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Eileen Farrell is a lecturer in the Department of Humanities since 2010 . She lectures in the area of Sociology and Social policy. She is a qualified social care worker and has an MA in Social Work. Prior to taking up her lecturing post she worked as a residential social care worker . This involved caring for the children and young people within the home and supporting them in all aspects of their daily lives, working as a member of a social care team, interdisciplinary work, record keeping and report writing, key working and planning with individual children, supporting young people in their transition form care to independent living. She also worked as a Probation Officer for eight years and spent over six of these years working as a prison-based Probation Officer in Mountjoy (Men’s), Midlands and Portlaoise Prisons. She also worked as part of a community probation team for two years. While working for the Probation Service her role involved assessing the levels of risk of offending, providing risk assessment reports to the Court Services and the Parole Board, supporting offenders in the transition from prison to the community, facilitating group work and monitoring offenders within the community. During my time as a probation officer, she also supervised social work students who were on supervised professional practice placement from UCD and Trinity College Dublin.
She teaches the following subject areas, Social Policy, Sociology, Introduction to Social Care, Research Skills, Criminal Justice and Supervised Professional Practice Placements. Supervision of Dissertations at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
In 2020 she was the recipient of a Teaching Hero Award 2020 from the National Forum for Enhanced Teaching and Learning and the National Students Union of Ireland.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
National Certificate, Social Pedagogy , South East Technological University, Wexford Campus
2024
National Certificate, Supervision and Mentoring for Social Care Practice , South East Technological University
2023
National Certificate, Domestic Violence and Coercive Control , Limerick Institute of Technology
2021
Postgraduate Diploma, Restorative Practice, Conflict and Mediation. , Maynooth University
2018 → 2019
Postgraduate Diploma, Teaching and Learning
2012 → 2014
MA Social Science (Social Work) , University College Dublin
2000 → 2002
Bachelors Degree, Social Science (Sociology and Social Policy), University College Dublin
1998 → 2000
National Diploma, Applied Social Studies, Social Care., Athlone Institute of Technology
1995 → 1998
Director , Forward Steps ( Family Resource Centre) Tullow, Co. Carlow
15 Sep 2021 → …
External Examiner , Open Training College
2016 → 2020
Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Farrell, E. (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Byrne, L. (Organiser), Long, S. (Organiser), Farrell, E. (Member of programme committee) & Yelverton-Halpin, C. (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...