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Ecosystems of Educational Disadvantage: Supporting Children and Young People receiving Child Protection and Welfare Services in Ireland
(2020)Theoretically-informed focused commentary on the literature in this paper, considers the position of children and young people, as embedded within socio-ecological systems. The specific focus is on the educational disadvantage ... -
Embracing technology? Health and Social Care professionals' attitudes to the deployment of e-Health initiatives in elder care services in Catalonia and Ireland,
(2019)Professionals in both regions have a positive attitude towards the use of e-health as a supportive tool. Technology is seen as way of reducing administrative burden and improving information exchange. Professionals ... -
Engaging with materialism and material reality: Critical disability studies and economic recession
(2017)Critical disability studies has been accused of preoccupation with cultural, lingual and discursive matters, and in doing so failing to adequately engage with the often-harsh material reality of disability. This has ... -
Evaluation of the Barnardos and One Family Pilot Child Contact Centre Project
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Evaluation of the Sonas Safe Home Project. Dublin: Sonas Domestic Violence Charity
(Sonas Housing, 2015)In 2011, Sonas Domestic Violence Charity1, in conjunction with the Homeless Agency and Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council conducted a feasibility study to examine the need for a domestic violence refuge in the Dún ... -
Experience of services as a key outcome in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) care. The case for a better understanding of patient experiences
(2012)People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) frequently express dissatisfaction with services. Patient satisfaction with services in ALS is not always measured and service user perspectives are not usually included when ... -
Exploring internal critique: theoretically developed critical commentary on the Self-Appraisal of critical disability studies
(2021)This article presents theoretically developed critical commentary as an intervention into existing debates about the self-appraisal of Critical Disability Studies (CDS). CDS deploys critique, not just outwardly, toward ... -
Exploring older adults' intergenerational friendships: from homophily to an all-age identity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2019)Intergenerational friendship is a friendship between a chronologically old and a significantly younger adult. Influenced by the principle of homophily ('birds of a feather flock together'), research has predominately focused ... -
Exploring the aspirations of Kolkatan (Calcuttan) Street Children using drawings
(Universidad de Almeria / Asociacion de Analisis del Comportamiento, 2007)The aims of the present study were to represent the aspirations of Kolkatan street children and to draw comparisons across gender and between children "on the streets" and "off the streets". The participants were 151 Street ... -
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 ... -
Extended care: Global dialogue on policy, practice and research
(2020)Young people who are taken up into the care system (including foster, formal kinship and residential or group care) traditionally have to leave care at age 18, the generally accepted age of adulthood. Research globally ... -
Family experiences of personalised accommodation and support for people with intellectual disability
(2020)Previous studies suggest that family members of people with intellectual disabilities prefer them to move to supervised living arrangements such as group homes. In Ireland, personalised arrangements are emerging, but ... -
Family meeting or Care Planning Meeting? : a Multidisciplinary Team action research study in a hospital setting
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)Care Planning Meetings (CPM's) are regularly conducted in hospital settings where patient, family members and the MDT meet to exchange information, plan for the future and facilitate decision-making. In the Age Related ... -
An Garda Síochána: Culture, challenges, and change
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)An Garda Síochána: Culture, challenges, and change is an exploration and understanding of the organisational culture of An Garda Síochána Ireland's National Policing Organisation. While the Gardaí or officers are often in ... -
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 ... -
Globalisation and Social Work Education in the Republic of Ireland: Towards Informed Transnational Social Work for Transnational Problems such as Covid-19
(2020)Critically informed commentary is employed to examine globalisation and social work education in the Republic of Ireland. This is extended in analysis by a tripartite conceptual framework. The emphasis is on preparing ...
