Amanda-Rose "Rosie" O'Halloran-Bermingham received her B.A (Hons) in Sociology from Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in 2018 following a move from Ireland to the UK. She graduated with 1st class honours and undertook a project on the topic of Public Sociology as a community of practice/praxis at NTU. She presented the findings from this project at the 2018 British Sociological Association annual conference. Amanda-Rose completed her MPhil at Cambridge in the Sociology of Reproduction the following year under the supervision of Dr. Lucy van de Wiel graduating with distinction.
With a background in social care working with Magdalene Laundry survivors in Dublin, Ireland, Amanda-Rose became interested in the social structures that create the conditions in which such oppressive institutions can exist and thrive. She was active in the successful movement to repeal the 8th amendment of the Irish constitution which banned abortion care. Her PhD is funded by The European Social Research Council’s Doctoral Training Partnership and is supervised by Dr. Lucy van de Wiel and Professor Sarah Franklin. The proposed study will take a postcolonial perspective to examine the affect of shame among people from Ireland who have travelled for abortion care. It will analyse the historical and political impact of shame, shame’s utility to the state, and how shame features in the contemporary abortion rights movement in Ireland. Amanda-Rose is a student at Murray Edwards College.
