Browsing Social Work and Social Policy (Scholarly Publications) by Author "Flynn, Susan"
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Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes.
Flynn, Susan (2024)How child protection and welfare policies address the disability community is a matter of utmost importance and urgency in the context of well-established inequalities. We present a policy content analysis of national ... -
Child Protection and Welfare During the COVID 19 Pandemic: Revisiting the Value of Resilience-Building, Systems Theory, Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma-Informed Approaches
Flynn, Susan (2023)The purpose of this paper is to present a reading of child protection and welfare practice in the recent covid 19 pandemic, with reference to several popular concepts in social work. The focus is on the relevance of these ... -
Convergent spaces: Intersectional analysis of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish safeguarding work
Flynn, Susan (2020)The core argument of this paper is that intersectionality provides a constructive conceptual lens for the convergence of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish child protection and welfare. The utility ... -
Corporeality and Critical Disability Studies: Toward an Informed Epistemology of Embodiment
Flynn, Susan (2021)This paper forms an intervention into debates about the corporeality of impairment and ‘bodies that matter’ in critical disability studies. Toward informing the epistemology of embodiment present in critical disability ... -
Critical Disability Studies
Flynn, Susan (2024)Critical Disability Studies (CDS), as a transformative theoretical space, has shown immense growth and change over the last decade. It offers a scholarly field and method for comprehending the human condition that maintains ... -
Critical disability studies and quarter life crisis: Theorising life stage transitional crisis for disabled emerging adults
Flynn, Susan (2022)This paper forms an intervention into existing literature on the life stage transitional crisis of emerging adulthood, commonly referred to as quarter life crisis. Whilst among existing analyses, aspects such as gender and ... -
Critical Disability Studies and the Affirmative Non-Tragedy Model: Presenting a Theoretical Frame for Disability and Child Protection
Flynn, Susan (2024)The purpose of this article is to present an integrated theoretical frame for the subject matter of disability and child protection. Substantive complexities, alluded to in existing literature, surround disability in child ... -
Critical Disability Studies, Corporeality and Child Maltreatment: Theorizing the Somatechnics of Self and Other.
Flynn, Susan (2023)This paper presents a bespoke postmodern reading of the corporeality and somatechnics of self and other. It situates itself within the transformative transdisciplinary space of critical disability studies. Therein, it ... -
A critical review of intersectionality, social work education and sex work: an Irish perspective
Flynn, Susan (2023)Social work programmes offer a professional qualification with a primary objective of addressing issues of oppression in society. This furnishes a curriculum that prioritises practice-based social work education, alongside ... -
Cut from the Same Cloth: A Comparative Policy Content Analysis of Disability in Child Protection and Welfare Policies within Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic
Flynn, Susan (2023)The isle of Ireland is both socio-politically and geographically divided. Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have distinct, siloed child protection and welfare systems owing to political severance in the early ... -
Devices for illuminating defended subjectivities in complex qualitative case interpretation: An example from recent BNIM practice
Flynn, Susan (2021)For a long time now, fairly central to what has emerged as ‘psychosocial studies’ has been the notion of psychosocietal ‘defendedness’. This is the psychoanalytic notion that people (not excluding social science researchers) ... -
Disability in Narrative Inquiry: A Case of Methodologically Unusable Data from a Participant with Intellectual Disability
Flynn, Susan (2024)This paper considers methodological and ethical implications of qualitative interview data that was deemed unusable for research analytic purposes, where the interviewee had an intellectual disability. Critical disability ... -
Disabled children and child protection: Learning from the literature through a non-tragedy lens
Flynn, Susan (2017)Disabled children experience unique vulnerabilities in the context of child protection and welfare services. Current research alludes to strong concerns about social inequality, professional responses, judgement, knowledge ... -
Discourse and religious doctrine: Professional social work and the moral regulation of the body in Roman Catholic Ireland
Flynn, Susan (2022)The moral and practical regulation of sexuality and associated risk has been traditionally bound by Catholic religious doctrine in the Republic of Ireland. Over the last century, however, the emergence of professional ... -
Ecosystems of Educational Disadvantage: Supporting Children and Young People receiving Child Protection and Welfare Services in Ireland
Flynn, Susan (2020)Theoretically-informed focused commentary on the literature in this paper, considers the position of children and young people, as embedded within socio-ecological systems. The specific focus is on the educational disadvantage ... -
Engaging with materialism and material reality: Critical disability studies and economic recession
Flynn, Susan (2017)Critical disability studies has been accused of preoccupation with cultural, lingual and discursive matters, and in doing so failing to adequately engage with the often-harsh material reality of disability. This has ... -
Exploring internal critique: theoretically developed critical commentary on the Self-Appraisal of critical disability studies
Flynn, Susan (2021)This article presents theoretically developed critical commentary as an intervention into existing debates about the self-appraisal of Critical Disability Studies (CDS). CDS deploys critique, not just outwardly, toward ... -
Feminist Egalitarian Discourse in Social Work Education for Practice: Theoretical Exposition from the Irish Perspective
Flynn, Susan (2023)Using the pedagogic lens this article presents theoretical exposition of feminist egalitarian discourse for social work education. The Masters in Social Work is a professional qualification, which has as its primary goal ... -
Globalisation and Social Work Education in the Republic of Ireland: Towards Informed Transnational Social Work for Transnational Problems such as Covid-19
Flynn, Susan (2020)Critically informed commentary is employed to examine globalisation and social work education in the Republic of Ireland. This is extended in analysis by a tripartite conceptual framework. The emphasis is on preparing ... -
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?
Flynn, Susan (2024)The specific intention of this paper is to question how rural life may affect everyday issues of concern for disabled children and their families, including access to services, social connectedness and quality of life. A ...