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Domestic Violence and Child Protection Conference 8th September - SOLD OUT!

We have now reached capacity at the venue, so we had to close ticket sales. If you didn’t get a chance to get your ticket, please watch out on our School website for announcements of any similar upcoming events.    

2nd August 2023

Research Report on Guidance on Contact Time for Infants and Young Children in Separated Families 

The voices of very young children are ‘starkly absent’ from Ireland’s family law system, according to a new report recently launched in Trinity College Dublin.

This research was conducted by an interdisciplinary research team in Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork and is the first of its kind to investigate international best practice in relation to listening to the voices of very young children (0-6 years) in family law proceedings. It is also the first report that presents qualitative evidence of what is currently happening in practice in relation to this issue in Irish family law cases. This research was commissioned by One Family and funded through the RTE Toy Show Appeal and Community Foundation for Ireland Fund. 

A copy of the report is available to view here

(L to R) Soma Gregory, Trinity; Dr Simone McCaughren, Trinity; Dr Stephanie Holt, Trinity; Karen Kiernan, CEO One Family; Niamh Kelly, Policy Manager, One Family.

 

Further information

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/family-law-system-bad-for-parents-children-lawyers-with-growing-concerns-at-expert-reports-used-in-cases-42210911.html

https://sciencex.com/wire-news/432454971/voices-of-very-young-children-starkly-absent-from-irelands-famil.html

https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2022/december/voice-of-children-muffled-in-adversarial-break-ups

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/family-law-system-not-hearing-voices-of-very-young-children

 

16th December, 2022

 


Women's Aid and Trinity College Dublin "Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue" A multimedia public lecture by Jackson Katz, Ph.D.

The School of Social Work and Social Policy and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Office jointly with Women’s Aid were delighted to host a free public lecture with Jackson Katz on 30th June.   The superb Dargan Theatre in Trinity Business School was the venue for a very stimulating and engaging lecture titled “Violence against Women is a Men’s Issue”.  Drawing on his experience and more than 35 years of work Dr Katz delivered an incredibly engaging talk and responded to many questions from the audience.  Ailbhe Smith, Activist and Chair of Women’s Aid, closed the event.

Find out more about Jackson’s work here
Find out more about Women’s Aid here

Pictured left to right are Sarah Benson, CEO Women’s Aid; Professor Lorraine Leeson, Associate Vice Provost for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, TCD, Dr Jackson Katz; Associate Professor Stephanie Holt, Head of School, School of Social Work & Social Policy, TCD.

30th June 2022


Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space by Dr Joe Whelan: School of Social Work and Social Policy

Congratulations to Joe Whelan, Assistant Professor in School of Social Work and author of the recently published Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space.   
This book draws on qualitative interviews with people receiving various working age welfare payments in Ireland to analyse welfare conditionality and explore stigma, social reciprocity and the notions of the deserving and undeserving poor.

An official hardcover and eBook launch will be held in person on Wednesday 1st June at Trinity College Dublin.   If you would like to attend please register via Eventbrite link

Meet Joe and hear more about the book here

13th May, 2022


Overcoming Sexism and Racism in Higher Education Webinar


You are warmly invited to an interactive webinar on:

Overcoming Sexism and Racism in Higher Education: 

Thursday, 18th of March 2021, 3-5pm GMT  

Programme Details

4th March, 2021


Webinar on Disability and Child Protection: Towards a Better Understanding

Long RoomYou are warmly invited to an interactive webinar on:

Disability and Child Protection: Towards a Better Understanding

Friday 26th March 2021, 10:00am-11.00am (Dublin Ireland time),
School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin

Get Your Tickets:
HERE

Or by pasting this link in your browser:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/disability-and-child-protection-toward-a-better-understanding-tickets-144166998373

Programme Details:

4th March, 2021


Webinar 'Trends and Directions in Criminal Justice: Learning from the Past, Creating the Future.

