🥁 Join Us for the Launch & Capacity Building Event! 📌 25 June 2025 📍 11:00 AM, Room B109, Newman Building, UCD 🌮 Light lunch at 12:30 PM Register by 13 June: forms.office.com/e/iBYzZai80s We look forward to welcoming you!

🌐 We’re Live! The UCD Ageing Network has officially launched its website! 🎉 🖥️ Visit us at: www.ucd.ie/geary/resear... 📬 Contact: [email protected] 🔗 Join us on a journey and follow us for updates: www.linkedin.com/in/ucd-agein... bsky.app/profile/ucda... #UCD #AgeingResearch #UCDGearyInstitute

Delighted to give a keynote speech on 'Upholding Autonomy and Human Rights for Older People Across Continuums of Care' at 9th Romanian Integrated Care Conference, Iasi this week @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Looking forward to the Irish Association of Social Workers #WSWD2025 Webinar today at 1pm GMT. I'll be presenting with the wonderful Dr Catherine Elliott O'Dare on 'Adding Life to Years- Building Intergenerational Solidarity Across the Lifecourse for Sustainable Societies.' @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Excited to be in Munich for the European Conference for Social Work Research 2025! Looking forward to presenting along with Kathyrn Mackay, University of Stirling on behalf of our Five Nations Carer Harm Working Group at today's SIG event @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Lovely to be in Ennis for Brothers of Charity Services Ireland Biannual Training Day. Delighted that today's focus was on Safeguarding in the context of Family Carers and to share best practice considerations when working with #CarerHarm @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

#Dublin #MondayMorning #SpringIsHere❤️

Yesterday I successfully defended my thesis at my PhD Viva in UCD! Thanks so much to @sarahmdonnelly1.bsky.social and Sarah Morton for your supervision and support over the past 6 years!! It's been a long road with highs and lows but am so grateful for the opportunity #phd @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Massive congratulations to Phil Butler @ucdspswsj.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD on 'Embracing the Misfit'- Supporting and Empowering Mothers with Acquired Brain Injury. A Feminist Participatory Action Research Study. 🍾🙌🥂🎉

Thought provoking presentation from Dr Tam Cane, University of Sussex on 'Transracial and Transcultural Placements: Changing our Approach to Practice' @ucdspswsj.bsky.social @profprosperatedam.bsky.social

#CarerHarm @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Wonderful to be in University of Gent to act as PhD External Examiner to Nele Feryn's public defence of her thesis 'Social Work in Healthcare- The Pursuit of Social Justice' @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Very grateful to @ucddublin.bsky.social for helping to raise awareness of our Carer Harm research and findings @ucdspswsj.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Congratulations @profprosperatedam.bsky.social and colleagues- looking forward to reading👏👏👏

New publication from our #FiveNations Working Group "Carer harm: a challenge for practitioners, services and research", The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print #OpenAccess Available: doi.org/10.1108/JAP-... @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Sincere thanks @griffinniamh.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social for also covering our Carer Harm Research and our awareness-raising webinar on Wednesday @ucdspswsj.bsky.social www.msn.com/en-ie/news/n...

Many thanks to Patricia Messenger and Cork's 96fm & C103 for inviting me to talk about 'Why there must be more done to protect Family Carers in our Society.' You can listen back at: embed.acast.com/$/4c53ef4c-6...

Many thanks @irishexaminer.bsky.social for their piece on our 'Understanding Carer Harm' study and for highlighting the significant challenges facing our Family Carers @ucdspswsj.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Places are filling up fast for our Carer Harm Webinar tomorrow 2pm GMT but there's still time to Register!⏬️

The very fact that our #OlderPeople are not deemed worthy enough to require a standalone Ministerial appointment speaks volumes about the low status given to our older citizens, their quality of life and well-being #Ageism

Hot off the press: Exploring unintentional ‘carer harm’—Insights from family carers and professionals:An Irish case study, The British Journal of Social Work #OpenAccess @ucdspswsj.bsky.social Sincere thanks to our participants, Family Carers Ireland +coauthors. #CarerHarm doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...

European Network on Gerontological Social Work will host a webinar on 'Carer Harm: A Challenge for Practitioners, Services and Research.' Date: Wed 5th Feb 14:00 – 16:00 GMT / 15:00 – 17:00 CET Registration: lnkd.in/ecuZNrs8. If you are unable to register via the link please email [email protected].

Great job opportunity- see details below!

Really lookimg forward to this seminar today!

