Assoc ProfessorMicheal Collins

Dr Micheál L. Collins is Assistant Professor of Social Policy and Head of Social Policy at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. Prior to joining UCD, he was Senior Economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI). His research interests and publications are in the areas of income distribution and poverty, taxation, fiscal welfare, pensions, economic evaluation and public policy.

He was a member of Ireland’s Commission on Taxation (2008-2009), the Irish Government’s Advisory Group on Tax and Social Welfare (2011-2014) and served as the external member of the Irish Government’s interdepartmental group examining the reform of Ireland’s income tax and social insurance system (2017-18). He is a former member of the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (2015-2021) and a former chair of the Irish Social Policy Association (ISPA) and the Regional Studies Association (RSA) of Ireland. Micheál is current coordinator of the European Social Survey Round 11 in Ireland and the Irish representative on the EU-wide Cost Action PROFEEDBACK (Policy Evaluation EU COST action 20112).

Micheál is currently a member of the TCD Pensions Policy Research Group, Ireland’s Living Wage Technical Group and a fellow of the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy. He is a fellow of the Regional Studies Association (FeRSA)

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