Éireann is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance and is also a PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
Éireann is a sociologist of education with a specific interest in higher education, class inequalities and narratives of (im)mobility. Her research is an ESRC funded mixed methods project on the ways in which social class and social mobility are conceptualised and measured in relation to higher education.
Prior to her PhD, Éireann was awarded a BA (Hons) in Education and English from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Higher Education from the University of Oxford. Before beginning her PhD, she worked in the field of widening access to higher education for a number of years.