Browsing by Author "Conlon, Catherine"
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Challenges when using Grounded Theory: A pragmatic introduction to doing GT research
Foley, Geraldine; Timonen, Virpi; Conlon, Catherine (2018) -
Confused about theoretical sampling? Engaging theoretical sampling in diverse grounded theory studies
Foley, Geraldine; Timonen, Virpi; Conlon, Catherine (2020)Theoretical sampling is a key procedure for theory building in the grounded theory method. Confusion about how to employ theoretical sampling in grounded theory can exist among researchers who use or who want to use the ... -
Constructions of older people and their care during the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland: A Grounded Theory analysis of official discourses
Schulmann, Katharine Ann (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2023)Beginning in March 2020, the Irish government implemented among Europe's most stringent and sustained lockdown measures to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. Identified early on as a group at particularly high risk, older ... -
Doing intergenerational friendship: Challenging the dominance of age homophily in friendship
Timonen, Virpi; Elliott O'Dare, Catherine; Conlon, Catherine (2021)This article challenges the dominance of age homophily in the literature on friendship. Using findings from a recent study on intergenerational friendship, we put forward a new conceptualisation of a homophily of doing-and-being ... -
Family, state, class and solidarity: Re-conceptualising intergenerational solidarity through the Grounded Theory approach
Timonen, Virpi; Conlon, Catherine (2013)The relationship between class and intergenerational solidarities in the public and private spheres calls for further conceptual and theoretical development. This article discusses the findings from the first wave of a ... -
Navigating multi-locality in rural-urban and return migration: a study of young migrant mothers' experience in Beijing
Bao, Rong (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 ... -
Pregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
Conlon, Catherine; Rigaki, Evangelia (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)This chapter discusses a project that originated as policy-commissioned research initiated by Health Service practitioners to address concerns about recurring presentations of ‘concealed pregnancy’ to health care settings ... -
Sampling and conceptualization in Grounded Theory
Conlon, Catherine (Sage, 2020)Grounded theory (GT) follows symbolic interactionism in viewing humans as active agents in their own lives who create meaning in the processes of action and interaction. GT thus proffers that theory can be discovered in ... -
Seeking online telemedicine abortion outside the jurisdiction from Ireland following implementation of telemedicine provision locally
Conlon, Catherine (2022)Background Abortion was legalised in Ireland in 2019 and telemedicine provision introduced in April 2020. We examined patterns in and reasons for seeking and receiving online telemedicine abortion outside the jurisdiction ... -
Unplanned Pregnancy and Abortion Care (UnPAC) Study
Conlon, Catherine; Antosik-Parsons, Kate; Butler, ?adaoin (Health Service Executive, Dublin, 2022) -
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent-child sex communication with young children
Mannion, Aine; Conlon, Catherine (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 ...