A5047139504- Irish and British Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Data Analysis and Archiving
- Regional resilience and development
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Research in Social Sciences
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Rural development and sustainability
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Capital and Networks
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Virus-based gene therapy research
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
2025
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
2006-2022
Saveetha University
2021
University of Cambridge
2020
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Center
2020
Manchester University
2019
Healthcare Infection Society
2015
King's College Hospital
2015
Sciences Po Bordeaux
2008
Indiana University South Bend
1993
A multicentre survey was designed to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 outbreak on dental practice worldwide, estimate related symptoms/signs, work attitudes and behaviour routine use protective measures Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).A global using a standardized questionnaire with research groups from 36 countries designed. The developed pretested during April 2020 contained three domains: 1) data; 2) positive rate symptoms/signs presumably coronavirus; 3) Working conditions PPE adopted...
Previously, we showed that 3% (31/1032)of asymptomatic healthcare workers (HCWs) from a large teaching hospital in Cambridge, UK, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 April 2020. About 15% (26/169) HCWs with symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) also (Rivett et al., 2020). Here, show the proportion both and symptomatic testing rapidly declined to near-zero between 25th 24th May 2020, corresponding decline patient admissions COVID-19 during ongoing UK 'lockdown'. These data demonstrate...
Background One of the most common causes arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and/or graft (AVG) failure is thrombosis. Guidelines recommend early AVF salvage within 24–48 hours. Our institution reported poor compliance with these recommendations, a median 3 days prior to vascular access (VA) salvage. We present our initial results following implementation clinical practice improvement programme (CPIP) reduce delay VA Methods The CPIP was conducted in three phases: pre-CPIP (23 January 30 April...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected millions of people worldwide since its emergence in 2019. Knowing the potential capacity virus to adapt other species, serological surveillance SARS-CoV-2 infection susceptible animals is important. Hong Kong and Seoul are two Asia’s most densely populated urban cities, where companion often live close contact with humans. Sera collected from 1040 cats 855 dogs during early phase pandemic were tested for antibodies...
This article demonstrates the use of a reflexive lifeline instrument within study oriented towards documenting and explaining resilience from sociological perspective. Informed by both life course biographical perspectives, our research design comprised two interviews incorporating recursive co-construction participant’s lifeline. We aimed to meet three objectives with this method: (1) collect accurate retrospective data about timing lives; (2) garner that allowed us explore lives as wholes...
Thirty‐seven families whose children were victims of sexual abuse by a non‐family member evaluated and treated during nine‐month period. The average age the was 5.36 years. youngest boys, all adolescents girls. A theoretical framework adapted from Ferreira's Byng‐Hall's work developed to assess treat child molestation their families. format consists three concepts. First, trauma abuse, being outside realm usual human experience, creates breach in family's adaptive protective shield,...
The article presents a retrospective qualitative longitudinal analysis of experiences education and class amongst three cohorts Irish people who started out in difficult financial circumstances. It shows how the intersection class-formation modern Ireland was ‘realized’ different historical periods during 20th century. Some groups accumulated economic cultural resources allowing them to convert upward social mobility key periods, whereas others were ‘shut out’ from project state. We argue...
This article examines the changing texture of intergenerational relationships in Ireland. Focusing on young child as ‘anchor’ generation, we traced changes quality and significance grandchild–grandparent across four birth cohorts, through a secondary analysis two major qualitative longitudinal datasets made available by Irish Qualitative Data Archive. The describes how addressed challenges associated with bringing these into dialogue.
Internationally, in-work benefits (IWBs) are widely adopted as a measure to assist parents transitioning work and ‘make pay’ for low-income families. The family income supplement (FIS) is an Irish IWB, introduced at time of rapid societal change. This article shows how changing dynamics, shift in policy focus towards ‘work-first’ approach, challenged the original values underlying FIS. We discuss FIS context changes life social policy. then outline results ten interviews with experts using...
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the interactions amongst family, household and extended kin through an examination of two ‘circulations’ children within rural Irish communities during first half twentieth century: (1) daily journey from home to school; (2) going live with relatives other than parents. Drawing on life-history narratives, article develops a new perspective stem-family system in Ireland by showing how ‘incomplete’ family households formed integral parts local kinship circles were...
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between gender composition and rural household strategies in Cavan, a county north-central Ireland, during first half of 19th century. I show that ratio adult females to males was highest small farm households depended for their survival on intensively deployed family labour agriculture, flax-cultivation spinning. By contrast, without land or with micro-holdings relied income from men's employment as agricultural labourers, supplemented by...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has affected millions of people worldwide since its emergence in 2019. The current global pandemic was driven by human-to-human transmission. Knowing the zoonotic origin disease and potential capacity virus to adapt other species, it is important understand extent natural SARS-CoV-2 infection animals, particular cats dogs households that are direct contact with their owners. Hong Kong Seoul two most densely-populated urban cities...
In-work benefits (IWBs) are important in ‘making work pay’ for many low-income families. We consider the adequacy of Family Income Supplement (FIS) Irish lone parents transitioning from social protection to paid employment. Drawing on interviews with and stakeholders, FIS enables some meet basic needs move towards financial independence, there were also difficulties, financially better off remaining protection. There is a need, either significant changes or introduction an alternative IWB...