Colm O Doherty Email and Phone Number

Dr. Colm O'Doherty is a lecturer in the Institute of Technology Tralee. He is a qualified social worker with extensive practice experience accumulated over an 18 year career in the UK, Wales and Ireland. He has researched and published in the areas of social policy, child protection, domestic violence, community development, social work, family support and parenting. He is the author of - A New Agenda For Family Support, Providing Services That Create Social Capital (Blackhall, 2007). He is co -author (with Dr. Ashling Jackson) of - Community Development in Ireland, Theory, Policy and Practice (Gill and Macmillan,2012) and Learning on the Job, Parenting in Modern Ireland (Oak Tree Press 2015).He is the co-editor (with Dr. Ashling Jackson) of the Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies Vol 17 (1) -now available online.