Systems Complexity in Child Protection and Welfare

This book examines systems complexity theory and specifically, system and dynamic characteristics of complexity, with a key focus on self/organisation/emergence/adaptation; path-dependence; and bifurcation.

Auteur

Aisling Gillen is a Visiting Research Fellow in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway and former Service Director with Ireland's Child Protection Agency.

John Canavan is Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Personal Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway.

Carmel Devaney is Associate Director of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, Lecturer and Head of Discipline of Applied Social Science in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway.

Caroline McGregor is Senior Research Fellow in the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre and Personal Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Galway.