Paraic McQuaid

Paraic Mc Quaid is a lecturer and researcher in cultural policy in IADT. He is a Creation Bridge for the Elevate Programme and programme chair for the Post grad and Masters in Cultural Event Management. Paraic continues his practice-based research in sculpture and collaborative arts practice in parallel to his academic writing. Paraic was an expert assessor for the Creative Europe fund from 2013-2015 and is expert author for the Compendium of Cultural Policies since 2017. Paraic’s recent research has focused on Basic Income for Artists, Freedom of Artistic Expression and Arts and Climate Policy. In 2024 he has presented papers have been presented at Basic Income Earth Network conference in Bath University, the International Conference of Cultural Policy Research in Warsaw Universtiy, and International Cultural Policy Conference of the Compendium of Cultural Policies in Podgorica University. In 2025 he has an article published by the Boekman Foundation on Arts and Climate Policy, and an article on Basic Income for Artists published in the Cultural Trends International Journal.