Patricia Mcnamara
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3917468 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Patricia Mcnamara |
| PRENOMES | Patricia |
| SOBRENOME | Mcnamara |
| ASSINATURA | MCNAMARA P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3011-0177 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Research relationalities
Purpose The challenge of recruiting participants from hidden and hard-to-reach groups to sensitive qualitative interviews is well-established. This article brings together recent thinking on trauma-informed research and research relationalities to consider methods of reaching diverse populations effectively and ethically. Design/methodology/approach The article draws from a research study on gender-based violence (GBV) in higher education in Irel…
Towards coherence
This article examines the complex landscape of post-primary school leadership networks in Ireland at a time of increasing policy attention to leadership sustainability and system reform. Despite the prominence of networks for post-primary principals and deputy principals in Ireland, conceptual ambiguity persists regarding their purpose, function and impact. Offering social capital as a useful perspective for interpreting the relational dynamics w…
Age Matters
This study examines educators’ perceptions of diversity prioritisation in leadership promotion practices within primary and post-primary schools in the Republic of Ireland, with particular attention to generational differences informed by generational cohort theory. Using a quantitative, cross-sectional design, data were collected via an anonymous online survey (N = 123). Participants, comprising practising teachers and school leaders, rated thei…
Distributed leadership in Irish post-primary schools
Distributed leadership is currently to the forefront of emerging educational leadership literature, policy, and practice. It is suggested that the pressures exerted on schools during the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in distributed leadership becoming a default leadership style in schools. The adoption of a distributed leadership approach is supported by Irish school policy, yet little is known about its implementation. The aim of this study wa…
Serving families living in poverty
This article presents findings from a cross-national qualitative study that examined how frontline practitioners engage with poverty in their everyday work with families with children. Drawing on qualitative responses to four open-ended questions from an international survey (n = 634), the study brought together practitioner accounts from ten countries: Australia, China, Germany/Switzerland, 2 Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the US. U…
Gendered Perceptions of Diversity in Educational Leadership Promotions in Irish Schools
This study examines educators’ perceptions of diversity in promotional practices within the Irish context through the lens of Gender Schema Theory (GST). Although women constitute the majority of the teaching workforce, they remain underrepresented at senior leadership levels, highlighting persistent gender disparities. Using survey data from 123 educators, this study investigates how gender shapes perceptions of the role of diversity in promotio…
Exploring diversity in principal promotions
The role of school principals is pivotal in enhancing pupil achievement, second only to high-quality classroom instruction. Yet, despite growing global diversity, school leadership remains largely homogeneous, with women and ethnic minorities significantly underrepresented. This systematic review examines diversity in principal promotions across primary and postprimary schools. Twenty-five empirical studies published between January 2015 and Marc…
Perceptions of Diversity in School Leadership Promotions
This initial exploratory study examined the perceptions of teachers and school leaders in the Republic of Ireland regarding diversity in promotions to school principalship, framed by Equity Theory, Organisational Justice Theory, and Legitimacy Theory. A mixed-methods approach was utilised within this study. Data was collected from 123 participants via an online survey comprising Likert-type statements and open-ended questions. This data was analy…
They just want people in their lives that will be there forever
Building Knowledge Across Borders
Enactment of Transformational School Leadership—Insights from Primary School and System Leaders
Transformational leadership has been proposed as an approach that can inspire effective change. How this is manifest in schools is understudied in Irish primary schools, which have undergone significant change in recent years. The focus of this qualitative research study was primary school and system leaders’ knowledge of transformational school leadership, perceived benefits, limitations, and feasibility, and how transformational school leadersh…
School leaders' experiences and perceptions of the movement of Ukrainian child refugees into Irish schools
In March 2022, Ireland's minister for education announced that Irish schools were taking in student refugees from the Ukraine. This study explores Irish school leaders' experiences of this transition through qualitative research incorporating semi-structured interviews with six school leaders. Findings reveal a phased process focussing initially on introducing students to the school community followed by the introduction of students into the scho…
School self-evaluation and empowering leadership in Deis schools
School leadership and school self-evaluations (SSE) have emerged as central to school improvement and effectiveness. In Irish policy, SSE has had a challenging history as several attempts to embed SSEs have been met by poor clarity around roles of responsibility, a moratorium on middle leadership appointments and more laterally, a global pandemic. However, schools providing for students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, known as D…
