socialCORE Team

The socialCORE team is made of researchers and professionals with diverse skills and expertise. The professional backgrounds of our personnel include early childhood education, social care, social work, community development, youth work, psychology, health promotion, and adult education.

Areas of Interest

Our researchers’ areas of interest include children’s rights, participatory youth work, mental health and unemployment, arts-based narrative inquiry, young people and popular culture, egalitarian theory and practice, research with children, teaching and learning for professional practice, and evaluation research.

For more information on our individual team members, please click on the photos below.

• 
  Dr Niamh McCrea
  Director
• 
  Dr Carmel Smith
  
• 
  Dr Eileen Doyle-Walsh
  
• 
  Dr Sheila Long
  
• 
  Eileen Farrell
  
• 
  Helena O’Brien
  
• 
  Maeve Murphy
  
• 
  Majella Finnegan
  
• 
  Tracy Whyte
  
• 
  Dr Morgan O’Brien
  
• 
  Lillian Byrne-Lancaster
  
• 
  Noelle Reilly
  
• 
  Dr Dean McDonnell
  
• 
  Dr Denise Lyons
  
• 
  John Balfe
  
• 
  Susan Barnes
  
• 
  Vicki Anderson