Suzanne Flynn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 752052 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Suzanne Flynn |
| NOMBRES | Suzanne |
| APELLIDO | Flynn |
| FIRMA | FLYNN S |
| AFILIACIONES | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2807-0866 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 120 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Lexical vs. structural cue use in L2 prediction
This study examines whether second language (L2) sentence processing is governed by the same underlying mechanisms as native language processing or whether it relies on qualitatively distinct mechanisms. Using the visual-world paradigm and permutation analyses, we compared native English speakers and Japanese second language (L2) learners of English in processing globally ambiguous filler-gap dependencies (e.g., Where did Lizzie tell someone that…
Pathways to Help-Seeking
Research demonstrates a higher prevalence of intimate partner abuse perpetrated against disabled women, than for their majority-population non-disabled peers. Compounding this disadvantage, are disability-specific barriers to help-seeking including the lack of accessible and inclusive domestic violence services. This article entails a presentation of research findings that is twofold. Findings of a survey of domestic violence services are present…
Enduring Silences
Existing research indicates that disabled women are subjected to intimate partner abuse (IPA) at a higher rate than their majority population peers. This article presents in-depth qualitative findings of research on six disabled women's stories of IPA from Ireland. Six cross-cutting themes are presented, emergent from qualitative thematic analysis. These are, respectively, Physical violence and disability; Coercive control and disability; Economi…
Women with disabilities experiencing domestic violence and abuse
Incremental or delayed processing? L2 learners’ active gap-fillingin sentence comprehension
The contrast between first language (L1) and second language (L2) sentence processing provides valuable insights into how linguistic knowledge and cognitive mechanisms shape real-time comprehension. While L1 speakers are known to engage in incremental parsing–integrating linguistic input as it becomes available–it remains debated whether adult L2 learners adopt similar strategies or rely on delayed, non-structural parsing as proposed by the Shall…
Proximity Loses
This study investigated how Japanese speakers interpret structurally ambiguous wh-questions, testing whether filler–gap resolution is guided by syntactic resolution based on hierarchical structure or linear locality based on surface word order. We combined behavioral key-press responses with fine-grained eye-tracking data and applied cluster-based permutation analysis to capture the moment-by-moment time course of syntactic interpretation as sent…
Rurality and intersectionality
Purpose The paper presents a literature review conducted to consider the range and focus of papers applying a stated intersectional framework to rural contexts. Design/methodology/approach With a specific interest in intersectionality studies that were connected to rural areas, a number of databases were searched for the term “intersectionality”, and from 492 identified papers, 21 papers met the criteria for review. Thematic analysis captured the…
Understanding the Structural Oppression of Sex Workers
The purpose of this paper is to examine sex work and social work from an Irish standpoint in concurrence with the neo-abolitionist radical feminist position. Data collection consisted of interviews with 15 women currently engaged in sex work in the Republic of Ireland. Presenting the voices and experiences of women, we argue that social workers need to better understand the oppression of sex workers, as demonstrated through participants’ accounts…
Domestic Violence, Disability, and Post Separation Child Contact
Purpose Little is known in research terms about post separation child contact for children with disabilities. In particular, there is a lack of understanding about contact in the aftermath of domestic violence and abuse. Method This critical commentary offers an exposition of Gregory et al.’s (2024) contribution to existing knowledge. Within Gregory et al. (2024), qualitative research findings on children with disabilities’ experiences are captur…
Place and Space in Social Research
The authors declare no conflicts of interest
Neurodiversity, Social Work, and Social Justice
Neurodiversity is concerned with the spectrum of differences in human minds. Owing to the neurodiversity movement, from the 1980s onwards, social work has been challenged to reconcile its traditional social justice mandate, with ever-increasing sociopolitical attention to neurodiversity inclusion. If “respect for diversities”, as inscribed in the International Federation of Social Workers’ global definition of social work, is anything to go by, t…
A history of safeguarding disabled children from 1840 to 1960 in the Republic of Ireland
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Through a Critical Realist Lens
This paper applies a critical realist philosophical position to collect and analyse data from 34 children and young people with disabilities about the child protection and welfare issues associated with internet use. This study utilised a blend of methods for data collection and a defined data analysis frame which is presented in this paper. This data analysis frame offers learning about how qualitative findings can be applied to critical realism…