My Core Is Cracked”—Bullying in Higher Education as a Traumatic Process
Sectoral and institutional context[s] are critical to understanding how workplace toxicity manifests and how it might best be addressed. The education sector, specifically higher education, is the focus of this study, drawing on qualitative data collected from Irish Higher Education Institutions [HEIs]. Underpinned by a multi-faceted conceptualisation of bullying, the study explores how it is experienced by university staff and how institutional …
An Applied Approach to Transformational Leadership for Whole School Communities
This paper examines the vision, strategy and leadership support structures for Irish primary schools where leadership is specifically referenced, with focus on links to transformational and distributed school leadership. Of particular interest is how transformational and distributed leadership models could aid effective and sustainable leadership enactment in times of exceptional change. This article offers new insights into primary school and sy…
Impact of trauma and placement in residential or congregate care on the criminalisation of children in England/Wales and Australia
Children in residential care have the most complex needs of all children growing up in Out-of-Home care (OOHC), due to complex trauma from pre-care experiences of abuse and neglect, inadequate therapeutic supports while in care and significant placement instability. Some argue that residential care settings are intrinsically criminogenic, as evidenced by significant over-representation of this cohort in youth justice. However, little is known abo…
Kinship care in the welfare system
Distributed Leadership in Irish Post-Primary Schools
School leaders have faced significant challenges since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Distributed leadership has become the default leadership response implemented by schools to manage increased pressure. While Irish schools have traditionally operated behind a ‘closed-door’, there has recently been a movement towards a shared model of leadership, and Irish school leadership policy currently endorses the adoption of a distributed leaders…
Leadership Opportunities in the School Setting
The focus of this study was to explore teachers’ and middle school leaders’ perspectives of promotional policies and practices within the schools where they work. As this was an initial scoping study, a qualitative approach was adopted. Fifteen teachers and/or middle school leaders participated in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was employed for data analysis. Themes that emerged from the data included a mix of perceptions, in that …
The Impact of Transformational School Leadership on School Staff and School Culture in Primary Schools—A Systematic Review of International Literature
The purpose of this review is to examine transformational school leadership, responding to the question: ‘What is the research evidence in the international literature pertaining to the impact of transformational school leadership in primary schools on school staff and school culture?’. This review presents a synthesis of 15 studies performed between 2012 to 2022. The data are presented within a framework constructed from the dimensions and chara…
Care does not just belong at home
This paper presents an examination of the first author’s experiences and unique positioning as a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI hereafter) survivor in doctorate supervision. Autoethnography was used to connect her personal to her cultural experience in this environment where the voices of both supervisors and student enrich doctoral supervision practices. We explore the complex intersections of the first co-author’s experience relating to neurodiver…
An innovative research approach for inclusion studies for those with Traumatic Brain Injury
Students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often marginalized in terms of participation in higher education because of an implicit association of TBI with less academic functioning. The first named author is a Ph.D. scholar who aimed to add her voice to the voices of others and examine the lived experience of students with the same condition to identify possible supports that would enhance inclusion in higher education. This research was driv…
Distributed Leadership
Distributed leadership has enjoyed increased popularity, becoming a prevalent model of school leadership. The focus of distributed leadership is to foster shared leadership practices thereby enhancing school culture and practice. Despite multiple literature reviews that sought to yield greater understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of distributed leadership, there is little focus on empirical research on distributed leadership in post-pri…
The Real Deal
Recognition of the importance of authentic leadership is growing in popularity amonleadership scholars. However, little remains known about how it is valued or received among practicing school leaders. The purpose of this research was to explore the perspectives and experiences of school leaders with reference to authentic leadership in Irish primary school leaders. As this is a scoping study, a qualitative research design was adopted, using semi…
Staff Stress and Interpersonal Conflict in Secondary Schools—Implications for School Leadership
The importance of school leadership and workplace stress is a recurring theme in education-based research. The literature reports that workplace stress in teaching is a difficult matter to resolve, with mixed outcomes from interventions. The aim of this initial scoping study was to report on the experiences of school leaders with interpersonal conflict (IPC), a known cause of this workplace stress. Accordingly, a sample of twelve school leaders w…
Passports out of poverty
Safety as a Fifth Dimension in Supervision
