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Lucy Wolfe is a Child and Adolescent Sleep Practitioner and Relationship Mentor based in Cork, Ireland. She has worked directly with children and families since 2011 and is the author of The Baby Sleep Solution (Gill Books, 2017) and All About the Baby Sleep Solution (Gill Books, 2020). Lucy holds an MA in the Psychotherapy of Relationship Mentoring from the Technological University of the Shannon and is a PhD candidate with the Social Sciences ConneXions Research Institute at TUS. Her doctoral research explores intergenerational maternal experiences of infant sleep, with particular attention to maternal identity, cultural expectations, moral decision-making and the embodied experience of sleep disruption. Lucy.Wolfe@TUS.ie. Orchid ID 0009-0003-9555-8583
Dr. Lisa O’Rourke Scott is Director of Social Sciences ConneXions at Technological University of the Shannon. Her research examines motherhood as a socially and culturally situated practice, with particular interests in maternal identities, family relationships, and intergenerational constructions of parenting. Using critical discursive and qualitative approaches, she explores how women negotiate competing expectations of “good” motherhood and make sense of family life within changing social contexts.
Dr Nuala Finucane was formerly a Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and Care at Technological University of the Shannon (TUS). She has extensive experience in early childhood education as both a practitioner and academic, including teaching and supervising research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her research interests include early childhood pedagogy, children and families, and teaching and learning, with a particular interest in qualitative research that explores lived experience and the relationship between research and professional practice.
