Browsing School of Political Science & Sociology (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Evidence-based training of health professionals to inform families about disability
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2013-05-09)Objective The development, delivery and evaluation of a training programme for medical and nursing professionals on best practice for informing families of their child’s disability. Design A 2 h training course on ‘Best ... -
Exploring Good Practice in Child and Family Services: Reflections and Considerations
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)The prospect of furthering good practice in child and family services is something that is in everybody¿s interest, service users, practitioners, policy makers, and academics alike. However, it is a task fraught with ... -
Exploring the intersection of motherhood and work for women working in the NGO sector in Harare, Zimbabwe
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2020)Gender equality, built on the principle of equal opportunities, maintains that women and men’s equality is based on the availability of equal access to resources, funding and opportunities. Through this principle women ... -
Exploring young women’s attitudes towards the feminist movement and popular music artists’ claims to feminism
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2021)The last decade has seen a marked increase in public visibility of feminism. Numerous factors have contributed to this; not least the growing number of celebrities aligning themselves with the feminist movement. This ... -
Family and Community: (Re)Telling Our Own Story
(2011)The contribution of family, kin and community relations to sustaining a rural way of life was the primary focus of Arensberg and Kimball's anthropological study of Irish families in the 1930s, published as Family and ... -
Family-friendly policies and remote work: Revisiting the work-care conflict in a post Covid labour market
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the structure of the labour market, a shift which has had gendered consequences. In particular, women have been disadvantaged by the increased burden of care. The aim ... -
The farm as an educative tool in the development of place attachments among Irish farm youth
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-05)This paper focuses on the educative role of the farm in the development of relationships between young people and the homeplace they grew up on. The paper is based on qualitative interviews with a cohort of 30 Irish ... -
Forgetting and Remembering: Place and Space in the work of Yvonne Cullivan
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Frames of war: when is life grievable? (invited review essay)
(Taylor & Francis, 2010)Sometimes when faced with photographs and videos of terrible war scenes, we are left feeling nothing. Though increasingly exposed to images of the horrors of conflict, we often remain immune, unable to really engage with ... -
A framework to inform protective support and supportive protection in child protection and welfare practice and supervision
(MDPI, 2020-04-07)In this article, our intention is to provide an in-depth framework to inform the management of the inevitable complexity of day-to-day practice and supervision in child protection and welfare. It is based on what is now ... -
From care packages to Zoom cookery classes: youth work during the COVID-19 “lockdown”
(Emerald, 2022-03-10)Purpose: This paper explores the experience of one large Irish youth work organisation, Foróige, to measures introduced during the initial phase of Covid-19 in 2020. In the face of the unprecedented crisis including the ... -
The Galway Art Gallery Collection and Roger Fry's The Pond (1921)
(Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 2016)Following fragments of evidence that are suggestive of Bloomsbury-Irish connections, this article concerns Roger Fry, his passion for painting, for people, for places and for new ideas. Charleston, the home of Bell and ... -
Gellner's genealogy of the open society: biopolitics as fragment and remainder
(Sage, 2015)A decade before Foucault began to work with the related concepts of biopolitics and biopower, Gellner posed a series of questions which are suggestive of a similar line of inquiry. Gellner did not pursue this strand of his ... -
Gender equality policy and gender mainstreaming in Irish Aid: From diffusion to dilution to disappearance
(Royal Irish Academy, 2013)This article offers a critical analysis of Irish Aid s treatment of gender equality and gender mainstreaming. Informed by key concepts in policy process and feminist scholarship, it examines the evidence of Irish Aid s ... -
Gender justice and Ireland’s Human Rights Council commitments: Challenging the gaps between rhetoric and practice
(Essex Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, 2015-01)As Ireland commences its first three-year term on the United Nations Human Rights Council, this article highlights the gaps between the pledges that Ireland made during its campaign for election to the Council and its ... -
‘Glowing up ain’t easy’ How #BlackGirlMagic created an innovative narrative for black beauty through Instagram
(School of Political Science and Sociology, University of Galway, 2020)Within a patriarchal and racist society, Western standards of beauty are detrimental to all women. However, in a society where the White male gaze has been able to determine what is beautiful, possessing features that ... -
Going Local? Public Participation and Future Mobility in Ireland
(Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2007)Recent changes in Ireland's economic and socio-political fabric have coincided with an increase in physical mobility, car dependency and long-distance commuting. National transport policies, prevailing land use patterns ... -
Governing the future: citizenship as technology, empowerment as technique
(Sage Journals, 2011)This article examines how citizenship can be deployed as a technology of conduct, and how it combines with the technique of empowerment in instituting the behavioural norms that constitute a neo-liberal social order. It ... -
The "green wave" that never happened: the general election in 2007
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'He told me to calm down and all that': a qualitative study of forms of social support in youth mentoring relationships
(Wiley, 2017-02-22)The worldwide growth in formal youth mentoring programmes over the past two decades is partly a response to the perception that young people facing adversity do not have access to supportive relationships with adults and ...