Joe Finnerty has taught on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School of Applied Social Studies since 1999. Reflecting some of his research interests and community engagement, this teaching has covered topics in housing rights, homelessness, social indicators and poverty measurement, and survey methods. Joe has also researched in the areas of young carers in Cork and of teenage drug users in Waterford.

Joe is the 2026 lead coordinator of the Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion workshop in the European Network of Housing Researchers Oslo research conference http://www.enhr.net/welfarepolicy.php

He is a member of the Human Rights – Universal and Global (HRUG) working group on human rights, anchored in the Human Rights Centre at the Law School of Central South University, Changsha, China. https://www.hrug.legal/

Joe has acted as referee and as book reviewer for numerous journals, including: Housing Studies; The Journal of Social Policy; Critical Social Policy; Housing Policy Debate; The European Journal of Homelessness; Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine; Journal of Co-operative Studies; Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, and for Policy Press (Bristol).

My current research interests are in the areas of: housing rights; homelessness prevention; precarity in the private rental sector; housing tenure trajectories; and the measurement of severe housing deprivation.