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’s research cluster, for example, has had significant impacts in terms of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs’ consultation mechanisms with children and young people; meanwhile, the Disability and Mental Health cluster’s activity has forged relationships with mental health and disability advocacy and activist groups, in exploring the meaning of activism within academia. The Institute’s 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’s 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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Kenny, T., Harris-Roxas, B., McHugh, S., Douglas, M. Green, L. Haigh, F., Purdy, J., Kavanagh, P. and O’Mullane, M. (2025) 'Routemap for health impact assessment implementation: scoping review using the consolidated framework for implementation research', Health Promotion International, Volume 40, Issue 3, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf080
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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. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2025.2590854 |
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Edwards, C., Kelleher, C., Daly, F., Loughnane, C., & O’Riordan, J. (2025). The politics of navigating complaint: asylum seekers and disabled people challenging care deficits in Ireland. International Journal of Care and Caring. https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2025D000000153
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Linehan C, Ní Laoire C, Gaffney C (2025) "Beyond a technical fix: reflecting on a feminist “Parallel” self-assessment approach to integrating gender into a large-scale scientific research project". Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-08-2024-0390
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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 https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-025-01255-x
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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. https://doi.org/10.4148/2161-4148.1133
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Martin, S., Horgan, D., & Looney, E. (2025) Migrant parents’ school involvement: extent, barriers and opportunities. Educational Research, 67(3), 385–405. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2025.2529240
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Ordóñez-Carabaño, Á., Rodríguez-Ventosa Herrera, E., Muñoz-San Roque, I., & Horgan, D. (2025). Intercultural values at school and children’s sense of belonging: IMMERSE project results. International Journal of Educational Research, 134, 102846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2025.102846
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Daly, F. and O’Riordan, 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: https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000029
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O’Neill, M. (2024) 'Journeying with Adorno: Passion, pathways and ethno-mimesis', Irish Journal of Sociology, 32(3), 252-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/07916035241295891
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Reynolds, T. Erel, U. and O’Neill, M. (2024) Special Issue on the Hostile Environment for Critical Social Policy.
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Edwards, C. and Loughnane, C. (2024) “‘Plenty of Disabled People Care’: Revealing Reciprocity and Interdependence in Disabled People’s Everyday Caregiving Practices.” Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research 26(1): 588–600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1182
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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.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2024.2372725
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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: https://hdl.handle.net/10468/15782
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Desmond, E. & O’Sullivan, S. (2024) 'Housing and the West Cork islands: a national crisis in microcosm',
Administration, 72 (2): 29–52 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:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/0/0
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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: Children and young people as research ... | Open Research Europe |
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| Kate N. O’Neill, Joshua A. Bell, George Davey Smith, Abigail Fraser, Laura D. Howe, Patricia M. Kearney, Oliver Robinson, Kate Tilling, Peter Willeit, and Linda M. O’Keeffe (2023) ‘Childhood socioeconomic position and sex-specific trajectories of metabolic traits across early life: prospective cohort study’ eBioMedicine 98: 104884 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104884 |
| (2023) 'Refugee and migrant children’s views of integration and belonging in school in Ireland – and the role of micro- and meso-level interactions', International Journal of Inclusive Education, DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2023.2222304 |
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| Dukelow, F., Scanlon, M., Busteed, E. and Whelan, J. (2025) Education first? Lone parents’ lived experience of the challenges and benefits of participating in higher education. Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, University College Cork. https://doi.org/10.33178/10468/17766 |
| Ní Laoire, C., Bilson, J., Byrne, O., Dorrity, C., Edwards, C., Honohan, C., MacÉinrí, P. and O’Brien, S. (2025) Enabling Diverse Student Voice in the University: 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: University College Cork. https://hdl.handle.net/10468/16851 |
| 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, University 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: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13957421 |
| 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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Hogan, E. and Jeffers, B. (2023)
A Sense of Freedom: Exploring everyday experiences of cycling in an Irish regional city. University College Cork.
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| Sharing the Caring: Young carers' experiences and access to supports in Ireland, March 2023. Family Carers Ireland. |
| 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’Mullane, M., and Ní 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. 105–124). Springer Nature https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89502-9_6 |
| Horgan, D., Martin, S., O’Riordan, 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. 187–206). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197654750.013.19 |
| O’Neill, M. and McHugh, C. (2024) Ethno-mimesis: using ethnography, participatort arts, walking and theatre in ethical research for change’ in Kara, H. The Bloomsbury Handbook of. Creative Methods.London: Bloomsbury Academic. |
| Martin, S. Horgan, D. Maier, R. and O’Riordan, J. (2023) 'Parental and professional perspectives on educational integration of migrant and refugee children in Ireland – Shirley Martin, Deirdre' In: Sobczak-Szelc, K. Pachocka, M. and Szałańska, 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). ‘Walking, Crime, Justice and Reintegration after Prison’, in: Walking as Critical Pedagogy. London: Routledge |
| Cullinane, M., O’Sullivan, S. and O’Connell, C. (2022) ‘Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Ireland: A Case Study’, Perrault, R. (Ed). Urban Regeneration: Methods, Implementation and Management. New York: Nova Science Publishers. |
| Fernández, 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) ‘Community Development, Policy Change and Austerity in Ireland’ 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) ‘Universal design for social inclusion: playgrounds for all’, 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) Could care co-operatives be an answer to Ireland's home care crisis? RTÉ Brainstorm, 25 March 2024. |
| Dukelow, F., Whelan, J. and Scanlon, M. (2024) ‘In Transit? Insights from the lived experience of lone parents claiming Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment’, 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. RTÉ Brainstorm. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24707334 |
| McNaull, G., Swirak,K., Cronin, J., Maruna, S., O’Neill, M. White, K. (2023) ‘Collaborating 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-University Partnerships,’ British Society of Criminology Newsletter, 91, pp. 20-24. |
| Dukelow, F. (2023) ‘In Transit? Documenting the lived experiences of welfare, working and caring for one parent families claiming Jobseeker's Transitional Payment’ (Guest Piece), Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) BULLETIN, 7 June 2023 Bulletin | PILA |
| Hogan, E. and Jeffers, B. (2023) YouTube video to launch SocioCyle research report and present key findings. Video accessible here |
| Desmond, E. with Bantry White, E. (2023) At Your Age?! theatre script |
| Edwards, C. and Harold, G. (2022) ‘Learning lessons from COVID-19: Exploring the potential of remote learning and working for young people with disabilities’ The AHEAD Journal https://ahead.ie/journal/Learning-lessons-from-COVID19-Exploring-the-potential-of-remote-learning-and-working-for-young-people-with-disabilities |
| Scanlon, M. and Martin, S. (2022) 'How migrant volunteering has benefits for everyone', 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.) |
| 'Three former prisoners create 'life after prison' map of Cork city', 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) ‘All you need to know about Marie Curie’, RTE Brainstorm. 7 Nov 2021. |
| GendeResearchIreland- Project Learnings and Insights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yF_IAs5fek |
| O'Connor, M. and Harold, G. (2021) ‘A 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’ Home in Ireland', ViewFinder Magazine (Special Issue on Home). 116: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/articles/young-migrants-home-in-ireland/ |
| 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) In Transit? 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 Émigré research team won the runner-up prize at the UCC-Pfizer Innovation through Teamwork awards, 2014. |
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