Nat O'Connor

    Applied Social Studies

    About

    Nat O’Connor holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and an MA from the University of Dundee. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2015. Nat has many years of experience working as a public policy professional, including in Leinster House (national parliament), in Ulster University, in the independent think-tank TASC and in the Homeless Agency, as well as an independent consultant. Nat’s research interests include economic inequality, civil society and public value creation, as well as research methods. Nat has taught social policy analysis at Maynooth University since 2005.

     
     
    RECENT PUBLICATIONS
    Year                       Publication
    2018               O’Connor, N., Ketola M. and O’Connor, K. (2018) Review of the Work and Impact of the Centre for Effective Services. CES
    2018               O’Connor, N. and Ketola, M. (2018) Powering Civil Society. Enabling Citizens series. The Wheel
    2018               O’Connor, N. (2018) The potential for public value frameworks in Northern Ireland and Ireland, Administration, 66(3):33-54 DOI: 10.2478/admin-2018-0026
    2018               O’Connor, N. (2018), Economic inequality, social policy and a good society, Local Economy, 33(6):583-600. DOI: 10.1177/0269094218802987
    2017               O’Connor, N. (2017) Making an Impact: The Public Value of Citizens Information Services in Ireland. Citizens Information Board.
    2017               O’Connor, N. (2017), Three connections between rising economic inequality and the rise of populism, Irish Studies in International Affairs, DOI: 10.3318/isia.2017.28.5
    2016               O’Connor, N. (2016) Let’s Commission for Communities. The Wheel
    2016               O’Connor, N. and Sweeney, P. (2016), Crisis and corporate welfare, chapter in The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century. DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-57138-0_12
    2015               O’Connor, N. and Staunton, C. (2015) Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland, TASC
     
    2015               O’Connor, N. (2015), International trends in freedom of information, and Conclusion, chapters in book Ireland and the Freedom of Information Act: FOI@15, ISBN 9781784997175