Steering Group
The work of the All-Island Social Security Network is shaped by a Steering Group.
Research Interests: Social security law for the unemployed, conditionality, gender and the administration of social security benefits, participatory research methods, devolution and social security, constitutional change in Ireland and social security, destitution, social citizenship
Research Interests: Social security coordination, non-discrimination law, migrant access to the welfare state, qualitative research methods, comparative welfare provision.
Fiona Dukelow
School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork
Research Interests: Social protection; activation and conditionality; post-growth and eco-social policy and the welfare-work-care nexus; lived experience of welfare/welfare reform.
Research Interests: Labour economics, education, health, social inclusion, labour force participation, childcare provision, all with a particular interest in Northern Ireland.
Uisce Jordan
University of Bath
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Christopher Bowes
FLAC
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Donal Swan
NWCI (National Women’s Council of Ireland)
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Joe Whelan
Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, the University of Dublin
Research Interests: Poverty, Welfare (broadly but with a focus on income maintenance and welfare conditionality), Work, Sustainable Social Policy and Critical Theory. Research Methods and Qualitative methods in-particular.
Mary Murphy
Department of Sociology, Maynooth
Research Interests: Eco-social welfare, gender, care and social security, globalisation and welfare states and power and civil society.
Research Interests: Unemployment, Labour Markets, Welfare processes, Governmentality, Culture, Critique. Current theoretical interest in the ontology of tests, transitions and transformation within social policy and academic discourses. Currently conducting research on Career Guidance discourse, interviews with Career Advisors.
Research Interests: Experience of unemployment, Organisational studies of policy and welfare institutions
Gráinne McKeever
School of Law, Ulster University
Research Interests: Administrative justice, access to justice, litigants in person, social citizenship, social justice, social security law and policy, poverty.
Barra Roantree
Department of Economics, Trinity College, the University of Dublin
Research Interests: Design of the tax and welfare system. The evolution and distribution of living standards in Ireland.
Research Interests: Social security law, policy and practice; citizenship; poverty and destitution; social and economic rights and their relationship with civil and political rights; devolution, multi-level governance and their impact on citizens’ social rights.
Research interests: Social welfare (assistance) law, welfare state and migration, asylum seekers, administrative justice, citizenship, human rights
Matthew Donoghue
Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin
Research Interests: Social citizenship and social rights; crisis and policy; politics and ideology of policymaking; resilience and cohesion.
Research Interests: Governance of employment and social security; political economy of active labour market policies; Marketisation and social policy.
Research Interests: Labour market, gender inequalities in labour market, relative roles of government and employers in minimum income guarantee.
Research Interests: Employability and careers, unemployment, precarity, adult guidance counselling practice, employment and career related wellbeing, employment services, labour market policy, lifelong guidance policy, social impact
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