Child and family practice is recognised as a field of social work that has become increasingly complex. While evidence is growing in relation to effective supervision, there has been little research about the attributes of an effective supervisor, or the components of effective supervision. This paper reports on research undertaken in Victoria, Australia, which explored practitioners’ and supervisors’ experiences of effective supervision in this …
Authentic inclusion-utopian thinking? – Irish post-primary teachers' perspectives of inclusive education
An Introduction to Family Social Work
An Introduction to Family Social Work Donald Collins, Catheleen Jordan, & Heather Coleman Belmont, CA, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2007 393 pp., ISBN 049509224X, US$99.95 (paperback) When I first became e
Improving outcomes for children in out‐of‐home care
How best to support children and young people in foster care remains a challenge for child welfare. There has been little Australian research on the outcomes for children and young people placed in therapeutic foster care (TFC). This article aims to address this knowledge gap, presenting the evaluation of a state‐wide model of TFC known as the Circle Program operating in Victoria, Australia. Data sources for the study were case assessment analysi…
The Dark Side of School Culture
The extant literature evidences the link between incivility and workplace culture. Both have a symbiotic relationship whereby a change in one influences the other. When workplace cultures develop dysfunctional values and beliefs, negative traditions, and caustic ways of interacting, they have become “toxic cultures.” This study examined Irish post-primary school teachers’ experiences of incivility and toxic culture in the workplace through in-dep…
Strengthening kinship families
Kinship care is the fastest growing form of out‐of‐home care in A ustralia, as it is in many other countries. The V ictorian G overnment's response has been to establish 18 programmes across the state to provide support to kinship families. The scoping project described here, based on interviews with key programme staff, explores the experiences of the new programmes in providing support, specifically respite care, to kinship families. It has pro…
They just want people in their lives that will be there forever
The Impact of Transformational School Leadership on School Staff and School Culture in Primary Schools—A Systematic Review of International Literature
The purpose of this review is to examine transformational school leadership, responding to the question: ‘What is the research evidence in the international literature pertaining to the impact of transformational school leadership in primary schools on school staff and school culture?’. This review presents a synthesis of 15 studies performed between 2012 to 2022. The data are presented within a framework constructed from the dimensions and chara…
Incivility in Higher Education
This paper explores the lived experience of incivility for neurodiverse students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Ireland. The higher education (HE) environment can be challenging for students with TBI. Incivility is common in higher education, and students with disabilities such as TBI are often marginalized within academia, making them more vulnerable to incivility. For this paper, data are drawn from the first author’s autoethnographic stu…
Uprooted from Everything that Attaches You’
This article reports the in-care and post-care experience of people who lived in Australian child-welfare systems as children from 1930 to 1989. The research utilised a mixed-methods design including surveys, interviews and focus groups, and the sample comprised over 700 care-leavers across Australia. This manuscript reports specifically on the experience of the British Child Migrant cohort within the study. Their experience was often characteris…
A new role for social work in remote Australia
Farming families in rural and remote parts of the world are often marginalized from social care. This article describes a phenomenological exploration of problems presenting to financial counsellors in remote south-eastern Australia. Individual and family issues, referral processes and professional competencies have been identified, along with suggested changes to service delivery. Complex psycho-social difficulties are revealed. Financial counse…
Changed forever
Australian women killed by their partners have often been understood to come from backgrounds of poverty and marginalization. However, it has become clear that a number of more affluent women also fall victim to intimate partner homicide. Notwithstanding their socio-economic status, it seems that women victims of lethal violence lack the power to protest. This paper describes qualitative case study research with middle-class women friends1 of a v…
Engaging Italian and Australian social workers in evaluation
English For social work researchers, engaging managers and practitioners in evaluation has always proved complex. A recent international seminar facilitated a comparison of challenges and opportunities for undertaking collaborative research evaluations in Italy and Australia. Issues concerning motivation and resistance regarding the evaluation process are discussed, along with the role for social work education. French Pour les chercheurs en trav…
Leadership Opportunities in the School Setting
The focus of this study was to explore teachers’ and middle school leaders’ perspectives of promotional policies and practices within the schools where they work. As this was an initial scoping study, a qualitative approach was adopted. Fifteen teachers and/or middle school leaders participated in semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was employed for data analysis. Themes that emerged from the data included a mix of perceptions, in that …
The Neoliberal University in Ireland
