Christopher T. Whelan (0000-0002-3387-5036)

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I joined the School of Sociology in April 2009 and was Head of the School of Sociology from September 2009-August 2011. I am currently an Emeritus Professor in the School of Sociolog, UCD and a Senior Fellow at the Geary Institute. From 1 September 2012 I took up a position as Professor in Sociology at the School of Sociology & Social Policy, Queen's University Belfast.

I was formerly a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute. I acted as Chair of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation from 2002 to 2006 and of the Governing Council of the EU Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC) Network of Excellence from 2005-2009. I was Chair of the European Consortium for Sociological Research, of which the School of Sociology and the Geary Institute are members, from September 2009 - August 2012.

My research interests include the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality, quality of life and social mobility and inequality of opportunity. I have published on these topics in leading international academic journals and have contributed as author and editor to a number of volumes dealing with economic and social change in Ireland. I am Member of the Royal Irish Academy, associate editor of the European Sociological Review and a member of the editorial board of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.I took my primary degree in Psychology at UCD before taking an M.Sc in Sociology from LSE and a Ph.D in Sociology from the University of London. My research interests have evolved over time to cover industrial sociology, social stratification and social mobility, values, poverty and social exclusion and the life cycle.

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Queen's University Belfast: Belfast, Belfast, GB

2012-09-01 to present | Professor (Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work)

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Christopher T. Whelan

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Queen's University Belfast: Belfast, Belfast, GB

University College Dublin: Dublin, IE

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University of London: London, London, GB

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ANALYSING INTERGENERATIONAL INFLUENCES ON INCOME POVERTY AND ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY WITH EU-SILC

Economic vulnerability and severity of debt problems: An analysis of the Irish EU-SILC 2008

Material deprivation, economic stress, and reference groups in Europe: An analysis of EU-SILC 2009

The social stratification of social risks: The relevance of class for social investment strategies

Identifying childhood deprivation: How well do national indicators of poverty and social exclusion in Ireland Perform?

Low Pay, In-Work Poverty And Economic Vulnerability: A Comparative Analysis Using Eu-Silc

Understanding material deprivation: A comparative European analysis

Comparing poverty indicators in an enlarged European union

Identifying economically vulnerable groups as the economic crisis emerged

Mapping patterns of multiple deprivation using self-organising maps: An application to EU-SILC data for Ireland

Poverty in Ireland in comparative European perspective

Understanding the socio-economic distribution of multiple deprivation: An application of self-organising maps

Using non-monetary deprivation indicators to analyze poverty and social exclusion: Lessons from Europe?

Welfare regime and social class variation in poverty and economic vulnerability in Europe: An analysis of EU-SILC

Comparing work-life conflict in Europe: Evidence from the European Social Survey

Europeanization of inequality and European reference groups

Explaining social class inequalities in smoking: The role of education, self-efficacy, and deprivation

The 'Europeanisation' of reference groups: A reconsideration using EU-SILC

"New" and "old" social risks: Life cycle and social class perspectives on social exclusion in Ireland

Social class variation in risk: A comparative analysis of the dynamics of economic vulnerability

Income, deprivation and economic stress in the enlarged European Union

Levels and patterns of material deprivation in Ireland: After the 'celtic tiger'

Measuring material deprivation with Eu-Silc: Lessons from the Irish survey

Understanding the implications of choice of deprivation index for measuring consistent poverty in Ireland

Comparing poverty and deprivation dynamics: Issues of reliability and validity

Economic boom and social mobility: The Irish experience

Trends in economic vulnerability in the Republic of Ireland

Economic vulnerability, multidimensional deprivation and social cohesion in an enlarged European community

Vulnerability and multiple deprivation perspectives on economic exclusion in Europe: A latent class analysis

Welfare regimes and households income packaging in the European Union

Understanding the mismatch between income poverty and deprivation: A dynamic comparative analysis

Persistent income poverty and deprivation in the European Union: An analysis of the first three waves of the European community household panel

Late Industrialization and the Increased Merit Selection Hypothesis: Ireland as a Test Case

Multiple deprivation and persistent poverty in the European Union

Explaining levels of deprivation in the European Union

Income, deprivation, and economic strain an analysis of the European community household panel

Persistent and consistent poverty in the 1994 and 1995 waves of the European community household panel survey

Reassessing income and deprivation approaches to the measurement of poverty in the Republic of Ireland

Targeting poverty: Lessons from monitoring Ireland's national anti-poverty strategy

Urban housing and the role of 'underclass' processes: The case of Ireland

Class inequalities in educational attainment among the adult population in the Republic of Ireland

Social mobility in Ireland in the 1990s: Evidence from the 1994 Living in Ireland Survey

Youth unemployment and psychological distress in the Republic of Ireland

Measuring poverty using income and deprivation indicators: Alternative approaches

Morginalization, deprivation, and fatalism in the Republic of Ireland: Class and underclass perspectives

Modelling trends in social fluidity: The core model and a measured-variable approach compared

Social class, unemployment, and psychological distress

Resources, deprivation and the measurement of poverty