School of Social Work and Social Policy: Recent submissions
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A Literature Review to Inform the Development of a National Framework for Person-Centred Planning in Disability Services
(HSE & NDA on behalf of National New Directions Implementation Group, 2017)This literature review on person centred planning (PCP) was commissioned by the Health Service Executive and the National Disability Authority (NDA) to inform the development of a national framework on PCP across services ... -
Theorizing Disability in Child Protection: Applying Critical Disability Studies to the Elevated Risk of Abuse for Disabled Children
(2020)The assumption that addressing disability-related child protection risks is the preserve of child protection academics, is perhaps the basis of the dearth of theoretical papers emerging from disability studies, on what is ... -
Migrant Women and Gender Based Violence in Ireland: Policy, Research & Practice
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Assemblage analysis: an experimental new-materialist method for analysing narrative data
(2020)Recently social constructionist and poststructuralist theories, and the methodologies they have informed, have been criticised for focusing excessively on human discourse and human action whilst overlooking the importance ... -
19 Stories of Social Inclusion Ireland: Stories of Belonging, Contributing and Connecting
(National Disability Authority, 2019)Irish disability policy, in line with international treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), aims to support people with intellectual disabilities to live included ... -
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 ... -
Changes in the self-rated well-being of people who move from congregated settings to personalized arrangements and group home placements
(2017)A natural experiment contrasted the self-rated well-being of people with intellectual disabilities (n = 75) and those with enduring mental health problems (n = 44) after they moved to new accommodation and support options, ... -
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 ... -
Identifying the Key Concerns of Irish Persons with Intellectual Disability.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Internationally, people with intellectual disability are socially marginalized, and their rights under the United Nations Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) are often ignored. AIMS: ... -
A consensus statement on how to conduct inclusive health research
(Wiley, 2019)Background: The active involvement of people with intellectual disabilities in research, or inclusive research, is relatively common. However, inclusive health research is less common, even though it is expected to lead ... -
Multiple perspectives on the police response to children present at a domestic violence incident: an Irish case study
The expanding recognition of the negative impact that exposure to domestic violence can have on children, has led to a focus on the response of professionals, in particular the police, who have been identified as first ... -
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 ... -
Exploring older adults' intergenerational friendships: from homophily to an all-age identity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2019)Intergenerational friendship is a friendship between a chronologically old and a significantly younger adult. Influenced by the principle of homophily ('birds of a feather flock together'), research has predominately focused ...
