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Overview
Lorna Ryan joined City University of London in May 2008 as a Research Manager for the European Social Survey Infrastructure Preparatory Phase. Previously she was a Senior Researcher at National University of Ireland Galway (2004-2006) and a Development Centre Research Manager (social science) at Dublin Institute of Technology (2000-2003).
She has been involved in EU social and research programmes (ESF & Framework Programmes) since 1994 in research, management and gender expert capacities.
She gained her PhD (Sociology) from the University of Kent and LLM (International Intellectual Property Law) from Brunel University. She is a registered data protection practitioner (Certified Practitioner - Data Protection (PC-DP) and PC-GDPR). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. She was a member of Senate Research Ethics Committee (SREC) from 2008, Deputy Chair (2017 - 2019) and Acting Chair for the academic year 2019-2020.
Research
Dr Ryan's research publications have been in the areas of research methodology and substantive areas of research include: social aspects of HIV/AIDS; gender and labour market participation; social research ethics and most recently, gender and science careers.
She has lectured on social research methods; research ethics; evaluation methods and social policy. She has contributed to the Department's undergraduate course: News & Society (2008/2009; 2009/2010), News & Documentary (2010) and New Media Challenges (2011/2012). Current research interests include EU research policy; mainstreaming gender equality and science communication.
Dr Ryan is a member of the university's Senate Research Ethics Committee (2009 -present) and its Gender Equality Working Group (2015) Between 2008 and 2014 she was a co-opted Council member of UACES - (University Association for Contemporary European Studies)
Publications
Publications by category
Books (2)
- Ryan, L. (2006). Gendering the school plan. ISBN 9781905785155.
- Ryan, L. (1997). Reading "the prostitute". Ashgate Publishing.
Chapters (11)
- Ryan, L. (2026). Space and Diplomacy. Constructing Sustainable Lunar Settlements (pp. 84-108). Routledge.
- Ryan, L. (2024). Gender Equality and Space Policy. Routledge Handbook of Space Policy (pp. 215-229). Routledge.
- Hoerber, T. and Oikonomou, I. (2023). The Militarization of European Space Policy. Routledge.
- Ryan, L. (2023). Militarisation and Space. The Militarization of European Space Policy (pp. 13-34). Routledge.
- Ryan, L. (2023). Strategic Autonomy, Technological Non-Dependence and Intellectual Property Rights in European Space Policy. The Commercialisation of Space (pp. 123-142). Routledge.
- Ryan, L. (2022). European integration, the European Research Area and European research infrastructures. The Routledge Handbook of European Integrations (pp. 285-310). Routledge.
- Ryan, L. (2021). Security and the discourse of risk in European space policy. In Hoerber, T. and Forganni, A. (Eds.), European Integration and Space Policy A Growing Security Discourse (pp. 75-96). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780367349127.
- Ryan, L. (2019). Talking about governance: European space policy. A European Space Policy Past Consolidation Present Challenges and Future Perspectives (pp. 155-177).
- Ryan, L. (2016). 'Putting Space More at the Service of Europe and its Citizens': The Governance of European Space Policy and the Scientific Citizen. Theorizing European Space Policy (pp. 37-58).
- Fitzgerald, R., Harrison, E. and Ryan, L. (2013). The ESS: a social science research infrastructure for Europe and beyond. In Kleiner, B., Renschler, I., Wernli, B., Farago, P. and Joye, D. (Eds.), Understanding Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences Seismo Verlag. ISBN 9783037771334.
- Ryan, L. Researching minority ethnic communities: A note on ethics. In Egan, O. (Ed.), Minority Ethnic Groups in Higher Education ISBN 1859181597.
Dataset
- Fitzgerald, R., Butt, S., Harrison, E., Ryan, L., Douhou, S., Salini, L.... Lynn, P.(2018). ESS Round 9: European Social Survey Round 9 Data.
Journal articles (9)
- Ryan, L. (2023). Research Infrastructures with European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) status: Revisiting the case of ERICs and Intellectual Property Rights in the European Research Area. European Intellectual Property Review, 45(5), pp. 252-265
- Malnar, B. and Ryan, L. (2022). Improving Knowledge Production in Comparative Survey Research: Cross-Using Data from Four International Survey Programmes. Czech Sociological Review, 57(6), pp. 683-705. doi:10.13060/csr.2022.001
- Ryan, L. (2019). Balancing rights in the European Research Area: the case of ERICs (European Research Infrastructure Consortium). European Intellectual Property Review, 2019(4), pp. 218-227
- Ryan, L. (2017). Social media and popularising space: Philae Lander (@Philae2014) and the journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Space Policy, 41, pp. 20-26. doi:10.1016/j.spacepol.2017.04.007
- Ryan, L. (2015). Governance of EU research policy: Charting forms of scientific democracy in the European Research Area. Science and Public Policy, 42(3), pp. 300-314. doi:10.1093/scipol/scu047
- Ryan, L., Cooper, P. and Drey, N. (2013). University Research Ethics Committees as learning communities: Identifying and utilising collaboratively produced knowledge in decision-making. Research Ethics, 9(4), pp. 166-174. doi:10.1177/1747016112437688
- Ryan, L. (2012). "You must be very intelligent...?": Gender and Science Subject Uptake. International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 4(2), pp. 167-190
- Ross, M.W. and Ryan, L. (1995). The Little Deaths. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 7(1-2), pp. 1-20. doi:10.1300/j056v07n01_01
- Ryan, L. (1995). 'Going public' and 'watching sick people'-the clinic setting as a factor in the experiences of gay men participating in AIDS clinical trials. AIDS Care, 7(2), pp. 147-158. doi:10.1080/09540129550126678
Report
- Ryan, L., Warren, A. and Caldwell, L. (2003). Garda youth diversion project guidelines. Government of Ireland.