Siobhan O’sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4239016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siobhan O’sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siobhan |
| FAMILY NAME | O’sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | O’SULLIVAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1641-0026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Regeneration in Vulnerable Communities: Resident and Stakeholder Perspectives
This article assesses the implementation of a regeneration programme in a disadvantaged area in the south of Ireland, with particular focus on how residents in vulnerable circumstances have been supported in the face of multiple crises including economic recession and austerity, service reductions and cutbacks, risk of poverty and social exclusion, and neighbourhood change. The article draws on longitudinal qualitative and quantitative data gener…
The Ethics of Engagement and Representation in Community-based Participatory Research
This paper focuses on ethics in community-based participatory research (CBPR) from inception to post-publication. Central to CBPR is a collaborative, partnership approach that recognises the strengths of partners and engages their distinctive voice and knowledge in the research process. While the ethical complexities that arise in the course of research practice in CBPR can transcend individual projects, they are also grounded in the particularit…
Heart Rate Variability Indices as Possible Biomarkers for the Severity of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Following Pregnancy Loss
Background: Psychological distress, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is commonly evaluated using subjective questionnaires, a method prone to self-report bias. The study's working hypothesis was that levels of autonomic dysfunction determined by heart rate variability (HRV) measures are associated with the severity of PTSD in women following pregnancy loss. Methods: This was an observational prospective cohort study with 53 patients …
A Human Rights-based Approach to Participation
This article proposes a systematic approach to designing and assessing participatory processes, built from principles in the field of human rights. It argues that participatory processes should be organised around human rights principles which provide detailed but flexible guidance on participatory processes. Drawing from well-established human rights principles and the commentary of human rights bodies on participation, the article outlines a fr…
Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line
Frontline staff play a critical role in welfare-to-work delivery, making decisions about who gets selected for which supports and sanctions. Research on these street-level bureaucrats shows them rarely implementing policy exactly as written. Instead, they bring differing valuation frames and identity assessments to this work, resulting in different implementations of policy. Central to this selectivity is the way they type and classify different …
Listen to What We Have to Say”: Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Urban Regeneration
There is an important body of research that explores the contested understandings of urban regeneration programmes in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. While poor housing and living conditions must be tackled, regeneration programmes have been criticised for their destructive and displacement impacts on communities, their lack of public consultation and their reinforcement of the stigmatization of poor areas that draws “attention away from th…
Findings From a Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Child Protection Social Workers’ Retention: Job Embeddedness, Professional Confidence and Staying Narratives
The retention of social workers in child protection and welfare is an ongoing concern in many countries. While our knowledge based on the turnover of child protection and welfare social workers is growing, much less is known about ‘stayers’—those who undertake this work for over 10+ years. This article draws on the data gathered over a decade in Ireland on these social workers. The article addresses three questions: (i) What can we learn from soc…
Locked-in or Locked-out: Can a Public Services Market Really Change
Australia's welfare-to-work system has been subject to ongoing political contestation and policy reform since the 1990s. In this paper we take a big picture look at the Australian system over time, re-visiting our earlier analysis of the impact of marketisation on flexibility at the frontline over the first ten years of the Australian market in employment services. That analysis demonstrated that marketisation had failed to deliver the service fl…
Rap and Political Participation: Using Rap as a Creative Method in Research with Children and Young People
This article explores how rap music workshops can be an effective method when researching neighbourhood regeneration and refurbishment with children and young people, especially in disadvantaged communities. The article draws a research with 78 children and young people in a large social housing estate which is undergoing regeneration and refurbishment in Cork City in the South of Ireland. The focus of this article is on a sub-group of six teenag…
The symbolic representation of community in social isolation and loneliness among older people: Insights for intervention from a rural Irish case study
Social isolation and loneliness are common experiences of ageing in rural communities. Policy responses and interventions for social isolation and loneliness in later life are shaped by sociocultural understandings of place, relationships and social interaction. This study examined how representations of rural community in Ireland influenced the focus, relationships and activities within a befriending intervention designed to tackle social isolat…
Universities as key responders to education inequality
This paper explores the responsibility of the university sector to respond to educational inequality and to those with precarious relationships to education. The paper explores how although there are considerable benefits to be attained from higher education and lifelong learning, many people are dislocated from the university sector and feel that the university is not for them. It argues that the university sector must develop a community missio…
