ISS21 has developed a reputation for impactful social science research, through its academic outputs in the form of peer-reviewed articles, books and reports, as well as impacts which include forging relationships with external bodies (policymakers, government departments, and community organisations), contributing to policy change, and working with local community groups around different interest areas. Work emerging from the Children and Young People鈥檚 research cluster, for example, has had significant impacts in terms of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs鈥� consultation mechanisms with children and young people; meanwhile, the Disability and Mental Health cluster鈥檚 activity has forged relationships with mental health and disability advocacy and activist groups, in exploring the meaning of activism within academia. The Institute鈥檚 hosting of workshops, events, and seminars, some of which have been co-hosted with external organisations, and have been open to the public, bear witness to the wide, and varied, impacts of ISS21鈥檚 work.
Further details on how the Institute seeks to develop, sustain and enhance impactful research are set out in the ISS21 Impact Case Study
Listed below are selected publications and outputs from ISS21 affiliated projects. Outputs for individual projects are available on project pages in our reseach section - Research Projects
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Windle, J. and Cronin, J. (2026) International Journal of Drug Policy , 151 , 105244.
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Morgenthaler, T., Loebach. J., Lynch, H., Pentland, D., Kottorp, A., & Schulze, C. (2025) 'Developing the playground play value and usability audit (PVUA) tool: An evaluation of content validity via an expert panel', Children, Youth and Environments, 35(2), 93-122.
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Kenny, T., Harris-Roxas, B., McHugh, S., Douglas, M. Green, L. Haigh, F., Purdy, J., Kavanagh, P. and O鈥橫ullane, M. (2025) 'Routemap for health impact assessment implementation: scoping review using the consolidated framework for implementation research', Health Promotion International, Volume 40, Issue 3,
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| O'Mullane, M., Kenny, T., Nash, K., Ryan, M., Fitzsimons, J., Connolly, B., Green, L., Purdy, J., Cave, B. and Harris-Roxas, B. (2025) 'Undertaking the first health impact assessment on a city development plan in Ireland: a case study', Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. |
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Edwards, C., Kelleher, C., Daly, F., Loughnane, C., & O鈥橰iordan, J. (2025). The politics of navigating complaint: asylum seekers and disabled people challenging care deficits in Ireland. International Journal of Care and Caring.
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Linehan C, N铆 Laoire C, Gaffney C (2025) "Beyond a technical fix: reflecting on a feminist 鈥淧arallel鈥� self-assessment approach to integrating gender into a large-scale scientific research project". Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal.
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Martin, S. and Scanlon, M. (2025) 'Volunteering as a pathway to integration and belonging: migrant experiences in Ireland', SN Social Sciences 5, 206
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Nic Dhomhnaill, E. and Lotty, M. (2025) 'Trauma-Informed Care in Education: Reflecting on School-led Interventions to Foster Community Resilience', International Journal of School Social Work. Vol. 11: Iss. 3.
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Martin, S., Horgan, D., & Looney, E. (2025) Migrant parents鈥� school involvement: extent, barriers and opportunities. Educational Research, 67(3), 385鈥�405.
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Ord贸帽ez-Caraba帽o, 脕., Rodr铆guez-Ventosa Herrera, E., Mu帽oz-San Roque, I., & Horgan, D. (2025). Intercultural values at school and children鈥檚 sense of belonging: IMMERSE project results. International Journal of Educational Research, 134, 102846.
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Daly, F. and O鈥橰iordan, J. (2024) Intersecting vulnerabilities and compounded risks of women asylum seekers working in care during COVID-19 in Ireland, International Journal of Care and Caring, p1-18 DOI:
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O鈥橬eill, M. (2024) 'Journeying with Adorno: Passion, pathways and ethno-mimesis', Irish Journal of Sociology, 32(3), 252-271.
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Reynolds, T. Erel, U. and O鈥橬eill, M. (2024) Special Issue on the Hostile Environment for Critical Social Policy.
