Kathleen Lynch

Expert from : Ireland

Working on : Education Inequalities and Social Justice

UCD Equality Studies Centre

UCD School of Social Justice

University College Dublin

Belfield

Dublin 4

IRELAND

+353-1-7167623

kathleen.lynch@ucd.ie

Further Information

Kathleen Lynch is the Professor of Equality Studies at University College Dublin where she also holds a Senior Lectureship in Education.
She is the founding co-ordinator of the UCD Equality Studies Centre (1990) and has played a leading role in the establishment of the School of Social Justice in UCD in 2005, of which Equality Studies forms a part.

Public Service and Policy-Related Work:

Appointed by the Government:
.    2003-2009 Women’s Health Council of Ireland (Minister for Health)
· 2006- 2009 National Consultative Committee on Racism and Inter-culturalism (NCCRI) (Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform)
·    1999- 2002 Appeals Commissioner (Department of Education and Science)
Appointed by Voluntary Organisations:
·    2005- 2008 Association for Higher Education and Access for People with Disabilities (AHEAD)
·    2005- PlANET - Umbrella organisation for the National Anti-Poverty Networks
·    2002- Present SAOL Inner City Drug User Education Project (Dublin)

Kathleen Lynch is also editorial board member for the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Disability and Society, Critical Studies in Education, and International Studies in Sociology of Education.

Select Publications: Books published since 1999

(2005) Lodge, A. and Lynch, K. (eds.) Diversity in School. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration (IPA)
(2004) Baker, J. Lynch, K. Cantillon, S. and Walsh, J. Equality: From Theory to Action, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2003) Lyons, M., Lynch, K., Close, S., Sheerin, E. and Boland, P. Inside Classrooms: The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics in Social Context. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration.
(2002) Lynch, K. and Lodge, A. Equality and Power in Schools: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation. London: Routledge.
(1999) Lynch, K. Equality in Education. Dublin, Gill and Macmillan

Books forthcoming (a major author in both)

(2008) Affective Equality, Who Cares? Gender, Care and Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
(2008) New Managerialism, Gender and Senior Appointments in the Public Sector (in preparation for Palgrave)