Introduction
Feminist researcher in subjects including gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, asylum, migration, equality and human rights.
Expert
Moira is a Lecturer in the School of Law, Politics and Sociology, where she also leads on Knowledge Exchange and Engagement for the School. She joined the University of Sussex as a Research Fellow in 2016 working on the European Research Council project SOGICA - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum: A European human rights challenge (2016-2020). The project, led by Prof Nuno Ferreira, explores the social and legal experiences of SOGI asylum-seekers across Europe in order to determine how European asylum systems can treat SOGI asylum claims more fairly.
Moira has a PhD in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics where she is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE). Before joining the University of Sussex, she was Director of Research and Communications at the Equality and Diversity Forum, a network of equality and human rights organisations, where she coordinated the Equality and Diversity Research Network. Moira has also worked at the Refugee Council, providing advice and information and developing national services for refugees and asylum-seekers. She has worked as a freelance sub-editor on the Guardian and Independent newspapers and was the Information Worker for the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age.
Fields of expertise: Gender equality, Migration