Michelle Norris is Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Geary Institute for Public Policy at University College Dublin. Her teaching and research interests focus on housing policy and urban regeneration.
She has led over 30 research projects on these issues and produced 200 publications on the results. She has very strong links with policy makers in Ireland and internationally. This has included being a member of the National Economic and Social Council, chairing the board of the Housing Finance Agency, and being appointed a member of both the Land Development Agency and the housing commission by the Minister for Housing. In 2021 she was one of three lead authors of the Housing2030 report on how policy makers improve affordable housing outcomes, commissioned by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), UN Habitat and Housing Europe.
In 2022 she was appointed to a UNECE expert advisory group tasked with planning for rebuilding housing and urban centres in post-war Ukraine. In recognition of the outstanding policy impact of her research she was awarded the Irish Research Council's research impact award in 2021.