My research explores how people experience and understand the administrative state. Together with my colleagues in the Administrative Fairness Lab, we carry out empirical research on perceptions of different public sector services, processes and mechanisms. My research also aims to bridge the gap between theoretical and socio-legal understandings of public law, acknowledging the plurality of actors that bring about the 'animation' of law as a social phenomenon and expression of epistemic power.
Donson F., O’Donovan D, and Ryan A., ‘Ireland’s Distinct Constitutional Vision: The ‘Administration of Justice’ in Quasi-Judicial Bodies’ in Thomson S., Groves M., and Weeks G., (eds) Tribunals in the Common Law World Hart Publishing (forthcoming 2024).
Ryan A. ‘The Form of Forms: Everyday Enablers of Access to Justice’ (2023) Social & Legal Studies, 32(5), 690–713. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639231172616.
Ryan A. (2021). Book review, Doyle, Margaret and O'Brien, Nick, Reimagining Administrative Justice: Human Rights in Small Places. Modern Law Review 84(2), 410-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12569.
I am currently in a full-time research role and not engaged in teaching. I have experience of lecturing Public Law (Grounds of Judicial Review) and Commercial Law. I have also tutored Introduction to the Legal System and Law of Equity: Trusts. In 2021 I graduated with a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education from University College Cork.