Sarah O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Local Government International Bureau |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7060-5994 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Using a population health planning approach to provide timely and universal access to diagnostics for chronic disease
Background: The Integrated Model of Care (MoC) for the prevention and management of chronic disease is being implemented across Irish Health Services since 2021 and aims to provide universal access to a range of spectrum of chronic disease services from prevention, diagnostics, treatment and access to self management support. These Integrated services are delivered across General Practice, new Chronic disease community specialist teams (CD CSTs) …
‘I can’t say that anything has changed’: Parents of autistic young people (16–25 years) discuss the impact of the Children and Families Act in England and Wales
Introduction In 2014, changes to special educational needs and disability (SEND) legislation were introduced in England and Wales. These reforms aimed for young people and their families to receive the help and support they need, have a say regarding their support needs, and achieve better outcomes. Methods We examine the views of parents of autistic young people (16–25 years) regarding the impact of the reforms, several years after their introdu…
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology is published by the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) to make available research that is innovative and interdisciplinary
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 2014
Changes to special educational needs and disability (SEND) legislation in England were implemented in 2014. Here, we evaluate the impact of these changes from the perspective of 80 autistic young people aged 16–25 years. Using an online survey and/or interviews, we examined young people’s views on three key principles of the SEND reforms: the help and support provided to them; whether they were given a say in the choices and support that they wer…
Playing the Zombie: Participation and Interpassivity in Gothic XR
Marina Warner states that the concept of the zombie ‘embodies the condition of our time’ as it represents contemporary experiences of selfhood shaped by new technologies (2006: 357–8). In this paper I argue that, due to the interactive and immersive qualities of XR, the concept of the zombie in some recent Gothic expressions does not just represent contemporary experience of selfhood but is a development of an ‘interpassive’ role we play in every…
Household presentation of acute gastroenteritis in a primary care sentinel network: Retrospective database studies
The incidence of AGE has changed over time: pre-school children, larger households, and living in London were associated with higher rates, and male gender and higher economic status associated with lower rates
School sociodemographic characteristics and obesity in schoolchildren: Does the obesity definition matter
School socioeconomic status was a strong determinant of overweight and obesity in Irish schoolchildren, and these associations were age- and sex-dependent. School location was not associated with overweight or obesity. There remains a need to intervene with school-aged children in disadvantaged schools, specifically among those approaching adolescence, to prevent a trajectory of obesity into adult life
Negotiations of Irish identity in the wake of terrorism: The case of the Irish in Birmingham 1973–74
This article explores the Irish migrant experience in Birmingham during and in the wake of terrorist campaigns carried out in Britain between 1969 and 1975 and attributed to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Beginning with a discussion of the competencies with which Irishness was associated at the close of the 1960s in England, many of which were hinged on a notion of the Irish predisposition towards violence, the article continues on to take the …
Sticky matter: The persistence of animals as allegory in Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga and La Mujer sin Cabeza
In the films of the Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel, more and less transgressive attachments germinate in mundane spaces and gradually accrete into something of a narrative force. The interiors oscillate between semi-public and private, confining and liberatory – twilit hotel suites, well-worn luxury cars, narrow swimming pools – while the characters’ familial, romantic and working attachments approach, but rarely realize, consummation, conflict…
Lessons from flood early warning systems
A Process Evaluation of an HIV/STI Intervention for Rural African American Youth
We evaluated the fidelity and implementation of an HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections intervention for rural African American youth. Using a community-based evaluation approach, community partners and researchers monitored four core process-evaluation components: reach, fidelity, dose delivered, and dose received. Researchers collected evaluation data through session observations, facilitator debriefing interviews, a youth focus group, …
