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Growing Up in Ireland - NLSCI has been commissioned by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in association with the Department of Social Protection and the Central Statistics Office. A consortium of researchers led by the ESRI and The Children’s Research Centre at Trinity College Dublin has been commissioned to carry out the study.
The study is co-directed by Professor James Williams, Research Professor, ESRI and Professor Mark Morgan, Visiting Professor, Trinity College Dublin. Professor James Williams is Principal Investigator and from the start of the project until September 2011, the co-director was Professor Sheila Greene, formerly of the Children's Research Centre in Trinity College.
Professors Williams and Morgan are supported by a project management team of six Theme Directors/co-Directors as well as seven research fellows and a communications and administration function. The fieldwork is implemented by a team of fieldwork support officers and operations management. In addition a panel of 45 experts, drawn from academic and research institutions from Ireland, Britain and Sweden, provide advice and input into the study.
Study Team Members
Directors: Professor James Williams, Research Professor, ESRI and Professor Mark Morgan, Visiting Professor at the School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.
Theme Directors: Professor Richard Layte (ESRI), Professor Tom O’Dowd (TCD), Dr Paula Mayock(TCD), Professor Emer Smyth (ESRI), Dr Dorothy Watson (ESRI), Dr Elizabeth Nixon (TCD)
Research Fellows: Dr. Cathal McCrory (ESRI), Dr. Aisling Murray (ESRI), Amanda Quail (ESRI), Dr. Maeve Thornton (ESRI), Dr. Erika Doyle (TCD), Dr Sinead McNally (TCD)
Communications Officer: Jillian Heffernan (TCD)
Administrator: Claire Delaney (ESRI)
Fieldwork Team Members (ESRI)
Operations Manager: Pauline Needham
Fieldwork Supervisor: Aoife Murphy
Fieldwork and Clerical Support: Fiona Burke, Jackie Gleeson, Alan Kennedy, Sheila Nelson, Elizabeth Ryan, Paula Fennell
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