Alastair Christie
Biographic Data
| ID | 5799080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alastair Christie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alastair |
| FAMILY NAME | Christie |
| SIGNATURE | CHRISTIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4839-6270 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1922 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Welfare regimes and social workers' conceptions of social problems and professional roles: A comparative study of Chile, Ireland, Lithuania and Sweden
This article compares social work in countries representing four different welfare regimes: Chile, the Republic of Ireland (refer to elsewhere as ‘Ireland’), Lithuania and Sweden. The aim is to examine how social workers in different contexts refer to families’ complex needs, how contextual factors influence social workers’ positions and actions, and how they make sense of their work. Social workers in 15 focus groups, 4 per country except for Ch…
Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden
This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social work intersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for gender equality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structural barriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are considered more progressive as compared with the UK and Ireland. Here, we dr…
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…
What about the fathers? The presence and absence of the father in social work practice in England, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden—A comparative study
Within Northern Europe, gendered roles and responsibilities within the family have been challenged through an emergence of different family forms, increasing cultural diversity, and progressive developments in welfare policies. To varying degrees, welfare policies in different countries support a dual‐earner model and encourage men to be more active as fathers by reinforcing statutory rights and responsibilities. In child welfare practice, there …
Advocacy and surveillance: Primary schools teachers’ relationships with asylum-seeking mothers in Ireland
The article analyses the findings of a small-scale qualitative study in Ireland that examines interactions between asylum-seeking mothers and primary school teachers, and highlights the significance of teachers’ understandings of asylum in shaping home-school communications. Mothers and children in this study were living in Direct Provision, collective accommodation for asylum seekers in Ireland. The research identifies a number of concerns inclu…
Employment mobility or turnover? An analysis of child welfare and protection employee retention
Radical Social Work Today: Social Work at the Crossroads
Radical Social Work Today has been written to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Roy Bailey and Mike Brake's classic social work textbook, Radical Social Work (1975). Edited by Michael Lavalette, the co-ordinator of the Social Work Action Network, it includes chapters that reflect on the original publication and consider where radical social work is now. The original book informed a generation of social workers who wanted to …
Whiteness and the politics of ‘race’ in child protection guidelines in Ireland
Since the mid-1990s Ireland has been described in government documents as a ‘multi-cultural society’. This is partly in response to the significant number of migrants who have recently come to live in a country that has traditionally viewed itself in mono-cultural terms and as a country of emigration. This representation of Ireland as a multi-cultural society, which includes a growing number of ethnic minority groups, is also evident in governmen…
Contemporary Fathering. Theory, Policy and Practice
Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional identities in social work
This article is based on a study of men’s relationship to the social work profession in the North-West of England. It argues that men’s presence in the social work profession is accounted for in discourses of career motivation, of career choice, and of men social workers as heroes and/or ‘gentle-men’. The article considers how these negotiations between gender and professional identities might contribute to debates about the detraditionalization …
Unsettling the ‘social’ in social work: Responses to asylum seeking children in Ireland
The ‘social’ context in which social work is located is becoming increasingly unsettled by emerging patterns of mobility. Mobility is constrained for many social work service users who are trapped within disadvantaged areas, while for others it has become a forced necessity to cross national boundaries and inhabit uncertain status in their nations of destination. This article explores the responses of the social work profession to children seekin…
Responses of the social work profession to unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the Republic of Ireland
The Republic of Ireland is rapidly developing immigration legislation and policies to respond to its relatively new status as a destination for asylum seekers and refugees within the European Union. New political definitions of asylum seekers and refugees are being constructed in a country with its own history of mass emigration. At the same time, the economic growth that is making Ireland a more attractive destination for asylum seekers and refu…
Gender, ethics and social work An international study of students' perceptions at entry into social work education
The connections between gender, ethics and social work are complex. Based on a cross-national project, this article investigates how student social workers commencing their professional education in Australia, Canada, the USA and the UK rank the importance of selected social work aims. The equivocal findings from a statistical analysis of gender, age and university of enrolment pose interesting questions for further exploration
Men and Social Work
Men and Social Work: Theories and Practices
Gendered Discourses of Welfare, Men and Social Work
Critical commentary. Social work in Ireland
Journal Article Critical commentary. Social work in Ireland Get access A Christie A Christie Department of Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2001, Pages 141–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/31.1.141 Published: 01 February 2001
Life experience: A neglected form of knowledge in social work education and practice
