College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies: Recent submissions
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A social justice perspective on the delivery of family support
(Elsevier, 2024-03-01)Family support as an approach to working with children, youth, parents, and families is widely practiced across Europe albeit with a range of diverse meanings and interpretations. This paper responds to this ambiguity ... -
MADRA the digital St Bernard dog: a proof-of-concept simulation of a quadruped robot first responder
(Adi Health + Wellness, 2024-02-23)Medical emergency calls can occur at any time and place, especially high-risk rescue operation emergencies in challenging environments such as difficult topography and remote locations. The friendly canines have been a ... -
Isabella Whitney and George Turberville: Mid-Tudor Heroidean poetry and questions of precedence
(Taylor and Francis, 2024-02-26)Scholarship on Isabella Whitney often positions her in relation to George Turberville. Her Copy of a Letter is habitually juxtaposed with¿and oftentimes assumed to derive from¿Turberville¿s Heroycall Epistles (i.e. the ... -
Tusla – Child and Family Agency parenting support and parental participation research report
(UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, University of Galway, 2018)This research has been conducted by the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre (UCFRC) at NUIG at the request of Tusla - Child and Family Agency to support the development of a new Parenting Support Strategy. This ... -
Detective fiction in Chile: Developments in the genre
(McFarland, 2023-10)This article discusses the consolidation in the 1990s of Chile¿s neopolicial works that combine hard-boiled and political elements, reassesses earlier twentieth-century genre writers, and examines the wider diversity of ... -
'Do Sheans': Children's agency in integrating Scottish Gaelic and Irish into 'Happy Families'
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Aidland in South Asia: humanitarian crisis and the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-06-07)This article uses the experiences of expatriate aid workers in South Asia to examine the contours of the global aid industry in the long 1970s. It begins by outlining the impact of the crisis on the aid sector, before using ... -
Civil war in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-06-03)This article traces the global humanitarian sector s late twentieth-century embrace of human rights to the brutal civil conflict in El Salvador in the 1980s. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in three Anglophone states (Britain, ... -
‘Right an turn agadsa’: The reflexivity between language socialisation and child agency in exploring ‘success’ in FLP
(Elsevier, 2022-09-09)The article explores the mutual relationship—or reflexivity— between language socialisation and child agency. It discusses two respective models developed to: (a) better theorise successful language acquisition in a ‘Family ... -
Pastorate digitalized: Social media and (de)subjectification
(SAGE Publications, 2024-01-18)Taking its cue from Michel Foucault’s analyses of the pastoral ‘conduct of conduct’, this paper considers social media as a specific dispositif that derives its mode of operation from the religious techniques of ... -
Envisioning security for a more-than-human world
(United Nations Development Programme, 2024-01-03)This paper considers a key securitization challenge that the world faces in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a challenge that centres on discursively envisioning the kind of security required in tackling a ... -
Education technology, artificial intelligence, and the mathematics classroom
(Irish Mathematics Teachers Association, 2023)The understanding and learning of mathematics has often been considered a big challenge for many students. More recently the level of mathematical preparedness for students entering tertiary education in Ireland has ... -
Ensuring knowledge sustainability in a digital era: empowering digital transformation through digital educational leadership
(Springer, 2023-12-02)The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the educational sector as a whole reflecting on traditional models of education, particularly in the context of inclusive and flexible approaches that can enable the sector to become ... -
The material for victory: The memoirs of Andrew J. Kettle
(Open Press at the University of Galway, 2023-10-21)A well-known champion of tenant farmers' rights and land reform, Andrew J. Kettle (1833-1916) was a co-founder of the Land League with Michael Davitt and Charles Stewart Parnell, an advocate of Irish Home Rule, a progressive ... -
Rural resources and building capacity for rural regeneration
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Building policy for a youth friendly rural future: Possibilities and contradictions using a future foresight approach
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Rural economic resilience and the future rural livelihood dreams of Ireland's youth
(Brescia International Conference, 2022-09-14)Focused on generational renewal, this paper presents the ideal livelihoods young people envision for themselves in a rural area. In doing so, it ascertains what facilitates young people to stay in rural areas, or what ... -
Irish organics, innovation and farm collaboration: A pathway to farm viability and generational renewal
(MDPI, 2021-12-22)The family farm has been the pillar of rural society for decades, stabilising rural economies and strengthening social and cultural traditions. Nonetheless, family farm numbers across Europe are declining as farmers ... -
Low-code and no-code in secondary education—Empowering teachers to embed citizen development in schools
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-09-20)Citizen Development (CD) is a method of delivering low-code no-code (LCNC) development that empowers subject matter experts to design, develop, and deploy applications into production as though they were full-on, experienced ... -
A stratospheric mission – design of a conceptual framework to bring weather balloons and STEM into the classroom
(Frontiers Media, 2023-09-12)Integrated STEM education makes learning relevant and applicable, blending the mindset, skillset, and toolset necessary in developing a depth of understanding for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Based on ...