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Understanding practice placements where students falter and fail: A theoretical exposition of critical realism for social work practice education
(2023)This paper offers a theoretical exposition of critical realism for social work practice education. The specific focus is on faltering students at the cusp of placement failure, and the urgent supportive role of practice ... -
Understanding psycho-social processes underpinning engagement with services in motor neurone disease: A qualitative study
(2014)Background: People with motor neurone disease access health care services from disease onset to end-of-life care but there has been paucity of research on how people with motor neurone disease understand and use health ... -
Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Care (UnPAC) Study
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Untroubling childrens identity in child protection and welfare assessment through a postconventional analytic
(2021)Summary: The sustaining argument advanced in this paper is that postconventional analysis offers a constructive theoretical lens to contemplate identity in child protection and welfare assessment. Critical application ... -
Using children's drawings as data in child-centred research
(Psychological Society of Ireland, 2006)Child-centred research shows a respect for children and promotes their entitlement to be considered as persons of value and persons with rights. With the growing interest in this approach to psychological research, researchers ... -
Using the ACE survey to inform service development in a social care organisation: A case study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)In recent years implementation of the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) survey within social care organisations has steadily increased. Despite the sustained implementation, there is limited research on how and if ACE ... -
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent-child sex communication with young children
(2024)Parents describe a want for better sex education for their young children compared to their own myth and silence-led experiences while growing up. However, introducing the vagina has proved a challenging step too far for ... -
The Views of Parents Subject to Child Protection Investigation for their Child or Children with Disabilities: An Exploratory Qualitative Study
(https://estonia2022.exordo.com/programme/presentation/180, 2023)The views and experiences of parents subject to child protection processes are instrumental for developing rigorous, effective and compassionate child protection practice. Simultaneously, children with disabilities are ... -
Walking, thinking, and talking An exploration of the lived experiences and hidden geographies of poverty using walking as a participatory arts methodology.
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We're dragging our heels but there is enough evidence to support making facemasks mandatory
(Irish Independent, 2020)During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has been advising the Clinical Expert Advisory Group in supporting the National Public Health Emergency Team. Most recently, Hiqa reviewed ... -
What Can Welfare Stigma Do?
(2022)In this ‘state of the art’ review, we draw on the Irish and UK context to ask ‘what can welfare stigma do?’ Our question provokes thinking about welfare stigma not as an inevitable ‘cost’ of the structure of welfare ... -
Where we Live A National Study done by Members of the Inclusive Research Network
(Trinity College Dublin; National Federation of Voluntary Bodies, 2010)The Inclusive Research Network is a group of people with intellectual disabilities from Ireland who do research. We are supported by the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies and the National Institute for ... -
Whos right? What rights? How? Rights debates in Irish social work: a call for nuance
(2023)CORU are tasked with regulating social work in Ireland. This commentary responds to a debate that is currently unfolding in Irish social work circles concerning an absence of the term ‘human rights’ from the CORU Code ... -
"Why would straight people think of it if we don't?" Intimate partner abuse amongst women in same sex relationships
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2019)This thesis presents an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of intimate partner (IPA) between an adult sample of non-heterosexual women living in Ireland who experienced IPA in a female-to-female relationship. The ... -
Widening the lens : a biographical analysis of young people's offending careers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)This thesis is about the offending careers and biographies of young people in contact with criminal justice agencies in the city of Dublin. Initiated in 2006, the research was set against a backdrop of a changing discourse ... -
Women and homelessness in Ireland : a biographical, longitudinal perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2017)This doctoral thesis explores women’s experiences of homelessness and housing stability using a longitudinal qualitative approach. Based in the Republic of Ireland, the study was initiated in the context of a recognised ... -
Work-related decision-making among older workers in the Irish civil service
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis is an exploratory study of work-related decision-making among mid-life to older workers in the Irish Civil Service. The issue of older workers is under-researched generally and is of significant policy interest ... -
Work/Retirement, Family Relations, and Perceptions on the Pension Regime of Middle-aged Citizens in Urban China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)Focusing on urban areas of contemporary China, this thesis interrogates the interactions between the pension and retirement policy and the pathways of middle-aged citizens to retirement. At present, the pension regime in ... -
"The world is losing this little girl": An exploration of hospital-based Children's End of Life Care through a Narrative Lens
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)The death of a child is a profound and life-changing loss for all families. The majority of children continue to die in hospital due to the nature of the child's illness, the suddenness of their deterioration, and, at ...