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Dr Paula Mayock

 

Supervisor

Topics Interested in Supervising

 

Dr Paula Mayock

Dr. Paula Mayock Director of Teaching & Learning Postgraduate and Assistant Professor, Youth Research

Tel: +353 1 896 2636
Email: pmayock@tcd.ie

 

I am interested in supervising PhD research that examines the lives and experiences of marginalised youth and adult populations, including but not limited to the following topics: homelessness and housing exclusion; youth homelessness; women’s homelessness; migrant homelessness; homelessness and domestic violence; youth transitions; youth with care experience; LGBTI+ youth; drug use and drug problems; methadone maintenance treatment; drug overdose and overdose risk.

I am a qualitative research methodologist with particular expertise in the conduct of narrative and biographical research, qualitative longitudinal research, ethnography and the use of photo-elicitation methods. I welcome PhD students with an interest in using innovative qualitative methods to examine complex social problems.

Full Profile:
https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=pmayock   

Current PhD Students (Working Titles)

Parker, Sarah. Family Homelessness in Ireland: A Mixed Methods Study.

Stapleton, Amy. Ageing Out: Separated Children’s Experience of the Transition to Adulthood.

O’Sullivan, Danielle. Understanding the Lives and Experiences of Lesbian and Bisexual Female Prisoners in Ireland.

Bieri, Cordula. From Direct Provision to Housing: The Lived Experiences of Refugees’ in Ireland.

Pericin, Ivana. Migrant Homelessness in Ireland: A Qualitative Study.

Nobre, Sónia.Invisible Pathways: Narratives and Geographies of Homeless Women in Lisbon City [co-supervisor with Prof Iva Miranda Pires, New University of Lisbon].

Examples of PhDs Supervised to Completion

Glynn, Natalie (2020). Negotiating Uncertainty and Earning Respect: A Qualitative, Longitudinal Study of Young People Ageing Out of Care in Ireland.

Sheridan, Sarah (2017). Women and Homelessness in Ireland: A Biographical, Longitudinal Perspective.

Finn, Mairéad (2015). Immigrants in ‘Investment Houses’: A Qualitative Study of Immigrant Life in the Private Rented Sector in a Rural Irish Town.

Corr, Mary-Louise (2011). Widening the Lens: A Biographical Analysis of Young People’s Offending Careers.

Cronly, Jennifer (2011). Heroin Initiation and Risk: An Ethno-epidemiological Approach.