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"I'm struggling but I'm not suffering" The lived experience of persons with young onset dementia in Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)Abstract: I m struggling but I m not suffering The lived experience of persons with young onset dementia in Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis This PhD thesis is an exploration of the lived experiences ... -
Children at transition from primary school reflecting on what schools are for – narratives of connectedness, (mis)recognition and becoming
(2021)This article draws on a school-based case study carried out in Scotland with 11–12-year-olds reflecting on their views and experiences of school before transitioning from primary to secondary school. Drawing on Honneth’s ... -
How did kinship care emerge as a significant form of placement for children in care? A comparative study of the experience in Ireland and Scotland
(2020)A notable development in child welfare provision in recent decades has been growth in certain jurisdictions of formal kinship care as a type of placement for children needing ‘out of home’ care. This trend raises the ... -
The self at work: Understanding the experience of community placement in activation schemes in a post-recession context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)This thesis aims to explain how long-term unemployed welfare recipients taking part in activation schemes made sense of their experiences of unemployment, job-seeking and placement as they deliberated their past, present ... -
Trajectories of social justice within social stratification: towards a Bourdieusian reading of social class for social workers
(2021)Social class refers to hierarchal social stratification of society, which, from a Bourdieusian theoretical lens, can be enacted across social, cultural, economic and symbolic lines (Bourdieu, 1977; Waquant, 2006). For ...
