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Christopher T. Whelan is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Sociology and the Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin, an Associate Member at Nuffield College, Oxford, a Research Affiliate at the Economic and Social Research Institute and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was formerly Professor of Sociology, in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast, Chair of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation and the European Consortium for Sociological Research. His research interests include the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality, social mobility and inequality. He has published extensively on these topics and on economic and social change in Ireland during bust and boom.

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Latest Publications:

Poverty, economic stress and quality of life: lessons from the Irish case

The intergenerational impact of The Great Recession on economic stress in Ireland in a comparative perspective

Social Risk and Social Class Patterns in Poverty and Quality of Life in Ireland, 2004-2013

Child Economic Vulnerability Dynamics in the Recession

Technical Paper on Measurement of Multidimensional Quality of Life in Ireland

The Great Recession and the Changing Intergenerational Distribution of Economic Stress across Income Classes in Ireland: A comparative perspective

Polarization or “Squeezed Middle” in the Great Recession?: A Comparative European Analysis of the Distribution of Economic Stress

Economic Stress and the Great Recession in Ireland: Polarization, Individualization or 'Middle Class Squeeze'?

The Impact of the Great Recession on Families with Children

Family Economic Vulnerability and the Great Recession: an Analysis of the First Two Waves of the Growing Up in Ireland Study

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Monitoring Trends in Poverty - Analysis of the 2001 Living in Ireland Survey

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