New managerialism and the pervasive neoliberalisation of universities is by now a well-established phenomenon. Commentaries explore the political and economic drivers and effects of neoliberal ideology, and critique the impact on higher education and academic work. The impact on the health and well-being of academic staff has had less attention, and it is to that we turn in this paper. Much academic interest in neoliberalism stems from the UK, Au…
Creating ‘Deep Knowledge’ and Transformative Change
In a context of rapidly changing social and economic conditions and increasing practice complexity, critical research perspectives can create in-depth explanatory knowledge for social work practice. Drawing on a broader knowledge base, these approaches provide a comprehensive view of social phenomena and the causes of personal and social harm. They also offer a framework to guide ethical intervention based on principles of collaboration, social j…
An Enlightened Environment? Workplace Bullying and Incivility in Irish Higher Education
This study explores the experiences of workplace ill-treatment of academic staff in the Irish Higher Education sector, with a focus on organizational response to experienced or witnessed workplace bullying and/or incivility. Workplace bullying is a significant problem, affecting approximately 15% of the workforce, with considerable variation by sector. Educational workplaces typically display prevalence rates that exceed average workplace bullyin…
The Debate on Popular Religion in Italy
Journal Article The Debate on Popular Religion in Italy Get access Enzo Pace Enzo Pace The University of Padua Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 1979, Pages 71–75, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710498 Published: 01 March 1979
An evaluation of follow-up methods in the Framingham Heart Study
An evaluation of follow-up methods in the Framingham Heart Study. G D Friedman, W B Kannel, T R Dawber, and P M McNamaraCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.57.6.1015 Published Online: August 29, 2011
The role of impaired cardiac function in atherothrombotic brain infarction
The role of impaired cardiac function in atherothrombotic brain infarction: the Framingham study. P A Wolf, W B Kannel, P M McNamara, and T GordonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.63.1.52 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Debate on Popular Religion in Italy
Journal Article The Debate on Popular Religion in Italy Get access Enzo Pace Enzo Pace The University of Padua Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 1979, Pages 71–75, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710498 Published: 01 March 1979
Obesity as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease
The relationship between the degree of obesity and the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) was reexamined in the 5209 men and women of the original Framingham cohort. Recent observations of disease occurrence over 26 years indicate that obesity, measured by Metropolitan Relative Weight, was a significant independent predictor of CVD, particularly among women. Multiple logistic regression analyses showed that Metropolitan Relative Weight, or…
Changed forever
Australian women killed by their partners have often been understood to come from backgrounds of poverty and marginalization. However, it has become clear that a number of more affluent women also fall victim to intimate partner homicide. Notwithstanding their socio-economic status, it seems that women victims of lethal violence lack the power to protest. This paper describes qualitative case study research with middle-class women friends1 of a v…
Engaging Italian and Australian social workers in evaluation
English For social work researchers, engaging managers and practitioners in evaluation has always proved complex. A recent international seminar facilitated a comparison of challenges and opportunities for undertaking collaborative research evaluations in Italy and Australia. Issues concerning motivation and resistance regarding the evaluation process are discussed, along with the role for social work education. French Pour les chercheurs en trav…
In Search of Belonging
Harris Perlita (Ed.) London, British Association for Adoption & Fostering, 2006 xiv + 395 pp., ISBN 1903699770 or 9781903699775, £17.95 (paperback) I knew that this was going to be a tricky review
An Introduction to Family Social Work
An Introduction to Family Social Work Donald Collins, Catheleen Jordan, & Heather Coleman Belmont, CA, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2007 393 pp., ISBN 049509224X, US$99.95 (paperback) When I first became e
The influence of professional factors in determining primary school teachers' commitment to health promotion
The objectives of the study were to identify the professional issues that teachers perceived as important in their commitment to a health promotion (HP) programme launched in their schools and to understand their perceptions of the impact of the programme on themselves as professionals, individuals, on students, on school staff and on the relationship with students' families. A mixed methods design was used. An anonymous questionnaire was distrib…
Gender implications of the teaching of relationships and sexuality education for health-promoting schools
Relationships and sexuality education (RSE) was introduced in Irish schools in 1995 to address pressures on young people specific to relationships and sexuality. RSE is part of a whole school health promotion project. Emphasis is put on personal and social development of students, cross-curricular dimensions, school ethos, school climate and partnership with families and community. However, RSE has become the preserve of female teachers with fewe…
Tackling social and health inequalities
International audience
Strengthening kinship families
