Research Topics
Current PhD students
| Thesis Title | Date | Supervisor |
| 'Learning With' promoting youth participation, promoting youth help-seeking | current | Jim Campbell |
| Older people's narrative of a community model of support in improving quality of older people in the community | current | Elaine Wilson |
| Social Work in a new multicultural Ireland: a qualitative study of the experience of black African Social Workers |
current | Jim Campbell |
| The Development of Adoption as part of the Irish Care System | current | Valerie O'Brien |
| Comparative analysis of labour market performances of EU10 Eastern Euripean and Baltic migrant workers in the Republic of Ireland | current | Philip O'Connell |
| Large Family/Poor Family? Family resources and poverty among children in large families in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States | complete 2019 |
Stephan Koeppe |
| Is the single parent ( in particular the single father) being discriminated against in the context of child protection cases? | current | Judy Walsh |
| A qualitative study of social workers' experience of the Guardian Ad Litem service in Dublin | current | Muireann Ni Raghallaigh |
| The role of adult literacy tutors: The conflict between theory and practice | current | Karen Smith |
| Is Irish Employment Law failing to provide equality of condition in employment for teachers/lecturers/researchers engaged in the delivery of third level education in Ireland today? | current | Judy Walsh |
| Is the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union opening up a new frontier in human rights protection in Europe? | current | Judy Walsh |
| A study of white migration in Brazil from 2008-2013 during the acceleration of the Brazilian economy and the subsequent crisis | current | Ursula Barry |
| Recovery from substance dependance associated with trauma: A qualitiative study of christian spirituality pathways in the healing process | current | Sarah Morton |
| The implementation of primary care policy and a sociological perspective by mainstream primary care team members | current | Marie Keenan |
| Homelessness as a form of statelessness among single homeless people in Dublin: an analysis of five years of administrative data on patterns of homeless accomodation service usage and entry, exit and re-entry from homelessness | current | Michelle Norris |
| Supporting mothers and their families following an acquired brain injury | current | Sarah Donnelly |
| An exploration of the experience of spouses of persons with dementia during the transition from home to nursing home care | current | Sarah Donnelly |
| Social Mixing, Social Cleansing and Social Housing Supply: a political economy analysis of the contradictions in govenment housing supports for low income households in Dublin | current | Michelle Norris |
| Substance use and mental health: An action research approach to exploring recovery and experience | current | Sarah Morton |
| Transnormativity and the everyday life words of young trans individuals in Ireland | current | Aideen Quilty |
| Patterns of exclusion, models of equality: A systems analysis of obstacles to education for children with diagnoses of intellectual disability or developmental delay | current | Marie Moran |
| U OK Hun xx? Formations of class and gender in an Irish context | current | Marie Moran |
| Feminist activism and story-telling | current | Mary McAuliffe |
| Food Poverty:Experiences in Ireland | complete 2019 | Nessa Winston |
| Urban Citizenship and Immigration | current | Dorota Szelewa |
| From Humans to Officers: Exploring the Values and Attitudes of Irish Prison Officers in Training | current | Marie Keenan |
| Objective and subjective quality of social investment interventions for families with children | current | Karen Anderson |
| Marriages of Convenience: Intimization and the Transformation of Citizenship in Irish Migration Policy | current | Karen Anderson |
| Support wihtout additional harm: evaluating response programming for child survivors of sexual violence in complex emergencies | current | Mary McAuliffe |
| Understanding the role of social welfare systems on the dynamics of ethnic conflict in European regions | current | Matt Donoghue |
| Cervical check non-disclosure and Irish women's perception of their relationship to state-organised screening programmes | current | Dorota Szelewa |
| The Irish healthcare experiences of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants who are LGBTQ+ men and masculineidentifying people | current | Ernesto Vasquez Del Aguila |
| To explore how masculinity is epxressed by queer men migrating from Mauritius to Dublin, Ireland | current | Ernesto Vasquez Del Aguila |
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