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Courses
Courses
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University Life
University Life
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About University of Galway
About University of Galway
Since 1845, University of Galway has been sharing the highest quality teaching and research with Ireland and the world. Find out what makes our University so special – from our distinguished history to the latest news and campus developments.
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Colleges & Schools
Colleges & Schools
University of Galway has earned international recognition as a research-led university with a commitment to top quality teaching across a range of key areas of expertise.
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Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
University of Galway’s vibrant research community take on some of the most pressing challenges of our times.
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Business & Industry
Guiding Breakthrough Research at University of Galway
We explore and facilitate commercial opportunities for the research community at University of Galway, as well as facilitating industry partnership.
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Alumni & Friends
Alumni & Friends
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Community Engagement
Community Engagement
At University of Galway, we believe that the best learning takes place when you apply what you learn in a real world context. That's why many of our courses include work placements or community projects.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
| Year | Publication |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Carroll, B., Walsh, K., O’Neill, M., Poli, A., Vogel, C. & Moreau, E., (2025), Older Adult Grassroots Organisations Supporting Just Transitions in Multifaceted Engagement: Digital and Organisational Transformations, Ageing and Society, 1-27. |
| 2025 | Zhou, J., Walsh, K., Mahon, M. & O'Connor, N., (2025), Policy Discourses on Homecare Services for Rural Older People in Ireland: Spatial and Age-Based Drivers of Narratives and Absences, Journal of Rural Studies, 116. |
| 2024 | Carroll, B. & Walsh, K., (2024), Interrogating the Effectiveness of Service Engagement for Underserved Populations in Complex Health and Social Care Systems: Towards an Equitable Engagement Strategy, International Journal for Equity in Health, 23(1),197 |
| 2024 | Leime, A. N., O’Neill, M., Pospisilova, M., Jandric, J., & Krekula, C., (2024), The Implications of Health for Retirement Decisions for Nurses in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Sweden and the UK, Innovation in Aging, 8(1), 299. |
| 2024 | Walsh, K., Carroll, B., O'Shea, E., & O'Donovan, D., (2024), Countering Social Exclusion through Inclusive Homecare Provision: Utilising a Participatory Life-Course approach to Influence Policy, Social Science & Medicine, 352, 117003. |
| 2023 | Carroll, B., Walsh, K., Scharf, T., O'Donovan, D. & Keogh, S., (2023), Positive Health and Ageing Policies for Older Irish Travellers and Older People Who Have Experienced Homelessness in Ireland: Life-Course Meanings and Determinants, Social Science & Medicine, 336, 116264. |
| 2023 | Walsh, K., & Urbaniak, A., (2023), Social Exclusion and Critical Transitions in Later Life: Trajectories, Forms and Mechanisms, Journal of Aging Studies, 65, 101137. |
| 2022 | Hopf, S., Walsh, K., & Georgantzi, N. (2022), Social Patterns of Ageism: Expert Perspectives from Austria and Ireland, Ageing and Society, 44(1), 79-103. |
| 2022 | Ní Léime, Á., O’Neill, M., Schrage-Früh, M. & Tracy, T., (2022), Wedded to the Land? Representations of Rural Ageing Masculinities in Irish Culture and Society, Journal of Aging Studies, 63, 101058. |
| 2022 | O’Neill, M. & Ní Léime, Á., (2022), ‘In a Hospital Bed or… Out Doing Indiana Jones’: Older Irish Men’s Negotiations of Cultural Representations of Ageing, Ageing & Society, 43(11), 2721-2744. |
| 2022 | Walsh, K., Carroll, B., MacFarlane, A., O¿Donovan, D., & Cush, P., (2021), Life-Course Marginalities of Positive Health and Aging: A Participatory Approach Integrating the Lived Experiences of Older Irish Travelers and Older Homeless Adults in Multistakeholder Research Processes, Qualitative Health Research, 32(7), 1139-1152. |
| 2021 | Aartsen, M., Walsh, K., Villar, F., Lowenstein, A., Katz, R., Naim, S., Motel-Klingebiel, A., Wanka, A., Urbaniak, A., Hansen, T., & Vidovićová, L., (2021), Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life and the Role of Gender: A Heuristic Model, Gender Studies, 1, 16-35. |
| 2021 | Hansen, T., Kafková, M. P., Katz, R., Lowenstein, A., Naim, S., Pavlidis, G., Villar, F., Walsh, K. & Aartsen, M., (2021), Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life: Micro- and Macro-Level Patterns and Correlations in a European Perspective, Int. J. Environ, Res. Public Health, 18, 12418. |
