20102025

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Biography

Dr Julius-Cezar Macarie, Department of Sociology & Criminology and Collective Social Futures is the Principle Investigator of NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT project (2025 – 2029) funded by Research Ireland Pathways Programme. Currently, he teaches at the University College Cork, Night Matters: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives on Life after Dark to anthropology, criminology and sociology undergraduates. His monograph Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London (2023), cogently unpacks the experiences of embodied precarity, the nightnographic component adding an original dimension to the inquiry.

Teaching Activities

SC 2068 Night Matters: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives on Life after Dark

Current PhD Students

Destiny Nezam, PhD Student on NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT project.

Research Grants

NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT: A Synthesis of Contemporary CapitalismS Across Nightshift Cities

2025 – 2029 | Research Ireland Pathway Program Research Fellow | University College Cork
Funding amount: €676,282

The NIGHTWORK_FOOTPRINT project investigates and theorises nightwork. Armies of people, usually migrants, carve out an existence by working at night. For these millions of people across nightshift cities, nightwork means little or other way to opt out. Nightwork practices lie below the radar. They are conducive to the invisibility and multi-layered precarity, informality and irregularity of nightworkers. Yet, nightwork and nightworkers are underrepresented in labour history, and urban and night studies. Today the theoretical importance and empirical urgency of this research becomes even greater, as the current era of Night Time Economy boosterism does not focus on nightwork, but on nightlife.

 

Research Grants

2024 – 2026 | Research Associate | Enterprise Ireland ERC Supporting Grant Fellow | University College Cork

2022 - 2024 | PRECNIGHTS: Precarity Amongst Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship | Funder: Horizon Europe (HORIZON) | Grant Project №101063938 | University College Cork

2021 | Ştefan Odobleja Fellowship Program NEC Odobleja Fellow | Funder: Executive Unit for Finance in the Higher Education, Research, and Innovation (UEFISCDI) | Grant № U-2100-068Y-1088, New Europe College

2013 – 2016 | Marie-Skłodowska Curie INTEGRIM Early-Stage Researcher | Funder: FP7 EC, Grant № 316796 | Host: Central European University, Budapest.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities

External positions

Night Working Group Leader, International Night Studies Network

20192024

UCC Futures (primary)

  • Collective Social Futures

Other research affiliations

  • Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21)

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