Muiris MacCarthaigh

QUB

Muiris MacCarthaigh is Professor of Politics and Public Policy and Fellow of the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queens University Belfast. He is also a Visiting Full Professor at the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin and a former member of the Royal Irish Academy’s Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee. He completed his undergraduate degree at Trinity College Dublin, and his MA and PhD degrees at University College Dublin. 

His research and teaching interests are located across two domains: public administration and policy; and Irish government and politics.  He has authored and edited seven books on these issues, most recently Public Sector Reform in Ireland: Countering Crisis (Palgrave 2017), and his work has been published in leading scientific journals including Governance, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Public Policy and Administration and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. He is former editor of the journal Administration and currently editorial board member for a number of national and international journals, and book publishers. He directs the QUB MSc in International Public Policy.

Muiris was President of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (2016-19) and is currently a member of the Steering Committee of the European Group for Public Administration.