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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 ... -
Untroubling children's identity in child protection and welfare assessment through a postconventional analytic
(2020)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 ... -
"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 ... -
Young People and Public Libraries in Ireland: Issues and Opportunities
(Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, 2010)The responses to this survey on young people?s use of and views on public libraries in Ireland demonstrate that public libraries provide a wide range of services to young adults, but these are unevenly distributed ... -
Young people's understandings of youth suicide: A qualitative study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)In Ireland, youth suicide is a serious public health issue accounting for approximately thirty percent of all deaths among young people aged between 15 and 24 years old. Youth suicide has received considerable attention ... -
Young people, drugs and risk : an ethnography of drug use in a Dublin inner-city community
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2004)This ethnographic study of drug use is based in a socially disadvantaged Dublin locality with a lengthy history of concentrated drug problems. The study set out to investigate drug use and non-use among young people living ...
