Work Programme

• Land Use, Land Value and Urban Development

  Ireland’s housing system is facing a crisis. While there are many aspects to this crisis the issue of how to provide both affordable rental and owner-occupied housing for a growing proportion of the population remains paramount. It is also accepted that Ireland needs to achieve a substantial and sustained increase in the level of investment…

• Welfare and Employment

  Demographic, economic and social changes are having a profound impact on the future of our welfare system.  This project considers some of these dimensions with reference to previous work on the Developmental Welfare State (2005) and Moving from Welfare to Work: Low work intensity households and the quality of supportive services (2018).  Specifically, this project…

• Climate Change: Governance for Low Carbon Transition

  Ireland is in a critical phase of national policy development on climate change and transition to a low-carbon economy and society. There are considerable public governance challenges in such a transition. This project will address governance and institutional arrangements for policy analysis, engagement, decision making and implementation. Work is underway in three areas: Methods of…

• Jobless Households and the Quality of Supportive Services

  In Ireland, the percentage of people living in households where no-one is working or where there is only marginal attachment to the labour force is higher than in most other European countries. These ‘low work intensity’ households experience much higher poverty rates and there is a long-lasting negative impact on the children growing up in…