Graduate Student, School of Politics and International Relations
Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice
Thesis Title: Crime, politics and ethnography: Attitudes to collective crime and politics amongst young people. An action research project in Nottingham
Dr. Sara Motta
Prof. Steven Fielding
About
Deirdre Duffy is a PhD student at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. Her PhD is a 'participatory action research' ethnographic study of attitudes and experiences to crime and politics amongst traditionally disenfranchised groups living in areas with a history of violent crime. The study involves the use of visual research methods, participant-led research, and the creation of 'living maps'.
Deirdre has a First Class Honours degree in European Integration Studies and Italian from University College Cork as well as as MSc Econ in Terrorism and International Relations from Aberystwyth University. She was also a visiting student at the Facolta' di Scienze Politiche at the Universita' degli Studi de Siena.
Deirdre has worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (Sheffield Hallam University) and an Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Public and Social Policy (University of Nottingham). She has conducted research on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Housing Corporation and the European Commission.
Her primary interests include the politics of scale, collective action, social movement theory, youth crime and politics, critical theory and the use participatory action research (PAR) methods in socio-legal and political research.
Contact Information
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sociology/people/index.php?id=ODEwNDQx&page_var=personal
