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IRC Awards for Department of Sociology & Criminology!
We are delighted to announce two new awards from the Irish Research Council:
Participatory arts for advocacy, activism and transformational justice with young people living in Direct Provision
Clean Slate- Understanding the lived experiences of persons with criminal convictions of the harms resulting from barriers to employment, training, and education and how legislation, policy and practices can minimise these barriers
Congratulations to Professor Maggie O'Neill and Dr Katharina Swirak from all your colleagues!
Professor Maggie O'Neill: "The project team for our IRC New Foundations funded project are delighted to have received support for our collaborative research with young people at such an important time. Participatory arts for advocacy, activism and transformational justice with young people living in Direct Provision uses participatory action research (PAR) through the medium of theatre, walking and storytelling methods, and explores the ways in which young people negotiate their experiences in Direct Provision, during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research facilitates a space for young people’s voices to be heard and understood and for the work to feed into broader policy and practice".
Dr Katharina Swirak: "Clean Slate is a participatory action research project with Cork Alliance Centre- aimed at documenting how people navigate life after prison. The project will support participants with experience of prison life in using creative research methods to conduct peer-to-peer research on the challenges and opportunities of their journeys after prison".
Participatory arts in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic, using participatory action research (PAR) through the medium of theatre, walking and storytelling methods, the project explores the ways in which young people negotiate their experiences in Direct Provision while constructing and creating a sense of belonging to their new communities. The project team are Cork Migrant Centre: Dr Naomi Masheti and Fionnuala O'Connell; UCC: Maggie O’Neill, Jools Gilson, Amin Sharifi Isaloo, Fionn Woodhouse, Egle Gusciute, Jacqui O’Riordan, Mike Fitzgibbon; MTU: Chriszine Backhouse.
The grant application followed a successful seminar on forced migration organised by Dr Amin Sharifi Isaloo.
Clean Slate is a participatory action research project with Cork Alliance Centre- aimed at documenting how people navigate life after prison. The project will support participants with experience of prison life in using creative research methods to conduct peer-to-peer research on the challenges and opportunities of their journeys after prison.