Changing Stigmatizing Perceptions and Recollections About Mental Illness: The Effects of Nami’s In Our Own Voice
Hope for the urban poor: DFID city community challenge (C3) fund pilot in Kampala and Jinja, Uganda
This paper describes a new pilot fund to support community initiatives for urban poor groups in Uganda’s two largest cities, Kampala and Jinja. Supported by the UK Government’s Department for International Development, it is called the C3 fund since it is city-based, set up to support community-initiated proposals and includes a focus on capacity building. The approach is unusual in that external aid is supporting a local fund to which community …
Hope for the urban poor: DFID city community challenge (C3) fund pilot in Kampala and Jinja, Uganda
This paper describes a new pilot fund to support community initiatives for urban poor groups in Uganda’s two largest cities, Kampala and Jinja. Supported by the UK Government’s Department for International Development, it is called the C3 fund since it is city-based, set up to support community-initiated proposals and includes a focus on capacity building. The approach is unusual in that external aid is supporting a local fund to which community …
Press coverage of the Cleveland child sexual abuse enquiry: A source of public enlightenment
BackgroundThe objective of this study was to assess national and local newspaper reporting of events considered by a Public Enquiry which investigated a major crisis involving child protection services. The Judicial Enquiry, held in Cleveland, North East England, examined the actions of statutory bodies and the professionals working within them following the diagnosis of suspected sexual abuse in 121 children.MethodsThis is a descriptive study us…
Suicide mortality in Greater London: Changes during the past 25 years
Suicide mortality in the area now administered by the Greater London Council was assessed for three five-year periods 1949-1953, 1959-63, and 1969-73. For each of the periods the standard mortality ratio (SMR) for suicide in various boroughs was calculated for men and women separately. The boroughs with high SMRs for men were constant. There was a pronounced change in the geographical distribution of high mortality among women. These findings sup…
Negotiations of Irish identity in the wake of terrorism: The case of the Irish in Birmingham 1973–74
This article explores the Irish migrant experience in Birmingham during and in the wake of terrorist campaigns carried out in Britain between 1969 and 1975 and attributed to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Beginning with a discussion of the competencies with which Irishness was associated at the close of the 1960s in England, many of which were hinged on a notion of the Irish predisposition towards violence, the article continues on to take the …
Lessons from flood early warning systems
Changing Stigmatizing Perceptions and Recollections About Mental Illness: The Effects of Nami’s In Our Own Voice
Suicide mortality in Greater London: Changes during the past 25 years
Suicide mortality in the area now administered by the Greater London Council was assessed for three five-year periods 1949-1953, 1959-63, and 1969-73. For each of the periods the standard mortality ratio (SMR) for suicide in various boroughs was calculated for men and women separately. The boroughs with high SMRs for men were constant. There was a pronounced change in the geographical distribution of high mortality among women. These findings sup…
Press coverage of the Cleveland child sexual abuse enquiry: A source of public enlightenment
BackgroundThe objective of this study was to assess national and local newspaper reporting of events considered by a Public Enquiry which investigated a major crisis involving child protection services. The Judicial Enquiry, held in Cleveland, North East England, examined the actions of statutory bodies and the professionals working within them following the diagnosis of suspected sexual abuse in 121 children.MethodsThis is a descriptive study us…
Hope for the urban poor: DFID city community challenge (C3) fund pilot in Kampala and Jinja, Uganda
This paper describes a new pilot fund to support community initiatives for urban poor groups in Uganda’s two largest cities, Kampala and Jinja. Supported by the UK Government’s Department for International Development, it is called the C3 fund since it is city-based, set up to support community-initiated proposals and includes a focus on capacity building. The approach is unusual in that external aid is supporting a local fund to which community …
Hope for the urban poor: DFID city community challenge (C3) fund pilot in Kampala and Jinja, Uganda
This paper describes a new pilot fund to support community initiatives for urban poor groups in Uganda’s two largest cities, Kampala and Jinja. Supported by the UK Government’s Department for International Development, it is called the C3 fund since it is city-based, set up to support community-initiated proposals and includes a focus on capacity building. The approach is unusual in that external aid is supporting a local fund to which community …
Changing Stigmatizing Perceptions and Recollections About Mental Illness: The Effects of Nami’s In Our Own Voice
