Cathal Kilcline's research, which focuses primarily on sport, globalization and migration in contemporary France, has been funded by the EU Commission (Marie Sklodowska-Curie programme) and Irish Research Council through a Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship, held at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 and NUI Galway. Recent sports-themed publications include special issues of French Cultural Studies (2014) and Contemporary French Civilization (2014) and a monograph on Sport and Society in Global France with Liverpool University Press. The current project on sport and protest movements was initiated at conference held at NUI Galway that was supported by the French and Swiss embassies in Ireland.