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Accessibility & LanguageNews
Paul Michael Garrett admitted as a member of the Irish Royal Academy
Dec
21
2022
Posted: 20:44 GMT
On Friday 16 December 2022, Paul Michael Garrett was formally admitted as a member of the Irish Royal Academy at an in-person event at the RIA in Dublin. Paul became a member in 2020, but the ceremony was deferred on account of Covid. This was the citation read out to members…
Paul Michael Garrett remains a lecturer as the University of Galway where he helped inaugurate the first social work programme in the west of Ireland in 2004. His most recent acclaimed book is Dissenting Social Work: Critical Theory, Resistance and Pandemic (Routledge, 2021). According to the International Journal of Social Welfare, he is ‘probably the most important critical social work theorist in the English-speaking world’.
