Staff

Personal Information
Name	O'Sullivan, Tomás Eoin
College Address	School of Social Work and Social Policy,
Main Department	School of Social Work & Social Policy
College Title	Associate Prof in Social Policy
E-mail	tosullvn@tcd.ie
College Tel	+353 1 896 2548
Web	http://people.tcd.ie/tosullvn


Teaching interests and responsibilities
Undergraduate courses taught include: Comparative Penal Policy, Crime and Irish Society and Contemporary Issues in Criminology. Also contributes to the Post-graduate Diploma in Child Protection and Welfare, Diploma in Addiction Studies and the Msc. in Drug and Alcohol Policy.


Professional Qualifications

Qualification	Institution	Class of Degree	Title of Dissertation	Date Conferred
B.A. Sociology, Politics, History	University College Galway			1988
M .A. Sociology	University of Limerick			1990
Ph.D. Social Policy	University of Dublin, Trinity College			1999

Representations

Details	Date
Research consultant to RTE documentary States of Fear. This three part documentary has won five media awards, including best documentary in the English Language at the Irish Film and Theatre Awards.
External Examiner in Social Policy for Cork and Waterford Institutes of Technology, 2000 - 2005; The University of Ulster, Degree and Post-Graduate Diploma / M.Litt in Housing Studies 2002-2007; Social Policy and Criminology, the Institute of Public Administration, 2006-10; UG programme in Criminology, Queens University Belfast, 2010-2013.
Ministerial Appointee to the Department of Environment and Local Government established Planning Group on Rental Assistance	2000 - 2004
Ministerial appointee to the Private Residential Tenancies Board	2004-2009 and 2009-2013
Ministerial Appointee to the Rent Tribunal 2009-2012


Administrative Functions

Details	Level	Date From	Date To
Couse Co-ordinator, Moderatorship in Sociology and Social Policy,2002-2004, 2005-2007; Member of the Junior Promotions Committee, 2006 - ; Member of the Executive of the School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2006-.
Director of Teaching and Learning Postgraduate		2007	2011
Head of School of Social Work and Social Policy		2011	2014

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
Member of the Social Policy Association
Member of the British Society of Criminology
Member of the European Society of Criminology


Awards and Honours

Award	Date
FTCD	2006


Employment Details

Position Held	Job Description	Where	Date From	Date To
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, School of Social Work and Social Policy		University of Dublin, Trinity College	2008
Lecturer in Social Policy, Department of Social Studies		University of Dublin, Trinity College	1999	2008
Research Fellow and Part-time Lecturer in Social Policy		Department of Social Studies, University of Dublin, Trinity College	1995	1999
Visiting Research Fellow		Program on Non-Profit Studies, Yale University	Autumn 1998	Autumn 1998
Research Officer		Streetwise National Coalition	1991	1995
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Description of Research Interests

Housing Policy, Homelessness, Comparative Penal Policy, Comparative Welfare States, History of Irish Social Policy.

Publications

Peer Reviewed

O'Donnell, I., O'Sullivan, E. and Hughes, N., Sourcebook of Irish Criminal Justice Statistics, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2005, 412pp
Doherty, J., de Dreker, P., Busch-Geertsema, V., O'Sullivan, E., Sahlin, I., Tosi, A. and Patari, J., The Changing Role of the State: The State and the Housing Markets of Europe, Brussels, European Observatory on Homelessness, 2004, 25pp Url
Kilcommins, S., O'Donnell, I., O'Sullivan, E. and Vaughan, B., Crime, Punishment and the Search for Order in Ireland, Dublin, Institute of Public Administration, 2004, 348pp
Raftery, M. and O'Sullivan, E., Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools, 2nd Ed., New York, Continuum Publishers, 2001, 426pp
0' Donnell, I. and 0' Sullivan, E., Crime Control in Ireland: The Politics of Intolerance, Cork University Press, Cork, 2001, 102pp
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