Social Justice Matters

225. SJI Seminars Ep.62: Prof. Charles M.A. Clark, St. John’s University on GDP, Wellbeing and Progress

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0100

Prof. Charles M.A. Clark, St. John’s University, New York presents his section on GDP, Wellbeing and Progress from our Annual Sustainable Progress Index 2026

224. SJI Interviews Ep.134: Renting on the Island of Ireland with Stephen Morrison, Housing Rights and Gareth Redmond, Threshold.

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Stephen Morrison, Policy Lead with Housing Rights and Gareth Redmond, Research and Policy Officer with Threshold

chat with Susanne Rogers about their joint all-island study of the private rental sector Renting on the Island of Ireland: An All-Island Survey of Private Rented Sector Tenants

223. SJI Seminars Ep.61: Labour market outcomes of third level graduates in high-income EU members. Is Father’s education important? with Ciarán Nugent

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme of ' Managing Change to Build a Just Society'. Ireland is going through several major transitions, each of which is only going to deepen with time. While much is changing, many of the problems facing our society are long-standing: inequality, poverty, and under-investment in our social infrastructure remain major challenges. Although the economy in Ireland has experienced record growth since the pandemic, infrastructure and services in areas such as housing, healthcare and public transport are far below the levels and standards that would be expected in a normally functioning society.

Ciarán Nugent is an Economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute.

Ciarán presented his paper at our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2024 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

222. SJI Interviews Ep.133: Ber Grogan and Carol Baumann, Simon Communities Of Ireland on Older Adult Homelessness in Ireland

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Ber Grogan, Executive Director of the Simon Communities of Ireland and Carol Baumann, CEO of Galway Simon Community talk through their recent report : Older Adult Homelessness in Ireland

Information on Simon Communities across Ireland can be found HERE.

221. SJI Seminars Ep.60: Marianna Baggio on 'Out of the shadows: understanding and formalising undeclared care work in the EU'

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Our 2025 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme 'Care in a Changing World', bringing together voices from across the care landscape — carers, advocates, policymakers and organisations — to explore how care, rights and inclusion must evolve in a changing world.

Marianna Baggio is a research officer in the Social Policies unit at Eurofound,working on aspects of the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), as well as on the topics of gender pay transparency and informal care. Prior to joining Eurofound, she served as a policy analyst at the Competence Centre for Behavioural Insights of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. She has worked as a postdoc at the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan) and the University of Trento. She also brings extensive experience from a previous role as corporate social responsibility (CSR) officer in South Africa. Marianna holds a PhD in Economics and Management from the University of Trento,specialising in behavioural economics.

She presented her paper 'Out of the shadows: Tackling undeclared care work in the EU'.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2025 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

220. SJI Interviews Ep.132: Dr. Naomi Feely, Children's Rights Alliance on 'Breaking the Cycle' and 'Breaking Silos, Building Futures' Reports on Child Poverty

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Dr. Naomi Feely is Policy Director with the Children's Rights Alliance.

She chats with Susanne Rogers about two recent documents related to measures tackling Child Poverty in Ireland.

Breaking the Cycle: New Measures in Budget 2026 to Address Child Poverty and Promote Well-being

Anois an tAm: Breaking Silos, Building Futures: Cross-Sector Action on Child Poverty

219. SJI Seminars Ep.59: Poverty Focus 2025

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000

In Poverty Focus we examine the nature and experiences of poverty in Ireland. Drawing on the available statistical evidence, we outline how poverty is measured, the value of the poverty line and consider many of the groups in our society who are most exposed to living life below the poverty line. This year we pay particular attention to impact of cost of living pressures.

This episode is a chance to listen back to the webinar launch of the publication which is available HERE.

218. SJI Seminars Ep. 58: Aoife Ní Lochlain on Aviation and Fairness in Climate Policy: The Case for Making Flying Pay

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Aoife Ní Lochlainn is Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Irish Environmental Network.

Aoife presented her paper at our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2024 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

217. SJI Interviews Ep.131: Social Justice Ireland on COP 30

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC is the upcoming 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025.

Our research and policy analyst Michelle Murphy briefly sets out what COP 30 is all about and what outcome is hoped for.

UN Climate Change Conference - Belém, November 2025

Delivering a Just Transition for Ireland: policy options

216. SJI Interviews Ep.130: Steven O'Connell from the Football Cooperative - A community football health intervention for Men

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Steven O’Connell is the founder of Football Cooperative, an award winning social enterprise that places recreational football as a hook to bring men together to get active delivering positive health outcomes. Through a place based model, Football Cooperative incorporates a network of recreational football sites and volunteer Game Coordinators that lead out weekly games year round. Games provide an opportunity for flexible, inclusive, and team based physical activity to form new friendships, share rich game experiences with a competitive edge.

In 2021, Steven led Football Cooperative to form an enterprise academic partnership with South East Technological University that measured the reach and impact of games following the principles of social return on investment. The social value of Football Cooperative was calculated to be for every €1 invested returned a social value of €17.60. As a result of this overwhelming evidence, Steven has engaged multiple key stakeholders to begin scaling up the initiative’s impact to more communities nationally.

Steven chats with us about the power behind a game of football and how it is changing lives.

Website: www.footballcooperative.ie

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/footballcooperative/

Movember - The Real Face of Men's Health Report Ireland 2025

215. SJI Seminars Ep 57: Matthew Donoghue on Enhancing Participation in Local Democracy? Opportunities and Challenges via Public Participation Networks

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Matthew Donoghue is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy, in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin.

Matthew presented his paper at our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2024 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

214. SJI Interviews Ep.129: Dearbháil Lawless on the power of Adult and Community Education

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Dearbháil is the Chief Executive Officer of AONTAS, the National Adult Learning Organisation. AONTAS is an all-island membership based advocacy organisation that was established in 1969. Dearbháil is a passionate advocate and educator who has taught in Community, Further and Higher Education. In 2022, she received a DCU Alumni Award, and she was previously shortlisted for Excellence in Academic Teaching. Dearbháil is undertaking her PhD in Maynooth University looking at working-class women's experiences in adult and community education. She believes that adult learning is the greatest tool for creating positive social change.

Dearbháil chats about what adult and community education is, what it delivers for individuals and communities and AONTAS recent campaigns and research findings.

AONTAS Publications

Community Education: Local, Lifelong, Life Changing Campaign 2025

Learn more at www.aontas.com

213. SJI Seminars Ep. 56: John Barry - Just transition: a conflict transformation approach

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0100

John Barry is Professor of Green Political Economy in the Centre for Sustainability, Equality and Climate Action at Queens University Belfast.

John delivered his paper, 'Just transition: a conflict transformation approach' at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference - A Just Transition - Conference Videos and Papers

212. SJI Interviews Ep.128: Food Poverty in Ballyfermot and Cherry Orchard with Triona O'Sullivan and Anne Fitzgerald

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Liffey Partnership was established as a response to long term unemployment and poverty. They host and support a wide range of programmes dedicated to employment, education, community, enterprise, parenting, health and wellbeing. The mission is to bring people together to work for a fair and just society for all, aiming to strengthen bonds between individuals and communities and providing a path for diverse voices to be heard, respected, and celebrated.

Anne Fitzgerald, Chief Executive Officer and Triona O'Sullivan, Health & Inclusion Programmes Manager discuss their recent report - Spinning Plates: Addressing Food Poverty in Cherry Orchard and Ballyfermot.

2025 Spinning Plates Summary Report

2025 Spinning Plates Food Poverty in D10 Full Report

Pobal HP Deprivation Index

211. SJI Seminars Ep.55: Seán Ó Riain on 'Collective Enabling’ of Society through Decent Services.

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Seán Ó Riain is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

His research interests are in the sociology of work and employment, comparative political economy, inequality and social change and the global information economy.

Seán is the author of: The Politics of High Tech Growth: Developmental Network States in the Global Economy (Cambridge, 2004)  The Rise and Fall of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust (Cambridge, 2014) and co-editor of The Changing Worlds and Workplaces of Capitalism (Palgrave, 2015).

He was PI for New Deals in the New Economy, a five year study of workplace bargains in Europe (www.maynoothuniversity.ie/newdeals), funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant.

He was a member of the National Economic and Social Council from 2011 to 2017.  

Seán presented his paper at our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2024 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses.

Our podcast is featured as a Best Social Justice podcast on MillionPodcasts - a hand-curated database of amazing podcasts.

