About
Pauline Cullen is an Associate Professor in Sociology and Politics in the Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland. Her work examines civil society including trade union mobilization on feminised work at national and European Union level, women’s movements and feminist analysis of politics and policy. She has conducted policy related research for the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWC) and the European Institute for Gender Equality. She acted as research expert for the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality. Her work was been published in the Journal of Civil Society, Social Movement Studies, Gender Work & Organization, Politics & Gender; Policy and Society; Media, Culture & Society, Politique Europeenne & European Politics and Society. She is co-editor of Producing Knowledge Reproducing Gender in Contemporary Ireland University College Dublin and University of Chicago Press.
Teaching: Gender and Health; International Public Policy; Gender and Politics, Sociology of Gender, Qualitative Research.
Publications
Cullen, P (2023) ‘Trade Union Campaigns for early childcare and school secretarial work in Ireland’ In: Handbook on Gender and Public Sector Employment. Cheltenham; UK : Edward Elgar.
Cullen, P. (2022) ‘From Feminised to Feminist? Trade Union Campaigns for Early Years Educators, Nurses and Midwives in Ireland’ In: Social Partners and Gender Equality Change and Continuity in Gendered Corporatism in Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan/ Springer Link.
Cullen P. (2021) ‘Gender expertise and policy analysis’ In: Policy Analysis in Ireland. Policy Press
Cullen P. (2021) ‘From neglect to threat: feminist responses to right wing populism in the European Union’. European Politics And Society, 22:4, 520-577. SCOPUS Q1
Cullen, P (2021) ‘Trade Union Mobilization and Female-Dominated Care Work in Ireland: Feminised and/or Feminist?’. Politique Europeenne, 74 :136-163.
Cullen P and Murphy M.P. (2020) ‘Responses to the COVID‐19 crisis in Ireland: From Feminized to Feminist’. Gender, Work and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12596; published in Vol. 28, Issue S2, July 348-365 SCOPUS Q1
Cullen P. and Mary P. Corcoran (Ed.). (2020) Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender: Power, Production and Practice in Contemporary Ireland Dublin: University College Dublin Press and the University of Chicago Press
Cullen P. (2019) ‘The discursive politics of marketization in home care policy implementation in Ireland’. Policy and Society, 38 (4):606-625 SCOPUS Q1.
Cullen P and Korolczuk, E. (2019) ‘Challenging abortion Stigma: Framing Abortion in Ireland and Poland” Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 27, Issue 3, 6-19. SCOPUS Q1
Cullen P, O’Brien A, Corcoran M.P. (2019) ‘Reporting on domestic violence in the Irish media: an exploratory study of journalists’ perceptions and practices’. Media, Culture and Society, 41 (6):774-790. SCOPUS Q1
Cullen, P, M Marx Ferree and M Verloo (2019) ‘Introduction to the Special Issue: Gender Knowledge Production and Knowledge Work’. Gender, Work and Organization, Vol 26 765-771. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gwao.12329 SCOPUS Q1
Cullen P. (2018) ‘Irish Female Members of the European Parliament: Critical Actors for Women’s Interests?’. Politics & Gender, :1-29. SCOPUS Q1
Cullen, P and Murphy, M.P. (2017) ‘Leading the debate for the business case for gender equality, perilous for whom?’. Gender, Work and Organisation, Volume 25, No. 2 March 110-125 SCOPUS Q1.
Cullen, P; Murphy, MP (2017) ‘Gendered Mobilizations against Austerity in Ireland’. Gender, Work and Organization, 24 :83-9 SCOPUS Q 15
Policy Reports
2023 Pauline Cullen (2023) The EU Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality Gender Equality – The role of men and boys in advancing gender equality and breaking gender stereotypes – Discussion Paper – Ireland. European Commission: DG Justice and Consumers https://commission.europa.eu/publications/eu-mutual-learning-programme-gender-equality-role-men-and-boys-advancing-gender-equality-and_en
2022 Pauline Cullen (2022) Positive Gender Norms in Ireland. Department of Children Equality Disability Integration and Youth
2022 Pauline Cullen and Shane Gough (2022) Different Paths, Shared Experiences: Ethnic Minority Women & Local Politics in Ireland. National Traveller Women’s Forum and AKiDwA https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/filefield_paths/Different_Paths_Shared_Experiences_Report.pdf
2021 Pauline Cullen (2021) Increasing Gender Balance on Boards: The Case for Legislative Gender Quotas in Ireland. National Women’s Council https://www.nwci.ie/images/uploads/WomenOnBoardsReport.pdf
2019 Pauline Cullen and Claire McGing (2019) Women Beyond the Dail: More Women in Local Government. National Women’s Council if Ireland https://www.nwci.ie/images/uploads/_NWCI_Research_Report_WEB.pdf
2018 Mary P. Murphy and Pauline Cullen (2018) National Women’s Council of Ireland Gender Budget assessment Exercise for Budget 2018. MUSSI
2018 Mary P. Murphy and Pauline Cullen (2018) AUSTERITY, GENDER INEQUALITY AND FEMINISM AFTER THE CRISIS Irish Feminist Approaches against Austerity Regimes. ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STIFTUNG, .
2017 Murphy M.P. and Cullen P. (2017) Gender Proofing Budget 2018. MUSSI Working Paper No 3.
GEPPN: Gender Equality Policy in Practice Network 