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Measuring Social and Psychological Outcomes from Activation Labour Market Programmes in Higher Education: A Pilot Study
(2018)Following the 2008 recession, Ireland experienced unemployment rates as high as 15% (McGuinness, O’Connell and Kelly, 2014). Policy responses have been through the introduction of upskilling and reskilling through activation ... -
Mediating the discourses of marketization and Bildung with Slavoj Zizek's dialectics
(2008)A number of different discourses are evident in contemporary Irish educational policy, debate and theory: the grammar of marketisation, the poetry of Bildung and culture, the prose of Christian formation together with the ... -
A mixed methods approach to understanding cyberbullying: A role for both quantitative and qualitative research.
(2013)The study investigated the incidence and nature of cyber-bullying within six post-primary schools in Northern Ireland. A mixed methods sequential explanatory design was employed. The first, quantitative phase involved ... -
More Than Food: Surplus Food Distribution during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Moving to higher education: Opportunities and barriers experienced by people with disabilities.
(Palgrave, 2017)In this chapter, we will examine how national initiatives have developed over recent decades and how they impacted on the participation of people with disabilities within HE. We contend that Initial access initiatives ... -
National Forum of Inclusive Higher Education Providers – together is better
(National Centre for Guidance in Education, 2019)The Inclusive National Higher Education Forum (INHEF), is a national interest group comprised of higher education providers and other professionals interested in supporting access routes and inclusive post secondary ... -
Never the right time: maternity planning alongside a science career in academia
(2020)Pregnancy and maternity planning pose a challenge and stress in the academic career of a researcher, especially at the PhD and postdoctoral level, where the conditions of employment and role status are not clear. This paper ... -
New bottle: old wine! Persistence of school bullying among primary school pupils and the emergence of cyberbullying
(2010)This Research Update adds to this important knowledge on bullying in primary schools by presenting data collected as part of the first two Kids? Life and Times (KLT) surveys (2008 and 2009). All of the children were ... -
New speakers, new concepts?
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A Note From the Editors
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The Omega Architecture: towards adaptable, self-managed networks
(2006-06)The tremendous growth in ubiquity and diversity of wireless networks render the exploitation of highly heterogeneous next generation networks more challenging. This complexity is compounded by the highly dynamic nature ... -
‘The only learning I’m going to get’: Students with intellectual disabilities learning a second language through performative pedagogy
(2019)Traditionally, adults with intellectual disabilities have not been given the option of participating in and thus benefiting from higher and post-secondary education. However, over the last number of years, an increasing ...