Keynotes

 

 

• Sex Work, Sexual Citizenship and Social Justice: towards a ‘Real Politics of Justice’. New Horizons for the 21st century

  16 November 2018

  Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights' The Synge Lecture Theatre, The Arts Building 2039, Trinity College, Dublin

  Organised by the Irish Sex Work Research Network

• Walking towards ‘salutogenesis’: theorizing, experiencing and imagining biographical research one hundred years after ‘The Polish Peasant’.

  03 November 2018

  The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Recovering a Sense of Coherence: Salutogenesis and Meaningfulness, UCC, Cork

• Biographical Research on the Move: walking, theorising, experiencing, imagining

  17 September 2018

  ESA Research Network 3 Mid-term Conference. Dept. Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland.

• ‘Imaginative criminology: Walking as arts based ethnographic practice’

  06 September 2018

  Crime and Control Ethnography Symposium 2018, Goldsmiths College, London.

• Ethics and walking/mobile methods

  21 June 2018

  Ethics in Practice in Innovative Methods -Social Research Association, London.

• Co-Producing Knowledge with Migrant Families through Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods as Biographical Research.

  30 May 2018

  Economy and Society Summer School 2018, UCC, Blackwater Castle, Cork

• Refugee Issues and Challenges

  30 March 2018

  Durham University, Ustinov College, Cafe Politique

• Borders, Risk and Belonging: challenges for arts based research in understanding the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants ‘at the borders of humanity’

  06 September 2017

  States of being at the Borders of Humanity conference of the AHRC project 'Responding to the Crisis' London, Sept, 2017

• Slow University

  30 June 2017

  University of Maynooth, MUSSI. June 2017

  This MUSSI seminar/panel discussion chaired by  Prof. Linda Connolly explored how dialogues within and outwith the Higher Education sector are converging  around  the need for a socio-cultural shift towards slowing down the pace of work, life and consumption, improving well-being  and providing counter narratives  to processes of globalisation and the  ‘Gridlock’ that Hale, Held and Young (2013) write about. 

  The motivation for organising the seminars emerged from dialogue with colleagues, our biographical experiences and resistance  to the speeding up of Higher Education, the impact of the audit culture and ‘marketisation’; as well as growing pressures, for some, in relation to developing a work/life balance in the context of metrics, audit, efficiency, increased competition,  demand management of research grant generation and the importance of hitting performance targets for career development and promotion. The gendered dimensions of these issues have been central to these discussions. A networking reception followed the discussion.

  Maggie O'Neill opened the seminar  with a paper on Work, Time and Well-being and this was followed by responses from Prof. Gerry Kearns Dr Mary Murphy and Prof. Sharon Todd.  

• Feminist Emergency - Adult Sex Work: Recognition,Rights & Citizenship - 'beyond white man’s justice'

  22 June 2017

  Feminist Emergency, Birkbeck College, London

• Methods on the Move: walking borders, risk and belonging.

  10 May 2017

  Economy and Society Summer School 2017, UCC, Blackwater Castle, Cork

• Building cultural citizenship with women seeking refuge and asylum to the ConferenceFemale Agency, Mobility and Socio-Cultural Change,

  25 June 2015

  United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in St Pau, Barcelona,

  My keynote at the conference on Female Agency, Mobility and Socio-Cultural Change at the  United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) took place in  St Pau, Barcelona, 11^th /12^th June 2015.

  See: https://www.opendemocracy.net/womenoftheworld/building-cultural-citizenship-with-women-seeking-refuge-and-asylum

• Walking, Sensing, Belonging

  19 November 2014

  Dept Social Sciences, Loughborough University.

  The Annual Sociology Lecture showcases new work by leading academics and thinkers in the field of sociology internationally. I spoke on walking and biographical methods in my work on sex work and asylum and migration

• Searching for Asylum: women, community and well being to International Deviancy Conference

  30 June 2014

  Teesside University

• Building Resources for citizenship: mothers' cultural intervention

  07 March 2014

  Open University

  The keynote was given to the AHRC network Migrant mothers caring for the future: creative interventions in making new citizens.

• Advances in Ethnographic Research: arts based biographical methods.

  10 May 2013

  University of Exeter, UK

  HEA funded conference - Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Network (QERN): Sharing and shaping pedagogies - learning through doing. May 10th 2013, Department of Drama

• Community, Politics and Resistance in Downtown Eastside Vancouver: using biographical and participatory arts methods

  04 December 2011

  University of Hamburg

  German Biographical Section of the German Sociological Association