A Process Evaluation of an HIV/STI Intervention for Rural African American Youth
We evaluated the fidelity and implementation of an HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections intervention for rural African American youth. Using a community-based evaluation approach, community partners and researchers monitored four core process-evaluation components: reach, fidelity, dose delivered, and dose received. Researchers collected evaluation data through session observations, facilitator debriefing interviews, a youth focus group, …
Lessons from flood early warning systems
Negotiations of Irish identity in the wake of terrorism: The case of the Irish in Birmingham 1973–74
This article explores the Irish migrant experience in Birmingham during and in the wake of terrorist campaigns carried out in Britain between 1969 and 1975 and attributed to the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Beginning with a discussion of the competencies with which Irishness was associated at the close of the 1960s in England, many of which were hinged on a notion of the Irish predisposition towards violence, the article continues on to take the …
Sticky matter: The persistence of animals as allegory in Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga and La Mujer sin Cabeza
In the films of the Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel, more and less transgressive attachments germinate in mundane spaces and gradually accrete into something of a narrative force. The interiors oscillate between semi-public and private, confining and liberatory – twilit hotel suites, well-worn luxury cars, narrow swimming pools – while the characters’ familial, romantic and working attachments approach, but rarely realize, consummation, conflict…
School sociodemographic characteristics and obesity in schoolchildren: Does the obesity definition matter
School socioeconomic status was a strong determinant of overweight and obesity in Irish schoolchildren, and these associations were age- and sex-dependent. School location was not associated with overweight or obesity. There remains a need to intervene with school-aged children in disadvantaged schools, specifically among those approaching adolescence, to prevent a trajectory of obesity into adult life
Playing the Zombie: Participation and Interpassivity in Gothic XR
Marina Warner states that the concept of the zombie ‘embodies the condition of our time’ as it represents contemporary experiences of selfhood shaped by new technologies (2006: 357–8). In this paper I argue that, due to the interactive and immersive qualities of XR, the concept of the zombie in some recent Gothic expressions does not just represent contemporary experience of selfhood but is a development of an ‘interpassive’ role we play in every…
Household presentation of acute gastroenteritis in a primary care sentinel network: Retrospective database studies
The incidence of AGE has changed over time: pre-school children, larger households, and living in London were associated with higher rates, and male gender and higher economic status associated with lower rates
Autistic young people’s experiences of transitioning to adulthood following the Children and Families Act 2014
Changes to special educational needs and disability (SEND) legislation in England were implemented in 2014. Here, we evaluate the impact of these changes from the perspective of 80 autistic young people aged 16–25 years. Using an online survey and/or interviews, we examined young people’s views on three key principles of the SEND reforms: the help and support provided to them; whether they were given a say in the choices and support that they wer…
‘I can’t say that anything has changed’: Parents of autistic young people (16–25 years) discuss the impact of the Children and Families Act in England and Wales
Introduction In 2014, changes to special educational needs and disability (SEND) legislation were introduced in England and Wales. These reforms aimed for young people and their families to receive the help and support they need, have a say regarding their support needs, and achieve better outcomes. Methods We examine the views of parents of autistic young people (16–25 years) regarding the impact of the reforms, several years after their introdu…
Economic Anthropology
Economic Anthropology is published by the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) to make available research that is innovative and interdisciplinary
Using a population health planning approach to provide timely and universal access to diagnostics for chronic disease
Background: The Integrated Model of Care (MoC) for the prevention and management of chronic disease is being implemented across Irish Health Services since 2021 and aims to provide universal access to a range of spectrum of chronic disease services from prevention, diagnostics, treatment and access to self management support. These Integrated services are delivered across General Practice, new Chronic disease community specialist teams (CD CSTs) …
Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Focus group (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works)