Migration and Citizenship
Recent/Current Funded Research Programmes
Co-Director of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative, UCD (www.ucd.ie/mcri)
Migration, Identity and Diversity in Ireland
- Placing Voices, Voicing Places: Stories of Clanbrassil Street and the ‘Monto’ (co-investigator with Pat Cooke UCD Arts Policy, Cormac O’Donnell (Dublin City Council), Tadhg O’Keeffe (UCD Archaeology) and Sarah Tuck (CREATE, the national development agency for collaborative arts); Heritage Council (2008-09)
- Integration in Ireland: The Experiences of Chinese, Indian, Lithuanian and Nigerian Migrants (co-PI with Mary Gilmartin, Steve Loyal and Bettina Migge). Immigrant Council of Ireland (2006-2008).
- Migration, Belonging and Social Change in Ireland . Government of Ireland Research Fellowship (2004-05).
- Changing Irish Identities. Identity, Diversity & Citizenship Research Programme, Co-PI, with Tom Inglis (UCD Sociology) and Jennifer Todd and John Coakley (UCD Politics), HEA PRTLI3 (2002-05)
Ethnic Diversity, Civil Society and Social Research in Ireland
- Evidence-Based Policy and Practice in Irish Immigration and Integration Policy , Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006-8) Co-PI with Mary Gilmartin
- Ethnic Diversity and the Transformation of Irish Civil Society: An Analysis of the Emergence of ‘Intercultural Capital’ . Royal Irish Academy Third Sector Research Programme. (2005-7).
- Diversity and Civil Society in the New Ireland: Activist Biographies and Accounts of Anti-Racism . Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2004-5)
- Towards a New Interculturalism in the Irish Third Sector: The Development of Minority- Led Organisations. Royal Irish Academy Third Sector Research Programme & the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (2003-5)
- Research, Development and Critical Interculturalism: A Study on the Participation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Research- and Development-Based Initiatives . Applied Social Science Research Programme, UCD (2002)