Staff

Caroline McGregor

Professor of Political Science and Sociology–Social Work

Senior Research Fellow, UNESCO Child and Family Centre
Programme Director for MA in Social Work

PhD, Department of Social Studies, Trinity College, 2000
BSS (Hons), Department of Social Studies, Trinity College, Dublin 2, 1992
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW), Trinity College, Dublin, 1992

Office: 224 Aras Moyola
Telephone: 353 (0)91 492027 
Email: caroline.mcgregornuigalway.ie

Member of Higher Education Academy, UK

Profile

Caroline McGregor (formerly known as Caroline Skehill) is Professor of Political Science and Sociology-Social Work. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre. She began employment in the University in August 2012. Prior to coming to NUI Galway, she was a Senior Lecturer at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast. She previously worked in Trinity College Dublin and has practiced as a child protection and welfare social worker. She has a particular interest in history of social work in Ireland and Europe, child protection and welfare social work, young people leaving care and use of history of the present as a critical methodology in social work research.

Teaching

Current Modules:

• SP605 Human Behaviour and the Social Environment (MA SWK)
• SP613 Health Promotion and Mental Health (MA SWK)
• SP607 Social Work, Law and Human Rights (MA SWK)
• SP612 Research Dissertation (MA SWK)
• SP689i & ii Childhood and Children Rights (BA, Level 3)

Research Interests

Research interests include:

• Child protection and welfare; interfacing family support and child protection; socio-legal perspectives
• Children in and Leaving Care
• History of social work in Europe
• History of the present methodologies

Selected Publications

Books

Kearney N & Skehill C (2005) (editors) Social Work in Ireland: Historical Perspectives. Institute of Public Administration, Dublin.

Skehill C (2004) History of the Present of Child Protection and Welfare Social Work in Ireland. Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter.

Skehill, C (1999) The Nature of Social Work in Ireland: A Historical Perspective. Edwin Mellen Press, Lampeter.

Buckley H, Skehill C & O Sullivan E (1997) Child Protection Practices in Ireland: A Case Study, Oak Tree Press, Dublin.

Skehill C & Satka M (2013) Exploring Innovative Methodologies in Time and Place to Analyse Child Protection Documents as Elements of Practice, Qualitative Social Work 12 (1) 57-72.

Satka M & Skehill C (2012) Michel Foucault and Dorothy Smith in Case File research: Strange Bed-Fellows or Complimentary Thinkers, Qualitative Social Work 11(2) 191-205.

Dima G & Skehill C (2011) Making Sense of Leaving Care: The Contribution of Bridges Model of Transition to Understanding the Psycho-Social Process, Children and Youth Services Review, 33, 2532-2539.

Satka M & Skehill C (2011) Guest Editorial: Special Issue, European History of Social Work, Social Work and Society 9 (2).

Skehill C (2010) History of Child Welfare and Protection Social Work in Northern Ireland: Finding Continuity amongst Discontinuity in Case Files from 1950-1968, Child Care in Practice 16(4) 309-326.

Satka M & Skehill C (2010) ’Child Care in Europe: History Reference Paper’ Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Skehill C (2010) ’History of Social Work in the Republic of Ireland’ Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Skehill C (2010) ’History of social work in the UK’; Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Skehill C (2010) ’History of Social Work in Northern Ireland’ Oxford Bibliographies On-line, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Greig M & Skehill C (2008) ’Increasing Staff & Student capacity to use the communication facility in Queens on Line in order to support learning and teaching on a BSW programme’ in Special Edition of Social Work Education on Use of ICT in Social Work, 27(6) 634-646.

Skehill C (2008) (Guest Editor) Looking Back While Moving forward: Historical Perspectives in Social Work. Special Edition of the British Journal of Social Work, Vol 38, No. 4.

Skehill C (2007) 'Researching the history of social work: Exposition of a history of the present approach', European Journal of Social Work, 10(4) 449-463.

Houston S, Skehill C, Pinkerton J & Campbell J (2005) 'Prying open the space for social work in the new millennium: four theoretical perspectives on transformative practice' Social Work and Social Sciences Review 12 (1) 35-52.

Supervision of Research

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