Mastoureh Fathi is lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Department of Sociology. Before joining UCC, she worked in University College Dublin and Royal Holloway University of London. In 2020, she completed a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship at Institute for Social Science Research in 21st Century, University College Cork, Ireland. She has published on topics of home in migration, migration, class and gender; and intersectionality and identity, innovative methods and community based research.. Aside being awarded an individual fellowship (Youth Home funded by Horizon 2020), she was also PI on several projects funded by the British Academy Home, Pedagogy and Belonging and the Irish Research Council funded project Elderly (non)migrants' narratives of home: A comparative study of place-making in Ireland and Germany. Her publications have appeared in Gender, Place and Culture; Political Psychology; Gender and Education; Ethnicities; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Ethnic and Racial Studies, Irish Journal of Sociology among others.

Current PhD students: 1. Pooja Priya (UCC) 2. Dorota Lewandowska (UCC) 3. Janice Patricia Kelleher (UCC) 4. Shirin Assa (Bayeruth, Germany)5. Ciaran Evans (UCC)

Interests: Migration and belongingSocial class Family and gender Modules co-ordinating and teaching: - Introduction to Sociology (UG) - Sociology of Class (UG) - Family: Sociological and Anthropological Approaches (UG) - Im/Mobilities and Forced Migration and Belonging (PG)-Research methods in migration research (PG) Co-Director of MA in Migration, Mobilities and Culture (with School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures): https://www.ucc.ie/en/mammc/