Research Profile

Biography

Current position:
Research Fellow August 2020-present MaREI centre, ERI, UCC - full time
Senior Postdoctoral researcher
and administrative project manager March 2017-July 2020
MaREI centre, ERI, UCC - full time
Postdoctoral researcher and administrative project manager March 2014-March 2017
MaREI center, ERI, UCC - full time

Main research area is financial assessment of offshore renewable energy (ORE) projects, particularly developing decision support tools to model installation, operations and maintenance and decommissioning activities and costs for ORE farms. Further details of my research background and current projects can be found at http://www.marei.ie/people/fiona-devoy-mcauliffe/

Previous work experience:

Research Assistant August 2012-February 2014
HMRC, UCC - full time
Executive Assistant Feb 2012-August 2012
UCC - full time
Part time for the Radiation Protection Office / Part time for the Department of Biochemistry
Researcher and editor Dec 2010-June 2012
UCC Heritage Services - revising the UCC War Record (1919) listing the staff and students of UCC who fought in WW1.
Educational support worker Sept-Feb 2012
UCC Disability Support Service– Assistive Technology Unit
Examiner July 2011
Board of Examinations Commission for Junior Certificate Higher Level English.
Teacher Nov-Dec 2010-2011 (covering) / Jan-June 2011 (maternity leave)
Sacred Heart Secondary School, Clonakilty, Co. Cork.
English, Learning Support, LCA – English and Communications, Film Studies, C.S.P.E.
Teaching practice Sept 2009–June 2010
Ursuline Secondary School, Blackrock, Cork.
First year English and second year History.

Irish Modern History Tutor
Sept-Dec 2007 and 2008 (40 hours)
UCC School of History

Education:


PhD – History
 2006-2010
UCC Thesis title: ‘A sword of Damocles:’ the threat of conscription and the dynamics of Irish politics, 1914-18.
Supervisor: Dr. Donal O’Drisceoil

Postgraduate Diploma in Education
2010
UCC – Second Class Honours Grade 1                                                                         

Bachelor of Arts Degree
2006
UCC – First Class Honours                                                    
Joint honours English and History (First Year subjects - Archaeology and Psychology) 
 





Publications

Book Chapters

 YearPublication
(2021)'Renewable Energies – Wind, Wave and Tidal Power'
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe and Anthony Lewis (2021) 'Renewable Energies – Wind, Wave and Tidal Power' In: The Coastal Atlas of Ireland. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details]
(2013)'Workers show their strength: The 1918 Conscription Crisis'
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe (2013) 'Workers show their strength: The 1918 Conscription Crisis' In: Locked Out – A Century of Irish Working-Class Life. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

