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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Mc Cashin, Anthony | |
| Main Department | School of Social Work & Social Policy | |
| College Title | Lecturer & Coodinator Sociology & Social | |
| amccshin@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1312 | |
| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/amccshin | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Chairman, Social Policy Advisory Group, Simon Community National Office | 1990 - 1994 |
| Member of Threshold Research Advisory Group. | 1998-2000 |
| Occasional contributor to magazines of Combat Poverty Agency (Poverty Today), Homeless Agency (Cornerstone) and the Irish Times |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Vice Chairman, Irish Social Policy Association Member of Social Policy Association, UK Member of ESPAnet, European Social Policy Association Network Member of Institute of European Afairs Member of Economic and Social Research Institute Member of Social and Statistical Inquiry Society of Ireland | currently |
| Description of Research Interests |
| Analysis of Social Policy in Ireland Social Security, Poverty and Income Distribution Lone Parent Families and Family Policy Housing Policy Public Opinion, Social Attitudes and the Welfare State |
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| Housing policy, homelessness | Politics of the welfare state | Poverty | Social partnership process, theories of local partnership |
| Social security policy |
| Research Projects | |
| Project title | Irish Social and Political Attitudes Survey |
| Summary | Designed a module on attitudes to poverty, inequality and social policy in the ISPAS-this was a national interview survey of adults' social and poitical attitudes and behaviour. Fieldwork undertaken in 2002 (collaborators Dr Diane Payne and Dr Niamh Hardiman, UCD) |
| Funding Agency | IRCHSS |
| Programme | |
| Type of Project | Social Survey |
| Date from | 2000 |
| Date to | 2005 |
| Person Months | 6 |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Anthony McCashin, Social Security in Ireland, First, Dublin, Gill and Maccmillan, 2004, 3 - 373pp Notes: [A historical and analytical overview of social security in Ireland and an analysis of curent policy problems in Irish social security] |
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| Anthony McCashin, Employment Aspects of Young Lone Parenthood, Dublin, National Youth Federation and TREOIR, July, 1997 Notes: [A review of trends in employment among yooung lone parents based on secondary analysis of Census and Labour #Force Survey data] |
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| Anthony McCashin, Lone Mothers in Ireland. A Local Study., First, Dublin, Oaktree Press, 1996, 1 - 214pp Notes: [A qualitative study in one local community of the social and financial circumstances of low-income lone mothers] |
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| Anthony McCashin, Lone Parents in the Republic of Ireland: Enumeration, Description and Implications for Social Security., n.a., Dublin, Economic and Social Research Institute, 1993, 1 - 123pp Notes: [A statistical overview of the social, economic and demographic circumstances of lone parents in the Republic of Ireland, an estimate of financial poverty and a critique of social security provisions for lone parents] |
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| A. McCashin and L. .Ioyce, Poverty and Social Policy, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 1982, 156pp | |
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