Dr Paula Mayock
Assistant Professor, the School of Social Work and Social Policy / Senior Researcher, Children's Research Centre
Dr. Paula Mayock is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, and a Senior Researcher at the Children's Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin. She is a qualitative methodologist with a particular interest in biographical and qualitative longitudinal research methods. Paula is currently Course Director of the Masters in Applied Social Research at the School of Social Work and Social Policy and is also a member of the School's Research Ethical Approval Committee.
Paula's research focuses primarily on the lives and experiences of marginalised youth, covering areas such as drug use and drug problems, homelessness, sexuality, risk behaviour, and mental health. Since 2004, she has worked to build a programme of research on homelessness. She has been the Principal Investigator of two studies of homeless youth, one of them a qualitative longitudinal study of homeless young people in Dublin, and the second, a cross-sectional study of 'out of home' young people in Cork. More recently, she has undertaken a biographical study of homeless women in Ireland. Paula is the recipient of numerous research awards from statutory and voluntary agencies (e.g. Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Health Service Executive, Crisis Pregnancy Agency, Homeless Agency, National Office for Suicide Prevention, and the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network.) She is a NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) INVEST Post-doctoral Fellow (2006-07) and an IRCHSS (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences) Research Fellow (2009-10). She was also the recipient of an IRCHSS 'New Ideas' Award (2011), which supported a range of research initiatives aimed on fostering international collaborative research on women's homelessness. She is the founder and Chairperson of a newly established European Network of Researchers on Women's Homelessness. This Network currently has sixteen members representing twelve European countries. Paula is the author of numerous articles, chapters and research reports.
Centre Publications
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Title |
Author |
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| 2010 | Study of Cocaine Use in Northern Ireland 2009. (PDF 895 KB) | McCrystal, P., Mayock, P., Hannaford, S. |
| 2009 | Supporting LGBT Lives: A Study of the Mental Health and Well-Being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. Dublin: National Office of Suicide Prevention. (PDF 1.42 MB) | Mayock, P., Bryan, A., Carr, N., Kitching, K. |
| 2009 | A review of literature on the role of outside facilitators in the delivery of school-based sex education. Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency. (PDF 559 KB) | De. Vries, J., Mayock, P., Higgins, A., Sherlock, L., Doyle, L., Andrews, L., Sheaf, G. |
| 2008 | Not Just Homelessness... A Study of 'Out of Home' Young People in Cork City. Cork: Health Service Executive. (PDF 4.10 MB) | Mayock, P., Carr, N. |
| 2008 | Research Briefing - Not Just Homelessness... A Study of 'Out of Home' Young People in Cork City. (PDF 250 KB) | Mayock, P., Carr, N. |
| 2008 | Young People's Homeless Pathways. Dublin: The Homeless Agency. (PDF 1.78 MB) | Mayock, P., Corr, M., O'Sullivan, E. |
| 2007 | Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in the Context of Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE): An Assessment of the Challenges to Full Implementation of the Programme in Post-primary Schools. Executive Summary. Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency. (PDF 302 KB) | Mayock, P., Kitching, K., Morgan, D. |
| 2007 | Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) in the Context of Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE): An Assessment of the Challenges to Full Implementation of the Programme in Post-primary Schools. Full Report. Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency and Department of Education and Science.(PDF 1.07 MB) | Mayock, P., Kitching, K., Morgan, D. |
| 2007 | Lives in Crisis: Homeless Young People in Dublin. Dublin: The Liffey Press. Available from www.theliffeypress.com | Mayock, P., O'Sullivan, E. |
| 2006 | Research Briefing - Free Time and Leisure Needs of Young People Living in Disadvantaged Communities. (PDF 292 KB) | Byrne, T., Nixon, E., Mayock, P., Whyte, J. |
| 2000 | Choosers or losers? Influences on young people's choices about drugs in inner-city Dublin. 125 pp. Dublin: Children's Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin. (PDF 1,538 KB) | Mayock, P. |
Other Publications
Date |
Title |
Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | A Review of the Internatational Literature on the Role of Outside Facilitators on the Delivery of School-based Sex Education Crisis Pregnancy Agency | de Vries, J., Mayock, P., Higgins, A., Sherlock, L., Doyle, L., Andrews, L., Sheaf, G. |
| 2009 | Ireland. In D. Hadfield (ed) Nightlife and Crime: Social Order and Governance in International Perspective. London: Oxford University Press. (forthcoming) | Seymour, M., Mayock, P. |
| 2008 | Youth homelessness in Ireland: The construction of a social problem. Youth Studies Ireland, 3, 1, 15-29. | O'Sullivan, E., Mayock, P. |
| 2008 | 'Young People Negotiating Abusive Home Situations — Some Implications for Child Protection and Welfare'. In D.Lynch & K.Burns (Eds.) Child Protection and Welfare Social Work: A Changing Profession in a Changing Ireland. Dublin: A&A Farmar. pp. 167-179. | Carr, N., Mayock, P. |
| 2008 | Young people's homeless pathways and the offender-victimisation nexus. In D. Downey (Ed.) Perspectives on Irish Homelessness: Past, Present and Future. Dublin: The Homeless Agency. pp. 76-86. | Mayock, P. |
| 2007 | A 'career' in youth homelessness? Cornerstone - the magazine of the Homeless Agency, 30,20-22. | Mayock, P. |
| 2007 | Understanding Youth Homelessness in Dublin City: Key Findings from the First Phase of a Longitudinal Cohort Study. Dublin: Stationery Office. | Mayock, P., Vekic, K. |
| 2007 | Relationships and Sexuality Education in Post-Primary Schools: Challenges to Full Implementation. Dublin: Crisis Pregnancy Agency/ Dept of Education. | Mayock, P., Morgan, M. |
| 2006 | Ireland. in J.Arnett (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Adolesence. New York:Routledge. | Greene, S., Mayock, P. |
| 2005 | 'Scripting Risk': Young people and the construction of drug journeys. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, Vol 12, No.5, October 2005: pp349-368. | Mayock, P. |
| 2005 | 'An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem': Harm reduction and Ambiguity in the drug policy of the Republic of Ireland. International Journal of Drug Policy, 16, 415-422. | Butler, S., Mayock, P. |
| 2004 | 'Binge Drinking and the Consumption of Pleasure' in M. MacLachlan and C. Smyth Binge Drinking and Youth Culture — Alternative Perspectives Dublin: The Liffey Press. oo.113-141. | Mayock, P. |
| 2002 | Drug pathways, transitions and decisions: the experiences of young people in an inner-city Dublin community. Contemporary Drug Problems, 29, 117-156. | Mayock, P. |
| 2001 | Social Issues and Public Attitudes Associated with Drug Misuse. in R. Moran, M. O'Brien, L.Dillon, E.Farrell Overview of Drugs Issues in Ireland. Dublin: Health Research Board. pp79-94. | Moran, R., Mayock, P. |
| 2001 | Cocaine Use in Ireland: An Exploratory Study. In R.Moran, L. Dillon, M. O'Brien, P. Mayock & E. Farrell, A Collection of Papers on Drug Issues in Ireland. Dublin: Health Research Board. pp 80-152. | Mayock, P. |
| 2001 | Drugs and drug problems: Reporting on the perspectives of young people. Proceedings of a half-day conference held in St James's Hospital, Dublin on September 20th, 2000. | Mayock, P. |
| 2000 | Engaging 'difficult to research' young people in a study of inner-city drug use. in J. Fountain (ed.) Understanding and Responding to Drugs Use: The Role of Qualitative Research. EMCDAA Monograph. pp273-278. | Mayock, P. |
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