External Partners
The Centre has a small core staff. In order to pursue a broad range of tasks and projects it adopts a 'variable geometry' approach, assembling teams of locally-based academics on a project-by-project basis, working with postgraduate and visiting students from a variety of universities, building partnerships with local statutory and non-statutory organisations and working with international partners in Europe, North America, Africa and New Zealand.
Southern Integrated Research Partnership
The Centre leads and coordinates the work of the Southern Integrated Research Partnership (SIRP), established in 2002. SIRP is a unique venture in Ireland, combining statutory, non-statutory and academic expertise to explore migration and asylum issues in Cork city and region. The members are:
Mission of SIRP
Promoting Diversity, Preparing for Integration: policy and Service Responses at City and County level.
An Integrated Strategy for Cork City and County
Partnerships and collaboration with other universities
The Centre has worked with a range of universities and institutions on various projects. These include:
Partnerships and collaboration with other organisations
The Centre is committed to the promotion of research and policy-driven dialogue with the broader policy and NGO community. Apart from SIRP(above), it has worked with various outside organisations and agencies, including:
Visiting Students
Apart from the two full-time visiting Fellows on its staff (Dr Jason King, Government of Ireland Fellow and Clare Roche, Marie Curie Scholar) the Centre has hosted a number of visiting students over the years, mainly from the USA, including a George Mitchell Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow and a number of Junior Year Abroad students undertaking internships. In 2003/2004 it will receive its first two postgraduate students in migration studies under the terms of a new agreement with the Université de Lille, France. |