Dr Philip Finn
Biography
I completed my PhD in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, in 2019. The PhD is titled Playing With the Absurdity of Welfare: Experiences of Irish Welfare Conditionality. The thesis utilises in-depth qualitative interviews with jobseekers to explore interactions with welfare agencies and the complex multilayered navigation of welfare obligations.
After completing my PhD I continued to teach across the sociology and politics programmes in the department at both undergraduate and masters level.
In 2022 I joined the School of Law and Criminology as an Irish Research Council Enterprise Scheme (Postdoctoral) award holder carrying out a research project co-funded by the Irish Research Council and the Arts Council of Ireland. The project explores the impact of the welfare system on the working lives of artists with disabilities.
Research Interests
Research Projects
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Finn P. (2021) 'Navigating indifference: Irish jobseekers' experiences of welfare conditionality'. Administration, 69 (2):67-86. [DOI] | |
2022 | Finn P.; Murphy M.P. (2022) 'A Multi-Dimensional View of Stigma Experienced by Lone Parents in Irish Homeless and Employment Services'. Social Policy and Society, . [DOI] [Full-Text] |
Blog
Year | Publication | |
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2020 | Finn P. (2020) Navigating the absurdity of Irish welfare. BLOG [Link] |
Honors and Awards
Teaching Interests
Sociology of work and employment, classical social theory, special topic research group: Experience, inventiveness and resistance in everyday life, the crafts and logics of special topic research, political theory, political parties, elections and corruption.
Masters:
Qualitative methods, Pathways: Education, Work and Ageing, supervision of research projects.