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality
The specific intention of this article is to question how rural life may affect everyday issues of concern for disabled children and their families, including access to services, social connectedness and quality of life. A theoretical frame of critical disability studies and intersectionality is taken up for this work. As critical disability studies scholarship forges productive theoretical alliances with other social agendas linked to identity, …
Disability in Narrative Inquiry
This paper considers methodological and ethical implications of qualitative interview data deemed unusable for research analytic purposes because the interviewee had an intellectual disability. Critical disability studies theory is used to reimagine the utility of one case of so-called unusable qualitative data. Excerpts from this qualitative data that came from a pilot study interview of a PhD project are full of possibility for learning. Yet, a…
Exploring feminist egalitarian discourse and sex work for the social work curriculum
This article presents a theoretical exposition of feminist egalitarian discourse for social work education by drawing on research findings from interviews with 15 sex workers in the Republic of Ireland. The study claims that feminist social work is not considered mainstream across social work programmes despite social work’s commitment to human rights and social justice. The article presents the complexities of a feminist standpoint when discussi…
New-materialist bricolage
The purpose of this paper is to make a novel contribution to new-materialist approaches, toward advancing existing ontological debates. We present a new-materialist bricolage method that was developed from an existing interpretive Community of Practice (CofP) known as the Pivot Project research consortium. This interpretative community was used to theorise the ontological implications of research in the COVID-19 global pandemic. The specific focu…
Putting Outcomes into Practice
Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency of their work. Developing standardised evidence-based outcome measures for children and families, towards which the service provider can strive, is assuredly required as a yardstick against which progress can be measured and mod…
A Sociological Reading of Statutory Social Work and Irish Corporate Governmentality
The corporate and neo-liberal governance of Irish social work, and a strangle-hold of legal-rational reasoning on the profession, has led statutory social work to be increasingly alienated from its traditional commitment to radical change in the pursuit of true social justice. Whilst this case has already been made, we set out to extend debates around an ‘epistemic schism’ in social work through a sociological critique of creativity. The demise o…
Safeguarding children with disabilities
Abuse of children with disabilities occurs at significantly higher rates than for their majority population peers. Compounding this are complex barriers to effective professional safeguarding. Rather than viewing this as a matter exclusively about childhood, maltreatment ought to be conceptualized as occurring across a wider life course trajectory for children who are victimized. To achieve this broader perspective, lifespan effects will be under…
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes
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A critical history of child protection and welfare services for disabled children in the Republic of Ireland, 1960–2023
Existing research demonstrates at least threefold higher rates of maltreatment for disabled children than for their non-disabled peers. The situation is compounded by pervasive impediments to effective safeguarding practice for disabled children. While scholarly attention to this area is growing, one aspect remains thoroughly neglected in the Irish context, namely, historical accounts of disability and child protection are stark by their absence.…
A critical review of intersectionality, social work education and sex work
Social work programmes offer a professional qualification with a primary objective of addressing issues of oppression in society. This furnishes a curriculum that prioritises practice-based social work education, alongside the very structural components that create the oppression of race, gender, age and ethnicity of its citizens. Intersectionality is rarely considered mainstream, with a preference for linear, one-dimensional theory, rather than …
How Covid-19 News Affect Older Adults’ Mental Health—Evidence of a Positivity Bias
Media consumption of COVID-19 news does negatively impact the mental well-being of older adults, but older adults appear to have a strong positivity bias and a lack of negativity bias for COVID-19 news. These findings suggest that older adults can remain hopeful and positive during periods of public health crises and intense stress, which is essential to sustaining their mental well-being during difficult times
Who’s right? What rights? How? Rights debates in Irish social work
