Interested in developing research with and about, not for or on, vulnerable people, we range from highly academically qualified researchers, to deeply experienced and rooted, community based researchers.
Dr Gráinne McMahon, University of Huddersfield, leads the team, which also includes Dr Rhetta Moran, Billy Gardner, Ivy Makani, Amy Marsden, and James Taylor.
Meet the RAPAR research team below (updates in progress).
Dr Gráinne McMahon, University of Huddersfield, leads the team, which also includes Dr Rhetta Moran, Billy Gardner, Ivy Makani, Amy Marsden, and James Taylor.
Meet the RAPAR research team below (updates in progress).
RAPAR'S RESEARCH LEAD: dR gRÁINNE mCmAHON
Dr Gráinne McMahon is the Research Lead for RAPAR. Grainne is developing RAPAR’s research and is working with RAPAR members to evolve research-based campaigning projects and campaign-focused research projects.
Gráinne researches feminism, activism and social movements, and young people’s social, political, cultural and civic participation. Her research work with RAPAR has included the now-finished European Commission, Horizon 2020 project entitled Partispace: Spaces and styles of participation, which explored formal, non-formal and informal possibilities of young people’s participation in European cities, and young people’s political and social participation in the public sphere. YoungRAPAR were a key part of this study with the ‘Faceless’ project.
Gráinne and RAPAR are now involved in two projects funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ European Youth Together programme: COME:ON (Culture – Occupation – Mobility – Europe : Operational Network!) and OUYE (Opening Universities for Youth in Europe); and the Building Resilience project, funded by the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund, which was a collaboration between RAPAR, Migrant Voice and Kanlungan Filipino Consortium. The report is available to download here.
Gráinne is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Division of Social Sciences, at the University of Huddersfield. She is a member of the Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity and Diversity, and is on twitter: @grainnemcmahon.
Gráinne researches feminism, activism and social movements, and young people’s social, political, cultural and civic participation. Her research work with RAPAR has included the now-finished European Commission, Horizon 2020 project entitled Partispace: Spaces and styles of participation, which explored formal, non-formal and informal possibilities of young people’s participation in European cities, and young people’s political and social participation in the public sphere. YoungRAPAR were a key part of this study with the ‘Faceless’ project.
Gráinne and RAPAR are now involved in two projects funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ European Youth Together programme: COME:ON (Culture – Occupation – Mobility – Europe : Operational Network!) and OUYE (Opening Universities for Youth in Europe); and the Building Resilience project, funded by the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund, which was a collaboration between RAPAR, Migrant Voice and Kanlungan Filipino Consortium. The report is available to download here.
Gráinne is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the Division of Social Sciences, at the University of Huddersfield. She is a member of the Centre for Citizenship, Conflict, Identity and Diversity, and is on twitter: @grainnemcmahon.
Billy Gardner
Billy is a 25 year old history graduate who currently lives in Leeds. He has volunteered for RAPAR for the past two years and has been involved in campaigns such as 'No such thing as voluntary returns', which saw RAPAR querying the Home Office's new policy of introducing immigration and voluntary returns surgeries into the community. Billy is interested in global politics as well as grass-roots campaigning in the UK. He will be writing weekly RAPAR updates as well as opinion pieces.