Professor Robert Gilligan

Supervisor

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Professor Robert Gilligan

Professor Robert Gilligan Professor of Social Work & Social Policy & Global Director

Tel: +353 1 896 1331
Email: robbie.gilligan@tcd.ie

• Children and young people in public care
• The public care system and its adult stakeholders (carers, social workers, parents with children in care etc)
• Young adults who have left the care system
• The lived experience of young people / young adults living in marginalised or challenging circumstances in minority or majority world contexts
• Children, young people and disability experiences

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Current PhD Students (Working Titles)
García Albarrán, Eva. Interactions in the Early Years: An Exploratory Study Examining the Inclusion of Children with Autism in Primary Schools in Ireland (co-supervised with Dr Edurne García Iriarte).

Rong, Bao. The Lived Experience of  Migrant Mothers in China (co-supervised with Dr Catherine Conlon).

Whiting, Sinéad. Stability and Permanence in Long-term Foster Care – A Lived Experience Study of Young Adults.

Examples of PhDs Supervised to Completion
Labor, Melanie (2020). Young People's Understandings of Youth Suicide – A Qualitative Study (co-supervised with Geraldine Foley, TCD).

Brady, Eavan (2019). A Qualitative Life Course Study of the Educational Pathways of Care-experienced Adults.

Yorke, Louise (2018). “Maybe I will have a good life in the future …”: The Lives, Experiences and Choices of Rural Girls as they Negotiate Different Pathways to Urban Secondary Schools in Ethiopia.

Johnson, Derina (2018). Insecure Lives, Uncertain Futures: A Case Study of Undocumented and Displaced Young People from Myanmar Negotiating Education and Work in Northwest Thailand.

Spirtos, Michelle (2017). The Lived Experience of Disability During the Transition to Adulthood – A Study of Young people with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy.