
Dr Pier Luc Dupont Picard
BSc, Ma, PhD
Current positions
Honorary Research Associate
School of Education
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Research interests
Dr Pier-Luc Dupont is a Lecturer in Identity Politics and Co-Director of the Comparative Politics and Policy Research Centre at Swansea University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of racism, diversity and human rights, with a particular interest in employment and education as social and political fields. His work is mainly driven by a will to expose the institutional sources of racial and other inequalities, as well as to theorise legal and political action toward social justice. His research has been published in various collective volumes and Scopus-indexed journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Journal of Muslims in Europe, Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, The Sociological Review, and Nordic Journal of Human Rights. His forthcoming book Anti-Racism, Multiculturalism and Human Rights, is under contract with Palgrave.
Pier-Luc holds an Honorary Research Associate position at the University of Bristol, where he has worked on large funded projects examining justice from the perspective of migrants and minorities (Horizon 2020 project ETHOS, 2017-2019), policy approaches to cultural diversity (HERA project PLURISPACE, 2020-2022), and the drivers of ethnic segregation and mixing (ESRC project Shared Spaces, 2022-2023). His doctoral research, conducted at the University of Valencia Human Rights Institute and supported by a four-year FPU scholarship from the Spanish Ministry of Education, examined the interplay between internationally recognised equality rights, public policies and racism in the European context.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Shared Spaces: The how, when and why of adolescent intergroup interactions
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
The Shared Spaces Project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, explores the factors that influence whether or not young people in the UK choose to interact with people…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/03/2021 to 29/02/2024
Negotiating diversity in expanded European public spaces
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
Funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), PLURISPACE investigates how four approaches to the governance of cultural diversity (multiculturalism, interculturalism, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism) shape policy and civil society…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/05/2019 to 30/11/2022
ETHOS
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Description
ETHOS (www.ethos-europe.eu) is a large European Union funded project involving research institutes in Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, the UK and Turkey.Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/01/2017 to 31/12/2019
Publications
Recent publications
20/02/2025Multiculturalism and Interculturalism
Narratives and Practices of Migrant and Minority Incorporation in European Societies
High Conflict Societies
Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Second Edition
Difference and diversity
The Sociological Review
The longitudinal relationship between youth intergroup contact and social cohesion outcomes in two divided societies
European Journal of Social Psychology
Understanding the spatial dimension of youth intergroup contact in a post-accord society
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology