Steering Group
The work of the All-Island Social Security Network is shaped by a Steering Group.
Policy Interests: Ending the needs for food banks in Northern Ireland, poverty, social security, inequality, child poverty, welfare reform mitigations.
Research Interests: Social protection; activation/conditionality; post-growth/eco-social policy and the welfare-work-care nexus; lived experience of welfare/welfare reform.
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
Tricia Keilthy (SVP, Ireland)
Head of Social Justice and Policy
Policy Interests: Poverty and inequality issues related to social protection, education, housing, employment and energy policy.
Charles O’Sullivan
School of Law & Criminology, Maynooth University
Research Interests: Social security coordination, non-discrimination, migration, comparative welfare provision.
Membership
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: Labour economics, education, health, social inclusion, labour force participation, childcare provision, all with a particular interest in Northern Ireland.
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: Experience of unemployment, Organisational studies of policy and welfare institutions.
Research Interests: Eco-social welfare, gender, care and social security, globalisation and welfare states and power and civil society.
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
Joe Whelan
Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College, the University of Dublin
jwhelan9@tcd.ie
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.
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 and precarity, adult guidance counselling practice, employment and career related wellbeing, employment services, labour market policy, lifelong guidance policy, social impact