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Edwards, C. and Loughnane, C. (2024) 鈥溾�楶lenty of Disabled People Care鈥�: Revealing Reciprocity and Interdependence in Disabled People鈥檚 Everyday Caregiving Practices.鈥� Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 26(1): 588鈥�600. DOI:
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Lotty, M., Kearns, N., & Frederico, M. (2024) Integrating Trauma-informed Practices in Child Welfare: A Process Study of Trauma-informed Care Graduate Education.
Journal of Child Public Welfare, 1-27.
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McCormack, L., Campbell, N. and Lotty, M. (2024) 'Trauma in the foster care system: finding positive ways forward in practice', Foster, 2024(15), pp. 54-63. Available at:
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Desmond, E. & O鈥橲ullivan, S. (2024) 'Housing and the West Cork islands: a national crisis in microcosm',
Administration, 72 (2): 29鈥�52 doi: 10.2478/admin-2024-0010
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RIFNET: Reconstituting the Irish Family Research Network special issue of
The History of the
Family (2024). The journal presents five articles on the history of the family by Leanne Calvert, Shannon Detling, Deirdre Foley, Tom Hulme and Mo Moulton, in addition to the introduction. Available at:
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| Martin, S. Horgan, D. and Maier, R. (2024) 'Children and young people as research collaborators in a large-scale migration research project'. Open Research Europe, 4 (174):1-13. Available at: |
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| Kate N. O鈥橬eill, Joshua A. Bell, George Davey Smith, Abigail Fraser, Laura D. Howe, Patricia M. Kearney, Oliver Robinson, Kate Tilling, Peter Willeit, and Linda M. O鈥橩eeffe (2023) 鈥楥hildhood socioeconomic position and sex-specific trajectories of metabolic traits across early life: prospective cohort study鈥� eBioMedicine 98: 104884 |
| (2023) 'Refugee and migrant children鈥檚 views of integration and belonging in school in Ireland 鈥� and the role of micro- and meso-level interactions', International Journal of Inclusive Education, DOI: |
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| Dukelow, F., Scanlon, M., Busteed, E. and Whelan, J. (2025) Education first? Lone parents鈥� lived experience of the challenges and benefits of participating in higher education. Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork. |
| N铆 Laoire, C., Bilson, J., Byrne, O., Dorrity, C., Edwards, C., Honohan, C., Mac脡inr铆, P. and O鈥橞rien, S. (2025) Enabling Diverse Student Voice in the 深夜亚洲福利久久: A Case Study of the Access UCC Ambassador Programme. Cork: UCC Access & ISS21, UCC |
| O'Mullane, M., Kenny, T., Nash, K., Ryan, M., O'Mahony, K. and Fitzsimons, J. (2024) 'Report of the Health Impact Assessment on the Core Strategy of the Cork City Development Plan (2022-2028)'. Cork: 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork. |
| Power, C. and Crowley, C. (2024) Supporting older people to age well at home: Assessing the potential of care co-operatives in Ireland Centre for Co-operative Studies, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork. |
| Buckley, M. & Busteed, E. (2024) Pathways to Stable Housing for Parents & Children Exiting Residential Services. Cork: UCC. |
| MacQuarie, J.-C. (2024). Policy Brief: 'Out of sight, Not out of mind: Precarity in Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland'. Available at: |
| Scanlon, M., Hogan, E., Martin, S. and Powell, F. (2024) Promoting Youth Volunteering in Ireland: Current Practice and Ways Forward. Report for the Department of Rural and Community Development. |
| Martin, S., Desmond, E. and Scanlon, M. (2024) Volunteer Recognition: Developing Questions for the Irish Census on Formal and Informal Volunteering. Report for the Department of Rural and Community Development. |
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Edwards, C., Daly, F., Kelleher, C., Loughnane, C. and O鈥橰iordan, J. (2023) CareVisions: Re-Envisioning a Care-Centred Society in Ireland Beyond COVID-19. Cork: 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork.
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Hogan, E. and Jeffers, B. (2023)
: Exploring everyday experiences of cycling in an Irish regional city. 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork.
