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
- MA and Undergraduate Programmes
- SO6031 Feminist Approaches to Research, (MA Gender Culture and Society)
- SO6042 Feminism(s), Diaspora and Multiculturalism, (MA Gender, Culture and Society and MA Sociology (Social Research)
- SO4108 Sociological Approaches to Gender and Multiculturalism (UG)
SO6001 Writing a Dissertation Proposal (MA)
SO4037 Qualitative Methods for Sociological Research (UG: 3 weeks on Discourse Analysis)
Director MA Gender, Culture & Society
Convene Postgraduate PhD Forum
Departmental Director Postgraduate Studies
Professional Activities
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, *
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 - Seed Funding
- 2013 - Partner on Women's Mobility in Contemporary Galician and Irish Literatures
- 2011 - New Foundations Mentor
- 2009 - PI The Irish Catholic Church and the Politics of Migration
- 2008 - PI Nomadic Work/Life and the Knowledge Economy
- 2008 - UL Seed Funding Somadic Work/Life and National Technology Park
- 2002 - UL Partner Narratives of Migration and Return
- 2001 - PI Travellers' Tales. Remembering 1950s Ireland
- 2000 - Scientist in Charge (Marie Curie)
- 2000 - PI Immigrant Lives. Life Narratives of New Immigrants to Ireland
- 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
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
- 1980 University College, Dublin. - BA
Consultancy
- - 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
- - Member of Steering Group HEA PRTLI 1 project - The Irish Women¿s Movement, NUI Cork (1999-2002).
- - Collaborative Research Project - University of Hull and University of York
Language
- English
Publications
Book
Women and the Irish Diaspora
Gray, B
Book Chapter
Migrant integration and the "network-making power" of the Irish Catholic Church
Breda Gray
Migrations: Ireland in a Global World
Towards the Neo-institutionalisation of Irish State-Diaspora Relations
Breda Gray
Emigration Nations
Affecting Trans-Feminist Solidarity
Breda Gray
Theory on the Edge
Making migration a public issue: the network-making power of the Irish Catholic Church
Breda Gray
Ireland and Migration
Catholic Church Civil Society Activism and the Neolberal Govermental Project of Migrant Integration in Ireland
Breda Gray
Religion in the Neoliberal Age
Social Aspects of Place Experience in Mobile Work/Life Practices
Lugina Ciolfi, Breda Gray and Anthony D'Andrea
From Research to Practice in the Design of Cooperative Systems: Results and Open Challenges
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4093-1_13
Governing Integration
Breda Gray
Globalization, Migration and Social Transformation Ireland in Europe and the World
The making of nomadic work: Understanding the mediating role of ICTS
Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Luigina Ciolfi and Breda Gray
The Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
Empathy, Emotion and Feminist Solidarities
Breda Gray
Sexed Sentiments: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion
Researching Irish Diaspora. From Concept to Political Strategy
Breda Gray
Diasporas. Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Breaking the Silence: emigration, gender and the making of Irish cultural memory
Gray, B
Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation and Society
Too close for comfort: Remembering the forgotten diaspora of Irish women in England
Gray, B
Diaspora, Identity and Religion: New Directions in Theory and Research
Global Modernities and the gendered epic of the Irish Empire
Gray, B
Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration
The 1980s Irish emigrant and 'multicultural' London: From 'ethnicity' to 'diaspora'
Gray, B
The Irish Diaspora
Biographical summary on Anne McClintock
Gray, B
Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories
The Politics of Irish Identity: Feminism, Nationhood and Colonialism
B Gray, B; Ryan, L
Nation, Empire, Colony: Critical Categories of Gender and Race Analysis
(Dis)locating Irishness in the 1990s: The views of Irish women at home and abroad
Gray, B
Location and Dislocation in Irish Society: Multidisciplinary Essays on emigration and Irish Identities
(Dis)locating woman and women in representations of Irish national identity
B Gray, B; Ryan, L
Women and Irish Society. A Sociological Reader
Gendered Constructions of Irishness: Stagnation or Change in Irish Society since Independence
B Gray, B; Ryan, L
Culture and Identity: Selected Aspects and Approaches
Irish Women in Higher Education in England: From Invisibility to Recognition
B Gray, B; Ryan, L
Breaking Boundaries: Women in Higher Education.
The Home of Our Mothers and Our Birthright for Ages?
