Aideen is a PhD candidate in the ReproSoc research group, under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Franklin and Dr. Lucy Van De Wiel. Aideen has a B.A. (Hons) in Sociology and French from Trinity College Dublin and an M.A. in Gender Studies (Research) from Utrecht University.
Drawing primarily on feminist phenomenological methods, her PhD research examines the affective and embodied experience of pregnancy, abortion, and of reproductive politics more broadly – taking the Irish abortion rights movement as a case study.