Dr Simone McCaughren

Supervisor

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Dr Simone McCaughren

Dr. Simone McCaughren Assistant Professor, Social Work

Tel: +353 1 896 2627 Email: smccaugh@tcd.ie

Domestic and international adoption law, policy and practice including:

-Historical context of Ireland’s adoption landscape
-Post-adoption contact
-Adoption from care
-Search & reunion
-Experts by experience
-Ethics

• Children’s rights & the voice of the child
• Narrative methodology
• Inter-disciplinarity in teaching and learning
• Mature student learners & equal access to education
• Universal Design for Learning

Full Profile:
http://people.tcd.ie/Profile?Username=SMCCAUGH

Examples of PhDs Supervised to Completion

Williams, David (2014). Experiences of the Foster Care Process in the Republic of Ireland: Retrospective Accounts from Biological Children of Foster Carers.

Current PhD Students (Working Titles) – Please note these are students that I am continuing to supervise in University College Cork

PhD in Social Work – Understanding Motivation in Foster Care from the Experiential Perspectives of Foster Carers: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Due to complete 2020

PhD in Social Work – Adopted from Foster Care: The Meaning and Experience Adolescents and Young People Give to Participating in the Decision-making: A hermeneutic Phenomenological Study. Due to complete in 2021

Doctor of Social Science – An Exploration of Current Practices, Approaches and Attitudes to Religion in Residential Children’s Services. Due to complete in 2020

Doctor of Social Science – Adoption Reunions: Explorations of the Reunion Experiences of Irish Inter-country Adoptees. Due to complete in 2020