Aisling Mcmahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4091964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aisling Mcmahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aisling |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahon |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAHON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8928-3187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Trusting the Darkness’: An Exploration of Experiences of Professional Self‐Doubt Among Qualified Psychotherapists
Freedom to Play
This paper explores a key theme in the development of a group analytic psychotherapy conductor’s training group. It is a story about the importance of play for healthy development and more flexible adult relationships. Some dialogues from the group’s work are included and considered, illustrating the value of dreams, metaphoric work, and rough-and-tumble play for personal and relational growth. Connections between self-reliance/responsibility, pl…
Supporting Relational, Trauma-Informed Social Care Work with Autistic Adults: Evaluation of a Reflective Supervision Group Pilot
There is a growing body of literature highlighting the need for reflective supervision to support the often complex and challenging practice of social care workers. The current study aimed to explore an Irish social care team’s experience of a pilot reflective supervision group. The study participants were six male social care workers supporting autistic adults in the community. The team met for four one-monthly group supervision sessions, facili…
Analysis of the institutional landscape and proliferation of proposals for global vaccine equity for Covid-19: Too many cooks or too many recipes
This article outlines and compares current and proposed global institutional mechanisms to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, focusing on their institutional and operational complementarities and overlaps. It specifically considers the World Health Organization's (WHO’s) COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access) model as part of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) initiative, the WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TA…
Building trust: Supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision
The experience of power dynamics for five Irish supervisees attending transdisciplinary workplace supervision was explored through in-depth interviews and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Three superordinate themes were identified: Struggling to find my place in the organisation; Navigating through vulnerability; and Clicking into relationship. The supervision relationship was a source of both vulnerability and empow…
A narrative review of group analytic literature on clinical supervision: Seeking coherence and correspondence
A systematic narrative literature review was carried out with the aim of identifying key themes in the group analytic literature on clinical supervision, and to inform the development of theory, practice and research in this area. The systematic literature search identified 103 relevant publications, nearly all involving case vignettes of supervisory practice and theoretical reflections on group analytic supervision, with only a handful of publis…
Patents, healthcare and engaged shareholders: A pathway to encourage socially responsible patent use
This paper focuses on the drivers steering companies’ behaviour over uses of patented health technologies, taking Covid-19 as a case study. Global equitable access to health technologies is vital to bringing the pandemic under control. Reflecting this, global mechanisms for rightsholders to share intellectual property rights, data and know-how over such health technologies have been developed. Yet, to date, there is limited support from corporate…
Addressing Vaccine Inequity During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Trips Intellectual Property Waiver Proposal and Beyond
This article examines global vaccine inequity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We critique intellectual property (IP) law under the 1994 WTO TRIPS Agreement, and specifically, the role that IP has played in enabling the inequities of production, distribution and pricing in the COVID-19 vaccine context. Given the failure of international response mechanisms, including COVAX and C-TAP, to address vaccine inequity, we argue the TRIPS waiver proposal sh…
Patents, Governance and Control: Ethics and the Patentability of Novel Beings and Advanced Biotechnologies in Europe
This article focuses primarily on to what extent novel beings, and particularly, beings which display something akin to human consciousness or agency would be (or should be) patentable under current European patent law. Patents grant the patent holder a right to exclude others from using the patented invention for the period of patent grant (usually 20 years). This allows the patent holder to control how that invention can or cannot be used by ot…
Global equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for Covid-19: The role of patents as private governance
In June 2020, Gilead agreed to provide the USA with 500 000 doses of remdesivir—an antiviral drug which at that time was percieved to show promise in reducing the recovery time for patients with COVID-19. This quantity represented Gilead’s then full production capacity for July and 90% of its capacity for August and September. Similar deals are evident around access to proposed vaccines for COVID-19, and such deals are only likely to increase. Th…
Genome editing: The dynamics of continuity, convergence, and change in the engineering of life
Genome editing enables very accurate alterations to DNA. It promises profound and potentially disruptive changes in healthcare, agriculture, industry, and the environment. This paper presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the contemporary development of genome editing and the tension between continuity and change. It draws on the idea that actors involved in innovation are guided by “sociotechnical regimes” composed of practices, institutions, …
Abortion in Northern Ireland and the European Convention on Human Rights: Reflections From the Uk Supreme Court
On 7 June 2018, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSCt) issued its decision on, inter alia , whether Northern Ireland's near-total abortion ban was compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). This article critically assesses the UKSC's treatment of international law in this case. It argues that the UKSCt was justified in finding that Northern Ireland's ban on abortion in cases of rape, incest, and FFA was a violation o…
Access to Abortion in Cases of Fatal Foetal Abnormality: A New Direction for the European Court of Human Rights
In contrast to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has not yet found that a prohibition of abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality violates the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. We argue that the ECtHR is on the verge of aligning itself with the Committee because, first, recent ECtHR jurisprudence is broadenin…
Access to Abortion in Cases of Fatal Foetal Abnormality: A New Direction for the European Court of Human Rights
