Hilda Loughran

Hilda Loughran is an Associate Professor in Social Work/Social Policy at University College Dublin. Before becoming a fulltime academic she worked as a social worker in housing, a social work addiction counsellor and a relationship counsellor. During her career she has maintained her counselling social work practice through voluntary work, mostly working with service users in the substance use field. She teaches Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Work and Group work to Masters in...See more

Hilda Loughran is an Associate Professor in Social Work/Social Policy at University College Dublin. Before becoming a fulltime academic she worked as a social worker in housing, a social work addiction counsellor and a relationship counsellor. During her career she has maintained her counselling social work practice through voluntary work, mostly working with service users in the substance use field. She teaches Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Work and Group work to Masters in Social Work students and is involved in participatory research with service users enhancing social work education. See less