Adrienne McManus

Adrienne McManus is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Tax, Welfare and Pensions team at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Her research interests are on the political economy of welfare, the distributional and behavioural effects of welfare policy and reform, and health and social care policy.

Adrienne is completing a PhD in Social Policy at the University of Oxford, where she was a Centenary Scholar. Her doctoral research examines how public attitudes and behaviours towards government and the welfare state were shaped by family, labour market and health policy interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adrienne holds an MSc in Public Policy and Human Development from UNU-MERIT. Her MSc research examined the distributional effects of tax and benefit systems using microsimulation methods. She also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin. Prior to joining the ESRI, Adrienne spent several years at the World Bank working on health systems, crisis financing and social policy.