Professor Morag Treanor

  • Professor of Social Policy and Inequality. (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

Biography

Morag's research focus is on poverty, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly where they pertain to children, young people and families. She uses longitudinal qualitative and quantitative methods, particularly birth cohort survey data and administrative data, to conduct her research.

She is Co-Director of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research, funded by UKRI, and leads on its Children's Lives and Outcomes programme.

Morag was Deputy Chair of the Scottish Government's statutory Poverty and Inequality Commission from 2019 to 2023 and a member of The Promise Oversight Board from 2021 to 2024.

Morag is the Research and Knowledge Exchange Director for the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy.

Research interests

  • poverty and socioeconomic inequalities
  • children, young people and families
  • longitudinal methods (quantitative and qualitative)
  • birth cohort survey data and administrative data 

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 27.

2024

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Celia, MacIntyre (2024) Understanding Exclusions in Scottish Secondary Schools. Project Report. ADR UK, Edinburgh. (doi: 10.7488/era/4812).

2023

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2023) Data Explained: Exploring context, factors and approaches to educational exclusions and absences. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research.

Fitzpatrick, Suzanne, Bramley, Glen, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Blenkinsopp, Janice, McIntyre, Jill, Johnsen, Sarah and McMordie, Lynne (2023) Destitution in the UK 2023. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Williamson, Lee (2023) School and area-level disparities in exclusions in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), 11. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2194)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3), pp. 470-477. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.012)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) How public debt and arrears are experienced by low-income families. Documentation. Aberlour.

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Porter, Robert (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. (doi: 10.7488/era/3245).

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Digital exclusion in education: What the online learning technology Scholar tells us about inequality in Scottish secondary schools. Other. Nuffield Foundation.

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) Methods for analysing the relationship between poverty, parental work intensity, child emotional symptoms and conduct problems over time. MethodsX, 10, 101940. (doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2022.101940) (PMID:36545544) (PMCID:PMC9761838)

2022

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2022) Universal Credit deductions for households with children by Scottish local authority - A report on Freedom of Information requests. Other. Aberlour.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems. Social Science and Medicine, 312, p. 115373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115373) (PMID:36152585)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Digitally excluded: inequalities in the access and use of online learning technologies in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), 48. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1819) (PMCID:PMC9644675)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2022) Results of Freedom of Information request on school meal debt processes. Other. Aberlour.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2022) Public debt literature review. Other. Aberlour.

2021

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Patrick, Ruth and Wenham, Aniela (2021) Qualitative longitudinal research: from monochrome to technicolour. Social Policy and Society, 20(4), pp. 635-651. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746421000270)

Bramley, Glen, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Sosenko, Filip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-173X and Littlewood, Mandy (2021) State of hunger: building the evidence on poverty, destitution, and food insecurity in the UK. Project Report. The Trussell Trust, London.

McKendrick, John, Dickie, John, Hardy, Fiona, O'Hagan, Angela, Sinclair, Stephen and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (Eds.) (2021) Poverty in Scotland 2021: Towards a 2030 Without Poverty. CPAG. ISBN 9781910715703

2020

Lewer, Dan, King, Emma, Bramley, Glen, Fitzpatrick, Suzanne, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Maguire, Nick, Bullock, Miriam, Hayward, Andrew and Story, Al (2020) The ACE Index: mapping childhood adversity in England. Journal of Public Health, 42(4), e487-e495. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdz158)

Fitzpatrick, Suzanne, Bramley, Glen, Blenkinsopp, Janice, Wood, Jenny, Sosenko, Filip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-173X, Littlewood, Mandy, Johnsen, Sarah, Watts, Beth, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and McIntyre, Jill (2020) Destitution in the UK 2020. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) Evaluation of Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund. Other. Aberlour Children’s Charity.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) How COVID-19 crisis measures reveal the conflation between poverty and adversity. Scottish Affairs, 29(4), pp. 475-492. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0338)

Byrne, Delma and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) Income, Poverty and Deprivation among Children - A Statistical Baseline Analysis. Other. Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive. Policy Press: United Kingdom. ISBN 9781447334668

2018

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2018) Falling through the cracks: the cost of the school day for families living in in-work and out-of-work poverty. Scottish Affairs, 27(4), pp. 486-511. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0259)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2018) Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood. In: Nieuwenhuis, Rense and Maldonado, Laurie C. (eds.) The Triple Bind of Single-parent Families: Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing. Bristol University Press; Policy Press, pp. 81-100. ISBN 9781447333647

2017

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Macht, Alexandra, Morton, Sarah and Seditas, Karen (2017) Tackling child poverty: Actions to prevent and mitigate child poverty at the local level. Other. What Works Scotland.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2017) Actions to prevent and mitigate child poverty in South Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership. Other. What Works Scotland.

