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Dr. Deirdre Duffy is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Global Social Inequalities) at Lancaster University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She serves as Co-Director of Education and Department Impact Lead, overseeing academic strategy and policy-relevant research. Her work focuses on reproductive (in)justice, abortion access, and gender and health inequalities, with a global lens encompassing the Global North and South. She has contributed to legal reforms in Colombia and Ireland to reduce abortion inequities.
Dr. Duffy’s research emphasizes 'research for policy' and transformative social policy, as seen in her 2017 monograph Evaluation and Governing in the 21st Century. She teaches SOCL208 Gender and Intersecting Inequalities, integrating her expertise in governance, resistance, and equity. Her projects include The Queer Lives of the Hospital (archiving LGBTQIA+ healthcare experiences) and evaluations of Ireland’s abortion policy implementation.
Her recent work examines abortion activism in Africa, post-legal-reform healthcare in Ireland, and reproductive governance in conflict zones like Colombia. She collaborates with international networks to advance equitable healthcare access and challenges systemic inequities through interdisciplinary research.
Dr. Duffy’s advisory roles and grants include leading a study on healthcare provider perspectives under Ireland’s 2018 abortion law and analyzing barriers to abortion care in Peru. She advocates for decolonizing feminist methodologies and emphasizes grassroots activism’s role in policy change.
