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Last updated 23rd March 2023
Grainne completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford (Christ Church) (2009), an MSc at Queen’s University, Belfast (1999), and a BSc (Hons) at the University of Ulster (1998).
Grainne is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Division of Social Sciences, and a core member of the Just Futures research centre. She researches feminism and feminist activism, anti-racism and human rights activism, social movements, and young people’s social, political, cultural, and civic participation.
Grainne was a lead researcher on the European Commission, Horizon 2020 project, entitled Partispace: Spaces and styles of participation. Formal, non-formal and informal possibilities of young people’s participation in European cities (partispace.eu). Partispace, which ran from 2015 to 2018, explored young people’s political and social participation in the public sphere - in formal, non-formal and informal settings - and took place in eight cities across Europe.
Grainne is leading/ co-leading the following research projects:
Recently completed projects:
Grainne has recently co-edited a collection that emerged from the Partispace European H2020 project and features contributions from UK and international colleagues involved in the project. The book was published my Emerald late 2022: McMahon, Rowley and Batsleer (2002): Reshaping Youth Participation. Manchester in a European Gaze. UK: Emerald.
Grainne is the Research Lead and a Trustee for RAPAR, a human rights organisation based in Manchester, UK, working with displaced people, Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Gender and Feminism Study Group, and on twitter: @grainnemcmahon.
External Positions
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Grainne McMahon (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Grainne McMahon (Panelist)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Grainne McMahon (Chair)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of a Society or Institute
Grainne McMahon (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Grainne McMahon (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Rhetta Moran & Grainne McMahon
19/05/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Barry Percy-Smith & Grainne McMahon
2/07/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment