• Technology and arts-mediated intervention

• Education
• Equality
• Housing and homelessness
• Pension policy
• The changing political and social landscape of Ireland
• The shifting nature of politics and popular thought

• Career pathways for newly-qualified social workers
• Children's rights
• Child protection and welfare policy and practice
• Child welfare removals
• Community-based research (science shops) 
• Professional supervision
• Staff retention/turnover

• Analysis of regulatory policy and consumer responsibilisation
• Irish housing policy
• Neo-institutional theory
• The Irish welfare state
• The nature of Ireland’s financialisation
• Treatment of personal debt and related processes

• Asylum policy and state sanctioned exclusion
• Cultural awareness and anti-discriminatory practice
• Ethnic minority representation
• Migration
• Mobilities and social policy
• Social issues in midwifery practice
• Social policy and health
• The politics of multiculturalism

• Lived experience of social policy and welfare reform
• Eco-social policy, particularly from a post-growth perspective
• Climate justice and social policy
• Lone parents and social policy
• Activation
• Social Protection policy
• The Irish welfare state
• Welfare states and crisis

• Conducting social research
• Understanding disability

• Critical perspectives in health policy
• The politics of health
• The role of theory in social research

• Housing and homelessness
• Social indicators and poverty measurement
• Survey methods

j.finnerty@ucc.ie

• Children and young people's participation
• Deliberative and participatory democracy
• Educational disadvantage
• Social research methods.
• State-civil society relations
• Theory and practice of community development

c.forde@ucc.ie

• Social identity and difference

g.harold@ucc.ie

• Creative arts
• Cultural policy
• Gender
• Racism
• Youth work/youth studies 

• Community development
• Public participation in environmental decision making

m.hurley@ucc.ie

• Relationships of care
• Social justice
• Well-being

rebecca.jeffers@ucc.ie

• Addressing challenging behaviour in youth settings
• Early school leaving
• History and development of youth work in Ireland
• Stress, staff support and supervision

• Penal Policy
• Qualitative Research Methodology
• Social Policy
• Women's Studies
• Youth Policy

• Substance use
• Youth work and community development 

• Childbirth politics
• Feminist social policy
• Oral history
• Research methodology and research skills
• Sexuality and society
• Women and work
• Women's studies

• Trauma-informed practice
• Child protection and welfare
• Foster care
• Child and family psychosocial intervention
• Program development and evaluation
• Professional education development in health, social care and education contexts
• Practice-based research
• Mixed methods research

Dr Maria Lotty

maria.lotty@ucc.ie

• Child and youth participation
• Early childhood studies
• Integration and inclusion

• Equality
• Gender
• Human rights
• Migration and the intersection of human rights and social policy with respect to intellectual disability (ID)

n.maxwell@ucc.ie

• Alternative media practices
• Community activism and its contested relationships with the state
• Community development, abolitionism and the carceral state
• Cultural practices, cultural democracy and cultures of resistance
• Media representations of social movements, collective action and protest
• Neoliberal governmentalities and the professionalisation of civil society and community activism
• Solidarity, democracy and the tactics of protest
• Territorial stigmatisation and its implications for collective/community action
• The politics of community activism and community development
• The politics of ressentiment and anti-welfare populism
• The politics of the Left
• The theory and praxis of community arts

• Childhood/youth
• Equality
• Gender
• Migration/diaspora
• Rurality and identities
• The use of qualitative research method

• Regeneration
• Social housing
• Social inclusion

• Democratising the production and use of science and technology
• Feminism and strategies of resistance
• Patients' organisations and health social movements
• Power and public health
• Social movements and confrontations between Western scientific and other knowledges
• The commons
• The history and cultural authority of science and medicine
• The university and its colonial inheritances

• Citizenship and Diversity
• Community Development
• Comparative Social Policy
• Conflict and Peace Building
• Social Policy and Internatoioanl Human Rights

• Access to education
• Adult and community education
• Participatory approaches to working with communities
• Social justice
• Youth work and community work

• Child migration
• Gender, equality and diversity in local and global contexts

• Group work as an educational tool
• Group work practice
• Professionalisation of youth and community work
• Reflective practice and professional formation in the social professions
• The experience of prisoners in the Irish prison System

• Child protection and welfare
• Child sexual abuse and harmful sexual behaviour
• Direct work with children and young people
• LGBTQIA+ issues and sexualities
• Welfare pluralism in the delivery of social services

• Community based participatory research
• Housing and sustainability
• Mixed methods research
• Regeneration
• Tackling social inequalities
• Widening educational participation

• Critical mental health theory, policy and practice

• Social Recovery in Mental Health Service Delivery
• Peer Support Work in Mental Health
• Developing the Sociological Perspective in Social Work
• The Social Work Role in Health-Related Settings
• Interdisciplinary work
• Role of Lived Experience within Social Work and Social Policy
• Co-Production and Co-Creation in Mental Health Settings
• Qualifying and Transitioning into Social Work Practice 

c.swords@ucc.ie