Animal Activists, Civil Disobedience and Global Responses to Transnational Injustice
A climate for self-efficacy: The relationship between school climate and teacher efficacy for inclusion
Teacher efficacy represents a key construct in exploring successful implementation of inclusive policy. Teachers’ impression of school climate is shown to relate to teacher efficacy; however, few studies pay due deference to its context/specific conceptualisation, with a particular lacuna in research noted in an Irish mainstream primary school context. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between school climate and efficacy for inclus…
“Low down Dirty Rat”: Popular and Moral Responses to Possums and Rats in Melbourne
Possums and rats are both found in large numbers in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The two species share much in common, including an ability to flourish among humans and a predisposition for building nests in houses and eating food and plants intended for humans. Yet despite numerous similarities possums and rats are afforded strikingly different levels of protection before the law. The death of a possum must be justified and carried out pain…
Political Legitimacy in Ireland During Economic Crisis: Insights from the European Social Survey
Since the 2008 economic crisis, there has been upheaval across Europe. In Ireland, the collapse of the banking, construction and property sectors, and the 2010 EU/International Monetary Fund loan and attached austerity conditions resulted in a dramatic election in 2011 that saw the removal of the dominant political party from power. Ireland provides an important case study to examine political legitimacy given the perceived culpability of politic…
Trespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement
Laying the Foundations for an International Animal Protection Regime
In this article we consider what form a future supranational animal protection regime might take. We conclude that no such regime exists at present, although one is likely to develop over the next couple of decades, with two viable options already on the horizon. One model would see the role of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) extended, whereas the other would occur within the context of the United Nations (UN). The former would sui…
Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics
Book Review| October 01 2012 Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics. By Tony Milligan. (London, England: Continuum, 2010. 168+xii pp. Paperback. $19.95. ISBN: 9781441157539.). Siobhan O’Sullivan Siobhan O’Sullivan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Animal Ethics (2012) 2 (2): 231–232. https://doi.org/10.5406/janimalethics.2.2.0231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share T…
Les réformes de l'activation des aides aux chômeurs en Australie
Le système d’emploi australien a été complètement reconstruit par trois gouvernements successifs ; aussi bien à droite qu’à gauche de l’échiquier politique, l’accord s’est fait sur une privatisation des services préférable au « tout public » ou à un système mixte État et opérateurs privés. Néanmoins, l’impact de la privatisation en Australie n’a pas toujours été anticipé. Dans cet article, nous soulignons comment le secteur de l’emploi a été exte…
The Politics of Being a Nonhuman Animal
The epigraph to this chapter is taken from the history of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the United Kingdom. It serves as a reminder of the insidious position many animals occupy. They are a central part of our economic system and work hard on our behalf. Yet they have no capacity to utilise political processes in order to defend their interests. Yes, a glorious change would result if animals were able to ta…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The words above were spoken in 1809 by Lord Erskine, on the floor of the British Parliament. He went on to describe how he purchased the horse in order to ensure the animal was put out of his misery. Erskine was trying to persuade his Westminster colleagues to enact the modern world’s first animal welfare statute. He was able to address Parliament with great passion on the topic of animal suffering because he, like his contemporaries, was regular…
Animal Visibility
Like many others, Republican speech writer and author Matthew Scully found the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle in the United Kingdom, prompted by the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, distressing and distasteful. However, as he rightly points out, the big difference between what occurred in that case and what happens to animals every other day is that foot-and-mouth disease generated wide media interest. So, on that particul…
Conclusion
I have worked to show that animal protection instruments throughout the Western world are biased. They were biased at the time the first statute was created in 1822 and have remained biased to the present day. I have termed this type of bias ‘the internal inconsistency’. It is internal because it tells us nothing about how we manage animals compared to humans. It only exposes problems with the way we treat animals in comparison to other animals. …
What’s Good for the Goose Should Also be Good for the Gander
In 1892 Henry Salt had little doubt that the emerging modern political state had the capacity to strongly protect the interests of animals, so long as the ‘humanitarians’ had the last laugh. I share his optimism. I am highly suspicious of claims that liberalism is an inherently anti-animal framework or that we must look to an entirely new political paradigm to comprehensively protect the interests of animals. Robert Garner may be correct when he …
Animal Inconsistencies
So wrote Peter Singer, the so-called father of the animal rights movement, in his 1975 classic Animal Liberation. The passage appears under the heading ‘All Animals are Equal...’ Yet Singer was not talking about just any old sort of equity, he was using the equity principle in a very particular way, whether he was aware of it or not. Singer’s concern was with a type of inequity or bias, which I have termed the ‘external inconsistency’. The extern…