Gray, B
New Frontiers in Women's Studies: Knowledge, Identity and Nationalism
Women only management training - a past and present
Gray, Breda
Women in Management: A Developing Presence
Women in Higher Education
Gray, B
Changing the Subject: Women in Higher Education
Conference Contribution
10th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems
Breda Gray (with Luiginal Ciolfi and Anthony D'Andrea)
AHRC/ESRC Innovative Methods in the Study of Religion
Breda Gray and Ria O'Sullivan Lago
Symposium on Irish women and the Diaspora
Breda Gray
Gender Work and Organisation Conference
Breda Gray
International Metropolis Conference
Breda Gray
Irish Social Science Platform Annual Conference, The Social Sciences in an Age of Uncertainty
Breda Gray (with Luigina Ciolfi)
Global Imaginaries: Writing/Migration/Place
Breda Gray
International Metropolis Conference
Breda Gray
International Women's Day Conference
Breda Gray
Multiculturalism, Conflict and Belonging
Breda Gray
Researching the Church in Ireland
Breda Gray
European Computer Supported Co-operative Work (ECSCW) Conference
Breda Gray and Luigina Ciolfi
Gendering Citizenship and Globalization
Breda Gray
Symposium on Feminist Knowledge and Politics
Breda Gray
Fr Taffe Emigration Summer School
Breda Gray
National Womens History Conference
Breda Gray
Wiles Trust Colloquium Irish migration
Breda Gray
Oral History in Ireland Today
Breda Gray
Irish Geography Annual Conference
Breda Gray
Migration and Transculturation Conference
Breda Gray
Locality, Identity, Diaspora Conference
Breda Gray
Conference Publication
CSCW'17: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2017 ACM CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK AND SOCIAL COMPUTING
de Carvalho, AFP;Ciolfi, L;Gray, B
DOI: 10.1145/2998181.2998313
Sexing the Nation
B. Gray,Williams, J. P.,Phillips, B. E.,Smith, K.,Atherton, P. J.,Rankin, D.,Selby, A. L.,Liptrot, S.,Lund, J.,Larvin, M.,Rennie, M. J.
Am J Clin Nutr
CrossCare Conference
B. Gray,Villatoro, E.,Mulla, M.,Larvin, M.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Merriman Summer School
B. Gray,Villatoro, E.,Mulla, M.,Hall, R.,Larvin, M.
Pancreas
Locality, Identity, Diaspora Conference, Institute of Social/Cultural Anthropology
B. Gray,Rahman, S. H.,Nanny, C.,Ibrahim, K.,O'Reilly, D.,Larvin, M.,Kingsnorth, A. J.,McMahon, M. J.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Re-imagining Ireland International Conference
B. Gray,Rahman, S. H.,Larvin, M.,McMahon, M. J.,Thompson, D.
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Women in Higher Education Annual Conference
B. Gray,Ammori, B. J.,Becker, K. L.,Kite, P.,Snider, R. H.,Nylen, E. S.,White, J. C.,Larvin, M.,McMahon, M. J.
British Journal of Surgery
Emigration Summer School
B. Gray
Wiles Trust Colloquium
B. Gray,Rahman, S. H.,James, A. M.,Ammori, B. J.,Larvin, M.,McMahon, M. J.
Gastroenterology
Women's Studies Network (UK) Annual Conference
B. Gray,Ammori, B. J.,Cairns, A.,Dixon, M. F.,Larvin, M.,McMahon, M. J.
J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg
Open Seminar Series, MPhil Race and Ethnic Studies
B. Gray,Ward, S.,Morris, E.,Bansback, N.,Calvert, N.,Crellin, A.,Forman, D.,Larvin, M.,Radstone, D.
Health Technol Assess
Irish Geography Conference
B. Gray
Wiles Colloquium
B. Gray
International Conference on Culture and Identity
B. Gray with Dr. Louise Ryan
Social Movements in Transition: Moving towards the Millennium
B. Gray with Brendan Hennessy
International Population Studies Conference
B. Gray with Dr. Catriona Ni Laoire
Irish Sociology Seminar
B. Gray
Women¿s Studies Seminar Series
B. Gray
The Expanding Nation Conference
B. Gray
Transformations
B. Gray
International Federation for Women¿s History Conference
B. Gray with Dr. Louise Ryan
Women's History Network Annual Conference
B. Gray with Dr. Louise Ryan
Women in Higher Education Annual Conference
B. Gray with Dr. Louise Ryan
Conference on Social Movements in Transition: Moving Towards the Millennium?
B. Gray,Walters, A. M.,Larvin, M.,Sadek, S. A.
Br J Surg
Women/Time/Space, Conference
B. Gray
Dept of Critical and Historical Studies, Seminar Series
B. Gray with Dr. Louise Ryan
Other Journal
The Work and Life of Corporate Expatriates: New Patterns and Regimes of Mobility in the Knowledge Economy
Anthony D'Andrea and Breda Gray
International Review of Social Research
Introduction: Neoliberal definitions of a new sexual world and the revitalisation of gender studies
Breda Gray
Socheolas. Limerick Student Journal of Sociology
Other Publication
The Jesuits and globalization: historical legacies and contemporary challenges
Gray, B
Cambridge Review Of International Affairs
DOI: 10.1080/09557571.2018.1444854
Foreword
Gray, Breda
Foreword
Breda Gray
Ide B. O'Carroll, Models for Movers: Irish Women's Emigration to America
Ronit Lentin and Elena Moreo (ed) Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland, (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, Hants.)