CORU are tasked with regulating social work in Ireland. This commentary responds to a debate that is currently unfolding in Irish social work circles concerning an absence of the term ‘human rights’ from the CORU Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics , something that has prompted much criticism. It is argued here that much of this response has been ‘knee-jerk’ and that the debate must be nuanced through the consideration of radical alternatives…
The Cumulative-Enhancement Model for Language Acquisition
(2004). The Cumulative-Enhancement Model for Language Acquisition: Comparing Adults' and Children's Patterns of Development in First, Second and Third Language Acquisition of Relative Clauses. International Journal of Multilingualism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-16
Theorizing disability in child protection
The assumption that addressing disability-related child protection risks is the preserve of child protection academics, is perhaps the basis of the dearth of theoretical papers emerging from disability studies, on what is an intercontinental and evidently substantial problem for disabled children and their families. Disabled children are over-represented in their contact with child protection professionals, and in their likelihood of availing of …
Engaging with materialism and material reality
Critical disability studies has been accused of preoccupation with cultural, lingual and discursive matters, and in doing so failing to adequately engage with the often-harsh material reality of disability. This has contributed to a circumstance in which disability studies has produced a lack of material focused directly upon economic processes. Concurrently, disabled people have encountered a momentous economic recession that has threatened thei…
Social Work Practice in an Economic Downturn
Human rights and social justice have been the traditional mission of social work. In 2008, social workers in Ireland began operating within the greatest period of economic recession since the 1930s. This recession poses a serious threat to the human rights of conventional social work clientele. Simultaneously, a dearth of articles has been published which address the topic. The present paper provides a focused commentary on the literature through…
Critical disability studies and the affirmative non-tragedy model
The purpose of this article is to present an integrated theoretical frame for the subject matter of disability and child protection. Substantive complexities, alluded to in existing literature, surround disability in child protection work. The high stakes and emotionally provocative practice of child safeguarding is often made even more complex by the presence of disability. Difficult balances must be struck, and with a plurality of approaches to…
Corporeality and critical disability studies
This paper forms an intervention into debates about the corporeality of impairment and ‘bodies that matter’ in critical disability studies. Toward informing the epistemology of embodiment present in critical disability studies, it proposes new directions for progression within four set parameters. Firstly, insights from disability might be better re-purposed toward understanding the nature of all human embodiment. Secondly, one must sufficiently …
Social Work Intervention Pathways within Child Protection
Whilst even minimal social work intervention entails judicious planning and strategic oversight, existing literature alludes to persistent concerns, inadequacies and challenges in safeguarding work with disabled children. In this context, critical commentary on the literature selects two influences on social work intervention for more in-depth consideration. The sustaining proposition of the paper is that barriers to optimum Child Protection and …
Perspectives on austerity
In 2008, the Republic of Ireland descended into the deepest period of economic recession since the Great Depression of 70 years before. In the aftershock of recession, research suggests that it has been the nation’s children who have been hit hardest. Within this, intellectually disabled children are considered a particularly vulnerable socio-economic group. Nonetheless, the impact and experience of the recession for intellectually disabled child…
Who’s right? What rights? How? Rights debates in Irish social work
CORU are tasked with regulating social work in Ireland. This commentary responds to a debate that is currently unfolding in Irish social work circles concerning an absence of the term ‘human rights’ from the CORU Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics , something that has prompted much criticism. It is argued here that much of this response has been ‘knee-jerk’ and that the debate must be nuanced through the consideration of radical alternatives…
Convergent identities, compounded risk
Convergent spaces
The core argument of this paper is that intersectionality provides a constructive conceptual lens for the convergence of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish child protection and welfare. The utility of intersectionality in this paper lies in broadening the scope of reflection on the complex intersections of ethnic minority status and childhood disability. Within this, intersectionality is implicitly situated within an overarc…
Critical disability studies and quarter life crisis
