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Impact of Covid-19 Policies on Women Self-employment Rates: An integrated conceptual framework
Get PDFAn integrated framework for studying the effects of COVID-19 policies on women self-employment rates is not available despite the increased economic activity of women in self-employment across several countries. The main objective of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework for the effects of COVID-19 policies on women self-employment rates, and the moderators of the relationship. Based on a critical review of the literature, we develop a conceptual framework, which consists of two types of COVID-19 policies, namely hostile lockdown policies (i.e., those that restrict community movement) and less/non-hostile policies (i.e., those that do not restrict movement). We then theorize the direct effects of these policies on women self-employment rates, and the factors that moderate the relationship. First, compared to men, hostile COVID-19 lockdown policies are more likely to have negative effects on women self-employment rates. Secondly, hostile COVID-19 lockdown policies are more likely to have a negative impact on women in self-employment, relative to women in wage employment. Third, the effects of COVID-19 policies on women self-employment rates are moderated by social factors (i.e., marriage and caring responsibilities) and economic development factors (i.e., level of human development, income support measures, size of the informal economy, and informal cross-border trading). The paper offers several guidelines for the formulation of public policies related to epidemics/pandemics and their effects on women self-employment rates
The Academic and the Advocate: A foot in both camps
Get PDFA personal reflection on the challenges and rewards of working as an advocate and an academic, Dr Susan Liddy looks back over her career to date and how she has endeavoured to advance the position of women, including older women, in the Irish screen industry. She discusses the resistance to change she met in the early days of her research and the failure of agencies to take an active approach to advancing women’s careers. She outlines the impact her findings have had in this area through media engagement and her realisation that she needed to publish in public-facing outlets and to speak out at public events alongside maintaining a traditional academic profile (with articles in referred journals, as author of industry reports and editor of international collections). She notes the importance of international movements to advocate for gender balance and EDI, and the impact of the #WakingTheFeminists movement locally. Finally, she acknowledges the influence she has been able to wield through her increasing engagement with WFT (Women in Film and Television Ireland) and the importance of knowledge-sharing as a public intellectual and advocate
Book Review: Audience Development and Cultural Policy (Steven Hadley: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Get PDFSteven Hadley’s Audience Development and Cultural Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) examines the positioning and practice of audience development since its emergence as a field. He debates the impact that a lack of clear policy direction, combined with the soft power exerted by the cultural management elite of the time, has had on it. He also examines the ongoing debate of whether audience development should be concerned with cultural democracy or the democratisation of culture. Hadley successfully argues that it is the cultural ‘tradition’ in which individuals within the cultural management elite are based that contribute to this binary. It is his description and analysis of both the academic and grey literature and, more importantly, interviews with those who were instrumental in the creation of audience development as a practice that fills an important void in the recording of its history. While his research directly concerns actors and literature within the English arts tradition, this is still an invaluable resource for anyone interested in audience development whether in practice or academia. Not only because it offers a broad insight into the contested nature of audience development, but also because of the suggestion of the impact an influential body of people in practice, can make on policy development
Conference Review: Events Special Interest Group track at the ATLAS Annual Conference 2022
Get PDFThe 2022 Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS) Annual Conference took place on the Munster Technological University campus in Cork, Ireland, 6-9 September 2022. The theme of the conference ‘What matters now to the global tourist?’ raised pertinent questions about the challenges facing the tourism and leisure industries and education since the onset of the global pandemic. This review focuses on a series of papers from the Events Special Interest Group which covered themes such as solidarity, community, festivals, place-making and digitisation
Childcare in Ireland: Usage, Affordability and Incentives to Work
