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Employment and the Crisis: Work, Migration, Unemployment

Speaker Biographies

Klaus Dörre

Klaus Dörre is Professor of Work, Industrial and Economic Sociology at Friedrich Schiller
University, Jena, and Director of the Research Institute for Labour, Education and Participation
at Ruhr University, Bochum. He is Director of the Institute of Sociology and Scientific Advisor to
the "Committee for Innovation" in the Federal State of Hesse. He is also a peer reviewer and
provides expert opinions for various leading academic journals. His main research interests are
theories of capitalism/ finance capitalism, flexible and precarious employment, employee
participation, industrial relations and strategic unionism, trade union renewal, green new deal,
labour market and demographic change.

Michael Doherty

Michael Doherty is a lecturer in law in the School of Law and Government and a member of the Socio-Legal Research Centre at Dublin City University. He attended the Honourable Society of Kings' Inns from 2000-2002 and was called to the Irish Bar in October 2002. He has lectured, primarily, on Employment Law and Policy and EU Law at DCU since 2004 and was the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Law and Government from 2007-2010. His research interests are in the areas of employment and labour law and policy, industrial relations (especially the role of trade unions) and social partnership. He has published widely in national and international journals on these topics and is a frequent media contributor on labour market issues. He is co-author of Principles of Irish Employment Law (published in 2010 by Clarus Press). He is also a National Rapporteur on Employment Law to the International Academy of Comparative Law and has recently completed an EU-funded project on the working and living conditions of posted workers.

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Nata Duvvury

Nata Duvvury is Co-Director, Global Women's Studies Programme, at National University of
Ireland, Galway. An economist by training she has extensive experience in international
development with research interests in gender, livelihoods, governance and social mobilisation.
She has done considerable work on gender inequality, women's work participation, economic
consequences of gender based violence, and social protection. Her current research interests
include gender impacts of the economic crisis, gender and pension reform, and gender
inequality and economic growth.

Richard Hyman

hymanRichard Hyman is Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations at the LSE and is founding editor of the European Journal of Industrial Relations. He has written extensively on the themes of industrial relations, collective bargaining, trade unionism, industrial conflict and labour market policy, and is author of a dozen books (including Strikes and Industrial Relations: A Marxist Introduction) as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. He co-edited the 17- country text Changing Industrial Relations in Europe (Blackwell, 1998). His comparative study Understanding European Trade Unionism: Between Market, Class and Society (Sage, 2001) is widely cited by scholars working in this field. He is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press comparing trade union strategies in ten European countries.

Elish Kelly

Elish Kelly joined the Economic and Social Research Institute as a Post Doctoral Fellow in September 2006, working in the Education and Labour Market Division. She received her Bachelors and Doctorate degrees in Economics from Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include migration, the impact of education and training, school to work transitions, and equality and the labour market. Elish has undertaken extensive research on the socioeconomic determinants of professionals' migration. She is currently a Research Analyst investigating the impact of the recession on the labour market, and is also conducting research on sports participation in Ireland.

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Torben Krings

Torben Krings is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Economic and Organisational
Sociology, Johannes Kepler University Linz. He previously worked as post-doctoral researcher at
the Employment Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin. His main research interests include
migration, industrial relations, work and employment, and European societies.

Camille Loftus

Camille Loftus specialises in policy on welfare-to-work transitions and the labour market, with a
focus on poverty and inequality, principally gender. Her experience includes front line service
delivery, policy advocacy, and research and consultancy services. She has worked with a number
of national social partner organisations including the Irish National Organisation of the
Unemployed, OPEN (national lone parents network), Mandate trade union and the National
Women's Council of Ireland; as well as with the WRC (social and economic consultants). She is
a former member of the National Economic and Social Council, and has participated in social
partnership deliberations on social welfare and tax reform, labour market policy, and the
National Anti-Poverty Strategy. Currently, Camille is pursuing a Social Policy PhD on flexicurity
and its application in the Irish context.

Bertrand Maître

Bertrand Maître is a Research Officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.
He has been at the Economic and Social Research Institute since 1997. His main research
interests focus on multidimensional approaches to poverty, social exclusion, quality of life as
well as the distribution and packaging of household income. Working on these issues
throughout various projects, he has gained extensive experience in the use of a wide range of
large European and Irish data sets. He has published articles on these issues in various
international journals: The European Sociological Review, The Journal of European Social Policy
and Social Indicators Research.

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Frances McGinnity

Frances McGinnity is a Senior Research Officer and joint programme coordinator, with Helen
Russell, of Equality Research at the ESRI. She received her doctorate from Nuffield College
Oxford in 2001 and came to the ESRI in 2004 from the Max Planck Institute for Human
Development in Berlin, Germany. Most of her research to date has examined labour market
inequality - unemployment, temporary employment, part-time work, gender and racial
discrimination, often from a comparative perspective. She is also interested in work-life balance,
time-use and migrant integration.

