Dr Áine Ní Léime
Phone:
091-495458
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Job Title:
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Biography:
Áine Ní Léime currently holds the post of post-doctoral researcher in the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology since January, 2010. Prior to that, she was a researcher at ICSG since April, 2006. She has an MA in Economics from NUI Galway and was awarded a PhD in Sociology from the University of Dublin, Trinity College in 2010 for a thesis entitled ‘Decision-making among older workers in the Irish Civil Service’.Áine holds a BA in Economics and Sociology with a concentration on women’s studies from NUI Galway. She coordinates the Diploma in Social Gerontology and has designed and teaches the module, Social Perspectives on Ageing and co-teaches the module, Research Skills. Áine is responsible for civic engagement and has initiated and participated with colleagues in a number of activities including facilitating ICSG’s consultative committee of older people and running a conference and courses with and for older people in the community. She has co-facilitated the psycho-educational course Ageing with Confidence with Christine Delargy with older adults in an urban (Galway, with Galway City Partnership) and a rural community setting (Clifden – with Forum) during 2010/2011. Aine is co-convenor of the research cluster “Women, work and new economies” through the Gender ARC, an advanced research consortium of NUI Galway and University of Limerick since July, 2011.
Qualifications:
BA, MA, PhD (TCD)
Research Interests:
Sociology of ageing; gender, ageing and the labour market, creativity and ageing; end-of-life care; equality issues; research methodologies; (including lifecourse and life history); and critical theory.
Research Projects:
Co-director of a project (with Dr. Nata Duvvury of the Global Women’s Studies Centre at NUI, Galway) on Older Women Workers and Pensions in Ireland. This project is funded by CARDI, September 2010-present.
Researcher on the IRCHSS-funded Life Cycle Research Project which used a Participatory Action Research methodology. Aine is co-author of the report entitled ‘Community Engagement in Ireland’s Developmental Welfare State: a study of the life cycle approach,’ which was launched in May 2011.
Commissioned by Age & Opportunity to write ‘Well into older age – age & opportunity and the evidence. What research says about the value of promoting participation of older people’, Dublin, Age & Opportunity. (with Professor Eamon O’Shea)
Commissioned by Age & Opportunity to conduct an Evaluation of the Bealtaine Festival (with Professor Eamon O’Shea). Aine is lead author of the report entitled ‘An evaluation: The Bealtaine Festival, A celebration of older people in the Arts’, Dublin: Age & Opportunity published in 2008
Aine has conducted qualitative research for a national multi-disciplinary project on End-of Life Care for older people and is co-author of the report ‘End-of-life Care for older people in long-stay care settings in Ireland’, 2007 (with O’Shea, E., Murphy K, Casey D., Larkin, P., Payne, S, Froggatt, K. and Keys, M.)
Links to selected research
O’Shea, E. & Ni Leime, A. (2011) ‘The Impact of the Bealtaine Arts Programme on the Quality of Life, well-being and social interaction of Older people in Ireland’, Ageing and Society.
Ni Leime, A., O’Shea, E., Murphy, K., Larkin, P., Casey, D., Payne, S., & Froggatt, K., (2010), ‘End-of-Life care in acute and long-stay care settings in Ireland: communication, quality of care and “a good death’, 13 (2)
Payne, S., Froggatt, K., O’Shea, E., Murphy, K., Larkin, P., Casey, D., & Ni Leime, A, (2009) ‘Improving palliative care for older people in Ireland: a new model and framework for institutional care’, Journal of Palliative Care 25, 3: 218-226.