Social Work and Social Policy (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Journeys from discomfort to comfort: how do university students experience being taught and assessed by adults with intellectual disabilities?
(2021)From 2016-17, academics at a leading Irish university collaborated with a group of self- advocates with intellectual disabilities to co-design, co-deliver, and co-assess an entire disability module for third-year undergraduate ... -
Proficiency within Professionalisation: A Social Constructionist Critique of Standards of Proficiency for Social Care Workers in the Republic of Ireland
(2020)Major change is underway in Irish social care. Toward the professionalisation of social care workers in the Republic of Ireland, standards of proficiency were drafted and published in 2017 by the Social Care Workers ... -
Extended care: Global dialogue on policy, practice and research
(2020)Young people who are taken up into the care system (including foster, formal kinship and residential or group care) traditionally have to leave care at age 18, the generally accepted age of adulthood. Research globally ... -
Discourse and religious doctrine: Professional social work and the moral regulation of the body in Roman Catholic Ireland
(2022)The moral and practical regulation of sexuality and associated risk has been traditionally bound by Catholic religious doctrine in the Republic of Ireland. Over the last century, however, the emergence of professional ... -
How Disability and Other Socio-Economic Factors Matter to Children?s Socio-Emotional Outcomes: Results from a Longitudinal Study Conducted in Ireland
(2020)Children with disabilities experience significantly poorer socio-emotional outcomes than their peers without disabilities. However, research evidence is scarce about children with both disability and migration background, ... -
Critical disability studies and quarter life crisis: Theorising life stage transitional crisis for disabled emerging adults
(2022)This paper forms an intervention into existing literature on the life stage transitional crisis of emerging adulthood, commonly referred to as quarter life crisis. Whilst among existing analyses, aspects such as gender and ... -
Untroubling childrens identity in child protection and welfare assessment through a postconventional analytic
(2021)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 ... -
Ecosystems of Educational Disadvantage: Supporting Children and Young People receiving Child Protection and Welfare Services in Ireland
(2020)Theoretically-informed focused commentary on the literature in this paper, considers the position of children and young people, as embedded within socio-ecological systems. The specific focus is on the educational disadvantage ... -
Protection as a Human Fundamental Need: Re-Conceiving Signs of Safety for Social Work in the Republic of Ireland
(2021)Large scale reform of statutory child protective services in the Republic of Ireland is underway, prompted by adoption of the national strengths-based and safety-organised practice approach, known as ‘Signs of Safety.’ ... -
'I've changed so much within a year': care leavers' perspectives on the aftercare planning process
(2019)Increasing the participation of children and young people in matters related to their care and aftercare is regarded as international best practice. While research demonstrates that children and young people benefit from ... -
Globalisation and Social Work Education in the Republic of Ireland: Towards Informed Transnational Social Work for Transnational Problems such as Covid-19
(2020)Critically informed commentary is employed to examine globalisation and social work education in the Republic of Ireland. This is extended in analysis by a tripartite conceptual framework. The emphasis is on preparing ... -
Corporeality and Critical Disability Studies: Toward an Informed Epistemology of Embodiment
(2021)This paper forms an intervention into debates about the corporeality of impairment and ‘bodies that matter’ in critical disability studies. Toward informing the epistemology of embodiment present in critical disability ... -
The impact on social relationships of moving from congregated settings to personalized accommodation
(2017)A natural experiment contrasted the social relationships of people with intellectual disabilities (n = 110) before and after they moved from congregated settings to either personalized accommodation or group homes. Contrasts ... -
Evaluation of the Barnardos and One Family Pilot Child Contact Centre Project
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Evaluation of the Sonas Safe Home Project. Dublin: Sonas Domestic Violence Charity.
(Sonas Housing, 2015)In 2011, Sonas Domestic Violence Charity1, in conjunction with the Homeless Agency and Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council conducted a feasibility study to examine the need for a domestic violence refuge in the Dún ... -
Domestic Violence and the Paradox of Post-Separation Mothering
(2017)This paper reports selectively on findings from a mixed-methods study to consider the paradoxical post-separation position many women find themselves occupying when child contact necessitates the continued and mainly ... -
Placing Irish Social Work in a Global Context: Assembling International Comparisons Through the Literature
(2020)There is an absence of literature that places social work practice in Ireland within a global context. This circumstance is obstructive to students and practitioners of social work in Ireland, who must increasingly demonstrate ... -
Family experiences of personalised accommodation and support for people with intellectual disability
(2020)Previous studies suggest that family members of people with intellectual disabilities prefer them to move to supervised living arrangements such as group homes. In Ireland, personalised arrangements are emerging, but ... -
Convergent spaces: Intersectional analysis of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish safeguarding work
(2020)The core argument of this paper is that intersectionality provides a constructive conceptual lens for the convergence of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish child protection and welfare. The utility ...
