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Project Title	Principal Investigator (s)
A cross European project to equip social work students and educators to meet the challenges of political conflict	Jim Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Social Work
Adults’ Experiences of Engaging with Child Protection Services to make Retrospective Disclosures of Childhood Sexual Abuse	Asst. Prof. Joseph Mooney
All-Island Partnership to End Sexual Exploitation	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
An evaluation of the Professional Support Service for Social Workers in Northern Ireland	Jim Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Social Work
A Qualitative Study Of Lgbtqi+ Youth Homelessness In Ireland	Prof. Michelle Norris and Asst. Prof. Aideen Quilty
A Review of the Processing of Sexual Offences in Ireland: Stakeholder Experiences	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
An All Island Partnership to end Sexual Exploitation	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
Adult Disclosures of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Developing Victim-Centric Policy and Practice	Asst. Prof. Joseph Mooney
Adult Safeguarding Legislation and Policy Rapid Realist Literature Review	Asst. Prof. Sarah Donnelly
Adult Safeguarding: Exploring Policy and Practice	Asst. Prof. Sarah Donnelly
Assessing the changing nature of the commercial sexual exploitation of the girl child in the Irish context	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
Childrens' Needs: Now and in the Future	Asst. Prof. Karen Smith
Conflict-related violence against women in Northern Ireland: Making visible a critical barrier to inclusive peace	Prof. Aisling Swaine
Connections Between Participation and Protection in the UN Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security Agenda	Prof. Aisling Swaine
Democratic Governance of Funded Pension Schemes (DEEPEN)	Prof. Karen Anderson
Developing a theoretical framework on prostitution with the National Women's Council of Ireland	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
Energy Justice: addressing transport & residential energy deprivation (NexSys)	Assoc. Prof. Nessa Winston
Enprendia Erasmus+	Asst. Prof. Dorota Szelewa
Equal Status Legislation in Ireland	Asst. Prof. Judy Walsh
EURO-ASIA Comparison of Care-Technology Policies	Assoc. Prof. Naonori Kodate
European Social Survey (ESS) Ireland	Asst. Prof. Micheál Collins with Mathew Creighton, UCD School of Sociology
Examining Racism, Diversity and Social Inclusion in Second Level Education in Ireland	Asst. Prof. Elaine Wilson
Exploitation 'as usual': Emerging evidence on the impact of Covid 19 on Ireland's sex trade	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
Exploring perceptions towards home-care robots for older persons in Finland, Ireland and Japan: A comparative questionnaire study	Assoc. Prof. Naonori Kodate
Exploring the intersectionality of womens' substance use	Asst. Prof. Sarah Morton
Falling Through the Cracks: The Case for Change, Key Developments and Next Steps for Adult Safeguarding in Ireland	Asst. Prof. Sarah Donnelly
Forced sterilisation and reproductive justice in Peru	Asst. Prof. Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
Fulbright Scholar Fellowship	Asst. Prof. Marie Moran
Global Research Network on the Economic Empowerment of Women (ReNEW)	Asst. Prof. Dorota Szelewa
Hanse Wissenschaftskilleg Senior Fellowship	Asst. Prof. Stephan Koeppe
Harmonisation towards the establishment of Person-centred, Robotics-aided Care System	Assoc. Prof. Naonori Kodate
Hidden Harm: Safeguarding Family Carers from Carer Harm (SAFE_FCarer)	Asst. Prof. Sarah Donnelly
Impact of Covid 19 on Tenants in the Private Rented Sector	Asst. Prof. Michael Byrne
Innovation through reflexivity and participation: Strengthening the education and professionalization of social work in professional interfaces	Asst. Prof. Sarah Donnelly
Intimacy and sexual health itineraries among Venezuelan migrant men in Peru	Asst. Prof. Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
Invisible People: The Integration Support Needs of Refugee Families Reunified in Ireland	Assoc. Prof. Muireann Ní Raghallaigh
Low Paid Older Workers: a quantitative and qualitative profile of low pay among workers aged over 55	Asst. Prof. Micheál Collins
Pathways to Exit: How women leaving prostitution can be supported to rebuild their lives and regain their voice	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
Paz Alto Cauca: Peacebuilding in northern Cauca, Colombia	Asst. Prof. Krisna Ruette-Orihuela
Perspectives of refugees on questions of participation, power and ethics in research	Assoc. Prof. Muireann Ní Raghallaigh
Potential Social Work Students’ Perceptions of Social Work	Asst. Prof. Joseph Mooney & Asst. Prof. Elaine Wilson
Review of Local Authority Social Workers and Personnel Employed to Assist Travellers with their Accommodation needs	Prof. Michelle Norris
Security and Agency in the Irish Private Rental Sector	Asst. Prof. Michael Byrne
Shifting the Burden of Criminality: An Analysis of the Irish Sex Trade in the Context of Prostitution Law Reform	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
Speaking Up about Adult Harm: Options for Policy and Practice in the Irish Context	Asst. Prof. Sarah Donnelly
Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of people with physical disabilities	Asst. Prof. Alan Maddock
Sustainability through company pension schemes? The influence of codetermination actors on investment strategies	Prof. Karen Anderson
Ten Years of Dementia Service Implementation	Asst. Prof. Maria Pierce
Time for a 4 day week? Assessing the economic social and environmental impacts	Asst. Prof. Orla Doyle
The health impacts of prostitution on women in the Irish sex trade	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
The Hidden Cost of Poverty: Estimating the Public Service Cost of Poverty in Ireland	Asst. Prof. Micheál Collins
Transforming European Work and Social Protection: A new proactive Welfare State fit for the Future World of work (TRANSEUROWORKS)	Asst. Prof. Dorota Szelewa
Transforming Justice: An All-Island Examination of Justice Responses to Historical Institutional Abuse North and South	Assoc. Prof. Marie Keenan
XENIA Erasmus+	Assoc. Prof. Aideen Quilty

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