Experiences of academic-activists in Ireland: comfortable and uncomfortable activism in the current institutional environment

While there is a lack of academic-activist themed literature within the Irish context, it evident that academic-activism becoming an increasingly relevant topic given this period undoubtable social change. The emergence depicting academia as unsupportive environment suggests activism not supported in higher educational setting. This paper draws on experiences 33 Irish-based academic-activists and investigates concepts comfortable uncomfortable which were identified during analysis. By exploring at varying career stages, article argues academic’s ability to exercise academic freedom influenced by type activism, sociopolitical identity individual institutional environment. Overall, offers interesting comparisons between disadvantaged/marginalised comparison those more privileged positions.