Lucy Michael

• BCL, MA, PhD
• Researcher at Unaffiliated

The study, commissioned by the Policing Authority and published today, presents the most detailed evidence to date of the negative experiences of policing among these communities including accounts of traumatic stop-and-search incidents, including strip searches, wrongful arrests, and property damage, with long-lasting psychological effects and ong...

This special edition of the Irish Probation Journal celebrates its excellent track record of publishing open access criminal justice research and building links among researchers, practitioners and policymakers on the island of Ireland. Both probation services have expressed strong commitments to partnership working and to using research and evide...

This toolkit is designed to familiarise trade union members at all levels of organising with the nature and impact of racial discrimination in the labour market and workplace, and support the development of strategies for anti-discrimination and inclusion actions. It can also be used for capacity building activities such as preparing training mater...

This report discovers extensive barriers for Black and Black Irish artists across the arts sector in Ireland. The report was commissioned in 2022 to explore high rates of applications to the Arts Council deemed ineligible.

The ENAR Shadow Report is produced to fill the gaps in the official and academic data, to offer an alternative to these data and to bring an NGO perspective to the realities of racism in the EU as well as its member states. Country reports have been produced by experts in all EU member states drawing on a wide variety of sources, and these have bee...

Internationally, there has been much discussion of the relationship between 'race' and policing, in particular highlighting the vulnerabilities and racialising interactions experienced by Black and minority ethnic people in police custody. Disproportionate rates of death in custody are documented even while many experiences of mistreatment in custo...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine posed new challenges for the EU. Millions were forced to flee the war. As a result of the scale of people’s displacement, the EU activated for the first time the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD). More than 1.3 million children sought international protection in the EU. This bulletin explores the respect, protection...

This third annual report commissioned by the Arts Council of Ireland reveals continuing inequities in individuals making applications and being awarded arts grants in 2022. Key findings from the report, which compares awards data to Census data, show that females, white Irish individuals, and artists in Dublin are disproportionately over-represen...

This Consultation Report presents the views and experiences of disabled people in Ireland based on 672 surveys and 8 focus groups. It was created in advance of the Irish Government presenting to the United Nations Committee on the Government’s work to implement the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) to offer an alternat...

March 22, 2023 The Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) annually publishes findings from the iReport.ie racist incident reporting system. The total number of incidents in 2022 reached 600 (rising from 404 in 2021). The system also recorded 223 criminal incidents, including racist assaults, a record 190 reports of illegal discrimination and 136 repo...

This study examined the inequalities experienced by Black, Asian, minority ethnic and Traveller people residing in Belfast in 2022. It was commissioned by Belfast City Council in partnership with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Public Health Agency Northern Ireland. The research was undertaken by Lucy Michael Research with the African...

On 28 November 2022, ICCL launched the latest addition to its ‘Know Your Rights’ series with the publication of ‘Know Your Rights: A Guide for international protection applicants’. The Guide explains rights within the protection process, under the EU Reception Directive, and a range of broader rights that apply to everyone in Ireland, including c...

Funded by Trinity Equality Fund 2022, the Faculty of Health Sciences Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Group and Immigrant Council of Ireland launched a project entitled ‘Stand Up, Speak Out! Racial Justice in Healthcare Education’. This report articulates the lived experiences of racism in minoritised ethnic healthcare students (MEHSs) and r...

This chapter considers the contemporary political and policy context of immigration and citizenship in post-austerity Ireland, and the recent experiences of Ireland’s immigrants as understood through the lenses of integration, discrimination, and racisms which delineate the broad direction of change in this area. Two decades since immigration first...

This report was commissioned on behalf of the Irish Refugee Resettlement Programme and was undertaken by Dr Lucy Michael for the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Ireland. The report has described the experiences of 153 Syrian refugees who arrived in Ireland between 2015 and 2019 through the Irish Refugee Resettlement Programme. Their...

This report captures, for the first time, quantitative and qualitative data on the race and ethnicity of higher education staff as well as their experiences at work. The report is based on a survey taken by over 3000 staff in higher education institutions across Ireland during December and January. The aim of the survey was to capture the lived ex...

A report and toolkit for ENAR - European Network Against Racism. The use of algorithmic decision making can reduce time for HR professionals and hiring managers in screening large numbers of applicants, improve selection processes, and provide the potential for predictive analysis. Recruitment is the principal arena in which AI functions are bein...

In this special issue, Lucy Michael turns to the issue of policing to pose the question of whether concerns about racist policing illuminated by the Black Lives Matter movement in the US and globally warrant significant attention here in Ireland. She explores the issues of concern to young people of African descent and their families in respect of...

Black Lives Matters? Attitudes to minorities and migrants in Northern Ireland, by Lucy Michael (Research Update 136), is based on data from the 2019 Life and Times and Young Life and Times surveys. The surveys tell a mixed story. There has been a fall in the proportion of people thinking that racial prejudice is rising. There is a general apprecia...

