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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
(2025)This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected ... -
Black Unsettlement. Embodied Blackness and Black Studies in the Irish Context
(2024)Reflecting the call for diverse opinions in knowledge production, this article is a personal perspective on the positioning of Black Studies in Ireland. Black Studies as praxi-theory foregrounds the inseparability of ... -
Quality of life in older age: Evidence from an Irish cohort study
(2013)Objectives: To compare the role of different life domains in determining quality of life (QoL) in Ireland with international results. Design: Cross-sectional study of responses to The Irish Longitudinal Study of ... -
Worker well-being and quit intentions: is measuring job satisfaction enough?
(2023)The links between worker well-being and quit intentions have been well researched. However, the vast majority of extant studies use just one measure, job satisfaction, to proxy for worker well-being as a whole, thus ignoring ... -
Spotlight on adolescent health and well-being. Findings from the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in Europe and Canada. International report. Volume 1. Key findings
(WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2020)This report presents key findings from 227 441 young people aged 11, 13 and 15 years in 45 countries/regions who participated in the 2017/2018 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey. The findings ... -
Making homeworking work: preferences and experiences of homeworkers during COVID-19
(2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a large section of the global labour force who were working in centralised locations to suddenly switch to homeworking. This report uses primary longitudinal data from two surveys of 808 ... -
Nudging in the workplace: increasing participation in employee EDI wellness events
(2022)Organisations are investing significant resources in promoting the physical, emotional, and psychological well-being of their employees. In hybrid working environments, virtual worker wellness events are increasingly being ... -
Worker stress, burnout, and wellbeing before and during the COVID-19 restrictions in the United Kingdom
(2022)COVID-19 created a transformational shift in the working environment for much of the labour force, yet its impact on workers is unclear. This study uses longitudinal data to examine the wellbeing of 621 full-time workers ... -
Measurement Invariance of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index: Evidence from 15 European Countries
(2022)Background: The World Health Organization (WHO)-5 Well-Being Index has been used in many epidemiological studies to assess adolescent mental well-being. However, cross-country comparisons of this instrument among adolescents ... -
Gender Differences in Bullying Reflect Societal Gender Inequality: A Multilevel Study With Adolescents in 46 Countries
(2022)Purpose Social patterns in bullying show consistent gender differences in adolescent perpetration and victimization with large cross-national variations. Previous research shows associations between societal gender ... -
Child Care Time, Parents' Well-Being, and Gender: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey
(2016)This study used data from the ‘Well Being Module’ of the 2010 American Time Use Survey (N = 1699) to analyze how parents experience child care time in terms of meaning and stress levels. Multivariate multilevel regressions ... -
Emerging digital generations? Impacts of child digital use on mental and socioemotional well-being across two cohorts in Ireland, 2007 2018
(2021)Despite the growing body of literature on how digital technologies impact child well-being, previous research has provided little evidence on recent digital trends. This paper examines the patterns and effects of digital ... -
Learning: Operational and Educational Effectiveness Report
(2019)This deliverable outlines the development of the methodology to assess the learning through GAP by personnel from end user organizations in a training environment (Task 5.4) and the implementation of this methodology (Task ... -
Gaming for Peace Interviews
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Curriculum Alignment between the IB DP and National Systems: Switzerland
(2014)With IB programmes available across the world in diverse educational landscapes, alignment with national educational standards is important. This project aims to provide an empirical analysis of the alignment ... -
Curriculum Alignment between the IB DP and National Systems: Germany
(2014)With IB programmes available across the world in diverse educational landscapes, alignment with national educational standards is important. This project aims to provide an empirical analysis of the alignment ... -
New patterns of migration and higher education in Ireland: What are the implications?
(Springer, 2020)This chapter discusses the changing demographic situation in recent decades as Ireland moved from being a country with a long tradition of emigration to one of net immigration. The pace of social change in Ireland is ... -
The Challenge of Migration and Europeanisation: A Comparison of Citizenship Education in Britain, Germany, Greece and Ireland
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Post-School Transitions in Ireland: A case study of Russian speaking students
(2019)This article examines the post-school pathways of Russian-speaking students in Ireland after completing secondary education; the importance of personal and institutional factors in shaping their transition process, and the ...