This paper forms an intervention into existing literature on the life stage transitional crisis of emerging adulthood, commonly referred to as quarter life crisis. Whilst among existing analyses, aspects such as gender and ethnic dimensions are considered, a marked absence of attention to disability within quarter life crisis persists. Toward theorizing the position of disabled emerging adults undergoing transitional life crisis, a composite theo…
Microvariation in multilingual situations
This provocative article raises many important issues that need to be addressed and in so doing will advance the fields of second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition in several important ways. Fundamental questions concerning multilingual development persist especially with respect to the role of Universal Grammar in this language learning process. This response article has a dual role: It first outlines those areas of agreement wit…
Globalisation and social work education in the Republic of Ireland
Critically informed commentary is employed to examine globalisation and social work education in the Republic of Ireland. This is extended in analysis by a tripartite conceptual framework. The emphasis is on preparing practitioners for transnational practice, in response to global social interdependencies and transnational social problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The concern is that social work education risks being outpaced by changes impo…
Predicting which childhood memories persist
This investigation identified memory-level predictors of the survivability of 4- to 13-year-old children's earliest recollections over a 2-year period. Data previously reported by Peterson, Warren, and Short (2011) were coded for inclusion of emotion terms and thematic, chronological, and contextual narrative coherence. In addition, the uniqueness and content of the reported events were classified, and the presence or absence of event reminders w…
Intersectionality, childhood disability and rurality
The specific intention of this article is to question how rural life may affect everyday issues of concern for disabled children and their families, including access to services, social connectedness and quality of life. A theoretical frame of critical disability studies and intersectionality is taken up for this work. As critical disability studies scholarship forges productive theoretical alliances with other social agendas linked to identity, …
Putting Outcomes into Practice
Of utmost concern for effective child protection and child and family services is evidence-based practice. There is an onus of accountability on providers of therapeutic services to establish the merit and cost efficiency of their work. Developing standardised evidence-based outcome measures for children and families, towards which the service provider can strive, is assuredly required as a yardstick against which progress can be measured and mod…
A Sociological Reading of Statutory Social Work and Irish Corporate Governmentality
The corporate and neo-liberal governance of Irish social work, and a strangle-hold of legal-rational reasoning on the profession, has led statutory social work to be increasingly alienated from its traditional commitment to radical change in the pursuit of true social justice. Whilst this case has already been made, we set out to extend debates around an ‘epistemic schism’ in social work through a sociological critique of creativity. The demise o…
Child protection and welfare risks and opportunities related to disability and internet use
A New-Materialist Reading of Disability, Senescence, and the Life-Course
The purpose of this article is to provide a new-materialist theoretical commentary on disability, senescence, and the life-course. A critical literature review with deductive thematic analysis was undertaken using an electronic database search strategy. For analysis, theoretical conventions of new-materialism were deductively applied to literature. New-materialism offers an approach taken by disability studies scholars within critical disability …
Feminist Egalitarian Discourse in Social Work Education for Practice
Using the pedagogic lens this article presents theoretical exposition of feminist egalitarian discourse for social work education. The Masters in Social Work is a professional qualification, which has as its primary goal the promotion of human rights and social justice. In theory, feminist egalitarian discourse aligns succinctly with this overall goal. However, in reality feminist egalitarian discourse is often overlooked and is rarely considered…
Pandemic pedagogies
A wide range of literature has already emerged which assesses the sudden closure of Higher Education Institutions during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, when many academic institutions turned to ERT (emergency remote teaching) in order to maintain teaching and learning. The Faculty of Lifelong Learning at Institute of Technology Carlow, Ireland, one of the largest providers of part-time learning in the Irish sector, undertook a study of its learne…
Trajectories of social justice within social stratification
Vies towards social justice in the social work academy and elsewhere have too frequently been imprecise, rhetorical and definitionally opaque. This article pursues a rigorous and theoretically exact treatment of the matter of social class for social workers, towards presenting set parameters for operationalising social justice. The research base of the article is social stratification scales drawn from the social sciences, upon which a bespoke an…
