Research Interests

• Material Production and Art
• Migration and Transnationalism
• Emotions and Affect

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Public outreach & key achievements

• Active involvement Kathakali Heritage projects (2011-2019) through workshops on migration, family history, religion, heritage and interviewing techniques in schools, community centres and museums. The projects, run by the Kala Chethena Kathakali Company, have been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and are. My task as ‘in-house anthropologist’ is to give workshops in England in primary and secondary schools, and in museums and other organisations. http://www.kathakali.net/
• Active core member of the network Brokering Intercultural Exchange: Interrogating the Role of Arts and Cultural Management (AHRC-Funded, partnership between QUB and Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences) (2017-2019) https://managingculture.net/
• PI for the HERA-funded international collaborative project Creativity and Improvisation in a World of Movement, with partners: Queen’s University Belfast, Free University of Amsterdam, University of Oslo, Manchester Metropolitan University, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna (2009-2012) https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/introduction-creativity-and-innovation-in-a-world-of-movement/persons/ 

Research students

PhD Title	Dementia and the Art of Caring: New Opportunities for Creative Practitioners in the Ageing Economy
Name	Taika Bottner
Country	Finland
Years of Study	2018 to present
PhD Title	Navigating Mental Health in Northern Ireland: An Ethnography of Polish and Lithuanian Migrants’ Help-Seeking Strategies in a Translocal Landscape
Name	Lee Thomas Marshall
Country	UK
Years of Study	2018 to present
PhD Title	The Long-term Impact of Growing up with the Troubles
Name	Angela Mazzetti
Country	UK
Years of Study	2014 to present (part-time)

 

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD Title	Performance and Possibility in the Cracked Art World: Community Arts in Contemporary Northern Ireland
Name	Dr Kayla Rush
Graduated	2018
Country	USA
Current Position	Dr Rush received the two-year Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, which is part of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 funding. The funding is for an interdisciplinary project called 'Rocking in the Midwest: Transmitting and Performing Social Class in Rock Music Education'.  She is based in the School of Theology, Philosophy and Music at Dublin City University.
PhD Title	Shifting Perceptions, Emotions, and Memories: Japanese Women in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Name	Naoko Maehara
Graduated	2014
Country	Japan
Current Position	Postdoc at Harvard, winner of the 2015 Royal Astronomical Society's Penston for best astrophysics thesis in UK, winner of Royal Astronomical Society’s Fellowship for 2018
PhD Title	Host galaxies of superluminous supernovae
Name
Graduated
Country	Taiwan
Current Position	Dr Maehara is based in Japan and has continued to conduct research and publish work on Japanese women.

 

 

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