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Steering demand? Exploring the intersection of policy, practice and lives in energy systems change in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2019-11-07)
Recent advances in sociological investigations of energy-systems-change highlight the influence of a wide rangeof policies, beyond those typically considered relevant to energy, on energy demand. To this, a newfield of( ...
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 ...
Touch, click and be informed: Making a series of multi-touch iBooks to support social work placement
(Whiting and Birch, 2018)
This innovative project set out to develop a series of seven ‘wraparound’ multi-touch electronic eBooks to support pre-placement training within a professional social work course. The aim and main focus concentrated on ...
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 ...
An investigation of comorbid psychological disorders, sleep problems, gastrointestinal symptoms and epilepsy in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A two year follow-up
(Elsevier, 2015-11-26)
Research has recently focused on studying comorbidity in the autism spectrum but little research has been conducted on follow-up studies or conducting longitudinal research into these conditions. Mannion, Leader, and Healy ...
Autobiography, chocolate creams and letterpress printing
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2018-01)
In response to the call for printed works on paper to recognise the creative contribution made by the Woolfs and the Hogarth Press to printing, art, literature and book culture as part of the 27th annual international ...
Neolithic ‘Celtic’ Fields? A reinterpretation of the chronological evidence from Céide Fields in north-western Ireland
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01-09)
It has long been claimed that the coaxial stone boundaries of Céide Fields, County Mayo, are a phenomenon
of the Irish Early Neolithic analogous to later prehistoric Celtic fields in all but age. This study argues ...
Can social robots help to reduce loneliness and social isolation in people with dementia? A Delphi survey
(British Geriatrics Society and Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-09-18)
Background: People with dementia (PWD) commonly report feelings of loneliness and
social isolation. Social robots may be a means of supporting connections with friends and family and with the person s environment. This ...
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part 1
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2019-05)
Readers may be familiar with Virginia Woolf s diary entries concerning the shriek of agony that marked the death by hunger strike in October 1920 of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, as well as the violence in ...
New opportunities and cautionary steps? Farmers, forestry and rural development in Ireland
(Sciendo, 2011-03-30)
It is argued that European agriculture is currently confronted with a multitude of
critical challenges and developmental changes, in which the viability of farms based
solely on traditional forms of production applies ...