Previous Research Experience

During my time in DCU, in addition to my own doctoral work, I also worked as a research assistant/senior research assistant on three substantial qualitative research projects. I worked as a qualitative data analyst on two projects, one that focused on Irish football players returning home after being released by British football clubs and one that sought to explore the psychology of highly successful female accountants. In 2003 I was involved in a five month research project that was funded by a large multinational catering company. The project examined the socialisation of employees in a number of sites in which this organisation operated. The research involved covert participatory observation coupled with a diary method to collect the observations of three researchers. I was highly involved in the data collection, data analysis and report writing stages of this project.