Browsing Social Work and Social Policy (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Limited English proficient (LEP) immigrants in Ireland's District Court
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)The methodology used is exploratory, and Involves a triangulation of four research methods. The first method is ethnographic non-participant observation; over the course of seven months hundreds of cases were observed in ... -
New boundaries of justice in a world in motion : assessing the impact of global citizens in the Irish District Court
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)Although empirical research lends little support for the perceived immigration- crime nexus, it is an enduring perception. This thesis considers the impact of immigration on the Irish criminal courts. Ireland experienced ... -
Cui bono? : the development of the Irish National Quality Standards for Residential Care Standards for Older People
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)Over the last fifteen years, it has become popular for governments to develop regulations through "regulatory negotiation", i.e. with input from key stakeholders of the regulated sector in question. Proponents have argued ... -
The politics of old age : older people's interest organisations in the Irish context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)The participation of older people's interest organisations in the policy process has been promoted in international fora and at national level in the majority of established democracies throughout the world. Despite this, ... -
Renegotiating family practices post separation an Irish case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)This study explores changing personal relationships in the aftermath of separation and divorce. Post separation family lives in an Irish context can enlighten us about family life and parenting generally in the 21st century. ... -
The evolving father : conduct and culture in contemporary fatherhood
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)This study builds on previous academic interest into fathers, fatherhood and fathering and aims to describe and understand the nature of contemporary fatherhood for a group of first-time fathers. The research set out to ... -
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 ... -
Heroin initiation and risk : an ethno-epidemiological approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2011)This thesis provides an in-depth exploration into the process of heroin and injecting initiation among young people in Ireland. It also presents a detailed investigation of risk perception and behaviour during the early ... -
The housing paths and residential experiences of Polish newcomers to Dublin, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)Dublin city’s economic expansion and retraction have a cyclical effect with the housing market which is also impacted by the migration patterns of citizens from new member states of the European Union. Little is known about ... -
A case study analysis of person-centred-planning for people with intellectual disability following their transfer from institutional care
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)Person centred planning (PCP) has an essential part to play in ensuring self determination for the lives of people with intellectual disability. It is typically taken as an indicator to the quality of services and it is ... -
All Strings Attached : Migrant Poverty, Legal Status and the Welfare State: conditionality of legal status and the determination of third-country national poverty in western Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)The thesis sets out to account for variations in migrant poverty across states in Western Europe, specifically the poverty of third-country nationals (TCNs). The intersecting literatures on the welfare state, migration and ... -
The body, masculinities and racisim : social relations between migrant and dominant group boys in three inner city primary schools in Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2012)This thesis explores the interactions and relationships between twenty migrant group boys and thirty-nine dominant group boys in three inner city multi-ethnic primary schools in North Inner City Dublin. Social relations ... -
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 ... -
It's been a good move - transitions into care : family caregivers', persons' with dementia, and formal staff members' experiences of specialist care unit placement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2013)Specialist care units (SCUs) are segregated purpose-built long-term care (LTC) settings specifically designed to cater for the complex needs of people with dementia (PwDs). Whilst beneficial outcomes of these units for ... -
An exploratory study of club-based sports participation by older people in Ireland, Australia and Japan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2013)Older people's sports participation is a conspicuous trend in the world today. However, most research studying older people's physical activities concentrate on physiological aspects, rather than socio-gerontological ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...