Biography
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.
Research Grants
| Project | Funding Body | Start Date | End Date | Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moving Objects: Analysing the role of materiality in migrants’ intentions for onward migration journey. | Enterprise Irl | 03-MAY-23 | 02-MAY-25 | €15,976.00 | |
| Elderly (non)migrants' narratives of home: A comparative study of place-making in Ireland and Slovakia | Irish Research Council | 01-MAY-20 | 31-MAR-23 | €12,829.00 |
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| (2022) | 'Art practice with migrant women: Three challenges to rediscovering home' Mastoureh Fathi, Rabia Nasimi (2022) 'Art practice with migrant women: Three challenges to rediscovering home'. Action Research, [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Urban home: young male migrants constructing home in the city' Mastoureh Fathi, Caitríona Ní Laoire (2021) 'Urban home: young male migrants constructing home in the city'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2021) | 'Home-in-migration: Some critical reflections on temporal, spatial and sensorial perspectives' Fathi, M. (2021) 'Home-in-migration: Some critical reflections on temporal, spatial and sensorial perspectives'. Ethnicities, 21 (5):979-993 [Details] | |
| (2021) | '‘My life is on hold’: examining home, belonging and temporality among migrant men in Ireland' Fathi, M. (2021) '‘My life is on hold’: examining home, belonging and temporality among migrant men in Ireland'. Gender, Place and Culture, [Details] | |
| (2018) | 'Becoming a woman doctor in Iran: the formation of classed and gendered selves' Mastoureh Fathi (2018) 'Becoming a woman doctor in Iran: the formation of classed and gendered selves'. Gender and Education, 30 (1):59-73 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2017) | 'Press discourses on Roma in the UK, Finland and Hungary' Nira Yuval-Davis, Viktor Varjú, Miika Tervonen, Jamie Hakim, Mastoureh Fathi (2017) 'Press discourses on Roma in the UK, Finland and Hungary'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40 (7):1151-1169 [DOI] [Details] | |
| (2015) | 'I make here my soil. I make here my country' Mastoureh Fathi (2015) 'I make here my soil. I make here my country'. Political Psychology, 36 (2):151-164 [DOI] [Details] |
Contact details
- Mastoureh Fathi
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) - mastoureh.fathi@ucc.ie
- Askive, Donovan Road
Department of Sociology and Criminology
University College Cork
T12 DT02, Ireland - 00353 21 490 2904