210. SJI Interviews Ep.127: Social Justice Ireland respond to the National Development Plan Review and the Summer Economic Statement

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Lots of Summer Blockbuster reading! Research and Policy Analysts, Michelle and Susanne briefly chat initial takes on the National Development Plan Review and the Summer Economic Statement.

Summer Economic Statement 2025

National Development Plan Review 2025

Report on Stakeholder Engagement and Emerging Themes on Infrastructure

Budget 2026 Tax Strategy Group papers

NPF Implementation: Housing Growth Requirements

209. SJI 10 Minute Lessons Ep.21: Benchmarking Social Welfare

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:48:14 +0100

Social Justice Ireland has long advocated that Government should commit to benchmarking core social welfare rates to average earnings to protect vulnerable households. This 10 minute lesson explains why.

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208. SJI Seminars Ep.54: Budget Choices 2026

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Fairness must be at the centre of Budget 2026. We are wealthier than at any time in our history, and yet almost 630,000 people are living below the poverty line, 190,000 of whom are children. Over 15,500 people are in emergency homeless accommodation. Now is the time for Government to show ambition in delivering on its promises by running a progressive budget, properly funding public services and infrastructure and investing in policies that will make a positive difference to people and communities.

This episode is a listen back to our Budget Choices 2026 launch. Download the full policy briefing, or take a look at the video HERE.

207. SJI Interviews Ep.126: Integration through Arts and Culture with Dr. Mamobo Ogoro

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Dr. Mamobo Ogoro is a Social Psychologist, Scholar, Broadcaster and multi-award winning social entrepreneur. Mamobo’s PhD research focused on migrant identity and how systems of inclusion and exclusion impact belonging for migrant communities. As a result, she founded, and acts as the CEO of GORM, an award winning social enterprise on a mission to unify across differences and advance belonging for marginalised communities through intercultural media and education. Mamobo is an avid conversationalist and sits as the youngest presenter on NewstalkFM, hosting the show ‘Younified’. Mamobo has been heralded for her work with GORM on countless occasions. In 2024 she was listed as the first Echoing Green Fellow in Ireland (Previous fellows include Michelle Obama and Van Jones), and most recently won “Female Entrepreneur of the Year” Award in the South Dublin Local Enterprise Office Award 2025.

Mamobo spends most of her time working with organisations around the world, helping them develop intercultural leaders. She chats with us about belonging, culture, integration, community, story, journeying from tolerance to acceptance and explains peach and coconut countries!

https://www.gormmedia.com/unified-business-programme https://www.gormmedia.com/programmes/the-wideshot

206. SJI Seminars Ep.53: Launch of National Social Monitor - Putting Fairness First: Delivering the Programme for Government

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0100

The Programme for Government (PfG)- Securing Our Future, published in January 2025, outlines a series of commitments made by Government across a range of policy areas. Social Justice Ireland welcomed the PfG and believes that it contains several policies and proposals that, if resourced and implemented, would represent a significant step to creating a fairer and more just Ireland. These policies would make a positive difference to society, to our wellbeing and to our communities. However, the programme also contains several causes for concern with a lack of real ambition around poverty and income adequacy and a lack of policy coherence in other areas.

Read the publication and watch the full webinar HERE.

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205. SJI Interviews Ep.125: William Welser IV - Can AI close the wealth gap?

Thu, 29 May 2025 07:00:00 +0100

William Welser IV is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Lotic.ai.

As a passionate, curious, and creative technologist, he is dedicated to generating visions for the future that are big, bold, and fearless. In his roles at Lotic, he directs innovation, technology infrastructure, and user experiences.

William has tackled, communicated, and solved complex problems throughout his career using storytelling, multidisciplinary teams of experts, and state of the art methods and technologies. He has a rich history with organizations like the RAND Corporation, where he tackled some of society’s tough challenges, like bias in AI and the evolution of tech landscapes. His efforts have consistently been about bridging tech with social justice, crafting a future where initially impossible ideas become realities and grounded in economic fairness.

William chats with us about wealth, wealth inequality and using data and AI to ultimately create value and make positive change.

TEDxManhattanBeach - Bill Welser - How to ensure Al is a force for good

TEDxPaloAlto - William (Bill) Welser IV - Self-tracking and storytelling to make sense of your world

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204. SJI Seminars Ep 52: Transition performance and capacity: A comparison between Ireland, Austria and Sweden with Paul Goldrick Kelly

Thu, 15 May 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Paul Goldrick Kelly is an economist with the Nevin Economic Research Institute. Paul is a graduate of University College Dublin with a HDIP and MA in Economic Science, Paul's work has examined issues related to healthcare, housing, tax and revenue sufficiency as well as productivity performance in the Republic of Ireland.
Paul's current research interests relate to ecological sustainability and political economy, incorporating issues
related to Just Transition.

Paul presented a paper at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference on the theme of A Just Transition.

Watch the conference HERE.

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203. SJI Interviews Ep.124: Independent Living Day 2025 with Dr.James Casey

Thu, 01 May 2025 07:00:00 +0100

James Casey is a disability rights activist from the west of Ireland. He previously worked for the disabled person’s organisation ILMI as a policy advisor and prior to this role he worked on the transformative EU Onside Project. He holds a PhD in Critical Disability Studies from the University of Galway, where he was the recipient of a Doctoral Teaching Fellowship and he has presented at UN conferences on behalf of civil society. James, a disabled person, has worked as a lecturer, disability equality consultant and communications advisor in addition to his continued role as a peer reviewer with several international journals.

Prompted by Independent Living Day 2025, Susanne and James discuss what that means in reality and what needs to be delivered by policy makers and Government.

Eurofound - Paths towards independent living and social inclusion in Europe

Sage Advocacy - Older Persons in Receipt of Care: Five Human Rights Concerns in Ireland. A Scoping Document

202. SJI Seminars Ep.51: Launch presentation of Social Justice Matters: a 2025 guide to a fairer Irish Society

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0100

We launched our socio-economic review for 2025 on Thursday, 3rd April 2025. This annual publication is where we present a detailed analysis of a range of key matters which are central to social justice; a vision of Ireland’s future as a just and sustainable society, and a framework for a new Social Contract to move consistently and coherently towards becoming a just society. It also sets out detailed policy proposals grounded in the common good that will deliver improved wellbeing for everyone in society as we manage demographic, climate, digital and geopolitical changes.

In this episode, you can listen back to the presentations from this launch. The full publication is also available to download from our website here.

201. SJI Interviews Ep.123: Marc Ó Cathasaigh on a Commission for Future Generations in Ireland.

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 07:00:00 +0100

Marc Ó Cathasaigh is an Educator and SDGs advocate. He was the Green Party T.D. for Waterford in the 33rd Dáil.

Marc chats about his work progressing a Future Generations Commission for Ireland, wellbeing, sustainable development and sufficiency.

Commission for Future Generations Bill 2023

OECD Measuring well-being and progress

Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-Being Framework 2024

CSO Well-being Information Hub

200. SJI Seminars Ep.50: Opening Address given by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins at The Social Justice Movement–A Fifty Year View conference 2024

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000

On the 31st January 2024, Social Justice Ireland hosted The Social Justice Movement–A Fifty Year View conference to mark the retirement of Dr Seán Healy and Sr Brigid Reynolds of Social Justice Ireland and to celebrate their more than fifty years of public service in Ireland and Africa.

The Opening Address was given by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins.

199. SJI Interviews Ep 122: The Shared Island Youth Forum Vision and Values Statement

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Shared Island Youth Forum was launched as part of the Government’s Shared Island initiative, in September 2023. The Forum brought together 80 young people aged 18 to 25 from across the island, who met over the next year to develop a statement of their vision and values for a shared future on the island of Ireland.

Four members of the Shared Island Youth Forum, Eden Byrne, Tiarnan Moss from Co-Operation Ireland, Alannah Wrynn and Charlie Beaudelot generously took time out to chat with Susanne Rogers about their experiences in the Youth Form and their work on the Statement.

Read the Vision and Values Statement HERE.

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198. SJI Seminars Ep.49: The 4 day week with Joe O'Connor

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme of 'A Just Transition'. The fundamental principle of a Just Transition is to leave no people, communities, economic sectors or regions behind as we transition to a low carbon future. Such a transition means changing how we travel, communicate, work, what we eat, wear and even the entertainment we consume.

