Recent staff publications

In-press

Farrell, D. (in press). Balancing formal and informal ways-of-caring: The individualisation and regularisation of social care practice in Ireland. In L. Cisar Browne & J. Hughes (Eds.), Contemporary figurations: Critical applications, extensions and revisions in figurational sociology. Palgrave.

Farrell, D. (in press). A long-term developmental perspective on social care in Ireland. In L. Byrne, J. O’Brien & L. Moran (Eds.), Sociology for social care in Ireland: Histories, identities and relationships. Bristol University Press.

Hanlon, N. (in press). Relational justice and relational pedagogy in social care education. In L. Byrne, J. O’Brien, & L. Moran (Eds.), Sociology for social care in Ireland: Histories, identities and relationships. Bristol University Press.

Murphy, K. (in press). Dyslexia in higher education: An ethnography in Irish universities. Berghahn Books. 

 

2026

Bowden, M. (2026). Gift Relationship. In R. A. List, H. K. Anheier, & S. Toepler (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (pp. 1–6). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99675-2_550-2 

Bowden, M. (2026). Rural criminology and criminological knowledge: From space and place to the global scale. International Journal of Rural Criminology, 10(1), 24–40. https://doi.org/10.18061/ijrc.6252 

Carthy, A., Dubiel, B., Mifsud, C., Gerulaitiene, E., Morales, L., & Gray, G. (2026). Educational integration for refugee children: Building an inclusive Europe. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/14788047261474452

Darcy, C. (2026). Assembling a Vignette of Irish Police Masculinities through Socio-Historical Rural Crime Research. The Journal of Historical Criminology, 2 (2), 131-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/4b74e090.7b41a802 

Darcy, C. and Ridge, J. (2026). On the Margins of Mainstream: a historical timeline of Irish Montessori education in the context of Irish primary curriculum. Education 3-13, 1-14. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1080/03004279.2026.2692711 

Fluke, J., ten Brummelaar, M., Houston, E. & Lalor, K. (2026). Ethical aspects of research on child abuse. In K. Lalor, J. Fluke, S. Dube & C. Katz (Eds.), The ISPCAN International Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect. Elsevier.

Goodman, M., Raman, S. & Lalor, K. (2026). Violence against children in street situations. In K. Lalor, J. Fluke, S. Dube & C. Katz (Eds.), The ISPCAN International Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect. Elsevier.

Hanlon, N. (2026). Reflections on Care and Masculinities. Journal of Social Care, 6.

Lalor, K., Fluke, J., Dube, S., Katz, K. & Tummala, P. (2026). Global perspectives: Introduction to the ISPCAN international handbook of child abuse and neglect. In K. Lalor, J. Fluke, S. Dube & C. Katz (Eds.), The ISPCAN International Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect. Elsevier.

Lalor, K., Fluke, J., Dube, S. & Katz, K. (Eds.). (2026). The ISPCAN International Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect. Elsevier.

Lasek-Markey, M. (2026). Posting of workers. In A. Biondi & O. Ștefan (Eds.), Elgar encyclopedia of European law. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885240.posting.workers

Lasek-Markey, M. (2026). Negotiating digitalised workplaces: Rights and obligations, Ireland. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. https://collections.fes.de/publikationen/content/titleinfo/1974380

McAnarney, L., & Fay, G. (2026). Navigating relationships in social care practice: Student experiences on placement in Ireland. Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies, 26(1), Article 4. https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijass/vol26/iss1/4

McGarr, J. & Fingleton, M. (2026). Is authentic assessment our only hope? Exploring the potential of the Integrative Framework for Social Care to address challenges posed by generative AI. Journal of Social Care, 5(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.21427/22a5-qv37

McGowan, D. (2026). Valuing care? ‘Proper provision’ in the Court. In N. McGrath and M. Coen (Eds.), The Irish Court of Appeal (pp. 136-151). Hart. 

Murphy, K. (2026). Seen butt unseen. In I. Burnell Reilly, M. Pierse, & S. Baker (Eds.), Notions: The lives of Irish working-class academics (pp. 139–155). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83708-034-220261010 

Ó Rálaigh, C. (2026). Northern Ireland 2025. Irish Political Studies, 41(2), 175–198. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2026.2683807

Ó Rálaigh, C. (2026). Interrogating the Interregnum. European Journal of Social Theory, 29(2), 207-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310251367363

Quantin, C., O’Leary, D., Shenderovich, Y., Batura, N., Broccia, M., Cottenet, J., Cowley, L. E., Graesholt-Knudsen, T., Lamela, D., Lalor, K., Jud, A., Hakkaart van Roijen, L., Fallesen, P., Nikolaidis, G., Ntinapogias, A., Nurmatov, U., Brophy, S., & SERENA Co-Author Group. (2026). Assessing and improving access to health and social care services for children rendered vulnerable by abuse: Protocol for a cross-sectoral longitudinal, mixed methods, multi-country study using nationwide data in Europe. International Journal of Population Data Science, 11(3), Article 3147. https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v11i3.3147

Søgaard, T. F., Andell, P., Coomber, R., Chomczyński, P., Bowden, M., Gundhus, H. O. I., Frąckowiak, P., Szykut, M., Tollin, K., Windle, J., Löfstrand, C. H., & Seal, M. (2026). Criminal exploitation and vulnerability in drug markets: A six-nation comparison of its recognition in international policy discourses and criminal justice systems. European Journal of Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708261427649 

Thorpe, C., Jennings, F., Shams, A., Chong, L. Y., Mir, K., Barry, B., McKeever, S., & Bowden, M. (2026). Building societal resilience against child grooming: A design thinking approach to understanding the problem and priorities. Children and Youth Services Review, 183, Article 108834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2026.108834 

 

2025

Bowden, M., & Meško, G. (Eds.). (2025). Rural criminology in global perspective: State of the art on the world’s continents. Bristol University Press.

