Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "School of Political Science and Sociology"
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Curbing The Consumption of Distance? A practice-theoretical investigation of an employer-based mobility management initiative to promote more sustainable commuting
(2013-01-15)A central feature of modern life is the desire and the need to be mobile. The increasing availability of cars during the twentieth century facilitated the rise in individualised, motorised travel in many countries, including ... -
Exploring the views and experiences of teenage parents as service users of universal child and family health care services
(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 ... -
Intervention, Consociationalism and De Facto Partition: The role of the external dimension in shaping post-war Kosovo 1999-2012
(2014-10-29)Consociational systems in post-conflict societies have been increasingly subject to international intervention. Whereas the literature argues that consociationalism has become the blueprint for international post-conflict ... -
Progressing counter-hegemonies of women's human rights in Ireland: Feminist activists' vernacularisation practices
(2014-10-07)The realisation of second-wave feminist activists' vision to progress women's rights through their framing as human rights has been limited in Ireland due to constitutive, systemic and movement factors. These factors ... -
(Re)Thinking the Girl Effect: A Critical Analysis of Girls' Political Subjectivity and Agency at the United Nations 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 54)
(2012-10-26)This study is a feminist poststructuralist analysis of the Girl Effect informed by girls experiences at the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 54). Based on a series of in-depth qualitative interviews ... -
Reproducing stigma: Narratives of single women's pregnancy and motherhood in Ireland 1990-2010
(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 ... -
Sexual violence and the recovery process: An exploration of Rape Crisis Centre counselling in Ireland
(2015-04-10)Sexual violence is a serious and widespread problem internationally and in the Irish context. To date, research and support have placed a focus on women and girls who come to terms with its profound consequences, which ... -
The Voice of Children in Social Work Assessments: What They Say? or What They Play?
(2012-04-13)Child protection and welfare social work practice is faced with many challenges in its statutory duty to protect children at risk of abuse and/or neglect. Numerous child care tragedies have highlighted the importance of ...