Social Work and Social Policy (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Quality of life and anti-dementia drugs : an exploration of the experiences of people living with dementia and their care-partners
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Dementia is a chronic, progressive, incurable disease that has a major impact on the quality of life of people diagnosed and their families. Some anti-dementia medications exist (cholinesterase inhibitors and memantine) ... -
Here today gone tomorrow : an exploratory study of Housing with Care development for people with dementia in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)Housing with Care (HWC) for older people is unusual and HWC for people with dementia even more unusual in Ireland where long term care of older people is confined to nursing home care in almost all cases. This qualitative ... -
Child abuse reporting in Ireland and the socio-legal implications of introducing a mandatory reporting law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This study presents a detailed exploration of Ireland's evolving child abuse reporting procedures and an examination of emergent child protection theories. Information is also drawn from a cross-jurisdictional study of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Stigma and identity : an exploration of drug use in West Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This thesis presents an exploratory qualitative study of the lives and experiences of drug users throughout their drug using and drug treatment careers. The research sample consists of thirty three drug users from two ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Long Hello to Beveridge : social security in the Republic of Ireland, 1981 - 2007
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This thesis analysed the development of social security in the Republic of Ireland from 1981 to 2007, by providing a theoretically informed account of changes in expenditure, law and policy. The central argument of the ...
