Patricia Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0333-8387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Minority Women Incarcerated
Women comprise a minority of the prison population, representing 10.6% of the prison population in Ireland in 2020. An issue of pressing concern is the over-representation of minority ethnic women among female prisoners. In Ireland, Irish Traveller women are 22 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Traveller women. Their risk of imprisonment is greater than Traveller men who are over-represented among male prisoners. Traveller women in cont…
The hope of a better life? Exploring the challenges faced by migrant Roma families in Ireland in relation to children's education
Drawing on data obtained from the first Irish national needs assessment of Roma this article examines the circumstances impinging on the education of Roma children in Ireland. The findings suggest that Roma children in Ireland are among the most disadvantaged of their peers, with a significant proportion enduring living conditions which most people would not imagine exist in contemporary Ireland. These findings provide insight into the stark disp…
The ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ needs of Roma
This article contributes to scholarship on participatory mixed methods research while and presents empirical evidence relating to the needs of Roma. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (2005) acknowledged the specific nature of racism towards Roma as being persistent both historically and geographically; permanent and not decreasing; as systematic, accepted by virtually all the community; and often accompanied by acts of violen…
Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context
Introduction Patricia Kennedy and Naonori Kodate 1. Welfare States, Healthcare Regimes and Maternity Services and Policy: A Comparative Perspective Patricia Kennedy, Naonori Kodate and Nadine Reibling 2. New Zealand Riz Firestone, Anna Matheson, Barry Borman, Laura D. Howe and Lis Ellison-Loschmann 3. Ireland Patricia Kennedy 4. United States of America Christine H. Morton and Megan M. Henley 5. Australia Meredith McIntyre 6. Scotland Helen Cheyn…
Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context
Key Themes in Social Policy
Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing. With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major debates and issues. Each entry: explains the origin of the word discusses its relationship to the social sciences describes its relevance to social policy a…
Key Themes in Social Policy
An exploration of evidence-based policy in Ireland
Ireland is a small country with a history of a social partnership approach to policy making. This paper considers how the ambition of government to utilise an evidence-based approach to policy making plays out against this partnership agenda. Drawing on the authors’ experiences and personal reflections, the paper considers how these issues operate within a number of health and social inclusion policy areas, and it explores the role of stakeholder…
Changes and Continuities in Maternity Policies
This paper examines maternity policy legislation in Ireland and Estonia, focussing on changes and continuities. Throughout the paper we speak about maternity, referring to the physiological aspect of motherhood and the unique capacity of women to bear children. Very often maternity is not covered by a single policy, but it is an amalgam of various policy fields, like health, social security, and labour. These policies are all embedded in the lega…
The Maternity Care Needs of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women in Ireland
This article presents some of the findings from the original research carried out with asylum seeking and refugee women in Ireland who were pregnant or who had recently given birth. The explosion in numbers in Ireland from 1998 onwards has been such that this group now comprises more than one in five of every birth in the country's three major maternity hospitals, all based in Dublin. The article explores the background reasons for the major incr…
Use of the timeout procedure in a child psychiatry inpatient milieu
The Maternity Care Needs of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women in Ireland
This article presents some of the findings from the original research carried out with asylum seeking and refugee women in Ireland who were pregnant or who had recently given birth. The explosion in numbers in Ireland from 1998 onwards has been such that this group now comprises more than one in five of every birth in the country's three major maternity hospitals, all based in Dublin. The article explores the background reasons for the major incr…
The ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ needs of Roma
This article contributes to scholarship on participatory mixed methods research while and presents empirical evidence relating to the needs of Roma. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (2005) acknowledged the specific nature of racism towards Roma as being persistent both historically and geographically; permanent and not decreasing; as systematic, accepted by virtually all the community; and often accompanied by acts of violen…
The hope of a better life? Exploring the challenges faced by migrant Roma families in Ireland in relation to children's education
