School of Social Work and Social Policy: Recent submissions
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“Maybe I will have a good life in the future…”: The lives, experiences and choices of rural girls as they negotiate different pathways to urban secondary schools in Ethiopia.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2018)This study seeks to fill a gap in our understanding of the phenomenon of the migration of rural girls to urban secondary schools in Ethiopia, from the perspectives of rural girls themselves. Specifically the study investigates ... -
Living on the borderline: The lived experience of young migrants and refugees growing up on the Thailand-Myanmar border
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2018)This study is an exploration of the lived experience of young people growing up in contexts of displacement and lack of documentation along the Thailand-Myanmar border. The evolving nature of cross-border population flows ... -
At the Front Door. Child Protection Reporting in a Changing Policy and Legislative Context.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2018)Aim: While a number of Irish studies have been conducted on the ?work world? of child protection and welfare services, reporting trends have not been interrogated in any depth. The primary aim of this doctoral study was ... -
Exploring the predictors of socio-economic variation in child overweight and obesity in Ireland : a sociological analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2014)This thesis addressed the issue of childhood overweight and obesity in Ireland. In the first instance the socially structured distribution of overweight and obesity was established with the mechanisms by which this occurs ... -
Inclusive sex education : narratives of good practice from Ireland and Sweden
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)Sex education for young people can take many forms and can promote diverse theoretical, political and social perspectives on sexuality and the body. The ways that sex education modalities function, the challenges they meet, ... -
Relationship-based social work : a 'thirdspace' in responding to trauma
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2015)This practitioner research study explores people’s lived experience of trauma leading to their engagement with the social work service of a hospital emergency department. It further explores the elements of responsive ... -
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 ...