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The School of Social Work and Social Policy warmly invites you to a Webinar Hosted by Trinity Research in Social Science (TRiSS) on Friday 27th November 2020 from 12:30-2:00pm

'Trends and Directions in Criminal Justice: Learning from the Past, Creating the Future.

Presented by Assistant Adjunct Professor Vivian Geiran
Respondent: Associate Professor Nicola Carr
Chair: Professor Eoin O’Sullivan

Abstract of Vivian’s Presentation:
Having worked in the public service for more than forty years, former Probation Service Director, Vivian Geiran, will reflect on significant changes in the Irish criminal justice system, as well as internationally, over that time. From what brought him into probation work in the first place, through the highlights of his time as a probation officer and leader, Vivian will reflect on what sustained him over his career, as well as on modernisation efforts, the growth in the use of ICT and other developments impacting the frontline worker. Vivian will also consider the major paradigmatic shifts in focus and organisation of probation work, from offender reform and rehabilitation, through the RNR (Risk, Need and Responsibility) model, ‘What Works? and ‘managerialism,’ to desistance, service user involvement, restorative practice, victimology, and mass correctional supervision, among other issues. He will also evaluate trends in criminal justice policy and practice, in Ireland and internationally, and look forward to potential future directions.

Vivian Geiran – retired as Director of the Irish Probation Service at the end of 2019. A registered social worker, and now Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at TCD, Vivian is on the Judicial Council’s Sentencing Guidelines & Information Committee, and a board member of the Irish Association of Social Workers and Ana Liffey Drug Project. He is a member of the Council of Europe’s Council for Penological Cooperation (PC-CP) working group (which develops probation and prisons practice standards for the forty-seven member States), as well as of the International Penal & Penitentiary Foundation (IPPF). An international consultant on criminal justice, Vivian’s research interests include criminal justice social work and community sanctions and measures, particularly probation, community service and parole. He co-authored Council of Europe guidelines on implementing community sanctions & measures and has published numerous papers on social work and probation.

Nicola Carr is an Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham. She is Editor of the Probation Journal and a Board member of the Irish Probation Journal. She is also a member of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation and Youth Justice’s Expert Advisory Group. She was a convenor of the European Society of Criminology’s Working Group on Community Sanctions and Measures and a Scientific Expert to the Council of Europe’s Council of Penological Co-Operation (PC-CP), where she helped to develop Guidelines Regarding Recruitment, Selection, Education, Training and Professional Development of Prison and Probation Staff. She has researched and published on probation and community sanctions in comparative contexts.

27th October, 2020


UPCOMING CPD EVENT

Trinity CollegeThe final session in our In House Spring/Summer CPD programme 'Domestic Homicide Review & Risk Assessment ' with Davina James Hanman, Dr Stephanie Holt & Dr Lynne Cahill, is taking place this coming Tuesday at 10 am. Please see https://www.tcd.ie/swsp/short-courses/In-house.php to reserve a place.

23rd May, 2019


Information Webinar for Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies (Postgraduate Diploma in Social Policy and Practice), Wednesday 24th May 6PM

This fully online event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Talk to lecturers about the course
  • Learn how the online programme is structured and delivered
  • Meet current students and find out about their experiences

The Online Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies (to be renamed Postgraduate Diploma in Social Policy and Practice for September 2017 intake) looks at:

  • The role social policy plays in solving the ‘wicked’ social problems that contemporary societies face
  • The social policy issues addressed on the programme include crime, poverty, family violence and inequality

To register for this event click here.

