Date: Thursday 13 February 2025
Time: 17.30 - 19.00
Location: TRiSS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin.
The sixth annual Sherie de Burgh commemorative seminar jointly hosted by One Family and the School of Social Work and Social Policy in Trinity College Dublin will explore the experiences of one-parent families in Ireland and reflect on their joint research, which illustrates a practice-to-policy approach and can be accessed here: Guidance on Contact Time for Infants and Young Children in Separated Families.
The theme for this year’s event is: Contact with Children Following Separation: Practice to Policy NGO–TCD Research Collaborations.
For further information and to register for this event please click here or on the image below.
Chair
Dr Catherine Conlon – Assistant Professor, Social Policy School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin.
Speakers
Andrew Munro – Head of Policy and Legislation for Civil Justice, Assistant Secretary General in the Department of Justice overseeing the development of the Family Justice Reform.
His Honour Judge Geoffrey Shannon – Former Law Society director and current Circuit Court judge, Dr Shannon was Special Rapporteur on Child Protection for the Irish Government 2006-19 and is the author independent report into historical child sex-abuse allegations in St John Ambulance 2023.
Geraldine Kelly – One Family’s Director of Parenting will speak about the research collaboration between One Family and the School of Social Work and Social Policy in TCD and how it illustrates a practice-to-policy approach.
Further information is available from Jennifer O'Toole, School of Social Work and Social Policy, TCD <Jennifer.OToole@tcd.ie>.