Child and Family Research Centre: Recent submissions
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Building children's futures: Using children's rights to recover from the global pandemic: The children's report
(Children's Rights Alliance, 2024-02-28)[No abstract available] -
Empathy rules, maps and paths: A qualitative exploration of the factors that facilitate or inhibit empathy and prosocial responding among youth
(Wiley, 2023-08-25)The aim of this study is to explore young people's perspectives on the factors that facilitate or inhibit empathy and prosocial responding among youth. Qualitative focus groups (n = 29) were undertaken with Irish young ... -
Communication to promote and support physical distancing for COVID‐19 prevention and control
(Cochrane Collaboration, 2023-10-09)This review is an update of a rapid review undertaken in 2020 to identify relevant, feasible and effective communication approaches to promote acceptance, uptake and adherence to physical distancing measures for COVID‐19 ... -
Activating social empathy: An evaluation of a school-based social and emotional learning programme
(Elsevier, 2024-01-06)Previous evidence suggests that empathy is important for promoting positive youth development, and there is growing advocacy for the inclusion of empathy education within the school system. However, knowledge about the ... -
EPIC in action, measuring entrepreneurial competencies in higher education
(Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23), 2023-06)Increasingly university programmes are introducing a range of experiential learning based programmes to support students to develop their entrepreneurial competencies during their time at university. This paper describes ... -
Assessing life design and evaluating its impact on the learning experience: A conceptual overview and emergent framework based on the Designing Futures Programme at University of Galway, Ireland
(University of Galway, 2023-06-14)In complex and challenging times, with the increasing imperative to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, comes the call for new pedagogical approaches, which move education from a transactional to a reciprocal ... -
Designing futures through student engagement: A policy futures perspective
(SAGE Publications, 2023-06-12)Futures research is gaining increased prominence in educational research and development (Tesar, 2021), and particularly now as we emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has provided a lever for change and an ... -
Children’s perceptions of the skills needed to ‘fit in’ when starting school
(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 2019)Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at an increased risk of experiencing lower levels of school readiness. Ready children are children who can navigate both the social and academic tasks and challenges of ... -
Culture and parenting: Polish migrant parents’ perspectives on how culture shapes their parenting in a culturally diverse Irish neighbourhood
(Taylor and Francis, 2023-05-26)While it is now widely acknowledged that child-rearing practices vary culturally, there has been little research or consideration on how cultural difference is experienced by Polish immigrant parents in Ireland. This paper ... -
Youth mentoring as a supportive resource for young people involved with CAMHS: An exploratory study
(Foroige and UNESCO Child & Family Research Centre, 2022)Adolescence is an important developmental stage in which lasting patterns of health and wellbeing are established (Sawyer et al., 2012). Due to the social, mental and physical changes that occur during this transitional ... -
Youth suicide and self-harm: Latent class profiles of adversity and the moderating roles of perceived support and sense of safety
(Springer, 2023-03-24)Research suggests that exposure to adversity can lead to an increased risk of experiencing suicidal and self-injurious thoughts or behaviours, but few studies have examined whether different patterns of adversity are ... -
Language, terminology and representation relating to Ireland's institutions historically known as `Mother and Baby Homes', `County Homes' and related institutions: Summary report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, University of Galway, 2023)[No abstrract available] -
Language, terminology and representation relating to Ireland's institutions historically known as `Mother and Baby Homes', `County Homes' and related institutions
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, University of Galway, 2023)This report is based on a research study commissioned as a direct response to recommendations made in the First Report of the Collaborative Forum of Former Residents of Mother and Baby Homes and related Institutions ... -
Child, parent or family? Applying a systemic lens to the conceptualisations of Family Support in Europe
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-11-19)This paper considers how Family Support is conceptualised in the European context with respect to its primary beneficiaries. The central question considers the focus of concern in a child welfare system and what it means ... -
An analysis of Significant Event Notifications to inform Tusla's alternative care policy and practice developments
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland Galway, 2019-06)This report comprises an analysis of Significant Event Notifications to inform alternative care policy and practice. -
A framework for child and family support in Europe: Building comprehensive support systems
(European Family Support Network (EurofamNet), 2022-10)This policy briefing argues that the development and sustainability of family support policies and provisions are priority issues for European countries. As European countries navigate major challenges in current times ... -
Children’s participation in practice: comparing the views of managers and practitioners in an early intervention and prevention programme
(Emerald, 2022-03-17)Purpose Participation is the active involvement of children and young people in decision-making regarding issues that affect their lives. It is crucial in the context of child protection and welfare systems and how they ... -
Protective support and supportive protection: Critical reflections on safe practice and safety in supervision
(MDPI, 2022-07-18)This paper was based on a framework for practice and supervision based on `protective-support and supportive-protection¿ (PS-SP) that can be used to discuss and plan for practice in a way that maximises the capacity of ... -
The conceptualisation and delivery of family support in Europe: A review of academic literature
(European Family Support Network (EurofamNet), 2021-10)Even though children are active agents in their own right they remain a vulnerable group dependent on adults to protect, support, nourish and educate them. In certain circumstances and for a myriad of reasons, some ... -
School leaders and teachers’ perspectives on teaching and learning during Covid-19 (Project Brief 4), Crisis Coping-Marginalised young people’s living and learning experiences during Covid-19 in Ireland Project Brief Series
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and School of Education, NUI Galway., 2022)[No abstract available]