Liam is a political geographer, interested in the geographies of international migration and migration policy. His primary research lies in the area of state-power. He is particularly interested in examining how mechanisms of state control manifest through the International Protection (IP) system. Current research suggests that international patterns of migration management and control, whilst increasingly deterritorialised, continue to be deployed in a spatialised manner. Liam's work also explores the individual experience of migration in general, and in the migration decision-making process, in particular. He has particularly wide-ranging intersectional experience in the formulation and evaluation of Assisted Return Programmes (AVR), internationally. He interacts with a range migration agencies, most particularly with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Liam teaches across the range of modules in geography and conducts post-graduate supervision in migration, migration policy and geopolitics.

The Geographies of state power. Geographies of Migration and Migration Policy. Migrant choice and the return decision.

I teach across the range of modules in Geography. I am particularly interested in Geopolitics, the Geographies of Migration, and the Philosophy of Geography. Under-graduate modules coordinated - GG1015 - Applied Geography GG2038 - Geographical Methods GG3001 - Ideas in Geography GG3046 - Geopolitics and Geostrategies Post-graduate supervision - Mathew Manley Coughlan (M.res) - The ecology of Ireland's International protection process (primary supervisor) Lucky Ikani (M.res) - A geospatial analysis of tourist sites, hospitality facilities and tourist mobility in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria (secondary supervisor) Olive Conroy (PhD) - A Social Geography of women in Cork City (primary supervisor) Accepting PhD Students PhD Projects Areas: The Geographies of Migration and Migration Policy, Securitization, Borders and Bordering