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Governance of Growing Up in Ireland
Roles and Responsibilities Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Central Statistics Office The Department of Children Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) and the Central Statistics Office (CSO) work in collaboration to deliver the Growing Up in Ireland Study. While DCEDIY and the CSO each have these distinct responsibilities in relation…
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Growing Up in Ireland Data Workshops
Workshop Schedule We aim to host Growing Up in Ireland data workshops quarterly; the most recent data workshop took place on March 12th 2025. Information about upcoming workshops will be advertised on this website, on our social media channels, and via our mailing list. About Workshops cover a broad range of topics and aim to…
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Dr Aisling Murray, Senior Research Officer
Aisling has been a full-time researcher on the Growing Up in Ireland Study Team since 2006 and is currently a Senior Research Officer. She leads the GUI Research Team on work with both the ’98 and ’08 Cohorts including stakeholder consultation, survey design, data analysis, and writing of Growing Up in Ireland reports. She has…
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Aoife Murphy, Fieldwork Manager
Aoife is the Fieldwork Manager on the Growing Up in Ireland study. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and French from Trinity College Dublin and a Master of Science degree in Project Management from UCD’s Smurfit Business School. She began working on the project in 2007.
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Caroline Goodwin, Project Support Administrator
Caroline Goodwin, Project Support Administrator Caroline joined Growing Up in Ireland in 2015 and became Project Support Administrator the following year. Project support responsibilities include preparing questionnaires and reports, organising events, processing expenses/invoices and dealing with queries from the public. She graduated from Maynooth University with a Msc. in Economic and Financial Risk Analysis in…
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Elizabeth Burke, Field Staff Support
Elizabeth has worked with the Growing Up in Ireland team since September 2007. In her role as an Executive Officer in the Field Room her duties include assigning fieldwork to interviewers, monitoring the progress of interviews, and other administrative duties. Elizabeth holds a degree in Social Science from UCD.
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Dr Amanda Quail, Senior Research Officer (Survey and Data Manager)
Amanda Quail is the Growing Up in Ireland Survey and Data Manager and is based in the ESRI. Amanda first joined the ESRI in January 2003, where she worked as a Surveys Executive in the Survey Division before joining the Growing Up in Ireland team as a Research Fellow in April 2006. She is currently…
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James Williams
Professor James Williams James Williams is a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute and formerly Principal Investigator of Growing Up in Ireland. He holds B.A. from UCD as well as an M.A. He obtained a Dip. Applied.Stats from TCD in 1986 and an M.Econ.Sc in Economics and Econometrics from UCD in 1987.…
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Professor Dorothy Watson, Joint Principal Investigator
Dorothy Watson is a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science from University College Cork; and her MSc and PhD (both in sociology) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dorothy took over as joint Principal Investigator of Growing Up in Ireland in July 2018. In…