Research Officer

Email: caitriona.delaney@tudublin.ie

Caitriona Delaney is a Research Officer at RINCE at the Technological University of Dublin and currently working on two EU funded projects - EDIRE (https://edire.eu/) and NEXUS. Mainly involved in qualitative research, she has particular experience with narrative interviewing methods (composite narratives, narrative inquiry, narrative interviews). Caitriona also has experience with evaluation studies gained during her time working with NGOs. Her interests and experience include intersectionality, particularly the intersection of gender and socio-economic status, inequality and the labour market. Caitriona holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Dublin (Trinity College Dublin). She has been involved in a variety of projects in the areas of inequality.

Research Interests 

Narrative Inquiry, Intersection of Class and Gender, Stigma, Inequality

Select Publications

• Bobek, Alicja, Sara Clavero, Sylvia Gavigan and Mark Ryan. 2023. The COVID-19 Pandemic in Ireland and the Gendered Division of Care Work: The Impact of the Pandemic on Childcare Policy, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxad011 
• Delaney, Caitriona, Alicja Bobek and Sara Clavero. 2023. "It was too much for me": Mental load, mothers and working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic", Frontiers in Psychology-Organizational Psychology, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1208099/full?&utm_source=Email_to_authors_&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=T1_11.5e1_author&utm_campaign=Email_publication&field=&journalName=Frontiers_in_Psychology&id=1208099 
• (Better) Stories from the Pandemic. 2023. Sweden: Orebro University Press. https://resistire-project.eu/project-news/blog/introducing-resistires-book-of-narratives-better-stories-from-the-pandemic/
• Share, M. Delaney, C. & Mc Daid R. 2023. How Do Doctoral Students Experience Writing and Thesis production? Qualitative Analysis of the Irish National Survey of Postgraduate Students. AISHE J Volume 15, Number 2
• Share, M. Share, P, & Delaney, C. 2022. More Than Food: Surplus Food Distribution during the Covid-19 pandemic: Abridged report. Dublin: FoodCloud. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/99583
• Share, Michelle, Caitriona Delaney, and Rory Mc Daid. 2023. How Do Doctoral Students Experience Writing and Thesis production? Qualitative Analysis of the Irish National Survey of Postgraduate Students. AISHE Vol. 15 No. 2 (2023): Summer 2023. https://studentsurvey.ie/sites/default/files/users/user27/StudentSurvey.ie%20&%20TCD%20MIE_Qual%20Analysis%204_2021.pdf

• The Changing Lives Consortium. 2021. Final report on Outcomes, Process and
  Economic Evaluations.
• McDonald, S. & Delaney, C. (2018) ‘How are they doing now?’ Well-Being amongst   14-year olds in Clondalkin.