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Education

  1. PhD, SociologyUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
  2. MA, EducationUniversity College Dublin

Research Scientist

Niamh Brennan

Niamh leads the lab's longitudinal work with first-generation students, now in its fifth wave. Her research combines panel survey data with in-depth interviews across eleven campuses.

Research interests

First-generation studentsLongitudinal methodsMixed methodsBelonging

Projects

Access & Equity

First Generation Longitudinal

Active · 2021
Access & Equity

The Completion Gap Atlas

Active · 2024

Selected publications

2025
Five years in: the first-generation longitudinal studySociology of Education
2023
Belonging is not a feeling, it is an arrangementReview of Higher Education