Rate My Professor Morag Treanor

In 2025, Professor Treanor was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her influential publications include the monograph Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive (Policy Press, 2020), which draws on longitudinal data to detail children's experiences in persistent poverty. Other key works encompass The indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters (Journal of Adolescent Health, 2023), Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems (Social Science and Medicine, 2022), and Qualitative longitudinal research: from monochrome to technicolour (Social Policy and Society, 2021). She has authored reports such as Destitution in the UK 2023 (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2023), Households with a Disability and Lone Parent Families and the impact of Public Debt and Arrears (Aberlour, 2025), and Understanding Exclusions in Scottish Secondary Schools (ADR UK, 2024). Treanor's research informs policy through keynote presentations, including on child poverty and public debt crises, and collaborations with public and voluntary sector organizations, demonstrating substantial impact on understanding the intersections of poverty, mental health, educational exclusions, absences, and public debt.