Browsing School of Social Work and Social Policy by Subject "Making Ireland"
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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 ... -
Introduction: Interrogating Welfare Stigma
(2022)Recent years have seen increased attention given to welfare stigma in the related domains of social policy and sociological scholarship. Theoretically, this marks the revival of a concept with a long history that has ebbed ... -
Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches
(2024)Policy documents shape and inform policy but they are not neutral objects. Policy documents can also silence through the exclusion and omission of discrete knowledges transmitted through testimony and lived experience. ... -
Pregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
(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 ... -
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent-child sex communication with young children
(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 ...