Maggie O’Neill

Maggie O’Neill, Professor in Sociology at the University of York, was a co-investigator on the PASAR project. She has a long history of doing participatory research on asylum, migration and gender using biographical and arts-based methods (visual and performative) in collaboration with artists and communities. Her concept of ‘ethno-mimesis’ articulates the intersection of ethnographic and arts-based (walking) research. Her recently funded Leverhulme Trust fellowship enabled her to advance research on walking as a biographical method to explore borders, risk and belonging, and reflect on the impact of the collaborative research findings (www.walkingborders.com).