Sociology: Recent submissions
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
(2025)This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected ... -
Gender differences in parental mental health: A life course approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2025)Mental health differences between men and women are well documented, but the timing, causes, and mechanisms driving these disparities across the life course remain insufficiently understood. The transition to parenthood ... -
Black Unsettlement. Embodied Blackness and Black Studies in the Irish Context
(2024)Reflecting the call for diverse opinions in knowledge production, this article is a personal perspective on the positioning of Black Studies in Ireland. Black Studies as praxi-theory foregrounds the inseparability of ... -
Beyond welcoming the strangers : integration policies and practices in Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis focuses on the integration approaches and strategies developed by Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy following the arrival of an increasing number of migrants within their congregations. Ireland and Italy ... -
Studies on the social and economic patterning of health behaviours in childhood and adolescence.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, 2025)The social patterning of harmful health behaviours (HHBs) is a major determinant of the social gradient in non-communicable diseases, and health generally. For this reason, more research is needed to understand why HHBs ... -
How do Parental Resources affect Child-wellbeing? Evidence from birth cohort studies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2025)This thesis examines the complex relationship between parental resources and child well-being, using high-quality longitudinal data from large-scale birth cohort studies in Ireland, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It ... -
Quality of life in older age: Evidence from an Irish cohort study
(2013)Objectives: To compare the role of different life domains in determining quality of life (QoL) in Ireland with international results. Design: Cross-sectional study of responses to The Irish Longitudinal Study of ... -
Multi-Ethnic Communities and Religion: How Responsive are Irish Primary Schools to Cultural and Religious Diversity?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2025)Ireland's cultural and religious identity has transformed considerably in the past three decades. Consequently, the primary school classroom has become an important platform in which to assist young people to develop the ... -
A comparative study of the juvenile justice systems of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 1984)This thesis consists of a comparative analysis of the trends in social policy in relation to the juvenile justice systems in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The work has addressed several key issues relating ... -
Translocality and the Class Conditions of Filipino Nurse Migrants in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rise in the number of international labour migrants and their situatedness in and attachments to multiple locations are creating complex class conditions for migrant labour, which are only beginning to be understood ... -
Trends in Educational Homogamy and Heterogamy - Analyzing the Roles of Assortative Mating and Structural Opportunities using a Novel Decomposition Method
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)Higher education expansion has reshaped the educational composition of partner markets. Despite this notable shift in structural opportunities for mating, our understanding of how these changes have influenced marital ... -
Child and adolescent digital use and well-being outcomes: evidence from an Irish birth-cohort study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rapid digitalization of society over the past decades has fundamentally changed how people socialize, work, and play. Subsequently, children and adolescents’ use of digital technologies has increased rapidly, facilitated ... -
Worker well-being and quit intentions: is measuring job satisfaction enough?
(2023)The links between worker well-being and quit intentions have been well researched. However, the vast majority of extant studies use just one measure, job satisfaction, to proxy for worker well-being as a whole, thus ignoring ... -
Nigerian Taxi Drivers in Dublin: The Preferred Narrative Versus the Lived Experience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)The liberalisation of the Irish taxi industry in 2000 coincided with the Irish State becoming a place of net immigration for the first time in its history (Ruhs, 2005). Over the following decade, Dublin's taxi fleet increased ... -
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being. Findings from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in Europe and Canada. International report. Volume 1. Key findings
(WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2020)This report presents key findings from 227 441 young people aged 11, 13 and 15 years in 45 countries/regions who participated in the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. The findings ... -
Making homeworking work: preferences and experiences of homeworkers during COVID-19
(2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a large section of the global labour force who were working in centralised locations to suddenly switch to homeworking. This report uses primary longitudinal data from two surveys of 808 ... -
Nudging in the workplace: increasing participation in employee EDI wellness events
(2022)Organisations are investing significant resources in promoting the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of their employees. In hybrid working environments, virtual worker wellness events are increasingly being ... -
Worker stress, burnout, and wellbeing before and during the COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom
(2022)COVID-19 created a transformational shift in the working environment for much of the labour force, yet its impact on workers is unclear. This study uses longitudinal data to examine the wellbeing of 621 full-time workers ... -
Achievement Gaps by Migration Background and the Role of Early Childhood Education and Care: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Irish Cohort Study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)Drawing on the longitudinal data from the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) '08 Cohort, this thesis sets out to contribute to the literature on the academic achievement of children with a migration background and Early Childhood ... -
Longitudinal studies on variation by socio-economic position in child conduct, academic outcomes and curricular choice in the Irish context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2023)Using unique, nationally representative longitudinal data from Cohort98 of Growing Up in Ireland (N=6,039; 51.2% female; ages 9-17), this thesis evaluates socio-economic inequalities in educational development, decision-making ...
