KEYNOTES
Immobilities Conference, Northumbria University
08 July 2021
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/news-events/events/2021/07/mobilities-symposium-2021/
In this keynote Maggie discusses creative applications of walking as an arts-based practice through the walking interview as biographical method (WIBM) to examine the sensory, spatial, embodied, affective aspects of lives and lived experiences, the intersecting oppressions and possibilities for praxis. The paper opens a space for dialogue on the transformative role of walking, listening as understanding, ‘resonance’ and the potential for solidarity, as part of an ethics of listening, including possible impact on policy and practice, especially in diverse research and social contexts
Creative and Collaborative imaginations, University of Greenwich
12 July 2019
Biographical Research on the move: theorising, experiencing, imagining. The Chicago School Re-loaded.
Athena Swan Symposium, University College Cork
March 2019
Borders, Risk and Belonging: understanding gender, race and intersectionality in the lives of women asylum seekers and migrants.
Laura Lee Sex Worker Human Rights' The Synge Lecture Theatre, The Arts Building 2039, Trinity College, Dublin
November 2018
Sex Work, Sexual Citizenship and Social Justice: towards a ‘Real Politics of Justice’. New Horizons for the 21st century
Organised by the Irish Sex Work Research Network.
The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Recovering a Sense of Coherence: Salutogenesis and Meaningfulness, University College Cork
November 2018
Walking towards ‘salutogenesis’: theorizing, experiencing and imagining biographical research one hundred years after ‘The Polish Peasant’.
ESA Research Network 3 Mid-term Conference. Dept. Sociology, University of Lodz, Poland
April 2018
Biographical Research on the Move: walking, theorising, experiencing, imagining
Crime and Control Ethnography Symposium 2018, Goldsmiths College, London
2018
‘Imaginative criminology: Walking as arts based ethnographic practice’
Ethics in Practice in Innovative Methods -Social Research Association, London
Ethics and walking/mobile methods
Economy and Society Summer School 2018, UCC, Blackwater Castle, Cork
Co-Producing Knowledge with Migrant Families through Participatory Theatre and Walking Methods as Biographical Research.
Cafe Politique, Ustinov College, Durham University
Refugee Issues and Challenges
States of being at the Borders of Humanity conference of the AHRC project 'Responding to the Crisis' London
September 2017
MUSSI, University of Maynooth
June 2017
This MUSSI seminar/panel discussion chaired by Prof. Linda Connolly explored how dialogues within and outwith the Higher Education sector are converging around the need for a socio-cultural shift towards slowing down the pace of work, life and consumption, improving well-being and providing counter narratives to processes of globalisation and the ‘Gridlock’ that Hale, Held and Young (2013) write about.
The motivation for organising the seminars emerged from dialogue with colleagues, our biographical experiences and resistance to the speeding up of Higher Education, the impact of the audit culture and ‘marketisation’; as well as growing pressures, for some, in relation to developing a work/life balance in the context of metrics, audit, efficiency, increased competition, demand management of research grant generation and the importance of hitting performance targets for career development and promotion. The gendered dimensions of these issues have been central to these discussions. A networking reception followed the discussion.
Maggie O'Neill opened the seminar with a paper on Work, Time and Well-being and this was followed by responses from Prof. Gerry Kearns Dr Mary Murphy and Prof. Sharon Todd.
Feminist Emergency, Birkbeck College, London
June 2017
Economy and Society Summer School 2017, UCC, Blackwater Castle, Cork
2017
United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in St Pau, Barcelona
June 2015
My keynote at the conference on Female Agency, Mobility and Socio-Cultural Change at the United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) took place in St Pau, Barcelona, 11th /12th June 2015.
Dept Social Sciences, Loughborough University
2014
The Annual Sociology Lecture showcases new work by leading academics and thinkers in the field of sociology internationally. I spoke on walking and biographical methods in my work on sex work and asylum and migration.
Teesside University
2014
Open University
2014
The keynote was given to the AHRC network Migrant mothers caring for the future: creative interventions in making new citizens.
University of Exeter, UK
2013
HEA funded conference - Qualitative and Ethnographic Research Network (QERN): Sharing and shaping pedagogies - learning through doing. May 10th 2013, Department of Drama.
University of Hamburg
2011
German Biographical Section of the German Sociological Association.