Role
Lecturer in Human Geography (I am on maternity leave in 2012)
Other responsibilities:
Geography:
Stage 2 Tutor
Chair of the Staff Student Liaison Committee
Organiser of the Human Geography Research Group
SOGEES:
Member of the Fieldwork Sub-Committee
Faculty of Sci & Tech:
Member of the Equality and Diversity Committee
Qualifications & background
2007 Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education,
University College Cork
2005 PhD Geography, University of Wales Swansea
2002 BA (Hons) Geography, 1st Class, University of Wales Swansea
2006-10 Research Fellow, Marie Curie Migrant Children Project
Lecturer in Migration Studies, Geography Department,
University College Cork
2004-6 Researcher, Opinion Research Services, Swansea
Professional membership
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Member of the Working Group on Childhood and Migration
Member of the Children, Migration and Identities Network
Roles on external bodies
2007–2009: Secretary, Association of Contract Research Staff, UCC
2007–2009: Conference Officer, Population Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society
2006-2011: Conference Officer, Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group, Royal Geographical Society
2006–2009: Coordinator, Researching with Children Discussion Group, UCC
Teaching interests
I teach aspects of social geography with particular emphasis on migration, children and young people, the family, rural and urban change, and mixed research methods.
Undergraduate:
GGX1101 Tutorials in Geography
GGX1102 Bath Fieldcourse
GGX1103 Practising Human Geography
GGH1105 Introducing Human Geography
GGX2109/2105 Ireland Fieldcourse
GGH3134 Social Geographies
GGX3141 Urban Geography
Dissertation Advisor
Postgraduate:
PLG5103 Research Methods
MSc SEM Dissertation Advisor
Research interests
- Migration and mobilities
- Geographies of children and young people
- Intergenerational geographies
- Qualitative and mixed research methods
Grants & contracts
Grants
2011: Geography Pump-Priming Fund, 'Migrant Families: Language, Identities and Socialisation' (with Dr Pedro Gujarro-Fuentes, Plymouth Business School), £3000
2010: Marie Curie Reintegration Grant, 'Scientific Mobility and Family Life in Europe', €45,000
2010: ESF Conference and Travel Grant, €1030
2009: Marie Curie Intra-EU Fellowship, ‘Children of Mobile Scientists in Europe’, €165,000 (successful but declined)
2008: Co-PI, ‘Children and Global Change: Experiencing Migration, Negotiating Identities', RGS Pump-Priming Grant, £5000
2008: 'European Cultural Policies and Youth Participation in Transnational Context’, HERA Networking Grant (Marie Curie Migrant Children Team), €2000
2008: Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences Norface Networking Grant (Marie Curie Migrant Children Team), €2000
2008: RGS Research Group funding for Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Workshop ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Families’ £350
2008: Royal Irish Academy Mobility Grant to visit University of Stockholm, €1195
2007: Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation Conference Funding, £1500
2002-2005: Full PhD Scholarship and Fee-Waiver, University of Wales
Contracts
2011: UK National Expert, Support for Newly Arrived Migrant Children, European Commission
Publications
Please note: I am on maternity leave in 2012.
Books
Tyrrell, N., White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, F. (Eds) (2012) Transnational Migration and Childhood. London, New York: Routledge Taylor Francis. See http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415539357/
Ní Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, F., Tyrrell, N. & White, A. (2011) Childhood and Migration in Europe: Portraits of Mobility, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland. Farnham: Ashgate Press, Studies in Migration and Diaspora Series. See http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409401094
Darmody, M., Tyrrell, N., & Song, S. (Eds) (2011) The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring the Lives of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children. Rotterdam: Sense. See https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=1210&osCsid=2c26b4cdad50422198af89fc79a28424
Journal Articles
White, A. & Bushin, N. (2011) ‘More-Than-Methods: Learning from Research with Children in the Irish Asylum System’ Population, Space and Place 17(4): 326-337
White, A., Ní Laoire, C., Tyrrell, N. & Carpena-Mendez, J. (2011) ‘Children's Roles in Transnational Migration’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37(8): 1159-1170
Ní Laoire, C., Carpena-Mendez, J., Tyrrell, N. & White, A. (2010) ‘Children and Migration: Identities, Home and Belongings’, Childhood 17(2): 155-162
Bushin, N. & White, A. (2010) ‘Migration Politics in Ireland: Exploring the Impacts on Young People’s Geographies’ Area 42(2): 170–180
White, A., Bushin, N., & Carpena-Mendez, J. & Ni Laoire, C. (2010) 'Using Visual Methods to Explore Contemporary Irish Childhoods' Qualitative Research 10(2): 143-158
Bushin, N. (2009) ‘Researching Family Migration Decision-Making: A Children-in-Families Approach’ Population, Space and Place 15: 429-443
Bushin, N. (2008) ‘Quantitative Datasets and Children’s Geographies: Examples and Reflections from Migration Research’, Viewpoints, Children’s Geographies 6(4): 451-7
Bushin, N. (2007) ‘Interviewing Children in their Homes: Developing Flexible Techniques and Putting Ethical Principles into Practice’, Children’s Geographies 5(3): 235-251
Book Chapters
Tyrrell, N. (2012, forthcoming) ''Of course, I'm not Irish': young people in migrant worker families in Ireland and their plans for the future' in C. Crowley & D. Linehan (Eds) Spacing Ireland, Manchester University Press
