Fergal Landy

Position: 
Researcher
Telephone: 
00353 91 49 5966
Email: 
fergal.landy@nuigalway.ie
Address: 
School of Political Science and Sociology, Science and Engineering Technology Building, NUI Galway

Fergal joined the Child and Family Research Centre in September 2009 as Researcher – Service Development and Design. Fergal previously worked in practice with the HSE as a Community Development Worker with responsibility for the development of family support services in North Tipperary, as a Child Protection Social Worker in Galway and as a Social Worker with out of home adolescents as part of the Crisis Intervention Service in Dublin.

Fergal holds a degree in Social Studies (TCD), NQSW and a LLM Masters of Law in International Human Rights (Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI Galway). Fergal teaches on the Higher Diploma/Masters Degree in Family Support Studies; the Masters in Social Work and the the BA Connect in Children’s Studies in NUI Galway. He has been involved in the evaluation of the Jobstown Alternative Response Model (ARM) and the Identification of Need Project (ION) in Sligo/Leitrim and Donegal.

Fergal’s interests include combining strategies for the realisation of children’s rights including participation by children, advocacy, litigation, research, children’s rights education and civic engagement as well as the child’s right to access legal advice and representation and the integration of theories, concepts, professions and services that seek to support children and their families.

Selected Publications

Blog on Children’s Rights for the Campaign for Children

Reports

Canavan, J. and Landy, F. (2011) North Dublin Differential Response Model Early Implementation Report. Report prepared by the Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway for the Health Service Executive, Dublin.

Forkan, C. and Landy, F. (2011) An Evaluation of the Identification of Need (ION) Process in Sligo/Leitrim and Donegal.Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway. Sligo: Sligo Social Services Council Ltd.

Landy, F. and Canavan, J. (2010) A Formative Evaluation of the Jobstown Alternative Response Model (ARM).Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway. Commissioned by Barnardos on behalf of South Dublin Children’s Services Committee.
 

 

Fergal Landy