PhD student profiles - School of Social Work and Social Policy

Kathryn Grey Ammon

Thesis: Legacy Data: Assembling 30 Years of Irish Abortion Narratives

Sarah Anglim

Thesis: Exploring the uptake of health promotion advice among head and neck cancer patients

Srimoyee Biswas

Thesis: Operationalising ‘empowerment’ and ‘negotiations’ for female Aanganwadi beneficiaries: A Study in India through the lens of gender and caste.

Francesca Clare Keogh

Thesis: Understanding substance use pathways, trajectories, and perspectives among young individuals in deprived areas of Dublin.

Mary Condren

An exploration of the experiences of same sex, female identifying couples, who have used fertility services, in an Irish setting, to create their de-novo family, of their interactions with the medical profession.

Maria Dimitriadi

Thesis: Social policy in emergency settings: a study of crisis and disaster management policies in Greece

Soma Gregory

Thesis: Women’s, midwives’ and obstetricians’ views on woman-centred maternity care in Ireland: A qualitative study utilising a Systems Theory approach

Ann Swift

Thesis: Strategies for identifying childhood disability and their consequences for measuring child outcomes over time

Michaela Nudo

Thesis: Irish Traveller Women’s Reproductive Citizenship: An Exploratory Study of Experiences and Knowledge

Jianing Zhu

Thesis: Understanding the Experiences of Senior Volunteers in Time Banks: A Qualitative Study Based in Shanghai

Julie Cahill

Thesis: A study of the social connections of young adults with experience of relative foster care in Ireland

Aoife Shannon

Thesis: Exploring the role of supervision in sustaining perinatal social work careers – the potential of an attachment theory lens

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Danielle Young

Thesis: After Yes: A Realist Synthesis and Evaluation of GP Provided Abortion Services in the Republic of Ireland

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Haocheng Shi

Growing Up Alone with Domestic Violence and Abuse: Risk and Protective Factors in Life-Course Transitions among China’s One-Child Policy Generation