Maureen Lyons

Background

About Maureen Lyons

Maureen Lyons is Research Manager at the UCD School of Social Justice (2003-to-date). Among other projects, her recent research has included a study of affective equality (Affective Equality: Who Cares?(2009)) and a study of religious education in Irish primary schools (Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe: Children, Parents and Schools (2013)). From 2006-2010, she managed a €1 million European Commission FP6 project, awarded under the EU Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge programme. Over the past five years she has worked as the Principal Investigator on quantitative data projects for the Rape Crisis Network of Ireland, COSC, Dept. of Justice & Equality, and two projects in the area of urban regeneration. She is the co-author of Inside classrooms: the teaching and learning of mathematics in social context (2003), Getting out of the house: women returning to employment, education and training (2002) and Marital breakdown and family law in Ireland (1995). From 2001-2003, in her role as Head of Research at the Homeless Agency (Dublin City Council) she managed a programme of Irish policy driven research related to homelessness as well as undertaking research as part of EU projects on homelessness. Her earlier experience of policy-related research was gained while employed as a research assistant at The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Policy Research Centre (NCIR, Dublin) and Social Research Centre (University of Limerick). She is a graduate of UCD (B. Soc. Sc. & M. Soc. Sc.), TCD (Postgraduate Diploma Statistics) and Queen’s University, Belfast where she completed her doctorate in Sociology on the issue of women returning to the labour market via State-sponsored training and education programmes.