Kevin Lalor, B.A., PhD
Current research interests include the needs/views of young people towards delivery of services; experiences of adolescence; youth crime and victimisation; the role of child sexual abuse in HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.
Matt Bowden, B.A., PhD
Public Policy on Youth Crime, Urban Governance and Crime Prevention. Practice Strategies in Crime Prevention. Social Order and Social Cohesion. Networks in Public Policy.
Judy Doyle, MsC
Anthropology and the use of ethnomethodology as a method to collect data on minority culture groups, and marginalised communities; The Travelling Community, the importance of culture and cultural identity to children in State care, and on Women in minority culture groups. Examination of the equality principle of the Affective Domain to lives of children and young people who have; Lived in State Care, and Life After Care. Current survey on Irish Managers role in Social Care Work.
Carmel Gallagher, B.S., M. Soc, PhD
Research interest in older people in Irish society and was awarded a PhD by NUI Galway in 2006 for a study titled ‘The Participation of Older People in their Communities’. She was awarded a Senior Research Scholarship by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and the Social Sciences for this work in 2002. Her current research focus is examining key elements of social care practice in successful care settings for older people in Ireland
Gay Graham, M. Litt
Her area of major interest is residential child care.
Rosaleen McElvaney, B.A., MPsychSc, PhD
Child Sexual Abuse, Developmental Psychology, Insight events in Psychotherapy, Evaluation.
Ann McWilliams, M.Sc., B. Soc. Sc., C.Q.S.W., D.A.S.S., R.G. N.
Her current research interest concerns 'race' and ethnicity and the implication for long-term foster care in Ireland today.
Postgraduate Research Students:
Cathy Kelleher
Mary Kilkenny
Darrach Murphy