Joe presented his paper at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2023 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

We are delighted that Social Justice Matters has been recognised by Feedspot as one of the 35 social justice podcasts you should be following in 2025. Check out the list here.

197. SJI. Interviews Ep. 121: Social Justice Ireland response to Programme For Government - Securing Ireland’s Future

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Government's plan for the next 5 years has been published - Programme for Government 2025 : Securing Ireland’s Future

Research and Policy Analysts Michelle Murphy and Susanne Rogers chat about preliminary thoughts and reactions.

More on Social Justice Ireland's response HERE.

We are delighted that Social Justice Matters has been recognised by Feedspot as one of the 35 social justice podcasts you should be following in 2025. Check out the list here.

196. SJI Seminars Ep48: Shane Colclough on the Costs, Benefits and Stakeholder Analysis of an Irish Social Housing Deep Energy Retrofit Case Study

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Dr Shane Colclough DipEE, BSc(Eng), MIE, MBA, PhD, MIEI, C.Eng, EurIng is a Chartered Engineer and carries out research at The School of Architecture Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin and at the Centre for sustainable technologies in Ulster University. He is also principal at the consultancy firm Energy Expertise Limited. His research area of interest for the past 10 years has focused on low-energy dwellings in Temperate Maritime Climates and Building Performance Evaluation. He believes passionately in the potential afforded by the low-energy building standards in providing a better standard of housing for our citizens, simultaneously reducing Ireland’s dependence on fossil fuels and eliminating fuel poverty. He is co-chairman of the Passive House Association of Ireland and has authored papers on the topic of passive houses & energy storage in addition to presenting at national and international conferences. He is an experienced consultant and serves in the EU as an Expert on Energy-Efficient Buildings.

Shane presented his paper at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2023 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

We are delighted that Social Justice Matters has been recognised by Feedspot as one of the 35 social justice podcasts you should be following in 2025. Check out the list here.

195. SJI Interviews Ep.120: Michelle Murphy on the Just Transition Commission

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Just Transition Commission is an advisory body established by Government in April 2024. Michelle Murphy, research and policy analyst with Social Justice Ireland has been appointed to the Commission. In this episode, she explains what that means and the aims and objectives of the Commission.

194. SJI Seminars Ep46: Dermot McCarthy on The impact of social justice advocacy: a policy maker’s reflections

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 07:00:00 +0000

At our conference to mark the retirement of Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds in January 2024, Dermot McCarthy presented a paper entitled 'The impact of social justice advocacy: a policy maker’s reflections'.

To watch that presentation or any of the other speakers, the full conference is available here.

193. SJI Interviews Ep.119: Night Time Economy with Dr. Daithí Kearney and Dr. Kevin Burns

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Dr. Daithí Kearney is an Ethnomusicologist, geographer and performer. He is a lecturer in music, theatre and tourism and co-director of the Creative Arts Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology. His research is primarily focused on Irish traditional music but extends to include performance studies, community music and music tourism. Daithí has toured regularly as a musician, singer and dancer with a number of groups including Siamsa Tíre, The National Folk Theatre of Ireland. In 2012 he released an album with Cork accordion player John Cronin entitled Midleton Rare, which is related to a wider research project on the music and musicians of the Sliabh Luachra region. In 2017 he released an album of new compositions with Dr Adèle Commins entitled A Louth Lilt. Their compositions also feature on the 2020 recording by Ceolta Sí entitled Oidhreacht Eochaille and are regularly performed by the award-winning Oriel Traditional Orchestra, of which they are both musical directors.

Dr. Kevin Burns is Head of Department (Acting) Dept of Hospitality Management at Dundalk Institute of Technology. Kevin is skilled in Hospitality Industry, Tourism Management, Social Media, and Training with a Doctor of Hospitality and Tourism Management focused on Tourist Behaviour from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Daithí and Kevin chat with Susanne Rogers about what we mean by the night time economy, who it's for, who it impacts and what we would like to see coming in the future, particularly outside the major cities and towns.

Report of the Night-Time Economy Taskforce

192. SJI Seminars Ep45: Income Inequality and Poverty - A Fifty Year View with Dr Catherine Kavanagh and Dr Micheál Collins

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:00:00 +0000

At our conference to mark the retirement of Seán Healy and Brigid Reynolds in January 2024, Dr Catherine Kavanagh and Dr Micheál Collins presented a paper, 'Income Inequality and Poverty: A fifty year view'.

To watch their presentation or any of the other speakers, the full conference is available here.

191. SJI Interviews Ep118: Seán Moynihan and Aileen O'Reilly, ALONE on loneliness.

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Aileen is the Senior Research & Evaluation Manager at ALONE. Prior to joining ALONE, Aileen worked at Jigsaw, The National Centre for Youth Mental Health, where her efforts played a critical role in the development of youth mental health services globally. Holding a PhD in psychology, she possesses a strong academic foundation that complements her practical experience. She has published research findings in reputable journals and has presented her work at numerous international conferences (see: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aileen-Oreilly-2).

Seán is Chief Executive Officer of Alone. After a career within the private sector, Seán moved to the NGO sector 20 years ago, working as Head of Housing and then Director of Service for the Simon Community. He went on to work as a Project Manager and consultant , working with many NGOs for a number of years before becoming Chief Executive of ALONE. Seán has also been involved in multiple national oversight groups, and has played a role in influencing social and health policies for older people on housing, loneliness, and ageing at home, in order to meet emerging needs of an ageing population. He has played a key role in advocating and developing services for and with older people, particularly those who are medically or socially vulnerable and whose voices and views often go unheard.

Seán and Aileen chat with Susanne Rogers about their work, what we understand as loneliness, why it is damaging and what we can do about it.

ALONE ECC Report

HALO Report

Loneliness Taskforce Research Network website

Loneliness Taskforce report

The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) Report - Social disconnection correlates of a ‘Wish to Die’ among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults

EU-wide survey on loneliness

190. SJI Seminars Ep.44: Ambassador Raili Lahnalampi on the Finnish social security system and innovations paving the way towards a just and equal society

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Raili Lahnalampi is Ambassador of Finland to Ireland. She served as the Chief of Cabinet for the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2015 -2019. She was responsible for the foreign and security policy and for the relations with other ministries, state administration and representatives of other countries. Ms Lahnalampi has held various international positions and she has a strong background in foreign and security policy. Before having been nominated as Chief of Cabinet Ms Lahnalampi worked as the Counsel to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Finland. She has pursued a diplomatic carrier at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs over ten years and has served as an advisor to the Secretary-General of OECD and to the President of the UN General Assembly H.E. Harri Holkeri. After graduating from the University of Turku Law School (LL.M) Ms Lahnalampi continued her studies achieving a diploma in European integration from the University of Saarland and followed international and human rights law studies at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Raili spoke at our 2022 Annual Social Policy Conference on the theme of Towards Wellbeing For All.

All videos, papers and presentations are for the 2022 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

189. SJI Interviews 117: Dr. James Casey on Disability Awareness, Accessibility and Equality

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Loosely prompted by Make Way Day, Susanne and James discuss the importance of inclusion, access and most importantly, dialogue with and by the disabled community to ensure equality of outcomes.

Make Way Day 2024

ILMI - A Manifesto for Change Disabled People Taking Control

188. Special Edition Budget Choices 2025 - People and Participation

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Research and Policy Analysts Michelle Murphy and Susanne Rogers chat through the key asks that will deliver for communities in Budget Choices 2025.

187. SJI Interviews 116: Energy Poverty Solutions with Derek Roddy, EnergyCloud.

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0100

EnergyCloud work to create solutions to divert surplus renewable energy - which would otherwise be wasted - to Irish homes, with a primary focus on those in fuel poverty.

Derek Roddy is co-founder and CEO of climote, a home energy management company. He is a manufacturing and process engineer who represented Ireland in the World Skill Olympics. He developed a strong interest in the challenges of global warming. climote was established to provide technology solutions that manage energy consumption and allow users to transition from fossil fuel to zero carbon renewable energy. climote partners with ESB Networks, SSE, Scottish Power, and Power NI to deliver low-cost de-carbonization technologies to millions of homes. Prior to climote, Derek was co-founder of Smarthomes, Ireland's largest home technology company. A serial entrepreneur, he is passionate about social enterprise and building teams that can help make a real difference to people's lives.

He chats with Susanne Rogers about the work of Energycloud, the solutions to energy poverty it provides and how to scale up.

