Curriculum Vitae

Eoin Carroll 

Email: eoincarrollis@gmail.com, ecarroll@jcfj.ie

Mobile: 087 225 0793

Education

2009 – 2011 MA Criminology (p/t), Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT)

2005 – 2006 MSc. Social Policy and the Voluntary Sector, London School of Economics

2004 – 2005 Dip. Social Integration and Enterprise, University College Cork.        Grade: 1^st

2000 – 2004 BA Mod Sociology and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Grade: 2.1

January – June 2003: Erasmus student at Umeå University, Sweden

Examination Results

 

Masters in Criminology (DIT)                       Grade                                      2.1

Dissertation ‘Pulling a rabbit out of a hat, where do policies come from? An examination of the criminal justice policy processes behind the building of the

Dóchas Centre’                                                                                               (68%) 2.1

Masters in Social Policy (LSE)                       Grade                                      2.1

Dissertation ‘An examination of the Community and Voluntary Sector in

The policy process of the Irish National Social Partnership Agreement’         (66%)  2.1

Subjects: Leadership in Organisations; Social Policy – Organisation and Innovation; Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector; Social Policy – Goals and Issues Social Policy Research

           

Employment History

2007 – Present: Advocacy and Social Policy Research Officer, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

October 2009 – January 2011: acting Director, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

Duties for these roles include: Staff management, strategic planning, project co-ordination, advocacy and lobbying, communications, article writing and editing, networking, website management including devising a website (www.whycare.ie) to introduce teenagers and young adults to social justice.

           

2004 – 2005: Project Worker, initially under the CSV Programme, ‘The Loft’, Focus Ireland - working with young people who were homeless.

2006 (part time): Locum worker for Focus Ireland and the DePaul Trust.

            Link Worker, Revolving Doors Agency, London - housing project.

Duties for these roles included: individual case management, one-to-one support and representative advocacy. Training included Therapeutic Crisis Intervention.

2004 (Summer): Summer Project Co-ordinator, Ozanam House Community Resource Centre which involved design and management. 90 children and over 40 volunteers participated.

2003 (July): Head Sailing Instructor Lough Ree Yacht Club.

Voluntary Work

• Member of the Shannon One Design Association Governing Body.

• Involved in the founding of Suas Education Development – participated in inaugural programme to Calcutta.

• Outgoing Chair of the Belvedere College SJ Lourdes Society and a former schools group co-ordinator for the Dublin Dioceses Pilgrimage to Lourdes.

• Past member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul National Social and Justice Policy Committee; former vice president of TCD conference.

Selected Publications

§  The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice (2012) The Irish Prison System: Vision, Values, Reality. (Authorship attributed to the Centre, but involvement in writing, editing and overall co-ordinator).

§  MA Criminology (2011) dissertation published in College online publication. Presentation on Findings given in a paper presentation at the Irish North South Criminological Conference in June 2012.

§  Eoin Carroll (2008) ‘Is there a Need for the Women's Prison to Move from Mountjoy to Thornton Hall’, in Working Notes, Dublin: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

§  Eoin Carroll and Peter McVerry SJ (2007) ‘Homes not Hostels: Rethinking Homeless Policy’ in Working Notes, Dublin: Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice.

§  Eoin Carroll (2004) ‘A critical review of the concept of poverty with particular attention to the use of ‘relative poverty’ in recent Irish policy research” (Trinity College: Student Social and Political Review).

Interests and Achievements

§  London School of Economics: Graduate Merit Award, and the Loch Exhibition Award, awarded by the University of London to an outstanding student in the Department of Social Policy.

§  Received School medal for humanitarian work and a Guinness Living in Dublin award.

§  Sailing at a competitive level, former Senior Sailing Instructor and a member of the Executive Committee of Lough Ree Yacht Club. Also, a keen interest in attending provincial and international rugby games and playing tag rugby.

Other Relevant Training

§  Three day course on leadership facilitated by Prof. Ciaran O’Boyle, RCSI.

§  Several media courses

§  Continual management development training

Miscellaneous

§  Excellent computer skills including new media and a knowledge of website management and Customer Relations Management systems.

§  EB driving licence.

Referees

Available on request