Animals, Equality and Democracy
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to
Findings From a Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Child Protection Social Workers’ Retention: Job Embeddedness, Professional Confidence and Staying Narratives
The retention of social workers in child protection and welfare is an ongoing concern in many countries. While our knowledge based on the turnover of child protection and welfare social workers is growing, much less is known about ‘stayers’—those who undertake this work for over 10+ years. This article draws on the data gathered over a decade in Ireland on these social workers. The article addresses three questions: (i) What can we learn from soc…
A climate for self-efficacy: The relationship between school climate and teacher efficacy for inclusion
Teacher efficacy represents a key construct in exploring successful implementation of inclusive policy. Teachers’ impression of school climate is shown to relate to teacher efficacy; however, few studies pay due deference to its context/specific conceptualisation, with a particular lacuna in research noted in an Irish mainstream primary school context. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between school climate and efficacy for inclus…
Locked-in or Locked-out: Can a Public Services Market Really Change
Australia's welfare-to-work system has been subject to ongoing political contestation and policy reform since the 1990s. In this paper we take a big picture look at the Australian system over time, re-visiting our earlier analysis of the impact of marketisation on flexibility at the frontline over the first ten years of the Australian market in employment services. That analysis demonstrated that marketisation had failed to deliver the service fl…
Trespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement
The symbolic representation of community in social isolation and loneliness among older people: Insights for intervention from a rural Irish case study
Social isolation and loneliness are common experiences of ageing in rural communities. Policy responses and interventions for social isolation and loneliness in later life are shaped by sociocultural understandings of place, relationships and social interaction. This study examined how representations of rural community in Ireland influenced the focus, relationships and activities within a befriending intervention designed to tackle social isolat…
Political Legitimacy in Ireland During Economic Crisis: Insights from the European Social Survey
Since the 2008 economic crisis, there has been upheaval across Europe. In Ireland, the collapse of the banking, construction and property sectors, and the 2010 EU/International Monetary Fund loan and attached austerity conditions resulted in a dramatic election in 2011 that saw the removal of the dominant political party from power. Ireland provides an important case study to examine political legitimacy given the perceived culpability of politic…
The Ethics of Engagement and Representation in Community-based Participatory Research
This paper focuses on ethics in community-based participatory research (CBPR) from inception to post-publication. Central to CBPR is a collaborative, partnership approach that recognises the strengths of partners and engages their distinctive voice and knowledge in the research process. While the ethical complexities that arise in the course of research practice in CBPR can transcend individual projects, they are also grounded in the particularit…
A Human Rights-based Approach to Participation
This article proposes a systematic approach to designing and assessing participatory processes, built from principles in the field of human rights. It argues that participatory processes should be organised around human rights principles which provide detailed but flexible guidance on participatory processes. Drawing from well-established human rights principles and the commentary of human rights bodies on participation, the article outlines a fr…
Listen to What We Have to Say”: Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Urban Regeneration
There is an important body of research that explores the contested understandings of urban regeneration programmes in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. While poor housing and living conditions must be tackled, regeneration programmes have been criticised for their destructive and displacement impacts on communities, their lack of public consultation and their reinforcement of the stigmatization of poor areas that draws “attention away from th…
Rap and Political Participation: Using Rap as a Creative Method in Research with Children and Young People
This article explores how rap music workshops can be an effective method when researching neighbourhood regeneration and refurbishment with children and young people, especially in disadvantaged communities. The article draws a research with 78 children and young people in a large social housing estate which is undergoing regeneration and refurbishment in Cork City in the South of Ireland. The focus of this article is on a sub-group of six teenag…
Animal Activists, Civil Disobedience and Global Responses to Transnational Injustice
Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line
Frontline staff play a critical role in welfare-to-work delivery, making decisions about who gets selected for which supports and sanctions. Research on these street-level bureaucrats shows them rarely implementing policy exactly as written. Instead, they bring differing valuation frames and identity assessments to this work, resulting in different implementations of policy. Central to this selectivity is the way they type and classify different …
Universities as key responders to education inequality
This paper explores the responsibility of the university sector to respond to educational inequality and to those with precarious relationships to education. The paper explores how although there are considerable benefits to be attained from higher education and lifelong learning, many people are dislocated from the university sector and feel that the university is not for them. It argues that the university sector must develop a community missio…
