Fiona Dukelow is a senior lecturer in social policy and research associate with the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century. She is co-director of the Masters in Social Policy and Social Justice (Online) and co-academic director of the Adult Continuing Education Diploma in Environment, Climate and Sustainability. She was previously director of the Bachelor of Social Science degree, 2018-2023.

Research interests include the lived experience of social policy and welfare reform, and eco-social policy, particularly from a post-growth perspective. This builds on long-standing interests in the areas of activation and social protection policy, as well as in the areas of welfare austerity, welfare states in crisis and neoliberalism.

Modules taught:

• SS2029 Politics and Social Policy II (Part 1)
• SS3050 Politics and Social Policy V
• SS1102 Social Analysis
• SS6105 Social Policy and Social Exclusion
• SS6812 Social Policy and Social Justice
• SS6815 Sustainability, Climate Justice and Eco-Social Policies
• SS7002 Philosophies of Social Science
• SS7006 State and Society

Modules with research supervision:

• SS3031 Bachelor of Social Science Social Research Report
• SS6813 Dissertation in Social Policy and Social Justice

Marie-Claire McAleer  (co-supervised with Dr Liz Kiely)

Teresa O'Donovan (co-supervised with Dr Catherine Forde)

Edith Busteed (co-supervised with Dr Margaret Buckley and Dr Tracey Skillington, Department of Sociology and Criminology)

Ger Spillane (co-supervised with Prof Cathal O'Connell)

Sinéad O'Neill (co-usupervised with Dr Eileen Hogan)

Lydia Sapouna 2023: Inclusion paradoxes in mental health: Critical reflections on knowledge, (in)justice and privilege

Margaret Buckley 2020: Exhuming insights: what burial records can tell us about the aged poor and emerging welfare provision in Limerick City, 1875 to 1925

Joe Whelan 2020: Solidarity or Stigma? A Critical Realist Exploration of the Anatomy of Irish Welfare Stigma

Claire Dorrity 2019: The Political Representation of Asylum Seekers by Migrant NGOs in Ireland: Examining the policy and practice of deliberative engagement

Cliona Loughnane 2016: Problematising Big Food's Appetite for Policymaking: the case of childhood obesity