The course is delivered through weekly online learning materials with live online tutorials and interactive discussions. It will be of interest to:

  • Graduates without a social science undergraduate qualification who wish to convert to Masters level study in the area
  • Those working in social policy or advocating for social policy change
  • Applicants from outside of Ireland, in particular North America, who wish to study in Ireland’s leading university

Over one academic year, this level 9 postgraduate programme offers students the opportunity to study:

  • Social policy
  • Criminology
  • The Family and Society
  • Introduction to Social Work
  • Introduction to Disability Studies
  • Managing Change

For more information please email Louise O'Brien

03 March 2017


The School of Social Work and Social Policy, with the support of the Trinity International Development Initiative present "Better Futures for Girls and Young Women in Ethiopia: Exploring Key Issues"

This event on Africa day will explore three of the most pressing issues facing girls and women in Ethiopia - education, early marriage and rural-urban migration. Securing better future for girls and women in Ethiopia and elsewhere is important for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in general and gender equality and women’s empowerment in particular (SDG5).

This seminar will consider Ethiopia’s past achievements, existing challenges and potential future gains in the areas of gender equality and women’s empowerment. Privileging the experiences of girls and women, this seminar will chart the opportunities and challenges that girls and women encounter as they search for better futures, set against the backdrop of Ethiopia’s rapidly changing social, economic and political landscape. It will emphasise that progress on gender equality requires an integrated approach that works across the multiple issues affecting the lives of girls and women, and also acknowledges the different experiences within and between distinct groups of girls and women.
This event is organised by the School of Social Work and Social Policy, TCD with the support of the Trinity International Development Initiative and the Irish Research Council New Foundations Scheme #loveirishreserach

Date: Thursday 25th May 2017
Time: 10:30am-1:30pm
Location: Global Room, Trinity College Dublin


Speakers

  • Professor Tesfaye Semela, Women and Gender Issues in Ethiopia: A Socio-Historical Analysis.
  • Dr. Alula Pankhurst, Options for adolescent girls in Ethiopia: Education, work and early marriage - Evidence from Young Lives.
  • Ms. Louise Yorke,Maybe I will have a good life in the future”: The pathways of rural girls and women as they migrate to urban secondary schools in Southern Ethiopia.
  • Professor Susan Murphy will provide a response to the three papers.
  • This seminar will be chaired by Professor Robbie Gilligan.

Coffee, tea and sandwiches will be provided.

All are welcome. Please register your attendance here. See TIDI website for more information.

11 May 2017


Information Webinar for Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies, Wednesday 22nd March 6PM

This fully online event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Talk to lecturers about the course
  • Learn how the online programme is structured and delivered
  • Meet current students and find out about their experiences

The Online Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies looks at:

  • The role social policy plays in solving the ‘wicked’ social problems that contemporary societies face
  • The social policy issues addressed on the programme include crime, poverty, family violence and inequality

To register for this event click here.

The course is delivered through weekly online learning materials with live online tutorials and interactive discussions. It will be of interest to:

  • Graduates without a social science undergraduate qualification who wish to convert to Masters level study in the area
  • Those working in social policy or advocating for social policy change
  • Applicants from outside of Ireland, in particular North America, who wish to study in Ireland’s leading university

Over one academic year, this level 9 postgraduate programme offers students the opportunity to study:

  • Social policy
  • Criminology
  • The Family and Society
  • Introduction to Social Work
  • Introduction to Disability Studies
  • Managing Change

For more information please email Louise O'Brien

 

03 March 2017


BASPCAN Irish Branch present a conference on the Children First Act 2015 & Children and Family Relationships Act 2015: Implications for Child Protection and Welfare Practice

10.30am Friday 16th September in Trinity College Dublin

Speakers: Michele Clarke: Children First Legislation: Legislation and Impact

Sonia Bruen: The Implications of the Children and Family Relationships Act for Practitioners

Grace Corrigan: The Children and Family Relationships Act 2015: Implications for Children as Individual Rights Holders

The full timetable and more information about the event can be accessed here.

BASPCAN members can attend free by contacting Louise O'Brien. Cost for non-members is €20 and can be booked through Eventbrite.

For more information please contact Dr Stephanie Holt.

