Carmel Hannan

Carmel Hannan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland and an expert in Irish family dynamics and child development.

Her research has focused on stratification issues within the family particularly as they relate to class dynamics. Her latest publications is on the impact of the pandemic on children's outdoor play. 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 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 Junior Dean 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 at the Economic and Social Research Institute, in Dublin.