The projects bring together researchers from across the globe and cover topics such as mothering, sociology, and social architecture post Covid
Dr Lisa Moran, Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Care and Early Childhood at South East Technological University (SETU) Waterford is currently co-editing three books with researchers at University College Cork, the University of Oxford, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Austria, and Technological University of the Shannon Limerick.
These co-edited texts on the meanings and practices of mothering, new social architectures post COVID-19, and a textbook on sociology for social care students in Ireland, bring together international researchers from Africa, Australia, mainland Europe, the USA, the UK, and Ireland.
Further publications
Lisa is also leading a sole edited book on pandemic and post-pandemic life stories with Springer, Cham Switzerland which engages majority and minority world perspectives on the complexity of everyday lives during COVID and in post COVID worlds.
Lisa is no stranger to the world of publishing having previously published a book with Palgrave Macmillan which she led with Dr Kathy Reilly and Dr Bernadine Brady of University of Galway on innovations in narrative research methodologies with children and young people across different countries and contexts. She also co-authored an edited text on family support with Prof John Canavan, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, University of Galway.
Contributing to narrative biographical research
Speaking of her work Lisa said, “I have always been fascinated by the complexity of everyday practices; the types of knowledge that are embedded in stories we tell in our everyday lives. These book projects contribute significantly to narrative biographical research internationally on methodological innovations and developments, lives lived during COVID-19, changes to social realities and the experiences of women who are often marginalised in contemporary socio-political decision-making. Furthermore, they are central to forging a network for developing a Horizon Europe bid, something which I am committed to in 2023. I am extremely fortunate to work with such fantastic collaborators and research leaders from Cork, Oxford, Limerick, Lisbon, and Austria particularly.”
SETU social science community
Lisa joined SETU Waterford in October 2021 after returning from a senior lecturing career in Edge Hill University in the UK and since then, has embedded herself within the SETU social science community. She co-leads the Analysing Social Change (ASC) Research Group in the School of Humanities; is co-leading a COST action with researchers at the University of Galway and Lancaster University, and is a member of the management committee of a COST Action on transnational families co-leading a COST working group on research methodology with Dr Jelena Predojevic Despic, Serbia. She is an expert on biographic, narrative methods having trained researchers internationally in the method and is collaborating with Dr Zeta Dooly, SETU Waterford, on methodological innovation and research.
She is also Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK, Vice President of the Sociological Association of Ireland, and a member of the Executive Board of Research Network 03 Biographical Perspectives on European Societies of the European Sociological Association.