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Understanding and facilitating farmers adoption of technologies
(Teagasc, 2010-08-26)This article describes an initiative designed to improve the effectiveness of the Teagasc technology transfer process. This is an important component of improving innovation on farms. -
Understanding the key tenets of Heidegger's philosophy for interpretive phenomenological research
(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 ... -
Understanding youth civic engagement: debates, discourses and lessons from practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-07-24)While civic engagement provides a rich rationale for intervention, the array of discourses urging a focus on youth engagement or action means that the concept can be confusing, cluttered, and lacking consistent operationalization. ... -
Using PM2.5 concentrations to estimate the health burden from solid fuel combustion, with application to Irish and Scottish homes
(Environmental Health, 2013-06-19)Background: This study estimates the potential population health burden from exposure to combustion-derived particulate air pollution in domestic settings in Ireland and Scotland.Methods: The study focused on solid fuel ... -
The utility of public transport in Ireland: Post COVID-19 lockdown and beyond
(UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy, 2020-07-01)Moves towards decarbonising the Irish economy must focus strongly on reducing car dependence, particularly in our cities and towns. Car dependence is also costly in terms of social and economic externalities. Public transport ... -
De Valera, censorship and Family and community in Ireland
(Wordwell Group, 2020-01)Family and community in Ireland, first published in 1940 by Conrad Maynadier Arensberg and Solon Toothaker Kimball, is one of the most influential texts in Irish rural sociology and anthropology. The Harvard Irish ... -
Virtual consumption: A review of digitalization's “green” credentials
(Frontiers Media, 2022-11-23)The unprecedented development, growth, and widespread pervasiveness of digital Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have coincided with ever-increasing levels of consumption and the climate emergency. Digital ICTs, ... -
Voice and meaning: the wisdom of family support veterans
(Wiley, 2014-12-10)Although a widely accepted term in child welfare discourses, thereremains a vagueness as to what Family Support as a named orientationin children and family services actually entails.This lack of clarityis, at times, used ... -
Walk a mile in my shoes! An autoethnographical perspective of urban walkability in Galway
(SAGE Publications, 2022-02-04)The need to reverse the harmful economic, social and environmental effects of car-dependent cities has intensified as evidence of its costs on health, communities, local economies, and climate change goals becomes more ... -
'We are all like a family here’: Qualitative insights on the role of youth cafés in supporting the health and well-being of young people
(Children's Research Network, 2016-05)While there have been many positive policy developments for young people in Ireland over recent decades – including increased access to and participation in education – issues related to the well-being of young ... -
What added value does peer support bring? Insights from principles and teachers on the utility and challenges of a school based mentoring programme
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-24)Over the past decade, there has been greater attention placed on the potential value of peer support models, particularly in school contexts. This paper uses the case study of an Irish school-based peer mentoring programme ... -
What added value does peer support bring?: Insights from principals and teachers on the utility and challenges of a school based mentoring programme
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-09-26)Over the past decade, there has been greater attention placed on the potential value of peer support models, particularly in school contexts (Cowie, 2011 and others). This paper uses the case study of an Irish school based ... -
What's smart about working from home? Telework and the sustainable consumption of distance in Ireland
(Research-Publishing, 2013)The use of technology is pervasive in contemporary society transforming lives and work environments. The internet and the availability of portable personal communication devices have resulted in immense societal change. ... -
Women in Irish society: Introduction
(Beyond the Pale Publications, 1997)This text contains 28 chapters on gender-based social science research in Ireland from a feminist perspective. Accompanied by introductions by the authors, sections include Women, Power and Politics; Hidden Lives; Rural ... -
Women Unbound: Single Women in Ireland
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Women, gender and international human rights: An overview
(Springer, 2019-06-26)This chapter reviews the many achievements of the last 25 years − expressed in the proliferation of laws, norms, and mechanisms − to advance the human rights of women and LGBTQI people and considers in five subsections ... -
Women’s rights as human rights: 25 years on
(Springer, 2019-05-22)“Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Toward a Re-Vision of Human Rights,” by Charlotte Bunch (published in Human Rights Quarterly in 1990), is considered a classic text in the field of women’s human rights. In it, Bunch set ... -
A word of caution for feminist-decertifiers? The case of France’s racial disestablishment
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2022)This thinkpiece studies France’s relationship to race/ethnicity through a feminist lens. It explores the French government’s unique approach to its citizens’ identities which has effectively resulted in the disestablishment ... -
Yours Sincerely: Letters and Lives
(2012)