Women, Homelessness and Service Provision 1 About the authors Dr. Paula Mayock is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work and Social Policy and a Senior Researcher at the Children’s Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin. Her research focuses primarily on the lives and experiences of marginalised youth, covering areas such as homelessness, drug use and drug problems. She is the founder and Co-director (with Joanne Bretherton, Centre for Housing Policy, University of York) of the Women’s Homelessness in Europe Network (WHEN) which aims to foster international comparative research on gender dimensions of homelessness (http://www.womenshomelessness.org). Paula is the author of numerous articles, chapters and research reports and is Assistant Editor to the international journal Addiction. Sarah Parker holds a BA (Hons) degree in Sociology and Social Policy and a Masters (M.Sc.) in Applied Social Research (Distinction) from Trinity College Dublin. She has held the post of Research Assistant at the Children’s Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, since October 2012 and has worked on a number of research projects including a biographical study of homeless women and a qualitative longitudinal study of homeless youth. Sarah also contibuted to the design, implementation, analysis and write up of a project that aimed to ‘map’ homeless services for women in the Dublin Region. She has co-authored a number of publications arising from these research projects. Sarah Sheridan is a PhD candidate in the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Her doctoral research is a qualitative longitudinal study of homeless women in Ireland. Prior to this, she worked as Research Assistant on a biographical study of homeless women. She also worked on a study of the treatment pathways of clients in Coolmine Therapeutic Community. More recently, she has provided editorial assistance to the European Journal of Homelessness. Sarah is a member of the Women’s Homelessness in Europe Network. Acknowledgements We would like to thank Simon Communities in Ireland for funding this report. The larger study from which selected data used in this report are drawn was funded by the Irish Research Council’s Research Fellowship Scheme 2009-10 and by the Health Service Executive, Social Inclusion. We also want to express our thanks to the women and service providers who participated in this research.
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