Advocating for animals equally from within a liberal paradigm
Orthodox liberal thought rejects the notion that (some) non-human animals should be allocated justice on the same basis as humans. Extending human protection to animals would break down the human/animal divide. It would also have the effect of rendering many current animal uses morally illegitimate. However, the application of one set of standards to humans and another to animals is not the only way in which current animal protection trends harm …
Advocating for animals equally from within a liberal paradigm
Orthodox liberal thought rejects the notion that (some) non-human animals should be allocated justice on the same basis as humans. Extending human protection to animals would break down the human/animal divide. It would also have the effect of rendering many current animal uses morally illegitimate. However, the application of one set of standards to humans and another to animals is not the only way in which current animal protection trends harm …
The Politics of Being a Nonhuman Animal
The epigraph to this chapter is taken from the history of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the United Kingdom. It serves as a reminder of the insidious position many animals occupy. They are a central part of our economic system and work hard on our behalf. Yet they have no capacity to utilise political processes in order to defend their interests. Yes, a glorious change would result if animals were able to ta…
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
The words above were spoken in 1809 by Lord Erskine, on the floor of the British Parliament. He went on to describe how he purchased the horse in order to ensure the animal was put out of his misery. Erskine was trying to persuade his Westminster colleagues to enact the modern world’s first animal welfare statute. He was able to address Parliament with great passion on the topic of animal suffering because he, like his contemporaries, was regular…
Animal Visibility
Like many others, Republican speech writer and author Matthew Scully found the mass slaughter of hundreds of thousands of cattle in the United Kingdom, prompted by the 2001 foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, distressing and distasteful. However, as he rightly points out, the big difference between what occurred in that case and what happens to animals every other day is that foot-and-mouth disease generated wide media interest. So, on that particul…
Conclusion
I have worked to show that animal protection instruments throughout the Western world are biased. They were biased at the time the first statute was created in 1822 and have remained biased to the present day. I have termed this type of bias ‘the internal inconsistency’. It is internal because it tells us nothing about how we manage animals compared to humans. It only exposes problems with the way we treat animals in comparison to other animals. …
What’s Good for the Goose Should Also be Good for the Gander
In 1892 Henry Salt had little doubt that the emerging modern political state had the capacity to strongly protect the interests of animals, so long as the ‘humanitarians’ had the last laugh. I share his optimism. I am highly suspicious of claims that liberalism is an inherently anti-animal framework or that we must look to an entirely new political paradigm to comprehensively protect the interests of animals. Robert Garner may be correct when he …
Animal Inconsistencies
So wrote Peter Singer, the so-called father of the animal rights movement, in his 1975 classic Animal Liberation. The passage appears under the heading ‘All Animals are Equal...’ Yet Singer was not talking about just any old sort of equity, he was using the equity principle in a very particular way, whether he was aware of it or not. Singer’s concern was with a type of inequity or bias, which I have termed the ‘external inconsistency’. The extern…
Animals, Equality and Democracy
Animals, Equality and Democracy examines the structure of animal protection legislation and finds that it is deeply inequitable, with a tendency to favour those animals the community is most likely to
Laying the Foundations for an International Animal Protection Regime
In this article we consider what form a future supranational animal protection regime might take. We conclude that no such regime exists at present, although one is likely to develop over the next couple of decades, with two viable options already on the horizon. One model would see the role of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) extended, whereas the other would occur within the context of the United Nations (UN). The former would sui…
Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics
Book Review| October 01 2012 Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics Beyond Animal Rights: Food, Pets and Ethics. By Tony Milligan. (London, England: Continuum, 2010. 168+xii pp. Paperback. $19.95. ISBN: 9781441157539.). Siobhan O’Sullivan Siobhan O’Sullivan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Animal Ethics (2012) 2 (2): 231–232. https://doi.org/10.5406/janimalethics.2.2.0231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share T…
Les réformes de l'activation des aides aux chômeurs en Australie
Le système d’emploi australien a été complètement reconstruit par trois gouvernements successifs ; aussi bien à droite qu’à gauche de l’échiquier politique, l’accord s’est fait sur une privatisation des services préférable au « tout public » ou à un système mixte État et opérateurs privés. Néanmoins, l’impact de la privatisation en Australie n’a pas toujours été anticipé. Dans cet article, nous soulignons comment le secteur de l’emploi a été exte…
Trespass, Animals and Democratic Engagement
“Low down Dirty Rat”: Popular and Moral Responses to Possums and Rats in Melbourne
Possums and rats are both found in large numbers in the city of Melbourne, Australia. The two species share much in common, including an ability to flourish among humans and a predisposition for building nests in houses and eating food and plants intended for humans. Yet despite numerous similarities possums and rats are afforded strikingly different levels of protection before the law. The death of a possum must be justified and carried out pain…