Drawing on data obtained from the first Irish national needs assessment of Roma this article examines the circumstances impinging on the education of Roma children in Ireland. The findings suggest that Roma children in Ireland are among the most disadvantaged of their peers, with a significant proportion enduring living conditions which most people would not imagine exist in contemporary Ireland. These findings provide insight into the stark disp…
An exploration of evidence-based policy in Ireland
Ireland is a small country with a history of a social partnership approach to policy making. This paper considers how the ambition of government to utilise an evidence-based approach to policy making plays out against this partnership agenda. Drawing on the authors’ experiences and personal reflections, the paper considers how these issues operate within a number of health and social inclusion policy areas, and it explores the role of stakeholder…
Use of the timeout procedure in a child psychiatry inpatient milieu
The Maternity Care Needs of Refugee and Asylum Seeking Women in Ireland
This article presents some of the findings from the original research carried out with asylum seeking and refugee women in Ireland who were pregnant or who had recently given birth. The explosion in numbers in Ireland from 1998 onwards has been such that this group now comprises more than one in five of every birth in the country's three major maternity hospitals, all based in Dublin. The article explores the background reasons for the major incr…
An exploration of evidence-based policy in Ireland
Ireland is a small country with a history of a social partnership approach to policy making. This paper considers how the ambition of government to utilise an evidence-based approach to policy making plays out against this partnership agenda. Drawing on the authors’ experiences and personal reflections, the paper considers how these issues operate within a number of health and social inclusion policy areas, and it explores the role of stakeholder…
Changes and Continuities in Maternity Policies
This paper examines maternity policy legislation in Ireland and Estonia, focussing on changes and continuities. Throughout the paper we speak about maternity, referring to the physiological aspect of motherhood and the unique capacity of women to bear children. Very often maternity is not covered by a single policy, but it is an amalgam of various policy fields, like health, social security, and labour. These policies are all embedded in the lega…
Key Themes in Social Policy
Key Themes in Social Policy provides an accessible and authoritative introduction to the key concepts used in social policy, from autonomy to wellbeing. With over 100 ideas discussed, this is a comprehensive student guide and is designed to help readers to gain a deeper understanding of major debates and issues. Each entry: explains the origin of the word discusses its relationship to the social sciences describes its relevance to social policy a…
Key Themes in Social Policy
Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context
Introduction Patricia Kennedy and Naonori Kodate 1. Welfare States, Healthcare Regimes and Maternity Services and Policy: A Comparative Perspective Patricia Kennedy, Naonori Kodate and Nadine Reibling 2. New Zealand Riz Firestone, Anna Matheson, Barry Borman, Laura D. Howe and Lis Ellison-Loschmann 3. Ireland Patricia Kennedy 4. United States of America Christine H. Morton and Megan M. Henley 5. Australia Meredith McIntyre 6. Scotland Helen Cheyn…
Maternity Services and Policy in an International Context
The ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ needs of Roma
This article contributes to scholarship on participatory mixed methods research while and presents empirical evidence relating to the needs of Roma. The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (2005) acknowledged the specific nature of racism towards Roma as being persistent both historically and geographically; permanent and not decreasing; as systematic, accepted by virtually all the community; and often accompanied by acts of violen…
The hope of a better life? Exploring the challenges faced by migrant Roma families in Ireland in relation to children's education
Drawing on data obtained from the first Irish national needs assessment of Roma this article examines the circumstances impinging on the education of Roma children in Ireland. The findings suggest that Roma children in Ireland are among the most disadvantaged of their peers, with a significant proportion enduring living conditions which most people would not imagine exist in contemporary Ireland. These findings provide insight into the stark disp…
Minority Women Incarcerated
Women comprise a minority of the prison population, representing 10.6% of the prison population in Ireland in 2020. An issue of pressing concern is the over-representation of minority ethnic women among female prisoners. In Ireland, Irish Traveller women are 22 times more likely to be imprisoned than non-Traveller women. Their risk of imprisonment is greater than Traveller men who are over-represented among male prisoners. Traveller women in cont…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (3 works) · Social policy (3 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works) · Child health services (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)