Seamus McGuinness

Seamus McGuinness joined the ESRI as a Research Officer in July 2007. Prior to this he held
posts at the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, The Economic Research Institute of
Northern Ireland and the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
(University of Melbourne). He obtained his PhD in economics from Queens University Belfast in
2003. His research interests relate primarily to the labour market and the economics of
education, however, he has also published work on small business economics and regional
economics.

Elaine Moriarty

Elaine Moriarty is Lecturer in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. Elaine's teaching and research interests include migration, mobility, labour markets, qualitative research methods and race and ethnicity. Elaine recently completed a three year study of Polish migrants in the Irish labour market (2007-2010) as part of the Trinity Immigration Initiative. She is currently working on 'Work and Mobility in the New Europe: Polish migration to Ireland Post 2004' (with Wickham, Krings, Bobek and Salamonska), to be published by Manchester University Press, Spring 2012. Elaine has a B.Soc.Sc from UCC, an M.Phil in Ethnic and Racial Studies and a PhD in Sociology from TCD. She previously worked for Comhlámh, Development Workers in Global Solidarity and served as director of AFrI (Action From Ireland) amongst other NGOs.

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Peter Mühlau

Peter Mühlau is Lecturer in European Employment Studies in the Department of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. He joined the Employment Research Council in 2006. Peter has researched and published on employment and organisation issues. Main interests include comparative labour market and employment studies, the economic and social integration of immigrants and the changing organisation of work and its implications for social inequality and employee well-being. Peter obtained a PhD in Social and Behavioural Sciences from the University of Groningen in 2000 and a MA in Sociology from the University of Bielefeld in 1988.

Brian Nolan

Brian Nolan is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Applied Social Science, UCD, Dublin.
He studied for a doctorate in economics at the London School of Economics. He was previously
Head of the Social Policy Research Division, in the Economic and Social Research Institute, and
worked as an economist in the Central Bank of Ireland. His main areas of research are poverty,
income inequality, the economics of social policy, and health economics and inequalities. Recent
publications include studies on social inclusion in the EU, equity in health service use, longterm
trends in top incomes, child poverty, deprivation and multiple disadvantage, tax/welfare
reform, and the minimum wage. He co-edited the Handbook of Economic Inequality (Oxford
University Press, 2009).

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Philip O'Connell

philip o'connellPhilip J. O'Connell is Research Professor and Head of Social Research at the ESRI. He received
his doctorate from Indiana University, Bloomington and taught at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has been a consultant on human resource development and labour
market issues to the European Commission and the OECD.


Most of his work focuses on the labour market. He has an enduring interest in equality at work
and in access to employment, publishing papers on wage inequality, on working conditions and
workplace practices, on the transition from unemployment and non-employment to work, and
on the experience of migrant workers in Ireland. He has been particularly focused on education
and training in the labour market. He has written several books on the determinants and effects
of work-related education and training, and published papers on this and other labour market
issues in the leading peer-reviewed journals.

Current research interests include: continuing education and training of employed workers;
active labour market programmes for the unemployed, equality in the labour market; working
conditions and work-place change; and migration and integration.

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Thomas Prosser

Thomas Prosser became Lecturer at Trinity College's Department of Sociology in September 2010. Prior to this, he was Research Fellow at Warwick University's Industrial Relations Research Unit, where he worked on the Unit's contract with the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He also completed a PhD at Warwick University in the field of European industrial relations under the supervision of Professor Paul Marginson. Thomas's research interests include European industrial relations and social policy, EU-level 'soft' law, workforce restructuring, and executive compensation regulation. He has expert consultancy experience with the European Commission and International Labour Organization, and has appeared in the international media discussing workforce restructuring. He has also worked as a visiting fellow at the University of Copenhagen and L'Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.

Helen Russell

Helen Russell is an Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute.
She is the Programme Coordinator for research on Social Inclusion and Social Cohesion and the
Quality of Life, and is joint Programme co-ordinator for Equality Research. She is also a member
of the management team of the Growing Up in Ireland study, a major longitudinal study of
children in Ireland. She holds a D.Phil. in Sociology from the University of Oxford. Before
joining the ESRI in 1998 she was a Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of
Oxford. Her research covers a range of inter-connecting issues relating to equality, the labour
market, the family and poverty/social inclusion.

James Wickham

James Wickham is Associate Professor of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin where he directs the Employment Research Centre, chairs the Policy Institute and is Head of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy. His current research focuses on employment and different forms of mobility, from migration to business air travel. He has just completed a research project on 'Migrant Careers and Aspirations' focusing on Polish migrants in Dublin. He is the author of Gridlock: Dublin's Transport Crisis and the Future of the City.

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Last updated 13 June 2014 policy.institute@tcd.ie .