Browsing by Author "Millar, Michelle"
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Assessing life design and evaluating its impact on the learning experience: A conceptual overview and emergent framework based on the Designing Futures Programme at University of Galway, Ireland
Kernbach, Sebastian; Hall, Tony; Perry, Majella; Walsh, Natalie; Lamb, Larissa; Millar, Michelle; McBride, Denise; O'Regan, Connie (University of Galway, 2023-06-14)In complex and challenging times, with the increasing imperative to advance the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, comes the call for new pedagogical approaches, which move education from a transactional to a reciprocal ... -
Building educational partnerships: An illustration of the disparities between policy and practice of the Home, School and Community Liaison Programme through an exploration of the challenges that HSCL Coordinators experience in its implementation
Furey, Eamonn (NUI Galway, 2019-03-20)Poverty inhibits pupils from reaching their full educational potential. A body of literature exists which suggests that pupils experiencing financial deprivation or who have parents with lower levels of education are more ... -
Children’s perceptions of the skills needed to ‘fit in’ when starting school
Hanniffy, Máire; Millar, Michelle (Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 2019)Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are at an increased risk of experiencing lower levels of school readiness. Ready children are children who can navigate both the social and academic tasks and challenges of ... -
Designing futures through student engagement: A policy futures perspective
Hall, Tony; Millar, Michelle; O’Regan, Connie (SAGE Publications, 2023-06-12)Futures research is gaining increased prominence in educational research and development (Tesar, 2021), and particularly now as we emerge from the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has provided a lever for change and an ... -
Developing inclusive research methodologies: testing the voice centred relational method of qualitative data analysis in a collaborative research project on early school leaving
Millar, Michelle; Canavan, John; Byrne, Anne (Child & Family Research and Policy Unit, WHB/ NUI Galway., 2004)Committed to developing collaborative research processes and practices, this study sought to establish research partnerships between academic researchers, activists working in a context of social exclusion and those ... -
EPIC in action, measuring entrepreneurial competencies in higher education
O’Regan, Connie; Ferguson, Neil; Millar, Michelle; Mullery, Jenny; Walsh, Natalie; Hall, Tony (Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23), 2023-06)Increasingly university programmes are introducing a range of experiential learning based programmes to support students to develop their entrepreneurial competencies during their time at university. This paper describes ... -
Equality omitted reform: an exploration of 'egalitarian' and 'efficiency' principles in Irish health care provision within an institutionalist framework.
Malone, Patrick (2016-05-11)This thesis is an exploratory study of the theory and practice of equality in shaping modern policy conceptions of access and entitlement to health care provision. In most modern democratic societies, the principles of ... -
Exploring the views and experiences of teenage parents as service users of universal child and family health care services
Horrigan-Kelly, Marcella (2015-07-16)Abstract This study explores the views and experiences of teenage parents as service users of universal child and family health care services. The focus of this study was to reveal lived experience from the emic ... -
Holding a Vision: An Investgation of a Rights-Based Social Supports Infrastructure for Children/Young Persons with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland
Browne, Michael (2013)The overall aim of the research was to assess the realities of the current social supports infrastructure as it applies children/young persons with an intellectual disability against the components of a rights paradigm. A ... -
Incarcerated mothers’ experience of adversity heard using participatory mixed-method research
O’Malley, Sinead; Devaney, Carmel; Millar, Michelle (SAGE Publications, 2022-12-25)This paper is based on mixed method participatory research with incarcerated mothers in Ireland. It is based on a study which aimed to profile imprisoned mothers, hear their experiences of motherhood and mothering, and ... -
Irish mothers, separation and divorce an exploratory study: examining experiences, services and policy
Crosse, Rosemary (2015-09-30)Lone parent families are not a homogenous group rather this family form is varied and despite the vast array of research into the lives and experiences of lone parents in Ireland, there is a dearth of information on ... -
Irish women's ongoing experiences of domestic abuse in cases of separation and divorce
Crosse, Rosemary; Millar, Michelle (Taylor & Francis, 2017-08-02)The issue of post separation abuse is a significant problem for women. This qualitative research examines Irish women s experiences of domestic abuse in cases of separation and divorce. Findings show that methods of abuse ... -
"...it's all the same no matter how much fruit or vegetables or fresh air we get": traveller women's perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities.
Hodgins, Margaret M.; Millar, Michelle; Barry, Margaret M. (Elsevier, 2006-10-06)This paper explores the perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities of Travellers, an ethnic minority group who experience considerable social and health disadvantages in Ireland. In order to allow for subjective ... -
Lone parent activation in ireland: putting the cart before the horses?
Millar, Michelle; Crosse, Rosemary (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017-01-01)Lone parents and their children are the biggest group at risk of living in poverty in Ireland, and activation is regarded as the solution to this problem by policymakers. While workfare requirements are now placed on lone ... -
Lone parents and activation, what works and why: a review of the international evidence in the Irish context
Millar, Michelle; Crosse, Rosemary (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016-09)This research sought to discover those policies, programmes and practices which enable lone parents to engage in employment which will lead to adequate living standards and improved well-being for them and their children. ... -
Reproducing stigma: Narratives of single women's pregnancy and motherhood in Ireland 1990-2010
Bradley, Ciara (2014-06-06)This is a study of single women¿s reproduction in Ireland, the investigation of a contemporary phenomenon in its real life context. The study is interested in the temporal nature of experience over an extended time period ... -
The search for understanding: the role of paradigms
Kelly, Marcella; Dowling, Maura; Millar, Michelle (RCN Publishing, 2017-05-22)The aim of this paper is to add to discussions on the role of paradigmatic worldviews when planning for a research study. An understanding of paradigmatic developmental trajectories is necessary when planning a study and ... -
A sleight of hand? The problematisation of youth unemployment in Ireland 2008-2014
Gaffney, Stephen (NUI Galway, 2022-02-07)This PhD thesis presents the results of a research project investigating youth unemployment’s representation as a policy problem in Ireland during the period of 2008-2014. It focuses on two policies explicitly targeted at ... -
Towards a better future: research on labour market needs and social exclusion of one parent families in Galway city and county
Bradley, Ciara; Canavan, John; Donegan, Michaela; Rau, Henrike; Coen, Liam; Millar, Michelle (Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, 2007) -
Understanding the key tenets of Heidegger's philosophy for interpretive phenomenological research
Horrigan-Kelly, Marcella; Millar, Michelle; Dowling, Maura (SAGE Publications, 2016-10-30)Martin Heidegger's phenomenology provides methodological guidance for qualitative researchers seeking to explicate the lived experience of study participants. However, most phenomenological researchers apply his philosophy ...