Kinship care is the fastest growing form of out‐of‐home care in A ustralia, as it is in many other countries. The V ictorian G overnment's response has been to establish 18 programmes across the state to provide support to kinship families. The scoping project described here, based on interviews with key programme staff, explores the experiences of the new programmes in providing support, specifically respite care, to kinship families. It has pro…
A new role for social work in remote Australia
Farming families in rural and remote parts of the world are often marginalized from social care. This article describes a phenomenological exploration of problems presenting to financial counsellors in remote south-eastern Australia. Individual and family issues, referral processes and professional competencies have been identified, along with suggested changes to service delivery. Complex psycho-social difficulties are revealed. Financial counse…
Psychological Distress and Coping amongst Higher Education Students
BACKGROUND: Psychological distress among higher education students is of global concern. Students on programmes with practicum components such as nursing and teacher education are exposed to additional stressors which may further increase their risk for psychological distress. The ways in which these students cope with distress has potential consequences for their health and academic performance. An in-depth understanding of how nursing/midwifery…
Screening for neurocognitive impairment, depression, and anxiety in HIV-infected patients in Western Europe and Canada
CRANIum, a cross-sectional epidemiology study in Western Europe and Canada, was conducted to describe and compare the prevalence of a positive screen for neurocognitive impairment (NCI), depressive symptoms, and anxiety in an HIV-positive population either receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) or who were naive to antiretroviral therapy (ART). HIV-positive patients ≥18 years of age attending a routine medical follow-up visit and abl…
Psychological distress and lifestyle of students
Poor diet, physical inactivity, tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption are major risk factors for chronic disease and premature mortality. These behaviours are of concern among higher education students and may be linked to psychological distress which is problematic particularly for students on programmes with practicum components such as nursing and teaching. Understanding how risk behaviours aggregate and relate to psychological distress and …
Safety as a Fifth Dimension in Supervision
Child and family practice is recognised as a field of social work that has become increasingly complex. While evidence is growing in relation to effective supervision, there has been little research about the attributes of an effective supervisor, or the components of effective supervision. This paper reports on research undertaken in Victoria, Australia, which explored practitioners’ and supervisors’ experiences of effective supervision in this …
Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Youth
The International Work Group for Therapeutic Residential Care convened an International Summit on ‘Pathways to Evidence-Based Practice’ at Loughborough University (GBR), Centre for Child and Fami...
Improving outcomes for children in out‐of‐home care
How best to support children and young people in foster care remains a challenge for child welfare. There has been little Australian research on the outcomes for children and young people placed in therapeutic foster care (TFC). This article aims to address this knowledge gap, presenting the evaluation of a state‐wide model of TFC known as the Circle Program operating in Victoria, Australia. Data sources for the study were case assessment analysi…
The effects of a 16-week aerobic exercise programme on cognitive function in people living with HIV
High levels of cardiovascular fitness and physical activity are associated with higher levels of cognitive function in people with HIV, thus, they may reduce the risk of developing HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND). This study aimed to investigate the effects of a 16-week aerobic exercise intervention on cognitive function in people with HIV. Eleven participants living with HIV were recruited into the study. Participants were randomis…
Bullying and incivility in higher education workplaces
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the lived experiences of workplace ill-treatment of administrative and technical staff in the higher education sector, with a particular focus on organisational response. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative interpretative phenomenological research design was employed. Using non-random, purposive sampling strategies nine self-selecting participants from three of the seven universities in the Re…
Authentic inclusion-utopian thinking? – Irish post-primary teachers' perspectives of inclusive education
Workplace bullying and redress procedures
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report the experiences of redress seeking and organisational responses for targets of bullying. Design/methodology/approach A phenomenological research design was adopted. In total, 22 primary teachers (seven males, 15 females) in Ireland were self-selected for interview, following an advertisement detailing the study in a national teacher union magazine. Data were analysed utilising an interpretative pheno…
Passports out of poverty
Uprooted from Everything that Attaches You’
This article reports the in-care and post-care experience of people who lived in Australian child-welfare systems as children from 1930 to 1989. The research utilised a mixed-methods design including surveys, interviews and focus groups, and the sample comprised over 700 care-leavers across Australia. This manuscript reports specifically on the experience of the British Child Migrant cohort within the study. Their experience was often characteris…
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