email: AcejoI@cf.ac.uk 

Iris Acejo

Iris completed her PhD study on transnational assimilation of Filipino seafarers, through the SIRC–Nippon Foundation Fellowship programme in 2013. She obtained her undergraduate degree in Business Economics at the University of the Philippines (U.P.). Under the PIDS-HRD Scholarship Program, she took Master of Arts in Economics in the same university and has been involved in various policy researches concerning migration, labour and employment. From 2005–2006, she had a teaching stint at the U.P. School of Economics as a teaching fellow.

Currently, Iris is working on two projects concerning: 1) seafarers and the use of mandatory shipboard equipment, 2) relationships between shore-side and shipboard personnel onboard. Both projects are jointly funded by the Lloyd's Register Foundation, The TK Foundation, and Cardiff University. The project runs until 2016.

*Shortlisted for the Best Paper Award at the 10th Annual Liverpool Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences.

 

Publications:

 

Articles

Gekara, V., Acejo, I., Sampson, H. (2013) 'Re-imaginining Global Union Representation Under Globalisation: A Case of Seafaring Labour and the Nautilus International Cross-border Merger, Global Labour Journal, 4 (2): 167-185. Available at: http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/vol4/iss3/1.

 

Acejo, I. (2012) ‘Seafarers and transnationalism: ways of belongingness ashore and aboard’, Journal of Intercultural Studies, 33(1): 69-84.

 

SIRC Reports

Sampson, H., Acejo, I., Ellis, N., Tang, L., Turgo, N. (2016) 'The use of mandatory equipment on board cargo ships: An outline report based on research undertaken in the period 2012-2016', SIRC Publication: Cardiff University, April, ISBN: 1-900174-74-2. 

 

Sampson, H., Acejo, I., Ellis, N., Tang, L., Turgo, N. (2016) 'The relationships between seafarers and shore-side personnel: An outline report based on research undertaken in the period 2012-2016', SIRC Publication: Cardiff University, April, ISBN: 1-900174-48-0.

 

Ellis, N., Sampson, H., Acejo, I., Tang, L., Turgo, N., Zhao, Z. (2012) 'Seafarer Accommodation on Contemporary Cargo Ships', SIRC Publication, December, ISBN: 1-900174-43-X.

 

Conference Papers

Acejo, I., Abila, S. S. (2015) ‘Dressing and Addressing: Symbolism Aboard Merchant Ships’, 10th Annual Ethnography Symposium, University of Liverpool, 25-26 August.

 

Turgo, N., Ellis, N., Tang, L., Sampson, H., Acejo, I. (2013) 'The Use of Mandatory Equipment On-board', SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University 3-4 July, ISBN 1-900174-46-4.

 

Turgo, N., Sampson, H., Acejo, I., Ellis, N., Tang, L. (2013) 'Understanding the Relationships Between Ship and Shore Personnel', SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University 3-4 July, ISBN 1-900174-46-4.

 

Tang, L., Acejo, I., Ellis, N., Turgo, N., Sampson, H. (2013) 'Behind the Headlines? An Analysis of Accident Investigation Reports', SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University 3-4 July, ISBN 1-900174-46-4.

 

Acejo, I. (2012) 'Return, integration and sense of community belongingness: a glimpse of the seafaring  transnational experience', Understanding the migrant experience, Swansea University, Swansea, 25-26 June.

 

Acejo, I. (2012) 'Trans-national labour and the implication for the representation under globalisation; examining the case of seafaring labour and the Nautilus International cross-border merger', 16th World Congress: Beyond Borders: Governance of Work in a Global Economy, International Labour and Employment Relations Association, Philadelphia, 2-5 July.

 

Acejo, I., Sampson, H., Turgo, N., Wadsworth, E. (2011) ‘The Health and Self-medication Practices of Seafarers’, SIRC Symposium, Cardiff University 6-7 July, ISBN 1-900174-39-1.

 

Acejo, I. (2010) ‘Governance from abroad: the role of transnational linkages in the politics of decision-making among temporary migrants’, Democratisation in Asia. 49th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Conference for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS), Centre of Asian Democracy, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 15-17 January.

 

Acejo, I. (2009) “Transnational Crews and Their Ways of Belongingness” Paper presented at the International Conference on Migration, Citizenship and Intercultural Relations, Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation: Melbourne, Australia.

 

Acejo, I. (2009) ‘Maintaining Transnational Connections’, Maritime matters in the 21st Century, The 1st SIRC-Nippon Fellow Maritime Conference, Cardiff, 22 January, ISBN 1-900174-36-7.

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