The Indicators of Integration framework, published in 2019 by the UK Home Office, is designed to support integration and improve interventions in a range of key areas. A comprehensive set of indicators, with guidance on data collection and analysis, facilitates measurement of integration, supports the design interventions to increase integration an...

Immigrants as outsiders in the two Irelands examines how a wide range of immigrant groups who settled in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland since the 1990s are faring today. It asks to what extent might different immigrant communities be understood as outsiders in both jurisdictions. Chapters include analyses of the specific experience...

This indicators framework provides practical ways to design more effective strategies, monitor services and evaluate integration interventions. The Indicators of Integration framework has been developed by the Home Office with consultation and input from other government departments, local authorities, regional Strategic Migration Partnerships, non...

This article addresses institutional understandings of and responses to racism in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, examining the different trajectories and their implications. This comparative analysis assesses state and institutional failure to meet basic obligations under international rights treaties, such as ethnic monitoring in st...

Findings from research conducted by Dr Lucy Michael (Ulster University) in partnership with Business in the Community Northern Ireland and CRAIC NI. This research explores the implementation of race equality measures by employers in Northern Ireland and identifies the particular challenges presented by the unique context of Northern Ireland's labou...

In 2013, the United Nations established the International Decade for People of African Descent (resolution 68/237) to provide a framework within which the United Nations, Member States, civil society and other relevant actors can work with people identified as Black to identify and address problems of recognition, justice and development. The emerg...

This report, to be launched on 19 November 2015, is published by ENAR Ireland (Irish Network against Racism), marking the commencement of the United Nations Decade for Persons of African Descent. It interrogates the nature and extent of racism against people of African descent in Ireland. It is the first of a series of thematic reports published b...

The well-documented growth of international student mobility has been paralleled by the emergence of so-called ‘transnational education’ (TNE), in which universities deliver their educational services to foreign students in their own countries, rather than the students travelling to the foreign university to study. While universities have engaged i...

The well-documented growth of international student mobility has been paralleled by the emergence of so-called ‘transnational education’ (TNE), in which universities deliver their educational services to foreign students in their own countries, rather than the students travelling to the foreign university to study. While universities have engaged i...

The Higher Education Academy has developed a strategic framework for internationalising higher education (including transnational education). The framework is designed as an enhancement tool to inspire and assist in enhancing HE policy and practice, recognising internationalisation as a process rather than an end in itself. This Good Practice Guide...

Analyses of hate crimes against students have been a significant feature of the academic hate crime literature in the United States since the early 1990s, while there has to date been little attention to ‘campus climate’ in the United Kingdom or Europe, despite increasing attention to the safety of international students globally. This chapter expl...

Introduction Analyses of hate crimes against students have been a significant feature of the academic hate crime literature in the United States since the early 1990s, with a number of studies examining racial, ethnic, religious, homophobic and gender-related incidents on campus. In contrast, there has to date been little attention to ‘campus clima...

Why has so much hate crime policy seemingly ignored academic research? And why has so much of this research been conducted inside of its own separate academic bubble? This book addresses those questions by bringing together internationally renowned hate crime experts from the domains of scholarship, policy and activism. It provides new perspectives...

Unsettling Whiteness brings together an international collection that considers anew the politics, practices and representations of whiteness at a time when nations worldwide continue to grapple with issues that are underwritten by whiteness. It draws together case studies of the performance of whiteness from significantly different political and s...

Unsettling Whiteness brings together an international collection that considers anew the politics, practices and representations of whiteness at a time when nations across the globe grapple with issues that remain surreptitiously underwritten by whiteness. It draws together case studies of the performance of whiteness from significantly different p...

What is the iReport? The iReport is a human rights monitoring tool which takes the form of quarterly and yearly observatories on racist incidents in Ireland. The iReport observatory compiles its data from information submitted by people who have been subjected to racism, by frontline anti-racist organisations and other organisations that are commit...

The public performance of various and sometimes conflicting identities constitutes a recognisable part of the late adolescent and early adult period. Often such identities are transitional and interchangeable. For young Muslims in Britain, however, the performance of a recognisable ‘Muslim’ identity through religious practices and affiliations to n...

This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society. Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence and war. However, this is the first volume that offers a varied analysis which has wider implicatio...

This study investigates the problems of contemporary 'leadership' in ethnic minority communities and its relationship to both patterns of inter-generational conflict and cohesion within those communities, and the capacity of minority communities to access public institutions and mobilise effectively for a 'fair' share of social resources. The resea...

This literature review was conducted as part of the ODPM-ESRC research training scheme, and published in order to inform ongoing policy making. The literature review informed the research design for a doctoral research project completed in 2007. Readers should note that the findings of this report are only based on the literature available in 2003,...