Tutor in Health and Social Care

I have taught across a variety of Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses including Sociology of Gender, Sociology of Inequality, Gender Intersectionality and Politics, Sociology of Globalisation, Classic Sociological Theory, Introduction to Health and Social Care, Sociology of Health and Illness, Health Inequalities, Refugees, Displacement and Forced Migration and Qualitative Methods for Sociological Research.

Other References

• Researchgate: Patti O’Malley

Qualifications

• PhD Sociology – University of Limerick
• MA Gender – University of Limerick
• BSc (Hons) Psychology – Middlesex University

Research Interests

• Feminism, Gender and Intersectionality.
• Child Sexual Exploitation
• Mixed Race Studies.
• The Multiracial Family
• Citizenship and Migration.
• Race, Racialisation and Critical Whiteness Studies.
• Qualitative Research Methods.

Projects

• ‘The Transracial Mother/Child Dyad and the Politics of Citizenship in Ireland’ (2015 until 2019)

Publications (and Conferences)

• O’Malley, P. (2022) Mothering ‘outsider’ children: White women in black-white interracial families in Ireland. Genealogy, 6(2), 27.
• O’Malley, P. (2022) Black-White mixed-race young people in Ireland and their lived experiences of racialised exclusion. Irish Journal of Sociology, 30(1), 90-109.
• O’Malley, P. (2020) The Mixed-Race Irish family and their everyday negotiations of citizenship. Ethnicities, DOI: 10.1177/1468796820941875.
• O’Malley, P. (2019) The Mixed- Race Irish kids who feel like outsiders. RTE Brainstorm, 8 July 2019.
• Carson, J., Maal, S., Roche, S., Fagin., De Villiers, N., O’Malley, P., Brown, D., Leary, J., and Holloway, F. (1999) Burnout in mental health nurses: much ado about nothing? Stress Medicine, 15(2): 127-134.
• Carson, J., Fagin, L., Maal, S., De Villiers, N. and O’Malley, P. (1997) Stress and fitness in ward-based mental health nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 6(5): 419-420.
• Fagin, L., Carson, J., Leary, J., De Villiers, N., Bartlett, H., O’Malley, P., West, M., McElfatrick, S. and Brown, D. (1996) Stress, coping and burnout in mental health nurses: findings from three research studies. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 42(2): 102-111.
• ‘The Irish and Racism’, Keynote Speech at the Irish Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ICAP) Annual Conference, London (November 2020).
• ‘The Mixed- Race Irish Child Citizen: Negotiations of Insider/Outsider Positioning’ at the Conference entitled ‘Identities and (Trans)Nationalisms in Mixed Families: Transmission, Agency and Social Constraints’ at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco (October 2018).
• ‘The Mixed-Race Irish Child Citizen: Negotiations of the Racialised Insider/Outsider Dichotomy’ at the Conference entitled ‘Legacies Matter’, The Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Conference at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin (May 2018).
• ‘The Racialised Dynamics of Citizenship: White Mothers and their Mixed- Race Irish Children’ at the Conference entitled ‘Identity, Community and Social Solidarity’, The British Sociological Association Annual Conference at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle (April 2018).
• ‘Transracial Mothering in the Irish Context’ at the Conference entitled, ‘Motherlines: Motherhood and Mothers in and through the Generations: Theory, Narrative, Representation, Practice and Experience’ at the National University of Ireland, Galway (July 2017).
• ‘Dynamics of Irish Belonging for Mixed- Race Children’ at the Conference entitled ‘Power, Intimacy and the State: Mixed Families in Europe and Beyond’ at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands (June 2017).
• ‘What does it mean to belong in the ‘new’ Ireland? Mixed- Race Irish Children and their White Mothers’ at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (February 2017).

Contact Details

E: patricia.o’malley@beds.ac.uk