The Departments of Sociology at Trinity College Dublin and Maynooth University, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS), are pleased to invite you to the launch of Family Rhythms: The Changing Textures of Family Life in Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2016).
The book is co-authored by Professor Jane Gray of Maynooth University, Ruth Geraghty from the Centre for Effective Services, Dublin (formerly Maynooth), and Dr David Ralph of the Sociology Department, Trinity College Dublin.
Family Rhythms is the first textbook of its kind to offer a comprehensive introduction to family studies through an explicit focus on the Irish experience. It draws on original in-depth interviews with more than two hundred Irish people of different ages to illustrate contemporary theoretical ideas and empirical scholarship on family life. With chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood, the book shows the resilience of families in different social and historical contexts.
All are welcome to attend. However as space is limited advance registration is recommended.
For registration and further details please visit https://family-rhythms.eventbrite.com
About the Authors
Jane Gray is Professor of Sociology at Maynooth University. Her published research centres on questions relating to families, households and social change. Currently, she is a national coordinator and work package leader in the FP7 funded project, RESCuE, examining patterns of family and household resilience in different European states. She is also lead investigator on the project ‘Supporting low-income working families: enabling resilience,’ co-funded by the Irish Research Council and Department of Social Protection.
Ruth Geraghty is a social researcher with a particular interest in social data archives. She has worked in research both in the university and public sector since 2008, and in 2012 she joined the research team for the Family Rhythms project at Maynooth University. She is currently based with the Children’s Research Network of Ireland and Northern Ireland at the Centre for Effective Services in Dublin.
David Ralph is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. His teaching and research interests centre on families, migration, and gender. His previous book was a monograph, Work, Family and Commuting in Europe (Palgrave, 2015), which examined competing work and family commitments among a mobile group of EU commuters.