About

Government of Ireland Scholar

Funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Currently completing a PhD in Hispanic Studies within the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication at the University of Limerick.

Aisling’s PhD research focuses on women during the civil war and Franco dictatorship in Spain and contemporary representations of this historical period. Her thesis title is “Gender and Memory in Contemporary Women’s Writing from Spain”. Broadly speaking, Aisling’s research interests lie in the area of women’s history and memorialisation in Spain and Ireland.

Aisling has been a Sibéal board member since 2010. During this time, Aisling acted as Sibéal Communications Officer (2010-2011), organised the Sibéal-sponsored feminist event “Memories of the Magdalene Laundries” in April 2011, and was part of the organising committee of the 4th Annual Conference of Sibéal, which was hosted by the University of Limerick in November 2011. Aisling is currently serving as an Outreach Officer for Sibéal, which involves liaising with other feminist organisations and co-ordinating the Sibéal Small Grants Scheme. Aisling is happy to be contacted by any individual or organisation who would like further information about Sibéal, the activities of the network, or about the Small Grants Scheme.

School of English, University College Cork

PhD: Researching the poetry and plays of Mary Devenport O’Neill who published during the years of the Irish Free State. This work is part of the feminist recovery process and contributes to Irish Women’s Literary History and Irish modernism.

My PhD research explores how teachers are negotiating their personal and professional identities in their school contexts while entering into civil partnership in Ireland. My current research interests are: sexuality and education, teachers’ lives, relationship recognition, feminist theory and epistemology.

PhD student at the Open University, Psychology Department

I am a psychologist using critical discursive psychology to explore how Irish women talk about the

identity of young single mother.

School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast

Currently undertaking PhD studies in the area of human rights analysing the extend to which law in Northern Ireland reflects a notion of embodied subjectivity for women. The project will analyse the treatment of women as legal subjects utilising poststructuralist feminist methods in the areas of personal violence and participation in public life considering how legal texts and institutions could better reflect the material reality of women as embodied. Research interests stemming from this project include (dis)embodiment, violence, deconstruction, legal theory, Foucauldian approaches and issues of law, power and gender.

University College Dublin, School of Art History and Cultural Policy

I am currently undertaking a PhD in Cultural Policy at University College Dublin. My research focuses on the impact of tourism on Irish identity. I am also involved as a tutor and as a member of the PhD round-tables in the UCD School of Social Justice.

In the context of my Masters Degree, I studied at the University of California (Santa Cruz). My Masters thesis was on transnational feminism and ‘otherness’, and provided a discoursive analysis of case studies of European cinema. This thesis was awarded the third prize by the Autonomous Province of Trento as a best thesis on Gender Studies 2010.

My main interests in the area of Women’s Studies are transnational feminism, and the representation of women in the media. Other research areas are: tourism, festivals, Irish identity, cultural diversity.