186. Special Edition Budget Choices 2025 - Infrastructure

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Michelle Murphy, Research and Policy Analyst and Mansi Rawat, Economic and Social Analyst chat with Susanne Rogers about the key infrastructure asks in Budget Choices 2025.

100 Years of Irish Housing

185. SJI Interviews 115: Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024 with Dr. Nat O'Connor

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Nat O’Connor is lecturer in social policy in UCD’s School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice and part-time policy specialist at Age Action Ireland. He has taught politics and social policy since 1999. He has a PhD in political science from Trinity College Dublin and a MA in political science and social policy from the University of Dundee. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), a member of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) and chairperson of the Irish Social Policy Association (ISPA). You can find him on LinkedIn (natoconnor) and TwitterX @natpolicy

Nat chats with Susanne Rogers about the impetus, reasoning and content in his recent report Ireland’s Public Spending Explained 2024

184. Special Edition Budget Choices 2025 - Rural Ireland and the Environment

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Research and Policy Analysts Michelle Murphy and Susanne Rogers chat through the key asks for Rural Ireland and the environment in Budget Choices 2025.

Our Just Transition Policy Paper - 'Delivering a Just Transition for Ireland: Policy Options'

183. SJI Interviews Ep.114: We are Generation Rent with Gareth Redmond, Threshold.

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Gareth Redmond is Research and Policy Officer with Threshold Ireland. He chats with Susanne Rogers about findings in the most recent We are Generation Rent - Threshold's Annual Tenant Sentiment Survey 2024.

Simon Talks Webinar - Joined Up Thinking: Proposals on Social Housing Reform from the Housing Commission

Book - Out of Reach - Inequalities in the Irish Housing System

Report of The Housing Commission

ESRI Report - Poor housing conditions harm family wellbeing

Security and Agency in the Irish Private Rental Sector

182. Special Edition Budget Choices 2025 - Income Adequacy

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Research and Policy Analysts Michelle Murphy and Susanne Rogers chat through the key social welfare asks in Budget Choices 2025.

181. SJI Seminars Ep.43: Rethinking our wardrobes for a fair and just transition with Carrie Ann Moran

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Carrie Ann Moran is Consultant and Founder of Circular Fashion Ireland and Director at Fashion Revolution Europe. She is an award-winning Irish social entrepreneur, recognised nationally as a leading voice on circular fashion. For over 15 years, Carrie Ann has pushed sustainable fashion in Ireland, gaining recognition for her industry perspective and her pragmatic approach to embedding sustainability and circularity themes into the mainstream. She holds an honours degree in Law, Dip in Fashion, Post Grad Environmental Management and an MSc in Environmental Sustainability. She is also the country coordinator for Fashion Revolution Ireland annual campaign and was previously appointed to the National Advisory Committee of the Irish Government for the implementation of the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy. In 2020 Carrie was appointed by the European Commission as a judge on the European Social Innovation Competition “Reimagine Fashion”.

Carrie Ann’s expertise span numerous fields from lecturing, fashion design, environmental management, sustainability and labour rights. She is committed to bringing awareness of the environmental impacts and ethics within the fashion industry and works towards circularity and transparency.

Carrie Ann’s recently published research: The challenge of “Depeche Mode” in the fashion industry – Does the industry have the capacity to become sustainable through circular economic principles?

Carrie Ann presented her paper at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2023 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

180. SJI Interviews Ep113: David Lohan on modern Slavery

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0100

David Lohan is an engineer from Galway, living in Cork. He has a research interest in human trafficking and modern slavery. His latest work is a book entitled At Freedom's Crossroads: Making Sense of Modern Slavery. The book is available in print and eBook formats. More Here.

GRETA – the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings

Global Slavery Index

2023 Trafficking in Persons Report: Ireland

179. SJI Seminars Ep.42: Launch presentation of Social Justice Matters: a 2024 guide to a fairer Irish Society

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 07:00:00 +0100

We launched our socio-economic review for 2024 on Thursday, 2nd May 2024. This annual publication is where we present a detailed analysis of a range of key matters which are central to social justice; a vision of Ireland’s future as a just and sustainable society; and a policy framework to move consistently and coherently towards that society.

In this episode, you can listen back to the presentations from this launch. The full publication is also available to download from our website here.

178. SJI Interviews Ep.112: Active Citizenship Voter Education with Fionnaigh Connaughton, Dublin Adult Learning Centre (DALC)

Thu, 23 May 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Fionnaigh Connaughton-O'Connor has worked for over 20 years as an adult literacy tutor, tutor trainer and most recently voter education. She works for Dublin Adult Learning Centre (DALC). DALC provide targeted adult education services to ensure that everyone in the inner city has the opportunity to avail of their right to develop their literacy and numeracy skills. DALC’s core values are student centredness, empowerment, inclusivity and transformative learning. They are committed to social change, justice and equality. In Fionnaigh's experience, people with literacy difficulties or people who are excluded and margainalised are often not registered to vote and do not exercise their right to vote. DALC believes that education is empowering and helps people reach their potential to participate fully in society. Exercising your right to vote is essential to this. Fionnaigh has also been involved in projects for NALA (literacy publications and prison education). DALC is committed to equality, education and including all in the democratic process in Ireland. Fionnaigh discusses the origins and content of the Active Citizenship Voter Education programme, why it's needed and the impact it has. More Information here: https://www.vote.ie/ Electoral / An Coimisiún Toghcháin Campaign Advert Advert Advert Check the Register Hope and Courage Collective Your Voice, Your Vote: Voter Education & Active Citizenship INOU Analysis Active Citizenship Voter Education Course in Dublin - Adult Literacy for Life

177. SJI Interviews Ep.111: Paul Uzell and Dann Kenningham, All Together in Dignity on the campaign to Add the 10th

Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:00 +0100

The All Together in Dignity (ATD) Ireland team are Paul Uzell, Tara Doherty and National co-ordinator, Dann Kenningham. Paul and Dann chat about the origins, aims and core work of the organisation and the #Add the 10th campaign to see socio- economic status recognised as the tenth ground of discrimination in Irish equality legislation.

ATD Ireland

Add the 10th Campaign

Breaking Barriers Report

Walking, Thinking and Talking Research Project

ATD Toolkit to Conducting Participatory Research

Epistemic injustice (the injustice of knowledge)

ATD Ireland Presentation of Hidden Dimensions of Poverty International Research to the World Bank Feb 2024

ATD Research on The Hidden Dimensions of Poverty

176. SJI Seminars Ep.41: Colette Bennett on Delivering Social Rights for Ireland.

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0100

A chance to listen back to Social Justice Ireland's paper, 'Delivering Social Rights for Ireland' presented by Economic and Social Analyst, Colette Bennett at our 2021 Annual Social Policy Conference.

All videos, papers and presentations are for the 2021 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

175. SJI Interviews Ep 110: Community Wealth Building with Khalil Moran.

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Khalil Moran is pursuing a PhD in Democratic Economic Solutions to Inequality, with a specific focus on Community Wealth Building, an approach coined in Cleveland in the US and Preston in the UK. They have a particular interest in the interplay between our intra and interpersonal skills, theories of learning and how they impact our communication, and the systems and institutions we shape and are shaped by. Khalil has been a staff member at Wicklow Democratic School since it opened in 2016 and was the Project Coordinator for two years. They currently work on the WDS staff team as a facilitator to the school’s facilitators, supporting with research, activity plans, systemization and culture building, course development, and overall strategy for the school's continued development of democratic education. Khalil chats about the history of Community Wealth Building with examples from the U.K. and U.S.A. , the benefits and challenges of the approach and how it might work in an Irish context. The People’s Transition Democracy Collective Action guide for advancing Community Wealth Building in the United States Community wealth building 2023 Preston City Council: What is Community Wealth Building Solidnetwork.ie Social Justice Matters Podcast episode with Daniel Lambert CEO Bohemians Football Club

174. SJI Seminars Ep.40: Brian Caulfield on Ensuring a just transition and avoiding advanced transport poverty in Ireland

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:05:00 +0000

Prof Brian Caulfield is Head of Discipline in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering. His research addresses global issues such as the environmental impacts of transport and methods to reduce the carbon impacts of transport. He has published over 200 papers in international journals and conferences and to date has been awarded approx. €7 million in research funding. He currently has 9 PhD students and 6 postdoctoral researchers in his research group.  He is a Senior Editor of Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews and an Editor of Transport Policy. He is a member of the International Editorial Board of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Case Studies on Transport Policy, the Journal of Cycling and Micro-mobility Research, and the Journal of Transport Geography.

