Browsing University of Galway Theses by Author "Millar, Michelle"
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Building educational partnerships: An illustration of the disparities between policy and practice of the Home, School and Community Liaison Programme through an exploration of the challenges that HSCL Coordinators experience in its implementation
Furey, Eamonn (NUI Galway, 2019-03-20)Poverty inhibits pupils from reaching their full educational potential. A body of literature exists which suggests that pupils experiencing financial deprivation or who have parents with lower levels of education are more ... -
Equality omitted reform: an exploration of 'egalitarian' and 'efficiency' principles in Irish health care provision within an institutionalist framework.
Malone, Patrick (2016-05-11)This thesis is an exploratory study of the theory and practice of equality in shaping modern policy conceptions of access and entitlement to health care provision. In most modern democratic societies, the principles of ... -
Exploring the views and experiences of teenage parents as service users of universal child and family health care services
Horrigan-Kelly, Marcella (2015-07-16)Abstract This study explores the views and experiences of teenage parents as service users of universal child and family health care services. The focus of this study was to reveal lived experience from the emic ... -
Holding a Vision: An Investgation of a Rights-Based Social Supports Infrastructure for Children/Young Persons with an Intellectual Disability in Ireland
Browne, Michael (2013)The overall aim of the research was to assess the realities of the current social supports infrastructure as it applies children/young persons with an intellectual disability against the components of a rights paradigm. A ... -
Irish mothers, separation and divorce an exploratory study: examining experiences, services and policy
Crosse, Rosemary (2015-09-30)Lone parent families are not a homogenous group rather this family form is varied and despite the vast array of research into the lives and experiences of lone parents in Ireland, there is a dearth of information on ... -
Reproducing stigma: Narratives of single women's pregnancy and motherhood in Ireland 1990-2010
Bradley, Ciara (2014-06-06)This is a study of single women¿s reproduction in Ireland, the investigation of a contemporary phenomenon in its real life context. The study is interested in the temporal nature of experience over an extended time period ... -
A sleight of hand? The problematisation of youth unemployment in Ireland 2008-2014
Gaffney, Stephen (NUI Galway, 2022-02-07)This PhD thesis presents the results of a research project investigating youth unemployment’s representation as a policy problem in Ireland during the period of 2008-2014. It focuses on two policies explicitly targeted at ...