Brian Conway

Biography

I completed my undergraduate degree at University College Dublin and the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Following this, I earned a MSW degree at the University of Pittsburgh, specialising in community organisation. I then did MA and PhD degrees in sociology at the University of Notre Dame. I began lecturing in NUIM in 2005. During the 2006-7 academic year, I took up a lecturer position in the School of Applied Social Studies at Robert Gordon University, Scotland, and returned to NUIM in 2007. During the course of my research, I have held visiting research scholar positions at the universities of Cambridge, Essex, and Oxford. Most recently, I was a visiting scholar in the Institute of Sociology at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. Prior to taking up an academic career, I worked in programme evaluation and grassroots organising roles in two high-poverty urban neighborhoods in the U.S., as a research assistant in the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, as a researcher in Moy Valley Resources/IRD North Mayo-West Sligo, and as a Housing Liaison Officer at Carlow Town Council.

Research Interest

Sociology