Biography
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick; Director of MA Gender, Culture& Society; Convener of Gender Arc @UL PhD. Sociology, Lancaster University, England; MA Lancaster University; MSW University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Diploma Legal Studies, College of Commerce, Rathmines (Dublin Institute of Technology); B.Soc.Sc. (Hons.), University College, Dublin, Ireland.
Research Interests
My research interests cover the politics of gender/sexuality, migration, diaspora and religion in relation to contemporary governing processes. On-going research projects include:
-Migration, state and faith: post-welfarist modes of solidarity
-The politics of state diaspora engagement
-Gender and post-Fordist work/life
Teaching Interests
Current Teaching
Graduate Research Education Programmes
- Director MA Gender, Culture & Society
- Convener of University of Limerick - Gender Arc Research Network
- Coordinator of Gender, Culture & Society Postgraduate Forum
- Director UL Winter School in Social Science Research Methods 2014/2015/2016.
- UL contributor to Joint Graduate Research Programme - Irish Social Sciences Platform (Trinity College, Dublin; National University of Ireland Maynooth and University of Limerick) (2009/10).
- International faculty member for Universität Wien / University of Vienna, Department of Sociology Marie Jahoda Summer School 24-29 September 2017.
- UL Winter School in Social Science Research Methods Winter School (PhD Training) (2009, 2010, 2011 Feminist Epistemology and Mixed Methods Approaches; 2012-2016: Epistemology and Ontology)
MA and Undergraduate Programmes
- SO6031: Feminist Approaches to Research, MA Gender Culture and Society (PG)
- SO6042: Feminism(s), Diaspora and Multiculturalism, MA Gender, Culture and Society and MA Sociology (Applied Social Research) (PG)
- SO6001: Writing a Dissertation Proposal (PG) (MA Gender, Culture and Society and MA Sociology (Applied Social Research) and MA Sociology (Youth, Community and Social Regeneration (PG)
- SO4108: Sociological Approaches to Gender and Multiculturalism (UG)
- SO4002: Gender: Sociological Approaches (UG)
- SO4037: Qualitative Research Methods (Three weeks: Discourse Analysis) (UG)
Erasmus Teaching
- Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway, 14-22 November 2013
- University of Heulva, Spain. May 2009.
Previous Teaching
Postgraduate MA ModulesUL: Philosophical Approaches to Gender (2002-2005)UL: Theoretical Approaches to Gender, Culture and Society (2006-2010) U/G ModulesUL: Sociological Theory UCC: Sociology of Diaspora; Theories of Multiculturalism; Women and Irish Society; Consumer Culture; Globalisation and Social Change.Lancaster University: Tutor - Introduction to Sociology.University of Central Lancashire: Part-time Lecturer: Classical Sociological Theory; Divisions of Labour; Globalisation and Gender and Society.Edge Hill College: Contemporary Sociological Theory
Currently supervising projects on Parental Choice in School Patronage Policy in Ireland'; LGBT political subjectivity and intersectional identities; and Postnatal Depression: Understanding Women's Experiences'
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
Publications
Book Chapter
Making migration a public issue: the network-making power' of the Irish Catholic Church
Breda Gray
Ireland and Migration
Conference Contribution
National Women's History Conference
Breda Gray
Conference Publication
New Foundations: School Ethos' and LGBT Sexualities
Neary, A. Gray, B. O'Sullivan, M.
Other Publication
New Foundations: School Ethos and LBGT Sexualities Summary Report
Neary, A., Gray, B. & O'Sullivan, M
Preface
Breda Gray
M. Cinta Ramblado-Minero and Auxiliadora Perez-Vides, (ed) Unmarried Mothers' in Twentieth-century Ireland: Cultural Reflections
Social support structures for migrants Rapporteur's Report'
Breda Gray
Irish EU Presidency 2004 Conference Papers: Reconciling Mobility and Social Inclusion - the role of employment and social policy
Peer Reviewed Journal
Leaving Dublin': Photographic portrayals of post-Celtic Tiger emigration a sociological analysis
Gray, Breda
Sociological Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038026118795087
'Femiminities in STEM: Outsiders within
O'Connor, P. O'Hagan, C. and Gray, B
Work Employment And Society
DOI: 10.1177/0950017017714198
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teachers' negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism
Neary, A., Gray, B. and O'Sullivan, M.
Discourse-Studies In The Cultural Politics Of Education
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2016.1276432
A queer politics of emotion: reimagining sexualities and schooling
Neary, A,Gray, B,O'Sullivan, M
Gender And Education
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2015.1114074
Published Report
New Foundations: School 'Ethos' and LGBT Sexualities Conference Report
Neary A., Gray, B. and O'Sullivan, M.