| 2021 | Hopf, S., Previtali, F. & Georgantzi, N., (2021), New Forms of Ageism as a Challenge for a UN Convention on the Rights of Older Persons, University of Toronto Quarterly, 90(2), 242–62. |
| 2021 | Hopf, S., Walsh, K., Flynn, E. & Georgantzi, N , (2021), The Relationship between Ageism and Well-Being as Mediated through COVID-19-Related Experiences and Discourses, Int. J. Environ, Res. Public Health, 18, 10490. |
| 2021 | Isakjee, A. & Carroll, B., (2021), Blood, Body and Belonging: The Geographies of Halal Food Consumption in the UK, Social and Cultural Geography, 22(4), 581-602 |
| 2021 | Keogh, S., O’Neill, S. & Walsh, K., (2021), Composite Measures for Assessing Multidimensional Social Exclusion in Later Life: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges, Social Indicators Research, 155, 389-410. |
| 2021 | MacInnes, H., Walsh, K. & Österberg, T., (2021), The Inverse Care Law and the Significance of Income for Utilization of Long-Term Care Services in a Nordic Welfare State, Social Science & Medicine, 282, 114125. |
| 2021 | McDonald, B., Scharf, T., & Walsh, K., (2021), Older People’s Lived Experience and the World Health Organization Age-Friendly Policy Framework: A Critical Examination of an Age-Friendly County Programme in Ireland, Ageing & Society, 43(8), 1784-1809. |
| 2021 | Ní Léime, Á., and O’Neill, M., (2021), The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Working Lives and Retirement Timing of Older Nurses in Ireland, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(19), 10060. |
| 2020 | Buffel, T., Rémillard-Boilard, S., Walsh, K., McDonald, B., Smetcoren, A., & De Donder, L. (2020), Age-Friendly Approaches and Old-Age Exclusion: A Cross-City Analysis, International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, Advance Access, 14(2). |
| 2020 | Cush, P., Walsh, K., Carroll, B., O'Donovan, D., Keogh, S., Scharf, T., MacFarlane, A., & O'Shea, E. (2020), Positive Health Among Older Traveller and Older Homeless Adults: A Scoping Review of Life‐Course and Structural Determinants, Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(6), 1961-1978. |
| 2020 | Urbaniak, A. & Walsh, K., (2020), The Interrelationship between Place and Critical Life Transitions in Later Life Social Exclusion: A Scoping Review , Health & Place, 60, 102234. |
| 2019 | Ní Léime, Á. & Street, D., (2019), Working Later in the USA and Ireland: Implications for Precariously and Securely Employed Women, Ageing & Society, 39(10), 2194-2218. |
| 2019 | Ní Léime, Á. & Ogg, J., (2019), Gendered Impacts of Extended Working Life on the Health and Economic Wellbeing of Older Workers in Europe, Ageing & Society, 39(10). |
| 2019 | Walsh, K., O’Shea, E. & Scharf, T., (2019), Rural Old-Age Social Exclusion: A Conceptual Framework on Mediators of Exclusion Across The Life Course, Ageing & Society, 40(11), 2311-2337. |
| 2019 | Walsh, K. & Scharf, T., (2019), Social Exclusion of Older People: Life-Course and Jurisdictional Dynamics of Multidimensional Disadvantage - Foreword Life Course Dynamics and Multidimensional Disadvantages – Special Issue, Retraite et société, 81, 9-15. |
| 2018 | Galli, F., Hebinck, A. & Carroll, B., (2018), Addressing Food Poverty in Systems: Governance of Food Assistance in Three European Countries, Food Security, 10(6), 1353-1370 |
| 2018 | Hebinck, A., Galli, F., Arcuri, S., Carroll, B., O’Connor, D. & Oostindie, H., (2018), Capturing Change in European Food Assistance Practices: A Transformative Social Innovation Perspective, Local Environment, 23(4), 398-413 |
| 2018 | Moragues-Faus, A. & Carroll, B., (2018), Reshaping Urban Political Ecologies: An Analysis of Policy Trajectories to Deliver Food Security, Food Security, 10(6), 1337-1351 |
| 2017 | Duvvury, N., Ní Léime, Á. & Callan, A., (2017), Erosion of Pension Rights: Experiences of Women in Ireland, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 5(3), 266–294. |
| 2017 | Ní Léime, Á. & Street, D., (2017), Gender and Age Implications of Extended Working Life Policies in the US and Ireland, Critical Social Policy, 37(3), 464-483. |
| 2017 | Ní Léime, Á., (2017), Older Women Public Sector Workers in Ireland: Decisions about Retirement Timing, Journal of Women and Aging, 29(5), 392-404. |
| 2017 | Walsh, K., Scharf, T. & Keating, N., (2017), Social Exclusion of Older Persons: A Scoping Review and Conceptual Framework, European Journal of Ageing, 14(1), 81-98. |
| 2014 | Carroll, B. E. & Fahy, F., (2014), Locating the Locale of Local Food: The Importance of Context, Space and Social Relations, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 17(1), 563-576 |
| 2012 | Carroll, B. E., (2012), Rhetoric of 'Buy Irish Food' Campaigns: Speaking to Consumer Values to Valorise the 'Local' and Exclude 'Others'?, Irish Geography, 45(1), 87-109 |









