Louise Ryan
Louise Ryan is Senior Professor of Sociology and Director of the Global Diversities and Inequalities Research Centre at London Metropolitan University. She has a particular interest in social networks, migration, ethnicity, gender and religion.
Louise is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2015 Louise was named among the top international researchers on migration: https://jorgencarling.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/who-is-who-in-migration-studies-108-names-worth-knowing/
Louise also has an interest in research methods and has published several articles on qualitative and mixed methods. She runs training courses in research methods for doctoral students.
Originally from Cork, she has a PhD in Sociology from University College Cork.
She has published widely in journals such as Sociology, Sociological Review, International Migration, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Feminist Review, Women's Studies International Forum, etc
Louise was recently named among the most cited researchers in the world -
https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres-groups-and-units/global-diversities-and-inequalities-research-centre/in-conversation-with-the-most-cited-researcher-in-the-world/
Address: London Metropolitan University,
UK
Louise is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
In 2015 Louise was named among the top international researchers on migration: https://jorgencarling.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/who-is-who-in-migration-studies-108-names-worth-knowing/
Louise also has an interest in research methods and has published several articles on qualitative and mixed methods. She runs training courses in research methods for doctoral students.
Originally from Cork, she has a PhD in Sociology from University College Cork.
She has published widely in journals such as Sociology, Sociological Review, International Migration, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Feminist Review, Women's Studies International Forum, etc
Louise was recently named among the most cited researchers in the world -
https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres-groups-and-units/global-diversities-and-inequalities-research-centre/in-conversation-with-the-most-cited-researcher-in-the-world/
Address: London Metropolitan University,
UK
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There is evidence that Irish women travelled to Britain for illegal abortions as far back as the 1930s, though travel restrictions during World War II resulted in a significant but temporary rise in backstreet Irish abortions. Of course, not all pregnant women who went to Britain did so for the purposes of abortion; many, indeed, sought to have their babies adopted. I use archival and oral history interviews to explore this issue.
SNA can also be helpful in bridging the personal and structural dimensions in migration research, by providing a meso level of analysis. However, it is also important to connect the investigation of local and transnational networks with an analysis of the broader social, economic and political contexts in which these take shape; in other words, connecting the micro and the meso with the wider macro level. Drawing upon reflections from our migration research studies, we argue that different combinations of quantitative, qualitative and visual methods do not just provide richer sets of data and insights, but can allow us to better connect conceptualisations – and ontologies – of social networks with specific methodological frameworks.
There is evidence that Irish women travelled to Britain for illegal abortions as far back as the 1930s, though travel restrictions during World War II resulted in a significant but temporary rise in backstreet Irish abortions. Of course, not all pregnant women who went to Britain did so for the purposes of abortion; many, indeed, sought to have their babies adopted. I use archival and oral history interviews to explore this issue.
SNA can also be helpful in bridging the personal and structural dimensions in migration research, by providing a meso level of analysis. However, it is also important to connect the investigation of local and transnational networks with an analysis of the broader social, economic and political contexts in which these take shape; in other words, connecting the micro and the meso with the wider macro level. Drawing upon reflections from our migration research studies, we argue that different combinations of quantitative, qualitative and visual methods do not just provide richer sets of data and insights, but can allow us to better connect conceptualisations – and ontologies – of social networks with specific methodological frameworks.
However, the Irish suffrage movement was not a single-issue group. It did not merely campaign for votes, but also presented a feminist critique of the plight of Irish women in early twentieth-century society. The Irish Citizen newspaper, as the voice of the suffrage movement, provides an important insight into the various campaigns and concerns of this fascinating movement.
The paper was self-consciously feminist, and, in addition to covering the major events of this tumultuous period, it addressed taboo subjects like rape, domestic violence and child abuse. This book brings together extracts from the paper with analysis, commentary and informative contextual background. First published in 1996, this new edition has been comprehensively updated and revised.
competing representations. The chapter is divided into four sections each of which
analyses a different set of sources and assesses the ways in which Republican women
are depicted. Sources such as newspapers, propaganda publications and
autobiographies offer distinct forms of representations, clearly the images and stories
which appear in a daily newspaper will differ significantly from the more personal
accounts given in autobiographies. To some degree, therefore, the medium helps to
shape the nature of the representation. In offering competing representations of
Republican women, these primary sources indicate the various ways in which women’s
active participation in armed conflict was described, explained and justified.
The chapters in this book address these challenges using varied perspectives and approaches:
The economics of big data and measuring the trajectories of recently arrived communities
Social media and social research
Researching 'elites', social class and 'race' across space and place
Innovations in qualitative research and use of extended case studies
Developing mixed method approaches and social network analysis
Feminist quantitative methodology
Teaching quantitative methods
The book provides up to date and accessible material of interest to diverse audiences, including students and teachers of research design and methods, as well as policy analysis and social media.
term evidence. This report offers a short summary of my initial findings and also makes some tentative suggestions about how these observations may contribute to wider discussions in migration research.
in Irish history. During these turbulent years the foundations of the Irish Republic
were laid by a guerrilla warfare which at first united the majority of the Irish people
against British forces but later split them apart in a bitter civil war. This chapter
forms part of an on-going project in which I am attempting to understand various
aspects of women’s participation and experiences in the campaign for Irish self
determination.
SNA can also be helpful in bridging the personal and structural dimensions in migration research, by providing a meso level of analysis. However, it is also important to connect the investigation of local and transnational networks with an analysis of the broader social, economic and political contexts in which these take shape; in other words, connecting the micro and the meso with the wider macro level. Drawing upon reflections from our migration research studies, we argue that different combinations of quantitative, qualitative and visual methods do not just provide richer sets of data and insights, but can allow us to better connect conceptualisations – and ontologies – of social networks with specific methodological frameworks.
through a case study of the ‘revival’ of the Tailteann Games and the newspaper representations of the central female icon of Queen Tailte. The ‘rediscovery’ of this ancient motherly figure, and the many conflicting legends which surrounded her, illustrate the processes through which Irishness, Gaelic masculinity and the idealised Irish woman were being negotiated and defined in the 1920s–1930s.
Connacht Tribune, carried an eye-catching headline ‘Flappers and Shawls’(p.6).
This referred to a court case against a Galway woman for non-payment of bills. During the proceedings the prosecuting barrister asked if the accused had recently bought her daughter a coat. She said no, to which he replied ‘what does she put over her blouse, is it a shawl? Very few of the flappers now would be content with a shawl (laughter)’. The reference to a flapper in a Galway courtroom raises a number of questions not only about the prevalence of this modern symbol of
womanhood but also about her place in Irish society – rural as well as urban - and her relationship to traditional womanhood. The juxtaposition of the modern fashion icon with the traditional garment of rural Ireland, the shawl, blurs the boundaries between both modernity versus tradition and urban versus rural.
This paper suggests that the flapper was more diverse and complex that such a simple dichotomy would allow (Ryan 1998a; 2002).
vice, immorality and was ultimately constructed as unIrish, foreign and pagan. Her embodiment of foreign fashions and lifestyles threatened to destabilise Irish identity and thus undermine the new nation. National daily newspapers published in Dublin, the capital city, regularly reported concerns about flappers. But such accounts tended
to locate modern, fashionable, independent young women in urban centres (3). These configurations suggest interwoven gendered dichotomies of urban versus rural, modern
versus traditional, sinful versus virtue.
This chapter engages with these dichotomies by examining representations of the archetypal flapper/ modern girl in the provincial press in the southern Irish Free State in the mid to late 1920s.