Social Justice Matters

185. SJI Interviews 115: Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024 with Dr. Nat O'Connor

Nat O’Connor is lecturer in social policy in UCD’s School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice and part-time policy specialist at Age Action Ireland. He has taught politics and social policy since 1999. He has a PhD in political science from Trinity College Dublin and a MA in political science and social policy from the University of Dundee. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), a member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) and chairperson of the Irish Social Policy Association (ISPA). You can find him on LinkedIn (natoconnor) and TwitterX @natpolicy

Nat chats with Susanne Rogers about the impetus, reasoning and content in his recent report Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024 

 

 

184. *Special Edition* Budget Choices 2025 - Rural Ireland and the Environment

Research and Policy Analysts Michelle Murphy and Susanne Rogers chat through the key asks for Rural Ireland and the environment in Budget Choices 2025. 

Our Just Transition Policy Paper -  'Delivering a Just Transition for Ireland: Policy Options'

183. SJI Interviews Ep.114: We are Generation Rent with Gareth Redmond, Threshold.

Gareth Redmond is Research and Policy Officer with Threshold Ireland. He chats with Susanne Rogers about findings in the most recent We are Generation Rent - Threshold's Annual Tenant Sentiment Survey 2024. 

Simon Talks Webinar - Joined Up Thinking: Proposals on Social Housing Reform from the Housing Commission

Book - Out of Reach - Inequalities in the Irish Housing System 

Report of The Housing Commission

ESRI Report - Poor housing conditions harm family wellbeing

Security and Agency in the Irish Private Rental Sector

 

182. *Special Edition* Budget Choices 2025 - Income Adequacy

Research and Policy Analysts Michelle Murphy and Susanne Rogers chat through the key social welfare asks in Budget Choices 2025. 

181. SJI Seminars Ep.43: Rethinking our wardrobes for a fair and just transition with Carrie Ann Moran

Carrie Ann Moran is Consultant and Founder of Circular Fashion Ireland and Director at Fashion Revolution Europe. She is an award-winning Irish social entrepreneur, recognised nationally as a leading voice on circular fashion. For over 15 years, Carrie Ann has pushed sustainable fashion in Ireland, gaining recognition for her industry perspective and her pragmatic approach to embedding sustainability and circularity themes into the mainstream. She holds an honours degree in Law, Dip in Fashion, Post Grad Environmental Management and an MSc in Environmental Sustainability. She is also the country coordinator for Fashion Revolution Ireland annual campaign and was previously appointed to the National Advisory Committee of the Irish Government for the implementation of the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy. In 2020 Carrie was appointed by the European Commission as a judge on the European Social Innovation Competition “Reimagine Fashion”.

Carrie Ann’s expertise span numerous fields from lecturing, fashion design, environmental management, sustainability and labour rights. She is committed to bringing awareness of the environmental impacts and ethics within the fashion industry and works towards circularity and transparency.

Carrie Ann’s recently published research: The challenge of “Depeche Mode” in the fashion industry – Does the industry have the capacity to become sustainable through circular economic principles?

Carrie Ann presented her paper at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference. 

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2023 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

 

 

180. SJI Interviews Ep113: David Lohan on modern Slavery

David Lohan is an engineer from Galway, living in Cork. He has a research interest in human trafficking and modern slavery. His latest work is a book entitled At Freedom's Crossroads: Making Sense of Modern Slavery. The book is available in print and eBook formats. More Here. 

GRETA – the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

Global Slavery Index

2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Ireland

179. SJI Seminars Ep.42: Launch presentation of Social Justice Matters: a 2024 guide to a fairer Irish Society

We launched our socio-economic review for 2024 on Thursday, 2nd May 2024. This annual publication is where we present a detailed analysis of a range of key matters which are central to social justice; a vision of Ireland’s future as a just and sustainable society; and a policy framework to move consistently and coherently towards that society. 

In this episode, you can listen back to the presentations from this launch. The full publication is also available to download from our website here.

178. SJI Interviews Ep.112: Active Citizenship Voter Education with Fionnaigh Connaughton, Dublin Adult Learning Centre (DALC)

Fionnaigh Connaughton-O'Connor has worked for over 20 years as an adult literacy tutor, tutor trainer and most recently voter education.  She works for Dublin Adult Learning Centre (DALC). 

DALC provide targeted adult education services to ensure that everyone in the inner city has the opportunity to avail of their right to develop their literacy and numeracy skills. DALC’s core values are student centredness, empowerment, inclusivity and transformative learning. They are committed to social change, justice and equality. In Fionnaigh's experience, people with literacy difficulties or people who are excluded and margainalised are often not registered to vote and do not exercise their right to vote.  DALC believes that education is empowering and helps people reach their potential to participate fully in society. Exercising your right to vote is essential to this. Fionnaigh has also been involved in projects for NALA (literacy publications and prison education). DALC is committed to equality, education and including all in the democratic process in Ireland. 

 

Fionnaigh discusses the origins and content of the Active Citizenship Voter Education programme, why it's needed and the impact it has. 

 

More Information here: https://www.vote.ie/

 

Electoral / An Coimisiún Toghcháin Campaign

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Hope and Courage Collective

 

Your Voice, Your Vote: Voter Education & Active Citizenship

 

INOU Analysis

 

Active Citizenship Voter Education Course in Dublin - Adult Literacy for Life

 

177. SJI Interviews Ep.111: Paul Uzell and Dann Kenningham, All Together in Dignity on the campaign to Add the 10th

The All Together in Dignity (ATD) Ireland team are Paul Uzell, Tara Doherty and National co-ordinator, Dann Kenningham. Paul and Dann chat about the origins, aims and core work of the organisation and the #Add the 10th campaign to see socio- economic status recognised as the tenth ground of discrimination in Irish equality legislation.    

ATD Ireland 

Add the 10th Campaign

Breaking Barriers Report 

Walking, Thinking and Talking Research Project  

ATD Toolkit to Conducting Participatory Research 

Epistemic injustice (the injustice of knowledge) 

ATD Ireland Presentation of Hidden Dimensions of Poverty International Research to the World Bank Feb 2024

ATD Research on The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty

More on Father Joseph Wresinski

ATD International 

 

176. SJI Seminars Ep.41: Colette Bennett on Delivering Social Rights for Ireland.

A chance to listen back to Social Justice Ireland's paper, 'Delivering Social Rights for Ireland' presented by Economic and Social Analyst, Colette Bennett at our 2021 Annual Social Policy Conference. 

 

All videos, papers and presentations are for the 2021 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.