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Number of items: 27.

Articles

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Williamson, Lee (2023) School and area-level disparities in exclusions in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), 11. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2194)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3), pp. 470-477. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.012)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) Methods for analysing the relationship between poverty, parental work intensity, child emotional symptoms and conduct problems over time. MethodsX, 10, 101940. (doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2022.101940) (PMID:36545544) (PMCID:PMC9761838)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems. Social Science and Medicine, 312, p. 115373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115373) (PMID:36152585)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Digitally excluded: inequalities in the access and use of online learning technologies in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), 48. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1819) (PMCID:PMC9644675)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Patrick, Ruth and Wenham, Aniela (2021) Qualitative longitudinal research: from monochrome to technicolour. Social Policy and Society, 20(4), pp. 635-651. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746421000270)

Lewer, Dan, King, Emma, Bramley, Glen, Fitzpatrick, Suzanne, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Maguire, Nick, Bullock, Miriam, Hayward, Andrew and Story, Al (2020) The ACE Index: mapping childhood adversity in England. Journal of Public Health, 42(4), e487-e495. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdz158)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) How COVID-19 crisis measures reveal the conflation between poverty and adversity. Scottish Affairs, 29(4), pp. 475-492. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2020.0338)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2018) Falling through the cracks: the cost of the school day for families living in in-work and out-of-work poverty. Scottish Affairs, 27(4), pp. 486-511. (doi: 10.3366/scot.2018.0259)

Books

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) Child Poverty: Aspiring to Survive. Policy Press: United Kingdom. ISBN 9781447334668

Book Sections

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2018) Income poverty, material deprivation and lone parenthood. In: Nieuwenhuis, Rense and Maldonado, Laurie C. (eds.) The Triple Bind of Single-parent Families: Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing. Bristol University Press; Policy Press, pp. 81-100. ISBN 9781447333647

Edited Books

McKendrick, John, Dickie, John, Hardy, Fiona, O'Hagan, Angela, Sinclair, Stephen and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (Eds.) (2021) Poverty in Scotland 2021: Towards a 2030 Without Poverty. CPAG. ISBN 9781910715703

Research Reports or Papers

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Celia, MacIntyre (2024) Understanding Exclusions in Scottish Secondary Schools. Project Report. ADR UK, Edinburgh. (doi: 10.7488/era/4812).

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2023) Data Explained: Exploring context, factors and approaches to educational exclusions and absences. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research.

Fitzpatrick, Suzanne, Bramley, Glen, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Blenkinsopp, Janice, McIntyre, Jill, Johnsen, Sarah and McMordie, Lynne (2023) Destitution in the UK 2023. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) How public debt and arrears are experienced by low-income families. Documentation. Aberlour.

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Porter, Robert (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. (doi: 10.7488/era/3245).

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Digital exclusion in education: What the online learning technology Scholar tells us about inequality in Scottish secondary schools. Other. Nuffield Foundation.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2022) Universal Credit deductions for households with children by Scottish local authority - A report on Freedom of Information requests. Other. Aberlour.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2022) Results of Freedom of Information request on school meal debt processes. Other. Aberlour.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2022) Public debt literature review. Other. Aberlour.

Bramley, Glen, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Sosenko, Filip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-173X and Littlewood, Mandy (2021) State of hunger: building the evidence on poverty, destitution, and food insecurity in the UK. Project Report. The Trussell Trust, London.

Fitzpatrick, Suzanne, Bramley, Glen, Blenkinsopp, Janice, Wood, Jenny, Sosenko, Filip ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0557-173X, Littlewood, Mandy, Johnsen, Sarah, Watts, Beth, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and McIntyre, Jill (2020) Destitution in the UK 2020. Project Report. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) Evaluation of Aberlour Urgent Assistance Fund. Other. Aberlour Children’s Charity.

