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The practices of technology: putting society and technology in their place
(Common Ground Publishing, 2013)Technology is all pervasive in modern society transforming people s everyday lives and work environments. Societal change is coinciding with the ever increasing availability of small, light, and affordable tools for ... -
Practitioner guide to literature review: permanence and stability for children in care
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, The National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016-06)The purpose of this guide is to provide key messages from the main literature review for practitioners who wish to use the literature for report writing, court, case conferences and similar work processes. This guide ... -
Promoting civic and political engagement among marginalized urban youth in three cities: Strategies and challenges
(Elsevier, 2020-06-17)Over the past decade and more, there has been a significant emphasis in western societies on policy processes to engage youth in civic and political life. Concerns about the extent to which marginalized urban young people ... -
Public goods: from market efficiency to democratic effectiveness
(Commonwealth Secretariat, 2014)This contribution examines the concept of public goods,responding to calls to rethink public goods given a changedcontext (Desai, 2003: 73) and widening global scope (Kaulet al, 2003; Kaul, 2006). The first section explores ... -
Putting the 'public' back into public health
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Queering the ground: A performative reading of Siniša Malešević’s Grounded Nationalisms
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-16)This comment uses Judith Butler s theory of performativity to engage critically with Sini a Male ević's claim that nationalism is so deeply grounded in everyday social life that it has become omnipotent . The gist ... -
A rapid review of the benefits and outcomes of universal youth work
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, University of Galway, 2022-03)[No abstract available] -
Realizing the potential of a strengths-based approach in family support with young people and their parents
(Wiley, 2022-10-22)This paper on a strengths-based approach (SBA) to practice is based on empirical research with stakeholders involved in an intensive support programme for young people at risk and their parents in Ireland. The Youth Advocate ... -
Recasting secular thinking for emancipatory feminist practice
(SAGE Publications, 2017-10-06)The renewed vitality of religion in political and public life has prompted reconsideration of established ideas about secularisation and secularism. In Western Europe, ethnocentric enforcements of secularism are implicated ... -
Reciprocal relationships - non volent resistance and the IASW as solidarity and support against abusive and violence behaviour
(Irish Association of Social Workers, 2021)The Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW) creates spaces for voices of encouragement, hope and support for practitioners and researchers using new ways of responding to new needs. A new and innovative response to child ... -
Recruiting and retaining older adult volunteers: Implications for practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-13)There is an increased interest in the promotion of volunteering within nonprofit organizations. In this paper organizational supports for recruiting and managing volunteering among older adults are explored. The paper ... -
Refiguring childhood: Hannah Arendt, natality, and prefigurative biopolitics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-18)Arendt s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine prefigurative forms of biopolitics, both past and present. These are practices that seek to actualise ... -
Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)This article examines one initiative aimed at taking advantage of new technologies to build new transnational connections between a political movement in the ¿homeland¿ and a diaspora population in the United States. It ... -
Reimagining adoption in Ireland: a viable option for children in care?
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-07-03)This article considers how adoption may develop as viable option for permanency planning for children in care in Ireland following the Constitutional Referendum in 2012 on Children s Rights. In order to be prepared to ... -
Reimagining Research and Education in Higher Education - integrating scholarships for sustainable human development
(Commonwealth Secretariat / Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2014-11-27)This contribution examines key intersections between development, higher education and research. It suggests that the interactions between these domains are neglected and argues that higher education s contribution needs ... -
Remnants of Mr. and Mrs. Woolfs visit to Ireland in 1934
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2018-09)Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Irish Tour -
Representation of motherhood in Game of Thrones
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2020)The social and cultural construction of motherhood places countless rules and regulations upon women for both those who have children and those who do not. This article analyses how motherhood is portrayed in the popular ... -
Researching complex sustainability issues: Reflections on current challenges and future developments
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Responding to child-to-parent violence: Innovative practices in child and adolescent mental health
(Oxford University Press, 2014-05-14)Although child-to-parent violence has yet to become a visible and explicit concern of social work policy and practice development, child-to-parent violence is a growing social problem with broad implications for research, ...