Joe Larragy

Dr Joe Larragy is a Lecturer in Social Policy. He joined the Department of Applied Social Studies in 2001. Joe studied Economics and Sociology in Trinity College Dublin, where he completed the BA Mod (Sociology). He has an MA in Social Theory from UCC and a PhD in Social Policy from UCD. His Doctoral research was on the Community and Voluntary Pillar in Social Partnership in Ireland 1987-2007. He has worked as a Tutor in the University of Limerick, Research Officer in the Department of Industrial Relations in UCD (1985-7), Research Officer at the National Council for the Elderly (1988-94), and Social Policy Analyst at the National Economic and Social Council (1994-99). He was a Newman Scholar at UCD in the Non-Profit Sector from 1999 until 2001. Joe joined the Department of Applied Social Studies, NUIM in 2001, where he contributes to the BSocSc, BACYW, MSocSc and other programmes. He lectures on undergraduate modules in Advanced Social Policy, Comparative and European Social Policy, Social Policy and Ageing, Welfare States in Times of Change, and Masters level courses in Participative Governance and in Social Gerontology. His research interests include Social Policy and Ageing, the Third Sector and Civil Society, and the involvement of community and voluntary sector organizations in forms of participative governance. His publications are in the areas of civil society and the state, social partnership in Ireland, ageing policy in Ireland. His book, Asymmetric Engagement: the Community and Voluntary Pillar in Irish Social Partnership, is due for publication by Manchester University Press in 2014. Joe has worked with several organisations in the statutory and NGO sector in Ireland in research, policy analysis and advisory roles, in particular in ageing related fields. He represented NUIM on the Board of the County Kildare Leader Partnership Company from October 2011 to December 2013. In 2012 he founded the Maynooth Green Campus Initiative, which he now chairs and is a member of the Academic Council. He is co-ordinator of the structured PhD programme in Applied Social Studies and year co-ordinator in the BSocSc programme at NUIM.