Brian spoke at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference on the theme of A Just Transition.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2023 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

173. SJI Interviews Ep.109: Alicia O'Sullivan & Mohammad Naeem on the UN Youth Delegate Programme

Thu, 14 Mar 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Alicia O'Sullivan & Mohammad Naeem are the UN Youth Delegates for Ireland in 2023/2024. They chat about their journey towards being appointed in the role, what they actually do, their experiences of the UN, would they recommend it and what's next for them.

UN Summit of the Future.

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

UN Youth Delegates for Ireland Instagram.

Comhairle na nÓg are councils for the youth located in 31 locations in the Republic of Ireland, which gives the youth in Ireland the opportunity to be involved in the progress of local services and policies.

Applications now open: UN Youth Delegate Programme for Ireland 2024-2025. All information must be submitted via the online form below, by 5pm (Irish time) on the 18th of March 2024. Applications submitted after this time will not be considered. More Here.

172. SJI Seminars Ep.39: Clodagh Harris on Towards Wellbeing for all - Participatory and deliberative dialogue and the Imagining 2050 Toolkit.

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Dr Clodagh Harris is a senior lecturer in the Department of Government & Politics in UCC and affiliate of the Environmental Research Institute and MaREI.  Her research focuses on deliberative and participatory democracy; democratic innovations; and deliberative democracy and climate change. She sits on the expert advisory group of Ireland’s Citizen Assembly on biodiversity loss and is part of a wider consortium funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to design and implement a young persons and children’s assembly on biodiversity loss. 

Clodagh presented her paper 'Participatory and deliberative dialogue and the Imagining 2050 Toolkit' at our 2022 Annual Social Policy Conference 'Towards Wellbeing For All'.

All videos, papers and presentations are for the 2022 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

171. SJI Seminars Ep.38: Meaghan Carmody on Using the SDGs to solve the just transition Rubik’s Cube

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Meaghan is the Coordinator of Coalition 2030 where she supports over 70 Irish Civil Society Organisations in their collaborative efforts to bring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to fruition. She has eight years of experience in the non-profit world pushing for social, environmental and financial justice, while simultaneously developing a skill-set ranging from policy analysis and campaigning, to communications and mobilisation. She has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Ollscoil na Gaillimhe and a Masters in International Political Economy from University College Dublin.

She spoke at our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference on the theme of A Just Transition.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2023 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

170. SJI Interviews Ep.108: The Cost of Disability with Fleachta Phelan, Disability Federation of Ireland.

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Fleachta Phelan is Senior Policy Advocate with the Disability Federation of Ireland.

She chats with Susanne Rogers about The Cost of Disability in Ireland – Research Report (The Indecon Report), the history behind it and what we are likely to see next.

Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025

Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Green Paper on Disability Reform – A Public Consultation to Reform Disability Payments in Ireland

The Hidden Cost of Poverty Report

169. SJI Seminars Ep.37: Séamus Boland on the Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Séamus Boland is the CEO of Irish Rural Link and the current President of the European Economic Social Council - Diversity Group III. The Diversity Group is made up of delegates drawn from each member state, representing sectors which include, community, agriculture, environment, consumers, social economy and various professions.

He spoke at our 2021 Annual Social Policy Conference, Social Rights for All? Time to Deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights.

All videos, papers and presentations for the 2021 Annual Social Policy conference are available for download HERE.

168. SJI Interviews Ep.107: Creating Inclusive Communities with Valerie McAllorum Byrne, Integration Officer, Fingal County Council.

Thu, 09 Nov 2023 07:00:00 +0000

As Ireland becomes more and more diverse, assisting communities to thrive and develop as they adapt is vital. Valerie McAllorum Byrne is Integration Officer with Fingal County Council. She chats with Susanne Rogers about the work she does in this vibrant, diverse growing county to support everyone living there to be part of the community. Learn more about the work HERE.

If you read this on time and live local, Fingal Inclusion week takes place between the 13th and 19th November 2023. Details can be found HERE.

We discuss the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) Reports which can be accessed HERE.

167. SJI Interviews Ep.106: Project Real with Dr. Yvonne Skipper

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0100

In today's episode, Colette Bennett chats to Dr. Yvonne Skipper of Glasgow University on a brilliant project - Project Real - which provides a full, fun and interactive lesson plan for educators of 11-13 year olds on how to spot fake news, fake photos, fake people, and fake videos. Check it out at www.projectreal.co.uk

This is a really timely interview in light of a recent report which indicated that internet use by Irish children is well above the European average (87% v 62%) with more than half of Irish children using the internet daily or nearly daily - Risks and Safety for Children on the Internet: the Ireland Report (webwise.ie)

166. SJI Interviews Ep.105: Ireland’s Voluntary National Review at the 2023 High Level Political Forum for the SDGs with Coalition 2030

Thu, 07 Sep 2023 07:00:00 +0100

In May 2023, Coalition 2030 published their Report, authored by Sorley McCaughey (independent freelance public affairs, advocacy and communications strategist), 'Furthest Behind First, or Falling Behind Further? The human stories that challenge Ireland’s claims to be leaving no one behind' which can be accessed HERE.

Following on then, in July 2023, a delegation of Coalition 2030 members travelled to the United Nations for the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development.

The Coalition 2030 delegation comprised:

Louise Finan, Head of Policy and Programme, Dóchas
Dr. Sadhbh O'Neill, Co-ordinator, Stop Climate Chaos
Belinda Nugent, Community Development Project Leader, Inner City Organisation Network (ICON)
Dr. James Casey, Policy Lead, Independent Living Movement Ireland
Meaghan Carmody, Co-ordinator, Coalition 2030
Susanne Rogers, Research and Policy Analyst, Social Justice Ireland.

The HLPF 2023, convened under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council, was held from Monday, 10 July, to Friday, 14 July 2023 in New York. The high-level segment of the Council, including the three-day ministerial segment of the HLPF, was held from Monday, 17 July, to Thursday, 20 July 2023. Ireland presented its second Voluntary National Review during the second week and Dr. James Casey from the delegation responded from the floor of the UN.

In this episode, we gathered together to discuss the Coalition's Report, Ireland's Voluntary National Review (VNR) and what we brought to and away from the experience.

Ireland's Second Voluntary National Review 2023 can be accessed HERE.

Watch Ireland's VNR presentation and the civil society statement read by Dr. James Casey (VNR from 2:40:00, Civil society intervention from 3:18:50, Minister Ryan’s response from 3:32:20) HERE.

Any Irish organisations who would like to know more about Coalition 2030 and get involved can email : infocoalition2030@gmail.com

165. SJI Interviews Ep.104: Child Trafficking in Ireland with Ann Mara and J.P. O’Sullivan, MECPATHS.

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0100

MECPATHS is the only non-profit organisation in Ireland which focuses specifically on the issue of Child Trafficking. It works to raise awareness on this hidden issue and educates frontline and emerging professionals to prevent Child Trafficking and enhance existing protective measures.

Education Manager, Ann Mara and Network & Communications Manager, J.P. O’Sullivan chat with Susanne Rogers about the issue of child trafficking in Ireland, how we currently understand it, how the language needs to shift and what supports must be put in place.

The podcast referenced by J.P., "The Witness: In His Own Words" carries the following warning, "there are references throughout this podcast to violence, sexual abuse and suicidal thoughts. If you are negatively affected and need help or advice, please contact the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s Freephone National 24-Hour Helpline on 1800 77 8888 in Ireland, or call the Samaritans on Freephone 116 123 in Ireland and the UK."

164. SJI Interviews Ep.103: AI with Dr. Patricia Scanlon, Ireland’s AI Ambassador

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Dr. Patricia Scanlon is the founder and Executive Chair of SoapBox Labs, now the world's leading provider of Voice AI for children. In 2022, the Irish Government appointed Dr. Scanlon Ireland’s first AI Ambassador. Dr. Scanlon holds a PhD and has 25 years experience working in Artificial Intelligence and speech recognition technology, including at Bell Labs and IBM. She has been granted 7 patents and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). An acclaimed TEDx speaker, in 2018 Dr. Scanlon was named one of the world’s top 50 women in tech by Forbes and a top “Visionary in Voice” by Voicebot in 2020. She is also a contributor to Forbes, TechCrunch and TheNextWeb.

