Dr Irene McMaster
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Personal statement
She has undertaken several major evaluation and research studies of EU territorial and spatial development policies, including the ex ante evaluations of the 2014-2020 Northern Periphery and Arctic and North Sea Region Programmes, ex ante and ongoing evaluations of the 2007-2013 Northern Periphery Programme and a study on implementation arrangements for the 2007-13 Ireland, Northern Ireland and Western Scotland Cross Border Territorial Cooperation Programme. She has also been involved in the ex post evaluation of the impact of Structural Funds on management and implementation on behalf of DG Regio; and ESPON studies of the spatial and urban dimensions of the 2000-2006 Objective 1 and 2 programmes and ‘European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality of Life’. She participated in the 2010 OECD territorial review of the NORA region (2011) and has been appointed as a specialist advisor to a House of Lords Regional Marine Co-operation Inquiry (2014). She is also involved in research on the Central and East European EU Member States, writing on the regional economic development policy in Central and Eastern Europe and the management and implementation of Cohesion policy.
Prize And Awards
Publications
- Civic and civil society engagement in Interreg study report
- Ninka Besiana, Schausberger Bernhard, Minichberger Daniela, McMaster Irene, Wergles Nathalie, Vironen Heidi
- (2024)
- 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
- The role of territorial cooperation in supporting Just Transition
- Vironen Heidi, McMaster Irene
- Workshop on the role of Territorial Cooperation in supporting Just Transition (2022)
- Strategic Environmental Assessment : Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2021-2027
- Wergles Nathalie, Fonseca Liliana, McMaster Irene
- (2021)
- Operational Evaluation of the 2014-2020 Interact Programme
- McMaster Irene, Vironen Heidi, Wergles Nathalie
- (2021)
- Territorial Cooperation around the Irish Sea
- McMaster Irene, Vironen Heidi, Michie Rona
- (2021)
Professional Activities
- Presentation on the current Phase 8 and the future direction of IQ-Net
- Speaker
- 23/1/2024
- Strath Methods series of seminars
- Invited speaker
- 1/9/2022
- Programme Cooperation in The Arctic’
- Speaker
- 14/10/2020
- Northern Periphery Territorial Cooperation Programme (External organisation)
- Member
- 2020
- 'Brexit... What Next...?
- Speaker
- 20/11/2019
- Interreg Programmes post 2020 - What Next?
- Speaker
- 11/2019
Projects
- Impact Evaluation of Interact
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Vironen, Heidi (Research Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- The Role of Territorial Cooperation in Supporting Just Transition
- Vironen, Heidi (Principal Investigator) McMaster, Irene (Research Co-investigator)
- 07-Jan-2021 - 22-Jan-2022
- Research into the Potential to Build Collaborations Established under the Ireland Wales INTERREG Programme to cover other Regions Bordering the Irish Sea
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Michie, Rona (Research Co-investigator)
- 29-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2021
- GREEN
- McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator)
- 11-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2021
- Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2021-2027
- Fonseca, Liliana (Researcher) McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Vironen, Heidi (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2027
- Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020
- Fonseca, Liliana (Researcher) McMaster, Irene (Principal Investigator) Vironen, Heidi (Principal Investigator)
- The Northern Periphery and Arctic 2014-2020 forms a cooperation between 9 programme partner countries. The NPA 2014-2020 is part of Interreg, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and ERDF equivalent funding from non EU partner countries. Despite geographical differences, the large programme area shares a number of joint challenges and opportunities that can best be overcome and realised by transnational cooperation.
- 08-Jan-2020
Contact
Dr
Irene
McMaster
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
European Policies Research Centre
Email: irene.mcmaster@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4905