Dorren Mc Mahon is the "Youth Inequalities" Project Team Leader. |
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Biography
Dr. Dorren Mc Mahon is project director for this Marie Curie Excellence Grant on "Factors Influencing the Educational Inequality of Young People: A European and Comparative Perspective”. The project is hosted at The Geary Institute, University College Dublin.
Originally trained as a historian with an interest in religion, Dr. Mc Mahon received funding from the British Council/Foreign and Commonwealth Office to undertake her doctorate at Nuffield College, Oxford on Irish immigrants in post-war Britain using secondary data sources. Having successfully completed her doctorate she remained at Nuffield College for two years where she worked as a Research Officer with Prof. Anthony Heath on the British Election Studies and the British Social Attitudes Surveys.
Upon her return to Dublin Dr. Mc Mahon was based at the ESRI before moving to the Department of Sociology, University College Dublin to take up a tenured position. Following the award of an IRCHSS fellowship in 2003-04 she spent a sabbatical year at The Institute for the Study of Social Change [now The Geary Institute] working on the first PISA study as well as pursuing research on ethnic minorities.
Following the award of the Marie Curie Excellence Grant Dr. Mc Mahon is now based full-time at The Geary Institute alongside her project team. In addition to her work on the project she is a member of EQUALSOC, a network of excellence on social research in Europe. She is also a member of the Global Network on Inequality at Princeton and has hosted visits from four students working in the field of immigration and mothers returning to education.
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