9th September 2016


Online Open Evening Postgraduate Diploma Applied Social Studies, Wednesday 11th May 6PM

Shortlisted for the PostGradIreland Best New Postgraduate Course of the Year Award, 2016

 

This fully online event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Talk to lecturers about the course
  • Learn how the online programme is structured and delivered
  • Meet current students and find out about their experiences

To access the link to this online event please contact Louise O'Brien.

The Online Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies looks at:

  • The role social policy plays in solving the ‘wicked’ social problems that contemporary societies face
  • The social policy issues addressed on the programme include crime, poverty, family violence and inequality

The course is delivered through weekly online learning materials with live online tutorials and interactive discussions. It will be of interest to:

  • Graduates without a social science undergraduate qualification who wish to convert to Masters level study in the area
  • Those working in social policy or advocating for social policy change
  • Applicants from outside of Ireland, in particular North America, who wish to study in Ireland’s leading university

Over one academic year, this level 9 postgraduate programme offers students the opportunity to study:

  • Social policy
  • Criminology
  • The Family and Society
  • Introduction to Social Work
  • Introduction to Disability Studies
  • Managing Change

Date: Wednesday 15th June, 2016

To reserve a place or more more information please email Louise O'Brien

7th June 2016


Second Annual Advanced Research Methods Lecture at School of Social Work and Social Policy hosts Prof Patricia Clough, May 30th 2016 6PM, Long Room Hub TCD

The School of Social Work & Social Policy, TCD is delighted to announce that Patricia Clough, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center and Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY) will deliver the second Annual Advanced Research Methods lecture.

 

 

ABOUT PATRICIA CLOUGH
Patricia Ticineto Clough’s specialisations are Social and Critical Theory, Sociology of Culture, Media Studies and the Arts, and Gender and Sexuality. She is author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (2000); Feminist Thought: Desire, Power and Academic Discourse  (1994) and The End(s)  of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism (1998).  She is editor of The Affective Turn:  Theorizing the Social, (2007) and with Craig Willse, editor of  Beyond Biopolitics: Essays on the Governance of Life and Death (2011). She is currently working on Ecstatic Corona: Philosophy and Family Violence, an ethnographic historically researched experimental writing project about where she grew up in Queens New York. Clough also is a practicing psychoanalyst in her last year of training.

 

 

ABOUT LECTURE
The Rosary: The Object’s Affect                                                                                                                          
In her performance, The Rosary: The Object’s Affect, Patricia Ticineto Clough makes use of her childhood memory of praying to take up the recent turn in philosophy to aesthetics and engagement with the liveliness of objects, their affective force, both attractive and repulsive. Once thought to be the realm of evil, aesthetics today is a resource for rethinking practices of knowing and being, from the intimate to the cosmological, from the human to the more than human. The performance is meant to enable a discussion of methods of cultural criticism that make use of artistic impulse in study and representation in these post-traumatic times of biopolitics and necropolitics.

 

LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.  BOOKINGS TO CONLONCE@TCD.IE WILL CONFIRM A PLACE.
This Lecture is supported by Faculty Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Visiting Professors Fund

25th April 2016


Online Open Evening Postgraduate Diploma Applied Social Studies, Wednesday 11th May 6PM

Shortlisted for the PostGradIreland Best New Postgraduate Course of the Year Award, 2016

This fully online event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Talk to lecturers about the course
  • Learn how the online programme is structured and delivered
  • Meet current students and find out about their experiences

To access the link to this online event please contact Louise O'Brien.

The Online Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Studies looks at:

  • The role social policy plays in solving the ‘wicked’ social problems that contemporary societies face
  • The social policy issues addressed on the programme include crime, poverty, family violence and inequality

The course is delivered through weekly online learning materials with live online tutorials and interactive discussions. It will be of interest to:

  • Graduates without a social science undergraduate qualification who wish to convert to Masters level study in the area
  • Those working in social policy or advocating for social policy change
  • Applicants from outside of Ireland, in particular North America, who wish to study in Ireland’s leading university

Over one academic year, this level 9 postgraduate programme offers students the opportunity to study:

