Browsing by Subject "Social Work and Social Policy, Ph.D."
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A Long Hello to Beveridge : social security in the Republic of Ireland, 1981 - 2007
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This thesis analysed the development of social security in the Republic of Ireland from 1981 to 2007, by providing a theoretically informed account of changes in expenditure, law and policy. The central argument of the ... -
Child abuse reporting in Ireland and the socio-legal implications of introducing a mandatory reporting law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This study presents a detailed exploration of Ireland's evolving child abuse reporting procedures and an examination of emergent child protection theories. Information is also drawn from a cross-jurisdictional study of ... -
Children in special care and detention : someone else's problem
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Detaining children has a long and turbulent history in Ireland as the publication of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report demonstrated in 2009. This was the result of a 10 year inquiry into the industrial and ... -
Children's voices, adults' choices : the voice of the child through the Guardian ad litem in child care proceedings in the Irish District Courts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)Provision for hearing children’s wishes and feelings and according them due weight in judicial and administrative matters that affect them is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In relation ... -
Coming to terms with loss : explaining how people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis engage with healthcare services
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), is a rapidly progressive and terminal neurological condition. ALS is a highly disabling condition and people with ALS ordinarily engage with ... -
Degrees of freedom : punishment, personal life and place in Dublin's North Inner City
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis presents the findings of a four year research project exploring the experience and meaning of punishment in Dublin’s North Inner City, a place which is home to many ex-prisoners as well as current prisoners ... -
Designing a child-centred, quantitative measure of inter-ethnic relations : a mixed methods approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)The main objective of the current body of research was to design and validate a broad and coherent, child-centred quantitative measure of inter-ethnic relations. Specifically, it sought to construct a measure that addressed ... -
Exploring the predictors of socio-economic variation in child overweight and obesity in Ireland : a sociological analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This thesis addressed the issue of childhood overweight and obesity in Ireland. In the first instance the socially structured distribution of overweight and obesity was established with the mechanisms by which this occurs ... -
Gender and career progression in the financial services
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2013)This thesis is an exploration of gender and how it affects career progression within the financial services in Ireland. Research has found that the financial services is a particularly difficult industry for women in terms ... -
Here today gone tomorrow : an exploratory study of Housing with Care development for people with dementia in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Housing with Care (HWC) for older people is unusual and HWC for people with dementia even more unusual in Ireland where long term care of older people is confined to nursing home care in almost all cases. This qualitative ... -
Immigrants in 'investment houses' : a qualitative study of immigrant life in the private rented sector in a rural Irish town
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This thesis explores the housing and settlement experiences of immigrants living in a rural region of Ireland. The research was initiated in 2009, when a period of increased in-migration to Ireland from 1994 - 2009, was ... -
Marginal figures? - child detention in the Republic of Ireland : a history of the present
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis explores the practices and systems of child detention in the Republic of Ireland with reference to the past. Methodologically and theoretically the thesis is informed by a 'history of the present' approach. ... -
Marriage is not an anti-viral agent' : the transformation of sexual health policy in the initial decade of HIV/AIDS in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)The aim of this thesis, based on archival records and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, was to assess the extent to which HIV/AIDS may be said to have had a transformative effect on Irish sexual health ... -
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 ... -
Quality of life and anti-dementia drugs : an exploration of the experiences of people living with dementia and their care-partners
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Dementia is a chronic, progressive, incurable disease that has a major impact on the quality of life of people diagnosed and their families. Some anti-dementia medications exist (cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine) ... -
Relationship-based social work : a 'thirdspace' in responding to trauma
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This practitioner research study explores people’s lived experience of trauma leading to their engagement with the social work service of a hospital emergency department. It further explores the elements of responsive ... -
Reminiscence work in four dementia care settings in Ireland : the experience of the person with dementia and the facilitator
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This thesis explores the experience of taking part in reminiscence work for people with dementia [PwD] and facilitators in Ireland. It focuses on four dementia care environments which are typical of the settings in which ... -
Sexual addiction : an investigation of a contested concept
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)The aim of this research is to gather detailed information on how two different sets of actors, those who self-identify as ‘sexual addicts’ and those involved in treating ‘sexual addiction’, conceptualise the phenomenon ... -
Stigma and identity : an exploration of drug use in West Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This thesis presents an exploratory qualitative study of the lives and experiences of drug users throughout their drug using and drug treatment careers. The research sample consists of thirty three drug users from two ... -
The contact connundrum : exploring children's experiences of post-separation contact with domestically abusive fathers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)This thesis presents an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon of post-separation child contact between a defined sample of children and their fathers living in Ireland, where there has been a pre-separation history of ...
