I am a senior lecturer and currently researching issues of justice that arise in relation to global climate change, cosmopolitanism and transnational democracy. I have published two monographs relating to these topics and am currently researching a third. I have a long standing interest in critical social theory, political theory, social movements research, global ethics, discourse, frame and cultural analysis. I am UCC lead in a Horizon 2020 project (JUSTNORTH, 2020-23) on democratic inclusivity and the realisation of sustainable development goals for the Arctic regions; PI on a newly funded IRC (New Foundations) project entitled 'Making Wild Lives Matter: Exploring the transformative potential of everyday encounters with wild urban nature and their contribution to eco-smart urban living’ (ECO-CONNECT), as well as a member of the UCC team leading an EU Erasmus Alliance for Innovation (chAnGE). I am a member of the editorial board of the journal The Sociological Review as well as Sociological Research Online and a board member of The Sociological Review Foundation, a registered charity committed to advancing public knowledge of sociology internationally.

Research interests include critical theory, climate justice, human rights, global justice, intergenerational inequalities, border practices, sociology of the body, European identity, cosmopolitanism, collective memory, trauma, models of democracy.

Undergraduate Second Year: SC2015 Third Year: SC3059 Sociology of Law: Legal Justice, Human Rights & Social Change; Third Year: SC3058 Memory, Trauma & Denial Third Year: SC3055 Postgraduate SC6638: Rethinking Borders: Global Challenges to Social Justice SC6642 Social Theory & Climate Justice Contribute to: SC6614 Sociological Methodology; SC6615 MA Dissertation Awards granted to my postgraduate students include: Irish Research Council PhD Scholarship; The Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship; CACSSS PhD Scholarship

Recent Postgraduates

Year: 2009
Name: Nicola Patterson
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA
Year: 2010
Name: Louise Carroll
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA
Year: 2011
Name: Sinead Hartnett
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA

Year: 2025

Name: David Ahern
Thesis: MA Crim
Year: 2012
Name: Sarah O'Herhily
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA

Year: 2015
Name: Sandra Dwyer
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA

Year: 2015
Name: Marta Sagan
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2015
Name: James Keogh
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2015
Name: Lujia Yang
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2015
Name: Rebecca Leahy
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA

Year: 2016
Name: Mary O'Sullivan
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2016
Name: Jennifer Brown Hickey
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2016
Name: Mavutho Ncube
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2016
Name: Agnieszka Bach
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2018
Name: Thomas Gerard O'Dea
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MPH

Year: 2018
Name: Ann Kelleher
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2021
Name: Conor Cashman
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: PHD

Year: 2022
Name: Benjamin Diesen
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA in the Sociology of Development and Globalization

Year: 2022
Name: Jean McSweeney
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2023
Name: Keira Morgan Fobb
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA in the Sociology of Development and Globalization

Year: 2023
Name: Sarah Ann Glamm Johnson
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: MA in the Sociology of Development and Globalization

Year: 2024
Name: Nafisa Sadaf
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2025

Name: Jafla Pontianus Vitalis
Intitution: University College Cork
Degree: PHD
Thesis: THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACT OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS, IDPs’ CAMPS ON THE HOST COMMUNITY IN NIGERIA: A SOCIOLOGICAL EVALUATION.

Year: 2019
Name: Jafla Pontianus Vitalis
Intitution: UCC
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2019
Name: Swara Karim
Intitution: UCC
Degree: MA Sociology

Year: 2024
Name: James Patrick Keogh
Intitution: UCC
Degree: PHD
Thesis: Framing Justice in Unjust Times