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 and 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. In the housing and homelessness area, Joe is one of the coordinators of the Welfare Policy, Homelessness and Social Exclusion working group in the European Network of Housing Researchers http://www.enhr.net/welfarepolicy.php Joe has acted as referee and as book reviewer for numerous journals, including: Housing StudiesJournal of Social Policy Critical Social PolicyHousing Policy DebateThe European Journal of Homelessness Gerontology and Geriatric MedicineJournal of Co-operative Studies Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies. Joe acted as rapporteur in 2012 for the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), in an End of Award Report for research into Multiple Exclusion Homelessness Across the UK. In the late 1990s, he was a DJ on the Cork pirate radio station K2, helming a current affairs -cum-music show - trading as Finlop and Dunlay (a twist on the Fergus Finlay and Frank Dunlop show of similar vintage) on Saturday afternoons, with the Cork poet Diarmuid O'Dalaigh (with music supplied by Cork deejay and musicologist John Byrne). In the early 2000s, Joe was one of the founders (along with Rosie Meade, Fintan Lane, Diarmuid O'Dalaigh, and Donal O' Drisceoil) of

My current research interests are in the areas of entries into and exits from homelessness, precarity in the private rental sector, housing tenure trajectories, and the role of indicators in anti-poverty policy.