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Professor Virpi Timonen

Professor Of (Sch Office - Social Work & Social Policy)
ARTS BUILDING
      
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Professor Virpi Timonen

Professor Of (Sch Office - Social Work & Social Policy)
ARTS BUILDING

 Virpi.Timonen@tcd.ie

 3531896 2950


Professor of Social Research and Theory (Personal Chair), Trinity College Dublin & Professor, Social and Public Policy, University of Helsinki For research interests and publications in chronological order, please see: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/virpi-marjaana-timonen/ For publications by citations, please see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CJzPXEgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao For information about the Legacies ERC project, please see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/material-and-environmental-legacies-in-the-21st-century
  Ageing and the life-course   FAMILY   FAMILY STUDIES   Globalization   Intergenerational Solidarity   Migrant care workers   OLDER ADULTS   OLDER PEOPLE   OLDER PERSONS   Politics of the welfare state   Senior Citizen Service Programs   Social security policy   Social Services   Social Services Planning/Policy   Social Welfare Planning/Policy   Sociological Theory   Welfare Reform
Timonen V, Foley G, Conlon C., Quality in qualitative research: a relational process, Qualitative Research Journal, 26, (2), 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen, Catherine Conlon, Whose vulnerability? Inverting constructions of older people as a vulnerable group during the coronavirus pandemic in Ireland, SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 9, 2025, p100640 - 100640, p100640-100640 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Petautschnig C., Timonen V., Elliott O'Dare C., Conlon C., "I'm Going to Put on Bright Clothes now" The Process and Social Dimensions of Resilience Among Older Adults, Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 2025, p1 - 25, p1-25 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Carla Petautschnig, Virpi Timonen, "I"m Not Worthless, I Do Help Society": Exploring the Lived Experience of Community Placement in Activation Schemes, Social Policy and Society, 24, (4), 2024, p601 - 615, p601-615 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Stephen Beasley, Virpi Timonen, Representations of older people in Irish public broadcaster's online news coverage during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, Irish Journal of Sociology, 31, (3), 2023, p305 - 323, p305-323 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Policies for active ageing and their family-related assumptions and consequences in, editor(s)M. Daly, N. Gilbert, B. Pfau-Effinger and D. Besharov , International handbook of family policy: A life course perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, [Hamilton, M., Timonen, V., Craig, L. and Adamson, E.], Book Chapter, ACCEPTED  TARA - Full Text
Luciana Lolich, Virpi Timonen, Digitalisation of Public Services as a Challenge to Social Justice, Springer eBooks, 2022, p191 - 200, p191-200 , Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Luciana Lolich, Jari Pirhonen, Tuuli Turja, Virpi Timonen, Technology in the Home Care of Older People: Views from Finland and Ireland, Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 37, (2), 2022, p181 - 200, p181-200 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kristine A. Theurer, Robyn Stone, Melinda Suto, Virpi Timonen, Susan G. Brown, W. Ben Mortenson, "It Makes You Feel Good to Help!": An Exploratory Study of the Experience of Peer Mentoring in Long-Term Care, Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 41, (3), 2022, p451 - 459, p451-459 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Casey MB, Wilson F, Ng L, O'Sullivan K, Caneiro JP, O'Sullivan PB, Horgan A, Thornton JS, Wilkie K, Timonen V, Wall J, McGowan E., "There's definitely something wrong but we just don't know what it is": A qualitative study exploring rowers' understanding of low back pain., Journal of science and medicine in sport, 25, (7), 2022, p557-563 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Conlon, C., with contributions from V. Timonen and G. Dowling, Supporting parents communicating with children aged 4-9 years about relationships, sexuality and growing up, Dublin, HSE Sexual Health and Crisis Pregnancy Programme, January, 2018, pi - 106, Report, PUBLISHED
Scharf, T., Timonen, V., Conlon, C. and Carney, G., Changing Generations - Findings from new research on intergenerational relations in Ireland, Dublin and Galway, Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland Galway, April, 2013, 20 pp., Report, PUBLISHED
Kamiya, Y., Murphy, C., Savva, G. and Timonen, V., Profile of Community-Dwelling Older People with a Disability and their Caregivers in Ireland, Dublin, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing and the Department of Health and Children, May, 2012, Report, PUBLISHED
Alan Barrett, George Savva, Virpi Timonen and Rose Anne Kenny (eds), Fifty plus in Ireland 2011: First results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, May, 2011, Report, PUBLISHED
Pierce, Maria and Timonen, Virpi, A Discussion Paper on Theories of Ageing and Approaches to Welfare in Ireland, North and South, Dublin & Belfast, CARDI, 2010, Report, SUBMITTED
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