Dr. Jacqui O’Riordan
Dr. Jacqui O’Riordan is a lecturer at the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland, where she works across a broad range of undergraduate, postgraduate and adult education programmes. Her research interests are largely located in qualitative participatory methodologies developed in co-operation with community participants and stakeholders. Research contributions in the care field include analysis of care and experiences of carers. She has worked with civil society organisations in researching experiences of carers, and less visible aspects and caring contexts such as supporting mental wellbeing in family and caring across home and institutions. She has also developed postgraduate seminars to further conceptual understanding of caring relations and dynamics. More broadly her work centres on a range of issues concerning gender, equality and diversity in local and global contexts. It includes analyses of aspects of women’s livelihoods; conditions experienced by a range of marginalized communities; child trafficking; care for children; migrant children’s experiences and interactions in education; community supports for people, younger and older, living with disabilities.