Aileen O'Carroll Email and Phone Number

This role has involved the development and implementation of standards for deposit and access to qualitative data (text based, audio and visual) in line with emerging international and EU standards. She additionally advises researchers on best practice in managing and archiving research projects, both to ensure that ethical commitments are met and that the data gathered is of the highest standard to facilitate optimal re-use by a variety of audiences.Aileen was involved in the formation of EQUALAN, a European network committed to promoting and implementing a strategy for preserving and organising qualitative and qualitative longitudinal data resources.

My work in the Digital Repository of Ireland and the Irish Qualitative Data Archive has involved the development and implementation of standards for deposit and access to qualitative data (text based, audio and visual) in line with emerging international and EU standards. I additionally advises researchers on best practice in managing and archiving research projects, both to ensure that ethical commitments are met and that the data gathered is of the highest standard to facilitate optimal re-use by a variety of audiences.My research interests are centred on: sociology of time, life history, work organisation, class, economic sociology and research methods. My research is concerned with working time, particularly the organisation of working time in knowledge workplaces and I have published a book with Palgrave Macmillian which is based on this research. This is called 'Working Time, Knowledge Work & Post-Industrial Society: Unpredictable Work ' . I am also working on a book manuscript about the occupational history of Dublin dockers, which draws on an oral history product I undertook while based in the Social Science Research Centre in UCD. I am attached to the Life History and Social Change project, based at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. This project gathered a database of life history interviews, calendars and network charts, drawn from a nationally representative sample of respondents to a survey of employment, family and living conditions .The aim is not simply to recover the voice of those who lived through social change but also to provide a much richer understanding of the rationalities and vocabularies of social actors’ motives and how these are shaped by specific socio- historical and socio-spatial contexts. When working in the Employment Research Center in Trinity College Dublin I produced research on the experience of women IT workers.

Life History and Social Change Project Qualitative life history interviews were conducted between 2007-2008 with a large sample of Irish people from three key birth cohorts: those born before 1935; born between 1945-1954, and born between 1965-1974. These cohorts enabled us to interview people reaching adulthood in the crucial decades of the 1950s (an era of socio-economic decline), the 1970s (an era of initial "modernisation") and the 1990s (the "Celtic Tiger" boom). The interviews included both a qualitative, ethnographic component, in which the respondent framed the life history according to the events, circumstances and interpretations that are significant to him or her, and a systematic component (life history calendars and network schedules) that will provide comparable data across cases. The interviewees were selected from a nationally representative sample of people that had been interviewed by the ESRI for the Irish part of the European Community Household Panel Survey for the years 1994-2001.http://www.iqda.ie/content/life-histories-and-social-change-20th-century-ireland

Courses Taught: Clocks and Cities; Sociology of Time and Urban Sociology to final year undergraduatesModernity and Post-modernity to second level undergraduatesGlobalisation to second level undergraduatesSociology in Practice. An introduction to Social Research to first year undergraduatesZygmunt Bauman to final year undergraduatesSociological Theory (Foucault, Elias, Giddens, Beck Bourdieu and Habermas) tutorials to final year undergraduatesQuantitive Data Analysis & SPSS.

When working in the Employment Research Center in Trinity College Dublin I produced research on the experience of women IT workers.

Social History of the Dublin Docker Project