Darcy, C. (2025). Police Records and Rural Crime in 1940s Ireland: The Challenges of Using Historical Documents as Primary Sources in Sociological Research. In Sage Research Methods Cases Part 1. SAGE Publications, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781036209124

Dartnall, E., Homan, S., Lalor, K., Silima, M. & Undie, C. (2025). Is ethical review a barrier to the publication of research on violence against women and children for low- and middle-income country researchers? Child Protection and Practice, (4).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chipro.2025.100120.

Fitzpatrick, A., Gallagher, C., Kernan, M. & Cortellesi, G. (2025). The TOY Project and Development of Intergenerational Learning Training in Europe. In E. F. Fideler (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Connections (pp. 279–294). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197750889.013.19

Fitzpatrick, A., & Halpenny, A. M. (2025). Educators as enablers of young children’s voice and agency in research: messages from an Irish study on Intergenerational Learning. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2025.2541327

Gallagher, C. (2025). Life to the Full: The Experience of Returned Irish Missionaries. Studies: An Irish quarterly review, number 456, 558-568.

Hanlon, N. (2025). Relational pedagogy in social care education: key insights from critical perspectives on intellectual disability. International Journal of Social Pedagogy, 14(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ijsp.2025.v14.x.015.

Harris, R. (2025). Exploring the Potential for Transformative Learning through Critical Reflection for Undergraduate Students of Applied Social Sciences undertaking Final Year Research Projects.  Irish Journal of Academic Practice, 13 (2), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.21427/a8h8-cz40

Hughes, N., & Bowden, M. (2025). Farm crime and trust in the Police in Ireland. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 27(3), 113–128. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41300-025-00227w

Hughes, N., & Bowden, M. (2025). Crime and safety in rural Ireland. In V. Ceccato & A. Harkness (Eds.), Crime, Peoples and Places: Perspectives on Rural Safety and Justice (pp. 118-127). Routledge.

Lynskey, O., Murphy, MH and Nolan, K. (2025). Digital Empire or Digital Fiefdoms? Institutional Tensions and the EU Right to Data Protection. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 26, 8-29.  https://doi.org/10.1017/cel.2025.10018  

McCarthy, S., Dubiel, B., & Carthy, A. (2025). Irish primary school teachers’ views on heritage language maintenance in plurilingual pupils. Irish Educational Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/03323315.2025.2561637  

McGowan, D. (2025).  Dependent spouses and ancillary relief - A Review of cases in the Superior Courts. The Irish Judicial Studies Journal, (1), 1-29. https://www.ijsj.ie/editions/2025-edition-1/

Molloy, N., Keogh, T., & Grey, B. (2025). The meaning of the child in an Irish context: Bringing the “why” into parenting capacity assessments. In B. Grey (Ed.), The meaning of the child interview: Making sense of parent–child relationships. Palgrave Macmillan.

Ní Chonaill, B., Lawlor, G & Shobayo, T. (2025). An Examination of the Experiences of People Affected by Racism and the Community Services they Engage with as they Seek Support and to Report. Dublin: Empower.

Nolan, K. (2025). Data protection's function in society: a search for the limits of a non-absolute right. European Journal of Law and Technology, 16(1). https://www.ejlt.org/index.php/ejlt/article/view/1090

Ó Rálaigh, C. (2025). Some contradictions of the welfare state: Revisited. Critical Social Policy, 45(3), 369-386. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241305557

Ó Rálaigh, C. (2025). The Irish general election of 2024: A battle lost before it was fought? Parliamentary Affairs, 78 (4), 857–875. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaf014

Ó Rálaigh, C. (2025). The South of Ireland during the interregnum: A Gramscian analysis of continuity and change. Politics. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957251368233

Royal-Dawson, L., Nolan, K., McNamee, E., O’Connor, L., Campbell, E., Pathé-Smith, A., Boyd, K., & Philpott, D. (2025). Colliding ideas: Artistic explorations of data surveillance and data protection. Internet Policy Review, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2025.4.2049

Vahey, N., Nicholson, E., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2025). A decade on: Reflecting on the limitations of the first meta-analysis of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure's (IRAP) criterion validity in the clinical domain. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 87, 102016.

Vahey, N., Lespine, L. F., Rueda-Delgado, L. M., Ruddy, K. L., Kiiski, H., Enz, N., ... & Whelan, R. (2025). Changes in inhibition-related brain function and psychological flexibility during smoking abstinence: A machine-learning prediction of time to relapse. European Addiction Research, 31 (2), 99-112.

Vertigans, S., Connolly, J., & Dolan, P. (2025). Forced to Live: Controlled Forced Feeding of Political Prisoners and the Challenge to Nation-States’ Civilising Processes. British Journal of Sociology, 76(3), 578-589.