Dr. Bridín Carroll • Irish Centre for Social Gerontology

Contact Details

Room 2016
Top Floor
Irish Centre for Social Gerontology
Institute for Lifecourse & Society
Upper Newcastle Road
NUI Galway

Phone: 091-492934

Biography

Brídín completed her PhD in 2013 in the discipline of Geography at NUI Galway. Following short roles in the University of Birmingham, and the National Economic and Social Council, Brídín undertook a three-year post-doctoral researcher role in University College Dublin. There, she worked on the FP7 TRANSMANGO study (2015-2018) which examined the vulnerabilities and strengths of the European food system. In 2018, Brídín worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Healthy and Positive Ageing Initiative, a research initiative based in Ireland’s Department of Health. This marked a pivoting of her research interests in populations which are often marginalised away from food poverty to health and well-being. This led to her first role in the Irish Centre of Social Gerontology (ICSG) working on the Older Traveller Older Homeless study (2019-2021) and her current role on the Service Involvement and Lived Experience study (2022-present).

Research Interests

Social exclusion and inequalities; migration and ageing; place and community; sustainability

Projects

Older Traveller Older Homeless Study – https://icsg.ie/our-projects/otoh

Service Involvement & Lived Experience Project – https://icsg.ie/our-projects/service-involvement-and-lived-experience-2/

Selected & Recent Publications

Walsh, K., Carroll, B., MacFarlane, A., O’Donovan, D. and Cush, P., 2022. Life-Course Marginalities of Positive Health and Aging: A Participatory Approach Integrating the Lived Experiences of Older Irish Travellers and Older Homeless Adults in Multi–stakeholder Research Processes. Qualitative Health Research, p.10497323221100346.
Cush, P., Walsh, K., Carroll, B., O’Donovan, D., Keogh, S., Scharf, T., MacFarlane, A. and O’Shea, E., 2020. Positive health among older Traveller and older homeless adults: A scoping review of life‐course and structural determinants. Health & Social Care in the Community, 28(6), pp.1961-1978.

Isakjee, A. and Carroll, B., 2019. Blood, body and belonging: the geographies of halal food consumption in the UK. Social & Cultural Geography, pp.1-22.

Galli, F., Hebinck, A. and Carroll, B., 2018. Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries. Food Security, 10(6), pp.1353-1370.
Moragues-Faus, A. and Carroll, B., 2018. Reshaping urban political ecologies: an analysis of policy trajectories to deliver food security. Food Security, 10(6), pp.1337-1351.
Galli, F., Hebinck, A., Arcuri, S., Brunori, G., Carroll, B., O’Connor, D. and Oostindie, H. (2018). Capturing Change in EU Food Assistance Programmes. Local Environment. 1-16.
Carroll, B. and Fahy, F. (2014) Locating the locale of local food: the importance of context, space and social relations. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 1-14.
Carroll, B. (2012) Rhetoric of ‘Buy Irish Food’ campaigns: speaking to consumer values to valorise the ‘local’ and exclude ‘others’?, Irish Geography, 45, 1, 87-109.

Book entry/chapter

Walsh, K., Keogh, S. and Carroll, B. (2020) Interrogating the nature and meaning of social exclusion for rural dwelling older people. In Skinner, M.,Winteron, R. and Walsh, K. (eds.) Rural Gerontology: Towards Critical Perspectives on Rural Ageing, pp.262-274.
Carroll, B. (2015) Sustainable Agrifood Systems, Effect on the Environment, in Albala, K. (ed.) Food Issues: An Encyclopedia. New York, Sage.

Selected Reports

ICSG (2021). The meaning of positive health and ageing for older adult Travellers and older people who have experienced homelessness. OTOH Briefing Report Series, Briefing Report no. 1. National University of Ireland Galway.
ICSG (2021). Life-course and structural determinants of positive health and ageing for older adult Travellers and older people who have experienced homelessness. OTOH Briefing Report Series, Briefing Report no. 2. National University of Ireland Galway.

Selected Policy briefs

ICSG (2020). Participant Researcher Briefing Series No. 1: Health and Health Services. A collaboration as a part of the Older Traveller and Older Homeless (OTOH) study.
ICSG (2020). Participant Researcher Briefing Series No. 2: Identity and Home. A collaboration as a part of the Older Traveller and Older Homeless (OTOH) study.