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Social policies

Mary McCaughey

Head of Unit

Mary McCaughey is Head of Information and Communication in Eurofound. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin and the College of Europe, Bruges, she started work in Brussels with Europolitics and the Wall Street Journal Europe. She worked with the Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa (AWEPA) in South Africa during the country’s transition to democracy, and in 1998 she took up the post of spokesperson with the Delegation of the European Union in Pretoria, heading up its press and information department during the negotiation of the EU–South Africa free trade agreement. Following the end of the Kosovo War, she worked as a communications consultant for the European Agency for Reconstruction in Serbia. She took up the post of Editor-in-Chief in Eurofound in 2003.

Research outputs

Mary is the author of the following publications.

Events, podcast and blog

Mary has contributed the following events, blog posts and podcast episodes.

In-person event
Own event

algolia - Brussels Briefing: Work and well-being - The gender gap in job quality - TEST

Date1 March – 31 December 2026
Time18:24 (Irish local time)
LocationBrussels
In-person event
Own event

111Brussels Briefing: Work and well-being - The gender gap in job quality - TEST

DateFriday 25 September 2026 – 6 December 2025
Time18:24 (Irish local time)
LocationBrussels

14 November 2024

Podcast episode

Episode 25 – Is climate change making work more dangerous in Europe?

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