Assistant Lecturer

Email: judy.mcavoy@tudublin.ie

Judy McAvoy is an Assistant Lecturer in Social Care. She is a graduate of both the BA (Hons.) in Social Care and the MA in Criminology. In 2013, her Master’s dissertation on Irish public attitudes towards sex crime and sex offender reintegration was awarded a prize by the Irish Penal Reform Trust. For the last decade, Judy has worked in a variety of social care settings, including homeless services, migrant advocacy for those returning to Ireland in crisis situations, and, most recently, she led the set-up and development of Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s first Client Support Service, providing holistic advocacy and case management to survivors of sexual violence.