The significance of ‘life experience’ for career choice has emerged as a key finding in our study of social work students at a British university. This article analyses those ‘life experiences’ which students identify as influencing their decision to become social workers. The findings raise questions about the status of ‘life experience’ as a form of knowledge in social work. They also point to the complex relationships between ‘life experiences…
A Proposed Code of Ethics for All Engineers
E NGINEERING is slowly establishing itself as a profession. Some people question whether it is a true or a business. Let us note how a is defined and then we can determine at once whether the term profession applies to engineering. A professional man must have obtained some preliminary attainments in special knowledge and some measure of learning, as distinguished from the mere skill that comes from experience as an administrator or as a mechanic
What about the fathers? The presence and absence of the father in social work practice in England, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden—A comparative study
Within Northern Europe, gendered roles and responsibilities within the family have been challenged through an emergence of different family forms, increasing cultural diversity, and progressive developments in welfare policies. To varying degrees, welfare policies in different countries support a dual‐earner model and encourage men to be more active as fathers by reinforcing statutory rights and responsibilities. In child welfare practice, there …
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…
Unsettling the ‘social’ in social work: Responses to asylum seeking children in Ireland
The ‘social’ context in which social work is located is becoming increasingly unsettled by emerging patterns of mobility. Mobility is constrained for many social work service users who are trapped within disadvantaged areas, while for others it has become a forced necessity to cross national boundaries and inhabit uncertain status in their nations of destination. This article explores the responses of the social work profession to children seekin…
Employment mobility or turnover? An analysis of child welfare and protection employee retention
Whiteness and the politics of ‘race’ in child protection guidelines in Ireland
Since the mid-1990s Ireland has been described in government documents as a ‘multi-cultural society’. This is partly in response to the significant number of migrants who have recently come to live in a country that has traditionally viewed itself in mono-cultural terms and as a country of emigration. This representation of Ireland as a multi-cultural society, which includes a growing number of ethnic minority groups, is also evident in governmen…
Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional identities in social work
This article is based on a study of men’s relationship to the social work profession in the North-West of England. It argues that men’s presence in the social work profession is accounted for in discourses of career motivation, of career choice, and of men social workers as heroes and/or ‘gentle-men’. The article considers how these negotiations between gender and professional identities might contribute to debates about the detraditionalization …
Advocacy and surveillance: Primary schools teachers’ relationships with asylum-seeking mothers in Ireland
The article analyses the findings of a small-scale qualitative study in Ireland that examines interactions between asylum-seeking mothers and primary school teachers, and highlights the significance of teachers’ understandings of asylum in shaping home-school communications. Mothers and children in this study were living in Direct Provision, collective accommodation for asylum seekers in Ireland. The research identifies a number of concerns inclu…
Responses of the social work profession to unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the Republic of Ireland
The Republic of Ireland is rapidly developing immigration legislation and policies to respond to its relatively new status as a destination for asylum seekers and refugees within the European Union. New political definitions of asylum seekers and refugees are being constructed in a country with its own history of mass emigration. At the same time, the economic growth that is making Ireland a more attractive destination for asylum seekers and refu…
Critical commentary. Social work in Ireland
Journal Article Critical commentary. Social work in Ireland Get access A Christie A Christie Department of Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2001, Pages 141–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/31.1.141 Published: 01 February 2001
Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden
This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social work intersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for gender equality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structural barriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are considered more progressive as compared with the UK and Ireland. Here, we dr…
Life experience: A neglected form of knowledge in social work education and practice
The significance of ‘life experience’ for career choice has emerged as a key finding in our study of social work students at a British university. This article analyses those ‘life experiences’ which students identify as influencing their decision to become social workers. The findings raise questions about the status of ‘life experience’ as a form of knowledge in social work. They also point to the complex relationships between ‘life experiences…
A Proposed Code of Ethics for All Engineers
E NGINEERING is slowly establishing itself as a profession. Some people question whether it is a true or a business. Let us note how a is defined and then we can determine at once whether the term profession applies to engineering. A professional man must have obtained some preliminary attainments in special knowledge and some measure of learning, as distinguished from the mere skill that comes from experience as an administrator or as a mechanic
Life experience: A neglected form of knowledge in social work education and practice
The significance of ‘life experience’ for career choice has emerged as a key finding in our study of social work students at a British university. This article analyses those ‘life experiences’ which students identify as influencing their decision to become social workers. The findings raise questions about the status of ‘life experience’ as a form of knowledge in social work. They also point to the complex relationships between ‘life experiences…
