Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies of the University College Cork, Irland. Director of the Doctor of Social Science programme. Acting Director of the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century. Her research interests lie in migration, childhood/youth, and gender equality, and she has published widely in these areas. In 2005, she was awarded a Marie Curie Excellence Grant to lead the Migrant Children project from 2005 to 2009. She led the Through the Glass Ceiling project at UCC from 2010 to 2012, which developed supports for career progression of academic women. Between 2013 and 2017, she was Scientific Coordinator in UCC of GENOVATE – an EU action-research project on gender equality in research and innovation.