National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Department Member, NIRSA

Manager and Research Associate

About

Aileen O’Carroll is the manager of the Irish Qualitative Data Archive which is based in NIRSA (National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis, NUI Maynooth).

When I am forced to narrow down my interests this is what I come up with: sociology of time, life history, work organisation, class, economic sociology and research methods.

My research is concerned with working time, particularly the organisation of working time in knowledge workplaces and I am currently producing a book for Palgrave Macmillian which is based  on this research.

I am also attached to the Life History and Social Change project, based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

This project gathered a database of life history interviews, calendars and network charts, drawn from a nationally representative sample of respondents to a survey of employment, family and living conditions .The aim is not simply to recover the voice of those who lived through social change but also to provide a much richer understanding of the rationalities and vocabularies of social actors’ motives and how these are shaped by specific socio- historical and socio-spatial contexts.

When working in the Employment Research Center in Trinity College Dublin I produced research on the experience of women IT workers.
I worked on an oral history of dock workers in Dublin, while based in the Social Science Research Centre in UCD.

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