She chats with Susanne Rogers about the role of AI Ambassador, advances in artificial intelligence, ethics and AI,the opportunities as well as challenges posed by AI and what regulation can bring to the space.

163. SJI Interviews Ep.102: Double Deficit - Ageing in the Private Rented Sector with Gráinne Loughran (ALONE) and Ann-Marie O’Reilly (Threshold)

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 08:00:00 +0100

We all know that Ireland's population is living longer, which is really good news! However, we need to plan for the needs of our future older people today, particularly in the area of housing. A new report commissioned by ALONE and Threshold, 'Double Deficit: Older and Ageing Persons in the Private Rental Sector', highlights the experience of older people who are renting privately, the impact that this has on their housing security, mental health, and overall quality of life, and makes a series of key recommendations on how Government and stakeholders might learn from these experiences.

Colette Bennett, Economic and Social Analyst with Social Justice Ireland, chats with Gráinne Loughran of ALONE and Ann-Marie O'Reilly of Threshold about this report, their work in the sector generally, and why key reforms are needed now to advance the quality of life of future older generations.

162. SJI Seminars Ep 36: Peter Doran on Wellbeing Narratives: Inciting the Pluriverse on our island of stories – It takes a movement!

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Dr Peter Doran is a founding member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance hub on the island of Ireland and has worked with the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust on a wellbeing outcomes framework for the Northern Ireland Programme for Government. He is a senior lecturer at the School of Law at the Queen's University Belfast and a senior writer with the International Institute for Sustainable Development's reporting services at UN negotiations on environment and development. He has authored numerous articles on ecology and politics, and authored A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism - Reclaiming The Mindful Commons (Routledge 2017). A practising zen buddhist, Dr Doran draws heavily from zen and decolonial literature (the pluriverse) in his work on the wellbeing economy. 

Peter spoke at the Social Justice Ireland Annual Social Policy Conference in 2022 on the theme 'Towards Wellbeing For All'. You can also watch his presentation, view his slides and read more here.

161. SJI Interviews Ep.101: Paul Goldrick Kelly, NERI, on carbon locks and Just Transition

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0100

In this week's episode, Colette Bennett, Economic and Social Analyst, chats with Paul Goldrick Kelly, Economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) about his latest blog on carbon locks. What they are, where they are, and what needs to be done to progress towards a real just transition.

If you're not familiar with their work, check out NERI's website - www.neriinstitute.net - and subscribe to their regular blog.

160. SJI Interviews Ep100: The 15 minute city in Ireland with Niamh Moore-Cherry

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Niamh Moore-Cherry is Professor in the School of Geography, Deputy College Principal in the UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, and Honorary Professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her research is focused on understanding governance and the impact of territorial politics on urban and regional outcomes. She founded and leads the Cities, Governance and Sustainability (www.citiesgovernancesustainability.eu) research group in UCD which brings together academic, policy and community engaged work. In summer 2022, she was appointed as an independent member of the advisory National Economic and Social Council (NESC) by An Taoiseach.

She chats with Susanne Rogers about what the 15 minute city is and is not, the challenges and possibilities for the concept in the Irish context.

159. Special Edition - Budget Choices 2024

Thu, 06 Jul 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Due to a technical glitch when we launched our Budget Choices 2024 policy briefing on Monday, 3rd July 2023, our launch did not record. But don't worry! We've recorded a podcast covering all of the relevant details from the launch, including your great questions. We hope you enjoy it.

Budget Choices 2024 is available to download here: Budget Choices 2024 | Social Justice Ireland

158. SJI Interviews Ep.99: Energy Poverty with Issy Petrie, SVP and Nicola Fox, MABS.

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Issy Petrie is Research and Policy Officer with the Society of St.Vincent de Paul (SVP) and Nicola Fox is National Development Officer with Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS). They chat with Susanne Rogers about energy poverty in Ireland, who is affected, what supports are available and policy asks into the future.

Find out more about SVP HERE.

Find out more about MABS HERE.

157. SJI Interviews Ep.98: The Financial Impact of Bereavement with the Irish Hospice Foundation

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:30:00 +0100

In this week's episode, Colette Bennett chats with Dr. Amanda Roberts and Avril Easton of the Irish Hospice Foundation on their research looking at the financial impact of bereavement. An estimated 300,000 people every year are impacted by bereavement and many of those will struggle, not just with the emotional fall-out, but the financial impact too.

If you want to start planning for your future, the Irish Hospice Foundation have a brilliant tool to help: Think_Ahead_Editable.pdf (hospicefoundation.ie)

If you or someone you know has been bereaved, the Irish Hospice Foundation have a range of supports: Irish Hospice Foundation - To Die and Grieve Well Wherever the Place

156. SJI Interviews Ep.97: Keith Adams on the Irish Prison System

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:30:00 +0100

In this episode, Colette Bennett welcomes back Keith Adams, Penal Policy Advocate in Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice and Doctoral candidate at Leuven Institute of Criminology. It will come as no surprise that we're talking all things prisons - the latest scandals, the unpublished reports, and what really needs to be done if the criminal justice system is to work effectively.

If you want to learn more about Keith's work, check out www.jcfj.ie to read his many articles and publications, and check out the work of his colleagues across a range of areas too.

155. SJI Interviews Ep.96: Migrations in Our Common Home with Colette Bennett.

Thu, 25 May 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Social Justice Ireland is a member of the Roundtable on Migration in Our Common Home, a collective of organisations and individuals concerned about the shape of migration policy in Ireland and internationally. To date, three papers have been published which you can access below. Colette Bennett is one of Social Justice Ireland's representatives at the Roundtable and chats with Susanne Rogers about the work of the collective, gives a brief overview of the first two papers, sets out the current context and recommendations for the future.

Migrations in Our Common Home: Forecasting for Change

Planning for Change: Climate Change and Migration

Migrations in Our Common Home: Responding with Care - Ireland's response to the Ukrainian crisis

154. SJI Seminars Ep35: Launch presentation of Social Justice Matters: a 2023 guide to a fairer Irish Society

Thu, 18 May 2023 07:00:00 +0100

We launched our socio-economic review for 2023 on Monday, 8th May 2023. This annual publication is where we present a detailed analysis of a range of key matters which are central to social justice; a vision of Ireland’s future as a just and sustainable society; and a policy framework to move consistently and coherently towards that society.

In this episode, you can listen back to the presentations from this launch. The full publication is also available to download from our website here.

153. SJI Interviews Ep.95: Centre for Cross Border Studies with Dr Anthony Soares

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 10:03:00 +0100

Michelle Murphy talks to Dr Anthony Soares, Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies about the Good Friday Agreement, the work of the centre and explores challenges to and opportunities for cross border cooperation.

152. SJI Interviews Ep.94: Earth Overshoot Day with Dr. Alessandro Galli

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Tomorrow, April 21st 2023, marks Ireland's Country Overshoot Day. To explain what that means and Earth Overshoot Day, Dr. Alessandro Galli, Senior Scientist and Director of the Mediterranean-MENA Program with the Global Footprint Network chats with Susanne Rogers about how this date is worked out, Ireland's country date and some of their policy proposals to help ensure we #movethedate.

Find your country's Overshoot Day HERE.

Calculate your Footprint HERE.

Links to Educational Resources mentioned HERE and HERE.

More information on next steps and solutions HERE.

Find the Human Development Index graph Alessandro mentioned HERE and HERE

151. SJI 10 Minute Lessons Ep 20: Lobbying in Ireland

Thu, 06 Apr 2023 07:00:00 +0100

In this episode of our 10 Minute Lessons series, Research and Policy Analyst, Susanne Rogers looks at lobbying in Ireland. Find out more information and see what your obligations may be at Lobbying.ie.

150. SJI Seminars Ep 34: Carrie Exton, OECD on Building and Using Wellbeing Frameworks - The OECD and International Experience

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0100

Carrie Exton is the Acting Senior Counsellor and Deputy Director at the OECD Centre for Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE). Her team helps to build the evidence base for WISE policy-making, including the development of frameworks and indicators, and their roles in supporting government decisions.

Carrie spoke at the Social Justice Ireland Annual Social Policy Conference in 2022 on the theme 'Towards Wellbeing For All' about the OECD's approach. You can also watch her presentation, view her slides and read more here.

