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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 the Division of Social Sciences, a core member of the Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity and Diversity and an affiliate of the Centre for Applied Childhood, Youth and Family Research. 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:
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Gráinne is the Research Lead for RAPAR, a human rights organisation based in Manchester, UK, working with displaced people, Co-Convenor of the British Sociological Association's Gender and Feminism Study Group, and on twitter: @grainnemcmahon.
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Young people’s social, political and civic participation
Young women’s feminism and feminist activism
Feminist and human rights activism and social movements
Women, girls and feminism
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):
Co-founder and Co-convenor, Feminist Spaces
Research Lead/ Trustee, Refugee and Asylum Participatory Action Research
Member and Co-convenor, Social Scientists against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE)
Co-Convenor, Gender and Feminism Study Group, The British Sociological Association
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Grainne McMahon (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Grainne McMahon (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Barry Percy-Smith & Grainne McMahon
2/07/18
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