Transnational Migration, Children, Asylum, Refugees, Racism, Social and Political geography, Ireland

My track record as a lecturer and researcher to-date incorporates: 14 years experience lecturing and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in Ireland and the UK20 peer-reviewed publications [including 10 articles, 3 co-authored/edited books, 3 co-edited special issues and 4 book chapters] that will fall under the RQR review period 2008-14The generation of €385,000 in research funds since 2008 and the capacity to submit future bids (including to HORIZON 2020)Significant experience in administration, research management and leadership in the University sectorI have worked in UCC since 2006 on successive externally funded research projects (Migrant Children Project and the Transnational Childraising Arrangements between Africa and Europe [or TCRAf-Eu project]) and as research co-ordinator for ISS21. I am currently Research Officer for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences. My research interests lie in exclusion of specific transnational groups (including migrant children and youth) in Irish towns and cities and the changing social and political geographies of identity and citizenship within a globalised Ireland. I am a member of the Migration and Integration Research Cluster in ISS21 (see https://www.ucc.ie/en/iss21/clusters/migration/ for details). I have worked as postdoctoral researcher and national co-ordinator of the TCRAf-Eu Transnational Childcare project. The TCRAf-Eu project is an international research project involving researchers in the Netherlands (P.I. Valentina Mazzucato), Portugal, Norway, Ireland, Nigeria and Angola funded by a 1.5 million euro grant (360,000 euro to UCC) from NORFACE Transnational Programme on Migration. I played a central role developing and co-ordinating the Irish input into this funding bi

I am an experienced Lecturer, Module and Year Co-ordinator with over 10 years’ lecturing and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in different universities in Ireland and the UK. I have taught broadly across a range of sub-disciplinary areas in Human Geography, research methods, supervised undergraduate and postgraduate research in a range of fields and organised and lead residential or single-day urban field trips. I have also taught specialist final modules on Legal Geographies in Ireland and the UK.In 2011/2 I have taught Social and Political Geographies and An Introduction to Globalisation, Economies and Societies. I continue to teach on the MA in Contemp. Migration and Diaspora Studies I have a PGC in Higher Education and have pursued excellence