Dr Noel O'Connell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century (ISS21) and the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork, Ireland. He is working on a project entitled,

 

CODA: An Ethnographic Study of Hearing Children of Deaf Adults and the negotiation of threatened social identities

 

The project is funded by the Science Foundation of Ireland (SFI) and Irish Research Council (IRC) under the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme 2022. Funding covers a four-year period. The research involves working in collaboration with CODA UK and Ireland. CODA UK and Ireland will assist in selecting research participants, informed consent, accessing the research sites and organising CODA events. The research is focused on children of deaf adults (CODAs). The aim is to find out how CODA experience the courtesy stigma or stigma-by- association of their deaf parents. The objective is to answer the following research questions:

 

• What are the social relations and cultural processes that enable CODAs engage in social interaction with others? 

 

• How do Codas deal with the courtesy stigma of their deaf parents in family, school and community contexts? 

 

• How do CODAs experience social exclusion/inclusion? 

 

• How do CODAs construct identity in terms of experiencing a sense of community belonging and connectedness?

 

The aim to use individual and focus group interviews with CODA adults and children, observation notes and film documentary. 

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For more information or questions please contact:

Dr Noel O'Connell: Noconnell@ucc.ie