Carmel Hannan

Carmel Hannan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland and an expert in family dynamics and child development. Her research has focused on stratification issues within the family particularly as they relate to class dynamics. She has led a number of funded research projects focusing on the effects of family structure on child development and family well-being. She is currently working with Prof Ross MacMillan on a Health Research Board funded study of the effects of the pandemic on children and young adults psychological wellbeing. Carmel received her DPhil from the University of Oxford, as a Nuffield funded scholar and held a Graduate Warden position at Brasenose College, Oxford as well as a research fellow position at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work. Prior to Oxford, she worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, at the University of Essex and as an assistant research officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute, in Dublin.   

Specialism in teaching social research methods as well as modules on families, childhood and the lifecourse as listed below.

SO4122 Gathering Data: Meta Issues and Contemporary Practice

SO4218 Sociological Perspectives

S04208 The Sociology of Love and its Dark Side

SO4063 Introduction to Social Research Methods

SO4046 Quantitative Methods for Sociological Research

SO4001 Introduction to Sociology

SO4036 Contemporary Social Theory

SO6092 Sociology of Families and the Lifecourse

SO5041 Quantitative Methods I

SO5032 Quantitative Methods II

As well as advanced methods training courses in "Linear Regression",  "Multi Level Models", "Propensity Score Matching" "Mixed Methods".