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Marie-Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, UCC | PRECNIGHTS RESEARCHER
Julius-Cezar Macarie (or MacQuarie) conducts PRECNIGHTS. Over the years, he reached out to people inhabiting the night in various capacities: as a night ethnographer, migration scholar, outreach worker and collaborator with NGOs working with vulnerable groups. He is the founder of Nightworkshop, a project resarching nightwork in cities. He advocates for the rights of migrant nightworkers to decent work.
Dr. Caitríona Ní Laoire
Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Studies, Deputy Director, Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, University College Cork | PRECNIGHTS MENTOR on Migration, Gender and Project management
Caitríona Ní Laoire teaches across a range of programmes in the School of Applied Social Studies and is currently Director of the Doctor of Social Science programme. She have been active in UCC’s Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) since its establishment and is currently Acting Director of the institute. Caitriona represents UCC on the IMISCOE Board of Directors.
PRECNIGHTS is honoured to have on board scholars, activists and organisations to support its mission to visibilise the precarious and marginalised women migrant nightworekrs in Ireland. PRECNIGHTS Advisory Board members offer their know-how, time and guidance to:
Reach out to vulnerable groups of women nightworkers
Build on PRECNIGHTS research to raise awareness
Work towards imporving WMN's rights to decent work
Co-Founder & CEO International Community Dynamics | PRECNIGHTS ADVISOR on Migrant Advocacy
Roos Demol is a Flemish woman from Cork. She moved to Ireland in 1998. She is a mother of 4 and recently became a grandmother. A passionate defender of human rights, Roos has advocated for refugees on webinars with IBEC, IHREC and Tech4Good, at UCC and TCD. She has been heard on the local radio with her programs ‘The New Rebels’ and ‘Sounds And Places’ and been seen on the stage with Citadel, a music band of residents of Direct Provision, and supporting the cricket team of the same centre.
Mihaela Drăgan
President Romanian Community in Cork | PRECNIGHTS ADVISOR on Romanian community in Cork (RCIC)
Mihaela Drăgan has been a teacher for more than 20 years and has never interrupted her career as a pedagogue, regardless of life obstacles. For the past five years she has been teaching French to the English in Cork. Besides her teaching career, Mihaela is a “professional” volunteer, and an active promoter of Romanian culture in Cork, where her family has settled. Under the ROCultural project, run by the “Good World” Association, Mihaela brought together during the pandemic, 10 Romanian children from Cork and 20 children from 4 villages in Romania, to interact online, speak their mother tongue and reconnect with Romanian traditions.
Professor Seth M. Holmes
Chancellor’s Professor | UC Berkeley & ICREA Research Professor University of Barcelona | PRECNIGHTS ADVISOR on Migration, Food chain supply and Fieldwork
Seth M. Holmes runs the Project FOODCIRCUITS (ERC 2023-2028) in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona. He is also External Member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center of the University of Rovira i Virgili, and Founder of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. He has received national and international awards from the fields of anthropology, sociology, and geography, including the Margaret Mead Award.
Pierrot Ngadi
Chairperson International Community Dynamics | PRECNIGHTS ADVISOR on Migrant Advocacy
Pierrot Ngadi was born and grew up in Bandundu Province and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is well known as a lobbyist and campaigner for the Congo and the Congolese diaspora. In the 1990s he worked in Beirut for Vatican Radio (Voice of Charity). During the early 2000s he was a member of Amnesty International and Frontline Defenders in Ireland, campaigning on human rights issues.
Professor Violetta Zentai
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, & International Relations | Central European University | PRECNIGHTS ADVISOR on Gender Inequality & Research Host in Budapest
Violetta Zentai is a cultural anthropologist with a PhD from Rutgers University (USA). She was co-director of the Center for Policy Studies at the CEU. Based at the Democracy Institute CEU, Budapest, she is also faculty member of the Department of Public Policy and visiting faculty at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the CEU, Vienna. Her research focuses on ethnic and gender inequalities, European equality policies, and debates on post-socialist capitalisms and social exclusion/inclusion.
