Dr. Evelyn Mahon

Dr Evelyn Mahon was educated at NUIG, the London School of Economics, and University of London. She Lectured at the University of Limerick until 1991 when she joined the Department of Sociology at TCD. Her early research interests and publications were in women's movements, gender equity in the workplace, and feminist theory.She was Director and co-Author of 'Women and Crisis Pregnancy (1998) the first study of abortion among Irish women ;Director of a HRB funded longitudinal study of couples undergoing infertility treatment in Ireland (2014) . In 2011, completed Post_Separation_Parenintg.pdf. (2011) a study of separation and divorce agreements made in the Family Law Circuit Courts funded by Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs .She was Irish partner in FLOWS-eu a FP7 research project on the impact of local welfare systems on women's participation in the labour force (2010-2014) and is currently working on COST Action IS1409 on Gender and health impacts of policies extending working life in western countries (2015-2018) Dr Mahon founded the M.Sc. in Applied Social Research in TCD in1997 and remained its Director until 2010. She also supervised many PH.D students. She retired as an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy in 2014 but remains a Fellow Emerita of the School.

  Abortion   Assisted Reproduction   Changing Fathers   Children's Rights   Divorce & Separation   Divorce and new family formations   Families & Social Change   Lone Mothers & Welfare   Women & Employment

FUNDED POLICY ORIENTATED RESEARCH I am an active researcher and have been highly successful in obtaining research funds through competitive tenders. Since 1995, I have generated almost £550,000 of research funding from both EU funding and government funding. The largest and most important of these was £220,000 for a research project on WOMEN AND CRISIS PREGNANCY. The report Women and Crisis Pregnancy was published by the department of Health and was covered extensively by the media, regularly referred to as 'the Trinity report'. This was my greatest research challenge to date and I was very pleased with its reception. It also led to the establishment of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency. ACADEMIC CONTRIBUTION TO EXTERNAL COMMITTEES: I was an assessor for the Humanities and Social Research Councils Scholarship scheme. I served on the Epidemiology, Health of the Population and Primary Care Committee of the Health Research Board. I am a member of the Department of Education's Gender Equality Unit's Research Committee, Chairperson of the Research Committee of the Homeless Agency, a member of the Committee of the National Social Work Qualification Board. At the invitation of HRB, I made a critical response to their policy document Making Knowledge Work for Health, at a national conference on health strategies in Dublin Castle. INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: I have been an invited keynote speaker at conferences organised by the following: Women in Management in the Civil Service Network; Network Ireland, The National Women's Council, The Health Research Board, Irish Medical Organisation. CONFERENCES PAPERS: Since the publication of the Women and Crisis Pregnancy study, I have addressed the annual conferences of CURA and LIFE; a conference on teenage pregnancies organised by the South Eastern Health Board and a North-South conference on Policies for Lone Parent. INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION: I am well known internationally and was the only Irish academic asked to convene a session at the European Sociological Association conference in 1996 in Essex. I was also an invited discussant to the session organised by Research Committee 19 of the 14th world Congress of Sociology on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy which took place on Friday July 31st 1998 in Montreal. The theme of the session was "A new division of Labour: Family Policy, Work and Care in Different Welfare Systems." I have chaired a session on Comparative Policy Research at the American Political Science Association conference in September 1998. This is part of my on-going work with the Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State (RNGS). We have already produced an edited collection entitled Comparative State Feminism (1995), and further publications are in press.