I am Assistant Professor for Comparative Social Policy. At UCD I teach in the BSocSc Social Policy and Sociology and the Master of Public Policy. By background I am a political scientist and mixed-methods researcher. My research focusses on the privatisation and marketisation of social policies. This includes private pensions, private schools, school choice, housing wealth, inheritances. More recently, I have worked on large families, housing precariousness and family policies (e.g. paternity leave) as well as long-term care funding.