  • Social policy
  • Criminology
  • The Family and Society
  • Introduction to Social Work
  • Introduction to Disability Studies
  • Managing Change

Date: Wednesday 11th May, 2016

To reserve a place or more more information please email Louise O'Brien

19th April 2016


Open Evening MSc Applied Social Research, Thursday April 7th

 

The M.Sc. in Applied Social Research is designed for graduates in the social sciences who wish to:

  • Develop their research skills and gain employment in the fields of research, policy, advocacy, consultancy and other careers where research skills are deemed essential or highly desirable.
  • Build research skills for application in their current work environments.
  • Acquire a strong foundation for further post-graduate study, particularly for PhD research.

 

The course provides advanced training in the conduct of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research through specialised teaching in the design, conduct, analysis, and dissemination of research. We particularly strive to equip our students with core, widely transferable research skills.

This degree is multidisciplinary and career-focused. The work placement is a unique component of the course and is central to the goal of ensuring that students are prepared for the workforce. All students are offered the opportunity to work alongside highly experienced researchers for an 8-week period in a range of reputable research environments. The work placement module is completed in Year 1 by full-time students and in Year 2 by part-time students.

Graduates of the M.Sc. in Applied Social Research typically gain employment in a variety of organisations including public or private research institutes or consultancies, government departments, university departments, the NGO sector, and in a range of policy environments. Others go on to pursue further post-graduate study. This Masters can be completed on a one year full-time or two year part-time basis.


Date: Thursday 7th April

Time: 5:30-7pm

Venue: Room 3080 Arts Building, TCD

Apply now (closing date for applications: 31st May 2016)
https://www.tcd.ie/courses/postgraduate/az/course.php?id=DPTSW-ASRE-1F09

Enquiries
Dr. Paula Mayock, Course Director, Tel: +353 1 896 2636, Email: pmayock@tcd.ie
Website: https://www.tcd.ie/swsp/postgraduate/social-research/index.php

5th April 2016


MSc in Disability Studies Upcoming Research Seminar

The MSc in Disability Studies is pleased to invite you to the seminar seminar "(Re)constructing Myself: the process of transition to motherhood for women with a disability" by Dr. Denise Lawler, Assistant Professor in Midwifery, Head of Discipline of Midwifery, TCD.

Date: Tuesday, 16th February Time: 5-6 pm Location: TRiSS Seminar Room, C6.002 on the 6th Floor of the Arts Building.

(Re)constructing Myself: the process of transition to motherhood for women with a disability

Becoming a mother is considered a normative developmental experience, an important transition in any woman's life. A transition that is complex, involving a number of personal, biological and sociological changes. The self, as a mother, is constructed through the symbolic interactions that occur between the woman and others encountered before, during and after pregnancy. These interactions significantly impact on the woman's sense of self during the continuum of pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood, and on their transition to motherhood. This presentation will discuss the process involved in the transition to motherhood and the impact of the process on the self from the perspective and experiences of women with a disability, a perspective that heretofore is underrepresented in the extant literature. The seminar will present findings from a grounded theory study. Twenty-two women, with either a physical disability or sensory impairment, were interviewed twice, during pregnancy or early motherhood, and in late motherhood. Data were analysed using the constant comparative method of analysis and a substantive theory emerged explicating the psychosocial process involved in becoming a mother and the impact this process on the self. The presentation will describe how during the process of becoming a mother women with a disability experienced a disruption of their assumptions of the self. This disruption resulted in the women invoking a variety of strategies so as to gain an understanding of the self as a mother. These strategies were integrated throughout the continuum of pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood. This theory that emerged from this study offers new knowledge on the conceptualisation of motherhood, the transitional process involved and the relationship of this process on the self from the perspective and experiences of women with a disability. It presents a theoretical framework that clinicians can refer to and use when assisting women with a disability when planning to and during the process of becoming a mother.

If you require any access accommodations, please contact Noreen O'Sullivan

11th February 2016