White, A., Bushin, N., Carpena-Mendez, F. & Ni Laoire C. (2012)'Using Visual Methodologies to Explore Contemporary Irish Childhoods' in J. Hughes (Ed) Sage Visual Methods (Vol. 4), Sage Publications
White, A., Carpena-Mendez, J., Ni Laoire, C. & Tyrrell, N. (2012, forthcoming) 'Children's Words, Children's Worlds: exploring the experiences of migrant children in Ireland' in M. Gilmartin & A. White (eds) Ireland in a Global World: Migrations, Manchester University Press
Tyrrell, N., Darmody, M. & Song, S. (2011) 'Introduction: Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children in Ireland', in M. Darmody, N. Tyrrell & S. Song (eds) The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children's Experiences, Sense Publications
Darmody, M., Tyrrell, N. & Song, S (2011) 'Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children in Ireland: New Challenges and New Opportunities' in in M. Darmody, N. Tyrrell & S. Song (eds) The Changing Faces of Ireland: Exploring Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Children's Experiences, Sense Publications
Tyrrell, N. (2011) ‘Children’s Agency in Family Migration Decision-Making in the UK’, in C. Coe et al. (eds) Everyday Ruptures: Children in Migration, Vanderbilt Press
Bushin, N. (2008) ‘Interviewing Children in their Homes: Developing Flexible Techniques and Putting Ethical Principles into Practice', in L. van Blerk & M. Kesby (eds) Doing Children's Geographies: Methodological Issues in Research with Young People, Routledge, Taylor & Francis, pp. 9-25
Bushin, N., Ansell, N., Adriansen, H., Laateenma, J. & Panelli, R. (2007) ‘Further conceptualising context and identity in young rural lives’ in R. Panelli, S. Punch & E. Robson (eds) ‘Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth’, London; New York: Routledge, pp. 69-8
Book Reviews
Bushin, N. (2005) Review of Alderson, P. & Morrow, V. ‘Ethics, social research and consulting with children and young people’, Children’s Geographies 3 (2) pp.267-8
Recent Research Reports
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., Carpena-Mendez, J. & White, A. (2009) Tell me about yourself: children’s and young people’s experiences of moving to and living in Ireland, UCC
Bushin, N. (2009) Nasc’s Research Design Frameworks and Ethical Protocol, Cork: Nasc
Ní Laoire, C., Bushin, N., White, A. & Carpena-Mendez, J. (2008) ‘Negotiating Belonging: Migrant Children in Ireland’, MCMCP Working Paper 1
White, A. & Bushin, N. (2007) ‘Immigrant Children in Cork City’, for Nasc and Cork City Childcare Company
Invited Conference Papers
Oct. 2011: 'Migration and Family Separation: Children's Experiences', Migration and Family Relationships Conference, Inverness
Sept. 2009: 'Children’s Rights in Direct Provision in Ireland’, 14th International Metropolis Conference, Copenhagen
Oct. 2008: ‘Negotiating Belonging: Migrant Children and Youth in Ireland’, (Marie Curie Migrant Children Team) 13th International Metropolis Conference, Bonn
Jan. 2008: ‘Researching Family Migration Decision-Making’, Wenner Gren Anthropological Foundation Children and Migration Workshop, New York City
Nov. 2007: ‘We’ve moved to Ireland! Young people’s experiences of migration in different migration regimes’, Inter-Departmental Research Seminar, National University of Ireland, Galway
Sept. 2007: ‘Moving to Ireland: exploring young people’s experiences,’ Trinity Migration Fair, Trinity College Dublin
Nov. 2006: ‘Children’s Experiences of Family Migration’, Geography Department Seminar, UCC
Recent Conference Papers
Aug. 2010: 'It's another part of my life': Children's narratives of migration in the 'new' European Union, ESF Conference: Home, Migration and the City, Sweden
Aug. 2009: ‘Of course, I’m not Irish’: migrant young people and social integration at the local scale in Ireland’, RGS Annual Conference, Manchester
Aug. 2009: Mobility, Translocality and Belonging: Migrant Teenagers’ Negotiations of Urban Spaces, RGS Annual Conference, Manchester
July 2009: From East to West and Back Again? Exploring Migrant Young People’s Migration Trajectories in an Enlarged Europe, Children’s Geographies Conference, Barcelona
Aug. 2008: ‘If we’d asked them, they’d have said ‘No!’ Children’s Involvement in Family Migration Decision-Making, RGS Annual Conference, London
Aug. 2008: ‘Silences and Hushed Voices: Children Seeking Asylum in Ireland’ (with Dr Allen White), RGS Annual Conference, London
June 2008: 2B Or Not To Be, That Is The Question: EU Accession State Migrant Youth Intentions to Leave or Remain In Ireland, Children and Migration Interdisciplinary Conference, Drexel University, Philadelphia
April 2008: Here, there and everywhere: multi-locality and multi-belonging in the lives of migrant teenagers, Children and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belongings Conference, UCC
Conferences organised
Aug. 2011: Co-convenor, 'Diversity in Transitions to Adulthood and Implications for Residential Mobility', RGS Annual Conference, London
July 2011: Organiser, 'Young People's Identities', One Day GCYFRG Conference, University of Plymouth
May 2009: Co-convenor, ‘Ireland’s Hidden Geographies’ Sessions, Conference of Irish Geographers, UCC
March 2009: Co-organiser, Children, Migration and Identities International Network Meeting, RGS, London
Oct. 2008: Co-organiser, Launch of ‘Children, Migration and Identities International Network’ and Networking Meeting, RGS, London
Sept. 2008: Co-convenor, ‘Rethinking Family Migration’ Sessions, RGS Annual Conference, London
May 2008: Co-organiser, ‘Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Families’, GCYFWG Workshop, Newcastle University
April 2008: Co-organiser, ‘Children and Migration: Identities, Mobilities and Belonging(s)’ Conference, UCC
May 2007: Co-organiser, ‘Childhood in Crisis?’, GCYFWG Workshop, UWS
Sept. 2006: Co-convenor, ‘Geographies of Age’ Sessions, RGS Annual Conference, London
