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Towards multicultural, multi-religious European societies? Schooling Turkish students in Britain and Germany
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Transformative Training in Soft Skills for Peacekeepers
(2019)Personnel in peacekeeping missions come from diverse organizations and nations, yet must coordinate together in each peacekeeping mission. Diversity in organizations (militaries, police forces, civil ... -
Transforming the fisheries : the politics of environmental sustainability
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis looks at the current transformations in the Irish and European fisheries as a way of critically examining the politics of environmental sustainability. It begins by analysing how the crisis of the fisheries is ... -
Transition, reconstruction, and decline : a portrait of NGO development in post-apartheid South Africa
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)This dissertation is a contribution to the sociology of NGOs operating in post-conflict societies. The research is based on an ethnographic study of an NGO undergoing change and transition in a rapidly changing South Africa. ... -
Translocality and the Class Conditions of Filipino Nurse Migrants in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rise in the number of international labour migrants and their situatedness in and attachments to multiple locations are creating complex class conditions for migrant labour, which are only beginning to be understood ... -
Transportation Scenarios: Looking forward and looking back in four European cities
(Irish Transport Researchers Network, 2010-09-01)The post World War II history of European urban transport in cities involves trajectories, switching points and socio-political choices. The paper contributes to our understanding of such choices by confronting the results ... -
Trends in Educational Homogamy and Heterogamy - Analyzing the Roles of Assortative Mating and Structural Opportunities using a Novel Decomposition Method
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)Higher education expansion has reshaped the educational composition of partner markets. Despite this notable shift in structural opportunities for mating, our understanding of how these changes have influenced marital ... -
Trust and Cooperation in International Peacekeeping: Approaches to Assessing Trust in a High-Risk Networked Environment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2021)Trust has been described as an essential social lubricant (Luhmann, 1979) and one of the most important synthetic forces within society (Simmel, 1950). Trust acts as a reducer of social complexity and is often viewed ... -
Turkish Youth in the European Knowledge Economy: Exploring their responses to Europe and the role of social class and school dynamics for their identities
(2007)Globalisation and Europeanisation are complementary and partly overlapping processes that identify the increasingly supranational context in which political and educational systems are operating. This article explores how ... -
Understanding Childhood Deprivation in Ireland
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'Vengeance is sweet': a herdswoman's recompense in the music of the Mantaro Valley
(Archaeopress, 2006) -
Vigilantes, anti-drug movements, and community empowerment : a Dublin case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2006)The Dublin anti-drug movement was a response to the escalation of the overt heroin problem in inner-city areas. In the early 1980’s, Concerned Parents Against Drugs (CPAD) became a citywide network whose intention was to ... -
We are more than statistics and scattered body parts : Telling stories and coalescing Palestinian history
(2013-03)The fragmentation of Palestinian lives into exile, under occupation and within Israel has led to a complex interweaving of collective memory and individual memories in the attempt to come to terms with and represent this ... -
A woman died: Abortion and the politics of birth in Ireland
(Feminist Review, 2013) -
Work and Poverty in Ireland: An Analysis of CSO Survey on Income and Living Conditions 2004-2010
(ESRI and Social Inclusion Division of Department of Social Protection, 11/12/2012)a new research report on Work and Poverty in Ireland by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) is published. The report measures changes in the level of jobless households (households where adults spend less ... -
Work-Life Balance and Social Inclusion in Ireland: Results of a Nationwide Survey
(National Flexiwork Partnership(TCD, IBEC, ICTU, FAS, Age Action Ireland, Aware), 2005) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
'World music or migrant music? The global networks of popular music performance'
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)