Final publication of 2024! Findings from a European, cross-national project study on service user participation: Implications for social work policy, practice and education, International Social Work. @ucdspswsj.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Please feel free to add any relevant #OpenAccess resources to the padlet below and share across your networks! 👇👇👇 #RadicalSocialWork #CriticalSocialWork padlet.com/Cuskellk/rad...

Pre orders for ‘The Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science Guide to Rights Based Practice’ here. With all author profits to Stay Up Late at @gigbuddies.bsky.social www.whsmith.co.uk/Product/Vari...

Massive congratulations Dr Jennifer Allen on the conferring of your Doctor of Philosophy Degree this evening- we are so proud of you!🥳🎉🥂🥳 @ucddublin.bsky.social

Nearly 22%population of Ireland is disabled. Thousands of disabled people cannot access appropriate housing. The right to live independently is not equally available in Ireland, despite State’s ratification of UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities housingireland.ie/making-inclu...

‘We need a cultural revolution’: femicide victim’s family seek change in Italy www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Congratulations @drmuireann.bsky.social and co authors on this new publication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A positive story of using AI, technology and strong stakeholder engagement to come up with innovative solutions with and for older adults. Well done to the School of Health & Human Performance in @dublincityuni.bsky.social & colleagues. 🧪 #HealthResearchMatters www.dcu.ie/shhp/news/20...

www.theguardian.com/wellness/art... #SocialConnection #SocialBeings #HolisticHealth #SocialHealth

Colleagues from across the Graduate Programmes in the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice are looking forward to participating in the UCD Social Sciences and Law Graduate Webinar on Tuesday 27th November (tomorrow) at 1.15pm See registration details⬇️

In 2019, as Health Minister Simon Harris committed to introducing #AdultSafeguarding legislation to help address the huge gaps in our ability to protect those most vulnerable at the #FallingThroughTheCracks Report launch commissioned by @colettek.bsky.social - this still hasn't happened #GE2024

Our Taoiseach's commitment to #carers #OlderPeople and #Children and #Adults with a #Disability have been tokenistic and insulting. For example, #WastedLives Report, no legislative commitment to Disability Assessment of needs and still no Statutory #Homecare Scheme... #GE2024

The association between loneliness and frailty among community-dwelling older adults in five European countries: a longitudinal study academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

'More than 1,900 parents over the age of 70 are currently caring for their intellectually disabled sons and daughters at home.471 are in their 80s and 90s.' Excellent forensic analysis of key issues relating to Disability Sector from Ailbhe Conneely #GE2024 www.rte.ie/news/electio...

Giving voice by doing with not doing through: Collaborating with #tactile #SignLanguage #interpreters in interpretative phenomenological analysis research involving older #deafblind people journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

PRU practical guide to writing policy briefs has been downloaded 10.000 x from #OpenScienceFramework osf.io/preprints/os... It makes it easy to communicate relevant evidence to policy decision makers jointly developed by @nihr-pru-bass.bsky.social & @ucl-cbc.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social

Just👀 designed copy of the @tlap.bsky.social report on making events more inclusive 🙌One of 3 publications in partnership with @socialcarefuture.bsky.social Based on interviews & research by the wonderful @angelacat.bsky.social. Full report &practical tools out Weds! Making payments paper out after

As social workers in England complete their reflections on continuing professional development (cpd) for professional registration, here are my fundings on the emotional experience of cpd. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The benefits of a 4 day week has been shown to have so many positive outcomes. #Ge24 Delighted to see work of Orla Kelly @ucddublin.bsky.social @UCDSocialPWJ cited in this article. @thejournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/four-...

ALONE Ireland are recommending Government provide for the creation of a Commissioner for Ageing and Older People with funding of a €1.2m in the initial year, followed by €3.9 million per annum in subsequent years #GE2024

Disgraceful behaviour from Taoiseach Simon Harris which typifies our current Government's complete apathy and abject disregard for #FamilyCarers those living with a #Disability and #OlderPeople www.thejournal.ie/simon-harris...

Another article just published from the Older Ahead @nihr.bsky.social funded project. Not the lightest read, sadly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Such a great and different take on how to show and share a research project, with a fantastic range of submissions too. Tired of Spinning Plates is about family carers, with an online exhibition space - link below - where people shared their experiences. #carer #disability #siblings #academia

“‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers” - Emma Russell www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The Health and Social Care Professions Alliance (HSCPA) #SafeStaffingNow campaign for the upcoming General Election 2024