149. SJI Interviews Ep.93: Plain Numbers with Mike Ellicock

Thu, 23 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Plain Numbers is a UK based organisation working with firms to support their customers who struggle with numbers. Their founder Mike Ellicock is a social entrepreneur focused on running organisations that support people who struggle with numbers and data. He launched National Numeracy as founding Chief Executive in 2012, building the organisation from little more than an idea to become a well-respected national charity with strong evidence of impact. The seeds of the idea for Plain Numbers were sown at National Numeracy. Having handed over as Chief Executive there in 2020, Mike is now utilising his unparalleled knowledge of this largely hidden consumer vulnerability to work with firms to enable people to make informed decisions across all areas of their lives.

Mike chats with Susanne Rogers about the work of Plain Numbers, touching on their research findings, the positive impacts on individuals when organisations change their approach to financial information, especially in an increasingly complicated and fast moving area.

You can learn more about the research here: Plain Numbers Project: Initial trials report

The numeracy challenge Mike mentions can be found here: nationalnumeracy.org.uk/challenge/

148.SJI Interviews Ep.92: Social Justice Ireland on SILC and the impacts of poverty and deprivation

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Following on from last week's 10 minute lesson, analysts with Social Justice Ireland, Michelle Murphy, Colette Bennett and Susanne Rogers unpack the numbers contained in the Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2022.

The conversation touches on the cohorts most at risk, what impacts poverty and deprivation have on those cohorts and the policy proposals made by Social Justice Ireland that Government could take on board if they are serious about tackling poverty in Ireland in 2023.

147. SJI 10 Minute Lessons Ep 19: Poverty and Deprivation in Ireland

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 08:30:00 +0000

On the 22nd February 2023, the Central Statistics Office released the results of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) 2022. These data provide the most up to date information on income, poverty, and living conditions across a range of different households in Ireland.

In this episode of our 10 Minute Lessons series, Economic and Social Analyst, Colette Bennett, goes through the numbers and provides an overview of poverty and deprivation in Ireland today.

146. SJI Interviews Ep.91: Fashion and the Circular Economy with Carrie-Ann Moran

Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:50:15 +0000

Carrie-Ann Moran is an award-winning Irish social entrepreneur, recognised nationally as a leading voice on circular fashion. For over 15 years, Carrie Ann has pushed sustainable fashion across the private and third sectors in Ireland, serving as sustainability manager for multiple small brands, Head of Fashion and Textiles for Rediscovery Centre Ireland, Director of Fashion Revolution Ireland and now Founder and lead consultant at Circular Fashion Ireland. She has served on the National Advisory Committee of the Irish Government for the implementation of the Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy and as a judge on the European Commission’s Social Innovation Competition “Reimagine Fashion”.

She chats with Susanne Rogers about the global fashion industry, the impact it has on emissions and how we all, individual and industry can move from the linear model to a circular model.

Here are the links Carrie-Ann mentions in the conversation -

Textile Mountain Documentary

https://www.fashionrevolution.org/

https://issuu.com/fashionrevolution/docs/fr_fanzine_001_moneyfashionpower/12

https://www.epa.ie/publications/circular-economy/resources/Nature-and-Extent-of-Post-Consumer-Textiles-in-Ireland---Study-Report.pdf

145. SJI Interviews Ep.90: From Pillar to Post with Paul Joyce, FLAC and Dr.Stuart Stamp, Maynooth University

Thu, 09 Feb 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Dr. Stuart Stamp is an Independent Social Researcher and Research Associate of the Department of Applied Social Studies at Maynooth University. His main areas of interest are personal overindebtedness and financial exclusion from an inequality and human rights perspective.

Paul Joyce, BL, works as Senior Policy Analyst with Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC). He is the author of both of FLAC major reports on debt and the legal system in Ireland, ‘An End based on Means’ published in May 2003 and ‘To No One’s Credit’ published in July 2009, and numerous policy reports and submissions.

Paul and Stuart chat with Susanne Rogers about four papers they have written, From Pillar to Post. They examine the current situation for those dealing with problem debt, both secured and unsecured, the solutions that are available and what changes are needed.

The Papers can be accessed here:

144. SJI Interviews Ep.89: Fake News and Conspiracies with Dr. Daniel Jolley

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 08:30:00 +0000

Alternative facts, fake news and conspiracies - why does there seem to be more of it about? What's the difference between mis-information and dis-information? Are there reasons some of us are more likely to believe the hype than others? And when it comes to dangerous dis-information - what can policymakers do to combat it?

In this week's episode, Colette Bennett chats with Dr. Daniel Jolley, an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Nottingham. Daniel has spent his career looking at the psychology of conspiracy theories, a topic that has gained prominence in recent years.

If you would like to know more about Daniel and his work, check out is website www.danieljolley.co.uk.

To try the Conspiracy Generator mentioned by Daniel, and to see just how easy it is to generate a conspiracy, check out this website by Professor Karen Douglas: Conspiracy generator demonstrates how easily conspiracy theories originate - News Centre - University of Kent

143. SJI Interviews Ep88: Crypto with Sarah Barrington

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Sarah Barrington is an engineer, Data Scientist and graduate researcher at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Her research interests span across computer vision, artificial intelligence, decentralized technologies and digital forensics. She graduated from Cambridge University with First Class Honors in General & Manufacturing Engineering (BA, MEng, MA), before working at McLaren Applied as an Associate Engineer & Data Scientist in the Modelling & Decision Sciences function. She is the current US-UK Fulbright award holder for Data and Analytics (2021-22).

She chats with Susanne Rogers about blockchain technologies, the evolution to crypto and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), regulation or lack of and what the future may hold.

142. SJI Seminars Ep.33: Larry O’Connell and Anne-Marie McGauran, NESC on Ireland’s Wellbeing Journey

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 07:01:00 +0000

Dr. Larry O’Connell is the Director of the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), and Chief Officer of the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO). As senior economist in NESC, since 2007, he worked on a range of policy areas including Ireland’s transition to low-carbon and digital future; housing and land; climate change and sustainable development; higher education funding; and Ireland’s five part crisis.

Anne-Marie McGauran is Policy Analyst with NESC. Her work focuses on equality and social issues. In NESC, she led the 2021 projects on digital inclusion, and the roll-out of the Community Call initiative to support vulnerable people during Covid-19 lockdowns. In 2022, she led the project looking at how well-being policies are implemented internationally. She is currently working on the NESC project on Ireland’s economic resilience and vulnerability, looking at social vulnerabilities.

They presented their paper, Ireland’s Wellbeing Journey, co-written with Helen Johnston, Senior Policy Analyst, NESC, at our 2022 Annual Social Policy Conference on the theme 'Towards Wellbeing For All'. The videos, graphics and papers for the conference can all be accessed Here.

141. SJI Seminars Ep32: Gabriel Makhlouf, Governor of the Central Bank on Monetary policy, regulation and inequality: a tale of inter-linkages

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Gabriel Makhlouf is the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, taking up that position on 1 September 2019. He chairs the Central Bank Commission, is a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, a member of the European Systemic Risk Board, and is Ireland's Alternate Governor at the International Monetary Fund.

Before joining the Central Bank Gabriel was Secretary to the New Zealand Treasury and the Government's chief economic and financial adviser from 2011 to 2019. During his time as Secretary, he led reviews of New Zealand's three macroeconomic pillars (monetary, financial stability and fiscal policy) and the development of a new framework for the development of economic and public policy focused on intergenerational wellbeing.

He spoke at the Annual Social Policy Conference 2022 on the theme of 'Towards Wellbeing for All'. The videos, graphics and papers for the conference can all be accessed Here.

140 SJI Interviews Ep87: Climate Action with Clare O’Connor, Friends of the Earth

Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Michelle Murphy talks to Clare O’Connor, Energy Policy Officer with Friends of the Earth about climate change, climate action, protecting the vulnerable and COP27.

139. SJI Interviews Ep86: The Living Wage with Robert Thornton and Ciarán Nugent, Living Wage Technical Group.

Thu, 10 Nov 2022 07:00:00 +0000

At the end of October 2022, the Living Wage Technical Group launched the Living Wage of €13.85 for 2022/2023. The Living Wage is a wage which makes possible a minimum acceptable standard of living and is evidence based and grounded in social consensus.

Two members of the group, Robert Thornton, Research Manager at Vincentian MESL Research Centre and Ciarán Nugent, Economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute explain how the figure is arrived at and why it matters.

