Professor Morag Treanor
- Professor of Social Policy and Inequality. (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092Biography
Morag's research focus is on poverty, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly where they pertain to children, young people and families. She uses longitudinal qualitative and quantitative methods, particularly birth cohort survey data and administrative data, to conduct her research.
She is Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, funded by UKRI, and leads on its Children's Lives and Outcomes programme.
Morag was Deputy Chair of the Scottish Government's statutory Poverty and Inequality Commission from 2019 to 2023 and a member of The Promise Oversight Board from 2021 to 2024.
Morag is the Research and Knowledge Exchange Director for the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy.
Research interests
- poverty and socioeconomic inequalities
- children, young people and families
- longitudinal methods (quantitative and qualitative)
- birth cohort survey data and administrative data
Research groups
Publications
Prior publications
Report
Morag Treanor et al. (2023) Digital Equality in Education: lessons from Scholar Morag Treanor.
Jenny Duncan, Morag Treanor (2017) Challenges of Poverty: Parents’ Voices Heriot-Watt University.
Morag Treanor (2009) Below the Breadline Morag Treanor.
Ruth Bryan, Morag Treanor, Malcolm HIll (2007) Evaluation of Pilots to Improve Primary to Secondary School Transitions Heriot-Watt University. ISBN 9780755964208
Article
(2018) FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS: THE COST OF THE SCHOOL DAY FOR FAMILIES LIVING IN IN-WORK AND OUT-OF-WORK POVERTY Morag Treanor.
Morag Treanor (2016) Social assets, low income and child social, emotional and behavioural wellbeing Heriot-Watt University. (doi: 10.1332/204674315X14281323517164)
John Frank, Catherine Bromley, Larry Doi, Michelle Estrade, Ruth Jepson, John McAteer, Tony Robertson, Morag Treanor, Andrew Williams (2015) Seven Key Investments for Health Equity across the Lifecourse: Scotland versus the rest of the UK Crossref Metadata Search. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.07.007)
(2015) Social assets, low income and child social, emotional and behavioural wellbeing Morag Treanor.
(2015) The Effects of Financial Vulnerability and Mothers’ Emotional Distress on Child Social, Emotional and Behavioural Well-Being: A Structural Equation Model Morag Treanor. (doi: 10.1177/0038038515570144)
Skafida V, Treanor MC (2014) Do changes in objective and subjective family income predict change in children's diets over time? Unique insights using a longitudinal cohort study and fixed effects analysis. Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203308)
(2014) Routes out of poverty: education and social mobility Morag Treanor.
Morag C. Treanor (2013) Deprived or not deprived? Comparing the measured extent of material deprivation using the UK government’s and the Poverty and Social Exclusion surveys’ method of calculating material deprivation Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0033-5177 (doi: 10.1007/s11135-013-9838-0)
Other
(2014) Free education for poor mums may help alleviate child poverty Morag Treanor.
(2012) The impacts of poverty on children’s outcomes Morag Treanor.
(2007) Evaluation of Pilots to Improve Primary to Secondary School Transitions Morag Treanor.
Book Review
Morag Treanor (2014) Gerry Mooney and Gill Scott, eds., Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2012 Heriot-Watt University.
Grants
- Aberlour Children’s Charity – PI on research to utilise Citizens Advice Data to explore public debt in Scotland.
- Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (part of ADRC-UK) –Co-Investigator on ESRC grant for the administrative data research centre in Scotland. I am the Lead on the Children’s Lives and Outcomes Strategic Impact Programme.
- Destitution in the UK (2022-23) – Co-I on grant funded by JRF to track trends in destitution in the UK.
- Aberlour Children’s Charity – PI on research on the impact of public debt on low income families, 1/10/2021 – 16/4/2023.
- Nuffield Foundation – PI on project to explore Digital Equality in Education 1/2/2021 – 31/7/2023.
- ESRC – Co-Investigator on grant to conduct research linking education data to health and census data to explore patterns of school exclusions across Scotland, with a focus on socio-economic and other inequalities, 5/1/2021 – 30/6/2022.
- Trussell Trust – PI on ‘State of Hunger’ research to map food insecurity and food bank need in the UK, 2019 - 2021.
- Aberlour Children’s Charity – evaluation of Urgent Assistance Fund during Covid-19 pandemic, 2020.
Supervision
- Sarim, Mohd
Analytical strategies for improving Third Sector employability services in the post COVID-19 recovery
