Staff Profile

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Killian Mullan
Research Fellow

BA Public and Social Policy (NUI Galway), MA Econ. (NUI Galway), PhD Applied Social and Economic Research (Essex)

Biography

Killian Mullan conducts research on a wide range of topics relating to the family.  He has extensive experience working with time-use data to examine questions relating to work-family balance, the gender division of paid and unpaid work, and studies of children and young people’s daily activities and interactions. He has been closely involved in a number of family-related commissioned research projects for various Commonwealth and State Departments, including the evaluation of the Brighter Futures early intervention program in New South Wales. He is also interested in methodological issues relating to quantitative data and analysis techniques used in family research. 

Specialist areas

  • Time-use research
  • Work-family balance
  • Children and young people
  • Quantitative research methods

Selected recent publications

Journal articles

  • Craig, L. and Mullan, K. (forthcoming), 'How fathers and mothers share childcare: a cross-national time-use comparison', American Sociological Review (accepted 1/9/11)
  • Craig, L. and K. Mullan (2011), 'Shared parent-child leisure time in four countries', Leisure Studies published online 3rd August 2011 DOI:10.1080/02614367.2011.573570
  • Mullan, K., H. Sutherland, and F. Zantomio (2011), ‘Accounting for housing in poverty analysis’, Social Policy and Society 10(4): 1-12. [Authorship alphabetically ordered]
  • Craig, L. and K. Mullan (2011), 'Lone and couple mothers’ childcare time within context in four countries’, European Sociological Review published online 28 February 2011 DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcr013
  • Craig, L. and K. Mullan (2010) ‘Parenthood, gender and work-family time in five countries’ Journal of Marriage and the Family 72 (5): 1344-1361
  • Mullan, K (2010) ‘Families that read: a time-diary analysis of young people’s and parents’ reading’ Journal of Research in Reading 33(4): 414-430
  • Mullan, K. (2010) ‘Valuing the inputs and outputs of parental care in the United Kingdom’ Feminist Economics 16(3): 113-139
  • Craig, L., K. Mullan and M. Blaxland (2010) 'Parenthood, policy and work-family time in Australia 1992-2006' Work, Employment and Society 24 (1): 1-19
  • Mullan, K. (2009) ‘Young people’s time use and maternal employment in the UK’, British Journal of Sociology, 60(4): 741-762
  • Mullan, K., and L. Craig (2009) ‘Harmonizing extended measures of parental childcare in the time-diaries of four countries: proximity versus responsibility’ electronic International Journal for Time Use Research 6 (1): 48-72
  • Craig, L., and K. Mullan (2009) 'The policeman and the part-time sales assistant: household labour supply, family time and subjective time pressure in Australia 1997-2006 (PDF 1.2 MB)’ Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 40 (4): 545-560.
  • Egerton, M., and K. Mullan (2008), 'Being a pretty good citizen: an analysis and monetary valuation of formal and informal voluntary work by gender and educational attainment', The British Journal of Sociology, 59 (1), 145-64.

Reports

  • Mullan, K. and G. Redmond (2011) Validating income in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre.
  • Mullan, K. and G. Redmond (2011) Socioeconomic circumstances, child development and location: a descriptive analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC), report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre.
  • K. Mullan, C. Eastman and F. Hilferty (2010) Brighter Futures Early Intervention, Final Report December 2010. Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre.
  • Hilferty, F., K. Mullan, K. Van Gool, S. Chan, C. Eastman, R. Reeve, K. Heese, M. Hass, BJ Newtown, M. Griffiths, and I. Katz (2010) The evaluation of Brighter Futures, NSW Community Services’ early intervention program, Final Report. Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre.
  • Hilferty, F., K. Mullan, C. Eastman, M. Griffiths, S. Chan, K. Heese, and I. Katz (2010) Brighter Futures Early Intervention, 4th Interim Report March 2010. Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre.
  • K. Mullan and F. Hilferty (2010) Brighter Futures Early Intervention, Interim Report March 2010. Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre.
  • Muir, K., K. Mullan, A. Powell, S. Flaxman, D. Thompson, and M. Griffiths (2009) State of Australia’s young people: a report on the social, economic, health and family lives of young people. Canberra: Australian Government Office for Youth.
  • Blaxland, M., K. Mullan, and L. Craig. (2009), Australian work and family policy review 1992-2006', SPRC Report 03/09, review prepared for Trends in Time: Work, Family and Social Policy in Australia 1992-2006.
  • Craig, L., K. Mullan, and D. Thompson. (2008), Sole Mothers Time Allocation to Work and Childcare in Contrasting Policy Regimes, report prepared for the Australian Government Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

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