Susan O'Shea

 

PhD Student

susan.o'shea@manchester.ac.uk

Room G.45
CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL

PhD Project

A social network analysis of Ladyfest as a transnational feminist social movement, 2008 – 2012

Biographical Information

My background is in Sociology includes an MPhil in Women’s Studies from Trinity College Dublin. I spent five years working in the homeless sector as a women’s support worker in residential and tenancy sustainment services in Cork and Dublin. I moved to Manchester in January 2007 to take up a research assistant post at the University. I joined CCSR as a student on the MSc. in Social Research Methods and Statistics and began working on my PhD in September 2009. I am also a teaching assistant on the Social Network Analysis Masters module and other short courses within CCSR.

Research Interests

Mixed-Methods; Social Network Analysis; Political and Cultural Economy; Transnational Social Movements; Feminism; Gender; Popular Culture

Presentations

Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis - Postgraduate presentations, December 9, 2009.

Affiliations

Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis

Manchester Social Movements Group

Gender Research Network

Methods@Manchester