Browsing Child and Family Research Centre 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 ... -
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 ... -
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)