Browsing School of Political Science & Sociology (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Recruiting and retaining older adult volunteers: Implications for practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-13)There is an increased interest in the promotion of volunteering within nonprofit organizations. In this paper organizational supports for recruiting and managing volunteering among older adults are explored. The paper ... -
Refiguring childhood: Hannah Arendt, natality, and prefigurative biopolitics
(SAGE Publications, 2018-05-18)Arendt s concept of natality spans birth and action, which combine to inaugurate the new. Natality is used here to examine prefigurative forms of biopolitics, both past and present. These are practices that seek to actualise ... -
Reframing Online: Ulster Loyalists Imagine an American Audience
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)This article examines one initiative aimed at taking advantage of new technologies to build new transnational connections between a political movement in the ¿homeland¿ and a diaspora population in the United States. It ... -
Reimagining Research and Education in Higher Education - integrating scholarships for sustainable human development
(Commonwealth Secretariat / Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2014-11-27)This contribution examines key intersections between development, higher education and research. It suggests that the interactions between these domains are neglected and argues that higher education s contribution needs ... -
Researching complex sustainability issues: Reflections on current challenges and future developments
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Responding to child-to-parent violence: Innovative practices in child and adolescent mental health
(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, ... -
Revisiting and Reframing the Anthropological Archive: the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936)
(2013)We consider a methodological opportunity when revisiting classical anthropological studies, namely the social anthropological archive of the Harvard-Irish Survey (1930-1936). A gift of the Irish field diaries of Conrad ... -
The road to sustainable transport? Rural transport programmes and policies in Ireland
(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 an intermediary in back-channel negotiation: Evidence from the Brendan Duddy Papers
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-12)This article draws on the newly available private papers of Brendan Duddy, the key intermediary in contacts between the British government and the IRA between the early 1970s and the early 1990s when the IRA moved towards ... -
The Role of Government
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The role of the citizen consumer: alternative consumer actvisim and the rights to health and development
(Commonwealth Secretariat/ Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2012)This chapter draws on case-study research to show how networked consumer campaigns have shaped global health governance. It highlights the important, yet under-researched role of Southern health activism in mobilising ... -
Shining a brighter light into the digital black box: A call for stronger sociological (re)engagement with digital technology design, development and adoption debates
(SAGE Publications, 2017-11-19)Technology permeates our lives having significant effects on how we communicate, live, work and play. Information Communication Technologies have allowed individuals stay connected to family, friends and work colleagues ... -
Singular Identities Managing Stigma, Resisting Voices
(2000)This paper argues that single women are stigmatised in contemporary Irish society and that this is particularly evident in people's everyday interactions with single women. Stigmatising interactions are apparent in relation ... -
Some Good Clean Fun : Humour, Control and Subversion in an Advertising Agency
(2012-05)This article explores the relation between humour and control, drawing on participant observation in an organization in which humour was central to daily life. Keys is a leading advertising agency whose staff spent an ... -
Someone big and important : Recognition and affect in an international development workplace.
(2012)Psychoanalysis has been widely used to develop our understanding of power in organizations. In this paper, I draw on a case study of a non-profit organization in the field of international development, in order to explore ... -
Space, voice, audience and influence: Implementing the Lundy model of participation (2007) in child welfare practice
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-07-11)According to Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, children and young people have a legal right to have their views heard and acted upon as appropriate. The Lundy model of participation (2007) was ... -
Spaces of connection and belonging: Young people's perspectives on the role of youth cafes in their lives
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-19)A youth café is a relaxed, drug-free and alcohol-free meeting space for young people. The youth café model has become a prominent form of policy provision for young people in Ireland over the past decade, with in excess ... -
Strengthening Development Education Practice in the Higher Education Sector: Reimagining research
(Palgrave, 2014-04)This chapter examines the case for development education research, explores the relationship between research and development education in the higher education sector and considers the implications for development education ... -
Students-as-producers: Developing valuable student-centered research and learning opportunities
(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 ... -
Supporting children’s participation in decision making: A systematic literature review exploring the effectiveness of participatory processes
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01-06)In this article, the term ‘participation’ refers to the right of the child to express their views in matters affecting them and for their views to be acted upon as appropriate. While there is a growing emphasis in social ...