Date: Friday 12 September 2025
Time: 09.00 to 13.00
Location: Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin.
To register, please see our Eventbrite page: Homelessness, Substance Use & Recovery: Understanding, Policy & Practice Tickets.
This public engagement and dissemination event organised by Dr Paula Mayock, School of Social Work and Social Policy (TCD) and Dr Branagh O’Shaughnessy (York St John), will present findings from a study examining the lived experience of people with histories of homelessness and substance use disorder, in Ireland.
This half-day event will bring together academic researchers, homelessness organisation representatives, policy stakeholders, practitioners working with homeless adults, and individuals with lived experience to generate discussion and debate about how best to respond to the intersecting problems of homelessness and substance use disorder.
More information about the event, including its aim, the speakers and the schedule, can be found on the event website here.
This event is organised by
- Dr Paula Mayock, School of Social Work and Social Policy, TCD, pmayock@tcd.ie and
- Dr Branagh O’Shaughnessy, York St John University, UK, b.oshaughnessy@yorksj.ac.uk
The event is funded by Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS). Further information on TRiSS is available on their website.
