Research Clusters : International Media, Interculturalism and Migration

Cluster Director	Cluster Members
Dr. Neil O'Boyle	Prof. Paschal Preston	Dr. Debbie Ging	Gloria Macri

Member biogs and publications

Dr. Neil O'Boyle lectures in the School of Communications, DCU and is a member of the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative in UCD. He was formerly the lead researcher on the IRCHSS theme-funded project ‘Immigration and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland’ based in the School of Applied Social Science at UCD. He is co-author of ‘New Irish Politics: Political Parties and Immigrants in 2009’ (PDF file) and is currently writing a book on advertising and Irish identity. Other publications include:
- (with B. Fanning) ‘Immigrants in Irish politics: African and East European candidates in the 2009 Local Government Elections’, Irish Political Studies, 2010 (forthcoming).
- (with B. Fanning) ‘Immigration, integration and risks of social exclusion: The social policy case for disaggregated data in the Republic of Ireland’, Irish Geography, 2009.
- (with B. Fanning) ‘Immigration and integration: The Irish knowledge gap’, Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative (MRCI), 2009 [available at: MRCI website]
- (with B. Fanning and J. Shaw) ‘New Irish politics: Political parties and immigrants in 2009’, Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative (MCRI), 2009 [available at: MRCI website]

Dr. Debbie Ging is Director of the SIM Research Centre and a lecturer in the School of Communications. She has been involved in numerous intercultural and media diversity projects and is co-author of:
- The DCU Finglas for Diversity Project Report (PDF file)
- The Report on the 2002 Forum on Media and Interculturalism
- Interculturalism and Multiculturalism in Ireland: Textual Strategies at Work in the Media Landscape (PDF file)

Prof. Paschal Preston is the founding director of the COMTEC research unit and is currently Head of the School of Communications. He currently leads a research cluster focused on innovation in media services within the PRTLI-funded Irish Social Sciences Platform (ISSP) and is co-ordinator of the Knowledge Society research strand, one of three main pillars framing the ISSP's collaborative research agenda. He is author of:
- Making the News: Journalism and News Cultures in Contemporary Europe. Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2009
- (with Aphra Kerr and Anthony Cawley) ‘Digital media sector innovation in the knowledge economy: rethinking knowledge inputs and policies’, Information, Communication & Society, 2009.
- ‘An Elusive Trans-national Public Sphere?: Connectivity versus Journalism and News Cultures in the EU Setting’, 2009.

Gloria Macri is a doctoral student in the School of Communications. Her PhD thesis focuses on the study of migration and identity, in particular the narratives of identity and belonging in the Romanian diaspora in Ireland. This project is funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. She is author of:
- ‘Travellers and Roma - Education and Health Issues (Book Review Essay)’, Translocations: The Irish Migration(PDF file), Race and Social Transformation Review, 2006.
- Diasporas: Revisiting and Discovering. (co-edited with Laura DePretto and Catherine Wong), 2010.

Current project(s):

Re-Imagining and Re-Imaging Ireland and India: Comparing Media Representations of the ‘New’ India and Ireland (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Building Research Capacity Fund 2009-2010)

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