Siobhan Curran, MsSc

Siobhan Curran has worked in NGOs in the areas of women’s rights, tackling racism and promoting equality for 13 years, with a particular focus on policy development and participatory community engagement. She is currently the Roma Project Manager with Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, Ireland – an organisation working for the full realisation of Traveller and Roma rights. Her work focuses on strategic advocacy, policy development, participatory research and community engagement with the Roma community in Ireland. She has recently managed a participatory project to train Roma researchers to conduct a national needs assessment of Roma in Ireland; conducted within an equality and human rights framework, in collaboration with the Department of Justice and Equality in Ireland.

She previously worked as a campaigner for Amnesty International Ireland, focusing on gender based violence and the implementation of UN Security Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security. She has an LLM in Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice from the University of Ulster and a Masters in Social Policy from University College Dublin. She has recently published articles on intersectionality and Roma inclusion, the coercive sterilisation of Romani women, and the gendered impacts of structural reforms in health systems in Belize. She is a feminist activist and has been active in campaigning for LGBTQ rights in Ireland.

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Siobhan and Beth collaborated on a longterm mixed methods research project in western Belize exploring community health and health disparities. Together, they published the book Telling it Straight: Community Narratives and Primary Health Care in Cayo, Belize and the article “Gendering the Burden of Care: Health Reform and the Paradox of Community Participation in Western Belize.”