Men and Social Work
Men and Social Work: Theories and Practices
Gendered Discourses of Welfare, Men and Social Work
Critical commentary. Social work in Ireland
Journal Article Critical commentary. Social work in Ireland Get access A Christie A Christie Department of Applied Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2001, Pages 141–148, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/31.1.141 Published: 01 February 2001
Responses of the social work profession to unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the Republic of Ireland
The Republic of Ireland is rapidly developing immigration legislation and policies to respond to its relatively new status as a destination for asylum seekers and refugees within the European Union. New political definitions of asylum seekers and refugees are being constructed in a country with its own history of mass emigration. At the same time, the economic growth that is making Ireland a more attractive destination for asylum seekers and refu…
Gender, ethics and social work An international study of students' perceptions at entry into social work education
The connections between gender, ethics and social work are complex. Based on a cross-national project, this article investigates how student social workers commencing their professional education in Australia, Canada, the USA and the UK rank the importance of selected social work aims. The equivocal findings from a statistical analysis of gender, age and university of enrolment pose interesting questions for further exploration
Unsettling the ‘social’ in social work: Responses to asylum seeking children in Ireland
The ‘social’ context in which social work is located is becoming increasingly unsettled by emerging patterns of mobility. Mobility is constrained for many social work service users who are trapped within disadvantaged areas, while for others it has become a forced necessity to cross national boundaries and inhabit uncertain status in their nations of destination. This article explores the responses of the social work profession to children seekin…
Negotiating the uncomfortable intersections between gender and professional identities in social work
This article is based on a study of men’s relationship to the social work profession in the North-West of England. It argues that men’s presence in the social work profession is accounted for in discourses of career motivation, of career choice, and of men social workers as heroes and/or ‘gentle-men’. The article considers how these negotiations between gender and professional identities might contribute to debates about the detraditionalization …
Whiteness and the politics of ‘race’ in child protection guidelines in Ireland
Since the mid-1990s Ireland has been described in government documents as a ‘multi-cultural society’. This is partly in response to the significant number of migrants who have recently come to live in a country that has traditionally viewed itself in mono-cultural terms and as a country of emigration. This representation of Ireland as a multi-cultural society, which includes a growing number of ethnic minority groups, is also evident in governmen…
Contemporary Fathering. Theory, Policy and Practice
Radical Social Work Today: Social Work at the Crossroads
Radical Social Work Today has been written to mark the thirty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Roy Bailey and Mike Brake's classic social work textbook, Radical Social Work (1975). Edited by Michael Lavalette, the co-ordinator of the Social Work Action Network, it includes chapters that reflect on the original publication and consider where radical social work is now. The original book informed a generation of social workers who wanted to …
Employment mobility or turnover? An analysis of child welfare and protection employee retention
Advocacy and surveillance: Primary schools teachers’ relationships with asylum-seeking mothers in Ireland
The article analyses the findings of a small-scale qualitative study in Ireland that examines interactions between asylum-seeking mothers and primary school teachers, and highlights the significance of teachers’ understandings of asylum in shaping home-school communications. Mothers and children in this study were living in Direct Provision, collective accommodation for asylum seekers in Ireland. The research identifies a number of concerns inclu…
What about the fathers? The presence and absence of the father in social work practice in England, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden—A comparative study
Within Northern Europe, gendered roles and responsibilities within the family have been challenged through an emergence of different family forms, increasing cultural diversity, and progressive developments in welfare policies. To varying degrees, welfare policies in different countries support a dual‐earner model and encourage men to be more active as fathers by reinforcing statutory rights and responsibilities. In child welfare practice, there …
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…
Gender, Parenting and Practices in Child Welfare Social Work? A Comparative Study from England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden
This article explores ways in which gender equality, family policy and child welfare social work intersect in four countries: England, Ireland, Norway and Sweden. Over time, conditions for gender equality in parenting have improved, partly due to family policy developments removing structural barriers. These changes, however, vary between countries; Sweden and Norway are considered more progressive as compared with the UK and Ireland. Here, we dr…
Welfare regimes and social workers' conceptions of social problems and professional roles: A comparative study of Chile, Ireland, Lithuania and Sweden
This article compares social work in countries representing four different welfare regimes: Chile, the Republic of Ireland (refer to elsewhere as ‘Ireland’), Lithuania and Sweden. The aim is to examine how social workers in different contexts refer to families’ complex needs, how contextual factors influence social workers’ positions and actions, and how they make sense of their work. Social workers in 15 focus groups, 4 per country except for Ch…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Social Work (15 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Research in Social Sciences (6 works)