I am a tenured Assistant Professor of Sociology at University College Dublin.
I am a sociologist of everyday life. I study how we can spend more of our time living. My research interests focus on social demography, sociotemporal disparities in well-being, and eco-social determinants of health.
My work has been funded by Enterprise Ireland, UKRI's Economic and Social Research Council, UK Academy of Medical Sciences, National Science Foundation, United States Agency for International Development, UC Berkeley's Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley's Social Sciences Data Laboratory, and by the Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
I have collaborated with the Colchester City Council, the Barcelona Time Use Initiative for a Healthy Society, Eurofound, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. Public media outlets featuring my research include The Conversation, RTÉ, World Economic Forum, Daily Maverick, Magdalene, and Phys.org.
I received joint PhDs in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. I earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
When not pondering the minutia of time, I love traveling (preferably by motorcycle, boat, or train), photography (especially ephemeral street art), painting (mainly acrylic), studying internal martial arts (perpetual beginner in chen style tai chi, bagua, hsing-i), binge watching time travel movies (I know... just when you were starting to like me... well, no one's perfect) and playing my handpan and didgeridoos.