Political Legitimacy in Ireland During Economic Crisis: Insights from the European Social Survey
Since the 2008 economic crisis, there has been upheaval across Europe. In Ireland, the collapse of the banking, construction and property sectors, and the 2010 EU/International Monetary Fund loan and attached austerity conditions resulted in a dramatic election in 2011 that saw the removal of the dominant political party from power. Ireland provides an important case study to examine political legitimacy given the perceived culpability of politic…
A climate for self-efficacy: The relationship between school climate and teacher efficacy for inclusion
Teacher efficacy represents a key construct in exploring successful implementation of inclusive policy. Teachers’ impression of school climate is shown to relate to teacher efficacy; however, few studies pay due deference to its context/specific conceptualisation, with a particular lacuna in research noted in an Irish mainstream primary school context. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between school climate and efficacy for inclus…
Universities as key responders to education inequality
This paper explores the responsibility of the university sector to respond to educational inequality and to those with precarious relationships to education. The paper explores how although there are considerable benefits to be attained from higher education and lifelong learning, many people are dislocated from the university sector and feel that the university is not for them. It argues that the university sector must develop a community missio…
Animal Activists, Civil Disobedience and Global Responses to Transnational Injustice
The symbolic representation of community in social isolation and loneliness among older people: Insights for intervention from a rural Irish case study
Social isolation and loneliness are common experiences of ageing in rural communities. Policy responses and interventions for social isolation and loneliness in later life are shaped by sociocultural understandings of place, relationships and social interaction. This study examined how representations of rural community in Ireland influenced the focus, relationships and activities within a befriending intervention designed to tackle social isolat…
Rap and Political Participation: Using Rap as a Creative Method in Research with Children and Young People
This article explores how rap music workshops can be an effective method when researching neighbourhood regeneration and refurbishment with children and young people, especially in disadvantaged communities. The article draws a research with 78 children and young people in a large social housing estate which is undergoing regeneration and refurbishment in Cork City in the South of Ireland. The focus of this article is on a sub-group of six teenag…
Listen to What We Have to Say”: Children and Young People’s Perspectives on Urban Regeneration
There is an important body of research that explores the contested understandings of urban regeneration programmes in areas of socio-economic disadvantage. While poor housing and living conditions must be tackled, regeneration programmes have been criticised for their destructive and displacement impacts on communities, their lack of public consultation and their reinforcement of the stigmatization of poor areas that draws “attention away from th…
Findings From a Longitudinal Qualitative Study of Child Protection Social Workers’ Retention: Job Embeddedness, Professional Confidence and Staying Narratives
The retention of social workers in child protection and welfare is an ongoing concern in many countries. While our knowledge based on the turnover of child protection and welfare social workers is growing, much less is known about ‘stayers’—those who undertake this work for over 10+ years. This article draws on the data gathered over a decade in Ireland on these social workers. The article addresses three questions: (i) What can we learn from soc…
Locked-in or Locked-out: Can a Public Services Market Really Change
Australia's welfare-to-work system has been subject to ongoing political contestation and policy reform since the 1990s. In this paper we take a big picture look at the Australian system over time, re-visiting our earlier analysis of the impact of marketisation on flexibility at the frontline over the first ten years of the Australian market in employment services. That analysis demonstrated that marketisation had failed to deliver the service fl…
Heart Rate Variability Indices as Possible Biomarkers for the Severity of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Following Pregnancy Loss
Background: Psychological distress, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is commonly evaluated using subjective questionnaires, a method prone to self-report bias. The study's working hypothesis was that levels of autonomic dysfunction determined by heart rate variability (HRV) measures are associated with the severity of PTSD in women following pregnancy loss. Methods: This was an observational prospective cohort study with 53 patients …
A Human Rights-based Approach to Participation
This article proposes a systematic approach to designing and assessing participatory processes, built from principles in the field of human rights. It argues that participatory processes should be organised around human rights principles which provide detailed but flexible guidance on participatory processes. Drawing from well-established human rights principles and the commentary of human rights bodies on participation, the article outlines a fr…
Good Clients and Hard Cases: The Role of Typologies at the Welfare Front Line
Frontline staff play a critical role in welfare-to-work delivery, making decisions about who gets selected for which supports and sanctions. Research on these street-level bureaucrats shows them rarely implementing policy exactly as written. Instead, they bring differing valuation frames and identity assessments to this work, resulting in different implementations of policy. Central to this selectivity is the way they type and classify different …
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