University College Cork
qualitative studies, inclusive education, social equality, autoethnography, deaf education, deaf narratives
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About Me
As researcher and scholar, I specialise in the sociology of education with particular emphasis in research on deaf people’s life worlds. I have taught, researched, published and disseminated scholarship in the field of the sociology of deaf studies, education and auto-ethnography. My research focuses on deaf education particularly in the areas of language policy and teaching methodology and deaf people’s experiences of culture, religion, society, employment. I am interested in social justice, equality, human rights, language rights, identity politics, solidarity and the principles of bilingualism and multiculturalism as well as inclusion. I am particularly interested in auto-ethnography both as a research method and genre of writing.
Publications
- Noel O'Connell , “A tale of two schools: educating Catholic female deaf children in Ireland, 1846–1946,” History of Education: Journal of the History of Education Society, 23/06/2015. Pages 20
- Noel O'Connell and Jim Deegan, “‘Behind the teacher's back’: an ethnographic study of deaf people's schooling experiences in the Republic of Ireland,” Irish Educational Studies, 24/07/2014. Pages 20
- Noel O'Connell, ““Passing as Normal”: Living and Coping With the Stigma of Deafness,” Qualitative Inquiry, 2016.
- Noel O'Connell , “Childhood Interrupted: A story of loss, separation, and reconciliation,” Journal of Loss & Trauma, 2015. Pages 11
- Noel O'Connell, “‘Confessing to wilful disobedience’: an ethnographic study of deaf people’s experience of Catholic religious schooling in the Republic of Ireland,” British Journal of Religious Education, 2016.
- Noel O'Connell, “A sociolinguistic history of British Sign Language in Northern Ireland,” Sign Language Studies, Winter 2022. Pages 231-260
- Noel O'Connell, ““Opportunity blocked”: Deaf people, employment and the sociology of audism,” Humanity & Society, Spring 2022. Pages 336-358
- Noel O'Connell, “The case for sign bilingualism in Irish deaf education,” TEANGA, the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, Winter 2021. Pages 202–222
- Noel O'Connell, “Easier said than done: Undoing hearing privilege in deaf studies,” Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, Fall 2021. Pages 22-45
- Noel O'Connell, “Deaf Activists and the Irish Sign Language Movement, 1980–2017,” Sign Language Studies, Spring 2021. Pages 263-289
- Noel O'Connell and Teresa Lynch, “Translating deaf culture: An ethnodrama,” Qualitative Inquiry, Spring 2019. Pages 411–421
- Noel O'Connell and Teresa Lynch, “Deaf interpreters’ perception of themselves as professionals: A phenomenological study,” Journal of Interpretation, Winter 2020. Pages 1-12
- Noel O'Connell, “Teaching Irish Sign Language in contact zones: An autoethnography,” Qualitative Report, 2017. Pages 849-867
- Jim Deegan and Noel O'Connell, “The starling’s tale: A performative ethnography of deaf children’s schooling in the Republic of Ireland,” Qualitative Inquiry, 2019. Pages 69–79
- Noel O'Connell, “Writing the deaf self in autoethnography,” Oxford University Press, 2017. Pages 8
- Noel O'Connell, “Belonging: An autoethnography of a life in sign language,” Pter Laing, 2017. Pages 188
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