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Interview with Mary Heffernan recorded via Zencaster on 06.04.2021
Full text linkMary talks about growing up in Terranure, Dublin in the 1980s. She describes her school life, the close female friendships and socialising she enjoyed as a teenager. She recalls many examples of how girls and boys were treated differently and describes how she learnt about sex, sexuality and contraception. Mary recalls meeting her husband and falling in love and the thrill of going to university at UCD. Her best friend Mark was gay and Mary described how she felt more seen and heard with her gay male friends than in straight male spaces. Mary described the way the psychology department at UCD was dominated by the clergy; she recounted her battle with the department to do psychology with history rather than double psychology. She gave many examples of her close relationship with her father; his belief in her and his empathy for her as a woman and a mother. She reflected on her own intellectual development in learning Irish history in Dublin and in London and some of the assumptions she had encountered about different historical understandings of Irish history and revisionism
Data on Well-being, Resilience and Foreign Language Teaching Enjoyment of teachers of Italian
No full textData from 174 Italian as Foreign Language (FL) teachers based in Italy and abroad
Interview with Jane Williamson (formerly Tooher) in Crystal Palace, London, England 25.02.2019.
Full text linkJane Williamson was born in London in 1959, the second eldest of five children. Jane’s father had moved to London from Birr, County Offaly. He served in the British Army during the Second World War, in the King’s Liverpool Regiment. He spent most of the war in Jamaica. During her childhood, both of her parents worked in the police force having met whilst working at Streatham Police Station.
As the eldest daughter, Jane describes carrying out a significant amount of the household responsibilities, especially after her mother’s death in 1977, when Jane was seventeen. Jane shares fond memories of her schooling at Coloma Convent Girls’ School in Croydon, studying A-Levels in Geography, Classical Civilisation and Economics.
Jane shares memories of trips back to Ireland in the summer from the age of eight, she describes her initial visits to Ireland as “a shock to the system” due to the difference in amenities available as well as the very rural location of her family’s farm. Jane shares fond memories of going to dances as a teenager at Dooly’s Hotel and the County Arms Hotel in Birr.
Although her school urged her to apply for university, Jane’s father urged her to get a job after she left school and she began working for Social Services in Croydon. She subsequently worked for Southwark Council and they later funded her training as a social worker. Jane also had part-time jobs during this time, such as waitressing, working in an estate agent’s and setting up an independent fashion company with friends.
Jane describes living at home until she was around 27 years of age, navigating long-term romantic relationships during that time and the dynamic between her father and her partners. She describes an informal network of aunts and older women, such as neighbours, colleagues and boyfriends’ mums, who supported Jane as maternal figures following the death of her mother.
Jane reflects on the experiences of her extended family that she visited in Ireland, including the difficulties of living in a very rural area. Jane tells the story of her father’s eldest sister who, in the aftermath of her own mother’s death, became pregnant and subsequently married but was cut off from her family and then suffered the loss of her baby. Jane reflects on the changes in Ireland since her visits as a young woman in terms of wealth, culture and diversity and shares the memory of the first time her husband visited and was welcomed by her extended family
Observe record interpret: some examples of teaching sedimentology by distance learning - Supplementary data images
No full textWoburn sands virtual graphic log supplementary figures a-v
The photographs show cross-stratified and bioturbated sands of the Woburn Sands that are Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) in age. They were deposited within a tidal embayment which covered southern England at that time (Yoshida et al 2004)
‘They’ve never been taught what feminism is’: the case for teaching feminism, gender issues, and related topics in school
Full text linkData collected for dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MSc Gender, Sexuality & Society at Birkbeck, University of London, September 30, 2020.
Interview transcripts with 4 participants aged 19-20 regarding their awareness of feminism and the #MeToo movement in British Columbia, Canada, and the extent to which these topics are taught or discussed by teachers in high school; and 1 high school teacher who incorporates teaching about feminist philosophy in her class
Interview with Eva Duffy recorded at Birkbeck, London on 12.06.2019
Full text linkEva’s interview tells a story of growing up as one of five children in a small house in Finglas in Dublin in the 1970s and early 1980s. She talks about family life and her relationships with both her parents. Books were important to Eva from an early age and she was thrilled to study journalism in Dublin and later her love of language led her into a career in corporate communications. She contrasts the cultural and social scene in Dublin to that in Northampton. She avoided the more traditional Irish in England ‘scene’ after emigrating in the 1990s. Throughout her interview, Eva provides an insightful commentary into her own and others’ attitudes to women, education, employment, sex, contraception, mothering and loss. She reflects on what Ireland means to her and her own children
Data for Are two cues always better than one: The role of multiple intra-sensory cues compared to multi-cross-sensory cues in children’s incidental category learning
No full textThis is the data whose analysis is reported in the associated article that appeared in Cognition. It is essentially reaction time and accuracy data as well as age and gender information on the participants who took part in the study. See journal article for more detail
Interview with Rose Mitchell known as Billy Mitchell in Twickenham, England recorded on 23.04.2018.
Full text linkDorothy Duffy interviewed her elder sister, Billy. The interview was about Billy from ages fifteen to twenty five and encapsulated her experience of growing up the second eldest in a family of ten. Her role as the 'girl' in the family helping to raise the younger children as they came along – the impact on her education – the genesis of a love for children and family. A free spirited teenager who always found a way to break out of the constraints of the time (1940s) and always had a rose tinted view of most things including her parents
Interview with Helen Lucey in Bath, England (via Skype) recorded on 28.02.2019.
No full textOral history, access restricted by narrato
Altered functional connectivity during speech perception in congenital amusia
No full textThese are the data supporting the results of the paper titled "Altered functional connectivity during speech perception in congenital amusia" by Kyle Jasmin, Fred Dick, Lauren Stewart, and Adam Tierney