Dr Kieran Walsh
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091-495460
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Job Title:
Research Fellow
Biography:
Dr Kieran Walsh is a Research Fellow with the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at NUI Galway. Kieran completed his PhD in 2004 on ‘The Effects of Nursing Home Institutionalisation on the Cognitive, Sensory and Sensorimotor Abilities of Low Dependency Older Adults’ at the University of Limerick. In 2005, Kieran took a position as Senior Researcher in the Health Promotion Research Centre in NUI Galway, where he worked on the cross-national study on Health Behavior in School Aged Children project. Since joining the ICSG in 2006, Kieran has worked primarily in the areas of environmental gerontology and infrastructures of care. This has included studies on older adult community and voluntary activity, the impact of assistive technology on the lives of older people and the interaction between elements of place (particularly in rural areas), technology and community.
Research Interests:
The relationship between older people and their surrounding environment within institutional and community settings and the social, health and well-being outcomes that this relationship has for older people; the interaction between migratory and ageing processes in Irish and international settings.
Research Projects:
Healthy Ageing in Rural Communities (HARC) Research Network (2009 -ongoing):
Social Exclusion and Ageing in Diverse Rural Communities (SEADRC) - (2010 to ongoing):
Poverty and the lifecourse: developing material deprivation indicators for a diverse older population in Ireland – (2010 to 2012):
The Role of Migrant Care Workers in Ageing Societies (MCW) - (2007 to ongoing):
Links to selected research
The Role of Migrant Care Workers in Ageing Societies (Irish national report)
Older People in Rural Communities (report on exploratory study)
