DrTricia Keilthy

Dr. Tricia Keilthy is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. Her full time role is Head of Social Justice and Policy at the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP). Her policy work with SVP focuses on poverty and inequality issues related to social protection, education, housing, employment and energy policy. Tricia has over twelve years experience of applied social research and has worked for a variety of organisations such as the Combat Poverty Agency, One Family, the Institute of Public Health in Ireland, as well as a variety of research roles with TCD and UCD. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on topics such as comparative social policy, family policy, and research methods. She is a member of the Living Wage Technical Group, the Technical Advisory Group on the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC), the Children’s Research Network and the Research Advisory Group for the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice. Tricia holds a PhD in Social Policy from UCD and a Masters in Applied Social Research from TCD and has particular expertise in quantitative data analysis.