Sarah Donnelly

🥁 Join Us for the Launch & Capacity Building Event!

📌 25 June 2025
📍 11:00 AM, Room B109, Newman Building, UCD
🌮 Light lunch at 12:30 PM

Register by 13 June: forms.office.com/e/iBYzZai80s

We look forward to welcoming you!

🌐 We’re Live!

The UCD Ageing Network has officially launched its website! 🎉

🖥️ Visit us at: www.ucd.ie/geary/resear...
📬 Contact: ageing@ucd.ie

🔗 Join us on a journey and follow us for updates:
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#UCD #AgeingResearch #UCDGearyInstitute

Delighted to give a keynote speech on 'Upholding Autonomy and Human Rights for Older People Across Continuums of Care' at 9th Romanian Integrated Care Conference, Iasi this week @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Looking forward to the Irish Association of Social Workers #WSWD2025 Webinar today at 1pm GMT.
I'll be presenting with the wonderful Dr Catherine Elliott O'Dare on 'Adding Life to Years- Building Intergenerational Solidarity Across the Lifecourse for Sustainable Societies.' @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Excited to be in Munich for the European Conference for Social Work Research 2025!
Looking forward to presenting along with Kathyrn Mackay, University of Stirling on behalf of our Five Nations Carer Harm Working Group at today's SIG event @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Lovely to be in Ennis for Brothers of Charity Services Ireland Biannual Training Day. Delighted that today's focus was on Safeguarding in the context of Family Carers and to share best practice considerations when working with #CarerHarm @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

#Dublin #MondayMorning #SpringIsHere❤️

Yesterday I successfully defended my thesis at my PhD Viva in UCD! Thanks so much to @sarahmdonnelly1.bsky.social and Sarah Morton for your supervision and support over the past 6 years!! It's been a long road with highs and lows but am so grateful for the opportunity #phd @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Sincere thanks to External Examiner Prof. Grahame Simpson, Internal Examiner @elainewilson.bsky.social
Chair Dr Carmel Davies and Co-supervisor Sarah Morton.
It has been a pleasure and a privilege to supervise Phil and we are over the moon for her!🍾 🎉 🎆

Massive congratulations to Phil Butler @ucdspswsj.bsky.social
who successfully defended her PhD on 'Embracing the Misfit'- Supporting and Empowering Mothers with Acquired Brain Injury. A Feminist Participatory Action Research Study.
🍾🙌🥂🎉

Thought provoking presentation from Dr Tam Cane, University of Sussex on 'Transracial and Transcultural Placements: Changing our Approach to Practice' @ucdspswsj.bsky.social @profprosperatedam.bsky.social

Crisis in academia: ‘I love research, but I don’t see any security or stability in it’ Lack of funding, precarious work and intense competition mean the once-revered job of lecturing has become less attractive as a viable long-term career

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#CarerHarm @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Wonderful to be in University of Gent to act as PhD External Examiner to Nele Feryn's public defence of her thesis 'Social Work in Healthcare- The Pursuit of Social Justice' @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Family carers hiding harm by vulnerable relatives due to guilt and fears of State care

Very grateful to @ucddublin.bsky.social for helping to raise awareness of our Carer Harm research and findings @ucdspswsj.bsky.social
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Congratulations @profprosperatedam.bsky.social and colleagues- looking forward to reading👏👏👏

New publication from our #FiveNations Working Group "Carer harm: a challenge for practitioners, services and research", The Journal of Adult Protection, Vol. ahead-of-print #OpenAccess Available: doi.org/10.1108/JAP-... @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

Sincere thanks @griffinniamh.bsky.social @irishexaminer.bsky.social for also covering our Carer Harm Research and our awareness-raising webinar on Wednesday @ucdspswsj.bsky.social
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Many thanks to Patricia Messenger and Cork's 96fm & C103 for inviting me to talk about 'Why there must be more done to protect Family Carers in our Society.' You can listen back at:

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‘Perfect storm’ leading to higher levels of carer harm, say researchers Shrinking support services are putting family carers at risk

Many thanks @irishexaminer.bsky.social for their piece on our 'Understanding Carer Harm' study and for highlighting the significant challenges facing our Family Carers @ucdspswsj.bsky.social

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Places are filling up fast for our Carer Harm Webinar tomorrow 2pm GMT but there's still time to Register!⏬️

The very fact that our #OlderPeople are not deemed worthy enough to require a standalone Ministerial appointment speaks volumes about the low status given to our older citizens, their quality of life and well-being #Ageism

Exploring unintentional ‘carer harm’—Insights from family carers and professionals: An Irish case study Carer harm is when family carers experience harm from the person they are caring for. However, we know very little about this topic. We carried out nine in

Hot off the press: Exploring unintentional ‘carer harm’—Insights from family carers and professionals:An Irish case study, The British Journal of Social Work #OpenAccess @ucdspswsj.bsky.social Sincere thanks to our participants, Family Carers Ireland +coauthors. #CarerHarm
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European Network on Gerontological Social Work will host a webinar on 'Carer Harm: A Challenge for Practitioners, Services and Research.' Date: Wed 5th Feb
14:00 – 16:00 GMT / 15:00 – 17:00 CET
Registration: lnkd.in/ecuZNrs8. If you are unable to register via the link please email info@eswra.org.

Great job opportunity- see details below!

Really lookimg forward to this seminar today!

Findings from a European, cross-national project study on service user participation: Implications for social work policy, practice and education - Jim Campbell, Sarah Donnelly, Bláithín Gallagher, Gr... This article reports on a European project that sought to explore the relationships between social work and service user participation, using a five-country (Be...

Final publication of 2024! Findings from a European, cross-national project study on service user participation: Implications for social work policy, practice and education, International Social Work. @ucdspswsj.bsky.social
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Radical and critical social work Open access / Introductory reading

Please feel free to add any relevant #OpenAccess resources to the padlet below and share across your networks! 👇👇👇 #RadicalSocialWork #CriticalSocialWork
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The Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science Guide to Rights-Based Practice : An A-Z, from Advocacy to Zones of Influence Dive into the heart of social work in this pioneering A-Z reference guide which brings theory to life through the lived experience of social workers.Drawing on narrative accounts from a ...

Pre orders for ‘The Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science Guide to Rights Based Practice’ here. With all author profits to Stay Up Late at @gigbuddies.bsky.social

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Massive congratulations Dr Jennifer Allen on the conferring of your Doctor of Philosophy Degree this evening- we are so proud of you!🥳🎉🥂🥳 @ucddublin.bsky.social