In contrast to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has not yet found that a prohibition of abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality violates the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. We argue that the ECtHR is on the verge of aligning itself with the Committee because, first, recent ECtHR jurisprudence is broadenin…
Abortion in Northern Ireland and the European Convention on Human Rights: Reflections From the Uk Supreme Court
On 7 June 2018, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSCt) issued its decision on, inter alia , whether Northern Ireland's near-total abortion ban was compatible with the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). This article critically assesses the UKSC's treatment of international law in this case. It argues that the UKSCt was justified in finding that Northern Ireland's ban on abortion in cases of rape, incest, and FFA was a violation o…
Access to Abortion in Cases of Fatal Foetal Abnormality: A New Direction for the European Court of Human Rights
In contrast to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has not yet found that a prohibition of abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality violates the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. We argue that the ECtHR is on the verge of aligning itself with the Committee because, first, recent ECtHR jurisprudence is broadenin…
Genome editing: The dynamics of continuity, convergence, and change in the engineering of life
Genome editing enables very accurate alterations to DNA. It promises profound and potentially disruptive changes in healthcare, agriculture, industry, and the environment. This paper presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the contemporary development of genome editing and the tension between continuity and change. It draws on the idea that actors involved in innovation are guided by “sociotechnical regimes” composed of practices, institutions, …
Patents, Governance and Control: Ethics and the Patentability of Novel Beings and Advanced Biotechnologies in Europe
This article focuses primarily on to what extent novel beings, and particularly, beings which display something akin to human consciousness or agency would be (or should be) patentable under current European patent law. Patents grant the patent holder a right to exclude others from using the patented invention for the period of patent grant (usually 20 years). This allows the patent holder to control how that invention can or cannot be used by ot…
Global equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for Covid-19: The role of patents as private governance
In June 2020, Gilead agreed to provide the USA with 500 000 doses of remdesivir—an antiviral drug which at that time was percieved to show promise in reducing the recovery time for patients with COVID-19. This quantity represented Gilead’s then full production capacity for July and 90% of its capacity for August and September. Similar deals are evident around access to proposed vaccines for COVID-19, and such deals are only likely to increase. Th…
Patents, healthcare and engaged shareholders: A pathway to encourage socially responsible patent use
This paper focuses on the drivers steering companies’ behaviour over uses of patented health technologies, taking Covid-19 as a case study. Global equitable access to health technologies is vital to bringing the pandemic under control. Reflecting this, global mechanisms for rightsholders to share intellectual property rights, data and know-how over such health technologies have been developed. Yet, to date, there is limited support from corporate…
Addressing Vaccine Inequity During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Trips Intellectual Property Waiver Proposal and Beyond
This article examines global vaccine inequity during the COVID-19 pandemic. We critique intellectual property (IP) law under the 1994 WTO TRIPS Agreement, and specifically, the role that IP has played in enabling the inequities of production, distribution and pricing in the COVID-19 vaccine context. Given the failure of international response mechanisms, including COVAX and C-TAP, to address vaccine inequity, we argue the TRIPS waiver proposal sh…
Analysis of the institutional landscape and proliferation of proposals for global vaccine equity for Covid-19: Too many cooks or too many recipes
This article outlines and compares current and proposed global institutional mechanisms to increase equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, focusing on their institutional and operational complementarities and overlaps. It specifically considers the World Health Organization's (WHO’s) COVAX (COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access) model as part of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) initiative, the WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TA…
Building trust: Supervisees’ experience of power dynamics in transdisciplinary workplace supervision
The experience of power dynamics for five Irish supervisees attending transdisciplinary workplace supervision was explored through in-depth interviews and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Three superordinate themes were identified: Struggling to find my place in the organisation; Navigating through vulnerability; and Clicking into relationship. The supervision relationship was a source of both vulnerability and empow…
A narrative review of group analytic literature on clinical supervision: Seeking coherence and correspondence
A systematic narrative literature review was carried out with the aim of identifying key themes in the group analytic literature on clinical supervision, and to inform the development of theory, practice and research in this area. The systematic literature search identified 103 relevant publications, nearly all involving case vignettes of supervisory practice and theoretical reflections on group analytic supervision, with only a handful of publis…
Supporting Relational, Trauma-Informed Social Care Work with Autistic Adults: Evaluation of a Reflective Supervision Group Pilot
There is a growing body of literature highlighting the need for reflective supervision to support the often complex and challenging practice of social care workers. The current study aimed to explore an Irish social care team’s experience of a pilot reflective supervision group. The study participants were six male social care workers supporting autistic adults in the community. The team met for four one-monthly group supervision sessions, facili…
Freedom to Play
This paper explores a key theme in the development of a group analytic psychotherapy conductor’s training group. It is a story about the importance of play for healthy development and more flexible adult relationships. Some dialogues from the group’s work are included and considered, illustrating the value of dreams, metaphoric work, and rough-and-tumble play for personal and relational growth. Connections between self-reliance/responsibility, pl…
‘Trusting the Darkness’: An Exploration of Experiences of Professional Self‐Doubt Among Qualified Psychotherapists
Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Intellectual property (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Intellectual Property and Patents (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works)