Sarah Mason

Sarah is an oral history practitioner working with women’s centres, cross-communal groups and charities and the Northern Irish community sector to assess the role of historic female networks in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her PhD focuses on the intersection of class, ethno-nationalist identity, sectarianism, poverty and gender dynamics within West Belfast and how this unique nexus informed the creation of women’s networks in the region. Sarah’s work seeks to reappraise grass-roots community work and female agency whilst honouring the quotidian realities that shaped life during the conflict period. Sarah’s research contributes to a growing body of work on intergenerational trauma, gender-based violence and post-conflict catharsis in Northern Ireland.