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Bio

Mary Hickman is Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology at London Metropolitan University. She established the Irish Studies Centre at the former University of North London and is now Director of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations.

She completed in 2007 an ESRC project (No: RES-00-22-1435) with Prof. Robert Moore of Liverpool University: ‘Changing and Claiming Ethnic Identities: The Evidence of the ONS Longitudinal Study’. She is project director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Flagship Project for the Immigration and Inclusion Programme: ‘Rhythms and Realities of Everyday Life: Improving our understanding of the relationship between recent immigration and social cohesion’ (2005-2008). She is Principal Investigator of an ESRC funded project ‘A comparative study of the representations of "suspect" communities in multi-ethnic Britain and of their impact on Muslim and Irish communities’ (No: RES-062-23-1006; 2008-2009).

Experience

She was a member of the Irish Governments Task Force on Policy Regarding Emigrants (2001-2002). She has been Visiting Professor at: New York University, Columbia University and Victoria University, Melbourne. 

Qualifications

BA (Liverpool); PGCE (London); MSc (Southbank); PhD (London).