Degrees and Honours
PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. BA (Honours) and MA at the University of Alberta, in Canada.
Profile and Research Interests
Dr Niamh Mulcahy is the Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Insecurity (CSFI), based at the interdisciplinary Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). As an economic sociologist, she specialises in the effects of household precariousness and poverty on regional economic decline in the UK, in order to think about how policy strategies can account for the security and stability of individuals and families when thinking about economic regeneration.
Niamh did a PhD in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge, as a member of King's College, and was subsequently appointed as Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College and CRASSH. She is the founder of CSFI, which grew out of a collaborative relationship with government, corporate, and not-for-profit stakeholders during her research fellowship. She has been a graduate tutor at Lucy Cavendish since 2022, working with Masters students in a variety of disciplines.
Publications (selected):
"Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance". Routledge 2021. https://www.routledge.com/Class-and-Inequality-in-the-Time-of-Finance-Subject-to-Terms-and-Conditions/Mulcahy/p/book/9780367530990
“Is the social study of finance necessarily nominalist? Using realism to address critical shortcomings”. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12278
“Shaping entrepreneurial subjects: How structural changes and institutional fixes shape financial strategies in daily life”. Thesis Eleven 142:1 (2017), 5 – 17.
“Workers-as-consumers: Rethinking the political economy of consumption and capital reproduction”. Capital and Class 41:2 (2017), 315 – 332.
“Entrepreneurial subjectivity and the political economy of daily life in the time of finance”. European Journal of Social Theory 20:2 (2017), 216 – 235.
“Narrating developmental disability: Researchers, advocates, and the creation of an interview space in the context of university-community partnerships”. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 11:2 (2012), 165 – 179.
