BA DPhil Oxon, MA University of Pennsylvania

Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies

Email: bronwen.walter@anglia.ac.uk


Professor Bronwen Walter's research activity page

Bronwen Walter is Emeritus Professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Anglia Ruskin University. She is internationally recognised for her research on Irish migration to Britain and the wider experiences of the Irish diaspora. Her academic publications include a monograph Outsiders inside: whiteness, place and Irish women (Routledge, 2001) and articles and chapters on a wide range of aspects of Irish emigration and settlement abroad. She has also made substantial contributions to policy and co-authored the widely-cited report for the Commission for Racial Equality Discrimination and the Irish Community in Britain (1997) (with Mary J. Hickman). Her report Irish emigrants and Irish communities abroad was produced for the Irish Government Task Force on Policy Regarding Emigrants (2002).

She has been awarded ESRC Research Grants for Hidden Irishwomen: gender and migration to Britain 1951-1991(1993-4) and for The second generation Irish: a hidden population in multi-ethnic Britain (2000-2002), a project she directed. Other funding includes the British Academy (for the project Irish domestic servants in England, 1881), the Irish Government, and consultancies with London authorities, Irish welfare agencies and housing associations.

Her current research focuses on multi-generational Irish identities in England, Newfoundland and Australasia, and her particular interests lie in comparing trajectories of whiteness and Irishness, exploring English/Irish hybridities and examining linkages between genealogies and citizenship. This topic was explored in 2011-12 with a British Academy Small Grant.

Go back to the index page