Byrne, Delma and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2020) Income, Poverty and Deprivation among Children - A Statistical Baseline Analysis. Other. Department of Children and Youth Affairs.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Macht, Alexandra, Morton, Sarah and Seditas, Karen (2017) Tackling child poverty: Actions to prevent and mitigate child poverty at the local level. Other. What Works Scotland.

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2017) Actions to prevent and mitigate child poverty in South Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership. Other. What Works Scotland.

This list was generated on Tue Jun 17 09:18:52 2025 BST.

Prior publications

Report

Morag Treanor et al. (2023) Digital Equality in Education: lessons from Scholar Nuffield Foundation Morag Treanor.

Jenny Duncan, Morag Treanor (2017) Challenges of Poverty: Parents’ Voices Heriot-Watt University.

Morag Treanor (2009) Below the Breadline Barnardo's Morag Treanor.

Ruth Bryan, Morag Treanor, Malcolm HIll (2007) Evaluation of Pilots to Improve Primary to Secondary School Transitions Heriot-Watt University. ISBN 9780755964208

Article

(2018) FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS: THE COST OF THE SCHOOL DAY FOR FAMILIES LIVING IN IN-WORK AND OUT-OF-WORK POVERTY Scottish Affairs Morag Treanor.

Morag Treanor (2016) Social assets, low income and child social, emotional and behavioural wellbeing Families, Relationships and Society Heriot-Watt University. (doi: 10.1332/204674315X14281323517164)

John Frank, Catherine Bromley, Larry Doi, Michelle Estrade, Ruth Jepson, John McAteer, Tony Robertson, Morag Treanor, Andrew Williams (2015) Seven Key Investments for Health Equity across the Lifecourse: Scotland versus the rest of the UK Social Science & Medicine Crossref Metadata Search. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.07.007)

(2015) Social assets, low income and child social, emotional and behavioural wellbeing Families, Relationships and Societies Morag Treanor.

(2015) The Effects of Financial Vulnerability and Mothers’ Emotional Distress on Child Social, Emotional and Behavioural Well-Being: A Structural Equation Model Sociology Morag Treanor. (doi: 10.1177/0038038515570144)

Skafida V, Treanor MC (2014) Do changes in objective and subjective family income predict change in children's diets over time? Unique insights using a longitudinal cohort study and fixed effects analysis. Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203308)

(2014) Routes out of poverty: education and social mobility Morag Treanor.

Morag C. Treanor (2013) Deprived or not deprived? Comparing the measured extent of material deprivation using the UK government’s and the Poverty and Social Exclusion surveys’ method of calculating material deprivation Qual Quant Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0033-5177 (doi: 10.1007/s11135-013-9838-0)

Other

(2014) Free education for poor mums may help alleviate child poverty The Conversation Morag Treanor.

(2012) The impacts of poverty on children’s outcomes Scottish Child Care and Protection Network (SCCPN) Morag Treanor.

(2007) Evaluation of Pilots to Improve Primary to Secondary School Transitions Scottish Executive Social Research Morag Treanor.

Book Review

Morag Treanor (2014) Gerry Mooney and Gill Scott, eds., Social Justice and Social Policy in Scotland. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2012 International Review of Scottish Studies Heriot-Watt University.

Grants

  • Aberlour Children’s Charity – PI on research to utilise Citizens Advice Data to explore public debt in Scotland.
  • Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (part of ADRC-UK) –Co-Investigator on ESRC grant for the administrative data research centre in Scotland. I am the Lead on the Children’s Lives and Outcomes Strategic Impact Programme.
  • Destitution in the UK (2022-23) – Co-I on grant funded by JRF to track trends in destitution in the UK.
  • Aberlour Children’s Charity – PI on research on the impact of public debt on low income families, 1/10/2021 – 16/4/2023.
  • Nuffield Foundation – PI on project to explore Digital Equality in Education 1/2/2021 – 31/7/2023.
  • ESRC – Co-Investigator on grant to conduct research linking education data to health and census data to explore patterns of school exclusions across Scotland, with a focus on socio-economic and other inequalities, 5/1/2021 – 30/6/2022.
  • Trussell Trust – PI on ‘State of Hunger’ research to map food insecurity and food bank need in the UK, 2019 - 2021.
  • Aberlour Children’s Charity – evaluation of Urgent Assistance Fund during Covid-19 pandemic, 2020.

Supervision

  • Sarim, Mohd
    Analytical strategies for improving Third Sector employability services in the post COVID-19 recovery

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