Fionnuala Casey

Dr Kevin Moore (Ulster): Worldwide demographic trends indicate an expansion in the older person population and an increasing need for home-based social care provision. At… Read More »To Keep a Person in Their Own Wee Corner: An Exploration of the Roles, Responsibilities and Services Provided by Home Helps and Domiciliary Care Workers in a Large Health and Social Care Trust

Jan Draper, George Kernohan and Aine MacNamara (OU and UU): In the United Kingdom, there are between 70,000 and 100,000 hospice volunteers, of whom half… Read More »The role of the hospice volunteer in two community settings

Dr Assumpta Ryan (Ulster): This presentation will bring together the findings from a range of qualitative and mixed methods studies on family caregiving and entry… Read More »A time of transition: family caregiving, older people and long-term care

Professor Pauric McGowan (UU), Dr Richard Blundel (OU) and Dr Kristen Reid (OU): Public policy statements on enterprise and entrepreneurship education have emphasised its importance… Read More »Delivering effective enterprise education – the role of learning design and technology

Professor Teresa Cremin (OU): This presentation is based on a comparative study funded by the European Union, which works across the four nations of the… Read More »Creative Little Scientists

Dr Anne Kouvonen, Dr Justyna Bell and Dr Michael Donnelly (QUB): This presentation will discuss our research in mental health and well-being of Polish migrants… Read More »We asked for workers, but human beings came’: Mental health and well-being of Polish migrants in Northern Ireland

Dr Johanne Devlin Trew (Ulster): Between 2004 and 2008, immigration to Northern Ireland rose to unprecedented numbers and the issue of how the newcomers could… Read More »Lost generations’? Taking the longer view on Northern Ireland migration

Dr Philip O’Sullivan (OU): This seminar will focus on environmental economics and policy. It will present the case that, despite the recent global economic downturn… Read More »Carbon, economic growth and unsustainability: the inevitable transition to a low carbon economy beyond GDP

Professor Greg Lloyd and Gavan Rafferty (Ulster): With the emerging Local Government (Reform) Bill, Community Planning offers an innovative way to consider how public services… Read More »Creating A Constructive Interface Between Community Planning and Land Use (Spatial) Planning