 YearPublication
(2023)'Scenario Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness of Maintenance Strategies for Fixed Tidal Stream Turbines in the Atlantic Ocean'
Kamidelivand M.;Deeney P.;Devoy McAuliffe F.;Leyne K.;Togneri M.;Murphy J. (2023) 'Scenario Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness of Maintenance Strategies for Fixed Tidal Stream Turbines in the Atlantic Ocean'. Journal Of Marine Science And Engineering, 11 (5) [DOI] [Details]
(2023)'A review of geographic information system (GIS) and techno economic (TE) software tools for renewable energy and methodology to develop a coupled GIS-TE software tool for marine renewable energy (MRE)'
O’Connell R.;Murphy J.;Devoy McAuliffe F.;Dalton G. (2023) 'A review of geographic information system (GIS) and techno economic (TE) software tools for renewable energy and methodology to develop a coupled GIS-TE software tool for marine renewable energy (MRE)'. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part M: Journal of Engineering for the Maritime Environment, 237 (3):547-564 [DOI] [Details]
(2022)'Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends'
Khalid, O;Hao, GB;Desmond, C;Macdonald, H;McAuliffe, FD;Dooly, G;Hu, WF (2022) 'Applications of robotics in floating offshore wind farm operations and maintenance: Literature review and trends'. Wind Energy, 25 :1880-1899 [DOI] [Details]
(2021)'Levelised Cost of Energy assessment for offshore wind farms – an examination of different methodologies, input variables and uncertainty'
Devoy McAuliffe, Fiona; Noonan, Miriam; Murphy, Jimmy (2021) 'Levelised Cost of Energy assessment for offshore wind farms – an examination of different methodologies, input variables and uncertainty'. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2020)'Structural Design Implications of Combining a Point Absorber with a Wind Turbine Monopile for East and West Coast of Ireland'
Patrick D. O’Kelly-Lynch, Cian Long, Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, Jimmy Murphy and Vikram Pakrashi (2020) 'Structural Design Implications of Combining a Point Absorber with a Wind Turbine Monopile for East and West Coast of Ireland'. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, [Details]
(2019)'Structural design implications of combining a point absorber with a wind turbine monopile for the east and west coast of Ireland'
O'Kelly-Lynch P.;Long C.;McAuliffe F.;Murphy J.;Pakrashi V. (2019) 'Structural design implications of combining a point absorber with a wind turbine monopile for the east and west coast of Ireland'. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, [DOI] [Details]
(2019)'A tool to simulate decommissioning offshore wind farms'
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, Rachel Chester, Cian Desmond, France Judge, Brian Flannery, Katie Lynch and Jimmy Murphy (2019) 'A tool to simulate decommissioning offshore wind farms'. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1356(1):012021 [DOI] [Details]
(2019)'A lifecycle financial analysis model for offshore wind farms'
Judge, Frances M.; McAuliffe, Fiona Devoy; Sperstad, Iver Bakken; Chester, Rachel; Flannery, Brian; Lynch, Katie; Murphy, Jimmy (2019) 'A lifecycle financial analysis model for offshore wind farms'. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 103 :370-383   [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]
(2018)'The LEANWIND suite of logistics optimisation and full lifecycle models for offshore wind farms'
Devoy McAuliffe F.;Lynch K.;Sperstad I.;Nonas L.;Halvorsen-Weare E.;Jones D.;Akbari N.;Wall G.;Irawan C.;Norstad I.;Stalhane M.;Murphy J. (2018) 'The LEANWIND suite of logistics optimisation and full lifecycle models for offshore wind farms'. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1104 (1) [DOI] [Details]
(2016)'Investigating key decision problems to optimize the operation and maintenance strategy of offshore wind farms'
Sperstad, Iver Bakken; Devoy McAuliffe, Fiona; Kolstad, Magne; Sjømark, Severin (2016) 'Investigating key decision problems to optimize the operation and maintenance strategy of offshore wind farms'. Energy Procedia, 94 :261-268 [DOI] [Full Text] [Details]

Other Journals

 YearPublication
(2009)'The Mansion House Conference – Ireland’s “first National Cabinet”'
Fiona Devoy (2009) 'The Mansion House Conference – Ireland’s “first National Cabinet”' History Studies, . [Details]

Conference Publications

 YearPublication
(2023)OCEANS Limerick
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, M. Kami Delivand, F. Judge, R. O’Connell and J. Murphy (2023) Wild Atlantic Wind Farms, Are They Cost-Effective? OCEANS Limerick [DOI] [Details]
(2023)OCEANS Limerick
M. Kami Delivand, P. Deeney, F. Devoy McAuliffe, R. O’Connell, I. Mulcahy and J. Murphy (2023) Adapting Optimal Preventive Maintenance Strategies for Floating Offshore Wind in Atlantic Areas by Integrating O&M Modelling and FMECA OCEANS Limerick [DOI] [Details]
(2023)15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2023)
Bastos, P.; Devoy McAuliffe, F.; Arredondo-Galeana, A.; Chozas, J.; Lamont-Kane, P.; Vinagre, P. (2023) Life Cycle Assessment of a wave energy device – LiftWEC 15th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2023) [DOI] [Details]
(2016)2016 Marine Energy Technology Symposium
Laura-Mae Macadré, Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, Jimmy Murphy (2016) Optimising Operation and Maintenance Strategies for Marine Renewable Energy Converters 2016 Marine Energy Technology Symposium Washington, USA, [Details]
(2015)EWTEC, Nantes, France
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe (lead author and presenter), Laura-Mae Macadré, Martin Heyman Donovan, Jimmy Murphy and Katie Lynch (2015) ‘Economic and Reliability Assessment of a Combined Marine Renewable Energy platform' EWTEC, Nantes, France [Details]
(2015)EWTEC, Nantes, France
Laura-Mae Macadré (lead author and presenter), Fiona Devoy McAuliffe, Ozan Keysan, Martin Heyman Donovan, Sara Armstrong, Jimmy Murphy and Katie Lynch (2015) ‘Optimal Power Aggregation Methods for Renewable Energy Converters; a Combined Economic and Reliability approach’ EWTEC, Nantes, France [Details]

