Funding
- Research theme 1 funded by Community Foundation for Ireland (an NGO which funds social projects and research).
- Research themes 2 and 3 funded by the Housing Agency (agency of the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government).
- Research theme 4 funded by the Irish Research Council and the Community Foundation for Ireland
Academic publications
Research theme 1
- Norris, M (2016) Property, Family and the Irish Welfare State. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Redmond, D. and Norris, M. (2014) 'Social Housing in Ireland' in Scanlon, K, Whitehead C and Fernandez, M (eds). Social Housing in Europe. London: Wiley-Blackwell. pp.145-164
- Norris, M (2014) '(opens in a new window)Path Dependence and Critical Junctures in Irish Rental Policy: From Dualist to Unitary Rental Markets?'. Housing Studies, 29 (5):616-637.
- Norris, M and Fahey, T; (2011) '(opens in a new window)From Asset Based Welfare to Welfare Housing: The Changing Meaning of Social Housing in Ireland'. Housing Studies, 26 (3):459-469.
- Norris, M and O'Connell, C; (2010) '(opens in a new window)Social Housing Management, Governance and Delivery in Ireland: Ten Years of Reform on Seven Estates'. Housing Studies, 25 (3):317.
- Norris, M and Coates M; (2010) '(opens in a new window)Private sector provision of social housing: an assessment of recent Irish experiments'. Public Money & Management, 30 (1):19-26.
Research theme 2
- Norris, M and Byrne, M (2017), '(opens in a new window)Housing Market Volatility, Stability and Social Rented Housing: comparing Austria and Ireland during the global financial crisis' Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
Research theme 3
- Byrne, M and Norris, M (2017) '(opens in a new window)Pro-cyclical social housing and the crisis of Irish housing policy: marketization, social housing and the property boom and bust'. Housing Policy Debate.
- Norris, M and Byrne, M (2015) '(opens in a new window)Asset Price Keynesianism, Regional Imbalances and the Irish and Spanish Housing Booms and Busts'. Built Environment, 41 (2):205-221.
- Norris, M and Coates D (2014) '(opens in a new window)How housing killed the Celtic tiger: anatomy and consequences of Ireland's housing boom and bust'. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 29 (2):299-315.
Participation in policymaker and practitioner conferences
- Norris, M (2016) “Affordable and Sustainable Social Housing Finance” paper presented to the Housing Agency Annual Conference Dublin Castle, Dublin, 24-May.
- Norris, M (2016), “Paying for a Social Housing Building Programme" - Paper presented to the Annual Local Authority Housing Practitioners Conference, Newbridge Co Kildare, 18 July.
- Norris, M and Byrne, M (2016), "Social Housing and Housing Market Stability: Ireland and Austria Compared" paper presented to the Dublin Economics Workshop, Trinity College Dublin, 10 June.
- Norris, M (2015)"Financing and Delivering Social Housing: challenges, causes and solutions". - paper presented to a European Commission Conference, 9 November.
- Norris, M (2015) “Meeting the Challenge of Financing and Delivering Social Housing” paper presented to the Simon Communities of Ireland Conference: Changing the Forecast responding to the homeless and housing crisis Dublin, 28- September.
- Norris, M (2015) “Financing and Delivering Social Housing” paper presented to the Department of the Environment and Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland Joint Housing Conference Dublin, 09, February.
- Norris, M; (2011) “Funding Social Housing in an Era of Austerity” paper presented to the Focus Ireland and Threshold Joint Conference - the Government's Housing Policy Statement: Implications for tackling homelessness, 11 September.
Participation in media discussions
- Published two half-page opinion pieces on social housing in the Irish Times (click (opens in a new window)here for the first and (opens in a new window)here for the second)
- Appeared on radio (Morning Ireland and Marion Finucane Shows on RTÉ and George Hook show on Newstalk and French and Finnish Radio).
- Appeared on TV (including RTE Primetime and the Week in Politics shows and TV3).