• Towards a more comprehensive understanding of fostering connections: The trauma-informed foster care programme: a mixed methods approach with data integration 

  Lotty, Maria; Bantry-White, Eleanor; Dunn-Galvin, Audrey (University of Victoria, 2022-04-21)

  Foster carers require high-quality training to support them in caring for children with trauma-related difficulties. This paper describes a mixed methods approach that was applied to evaluate the complex intervention ...
• Children’s right to be heard: identifying the barriers and enablers within a primary school context 

  O'Sullivan, Jane (Children's Research Network, 2019-02-27)
• Report of consultations with children on after-school care 

  Horgan, Deirdre; O'Riordan, Jacqui; Martin, Shirley; O'Sullivan, Jane (Department of Children and Youth Affairs, Government Publications, 2017)

  There has been an increasing focus on developing policy in the area of after-school care in Ireland in the past two years. In January 2015, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs announced the establishment of an ...
• Children and young people's experiences of participation in decision-making at home, in schools and in their communities 

  Horgan, Deirdre; Forde, Catherine; Parkes, Aisling; Martin, Shirley (Department of Children and Youth Affairs, 2015-06)

  The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which children and young people, aged 7-17 and living in contemporary urban and rural Ireland, are able to participate and influence matters affecting them in their homes, ...
• The social care needs of unaccompanied minors: the Irish experience 

  Horgan, Deirdre; Ní Raghallaigh, Muireann (Sage Publications, 2017-04)

  The practical and operational challenges of responding to disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis and hurricanes are well known. The recent decision by the UN Human Rights Council to commission research on best practices ...

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