Protection as a Human Fundamental Need
Large-scale reform of statutory child protective services in the Republic of Ireland is underway, prompted by adoption of the national strengths-based and safety-organised practice approach, known as ‘Signs of Safety’ (SoS). Despite the radical change it impels, critical commentary from the academy on the conventions of SoS remains conspicuous by its absence. One reading of the ecological systems approach is that to appreciate implications of SoS…
Exploring internal critique
This article presents theoretically developed critical commentary as an intervention into existing debates about the self-appraisal of Critical Disability Studies (CDS). CDS deploys critique, not just outwardly, toward questions about the nature of dis/ability, able-bodiedness and existing theoretical responses, but also inwardly, toward questions about the veracity of its own conventions. The proposition is that the distinct epistemological and …
Contrast and Construction in a Parameter-Setting Model of L2 Acquisition
There is an emerging awareness in the field of L2 acquisition regarding the contributions made by both Contrastive Analysis (CA) and Creative Construction (CC) theories of L2 acquisition. CA theories indicate that the L1 experience is important in L2 acquisition, and CC theories indicate that principles of acquisition independent of this experience are also integral to L2 learning. Reconciliation of these two aspects within a principled, empirica…
Adult L2 Acquisition of Two Distinct Phonetic Forms of Anaphora
Perhaps the most pervasive issue in the study of adult second language (L2) acquisition concerns the relative contribution of prior first language (L1) experience — the contrastive component — and universal grammatical principles — the constructive component — to this language learning process. Concern with this issue stems in part from basic linguistic and psychological questions about the nature of language learning in the adult and in part fro…
In Defense of Parameter‐Setting in L2 Acquisition
Bley‐Vroman and Chaudron (BV/C) (1990) challenge the theoretical and empirical validity of the results in Flynn (1983, 1987) and propose an alternative explanation of the reported results. In doing so, BV/C attempt to impugn the role of Universal Grammar (UG), particularly Parameter (P)‐setting, in L2 acquisition. In this paper, we demonstrate that BV/C's remarks are based on (1) failure to consider the theoretical and logical basis of the resear…
Linguistic Theory and Foreign Language Learning Environments
Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition
Second language acquisition
To what extent, if any, does Universal Grammar (UG) constrain second language (L2) acquisition? This is not only an empirical question, but one which is currently investigable. In this context, L2 acquisition is emerging as an important new domain of psycholinguistic research. Three logical possibilities have been articulated regarding the role of UG in L2 acquisition: The first is the “no access” hypothesis that claims that no aspect of UG is av…
The Weis Archive and Library Collection at the Refugee Studies Programme
Journal Article The Weis Archive and Library Collection at the Refugee Studies Programme Get access SARAH J. A. FLYNN SARAH J. A. FLYNN Refugee Studies Programme, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Refugee Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 1996, Pages 89–95, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/9.1.89 Published: 01 March 1996
The Generative Study of Second Language Acquisition
Letter from the Founding Editors
The Cumulative-Enhancement Model for Language Acquisition
(2004). The Cumulative-Enhancement Model for Language Acquisition: Comparing Adults' and Children's Patterns of Development in First, Second and Third Language Acquisition of Relative Clauses. International Journal of Multilingualism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3-16
Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood
In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition from L3/Ln acquisition is essential. From linguistic, sociological, psychological, educational and cognitive viewpoints, it has become increasingly appar…
Third language acquisition in adulthood
Predicting which childhood memories persist
This investigation identified memory-level predictors of the survivability of 4- to 13-year-old children's earliest recollections over a 2-year period. Data previously reported by Peterson, Warren, and Short (2011) were coded for inclusion of emotion terms and thematic, chronological, and contextual narrative coherence. In addition, the uniqueness and content of the reported events were classified, and the presence or absence of event reminders w…
Assessing child bilingualism
Aims and objectives: In this paper we investigate measures for the evaluation of a child’s bilingualism. Methodology: We compare a caretaker report on the estimated quantity and quality of a child’s bilingualism to results from direct assessment of the bilingual child’s production of complex sentences in Korean and English. We adopt an integrated methodology in which two case studies, closely matched on caretaker report and general background, ar…
Social Work Practice in an Economic Downturn
