UCC Students Support Civil Society Organisations with Research Needs
Cricket Ireland partner with Community Academic Research Links in support of refugees and asylum seekers. The experience of refugees and asylum seekers engaging in sport is of deep interest to Cricket Ireland, the National Governing Body for the Sport on the island of Ireland. In a novel undertaking, they are collaborating with Community Academic Research Links in 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork to bring a research lens to investigate what they know to be true 鈥� that sports changes lives!
Student researchers under the supervision of a UCC academic will engage with residents in the Kinsale Road Direct Provision Centre to examine and understand their experience of engaging with sport, cricket in particular, to try to identify the factors that make a difference for people at the margins of Irish society.
鈥淲e welcome this partnership with Cricket Ireland, UCC and CARL are uniquely placed to carry out this research as we have a long tradition of engaging diverse population in sports in UCC鈥�,
said Morgan Buckley, Director of Sports in UCC. A novel feature of the research is that it will be conducted via online video interviews as a way of experimenting with interesting and innovative ways of engaging people in research during COVID-19.
Dr Marie Leane, chair of UCC鈥檚 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Sanctuary initiative, said that,
鈥淐ARL鈥檚 participatory research approach encourages researchers to work closely with people and involve them in the research, rather than conducting research on them, it鈥檚 about including them鈥�.
Elaine Nolan, Participation Director at Cricket Ireland said,
鈥渁s the Cricket movement in Ireland goes from strength to strength, we are building an evidence base about the impact of sport on people鈥檚 lives, particularly traditionally excluded populations, the partnership with UCC and Community Academic Research Links will help us to do that鈥�.