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Narrative and Remaking Social Futures in Times of Pandemic Crisis: The Story-Making and Story-Telling of the Heroic Nurse
(2021)Heroes come in many forms. We propose that through times of Covid-19 pandemic crisis, practices of story-making and story-telling have radically reconceived contemporary archetypes of heroism. Many health and social care ... -
Navigating multi-locality in rural-urban and return migration: a study of young migrant mothers' experience in Beijing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)During the past decades, China has witnessed one of the biggest waves of rural-urban migration in human history. Despite the ever-rising prevalence, theorisation of rural-urban migration still largely lacks specification ... -
Negotiating changed contexts and challenging circumstances : the experiences of unaccompanied minors living in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2007)This PhD study explores the experiences of asylum-seeking teenagers who have arrived in Ireland unaccompanied by parents or guardians (unaccompanied minors). The arrival of these young people is a very recent phenomenon ... -
Negotiating Uncertainity and Earning Respect: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Study of Young People Ageing Out of State Care in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)This thesis is an exploration of the lived experience of the transition out of care at the age of 18 in Ireland. There is a plethora of research demonstrating the marginalisation and disadvantage experienced by care leavers ... -
New boundaries of justice in a world in motion : assessing the impact of global citizens in the Irish District Court
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)Although empirical research lends little support for the perceived immigration- crime nexus, it is an enduring perception. This thesis considers the impact of immigration on the Irish criminal courts. Ireland experienced ... -
New-Materialist Bricolage: Presenting an Ontological Position for Qualitative Internet-Based Research
(2024)The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing ... -
A new-materialist reading of disability, senescence and the life-course
(2023)The purpose of this paper is to provide a new-materialist theoretical commentary on disability, senescence and the life-course. Critical literature review with deductive thematic analysis was undertaken using an electronic ... -
Nutritional Status of Irish Older People in Receipt of Meals-on-Wheels and the Nutritional Content of Meals Provided
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)BACKGROUND: Research has suggested that meals-on-wheels recipients can be at risk for poor nutritional status. Despite this, few countries have statutory minimum requirements for the nutrient content of meals-on-wheels. ... -
One More Adversity: The lived experience of care leavers in Ireland during the Covid-19 Pandemic
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Opening up a national conversation on domestic abuse: Awareness raising campaigns in Ireland during Covid-19. A Case Study
(2022)At the start of the pandemic in early 2020, concerns emerged from around the globe about increased levels of domestic abuse (DA) and the impact that public health measures and restrictions to slow down the transmission ... -
Our Homes: Home and Independence Project
(2015)This book is about a research project we did to learn what it was like for people with intellectual disabilities in Ireland to move from one home to another. -
Parenthood pursuits : couples' experiences of infertility and its treatment - an Irish case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis is based on prospective longitudinal research with 34 couples over a two-year period (2005-2007) as they underwent an IVF/ICSI cycle in a Dublin-based clinic. Couples were interviewed at four time points: before ... -
Participant or bystander? : Explaining the nature of older people's participation in the acute hospital discharge process in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)Discharge from acute hospital can represent a major life transition for older people with complex or chronic illnesses. Their participation in decision-making about future care and its location is essential to their human ... -
Participatory Action Research with Colombian Immigrants
(2009)This article describes a participatory needs assessment process in which Colombian immigrants in Chicago collaborated with university researchers to identify their common concerns and implement self-help efforts to address ... -
Patients' perceptions of services and preferences for care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A review
(2012)Background: Service providers and service users often have different perspectives on health and social care services. Design: We have undertaken a systematic review of empirical data between 1988 to March 2011 relating ... -
Peasantry and the search for the Irish welfare state
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2007)This thesis attempts to provide a reconceptualisation of the origins of Irish social policy. It begins by trying to place Ireland in the comparative debates on 'worlds of welfare'. It proceeds further by using established texts ... -
Pedagogical approaches in inclusive research
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2023)This chapter explores pedagogical approaches to learning about research methods in inclusive research, which is conducted with people with the label of intellectual disability rather than on them. The authors belong to ... -
Perspectives on austerity: The impact of the economic recession on children with intellectual disability
(2017)In 2008, the Republic of Ireland descended into the deepest period of economic recession since the Great Depression of 70 years before. In the aftershock of recession, research suggests that it has been the nation’s children ...