This seminar is hosted by the International Migration Institute, an Oxford Martin School Institute
Speaker: Professor Karen O'Reilly,Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, University of Loughborough
Biography: Karen O’Reilly is Programme Director for Sociology and a co-founder of Loughborough’s Qualitative Digital Research Lab, The LiQUiD Lab. Karen is a member of the British Sociological Association Council (2010-14), and the International Assessment Panel of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2010-13). She was on the Sociology panel for the ESRC Major and Minor Recognition Exercises 2005 and 2007. Karen was also a former member of the editorial board of Sociology (2006-9). She has been a visiting academic at City University, Hong Kong (2009), and post-graduate taught programme external examiner at the Universities of Essex, Newcastle and Birmingham. She has published extensively in the areas of social stratification, tourism, migration and ethnographic methods at both the national and international level.
For further information please contact Agnieszka Kubal (agnieszka.kubal@qeh.ox.ac.uk; 01865 281812)