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School of Science & Computing - Dept of Science
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Sheila Donegan is a lecturer in Chemistry and Director of Calmast - the Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Outreach centreat Waterford IT. She is very active in the promotion of STEM and holds many national positions in this area. In 2007 Sheila , along with her colleague Eoin Gill were awarded the EU Descartes award for Science Communication in 2007, the highest EU award in this area. Previous winners of this award were Bill Bryson and David Attenborough.
Awards:
International:
World Young Reader Award 2005, World Association of Newspapers
Descartes Award for Science Communication, European Union 2006
Science, Engineering and Technology Awareness Award, Engineers Ireland, 2007
Michael Dee Spirit of Enterprise Award 2011
Current Positions Held:
Chair Education Division Royal Society of Chemistry Ireland
RDS Science and Technology Committee
National Education Committee Science Gallery, Trinity College
NCCA Board of Science studies
Previous Positions Held:
Steering Committee member of Discover Science and Engineering (Government appointed)
Member of the Research advisory board of the Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick.
Treasurer of the European Science Events Association (EUSCEA) 2007-2013
Regional Representative of the Institute of Chemistry of Ireland
Extern for Enniscorthy VEC post leaving Cert. Chemistry
Founding member European Science Open Forum Irish Branch
Institute of Technology national PR network 2004 -2007
South East Irish Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Federation education group (IBEC)
Research Interests
Innovative methods of teaching science and maths at primary, secondary and third level
Public understanding of science
Surfactant mediated chromatography for the analysis of pharmaceutical products
The use of scanning electron microscopy and EDX in the analysis of materials
Supervision of Post graduate students:
Five Ph.D students supervised to PhD level
Michael Breen 2004
Margo Broderick 2005
Emma Harte 2006
Eamon Mc Evoy 2008
Richie Ryan 2011
3 students supervised to Masters level:
Mary Sinnott MSc. 1999
Judith Coughlan MSc. 2000
Geraldine Ryan MSc 2009
Research Papers: ( all peer reviewed)
The use of novel Water-in –Oil Microemulsions in Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography. Electrophoresis 2004 25 645- 652. Altria K. Broderick M, Donegan S. Power J
2. Optimisation and use of Water-in-Oil MEEKC in Pharmaceutical Analysis, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Volume 37, Issue 5, 29 April 2005, Pages 877-884
Margo Broderick, Sheila Donegan, Joe Power and Kevin Altria
3. Recent Advances in MEEKC, Electrophoresis 2004 25 3970-3980, A Marsh, M. Broderick, S. Donegan, J. Power, K. Altria
Preliminary study on the novel use of Water in Oil Microemulsions in HPLC, Chromatographia 2005 62 no.7/8 341 – 348, Altria K. Broderick M, Donegan S. Power J.
4. Investigation and management of an epidemic of Hydroreview intraocular lens opacification. GRAEF Arch Clin Exp 243 (11) 1124 1133 2005
Photochemical Degradation of a Toxic Organophosphorus Analogue in Microemulsion Media. Chemosphere, Vol. 28, No. 11, pages 1967 - 1976, Yun Yang, Sheila Donegan, Ramesh Patel, A. J. Ward.
5. Preliminary study on the novel use of Water in Oil Microemulsions Eluents in HPLC. Chromatographia 2005 62 no.7/8 341 – 348, Altria K. Broderick M, Donegan S. Power J
6. Optimisation and validation of a rapid and efficient microemulsion liquid chromatographic (MELC) method for the determination of paracetamol (acetaminophen) content in a suppository formulatioJournal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 1, 9 May 2007, Pages 137-143 Eamon McEvoy, Sheila Donegan, Joe Power and Kevin Altria
7. Recent advances in the development and application of microemulsion MEKC ELECTROPHORESIS 28 (1-2): 193-207 JAN 2007 McEvoy E Marsh A (Marsh, Alex), Altria K (Altria, Kevin), Donegan S Power J
8. McEvoy E, Donegan S, Power J and Altria KD.“ The application of MELC and MEEKC methods for the analysis of paracetamol and related impurities in suppositories”, Chromatographia,
9. Ryan R., McEvoy E, Power J, Donegan S, Altria, KD “An Introduction to Microemulsion HPLC (MELC)”, LCGCoctober 2008.
Recent Advances in the Methodology, Optimisation and Application of Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography (MEEKC) Methods",
10. Electrophoresis 2009 30, 65-82, Ryan R., McEvoy E, Power J, Donegan S, Altria K
Advances in the theory and application of MEEKC Richie Ryan, Sheila Donegan, Joe Power, Kevin Altria Eletrophoresis 31 no 5 757-767 2010
Invited Book Chapters:
1.HPCE 2005 Capillary Electrophoresis for Pharmaceutical Analysis
A Marsh, M. Broderick, S. Donegan, J. Power, K. Altria, B. Clarke
2. Encyclopedia of Separation Science 2006: Microemulsion Electrokinetic Chromatography – a review
A. Marsh, E. Mc Evoy, K. Altria, M. Broderick , S. Donegan, J. Power
3. Encyclopedia of Separation Science 2006 Microemulsion HPLC
A Marsh, E. Mc Evoy, K. Altria, M. Broderick S. Donegan, J. Power
4. Handbook of Capillary and Microchip Electrophoresis ed Landers 2008-02-27
E. Mc Evoy, K. Altria, S. Donegan, J. Power
5. The Mutation Game – a versatile Educational Tool, Kramer, C., Suter-Giorgini, N., Moss, K., Gill, E., Donegan, S. in New Traditional Games for Learning- A Case Book, Editors Moseley, A., and Whitton, N. Routledge2014 ISBN 978041581584-0.
Patents
EP 930229 The Development of a Water Dispersible Metallic Pigment
S.Donegan, P. Thornton, D. Byrne 1993
over 20 years experience in teaching chemistry at undergraduate and masters level.
2 years experience in Coatings Research Unit, Materials Ireland Forbairt ( now Enterprise Ireland)
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