DrMary Kennedy

14th European Conference For Social Work Research - Munich 2025

14th European Conference for Social Work Research - Munich 2025

Newspaper article relating to Kennedy et al. (2024) IHREC funded, SAOL commissioned research report completed by UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work & Social Justice researchers. Mary Kennedy was the lead researcher.

Anonymous peer review

Anonymous peer review

The joint UCD/Tusla Learning Forum is a collaboration between the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice at University College Dublin and the local Child and Family Agency teams in Dublin South East/Wicklow. The forum aims to allow Tusla practitioners to explore complex cases and issues they encounter in practice. The practitioners present the academics from UCD with a specific question or difficult practice topic. In response, the academics from the UCD School of Social Work source researchers and organisations to answer the practitioner's question. Tusla practitioners also present cases to the forum, and discussion and engagement from all participants are at the forefront of the learning initiative. One of the most beneficial aspects of the forum is that it brings together social work practitioners with UCD social work students. This type of shared learning environment enables the students to comprehend the issues social workers in child and family service encounter and how they react and respond to them. The event on November 3rd was the 7th Joint UCD/Tusla Learning Forum. The topic for this forum was as follows: What is the evidence base for Tusla social workers engaging perpetrators of domestic violence in everyday practice? The forum took place from 10-1 pm, with three speaker presentations. The first speakers were Lisa Brown from MOVE and John Doyle from MEND. These speakers discussed 'The evidence base for engaging male perpetrators in behavioural change'. The second speaker was Tusla social worker Paul Hickey, who outlined a complex case relating to the forum question. The last speaker was me, and I presented on 'The evidence base for engaging female perpetrators of domestic violence in everyday practice and the difficulties that social workers encounter in sourcing domestic violence supports in general.'

Member

Facilitation of symposium at the 8th National Child Protection & Welfare Conference (UCC, IASW & Tusla)

Facilitation of a workshop at the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) European Conference 2021.

Oral Presentation at the Health and Care Research Wales Conference

Oral Presentation at the 9th European Conference on Mental Health

Organiser and presenter at the Irish Association of Social Workers ACEs Associate Group, Academic and Practice Forum on Domestic Violence in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin.

Panellist at the Irish Association of Social Workers event at the Richmond Education Centre, 1 Brunswick St N, Smithfield, Dublin.

Organiser and presenter at the Irish Association of Social Workers ACEs Associate Group, Let’s get practical about Adverse Childhood Experience Seminar.

The Irish Association of Social Workers is the national professional body for social workers in the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1971 and has a membership of more than 1,700 social workers. The IASW is an active member of the International Federation of Social Workers, which represents professional social work associations from over 55 different countries with more than 350,000 social workers in all parts of the world.