Work Strands

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We employ an integrative framework to underpin and operationalise the Institute’s mission across the shared interests of our constituent centres and units, so as to explore challenges and issues of mutual concern and to avoid siloed approaches.

These work strands cross-cut ILAS’s strategic themes and are the Institute’s core mechanisms for generating positive impact. Central to ILAS’s approach is our commitment to push beyond state-of-the-art research, and to engage collaboratively with external stakeholders.

Research and community engagement, therefore, drive ILAS’s work programme and directly inform the other strands. This helps ensures that practice and education, and policy are research informed, and life-course relevant.

ILAS has four interconnected work strands:

Research

Community Engagement

Practice & Education

Policy

ILAS

The Institute aims to advance people’s lives in Ireland and internationally who face issues with older life, living with disability, children, youth and parents who are vulnerable in social and other contexts. The research at the Institute is underpinned by academic staff and researchers who are keen the work we do makes a difference.

Co-Funded by the Irish Government and the EU