Breda Gray
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Foreword
Breda Gray
Ghosts of the Faithful Departed by David Creedon
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 Rapporteurs Report
Breda Gray
Irish EU Presidency 2004 Conference Papers: Reconciling Mobility and Social Inclusion - the role of employment and social policy
Racism in the Irish experience
Gray, B
'Difference': Dilemmas for Managers
Gray, Breda
Gender Research Unit Occasional Papers Series
Difference" Dilemmas for Management"
Gray, B
Advances In Case-Based Reasoning
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
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual teachers' negotiations of civil partnership and schools: ambivalent attachments to religion and secularism
Neary, A;Gray, B;O'Sullivan, M
Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2016.1276432
'Femiminities in STEM: Outsiders within
O'Connor, P. O'Hagan, C. and Gray, B
Work Employment And Society
DOI: 10.1177/0950017017714198
Post-Fordist reconfigurations of gender, work and life: theory and practice
Gray, B,Ciolfi, L,de Carvalho, AFP,D'Andrea, A,Wixted, L
British Journal Of Sociology
DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12267
Post-Fordist Reconfigurations of Gender, Work and Life: Theory and Practice
Gray, B., Ciolfi, Luigina, de Carvalho, A., D'Andrea A.
British Journal Of Sociology
The Politics of Migration, Church, and State: A Case Study of the Catholic Church in Ireland
Gray, B
International Migration Review
DOI: 10.1111/imre.12165
Beyind "Migration Studies": Locating human mobility in the context of social struggle and change
Gray, Breda
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie (Austrian Journal of Sociology)
DOI: 10.1007/s11614-016-0230-x
Beyond 'Migration Studies': Locating human mobility in the context of social struggle and change
Gray, B
Osterreichische Zeitschrift Fuer Soziologie
DOI: 10.1007/s11614-016-0230-x
Thinking through Transnational Studies, Diaspora Studies and gender
Gray, B,MacPherson, DAJ,Hickman, MJ
Women And Irish Diaspora Identities: Theories, Concepts And New Perspectives
"Generation Emigration": The Politics of (Trans)National Social Reproduction in 21st Century Ireland
Breda Gray
Irish Studies Review
Migrant integration and the 'network-making power' of the Irish Catholic Church
Gray, B,Gilmartin, M,White, A
Migrations: Ireland In A Global World
Irish State Diaspora Engagement - "The Network State" and "Netizens"
Breda Gray
Eire/Ireland Journal Of The Irish American Cultural Ins
DOI: 10.1353/eir.2012.0002
Methodological Challenges and Innovations in Mobilities Research
D'Andrea, Anthony; Ciolfi, Luigina; Gray, Breda
Mobilities
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2011.552769
Becoming non-migrant: lives worth waiting for
Gray, B
Gender Place And Culture
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.566403
Governing Integration
Gray, B,Fanning, B,Munck, R
Globalization, Migration And Social Transformation: Ireland In Europe And The World
Migrant chaplains: mediators of Catholic Church transnationalism or guests in nationally shaped religious fields?
Breda Gray and Ria O'Sullivan Lago
Irish Journal Of Sociology
Editor's introduction: what does it mean to say sociology is going transnatoinal?
Breda Gray
Irish Journal Of Sociology
Empathy, Emotion and Feminist Solidarities
Gray, B,Ruberg, W,Steenbergh, K
Sexed Sentiments: Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Gender And Emotion
Migration, Life Narratives, memory and subjectivity: Reflections on an archival project on Irish migration
Breda Gray
Migration Letters
Putting emotion and reflexivity to work in researching migration
Gray, B
Sociology
Breaking the Silence: Emigration, Gender and the Making of Irish Cultural Memory
Gray, B,Harte, L
Modern Irish Autobiography: Self, Nation And Society
Migrant Integration Policy: A Nationalist Fantasy of Management and Control?
Breda Gray
Translocations:Ir Migration Race & Social Transform Rvw
"Curious hybridities": Transnational negotiations of migrancy through generation'
Breda Gray
Irish Studies Review
Remembering a 'multicultural' future through a history of emigration: Towards a feminist politics of solidarity across difference.
Gray, B
Women'S Studies International Forum
Breaking the Silence - Questions of staying and going in 1950s Ireland
Gray, B
Irish Journal Of Psychology
Whitely Scripts: Irish women's racialised belongings in London.
Gray, B
European J. Cultural Studies
The Irish diaspora - refiguring 'home' and 'away'
Gray, B
Irish Journal Of Sociology
'Contemporary Ireland and a Global "Irish Empire" of Memory and Imagination
Breda Gray
Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Gendering the Irish Diaspora
Gray, B
Women'S Studies International Forum
Longings and belongings - gendered spatialities of Irishness
Gray, B
Irish Studies Review
Modes of national belonging, emigration and Irish national identity
Breda Gray
Auto/Biography
Accounts of displacement. Migrant Irish Women in London
Breda Gray
Youth and Policy
'Irishness - A Global and Gendered Identity?
Gray, B
Irish Studies Review
Irish women in London: National or Hybrid Diasporic Identities?
Breda Gray
National Women's Studies Association Journal