Social Justice Matters Social Justice Ireland

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.

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  
 

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.

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. 

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.

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.