Position: Senior Lecturer
Email: sweir@ipa.ie
Telephone: 00 353 1 240 3600
Stephen's research interests focus on Institutional Economics, Policy Change, Regulation, Transport Policy and Health Policy. He co-ordinates the Economics programmes and subjects on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of the Whitaker School of Government and Management at the IPA. He holds both a PhD and a BA in Economics from Trinity College Dublin, and an M.Econ.Sc from University College Dublin. He lectures in Microeconomics, Public Sector Economics, Health Economics, Business Economics, Economic Growth and Research Methods on the Institute's, undergraduate postgraduate and doctoral programmes. He has also lectured in UCD, QUB, and DCU. Stephen is the Programme Director for the IPA's Diploma in Health Economics.