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Dr Gerry Mooney is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology at the Open University's Faculty of Social Sciences. He holds affiliations with the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) and the Open Space Research Centre. A member of the academic community since the mid-1980s, he has held roles as a tutor and later Staff Tutor in Social Sciences at the Open University in Scotland. He concurrently serves as a Visiting Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Wisconsin River Falls and has held a Visiting Professorship at the University of Strathclyde (2008–2011).
Dr Mooney's research focuses on neoliberal theories and their impact on social policy, Scottish devolution, territorial inequality, and the role of criminal justice in nation-building. His recent projects include analyses of austerity's effects on welfare systems and class divisions in contemporary Scotland.
He completed his BA in Social Sciences at the University of Paisley (now the University of the West of Scotland) and earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow. Since 2006, he has been an Honorary Fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Centre for British Studies, where he regularly lectures.
Dr Mooney is actively involved in curriculum development at the Open University, leading the design of their new Social Policy module and chairing its Honours Criminology course.
