Dr Roisin O’Shea and colleague Dr Sinead Conneely co-authored a piece on the findings from their research project, ‘Innovative Family Mediation Research Initiative Embedded in the Community’, which has now been published in the U.S. published and Internationally-read Family Court Review, Vol 57 No. 3, Wiley Publishing. For more information […]
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We’d like to make Irish legal and social science researchers aware of an exciting opportunity to carry out a 12 month masters-level research programme, sponsored by the Mediators Institute of Ireland, under the IRC Enterprise Partnership Scheme. The programme will involve an international comparative analysis of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales […]
Masters by research opportunity – Child Inclusive Mediation
Dr Roisin O’Shea, researcher and Partner in Arc Mediation, and her colleague Dr Sinead Conneely, law lecturer at Waterford Institute of Technology, as experts in the field of mediation, have been contracted by Bloomsbury to contribute a chapter to a book entitled ‘Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues’. The book will be […]
ARC Partner contributing to International review of Family Mediation

An exciting new research initiative has been launched by Canadian Ambassador Kevin Vickers in South County Dublin, offering means-tested family mediation to parents and their children in their communities. Ambassador Vicker’s presence reflected the support-from and exchange of ideas-with Canadian mediators and judges that have informed our research project to […]
Canadian Ambassador Launches The Family Mediation Project in Dublin
Dr. O’Shea regularly presents at national and international conferences on a range of topics including. National and International Family Law Outcomes in the Irish Family Courts The Voice of the Child in Family Courts Family Mediation – Theory & Practice Civil & Commercial Mediation Her audiences have spanned a diverse range […]
Conference Presentations – Men’s Voices 2017
Dr Roisin O’ Shea, founding partner of ARC, has been Invited to speak on the Irish context for family justice and family dispute resolution at an international modern family justice consultation at St George’s House Windsor Castle. The conference is organised by Relate and is titled: “Modern families, modern family […]