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| ISL HEALTH Research Report (Sept. 2023) Key findings and recommendations from a project aiming to support the effective implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 in public healthcare settings (2023) |
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| O鈥橫ullane, M., and N铆 Laoire, C. (2025). 'Through the Lens of Critical Actors: Embedding Gender Equality in Irish Universities Through the Athena Swan Ireland Charter.' In L. McIlrath, L. Leeson, H. Maher, & M. Connolly (Eds.), Transforming Gender Equality and Inclusion Within Higher Education in Ireland (pp. 105鈥�124). Springer Nature |
| Horgan, D., Martin, S., O鈥橰iordan, J., Maier, R., & The IMMERSE Children (2025). Migrant children as co-constructors and advisors in research. In The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children (pp. 187鈥�206). Oxford 深夜亚洲福利久久 Press. |
| Lynch, H., Jansens, R., & Prellwitz, M. (2024). Having a say in places to play- children with disabilities, voice, participation. In: K. Bishop & K. Dimoulias (eds). Routledge Handbook on the Influence of Built Environments of Diverse Childhoods. UK: Routledge. |
| O鈥橬eill, M. and McHugh, C. (2024) Ethno-mimesis: using ethnography, participatort arts, walking and theatre in ethical research for change鈥� in Kara, H. The Bloomsbury Handbook of. Creative Methods.London: Bloomsbury Academic. |
| Martin, S. Horgan, D. Maier, R. and O鈥橰iordan, J. (2023) 'Parental and professional perspectives on educational integration of migrant and refugee children in Ireland 鈥� Shirley Martin, Deirdre' In: Sobczak-Szelc, K. Pachocka, M. and Sza艂a艅ska, J (eds). The Integration of Refugees in the Education and Labour Markets Between Inclusion and Exclusion Practices. London: Routledge. |
| Swirak, K., Kenny, T., O'Rourke, P. and Purcell, K. forthcoming, 2024). 鈥榃alking, Crime, Justice and Reintegration after Prison鈥�, in: Walking as Critical Pedagogy. London: Routledge |
| Cullinane, M., O鈥橲ullivan, S. and O鈥機onnell, C. (2022) 鈥楽ustainable Urban Regeneration in Ireland: A Case Study鈥�, Perrault, R. (Ed). Urban Regeneration: Methods, Implementation and Management. New York: Nova Science Publishers. |
| Fern谩ndez, E., Kitching, K and Horgan, D. (2022) 'School Food Policy in Ireland: What Can We Learn from What 11-year-olds Think of Food?', In R. Dorte, I. Torres and D. Powell (eds.) School Food, Equity and Social Justice: Critical Reflections and Perspectives. London: Routledge. |
| Horgan, D. and Martin, S. (2021) 'Children's research advisory groups: Moving from adult-research agendas to co-creation with children', in: D. Horgan and D. Keenan (eds). Child and Youth Participation in Policy, Practice and Research. London: Routledge. |
| Forde, C. (2020) 鈥楥ommunity Development, Policy Change and Austerity in Ireland鈥� in S. Todd and J. Drolet (eds) Community Practice and Social Development in Social Work. New York: Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-6969-8_18 |
| Prellwitz, M. and Lynch, H. (2018) 鈥楿niversal design for social inclusion: playgrounds for all鈥�, in: M. Twomey and C. Carroll (eds.) Seen and Heard: Exploring Participation, Engagement and Voice for Children with Disabilities. Oxford: Peter Lang. |
| Day, M. R., McCarthy, G. and Fitzpatrick, J. (eds.)(2017) Self-Neglect in Older Adults: A Global, Evidence-Based Resource for Nurses and Other Healthcare Providers. New York: Springer. |
| Powell, F. and Scanlon, M. (2015) Dark Secrets of Childhood: Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals. Bristol: Policy Press. |
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| Power, C. and Crowley, C. (2024) RT脡 Brainstorm, 25 March 2024. |
| Dukelow, F., Whelan, J. and Scanlon, M. (2024) 鈥業n Transit? Insights from the lived experience of lone parents claiming Jobseeker鈥檚 Transitional Payment鈥�, PublicPolicy.ie February 13, 2024. Jobseeker's_Transitional_Payment.pdf (publicpolicy.ie) |
