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Dorothy Watson
Associate Research Professor
dorothy.watson@esri.ie
Dorothy Watson is an Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute. She received her Bachelor's degree in Social Science from University College Cork; and her MSc and PhD (both in sociology) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was a Research Fellow of the ESRI from 1983 to 1986.
Her areas of interest are Social Inequality, Values and Belief Systems, Quality of Life and Survey Methodology. As well as managing several large-scale national surveys (including the ECHP in Ireland and SLÁN 2007), she has worked with international colleagues on a number of projects, including the ESeC consortium to develop and validate a European measure of social class and the EQUALSOC network.
Her current research projects include work on the measurement of income poverty in an international context, subjective well-being in Europe, workplace organisation / participation and gender and mental health in Ireland.
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