Human rights and social justice have been the traditional mission of social work. In 2008, social workers in Ireland began operating within the greatest period of economic recession since the 1930s. This recession poses a serious threat to the human rights of conventional social work clientele. Simultaneously, a dearth of articles has been published which address the topic. The present paper provides a focused commentary on the literature through…
Toward a new understanding of syntactic CLI
Abstract With the aim to attain a principled understanding of adult L2/L3 acquisition, we present data from a large corpus that focuses on L2/L3 identification of nominal gaps of empty categories. We show that both surface and abstract properties of the target language play significant roles in development. The analyses of amount correct and nature of errors indicate that the initial state in both L2/L3 studies emerge in terms of the learners’ id…
Engaging with materialism and material reality
Critical disability studies has been accused of preoccupation with cultural, lingual and discursive matters, and in doing so failing to adequately engage with the often-harsh material reality of disability. This has contributed to a circumstance in which disability studies has produced a lack of material focused directly upon economic processes. Concurrently, disabled people have encountered a momentous economic recession that has threatened thei…
Perspectives on austerity
In 2008, the Republic of Ireland descended into the deepest period of economic recession since the Great Depression of 70 years before. In the aftershock of recession, research suggests that it has been the nation’s children who have been hit hardest. Within this, intellectually disabled children are considered a particularly vulnerable socio-economic group. Nonetheless, the impact and experience of the recession for intellectually disabled child…
Social Work Intervention Pathways within Child Protection
Whilst even minimal social work intervention entails judicious planning and strategic oversight, existing literature alludes to persistent concerns, inadequacies and challenges in safeguarding work with disabled children. In this context, critical commentary on the literature selects two influences on social work intervention for more in-depth consideration. The sustaining proposition of the paper is that barriers to optimum Child Protection and …
Making Acquaintance
Substantial research evidence alludes to concerns, practical impediments, inefficiencies and injustices in Child Protection and Welfare (CPW) work with children with disabilities. Meanwhile, individualised perspectives and bio-medical discourses that have traditionally monopolised social work practice with disability are increasingly viewed as inadequate and reductive. In this context, particularly instrumental is the complexity and non-materiali…
Exploring internal critique
This article presents theoretically developed critical commentary as an intervention into existing debates about the self-appraisal of Critical Disability Studies (CDS). CDS deploys critique, not just outwardly, toward questions about the nature of dis/ability, able-bodiedness and existing theoretical responses, but also inwardly, toward questions about the veracity of its own conventions. The proposition is that the distinct epistemological and …
Theorizing disability in child protection
The assumption that addressing disability-related child protection risks is the preserve of child protection academics, is perhaps the basis of the dearth of theoretical papers emerging from disability studies, on what is an intercontinental and evidently substantial problem for disabled children and their families. Disabled children are over-represented in their contact with child protection professionals, and in their likelihood of availing of …
Convergent spaces
The core argument of this paper is that intersectionality provides a constructive conceptual lens for the convergence of ethnic minority status and childhood disability in Irish child protection and welfare. The utility of intersectionality in this paper lies in broadening the scope of reflection on the complex intersections of ethnic minority status and childhood disability. Within this, intersectionality is implicitly situated within an overarc…
Critical disability studies and quarter life crisis
This paper forms an intervention into existing literature on the life stage transitional crisis of emerging adulthood, commonly referred to as quarter life crisis. Whilst among existing analyses, aspects such as gender and ethnic dimensions are considered, a marked absence of attention to disability within quarter life crisis persists. Toward theorizing the position of disabled emerging adults undergoing transitional life crisis, a composite theo…
Corporeality and critical disability studies
This paper forms an intervention into debates about the corporeality of impairment and ‘bodies that matter’ in critical disability studies. Toward informing the epistemology of embodiment present in critical disability studies, it proposes new directions for progression within four set parameters. Firstly, insights from disability might be better re-purposed toward understanding the nature of all human embodiment. Secondly, one must sufficiently …
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