Academic biography

Malgosia Machowska-Kosciak (PhD) is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in  Intercultural and Global Citizenship Education and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education, The School of STEM Education, Innovation and Global Studies at DCU. She holds M. Phil and PhD in Sociolinguistics from Trinity College Dublin.  She has been a successful lead researcher and coordinator of three projects, SPIEPS, SGMEYP and INOVATE funded by Dep. of Justice, Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. These projects make a significant contribution to positive integration and representation of children and young people with ethnic minority backgrounds (including second-generation migrants) within the Irish society/education system, highlighting the importance of implementation of global citizenship education and anti-racism education along with the incorporation of authentic narratives on migration into the mainstream curriculum and within ITE programmes. Malgosia’s work aims to extend Laura Lundy’s (2007) model of democratic participation and provide underrepresented ethnic minority young people with affordances to express their own views (Space), facilitate expression of their views (Voice), their voices to be listened to (Audience) and have their views acted upon (Influence), through respecting and enhancing rights of the young people in an innovative and creative way.

Before she has started work for CHRCE, Malgosia has been affiliated with the Sociology Department in TCD and the Marino Institute of Education where she thought about issues connected to Migration and Education worldwide. She has been working with young migrants, refugees a