Browsing by Author "Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship"
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Digital ensemble: exploring the design of technology-enhanced learning to mobilise and augment students' engagement with English literature
Flanagan, Eilis (2015-06-24)Students are disengaging from learning and literature learning in post primary education in Ireland due to an over-emphasis on rote learning practices and the constraints of high stakes, summative assessments (Chief ... -
An examination of the interactions between the real and financial economy
Ashe, Sinead (2015-10-15)The primary aim of this thesis is to critically examine the interactions between the real and financial economy, particularly in the context of financialisation, and its implications for the transmission of monetary policy. ... -
The Irish Folklore Commission Questionnaire System, 1936-1945
Folsom, Christina Marie (2015-12-02)This project examines the importance of the forty-nine questionnaires issued between 1935 and 1945 by the Irish Folklore Commission. The Irish questionnaire system was modelled on the use of the collecting tool in Scandinavian ... -
Material culture of high-status drinking ritual in medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland
Gray, Elizabeth (2016-01-31)This thesis is the first comprehensive study of ritual drinking vessels of horn and wood from later medieval and early modern Gaelic Ireland. The research provides an analysis of the drinking vessels and offers an ... -
Maths mission: a case study of gesture-based technology in the mathematics classroom
Mc Namara, Alison (2016-05-04)Technology offers a new dimension to engaging students in the classroom. However, the complexities in an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) mediated environment can also bring challenges to the classroom (Chandra ... -
Mindfulness and critical thinking: structural relations, short-term state effects, and long-term intervention effects
Noone, Chris (2016-12-14)Background - In recent years, many claims have been made regarding the application of mindfulness practice to the improvement of everyday thinking skills. Everyday thinking skills are best measured using assessments ... -
Performing social change on the island of Ireland, 1972-2014
Murphy, Ciara L. (NUI Galway, 2019-08-26)This dissertation analyses the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice between 1972-2014. Through investigating the Troubles, Second-Wave Feminism, and ... -
Rhyming pairs in the early Middle Irish biblical epic Saltair na Rann: Survey and analysis of phonological and graphic patterns
Jakob, Mona (2013-12-16)The present thesis examines the words in final rhyming position for their phonological and orthographical pattern in the Middle Irish narrative poem known as Saltair na Rann ('Psalter of Stanzas'). This analysis, the scale ... -
Writing through the trauma of her past: Patterns of repression and a fragmented sense of self in the literature of Christa Wolf
Jud, Jeannine (2017-09-08)This project aims to offer a re-evaluation of the literature of Christa Wolf and change the focus of the questions posed in relation to her literary legacy. Shifting the focus away from a denouncement of her character and ...