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A critical history of child protection and welfare services for disabled children in the Republic of Ireland 1960 to 2023
(2024)Existing research demonstrates at least threefold higher rates of maltreatment for disabled children than for their non-disabled peers. The situation is compounded by pervasive impediments to effective safeguarding practice ... -
Book Review: Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice.
(2024)Environmental Justice as Social Work Practice is written to be a main textbook in a specialised course on social work and the environment. First published in 2018, the importance of a text- book covering environmental ... -
The vagina problem: a step too far in parent-child sex communication with young children
(2024)Parents describe a want for better sex education for their young children compared to their own myth and silence-led experiences while growing up. However, introducing the vagina has proved a challenging step too far for ... -
Your Battles Inspire Me: Inclusion Experiences of Children with Intellectual Disability in Chinese Primary Classrooms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2024)Children with intellectual disabilities have been accessing general educational settings at primary education stage in international and Southwest Chinese contexts. Despite the lengthy existence of the phenomenon, the ... -
Putting outcomes into practice: The implementation of a framework of outcomes measures within a child and family service
(2024)Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency ... -
New-Materialist Bricolage: Presenting an Ontological Position for Qualitative Internet-Based Research
(2024)The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing ... -
Pregnant Box: What Happens When Opera Enacts an Embodied Analysis of Concealing Pregnancy
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2023)This chapter discusses a project that originated as policy-commissioned research initiated by Health Service practitioners to address concerns about recurring presentations of ‘concealed pregnancy’ to health care settings ... -
From Direct Provision to Housing: A Qualitative Study of the Housing Journeys of Refugees in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2024)This thesis examines the housing journeys of refugees in Ireland, with a particular focus on the transition from Direct Provision to housing. In Ireland and elsewhere, a significant body of literature has examined refugees? ... -
Disability in Narrative Inquiry: A Case of Methodologically Unusable Data from a Participant with Intellectual Disability
(2024)This paper considers methodological and ethical implications of qualitative interview data that was deemed unusable for research analytic purposes, where the interviewee had an intellectual disability. Critical disability ... -
Critical Disability Studies
(2024)Critical Disability Studies (CDS), as a transformative theoretical space, has shown immense growth and change over the last decade. It offers a scholarly field and method for comprehending the human condition that maintains ... -
Shifting Mindsets; A Critical Commentary on Child Protection and Welfare, Disability, and Online Risk Through Critical Literature Review
(2024)Critical commentary is presented at the complex intersection of child protection and welfare, disability, and internet use. A profound lack of research exists on this topic. Findings from a critical literature review focus ... -
Redemption theory : Redeeming the sins of the father : grandfathers' experiences and practices in a border community in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2017)Exploring the extant literature on grandparents reveals that, in many cases ‘grandparent’ is de facto synonymous with ‘grandmother’. The world of the grandfather remains elusive, although evidence is emerging that recognise ... -
In Transit? Insights from the lived experience of lone parents claiming Jobseeker's Transitional Payment
(2024)This research, conducted in conjunction with One Family, set out to document the lived experiences of Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment (JST) recipients and to explore how JST is working ‘on the ground’. Because JST is a ... -
Policy Silences and Poverty in Ireland: An Argument for Inclusive Approaches
(2024)Policy documents shape and inform policy but they are not neutral objects. Policy documents can also silence through the exclusion and omission of discrete knowledges transmitted through testimony and lived experience. ... -
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality: What does rural life mean for disabled children and their families?
(2024)The specific intention of this paper is to question how rural life may affect everyday issues of concern for disabled children and their families, including access to services, social connectedness and quality of life. A ... -
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes.
(2024)How child protection and welfare policies address the disability community is a matter of utmost importance and urgency in the context of well-established inequalities. We present a policy content analysis of national ... -
An exploration of hygiene poverty in Ireland
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A new-materialist reading of disability, senescence and the life-course
(2023)The purpose of this paper is to provide a new-materialist theoretical commentary on disability, senescence and the life-course. Critical literature review with deductive thematic analysis was undertaken using an electronic ... -
Whos right? What rights? How? Rights debates in Irish social work: a call for nuance
(2023)CORU are tasked with regulating social work in Ireland. This commentary responds to a debate that is currently unfolding in Irish social work circles concerning an absence of the term ‘human rights’ from the CORU Code ...