138. SJI Interviews Ep85: School Libraries with Kathleen Moran

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Kathleen Moran is Chairperson of the School Libraries Group of the Library Association of Ireland to talk about school libraries in Ireland. She chats to Michelle Murphy about the importance of school libraries and school librarians, and what needs to be done to ensure every child and young person in Ireland has access to a fully staffed school library.

137. SJI Seminars Ep31. Hugh Frazer - How the European Pillar of Social Rights can help to advance social policy in Ireland

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:02:00 +0100

Hugh Frazer is an expert on European policies to combat poverty and social exclusion, especially child poverty. He played a lead role in the feasibility studies that contributed to the establishment of the European Child Guarantee. He has acted as adviser to a wide range of national and European organisations ( ESN, Eurochild, EAPN and UNICEF). He is a former coordinator of the European Social Policy Network (2006-2019); worked as an expert on social inclusion policy in the European Commission (2001-2006); was director of the Irish government's Combat Poverty Agency (1987-2001) and was director of the Northern Ireland Voluntary Trust (1979-1986 – now the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland). He is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University (Ireland).

We can listen back to Hugh presenting his paper for the Social Justice Ireland's 34th Annual Social Policy Conference on the European Pillar of Social Rights, "How the European Pillar of Social Rights can help to advance social policy in Ireland ".

All the Papers and Videos from the Conference can be accessed HERE.

136. SJI Interviews Ep84: State of the European Union Address with Barbara Nolan

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:01:00 +0100

Barbara Nolan is Head of the European Commission Representation in Ireland. She chats to Michelle Murphy about the State of the European Union Address 2022, what the main themes were in this year’s address and what they mean for policy direction in the European Union and in Ireland.

135. SJI Interviews Ep83: Libraries with Stuart Hamilton

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:01:00 +0100

Stuart Hamilton is the Head of Libraries Development for the Local Government Management Agency. He is the national advisor on libraries in the local government sector and leads the strategic development and implementation of service innovation and change management. He chats with Susanne Rogers about the importance of libraries to communities across the country, how they adapted to the pandemic, the move from analogue to digital, challenges to access of information and what lies ahead.

Find out more about your local library in Ireland HERE.

134. SJI 10 Minute Lessons Ep18: Preparing for Budget 2023

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:02:00 +0100

Budget 2023 is just around the corner. In the latest episode of our Ten Minute Lessons series, we talk about what the Budget is, we bring you through the Budget process, when you might expect to feel the impact of the Budget and how you can advocate for change.

Our Budget Choices 2023 Policy Briefing can be found HERE.

We are delighted that Social Justice Matters has been recognised by FeedSpot as one of the 40 social justice podcasts you should be following in 2022. Check out the list here: https://blog.feedspot.com/social_justice_podcasts/

133. SJI Interviews Ep82: Vote at 16 Campaign with Paul Gordon, NYCI

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:00:00 +0100

To mark United Nations International Day of Democracy,Paul Gordon chats with Susanne Rogers about the Vote at 16 campaign. Paul is Director of Policy and Advocacy with the National Youth Council of Ireland. We chat about the reasoning behind the campaign, experiences in other jurisdictions, the movement in Ireland and next steps.

132. SJI Interviews Ep81: Youth Homelessness with Aisling O’Hara, Galway Simon

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 07:10:00 +0100

Aisling O'Hara is Service Manager for Youth Services & Community Based Housing with Galway Simon Community. Galway Simon Community provide support and accommodation services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the West of Ireland.

Aisling chats with Susanne Rogers about youth homelessness, the impacts on young people, the care and resources required and ideally what needs to be included in the Youth Homelessness Strategy.

131. SJI Interviews Ep80: Parkrun with Matt Shields

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 07:01:00 +0100

Matt Shields, Country Manager for Parkrun Ireland chats with Susanne Rogers about the evolution of this community and volunteer led initiative. Matt Shields brought Parkrun to Ireland and has watched it grow and spread to 134 varied and diverse communities with more being added all the time. We talk about the physical and mental health benefits of exercise and volunteering that the Parkrun community experiences and what lies ahead for 2022.

130. SJI Seminars Ep30: Ana M.Guillén and Maria Petmesidou - A Greener and more Social Pillar

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0100

Ana M. Guillén is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oviedo, Spain, and director of the PROMEBI research group, Promoting Work and Welfare in Europe. She acts as a consultant to the European Commission and the International Labour Organization. She is also a member of the Scientific Board of the Observatoire Social Européen (OSE, Brussels) and of the International Social Security Association.

Maria Petmesidou is Emeritus Professor at Democritus University, Greece. She served as Chair of the Sociology Department of Crete University as well as of the Department of Social Administration (renamed Social Policy Department) of Democritus University. For several years she was fellow/scientific committee member of CROP (Comparative Research on Poverty) sponsored by the International Social Science Council (UNESCO) and the University of Bergen.

We can listen back to Ana and Maria presenting their joint paper for the Social Justice Ireland's 34th Annual Social Policy Conference on the European Pillar of Social Rights, "A Greener and more Social Pillar".

All the Papers and Videos from the Conference can be accessed HERE.

129. SJI Interviews Ep79: Dr. Michelle Maher and See Her Elected

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 08:30:00 +0100

The SHE Project is a collaboration between the Women’s Manifesto Project (a Longford Women’s Link programme) and 50:50 North West, organisations with strong links at grassroots level. A unique project, it is ‘ploughing new furrows’ in developing an innovative rural strategy to ensure women from our rural constituencies gain their rightful place on our councils and in Dáil Eireann.

In this week's episode, Colette Bennett chats with Dr. Michelle Maher on all things female participation, the role of women in local government and why she's so passionate about this project (and she really, really is!).

For more information on this brilliant initiative, go to www.seeherelected.ie

128. SJI Seminars Ep.30: Budget Choices 2023

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 08:25:00 +0100

Budget 2023 should be guided by one core principle, that the measures adopted prioritise the protection of the most vulnerable groups in our society. To this end Budget 2023 should prioritise continued strategic investment in long-term infrastructure projects focused on social housing provision and achieving our committed climate change targets alongside targeted cost of living measures.

The fiscal context for Budget 2023 is one of the most difficult in some time due to an uncertain social and economic outlook. The Budget must respond to the current cost of living challenges but also recognise uncertainties regarding the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its legacy effects, geopolitical instability as a result of war in Ukraine, and an ongoing cost of living crisis through 2022 and 2023.

Regardless of fiscal uncertainty, Government must prioritise the protection of the most vulnerable in making its Budgetary decisions.

This episode is a listen back to our Budget Choices 2023 launch. To download the full policy briefing, or take a look at the video, go to our website https://www.socialjustice.ie/publication/budget-choices-2023-policy-briefing

127. SJI Interviews Ep 78: The National Economic Dialogue 2022

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:01:00 +0100

The National Economic Dialogue 2022 took place in Dublin Castle on Monday, 20th June. Social Justice Ireland were in attendance, CEO, Seán Healy, Research and Policy Analyst, Michelle Murphy and Economic and Social Analyst, Colette Bennett. They chat with Research and Policy Analyst, Susanne Rogers about the background of the event, who participates, what happens on the day, our policy asks and the benefits of dialogue.

More information about this year's National Economic Dialogue can be found HERE.

126. SJI Interviews Ep 77: Music Industry and Climate Action with Karla Rogožar, IMPALA.

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:01:00 +0100

This week's episode is a conversation between Susanne Roger and Karla Rogožar. Karla is the Project Assistant at IMPALA, the Independent Music Companies Association, representing nearly 6000 music companies across Europe. Karla is the coordinator of IMPALA’s sustainability task force and climate analysis group, gathered under a 15-point charter that the organisation released in early 2021. IMPALA also has a sustainability programme with voluntary targets for members, find out more about it here and discover more about their carbon calculator made with Julie’s Bicycle (the first bespoke tool in the sector) here. They chat about IMPALA, the 15 point climate charter, the vinyl resurgence and climate action for the music industry.

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210. SJI Interviews Ep.127: Social Justice Ireland respond to the National Development Plan Review and the Summer Economic Statement

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199. SJI Interviews Ep 122: The Shared Island Youth Forum Vision and Values Statement

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186. *Special Edition* Budget Choices 2025 - Infrastructure

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182. *Special Edition* Budget Choices 2025 - Income Adequacy

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180. SJI Interviews Ep113: David Lohan on modern Slavery

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171. SJI Seminars Ep.38: Meaghan Carmody on Using the SDGs to solve the just transition Rubik’s Cube

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