Event Details
This one-hour online event showcases emerging student research on identity, inclusion, lived experience, and belonging in Ireland. It will provide a supportive platform for three ethnic minority students to share their research journeys, findings, and personal reflections on conducting research that is closely connected to their own experiences and communities.
Three distinct but interconnected topics will be explored. One of the presentations will reflect on the student researcher’s exploration of how care-experienced young adults in Ireland make meaning of authority and independence. Drawing on both the research process and their own lived experience, the presentation will explore themes of institutional power, autonomy, voice, stigma, and identity. The next presentation will focus on language-related challenges in multicultural therapy, exploring how trainee counsellors experience linguistic differences, misunderstandings, accent, vulnerability, and the therapeutic alliance. The final presentation will examine black women’s experiences in predominantly white workplace environments in Ireland, considering issues of visibility, recognition, belonging, and well-being. These presentations will invite discussion on how personal experience, identity, and social context can shape both research and lived realities.
Speaker Information
Kayla Asregadoo has recently completed a four year applied psychology course in TUS Midwest. She has lived experience of the Irish Foster Care system, which sparked her interest in her research topic : A crticial discourse analysis of how young adults’ time in state care allow them to construct meaning around authority and independence.
Ana Pereira is a Brazilian student who has been living in Ireland for the past 11 years. She is currently completing her Masters degree in counselling and psychotherapy with the Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences. Ana will draw on both her lived experience as an immigrant in Ireland and her developing professional experience as a trainee therapist seeking to understand language, culture, identity, and belonging within the therapeutic space.
Jerely Pembele is a final year Appied Psychology student at the Technological University of Shannon. She is interested in topics such as diversity, inclusion, belonging and lived experience. Jerely is passionate about understanding how poeple navigate social spaces, and creating room for the conversations that challenge assumptions and deepen understanding.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact the SIG in Ethnic Minorities for further information. The link to the Zoom meeting will be included in your event registration confirmation email.