| In January 2024 the PRECNIGHTS project unveiled a series of comic strips about women nightworkers in Dublin and Cork, available on the PRECNIGHTS website. |
| MacQuarie, J.-C. (2023). Meet the invisible work force: women migrant nightworkers in Ireland. RT脡 Brainstorm. |
| McNaull, G., Swirak,K., Cronin, J., Maruna, S., O鈥橬eill, M. White, K. (2023) 鈥楥ollaborating Across Prison Walls and Borders: Co-creating an All-Island Curriculum that Builds Empathy and Mutual Understanding between Diverse Communities of North and South of Ireland Prison-深夜亚洲福利久久 Partnerships,鈥� British Society of Criminology 深夜亚洲福利久久letter, 91, pp. 20-24. |
| Dukelow, F. (2023) 鈥業n Transit? Documenting the lived experiences of welfare, working and caring for one parent families claiming Jobseeker's Transitional Payment鈥� (Guest Piece), Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) BULLETIN, 7 June 2023 |
| Hogan, E. and Jeffers, B. (2023) YouTube video to launch SocioCyle research report and present key findings. Video accessible |
| Desmond, E. with Bantry White, E. (2023) At Your Age?! theatre script |
| Edwards, C. and Harold, G. (2022) 鈥楲earning lessons from COVID-19: Exploring the potential of remote learning and working for young people with disabilities鈥� The AHEAD Journal |
| Scanlon, M. and Martin, S. (2022) '', RTE Brainstorm, 24 May 2022 |
| McGlynn, M. (2022) 'Retrofit scheme "not enough" for low income, energy poor households', Irish Examiner, 9 February 2022. (Article reporting the findings of the ENERGISE research project.) |
| '', in the Irish Examiner, 22 December 2022 (Article on the ISS21-affiliated 'Clean Slate' project) |
| McCarthy, O. and Amato, A. (2021) 'Why retrofitting homes will be difficult for low income households', RTE Brainstorm, 8 November 2021. |
| O'Mullane, M. (2021) 鈥楢ll you need to know about Marie Curie鈥�, RTE Brainstorm. 7 Nov 2021. |
| GendeResearchIreland- Project Learnings and Insights |
| O'Connor, M. and Harold, G. (2021) 鈥楢 Milestone for Access for Deaf Irish Sign Language Users', The Ahead Journal: A Review of Inclusive Education & Employment Practices, Issue 12. |
| Fathi, M. (2020) 'Young Migrants鈥� Home in Ireland', ViewFinder Magazine (Special Issue on Home). 116: |
| Scanlon, M., Hogan, E., Martin, S. and Powell, F. (2024) Youth Volunteering Toolkit: Guidelines for Volunteer Involving Organisations & Volunteer Centres. Report for the Department of Rural and Community Development. |
| Information Booklet on Jobseeker's Transitional Payment (JST) (2023) project teams & One Family. |
| Harold, G. (2021) Providing Access for Deaf Irish Sign Language Users: Guidance for Public Bodies. Available here |
| GENOVATE Tools - a set of tools for supporting the implementation of gender equality actions developed through the GENOVATE project. |
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| ISS21 Director, Dr Claire Edwards, was awarded the UCC Staff Recognition Award for Leadership, 2020. |
| The ISS21-affiliated Living Well With The Dead In Contemporary Ireland project was awarded the UCC Research Team of the Year, 2019. |
| Dr Carol Kelleher received the Early Stage Researcher of the Year Award in 2019. Dr. Kelleher has led several ISS21-affiliated projects and is co-convenor of the CARE21 Research Cluster. |
| The ISS21 GENOVATE project received the UCC Research Team of the Year award, 2017. |
| Niall Dunphy, leader of the ISS21-affiliated ENTRUST consortium, received a UCC Staff Recognition Award for Leadership in 2016. |
| The UCC Research Team of the Year was awarded to Child Care Proceedings in the District Court (team from ISS21, Applied Social Studies and Law), 2016. |
| The ISS21-affiliated 脡尘颈驳谤茅&苍产蝉辫;research team won the runner-up prize at the UCC-Pfizer Innovation through Teamwork awards, 2014. |
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