Dr Claire Dorrity is a lecturer in social policy at the School of Applied Social Studies, UCC. 
Her research interests include Migration and Social Policy; Refugees and Forced Displacement; Border Securitisation and Externalisation; Critical Multiculturalism and Superdiversity; and Migrant Solidarities. 

Her most recent research projects include: EMBRACE: Exploring Mobility: Borders, Refugees & Challenging Exclusion (Irish Research Council New Foundations Program) and current research project Migrant Education: Challenges and Exclusion (MiEd) (UNIC4ER Research Funded) - focused on participatory action based research addressing access to education for migrants in a local and transnational context. Research partners include University of Liege, Koç University, Turkey, University College Cork and related community partners.   

Claire is a board member of the UCC Collective Social Futures

She a research associate with the Institute of Social Science in the 21st Century, UCC (ISS21) and committee member of the Migration and Integration Research Cluster (ISS21,UCC) 

She is a member of the coordinating Team of the IMISCOE Standing Committee on Forced Migration and Refugees. 

Claire is a member of the Utrecht Network Task Force on Responsible Internationalisation & Global Engagement (RIGE) promoting Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility in Internationalisation in Higher Education and Research across European University Networks.

She is a member of the UCC Team of UNIC Consortium where she is the UCC academic lead for the Joint MA in Superdiversity in Education, Organisations and Society. She is also a member of the UNIC Superdiversity Community. 

She is joint editor of Migration: Global Processes Caught in National Answers (Nova 2014) and co-editor of Social Professional Activity: The Search for a Minimum Common Denominator in Difference (Wiener Verlag 2009).

Claire is a member of the Applied Social Studies Graduate Studies Committee and Teaching and Learning Committee. She is the School of Applied Social Studies Internationalisation Representative. 

Claire is also the social policy Nursing Studies Coordinator and sat on the Local Working Group for the HSE/HEI National Standards Undergraduate Curriculum on Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Behavioural Change.

Claire is also a member of the Schools of Sanctuary Monitoring Team and a board member at Cóbh Community Care.

Claire is available for migration-related thesis supervision and mentorship

Claire's research interests include Migration Policy; Border Externalisation and Border Violence; Refugee Displacement; Critical Multiculturalism and Superdiversity; Migrant Integration; Migrant Agency, Activism and Solidarities. 

Claire's current research project explores barriers to education for migrants, in partnership with city stakeholders in the field of migration. University partners include University of Liege, Belgium; Koc University, Turkey; and University College Cork.
                 

Claire's recent research project EMBRACE: Exploring Mobility - Borders, Refugees and Exclusion is a New Foundations, Irish Research Council Funded project and focuses on frontiers of border militarisation, using two case studies - the EU Mediterranean border and the US/Mexican border. The project involved a research visit to Mexico in 2022 to conduct research on the Mexican/US border in collaboration with research colleagues in the University of Veracruz, Mexico and fieldwork with migrant NGO, Switxboard Innovation and Planning Agency, Tunisia.  

Claire is also a member of the European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC) research team at UCC. A specific focus is placed on Migration and Superdiversity and Equality Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education.  

As an educator and researcher, her primary interests are in delivering high quality teaching to students studying Migration; Social Work; Criminology; Youth and Community Work; and Nursing Studies.  

Undergraduate Courses:

Claire's teaching includes Critical Multiculturalism; Refugees and Forced Displacement; Migrant Exclusion; Cultural Diversity and Integration; Migrant Health; Health Inequalities and Social Exclusion; and Anti-discriminatory, Anti-oppressive, and Culturally Inclusive Practice.

Postgraduate Courses:

At post-graduate level, Claire teaching interests include: Migration Policy and Practice; Border Securitisation and the Criminalisation of Migration; The Politics and Practice of Humanitarianism; Migration and Health; Public Health and Vulnerable Communities; and Critical Social Issues in Midwifery Practice.