Staff profiles
Dr Rionach Casey
PhD, MSc, BA, MCIH
Phone 0114 225 4004
Email r.casey@shu.ac.uk
Rionach has extensive research experience in the housing profession, homelessness, housing markets, minority ethnic groups, social exclusion and anti-social behaviour. She has a particular interest in the needs and aspirations of the Irish community in Britain.
Rionach has worked in housing management for a local authority and as a community development research officer in the voluntary sector. She has co-authored research reports commissioned by a range of organisations and government departments including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Federation of Irish Societies.
Research interests
- housing profession and occupational identity
- housing pathways of socially excluded and migrant groups
- policy responses to anti-social behaviour
- homelessness and gender
- Irish community in Britain
Selected reports
Batty, E., Casey, R., Flint, J and Parr, S (2011) Evaluation of Rochdale Families Project: Summary of Key Findings and Messages. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University
Cole, I., Casey, R et al (2010) Living Through Challenges in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Change, Continuity, Contrast. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Reeve, K., Batty, E. and Casey, R. (2010) The Housing Needs and Experiences of Homeless Women Involved in Street Sex Work in Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Pawson, H., Davidson, E., Sosenko, F., Flint, J., Nixon, J., Casey, R and Sanderson, D (2009) Evaluation of Intensive Family Support Projects in Scotland
Casey, R and Flint, J (2009) The Health Needs of the Irish aged 50+ in Calderdale, Calderdale: Calderdale NHS
Casey, R., Cole, I., Duffy, D and Green, S (2008) A Study of Younger People's Housing Needs in the Northern Housing Market Area, Northern Housing Group. Sheffield: CRESR
Powell, R., Brown, P, Niner, P and Casey, R (2008) West Yorkshire Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Needs Assessment. Sheffield: CRESR
Robinson, D., Reeve, K and Casey, R (2007) The Housing Pathways of New Immigrants. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Reeve, K., Casey, R and Goudie, R (2006) Homeless Women: Still Being Failed, Yet Striving to Survive. London: Crisis
Selected publications
Casey, R (forthcoming) Community, Difference and the Politics of Identity: the case of the Irish in Sheffield. Irish Geography
Casey R, (2010) 'You doctor yourself': health beliefs, resilience and well-being amongst the Irish in Yorkshire', Diversity in Health and Care, Vol.7: 2, pp.129-138
Batty, E., Casey, R and Reeve, K (2010) 'On the Streets': Sex Workers and Homelessness. Homelessness in Europe Feantsa. April 2010
Casey, R (2010) Women, identity and India's call centre industry, by J.K. Tina Basi, London and New York, Routledge, 2009, 210 pp. Gender, Place and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 1, February 2010, pp.126-127.
Casey, R and Flint, J (2008) Governing Through Localism, Contract and Community: Evidence From Anti-Social Behaviour Strategies in Scotland, by Squires, P.A, ASBO Nation, London: Policy Press
Casey, R., Goudie, R and Reeve, K (2008) Homeless Women in Public Spaces: Strategies of Resistance, Housing Studies, 23:6, pp. 899 - 916.
Casey, R (2008) On Becoming a Social Housing Manager: Work Identities in an 'Invisible' Occupation. Housing Studies, 23 (5), pp. 761-780.
Casey, R., Coward, S., Allen, C. and Powell, R. (2007) On the Planned Environment and Neighbourhood Life: Evidence from Planned Mixed Tenure Housing Developments Twenty Years On, Town Planning Review, Vol.78 (3)
Allen, C, Powell, R., Casey, R. and Coward, S. (2007) 'Ordinary, just like anywhere else': Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity in 'Marginal' Middle Class Neighbourhoods, Sociology, Vol. 41 (2) pp.239-258
Casey, R. and Allen, C. (2004) Public Housing Managers and the Performance Ethos: Towards a 'Professional Project of the Self'. Work, Employment and Society, 18 (2).
Recent conference and seminar papers
Casey, R (2010) Community and Identity in East Yorkshire: A Case-study of Howden. Paper presented to the Community Evolution and Community Participation: Practice in the UK and China International Symposium, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China, 12–July 2010
Casey, R, Batty, E and Reeve, K (2009) 'On the Streets': the Double Jeopardy of Being Homeless and a Street Sex Worker, Paper presented to the Changing Housing Markets: Integration and Segmentation/ European Network for Housing Research, Prague, 28 June–1 July 2009
Casey, R and Reeve, K (2009) Meeting the Housing Needs of People with Complex Needs. Paper presented to the Tackling Rough Sleeping and Multiple Exclusion Conference', the Moat House, Stoke-on-Trent, 23 June 2009
Casey, R and Flint, J (2009) Community, Difference and Identity: the Case of the Irish in Sheffield. Paper presented to the AHRC Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme / CRONEM Conference: 'Diasporas, Migration and Identities: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions': University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 11–12 June 2009
Reeve, K., Casey, R and Goudie, R (2007) Resistance and Identity: Homeless Women's Use of Public Spaces in England. Paper presented to the European Network of Housing Research Conference on 'Sustainable Urban Areas', Rotterdam, 25–28 June 2007.
PhD supervision
Rionach is currently a member of the supervisory team for a PhD on the topic of Governance, Devolution and the Communities First Programme in Wales .
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