Jamie Gorman

I am a community work and youth work practitioner, educator and researcher with a passionate commitment to social & environmental justice, equality and human rights. In the Department of Applied Social Studies, I serve as the first-year co-ordinator of the BSocSc Community Work & Youth Work and co-ordinator of the BA Applied Social Studies programme.

Public contributions

• Convenor of the Climate Justice Working Group of Community Work Ireland;
• Convenor of the Climate Justice Working Group of Maynooth Green Campus;
• Member of the Maynooth University Social Justice Week Committee;
  
• Representative of the Department of Applied Social Studies on Youth Action Northern Ireland’s Climate Justice Critical Thinking Pool.

Previous experience
Before joining the Department as a full-time staff member, I worked as development worker with Galway City Community Network (the Public Participation Network for Galway City), an occassional lecturer on environmental justice in Maynooth University and in a variety of roles as a freelance facilitator, trainer and researcher.I have been actively engaged in the climate justice movement in local, national and global spaces for over a decade. From 2019-20, I lived for a year as a Buddhist monk in Chithurst Forest Monastery, West Sussex, which was a practical exploration of how humanity can live in tune with one another and nature.

I have served as board member and chairperson of Friends of the Earth Ireland (2016-19) and as a board member of Community Work Ireland (2011-16), Young Friends of the Earth Europe (2013-15), the National Youth Council of Ireland (2009-11) and Scouting Ireland (2008-11).

I hold a professionally endorsed (AIEB and NSETS) MA qualification in community work and youth work and a BA in history, where I focused in my dissertation on the history of insanity in 19th century Ireland.