UCD Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Andrew McCartan is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at University College Dublin. He is interested in queer geographies, theories, and methodologies. His research to date has focused on examining the mutually constitutive relationship between space, place, sexualities, and genders through activisms and social movements. He is currently working on understanding sense of belonging amongst computer science students, and understanding social polarization around gender, sexuality, and abortion.
Email: andrew.mccartan@ucd.ie
Twitter: @queerdrew
Education:
PhD in Geography, University College Dublin, Ireland – 2022
MA in Geography, Brock University, Canada – 2017
BSc in Geography, The University of Glasgow, Scotland – 2014
Publications:
- Runa, S. N., McCartan, A., Becker, B. A., & Mooney, C. (2023, September). Sense of Belonging of Undergraduate Computing Students: A Comparative Analysis of University Entry Routes. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research (pp. 1-1).
- Runa, S. N., McCartan, A., Becker, B. A., & Mooney, C. (2023, December). Understanding a post-COVID Drop in the Belongingness of Minoritised Men in an Undergraduate Computer Science Course. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 2 (pp. 202-202).
- McCartan, A. (2024). Glasgow’s contested LGBT pride spaces: examining dimensions of variegated homonormativities. Social & Cultural Geography, 25(1), 68-86.
- McCartan, A., & Nash, C. J. (2023). Creating queer safe space: relational space-making at a grassroots LGBT pride event in Scotland. Gender, Place & Culture, 30(6), 770-790.
- Maguire, H., McCartan, A., Nash, C. J., & Browne, K. (2019). The enduring field: Exploring researcher emotions in covert research with antagonistic organisations. Area, 51(2), 299-306.