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Practitioner guide to literature review: permanence and stability for children in care
Moran, Lisa; McGregor, Caroline; Devaney, Carmel (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 ... -
Researching complex sustainability issues: Reflections on current challenges and future developments
Fahy, Frances; Rau, Henrike (Sage, 2013-01)[no abstract available] -
Responding to child-to-parent violence: Innovative practices in child and adolescent mental health
Coogan, Declan (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, ... -
The road to sustainable transport? Rural transport programmes and policies in Ireland
Rau, Henrike (Ashgate, 2009-07)Today many rural dwellers in the Republic of Ireland depend on the private car to access services, employment, education, healthcare and recreation and thus shoulder a disproportionate share of the burden of insufficient ... -
The Role of Government
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (Ashgate, 1998) -
Scoping review of international and Irish literature on outcomes for permanence and stability for children in care
Moran, Lisa; Devaney, Carmel; McGregor, Caroline; Reddy, John (UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016)This document aims to inform evidence-based practice in outcomes for children in care by synthesising and critically analysing Irish and international research literature. In particular, it aims to offer practitioners a ... -
Strategies of Resilience: co-operation in Irish Farming
Macken-Walsh, Áine; Byrne, Anne (Teagasc, 2014)Ireland's family farming heritage holds crucial elements of rural sustainability - established networks of social support; cultural traditions resourcing ethno-industries such as tourism and craft; and localised human-ecological ... -
Students-as-producers: Developing valuable student-centered research and learning opportunities
Hynes, Mike (Consortia Academia Publishing, 2017-07-19)The desire to connect teaching and research to create a productive and progressive framework for student learning has become one of the most significant spaces for academic development in Higher Education over the recent ... -
Telework isn't working: a policy review
Hynes, Michael (The Economic and Social Review, 2014)Towards the latter end of the last decade there was growing recognition that Ireland's transport and mobility patterns were unsustainable in the context of their economic, social and environmental impacts and consequences. ... -
Time divided - Time united? Temporal aspects of German unification
Rau, Henrike (2002)To illuminate the persisting division between East and West Germany, this article explores temporal aspects of East German culture and their impact on German unification. Arguing that approaches to GDR time in the contemporary ... -
Transport policy and governance in turbulent times: Evidence from Ireland
Hynes, Michael; Rau, Henrike; Heisserer, Barbara (Elsevier, 2015-12-08)This paper investigates transport policy in the Republic of Ireland before, during and after the ‘Celtic Tiger’ era (1995-2007), to capture how the prevailing governance system responded to rapid economic, political, and ... -
Two sides of the one coin: assessment of students who have previously failed a placement and the role of the practice teacher
McGovern, Marguerita; Murray, Ruth (Whiting and Birch, 2014)Why does a student fail? What will be the student s learning needs in any repeat placement? How does the student reflect on their previous placement experience? Can the Practice Teacher provide the appropriate learning ... -
Understanding youth civic engagement: debates, discourses and lessons from practice
Shaw, Aileen; Brady, Bernadine; McGrath, Brian; Brennan, Mark A.; Dolan, Pat (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
Coggins, Marie (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 ... -
What added value does peer support bring? Insights from principles and teachers on the utility and challenges of a school based mentoring programme
Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Patrick; Canavan, John (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
Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Pat; Canavan, John (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 ... -
Whistleblowing in financial organizations: towards an identity work perspective
Kenny, Kate (2012) -
Yours Sincerely: Letters and Lives
Byrne, Anne (2012) -
Youth-adult relationships as assets for youth: promoting positive development in stressful Ttmes
Hamilton, Stephen F.; Hamilton, Mary Agnes; DuBois, David L.; Martínez, M. Loreto; Cumsille, Patricio; Brady, Bernadine; Dolan, Pat; Núñez Rodriguez, Susana; Sellers, Deborah E. (Taylor & Francis, 2016-12-13)[No abstract available]