Dr. Lorcan Sirr is a senior academic with over 20 years’ teaching and research experience. His areas of expertise include housing, planning and development, research methods and policy evaluation. Lorcan has also been Visiting Professor of Housing in the Faculty of Law in the Universitat Rovira I Virgilii, Tarragona, Spain and at the Faculty of Law in the University of Galway. Lorcan was previously the Head of the Futures Academy and Faculty Head of Research.
He has taught students from certificate to PhD level and has supervised over 70 MSc and PhDs theses. His lectures, workshops and projects are generally contemporaneous in nature, dealing with real-world issues in property, housing, planning and research.
Lorcan is a board member of the Irish Refugee Council and Fire Station Artists’ Studios. He is also a former Sunday Times columnist and still writes for many publications, including The Irish Times, as well as being author of various books on housing.
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