Daniel McFadden

Assistant Professor of Social Work, Maynooth University, Ireland

A former Forensic Mental Health Social Worker, Dr McFadden's research is focused on vulnerable populations who have contact with the criminal justice system. His research projects to date have focused on the treatment of substance use issues in forensic mental health patients and more recently, he ran a large scale project which investigated the social support and trauma experiences of imprisoned men in Northern Ireland. The outcomes of both projects have been published in international journals with some of the findings being shared at conferences in Belfast, New York and Berlin. Dr McFadden holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin (B.S.S), University of Sydney (MPhil) and Queen's University Belfast (PhD) and is a former visiting scholar at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University (NYU). Currently Dr McFadden is Assistant Professor of Social Work at Maynooth University where he lectures on mental health, the criminal justice system, trauma informed approaches in social work practice and anti-oppressive social work with marginalised groups.