Browsing Social Work and Social Policy (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Alcohol, illicit drugs and health promotion in Ireland, 1945-1996
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2000)Introduction: The health and social problems associated with the consumption of alcohol and of illict drugs have long been causes of concern in international public health circles. Empirical syudies (Bruun et al, 1975; ... -
The position of social work within the child protection and welfare system in Ireland : a history of present 1991-1862
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2001)The objective of this thesis is to examine the present position of social work within the statutory - child protection and welfare system in Ireland. Its aim is to demonstrate the way in which social work has come to occupy ... -
Theorising welfare state development : a case study of social insurance in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2003)This thesis has attempted to account for the development of social insurance in post-war Ireland by providing a theoretically informed analysis of the genesis of, and outcomes in, the 1952 Social Welfare Act. It begins ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Child sexual abuse : underneath the state response
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2007)This study explores the ways in which the social problem of child sexual abuse is conceptualised and responded to within state and social systems in the Republic of Ireland, with an especial focus on the Irish state child ... -
Negotiating changed contexts and challenging circumstances : the experiences of unaccompanied minors living in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2007)This PhD study explores the experiences of asylum-seeking teenagers who have arrived in Ireland unaccompanied by parents or guardians (unaccompanied minors). The arrival of these young people is a very recent phenomenon ... -
Keeping Mum' : a qualitative study of women drug users' experience of preserving motherhood in Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2008)According to academic accounts, it is not uncommon for women who use illicit drugs to be culturally portrayed in negative stereotypical terms as ‘unfeminine’, 'unclean' and 'immoral'. Nowhere is this more evident than when ... -
Sentencing in Ireland : an exploration of the views, rationales, and sentencing practices of district and circuit court judges
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2008)This thesis reports the findings of an exploratory study on the nature of sentencing in the District and Circuit Courts in Ireland. At the time of this study, two key claims had been made about sentencing in Ireland. ... -
Risking work and working risk : a phenomenology of the risk environment of prostitution in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)The focus of this thesis is on the lived experiences of women in prostitution in Ireland. The limited knowledge base on the Uved realities of those engaged in prostitution in Ireland was a compelling rationale for undertaking ... -
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 ... -
A study of the management and treatment of substance mususe problems in a Regional Health Board in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)This study presents the findings of a research project conducted within a Regional Health Board in Ireland and aimed at evaluating the way in which the public health service responds to alcohol-related problems; the study ... -
Social and physical ecologies of childhood : a case study of children's perspectives on their neighbourhood
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2009)This study set out to gain a greater understanding of children's lived experience in their neighbourhood informed by ecological models of Bronfenbrenner (1979) and Gibson (1979) and taking a constructivist, exploratory ... -
A history of youth justice in Ireland : opening up space in government
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis outlines a history of juvenile justice in Ireland. However, it does not amount to a straightforward narrative history, rather, it draws inspiration from the later writings of Michel Foucault, specifically his ... -
Parenthood pursuits : couples' experiences of infertility and its treatment - an Irish case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis is based on prospective longitudinal research with 34 couples over a two-year period (2005-2007) as they underwent an IVF/ICSI cycle in a Dublin-based clinic. Couples were interviewed at four time points: before ... -
Participant or bystander? : Explaining the nature of older people's participation in the acute hospital discharge process in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)Discharge from acute hospital can represent a major life transition for older people with complex or chronic illnesses. Their participation in decision-making about future care and its location is essential to their human ... -
Drug policy, harm reduction & research in Ireland, 1996-2008
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This study is part of the small body of general documentary research concerned with examining different aspects and features of Irish drug policy. While the contemporary history of Irish drug policy has been characterised ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ...
