Dr. Breda Gray

Professional Activities

Award

• 2020 - Member of Working Group
• 2020 - Member of the Special Interest Group for the Study of the Collaborative Economy in Ireland – SIG-SCEI
• 2020 - Researching and Advocating for Quality Education: Achieving Equality for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth in Schools
• 2019 - Visiting Scholar Award
• 2015 - New Foundations Mentor
• 2014 - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Nominee for UL Award for Excellence in Research
• 2014 - New Foundations Mentor
• 2013 - Partner on Women's Mobility in Contemporary Galician and Irish Literatures
• 2013 - Seed Funding
• 2011 - New Foundations Mentor
• 2009 - PI The Irish Catholic Church and the Politics of Migration
• 2008 - UL Seed Funding Somadic Work/Life and National Technology Park
• 2008 - PI Nomadic Work/Life and the Knowledge Economy
• 2002 - UL Partner Narratives of Migration and Return
• 2001 - PI Travellers' Tales. Remembering 1950s Ireland
• 2000 - PI Immigrant Lives. Life Narratives of New Immigrants to Ireland
• 2000 - Scientist in Charge (Marie Curie)
• 1999 - PI - HEA -PRTLI Research Project Award
• 1995 - Economic and Social Research Council Post-Graduate Award
• 1993 - Lancaster University, Social Science post-graduate award
• 1984 - Rotary Foundation International Fellow Award

Association

• 2017 Associate Editorial Board member, BSA Journal of Work, Employment and Society
• 2013 Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (JISASR)
• 2009 International Board Member, SAI - Irish Journal of Sociology
• 2006 Founding Editorial Board Member, Translocations. Migration and Social Change
• 2003 Editorial Board Member, Irish Feminist Review
• 2003 Founding Editorial Board Member, Migration Letters. An International Journal of Migration Studies

Committee

• 2016 Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Internationalisation Committee,
• 2013 Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Scienes Post-graduate Research Committee, *
• 2002 University of Limerick Research Ethics Committee, *
• 1996 DION, *

Employment

• 2000 University College Cork, Irish Centre for Migration Studies - Head of Research
• 1999 University College Cork, Irish Centre for Migration Studies - Research Fellow
• 1997 University College Cork, Department of Sociology - Lecturer in Sociology
• 1994 Lancaster University, Department of Sociology - Tutor, Sociology and Women's Studies
• 1993 Edge Hill University College, Lancs. - P/T Lecturer in Applied Social Science
• 1993 University of Central Lancashire - P/T Lecturer in Sociology

Education

• 1998 Lancaster University - PhD
• 1993 Lancaster University - MA
• 1986 CCETSW - Professional Qualification in Social Work
• 1985 University of British Columbia - Master of Social Work Degree
• 1984 College of Commerce Rathmines - Diploma
• 1980 University College, Dublin. - BA

Consultancy

• - Collaborative Research Project - University of Hull and University of York
• - Member of Steering Group HEA PRTLI 1 project - The Irish Women¿s Movement, NUI Cork (1999-2002).
• - Member of Steering Group HEA PRTLI 1 project - Women in Paid Employment in Munster 1936-60, NUI Cork (1999-2002)
• - Voluntary sector agencies in Britain

Language

• English