Acknowledgements

The fieldwork for the second Working in Ireland Survey (WIIS 2) has now been completed (September 2025). This has been a major undertaking in terms of raising the necessary funding, designing the survey instrument and in conducting the survey fieldwork.

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The research team are very grateful to those organisations which funded our study, including:

• UCD Foundation

• The Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

• The Low Pay Commission

• The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs

• The Department for the Economy

• The Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland

• Together with a number of other donors who wish to remain anonymous.

 

The survey fieldwork for WIIS was conduced by Ipsos B&A. The research team are very grateful to its staff, and, in particular, to Aisling Corcoran and Rachel Mulcahy who oversaw the fieldwork, and to their team of interviewers and field supervisors for their excellent work. We also thank all the respondents who gave generously of their time to be interviewed for the study.

 

To colleagues within and beyond our respective institutions we extend our appreciation for their advice on our research instrument and sampling strategy, including:

• Professor Alan Felstead (University of Cardiff)

• Daniel Florian (Dropbox)

• Professor Carl Benedict Frey (University of Oxford)

• Professor Gabrielle Kelly (UCD)

• Professor Mike O’Neill (UCD)

• Professor Ying Zhou (University of Surrey).