Research
My current research explores minority/ised rights within consociationalism focusing in particular on how language and marriage equality activists circumvented the local political institutions to achieve their aims through Westminster. This research builds on existing literature on minority rights within consociations and adds to this body of work through exploring the tactics and strategies that have been employed to advance their causes within an unfavourable political landscape.
Previously I have been engaged in research that employed walking and sound methodologies at interface areas in Belfast to paint a linguistic landscape of the Peace Walls. More recently I was involved in a project that explored human-land relationships using point-of-view cameras and Empatica Plus wristbands which employed Indigenous ontologies of land and its relationship to language.