords European Committee Enquiry on Regional Marine Cooperation
- Recipient
- 9/2014
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Publications
- Integrated territorial investments : place-based cohesion policy in practice?
- Ferry Martin, Kah Stefan, McMaster Irene
- Public Policy Portuguese Journal Vol 9, pp. 10-23 (2024)
- Innovation Gaps, Bridges and Territorial Cooperation
- McMaster Irene, Fonseca Liliana, Maguire Rachel
- (2024)
- Civic and civil society engagement in Interreg
- Ninka Besiana, Schausberger Bernhard, Minichberger Daniela, McMaster Irene, Wergles Nathalie, Vironen Heidi
- (2024)
- Territorial cooperation : widely pursued widely questioned
- McMaster Irene, Maguire Rachel
- (2023)
- TA 2030: 'Small Places Matter' : Final Report
- McMaster Irene
- (2023)
- Gone but not forgotten (yet) : Interreg in post Brexit UK
- McMaster Irene, Vironen Heidi
- Contemporary Social Science Vol 18, pp. 197-215 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2197874
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Professional Activities
- 46th Annual Meeting of European Regional Policy Research Consortium (EoRPA)
- Participant
- 5/10/2025
- Peace Plus Advisory Group (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 18/12/2024
- JE Purkyne University (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 11/2024
- European Week of Cities and Regions
- Invited speaker
- 10/10/2024
- Should I stay or Should I go Lessons for/from Small Places
- Speaker
- 10/10/2024
- INNOVATION GAPS, BRIDGES AND TERRITORIAL COOPERATION
- Speaker
- 8/10/2024
Projects
- Contribution to the reform discussions on the future of INTERREG
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2025
- Collecting and analysing data for the post-27 INTERREG
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Vironen, Heidi (Academic) Georgieva, Neli (Researcher) Kah, Stefan (Academic)
- The ESPON project “Collecting and analysing data for the post-27 INTERREG“ (Core-IB) is implemented within the framework of the ESPON Thematic Action Plan (TAP): Living, working and travelling across borders. The aim is to provide evidence-based analyses that contribute to the definition and the future orientation of the next generation of INTERREG post-2027. It addresses a multitude of stakeholders across the multi-level governance system, including the member states and the European Commission. The spatial focus of the project covers all EU internal cross-border regions across the entire ESPON Programme area, including regions on inland borders with Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
- 13-Jan-2025 - 12-Jan-2026
- Regional Policy in Europe: A Comparative Assessment (EoRPA_NO_25_27)
- Mendez, Carlos (Principal Investigator) Bachtler, John (Co-investigator) McMaster, Irene (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2027
- RUral Revival: A Life In The Inspirational Countryside (RURALITIC)
- Vironen, Heidi (Principal Investigator) McMaster, Irene (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2028
- Ex post evaluation of Cohesion policy programmes 2014-2020 financed by the ERDF. Work package 10 - Institutional capacity and reform
- Bachtler, John (Principal Investigator) McMaster, Irene (Research Co-investigator) Michie, Rona (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- Impact Evaluation of Interact
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Vironen, Heidi (Research Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
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Contact
Dr
Irene
McMaster
Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Email: irene.mcmaster@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4905