I am an anthropologist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral research fellow (2024-2027) working jointly at Dublin City University and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. My present research focuses upon how women refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland and Northern Ireland experience and cope with various crises (e.g. housing, education, racism). This work builds upon my previous research on migrant Muslim women in Northern Ireland, looking at visibility, belonging, embodiment, and movement.

I have lifelong personal experience with various crafts, and have become an avid fiber artist specializing in hand spinning and fiber dyeing along with weaving, knitting and crochet. My current project allows me to connect my personal passion with my academic life, by researching a newly formed arts group for women refugees and asylum seekers in Belfast. This group includes artists with expertise in pottery, embroidery, sewing, painting, and more.

Recent Publications:

Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland (April 2025 – Open Access)

2025 - Valuing Women's Spaces and Communities: Refugee Integration in Hostile Environments (Open Access)

2022 - A Mother’s Experience of Asylum: Conflicting Temporalities, Belonging, and Evolving Care Relations.

2020 - Walking together as Protest: Collective identity transformation in sectarian Northern Ireland

2020 - Becoming part of a temporary protest organization through embodied walking ethnography (A. Lubit & D. Gidley)