Get PDFSuccessive reports have put childcare costs in Ireland at among the highest in the OECD. In this paper we investigate the usage and cost of childcare in Ireland, profiling those experiencing high childcare costs by income quintile, family type and number and age of children. We show how the National Childcare Scheme is likely to improve the affordability of childcare in Ireland while pointing out features of the scheme that may disincentivise work. Lastly, we simulate a number of reforms to the National Childcare Scheme, showing how affordability and incentives to work are likely to be affected by the alteration of specific parameters of the subsidy
Personal Assistance Services for Disabled People in Ireland: “They meet the criteria for supports but we don\u27t have the resources to provide the services”
No full textPersonal assistance (PA) services have been an evolving part of Irish provision for people with physical and sensory impairments for roughly three decades, but the lack of national standards for allocation, provision or data collection have made it an opaque system characterised by piecemeal or ad hoc local solutions to increasing need. This study approaches the system through the perspective of institutional insiders, eliciting the views and experiences of state and NGO based institutional stakeholders about the PA system and its challenges. A two-step exploratory mixed-methods design, incorporating a series of qualitative interviews and a survey of HSE disability managers, provides rich insights into the nature of PA provision in Ireland. The findings illustrate and explore several chronic issues facing the PA system, most notably around under-funding, inadequate administrative data records and variation in allocation and provision across the country
How to Be Good with (Crowd)words: The influence of entrepreneurs’ narratives on crowdfunders’ intentions to support projects
Get PDFDespite the increasing popularity of crowdfunding, we still need to better understand the effect of entrepreneurs’ narratives on their campaign’s success. Drawing on “emotions as social information” theory, this paper explores the effect of emotions expressed via narratives on funders’ intentions to support a crowdfunding project. We conducted an experiment with 251 participants who had to assess their intention to support a project presented to them. The results show that emotions expressed via narratives are positively related with the emotional reaction of crowdfunders which in turn affects their intention to support a project. The results further show that the main processing style of crowdfunders (emotional versus cognitive) also has an impact on their emotional reaction, which is reinforced by the expression of emotions in the narratives
Book Review:Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care (Miranda Campbell: Routledge, 2022)
Get PDFIn Reimagining the Creative Industries: Youth Creative Work, Communities of Care, Dr Miranda Campbell presents a fresh and engaging vision for the future of the creative industries through community youth arts programs and their role in fostering inclusivity, collaboration, and social change. Campbell challenges conventional notions of the creative industries, highlighting the transformative potential of youth creative work within communities of care. The book explores topics such as care ethics, diversity and inclusion, inclusive spaces for small-scale cultural production, and collaborative production in communities of practice. With well-supported arguments and practical insights, Campbell\u27s work contributes significantly to the field of arts management and cultural policy
Visibility in the Arts: Examining the barriers experienced by visually impaired dancers in Northern Ireland
Get PDFThis research brings forward the voices of three visually impaired dancers to unravel the complexities of accessing the dance sector in Northern Ireland. The multi-method approach used desk research, movement and conversation to investigate the existing barriers, intending to compile suggestions on how best to move forward. The findings identified the importance of the process in highlighting the challenges of being accessible whilst understanding the nuances of the individual experience, suggesting that no one approach is sufficient. The research also argues the significance of the role of dance as a research tool to interrogate and gather new knowledge and the importance of practice-based research methods to help fill the existing literature gaps.
 
Measuring the Sensitivity of the Northern Ireland Protocol on the All-Ireland Agri-Food Supply Chain
Get PDFThe agri-food sectors in Northern Ireland (NI) and Ireland (IRL) have become more integrated with more investments from IRL in the north and advances in all Ireland cooperation on animal health and welfare, and disease control. However, as both jurisdictions are considered structurally similar and both have a large dairy and beef sector, they are competing in the Great Britain (GB) market for agrifood products. When considering the island of Ireland agri-food sectors in the context of Brexit and the NI Protocol, there will be clear winners and losers under different Brexit and NI protocol scenarios. What constitutes a relatively “good” economic outcome for NI farmers may come at the expense of IRL farmers, while relatively “good” economic outcomes for IRL farmers may amplify negative outcomes for NI farmers. This paper analyses the impacts of the NI Protocol in terms of what it means for the agri-food sectors in IRL, NI, but also for the island of Ireland (ISL) as a whole