John Bissett

John Bissett was born in Dolphin House, Rialto, a social housing complex in Dublin. He served an apprenticeship as a fitter in the Irish Glass Bottle Company in the early 1980s. He is a graduate of National University of Ireland Maynooth with a degree in Sociology and English. He continued his studies in University College Dublin and was awarded a Masters and Ph.D. in Sociology on the same occasion in 2001. John currently works as a Community Worker for the Canal Communities Local Drugs Task Force in Dublin. He has been a member of the St. Michael's Estate Community Regeneration Team since February 2001. He is the author of Regeneration: Public Good or Private Profit?, published as part of the TASC series in 2008.