Dr Berni Kelly, Dr Sandra Dowling and Dr Karen Winter (QUB) This presentation will report on a study examining disabled looked after children in Northern… Read More »Addressing the over-representation of looked after children with mental health needs and/or disabilities in Northern Ireland
Dr Gavin Davidson (QUB) This presentation will use case examples to demonstrate how the proposed Mental Capacity Bill will provide a comprehensive framework for supported… Read More »How will the Mental Capacity (Health, Welfare and Finance) Bill work in practice?
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… 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
Professor Nigel J Mason (OU) The United Kingdom, like most of Europe, is struggling to attract its younger generation into Science Engineering Technology and Mathematics… Read More »Realising potential: Widening participation in Science and Technology
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 Ruth McAreavey (QUB) During the past two decades a predominant pattern of emigration has been reversed in Northern Ireland, as it became a destination… Read More »Poverty, ethnicity and international migrants to Northern Ireland: new opportunities or new vulnerabilities?
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