Book Reviews

 YearPublication
(2009)Review of Jeff Kildea’s book Anzacs and Ireland.
Fiona Devoy (2009) Review of Jeff Kildea’s book Anzacs and Ireland. UCC: Book Reviews [Details]

Technical Publication

 YearPublication
(2017)Driving Cost Reductions in Offshore Wind – the LEANWIND project final publication.
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe (editor) et. al (2017) Driving Cost Reductions in Offshore Wind – the LEANWIND project final publication. Technical Publication   [Details]

Item About an Individual

 YearPublication
(2021)Roger Casement, 1916 & ‘Gun running’ section in The Coastal Atlas of Ireland.
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe (2021) Roger Casement, 1916 & ‘Gun running’ section in The Coastal Atlas of Ireland. Item About an Individual [Details]

Professional Activities

Honours and Awards

 YearTitleAwarding Body
2019MaREI Symposium Poster Award MaREI symposium
2019DeepWind Conference Poster Award DeepWind Conference
2006UCC President’s PhD scholarship UCC
2006Michael J. McEnery memorial scholarship UCC
2006John A. Murphy award in Irish history for the highest results in a B.A. dissertation UCC school of history
2007UCC college of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences PhD scholarship UCC

Professional Associations

 AssociationFunctionFrom / To
IEC TC11401-JUN-18 / 31-JUL-19
IEA Wind Task 49 IDEA Task participant01-FEB-23 /
IEA Wind Task 53 Wind Energy Economics Irish representative10-OCT-22 /

Conference Contributions

 YearPublication
(2016)EERA DeepWind’2016 conference,
Iver Bakken Sperstad, Magne Kolstad, Severin Sjømark and Fiona Devoy McAuliffe (2016) Poster presentation - O&M decision problems – Investigating key decision problems to optimise the operation and maintenance strategy of offshore wind farms. [Poster Presentation], EERA DeepWind’2016 conference, Trondheim, Norway . [Details]
(2013)EURO-INFORMS conference – 26th annual conference of operational research,
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe (presenter), Keith O’Sullivan and Jimmy Murphy (2013) ‘Assessment of Extreme High Energy Sites and the Implications for Maintenance Operations at Offshore Wind Farms’. [Oral Presentation], EURO-INFORMS conference – 26th annual conference of operational research, University of Sapienza, Rome . [Details]
(2013)The Cause of Irish Labour - 1913 and beyond,
Fiona Devoy McAuliffe (2013) The Cause of Irish Labour - 1913 and beyond. [Oral Presentation], The Cause of Irish Labour - 1913 and beyond, University College Cork , 28-FEB-13 - 01-APR-13. [Details]
(2007)Histfest the annual postgraduate conference,
Fiona Devoy (2007) The threat of conscription and the radicalisation of Irish politics. [Oral Presentation], Histfest the annual postgraduate conference, Lancaster University , 12-MAY-07 - 12-MAY-07. [Details]
(2008)Image and Reality: Women in 19th and 20th Century Ireland,
Fiona Devoy (2008) Irishwomen’s fight against conscription and its impact on the feminist movement. [Oral Presentation], Image and Reality: Women in 19th and 20th Century Ireland, Queen's College Belfast , 03-APR-08 - 04-APR-08. [Details]
(2008)Irish History Students Association Annual Conference,
Fiona Devoy (2008) Conscription and the radicalisation of Irish Politics, 1914-1918. [Oral Presentation], Irish History Students Association Annual Conference, NUI Galway , 29-FEB-08 - 01-MAR-08. [Details]

Contact details


  • Research Fellow B.A English and History, Postgraduate Diploma in Education, Ph.D History
  • f.devoymcauliffe@ucc.ie
  • MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork,
    Beaufort Building, Haulbowline Rd,
    Ringaskiddy, Co. Cork
    Ireland
  • +353 (0)21 4864376

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